Creosote Phrases

Phrases

• A hewer of wood and a drawer of water
• A lick of paint
• As boring as watching paint dry
• As brown as a berry
• Boston Tar Baby (Nickname of boxer Sam Langford)
• Brown Eyes Handsome Man (Jerry Lee Lewis song)
• Brown Sugar (Rolling Stones song)
• Brown bag lunch
• Brown bread (Cockney rhyming slang for dead)
• Brown nosing
• Brown out (partial loss of electricity)
• Brown sugar (slang term for heroin)
• Brown trousers
• Buffalo Butt (Nickname of Nathan Bookman (Johnny Brown))
• Can't see the wood for the trees
• Capability Brown (Nickname of Lancelot Brown)
• Change into your brown trousers
• Covers the earth (Sherwin Williams paint advertising slogan)
• Cut out the dead wood
• Dead wood
• Do I have to paint you a picture?
• Don't fence me in
• Don't say brown - say Hovis (Hovis Bread advertising slogan)
• Don't spoil the ship for a ha'pworth of tar
• Downtown Brown (Nickname of Marcel Brown (Tim Reid))
• Downtown Freddie (Nickname of basketball player Fred Brown)
• Get good wood on it
• Going going gone (A baseball expression by which an announcer describes a home run that is heading over the fence)
• He went to bed and bound his head with vinegar and brown paper (line from nursery rhyme)
• How now brown cow?
• I lit a fire, isn't it good, Norwegian wood? (Beatles song lyric)
• In a brown study
• It's A Man's World (James Brown song)
• Jackie Brown (Quentin Tarantino movie)
• Jolly jack tar
• Knock on wood
• Little Brown Jug (Glenn Miller tune)
• Norwegian Wood - This Bird Has Flown (Beatles song)
• Paint It Black (Rolling Stones song)
• Paint Your Wagon (Clint Eastwood movie)
• Paint the town red
• Paint yourself into a corner
• Papa's Got A Brand New Bag (James Brown song)
• Picket fence
• Put the wood in the hole
• Say It Loud I'm Black And I'm Proud (James Brown song)
• See what brown can do for you (UPS advertising slogan)
• Sit on the fence
• Sitting on the fence
• Splendour In The Grass (Warren Beatty / Natalie Wood movie)
• Super Bad (James Brown song)
• The Brown Bomber (Nickname of Joe Louis)
• The Godfather of Soul (Pseudonym of singer James Brown)
• The grass is always greener on the other side of the fence
• The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog
• Three Finger (Nickname of Mordecai Brown)
• Timber!
• To gild refined gold, to paint the lily
• Touch wood
• War paint
• West Side Story (Leonard Bernstein musical and Natalie Wood movie)
• When I Paint My Masterpiece (Bob Dylan song)
• You keep all your money in a big brown bag inside a zoo (Beatles song lyric)