Copse Phrases

Phrases

• A Tree Grows In Brooklyn (Elia Kazan movie)
• A hewer of wood and a drawer of water
• A house divided against itself cannot stand
• A partridge in a pear tree
• As difficult as nailing jelly to a tree
• Barking up the wrong tree
• Can't see the wood for the trees
• Cut out the dead wood
• Dead wood
• Don't Sit Under The Apple Tree (Glenn Miller tune)
• Don't Stand So Close To Me (Police song)
• Don't just stand there, do something (A catchphrase from Wacky Races)
• 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
• Five golden rings (line from A Partridge In A Pear Tree)
• Forest green
• Fork the tree
• Four calling birds (line from A Partridge In A Pear Tree)
• Get good wood on it
• Give a hoot, don't pollute (United States Forest Service advertising slogan)
• Have your hair stand on end
• I lit a fire, isn't it good, Norwegian wood? (Beatles song lyric)
• I see you stand like greyhounds in the slips
• I think that I shall never see a poem lovely as a tree, Kilmer)
• If you can't stand the heat, get out of the kitchen (A catchphrase from Harry S Truman)
• If you don't stand for something you will fall for anything (Malcolm X quotation)
• Knock on wood
• Know where we stand
• Legs like tree trunks
• Lit up like a Christmas tree
• Little Robin Red breast sat upon a tree (line from nursery rhyme)
• Make like a tree and leave
• Mama always said that life is like a box of chocolates. You never know what you're gonna get (line from the movie Forrest Gump)
• More than flesh and blood can stand
• Nine ladies dancing (line from A Partridge In A Pear Tree)
• Norwegian Wood - This Bird Has Flown (Beatles song)
• One night stand
• One night stand investment
• Only you can prevent forest fires (United States Forest Service advertising slogan)
• Put the wood in the hole
• 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)
• Splendour In The Grass (Warren Beatty / Natalie Wood movie)
• Stand By Your Man (Tammy Wynette song)
• Stand and deliver
• Stand before your maker
• Stand by
• Stand down
• Stand in good stead
• Stand it on its head
• Stand like a Stoughton bottle
• Stand off
• Stand on ceremony
• Stand on one's dignity
• Stand on your own two feet
• Stand out
• Stand out from the crowd
• Stand up and be counted
• Stand up fight
• Stand up for yourself
• Stand up guy
• Take a stand
• Ten lords a-leaping (line from A Partridge In A Pear Tree)
• The Joshua Tree (U2 album)
• The apple never falls far from the tree
• The fruit does not fall far from the tree
• The tree is known by its fruit
• They also serve who only stand and wait (from a poem by Milton)
• 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
• Touch wood
• 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
• United we stand divided we fall
• Up a gum tree
• West Side Story (Leonard Bernstein musical and Natalie Wood movie)
• What is this life if, full of care, we have no time to stand and stare (from a poem by Davies)
• Will the real ... stand up? (A catchphrase from To Tell The Truth)
• Without a leg to stand on
• Woodman spare that tree