Color Phrases

Phrases

• A Clockwork Orange (Anthony Burgess book and Stanley Kubrick movie)
• A Saucerful of Secrets (Pink Floyd album)
• A Study in Scarlet (Sherlock Holmes story)
• A day without orange juice is like a day without sunshine (Florida Citrus Commission advertising slogan)
• A lick of paint
• A pot of gold
• A red rag to a bull
• A splash of colour
• A white knight
• Act white
• After The Gold Rush (Neil Young song)
• Agent orange
• Air Force blue
• All cats are grey in the dark
• All that glisters is not gold
• Angry white male
• Anne Of Green Gables (Lucy Maud Montgomery book)
• As black as Newgate's knocker
• As black as coal
• As black as ink
• As black as pitch
• As black as the Earl of Hell's waistcoat
• As black as the ace of spades
• As black as thunder
• As black as your hat
• As boring as watching paint dry
• As brown as a berry
• As cold as blue blazes
• As gay as pink ink
• As good as gold
• As green as grass
• As hot as blue blazes
• As queer as a chocolate orange
• As red as a beetroot
• As sure as God made little green apples
• As white as a ghost
• As white as a sheet
• As white as snow
• Atom Heart Mother (Pink Floyd album)
• Baa baa black sheep have you any wool? (line from nursery rhyme)
• Back In Black (AC/DC album)
• Back To Black (Amy Winehouse song)
• Ballad of the Green Berets (Staff Sergeant Barry Sadler song)
• Bang, bang, Maxwell's silver hammer came down upon her head (The Beatles song lyric)
• Battleship grey
• Beat someone black and blue
• Better dead than red
• Between the Devil and the deep blue sea
• Beyond the blue horizon
• Big Blue (Nickname of International Business Machines (IBM))
• Big Red (Nickname of basketball player Arvydas Sabonis)
• Big Yellow Taxi (Joni Mitchell song)
• Big white chief
• Black Beauty (Anna Sewell book)
• Black Friday
• Black Hawk Down (Ewan McGregor movie)
• Black Jack (Nickname of baseball player Jack McDowell)
• Black Jesus (Nickname of basketball player Amare Stoudemire)
• Black Mamba (Nickname of basketball player Kobe Bryant)
• Black Mike (Nickname of baseball player Mickey Cochrane)
• Black Monday
• Black Moses (Nickname of basketball player Baron Davis)
• Black Thursday
• Black Tuesday
• Black and blue
• Black and white
• Black and white minstrel
• Black and white unite and fight (Political slogan)
• Black art
• Black bomber
• Black box
• Black cadillacs (Canadian military slang term for combat boots)
• Black comedy
• Black dog
• Black economy
• Black flagged
• Black is beautiful
• Black list
• Black magic
• Black mark
• Black market
• Black on black
• Black out
• Black power
• Black sheep of the family
• Black spot
• Black tie
• Black velvet
• Black water rafting
• Bleed someone white
• Blue Bayou (Elvis Presley song)
• Blue Eyes (Elton John song)
• Blue Jay Way (Beatles song)
• Blue Monday
• Blue Monday (Van Morrison song)
• Blue Moon (Nickname of baseball player John Odom)
• Blue Suede Shoes (Elvis Presley song)
• Blue Velvet (David Lynch movie)
• Blue are the hills that are far away
• Blue blood
• Blue chip investment
• Blue collar worker
• Blue humour
• Blue in the face
• Blue murder
• Blue plate special (a set meal provided at a reduced price)
• Blue rinse
• Blue rinse brigade
• Blue screen of death
• Blue sky thinking
• Blue star (A slang name for ecstasy pills)
• Bolt from the blue
• Boom Boom Pow (The Black Eyed Peas song)
• Born 1820 - Still going strong (Johnny Walker Black Whiskey advertising slogan)
• Born Under A Bad Sign (Cream song)
• Born in the purple
• Born with a silver spoon in his mouth
• Boulevard of Broken Dreams (Green Day song)
• Boy, is my face red (A catchphrase from David Letterman)
• Boys in blue
• Brick red
• Bring into blue
• British racing green
• Brown Eyes Handsome Man (Jerry Lee Lewis song)
• Brown Sugar (Rolling Stones song)
• Brown bag lunch
• Brown bread (Cockney rhyming slang for dead)
• Brown nosing
• Brown out (partial loss of electricity)
• Brown sugar (slang term for heroin)
• Brown trousers
• Buffalo Butt (Nickname of Nathan Bookman (Johnny Brown))
• Burnt sienna
• Burnt umber
• Cadmium red
• Cadmium yellow
• Call of Duty (video game title)
• Capability Brown (Nickname of Lancelot Brown)
• Change into your brown trousers
• China white
• Chocolate is better in colour (M&M's advertising slogan)
• Clear blue water
• Cobalt blue
• Coffee at its best (Nescafe Gold Blend advertising slogan)
• Color My World (James Pankow song)
• Colorful Colorado (Nickname of the US state of Colorado)
• Colour coded
• Colour coordinated
• Colour me gone
• Colour me happy
• Colour my world
• Colour one's view
• Colour up
• Cornflower blue
• Covers a multitude of Chins (William's Shaving Cream advertising slogan)
• Covers the earth (Sherwin Williams paint advertising slogan)
• Cream always rises to the top
• Cream crackered (Cockney rhyming slang for knackered)
• Cream of the crop ()
• Cream off
• Cream puff
• Creamy, smooth, refreshing (Calders Cream Ale advertising slogan)
• Crimson and Clover (Tommy James and the Shondells song)
• Crock of gold
• Cross into the Blue (United States Air Force advertising slogan)
• Cross my palm with silver
• Cut through the red tape
• Cyber Black Friday
• Dead white European male (derogatory reference to someone who has an unjustified reputation)
• Dead white male
• Deeper Than The Deep Blue Sea (Frank Sinatra song)
• Do I have to paint you a picture?
• Do you eat the red ones last? (Smarties advertising slogan)
• Don't say brown - say Hovis (Hovis Bread advertising slogan)
• Downtown Brown (Nickname of Marcel Brown (Tim Reid))
• Downtown Freddie (Nickname of basketball player Fred Brown)
• Early black
• Eton blue
• Evenin' all (A catchphrase from Dixon Of Dock Green)
• Every dark cloud has a silver lining
• F*ck You (Cee Lo Green song)
• Feel the Velvet (Black Velvet Whiskey advertising slogan)
• Feeling blue
• Fifty Shades of Grey (E L James book)
• Fire engine red
• Five for silver (Magpie nursery rhyme)
• Follow the yellow brick road
• Fool's gold (a brassy yellow mineral that the inexperienced prospector may mistake for gold)
• For keener refreshment (Pabst Blue Ribbon advertising slogan)
• Forest green
• Forty shades of green
• Fuchsia pink
• Gentlemen of colour
• Get a gold star (earn a merit point for doing well)
• Get down Shep (A catchphrase from John Noakes On Blue Peter)
• Give it the green light
• Gives you wings (Red Bull advertising slogan)
• Go for gold
• Go green
• Go where the green lights lead you
• Gold digger
• Good as gold (Golden Flake Potato Chips advertising slogan)
• Goodbye Yellow Brick Road (Elton John song)
• Great white hope
• Green Scare
• Green around the gills
• Green eyed monster
• Green fingers
• Green fuel
• Green investing
• Green roof
• Green shoots of change
• Green shoots of recovery
• Green slime (military slang term for the intelligence corps)
• Green with envy
• Grey area
• Grey goo
• Grey is new black
• Grey matter
• Grey power
• Hands that do dishes can feel soft as your face, with mild green Fairy Liquid (Fairy Liquid advertising slogan)
• He went to bed and bound his head with vinegar and brown paper (line from nursery rhyme)
• He's got a yellow streak down his back
• Heart Of Gold (Neil Young song)
• Heart of gold
• Here's one I prepared earlier (A catchphrase from Blue Peter)
• Hey Mabel, Black Label (Black Label advertising slogan)
• His beard was as white as snow
• Hiyo Silver away (A catchphrase from The Lone Ranger)
• Honor thy self (Johnny Walker Black Whiskey advertising slogan)
• Horse of a different colour
• How now brown cow?
• Hue and cry
• I Am Curious - Yellow (Erotic movie)
• I bet he drinks Carling Black Label (Carling Black Label advertising slogan)
• I'm So Glad (Cream song)
• I'm a secret lemonade drinker (R White's advertising slogan)
• I'm not so green as I am cabbage looking
• I've been brokenhearted, blue since the day we parted (ABBA lyric)
• Ice cream social
• If all the world were Jell-O, And whipped cream filled the sea, Then the only spoon from here to the moon Would have to belong to me (Jell-O Gelatin Dessert advertising slogan)
• If you want to impress someone, put him on your Black list (Johnny Walker Black Whiskey advertising slogan)
• In a black mood
• In a blue funk
• In a brown study
• In glorious Technicolor
• In the black
• In the pink
• In the red
• In the valley of the Jolly Green Giant (Green Giant advertising slogan)
• Into the wild blue yonder
• Is it cos I is black? (A catchphrase from Ali G)
• Is your film as good as Gold? (Kodak advertising slogan)
• It's A Man's World (James Brown song)
• It's All Over Now Baby Blue (Bob Dylan song)
• It's a red thing (Tizer advertising slogan)
• It's black over Bill's mother's
• It's not just for breakfast anymore (Florida Orange Juice Growers Association advertising slogan)
• It's the way it shatters that matters (Violet Crumble advertising slogan)
• It's there in black and white
• Jackie Brown (Quentin Tarantino movie)
• Jesus saves green shield stamps
• Keep that schoolgirl complexion (Palmolive Soap advertising slogan)
• Kind Of Blue (Miles Davis tune and album)
• Lady In Red (Chris de Burgh song)
• Lady Marmalade (Christina Aguilera Lil' Kim and Pink song)
• Le Grand Orange (Nickname of Daniel Staub)
• Lend colour to
• Let your fingers do the walking (Yellow Pages advertising slogan)
• Let's see the colour of your money
• Light the blue touch paper and retire
• Like a blue arsed fly
• Like a bolt from the blue
• Like white on rice
• Lime green
• Lincoln green
• Little Boy Blue come blow your horn (line from nursery rhyme)
• Little Brown Jug (Glenn Miller tune)
• Little Red Corvette (Prince song)
• Little Red Rooster (Rolling Stones song)
• Little Robin Red breast sat upon a tree (line from nursery rhyme)
• Little White Bull (Tommy Steele song)
• Little black book
• Little black dress
• Little black number
• Little green men
• Little white lie
• Makes red blood! (Grape-Nuts advertising slogan)
• Man In The Long Black Coat (Bob Dylan song)
• Mary had a little lamb its fleece was white as snow (line from nursery rhyme)
• Maxwell's Silver Hammer (The Beatles song)
• Mellow yellow
• Men in black
• Men in blue
• Men in grey suits
• Men in white coats
• Midnight blue
• Mind how you go (A catchphrase from Dixon of Dock Green)
• Mint green
• Mood Indigo (Irving Berlin song)
• Moves like Jagger (Maroon 5 with Christina Aguilera song)
• Mr. Perfect (Nickname of Jeff Green)
• My Blue Heaven (Gene Austin song)
• My Humps (The Black Eyed Peas song)
• My blue heaven
• Nature, red in tooth and claw
• Navy blue
• Neither fish nor flesh, nor good red herring
• Not a cough in a carload (Old Gold Cigarettes advertising slogan)
• Not as black as you are painted
• Not everything in black and white makes sense (Guinness advertising slogan)
• Off colour
• Off white
• Old Blue Eyes (Nickname of Frank Sinatra)
• Old Red Eyes (Nickname of Alice Cooper)
• On red alert
• On the black market
• Once in a blue moon
• One More Night (Maroon 5 song)
• Only 1 out of 25 men is color blind. The other 24 just dress that way (Mohara Suits advertising slogan)
• Orange lovers got a crush on us (Orange Crush advertising slogan)
• Out of the blue
• Out of the clear blue sky
• Over The Rainbow (Judy Garland song)
• Oxford Blue
• Paint It Black (Rolling Stones song)
• Paint Your Wagon (Clint Eastwood movie)
• Paint the town red
• Paint yourself into a corner
• Papa's Got A Brand New Bag (James Brown song)
• Pearline keeps white things white and bright women bright (Pearline washing powder advertising slogan)
• People of colour
• Pillar box red
• Pink ceiling
• Pink elephants
• Pink pantella puffer (slang term for a homosexual)
• Pink pound
• Pink tide
• Pitch black
• Play the white man
• Pork, the other white meat (National Pork Council advertising slogan)
• Pure gold (Benson & Hedges advertising slogan)
• Purple America
• Purple Haze (Jimi Hendrix song)
• Purple Jesus (Nickname of Adrian Peterson)
• Purple Rain (Prince song and album)
• Purple patch
• Purple prose
• Purple squirrel
• Raspberry pink
• Red Army Fraction (German left wing terrorist group also call Red Army Faction)
• Red Baron (Nickname of Rick Sutcliffe)
• Red Buttons (Pseudonym of actor Aaron Chwatt)
• Red Dwarf (BBC comedy television series)
• Red Light Curt (Nickname of Curt Schilling)
• Red River (John Wayne / Howard Hawks movie)
• Red Sails In The Sunset (Al Bowlly song)
• Red Square (tourist attraction in Moscow Russia)
• Red alert
• Red and green should never be seen
• Red carpet treatment
• Red herring
• Red letter day
• Red light district
• Red lorry yellow lorry
• Red red wine
• Red sky at night shepherds delight
• Red sky in the morning, shepherds warning
• Red tape
• Refresh! Rejoice! Remember! Pabst gets the call (Pabst Blue Ribbon advertising slogan)
• Rhapsody In Blue (George Gershwin composition)
• Ride a cock horse to Banbury Cross to see a fine lady upon a white horse (line from nursery rhyme)
• Riot of colour
• Roll out the red carpet
• Roses are red, violets are blue
• Royal blue
• Rub of the green
• Say It Loud I'm Black And I'm Proud (James Brown song)
• Scream blue murder
• Screaming yellow honker
• See red
• See the face you love light up with Terry's All Gold (Terrys Chocolates advertising slogan)
• See what brown can do for you (UPS advertising slogan)
• Seeing pink elephants
• Selling the family silver
• Send your parcels Red Star and pull out all the stops (Red Star advertising slogan)
• She is a peach
• Show the white feather
• Show your true colours
• Shrinking violet
• Silver Blaze (Sherlock Holmes story)
• Silver bullet (a simple and seeming effortless solution to a difficult problem)
• Silver circle
• Silver fox (a handsome grey-haired man)
• Silver screen
• Silver service (a method of serving food using silver cutlery)
• Silver surfer (an older person who uses the World Wide Web)
• Silver threads amongst the gold (blonde hair that is turning grey)
• Silver tongued (eloquent or persuasive manner of speech)
• Silver wedding (a celebration of twenty-five years of marriage)
• Simply Red
• Six for gold (Magpie nursery rhyme)
• Skin like peaches and cream
• Sky blue
• Smoke me a kipper, I'll be back for breakfast (A catchphrase from Red Dwarf)
• Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs (Disney cartoon movie)
• So What (Pink song)
• So creamy it's almost fattening (Burma Shave Shaving Cream advertising slogan)
• Something old, something new, something borrowed, something blue
• Somewhere over the rainbow
• Speech is silver but silence is golden
• Star of the silver screen
• Stop me and buy one (Wall's Ice Cream advertising slogan)
• Stop, Look and Listen; remember the Green Cross Code (UK Road Safety Campaign advertising slogan)
• Strange Brew (Cream song)
• Strike me pink
• Sunshine Of Your Love (Cream song)
• Super Bad (James Brown song)
• TV gold
• Take a blue pencil to
• Talk a blue streak
• Talk to Ralph on the big white phone
• Tangled Up In Blue (Bob Dylan song)
• Taste the rainbow (Skittles advertising slogan)
• Technicolor yawn
• Ten green bottles sitting on the wall
• That Silver-Haired Daddy of Mine (Gene Autry song)
• That's mighty white of you
• The Adventure of Black Peter (Sherlock Holmes story)
• The Adventure of the Blue Carbuncle (Sherlock Holmes story)
• The Adventure of the Red Circle (Sherlock Holmes story)
• The Adventure of the Yellow Face (Sherlock Holmes story)
• The Big Orange (Nickname of Los Angeles California)
• The Black Diamond (Nickname of Leonidas da Silva)
• The Black Falcon (Nickname of Prince Baccarratti (Bela Kovacs))
• The Black Pearl (Nickname of Eusebio)
• The Black Prince (Nickname of Edward Prince of Wales)
• The Black Spider (Nickname of Lev Yashin)
• The Black Tullip (Nickname of Ruud Gullit)
• The Black Watch (Nickname of The Royal Highland Regiment)
• The Blue End State (Nickname of the US state of Delaware)
• The Blue Mosque (tourist attraction in Turkey)
• The Brown Bomber (Nickname of Joe Louis)
• The Color Of Money (Paul Newman / Tom Cruise movie)
• The Color Purple (Whoopie Goldberg movie)
• The Colour Of My Love (Celine Dion album)
• The Dark Side of the Moon (Pink Floyd album)
• The Duchy Of Underground Orange (Nickname of Poznan Poland)
• The Emerald Isle
• The Final Cut (Pink Floyd song)
• The Five Orange Pips (Sherlock Holmes story)
• The Georgia Peach (Nickname of Tyrus Cobb)
• The Godfather of Soul (Pseudonym of singer James Brown)
• The Gold Rush (Charlie Chaplin movie)
• The Gold Standard
• The Great White Hope (Nickname of James J.Jeffries)
• The Great White Shark (Nickname of Greg Norman)
• The Green Berets (John Wayne movie)
• The Green Grocer (Nickname of Joe Carcione)
• The Green Hornet (Pseudonym of Britt Reid (Van Williams))
• The Green Mountain State (Nickname of the US state of Vermont)
• The Grey Eagle (Nickname of Tris Speaker)
• The Home Of Paul Bunyan And Babe The Blue Ox (Nickname of Westwood California, Brainerd Minnesota and Bemidji Minnesota)
• The Last of The Red Hot Mommas (Nickname of Sophie Tucker)
• The Man in Black (Nickname of singer Johnny Cash)
• The Marcel Marceau of Television (Nickname of Red Skelton)
• The Masque of the Red Death
• The Minister of Defense (Nickname of Reggie White)
• The Nine Days Queen (Nickname of Lady Jane Grey)
• The Pink Panther (Peter Sellers / David Niven movie)
• The Piper at the Gates of Dawn (Pink Floyd album)
• The Purple Rose Of Cairo (Woody Allen movie)
• The Red Baron (Nickname of Baron Manfred von Richtofen)
• The Red Fort (tourist attraction in India)
• The Red Rocket (Nickname of Matt Bonner)
• The Scarlet Letter (Nathaniel Hawthorne story)
• The Scarlet Pimpernel (Pseudonym of Sir Percy Blakeney)
• The Silver Fox (Nickname of Edwin Snider)
• The Silver Prince (Nickname of Sourav Ganguly - Indian cricketer)
• The Time (Dirty Bit) (The Black Eyed Peas song)
• The United Colors of Benetton (Benetton advertising slogan)
• The Wall (Pink Floyd song)
• The Walrus of Love (Nickname of Barry White)
• The White Cliffs of Dover (tourist attraction in England)
• The White House (tourist attraction in Washington USA)
• The White Pele (Nickname of Zico)
• The Woman In White (Wilkie Collins book)
• The air was blue
• The black art
• The cat who got the cream
• The cream of Manchester (Boddington's advertising slogan)
• The cream of the crop
• The deep blue sea
• The family silver
• The future's bright, the future's Orange (Orange mobile phones advertising slogan)
• The greatest tragedy is indifference (Red Cross advertising slogan)
• The green green grass of home
• The green stuff
• The man in black
• The new black
• The pot calling the kettle black
• The pot of gold at the end of the rainbow
• The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog
• The red carpet
• The red mist
• The streets of London are paved with gold
• The thin red line
• There are more ways of killing a cat than choking it with cream
• There's gold in them thar hills
• Think pink (The Pink Panther advertising slogan)
• This precious stone set in the silver sea, this sceptered isle
• Three Finger (Nickname of Mordecai Brown)
• Tickled pink
• Tie a Yellow Ribbon Round the Ole Oak Tree (Dawn with Tony Orlando song)
• To bring the wolves out - Riding Hood Red (Max Factor Cosmetics advertising slogan)
• To gild refined gold, to paint the lily
• True Blue (Madonna album)
• True Colors (Cyndi Lauper song)
• True blue
• Turning blue
• Two blacks don't make a white
• Want to reach 8 out of 10 adults - walk this way (Yellow Pages advertising slogan)
• War paint
• Wave the white flag
• We all live in a yellow submarine (Beatles song lyric)
• We're tobacco men not medicine men. Old Gold cures just one thing. The World's Best Tobacco (Old Gold Cigarettes advertising slogan)
• What a maroon (Bugs Bunny insult)
• What colour is the sky in your world?
• What you mean we, white man?
• When I Paint My Masterpiece (Bob Dylan song)
• When I am an old woman I shall wear purple (from a poem by Joseph)
• Where on god's green earth
• Where's the cream filling? (Hostess cakes advertising slogan)
• Where's your white stick referee?
• White Chocolate (Nickname of Jason Williams)
• White Christmas (Bing Crosby song)
• White Mamba (Nickname of Sasha)
• White Mike (Nickname of Mike Miller)
• White Room (Cream song)
• White Shoes (Nickname of Billy Johnson)
• White bread
• White elephant
• White flight
• White guilt
• White heat of technology
• White knight
• White knuckle ride
• White lady
• White lightning
• White man speak with forked tongue
• White man's burden
• White man's watch
• White noise
• White trash
• White van man
• White water rafting
• Whiter than white
• Wide blue yonder
• With a hearty hiho Silver
• With silver bells and cockle shells and pretty maids all in a row (line from nursery rhyme)
• Worth one's weight in gold
• Yellow Submarine (The Beatles song)
• Yellow belly (slang term for a coward)
• Yellow dog Democrat
• Yellow matter custard dripping from a dead dog's eye (Beatles song lyric)
• Yellow peril
• You can have any colour as long as it's black
• You keep all your money in a big brown bag inside a zoo (Beatles song lyric)
• You'll look a little lovelier each day, with fabulous pink Camay (Camay Soap advertising slogan)
• You'll wonder where the yellow went when you brush your teeth with Pepsodent (Pepsodent toothpaste advertising slogan)
• Young, Gifted and Black (Nina Simone song)
• Your best bet for a fuller flavour (Carling Black Label advertising slogan)
• Your fragrance Your rules (Hugo Boss Deep Red advertising slogan)