Scotland Phrases

Phrases

• A bit of a porridge
• An everyday story of country folk (A catchphrase from The Archers)
• Ask not what your country can do for you, but what you can do for your country
• Auld Reekie (Nickname of the city of Edinburgh)
• Auld lang syne
• Balmoral Castle (tourist attraction in Scotland)
• Big Baby (Nickname of basketball player Glen Davis)
• Big Country (Nickname of basketball player Bryant Reeves)
• Big Mac (Nickname of baseball player Mark McGwire)
• Bonny Scotland
• Central heating for kids (Ready Brek porridge advertising slogan)
• Come home to Birds Eye Country (Birds Eye Frozen Foods advertising slogan)
• Come to Marlboro Country (Marlboro Cigarettes advertising slogan)
• Computer says no (A catchphrase from Little Britain)
• 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
• Crazy Gun Barney (Nickname of Barney Fife (Don Knotts))
• Cry the beloved country
• Edinburgh Castle (tourist attraction in Scotland)
• Everything is easier on a Mac (Apple Computer advertising slogan)
• Fingal's Cave (tourist attraction in Scotland)
• First footing (making a round of visits at New Year)
• Fortress Europe
• Forward with Britain (Daily Mirror advertising slogan)
• Girl From The North Country (Bob Dylan song)
• Go to the country
• God's chosen country
• God's own country (Kerala, India advertising slogan)
• Goodnight children everywhere (A catchphrase from Uncle Mac)
• Great scot (exclamation of surprise)
• Have you got a light mac?
• Hoots mon, there's a moose in the hoose
• I am the only gay in the village (A catchphrase from Little Britain)
• I want that one (A catchphrase from Little Britain)
• I'm a laydee (A catchphrase from Little Britain)

• I'm backing Britain
• It's a free country
• Mac the Knife (Nickname of Harold Macmillan)
• Made in Scotland from girders (Irn Bru advertising slogan)
• Many a mickle makes a muckle
• Mother country
• Mull of Kintyre (Wings song)
• My country right or wrong
• Old lang syne
• One instinctively knows when something is right (Croft Original Sherry advertising slogan)
• Rob Roy (Nickname of Robert MacGregor)
• Save your breath to cool your porridge
• Scotch and the Single Girl (J&B Scotch advertising slogan)
• Scotland the brave
• Should old acquaintance be forgot
• Talk tweed
• That's not a knife; that's a knife (Crocodile Dundee)
• The Athens of The North (Nickname of the city of Edinburgh)
• The Big Yin (Nickname of comedian Billy Connolly)
• The Final Countdown (song by the Swedish band Europe)
• The Flying Squad (Nickname of the Specialist Crime Directorate, New Scotland Yard)
• The Gateway To Europe (Nickname of Amsterdam)
• The Granite City (Nickname of Aberdeen Scotland)
• The Heart Of Europe (Nickname of Prague Czech Republic)
• The Highland Fling
• The Royal Mile (tourist attraction in Edinburgh Scotland)
• The Sick Man of Europe (Nickname of Turkey)
• The Tartan Army
• 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
• Typhoo puts the T in Britain, the T that stands for taste (Typhoo Tea advertising slogan)
• While in Europe, pick up an ugly European (Volkswagen advertising slogan)
• Yeah but, no but (A catchphrase from Little Britain)
• Yeah, I know (A catchphrase from Little Britain)
• You are now free to move about the country (Southwest Airlines advertising slogan)
• You take the high road: I'll take the low road
• You'll never put a better bit of butter on your knife (Country Life butter advertising slogan)
• Your country needs you