Cage Phrases

Phrases

• A bird in the hand is worth two in the bush
• A little bird told me
• A marvellous bird is the pelican, its beak holds more than its belly can
• A slip of the pen
• And Your Bird Can Sing (Beatles song)
• As free as a bird
• Big Bird (Nickname of Joel Garner - Barbados and West Indies cricketer)
• Bird Man (Nickname of basketball player Chris Andersen)
• Bird brained
• Bird dog
• Bird of passage
• Bird's eye view
• Cell division (biology)
• Come to the Central Park Zoo Cafeteria. Let the animals watch you eat for a change (Central Park Zoo advertising slogan)
• Dip your pen in gall
• Do bird
• Early bird
• Eat like a bird
• Flip someone the bird
• Flip the bird
• Folsom Prison Blues (Johnny Cash song)
• Free As A Bird (Beatles song)
• Game bird
• Get out of jail free
• Get out of jail free card (a means of avoiding justice - from the eponymous card in the Monopoly boardgame)
• Go directly to jail, do not pass go
• Harry Potter And The Chamber Of Secrets (J. K. Rowling book)
• Have a bird
• Is it a bird, is it a plane, no it's Superman? (A catchphrase from Superman)
• It's the early bird that gets the worm
• Jail bait
• Jail bird
• Jonnies out of jail
• Larry Legend (Nickname of Larry Bird)
• Norwegian Wood - This Bird Has Flown (Beatles song)
• Pen and ink (Cockney rhyming slang for stink)
• Poison pen letter
• Prison works
• Put pen to paper
• Rare bird
• Sing like a bird
• That bird has flown
• The Basketball Jesus (Nickname of Larry Bird)
• The Bird Man of Alcatraz (Nickname of Robert Stroud)
• The Biscuit (Nickname of John Cage (Peter MacNicol))
• The Bronx Zoo (Nickname of Benjamin Harrison High School)
• The Great Bird of the Galaxy (Nickname of writer Gene Roddenberry)
• The Hick from French Lick (Nickname of Larry Bird)
• The bird has flown
• The early bird catches the worm
• The pen is mightier than sword
• They're waffly versatile (Bird's Eye Potato Waffles advertising slogan)
• Upstairs, downstairs and in my lady's chamber (line from nursery rhyme)
• Who rattled your cage?
• You keep all your money in a big brown bag inside a zoo (Beatles song lyric)