First Phrases

Phrases

• ...Baby One More Time (Britney Spears album and song)
• A World first
• A great one for
• Ain't my first rodeo (said by someone who has experience of a situation)
• All children, except one, grow up (the opening line of Peter Pan)
• All for one and one for all
• All one to me
• An army of one (United States Army advertising slogan)
• And then there was one
• Another One Bites The Dust (Queen song)
• Art is going one step too far
• As busy as a one armed paper hanger
• As busy as a one legged arse kicker
• As one door closes, another one opens
• Ask the Man who Owns One (Packard advertising slogan)
• At first blush
• At first hand
• At one another's throats
• At one fell swoop
• Atone for one's sins
• Avert one's eyes
• Avert one's gaze
• Back number
• Back to square one
• Bare one's teeth
• Be the first to know (CNN advertising slogan)
• Beer and sandwiches at Number 10
• Betcha can't eat just one (Lay's potato chips advertising slogan)
• Big white chief
• Bite the big one
• Bits per second
• Blaze a trail
• Breathe one's last
• Brighton line (Bingo call for number fifty nine)
• Buy one, get one free
• Calendar year (twelve months beginning from the first of January)
• Cast the first stone
• Chief cook and bottle washer
• Chief of staff
• Children, one is one, two is fun, three is a house full
• Chopsticks are one of the reasons the Chinese never invented custard (Spike Milligan line)
• Clickety click (Bingo call for number sixty six)
• Colour one's view
• Columbus egg
• Complex number (a number containing real and imaginary parts)
• Cop one
• Cushy number
• Dance With The One That Brought You (Shania Twain song)
• Day one
• Desmond Tutu (Cockney rhyming slang for Second class degree (2,2))
• Dief the Chief (Nickname of John Diefenbaker)
• Do a number on
• Doctor's Orders (Bingo call for number nine)
• Doff one's cap
• Don't put all your eggs in one basket
• Down it in one
• Down to the last out (A baseball expression meaning to have one last chance)
• Down to the pub for a quick one
• Droopy drawers (Bingo call for number forty four)
• Employee Number 8 (Nickname of Antoine Walker)
• Every one a winner
• Exercise one's discretion
• Exert one's authority
• Feed one's mind
• First Among Equals (Jeffrey Archer book)
• First Slip (field position in the game of cricket)
• First World (the indutrialised affluent and wealthy nations)
• First World problem (a relatively trivial problem only affecting the affluent)
• First among equals (the most senior person in a group of equal rank)
• First amongst equals
• First and foremost
• First blood
• First came to fame
• First catch your hare
• First come first served
• First comes love, then comes marriage
• First contact
• First cut
• First flush
• First footing (making a round of visits at New Year)
• First impressions last
• First light
• First past the post
• First rate
• First relationships last (First National Bank of Chicago advertising slogan)
• First responder (the member of the emergency services to arrive at a disaster)
• First strike
• First thing
• First things first
• First time caller
• First to market
• First up
• First with the Hits (Mercury Records advertising slogan)
• First, do no harm
• For No One (Beatles song)
• Fourpenny one
• From day one
• Genius is one percent inspiration and 99 percent perspiration (Thomas Edison quotation)
• Get to first base
• Get to first base with
• Get to second base
• Get your retaliation in first
• Give one's eye teeth for
• Give one's right arm for
• Go off on one
• Go one better
• Got it in one
• Got your number
• Hail to the chief
• Half a second
• Handbrake turn (180 degree turn in a car by locking the back wheels)
• Have a second string to your bow have
• Have one on me
• He's one sick puppy
• Head first
• Hello, one two three testing
• Here's one I prepared earlier (A catchphrase from Blue Peter)
• Here's one in your eye
• Hole in one
• How does it feel to be one of the beautiful people? (Beatles song lyric)
• I Second That Emotion (Smokey Robinson song)
• I don't believe it (A catchphrase from Victor Meldrew, One Foot In The Grave)
• I have not slept one wink
• I took my harp to the party but no one asked me to play
• I want that one (A catchphrase from Little Britain)
• I've got your number
• If I've only one life, let me live it as a blonde! (Clairol Hair Colouring advertising slogan)
• If at first you don't succeed try, try and try again
• If you ain't first, you're last
• If you change your mind, I'm the first in line (ABBA lyric)
• In one ear and out the other
• In one piece
• In the kingdom of the blind the one eyed man is king
• In words of one syllable
• It Happened One Night (Clark Gable movie)
• It takes 40 dumb animals to make a fur coat, but only one to wear it
• It takes one to know one
• It was just one of those things
• It's an ill wind that blows no one any good
• Just one more thing (A catchphrase from Columbo)
• Just one of those days
• Key of the door (Bingo call for number twenty one)
• Kill two birds with one stone
• Knit one purl one
• La Belle Epoque (the golden age or beautiful era preceding the First World War)
• Ladies first
• Last in first out
• Last one there is a rotten egg
• Launch one's lunch
• Leadoff hitter (A baseball expression denoting the player who bats first)
• Legs eleven (Bingo call for number eleven)
• Lend one's name
• Let me make one thing perfectly clear
• Let one go
• Let one thousand flowers bloom
• Life is just one damned thing after another
• Little black number
• Look after number one
• Look out for number one
• Love Potion Number Nine (Leiber and Stoller song)
• Love at first sight
• Lucky number seven
• Maiden speech
• Maiden voyage
• Make first base
• Make one's hackles rise
• Massage one's ego
• Me first
• Minority of one
• Mirror mirror on the all who is the fairest one of all?
• More than one string to your bow
• My one regret in life is that I am not someone else (Woody Allen line)
• Name, rank, and serial number
• Near to one's heart
• Neither one thing nor the other
• Nice one Cyril (A catchphrase from Wonderloaf)
• No One (Alicia Keys song)
• No one can make you feel inferior without your consent (Eleanor Roosevelt quotation)
• No one expects the Spanish Inquisition (A catchphrase from Monty Python's Flying Circus)
• No one likes us, we don't care (A catchphrase from Millwall football supporters)
• Not my type (not a person one is attracted to)
• Now There is only one Mars (Mars Chocolate advertising slogan)
• 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
• Odd one out
• Of the first water
• On second thoughts
• On the one hand
• One Cent (Nickname of Anfernee Hardaway)
• One Dog (Nickname of Lance Johnson)
• One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (Jack Nicholson movie)
• One Foot In The Grave (BBC comedy television series)
• One Hundred Years Of Solitude (Gabriel Garcia Marquez book)
• One More Cup Of Coffee (Bob Dylan song)
• One More Night (Maroon 5 song)
• One Of Us Must Know (Bob Dylan song)
• One Size (Nickname of Fitz Hall)
• One Too Many Mornings (Bob Dylan song)
• One Tough (Nickname of Joaquin Andejar)

• One and all
• One and the same
• One armed bandit
• One brick short of a load
• One by one
• One card for home and abroad (Maestro advertising slogan)
• One fall, two submissions or a knockout
• One fine day
• One foot in the grave
• One for all and all for one
• One for sorrow (Magpie nursery rhyme)
• One for sorrow, two for mirth, three for a wedding, four for a birth
• One for the book
• One for the road
• One good turn deserves another
• One half of the world does not know how the other half lives
• One hand tied behind your back
• One hand washes the other
• One hell of
• One horse town
• One in a billion (McDonald's advertising slogan)
• One in a million
• One in the eye
• One instinctively knows when something is right (Croft Original Sherry advertising slogan)
• One jump ahead of
• One law for the rich and another for the poor
• One leg at a time (Dockers advertising slogan)
• One liner
• One man and his dog
• One man's meat is another man's poison
• One man's trash is another man's treasure
• One man: one vote
• One may as well be hanged for a sheep as for a lamb
• One minute to midnight
• One moment please
• One more time
• One night stand
• One night stand investment
• One of life's little ironies
• One of the boys
• One of these days, Alice ... Pow! To the moon! (A catchphrase from The Honeymooners)
• One off
• One off the wrist
• One on one
• One out, all out
• One over the eight
• One ringy-dingy...two ringy-dingies (A catchphrase from Ernestine In Rowan and Martin's Laugh-In)
• One second
• One side of the story
• One size fits all
• One small step for man, one giant leap for mankind (Neil Armstrong quotation)
• One smart cookie
• One sprint many solutions (Sprint advertising slogan)
• One step ahead
• One step at a time
• One step forward, two steps back
• One stop shop
• One swallow doesn't make a summer
• One taste and your stuck on golden flake (Golden Flake Potato Chips advertising slogan)
• One that Last (Duracell Batteries advertising slogan)
• One thing leads to another
• One to one
• One to remember
• One toe over the line
• One track mind
• One trick pony
• One two buckle my shoe (line from nursery rhyme)
• One two many and you might turn Bertie (Bassett's Liquorice Allsorts advertising slogan)
• One two three o'clock four o'clock rock
• One volunteer is worth ten pressed men
• One wedding brings another
• One year's seeds make seven year weeds
• Opening night (the first night of a theatrical performance)
• Original Gangster Ice T song
• Original sin
• Pinch, punch, first of the month
• Play second fiddle
• Plus one
• Prepare to want one (Hyundai advertising slogan)
• Pride of place
• Primal Fear (film starring Richard Gere)
• Primal Rage (film and video game)
• Primal Scream (a psychological treatment for neurosis)
• Primal fear (Neurosis therapy and British rock band)
• Primal therapist (psychotherapist who uses Primal Scream method of treatment)
• Public Enemy Number One (Nickname of John Dillinger)
• Pull a fast one
• Put one foot in front of the other
• Put one over on
• Quality is job one (Ford Cars advertising slogan)
• Quick one
• Rolled into one
• Room for one more inside
• Route one
• Safety first
• Second banana
• Second best
• Second bite of the cherry
• Second childhood
• Second class
• Second degree burns
• Second generation
• Second nature
• Second sight
• Second slip (field position in the game of cricket)
• Second storey man
• Second thoughts
• Second thoughts are best
• Second to none
• Second wind
• Seen one, seen them all
• Shoot a birdie (score one under par in a golf shot)
• Shoot first, ask questions later
• Six of one and half a dozen of the other
• Sleep with one eye open
• Snakes alive (Bingo call for number fifty five)
• Sneak preview
• So easy to use, no wonder it's number one (AOL advertising slogan)
• So no one told you life was gonna be this way
• Sorry about that, Chief. (A catchphrase from Get Smart)
• Still the One (ABC advertising slogan)
• Stop me and buy one (Wall's Ice Cream advertising slogan)
• Stop me if you've heard this one
• Take one day at a time
• Take one for the team
• Take someone to one side
• Ten one hundred
• That's a new one on me
• That's the second biggest ... I've ever seen! (A catchphrase from Get Smart)
• The Adventure of the Second Stain (Sherlock Holmes story)
• The Amazing One (Nickname of Alfredo Amezaga)
• The Best Second Banana in the Business (Nickname of Art Carney)
• The Chief (Nickname of Robert Parish)
• The Chosen One (Nickname of LeBron James)
• The First Cut Is The Deepest (Rod Stewart song)
• The First Garden City Of The World (Nickname of Letchworth England)
• The First Lady of Television (Nickname of Faye Emerson)
• The First State (Nickname of the US state of Delaware)
• The Great One (Nickname of comedian Jackie Gleason)
• The Original Live Test-Pattern Girl (Nickname of Nanette Fabray)
• The Special One (Nickname of football manager Jose Mourinho)
• The Wild One (Marlon Brando movie)
• The first network for men (Spike TV advertising slogan)
• The first time is never the best (Campari advertising slogan)
• The flower of one's youth
• The lights are on but there's no one at home
• The magic number
• The mainspring in a Bulova is made to last 256 years or 146 leather straps - whichever comes first (Bulova Watches advertising slogan)
• The nth degree
• The one and only Wonderbra (Wonderbra advertising slogan)
• The one and only cereal that comes in the shape of animals (Crispy Critters advertising slogan)
• The one that got away
• The one to watch (Channel 7 Australia advertising slogan)
• The original and the best
• The right one (Martini advertising slogan)
• The world around one
• There's more than one way to skin a cat
• There's not a soul out there, no one to hear my prayer (ABBA lyric)
• There's one born every minute
• There's only one
• Third degree
• This one will run and run
• Tie one on
• Times without number
• To cast the first stone
• To get one's back up
• Today is the first day of the rest of your life
• Top of the shop (Bingo call for number ninety)
• Two fat ladies (Bingo call for number eighty eight)
• Two for one
• Two heads are better than one
• Two little dicky birds sitting on a wall, one named Peter, one named Paul (line from nursery rhyme)
• Two little ducks (Bingo call for number twenty two)
• Two steps forward and one step back
• Unlucky for some (Bingo call for number thirteen)
• Was she worth it (Bingo call for number fifty six)
• We used to have one of those, but the wheels fell off
• We're Just One Big Happy Family (Richard Hawley song)
• We're just one big happy family
• We're number two. We try harder (Avis Rent-a-Car advertising slogan)
• We're the one (Sky Television advertising slogan)
• We're tobacco men not medicine men. Old Gold cures just one thing. The World's Best Tobacco (Old Gold Cigarettes advertising slogan)
• What Makes You Beautiful (One Direction song)
• What a tangled web we weave when first we practice to deceive
• What with one thing and another
• What's in your wallet? (Capital One advertising slogan)
• When war is declared, truth is the first casualty
• Which came first the chicken or the egg?
• Who blinked first?
• Will no one rid me of this turbulent priest?
• Win faster (One Brand Group advertising slogan)
• With one bound he was at her side
• Women and children first
• Work one's fingers to the bone
• World champion
• World's first
• Worth one's weight in gold
• Wring one's hands
• You are a one
• You can kiss that one goodbye
• You don't get a second chance at a first impression
• You heard it here first
• You only get one chance to make a first impression
• You only hurt the one you love
• You're the One That I Want (John Travolta and Olivia Newton-John song)
• You, you're the one (McDonald's advertising slogan)

Related

• A World first
• Ain't my first rodeo (said by someone who has experience of a situation)
• At first blush
• At first hand
• Be the first to know (CNN advertising slogan)
• Calendar year (twelve months beginning from the first of January)
• Cast the first stone
• First Among Equals (Jeffrey Archer book)
• First Slip (field position in the game of cricket)
• First World (the indutrialised affluent and wealthy nations)
• First World problem (a relatively trivial problem only affecting the affluent)
• First among equals (the most senior person in a group of equal rank)
• First amongst equals
• First and foremost
• First blood
• First came to fame
• First catch your hare
• First come first served
• First comes love, then comes marriage
• First contact
• First cut
• First flush
• First footing (making a round of visits at New Year)
• First impressions last
• First light
• First past the post
• First rate
• First relationships last (First National Bank of Chicago advertising slogan)
• First responder (the member of the emergency services to arrive at a disaster)
• First strike
• First thing
• First things first
• First time caller
• First to market
• First up
• First with the Hits (Mercury Records advertising slogan)
• First, do no harm
• Get to first base
• Get to first base with
• Get your retaliation in first
• Head first
• If at first you don't succeed try, try and try again
• If you ain't first, you're last
• If you change your mind, I'm the first in line (ABBA lyric)
• La Belle Epoque (the golden age or beautiful era preceding the First World War)
• Ladies first
• Last in first out
• Leadoff hitter (A baseball expression denoting the player who bats first)
• Love at first sight
• Make first base
• Me first
• Of the first water
• Opening night (the first night of a theatrical performance)
• Pinch, punch, first of the month
• Safety first
• Shoot first, ask questions later
• The First Cut Is The Deepest (Rod Stewart song)
• The First Garden City Of The World (Nickname of Letchworth England)
• The First Lady of Television (Nickname of Faye Emerson)
• The First State (Nickname of the US state of Delaware)
• The first network for men (Spike TV advertising slogan)
• The first time is never the best (Campari advertising slogan)
• The mainspring in a Bulova is made to last 256 years or 146 leather straps - whichever comes first (Bulova Watches advertising slogan)
• To cast the first stone
• Today is the first day of the rest of your life
• What a tangled web we weave when first we practice to deceive
• When war is declared, truth is the first casualty
• Which came first the chicken or the egg?
• Who blinked first?
• Women and children first
• World's first
• You don't get a second chance at a first impression
• You heard it here first
• You only get one chance to make a first impression