Building Phrases

Phrases

• A Doll's House (play by Henrik Ibsen)
• A bank you can bank on (Westpac Bank advertising slogan)
• A funny thing happened on the way to the theatre
• A house divided against itself cannot stand
• A house is not a home
• A woman's place is in the home
• A, B, C, D, E, Your public library has arranged these in ways that make you cry, giggle, laugh, love, hate, wonder, ponder and understand (American Library Association advertising slogan)
• Abbey Road (The Beatles album)
• Acid house
• Address the ball (golfing term denoting readiness to play)
• Adobe dollar (Mexican currency)
• All around Robin Hood's barn
• All over the shop
• Ally Pally (Nickname of Alexandra Palace London)
• Alma Mater (the school or college from which a person has graduated)
• American Home has an edifice complex (American Home Magazine advertising slogan)
• An Englishman's home is his castle
• An ace caff with a nice museum attached (Victoria & Albert Museum advertising slogan)
• And shining morning face, creeping like a snail unwillingly to school
• And that's flat
• Animal Farm (George Orwell book)
• Annie Hall (Woody Allen movie)
• Architecture is music frozen in time (Friedrich von Schelling quotation)
• Art house
• As flat as a pancake
• As nervous as a whore in church
• As poor as a church mouse
• As safe as the Bank of England
• At home with
• Back office bean counter
• Back to school
• Balmoral Castle (tourist attraction in Scotland)
• Barn burner
• Bat from the pavilion end (slang term for a homosexual)
• Be It Ever So Humble There's No Place Like Home (John Howard Payne and Sir Henry Bishop song)
• Because life's complicated enough (Abbey National advertising slogan)
• Beckingham Palace (Nickname of David and Victoria Beckham's house)
• Beer at home means Davenport's (Davenport's beer advertising slogan)
• Beetle bank
• Belvedere Palace (tourist attraction in Austria)
• Big house
• Big tent revival
• Bleak House (Charles Dickens book)
• Body building
• Bought the farm
• Break the bank
• Bring home the bacon
• Bring it home to you
• Bring the house down
• Bringing it home to me (Prime Television advertising slogan)
• Broken home
• Buck House (Nickname of Buckingham Palace)
• Bucket shop
• Buckingham Palace (tourist attraction in London England)
• Build A Better Life By Stealing Office Supplies (Dilbert)
• Build a better mousetrap and the world will beat a path to your door
• Build bridges
• Build for the future
• Build up your hopes
• Builder's bum
• Building castles in the air
• Burger King - the home of the Whopper (Burger King advertising slogan)
• Burning Down The House (Talking Heads song)
• Buy the farm
• By the hairs on my chinny chin chin, I'll blow your house down
• Cackle factory
• Cathedral of Santiago de Compostela (tourist attraction in Spain)
• Change of address
• Chapel hat pegs
• Charity begins at home
• Charlie And The Chocolate Factory (Roald Dahl book)
• Charm school
• Chartres Cathedral (tourist attraction in France)
• Chatham House rules
• Children, one is one, two is fun, three is a house full
• Chop shop
• Clean house
• Clearing house
• Close to home
• Cold Comfort Farm (Stella Gibbons book)
• Come and talk to the listening bank (Midland Bank advertising slogan)
• Come home to Birds Eye Country (Birds Eye Frozen Foods advertising slogan)
• Come home to a real fire (Coal Board advertising slogan)
• Come home to roost
• Cop shop
• Cottage economy
• Cottage industry
• Country house hotel (an upmarket hotel located in a revamped rural mansion)
• Crooked House (Agatha Christie book)
• Crying all the way to the bank (A catchphrase from Liberace)
• Doctor In The House (Dirk Bogade / Luchino Visconti movie)
• Don't leave home without it (American Express advertising slogan)
• Don't try this at home
• Drive your point home
• Driven home
• ET phone home (ET)
• East, west, home's best
• Eaten out of house and home
• Edinburgh Castle (tourist attraction in Scotland)
• 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
• Ethnic stocking (the appointment to political office on the basis of ethnicity)
• Everybody lies (A catchphrase from Dr Gregory House in House)
• Factory farming (rearing livestock under industrial conditions)
• Factory fresh
• Factory outlet (a shop where goods are sold directly to the public by the manufacturer)
• Factory shop (a retail outlet where goods are sold directly to the public by the manufacturer)
• Fall flat
• Fall flat on your face
• Far better for being near to you (The Chesham Building Society advertising slogan)
• Farm fresh
• First relationships last (First National Bank of Chicago advertising slogan)
• Flat broke
• Flat out
• Flat out like a lizard drinking
• Flatten the pyramid
• Fort Knox (tourist attraction in USA)
• Fort Worthless (Nickname of Fort Worth Texas)
• Frasier has left the building (A catchphrase from Frasier)
• Fringe theatre
• Front of house
• Full house
• Funny farm
• Garage band
• Gargle factory
• Gather 'round the good stuff (Pizza Hut advertising slogan)
• Get on like a house on fire
• Get the Abbey habit (Abbey National advertising slogan)
• Glue factory
• Go hard or go home
• Go home in a box
• Go home in an ambulance
• Going going gone (A baseball expression by which an announcer describes a home run that is heading over the fence)
• Good to the last drop (Maxwell House Coffee advertising slogan)
• Granny flat
• Greenhouse effect
• Guggenheim Museum (tourist attraction in Spain)
• Halfway house
• Hall of fame
• Hammer it home
• Have a flat
• He huffed and he puffed and he blew their house down
• Heartbreak Hotel (Elvis Presley song)
• Hearth and home
• High church
• High office
• Hillybilly likes you! (Hillybilly Vac Shack advertising slogan)
• Hit home
• Hold the fort
• Home For The Holidays (film starring Holly Hunter and Robert Downey Jr.)
• Home James and don't spare the horses
• Home alone
• Home and dry
• Home and hearth
• Home and hosed
• Home boy
• Home delivery
• Home free
• Home from home
• Home front
• Home grown
• Home haircut
• Home improvement
• Home is the hunter
• Home is where the heart is
• Home is wherever I lay my hat
• Home maker
• Home remedy
• Home resort
• Home rule
• Home run
• Home stretch
• Home suite hotel (Larkspur Landing Hotel advertising slogan)
• Home sweet home
• Home truth
• Home worker
• Home, home on the range
• Honey I'm home
• Hotel California (Eagles album)
• Hounded out of office
• House and garden
• House and home
• House built on sand
• House frau
• House guest
• House husband
• House mother
• House music
• House of cards
• House of ill repute
• House rules
• House style
• House swap
• How con-veen-ient! (A catchphrase from The Church Lady In Saturday Night Live)
• I Capture The Castle (Dodie Smith book)
• I Do Like To Be Beside The Seaside (British Music Hall song)
• I want to be alone (A catchphrase from Grand Hotel)
• If you build it they will come

• In a flat spin
• In no time flat
• In nothing flat
• In the bank
• Indiana Jones And The Temple Of Doom (Harrison Ford / Steven Speilberg movie)
• Investments with Abbey endings (Abbey National Building Society advertising slogan)
• Is there a doctor in the house?
• It was the night before Christmas and all round the house, not a creature was stirring, not even a mouse
• It won't break the bank
• Ivory tower
• Just another day at the office
• Keep a good house
• Keep open house
• Keep the home fires burning
• Keep the shop and the shop will keep you
• King of the castle
• Knock flat
• Knocking shop
• Land office business
• Laugh all the way to the bank
• Liberty hall
• Like a bull in a china shop
• Like a good neighbor (State Farm)
• Like a good neighbor, State Farm is there (State Farm Insurance advertising slogan)
• Link farm
• Live over the shop
• Mad house
• Maggie's Farm (Bob Dylan song)
• Make yourself at home
• Mode for your abode (Metropolitan Home advertising slogan)
• Monstrous carbuncle on the face of an old friend (Prince Charles quotation)
• More reasons to shop at Morrisons (WM Morrison's advertising slogan)
• Mother church
• Never tell tales out of school
• No fixed abode
• No music, no life (Tower Records advertising slogan)
• Northanger Abbey (Jane Austen novel)
• Not A Dry Eye In The House (Meatloaf song)
• Not a dry eye in the house
• Not a dry seat in the house
• Nothing to write home about
• Notre Dame Cathedral (tourist attraction in Paris France)
• Number 10 Downing Street (address of the British Prime Minister)
• Nut factory
• Office politics
• Office space
• Office work
• Oh Give Me A Home Where The Buffalo Roam (Brewster Higly song)
• Old school
• Old school tie
• On the flat
• On the house
• One Size (Nickname of Fitz Hall)
• One card for home and abroad (Maestro advertising slogan)
• One stop shop
• Open house
• Out of office
• POSH - Port out, starboard home (false attribution of the origin of the word posh)
• Paddy's Wigwam (Nickname of The Roman Catholic Cathedral Liverpool)
• Palace of Versailles (tourist attraction in France)
• Paper the house
• Party Like a Rock Star (Shop Boyz song)
• Phone home
• Pick up your marbles and go home
• Piggy bank
• Pile it high and sell it cheap
• Pile of pants
• Pile on the agony
• Pile up
• Playing to the gallery
• Please address the court
• Post early for Christmas (Post Office advertising slogan)
• Potala Palace (tourist attraction in China)
• Press your point home
• Put your house in order
• Pyramid scheme
• Ram it home
• Romp home
• School dunce
• School for scandal
• School of fish
• School of hard knocks
• School of thought
• School's out for summer
• School's out forever
• See what the future has in store (Future Shop advertising slogan)
• Semolina pilchard climbing up the Eiffel Tower (Beatles song lyric)
• Shack rat (Canadian military slang term for a promiscuous female who visits military barracks to sleep with soldiers)
• Shack up with
• She's Leaving Home (Beatles song)
• Shed light on the matter
• Shop 'till you drop
• Shop Around (Smokey Robinson song)
• Shop around
• Shovel ready (a building project in which all the preliminaries have been arranged)
• Shut it (A catchphrase from The Office)
• Shut up shop
• Smallest room in the house
• Some assembly required
• Somebody somewhere wants a letter from you (British Post Office advertising slogan)
• St Paul's Cathedral (tourist attraction in London England)
• Step into my office
• Sunday school
• Swept into office
• Sydney Opera House (tourist attraction in Australia)
• Take home pay
• Talk out of school
• Talk shop
• Talking shop
• Taste as good as it smells (Maxwell House Coffee advertising slogan)
• Tell tales out of school
• Temple Mount (tourist attraction in Israel)
• That brought it home to me
• The Adventure of the Abbey Grange (Sherlock Holmes story)
• The Adventure of the Empty House (Sherlock Holmes story)
• The Adventure of the Priory School (Sherlock Holmes story)
• The Anne Frank House (tourist attraction in Amsterdam Netherlands)
• The Bank of England (tourist attraction in London England)
• The Blue Mosque (tourist attraction in Turkey)
• The British Museum (tourist attraction in London England)
• The Bronx Zoo (Nickname of Benjamin Harrison High School)
• The Chrysler Building (tourist attraction in New York USA)
• The Cider House Rules (Michael Caine movie)
• The Conservative Party at prayer (The Church of England)
• The Doge's Palace (tourist attraction in Italy)
• The Dream Factory (film or television studio where idealised concepts are manufactured - especially Hollywood)
• The Eiffel Tower (tourist attraction in Paris France)
• The Empire State Building (tourist attraction in New York USA)
• The Frump Tower (Nickname of Camilla Duchess of Cornwall)
• The Golden Pavilion (tourist attraction in Japan)
• The Golden Temple (tourist attraction in India)
• The Great Pyramid (tourist attraction in Cairo Egypt)
• The Guggenheim Museum (tourist attraction in Spain)
• The Home Of Paul Bunyan And Babe The Blue Ox (Nickname of Westwood California, Brainerd Minnesota and Bemidji Minnesota)
• The Home Of The Masters (Nickname of Augusta Georgia)
• The House Doctor (Pseudonym of Ron Hazelton)
• The House of the Rising Sun (The Animals song)
• The Imperial Summer Palace (tourist attraction in China)
• The Leaning Tower of Pisa (tourist attraction in Italy)
• The Old Lady of Threadneedle Street (Nickname of The Bank of England)
• The Prince of the Palace (Nickname of Tayshaun Prince)
• The Raffles Hotel (tourist attraction in Singapore)
• The Red Fort (tourist attraction in India)
• The Sistine Chapel (tourist attraction in the Vatican City Italy)
• The Tower of London (tourist attraction in England)
• The Uffizi Gallery (tourist attraction in Italy)
• The Van Gogh Museum (tourist attraction in Netherlands)
• The White House (tourist attraction in Washington USA)
• The angel in the house
• The bank of mum and dad
• The bank that likes to say Yes (Trustee Savings Bank advertising slogan)
• The best seat in the house (Jockey Shorts advertising slogan)
• The chickens have come home to roost
• The green green grass of home
• The house of many doors
• The house that Jack built (line from nursery rhyme)
• The king was in his counting house counting out his money (line from nursery rhyme)
• The last turkey in the shop
• The lights are on but there's no one at home
• The world's local bank (HSBC advertising slogan)
• There's no place like HBO (Home Box Office advertising slogan)
• There's no place like home
• Think what we can do for you (Bank of America advertising slogan)
• This is a local shop, we'll have no trouble here (A catchphrase from The League of Gentlemen)
• This little piggy went to market, this little piggy stayed at home (line from nursery rhyme)
• Thrift Shop (Macklemore and Ryan Lewis with Wanz song)
• Till the cows come home
• Time to go home
• To save and invest, talk to Natwest (Natwest Bank advertising slogan)
• To the Manor Born (BBC comedy television series)
• Together we make a great team (Midland Bank advertising slogan)
• Tomb Raider (Angelina Jolie movie)
• Top of the shop (Bingo call for number ninety)
• Tower of strength
• True to you (Julius Baer Private Bank advertising slogan)
• Under construction
• Versailles Palace (tourist attraction in France)
• We build excitement (Pontiac advertising slogan)
• We're with the Woolwich (Woolwich Building Society advertising slogan)
• Welcome home
• Were you born in a barn?
• Westminster Abbey (tourist attraction in London England)
• What Katy Did At School
• When better automobiles are built, Buick will build them (Buick advertising slogan)
• Which bank? (Commonwealth Bank of Australia advertising slogan)
• Who lives in a house like this? (A catchphrase from Through the Keyhole)
• Wind farm
• Windsor Castle (tourist attraction in England)
• With you, all the way (State Bank of India advertising slogan)
• Working from home
• World cinema
• You Can't Go Home Again
• You can bank on it
• You can take that to the bank
• You can't fight city hall
• You shop, we drop (Tesco home delivery advertising slogan)
• You'd be so nice to come home to
• You've got questions, we've got answers (Radio Shack advertising slogan)
• Yours faithfully (Trust House Forte advertising slogan)

Related

• Body building
• Building castles in the air
• 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)
• Investments with Abbey endings (Abbey National Building Society advertising slogan)
• Shovel ready (a building project in which all the preliminaries have been arranged)
• The Chrysler Building (tourist attraction in New York USA)
• The Empire State Building (tourist attraction in New York USA)
• We're with the Woolwich (Woolwich Building Society advertising slogan)