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Phrases

• A Spoonful Of Sugar Helps The Medicine Go Down (Julie Andrews song)
• Above stairs
• And God said Let there be light And the was light
• Apples and pears (Cockney rhyming slang for stairs)
• As light as a feather
• Ascend to the throne
• At the drop of a hat
• Atishoo atishoo all fall down
• Away go troubles down the drain (Roto-Rooter advertising slogan)
• Back down
• Bang, bang, Maxwell's silver hammer came down upon her head (The Beatles song lyric)
• Batten down the hatches
• Bear down
• Bear down on
• Bed down
• Below stairs
• Black Hawk Down (Ewan McGregor movie)
• Blinded by the light
• Bob up and down
• Bogged down
• Boils down to
• Bolt down
• Boogie on down
• Bow down before
• Bread always falls butter side down
• Breathing down your neck
• Bring down
• Bring out your best (Bud Light advertising slogan)
• Bring something to light
• Bring the house down
• Bring to light
• Brought down
• Brought down to earth
• Brought to light
• Buckle down
• Burning Down The House (Talking Heads song)
• By the hairs on my chinny chin chin, I'll blow your house down
• C'mon Colman's, light my fire (Colman's Mustard advertising slogan)
• Calm down
• Calm down, calm down (A catchphrase from Harry Enfield In The Scousers)
• Can't Slow Down (Lionel Richie album)
• Castles made of sand fall into the sea eventually
• Caught with your pants down
• Caught with your trousers down
• Charge of the Light Brigade (British cavalry charge against Russian army in the Crimean War and title of a poem by Tennyson)
• Chocolate drop
• Chow down
• Chucking it down
• City of light
• Clamp down on
• Climb the corporate ladder
• Coffee Crisp makes a nice light snack (Coffee Crisp advertising slogan)
• Cold light of day
• Come On Baby Light My Fire (The Doors song)
• Come down hard on
• Come down on someone like a ton of bricks
• Come down to earth with a bump
• Come down to the line
• Come on down (A catchphrase from The Price Is Right)
• Come to light
• Cool down
• Couldn't put it down
• Cut someone down in their prime
• Cut someone down to size
• Death is nature's way of telling you to slow down
• Dial down (adjust a device to reduce sound or temperature)
• Don't Let The Sun Go Down On Me (Elton John song)
• Don't kick a man when he's down
• Don't let the bastards grind you down
• Don't take it lying down
• Doss down
• Double down
• Down Under (Nickname of Australia)
• Down among the dead men
• Down and out
• Down at heel
• Down boy
• Down came a blackbird and pecked off her nose (line from nursery rhyme)
• Down for the count
• Down in the dumps
• Down in the mouth
• Down it in one
• Down memory lane
• Down on all fours
• Down on his luck
• Down pat
• Down south
• Down the drain
• Down the hatch
• Down the pan
• Down the tubes
• Down to earth
• Down to the ground
• Down to the last out (A baseball expression meaning to have one last chance)
• Down to the pub for a quick one
• Down to the wire
• Down tools
• Dress down
• Dress down Friday
• Dressing down
• Drill down
• Drop It Like It's Hot (Snoop Dogg song)
• Drop a bombshell
• Drop a brick
• Drop a bundle
• Drop a clanger
• Drop a dime
• Drop a hint
• Drop a sprog
• Drop by
• Drop dead
• Drop dead gorgeous
• Drop dead list
• Drop down dead
• Drop in on
• Drop in the bucket
• Drop in the ocean
• Drop it like a hot potato
• Drop like a stone
• Drop me a line
• Drop off
• Drop someone off
• Drop the Dead Donkey (BBC comedy television series)
• Drop the ball
• Drop your aitches
• Drop your bundle
• Drop your cookies
• Drop your drawers
• Drop your guard
• Drop your pants
• Dumbing down
• Dust down
• Everything but the kitchen sink
• Eye someone up and down
• Face down
• Fall about laughing
• Fall about your ears
• Fall amongst friends
• Fall and Rise of Reginald Perrin
• Fall apart at the seams
• Fall asleep
• Fall back on
• Fall between the cracks
• Fall by the wayside
• Fall down on the job
• Fall flat
• Fall flat on your face
• Fall foul of the law
• Fall from grace
• Fall guy
• Fall in
• Fall in love
• Fall into bad habits
• Fall into line
• Fall like a stone
• Fall off the radar
• Fall off the wagon
• Fall on deaf ears
• Fall on hard times
• Fall on stony ground
• Fall on your feet
• Fall on your sword
• Fall out
• Fall out of favour
• Fall out of love with
• Fall prey to
• Fall through
• Fall through the cracks
• Falling down drunk
• Fire down below
• First light
• Flag fall (An Australian expression for a fixed starting fee, typically at the start of a taxi ride)
• Flash crash (the sudden drop in the Dow Jones Index in 2010)
• Garbage something down
• Get down
• Get down Shep (A catchphrase from John Noakes On Blue Peter)
• Get down and dirty
• Get down and get funky
• Get down to brass tacks
• Get down to business
• Get down with the kids
• Get the drop on
• Get the low down
• Get your head down
• Give it the green light
• Go down a storm
• Go down fighting
• Go down for the third time
• Go down in flames
• Go down on
• Go down on bended knee
• Go down the drain
• Go down the tubes
• Go down the wrong way
• Go down to the wire
• Go down with flying colours
• Go down with the ship
• Go out like a light (Go immediately to sleep)
• Going down
• Going down the tubes
• Good to the last drop (Maxwell House Coffee advertising slogan)
• Got it down to a fine art
• Guiding light
• Gun down
• Half light
• Hand me down
• Hands up if you use Right Guard, Hands down if you don't (Right Guard antiperspirant advertising slogan)
• Hard Rain's A Gonna Fall (Bob Dylan song)
• Hard to pin down
• Have you got a light mac?
• He huffed and he puffed and he blew their house down
• He's got a yellow streak down his back
• Hide from the light
• Hide your light under a bushel
• Hoe down
• Hold down a job
• Hold it up to the light, not a stain and shining light (Surf Washing Powder advertising slogan)
• Hose down
• Hunker down
• Hunt down
• Hurry on down to Hardee's (Rolaids advertising slogan)
• I get knocked down, but I get up again (Chumbawumba song)
• I'd rather light a candle than curse the dark
• I'll go to the foot of our stairs
• I'm Down (Beatles song)
• If you don't stand for something you will fall for anything (Malcolm X quotation)
• If you lie down with dogs, you will get up with fleas
• In decline
• In the clear light of day
• In the light of
• In the light of experience
• Into every life a little rain must fall
• It all boils down to this
• It went down the wrong way
• It won't let you down (Sure anti-perspirant advertising slogan)
• It's better to light a candle than curse the darkness
• Itsy Bitsy spider climbing up the spout, down came the rain and washed the spider out (line from nursery rhyme)
• Jack fell down and broke his crown (line from nursery rhyme)
• Jot down
• Jump down my throat
• Jumping up and down with annoyance
• Keep it down
• Keep your head down
• Kick a man when he's down
• Kick the can further down the road
• Kicking dead whales down the beach
• Kip down
• Kitchen sink drama
• Knock down drag out
• Knuckle down to
• Lay down roots
• Lay down rubber
• Lay down your arms
• Lay down your life
• Lay the law down
• Leading light
• Let down
• Let it drop
• Let me take you down, cos I'm going to Strawberry Fields (Beatles song lyric)
• Let not the sun go down on your wrath
• Let the chips fall where they may
• Let the side down
• Let there be light
• Let your hair down
• Levelling down
• Lie down on the job
• Lie down with dogs: get up with fleas
• Light My Fire (The Doors song)
• Light a fire under him
• Light a fire under some
• Light and shade
• Light at the end of the tunnel
• Light duties
• Light entertainment
• Light fingered
• Light hearted
• Light in the loafers
• Light lunch
• Light on your feet
• Light reading
• Light relief
• Light the blue touch paper and retire
• Light the fuse
• Light touch
• Light up
• Light upon
• Light years apart
• London bridge is falling down (line from nursery rhyme)
• Look down on
• Look down your nose
• Look someone up and down
• Loose lips sink ships (World War II advertising slogan)
• Lose hands down
• Make light of
• Make light work of
• Many hands make light work
• Mark down
• Mister Gorbachev, tear down this wall! (A slogan from President Reagan)
• Mow down
• Mr. Gorbachev, tear down this wall (Political slogan)
• Nail down
• Narrow down
• Never kick a dog when he's down
• Not too heavy, not too light, its just right! (Kelloggs advertising slogan)
• On lock down
• One fall, two submissions or a knockout
• Out like a light
• Pace up and down
• Paradise By The Dashboard Light (Meatloaf song)
• Park yourself down
• Party down
• Pass down
• Pipe down
• Pride comes before a fall
• Put someone down
• Put the hammer down
• Put your foot down
• Rage, rage, against the dying of the light
• Ray Of Light (Madonna album)
• Ray of light
• Red Light Curt (Nickname of Curt Schilling)
• Red light district
• Ride the light (Qwest advertising slogan)
• Riding for a fall
• Ring aring of roses, a pocketful of posies, atishoo, atishoo, all fall down (line from nursery rhyme)
• Ring down the curtain
• Round down
• Scroll down
• See the face you love light up with Terry's All Gold (Terrys Chocolates advertising slogan)
• See things in a different light
• Send down
• Shake down
• Shed light on the matter
• Shoot down in flames (destroy an argument or theory)
• Shoot him down in flames
• Shop 'till you drop
• Shove it down someone's throat
• Show down
• Sink estate
• Sink like a stone
• Sink or swim
• Sink without trace
• Sink your teeth into it
• Sold down the river
• Splash down
• Spring forward, Fall back
• Stand down
• Step down
• Stop drop and roll
• Strike a light
• Suits you down to a tee
• Suits you down to the ground
• Sweetness and light
• Swing by (slang expression meaning drop in for a visit)
• Take a fall for
• Take down a peg or two
• Take the plunge
• Talk down to
• Teeming down with rain
• The bigger they are the harder they fall
• The bread always falls buttered side down
• The chips are down
• The fruit does not fall far from the tree
• The light at the end of the tunnel may just be a train coming the other way
• The light of day
• The light of my life
• The lion may lie down with the lamb, but the lamb won't get much sleep (Woody Allen line)
• The low down
• The rise and fall of the Roman Empire
• They danced by the light of the moon (line from nursery rhyme)
• Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold (from a poem by Yeats)
• Throw down the gauntlet
• Thumbs down
• Thunder from Down Under (Nickname of Konstantin Kostya Tszyu)
• Top down
• Trade down
• Travel light
• Trick of the light
• Trip the light fantastic
• Turn on, tune in, drop out (A catchphrase from Timothy Leary)
• Turn that frown upside down
• United we stand divided we fall
• Up and down like a bride's nightie
• Up and down like a whore's drawers
• Up and down like the Ottoman Empire (line from Monty Python's Life Of Brian)
• Up and down the city road
• Up hill and down dale
• Waiting for the other shoe to drop
• Water down
• Water water everywhere and not a drop to drink
• Watership Down (Richard Adams book)
• We'll leave the light on for you (Motel 6 advertising slogan)
• Well blow me down
• Went down like a lead balloon
• What goes up must come down
• When the bough breaks the cradle will fall, and down will come baby, cradle and all (line from nursery rhyme)
• When the chips are down
• Whenever I feel the need to exercise, I lie down until it goes away (Robert Maynard Hutchins quotation)
• Winning hands down
• Wolf down
• Won't make a pom tiddly (Swan Light advertising slogan)
• You can't keep a good man down
• You could have heard a pin drop
• You could have knocked me down with a feather
• You light up my life
• You shop, we drop (Tesco home delivery advertising slogan)
• Your choice down at Wendy's, where quality is our recipe (Wendy Burgers advertising slogan)