Device Phrases

Phrases

• A close thing
• A funny thing happened on the way to the theatre
• A little knowledge is a dangerous thing
• A little learning is a dangerous thing (from a poem by Alexander Pope)
• A mind is a terrible thing to waste (United Negro College Fund advertising slogan)
• A slip of a thing
• A thing of beauty is a joy forever (from a poem by Keats)
• Alarm bells began to ring
• An ill-favoured thing sir, but mine own
• Ban the bomb
• Bright young thing
• Chance would be a fine thing
• Comes to the same thing
• Crazy Little Thing Called Love (Queen song)
• Dial down (adjust a device to reduce sound or temperature)
• Do the wild thing
• Do your own thing
• Doctor Strangelove Or How I Learned To Stop Worrying And Love The Bomb (Peter Sellers movie)
• Dream machine
• Every Little Thing She Does Is Magic (Police song)
• False alarm
• False jeopardy (plot device in TV melodramas where danger is threatened only for it to be found to be a false alarm)
• Father of The Atomic Bomb (Nickname of Robert Oppenheimer)
• First thing
• Go-Go Gadget Arms (Nickname of basketball player Kevin Garnett)
• Hand-held device
• Have a thing about
• Here's the thing
• I can't believe I ate the whole thing (Alka Seltzer advertising slogan)
• If you want a thing done well, do it yourself
• Insanity is doing the same thing, over and over again, but expecting different results (Albert Einstein quotation)
• It don't mean a thing if it ain't got swing
• It's a far, far better thing that I do, than I have ever done
• It's a red thing (Tizer advertising slogan)
• It's the real thing (Coca Cola advertising slogan)
• Just one more thing (A catchphrase from Columbo)
• Labour saving device
• Lean mean fighting machine
• Left to your own devices
• Let me make one thing perfectly clear
• Let's Call The Whole Thing Off (Irving Berlin song)

• Letter bomb
• Life is just one damned thing after another
• Looks like a bomb has hit it
• Love is the greatest thing
• Machine Gun Kelly (Nickname of George Kelly)
• Machine readable
• Neither one thing nor the other
• One thing leads to another
• Onto a good thing
• Poor thing but mine own
• Radio alarm
• Rage against the machine
• Sex machine
• Softness is a thing called Comfort (Comfort fabric conditioner advertising slogan)
• Sound the alarm
• Sure thing
• Teach someone a thing or two
• The Ghost In The Machine (Arthur Koestler book)
• The Machine (Nickname of Sasha Vujacic)
• The appliance of science (Zanussi advertising slogan)
• The best thing since sliced bread
• The means to an end
• The next small thing
• The only thing we have to fear is fear itself (Political slogan)
• The play's the thing
• The right tool for the job
• The ultimate driving machine (BMW advertising slogan)
• The vision thing
• There's no such thing as a free lunch
• There's no such thing as bad publicity
• To every thing there is a season
• To travel hopefully is a better thing than to arrive
• Too much of a good thing
• Too much of a good thing is wonderful
• Tool around
• We're tobacco men not medicine men. Old Gold cures just one thing. The World's Best Tobacco (Old Gold Cigarettes advertising slogan)
• Weather bomb (a rapidly deepening low pressure area causing severe storms)
• What with one thing and another
• Wild Thing (Nickname of Anderson Varejo)
• You can have too much of a good thing
• You've Got a Good Thing Going (Kent Cigarettes advertising slogan)