Trees Phrases

Phrases

• A Tree Grows In Brooklyn (Elia Kazan movie)
• A partridge in a pear tree
• Acid rain
• As difficult as nailing jelly to a tree
• Barking up the wrong tree
• Can't see the wood for the trees
• Charm the birds out of the trees
• Don't Sit Under The Apple Tree (Glenn Miller tune)
• Done up like a Christmas tree
• Eats shooots and leaves (classic example of the need for punctuation)
• Eats, Shoots And Leaves (Lynne Truss book)
• 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
• 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)
• I think that I shall never see a poem lovely as a tree, Kilmer)
• It leaves a lot to be desired
• Leaves a bad taste in the mouth
• Leaves a lot to be desired
• Legs like tree trunks
• Lit up like a Christmas tree
• Little Robin Red breast sat upon a tree (line from nursery rhyme)
• Make like a tree and leave
• Money doesn't grow on trees
• Nine ladies dancing (line from A Partridge In A Pear Tree)
• Only you can prevent forest fires (United States Forest Service advertising slogan)
• Rock a bye baby on the tree top, when the wind blows the cradle will rock (line from nursery rhyme)
• Seven swans a-swimming (line from A Partridge In A Pear Tree)
• Six geese a-laying (line from A Partridge In A Pear Tree)
• Tangerine trees and marmalade skies (Beatles song lyric)
• Ten lords a-leaping (line from A Partridge In A Pear Tree)
• The Joshua Tree (U2 album)
• The apple never falls far from the tree
• The fruit does not fall far from the tree
• 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)
• Time out for tiny little tea leaves in Tetley Tea (Tetley Tea advertising slogan)
• Top of the tree
• 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
• Woodman spare that tree