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A Doll's
House
( play by Henrik Ibsen )
A
bank
you can
bank
on ( Westpac
Bank
advertising slogan )
A funny thing happened on the way to the
theatre
A
house
divided against itself cannot stand
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the meaning and origin of this phrase...
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A
house
is not a
home
A woman's place is in the
home
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the meaning and origin of this phrase...
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A, B, C, D, E, Your public
library
has arranged these in ways that make you cry, giggle, laugh, love, hate, wonder, ponder and understand ( American
Library
Association advertising slogan )
Abbey
Road ( The Beatles album )
Acid
house
Address
the ball ( golfing term denoting readiness to play )
Adobe
dollar ( Mexican currency )
All around Robin Hood's
barn
All over the
shop
Ally Pally ( Nickname of Alexandra
Palace
London )
Alma Mater ( the
school
or college from which a person has graduated )
American
Home
has an edifice complex ( American
Home
Magazine advertising slogan )
An Englishman's
home
is his
castle
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An ace caff with a nice
museum
attached ( Victoria & Albert
Museum
advertising slogan )
And shining morning face, creeping like a snail unwillingly to
school
And that's
flat
Animal
Farm
( George Orwell book )
Annie
Hall
( Woody Allen movie )
Architecture
is music frozen in time ( Friedrich von Schelling quotation )
Art
house
As
flat
as a pancake
As nervous as a whore in
church
As poor as a
church
mouse
As safe as the
Bank
of England
At
home
with
Back
office
bean counter
Back to
school
Balmoral
Castle
( tourist attraction in Scotland )
Barn
burner
Bat from the
pavilion
end ( slang term for a homosexual )
Be It Ever So Humble There's No Place Like
Home
( John Howard Payne and Sir Henry Bishop song )
Because life's complicated enough (
Abbey
National advertising slogan )
Beckingham
Palace
( Nickname of David and Victoria Beckham's
house
)
Beer at
home
means Davenport's ( Davenport's beer advertising slogan )
Beetle
bank
Belvedere
Palace
( tourist attraction in Austria )
Big
house
Big
tent
revival
Bleak
House
( Charles Dickens book )
Body building
Bought the
farm
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the meaning and origin of this phrase...
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Break the
bank
Bring
home
the bacon
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the meaning and origin of this phrase...
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Bring it
home
to you
Bring the
house
down
Bringing it
home
to me ( Prime Television advertising slogan )
Broken
home
Buck
House
( Nickname of Buckingham
Palace
)
Bucket
shop
Buckingham
Palace
( tourist attraction in London England )
Build
A Better Life By Stealing
Office
Supplies ( Dilbert )
Build
a better mousetrap and the world will beat a path to your door
Build
bridges
Build
for the future
Build
up your hopes
Builder's bum
Building castles in the air
Burger King - the
home
of the Whopper ( Burger King advertising slogan )
Burning Down The
House
( Talking Heads song )
Buy the
farm
By the hairs on my chinny chin chin, I'll blow your
house
down
Cackle
factory
Cathedral
of Santiago de Compostela ( tourist attraction in Spain )
Change of
address
Chapel
hat pegs
Charity begins at
home
Charlie And The Chocolate
Factory
( Roald Dahl book )
Charm
school
Chartres
Cathedral
( tourist attraction in France )
Chatham
House
rules
Children, one is one, two is fun, three is a
house
full
Chop
shop
Clean
house
Clearing
house
Close to
home
Cold Comfort
Farm
( Stella Gibbons book )
Come and talk to the listening
bank
( Midland
Bank
advertising slogan )
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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the meaning and origin of this phrase...
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Cop
shop
Cottage
economy
Cottage
industry
Country
house
hotel
( an upmarket
hotel
located in a revamped rural
mansion
)
Crooked
House
( Agatha Christie book )
Crying all the way to the
bank
( A catchphrase from Liberace )
Doctor In The
House
( Dirk Bogade / Luchino Visconti movie )
Don't leave
home
without it ( American Express advertising slogan )
Don't try this at
home
Drive your point
home
Driven
home
ET phone
home
( ET )
East, west, home's best
Eaten out of
house
and
home
Edinburgh
Castle
( tourist attraction in Scotland )
Eleanor Rigby picks up the rice in the
church
where a wedding has been ( Beatles song lyric )
Elvis has left the building
Empire State Building
Ethnic stocking ( the appointment to political
office
on the basis of ethnicity )
Everybody lies ( A catchphrase from Dr Gregory
House
in
House
)
Factory
farming ( rearing livestock under industrial conditions )
Factory
fresh
Factory
outlet ( a
shop
where goods are sold directly to the public by the manufacturer )
Factory
shop
( a retail outlet where goods are sold directly to the public by the manufacturer )
Fall
flat
Fall
flat
on your face
Far better for being near to you ( The Chesham Building Society advertising slogan )
Farm
fresh
First relationships last ( First National
Bank
of Chicago advertising slogan )
Flat
broke
Flat
out
Flat
out like a lizard drinking
Flatten the
pyramid
Fort
Knox ( tourist attraction in USA )
Fort
Worthless ( Nickname of
Fort
Worth Texas )
Frasier has left the building ( A catchphrase from Frasier )
Fringe
theatre
Front of
house
Full
house
Funny
farm
Garage
band
Gargle
factory
Gather 'round the good stuff ( Pizza
Hut
advertising slogan )
Get on like a
house
on fire
Get the
Abbey
habit (
Abbey
National advertising slogan )
Glue
factory
Go hard or go
home
Go
home
in a box
Go
home
in an ambulance
Going going gone ( A baseball expression by which an announcer describes a
home
run that is heading over the fence )
Good to the last drop ( Maxwell
House
Coffee advertising slogan )
Granny
flat
Greenhouse
effect
Guggenheim
Museum
( tourist attraction in Spain )
Halfway
house
Hall
of fame
Hammer it
home
Have a
flat
He huffed and he puffed and he blew their
house
down
Heartbreak
Hotel
( Elvis Presley song )
Hearth and
home
High
church
High
office
Hillybilly likes you! ( Hillybilly Vac
Shack
advertising slogan )
Hit
home
Hold the
fort
Home
For The Holidays ( film starring Holly Hunter and Robert Downey Jr. )
Home
James and don't spare the horses
Home
alone
Home
and dry
Home
and hearth
Home
and hosed
Home
boy
Home
delivery
Home
free
Home
from
home
Home
front
Home
grown
Home
haircut
Home
improvement
Home
is the hunter
Home
is where the heart is
Home
is wherever I lay my hat
Home
maker
Home
remedy
Home
resort
Home
rule
Home
run
Home
stretch
Home
suite
hotel
( Larkspur Landing
Hotel
advertising slogan )
Home
sweet
home
Home
truth
Home
worker
Home,
home
on the range
Honey I'm
home
Hotel
California ( Eagles album )
Hounded out of
office
House
and garden
House
and
home
House
built on sand
House
frau
House
guest
House
husband
House
mother
House
music
House
of cards
House
of ill repute
House
rules
House
style
House
swap
How con-veen-ient! ( A catchphrase from The
Church
Lady In Saturday Night Live )
I Capture The
Castle
( Dodie Smith book )
I Do Like To Be Beside The Seaside ( British Music
Hall
song )
I want to be alone ( A catchphrase from Grand
Hotel
)
If you
build
it they will come
In a
flat
spin
In no time
flat
In nothing
flat
In the
bank
Indiana Jones And The
Temple
Of Doom ( Harrison Ford / Steven Speilberg movie )
Investments with
Abbey
endings (
Abbey
National Building Society advertising slogan )
Is there a doctor in the house?
It was the night before Christmas and all round the house, not a creature was stirring, not even a mouse
It won't break the
bank
Ivory
tower
Just another day at the
office
Keep a good
house
Keep open
house
Keep the
home
fires burning
Keep the
shop
and the
shop
will keep you
King of the
castle
Knock
flat
Knocking
shop
Land
office
business
Laugh all the way to the
bank
Liberty
hall
Like a bull in a china
shop
Like a good neighbor ( State
Farm
)
Like a good neighbor, State
Farm
is there ( State
Farm
Insurance advertising slogan )
Link
farm
Live over the
shop
Mad
house
Maggie's
Farm
( Bob Dylan song )
Make yourself at
home
Mode for your
abode
( Metropolitan
Home
advertising slogan )
Monstrous carbuncle on the face of an old friend ( Prince Charles quotation )
More reasons to
shop
at Morrisons ( WM Morrison's advertising slogan )
Mother
church
Never tell tales out of
school
No fixed
abode
No music, no life (
Tower
Records advertising slogan )
Northanger
Abbey
( Jane Austen novel )
Not A Dry Eye In The
House
( Meatloaf song )
Not a dry eye in the
house
Not a dry seat in the
house
Nothing to write
home
about
Notre Dame
Cathedral
( tourist attraction in Paris France )
Number 10 Downing Street (
address
of the British Prime Minister )
Nut
factory
Office
politics
Office
space
Office
work
Oh Give Me A
Home
Where The Buffalo Roam ( Brewster Higly song )
Old
school
Old
school
tie
On the
flat
On the
house
One Size ( Nickname of Fitz
Hall
)
One card for
home
and abroad ( Maestro advertising slogan )
One stop
shop
Open
house
Out of
office
POSH - Port out, starboard
home
( false attribution of the origin of the word posh )
Paddy's Wigwam ( Nickname of The Roman Catholic
Cathedral
Liverpool )
Palace
of Versailles ( tourist attraction in France )
Paper the
house
Party Like a Rock Star (
Shop
Boyz song )
Phone
home
Pick up your marbles and go
home
Piggy
bank
Pile
it high and sell it cheap
Pile
of pants
Pile
on the agony
Pile
up
Playing to the
gallery
Please
address
the court
Post early for Christmas ( Post
Office
advertising slogan )
Potala
Palace
( tourist attraction in China )
Press your point
home
Put your
house
in order
Pyramid
scheme
Ram it
home
Romp
home
School
dunce
School
for scandal
School
of fish
School
of hard knocks
School
of thought
School's out for summer
School's out forever
See what the future has in store ( Future
Shop
advertising slogan )
Semolina pilchard climbing up the Eiffel
Tower
( Beatles song lyric )
Shack
rat ( Canadian military slang term for a promiscuous female who visits military
barracks
to sleep with soldiers )
Shack
up with
She's Leaving
Home
( Beatles song )
Shed
light on the matter
Shop
'till you drop
Shop
Around ( Smokey Robinson song )
Shop
around
Shovel ready ( a building project in which all the preliminaries have been arranged )
Shut it ( A catchphrase from The
Office
)
Shut up
shop
Smallest room in the
house
Some
assembly
required
Somebody somewhere wants a letter from you ( British Post
Office
advertising slogan )
St Paul's
Cathedral
( tourist attraction in London England )
Step into my
office
Sunday
school
Swept into
office
Sydney Opera
House
( tourist attraction in Australia )
Take
home
pay
Talk out of
school
Talk
shop
Talking
shop
Taste as good as it smells ( Maxwell
House
Coffee advertising slogan )
Tell tales out of
school
Temple
Mount ( tourist attraction in Israel )
That brought it
home
to me
The Adventure of the
Abbey
Grange ( Sherlock Holmes story )
The Adventure of the Empty
House
( Sherlock Holmes story )
The Adventure of the Priory
School
( Sherlock Holmes story )
The Anne Frank
House
( tourist attraction in Amsterdam Netherlands )
The
Bank
of England ( tourist attraction in London England )
The Blue
Mosque
( tourist attraction in Turkey )
The British
Museum
( tourist attraction in London England )
The Bronx Zoo ( Nickname of Benjamin Harrison High
School
)
The Chrysler Building ( tourist attraction in New York USA )
The Cider
House
Rules ( Michael Caine movie )
The Conservative Party at prayer ( The
Church
of England )
The Doge's
Palace
( tourist attraction in Italy )
The Dream
Factory
( film or television studio where idealised concepts are manufactured - especially Hollywood )
The Eiffel
Tower
( tourist attraction in Paris France )
The Empire State Building ( tourist attraction in New York USA )
The Frump
Tower
( Nickname of Camilla Duchess of Cornwall )
The Golden
Pavilion
( tourist attraction in Japan )
The Golden
Temple
( tourist attraction in India )
The Great
Pyramid
( tourist attraction in Cairo Egypt )
The Guggenheim
Museum
( tourist attraction in Spain )
The
Home
Of Paul Bunyan And Babe The Blue Ox ( Nickname of Westwood California, Brainerd Minnesota and Bemidji Minnesota )
The
Home
Of The Masters ( Nickname of Augusta Georgia )
The
House
Doctor ( Pseudonym of Ron Hazelton )
The
House
of the Rising Sun ( The Animals song )
The Imperial Summer
Palace
( tourist attraction in China )
The Leaning
Tower
of Pisa ( tourist attraction in Italy )
The Old Lady of Threadneedle Street ( Nickname of The
Bank
of England )
The Prince of the
Palace
( Nickname of Tayshaun Prince )
The Raffles
Hotel
( tourist attraction in Singapore )
The Red
Fort
( tourist attraction in India )
The Sistine
Chapel
( tourist attraction in the Vatican City Italy )
The
Tower
of London ( tourist attraction in England )
The Uffizi
Gallery
( tourist attraction in Italy )
The Van Gogh
Museum
( tourist attraction in Netherlands )
The White
House
( tourist attraction in Washington USA )
The angel in the
house
The
bank
of mum and dad
The
bank
that likes to say Yes ( Trustee Savings
Bank
advertising slogan )
The best seat in the
house
( Jockey Shorts advertising slogan )
The chickens have come
home
to roost
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the meaning and origin of this phrase...
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The green green grass of
home
The
house
of many doors
The
house
that Jack built ( line from nursery rhyme )
The king was in his counting
house
counting out his money ( line from nursery rhyme )
The last turkey in the
shop
The lights are on but there's no one at
home
The world's local
bank
( HSBC advertising slogan )
There's no place like HBO (
Home
Box
Office
advertising slogan )
There's no place like
home
Think what we can do for you (
Bank
of America advertising slogan )
This is a local shop, we'll have no trouble here ( A catchphrase from The League of Gentlemen )
This little piggy went to market, this little piggy stayed at
home
( line from nursery rhyme )
Thrift
Shop
( Macklemore and Ryan Lewis with Wanz song )
Till the cows come
home
Time to go
home
To save and invest, talk to Natwest ( Natwest
Bank
advertising slogan )
To the
Manor
Born ( BBC comedy television series )
Together we make a great team ( Midland
Bank
advertising slogan )
Tomb
Raider ( Angelina Jolie movie )
Top of the
shop
( Bingo call for number ninety )
Tower
of strength
True to you ( Julius Baer Private
Bank
advertising slogan )
Under
construction
Versailles
Palace
( tourist attraction in France )
We
build
excitement ( Pontiac advertising slogan )
We're with the Woolwich ( Woolwich Building Society advertising slogan )
Welcome
home
Were you born in a barn?
Westminster
Abbey
( tourist attraction in London England )
What Katy Did At
School
When better automobiles are built, Buick will
build
them ( Buick advertising slogan )
Which bank? ( Commonwealth
Bank
of Australia advertising slogan )
Who lives in a
house
like this? ( A catchphrase from Through the Keyhole )
Wind
farm
Windsor
Castle
( tourist attraction in England )
With you, all the way ( State
Bank
of India advertising slogan )
Working from
home
World
cinema
You Can't Go
Home
Again
You can
bank
on it
You can take that to the
bank
You can't fight city
hall
You shop, we drop ( Tesco
home
delivery advertising slogan )
You'd be so nice to come
home
to
You've got questions, we've got answers ( Radio
Shack
advertising slogan )
Yours faithfully ( Trust
House
Forte advertising slogan )