Begin Phrases

Phrases

• A golden key can open any door
• A good beginning makes a good ending
• A journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step
• Alarm bells began to ring
• All systems go
• An open and shut case (a straightforward legal case)
• Be open with
• Before you make up your mind, open it (Irish Independent advertising slogan)
• Begin at the beginning
• Beginner's luck
• Bully off
• Bump start
• Calendar year (twelve months beginning from the first of January)
• Charity begins at home
• Curtain raiser
• Doubt is the beginning not the end of wisdom
• Every kiss begins with Kay (Kay Jewellers advertising slogan)
• Failure to launch
• Fresh start
• From the beginning of time
• From the top
• From the word go
• Game on
• Game time
• Gentlemen, start your engines
• Get off the mark
• Get off to a bad start
• Get off to a flying start
• Get the ball rolling
• Get under way
• Get up steam
• Get your feet wet
• Give it the green light
• Go live
• Go to town
• Head start
• His life's an open book
• If enough people would stop smoking and start drinking, we could get out of ashtrays and into vermouth (Cinzano advertising slogan)
• In the beginning was the word
• It's beginning to look a lot like Christmas
• Jump start
• Just for starters
• Keep a weather eye open
• Keep an eye open
• Keep an open mind
• Keep open house
• Keep your options open
• Kelloggs, because your best days start with breakfast (Kelloggs advertising slogan)
• Kick in
• Kick start
• Launch one's lunch
• Launch out at
• Launch vehicle
• Leave out door open
• Leave the door open for
• Leave your options open
• Leave yourself open
• Let battle commence
• Let the games begin
• Life begins at forty
• Make a fresh start
• My door is always open
• New start
• Not the beginning of the end, but the end of the beginning
• Open All Hours (Ronnie Barker television comedy series)
• Open Pandora's box
• Open book
• Open door policy
• Open fire
• Open for business
• Open government
• Open house
• Open marriage
• Open mouth: closed mind
• Open road
• Open season
• Open sesame
• Open source
• Open source software
• Open the bay doors HAL (A catchphrase from 2001, A Space Odyssey)
• Open the box (A catchphrase from Take Your Pick)
• Open the floodgates
• Open the kimono
• Open to doubt
• Open to offers
• Open verdict
• Open warfare (engaged in active fighting)
• Open wide
• Open your account
• Open your big mouth
• Open your eyes
• Open your heart
• Out in the open
• Pipe up
• Power up
• Press the button
• Push at an open door
• Scratch the surface
• Sleep with one eye open
• Start again
• Start from scratch
• Start over
• Start the ball rolling
• Step up
• Take it from the top
• Take the field (begin a sporting event or a military campaign)
• Take the money, open the box
• Take the plunge
• Ten summersets he'll undertake on solid ground (Beatles song lyric)
• The beginning of the end
• The fur began to fly
• The glorious twelfth (of August - the start of the British grouse shooting season)
• The start of a beautiful friendship
• To boldly go where no man has gone before (A catchphrase from Start Trek)
• We have lift off
• When the balloon goes up
• Wide open spaces
• With open arms
• With your eyes open