Category · 80 phrases
A list of phrases about the natural world
- A bed of roses
- A bird in the hand is worth two in the bush
- A blot on the landscape
- A bolt from the blue
- A rolling stone gathers no moss
- A rose by any other name would smell as sweet
- A rose is a rose is a rose
- A sledgehammer to crack a nut
- A stone's throw
- A swarm in May is worth a load of hay
- Al fresco
- As cold as stone
- As old as the hills
- As pure as the driven snow
- As white as snow
- Barking up the wrong tree
- Beat around the bush
- Between the Devil and the deep blue sea
- Blood and thunder
- Bury your head in the sand
- Carbon footprint
- Don't let the grass grow under your feet
- Every cloud has a silver lining
- Faith will move mountains
- Far from the madding crowd
- Fresh as a daisy
- From sea to shining sea
- Gild the lily
- Go out on a limb
- Grasp the nettle
- Greased lightning
- Great oaks from little acorns grow
- Green fingers
- Harvest moon
- Heard it through the grapevine
- Hedge your bets
- Here lies one whose name was writ in water
- Hit the hay
- Knock on wood
- Know your onions
- Laid out in lavender
- Let a thousand flowers bloom
- Let not the sun go down on your wrath
- Mackerel sky
- Mad dogs and Englishmen
- Make hay while the sun shines
- Mighty oaks from little acorns grow
- Nature versus nurture
- Neck of the woods
- Nip in the bud
- On cloud nine
- Once in a blue moon
- Over the moon
- Pears for your heirs
- Pie in the sky
- Pour oil on troubled waters
- Primrose path
- Red sky at night
- Rest on your laurels
- Ring a ring o'roses, a pocketful of posies, atishoo, atishoo, all fall down
- Shrinking violet
- Stick in the mud
- Sticks and stones may break my bones
- Surf and turf
- Survival of the fittest
- The call of the wild
- The darling buds of May
- The grass is always greener on the other side of the fence
- The salt of the earth
- The sky's the limit
- The tree is known by its fruit
- To cast the first stone
- Under the greenwood tree
- Up a gum tree
- Up the apples and pears
- Ups-a-daisy
- Vanish into thin air
- Where the bee sucks, there suck I
- You can't get blood out of a stone
- You look as if you've been dragged through a hedge backwards