Hotel 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)
• As nervous as a long tailed cat in a room full of rocking chairs
• Back room boy
• Barrack room lawyer
• Bed and breakfast
• Bedroom tax (slang term for UK's removal of Spare Room Subsidy)
• Body building
• Boiler room (The location of a high pressure telephone sales team)
• Breathing room
• Building castles in the air
• Cabin fever
• Comfort room (A euphemism for lavatory)
• Country house hotel (an upmarket hotel located in a revamped rural mansion)
• Elbow room
• Elvis has left the building
• Empire State Building
• Far better for being near to you (The Chesham Building Society advertising slogan)
• Faulty Towers (BBC comedy television series)
• Frasier has left the building (A catchphrase from Frasier)
• Gentlemen, you can't fight in here! This is the War Room (Dr.Strangelove)
• Heartbreak Hotel (Elvis Presley song)
• Home suite hotel (Larkspur Landing Hotel advertising slogan)
• Hotel California (Eagles album)
• I want to be alone (A catchphrase from Grand Hotel)
• Investments with Abbey endings (Abbey National Building Society advertising slogan)
• Leave the room
• Live out of a suitcase
• Locker room humour
• Make room

• My heart went boom when I crossed that room (Beatles song lyric)
• No room to breathe
• No room to swing a cat
• Panic room
• Pleasing people the world over (Holiday Inn advertising slogan)
• 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
• The Apartment (Jack Lemmon / Shirley MacLaine movie)
• The Chrysler Building (tourist attraction in New York USA)
• The Empire State Building (tourist attraction in New York USA)
• The Raffles Hotel (tourist attraction in Singapore)
• 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 love having you here (Hampton Inn advertising slogan)
• We'll leave the light on for you (Motel 6 advertising slogan)
• We're with the Woolwich (Woolwich Building Society advertising slogan)
• White Room (Cream song)
• Wiggle room
• Yours faithfully (Trust House Forte advertising slogan)