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A child is an island of curiosity surrounded by a sea of
question
marks ( Shell advertising slogan )
A dirty
business
A head for
business
and a body for sin
A loaded
question
Affair of the heart
Affair to remember
All the fun of the
fair
All's
fair
in love and war
As a
matter
of fact
Ask a silly
question
and you'll get a silly answer
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the meaning and origin of this phrase...
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Back in
business
Bad
Romance
( Lady Gaga song )
Barnet
Fair
( Cockney rhyming slang for hair )
Beg the
question
(
the meaning and origin of this phrase...
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Better than
sex
Big Blue ( Nickname of International
Business
Machines ( IBM ) )
Big
occasion
Bit on the side
Burning
issue
Business
acumen
Business
as usual
Business
at hand
Business
before pleasure
Business
class
Business
end
Business
is beautiful ( Sprint advertising slogan )
Business
is like a car, it will not run by itself except downhill
Business
jet
Business
need
Business
or pleasure
Business
partner
Business
plan
Business
to
business
By
fair
means or foul
Call into
question
Carry on with
Carrying on
Cause for
concern
Chasing tail ( of a man pursuing the female
sex
)
Dead
issue
Dirty weekend
Discussing Uganda ( euphemism for
sex
)
Do the
business
Do your
business
Doing a land-office
business
Don't
Matter
( Akon song )
Don't mix
business
with pleasure
Duck the
question
Event
horizon
Everything You Always Wanted To Know About
Sex
But Were Afraid To Ask ( David Reuben book )
Everything You Wanted To Know About
Sex
But Were Afraid To Ask ( Woody Allen movie )
Extramarital relations
Faint heart never won
fair
lady
Fair
Trade
Fair
and Balanced ( FOX News advertising slogan )
Fair
and aboveboard
Fair
and square
Fair
crack of the whip
Fair
dinkum
Fair
do's
Fair
enough
Fair
exchange is no robbery
Fair
game
Fair
go
Fair
market value ( a reasonable price for an article for sale )
Fair
play
Fair
play to you
Fair
sex
Fair
shake
Fair
to middling
Fair
to midland
For
fair
Force the
issue
Form follows
function
Free enterprise with every
issue
( The Economist advertising slogan )
Frequently asked
question
Gentle
sex
Get down to
business
Get to the heart of the
matter
Go about your
business
Going
concern
Grey
matter
Group
sex
Happy
event
Have you any last requests? ( humorous
question
asked as though a person was about to be killed )
Hiking the Appalachian Trail ( euphemism for
adultery
)
Holiday
romance
Hot button
issue
I'll make it my
business
Issue
forth
It doesn't
matter
who you vote for, the government always gets in
It is easy to be wise after the
event
It's a
fair
cop
It's a family affair
Just a
question
of time
Land office
business
Leading
question
Like nobody's
business
Main
event
Matter
of course
Matter
of life and death
Matter
of time
May to December
romance
Mean
business
Mind over
matter
Mind over matter: if you don't mind it don't
matter
Mind your own
business
Monkey
business
Motion picture
event
Moving at the speed of
business
( UPS advertising slogan )
My
Fair
Lady ( Lerner and Loewe musical )
Ninth inning ( A baseball expression meaning an
event
or process is near the end )
No fair!
No laughing
matter
No
matter
No
matter
what what's-his-name says, I'm the prettiest and Lite's the greatest ( Miller Beer advertising slogan )
On this auspicious
occasion
Only a
matter
of time
Only the brave deserve the
fair
and the
fair
deserve JAEGER ( Jaeger Sportswear advertising slogan )
Open for
business
Out of the
question
Pop the
question
Revenge
sex
(
sex
with the intention of infecting a partner with Aids )
Rise to the
occasion
Risky
business
Roll up, roll up, all the fun of the
fair
Root of the
matter
Rubber chicken curcuit ( a speaking or fundraising
event
at which poor quality meat is served )
Sad state of
affairs
Safe
sex
Seeing small
business
differently ( SBC Communications advertising slogan )
Sex
and drugs, and rock and roll
Sex
and shopping
Sex
and the City
Sex
kitten
Sex
life
Sex
machine
Sex
on legs
Sex
on the beach
Sex
starved
Sex
symbol
Sex
tourism
Sex
up
Sex, Lies And Videotape ( Steven Soderbergh movie )
Shed light on the
matter
Simple Simon met a pieman going to the
fair
( line from nursery rhyme )
Size does
matter
Skirting the
issue
Slipped my moorings ( euphemism for
adultery
)
Special
event
Strictly
business
Take
issue
with
Taking care of
business
The Best Second Banana in the
Business
( Nickname of Art Carney )
The Boston Tea Party ( historical
event
where chests of tea were dumped into Boston harbour )
The
Fair
City ( Nickname of Dublin Ireland )
The Joy of
Sex
( Title of 1970s
sex
manual )
The Show
Business
Capital Of The World ( Nickname of Hollywood California )
The Smartest Dumbbell in the History of Show
Business
( Nickname of comedienne Gracie Allen )
The Thomas Crown Affair ( Steve McQueen movie )
The answer's yes. Now what's the question? ( Unipart advertising slogan )
The
business
The
business
of America is
business
The main
event
The
matter
in hand
The sixty-four thousand dollar
question
There are two sides to every
question
There's No
Business
Like Show
Business
( Judy Garland song )
This line of
business
To be or not to be: that is the
question
( from a Hamlet by Shakespeare )
Too Much Monkey
Business
( Chuck Berry song )
Vanity
Fair
( William Makepeace Thackeray book )
Voice your
concern
War movie ( a film with war as the subject
matter
)
We mean
business
What's the matter?
Wise after the
event
Without
question
World's
Fair
Yellow
matter
custard dripping from a dead dog's eye ( Beatles song lyric )
You got a friend in the
business
( Gateway 2000 advertising slogan )