Woodpecker Phrases

Phrases

• A Tree Grows In Brooklyn (Elia Kazan movie)
• A bird in the hand is worth two in the bush
• A hewer of wood and a drawer of water
• A little bird told me
• A marvellous bird is the pelican, its beak holds more than its belly can
• A partridge in a pear tree
• And Your Bird Can Sing (Beatles song)
• As difficult as nailing jelly to a tree
• As free as a bird
• Barking up the wrong tree
• Big Bird (Nickname of Joel Garner - Barbados and West Indies cricketer)
• Bird Man (Nickname of basketball player Chris Andersen)
• Bird brained
• Bird dog
• Bird of passage
• Bird's eye view
• Can't see the wood for the trees
• Cut out the dead wood
• Dead wood
• Do bird
• Don't Sit Under The Apple Tree (Glenn Miller tune)
• Done up like a Christmas tree
• Early bird
• Eat like a bird
• 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)
• Flip someone the bird
• Flip the bird
• Fork the tree
• Four calling birds (line from A Partridge In A Pear Tree)
• Free As A Bird (Beatles song)
• Game bird
• Get good wood on it
• Have a bird
• 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)
• Is it a bird, is it a plane, no it's Superman? (A catchphrase from Superman)
• It's the early bird that gets the worm
• Jail bird
• Keep your pecker up

• Knock on wood
• Larry Legend (Nickname of Larry Bird)
• Legs like tree trunks
• Lit up like a Christmas tree
• Little Robin Red breast sat upon a tree (line from nursery rhyme)
• Make like a tree and leave
• Nine ladies dancing (line from A Partridge In A Pear Tree)
• Norwegian Wood - This Bird Has Flown (Beatles song)
• Pecker checker (military slang term for medical personnel)
• Pecker head
• Put the wood in the hole
• Rare bird
• 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)
• Sing like a bird
• 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)
• That bird has flown
• The Basketball Jesus (Nickname of Larry Bird)
• The Bird Man of Alcatraz (Nickname of Robert Stroud)
• The Great Bird of the Galaxy (Nickname of writer Gene Roddenberry)
• The Hick from French Lick (Nickname of Larry Bird)
• The Joshua Tree (U2 album)
• The apple never falls far from the tree
• The bird has flown
• The early bird catches the worm
• The fruit does not fall far from the tree
• The tree is known by its fruit
• They're waffly versatile (Bird's Eye Potato Waffles advertising slogan)
• 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)
• 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)
• What a refreshing change (Woodpecker cider advertising slogan)
• Woodman spare that tree