Jailhouse Phrases

Phrases

• A Doll's House (play by Henrik Ibsen)
• A house divided against itself cannot stand
• A house is not a home
• Acid house
• Art house
• As hard as a rock
• As solid as a rock
• Ayers Rock (tourist attraction in Australia)
• Beckingham Palace (Nickname of David and Victoria Beckham's house)
• Between a rock and a hard place
• Big house
• Bleak House (Charles Dickens book)
• Bring the house down
• Buck House (Nickname of Buckingham Palace)
• Burning Down The House (Talking Heads song)
• By the hairs on my chinny chin chin, I'll blow your house down
• Chatham House rules
• Children, one is one, two is fun, three is a house full
• Clean house
• Clearing house
• Country house hotel (an upmarket hotel located in a revamped rural mansion)
• Country rock
• Crocodile Rock (Elton John song)
• Crooked House (Agatha Christie book)
• Doctor In The House (Dirk Bogade / Luchino Visconti movie)
• Don't rock the boat
• Eaten out of house and home
• Everybody lies (A catchphrase from Dr Gregory House in House)
• Folsom Prison Blues (Johnny Cash song)
• Front of house
• Full house
• Get on like a house on fire
• Get out of jail free
• Get out of jail free card (a means of avoiding justice - from the eponymous card in the Monopoly boardgame)
• Glam rock
• Go directly to jail, do not pass go
• Good to the last drop (Maxwell House Coffee advertising slogan)
• Halfway house
• He huffed and he puffed and he blew their house down
• Heavy rock
• Hit rock bottom
• House and garden
• House and home
• House built on sand
• House frau
• House guest
• House husband
• House mother
• House music
• House of cards
• House of ill repute
• House rules
• House style
• House swap
• I Wanna Rock And Roll All Night (Kiss song)
• Is there a doctor in the house?
• It was the night before Christmas and all round the house, not a creature was stirring, not even a mouse
• It's Only Rock And Roll, But I Like It (Rolling Stones song)
• Jail bait
• Jail bird
• Jailhouse Rock (Elvis Presley song)
• Jonnies out of jail
• Keep a good house
• Keep open house
• Let's rock (A catchphrase from Al Bundy In Married With Children)
• Like a rock (Bob Seeger song title and Chevrolet Trucks advertising slogan)
• Mad house
• Not A Dry Eye In The House (Meatloaf song)
• Not a dry eye in the house
• Not a dry seat in the house
• On the house
• One two three o'clock four o'clock rock
• Open house
• Paper the house
• Party Like a Rock Star (Shop Boyz song)
• Party Rock Anthem (LMFAO with Lauren Bennett and GoonRock song)
• Prepare to rock
• Primal fear (Neurosis therapy and British rock band)
• Prison works
• Put your house in order
• Rock And Roll Dreams Come True (Meatloaf song)
• Rock Around The Clock (Bill Haley song)
• Rock With The Caveman (Tommy Steele song)
• Rock Your Baby (George McCrae song)
• Rock a bye baby on the tree top, when the wind blows the cradle will rock (line from nursery rhyme)
• Rock and boulder (Cockney rhyming slang for shoulder)
• Rock and roll
• Rock bottom
• Rock god
• Rock of ages
• Rock on
• Rock solid
• Rock the vote
• Rock your world
• Sex and drugs, and rock and roll
• Smallest room in the house
• Sydney Opera House (tourist attraction in Australia)
• Taste as good as it smells (Maxwell House Coffee advertising slogan)
• The Adventure of the Empty House (Sherlock Holmes story)
• The Anne Frank House (tourist attraction in Amsterdam Netherlands)
• The Cider House Rules (Michael Caine movie)
• The Dome of the Rock (tourist attraction in Israel)
• The House Doctor (Pseudonym of Ron Hazelton)
• The House of the Rising Sun (The Animals song)
• The King of Rock 'N' Roll (Nickname of Elvis Presley)
• The Rock (Nickname of Marcel Desailly)
• The White House (tourist attraction in Washington USA)
• The angel in the house
• The best seat in the house (Jockey Shorts advertising slogan)
• The house of many doors
• The house that Jack built (line from nursery rhyme)
• The king was in his counting house counting out his money (line from nursery rhyme)
• We Will Rock You (Queen song)
• Who lives in a house like this? (A catchphrase from Through the Keyhole)
• You rock!
• Yours faithfully (Trust House Forte advertising slogan)