Gossip Phrases

Phrases

• A Scandal in Bohemia (Sherlock Holmes story)
• All talk
• All talk and no trousers
• Bad news travels fast
• Careless talk costs lives (WWII slogan)
• Chalk and talk
• Chat up
• Chattering classes
• Chew the cud
• Chew the fat
• Chin wag
• Chinese whispers
• Come and talk to the listening bank (Midland Bank advertising slogan)
• Dig up the dirt
• Dish the dirt
• Fighting talk
• Get the low down
• Gift of the gab
• Good talk saves the food
• Gossip monger
• Heart to heart talk
• I don't wanna talk (ABBA lyric)
• I want to talk to the organ grinder not the monkey
• Idle gossip
• Idle talk
• It is better to remain silent at the risk of being thought a fool, than to talk and remove all doubt of it (Maurice Switzer quotation)
• It's good to talk (British Telecom advertising slogan)
• Jive talk
• Let's Talk About Love (Celine Dion album)
• Loose talk
• Money doesn't talk, it swears
• Muck raking
• My ears were burning
• On everyone's lips
• Pass the time of day
• Pillow talk
• Rabbit and pork (Cockney rhyming slang for talk)
• Rumour has it
• School for scandal
• Shoot straight (to talk or deal honestly)
• Smoke around the campfire
• Smooth talk
• Someone ears are burning
• Spread a rumour
• Surf report
• Talk a blue streak
• Talk a good game
• Talk dirty
• Talk down to
• Talk in riddles
• Talk is cheap
• Talk it up
• Talk me through it
• Talk of the Devil
• Talk of the Devil, and he is bound to appear
• Talk offline
• Talk out of school
• Talk out of your ass
• Talk over your head
• Talk shop
• Talk the hind legs off a donkey
• Talk the talk
• Talk through your hat
• Talk to Ralph on the big white phone
• Talk to me, baby
• Talk to the hand
• Talk turkey
• Talk tweed
• The talk of the town
• The time has come the walrus said to talk of many things
• The time has come, the Walrus said, to talk of many things, Carroll)
• The word on the street
• Throw enough dirt and some will stick
• Tittle tattle
• Tittle tattle lost the battle (WWII slogan)
• To save and invest, talk to Natwest (Natwest Bank advertising slogan)
• Trash talk
• Walk the talk
• Walk the walk, talk the talk
• We Need To Talk About Kevin (Lionel Shriver book)
• We have ways of making you talk
• We report, you decide (FOX News advertising slogan)
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