Phrase thesaurus
Water Phrases
366 phrases and expressions related to "water".
Phrases
- 50 Words for Snow (Kate Bush song)
- A River Runs Through It (Brad Pitt movie)
- A buck well spent (Springmaid Sheets advertising slogan)
- A child is an island of curiosity surrounded by a sea of question marks (Shell advertising slogan)
- A hewer of wood and a drawer of water
- A wet weekend
- Acid rain
- Adam's ale
- Alive and well
- All at sea
- All wet
- All's Well, That Ends Well
- Angel Falls (tourist attraction in Venezuela)
- Ankle deep
- Apres moi le deluge
- Aqua vitae
- As boring as a wet weekend in Wigan
- As cold as a well digger's arse
- As cold as ice
- As dull as ditchwater
- As mad as a wet hen
- As right as rain
- As well as can be expected
- At the drop of a hat
- Augur well
- Baby Please Don't Go (Muddy Waters song)
- Bail out
- Between the Devil and the deep blue sea
- Big fish in a small pool (someone considered influential compared to their less significant peers)
- Black water rafting
- Blood in the water
- Blood is thicker than water
- Blow off steam
- Blow out of the water
- Body surfing
- Both oars in the water
- Brain bucket
- Break the ice
- Bridge Over Troubled Water (Simon and Garfunkel album and song)
- Bucket and spade holiday
- Bucket shop
- Buy a bucket of chicken and have a barrel of fun (Kentucky Fried Chicken advertising slogan)
- Can't carry a tune in a bucket
- Cast your bread upon the waters
- Castles made of sand fall into the sea eventually
- Chicken Man (Nickname of baseball player Wade Boggs)
- Chocolate drop
- Clear blue water
- Clearly Canadian Sparkling Mineral Water in Wild Fruit Flavours (Adelma Mineral Waters advertising slogan)
- Come hell or high water
- Come on in, the water's fine
- Come rain or shine
- Couldn't carry a tune in a bucket
- Course you can, Malcolm (Vick's Sinex Nasal Spray advertising slogan)
- Cover the waterfront
- Cry me a river
- Cut no ice
- Cuts no ice with
- Dead in the water
- Deep sea data diving
- Deeper Than The Deep Blue Sea (Frank Sinatra song)
- Denial ain't just a river in Egypt! (A catchphrase from Saturday Night Live)
- Designer dyke
- Didn't they do well! (A catchphrase from Bruce Forsyth In The Generation Game)
- Ding dong bell Pussy's in the well (line from nursery rhyme)
- Dip your toe into the water
- Doggy paddle
- Don't rain on my parade
- Drip drip drip
- Drip feed
- Drop It Like It's Hot (Snoop Dogg song)
- Drop a bombshell
- Drop a brick
- Drop a bundle
- Drop a clanger
- Drop a dime
- Drop a hint
- Drop a sprog
- Drop by
- Drop dead
- Drop dead gorgeous
- Drop dead list
- Drop down dead
- Drop in on
- Drop in the bucket
- Drop in the ocean
- Drop it like a hot potato
- Drop like a stone
- Drop me a line
- Drop off
- Drop someone off
- Drop the Dead Donkey (BBC comedy television series)
- Drop the ball
- Drop your aitches
- Drop your bundle
- Drop your cookies
- Drop your drawers
- Drop your guard
- Drop your pants
- Ducks on a pond (A baseball expression meaning having runners in scoring position)
- Each Record a Masterpiece (Van Dyke Records advertising slogan)
- Exceedingly well read
- Extreme refreshment (Bud Ice advertising slogan)
- Eye watering
- Fire And Rain (James Taylor song)
- Fish out of water
- Flash crash (the sudden drop in the Dow Jones Index in 2010)
- Foot in the bucket (A baseball expression meaning to act timidly or cowardly)
- Fountain head
- Fresh squeezed glaciers (Adelma Mineral Waters advertising slogan)
- From sea to shining sea
- From the Land of Sky-Blue Waters (Hamm's Beer advertising slogan)
- Full steam ahead
- Gargle factory
- Genius bonus (a joke or theme added to a programme aimed at well informed people)
- Get a gold star (earn a merit point for doing well)
- Get into deep water
- Get into hot water
- Get the drop on
- Get up steam
- Get well soon
- Get your feet wet
- Go and jump in a lake
- Go through fire and water for
- Go well Go Shell (Shell advertising slogan)
- God willing and the creek don't rise
- Good to the last drop (Maxwell House Coffee advertising slogan)
- Got My Mojo Working (Muddy Waters song)
- Gut bucket
- Hail fellow well met
- Hands across the sea
- Hands that do dishes can feel soft as your face, with mild green Fairy Liquid (Fairy Liquid advertising slogan)
- Hard Rain's A Gonna Fall (Bob Dylan song)
- He doesn't have both oars in the water
- He's fallen in the water (A catchphrase from The Goon Show)
- Head of steam
- Hold water
- Hoochie Coochie Man (Muddy Waters song)
- Ice cold
- Ice cream social
- Ice maiden
- Ice up
- Ice, ice baby
- If a job is worth doing it is worth doing well
- If all the world were Jell-O, And whipped cream filled the sea, Then the only spoon from here to the moon Would have to belong to me (Jell-O Gelatin Dessert advertising slogan)
- If you want a thing done well, do it yourself
- In deep water
- In hot water
- Into every life a little rain must fall
- Is she or isn't she? (Harmony hair spray advertising slogan)
- Itsy Bitsy spider climbing up the spout, down came the rain and washed the spider out (line from nursery rhyme)
- Jack and Jill went up the hill to fetch a pail of water (line from nursery rhyme)
- Jerkwater town
- Just add water
- Just as well
- Just when you thought it was safe to go back in water (Jaws II advertising tagline)
- Keep going well - keep going Shell (Shell advertising slogan)
- Keep your head above water
- Kick the bucket
- Know full well
- Leave well enough alone
- Let it drop
- Let off steam
- Let well alone
- Let's get out of these wet clothes and into a dry Martini
- Like a duck to water
- Like a fish out of water
- Like a hog on ice
- Like water off a duck's back
- Lipton's gets into more hot water than anything (Lipton Tea advertising slogan)
- Liquid assets
- Liquid engineering (Castrol Motor Oil advertising slogan)
- Liquid lunch
- Little fish in a big pond (someone considered unimportant compared to their more significant peers)
- Living well is the best revenge
- Looking like a wet weekend
- Made to make your mouth water (Opal Fruits advertising slogan)
- Make it rain
- March from Bridge on the River Kwai (Mitch Miller song)
- Men's evil manners live in brass; their virtues we write in water
- Might as well
- Mop up
- Mouth-watering
- Muddy the waters
- My Own Private Idaho (River Phoenix movie)
- Neer do well
- Niagara Falls (tourist attraction in Canada)
- Of the first water
- Oil and water don't mix
- Old soak
- On The Waterfront (Marlon Brando movie and Clark Gable movie)
- On ice
- One may as well be hanged for a sheep as for a lamb
- Original Gangster Ice T song
- Paddle your own canoe
- Pan galactic gargle blaster
- Penis Von Lesbian (Nickname of actor Dick Van Dyke)
- Pocket pool
- Pond life
- Pond scum
- Pour cold water on
- Pour oil on troubled waters
- Pure life (Nestle Aberfoyle Natural Spring Water advertising slogan)
- Purple Rain (Prince song and album)
- Put on ice
- Rain before seven, fine before eleven
- Rain, rain go away, come again another day (line from nursery rhyme)
- Red River (John Wayne / Howard Hawks movie)
- River Deep Mountain High (Ike and Tina Turner song)
- Rode hard and put away wet
- Row up Salt River
- Run out of steam
- Rust bucket
- Say it, don't spray it
- Sea Bass (Nickname of Sebastian Janikowski)
- Sea change
- Sea level
- Set Fire to the Rain (Adele song)
- She sells sea shells on the sea shore
- Shop 'till you drop
- Singin' in the Rain (Gene Kelly movie)
- Skating on thin ice
- Slippery When Wet (Bon Jovi album)
- Slippery when wet
- Smooth runs the water where the brook is deep
- Sold down the river
- Spend money like water
- Spitting with rain
- Steam coming out of your ears
- Still waters run deep
- Stop drop and roll
- Stop me and buy one (Wall's Ice Cream advertising slogan)
- Sun, sea and sand
- Swing by (slang expression meaning drop in for a visit)
- Swing the lead
- Take a bath in the dark tonight and let the water make love to your skin (Lavin Perfumes & Soaps advertising slogan)
- Take a dip
- Take me to the river
- Teeming down with rain
- Test the water
- That's all well and good
- The Big Pond (nickname of the Atlantic Ocean between the UK and the USA)
- The Bride Of The Sea (Nickname of Venice Italy)
- The Bridge On The River Kwai (David Lean movie)
- The Coward Of Bitter Creek (Nickname of Jason McCord (Chuck Connors))
- The Great Lake State (Nickname of the US state of Michigan)
- The Hot Water State (Nickname of the US state of Arkansas)
- The Human Rain Delay (Nickname of Mike Hargrove)
- The Ice Box (Nickname of Tim Newton)
- The Mistake On The Lake (Nickname of Cleveland Ohio)
- The Old Man And The Sea (Spencer Tracy movie)
- The Owl and the Pussycat went to sea in a beautiful pea-green boat (line from nursery rhyme)
- The Panama Canal (tourist attraction in Panama)
- The Rain Man (Nickname of Ray Allen)
- The Tide Is Turning (Roger Waters, 1987 song)
- The Trevi Fountain (tourist attraction in Italy)
- The deep blue sea
- The fountain of youth
- The rain in Spain falls mainly on the plain
- The worried well
- There's plenty more fish in the sea
- This precious stone set in the silver sea, this sceptered isle
- Throw cold water on
- Throw the baby out with the bathwater
- Tonic water by you know who (Schweppes advertising slogan)
- Travel well (Lincoln advertising slogan)
- Turn on, tune in, drop out (A catchphrase from Timothy Leary)
- Twenty thousand leagues under the sea
- Under your own steam
- Up shit creek without a paddle
- Victoria Falls (tourist attraction in Zambia)
- Waiting for the other shoe to drop
- Walk on thin ice
- Walk on water
- Wash your mouth out with soap and water
- Water down
- Water of life
- Water seeks its own level
- Water under the bridge
- Water water everywhere and not a drop to drink
- Watering hole
- Well I never
- Well blow me down
- Well endowed
- Well fed
- Well fit
- Well heeled
- Well hung
- Well in with
- Well liked
- Well off
- Well turned calf
- Well turned out
- Well up with
- Well, actually, he forgot Poland
- Well, duh
- Well, nobody's perfect (line from the movie Some Like It Hot)
- Well, she was just seventeen you know what I mean (The Beatles song lyric)
- Wet behind the ears
- Wet blanket
- Wet dream
- Wet fish
- Wet the baby's head
- Wet through
- Wet your beak
- Wet your whistle
- What's The Story Morning Glory? (Oasis album)
- White water rafting
- You Wear It Well (Rod Stewart song)
- You can lead a horse to water but you can't make it drink
- You cannot step into the same river twice (philosophical comment by Heraclitus)
- You could have heard a pin drop
- You gotta ask yourself, do I feel lucky, well do ya punk? (Dirty Harry)
- You shop, we drop (Tesco home delivery advertising slogan)
Related
- A hewer of wood and a drawer of water
- Black water rafting
- Blood in the water
- Blood is thicker than water
- Blow out of the water
- Both oars in the water
- Bridge Over Troubled Water (Simon and Garfunkel album and song)
- Clear blue water
- Clearly Canadian Sparkling Mineral Water in Wild Fruit Flavours (Adelma Mineral Waters advertising slogan)
- Come hell or high water
- Come on in, the water's fine
- Dead in the water
- Dip your toe into the water
- Fish out of water
- Get into deep water
- Get into hot water
- Go through fire and water for
- He doesn't have both oars in the water
- He's fallen in the water (A catchphrase from The Goon Show)
- Hold water
- In deep water
- In hot water
- Jack and Jill went up the hill to fetch a pail of water (line from nursery rhyme)
- Just add water
- Just when you thought it was safe to go back in water (Jaws II advertising tagline)
- Keep your head above water
- Like a duck to water
- Like a fish out of water
- Like water off a duck's back
- Lipton's gets into more hot water than anything (Lipton Tea advertising slogan)
- Made to make your mouth water (Opal Fruits advertising slogan)
- Men's evil manners live in brass; their virtues we write in water
- Of the first water
- Oil and water don't mix
- Pour cold water on
- Pure life (Nestle Aberfoyle Natural Spring Water advertising slogan)
- Smooth runs the water where the brook is deep
- Spend money like water
- Take a bath in the dark tonight and let the water make love to your skin (Lavin Perfumes & Soaps advertising slogan)
- Test the water
- The Hot Water State (Nickname of the US state of Arkansas)
- Throw cold water on
- Tonic water by you know who (Schweppes advertising slogan)
- Walk on water
- Wash your mouth out with soap and water
- Water down
- Water of life
- Water seeks its own level
- Water under the bridge
- Water water everywhere and not a drop to drink
- White water rafting
- You can lead a horse to water but you can't make it drink