Autumn Phrases

Phrases

• An Indian summer
• Appalachian Spring (Aaron Copland musical score)
• Arab Spring
• Atishoo atishoo all fall down
• Castles made of sand fall into the sea eventually
• City summer
• Closed season
• Dead of winter
• Depths of winter
• Fall about laughing
• Fall about your ears
• Fall amongst friends
• Fall and Rise of Reginald Perrin
• Fall apart at the seams
• Fall asleep
• Fall back on
• Fall between the cracks
• Fall by the wayside
• Fall down on the job
• Fall flat
• Fall flat on your face
• Fall foul of the law
• Fall from grace
• Fall guy
• Fall in
• Fall in love
• Fall into bad habits
• Fall into line
• Fall like a stone
• Fall off the radar
• Fall off the wagon
• Fall on deaf ears
• Fall on hard times
• Fall on stony ground
• Fall on your feet
• Fall on your sword
• Fall out
• Fall out of favour
• Fall out of love with
• Fall prey to
• Fall through
• Fall through the cracks
• Flag fall (An Australian expression for a fixed starting fee, typically at the start of a taxi ride)
• For everything there is a season
• Hard Rain's A Gonna Fall (Bob Dylan song)
• High season (the most popular time to visit a resort or attraction - when prices are highest)
• If you don't stand for something you will fall for anything (Malcolm X quotation)
• In season
• Indian summer
• Into every life a little rain must fall
• It was a misty moisty morning
• Last of the Summer Wine

• Let the chips fall where they may
• Mr. October (Nickname of Reggie Jackson)
• No spring chicken
• Now is the winter of our discontent
• Nuclear autumn
• Nuclear winter
• Off season
• One fall, two submissions or a knockout
• One swallow doesn't make a summer
• Open season
• Party season
• Pride comes before a fall
• Pure life (Nestle Aberfoyle Natural Spring Water advertising slogan)
• Riding for a fall
• Ring aring of roses, a pocketful of posies, atishoo, atishoo, all fall down (line from nursery rhyme)
• School's out for summer
• Season of goodwill
• Season of mists and mellow fruitfulness (from a poem by Keats)
• Senor October (Nickname of David Ortiz)
• Silly season
• Spring clean
• Spring fling
• Spring forward, Fall back
• Spring in your step
• Spring into action
• Spring into summer
• Spring is in the air
• Spring to mind
• Spring to your defence
• Suddenly Last Summer (Elizabeth Taylor movie)
• Summer Loving
• Summer Wind (Frank Sinatra song)
• Summer solstice
• Summer time (the time adopted during the summer in advance of the standard time)
• Take a fall for
• The English summer: three fine days and a thunderstorm
• The Imperial Summer Palace (tourist attraction in China)
• The Lion In Winter (Peter O'Toole / Katharine Hepburn movie)
• The Queen of Hearts she made some tarts all on a summer's day (line from nursery rhyme)
• The bigger they are the harder they fall
• The festive season
• The fruit does not fall far from the tree
• The glorious twelfth (of August - the start of the British grouse shooting season)
• The height of summer
• The long, hot summer
• The rise and fall of the Roman Empire
• Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold (from a poem by Yeats)
• To every thing there is a season
• United we stand divided we fall
• When the bough breaks the cradle will fall, and down will come baby, cradle and all (line from nursery rhyme)
• Winter drawers on (old British euphemistic joke)
• Winter of discontent
• Winter warmer