Couple Phrases

Phrases

• A Bicycle Built For Two (Victorian popular song)
• A Double Diamond works wonders (Double Diamond advertising slogan)
• A Tale Of Two Cities (Charles Dickens book)
• A bird in the hand is worth two in the bush
• A chain is only as strong as its weakest link
• A deaf husband and a blind wife are always a happy couple
• A double date
• A foot in both camps
• A plague on both your houses
• A two pipe problem
• All I Want For Christmas Is My Two Front Teeth (Spike Jones song)
• America's Favorite Couple (Nickname of Ozzie and Harriet Nelson)
• Amorous intentions
• And it's goodnight from, me, and it's goodnight from him (A catchphrase from The Two Ronnies)
• As alike as two peas in a pod
• As cross as two sticks
• As happy as a dog with two tails
• As thick as two short planks
• At the double
• Bent double
• Between two stools
• Both oars in the water
• Both sides of the desk
• Burn the candle at both ends
• Caught in two minds
• Children, one is one, two is fun, three is a house full
• China plate (Cockney rhyming slang for mate)
• City Linking, smart thinking (City Link advertising slogan)
• Darby and Joan
• Don't give two hoots
• Double Dutch
• Double Indemnity (Billy Wilder movie)
• Double O Seven
• Double act
• Double back
• Double blind test
• Double check
• Double click
• Double coverage
• Double cross
• Double denim (denim jeans worn with a denim shirt or jacket)
• Double digits
• Double dip
• Double dip recession
• Double dipping (Taking a second dip into food using an item that one has already put into ones mouth)
• Double down
• Double duty
• Double edged sword
• Double entendre
• Double entry book-keeping
• Double exposure
• Double header (A baseball expression denoting two events held on the same day with the same participants)
• Double or nothing
• Double or quits
• Double quick
• Double standard
• Double take
• Double time
• Double trouble
• Double up
• Double whammy
• Double your pleasure, double your fun (Wrigley's Doublemint Chewing Gum advertising slogan)
• Double, double toil and trouble, fire burn and cauldron bubble
• Double-dip recession (A financial recession with two low points)
• Dual income no kids
• Eating for two
• Every Jack has his Jill
• Every stick has two ends
• Four by two
• Fresh pair of eyes
• Game of two halves
• Goody two shoes
• Great Pair, Says the Bear (Golden Flake Potato Chips advertising slogan)
• Grow a pair
• Had a couple
• Happy sad (a bitterweet feeling combining both happiness and sadness)
• Hasn't got two cents to rub together
• Have it both ways
• Have your bread buttered on both sides
• He doesn't have both oars in the water
• Hello, one two three testing
• I'm Gonna Love Her For The Both Of Us (Meatloaf song)
• I'm only here for the beer (Double Diamond advertising slogan)
• If you can't beat em, join em
• If you can't ride two horses at once, you shouldn't be in the circus
• If you like a lot of chocolate on your biscuit join our Club (Jacob's Club advertising slogan)
• In two minds
• In two shakes
• In two shakes of a lamb's tail
• It takes two hands to hold a Whopper (Burger King advertising slogan)
• It takes two to tango
• It was the best of times: it was the worst of times (the opening line of A Tale Of Two Cities)
• Join forces
• Join hands
• Join in marriage
• Join the Pepsi People (Pepsi advertising slogan)
• Join the club
• Join the colours
• Join the dots
• Join the professionals (British Army advertising slogan)
• Join the tea-set (Typhoo Tea advertising slogan)
• Join up
• Jump in with both feet
• Kill two birds with one stone
• Like a dog with two dicks
• Like a dog with two tails
• Link farm
• Link rot
• Look both ways
• Make mine a double
• Marriage of convenience
• Marry beneath you
• Marry in haste, repent at leisure
• Marry over the broomstick
• Mate's rates (discount price offered to friends)
• May to December romance
• Meat and two veg
• Midnight double feature
• Missing link
• My old china (Cockney rhyming slang for mate)
• My precious (The Lord of the Rings: Two Towers)
• Never the twain shall meet
• Nice pair of legs
• No man can serve two masters
• Not two pennies to rub together
• Number two
• On the double
• One fall, two submissions or a knockout
• One for sorrow, two for mirth, three for a wedding, four for a birth
• One step forward, two steps back
• One two buckle my shoe (line from nursery rhyme)
• One two many and you might turn Bertie (Bassett's Liquorice Allsorts advertising slogan)
• One two three o'clock four o'clock rock
• Pair off
• Partner up (find a companion)
• Play both ends against the middle
• Pox on both your houses
• Put two and two together
• Safe pair of hands
• Show a clean pair of heels
• Six and two threes
• Six, two and even
• Stand on your own two feet
• Stunt double
• Swing both ways
• Table for two
• Take down a peg or two
• Take two aspirin and call me in the morning
• Tea for two
• Teach someone a thing or two
• The Daily Double (Nickname of Dwight Howard)
• The Man With Two Brains (Steve Martin movie)
• The Odd Couple (Jack Lemmon / Walter Matthau movie)
• The animals went in two by two
• The beast with two backs
• The best of both worlds
• The lesser of two evils
• The square on the hypotenuse equals the sum of the squares on the other two sides
• There are two sides to every question
• Three's a crowd
• To marry for love
• Today the discriminating family finds it absolutely necessary to own two or more motor cars (Buick advertising slogan)
• Triple decker
• Triple play (A baseball expression denoting the act of making three outs during the same play)
• Triple threat
• Triple whammy
• Two Jags (Nickname of John Prescott)
• Two Out Of Three Ain't Bad (Meatloaf song)
• Two Ton Tessa
• Two all beef patties special sauce lettuce cheese pickles onions on a sesame seed bun (McDonald's advertising slogan)
• Two and eight (Cockney rhyming slang for state)
• Two and two make five
• Two and two make four
• Two blacks don't make a white
• Two bricks short of a load
• Two buck chuck
• Two can play at that game
• Two cents worth
• Two faced
• Two fat ladies (Bingo call for number eighty eight)
• Two fisted
• Two for joy (Magpie nursery rhyme)
• Two for me, none for you! (Twix advertising slogan)
• Two for one
• Two four six eight who do we appreciate (cheerleader chant)
• Two heads are better than one
• Two irons in the fire
• Two left feet
• 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 of a kind
• Two on the aisle
• Two pot screamer
• Two sandwiches short of a picnic
• Two shakes of a lamb's tail
• Two steps forward and one step back
• Two strings to his bow
• Two timing
• Two turtle doves (line from A Partridge In A Pear Tree)
• Two wrongs don't make a right
• Two's company three's a crowd
• Us versus them (denoting the emnity between two opposing groups)
• We're A Couple Of Swells (Judy Garland song)
• We're a couple of swells
• We're number two. We try harder (Avis Rent-a-Car advertising slogan)
• With both barrels
• Work both sides of the street
• You are the weakest link, goodbye (A catchphrase from The Weakest Link)