Grandmother Phrases

Phrases

• A boy's best friend is his mother (Psycho)
• All happy families are alike; each unhappy family is unhappy in its own way (the opening line of Anna Karenina)
• Alpha Mom (an ambitious mother who aims to excel at work while raising children)
• Are you sitting comfortably? (A catchphrase from Listen With Mother)
• Atom Heart Mother (Pink Floyd album)
• Baby grand
• Beanpole family
• Black sheep of the family
• Can you hear me, mother? (A catchphrase from Sandy Powell)
• Did I do that? (A catchphrase from Family Matters)
• Do you kiss your mother with that mouth
• Don't try to teach your Grandma to suck eggs
• Dysfunctional family
• Earth mother
• Every mother's son
• Face that only a mother could love
• 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)
• Go tell your mother she wants you
• Grand Theft Auto (video game title)
• Grand old man
• Grand passion
• Grand slam
• Granny dumping
• Granny farming
• Granny flat
• Granny, what big teeth you have got
• Head of the family
• Honour thy father and mother
• House mother
• I Think I Love You (The Partridge Family song)
• I swear on my mother's life
• I want to be alone (A catchphrase from Grand Hotel)
• I'll be mother
• I'm convinced the Goodyear Grand Prix-S is a major contribution to road safety (Goodyear Tyres advertising slogan)
• If your grandmother had wheels, she'd be a trolley car
• In the family way
• In the grand scheme of things
• It isn't nice to fool mother nature
• It's a family affair
• Keep it in the family
• Kid tested Mother approved (Kix advertising slogan)
• Le Grand Orange (Nickname of Daniel Staub)
• Learnt at your mother's knee

• Like mother used to make
• 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)
• 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)
• Nanny state
• Necessity is the mother of invention
• 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 a grand scale
• Our survey says (A catchphrase from Family Fortunes)
• Roar, Boys, Roar, It tastes like more, What a flavor, Zippity-zow - its grand - and HOW (Grape-Nuts Flakes Cereal advertising slogan)
• Runs in the family
• Sell your grandmother
• Selling the family silver
• Seriously though, he's doing a grand job (A catchphrase from David Frost)
• Spend more time with my family
• The Grand Alliance
• The Grand Canyon (tourist attraction in the USA)
• The Grand Canyon State (Nickname of the US state of Arizona)
• The Grand Ol Opry (tourist attraction in Nashville USA)
• The Grand old Duke of York he had ten thousand men (line from nursery rhyme)
• The Royle Family (BBC comedy television series)
• The family jewels
• The family silver
• The family that prays together stays together
• The mother of all battles
• 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)
• 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?
• You can choose your friends but you can't choose your family
• Your Mother Should Know (The Beatles song)