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A Doll's
House
( play by Henrik Ibsen )
A Mars a day helps you work, rest and play ( Mars Chocolate advertising slogan )
A
clean
getaway
A
house
divided against itself cannot stand
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A
house
is not a home
A lot on your plate ( having many responsibilities )
A new broom sweeps
clean
A
work
in progress
Acid
house
Ads
work
harder in the new Granada ( Granada advertising slogan )
All in a day's
work
All my own
work
All over the
shop
All
work
and no play makes Jack a dull boy
Alpha Mom ( an ambitious mother who aims to excel at
work
while raising children )
Art
house
As
clean
as a whistle
Beckingham Palace ( Nickname of David and Victoria Beckham's
house
)
Beef. It's what's for
dinner
( Cattlemen's Beef Board advertising slogan )
Big
house
Bleak
House
( Charles Dickens book )
Bring the
house
down
Buck
House
( Nickname of Buckingham Palace )
Bucket
shop
Burning Down The
House
( Talking Heads song )
Bury yourself in your
work
By the hairs on my chinny chin chin, I'll blow your
house
down
Chatham
House
rules
Chief
cook
and bottle washer
Children, one is one, two is fun, three is a
house
full
Chop
shop
Clean
and sober
Clean
bill of health
Clean
cut boy
Clean
house
Clean
sheet
Clean
slate
Clean
sweep
Clean
up
Clean
up your act
Clean
your clock
Clearing
house
Close enough for government
work
Come
clean
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Cook
the books
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Cook
up a plan
Cook
up a storm
Cook
your goose
Cook's night out
Cop
shop
Country
house
hotel ( an upmarket hotel located in a revamped rural mansion )
Crooked
House
( Agatha Christie book )
Dinner
and a movie
Dinner
date
Dinner
dinner
dinner
dinner
dinner
dinner
dinner
dinner, Batman!
Dirty but
clean
Dirty
work
at the crossroads
Doctor In The
House
( Dirk Bogade / Luchino Visconti movie )
Dog's
dinner
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Don't just book it, Thomas
Cook
it ( Thomas
Cook
advertising slogan )
Donkey
work
Eaten out of
house
and home
Everybody lies ( A catchphrase from Dr Gregory
House
in
House
)
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 )
Front of
house
Full
house
Get behind in your
work
Get on like a
house
on fire
Go to
work
on an egg ( British Egg Marketing Board advertising slogan )
Good
clean
fun
Good to the last drop ( Maxwell
House
Coffee advertising slogan )
Guess Who's Coming To Dinner? ( Sidney Poitier / Spencer Tracy movie )
Halfway
house
Hard
work
never did anyone any harm
Hard
work
never killed anyone
Have a Captain
Cook
( Cockney rhyming slang for look )
Have
clean
hands
Have your
work
cut out for you
He huffed and he puffed and he blew their
house
down
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
I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't
work
( Thomas Edison quotation )
If ifs and ands were pots and pans there'd be no
work
for tinkers
If it's got to be clean, it's got to be Tide ( Tide Washing Powder advertising slogan )
Imagination at
Work
( General Electric advertising slogan )
Is there a doctor in the house?
It beats as it sweeps as it cleans (
Hoover
advertising slogan )
It was the night before Christmas and all round the house, not a creature was stirring, not even a mouse
It's all good
clean
fun
Keep a
clean
sheet
Keep a good
house
Keep open
house
Keep the
shop
and the
shop
will keep you
Keep up the good
work
Keep your nose
clean
Knocking
shop
Life is our life's
Work
( Pfizer advertising slogan )
Like a bull in a china
shop
Line of
work
Live over the
shop
Mad
house
Maid of all
work
Make a
clean
break
Make a
clean
breast of it
Make light
work
of
Make short
work
of
Many hands make light
work
Menthol-Fresh, cool, clean, Consulate ( Consulate Cigarettes advertising slogan )
Mister
Clean
Mop
and mow
Mop
the floor with
Mop
up
More reasons to
shop
at Morrisons ( WM Morrison's advertising slogan )
Mrs.
Mop
( traditional English name for a cleaning woman )
Nasty piece of
work
Never do a stroke of
work
Nice
work
if you can get it
Not A Dry Eye In The
House
( Meatloaf song )
Not a dry eye in the
house
Not a dry seat in the
house
Not just nearly clean, but really
clean
( Ariel Ultra advertising slogan )
Office
work
On the
house
One stop
shop
Only fools and horses
work
Open
house
Paper the
house
Party Like a Rock Star (
Shop
Boyz song )
Pressure of
work
Put your
house
in order
Real piece of
work
See what the future has in store ( Future
Shop
advertising slogan )
Shop
'till you drop
Shop
Around ( Smokey Robinson song )
Shop
around
Show a
clean
pair of heels
Shut up
shop
Smallest room in the
house
Spade
work
Spring
clean
Squeaky
clean
Sydney Opera
House
( tourist attraction in Australia )
Take a Thomas
Cook
at our prices! ( Thomas
Cook
Travel advertising slogan )
Talk
shop
Talking
shop
Taste as good as it smells ( Maxwell
House
Coffee advertising slogan )
The Adventure of the Empty
House
( Sherlock Holmes story )
The Anne Frank
House
( tourist attraction in Amsterdam Netherlands )
The Cider
House
Rules ( Michael Caine movie )
The Devil finds
work
for idle hands to do
The Galloping Gourmet ( Pseudonym of
cook
Graham Kerr )
The
House
Doctor ( Pseudonym of Ron Hazelton )
The
House
of the Rising Sun ( The Animals song )
The Internet at
Work
( UUNET advertising slogan )
The White
House
( tourist attraction in Washington USA )
The angel in the
house
The best seat in the
house
( Jockey Shorts advertising slogan )
The
clean
plate club
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
This Woman's
Work
( Kate Bush song )
This is a local shop, we'll have no trouble here ( A catchphrase from The League of Gentlemen )
Thrift
Shop
( Macklemore and Ryan Lewis with Wanz song )
Top of the
shop
( Bingo call for number ninety )
We Can
Work
It Out ( Beatles song )
We make things that make communications
work
( Lucent Technologies advertising slogan )
What a piece of
work
is man
Whistle while you
work
Who lives in a
house
like this? ( A catchphrase from Through the Keyhole )
Why do only fools and horses work?
Wipe the slate
clean
Woman's
work
is never done
Work
both sides of the street
Work
expands so as to fill the time available
Work
hard. Fly right ( Continental Airlines advertising slogan )
Work
it
Work
itself up into a lather
Work
life balance
Work
like a Trojan
Work
like a beaver
Work
like a dog
Work
of art
Work
one's fingers to the bone
Work
the phone
Work
the rabbit's foot on
Work
to rule
Work
wonders
Work
your ass off
Work
your butt off
Work
your ticket
Work
yourself into the ground
You don't have to be mad to
work
here, but it helps
You shop, we drop ( Tesco home delivery advertising slogan )
You're not fully
clean
until you're Zestfully
clean
( Zest Soap advertising slogan )
Yours faithfully ( Trust
House
Forte advertising slogan )