Varnish Phrases

Phrases

• A hewer of wood and a drawer of water
• A lick of paint
• As boring as watching paint dry
• Can't see the wood for the trees
• Covers the earth (Sherwin Williams paint advertising slogan)
• Cut out the dead wood
• Dead wood
• Do I have to paint you a picture?
• Does exactly what it says on the tin (Ronseal advertising slogan)
• Get good wood on it
• I lit a fire, isn't it good, Norwegian wood? (Beatles song lyric)
• Knock on wood
• Norwegian Wood - This Bird Has Flown (Beatles song)
• Paint It Black (Rolling Stones song)
• Paint Your Wagon (Clint Eastwood movie)
• Paint the town red
• Paint yourself into a corner
• Put the wood in the hole
• Splendour In The Grass (Warren Beatty / Natalie Wood movie)
• To gild refined gold, to paint the lily
• Touch wood
• War paint
• West Side Story (Leonard Bernstein musical and Natalie Wood movie)
• When I Paint My Masterpiece (Bob Dylan song)