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After all, tomorrow is another day (
Gone
With the Wind )
Are you now or have you ever been a member of the Communist Party?
Back office
bean
counter
Bean
Burrito ( Nickname of basketball player Nick Young )
Bean
counter
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Bean
feast
Bean
town
Been and
gone
Been around the block a few times
Been had
Been here before
Been in the wars
Been there, done that, got the T-shirt
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Blast from the
past
Bottom of the
bin
Brand new ballgame ( A baseball expression meaning when a team that has been behind ties up the game )
Colour me
gone
Dead and
gone
Died and
gone
to heaven
Don't have a
bean
Eleanor Rigby picks up the rice in the church where a wedding has been ( Beatles song lyric )
First
past
the post
For years we've been making our products as if lives depend on them ( Squib drug products advertising slogan )
Frankly, my dear, I don't give a damn (
Gone
With the Wind )
Going going
gone
( A baseball expression by which an announcer describes a home run that is heading over the fence )
Going, going,
gone
Gone
Dolally
Gone
With The Wind ( Clark Gable / Vivien Leigh movie )
Gone
before
Gone
but not forgotten
Gone
fishing
Gone
for a Burton
Gone
tits up
Gone
to a better world
Gone
to pot
Gone
to seed
Gone
to the bad
Gone
to the dogs
Had a good war ( to have been successful during a military campaign )
Hair today
gone
tomorrow
Her Honeymoon - and it should have been mine! ( Listerine Mouthwash advertising slogan )
Here today
gone
tomorrow
I coulda been a contender, instead of a bum, which is what I am ( On The Waterfront )
I wouldn't put it
past
him
I've been brokenhearted, blue since the day we parted ( ABBA lyric )
I've been cheated by you since I don't know when ( ABBA lyric )
I've been had
Ich
bin
ein Berliner
It doesn't take a minute to bag it and
bin
it ( UK public advertisement advertising slogan )
It's all
gone
Pete Tong ( Cockney rhyming slang for
gone
wrong )
It's all
gone
pear shaped
It's been a hard day's night, and I'd been working like a dog ( Beatles song lyric )
Lost and
gone
forever
Mistakes have been made
Mum's
gone
to Iceland ( Iceland Supermarkets advertising slogan )
My stomach thinks my throat's been cut
Normal service has been resumed
Past
caring
Past
it
Past
its sell-by date
Pearls
past
price
Political correctness
gone
mad
Pussycat pussycat, where have you been? ( line from nursery rhyme )
Shovel ready ( a building project in which all the preliminaries have been arranged )
Sweet sixteen and never been kissed
The Life And Times Of Judge Roy
Bean
( Paul Newman movie )
The age of miracles is
past
The die has been cast
The dim distant
past
The
past
is a foreign country: they do things differently there ( the opening line of The Go-Between )
To boldly go where no man has
gone
before ( A catchphrase from Start Trek )
Where Have All The Flowers Gone? ( Pete Seeger song )
You Must Have Been A Beautiful Baby ( Bing Crosby song )
You Took The Words Right Out Of My Mouth, It Must Have Been Whilst You Were Kissing Me ( Meatloaf song )
You know when you've been Tango'd ( Tango advertising slogan )
You look as if you've been dragged through a hedge backwards
You'll wish you had never been born