Christ Phrases

Phrases

• A Christmas Carol (Charles Dickens book)
• A dog is for life, not just for Christmas
• A face like a Greek god
• Absolute power corrupts absolutely (quotation by Lord Acton)
• Act of God
• After the Lord Mayor's parade
• All I Want For Christmas Is My Two Front Teeth (Spike Jones song)
• All I Want For Christmas Is You (Maria Carey song)
• All things are possible with God
• Alpha and omega (the first two letters of the Greek alphabet, used as a name for God or Jesus)
• And God said Let there be light And the was light
• As cross as two sticks
• As drunk as a lord
• As god is my witness
• As sure as God made little green apples
• Asleep with Jesus
• Attila the Nun (Nickname of Sister Agnes (Priscilla Lopez))
• Away in a manger
• Bible basher
• Black Jesus (Nickname of basketball player Amare Stoudemire)
• Blessed are the cheese makers (line from Monty Python's Life of Brian)
• Blessed are the peacemakers
• Born again
• Breathe on me breath of God
• Child of God
• Christmas box
• Christmas comes but once a year
• Christmas is a time to believe in things you can't see (3M Company Scotch Tape advertising slogan)
• Come to Jesus
• Consider the lilies of the field
• Creeping Jesus
• Cross To The Other Side (The Inspirations song)
• Cross border
• Cross dressing
• Cross into the Blue (United States Air Force advertising slogan)
• Cross my heart and hope to die
• Cross my palm with silver
• Cross over to the other side
• Cross purposes
• Cross swords with
• Cross the Rubicon
• Cross the aisle
• Cross the floor
• Cross the line
• Cross your fingers
• Cross your mind
• Do They Know It's Christmas? (Band Aid song)
• Dog in the manger
• Don't cross the bridge till you come to it
• Done up like a Christmas tree
• Dot the I's and cross the T's
• Double cross
• Easter Island (tourist attraction in the Pacific Ocean)
• Easter Parade (Fred Astaire / Judy Garland movie)
• Find God
• For Christ's sake
• For crying out loud
• For the love of God
• Forgive them for they know not what they do
• Free at last, thank God Almighty, I'm free at last
• Gad zooks
• Gathered to God
• Gee whizz
• Gentle Jesus, meek and mild
• Get religion
• Glory be to God
• God Only Knows (Beach Boys song)
• God awful
• God bless America
• God bless you
• God botherer
• God damn
• God fearing
• God forbid
• God help you
• God helps those who help themselves
• God is dead (philosophical comment by Friedrich Nietzsche)
• God rest his soul
• God rot them
• God save the Queen
• God slot
• God speed
• God willing and the creek don't rise
• God's Banker (Nickname of Roberto Calvi)
• God's Rottweiler (Nickname of Joseph Ratzinger)
• God's acre
• God's chosen country
• God's gift to women
• God's good earth
• God's own country (Kerala, India advertising slogan)
• God's speed
• Good Friday
• Gospel truth
• Happy Christmas
• Have Yourself A Merry Little Christmas (Judy Garland song)
• Have a cross to bear
• Heart to God, hand to man (The Salvation Army advertising slogan)
• Heavenly host (The angels that support God)
• Holiday cheer (good feelings during a holiday, especially Christmas)
• Holy Moses
• Holy Toledo
• Holy cow
• Holy cow Batman
• Holy macanoli! (A catchphrase from Punky Brewster)
• Holy mackerel
• Holy mackerel! (A catchphrase from Kingfish In Amos 'N' Andy Show)
• Holy moley

• Holy shit
• Holy smoke
• Holy, holy, holy
• Honest to God
• How long, O Lord, how long?
• If God did not exist, it would be necessary to invent him
• If God had meant us to fly he would have given us wings
• If man were meant to fly, God would have lowered the fares (American Coach Lines advertising slogan)
• Imagine no religion, it's easy if you try
• In God we trust
• In The Bleak Midwinter (Christmas Carol title)
• It is easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle, than for a rich man to enter into the kingdom of God
• It was like; Oh my God
• It was the night before Christmas and all round the house, not a creature was stirring, not even a mouse
• It's beginning to look a lot like Christmas
• Jesus H Christ
• Jesus Shuttlesworth (Nickname of Ray Allen)
• Jesus saves
• Jesus saves green shield stamps
• Jesus wept
• Jimminy Cricket
• Joy to the world
• Last Christmas (Wham song)
• Le God (Nickname of Matthew Le Tissier)
• Like turkeys voting for Christmas
• Lit up like a Christmas tree
• Little tin god
• Live like a lord
• Lord Clark of Civilisation (Nickname of Kenneth Clark)
• Lord Fred (Cockney rhyming slang for bed)
• Lord Haw-Haw (Nickname of William Joyce)
• Lord Of The Flies (William Golding book)
• Lord Of The Rings (J R R Tolkien book)
• Lord it over
• Lord love a duck
• Man of God
• Man proposes, God disposes
• Merry Christmas
• Miracle On 34th Street (George Seaton movie)
• Mother of God
• My Sweet Lord (George Harrison song)
• My precious (The Lord of the Rings: Two Towers)
• Nigerian Nightmare (Nickname of Christian Okoye)
• Odds bodkins
• Oh my God, they killed Kenny (A catchphrase from South Park)
• On me head son (Invitation to cross a football so that another player can head it)
• Once In Royal David's City (Christmas Carol title)
• Onward Christian soldiers
• Organised religion
• Palm Sunday
• Passion Sunday
• Play God
• Post early for Christmas (Post Office advertising slogan)
• Praise the lord and pass the ammunition
• Purple Jesus (Nickname of Adrian Peterson)
• Put the fear of God into someone
• Put your trust in God, and keep your powder dry
• Religion is the opiate of the masses (Karl Marx quotation)
• Ride a cock horse to Banbury Cross to see a fine lady upon a white horse (line from nursery rhyme)
• Rock god
• Running Up that Hill - A Deal with God (Kate Bush song)
• Santa's Little Helpers (allusion to the elves that help Father Christmas)
• Saviour sibling (a child born in order to provide a transplant for another with a fatal disease)
• Stir-up Sunday
• Stop, Look and Listen; remember the Green Cross Code (UK Road Safety Campaign advertising slogan)
• Sunday Christian
• Thank God
• Thank God it's Friday
• Thank you Jesus
• The Basketball Jesus (Nickname of Larry Bird)
• The Bible Belt
• The Chipmunk Song (Christmas Don't Be Late) (The Chipmunks and David Seville song)
• The Easter Bunny
• The Easter Parade
• The God Of Small Things (Arundhati Roy book)
• The God Squad (enthusiastic Christian believers)
• The God slot
• The Greek God of Walks (Nickname of Kevin Youkilis)
• The Holy City (Nickname of Jerusalem Israel)
• The Lord of the Idiots (Nickname of George Costanza (Jason Alexander))
• The Lord of the Rings (J R R Tolkien story and Peter Jackson movie)
• The Magic Christian (Peter Sellers / Ringo Starr movie)
• The Prince of peace
• The Statue of Christ the Redeemer (tourist attraction in Rio de Janeiro Brazil)
• The Whore of Babylon (a Christian figure of evil and corruption)
• The favoured of the Lord
• The grace of God
• The greatest tragedy is indifference (Red Cross advertising slogan)
• The holy of holies
• The peace of God that passeth all understanding
• The race is not to the swift, nor the battle to the strong (quotation from the Bible - Ecclesiastes
• The still small voice of God
• The valley of the shadow of death (line from Psalm 23)
• The way of the cross
• There but for the grace of God go I
• Turn the other cheek
• Twas the night before Christmas - the children were dreaming of a Ford in their future - smart, swanky and gleaming (Ford Cars advertising slogan)
• We will cross that bridge when we come to it
• What God has joined together let no man put asunder
• What would Jesus do?
• Where on god's green earth
• White Christmas (Bing Crosby song)
• Why did the chicken cross the road?
• Why hast thou forsaken me?
• With God on our side
• Working all the hours God sends
• You cannot serve God and Mammon