District Phrases

Phrases

• A Town Like Alice (Nevil Shute book)
• A Town Like Malice (The Jam song)
• A bad quarter of an hour
• All-American Girl (Nickname of boxer Vonda Ward)
• Bean town
• Border Town (Nickname of Rye New York)
• Brook no quarter
• Buffer zone
• Chocolate Town (Nickname of Hershey Pennsylvania)
• Comfort zone
• Dryest gin in town. Ask any Martini (Seagram's Gin advertising slogan)
• Fourth Quarter Vince (Nickname of American football player Vince Young)
• Friend zone
• Frog Town (Nickname of Toledo Ohio)
• Garrison town
• Give no quarter
• Global village
• Go to town
• Grant no quarter
• Hit town
• I am the only gay in the village (A catchphrase from Little Britain)
• In the neighbourhood of
• In the region of
• In the zone
• Jerkwater town
• Man about town
• Oh little town of Bethlehem
• On the town
• One horse town
• Only game in town

• Our repairmen are the loneliest guys in town (Maytag Appliances advertising slogan)
• Paint the town red
• Public sector
• Put the town on the map
• Red light district
• Run out of town on a rail
• Shaky Town (Nickname of San Francisco California)
• Show no quarter
• Take the town by storm
• The Big Village (Nickname of Moscow Russia)
• The Crawdad Town (Nickname of Isleton California)
• The Garden County (nickname of the English county of Hampshire)
• The Hub Of East County (Nickname of El Cajon California)
• The Mob Town (Nickname of Baltimore Maryland)
• The Tater Town (Nickname of Hoople North Dakota)
• The only show in town
• The talk of the town
• The toast of the town
• The town bike (promiscuous woman)
• There goes the neighbourhood
• Town and gown
• Transition town
• Treacle Town (Nickname of Macclesfield Cheshire England)
• Twilight zone
• Village idiot
• War zone (the area that a war has taken place)
• Wee Willie Winkie runs through the town, upstairs and downstairs in his nightgown (line from nursery rhyme)
• Y.M.C.A. (Village People song)
• You have entered the twilight zone (A catchphrase from The Twilight Zone)
• Zone in on
• Zone out