Abject Phrases

Phrases

• A poor relation
• A poor workman blames his tools
• Alas, poor Yorick! I knew him, Horatio
• And the next object is (A catchphrase from Twenty Questions)
• As poor as a church mouse
• Better safe than sorry
• Change the subject
• Dirt poor
• Figure painting (a form of painting in which the human body is the subject)
• Fort Worthless (Nickname of Fort Worth Texas)
• I Pity The Poor Immigrant (Bob Dylan song)
• Landscape painting (a form of painting in which the natural world is the subject)
• Love means never having to say you're sorry (Love Story)
• Mendoza line (A baseball expression denoting a line marking a very poor performance)
• Money is no object
• Object lesson
• Old Mother Hubbard went to the cupboard to get her poor doggie a bone (line from nursery rhyme)
• One law for the rich and another for the poor
• Piss poor
• Poor but honest
• Poor little rich girl
• Poor thing but mine own
• Portrait painting (a form of painting in which the human face is the subject)
• Rich man poor man beggerman thief
• Rubber chicken (poor quality or overcooked chicken)
• Rubber chicken curcuit (a speaking or fundraising event at which poor quality meat is served)
• Sorry Seems To Be The Hardest Word (Elton John song)
• Sorry about that, Chief. (A catchphrase from Get Smart)
• Sorry sight
• Still life (a form of painting in which inanimate objects are the subject)
• That Obscure Object Of Desire (Luis Bunuel movie)
• The Poor Bloody Infantry (term used to describe the British infantry in WWI)
• The rich get richer and the poor get poorer
• War movie (a film with war as the subject matter)