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• A better bus service all round ( Carousel Buses advertising slogan )
• A class act
• A good beginning makes a good ending
• A move in the right direction
• A pitched battle
• A straight fight
• Act of God ( the meaning and origin of this phrase.. )
• Act out
• Act the fool
• Act the giddy goat ( the meaning and origin of this phrase.. )
• Act the part
• Act up
• Act white

• Act your age
• After The Gold Rush ( Neil Young song )
• After a storm comes a calm
• Alien invasion
• All out war
• All round
• All year round
• An abortive attempt
• An albatross round his neck ( the meaning and origin of this phrase.. )
• An uphill battle
• Any port in a storm
• Armed struggle
• Assault with a deadly weapon
• Attack is the best form of defence
• Attack of the Clones ( George Lucas movie in the Star Wars series )
• Balanced approach
• Balancing act
• Bash on
• Bash the bishop
• Battle of the sexes
• Battle of wits
• Battle ready
• Battle royal ( the meaning and origin of this phrase.. )
• Battle stations
• Beat a hasty retreat ( the meaning and origin of this phrase.. )
• Beat someone black and blue
• Beat the retreat
• Beat the rush
• Beat up
• Begin at the beginning
• Bish bash bosh
• Bitch slap ( a full swing slap in the face intended to be humiliating )
• Black and white unite and fight ( Political slogan )
• Blast from the past
• Blast off
• Blow out of the water
• Bluff charge ( A movement towards by an animal towards its prey which is halted without attacking )
• Bold move
• Bring it on
• Bum's rush
• Bump start
• Bust a move ( dance in a stylish way )
• Calendar year ( twelve months beginning from the first of January )
• Calm before the storm
• Captain Underpants And The Invasion Of The Incredibly Naughty Cafeteria Ladies From Outer Space ( Dav Pilkey book )
• Career limiting move
• Cast the first stone ( the meaning and origin of this phrase.. )
• Catch a case
• Caught in the act
• Charge of the Light Brigade ( British cavalry charge against Russian army in the Crimean War and title of a poem by Tennyson )
• Chip and charge
• Class act
• Clean up your act
• Cleans round the bend ( Harpic Lavatory Cleaner advertising slogan )
• Clear and present danger
• Come down hard on
• Come round
• Cook up a storm
• Cop one
• Costa Del Crime
• Couldn't act his way out of a paper bag
• Create a storm ( Monsoon advertising slogan )
• Crime And Punishment ( Fyodor Dostoyevsky book )
• Crime Dog ( Nickname of baseball player Fred McGriff )
• Crime against nature
• Crime doesn't pay
• Crime of passion
• Date rape ( the meaning and origin of this phrase.. )
• Dawn raid
• Denial of service attack
• Did the earth move for you
• Do a disappearing act
• Do your worst
• Don't criticise what you don't understand
• Don't knock it until you've tried it
• Double act
• Doubt is the beginning not the end of wisdom
• Down came a blackbird and pecked off her nose ( line from nursery rhyme )
• Drive by shooting
• Emotion charged
• Eye of the storm
• Faith will move mountains
• Fight Club ( Brad Pitt movie )
• Fight For The Right To Party ( Beastie Boys song )
• Fight back
• Fight back the tears
• Fight fire with fire
• Fight like a man
• Fight like cat and dog
• Fight off
• Fight or flight
• Fight shy
• Fight the good fight
• Fight the power
• Fight tooth and nail
• Fire storm
• First footing ( making a round of visits at New Year )
• First strike
• Fools rush in where angels fear to tread
• Foot in the bucket ( A baseball expression meaning to act timidly or cowardly )
• Fresh start
• From the beginning of time
• Full blast
• Gather 'round the good stuff ( Pizza Hut advertising slogan )
• Gentlemen, start your engines
• Gentlemen, you can't fight in here! This is the War Room ( Dr.Strangelove )
• Get a move on
• Get in on the act
• Get off to a bad start
• Get off to a flying start
• Get ready to rumble ( prepare to fight or do battle )
• Get round the table
• Get your act together
• Get your retaliation in first
• Glasgow kiss
• Go down a storm
• Go for the jugular
• Go for the throat
• Go round in circles
• Ground zero
• Gutter snipe
• Half the battle
• Happy slapping
• Hard act to follow
• Have a blast
• Have at you
• He who fights and runs away, may live to fight another day
• Head start
• Heap abuse on
• Heart attack on a plate
• Heart attack waiting to happen
• Hello, I'm Julian and this is my friend Sandy ( A catchphrase from Round the Horne )
• High wire act
• Hit 'em where they live
• Hit out at
• How goes the battle?
• Human Rights Act
• I Like To Move It ( Reel 2 Reel song )
• I'm Julian and this is my friend Sandy ( A catchphrase from Julian And Sandy in Round The Horne )
• I'm in charge ( A catchphrase from Bruce Forsyth )
• If enough people would stop smoking and start drinking, we could get out of ashtrays and into vermouth ( Cinzano advertising slogan )
• If you can't do the time, don't do the crime
• If your friendly neighborhood grocer doesn't have a jar knock something off a shelf on the way out ( Dilly Beans advertising slogan )
• In on the act
• In the beginning was the word
• In the heat of battle
• Invasion of the Bodysnatchers
• It was the night before Christmas and all round the house, not a creature was stirring, not even a mouse
• It's beginning to look a lot like Christmas
• Jump start
• Kelloggs, because your best days start with breakfast ( Kelloggs advertising slogan )
• Kick start
• Killing Me Softly With His Song ( Roberta Flack song
• Kills bugs dead ( Raid advertising slogan )
• Knock 'em dead
• Knock Three Times ( Tony Orlando and Dawn song )
• Knock about
• Knock about comedy
• Knock back
• Knock back a few
• Knock down drag out
• Knock flat
• Knock for knock
• Knock for six
• Knock heads together
• Knock into shape
• Knock into the middle of next week
• Knock it into a cocked hat
• Knock it off
• Knock it on the head
• Knock it out of the park ( A baseball expression denoting a complete or spectacular success )
• Knock knock, who's there
• Knock off
• Knock on the door
• Knock on wood
• Knock sideways
• Knock something together
• Knock spots off
• Knock the cover off the ball ( A baseball expression meaning succeed beyond expectation )
• Knock the stuffing out of
• Knock the wind out of
• Knock them in the aisles
• Knock up against
• Knock your heads together
• Knock your socks off
• Knock yourself out
• Lace into
• Lash out
• Launch out at
• Let battle commence
• Let fly
• Let the punishment fit the crime
• Life and death struggle
• Like a ton of bricks
• Line of attack
• Live to fight another day
• Love makes the world go round
• Mace your face
• Make a fresh start
• Make a move on
• Make your move
• Million Dollar Bash ( Bob Dylan song )
• Money makes the world go round
• Move It On Over ( Hank Williams song )
• Move On Up a Little Higher ( Mahalia Jackson song )
• Move heaven and earth
• Move in the best circles
• Move over
• Move right along
• Move with the times
• Mug's game
• New start
• No rush
• Nose for crime
• Not the beginning of the end, but the end of the beginning
• On the move
• On the offensive
• Partners in crime
• Perfect storm
• Phone it in ( perform an act in an uncommitted disinterested manner )
• Pick a fight
• Pillow fight
• Pitch into
• Play hardball ( A baseball expression meaning to be or act tough or aggressive )
• Pommy bashing ( Australian slang term for physical or verbal attacks on the English )
• Put on an act
• Put the hurt on
• Queer bashing
• Quiet before the storm
• Rally round
• Rally round the flag
• Random act of kindness
• Read the riot act
• Revenge mission ( an attempt to seek active retribution )
• Richard of York gave battle in vain
• Right Round ( Flo Rida song )
• Ring round
• Round Ireland With A Fridge ( Tony Hawks book )
• Round Midnight ( Thelonious Monk tune )
• Round Robin
• Round and round the garden like a teddy bear ( line from nursery rhyme )
• Round down
• Round table talks
• Round the bend
• Round the houses
• Round the table
• Round the twist
• Round trip trading
• Round up
• Round up the usual suspects ( Casablanca )
• Run toward the sound of gunfire
• Running battle
• Rush job
• Rush of blood
• Rush the growler
• Rush to judgement
• Sail into
• Score points off
• Serious as a heart attack
• Siege mentality
• Sister Act ( Whoopie Goldberg movie )
• Smooth move
• Snack attack
• So round, so firm, so fully packed ( Lucky Strike Cigarettes advertising slogan )
• Son of a whore ( a bastard, or a general term of abuse )
• Spit in the eye of
• Spoiling for a fight
• Square peg in a round hole
• Stand up fight
• Start again
• Start from scratch
• Start over
• Start the ball rolling
• Stick it to the man
• Storm in a teacup
• Storm of controversy
• Suck it up ( accept a bad situation and move on )
• Sugar rush
• Take a bite out of crime
• Take a bite out of crime! ( National Crime Prevention Council advertising slogan )
• Take a pop at
• Take charge
• Take the town by storm
• That frosty mug sensation ( A&W Root Beer advertising slogan )
• That's not a knife; that's a knife ( Crocodile Dundee )
• The Barbarians are at the gate
• The Battle of Waterloo was won on the playing-fields of Eton
• The Flying Squad ( Nickname of the Specialist Crime Directorate, New Scotland Yard )
• The Gold Rush ( Charlie Chaplin movie )
• The Napoleon of Crime ( Nickname of Professor Moriarty )
• The Rape Of The Lock ( Alexander Pope book )
• The Round Mound of Rebound ( Nickname of Charles Barkley )
• The Shadow knows ( A catchphrase from the crime fighting vigilante )
• The act you've known for all these years ( Beatles song lyric )
• The battle of the bulge
• The beginning of the end
• The cat who doesn't act finicky soon loses control of his owner ( 9 Lives Cat Food advertising slogan )
• The fog of war ( confusion caused by the chaos of battle )
• The glorious twelfth ( of August - the start of the British grouse shooting season )
• The knives are out
• The perfect crime
• The race is not to the swift, nor the battle to the strong ( quotation from the Bible - Ecclesiastes
• The start of a beautiful friendship
• The wheels on the bus go round and round ( title of children's song )
• There's a storm brewing
• Think global, act local
• Think globally, act locally ( Friends of the Earth advertising slogan )
• Three, four, knock at the door ( line from nursery rhyme )
• Throw a beanball ( A baseball expression meaning to attack an opponent by aiming at their head )
• Tie a Yellow Ribbon Round the Ole Oak Tree ( Dawn with Tony Orlando song )
• Tilting at windmills
• Tittle tattle lost the battle ( WWII slogan )
• To boldly go where no man has gone before ( A catchphrase from Start Trek )
• Tough on crime, tough on the causes of crime ( Tony Blair political slogan )
• Triple play ( A baseball expression denoting the act of making three outs during the same play )
• Ugly mug
• Under fire
• Under pressure
• Wage war
• War footing ( preparedness to fight a military campaign )
• Wardrobe mistress ( a person in charge of the costumes of a theatrical company )
• We really move our tail for you ( Continental Airlines advertising slogan )
• We will fight on the beaches
• Weather the storm
• Why you!
• You are now free to move about the country ( Southwest Airlines advertising slogan )
• You can't fight city hall