Bark Phrases

Phrases

• A Tree Grows In Brooklyn (Elia Kazan movie)
• A barking dog never bites
• A dog is a man's best friend
• A dog is for life, not just for Christmas
• A partridge in a pear tree
• As crooked as a dog's hind leg
• As difficult as nailing jelly to a tree
• As fit as a butcher's dog
• As happy as a dog with two tails
• As sick as a dog
• Bark at the moon
• Barking at the ants
• Barking dogs seldom bite
• Barking mad
• Barking up the wrong tree
• Bay for blood
• Big Dog (Nickname of basketball player Glenn Robinson)
• Bird dog
• Black dog
• Cluck and grunt
• Cork out
• Crime Dog (Nickname of baseball player Fred McGriff)
• Doesn't your dog deserve ALPO? (Alpo Dog Food advertising slogan)
• Dog Latin
• Dog and bone (Cockney rhyming slang for telephone)
• Dog and pony show
• Dog bites man
• Dog days
• Dog does not eat dog
• Dog eat dog
• Dog in the manger
• Dog tired
• Dog whistle politics (Political messages intended for a specific knowledgable audience)
• Dog your steps
• Dog's age
• Dog's bollocks
• Dog's breakfast
• Dog's dinner
• Dog's life
• Don't Sit Under The Apple Tree (Glenn Miller tune)
• Don't keep a dog and bark yourself
• Don't treat your puppy like a dog (Ralston Purina Pet Food 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)
• Every dog has his day
• Eye of newt and toe of frog, wool of bat and tongue of dog
• Family tree
• Feed a dog its own tail
• Fight like cat and dog
• Five golden rings (line from A Partridge In A Pear Tree)
• Fork the tree
• Four calling birds (line from A Partridge In A Pear Tree)
• Furry crocodile (military slang term for a guard dog)
• Gay dog
• Give a dog a bad name
• Give a dog a bad name and hang him
• Go to see a man about a dog
• Grunt cruncher (military tank - grunt is a slang term for infantryman)
• Hair of the dog
• Hair of the dog that bit you
• His bark is worse than his bite
• Hold at bay
• Hot diggety dog
• Hound Dog (Elvis Presley song)
• I think that I shall never see a poem lovely as a tree, Kilmer)
• It's been a hard day's night, and I'd been working like a dog (Beatles song lyric)
• Joy to the World (Three Dog Night song)
• Junk Yard Dog (Nickname of Jerome Williams)
• Keep at bay
• Lead a dog's life

• Legs like tree trunks
• Let the dog see the rabbit
• Like a dog with two dicks
• Like a dog with two tails
• Lit up like a Christmas tree
• Little Robin Red breast sat upon a tree (line from nursery rhyme)
• Look you bach
• Love me: love my dog
• Lucky dog
• Mad Dog (Nickname of Gene Hatcher)
• Mad Dog (Nickname of Greg Maddux)
• Mad Dog (Nickname of Mark Madsen)
• Make like a tree and leave
• Man bites dog
• Meaner than a junkyard dog
• Mundian To Bach Ke (Panjabi MC song)
• My dogs are barking
• Never kick a dog when he's down
• Nine ladies dancing (line from A Partridge In A Pear Tree)
• Not fit for a dog
• One Dog (Nickname of Lance Johnson)
• One man and his dog
• Open All Hours (Ronnie Barker television comedy series)
• Open the bay doors HAL (A catchphrase from 2001, A Space Odyssey)
• Outside of a dog, a book is man's best friend. Inside of a dog it's too dark to read (Groucho Marx line)
• Peel me a grape
• Peel off
• Prolongs active life (PAL dog food advertising slogan)
• Put a cork in it
• Put on the dog
• 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)
• Shout at the top of one's lungs
• Shout it from the rooftops
• Shout the odds
• Sittin' On The Dock Of The Bay (Otis Redding song)
• Six geese a-laying (line from A Partridge In A Pear Tree)
• Sly dog
• Sticks and snails and puppy dog's tails that's what little boys are made of (line from nursery rhyme)
• Ten lords a-leaping (line from A Partridge In A Pear Tree)
• That dog won't hunt
• The Bay State (Nickname of the US state of Massachusetts)
• The Hit Dog (Nickname of Mo Vaughn)
• The Joshua Tree (U2 album)
• The apple never falls far from the tree
• The dog ate my homework
• The fruit does not fall far from the tree
• The little dog laughed to see such fun
• The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog
• The tail wagging the dog
• The tree is known by its fruit
• There's life in the old dog yet
• Three French hens (line from A Partridge In A Pear Tree)
• Three dog night
• Tie a Yellow Ribbon Round the Ole Oak Tree (Dawn with Tony Orlando song)
• Top breeders recommend it (Pedigree Chum Dog food advertising slogan)
• Top dog
• Top of the tree
• Tree hugger
• Try it on the dog
• Twelve drummers drumming (line from A Partridge In A Pear Tree)
• Twist And Shout (Beatles song)
• Two turtle doves (line from A Partridge In A Pear Tree)
• Under the greenwood tree
• Until the last dog is hung
• Up a gum tree
• Upper crust
• Woodman spare that tree
• Work like a dog
• Yellow dog Democrat
• Yellow matter custard dripping from a dead dog's eye (Beatles song lyric)
• You can't teach an old dog new tricks