Cottage Phrases

Phrases

• A Doll's House (play by Henrik Ibsen)
• A house divided against itself cannot stand
• A house is not a home
• Acid house
• Art house
• Bear garden
• Beckingham Palace (Nickname of David and Victoria Beckham's house)
• Big house
• Bleak House (Charles Dickens book)
• Body building
• Bring the house down
• Buck House (Nickname of Buckingham Palace)
• Building castles in the air
• Burning Down The House (Talking Heads song)
• By the hairs on my chinny chin chin, I'll blow your house down
• Cabin fever
• Chatham House rules
• Children, one is one, two is fun, three is a house full
• Clean house
• Clearing house
• Come Into The Garden Maud (Tennyson poem and Victorian song)
• Common or garden
• Cottage economy
• Cottage industry
• Country house hotel (an upmarket hotel located in a revamped rural mansion)
• Crooked House (Agatha Christie book)
• Doctor In The House (Dirk Bogade / Luchino Visconti movie)
• Eaten out of house and home
• Elvis has left the building
• Empire State Building
• Everybody lies (A catchphrase from Dr Gregory House in House)
• Everything in the garden is rosey
• Far better for being near to you (The Chesham Building Society advertising slogan)
• Frasier has left the building (A catchphrase from Frasier)
• Front of house
• Full house
• Garden suburb
• Gazelles are in the garden
• Get on like a house on fire
• Global village
• Good to the last drop (Maxwell House Coffee advertising slogan)
• Halfway house
• He huffed and he puffed and he blew their house down
• 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 does your garden grow?
• I Never Promised You A Rose Garden (Lynn Anderson song)
• I am the only gay in the village (A catchphrase from Little Britain)
• In An Octopus's Garden In The Shade (The Beatles song)
• 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
• Keep a good house
• Keep open house
• Lead up the garden path
• Mad house
• Madison Square Garden (tourist attraction in the USA)
• Mary Mary quite contrary, how does your garden grow (line from nursery rhyme)
• Not A Dry Eye In The House (Meatloaf song)
• Not a dry eye in the house
• Not a dry seat in the house
• Octopus's Garden (The Beatles song)
• On the house
• Open house
• Paper the house
• Put your house in order
• Round and round the garden like a teddy bear (line from nursery rhyme)
• Shovel ready (a building project in which all the preliminaries have been arranged)
• Smallest room in the house
• Sydney Opera House (tourist attraction in Australia)
• Taste as good as it smells (Maxwell House Coffee advertising slogan)
• The Adventure of the Empty House (Sherlock Holmes story)
• The Anne Frank House (tourist attraction in Amsterdam Netherlands)
• The Big Village (Nickname of Moscow Russia)
• The Chrysler Building (tourist attraction in New York USA)
• The Cider House Rules (Michael Caine movie)
• The Empire State Building (tourist attraction in New York USA)
• The First Garden City Of The World (Nickname of Letchworth England)
• The Garden County (nickname of the English county of Hampshire)
• The Garden Of Eden (Ernest Hemingway book)
• The Garden State (Nickname of the US state of New Jersey)
• The Garden of Eden
• The Garden of England (Nickname of the English counties of Kent and Worcestershire)
• The House Doctor (Pseudonym of Ron Hazelton)
• The House of the Rising Sun (The Animals song)
• The Secret Garden (Frances Hodgson Burnett book)
• The White House (tourist attraction in Washington USA)
• The angel in the house
• The best seat in the house (Jockey Shorts advertising slogan)
• 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)
• Village idiot
• Walled garden
• We're with the Woolwich (Woolwich Building Society advertising slogan)
• Who lives in a house like this? (A catchphrase from Through the Keyhole)
• Y.M.C.A. (Village People song)
• Yours faithfully (Trust House Forte advertising slogan)