Childbirth Phrases

Phrases

• ...Baby One More Time (Britney Spears album and song)
• A Star Is Born (Judy Garland movie)
• A child is an island of curiosity surrounded by a sea of question marks (Shell advertising slogan)
• A woman is only a woman but a good cigar is a smoke
• A woman without a man is like a fish without a bicycle
• A woman's place is in the home
• A woman's right to choose
• And baby makes three
• As easy as taking candy from a baby
• As helpless as a baby
• As naked as the day you were born
• As smooth as a baby's bottom
• 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)
• Barefoot and pregnant
• Because you were born to fly (TAM Brazilian Airlines advertising slogan)
• Behind every great man there's a great woman
• Big Baby (Nickname of basketball player Glen Davis)
• Born 1820 - Still going strong (Johnny Walker Black Whiskey advertising slogan)
• Born Free (Virginia McKenna movie)
• Born In The U.S.A.(Bruce Springsteen album and song)
• Born On The Fourth Of July (Tom Cruise movie)
• Born This Way (Lady Gaga song)
• Born To Run (Bruce Springsteen song)
• Born Under A Bad Sign (Cream song)
• Born again
• Born and bred
• Born in the purple
• Born loser
• Born on the wrong side of the blanket
• Born on the wrong side of the tracks
• Born out of wedlock
• Born ready
• Born to be wild
• Born under a bad sign
• Born under a lucky star
• Born with a silver spoon in his mouth
• Born within the sound of Bow Bells
• Boston Tar Baby (Nickname of boxer Sam Langford)
• Bringing Up Baby (Cary Grant / Katharine Hepburn movie)
• Brum brum (child's play idiom expressing the sound of a vehicle)
• Captain Underpants And The Wrath Of The Wicked Wedgie Woman (Dav Pilkey book)
• Child of God
• Child's play
• Come On Baby Light My Fire (The Doors song)
• Cry baby
• Cut the cord
• Day surgery (minor surgery that does not require the patient to stay in hospital overnight)
• Do Right Woman Do Right Man (Aretha Franklin song)
• Do you like hospital food?
• Do you want a shape like a bra? Or do you want a shape like a woman? (Warner's Body Bra advertising slogan)
• Don't Worry Baby (Beach Boys song)
• Don't be such a baby
• Don't know your born
• Drill, baby, drill
• Fine figure of a woman
• Frailty, thy name is woman
• Fruits of your labour
• Give your baby something you never had as a baby. A drier bottom (Pampers advertising slogan)
• Go with child
• Hard labour
• Hasta la vista baby (A catchphrase from Arnold Schwarzeneggar)
• Heavy with child
• Hell hath no fury like a woman scorned
• High born
• Home delivery
• Honky Tonk Woman (Rolling Stones song)
• How sharper than a serpent's tooth it is to have a thankless child?
• I Got A Woman (Ray Charles song)

• I did not have sexual relations with that woman
• I wasn't born yesterday
• I'll Be Your Baby Tonight (Bob Dylan song)
• Ice, ice baby
• If you're not busy being born, you're busy dying (Bob Dylan song lyric)
• In the pudding club
• Is You Is Or Is You Ain't, My Baby? (Louis Jordan song)
• Is you is or is you ain't, my baby?
• It's All Over Now Baby Blue (Bob Dylan song)
• Just Like A Woman (Bob Dylan song)
• Kept woman
• Labour in vain
• Labour intensive
• Labour of love
• Labour pains
• Labour saving device
• Labour under a misapprehension
• Leave no child behind (Political slogan)
• Left holding the baby
• Loose woman
• Love child
• Loves Labour Lost
• Make an honest woman of
• Man is born free and is everywhere in chains (philosophical comment by Rousseau)
• Maybe Baby (Buddy Holly song)
• Maybe she's born with it, maybe it's Maybelline (Maybelline Cosmetics advertising slogan)
• Million Dollar Baby (Hilary Swank / Clint Eastwood movie)
• Mrs. Mop (traditional English name for a cleaning woman)
• My Baby Left Me (Elvis Presley song)
• Natural born leader
• Never in all my born days
• New arrival (colloquial term for a newborn baby)
• Nip slip (the inadvertent exposure of a woman's nipple)
• Oh, Pretty Woman (Roy Orbison song)
• One for sorrow, two for mirth, three for a wedding, four for a birth
• Post partum
• Pregnant pause
• 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)
• 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)
• Separated at birth
• She's A Woman (Beatles song)
• Shouldn't your baby be a Gerber baby? (Gerber Products advertising slogan)
• Sleep like a baby
• So Farley's, so good (Farley's Baby Food advertising slogan)
• Some are born great, some achieve greatness, and some have greatness thrust upon 'em
• Some men are born mediocre, some men achieve mediocrity, and some men have mediocrity thrust upon them
• Spare the rod and spoil the child
• Special hospital (A euphemistic term for a mental hospital)
• Sunday's child is full of grace
• Sweet Baby James (James Taylor song)
• Talk to me, baby
• Test tube baby
• That woman speaks eight languages and can't say no in any of them
• The Birth of a Nation (D W Griffith / Lillian Gish movie)
• The French Lieutenant's Woman (Jeremy Irons / Meryl Streep movie)
• The Incredible Shrinking Woman (Lily Tomlin / Dolly Parton / Jane Fonda movie)
• The Man Child (Nickname of Dwight Howard)
• The Man with the Child in His Eyes (Kate Bush song)
• The Woman In Me (Shania Twain album)
• The Woman In White (Wilkie Collins book)
• The child is father of the man (from a poem by Wordsworth)
• The other woman
• The town bike (promiscuous woman)
• There was an old woman who lived in a shoe (line from nursery rhyme)
• There's one born every minute
• This Woman's Work (Kate Bush song)
• Throw the baby out with the bathwater
• Thursday's child has far to go
• To the Manor Born (BBC comedy television series)
• To the manner born
• Too Busy Thinking About My Baby (Marvin Gaye song)
• Vanity thy name is woman
• Voodoo Child (Jimi Hendrix song)
• Want him to be more of a man? Try being more of a woman! (Coty Perfumes advertising slogan)
• War baby (someone born during the war - especially the illegitimate child of a soldier)
• War widow (a woman whose husband died in a war)
• Wardrobe malfunction (when an item of clothing slips out of place to expose part of the body - typically a woman's breast)
• Wednesday's child has far to go
• Were you born in a barn?
• Wet the baby's head
• Whatever Happened To Baby Jane? (Bette Davis movie)
• When A Man Loves A Woman (Percy Sledge song)
• When I am an old woman I shall wear purple (from a poem by Joseph)
• When the bough breaks the cradle will fall, and down will come baby, cradle and all (line from nursery rhyme)
• Who loves ya baby? (A catchphrase from Kojak)
• With child
• Woman's work is never done
• Yorkshire born in Yorkshire bred, strong in the arm and weak in the head
• You Make Me Feel Like A Natural Woman (Carole King song)
• You Must Have Been A Beautiful Baby (Bing Crosby song)
• You don't know you are born
• You'll wish you had never been born
• You've come a long way, baby (Virginia Slims Cigarettes advertising slogan)