Pagoda Phrases

Phrases

• Brazil, Russia, India And China - BRIC
• China doll
• China plate (Cockney rhyming slang for mate)
• China price
• China syndrome
• China white
• Democracy Wall (wall in Bejing China where dissidents post letters poems etc)
• Ivory tower
• Like a bull in a china shop
• My old china (Cockney rhyming slang for mate)
• No music, no life (Tower Records advertising slogan)
• Not for all the tea in China
• Only Nixon could go to China
• Potala Palace (tourist attraction in China)
• Semolina pilchard climbing up the Eiffel Tower (Beatles song lyric)
• The Bamboo Curtain (notional barrier between capitalist West and communist China)
• The China Syndrome (Michael Douglas / Walter Matthau / Jane Fonda movie)
• The Eiffel Tower (tourist attraction in Paris France)
• The Forbidden City (tourist attraction in Bejing China)
• The Frump Tower (Nickname of Camilla Duchess of Cornwall)
• The Great Wall of China (Nickname of Yao Ming)
• The Great Wall of China (tourist attraction in China)
• The Imperial Summer Palace (tourist attraction in China)
• The Leaning Tower of Pisa (tourist attraction in Italy)
• The Tower of London (tourist attraction in England)
• The Venice of China (Nickname of Suzhou)
• Tower of strength
• What does that have to do with the price of tea in China?