Abbey Phrases

Phrases

• Abbey Road (The Beatles album)
• As nervous as a whore in church
• As poor as a church mouse
• Beat a hasty retreat
• Beat the retreat
• Because life's complicated enough (Abbey National advertising slogan)
• Body building
• Brendan the Navigator (Nickname of Irish monk Brendan)
• Building castles in the air
• Cathedral of Santiago de Compostela (tourist attraction in Spain)
• Chapel hat pegs
• Chartres Cathedral (tourist attraction in France)
• Eleanor Rigby picks up the rice in the church where a wedding has been (Beatles song lyric)
• Elvis has left the building
• Empire State Building
• Far better for being near to you (The Chesham Building Society advertising slogan)
• Frasier has left the building (A catchphrase from Frasier)
• Get the Abbey habit (Abbey National advertising slogan)
• Get thee to a nunnery
• High church
• How con-veen-ient! (A catchphrase from The Church Lady In Saturday Night Live)
• Investments with Abbey endings (Abbey National Building Society advertising slogan)
• Mother church
• Northanger Abbey (Jane Austen novel)
• Notre Dame Cathedral (tourist attraction in Paris France)
• Paddy's Wigwam (Nickname of The Roman Catholic Cathedral Liverpool)
• Patriotism is the last refuge of scoundrels
• Round Midnight (Thelonious Monk tune)
• Shovel ready (a building project in which all the preliminaries have been arranged)
• St Paul's Cathedral (tourist attraction in London England)
• The Adventure of the Abbey Grange (Sherlock Holmes story)
• The Adventure of the Priory School (Sherlock Holmes story)
• The Chrysler Building (tourist attraction in New York USA)
• The Conservative Party at prayer (The Church of England)
• The Empire State Building (tourist attraction in New York USA)
• The Mad Monk (Nickname of Rasputin)
• The Sistine Chapel (tourist attraction in the Vatican City Italy)
• We're with the Woolwich (Woolwich Building Society advertising slogan)
• Westminster Abbey (tourist attraction in London England)