China Phrases

Phrases

• An everyday story of country folk (A catchphrase from The Archers)
• Ancient Chinese secret (Calgon advertising slogan)
• As many chins as a Chinese phone book
• Ask not what your country can do for you, but what you can do for your country
• Big Country (Nickname of basketball player Bryant Reeves)
• Brazil, Russia, India And China - BRIC
• China doll
• China plate (Cockney rhyming slang for mate)
• China price
• China syndrome
• China white
• Chinaman's chance
• Chinese burn
• Chinese fire drill
• Chinese homer
• Chinese whispers
• Chopsticks are one of the reasons the Chinese never invented custard (Spike Milligan line)
• Come home to Birds Eye Country (Birds Eye Frozen Foods advertising slogan)
• Come to Marlboro Country (Marlboro Cigarettes advertising slogan)
• Country Pie (Bob Dylan song)
• Country cousin
• Country gentleman
• Country house hotel (an upmarket hotel located in a revamped rural mansion)
• Country pursuits
• Country rock
• Country sports
• Cry the beloved country
• Democracy Wall (wall in Bejing China where dissidents post letters poems etc)
• Girl From The North Country (Bob Dylan song)

• Go to the country
• God's chosen country
• God's own country (Kerala, India advertising slogan)
• It's a free country
• Like a bull in a china shop
• Mother country
• My country right or wrong
• My old china (Cockney rhyming slang for mate)
• Not for all the tea in China
• Only Nixon could go to China
• Open the kimono
• People's republic (a communist state)
• Point Percy at the porcelain
• Potala Palace (tourist attraction in China)
• Praying at the porcelain altar
• The Bamboo Curtain (notional barrier between capitalist West and communist China)
• The China Syndrome (Michael Douglas / Walter Matthau / Jane Fonda movie)
• The Forbidden City (tourist attraction in Bejing China)
• The Great Wall of China (Nickname of Yao Ming)
• The Great Wall of China (tourist attraction in China)
• The Imperial Summer Palace (tourist attraction in China)
• The Venice of China (Nickname of Suzhou)
• The old country
• The past is a foreign country: they do things differently there (the opening line of The Go-Between)
• This line of country
• What does that have to do with the price of tea in China?
• Yellow peril
• You are now free to move about the country (Southwest Airlines advertising slogan)
• You'll never put a better bit of butter on your knife (Country Life butter advertising slogan)
• Your country needs you

Related

• Brazil, Russia, India And China - BRIC
• China doll
• China plate (Cockney rhyming slang for mate)
• China price
• China syndrome
• China white
• Democracy Wall (wall in Bejing China where dissidents post letters poems etc)
• Like a bull in a china shop
• My old china (Cockney rhyming slang for mate)
• Not for all the tea in China
• Only Nixon could go to China
• Potala Palace (tourist attraction in China)
• The Bamboo Curtain (notional barrier between capitalist West and communist China)
• The China Syndrome (Michael Douglas / Walter Matthau / Jane Fonda movie)
• The Forbidden City (tourist attraction in Bejing China)
• The Great Wall of China (Nickname of Yao Ming)
• The Great Wall of China (tourist attraction in China)
• The Imperial Summer Palace (tourist attraction in China)
• The Venice of China (Nickname of Suzhou)
• What does that have to do with the price of tea in China?