Spread Phrases

Phrases

• A Town Like Malice (The Jam song)
• A log jam
• Absence makes the heart grow fonder
• Air cover
• All fur coat and no knickers
• As exciting as watching grass grow
• At a stretch
• At full stretch
• Bean feast
• Blackberry jam
• Blow your cover
• Break cover
• By no stretch of the imagination
• Can you tell Stork from butter? (Stork Margarine advertising slogan)
• Cloth ears
• Coat of many colours
• Coughs and sneezes spread diseases
• Cover Point (field position in the game of cricket)
• Cover story
• Cover the waterfront
• Cover to cover
• Cover your back
• Cover your bases
• Cover your tracks
• Cover yourself with glory
• Cut and paste
• Cut from the same cloth
• Cut your coat to suit your cloth
• Deep Extra Cover (field position in the game of cricket)
• Don't let the grass grow under your feet
• Enough is as good as a feast
• Extend the hand of friendship
• Extra Cover (field position in the game of cricket)
• Feast or famine
• Feast your eyes on this
• Get your coat
• Get your coat, you've pulled
• Grow a pair
• Grow a tail
• Grow on you
• Grow up
• High visibility jacket (reflective coat worn to be easily seen)
• Home stretch
• How does your garden grow?
• I grow old, I grow old, I shall wear the bottoms of my trousers rolled (from a poem by Eliot)
• In a jam
• It takes 40 dumb animals to make a fur coat, but only one to wear it
• Jam and Jerusalem
• Jam jar (Cockney rhyming slang for car)
• Jam packed
• Jam session
• Jam tomorrow
• Jam tomorrow and jam yesterday, but never jam today
• Knock the cover off the ball (A baseball expression meaning succeed beyond expectation)
• Little gentleman in the velvet coat
• Man In The Long Black Coat (Bob Dylan song)
• Man of the cloth
• Mary Mary quite contrary, how does your garden grow (line from nursery rhyme)
• Middle-aged spread
• Midnight feast
• Mighty oaks from little acorns grow
• Money doesn't grow on trees
• Moveable feast
• Never judge a book by its cover
• Put on a spread
• Roses grow on you (Cadbury's Roses advertising slogan)
• Run for cover
• Spectre at the feast
• Spread a rumour
• Spread eagled
• Spread like wildfire
• Spread the word
• Spread your wings
• Spread yourself thin
• Stretch a point
• Stretch limo
• Stretch your legs
• Stretch your wings
• The Bandstand Cover Girl (Nickname of Carol Scaldeferri)
• Turn coat
• Under cover of darkness
• Weasel and Stoat (Cockney rhyming slang for coat)
• You can't tell a book by looking at its cover