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A big
shot
Absolute power corrupts
absolutely
( quotation by Lord Acton )
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Absolutely
Fabulous ( BBC comedy television series )
Absolutely
pure ( Cadbury's Cocoa Essence advertising slogan )
Air
shot
All work and no play makes Jack a
dull
boy
As dead as a
dodo
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As dead as a doornail
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As dead as mutton
As
dull
as ditchwater
As
stiff
as a poker
Asleep
at the switch
Asleep
at the wheel
Asleep
with Jesus
Assault with a
deadly
weapon
At death's door
At peace
At rest
At the dead of night
Back from the dead
Badgered to
death
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Because I could not stop for
death
he kindly stopped for me ( from a poem by Dickinson )
Belly up
Bernie, the bolt ( A catchphrase from The Golden
Shot
)
Better dead than red
Better
late
than never
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Better off dead
Big
Shot
Becky ( Nickname of basketball player Becky Hammon )
Big
Shot
Bob ( Nickname of basketball player Robert Horry )
Big
shot
Blue screen of
death
Booster
shot
Bored
stiff
Bored to
death
Brain dead
Bring out your dead
Brown bread ( Cockney rhyming slang for dead )
Brush with
death
Buzzard meat
Cake or
death
( line from Eddie Izzard comedy )
Catch your
death
of cold
Cement shoes
Cheap
shot
Chivalry is not dead
Cold meat
Concrete shoes
Cot
death
Cowards may die many times before their
death
Cross over to the other side
Cut out the dead wood
Cut someone dead
Daily grind ( the daily routine of a
dull
or boring job )
Dance of
death
Day
late
and a dollar short
Dead Man Walking ( Helen Prejean book )
Dead Men Don't Wear Plaid ( Steve Martin movie )
Dead Ringer For Love ( Meatloaf song )
Dead air
Dead and buried
Dead and gone
Dead cat bounce
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Dead cinch
Dead duck
Dead easy
Dead end
Dead from the neck up
Dead giveaway
Dead heads
Dead heat
Dead in the water
Dead issue
Dead letter
Dead loss
Dead man walking
Dead meat
Dead men tell no tales
Dead men's shoes
Dead of night
Dead of winter
Dead on arrival
Dead on time
Dead presidents
Dead reckoning
Dead ringer
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Dead to rights
Dead to the world
Dead white European male ( derogatory reference to someone who has an unjustified reputation )
Dead white male
Dead wood
Death
In Venice ( Dirk Bogade / Luchino Visconti movie )
Death
On The Nile ( Agatha Christie book )
Death
On The Orient Express ( Agatha Christie book )
Death
Valley ( tourist attraction in Arizona USA )
Death
by PowerPoint
Death
by a thousand cuts
Death
by chocolate
Death
by committee
Death
by misadventure
Death
is nature's way of telling you to slow down
Death
metal
Death
of a Salesman ( play by Arthur Miller )
Death
trap
Depart this life
Dice with
death
Dick and Jane is dead ( Encyclopaedia Britannica advertising slogan )
Die a
death
Do something to
death
Domestos kills all known germs - Dead! ( Domestos Bleach advertising slogan )
Done to
death
Down among the dead men
Drop dead
Drop dead gorgeous
Drop dead list
Drop down dead
Drop the Dead Donkey ( BBC comedy television series )
Dropped off the perch
Fall
asleep
Fashionably
late
Fate worse than
death
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Fifteen men on a dead man's chest
Flogging a dead horse
Get
shot
of
Give it your best
shot
Give me liberty or give me
death
Given up for dead
God is dead ( philosophical comment by Friedrich Nietzsche )
Gone before
Gone but not forgotten
Good and dead
Grim
death
Grip of
death
Group of
death
( the most difficult or competitive group in a sports tournament )
Half
asleep
Hang by the neck until dead
Hang on like grim
death
Have a
shot
at
He
shot
through like a Bondi tram
He's dead Jim ( A catchphrase from Star Trek )
Headless chicken
Hot chocolate, drinking chocolate - the late,
late
drink ( Cadbury's Drinking Chocolate advertising slogan )
Hot
shot
I
Shot
The Sheriff ( Eric Clapton song )
I see dead people ( The Sixth Sense )
I wouldn't be caught dead
If it ain't
Stiff
it ain't worth a f*ck (
Stiff
Records advertising slogan )
If you keep
late
hours for Society's sake, Bromo-Seltzer will cure that headache ( Bromo-Seltzer advertising slogan )
In Abraham's bosom
In at the
death
In the grave
In the midst of life we are in
death
Into the valley of
death
rode the six hundred
It's never too
late
It's never too
late
to learn
John Doe
Keep a
stiff
upper lip
Kicking dead whales down the beach
Kill stone dead
Kills bugs dead ( Raid advertising slogan )
Kiss of
death
Knock 'em dead
Laid to rest
Laid up in lavender
Last rites
Late
bloomer
Late
developer
Late
hour
Late
in the day
Late
in the game
Late
lamented
Left for dead
Let the dead bury the dead
Lie in state
Life after
death
Life and
death
struggle
Like a
shot
Like being savaged by a dead sheep
Like
death
warmed up
Little Sure
Shot
( Nickname of Annie Oakley )
Long
shot
Look
death
in the eye
Loud enough to waken the dead
Mail
shot
Matter of life and
death
Meet your maker
Merchant of
death
Missing, presumed lost
More dead than alive
Mr. Big
Shot
( Nickname of Chauncey Billups )
Near
death
experience
Never a
dull
moment
Never speak ill of the dead
No longer with us
Not by a long
shot
Nothing is certain but
death
and taxes
Numbered with the dead
On
death
row
On pain of
death
Out of the jaws of
death
Over my dead body
Parting
shot
Pass on
Pass over to the other side
Perfect
shot
Play dead
Post mortem
Power corrupts; absolute power corrupts
absolutely
Pushing up daisies
Put the fear of
death
into someone
Put to
death
Raise the dead
Rictus grin
Rigor mortis
Roll over and play dead
Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead ( play by Tom Stoppard )
Running
late
Scared
stiff
Scared to
death
See You
Late
Alligator ( Bill Haley song )
Seven
deadly
sins
Shoot a birdie ( score one under par in a golf
shot
)
Shot
across the bows
Shot
in the arm
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Shot
in the dark
Shot
to hell
Shot
while trying to escape
Sick to
death
of
Six feet under
Skeleton
in the cupboard
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Skeleton
key
Skeleton
staff
Sleeping with the fishes
Snatched from us
Stiff
competition
Street pizza
Take a pot
shot
at
The Angel of
Death
( Nickname of Josef Mengele )
The Chipmunk Song ( Christmas Don't Be
Late
) ( The Chipmunks and David Seville song )
The Day of the Dead ( Horror movie )
The Hoosier Hot
Shot
( Nickname of humourist Herb Shriner )
The Hypochondriac's Guide To Life And
Death
( Gene Weingarten book )
The King is dead, long live the King
The King of
Late
Night Television ( Nickname of Jack Paar )
The Living
Death
( Nickname of Lew Jenkins )
The Lonesome
Death
Of Hattie Carroll ( Bob Dylan song )
The Man Who
Shot
Liberty Valance ( James Stewart / John Wayne movie )
The Masque of the Red
Death
The cereal that's
shot
from guns! ( Quaker Puffed Wheat advertising slogan )
The
departed
The empty chair ( the perceived absense of someone who is recently
deceased
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The female of the species is more
deadly
than the male
The
late
unpleasantness
The money
shot
The only good Indian is a dead Indian
The reports of my
death
are greatly exaggerated
The
shot
heard around the world
The valley of the shadow of
death
( line from the Lord's Prayer )
The wages of sin is
death
There are no pockets in a shroud
Tickled to
death
Till
Death
Us Do Part ( BBC comedy television series )
Today the discriminating family finds it
absolutely
necessary to own two or more motor cars ( Buick advertising slogan )
Tonight's top ten list ( A catchphrase from David Letterman In The
Late
Show )
Too little, too
late
Turn up your toes
Until
death
do us part
Victory won't wait for the nation that's
late
( Big Ben Clocks advertising slogan )
Wall of
death
Wanted, dead or alive
When it absolutely, positively has to be there overnight ( FedEx advertising slogan )
Whispering
Death
( Nickname of Michael Holding - West Indies cricketer )
Yellow matter custard dripping from a dead dog's eye ( Beatles song lyric )
You'll be the
death
of me
You'll get
shot
You're a long time dead
Zombie
funds