Maypole Phrases

Phrases

• A cat may look at a king
• A swarm in May is worth a load of hay
• Action Man (children's male doll)
• All children, except one, grow up (the opening line of Peter Pan)
• And Your Bird Can Sing (Beatles song)
• Appalachian Spring (Aaron Copland musical score)
• April showers bring May flowers
• Arab Spring
• As the case may be
• Be that as it may
• Break with tradition
• Bust a move (dance in a stylish way)
• 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
• Climb the greasy pole
• Come what come may
• Court of last resort (a legal court from which no further appeals may be made)
• Cowards may die many times before their death
• Dance With The One That Brought You (Shania Twain song)
• Dance around the problem
• Dance attendance on
• Dance like nobody's watching
• Dance of death
• Dance on someone's grave
• Dance the night away
• Dance to someone's tune
• Dance your socks off
• Devil may care
• Gather ye rosebuds while ye may
• Glow Little Glow-worm (children's nursery rhyme)
• Goodnight children everywhere (A catchphrase from Uncle Mac)
• Grapes, like children, need love and affection (Almaden advertising slogan)
• He who fights and runs away, may live to fight another day
• How may I serve you?
• I may not know much about art, but I know what I like
• I wouldn't touch it with a barge pole
• I wouldn't touch it with a ten-foot pole
• I'd Like to Teach the World to Sing (The New Seekers song)
• I'd like to teach the world to sing
• I'm Happy Just To Dance With You (The Beatles song)
• Just Dance (Lady Gaga (with Colby O'Donis song)
• Keeping with tradition
• Lady Madonna, children at your feet (Beatles song lyric)
• Lead a merry dance
• Let the chips fall where they may
• Let's Dance (David Bowie song)
• Let's face the music and dance

• Let's rock (A catchphrase from Al Bundy In Married With Children)
• Little Women (Louisa May Alcott book)
• Low man on the totem pole
• Make a song and dance about
• March winds and April showers bring forth May flowers
• May it please the court
• May the force be with you (A catchphrase from Star Wars)
• May to December romance
• May you live in interesting times
• Midnight's Children
• Mr. May (Nickname of Dave Winfield)
• Murder On The Dance Floor (Sophie Ellis-Bexter song)
• Ne'er cast a clout till May is out
• No spring chicken
• One may as well be hanged for a sheep as for a lamb
• Our children are not our children
• Pole position
• Pure life (Nestle Aberfoyle Natural Spring Water advertising slogan)
• Save The Last Dance For Me (Ben E King song)
• Save the last dance for me
• Sing a different tune
• Sing a song of sixpence a pocket full of rye (line from nursery rhyme)
• Sing for your supper
• Sing like a bird
• Sing out
• Sing someone's praises
• Song and dance
• Song and dance man
• Spring clean
• Spring fling
• Spring forward, Fall back
• Spring in your step
• Spring into action
• Spring into summer
• Spring is in the air
• Spring to mind
• Spring to your defence
• Sticks and stones may break my bones but words will never hurt me
• Suffer the little children
• The Famous Five (characters in Enid Blyton's series of children's book)
• The Foul Pole (Nickname of Andrew Golota)
• The case may be
• The darling buds of May
• The light at the end of the tunnel may just be a train coming the other way
• The lion may lie down with the lamb, but the lamb won't get much sleep (Woody Allen line)
• The wheels on the bus go round and round (title of children's song)
• 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)
• Up the pole
• Women and children first