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• A Short History Of Nearly Everything ( Bill Bryson book )
• A Short History Of Tractors In Ukrainian ( Marina Lewycka book )
• A bear of very little brain
• A few bricks short of a full load
• A few cards short of a full deck
• A little bird told me ( the meaning and origin of this phrase.. )
• A little dab'll do ya ( Brylcreem advertising slogan )
• A little help from above
• A little knowledge is a dangerous thing ( the meaning and origin of this phrase.. )
• A little learning is a dangerous thing ( from a poem by Alexander Pope ) ( the meaning and origin of this phrase.. )
• A little of what you fancy does you good ( the meaning and origin of this phrase.. )
• A slip of a thing
• A still small voice

• 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 )