Scottish Phrases

Phrases

• A Life Less Ordinary (Ewan McGregor / Cameron Diaz movie)
• Afore ye go (Bells Scotch Whisky advertising slogan)
• Are your friends living beyond your means? (Chivas Regal Scotch advertising slogan)
• Be the best (British Army advertising slogan)
• Black Hawk Down (Ewan McGregor movie)
• Bonnie Prince Charlie (Nickname of Charles Stuart)
• Brassed Off (Ewan McGregor movie)
• British Bulldog (Nickname of boxer Brian London)
• British Steel, British mettle (British Steel advertising slogan)
• British racing green
• Buy British
• Charge of the Light Brigade (British cavalry charge against Russian army in the Crimean War and title of a poem by Tennyson)
• Christmas is a time to believe in things you can't see (3M Company Scotch Tape advertising slogan)
• Desperate Dan (a cowboy strongman character in the British comic The Dandy)
• Don't be vague, ask for Haig (Haig Scotch advertising slogan)
• Don't you just love being in control? (British Gas advertising slogan)
• Fie, foh, and fum, I smell the blood of a British man
• Field Marshall (the highest rank in the British Army)
• Fly the flag (British Airways advertising slogan)
• Go to work on an egg (British Egg Marketing Board advertising slogan)
• Happiness is egg shaped (British Egg Marketing Board advertising slogan)
• Hollywood North (Nickname of Vancouver British Columbia)
• Hongkong City (Nickname of Richmond British Columbia)
• I Do Like To Be Beside The Seaside (British Music Hall song)
• Intercity makes the going easy (British Rail advertising slogan)
• Isn't that a lot for a bottle of Scotch? Yes (Chivas Regal Scotch advertising slogan)
• It never varies (Dewar's Scotch Whisky advertising slogan)
• It's Smart to be Square (British Satellite Broadcasting advertising slogan)
• It's good to talk (British Telecom advertising slogan)

• Its for Yoo-hoo! (British Telecom advertising slogan)
• Join the professionals (British Army advertising slogan)
• Let the train take the strain (British Rail advertising slogan)
• Make someone happy with a phone call (British Telecom advertising slogan)
• Moulin Rouge (Ewan McGregor / Nicole Kidman movie)
• Never the twain shall meet
• Number 10 Downing Street (address of the British Prime Minister)
• Primal fear (Neurosis therapy and British rock band)
• Rob Roy (Nickname of Robert MacGregor)
• Rubber johnny (a British slang term for a condom)
• Scotch and the Single Girl (J&B Scotch advertising slogan)
• Somebody somewhere wants a letter from you (British Post Office advertising slogan)
• The British Museum (tourist attraction in London England)
• The British disease
• The Gaza Strip (Nickname of Surrey British Columbia)
• The Only Way Is Essex (British reality television series)
• The Scottish play
• The best of British
• The best of British luck
• The glorious twelfth (of August - the start of the British grouse shooting season)
• The sun never sets on the British Empire
• The world's favourite airline (British Airways advertising slogan)
• This is the age of the train (British Rail advertising slogan)
• Was there a lion on your egg this morning? (British Egg Marketing Board advertising slogan)
• We never forget you have a choice (British Caledonian Airline advertising slogan)
• We'll take good care of you (British Airways advertising slogan)
• We're getting there (British Rail advertising slogan)
• Winter drawers on (old British euphemistic joke)
• You can rely on the lion (British Egg Marketing Board advertising slogan)
• You watch, we listen (British Satellite Broadcasting advertising slogan)