Bay Phrases

Phrases

• A Tree Grows In Brooklyn (Elia Kazan movie)
• A child is an island of curiosity surrounded by a sea of question marks (Shell advertising slogan)
• A laurel and hearty handshake
• A partridge in a pear tree
• All at sea
• As difficult as nailing jelly to a tree
• Bark at the moon
• Barking up the wrong tree
• Bay for blood
• Between the Devil and the deep blue sea
• Body off Baywatch, face off Crimewatch
• Castles made of sand fall into the sea eventually
• Cry wolf
• Deep sea data diving
• Deeper Than The Deep Blue Sea (Frank Sinatra song)
• Don't Sit Under The Apple Tree (Glenn Miller tune)
• Don't keep a dog and bark yourself
• 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)
• Eleven secret herbs and spices (claim made for the recipe of Kentucky Fried Chicken)
• Family tree
• 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)
• From sea to shining sea
• Hands across the sea
• Harbour a grudge
• Here's another fine mess you've gotten me into (A catchphrase from Laurel And Hardy)
• His bark is worse than his bite
• Hold at bay
• I think that I shall never see a poem lovely as a tree, Kilmer)
• If all the world were Jell-O, And whipped cream filled the sea, Then the only spoon from here to the moon Would have to belong to me (Jell-O Gelatin Dessert advertising slogan)
• Keep at bay
• Keep the wolf from the door
• Legs like tree trunks
• Lit up like a Christmas tree
• Little Robin Red breast sat upon a tree (line from nursery rhyme)
• Make like a tree and leave
• Nine ladies dancing (line from A Partridge In A Pear Tree)

• Open the bay doors HAL (A catchphrase from 2001, A Space Odyssey)
• Rock a bye baby on the tree top, when the wind blows the cradle will rock (line from nursery rhyme)
• Safe harbour
• Sea Bass (Nickname of Sebastian Janikowski)
• Sea change
• Sea level
• Seven swans a-swimming (line from A Partridge In A Pear Tree)
• She sells sea shells on the sea shore
• Sittin' On The Dock Of The Bay (Otis Redding song)
• Six geese a-laying (line from A Partridge In A Pear Tree)
• Sun, sea and sand
• Sydney Harbour Bridge (tourist attraction in Sydney Australia)
• Ten lords a-leaping (line from A Partridge In A Pear Tree)
• The Bay State (Nickname of the US state of Massachusetts)
• The Boston Tea Party (historical event where chests of tea were dumped into Boston harbour)
• The Bride Of The Sea (Nickname of Venice Italy)
• The End Of The World (Nickname of Anchorage Alaska)
• The Hoosier Hot Shot (Nickname of humourist Herb Shriner)
• The Joshua Tree (U2 album)
• The Old Man And The Sea (Spencer Tracy movie)
• The Owl and the Pussycat went to sea in a beautiful pea-green boat (line from nursery rhyme)
• The apple never falls far from the tree
• The deep blue sea
• The fruit does not fall far from the tree
• The tree is known by its fruit
• There's plenty more fish in the sea
• This precious stone set in the silver sea, this sceptered isle
• 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)
• Top of the tree
• Tree hugger
• Twelve drummers drumming (line from A Partridge In A Pear Tree)
• Twenty thousand leagues under the sea
• Two turtle doves (line from A Partridge In A Pear Tree)
• Under the greenwood tree
• Up a gum tree
• Wolf down
• Wolf in sheep's clothing
• Wolf whistle
• Woodman spare that tree