Gaol Phrases

Phrases

• A bird in the hand is worth two in the bush
• A goal in mind
• A little bird told me
• A marvellous bird is the pelican, its beak holds more than its belly can
• Above the law
• Against the law
• And Your Bird Can Sing (Beatles song)
• As black as Newgate's knocker
• As free as a bird
• Bean Burrito (Nickname of basketball player Nick Young)
• Behind bars
• Big Bird (Nickname of Joel Garner - Barbados and West Indies cricketer)
• Big house
• Bird Man (Nickname of basketball player Chris Andersen)
• Bird brained
• Bird dog
• Bird of passage
• Bird's eye view
• Brush with the law
• Cause a stir
• Clap him in irons
• Click it or ticket (United States seat belt law advertising slogan)
• Cold Mountain (Jude Law / Renee Zellweger / Nicole Kidman movie)
• Cool your heels
• Detained at Her Majesty's pleasure
• Do bird
• Do hard time (Spend time in a high security prison)
• Don't have nightmares (A catchphrase from Nick Ross)
• Early bird
• Eat like a bird
• Fall foul of the law
• Flip someone the bird
• Flip the bird
• Folsom Prison Blues (Johnny Cash song)
• Free As A Bird (Beatles song)
• Game bird
• Get out of jail free
• Get out of jail free card (a means of avoiding justice - from the eponymous card in the Monopoly boardgame)
• Go directly to jail, do not pass go
• Go straight
• Go to law
• Hard cases make bad law
• Have a bird
• His word is law
• I arrest you in the name of the law
• I fought the law and the law won
• If you can't do the time, don't do the crime
• In good nick
• In the eyes of the law
• In the nick of time
• In the slammer
• Is it a bird, is it a plane, no it's Superman? (A catchphrase from Superman)
• It's a dirty job, but somebody has to do it (A catchphrase from Nick Stone In Tightrope)
• It's the early bird that gets the worm
• Jail bait
• Jail bird
• Jailhouse Rock (Elvis Presley song)

• Jet lag
• Jonnies out of jail
• Larry Legend (Nickname of Larry Bird)
• Law abiding
• Law and order
• Law unto oneself
• Lay the law down
• Lock him up and throw away the key
• Nick at Night (Nickname of Nick Van Exel)
• Nick is for kids (Nickelodeon TV channel advertising slogan)
• Nick the Quick (Nickname of Nick Van Exel)
• Norwegian Wood - This Bird Has Flown (Beatles song)
• Old lag
• On death row
• One law for the rich and another for the poor
• Outside the law
• Pay your debt to society
• Possession is nine tenths of the law
• Prison works
• Rare bird
• Robben Island - South Africa
• Score an own goal
• Send down
• Sing like a bird
• Social jet lag
• Spandau Ballet
• Stir crazy
• Stir the pot
• Stir up a hornet's nest
• Stir up an ant's nest
• Stir up trouble
• Take no prisoners
• Take someone to law
• Take the law into your own hands
• That bird has flown
• The Basketball Jesus (Nickname of Larry Bird)
• The Bird Man of Alcatraz (Nickname of Robert Stroud)
• The Biscuit (Nickname of John Cage (Peter MacNicol))
• The Great Bird of the Galaxy (Nickname of writer Gene Roddenberry)
• The Great Escape (Steve McQueen movie)
• The Hick from French Lick (Nickname of Larry Bird)
• The bird has flown
• The early bird catches the worm
• The house of many doors
• The law is an ass
• The law of averages
• The law of diminishing returns
• The law of the jungle
• The law of the land
• The letter of the law
• The long arm of the law
• There ought to be a law
• There's no law against it
• They're waffly versatile (Bird's Eye Potato Waffles advertising slogan)
• Three strikes and you are out
• Under lock and key
• Walk free
• Who rattled your cage?