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A Short History Of Nearly Everything (
Bill
Bryson book )
A
bill
of goods
A
face
as long as a fiddle
A
face
like a Greek god
A great
face
for radio
A head for business and a
body
for sin
A healthy mind in a healthy
body
A marvellous bird is the pelican, its
beak
holds more than its belly can
A room without books is like a
body
without a soul ( Marcus Tullius Cicero quotation )
About
face
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Always have your nose in a book
And shining morning face, creeping like a snail unwillingly to school
Angel
face
Arse about
face
As plain as the nose on your
face
At
face
value
Baby Cakes ( Nickname of Cliff Huxtable (
Bill
Cosby ) )
Baby
face
Beat the living
snot
out of
Beat the
snot
out of
Bill
And Ted's Bogus Journey ( Keanu Reeves movie )
Bill
And Ted's Excellent Adventure ( Keanu Reeves movie )
Bill
Stickers is innocent ( comic response to the warning
Bill
stickers will be prosecuted )
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Bill
and coo
Bill
for our barbecues
Bitch slap ( a full swing slap in the
face
intended to be humiliating )
Blow your nose
Blue in the
face
Boat race ( Cockney rhyming slang for
face
)
Body
and soul
Body
bag
Body
blow
Body
building
Body
heat
Body
language
Body
mass index
Body
of evidence
Body
of opinion
Body
off Baywatch,
face
off Crimewatch
Body
painting ( a form of painting that uses the human
body
as a canvas )
Body
politic
Body
popping
Body
snatcher
Body
surfing
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Boy, is my
face
red ( A catchphrase from David Letterman )
Brown nosing
Buffalo
Bill
( Nickname of William Cody )
Butter
Face
Can't see beyond the end of your nose
Chew
face
Clean
bill
of health
Cock a snook
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Combustible Huxtable ( Nickname of Dr.Cliff Huxtable (
Bill
Cosby ) )
Conk
out
Count
noses
Course you can, Malcolm ( Vick's Sinex Nasal Spray advertising slogan )
Do a line
Do you want a shape like a bra? Or do you want a shape like a woman? ( Warner's
Body
Bra advertising slogan )
Does she or doesn't she? Only her hairdresser
knows
for sure ( Clairol advertising slogan )
Doesn't have a jealous bone in his
body
Dollar
Bill
( Nickname of basketball player
Bill
Bradley )
Don't cut off your nose to spite your
face
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Don't get a
face
on
Down came a blackbird and pecked off her nose ( line from nursery rhyme )
Eat
face
Egg on your
face
Every schoolboy
knows
Face
card ( the jack queeen or king in a set of playing cards )
Face
down
Face
facts
Face
fungus
Face
in the crowd
Face
lift
Face
like a bulldog chewing a wasp
Face
like a fiddle
Face
like an unmade bed
Face
like the back of a bus
Face
like thunder
Face
off
Face
palm moment
Face
recognition )
Face
that could stop a clock
Face
that only a mother could love
Face
the competition
Face
the music
Face
the truth
Face
time
Face
your maker
Fall flat on your
face
Father
Knows
Best ( American TV Show )
Ferret
face
( Nickname of Major Frank Burns ( Larry Linville ) )
Fie, foh, and fum, I
smell
the blood of a British man
Figure painting ( a form of painting in which the human
body
is the subject )
Fill the
bill
Fish and guests
smell
after three days
Fit the
bill
Fly in the
face
of the evidence
Follow your nose ( Froot Loops advertising slogan )
Foot the
bill
Frog
face
Fruiting
body
Get out of my
face
Get up your nose
Ghost Busters (
Bill
Murray / Dan Aykroyd movie )
Give someone a bloody nose
God Only
Knows
( Beach Boys song )
Goodness
knows
Gorilla
snot
Groundhog Day (
Bill
Murray movie )
Hands that do dishes can feel soft as your face, with mild green Fairy Liquid ( Fairy Liquid advertising slogan )
Hard nosed
He
knows
the cost of everything and the value of nothing
Heavenly
body
Her
face
lit up
His Heinous ( Nickname of basketball player
Bill
Laimbeer )
Hit it on the nose
Hold your nose
I love the
smell
of napalm in the morning ( Apocalypse Now )
I never forget a face, but in your case I'll be glad to make an exception ( Groucho Marx line )
I
smell
a rat
I want to talk to the
organ
grinder not the monkey
If I said you had a beautiful
body
would you hold it against me?
If it doesn't get all over the place, it doesn't belong in your
face
( Carl's Jr advertising slogan )
If your
face
fits
In your
face
It's black over Bill's mother's
It's no skin off my nose
It's written all over your
face
Itsy Bitsy spider climbing up the spout, down came the rain and washed the spider out ( line from nursery rhyme )
Keen sense of
smell
Keep a straight
face
Keep
body
and soul together
Keep your nose clean
Keep your nose out of
Keep your nose to the grindstone
Kick sand in his
face
Kill
Bill
( Quentin Tarantino movie )
Laugh in your
face
Laugh on the wrong side of your
face
Lead by the nose
Let's
face
it
Let's
face
the music and dance
Liberal
Bill
( Nickname of Leonard Rosen )
Long
face
Look down your nose
Lose
face
Lost In Translation (
Bill
Murray / Scarlett Johansson movie )
Mace your
face
Make a
face
Meet the
bill
Milk. It does a
body
good ( Milk Marketing Board advertising slogan )
Monstrous carbuncle on the
face
of an old friend ( Prince Charles quotation )
Mother
knows
best
Nose around
Nose dive
Nose for crime
Nose for trouble
Nose to tail
Not just a pretty
face
Off your
face
On the
face
of it
On the
face
of the earth
One instinctively
knows
when something is right ( Croft Original Sherry advertising slogan )
Organ
donor
Over my dead
body
Pay through the nose
Pizza
face
Play kissy
face
Poker
Face
( Lady Gaga song )
Poker
face
Portrait painting ( a form of painting in which the human
face
is the subject )
Powder your nose
Pull a
face
Put a brave
face
on
Put your game
face
on
Put your nose out of joint
Put your nose where its not wanted
Rock Around The Clock (
Bill
Haley song )
Rose by any other name would
smell
as sweet
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Rub someone's nose in it
Rub your nose in it
Save
face
Seattle
Bill
( Nickname of
Bill
James )
See You Late Alligator (
Bill
Haley song )
See the
face
you love light up with Terry's All Gold ( Terrys Chocolates advertising slogan )
Set your
face
against something
Shake Rattle And Roll (
Bill
Haley song )
Shut your
face
Slap in the
face
Slick Willy ( Nickname of
Bill
Clinton )
Smell
a rat
Smell
blood
Smell
the Glove ( fictional album by the spoof heavy-metal band Spinal Tap )
Smell
ya later
Sniff
out the truth
Spit take ( spitting out a drink in response to a joke or surprise )
Stop and
smell
the roses
Stops
body
odour ( Lifebouy Soap advertising slogan )
Stuff your
face
Suck
face
( slang term for kissing )
Sweet
smell
of success
The Adventure of the Yellow
Face
( Sherlock Holmes story )
The Big Tuna ( Nickname of
Bill
Parcells )
The
Body
Guard ( Nickname of Baron Davis )
The Bully Boys ( Nickname of Dan Aykroyd,
Bill
Murray and John Belushi )
The Comeback Kid ( Nickname of
Bill
Clinton )
The
Face
( Nickname of Lt.Templeton Peck ( Dirk Benedict ) )
The Old
Bill
The Owl Without a Vowel ( Nickname of
Bill
Mlkvy )
The Prince of Darkness ( Nickname of
Bill
Laimbeer )
The Shadow
knows
( A catchphrase from the crime fighting vigilante )
The Spaceman ( Nickname of
Bill
Lee )
The answer is staring you in the
face
The
body
is still warm
The
body
of evidence
The
face
that launched a thousand ships
The roar of the greasepaint, the
smell
of the crowd
The unacceptable
face
of capitalism
Throw it back in your
face
Thumb your nose
Top the
bill
Trench warfare ( combat where troops
face
each other in trenches )
Turn your nose up at
Up the
spout
Vacation is a world where there are no locks on the doors or the mind or the
body
( Club Med Resorts advertising slogan )
Waits at the window, wearing the
face
that she keeps in a jar by the door ( Beatles song lyric )
Wake up and
smell
the coffee
Wardrobe malfunction ( when an item of clothing slips out of place to expose part of the
body
- typically a woman's breast )
Wet your
beak
What's in a name? That which we call a rose by any other name would
smell
as sweet
Wild
Bill
Hickock ( Nickname of James Hickock )
Win by a nose
Wipe the smile off your
face
Wipe your
face
With your nose in the air
You smell, I stink ( Samuel Johnson quotation )
You too can have a
body
like mine ( Charles Atlas advertising slogan )