Plum Phrases

Phrases

• A rolling stone gathers no moss
• Are you a Cadbury's Fruit & Nut case? (Cadburys advertising slogan)
• As cold as any stone
• As nutty as a fruit cake
• Basic Instinct (Sharon Stone movie)
• Bear fruit
• Bitter pill to swallow
• Born in the purple
• Carved in stone
• Cast in stone
• Cast the first stone
• Clearly Canadian Sparkling Mineral Water in Wild Fruit Flavours (Adelma Mineral Waters advertising slogan)
• Don't forget the fruit gums Mum (Rowntrees advertising slogan)
• Drop like a stone
• Etched in stone
• Everyone's a Cadbury's Fruit and Nut Case (Cadbury's Fruit and Nut advertising slogan)
• Fall like a stone
• Forbidden fruit
• Fruit cake
• Half a bubble off plumb
• Harry Potter And The Sorcerer's Stone (J. K. Rowling book)
• He put in his thumb and pulled out a plum (line from nursery rhyme)
• Heart of stone
• I was a seven stone weakling (Charles Atlas advertising slogan)
• It's a dirty job, but somebody has to do it (A catchphrase from Nick Stone In Tightrope)
• Jake the Snake (Nickname of Jake Plummer)
• Kill stone dead
• Kill two birds with one stone
• Kiss the Blarney Stone
• Leave no stone unturned
• Like A Rolling Stone (Bob Dylan song)
• Little Hands of Stone (Nickname of Michael Carbajal)
• Low hanging fruit
• Oranges are not the only fruit
• Plumb the depths
• Purple America
• Purple Haze (Jimi Hendrix song)
• Purple Jesus (Nickname of Adrian Peterson)
• Purple Rain (Prince song and album)
• Purple patch
• Purple prose
• Purple squirrel
• Romancing The Stone (Michael Douglas movie)
• Sink like a stone
• Stone Free (Jimi Hendrix song)
• Stone cold sober
• Stone the crows
• The Adventure of the Mazarin Stone (Sherlock Holmes story)
• The Color Purple (Whoopie Goldberg movie)
• The Coward Of Bitter Creek (Nickname of Jason McCord (Chuck Connors))
• The Purple Rose Of Cairo (Woody Allen movie)
• The Snake (Nickname of Jake Plummer)
• The bitter end
• The fruit does not fall far from the tree
• The philosopher's stone
• The tree is known by its fruit
• There's no taste like Stones (Stones Bitter advertising slogan)
• They dined on mince, and slices of quince (line from nursery rhyme)
• This precious stone set in the silver sea, this sceptered isle
• Time flies like an arrow. Fruit flies like a banana (Groucho Marx line)
• To cast the first stone
• When I am an old woman I shall wear purple (from a poem by Joseph)
• You Can't Always Get What You Want (The Rolling Stone song)
• You can't get blood out of a stone