Mandarin Phrases

Phrases

• A Clockwork Orange (Anthony Burgess book and Stanley Kubrick movie)
• A day without orange juice is like a day without sunshine (Florida Citrus Commission advertising slogan)
• Agent orange
• Are you a Cadbury's Fruit & Nut case? (Cadburys advertising slogan)
• As nutty as a fruit cake
• As queer as a chocolate orange
• As tight as a duck's arse
• Bear fruit
• Brazil, Russia, India And China - BRIC
• China doll
• China plate (Cockney rhyming slang for mate)
• China price
• China syndrome
• China white
• Clearly Canadian Sparkling Mineral Water in Wild Fruit Flavours (Adelma Mineral Waters advertising slogan)
• Dead duck
• Democracy Wall (wall in Bejing China where dissidents post letters poems etc)
• Don't forget the fruit gums Mum (Rowntrees advertising slogan)
• Duck Soup (Marx Brothers movie)
• Duck squeezer
• Duck the question
• Everyone's a Cadbury's Fruit and Nut Case (Cadbury's Fruit and Nut advertising slogan)
• F*ck a duck
• Forbidden fruit
• Fruit cake
• Honey, I just forgot to duck
• If it looks like a duck and it quacks like a duck, it probably is a duck
• It's not just for breakfast anymore (Florida Orange Juice Growers Association advertising slogan)
• Knee high to a duck
• Lame duck
• Le Grand Orange (Nickname of Daniel Staub)
• Like a bull in a china shop
• Like a duck to water
• Like water off a duck's back
• Lord love a duck
• Low hanging fruit
• My old china (Cockney rhyming slang for mate)
• Not for all the tea in China
• Only Nixon could go to China
• Orange lovers got a crush on us (Orange Crush advertising slogan)
• Oranges are not the only fruit
• Out for a duck
• Potala Palace (tourist attraction in China)
• Rubber duck (a floating bath toy)
• Singing like a duck
• Sitting duck
• The Bamboo Curtain (notional barrier between capitalist West and communist China)
• The Big Orange (Nickname of Los Angeles California)
• The China Syndrome (Michael Douglas / Walter Matthau / Jane Fonda movie)
• The Chrysanthemum Throne (the traditional term for the reign of the Emperor of Japan)
• The Duchy Of Underground Orange (Nickname of Poznan Poland)
• The Five Orange Pips (Sherlock Holmes story)
• The Forbidden City (tourist attraction in Bejing China)
• The Great Wall of China (Nickname of Yao Ming)
• The Great Wall of China (tourist attraction in China)
• The Imperial Summer Palace (tourist attraction in China)
• The Venice of China (Nickname of Suzhou)
• The emperor's new clothes
• The fruit does not fall far from the tree
• The future's bright, the future's Orange (Orange mobile phones advertising slogan)
• The tree is known by its fruit
• Time flies like an arrow. Fruit flies like a banana (Groucho Marx line)
• What does that have to do with the price of tea in China?