Child Phrases

Phrases

• ...Baby One More Time (Britney Spears album and song)
• A Boy Named Sue (Johnny Cash song)
• A Portrait Of The Artist As A Young Man (James Joyce book)
• A Suitable Boy (Vikram Seth book)
• A boy's best friend is his mother (Psycho)
• A child is an island of curiosity surrounded by a sea of question marks (Shell advertising slogan)
• A girl with kaleidoscope eyes (Beatles song lyric)
• A girl's best friend
• A ministering angel shall my sister be
• Absent parent
• Action Man (children's male doll)
• After The Gold Rush (Neil Young song)
• All children, except one, grow up (the opening line of Peter Pan)
• All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy
• All-American Girl (Nickname of boxer Vonda Ward)
• Am I my brother's keeper?
• And baby makes three
• Angry young man
• Ankle biter
• Are we there yet? (A catchphrase from Bart In The Simpsons)
• As easy as taking candy from a baby
• As helpless as a baby
• As smooth as a baby's bottom
• Atta boy
• Atta girl
• Attila the Nun (Nickname of Sister Agnes (Priscilla Lopez))
• Babe Ruth (Nickname of George Herman Ruth)
• Babe in arms
• Babe in the woods
• Babe magnet
• Baby Braves (Nickname of a group of Atlanta Braves)
• Baby Bull (Nickname of baseball player Orlando Cepeda)
• Baby Cakes (Nickname of Cliff Huxtable (Bill Cosby))
• Baby Doc (Nickname of Jean Claude Duvalier)
• Baby Doll (Nickname of boxer Elena Reid)
• Baby Girl (Nickname of boxer Leatitia Robinson)
• Baby Gramps (Nickname of basketball player Greg Oden)
• Baby I Need Your Loving (Four Tops song)
• Baby Jordan (Nickname of basketball player Harold Miner)
• Baby Love (The Supremes song)
• Baby Please Don't Go (Muddy Waters song)
• Baby Shaq (Nickname of Sofoklis Schortsanitis)
• Baby You're A Rich Man (The Beatles song)
• Baby blues
• Baby boomer
• Baby brain (forgetfulness caused by lack of sleep when caring for a newborn)
• Baby bunting
• Baby face
• Baby father
• Baby grand
• Baby needs new shoes
• Baby on board
• Baby shower
• Baby snatcher
• Baby split
• Baby steps
• Baby you can drive my car (Beatles song lyric)
• Baby, you can park my car
• Baby, you're the greatest. (A catchphrase from The Honeymooners)
• Bachelor girl
• Back room boy
• Barbie Girl (Aqua song)
• Beach babe
• Bean Burrito (Nickname of basketball player Nick Young)
• Beautiful Boy (John Lennon song)
• Bhatti boy (slang term for a homosexual)
• Big Baby (Nickname of basketball player Glen Davis)
• Big Brother
• Big Brother is watching you
• Big girl's blouse
• Billy The Kid (Nickname of Henry McCarty aka William Bonney)
• Blood blister (Cockney rhyming slang for sister)
• Blossoming youth
• Blue-eyed boy
• Boston Tar Baby (Nickname of boxer Sam Langford)
• Boy made good
• Boy meets girl
• Boy next door
• Boy, is my face red (A catchphrase from David Letterman)
• Bright young thing
• Bringing Up Baby (Cary Grant / Katharine Hepburn movie)
• Broken home
• Broth of a boy
• Brother Jonathan
• Brum brum (child's play idiom expressing the sound of a vehicle)
• Butch Cassidy And The Sundance Kid (Paul Newman / Robert Redford movie)
• Call girl
• Child of God
• Child's play
• Childhood friend
• Childhood memories
• Childhood sweetheart
• Children and fools tell the truth
• Children should be seen and not heard
• Children's shoes have far to go (Start-Rite Shoes advertising slogan)
• Children, one is one, two is fun, three is a house full
• Chip off the old block
• Cinnamon Girl (Neil Young song)
• Clean cut boy
• Come On Baby Light My Fire (The Doors song)
• Crank That (Soulja Boy) (Soulja Boy Tell 'Em song)
• Cry baby
• Curtain climber
• Daddy's little girl
• Day surgery (minor surgery that does not require the patient to stay in hospital overnight)
• Dead-end kid
• Diamonds are a girl's best friend
• Don't Worry Baby (Beach Boys song)
• Don't be such a baby
• Down boy
• Drill, baby, drill
• Enfant terrible
• Every mother's son
• Four for a boy (Magpie nursery rhyme)
• Fourth Quarter Vince (Nickname of American football player Vince Young)
• Fresh faced
• George, don't do that (A catchphrase from Joyce Grenfell)
• Girl Friday
• Girl From The North Country (Bob Dylan song)
• Girl With A Pearl Earring (Scarlett Johansson / Colin Firth movie)
• Girl next door
• Girl power
• Give up
• Give your baby something you never had as a baby. A drier bottom (Pampers advertising slogan)
• Glamour girl
• Glow Little Glow-worm (children's nursery rhyme)
• Go West young man
• Go on my son
• Go with child
• Golden boy
• Good time girl
• Goodnight John Boy (A catchphrase from The Waltons)
• Goodnight children everywhere (A catchphrase from Uncle Mac)
• Grapes, like children, need love and affection (Almaden advertising slogan)
• Greasy kid's stuff
• Handle with kid gloves
• Has your girl turned into a refrigerator? If her air is arctic, try MUM (Mum Deodorant advertising slogan)
• Hasta la vista baby (A catchphrase from Arnold Schwarzeneggar)
• He ain't heavy, he's my brother
• He's not the Messiah, he's a very naughty boy (line from the movie Life of Brian)
• Heart Of Gold (Neil Young song)
• Heavy with child
• Helicopter parent
• Hello big boy, would you like a nice time?
• Helpless Helpless Helpless Helpless (Neil Young song lyric)
• Here's looking at you kid (Casablanca)
• Hey, Soul Sister (Train song)
• His father's son
• Hockey Mom
• Home alone
• Home boy
• Honey Girl (Nickname of boxer Melissa Del Valle)
• How sharper than a serpent's tooth it is to have a thankless child?
• I Got You Babe (Sonny and Cher song)
• I Kissed a Girl (Katy Perry song)
• I kid you not (A catchphrase from Jack Parr)
• I once had a girl, or should I say, she once had me (The Beatles song lyric)
• I'll Be Your Baby Tonight (Bob Dylan song)
• I'm going to tell on you
• Ice, ice baby
• Is You Is Or Is You Ain't, My Baby? (Louis Jordan song)
• Is you is or is you ain't, my baby?
• It Ain't Me, Babe (Bob Dylan song)
• It's All Over Now Baby Blue (Bob Dylan song)
• Jack the lad
• Kid Canada (Nickname of Steve Nash)
• Kid Delicious (Nickname of Kevin Durant)
• Kid Thunder (Nickname of Shane Sutcliffe)
• Kid n' Play (Nickname of Kevin Martin)
• Kid tested Mother approved (Kix advertising slogan)
• Kid's stuff
• Kiss Me Thru the Phone (Soulja Boy Tell 'Em song)
• Lad mag

• Lady Madonna, children at your feet (Beatles song lyric)
• Latchkey kid
• Leave no child behind (Political slogan)
• Left holding the baby
• Leicester's Favourite Son (Nickname of Gary Lineker)
• Let's rock (A catchphrase from Al Bundy In Married With Children)
• Like father, like son
• Little Boy Blue come blow your horn (line from nursery rhyme)
• Little blighter
• Love child
• Love in This Club (Usher with Young Jeezy song)
• Love's young dream
• Lover boy
• Man and boy
• Material Girl (Madonna song)
• Maybe Baby (Buddy Holly song)
• Midnight's Children
• Million Dollar Baby (Hilary Swank / Clint Eastwood movie)
• Mother's boy
• My Baby Left Me (Elvis Presley song)
• My Girl (Smokey Robinson song)
• My son the doctor
• Nancy boy
• New arrival (colloquial term for a newborn baby)
• New kid on the block
• Not so young as you were
• Number one son
• O Brother Where Art Thou (A catchphrase from Ed Murrow and George Clooney movie title)
• Oh Boy (Buddy Holly song)
• Old head on young shoulders
• On me 'ead, son
• On me head son (Invitation to cross a football so that another player can head it)
• Only Girl In the World (Rihanna song)
• Only Love Can Break Your Heart (Neil Young song)
• Orphan problem
• Our children are not our children
• Page 3 girl
• Party girl
• Pass the Dutchie (Musical Youth song)
• Pepsi - for those who think young (Pepsi advertising slogan)
• Poor little rich girl
• Poster boy
• Pretty Boy (Nickname of David Carr)
• Pretty Boy (Nickname of Floyd Mayweather Jr.)
• Pretty Boy Floyd (Nickname of Charles Floyd)
• Pride and joy
• Problem child
• Rock Your Baby (George McCrae song)
• Rock a bye baby on the tree top, when the wind blows the cradle will rock (line from nursery rhyme)
• Rockin' In The Free World (Neil Young song)
• Rug rat
• Saturday's child works hard for a living
• Saviour sibling (a child born in order to provide a transplant for another with a fatal disease)
• Scotch and the Single Girl (J&B Scotch advertising slogan)
• Second childhood
• See that girl, watch that scene (ABBA lyric)
• Send a salami to your boy in the army
• Shouldn't your baby be a Gerber baby? (Gerber Products advertising slogan)
• Singapore Girl, you're a great way to fly (Singapore Airlines advertising slogan)
• Sister Act (Whoopie Goldberg movie)
• Sister of mercy
• Skin and blister (Cockney rhyming slang for sister)
• Sleep like a baby
• So Farley's, so good (Farley's Baby Food advertising slogan)
• Soccer Mom
• Son of Sam (Nickname of David Berkowitz)
• Son of a gun
• Son of a whore (a bastard, or a general term of abuse)
• Soul brother
• Soul sister
• Spare the rod and spoil the child
• Steptoe and Son (BBC comedy television series)
• Stick with me, kid
• Strapping young man
• Success has many fathers, while failure is an orphan
• Suffer the little children
• Sunday's child is full of grace
• Sweet Baby James (James Taylor song)
• Talk to me, baby
• Teenage Dream (Katy Perry song)
• Test tube baby
• That's my boy
• The All-American Boy (Nickname of Dick Jones)
• The Bandstand Cover Girl (Nickname of Carol Scaldeferri)
• The Best Bad Girl on TV (Nickname of Cloris Leachman)
• The Boston Strong Boy (Nickname of John L. Sullivan)
• The Boy David (Nickname of English politician David Steel)
• The Boy In The Bubble (Paul Simon song)
• The Boy Wonder (Nickname of Robin)
• The Cannonball Kid (Nickname of tennis player Roscoe Tanner)
• The Charlie Chaplin of Television (Nickname of comedian Alan Young)
• The Cincinnati Kid (Steve McQueen movie)
• The Coca-Cola Girl (Nickname of singer Anita Bryant)
• The Comeback Kid (Nickname of Bill Clinton)
• The Dumbest Girl in America (Nickname of Kelly Bundy (Christina Applegate))
• The Famous Five (characters in Enid Blyton's series of children's book)
• The Girl Can't Help It (Little Richard song and movie)
• The Girl Of My Best Friend (Elvis Presley song)
• The Girl With A Million-Dollar Legs (Nickname of Betty Grable)
• The Girl with the Upside-Down Eyes (Nickname of actress Glynis Johns)
• The Golden Boy (Nickname of Billy Walker)
• The Golden Boy (Nickname of Oscar de la Hoya)
• The Golden Boy (Nickname of Paul Hornung)
• The Golden Boy (Nickname of Tom Brady)
• The Home Of Paul Bunyan And Babe The Blue Ox (Nickname of Westwood California, Brainerd Minnesota and Bemidji Minnesota)
• The It Girl (Nickname of Clara Bow)
• The Kid (Nickname of Ken Griffey Jr. and Ted Williams)
• The Kid (Nickname of Kevin Garnett)
• The Little Drummer Boy (Harry Simeone Chorale song)
• The Man Child (Nickname of Dwight Howard)
• The Man with the Child in His Eyes (Kate Bush song)
• The Naughty Corner
• The Original Live Test-Pattern Girl (Nickname of Nanette Fabray)
• The Parent Trap (Hayley Mills movie)
• The Say Hey Kid (Nickname of Willie Mays)
• The Sundance Kid (Nickname of Harry Longbaugh)
• The Sweater Girl (Nickname of Lana Turner)
• The Young Ones (BBC comedy television series)
• The Young Pretender (Nickname of Charles Edward Stuart)
• The apple never falls far from the tree
• The boy is father to the man
• The boy stood on the burning deck
• The child is father of the man (from a poem by Wordsworth)
• The flower of one's youth
• The fountain of youth
• The good die young
• The night is young
• The patter of tiny feet
• The shoemaker's son always goes barefoot
• The wheels on the bus go round and round (title of children's song)
• This Boy (Beatles song)
• Those whom the Gods love die young
• Three for a girl (Magpie nursery rhyme)
• Throw the baby out with the bathwater
• Thursday's child has far to go
• Tom Tom the pipers son stole a pig and away he ran (line from nursery rhyme)
• Too Busy Thinking About My Baby (Marvin Gaye song)
• Toy boy
• Trap and ball (children's ball game)
• Twas the night before Christmas - the children were dreaming of a Ford in their future - smart, swanky and gleaming (Ford Cars advertising slogan)
• Voodoo Child (Jimi Hendrix song)
• War baby (someone born during the war - especially the illegitimate child of a soldier)
• We Are Young (fun with Janelle Monae song)
• Wednesday's child has far to go
• Wet the baby's head
• What's a girl to do?
• Whatever Happened To Baby Jane? (Bette Davis movie)
• When the bough breaks the cradle will fall, and down will come baby, cradle and all (line from nursery rhyme)
• Whipping boy
• Who are you? (Nintendo Game Boy Advance advertising slogan)
• Who loves ya baby? (A catchphrase from Kojak)
• Who's a pretty boy then?
• Who's little boy are you?
• Wide boy
• Wise beyond your years
• With child
• Women and children first
• Working girl
• You Must Have Been A Beautiful Baby (Bing Crosby song)
• You can't kid a kidder
• You dirty old man (A catchphrase from Steptoe and Son)
• You go girl
• You stupid boy! (A catchphrase from Dad's Army)
• You're as young as you feel
• You're only young once
• You've come a long way, baby (Virginia Slims Cigarettes advertising slogan)
• Young Frankenstein (Mel Brooks / Gene Wilder movie)
• Young Thunder (Nickname of Dwight Howard)
• Young and sweet, only seventeen (ABBA lyric)
• Young at heart
• Young fogey
• Young turk
• Young, Gifted and Black (Nina Simone song)
• Youth is wasted on the young

Related

• A child is an island of curiosity surrounded by a sea of question marks (Shell advertising slogan)
• Brum brum (child's play idiom expressing the sound of a vehicle)
• Child of God
• Child's play
• Go with child
• Heavy with child
• How sharper than a serpent's tooth it is to have a thankless child?
• Leave no child behind (Political slogan)
• Love child
• Problem child
• Saturday's child works hard for a living
• Saviour sibling (a child born in order to provide a transplant for another with a fatal disease)
• Spare the rod and spoil the child
• Sunday's child is full of grace
• The Man Child (Nickname of Dwight Howard)
• The Man with the Child in His Eyes (Kate Bush song)
• The child is father of the man (from a poem by Wordsworth)
• Thursday's child has far to go
• Voodoo Child (Jimi Hendrix song)
• War baby (someone born during the war - especially the illegitimate child of a soldier)
• Wednesday's child has far to go
• With child