Phrase thesaurus
Noise Phrases
55 phrases and expressions related to "noise".
Phrases
- A bull and cow (Cockney rhyming slang for row or argument)
- As camp as a row of tents
- As sound as a bell
- At sixty miles an hour the loudest noise in the new Rolls-Royce comes from the electric clock (Rolls Royce advertising slogan)
- Big noise
- Born within the sound of Bow Bells
- Break the sound barrier
- Brum brum (child's play idiom expressing the sound of a vehicle)
- Cellarful of noise
- Clang clang clang went the trolley (Frank Sinatra and Judy Garland song lyric)
- Desolation Row (Bob Dylan song)
- Dial down (adjust a device to reduce sound or temperature)
- Drowned out
- Ear popping (a sound that is loud or that catches the attention)
- Ear splitting
- Eating pate de fois gras to the sound of trumpets
- Empty vessels make the most noise
- Get your ducks in a row
- Hard row to hoe
- Hustle and bustle
- I love deadlines. I love the whooshing noise they make as they go by (Douglas Adams quotation)
- In love with the sound of your own voice
- It's the empty can that makes the most noise
- Kick up a stink
- Make some noise
- Marching to the sound of a different drum
- Murderers' Row (A baseball expression denoting a group of talented individuals or valuable assets)
- Noises off
- On death row
- On skid row
- People in here are trying to sleep
- Radio singing
- Raise the dead
- Row up Salt River
- Row, row, row your boat
- Run toward the sound of gunfire
- Safe and sound
- Signal to noise ratio
- Sound bite
- Sound effect
- Sound off at
- Sound out
- Sound the alarm
- Surround sound
- The Mersey sound
- 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 sound of leather on willow (sound of the ball on the bat in cricket)
- Tough row to hoe
- White noise
- Wired for sound
- With silver bells and cockle shells and pretty maids all in a row (line from nursery rhyme)
- You're a better man than I Gunga Din