• public utility, public utility undertaking, public works, utility, utility company, utility undertaking

• public services, public utilities, public works

• communal work, communal works, public work, public works

• byword, proverb, saw, word

• proverbial

• public services, system of public utilities

• public supply mains

• byword

• board of works

• combination utility

• as the old tag has it

• board of housing and public construction

• to rise high in public esteem

• to rise high in public esteem