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A
Kestrel
For A Knave ( Barry Hines book )
A bird in the hand is worth two in the bush
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A box of
birds
A
chicken
in every pot
A day without sunshine is like, you know, night ( Steve
Martin
quotation )
A
feather
in your cap
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A good
egg
A little bird told me
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A marvellous bird is the pelican, its
beak
holds more than its belly can
A
nest
of vipers
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A partridge in a pear tree
Accept that some days you are the pigeon, some days you are the statue
All aboard the
Skylark
( A line from Noah and Nelly )
All around
Robin
Hood's barn
All my eye and Betty
Martin
All your base are belong to us ( broken English phrase used in the video game Zero
Wing
)
An
albatross
round his neck
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And Your Bird Can Sing ( Beatles song )
Arse over
tit
As bald as a
coot
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As cold as a witch's
tit
As dead as a
dodo
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As free as a bird
As happy as a
lark
As high as a
kite
As light as a
feather
As loose as a
goose
As mad as a wet
hen
As naked as a jaybird
As proud as a
peacock
As scarce as hen's teeth
As sick as a
parrot
As the
crow
flies
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As tight as a duck's arse
As wise as an
owl
Attila The
Hen
( Nickname of Margaret Thatcher )
Bad
egg
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Batman and
Robin
( Nickname of baseball players Mike Piazza and
Robin
Ventura )
Beautiful downtown Burbank ( A catchphrase from Rowan And Martin's Laugh In )
Being For The Benefit Of Mr. Kite! ( The Beatles song )
Better an
egg
today than a
hen
tomorrow
Big Bird ( Nickname of Joel Garner - Barbados and West Indies cricketer )
Bird Man ( Nickname of basketball player Chris Andersen )
Bird brained
Bird dog
Bird of passage
Bird's eye view
Birdman Of Alcatraz ( Burt Lancaster movie )
Birds
do it, bees do it, even educated fleas do it
Birds
of a
Feather
( BBC comedy television series )
Birds
of a
feather
flock together
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Bitter pill to
swallow
Black
Hawk
Down ( Ewan McGregor movie )
Blue
Jay
Way ( Beatles song )
Blue
sky
thinking
Booby
prize
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Booby
trap
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Bright Lights, Big City (
Jay
Mcinerney book )
Budgie
smuggler
Butter and
egg
man
Buy a bucket of
chicken
and have a barrel of fun ( Kentucky Fried
Chicken
advertising slogan )
Buzzard meat
Can you tell
Stork
from butter? (
Stork
Margarine advertising slogan )
Charm the
birds
out of the trees
Cheaper By The Dozen ( Steve
Martin
movie )
Chick
flick
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Chick
lit
Chick
magnet
Chicken
Legs ( Nickname of Marcy Rhodes ( Amanda Bearse ) )
Chicken
Man ( Nickname of baseball player Wade Boggs )
Chicken
capital, USA ( Kentucky Fried
Chicken
advertising slogan )
Chicken
feed
Chicken
in a basket
Chicken
out
Chirpy Chirpy Cheep Cheep ( Middle of the Road song )
Choke the
chicken
Clay
pigeon
Cloud
cuckoo
land
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Cock and bull story
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Cold
Turkey
( John Lennon song )
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Cold
turkey
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Columbus
egg
Come home to
Birds
Eye Country (
Birds
Eye Frozen Foods advertising slogan )
Cook your
goose
Corn and cluck for a buck ( Kentucky Fried
Chicken
advertising slogan )
Cuckoo
for Coco Pops ( Coco Pops advertising slogan )
Culture
vulture
Curate's
egg
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Dead Men Don't Wear Plaid ( Steve
Martin
movie )
Dead
duck
Do bird
Down came a
blackbird
and pecked off her nose ( line from nursery rhyme )
Duck
Soup ( Marx Brothers movie )
Duck
squeezer
Duck
the question
Eagle
eyed
Eagle
freak
Early bird
Eat
crow
Eat like a bird
Eddie The
Eagle
( Nickname of Eddie Edwards )
Egg
and spoon race
Egg
on
Egg
on your face
Eleven secret herbs and spices ( claim made for the recipe of Kentucky Fried
Chicken
)
Empty
nest
syndrome
Excuse me ( A catchphrase from Steve
Martin
)
F*ck a
duck
Fast food and good for you (
Egg
Marketing Board advertising slogan )
Father Of The Bride ( Steve
Martin
movie )
Feather
in your cap
Feather
your
nest
Finger-lickin' good ( Kentucky Fried
Chicken
advertising slogan )
Five for silver (
Magpie
nursery rhyme )
Flip someone the bird
Flip the bird
Fly a
kite
Fly the
nest
For the benefit of Mr.Kite there will be a show tonight on trampoline ( Beatles song lyric )
For the
birds
Four calling
birds
( line from A Partridge In A Pear Tree )
Four for a boy (
Magpie
nursery rhyme )
Free As A Bird ( Beatles song )
Fully fledged
Gaggle of
geese
Game bird
Get out of
jail
free
Get out of
jail
free card ( a means of avoiding justice - from the eponymous card in the Monopoly boardgame )
Go directly to jail, do not pass go
Go fly a
kite
Go suck an
egg
Go to work on an
egg
( British
Egg
Marketing Board advertising slogan )
Good
egg
Gutter
snipe
Happiness is
egg
shaped ( British
Egg
Marketing Board advertising slogan )
Hard to
swallow
Hark, hark! the
lark
at heaven's gate sings
Have a bird
Headless
chicken
Hen
party
Here comes de judge ( A catchphrase from Rowan and Martin's Laugh In )
Honey, I just forgot to
duck
I Can Help ( Billy
Swan
song )
I Knew You Were Trouble ( Taylor
Swift
song )
I Think I Love You ( The Partridge Family song )
I didn't get where I am today ( A catchphrase from
Martin
Clunes In Reggie Perrin )
If it looks like a
duck
and it quacks like a duck, it probably is a
duck
If the
sky
falls we shall catch larks
If you want Kentucky Fried Chicken, you have to visit me ( Kentucky Fried
Chicken
advertising slogan )
In full
feather
In the catbird seat
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Is it a bird, is it a plane, no it's Superman? ( A catchphrase from Superman )
It takes a tough man to make a tender
chicken
( Perdue Farms advertising slogan )
It's the early bird that gets the worm
Jail
bait
Jail
bird
Jonnies out of
jail
Juno and the Paycock ( play by Sean O'Casey )
Kid n' Play ( Nickname of Kevin
Martin
)
Kill the
goose
that lays the golden
egg
Kill two
birds
with one stone
Killing the
goose
that lays the golden eggs
Kite
marked
Knee high to a
duck
L A Story ( Steve
Martin
movie )
Lame
duck
Lark
about
Larry Legend ( Nickname of Larry Bird )
Last one there is a rotten
egg
Lay an
egg
Leave the
nest
Left
wing
Legal
eagle
Let It Snow ( Sammy Cahn song recorded by Sinatra and Dean
Martin
)
Like a
chicken
with its head cut off
Like a
duck
to water
Like shit through a
goose
Like water off a duck's back
Little
Robin
Red breast sat upon a tree ( line from nursery rhyme )
Livin' la Vida Loca ( Ricky
Martin
song )
Look that up in your Funk and Wagnalls! ( A catchphrase from Rowan And Martin's Laugh-In )
Lord love a
duck
Love Story ( Taylor
Swift
song )
Love
nest
Lucy In The
Sky
With Diamonds ( Beatles song )
Making the
sky
the best place on Earth ( Air France advertising slogan )
March Of The Penguins ( Morgan Freeman movie )
Mare's
nest
Mother
hen
My Own Private Idaho ( River
Phoenix
movie )
Nest
egg
Night
owl
No spring
chicken
Nobody does
chicken
like KFC ( Kentucky Fried
Chicken
advertising slogan )
Norwegian Wood - This Bird Has Flown ( Beatles song )
Nothing succeeds like a
parrot
with no teeth
On a
wing
and a prayer
On you like a
chicken
on a junebug
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's
Nest
( Jack Nicholson movie )
One for sorrow (
Magpie
nursery rhyme )
One ringy-dingy...two ringy-dingies ( A catchphrase from Ernestine In Rowan and Martin's Laugh-In )
One
swallow
doesn't make a summer
Our feathered friends
Out for a
duck
Out of the clear blue
sky
P.P.Pick up a
Penguin
( United Biscuits advertising slogan )
Papa Bear Colonel ( Nickname of Robert Hogan ( Bob
Crane
) )
Parrot
fashion
Pecking order
Penguin
suit
Phoenix
Nights ( BBC comedy television series )
Phoenix
from the flames
Pie in the
sky
Play
chicken
Put the cat amongst the pigeons
Quoth the
raven
Rare bird
Real goodness from Kentucky Fried
Chicken
( Kentucky Fried
Chicken
advertising slogan )
Red Army Fraction ( German left
wing
terrorist group also call Red Army Faction )
Red
sky
at night shepherds delight
Red
sky
in the morning, shepherds warning
Right
wing
Rise like a
Phoenix
from the ashes
Robin
Hood - Men In Tights ( Mel Brooks movie )
Robin
Prince Of Thieves ( Kevin Costner movie )
Round
Robin
Rubber
chicken
( poor quality or overcooked
chicken
)
Rubber
chicken
curcuit ( a speaking or fundraising event at which poor quality meat is served )
Rubber
duck
( a floating bath toy )
Say goodnight Dick ( A catchphrase from Rowan and Martin's Laugh In )
Seven for a secret, never to be told (
Magpie
nursery rhyme )
Shoot a birdie ( score one under par in a golf shot )
Show the white
feather
Sing like a bird
Singing like a
duck
Sitting
duck
Six for gold (
Magpie
nursery rhyme )
Six
geese
a-laying ( line from A Partridge In A Pear Tree )
Sky
blue
Sky
high
Smokers are requested to use
Swan
Vestas (
Swan
Vesta matches advertising slogan )
Sock it to me ( A catchphrase from Rowan and Martin's Laugh In )
Sod this for a
lark
Something to
crow
about
Sparrow
fart ( jokey term for the early morning )
Stir up a hornet's
nest
Stir up an ant's
nest
Stool
pigeon
Strictly for the
birds
Swallow
the dictionary
Swallow
your own smoke
Swan
song
Sweet as the moment when the pod went 'pop' (
Birds
Eye Peas advertising slogan )
Swift
half
Take under your
wing
Talk
turkey
Texas
turkey
That bird has flown
The Basketball Jesus ( Nickname of Larry Bird )
The Big
Dipper
( Nickname of Wilt Chamberlain )
The Bird Man of Alcatraz ( Nickname of Robert Stroud )
The Biscuit ( Nickname of John
Cage
( Peter MacNicol ) )
The Black
Falcon
( Nickname of Prince Baccarratti ( Bela Kovacs ) )
The Blue Mosque ( tourist attraction in
Turkey
)
The Boy Wonder ( Nickname of
Robin
)
The Buzzard State ( Nickname of the US state of Georgia )
The
Chicken
( Nickname of Ted Giannoulas mascot )
The
Eagle
has landed
The
Falcon
( Pseudonym of Mike Waring ( Charles McGraw ) )
The Fifth Beatle ( Nickname of Sir George
Martin
)
The Great Bird of the Galaxy ( Nickname of writer Gene Roddenberry )
The Grey
Eagle
( Nickname of Tris Speaker )
The
Hawk
( Nickname of Aaron Pryor )
The
Hawk
( Nickname of Andre Dawson and Ken Harrelson )
The Hick from French Lick ( Nickname of Larry Bird )
The Hornet's
Nest
( Nickname of Charlotte North Carolina )
The Lady of The Lamp ( Nickname of Florence
Nightingale
)
The Little
Sparrow
( Nickname of Edith Piaf )
The Liver
Birds
( BBC comedy television series )
The Mad
Stork
( Nickname of Ted Hendricks )
The Maltese
Falcon
( Humphrey Bogart movie )
The Man With Two Brains ( Steve
Martin
movie )
The
Owl
Without a Vowel ( Nickname of Bill Mlkvy )
The
Owl
and the Pussycat went to sea in a beautiful pea-green boat ( line from nursery rhyme )
The
Phoenix
( Nickname of Lynn Massachusetts )
The Rat Pack ( Nickname of entertainers Dean
Martin
Sammy Davis Jr Peter Lawford Joey Bishop and Frank Sinatra )
The Sick Man of Europe ( Nickname of
Turkey
)
The
Swan
of Avon ( Nickname of William Shakespeare )
The Swedish
Nightingale
( Nickname of Jenny Lind )
The Thorn
Birds
( Colleen McCollough book )
The Valley Of The Sun ( Nickname of
Phoenix
Arizona )
The Wild
Geese
( Richard Harris / Roger Moore movie )
The Wild Horse of the Osage ( Nickname of Pepper
Martin
)
The bird has flown
The
birds
and the bees
The cat that swallowed the
canary
The early bird catches the worm
The eye in the
sky
The glorious twelfth ( of August - the start of the British
grouse
shooting season )
The last
turkey
in the shop
The race is not to the swift, nor the battle to the strong ( quotation from the Bible - Ecclesiastes
The sky's the limit
The smoker's match (
Swan
Vesta matches advertising slogan )
They're waffly versatile ( Bird's Eye Potato Waffles advertising slogan )
Three for a girl (
Magpie
nursery rhyme )
Tit
for tat
To Kill A Mockingbird ( Gregory Peck movie )
Tough pill to
swallow
Turkey
shoot
Turn
geese
into swans
Two for joy (
Magpie
nursery rhyme )
Two little dicky
birds
sitting on a wall, one named Peter, one named Paul ( line from nursery rhyme )
Unique in All the World ( Ford Thunderbird advertising slogan )
Up above the world so high , like a diamond in the
sky
( line from nursery rhyme )
Up with the
lark
Use matches sparingly (
Swan
Vesta matches advertising slogan )
Very interesting, but stupid ( A catchphrase from Rowan and Martin's Laugh In )
Vulture
capitalist
War
eagle
( the golden
eagle
- used by Native Americans to make headdresses )
Was there a lion on your
egg
this morning? ( British
Egg
Marketing Board advertising slogan )
Watch the birdy
Watch you like a
hawk
We do
chicken
right ( Kentucky Fried
Chicken
advertising slogan )
We're the one (
Sky
Television advertising slogan )
Wet your
beak
What a refreshing change (
Woodpecker
cider advertising slogan )
What colour is the
sky
in your world?
What's sauce for the
goose
is sauce for the gander
When your shoes shine, so do you (
Kiwi
Shoe Polish advertising slogan )
Which came first the
chicken
or the egg?
Who killed Cock
Robin
( line from nursery rhyme )
Who rattled your cage?
Who's a pretty boy then?
Why did the
chicken
cross the road?
Wild
goose
chase
Wing
it
Won't make a pom tiddly (
Swan
Light advertising slogan )
Wouldn't say boo to a
goose
You bet your sweet bippy ( A catchphrase from Rowan and Martin's Laugh In )
You can rely on the lion ( British
Egg
Marketing Board advertising slogan )
You could have knocked me down with a
feather
Your
goose
is cooked