Hardwood Phrases

Phrases

• A Hard Day's Night (Beatles song and movie)
• A Tree Grows In Brooklyn (Elia Kazan movie)
• A good man is hard to find
• A hard man is good to find
• A hewer of wood and a drawer of water
• A partridge in a pear tree
• As difficult as nailing jelly to a tree
• As hard as a rock
• As hard as iron
• As hard as nails
• As solid as an oak
• Barking up the wrong tree
• Be hard put to
• Between a rock and a hard place
• Blow hard
• Can't see the wood for the trees
• Come down hard on
• Cut out the dead wood
• Dead wood
• Die hard
• Do hard time (Spend time in a high security prison)
• Do it the hard way
• Do the hard yards (Put in the hard work necessary for success)
• Don't Sit Under The Apple Tree (Glenn Miller tune)
• Done up like a Christmas tree
• Drive a hard bargain
• Eight maids a-milking (line from A Partridge In A Pear Tree)
• Eleven pipers piping (line from A Partridge In A Pear Tree)
• Fall on hard times
• 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)
• Get good wood on it
• Go hard
• Go hard or go home
• Hard Rain's A Gonna Fall (Bob Dylan song)
• Hard act to follow
• Hard and fast
• Hard aport
• Hard astarboard
• Hard at it
• Hard case
• Hard cases make bad law
• Hard cash
• Hard cheddar
• Hard cheese
• Hard copy
• Hard done by
• Hard drinker
• Hard evidence
• Hard facts
• Hard feelings
• Hard hearted
• Hard hitting
• Hard knocks
• Hard labour
• Hard lines
• Hard liquor
• Hard luck
• Hard nosed
• Hard of hearing
• Hard on
• Hard on the heels of
• Hard pressed
• Hard put to it
• Hard row to hoe
• Hard shell
• Hard stuff
• Hard times
• Hard to come by
• Hard to pin down
• Hard to place
• Hard to swallow
• Hard to take
• Hard up
• Hard words
• Hard work never did anyone any harm
• Hard work never killed anyone
• Hard, cold cash
• Hearts of oak
• Hold hard
• Hurry hard
• I lit a fire, isn't it good, Norwegian wood? (Beatles song lyric)
• I think that I shall never see a poem lovely as a tree, Kilmer)
• It's been a hard day's night, and I'd been working like a dog (Beatles song lyric)
• Knock on wood
• Legs like tree trunks
• Lit up like a Christmas tree
• Little Robin Red breast sat upon a tree (line from nursery rhyme)
• Live Oak (Nickname of Edward S.Taylor)
• Make like a tree and leave
• Nine ladies dancing (line from A Partridge In A Pear Tree)
• No hard feelings
• No hard feelings (An injunction to forgive and forget following a dispute)
• Norwegian Wood - This Bird Has Flown (Beatles song)
• Old habits die hard
• Play hard to get
• Put in the hard yards
• Put the hard word on
• Put the wood in the hole
• Rock a bye baby on the tree top, when the wind blows the cradle will rock (line from nursery rhyme)
• Rode hard and put away wet
• Saturday's child works hard for a living
• School of hard knocks
• Seven swans a-swimming (line from A Partridge In A Pear Tree)
• Six geese a-laying (line from A Partridge In A Pear Tree)
• Splendour In The Grass (Warren Beatty / Natalie Wood movie)
• Take a cold hard look
• Take a hard line
• Ten lords a-leaping (line from A Partridge In A Pear Tree)
• That Friday feeling (anticipation of the weekend after a hard working week)
• The Joshua Tree (U2 album)
• The Oak (Nickname of Stockholm Sweden)
• The apple never falls far from the tree
• The fruit does not fall far from the tree
• The road isn't built that can make it breathe hard! (Chevrolet advertising slogan)
• The tree is known by its fruit
• This Hard Land (Bruce Springsteen song)
• 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)
• Top of the tree
• Touch wood
• 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
• West Side Story (Leonard Bernstein musical and Natalie Wood movie)
• When the oak is before the ash, then you will only get a splash; when the ash
• Woodman spare that tree
• Work hard. Fly right (Continental Airlines advertising slogan)
• Working hard or hardly working?