Glum Phrases

Phrases

• A Spoonful Of Sugar Helps The Medicine Go Down (Julie Andrews song)
• Air Force blue
• All happy families are alike; each unhappy family is unhappy in its own way (the opening line of Anna Karenina)
• As cold as blue blazes
• As hot as blue blazes
• As miserable as sin
• Atishoo atishoo all fall down
• Away go troubles down the drain (Roto-Rooter advertising slogan)
• Back down
• Bang, bang, Maxwell's silver hammer came down upon her head (The Beatles song lyric)
• Batten down the hatches
• Bear down
• Bear down on
• Beat someone black and blue
• Bed down
• Between the Devil and the deep blue sea
• Beyond the blue horizon
• Big Blue (Nickname of International Business Machines (IBM))
• Black Hawk Down (Ewan McGregor movie)
• Black and blue
• Blue Bayou (Elvis Presley song)
• Blue Eyes (Elton John song)
• Blue Jay Way (Beatles song)
• Blue Monday
• Blue Monday (Van Morrison song)
• Blue Moon (Nickname of baseball player John Odom)
• Blue Suede Shoes (Elvis Presley song)
• Blue Velvet (David Lynch movie)
• Blue are the hills that are far away
• Blue blood
• Blue chip investment
• Blue collar worker
• Blue humour
• Blue in the face
• Blue murder
• Blue plate special (a set meal provided at a reduced price)
• Blue rinse
• Blue rinse brigade
• Blue screen of death
• Blue sky thinking
• Blue star (A slang name for ecstasy pills)
• Bob up and down
• Bogged down
• Boils down to
• Bolt down
• Bolt from the blue
• Boogie on down
• Bow down before
• Boys in blue
• Bread always falls butter side down
• Breathing down your neck
• Bring down
• Bring into blue
• Bring the house down
• Brought down
• Brought down to earth
• Buckle down
• Burning Down The House (Talking Heads song)
• By the hairs on my chinny chin chin, I'll blow your house down
• Calm down
• Calm down, calm down (A catchphrase from Harry Enfield In The Scousers)
• Can't Slow Down (Lionel Richie album)
• Caught with your pants down
• Caught with your trousers down
• Cheer up, it might never happen
• Cheer up, it's not the end of the world
• Chow down
• Chucking it down
• Clamp down on
• Clear blue water
• Cobalt blue
• Come down hard on
• Come down on someone like a ton of bricks
• Come down to earth with a bump
• Come down to the line
• Come on down (A catchphrase from The Price Is Right)
• Cool down
• Cornflower blue
• Couldn't put it down
• Cross into the Blue (United States Air Force advertising slogan)
• Cut someone down in their prime
• Cut someone down to size
• Death is nature's way of telling you to slow down
• Deeper Than The Deep Blue Sea (Frank Sinatra song)
• Dial down (adjust a device to reduce sound or temperature)
• Don't Let The Sun Go Down On Me (Elton John song)
• Don't kick a man when he's down
• Don't let the bastards grind you down
• Don't take it lying down
• Doss down
• Double down
• Down Under (Nickname of Australia)
• Down among the dead men
• Down and out
• Down at heel
• Down boy
• Down came a blackbird and pecked off her nose (line from nursery rhyme)
• Down for the count
• Down in the dumps
• Down in the mouth
• Down it in one
• Down memory lane
• Down on all fours
• Down on his luck
• Down pat
• Down south
• Down the drain
• Down the hatch
• Down the pan
• Down the tubes
• Down to earth
• Down to the ground
• Down to the last out (A baseball expression meaning to have one last chance)
• Down to the pub for a quick one
• Down to the wire
• Down tools
• Dress down
• Dress down Friday
• Dressing down
• Drill down
• Drop down dead
• Dumbing down
• Dust down
• Eton blue
• Eye someone up and down
• Face down
• Fall down on the job
• Falling down drunk
• Feeling blue
• Fire down below
• For keener refreshment (Pabst Blue Ribbon advertising slogan)
• Garbage something down
• Get down
• Get down Shep (A catchphrase from John Noakes On Blue Peter)
• Get down and dirty
• Get down and get funky
• Get down to brass tacks
• Get down to business
• Get down with the kids
• Get the low down
• Get your head down
• Go down a storm
• Go down fighting
• Go down for the third time
• Go down in flames
• Go down on
• Go down on bended knee
• Go down the drain
• Go down the tubes
• Go down the wrong way
• Go down to the wire
• Go down with flying colours
• Go down with the ship
• Going down
• Going down the tubes
• Got it down to a fine art
• Gun down
• Gutted
• Hand me down
• Hands up if you use Right Guard, Hands down if you don't (Right Guard antiperspirant advertising slogan)
• Happy sad (a bitterweet feeling combining both happiness and sadness)
• Hard to pin down
• He huffed and he puffed and he blew their house down
• He's got a yellow streak down his back
• Here's one I prepared earlier (A catchphrase from Blue Peter)
• Hoe down
• Hold down a job
• Hose down
• How sad is that?
• Hunker down
• Hunt down
• Hurry on down to Hardee's (Rolaids advertising slogan)
• I get knocked down, but I get up again (Chumbawumba song)
• I'm Down (Beatles song)
• I've been brokenhearted, blue since the day we parted (ABBA lyric)
• If you lie down with dogs, you will get up with fleas
• In a blue funk
• Into the wild blue yonder
• It all boils down to this
• It is not a lack of love, but a lack of friendship that makes unhappy marriages (Friedrich Nietzsche quotation)
• It went down the wrong way
• It won't let you down (Sure anti-perspirant advertising slogan)
• It's All Over Now Baby Blue (Bob Dylan song)
• Itsy Bitsy spider climbing up the spout, down came the rain and washed the spider out (line from nursery rhyme)
• Jack fell down and broke his crown (line from nursery rhyme)
• Jot down
• Jump down my throat
• Jumping up and down with annoyance
• Keep it down
• Keep your head down
• Kick a man when he's down
• Kick the can further down the road
• Kicking dead whales down the beach
• Kind Of Blue (Miles Davis tune and album)
• Kip down
• Knock down drag out
• Knuckle down to
• Lay down roots
• Lay down rubber
• Lay down your arms
• Lay down your life
• Lay the law down
• Let down
• Let me take you down, cos I'm going to Strawberry Fields (Beatles song lyric)
• Let not the sun go down on your wrath
• Let the side down
• Let your hair down
• Levelling down
• Lie down on the job
• Lie down with dogs: get up with fleas
• Light the blue touch paper and retire
• Like a blue arsed fly
• Like a bolt from the blue
• Little Boy Blue come blow your horn (line from nursery rhyme)
• London bridge is falling down (line from nursery rhyme)
• Look down on
• Look down your nose
• Look someone up and down
• Lose hands down
• Mark down
• Men in blue
• Midnight blue
• Miserable specimen
• Mister Gorbachev, tear down this wall! (A slogan from President Reagan)
• Mow down
• Mr. Gorbachev, tear down this wall (Political slogan)
• My Blue Heaven (Gene Austin song)
• My blue heaven
• Nail down
• Narrow down
• Navy blue
• Never kick a dog when he's down
• Old Blue Eyes (Nickname of Frank Sinatra)
• On lock down
• Once in a blue moon
• Out of the blue
• Out of the clear blue sky
• Oxford Blue
• Pace up and down
• Park yourself down
• Party down
• Pass down
• Pipe down
• Put someone down
• Put the hammer down
• Put your foot down
• Refresh! Rejoice! Remember! Pabst gets the call (Pabst Blue Ribbon advertising slogan)
• Rhapsody In Blue (George Gershwin composition)
• Ring aring of roses, a pocketful of posies, atishoo, atishoo, all fall down (line from nursery rhyme)
• Ring down the curtain
• Roses are red, violets are blue
• Round down
• Royal blue
• Sad sack
• Sad state of affairs
• Scream blue murder
• Scroll down
• Send down
• Shake down
• Shoot down in flames (destroy an argument or theory)
• Shoot him down in flames
• Shove it down someone's throat
• Show down
• Sky blue
• Sold down the river
• Something old, something new, something borrowed, something blue
• Splash down
• Stand down
• Step down
• Suits you down to a tee
• Suits you down to the ground
• Take a blue pencil to
• Take down a peg or two
• Talk a blue streak
• Talk down to
• Tangled Up In Blue (Bob Dylan song)
• Teeming down with rain
• The Adventure of the Blue Carbuncle (Sherlock Holmes story)
• The Blue End State (Nickname of the US state of Delaware)
• The Blue Mosque (tourist attraction in Turkey)
• The Home Of Paul Bunyan And Babe The Blue Ox (Nickname of Westwood California, Brainerd Minnesota and Bemidji Minnesota)
• The air was blue
• The bread always falls buttered side down
• The chips are down
• The deep blue sea
• The lion may lie down with the lamb, but the lamb won't get much sleep (Woody Allen line)
• The low down
• Throw down the gauntlet
• Thumbs down
• Thunder from Down Under (Nickname of Konstantin Kostya Tszyu)
• Top down
• Trade down
• True Blue (Madonna album)
• True blue
• Turn that frown upside down
• Turning blue
• Up and down like a bride's nightie
• Up and down like a whore's drawers
• Up and down like the Ottoman Empire (line from Monty Python's Life Of Brian)
• Up and down the city road
• Up hill and down dale
• Water down
• Watership Down (Richard Adams book)
• Well blow me down
• Went down like a lead balloon
• What goes up must come down
• When the bough breaks the cradle will fall, and down will come baby, cradle and all (line from nursery rhyme)
• When the chips are down
• Whenever I feel the need to exercise, I lie down until it goes away (Robert Maynard Hutchins quotation)
• Wide blue yonder
• Winning hands down
• Wolf down
• You can't keep a good man down
• You could have knocked me down with a feather
• Your choice down at Wendy's, where quality is our recipe (Wendy Burgers advertising slogan)