Purple Phrases

Phrases

• A red rag to a bull
• A splash of colour
• Air Force blue
• As cold as blue blazes
• As hot as blue blazes
• As red as a beetroot
• Beat someone black and blue
• Better dead than red
• Between the Devil and the deep blue sea
• Beyond the blue horizon
• Big Blue (Nickname of International Business Machines (IBM))
• Big Red (Nickname of basketball player Arvydas Sabonis)
• Black and blue
• Blue Bayou (Elvis Presley song)
• Blue Eyes (Elton John song)
• Blue Jay Way (Beatles song)
• Blue Monday
• Blue Monday (Van Morrison song)
• Blue Moon (Nickname of baseball player John Odom)
• Blue Suede Shoes (Elvis Presley song)
• Blue Velvet (David Lynch movie)
• Blue are the hills that are far away
• Blue blood
• Blue chip investment
• Blue collar worker
• Blue humour
• Blue in the face
• Blue murder
• Blue plate special (a set meal provided at a reduced price)
• Blue rinse
• Blue rinse brigade
• Blue screen of death
• Blue sky thinking
• Blue star (A slang name for ecstasy pills)
• Bolt from the blue
• Born in the purple
• Boy, is my face red (A catchphrase from David Letterman)
• Boys in blue
• Brick red
• Bring into blue
• Cadmium red
• Chocolate is better in colour (M&M's advertising slogan)
• Clear blue water
• Cobalt blue
• Color My World (James Pankow song)
• Colour coded
• Colour coordinated
• Colour me gone
• Colour me happy
• Colour my world
• Colour one's view
• Colour up
• Cornflower blue
• Cross into the Blue (United States Air Force advertising slogan)
• Cut through the red tape
• Deeper Than The Deep Blue Sea (Frank Sinatra song)
• Do you eat the red ones last? (Smarties advertising slogan)
• Eton blue
• Feeling blue
• Fire engine red
• For keener refreshment (Pabst Blue Ribbon advertising slogan)
• Gentlemen of colour
• Get down Shep (A catchphrase from John Noakes On Blue Peter)
• Gives you wings (Red Bull advertising slogan)
• He put in his thumb and pulled out a plum (line from nursery rhyme)
• Here's one I prepared earlier (A catchphrase from Blue Peter)
• Horse of a different colour
• I've been brokenhearted, blue since the day we parted (ABBA lyric)
• In a blue funk
• In the red
• Into the wild blue yonder
• It's All Over Now Baby Blue (Bob Dylan song)
• It's a red thing (Tizer advertising slogan)
• It's the way it shatters that matters (Violet Crumble advertising slogan)
• Kind Of Blue (Miles Davis tune and album)
• Lady In Red (Chris de Burgh song)
• Lend colour to
• Let's see the colour of your money
• Light the blue touch paper and retire
• Like a blue arsed fly
• Like a bolt from the blue
• Little Boy Blue come blow your horn (line from nursery rhyme)
• Little Red Corvette (Prince song)
• Little Red Rooster (Rolling Stones song)
• Little Robin Red breast sat upon a tree (line from nursery rhyme)
• Makes red blood! (Grape-Nuts advertising slogan)
• Men in blue
• Midnight blue
• Mood Indigo (Irving Berlin song)
• My Blue Heaven (Gene Austin song)

• My blue heaven
• Nature, red in tooth and claw
• Navy blue
• Neither fish nor flesh, nor good red herring
• Off colour
• Old Blue Eyes (Nickname of Frank Sinatra)
• Old Red Eyes (Nickname of Alice Cooper)
• On red alert
• Once in a blue moon
• Only 1 out of 25 men is color blind. The other 24 just dress that way (Mohara Suits advertising slogan)
• Out of the blue
• Out of the clear blue sky
• Oxford Blue
• Paint the town red
• People of colour
• Pillar box red
• Purple America
• Purple Haze (Jimi Hendrix song)
• Purple Jesus (Nickname of Adrian Peterson)
• Purple Rain (Prince song and album)
• Purple patch
• Purple prose
• Purple squirrel
• Raspberry Beret (Prince song)
• Red Army Fraction (German left wing terrorist group also call Red Army Faction)
• Red Baron (Nickname of Rick Sutcliffe)
• Red Buttons (Pseudonym of actor Aaron Chwatt)
• Red Dwarf (BBC comedy television series)
• Red Light Curt (Nickname of Curt Schilling)
• Red River (John Wayne / Howard Hawks movie)
• Red Sails In The Sunset (Al Bowlly song)
• Red Square (tourist attraction in Moscow Russia)
• Red alert
• Red and green should never be seen
• Red carpet treatment
• Red herring
• Red letter day
• Red light district
• Red lorry yellow lorry
• Red red wine
• Red sky at night shepherds delight
• Red sky in the morning, shepherds warning
• Red tape
• Refresh! Rejoice! Remember! Pabst gets the call (Pabst Blue Ribbon advertising slogan)
• Rhapsody In Blue (George Gershwin composition)
• Riot of colour
• Roll out the red carpet
• Roses are red, violets are blue
• Royal blue
• Scream blue murder
• See red
• Send your parcels Red Star and pull out all the stops (Red Star advertising slogan)
• Shrinking violet
• Simply Red
• Sky blue
• Smoke me a kipper, I'll be back for breakfast (A catchphrase from Red Dwarf)
• Something old, something new, something borrowed, something blue
• Take a blue pencil to
• Talk a blue streak
• Tangled Up In Blue (Bob Dylan song)
• The Adventure of the Blue Carbuncle (Sherlock Holmes story)
• The Adventure of the Red Circle (Sherlock Holmes story)
• The Blue End State (Nickname of the US state of Delaware)
• The Blue Mosque (tourist attraction in Turkey)
• The Color Of Money (Paul Newman / Tom Cruise movie)
• The Color Purple (Whoopie Goldberg movie)
• The Colour Of My Love (Celine Dion album)
• The Home Of Paul Bunyan And Babe The Blue Ox (Nickname of Westwood California, Brainerd Minnesota and Bemidji Minnesota)
• The Last of The Red Hot Mommas (Nickname of Sophie Tucker)
• The Marcel Marceau of Television (Nickname of Red Skelton)
• The Masque of the Red Death
• The Purple Rose Of Cairo (Woody Allen movie)
• The Red Baron (Nickname of Baron Manfred von Richtofen)
• The Red Fort (tourist attraction in India)
• The Red Rocket (Nickname of Matt Bonner)
• The air was blue
• The deep blue sea
• The greatest tragedy is indifference (Red Cross advertising slogan)
• The red carpet
• The red mist
• The thin red line
• To bring the wolves out - Riding Hood Red (Max Factor Cosmetics advertising slogan)
• True Blue (Madonna album)
• True blue
• Turning blue
• What a maroon (Bugs Bunny insult)
• What colour is the sky in your world?
• When I am an old woman I shall wear purple (from a poem by Joseph)
• Wide blue yonder
• You can have any colour as long as it's black
• Your fragrance Your rules (Hugo Boss Deep Red advertising slogan)

Related

• Born in the purple
• Purple America
• Purple Haze (Jimi Hendrix song)
• Purple Jesus (Nickname of Adrian Peterson)
• Purple Rain (Prince song and album)
• Purple patch
• Purple prose
• Purple squirrel
• The Color Purple (Whoopie Goldberg movie)
• The Purple Rose Of Cairo (Woody Allen movie)
• When I am an old woman I shall wear purple (from a poem by Joseph)