I need as many fruity phrases as possible - e.g. apple of my eye, for a project im doing . Any help gratefully received.
Thanks
2007-04-30 09:53:58 · 10 answers · asked by bagpuss 2 in Education & Reference ➔ Words & Wordplay
apple of my eye
apple a day keeps the doctor away
apple-pie order
apple-polisher
applesauce (meaning "nonsense")
Adam's apple
it's the berries
brown as a berry
life is just a bowl of cherries
cherry-blossom time
fruit of ones loins
fruit of the loom
grapes of wrath
sour grapes
when life gives you lemons, make lemonade
lemon law (law concerning cars that malfunction)
offer an olive branch (an olive is a fruit)
from soup to nuts (a nut is a fruit!)
peachie keen
Georgia peach
blow a raspberry
sugarplum
a plum assignment
strawberries and cream
2007-04-30 10:22:46 · answer #1 · answered by K ; 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
apple pie order (everything's in good shape)
apple pie bed (a kind of practical joke where you fold the bottom sheet in half so the victim can't get in the bed)
cherry picking (doing the easiest work on a project first)
it's going pear shaped (the project is all going wrong)
it's a lemon (a car or similar complicated item that's just a bad 'un)
2007-04-30 17:10:04 · answer #2 · answered by Michael B 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Easy as apple pie
Going bananas (= going crazy)
Cool as a cucumber (I know, it's not a fruit!)
Sour grapes (feeling bitter over some slight)
I got a lemon! (as in, a bad car!)
Peachy keen
2007-04-30 17:08:43 · answer #3 · answered by ? 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Sour as a lemon
Pretty as a peach
Plum in the mouth
Heard it on the grape vine!
Slipping on a banana skin
2007-04-30 17:01:40 · answer #4 · answered by JJ 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
your a fruit cake -- its only the hairs on a goosgog that stops it from being a grape --your skin is like peaches and cream--or i could go crush a grape -- your lips are like cherries -- sorry best i can do.
2007-04-30 17:35:03 · answer #5 · answered by Dazzle 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
as brown as a berry (got a tan)
up the apples and pears (Cockney slang for stairs)
2007-04-30 17:02:46 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Peachy keen, fruit of my loins.
2007-04-30 17:07:39 · answer #7 · answered by Crazy Diamond 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
u and i are fruity...
u comes before i in fruit...pretty dumb one tho
2007-04-30 17:07:38 · answer #8 · answered by Jamison 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
the fruit of my loins?
2007-04-30 17:00:25 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
It was Grape to meet you!............................We make a great Pear!...................Lettuce sit down and chat!..............Lettuce meet after school/work!...............I bet i can cashew! hmmmmm i dont think i know ne more lol sorry!!!
2007-04-30 17:01:52 · answer #10 · answered by Arista Marie <3 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋