Pier Phrases

Phrases

• A Short History Of Tractors In Ukrainian (Marina Lewycka book)
• Any port in a storm
• Brighton Pier (Cockney rhyming slang for queer)
• Evenin' all (A catchphrase from Dixon Of Dock Green)
• Harbour a grudge
• Hickory dickory dock the mouse ran up the clock (line from nursery rhyme)
• Home suite hotel (Larkspur Landing Hotel advertising slogan)
• In dock
• In the dock
• Mind how you go (A catchphrase from Dixon of Dock Green)
• POSH - Port out, starboard home (false attribution of the origin of the word posh)
• Peer pressure
• Pile it high and sell it cheap
• Pile of pants
• Pile on the agony
• Pile up
• Rough landing
• Safe harbour
• Sittin' On The Dock Of The Bay (Otis Redding song)
• Sydney Harbour Bridge (tourist attraction in Sydney Australia)
• Take a long walk off a short pier
• The Boston Tea Party (historical event where chests of tea were dumped into Boston harbour)