Port Phrases

Phrases

• Any port in a storm
• Be a Pepper. Drink Dr Pepper (Dr Pepper advertising slogan)
• Brighton Pier (Cockney rhyming slang for queer)
• Catch that Pepsi spirit. Drink it in, drink it in, drink it in (Pepsi advertising slogan)
• Demon drink
• Drink Barq's it's good (Barq's sarsaparilla drink advertising slogan)
• Drink Camp - its the best! (Camp Coffee advertising slogan)
• Drink Canada dry (Canada Dry Tonics and Mixers advertising slogan)
• Drink Tang, gang, it's Tang-erific (Tang advertising slogan)
• Drink Tizer, the appetizer (Tizer advertising slogan)
• Drink To Me Only With Thine Eyes (Ben Jonson poem and Victorian song)
• Drink like a fish
• Drink more milk (Milk Marketing Board advertising slogan)
• Drink up
• Drink, feck, arse (A catchphrase from Father Ted)
• Driven to drink
• Eat drink and be merry for tomorrow we die
• Elm City (Nickname of New Haven Connecticut)
• Elvis has left the building
• Evenin' all (A catchphrase from Dixon Of Dock Green)
• Exit stage left
• Frasier has left the building (A catchphrase from Frasier)
• Give someone a wide berth
• Given to drink
• Hang a left
• Harbour a grudge
• Hard astarboard
• He likes a drink
• Hickory dickory dock the mouse ran up the clock (line from nursery rhyme)
• Hold your drink
• Hot chocolate, drinking chocolate - the late, late drink (Cadbury's Drinking Chocolate advertising slogan)
• In dock
• In from left field
• In the dock
• It is meat and drink to me
• Keep left
• Left Hook (Nickname of Jeff Lacy)
• Left footer
• Left for dead
• Left hanging
• Left holding the baby

• Left in the lurch
• Left out in the cold
• Left right and centre
• Left right, left right, march
• Left standing
• Left to your own devices
• Left wing
• Meat and drink
• Mind how you go (A catchphrase from Dixon of Dock Green)
• My Baby Left Me (Elvis Presley song)
• Night And Day (Cole Porter song)
• One instinctively knows when something is right (Croft Original Sherry advertising slogan)
• Out of left field
• POSH - Port out, starboard home (false attribution of the origin of the word posh)
• Pish posh
• Porky pies (Cockney rhyming slang for lies)
• Pret a porter
• Red Army Fraction (German left wing terrorist group also call Red Army Faction)
• Rest, keep warm and drink liquids (American Airlines advertising slogan)
• Safe harbour
• Safe haven
• Schweppervescence lasts the whole drink through (Schweppes advertising slogan)
• Sittin' On The Dock Of The Bay (Otis Redding song)
• Slave to drink
• Spit take (spitting out a drink in response to a joke or surprise)
• Surf report
• Switch hitter (A baseball expression denoting a batter who can hit left or right handed)
• 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)
• The demon drink
• The right hand doesn't know what the left hand is doing
• They drink it in the Congo (Um Bongo advertising slogan)
• Too posh to push
• Too posh to wash
• Transport of delight
• Two left feet
• Water water everywhere and not a drop to drink
• We drink all we can, the rest we sell (Utica Club advertising slogan)
• We report, you decide (FOX News advertising slogan)
• You can lead a horse to water but you can't make it drink
• You don't have to be silly to drink TK, but it helps! (TK minerals advertising slogan)