Clad Phrases

Phrases

• Backs to the wall
• Balls to the wall
• Bang your head against a brick wall
• Between you and me and the wall
• Climbing wall (An indoor wall with handholds used for climbing practise)
• Dead Men Don't Wear Plaid (Steve Martin movie)
• Democracy Wall (wall in Bejing China where dissidents post letters poems etc)
• Driven up the wall
• Fly on the wall
• Go over the wall
• Go to the wall
• Go up the wall
• Greed, for lack of a better word, is good (Wall Street)
• Hadrians Wall (tourist attraction in northern England)
• Hit the back wall
• Hole in the wall
• Humpty Dumpty sat on a wall (line from nursery rhyme)
• I grow old, I grow old, I shall wear the bottoms of my trousers rolled (from a poem by Eliot)
• I wear my sunglasses at night
• I will wear my heart upon my sleeve
• If the cap fits, wear it
• If the shoe fits, wear it
• It takes 40 dumb animals to make a fur coat, but only one to wear it
• Like trying to nail jello to a wall
• Look your best while you wear our least (Jockey Shorts advertising slogan)
• 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
• Party wall
• San Francisco (Be Sure to Wear Flowers in Your Hair) (Scott McKenzie song)
• Stop me and buy one (Wall's Ice Cream advertising slogan)
• Ten green bottles sitting on the wall
• The Berlin Wall (tourist attraction in Germany)
• 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 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 future's so bright, I gotta wear shades (song by Timbuk 3)
• The writing is on the wall
• 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
• Wear the pine overcoat
• Wear the trousers
• Wear your apron high
• Wear your heart on your sleeve
• Wear yourself out
• What do I wear in bed? Why, Chanel No. 5, of course (Marilyn Monroe quotation)
• When I am an old woman I shall wear purple (from a poem by Joseph)
• Worse for wear
• You Wear It Well (Rod Stewart song)