Desolate Phrases

Phrases

• A Walk On The Wild Side (Lou Reed song)
• Abandon hope all ye who enter here (warning from Dante's Divine Comedy)
• Abandon ship
• All the lonely people, where do they all come from? (Beatles song lyric)
• Born to be wild
• Call of the wild
• Clearly Canadian Sparkling Mineral Water in Wild Fruit Flavours (Adelma Mineral Waters advertising slogan)
• Counsel of despair
• Depths of despair
• Desolation Row (Bob Dylan song)
• Deuces wild
• Do the wild thing
• Empty gesture
• Empty handed
• Empty headed
• Empty nest syndrome
• Empty nester
• Empty vessels make the most noise
• Empty words
• Gay abandon
• Go wild
• Happy sad (a bitterweet feeling combining both happiness and sadness)
• Hog wild
• How sad is that?
• I wandered lonely as a cloud (from a poem by Wordsworth)
• Into the wild blue yonder
• It's lonely at the top
• It's the empty can that makes the most noise

• Lonely hearts
• Look on my works, ye mighty, and despair (from a poem by Shelley)
• Plough a lonely furrow
• Running on empty
• Running wild
• Sad sack
• Sad state of affairs
• Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band (Beatles album and song)
• Sow your wild oats
• Take A Walk On The Wild Side (Lou Reed song)
• The Adventure of the Empty House (Sherlock Holmes story)
• The King of the Wild Frontier (Nickname of explorer Davy Crockett)
• The Wild Bull of the Pampa (Nickname of Luis Firpo)
• The Wild Bunch (Sam Peckinpah movie)
• The Wild Geese (Richard Harris / Roger Moore movie)
• The Wild Horse of the Osage (Nickname of Pepper Martin)
• The Wild One (Marlon Brando movie)
• The Wild West
• The call of the wild
• The empty chair (the perceived absense of someone who is recently deceased)
• Where the wild things are
• Wild Bill Hickock (Nickname of James Hickock)
• Wild Ones (Flo Rida (with Sia song)
• Wild Thing (Nickname of Anderson Varejo)
• Wild Wild West (Nickname of Delonte West)
• Wild and woolly
• Wild at heart
• Wild goose chase
• Wild horses wouldn't drag that from me