Waterfall Phrases

Phrases

• A hewer of wood and a drawer of water
• Angel Falls (tourist attraction in Venezuela)
• Atishoo atishoo all fall down
• Black water rafting
• Blood in the water
• Blood is thicker than water
• Blow out of the water
• Both oars in the water
• Bread always falls butter side down
• Bridge Over Troubled Water (Simon and Garfunkel album and song)
• Castles made of sand fall into the sea eventually
• 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
• Fall about laughing
• Fall about your ears
• Fall amongst friends
• Fall and Rise of Reginald Perrin
• Fall apart at the seams
• Fall asleep
• Fall back on
• Fall between the cracks
• Fall by the wayside
• Fall down on the job
• Fall flat
• Fall flat on your face
• Fall foul of the law
• Fall from grace
• Fall guy
• Fall in
• Fall in love
• Fall into bad habits
• Fall into line
• Fall like a stone
• Fall off the radar
• Fall off the wagon
• Fall on deaf ears
• Fall on hard times
• Fall on stony ground
• Fall on your feet
• Fall on your sword
• Fall out
• Fall out of favour
• Fall out of love with
• Fall prey to
• Fall through
• Fall through the cracks
• Falls City (Nickname of Louisville Kentucky)
• Fish out of water
• Flag fall (An Australian expression for a fixed starting fee, typically at the start of a taxi ride)
• Get into deep water
• Get into hot water
• Go through fire and water for
• 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)
• Hold water
• If the sky falls we shall catch larks
• If you don't stand for something you will fall for anything (Malcolm X quotation)
• In deep water
• In hot water
• Into every life a little rain must fall
• 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
• Let the chips fall where they may
• 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
• Niagara Falls (tourist attraction in Canada)
• Of the first water
• Oil and water don't mix
• One fall, two submissions or a knockout
• Pour cold water on
• Pride comes before a fall
• Pure life (Nestle Aberfoyle Natural Spring Water advertising slogan)
• Riding for a fall
• Ring aring of roses, a pocketful of posies, atishoo, atishoo, all fall down (line from nursery rhyme)
• Smooth runs the water where the brook is deep
• Spend money like water
• Spring forward, Fall back
• Take a bath in the dark tonight and let the water make love to your skin (Lavin Perfumes & Soaps advertising slogan)
• Take a fall for
• Test the water
• The Hot Water State (Nickname of the US state of Arkansas)
• The Icebox Of The United States (Nickname of International Falls Minnesota)
• The apple never falls far from the tree
• The bigger they are the harder they fall
• The bread always falls buttered side down
• The fruit does not fall far from the tree
• The rain in Spain falls mainly on the plain
• The rise and fall of the Roman Empire
• Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold (from a poem by Yeats)
• Throw cold water on
• Tonic water by you know who (Schweppes advertising slogan)
• United we stand divided we fall
• Victoria Falls (tourist attraction in Zambia)
• 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
• When the bough breaks the cradle will fall, and down will come baby, cradle and all (line from nursery rhyme)
• White water rafting
• You can lead a horse to water but you can't make it drink