Desert Phrases

Phrases

• A Place in the Sun (Elizabeth Taylor movie)
• A camel is a horse designed by committee
• A dog is for life, not just for Christmas
• A finger of Fudge is just enough to give your kids a treat (Cadbury's advertising slogan)
• A mind is a terrible thing to waste (United Negro College Fund advertising slogan)
• A place in the sun (an idealistic dream of a sunny hideaway)
• A touch of the sun
• Abandon hope all ye who enter here (warning from Dante's Divine Comedy)
• Abandon ship
• After sun
• Ain't just whistling Dixie (completely correct)
• All hot and bothered
• America's most famous dessert (Jell-O Gelatin Dessert advertising slogan)
• Art Of War (Sun Tzu book)
• As boring as watching paint dry
• As dry as a bone
• As dry as a pommy's bath towel
• As dry as dust
• As hot as Hades
• As hot as blue blazes
• As pissed as a rat
• As plain as a pikestaff
• As plain as day
• As plain as the nose on your face
• Before the ink was dry
• Betcha can't eat just one (Lay's potato chips advertising slogan)
• Bleed someone dry
• Blow hot and cold
• Bone dry
• Bury your head in the sand
• Busy old fool, unruly sun (from a poem by John Donne)
• Cactus juice
• Camels soothe your t-zone (Camel cigarettes advertising slogan)
• Castles made of sand fall into the sea eventually
• Cat On A Hot Tin Roof (play by Tennesee Williams and Elizabeth Taylor movie)
• Caught the sun
• Cross my palm with silver
• Cry like a rat eating onions
• Currant bun (Cockney rhyming slang for sun)
• Death Valley (tourist attraction in Arizona USA)
• Denial ain't just a river in Egypt! (A catchphrase from Saturday Night Live)
• Don't Let The Sun Go Down On Me (Elton John song)
• Don't just book it, Thomas Cook it (Thomas Cook advertising slogan)
• Don't just sit there
• Don't just stand there, do something (A catchphrase from Wacky Races)
• Don't just travel. Travel right (Expedia advertising slogan)
• Don't waste your breath
• Don't you just love being in control? (British Gas advertising slogan)
• Draw a line in the sand
• Drink Canada dry (Canada Dry Tonics and Mixers advertising slogan)
• Drop It Like It's Hot (Snoop Dogg song)
• Drop it like a hot potato
• Dry humor
• Dry run
• Dry up
• East of the sun and west of the moon
• Eclipse of the sun
• Emigrate to Canada Dry (Canada Dry Tonics and Mixers advertising slogan)
• Everything under the sun
• Evil Under The Sun (Agatha Christie book)
• Face palm moment
• Feed the rat
• For digestion's sake - smoke camels (Camel Cigarettes advertising slogan)
• Full of bull (talking hot air)
• Gay abandon
• Get into hot water
• Girls Just Want To Have Fun (Cyndi Lauper song)
• Grease your palm
• Hang him out to dry
• Happy is the bride the sun shines on
• Haste makes waste
• He just wouldn't let it lie
• Head in the sand
• Here Comes The Sun (The Beatles song)
• Hidden in plain sight
• High and dry
• Home and dry
• Honey, I just forgot to duck
• Hot Lips Houlihan (Nickname of Major Margaret Houlihan (Loretta Swit))
• Hot Plate (Nickname of basketball player John Sam Williams)
• Hot Rod (Nickname of basketball player Rodney Hundley)
• Hot air
• Hot and bothered
• Hot and heavy
• Hot button issue
• Hot chocolate, drinking chocolate - the late, late drink (Cadbury's Drinking Chocolate advertising slogan)
• Hot desking
• Hot diggety dog
• Hot enough for you?
• Hot mess
• Hot money
• Hot n Cold (Katy Perry song)
• Hot off the press
• Hot on the trail
• Hot on your heels
• Hot potato
• Hot property
• Hot pursuit
• Hot shot
• Hot stuff
• Hot swap
• Hot tempered
• Hot ticket
• Hot tip
• Hot to trot
• Hot topic
• Hot under the collar
• House built on sand
• Hung out to dry
• I can see you standing over a hot stove, but I can't see the stove (Groucho Marx line)
• I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work (Thomas Edison quotation)
• I smell a rat
• I'd walk a mile for a Camel (Camel Cigarettes advertising slogan)
• I'll Follow The Sun (The Beatles song)
• I'm Happy Just To Dance With You (The Beatles song)
• I'm not afraid of death; I just don't want to be there when it happens (Woody Allen quotation)
• 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 it feels good then just do it (Nike advertising slogan)
• In hot water
• In plain sight
• In the palm of your hand
• Is it hot in here or is it me? (Typically used by menopausal women having a hot flush)
• Is that a gun in your pocket, or are you just glad to see me?
• It Ain't Half Hot Mum (BBC comedy television series)
• It is Sun what won it
• It is easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle, than for a rich man to enter into the kingdom of God
• It sits as lightly on a heavy meal as it does on your conscience (Jell-O Gelatin Dessert advertising slogan)
• It was just one of those things
• It's just a game
• It's just not my day
• It's not just for breakfast anymore (Florida Orange Juice Growers Association advertising slogan)
• Jump ship
• Just 15 minutes can save you 15 percent or more on car insurance (GEICO advertising slogan)
• Just Another Diamond Day (Vashti Bunyan song)
• Just Dance (Lady Gaga (with Colby O'Donis song)
• Just Like A Woman (Bob Dylan song)
• Just What the Doctor Ordered (L&M Cigarettes advertising slogan)
• Just a glint in his father's eye
• Just a question of time
• Just a regular guy
• Just add water
• Just another day at the office
• Just around the corner
• Just as well
• Just because you are paranoid it doesn't mean that they aren't out to get you
• Just cause
• Just deserts
• Just do it (Nike advertising slogan)
• Just for kicks
• Just for starters
• Just for the taste of it (Diet Coke advertising slogan)
• Just forget it
• Just good friends
• Just imagine (NEC advertising slogan)
• Just in case
• Just in time
• Just like a chocolate milkshake, only crunchy (Coco Pops advertising slogan)
• Just like that (A catchphrase from Tommy Cooper)
• Just looking
• Just lucky, I guess
• Just married
• Just one more thing (A catchphrase from Columbo)
• Just one of those days
• Just passing through
• Just put your lips together and blow (To Have And Have Not)
• Just say no (A catchphrase from Nancy Reagan)
• Just say the word
• Just shoot me
• Just slightly ahead of our time (Panasonic advertising slogan)
• Just so
• Just the Way You Are (Bruno Mars song)
• Just the job
• Just the ticket
• Just this once
• Just watch
• Just what I needed (Circuit City advertising slogan)
• Just what the doctor ordered
• Just when you thought it was safe to go back in water (Jaws II advertising tagline)
• Keep your powder dry
• Kick sand in his face
• Lab rat
• Lay waste to
• Left in the lurch
• Let not the sun go down on your wrath
• Let's get out of these wet clothes and into a dry Martini
• Life is just a bowl of cherries
• Life is just one damned thing after another
• Like a cat on a hot coals
• Like a cat on a hot tin roof
• Like a rat up a drainpipe
• Like rats leaving a sinking ship
• Lipton's gets into more hot water than anything (Lipton Tea advertising slogan)
• Love rat
• Mad dogs and Englishmen go out in the midday sun
• Make hay while the sun shines
• Mall rat
• Milk dry
• More Doctors Smoke Camels than any other cigarette (Camel cigarettes advertising slogan)
• More than just a front (Blackpool advertising slogan)
• My mistress' eyes are nothing like the sun (from a poem by Shakespeare)
• No bottles to break - just hearts (Arpege Perfume advertising slogan)
• Not A Dry Eye In The House (Meatloaf song)
• Not a dry eye in the house
• Not a dry seat in the house
• Not just a pretty face
• Not just nearly clean, but really clean (Ariel Ultra advertising slogan)
• Not too heavy, not too light, its just right! (Kelloggs advertising slogan)
• Old soldiers never die, they just fade away
• Only 1 out of 25 men is color blind. The other 24 just dress that way (Mohara Suits advertising slogan)
• Ours is not to wonder why, ours is just to do or die
• Palm Sunday
• Palm off
• Piping hot
• Plain Jane
• Plain sailing
• Plain speaking
• Purl or plain
• Put your trust in God, and keep your powder dry
• Rat arsed
• Rat on
• Rat race
• Redd Hot (Nickname of Michael Redd)
• Rug rat
• Seasons in the Sun (Terry Jacks song)
• Selling like hot cakes
• Selling sand to Arabs
• Shack rat (Canadian military slang term for a promiscuous female who visits military barracks to sleep with soldiers)
• Ships of the desert
• Shit hot
• Skim milk does not come from skinny cows (Alba Dry Milk advertising slogan)
• Sleep of the just
• Smell a rat
• Smoking hot
• Some Like It Hot (Jack Lemmon / Tony Curtis / Marilyn Monroe movie)
• Strike while the iron is hot
• Suck someone dry
• Sun King (The Beatles song)
• Sun drenched
• Sun yourself
• Sun, sea and sand
• Tears Dry On Their Own (Amy Winehouse song)
• That just about takes the biscuit
• The Desert Fox (Nickname of Field Marshall Rommel)
• The Fake Sheikh (Nickname of journalist Mazher Mahmood)
• The Grand Canyon (tourist attraction in the USA)
• The Hoosier Hot Shot (Nickname of humourist Herb Shriner)
• The Hot Water State (Nickname of the US state of Arkansas)
• The House of the Rising Sun (The Animals song)
• The King and Queen Might Eat Thereof and Noblemen Besides (Jell-O Gelatin Dessert advertising slogan)
• The Land of The Rising Sun (Nickname of Japan)
• The Last of The Red Hot Mommas (Nickname of Sophie Tucker)
• The Palm Beach Story (Claudette Colbert movie)
• The Palm Springs Of Washington (Nickname of Yakima Washington)
• The Rat Pack (Nickname of entertainers Dean Martin Sammy Davis Jr Peter Lawford Joey Bishop and Frank Sinatra)
• The Sun King (Nickname of King Louis XIV)
• The Valley Of The Sun (Nickname of Phoenix Arizona)
• The Waste Land
• The darkest hour is just before the dawn
• The dogs kids love to bite (Armour Hot Dogs advertising slogan)
• The empire on which the sun never sets
• The last straw that broke the camel's back
• The light at the end of the tunnel may just be a train coming the other way
• The long, hot summer
• The mother of all battles
• The network is the computer (Sun Microsystems advertising slogan)
• The rain in Spain falls mainly on the plain
• The sun is over the yardarm
• The sun never sets on the British Empire
• The sun shines out of his backside
• There's nothing new under the sun
• Too hot to handle
• Toxic waste
• Tumbling tumbleweed
• Under the sun
• Unleash the power of the sun (Sunny Delight advertising slogan)
• Wait just a cotton picking minute
• Waste away
• Waste not, want not
• Waste of space
• Waste of time
• We answer to a higher authority (Hebrew National hot dogs advertising slogan)
• We put the . in dot.com (Sun Microsystems advertising slogan)
• We're Just One Big Happy Family (Richard Hawley song)
• We're just one big happy family
• We're tobacco men not medicine men. Old Gold cures just one thing. The World's Best Tobacco (Old Gold Cigarettes advertising slogan)
• Well, nobody's perfect (line from the movie Some Like It Hot)
• Well, she was just seventeen you know what I mean (The Beatles song lyric)
• What Just Happened? (Robert De Niro movie)
• What's The Story Morning Glory? (Oasis album)
• Where a man belongs (Camel Cigarettes advertising slogan)
• Who gives a rat's ass?
• Why ask why? Try Bud Dry (Budweiser Earl advertising slogan)
• You can put that where the sun doesn't shine
• You dirty rat (A catchphrase from James Cagney)
• You just can't help acting on Impulse (Impulse Deodorant advertising slogan)