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A diller, a dollar, a ten o'clock scholar
About time too
After hours
After the ball was over
All nighter
As
dead
as a dodo
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As
dead
as a doornail
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As
dead
as mutton
As
slow
as molasses in January
At the
dead
of night
At the eleventh hour
Back from the
dead
Behind the beat
Better
dead
than red
Better late than never
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Better off
dead
Blast from the
past
Brain
dead
Bring out your
dead
Brown bread ( Cockney rhyming slang for
dead
)
Burn the midnight oil
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Buy now pay
later
Can't
Slow
Down ( Lionel Richie album )
Catch you
later
Chivalry is not
dead
Cut it fine
Cut out the
dead
wood
Cut someone
dead
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 is nature's way of telling you to
slow
down
Dick and Jane is
dead
( Encyclopaedia Britannica advertising slogan )
Domestos kills all known germs - Dead! ( Domestos Bleach advertising slogan )
Don't you people have homes to go to?
Down among the
dead
men
Drop
dead
Drop
dead
gorgeous
Drop
dead
list
Drop down
dead
Drop the
Dead
Donkey ( BBC comedy television series )
Fashionably late
Fifteen men on a
dead
man's chest
First
past
the post
Flogging a
dead
horse
Fly now. Shovel
later
( Eastern Airlines advertising slogan )
Get behind in your work
Given up for
dead
God is
dead
( philosophical comment by Friedrich Nietzsche )
Good and
dead
Graveyard shift
Hang by the neck until
dead
Have you driven a Ford lately? ( Ford Cars advertising slogan )
Have you read any good books lately?
He's
dead
Jim ( A catchphrase from Star Trek )
High time
Hot chocolate, drinking chocolate - the late, late drink ( Cadbury's Drinking Chocolate advertising slogan )
I see
dead
people ( The Sixth Sense )
I wouldn't be caught
dead
I wouldn't put it
past
him
If you haven't looked at Ford lately, look again ( Ford Cars advertising slogan )
If you keep late hours for Society's sake, Bromo-Seltzer will cure that headache ( Bromo-Seltzer advertising slogan )
It's about time
It's
later
then you think
It's never too late
It's never too late to learn
Johnny come
lately
Justice
delayed
is justice denied
Kicking
dead
whales down the beach
Kill stone
dead
Kills bugs
dead
( Raid advertising slogan )
Knock 'em
dead
Last minute
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
Like being savaged by a
dead
sheep
Lose track of time
Loud enough to waken the
dead
Miss the boat
More
dead
than alive
Never speak ill of the
dead
Numbered with the
dead
Out of hours
Over my
dead
body
Painfully
slow
Past
caring
Past
it
Past
its sell-by date
Pearls
past
price
Play
dead
Raise the
dead
Recent
unpleasantness
Roll over and play
dead
Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are
Dead
( play by Tom Stoppard )
Running late
See You Late Alligator ( Bill Haley song )
See you
later
alligator
Shoot first, ask questions
later
Slow
burn
Slow
but sure
Slow
motion
Slow
on the uptake
Slow
slow
quick quick
slow
Smell ya
later
Sooner or
later
Sooner or later, you'll own Generals ( General Tires Corp advertising slogan )
Sooner rather than
later
Stood up
The Chipmunk Song ( Christmas Don't Be Late ) ( The Chipmunks and David Seville song )
The Day of the
Dead
( Horror movie )
The Invisible Man ( HG Wells story and
later
a film )
The King is dead, long live the King
The King of Late Night Television ( Nickname of Jack Paar )
The age of miracles is
past
The dim distant
past
The empty chair ( the perceived absense of someone who is recently
deceased
)
The late unpleasantness
The only good Indian is a
dead
Indian
The
past
is a foreign country: they do things differently there ( the opening line of The Go-Between )
Tonight's top ten list ( A catchphrase from David Letterman In The Late Show )
Too little, too late
Victory won't wait for the nation that's late ( Big Ben Clocks advertising slogan )
Wanted,
dead
or alive
Watch the time
Wee small hours of the morning
Yellow matter custard dripping from a
dead
dog's eye ( Beatles song lyric )
You can pay me now or pay me
later
You're a long time
dead