Plant Phrases

Phrases

• 50 Words for Snow (Kate Bush song)
• A Tree Grows In Brooklyn (Elia Kazan movie)
• A bird in the hand is worth two in the bush
• A narrow fellow in the grass (from a poem by Emily Dickinson)
• A partridge in a pear tree
• Always good, all ways (Golden Flake Potato Chips advertising slogan)
• And Dream of Sheep (Kate Bush song)
• Army Dreamers (Kate Bush song)
• As difficult as nailing jelly to a tree
• As exciting as watching grass grow
• As green as grass
• As you sow so shall you reap
• Barking up the wrong tree
• Beat about the bush
• Betcha can't eat just one (Lay's potato chips advertising slogan)
• Bring out your best (Bud Light advertising slogan)
• Bury the hatchet
• Bury your head in the sand
• Bury yourself in your work
• Bush Derangement Syndrome
• Bush tucker (Wild food native to Australia)
• Cackle factory
• Cactus juice
• Charlie And The Chocolate Factory (Roald Dahl book)
• Companion plant (a plant grown near to another species to enhance its growth)
• Cooks who know trust Crisco (Crisco Vegetable Shortening advertising slogan)
• Cost cutting
• Couch potato
• Cutting remark
• Don't Give Up (Kate Bush Peter Gabriel song)
• Don't Sit Under The Apple Tree (Glenn Miller tune)
• Don't let the grass grow under your feet
• Don't walk on the grass
• Done up like a Christmas tree
• Drop it like a hot potato
• Eight maids a-milking (line from A Partridge In A Pear Tree)
• Eleven pipers piping (line from A Partridge In A Pear Tree)
• Eleven secret herbs and spices (claim made for the recipe of Kentucky Fried Chicken)
• Extreme refreshment (Bud Ice advertising slogan)
• Factory farming (rearing livestock under industrial conditions)
• Factory fresh
• Factory outlet (a shop where goods are sold directly to the public by the manufacturer)
• Factory shop (a retail outlet where goods are sold directly to the public by the manufacturer)
• Family tree
• Five golden rings (line from A Partridge In A Pear Tree)
• Flower power
• For all you do, this Bud's for you (Budweiser advertising slogan)
• For goodness sake, eat golden flake (Golden Flake Potato Chips advertising slogan)
• Fork the tree
• Four calling birds (line from A Partridge In A Pear Tree)
• Gargle factory
• Get your smile on (Lay's potato chips advertising slogan)
• Glue factory
• Go bush
• Gobble golden flake (Golden Flake Potato Chips advertising slogan)
• Golden flake. It's where you find the flavor (Golden Flake Potato Chips advertising slogan)
• Golden flake. With southern fried crunch (Golden Flake Potato Chips advertising slogan)
• Good as gold (Golden Flake Potato Chips advertising slogan)
• Grass roots
• Grass someone up
• Grass widow
• Great Pair, Says the Bear (Golden Flake Potato Chips advertising slogan)
• Harden off
• Hot potato
• Hothouse flower
• Hounds of Love (Kate Bush song)
• I am not Bush
• I think that I shall never see a poem lovely as a tree, Kilmer)
• If that don't take the rag off the bush
• If you got the munchies, nothing else will do! (Hostess potato chips advertising slogan)

• In flower
• It's all grist to the mill
• Keep off the grass
• Kick it into the long grass
• Kicked into the long grass
• Legs like tree trunks
• Let the dead bury the dead
• Lit up like a Christmas tree
• Little Robin Red breast sat upon a tree (line from nursery rhyme)
• Make like a tree and leave
• Mouse potato
• Nine ladies dancing (line from A Partridge In A Pear Tree)
• Nip in the bud
• Nut factory
• On the cutting edge
• One taste and your stuck on golden flake (Golden Flake Potato Chips advertising slogan)
• Put out to grass
• Put through the mill
• Rock a bye baby on the tree top, when the wind blows the cradle will rock (line from nursery rhyme)
• Root up
• Run of the mill
• Running Up that Hill - A Deal with God (Kate Bush song)
• Saviour sibling (a child born in order to provide a transplant for another with a fatal disease)
• Seven swans a-swimming (line from A Partridge In A Pear Tree)
• Six geese a-laying (line from A Partridge In A Pear Tree)
• Snake in the grass
• Sow Dragon's teeth
• Sow your wild oats
• Splendour In The Grass (Warren Beatty / Natalie Wood movie)
• Starch free as a chip can be (Golden Flake Potato Chips advertising slogan)
• Still life (a form of painting in which inanimate objects are the subject)
• Ten lords a-leaping (line from A Partridge In A Pear Tree)
• The Dream Factory (film or television studio where idealised concepts are manufactured - especially Hollywood)
• The Favorite Chip of The S.E.C. (Golden Flake Potato Chips advertising slogan)
• The Hoosier Hot Shot (Nickname of humourist Herb Shriner)
• The Joshua Tree (U2 album)
• The Kick Inside (Kate Bush song)
• The Man with the Child in His Eyes (Kate Bush song)
• The Potato Man (Nickname of Frank William Tucker (David Proval))
• The President (Nickname of Reggie Bush)
• The apple never falls far from the tree
• The crispiest chip in the south (Golden Flake Potato Chips advertising slogan)
• The flower of one's youth
• The fruit does not fall far from the tree
• The good gets better with golden flake (Golden Flake Potato Chips advertising slogan)
• The grass is always greener on the other side of the fence
• The green green grass of home
• The tree is known by its fruit
• They that sow the wind, shall reap the whirlwind
• They're waffly versatile (Bird's Eye Potato Waffles advertising slogan)
• This Woman's Work (Kate Bush song)
• Three French hens (line from A Partridge In A Pear Tree)
• Through the mill
• Tie a Yellow Ribbon Round the Ole Oak Tree (Dawn with Tony Orlando song)
• Top of the tree
• Tree hugger
• 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
• Vegetable box
• Vegetable drawer
• Walnuts and pears you plant for your heirs
• Weed out
• Where there's life, there's Bud (Budweiser Beer advertising slogan)
• Why ask why? Try Bud Dry (Budweiser Earl advertising slogan)
• Woodman spare that tree
• Wuthering Heights (Kate Bush song)
• You can't make a silk purse from a sow's ear
• You reap what you sow
• You've Got Till Sundown (Johnny Bush song)