Avocado Phrases

Phrases

• A Tree Grows In Brooklyn (Elia Kazan movie)
• A partridge in a pear tree
• Anne Of Green Gables (Lucy Maud Montgomery book)
• Are you a Cadbury's Fruit & Nut case? (Cadburys advertising slogan)
• As difficult as nailing jelly to a tree
• As green as grass
• As nutty as a fruit cake
• As sure as God made little green apples
• Ballad of the Green Berets (Staff Sergeant Barry Sadler song)
• Barking up the wrong tree
• Bear fruit
• Boulevard of Broken Dreams (Green Day song)
• British racing green
• Clearly Canadian Sparkling Mineral Water in Wild Fruit Flavours (Adelma Mineral Waters advertising slogan)
• Don't Sit Under The Apple Tree (Glenn Miller tune)
• Don't forget the fruit gums Mum (Rowntrees advertising slogan)
• 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)
• Evenin' all (A catchphrase from Dixon Of Dock Green)
• Everyone's a Cadbury's Fruit and Nut Case (Cadbury's Fruit and Nut advertising slogan)
• F*ck You (Cee Lo Green song)
• Family tree
• Five golden rings (line from A Partridge In A Pear Tree)
• Forbidden fruit
• Forest green
• Fork the tree
• Forty shades of green
• Four calling birds (line from A Partridge In A Pear Tree)
• Fruit cake
• Give it the green light
• Go green
• Go where the green lights lead you
• Good morning! Have you used Pear's Soap? (Pears' Soap advertising slogan)
• Green Scare
• Green around the gills
• Green eyed monster
• Green fingers
• Green fuel
• Green investing
• Green roof
• Green shoots of change
• Green shoots of recovery
• Green slime (military slang term for the intelligence corps)
• Green with envy
• Hands that do dishes can feel soft as your face, with mild green Fairy Liquid (Fairy Liquid advertising slogan)

• I think that I shall never see a poem lovely as a tree, Kilmer)
• I'm not so green as I am cabbage looking
• In the valley of the Jolly Green Giant (Green Giant advertising slogan)
• It's all gone pear shaped
• Jesus saves green shield stamps
• Legs like tree trunks
• Lime green
• Lincoln green
• Lit up like a Christmas tree
• Little Robin Red breast sat upon a tree (line from nursery rhyme)
• Little green men
• Low hanging fruit
• Make like a tree and leave
• Mind how you go (A catchphrase from Dixon of Dock Green)
• Mint green
• Mr. Perfect (Nickname of Jeff Green)
• Nine ladies dancing (line from A Partridge In A Pear Tree)
• Oranges are not the only fruit
• Red and green should never be seen
• Rock a bye baby on the tree top, when the wind blows the cradle will rock (line from nursery rhyme)
• Rub of the green
• Seven swans a-swimming (line from A Partridge In A Pear Tree)
• Six geese a-laying (line from A Partridge In A Pear Tree)
• Stop, Look and Listen; remember the Green Cross Code (UK Road Safety Campaign advertising slogan)
• Ten green bottles sitting on the wall
• Ten lords a-leaping (line from A Partridge In A Pear Tree)
• The Green Berets (John Wayne movie)
• The Green Grocer (Nickname of Joe Carcione)
• The Green Hornet (Pseudonym of Britt Reid (Van Williams))
• The Green Mountain State (Nickname of the US state of Vermont)
• The Joshua Tree (U2 album)
• The apple never falls far from the tree
• The fruit does not fall far from the tree
• The green green grass of home
• The green stuff
• The tree is known by its fruit
• 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)
• Time flies like an arrow. Fruit flies like a banana (Groucho Marx line)
• Top of the tree
• 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
• Where on god's green earth
• Woodman spare that tree