Sparrow Phrases

Phrases

• A bird in the hand is worth two in the bush
• A little bird told me
• A marvellous bird is the pelican, its beak holds more than its belly can
• And Your Bird Can Sing (Beatles song)
• As brown as a berry
• As free as a bird
• 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
• Brown Eyes Handsome Man (Jerry Lee Lewis song)
• Brown Sugar (Rolling Stones song)
• Brown bag lunch
• Brown bread (Cockney rhyming slang for dead)
• Brown nosing
• Brown out (partial loss of electricity)
• Brown sugar (slang term for heroin)
• Brown trousers
• Buffalo Butt (Nickname of Nathan Bookman (Johnny Brown))
• Capability Brown (Nickname of Lancelot Brown)
• Change into your brown trousers
• Do bird
• Don't say brown - say Hovis (Hovis Bread advertising slogan)
• Downtown Brown (Nickname of Marcel Brown (Tim Reid))
• Downtown Freddie (Nickname of basketball player Fred Brown)
• Early bird
• Eat like a bird
• Flip someone the bird
• Flip the bird
• Free As A Bird (Beatles song)
• Game bird

• Have a bird
• He went to bed and bound his head with vinegar and brown paper (line from nursery rhyme)
• How now brown cow?
• In a brown study
• Is it a bird, is it a plane, no it's Superman? (A catchphrase from Superman)
• It's A Man's World (James Brown song)
• It's the early bird that gets the worm
• Jackie Brown (Quentin Tarantino movie)
• Jail bird
• Larry Legend (Nickname of Larry Bird)
• Little Brown Jug (Glenn Miller tune)
• Norwegian Wood - This Bird Has Flown (Beatles song)
• Papa's Got A Brand New Bag (James Brown song)
• Rare bird
• Say It Loud I'm Black And I'm Proud (James Brown song)
• See what brown can do for you (UPS advertising slogan)
• Sing like a bird
• Sparrow fart (jokey term for the early morning)
• Super Bad (James Brown song)
• That bird has flown
• The Basketball Jesus (Nickname of Larry Bird)
• The Bird Man of Alcatraz (Nickname of Robert Stroud)
• The Brown Bomber (Nickname of Joe Louis)
• The Godfather of Soul (Pseudonym of singer James Brown)
• The Great Bird of the Galaxy (Nickname of writer Gene Roddenberry)
• The Hick from French Lick (Nickname of Larry Bird)
• The Little Sparrow (Nickname of Edith Piaf)
• The bird has flown
• The early bird catches the worm
• The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog
• They're waffly versatile (Bird's Eye Potato Waffles advertising slogan)
• Three Finger (Nickname of Mordecai Brown)
• You keep all your money in a big brown bag inside a zoo (Beatles song lyric)