India Phrases

Phrases

• A Passage To India (E. M. Forster book and David Lean movie)
• An everyday story of country folk (A catchphrase from The Archers)
• Ask not what your country can do for you, but what you can do for your country
• Big Country (Nickname of basketball player Bryant Reeves)
• Brazil, Russia, India And China - BRIC
• Come home to Birds Eye Country (Birds Eye Frozen Foods advertising slogan)
• Come to Marlboro Country (Marlboro Cigarettes advertising slogan)
• Country Pie (Bob Dylan song)
• Country cousin
• Country gentleman
• Country house hotel (an upmarket hotel located in a revamped rural mansion)
• Country pursuits
• Country rock
• Country sports
• Cry the beloved country
• Curry favour with
• Elephant never forgets
• Elephant's trunk (Cockney rhyming slang for drunk)
• Girl From The North Country (Bob Dylan song)
• Go to the country
• God's chosen country
• God's own country (Kerala, India advertising slogan)
• I could murder a curry
• Incredible India! (India advertising slogan)
• It's a free country
• Mother country
• My country right or wrong
• POSH - Port out, starboard home (false attribution of the origin of the word posh)
• Ruby Murray (Cockney rhyming slang for curry)
• See the elephant
• The Athens of the East (Nickname of Madurai India)
• The Elephant Man (John Hurt / Anthony Hopkins / David Lynch movie)
• The Elephant Man (Nickname of Joseph Merrick)
• The Golden Temple (tourist attraction in India)
• The Lone Star Cobra (Nickname of Donald Curry)
• The Red Fort (tourist attraction in India)
• The Taj Mahal (tourist attraction in India)
• The elephant in the room
• The old country
• The past is a foreign country: they do things differently there (the opening line of The Go-Between)
• This line of country
• White elephant
• With you, all the way (State Bank of India advertising slogan)
• You are now free to move about the country (Southwest Airlines advertising slogan)
• You'll never put a better bit of butter on your knife (Country Life butter advertising slogan)
• Your country needs you