Gray Phrases

Phrases

• A splash of colour
• A white knight
• Act white
• All cats are grey in the dark
• Angry white male
• As black as Newgate's knocker
• As black as coal
• As black as ink
• As black as pitch
• As black as the Earl of Hell's waistcoat
• As black as the ace of spades
• As black as thunder
• As black as your hat
• As white as a ghost
• As white as a sheet
• As white as snow
• Baa baa black sheep have you any wool? (line from nursery rhyme)
• Back In Black (AC/DC album)
• Back To Black (Amy Winehouse song)
• Battleship grey
• Beat someone black and blue
• Big white chief
• Black Beauty (Anna Sewell book)
• Black Friday
• Black Hawk Down (Ewan McGregor movie)
• Black Jack (Nickname of baseball player Jack McDowell)
• Black Jesus (Nickname of basketball player Amare Stoudemire)
• Black Mamba (Nickname of basketball player Kobe Bryant)
• Black Mike (Nickname of baseball player Mickey Cochrane)
• Black Monday
• Black Moses (Nickname of basketball player Baron Davis)
• Black Thursday
• Black Tuesday
• Black and blue
• Black and white
• Black and white minstrel
• Black and white unite and fight (Political slogan)
• Black art
• Black bomber
• Black box
• Black cadillacs (Canadian military slang term for combat boots)
• Black comedy
• Black dog
• Black economy
• Black flagged
• Black is beautiful
• Black list
• Black magic
• Black mark
• Black market
• Black on black
• Black out
• Black power
• Black sheep of the family
• Black spot
• Black tie
• Black velvet
• Black water rafting
• Bleed someone white
• Boom Boom Pow (The Black Eyed Peas song)
• Born 1820 - Still going strong (Johnny Walker Black Whiskey advertising slogan)
• Call of Duty (video game title)
• China white
• Chocolate is better in colour (M&M's advertising slogan)
• Colour coded
• Colour coordinated
• Colour me gone
• Colour me happy
• Colour my world
• Colour one's view
• Colour up
• Cyber Black Friday
• Dead white European male (derogatory reference to someone who has an unjustified reputation)
• Dead white male
• Early black
• Feel the Velvet (Black Velvet Whiskey advertising slogan)
• Fifty Shades of Grey (E L James book)
• Gentlemen of colour
• Great white hope
• Grey area
• Grey goo
• Grey is new black
• Grey matter
• Grey power
• Hey Mabel, Black Label (Black Label advertising slogan)
• His beard was as white as snow
• Honor thy self (Johnny Walker Black Whiskey advertising slogan)
• Horse of a different colour
• I bet he drinks Carling Black Label (Carling Black Label advertising slogan)
• I'm a secret lemonade drinker (R White's advertising slogan)
• If you want to impress someone, put him on your Black list (Johnny Walker Black Whiskey advertising slogan)
• In a black mood
• In the black
• Is it cos I is black? (A catchphrase from Ali G)

• It's black over Bill's mother's
• It's there in black and white
• Lend colour to
• Let's see the colour of your money
• Like white on rice
• Little White Bull (Tommy Steele song)
• Little black book
• Little black dress
• Little black number
• Little white lie
• Man In The Long Black Coat (Bob Dylan song)
• Mary had a little lamb its fleece was white as snow (line from nursery rhyme)
• Men in black
• Men in grey suits
• Men in suits
• Men in white coats
• My Humps (The Black Eyed Peas song)
• Not as black as you are painted
• Not everything in black and white makes sense (Guinness advertising slogan)
• Off colour
• Off white
• On the black market
• Paint It Black (Rolling Stones song)
• Pearline keeps white things white and bright women bright (Pearline washing powder advertising slogan)
• People of colour
• Pitch black
• Play the white man
• Pork, the other white meat (National Pork Council advertising slogan)
• Ride a cock horse to Banbury Cross to see a fine lady upon a white horse (line from nursery rhyme)
• Riot of colour
• Say It Loud I'm Black And I'm Proud (James Brown song)
• Show the white feather
• Silver fox (a handsome grey-haired man)
• Silver surfer (an older person who uses the World Wide Web)
• Silver threads amongst the gold (blonde hair that is turning grey)
• Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs (Disney cartoon movie)
• Talk to Ralph on the big white phone
• That's mighty white of you
• The Adventure of Black Peter (Sherlock Holmes story)
• The Black Diamond (Nickname of Leonidas da Silva)
• The Black Falcon (Nickname of Prince Baccarratti (Bela Kovacs))
• The Black Pearl (Nickname of Eusebio)
• The Black Prince (Nickname of Edward Prince of Wales)
• The Black Spider (Nickname of Lev Yashin)
• The Black Tullip (Nickname of Ruud Gullit)
• The Black Watch (Nickname of The Royal Highland Regiment)
• The Colour Of My Love (Celine Dion album)
• The Great White Hope (Nickname of James J.Jeffries)
• The Great White Shark (Nickname of Greg Norman)
• The Grey Eagle (Nickname of Tris Speaker)
• The Man in Black (Nickname of singer Johnny Cash)
• The Minister of Defense (Nickname of Reggie White)
• The Nine Days Queen (Nickname of Lady Jane Grey)
• The Picture Of Dorian Gray (Oscar Wilde book)
• The Time (Dirty Bit) (The Black Eyed Peas song)
• The Walrus of Love (Nickname of Barry White)
• The White Cliffs of Dover (tourist attraction in England)
• The White House (tourist attraction in Washington USA)
• The White Pele (Nickname of Zico)
• The Woman In White (Wilkie Collins book)
• The black art
• The man in black
• The new black
• The pot calling the kettle black
• Two blacks don't make a white
• Wave the white flag
• What colour is the sky in your world?
• What you mean we, white man?
• Where's your white stick referee?
• White Chocolate (Nickname of Jason Williams)
• White Christmas (Bing Crosby song)
• White Mamba (Nickname of Sasha)
• White Mike (Nickname of Mike Miller)
• White Room (Cream song)
• White Shoes (Nickname of Billy Johnson)
• White bread
• White elephant
• White flight
• White guilt
• White heat of technology
• White knight
• White knuckle ride
• White lady
• White lightning
• White man speak with forked tongue
• White man's burden
• White man's watch
• White noise
• White trash
• White van man
• White water rafting
• Whiter than white
• You can have any colour as long as it's black
• Young, Gifted and Black (Nina Simone song)
• Your best bet for a fuller flavour (Carling Black Label advertising slogan)