Errand Phrases

Phrases

• A cry for help
• A little help from above
• Beg a favour
• Bend over backwards to help
• Beyond help
• Born To Run (Bruce Springsteen song)
• Bun run
• Business is like a car, it will not run by itself except downhill
• Call in a favour
• Can I help you?
• Can't Help Falling in Love (Elvis Presley song)
• Computers help people help people (IBM advertising slogan)
• Curry favour with
• Cut and run
• Do me a favour
• Don't try to run before you can walk
• Dry run
• Eat and run
• Fall out of favour
• Fool's errand
• Get a little extra help (Halifax advertising slogan)
• Go out of your way to help
• God help you
• God helps those who help themselves
• Going going gone (A baseball expression by which an announcer describes a home run that is heading over the fence)
• Grace and favour
• Had a good run
• Heaven help us
• Help Me Rhonda (Beach Boys song)
• Help wanted
• Help yourself (Kellogg's advertising slogan)
• Help yourself (invitation to take goods without payment)
• Hit and run
• Hold with the hare and run with the hounds
• Home run
• I Can Help (Billy Swan song)
• I'll Get By With Little Help From My Friends (The Beatles song)
• I'm from the government, and I'm here to help
• In the long run
• In the short run
• Let your imagination run riot
• Mother's help
• On the run
• Out of favour
• Owe a favour
• Run For Your Life (The Beatles song)

• Run Forrest, Run! (line from the movie Forrest Gump)
• Run a fever
• Run a tight ship
• Run along
• Run amuck
• Run for cover
• Run for the border (Taco advertising slogan)
• Run for the hills
• Run for your life
• Run for your money
• Run it up the flagpole and see who salutes
• Run its course
• Run like the wind
• Run of the Millsap (Nickname of Paul Millsap)
• Run of the mill
• Run off at the mouth
• Run off your feet
• Run out of gas
• Run out of steam
• Run out of town on a rail
• Run rabbit, run rabbit, run run run
• Run rings around
• Run the gauntlet
• Run the plates
• Run the risk
• Run to fat
• Run to ground
• Run to seed
• Run toward the sound of gunfire
• Run with the ball
• Run with the hare and hunt with the hounds
• Run yourself ragged
• Santa's Little Helpers (allusion to the elves that help Father Christmas)
• See how they run like pigs from a gun (The Beatles song lyric)
• So help me
• Step in and help
• Still waters run deep
• Sue grabbit and run
• Take the money and run
• The Girl Can't Help It (Little Richard song and movie)
• The course of true love never did run smooth
• This one will run and run
• Three blind mice, see how they run (line from nursery rhyme)
• With A Little Help From My Friends (The Beatles song)
• Without fear or favour
• You can run but you can't hide
• You just can't help acting on Impulse (Impulse Deodorant advertising slogan)