Pheasant Phrases

Phrases

• A bird in the hand is worth two in the bush
• A little bird told me
• A marvellous bird is the pelican, its beak holds more than its belly can
• Am I my brother's keeper?
• And Your Bird Can Sing (Beatles song)
• As free as a bird
• At the end of a gun
• Bag a bargain
• Bag and baggage
• Bag lady
• Bag of bones
• Bag of tricks
• 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
• Body bag
• Brown bag lunch
• Chew a gun
• Couldn't act his way out of a paper bag
• Crazy Gun Barney (Nickname of Barney Fife (Don Knotts))
• Dirt bag
• Do bird
• Doggy bag
• Don't shoot the messenger
• Don't shoot the piano player
• Don't shoot until you can see the whites of their eyes
• Douche bag
• Early bird
• Eat like a bird
• Flip someone the bird
• Flip the bird
• Free As A Bird (Beatles song)
• Game bird
• Gas bag
• Give it the gun
• Gun down
• Half in the bag
• Happiness Is A Warm Gun (The Beatles song)
• Have a bird
• Have gun, will travel (A catchphrase from TV series)
• Hold a gun to his head
• If I tell you I will have to shoot you
• Is it a bird, is it a plane, no it's Superman? (A catchphrase from Superman)
• Is that a gun in your pocket, or are you just glad to see me?
• It doesn't take a minute to bag it and bin it (UK public advertisement advertising slogan)
• It's in the bag
• It's not my bag
• It's the early bird that gets the worm
• Jail bird
• Jump the gun
• Just shoot me
• Larry Legend (Nickname of Larry Bird)
• Leave the gun, take the cannoli (line from The Godfather)

• Let the cat out of the bag
• Like a pig from a gun
• Machine Gun Kelly (Nickname of George Kelly)
• Mixed bag
• Mother Superior jumped the gun (Beatles song lyric)
• Nickel bag
• Norwegian Wood - This Bird Has Flown (Beatles song)
• Papa's Got A Brand New Bag (James Brown song)
• Poacher turned gamekeeper
• Put a gun to your head
• Rare bird
• See how they run like pigs from a gun (The Beatles song lyric)
• Shoot 'em up
• Shoot a birdie (score one under par in a golf shot)
• Shoot a fairy
• Shoot blanks
• Shoot down in flames (destroy an argument or theory)
• Shoot first, ask questions later
• Shoot from the hip
• Shoot him down in flames
• Shoot hoops
• Shoot it out
• Shoot me now
• Shoot on sight
• Shoot someone a line
• Shoot straight (to talk or deal honestly)
• Shoot the breeze
• Shoot the moon (remove household goods by night to avoid paying rent)
• Shoot the puppy
• Shoot through (to leave or abscond)
• Shoot to kill
• Shoot your cuffs
• Shoot your mouth off
• Shoot yourself in the foot
• Sing like a bird
• Smoking gun
• Son of a gun
• Stop, or my mom will shoot (line from Sylvestor Stallone movie)
• Strap on the feed bag
• That bird has flown
• That's a keeper
• The Basketball Jesus (Nickname of Larry Bird)
• The Bird Man of Alcatraz (Nickname of Robert Stroud)
• The Fast Gun From Texas (Nickname of Dan Troop (John Russell))
• The Great Bird of the Galaxy (Nickname of writer Gene Roddenberry)
• The Gun That Won The West (Nickname of the Colt revolver)
• The Hick from French Lick (Nickname of Larry Bird)
• The Man With The Golden Gun (James Bond movie Roger Moore)
• The bird has flown
• The early bird catches the worm
• They Shoot Horses Don't They? (Jane Fonda movie)
• They're waffly versatile (Bird's Eye Potato Waffles advertising slogan)
• Turkey shoot
• Under the gun
• Wicket Keeper (field position in the game of cricket)
• You keep all your money in a big brown bag inside a zoo (Beatles song lyric)