Elm Phrases

Phrases

• A Tree Grows In Brooklyn (Elia Kazan movie)
• A partridge in a pear tree
• As difficult as nailing jelly to a tree
• Barking up the wrong tree
• Disease has no greater enemy (Glaxo/Wellcome advertising slogan)
• Disease marketing
• Don't Sit Under The Apple Tree (Glenn Miller tune)
• Done up like a Christmas tree
• Eight maids a-milking (line from A Partridge In A Pear Tree)
• Eleven pipers piping (line from A Partridge In A Pear Tree)
• Elm City (Nickname of New Haven Connecticut)
• Family tree
• Five golden rings (line from A Partridge In A Pear Tree)
• Fork the tree
• Four calling birds (line from A Partridge In A Pear Tree)
• I think that I shall never see a poem lovely as a tree, Kilmer)
• Legs like tree trunks
• Life is a sexually transmitted disease
• Lit up like a Christmas tree
• Little Robin Red breast sat upon a tree (line from nursery rhyme)
• Make like a tree and leave
• Nine ladies dancing (line from A Partridge In A Pear Tree)
• Rock a bye baby on the tree top, when the wind blows the cradle will rock (line from nursery rhyme)
• Saviour sibling (a child born in order to provide a transplant for another with a fatal disease)
• Seven swans a-swimming (line from A Partridge In A Pear Tree)
• Six geese a-laying (line from A Partridge In A Pear Tree)
• Social disease
• Ten lords a-leaping (line from A Partridge In A Pear Tree)
• The British disease
• The English disease
• The Joshua Tree (U2 album)
• The apple never falls far from the tree
• The fruit does not fall far from the tree
• The tree is known by its fruit
• Three French hens (line from A Partridge In A Pear Tree)
• Tie a Yellow Ribbon Round the Ole Oak Tree (Dawn with Tony Orlando song)
• Timber!
• Top of the tree
• Tree hugger
• Twelve drummers drumming (line from A Partridge In A Pear Tree)
• Two turtle doves (line from A Partridge In A Pear Tree)
• Under the greenwood tree
• Up a gum tree
• Woodman spare that tree