Wall Phrases

Phrases

• A brick in your hat
• Al fresco
• As thick as a brick
• Baby Cakes (Nickname of Cliff Huxtable (Bill Cosby))
• Backs to the wall
• Balls to the wall
• Bang your head against a brick wall
• Between you and me and the wall
• Bouncing off the walls
• Break the sound barrier
• Brick red
• Built like a brick outhouse
• Climb the walls
• Climbing wall (An indoor wall with handholds used for climbing practise)
• Combustible Huxtable (Nickname of Dr.Cliff Huxtable (Bill Cosby))
• Democracy Wall (wall in Bejing China where dissidents post letters poems etc)
• Driven up the wall
• Drop a brick
• Fiscal cliff
• Fly on the wall
• Flying buttress
• Follow the yellow brick road
• Glass cliff
• Go over the wall
• Go to the wall
• Go up the wall
• Goodbye Yellow Brick Road (Elton John song)
• Greed, for lack of a better word, is good (Wall Street)
• Hadrians Wall (tourist attraction in northern England)
• Hit the back wall
• Hole in the wall
• Humpty Dumpty sat on a wall (line from nursery rhyme)
• I Can See Clearly Now (Johnny Cash and Jimmy Cliff song and Nescafe advertising slogan)
• I'm meaty, fry me (Walls Sausages advertising slogan)
• If your friend jumped off a cliff, would you do it too?
• Language barrier

• Like trying to nail jello to a wall
• Mister Gorbachev, tear down this wall! (A slogan from President Reagan)
• Mr. Gorbachev, tear down this wall (Political slogan)
• Off The Wall (Michael Jackson album)
• Off the wall
• One brick short of a load
• Pain barrier
• Party wall
• Shit a brick
• Stop me and buy one (Wall's Ice Cream advertising slogan)
• Ten green bottles sitting on the wall
• The Bamboo Curtain (notional barrier between capitalist West and communist China)
• The Berlin Wall (tourist attraction in Germany)
• The Great Barrier Reef (tourist attraction in Australia)
• The Great Wall of China (Nickname of Yao Ming)
• The Great Wall of China (tourist attraction in China)
• The Hole in the Wall Gang (Nickname of fictional western outlaw gang)
• The Iron Curtain (notional barrier between capitalist West and communist states)
• The Peeper (Nickname of Cliff Murdock (Tom Poston))
• The Wailing Wall (site of prayer in Jerusalem)
• The Wall (Nickname of Rahul Dravid - Indian cricketer)
• The Wall (Pink Floyd song)
• The Western Wall (tourist attraction in Israel)
• The daily diary of the American dream (Wall Street Journal advertising slogan)
• The walls have ears
• The writing is on the wall
• Two little dicky birds sitting on a wall, one named Peter, one named Paul (line from nursery rhyme)
• Uncle Cliffy (Nickname of Cliff Robinson)
• Up against the wall
• Wall of death
• Wall of silence
• Walled garden
• Wallpaper the meeting
• Walls have ears
• Want some seafood Mama (Fats Waller song)
• You're a brick

Related

• Backs to the wall
• Balls to the wall
• Bang your head against a brick wall
• Between you and me and the wall
• Climbing wall (An indoor wall with handholds used for climbing practise)
• Democracy Wall (wall in Bejing China where dissidents post letters poems etc)
• Driven up the wall
• Fly on the wall
• Go over the wall
• Go to the wall
• Go up the wall
• Greed, for lack of a better word, is good (Wall Street)
• Hadrians Wall (tourist attraction in northern England)
• Hit the back wall
• Hole in the wall
• Humpty Dumpty sat on a wall (line from nursery rhyme)
• Like trying to nail jello to a wall
• Mister Gorbachev, tear down this wall! (A slogan from President Reagan)
• Mr. Gorbachev, tear down this wall (Political slogan)
• Off The Wall (Michael Jackson album)
• Off the wall
• Party wall
• Stop me and buy one (Wall's Ice Cream advertising slogan)
• Ten green bottles sitting on the wall
• The Berlin Wall (tourist attraction in Germany)
• The Great Wall of China (Nickname of Yao Ming)
• The Great Wall of China (tourist attraction in China)
• The Hole in the Wall Gang (Nickname of fictional western outlaw gang)
• The Wailing Wall (site of prayer in Jerusalem)
• The Wall (Nickname of Rahul Dravid - Indian cricketer)
• The Wall (Pink Floyd song)
• The Western Wall (tourist attraction in Israel)
• The daily diary of the American dream (Wall Street Journal advertising slogan)
• The writing is on the wall
• Two little dicky birds sitting on a wall, one named Peter, one named Paul (line from nursery rhyme)
• Up against the wall
• Wall of death
• Wall of silence