Category:English phrases
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For a list of words relating to English phrases, see the English phrases category of words in Wiktionary, the free dictionary.
Note that this category is for phrases of the English language, not just phrases that pertain to the United Kingdom or British people.
Subcategories
This category has the following 6 subcategories, out of 6 total.
- Lists of English phrases (7 P)
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H
- Hip-hop phrases (12 P)
P
- English proverbs (31 P)
R
- Quotations from radio (64 P)
S
- Shakespearean phrases (54 P)
Pages in category "English phrases"
The following 200 pages are in this category, out of approximately 429 total. This list may not reflect recent changes.
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- Abort, Retry, Fail?
- Acceptable level of violence
- Add oil
- Aging out
- Agree to disagree
- All men are created equal
- All rights reserved
- All rights reversed
- Almighty dollar
- American way
- And/or
- Anyone for tennis?
- Apparent death
- Apple of my eye
- Art for art's sake
- As easy as pie
- As Maine goes, so goes the nation
- As the crow flies
- Ash heap of history
- Asleep by the frozen sea
- At Dulcarnon
- At last she moves
- Axis of evil
- Axis of Upheaval
B
- Back to square one
- Banality of evil
- Baptism by fire
- Barefoot and pregnant
- Batty boy
- Be ye men of valour
- Bed of roses
- Big in Japan (phrase)
- The Black North
- Bob's your uncle
- Born a slave
- Bread and circuses
- Breaking wind
- Buffalo buffalo Buffalo buffalo buffalo buffalo Buffalo buffalo
- Bullseye (philately)
- Burying the hatchet
- By hook or by crook
C
- The captain goes down with the ship
- Carefree Black Girls
- Carrot and stick
- Chattering classes
- Chew the fat
- Chewbacca defense
- Choose the right
- City upon a Hill
- Colorless green ideas sleep furiously
- Comprised of
- Computer says no
- The Constitution is not a suicide pact
- Contempt of cop
- Control freak
- Corporate DNA
- Correlation does not imply causation
- Creeping Jesus
- Crime of the century
- Critical friend
- Crocodile tears
- Cupboard love
- The customer is always right
- Cut and run
D
- Darby and Joan
- De plane! De plane!
- Death panel
- The devil is in the details
- Dictated but not read
- Die hard (phrase)
- Difficult third album
- Disgusted of Tunbridge Wells
- Do not pass Go. Do not collect $200.
- Do you know where your children are?
- Does not compute
- Don't even think about it!
- Don't fuck with the formula
- Drinking the Kool-Aid
- Driving while black
- Dumbing down
- Dutch courage
- Dutch uncle
E
F
- Fall guy
- Fig leaf
- Fire in the hole
- First Expired, First Out
- Five Ws
- For Members Only
- For tobacco use only
- For Your Consideration (advertising)
- Fort Apache (hostile place)
- Forty acres and a mule
- The Fox and the Grapes
- Frankly, my dear, I don't give a damn
- Frodo Lives!
- Fuck it
- Fuck off
- Fuddle duddle
- The full catastrophe
- The full monty
- FYIFV
G
- Game over
- Generalissimo Francisco Franco is still dead
- Get a life (idiom)
- Get Out of Jail Free card
- Give me liberty or give me death!
- Go ahead, make my day
- Go fever
- Go West, young man
- God bless you
- God is dead
- Goffe and Whalley
- Going Dutch
- A good day to die
- Good morning
- Goodness Gracious Me
- Gordon Bennett (phrase)
- A grain of salt
- Gratis versus libre
- Great Scott
- The greatest thing since sliced bread
- Greek to me
- Growing the pie
- Grub Street
H
- Etymology of ham radio
- Hands up, don't shoot
- Hasta la vista, baby
- Have a nice day
- He blew with His winds, and they were scattered
- He loves me... he loves me not
- He never married
- Hear, hear
- Winning hearts and minds
- Hell on Wheels
- Here be dragons
- Here's your mule
- Hip hip hooray
- Hobby horse
- Hoi polloi
- Hold come what may
- Holy Roller
- Holy shit
- Horse trading
- Houston, we have a problem
- How many angels can dance on the head of a pin?
- Hurry up and wait
I
- I can't breathe
- I Love You Too
- I'll be back
- I'm alright, Jack
- I'm entitled to my opinion
- If You See Kay
- If You See Something, Say Something
- In like Flynn
- In ordinary
- In the beginning (phrase)
- Infinity plus one
- Information wants to be free
- Inherently funny word
- Inside baseball (metaphor)
- An Irish solution to an Irish problem
- Irrational exuberance
- It was a dark and stormy night
- It's better to burn out than to fade away
- It's Britney, bitch
- It's not you, it's me
J
L
- The lamps are going out
- Lather, rinse, repeat
- Lest we forget
- Let them eat cake
- Let there be light
- Let's roll
- Letter and spirit of the law
- Letting the cat out of the bag
- Lies, damned lies, and statistics
- Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness
- Line in the sand
- Lion's share
- Lipstick on a pig
- Live, Laugh, Love
- London streets are paved with gold
- Long hundred
- Long time no see
- The longest suicide note in history
- Love means never having to say you're sorry
- The love that dare not speak its name