tree

Related to tree: three

tree (one)

slang To cause or force one or an animal to climb up into a tree in order to avoid danger. A big grizzly bear treed us while we were out on our hike. We were stuck up there for nearly an hour waiting for it to go away! The dogs treed the jaguar, and it remained perched up there until animal control arrived.
See also: tree

up a tree

1. In a troublesome or challenging situation. I have no idea how I'm going to get out of this contract—I'm really up a tree now.
2. Drunk. Do you remember last night at the bar at all? You were really up a tree!
See also: tree, up
Farlex Dictionary of Idioms.

tree

n. marijuana. Grass, tree, bush. It’s all pot!
McGraw-Hill's Dictionary of American Slang and Colloquial Expressions
See:
  • 3-on-the-tree
  • a tree is known by its fruit(, a man by his deeds)
  • and a partridge in a pear tree
  • as the twig is bent, so is the tree inclined
  • at the top of the tree
  • bark up the wrong tree
  • bark up the wrong tree, to
  • be barking up the wrong tree
  • be out of (one's) tree
  • be out of your tree
  • cannot see the wood for the trees
  • can't see the forest for the trees
  • can't see the forest/wood(s) for the trees
  • can't see the wood for the trees
  • Christmas tree
  • Christmas tree bill
  • close as the bark to the tree
  • dead-tree edition
  • dead-tree format
  • dead-tree press
  • every/a monkey knows what tree to climb
  • fell out of the ugly tree and hit every branch on the way down
  • flourish like a green bay tree
  • fruit of the poisonous tree
  • go between the bark and the tree
  • Go chase yourself!
  • go climb a tree
  • Go climb a tree!
  • go climb a tree/fly a kite
  • go fly a kite
  • grow on trees
  • he that would eat the fruit must climb the tree
  • like nailing Jell-O to a tree
  • like trying to nail Jell-O to a tree
  • live in a tree
  • make like a tree and leave
  • Money does not grow on trees
  • money doesn't grow on trees
  • nail Jell-O to a tree
  • nail Jell-O to the wall
  • not able to see the forest for the trees
  • not able to see the wood for the trees
  • not grow on trees
  • not see the wood for the trees
  • out of (one's) tree
  • out of your tree
  • shade tree
  • shadetree mechanic
  • shake (one's) tree
  • shake someone's tree
  • shake the pagoda tree
  • shake tree
  • talk someone's arm off
  • the apple does not fall far from the tree
  • the apple doesn't fall/never falls far from the tree
  • the apple never falls far from the tree
  • the top of the tree
  • the top of the tree/ladder
  • tight as the bark on a tree
  • tree
  • tree (one)
  • tree hugger
  • tree is known by its fruit
  • tree suit
  • tree-suit
  • up a gum tree
  • up a tree
References in classic literature
In winter, when the snow lay glittering on the ground, a hare would often come leaping along, and jump right over the little Tree. Oh, that made him so angry!
In autumn the wood-cutters always came and felled some of the largest trees. This happened every year; and the young Fir Tree, that had now grown to a very comely size, trembled at the sight; for the magnificent great trees fell to the earth with noise and cracking, the branches were lopped off, and the trees looked long and bare; they were hardly to be recognised; and then they were laid in carts, and the horses dragged them out of the wood.
Andersens Fairy Tales
As Adam was a-working outside of Eden-Wall, He used the Earth, he used the Seas, he used the Air and all; And out of black disaster He arose to be the master Of Earth and Water, Air and Fire, But never reached his heart's desire!(The Apple Tree's cut down!)
Actions and Reactions
Realizing that I could outdistance the clumsy brute in the open, I dropped from my leafy sanctuary intent only on distracting the thing's attention from Perry long enough to enable the old man to gain the safety of a larger tree. There were many close by which not even the terrific strength of that titanic monster could bend.
At the Earths Core
But, seeing they were bigger than the Lion, and remembering that there were two of them and only one of him, the Kalidahs again rushed forward, and the Lion crossed over the tree and turned to see what they would do next.
The Wonderful Wizard of Oz
The time of Elizabeth was only distant from the present time by a moment of space compared with the ages which had passed since the water had run between those banks, and the green thickets swarmed there, and the small trees had grown to huge wrinkled trees in solitude.
The Voyage Out
But the Tree cried to the Nightingale to press closer against the thorn.
The Happy Prince and Other Tales
At the top of the cocoanut tree the numerous branches, radiating on all sides from a common centre, form a sort of green and waving basket, between the leaflets of which you just discern the nuts thickly clustering together, and on the loftier trees looking no bigger from the ground than bunches of grapes.
Typee
They lay sleeping under a tree, and snored so that the branches waved up and down.
Fairy Tales
The crocodile passed him, but not another living thing, not a sound, not a movement; and yet he knew well that sudden death might be at the next tree, or stalking him from behind.
The Adventures of Peter Pan
We were off and away, and the Chatterer gave us the chase of our lives through the trees.
Before Adam
Elizabeth turned her head, when they reached the point where they were to descend the mountain, and thought that the slow fires that were glimmering under his enormous kettles, his little brush shelter, covered with pieces of hemlock bark, his gigantic size, as he wielded his ladle with a steady and knowing air, aided by the back-ground of stately trees, with their spouts and troughs, formed, altogether, no unreal picture of human life in its first stages of civilization.
Pioneers
"Over to those trees, to see if I can find some fruit or nuts," answered Dorothy.
Ozma of Oz
'I carried out my intention, and had all the fruit picked off the tree, but when I tasted one of the apples it was bitter and unpleasant, and the next morning the rest of the fruit had all rotted away.
Yellow Fairy Book
And this would be generally observed, that the borders wherein you plant your fruit-trees, be fair and large, and low, and not steep; and set with fine flowers, but thin and sparingly, lest they deceive the trees. At the end of both the side grounds, I would have a mount of some pretty height, leaving the wall of the enclosure breast high, to look abroad into the fields.
The Essays