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- 50 Words for Snow ( Kate Bush song )
- A girl with kaleidoscope eyes ( Beatles song lyric )
- A little learning is a dangerous thing ( from a poem by Alexander Pope ) ( the meaning and origin of this phrase.. )
- A mighty maze of mystic magic rays ( lyric of song used at the opening of television )
- A narrow fellow in the grass ( from a poem by Emily Dickinson )
- A picture paints a thousand words ( the meaning and origin of this phrase.. )
- A thing of beauty is a joy forever ( from a poem by Keats ) ( the meaning and origin of this phrase.. )
- Actions speak louder than words
- All the lonely people, where do they all come from? ( Beatles song lyric )
- Alphabet soup ( a jumble of words or letters, often in reference to organsiations known by their initials, like CIA or BBC )
- And miles to go before I sleep ( from a poem by Robert Frost )
- At a loss for words
- Baby you can drive my car ( Beatles song lyric )
- Ballad Of A Thin Man ( Bob Dylan song )
- Ballad of the Green Berets ( Staff Sergeant Barry Sadler song )
- Bandy words with ( the meaning and origin of this phrase.. )
- Bang, bang, Maxwell's silver hammer came down upon her head ( The Beatles song lyric )
- Beauty is truth, truth beauty; that is all ( from a poem by Keats )
- Because I could not stop for death he kindly stopped for me ( from a poem by Dickinson )
- Beelzebub has the devil for a sideboard ( misheard lyric from Queen's Bohemian Rhapsody ) ( the meaning and origin of this phrase.. )
- Busy old fool, unruly sun ( from a poem by John Donne )
- But at my back I always hear ( from a poem by Marvell )
- Candy is dandy but liquor is quicker ( from a poem by Nash )
- Castles made of sand fall into the sea eventually
- Chapter and verse
- Charge of the Light Brigade ( British cavalry charge against Russian army in the Crimean War and title of a poem by Tennyson )
- Clang clang clang went the trolley ( Frank Sinatra and Judy Garland song lyric )
- Come Into The Garden Maud ( Tennyson poem and Victorian song )
- Come together right now over me ( Beatles song lyric )
- Deeds not words
- Digging the dancing queen ( ABBA lyric )
- Do not go gentle into that good night ( from a poem by Dylan Thomas )
- Doctor, doctor, give me the news, I've got a bad case of loving you ( Robert Palmer song lyric )
- Don't criticise what you don't understand
- Don't mince words
- Don't worry, be happy
- Drink To Me Only With Thine Eyes ( Ben Jonson poem and Victorian song )
- Eat your words
- Eleanor Rigby picks up the rice in the church where a wedding has been ( Beatles song lyric )
- Empty words
- Famous last words
- Fine words butter no parsnips
- Fish and finger pie ( Beatles song lyric )
- For the benefit of Mr.Kite there will be a show tonight on trampoline ( Beatles song lyric )
- Friday night and the lights are low ( ABBA lyric )
- From sea to shining sea
- Gimme, gimme, gimme a man after midnight ( ABBA lyric )
- Hard words
- Have words with
- He's a real nowhere man sitting in his nowhere land ( The Beatles song lyric )
- Helpless Helpless Helpless Helpless ( Neil Young song lyric )
- Hey Jude, Don't Make It Bad ( The Beatles song lyric )
- Hope springs eternal in the human breast ( from a poem by Alexander Pope )
- How do I love thee? Let me count the ways ( from a poem by Browning )
- How does it feel to be one of the beautiful people? ( Beatles song lyric )
- Human kind cannot bear very much reality ( from a poem by Eliot )
- I am he as you are he as you are me and we are all together ( Beatles song lyric )
- I am the master of my fate ( from a poem by Henley )
- I am the walrus, goo goo goo joob ( Beatles song lyric )
- I believe in angels, something good in everything I see ( ABBA lyric )
- I don't wanna talk ( ABBA lyric )
- I grow old, I grow old, I shall wear the bottoms of my trousers rolled ( from a poem by Eliot )
- I lit a fire, isn't it good, Norwegian wood? ( Beatles song lyric )
- I look at the world and I notice it's turning ( The Beatles song lyric )
- I once had a girl, or should I say, she once had me ( The Beatles song lyric )
- I think that I shall never see a poem lovely as a tree, Kilmer )
- I wandered lonely as a cloud ( from a poem by Wordsworth )
- I'll buy you a diamond ring my friend if it makes you feel alright ( The Beatles song lyric )
- I'll send all my loving to you ( Beatles song lyric )
- I'm not half the man I used to be ( The Beatles song lyric )
- I've been brokenhearted, blue since the day we parted ( ABBA lyric )
- I've been cheated by you since I don't know when ( ABBA lyric )
- Ice, ice baby
- If I had to do the same again, I would my friend Fernando ( ABBA lyric )
- If you can keep your head when all about you ( from a poem by Kipling )
- If you change your mind, I'm the first in line ( ABBA lyric )
- If you're not busy being born, you're busy dying ( Bob Dylan song lyric )
- Imagine no religion, it's easy if you try
- In Flanders fields the poppies blow ( from a poem by McCrae )
- In Penny Lane there is a barber showing photographs ( Beatles song lyric )
- In Xanadu did Kubla Khan ( from a poem by Coleridge )
- In as many words
- In other words
- In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life: it goes on ( Robert Frost quotation )
- In words of one syllable
- It was twenty years ago today Sgt. Pepper taught the band to play ( Beatles song lyric )
- It's been a hard day's night, and I'd been working like a dog ( Beatles song lyric )
- Kind words
- Knowing me, knowing you, it's the best I can do ( ABBA lyric )
- Lady Madonna, children at your feet ( Beatles song lyric )
- Let me take you down, cos I'm going to Strawberry Fields ( Beatles song lyric )
- Living is easy with eyes closed ( Beatles song lyric )
- Look on my works, ye mighty, and despair ( from a poem by Shelley )
- Lost for words
- Love ballad
- Love is all you need ( The Beatles song lyric )
- Love, love me do, you know I love you ( Beatles song lyric )
- Mamma mia, here I go again ( ABBA lyric )
- Man of few words
- Mark my words
- Mince your words
- Money can't buy you love ( Beatles song lyric )
- Money doesn't talk, it swears
- Money, money, money ( ABBA lyric )
- Mother Superior jumped the gun ( Beatles song lyric )
- My heart went boom when I crossed that room ( Beatles song lyric )
- My mistress' eyes are nothing like the sun ( from a poem by Shakespeare )
- My my, I could never let you go ( ABBA lyric )
- Never scratches ( Lyric Records advertising slogan )
- Not in so many words
- Not with a bang but a whimper ( from a poem by Eliot )
- Nothing is real and nothing to get hung about ( The Beatles song lyric )
- One two three o'clock four o'clock rock
- Penny Lane is in my ears and in my eyes ( Beatles song lyric )
- Put words into someone's mouth
- Say a few words
- Season of mists and mellow fruitfulness ( from a poem by Keats )
- See how they run like pigs from a gun ( The Beatles song lyric )
- See that girl, watch that scene ( ABBA lyric )
- Semolina pilchard climbing up the Eiffel Tower ( Beatles song lyric )
- Shall I compare thee to a summer's day? ( from a poem by Shakespeare )
- She's got a ticket to ride but she don't care ( Beatles song lyric )
- Sticks and stones may break my bones but words will never hurt me
- Stop all the clocks, cut off the telephone ( from a poem by Auden )
- Summertime, and the living is easy
- Take a chance on me ( ABBA lyric )
- Take the words out of my mouth
- Tangerine trees and marmalade skies ( Beatles song lyric )
- Ten summersets he'll undertake on solid ground ( Beatles song lyric )
- Thank you for the music, the songs I'm singing ( ABBA lyric )
- The Ballad Of John And Yoko ( Beatles song )
- The Road Not Taken ( Robert Frost poem )
- The act you've known for all these years ( Beatles song lyric )
- The answer my friend is blowing in the wind ( Bob Dylan song lyric )
- The child is father of the man ( from a poem by Wordsworth )
- The long and winding road that leads to your door ( Beatles song lyric )
- The man with the foolish grin is keeping perfectly still ( The Beatles song lyric )
- 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 moving finger writes; and, having writ, moves on ( from a poem by Fitzgerald )
- The old lie: Dulce et Decorum Est ( from a poem by Owen )
- The proper study of mankind is man ( from a poem by Alexander Pope )
- The times they are a changing
- The winner takes it all, the loser standing small ( ABBA lyric )
- There will be an answer, let it be ( The Beatles song lyric )
- There's not a soul out there, no one to hear my prayer ( ABBA lyric )
- There's nothing you can do that can't be done ( The Beatles song lyric )
- They also serve who only stand and wait ( from a poem by Milton )
- Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold ( from a poem by Yeats )
- Tis better to have loved and lost than never to have loved at all ( from a poem by Tennyson )
- To err is human; to forgive, divine ( from a poem by Alexander Pope )
- To have words with
- To strive, to seek, to find, and not to yield ( from a poem by Tennyson )
- Tread softly because you tread on my dreams ( from a poem by Yeats )
- Unchained Melody ( Righteous Brothers song )
- Waits at the window, wearing the face that she keeps in a jar by the door ( Beatles song lyric )
- War of words
- Warm words
- Waterloo, couldn't escape if I wanted to ( ABBA lyric )
- Way with words
- We all live in a yellow submarine ( Beatles song lyric )
- Weasel words
- Well, she was just seventeen you know what I mean ( The Beatles song lyric )
- Well-chosen words
- What is this life if, full of care, we have no time to stand and stare ( from a poem by Davies )
- What would you think if I sang out of tune ( The Beatles song lyric )
- When I am an old woman I shall wear purple ( from a poem by Joseph )
- When I find myself in times of trouble Mother Mary comes to me ( Beatles song lyric )
- When in disgrace with fortune and men's eyes ( from a sonnet by Shakespeare )
- Where rocking horse people eat marshmallow pies ( Beatles song lyric )
- Whisper words of wisdom, let it be ( The Beatles song lyric )
- Who can live without it, I ask in all honesty? ( ABBA lyric )
- With love from me to you ( Beatles song lyric )
- Words Of Love ( Buddy Holly song )
- Words of wisdom
- Yellow matter custard dripping from a dead dog's eye ( Beatles song lyric )
- You Took The Words Right Out Of My Mouth, It Must Have Been Whilst You Were Kissing Me ( Meatloaf song )
- You couldn't catch a monkey with a shotgun and a sack
- You don't need a weather man to know which way the wind blows
- You keep all your money in a big brown bag inside a zoo ( Beatles song lyric )
- Young and sweet, only seventeen ( ABBA lyric )