Ruby Phrases

Phrases

• A Study in Scarlet (Sherlock Holmes story)
• A red rag to a bull
• As red as a beetroot
• Better dead than red
• Big Red (Nickname of basketball player Arvydas Sabonis)
• Boy, is my face red (A catchphrase from David Letterman)
• Brick red
• Cadmium red
• Cherry pick
• Cherry pie
• Cherry ripe (Cockney rhyming slang for pipe)
• Cherry top
• Crimson and Clover (Tommy James and the Shondells song)
• Cut through the red tape
• Do you eat the red ones last? (Smarties advertising slogan)
• Fire engine red
• Gives you wings (Red Bull advertising slogan)
• In the red
• It's a red thing (Tizer advertising slogan)
• Lady In Red (Chris de Burgh song)
• Little Red Corvette (Prince song)
• Little Red Rooster (Rolling Stones song)
• Little Robin Red breast sat upon a tree (line from nursery rhyme)
• Looking at the world through rose coloured glasses
• Lose your cherry
• Makes red blood! (Grape-Nuts advertising slogan)
• Moves like Jagger (Maroon 5 with Christina Aguilera song)
• Nature, red in tooth and claw
• Neither fish nor flesh, nor good red herring
• Old Red Eyes (Nickname of Alice Cooper)
• On red alert
• One More Night (Maroon 5 song)
• Paint the town red
• Pillar box red
• Pop someone's cherry
• 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
• Roll out the red carpet
• Roses are red, violets are blue
• Ruby Murray (Cockney rhyming slang for curry)
• Ruby Tuesday (Rolling Stones song)
• Ruby anniversary
• Ruby wedding
• Second bite of the cherry
• 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 Cherry Orchard (play by Anton Chekhov)
• 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 Scarlet Letter (Nathaniel Hawthorne story)
• The Scarlet Pimpernel (Pseudonym of Sir Percy Blakeney)
• The cherry on the cake
• The greatest tragedy is indifference (Red Cross advertising slogan)
• The red carpet
• The red mist
• The thin red line
• To bring the wolves out - Riding Hood Red (Max Factor Cosmetics advertising slogan)
• Wax and wane
• Wax lyrical
• Wax wroth
• What a maroon (Bugs Bunny insult)
• Whole ball of wax
• Your fragrance Your rules (Hugo Boss Deep Red advertising slogan)