Russia Phrases

Phrases

• Absolut magic (Absolut Vodka advertising slogan)
• All happy families are alike; each unhappy family is unhappy in its own way (the opening line of Anna Karenina)
• An everyday story of country folk (A catchphrase from The Archers)
• Anna Karenina (Leo Tolstoy book)
• Are you now or have you ever been a member of the Communist Party?
• Ask not what your country can do for you, but what you can do for your country
• Back In The USSR (The Beatles song)
• Better dead than red
• Big Brother
• Big Brother is watching you
• Big Country (Nickname of basketball player Bryant Reeves)
• Brazil, Russia, India And China - BRIC
• Come home to Birds Eye Country (Birds Eye Frozen Foods advertising slogan)
• Come to Marlboro Country (Marlboro Cigarettes advertising slogan)
• Country Pie (Bob Dylan song)
• Country cousin
• Country gentleman
• Country house hotel (an upmarket hotel located in a revamped rural mansion)
• Country pursuits
• Country rock
• Country sports
• Cry the beloved country
• Doctor Zhivago (Omar Sharif / Julie Christie / David Lean movie)
• Enjoyed for centuries straight (Wyborowa Vodka advertising slogan)
• Fortress Europe
• From Russia With Love (James Bond movie Sean Connery)
• From Russia, With Love (James Bond movie Sean Connery)
• Girl From The North Country (Bob Dylan song)
• Go to the country
• God's chosen country

• God's own country (Kerala, India advertising slogan)
• It's a free country
• Mother Russia
• Mother country
• Mr. Gorbachev, tear down this wall (Political slogan)
• My country right or wrong
• People's republic (a communist state)
• Red Square (tourist attraction in Moscow Russia)
• Riddle wrapped up in an enigma (Winston Churchill quotation)
• The Bamboo Curtain (notional barrier between capitalist West and communist China)
• The Big Village (Nickname of Moscow Russia)
• The Cold War
• The Evil Empire
• The Final Countdown (song by the Swedish band Europe)
• The Gateway To Europe (Nickname of Amsterdam)
• The Heart Of Europe (Nickname of Prague Czech Republic)
• The Iron Curtain (notional barrier between capitalist West and communist states)
• The Sick Man of Europe (Nickname of Turkey)
• The Third Rome (Nickname of Moscow Russia)
• The crowned heads of Europe
• The old country
• The past is a foreign country: they do things differently there (the opening line of The Go-Between)
• The sick man of Europe
• This line of country
• Uncle Joe (Nickname of Joseph Stalin)
• Vodka as it should be (Russian Standard advertising slogan)
• War and Peace (Leo Tolstoy book)
• While in Europe, pick up an ugly European (Volkswagen advertising slogan)
• You are now free to move about the country (Southwest Airlines advertising slogan)
• You'll never put a better bit of butter on your knife (Country Life butter advertising slogan)
• Your country needs you