Swift 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
• All of a sudden
• And Your Bird Can Sing (Beatles song)
• As fast as greased lightning
• As fast as his legs could carry him
• As free as a bird
• As quick as a flash
• Bad news travels fast
• 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
• Bitter pill to swallow
• Blazing fast
• Boutros Boutros Ghali (A catchphrase from The Fast Show)
• Cut to the quick
• Do bird
• Does my bum look big in this? (A catchphrase from The Fast Show)
• Double quick
• Down to the pub for a quick one
• Early bird
• Eat like a bird
• Fast Freddie (Nickname of Andrew Flintoff - English cricketer)
• Fast acting
• Fast and furious
• Fast as greased lightning
• Fast as his legs could carry him
• Fast buck
• Fast food and good for you (Egg Marketing Board advertising slogan)
• Fast forward
• Fast lane
• Fast mover
• Fast movers (US and Canadian military slang term for jet fighters, especially ground)
• Fast track
• Flash crash (the sudden drop in the Dow Jones Index in 2010)
• Fleet footed
• Fleet of foot
• Flip someone the bird
• Flip the bird
• Free As A Bird (Beatles song)
• Game bird
• Get Rich quick (Kenco Really Rich Coffee advertising slogan)
• Get nowhere fast
• Get rich quick
• Go ahead, make my day (A catchphrase from Sudden Impact)
• Going nowhere fast
• Hard and fast
• Hard to swallow
• Have a bird
• Hold fast
• I Knew You Were Trouble (Taylor Swift song)
• I was very very drunk (A catchphrase from The Fast Show)
• I'm a little bit wooooor, a little bit waaaaaaaaaayy, I'm a geezer! (A catchphrase from Chris The Crafty Cockney In The Fast Show)
• In quick succession
• Instant Karma (John Lennon song)
• Instant messaging
• Instant replay
• Is it a bird, is it a plane, no it's Superman? (A catchphrase from Superman)
• It's jack-a-licious! (Jack in the Box fast food chain advertising slogan)
• It's the early bird that gets the worm
• Jack be nimble Jack be quick (line from nursery rhyme)
• Jack's back (Jack in the Box fast food chain advertising slogan)
• Jail bird
• Kiss me quick
• Larry Legend (Nickname of Larry Bird)
• Life in the fast lane
• Love Story (Taylor Swift song)
• Make fast
• Mongoose Quick Rick (Nickname of Ricky Davis)
• Moving swiftly on
• Nick the Quick (Nickname of Nick Van Exel)
• Norwegian Wood - This Bird Has Flown (Beatles song)
• Not so fast
• One swallow doesn't make a summer
• Pat a cake, Pat a cake, baker's man, bake me a cake as fast as you can (line from nursery rhyme)
• Play fast and loose
• Pull a fast one
• Quick and dirty
• Quick buck
• Quick change artist
• Quick off the mark
• Quick on the draw
• Quick one
• Quick smart
• Quick study
• Quick witted
• Quick, Henry, the FLIT! (Flit insecticide advertising slogan)
• Rare bird
• Sing like a bird
• Slow slow quick quick slow
• So fast your feet won't touch the ground
• Suit you, sir (A catchphrase from The Fast Show)
• Swallow the dictionary
• Swallow your own smoke
• Swift half
• That bird has flown
• The Basketball Jesus (Nickname of Larry Bird)
• The Bird Man of Alcatraz (Nickname of Robert Stroud)
• The Demon Barber of Fleet Street (Nickname of Sweeney Todd)
• The Fast Gun From Texas (Nickname of Dan Troop (John Russell))
• The Great Bird of the Galaxy (Nickname of writer Gene Roddenberry)
• The Hick from French Lick (Nickname of Larry Bird)
• The bird has flown
• The early bird catches the worm
• The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog
• The race is not to the swift, nor the battle to the strong (quotation from the Bible - Ecclesiastes
• There's fast food, and then there's KFC (KFC advertising slogan)
• They're waffly versatile (Bird's Eye Potato Waffles advertising slogan)
• Thick and fast
• Think fast
• Tough pill to swallow
• Which was nice (A catchphrase from The Fast Show)