Sea Phrases

Phrases

• A child is an island of curiosity surrounded by a sea of question marks (Shell advertising slogan)
• A hewer of wood and a drawer of water
• A life on the ocean waves
• A marvellous bird is the pelican, its beak holds more than its belly can
• A rising tide lifts all boats
• Abandon ship
• Above the salt
• Accelerate your life (US Navy advertising slogan)
• Ahoy there
• All aboard
• All aboard that's coming aboard
• All at sea
• All hands on deck
• All hands to the pump
• Anchor man
• Anchors aweigh
• As far as the eye can see
• As happy as a clam
• Back to the salt mine
• Barbara Ann (Beach Boys song)
• Batten down the hatches
• Bay for blood
• Be the change that you wish to see in the world (Mahatma Gandhi quotation)
• Beach babe
• Beach bum
• Belay there
• Below the salt
• Between the Devil and the deep blue sea
• Beyond the blue horizon
• Black water rafting
• Blood in the water
• Blood is thicker than water
• Blow out of the water
• Boat person
• Boat race (Cockney rhyming slang for face)
• Bondi Beach (tourist attraction in Australia)
• Both oars in the water
• Brain wave
• Bridge Over Troubled Water (Simon and Garfunkel album and song)
• Britannia rules the waves
• Bucket and spade holiday
• California Girls (Beach Boys song)
• Can't see beyond the end of your nose
• Can't see the wood for the trees
• Cast anchor
• Castles made of sand fall into the sea eventually
• Catch a wave
• Change the channel
• Changing tide
• Channel surfing
• Christmas is a time to believe in things you can't see (3M Company Scotch Tape advertising slogan)
• Clap him in irons
• Clear blue water
• Clear the decks
• Clearly Canadian Sparkling Mineral Water in Wild Fruit Flavours (Adelma Mineral Waters advertising slogan)
• Come about
• Come hell or high water
• Come on in, the water's fine
• Come up and see me sometime (A catchphrase from Mae West)
• Cut and run
• Davy Jones' locker
• Dead in the water
• Deal breaker
• Deep sea data diving
• Deeper Than The Deep Blue Sea (Frank Sinatra song)
• Dip your toe into the water
• Distance vision (the ability to see distant objects)
• Do It Again (Beach Boys song)
• Doggy paddle
• Don't Worry Baby (Beach Boys song)
• Don't give up the ship (Cutty Sark Whisky advertising slogan)
• Don't make waves
• Don't rock the boat
• Don't shoot until you can see the whites of their eyes
• Don't spoil the ship for a ha'pworth of tar
• Drop in the ocean
• Duncan the Wonder Horse (Nickname of TV news anchor Tom Brokaw)
• Easter Island (tourist attraction in the Pacific Ocean)
• Emotional roller coaster
• Even at the turning of the tide
• Finding Nemo (Disney cartoon movie)
• Fish out of water
• Flotsam and jetsam
• Fresh off the boat
• From sea to shining sea
• Full fathom five
• Full of piss and vinegar
• Fun Fun Fun (The Beach Boys song)
• Get into deep water
• Get into hot water
• Go by the board
• Go down with the ship
• Go through fire and water for
• Go to see a man about a dog
• God Only Knows (Beach Boys song)
• Good Vibrations (Beach Boys song)
• Hands across the sea
• He doesn't have both oars in the water
• He's fallen in the water (A catchphrase from The Goon Show)
• Hear no evil, speak no evil, see no evil
• Heat wave
• Hello sailor
• Help Me Rhonda (Beach Boys song)
• Heroes And Villains (Beach Boys song)
• High roller (someone who gambles for high stakes)
• Hold at bay
• Hold it up to the light, not a stain and shining light (Surf Washing Powder advertising slogan)
• Hold water
• I Can See Clearly Now (Johnny Cash and Jimmy Cliff song and Nescafe advertising slogan)
• I Do Like To Be Beside The Seaside (British Music Hall song)
• I Get Around (Beach Boys song)
• I believe in angels, something good in everything I see (ABBA lyric)
• I call them like I see them
• I can see you standing over a hot stove, but I can't see the stove (Groucho Marx line)
• I could see you a mile off
• I see dead people (The Sixth Sense)
• I see nothing - nothing! (A catchphrase from Hogan's Heroes)
• I see you stand like greyhounds in the slips
• I think that I shall never see a poem lovely as a tree, Kilmer)
• I'll see you all right
• If all the world were Jell-O, And whipped cream filled the sea, Then the only spoon from here to the moon Would have to belong to me (Jell-O Gelatin Dessert advertising slogan)
• If it's got to be clean, it's got to be Tide (Tide Washing Powder advertising slogan)
• In deep water
• In hot water
• In the offing
• In the same boat
• Is that a gun in your pocket, or are you just glad to see me?
• Is this a dagger which I see before me?
• Jack and Jill went up the hill to fetch a pail of water (line from nursery rhyme)
• Jolly jack tar
• Jump ship
• Just add water
• Just when you thought it was safe to go back in water (Jaws II advertising tagline)
• Keep at bay
• Keep your head above water
• Kicking dead whales down the beach
• Killer wave
• Know the ropes
• Land ahoy
• Learn the ropes
• Let the dog see the rabbit
• Let's see the colour of your money
• Life's a beach
• Like a duck to water
• Like a fish out of water
• Like rats leaving a sinking ship
• Like water off a duck's back
• Lipton's gets into more hot water than anything (Lipton Tea advertising slogan)
• Little Deuce Coupe (Beach Boys song)
• Long time no see
• Loose cannon
• Made to make your mouth water (Opal Fruits advertising slogan)
• Men's evil manners live in brass; their virtues we write in water
• Message in A Bottle (Police song)
• Mexican wave
• Miss the boat
• Monkey see: monkey do
• Mother ship
• Must see TV (NBC, advertising slogan)
• My ship has come in
• Navy blue
• Nice to see you, to see you nice (A catchphrase from Bruce Forsyth)
• Nick is for kids (Nickelodeon TV channel advertising slogan)
• Not the only pebble on the beach
• Nothing more to see
• Now you see it, now you don't
• Ocean going
• Ocean's Eleven (Brad Pitt / George Clooney movie)
• Ocean's Thirteen (Brad Pitt / George Clooney movie)
• Ocean's Twelve (Brad Pitt / George Clooney movie)
• Octopus's Garden (The Beatles song)
• Of the first water
• Oil and water don't mix
• Old salt
• On the crest of a wave

• On the fiddle
• On the high seas
• Open the bay doors HAL (A catchphrase from 2001, A Space Odyssey)
• POSH - Port out, starboard home (false attribution of the origin of the word posh)
• Paddle your own canoe
• Pink tide
• Pipe down
• Places to go, people to see, things to do
• Pour cold water on
• Pure life (Nestle Aberfoyle Natural Spring Water advertising slogan)
• Push the boat out
• Ride a cock horse to Banbury Cross to see a fine lady upon a white horse (line from nursery rhyme)
• Ride a wave
• Rising tide
• Roller coaster
• Rolling in the Deep (Adele song)
• Row up Salt River
• Row, row, row your boat
• Rub salt in the wound
• Run a tight ship
• Run it up the flagpole and see who salutes
• Sailing under false colours
• Sailor's farewell
• Salt away
• Salt of the earth
• Say what you see (A catchphrase from Catchphrase)
• Sea Bass (Nickname of Sebastian Janikowski)
• Sea change
• Sea level
• Seagulls Over Sorrento (Gene Kelly movie)
• See America at see level (Amtrak advertising slogan)
• See Naples and die
• See You Late Alligator (Bill Haley song)
• See a penny and pick it up
• See a pin and pick it up
• See a pin and pick it up, all the day you'll have good luck; see a pin and let it lie, bad luck you'll have all day
• See eye to eye
• See here
• See how it runs! (Cerebos salt advertising slogan)
• See how they run like pigs from a gun (The Beatles song lyric)
• See it for what it is
• See it out
• See no evil, hear no evil speak no evil
• See red
• See something through
• See that girl, watch that scene (ABBA lyric)
• See the USA in a Chevrolet (Chevrolet advertising slogan)
• See the back of someone
• See the bigger picture
• See the elephant
• See the face you love light up with Terry's All Gold (Terrys Chocolates advertising slogan)
• See things in a different light
• See what brown can do for you (UPS advertising slogan)
• See what happens
• See what the future has in store (Future Shop advertising slogan)
• See what we mean (Canon advertising slogan)
• See which way the cat jumps
• See you anon
• See you in court
• See you later alligator
• See you way clear
• See yourself out
• Set sail
• Sex on the beach
• Shake a leg
• Shape up or ship out
• She sells sea shells on the sea shore
• Ship of fools
• Ship shape and Bristol fashion
• Ship to shore
• Shiver me timbers
• Shore up
• Shot across the bows
• Shoulder surf
• Show a leg
• Sittin' On The Dock Of The Bay (Otis Redding song)
• Sloop John B (Beach Boys song)
• Smooth runs the water where the brook is deep
• Son of a gun
• Sound out
• Spend money like water
• Stay tuned to this channel
• Stem the tide
• Suck it and see
• Sun, sea and sand
• Surf and turf
• Surf report
• Surf the net
• Surf's up
• Surfin USA (Beach Boys song)
• Surfin' Safari (The Beach Boys song)
• Swell the ranks
• Swim against the tide
• Swing the lead
• Take a bath in the dark tonight and let the water make love to your skin (Lavin Perfumes & Soaps advertising slogan)
• Take it with a grain of salt
• Take with a grain of salt
• Take with a pinch of salt
• Taken aback
• Test the water
• That ship has sailed
• The Bay State (Nickname of the US state of Massachusetts)
• The Bermuda Triangle (area in the Atlantic Ocean)
• The Big Pond (nickname of the Atlantic Ocean between the UK and the USA)
• The Big Ship Sails on The Ally-Ally-Oh (line from nursery rhyme)
• The Bride Of The Sea (Nickname of Venice Italy)
• The Crab (Nickname of Ray Wilkins)
• The East Coast Assassin (Nickname of Gilbert Arenas)
• The Hot Water State (Nickname of the US state of Arkansas)
• The Little Mermaid (Disney cartoon movie)
• The Mosquito Coast (Harrison Ford movie)
• The Old Man And The Sea (Spencer Tracy movie)
• The Owl and the Pussycat went to sea in a beautiful pea-green boat (line from nursery rhyme)
• The Palm Beach Story (Claudette Colbert movie)
• The Queen Of The Coast (Nickname of Mar del Plata Argentina)
• The Tide Is Turning (Roger Waters, 1987 song)
• The West Coast Sound (Shelly Manne song)
• The West Coast Sound (name applied to Californian pop music, especially that of The Beach Boys)
• The bitter end
• The coast is clear
• The deep blue sea
• The few, the proud, the Marines (United States Marine Corps advertising slogan)
• The little dog laughed to see such fun
• The motion of the ocean
• The one to watch (Channel 7 Australia advertising slogan)
• The tide is turning
• There are none so blind as those that will not see
• There's none so blind as those who will not see
• There's plenty more fish in the sea
• This precious stone set in the silver sea, this sceptered isle
• Three blind mice, see how they run (line from nursery rhyme)
• Three sheets to the wind
• Throw another shrimp on the barbie (Australian Tourist Commission advertising slogan)
• Throw cold water on
• Tide you over
• Tide's in, dirt's out (Tide Washing Powder advertising slogan)
• Time and tide wait for no man
• Tonic water by you know who (Schweppes advertising slogan)
• Turn the tide
• Twenty thousand leagues under the sea
• Up shit creek without a paddle
• Walk on water
• Walk the plank
• Want some seafood Mama (Fats Waller song)
• Wash your mouth out with soap and water
• Water down
• Water of life
• Water seeks its own level
• Water under the bridge
• Water water everywhere and not a drop to drink
• Wave the bloody shirt
• Wave the white flag
• Wave your magic wand
• We love to see you smile (Mcdonalds advertising slogan)
• We're gonna need a bigger boat (Jaws advertising tagline)
• We're off to see the wizard
• Weigh anchor
• What the eye doesn't see, the heart doesn't grieve over
• What you see is what you get
• Whatever floats your boat
• Whatever it is I think I see becomes a Tootsie Roll to me! (Tootsie Rolls advertising slogan)
• When it rains, it pours (Morton Salt advertising slogan)
• White water rafting
• Why don't you come up sometime and see me? (She Done Him Wrong)
• Wide blue yonder
• Wish me luck as you wave me goodbye
• Women and children first
• Worthy of its salt
• Wouldn't It Be Nice (The Beach Boys song)
• Yellow Submarine (The Beatles song)
• You can lead a horse to water but you can't make it drink
• You know what sailors are
• You should see what's on HGTV (HGTV advertising slogan)
• You won't see me for dust
• You're going to need a bigger boat (Jaws)

Related

• A child is an island of curiosity surrounded by a sea of question marks (Shell advertising slogan)
• All at sea
• Between the Devil and the deep blue sea
• Castles made of sand fall into the sea eventually
• Deep sea data diving
• Deeper Than The Deep Blue Sea (Frank Sinatra song)
• From sea to shining sea
• Hands across the sea
• If all the world were Jell-O, And whipped cream filled the sea, Then the only spoon from here to the moon Would have to belong to me (Jell-O Gelatin Dessert advertising slogan)
• Sea Bass (Nickname of Sebastian Janikowski)
• Sea change
• Sea level
• She sells sea shells on the sea shore
• Sun, sea and sand
• The Bride Of The Sea (Nickname of Venice Italy)
• The Old Man And The Sea (Spencer Tracy movie)
• The Owl and the Pussycat went to sea in a beautiful pea-green boat (line from nursery rhyme)
• The deep blue sea
• There's plenty more fish in the sea
• This precious stone set in the silver sea, this sceptered isle
• Twenty thousand leagues under the sea