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A
deaf
husband and a blind wife are always a happy couple
A face as long as a fiddle
And Your Bird Can
Sing
( Beatles song )
Architecture is
music
frozen in time ( Friedrich von Schelling quotation )
As
deaf
as a adder
As
deaf
as a post
As sound as a bell
At sixty miles an hour the loudest
noise
in the new Rolls-Royce comes from the electric clock ( Rolls Royce advertising slogan )
Big
noise
Born within the sound of Bow Bells
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Break the sound barrier
Brum brum ( child's play idiom expressing the sound of a vehicle )
Cellarful of
noise
Dial down ( adjust a device to reduce sound or temperature )
Dialogue of the
deaf
Don't make a peep
Ear for
music
Ear popping ( a sound that is loud or that catches the attention )
Eating pate de fois gras to the sound of trumpets
Elevator
music
Empty vessels make the most
noise
Face the
music
Fall on
deaf
ears
House
music
I Do Like To Be Beside The Seaside ( British
Music
Hall song )
I love deadlines. I love the whooshing
noise
they make as they go by ( Douglas Adams quotation )
I'd Like to Teach the World to
Sing
( The New Seekers song )
I'd like to teach the world to
sing
If
music
be the food of love, play on ( from Twelth Night by Shakespeare )
In love with the sound of your own voice
It
sounds
alright on paper
It's the empty can that makes the most
noise
Let's face the
music
and dance
Make Your Own Kind Of
Music
( Mama Cass Elliot song )
Make some
noise
Marching to the sound of a different drum
Multimedia
you can use ( Apple Computer advertising slogan )
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
Mutt and Jeff ( Cockney rhyming slang for
deaf
)
No music, no life ( Tower Records advertising slogan )
Of
unsound
mind
Plop, plop, fizz, fizz, oh what a relief it is! ( Alka Seltzer advertising slogan )
Popular
music
Run toward the sound of gunfire
Safe and sound
Signal to
noise
ratio
Sing
a different tune
Sing
a song of sixpence a pocket full of rye ( line from nursery rhyme )
Sing
for your supper
Sing
like a bird
Sing
out
Sing
someone's praises
Sound bite
Sound effect
Sound off at
Sound out
Sound the alarm
Sounding board
Surround sound
Sweet
Music
( Nickname of Frank Viola )
Thank you for the music, the songs I'm singing ( ABBA lyric )
The Mersey sound
The Sound Of
Music
( Julie Andrews movie )
The Sound Of Silence ( Simon and Garfunkel song )
The West Coast Sound ( Shelly Manne 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
music
of the spheres
The sound of leather on willow ( sound of the ball on the bat in cricket )
There's none so
deaf
as they that will not hear
Tone
deaf
Van Gogh's ear for
music
White
noise
Wired for sound
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
hum
it and I'll play it