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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 )