Tan Phrases

Phrases

• A splash of colour
• A touch of the sun
• After sun
• As brown as a berry
• Big Yellow Taxi (Joni Mitchell song)
• Brown Eyes Handsome Man (Jerry Lee Lewis song)
• Brown Sugar (Rolling Stones song)
• Brown bag lunch
• Brown bread (Cockney rhyming slang for dead)
• Brown nosing
• Brown out (partial loss of electricity)
• Brown sugar (slang term for heroin)
• Brown trousers
• Buffalo Butt (Nickname of Nathan Bookman (Johnny Brown))
• Cadmium yellow
• Capability Brown (Nickname of Lancelot Brown)
• Catch some rays
• Caught the sun
• Change into your brown trousers
• Chocolate is better in colour (M&M's advertising slogan)
• Colour coded
• Colour coordinated
• Colour me gone
• Colour me happy
• Colour my world
• Colour one's view
• Colour up
• Don't say brown - say Hovis (Hovis Bread advertising slogan)
• Downtown Brown (Nickname of Marcel Brown (Tim Reid))
• Downtown Freddie (Nickname of basketball player Fred Brown)
• Flesh and blood
• Flesh out
• Follow the yellow brick road
• Fool's gold (a brassy yellow mineral that the inexperienced prospector may mistake for gold)
• Gentlemen of colour
• Go the way of all flesh
• Goodbye Yellow Brick Road (Elton John song)
• He makes my flesh crawl
• He makes my flesh creep
• He went to bed and bound his head with vinegar and brown paper (line from nursery rhyme)
• He's got a yellow streak down his back
• Horse of a different colour
• How now brown cow?
• I Am Curious - Yellow (Erotic movie)
• In a brown study

• In the flesh
• It's A Man's World (James Brown song)
• Jackie Brown (Quentin Tarantino movie)
• Lend colour to
• Let your fingers do the walking (Yellow Pages advertising slogan)
• Let's see the colour of your money
• Little Brown Jug (Glenn Miller tune)
• Mellow yellow
• More than flesh and blood can stand
• Neither fish nor flesh, nor good red herring
• Off colour
• Old chestnut
• Papa's Got A Brand New Bag (James Brown song)
• People of colour
• Pound of flesh
• Press the flesh
• Put flesh on your bones
• Red lorry yellow lorry
• Riot of colour
• Say It Loud I'm Black And I'm Proud (James Brown song)
• Screaming yellow honker
• See what brown can do for you (UPS advertising slogan)
• Sun yourself
• Super Bad (James Brown song)
• The Adventure of the Yellow Face (Sherlock Holmes story)
• The Brown Bomber (Nickname of Joe Louis)
• The Cannonball Kid (Nickname of tennis player Roscoe Tanner)
• The Colour Of My Love (Celine Dion album)
• The Godfather of Soul (Pseudonym of singer James Brown)
• The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog
• The spirit is willing but the flesh is weak
• The way of all flesh
• Thorn in the flesh
• Three Finger (Nickname of Mordecai Brown)
• Tie a Yellow Ribbon Round the Ole Oak Tree (Dawn with Tony Orlando song)
• Want to reach 8 out of 10 adults - walk this way (Yellow Pages advertising slogan)
• We all live in a yellow submarine (Beatles song lyric)
• What colour is the sky in your world?
• Yellow Submarine (The Beatles song)
• Yellow belly (slang term for a coward)
• Yellow dog Democrat
• Yellow matter custard dripping from a dead dog's eye (Beatles song lyric)
• Yellow peril
• You can have any colour as long as it's black
• You keep all your money in a big brown bag inside a zoo (Beatles song lyric)
• You'll wonder where the yellow went when you brush your teeth with Pepsodent (Pepsodent toothpaste advertising slogan)