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259 phrases and expressions related to "nation".

Phrases

  • A horse, a horse, my kingdom for a horse
  • A nation of shopkeepers
  • A prophet is not recognized in his own land
  • Affluent society
  • All the lonely people, where do they all come from? (Beatles song lyric)
  • America's Dairyland (Nickname of the US state of Wisconsin)
  • An everyday story of country folk (A catchphrase from The Archers)
  • Ancient Chinese secret (Calgon advertising slogan)
  • As many chins as a Chinese phone book
  • Ask not what your country can do for you, but what you can do for your country
  • Banana republic
  • Big Country (Nickname of basketball player Bryant Reeves)
  • Boat race (Cockney rhyming slang for face)
  • Cafe society
  • Chinese burn
  • Chinese fire drill
  • Chinese homer
  • Chinese whispers
  • Chopsticks are one of the reasons the Chinese never invented custard (Spike Milligan line)
  • Cloud cuckoo land
  • Coin of the realm
  • Colorful Colorado (Nickname of the US state of Colorado)
  • Come home to Birds Eye Country (Birds Eye Frozen Foods advertising slogan)
  • Come to Marlboro Country (Marlboro Cigarettes advertising slogan)
  • Computers help people help people (IBM advertising slogan)
  • Connecting people (Nokia advertising slogan)
  • Country Pie (Bob Dylan song)
  • Country cousin
  • Country gentleman
  • Country house hotel (an upmarket hotel located in a revamped rural mansion)
  • Country pursuits
  • Country rock
  • Country sports
  • Cry the beloved country
  • Dark And Bloody Ground (Nickname of the US state of Kentucky)
  • Don't you people have homes to go to?
  • Egg and spoon race
  • Empire State Building
  • Empire State of Mind (Jay-Z with Alicia Keys song)
  • Far better for being near to you (The Chesham Building Society advertising slogan)
  • Fcuk advertising (French Connection United Kingdom advertising slogan)
  • First World (the indutrialised affluent and wealthy nations)
  • Forward with the People (Daily Mirror advertising slogan)
  • From the Land of Sky-Blue Waters (Hamm's Beer advertising slogan)
  • Games people play
  • Genius bonus (a joke or theme added to a programme aimed at well informed people)
  • Girl From The North Country (Bob Dylan song)
  • Go to the country
  • God's chosen country
  • God's own country (Kerala, India advertising slogan)
  • Great Land (Nickname of the US state of Alaska)
  • He's a real nowhere man sitting in his nowhere land (The Beatles song lyric)
  • Heart of Dixie (Nickname of the US state of Alabama)
  • Hell is other people (Jean-Paul Sartre quotation)
  • High occupancy vehicle lane (a traffic lane reserved for vehicles carrying several people)
  • Hold a mirror up to society
  • How To Win Friends And Influence People (Dale Carnegie book)
  • How does it feel to be one of the beautiful people? (Beatles song lyric)
  • I see dead people (The Sixth Sense)
  • I'm good enough, I'm smart enough, and doggone it, people like me! (A catchphrase from Stuart Smiley In Saturday Night Live)
  • If enough people would stop smoking and start drinking, we could get out of ashtrays and into vermouth (Cinzano advertising slogan)
  • If you keep late hours for Society's sake, Bromo-Seltzer will cure that headache (Bromo-Seltzer advertising slogan)
  • In a state of undress
  • In the kingdom of the blind the one eyed man is king
  • In the land of Nod
  • In the land of the living
  • Investments with Abbey endings (Abbey National Building Society advertising slogan)
  • It Takes People Like You To Make People Like Me (Buck Owens song)
  • It is easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle, than for a rich man to enter into the kingdom of God
  • It's a free country
  • It's all about you (People Telecom advertising slogan)
  • Join the Pepsi People (Pepsi advertising slogan)
  • La la land
  • Land ahoy
  • Land grab
  • Land locked
  • Land of hope and glory
  • Land of make believe
  • Land of milk and honey
  • Land of nod
  • Land of the pharaohs
  • Land office business
  • Land on your feet
  • Land up in
  • Land's sake
  • Lend a hand on the land (WWII slogan)
  • Lie in state
  • Like a good neighbor (State Farm)
  • Like a good neighbor, State Farm is there (State Farm Insurance advertising slogan)
  • Little Rhody (Nickname of the US state of Rhode Island)
  • Living off the fat of the land
  • Married state
  • Mother country
  • My country right or wrong
  • Nanny state
  • Never never land
  • No man's land
  • Not a lot of people know that (A catchphrase from Michael Caine)
  • Of the people, for the people, by the people
  • Parlous state
  • Pay your debt to society
  • People carrier (a car with several passenger seats)
  • People in here are trying to sleep
  • People mover (a car with several passenger seats)
  • People of colour
  • People person
  • People power
  • People smuggler (someone involved in smuggling immigrants between countries, often illegally)
  • People watching
  • People who like people like Dial (Dial Soap advertising slogan)
  • People who live in glass houses shouldn't throw stones
  • People's republic (a communist state)
  • Piss like a race horse
  • Places to go, people to see, things to do
  • Play it again, Sam (New York State Lottery advertising slogan)
  • Play the race card
  • Pleasing people the world over (Holiday Inn advertising slogan)
  • Police state
  • Polite society
  • Power to the people
  • Pumped Up Kicks (Foster the People song)
  • Race against the clock
  • Race against time
  • Race for the taste, the honey sweet taste!, the honey-nutty taste of Honey Nut Cheerios (Cheerios Cereals advertising slogan)
  • Race proven performance (Kumho Tires advertising slogan)
  • Race to the bottom
  • Rat race
  • Real food for real people (The beef industry advertising slogan)
  • Sack race
  • Sad state of affairs
  • Scent to bed (French Connection United Kingdom advertising slogan)
  • Something is rotten in the state of Denmark
  • State of Independence (Saab advertising slogan)
  • State of mind
  • State of the art
  • The Amazing Race (US TV show)
  • The Apache State (Nickname of the US state of Arizona)
  • The Artesian State (Nickname of the US state of South Dakota)
  • The Auto State (Nickname of the US state of Michigan)
  • The Aztec State (Nickname of the US state of Arizona)
  • The Badger State (Nickname of the US state of Wisconsin)
  • The Battle-Born State (Nickname of the US state of Nevada)
  • The Bay State (Nickname of the US state of Massachusetts)
  • The Bayou State (Nickname of the US state of Mississippi)
  • The Bear State (Nickname of the US state of Arkansas)
  • The Beaver State (Nickname of the US state of Oregon)
  • The Beef State (Nickname of the US state of Nebraska)
  • The Beehive State (Nickname of the US state of Utah)
  • The Big Bend State (Nickname of the US state of Tennessee)
  • The Birth of a Nation (D W Griffith / Lillian Gish movie)
  • The Blizzards State (Nickname of the US state of South Dakota)
  • The Blue End State (Nickname of the US state of Delaware)
  • The Bluegrass State (Nickname of the US state of Kentucky)
  • The Bread-And-Butter State (Nickname of the US state of Minnesota)
  • The Buckeye State (Nickname of the US state of Ohio)
  • The Bullion State (Nickname of the US state of Missouri)
  • The Buzzard State (Nickname of the US state of Georgia)
  • The Camellia State (Nickname of the US state of Alabama)
  • The Centennial State (Nickname of the US state of Colorado)
  • The Chinook State (Nickname of the US state of Washington)
  • The Cockade State (Nickname of the US state of Maryland)
  • The Constitution State (Nickname of the US state of Connecticut)
  • The Copper State (Nickname of the US state of Arizona)
  • The Corn State (Nickname of the US state of Iowa)
  • The Cornhusker State (Nickname of the US state of Nebraska)
  • The Cotton State (Nickname of the US state of Alabama)
  • The Cowboy State (Nickname of the US state of Wyoming)
  • The Coyote State (Nickname of the US state of South Dakota)
  • The Cracker State (Nickname of the US state of Georgia)
  • The Creole State (Nickname of the US state of Louisiana)
  • The Diamond State (Nickname of the US state of Delaware)
  • The Empire State (Nickname of the US state of New York)
  • The Empire State (Nickname of the US state of South Georgia)
  • The Empire State Building (tourist attraction in New York USA)
  • The Equality State (Nickname of the US state of Wyoming)
  • The Everglade State (Nickname of the US state of Florida)
  • The Evergreen State (Nickname of the US state of Washington)
  • The First State (Nickname of the US state of Delaware)
  • The Flickertail State (Nickname of the US state of North Dakota)
  • The Foreigner State (Nickname of the US state of New Jersey)
  • The Free State (Nickname of the US state of Maryland)
  • The Gamecock State (Nickname of the US state of South Carolina)
  • The Garden State (Nickname of the US state of New Jersey)
  • The Gem State (Nickname of the US state of Idaho)
  • The Golden State (Nickname of the US state of California)
  • The Goober State (Nickname of the US state of Georgia)
  • The Gopher State (Nickname of the US state of Minnesota)
  • The Grand Canyon State (Nickname of the US state of Arizona)
  • The Granite State (Nickname of the US state of New Hampshire)
  • The Great Lake State (Nickname of the US state of Michigan)
  • The Green Mountain State (Nickname of the US state of Vermont)
  • The Guinea Pig State (Nickname of the US state of Arkansas)
  • The Hawkeye State (Nickname of the US state of Iowa)
  • The Heart Of Europe (Nickname of Prague Czech Republic)
  • The Hog And Hominy State (Nickname of the US state of Tennessee)
  • The Hoozier State (Nickname of the US state of Indiana)
  • The Hot Water State (Nickname of the US state of Arkansas)
  • The Iodine State (Nickname of the US state of South Carolina)
  • The Jayhawker State (Nickname of the US state of Kansas)
  • The Jumbo State (Nickname of the US state of Texas)
  • The Keystone State (Nickname of the US state of Pennsylvania)
  • The Kingdom Of Potatoes (Nickname of Poznan Poland)
  • The Land of The Rising Sun (Nickname of Japan)
  • The Last Frontier (Nickname of the US state of Alaska)
  • The Lone Star State (Nickname of the US state of Texas)
  • The Magnolia State (Nickname of the US state of Mississippi)
  • The Master Race
  • The People's Champ (Nickname of Freddie Mitchell)
  • The People's Cherce (Nickname of Dixie Walker)
  • The People's Princess (Nickname of Diana Princess of Wales)
  • The People's Republic Of Berkeley (Nickname of Berkeley California)
  • The People's Republic Of Cambridge (Nickname of Cambridge Massachusetts)
  • The People's Republic of South Yorkshire (Nickname of Sheffield England)
  • The Rome Of The North (Nickname of Prague Czech Republic)
  • The Socialist Republic Of South Yorkshire (Nickname of Sheffield England)
  • The Steel Heart Of The Republic (Nickname of Ostrava Czech Republic)
  • The Waste Land
  • The animal kingdom
  • The human race
  • The keys to the kingdom
  • The land of Nod
  • The land of the free
  • The land that time forgot
  • The law of the land
  • The lay of the land
  • The length and breadth of the land
  • The lie of the land
  • The little people
  • The old country
  • The past is a foreign country: they do things differently there (the opening line of The Go-Between)
  • The people's choice (a person or thing chosen by public acclamation)
  • The race is not to the swift, nor the battle to the strong (quotation from the Bible - Ecclesiastes
  • The station of the nation (Radio Caroline advertising slogan)
  • This Hard Land (Bruce Springsteen song)
  • This Land Is Your Land (Woody Guthrie song)
  • This line of country
  • Thus far into the bowels of the land
  • To call you stupid would be an insult to stupid people! (line from the movie A Fish Called Wanda)
  • To kingdom come
  • To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that is all (Oscar Wilde quotation)
  • Top people take the Times (The Times advertising slogan)
  • Two and eight (Cockney rhyming slang for state)
  • Victory won't wait for the nation that's late (Big Ben Clocks advertising slogan)
  • We make things that bring people closer (Western Electrics advertising slogan)
  • We the people
  • We're with the Woolwich (Woolwich Building Society advertising slogan)
  • When E F Hutton talks, people listen (EF Hutton advertising slogan)
  • Where rocking horse people eat marshmallow pies (Beatles song lyric)
  • Wherever particular people congregate (Pall Mall Cigarettes advertising slogan)
  • Who are the people in your neighborhood?
  • Win friends and influence people
  • With you, all the way (State Bank of India advertising slogan)
  • Y.M.C.A. (Village People song)
  • You are now free to move about the country (Southwest Airlines advertising slogan)
  • You meet the nicest people on a Honda (Honda advertising slogan)
  • You'll never put a better bit of butter on your knife (Country Life butter advertising slogan)
  • You're Wendy's kind of people (Wendy Burgers advertising slogan)
  • You, of all people (exclamation when meeting someone unexpectedly)
  • Your country needs you