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Absent
parent
All happy families are alike; each unhappy
family
is unhappy in its own way ( the opening line of Anna Karenina )
As the actress said to the
bishop
Baby father
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Bash the
bishop
Be It Ever So Humble There's No Place Like Home ( John Howard Payne and Sir Henry
Bishop
song )
Be like Dad, keep mum ( WWII slogan )
Beanpole
family
Beautiful Boy ( John Lennon song )
Big
Daddy
( Nickname of American football Dan Wilkinson )
Big
Daddy
( Nickname of Idi Amin )
Black sheep of the
family
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Bricks and mortar ( Cockney rhyming slang for
daughter
)
Cake
pop
( A small piece of cake coated with chocolate )
Come to
papa
Cool
Papa
( Nickname of baseball player James Bell )
Dad's Army ( BBC comedy television series )
Daddy's little girl
Did I do that? ( A catchphrase from
Family
Matters )
Disneyland
daddy
Don't panic ( A catchphrase from Dad's Army )
Don't put your
daughter
on the stage Mrs Worthington
Drink, feck, arse ( A catchphrase from Father Ted )
Dysfunctional
family
Family
fortunes
Family
man
Family
matters
Family
ties
Family
tree
Family
values
Father Knows Best ( American TV Show )
Father Of The Bride ( Steve Martin movie )
Father Ted ( BBC comedy television series )
Father of The Atomic Bomb ( Nickname of Robert Oppenheimer )
Founding father
Full fathom five thy father lies ( from The Tempest by Shakespeare )
Get your
family
into Shape, without them even noticing ( St. Ivel Yogurt advertising slogan )
Grandfather
clause
Head of the
family
Head of the household
Helicopter
parent
His
father's
son
Honour thy father and mother
How's your father
I Think I Love You ( The Partridge
Family
song )
I'll Be Missing You ( Puff
Daddy
with Faith Evans and 112 song )
In the
family
way
It's a
family
affair
Judas
priest
Just a glint in his
father's
eye
Keep it in the
family
Like father, like son
Mom and
Pop
More tea vicar?
My arse ( A catchphrase from Royle
Family
)
My old man
Nash
Daddy
( Nickname of Steve Nash )
No no no no no no yes ( A catchphrase from The
Vicar
Of Dibley )
Once you
pop
you can't stop ( Pringles advertising slogan )
Our father who art in heaven
Our survey says ( A catchphrase from
Family
Fortunes )
Papa
Bear ( Nickname of George Halas )
Papa
Bear Colonel ( Nickname of Robert Hogan ( Bob Crane ) )
Papa
Doc ( Nickname of Francois Duvalier )
Papa's Got A Brand New Bag ( James Brown song )
Papa? Nicole? ( Renault Clio advertising slogan )
Petit
Papa
No�l ( Tino Rossi song )
Pop
art
Pop
goes the weasel
Pop
off
Pop
someone's cherry
Pop
the question
Pop
your clogs
Runs in the
family
Ryan's
Daughter
( David Lean movie )
Santa's Little Helpers ( allusion to the elves that help Father Christmas )
Selling the
family
silver
Shotgun wedding
Snap, Crackle, and
Pop
( Kellogg's Rice Krispies advertising slogan )
Spend more time with my
family
Sperm donor
Success has many fathers, while failure is an orphan
Sugar
daddy
Sweet as the moment when the pod went 'pop' ( Birds Eye Peas advertising slogan )
Take a
pop
at
That Silver-Haired
Daddy
of Mine ( Gene Autry song )
The Godfather ( Mario Puzo book )
The Godfather of Soul ( Pseudonym of singer James Brown )
The Grocer's
Daughter
( Nickname of Margaret Thatcher )
The
Parent
Trap ( Hayley Mills movie )
The Rat Pack ( Nickname of entertainers Dean Martin Sammy Davis Jr Peter Lawford Joey
Bishop
and Frank Sinatra )
The Royle
Family
( BBC comedy television series )
The Sash My Father Wore ( Irish traditional song )
The
Vicar
of Dibley ( BBC comedy television series )
The West Coast Sound ( name applied to Californian
pop
music, especially that of The Beach Boys )
The bank of mum and
dad
The boy is father to the man
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 only 'sauce' I dare give Father ( Burma Sauce advertising slogan )
The sash my father wore
The wish is father to the thought
This is Not Your
Father's
Oldsmobile ( Oldsmobile advertising slogan )
Today the discriminating
family
finds it absolutely necessary to own two or more motor cars ( Buick advertising slogan )
Too pooped to
pop
Vox
pop
We're Just One Big Happy
Family
( Richard Hawley song )
We're just one big happy
family
What did you do in the war Daddy?
Who will rid me of this troublesome priest?
Who's your daddy?
Will no one rid me of this turbulent priest?
You can choose your friends but you can't choose your
family
You stupid boy! ( A catchphrase from Dad's Army )