Traffic Phrases

Phrases

• A log jam
• Abbey Road (The Beatles album)
• Alamo City (Nickname of San Antonio Texas)
• Any road up
• Auld Reekie (Nickname of the city of Edinburgh)
• Beep beep (A catchphrase from Road Runner)
• Bison City (Nickname of Buffalo New York)
• Bright Lights, Big City (Jay Mcinerney book)
• Bright lights, big city
• Built for the road ahead (Ford Cars advertising slogan)
• Bumper to bumper
• Canada's Festival City (Nickname of Edmonton Alberta)
• Chirpy Chirpy Cheep Cheep (Middle of the Road song)
• City Lights (Charlie Chaplin movie)
• City Linking, smart thinking (City Link advertising slogan)
• City bike (a bicycle designing especially for urban riding)
• City limits
• City of light
• City slicker
• City summer
• Clunk click every trip (Road Safety Campaign advertising slogan)
• Congestion charging
• Corduory road (a road that is ridged and furrowed like the fabric)
• Courtesy and care (Automobile Association advertising slogan)
• Dogwood City (Nickname of Atlanta Georgia)
• Elm City (Nickname of New Haven Connecticut)
• Falls City (Nickname of Louisville Kentucky)
• Follow the yellow brick road
• Frog and toad (Cockney rhyming slang for road)
• Gentleman of the road
• Get the show on the road
• Go and play in the traffic
• Goodbye Yellow Brick Road (Elton John song)
• Gotham City (Nickname of New York)
• Grid lock
• High occupancy vehicle lane (a traffic lane reserved for vehicles carrying several people)
• Highway Code
• Hit The Road Jack (Ray Charles song)
• Hit the road Jack
• Hongkong City (Nickname of Richmond British Columbia)
• I dreamed I stopped traffic in my Maidenform bra (Maidenform advertising slogan)
• I'm convinced the Goodyear Grand Prix-S is a major contribution to road safety (Goodyear Tyres advertising slogan)
• Inner city
• Just what I needed (Circuit City advertising slogan)
• Keep left
• Keep the show on the road
• Kick the can further down the road
• King of the road
• Knight of the road
• Kodak City (Nickname of Rochester New York)
• Look both ways
• Lynn Lynn City Of Sin (Nickname of Lynn Massachusetts)
• Meter maid
• Middle of the road
• Motorway madness
• Moving traffic violation
• Music City (Nickname of Nashville Tennessee)
• Nose to tail
• Off road
• On The Road (Jack Kerouac book)
• On The Road Again (Canned Heat song)
• Once In Royal David's City (Christmas Carol title)
• One for the road

• Open road
• Passion for the road (Mazda advertising slogan)
• Purity City (Nickname of Boston Massachusetts)
• Rip City (Nickname of Portland Oregon)
• Road To Nowhere (Talking Heads song)
• Road apple
• Road hog
• Road kill
• Road rage
• Road to riches
• Road to ruin
• Road train
• Road trip
• Road warrior
• Sex and the City
• Sin City (Nickname of Las Vegas Nevada)
• Snapshot City (Nickname of Rochester New York)
• Speed kills
• Stop traffic
• Stop, Look and Listen; remember the Green Cross Code (UK Road Safety Campaign advertising slogan)
• The Athens of The North (Nickname of the city of Edinburgh)
• The City (Nickname of The City of London England)
• The City Of Lights (Nickname of Las Vegas Nevada)
• The City Of Love (Nickname of Paris)
• The City That Never Sleeps (Nickname of New York)
• The City of Dreaming Spires (Nickname of the city of Oxford)
• The Eternal City (Nickname of the city of Rome)
• The Fair City (Nickname of Dublin Ireland)
• The First Garden City Of The World (Nickname of Letchworth England)
• The Forbidden City (Nickname of Llasa)
• The Forbidden City (tourist attraction in Bejing China)
• The Gibraltar Of North America (Nickname of Quebec City Quebec)
• The Granite City (Nickname of Aberdeen Scotland)
• The Heart Of America (Nickname of Kansas City Missouri)
• The Holy City (Nickname of Jerusalem Israel)
• The Hustle (Van McCoy and the Soul City Symphony song)
• The Long And Winding Road (The Beatles song)
• The Motor City (Nickname of Detroit Michigan)
• The Road Not Taken (Robert Frost poem)
• The Sistine Chapel (tourist attraction in the Vatican City Italy)
• The Square Mile (Nickname of The City of London)
• The Steel City (Nickname of Pittsburgh Pennsylvania)
• The Steel City (Nickname of Sheffield England)
• The Windy City (Nickname of Chicago)
• The end of the road
• The long and winding road that leads to your door (Beatles song lyric)
• The road isn't built that can make it breathe hard! (Chevrolet advertising slogan)
• The road less travelled
• The road to Damascus
• The road to hell is paved with good intentions
• Thunder Road (Bruce Springsteen song)
• To our members, we're the fourth emergency service (Automobile Association advertising slogan)
• Twenty Miles Of Bad Road (The Janeys song)
• Up and down the city road
• Where the rubber meets the road (Firestone Tyres advertising slogan)
• Where the rubber meets the road (where the important facts or realities lie)
• Why Don't We Do It In The Road? (The Beatles song)
• Why did the chicken cross the road?
• Windy City Flyer (Nickname of Devin Hester)
• World city
• You can't fight city hall
• You could learn a lot from a dummy, Buckle Up (National Highway Traffic Safety Administration advertising slogan)
• You know it makes sense (Road Safety Campaign advertising slogan)
• You take the high road: I'll take the low road