Grape Phrases

Phrases

• A Fatal Inversion (Barbara Vine book)
• Are you a Cadbury's Fruit & Nut case? (Cadburys advertising slogan)
• As nutty as a fruit cake
• Bear fruit
• Clearly Canadian Sparkling Mineral Water in Wild Fruit Flavours (Adelma Mineral Waters advertising slogan)
• Currant bun (Cockney rhyming slang for sun)
• Days of wine and roses
• Die on the vine
• Don't forget the fruit gums Mum (Rowntrees advertising slogan)
• Don't put new wine into old bottles
• Everyone's a Cadbury's Fruit and Nut Case (Cadbury's Fruit and Nut advertising slogan)
• Fools rush in where angels fear to tread
• Forbidden fruit
• Fruit cake
• Grapes, like children, need love and affection (Almaden advertising slogan)
• I Heard It Through The Grapevine (Marvin Gaye song)
• In the grip of the grape
• Juice of the grape
• Last of the Summer Wine
• Low hanging fruit
• New wine in old bottles
• Ooh I could crush a grape! (A catchphrase from Crackerjack)
• Oranges are not the only fruit
• Peel me a grape
• Red red wine
• Sour grapes
• The Grapes Of Wrath (John Steinbeck novel and Henry Fonda movie)
• The fruit does not fall far from the tree
• The tree is known by its fruit
• Time flies like an arrow. Fruit flies like a banana (Groucho Marx line)
• Tread softly because you tread on my dreams (from a poem by Yeats)
• Tread the boards
• We will sell no wine before it is time (Paul Masson Wines advertising slogan)
• Wine, women and song
• Wither on the vine