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A bit of a porridge
A
dirty
business
Air your
dirty
linen in public
Alphabet soup ( a
jumble
of words or letters, often in reference to organsiations known by their initials, like CIA or BBC )
An
army
marches on its stomach
An
army
of one ( United States
Army
advertising slogan )
Army
Dreamers ( Kate Bush song )
Army
strawberries ( military slang term for prunes )
Asking for
trouble
Attention deficit
disorder
Balls up
Barmy
army
Be all that you can be ( United States
Army
advertising slogan )
Be all you can be ( US
Army
advertising slogan )
Be the best ( British
Army
advertising slogan )
Blood on the carpet
Borrow
trouble
Can of worms
Charge of the Light Brigade ( British cavalry charge against Russian
army
in the Crimean War and title of a poem by Tennyson )
Collectable
clutter
Complete
shambles
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Cry
havoc
and let slip the dogs of war
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Dad's
Army
( BBC comedy television series )
Dear
Dirty
Dublin ( Nickname of Dublin Ireland )
Dirty
Harry ( Clint Eastwood movie )
Dirty
but clean
Dirty
kitchen ( An outdoor kitchen used for smelly food )
Dirty
laundry
Dirty
linen
Dirty
little secret
Dirty
look
Dirty
old man
Dirty
tricks
Dirty
weekend
Dirty
work at the crossroads
Do the
dirty
Do the
dirty
on
Dog's breakfast
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Dog's dinner
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Don't mess with Texas
Don't mess with my head
Don't
mix
business with pleasure
Don't panic ( A catchphrase from Dad's
Army
)
Don't
trouble
your pretty little head about it
Double
trouble
Double, double toil and trouble, fire burn and cauldron bubble
Drummed out of the
army
Duke's
mixture
Eating
disorder
Field Marshall ( the highest rank in the British
Army
)
Frightful mess
Get down and
dirty
Get your hands
dirty
Heart to God, hand to man ( The Salvation
Army
advertising slogan )
Here comes
trouble
Here's another fine mess you've gotten me into ( A catchphrase from Laurel And Hardy )
Higgledy Piggledy
Hot mess
I Knew You Were
Trouble
( Taylor Swift song )
I want YOU for the US
Army
( World War I and World War II advertising slogan )
In the Army, the edge ( Australian
Army
advertising slogan )
In the
mix
In
trouble
It's a
dirty
job, but somebody has to do it ( A catchphrase from Nick Stone In Tightrope )
It's all gone pear shaped
Join the professionals ( British
Army
advertising slogan )
Lash up
Like something the cat dragged in
Look a fright
Look what the cat dragged in
Looking for
trouble
Looking like a wet weekend
Looks like a bomb has hit it
Make
trouble
Mare's nest
Mess around
Messed up
Messing about in boats
Mix
and match
Muddle
headed
No fuss, no muss
Nose for
trouble
Oil and water don't
mix
Organised
chaos
Pig sty
Play
dirty
Play
havoc
with
Post-traumatic stress
disorder
Quick and
dirty
Red
Army
Fraction ( German left wing terrorist group also call Red
Army
Faction )
Rip
mix
burn ( Apple Computer advertising slogan )
Screwed up
Seasonal affected
disorder
Send a salami to your boy in the
army
Slob
out
Some of our best men are women ( United States
Army
advertising slogan )
Stir up
trouble
Stop messing about ( A catchphrase from Kenneth Williams )
Talk
dirty
Tastes so good cats ask for it by name ( Meow
Mix
Cat food advertising slogan )
The
Army
Game ( BBC comedy television series )
The
Dirty
Digger ( Nickname of Rupert Murdoch )
The Sally
Army
( Nickname of the Salvation
Army
)
The Tartan
Army
The Time (
Dirty
Bit ) ( The Black Eyed Peas song )
The
army
national guard, you can ( US
Army
National Guard advertising slogan )
The fog of war (
confusion
caused by the
chaos
of battle )
The forgotten
army
This is a local shop, we'll have no
trouble
here ( A catchphrase from The League of Gentlemen )
Topsy turvey
Trail
mix
Trouble
and strife ( Cockney rhyming slang for wife )
Trouble
in Paradise
Trouble
with a capital T
Tummy
trouble
Up to your neck in
trouble
Wash your
dirty
linen in public
When I find myself in times of
trouble
Mother Mary comes to me ( Beatles song lyric )
Wreak
havoc
You and whose army?
You
dirty
old man ( A catchphrase from Steptoe and Son )
You
dirty
rat ( A catchphrase from James Cagney )
You gotta ask yourself, do I feel lucky, well do ya punk? (
Dirty
Harry )
You look as if you've been dragged through a hedge backwards
You stupid boy! ( A catchphrase from Dad's
Army
)
You're in the
army
now