Transport Phrases

Phrases

• A better bus service all round (Carousel Buses advertising slogan)
• A move in the right direction
• Abandon ship
• Any port in a storm
• As fast as his legs could carry him
• Beam me up Scotty (A catchphrase from Star Trek)
• Better to remain silent and be thought a fool that to speak and remove all doubt
• Bold move
• Brum brum (child's play idiom expressing the sound of a vehicle)
• Bust a move (dance in a stylish way)
• Can't carry a tune in a bucket
• Career limiting move
• Carry a torch for
• Carry a tune
• Carry coals to Newcastle
• Carry forward
• Carry into action
• Carry it off
• Carry on like a pork chop
• Carry on with
• Carry out
• Carry the ball
• Carry the can
• Carry the cost
• Carry the day
• Carry the world before you
• Cart away
• Comedy vehicle
• Couldn't carry a tune in a bucket
• Did the earth move for you
• Don't give up the ship (Cutty Sark Whisky advertising slogan)
• Don't spoil the ship for a ha'pworth of tar
• Faith will move mountains
• Fast as his legs could carry him
• Fetch and carry
• Food miles
• Friends don't let friends drive drunk (United States Department of Transportation advertising slogan)
• Get a move on
• Go down with the ship
• High occupancy vehicle lane (a traffic lane reserved for vehicles carrying several people)
• I Like To Move It (Reel 2 Reel song)

• Infamy Infamy! They've all got it in for me! (Kenneth Williams line in Carry On Cleo)
• It is better to remain silent at the risk of being thought a fool, than to talk and remove all doubt of it (Maurice Switzer quotation)
• Jump ship
• Keep calm and carry on
• Launch vehicle
• Like rats leaving a sinking ship
• Love and marriage go together like a horse and carriage
• Make a move on
• Make your move
• Mother ship
• Move It On Over (Hank Williams song)
• Move On Up a Little Higher (Mahalia Jackson song)
• Move heaven and earth
• Move in the best circles
• Move over
• Move right along
• Move with the times
• My ship has come in
• On the move
• POSH - Port out, starboard home (false attribution of the origin of the word posh)
• Park and ride
• People carrier (a car with several passenger seats)
• Run a tight ship
• Shape up or ship out
• Ship of fools
• Ship shape and Bristol fashion
• Ship to shore
• Shoot the moon (remove household goods by night to avoid paying rent)
• Smooth move
• Speak softly and carry a big stick
• Spear carrier
• Suck it up (accept a bad situation and move on)
• That ship has sailed
• The Agony and The Ecstasy (Charlton Heston movie)
• The Big Ship Sails on The Ally-Ally-Oh (line from nursery rhyme)
• Transit of Venus
• Transport of delight
• We carry everything (Pickford's Removals advertising slogan)
• We really move our tail for you (Continental Airlines advertising slogan)
• You are now free to move about the country (Southwest Airlines advertising slogan)
• Your carriage awaits