Multimedia Phrases

Phrases

• A picture paints a thousand words
• All your base are belong to us (broken English phrase used in the video game Zero Wing)
• Are you a man or a mouse?
• As poor as a church mouse
• As pretty as a picture
• As quiet as a mouse
• As sound as a bell
• Big picture
• Born within the sound of Bow Bells
• Break the sound barrier
• Brum brum (child's play idiom expressing the sound of a vehicle)
• Call of Duty (video game title)
• Cat and mouse game
• Code monkey (slang term for a computer programmer)
• Computer assisted
• Computer nerd
• Computer says no (A catchphrase from Little Britain)
• Dial down (adjust a device to reduce sound or temperature)
• Do I have to paint you a picture?
• Dude, you're gettin' a Dell! (Dell Computer advertising slogan)
• Ear popping (a sound that is loud or that catches the attention)
• Easy as Dell (Dell Computer advertising slogan)
• Eating pate de fois gras to the sound of trumpets
• Empowering the Internet Generation (Cisco advertising slogan)
• Every picture tells a story (Doanes Backache Kidney Pills advertising slogan)
• Everything is easier on a Mac (Apple Computer advertising slogan)
• For the rest of us (Apple Computer advertising slogan)
• Get the picture
• Grand Theft Auto (video game title)
• Here I come to save the day (A catchphrase from Mighty Mouse)
• Hickory dickory dock the mouse ran up the clock (line from nursery rhyme)
• In love with the sound of your own voice
• In the picture
• Is it live, or is it Memorex? (Memorex video cassettes advertising slogan)
• It was the night before Christmas and all round the house, not a creature was stirring, not even a mouse
• It's the Internet that logs onto you (SBC-Yahoo! DSL advertising slogan)
• Liberal media
• Marching to the sound of a different drum
• Mario Kart (video game title)
• Media circus
• Media frenzy
• Mickey Mouse organisation
• Mighty Mouse (Nickname of Damon Stoudamire)
• Mixed media
• Motion picture
• Motion picture event
• Mouse potato
• Multimedia you can use (Apple Computer advertising slogan)

• No HMV, no video (HMV advertising slogan)
• Out of the picture
• Participatory media
• Picture of health
• Picture perfect
• Power is Macintosh (Apple Computer advertising slogan)
• Press pass (a priority ticket giving access to events to the media)
• Primal Rage (film and video game)
• Put in the picture
• Rip mix burn (Apple Computer advertising slogan)
• Run toward the sound of gunfire
• Safe and sound
• See the bigger picture
• Social media
• Sonic the Hedgehog (video game title)
• Sound bite
• Sound effect
• Sound off at
• Sound out
• Sound the alarm
• Straight to video
• Streaming video
• Super Mario Brothers (video game title)
• Surfing the Internet
• Surround sound
• The Internet at Work (UUNET advertising slogan)
• The Internet of things
• The Last Picture Show (Jeff Bridges movie)
• The Mersey sound
• The Mouse (Nickname of Bruce Strauss)
• The Picture Of Dorian Gray (Oscar Wilde book)
• The Sims (video game title)
• The Sound Of Music (Julie Andrews movie)
• The Sound Of Silence (Simon and Garfunkel song)
• The West Coast Sound (Shelly Manne song)
• The West Coast Sound (name applied to Californian pop music, especially that of The Beach Boys)
• The internet for a tenner a month (Demon Internet Ltd advertising slogan)
• The network is the computer (Sun Microsystems advertising slogan)
• The power to be your best (Apple Computer advertising slogan)
• The sound of leather on willow (sound of the ball on the bat in cricket)
• Think different (Apple Computer advertising slogan)
• Think outside the box (Apple Computer advertising slogan)
• To err is human, but to really foul things up requires a computer
• Training video
• Video Killed The Radio Star (The Buggles song)
• Video nasty (a violent or horrific video)
• Want a better Internet? You belong at America Online (AOL advertising slogan)
• What's wrong with this picture?
• Wired for sound