Berry Phrases

Phrases

• A sledgehammer to crack a nut
• Are you a Cadbury's Fruit & Nut case? (Cadburys advertising slogan)
• As brown as a berry
• As nutty as a fruit cake
• As sweet as a nut
• Bear fruit
• Beautiful downtown Burbank (A catchphrase from Rowan And Martin's Laugh In)
• Blackberry jam
• Blow a raspberry (Cockney rhyming slang for fart)
• Blueberry Hill (Fats Domino song)
• Bury the hatchet
• Bury your head in the sand
• Bury yourself in your work
• Cherry pick
• Cherry pie
• Cherry ripe (Cockney rhyming slang for pipe)
• Cherry top
• Clearly Canadian Sparkling Mineral Water in Wild Fruit Flavours (Adelma Mineral Waters advertising slogan)
• Crying Waiting Hoping (Buddy Holly song)
• Currant bun (Cockney rhyming slang for sun)
• Deck the halls with boughs of holly
• Do your nut
• Don't forget the fruit gums Mum (Rowntrees advertising slogan)
• Everyone's a Cadbury's Fruit and Nut Case (Cadbury's Fruit and Nut advertising slogan)
• Forbidden fruit
• Fruit cake
• Here comes de judge (A catchphrase from Rowan and Martin's Laugh In)
• Hip and happening
• Hip hip hooray
• Hip hop
• Hit me on the hip
• Home For The Holidays (film starring Holly Hunter and Robert Downey Jr.)
• It's a honey of an O, it's Honey Nut Cheerios (Cheerios advertising slogan)
• Johnny B Goode (Chuck Berry song)
• Joined at the hip
• Let me take you down, cos I'm going to Strawberry Fields (Beatles song lyric)
• Let the dead bury the dead
• Look that up in your Funk and Wagnalls! (A catchphrase from Rowan And Martin's Laugh-In)
• Lose your cherry
• Low hanging fruit
• Maybe Baby (Buddy Holly song)
• Memphis Tennessee (Chuck Berry song)

• My Ding A Ling (Chuck Berry song)
• Nobody can say no to the honey nut Os in Honey Nut Cheerios (Cheerios Cereals advertising slogan)
• Not Fade Away (Buddy Holly song)
• Nut factory
• Oh Boy (Buddy Holly song)
• Olive branch
• One ringy-dingy...two ringy-dingies (A catchphrase from Ernestine In Rowan and Martin's Laugh-In)
• Oranges are not the only fruit
• Peggy Sue (Buddy Holly song)
• Peggy Sue Got Married (Buddy Holly song)
• Play gooseberry
• Pop someone's cherry
• Race for the taste, the honey sweet taste!, the honey-nutty taste of Honey Nut Cheerios (Cheerios Cereals advertising slogan)
• Raining In My Heart (Buddy Holly song)
• Raspberry Beret (Prince song)
• Raspberry Ripple
• Raspberry pink
• Raspberry tart (Cockney rhyming slang for fart)
• Rave On (Buddy Holly song)
• Reelin' And Rockin' (Chuck Berry song)
• Rock and roll
• Roll Over Beethoven (Chuck Berry song)
• Say goodnight Dick (A catchphrase from Rowan and Martin's Laugh In)
• Second bite of the cherry
• Shoot from the hip
• Sock it to me (A catchphrase from Rowan and Martin's Laugh In)
• Some kind of a nut
• Sometimes you feel like a nut, sometimes you don't (Peter Paul Mounds advertising slogan)
• Strawberry Fields Forever (Beatles song)
• Sweet Little Sixteen (Chuck Berry / Beatles song)
• That'll Be The Day (Buddy Holly song)
• The Cherry Orchard (play by Anton Chekhov)
• The cherry on the cake
• The fruit does not fall far from the tree
• The tree is known by its fruit
• Time flies like an arrow. Fruit flies like a banana (Groucho Marx line)
• Too Much Monkey Business (Chuck Berry song)
• Tough nut to crack
• True Love Ways (Buddy Holly song)
• Very interesting, but stupid (A catchphrase from Rowan and Martin's Laugh In)
• Words Of Love (Buddy Holly song)
• You Never Can Tell (Chuck Berry song)
• You bet your sweet bippy (A catchphrase from Rowan and Martin's Laugh In)