Category · 31 phrases
A list of phrases that include placenames
- An Oxford scholar
- As black as a Newgate's knocker
- Born within the sound of Bow Bells
- Brighton pier
- Bronx cheer
- Brummagem screwdriver
- Canterbury pace
- Carry coals to Newcastle
- Close your eyes and think of England
- Cool Britannia
- Fiddling while Rome burns
- Go Doolally
- Goodnight Vienna
- Grinning like a Cheshire cat
- Grub Street
- Holy Toledo
- Houston, we have a problem
- Khyber pass
- Local derby
- Meet your Waterloo
- Memory lane
- New York minute
- Not for all the tea in China
- On Carey Street
- Queer Street
- Richard of York gave battle in vain
- Sent to Coventry
- Ship-shape and Bristol fashion
- Sloane Ranger
- Up the wooden hill to Bedfordshire
- When in Rome, do as the Romans do