Drain Phrases

Phrases

• A two pipe problem
• Away go troubles down the drain (Roto-Rooter advertising slogan)
• Brain drain
• Cherry ripe (Cockney rhyming slang for pipe)
• Ditch the bitch
• Down the drain
• Drain the bilge
• Empty gesture
• Empty handed
• Empty headed
• Empty nest syndrome
• Empty nester
• Empty vessels make the most noise
• Empty words
• Factory outlet (a shop where goods are sold directly to the public by the manufacturer)
• Factory shop (a retail outlet where goods are sold directly to the public by the manufacturer)
• Fat berg (a solid mass of grease in a sewer)
• Go down the drain
• Gutter press
• Gutter snipe
• It's the empty can that makes the most noise
• Last ditch effort
• Laugh like a drain
• Lead pipe cinch
• Pipe down
• Pipe dream
• Pipe up
• Put that in your pipe and smoke it
• Running on empty
• Smell the Glove (fictional album by the spoof heavy-metal band Spinal Tap)
• The Adventure of the Empty House (Sherlock Holmes story)
• The empty chair (the perceived absense of someone who is recently deceased)
• These go to eleven (line from the movie This Is Spinal Tap)
• We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars (Oscar Wilde quotation)