Wool Phrases

Phrases

• Baa baa black sheep have you any wool? (line from nursery rhyme)
• Bless his/her cotton socks
• Dyed in the wool
• Eye of newt and toe of frog, wool of bat and tongue of dog
• Guerrilla knitting (Street art using knitted items)
• In high cotton
• Knit one purl one
• Mary had a little lamb its fleece was white as snow (line from nursery rhyme)
• Nothing over sixpence (Woolworths advertising slogan)
• Now they whisper to her not about her (Cashmere Bouquet Soap advertising slogan)
• Pull the wool over someone's eyes
• The Adventure of the Lion's Mane (Sherlock Holmes story)
• The Cotton State (Nickname of the US state of Alabama)
• Wait just a cotton picking minute
• Wild and woolly
• Woolly Bully (Sam The Sham and The Pharaohs song)
• Woolly thinking
• Yarn bombing (Adorning street furntiure and buildings with knitted items as a form of graffiti)