Timber Phrases

Phrases

• A Tree Grows In Brooklyn (Elia Kazan movie)
• A hewer of wood and a drawer of water
• A partridge in a pear tree
• Accept a wooden nickel
• Against the grain
• As difficult as nailing jelly to a tree
• Barking up the wrong tree
• Big deal
• Can't see the wood for the trees
• Clinch a deal
• Come out of the woodwork
• Crawl out of the woodwork
• Cut a deal
• Cut out the dead wood
• Cut the cord
• Cut the umbilical cord
• Dead wood
• Deal breaker
• Deal from the bottom of the deck
• Deal maker
• Deal me in
• Deal or no deal
• Deal with it
• Does a wooden horse have a hickory dick?
• Don't Sit Under The Apple Tree (Glenn Miller tune)
• Done deal
• 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)
• Elm City (Nickname of New Haven Connecticut)
• Family tree
• Five golden rings (line from A Partridge In A Pear Tree)
• Fork the tree
• Four by two
• Four calling birds (line from A Partridge In A Pear Tree)
• Get good wood on it
• Hickory dickory dock the mouse ran up the clock (line from nursery rhyme)
• Hit the woodwork
• I lit a fire, isn't it good, Norwegian wood? (Beatles song lyric)
• I think that I shall never see a poem lovely as a tree, Kilmer)
• Knock on wood
• Legs like tree trunks
• Lit up like a Christmas tree
• Little Robin Red breast sat upon a tree (line from nursery rhyme)
• Make a deal with the devil
• Make like a tree and leave

• New Deal (Franklin Roosevelt's social and economic reform)
• Nine ladies dancing (line from A Partridge In A Pear Tree)
• No big deal
• Norwegian Wood - This Bird Has Flown (Beatles song)
• Old Hickory (Nickname of Andrew Jackson)
• Put on the wooden overcoat
• Put the wood in the hole
• Raw deal
• Rock a bye baby on the tree top, when the wind blows the cradle will rock (line from nursery rhyme)
• Running Up that Hill - A Deal with God (Kate Bush song)
• Seal the deal
• Seven swans a-swimming (line from A Partridge In A Pear Tree)
• Shiver me timbers
• Shoot straight (to talk or deal honestly)
• Six geese a-laying (line from A Partridge In A Pear Tree)
• Spit and sawdust
• Splendour In The Grass (Warren Beatty / Natalie Wood movie)
• Square deal
• Strike a deal (or bargain)
• Sweeten the deal
• Sweetheart deal
• Take a long walk off a short plank
• Ten lords a-leaping (line from A Partridge In A Pear Tree)
• The Art Of The Deal (Donald Trump slogan and book title)
• The Joshua Tree (U2 album)
• The Real Deal (Nickname of Evander Holyfield)
• The apple never falls far from the tree
• The fruit does not fall far from the tree
• The real deal
• The tree is known by its fruit
• 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)
• Timber!
• Tongue and groove
• Top of the tree
• Touch wood
• 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
• Up the wooden hill to Bedfordshire
• Walk the plank
• West Side Story (Leonard Bernstein musical and Natalie Wood movie)
• Win the wooden spoon
• Wooden Heart (Elvis Presley song)
• Woodman spare that tree