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A
bird
in the hand is worth two in the bush
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A bit of a
porridge
A little
bird
told me
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A marvellous
bird
is the pelican, its beak holds more than its belly can
Above the
law
Against the
law
And Your
Bird
Can Sing ( Beatles song )
As black as Newgate's knocker
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As free as a
bird
At her majesty's pleasure
Bang to rights
Banged up
Bean Burrito ( Nickname of basketball player
Nick
Young )
Behind bars
Big
Bird
( Nickname of Joel Garner - Barbados and West Indies cricketer )
Big house
Bird
Man ( Nickname of basketball player Chris Andersen )
Bird
brained
Bird
dog
Bird
of passage
Bird's eye view
Birdman Of
Alcatraz
( Burt Lancaster movie )
Brush with the
law
Cause a
stir
Cell
division ( biology )
Central heating for kids ( Ready Brek
porridge
advertising slogan )
Clap him in irons
Click it or ticket ( United States seat belt
law
advertising slogan )
Cold Mountain ( Jude
Law
/ Renee Zellweger / Nicole Kidman movie )
Complex
sentence
( a
sentence
containing subordinate clauses )
Cool your heels
Cooler
heads will prevail
Costa Del
Crime
Crime
And Punishment ( Fyodor Dostoyevsky book )
Crime
Dog ( Nickname of baseball player Fred McGriff )
Crime
against nature
Crime
doesn't pay
Crime
of passion
Detained at Her Majesty's pleasure
Do
bird
Do hard time ( Spend time in a high security
prison
)
Don't have nightmares ( A catchphrase from
Nick
Ross )
Driving Miss Daisy ( Jessica Tandy / Morgan Freeman movie )
Drunk tank
Early
bird
Eat like a
bird
Fall foul of the
law
Flip someone the
bird
Flip the
bird
Folsom
Prison
Blues ( Johnny Cash song )
Free As A
Bird
( Beatles song )
Free Nelson Mandela
Game
bird
Get busy living, or get busy dying ( line from the movie The Shawshank Redemption )
Get out of jail free
Get out of jail free card ( a means of avoiding justice - from the eponymous card in the Monopoly boardgame )
Go directly to jail, do not pass go
Go straight
Go to
law
Hard cases make bad
law
Have a
bird
His word is
law
I arrest you in the name of the
law
I fought the
law
and the
law
won
If you can't do the time, don't do the
crime
In good
nick
In the eyes of the
law
In the
nick
of time
In the slammer
Is it a bird, is it a plane, no it's Superman? ( A catchphrase from Superman )
It's a dirty job, but somebody has to do it ( A catchphrase from
Nick
Stone In Tightrope )
It's the early
bird
that gets the worm
Jail bait
Jail
bird
Jailhouse
Rock ( Elvis Presley song )
Jet
lag
Jonnies out of jail
Keep behind bars
Larry Legend ( Nickname of Larry
Bird
)
Law
abiding
Law
and order
Law
unto oneself
Lay the
law
down
Let the punishment fit the
crime
Lock him up and throw away the key
Marriage isn't a word it's a
sentence
Nick
at Night ( Nickname of
Nick
Van Exel )
Nick
is for kids ( Nickelodeon TV channel advertising slogan )
Nick
the Quick ( Nickname of
Nick
Van Exel )
Norwegian Wood - This
Bird
Has Flown ( Beatles song )
Nose for
crime
Old
lag
On death row
One
law
for the rich and another for the poor
Outside the
law
Partners in
crime
Pass
sentence
Pay your debt to society
Possession is nine tenths of the
law
Prison
works
Rare
bird
Robben Island - South Africa
Save your breath to cool your
porridge
Send down
Shot while trying to escape
Sing like a
bird
Social jet
lag
Spandau Ballet
Stir
crazy
Stir
the pot
Stir
up a hornet's nest
Stir
up an ant's nest
Stir
up trouble
Take a bite out of
crime
Take a bite out of crime! ( National
Crime
Prevention Council advertising slogan )
Take no prisoners
Take someone to
law
Take the
law
into your own hands
That
bird
has flown
The Basketball Jesus ( Nickname of Larry
Bird
)
The
Bird
Man of
Alcatraz
( Nickname of Robert Stroud )
The Biscuit ( Nickname of John
Cage
( Peter MacNicol ) )
The Flying Squad ( Nickname of the Specialist
Crime
Directorate, New Scotland Yard )
The Great
Bird
of the Galaxy ( Nickname of writer Gene Roddenberry )
The Great Escape ( Steve McQueen movie )
The Hick from French Lick ( Nickname of Larry
Bird
)
The Napoleon of
Crime
( Nickname of Professor Moriarty )
The Prisoner's Song ( Vernon Dalhart song )
The Shadow knows ( A catchphrase from the
crime
fighting vigilante )
The Shawshank Redemption ( Tim Robbins / Morgan Freeman movie )
The
bird
has flown
The early
bird
catches the worm
The house of many doors
The
law
is an ass
The
law
of averages
The
law
of diminishing returns
The
law
of the jungle
The
law
of the land
The letter of the
law
The long arm of the
law
The perfect
crime
There ought to be a
law
There's no
law
against it
They're waffly versatile ( Bird's Eye Potato Waffles advertising slogan )
Three strikes and you are out
Throw away the key
Tobacco baron
Tough on crime, tough on the causes of
crime
( Tony Blair political slogan )
Under lock and key
Walk free
Who rattled your cage?
Zero tolerance