Chestnut Phrases

Phrases

• A Man Called Horse (Richard Harris movie)
• A Tree Grows In Brooklyn (Elia Kazan movie)
• A camel is a horse designed by committee
• A horse, a horse, my kingdom for a horse
• A partridge in a pear tree
• A sledgehammer to crack a nut
• Age cannot wither her, nor custom stale her infinite variety
• Are you a Cadbury's Fruit & Nut case? (Cadburys advertising slogan)
• As difficult as nailing jelly to a tree
• As nutty as a fruit cake
• As rare as rocking horse droppings
• As sweet as a nut
• Back the wrong horse
• Barking up the wrong tree
• Bear fruit
• Charley horse
• Choke a horse
• Clearly Canadian Sparkling Mineral Water in Wild Fruit Flavours (Adelma Mineral Waters advertising slogan)
• Dark horse
• Do your nut
• Does a wooden horse have a hickory dick?
• Don't Sit Under The Apple Tree (Glenn Miller tune)
• Don't forget the fruit gums Mum (Rowntrees advertising slogan)
• Don't look a gift horse in the mouth
• Done up like a Christmas tree
• Duncan the Wonder Horse (Nickname of TV news anchor Tom Brokaw)
• Eat like a horse
• Eight maids a-milking (line from A Partridge In A Pear Tree)
• Eleven pipers piping (line from A Partridge In A Pear Tree)
• Everyone's a Cadbury's Fruit and Nut Case (Cadbury's Fruit and Nut advertising slogan)
• Family tree
• Fifteen men on a dead man's chest
• Five golden rings (line from A Partridge In A Pear Tree)
• Flogging a dead horse
• For want of a nail the shoe was lost; for want of a shoe the horse was lost; and for want of a horse the man was lost
• Forbidden fruit
• Fork the tree
• Four calling birds (line from A Partridge In A Pear Tree)
• Fruit cake
• Gee gee (childish term for a horse)
• Get it off your chest
• Get off your high horse
• Holding your cards close to your chest
• Horse Feathers (Marx Brothers movie)
• Horse and cart (Cockney rhyming slang for fart)
• Horse around
• Horse feathers
• Horse laugh
• Horse of a different colour
• Horse play
• Horse sense
• Horse whisperer
• Horse's ass

• Horse's douffers
• Hung like a horse
• I could eat a horse
• I think that I shall never see a poem lovely as a tree, Kilmer)
• It's a honey of an O, it's Honey Nut Cheerios (Cheerios advertising slogan)
• It's no use locking the stable door after the horse has bolted
• Legs like tree trunks
• Lit up like a Christmas tree
• Little Robin Red breast sat upon a tree (line from nursery rhyme)
• Love and marriage go together like a horse and carriage
• Low hanging fruit
• Make like a tree and leave
• My friend, Joe Holmes, is now a horse (Arrow Shirts advertising slogan)
• Never look a gift horse in the mouth
• Nine ladies dancing (line from A Partridge In A Pear Tree)
• Nobody can say no to the honey nut Os in Honey Nut Cheerios (Cheerios Cereals advertising slogan)
• Nut factory
• Old chestnut
• One horse town
• Oranges are not the only fruit
• Piss like a race horse
• Pull your chestnuts out of the fire
• Put the cart before the horse
• Puts hair on your chest
• Race for the taste, the honey sweet taste!, the honey-nutty taste of Honey Nut Cheerios (Cheerios Cereals advertising slogan)
• Ride a cock horse to Banbury Cross to see a fine lady upon a white horse (line from nursery rhyme)
• 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)
• Six geese a-laying (line from A Partridge In A Pear Tree)
• Some kind of a nut
• Sometimes you feel like a nut, sometimes you don't (Peter Paul Mounds advertising slogan)
• Stalking horse
• Ten lords a-leaping (line from A Partridge In A Pear Tree)
• The Horse Whisperer (Robert Redford movie)
• The Iron Horse (Nickname of Lou Gehrig)
• The Joshua Tree (U2 album)
• The Wild Horse of the Osage (Nickname of Pepper Martin)
• The apple never falls far from the tree
• The fruit does not fall far from the tree
• The tree is known by its fruit
• 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)
• Time flies like an arrow. Fruit flies like a banana (Groucho Marx line)
• Top of the tree
• Tough nut to crack
• Treasure chest
• 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
• Where rocking horse people eat marshmallow pies (Beatles song lyric)
• Woodman spare that tree
• You can lead a horse to water but you can't make it drink