Hall Phrases

Phrases

• A Room With A View (E M Forster book)
• A funny thing happened on the way to the theatre
• A room without books is like a body without a soul (Marcus Tullius Cicero quotation)
• Annie Hall (Woody Allen movie)
• As nervous as a long tailed cat in a room full of rocking chairs
• Back room boy
• Barrack room lawyer
• Bedroom tax (slang term for UK's removal of Spare Room Subsidy)
• Body building
• Boiler room (The location of a high pressure telephone sales team)
• Breathing room
• Building castles in the air
• Comfort room (A euphemism for lavatory)
• Country house hotel (an upmarket hotel located in a revamped rural mansion)
• Deck the halls with boughs of holly
• Elbow room
• Elvis has left the building
• Empire State Building
• Far better for being near to you (The Chesham Building Society advertising slogan)
• Frasier has left the building (A catchphrase from Frasier)
• Fringe theatre
• Gentlemen, you can't fight in here! This is the War Room (Dr.Strangelove)
• Hall of fame
• Haul ass
• Haul before the court
• Haul over the coals
• Haul up on the carpet
• I Do Like To Be Beside The Seaside (British Music Hall song)
• Investments with Abbey endings (Abbey National Building Society advertising slogan)
• Leave the room

• Liberty hall
• Locker room humour
• Make room
• My heart went boom when I crossed that room (Beatles song lyric)
• No room to breathe
• No room to swing a cat
• One Size (Nickname of Fitz Hall)
• Panic room
• Powder room
• Revenue per available room
• Revenue per occupied room
• Room for improvement
• Room for one more inside
• Room to let
• Shovel ready (a building project in which all the preliminaries have been arranged)
• Smallest room in the house
• Smoke-filled room
• Standing room only
• The Chrysler Building (tourist attraction in New York USA)
• The Empire State Building (tourist attraction in New York USA)
• The elephant in the room
• The little boys' room
• There's always room for J-E-L-L-O (Jell-O advertising slogan)
• To the Manor Born (BBC comedy television series)
• Visit the ladies room
• War room (the place where war plans are directed)
• We're with the Woolwich (Woolwich Building Society advertising slogan)
• White Room (Cream song)
• Wiggle room
• You can't fight city hall