What Expressions Based on Gardening can You Think Of?

[NJCher]

Today while I was planting, I was musing over expressions that are based on gardening:

"In the weeds..." for when one is really backed up with work.

"Get to the root of the matter" is considered to really solve the problem, just like when we pull a weed out by its roots.

"Tough row to hoe" means a difficult task.

A "wallflower" is a nondescript little bloom that might appear on wallpaper.

What everyday expressions based on the garden can you think of?




Cher

[Ecumenist]

1. Well, Mister is from "Deepindeharta, Texas and he uses a couple of

terms associated with gardening.."We living in high cotton", meaning the same thing as when someone says that they're "living high on the hog."

Another term he uses is "in the back forty, (acres)", meaning something WAY OUT in the middle of nowhere. I usually use the term, "in the back of beyond", to mean the same thing.

Even though this is something that people use all the time, "Stopping to smell the roses" is certainly an everyday saying commonly used.

I always thought that the term wallflower meant a VERY shy bashful person who seems to fade into the background, oftentimes a frump or a dowdy type person.

[yy4me]

2. The grass is always greener in the other fellows' yard.

[HiFructosePronSyrup]

3. "Everything's coming up roses."

In my case, everything's coming up artichokes, but it's all good.

[BOSSHOG]

4. "Leaves of three, leave them be." Good advice about poison ivy

I get the old farmer's almanac calendar every year and it has a lot of sayings, not necessarily every day ones.

"Nature soon takes over if the gardener is absent." Ain't that the truth.

"Cauliflower is nothing but cabbage with a college education." Mark Twain.

[yardwork]

5. Living in clover.

Life's a bowl of cherries.

[Vinca]

6. "We come from the earth, we return to the earth and in between we garden."

And, on a woodblock print I have in my kitchen, "When the world wearies and ceases to satisfy, there is always the garden."