Housemaid Phrases

Phrases

• A Doll's House (play by Henrik Ibsen)
• A house divided against itself cannot stand
• A house is not a home
• Acid house
• Art house
• Beckingham Palace (Nickname of David and Victoria Beckham's house)
• Big house
• Bleak House (Charles Dickens book)
• Bring the house down
• Buck House (Nickname of Buckingham Palace)
• Burning Down The House (Talking Heads song)
• By the hairs on my chinny chin chin, I'll blow your house down
• Chatham House rules
• Chief cook and bottle washer
• Children, one is one, two is fun, three is a house full
• Civil servant
• Clean house
• Cleans round the bend (Harpic Lavatory Cleaner advertising slogan)
• Clearing house
• Cook the books
• Cook up a plan
• Cook up a storm
• Cook your goose
• Cook's night out
• Country house hotel (an upmarket hotel located in a revamped rural mansion)
• Crooked House (Agatha Christie book)
• Doctor In The House (Dirk Bogade / Luchino Visconti movie)
• Don't just book it, Thomas Cook it (Thomas Cook advertising slogan)
• Eaten out of house and home
• Everybody lies (A catchphrase from Dr Gregory House in House)
• Front of house
• Full house
• Get on like a house on fire
• Good to the last drop (Maxwell House Coffee advertising slogan)
• Halfway house
• Have a Captain Cook (Cockney rhyming slang for look)
• He huffed and he puffed and he blew their house down
• House and garden
• House and home
• House built on sand
• House frau
• House guest
• House husband

• House mother
• House music
• House of cards
• House of ill repute
• House rules
• House style
• House swap
• Housemaid's knee
• Is there a doctor in the house?
• It was the night before Christmas and all round the house, not a creature was stirring, not even a mouse
• Keep a good house
• Keep open house
• Mad house
• Maid of all work
• Maid of honour
• Meter maid
• Not A Dry Eye In The House (Meatloaf song)
• Not a dry eye in the house
• Not a dry seat in the house
• Old maid
• On the house
• Open house
• Paper the house
• Put your house in order
• Smallest room in the house
• Sydney Opera House (tourist attraction in Australia)
• Take a Thomas Cook at our prices! (Thomas Cook Travel advertising slogan)
• Taste as good as it smells (Maxwell House Coffee advertising slogan)
• The Adventure of the Empty House (Sherlock Holmes story)
• The Anne Frank House (tourist attraction in Amsterdam Netherlands)
• The Cider House Rules (Michael Caine movie)
• The Galloping Gourmet (Pseudonym of cook Graham Kerr)
• The House Doctor (Pseudonym of Ron Hazelton)
• The House of the Rising Sun (The Animals song)
• The Maid of Orleans (Nickname of Joan of Arc)
• The White House (tourist attraction in Washington USA)
• The angel in the house
• The best seat in the house (Jockey Shorts advertising slogan)
• The house of many doors
• The house that Jack built (line from nursery rhyme)
• The king was in his counting house counting out his money (line from nursery rhyme)
• Who lives in a house like this? (A catchphrase from Through the Keyhole)
• You're so handy Andy (Handy Andy cleaner advertising slogan)
• Yours faithfully (Trust House Forte advertising slogan)