Dodo Phrases

Phrases

• 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 whole different animal (Frontier Airlines advertising slogan)
• And Your Bird Can Sing (Beatles song)
• Animal Crackers (Marx Brothers movie)
• Animal Farm (George Orwell book)
• Animal attraction
• Animal instinct
• Animal liberation
• Animal magic
• Animal magnetism
• Animal rights
• As dead as a dodo
• As dead as a doornail
• As dead as mutton
• As free as a bird
• At the dead of night
• Back from the dead
• Better dead than red
• Better off dead
• 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
• Brain dead
• Bring out your dead
• Brown bread (Cockney rhyming slang for dead)
• Chivalry is not dead
• Cut out the dead wood
• Cut someone dead
• Dead Man Walking (Helen Prejean book)
• Dead Men Don't Wear Plaid (Steve Martin movie)
• Dead Ringer For Love (Meatloaf song)
• Dead air
• Dead and buried
• Dead and gone
• Dead cat bounce
• Dead cinch
• Dead duck
• Dead easy
• Dead end
• Dead from the neck up
• Dead giveaway
• Dead heads
• Dead heat
• Dead in the water
• Dead issue
• Dead letter
• Dead loss
• Dead man walking
• Dead meat
• Dead men tell no tales
• Dead men's shoes
• Dead of night
• Dead of winter
• Dead on arrival
• Dead on time
• Dead presidents
• Dead reckoning
• Dead ringer
• Dead to rights
• Dead to the world
• Dead white European male (derogatory reference to someone who has an unjustified reputation)
• Dead white male
• Dead wood
• Dick and Jane is dead (Encyclopaedia Britannica advertising slogan)
• Do bird
• Domestos kills all known germs - Dead! (Domestos Bleach advertising slogan)
• Down among the dead men
• Drop dead
• Drop dead gorgeous
• Drop dead list
• Drop down dead
• Drop the Dead Donkey (BBC comedy television series)
• Early bird
• Eat like a bird
• Fifteen men on a dead man's chest
• Flip someone the bird
• Flip the bird
• Flogging a dead horse
• Free As A Bird (Beatles song)
• Game bird
• Given up for dead
• God is dead (philosophical comment by Friedrich Nietzsche)
• Good and dead
• Hang by the neck until dead
• Have a bird
• He's dead Jim (A catchphrase from Star Trek)
• I see dead people (The Sixth Sense)
• I wouldn't be caught dead
• 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
• Kicking dead whales down the beach
• Kill stone dead
• Kills bugs dead (Raid advertising slogan)
• Knock 'em dead
• Larry Legend (Nickname of Larry Bird)
• Left for dead
• Let the dead bury the dead
• Like being savaged by a dead sheep
• Loud enough to waken the dead
• More dead than alive
• Never speak ill of the dead
• Norwegian Wood - This Bird Has Flown (Beatles song)
• Numbered with the dead
• Over my dead body
• Party animal
• Play dead
• Political animal
• Raise the dead
• Rare bird
• Roll over and play dead
• Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead (play by Tom Stoppard)
• Sing like a bird
• That bird has flown
• The Animal (Nickname of Edmundo)
• The Basketball Jesus (Nickname of Larry Bird)
• The Bird Man of Alcatraz (Nickname of Robert Stroud)
• The Day of the Dead (Horror movie)
• The Great Bird of the Galaxy (Nickname of writer Gene Roddenberry)
• The Hick from French Lick (Nickname of Larry Bird)
• The King is dead, long live the King
• The animal kingdom
• The bird has flown
• The early bird catches the worm
• The only good Indian is a dead Indian
• They're waffly versatile (Bird's Eye Potato Waffles advertising slogan)
• Wanted, dead or alive
• Yellow matter custard dripping from a dead dog's eye (Beatles song lyric)
• You're a long time dead