Peacock Phrases

Phrases

• A bird in the hand is worth two in the bush
• A feather in your cap
• A little bird told me
• A marvellous bird is the pelican, its beak holds more than its belly can
• All to cock (ruined or shambolic)
• And Your Bird Can Sing (Beatles song)
• As free as a bird
• As light as a feather
• As proud as a peacock
• Big Bird (Nickname of Joel Garner - Barbados and West Indies cricketer)
• Bird Man (Nickname of basketball player Chris Andersen)
• Bird brained
• Bird dog
• Bird of passage
• Bird's eye view
• Birds of a Feather (BBC comedy television series)
• Birds of a feather flock together
• Cock a hoop
• Cock a leg
• Cock a snook
• Cock an ear
• Cock and bull story
• Cock it up
• Cock of the walk
• Cock sure
• Cock teaser
• Cock up
• Do bird
• Early bird
• Eat like a bird
• Feather in your cap
• Feather your nest
• Flip someone the bird
• Flip the bird
• Free As A Bird (Beatles song)
• Game bird
• Go off at half cock
• Have a bird
• In full feather
• Is it a bird, is it a plane, no it's Superman? (A catchphrase from Superman)
• It's the early bird that gets the worm
• Jail bird
• Juno and the Paycock (play by Sean O'Casey)
• Larry Legend (Nickname of Larry Bird)
• Norwegian Wood - This Bird Has Flown (Beatles song)
• Rare bird
• Ride a cock horse to Banbury Cross to see a fine lady upon a white horse (line from nursery rhyme)
• Show the white feather
• Sing like a bird
• That bird has flown
• The Basketball Jesus (Nickname of Larry Bird)
• The Bird Man of Alcatraz (Nickname of Robert Stroud)
• The Great Bird of the Galaxy (Nickname of writer Gene Roddenberry)
• The Hick from French Lick (Nickname of Larry Bird)
• The bird has flown
• The early bird catches the worm
• They're waffly versatile (Bird's Eye Potato Waffles advertising slogan)
• Who killed Cock Robin (line from nursery rhyme)
• Wotcher cock (Cockney version of 'Hello')
• You could have knocked me down with a feather