Rap Phrases

Phrases

• Architecture is music frozen in time (Friedrich von Schelling quotation)
• Baa baa black sheep have you any wool? (line from nursery rhyme)
• Beat the rap
• Bum rap
• Ding dong bell Pussy's in the well (line from nursery rhyme)
• Doctor Foster went to Gloucester (line from nursery rhyme)
• Don't knock it until you've tried it
• Down came a blackbird and pecked off her nose (line from nursery rhyme)
• Ear for music
• Elevator music
• Everywhere that Mary went, the lamb was sure to go (line from nursery rhyme)
• Face the music
• Fascinatin' Rhythm (George Gershwin song)
• Fit But You Know It (The Streets' song)
• Five for silver (Magpie nursery rhyme)
• Five, six, pick up sticks (line from nursery rhyme)
• For want of a nail the shoe was lost (line from nursery rhyme)
• Four and twenty blackbirds baked in a pie (line from nursery rhyme)
• Four for a boy (Magpie nursery rhyme)
• Gangster rap
• Georgie Porgie pudding and pie (line from nursery rhyme)
• Glow Little Glow-worm (children's nursery rhyme)
• Goosey Goosey Gander where shall I wander (line from nursery rhyme)
• Gunpowder treason and plot (line from nursery rhyme)
• Half a pound of tuppenny rice, half a pound of treacle (line from nursery rhyme)
• He put in his thumb and pulled out a plum (line from nursery rhyme)
• He went to bed and bound his head with vinegar and brown paper (line from nursery rhyme)
• Hey diddle diddle, the cat and the fiddle (line from nursery rhyme)
• Hickory dickory dock the mouse ran up the clock (line from nursery rhyme)
• Hip hop
• House music
• Humpty Dumpty sat on a wall (line from nursery rhyme)
• I Do Like To Be Beside The Seaside (British Music Hall song)
• I Got Rhythm (George Gershwin song)
• If music be the food of love, play on (from Twelth Night by Shakespeare)
• If your friendly neighborhood grocer doesn't have a jar knock something off a shelf on the way out (Dilly Beans advertising slogan)
• It's a wrap
• It's raining, it's pouring, the old man is snoring
• Itsy Bitsy spider climbing up the spout, down came the rain and washed the spider out (line from nursery rhyme)
• Jack Sprat could eat no fat (line from nursery rhyme)
• Jack and Jill went up the hill to fetch a pail of water (line from nursery rhyme)
• Jack be nimble Jack be quick (line from nursery rhyme)
• Jack fell down and broke his crown (line from nursery rhyme)
• Jack jump over the candlestick (line from nursery rhyme)
• Knock 'em dead
• Knock Three Times (Tony Orlando and Dawn song)
• Knock about
• Knock about comedy
• Knock back
• Knock back a few
• Knock down drag out
• Knock flat
• Knock for knock
• Knock for six
• Knock heads together
• Knock into shape
• Knock into the middle of next week
• Knock it into a cocked hat
• Knock it off
• Knock it on the head
• Knock it out of the park (A baseball expression denoting a complete or spectacular success)
• Knock knock, who's there
• Knock off
• Knock on the door
• Knock on wood
• Knock sideways
• Knock something together
• Knock spots off
• Knock the cover off the ball (A baseball expression meaning succeed beyond expectation)
• Knock the stuffing out of
• Knock the wind out of
• Knock them in the aisles
• Knock up against
• Knock your heads together
• Knock your socks off
• Knock yourself out
• Let's face the music and dance
• Little Bo peep has lost her sheep (line from nursery rhyme)
• Little Boy Blue come blow your horn (line from nursery rhyme)
• Little Jack Horner sat in a corner (line from nursery rhyme)
• Little Miss Muffet sat on a tuffet eating her curds and whey (line from nursery rhyme)
• Little Robin Red breast sat upon a tree (line from nursery rhyme)
• Little Tommy Tucker sings for his supper (line from nursery rhyme)
• London bridge is falling down (line from nursery rhyme)
• Lucy Locket lost her pocket (line from nursery rhyme)
• Make Your Own Kind Of Music (Mama Cass Elliot song)
• Mary Mary quite contrary, how does your garden grow (line from nursery rhyme)
• Mary had a little lamb its fleece was white as snow (line from nursery rhyme)
• 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)
• Old King Cole was a merry old soul, and a merry old soul was he (line from nursery rhyme)
• Old Mother Hubbard went to the cupboard to get her poor doggie a bone (line from nursery rhyme)
• One for sorrow (Magpie nursery rhyme)
• One two buckle my shoe (line from nursery rhyme)
• Oranges and lemons say the bells of Saint Clements (line from nursery rhyme)
• Pat a cake, Pat a cake, baker's man, bake me a cake as fast as you can (line from nursery rhyme)
• Peter Peter pumpkin eater (line from nursery rhyme)
• Polly put the kettle on, we'll all have tea (line from nursery rhyme)
• Popular music
• Pussycat pussycat, where have you been? (line from nursery rhyme)
• Rain, rain go away, come again another day (line from nursery rhyme)
• Rap over the knuckles
• Remember remember the fifth of November (line from nursery rhyme)
• Rhyme nor reason
• Ride a cock horse to Banbury Cross to see a fine lady upon a white horse (line from nursery rhyme)
• Ring aring of roses, a pocketful of posies, atishoo, atishoo, all fall down (line from nursery rhyme)
• Rock a bye baby on the tree top, when the wind blows the cradle will rock (line from nursery rhyme)
• Round and round the garden like a teddy bear (line from nursery rhyme)
• Seesaw Margery Daw Johnny shall have a new master (line from nursery rhyme)
• Seven for a secret, never to be told (Magpie nursery rhyme)
• Simple Simon met a pieman going to the fair (line from nursery rhyme)
• Sing a song of sixpence a pocket full of rye (line from nursery rhyme)
• Six for gold (Magpie nursery rhyme)
• Smell the Glove (fictional album by the spoof heavy-metal band Spinal Tap)
• Sticks and snails and puppy dog's tails that's what little boys are made of (line from nursery rhyme)
• Sugar and spice and all things nice that's what little girls are made of (line from nursery rhyme)
• Sweet Music (Nickname of Frank Viola)
• Take the rap
• Thank you for the music, the songs I'm singing (ABBA lyric)
• That's a wrap
• The Big Ship Sails on The Ally-Ally-Oh (line from nursery rhyme)
• The Grand old Duke of York he had ten thousand men (line from nursery rhyme)
• The North wind doth blow and we shall have snow (line from nursery rhyme)
• The Owl and the Pussycat went to sea in a beautiful pea-green boat (line from nursery rhyme)
• The Queen of Hearts she made some tarts all on a summer's day (line from nursery rhyme)
• The Real Slim Shady
• The Revolution Will Not Be Televised (Gil Scott-Heron song)
• 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 cow jumped over the moon (line from nursery rhyme)
• The dish ran away with the spoon (line from nursery rhyme)
• The house that Jack built (line from nursery rhyme)
• The king was in his counting house counting out his money (line from nursery rhyme)
• The music of the spheres
• The queen was in the parlour eating bread and honey (line from nursery rhyme)
• The sheep's in the meadow the cow's in the corn (line from nursery rhyme)
• There was a crooked man and he walked a crooked mile (line from nursery rhyme)
• There was an old woman who lived in a shoe (line from nursery rhyme)
• These go to eleven (line from the movie This Is Spinal Tap)
• They danced by the light of the moon (line from nursery rhyme)
• They dined on mince, and slices of quince (line from nursery rhyme)
• This little piggy had roast beef, this little piggy had none (line from nursery rhyme)
• This little piggy went to market, this little piggy stayed at home (line from nursery rhyme)
• Three blind mice, see how they run (line from nursery rhyme)
• Three for a girl (Magpie nursery rhyme)
• Three, four, knock at the door (line from nursery rhyme)
• Tom Tom the pipers son stole a pig and away he ran (line from nursery rhyme)
• Twinkle twinkle little star, how I wonder what you are (line from nursery rhyme)
• Two for joy (Magpie nursery rhyme)
• Two little dicky birds sitting on a wall, one named Peter, one named Paul (line from nursery rhyme)
• Up above the world so high , like a diamond in the sky (line from nursery rhyme)
• Upstairs, downstairs and in my lady's chamber (line from nursery rhyme)
• Van Gogh's ear for music
• Wee Willie Winkie runs through the town, upstairs and downstairs in his nightgown (line from nursery rhyme)
• When the bough breaks the cradle will fall, and down will come baby, cradle and all (line from nursery rhyme)
• When they were up, they were up (line from nursery rhyme)
• Who killed Cock Robin (line from nursery rhyme)
• With rings on her fingers and bells on her toes she shall have music wherever she goes (line from nursery rhyme)
• With silver bells and cockle shells and pretty maids all in a row (line from nursery rhyme)
• Without music, life would be a mistake (Friedrich Nietzsche quotation)
• World music
• Wrap it up
• Wrap up
• Wrap yourself in the flag