Big as Dallas
What happens in Vegas…
Will it play in Peoria?
Next year in Jerusalem.
Holy Toledo!
You stay classy, San Diego.
shipshape and Bristol fashion
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:
Glasgow kiss.
Lit up like Blackpool illuminations was what my dad said when he thought too many lights were turned on in the house.
We’ve got trouble in River City.
“Hollywood Accounting”
“Kansas City Shuffle”
Next year in Jerusalem.
“Shanghai X” Hitting a single, double, and triple of the same number in a single round of darts.
If you’re tired of London you’re tired of life.
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.
“Trot trot to Boston… trot trot to Lynn.”
Lynn, Lynn city of sin.
“Meet me in St. Louis”
Or is that just a movie and song?
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.
That reminds me of: The coldest winter I ever spent was a summer in San Francisco.
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).
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.