Departed Phrases

Phrases

• A soft answer turneth away wrath
• Absent minded professor
• Absent parent
• Absent without leave
• After all, tomorrow is another day (Gone With the Wind)
• An apple a day keeps the doctor away
• As dead as a dodo
• As dead as a doornail
• As dead as mutton
• Asleep at the switch
• Asleep at the wheel
• Asleep with Jesus
• At the dead of night
• Away go troubles down the drain (Roto-Rooter advertising slogan)
• Away in a manger
• Away with the fairies
• Away with you
• Back from the dead
• Beaver away at
• Been and gone
• Better dead than red
• Better off dead
• Blaze away at
• Blow away the cobwebs
• Blow someone away
• Blown away
• Blue are the hills that are far away
• Brain dead
• Bring out your dead
• Brown bread (Cockney rhyming slang for dead)
• Buy Opera today And make this banner go away (Opera advertising slogan)
• Calgon, take me away! (Calgon advertising slogan)
• Cart away
• Chivalry is not dead
• Colour me gone
• Come Away with Me (Norah Jones album)
• Conspicuously absent
• Cut out the dead wood
• Cut someone dead
• Dance the night away
• Dead Man Walking (Helen Prejean book)
• Dead Men Don't Wear Plaid (Steve Martin movie)
• Dead Ringer For Love (Meatloaf song)
• Dead air
• Dead and buried
• Dead and gone
• Dead cat bounce
• Dead cinch
• Dead duck
• Dead easy
• Dead end
• Dead from the neck up
• Dead giveaway
• Dead heads
• Dead heat
• Dead in the water
• Dead issue
• Dead letter
• Dead loss
• Dead man walking
• Dead meat
• Dead men tell no tales
• Dead men's shoes
• Dead of night
• Dead of winter
• Dead on arrival
• Dead on time
• Dead presidents
• Dead reckoning
• Dead ringer
• Dead to rights
• Dead to the world
• Dead white European male (derogatory reference to someone who has an unjustified reputation)
• Dead white male
• Dead wood
• Dick and Jane is dead (Encyclopaedia Britannica advertising slogan)
• Died and gone to heaven
• Do away with
• Domestos kills all known germs - Dead! (Domestos Bleach advertising slogan)
• Down among the dead men
• Dream away ()
• Drop dead
• Drop dead gorgeous
• Drop dead list
• Drop down dead
• Drop the Dead Donkey (BBC comedy television series)
• Elvis has left the building
• Exit stage left
• Explain away
• Fall asleep
• Far and away
• Fifteen men on a dead man's chest
• Fire away
• Flogging a dead horse
• Frankly, my dear, I don't give a damn (Gone With the Wind)
• Frasier has left the building (A catchphrase from Frasier)
• Fritter away
• Get away from it all
• Get away with it
• Get away with murder
• Get away with you (An exclamation of surprise)
• Get away with you!
• Get away! (Lunn Polly advertising slogan)
• Get carried away
• Get your end away
• Give the game away
• Give the show away
• Given up for dead
• God is dead (philosophical comment by Friedrich Nietzsche)
• Going away (Going on holiday)
• Going going gone (A baseball expression by which an announcer describes a home run that is heading over the fence)
• Going, going, gone

• Gone Dolally
• Gone With The Wind (Clark Gable / Vivien Leigh movie)
• Gone before
• Gone but not forgotten
• Gone fishing
• Gone for a Burton
• Gone tits up
• Gone to a better world
• Gone to pot
• Gone to seed
• Gone to the bad
• Gone to the dogs
• Good and dead
• Hair today gone tomorrow
• Half asleep
• Hang a left
• Hang by the neck until dead
• Hasten away
• Have it away
• He who fights and runs away, may live to fight another day
• He's dead Jim (A catchphrase from Star Trek)
• Here today gone tomorrow
• Hiyo Silver away (A catchphrase from The Lone Ranger)
• I see dead people (The Sixth Sense)
• I was miles away
• I wouldn't be caught dead
• In from left field
• It takes your breath away
• It's all gone Pete Tong (Cockney rhyming slang for gone wrong)
• It's all gone pear shaped
• Keep left
• Kicking dead whales down the beach
• Kill stone dead
• Kills bugs dead (Raid advertising slogan)
• Knock 'em dead
• Left Hook (Nickname of Jeff Lacy)
• Left footer
• Left for dead
• Left hanging
• Left holding the baby
• Left in the lurch
• Left out in the cold
• Left right and centre
• Left right, left right, march
• Left standing
• Left to your own devices
• Left wing
• Let the dead bury the dead
• Like being savaged by a dead sheep
• Lock him up and throw away the key
• Look away now
• Lost and gone forever
• Loud enough to waken the dead
• More dead than alive
• Mum's gone to Iceland (Iceland Supermarkets advertising slogan)
• My Baby Left Me (Elvis Presley song)
• Never speak ill of the dead
• Not Fade Away (Buddy Holly song)
• Not a hundred miles away
• Numbered with the dead
• Old soldiers never die, they just fade away
• Out front. Pulling away (Goodyear Tyres advertising slogan)
• Out of left field
• Over my dead body
• Over the hills and far away
• Pine away
• Play dead
• Political correctness gone mad
• Rain, rain go away, come again another day (line from nursery rhyme)
• Raise the dead
• Red Army Fraction (German left wing terrorist group also call Red Army Faction)
• Rode hard and put away wet
• Roll over and play dead
• Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead (play by Tom Stoppard)
• Sail away
• Salt away
• Slave away at
• Slip, Slidin' Away (Paul Simon song)
• Slip, sliding away
• Slog away
• Soothe it away the Oraldene way (Oraldene advertising slogan)
• Squirrel away
• Stash away
• Switch hitter (A baseball expression denoting a batter who can hit left or right handed)
• Take your breath away
• The Day of the Dead (Horror movie)
• The King is dead, long live the King
• The departed
• The dish ran away with the spoon (line from nursery rhyme)
• The one that got away
• The only good Indian is a dead Indian
• The right hand doesn't know what the left hand is doing
• Throw away the key
• To boldly go where no man has gone before (A catchphrase from Start Trek)
• Tom Tom the pipers son stole a pig and away he ran (line from nursery rhyme)
• Twistin' The Night Away (Sam Cooke song)
• Two left feet
• Up, Up And Away (Jimmy Webb song)
• Up, up and away
• Up, up and away with TWA (Trans World Airways advertising slogan)
• Wanted, dead or alive
• Waste away
• When the cat's away the mice will play
• Whenever I feel the need to exercise, I lie down until it goes away (Robert Maynard Hutchins quotation)
• Where Have All The Flowers Gone? (Pete Seeger song)
• While away the hours
• While away the time
• Whittle away at
• Wishing your life away
• Yellow matter custard dripping from a dead dog's eye (Beatles song lyric)
• You're a long time dead
• You've Got To Hide Your Love Away (The Beatles song)