Forest Phrases

Phrases

• A Tree Grows In Brooklyn (Elia Kazan movie)
• A hewer of wood and a drawer of water
• A partridge in a pear tree
• Acid rain
• As difficult as nailing jelly to a tree
• Barking up the wrong tree
• Can't see the wood for the trees
• Concrete jungle
• Cut out the dead wood
• Dead wood
• Don't Sit Under The Apple Tree (Glenn Miller tune)
• 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
• Forrest Gump (Tom Hanks movie)
• 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)
• I lit a fire, isn't it good, Norwegian wood? (Beatles song lyric)
• I think that I shall never see a poem lovely as a tree, Kilmer)
• It's a jungle out there
• Jungle Jim (Nickname of Jim Loscutoff)
• Jungle boogie
• Jungle fever
• Jungle juice
• King of the jungle
• Knock on wood
• 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)
• Nine ladies dancing (line from A Partridge In A Pear Tree)
• Norwegian Wood - This Bird Has Flown (Beatles song)
• 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)
• Run Forrest, Run! (line from the movie Forrest Gump)
• 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)
• Ten lords a-leaping (line from A Partridge In A Pear Tree)
• The Joshua Tree (U2 album)
• The Jungle Book (Disney cartoon movie)
• The apple never falls far from the tree
• The blackboard jungle
• The fruit does not fall far from the tree
• The law of the jungle
• 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)
• 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
• Up a gum tree
• Welcome to the Jungle (Guns n Roses song)
• West Side Story (Leonard Bernstein musical and Natalie Wood movie)
• Woodman spare that tree
• Yellowstone Park (tourist attraction in the USA)
• Yosemite National Park (tourist attraction in the USA)