Hedge Phrases

Phrases

• 50 Words for Snow (Kate Bush song)
• A Tree Grows In Brooklyn (Elia Kazan movie)
• A bird in the hand is worth two in the bush
• A partridge in a pear tree
• And Dream of Sheep (Kate Bush song)
• Army Dreamers (Kate Bush song)
• As difficult as nailing jelly to a tree
• Barking up the wrong tree
• Beat about the bush
• Bleeding edge
• Border Town (Nickname of Rye New York)
• Border on
• Bush Derangement Syndrome
• Bush tucker (Wild food native to Australia)
• Come to the edge
• Competitive edge
• Cross border
• Don't Give Up (Kate Bush Peter Gabriel song)
• Don't Sit Under The Apple Tree (Glenn Miller tune)
• Don't fence me in
• Done up like a Christmas tree
• Edge out
• Eight maids a-milking (line from A Partridge In A Pear Tree)
• Eleven pipers piping (line from A Partridge In A Pear Tree)
• 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)
• Go bush
• Going going gone (A baseball expression by which an announcer describes a home run that is heading over the fence)
• Head for the Border (Taco Bell Restaurants advertising slogan)
• Hedge fund
• Hedge your bets
• Hedged about
• Hounds of Love (Kate Bush song)
• I am not Bush
• I think that I shall never see a poem lovely as a tree, Kilmer)
• If that don't take the rag off the bush
• In the Army, the edge (Australian Army advertising slogan)
• Iowa's Leading Edge (Nickname of Council Bluffs Iowa)
• Leading edge
• Legs like tree trunks
• Lit up like a Christmas tree

• Little Robin Red breast sat upon a tree (line from nursery rhyme)
• Make like a tree and leave
• Nine ladies dancing (line from A Partridge In A Pear Tree)
• On a knife edge
• On a razor's edge
• On edge
• On the bleeding edge
• On the cutting edge
• On the edge of my seat
• Picket fence
• Pure gold (Benson & Hedges advertising slogan)
• Rock a bye baby on the tree top, when the wind blows the cradle will rock (line from nursery rhyme)
• Run for the border (Taco advertising slogan)
• Running Up that Hill - A Deal with God (Kate Bush song)
• Set your teeth on edge
• Seven swans a-swimming (line from A Partridge In A Pear Tree)
• Sit on the fence
• Sitting on the fence
• Six geese a-laying (line from A Partridge In A Pear Tree)
• South of the border
• Take the edge off
• Ten lords a-leaping (line from A Partridge In A Pear Tree)
• The Joshua Tree (U2 album)
• The Kick Inside (Kate Bush song)
• The Man with the Child in His Eyes (Kate Bush song)
• The President (Nickname of Reggie Bush)
• The apple never falls far from the tree
• The bleeding edge
• The fruit does not fall far from the tree
• The grass is always greener on the other side of the fence
• The tree is known by its fruit
• This Woman's Work (Kate Bush 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
• 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
• Wuthering Heights (Kate Bush song)
• You look as if you've been dragged through a hedge backwards
• You've Got Till Sundown (Johnny Bush song)