Rock Phrases

Phrases

• A brick in your hat
• A rolling stone gathers no moss
• After The Gold Rush (Neil Young song)
• Ain't No Mountain High Enough (Marvin Gaye song)
• Another One Bites The Dust (Queen song)
• As Tears Go By (Rolling Stones song)
• As cold as any stone
• As dumb as a box of rocks
• As fresh as a mountain stream
• As hard as a rock
• As nervous as a long tailed cat in a room full of rocking chairs
• As rare as rocking horse droppings
• As solid as a rock
• As thick as a brick
• Ayers Rock (tourist attraction in Australia)
• Baby Cakes (Nickname of Cliff Huxtable (Bill Cosby))
• Back In Black (AC/DC album)
• Bake and shake
• Bama Lama Bama Loo (Little Richard song)
• Bang your head against a brick wall
• Basic Instinct (Sharon Stone movie)
• Between a rock and a hard place
• Big in Japan
• Birdman Of Alcatraz (Burt Lancaster movie)
• Blood Brothers (Bruce Springsteen song)
• Blue Suede Shoes (Elvis Presley song)
• Bohemian Rhapsody (Queen song)
• Born In The U.S.A.(Bruce Springsteen album and song)
• Born To Run (Bruce Springsteen song)
• Born Under A Bad Sign (Cream song)
• Brick red
• Brown Sugar (Rolling Stones song)
• Built like a brick outhouse
• Burning Down The House (Talking Heads song)
• Carved in stone
• Cast in stone
• Cast the first stone
• Chantilly Lace (Jerry Lee Lewis song)
• Cinnamon Girl (Neil Young song)
• Clearly Canadian Sparkling Mineral Water in Wild Fruit Flavours (Adelma Mineral Waters advertising slogan)
• Cold Mountain (Jude Law / Renee Zellweger / Nicole Kidman movie)
• Cold Turkey (John Lennon song)
• Combustible Huxtable (Nickname of Dr.Cliff Huxtable (Bill Cosby))
• Cool as a mountain stream (Consulate Cigarettes advertising slogan)
• Country rock
• Crazy Little Thing Called Love (Queen song)
• Crocodile Rock (Elton John song)
• Dancing In The Dark (Bruce Springsteen song)
• Do the Dew (Mountain Dew advertising slogan)
• Do the shake and vac (Shake And Vac advertising slogan)
• Domo arigato Mr Roboto
• Don't Stop Me Now (Queen song)
• Don't rock the boat
• Dream On (Aerosmith song)
• Drop a brick
• Drop like a stone
• Edinburgh Castle (tourist attraction in Scotland)
• Etched in stone
• Eye of the Tiger (Survivor song)
• Fair shake
• Fall like a stone
• Fiscal cliff
• Foggy Mountain Breakdown (Lester Flatt and Earl Scruggs tune title)
• Follow the yellow brick road
• Fool's gold (a brassy yellow mineral that the inexperienced prospector may mistake for gold)
• Foxy Lady (Jimi Hendrix song)
• Fresh squeezed glaciers (Adelma Mineral Waters advertising slogan)
• Get Off My Cloud (Rolling Stones song)
• Get down and get funky
• Get your rocks off
• Gimme Shelter (Rolling Stones song)
• Glam rock
• Glass cliff
• Good Golly Miss Molly (Little Richard song)
• Goodbye Yellow Brick Road (Elton John song)
• Great Balls Of Fire (Jerry Lee Lewis song)
• Guitar Man (Elvis Presley song)
• Harry Potter And The Sorcerer's Stone (J. K. Rowling book)
• Heart Of Gold (Neil Young song)
• Heart of stone
• Heartbreak Hotel (Elvis Presley song)
• Heavy metal
• Heavy rock
• Hello sunshine! Hello Mountain Dew (Mountain Dew advertising slogan)
• Helpless Helpless Helpless Helpless (Neil Young song lyric)
• Hey Joe (Jimi Hendrix song)
• Hidden gem
• Hit rock bottom
• Honky Tonk Woman (Rolling Stones song)
• Hungry Heart (Bruce Springsteen song)
• I Can See Clearly Now (Johnny Cash and Jimmy Cliff song and Nescafe advertising slogan)
• I Can't Get No Satisfaction (Rolling Stones song)
• I Wanna Rock And Roll All Night (Kiss song)
• I was a seven stone weakling (Charles Atlas advertising slogan)
• I'm So Glad (Cream song)
• If the mountain won't go to Mohammed, Mohammed must go to the mountain
• If your friend jumped off a cliff, would you do it too?
• In a cleft stick
• In a world full surrounded by Windows, we're handing out rocks (BeOS Radio advertising slogan)
• In out, in out, shake it all about
• It's A Kind Of Magic (Queen song)
• It's Only Rock And Roll, But I Like It (Rolling Stones song)
• It's a dirty job, but somebody has to do it (A catchphrase from Nick Stone In Tightrope)
• Jailhouse Rock (Elvis Presley song)
• Jive talk
• Jive talkin' (Bee Gees song)
• Johnny B Goode (Chuck Berry song)
• Jumpin' Jack Flash (Rolling Stones song)
• Keep A Knockin' (Little Richard song)
• Kill stone dead
• Kill two birds with one stone
• Killer Queen (Queen song)
• Kiss the Blarney Stone
• La Bamba (Richie Valens song)
• Leave no stone unturned
• Led Zeppelin
• Let It Bleed (Rolling Stones song)
• Let's Dance (David Bowie song)
• Let's Spend The Night Together (Rolling Stones song)
• Let's rock (A catchphrase from Al Bundy In Married With Children)
• Let's shake hands on it
• Like A Rolling Stone (Bob Dylan song)

• Like a rock (Bob Seeger song title and Chevrolet Trucks advertising slogan)
• Little Hands of Stone (Nickname of Michael Carbajal)
• Little Red Rooster (Rolling Stones song)
• Long Tall Sally (Little Richard song)
• Make a mountain out of a molehill
• Maybe Baby (Buddy Holly song)
• Memphis Tennessee (Chuck Berry song)
• More than you can shake a stick at
• My Ding A Ling (Chuck Berry song)
• Not the only pebble on the beach
• Off your rocker
• On the rocks
• Once In A Liftime (Talking Heads' song)
• One brick short of a load
• One two three o'clock four o'clock rock
• Only Love Can Break Your Heart (Neil Young song)
• Out Of Time (Rolling Stones song)
• Over the shoulder boulder holder (jokey term for bra)
• Paint It Black (Rolling Stones song)
• Party Like a Rock Star (Shop Boyz song)
• Party Rock Anthem (LMFAO with Lauren Bennett and GoonRock song)
• Peggy Sue (Buddy Holly song)
• Peggy Sue Got Married (Buddy Holly song)
• Prepare to rock
• Primal fear (Neurosis therapy and British rock band)
• Protein shake
• Psycho Killer (Talking Heads song)
• Purple Haze (Jimi Hendrix song)
• Put the freshness back (Shake And Vac advertising slogan)
• Rave On (Buddy Holly song)
• Ready Teddy (Little Richard song)
• Reelin' And Rockin' (Chuck Berry song)
• River Deep Mountain High (Ike and Tina Turner song)
• Road To Nowhere (Talking Heads song)
• Rock And Roll Dreams Come True (Meatloaf song)
• Rock Around The Clock (Bill Haley song)
• Rock With The Caveman (Tommy Steele song)
• Rock Your Baby (George McCrae song)
• Rock a bye baby on the tree top, when the wind blows the cradle will rock (line from nursery rhyme)
• Rock and boulder (Cockney rhyming slang for shoulder)
• Rock and roll
• Rock bottom
• Rock god
• Rock of ages
• Rock on
• Rock solid
• Rock the vote
• Rock your world
• Rockin' In The Free World (Neil Young song)
• Rocking rolling riding
• Rocky Raccoon (Beatles song)
• Rocky mountain high
• Romancing The Stone (Michael Douglas movie)
• Ruby Tuesday (Rolling Stones song)
• Sex and drugs, and rock and roll
• Shake Rattle And Roll (Bill Haley song)
• Shake a leg
• Shake down
• Shake like a leaf
• Shake up
• Shake your booty
• Shit a brick
• Sink like a stone
• Somebody To Love (Queen song)
• Stairway to Heaven (Led Zeppelin song)
• Star Spangled Banner (Jimi Hendrix song)
• Still life (a form of painting in which inanimate objects are the subject)
• Stone Free (Jimi Hendrix song)
• Stone cold sober
• Stone the crows
• Strange Brew (Cream song)
• Street Fighting Man (Rolling Stones song)
• Streets Of Philadelphia (Bruce Springsteen song)
• Strut your funky stuff
• Stuck Inside Of Mobile With The Memphis Blues Again (Bob Dylan song)
• Sugar Loaf Mountain (tourist attraction in Brazil)
• Sunshine Of Your Love (Cream song)
• Sympathy For The Devil (Rolling Stones song)
• Table Mountain (tourist attraction in South Africa)
• The Adventure of the Mazarin Stone (Sherlock Holmes story)
• The Bird Man of Alcatraz (Nickname of Robert Stroud)
• The Dome of the Rock (tourist attraction in Israel)
• The Final Countdown (song by the Swedish band Europe)
• The Gem (Nickname of Erie Pennsylvania)
• The Gem State (Nickname of the US state of Idaho)
• The Giant's Causeway (tourist attraction in Ireland)
• The Girl Can't Help It (Little Richard song and movie)
• The Granite City (Nickname of Aberdeen Scotland)
• The Granite State (Nickname of the US state of New Hampshire)
• The Green Mountain State (Nickname of the US state of Vermont)
• The Hippy Hippy Shake (The Beatles song)
• The King of Rock 'N' Roll (Nickname of Elvis Presley)
• The Last Time (Rolling Stones song)
• The Peeper (Nickname of Cliff Murdock (Tom Poston))
• The Rock (Nickname of Marcel Desailly)
• The hand that rocks the cradle rules the world
• The philosopher's stone
• These go to eleven (line from the movie This Is Spinal Tap)
• This Hard Land (Bruce Springsteen song)
• This precious stone set in the silver sea, this sceptered isle
• Thunder Road (Bruce Springsteen song)
• To cast the first stone
• Too Much Monkey Business (Chuck Berry song)
• Tutti Frutti (Little Richard song)
• Uncle Cliffy (Nickname of Cliff Robinson)
• Under My Thumb (Rolling Stones song)
• Voodoo Child (Jimi Hendrix song)
• We Are The Champions (Queen song)
• We Will Rock You (Queen song)
• Welcome to the Jungle (Guns n Roses song)
• Where rocking horse people eat marshmallow pies (Beatles song lyric)
• White Room (Cream song)
• Whole Lotta Love (Led Zeppelin song)
• Whole Lotta Shakin' Goin' On (Jerry Lee Lewis song)
• Whole lotta shakin' goin' on
• Wop bop a loo bop a wop bam boom
• Working Class Hero (John Lennon song)
• You Can't Always Get What You Want (The Rolling Stone song)
• You Never Can Tell (Chuck Berry song)
• You can't get blood out of a stone
• You rock!
• You're a brick

Related

• As hard as a rock
• As solid as a rock
• Ayers Rock (tourist attraction in Australia)
• Between a rock and a hard place
• Country rock
• Crocodile Rock (Elton John song)
• Don't rock the boat
• Glam rock
• Heavy rock
• Hit rock bottom
• I Wanna Rock And Roll All Night (Kiss song)
• It's Only Rock And Roll, But I Like It (Rolling Stones song)
• Jailhouse Rock (Elvis Presley song)
• Let's rock (A catchphrase from Al Bundy In Married With Children)
• Like a rock (Bob Seeger song title and Chevrolet Trucks advertising slogan)
• One two three o'clock four o'clock rock
• Party Like a Rock Star (Shop Boyz song)
• Party Rock Anthem (LMFAO with Lauren Bennett and GoonRock song)
• Prepare to rock
• Primal fear (Neurosis therapy and British rock band)
• Rock And Roll Dreams Come True (Meatloaf song)
• Rock Around The Clock (Bill Haley song)
• Rock With The Caveman (Tommy Steele song)
• Rock Your Baby (George McCrae song)
• Rock a bye baby on the tree top, when the wind blows the cradle will rock (line from nursery rhyme)
• Rock and boulder (Cockney rhyming slang for shoulder)
• Rock and roll
• Rock bottom
• Rock god
• Rock of ages
• Rock on
• Rock solid
• Rock the vote
• Rock your world
• Sex and drugs, and rock and roll
• The Dome of the Rock (tourist attraction in Israel)
• The King of Rock 'N' Roll (Nickname of Elvis Presley)
• The Rock (Nickname of Marcel Desailly)
• We Will Rock You (Queen song)
• You rock!