Coppice Phrases

Phrases

• A Tree Grows In Brooklyn (Elia Kazan movie)
• A partridge in a pear tree
• As difficult as nailing jelly to a tree
• Barking up the wrong tree
• Clean cut boy
• Cut a cheque
• Cut a dash
• Cut a deal
• Cut a hog
• Cut a long story short
• Cut a rug
• Cut a wide swathe (make a pompous display)
• Cut above the rest
• Cut and dried
• Cut and paste
• Cut and run
• Cut and shut
• Cut and thrust
• Cut bait
• Cut corners
• Cut costs
• Cut from the same cloth
• Cut it fine
• Cut it out
• Cut loose
• Cut no ice
• Cut off at the knees
• Cut off without a penny
• Cut out for
• Cut out the dead wood
• Cut prices to the bone
• Cut some slack
• Cut someone dead
• Cut someone down in their prime
• Cut someone down to size
• Cut the Gordian knot
• Cut the cackle
• Cut the cheese
• Cut the cord
• Cut the crap
• Cut the ground from under your feet
• Cut the mustard
• Cut the umbilical cord
• Cut throat competition
• Cut through the red tape
• Cut to the chase
• Cut to the quick
• Cut up about
• Cut up rough
• Cut your coat to suit your cloth
• Cut your losses
• Cut your own throat
• Cut your teeth

• Director's cut
• Don't Sit Under The Apple Tree (Glenn Miller tune)
• Don't cut off your nose to spite your face
• 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)
• Family tree
• Final cut
• First cut
• Fish or cut bait
• 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)
• Half cut
• Have your work cut out for you
• I think that I shall never see a poem lovely as a tree, Kilmer)
• Legs like tree trunks
• Like a chicken with its head cut off
• Lit up like a Christmas tree
• Little Robin Red breast sat upon a tree (line from nursery rhyme)
• Make like a tree and leave
• Make the cut
• Measure twice, cut once
• Miss the cut
• My stomach thinks my throat's been cut
• Nine ladies dancing (line from A Partridge In A Pear Tree)
• Not cut out for it
• Prime cut
• 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)
• Stop all the clocks, cut off the telephone (from a poem by Auden)
• Ten lords a-leaping (line from A Partridge In A Pear Tree)
• The Final Cut (Pink Floyd song)
• The First Cut Is The Deepest (Rod Stewart song)
• The Joshua Tree (U2 album)
• The apple never falls far from the tree
• The cut of your jib
• The fruit does not fall far from the tree
• The tree is known by its fruit
• The unkindest cut of all
• 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)
• Timber!
• To cut a long story short
• 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 could have cut the atmosphere with a knife