Language Phrases

Phrases

• 167 days of foggy, foggy dew can't claim all the credit for beautiful English complexions (Elizabeth Arden advertising slogan)
• 50 Words for Snow (Kate Bush song)
• A bull and cow (Cockney rhyming slang for row or argument)
• A picture paints a thousand words
• Abide with me (hymn traditionally sung at the English football Cup Final)
• Acid tongue
• Actions speak louder than words
• Alphabet soup (a jumble of words or letters, often in reference to organsiations known by their initials, like CIA or BBC)
• Anal astronaut (slang term for a homosexual)
• Apples and pears (Cockney rhyming slang for stairs)
• Army strawberries (military slang term for prunes)
• At a loss for words
• Back slang
• Bandy words with
• Barnet Fair (Cockney rhyming slang for hair)
• Barnyard language
• Bat from the pavilion end (slang term for a homosexual)
• Bedroom tax (slang term for UK's removal of Spare Room Subsidy)
• Bhatti boy (slang term for a homosexual)
• Bite your tongue
• Black cadillacs (Canadian military slang term for combat boots)
• Blood blister (Cockney rhyming slang for sister)
• Blow a raspberry (Cockney rhyming slang for fart)
• Bo Peep (Cockney rhyming slang for sleep)
• Boat race (Cockney rhyming slang for face)
• Body language
• Bottle and glass (Cockney rhyming slang for arse)
• Brahms and Lizst (Cockney rhyming slang for pissed)
• Brass tacks (Cockney rhyming slang for facts)
• Bricks and mortar (Cockney rhyming slang for daughter)
• Brighton Pier (Cockney rhyming slang for queer)
• Bristols (Cockney rhyming slang for titties)
• Brown bread (Cockney rhyming slang for dead)
• Bunny suit (Canadian military slang term for a cbrn (chemical, biological, radiological, nuclear))
• Buttock basher (slang term for a homosexual)
• By George, I think she's got it
• Cat got your tongue?
• Cherry ripe (Cockney rhyming slang for pipe)
• China plate (Cockney rhyming slang for mate)
• Code monkey (slang term for a computer programmer)
• Coin a phrase
• Crash programme
• Cream crackered (Cockney rhyming slang for knackered)
• Currant bun (Cockney rhyming slang for sun)
• Daisy roots (Cockney rhyming slang for boots)
• Deeds not words
• Desmond Tutu (Cockney rhyming slang for Second class degree (2,2))
• Dicky Dirt (Cockney rhyming slang for shirt)
• Dog and bone (Cockney rhyming slang for telephone)
• Don't mince words
• Donkey's years (Cockney rhyming slang for ears)
• Double Dutch
• Eat your words
• Elephant's trunk (Cockney rhyming slang for drunk)
• Empty words
• Eye of newt and toe of frog, wool of bat and tongue of dog
• Famous last words
• Farmers (Cockney rhyming slang for piles)
• Fast Freddie (Nickname of Andrew Flintoff - English cricketer)
• Fast movers (US and Canadian military slang term for jet fighters, especially ground)
• Fine words butter no parsnips
• Foul language
• Fred Flintstone (Nickname of Andrew Flintoff - English cricketer)
• Friend of Dorothy (slang term for a homosexual, referring to Judy Garland's character in The Wizard of Oz)
• Frog and toad (Cockney rhyming slang for road)
• Fudge packer (slang term for a homosexual)
• Genius bonus (a joke or theme added to a programme aimed at well informed people)
• Gentleman's relish (slang term for semen)
• George Raft (Cockney rhyming slang for daft)
• Ginger Beer (Cockney rhyming slang for queer)
• Gnat's bollock (slang term for a very small unit of measurement)
• Green slime (military slang term for the intelligence corps)
• Gregory Peck (Cockney rhyming slang for neck)
• Grunt cruncher (military tank - grunt is a slang term for infantryman)
• Half inch (Cockney rhyming slang for pinch)
• Hampsteads (Cockney rhyming slang for teeth)
• Hampton (Cockney rhyming slang for prick)
• Hand-to-gland combat (slang term for masturbation)
• Hard words
• Hate watch (viewing a television programme in order to mock it)
• Have a Captain Cook (Cockney rhyming slang for look)
• Have words with
• Hit the bricks (a cursory slang term telling someone to leave)
• Hobson's choice (Cockney rhyming slang for voice)
• Hold your tongue
• Horse and cart (Cockney rhyming slang for fart)
• In as many words
• In other words
• In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life: it goes on (Robert Frost quotation)
• In words of one syllable
• Iron hoof (Cockney rhyming slang for poof)
• It's all gone Pete Tong (Cockney rhyming slang for gone wrong)
• J Arthur (Cockney rhyming slang for wank)
• Jack Palancing (Cockney rhyming slang for dancing)
• Jam jar (Cockney rhyming slang for car)
• Jimmy Horner (Cockney rhyming slang for corner)
• Jimmy Riddle (Cockney rhyming slang for piddle)
• Keep a civil tongue in your head
• Khyber pass (Cockney rhyming slang for arse)
• Kind words
• King of Spain (Nickname of Ashley Giles - English cricketer)
• Language barrier
• Loaf of bread (Cockney rhyming slang for head)
• Lord Fred (Cockney rhyming slang for bed)
• Lose your tongue
• Lost for words
• Maiden speech
• Man of few words
• Mark my words
• Mince pies (Cockney rhyming slang for eyes)
• Mince your words
• Mind your language
• Mind your p's and q's
• Mother tongue
• Mrs. Mop (traditional English name for a cleaning woman)
• Mutt and Jeff (Cockney rhyming slang for deaf)
• My old Dutch (Cockney rhyming slang for duchess)
• My old china (Cockney rhyming slang for mate)
• No wonder the English have kept cool for 192 years (Gordon's Gin advertising slogan)
• North and south (Cockney rhyming slang for mouth)
• Not in so many words
• On the tip of my tongue
• On your Pat (Cockney rhyming slang for alone)
• On your jack (Cockney rhyming slang for alone)
• On your tod (Cockney rhyming slang for alone)
• Orson cart (Cockney rhyming slang for fart)
• Oxford scholar (Cockney rhyming slang for dollar)
• Oxo cube (Cockney rhyming slang for tube)
• Paddy Pantsdown (Nickname of English politician Paddy Ashdown)
• Paternal bonus (a joke or theme added to a childrens programme aimed at adults)
• Pecker checker (military slang term for medical personnel)
• Pen and ink (Cockney rhyming slang for stink)
• Pig's ear (Cockney rhyming slang for beer)
• Pink pantella puffer (slang term for a homosexual)
• Plates of meat (Cockney rhyming slang for feet)
• Poetry In Motion (Johnny Tillotson song)
• Pommy bashing (Australian slang term for physical or verbal attacks on the English)
• Pony and trap (Cockney rhyming slang for crap)
• Porky pies (Cockney rhyming slang for lies)
• Potatoes in the mould (Cockney rhyming slang for cold)
• Purple prose
• Put words into someone's mouth
• Rabbit and pork (Cockney rhyming slang for talk)
• Raspberry tart (Cockney rhyming slang for fart)
• Rear gunner (slang term for a homosexual)
• Richard the Third (Cockney rhyming slang for turd)
• Rock and boulder (Cockney rhyming slang for shoulder)
• Roll off the tongue
• Rosie Lea (Cockney rhyming slang for tea)
• Rub a dub (Cockney rhyming slang for pub)
• Rubber johnny (a British slang term for a condom)
• Ruby Murray (Cockney rhyming slang for curry)
• Say a few words
• Scarper (Cockney rhyming slang for go)
• Sexton Blake (Cockney rhyming slang for fake)
• Shack rat (Canadian military slang term for a promiscuous female who visits military barracks to sleep with soldiers)
• Sharp tongue
• Sherman tanks (Cockney rhyming slang for Yanks)
• Shit stabber (slang term for a homosexual)
• Silver tongued (eloquent or persuasive manner of speech)
• Skin and blister (Cockney rhyming slang for sister)
• Slip of the tongue
• Speak in tongues
• Speak the same language
• Speech is silver but silence is golden
• Sticks and stones may break my bones but words will never hurt me
• Stupid-o'-clock (US army slang term that refers to any time very early in the morning)
• Suck face (slang term for kissing)
• Swing by (slang expression meaning drop in for a visit)
• Syrup (Cockney rhyming slang for wig)
• Take a butchers (Cockney rhyming slang for look)
• Take the words out of my mouth
• Taking the other bus (slang term for homosexuality)
• Taters (Cockney rhyming slang for cold)
• Tea leaf (Cockney rhyming slang for thief)
• That woman speaks eight languages and can't say no in any of them
• The Beast of Bolsover (Nickname of English politician Dennis Skinner)
• The Boy David (Nickname of English politician David Steel)
• The Chingford Strangler (Nickname of English politician Norman Tebbit)
• The English disease
• The English summer: three fine days and a thunderstorm
• The Garden County (nickname of the English county of Hampshire)
• The Garden of England (Nickname of the English counties of Kent and Worcestershire)
• The King's Speech (Colin Firth movie)
• The cat sat on the mat
• The gift of tongues
• The pros from dover (American slang term for outside consultants who are brought into a business to troubleshoot)
• The queen's English
• The top of the programme
• Titfer (Cockney rhyming slang for hat)
• To have words with
• Tongue and groove
• Tongue in cheek
• Tongue lashing
• Tongue tied
• Tongue twister
• Towel head (derogatory slang term referring to an Arab man)
• Trouble and strife (Cockney rhyming slang for wife)
• Turn of phrase
• Two and eight (Cockney rhyming slang for state)
• Uncle Dick (Cockney rhyming slang for sick)
• Uncle Ned (Cockney rhyming slang for bed)
• Uphill gardener (slang term for a homosexual)
• War of words
• Warm words
• Watch your language
• Way with words
• Weasel and Stoat (Cockney rhyming slang for coat)
• Weasel words
• Well-chosen words
• What we have here is a failure to communicate (line from Cool Hand Luke)
• Whisper words of wisdom, let it be (The Beatles song lyric)
• Whistle and flute (Cockney rhyming slang for suit)
• White man speak with forked tongue
• Words Of Love (Buddy Holly song)
• Words of wisdom
• Would you Adam and Eve it? (Cockney rhyming slang for would you believe it?)
• Yellow belly (slang term for a coward)
• You Took The Words Right Out Of My Mouth, It Must Have Been Whilst You Were Kissing Me (Meatloaf song)