Field Phrases

Phrases

• A few roos loose in the top paddock
• A narrow fellow in the grass (from a poem by Emily Dickinson)
• Absolute pitch (the ability to determine a musical note by ear)
• Animal Farm (George Orwell book)
• Anne Of Green Gables (Lucy Maud Montgomery book)
• As black as pitch
• As dark as pitch
• As exciting as watching grass grow
• As green as grass
• As sure as God made little green apples
• Back the field
• Ballad of the Green Berets (Staff Sergeant Barry Sadler song)
• Beast of the fields
• Beetle bank
• Bought the farm
• Boulevard of Broken Dreams (Green Day song)
• British racing green
• Bumper crop
• Buy the farm
• Calm down, calm down (A catchphrase from Harry Enfield In The Scousers)
• Cold Comfort Farm (Stella Gibbons book)
• Consider the lilies of the field
• Cover Point (field position in the game of cricket)
• Cream of the crop ()
• Crop up
• David Copperfield (Charles Dickens book)
• 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)
• Don't let the grass grow under your feet
• Don't walk on the grass
• Evenin' all (A catchphrase from Dixon Of Dock Green)
• Extra Cover (field position in the game of cricket)
• F*ck You (Cee Lo Green song)
• Farm fresh
• Fever pitch
• Field Marshall (the highest rank in the British Army)
• Field day
• First Slip (field position in the game of cricket)
• Flanders Fields (tourist attraction in Belguim)
• Forest green
• Forty shades of green
• Forward Short Leg (field position in the game of cricket)
• Funny farm
• Give it the green light
• Go green
• Go where the green lights lead you
• Grass roots
• Grass someone up
• Grass widow
• Green Scare
• Green around the gills
• Green eyed monster
• Green fingers
• Green fuel
• Green investing
• Green roof
• Green shoots of change
• Green shoots of recovery
• Green slime (military slang term for the intelligence corps)
• Green with envy
• Hands that do dishes can feel soft as your face, with mild green Fairy Liquid (Fairy Liquid advertising slogan)
• Have a field day
• Hold the field (- remain the most important)
• I'm not so green as I am cabbage looking
• In Flanders fields the poppies blow (from a poem by McCrae)
• In from left field
• In the field
• In the valley of the Jolly Green Giant (Green Giant advertising slogan)
• Jesus saves green shield stamps
• Kangaroos in your top paddock
• Keep off the grass
• Keep the field (- continue a military campaign)
• Kick it into the long grass
• Kicked into the long grass

• Lead the field
• Leg Gully (field position in the game of cricket)
• Leg Slip (field position in the game of cricket)
• Let me take you down, cos I'm going to Strawberry Fields (Beatles song lyric)
• Level playing field
• Like a good neighbor (State Farm)
• Like a good neighbor, State Farm is there (State Farm Insurance advertising slogan)
• Lime green
• Lincoln green
• Link farm
• Little green men
• 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)
• Love is a battlefield
• Maggie's Farm (Bob Dylan song)
• Make a pitch
• Make a pitch for
• Meadow muffin
• 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)
• Mint green
• Mr. Perfect (Nickname of Jeff Green)
• Neck and crop
• Never give a sucker an even break (A catchphrase from W C Fields)
• Our Gracie (Nickname of Gracie Fields)
• Out of left field
• Out to pasture
• Pastures new
• Pitch a shutout (A baseball expression meaning not allowing an opponent any wins)
• Pitch black
• Pitch dark
• Pitch doctor
• Pitch into
• Pitch up at
• Play the field (- indulge in a series of sexual relationships)
• Put out to grass
• Put out to pasture
• Queer the pitch
• Reality distortion field (A catchphrase from Star Trek)
• Red and green should never be seen
• Rub of the green
• 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)
• Snake in the grass
• Splendour In The Grass (Warren Beatty / Natalie Wood movie)
• Square Leg (field position in the game of cricket)
• Stop, Look and Listen; remember the Green Cross Code (UK Road Safety Campaign advertising slogan)
• Strawberry Fields Forever (Beatles song)
• Take the field (begin a sporting event or a military campaign)
• Ten green bottles sitting on the wall
• The Battle of Waterloo was won on the playing-fields of Eton
• The Desert Fox (Nickname of Field Marshall Rommel)
• The Green Berets (John Wayne movie)
• The Green Grocer (Nickname of Joe Carcione)
• The Green Hornet (Pseudonym of Britt Reid (Van Williams))
• The Green Mountain State (Nickname of the US state of Vermont)
• The cream of the crop
• The grass is always greener on the other side of the fence
• The green green grass of home
• The green stuff
• The killing fields
• The sheep's in the meadow the cow's in the corn (line from nursery rhyme)
• Think the unthinkable
• Third Slip (field position in the game of cricket)
• Third man (field position in the game of cricket)
• Walking across a minefield
• Where on god's green earth
• Wicket Keeper (field position in the game of cricket)
• Wind farm

Related

• Back the field
• Consider the lilies of the field
• Cover Point (field position in the game of cricket)
• 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)
• Extra Cover (field position in the game of cricket)
• Field Marshall (the highest rank in the British Army)
• Field day
• First Slip (field position in the game of cricket)
• Forward Short Leg (field position in the game of cricket)
• Have a field day
• Hold the field (- remain the most important)
• In from left field
• 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
• 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)
• 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)
• Out of left field
• Play the field (- indulge in a series of sexual relationships)
• 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)
• Square Leg (field position in the game of cricket)
• Take the field (begin a sporting event or a military campaign)
• The Desert Fox (Nickname of Field Marshall Rommel)
• Third Slip (field position in the game of cricket)
• Third man (field position in the game of cricket)
• Wicket Keeper (field position in the game of cricket)