Tern Phrases

Phrases

• A bird in the hand is worth two in the bush
• A child is an island of curiosity surrounded by a sea of question marks (Shell advertising slogan)
• A hands turn
• A little bird told me
• A marvellous bird is the pelican, its beak holds more than its belly can
• A turn for the worse
• About turn
• All at sea
• And Your Bird Can Sing (Beatles song)
• As free as a bird
• Bad turn
• Between the Devil and the deep blue sea
• 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
• Buggin's turn
• Can't Turn You Loose (Otis Redding song)
• Castles made of sand fall into the sea eventually
• Deep sea data diving
• Deeper Than The Deep Blue Sea (Frank Sinatra song)
• Didn't turn a hair
• Do a good turn
• Do bird
• Done to a turn
• Early bird
• Eat like a bird
• Even a worm will turn
• Flip someone the bird
• Flip the bird
• Free As A Bird (Beatles song)
• From sea to shining sea
• Game bird
• Hand's turn
• Handbrake turn (180 degree turn in a car by locking the back wheels)
• Hands across the sea
• Have a bird
• If all the world were Jell-O, And whipped cream filled the sea, Then the only spoon from here to the moon Would have to belong to me (Jell-O Gelatin Dessert advertising slogan)
• Is it a bird, is it a plane, no it's Superman? (A catchphrase from Superman)
• It's the early bird that gets the worm
• Jail bird
• Larry Legend (Nickname of Larry Bird)
• Norwegian Wood - This Bird Has Flown (Beatles song)
• On the turn
• One good turn deserves another
• One two many and you might turn Bertie (Bassett's Liquorice Allsorts advertising slogan)
• Please turn over
• Rare bird
• Sea Bass (Nickname of Sebastian Janikowski)
• Sea change

• Sea level
• She sells sea shells on the sea shore
• Sing like a bird
• Sun, sea and sand
• Take a turn for the worse
• That bird has flown
• The Basketball Jesus (Nickname of Larry Bird)
• The Bird Man of Alcatraz (Nickname of Robert Stroud)
• The Bride Of The Sea (Nickname of Venice Italy)
• The Great Bird of the Galaxy (Nickname of writer Gene Roddenberry)
• The Hick from French Lick (Nickname of Larry Bird)
• The Old Man And The Sea (Spencer Tracy movie)
• The Owl and the Pussycat went to sea in a beautiful pea-green boat (line from nursery rhyme)
• The bird has flown
• The deep blue sea
• The early bird catches the worm
• The smallest worm will turn, being trodden on
• There's plenty more fish in the sea
• They're waffly versatile (Bird's Eye Potato Waffles advertising slogan)
• This precious stone set in the silver sea, this sceptered isle
• Turn a blind eye
• Turn a trick
• Turn back the clock
• Turn coat
• Turn geese into swans
• Turn heads
• Turn in
• Turn it in
• Turn of events
• Turn of phrase
• Turn of the century
• Turn on
• Turn on a dime
• Turn on the fun (Best Buy advertising slogan)
• Turn on your heel
• Turn on, tune in, drop out (A catchphrase from Timothy Leary)
• Turn over a new leaf
• Turn that frown upside down
• Turn the clock back
• Turn the corner
• Turn the other cheek
• Turn the tables
• Turn the tide
• Turn to ashes in your mouth
• Turn turtle
• Turn up for the books
• Turn up the heat
• Turn up your toes
• Turn your back on
• Turn your nose up at
• Turn your stomach
• Twenty thousand leagues under the sea