Olympics Phrases

Phrases

• A pot of gold
• After The Gold Rush (Neil Young song)
• All roads lead to Rome
• All that glisters is not gold
• As good as gold
• Baby Braves (Nickname of a group of Atlanta Braves)
• Bang, bang, Maxwell's silver hammer came down upon her head (The Beatles song lyric)
• Be a good sport
• Boat race (Cockney rhyming slang for face)
• Born To Run (Bruce Springsteen song)
• Born with a silver spoon in his mouth
• Bun run
• Business is like a car, it will not run by itself except downhill
• Coffee at its best (Nescafe Gold Blend advertising slogan)
• Contact sport
• Crock of gold
• Cross my palm with silver
• Cut and run
• Dogwood City (Nickname of Atlanta Georgia)
• Don't try to run before you can walk
• Dry run
• Eat and run
• Egg and spoon race
• Every dark cloud has a silver lining
• Fiddling while Rome burns
• Five for silver (Magpie nursery rhyme)
• Fool's gold (a brassy yellow mineral that the inexperienced prospector may mistake for gold)
• Get a gold star (earn a merit point for doing well)
• Go for gold
• Go over to Rome (Adopt the Catholic faith)
• Going going gone (A baseball expression by which an announcer describes a home run that is heading over the fence)
• Gold digger
• Good as gold (Golden Flake Potato Chips advertising slogan)
• Good sport
• Had a good run
• Half the fun is getting there (Olympic Airways advertising slogan)
• Heart Of Gold (Neil Young song)
• Heart of gold
• Hit and run
• Hiyo Silver away (A catchphrase from The Lone Ranger)
• Hold with the hare and run with the hounds
• Home run
• In the long run
• In the short run
• Is your film as good as Gold? (Kodak advertising slogan)
• It's not the winning that counts, it's the taking part
• Let your imagination run riot
• Maxwell's Silver Hammer (The Beatles song)
• Not a cough in a carload (Old Gold Cigarettes advertising slogan)
• On the run
• Piss like a race horse
• Play the race card
• Pure gold (Benson & Hedges advertising slogan)
• 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
• Rome wasn't built in a day
• Run For Your Life (The Beatles song)
• Run Forrest, Run! (line from the movie Forrest Gump)
• Run a fever
• Run a tight ship
• Run along
• Run amuck
• Run for cover
• Run for the border (Taco advertising slogan)
• Run for the hills
• Run for your life
• Run for your money
• Run it up the flagpole and see who salutes
• Run its course
• Run like the wind
• Run of the Millsap (Nickname of Paul Millsap)
• Run of the mill
• Run off at the mouth
• Run off your feet
• Run out of gas
• Run out of steam
• Run out of town on a rail
• Run rabbit, run rabbit, run run run
• Run rings around
• Run the gauntlet
• Run the plates
• Run the risk
• Run to fat
• Run to ground
• Run to seed
• Run toward the sound of gunfire
• Run with the ball
• Run with the hare and hunt with the hounds
• Run yourself ragged
• Sack race
• See how they run like pigs from a gun (The Beatles song lyric)
• See the face you love light up with Terry's All Gold (Terrys Chocolates advertising slogan)
• Selling the family silver
• Silver Blaze (Sherlock Holmes story)
• Silver bullet (a simple and seeming effortless solution to a difficult problem)
• Silver circle
• Silver fox (a handsome grey-haired man)
• Silver screen
• Silver service (a method of serving food using silver cutlery)
• Silver surfer (an older person who uses the World Wide Web)
• Silver threads amongst the gold (blonde hair that is turning grey)
• Silver tongued (eloquent or persuasive manner of speech)
• Silver wedding (a celebration of twenty-five years of marriage)
• Six for gold (Magpie nursery rhyme)
• Speech is silver but silence is golden
• St Peter's Basilica (tourist attraction in Rome Italy)
• Star of the silver screen
• Still waters run deep
• Sue grabbit and run
• TV gold
• Take the money and run
• That Silver-Haired Daddy of Mine (Gene Autry song)
• The Amazing Race (US TV show)
• The Bronze Goddess of Fire (Nickname of LaWanda Page)
• The Eternal City (Nickname of the city of Rome)
• The Gold Rush (Charlie Chaplin movie)
• The Gold Standard
• The Master Race
• The New York Of The South (Nickname of Atlanta Georgia)
• The Olympic ideal
• The Rome Of The North (Nickname of Prague Czech Republic)
• The Silver Fox (Nickname of Edwin Snider)
• The Silver Prince (Nickname of Sourav Ganguly - Indian cricketer)
• The Third Rome (Nickname of Moscow Russia)
• The course of true love never did run smooth
• The family silver
• The human race
• The pot of gold at the end of the rainbow
• The race is not to the swift, nor the battle to the strong (quotation from the Bible - Ecclesiastes
• The sport of kings
• The streets of London are paved with gold
• There's gold in them thar hills
• This one will run and run
• This precious stone set in the silver sea, this sceptered isle
• Three blind mice, see how they run (line from nursery rhyme)
• To gild refined gold, to paint the lily
• We're tobacco men not medicine men. Old Gold cures just one thing. The World's Best Tobacco (Old Gold Cigarettes advertising slogan)
• When in Rome, do as the Romans do
• Winning is the mark of the Rebel (Rebel Sport advertising slogan)
• With a hearty hiho Silver
• With silver bells and cockle shells and pretty maids all in a row (line from nursery rhyme)
• Worth one's weight in gold
• You can run but you can't hide