Apartment Phrases

Phrases

• A Doll's House (play by Henrik Ibsen)
• A Room With A View (E M Forster book)
• A house divided against itself cannot stand
• A house is not a home
• A room without books is like a body without a soul (Marcus Tullius Cicero quotation)
• A world apart
• Acid house
• And that's flat
• Art house
• As flat as a pancake
• As nervous as a long tailed cat in a room full of rocking chairs
• Bachelor pad
• Back room boy
• Barrack room lawyer
• Beckingham Palace (Nickname of David and Victoria Beckham's house)
• Bedroom tax (slang term for UK's removal of Spare Room Subsidy)
• Big house
• Bleak House (Charles Dickens book)
• Boiler room (The location of a high pressure telephone sales team)
• Breathing room
• Breed apart
• Bring the house down
• Buck House (Nickname of Buckingham Palace)
• Burning Down The House (Talking Heads song)
• By the hairs on my chinny chin chin, I'll blow your house down
• California Suite (Jane Fonda movie)
• Chatham House rules
• Children, one is one, two is fun, three is a house full
• Clean house
• Clearing house
• Come apart at the seams
• Comfort room (A euphemism for lavatory)
• Country house hotel (an upmarket hotel located in a revamped rural mansion)
• Crash pad
• Crooked House (Agatha Christie book)
• Doctor In The House (Dirk Bogade / Luchino Visconti movie)
• Eaten out of house and home
• Elbow room
• Everybody lies (A catchphrase from Dr Gregory House in House)
• Fall apart at the seams
• Fall flat
• Fall flat on your face
• Flat broke
• Flat out
• Flat out like a lizard drinking
• Friends don't let friends drive drunk (United States Department of Transportation advertising slogan)
• Front of house
• Full house
• Gentlemen, you can't fight in here! This is the War Room (Dr.Strangelove)
• Get on like a house on fire
• Good to the last drop (Maxwell House Coffee advertising slogan)
• Granny flat
• Halfway house
• Have a flat
• He huffed and he puffed and he blew their house down
• Heartbreak Hotel (Elvis Presley song)
• Home suite hotel (Larkspur Landing Hotel advertising slogan)
• Hotel California (Eagles album)
• House and garden
• House and home
• House built on sand
• House frau
• House guest
• House husband
• House mother
• House music
• House of cards
• House of ill repute

• House rules
• House style
• House swap
• I want to be alone (A catchphrase from Grand Hotel)
• In a flat spin
• In no time flat
• In nothing flat
• Is there a doctor in the house?
• It was the night before Christmas and all round the house, not a creature was stirring, not even a mouse
• Keep a good house
• Keep open house
• Knock flat
• Leave the room
• Light years apart
• Locker room humour
• Mad house
• Make room
• My heart went boom when I crossed that room (Beatles song lyric)
• No room to breathe
• No room to swing a cat
• Not A Dry Eye In The House (Meatloaf song)
• Not a dry eye in the house
• Not a dry seat in the house
• Oceans apart
• On the flat
• On the house
• Open house
• Panic room
• Paper the house
• Powder room
• Put your house in order
• Revenue per available room
• Revenue per occupied room
• Room for improvement
• Room for one more inside
• Room to let
• Set yourself apart
• Smallest room in the house
• Smoke-filled room
• Social housing
• Standing room only
• Sydney Opera House (tourist attraction in Australia)
• Take apart
• Taste as good as it smells (Maxwell House Coffee advertising slogan)
• The Adventure of the Empty House (Sherlock Holmes story)
• The Anne Frank House (tourist attraction in Amsterdam Netherlands)
• The Apartment (Jack Lemmon / Shirley MacLaine movie)
• The Cider House Rules (Michael Caine movie)
• The House Doctor (Pseudonym of Ron Hazelton)
• The House of the Rising Sun (The Animals song)
• The Raffles Hotel (tourist attraction in Singapore)
• The White House (tourist attraction in Washington USA)
• The angel in the house
• The best seat in the house (Jockey Shorts advertising slogan)
• The elephant in the room
• The house of many doors
• The house that Jack built (line from nursery rhyme)
• The king was in his counting house counting out his money (line from nursery rhyme)
• The little boys' room
• There's always room for J-E-L-L-O (Jell-O advertising slogan)
• To let
• Tout de suite
• Visit the ladies room
• War room (the place where war plans are directed)
• White Room (Cream song)
• Who lives in a house like this? (A catchphrase from Through the Keyhole)
• Wiggle room
• Worlds apart
• Yours faithfully (Trust House Forte advertising slogan)