Crop Phrases

Phrases

• Animal Farm (George Orwell book)
• Back the field
• Bet you can't eat three (Shredded Wheat advertising slogan)
• Bought the farm
• Bumper crop
• Buy the farm
• Clean cut boy
• Cold Comfort Farm (Stella Gibbons book)
• Come a cropper
• Consider the lilies of the field
• Cover Point (field position in the game of cricket)
• Cream of the crop ()
• Crop up
• Crunchy wheat, nicely sweet (Kellogg's advertising slogan)
• Cut a cheque
• Cut a dash
• Cut a deal
• Cut a hog
• Cut a long story short
• Cut a rug
• Cut a wide swathe (make a pompous display)
• Cut above the rest
• Cut and dried
• Cut and paste
• Cut and run
• Cut and shut
• Cut and thrust
• Cut bait
• Cut corners
• Cut costs
• Cut from the same cloth
• Cut it fine
• Cut it out
• Cut loose
• Cut no ice
• Cut off at the knees
• Cut off without a penny
• Cut out for
• Cut out the dead wood
• Cut prices to the bone
• Cut some slack
• Cut someone dead
• Cut someone down in their prime
• Cut someone down to size
• Cut the Gordian knot
• Cut the cackle
• Cut the cheese
• Cut the cord
• Cut the crap
• Cut the ground from under your feet
• Cut the mustard
• Cut the umbilical cord
• Cut throat competition
• Cut through the red tape
• Cut to the chase
• Cut to the quick
• Cut up about
• Cut up rough
• Cut your coat to suit your cloth
• Cut your losses
• Cut your own throat
• Cut your teeth
• Deep Extra Cover (field position in the game of cricket)
• Deep Fine Leg (field position in the game of cricket)
• Deep Gully (field position in the game of cricket)
• Deep Mid Wicket (field position in the game of cricket)
• Deep Point (field position in the game of cricket)
• Deep Square Leg (field position in the game of cricket)
• Director's cut
• Don't cut off your nose to spite your face
• Evenin' all (A catchphrase from Dixon Of Dock Green)
• Extra Cover (field position in the game of cricket)
• Farm fresh
• Farmer George (Nickname of King George III)
• Field Marshall (the highest rank in the British Army)
• Field day
• Final cut
• First Slip (field position in the game of cricket)
• First cut
• Fish or cut bait
• Forward Short Leg (field position in the game of cricket)
• Funny farm
• Gather 'round the good stuff (Pizza Hut advertising slogan)
• Gather dust
• Gather ye rosebuds while ye may
• Half cut
• Have a field day
• Have your work cut out for you
• Hickory dickory dock the mouse ran up the clock (line from nursery rhyme)
• Hold the field (- remain the most important)
• In dock
• In from left field
• In the dock
• In the field
• Keep the field (- continue a military campaign)
• Lead the field
• Leg Gully (field position in the game of cricket)
• Leg Slip (field position in the game of cricket)
• Level playing field
• Like a chicken with its head cut off
• Like a good neighbor (State Farm)
• Like a good neighbor, State Farm is there (State Farm Insurance advertising slogan)
• Link farm
• Long Leg (field position in the game of cricket)
• Long Off (field position in the game of cricket)
• Long On (field position in the game of cricket)
• Long Stop (field position in the game of cricket)
• Maggie's Farm (Bob Dylan song)
• Make the cut
• Measure twice, cut once
• Mid Off (field position in the game of cricket)
• Mid On (field position in the game of cricket)
• Mid Wicket (field position in the game of cricket)
• Mind how you go (A catchphrase from Dixon of Dock Green)
• Miss the cut
• My stomach thinks my throat's been cut
• Neck and crop
• Not cut out for it
• Out of left field
• Play the field (- indulge in a series of sexual relationships)
• Prime cut
• Reality distortion field (A catchphrase from Star Trek)
• Second slip (field position in the game of cricket)
• Short Fine Leg (field position in the game of cricket)
• Short Mid Wicket (field position in the game of cricket)
• Short Square Leg (field position in the game of cricket)
• Silly Mid Off (field position in the game of cricket)
• Silly Mid On (field position in the game of cricket)
• Silly Point (field position in the game of cricket)
• Sittin' On The Dock Of The Bay (Otis Redding song)
• Sort the wheat from the chaff
• Square Leg (field position in the game of cricket)
• Stop all the clocks, cut off the telephone (from a poem by Auden)
• Stuck in his craw
• Take the field (begin a sporting event or a military campaign)
• The Cherry Orchard (play by Anton Chekhov)
• The Desert Fox (Nickname of Field Marshall Rommel)
• The Final Cut (Pink Floyd song)
• The First Cut Is The Deepest (Rod Stewart song)
• The cereal that's shot from guns! (Quaker Puffed Wheat advertising slogan)
• The cream of the crop
• The cut of your jib
• The unkindest cut of all
• Third Slip (field position in the game of cricket)
• Third man (field position in the game of cricket)
• To cut a long story short
• Wicket Keeper (field position in the game of cricket)
• Wind farm
• You could have cut the atmosphere with a knife