Turkey Phrases

Phrases

• A bird in the hand is worth two in the bush
• A chicken in every pot
• A golden key can open any door
• A little bird told me
• A marvellous bird is the pelican, its beak holds more than its belly can
• A piece of meat
• All you add is love (Ralston Purina Pet Food advertising slogan)
• An everyday story of country folk (A catchphrase from The Archers)
• And Your Bird Can Sing (Beatles song)
• As dead as a dodo
• As free as a bird
• As loose as a goose
• Ask not what your country can do for you, but what you can do for your country
• Babies love it (Cow & Gate Milk Food advertising slogan)
• Beat your meat
• Big Bird (Nickname of Joel Garner - Barbados and West Indies cricketer)
• Big Country (Nickname of basketball player Bryant Reeves)
• Bird Man (Nickname of basketball player Chris Andersen)
• Bird brained
• Bird dog
• Bird of passage
• Bird's eye view
• Buy a bucket of chicken and have a barrel of fun (Kentucky Fried Chicken advertising slogan)
• Buzzard meat
• Chicken Legs (Nickname of Marcy Rhodes (Amanda Bearse))
• Chicken Man (Nickname of baseball player Wade Boggs)
• Chicken capital, USA (Kentucky Fried Chicken advertising slogan)
• Chicken feed
• Chicken in a basket
• Chicken out
• Choke the chicken
• Cold Turkey (John Lennon song)
• Cold meat
• Cold turkey
• Come home to Birds Eye Country (Birds Eye Frozen Foods advertising slogan)
• Come to Marlboro Country (Marlboro Cigarettes advertising slogan)
• Comfort food
• Cook your goose
• Corn and cluck for a buck (Kentucky Fried Chicken advertising slogan)
• Country Pie (Bob Dylan song)
• Country cousin
• Country gentleman
• Country house hotel (an upmarket hotel located in a revamped rural mansion)
• Country pursuits
• Country rock
• Country sports
• Cry the beloved country
• Dead meat
• Deja food
• Devil's food cake (A rich chocolate cake)
• Do bird
• Do you like hospital food?
• Doesn't your dog deserve ALPO? (Alpo Dog Food advertising slogan)
• Don't treat your puppy like a dog (Ralston Purina Pet Food advertising slogan)
• Early bird
• Easy meat
• Eat like a bird
• Eight out of ten cats prefer it (Whiskas Cat Food advertising slogan)
• Eleven secret herbs and spices (claim made for the recipe of Kentucky Fried Chicken)
• Failure to launch
• Fast food and good for you (Egg Marketing Board advertising slogan)
• Fear Is The Key (Barry Newman movie)
• Finger food
• Finger-lickin' good (Kentucky Fried Chicken advertising slogan)
• Flip someone the bird
• Flip the bird
• Food chain
• Food for thought
• Food miles
• Food of the gods
• Food, Folks and Fun (McDonald's advertising slogan)
• Fortress Europe
• Free As A Bird (Beatles song)
• Game bird
• Girl From The North Country (Bob Dylan song)
• Go to the country
• God's chosen country
• God's own country (Kerala, India advertising slogan)
• Good talk saves the food
• Greasy spoon (a small cheap cafe selling fried food)
• Have a bird
• Headless chicken
• If music be the food of love, play on (from Twelth Night by Shakespeare)
• If you want Kentucky Fried Chicken, you have to visit me (Kentucky Fried Chicken advertising slogan)
• Is it a bird, is it a plane, no it's Superman? (A catchphrase from Superman)
• It is meat and drink to me
• It takes a tough man to make a tender chicken (Perdue Farms advertising slogan)
• It's a free country
• It's all meat, a real treat
• It's jack-a-licious! (Jack in the Box fast food chain advertising slogan)
• It's the early bird that gets the worm
• Jack's back (Jack in the Box fast food chain advertising slogan)
• Jail bird
• Junk food
• Key of the door (Bingo call for number twenty one)
• Key to your heart
• Kill the goose that lays the golden egg
• Killing the goose that lays the golden eggs
• Larry Legend (Nickname of Larry Bird)
• Like a chicken with its head cut off
• Like shit through a goose
• Like turkeys voting for Christmas
• Lock him up and throw away the key
• Low key
• Meat and drink
• Meat and potatoes
• Meat and two veg
• Meat head
• Meat is murder
• Meat market
• Meat packer
• Meat wagon
• Mother country
• My country right or wrong
• Mystery meat
• No spring chicken
• Nobody does chicken like KFC (Kentucky Fried Chicken advertising slogan)
• Norwegian Wood - This Bird Has Flown (Beatles song)
• Nothing else is Arthur's good (Arthur's Cat Food advertising slogan)
• Off key
• Off your food
• On you like a chicken on a junebug
• One man's meat is another man's poison
• Plates of meat (Cockney rhyming slang for feet)
• Play chicken
• Pork, the other white meat (National Pork Council advertising slogan)
• Prolongs active life (PAL dog food advertising slogan)
• Rabbit food
• Rare bird
• Real food for real people (The beef industry advertising slogan)
• Real goodness from Kentucky Fried Chicken (Kentucky Fried Chicken advertising slogan)
• Rubber chicken (poor quality or overcooked chicken)
• Rubber chicken curcuit (a speaking or fundraising event at which poor quality meat is served)
• Silver service (a method of serving food using silver cutlery)
• Sing like a bird
• Skeleton key
• So Farley's, so good (Farley's Baby Food advertising slogan)
• Soul food
• Soup is good food (Campbell's Condensed Soup advertising slogan)
• Success has many fathers, while failure is an orphan
• Talk turkey
• Tastes so good cats ask for it by name (Meow Mix Cat food advertising slogan)
• Texas turkey
• That bird has flown
• The Basketball Jesus (Nickname of Larry Bird)
• The Bird Man of Alcatraz (Nickname of Robert Stroud)
• The Blue Mosque (tourist attraction in Turkey)
• The Chicken (Nickname of Ted Giannoulas mascot)
• The Delia Effect (increase in sales of food ingredients featured on Delia Smith's cookery shows)
• The Final Countdown (song by the Swedish band Europe)
• The Gateway To Europe (Nickname of Amsterdam)
• The Great Bird of the Galaxy (Nickname of writer Gene Roddenberry)
• The Heart Of Europe (Nickname of Prague Czech Republic)
• The Hick from French Lick (Nickname of Larry Bird)
• The Sick Man of Europe (Nickname of Turkey)
• The bird has flown
• The cat who doesn't act finicky soon loses control of his owner (9 Lives Cat Food advertising slogan)
• The crowned heads of Europe
• The early bird catches the worm
• The key to a nice, relaxed evening (Horlicks advertising slogan)
• The last turkey in the shop
• The old country
• The past is a foreign country: they do things differently there (the opening line of The Go-Between)
• The sick man of Europe
• There's fast food, and then there's KFC (KFC advertising slogan)
• They're waffly versatile (Bird's Eye Potato Waffles advertising slogan)
• This line of country
• Throw away the key
• Top breeders recommend it (Pedigree Chum Dog food advertising slogan)
• Turkey shoot
• Under lock and key
• We do chicken right (Kentucky Fried Chicken advertising slogan)
• What we have here is a failure to communicate (line from Cool Hand Luke)
• What's sauce for the goose is sauce for the gander
• Which came first the chicken or the egg?
• While in Europe, pick up an ugly European (Volkswagen advertising slogan)
• Why did the chicken cross the road?
• Wild goose chase
• Wouldn't say boo to a goose
• You are now free to move about the country (Southwest Airlines advertising slogan)
• You'll never put a better bit of butter on your knife (Country Life butter advertising slogan)
• Young turk
• Your country needs you
• Your goose is cooked