Grouse Phrases

Phrases

• A bird in the hand is worth two in the bush
• A little bird told me
• A marvellous bird is the pelican, its beak holds more than its belly can
• Air cover
• And Your Bird Can Sing (Beatles song)
• As free as a bird
• Big Bird (Nickname of Joel Garner - Barbados and West Indies cricketer)
• Bird Man (Nickname of basketball player Chris Andersen)
• Bird brained
• Bird dog
• Bird of passage
• Bird's eye view
• Blow your cover
• Break cover
• Cover Point (field position in the game of cricket)
• Cover story
• Cover the waterfront
• Cover to cover
• Cover your back
• Cover your bases
• Cover your tracks
• Cover yourself with glory
• Deep Extra Cover (field position in the game of cricket)
• Do bird
• Early bird
• Eat like a bird
• Extra Cover (field position in the game of cricket)

• Flip someone the bird
• Flip the bird
• Free As A Bird (Beatles song)
• Game bird
• Have a bird
• Is it a bird, is it a plane, no it's Superman? (A catchphrase from Superman)
• It's the early bird that gets the worm
• Jail bird
• Knock the cover off the ball (A baseball expression meaning succeed beyond expectation)
• Larry Legend (Nickname of Larry Bird)
• Never judge a book by its cover
• Norwegian Wood - This Bird Has Flown (Beatles song)
• Rare bird
• Run for cover
• Sing like a bird
• That bird has flown
• The Bandstand Cover Girl (Nickname of Carol Scaldeferri)
• The Basketball Jesus (Nickname of Larry Bird)
• The Bird Man of Alcatraz (Nickname of Robert Stroud)
• The Great Bird of the Galaxy (Nickname of writer Gene Roddenberry)
• The Hick from French Lick (Nickname of Larry Bird)
• The bird has flown
• The early bird catches the worm
• The glorious twelfth (of August - the start of the British grouse shooting season)
• They're waffly versatile (Bird's Eye Potato Waffles advertising slogan)
• Under cover of darkness
• You can't tell a book by looking at its cover