Swell Phrases

Phrases

• A child is an island of curiosity surrounded by a sea of question marks (Shell advertising slogan)
• Absence makes the heart grow fonder
• All at sea
• As exciting as watching grass grow
• Between the Devil and the deep blue sea
• Brain wave
• Castles made of sand fall into the sea eventually
• Catch a wave
• City slicker
• Companion plant (a plant grown near to another species to enhance its growth)
• Deep sea data diving
• Deeper Than The Deep Blue Sea (Frank Sinatra song)
• Don't let the grass grow under your feet
• Expand your horizons
• From sea to shining sea
• Grow a pair
• Grow a tail
• Grow on you
• Grow up
• Growth spurt
• Hands across the sea
• Heat wave
• How does your garden grow?
• I grow old, I grow old, I shall wear the bottoms of my trousers rolled (from a poem by Eliot)
• If all the world were Jell-O, And whipped cream filled the sea, Then the only spoon from here to the moon Would have to belong to me (Jell-O Gelatin Dessert advertising slogan)
• Killer wave
• Mary Mary quite contrary, how does your garden grow (line from nursery rhyme)
• Mexican wave

• Mighty oaks from little acorns grow
• Money doesn't grow on trees
• Neck beard (hair growth on the neck)
• On the crest of a wave
• Restricted growth
• Ride a wave
• Roses grow on you (Cadbury's Roses advertising slogan)
• Sea Bass (Nickname of Sebastian Janikowski)
• Sea change
• Sea level
• She sells sea shells on the sea shore
• Sun, sea and sand
• Swell the ranks
• The Bride Of The Sea (Nickname of Venice Italy)
• The Delia Effect (increase in sales of food ingredients featured on Delia Smith's cookery shows)
• The Old Man And The Sea (Spencer Tracy movie)
• The Owl and the Pussycat went to sea in a beautiful pea-green boat (line from nursery rhyme)
• The deep blue sea
• There's plenty more fish in the sea
• This precious stone set in the silver sea, this sceptered isle
• Twenty thousand leagues under the sea
• Wave the bloody shirt
• Wave the white flag
• Wave your magic wand
• We're A Couple Of Swells (Judy Garland song)
• We're a couple of swells
• Went down like a lead balloon
• When the balloon goes up
• Wish me luck as you wave me goodbye