Acorn Phrases

Phrases

• A Tree Grows In Brooklyn (Elia Kazan movie)
• A partridge in a pear tree
• A sledgehammer to crack a nut
• Acknowledge the corn
• Are you a Cadbury's Fruit & Nut case? (Cadburys advertising slogan)
• As difficult as nailing jelly to a tree
• As solid as an oak
• As sweet as a nut
• Barking up the wrong tree
• Can of corn (A baseball expression meaning a ball which is easy to catch)
• Code monkey (slang term for a computer programmer)
• Computer assisted
• Computer nerd
• Computer says no (A catchphrase from Little Britain)
• Corn and cluck for a buck (Kentucky Fried Chicken advertising slogan)
• Corn fed
• Do your nut
• Don't Sit Under The Apple Tree (Glenn Miller tune)
• Done up like a Christmas tree
• Dude, you're gettin' a Dell! (Dell Computer advertising slogan)
• Earl the Squirrel (Nickname of basketball player Earl Boykins)
• Earn your corn
• Easy as Dell (Dell Computer advertising slogan)
• Eight maids a-milking (line from A Partridge In A Pear Tree)
• Eleven pipers piping (line from A Partridge In A Pear Tree)
• Even a blind hog finds an acorn once in a while
• Everyone's a Cadbury's Fruit and Nut Case (Cadbury's Fruit and Nut advertising slogan)
• Everything is easier on a Mac (Apple Computer advertising slogan)
• Family tree
• Five golden rings (line from A Partridge In A Pear Tree)
• For the rest of us (Apple Computer advertising slogan)
• Fork the tree
• Four calling birds (line from A Partridge In A Pear Tree)
• Gone to seed
• Gotta have my pops! (Corn Pops advertising slogan)
• Hearts of oak
• I think that I shall never see a poem lovely as a tree, Kilmer)
• It's a honey of an O, it's Honey Nut Cheerios (Cheerios advertising slogan)
• Legs like tree trunks
• Lit up like a Christmas tree
• Little Robin Red breast sat upon a tree (line from nursery rhyme)
• Live Oak (Nickname of Edward S.Taylor)
• Make like a tree and leave
• Mighty oaks from little acorns grow

• Multimedia you can use (Apple Computer advertising slogan)
• Nine ladies dancing (line from A Partridge In A Pear Tree)
• Nobody can say no to the honey nut Os in Honey Nut Cheerios (Cheerios Cereals advertising slogan)
• Nut factory
• Parsley seed goes nine times to the devil
• Power is Macintosh (Apple Computer advertising slogan)
• Purple squirrel
• Race for the taste, the honey sweet taste!, the honey-nutty taste of Honey Nut Cheerios (Cheerios Cereals advertising slogan)
• Rip mix burn (Apple Computer advertising slogan)
• Rock a bye baby on the tree top, when the wind blows the cradle will rock (line from nursery rhyme)
• Run to seed
• Seed capital
• Seed money
• Seven swans a-swimming (line from A Partridge In A Pear Tree)
• Six geese a-laying (line from A Partridge In A Pear Tree)
• Some kind of a nut
• Sometimes you feel like a nut, sometimes you don't (Peter Paul Mounds advertising slogan)
• Squirrel away
• Ten lords a-leaping (line from A Partridge In A Pear Tree)
• The Corn State (Nickname of the US state of Iowa)
• The Joshua Tree (U2 album)
• The Oak (Nickname of Stockholm Sweden)
• The apple never falls far from the tree
• The fruit does not fall far from the tree
• The network is the computer (Sun Microsystems advertising slogan)
• The power to be your best (Apple Computer advertising slogan)
• The sheep's in the meadow the cow's in the corn (line from nursery rhyme)
• The tree is known by its fruit
• Think different (Apple Computer advertising slogan)
• Think outside the box (Apple Computer 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)
• To err is human, but to really foul things up requires a computer
• Top of the tree
• Top seed
• Tough nut to crack
• Tree hugger
• Twelve drummers drumming (line from A Partridge In A Pear Tree)
• Two all beef patties special sauce lettuce cheese pickles onions on a sesame seed bun (McDonald's advertising slogan)
• Two turtle doves (line from A Partridge In A Pear Tree)
• Under the greenwood tree
• Up a gum tree
• When the oak is before the ash, then you will only get a splash; when the ash
• Woodman spare that tree