Barrier Phrases

Phrases

• All over bar the shouting
• Backs to the wall
• Balls to the wall
• Bang your head against a brick wall
• Bar fly
• Bar none
• Belly up to the bar
• Between you and me and the wall
• Bounty - the taste of paradise (Bounty candy bar advertising slogan)
• Break the sound barrier
• Climbing wall (An indoor wall with handholds used for climbing practise)
• Concrete ceiling
• Democracy Wall (wall in Bejing China where dissidents post letters poems etc)
• Don't fence me in
• Driven up the wall
• Ee bar gum
• Fly on the wall
• Give me a break! Break me off a piece of that Kit Kat bar! (Kit Kat chocolate advertising slogan)
• Glass ceiling
• Go over the wall
• Go to the wall
• Go up the wall
• Going going gone (A baseball expression by which an announcer describes a home run that is heading over the fence)
• Greed, for lack of a better word, is good (Wall Street)
• Hadrians Wall (tourist attraction in northern England)
• Hershey, the great American chocolate bar (Hershey Chocolate advertising slogan)
• Hit the back wall
• Hit the bar
• Hole in the wall
• Humpty Dumpty sat on a wall (line from nursery rhyme)
• Katy bar the door
• Language barrier
• Like trying to nail jello to a wall

• Mister Gorbachev, tear down this wall! (A slogan from President Reagan)
• Mr. Gorbachev, tear down this wall (Political slogan)
• Off The Wall (Michael Jackson album)
• Off the wall
• Pain barrier
• Party wall
• Picket fence
• Prop up the bar
• Raise the bar
• Raising the bar (Cingular Wireless advertising slogan)
• Sit on the fence
• Sitting on the fence
• Stop me and buy one (Wall's Ice Cream advertising slogan)
• Ten green bottles sitting on the wall
• The Bamboo Curtain (notional barrier between capitalist West and communist China)
• The Berlin Wall (tourist attraction in Germany)
• The Great Barrier Reef (tourist attraction in Australia)
• The Great Wall of China (Nickname of Yao Ming)
• The Great Wall of China (tourist attraction in China)
• The Hole in the Wall Gang (Nickname of fictional western outlaw gang)
• The Iron Curtain (notional barrier between capitalist West and communist states)
• The Wailing Wall (site of prayer in Jerusalem)
• The Wall (Nickname of Rahul Dravid - Indian cricketer)
• The Wall (Pink Floyd song)
• The Western Wall (tourist attraction in Israel)
• The daily diary of the American dream (Wall Street Journal advertising slogan)
• The grass is always greener on the other side of the fence
• The writing is on the wall
• There's a smile in every Hershey Bar (Hershey chocolate advertising slogan)
• Two little dicky birds sitting on a wall, one named Peter, one named Paul (line from nursery rhyme)
• Up against the wall
• Wall of death
• Wall of silence
• What would you do for a Klondike Bar? (Klondike chocolate advertising slogan)