Furniture Phrases

Phrases

• And so to bed
• Apple pie bed
• Armchair critic
• As you make your bed so must you lie on it
• Bed and board
• Bed and breakfast
• Bed bath
• Bed blocking
• Bed down
• Bed of roses
• Bed out
• Blue screen of death
• Both sides of the desk
• Bring to the table

• California Suite (Jane Fonda movie)
• Chaise Lounge (alteration of chaise longue)
• Coming to a screen near you
• Contingency table (A matrix of numbers illustrating the correlation of one variable with another)
• Couch potato
• Cupboard love
• Desk jockey
• Desk rage
• Die in your own bed
• Does it make sense to jump out of a warm bed into a cold cereal? (Quaker Oats advertising slogan)
• Driving a desk
• Drunk under the table
• Early to bed and early to rise makes a man healthy wealthy and wise
• Face like an unmade bed

• Facial furniture
• Fifteen men on a dead man's chest
• Fly off the shelves
• Get into bed with
• Get it off your chest
• Get out of the wrong side of the bed
• Get round the table
• Get your feet under the table
• Go to bed with
• Have a chair
• He went to bed and bound his head with vinegar and brown paper (line from nursery rhyme)
• Holding your cards close to your chest
• Home suite hotel (Larkspur Landing Hotel advertising slogan)
• I lit a fire, isn't it good, Norwegian wood? (Beatles song lyric)

• In the chair
• Jump the couch
• Kitchen cabinet
• Lay the table
• Lay your cards on the table
• Leg lamp
• Life is a bed of roses
• Lord Fred (Cockney rhyming slang for bed)
• Make your bed and lie in it
• Never go to bed on an argument
• Night night, sleep tight, don't let the bed bugs bite
• Norwegian Wood - This Bird Has Flown (Beatles song)
• Old Mother Hubbard went to the cupboard to get her poor doggie a bone (line from nursery rhyme)
• On the table

• Only the best for the Captain's table (Birdseye advertising slogan)
• Put bread on the table
• Put your cards on the table
• Puts hair on your chest
• Reds under the bed
• Round table talks
• Round the table
• Scent to bed (French Connection United Kingdom advertising slogan)
• Screen grab
• Screen time
• Silver screen
• Skeleton in the cupboard
• Sleep easy in your bed
• Sofa spud

• Star of stage and screen
• Star of the silver screen
• Stool pigeon
• Table Mountain (tourist attraction in South Africa)
• Table for two
• Take to your bed
• Take up your bed and walk
• Test bed
• The Lion the Witch and the Wardrobe
• The big screen
• The crumbs from a rich man's table
• The cupboard was bare
• The empty chair (the perceived absense of someone who is recently deceased)
• The small screen

• Time for bed (A catchphrase from The Magic Roundabout)
• Top table
• Tout de suite
• Treasure chest
• Uncle Ned (Cockney rhyming slang for bed)
• Up and down like the Ottoman Empire (line from Monty Python's Life Of Brian)
• Wardrobe malfunction (when an item of clothing slips out of place to expose part of the body - typically a woman's breast)
• Wardrobe mistress (a person in charge of the costumes of a theatrical company)
• What do I wear in bed? Why, Chanel No. 5, of course (Marilyn Monroe quotation)
• Would not get out of bed for
• You made your bed, now lie in it
• You make your bed, you sleep in it