Brook Phrases

Phrases

• A River Runs Through It (Brad Pitt movie)
• Accept a wooden nickel
• Accept that some days you are the pigeon, some days you are the statue
• Accept with thanks
• Appalachian Spring (Aaron Copland musical score)
• Arab Spring
• As fresh as a mountain stream
• At your beck and call
• Blazing Saddles (Mel Brooks movie)
• Brook no quarter
• Come on stream
• Cool as a mountain stream (Consulate Cigarettes advertising slogan)
• Cry me a river
• Denial ain't just a river in Egypt! (A catchphrase from Saturday Night Live)
• Ditch the bitch
• Get busy with the fizzy (Soda Stream advertising slogan)
• God willing and the creek don't rise
• Islands In The Stream (Bee Gees song)
• Last ditch effort
• March from Bridge on the River Kwai (Mitch Miller song)
• My Own Private Idaho (River Phoenix movie)
• No spring chicken
• On stream
• Pure life (Nestle Aberfoyle Natural Spring Water advertising slogan)
• Red River (John Wayne / Howard Hawks movie)
• River Deep Mountain High (Ike and Tina Turner song)
• Robin Hood - Men In Tights (Mel Brooks movie)
• Row up Salt River
• Silent Movie (Mel Brooks movie)
• Smooth runs the water where the brook is deep
• Sold down the river
• 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
• Suck it up (accept a bad situation and move on)
• Take me to the river
• The Bridge On The River Kwai (David Lean movie)
• The Coward Of Bitter Creek (Nickname of Jason McCord (Chuck Connors))
• Up shit creek without a paddle
• You cannot step into the same river twice (philosophical comment by Heraclitus)
• Young Frankenstein (Mel Brooks / Gene Wilder movie)
• Your mission, if you choose to accept it ... (A catchphrase from Mission Impossible)