Core Phrases

Phrases

• Cardinal sin
• Centre of attention
• Chirpy Chirpy Cheep Cheep (Middle of the Road song)
• Core competencies
• Core dump
• Core studies
• Core technology
• Core values
• Esprit de corps
• Frozen to the marrow
• Green slime (military slang term for the intelligence corps)
• In the middle of nowhere
• Intelligent interior
• Knock into the middle of next week
• Left right and centre
• Meet in the middle
• Middle England
• Middle man
• Middle of nowhere
• Middle of the road
• Nerve centre
• On a case by case basis
• On a need to know basis
• Piggy in the middle
• Play both ends against the middle
• Rotten to the core
• Slap bang in the middle
• Smack dab in the middle
• Squeezed middle
• Take centre stage
• The Centre Of The Universe (Nickname of Toronto Ontario)
• The Custodian (Nickname of Brian Cardinal)
• The Paris Of The Middle East (Nickname of Beirut Lebanon)
• The Rockefeller Centre (tourist attraction in New York USA)
• The few, the proud, the Marines (United States Marine Corps advertising slogan)
• The toughest job you'll ever love (United States Peace Corps advertising slogan)
• Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold (from a poem by Yeats)
• Tobacco is our middle name (American Brands, Inc advertising slogan)