Manilla Phrases

Phrases

• As brown as a berry
• As busy as a one armed paper hanger
• Bad paper
• 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
• Couldn't act his way out of a paper bag
• 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)
• He went to bed and bound his head with vinegar and brown paper (line from nursery rhyme)
• How now brown cow?
• In a brown study
• It sounds alright on paper
• It's A Man's World (James Brown song)
• Jackie Brown (Quentin Tarantino movie)
• Light the blue touch paper and retire
• Little Brown Jug (Glenn Miller tune)
• Not worth the paper it's printed on
• On paper
• Papa's Got A Brand New Bag (James Brown song)
• Paper Doll (Mills Brothers song)
• Paper millionaire
• Paper over the cracks
• Paper profit
• Paper the house
• Paper thin
• Paper tiger
• Paper trail
• Put pen to paper
• 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 Godfather of Soul (Pseudonym of singer James Brown)
• The Pearl Of The Orient (Nickname of Manila Philippines)
• The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog
• Three Finger (Nickname of Mordecai Brown)
• Toxic paper
• You keep all your money in a big brown bag inside a zoo (Beatles song lyric)