Auditory Phrases

Phrases

• All ears
• Are you sitting comfortably? (A catchphrase from Listen With Mother)
• As sound as a bell
• At sixty miles an hour the loudest noise in the new Rolls-Royce comes from the electric clock (Rolls Royce advertising slogan)
• Big noise
• Born within the sound of Bow Bells
• Box your ears
• Break the sound barrier
• Brum brum (child's play idiom expressing the sound of a vehicle)
• Cellarful of noise
• Cloth ears
• Coming out of your ears
• Dial down (adjust a device to reduce sound or temperature)
• Donkey's years (Cockney rhyming slang for ears)
• Ear popping (a sound that is loud or that catches the attention)
• Eating pate de fois gras to the sound of trumpets
• Empty vessels make the most noise
• Fall about your ears
• Fall on deaf ears
• Friends, Romans, Countrymen, lend me your ears
• Have your ears chewed off
• I love deadlines. I love the whooshing noise they make as they go by (Douglas Adams quotation)
• I'm all ears
• In love with the sound of your own voice
• It's the empty can that makes the most noise
• Listen I will say zis only wunce (A catchphrase from Allo Allo)
• Listen to reason
• Listen up
• Little pitchers have big ears
• Make some noise
• Marching to the sound of a different drum
• Music to my ears
• My ears were burning
• Penny Lane is in my ears and in my eyes (Beatles song lyric)
• Pin your ears back
• Prick up your ears
• Ring in your ears
• Run toward the sound of gunfire
• Safe and sound
• Signal to noise ratio
• Someone ears are burning
• Sound bite
• Sound effect
• Sound off at
• Sound out
• Sound the alarm
• Steam coming out of your ears
• Surround sound
• The Mersey sound
• The Sound Of Music (Julie Andrews movie)
• The Sound Of Silence (Simon and Garfunkel song)
• The West Coast Sound (Shelly Manne song)
• The West Coast Sound (name applied to Californian pop music, especially that of The Beach Boys)
• The sound of leather on willow (sound of the ball on the bat in cricket)
• The walls have ears
• Up to your ears
• Walls have ears
• Wet behind the ears
• When E F Hutton talks, people listen (EF Hutton advertising slogan)
• White noise
• Wired for sound
• You watch, we listen (British Satellite Broadcasting advertising slogan)