Pipe Phrases

Phrases

• A Passage To India (E. M. Forster book and David Lean movie)
• A two pipe problem
• Architecture is music frozen in time (Friedrich von Schelling quotation)
• As clean as a whistle
• Away go troubles down the drain (Roto-Rooter advertising slogan)
• Bird of passage
• Blow the whistle
• Boob tube
• Brain drain
• Cherry ripe (Cockney rhyming slang for pipe)
• Crazy Gun Barney (Nickname of Barney Fife (Don Knotts))
• Dog whistle politics (Political messages intended for a specific knowledgable audience)
• Down the drain
• Drain the bilge
• Ear for music
• Elevator music
• Eleven pipers piping (line from A Partridge In A Pear Tree)
• Face the music
• Farewell to the ugly cigarette (Eve Cigarettes advertising slogan)
• Go down the drain
• He who pays the piper calls the tune
• Hose down
• House music
• I Do Like To Be Beside The Seaside (British Music Hall song)
• I want to talk to the organ grinder not the monkey
• If music be the food of love, play on (from Twelth Night by Shakespeare)
• In the pipeline
• Internationally acknowledged to be the finest cigarette in the World (Dunhill Cigarettes advertising slogan)
• Itsy Bitsy spider climbing up the spout, down came the rain and washed the spider out (line from nursery rhyme)
• Laugh like a drain
• Lead pipe cinch
• Let's face the music and dance
• Light up
• Make Your Own Kind Of Music (Mama Cass Elliot song)
• More Doctors Smoke Camels than any other cigarette (Camel cigarettes advertising slogan)
• Music Box (Mariah Carey album)
• Music City (Nickname of Nashville Tennessee)
• Music has charms to soothe the savage breast
• Music is art. Muzak is science (Muzak Corporation advertising slogan)
• Music to my ears
• No music, no life (Tower Records advertising slogan)
• Organ donor
• Oxo cube (Cockney rhyming slang for tube)
• Pay the piper
• Peter Piper picked a peck of pickled pepper
• Pipe down
• Pipe dream
• Pipe up
• Piping hot
• Popular music
• Put that in your pipe and smoke it
• Rite of passage
• Sweet Music (Nickname of Frank Viola)
• Test tube baby
• Thank you for the music, the songs I'm singing (ABBA lyric)
• The Panama Canal (tourist attraction in Panama)
• The Piper at the Gates of Dawn (Pink Floyd album)
• The Sound Of Music (Julie Andrews movie)
• The West Coast Sound (name applied to Californian pop music, especially that of The Beach Boys)
• The best way to get music out of your system (Philips advertising slogan)
• The music of the spheres
• Train whistle blowing
• Up the spout
• Van Gogh's ear for music
• Wet your whistle
• Whistle A Happy Tune
• Whistle and flute (Cockney rhyming slang for suit)
• Whistle while you work
• Winston tastes good like a cigarette should (Winston Cigarettes advertising slogan)
• With rings on her fingers and bells on her toes she shall have music wherever she goes (line from nursery rhyme)
• Without music, life would be a mistake (Friedrich Nietzsche quotation)
• Wolf whistle
• World music
• You can whistle for it