Northwest Phrases

Phrases

• Big Bird (Nickname of Joel Garner - Barbados and West Indies cricketer)
• Big Joel (Nickname of Joel Garner - Barbados and West Indies cricketer)
• Come up and see me sometime (A catchphrase from Mae West)
• East is east and west is west
• East of the sun and west of the moon
• East, west, home's best
• Girl From The North Country (Bob Dylan song)
• Go West young man
• Hollywood North (Nickname of Vancouver British Columbia)
• How The West Was Won (James Stewart movie)
• It's grim up north
• Mr. Clutch (Nickname of Jerry West)
• North By Northwest (Cary Grant / Alfred Hitchcock movie)
• North To Alaska (John Wayne movie)
• North and south (Cockney rhyming slang for mouth)
• The Athens of The North (Nickname of the city of Edinburgh)
• The Backbone of North America (Nickname of The Rocky Mountains)
• The Bamboo Curtain (notional barrier between capitalist West and communist China)
• The Flickertail State (Nickname of the US state of North Dakota)
• The Gibraltar Of North America (Nickname of Quebec City Quebec)
• The Graveyard Of The Atlantic (Nickname of Cape Hatteras North Carolina)
• The Gun That Won The West (Nickname of the Colt revolver)
• The Heart Of The New West (Nickname of Calgary Alberta)
• The Hornet's Nest (Nickname of Charlotte North Carolina)
• The Hub Of The West Valley (Nickname of Reseda California)
• The Iron Curtain (notional barrier between capitalist West and communist states)
• The Nashville Of The North (Nickname of Edmonton Alberta)
• The North Of Bombay Hill (Nickname of Auckland New Zealand)
• The North wind doth blow and we shall have snow (line from nursery rhyme)
• The Paris Of The North (Nickname of Warsaw Poland)
• The Plymouth Of The West (Nickname of San Diego California)
• The Prince (Nickname of Brian Lara - West Indies cricketer)
• The Real West (Nickname of Pendelton Oregon)
• The Rome Of The North (Nickname of Prague Czech Republic)
• The Silicon Valley North (Nickname of Ottawa Ontario)
• The Sultan Of The West (Nickname of Mayaguez Puerto Rico)
• The Tater Town (Nickname of Hoople North Dakota)
• The West Coast Sound (Shelly Manne song)
• The West Coast Sound (name applied to Californian pop music, especially that of The Beach Boys)
• The Wild West
• The north south divide
• The top banana in the West (Hughes Air West advertising slogan)
• Tijuana North (Nickname of Windsor Ontario)
• Up North
• West Side Story (Leonard Bernstein musical and Natalie Wood movie)
• Whispering Death (Nickname of Michael Holding - West Indies cricketer)
• Wild Wild West (Nickname of Delonte West)
• You only live once, but if you do it right, once is enough (Mae West quotation)
• Zurich West (Nickname of Bern Switzerland)