Vehicle Phrases

Phrases

• A better bus service all round (Carousel Buses advertising slogan)
• A better idea (Ford Cars advertising slogan)
• A la car
• American luxury (Lincoln advertising slogan)
• Asleep at the wheel
• Baby you can drive my car (Beatles song lyric)
• Baby, you can park my car
• Big wheel
• Blood wagon
• Blue Monday (Van Morrison song)
• Break a butterfly on a wheel
• Brum brum (child's play idiom expressing the sound of a vehicle)
• Business is like a car, it will not run by itself except downhill
• By the lorry load
• Car surfing
• Cart away
• Cheese wheel
• Come Running (Van Morrison song)
• Comedy vehicle
• Courtesy and care (Automobile Association advertising slogan)
• Crash and burn
• Crash and dash
• Crash cart
• Crash course
• Crash for cash
• Crash out
• Crash pad
• Crash programme
• Drive My Car (The Beatles song)
• Drive the big bus
• Each Record a Masterpiece (Van Dyke Records advertising slogan)
• Face like the back of a bus
• Fall off the wagon
• Fifth wheel
• Fix your wagon
• Flash crash (the sudden drop in the Dow Jones Index in 2010)
• Friday afternoon car
• Handbrake turn (180 degree turn in a car by locking the back wheels)
• Happiness is a quick-starting car (Esso advertising slogan)
• Hell on wheels
• High occupancy vehicle lane (a traffic lane reserved for vehicles carrying several people)
• Hitch your wagon to a star
• Horse and cart (Cockney rhyming slang for fart)
• If your grandmother had wheels, she'd be a trolley car
• In the cart
• It fell off the back of a lorry
• It's so big, you've gotta grin to get it in (Wagon Wheels advertising slogan)
• 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
• Launch vehicle
• Let Hertz put you in the driver's seat (Hertz Car Rental advertising slogan)
• Love and marriage go together like a horse and carriage
• Meat wagon
• Nick at Night (Nickname of Nick Van Exel)
• Nick the Quick (Nickname of Nick Van Exel)
• On the wagon
• Only in a Jeep (Jeep advertising slogan)
• Orson cart (Cockney rhyming slang for fart)
• Paint Your Wagon (Clint Eastwood movie)
• Park the bus
• Penis Von Lesbian (Nickname of actor Dick Van Dyke)
• People carrier (a car with several passenger seats)
• People mover (a car with several passenger seats)
• Pile up
• Put the cart before the horse
• Red lorry yellow lorry
• Reinvent the wheel
• Shopping cart
• Taking the other bus (slang term for homosexuality)
• Taxi Driver (Robert De Niro movie)
• The Bus (Nickname of Jerome Bettis)
• The Green Hornet (Pseudonym of Britt Reid (Van Williams))
• The Hustle (Van McCoy and the Soul City Symphony song)
• The Van Gogh Museum (tourist attraction in Netherlands)
• The beauty of all wheel drive (Subaru advertising slogan)
• The car in front is a Toyota (Toyota Cars advertising slogan)
• The wheel has come full circle
• The wheels on the bus go round and round (title of children's song)
• This Wheel's On Fire (Bob Dylan song)
• To our members, we're the fourth emergency service (Automobile Association advertising slogan)
• Train crash
• Transport of delight
• Van Gogh's ear for music
• Van The Man (Nickname of Ruud van Nistelrooy)
• We pick you up (Enterprise Car Rental advertising slogan)
• We try harder (Avis car rental advertising slogan)
• Welcome wagon
• Wheel of fate
• Wheel of fortune
• White van man
• 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 carriage awaits
• Your next car (Chrysler advertising slogan)