Tyre Phrases

Phrases

• A la car
• And that's flat
• As flat as a pancake
• Asleep at the wheel
• Baby you can drive my car (Beatles song lyric)
• Baby, you can park my car
• Because so much is riding on your tires (Michelin advertising slogan)
• Big wheel
• Break a butterfly on a wheel
• Burn rubber
• Business is like a car, it will not run by itself except downhill
• Car surfing
• Cheese wheel
• Drive My Car (The Beatles song)
• Fall flat
• Fall flat on your face
• Fifth wheel
• Fit Dunlop and be satisfied (Dunlop Tyres advertising slogan)
• Flat broke
• Flat out
• Flat out like a lizard drinking
• Fools rush in where angels fear to tread
• Friday afternoon car
• Granny flat
• Handbrake turn (180 degree turn in a car by locking the back wheels)
• Happiness is a quick-starting car (Esso advertising slogan)
• Have a flat
• I'm convinced the Goodyear Grand Prix-S is a major contribution to road safety (Goodyear Tyres advertising slogan)
• If your grandmother had wheels, she'd be a trolley car
• In a flat spin
• In no time flat
• In nothing flat
• It's the squeaky wheel that gets the grease
• Jam jar (Cockney rhyming slang for car)
• Just 15 minutes can save you 15 percent or more on car insurance (GEICO advertising slogan)
• Keep your shoulder to the wheel
• Knock flat
• Lay down rubber
• Let Hertz put you in the driver's seat (Hertz Car Rental advertising slogan)
• Light the blue touch paper and retire
• On the Wings of Goodyear (Goodyear advertising slogan)
• On the flat
• Out front. Pulling away (Goodyear Tyres advertising slogan)
• People carrier (a car with several passenger seats)
• People mover (a car with several passenger seats)
• Race proven performance (Kumho Tires advertising slogan)
• Reinvent the wheel
• Rubber Soul (Beatles album)
• Rubber bullet (a bullet made of rubber or plastic and used for riot control)
• Rubber cheque (a cheque that is returned (bounced) due to insufficient funds)
• Rubber chicken (poor quality or overcooked chicken)
• Rubber chicken curcuit (a speaking or fundraising event at which poor quality meat is served)
• Rubber duck (a floating bath toy)
• Rubber is racing
• Rubber johnny (a British slang term for a condom)
• Sooner or later, you'll own Generals (General Tires Corp advertising slogan)
• The beauty of all wheel drive (Subaru advertising slogan)
• The best tyres in the world have Goodyear written all over them (Goodyear Tyres advertising slogan)
• The car in front is a Toyota (Toyota Cars advertising slogan)
• The wheel has come full circle
• This Wheel's On Fire (Bob Dylan song)
• Time to Re-Tire (Fisk Tires advertising slogan)
• Tread softly because you tread on my dreams (from a poem by Yeats)
• Tread the boards
• We pick you up (Enterprise Car Rental advertising slogan)
• We try harder (Avis car rental advertising slogan)
• Wheel of fate
• Wheel of fortune
• Where the rubber meets the road (Firestone Tyres advertising slogan)
• Where the rubber meets the road (where the important facts or realities lie)
• Would you buy a used car from this man?
• You can trust your car to the man who wears the star (Texaco Fuel advertising slogan)
• Your next car (Chrysler advertising slogan)