Meadow Phrases

Phrases

• A narrow fellow in the grass (from a poem by Emily Dickinson)
• Animal Farm (George Orwell book)
• As exciting as watching grass grow
• As green as grass
• Back the field
• Bear garden
• Beetle bank
• Bought the farm
• Buy the farm
• Captain Underpants And The Perilous Plot Of Professor Poopypants (Dav Pilkey book)
• Cold Comfort Farm (Stella Gibbons book)
• Come Into The Garden Maud (Tennyson poem and Victorian song)
• Common or garden
• Consider the lilies of the field
• Cover Point (field position in the game of cricket)
• Deep Extra Cover (field position in the game of cricket)
• Deep Fine Leg (field position in the game of cricket)
• Deep Gully (field position in the game of cricket)
• Deep Mid Wicket (field position in the game of cricket)
• Deep Point (field position in the game of cricket)
• Deep Square Leg (field position in the game of cricket)
• Don't let the grass grow under your feet
• Don't walk on the grass
• Everything in the garden is rosey
• Extra Cover (field position in the game of cricket)
• False jeopardy (plot device in TV melodramas where danger is threatened only for it to be found to be a false alarm)
• Farm fresh
• Field Marshall (the highest rank in the British Army)
• Field day
• First Slip (field position in the game of cricket)
• Forward Short Leg (field position in the game of cricket)
• Funny farm
• Garden suburb
• Gazelles are in the garden
• Grass roots
• Grass someone up
• Grass widow
• Gunpowder treason and plot (line from nursery rhyme)
• Have a field day
• Hold the field (- remain the most important)
• House and garden
• How does your garden grow?
• I Never Promised You A Rose Garden (Lynn Anderson song)
• In An Octopus's Garden In The Shade (The Beatles song)
• In from left field
• In the field
• Keep off the grass
• Keep the field (- continue a military campaign)
• Kick it into the long grass
• Kicked into the long grass
• Lead the field
• Lead up the garden path
• Leg Gully (field position in the game of cricket)
• Leg Slip (field position in the game of cricket)
• Level playing field
• Like a good neighbor (State Farm)
• Like a good neighbor, State Farm is there (State Farm Insurance advertising slogan)
• Link farm
• Long Leg (field position in the game of cricket)
• Long Off (field position in the game of cricket)
• Long On (field position in the game of cricket)
• Long Stop (field position in the game of cricket)
• Lose the plot
• Lost the plot
• Madison Square Garden (tourist attraction in the USA)
• Maggie's Farm (Bob Dylan song)
• Mary Mary quite contrary, how does your garden grow (line from nursery rhyme)
• Meadow muffin
• Mid Off (field position in the game of cricket)
• Mid On (field position in the game of cricket)
• Mid Wicket (field position in the game of cricket)
• Octopus's Garden (The Beatles song)
• Out of left field
• Out to pasture
• Play the field (- indulge in a series of sexual relationships)
• Put out to grass
• Put out to pasture
• Reality distortion field (A catchphrase from Star Trek)
• Round and round the garden like a teddy bear (line from nursery rhyme)
• Second slip (field position in the game of cricket)
• Short Fine Leg (field position in the game of cricket)
• Short Mid Wicket (field position in the game of cricket)
• Short Square Leg (field position in the game of cricket)
• Silly Mid Off (field position in the game of cricket)
• Silly Mid On (field position in the game of cricket)
• Silly Point (field position in the game of cricket)
• Snake in the grass
• Splendour In The Grass (Warren Beatty / Natalie Wood movie)
• Square Leg (field position in the game of cricket)
• Take the field (begin a sporting event or a military campaign)
• The Desert Fox (Nickname of Field Marshall Rommel)
• The First Garden City Of The World (Nickname of Letchworth England)
• The Garden County (nickname of the English county of Hampshire)
• The Garden Of Eden (Ernest Hemingway book)
• The Garden State (Nickname of the US state of New Jersey)
• The Garden of Eden
• The Garden of England (Nickname of the English counties of Kent and Worcestershire)
• The Secret Garden (Frances Hodgson Burnett book)
• The grass is always greener on the other side of the fence
• The green green grass of home
• The plot thickens
• The sheep's in the meadow the cow's in the corn (line from nursery rhyme)
• Third Slip (field position in the game of cricket)
• Third man (field position in the game of cricket)
• Walled garden
• Wicket Keeper (field position in the game of cricket)
• Wind farm