Leaf Phrases

Phrases

• A Tree Grows In Brooklyn (Elia Kazan movie)
• A partridge in a pear tree
• As difficult as nailing jelly to a tree
• Barking up the wrong tree
• Blade Runner (Harrison Ford / Ridley Scott movie)
• Bring out your best (Bud Light advertising slogan)
• Crimson and Clover (Tommy James and the Shondells song)
• Doctors recommend Phillip Morris (Philip Morris Tobacco advertising slogan)
• Don't Sit Under The Apple Tree (Glenn Miller tune)
• Don't shoot the messenger
• Don't shoot the piano player
• Don't shoot until you can see the whites of their eyes
• Done up like a Christmas tree
• Eats shooots and leaves (classic example of the need for punctuation)
• Eats, Shoots And Leaves (Lynne Truss book)
• Eight maids a-milking (line from A Partridge In A Pear Tree)
• Eleven pipers piping (line from A Partridge In A Pear Tree)
• Extreme refreshment (Bud Ice advertising slogan)
• Family tree
• Five golden rings (line from A Partridge In A Pear Tree)
• For all you do, this Bud's for you (Budweiser advertising slogan)
• Fork the tree
• Four calling birds (line from A Partridge In A Pear Tree)
• Get the needle
• Hold the front page
• I think that I shall never see a poem lovely as a tree, Kilmer)
• If I tell you I will have to shoot you
• It is easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle, than for a rich man to enter into the kingdom of God
• It leaves a lot to be desired
• It's that Condor moment (Condor tobacco advertising slogan)
• Just shoot me
• Leaf through
• Leaps off the page
• Leaves a bad taste in the mouth
• Leaves a lot to be desired
• Legs like tree trunks
• Like looking for a needle in a haystack
• Lit up like a Christmas tree
• Little Robin Red breast sat upon a tree (line from nursery rhyme)
• Lucky Strike means finer tobacco (Lucky Strike Cigarettes advertising slogan)
• Make like a tree and leave
• Making smoking 'safe' for smokers (Bonded Tobacco Company advertising slogan)
• Nine ladies dancing (line from A Partridge In A Pear Tree)
• Nip in the bud
• On the same page
• Page 3 girl
• Page turner
• Rock a bye baby on the tree top, when the wind blows the cradle will rock (line from nursery rhyme)
• Seven swans a-swimming (line from A Partridge In A Pear Tree)
• Shake like a leaf
• Shoot 'em up
• Shoot a birdie (score one under par in a golf shot)
• Shoot a fairy
• Shoot blanks
• Shoot down in flames (destroy an argument or theory)
• Shoot first, ask questions later
• Shoot from the hip
• Shoot him down in flames
• Shoot hoops
• Shoot it out
• Shoot me now
• Shoot on sight
• Shoot someone a line
• Shoot straight (to talk or deal honestly)
• Shoot the breeze
• Shoot the moon (remove household goods by night to avoid paying rent)
• Shoot the puppy
• Shoot through (to leave or abscond)
• Shoot to kill
• Shoot your cuffs
• Shoot your mouth off
• Shoot yourself in the foot
• Six geese a-laying (line from A Partridge In A Pear Tree)
• Splashed across the front page
• Stalk out
• Stop, or my mom will shoot (line from Sylvestor Stallone movie)
• Tea leaf (Cockney rhyming slang for thief)
• Ten lords a-leaping (line from A Partridge In A Pear Tree)
• The Bronze Goddess of Fire (Nickname of LaWanda Page)
• The Joshua Tree (U2 album)
• The apple never falls far from the tree
• The fruit does not fall far from the tree
• The tree is known by its fruit
• They Shoot Horses Don't They? (Jane Fonda movie)
• Three French hens (line from A Partridge In A Pear Tree)
• Through the eye of a needle
• Tie a Yellow Ribbon Round the Ole Oak Tree (Dawn with Tony Orlando song)
• Time out for tiny little tea leaves in Tetley Tea (Tetley Tea advertising slogan)
• Tobacco baron
• Tobacco is our middle name (American Brands, Inc advertising slogan)
• Top of the tree
• Tree hugger
• Turkey shoot
• Turn over a new leaf
• 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
• Up a gum tree
• We're tobacco men not medicine men. Old Gold cures just one thing. The World's Best Tobacco (Old Gold Cigarettes advertising slogan)
• Where there's life, there's Bud (Budweiser Beer advertising slogan)
• Why ask why? Try Bud Dry (Budweiser Earl advertising slogan)
• Woodman spare that tree