Redwood Phrases

Phrases

• A Tree Grows In Brooklyn (Elia Kazan movie)
• A hewer of wood and a drawer of water
• A partridge in a pear tree
• A red rag to a bull
• As difficult as nailing jelly to a tree
• As red as a beetroot
• Barking up the wrong tree
• Better dead than red
• Big Red (Nickname of basketball player Arvydas Sabonis)
• Boy, is my face red (A catchphrase from David Letterman)
• Brick red
• Cadmium red
• Can't see the wood for the trees
• Cut out the dead wood
• Cut through the red tape
• Dead wood
• Do you eat the red ones last? (Smarties advertising slogan)
• Don't Sit Under The Apple Tree (Glenn Miller tune)
• Done up like a Christmas tree
• Eight maids a-milking (line from A Partridge In A Pear Tree)
• Eleven pipers piping (line from A Partridge In A Pear Tree)
• Family tree
• Fire engine red
• Five golden rings (line from A Partridge In A Pear Tree)
• Fork the tree
• Four calling birds (line from A Partridge In A Pear Tree)
• Get good wood on it
• Gives you wings (Red Bull advertising slogan)
• I lit a fire, isn't it good, Norwegian wood? (Beatles song lyric)
• I think that I shall never see a poem lovely as a tree, Kilmer)
• In the red
• It's a red thing (Tizer advertising slogan)
• Knock on wood
• Lady In Red (Chris de Burgh song)
• Legs like tree trunks
• Lit up like a Christmas tree
• Little Red Corvette (Prince song)
• Little Red Rooster (Rolling Stones song)
• Little Robin Red breast sat upon a tree (line from nursery rhyme)
• Make like a tree and leave
• Makes red blood! (Grape-Nuts advertising slogan)
• Nature, red in tooth and claw
• Neither fish nor flesh, nor good red herring
• Nine ladies dancing (line from A Partridge In A Pear Tree)
• 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
• Put the wood in the hole
• 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
• Rock a bye baby on the tree top, when the wind blows the cradle will rock (line from nursery rhyme)
• 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)
• Seven swans a-swimming (line from A Partridge In A Pear Tree)
• Simply Red
• Six geese a-laying (line from A Partridge In A Pear Tree)
• Smoke me a kipper, I'll be back for breakfast (A catchphrase from Red Dwarf)
• Splendour In The Grass (Warren Beatty / Natalie Wood movie)
• Ten lords a-leaping (line from A Partridge In A Pear Tree)
• The Adventure of the Red Circle (Sherlock Holmes story)
• The Joshua Tree (U2 album)
• 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 apple never falls far from the tree
• The fruit does not fall far from the tree
• The greatest tragedy is indifference (Red Cross advertising slogan)
• The red carpet
• The red mist
• The thin red line
• The tree is known by its fruit
• Three French hens (line from A Partridge In A Pear Tree)
• Tie a Yellow Ribbon Round the Ole Oak Tree (Dawn with Tony Orlando song)
• To bring the wolves out - Riding Hood Red (Max Factor Cosmetics advertising slogan)
• Top of the tree
• Touch wood
• 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
• West Side Story (Leonard Bernstein musical and Natalie Wood movie)
• Woodman spare that tree
• Your fragrance Your rules (Hugo Boss Deep Red advertising slogan)