Category:English phrases
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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 5 subcategories, out of 6 total.
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- Hip hop phrases (13 P)
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- English proverbs (31 P)
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- Quotations from radio (40 P)
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- Shakespearean phrases (53 P)
Pages in category "English phrases"
The following 200 pages are in this category, out of approximately 427 total. This list may not reflect recent changes.
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- 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 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
M
- Mackerel snapper
- Mad as a hatter
- Man on the Clapham omnibus
- Marketplace of ideas
- Marking your own homework
- May the Force be with you
- Mazel tov
- Meanwhile, back at the ranch
- The medium is the message
- Members only
- Memory hole
- Mexican standoff
- Mind over matter
- Mind the gap
- Mind your own business
- Mind your Ps and Qs
- Missing Me
- Mission creep
- Money and the ethnic vote
- Black Week
- More Irish than the Irish themselves
- More popular than Jesus
- A moron in a hurry
- Mortal wound
- Mumbo jumbo (phrase)
- Mush from the Wimp
- Mutual assured destruction
- My body, my choice
- My Oga at the top
- My postillion has been struck by lightning
N
- Namby-pamby
- Nappy Valley
- Nattering nabobs of negativism
- Necessity is the mother of invention
- Nek minnit
- Never was so much owed by so many to so few
- Nevertheless, she persisted
- Nigger in the woodpile
- No pain, no gain
- No problem
- No soap radio
- No such thing as a free lunch
- No such thing as a stupid question
- No worries
- No-go area
- Not even wrong
- Nothing tastes as good as skinny feels
- 'Nuff said! (quote)