# 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:** 3
**Author:** ![Civil\_Guy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/d78d45/32.png) [@Civil\_Guy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Civil_Guy)\ **Post date:** [April 6, 2014, 4:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/common-phrases-with-city-names-in-them/685378/41 "2014-04-06T04:11:44Z")
Beat LA! ---
**Author:** ![Becky2844](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/91b2a8/32.png) [@Becky2844](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Becky2844)\ **Post date:** [April 6, 2014, 4:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/common-phrases-with-city-names-in-them/685378/42 "2014-04-06T04:13:12Z")
“…acts like she’s the Queen of Sheba.” ---
**Author:** ![njtt](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/ecd19e/32.png) [@njtt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/njtt)\ **Post date:** [April 6, 2014, 4:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/common-phrases-with-city-names-in-them/685378/43 "2014-04-06T04:17:35Z")
Chicago style. Aberdeen Angus. Bombay duck. Jerusalem artichoke. Vienna circle. ---
**Author:** ![Colibri](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/colibri/32/1841_2.png) [@Colibri](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Colibri)\ **Post date:** [April 6, 2014, 4:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/common-phrases-with-city-names-in-them/685378/44 "2014-04-06T04:25:12Z")
Only part of a city, but: Bronx cheer. The Bronx No thonx! -Ogden Nash ---
**Author:** ![jtur88](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/e9c0ed/32.png) [@jtur88](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jtur88)\ **Post date:** [April 6, 2014, 4:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/common-phrases-with-city-names-in-them/685378/45 "2014-04-06T04:45:57Z")
oops/ ---
**Author:** ![chappachula](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/d2c977/32.png) [@chappachula](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/chappachula)\ **Post date:** [April 6, 2014, 5:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/common-phrases-with-city-names-in-them/685378/46 "2014-04-06T05:24:08Z")
“We’re not in Kansas anymore” (oops, that’s not the name of a city. But I think it still counts 🙂 ) ---
**Author:** ![buddha\_david](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/ee7513/32.png) [@buddha\_david](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/buddha_david)\ **Post date:** [April 6, 2014, 6:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/common-phrases-with-city-names-in-them/685378/47 "2014-04-06T06:33:04Z")
“Take that, East St. Louis!” ---
**Author:** ![Lord\_Mondegreen](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/91b2a8/32.png) [@Lord\_Mondegreen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lord_Mondegreen)\ **Post date:** [April 6, 2014, 10:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/common-phrases-with-city-names-in-them/685378/48 "2014-04-06T10:38:31Z")
In Australia, the location of somewhere which is a long way from anywhere can be referred to as “the back of Bourke” (Bourke being a town which is itself a long way from anywhere). ---
**Author:** ![mascaroni](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/dc4da7/32.png) [@mascaroni](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mascaroni)\ **Post date:** [April 6, 2014, 11:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/common-phrases-with-city-names-in-them/685378/49 "2014-04-06T11:00:16Z")
Stockholm Syndrome. “Goodnight Vienna” “It’s gone a a bit Weston-Super-Mare” (When things go wrong’ named after an unlikely sounding Somerset coastal resort; just a WAG, but maybe an elongated form of ‘mare’, itself a contraction of 'nightmare.) Brummie Screwdriver (A hammer, Brummie being ‘from Birmingham, UK.’) (An English county rather than city) “Up the wooden hill to Bedfordshire” (An old way of telling children to go to bed.) ---
**Author:** ![John\_Bredin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/96bed5/32.png) [@John\_Bredin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/John_Bredin)\ **Post date:** [April 7, 2014, 6:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/common-phrases-with-city-names-in-them/685378/50 "2014-04-07T18:28:07Z")
> [@Raguleader](#): > > “Hollywood Accounting” In the same spirit, a Hollywood stop. ---
**Author:** ![bump](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/7c8e57/32.png) [@bump](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bump)\ **Post date:** [April 7, 2014, 8:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/common-phrases-with-city-names-in-them/685378/51 "2014-04-07T20:22:17Z")
“Road to Damascus” experiences. ---
**Author:** ![GrandWino](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/grandwino/32/67_2.png) [@GrandWino](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GrandWino)\ **Post date:** [April 7, 2014, 8:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/common-phrases-with-city-names-in-them/685378/52 "2014-04-07T20:36:02Z")
“The Chicago Way” ---
**Author:** ![chacoguy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/50afbb/32.png) [@chacoguy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/chacoguy)\ **Post date:** [April 7, 2014, 8:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/common-phrases-with-city-names-in-them/685378/53 "2014-04-07T20:49:09Z")
Holy Toledo! ---
**Author:** ![Son\_of\_a\_Rich](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/son_of_a_rich/32/5439_2.png) [@Son\_of\_a\_Rich](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Son_of_a_Rich)\ **Post date:** [April 9, 2014, 4:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/common-phrases-with-city-names-in-them/685378/54 "2014-04-09T16:13:47Z")
There used to be a bit of sartorial splendor called the “Full Cleveland”. It was around the same time as polyester leisure suits. ---
**Author:** ![drewtwo99](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/d07c76/32.png) [@drewtwo99](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/drewtwo99)\ **Post date:** [April 9, 2014, 4:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/common-phrases-with-city-names-in-them/685378/55 "2014-04-09T16:24:05Z")
Chicago politics. ---
**Author:** ![Post\_Miss\_Post](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/6a8cbe/32.png) [@Post\_Miss\_Post](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Post_Miss_Post)\ **Post date:** [April 9, 2014, 5:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/common-phrases-with-city-names-in-them/685378/56 "2014-04-09T17:37:06Z")
> [@Lord\_Mondegreen](#): > > In Australia, the location of somewhere which is a long way from anywhere can be referred to as “the back of Bourke” (Bourke being a town which is itself a long way from anywhere). Or “Whoop Whoop,” which for some reason I thought actually existed. Google Maps tells me there’s a Whoop Whoop Road in Queensland, but otherwise no dice. ---
**Author:** ![Sean\_Factotum](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/50afbb/32.png) [@Sean\_Factotum](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sean_Factotum)\ **Post date:** [April 9, 2014, 8:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/common-phrases-with-city-names-in-them/685378/57 "2014-04-09T20:04:08Z")
My dad used to say some things were “more crooked than the road to Weirton”. Referring, I believe, to Route 22 from Pittsburgh, which is pretty much one curve after the other through the mountains. “Boston aunts” - unmarried women that lived together in a previous generation (or two by now, I should think) but weren’t really related. We were all supposed to pretend that they were just friends who decided to be spinsters together and share the rent. ---
**Author:** ![Raguleader](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/258eb7/32.png) [@Raguleader](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Raguleader)\ **Post date:** [April 9, 2014, 9:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/common-phrases-with-city-names-in-them/685378/58 "2014-04-09T21:37:52Z")
> [@Sean\_Factotum](#): > > My dad used to say some things were “more crooked than the road to Weirton”. Referring, I believe, to Route 22 from Pittsburgh, which is pretty much one curve after the other through the mountains. Reminds me of a Foghorn Leghorn quote that always cracks me up: “That girl is like the road from Dallas to Fort Worth. No Curves.”\* \*The joke, of course, being that Dallas and Fort Worth are near enough together to usually be considered one big city by many folks, to the point where both cities share an airport. ---
**Author:** ![Rodgers01](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/b19c9b/32.png) [@Rodgers01](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rodgers01)\ **Post date:** [April 9, 2014, 11:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/common-phrases-with-city-names-in-them/685378/59 "2014-04-09T23:42:09Z")
“The gates of Vienna”? ---
**Author:** ![Clothahump](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/51bf81/32.png) [@Clothahump](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Clothahump)\ **Post date:** [April 10, 2014, 12:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/common-phrases-with-city-names-in-them/685378/60 "2014-04-10T00:13:21Z")
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