“We’ll always have Paris”
“When in Rome…”
“What happens in Vegas…”
These are the only ones I could think of right off the bat, anybody got any other ones?
“In a New York minute”
“I left my heart in San Francisco.”
“How would it play in Peoria?”
“London to a brick on …” This is unlikely unknown outside the racing fraternity in Australia. A well-known race caller (Ken Howard) used it to describe a sure thing.
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There are all kinds of phrase names like Boston baked beans, Manhattan clam chowder, etc. but I assume you don’t want those.
‘Get outta Dodge’ - Dodge City Kansas, to be precise.
Dressed like a Philadelphia lawyer.
Evidently, they were the dandies of the day.
On the whole, I’d rather be in Philadelphia.
All roads lead to Rome.
Rome wasn’t built in a day.
“like carrying coals to Newcastle”
Shuffle off to Buffalo.
“Banned in Boston?”
“Everything’s up to date in Kansas City.”
Husband: We could go through Kansas City.
Me: Everything’s up to date there!
Husband: blank stare
Me: Well, it is.
Houston, we have a problem
Should have made that left turn at Albuquerque
I’ve been Shanghai’d
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While this is technically factual, it is probably better suited to MPSIMS.
Moving thread from General Questions to Mundane Pointless Stuff I Must Share.
It’s not a phrase, exactly, but “Mecca” is used to mean any place that attracts a lot of people.
“Timbuktu” is used to mean “the middle of nowhere.”
There’s also the verb “shanghaied.”
Of somewhere particularly dank; “like the Black Hole of Calcutta”.
Referring to a particular incident rather than the city itself I hasten to add!
“It’s a long way to Tipperary” - OK, perhaps more of a song title than a phrase.
“Lovely pair of Bristols” - rhyming slang, “Bristol Cities” = “Titties”.