Explain Phrases

Phrases

• All over the show
• Am I bovvered? (A catchphrase from The Catherine Tate Show)
• America's Oldest Living Teenager (Nickname of game show host Dick Clark)
• And how
• Any old how
• Be careful how you use it! (Hai Karate Aftershave advertising slogan)
• Best in show
• Boutros Boutros Ghali (A catchphrase from The Fast Show)
• Brain dump
• By way of explanation
• Call to account
• Can you tell Stork from butter? (Stork Margarine advertising slogan)
• Can you tell what it is yet? (A catchphrase from Rolf Harris)
• Cattle show
• Children and fools tell the truth
• Cleanup hitter (A baseball expression meaning a batter who comes in to solve a problem)
• Crank That (Soulja Boy) (Soulja Boy Tell 'Em song)
• Dead men tell no tales
• Doctor Strangelove Or How I Learned To Stop Worrying And Love The Bomb (Peter Sellers movie)
• Does my bum look big in this? (A catchphrase from The Fast Show)
• Dog and pony show
• Don't piss in my pocket and tell me it's raining
• Enjoy the Show (E! Entertainment Television advertising slogan)
• Even your best friend won't tell you (Lifebuoy Soap advertising slogan)
• Even your best friends won't tell you (Listerine Mouthwash advertising slogan)
• Explain away
• Father Knows Best (American TV Show)
• For the benefit of Mr.Kite there will be a show tonight on trampoline (Beatles song lyric)
• Funny how? (A catchphrase from Goodfellas)
• Get it straight
• Get the show on the road
• Give a good account of yourself
• Give the show away
• Go tell your mother she wants you
• Gravy train
• He's fallen in the water (A catchphrase from The Goon Show)
• Hear tell of
• Heeere's Johnny (A catchphrase from Johnny Carson Show)
• Here's the thing
• Hey there, Boo Boo! (A catchphrase from The Yogi Bear Show)
• Hey, Soul Sister (Train song)
• Holy mackerel! (A catchphrase from Kingfish In Amos 'N' Andy Show)
• How Deep Is Your Love? (Bee Gees song)
• How Sweet It Is To Be Loved By You (Marvin Gaye song)
• How The West Was Won (James Stewart movie)
• How To Murder Your Wife (Jack Lemmon movie)
• How To Win Friends And Influence People (Dale Carnegie book)
• How about that?
• How are the mighty fallen
• How are the other half lives
• How are you doing?
• How are you? (Vodafone advertising slogan)
• How come?
• How con-veen-ient! (A catchphrase from The Church Lady In Saturday Night Live)
• How dare you!
• How do I love thee? Let me count the ways (from a poem by Browning)
• How do you feel? I feel like a Toohey's (Toohey's beer advertising slogan)
• How do you like them apples?
• How do you spell relief? (Rolaids advertising slogan)
• How do you spell soap? Why P-E-A-R-S, of course (Pears' Soap advertising slogan)
• How does it feel to be one of the beautiful people? (Beatles song lyric)
• How does that play in Peoria?
• How does the wireless industry make you feel? (Sprint PCS advertising slogan)
• How does your garden grow?
• How goes it?
• How goes the battle?
• How long is a piece of string?
• How long, O Lord, how long?
• How many bars do you have? (AT&T Wireless advertising slogan)
• How may I serve you?
• How much can you handle (Bubble Tape advertising slogan)
• How now brown cow?
• How refreshing How Heineken (Heineken advertising slogan)
• How sad is that?
• How sharper than a serpent's tooth it is to have a thankless child?
• How sweet it is
• How sweet it is! (A catchphrase from The Honeymooners)
• How tickled I am (A catchphrase from Ken Dodd)
• How very dare you (A catchphrase from The Catherine Tate Show)
• How was it for you?
• How wrong can you be?
• How you doin'? (A catchphrase from Joey In Friends)
• How's it hanging?
• How's that again?
• How's tricks?
• How's your father
• I Love How You Love Me (Paris Sisters, 1961 song)
• I cannot tell a lie
• I don't have to show you any stinking badges (The Treasure of the Sierra Madre)
• I get no respect, I tell ya (A catchphrase from Rodney Dangerfield In Comedy Monologue)
• I swear to tell the truth the whole truth and nothing but the truth
• I tell a lie
• I was very very drunk (A catchphrase from The Fast Show)
• I'll level with you
• I'm A Celebrity Get Me Out Of Here (Reality TV show)
• I'm a little bit wooooor, a little bit waaaaaaaaaayy, I'm a geezer! (A catchphrase from Chris The Crafty Cockney In The Fast Show)
• I'm going to tell on you
• I'm smarter than the average bear! (A catchphrase from The Yogi Bear Show)
• If I tell you I will have to shoot you
• If I tell you, I'll have to kill you
• If you can't explain it to a six year old, you don't understand it yourself (Albert Einstein quotation)
• If you tell the truth, you don't have to remember anything (Mark Twain quotation)

• It's how the smooth take the rough (Range Rover advertising slogan)
• It's not whether you win or lose, it's how you play the game
• Keep the show on the road
• Kiss Me Thru the Phone (Soulja Boy Tell 'Em song)
• Kiss and tell
• Know how
• Know how many beans make five
• Let the train take the strain (British Rail advertising slogan)
• Let's do the show right here
• Live to tell the tale
• Lucy ... You got some 'splaining to do! (A catchphrase from I Love Lucy)
• Mary Mary quite contrary, how does your garden grow (line from nursery rhyme)
• Mind how you go (A catchphrase from Dixon of Dock Green)
• Never tell tales out of school
• Night Train (Nickname of Dick Lane)
• Oh, how the mighty have fallen
• On show
• One half of the world does not know how the other half lives
• One-man show
• Only time will tell
• Peep show
• Pray tell
• Put across an idea
• Road train
• Roar, Boys, Roar, It tastes like more, What a flavor, Zippity-zow - its grand - and HOW (Grape-Nuts Flakes Cereal advertising slogan)
• Same Bat-time, same Bat-channel (A catchphrase from Batman TV show)
• Say kids, what time is it? (A catchphrase from Howdy Doody Show)
• See how it runs! (Cerebos salt advertising slogan)
• See how they run like pigs from a gun (The Beatles song lyric)
• Set in train
• Set the stage
• Show a clean pair of heels
• Show a leg
• Show a little leg
• Show and tell
• Show down
• Show me the money (A catchphrase from Jerry Maguire)
• Show me the spot (Abraham Lincoln quotation)
• Show no quarter
• Show of hands
• Show off
• Show pony
• Show some appreciation
• Show the door
• Show the flag
• Show the ropes
• Show the white feather
• Show up
• Show your hand
• Show your true colours
• Show's over folks
• Soul train
• Spell it out
• Steal the show
• Stop the show
• Strangers On A Train (Farley Granger / Alfred Hitchcock movie)
• Suit you, sir (A catchphrase from The Fast Show)
• Take The A Train (Duke Ellington tune)
• Talk me through it
• Tell Laura I Love Her (Ricky Valance song)
• Tell it like it is
• Tell it to the Marines
• Tell me about it
• Tell me honestly
• Tell me straight
• Tell me the worst doctor
• Tell someone where to get off
• Tell tale sign
• Tell tales out of school
• Tell the truth and shame the Devil
• Tell them about the honey, mummy (Sugar Puffs advertising slogan)
• Tell your fortune
• The Amazing Race (US TV show)
• The Big Train (Nickname of Walter Johnson)
• The Greatest Show on Earth (Barnum & Bailey Circus advertising slogan)
• The Last Picture Show (Jeff Bridges movie)
• The Show (Nickname of Harold Arceneaux)
• The Show Business Capital Of The World (Nickname of Hollywood California)
• The Smartest Dumbbell in the History of Show Business (Nickname of comedienne Gracie Allen)
• The Truman Show (Jim Carey movie)
• The ends justify the means
• The light at the end of the tunnel may just be a train coming the other way
• The only show in town
• The show must go on
• There's No Business Like Show Business (Judy Garland song)
• This is the age of the train (British Rail advertising slogan)
• Three blind mice, see how they run (line from nursery rhyme)
• Time will tell
• Tonight's top ten list (A catchphrase from David Letterman In The Late Show)
• Train crash
• Train of thought
• Train whistle blowing
• Train wreck
• Twinkle twinkle little star, how I wonder what you are (line from nursery rhyme)
• Ukraine Train (Nickname of Vitaly Potapenko)
• What I tell you three times is true
• Which was nice (A catchphrase from The Fast Show)
• While you live, tell truth and shame the Devil!
• Why don't we do the show right here?
• Will the real ... stand up? (A catchphrase from To Tell The Truth)
• You Never Can Tell (Chuck Berry song)
• You can't tell a book by looking at its cover
• You never can tell