Ireland Phrases

Phrases

• A Great Day For The Irish (Judy Garland song)
• A child is an island of curiosity surrounded by a sea of question marks (Shell advertising slogan)
• An everyday story of country folk (A catchphrase from The Archers)
• Angela's Ashes (Frank McCourt book)
• As Irish as Paddy's pig
• 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)
• Bloody Sunday
• Come home to Birds Eye Country (Birds Eye Frozen Foods advertising slogan)
• Come to Marlboro Country (Marlboro Cigarettes advertising slogan)
• Computer says no (A catchphrase from Little Britain)
• Cork out
• 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
• Crimson and Clover (Tommy James and the Shondells song)
• Cry the beloved country
• Dear Dirty Dublin (Nickname of Dublin Ireland)
• Dee plane, dee plane (A catchphrase from Fantasy Island)
• Easter Island (tourist attraction in the Pacific Ocean)
• Fortress Europe
• Forty shades of green
• Forward with Britain (Daily Mirror advertising slogan)
• Girl From The North Country (Bob Dylan song)
• Go to the country
• God's chosen country
• God's own country (Kerala, India advertising slogan)
• Home rule
• I am the only gay in the village (A catchphrase from Little Britain)
• I want that one (A catchphrase from Little Britain)
• I'm a laydee (A catchphrase from Little Britain)

• I'm backing Britain
• It's a free country
• It's a long way to Tipperary
• Little Rhody (Nickname of the US state of Rhode Island)
• Mother country
• My country right or wrong
• No man is an island
• Pleasure Island
• Put a cork in it
• Robben Island - South Africa
• Round Ireland With A Fridge (Tony Hawks book)
• The Beehive Of Industry (Nickname of Providence Rhode Island)
• The Celtic Tiger
• The Emerald Isle
• The Fair City (Nickname of Dublin Ireland)
• The Final Countdown (song by the Swedish band Europe)
• The Gateway To Europe (Nickname of Amsterdam)
• The Giant's Causeway (tourist attraction in Ireland)
• The Heart Of Europe (Nickname of Prague Czech Republic)
• The Pocket Rocket (Nickname of Wayne McCullough Flag of Northern Ireland Flag of Ireland)
• The Sick Man of Europe (Nickname of Turkey)
• The Staten Island Scot (Nickname of Bobby Thomson)
• The crowned heads of Europe
• The old country
• The past is a foreign country: they do things differently there (the opening line of The Go-Between)
• The sick man of Europe
• This line of country
• Treasure Island (Robert Louis Stevenson book)
• Typhoo puts the T in Britain, the T that stands for taste (Typhoo Tea advertising slogan)
• While in Europe, pick up an ugly European (Volkswagen advertising slogan)
• Yeah but, no but (A catchphrase from Little Britain)
• Yeah, I know (A catchphrase from Little Britain)
• 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