Premature Phrases

Phrases

• A bit previous
• Beat a hasty retreat
• Bright and early
• Don't be hasty
• Early adopter
• Early bath
• Early bird
• Early black
• Early days
• Early doors
• Early riser
• Early to bed and early to rise makes a man healthy wealthy and wise
• It's the early bird that gets the worm
• Jump the gun
• One swallow doesn't make a summer
• Post early for Christmas (Post Office advertising slogan)
• Pump your money back into Canada (Petro Canada, early advertising slogan)
• Sparrow fart (jokey term for the early morning)
• Stupid-o'-clock (US army slang term that refers to any time very early in the morning)
• The Premature Burial
• The Rash (Nickname of Bruce Bowen)
• The early bird catches the worm