Absent Phrases

Phrases

• A bit missing
• A soft answer turneth away wrath
• Absence makes the heart grow fonder
• Absent minded professor
• Absent parent
• Absent without leave
• Absentee landlord
• Access takes the waiting out of wanting (Access Credit Card advertising slogan)
• After all, tomorrow is another day (Gone With the Wind)
• An apple a day keeps the doctor away
• Away go troubles down the drain (Roto-Rooter advertising slogan)
• Away in a manger
• Away with the fairies
• Away with you
• Beaver away at
• Been and gone
• Blaze away at
• Blow away the cobwebs
• Blow someone away
• Blown away
• Blue are the hills that are far away
• Buy Opera today And make this banner go away (Opera advertising slogan)
• Calgon, take me away! (Calgon advertising slogan)
• Cart away
• Colour me gone
• Come Away with Me (Norah Jones album)
• Conspicuously absent
• Dance the night away
• Dead and gone
• Died and gone to heaven
• Do a disappearing act
• Do away with
• Dream away ()
• Explain away
• Far and away
• Fire away
• Frankly, my dear, I don't give a damn (Gone With the Wind)
• Fritter away
• Get away from it all
• Get away with it
• Get away with murder
• Get away with you (An exclamation of surprise)
• Get away with you!
• Get away! (Lunn Polly advertising slogan)
• Get carried away
• Get your end away
• Give the game away
• Give the show away
• Go begging
• Going away (Going on holiday)
• Going going gone (A baseball expression by which an announcer describes a home run that is heading over the fence)
• Going, going, gone
• Gone Dolally
• Gone With The Wind (Clark Gable / Vivien Leigh movie)
• Gone before
• Gone but not forgotten
• Gone fishing
• Gone for a Burton
• Gone tits up
• Gone to a better world
• Gone to pot
• Gone to seed
• Gone to the bad
• Gone to the dogs

• Hair today gone tomorrow
• Hasten away
• Have it away
• He who fights and runs away, may live to fight another day
• Here today gone tomorrow
• Hiyo Silver away (A catchphrase from The Lone Ranger)
• I was miles away
• I'll Be Missing You (Puff Daddy with Faith Evans and 112 song)
• It takes your breath away
• It's all gone Pete Tong (Cockney rhyming slang for gone wrong)
• It's all gone pear shaped
• Lock him up and throw away the key
• Look away now
• Lost and gone forever
• Missing in action
• Missing link
• Missing you already
• Missing, presumed lost
• Mum's gone to Iceland (Iceland Supermarkets advertising slogan)
• None starter
• Not Fade Away (Buddy Holly song)
• Not a hundred miles away
• Null and void
• Old soldiers never die, they just fade away
• Out front. Pulling away (Goodyear Tyres advertising slogan)
• Over the hills and far away
• Pine away
• Political correctness gone mad
• Pull a sickie
• Rain, rain go away, come again another day (line from nursery rhyme)
• Rode hard and put away wet
• Sail away
• Salt away
• Skive off
• Slave away at
• Slip, Slidin' Away (Paul Simon song)
• Slip, sliding away
• Slog away
• Soothe it away the Oraldene way (Oraldene advertising slogan)
• Squirrel away
• Stash away
• Take your breath away
• The Adventure of the Missing Three-Quarter (Sherlock Holmes story)
• The departed
• The dish ran away with the spoon (line from nursery rhyme)
• The one that got away
• Throw away the key
• To boldly go where no man has gone before (A catchphrase from Start Trek)
• Tom Tom the pipers son stole a pig and away he ran (line from nursery rhyme)
• Twistin' The Night Away (Sam Cooke song)
• Up, Up And Away (Jimmy Webb song)
• Up, up and away
• Up, up and away with TWA (Trans World Airways advertising slogan)
• Vanish into thin air
• Waste away
• Weighed in the balance and found wanting
• When the cat's away the mice will play
• Whenever I feel the need to exercise, I lie down until it goes away (Robert Maynard Hutchins quotation)
• Where Have All The Flowers Gone? (Pete Seeger song)
• While away the hours
• While away the time
• Whittle away at
• Wishing your life away
• You've Got To Hide Your Love Away (The Beatles song)