Arab Phrases

Phrases

• Arab Spring
• Burn the midnight oil
• Lawrence Of Arabia (Nickname of T E Lawrence and Peter O'Toole movie)
• Liquid engineering (Castrol Motor Oil advertising slogan)
• No oil painting
• Oil Can (Nickname of Dennis Boyd)
• Oil and water don't mix
• Oil the wheels
• Pour oil on troubled waters
• Selling sand to Arabs
• The Fake Sheikh (Nickname of journalist Mazher Mahmood)
• The Seven Pillars of Wisdom (Autobiography of T E Lawrence (of Arabia))
• Towel head (derogatory slang term referring to an Arab man)
• Up and down like the Ottoman Empire (line from Monty Python's Life Of Brian)