Communist Phrases

Phrases

• A Day At The Races (Marx Brothers movie)
• A Night At The Opera (Marx Brothers movie)
• A Night In Casablanca (Marx Brothers movie)
• A red rag to a bull
• A week is a long time in politics
• Animal Crackers (Marx Brothers movie)
• Are you now or have you ever been a member of the Communist Party?
• As red as a beetroot
• Bedroom politics
• Better dead than red
• Big Red (Nickname of basketball player Arvydas Sabonis)
• Boy, is my face red (A catchphrase from David Letterman)
• Brazil, Russia, India And China - BRIC
• Brick red
• Cadmium red
• Cut through the red tape
• Do you eat the red ones last? (Smarties advertising slogan)
• Duck Soup (Marx Brothers movie)
• Fearless leader
• Fellow traveller
• Fire engine red
• From Russia With Love (James Bond movie Sean Connery)
• From Russia, With Love (James Bond movie Sean Connery)
• Gesture politics
• Gives you wings (Red Bull advertising slogan)
• Go, and never darken my towels again (Groucho Marx line)
• Horse Feathers (Marx Brothers movie)
• I can see you standing over a hot stove, but I can't see the stove (Groucho Marx line)
• I never forget a face, but in your case I'll be glad to make an exception (Groucho Marx line)
• In the red
• It's a red thing (Tizer advertising slogan)
• Lady In Red (Chris de Burgh song)
• Let one thousand flowers bloom
• 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)
• Molotov cocktail
• Mother Russia
• Nature, red in tooth and claw
• Neither fish nor flesh, nor good red herring
• Office politics
• Old Red Eyes (Nickname of Alice Cooper)
• On red alert
• Outside of a dog, a book is man's best friend. Inside of a dog it's too dark to read (Groucho Marx line)
• Paint the town red
• Paper tiger
• Peace dividend
• People's republic (a communist state)
• Pillar box red
• Pork barrel politics
• 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
• Reds under the bed
• Religion is the opiate of the masses (Karl Marx quotation)
• Roll out the red carpet
• Roses are red, violets are blue
• Say the magic word and win $100 dollars (A catchphrase from Groucho Marx In You Bet Your Life)
• See red
• Send your parcels Red Star and pull out all the stops (Red Star advertising slogan)
• Simply Red
• Smoke me a kipper, I'll be back for breakfast (A catchphrase from Red Dwarf)
• The Adventure of the Red Circle (Sherlock Holmes story)
• The Bamboo Curtain (notional barrier between capitalist West and communist China)
• The Big Village (Nickname of Moscow Russia)
• The Cold War
• The Iron Curtain (notional barrier between capitalist West and communist states)
• 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 Red Baron (Nickname of Baron Manfred von Richtofen)
• The Red Fort (tourist attraction in India)
• The Red Rocket (Nickname of Matt Bonner)
• The Socialist Republic Of South Yorkshire (Nickname of Sheffield England)
• The Third Rome (Nickname of Moscow Russia)
• The greatest tragedy is indifference (Red Cross advertising slogan)
• The red carpet
• The red mist
• The thin red line
• Time flies like an arrow. Fruit flies like a banana (Groucho Marx line)
• To bring the wolves out - Riding Hood Red (Max Factor Cosmetics advertising slogan)
• Workers of the world arise you have nothing to lose but your chains
• You can leave in a huff. If that's too soon, you can leave in a minute and a huff (Groucho Marx line)
• Your fragrance Your rules (Hugo Boss Deep Red advertising slogan)