Flower Phrases

Phrases

• A place in the sun (an idealistic dream of a sunny hideaway)
• Always pick Flowers (Flowers Fine Ales advertising slogan)
• April showers bring May flowers
• As fresh as a daisy
• Bumps a daisy
• Captain Crunch (Nickname of basketball player Jalen Rose)
• Cauliflower ear
• Cauliflower is nothing but cabbage with a college education (Mark Twain quotation)
• Charlie Hustle (Nickname of baseball player Pete Rose)
• Cheats never prosper
• Come into bloom
• Companion plant (a plant grown near to another species to enhance its growth)
• Cornflower blue
• Daisy chain
• Daisy roots (Cockney rhyming slang for boots)
• Die back
• Driving Miss Daisy (Jessica Tandy / Morgan Freeman movie)
• Every rose has its thorn
• Floral tribute
• Flower power
• Fuchsia pink
• Gin blossom
• Graded grains make finer flour (Homepride Flour advertising slogan)
• Home suite hotel (Larkspur Landing Hotel advertising slogan)
• Hothouse flower
• I Never Promised You A Rose Garden (Lynn Anderson song)
• I wandered lonely as a cloud (from a poem by Wordsworth)
• In flower
• In season
• Keep your sunny side up
• Laid up in lavender
• Let one thousand flowers bloom
• Lily livered
• Live long and prosper (A catchphrase from Star Trek)
• Looking at the world through rose coloured glasses
• March winds and April showers bring forth May flowers
• Milk from contented cows (Carnation Milk advertising slogan)
• Nine To Five (Lily Tomlin / Dolly Parton / Jane Fonda movie)
• On the scent

• On the sunny side of the street
• Primrose path
• Pushing up daisies
• Put off the scent
• Rose by any other name would smell as sweet
• Rose is a rose is a rose
• Rose tinted glasses
• Rose tinted spectacles
• Roses are red, violets are blue
• San Francisco (Be Sure to Wear Flowers in Your Hair) (Scott McKenzie song)
• Say it with flowers (Interflora advertising slogan)
• Scent marking (Leaving a trail of scent marks)
• Scent to bed (French Connection United Kingdom advertising slogan)
• Secondhand rose
• Sprout wings
• Steel Magnolia (Nickname of Rosalynn Carter)
• Still life (a form of painting in which inanimate objects are the subject)
• Sunny Jim (Nickname of Jim Callaghan)
• Sunny side up
• The Camellia State (Nickname of the US state of Alabama)
• The Chrysanthemum Throne (the traditional term for the reign of the Emperor of Japan)
• The Incredible Shrinking Woman (Lily Tomlin / Dolly Parton / Jane Fonda movie)
• The Jersey Lily (Nickname of Lillie Langtry)
• The Little Buttercup (Nickname of Ralph Kramden (Jackie Gleason))
• The Magnolia State (Nickname of the US state of Mississippi)
• The Name Of The Rose (Umberto Eco book)
• The Purple Rose Of Cairo (Woody Allen movie)
• The Tyler Rose (Nickname of Earl Campbell)
• The flower of one's youth
• The plumage of the rose
• Tiptoe through the tulips (1920s Broadway song and Tiny Tim hit)
• To gild refined gold, to paint the lily
• Unleash the power of the sun (Sunny Delight advertising slogan)
• Walnuts and pears you plant for your heirs
• Weed out
• What's in a name? That which we call a rose by any other name would smell as sweet
• When a man you've never met before suddenly gives you flowers (Impulse deodorant advertising slogan)
• Where Have All The Flowers Gone? (Pete Seeger song)
• Whoops a daisy