My English Phrases List - November - 2025

get a move on

You’d better get a move on, darling. If you don’t hurry you’ll miss the train.

Could you get a move on?

She told her partner to get a move on or they would be late.

the other day/night/morning/afternoon/evening

on a day/night/morning/afternoon/evening in the recent past

The other morning, I saw a deer on our lawn.

backseat driver

backseat driver

bed head

He is a small man with a salt-and-pepper beard, very bright brown eyes and a perpetual case of bed head, little tufts flying every which way.— Alex Witchel

city slicker

city slickers who’ve never seen a real farm

party pooper

Don’t be such a party pooper!

a party pooper who insisted they turn the music down

tear down

Tear down this wall! - Ronald Reagan

treble clef

  • a clef that places G above middle C on the second line of the staff

C major scale, treble clef.

bass clef

  • a clef placing the F below middle C on the fourth line of the staff

C major scale, bass clef.