Redshank 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
• A red rag to a bull
• And Your Bird Can Sing (Beatles song)
• As free as a bird
• As red as a beetroot
• Better dead than red
• Big Bird (Nickname of Joel Garner - Barbados and West Indies cricketer)
• Big Red (Nickname of basketball player Arvydas Sabonis)
• Bird Man (Nickname of basketball player Chris Andersen)
• Bird brained
• Bird dog
• Bird of passage
• Bird's eye view
• Boy, is my face red (A catchphrase from David Letterman)
• Brick red
• Cadmium red
• Cut through the red tape
• Do bird
• Do you eat the red ones last? (Smarties advertising slogan)
• Early bird
• Eat like a bird
• Fire engine red
• Flip someone the bird
• Flip the bird
• Free As A Bird (Beatles song)
• Game bird
• Gives you wings (Red Bull advertising slogan)
• Have a bird
• In the red
• Is it a bird, is it a plane, no it's Superman? (A catchphrase from Superman)
• It's a red thing (Tizer advertising slogan)
• It's the early bird that gets the worm
• Jail bird
• Lady In Red (Chris de Burgh song)
• Larry Legend (Nickname of Larry Bird)
• Little Red Corvette (Prince song)
• Little Red Rooster (Rolling Stones song)
• Little Robin Red breast sat upon a tree (line from nursery rhyme)
• Makes red blood! (Grape-Nuts advertising slogan)
• Nature, red in tooth and claw
• Neither fish nor flesh, nor good red herring
• Norwegian Wood - This Bird Has Flown (Beatles song)
• Old Red Eyes (Nickname of Alice Cooper)
• On red alert
• Paint the town red
• Pillar box red

• Rare bird
• Red Army Fraction (German left wing terrorist group also call Red Army Faction)
• Red Baron (Nickname of Rick Sutcliffe)
• Red Buttons (Pseudonym of actor Aaron Chwatt)
• Red Dwarf (BBC comedy television series)
• Red Light Curt (Nickname of Curt Schilling)
• Red River (John Wayne / Howard Hawks movie)
• Red Sails In The Sunset (Al Bowlly song)
• Red Square (tourist attraction in Moscow Russia)
• Red alert
• Red and green should never be seen
• Red carpet treatment
• Red herring
• Red letter day
• Red light district
• Red lorry yellow lorry
• Red red wine
• Red sky at night shepherds delight
• Red sky in the morning, shepherds warning
• Red tape
• Roll out the red carpet
• Roses are red, violets are blue
• See red
• Send your parcels Red Star and pull out all the stops (Red Star advertising slogan)
• Simply Red
• Sing like a bird
• Smoke me a kipper, I'll be back for breakfast (A catchphrase from Red Dwarf)
• That bird has flown
• The Adventure of the Red Circle (Sherlock Holmes story)
• 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 Last of The Red Hot Mommas (Nickname of Sophie Tucker)
• The Marcel Marceau of Television (Nickname of Red Skelton)
• The Masque of the Red Death
• The Red Baron (Nickname of Baron Manfred von Richtofen)
• The Red Fort (tourist attraction in India)
• The Red Rocket (Nickname of Matt Bonner)
• The bird has flown
• The early bird catches the worm
• The greatest tragedy is indifference (Red Cross advertising slogan)
• The red carpet
• The red mist
• The thin red line
• They're waffly versatile (Bird's Eye Potato Waffles advertising slogan)
• To bring the wolves out - Riding Hood Red (Max Factor Cosmetics advertising slogan)
• Your fragrance Your rules (Hugo Boss Deep Red advertising slogan)