Plumber Phrases

Phrases

• A hewer of wood and a drawer of water
• A two pipe problem
• All roads lead to Rome
• As dry as a pommy's bath towel
• As heavy as lead
• Bath time
• Bed bath
• Black water rafting
• Blood in the water
• Blood is thicker than water
• Blow out of the water
• Both oars in the water
• Bridge Over Troubled Water (Simon and Garfunkel album and song)
• Central heating for kids (Ready Brek porridge advertising slogan)
• Cherry ripe (Cockney rhyming slang for pipe)
• Clear blue water
• Clearly Canadian Sparkling Mineral Water in Wild Fruit Flavours (Adelma Mineral Waters advertising slogan)
• Come hell or high water
• Come on in, the water's fine
• Dead in the water
• Dip your toe into the water
• Early bath
• Eat lead sucker
• Fish out of water
• Get into deep water
• Get into hot water
• Get the lead out
• Go through fire and water for
• Go where the green lights lead you
• Half a bubble off plumb
• He doesn't have both oars in the water
• He's fallen in the water (A catchphrase from The Goon Show)
• Hold water
• In deep water
• In hot water
• In the lead
• Jack and Jill went up the hill to fetch a pail of water (line from nursery rhyme)
• Just add water
• Just when you thought it was safe to go back in water (Jaws II advertising tagline)
• Juvenile lead
• Keep your head above water
• Lead a charmed life
• Lead a dog's life
• Lead a merry dance
• Lead by example
• Lead by the nose
• Lead from behind
• Lead from the front
• Lead into temptation
• Lead on

• Lead pipe cinch
• Lead someone to the altar
• Lead the field
• Lead up the garden path
• Lead up to
• Lead with the chin
• Leak like a sieve
• Like a duck to water
• Like a fish out of water
• Like water off a duck's back
• Lipton's gets into more hot water than anything (Lipton Tea advertising slogan)
• Made to make your mouth water (Opal Fruits advertising slogan)
• Men's evil manners live in brass; their virtues we write in water
• Of the first water
• Oil and water don't mix
• Packing lead
• Pipe down
• Pipe dream
• Pipe up
• Plumb the depths
• Pour cold water on
• Protect a lead
• Pure life (Nestle Aberfoyle Natural Spring Water advertising slogan)
• Put lead in your pencil
• Put that in your pipe and smoke it
• Reassuringly expensive (Stella Artois advertising slogan)
• Rubber duck (a floating bath toy)
• Smell the Glove (fictional album by the spoof heavy-metal band Spinal Tap)
• Smooth runs the water where the brook is deep
• Spend money like water
• Swing the lead
• Take a bath
• Take a bath in the dark tonight and let the water make love to your skin (Lavin Perfumes & Soaps advertising slogan)
• Take the lead
• Test the water
• The Hot Water State (Nickname of the US state of Arkansas)
• These go to eleven (line from the movie This Is Spinal Tap)
• Things happen after a Badedas bath (Badedas advertising slogan)
• Throw cold water on
• Tonic water by you know who (Schweppes advertising slogan)
• Walk on water
• Wash your mouth out with soap and water
• Water down
• Water of life
• Water seeks its own level
• Water under the bridge
• Water water everywhere and not a drop to drink
• Went down like a lead balloon
• White water rafting
• You can lead a horse to water but you can't make it drink
• You can lead a whore to culture but you can't make her think