Sound Phrases

Phrases

• A deaf husband and a blind wife are always a happy couple
• A face as long as a fiddle
• And Your Bird Can Sing (Beatles song)
• Architecture is music frozen in time (Friedrich von Schelling quotation)
• As deaf as a adder
• As deaf as a post
• As sound as a bell
• At sixty miles an hour the loudest noise in the new Rolls-Royce comes from the electric clock (Rolls Royce advertising slogan)
• Big noise
• Born within the sound of Bow Bells
• Break the sound barrier
• Brum brum (child's play idiom expressing the sound of a vehicle)
• Cellarful of noise
• Dial down (adjust a device to reduce sound or temperature)
• Dialogue of the deaf
• Don't make a peep
• Ear for music
• Ear popping (a sound that is loud or that catches the attention)
• Eating pate de fois gras to the sound of trumpets
• Elevator music
• Empty vessels make the most noise
• Face the music
• Fall on deaf ears
• House music
• I Do Like To Be Beside The Seaside (British Music Hall song)
• I love deadlines. I love the whooshing noise they make as they go by (Douglas Adams quotation)
• I'd Like to Teach the World to Sing (The New Seekers song)
• I'd like to teach the world to sing
• If music be the food of love, play on (from Twelth Night by Shakespeare)
• In love with the sound of your own voice
• It sounds alright on paper
• It's the empty can that makes the most noise
• Let's face the music and dance
• Make Your Own Kind Of Music (Mama Cass Elliot song)
• Make some noise
• Marching to the sound of a different drum
• Multimedia you can use (Apple Computer advertising slogan)
• Music Box (Mariah Carey album)
• Music City (Nickname of Nashville Tennessee)
• Music has charms to soothe the savage breast
• Music is art. Muzak is science (Muzak Corporation advertising slogan)

• Music to my ears
• Mutt and Jeff (Cockney rhyming slang for deaf)
• No music, no life (Tower Records advertising slogan)
• Of unsound mind
• Plop, plop, fizz, fizz, oh what a relief it is! (Alka Seltzer advertising slogan)
• Popular music
• Run toward the sound of gunfire
• Safe and sound
• Signal to noise ratio
• Sing a different tune
• Sing a song of sixpence a pocket full of rye (line from nursery rhyme)
• Sing for your supper
• Sing like a bird
• Sing out
• Sing someone's praises
• Sound bite
• Sound effect
• Sound off at
• Sound out
• Sound the alarm
• Sounding board
• Surround sound
• Sweet Music (Nickname of Frank Viola)
• Thank you for the music, the songs I'm singing (ABBA lyric)
• 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 best way to get music out of your system (Philips advertising slogan)
• The music of the spheres
• The sound of leather on willow (sound of the ball on the bat in cricket)
• There's none so deaf as they that will not hear
• Tone deaf
• Van Gogh's ear for music
• White noise
• Wired for sound
• With rings on her fingers and bells on her toes she shall have music wherever she goes (line from nursery rhyme)
• Without music, life would be a mistake (Friedrich Nietzsche quotation)
• World music
• You hum it and I'll play it

Related

• As sound as a bell
• Born within the sound of Bow Bells
• Break the sound barrier
• Brum brum (child's play idiom expressing the sound of a vehicle)
• Dial down (adjust a device to reduce sound or temperature)
• Ear popping (a sound that is loud or that catches the attention)
• Eating pate de fois gras to the sound of trumpets
• In love with the sound of your own voice
• Marching to the sound of a different drum
• Run toward the sound of gunfire
• Safe and sound
• Sound bite
• Sound effect
• Sound off at
• Sound out
• Sound the alarm
• Surround sound
• 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)
• Wired for sound