Bird Phrases

Phrases

• A Kestrel For A Knave (Barry Hines book)
• A bird in the hand is worth two in the bush
• A box of birds
• A chicken in every pot
• A day without sunshine is like, you know, night (Steve Martin quotation)
• A feather in your cap
• A good egg
• A little bird told me
• A marvellous bird is the pelican, its beak holds more than its belly can
• A nest of vipers
• A partridge in a pear tree
• Accept that some days you are the pigeon, some days you are the statue
• All aboard the Skylark (A line from Noah and Nelly)
• All around Robin Hood's barn
• All my eye and Betty Martin
• All your base are belong to us (broken English phrase used in the video game Zero Wing)
• An albatross round his neck
• And Your Bird Can Sing (Beatles song)
• Arse over tit
• As bald as a coot
• As cold as a witch's tit
• As dead as a dodo
• As free as a bird
• As happy as a lark
• As high as a kite
• As light as a feather
• As loose as a goose
• As mad as a wet hen
• As naked as a jaybird
• As proud as a peacock
• As scarce as hen's teeth
• As sick as a parrot
• As the crow flies
• As tight as a duck's arse
• As wise as an owl
• Attila The Hen (Nickname of Margaret Thatcher)
• Bad egg
• Batman and Robin (Nickname of baseball players Mike Piazza and Robin Ventura)
• Beautiful downtown Burbank (A catchphrase from Rowan And Martin's Laugh In)
• Being For The Benefit Of Mr. Kite! (The Beatles song)
• Better an egg today than a hen tomorrow
• Big Bird (Nickname of Joel Garner - Barbados and West Indies cricketer)
• Bird Man (Nickname of basketball player Chris Andersen)
• Bird brained
• Bird dog
• Bird of passage
• Bird's eye view
• Birdman Of Alcatraz (Burt Lancaster movie)
• Birds do it, bees do it, even educated fleas do it
• Birds of a Feather (BBC comedy television series)
• Birds of a feather flock together
• Bitter pill to swallow
• Black Hawk Down (Ewan McGregor movie)
• Blue Jay Way (Beatles song)
• Blue sky thinking
• Booby prize
• Booby trap
• Bright Lights, Big City (Jay Mcinerney book)
• Budgie smuggler
• Butter and egg man
• Buy a bucket of chicken and have a barrel of fun (Kentucky Fried Chicken advertising slogan)
• Buzzard meat
• Can you tell Stork from butter? (Stork Margarine advertising slogan)
• Charm the birds out of the trees
• Cheaper By The Dozen (Steve Martin movie)
• Chick flick
• Chick lit
• Chick magnet
• Chicken Legs (Nickname of Marcy Rhodes (Amanda Bearse))
• Chicken Man (Nickname of baseball player Wade Boggs)
• Chicken capital, USA (Kentucky Fried Chicken advertising slogan)
• Chicken feed
• Chicken in a basket
• Chicken out
• Chirpy Chirpy Cheep Cheep (Middle of the Road song)
• Choke the chicken
• Clay pigeon
• Cloud cuckoo land
• Cock and bull story
• Cold Turkey (John Lennon song)
• Cold turkey
• Columbus egg
• Come home to Birds Eye Country (Birds Eye Frozen Foods advertising slogan)
• Cook your goose
• Corn and cluck for a buck (Kentucky Fried Chicken advertising slogan)
• Cuckoo for Coco Pops (Coco Pops advertising slogan)
• Culture vulture
• Curate's egg
• Dead Men Don't Wear Plaid (Steve Martin movie)
• Dead duck
• Do bird
• Down came a blackbird and pecked off her nose (line from nursery rhyme)
• Duck Soup (Marx Brothers movie)
• Duck squeezer
• Duck the question
• Eagle eyed
• Eagle freak
• Early bird
• Eat crow
• Eat like a bird
• Eddie The Eagle (Nickname of Eddie Edwards)
• Egg and spoon race
• Egg on
• Egg on your face
• Eleven secret herbs and spices (claim made for the recipe of Kentucky Fried Chicken)
• Empty nest syndrome
• Excuse me (A catchphrase from Steve Martin)
• F*ck a duck
• Fast food and good for you (Egg Marketing Board advertising slogan)
• Father Of The Bride (Steve Martin movie)
• Feather in your cap
• Feather your nest
• Finger-lickin' good (Kentucky Fried Chicken advertising slogan)
• Five for silver (Magpie nursery rhyme)
• Flip someone the bird
• Flip the bird
• Fly a kite
• Fly the nest
• For the benefit of Mr.Kite there will be a show tonight on trampoline (Beatles song lyric)
• For the birds
• Four calling birds (line from A Partridge In A Pear Tree)
• Four for a boy (Magpie nursery rhyme)
• Free As A Bird (Beatles song)
• Fully fledged
• Gaggle of geese
• Game bird
• Get out of jail free
• Get out of jail free card (a means of avoiding justice - from the eponymous card in the Monopoly boardgame)
• Go directly to jail, do not pass go
• Go fly a kite
• Go suck an egg
• Go to work on an egg (British Egg Marketing Board advertising slogan)
• Good egg
• Gutter snipe
• Happiness is egg shaped (British Egg Marketing Board advertising slogan)
• Hard to swallow
• Hark, hark! the lark at heaven's gate sings
• Have a bird
• Headless chicken
• Hen party
• Here comes de judge (A catchphrase from Rowan and Martin's Laugh In)
• Honey, I just forgot to duck
• I Can Help (Billy Swan song)
• I Knew You Were Trouble (Taylor Swift song)
• I Think I Love You (The Partridge Family song)
• I didn't get where I am today (A catchphrase from Martin Clunes In Reggie Perrin)
• If it looks like a duck and it quacks like a duck, it probably is a duck
• If the sky falls we shall catch larks
• If you want Kentucky Fried Chicken, you have to visit me (Kentucky Fried Chicken advertising slogan)
• In full feather
• In the catbird seat
• Is it a bird, is it a plane, no it's Superman? (A catchphrase from Superman)
• It takes a tough man to make a tender chicken (Perdue Farms advertising slogan)
• It's the early bird that gets the worm
• Jail bait
• Jail bird
• Jonnies out of jail
• Juno and the Paycock (play by Sean O'Casey)
• Kid n' Play (Nickname of Kevin Martin)
• Kill the goose that lays the golden egg
• Kill two birds with one stone
• Killing the goose that lays the golden eggs
• Kite marked
• Knee high to a duck
• L A Story (Steve Martin movie)
• Lame duck
• Lark about
• Larry Legend (Nickname of Larry Bird)
• Last one there is a rotten egg
• Lay an egg
• Leave the nest

• Left wing
• Legal eagle
• Let It Snow (Sammy Cahn song recorded by Sinatra and Dean Martin)
• Like a chicken with its head cut off
• Like a duck to water
• Like shit through a goose
• Like water off a duck's back
• Little Robin Red breast sat upon a tree (line from nursery rhyme)
• Livin' la Vida Loca (Ricky Martin song)
• Look that up in your Funk and Wagnalls! (A catchphrase from Rowan And Martin's Laugh-In)
• Lord love a duck
• Love Story (Taylor Swift song)
• Love nest
• Lucy In The Sky With Diamonds (Beatles song)
• Making the sky the best place on Earth (Air France advertising slogan)
• March Of The Penguins (Morgan Freeman movie)
• Mare's nest
• Mother hen
• My Own Private Idaho (River Phoenix movie)
• Nest egg
• Night owl
• No spring chicken
• Nobody does chicken like KFC (Kentucky Fried Chicken advertising slogan)
• Norwegian Wood - This Bird Has Flown (Beatles song)
• Nothing succeeds like a parrot with no teeth
• On a wing and a prayer
• On you like a chicken on a junebug
• One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (Jack Nicholson movie)
• One for sorrow (Magpie nursery rhyme)
• One ringy-dingy...two ringy-dingies (A catchphrase from Ernestine In Rowan and Martin's Laugh-In)
• One swallow doesn't make a summer
• Our feathered friends
• Out for a duck
• Out of the clear blue sky
• P.P.Pick up a Penguin (United Biscuits advertising slogan)
• Papa Bear Colonel (Nickname of Robert Hogan (Bob Crane))
• Parrot fashion
• Pecking order
• Penguin suit
• Phoenix Nights (BBC comedy television series)
• Phoenix from the flames
• Pie in the sky
• Play chicken
• Put the cat amongst the pigeons
• Quoth the raven
• Rare bird
• Real goodness from Kentucky Fried Chicken (Kentucky Fried Chicken advertising slogan)
• Red Army Fraction (German left wing terrorist group also call Red Army Faction)
• Red sky at night shepherds delight
• Red sky in the morning, shepherds warning
• Right wing
• Rise like a Phoenix from the ashes
• Robin Hood - Men In Tights (Mel Brooks movie)
• Robin Prince Of Thieves (Kevin Costner movie)
• Round Robin
• Rubber chicken (poor quality or overcooked chicken)
• Rubber chicken curcuit (a speaking or fundraising event at which poor quality meat is served)
• Rubber duck (a floating bath toy)
• Say goodnight Dick (A catchphrase from Rowan and Martin's Laugh In)
• Seven for a secret, never to be told (Magpie nursery rhyme)
• Shoot a birdie (score one under par in a golf shot)
• Show the white feather
• Sing like a bird
• Singing like a duck
• Sitting duck
• Six for gold (Magpie nursery rhyme)
• Six geese a-laying (line from A Partridge In A Pear Tree)
• Sky blue
• Sky high
• Smokers are requested to use Swan Vestas (Swan Vesta matches advertising slogan)
• Sock it to me (A catchphrase from Rowan and Martin's Laugh In)
• Sod this for a lark
• Something to crow about
• Sparrow fart (jokey term for the early morning)
• Stir up a hornet's nest
• Stir up an ant's nest
• Stool pigeon
• Strictly for the birds
• Swallow the dictionary
• Swallow your own smoke
• Swan song
• Sweet as the moment when the pod went 'pop' (Birds Eye Peas advertising slogan)
• Swift half
• Take under your wing
• Talk turkey
• Texas turkey
• That bird has flown
• The Basketball Jesus (Nickname of Larry Bird)
• The Big Dipper (Nickname of Wilt Chamberlain)
• The Bird Man of Alcatraz (Nickname of Robert Stroud)
• The Biscuit (Nickname of John Cage (Peter MacNicol))
• The Black Falcon (Nickname of Prince Baccarratti (Bela Kovacs))
• The Blue Mosque (tourist attraction in Turkey)
• The Boy Wonder (Nickname of Robin)
• The Buzzard State (Nickname of the US state of Georgia)
• The Chicken (Nickname of Ted Giannoulas mascot)
• The Eagle has landed
• The Falcon (Pseudonym of Mike Waring (Charles McGraw))
• The Fifth Beatle (Nickname of Sir George Martin)
• The Great Bird of the Galaxy (Nickname of writer Gene Roddenberry)
• The Grey Eagle (Nickname of Tris Speaker)
• The Hawk (Nickname of Aaron Pryor)
• The Hawk (Nickname of Andre Dawson and Ken Harrelson)
• The Hick from French Lick (Nickname of Larry Bird)
• The Hornet's Nest (Nickname of Charlotte North Carolina)
• The Lady of The Lamp (Nickname of Florence Nightingale)
• The Little Sparrow (Nickname of Edith Piaf)
• The Liver Birds (BBC comedy television series)
• The Mad Stork (Nickname of Ted Hendricks)
• The Maltese Falcon (Humphrey Bogart movie)
• The Man With Two Brains (Steve Martin movie)
• The Owl Without a Vowel (Nickname of Bill Mlkvy)
• The Owl and the Pussycat went to sea in a beautiful pea-green boat (line from nursery rhyme)
• The Phoenix (Nickname of Lynn Massachusetts)
• The Rat Pack (Nickname of entertainers Dean Martin Sammy Davis Jr Peter Lawford Joey Bishop and Frank Sinatra)
• The Sick Man of Europe (Nickname of Turkey)
• The Swan of Avon (Nickname of William Shakespeare)
• The Swedish Nightingale (Nickname of Jenny Lind)
• The Thorn Birds (Colleen McCollough book)
• The Valley Of The Sun (Nickname of Phoenix Arizona)
• The Wild Geese (Richard Harris / Roger Moore movie)
• The Wild Horse of the Osage (Nickname of Pepper Martin)
• The bird has flown
• The birds and the bees
• The cat that swallowed the canary
• The early bird catches the worm
• The eye in the sky
• The glorious twelfth (of August - the start of the British grouse shooting season)
• The last turkey in the shop
• The race is not to the swift, nor the battle to the strong (quotation from the Bible - Ecclesiastes
• The sky's the limit
• The smoker's match (Swan Vesta matches advertising slogan)
• They're waffly versatile (Bird's Eye Potato Waffles advertising slogan)
• Three for a girl (Magpie nursery rhyme)
• Tit for tat
• To Kill A Mockingbird (Gregory Peck movie)
• Tough pill to swallow
• Turkey shoot
• Turn geese into swans
• Two for joy (Magpie nursery rhyme)
• Two little dicky birds sitting on a wall, one named Peter, one named Paul (line from nursery rhyme)
• Unique in All the World (Ford Thunderbird advertising slogan)
• Up above the world so high , like a diamond in the sky (line from nursery rhyme)
• Up with the lark
• Use matches sparingly (Swan Vesta matches advertising slogan)
• Very interesting, but stupid (A catchphrase from Rowan and Martin's Laugh In)
• Vulture capitalist
• War eagle (the golden eagle - used by Native Americans to make headdresses)
• Was there a lion on your egg this morning? (British Egg Marketing Board advertising slogan)
• Watch the birdy
• Watch you like a hawk
• We do chicken right (Kentucky Fried Chicken advertising slogan)
• We're the one (Sky Television advertising slogan)
• Wet your beak
• What a refreshing change (Woodpecker cider advertising slogan)
• What colour is the sky in your world?
• What's sauce for the goose is sauce for the gander
• When your shoes shine, so do you (Kiwi Shoe Polish advertising slogan)
• Which came first the chicken or the egg?
• Who killed Cock Robin (line from nursery rhyme)
• Who rattled your cage?
• Who's a pretty boy then?
• Why did the chicken cross the road?
• Wild goose chase
• Wing it
• Won't make a pom tiddly (Swan Light advertising slogan)
• Wouldn't say boo to a goose
• You bet your sweet bippy (A catchphrase from Rowan and Martin's Laugh In)
• You can rely on the lion (British Egg Marketing Board advertising slogan)
• You could have knocked me down with a feather
• Your goose is cooked

Related

• A bird in the hand is worth two in the bush
• A little bird told me
• A marvellous bird is the pelican, its beak holds more than its belly can
• And Your Bird Can Sing (Beatles song)
• As free as a bird
• Big Bird (Nickname of Joel Garner - Barbados and West Indies cricketer)
• Bird Man (Nickname of basketball player Chris Andersen)
• Bird brained
• Bird dog
• Bird of passage
• Bird's eye view
• Do bird
• Early bird
• Eat like a bird
• Flip someone the bird
• Flip the bird
• Free As A Bird (Beatles song)
• Game bird
• Have a bird
• Is it a bird, is it a plane, no it's Superman? (A catchphrase from Superman)
• It's the early bird that gets the worm
• Jail bird
• Larry Legend (Nickname of Larry Bird)
• Norwegian Wood - This Bird Has Flown (Beatles song)
• Rare bird
• Sing like a bird
• That bird has flown
• The Basketball Jesus (Nickname of Larry Bird)
• The Bird Man of Alcatraz (Nickname of Robert Stroud)
• The Great Bird of the Galaxy (Nickname of writer Gene Roddenberry)
• The Hick from French Lick (Nickname of Larry Bird)
• The bird has flown
• The early bird catches the worm
• They're waffly versatile (Bird's Eye Potato Waffles advertising slogan)