Business Phrases

Phrases

• 100% squeezed sunshine (Tropicana advertising slogan)
• 100% versus 6% That's the Total difference (Total Toothpaste advertising slogan)
• 11:30, Diet Coke break (Coca Cola advertising slogan)
• A Mars a day helps you work, rest and play (Mars Chocolate advertising slogan)
• A dirty business
• A head for business and a body for sin
• A lot on your plate (having many responsibilities)
• A man who is his own lawyer has a fool for a client
• A person is known by the company he keeps
• A work in progress
• ABC: America's broadcasting company (ABC advertising slogan)
• Ads work harder in the new Granada (Granada advertising slogan)
• Affair of the heart
• Affair to remember
• All in a day's work
• All my own work
• All over the shop
• All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy
• Alpha Mom (an ambitious mother who aims to excel at work while raising children)
• Ambient advertising
• Back in business
• Back office bean counter
• Balance of trade
• Better Ideas. Driven by You (Ford Motor Company advertising slogan)
• Big Blue (Nickname of International Business Machines (IBM))
• Bucket shop
• Build A Better Life By Stealing Office Supplies (Dilbert)
• Bury yourself in your work
• Business acumen
• Business as usual
• Business at hand
• Business before pleasure
• Business class
• Business end
• Business is beautiful (Sprint advertising slogan)
• Business is like a car, it will not run by itself except downhill
• Business jet
• Business need
• Business or pleasure
• Business partner
• Business plan
• Business to business
• Cackle factory
• Cap and trade (A policy tool aimed at protecting the environment)
• Captain of industry
• Cause for concern
• Charlie And The Chocolate Factory (Roald Dahl book)
• Chop shop
• Christmas is a time to believe in things you can't see (3M Company Scotch Tape advertising slogan)
• Cigar store Indian
• Civil partnership
• Clinch a deal
• Close enough for government work
• Commercial suicide
• Company man (a worker especially loyal to the employer he works for)
• Computers help people help people (IBM advertising slogan)
• Cop shop
• Cottage industry
• Deal breaker
• Deal maker
• Dirty work at the crossroads
• Do the business
• Do your business
• Doing a land-office business
• Don't make a big production out of it
• Don't mix business with pleasure
• Donkey work
• E-business solutions (IBM advertising slogan)
• Enjoy our company (Sabena advertising slogan)
• Enter a different World (Harrods Store advertising slogan)
• Ethnic stocking (the appointment to political office on the basis of ethnicity)
• Everybody out (A catchphrase from The Rag Trade)
• Everything London (Harrods Store advertising slogan)
• Everything you want from a store and a little bit more (Safeway Supermarkets advertising slogan)
• Factory farming (rearing livestock under industrial conditions)
• Factory fresh
• Factory outlet (a shop where goods are sold directly to the public by the manufacturer)
• Factory shop (a retail outlet where goods are sold directly to the public by the manufacturer)
• Fair Trade
• Fair exchange is no robbery
• Fcuk advertising (French Connection United Kingdom advertising slogan)
• For those who like the trade rough (Travis aftershave advertising slogan)
• Free trade
• Gargle factory
• Genius loves company
• Get behind in your work
• Get down to business
• Glue factory
• Go about your business
• Go to work on an egg (British Egg Marketing Board advertising slogan)
• Going concern
• Greasy spoon (a small cheap cafe selling fried food)
• Hang out your shingle
• Hard work never did anyone any harm
• Hard work never killed anyone
• Harrods for everything (Harrods Store advertising slogan)
• Harrods serves the World (Harrods Store advertising slogan)
• Have your work cut out for you
• High office
• Hive of industry
• Hounded out of office
• How does the wireless industry make you feel? (Sprint PCS advertising slogan)
• I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work (Thomas Edison quotation)
• I liked it so much I bought the company (Remington shavers advertising slogan)
• I'll make it my business
• If ifs and ands were pots and pans there'd be no work for tinkers
• Imagination at Work (General Electric advertising slogan)
• In good company
• It's a family affair
• Just another day at the office
• Just when you thought it was safe to go back in water (Jaws II advertising tagline)
• Keep bad company
• Keep company with
• Keep the shop and the shop will keep you
• Keep up the good work
• Knocking shop
• Knowledge economy
• Land office business
• Life is our life's Work (Pfizer advertising slogan)
• Like a bull in a china shop
• Like nobody's business
• Line of work
• Live over the shop
• Maid of all work
• Major player
• Make light work of
• Make short work of
• Making smoking 'safe' for smokers (Bonded Tobacco Company advertising slogan)
• Many hands make light work
• Mean business

• Men in black
• Men in suits
• Mind your own business
• Minding the store
• Misery loves company
• Monkey business
• More reasons to shop at Morrisons (WM Morrison's advertising slogan)
• Moving at the speed of business (UPS advertising slogan)
• Nasty piece of work
• Never do a stroke of work
• Nice work if you can get it
• Nut factory
• Office politics
• Office space
• Office work
• One stop shop
• Only fools and horses work
• Open for business
• Ore-Ida! It's all-righta! (Ore-Ida advertising slogan)
• Orphan problem
• Out of office
• Panic selling
• Parents who use drugs have kids who use drugs (The Partnership for a Drug-Free America advertising slogan)
• Part company
• Party Like a Rock Star (Shop Boyz song)
• Post early for Christmas (Post Office advertising slogan)
• Power lunch
• Present company excepted
• Pressure of work
• Rag trade
• Real food for real people (The beef industry advertising slogan)
• Real piece of work
• Risky business
• Rough trade
• See what the future has in store (Future Shop advertising slogan)
• Seeing small business differently (SBC Communications advertising slogan)
• Selling like hot cakes
• Selling sand to Arabs
• Selling snow to Eskimos
• Selling the family silver
• Set great store by
• Shoot straight (to talk or deal honestly)
• Shop 'till you drop
• Shop Around (Smokey Robinson song)
• Shop around
• Shut it (A catchphrase from The Office)
• Shut up shop
• Silo mentality
• Simon Says (1910 Fruitgum Company song)
• So round, so firm, so fully packed (Lucky Strike Cigarettes advertising slogan)
• Somebody somewhere wants a letter from you (British Post Office advertising slogan)
• Spade work
• Step into my office
• Stock in trade
• Strictly business
• Sunrise industry
• Sunset industry
• Swept into office
• Taking care of business
• Talk shop
• Talking shop
• The Adventure of the Illustrious Client (Sherlock Holmes story)
• The Art Of The Deal (Donald Trump slogan and book title)
• The Beehive Of Industry (Nickname of Providence Rhode Island)
• The Best Second Banana in the Business (Nickname of Art Carney)
• The Devil finds work for idle hands to do
• The Dream Factory (film or television studio where idealised concepts are manufactured - especially Hollywood)
• The Internet at Work (UUNET advertising slogan)
• The Rag Trade (BBC comedy television series)
• The Show Business Capital Of The World (Nickname of Hollywood California)
• The Smartest Dumbbell in the History of Show Business (Nickname of comedienne Gracie Allen)
• The Square Mile (Nickname of The City of London)
• The Thomas Crown Affair (Steve McQueen movie)
• The bottom fell out of the market
• The business
• The business of America is business
• The company you keep (New York Life advertising slogan)
• The document company (Xerox advertising slogan)
• The last turkey in the shop
• There's No Business Like Show Business (Judy Garland song)
• There's no place like HBO (Home Box Office advertising slogan)
• This Woman's Work (Kate Bush song)
• This is a local shop, we'll have no trouble here (A catchphrase from The League of Gentlemen)
• This is your brain. This is your brain on drugs. Any questions? (The Partnership for a Drug-Free America advertising slogan)
• This line of business
• This time it's personal (Jaws The Revenge advertising tagline)
• Thrift Shop (Macklemore and Ryan Lewis with Wanz song)
• Time is money
• Too Much Monkey Business (Chuck Berry song)
• Tools of the trade
• Top of the shop (Bingo call for number ninety)
• Trade down
• Tricks of the trade
• Two's company three's a crowd
• Vocation vacation
• Voice your concern
• Wardrobe mistress (a person in charge of the costumes of a theatrical company)
• We Can Work It Out (Beatles song)
• We make things that make communications work (Lucent Technologies advertising slogan)
• We mean business
• We're gonna need a bigger boat (Jaws advertising tagline)
• We're just one big happy family
• What a piece of work is man
• What's in store?
• Whistle while you work
• Who's minding the store?
• Why do only fools and horses work?
• Woman's work is never done
• Work both sides of the street
• Work expands so as to fill the time available
• Work hard. Fly right (Continental Airlines advertising slogan)
• Work it
• Work itself up into a lather
• Work life balance
• Work like a Trojan
• Work like a beaver
• Work like a dog
• Work of art
• Work one's fingers to the bone
• Work the phone
• Work the rabbit's foot on
• Work to rule
• Work wonders
• Work your ass off
• Work your butt off
• Work your ticket
• Work yourself into the ground
• You don't have to be mad to work here, but it helps
• You got a friend in the business (Gateway 2000 advertising slogan)
• You shop, we drop (Tesco home delivery advertising slogan)

Related

• A dirty business
• A head for business and a body for sin
• Back in business
• Big Blue (Nickname of International Business Machines (IBM))
• Business acumen
• Business as usual
• Business at hand
• Business before pleasure
• Business class
• Business end
• Business is beautiful (Sprint advertising slogan)
• Business is like a car, it will not run by itself except downhill
• Business jet
• Business need
• Business or pleasure
• Business partner
• Business plan
• Business to business
• Do the business
• Do your business
• Doing a land-office business
• Don't mix business with pleasure
• Get down to business
• Go about your business
• I'll make it my business
• Land office business
• Like nobody's business
• Mean business
• Mind your own business
• Monkey business
• Moving at the speed of business (UPS advertising slogan)
• Open for business
• Risky business
• Seeing small business differently (SBC Communications advertising slogan)
• Strictly business
• Taking care of business
• The Best Second Banana in the Business (Nickname of Art Carney)
• The Show Business Capital Of The World (Nickname of Hollywood California)
• The Smartest Dumbbell in the History of Show Business (Nickname of comedienne Gracie Allen)
• The business
• The business of America is business
• There's No Business Like Show Business (Judy Garland song)
• This line of business
• Too Much Monkey Business (Chuck Berry song)
• We mean business
• You got a friend in the business (Gateway 2000 advertising slogan)