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- 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 )