Recorder Phrases

Phrases

• A two pipe problem
• America's best record (Puritan Records advertising slogan)
• Architecture is music frozen in time (Friedrich von Schelling quotation)
• As clean as a whistle
• Blow the whistle
• Blunt instrument
• Broken record
• Cherry ripe (Cockney rhyming slang for pipe)
• Dog whistle politics (Political messages intended for a specific knowledgable audience)
• Each Record a Masterpiece (Van Dyke Records advertising slogan)
• Ear for music
• Elevator music
• Face the music
• For the record
• House music
• I Do Like To Be Beside The Seaside (British Music Hall song)
• If music be the food of love, play on (from Twelth Night by Shakespeare)
• In record time
• Lead pipe cinch
• Let's face the music and dance
• Make Your Own Kind Of Music (Mama Cass Elliot song)
• 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)
• Off the record

• On the record
• Pipe down
• Pipe dream
• Pipe up
• Popular music
• Put that in your pipe and smoke it
• Set the record straight
• Steinway: the instrument of the immortals (Steinway Pianos advertising slogan)
• Sweet Music (Nickname of Frank Viola)
• Thank you for the music, the songs I'm singing (ABBA lyric)
• The Adventure of the Stockbroker's Clerk (Sherlock Holmes story)
• 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 music of the spheres
• Track record
• Train whistle blowing
• Van Gogh's ear for music
• Wet your whistle
• Whistle A Happy Tune
• Whistle and flute (Cockney rhyming slang for suit)
• Whistle while you work
• With rings on her fingers and bells on her toes she shall have music wherever she goes (line from nursery rhyme)
• Without music, life would be a mistake (Friedrich Nietzsche quotation)
• Wolf whistle
• World music
• World record
• You can whistle for it