Hen Phrases

Phrases

• A bird in the hand is worth two in the bush
• A chicken in every pot
• A little bird told me
• A marvellous bird is the pelican, its beak holds more than its belly can
• And Your Bird Can Sing (Beatles song)
• Artemis Fowl (Eoin Colfer book)
• As free as a bird
• As mad as a wet hen
• As scarce as hen's teeth
• Attila The Hen (Nickname of Margaret Thatcher)
• Bet on a lame rooster
• Better an egg today than a hen tomorrow
• Big Bird (Nickname of Joel Garner - Barbados and West Indies cricketer)
• Bird Man (Nickname of basketball player Chris Andersen)
• Bird brained
• Bird dog
• Bird of passage
• Bird's eye view
• Buy a bucket of chicken and have a barrel of fun (Kentucky Fried Chicken advertising slogan)
• Chick flick
• Chick lit
• Chick magnet
• Chicken Legs (Nickname of Marcy Rhodes (Amanda Bearse))
• Chicken Man (Nickname of baseball player Wade Boggs)
• Chicken capital, USA (Kentucky Fried Chicken advertising slogan)
• Chicken feed
• Chicken in a basket
• Chicken out
• Choke the chicken
• Corn and cluck for a buck (Kentucky Fried Chicken advertising slogan)
• Do bird
• Dumb cluck
• Early bird
• Eat like a bird
• Eleven secret herbs and spices (claim made for the recipe of Kentucky Fried Chicken)
• Finger-lickin' good (Kentucky Fried Chicken advertising slogan)
• Flip someone the bird
• Flip the bird

• Fox guarding the henhouse
• Free As A Bird (Beatles song)
• Game bird
• Have a bird
• Headless chicken
• Hen party
• If you want Kentucky Fried Chicken, you have to visit me (Kentucky Fried Chicken advertising slogan)
• Is it a bird, is it a plane, no it's Superman? (A catchphrase from Superman)
• It takes a tough man to make a tender chicken (Perdue Farms advertising slogan)
• It's the early bird that gets the worm
• Jail bird
• Larry Legend (Nickname of Larry Bird)
• Like a chicken with its head cut off
• Like a fox in a henhouse
• Little Red Rooster (Rolling Stones song)
• Mother hen
• No spring chicken
• Nobody does chicken like KFC (Kentucky Fried Chicken advertising slogan)
• Norwegian Wood - This Bird Has Flown (Beatles song)
• On you like a chicken on a junebug
• Play chicken
• Rare bird
• Real goodness from Kentucky Fried Chicken (Kentucky Fried Chicken advertising slogan)
• Rubber chicken (poor quality or overcooked chicken)
• Rubber chicken curcuit (a speaking or fundraising event at which poor quality meat is served)
• Sing like a bird
• That bird has flown
• The Basketball Jesus (Nickname of Larry Bird)
• The Bird Man of Alcatraz (Nickname of Robert Stroud)
• The Chicken (Nickname of Ted Giannoulas mascot)
• The Great Bird of the Galaxy (Nickname of writer Gene Roddenberry)
• The Hick from French Lick (Nickname of Larry Bird)
• The bird has flown
• The early bird catches the worm
• They're waffly versatile (Bird's Eye Potato Waffles advertising slogan)
• Three French hens (line from A Partridge In A Pear Tree)
• We do chicken right (Kentucky Fried Chicken advertising slogan)
• Which came first the chicken or the egg?
• Why did the chicken cross the road?