Jailbird 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
• A prisoner of conscience
• And Your Bird Can Sing (Beatles song)
• As free as a bird
• 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
• Captive audience
• Con artist
• Do bird
• Early bird
• Eat like a bird
• Flip someone the bird
• Flip the bird
• Free As A Bird (Beatles song)
• Game bird
• Get out of jail free
• Get out of jail free card (a means of avoiding justice - from the eponymous card in the Monopoly boardgame)
• Go directly to jail, do not pass go
• Hardened offender

• Harry Potter And The Prisoner Of Azkaban (J. K. Rowling book)
• Have a bird
• Hostage to fortune
• Is it a bird, is it a plane, no it's Superman? (A catchphrase from Superman)
• It's the early bird that gets the worm
• Jail bait
• Jail bird
• Jet lag
• Jonnies out of jail
• Larry Legend (Nickname of Larry Bird)
• Norwegian Wood - This Bird Has Flown (Beatles song)
• Number Six (Pseudonym of Peter Smith The Prisoner (Patrick McGoohan))
• Old lag
• Rare bird
• Sing like a bird
• Social jet lag
• 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 Prisoner's Song (Vernon Dalhart song)
• The bird has flown
• The early bird catches the worm
• They're waffly versatile (Bird's Eye Potato Waffles advertising slogan)
• You Can't Con An Honest John (Mike Skinner - The Streets song)