Kiwi 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)
• Are you a Cadbury's Fruit & Nut case? (Cadburys advertising slogan)
• As free as a bird
• As nutty as a fruit cake
• Bear fruit
• 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
• Clearly Canadian Sparkling Mineral Water in Wild Fruit Flavours (Adelma Mineral Waters advertising slogan)
• Do bird
• Don't forget the fruit gums Mum (Rowntrees advertising slogan)
• Early bird
• Eat like a bird
• Everyone's a Cadbury's Fruit and Nut Case (Cadbury's Fruit and Nut advertising slogan)
• Flip someone the bird
• Flip the bird
• Forbidden fruit
• Free As A Bird (Beatles song)
• Fruit cake
• Game bird
• Have a bird
• 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 bird
• Larry Legend (Nickname of Larry Bird)
• Low hanging fruit
• Norwegian Wood - This Bird Has Flown (Beatles song)
• Oranges are not the only fruit
• Rare bird
• Sing like a bird
• That bird has flown
• The All Blacks (Nickname of the New Zealand Rugby Union team)
• 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 bird has flown
• The early bird catches the worm
• The fruit does not fall far from the tree
• The tree is known by its fruit
• They're waffly versatile (Bird's Eye Potato Waffles advertising slogan)
• Time flies like an arrow. Fruit flies like a banana (Groucho Marx line)
• When your shoes shine, so do you (Kiwi Shoe Polish advertising slogan)