If these walls could talk...

cliché Used to indicate that some place has been the setting for many interesting or important events over time. I'll be sad to sell this house. We've lived here ever since we got married, and we raised all our kids here. Boy, if these walls could talk…. Over the course of two hundred years, this manor has served as the home of a wealthy aristocrat, the office of a seditious printing press, the headquarters for the women's suffrage movement, and a speakeasy. Let me tell you, folks, if these walls could talk! A: "They say this house is haunted, and that it predates the Civil War!" B: "Whoa. If these walls could talk, huh?"