Twig Phrases

Phrases

• A stick to beat you with
• Better than a poke in the eye with a sharp stick
• Branch out
• Cancer stick
• Carrot and stick
• Dropped off the perch
• Every stick has two ends
• Fork out
• Fork the tree
• Get hold of the wrong end of the stick
• Go out on a limb
• Hit by the stupid stick
• In a cleft stick

• Knife and fork it
• Life and limb
• More than you can shake a stick at
• Olive branch
• Risk life and limb
• Root and branch
• Shit (or short) end of the stick
• Short end of the stick
• Speak softly and carry a big stick
• Stick fingers
• Stick in the mud
• Stick it to the man
• Stick to you like glue

• Stick to your guns
• Stick to your knitting
• Stick with me, kid
• Stick your chin out
• Stick your neck out
• Tear limb from limb
• The Mahatma (Nickname of Branch Rickey executive)
• The cobbler should stick to his last
• The shit end of the stick
• The short end of the stick
• Throw enough dirt and some will stick
• When the bough breaks the cradle will fall, and down will come baby, cradle and all (line from nursery rhyme)
• Where's your white stick referee?