Wood Phrases

Phrases

• A Tree Grows In Brooklyn (Elia Kazan movie)
• A chip on his shoulder
• 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
• As good luck would have it
• As luck would have it
• Babe in the woods
• Back woods
• Barking up the wrong tree
• Big deal
• Blue chip investment
• Can't see the wood for the trees
• Chance would be a fine thing
• Chip and charge
• Chip and pin
• Chip in with
• Chip jewelry
• Chip off the old block
• Classic Hollywood ending
• Clinch a deal
• Come out of the woodwork
• Crawl out of the woodwork
• Cut a deal
• Cut out the dead wood
• Dead wood
• Deal breaker
• Deal from the bottom of the deck
• Deal maker
• Deal me in
• Deal or no deal
• Deal with it
• Do as you would be done by
• Do bears shit in the woods?
• Do unto others as you would have them do unto you
• 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
• Ebony and ivory
• Eight maids a-milking (line from A Partridge In A Pear Tree)
• Eleven pipers piping (line from A Partridge In A Pear Tree)
• Family tree
• Five golden rings (line from A Partridge In A Pear Tree)
• Forest green
• Fork the tree
• Four by two
• Four calling birds (line from A Partridge In A Pear Tree)
• Froggy Would A Wooing Go
• Get good wood on it
• Give a hoot, don't pollute (United States Forest Service advertising slogan)
• Good luck would have it
• Hello big boy, would you like a nice time?
• High ticket item (a consumer good that would constitute a major expense when bought)
• Hit the woodwork
• Hollywood North (Nickname of Vancouver British Columbia)
• 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)
• If God did not exist, it would be necessary to invent him
• If God had meant us to fly he would have given us wings
• If I had to do the same again, I would my friend Fernando (ABBA lyric)
• If I said you had a beautiful body would you hold it against me?
• 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)
• If enough people would stop smoking and start drinking, we could get out of ashtrays and into vermouth (Cinzano advertising slogan)
• If man were meant to fly, God would have lowered the fares (American Coach Lines advertising slogan)
• If wishes were horses beggars would ride
• If your friend jumped off a cliff, would you do it too?
• 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)
• Luck would have it
• Make a deal with the devil
• Make like a tree and leave

• Mama always said that life is like a box of chocolates. You never know what you're gonna get (line from the movie Forrest Gump)
• Mama always said that there would be days like this
• N*gger in the woodpile
• 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)
• Not out of the woods yet
• Only you can prevent forest fires (United States Forest Service advertising slogan)
• Out of the woods
• 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)
• Rose by any other name would smell as sweet
• 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)
• Shoot straight (to talk or deal honestly)
• Six geese a-laying (line from A Partridge In A Pear Tree)
• Something nasty in the woodshed
• Spit and sawdust
• Splendour In The Grass (Warren Beatty / Natalie Wood movie)
• Square deal
• Starch free as a chip can be (Golden Flake Potato Chips advertising slogan)
• 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)
• That would be telling
• The Art Of The Deal (Donald Trump slogan and book title)
• The Dream Factory (film or television studio where idealised concepts are manufactured - especially Hollywood)
• The Favorite Chip of The S.E.C. (Golden Flake Potato Chips advertising slogan)
• The Joshua Tree (U2 album)
• The Real Deal (Nickname of Evander Holyfield)
• The Show Business Capital Of The World (Nickname of Hollywood California)
• The apple never falls far from the tree
• The crispiest chip in the south (Golden Flake Potato Chips advertising slogan)
• The fruit does not fall far from the tree
• The real deal
• The tree is known by its fruit
• This neck of the woods
• 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!
• Tinseltown (Nickname of Hollywood California)
• 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)
• What a refreshing change (Woodpecker cider advertising slogan)
• What would Jesus do?
• What would you do for a Klondike Bar? (Klondike chocolate advertising slogan)
• What would you think if I sang out of tune (The Beatles song lyric)
• What's in a name? That which we call a rose by any other name would smell as sweet
• Win the wooden spoon
• Without music, life would be a mistake (Friedrich Nietzsche quotation)
• Wooden Heart (Elvis Presley song)
• Woodman spare that tree
• Would not get out of bed for
• Would you Adam and Eve it? (Cockney rhyming slang for would you believe it?)
• Would you be shocked if I put on something more comfortable?
• Would you believe ... (A catchphrase from Get Smart)
• Would you believe it?
• Would you buy a used car from this man?
• Would you do it for a Scooby snack? (A catchphrase from Scooby Doo)
• Would you like fries with that?
• You would forget your head if it weren't screwed on

Related

• A hewer of wood and a drawer of water
• Can't see the wood for the trees
• Cut out the dead wood
• Dead wood
• 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)
• Put the wood in the hole
• Splendour In The Grass (Warren Beatty / Natalie Wood movie)
• Touch wood
• West Side Story (Leonard Bernstein musical and Natalie Wood movie)