Gay Phrases

Phrases

• A deaf husband and a blind wife are always a happy couple
• Airy fairy
• All happy families are alike; each unhappy family is unhappy in its own way (the opening line of Anna Karenina)
• Anal astronaut (slang term for a homosexual)
• Are you a Cadbury's Fruit & Nut case? (Cadburys advertising slogan)
• Arse bandit
• As camp as a row of tents
• As gay as pink ink
• As happy as Larry
• As happy as a clam
• As happy as a dog with two tails
• As happy as a lark
• As happy as a pig in muck
• As happy as a sandboy
• As merry as the day is long
• As nutty as a fruit cake
• As queer as a chocolate orange
• As queer as a nine bob note
• As queer as folk
• Bachelor gay
• Bat from the pavilion end (slang term for a homosexual)
• Batting for the other side
• Bear fruit
• Bhatti boy (slang term for a homosexual)
• Boot camp
• Break camp
• Brighton Pier (Cockney rhyming slang for queer)
• Bugger about
• Bugger off
• Bugger up
• Bum bandit
• Buttock basher (slang term for a homosexual)
• Camp David (tourist attraction in USA)
• Camp follower
• Camp it up
• Cheap and cheerful
• Chutney ferret
• Clearly Canadian Sparkling Mineral Water in Wild Fruit Flavours (Adelma Mineral Waters advertising slogan)
• Closet queen
• Colour me happy
• Come out
• Come out of the closet
• Don't be misled! (Camp Coffee advertising slogan)
• Don't forget the fruit gums Mum (Rowntrees advertising slogan)
• Don't worry, be happy
• Drink Camp - its the best! (Camp Coffee advertising slogan)
• Eat drink and be merry for tomorrow we die
• Everyone's a Cadbury's Fruit and Nut Case (Cadbury's Fruit and Nut advertising slogan)
• Fag hag
• Fairytale ending (a happy simplistic ending to a story similar to those found in fairy tales)
• Fat camp
• For he's a jolly good fellow
• Forbidden fruit
• Friend of Dorothy (slang term for a homosexual, referring to Judy Garland's character in The Wizard of Oz)
• Fruit cake
• Fudge packer (slang term for a homosexual)
• Gay abandon
• Gay bashing
• Gay dog
• Gay for pay
• Gay rights
• Ginger Beer (Cockney rhyming slang for queer)
• Ginger up
• Go over to the other side
• Hands that do dishes can feel soft as your face, with mild green Fairy Liquid (Fairy Liquid advertising slogan)
• Happy Birthday To You
• Happy Christmas
• Happy New Year
• Happy Together (The Turtles song)
• Happy accident
• Happy campers
• Happy clappy
• Happy event
• Happy ever after
• Happy families
• Happy go lucky
• Happy happy joy joy (A catchphrase from Ren And Stimpy)
• Happy holidays
• Happy hour
• Happy hunting ground
• Happy is the bride the sun shines on
• Happy landings
• Happy medium
• Happy place
• Happy sad (a bitterweet feeling combining both happiness and sadness)
• Happy slapping
• Happy trails to you
• Have Yourself A Merry Little Christmas (Judy Garland song)
• Hello sailor
• High camp
• I am the only gay in the village (A catchphrase from Little Britain)
• I'm Happy Just To Dance With You (The Beatles song)
• I'm Julian and this is my friend Sandy (A catchphrase from Julian And Sandy in Round The Horne)
• I'm happy for you
• If you're happy and you know it, clap your hands
• In the valley of the Jolly Green Giant (Green Giant advertising slogan)
• Iron hoof (Cockney rhyming slang for poof)
• Jolly along
• Jolly jack tar
• Lead a merry dance
• Light in the loafers
• Limp wristed
• Low hanging fruit
• Make merry
• Make someone happy with a phone call (British Telecom advertising slogan)
• Many happy returns (IBM Electric Typewriters advertising slogan)
• Many happy returns (a toast given to someone on their birthday)
• Meat packer
• Merry Christmas
• Merry England
• Nancy boy
• Nobody loves a fairy when she's forty
• Not a happy bunny
• Not a happy camper
• Old King Cole was a merry old soul, and a merry old soul was he (line from nursery rhyme)
• On queer street
• Oranges are not the only fruit
• Penis Von Lesbian (Nickname of actor Dick Van Dyke)
• Pillow biter
• Pink ceiling
• Pink pantella puffer (slang term for a homosexual)
• Pink pound
• Pink tide
• Queer Street
• Queer as folk
• Queer bashing
• Queer fish
• Queer the pitch
• Ready, aye, ready (Camp Coffee advertising slogan)
• Rear gunner (slang term for a homosexual)
• Rough trade
• San fairy Ann
• Shit stabber (slang term for a homosexual)
• Shoot a fairy
• Sit on it (A catchphrase from Happy Days)
• Slap happy
• Snap happy
• The Beggar's Opera
• The Esso sign means happy motoring (Esso advertising slogan)
• The Ginger Man (play by JP Donleavy)
• The Ginger Ninja (Nickname of Paul Scholes)
• The Merry Monarch (Nickname of Charles II)
• The Merry Wives of Windsor
• The Nou Camp Stadium (tourist attraction in Spain)
• The fruit does not fall far from the tree
• The love that dare not speak its name
• The tree is known by its fruit
• There's nowt so queer as folk
• This Happy Breed (David Lean movie)
• Time flies like an arrow. Fruit flies like a banana (Groucho Marx line)
• Top Hat (Fred Astaire / Ginger Rogers movie)
• Trigger happy
• Uphill gardener (slang term for a homosexual)
• We few, we happy few, we band of brothers (from Henry V by Shakespeare)
• We're Just One Big Happy Family (Richard Hawley song)
• We're here we're queer
• We're just one big happy family
• Whistle A Happy Tune
• You know what? I'm happy (A catchphrase from Droopy)
• You've made an old man very happy