Road Phrases

Phrases

• A la car
• A move in the right direction
• Abbey Road (The Beatles album)
• All roads lead to Rome
• Alley cat (slang term for a prostitute)
• Alligator Alley (Nickname of Tamiani Trail)
• Americans drive on parkways and park on driveways
• Any road up
• Baby you can drive my car (Beatles song lyric)
• Baby, you can park my car
• Back street abortion
• Backseat Beckie (Nickname of Rebecca Howe (Kirstie Alley))
• Basin Street Blues (Louis Armstrong song)
• Beat a path to your door
• Beep beep (A catchphrase from Road Runner)
• Blind alley
• Blind corner
• Boulevard of Broken Dreams (Green Day song)
• Boulevard of broken dreams
• Build a better mousetrap and the world will beat a path to your door
• Built for the road ahead (Ford Cars advertising slogan)
• Business is like a car, it will not run by itself except downhill
• Car surfing
• Career path
• Chirpy Chirpy Cheep Cheep (Middle of the Road song)
• Civvy street
• Clunk click every trip (Road Safety Campaign advertising slogan)
• Congestion charging
• Corduory road (a road that is ridged and furrowed like the fabric)
• Courtesy and care (Automobile Association advertising slogan)
• Curb appeal
• Curb your enthusiasm
• Down memory lane
• Drive My Car (The Beatles song)
• Easy street
• Fast lane
• Follow the yellow brick road
• Friday afternoon car
• Frog and toad (Cockney rhyming slang for road)
• Gentleman of the road
• Get the show on the road
• Go and play in the traffic
• Goodbye Yellow Brick Road (Elton John song)
• Greed, for lack of a better word, is good (Wall Street)
• Grub Street hack
• Handbrake turn (180 degree turn in a car by locking the back wheels)
• Happiness is a quick-starting car (Esso advertising slogan)
• High occupancy vehicle lane (a traffic lane reserved for vehicles carrying several people)
• Highway 61 Revisited (Bob Dylan song)
• Highway Code
• Highway Patrol
• Highway robbery
• Hit The Road Jack (Ray Charles song)
• Hit the road Jack
• I dreamed I stopped traffic in my Maidenform bra (Maidenform advertising slogan)
• I'm convinced the Goodyear Grand Prix-S is a major contribution to road safety (Goodyear Tyres advertising slogan)
• If your grandmother had wheels, she'd be a trolley car
• In Penny Lane there is a barber showing photographs (Beatles song lyric)
• Into the valley of death rode the six hundred
• Jam jar (Cockney rhyming slang for car)
• Just 15 minutes can save you 15 percent or more on car insurance (GEICO advertising slogan)
• Keep the show on the road
• Kerb drill
• Kick the can further down the road
• King of the road
• Knight of the road
• Lead up the garden path
• Let Hertz put you in the driver's seat (Hertz Car Rental advertising slogan)
• Let's be careful out there (A catchphrase from Hill Street Blues)
• Life in the fast lane
• Look both ways
• Lost Highway (Hank Williams song)
• Middle of the road
• Miracle On 34th Street (George Seaton movie)
• Motorway madness
• Moving traffic violation
• My way or the highway
• Night Train (Nickname of Dick Lane)
• No entry

• Number 10 Downing Street (address of the British Prime Minister)
• Off road
• On Carey Street
• On The Road (Jack Kerouac book)
• On The Road Again (Canned Heat song)
• On easy street
• On queer street
• On the street
• On the sunny side of the street
• One for the road
• Open road
• Passion for the road (Mazda advertising slogan)
• Penny Lane (Beatles song)
• Penny Lane is in my ears and in my eyes (Beatles song lyric)
• People carrier (a car with several passenger seats)
• People mover (a car with several passenger seats)
• Positively 4th Street (Bob Dylan song)
• Primrose path
• Queer Street
• Right up your alley
• Right up your street
• Road To Nowhere (Talking Heads song)
• Road apple
• Road hog
• Road kill
• Road rage
• Road to riches
• Road to ruin
• Road train
• Road trip
• Road warrior
• Rode hard and put away wet
• Spaghetti Junction (Nickname of Gravelly Hill Interchange)
• Stop traffic
• Stop, Look and Listen; remember the Green Cross Code (UK Road Safety Campaign advertising slogan)
• Street Fighting Man (Rolling Stones song)
• Street cred
• Street pizza
• Street smart
• Street wise
• Sunset Boulevard (Billy Wilder movie)
• The Demon Barber of Fleet Street (Nickname of Sweeney Todd)
• The Giant's Causeway (tourist attraction in Ireland)
• The Long And Winding Road (The Beatles song)
• The Old Lady of Threadneedle Street (Nickname of The Bank of England)
• The Road Not Taken (Robert Frost poem)
• The car in front is a Toyota (Toyota Cars advertising slogan)
• The daily diary of the American dream (Wall Street Journal advertising slogan)
• The end of the road
• The long and winding road that leads to your door (Beatles song lyric)
• The man in the street
• The road isn't built that can make it breathe hard! (Chevrolet advertising slogan)
• The road less travelled
• The road to Damascus
• The road to hell is paved with good intentions
• The word on the street
• Thunder Road (Bruce Springsteen song)
• To our members, we're the fourth emergency service (Automobile Association advertising slogan)
• Tornado Alley
• Twenty Miles Of Bad Road (The Janeys song)
• Two-way street
• Up a blind alley
• Up and down the city road
• Up your alley
• We pick you up (Enterprise Car Rental advertising slogan)
• We try harder (Avis car rental advertising slogan)
• What Makes You Beautiful (One Direction song)
• Where the rubber meets the road (Firestone Tyres advertising slogan)
• Where the rubber meets the road (where the important facts or realities lie)
• Why Don't We Do It In The Road? (The Beatles song)
• Why did the chicken cross the road?
• Work both sides of the street
• Would you buy a used car from this man?
• You can trust your car to the man who wears the star (Texaco Fuel advertising slogan)
• You could learn a lot from a dummy, Buckle Up (National Highway Traffic Safety Administration advertising slogan)
• You know it makes sense (Road Safety Campaign advertising slogan)
• You take the high road: I'll take the low road
• Your next car (Chrysler advertising slogan)
• Zebra crossing

Related

• Abbey Road (The Beatles album)
• Any road up
• Beep beep (A catchphrase from Road Runner)
• Built for the road ahead (Ford Cars advertising slogan)
• Chirpy Chirpy Cheep Cheep (Middle of the Road song)
• Clunk click every trip (Road Safety Campaign advertising slogan)
• Corduory road (a road that is ridged and furrowed like the fabric)
• Follow the yellow brick road
• Frog and toad (Cockney rhyming slang for road)
• Gentleman of the road
• Get the show on the road
• Goodbye Yellow Brick Road (Elton John song)
• Hit The Road Jack (Ray Charles song)
• Hit the road Jack
• I'm convinced the Goodyear Grand Prix-S is a major contribution to road safety (Goodyear Tyres advertising slogan)
• Keep the show on the road
• Kick the can further down the road
• King of the road
• Knight of the road
• Middle of the road
• Off road
• On The Road (Jack Kerouac book)
• On The Road Again (Canned Heat song)
• One for the road
• Open road
• Passion for the road (Mazda advertising slogan)
• Road To Nowhere (Talking Heads song)
• Road apple
• Road hog
• Road kill
• Road rage
• Road to riches
• Road to ruin
• Road train
• Road trip
• Road warrior
• Stop, Look and Listen; remember the Green Cross Code (UK Road Safety Campaign advertising slogan)
• The Long And Winding Road (The Beatles song)
• The Road Not Taken (Robert Frost poem)
• The end of the road
• The long and winding road that leads to your door (Beatles song lyric)
• The road isn't built that can make it breathe hard! (Chevrolet advertising slogan)
• The road less travelled
• The road to Damascus
• The road to hell is paved with good intentions
• Thunder Road (Bruce Springsteen song)
• Twenty Miles Of Bad Road (The Janeys song)
• Up and down the city road
• Where the rubber meets the road (Firestone Tyres advertising slogan)
• Where the rubber meets the road (where the important facts or realities lie)
• Why Don't We Do It In The Road? (The Beatles song)
• Why did the chicken cross the road?
• You know it makes sense (Road Safety Campaign advertising slogan)
• You take the high road: I'll take the low road