Cedar Phrases

Phrases

• A Tree Grows In Brooklyn (Elia Kazan movie)
• A partridge in a pear tree
• As brown as a berry
• As difficult as nailing jelly to a tree
• Barking up the wrong tree
• Brown Eyes Handsome Man (Jerry Lee Lewis song)
• Brown Sugar (Rolling Stones song)
• Brown bag lunch
• Brown bread (Cockney rhyming slang for dead)
• Brown nosing
• Brown out (partial loss of electricity)
• Brown sugar (slang term for heroin)
• Brown trousers
• Buffalo Butt (Nickname of Nathan Bookman (Johnny Brown))
• Capability Brown (Nickname of Lancelot Brown)
• Change into your brown trousers
• Don't Sit Under The Apple Tree (Glenn Miller tune)
• Don't say brown - say Hovis (Hovis Bread advertising slogan)
• Done up like a Christmas tree
• Downtown Brown (Nickname of Marcel Brown (Tim Reid))
• Downtown Freddie (Nickname of basketball player Fred Brown)
• Eight maids a-milking (line from A Partridge In A Pear Tree)
• Eleven pipers piping (line from A Partridge In A Pear Tree)
• 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)
• He went to bed and bound his head with vinegar and brown paper (line from nursery rhyme)
• How now brown cow?
• I think that I shall never see a poem lovely as a tree, Kilmer)
• In a brown study
• It's A Man's World (James Brown song)

• Jackie Brown (Quentin Tarantino movie)
• Legs like tree trunks
• Lit up like a Christmas tree
• Little Brown Jug (Glenn Miller tune)
• 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)
• Papa's Got A Brand New Bag (James Brown song)
• Rock a bye baby on the tree top, when the wind blows the cradle will rock (line from nursery rhyme)
• Say It Loud I'm Black And I'm Proud (James Brown song)
• See what brown can do for you (UPS advertising slogan)
• Seven swans a-swimming (line from A Partridge In A Pear Tree)
• Six geese a-laying (line from A Partridge In A Pear Tree)
• Super Bad (James Brown song)
• Ten lords a-leaping (line from A Partridge In A Pear Tree)
• The Brown Bomber (Nickname of Joe Louis)
• The Godfather of Soul (Pseudonym of singer James Brown)
• The Joshua Tree (U2 album)
• The apple never falls far from the tree
• The fruit does not fall far from the tree
• The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog
• The tree is known by its fruit
• Three Finger (Nickname of Mordecai Brown)
• 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)
• Two turtle doves (line from A Partridge In A Pear Tree)
• Under the greenwood tree
• Up a gum tree
• Woodman spare that tree
• You keep all your money in a big brown bag inside a zoo (Beatles song lyric)