Beginning Phrases

Phrases

• A good beginning makes a good ending
• Alpha and omega (the first two letters of the Greek alphabet, used as a name for God or Jesus)
• At the crack of dawn
• Attack is the best form of defence
• Attack of the Clones (George Lucas movie in the Star Wars series)
• Baby steps
• Begin at the beginning
• Brand new dawn
• Bump start
• Calendar year (twelve months beginning from the first of January)
• Dark before the dawn
• Dawn chorus
• Dawn of a new day
• Dawn patrol
• Dawn raid
• Day one
• Denial of service attack
• Doubt is the beginning not the end of wisdom
• False dawn
• First thing
• First up
• Foot in the door
• Fresh start
• From day one
• From the beginning of time
• Gentlemen, start your engines
• Germ of an idea
• Get off to a bad start
• Get off to a flying start
• Half the battle
• Head start
• Heart attack on a plate
• Heart attack waiting to happen
• If enough people would stop smoking and start drinking, we could get out of ashtrays and into vermouth (Cinzano advertising slogan)
• In on the ground floor
• In the beginning was the word
• It's beginning to look a lot like Christmas
• Jump start
• Kelloggs, because your best days start with breakfast (Kelloggs advertising slogan)
• Kick start
• Knock Three Times (Tony Orlando and Dawn song)
• Line of attack
• Make a fresh start
• New start
• Not the beginning of the end, but the end of the beginning
• One for sorrow, two for mirth, three for a wedding, four for a birth
• Party till dawn
• Pistols at dawn
• Separated at birth
• Serious as a heart attack
• Snack attack
• Something is brewing
• Start again
• Start from scratch
• Start over
• Start the ball rolling
• The Birth of a Nation (D W Griffith / Lillian Gish movie)
• The Piper at the Gates of Dawn (Pink Floyd album)
• The beginning of the end
• The darkest hour is just before the dawn
• The glorious twelfth (of August - the start of the British grouse shooting season)
• The start of a beautiful friendship
• Throw a beanball (A baseball expression meaning to attack an opponent by aiming at their head)
• Tie a Yellow Ribbon Round the Ole Oak Tree (Dawn with Tony Orlando song)
• To boldly go where no man has gone before (A catchphrase from Start Trek)