Steam Phrases

Phrases

• A hewer of wood and a drawer of water
• All gas and gaiters
• Better gas mileage. A Civic responsibility (Honda advertising slogan)
• Black water rafting
• Blood in the water
• Blood is thicker than water
• Blow off steam
• Blow out of the water
• Boil with rage
• Both oars in the water
• Bridge Over Troubled Water (Simon and Garfunkel album and song)
• Bring to the boil
• Clear blue water
• Clearly Canadian Sparkling Mineral Water in Wild Fruit Flavours (Adelma Mineral Waters advertising slogan)
• Cloud Atlas (David Mitchell book)
• Cloud cuckoo land
• Come hell or high water
• Come on in, the water's fine
• Cooking with gas
• Dead in the water
• Dip your toe into the water
• Don't pass gas (American Legacy Foundation advertising slogan)
• Don't you just love being in control? (British Gas advertising slogan)
• Every dark cloud has a silver lining
• Fish out of water
• Fog of war
• Full steam ahead
• Gas bag
• Gas burner
• Gas guzzler
• Get Off My Cloud (Rolling Stones song)
• Get into deep water
• Get into hot water
• Get up steam
• Go and boil your head
• Go boil your head
• Go off the boil
• Go through fire and water for
• He doesn't have both oars in the water
• He's fallen in the water (A catchphrase from The Goon Show)
• Head of steam
• High speed gas (Gas Council advertising slogan)
• Hold water
• I wandered lonely as a cloud (from a poem by Wordsworth)
• If gas pains persist, try Volkswagen (Volkswagen advertising slogan)
• In a fog

• In deep water
• In hot water
• It makes my blood boil
• 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
• Let off steam
• 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)
• Made to make your mouth water (Opal Fruits advertising slogan)
• Men's evil manners live in brass; their virtues we write in water
• Of the first water
• Oil and water don't mix
• On cloud nine
• Pour cold water on
• Pure life (Nestle Aberfoyle Natural Spring Water advertising slogan)
• Purple Haze (Jimi Hendrix song)
• Relieves gas pains (Volkswagen advertising slogan)
• Run out of gas
• Run out of steam
• Smooth runs the water where the brook is deep
• Spend money like water
• Steam coming out of your ears
• Step on the gas
• 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 Velvet Fog (Nickname of singer Mel Torme)
• The fog of war (confusion caused by the chaos of battle)
• The red mist
• Throw cold water on
• Tonic water by you know who (Schweppes advertising slogan)
• Under a cloud
• Under your own steam
• 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
• You can lead a horse to water but you can't make it drink