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A
Short
History Of Nearly Everything ( Bill Bryson book )
A
Short
History Of Tractors In Ukrainian ( Marina Lewycka book )
A few bricks
short
of a full load
A few cards
short
of a full deck
All of a sudden
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Art is long and life is
short
As
dead
as a dodo
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As
dead
as a doornail
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As
dead
as mutton
As thick as two
short
planks
At the
dead
of night
Back from the
dead
Better
dead
than red
Better off
dead
Brain
dead
Bring out your
dead
Bring up
short
Brown bread ( Cockney rhyming slang for
dead
)
Caught by the
short
and curlies
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Caught
short
Chivalry is not
dead
Come up
short
Cut a long story
short
Cut out the
dead
wood
Cut someone
dead
Day late and a dollar
short
Dead
Man Walking ( Helen Prejean book )
Dead
Men Don't Wear Plaid ( Steve Martin movie )
Dead
Ringer For Love ( Meatloaf song )
Dead
air
Dead
and buried
Dead
and gone
Dead
cat bounce
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Dead
cinch
Dead
duck
Dead
easy
Dead
end
Dead
from the neck up
Dead
giveaway
Dead
heads
Dead
heat
Dead
in the water
Dead
issue
Dead
letter
Dead
loss
Dead
man walking
Dead
meat
Dead
men tell no tales
Dead
men's shoes
Dead
of night
Dead
of winter
Dead
on arrival
Dead
on time
Dead
presidents
Dead
reckoning
Dead
ringer
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Dead
to rights
Dead
to the world
Dead
white European male ( derogatory reference to someone who has an unjustified reputation )
Dead
white male
Dead
wood
Dick and Jane is
dead
( Encyclopaedia Britannica advertising slogan )
Domestos kills all known germs - Dead! ( Domestos Bleach advertising slogan )
Down among the
dead
men
Drop
dead
Drop
dead
gorgeous
Drop
dead
list
Drop down
dead
Drop the
Dead
Donkey ( BBC comedy television series )
Fifteen men on a
dead
man's chest
Flogging a
dead
horse
Forward
Short
Leg ( field position in the game of cricket )
Given up for
dead
God is
dead
( philosophical comment by Friedrich Nietzsche )
Good and
dead
Hang by the neck until
dead
He's
dead
Jim ( A catchphrase from Star Trek )
I see
dead
people ( The Sixth Sense )
I wouldn't be caught
dead
In
short
order
In
short
supply
In the
short
run
Kicking
dead
whales down the beach
Kill stone
dead
Kills bugs
dead
( Raid advertising slogan )
Knock 'em
dead
Left for
dead
Let the
dead
bury the
dead
Life's too
short
Like being savaged by a
dead
sheep
Loud enough to waken the
dead
Make
short
work of
More
dead
than alive
Nasty, brutish and
short
Never speak ill of the
dead
Numbered with the
dead
One brick
short
of a load
Over my
dead
body
Play
dead
Pull someone up
short
Raise the
dead
Roll over and play
dead
Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are
Dead
( play by Tom Stoppard )
Shit ( or
short
) end of the stick
Short
Fine Leg ( field position in the game of cricket )
Short
Mid Wicket ( field position in the game of cricket )
Short
Square Leg ( field position in the game of cricket )
Short
and curlies
Short
and sweet
Short
arms, long pockets
Short
but sweet
Short
change
Short
end of the stick
Short
fuse
Short
list
Short
sharp shock
Short
shrift
Short
sighted
Short
stuff
Sold
short
Suddenly
Last Summer ( Elizabeth Taylor movie )
Take a long walk off a
short
pier
Take a long walk off a
short
plank
The Day of the
Dead
( Horror movie )
The King is dead, long live the King
The long and
short
of it
The only good Indian is a
dead
Indian
The
short
end of the stick
To cut a long story
short
To make a long story
short
Two bricks
short
of a load
Two sandwiches
short
of a picnic
Wanted,
dead
or alive
When a man you've never met before
suddenly
gives you flowers ( Impulse deodorant advertising slogan )
Yellow matter custard dripping from a
dead
dog's eye ( Beatles song lyric )
You're a long time
dead