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• A golden key can open any door ( the meaning and origin of this phrase.. )
• A lot of fuss about nothing
• About face ( the meaning and origin of this phrase.. )
• About time too
• About to find pups
• About turn ( the meaning and origin of this phrase.. )
• Active listening
• Alive alive O
• Alive and kicking ( the meaning and origin of this phrase.. )
• Alive and well
• All About Eve ( Bette Davis movie )
• All ashore that's going ashore
• All stations go

• All systems go
• Alternative energy
• An open and shut case ( a straightforward legal case )
• Arse about face
• Art is going one step too far
• As busy as a beaver
• As busy as a bee ( the meaning and origin of this phrase.. )
• As busy as a one armed paper hanger
• As busy as a one legged arse kicker
• As quick as a flash
• Attention deficit disorder
• Bandy about
• Bang on about ( the meaning and origin of this phrase.. )
• Be open with
• Beat about the bush ( the meaning and origin of this phrase.. )
• Before you make up your mind, open it ( Irish Independent advertising slogan )
• Born 1820 - Still going strong ( Johnny Walker Black Whiskey advertising slogan )
• Boss about
• Buckle your seat belts it's going to be a bumpy ride
• Bugger about
• Bum about
• Busy bee
• Busy busy
• Busy old fool, unruly sun ( from a poem by John Donne )
• Busy yourself
• Cheeburger, cheeburger, cheeburger ( A catchphrase from Saturday Night Live )
• Come Alive! You're in the Pepsi Generation ( Pepsi advertising slogan )
• Come about
• Come out fighting
• Cut to the quick
• Cut up about
• Denial ain't just a river in Egypt! ( A catchphrase from Saturday Night Live )
• Don't go on about it
• Don't trouble your pretty little head about it
• Double quick
• Down to the pub for a quick one
• Eat someone alive
• Eat to live
• Eat to live, not live to eat
• Eaten alive
• Energy to burn
• Energy vampire
• Enough to be going on with ( Sufficient resources to allow progress for the time being )
• Everything You Wanted To Know About Sex But Were Afraid To Ask ( Woody Allen movie )
• Extra, extra, read all about it
• Fall about laughing
• Fall about your ears
• Fasten your seatbelts, it's going to be a bumpy night ( All About Eve )
• Feel your oats
• Fighting chance
• Fighting fit
• Fighting mad
• Fighting talk
• Gad about
• Get Rich quick ( Kenco Really Rich Coffee advertising slogan )
• Get busy living, or get busy dying ( line from the movie The Shawshank Redemption )
• Get busy with the fizzy ( Soda Stream advertising slogan )
• Get rich quick
• Get while the going is good
• Go about your business
• Go down fighting
• Go live
• Go on about
• Go to see a man about a dog
• Going away ( Going on holiday )
• Going beyond expectations ( Malaysia Airlines advertising slogan )
• Going beyond the call ( SBC Communications advertising slogan )
• Going concern
• Going down
• Going down the tubes
• Going forward
• Going going gone ( A baseball expression by which an announcer describes a home run that is heading over the fence )
• Going my way?
• Going nowhere fast
• Going strong
• Going swimmingly
• Going through the motions
• Going, going, gone
• Half alive
• Hands on
• Hang about
• Harp on about
• Have a thing about
• Have you any last requests? ( humorous question asked as though a person was about to be killed )
• Have your wits about you
• He who fights and runs away, may live to fight another day
• Heavy going
• Hedged about
• Hello, hello, what's going on here then?
• His life's an open book
• Hit 'em where they live
• How about that?
• How con-veen-ient! ( A catchphrase from The Church Lady In Saturday Night Live )
• I don't know much about art but I know what I like
• I may not know much about art, but I know what I like
• I'm going to Walt Disney World! ( Disney World advertising slogan )
• I'm going to make him an offer he can't refuse ( The Godfather ) ( the meaning and origin of this phrase.. )
• I'm going to tell on you
• I'm good enough, I'm smart enough, and doggone it, people like me! ( A catchphrase from Stuart Smiley In Saturday Night Live )
• If I've only one life, let me live it as a blonde! ( Clairol Hair Colouring advertising slogan )
• If you can keep your head when all about you ( from a poem by Kipling )
• If you're not busy being born, you're busy dying ( Bob Dylan song lyric )
• In full flow
• In out, in out, shake it all about
• In play
• In quick succession
• In the swing
• In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life: it goes on ( Robert Frost quotation )
• Intercity makes the going easy ( British Rail advertising slogan )
• Is it live, or is it Memorex? ( Memorex video cassettes advertising slogan )
• It keeps going, and going, and going ( Energizer Batteries advertising slogan )
• It's about time
• It's all about you ( People Telecom advertising slogan )
• Jack be nimble Jack be quick ( line from nursery rhyme )
• Keep a weather eye open
• Keep an eye open
• Keep an open mind
• Keep going well - keep going Shell ( Shell advertising slogan )
• Keep hope alive
• Keep on about
• Keep open house
• Keep your options open
• Keep your wits about you
• Kiss me quick
• Knock about
• Knock about comedy
• Know what you are about
• Kung Fu Fighting ( Carl Douglas song )
• Lark about
• Lean mean fighting machine
• Leave out door open
• Leave the door open for
• Leave your options open
• Leave yourself open
• Legs that keep on going
• Let me take you down, cos I'm going to Strawberry Fields ( Beatles song lyric )
• Let's get busy
• Life is what happens to you while you're busy making other plans ( John Lennon quotation )
• Life is what happens while you are busy doing other things
• Like buttah ( A catchphrase from Linda Richman in Saturday Night Live )
• Live And Let Die ( James Bond movie Roger Moore )
• Live Oak ( Nickname of Edward S.Taylor )
• Live Your Life ( T.I. with Rihanna song )
• Live a Cutty above ( Cutty Sark Whisky advertising slogan )
• Live a lie
• Live action
• Live and learn
• Live and let live
• Live as if you will die tomorrow but learn as if you will live forever ( Mahatma Ghandhi quotation )
• Live as man and wife
• Live by your wits
• Live dangerously
• Live for the moment
• Live for today for tomorrow never comes
• Live free or die
• Live high on the hog
• Live in lover
• Live in your world, play in ours ( Sony advertising slogan )
• Live it large
• Live it up
• Live life in Comfort ( Comfort fabric softener advertising slogan )
• Live like a king
• Live like a lord
• Live long and prosper ( A catchphrase from Star Trek )
• Live on a shoestring
• Live on your nerves
• Live out of a suitcase
• Live over the shop
• Live richly ( Citibank advertising slogan )
• Live rough
• Live the dream
• Live to eat
• Live to fight another day
• Live to tell the tale
• Live today. Tomorrow will cost more ( Pan-Am World Airways advertising slogan )
• Live up to
• Live wire
• Loaf about
• Look alive
• Look lively
• Make a song and dance about
• Make no bones about
• Man about town
• Man does not live by bread alone
• May you live in interesting times
• Men's evil manners live in brass; their virtues we write in water
• Messing about in boats
• Milling about
• Mongoose Quick Rick ( Nickname of Ricky Davis )
• More cowbell ( A catchphrase from Saturday Night Live )
• More dead than alive
• Most men live lives of quiet desperation
• Much Ado About Nothing
• Muck about
• My door is always open
• Nice place to visit, but I wouldn't want to live there
• Nick the Quick ( Nickname of Nick Van Exel )
• No going back
• Not going anywhere for a while? Grab a Snickers ( Snickers advertising slogan )
• Not gonna do it. Wouldn't be prudent. ( A catchphrase from Saturday Night Live )
• Nothing is real and nothing to get hung about ( The Beatles song lyric )
• Nothing to worry your pretty little head about
• Nothing to write home about
• Now they whisper to her not about her ( Cashmere Bouquet Soap advertising slogan )
• Ocean going
• On the go
• Open All Hours ( Ronnie Barker television comedy series )
• Open Pandora's box
• Open book
• Open door policy
• Open fire
• Open for business
• Open government
• Open house
• Open marriage
• Open mouth: closed mind
• Open road
• Open season
• Open sesame
• Open source
• Open source software
• Open the bay doors HAL ( A catchphrase from 2001, A Space Odyssey )
• Open the box ( A catchphrase from Take Your Pick )
• Open the floodgates
• Open the kimono
• Open to doubt
• Open to offers
• Open verdict
• Open warfare ( engaged in active fighting )
• Open wide
• Open your account
• Open your big mouth
• Open your eyes
• Open your heart
• Order about
• Out and about
• Out in the open
• Party on! ( A catchphrase from Wayne's World In Saturday Night Live )
• People who live in glass houses shouldn't throw stones
• Piss about
• Ponce about
• Potter about
• Prolongs active life ( PAL dog food advertising slogan )
• Push at an open door
• Quick and dirty
• Quick buck
• Quick change artist
• Quick off the mark
• Quick on the draw
• Quick one
• Quick smart
• Quick study
• Quick witted
• Quick, Henry, the FLIT! ( Flit insecticide advertising slogan )
• Read all about it
• Revenge mission ( an attempt to seek active retribution )
• Sakes alive
• Sanka, everything you love about coffee ( Sanka advertising slogan )
• Saturday Night Live
• Saturday Night's Alright For Fighting ( Elton John song )
• Scouting about
• Simple Simon met a pieman going to the fair ( line from nursery rhyme )
• Skin alive
• Sleep with one eye open
• Slow slow quick quick slow
• Snakes alive
• Snakes alive ( Bingo call for number fifty five )
• Something About You ( Four Tops song )
• Something to crow about
• Sorry about that, Chief. ( A catchphrase from Get Smart )
• Stay ahead of the curve
• Stayin' Alive ( Bee Gees song )
• Stop faffing about
• Stop messing about ( A catchphrase from Kenneth Williams )
• Street Fighting Man ( Rolling Stones song )
• Take the money, open the box
• Taking care of business
• Talks about talks
• Tell me about it
• Tell them about the honey, mummy ( Sugar Puffs advertising slogan )
• That just about takes the biscuit
• That's about it
• That's about the size of it
• That's going to leave a mark
• That's the news and I'm outta here ( A catchphrase from Dennis Miller In Saturday Night Live )
• The Active voice
• The Dynamic Duo
• The Fighting Cowboy ( Nickname of James Tillis )
• The King is dead, long live the King
• The Original Live Test-Pattern Girl ( Nickname of Nanette Fabray )
• The Shadow knows ( A catchphrase from the crime fighting vigilante )
• The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog
• There's Something About Mary ( Cameron Diaz movie )
• There's a lot of it about ( A catchphrase from Spike Milligan )
• There's something about her
• There's something funny about it
• There's too much arson about here
• Throw your weight about
• To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that is all ( Oscar Wilde quotation )
• Too Busy Thinking About My Baby ( Marvin Gaye song )
• Touch my monkey! ( A catchphrase from Sprockets In Saturday Night Live )
• Turned on
• Up and about
• Wanted, dead or alive
• Watch out there's a Humphrey about ( Milk Marketing Board advertising slogan )
• We all live in a yellow submarine ( Beatles song lyric )
• We are going to need considerably bigger buns ( line from Calendar Girls )
• We know where you live
• We're not worthy! ( A catchphrase from Wayne's World In Saturday Night Live )
• What's Going On? ( Marvin Gaye song )
• What's It All About, Alfie? ( Michael Caine movie )
• What's all the fuss about?
• When the going gets tough, the tough get going ( A catchphrase from Joseph Kennedy )
• When the going gets tough, the tough go shopping
• While you live, tell truth and shame the Devil!
• Who can live without it, I ask in all honesty? ( ABBA lyric )
• Wide open spaces
• With open arms
• With your eyes open
• Yeah! That's the ticket! ( A catchphrase from Saturday Night Live )
• You Only Live Twice ( James Bond movie Sean Connery )
• You are now free to move about the country ( Southwest Airlines advertising slogan )
• You can't keep quiet about a Wispa ( Cadbury's Wispa advertising slogan )
• You look... Mahvelous! ( A catchphrase from Saturday Night Live )
• You only live once
• You only live once, but if you do it right, once is enough ( Mae West quotation )
• You'll never take me alive copper
• You're going to like us ( Trans World Airways advertising slogan )
• You're going to need a bigger boat ( Jaws )
• You've Got a Good Thing Going ( Kent Cigarettes advertising slogan )
• You've got a lot to live, and Pepsi's got a lot to give ( Pepsi advertising slogan )