Strap Phrases

Phrases

• Alexander's Ragtime Band (Irving Berlin song)
• And The Band Played On (Randy Shilts book)
• And the band played on
• Band of brothers
• Beat the band
• Below the belt
• Belt and braces
• Belt it out
• Belt up
• Christmas is a time to believe in things you can't see (3M Company Scotch Tape advertising slogan)
• Citizen band radio
• Click it or ticket (United States seat belt law advertising slogan)
• Cut through the red tape
• Do They Know It's Christmas? (Band Aid song)
• For keener refreshment (Pabst Blue Ribbon advertising slogan)
• Garage band
• Gastric band (A device surgically inserted around the stomach intended to reduce appetite)
• How much can you handle (Bubble Tape advertising slogan)
• It was twenty years ago today Sgt. Pepper taught the band to play (Beatles song lyric)
• Neon Meate Dream of a Octafish (Captain Beefheart and the Magic Band song)
• Primal fear (Neurosis therapy and British rock band)
• Red tape
• Refresh! Rejoice! Remember! Pabst gets the call (Pabst Blue Ribbon advertising slogan)
• Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band (Beatles album and song)
• Smell the Glove (fictional album by the spoof heavy-metal band Spinal Tap)
• Strap on the feed bag
• Strapped for cash
• Strapping young man
• Strike Up The Band (George Gershwin composition)
• Strike up the band
• The Adventure of the Speckled Band (Sherlock Holmes story)
• The Bible Belt
• The Boys in the Band (play by Mart Crowley)
• The Final Countdown (song by the Swedish band Europe)
• The mainspring in a Bulova is made to last 256 years or 146 leather straps - whichever comes first (Bulova Watches advertising slogan)
• This tape will self-destruct in five seconds (A catchphrase from Mission Impossible)
• Tie a Yellow Ribbon Round the Ole Oak Tree (Dawn with Tony Orlando song)
• Tighten your belt
• To beat the band
• Under your belt
• We few, we happy few, we band of brothers (from Henry V by Shakespeare)