Fig Phrases

Phrases

• A double date
• Are you a Cadbury's Fruit & Nut case? (Cadburys advertising slogan)
• As nutty as a fruit cake
• Bear fruit
• Blind date
• Bring up to date
• Cheap date
• Clearly Canadian Sparkling Mineral Water in Wild Fruit Flavours (Adelma Mineral Waters advertising slogan)
• Date rape
• Date with destiny
• Dinner date
• Don't forget the fruit gums Mum (Rowntrees advertising slogan)
• Don't give a fig
• Everyone's a Cadbury's Fruit and Nut Case (Cadbury's Fruit and Nut advertising slogan)
• Forbidden fruit
• Fruit cake
• Low hanging fruit
• Make a date
• Man date
• Moldy fig
• Oranges are not the only fruit
• Out of date
• Out of the strong came forth sweetness (Lyle's Golden Syrup advertising slogan)
• Past its sell-by date
• Syrup (Cockney rhyming slang for wig)
• The fruit does not fall far from the tree
• The tree is known by its fruit
• Time flies like an arrow. Fruit flies like a banana (Groucho Marx line)
• Up to date