In the British Army the equivalent phrase is "adding tone to what would otherwise be just a vulgar brawl".
"You mean nothing to me" was an equivalent, if stronger, possible phrase.
The most important function of attributive verbs is to form modifying phrases equivalent to the relative clauses found in most European languages.
We find this phrase's English equivalent twice in Shakespeare's Sonnets.
Equivalency frames offer "different, but logically equivalent phrases," which cause individuals to alter their preferences.
I am guessing our equivalent phrase to your British one is "touchy feely."
The title is the equivalent to the English phrase, "Worshipful Master".
Its screen showed a column of English phrases accompanied by transliterations of equivalent phrases in an alien tongue.
The equivalent phrase in North America is "that's what she said".
There is also another equivalent English seafaring phrase, "Between a rock and a hard place".