Solvent Phrases

Phrases

• A hewer of wood and a drawer of water
• Acid head
• Acid house
• Acid rain
• Acid test
• Acid tongue
• Any time, anywhere, acid indigestion can catch you out (Alka Selzer advertising slogan)
• As sound as a bell
• Black water rafting
• Blood in the water
• Blood is thicker than water
• Blow out of the water
• Born within the sound of Bow Bells
• Both oars in the water
• Break the sound barrier
• Bridge Over Troubled Water (Simon and Garfunkel album and song)
• Brum brum (child's play idiom expressing the sound of a vehicle)
• Clear blue water
• Clearly Canadian Sparkling Mineral Water in Wild Fruit Flavours (Adelma Mineral Waters advertising slogan)
• Come hell or high water
• Come on in, the water's fine
• Dead in the water
• Dial down (adjust a device to reduce sound or temperature)
• Dip your toe into the water
• Ear popping (a sound that is loud or that catches the attention)
• Eating pate de fois gras to the sound of trumpets
• Fish out of water
• Get into deep water
• Get into hot water
• Go through fire and water for
• Hands that do dishes can feel soft as your face, with mild green Fairy Liquid (Fairy Liquid advertising slogan)
• He doesn't have both oars in the water
• He's fallen in the water (A catchphrase from The Goon Show)
• Hold water
• In deep water
• In hot water
• In love with the sound of your own voice
• In the black
• Jack and Jill went up the hill to fetch a pail of water (line from nursery rhyme)
• Just add water
• Just when you thought it was safe to go back in water (Jaws II advertising tagline)
• Keep your head above water
• Like a duck to water
• Like a fish out of water
• Like water off a duck's back
• Lipton's gets into more hot water than anything (Lipton Tea advertising slogan)
• Liquid assets
• Liquid engineering (Castrol Motor Oil advertising slogan)
• Liquid lunch
• Made to make your mouth water (Opal Fruits advertising slogan)
• Marching to the sound of a different drum
• Men's evil manners live in brass; their virtues we write in water
• Of the first water
• Oil and water don't mix
• Pour cold water on
• Pure life (Nestle Aberfoyle Natural Spring Water advertising slogan)
• Run toward the sound of gunfire
• Safe and sound
• Smooth runs the water where the brook is deep
• Sound bite
• Sound effect
• Sound off at
• Sound out
• Sound the alarm
• Spend money like water
• Surround sound
• Take a bath in the dark tonight and let the water make love to your skin (Lavin Perfumes & Soaps advertising slogan)
• Test the water
• The Hot Water State (Nickname of the US state of Arkansas)
• The Mersey sound
• The Sound Of Music (Julie Andrews movie)
• The Sound Of Silence (Simon and Garfunkel 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 sound of leather on willow (sound of the ball on the bat in cricket)
• Throw cold water on
• Tonic water by you know who (Schweppes advertising slogan)
• Walk on water
• 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
• White water rafting
• Wired for sound
• You can lead a horse to water but you can't make it drink