Actual Phrases

Phrases

• A bear of very little brain
• A true professional
• As true as the day is long
• Be afraid, be very afraid
• Before your very eyes
• Bring on the real Thirst-Quencher! (7-Up advertising slogan)
• Cast in concrete
• Champagne for my real friends, real pain for my sham friends! (line from the movie 25th Hour)
• Come home to a real fire (Coal Board advertising slogan)
• Complex number (a number containing real and imaginary parts)
• Concrete ceiling
• Concrete jungle
• Concrete shoes
• Cost effective
• Dream come true
• Effective immediately
• Elizabeth Arden is real (Elizabeth Arden advertising slogan)
• Everything you can imagine is real (Pablo Picasso quotation)
• Everything you hear is true (Pioneer advertising slogan)
• For real
• Get real
• Good men and true
• He's a real nowhere man sitting in his nowhere land (The Beatles song lyric)
• Hold very tight please
• How very dare you (A catchphrase from The Catherine Tate Show)
• Human kind cannot bear very much reality (from a poem by Eliot)
• I was very very drunk (A catchphrase from The Fast Show)
• In real time
• It Was A Very Good Year (Frank Sinatra song)
• It's all meat, a real treat
• It's the real thing (Coca Cola advertising slogan)
• Keep it real
• Many a true word is spoken in jest
• Mendoza line (A baseball expression denoting a line marking a very poor performance)
• Nothing is real and nothing to get hung about (The Beatles song lyric)
• Out of true
• Real card
• Real dusey
• Real estate

• Real food for real people (The beef industry advertising slogan)
• Real goodness from Kentucky Fried Chicken (Kentucky Fried Chicken advertising slogan)
• Real piece of work
• Rock And Roll Dreams Come True (Meatloaf song)
• Set in concrete
• Show your true colours
• Simple yet effective
• Soft, strong and very long (Andrex toilet tissue advertising slogan)
• Thank you very much (A catchphrase from Taxi)
• The Concrete Block (Nickname of Coventry England)
• The Real Deal (Nickname of Evander Holyfield)
• The Real Slim Shady
• The Real West (Nickname of Pendelton Oregon)
• The True Definition of Luxury. Yours. (Acura advertising slogan)
• The course of true love never did run smooth
• The genuine article (Budweiser Beer advertising slogan)
• The real McCoy
• The real Simon Pure
• The real deal
• They're tasty, tasty, very very tasty (Kellogg's advertising slogan)
• This above all: to thine own self be true (William Shakespeare)
• This is very midsummer madness
• Too good to be true
• Tried and true
• True Blue (Madonna album)
• True Colors (Cyndi Lauper song)
• True Grit (John Wayne movie)
• True Love Ways (Buddy Holly song)
• True blue
• True colours
• True grit
• True to you (Julius Baer Private Bank advertising slogan)
• Twelve good men and true
• Very Very Special (Nickname of Vangipurappu Laxman - Indian cricketer)
• Very interesting, but stupid (A catchphrase from Rowan and Martin's Laugh In)
• Well, actually, he forgot Poland
• What I tell you three times is true
• Will the real ... stand up? (A catchphrase from To Tell The Truth)
• You've made an old man very happy