Rust Phrases

Phrases

• As brown as a berry
• As hard as iron
• British Steel, British mettle (British Steel advertising slogan)
• Brown Eyes Handsome Man (Jerry Lee Lewis song)
• Brown Sugar (Rolling Stones song)
• Brown bag lunch
• Brown bread (Cockney rhyming slang for dead)
• Brown nosing
• Brown out (partial loss of electricity)
• Brown sugar (slang term for heroin)
• Brown trousers
• Buffalo Butt (Nickname of Nathan Bookman (Johnny Brown))
• Capability Brown (Nickname of Lancelot Brown)
• Cast iron alibi
• Cast iron guarantee
• Change into your brown trousers
• Don't say brown - say Hovis (Hovis Bread advertising slogan)
• Downtown Brown (Nickname of Marcel Brown (Tim Reid))
• Downtown Freddie (Nickname of basketball player Fred Brown)
• Dr. Iron Fist (Nickname of Vitali Klitschko)
• Fist of Steel (Nickname of boxer Chevelle Hallback)
• He went to bed and bound his head with vinegar and brown paper (line from nursery rhyme)
• How now brown cow?
• In a brown study
• Iron Man (Nickname of John Terry)
• Iron Mike (Nickname of Mike Tyson)
• Iron fist in velvet glove
• Iron hoof (Cockney rhyming slang for poof)
• Iron out
• Iron out the wrinkles
• It's A Man's World (James Brown song)
• Jackie Brown (Quentin Tarantino movie)

• Little Brown Jug (Glenn Miller tune)
• My wings are a shield of steel (A catchphrase from Batfink cartoon)
• Nerves of steel
• Papa's Got A Brand New Bag (James Brown song)
• Pump iron
• Ring rusty
• Rule with a rod of iron
• Rule with an iron fist
• Rust bucket
• Say It Loud I'm Black And I'm Proud (James Brown song)
• Scrap Iron (Nickname of Phil Garner)
• See what brown can do for you (UPS advertising slogan)
• Steel Magnolia (Nickname of Rosalynn Carter)
• Steel yourself
• Strike while the iron is hot
• Super Bad (James Brown song)
• The Boy David (Nickname of English politician David Steel)
• The Brown Bomber (Nickname of Joe Louis)
• The Godfather of Soul (Pseudonym of singer James Brown)
• The Iron Chancellor (Nickname of Otto Von Bismark)
• The Iron Curtain (notional barrier between capitalist West and communist states)
• The Iron Duke (Nickname of Arthur Duke of Wellington)
• The Iron Horse (Nickname of Lou Gehrig)
• The Iron Lady (Nickname of Margaret Thatcher)
• The Iron Man (Nickname of Cal Ripken Jr.)
• The Man in the Iron Mask
• The Steel City (Nickname of Pittsburgh Pennsylvania)
• The Steel City (Nickname of Sheffield England)
• The Steel Heart Of The Republic (Nickname of Ostrava Czech Republic)
• The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog
• Three Finger (Nickname of Mordecai Brown)
• You keep all your money in a big brown bag inside a zoo (Beatles song lyric)