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100% versus 6% That's the
Total
difference (
Total
Toothpaste advertising slogan )
A Daniel
come
to judgement
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A Life Less
Ordinary
( Ewan McGregor / Cameron Diaz movie )
A victory for
common
sense
All good things must
come
to an end
All the fun of the
fair
All things
come
to he who waits
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All's
fair
in love and war
Any
amount
Appalachian Spring ( Aaron Copland musical
score
)
As
common
as muck
As per
usual
As
regular
as clockwork
As tough as they
come
As
usual
Back
number
Ballpark
figure
Barnet
Fair
( Cockney rhyming slang for hair )
Beer and sandwiches at
Number
10
Below par
Between two stools
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Bog
standard
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Boy next door
Break out of the
ordinary
( Nestle's Butterfinger advertising slogan )
Brighton line ( Bingo call for
number
fifty nine )
Business as
usual
By
fair
means or foul
Change has
come
to America
Chirpy Chirpy Cheep Cheep (
Middle
of the Road song )
Clickety click ( Bingo call for
number
sixty six )
Come
Alive! You're in the Pepsi Generation ( Pepsi advertising slogan )
Come
And Get It ( Badfinger song )
Come
Away with Me ( Norah Jones album )
Come
Fly With Me ( Frank Sinatra song )
Come
Into The Garden Maud ( Tennyson poem and Victorian song )
Come
On Baby Light My Fire ( The Doors song )
Come
On Over ( Shania Twain album )
Come
On Over ( Shania Twain song )
Come
Running ( Van Morrison song )
Come
Together ( The Beatles song )
Come
a cropper
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Come
about
Come
across
Come
again?
Come
and get it
Come
and talk to the listening bank ( Midland Bank advertising slogan )
Come
apart at the seams
Come
back for more
Come
between
Come
clean
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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
easy to
Come
from behind
Come
full circle
Come
good
Come
hell or high water
Come
hither eyes
Come
home to Birds Eye Country ( Birds Eye Frozen Foods advertising slogan )
Come
home to a real fire ( Coal Board advertising slogan )
Come
home to roost
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Come
in from the cold
Come
into bloom
Come
into line
Come
into view
Come
into your own
Come
of age
Come
off it
Come
on down ( A catchphrase from The Price Is Right )
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Come
on in, the water's fine
Come
on like gangbusters
Come
on over
Come
on stream
Come
on women, man the factories ( WWII slogan )
Come
out
Come
out and play
Come
out fighting
Come
out in a cold sweat
Come
out in the wash
Come
out of the closet
Come
out of the woodwork
Come
out of your shell
Come
out on top
Come
out swinging
Come
out with your hands up
Come
out you're surrounded
Come
over all funny
Come
rain or shine
Come
round
Come
running
Come
the three corners of the world in arms
Come
to
Come
to Jesus
Come
to Marlboro Country ( Marlboro Cigarettes advertising slogan )
Come
to a head
Come
to a screeching halt
Come
to a sticky end
Come
to blows
Come
to fruition
Come
to grief
Come
to light
Come
to mama
Come
to nothing
Come
to papa
Come
to rest
Come
to the Central Park Zoo Cafeteria. Let the animals watch you eat for a change ( Central Park Zoo advertising slogan )
Come
to the aid of the party
Come
to the edge
Come
to the party
Come
to think of it
Come
to where the flavor is ( Marlboro Cigarettes advertising slogan )
Come
to your senses
Come
together right now over me ( Beatles song lyric )
Come
unstuck
Come
up and see me sometime ( A catchphrase from Mae West )
Come
up short
Come
up smelling of roses
Come
up trumps
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Come
up with
Come
up with the goods
Come
what
come
may
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Come
wind
come
weather
Come
with a begging bowl
Come
with me to the casbah ( A catchphrase from Charles Boyer )
Come
within an ace
Common
ground
Common
or garden
Common
sense
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Complex
number
( a
number
containing real and imaginary parts )
Cushy
number
Do a
number
on
Do you
come
here often?
Doctor's Orders ( Bingo call for
number
nine )
Does not
compute
( A catchphrase from Lost In Space )
Don't
amount
to a hill of beans
Don't
come
the raw prawn
Don't cross the bridge till you
come
to it
Double
standard
Dream
come
true
Droopy drawers ( Bingo call for
number
forty four )
Easy
come
easy go
Employee
Number
8 ( Nickname of Antoine Walker )
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
Figure
it out
Figure
painting ( a form of painting in which the human body is the subject )
Fine
figure
of a man
Fine
figure
of a woman
First
come
first served
For
fair
Four
score
and seven years ago
Girl next door
Go
figure
Good things
come
in small packages
Good things
come
in small parcels
Good things
come
in threes
Good things
come
to those who wait ( Guinness advertising slogan )
Got your
number
Ground ball ( A baseball expression meaning a prosaic or
ordinary
accomplishment )
Happy
medium
Hard to
come
by
Hate
figure
Here I
come
to save the day ( A catchphrase from Mighty Mouse )
How come?
I don't
mean
maybe
I'm smarter than the average bear! ( A catchphrase from The Yogi Bear Show )
I've
come
here to chew bubblegum and kick ass... and I'm all out of bubblegum
I've got your
number
Idea whose time has
come
If you build it they will
come
In the
middle
of nowhere
It don't
mean
a thing if it ain't got swing
It's a
fair
cop
It's
come
to a pretty pass
Johnny
come
lately
Just a
regular
guy
Just because you are paranoid it doesn't
mean
that they aren't out to get you
Keep
score
Key of the door ( Bingo call for
number
twenty one )
Knock into the
middle
of next week
Know the
score
Lean and
mean
Lean
mean
fighting machine
Lean,
mean
and hungry
Least
common
denominator
Legs eleven ( Bingo call for
number
eleven )
Little Boy Blue
come
blow your horn ( line from nursery rhyme )
Little black
number
Look after
number
one
Look out for
number
one
Love Potion
Number
Nine ( Leiber and Stoller song )
Lucky
number
seven
Mean
Joe ( Nickname of Joe Greene )
Mean
Mr. Mustard ( Beatles song )
Mean
Streets ( Robert De Niro movie )
Mean
and selfish
Mean
business
Mean
spirited
Meet in the
middle
Middle
England
Middle
man
Middle
of nowhere
Middle
of the road
My Boomerang Won't
Come
Back ( Charlie Drake song )
My
Fair
Lady ( Lerner and Loewe musical )
My ship has
come
in
Name, rank, and serial
number
No fair!
No great shakes
No
mean
feat
Normal
service has been resumed
Nothing in
common
Now is the time for all good men to
come
to the aid of the party
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
Only the brave deserve the
fair
and the
fair
deserve JAEGER ( Jaeger Sportswear advertising slogan )
Par for the course
Piggy in the
middle
Play both ends against the
middle
Play the percentage game
Points
mean
prizes
Public Enemy
Number
One ( Nickname of John Dillinger )
Rain, rain go away,
come
again another day ( line from nursery rhyme )
Rock And Roll Dreams
Come
True ( Meatloaf song )
Roll up, roll up, all the fun of the
fair
Round down
Round up
Round up the
usual
suspects ( Casablanca )
Say what you
mean
and
mean
what you say
Score
an own goal
Score
points off
Score
to settle
See what we
mean
( Canon advertising slogan )
Shoot a birdie (
score
one under par in a golf shot )
Simple Simon met a pieman going to the
fair
( line from nursery rhyme )
Situation normal, all f*cked up
Skim milk does not
come
from skinny cows ( Alba Dry Milk advertising slogan )
Slap bang in the
middle
Smack dab in the
middle
Snakes alive ( Bingo call for
number
fifty five )
So easy to use, no wonder it's
number
one ( AOL advertising slogan )
So so
Some day my prince will
come
Some day my prints will
come
Some men are born mediocre, some men achieve mediocrity, and some men have mediocrity thrust upon them
Squeezed
middle
Standard
of the World ( Cadillac advertising slogan )
Summer time ( the time adopted during the summer in advance of the
standard
time )
Taste Me! Taste Me!
Come
on and Taste Me! ( Doral Cigarettes advertising slogan )
Thank you,
come
again ( A catchphrase from Apu In The Simpsons )
The
Fair
City ( Nickname of Dublin Ireland )
The Gold
Standard
The Golden
Mean
The
Ordinary
Superstar ( Nickname of Johnny Rodgers )
The Paris Of The
Middle
East ( Nickname of Beirut Lebanon )
The Queen Of
Mean
( Nickname of Anne Robinson )
The best is yet to
come
The chickens have
come
home to roost
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The
common
good
The
common
touch
The law of averages
The magic
number
The man on the Clapham omnibus
The
medium
is the message ( A catchphrase from Marshall McLuhan )
The shape of things to
come
The time has
come
the walrus said to talk of many things
The time has come, the Walrus said, to talk of many things, Carroll )
The
usual
suspects
The wheel has
come
full circle
The wheels have
come
off
There are three kinds of lies: lies, damnable lies, and
statistics
They never
come
back
Things to
come
Three
score
and ten
Till the cows
come
home
Times without
number
To kingdom
come
Tobacco is our
middle
name ( American Brands, Inc advertising slogan )
Top of the shop ( Bingo call for
number
ninety )
Total
Eclipse Of The Heart ( Bonnie Tyler song )
Total
package
Total
stranger
Total
up
Two fat ladies ( Bingo call for
number
eighty eight )
Two little ducks ( Bingo call for
number
twenty two )
Unlucky for some ( Bingo call for
number
thirteen )
Up to par
Vanity
Fair
( William Makepeace Thackeray book )
Vital
statistics
Vodka as it should be ( Russian
Standard
advertising slogan )
Was she worth it ( Bingo call for
number
fifty six )
We
mean
business
We will cross that bridge when we
come
to it
We're
number
two. We try harder ( Avis Rent-a-Car advertising slogan )
Well, she was just seventeen you know what I
mean
( The Beatles song lyric )
What do points mean? Points
mean
prizes ( A catchphrase from Price Is Right )
What goes up must
come
down
What has
come
over you?
What you lose on the swings you gain on the roundabouts
What you
mean
we, white man?
When sorrows come, they
come
not single spies, but in battalions
When the bough breaks the cradle will fall, and down will
come
baby, cradle and all ( line from nursery rhyme )
When you
come
to think of it
Why don't you
come
up sometime and see me? ( She Done Him Wrong )
World's
Fair
You'd be so nice to
come
home to
You've
come
a long way, baby ( Virginia Slims Cigarettes advertising slogan )