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- 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