Beside Phrases

Phrases

• A house divided against itself cannot stand
• Against the grain
• Against the law
• Against the odds
• Against your will
• All joking aside
• America's Next Top Model
• And the next object is (A catchphrase from Twenty Questions)
• As near as dammit
• Bang your head against a brick wall
• Be up with
• Beside myself with joy
• Beside the point
• Better luck next time
• Boy next door
• Charge of the Light Brigade (British cavalry charge against Russian army in the Crimean War and title of a poem by Tennyson)
• Cleanliness is next to Godliness (Pears' Soap advertising slogan)
• Cleanliness is next to godliness
• Coming to a screen near you
• Companion plant (a plant grown near to another species to enhance its growth)
• Crime against nature
• Far better for being near to you (The Chesham Building Society advertising slogan)
• Girl next door
• Go against the grain
• Guard against
• Harden your heart against
• Hope against hope
• Horlicks guards against night starvation (Horlicks advertising slogan)
• I Do Like To Be Beside The Seaside (British Music Hall song)
• I'll not hear a word against him
• If I said you had a beautiful body would you hold it against me?
• Keep abreast of
• Kick against
• Kick against the pricks
• Knock into the middle of next week

• Knock up against
• Line abreast
• More sinned against than sinning
• Near and dear to my heart
• Near death experience
• Near miss
• Near sighted
• Near the knuckle
• Near to one's heart
• Next generation
• Next in line to the throne
• Next to myself, I like BVD best (BVD Underwear advertising slogan)
• Next to nothing
• Ninth inning (A baseball expression meaning an event or process is near the end)
• On deck (A baseball expression meaning next in line)
• Pit your wits against
• Play both ends against the middle
• Protect against
• Race against the clock
• Race against time
• Rage against the machine
• Rage, rage, against the dying of the light
• Set your face against something
• Sitting next to Nellie
• Sweep aside
• Swim against the tide
• Take it to the next level
• The King and Queen Might Eat Thereof and Noblemen Besides (Jell-O Gelatin Dessert advertising slogan)
• The Next America (Nickname of Columbia Maryland)
• The next president of the United States
• The next small thing
• There's no law against it
• This time next year we will be millionaires (A catchphrase from Only Fools And Horses)
• Up against it
• Up against the wall
• Your next car (Chrysler advertising slogan)