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- Accept that some days you are the pigeon, some days you are the statue
- As busy as a one armed paper hanger
- As you make your bed so must you lie on it
- Attack is the best form of defence
- Bad form
- Bad paper
- Ballpark figure
- Beecham's pills make all the difference ( Beecham's Pills advertising slogan )
- Before you make up your mind, open it ( Irish Independent advertising slogan )
- Bent out of shape
- Body painting ( a form of painting that uses the human body as a canvas )
- Break the mould
- Buy Opera today And make this banner go away ( Opera advertising slogan )
- Can't make head or tail of it
- Couldn't act his way out of a paper bag
- Couldn't make head or tail of it
- Crunch all you want, we'll make more ( Doritos advertising slogan )
- Cut a wide swathe ( make a pompous display )
- Details make the difference
- Do you want a shape like a bra? Or do you want a shape like a woman? ( Warner's Body Bra advertising slogan )
- Does it make sense to jump out of a warm bed into a cold cereal? ( Quaker Oats advertising slogan )
- Doesn't make a blind bit of difference
- Don't make a big production out of it
- Don't make a federal case of it
- Don't make a peep
- Don't make waves
- Empty vessels make the most noise
- Enough to make a cat laugh
- Enough to make the angels weep
- Enough to make you sick
- Enough to make your hair curl
- Fake it till you make it
- Figure it out
- Figure painting ( a form of painting in which the human body is the subject )
- Fine figure of a man
- Fine figure of a woman
- Form follows function
- Form is temporary, class is permanent
- Free form
- Get in shape
- Get into shape
- Get your family into Shape, without them even noticing ( St. Ivel Yogurt advertising slogan )
- Go ahead, make my day ( A catchphrase from Sudden Impact )
- Go figure
- Go on punk make my day
- Good fences make good neighbours
- Graded grains make finer flour ( Homepride Flour advertising slogan )
- Habit forming
- Hard cases make bad law
- Hate figure
- He went to bed and bound his head with vinegar and brown paper ( line from nursery rhyme )
- Hey Jude, Don't Make It Bad ( The Beatles song lyric )
- How does the wireless industry make you feel? ( Sprint PCS advertising slogan )
- I love deadlines. I love the whooshing noise they make as they go by ( Douglas Adams quotation )
- I never forget a face, but in your case I'll be glad to make an exception ( Groucho Marx line )
- I will make you fishers of men
- I'll make it my business
- I'm going to make him an offer he can't refuse ( The Godfather ) ( the meaning and origin of this phrase.. )
- If you don't make mistakes you don't make anything
- Imitation is the sincerest form of flattery
- In fine form
- It Takes People Like You To Make People Like Me ( Buck Owens song )
- It don't make no nevermind
- It sounds alright on paper
- It takes 40 dumb animals to make a fur coat, but only one to wear it
- It takes a tough man to make a tender chicken ( Perdue Farms advertising slogan )
- It takes all sorts to make a world
- It's the things that make you go Mmmmm ( Macdonalds advertising slogan )
- Keep in shape
- Kiss and make up
- Knock into shape
- Know how many beans make five
- Land of make believe
- Landscape painting ( a form of painting in which the natural world is the subject )
- Let me make one thing perfectly clear
- Let's make things better ( Philips advertising slogan )
- Lick into shape
- Life is what you make it
- Light the blue touch paper and retire
- Like mother used to make
- Made to make your mouth water ( Opal Fruits advertising slogan )
- Make 7-up yours ( 7-Up advertising slogan )
- Make Your Own Kind Of Music ( Mama Cass Elliot song )
- Make a back
- Make a balls of something
- Make a beeline for
- Make a bid for
- Make a bolt for the door
- Make a break for it
- Make a bundle of money
- Make a clean break
- Make a clean breast of it
- Make a complete fool of yourself
- Make a date
- Make a day of it
- Make a deal with the devil
- Make a difference
- Make a face
- Make a fool of yourself
- Make a fresh start
- Make a fuss
- Make a go of it
- Make a good fist of it
- Make a good job of it
- Make a hash of it
- Make a killing
- Make a list; check it twice
- Make a man out of you
- Make a meal of it
- Make a monkey out of him
- Make a mountain out of a molehill
- Make a move on
- Make a name for yourself
- Make a pass at
- Make a pig of yourself
- Make a pitch
- Make a pitch for
- Make a play for
- Make a rod for your own back
- Make a sale
- Make a scene ( causing a disturbance )
- Make a song and dance about
- Make a spectacle of yourself
- Make a splash
- Make a virtue out of a necessity
- Make a world of difference
- Make allowances
- Make amends
- Make an ass of yourself
- Make an entrance
- Make an example of
- Make an exhibition of yourself
- Make an honest woman of
- Make believe
- Make bold
- Make contact
- Make do
- Make do and mend
- Make ends meet
- Make every day a McDonalds Day ( McDonald's advertising slogan )
- Make eyes at
- Make fast
- Make first base
- Make free with
- Make friends
- Make fun of
- Make giant strides
- Make good
- Make good time
- Make good your escape
- Make great play of
- Make haste
- Make haste slowly
- Make hay
- Make hay while the sun shines
- Make heavy weather of
- Make history
- Make inquiries
- Make it big
- Make it rain
- Make it snappy
- Make it so ( A catchphrase from Star Trek )
- Make it up
- Make life difficult
- Make light of
- Make light work of
- Make like a banana and split
- Make like a tree and leave
- Make little of
- Make love
- Make love not war
- Make magic
- Make matters worse
- Make me beautiful
- Make mention of
- Make merry
- Make mincemeat out of
- Make mine Moxie ( Moxie soda advertising slogan )
- Make mine a double
- Make mischief
- Make my day
- Make nice
- Make no bones about
- Make no mistake
- Make no secret of
- Make off with
- Make old bones
- Make one's hackles rise
- Make out
- Make over
- Make poverty history
- Make ready
- Make room
- Make sail
- Make sense of
- Make sheep's eyes at
- Make short work of
- Make some noise
- Make someone happy with a phone call ( British Telecom advertising slogan )
- Make someone's toes curl
- Make the best of a bad job
- Make the cut
- Make the feathers fly
- Make the grade
- Make the most of it
- Make the scene
- Make the team
- Make tracks
- Make trouble
- Make up
- Make up for lost time
- Make war
- Make waves
- Make way
- Make welcome
- Make whoopee
- Make your bed and lie in it
- Make your fortune
- Make your head spin
- Make your mark
- Make your move
- Make your way
- Make yourself at home
- Make yourself heard ( Ericsson advertising slogan )
- Make yourself scarce
- Make-up to make love in ( Mary Quant advertising slogan )
- Many hands make light work
- Mr Kipling does make exceedingly good cakes ( Mr Kipling Cakes advertising slogan )
- New Deal ( Franklin Roosevelt's social and economic reform )
- Nine tailors make a man
- No one can make you feel inferior without your consent ( Eleanor Roosevelt quotation )
- Not worth the paper it's printed on
- On paper
- On the make
- One swallow doesn't make a summer
- One year's seeds make seven year weeds
- Paper Doll ( Mills Brothers song )
- Paper millionaire
- Paper over the cracks
- Paper profit
- Paper the house
- Paper thin
- Paper tiger
- Paper trail
- Portrait painting ( a form of painting in which the human face is the subject )
- Potatoes in the mould ( Cockney rhyming slang for cold )
- Prime condition ( in perfect shape )
- Put in an appearance
- Put pen to paper
- Put the make on
- Sarcasm is the lowest form of wit
- Shape up or ship out
- Ship shape and Bristol fashion
- Still life ( a form of painting in which inanimate objects are the subject )
- Take a bath in the dark tonight and let the water make love to your skin ( Lavin Perfumes & Soaps advertising slogan )
- Take shape
- Tetley make teabags make tea ( Tetley Tea advertising slogan )
- The Statue of Christ the Redeemer ( tourist attraction in Rio de Janeiro Brazil )
- The Statue of Liberty ( tourist attraction in New York USA )
- The mind is its own place, and in itself, can make a Heav'n of Hell, a Hell of Heav'n ( from a poem by Milton )
- The one and only cereal that comes in the shape of animals ( Crispy Critters advertising slogan )
- The road isn't built that can make it breathe hard! ( Chevrolet advertising slogan )
- The shape of things to come
- Things that make you go 'mmm' ( McDonald's advertising slogan )
- Throw a shape
- To make a long story short
- To make that tough job easier - you deserve M&M candy ( M&Ms advertising slogan )
- Together we make a great team ( Midland Bank advertising slogan )
- Toxic paper
- Two and two make five
- Two and two make four
- Two blacks don't make a white
- Two wrongs don't make a right
- War eagle ( the golden eagle - used by Native Americans to make headdresses )
- We make it simple ( Honda advertising slogan )
- We make money the old fashioned way, we earn it ( Smith Barney advertising slogan )
- We make things that bring people closer ( Western Electrics advertising slogan )
- We make things that make communications work ( Lucent Technologies advertising slogan )
- We won't make a drama out of a crisis ( Commercial Union advertising slogan )
- Welfare reform
- Won't make a pom tiddly ( Swan Light advertising slogan )
- You Make Me Feel Like A Natural Woman ( Carole King song )
- You can lead a horse to water but you can't make it drink
- You can lead a whore to culture but you can't make her think
- You can't make a silk purse from a sow's ear
- You can't make an omelette without breaking eggs
- You can't make bricks without straw
- You couldn't make it up
- You make your bed, you sleep in it
- You only get one chance to make a first impression