Olive Phrases

Phrases

• Anne Of Green Gables (Lucy Maud Montgomery book)
• Are you a Cadbury's Fruit & Nut case? (Cadburys advertising slogan)
• As brown as a berry
• As green as grass
• As nutty as a fruit cake
• As sure as God made little green apples
• Ballad of the Green Berets (Staff Sergeant Barry Sadler song)
• Bear fruit
• Boulevard of Broken Dreams (Green Day song)
• Bring out the Hellmann's, and bring out the best (Hellmann's Mayonnaise advertising slogan)
• British racing green
• Burn the midnight oil
• Clearly Canadian Sparkling Mineral Water in Wild Fruit Flavours (Adelma Mineral Waters advertising slogan)
• Don't forget the fruit gums Mum (Rowntrees advertising slogan)
• Evenin' all (A catchphrase from Dixon Of Dock Green)
• Everyone's a Cadbury's Fruit and Nut Case (Cadbury's Fruit and Nut advertising slogan)
• Extra virgin
• F*ck You (Cee Lo Green song)
• Forbidden fruit
• Forest green
• Forty shades of green
• Fruit cake
• Give it the green light
• Go green
• Go where the green lights lead you
• Green Scare
• Green around the gills
• Green eyed monster
• Green fingers
• Green fuel
• Green investing
• Green roof
• Green shoots of change
• Green shoots of recovery
• Green slime (military slang term for the intelligence corps)
• Green with envy
• Hands that do dishes can feel soft as your face, with mild green Fairy Liquid (Fairy Liquid advertising slogan)
• I yam what I yam (A catchphrase from Popeye)
• I'm not so green as I am cabbage looking
• In the valley of the Jolly Green Giant (Green Giant advertising slogan)
• Jesus saves green shield stamps
• Johnny B Goode (Chuck Berry song)

• Lime green
• Lincoln green
• Liquid engineering (Castrol Motor Oil advertising slogan)
• Little green men
• Low hanging fruit
• Memphis Tennessee (Chuck Berry song)
• Mind how you go (A catchphrase from Dixon of Dock Green)
• Mint green
• Mr. Perfect (Nickname of Jeff Green)
• My Ding A Ling (Chuck Berry song)
• No oil painting
• Oil Can (Nickname of Dennis Boyd)
• Oil and water don't mix
• Oil the wheels
• Olive branch
• Olly olly oxen free
• Oranges are not the only fruit
• Pour oil on troubled waters
• Red and green should never be seen
• Reelin' And Rockin' (Chuck Berry song)
• Roll Over Beethoven (Chuck Berry song)
• Rub of the green
• She Stoops to Conquer (play by Oliver Goldsmith)
• Stop, Look and Listen; remember the Green Cross Code (UK Road Safety Campaign advertising slogan)
• Sweet Little Sixteen (Chuck Berry / Beatles song)
• Ten green bottles sitting on the wall
• The Green Berets (John Wayne movie)
• The Green Grocer (Nickname of Joe Carcione)
• The Green Hornet (Pseudonym of Britt Reid (Van Williams))
• The Green Mountain State (Nickname of the US state of Vermont)
• The Man Who Mistook His Wife For A Hat And Other Clinical Tales (Oliver Sacks book)
• The Mount of Olives (tourist attraction in Israel)
• The Titan (Nickname of Oliver Kahn)
• The fruit does not fall far from the tree
• The green green grass of home
• The green stuff
• The tree is known by its fruit
• Time flies like an arrow. Fruit flies like a banana (Groucho Marx line)
• Too Much Monkey Business (Chuck Berry song)
• Where on god's green earth
• You Never Can Tell (Chuck Berry song)
• You're the One That I Want (John Travolta and Olivia Newton-John song)