Hawthorn Phrases

Phrases

• A Tree Grows In Brooklyn (Elia Kazan movie)
• A cat may look at a king
• A partridge in a pear tree
• A swarm in May is worth a load of hay
• April showers bring May flowers
• As brown as a berry
• As difficult as nailing jelly to a tree
• As the case may be
• Barking up the wrong tree
• Be that as it may
• Come what come may
• Court of last resort (a legal court from which no further appeals may be made)
• Cowards may die many times before their death
• Devil may care
• Don't Sit Under The Apple Tree (Glenn Miller tune)
• Done up like a Christmas tree
• Eight maids a-milking (line from A Partridge In A Pear Tree)
• Eleven pipers piping (line from A Partridge In A Pear Tree)
• Every rose has its thorn
• 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)
• Gather ye rosebuds while ye may
• Gin blossom
• He who fights and runs away, may live to fight another day
• How may I serve you?
• I may not know much about art, but I know what I like
• I think that I shall never see a poem lovely as a tree, Kilmer)
• Johnny B Goode (Chuck Berry song)
• Legs like tree trunks
• Let the chips fall where they may
• Lit up like a Christmas tree
• Little Robin Red breast sat upon a tree (line from nursery rhyme)
• Little Women (Louisa May Alcott book)
• Make like a tree and leave
• March winds and April showers bring forth May flowers
• May it please the court
• May the force be with you (A catchphrase from Star Wars)

• May to December romance
• May you live in interesting times
• Memphis Tennessee (Chuck Berry song)
• Mr. May (Nickname of Dave Winfield)
• My Ding A Ling (Chuck Berry song)
• Ne'er cast a clout till May is out
• Nine ladies dancing (line from A Partridge In A Pear Tree)
• One may as well be hanged for a sheep as for a lamb
• Reelin' And Rockin' (Chuck Berry song)
• Rock a bye baby on the tree top, when the wind blows the cradle will rock (line from nursery rhyme)
• Roll Over Beethoven (Chuck Berry song)
• Seven swans a-swimming (line from A Partridge In A Pear Tree)
• Six geese a-laying (line from A Partridge In A Pear Tree)
• Sticks and stones may break my bones but words will never hurt me
• Sweet Little Sixteen (Chuck Berry / Beatles song)
• Ten lords a-leaping (line from A Partridge In A Pear Tree)
• The Joshua Tree (U2 album)
• The Scarlet Letter (Nathaniel Hawthorne story)
• The Thorn Birds (Colleen McCollough book)
• The apple never falls far from the tree
• The case may be
• The darling buds of May
• The fruit does not fall far from the tree
• The light at the end of the tunnel may just be a train coming the other way
• The lion may lie down with the lamb, but the lamb won't get much sleep (Woody Allen line)
• The tree is known by its fruit
• Thorn in my side
• Thorn in the flesh
• 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)
• Too Much Monkey Business (Chuck Berry song)
• Top of the tree
• 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
• Woodman spare that tree
• You Never Can Tell (Chuck Berry song)