Family Phrases

Phrases

• A boy's best friend is his mother (Psycho)
• A poor relation
• Action Man (children's male doll)
• Agony aunt
• Agony uncle
• All children, except one, grow up (the opening line of Peter Pan)
• All happy families are alike; each unhappy family is unhappy in its own way (the opening line of Anna Karenina)
• All your base are belong to us (broken English phrase used in the video game Zero Wing)
• Alpha Mom (an ambitious mother who aims to excel at work while raising children)
• America's Favorite Couple (Nickname of Ozzie and Harriet Nelson)
• An everyday story of country folk (A catchphrase from The Archers)
• Are you sitting comfortably? (A catchphrase from Listen With Mother)
• As queer as folk
• Atom Heart Mother (Pink Floyd album)
• Aunt Millie
• Aunt Sally
• Baby father
• Beanpole family
• Black sheep of the family
• Blood is thicker than water
• Bob's your uncle
• Born and bred
• Bricks and mortar (Cockney rhyming slang for daughter)
• Can you hear me, mother? (A catchphrase from Sandy Powell)
• Children and fools tell the truth
• Children should be seen and not heard
• Children's shoes have far to go (Start-Rite Shoes advertising slogan)
• Children, one is one, two is fun, three is a house full
• Country cousin
• Cousin on
• Cry uncle
• Did I do that? (A catchphrase from Family Matters)
• Do you kiss your mother with that mouth
• Don't put your daughter on the stage Mrs Worthington
• Drink, feck, arse (A catchphrase from Father Ted)
• Dutch uncle
• Dysfunctional family
• Earth mother
• Empty nest syndrome
• Empty nester
• Every mother's son
• Extramarital relations
• Face that only a mother could love
• Family fortunes
• Family man
• Family matters
• Family ties
• Family tree
• Family values
• Father Knows Best (American TV Show)
• Father Of The Bride (Steve Martin movie)
• Father Ted (BBC comedy television series)
• Father of The Atomic Bomb (Nickname of Robert Oppenheimer)
• Founding father
• Full fathom five thy father lies (from The Tempest by Shakespeare)
• Get your family into Shape, without them even noticing (St. Ivel Yogurt advertising slogan)
• Glow Little Glow-worm (children's nursery rhyme)
• Go on my son
• Go tell your mother she wants you
• Goodnight children everywhere (A catchphrase from Uncle Mac)
• Grandfather clause
• Granny dumping
• Granny farming
• Granny flat
• Granny, what big teeth you have got
• Grapes, like children, need love and affection (Almaden advertising slogan)
• Happy families
• Head of the family
• His father's son
• Honour thy father and mother
• House mother
• How's your father
• I Think I Love You (The Partridge Family song)
• I did not have sexual relations with that woman
• I swear on my mother's life
• I'll be a monkey's uncle
• I'll be mother
• If all the world were Jell-O, And whipped cream filled the sea, Then the only spoon from here to the moon Would have to belong to me (Jell-O Gelatin Dessert advertising slogan)
• If it doesn't get all over the place, it doesn't belong in your face (Carl's Jr advertising slogan)
• If your grandmother had wheels, she'd be a trolley car
• In the family way
• It isn't nice to fool mother nature
• It's a family affair
• It's complicated (Facebook relationship status)
• Just a glint in his father's eye
• Keep it in the family
• Kid tested Mother approved (Kix advertising slogan)
• Kith and kin
• Lady Madonna, children at your feet (Beatles song lyric)
• Learnt at your mother's knee
• Leicester's Favourite Son (Nickname of Gary Lineker)
• Let's rock (A catchphrase from Al Bundy In Married With Children)

• Like father, like son
• Like mother used to make
• Love-hate relationship
• Mama always said that life is like a box of chocolates. You never know what you're gonna get (line from the movie Forrest Gump)
• Meet The Fockers (Dustin Hoffman / Robert De Niro movie)
• Midnight's Children
• Mother Courage (play by Bertolt Brecht)
• Mother Earth
• Mother Russia
• Mother Superior jumped the gun (Beatles song lyric)
• Mother church
• Mother country
• Mother f*cker
• Mother hen
• Mother knows best
• Mother love
• Mother nature
• Mother of God
• Mother ship
• Mother tongue
• Mother's boy
• Mother's help
• My arse (A catchphrase from Royle Family)
• My giddy aunt
• My son the doctor
• Nanny state
• Nature or nurture
• Necessity is the mother of invention
• Number one son
• Old Mother Hubbard went to the cupboard to get her poor doggie a bone (line from nursery rhyme)
• Old enough to be your mother
• On me 'ead, son
• On me head son (Invitation to cross a football so that another player can head it)
• Our children are not our children
• Our father who art in heaven
• Our survey says (A catchphrase from Family Fortunes)
• Parents who use drugs have kids who use drugs (The Partnership for a Drug-Free America advertising slogan)
• People carrier (a car with several passenger seats)
• People mover (a car with several passenger seats)
• Queer as folk
• Runs in the family
• Ryan's Daughter (David Lean movie)
• Santa's Little Helpers (allusion to the elves that help Father Christmas)
• Say uncle
• Sell your grandmother
• Selling the family silver
• Son of Sam (Nickname of David Berkowitz)
• Son of a gun
• Son of a whore (a bastard, or a general term of abuse)
• Spend more time with my family
• Steptoe and Son (BBC comedy television series)
• Suffer the little children
• The Famous Five (characters in Enid Blyton's series of children's book)
• The Grocer's Daughter (Nickname of Margaret Thatcher)
• The Royle Family (BBC comedy television series)
• The Sash My Father Wore (Irish traditional song)
• The boy is father to the man
• The child is father of the man (from a poem by Wordsworth)
• The family jewels
• The family silver
• The family that prays together stays together
• The mother of all battles
• The only 'sauce' I dare give Father (Burma Sauce advertising slogan)
• The sash my father wore
• The shoemaker's son always goes barefoot
• The wheels on the bus go round and round (title of children's song)
• The wish is father to the thought
• There's nowt so queer as folk
• This is Not Your Father's Oldsmobile (Oldsmobile advertising slogan)
• Tied to his mother's apron strings
• Today the discriminating family finds it absolutely necessary to own two or more motor cars (Buick advertising slogan)
• Tom Tom the pipers son stole a pig and away he ran (line from nursery rhyme)
• Top breeders recommend it (Pedigree Chum Dog food advertising slogan)
• Trap and ball (children's ball game)
• Try everything once, except incest and folk dancing (Sir Thomas Beecham quotation)
• Twas the night before Christmas - the children were dreaming of a Ford in their future - smart, swanky and gleaming (Ford Cars advertising slogan)
• Uncle Cliffy (Nickname of Cliff Robinson)
• Uncle Dick (Cockney rhyming slang for sick)
• Uncle Joe (Nickname of Joseph Stalin)
• Uncle Ned (Cockney rhyming slang for bed)
• Uncle Tom Cobley and all
• Want a better Internet? You belong at America Online (AOL advertising slogan)
• We Belong Together (Mariah Carey song)
• We're Just One Big Happy Family (Richard Hawley song)
• We're just one big happy family
• When I find myself in times of trouble Mother Mary comes to me (Beatles song lyric)
• Who's she, the cat's mother?
• Women and children first
• You and yours
• You can choose your friends but you can't choose your family
• You dirty old man (A catchphrase from Steptoe and Son)
• Your Mother Should Know (The Beatles song)

Related

• All happy families are alike; each unhappy family is unhappy in its own way (the opening line of Anna Karenina)
• Beanpole family
• Black sheep of the family
• Did I do that? (A catchphrase from Family Matters)
• Dysfunctional family
• Family fortunes
• Family man
• Family matters
• Family ties
• Family tree
• Family values
• Get your family into Shape, without them even noticing (St. Ivel Yogurt advertising slogan)
• Head of the family
• I Think I Love You (The Partridge Family song)
• In the family way
• It's a family affair
• Keep it in the family
• My arse (A catchphrase from Royle Family)
• Our survey says (A catchphrase from Family Fortunes)
• Runs in the family
• Selling the family silver
• Spend more time with my family
• The Royle Family (BBC comedy television series)
• The family jewels
• The family silver
• The family that prays together stays together
• Today the discriminating family finds it absolutely necessary to own two or more motor cars (Buick advertising slogan)
• We're Just One Big Happy Family (Richard Hawley song)
• We're just one big happy family
• You can choose your friends but you can't choose your family