Cherry Phrases

Phrases

• A Tree Grows In Brooklyn (Elia Kazan movie)
• A partridge in a pear tree
• A red rag to a bull
• A rolling stone gathers no moss
• Are you a Cadbury's Fruit & Nut case? (Cadburys advertising slogan)
• As brown as a berry
• As cold as any stone
• As difficult as nailing jelly to a tree
• As nutty as a fruit cake
• As red as a beetroot
• Barking up the wrong tree
• Basic Instinct (Sharon Stone movie)
• Bear fruit
• Better dead than red
• Big Red (Nickname of basketball player Arvydas Sabonis)
• Boy, is my face red (A catchphrase from David Letterman)
• Brick red
• Cadmium red
• Carved in stone
• Cast in stone
• Cast the first stone
• Cherry pick
• Cherry pie
• Cherry ripe (Cockney rhyming slang for pipe)
• Cherry top
• Clearly Canadian Sparkling Mineral Water in Wild Fruit Flavours (Adelma Mineral Waters advertising slogan)
• Cut through the red tape
• Do you eat the red ones last? (Smarties advertising slogan)
• Don't Sit Under The Apple Tree (Glenn Miller tune)
• Don't forget the fruit gums Mum (Rowntrees advertising slogan)
• Done up like a Christmas tree
• Drop like a stone
• Eight maids a-milking (line from A Partridge In A Pear Tree)
• Eleven pipers piping (line from A Partridge In A Pear Tree)
• Etched in stone
• Everyone's a Cadbury's Fruit and Nut Case (Cadbury's Fruit and Nut advertising slogan)
• Fall like a stone
• Family tree
• Fire engine red
• Five golden rings (line from A Partridge In A Pear Tree)
• Forbidden fruit
• Fork the tree
• Four calling birds (line from A Partridge In A Pear Tree)
• Fruit cake
• Gives you wings (Red Bull advertising slogan)
• Harry Potter And The Sorcerer's Stone (J. K. Rowling book)
• Heart of stone
• I think that I shall never see a poem lovely as a tree, Kilmer)
• I was a seven stone weakling (Charles Atlas advertising slogan)
• In the red
• It's a dirty job, but somebody has to do it (A catchphrase from Nick Stone In Tightrope)
• It's a red thing (Tizer advertising slogan)
• Johnny B Goode (Chuck Berry song)
• Kill stone dead
• Kill two birds with one stone
• Kiss the Blarney Stone
• Lady In Red (Chris de Burgh song)
• Leave no stone unturned
• Legs like tree trunks
• Life is just a bowl of cherries
• Like A Rolling Stone (Bob Dylan song)
• Lit up like a Christmas tree
• Little Hands of Stone (Nickname of Michael Carbajal)
• Little Red Corvette (Prince song)
• Little Red Rooster (Rolling Stones song)
• Little Robin Red breast sat upon a tree (line from nursery rhyme)
• Lose your cherry
• Low hanging fruit
• Make like a tree and leave
• Makes red blood! (Grape-Nuts advertising slogan)
• Memphis Tennessee (Chuck Berry song)
• My Ding A Ling (Chuck Berry song)
• Nature, red in tooth and claw
• Neither fish nor flesh, nor good red herring
• Nine ladies dancing (line from A Partridge In A Pear Tree)
• Old Red Eyes (Nickname of Alice Cooper)
• On red alert
• Oranges are not the only fruit
• Paint the town red
• Pillar box red
• Pop someone's cherry
• Red Army Fraction (German left wing terrorist group also call Red Army Faction)
• Red Baron (Nickname of Rick Sutcliffe)
• Red Buttons (Pseudonym of actor Aaron Chwatt)
• Red Dwarf (BBC comedy television series)
• Red Light Curt (Nickname of Curt Schilling)
• Red River (John Wayne / Howard Hawks movie)
• Red Sails In The Sunset (Al Bowlly song)
• Red Square (tourist attraction in Moscow Russia)
• Red alert
• Red and green should never be seen
• Red carpet treatment
• Red herring
• Red letter day
• Red light district
• Red lorry yellow lorry
• Red red wine
• Red sky at night shepherds delight
• Red sky in the morning, shepherds warning
• Red tape
• Reelin' And Rockin' (Chuck Berry song)
• Rock a bye baby on the tree top, when the wind blows the cradle will rock (line from nursery rhyme)
• Roll Over Beethoven (Chuck Berry song)
• Roll out the red carpet
• Romancing The Stone (Michael Douglas movie)
• Roses are red, violets are blue
• Ruby Murray (Cockney rhyming slang for curry)
• Ruby Tuesday (Rolling Stones song)
• Ruby anniversary
• Ruby wedding
• Second bite of the cherry
• See red
• Send your parcels Red Star and pull out all the stops (Red Star advertising slogan)
• Seven swans a-swimming (line from A Partridge In A Pear Tree)
• Simply Red
• Sink like a stone
• Six geese a-laying (line from A Partridge In A Pear Tree)
• Smoke me a kipper, I'll be back for breakfast (A catchphrase from Red Dwarf)
• Stone Free (Jimi Hendrix song)
• Stone cold sober
• Stone the crows
• Sweet Little Sixteen (Chuck Berry / Beatles song)
• Ten lords a-leaping (line from A Partridge In A Pear Tree)
• The Adventure of the Mazarin Stone (Sherlock Holmes story)
• The Adventure of the Red Circle (Sherlock Holmes story)
• The Cherry Orchard (play by Anton Chekhov)
• The Joshua Tree (U2 album)
• The Last of The Red Hot Mommas (Nickname of Sophie Tucker)
• The Marcel Marceau of Television (Nickname of Red Skelton)
• The Masque of the Red Death
• The Red Baron (Nickname of Baron Manfred von Richtofen)
• The Red Fort (tourist attraction in India)
• The Red Rocket (Nickname of Matt Bonner)
• The apple never falls far from the tree
• The cherry on the cake
• The fruit does not fall far from the tree
• The greatest tragedy is indifference (Red Cross advertising slogan)
• The philosopher's stone
• The red carpet
• The red mist
• The thin red line
• The tree is known by its fruit
• This precious stone set in the silver sea, this sceptered isle
• Three French hens (line from A Partridge In A Pear Tree)
• Tie a Yellow Ribbon Round the Ole Oak Tree (Dawn with Tony Orlando song)
• Time flies like an arrow. Fruit flies like a banana (Groucho Marx line)
• To bring the wolves out - Riding Hood Red (Max Factor Cosmetics advertising slogan)
• To cast the first stone
• Too Much Monkey Business (Chuck Berry song)
• Top of the tree
• Tree hugger
• Twelve drummers drumming (line from A Partridge In A Pear Tree)
• Two turtle doves (line from A Partridge In A Pear Tree)
• Under the greenwood tree
• Up a gum tree
• Woodman spare that tree
• You Can't Always Get What You Want (The Rolling Stone song)
• You Never Can Tell (Chuck Berry song)
• You can't get blood out of a stone
• Your fragrance Your rules (Hugo Boss Deep Red advertising slogan)