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A hewer of
wood
and a drawer of water
A lick of
paint
As boring as watching
paint
dry
As
brown
as a berry
(
the meaning and origin of this phrase...
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Boston
Tar
Baby ( Nickname of boxer Sam Langford )
Brown
Eyes Handsome Man ( Jerry Lee Lewis song )
Brown
Sugar ( Rolling Stones song )
Brown
bag lunch
Brown
bread ( Cockney rhyming slang for dead )
Brown
nosing
Brown
out ( partial loss of electricity )
Brown
sugar ( slang term for heroin )
Brown
trousers
Buffalo Butt ( Nickname of Nathan Bookman ( Johnny
Brown
) )
Can't see the
wood
for the trees
Capability
Brown
( Nickname of Lancelot
Brown
)
Change into your
brown
trousers
Covers the earth ( Sherwin Williams
paint
advertising slogan )
Cut out the dead
wood
Dead
wood
Do I have to
paint
you a picture?
Don't
fence
me in
Don't say
brown
- say Hovis ( Hovis Bread advertising slogan )
Don't spoil the ship for a ha'pworth of
tar
Downtown
Brown
( Nickname of Marcel
Brown
( Tim Reid ) )
Downtown Freddie ( Nickname of basketball player Fred
Brown
)
Get good
wood
on it
Going going gone ( A baseball expression by which an announcer describes a home run that is heading over the
fence
)
He went to bed and bound his head with vinegar and
brown
paper ( line from nursery rhyme )
How now
brown
cow?
I lit a fire, isn't it good, Norwegian wood? ( Beatles song lyric )
In a
brown
study
It's A Man's World ( James
Brown
song )
Jackie
Brown
( Quentin Tarantino movie )
Jolly jack
tar
Knock on
wood
Little
Brown
Jug ( Glenn Miller tune )
Norwegian
Wood
- This Bird Has Flown ( Beatles song )
Paint
It Black ( Rolling Stones song )
Paint
Your Wagon ( Clint Eastwood movie )
Paint
the town red
Paint
yourself into a corner
Papa's Got A Brand New Bag ( James
Brown
song )
Picket
fence
Put the
wood
in the hole
Say It Loud I'm Black And I'm Proud ( James
Brown
song )
See what
brown
can do for you ( UPS advertising slogan )
Sit on the
fence
Sitting on the
fence
Splendour In The Grass ( Warren Beatty / Natalie
Wood
movie )
Super Bad ( James
Brown
song )
The
Brown
Bomber ( Nickname of Joe Louis )
The Godfather of Soul ( Pseudonym of singer James
Brown
)
The grass is always greener on the other side of the
fence
The quick
brown
fox jumps over the lazy dog
Three Finger ( Nickname of Mordecai
Brown
)
Timber!
To gild refined gold, to
paint
the lily
Touch
wood
War
paint
West Side Story ( Leonard Bernstein musical and Natalie
Wood
movie )
When I
Paint
My Masterpiece ( Bob Dylan song )
You keep all your money in a big
brown
bag inside a zoo ( Beatles song lyric )