Trumpet Phrases

Phrases

• Absolute pitch (the ability to determine a musical note by ear)
• Answer the call
• Appalachian Spring (Aaron Copland musical score)
• Architecture is music frozen in time (Friedrich von Schelling quotation)
• At your beck and call
• Beyond the call of duty
• Blow your own horn
• Blow your own trumpet
• Blunt instrument
• Brassed Off (Ewan McGregor movie)
• Brighton line (Bingo call for number fifty nine)
• Call Me Maybe (Carly Rae Jepsen song)
• Call a spade a shovel
• Call a spade a spade
• Call girl
• Call in a favour
• Call into question
• Call it a day
• Call it quits
• Call of Duty (video game title)
• Call of nature
• Call of the wild
• Call the shots
• Call time on
• Call to account
• Call to action
• Call to arms
• Call to mind
• Call up
• Call your bluff
• Cat call
• Clickety click (Bingo call for number sixty six)
• Close call
• Conference call
• Courtesy call
• Crazy Gun Barney (Nickname of Barney Fife (Don Knotts))
• Curtain call
• Doctor's Orders (Bingo call for number nine)
• Don't call us, we'll call you
• Droopy drawers (Bingo call for number forty four)
• Ear for music
• Eating pate de fois gras to the sound of trumpets
• Elevator music
• Face the music
• Fiddler On The Roof (1960s musical)
• Give me a call
• Give us a call
• Going beyond the call (SBC Communications advertising slogan)
• Good call
• Guys And Dolls (Frank Loesser musical)
• Horn in on
• House music
• I Do Like To Be Beside The Seaside (British Music Hall song)
• I Guess That's Why They Call It The Blues (Elton John song)
• I call them like I see them

• If music be the food of love, play on (from Twelth Night by Shakespeare)
• It's time to call it a day
• Judgement call
• Key of the door (Bingo call for number twenty one)
• Last call
• Last trump
• Legs eleven (Bingo call for number eleven)
• Let's Call The Whole Thing Off (Irving Berlin song)
• Let's face the music and dance
• Little Boy Blue come blow your horn (line from nursery rhyme)
• Make Your Own Kind Of Music (Mama Cass Elliot song)
• Make someone happy with a phone call (British Telecom advertising slogan)
• Music Box (Mariah Carey album)
• Music City (Nickname of Nashville Tennessee)
• Music has charms to soothe the savage breast
• Music is art. Muzak is science (Muzak Corporation advertising slogan)
• Music to my ears
• Musical chairs
• My Fair Lady (Lerner and Loewe musical)
• No music, no life (Tower Records advertising slogan)
• On the horn
• Pass the Dutchie (Musical Youth song)
• Pay a call
• Popular music
• Red Army Fraction (German left wing terrorist group also call Red Army Faction)
• Refresh! Rejoice! Remember! Pabst gets the call (Pabst Blue Ribbon advertising slogan)
• Roll call
• Snakes alive (Bingo call for number fifty five)
• Steinway: the instrument of the immortals (Steinway Pianos advertising slogan)
• Sweet Music (Nickname of Frank Viola)
• Take two aspirin and call me in the morning
• Thank you for the music, the songs I'm singing (ABBA lyric)
• The Art Of The Deal (Donald Trump slogan and book title)
• The Sound Of Music (Julie Andrews movie)
• The West Coast Sound (name applied to Californian pop music, especially that of The Beach Boys)
• The best way to get music out of your system (Philips advertising slogan)
• The call of the wild
• The music of the spheres
• They Call Me MISTER Tibbs! (Sidney Poitier)
• To call you stupid would be an insult to stupid people! (line from the movie A Fish Called Wanda)
• Too close to call
• Toot your own horn
• Top of the shop (Bingo call for number ninety)
• Two fat ladies (Bingo call for number eighty eight)
• Two little ducks (Bingo call for number twenty two)
• Unlucky for some (Bingo call for number thirteen)
• Van Gogh's ear for music
• Wake up call
• Wake-up call
• Was she worth it (Bingo call for number fifty six)
• West Side Story (Leonard Bernstein musical and Natalie Wood movie)
• What's in a name? That which we call a rose by any other name would smell as sweet
• With rings on her fingers and bells on her toes she shall have music wherever she goes (line from nursery rhyme)
• Without music, life would be a mistake (Friedrich Nietzsche quotation)
• World music
• You Can Call Me Al (Paul Simon song)