Palm Phrases

Phrases

• A Tree Grows In Brooklyn (Elia Kazan movie)
• A bird in the hand is worth two in the bush
• A head for business and a body for sin
• A healthy mind in a healthy body
• A partridge in a pear tree
• A room without books is like a body without a soul (Marcus Tullius Cicero quotation)
• Addicted To Love (Robert Palmer song)
• As difficult as nailing jelly to a tree
• At first hand
• Barking up the wrong tree
• Bite your hand off
• Biting the hand that feeds IT (The Register advertising slogan)
• Body and soul
• Body bag
• Body blow
• Body building
• Body heat
• Body language
• Body mass index
• Body of evidence
• Body of opinion
• Body off Baywatch, face off Crimewatch
• Body painting (a form of painting that uses the human body as a canvas)
• Body politic
• Body popping
• Body snatcher
• Body surfing
• Bound hand and foot
• Business at hand
• Cap in hand
• Cash in hand
• Caught with your hand in the cookie jar
• Caught with your hand in the till
• Condemned out of hand
• Cool Hand Luke (Paul Newman movie)
• Cross my palm with silver
• Dab hand at
• Do you want a shape like a bra? Or do you want a shape like a woman? (Warner's Body Bra advertising slogan)
• Doctor, doctor, give me the news, I've got a bad case of loving you (Robert Palmer song lyric)
• Doesn't have a jealous bone in his body
• Don't Sit Under The Apple Tree (Glenn Miller tune)
• Don't bite the hand that feeds you
• Done up like a Christmas tree
• Eat out of someone's hand
• Eight maids a-milking (line from A Partridge In A Pear Tree)
• Eleven pipers piping (line from A Partridge In A Pear Tree)
• Extend the hand of friendship
• Face palm moment
• Family tree
• Figure painting (a form of painting in which the human body is the subject)
• Five golden rings (line from A Partridge In A Pear Tree)
• Fold your hand
• Force his hand
• Fork the tree
• Four calling birds (line from A Partridge In A Pear Tree)
• Free hand
• Fruiting body
• Get out of hand
• Get the upper hand
• Give a hand
• Go cap in hand
• Got to hand it to you
• Grease your palm
• Hand a line
• Hand in glove
• Hand in hand
• Hand in your notice
• Hand it on a plate
• Hand it over
• Hand job
• Hand me down
• Hand me downs
• Hand over
• Hand over fist
• Hand picked
• Hand to mouth
• Hand's turn
• Hat in hand
• Have a hand in

• Have it in hand
• Heart to God, hand to man (The Salvation Army advertising slogan)
• Heavenly body
• Heavy Lunch (Nickname of American football player Norman Hand)
• Helping hand
• I Want To Hold Your Hand (Beatles song)
• I love the smell of napalm in the morning (Apocalypse Now)
• I think that I shall never see a poem lovely as a tree, Kilmer)
• If I said you had a beautiful body would you hold it against me?
• In the palm of your hand
• Itchy palms
• Keep body and soul together
• Keep your hand in
• Know like the back of your hand
• Legs like tree trunks
• Lend a hand on the land (WWII slogan)
• Lend a helping hand
• Lit up like a Christmas tree
• Little Robin Red breast sat upon a tree (line from nursery rhyme)
• M&Ms melt in your mouth, not in your hand (M&Ms chocolate advertising slogan)
• Make like a tree and leave
• Milk. It does a body good (Milk Marketing Board advertising slogan)
• Nine ladies dancing (line from A Partridge In A Pear Tree)
• Off hand
• On the one hand
• On the other hand
• One hand tied behind your back
• One hand washes the other
• Over my dead body
• Palm Sunday
• Palm off
• Put your hand in your pocket
• Put your hand to the plough
• Raise your hand if you're sure (Sure advertising slogan)
• Right hand man
• Rock a bye baby on the tree top, when the wind blows the cradle will rock (line from nursery rhyme)
• Royal flush (in poker - a hand including a ten jack queen king and ace of the same suit)
• Seven swans a-swimming (line from A Partridge In A Pear Tree)
• Ships of the desert
• Show your hand
• Six geese a-laying (line from A Partridge In A Pear Tree)
• Sleight of hand
• Some Guys Have All The Luck (Robert Palmer song)
• Stops body odour (Lifebouy Soap advertising slogan)
• Strengthen your hand
• Take your hand in marriage
• Talk to the hand
• Ten lords a-leaping (line from A Partridge In A Pear Tree)
• The Body Guard (Nickname of Baron Davis)
• The Desert Fox (Nickname of Field Marshall Rommel)
• The Joshua Tree (U2 album)
• The Palm Beach Story (Claudette Colbert movie)
• The Palm Springs Of Washington (Nickname of Yakima Washington)
• The answer is at hand
• The apple never falls far from the tree
• The body is still warm
• The body of evidence
• The fruit does not fall far from the tree
• The hand is quicker than the eye
• The hand that rocks the cradle rules the world
• The matter in hand
• The milk chocolate melts in your mouth, not in your hand (M&M advertising slogan)
• The right hand doesn't know what the left hand is doing
• 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
• Try your hand
• 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
• Upper hand
• Vacation is a world where there are no locks on the doors or the mind or the body (Club Med Resorts advertising slogan)
• Wardrobe malfunction (when an item of clothing slips out of place to expose part of the body - typically a woman's breast)
• What we have here is a failure to communicate (line from Cool Hand Luke)
• Whip hand
• Woodman spare that tree
• You too can have a body like mine (Charles Atlas advertising slogan)