Railroad Phrases

Phrases

• Abbey Road (The Beatles album)
• Amazing Grace (Royal Scots Dragoon Guards song)
• Any road up
• As thin as a rail
• At a push
• Beep beep (A catchphrase from Road Runner)
• Built for the road ahead (Ford Cars advertising slogan)
• Bully for you
• Bully off
• Bully pulpit
• Chirpy Chirpy Cheep Cheep (Middle of the Road song)
• Clunk click every trip (Road Safety Campaign advertising slogan)
• Corduory road (a road that is ridged and furrowed like the fabric)
• Don't push your luck
• Dragoon into
• Follow the yellow brick road
• Frog and toad (Cockney rhyming slang for road)
• Gentleman of the road
• Get the push
• Get the show on the road
• Goodbye Yellow Brick Road (Elton John song)
• Gravy train
• Hey, Soul Sister (Train song)
• Hit The Road Jack (Ray Charles song)
• Hit the road Jack
• I'm convinced the Goodyear Grand Prix-S is a major contribution to road safety (Goodyear Tyres advertising slogan)
• If push comes to shove
• Intercity makes the going easy (British Rail advertising slogan)
• Keep the show on the road
• Kick the can further down the road
• King of the road
• Knight of the road
• Let the train take the strain (British Rail advertising slogan)
• Middle of the road
• Night Train (Nickname of Dick Lane)
• Off road
• On The Atchison Topeka And The Santa Fe (Judy Garland song)
• On The Road (Jack Kerouac book)
• On The Road Again (Canned Heat song)
• One for the road
• Open road
• Passion for the road (Mazda advertising slogan)
• Push at an open door
• Push off
• Push someone's buttons
• Push the boat out
• Push the boundaries

• Push the envelope
• Road To Nowhere (Talking Heads song)
• Road apple
• Road hog
• Road kill
• Road rage
• Road to riches
• Road to ruin
• Road train
• Road trip
• Road warrior
• Run out of town on a rail
• Set in train
• Soul train
• Stop, Look and Listen; remember the Green Cross Code (UK Road Safety Campaign advertising slogan)
• Strangers On A Train (Farley Granger / Alfred Hitchcock movie)
• Take The A Train (Duke Ellington tune)
• The Big Train (Nickname of Walter Johnson)
• The Bully Boys (Nickname of Dan Aykroyd, Bill Murray and John Belushi)
• The Long And Winding Road (The Beatles song)
• The Road Not Taken (Robert Frost poem)
• The end of the road
• The light at the end of the tunnel may just be a train coming the other way
• The long and winding road that leads to your door (Beatles song lyric)
• The road isn't built that can make it breathe hard! (Chevrolet advertising slogan)
• The road less travelled
• The road to Damascus
• The road to hell is paved with good intentions
• This is the age of the train (British Rail advertising slogan)
• Thunder Road (Bruce Springsteen song)
• Too posh to push
• Train crash
• Train of thought
• Train whistle blowing
• Train wreck
• Twenty Miles Of Bad Road (The Janeys song)
• Ukraine Train (Nickname of Vitaly Potapenko)
• Up and down the city road
• We're getting there (British Rail advertising slogan)
• When push comes to shove
• Where the rubber meets the road (Firestone Tyres advertising slogan)
• Where the rubber meets the road (where the important facts or realities lie)
• Why Don't We Do It In The Road? (The Beatles song)
• Why did the chicken cross the road?
• Woolly Bully (Sam The Sham and The Pharaohs song)
• You know it makes sense (Road Safety Campaign advertising slogan)
• You take the high road: I'll take the low road