Double 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 deaf husband and a blind wife are always a happy couple
• A double date
• A journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step
• 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)
• 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 large as life and twice as handsome
• As thick as two short planks
• At the double
• Back number
• Be fruitful and multiply
• Beer and sandwiches at Number 10
• Bent double
• Between two stools
• Brighton line (Bingo call for number fifty nine)
• Caught in two minds
• Children, one is one, two is fun, three is a house full
• Clickety click (Bingo call for number sixty six)
• Complex number (a number containing real and imaginary parts)
• Cushy number
• Damn fine coffee (A catchphrase from Twin Peaks)
• Do a number on
• Doctor's Orders (Bingo call for number nine)
• Don't Think Twice It's Alright (Bob Dylan song)
• 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)
• Doubled up in pain
• Doubled up with laughter
• Droopy drawers (Bingo call for number forty four)
• Eating for two
• Employee Number 8 (Nickname of Antoine Walker)
• Every stick has two ends
• Evil twin
• Fool me once, shame on you, fool me twice, shame on me
• Four by two
• Fresh pair of eyes
• Game of two halves
• Go forth and multiply
• Goody two shoes
• Got your number
• Great Pair, Says the Bear (Golden Flake Potato Chips advertising slogan)
• Grow a pair
• Had a couple
• Hasn't got two cents to rub together
• Hello, one two three testing
• I'm only here for the beer (Double Diamond advertising slogan)
• I've got your number
• If you can't ride two horses at once, you shouldn't be in the circus
• In two minds
• In two shakes
• In two shakes of a lamb's tail
• It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife (the opening line of Pride and Prejudice)
• 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)
• Key of the door (Bingo call for number twenty one)
• Kill two birds with one stone
• Large as life and twice as handsome
• Legs eleven (Bingo call for number eleven)
• Lightning never strikes twice in the same place
• Like a dog with two dicks
• Like a dog with two tails
• Little black number
• Look after number one
• Look out for number one
• Love Potion Number Nine (Leiber and Stoller song)
• Lucky number seven
• Make a list; check it twice
• Make mine a double

• Measure twice, cut once
• Meat and two veg
• Midnight double feature
• My precious (The Lord of the Rings: Two Towers)
• Name, rank, and serial number
• Nice pair of legs
• No man can serve two masters
• Not two pennies to rub together
• Number 10 Downing Street (address of the British Prime Minister)
• Number Six (Pseudonym of Peter Smith The Prisoner (Patrick McGoohan))
• Number crunching
• Number one
• Number one concubine (name given to the partner of Bertrand Russell)
• Number one son
• Number two
• Number unobtainable
• On the double
• Once bitten, twice shy
• Once or twice
• 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
• Opportunity never knocks twice
• Pair off
• Public Enemy Number One (Nickname of John Dillinger)
• Put two and two together
• Safe pair of hands
• Scotch and the Single Girl (J&B Scotch advertising slogan)
• Show a clean pair of heels
• Single Ladies (Put a Ring on It) (Beyonce song)
• Single file
• Single out
• Single point of contact
• Single sign-on
• Six and two threes
• Six, two and even
• Snakes alive (Bingo call for number fifty five)
• So easy to use, no wonder it's number one (AOL advertising slogan)
• Stand on your own two feet
• Stunt double
• 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 Dynamic Duo
• The Man With Two Brains (Steve Martin movie)
• The Odd Couple (Jack Lemmon / Walter Matthau movie)
• The Postman Always Rings Twice (Jack Nicholson movie)
• The Twin Cities (Nickname of Minneapolis/St. Paul Minnesota)
• The animals went in two by two
• The beast with two backs
• The lesser of two evils
• The longest journey starts with a single step
• The magic number
• The square on the hypotenuse equals the sum of the squares on the other two sides
• There are two sides to every question
• Think once, think twice, think bike (UK Public Information Film advertising slogan)
• Think twice
• Times without number
• Today the discriminating family finds it absolutely necessary to own two or more motor cars (Buick advertising slogan)
• Top of the shop (Bingo call for number ninety)
• 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
• Unlucky for some (Bingo call for number thirteen)
• Us versus them (denoting the emnity between two opposing groups)
• Was she worth it (Bingo call for number fifty six)
• 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)
• When sorrows come, they come not single spies, but in battalions
• Which twin has the Toni? (Toni advertising slogan)
• You Only Live Twice (James Bond movie Sean Connery)
• You cannot step into the same river twice (philosophical comment by Heraclitus)

Related

• A Double Diamond works wonders (Double Diamond advertising slogan)
• A double date
• At the double
• Bent double
• 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)
• I'm only here for the beer (Double Diamond advertising slogan)
• Make mine a double
• Midnight double feature
• On the double
• Stunt double
• The Daily Double (Nickname of Dwight Howard)