Britain Phrases

Phrases

• 1066 And All That: A Memorable History Of England (W. C. Sellar book)
• A nation of shopkeepers
• As safe as the Bank of England
• Balmoral Castle (tourist attraction in Scotland)
• Be the best (British Army advertising slogan)
• Bedroom tax (slang term for UK's removal of Spare Room Subsidy)
• Big Ben (tourist attraction in London England)
• Big Briton
• Bonny Scotland
• British Bulldog (Nickname of boxer Brian London)
• British Steel, British mettle (British Steel advertising slogan)
• British racing green
• Buckingham Palace (tourist attraction in London England)
• Buy British
• Charge of the Light Brigade (British cavalry charge against Russian army in the Crimean War and title of a poem by Tennyson)
• Close your eyes and think of England
• Computer says no (A catchphrase from Little Britain)
• Cool Britannia
• Dear Dirty Dublin (Nickname of Dublin Ireland)
• Desperate Dan (a cowboy strongman character in the British comic The Dandy)
• Don't you just love being in control? (British Gas advertising slogan)
• Edinburgh Castle (tourist attraction in Scotland)
• England expects
• Fie, foh, and fum, I smell the blood of a British man
• Field Marshall (the highest rank in the British Army)
• Fingal's Cave (tourist attraction in Scotland)
• Fly the flag (British Airways advertising slogan)
• Forward with Britain (Daily Mirror advertising slogan)
• Geordieland (Nickname of Newcastle upon Tyne England)
• Go to work on an egg (British Egg Marketing Board advertising slogan)
• Hadrians Wall (tourist attraction in northern England)
• Happiness is egg shaped (British Egg Marketing Board advertising slogan)
• Hollywood North (Nickname of Vancouver British Columbia)
• Hongkong City (Nickname of Richmond British Columbia)
• I Do Like To Be Beside The Seaside (British Music Hall song)
• I am the only gay in the village (A catchphrase from Little Britain)
• I want that one (A catchphrase from Little Britain)
• I'm a laydee (A catchphrase from Little Britain)
• I'm backing Britain
• Intercity makes the going easy (British Rail advertising slogan)
• It's Smart to be Square (British Satellite Broadcasting advertising slogan)
• It's good to talk (British Telecom advertising slogan)
• Its for Yoo-hoo! (British Telecom advertising slogan)
• Join the professionals (British Army advertising slogan)
• Land of hope and glory
• Let the train take the strain (British Rail advertising slogan)
• Lie back and think of England
• Madame Tussauds (tourist attraction in England)
• Made in Scotland from girders (Irn Bru advertising slogan)
• Make someone happy with a phone call (British Telecom advertising slogan)
• Merry England
• Middle England
• Number 10 Downing Street (address of the British Prime Minister)
• Oh to be in England
• POSH - Port out, starboard home (false attribution of the origin of the word posh)
• Perfidious Albion

• Primal fear (Neurosis therapy and British rock band)
• Round Ireland With A Fridge (Tony Hawks book)
• Rubber johnny (a British slang term for a condom)
• Scotland the brave
• Somebody somewhere wants a letter from you (British Post Office advertising slogan)
• St Paul's Cathedral (tourist attraction in London England)
• The Backbone of England (Nickname of The Pennine Hills)
• The Bank of England (tourist attraction in London England)
• The Black Prince (Nickname of Edward Prince of Wales)
• The British Museum (tourist attraction in London England)
• The British disease
• The City (Nickname of The City of London England)
• The Concrete Block (Nickname of Coventry England)
• The Conservative Party at prayer (The Church of England)
• The Fair City (Nickname of Dublin Ireland)
• The First Garden City Of The World (Nickname of Letchworth England)
• The Flying Squad (Nickname of the Specialist Crime Directorate, New Scotland Yard)
• The Garden of England (Nickname of the English counties of Kent and Worcestershire)
• The Gaza Strip (Nickname of Surrey British Columbia)
• The Giant's Causeway (tourist attraction in Ireland)
• The Gong (Nickname of Wollongong New South Wales)
• The Granite City (Nickname of Aberdeen Scotland)
• The Great Wen (Nickname of London England)
• The Houses of Parliament (tourist attraction in London England)
• The Old Lady of Threadneedle Street (Nickname of The Bank of England)
• The Only Way Is Essex (British reality television series)
• The Outlaw Josey Wales (Clint Eastwood movie)
• The People's Princess (Nickname of Diana Princess of Wales)
• The People's Republic of South Yorkshire (Nickname of Sheffield England)
• The Pocket Rocket (Nickname of Wayne McCullough Flag of Northern Ireland Flag of Ireland)
• The Royal Botanic Gardens (tourist attraction in Kew England)
• The Royal Mile (tourist attraction in Edinburgh Scotland)
• The Smoke (Nickname of London England)
• The Socialist Republic Of South Yorkshire (Nickname of Sheffield England)
• The Steel City (Nickname of Sheffield England)
• The Tower of London (tourist attraction in England)
• The White Cliffs of Dover (tourist attraction in England)
• The best of British
• The best of British luck
• The glorious twelfth (of August - the start of the British grouse shooting season)
• The sun never sets on the British Empire
• The world's favourite airline (British Airways advertising slogan)
• This is the age of the train (British Rail advertising slogan)
• Treacle Town (Nickname of Macclesfield Cheshire England)
• Typhoo puts the T in Britain, the T that stands for taste (Typhoo Tea advertising slogan)
• Was there a lion on your egg this morning? (British Egg Marketing Board advertising slogan)
• We never forget you have a choice (British Caledonian Airline advertising slogan)
• We'll take good care of you (British Airways advertising slogan)
• We're getting there (British Rail advertising slogan)
• Westminster Abbey (tourist attraction in London England)
• Windsor Castle (tourist attraction in England)
• Winter drawers on (old British euphemistic joke)
• Yeah but, no but (A catchphrase from Little Britain)
• Yeah, I know (A catchphrase from Little Britain)
• You can rely on the lion (British Egg Marketing Board advertising slogan)
• You watch, we listen (British Satellite Broadcasting advertising slogan)