Canal Phrases

Phrases

• A River Runs Through It (Brad Pitt movie)
• A two pipe problem
• Barge right in
• Change the channel
• Channel surfing
• Cherry ripe (Cockney rhyming slang for pipe)
• Cry me a river
• Denial ain't just a river in Egypt! (A catchphrase from Saturday Night Live)
• Ditch the bitch
• Fat berg (a solid mass of grease in a sewer)
• Gutter press
• Gutter snipe
• I wouldn't touch it with a barge pole
• Last ditch effort
• Lead pipe cinch
• March from Bridge on the River Kwai (Mitch Miller song)
• My Own Private Idaho (River Phoenix movie)
• Nick is for kids (Nickelodeon TV channel advertising slogan)
• Pipe down
• Pipe dream
• Pipe up
• Put that in your pipe and smoke it
• Red River (John Wayne / Howard Hawks movie)
• River Deep Mountain High (Ike and Tina Turner song)
• Row up Salt River
• Sold down the river
• Stay tuned to this channel
• Take me to the river
• The Bridge On The River Kwai (David Lean movie)
• The Grand Canyon (tourist attraction in the USA)
• The Grand Canyon State (Nickname of the US state of Arizona)
• The Panama Canal (tourist attraction in Panama)
• The one to watch (Channel 7 Australia advertising slogan)
• Tote that barge
• Trench warfare (combat where troops face each other in trenches)
• We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars (Oscar Wilde quotation)
• You cannot step into the same river twice (philosophical comment by Heraclitus)