Apparel Phrases

Phrases

• Adjust your dress
• All over him like a cheap suit
• At a price to suit your pocket
• Bunny suit (Canadian military slang term for a cbrn (chemical, biological, radiological, nuclear))
• Clothes maketh the man
• Cut your coat to suit your cloth
• Dead Men Don't Wear Plaid (Steve Martin movie)
• Dress code
• Dress down
• Dress down Friday
• Dress for success
• Dress up
• Dress up Thursday
• Follow suit
• I grow old, I grow old, I shall wear the bottoms of my trousers rolled (from a poem by Eliot)
• I wear my sunglasses at night
• I will wear my heart upon my sleeve
• If the cap fits, wear it
• If the shoe fits, wear it
• In your birthday suit
• It takes 40 dumb animals to make a fur coat, but only one to wear it
• Let's get out of these wet clothes and into a dry Martini
• Little black dress
• Look your best while you wear our least (Jockey Shorts advertising slogan)
• Only 1 out of 25 men is color blind. The other 24 just dress that way (Mohara Suits advertising slogan)
• Penguin suit
• Royal flush (in poker - a hand including a ten jack queen king and ace of the same suit)
• San Francisco (Be Sure to Wear Flowers in Your Hair) (Scott McKenzie song)
• Side boob (the side of a female breast revealed by skimpy clothing)
• Suit up
• Suit you, sir (A catchphrase from The Fast Show)
• Suit yourself
• The emperor's new clothes
• The future's so bright, I gotta wear shades (song by Timbuk 3)
• Underneath Your Clothes (Shakira song)
• Wardrobe malfunction (when an item of clothing slips out of place to expose part of the body - typically a woman's breast)
• Wear the pine overcoat
• Wear the trousers
• Wear your apron high
• Wear your heart on your sleeve
• Wear yourself out
• What do I wear in bed? Why, Chanel No. 5, of course (Marilyn Monroe quotation)
• When I am an old woman I shall wear purple (from a poem by Joseph)
• Whistle and flute (Cockney rhyming slang for suit)
• Wolf in sheep's clothing
• Worse for wear
• You Wear It Well (Rod Stewart song)
• Zoot suit