Cliff Phrases

Phrases

• Angel Falls (tourist attraction in Venezuela)
• As hard as a rock
• As solid as a rock
• Ayers Rock (tourist attraction in Australia)
• Baby Cakes (Nickname of Cliff Huxtable (Bill Cosby))
• Backs to the wall
• Balls to the wall
• Bang your head against a brick wall
• Between a rock and a hard place
• Between you and me and the wall
• Blueberry Hill (Fats Domino song)
• Climbing wall (An indoor wall with handholds used for climbing practise)
• Combustible Huxtable (Nickname of Dr.Cliff Huxtable (Bill Cosby))
• Country rock
• Crocodile Rock (Elton John song)
• Democracy Wall (wall in Bejing China where dissidents post letters poems etc)
• Don't amount to a hill of beans
• Don't rock the boat
• Driven up the wall
• Fiscal cliff
• Fly on the wall
• Glam rock
• Glass cliff
• Go over the wall
• Go to the wall
• Go up the wall
• Greed, for lack of a better word, is good (Wall Street)
• Hadrians Wall (tourist attraction in northern England)
• Heavy rock
• Hit rock bottom
• Hit the back wall
• Hole in the wall
• Humpty Dumpty sat on a wall (line from nursery rhyme)
• I Can See Clearly Now (Johnny Cash and Jimmy Cliff song and Nescafe advertising slogan)
• I Wanna Rock And Roll All Night (Kiss song)
• If your friend jumped off a cliff, would you do it too?
• It's Only Rock And Roll, But I Like It (Rolling Stones song)
• Jack and Jill went up the hill to fetch a pail of water (line from nursery rhyme)
• Jailhouse Rock (Elvis Presley song)
• King of the hill
• Let's be careful out there (A catchphrase from Hill Street Blues)
• Let's rock (A catchphrase from Al Bundy In Married With Children)
• Like a rock (Bob Seeger song title and Chevrolet Trucks advertising slogan)
• Like trying to nail jello to a wall
• Mister Gorbachev, tear down this wall! (A slogan from President Reagan)
• Mr. Gorbachev, tear down this wall (Political slogan)
• Niagara Falls (tourist attraction in Canada)
• Not worth a hill of beans
• Off The Wall (Michael Jackson album)
• Off the wall
• One two three o'clock four o'clock rock
• Over the hill
• Party Like a Rock Star (Shop Boyz song)
• Party Rock Anthem (LMFAO with Lauren Bennett and GoonRock song)
• Party wall
• Prepare to rock
• Primal fear (Neurosis therapy and British rock band)

• Rock And Roll Dreams Come True (Meatloaf song)
• Rock Around The Clock (Bill Haley song)
• Rock With The Caveman (Tommy Steele song)
• Rock Your Baby (George McCrae song)
• Rock a bye baby on the tree top, when the wind blows the cradle will rock (line from nursery rhyme)
• Rock and boulder (Cockney rhyming slang for shoulder)
• Rock and roll
• Rock bottom
• Rock god
• Rock of ages
• Rock on
• Rock solid
• Rock the vote
• Rock your world
• Running Up that Hill - A Deal with God (Kate Bush song)
• Sex and drugs, and rock and roll
• Sheer driving pleasure (BMW advertising slogan)
• Sheer madness
• Sheer nonsense
• Spaghetti Junction (Nickname of Gravelly Hill Interchange)
• Stop me and buy one (Wall's Ice Cream advertising slogan)
• Ten green bottles sitting on the wall
• The Berlin Wall (tourist attraction in Germany)
• The Dome of the Rock (tourist attraction in Israel)
• The East Coast Assassin (Nickname of Gilbert Arenas)
• The Fool On The Hill (The Beatles song)
• The Grand Canyon (tourist attraction in the USA)
• The Grand Canyon State (Nickname of the US state of Arizona)
• The Great Wall of China (Nickname of Yao Ming)
• The Great Wall of China (tourist attraction in China)
• The Hole in the Wall Gang (Nickname of fictional western outlaw gang)
• The King of Rock 'N' Roll (Nickname of Elvis Presley)
• The Mosquito Coast (Harrison Ford movie)
• The North Of Bombay Hill (Nickname of Auckland New Zealand)
• The Peeper (Nickname of Cliff Murdock (Tom Poston))
• The Queen Of The Coast (Nickname of Mar del Plata Argentina)
• The Rock (Nickname of Marcel Desailly)
• The Wailing Wall (site of prayer in Jerusalem)
• The Wall (Nickname of Rahul Dravid - Indian cricketer)
• The Wall (Pink Floyd song)
• The West Coast Sound (Shelly Manne song)
• The West Coast Sound (name applied to Californian pop music, especially that of The Beach Boys)
• The Western Wall (tourist attraction in Israel)
• The White Cliffs of Dover (tourist attraction in England)
• The coast is clear
• The daily diary of the American dream (Wall Street Journal advertising slogan)
• The writing is on the wall
• Two little dicky birds sitting on a wall, one named Peter, one named Paul (line from nursery rhyme)
• Uncle Cliffy (Nickname of Cliff Robinson)
• Up against the wall
• Up hill and down dale
• Up the wooden hill to Bedfordshire
• Victoria Falls (tourist attraction in Zambia)
• Wall of death
• Wall of silence
• We Will Rock You (Queen song)
• What in the Sam Hill
• You rock!