Woodland 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
• A prophet is not recognized in his own land
• As difficult as nailing jelly to a tree
• Barking up the wrong tree
• Can't see the wood for the trees
• Cloud cuckoo land
• Cut out the dead wood
• Dead wood
• Don't Sit Under The Apple Tree (Glenn Miller tune)
• 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)
• Family tree
• Five golden rings (line from A Partridge In A Pear Tree)
• Forest green
• Fork the tree
• Four calling birds (line from A Partridge In A Pear Tree)
• From the Land of Sky-Blue Waters (Hamm's Beer advertising slogan)
• Get good wood on it
• Give a hoot, don't pollute (United States Forest Service advertising slogan)
• Great Land (Nickname of the US state of Alaska)
• He's a real nowhere man sitting in his nowhere land (The Beatles song lyric)
• 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)
• In the land of Nod
• In the land of the living
• Knock on wood
• La la land
• Land ahoy
• Land grab
• Land locked
• Land of hope and glory
• Land of make believe
• Land of milk and honey
• Land of nod
• Land of the pharaohs
• Land office business
• Land on your feet
• Land up in
• Land's sake
• Legs like tree trunks
• Lend a hand on the land (WWII slogan)
• Lit up like a Christmas tree
• Little Robin Red breast sat upon a tree (line from nursery rhyme)
• Living off the fat of the land
• 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)
• Never never land
• Nine ladies dancing (line from A Partridge In A Pear Tree)
• No man's land
• Norwegian Wood - This Bird Has Flown (Beatles song)
• Only you can prevent forest fires (United States Forest Service advertising slogan)
• Put the wood in the hole
• Rock a bye baby on the tree top, when the wind blows the cradle will rock (line from nursery rhyme)
• Seven swans a-swimming (line from A Partridge In A Pear Tree)
• Six geese a-laying (line from A Partridge In A Pear Tree)
• Splendour In The Grass (Warren Beatty / Natalie Wood movie)
• Ten lords a-leaping (line from A Partridge In A Pear Tree)
• The Joshua Tree (U2 album)
• The Land of The Rising Sun (Nickname of Japan)
• The Waste Land
• The apple never falls far from the tree
• The fruit does not fall far from the tree
• The land of Nod
• The land of the free
• The land that time forgot
• The law of the land
• The lay of the land
• The length and breadth of the land
• The lie of the land
• The tree is known by its fruit
• This Hard Land (Bruce Springsteen song)
• This Land Is Your Land (Woody Guthrie song)
• Three French hens (line from A Partridge In A Pear Tree)
• Thus far into the bowels of the land
• Tie a Yellow Ribbon Round the Ole Oak Tree (Dawn with Tony Orlando song)
• 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
• West Side Story (Leonard Bernstein musical and Natalie Wood movie)
• Woodman spare that tree