Chinese Phrases

Phrases

• A nation of shopkeepers
• Ancient Chinese secret (Calgon advertising slogan)
• As many chins as a Chinese phone book
• Be careful what you wish for
• Brazil, Russia, India And China - BRIC
• China doll
• China plate (Cockney rhyming slang for mate)
• China price
• China syndrome
• China white
• Chinese burn
• Chinese fire drill
• Chinese homer
• Chinese whispers
• Chopsticks are one of the reasons the Chinese never invented custard (Spike Milligan line)
• Democracy Wall (wall in Bejing China where dissidents post letters poems etc)
• Gung ho
• Like a bull in a china shop
• May you live in interesting times
• My old china (Cockney rhyming slang for mate)
• No can do
• Not a chinaman's chance
• Not for all the tea in China
• Only Nixon could go to China
• Potala Palace (tourist attraction in China)
• The Bamboo Curtain (notional barrier between capitalist West and communist China)
• The Birth of a Nation (D W Griffith / Lillian Gish movie)
• The China Syndrome (Michael Douglas / Walter Matthau / Jane Fonda movie)
• The Forbidden City (tourist attraction in Bejing China)
• The Great Wall of China (Nickname of Yao Ming)
• The Great Wall of China (tourist attraction in China)
• The Imperial Summer Palace (tourist attraction in China)
• The Venice of China (Nickname of Suzhou)
• The station of the nation (Radio Caroline advertising slogan)
• Victory won't wait for the nation that's late (Big Ben Clocks advertising slogan)
• What does that have to do with the price of tea in China?
• Yellow peril