Navy Phrases

Phrases

• A child is an island of curiosity surrounded by a sea of question marks (Shell advertising slogan)
• A life on the ocean waves
• Abandon ship
• Accelerate your life (US Navy advertising slogan)
• Ahoy there
• Air Force blue
• All aboard
• All aboard that's coming aboard
• All at sea
• All hands on deck
• All hands to the pump
• Anchors aweigh
• As cold as blue blazes
• As hot as blue blazes
• Batten down the hatches
• Beat someone black and blue
• Between the Devil and the deep blue sea
• Beyond the blue horizon
• Big Blue (Nickname of International Business Machines (IBM))
• Black and blue
• Blue Bayou (Elvis Presley song)
• Blue Eyes (Elton John song)
• Blue Jay Way (Beatles song)
• Blue Monday
• Blue Monday (Van Morrison song)
• Blue Moon (Nickname of baseball player John Odom)
• Blue Suede Shoes (Elvis Presley song)
• Blue Velvet (David Lynch movie)
• Blue are the hills that are far away
• Blue blood
• Blue chip investment
• Blue collar worker
• Blue humour
• Blue in the face
• Blue murder
• Blue plate special (a set meal provided at a reduced price)
• Blue rinse
• Blue rinse brigade
• Blue screen of death
• Blue sky thinking
• Blue star (A slang name for ecstasy pills)
• Bolt from the blue
• Boys in blue
• Bring into blue
• Britannia rules the waves
• Castles made of sand fall into the sea eventually
• Clap him in irons
• Clear blue water
• Clear the decks
• Cobalt blue
• Come about
• Cornflower blue
• Cross into the Blue (United States Air Force advertising slogan)
• Cut and run
• Davy Jones' locker
• Deep sea data diving
• Deeper Than The Deep Blue Sea (Frank Sinatra song)
• Don't give up the ship (Cutty Sark Whisky advertising slogan)
• Don't make waves
• Don't spoil the ship for a ha'pworth of tar
• Eton blue
• Feeling blue
• Fleet footed
• Fleet of foot
• Flotsam and jetsam
• For keener refreshment (Pabst Blue Ribbon advertising slogan)
• From sea to shining sea
• Full fathom five
• Get down Shep (A catchphrase from John Noakes On Blue Peter)
• Go by the board
• Go down with the ship
• Hands across the sea
• Hello sailor
• Here's one I prepared earlier (A catchphrase from Blue Peter)
• I've been brokenhearted, blue since the day we parted (ABBA lyric)
• If all the world were Jell-O, And whipped cream filled the sea, Then the only spoon from here to the moon Would have to belong to me (Jell-O Gelatin Dessert advertising slogan)
• In a blue funk
• In the offing
• Into the wild blue yonder
• It's All Over Now Baby Blue (Bob Dylan song)
• Jolly jack tar
• Jump ship
• Kind Of Blue (Miles Davis tune and album)
• Kiss me Hardy (Admiral Nelson quotation)
• Know the ropes
• Learn the ropes
• Light the blue touch paper and retire
• Like a blue arsed fly
• Like a bolt from the blue
• Like rats leaving a sinking ship
• Little Boy Blue come blow your horn (line from nursery rhyme)
• Loose cannon
• Men in blue
• Midnight blue
• Mother ship
• My Blue Heaven (Gene Austin song)
• My blue heaven
• My ship has come in
• Navy blue
• Old Blue Eyes (Nickname of Frank Sinatra)
• On the fiddle
• Once in a blue moon
• Out of the blue
• Out of the clear blue sky
• Oxford Blue
• Pipe down
• Press into service
• Rear admiral (naval rank)
• Refresh! Rejoice! Remember! Pabst gets the call (Pabst Blue Ribbon advertising slogan)
• Rhapsody In Blue (George Gershwin composition)
• Roses are red, violets are blue
• Royal blue
• Rum do
• Run a tight ship
• Sailing under false colours
• Sailor's farewell
• Scream blue murder
• Sea Bass (Nickname of Sebastian Janikowski)
• Sea change
• Sea level
• Senior Service satisfy (Senior Service cigarettes advertising slogan)
• Set sail
• Shake a leg
• Shape up or ship out
• She sells sea shells on the sea shore
• Ship of fools
• Ship shape and Bristol fashion
• Ship to shore
• Shiver me timbers
• Show a leg
• Sky blue
• Something old, something new, something borrowed, something blue
• Son of a gun
• Sound out
• Sun, sea and sand
• Swing the lead
• Take a blue pencil to
• Take the king's shilling
• Taken aback
• Talk a blue streak
• Tangled Up In Blue (Bob Dylan song)
• That ship has sailed
• The Adventure of the Blue Carbuncle (Sherlock Holmes story)
• The Adventure of the Naval Treaty (Sherlock Holmes story)
• The Andrew
• The Big Ship Sails on The Ally-Ally-Oh (line from nursery rhyme)
• The Blue End State (Nickname of the US state of Delaware)
• The Blue Mosque (tourist attraction in Turkey)
• The Bride Of The Sea (Nickname of Venice Italy)
• The Demon Barber of Fleet Street (Nickname of Sweeney Todd)
• The Home Of Paul Bunyan And Babe The Blue Ox (Nickname of Westwood California, Brainerd Minnesota and Bemidji Minnesota)
• The Old Man And The Sea (Spencer Tracy movie)
• The Owl and the Pussycat went to sea in a beautiful pea-green boat (line from nursery rhyme)
• The air was blue
• The bitter end
• The deep blue sea
• There's plenty more fish in the sea
• This precious stone set in the silver sea, this sceptered isle
• Three sheets to the wind
• True Blue (Madonna album)
• True blue
• Turning blue
• Twenty thousand leagues under the sea
• Walk the plank
• Wide blue yonder
• Women and children first
• Yo ho ho and a bottle of rum
• You know what sailors are