Hum Phrases

Phrases

• And Your Bird Can Sing (Beatles song)
• As sound as a bell
• Born within the sound of Bow Bells
• Break the sound barrier
• Brum brum (child's play idiom expressing the sound of a vehicle)
• Buzz me in
• Buzz off
• Dial down (adjust a device to reduce sound or temperature)
• Drone on
• Ear popping (a sound that is loud or that catches the attention)
• Eating pate de fois gras to the sound of trumpets
• Humming and hawing
• I'd Like to Teach the World to Sing (The New Seekers song)
• I'd like to teach the world to sing
• In love with the sound of your own voice
• Like nothing else on Earth (Hummer advertising slogan)
• Marching to the sound of a different drum
• Purr like a cat
• Run toward the sound of gunfire
• Safe and sound
• Sing a different tune
• Sing a song of sixpence a pocket full of rye (line from nursery rhyme)
• Sing for your supper
• Sing like a bird
• Sing out
• Sing someone's praises
• Sound bite
• Sound effect
• Sound off at
• Sound out
• Sound the alarm
• Surround sound
• The Mersey sound
• The Sound Of Music (Julie Andrews movie)
• The Sound Of Silence (Simon and Garfunkel song)
• The West Coast Sound (Shelly Manne song)
• The West Coast Sound (name applied to Californian pop music, especially that of The Beach Boys)
• The sound of leather on willow (sound of the ball on the bat in cricket)
• Wired for sound
• You hum it and I'll play it