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A list of phrases related to the word "purple"...
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A
red
rag to a bull
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A splash of
colour
Air Force
blue
As cold as
blue
blazes
As hot as
blue
blazes
As
red
as a beetroot
Beat someone black and
blue
Better dead than
red
Between the Devil and the deep
blue
sea
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Beyond the
blue
horizon
Big
Blue
( Nickname of International Business Machines ( IBM ) )
Big
Red
( Nickname of basketball player Arvydas Sabonis )
Black and
blue
Blue
Bayou ( Elvis Presley song )
Blue
Eyes ( Elton John song )
Blue
Jay Way ( Beatles song )
Blue
Monday
Blue
Monday ( Van Morrison song )
Blue
Moon ( Nickname of baseball player John Odom )
Blue
Suede Shoes ( Elvis Presley song )
Blue
Velvet ( David Lynch movie )
Blue
are the hills that are far away
Blue
blood
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Blue
chip investment
Blue
collar worker
Blue
humour
Blue
in the face
Blue
murder
Blue
plate special ( a set meal provided at a reduced price )
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Blue
rinse
Blue
rinse brigade
Blue
screen of death
Blue
sky thinking
Blue
star ( A slang name for ecstasy pills )
Bolt from the
blue
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Born in the purple
Boy, is my face
red
( A catchphrase from David Letterman )
Boys in
blue
Brick
red
Bring into
blue
Cadmium
red
Chocolate is better in
colour
( M&M's advertising slogan )
Clear
blue
water
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Cobalt
blue
Color
My World ( James Pankow song )
Colour
coded
Colour
coordinated
Colour
me gone
Colour
me happy
Colour
my world
Colour
one's view
Colour
up
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Cornflower
blue
Cross into the
Blue
( United States Air Force advertising slogan )
Cut through the
red
tape
Deeper Than The Deep
Blue
Sea ( Frank Sinatra song )
Do you eat the
red
ones last? ( Smarties advertising slogan )
Eton
blue
Feeling
blue
Fire engine
red
For keener refreshment ( Pabst
Blue
Ribbon advertising slogan )
Gentlemen of
colour
Get down Shep ( A catchphrase from John Noakes On
Blue
Peter )
Gives you wings (
Red
Bull advertising slogan )
He put in his thumb and pulled out a
plum
( line from nursery rhyme )
Here's one I prepared earlier ( A catchphrase from
Blue
Peter )
Horse of a different
colour
I've been brokenhearted,
blue
since the day we parted ( ABBA lyric )
In a
blue
funk
In the
red
Into the wild
blue
yonder
It's All Over Now Baby
Blue
( Bob Dylan song )
It's a
red
thing ( Tizer advertising slogan )
It's the way it shatters that matters (
Violet
Crumble advertising slogan )
Kind Of
Blue
( Miles Davis tune and album )
Lady In
Red
( Chris de Burgh song )
Lend
colour
to
Let's see the
colour
of your money
Light the
blue
touch paper and retire
Like a
blue
arsed fly
Like a bolt from the
blue
Little Boy
Blue
come blow your horn ( line from nursery rhyme )
Little
Red
Corvette ( Prince song )
Little
Red
Rooster ( Rolling Stones song )
Little Robin
Red
breast sat upon a tree ( line from nursery rhyme )
Makes
red
blood! ( Grape-Nuts advertising slogan )
Men in
blue
Midnight
blue
Mood Indigo ( Irving Berlin song )
My
Blue
Heaven ( Gene Austin song )
My
blue
heaven
Nature,
red
in tooth and claw
Navy
blue
Neither fish nor flesh, nor good
red
herring
Off
colour
Old
Blue
Eyes ( Nickname of Frank Sinatra )
Old
Red
Eyes ( Nickname of Alice Cooper )
On
red
alert
Once in a
blue
moon
Only 1 out of 25 men is
color
blind. The other 24 just dress that way ( Mohara Suits advertising slogan )
Out of the
blue
Out of the clear
blue
sky
Oxford
Blue
Paint the town
red
People of
colour
Pillar box
red
Purple America
Purple Haze ( Jimi Hendrix song )
Purple Jesus ( Nickname of Adrian Peterson )
Purple Rain ( Prince song and album )
Purple patch
Purple prose
Purple squirrel
Raspberry Beret ( Prince song )
Red
Army Fraction ( German left wing terrorist group also call
Red
Army Faction )
Red
Baron ( Nickname of Rick Sutcliffe )
Red
Buttons ( Pseudonym of actor Aaron Chwatt )
Red
Dwarf ( BBC comedy television series )
Red
Light Curt ( Nickname of Curt Schilling )
Red
River ( John Wayne / Howard Hawks movie )
Red
Sails In The Sunset ( Al Bowlly song )
Red
Square ( tourist attraction in Moscow Russia )
Red
alert
Red
and green should never be seen
Red
carpet treatment
Red
herring
Red
letter day
Red
light district
Red
lorry yellow lorry
Red
red
wine
Red
sky at night shepherds delight
Red
sky in the morning, shepherds warning
Red
tape
Refresh! Rejoice! Remember! Pabst gets the call ( Pabst
Blue
Ribbon advertising slogan )
Rhapsody In
Blue
( George Gershwin composition )
Riot of
colour
Roll out the
red
carpet
Roses are red, violets are
blue
Royal
blue
Scream
blue
murder
See
red
Send your parcels
Red
Star and pull out all the stops (
Red
Star advertising slogan )
Shrinking
violet
Simply
Red
Sky
blue
Smoke me a kipper, I'll be back for breakfast ( A catchphrase from
Red
Dwarf )
Something old, something new, something borrowed, something
blue
Take a
blue
pencil to
Talk a
blue
streak
Tangled Up In
Blue
( Bob Dylan song )
The Adventure of the
Blue
Carbuncle ( Sherlock Holmes story )
The Adventure of the
Red
Circle ( Sherlock Holmes story )
The
Blue
End State ( Nickname of the US state of Delaware )
The
Blue
Mosque ( tourist attraction in Turkey )
The
Color
Of Money ( Paul Newman / Tom Cruise movie )
The
Color
Purple ( Whoopie Goldberg movie )
The
Colour
Of My Love ( Celine Dion album )
The Home Of Paul Bunyan And Babe The
Blue
Ox ( Nickname of Westwood California, Brainerd Minnesota and Bemidji Minnesota )
The Last of The
Red
Hot Mommas ( Nickname of Sophie Tucker )
The Marcel Marceau of Television ( Nickname of
Red
Skelton )
The Masque of the
Red
Death
The Purple Rose Of Cairo ( Woody Allen movie )
The
Red
Baron ( Nickname of Baron Manfred von Richtofen )
The
Red
Fort ( tourist attraction in India )
The
Red
Rocket ( Nickname of Matt Bonner )
The air was
blue
The deep
blue
sea
The greatest tragedy is indifference (
Red
Cross advertising slogan )
The
red
carpet
The
red
mist
The thin
red
line
To bring the wolves out - Riding Hood
Red
( Max Factor Cosmetics advertising slogan )
True
Blue
( Madonna album )
True
blue
Turning
blue
What a maroon ( Bugs Bunny insult )
What
colour
is the sky in your world?
When I am an old woman I shall wear purple ( from a poem by Joseph )
Wide
blue
yonder
You can have any
colour
as long as it's black
Your fragrance Your rules ( Hugo Boss Deep
Red
advertising slogan )