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Phrases

• A String Of Pearls (Glenn Miller tune)
• A change is as good as a rest
• A leopard cannot change its spots
• A welcome change
• Adaptive learning
• Adjust your dress
• Ain't just whistling Dixie (completely correct)
• All correct
• All present and correct
• All the news that's fit to print (New York Times advertising slogan)
• Alter ego
• An American In Paris (Irving Berlin tune title and Gene Kelly movie)
• As fit as a butcher's dog
• As fit as a fiddle

• Balance of nature
• Balance of payments
• Balance of power
• Balance of probabilities
• Balance of trade
• Be the change that you wish to see in the world (Mahatma Gandhi quotation)
• Can't carry a tune in a bucket
• Carry a tune
• Change for the better
• Change hands
• Change has come to America
• Change into your brown trousers
• Change of address
• Change of habit

• Change of heart
• Change of life
• Change of pace
• Change of scene (A new location and way of thinking)
• Change the channel
• Change the subject
• Change your mind
• Change your spots
• Change your tune
• Change your ways
• Chop and change
• Chump change
• Chunk of change
• Circumstances alter cases

• Climate change
• Come to the Central Park Zoo Cafeteria. Let the animals watch you eat for a change (Central Park Zoo advertising slogan)
• Couldn't carry a tune in a bucket
• Dance to someone's tune
• Daylight saving time (the adjustment of clocks to provide longer evening daylight)
• Dial down (adjust a device to reduce sound or temperature)
• Dish fit for the gods
• Don't Sit Under The Apple Tree (Glenn Miller tune)
• Don't change horses in midstream
• Fighting fit
• Fit But You Know It (The Streets' song)
• Fit Dunlop and be satisfied (Dunlop Tyres advertising slogan)
• Fit a quart into a pint pot
• Fit for a king

• Fit for purpose
• Fit in with
• Fit of the giggles
• Fit the bill
• Fit to a T
• Fit to be tied
• Foggy Mountain Breakdown (Lester Flatt and Earl Scruggs tune title)
• Get no change out of someone
• Green shoots of change
• Have a fit
• He who pays the piper calls the tune
• Hissy fit
• If you change your mind, I'm the first in line (ABBA lyric)
• Ill temper

• In The Mood (Glenn Miller tune)
• In the balance
• In tune with
• Kind Of Blue (Miles Davis tune and album)
• Laugh fit to burst
• Let the punishment fit the crime
• Level temper
• Little Brown Jug (Glenn Miller tune)
• Loose change
• Lose your balance
• Lose your temper
• Mental balance
• Moonlight Serenade (Glenn Miller tune)
• Not fit for a dog

• Not fit for purpose
• Nothing's Gonna Change My World (The Beatles song)
• Off balance
• On balance
• Once a cheater, always a cheater (the notion that cheats never change their ways)
• Out of tune
• Pennsylvania 65000 (Glenn Miller tune)
• Perfect fit
• Politically correct
• Quick change artist
• Redress the balance
• Regime change
• Round Midnight (Thelonious Monk tune)
• Sea change

• Short change
• Sing a different tune
• Step change
• Strike a balance
• Take Five (Dave Brubeck tune)
• Take The A Train (Duke Ellington tune)
• Temper tantrum
• The balance of his mind was disturbed
• The more things change, the more they stay the same
• The only constant is change
• The wind of change is blowing through this continent
• There's many a good tune played on an old fiddle
• There's many a good tune played on an old piano
• Tip the balance

• To the tune of
• Tune out
• Turn on, tune in, drop out (A catchphrase from Timothy Leary)
• Weigh something in the balance
• Weighed in the balance and found wanting
• Well fit
• What a refreshing change (Woodpecker cider advertising slogan)
• What would you think if I sang out of tune (The Beatles song lyric)
• Whistle A Happy Tune
• Wind of Change (Scorpions song)
• Work life balance