Appliance Phrases

Phrases

• At sixty miles an hour the loudest noise in the new Rolls-Royce comes from the electric clock (Rolls Royce advertising slogan)
• At your convenience
• Brown out (partial loss of electricity)
• Dial down (adjust a device to reduce sound or temperature)
• Do Androids Dream Of Electric Sheep? (Philip K. Dick book)
• False jeopardy (plot device in TV melodramas where danger is threatened only for it to be found to be a false alarm)
• Go-Go Gadget Arms (Nickname of basketball player Kevin Garnett)
• Hand-held device
• Imagination at Work (General Electric advertising slogan)
• Labour saving device
• Many happy returns (IBM Electric Typewriters advertising slogan)
• Marriage of convenience
• Our repairmen are the loneliest guys in town (Maytag Appliances advertising slogan)
• Progress is our most important product (General Electric advertising slogan)
• The appliance of science (Zanussi advertising slogan)
• We bring good things to life (General Electric advertising slogan)
• We'll do the homework (Bendix Appliances advertising slogan)