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...Baby One More Time ( Britney Spears album and song )
A Portrait Of The Artist As A
Young
Man ( James Joyce book )
A
child
is an island of curiosity surrounded by a sea of question marks ( Shell advertising slogan )
A ministering angel shall my
sister
be
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A still
small
voice
Absent
parent
Action Man ( children's male doll )
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After The Gold Rush ( Neil
Young
song )
All children, except one, grow up ( the opening line of Peter Pan )
All creatures great and
small
All happy families are alike; each unhappy
family
is unhappy in its own way ( the opening line of Anna Karenina )
Alma Mater ( the
school
or college from which a person has graduated )
Am I my brother's keeper?
And
baby
makes three
And shining morning face, creeping like a snail unwillingly to
school
Angry
young
man
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As easy as taking candy from a
baby
As helpless as a
baby
As
small
as the hairs on a gnat's bollock
As smooth as a baby's bottom
Attila the Nun ( Nickname of
Sister
Agnes ( Priscilla Lopez ) )
Baby
Braves ( Nickname of a group of Atlanta Braves )
Baby
Bull ( Nickname of baseball player Orlando Cepeda )
Baby
Cakes ( Nickname of Cliff Huxtable ( Bill Cosby ) )
Baby
Doc ( Nickname of Jean Claude Duvalier )
Baby
Doll ( Nickname of boxer Elena Reid )
Baby
Girl ( Nickname of boxer Leatitia Robinson )
Baby
Gramps ( Nickname of basketball player Greg Oden )
Baby
I Need Your Loving ( Four Tops song )
Baby
Jordan ( Nickname of basketball player Harold Miner )
Baby
Love ( The Supremes song )
Baby
Please Don't Go ( Muddy Waters song )
Baby
Shaq ( Nickname of Sofoklis Schortsanitis )
Baby
You're A Rich Man ( The Beatles song )
Baby
blues
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Baby
boomer
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Baby
brain ( forgetfulness caused by lack of sleep when caring for a newborn )
Baby
bunting
Baby
face
Baby
father
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Baby
grand
Baby
needs new shoes
Baby
on board
Baby
shower
Baby
snatcher
Baby
split
Baby
steps
Baby
you can drive my car ( Beatles song lyric )
Baby, you can park my car
Baby, you're the greatest. ( A catchphrase from The Honeymooners )
Back to
school
Bean Burrito ( Nickname of basketball player Nick
Young
)
Beanpole
family
Big
Baby
( Nickname of basketball player Glen Davis )
Big
Brother
Big
Brother
is watching you
Big fish in a
small
pool ( someone considered influential compared to their less significant peers )
Black sheep of the
family
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Blood blister ( Cockney rhyming slang for
sister
)
Boston Tar
Baby
( Nickname of boxer Sam Langford )
Bright
young
thing
Bringing Up
Baby
( Cary Grant / Katharine Hepburn movie )
Brother
Jonathan
Brum brum ( child's play idiom expressing the sound of a vehicle )
Charm
school
Cheaper By The Dozen ( Steve Martin movie )
Child
of God
Child's play
Childhood
friend
Childhood
memories
Childhood
sweetheart
Children and fools tell the truth
Children should be seen and not heard
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Children's shoes have far to go ( Start-Rite Shoes advertising slogan )
Children, one is one, two is fun, three is a house full
Cinnamon Girl ( Neil
Young
song )
Come On
Baby
Light My Fire ( The Doors song )
Cry
baby
Did I do that? ( A catchphrase from
Family
Matters )
Don't Worry
Baby
( Beach Boys song )
Don't be such a
baby
Don't sweat the
small
stuff
Drill, baby, drill
Dysfunctional
family
Family
fortunes
Family
man
Family
matters
Family
ties
Family
tree
Family
values
Fourth Quarter Vince ( Nickname of American football player Vince
Young
)
Fruits of your loins
Get a gold star ( earn a merit point for doing well )
Get your
family
into Shape, without them even noticing ( St. Ivel Yogurt advertising slogan )
Give your
baby
something you never had as a baby. A drier bottom ( Pampers advertising slogan )
Glow Little Glow-worm ( children's nursery rhyme )
Gnat's bollock ( slang term for a very
small
unit of measurement )
Go West
young
man
Go and boil your head
Go and play in the traffic
Go with
child
Good things come in
small
packages
Good things come in
small
parcels
Goodnight children everywhere ( A catchphrase from Uncle Mac )
Grapes, like children, need love and affection ( Almaden advertising slogan )
Greasy spoon ( a
small
cheap cafe selling fried food )
Happy
Birthday
To You
Hasta la vista
baby
( A catchphrase from Arnold Schwarzeneggar )
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He ain't heavy, he's my
brother
Head of the
family
Heart Of Gold ( Neil
Young
song )
Heavy with
child
Helicopter
parent
Helpless Helpless Helpless Helpless ( Neil
Young
song lyric )
Hey, Soul
Sister
( Train song )
How sharper than a serpent's tooth it is to have a thankless child?
I Think I Love You ( The Partridge
Family
song )
I'll Be Your
Baby
Tonight ( Bob Dylan song )
Ice, ice
baby
In the
family
way
In your
birthday
suit
Is You Is Or Is You Ain't, My Baby? ( Louis Jordan song )
Is you is or is you ain't, my baby?
It's All Over Now
Baby
Blue ( Bob Dylan song )
It's a
family
affair
Keep it in the
family
Lady Madonna, children at your feet ( Beatles song lyric )
Leave no
child
behind ( Political slogan )
Left holding the
baby
Let's rock ( A catchphrase from Al Bundy In Married With Children )
Love
child
Love in This Club ( Usher with
Young
Jeezy song )
Love's
young
dream
Many happy returns ( a toast given to someone on their
birthday
)
Maybe
Baby
( Buddy Holly song )
Midnight's Children
Million Dollar
Baby
( Hilary Swank / Clint Eastwood movie )
My
Baby
Left Me ( Elvis Presley song )
My arse ( A catchphrase from Royle
Family
)
Never tell tales out of
school
New arrival ( colloquial term for a newborn
baby
)
Nick is for kids ( Nickelodeon TV channel advertising slogan )
No job too
small
Not so
young
as you were
O
Brother
Where Art Thou ( A catchphrase from Ed Murrow and George Clooney movie title )
Old head on
young
shoulders
Old
school
Old
school
tie
One
small
step for man, one giant leap for mankind ( Neil Armstrong quotation )
Only Love Can Break Your Heart ( Neil
Young
song )
Our children are not our children
Our survey says ( A catchphrase from
Family
Fortunes )
Paternal bonus ( a joke or theme added to a childrens programme aimed at adults )
Pepsi - for those who think
young
( Pepsi advertising slogan )
Pester power
Problem
child
Rock Your
Baby
( George McCrae song )
Rock a bye
baby
on the tree top, when the wind blows the cradle will rock ( line from nursery rhyme )
Rockin' In The Free World ( Neil
Young
song )
Runs in the
family
Saturday's
child
works hard for a living
Saviour sibling ( a
child
born in order to provide a transplant for another with a fatal disease )
School
dunce
School
for scandal
School
of fish
School
of hard knocks
School
of thought
School's out for summer
School's out forever
Second
childhood
Seeing
small
business differently ( SBC Communications advertising slogan )
Selling the
family
silver
Shouldn't your
baby
be a Gerber baby? ( Gerber Products advertising slogan )
Sister
Act ( Whoopie Goldberg movie )
Sister
of mercy
Skin and blister ( Cockney rhyming slang for
sister
)
Sleep like a
baby
Small
beer
Small
fortune
Small
is beautiful
Small
minded
Small
potatoes
Small
wonder
Small
wonder ( Volkswagen advertising slogan )
Snowball Express
So Farley's, so good ( Farley's
Baby
Food advertising slogan )
Solutions for a
small
planet ( IBM advertising slogan )
Soul
brother
Soul
sister
Spare the rod and spoil the
child
Spend more time with my
family
Stranger danger
Strapping
young
man
Suffer the little children
Sunday
school
Sunday's
child
is full of grace
Sweet
Baby
James ( James Taylor song )
Talk out of
school
Talk to me,
baby
Tell tales out of
school
Test tube
baby
The Adventure of the Priory
School
( Sherlock Holmes story )
The Bronx Zoo ( Nickname of Benjamin Harrison High
School
)
The Charlie Chaplin of Television ( Nickname of comedian Alan
Young
)
The Famous Five ( characters in Enid Blyton's series of children's book )
The God Of
Small
Things ( Arundhati Roy book )
The Man
Child
( Nickname of Dwight Howard )
The Man with the
Child
in His Eyes ( Kate Bush song )
The Naughty Corner
The
Parent
Trap ( Hayley Mills movie )
The Royle
Family
( BBC comedy television series )
The Wind in the Willows ( children's book by Kenneth Grahame )
The
Young
Ones ( BBC comedy television series )
The
Young
Pretender ( Nickname of Charles Edward Stuart )
The
child
is father of the man ( from a poem by Wordsworth )
The
family
jewels
The
family
silver
The
family
that prays together stays together
The good die
young
The next
small
thing
The night is
young
The
small
screen
The still
small
voice of God
The wheels on the bus go round and round ( title of children's song )
The winner takes it all, the loser standing
small
( ABBA lyric )
Think
small
( Volkswagen advertising slogan )
Those whom the Gods love die
young
Throw the
baby
out with the bathwater
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Thursday's
child
has far to go
Today the discriminating
family
finds it absolutely necessary to own two or more motor cars ( Buick advertising slogan )
Too Busy Thinking About My
Baby
( Marvin Gaye song )
Trap and ball ( children's ball game )
Twas the night before Christmas - the children were dreaming of a Ford in their future - smart, swanky and gleaming ( Ford Cars advertising slogan )
Vicky Angel ( children's book by Jacqueline Wilson )
Voodoo
Child
( Jimi Hendrix song )
War
baby
( someone born during the war - especially the illegitimate
child
of a soldier )
We Are
Young
( fun with Janelle Monae song )
We're Just One Big Happy
Family
( Richard Hawley song )
We're just one big happy
family
Wednesday's
child
has far to go
Wee
small
hours of the morning
Wet the baby's head
What Katy Did At
School
Whatever Happened To
Baby
Jane? ( Bette Davis movie )
When the bough breaks the cradle will fall, and down will come baby, cradle and all ( line from nursery rhyme )
Who loves ya baby? ( A catchphrase from Kojak )
Winnie the Pooh ( children's book by A A Milne )
With
child
Women and children first
You Must Have Been A Beautiful
Baby
( Bing Crosby song )
You can choose your friends but you can't choose your
family
You're as
young
as you feel
You're only
young
once
You've come a long way,
baby
( Virginia Slims Cigarettes advertising slogan )
Young
Frankenstein ( Mel Brooks / Gene Wilder movie )
Young
Thunder ( Nickname of Dwight Howard )
Young
and sweet, only seventeen ( ABBA lyric )
Young
at heart
Young
fogey
Young
turk
Young, Gifted and Black ( Nina Simone song )
Youth is wasted on the
young