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- ...Baby One More Time ( Britney Spears album and song )
- 2001 A Space Odyssey ( Stanley Kubrick movie )
- 501 blues ( Levi's Jeans advertising slogan )
- A Bicycle Built For Two ( Victorian popular song )
- A Tale Of Two Cities ( Charles Dickens book )
- A World first
- A bird in the hand is worth two in the bush ( the meaning and origin of this phrase.. )
- A great one for
- A journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step
- A person is known by the company he keeps
- A two pipe problem
- A1 at Lloyds ( the meaning and origin of this phrase.. )
- Ain't my first rodeo ( said by someone who has experience of a situation )
- All I Want For Christmas Is My Two Front Teeth ( Spike Jones song )
- All children, except one, grow up ( the opening line of Peter Pan )
- All for one and one for all
- All one to me
- An army of one ( United States Army advertising slogan )
- And it's goodnight from, me, and it's goodnight from him ( A catchphrase from The Two Ronnies )
- And then there was one
- Another One Bites The Dust ( Queen song )
- Art is going one step too far
- As alike as two peas in a pod ( the meaning and origin of this phrase.. )
- As busy as a one armed paper hanger
- As busy as a one legged arse kicker
- As cross as two sticks
- As happy as a dog with two tails
- As one door closes, another one opens
- As thick as two short planks
- Ask the Man who Owns One ( Packard advertising slogan )
- At first blush
- At first hand
- At one another's throats
- At one fell swoop ( the meaning and origin of this phrase.. )
- Atone for one's sins
- Author of your own misfortune
- Avert one's eyes
- Avert one's gaze
- Back number
- Back to square one ( the meaning and origin of this phrase.. )
- Bare one's teeth
- Be the first to know ( CNN advertising slogan )
- Beer and sandwiches at Number 10
- Betcha can't eat just one ( Lay's potato chips advertising slogan )
- Between two stools ( the meaning and origin of this phrase.. )
- Bite the big one
- Boat person
- Breathe one's last
- Brighton line ( Bingo call for number fifty nine )
- Buy one, get one free
- Calendar year ( twelve months beginning from the first of January )
- Cast the first stone ( the meaning and origin of this phrase.. )
- Cat person
- Caught in two minds
- Children, one is one, two is fun, three is a house full
- Chopsticks are one of the reasons the Chinese never invented custard ( Spike Milligan line )
- Clickety click ( Bingo call for number sixty six )
- Colour one's view
- Complex number ( a number containing real and imaginary parts )
- Cop one
- Cushy number
- Dance With The One That Brought You ( Shania Twain song )
- Day one
- Displaced person
- Do a number on
- Do you eat the red ones last? ( Smarties advertising slogan )
- Doctor's Orders ( Bingo call for number nine )
- Doff one's cap ( the meaning and origin of this phrase.. )
- Don't give two hoots
- Don't put all your eggs in one basket
- Double header ( A baseball expression denoting two events held on the same day with the same participants )
- Down it in one
- Down to the last out ( A baseball expression meaning to have one last chance )
- Down to the pub for a quick one
- Droopy drawers ( Bingo call for number forty four )
- Eating for two
- Employee Number 8 ( Nickname of Antoine Walker )
- Evening person
- Every one a winner
- Every stick has two ends
- Exercise one's discretion
- Exert one's authority
- Fahrenheit 451 ( Julie Christie / Francois Truffaut movie )
- Faint heart never won fair lady
- Far From The Madding Crowd ( Julie Christie / Alan Bates movie )
- Feed one's mind
- First Among Equals ( Jeffrey Archer book )
- First Slip ( field position in the game of cricket )
- First World ( the indutrialised affluent and wealthy nations )
- First World problem ( a relatively trivial problem only affecting the affluent )
- First among equals ( the most senior person in a group of equal rank )
- First amongst equals
- First and foremost
- First blood
- First came to fame
- First catch your hare
- First come first served
- First comes love, then comes marriage
- First contact
- First cut
- First flush
- First footing ( making a round of visits at New Year )
- First impressions last
- First light
- First past the post
- First rate
- First relationships last ( First National Bank of Chicago advertising slogan )
- First responder ( the member of the emergency services to arrive at a disaster )
- First strike
- First thing
- First things first
- First time caller
- First to market
- First up
- First with the Hits ( Mercury Records advertising slogan )
- First, do no harm
- For No One ( Beatles song )
- Four by two
- Fourpenny one
- From day one
- Game of two halves
- Genius is one percent inspiration and 99 percent perspiration ( Thomas Edison quotation )
- Get to first base
- Get to first base with
- Get your retaliation in first
- Give one's eye teeth for
- Give one's right arm for
- Gnat's bollock ( slang term for a very small unit of measurement )
- Go off on one
- Go one better
- Goody two shoes
- Got it in one
- Got your number
- Grease your palm
- Hasn't got two cents to rub together
- Have one on me
- Have you any last requests? ( humorous question asked as though a person was about to be killed )
- He's one sick puppy
- Head first
- Heavy hitter ( A baseball expression meaning a powerful or commanding person )
- Hello, one two three testing
- Here's one I prepared earlier ( A catchphrase from Blue Peter )
- Here's one in your eye
- Highway 61 Revisited ( Bob Dylan song )
- Hole in one
- How The West Was Won ( James Stewart movie )
- How does it feel to be one of the beautiful people? ( Beatles song lyric )
- I don't believe it ( A catchphrase from Victor Meldrew, One Foot In The Grave )
- I fought the law and the law won
- I have not slept one wink
- I took my harp to the party but no one asked me to play
- I want that one ( A catchphrase from Little Britain )
- I've got your number
- If I've only one life, let me live it as a blonde! ( Clairol Hair Colouring advertising slogan )
- If at first you don't succeed try, try and try again
- If you ain't first, you're last
- If you can't ride two horses at once, you shouldn't be in the circus
- If you change your mind, I'm the first in line ( ABBA lyric )
- In one ear and out the other
- In one piece
- In person
- In the kingdom of the blind the one eyed man is king
- In two minds
- In two shakes
- In two shakes of a lamb's tail
- In words of one syllable
- It Happened One Night ( Clark Gable movie )
- It is Sun what won it
- It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife ( the opening line of Pride and Prejudice )
- It takes 40 dumb animals to make a fur coat, but only one to wear it
- It takes one to know one
- It takes two hands to hold a Whopper ( Burger King advertising slogan )
- It takes two to tango
- It was just one of those things
- It was the best of times: it was the worst of times ( the opening line of A Tale Of Two Cities )
- It's an ill wind that blows no one any good ( the meaning and origin of this phrase.. )
- Just one more thing ( A catchphrase from Columbo )
- Just one of those days
- Key of the door ( Bingo call for number twenty one )
- Kill two birds with one stone
- Knit one purl one
- La Belle Epoque ( the golden age or beautiful era preceding the First World War )
- Ladies first
- Last in first out
- Last one there is a rotten egg
- Launch one's lunch
- Law unto oneself
- Leadoff hitter ( A baseball expression denoting the player who bats first )
- Legs eleven ( Bingo call for number eleven )
- Lend one's name
- Let me make one thing perfectly clear
- Let one go
- Let one thousand flowers bloom
- Life is just one damned thing after another
- Like a dog with two dicks
- Like a dog with two tails
- Little black number
- Little thieves are hanged, but great ones escape
- Look after number one
- Look out for number one
- Love Potion Number Nine ( Leiber and Stoller song )
- Love at first sight
- Lucky number seven
- Make first base
- Make one's hackles rise
- Massage one's ego
- Me first
- Meat and two veg
- Meet one's eye
- Minority of one
- Mirror mirror on the all who is the fairest one of all?
- More than one string to your bow
- Morning person
- My one regret in life is that I am not someone else ( Woody Allen line )
- My precious ( The Lord of the Rings: Two Towers )
- Name, rank, and serial number
- Near to one's heart
- Neither one thing nor the other
- Nice one Cyril ( A catchphrase from Wonderloaf )
- No One ( Alicia Keys song )
- No man can serve two masters
- No one can make you feel inferior without your consent ( Eleanor Roosevelt quotation )
- No one expects the Spanish Inquisition ( A catchphrase from Monty Python's Flying Circus )
- No one likes us, we don't care ( A catchphrase from Millwall football supporters )
- Not my type ( not a person one is attracted to )
- Not two pennies to rub together
- Now There is only one Mars ( Mars Chocolate advertising slogan )
- Number 10 Downing Street ( address of the British Prime Minister )
- Number Six ( Pseudonym of Peter Smith The Prisoner ( Patrick McGoohan ) )
- Number crunching
- Number one
- Number one concubine ( name given to the partner of Bertrand Russell )
- Number one son
- Number two
- Number unobtainable
- Numero uno
- Occupy one's mind
- Odd one out
- Of the first water
- On the one hand
- One Cent ( Nickname of Anfernee Hardaway )
- One Dog ( Nickname of Lance Johnson )
- One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest ( Jack Nicholson movie )
- One Foot In The Grave ( BBC comedy television series )
- One Hundred Years Of Solitude ( Gabriel Garcia Marquez book )
- One More Cup Of Coffee ( Bob Dylan song )
- One More Night ( Maroon 5 song )
- One Of Us Must Know ( Bob Dylan song )
- One Size ( Nickname of Fitz Hall )
- One Too Many Mornings ( Bob Dylan song )
- One Tough ( Nickname of Joaquin Andejar )
- One and all
- One and the same
- One armed bandit
- One brick short of a load
- One by one
- One card for home and abroad ( Maestro advertising slogan )
- One fall, two submissions or a knockout
- One fine day
- One foot in the grave
- One for all and all for one
- One for sorrow ( Magpie nursery rhyme )
- One for sorrow, two for mirth, three for a wedding, four for a birth
- One for the book
- One for the road
- One good turn deserves another
- One half of the world does not know how the other half lives
- One hand tied behind your back
- One hand washes the other
- One hell of
- One horse town
- One in a billion ( McDonald's advertising slogan )
- One in a million
- One in the eye
- One instinctively knows when something is right ( Croft Original Sherry advertising slogan )
- One jump ahead of
- One law for the rich and another for the poor
- One leg at a time ( Dockers advertising slogan )
- One liner
- One man and his dog
- One man's meat is another man's poison
- One man's trash is another man's treasure
- One man: one vote
- One may as well be hanged for a sheep as for a lamb
- One minute to midnight
- One moment please
- One more time
- One night stand
- One night stand investment
- One of life's little ironies
- One of the boys
- One of these days, Alice ... Pow! To the moon! ( A catchphrase from The Honeymooners )
- One off
- One off the wrist
- One on one
- One out, all out
- One over the eight
- One ringy-dingy...two ringy-dingies ( A catchphrase from Ernestine In Rowan and Martin's Laugh-In )
- One second
- One side of the story
- One size fits all
- One small step for man, one giant leap for mankind ( Neil Armstrong quotation )
- One smart cookie
- One sprint many solutions ( Sprint advertising slogan )
- One step ahead
- One step at a time
- One step forward, two steps back
- One stop shop
- One swallow doesn't make a summer
- One taste and your stuck on golden flake ( Golden Flake Potato Chips advertising slogan )
- One that Last ( Duracell Batteries advertising slogan )
- One thing leads to another
- One to one
- One to remember
- One toe over the line
- One track mind
- One trick pony
- One two buckle my shoe ( line from nursery rhyme )
- One two many and you might turn Bertie ( Bassett's Liquorice Allsorts advertising slogan )
- One two three o'clock four o'clock rock
- One volunteer is worth ten pressed men
- One wedding brings another
- One year's seeds make seven year weeds
- One's level best
- One-man show
- Opening night ( the first night of a theatrical performance )
- Outstay one's welcome
- People person
- Person of interest
- Person to person
- Pinch, punch, first of the month
- Plus one
- Potty mouth ( a foul mouthed person )
- Prepare to want one ( Hyundai advertising slogan )
- Public Enemy Number One ( Nickname of John Dillinger )
- Pull a fast one
- Put one foot in front of the other
- Put one over on
- Put two and two together
- Quality is job one ( Ford Cars advertising slogan )
- Quick one
- Rest up ( take a break from one's arduous efforts )
- Rolled into one
- Room for one more inside
- Route one
- Safety first
- Scotch and the Single Girl ( J&B Scotch advertising slogan )
- Seen one, seen them all
- Shoot a birdie ( score one under par in a golf shot )
- Shoot first, ask questions later
- Shout at the top of one's lungs
- Single Ladies ( Put a Ring on It ) ( Beyonce song )
- Single file
- Single out
- Single point of contact
- Single sign-on
- Six and two threes
- Six of one and half a dozen of the other
- Six, two and even
- Sleep with one eye open
- Snakes alive ( Bingo call for number fifty five )
- So easy to use, no wonder it's number one ( AOL advertising slogan )
- So no one told you life was gonna be this way
- Stand on one's dignity
- Stand on your own two feet
- Still the One ( ABC advertising slogan )
- Stop me and buy one ( Wall's Ice Cream advertising slogan )
- Stop me if you've heard this one
- Table for two
- Take down a peg or two
- Take one day at a time
- Take one for the team
- Take someone to one side
- Take two aspirin and call me in the morning
- Tea for two
- Teach someone a thing or two
- Ten one hundred
- That's a new one on me
- The Amazing One ( Nickname of Alfredo Amezaga )
- The Battle of Waterloo was won on the playing-fields of Eton
- The Big Unit ( Nickname of Randy Johnson )
- The Chosen One ( Nickname of LeBron James )
- The First Cut Is The Deepest ( Rod Stewart song )
- The First Garden City Of The World ( Nickname of Letchworth England )
- The First Lady of Television ( Nickname of Faye Emerson )
- The First State ( Nickname of the US state of Delaware )
- The Great One ( Nickname of comedian Jackie Gleason )
- The Gun That Won The West ( Nickname of the Colt revolver )
- The Little Witch ( Nickname of Juan Sebastian Veron )
- The Man With Two Brains ( Steve Martin movie )
- The Special One ( Nickname of football manager Jose Mourinho )
- The Wild One ( Marlon Brando movie )
- The Witch ( Nickname of Juan Veron )
- The Young Ones ( BBC comedy television series )
- The animals went in two by two
- The beast with two backs ( the meaning and origin of this phrase.. )
- The first network for men ( Spike TV advertising slogan )
- The first time is never the best ( Campari advertising slogan )
- The flower of one's youth
- The lesser of two evils
- The lights are on but there's no one at home
- The longest journey starts with a single step
- The magic number
- The mainspring in a Bulova is made to last 256 years or 146 leather straps - whichever comes first ( Bulova Watches advertising slogan )
- The one and only Wonderbra ( Wonderbra advertising slogan )
- The one and only cereal that comes in the shape of animals ( Crispy Critters advertising slogan )
- The one that got away
- The one to watch ( Channel 7 Australia advertising slogan )
- The person, be it gentleman or lady, who has not pleasure in a good novel, must be intolerably stupid ( Jane Austen quotation )
- The right one ( Martini advertising slogan )
- The square on the hypotenuse equals the sum of the squares on the other two sides
- The world around one
- There are two sides to every question
- There's more than one way to skin a cat
- There's not a soul out there, no one to hear my prayer ( ABBA lyric )
- There's one born every minute
- There's only one
- This one will run and run
- Tie one on
- Times without number
- To cast the first stone
- To get one's back up
- Today is the first day of the rest of your life
- Today the discriminating family finds it absolutely necessary to own two or more motor cars ( Buick advertising slogan )
- Toilet mouth ( a foul mouthed person )
- Top of the shop ( Bingo call for number ninety )
- Two Jags ( Nickname of John Prescott )
- Two Out Of Three Ain't Bad ( Meatloaf song )
- Two Ton Tessa
- Two all beef patties special sauce lettuce cheese pickles onions on a sesame seed bun ( McDonald's advertising slogan )
- Two and eight ( Cockney rhyming slang for state )
- Two and two make five
- Two and two make four
- Two blacks don't make a white
- Two bricks short of a load
- Two buck chuck
- Two can play at that game
- Two cents worth
- Two faced
- Two fat ladies ( Bingo call for number eighty eight )
- Two fisted
- Two for joy ( Magpie nursery rhyme )
- Two for me, none for you! ( Twix advertising slogan )
- Two for one
- Two four six eight who do we appreciate ( cheerleader chant )
- Two heads are better than one
- Two irons in the fire
- Two left feet
- Two little dicky birds sitting on a wall, one named Peter, one named Paul ( line from nursery rhyme )
- Two little ducks ( Bingo call for number twenty two )
- Two of a kind
- Two on the aisle
- Two pot screamer
- Two sandwiches short of a picnic
- Two shakes of a lamb's tail
- Two steps forward and one step back
- Two strings to his bow
- Two timing
- Two turtle doves ( line from A Partridge In A Pear Tree )
- Two wrongs don't make a right
- Two's company three's a crowd
- Unlucky for some ( Bingo call for number thirteen )
- Us versus them ( denoting the emnity between two opposing groups )
- Wardrobe mistress ( a person in charge of the costumes of a theatrical company )
- Was she worth it ( Bingo call for number fifty six )
- We used to have one of those, but the wheels fell off
- We're Just One Big Happy Family ( Richard Hawley song )
- We're just one big happy family
- We're number two. We try harder ( Avis Rent-a-Car advertising slogan )
- We're the one ( Sky Television advertising slogan )
- We're tobacco men not medicine men. Old Gold cures just one thing. The World's Best Tobacco ( Old Gold Cigarettes advertising slogan )
- What Makes You Beautiful ( One Direction song )
- What a tangled web we weave when first we practice to deceive
- What with one thing and another
- What's in your wallet? ( Capital One advertising slogan )
- When sorrows come, they come not single spies, but in battalions
- When war is declared, truth is the first casualty
- Which came first the chicken or the egg?
- Who blinked first?
- Wild Ones ( Flo Rida ( with Sia song )
- Will no one rid me of this turbulent priest?
- Win faster ( One Brand Group advertising slogan )
- With one bound he was at her side
- Women and children first
- Work one's fingers to the bone
- World's first
- Worth one's weight in gold
- Wring one's hands
- You are a one
- You can kiss that one goodbye
- You don't get a second chance at a first impression
- You heard it here first
- You only get one chance to make a first impression
- You only hurt the one you love
- You're the One That I Want ( John Travolta and Olivia Newton-John song )
- You, you're the one ( McDonald's advertising slogan )