# Common phrases with city names in them **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [April 4, 2014, 11:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/common-phrases-with-city-names-in-them/685378 "2014-04-04T23:35:22Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Tread](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/53a042/32.png) [@Tread](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tread)\ **Post date:** [April 5, 2014, 8:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/common-phrases-with-city-names-in-them/685378/21 "2014-04-05T08:52:20Z")
Big as Dallas ---
**Author:** ![TriPolar](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tripolar/32/3008_2.png) [@TriPolar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TriPolar)\ **Post date:** [April 5, 2014, 9:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/common-phrases-with-city-names-in-them/685378/22 "2014-04-05T09:19:25Z")
What happens in Vegas… Will it play in Peoria? Next year in Jerusalem. Holy Toledo! ---
**Author:** ![Smapti](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/smapti/32/17938_2.png) [@Smapti](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Smapti)\ **Post date:** [April 5, 2014, 9:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/common-phrases-with-city-names-in-them/685378/23 "2014-04-05T09:51:48Z")
You stay classy, San Diego. ---
**Author:** ![Iggy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/iggy/32/3364_2.png) [@Iggy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Iggy)\ **Post date:** [April 5, 2014, 10:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/common-phrases-with-city-names-in-them/685378/24 "2014-04-05T10:01:30Z")
shipshape and Bristol fashion ---
**Author:** ![nonacetone](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/nonacetone/32/2819_2.png) [@nonacetone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/nonacetone)\ **Post date:** [April 5, 2014, 10:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/common-phrases-with-city-names-in-them/685378/25 "2014-04-05T10:19:08Z")
I remember my grandma always saying, when she saw a really messy room, “Looks like Taylorville in here!” I have no idea what that was supposed to mean, and I don’t know if it was a common saying, or not, as I had only heard her say it. I just did a quick Google, and the Urban Dictionary mentioned something about ‘pigs under the courthouse when Lincoln visited’. :dubious: ---
**Author:** ![ftg](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ftg/32/2801_2.png) [@ftg](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ftg)\ **Post date:** [April 5, 2014, 12:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/common-phrases-with-city-names-in-them/685378/26 "2014-04-05T12:17:23Z")
Glasgow kiss. ---
**Author:** ![Leaffan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/leaffan/32/299_2.png) [@Leaffan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Leaffan)\ **Post date:** [April 5, 2014, 12:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/common-phrases-with-city-names-in-them/685378/27 "2014-04-05T12:29:12Z")
Lit up like Blackpool illuminations was what my dad said when he thought too many lights were turned on in the house. ---
**Author:** ![JKellyMap](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jkellymap/32/15880_2.png) [@JKellyMap](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JKellyMap)\ **Post date:** [April 5, 2014, 12:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/common-phrases-with-city-names-in-them/685378/28 "2014-04-05T12:47:07Z")
We’ve got trouble in River City. ---
**Author:** ![Raguleader](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/258eb7/32.png) [@Raguleader](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Raguleader)\ **Post date:** [April 5, 2014, 2:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/common-phrases-with-city-names-in-them/685378/29 "2014-04-05T14:27:04Z")
“Hollywood Accounting” “Kansas City Shuffle” ---
**Author:** ![Chefguy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chefguy/32/138_2.png) [@Chefguy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chefguy)\ **Post date:** [April 5, 2014, 2:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/common-phrases-with-city-names-in-them/685378/30 "2014-04-05T14:36:46Z")
Next year in Jerusalem. ---
**Author:** ![boffking](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/858c86/32.png) [@boffking](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/boffking)\ **Post date:** [April 5, 2014, 3:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/common-phrases-with-city-names-in-them/685378/31 "2014-04-05T15:17:55Z")
“Shanghai X” Hitting a single, double, and triple of the same number in a single round of darts. ---
**Author:** ![Springtime\_for\_Spacers](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a3d4f5/32.png) [@Springtime\_for\_Spacers](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Springtime_for_Spacers)\ **Post date:** [April 5, 2014, 3:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/common-phrases-with-city-names-in-them/685378/32 "2014-04-05T15:22:01Z")
If you’re tired of London you’re tired of life. ---
**Author:** ![Annie-Xmas](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ecc23a/32.png) [@Annie-Xmas](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Annie-Xmas)\ **Post date:** [April 5, 2014, 3:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/common-phrases-with-city-names-in-them/685378/33 "2014-04-05T15:26:41Z")
It’s a New York thing. I have a T-shirt with Anything written on it, but the “NY” are the Yankees logo intertwined NY. Really cool. ---
**Author:** ![ZipperJJ](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/zipperjj/32/211_2.png) [@ZipperJJ](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ZipperJJ)\ **Post date:** [April 5, 2014, 6:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/common-phrases-with-city-names-in-them/685378/34 "2014-04-05T18:32:59Z")
[Hello Cleveland!](http://www.tcm.com/mediaroom/video/237537/This-Is-Spinal-Tap-Movie-Clip-Hello-Cleveland-.html) ---
**Author:** ![etv78](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/d78d45/32.png) [@etv78](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/etv78)\ **Post date:** [April 5, 2014, 6:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/common-phrases-with-city-names-in-them/685378/35 "2014-04-05T18:52:59Z")
“Trot trot to Boston… trot trot to Lynn.” Lynn, Lynn city of sin. ---
**Author:** ![StayseaDee](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/c4cdca/32.png) [@StayseaDee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/StayseaDee)\ **Post date:** [April 5, 2014, 7:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/common-phrases-with-city-names-in-them/685378/36 "2014-04-05T19:02:57Z")
“Meet me in St. Louis” Or is that just a movie and song? ---
**Author:** ![blondebear](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/blondebear/32/1022_2.png) [@blondebear](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/blondebear)\ **Post date:** [April 5, 2014, 7:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/common-phrases-with-city-names-in-them/685378/37 "2014-04-05T19:27:34Z")
Don’t know how “common” they are, but… When a man is tired of London, he is tired of life. I once spent a year in Philadelphia, I think it was on a Sunday. ---
**Author:** ![wonky](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wonky/32/393_2.png) [@wonky](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wonky)\ **Post date:** [April 5, 2014, 7:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/common-phrases-with-city-names-in-them/685378/38 "2014-04-05T19:29:53Z")
> [@blondebear](#): > > I once spent a year in Philadelphia, I think it was on a Sunday. That reminds me of: The coldest winter I ever spent was a summer in San Francisco. ---
**Author:** ![drewtwo99](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/d07c76/32.png) [@drewtwo99](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/drewtwo99)\ **Post date:** [April 6, 2014, 12:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/common-phrases-with-city-names-in-them/685378/39 "2014-04-06T00:03:33Z")
I left my heart in San Francisco, I hear that a lot outside of the actual song, referring to people leaving their “heart” anywhere they went traveling recently. A Cleveland Steamer is a gross sex thing. There’s something rotten in the state of Denmark (I know that’s not a city but thought I’d throw it in here). ---
**Author:** ![Raguleader](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/258eb7/32.png) [@Raguleader](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Raguleader)\ **Post date:** [April 6, 2014, 3:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/common-phrases-with-city-names-in-them/685378/40 "2014-04-06T03:43:07Z")
If we can expand this to include countries, there is a term I’ve picked up in the Air Force: “Bum Fuck Egypt”, to describe some out of the way place (similar to “In the sticks” or “out in the boondocks”. If you want to specify a particular area other than Egypt, you say “BFE Oregon” or “BFE Arkansas” or whatever have you. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/common-phrases-with-city-names-in-them/685378.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/common-phrases-with-city-names-in-them/685378.md?page=3)