Laurel Phrases

Phrases

• 1001 Cleans a Big, Big Carpet for Less than Half a Crown (1001 advertising slogan)
• A Great Day For The Irish (Judy Garland song)
• A Star Is Born (Judy Garland movie)
• A Tree Grows In Brooklyn (Elia Kazan movie)
• A laurel and hearty handshake
• A partridge in a pear tree
• An honour and a privilege
• Anything You Can Do I Can Do Better (Judy Garland song)
• As difficult as nailing jelly to a tree
• Badge of honour
• Barking up the wrong tree
• Bay for blood
• Clang clang clang went the trolley (Frank Sinatra and Judy Garland song lyric)
• Click here for Royal Crown Cola (Royal Crown Cola advertising slogan)
• Crown Jewels
• Crown privilege
• Don't Sit Under The Apple Tree (Glenn Miller tune)
• Done up like a Christmas tree
• Earth Angel (Nickname of Evie Garland (Maureen Flannigan))
• Easter Parade (Fred Astaire / Judy Garland movie)
• Eight maids a-milking (line from A Partridge In A Pear Tree)
• Eleven pipers piping (line from A Partridge In A Pear Tree)
• Family tree
• Five golden rings (line from A Partridge In A Pear Tree)
• Fork the tree
• Four calling birds (line from A Partridge In A Pear Tree)
• Friend of Dorothy (slang term for a homosexual, referring to Judy Garland's character in The Wizard of Oz)
• Have Yourself A Merry Little Christmas (Judy Garland song)
• Here's another fine mess you've gotten me into (A catchphrase from Laurel And Hardy)
• Hold at bay
• Honour amongst thieves
• Honour and obey
• Honour bound
• Honour thy father and mother
• I think that I shall never see a poem lovely as a tree, Kilmer)
• Jack fell down and broke his crown (line from nursery rhyme)
• Jewel in the crown
• Keep at bay
• Lap of honour
• Legs like tree trunks

• Lit up like a Christmas tree
• Little Robin Red breast sat upon a tree (line from nursery rhyme)
• Look to your laurels
• Maid of honour
• Make like a tree and leave
• Man of honour
• Meet Me In St. Louis (Judy Garland movie)
• Nine ladies dancing (line from A Partridge In A Pear Tree)
• On The Atchison Topeka And The Santa Fe (Judy Garland song)
• Open the bay doors HAL (A catchphrase from 2001, A Space Odyssey)
• Over The Rainbow (Judy Garland song)
• Rest on your laurels
• Rock a bye baby on the tree top, when the wind blows the cradle will rock (line from nursery rhyme)
• Scout's honour
• Seven swans a-swimming (line from A Partridge In A Pear Tree)
• Sittin' On The Dock Of The Bay (Otis Redding song)
• Six geese a-laying (line from A Partridge In A Pear Tree)
• Ten lords a-leaping (line from A Partridge In A Pear Tree)
• The Bay State (Nickname of the US state of Massachusetts)
• The Joshua Tree (U2 album)
• The Thomas Crown Affair (Steve McQueen movie)
• The Trolley Song (Judy Garland song)
• The Wizard Of Oz (Judy Garland movie)
• The apple never falls far from the tree
• The fruit does not fall far from the tree
• The honour of your presence is requested
• The tree is known by its fruit
• There's No Business Like Show Business (Judy Garland song)
• Three French hens (line from A Partridge In A Pear Tree)
• Tie a Yellow Ribbon Round the Ole Oak Tree (Dawn with Tony Orlando song)
• Top of the tree
• Tree hugger
• Trophy wife
• Twelve drummers drumming (line from A Partridge In A Pear Tree)
• Two turtle doves (line from A Partridge In A Pear Tree)
• Under the greenwood tree
• Uneasy lies the head that wears a crown
• Up a gum tree
• We're A Couple Of Swells (Judy Garland song)
• Woodman spare that tree
• Word of honour