Maple Phrases

Phrases

• A Tree Grows In Brooklyn (Elia Kazan movie)
• A partridge in a pear tree
• Air Canada (Nickname of basketball player Vince Carter)
• As difficult as nailing jelly to a tree
• Barking up the wrong tree
• Canada's Festival City (Nickname of Edmonton Alberta)
• Captain Canada (Nickname of basketball player Steve Nash)
• Don't Sit Under The Apple Tree (Glenn Miller tune)
• Done up like a Christmas tree
• Drink Canada dry (Canada Dry Tonics and Mixers advertising slogan)
• Eight maids a-milking (line from A Partridge In A Pear Tree)
• Eleven pipers piping (line from A Partridge In A Pear Tree)
• Emigrate to Canada Dry (Canada Dry Tonics and Mixers advertising slogan)
• 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)
• Hair Canada (Nickname of basketball player Steve Nash)
• I think that I shall never see a poem lovely as a tree, Kilmer)
• Kid Canada (Nickname of Steve Nash)
• Legs like tree trunks
• Lit up like a Christmas tree
• Little Robin Red breast sat upon a tree (line from nursery rhyme)
• Make like a tree and leave
• Niagara Falls (tourist attraction in Canada)

• Nine ladies dancing (line from A Partridge In A Pear Tree)
• Out of the strong came forth sweetness (Lyle's Golden Syrup advertising slogan)
• Pump your money back into Canada (Petro Canada, early advertising slogan)
• 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)
• Six geese a-laying (line from A Partridge In A Pear Tree)
• Syrup (Cockney rhyming slang for wig)
• Ten lords a-leaping (line from A Partridge In A Pear Tree)
• The Joshua Tree (U2 album)
• The Voice of Canada (Nickname of actor Lorne Greene)
• The apple never falls far from the tree
• The fruit does not fall far from the tree
• The tree is known by its fruit
• 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
• 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
• When the oak is before the ash, then you will only get a splash; when the ash
• Woodman spare that tree
• World class, worldwide (Air Canada advertising slogan)
• You and I were meant to fly (Air Canada advertising slogan)