Cultivate Phrases

Phrases

• Absence makes the heart grow fonder
• Animal Farm (George Orwell book)
• As exciting as watching grass grow
• Bear garden
• Bought the farm
• Bumper crop
• Buy the farm
• Caught with your hand in the till
• Cold Comfort Farm (Stella Gibbons book)
• Come Into The Garden Maud (Tennyson poem and Victorian song)
• Common or garden
• Companion plant (a plant grown near to another species to enhance its growth)
• Cream of the crop ()
• Crop up
• Don't cross the bridge till you come to it
• Don't let the grass grow under your feet
• Everything in the garden is rosey
• Fake it till you make it
• Farm fresh
• Fruits of your labour
• Funny farm
• Garden suburb
• Gazelles are in the garden
• Give 'till it hurts
• Grow a pair
• Grow a tail
• Grow on you
• Grow up
• Hard labour
• Have your fingers in the till
• House and garden
• How does your garden grow?
• I Never Promised You A Rose Garden (Lynn Anderson song)
• I grow old, I grow old, I shall wear the bottoms of my trousers rolled (from a poem by Eliot)
• In An Octopus's Garden In The Shade (The Beatles song)
• It ain't over till it's over (A catchphrase from Yogi Berra)
• Labour in vain
• Labour intensive
• Labour of love
• Labour pains
• Labour saving device
• Labour under a misapprehension
• Lead up the garden path
• Like a good neighbor (State Farm)
• Like a good neighbor, State Farm is there (State Farm Insurance advertising slogan)
• Link farm
• Loves Labour Lost
• Madison Square Garden (tourist attraction in the USA)
• Maggie's Farm (Bob Dylan song)
• Mary Mary quite contrary, how does your garden grow (line from nursery rhyme)
• Mighty oaks from little acorns grow
• Money doesn't grow on trees
• Ne'er cast a clout till May is out
• Neck and crop
• Night soil
• Octopus's Garden (The Beatles song)
• Party till dawn
• Roses grow on you (Cadbury's Roses advertising slogan)
• Round and round the garden like a teddy bear (line from nursery rhyme)
• Shop 'till you drop
• The First Garden City Of The World (Nickname of Letchworth England)
• The Garden County (nickname of the English county of Hampshire)
• The Garden Of Eden (Ernest Hemingway book)
• The Garden State (Nickname of the US state of New Jersey)
• The Garden of Eden
• The Garden of England (Nickname of the English counties of Kent and Worcestershire)
• The Secret Garden (Frances Hodgson Burnett book)
• The cream of the crop
• Till Death Us Do Part (BBC comedy television series)
• Till the cows come home
• Till the end of time
• Walled garden
• Walnuts and pears you plant for your heirs
• Wind farm
• You've Got Till Sundown (Johnny Bush song)