Category:English phrases

A

• [×] English appendix-only phrases‎ (0 c, 1 e)

C

• [×] English catchphrases‎ (0 c, 7 e)

E

• [×] English adverb-adjective phrases‎ (0 c, 4 e)

E cont.

• [+] English prepositional phrases‎ (1 c, 672 e)

I

• [+] English idioms‎ (5 c, 7628 e)

P

• [+] English phrasebook‎ (13 c, 338 e)

P cont.

• [+] English proverbs‎ (1 c, 542 e)

S

• [×] English subordinate clauses‎ (0 c, 46 e)

&

• & cetera
• & seq.
• & seqq.
• & uxor
• &c
• &c.

'

• 'fraid not
• 'nuff said

2

• 26+6=1

A

• a few sandwiches short of a picnic
• a good deed is its own reward
• a little bird told me
• a week from next Tuesday
• a wild goose never laid a tame egg
• abandon ship
• abate of
• able for
• abound in one's own sense
• about to
• absence without leave
• absente reo
• absque hoc
• absque impetitione vasti
• acceleration of gravity
• acceleration principle
• Adam and Eve not Adam and Steve
• after Saturday comes Sunday
• after the Lord Mayor's show
• age before beauty
• all aboard
• all bets are off
• all correct
• all duck or no dinner
• all hell breaks loose
• all hell broke loose
• all right, my lover
• all rights reserved
• all wool and a yard wide
• all your base are belong to us
• all-over oneself
• alone in a crowd
• always a bridesmaid, never a bride
• always the bridesmaid, never the bride
• am I right or am I right
• and all
• and all that
• and be done with it
• and change
• and counting
• and crap
• and his mother
• and how
• and shit
• and so forth
• and so on
• and that
• and the horse you rode in on
• and the like
• and then some
• and whatnot
• and your little dog too
• angel passes
• another country heard from
• any other business
• any way one slices it
• anything goes
• apropos of nothing

A cont.

• are you allergic to any medications
• are you deaf
• are you married
• are you OK
• are you religious
• are you single
• are you taking any medications
• are your ears burning
• argle-bargle morble whoosh
• art imitates life
• as above, so below
• as fine as Dick's hatband
• as good as it gets
• as I was saying
• as if there were no tomorrow
• as it stands
• as much use as a chocolate fireguard
• as queer as Dick's hatband
• as the actress said to the bishop
• as the day is long
• as the saying goes
• as they say
• as tight as Dick's hatband
• as you do
• ask me one on sport
• ask my arse
• audi alteram partem
• avant la lettre
• aye aye, sir

B

• back at you
• back in the knife drawer, Miss Sharp
• bang to rights
• bbl
• BBL
• be careful what you wish for
• be in one's altitudes
• be prepared
• be right back
• be rooped up
• be still my beating heart
• be still my heart
• be there or be square
• be up against the wall
• beats me
• beauty and the beast
• because you touch yourself at night
• been there, done that
• been there, done that, bought the T-shirt
• been there, done that, got the T-shirt
• beggars can't be choosers
• belay my last
• beneficium ordinis seu excussionis
• birds of the feather flock together
• black-on-black
• bless your heart
• bleu, blanc et rouge
• blind leading the blind
• bloom is off the peach
• bloom is off the rose
• blush is off the peach
• blush is off the rose
• Bob's your uncle
• boom goes the dynamite
• born and bred
• bottom falls out
• bound to
• break one's arm patting oneself on the back

B cont.

• but for the grace of God
• but me no buts
• but who's counting
• by way of
• bygones be bygones, and fair play for time to come

C

• c'est la vie
• call an ambulance
• call the police
• calm your tits
• camel through the eye of a needle
• can I buy you a drink
• can I come in
• can I use your phone
• can we say
• can you help me
• cat got someone's tongue
• cat in the sack
• catch you later
• catch you on the flip side
• chacun a son gout
• chacun à son goût
• chance would be a fine thing
• chance'd be a fine thing
• cheap at half the price
• cheaper by the dozen
• check is in the mail
• cheese it
• Christmas is coming
• ciao for now
• citation needed
• close, but no cigar
• colt over the fence
• come stà
• come to mention it
• come to papa
• consider it done
• cooking with gas
• cool story bro
• could be written on the back of a postage stamp
• could fit on the back of a postage stamp
• could have, would have, should have
• could I see the menu, please
• couldn't happen to a nicer
• couldn't organise a piss-up in a brewery
• credit where credit's due
• cross my heart
• cross my heart and hope to die
• cross that bridge when one comes to it
• cross that bridge when one gets there
• cross that bridge when one gets to it
• cruising for a bruising
• CYLOR

D

• d.c. al coda
• dafuq
• damnum absque injuria
• de minimis non curat lex
• dead to rights
• death warmed up
• defining moment
• devil take the hindmost
• diddle for middle
• do bears shit in the woods
• do I know you
• do me a lemon
• do not disturb
• do not enter