Cuckoo Phrases

Phrases

• ...of the clock
• 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 nest of vipers
• And Your Bird Can Sing (Beatles song)
• Appalachian Spring (Aaron Copland musical score)
• Arab Spring
• Around the clock
• As free as a bird
• At sixty miles an hour the loudest noise in the new Rolls-Royce comes from the electric clock (Rolls Royce advertising slogan)
• Beat the clock
• 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
• Clean your clock
• Clock on
• Clock watching
• Cloud cuckoo land
• Cuckoo for Coco Pops (Coco Pops advertising slogan)
• Do bird
• Early bird
• Eat like a bird
• Empty nest syndrome
• Face that could stop a clock
• Feather your nest
• Flip someone the bird
• Flip the bird
• Fly the nest
• Free As A Bird (Beatles song)
• Game bird
• Have a bird
• Hickory dickory dock the mouse ran up the clock (line from nursery rhyme)
• 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 bird
• Larry Legend (Nickname of Larry Bird)
• Leave the nest
• Love nest
• Mare's nest
• Nest egg
• No spring chicken
• Norwegian Wood - This Bird Has Flown (Beatles song)
• One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (Jack Nicholson movie)
• Pure life (Nestle Aberfoyle Natural Spring Water advertising slogan)
• Put the clock back
• Race against the clock
• Rare bird
• Rock Around The Clock (Bill Haley song)
• Sing like a bird
• Spring clean
• Spring fling
• Spring forward, Fall back
• Spring in your step
• Spring into action
• Spring into summer
• Spring is in the air
• Spring to mind
• Spring to your defence
• Stir up a hornet's nest
• Stir up an ant's nest
• Stop the clock, I've found a clue
• That bird has flown
• The Basketball Jesus (Nickname of Larry Bird)
• The Bird Man of Alcatraz (Nickname of Robert Stroud)
• The Great Bird of the Galaxy (Nickname of writer Gene Roddenberry)
• The Hick from French Lick (Nickname of Larry Bird)
• The Hornet's Nest (Nickname of Charlotte North Carolina)
• The biological clock is ticking
• The bird has flown
• The clock is ticking
• The early bird catches the worm
• They're waffly versatile (Bird's Eye Potato Waffles advertising slogan)
• Turn back the clock
• Turn the clock back
• Watching the clock