Kindergarten Phrases

Phrases

• Action Man (children's male doll)
• All children, except one, grow up (the opening line of Peter Pan)
• Baa baa black sheep have you any wool? (line from nursery rhyme)
• Bear garden
• Children and fools tell the truth
• Children should be seen and not heard
• Children's shoes have far to go (Start-Rite Shoes advertising slogan)
• Children, one is one, two is fun, three is a house full
• Come Into The Garden Maud (Tennyson poem and Victorian song)
• Common or garden
• Cop a feel
• Cop a packet
• Cop a plea
• Cop an attitude
• Cop an attitude (adopt an aggressive stance)
• Cop hold of that
• Cop killer
• Cop off
• Cop one
• Cop out
• Cop shop
• Ding dong bell Pussy's in the well (line from nursery rhyme)
• Doctor Foster went to Gloucester (line from nursery rhyme)
• Down came a blackbird and pecked off her nose (line from nursery rhyme)
• Everything in the garden is rosey
• Everywhere that Mary went, the lamb was sure to go (line from nursery rhyme)
• Five for silver (Magpie nursery rhyme)
• Five, six, pick up sticks (line from nursery rhyme)
• For want of a nail the shoe was lost (line from nursery rhyme)
• Four and twenty blackbirds baked in a pie (line from nursery rhyme)
• Four for a boy (Magpie nursery rhyme)
• Garden suburb
• Gazelles are in the garden
• Georgie Porgie pudding and pie (line from nursery rhyme)
• Glow Little Glow-worm (children's nursery rhyme)
• Good cop, bad cop
• Goodnight children everywhere (A catchphrase from Uncle Mac)
• Goosey Goosey Gander where shall I wander (line from nursery rhyme)
• Grapes, like children, need love and affection (Almaden advertising slogan)
• Gunpowder treason and plot (line from nursery rhyme)
• Half a pound of tuppenny rice, half a pound of treacle (line from nursery rhyme)
• He put in his thumb and pulled out a plum (line from nursery rhyme)
• He went to bed and bound his head with vinegar and brown paper (line from nursery rhyme)
• Hey diddle diddle, the cat and the fiddle (line from nursery rhyme)
• Hickory dickory dock the mouse ran up the clock (line from nursery rhyme)
• House and garden
• How does your garden grow?
• Humpty Dumpty sat on a wall (line from nursery rhyme)
• I Never Promised You A Rose Garden (Lynn Anderson song)
• In An Octopus's Garden In The Shade (The Beatles song)
• It's a fair cop
• It's raining, it's pouring, the old man is snoring
• Itsy Bitsy spider climbing up the spout, down came the rain and washed the spider out (line from nursery rhyme)
• Jack Sprat could eat no fat (line from nursery rhyme)
• Jack and Jill went up the hill to fetch a pail of water (line from nursery rhyme)
• Jack be nimble Jack be quick (line from nursery rhyme)
• Jack fell down and broke his crown (line from nursery rhyme)
• Jack jump over the candlestick (line from nursery rhyme)
• Lady Madonna, children at your feet (Beatles song lyric)
• Lead up the garden path
• Let's rock (A catchphrase from Al Bundy In Married With Children)
• Little Bo peep has lost her sheep (line from nursery rhyme)
• Little Boy Blue come blow your horn (line from nursery rhyme)
• Little Jack Horner sat in a corner (line from nursery rhyme)
• Little Miss Muffet sat on a tuffet eating her curds and whey (line from nursery rhyme)
• Little Robin Red breast sat upon a tree (line from nursery rhyme)
• Little Tommy Tucker sings for his supper (line from nursery rhyme)
• London bridge is falling down (line from nursery rhyme)
• Lucy Locket lost her pocket (line from nursery rhyme)
• Madison Square Garden (tourist attraction in the USA)
• Mary Mary quite contrary, how does your garden grow (line from nursery rhyme)
• Mary had a little lamb its fleece was white as snow (line from nursery rhyme)

• Midnight's Children
• Not much cop
• Octopus's Garden (The Beatles song)
• Old King Cole was a merry old soul, and a merry old soul was he (line from nursery rhyme)
• Old Mother Hubbard went to the cupboard to get her poor doggie a bone (line from nursery rhyme)
• One for sorrow (Magpie nursery rhyme)
• One two buckle my shoe (line from nursery rhyme)
• Oranges and lemons say the bells of Saint Clements (line from nursery rhyme)
• Our children are not our children
• Pat a cake, Pat a cake, baker's man, bake me a cake as fast as you can (line from nursery rhyme)
• Peter Peter pumpkin eater (line from nursery rhyme)
• Polly put the kettle on, we'll all have tea (line from nursery rhyme)
• Pussycat pussycat, where have you been? (line from nursery rhyme)
• Rain, rain go away, come again another day (line from nursery rhyme)
• Remember remember the fifth of November (line from nursery rhyme)
• Ride a cock horse to Banbury Cross to see a fine lady upon a white horse (line from nursery rhyme)
• Ring aring of roses, a pocketful of posies, atishoo, atishoo, all fall down (line from nursery rhyme)
• Rock a bye baby on the tree top, when the wind blows the cradle will rock (line from nursery rhyme)
• Round and round the garden like a teddy bear (line from nursery rhyme)
• Seesaw Margery Daw Johnny shall have a new master (line from nursery rhyme)
• Seven for a secret, never to be told (Magpie nursery rhyme)
• Simple Simon met a pieman going to the fair (line from nursery rhyme)
• Sing a song of sixpence a pocket full of rye (line from nursery rhyme)
• Six for gold (Magpie nursery rhyme)
• Sticks and snails and puppy dog's tails that's what little boys are made of (line from nursery rhyme)
• Suffer the little children
• Sugar and spice and all things nice that's what little girls are made of (line from nursery rhyme)
• The Big Ship Sails on The Ally-Ally-Oh (line from nursery rhyme)
• The Famous Five (characters in Enid Blyton's series of children's book)
• The First Garden City Of The World (Nickname of Letchworth England)
• The Garden County (nickname of the English county of Hampshire)
• The Garden Of Eden (Ernest Hemingway book)
• The Garden State (Nickname of the US state of New Jersey)
• The Garden of Eden
• The Garden of England (Nickname of the English counties of Kent and Worcestershire)
• The Grand old Duke of York he had ten thousand men (line from nursery rhyme)
• The North wind doth blow and we shall have snow (line from nursery rhyme)
• The Owl and the Pussycat went to sea in a beautiful pea-green boat (line from nursery rhyme)
• The Queen of Hearts she made some tarts all on a summer's day (line from nursery rhyme)
• The Secret Garden (Frances Hodgson Burnett book)
• The cow jumped over the moon (line from nursery rhyme)
• The dish ran away with the spoon (line from nursery rhyme)
• The house that Jack built (line from nursery rhyme)
• The king was in his counting house counting out his money (line from nursery rhyme)
• The queen was in the parlour eating bread and honey (line from nursery rhyme)
• The sheep's in the meadow the cow's in the corn (line from nursery rhyme)
• The wheels on the bus go round and round (title of children's song)
• There was a crooked man and he walked a crooked mile (line from nursery rhyme)
• There was an old woman who lived in a shoe (line from nursery rhyme)
• They danced by the light of the moon (line from nursery rhyme)
• They dined on mince, and slices of quince (line from nursery rhyme)
• This little piggy had roast beef, this little piggy had none (line from nursery rhyme)
• This little piggy went to market, this little piggy stayed at home (line from nursery rhyme)
• Three blind mice, see how they run (line from nursery rhyme)
• Three for a girl (Magpie nursery rhyme)
• Three, four, knock at the door (line from nursery rhyme)
• Tom Tom the pipers son stole a pig and away he ran (line from nursery rhyme)
• Trap and ball (children's ball game)
• Twas the night before Christmas - the children were dreaming of a Ford in their future - smart, swanky and gleaming (Ford Cars advertising slogan)
• Twinkle twinkle little star, how I wonder what you are (line from nursery rhyme)
• Two for joy (Magpie nursery rhyme)
• Two little dicky birds sitting on a wall, one named Peter, one named Paul (line from nursery rhyme)
• Undercover cop
• Up above the world so high , like a diamond in the sky (line from nursery rhyme)
• Upstairs, downstairs and in my lady's chamber (line from nursery rhyme)
• Walled garden
• Wee Willie Winkie runs through the town, upstairs and downstairs in his nightgown (line from nursery rhyme)
• When the bough breaks the cradle will fall, and down will come baby, cradle and all (line from nursery rhyme)
• When they were up, they were up (line from nursery rhyme)
• Who killed Cock Robin (line from nursery rhyme)
• With rings on her fingers and bells on her toes she shall have music wherever she goes (line from nursery rhyme)
• With silver bells and cockle shells and pretty maids all in a row (line from nursery rhyme)
• Women and children first