Rooster Phrases

Phrases

• A chicken in every pot
• All to cock (ruined or shambolic)
• Artemis Fowl (Eoin Colfer book)
• As mad as a wet hen
• As scarce as hen's teeth
• Attila The Hen (Nickname of Margaret Thatcher)
• Bet on a lame rooster
• Better an egg today than a hen tomorrow
• Buy a bucket of chicken and have a barrel of fun (Kentucky Fried Chicken advertising slogan)
• 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
• Choke the chicken
• Cock a hoop
• Cock a leg
• Cock a snook
• Cock an ear
• Cock and bull story
• Cock it up
• Cock of the walk
• Cock sure
• Cock teaser

• Cock up
• Corn and cluck for a buck (Kentucky Fried Chicken advertising slogan)
• Eleven secret herbs and spices (claim made for the recipe of Kentucky Fried Chicken)
• Finger-lickin' good (Kentucky Fried Chicken advertising slogan)
• Go off at half cock
• Headless chicken
• Hen party
• If you want Kentucky Fried Chicken, you have to visit me (Kentucky Fried Chicken advertising slogan)
• It takes a tough man to make a tender chicken (Perdue Farms advertising slogan)
• Like a chicken with its head cut off
• Little Red Rooster (Rolling Stones song)
• Mother hen
• No spring chicken
• Nobody does chicken like KFC (Kentucky Fried Chicken advertising slogan)
• On you like a chicken on a junebug
• Play chicken
• Real goodness from Kentucky Fried Chicken (Kentucky Fried Chicken advertising slogan)
• Ride a cock horse to Banbury Cross to see a fine lady upon a white horse (line from nursery rhyme)
• Rubber chicken (poor quality or overcooked chicken)
• Rubber chicken curcuit (a speaking or fundraising event at which poor quality meat is served)
• The Chicken (Nickname of Ted Giannoulas mascot)
• We do chicken right (Kentucky Fried Chicken advertising slogan)
• Which came first the chicken or the egg?
• Who killed Cock Robin (line from nursery rhyme)
• Why did the chicken cross the road?
• Wotcher cock (Cockney version of 'Hello')