Fife Phrases

Phrases

• A two pipe problem
• Architecture is music frozen in time (Friedrich von Schelling quotation)
• As clean as a whistle
• As tight as a drum
• Balmoral Castle (tourist attraction in Scotland)
• Blow the whistle
• Blow your own trumpet
• Bonny Scotland
• Cherry ripe (Cockney rhyming slang for pipe)
• Crazy Gun Barney (Nickname of Barney Fife (Don Knotts))
• Dog whistle politics (Political messages intended for a specific knowledgable audience)
• Drum break (A short drum solo in a song, or a form of brake on a vehicle)
• Drum circle (A circle of people playing drums)
• Drum n bass
• Drum up support
• Ear for music
• Edinburgh Castle (tourist attraction in Scotland)
• Elevator music
• Face the music
• Fingal's Cave (tourist attraction in Scotland)
• 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)
• Lead pipe cinch
• Let's face the music and dance
• Made in Scotland from girders (Irn Bru advertising slogan)
• Make Your Own Kind Of Music (Mama Cass Elliot song)
• Marching to the sound of a different drum
• 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
• No music, no life (Tower Records advertising slogan)
• Pipe down
• Pipe dream
• Pipe up
• Popular music
• Put that in your pipe and smoke it
• Scotland the brave
• Sweet Music (Nickname of Frank Viola)
• Thank you for the music, the songs I'm singing (ABBA lyric)
• The Flying Squad (Nickname of the Specialist Crime Directorate, New Scotland Yard)
• The Granite City (Nickname of Aberdeen Scotland)
• The Royal Mile (tourist attraction in Edinburgh Scotland)
• The Sound Of Music (Julie Andrews movie)
• The West Coast Sound (name applied to Californian pop music, especially that of The Beach Boys)
• The best way to get music out of your system (Philips advertising slogan)
• The music of the spheres
• Train whistle blowing
• Van Gogh's ear for music
• Wet your whistle
• Whistle A Happy Tune
• Whistle and flute (Cockney rhyming slang for suit)
• Whistle while you work
• 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)
• Wolf whistle
• World music
• You can whistle for it