Gallery Phrases

Phrases

• A Room With A View (E M Forster book)
• A room without books is like a body without a soul (Marcus Tullius Cicero quotation)
• An ace caff with a nice museum attached (Victoria & Albert Museum advertising slogan)
• Art Of War (Sun Tzu book)
• Art deco
• Art for art's sake
• Art house
• Art imitating life
• Art is going one step too far
• Art is long and life is short
• Art nouveau
• Art of the possible
• Art of war
• Art, with a capital F
• As nervous as a long tailed cat in a room full of rocking chairs
• Back room boy
• Barrack room lawyer
• Bedroom tax (slang term for UK's removal of Spare Room Subsidy)
• Black art
• Body building
• Boiler room (The location of a high pressure telephone sales team)
• Breathing room
• Bright Eyes (Art Garfunkel song)
• Building castles in the air
• Captive audience
• Comfort room (A euphemism for lavatory)
• Elbow room
• Elvis has left the building
• Empire State Building
• Far better for being near to you (The Chesham Building Society advertising slogan)
• Fibre art (Artwork consisting of natural or synthetic fibres)
• Frasier has left the building (A catchphrase from Frasier)
• Gentlemen, you can't fight in here! This is the War Room (Dr.Strangelove)
• Got it down to a fine art
• I don't know much about art but I know what I like
• I may not know much about art, but I know what I like
• Investments with Abbey endings (Abbey National Building Society advertising slogan)
• Kinetic art
• Leave the room
• Locker room humour

• Make room
• Music is art. Muzak is science (Muzak Corporation advertising slogan)
• My heart went boom when I crossed that room (Beatles song lyric)
• No room to breathe
• No room to swing a cat
• Noble art of self defence
• O Brother Where Art Thou (A catchphrase from Ed Murrow and George Clooney movie title)
• O Romeo, Romeo; wherefore art thou Romeo (from the play by Shakespeare)
• Our father who art in heaven
• Panic room
• Playing to the gallery
• Pop art
• Powder room
• Revenue per available room
• Revenue per occupied room
• Room for improvement
• Room for one more inside
• Room to let
• Shovel ready (a building project in which all the preliminaries have been arranged)
• Smallest room in the house
• Smoke-filled room
• Standing room only
• State of the art
• The Art Of The Deal (Donald Trump slogan and book title)
• The Best Second Banana in the Business (Nickname of Art Carney)
• The Chrysler Building (tourist attraction in New York USA)
• The Dream Factory (film or television studio where idealised concepts are manufactured - especially Hollywood)
• The Empire State Building (tourist attraction in New York USA)
• The Uffizi Gallery (tourist attraction in Italy)
• The art that conceals art
• The balcony is closed (A catchphrase from Siskel And Ebert)
• The black art
• The elephant in the room
• The little boys' room
• There's always room for J-E-L-L-O (Jell-O advertising slogan)
• Visit the ladies room
• War room (the place where war plans are directed)
• We're with the Woolwich (Woolwich Building Society advertising slogan)
• White Room (Cream song)
• Wiggle room
• Work of art