Holiday Phrases

Phrases

• A Christmas Carol (Charles Dickens book)
• A change is as good as a rest
• A dog is for life, not just for Christmas
• A place in the sun (an idealistic dream of a sunny hideaway)
• Absent without leave
• All I Want For Christmas Is My Two Front Teeth (Spike Jones song)
• All I Want For Christmas Is You (Maria Carey song)
• Answers on a postcard
• April in Paris
• At liberty
• Back to school
• Booze cruise
• Bucket and spade holiday
• Busman's holiday
• By your leave
• Canada's Festival City (Nickname of Edmonton Alberta)
• Change of scene (A new location and way of thinking)
• Christmas box
• Christmas comes but once a year
• Christmas is a time to believe in things you can't see (3M Company Scotch Tape advertising slogan)
• Chuck a sickie
• Country house hotel (an upmarket hotel located in a revamped rural mansion)
• Dark tourism
• Do They Know It's Christmas? (Band Aid song)
• Don't just book it, Thomas Cook it (Thomas Cook advertising slogan)
• Don't just travel. Travel right (Expedia advertising slogan)
• Don't leave home without it (American Express advertising slogan)
• Don't leave your manners on the doorstep
• Done up like a Christmas tree
• Duvet day
• Eco tourism
• Fly drive
• French leave
• Gardening leave
• Get away! (Lunn Polly advertising slogan)
• Get out there (Royal Caribbean cruise lines advertising slogan)
• Give me liberty or give me death
• Go Greyhound and leave the driving to us (Greyhound Lines advertising slogan)
• Happy Christmas
• Happy campers
• Happy holidays
• Have Yourself A Merry Little Christmas (Judy Garland song)
• Her Honeymoon - and it should have been mine! (Listerine Mouthwash advertising slogan)
• High days and holidays
• High season (the most popular time to visit a resort or attraction - when prices are highest)
• Hit the bricks (a cursory slang term telling someone to leave)
• Holiday cheer (good feelings during a holiday, especially Christmas)
• Holiday of a lifetime
• Holiday romance
• Home For The Holidays (film starring Holly Hunter and Robert Downey Jr.)
• Home from home
• Honeymoon period
• House guest
• House swap
• I Do Like To Be Beside The Seaside (British Music Hall song)
• In The Bleak Midwinter (Christmas Carol title)
• It was the night before Christmas and all round the house, not a creature was stirring, not even a mouse
• It's beginning to look a lot like Christmas
• It's so bracing (Skegness advertising slogan)
• Last Christmas (Wham song)
• Leave be
• Leave it out
• Leave no child behind (Political slogan)
• Leave no stone unturned
• Leave off
• Leave out
• Leave out door open
• Leave out in the cold
• Leave someone cold
• Leave the door open for
• Leave the gun, take the cannoli (line from The Godfather)
• Leave the nest
• Leave the room
• Leave well enough alone
• Leave your options open
• Leave yourself open
• Liberty hall
• Life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness
• Like turkeys voting for Christmas
• Lit up like a Christmas tree
• Love them and leave them
• Make a day of it
• Make like a tree and leave
• Merry Christmas
• More than just a front (Blackpool advertising slogan)
• On sabbatical
• On safari
• Once In Royal David's City (Christmas Carol title)
• Phone in sick
• Pleasing people the world over (Holiday Inn advertising slogan)
• Post early for Christmas (Post Office advertising slogan)
• Ready when you are (Delta Airlines advertising slogan)
• Recreational shopping
• Rest, keep warm and drink liquids (American Airlines advertising slogan)
• Roman holiday
• Santa's Little Helpers (allusion to the elves that help Father Christmas)
• School's out for summer
• School's out forever
• Sex on the beach
• Sex tourism
• Shoot through (to leave or abscond)
• Singapore Girl, you're a great way to fly (Singapore Airlines advertising slogan)
• Softly As I Leave You (Frank Sinatra song)
• Something special in the air (American Airlines advertising slogan)
• Sun, sea and sand
• Take it or leave it
• Take leave of your senses
• Thai - smooth as silk (Thai Airways International advertising slogan)
• That's going to leave a mark
• The Chipmunk Song (Christmas Don't Be Late) (The Chipmunks and David Seville song)
• The Cradle Of Liberty (Nickname of Boston Massachusetts)
• The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance (James Stewart / John Wayne movie)
• The Statue of Liberty (tourist attraction in New York USA)
• The Wings of Man (Eastern Airlines advertising slogan)
• The only way to fly (Western Airlines advertising slogan)
• The price of liberty is eternal vigilance
• The reliable airline (KLM advertising slogan)
• The world's favourite airline (British Airways advertising slogan)
• To the heart of Seoul and beyond (Asiana Airlines advertising slogan)
• Trip of a lifetime
• Twas the night before Christmas - the children were dreaming of a Ford in their future - smart, swanky and gleaming (Ford Cars advertising slogan)
• Up, up and away with TWA (Trans World Airways advertising slogan)
• Vacation is a world where there are no locks on the doors or the mind or the body (Club Med Resorts advertising slogan)
• Vocation vacation
• We have to earn our wings every day (Eastern Airlines advertising slogan)
• We love to fly and it shows (Delta AirLines advertising slogan)
• We never forget you have a choice (British Caledonian Airline advertising slogan)
• We really move our tail for you (Continental Airlines advertising slogan)
• We'll leave the light on for you (Motel 6 advertising slogan)
• We'll take good care of you (British Airways advertising slogan)
• When you've got it, flaunt it (Braniff Airways advertising slogan)
• White Christmas (Bing Crosby song)
• Wish you were here
• Work hard. Fly right (Continental Airlines advertising slogan)
• World class, worldwide (Air Canada advertising slogan)
• World cruise
• You and I were meant to fly (Air Canada advertising slogan)
• You are now free to move about the country (Southwest Airlines advertising slogan)
• You can leave in a huff. If that's too soon, you can leave in a minute and a huff (Groucho Marx line)
• You'll love the way we fly (Delta Airlines advertising slogan)
• You're going to like us (Trans World Airways advertising slogan)
• Your perfect trip (Expedia advertising slogan)