Reggae Phrases

Phrases

• Architecture is music frozen in time (Friedrich von Schelling quotation)
• As black as Newgate's knocker
• As black as coal
• As black as ink
• As black as pitch
• As black as the Earl of Hell's waistcoat
• As black as the ace of spades
• As black as thunder
• As black as your hat
• Baa baa black sheep have you any wool? (line from nursery rhyme)
• Back In Black (AC/DC album)
• Back To Black (Amy Winehouse song)
• Beat someone black and blue
• Black Beauty (Anna Sewell book)
• Black Friday
• Black Hawk Down (Ewan McGregor movie)
• Black Jack (Nickname of baseball player Jack McDowell)
• Black Jesus (Nickname of basketball player Amare Stoudemire)
• Black Mamba (Nickname of basketball player Kobe Bryant)
• Black Mike (Nickname of baseball player Mickey Cochrane)
• Black Monday
• Black Moses (Nickname of basketball player Baron Davis)
• Black Thursday
• Black Tuesday
• Black and blue
• Black and white
• Black and white minstrel
• Black and white unite and fight (Political slogan)
• Black art
• Black bomber
• Black box
• Black cadillacs (Canadian military slang term for combat boots)
• Black comedy
• Black dog
• Black economy
• Black flagged
• Black is beautiful
• Black list
• Black magic
• Black mark
• Black market
• Black on black
• Black out
• Black power
• Black sheep of the family
• Black spot
• Black tie
• Black velvet
• Black water rafting
• Boom Boom Pow (The Black Eyed Peas song)
• Born 1820 - Still going strong (Johnny Walker Black Whiskey advertising slogan)
• Call of Duty (video game title)
• Cyber Black Friday
• Ear for music
• Early black
• Elevator music
• Face the music
• Feel the Velvet (Black Velvet Whiskey advertising slogan)
• Flub the dub
• Grey is new black
• Hey Mabel, Black Label (Black Label advertising slogan)

• Honor thy self (Johnny Walker Black Whiskey advertising slogan)
• House music
• I Can See Clearly Now (Johnny Cash and Jimmy Cliff song and Nescafe advertising slogan)
• I Do Like To Be Beside The Seaside (British Music Hall song)
• I bet he drinks Carling Black Label (Carling Black Label advertising slogan)
• If music be the food of love, play on (from Twelth Night by Shakespeare)
• If you want to impress someone, put him on your Black list (Johnny Walker Black Whiskey advertising slogan)
• In a black mood
• In the black
• Is it cos I is black? (A catchphrase from Ali G)
• It's black over Bill's mother's
• It's there in black and white
• Let's face the music and dance
• Little black book
• Little black dress
• Little black number
• Make Your Own Kind Of Music (Mama Cass Elliot song)
• Man In The Long Black Coat (Bob Dylan song)
• Men in black
• 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
• My Humps (The Black Eyed Peas song)
• No music, no life (Tower Records advertising slogan)
• Not as black as you are painted
• Not everything in black and white makes sense (Guinness advertising slogan)
• On the black market
• Paint It Black (Rolling Stones song)
• Pitch black
• Popular music
• Rub a dub (Cockney rhyming slang for pub)
• Rub a dub dub men in a tub
• Say It Loud I'm Black And I'm Proud (James Brown song)
• Sweet Music (Nickname of Frank Viola)
• Thank you for the music, the songs I'm singing (ABBA lyric)
• The Adventure of Black Peter (Sherlock Holmes story)
• The Black Diamond (Nickname of Leonidas da Silva)
• The Black Falcon (Nickname of Prince Baccarratti (Bela Kovacs))
• The Black Pearl (Nickname of Eusebio)
• The Black Prince (Nickname of Edward Prince of Wales)
• The Black Spider (Nickname of Lev Yashin)
• The Black Tullip (Nickname of Ruud Gullit)
• The Black Watch (Nickname of The Royal Highland Regiment)
• The Man in Black (Nickname of singer Johnny Cash)
• The Sound Of Music (Julie Andrews movie)
• The Time (Dirty Bit) (The Black Eyed Peas song)
• 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 black art
• The man in black
• The music of the spheres
• The new black
• The pot calling the kettle black
• Van Gogh's ear for music
• 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)
• World music
• You can have any colour as long as it's black
• Young, Gifted and Black (Nina Simone song)
• Your best bet for a fuller flavour (Carling Black Label advertising slogan)