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- Action Man ( children's male doll ) ( the meaning and origin of this phrase.. )
- All children, except one, grow up ( the opening line of Peter Pan )
- All creatures great and small
- All you need is love. But a little chocolate now and then doesn't hurt ( Charles M. Schulz quotation )
- Art is long and life is short
- As small as the hairs on a gnat's bollock
- As sure as God made little green apples
- As thick as two short planks
- At the last minute
- Atom Heart Mother ( Pink Floyd album )
- Atom smasher
- Attention to detail
- Baby grand
- Bama Lama Bama Loo ( Little Richard song )
- Big fish eat little fish
- Big fish in a small pool ( someone considered influential compared to their less significant peers )
- Big fleas have little fleas
- Bits and bobs
- Bits and pieces
- Bring up short
- Caught by the short and curlies ( the meaning and origin of this phrase.. )
- Caught short
- Chicken feed
- Children and fools tell the truth
- Children should be seen and not heard ( the meaning and origin of this phrase.. )
- Children's shoes have far to go ( Start-Rite Shoes advertising slogan )
- Children, one is one, two is fun, three is a house full
- Come up short
- Computer says no ( A catchphrase from Little Britain )
- Crazy Little Thing Called Love ( Queen song )
- Cut a long story short
- Daddy's little girl
- Day late and a dollar short
- Day surgery ( minor surgery that does not require the patient to stay in hospital overnight )
- Dirty little secret
- Dog and pony show
- Don't close your eyes for a minute
- Don't sweat the small stuff
- Don't trouble your pretty little head about it
- Dream a little dream of you
- Drop in the bucket ( the meaning and origin of this phrase.. )
- Drop in the ocean ( the meaning and origin of this phrase.. )
- Every Little Thing She Does Is Magic ( Police song )
- Every little helps ( Tesco advertising slogan )
- Everything you want from a store and a little bit more ( Safeway Supermarkets advertising slogan )
- Father of The Atomic Bomb ( Nickname of Robert Oppenheimer )
- First World problem ( a relatively trivial problem only affecting the affluent )
- Forward Short Leg ( field position in the game of cricket )
- Get a little extra help ( Halifax advertising slogan )
- Glow Little Glow-worm ( children's nursery rhyme )
- Gnat's bollock ( slang term for a very small unit of measurement )
- Good Golly Miss Molly ( Little Richard song )
- Good things come in small packages
- Good things come in small parcels
- Goodnight children everywhere ( A catchphrase from Uncle Mac )
- Grapes, like children, need love and affection ( Almaden advertising slogan )
- Greasy spoon ( a small cheap cafe selling fried food )
- Half pint
- Hang on a minute
- Have Yourself A Merry Little Christmas ( Judy Garland song )
- He means wee
- Hold on a minute
- I Say A Little Prayer ( Aretha Franklin song )
- I am the only gay in the village ( A catchphrase from Little Britain )
- I spy with my little eye
- I want that one ( A catchphrase from Little Britain )
- I'll Get By With Little Help From My Friends ( The Beatles song )
- I'm a laydee ( A catchphrase from Little Britain )
- I'm a little bit wooooor, a little bit waaaaaaaaaayy, I'm a geezer! ( A catchphrase from Chris The Crafty Cockney In The Fast Show )
- I've got a little list
- In short order
- In short supply
- In the short run
- Into every life a little rain must fall
- It doesn't take a minute to bag it and bin it ( UK public advertisement advertising slogan )
- Itsy Bitsy spider climbing up the spout, down came the rain and washed the spider out ( line from nursery rhyme )
- Itsy bitsy ( the meaning and origin of this phrase.. )
- Jagged Little Pill ( Alanis Morissette album )
- Just a glint in his father's eye
- Keep A Knockin' ( Little Richard song )
- Lady Madonna, children at your feet ( Beatles song lyric )
- Last minute
- Laugh a minute
- Let's rock ( A catchphrase from Al Bundy In Married With Children )
- Life's little luxuries
- Life's too short
- Little Bo peep has lost her sheep ( line from nursery rhyme )
- Little Boxes ( Pete Seeger song )
- Little Boy Blue come blow your horn ( line from nursery rhyme )
- Little Brown Jug ( Glenn Miller tune )
- Little Chocolate ( Nickname of George Dixon )
- Little Cuba ( Nickname of Miami Florida )
- Little Deuce Coupe ( Beach Boys song )
- Little General ( Nickname of Avery Johnson )
- Little Hands of Stone ( Nickname of Michael Carbajal )
- Little Hitler
- Little Jack Horner sat in a corner ( line from nursery rhyme )
- Little London ( Nickname of Gothenburg Sweden )
- Little Miss Muffet sat on a tuffet eating her curds and whey ( line from nursery rhyme )
- Little New York ( Nickname of Carmelo Anthony )
- Little Poison ( Nickname of Lloyd Waner )
- Little Red Corvette ( Prince song )
- Little Red Rooster ( Rolling Stones song )
- Little Rhody ( Nickname of the US state of Rhode Island )
- Little Robin Red breast sat upon a tree ( line from nursery rhyme )
- Little Sure Shot ( Nickname of Annie Oakley )
- Little Tommy Tucker sings for his supper ( line from nursery rhyme )
- Little White Bull ( Tommy Steele song )
- Little Women ( Louisa May Alcott book )
- Little black book
- Little black dress
- Little black number
- Little blighter
- Little boxes made of ticky tacky
- Little by little
- Little devil
- Little fish in a big pond ( someone considered unimportant compared to their more significant peers )
- Little gentleman in the velvet coat
- Little green men
- Little pitchers have big ears
- Little strokes fell great oaks
- Little thieves are hanged, but great ones escape
- Little things please little minds
- Little tin god
- Little treasure
- Little white lie
- Long Tall Sally ( Little Richard song )
- Make little of
- Make short work of
- Mary had a little lamb its fleece was white as snow ( line from nursery rhyme )
- Mickey Mouse organisation
- Midnight's Children
- Mighty oaks from little acorns grow
- Mother's little helper
- Move On Up a Little Higher ( Mahalia Jackson song )
- Nasty, brutish and short
- New York minute
- Next to nothing
- No big deal
- No job too small
- No room to breathe
- No room to swing a cat
- Nothing to worry your pretty little head about
- O ye, of little faith
- Oh little town of Bethlehem
- One brick short of a load
- One minute to midnight
- One of life's little ironies
- One small step for man, one giant leap for mankind ( Neil Armstrong quotation )
- Our children are not our children
- Pee Wee ( Nickname of Harold Reese and Paul Wanninger )
- Pint sized
- Pizza! Pizza! ( Little Caesars restaurants advertising slogan )
- Pocket rocket
- Poison dwarf
- Poor little rich girl
- Precious little
- Pull someone up short
- Quite the little gentleman
- Ready Teddy ( Little Richard song )
- Red Dwarf ( BBC comedy television series )
- Restricted growth
- Santa's Little Helpers ( allusion to the elves that help Father Christmas )
- Seeing small business differently ( SBC Communications advertising slogan )
- Shit ( or short ) end of the stick
- Short Fine Leg ( field position in the game of cricket )
- Short Mid Wicket ( field position in the game of cricket )
- Short Square Leg ( field position in the game of cricket )
- Short and curlies
- Short and sweet
- Short arms, long pockets
- Short but sweet
- Short change
- Short end of the stick
- Short fuse
- Short list
- Short sharp shock
- Short shrift
- Short sighted
- Short stuff
- Show a little leg
- Small beer
- Small fortune
- Small is beautiful
- Small minded
- Small potatoes
- Small wonder
- Small wonder ( Volkswagen advertising slogan )
- Smoke me a kipper, I'll be back for breakfast ( A catchphrase from Red Dwarf )
- So many books, so little time ( Frank Zappa quotation )
- Sold short
- Solutions for a small planet ( IBM advertising slogan )
- Sticks and snails and puppy dog's tails that's what little boys are made of ( line from nursery rhyme )
- Suffer the little children
- Sugar and spice and all things nice that's what little girls are made of ( line from nursery rhyme )
- Sweet Little Sixteen ( Chuck Berry / Beatles song )
- Take a long walk off a short pier
- Take a long walk off a short plank
- The Best Little Whorehouse In Texas ( Burt Reynolds / Dolly Parton movie )
- The Devil is in the detail
- The Famous Five ( characters in Enid Blyton's series of children's book )
- The Girl Can't Help It ( Little Richard song and movie )
- The God Of Small Things ( Arundhati Roy book )
- The Little Big Man ( Nickname of Sharmba Mitchell )
- The Little Buttercup ( Nickname of Ralph Kramden ( Jackie Gleason ) )
- The Little Corporal ( Nickname of Napoleon Bonaparte )
- The Little Drummer Boy ( Harry Simeone Chorale song )
- The Little Engine ( Nickname of T.J.Ford )
- The Little Lady ( Nickname of Jo Anne Santini ( Michele Scarabelli ) )
- The Little Master ( Nickname of Sachin Tendulkar - Indian cricketer )
- The Little Mermaid ( Disney cartoon movie )
- The Little Paris ( Nickname of Bucharest Romania )
- The Little Queen of the Soap Operas ( Nickname of actress Anne Francis )
- The Little Sparrow ( Nickname of Edith Piaf )
- The Little Witch ( Nickname of Juan Sebastian Veron )
- The difficult we do immediately; the impossible takes a little longer
- The little boys' room
- The little dog laughed to see such fun
- The little engine that could
- The little people
- The long and short of it
- The next small thing
- The patter of tiny feet
- The short end of the stick
- The small screen
- The still small voice of God
- The wheels on the bus go round and round ( title of children's song )
- The winner takes it all, the loser standing small ( ABBA lyric )
- There's a little McDonald's in Everyone ( McDonald's advertising slogan )
- There's one born every minute
- These little things are sent to try us
- Think small ( Volkswagen advertising slogan )
- This little piggy had roast beef, this little piggy had none ( line from nursery rhyme )
- This little piggy went to market, this little piggy stayed at home ( line from nursery rhyme )
- Throw another shrimp on the barbie ( Australian Tourist Commission advertising slogan )
- Thumb your nose
- Thumbnail sketch
- Time out for tiny little tea leaves in Tetley Tea ( Tetley Tea advertising slogan )
- Tiptoe through the tulips ( 1920s Broadway song and Tiny Tim hit )
- To cut a long story short
- To make a long story short
- Too little, too late
- Trap and ball ( children's ball game )
- Try A Little Tenderness ( Otis Redding song )
- Tutti Frutti ( Little Richard song )
- Twas the night before Christmas - the children were dreaming of a Ford in their future - smart, swanky and gleaming ( Ford Cars advertising slogan )
- Twinkle twinkle little star, how I wonder what you are ( line from nursery rhyme )
- Twist around your little finger
- Two bricks short of a load
- Two little dicky birds sitting on a wall, one named Peter, one named Paul ( line from nursery rhyme )
- Two little ducks ( Bingo call for number twenty two )
- Two sandwiches short of a picnic
- Under the microscope
- Wait just a cotton picking minute ( the meaning and origin of this phrase.. )
- Wee Willie Winkie runs through the town, upstairs and downstairs in his nightgown ( line from nursery rhyme )
- Wee small hours of the morning
- Who's little boy are you?
- Widow's mite
- With A Little Help From My Friends ( The Beatles song )
- Women and children first
- Wrapped around your little finger
- Yeah but, no but ( A catchphrase from Little Britain )
- Yeah, I know ( A catchphrase from Little Britain )
- You can leave in a huff. If that's too soon, you can leave in a minute and a huff ( Groucho Marx line )
- You'll look a little lovelier each day, with fabulous pink Camay ( Camay Soap advertising slogan )