Coda Phrases

Phrases

• A means to an end
• All good things must come to an end
• Architecture is music frozen in time (Friedrich von Schelling quotation)
• At a loose end
• At the end of a gun
• At the end of the day
• At the end of your rope
• At the end of your tether
• At your wits' end
• Bring to an end
• Business end
• Can't see beyond the end of your nose
• Cheer up, it's not the end of the world
• Come to a sticky end
• Dead end
• Doubt is the beginning not the end of wisdom
• Ear for music
• Elevator music
• End in itself
• End of a perfect day
• End of an era
• End of story
• End of the ball game
• End of the line
• End product
• End up at
• Face the music
• Get hold of the wrong end of the stick
• Get to the end of your tether
• Get your end away
• Go off the deep end
• Have your hair stand on end
• House music
• I Do Like To Be Beside The Seaside (British Music Hall song)
• If music be the food of love, play on (from Twelth Night by Shakespeare)
• It will all end in tears
• It's The End Of The World As We Know It (R.E.M. song)
• Journey's end
• Keep your end up
• Know which end is up
• Let's face the music and dance
• Light at the end of the tunnel
• Make Your Own Kind Of Music (Mama Cass Elliot song)
• Makes your hair stands on end
• Music Box (Mariah Carey album)

• Music City (Nickname of Nashville Tennessee)
• Music has charms to soothe the savage breast
• Music is art. Muzak is science (Muzak Corporation advertising slogan)
• Music to my ears
• Never hear the end of it
• Ninth inning (A baseball expression meaning an event or process is near the end)
• No end of
• No music, no life (Tower Records advertising slogan)
• Not the beginning of the end, but the end of the beginning
• On the receiving end
• Popular music
• Put an end to
• Shallow end
• Shit (or short) end of the stick
• Short end of the stick
• Sweet Music (Nickname of Frank Viola)
• Thank you for the music, the songs I'm singing (ABBA lyric)
• The Blue End State (Nickname of the US state of Delaware)
• The End Of The World (Nickname of Anchorage Alaska)
• The Sound Of Music (Julie Andrews movie)
• The West Coast Sound (name applied to Californian pop music, especially that of The Beach Boys)
• The be all and end all
• The beginning of the end
• The best way to get music out of your system (Philips advertising slogan)
• The bitter end
• The deep end
• The end of civilization as we know it
• The end of the road
• The end of the world is nigh
• The light at the end of the tunnel may just be a train coming the other way
• The means to an end
• The music of the spheres
• The pot of gold at the end of the rainbow
• The shit end of the stick
• The short end of the stick
• The thick end of
• The war to end wars
• Thin end of the wedge
• Thrown in at the deep end
• Till the end of time
• Toward this end
• Van Gogh's ear for music
• With rings on her fingers and bells on her toes she shall have music wherever she goes (line from nursery rhyme)
• Without music, life would be a mistake (Friedrich Nietzsche quotation)
• World music
• World without end