Mahogany Phrases

Phrases

• A splash of colour
• As brown as a berry
• As solid as an oak
• Brown Eyes Handsome Man (Jerry Lee Lewis song)
• Brown Sugar (Rolling Stones song)
• Brown bag lunch
• Brown bread (Cockney rhyming slang for dead)
• Brown nosing
• Brown out (partial loss of electricity)
• Brown sugar (slang term for heroin)
• Brown trousers
• Buffalo Butt (Nickname of Nathan Bookman (Johnny Brown))
• Capability Brown (Nickname of Lancelot Brown)
• Change into your brown trousers
• Chocolate is better in colour (M&M's advertising slogan)
• Colour coded
• Colour coordinated
• Colour me gone
• Colour me happy
• Colour my world
• Colour one's view
• Colour up
• Don't say brown - say Hovis (Hovis Bread advertising slogan)
• Downtown Brown (Nickname of Marcel Brown (Tim Reid))
• Downtown Freddie (Nickname of basketball player Fred Brown)
• Gentlemen of colour
• He went to bed and bound his head with vinegar and brown paper (line from nursery rhyme)
• Hearts of oak
• Horse of a different colour
• How now brown cow?
• In a brown study
• It's A Man's World (James Brown song)
• Jackie Brown (Quentin Tarantino movie)
• Lend colour to
• Let's see the colour of your money
• Little Brown Jug (Glenn Miller tune)
• Live Oak (Nickname of Edward S.Taylor)
• Off colour
• Old chestnut
• Papa's Got A Brand New Bag (James Brown song)
• People of colour
• Riot of colour
• Say It Loud I'm Black And I'm Proud (James Brown song)
• See what brown can do for you (UPS advertising slogan)
• Super Bad (James Brown song)
• The Brown Bomber (Nickname of Joe Louis)
• The Colour Of My Love (Celine Dion album)
• The Godfather of Soul (Pseudonym of singer James Brown)
• The Oak (Nickname of Stockholm Sweden)
• The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog
• Three Finger (Nickname of Mordecai Brown)
• Tie a Yellow Ribbon Round the Ole Oak Tree (Dawn with Tony Orlando song)
• What colour is the sky in your world?
• When the oak is before the ash, then you will only get a splash; when the ash
• You can have any colour as long as it's black
• You keep all your money in a big brown bag inside a zoo (Beatles song lyric)