Log Phrases

Phrases

• 1066 And All That: A Memorable History Of England (W. C. Sellar book)
• A Bouquet Of Barbed Wire (Andrea Newman book)
• A Brief History Of Time (Stephen Hawking book)
• A Christmas Carol (Charles Dickens book)
• A Clockwork Orange (Anthony Burgess book and Stanley Kubrick movie)
• A Fatal Inversion (Barbara Vine book)
• A Funny Thing Happened On The Way To The Future: Twists And Turns, And Lessons Learned (Michael J. Fox book)
• A Journey To The Center Of The Earth (Jules Verne book)
• A Kestrel For A Knave (Barry Hines book)
• A Murder Is Announced (Agatha Christie book)
• A Passage To India (E. M. Forster book and David Lean movie)
• A Perfect Spy (John Le Carre book)
• A Portrait Of The Artist As A Young Man (James Joyce book)
• A Prayer For Owen Meany (John Irving book)
• A Room With A View (E M Forster book)
• A Short History Of Nearly Everything (Bill Bryson book)
• A Short History Of Tractors In Ukrainian (Marina Lewycka book)
• A Streetcar Named Desire (Tennessee Williams play)
• A Suitable Boy (Vikram Seth book)
• A Tale Of Two Cities (Charles Dickens book)
• A Thousand Splendid Suns (Khaled Hosseine book)
• A Town Like Alice (Nevil Shute book)
• A Tree Grows In Brooklyn (Elia Kazan movie)
• A log jam
• A partridge in a pear tree
• Absolute pitch (the ability to determine a musical note by ear)
• Adolf Hitler: My Part In His Downfall (Spike Milligan book)
• All Fun And Games Until Somebody Loses An Eye (Christopher Brookmyer book)
• All Quiet On The Western Front (Erich Maria Remarque book and WWII movie)
• Always have your nose in a book
• America's best record (Puritan Records advertising slogan)
• And The Band Played On (Randy Shilts book)
• And Then There Were None (Agatha Christie book)
• Angela's Ashes (Frank McCourt book)
• Animal Farm (George Orwell book)
• Anna Karenina (Leo Tolstoy book)
• Anne Of Green Gables (Lucy Maud Montgomery book)
• Around The World In Eighty Days (Jules Verne book)
• Art Of War (Sun Tzu book)
• As I Lay Dying (William Faulkner book)
• As difficult as nailing jelly to a tree
• As easy as falling off a log
• As many chins as a Chinese phone book
• As queer as a nine bob note
• Barking up the wrong tree
• Bell, book and candle
• Black Beauty (Anna Sewell book)
• Black list
• Bleak House (Charles Dickens book)
• Book him
• Book him Danno (A catchphrase from Hawaii Five-O)
• Book learning
• Book worm
• Brave New World (Aldous Huxley book)
• Breakfast At Tiffany's (Truman Capote book)
• Breakfast Of Champions (Kurt Vonnegut book)
• Brideshead Revisited (Evelyn Waugh book)
• Bright Lights, Big City (Jay Mcinerney book)
• Bring to book
• Broken record
• Brought to book
• Build A Better Life By Stealing Office Supplies (Dilbert)
• By the book
• Cabin fever
• Captain Corelli's Mandolin (Louis de Bernieres book)
• Captain Underpants And The Invasion Of The Incredibly Naughty Cafeteria Ladies From Outer Space (Dav Pilkey book)
• Captain Underpants And The Perilous Plot Of Professor Poopypants (Dav Pilkey book)
• Captain Underpants And The Wrath Of The Wicked Wedgie Woman (Dav Pilkey book)
• Captain's log... (A catchphrase from Star Trek)
• Catch 22 (Joseph Heller book)
• Charlie And The Chocolate Factory (Roald Dahl book)
• Closed book
• Cloud Atlas (David Mitchell book)
• Cold Comfort Farm (Stella Gibbons book)
• Crack a book
• Crime And Punishment (Fyodor Dostoyevsky book)
• Crooked House (Agatha Christie book)
• David Copperfield (Charles Dickens book)
• Dead Man Walking (Helen Prejean book)
• Death On The Nile (Agatha Christie book)
• Death On The Orient Express (Agatha Christie book)
• Do Androids Dream Of Electric Sheep? (Philip K. Dick book)
• Don't Sit Under The Apple Tree (Glenn Miller tune)
• Don't just book it, Thomas Cook it (Thomas Cook advertising slogan)
• Done up like a Christmas tree
• Drop dead list
• Each Record a Masterpiece (Van Dyke Records advertising slogan)
• Eats, Shoots And Leaves (Lynne Truss book)
• Eight maids a-milking (line from A Partridge In A Pear Tree)
• Elephant's trunk (Cockney rhyming slang for drunk)
• Eleven pipers piping (line from A Partridge In A Pear Tree)
• Even Cowgirls Get The Blues (Tom Robbins book)
• Every trick in the book
• Everything You Always Wanted To Know About Sex But Were Afraid To Ask (David Reuben book)
• Evil Under The Sun (Agatha Christie book)
• Family tree
• Far From The Madding Crowd (Thomas Hardy book)
• Fear And Loathing In Las Vegas (Hunter S. Thompson book)
• Fifty Shades of Grey (E L James book)
• First Among Equals (Jeffrey Archer book)
• Five golden rings (line from A Partridge In A Pear Tree)
• For the record
• Fork the tree
• Four calling birds (line from A Partridge In A Pear Tree)
• From stem to stern
• Go by the book
• Goodnight Mister Tom book by Michelle Magorian
• Great Expectations (Charles Dickens book)
• Guards! Guards! (Terry Pratchett book)
• Harry Potter And The Chamber Of Secrets (J. K. Rowling book)
• Harry Potter And The Prisoner Of Azkaban (J. K. Rowling book)
• Harry Potter And The Sorcerer's Stone (J. K. Rowling book)
• His Dark Materials (Philip Pullman book)
• His life's an open book
• Hit list
• How To Win Friends And Influence People (Dale Carnegie book)
• I Capture The Castle (Dodie Smith book)
• I can read you like a book
• I think that I shall never see a poem lovely as a tree, Kilmer)
• I've got a little list
• If you want to impress someone, put him on your Black list (Johnny Walker Black Whiskey advertising slogan)
• In record time

• It's the Internet that logs onto you (SBC-Yahoo! DSL advertising slogan)
• Jane Eyre (Charlotte Bronte book)
• Kane And Abel (Jeffrey Archer book)
• Laundry list
• Legs like tree trunks
• Les Liaisons Dangereuses (Pierre-Ambroise-Francois Choderlos De Laclos book)
• Like bumps on a log
• Lit up like a Christmas tree
• Little Robin Red breast sat upon a tree (line from nursery rhyme)
• Little Women (Louisa May Alcott book)
• Little black book
• Log off
• Log on
• Log out
• Lord Of The Flies (William Golding book)
• Lord Of The Rings (J R R Tolkien book)
• Make like a tree and leave
• Memoirs Of A Geisha (Arthur Golden book)
• Mr. Midshipman Easy (Frederick Marryat book)
• Never judge a book by its cover
• Night Watch (Terry Pratchett book)
• Nine ladies dancing (line from A Partridge In A Pear Tree)
• Nineteen Eighty-Four (George Orwell book)
• Notes From The Underground (Fyodor Dostoevsky book)
• Noughts And Crosses (book series by Malorie Blackman)
• Of Mice And Men (John Steinbeck book)
• Off the record
• On The Origin Of Species (Charles Darwin book)
• On The Road (Jack Kerouac book)
• On the critical list
• On the record
• On the sick list
• One Hundred Years Of Solitude (Gabriel Garcia Marquez book)
• One for the book
• Open book
• Outside of a dog, a book is man's best friend. Inside of a dog it's too dark to read (Groucho Marx line)
• Play it by the book
• Rock a bye baby on the tree top, when the wind blows the cradle will rock (line from nursery rhyme)
• Round Ireland With A Fridge (Tony Hawks book)
• Sawing logs
• Schindler's List (Steven Spielberg movie)
• Set the record straight
• Seven swans a-swimming (line from A Partridge In A Pear Tree)
• Short list
• Six geese a-laying (line from A Partridge In A Pear Tree)
• Sleep like a log
• Stem the tide
• Swallows And Amazons (children's adventure story by Arthur Ransome)
• Take note of
• Talking Book (Stevie Wonder album)
• Ten lords a-leaping (line from A Partridge In A Pear Tree)
• Tess Of The D'Urbervilles (Thomas Hardy book)
• The Age Of Reason (Jean Paul Sartre book)
• The Art Of The Deal (Donald Trump slogan and book title)
• The BFG - Big Friendly Giant (Roald Dahl book)
• The Buddha Of Suburbia (Hanif Kureishi book)
• The Catcher in the Rye (J D Salinger book)
• The Count of Monte Cristo (Alexandre Dumas book)
• The Day Of The Jackal (Frederick Forsyth book)
• The Devil Wears Prada (Lauren Weisberger book)
• The Devil's Dictionary (Ambrose Bierce book)
• The Famous Five (characters in Enid Blyton's series of children's book)
• The French Have A Word For It (Josh Lanyon book)
• The Garden Of Eden (Ernest Hemingway book)
• The Ghost In The Machine (Arthur Koestler book)
• The Go-Between (L. P. Hartley book)
• The God Of Small Things (Arundhati Roy book)
• The Godfather (Mario Puzo book)
• The Good Book
• The Great Gatsby (F Scott Fitzgerald book)
• The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy (Douglas Adams book)
• The Hobbit (J R R Tokien book)
• The Hound Of The Baskervilles (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle book)
• The Hunger Games (Suzanne Collins book)
• The Hypochondriac's Guide To Life And Death (Gene Weingarten book)
• The Importance Of Being Earnest (Oscar Wilde book)
• The Joshua Tree (U2 album)
• The Jungle Book (Disney cartoon movie)
• The Man Who Mistook His Wife For A Hat And Other Clinical Tales (Oliver Sacks book)
• The Mirror Cracked From Side To Side (Agatha Christie book title)
• The Name Of The Rose (Umberto Eco book)
• The Odyssey (Homer book)
• The Picture Of Dorian Gray (Oscar Wilde book)
• The Pilgrim's Progress (John Bunyan book)
• The Princess Diaries (Meg Cabot book)
• The Purloined Letter (Edgar Allan Poe book)
• The Rape Of The Lock (Alexander Pope book)
• The Riddle Of The Sands (Erskine Childers book)
• The Secret Garden (Frances Hodgson Burnett book)
• The Story Of Tracy Beaker (children's story by Jacqueline Wilson)
• The Tenderness Of Wolves (Stef Penney book)
• The Thorn Birds (Colleen McCollough book)
• The Three Musketeers (Alexandre Dumas book)
• The Wind in the Willows (children's book by Kenneth Grahame)
• The Woman In White (Wilkie Collins book)
• The apple never falls far from the tree
• The fruit does not fall far from the tree
• The tree is known by its fruit
• Three French hens (line from A Partridge In A Pear Tree)
• Through The Looking Glass, And What Alice Found There (Lewis Carroll book)
• Throw Another Log On The Fire (Outlaws song)
• Throw the book at someone
• Tie a Yellow Ribbon Round the Ole Oak Tree (Dawn with Tony Orlando song)
• Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy (John Le Carre book)
• Tonight's top ten list (A catchphrase from David Letterman In The Late Show)
• Top of the tree
• Track record
• Treasure Island (Robert Louis Stevenson book)
• Tree hugger
• Twelve drummers drumming (line from A Partridge In A Pear Tree)
• Two turtle doves (line from A Partridge In A Pear Tree)
• Under the greenwood tree
• Up a gum tree
• Vanity Fair (William Makepeace Thackeray book)
• Vicky Angel (children's book by Jacqueline Wilson)
• War and Peace (Leo Tolstoy book)
• Watership Down (Richard Adams book)
• We Need To Talk About Kevin (Lionel Shriver book)
• Winnie the Pooh (children's book by A A Milne)
• Woodman spare that tree
• World record
• Wuthering Heights (Emily Bronte book)
• You can't tell a book by looking at its cover