Yard Phrases

Phrases

• A foot in both camps
• Athlete's foot
• Back on your feet
• Barnyard language
• Bear garden
• Bone yard
• Bound hand and foot
• Captain Underpants And The Perilous Plot Of Professor Poopypants (Dav Pilkey book)
• Cold feet
• Come Into The Garden Maud (Tennyson poem and Victorian song)
• Common or garden
• Cut the ground from under your feet
• Do the hard yards (Put in the hard work necessary for success)
• Do you know the piano's on my foot?
• Don't let the grass grow under your feet
• Drag your feet
• Every inch a gentleman
• Everything in the garden is rosey
• Fall on your feet
• False jeopardy (plot device in TV melodramas where danger is threatened only for it to be found to be a false alarm)
• Feet of clay
• Find your feet
• Fleet of foot
• Foot in mouth
• Foot in the bucket (A baseball expression meaning to act timidly or cowardly)
• Foot in the door
• Foot the bill
• Garden suburb
• Gazelles are in the garden
• Get back on your feet
• Get off on the right foot
• Get off on the wrong foot
• Get under your feet
• Get your feet under the table
• Get your feet wet
• Get your foot in the door
• Give him an inch and he'll take a mile
• Graveyard shift
• Gunpowder treason and plot (line from nursery rhyme)
• Half inch (Cockney rhyming slang for pinch)
• Have the ball at your feet
• House and garden
• How does your garden grow?
• I Never Promised You A Rose Garden (Lynn Anderson song)
• I don't believe it (A catchphrase from Victor Meldrew, One Foot In The Grave)
• I'll go to the foot of our stairs
• In An Octopus's Garden In The Shade (The Beatles song)
• Inch along
• Inch by inch
• Itchy feet
• Jump in with both feet
• Junk Yard Dog (Nickname of Jerome Williams)
• Keep your feet
• Keep your feet on the ground
• Keep your feet on the ground and keep reaching for the stars (A catchphrase from Casey Kasem In America's Top 40)
• Knacker's yard
• Lady Madonna, children at your feet (Beatles song lyric)
• Land on your feet

• Lead up the garden path
• Light on your feet
• Lightning Feet (Nickname of Sebastian Janikowski)
• Lose the plot
• Lost the plot
• Madison Square Garden (tourist attraction in the USA)
• Mary Mary quite contrary, how does your garden grow (line from nursery rhyme)
• Meaner than a junkyard dog
• Not a patch on
• Not in my back yard
• Octopus's Garden (The Beatles song)
• On the back foot
• On the wrong foot
• One Foot In The Grave (BBC comedy television series)
• One foot in the grave
• Out on your feet
• Plates of meat (Cockney rhyming slang for feet)
• Pull the rug from under your feet
• Purple patch
• Put a foot wrong
• Put in the hard yards
• Put one foot in front of the other
• Put your best foot forward
• Put your feet up
• Put your foot down
• Put your foot in it
• Put your foot in your mouth
• Round and round the garden like a teddy bear (line from nursery rhyme)
• Run off your feet
• Set foot in
• Shoot yourself in the foot
• Six feet under
• So fast your feet won't touch the ground
• Stand on your own two feet
• Sweep off your feet
• Take the weight off your feet
• The Adventure of the Devil's Foot (Sherlock Holmes story)
• The First Garden City Of The World (Nickname of Letchworth England)
• The Flying Squad (Nickname of the Specialist Crime Directorate, New Scotland Yard)
• The Garden County (nickname of the English county of Hampshire)
• The Garden Of Eden (Ernest Hemingway book)
• The Garden State (Nickname of the US state of New Jersey)
• The Garden of Eden
• The Garden of England (Nickname of the English counties of Kent and Worcestershire)
• The Graveyard Of The Atlantic (Nickname of Cape Hatteras North Carolina)
• The Secret Garden (Frances Hodgson Burnett book)
• The boot is on the other foot
• The patter of tiny feet
• The plot thickens
• The shoe's on the other foot
• The sun is over the yardarm
• Think on your feet
• Two left feet
• Vote with your feet
• Walk someone off their feet
• Walled garden
• Whistling in a graveyard
• Whole nine yards
• Work the rabbit's foot on