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A hewer of wood and a drawer of
water
Abandon
hope all ye who enter here ( warning from Dante's Divine Comedy )
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Abandon
ship
At the drop of a hat
Atishoo atishoo all
fall
down
Black
water
rafting
Blood in the
water
Blood is thicker than
water
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Blow out of the
water
Both oars in the
water
Bridge Over Troubled
Water
( Simon and Garfunkel album and song )
Castles made of sand
fall
into the sea eventually
Chocolate drop
Clear blue
water
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Clearly Canadian Sparkling Mineral
Water
in Wild Fruit Flavours ( Adelma Mineral Waters advertising slogan )
Come hell or high
water
Come on in, the water's fine
Dead in the
water
Dime dropper
Dip your toe into the
water
Ditch
the bitch
Draw a
bead
on
Drip
drip
drip
Drip
feed
Drop It Like It's Hot ( Snoop Dogg song )
Drop a bombshell
Drop a brick
Drop a bundle
Drop a clanger
Drop a dime
Drop a hint
Drop a sprog
Drop by
Drop dead
Drop dead gorgeous
Drop dead list
Drop down dead
Drop in on
Drop in the bucket
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Drop in the ocean
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Drop it like a hot potato
Drop like a stone
Drop me a line
Drop off
Drop someone off
Drop the Dead Donkey ( BBC comedy television series )
Drop the ball
Drop your aitches
Drop your bundle
Drop your cookies
Drop your drawers
Drop your guard
Drop your pants
Dropped off the perch
Dropping
like flies
Fall
about laughing
Fall
about your ears
Fall
amongst friends
Fall
and Rise of Reginald Perrin
Fall
apart at the seams
Fall
asleep
Fall
back on
Fall
between the cracks
Fall
by the wayside
Fall
down on the job
Fall
flat
Fall
flat on your face
Fall
foul of the law
Fall
from grace
Fall
guy
Fall
in
Fall
in love
Fall
into bad habits
Fall
into line
Fall
like a stone
Fall
off the radar
Fall
off the wagon
Fall
on deaf ears
Fall
on hard times
Fall
on stony ground
Fall
on your feet
Fall
on your sword
Fall
out
Fall
out of favour
Fall
out of love with
Fall
prey to
Fall
through
Fall
through the cracks
Fish out of
water
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Flag
fall
( An Australian expression for a fixed starting fee, typically at the start of a taxi ride )
Flash crash ( the sudden drop in the Dow Jones Index in 2010 )
Gay
abandon
Get into deep
water
Get into hot
water
Get the drop on
Go through fire and
water
for
Good to the last drop ( Maxwell House Coffee advertising slogan )
Goody goody gumdrops
Hard Rain's A Gonna
Fall
( Bob Dylan song )
He doesn't have both oars in the
water
He's fallen in the
water
( A catchphrase from The Goon Show )
Hold
water
If you don't stand for something you will
fall
for anything ( Malcolm X quotation )
In deep
water
In hot
water
Into every life a little rain must
fall
Jack and Jill went up the hill to fetch a pail of
water
( line from nursery rhyme )
Jaw
dropping
Just add
water
Just when you thought it was safe to go back in
water
( Jaws II advertising tagline )
Keep your head above
water
Last
ditch
effort
Let it drop
Let the chips
fall
where they may
Like a duck to
water
Like a fish out of
water
Like
water
off a duck's back
Lipton's gets into more hot
water
than anything ( Lipton Tea advertising slogan )
Made to make your mouth
water
( Opal Fruits advertising slogan )
Men's evil manners live in brass; their virtues we write in
water
Name
dropping
Of the first
water
Oil and
water
don't mix
One fall, two submissions or a knockout
Pour cold
water
on
Pride comes before a
fall
Pure life ( Nestle Aberfoyle Natural Spring
Water
advertising slogan )
Riding for a
fall
Ring aring of roses, a pocketful of posies, atishoo, atishoo, all
fall
down ( line from nursery rhyme )
Shed
light on the matter
Shop 'till you drop
Sink like a stone
Smooth runs the
water
where the brook is deep
Spend money like
water
Spring forward,
Fall
back
Stop drop and roll
Swing by ( slang expression meaning drop in for a visit )
Take a bath in the dark tonight and let the
water
make love to your skin ( Lavin Perfumes & Soaps advertising slogan )
Take a
fall
for
Test the
water
The Hot
Water
State ( Nickname of the US state of Arkansas )
The bigger they are the harder they
fall
The fruit does not
fall
far from the tree
The penny
drops
The price is
dropping
on your weekly shopping ( Tesco advertising slogan )
The rise and
fall
of the Roman Empire
Things
fall
apart; the centre cannot hold ( from a poem by Yeats )
Throw cold
water
on
Tonic
water
by you know who ( Schweppes advertising slogan )
Turn on, tune in, drop out ( A catchphrase from Timothy Leary )
United we stand divided we
fall
Waiting for the other shoe to drop
Walk on
water
Wash your mouth out with soap and
water
Water
down
Water
of life
Water
seeks its own level
Water
under the bridge
Water
water
everywhere and not a drop to drink
When the bough breaks the cradle will fall, and down will come baby, cradle and all ( line from nursery rhyme )
White
water
rafting
You can lead a horse to
water
but you can't make it drink
You could have heard a pin drop
You shop, we drop ( Tesco home delivery advertising slogan )