Grass Phrases

Phrases

• A bull and cow (Cockney rhyming slang for row or argument)
• A chicken in every pot
• A narrow fellow in the grass (from a poem by Emily Dickinson)
• A pot of gold
• A swarm in May is worth a load of hay
• All behind, like a cow's tail
• All to pot
• Anne Of Green Gables (Lucy Maud Montgomery book)
• As exciting as watching grass grow
• As green as grass
• As sure as God made little green apples
• Babies love it (Cow & Gate Milk Food advertising slogan)
• Back the field
• Ballad of the Green Berets (Staff Sergeant Barry Sadler song)
• Border Town (Nickname of Rye New York)
• Boulevard of Broken Dreams (Green Day song)
• British racing green
• Cash cow
• Chew the cud
• Companion plant (a plant grown near to another species to enhance its growth)
• Consider the lilies of the field
• Cover Point (field position in the game of cricket)
• Cow juice
• 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 have a cow, man (A catchphrase from The Simpsons)
• Don't let the grass grow under your feet
• Don't walk on the grass
• Eating pate de fois gras to the sound of trumpets
• 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)
• Field Marshall (the highest rank in the British Army)
• Field day
• First Slip (field position in the game of cricket)
• Fit a quart into a pint pot
• For the pot
• Forest green
• Forty shades of green
• Forward Short Leg (field position in the game of cricket)
• Fuss pot
• Get your tanks off my lawn
• Give it the green light
• Go green
• Go to pot
• Go where the green lights lead you
• Gone to pot
• 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 cow
• Have a field day
• Hit the hay
• Hold the field (- remain the most important)
• Holy cow
• Holy cow Batman
• How now brown cow?
• I'm not so green as I am cabbage looking
• In from left field
• In the field
• In the melting pot
• In the valley of the Jolly Green Giant (Green Giant advertising slogan)
• Jesus saves green shield stamps
• Keep off the grass
• Keep the field (- continue a military campaign)
• Keep the pot boiling
• Kick it into the long grass

• Kicked into the long grass
• Knee high to a grasshopper
• Laughing at the lawn
• Lead the field
• Leg Gully (field position in the game of cricket)
• Leg Slip (field position in the game of cricket)
• Level playing field
• Lime green
• Lincoln green
• 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)
• Make hay
• Make hay while the sun shines
• Meadow muffin
• Melting pot
• 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
• Mow the lawn
• Mr. Perfect (Nickname of Jeff Green)
• Out of left field
• Out to pasture
• Piss or get off the pot
• Play the field (- indulge in a series of sexual relationships)
• Pot head
• Pot luck
• Put out to grass
• Put out to pasture
• Reality distortion field (A catchphrase from Star Trek)
• Red and green should never be seen
• Roll in the hay
• Rub of the green
• Sacred cow
• Second slip (field position in the game of cricket)
• Shit or get off the pot
• 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)
• Sing a song of sixpence a pocket full of rye (line from nursery rhyme)
• Snake in the grass
• Sod this for a game of soldiers
• Sod this for a lark
• Splendour In The Grass (Warren Beatty / Natalie Wood movie)
• Square Leg (field position in the game of cricket)
• Stir the pot
• Stop, Look and Listen; remember the Green Cross Code (UK Road Safety Campaign advertising slogan)
• Surf and turf
• Take a pot shot at
• Take the field (begin a sporting event or a military campaign)
• Ten green bottles sitting on the wall
• The Bamboo Curtain (notional barrier between capitalist West and communist China)
• The Catcher in the Rye (J D Salinger book)
• The Crazy Gang (Nickname of Wimbledon Football Club)
• 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 cow jumped over the moon (line from nursery rhyme)
• The grass is always greener on the other side of the fence
• The green green grass of home
• The green stuff
• The pot calling the kettle black
• The pot of gold at the end of the rainbow
• The sheep's in the meadow the cow's in the corn (line from nursery rhyme)
• Third Slip (field position in the game of cricket)
• Third man (field position in the game of cricket)
• Toss pot
• Turf out
• Two pot screamer
• Walnuts and pears you plant for your heirs
• Watched pot never boils
• Where on god's green earth
• Why buy the cow when the milk is free?
• Wicket Keeper (field position in the game of cricket)
• You don't have to be Jewish to love Levy's Rye Bread (Levy's Rye Bread advertising slogan)

Related

• A narrow fellow in the grass (from a poem by Emily Dickinson)
• As exciting as watching grass grow
• As green as grass
• Don't let the grass grow under your feet
• Don't walk on the grass
• Grass roots
• Grass someone up
• Grass widow
• Keep off the grass
• Kick it into the long grass
• Kicked into the long grass
• Put out to grass
• Snake in the grass
• Splendour In The Grass (Warren Beatty / Natalie Wood movie)
• The grass is always greener on the other side of the fence
• The green green grass of home