Dial Phrases

Phrases

• ...of the clock
• A face as long as a fiddle
• A face like a Greek god
• A great face for radio
• About face
• And shining morning face, creeping like a snail unwillingly to school
• Angel face
• Aren't you glad you use Dial? Don't you wish everybody did? (Dial Soap advertising slogan)
• Around the clock
• Arse about face
• As many chins as a Chinese phone book
• As plain as the nose on your face
• At face value
• At sixty miles an hour the loudest noise in the new Rolls-Royce comes from the electric clock (Rolls Royce advertising slogan)
• Baby face
• Back number
• Beat the clock
• Beer and sandwiches at Number 10
• Bitch slap (a full swing slap in the face intended to be humiliating)
• Blue in the face
• Boat race (Cockney rhyming slang for face)
• Body off Baywatch, face off Crimewatch
• Boy, is my face red (A catchphrase from David Letterman)
• Brighton line (Bingo call for number fifty nine)
• Butter Face
• Chew face
• Clean your clock
• Clickety click (Bingo call for number sixty six)
• Clock on
• Clock watching
• Come to the Central Park Zoo Cafeteria. Let the animals watch you eat for a change (Central Park Zoo advertising slogan)
• Complex number (a number containing real and imaginary parts)
• Cushy number
• Dial down (adjust a device to reduce sound or temperature)
• Do a number on
• Doctor's Orders (Bingo call for number nine)
• Dog and bone (Cockney rhyming slang for telephone)
• Don't cut off your nose to spite your face
• Don't get a face on
• Don't touch that dial
• Droopy drawers (Bingo call for number forty four)
• ET phone home (ET)
• Eat face
• Egg on your face
• Employee Number 8 (Nickname of Antoine Walker)
• Face card (the jack queeen or king in a set of playing cards)
• Face down
• Face facts
• Face fungus
• Face in the crowd
• Face lift
• Face like a bulldog chewing a wasp
• Face like a fiddle
• Face like an unmade bed
• Face like the back of a bus
• Face like thunder
• Face off
• Face palm moment
• Face recognition)
• Face that could stop a clock
• Face that only a mother could love
• Face the competition
• Face the music
• Face the truth
• Face time
• Face your maker
• Fall flat on your face
• Ferret face (Nickname of Major Frank Burns (Larry Linville))
• Fly in the face of the evidence
• Frog face
• Get out of my face
• Get the needle
• Got your number
• Hands that do dishes can feel soft as your face, with mild green Fairy Liquid (Fairy Liquid advertising slogan)
• Hanging on the telephone
• Hate watch (viewing a television programme in order to mock it)
• Her face lit up
• Hickory dickory dock the mouse ran up the clock (line from nursery rhyme)
• Hold the phone
• I never forget a face, but in your case I'll be glad to make an exception (Groucho Marx line)
• I've got your number
• If it doesn't get all over the place, it doesn't belong in your face (Carl's Jr advertising slogan)
• If your face fits
• In your face
• 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's written all over your face
• Just watch
• Keep a straight face
• Keep watch
• Key of the door (Bingo call for number twenty one)
• Kick sand in his face
• Kiss Me Thru the Phone (Soulja Boy Tell 'Em song)
• Laugh in your face
• Laugh on the wrong side of your face
• Legs eleven (Bingo call for number eleven)
• Let's face it
• Let's face the music and dance
• Like looking for a needle in a haystack
• Little black number
• Long face
• Look after number one

• Look out for number one
• Lose face
• Love Potion Number Nine (Leiber and Stoller song)
• Lucky number seven
• Mace your face
• Make a face
• Make someone happy with a phone call (British Telecom advertising slogan)
• Monstrous carbuncle on the face of an old friend (Prince Charles quotation)
• Name, rank, and serial number
• Night Watch (Terry Pratchett book)
• Not just a pretty face
• Not on my watch
• Number 10 Downing Street (address of the British Prime Minister)
• Number Six (Pseudonym of Peter Smith The Prisoner (Patrick McGoohan))
• Number crunching
• Number one
• Number one concubine (name given to the partner of Bertrand Russell)
• Number one son
• Number two
• Number unobtainable
• Off your face
• On the face of it
• On the face of the earth
• People who like people like Dial (Dial Soap advertising slogan)
• Phone a friend (A catchphrase from Who Wants to be a Millionaire)
• Phone home
• Phone in sick
• Phone it in (perform an act in an uncommitted disinterested manner)
• Pizza face
• Play kissy face
• Poker Face (Lady Gaga song)
• Poker face
• Portrait painting (a form of painting in which the human face is the subject)
• Public Enemy Number One (Nickname of John Dillinger)
• Pull a face
• Put a brave face on
• Put the clock back
• Put your game face on
• Race against the clock
• Reach out and touch someone (American Telephone & Telegraph advertising slogan)
• Rock Around The Clock (Bill Haley song)
• Save face
• See that girl, watch that scene (ABBA lyric)
• See the face you love light up with Terry's All Gold (Terrys Chocolates advertising slogan)
• Set your face against something
• Shut your face
• Slap in the face
• Snakes alive (Bingo call for number fifty five)
• So easy to use, no wonder it's number one (AOL advertising slogan)
• Spectacles, testicles, wallet and watch
• Stop all the clocks, cut off the telephone (from a poem by Auden)
• Stop the clock, I've found a clue
• Stuff your face
• Suck face (slang term for kissing)
• Talk to Ralph on the big white phone
• The Adventure of the Yellow Face (Sherlock Holmes story)
• The Black Watch (Nickname of The Royal Highland Regiment)
• The Face (Nickname of Lt.Templeton Peck (Dirk Benedict))
• The answer is staring you in the face
• The biological clock is ticking
• The clock is ticking
• The face that launched a thousand ships
• The magic number
• The one to watch (Channel 7 Australia advertising slogan)
• The unacceptable face of capitalism
• These go to eleven (line from the movie This Is Spinal Tap)
• Through the eye of a needle
• Throw it back in your face
• Times without number
• Top of the shop (Bingo call for number ninety)
• Trench warfare (combat where troops face each other in trenches)
• Turn back the clock
• Turn the clock back
• Two fat ladies (Bingo call for number eighty eight)
• Two little ducks (Bingo call for number twenty two)
• Unlucky for some (Bingo call for number thirteen)
• Waiting by the phone
• Waits at the window, wearing the face that she keeps in a jar by the door (Beatles song lyric)
• Was she worth it (Bingo call for number fifty six)
• Watch and learn
• Watch my chops
• Watch my smoke
• Watch out
• Watch out there's a Humphrey about (Milk Marketing Board advertising slogan)
• Watch over
• Watch the birdy
• Watch the sparks fly
• Watch the time
• Watch the world go by
• Watch this space
• Watch you like a hawk
• Watch your back
• Watch your language
• Watch your mouth
• Watch your step
• Watching the clock
• We're number two. We try harder (Avis Rent-a-Car advertising slogan)
• White man's watch
• Wipe the smile off your face
• Wipe your face
• Work the phone
• You watch, we listen (British Satellite Broadcasting advertising slogan)