Soil Phrases

Phrases

• A Journey To The Center Of The Earth (Jules Verne book)
• A prophet is not recognized in his own land
• As cheap as dirt
• As clear as mud
• As solid as the ground we walk on
• Biggest daily sale on Earth (Daily Mirror advertising slogan)
• Black spot
• Blind spot
• Bowels of the earth
• Break new ground
• Brought down to earth
• Built from the ground up
• Caked with mud
• Clay pigeon
• Cloud cuckoo land
• Come down to earth with a bump
• Common ground
• Cost the earth
• Covers the earth (Sherwin Williams paint advertising slogan)
• Cut the ground from under your feet
• Dark And Bloody Ground (Nickname of the US state of Kentucky)
• Dicky Dirt (Cockney rhyming slang for shirt)
• Did the earth move for you
• Dig up the dirt
• Dirt bag
• Dirt cheap
• Dirt poor
• Dish the dirt
• Doesn't know his arse from a hole in the ground
• Down to earth
• Down to the ground
• Drag through the mud
• Earth Angel (Nickname of Evie Garland (Maureen Flannigan))
• Earth Girls Are Easy (Jim Carrey movie)
• Earth mother
• Earth shattering
• Earth to mom
• Earth up
• Eat dirt
• Fall on stony ground
• Feet of clay
• From the Land of Sky-Blue Waters (Hamm's Beer advertising slogan)
• From the ends of the earth
• From the four corners of the earth
• Gain ground
• Gaseous Cassius (Nickname of Cassius Clay)
• Get in on the ground floor
• Get off the ground
• Go to earth
• Go to ground
• God's good earth
• Got a soft spot for
• Great Land (Nickname of the US state of Alaska)
• Ground Hog Day (Nickname of basketball player Tim Duncan)
• Ground ball (A baseball expression meaning a prosaic or ordinary accomplishment)
• Ground zero
• Happy hunting ground
• Have a soft spot for
• He's a real nowhere man sitting in his nowhere land (The Beatles song lyric)
• Heaven on earth
• Hell on earth
• Here's mud in your eye
• Hit the ground running
• Hit the spot
• Hold it up to the light, not a stain and shining light (Surf Washing Powder advertising slogan)
• In a spot
• In a tight spot
• In on the ground floor
• In the land of Nod
• In the land of the living
• Johnny on the spot
• Keep your ear to the ground
• Keep your feet on the ground
• Keep your feet on the ground and keep reaching for the stars (A catchphrase from Casey Kasem In America's Top 40)
• La la land
• Land ahoy
• Land grab

• Land locked
• Land of hope and glory
• Land of make believe
• Land of milk and honey
• Land of nod
• Land of the pharaohs
• Land office business
• Land on your feet
• Land up in
• Land's sake
• Lend a hand on the land (WWII slogan)
• Like nothing else on Earth (Hummer advertising slogan)
• Like nothing on earth
• Living off the fat of the land
• Lose ground on
• Making the sky the best place on Earth (Air France advertising slogan)
• Man on the spot
• Mother Earth
• Move heaven and earth
• Neutral ground
• Never never land
• Night soil
• No man's land
• On dangerous ground
• On the face of the earth
• On the spot
• Pepsi Cola hits the spot (Pepsi advertising slogan)
• Political high ground
• Prepare the ground
• Raze to the ground
• Run to ground
• Salt of the earth
• Scorched Earth Policy
• Show me the spot (Abraham Lincoln quotation)
• So fast your feet won't touch the ground
• Spaceship earth
• Spot on
• Spot the ball
• Spot the difference
• Stamping ground
• Stick in the mud
• Suits you down to the ground
• Sweet spot
• Ten summersets he'll undertake on solid ground (Beatles song lyric)
• The Adventure of the Second Stain (Sherlock Holmes story)
• The Day the Earth Stood Still (Michael Rennie movie)
• The Great Pacificator (Nickname of Henry Clay)
• The Greatest Show on Earth (Barnum & Bailey Circus advertising slogan)
• The Land of The Rising Sun (Nickname of Japan)
• The Waste Land
• The better stain getter (Ultra Biz Detergent advertising slogan)
• The ends of the Earth
• The happiest place on Earth (Disneyland advertising slogan)
• The land of Nod
• The land of the free
• The land that time forgot
• The law of the land
• The lay of the land
• The length and breadth of the land
• The lie of the land
• The meek shall inherit the earth
• The moral high ground
• The perfect spot
• Thin on the ground
• Think globally, act locally (Friends of the Earth advertising slogan)
• This Hard Land (Bruce Springsteen song)
• This Land Is Your Land (Woody Guthrie song)
• Throw enough dirt and some will stick
• Thus far into the bowels of the land
• Tide's in, dirt's out (Tide Washing Powder advertising slogan)
• Treat someone like dirt
• What on earth?
• Where on god's green earth
• Work yourself into the ground
• X marks the spot
• You don't know your ass from a hole in the ground
• Your name is mud