Aft Phrases

Phrases

• A man after my own heart
• Accessory after the fact
• After The Gold Rush (Neil Young song)
• After a fashion
• After a storm comes a calm
• After all is said and done
• After all, tomorrow is another day (Gone With the Wind)
• After dark (Tia Maria advertising slogan)
• After hours
• After sun
• After the Lord Mayor's parade
• After the ball was over
• After you, my dear Alphonse
• After your blood
• After your own heart
• And they lived happily ever after
• Answer back
• As soon as my back is turned
• Ask after
• At last. A pickle that bites back (Marcus Valley Pickles advertising slogan)
• At the back of my mind
• Back In Black (AC/DC album)
• Back In The USSR (The Beatles song)
• Back To Black (Amy Winehouse song)
• Back To The Future
• Back at it
• Back at the ranch
• Back door man
• Back down
• Back from the dead
• Back in St. Olaf ... (A catchphrase from The Golden Girls)
• Back in business
• Back in the day
• Back in the saddle
• Back number
• Back of beyond
• Back off
• Back office bean counter
• Back on track
• Back on your feet
• Back out
• Back room boy
• Back seat driver
• Back slang
• Back street abortion
• Back teeth are floating
• Back the field
• Back the wrong horse
• Back to back
• Back to basics
• Back to nature
• Back to school
• Back to square one
• Back to the drawing board
• Back to the salt mine
• Back up
• Back woods
• Behind your back
• Bite back
• Bounce back
• Break the back of something
• Break your back
• Brush back (A baseball expression meaning to subvert or threaten verbally)
• Burn After Reading (George Clooney movie)
• But at my back I always hear (from a poem by Marvell)
• California licence plate (Nickname for tattoo on lower back)
• Cast your mind back
• Come back for more
• Cover your back
• Crawl back into your shell
• Die back
• Double back
• Eyes in the back of your head
• Face like the back of a bus
• Fall back on
• Fed up to the back teeth
• Fight back
• Fight back the tears
• Fish and guests smell after three days
• Get Back (The Beatles song)
• Get back at
• Get back on your feet
• Get back together
• Get back your oo with Typhoo (Typhoo Tea advertising slogan)
• Get off my back
• Get the monkey off my back
• Gimme, gimme, gimme a man after midnight (ABBA lyric)
• Go back on a promise
• Go back on one's word (Retract a previous promise)
• Go behind your back

• Handbrake turn (180 degree turn in a car by locking the back wheels)
• Hang back
• Hanker after
• Happy ever after
• Hark back to
• He's got a yellow streak down his back
• Hit the back wall
• Hold back on
• Holding back the years
• I Want You Back (The Jackson 5 song)
• I before E except after C
• I scratch your back and you scratch mine
• I'll be back (A catchphrase from The Terminator)
• In the back of my mind
• It fell off the back of a lorry
• It is easy to be wise after the event
• It's All Coming Back To Me Now (Meatloaf song)
• It's no use locking the stable door after the horse has bolted
• Jack's back (Jack in the Box fast food chain advertising slogan)
• Just when you thought it was safe to go back in water (Jaws II advertising tagline)
• Kick back
• Kick back and enjoy
• Knock back
• Knock back a few
• Know like the back of your hand
• Laid back
• Letters after your name
• Lie back and think of England
• Life after death
• Life is just one damned thing after another
• Like water off a duck's back
• Line astern
• Look after number one
• Look after the pennies and the pounds will look after themselves
• Lust after
• Make a back
• Make a rod for your own back
• Meanwhile back at the... (A catchphrase from Superfriends)
• Money back guarantee
• My Back Pages (Bob Dylan song)
• My Boomerang Won't Come Back (Charlie Drake song)
• Never look back
• Never put off until tomorrow what you can do the day after tomorrow (Mark Twain quotation)
• No going back
• Not in my back yard
• On the back burner
• On the back foot
• One hand tied behind your back
• One step forward, two steps back
• Pat on the back
• Pin your ears back
• Plough something back
• Pump your money back into Canada (Petro Canada, early advertising slogan)
• Put on the back burner
• Put the clock back
• Put the freshness back (Shake And Vac advertising slogan)
• Put the fun back into driving (Vauxhall Motors advertising slogan)
• Put your back into it
• Put your back up
• Right back at ya
• See the back of someone
• Smoke me a kipper, I'll be back for breakfast (A catchphrase from Red Dwarf)
• Spring forward, Fall back
• Stab in the back
• Step on a crack, break your mother's back
• Still Crazy After All These Years (Paul Simon song)
• Take a back seat
• Take after
• Take the shirt off your back
• That Friday feeling (anticipation of the weekend after a hard working week)
• The Bitch Is Back (Elton John song)
• The Empire Strikes Back (George Lucas movie in the Star Wars series)
• The devil looks after his own
• The last straw that broke the camel's back
• The morning after
• They never come back
• Things happen after a Badedas bath (Badedas advertising slogan)
• Throw it back in your face
• Time after time
• To Hell and back
• To get one's back up
• Turn back the clock
• Turn the clock back
• Turn your back on
• Two steps forward and one step back
• Watch your back
• Wind at your back
• Wise after the event
• You can't take it back, it's out there (When Harry met Sally)
• You scratch my back and I'll scratch yours