Jackdaw Phrases

Phrases

• A bird in the hand is worth two in the bush
• 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)
• As free as a bird
• As the crow flies
• 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
• Do bird
• Early bird
• Eat crow
• Eat like a bird
• Five for silver (Magpie nursery rhyme)
• Flip someone the bird
• Flip the bird
• Four for a boy (Magpie nursery rhyme)
• Free As A Bird (Beatles song)
• Game bird
• Have a bird
• Is it a bird, is it a plane, no it's Superman? (A catchphrase from Superman)
• It takes a thief to catch a thief
• It's the early bird that gets the worm
• Jail bird
• Larry Legend (Nickname of Larry Bird)
• Like a thief in the night
• Norwegian Wood - This Bird Has Flown (Beatles song)
• Once a thief, always a thief
• One for sorrow (Magpie nursery rhyme)
• Procrastination is the thief of time
• Rare bird
• Rich man poor man beggerman thief
• Set a thief to catch a thief
• Seven for a secret, never to be told (Magpie nursery rhyme)
• Sing like a bird
• Six for gold (Magpie nursery rhyme)
• Something to crow about
• Tea leaf (Cockney rhyming slang for thief)
• That bird has flown
• The Basketball Jesus (Nickname of Larry Bird)
• The Bird Man of Alcatraz (Nickname of Robert Stroud)
• The Great Bird of the Galaxy (Nickname of writer Gene Roddenberry)
• The Hick from French Lick (Nickname of Larry Bird)
• The Thief (Nickname of Sedale Threatt)
• The Thief of Bad Gags (Nickname of comedian Milton Berle)
• The bird has flown
• The early bird catches the worm
• They're waffly versatile (Bird's Eye Potato Waffles advertising slogan)
• Three for a girl (Magpie nursery rhyme)
• Two for joy (Magpie nursery rhyme)