Deaf Phrases

Phrases

• A deaf husband and a blind wife are always a happy couple
• Are you sitting comfortably? (A catchphrase from Listen With Mother)
• As deaf as a adder
• As deaf as a post
• As dumb as a box of rocks
• As sound as a bell
• At death's door
• Badgered to death
• Because I could not stop for death he kindly stopped for me (from a poem by Dickinson)
• Blue screen of death
• Bored to death
• Born within the sound of Bow Bells
• Break the sound barrier
• Brum brum (child's play idiom expressing the sound of a vehicle)
• Brush with death
• Cake or death (line from Eddie Izzard comedy)
• Can't carry a tune in a bucket
• Catch your death of cold
• Cloth ears
• Cot death
• Cowards may die many times before their death
• Dance of death
• Deafening silence
• Death In Venice (Dirk Bogade / Luchino Visconti movie)
• Death On The Nile (Agatha Christie book)
• Death On The Orient Express (Agatha Christie book)
• Death Valley (tourist attraction in Arizona USA)
• Death by PowerPoint
• Death by a thousand cuts
• Death by chocolate
• Death by committee
• Death by misadventure
• Death is nature's way of telling you to slow down
• Death metal
• Death of a Salesman (play by Arthur Miller)
• Death trap
• Dial down (adjust a device to reduce sound or temperature)
• Dialogue of the deaf
• Dice with death
• Die a death
• Do something to death
• Done to death
• Dumb And Dumber (Jim Carrey movie)
• Dumb bunny
• Dumb cluck
• Dumb dora
• Ear popping (a sound that is loud or that catches the attention)
• Eating pate de fois gras to the sound of trumpets
• Fall on deaf ears
• Fate worse than death
• Give me liberty or give me death
• Grim death
• Grip of death
• Group of death (the most difficult or competitive group in a sports tournament)
• Hang on like grim death
• Hard of hearing
• Impaired hearing
• In at the death
• In love with the sound of your own voice
• In the midst of life we are in death
• Into the valley of death rode the six hundred

• It takes 40 dumb animals to make a fur coat, but only one to wear it
• Keep mum, she's not so dumb (WWII slogan)
• Kiss of death
• Life after death
• Life and death struggle
• Like death warmed up
• Listen I will say zis only wunce (A catchphrase from Allo Allo)
• Listen to reason
• Listen up
• Look death in the eye
• Marching to the sound of a different drum
• Matter of life and death
• Merchant of death
• Mutt and Jeff (Cockney rhyming slang for deaf)
• Near death experience
• Nothing is certain but death and taxes
• On death row
• On pain of death
• Our dumb chums
• Out of the jaws of death
• Put the fear of death into someone
• Put to death
• Run toward the sound of gunfire
• Safe and sound
• Scared to death
• Sick to death of
• Sound bite
• Sound effect
• Sound off at
• Sound out
• Sound the alarm
• Surround sound
• The Angel of Death (Nickname of Josef Mengele)
• The Hypochondriac's Guide To Life And Death (Gene Weingarten book)
• The Living Death (Nickname of Lew Jenkins)
• The Lonesome Death Of Hattie Carroll (Bob Dylan song)
• The Masque of the Red Death
• The Mersey sound
• The Sound Of Music (Julie Andrews movie)
• The Sound Of Silence (Simon and Garfunkel song)
• The West Coast Sound (Shelly Manne song)
• The West Coast Sound (name applied to Californian pop music, especially that of The Beach Boys)
• The reports of my death are greatly exaggerated
• The silence was deafening
• The sound of leather on willow (sound of the ball on the bat in cricket)
• The valley of the shadow of death (line from the Lord's Prayer)
• The wages of sin is death
• There's none so deaf as they that will not hear
• Tickled to death
• Till Death Us Do Part (BBC comedy television series)
• Tin ear
• Tone deaf
• Tune out
• Until death do us part
• Van Gogh's ear for music
• Wall of death
• When E F Hutton talks, people listen (EF Hutton advertising slogan)
• Whispering Death (Nickname of Michael Holding - West Indies cricketer)
• Wired for sound
• You watch, we listen (British Satellite Broadcasting advertising slogan)
• You'll be the death of me