Gem Phrases

Phrases

• A Double Diamond works wonders (Double Diamond advertising slogan)
• A rolling stone gathers no moss
• As cold as any stone
• As hard as a rock
• As rare as rocking horse droppings
• As solid as a rock
• Ayers Rock (tourist attraction in Australia)
• Basic Instinct (Sharon Stone movie)
• Between a rock and a hard place
• Carved in stone
• Cast in stone
• Cast the first stone
• Country rock
• Cracklin' Rosie (Neil Diamond song)
• Crocodile Rock (Elton John song)
• Diamond Dogs (David Bowie song)
• Diamond Jim (Nickname of James Brady)
• Diamond geezer
• Diamond in the rough
• Don't rock the boat
• Draw a bead on
• Drop like a stone
• Earl the Pearl (Nickname of basketball player Earl Monroe)
• Etched in stone
• Fall like a stone
• Girl With A Pearl Earring (Scarlett Johansson / Colin Firth movie)
• Glam rock
• Harry Potter And The Sorcerer's Stone (J. K. Rowling book)
• Heart of stone
• Heavy rock
• Hidden gem
• Hidden treasure
• Hit rock bottom
• I Wanna Rock And Roll All Night (Kiss song)
• I don't have to show you any stinking badges (The Treasure of the Sierra Madre)
• I was a seven stone weakling (Charles Atlas advertising slogan)
• I'll buy you a diamond ring my friend if it makes you feel alright (The Beatles song lyric)
• I'm only here for the beer (Double Diamond advertising slogan)
• It's Only Rock And Roll, But I Like It (Rolling Stones song)
• It's a dirty job, but somebody has to do it (A catchphrase from Nick Stone In Tightrope)
• Jailhouse Rock (Elvis Presley song)
• Jewel in the crown
• Just Another Diamond Day (Vashti Bunyan song)
• Kill stone dead
• Kill two birds with one stone
• Kiss the Blarney Stone
• Leave no stone unturned
• Let's rock (A catchphrase from Al Bundy In Married With Children)
• Like A Rolling Stone (Bob Dylan song)
• Like a rock (Bob Seeger song title and Chevrolet Trucks advertising slogan)
• Little Hands of Stone (Nickname of Michael Carbajal)
• Little treasure
• Made to make your mouth water (Opal Fruits advertising slogan)
• Murderers' Row (A baseball expression denoting a group of talented individuals or valuable assets)
• National treasure

• One man's trash is another man's treasure
• One two three o'clock four o'clock rock
• Party Like a Rock Star (Shop Boyz song)
• Party Rock Anthem (LMFAO with Lauren Bennett and GoonRock song)
• Pearl of great price
• Prepare to rock
• Primal fear (Neurosis therapy and British rock band)
• Rare bird
• Rock And Roll Dreams Come True (Meatloaf song)
• Rock Around The Clock (Bill Haley song)
• Rock With The Caveman (Tommy Steele song)
• Rock Your Baby (George McCrae song)
• Rock a bye baby on the tree top, when the wind blows the cradle will rock (line from nursery rhyme)
• Rock and boulder (Cockney rhyming slang for shoulder)
• Rock and roll
• Rock bottom
• Rock god
• Rock of ages
• Rock on
• Rock solid
• Rock the vote
• Rock your world
• Romancing The Stone (Michael Douglas movie)
• Rough diamond
• Sex and drugs, and rock and roll
• Sink like a stone
• Stone Free (Jimi Hendrix song)
• Stone cold sober
• Stone the crows
• The Adventure of the Mazarin Stone (Sherlock Holmes story)
• The Black Diamond (Nickname of Leonidas da Silva)
• The Black Pearl (Nickname of Eusebio)
• The Diamond State (Nickname of the US state of Delaware)
• The Dome of the Rock (tourist attraction in Israel)
• The Emerald Isle
• The Gem (Nickname of Erie Pennsylvania)
• The Gem State (Nickname of the US state of Idaho)
• The King of Rock 'N' Roll (Nickname of Elvis Presley)
• The Pearl Of Orient (Nickname of Penang Malaysia)
• The Pearl Of The Danube (Nickname of Budapest Hungary)
• The Pearl Of The Mediterranean (Nickname of Alexandria Egypt)
• The Pearl Of The Orient (Nickname of Manila Philippines)
• The Rock (Nickname of Marcel Desailly)
• The Treasure Of The Sierra Madre (Humphrey Bogart movie)
• The philosopher's stone
• This precious stone set in the silver sea, this sceptered isle
• To cast the first stone
• Treasure Island (Robert Louis Stevenson book)
• Treasure chest
• Treasure trove
• Up above the world so high , like a diamond in the sky (line from nursery rhyme)
• We Will Rock You (Queen song)
• You Can't Always Get What You Want (The Rolling Stone song)
• You can't get blood out of a stone
• You rock!