Sapling Phrases

Phrases

• A Tree Grows In Brooklyn (Elia Kazan movie)
• A partridge in a pear tree
• A still small voice
• All creatures great and small
• As difficult as nailing jelly to a tree
• As small as the hairs on a gnat's bollock
• Barking up the wrong tree
• Big fish in a small pool (someone considered influential compared to their less significant peers)
• Don't Sit Under The Apple Tree (Glenn Miller tune)
• Don't sweat the small stuff
• 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
• 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)
• Gnat's bollock (slang term for a very small unit of measurement)
• Good things come in small packages
• Good things come in small parcels
• Greasy spoon (a small cheap cafe selling fried food)
• I think that I shall never see a poem lovely as a tree, Kilmer)
• 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
• Nine ladies dancing (line from A Partridge In A Pear Tree)
• No job too small
• One small step for man, one giant leap for mankind (Neil Armstrong quotation)
• Rock a bye baby on the tree top, when the wind blows the cradle will rock (line from nursery rhyme)
• Seeing small business differently (SBC Communications advertising slogan)

• Seven swans a-swimming (line from A Partridge In A Pear Tree)
• Six geese a-laying (line from A Partridge In A Pear Tree)
• Small beer
• Small fortune
• Small is beautiful
• Small minded
• Small potatoes
• Small wonder
• Small wonder (Volkswagen advertising slogan)
• Solutions for a small planet (IBM advertising slogan)
• Sprout wings
• Ten lords a-leaping (line from A Partridge In A Pear Tree)
• The God Of Small Things (Arundhati Roy book)
• The Joshua Tree (U2 album)
• The apple never falls far from the tree
• The fruit does not fall far from the tree
• The next small thing
• The small screen
• The still small voice of God
• The tree is known by its fruit
• The winner takes it all, the loser standing small (ABBA lyric)
• Think small (Volkswagen advertising slogan)
• 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)
• 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
• Wee small hours of the morning
• Woodman spare that tree