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...Baby
One
More Time ( Britney Spears album and song )
100% squeezed sunshine ( Tropicana advertising slogan )
100% versus 6% That's the
Total
difference (
Total
Toothpaste advertising slogan )
1001 Cleans a Big, Big Carpet for Less than
Half
a Crown ( 1001 advertising slogan )
101 Dalmatians ( Disney cartoon and Glenn Close movie )
11:30, Diet Coke break ( Coca Cola advertising slogan )
363 Rule
30 days hath September, April, June and November
50 Words for Snow ( Kate Bush song )
99.44% pure ( Ivory Soap advertising slogan )
A Bicycle Built For
Two
( Victorian popular song )
A
Double
Diamond works wonders (
Double
Diamond advertising slogan )
A Tale Of
Two
Cities ( Charles Dickens book )
A
Thousand
Splendid Suns ( Khaled Hosseine book )
A World
first
A bad
quarter
of an hour
A bird in the hand is worth
two
in the bush
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the meaning and origin of this phrase...
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A buck
fifty
A coward dies a
hundred
deaths
A diller, a dollar, a
ten
o'clock scholar
A
double
date
A glass and a
half
in every
half
pound ( Cadbury's Dairy Milk Chocolate advertising slogan )
A great
one
for
A journey of a
thousand
miles begins with a single step
A picture paints a
thousand
words
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A stitch in time saves
nine
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A
symbol
of freedom ( Southwest Airlines advertising slogan )
A
two
pipe problem
A volunteer is worth
twenty
pressed men
Absolute
zero
Add
fuel to the flames
Add
insult to injury
Agent
Zero
( Nickname of basketball player Gilbert Arenas )
Ain't
half
bad
Ain't my
first
rodeo ( said by someone who has experience of a situation )
All I Want For Christmas Is My
Two
Front Teeth ( Spike Jones song )
All children, except one, grow up ( the opening line of Peter Pan )
All for
one
and
one
for all
All
one
to me
All the taste, 1/3 of the calories ( Pepsi Max advertising slogan )
All you
add
is love ( Ralston Purina Pet Food advertising slogan )
All your base are belong to us ( broken English phrase used in the video game
Zero
Wing )
America's most gifted whiskey (
Four
Roses Whiskey advertising slogan )
An army of
one
( United States Army advertising slogan )
And baby makes
three
And it's goodnight from, me, and it's goodnight from him ( A catchphrase from The
Two
Ronnies )
And the next object is ( A catchphrase from
Twenty
Questions )
And then there was
one
Anne of The
Thousand
Days ( Nickname of Anne Boleyn )
Another
One
Bites The Dust ( Queen song )
Apollo 13 ( Tom Hanks movie )
Appalachian Spring ( Aaron Copland musical
score
)
Aren't you glad you use Dial? Don't you wish everybody did? (
Dial
Soap advertising slogan )
Around The World In
Eighty
Days ( Jules Verne book )
Art is going
one
step too far
As alike as
two
peas in a pod
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As busy as a
one
armed paper hanger
As busy as a
one
legged arse kicker
As cross as
two
sticks
As happy as a dog with
two
tails
As
one
door closes, another
one
opens
As queer as a
nine
bob note
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As thick as
two
short planks
Ask the Man who Owns
One
( Packard advertising slogan )
At
first
blush
At
first
hand
At
one
another's throats
At
one
fell swoop
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At sixes and sevens
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At
sixty
miles an hour the loudest noise in the new Rolls-Royce comes from the electric clock ( Rolls Royce advertising slogan )
At the
double
At the
eleventh
hour
Atone for one's sins
Avert one's eyes
Avert one's gaze
Baby I Need Your Loving (
Four
Tops song )
Back number
Back to square
one
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Baker's
dozen
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Ballpark
figure
Bare one's teeth
Be the
first
to know ( CNN advertising slogan )
Beer and sandwiches at Number 10
Behind the
eight
ball
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Bent
double
Bet you can't eat
three
( Shredded Wheat advertising slogan )
Betcha can't eat just
one
( Lay's potato chips advertising slogan )
Better
half
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Between
two
stools
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Big
Six
( Nickname of baseball player Christy Mathewson )
Big
data
Billion
Dollar Man ( Nickname of American politician Henry Nowak )
Bite the big
one
Bits per
second
Born On The
Fourth
Of July ( Tom Cruise movie )
Breathe one's last
Brighton line ( Bingo call for number
fifty
nine
)
Brook no
quarter
Buy one, get
one
free
By the
numbers
Calendar year (
twelve
months beginning from the
first
of January )
Cast the
first
stone
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Cast to the
four
winds
Cat has
nine
lives
Catch 22 ( Joseph Heller book )
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Caught in
two
minds
Cheap at
half
the price
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Cheaper By The
Dozen
( Steve Martin movie )
Children,
one
is one,
two
is fun,
three
is a house full
Chopsticks are
one
of the reasons the Chinese never invented custard ( Spike Milligan line )
Clickety click ( Bingo call for number
sixty
six
)
Close Encounters of the
Third
Kind ( Richard Dreyfuss movie )
Cogito ergo
sum
( Rene Descartes quotation )
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Colour one's view
Come the
three
corners of the world in arms
Complex number ( a number containing real and imaginary parts )
Cool
million
Cop
one
Count
me in
Count
me out
Count
noses
Count
the calories
Count
the cost
Count
the pennies
Count
to
ten
Count
your blessings
Cushy number
Daily
dozen
Dance With The
One
That Brought You ( Shania Twain song )
Data
archaeology
Data
cap
Data
dictionary
Data
integrity
Data
mining
Data
warehousing
Day
one
Death by a
thousand
cuts
Deep sea
data
diving
Deep
six
Desmond Tutu ( Cockney rhyming slang for
Second
class degree ( 2,2 ) )
Dial
down ( adjust a device to reduce sound or temperature )
Digital
divide
Dime a
dozen
Divide
and conquer
Do a number on
Doctor's Orders ( Bingo call for number
nine
)
Doff one's cap
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Don't
count
your chickens before they are hatched
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Don't give
two
hoots
Don't put all your eggs in
one
basket
Don't touch that
dial
Don't trust anyone over
thirty
Double
Dutch
Double
Indemnity ( Billy Wilder movie )
Double
O
Seven
Double
act
Double
back
Double
blind test
Double
check
Double
click
Double
coverage
Double
cross
Double
denim ( denim jeans worn with a denim shirt or jacket )
Double
digits
Double
dip
Double
dip recession
Double
dipping ( Taking a
second
dip into food using an item that
one
has already put into ones mouth )
Double
down
Double
duty
Double
edged sword
Double
entendre
Double
entry book-keeping
Double
exposure
Double
header ( A baseball expression denoting
two
events held on the same day with the same participants )
Double
or nothing
Double
or quits
Double
quick
Double
standard
Double
take
Double
time
Double
trouble
Double
up
Double
whammy
Double
your pleasure,
double
your fun ( Wrigley's Doublemint Chewing Gum advertising slogan )
Double,
double
toil and trouble, fire burn and cauldron bubble
Double-dip recession ( A financial recession with
two
low points )
Down for the
count
Down it in
one
Down to the last out ( A baseball expression meaning to have
one
last chance )
Down to the pub for a quick
one
Droopy drawers ( Bingo call for number
forty
four
)
Eating for
two
Eight
Days A Week ( Beatles song )
Eight
maids a-milking ( line from A Partridge In A Pear Tree )
Eight
out of
ten
cats prefer it ( Whiskas Cat Food advertising slogan )
Eight
ways to Sunday
Eighty
six
Eleven
pipers piping ( line from A Partridge In A Pear Tree )
Eleven
secret herbs and spices ( claim made for the recipe of Kentucky Fried Chicken )
Employee Number 8 ( Nickname of Antoine Walker )
Every
one
a winner
Every stick has
two
ends
Exercise one's discretion
Exert one's authority
Famous for
fifteen
minutes
Feed one's mind
Fifteen
men on a dead man's chest
Fifteen
minutes of fame
Fifth
column
Fifth
wheel
Fifty
Shades of Grey ( E L James book )
Figure
it out
Figure
painting ( a form of painting in which the human body is the subject )
Film at
eleven
Fine
figure
of a man
Fine
figure
of a woman
First
Among Equals ( Jeffrey Archer book )
First
Slip ( field position in the game of cricket )
First
World ( the indutrialised affluent and wealthy nations )
First
World problem ( a relatively trivial problem only affecting the affluent )
First
among equals ( the most senior person in a group of equal rank )
First
amongst equals
First
and foremost
First
blood
First
came to fame
First
catch your hare
First
come
first
served
First
comes love, then comes marriage
First
contact
First
cut
First
flush
First
footing ( making a round of visits at New Year )
First
impressions last
First
light
First
past the post
First
rate
First
relationships last (
First
National Bank of Chicago advertising slogan )
First
responder ( the member of the emergency services to arrive at a disaster )
First
strike
First
thing
First
things
first
First
time caller
First
to market
First
up
First
with the Hits ( Mercury Records advertising slogan )
First, do no harm
Fish and guests smell after
three
days
Five
by
five
Five
figures
Five
fingered discount
Five
for silver ( Magpie nursery rhyme )
Five
golden rings ( line from A Partridge In A Pear Tree )
Five
o-clock shadow
Five, six, pick up sticks ( line from nursery rhyme )
Flash 80 ( Nickname of Jerry Rice )
For No
One
( Beatles song )
Forty
shades of green
Forty
winks
Four
and
twenty
blackbirds baked in a pie ( line from nursery rhyme )
Four
by
two
Four
calling birds ( line from A Partridge In A Pear Tree )
Four
eyes
Four
figures
Four
for a boy ( Magpie nursery rhyme )
Four
letter word
Four
more years ( Presidential election slogan )
Four
score
and
seven
years ago
Fourpenny
one
Fourth
Quarter
Vince ( Nickname of American football player Vince Young )
Fourth
estate
From day
one
From the
four
corners of the earth
Front
nine
( The
first
nine
holes in a game of golf )
Full fathom
five
Full fathom
five
thy father lies ( from The Tempest by Shakespeare )
Game of
two
halves
Genius is
one
percent inspiration and 99 percent perspiration ( Thomas Edison quotation )
Gentlemen we can rebuild him. We have the technology. ( A catchphrase from
Six
Million
Dollar Man )
Get to
first
base
Get to
first
base with
Get to
second
base
Get your retaliation in
first
Getting there is
half
the fun ( Cunard Line advertising slogan )
Gimme,
five
Give no
quarter
Give one's eye teeth for
Give one's right arm for
Glad All Over ( Dave Clark
Five
song )
Go down for the
third
time
Go
figure
Go off at
half
cock
Go off on
one
Go
one
better
Golden Sombrero ( A baseball expression denoting a player who strikes out
four
times in a game )
Goody
two
shoes
Got it in
one
Got your number
Gottaloveit (
Seven
Network Australia advertising slogan )
Grant no
quarter
Ground
zero
Half
A Sixpence ( Tommy Steele song )
Half
Man
Half
Amazing ( Nickname of basketball player Vince Carter )
Half
a bubble off plumb
Half
a chance
Half
a jiffy
Half
a loaf is better than no bread
Half
a mo
Half
a pound of tuppenny rice,
half
a pound of treacle ( line from nursery rhyme )
Half
a
second
Half
alive
Half
an eye
Half
asleep
Half
assed
Half
awake
Half
baked
Half
cut
Half
hearted
Half
in the bag
Half
inch ( Cockney rhyming slang for pinch )
Half
life
Half
light
Half
measure
Half
measures
Half
pint
Half
price
Half
the battle
Half
the fun is getting there ( Olympic Airways advertising slogan )
Hancock's
Half
Hour ( BBC comedy radio and television series )
Handbags at
ten
paces
Hang
ten
Hanged, drawn and quartered
Hasn't got
two
cents to rub together
Hate
figure
Have a
second
string to your bow have
Have
half
a mind to
Have
one
on me
He's
one
sick puppy
Head
count
Head
first
Hell's
half
acre
Hello,
one
two
three
testing
Here's
one
I prepared earlier ( A catchphrase from Blue Peter )
Here's
one
in your eye
Hero to
zero
High
five
Hit for
six
Hole in
one
How are the other
half
lives
How do I love thee? Let me
count
the ways ( from a poem by Browning )
How does it feel to be
one
of the beautiful people? ( Beatles song lyric )
I Like To Move It ( Reel 2 Reel song )
I
Second
That Emotion ( Smokey Robinson song )
I Want You Back ( The Jackson 5 song )
I don't believe it ( A catchphrase from Victor Meldrew,
One
Foot In The Grave )
I have not slept
one
wink
I see dead people ( The
Sixth
Sense )
I took my harp to the party but no
one
asked me to play
I want that
one
( A catchphrase from Little Britain )
I was a
seven
stone weakling ( Charles Atlas advertising slogan )
I'll Be There ( The Jackson 5 song )
I'm not
half
the man I used to be ( The Beatles song lyric )
I'm only here for the beer (
Double
Diamond advertising slogan )
I'm smarter than the
average
bear! ( A catchphrase from The Yogi Bear Show )
I've got your number
If I've only
one
life, let me live it as a blonde! ( Clairol Hair Colouring advertising slogan )
If I've told you once, I've told you a
thousand
times
If at
first
you don't succeed try, try and try again
If you ain't first, you're last
If you can't explain it to a
six
year old, you don't understand it yourself ( Albert Einstein quotation )
If you can't ride
two
horses at once, you shouldn't be in the circus
If you change your mind, I'm the
first
in line ( ABBA lyric )
In
one
ear and out the other
In
one
piece
In
seventh
heaven
In the kingdom of the blind the
one
eyed man is king
In
three
words I can
sum
up everything I've learned about life: it goes on ( Robert Frost quotation )
In
two
minds
In
two
shakes
In
two
shakes of a lamb's tail
In words of
one
syllable
Into the valley of death rode the
six
hundred
It Ain't
Half
Hot Mum ( BBC comedy television series )
It Happened
One
Night ( Clark Gable movie )
It could be you ( UK National
Lottery
advertising slogan )
It takes 40 dumb animals to make a fur coat, but only
one
to wear it
It takes
one
to know
one
It takes
two
hands to hold a Whopper ( Burger King advertising slogan )
It takes
two
to tango
It was a bright cold day in April, and the clocks were striking
thirteen
( the opening line of
Nineteen
Eighty-Four )
It was just
one
of those things
It was the best of times: it was the worst of times ( the opening line of A Tale Of
Two
Cities )
It was
twenty
years ago today Sgt. Pepper taught the band to play ( Beatles song lyric )
It's an ill wind that blows no
one
any good
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Joe
Six
Pack
Joy to the World (
Three
Dog Night song )
Just 15 minutes can save you 15 percent or more on car insurance ( GEICO advertising slogan )
Just
add
water
Just
one
more thing ( A catchphrase from Columbo )
Just
one
of those days
Keep
count
Keep
score
Keep your feet on the ground and keep reaching for the stars ( A catchphrase from Casey Kasem In America's Top 40)
Key of the door ( Bingo call for number
twenty
one
)
Kick the
numbers
Kill
two
birds with
one
stone
Knit
one
purl
one
Knock
Three
Times ( Tony Orlando and Dawn song )
Knock for
six
Know how many beans make
five
Know the
score
La Belle Epoque ( the golden age or beautiful era preceding the
First
World War )
Ladies
first
Last in
first
out
Last
one
there is a rotten egg
Launch one's lunch
Leadoff hitter ( A baseball expression denoting the player who bats
first
)
Legs
eleven
( Bingo call for number
eleven
)
Lend one's name
Let me
count
the ways
Let me make
one
thing perfectly clear
Let
one
go
Let
one
thousand
flowers bloom
Life begins at
forty
Life is just
one
damned thing after another
Like a dog with
two
dicks
Like a dog with
two
tails
Little black number
Look after number
one
Look out for number
one
Lose
count
Love Potion Number
Nine
( Leiber and Stoller song )
Love at
first
sight
Lucky number
seven
Make
first
base
Make mine a
double
Make one's hackles rise
Man of a
Thousand
Faces ( Nickname of Lon Chaney )
Massage one's ego
Me
first
Meat and
two
veg
Midnight
double
feature
Million
Dollar Baby ( Hilary Swank / Clint Eastwood movie )
Million
Dollar Bash ( Bob Dylan song )
Minority of
one
Mirror mirror on the all who is the fairest
one
of all?
More than
one
string to your bow
Moves like Jagger ( Maroon 5 with Christina Aguilera song )
My
one
regret in life is that I am not someone else ( Woody Allen line )
My precious ( The Lord of the Rings:
Two
Towers )
Name, rank, and serial number
Near to one's heart
Neither
one
thing nor the other
Never Can Say Goodbye ( The Jackson 5 song )
Nice
one
Cyril ( A catchphrase from Wonderloaf )
Nine
To
Five
( Lily Tomlin / Dolly Parton / Jane Fonda movie )
Nine
While
Nine
( The Sisters Of Mercy song )
Nine
days' wonder
Nine
ladies dancing ( line from A Partridge In A Pear Tree )
Nine
tailors make a man
Nine
while
nine
Nineteen
Eighty-Four ( George Orwell book )
Nineteen
to the
dozen
Ninth
inning ( A baseball expression meaning an event or process is near the end )
No
One
( Alicia Keys song )
No man can serve
two
masters
No
one
can make you feel inferior without your consent ( Eleanor Roosevelt quotation )
No
one
expects the Spanish Inquisition ( A catchphrase from Monty Python's Flying Circus )
No
one
likes us, we don't care ( A catchphrase from Millwall football supporters )
No, no, a
thousand
times no
Nobody loves a fairy when she's
forty
Not a
hundred
miles away
Not
half
Not in a
million
years
Not my type ( not a person
one
is attracted to )
Not
two
pennies to rub together
Now There is only
one
Mars ( Mars Chocolate advertising slogan )
Number 10 Downing Street ( address of the British Prime Minister )
Number
Six
( Pseudonym of Peter Smith The Prisoner ( Patrick McGoohan ) )
Number crunching
Number
one
Number
one
concubine ( name given to the partner of Bertrand Russell )
Number
one
son
Number
two
Number unobtainable
Numbered with the dead
Numbers
game
Numero uno
Ocean's
Eleven
( Brad Pitt / George Clooney movie )
Ocean's
Thirteen
( Brad Pitt / George Clooney movie )
Ocean's
Twelve
( Brad Pitt / George Clooney movie )
Odd
one
out
Of the
first
water
On cloud
nine
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On
second
thoughts
On the
double
On the
one
hand
One
Cent ( Nickname of Anfernee Hardaway )
One
Dog ( Nickname of Lance Johnson )
One
Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest ( Jack Nicholson movie )
One
Foot In The Grave ( BBC comedy television series )
One
Hundred
Years Of Solitude ( Gabriel Garcia Marquez book )
One
More Cup Of Coffee ( Bob Dylan song )
One
More Night ( Maroon 5 song )
One
Of Us Must Know ( Bob Dylan song )
One
Size ( Nickname of Fitz Hall )
One
Too Many Mornings ( Bob Dylan song )
One
Tough ( Nickname of Joaquin Andejar )
One
and all
One
and the same
One
armed bandit
One
brick short of a load
One
by
one
One
card for home and abroad ( Maestro advertising slogan )
One
fall,
two
submissions or a knockout
One
fine day
One
foot in the grave
One
for all and all for
one
One
for sorrow ( Magpie nursery rhyme )
One
for sorrow,
two
for mirth,
three
for a wedding,
four
for a birth
One
for the book
One
for the road
One
good turn deserves another
One
half
of the world does not know how the other
half
lives
One
hand tied behind your back
One
hand washes the other
One
hell of
One
horse town
One
in a
billion
( McDonald's advertising slogan )
One
in a
million
One
in the eye
One
instinctively knows when something is right ( Croft Original Sherry advertising slogan )
One
jump ahead of
One
law for the rich and another for the poor
One
leg at a time ( Dockers advertising slogan )
One
liner
One
man and his dog
One
man's meat is another man's poison
One
man's trash is another man's treasure
One
man:
one
vote
One
may as well be hanged for a sheep as for a lamb
One
minute to midnight
One
moment please
One
more time
One
night stand
One
night stand investment
One
of life's little ironies
One
of the boys
One
of these days, Alice ... Pow! To the moon! ( A catchphrase from The Honeymooners )
One
off
One
off the wrist
One
on
one
One
out, all out
One
over the
eight
One
ringy-dingy...two ringy-dingies ( A catchphrase from Ernestine In Rowan and Martin's Laugh-In )
One
second
One
side of the story
One
size fits all
One
small step for man,
one
giant leap for mankind ( Neil Armstrong quotation )
One
smart cookie
One
sprint many solutions ( Sprint advertising slogan )
One
step ahead
One
step at a time
One
step forward,
two
steps back
One
stop shop
One
swallow doesn't make a summer
One
taste and your stuck on golden flake ( Golden Flake Potato Chips advertising slogan )
One
that Last ( Duracell Batteries advertising slogan )
One
thing leads to another
One
to
one
One
to remember
One
toe over the line
One
track mind
One
trick pony
One
two
buckle my shoe ( line from nursery rhyme )
One
two
many and you might turn Bertie ( Bassett's Liquorice Allsorts advertising slogan )
One
two
three
o'clock
four
o'clock rock
One
volunteer is worth
ten
pressed men
One
wedding brings another
One
year's seeds make
seven
year weeds
Only 1 out of 25 men is color blind. The other 24 just dress that way ( Mohara Suits advertising slogan )
Only
half
there
Opening night ( the
first
night of a theatrical performance )
Out for the
count
Page 3 girl
Painting by
numbers
Parsley seed goes
nine
times to the devil
Patient
Zero
( Nickname of Gilbert Arenas )
People who like people like
Dial
(
Dial
Soap advertising slogan )
Perfect
ten
Perfume worth 9 guineas an ounce ( Camay Soap advertising slogan )
Pieces of
eight
Pinch, punch,
first
of the month
Platinum Sombrero ( A baseball expression denoting striking out
five
times in a game )
Play it again, Sam ( New York State
Lottery
advertising slogan )
Play
second
fiddle
Plus
one
Possession is
nine
tenths of the law
Prepare to want
one
( Hyundai advertising slogan )
Public Enemy Number
One
( Nickname of John Dillinger )
Pull a fast
one
Put
one
foot in front of the other
Put
one
over on
Put
two
and
two
together
Quality is job
one
( Ford Cars advertising slogan )
Quick
one
Rain before seven, fine before
eleven
Raw
data
Reach Out And I'll Be There (
Four
Tops song )
Red Army
Fraction
( German left wing terrorist group also call Red Army Faction )
Religious
divide
Remember remember the
fifth
of November ( line from nursery rhyme )
Revolution 9 ( Beatles song )
Richard the
Third
( Cockney rhyming slang for turd )
Rolled into
one
Room for
one
more inside
Round down
Round up
Route
one
Royal flush ( in poker - a hand including a
ten
jack queen king and ace of the same suit )
Safety
first
Safety in
numbers
Sale of the
century
Score
an own goal
Score
points off
Score
to settle
Second
banana
Second
best
Second
bite of the cherry
Second
childhood
Second
class
Second
degree burns
Second
generation
Second
nature
Second
sight
Second
slip ( field position in the game of cricket )
Second
storey man
Second
thoughts
Second
thoughts are best
Second
to none
Second
wind
Seconds
count
Seen one, seen them all
September the
eleventh
Seriously
ten
( Network
Ten
Australia advertising slogan )
Seven
day wonder
Seven
deadly sins
Seven
for a secret, never to be told ( Magpie nursery rhyme )
Seven
league boots
Seven
swans a-swimming ( line from A Partridge In A Pear Tree )
Seven
twenty-four
Seven
year itch
Seven
years' bad luck
Sex
symbol
Shoot a birdie (
score
one
under par in a golf shot )
Shoot first, ask questions later
Show no
quarter
Silver wedding ( a celebration of twenty-five years of marriage )
Six
and
two
threes
Six
degrees of separation
Six
feet under
Six
figures
Six
for gold ( Magpie nursery rhyme )
Six
geese a-laying ( line from A Partridge In A Pear Tree )
Six
of
one
and
half
a
dozen
of the other
Six
of the best
Six
pack
Six
ways to Sunday
Six,
two
and even
Sixth
sense
Sleep with
one
eye open
Snakes alive ( Bingo call for number
fifty
five
)
Snow White and the
Seven
Dwarfs ( Disney cartoon movie )
So easy to use, no wonder it's number
one
( AOL advertising slogan )
So no
one
told you life was gonna be this way
Something About You (
Four
Tops song )
Stand on your own
two
feet
Standing In The Shadows Of Love (
Four
Tops song )
Steal
third
base
Still the
One
( ABC advertising slogan )
Stop me and buy
one
( Wall's Ice Cream advertising slogan )
Stop me if you've heard this
one
Strength in
numbers
Stunt
double
Sweet Little
Sixteen
( Chuck Berry / Beatles song )
Sweet
sixteen
and never been kissed
Swift
half
Table for
two
Take
Five
( Dave Brubeck tune )
Take down a peg or
two
Take
five
Take
one
day at a time
Take
one
for the team
Take someone to
one
side
Take the
count
Take
two
aspirin and call me in the morning
Tea for
two
Teach someone a thing or
two
Ten
a penny
Ten
green bottles sitting on the wall
Ten
lords a-leaping ( line from A Partridge In A Pear Tree )
Ten
one
hundred
Ten
summersets he'll undertake on solid ground ( Beatles song lyric )
That woman speaks
eight
languages and can't say no in any of them
That's a new
one
on me
That's the
second
biggest ... I've ever seen! ( A catchphrase from Get Smart )
The Adventure of the
Second
Stain ( Sherlock Holmes story )
The Adventure of the
Six
Napoleons ( Sherlock Holmes story )
The Adventure of the
Three
Gables ( Sherlock Holmes story )
The Adventure of the
Three
Garridebs ( Sherlock Holmes story )
The Adventure of the
Three
Students ( Sherlock Holmes story )
The Amazing
One
( Nickname of Alfredo Amezaga )
The Best
Second
Banana in the Business ( Nickname of Art Carney )
The Big
Five
The Chosen
One
( Nickname of LeBron James )
The
Count
of Monte Cristo ( Alexandre Dumas book )
The Daily
Double
( Nickname of Dwight Howard )
The English summer:
three
fine days and a thunderstorm
The Famous
Five
( characters in Enid Blyton's series of children's book )
The
Fifth
Beatle ( Nickname of Brian Epstein )
The
Fifth
Beatle ( Nickname of Sir George Martin )
The
First
Cut Is The Deepest ( Rod Stewart song )
The
First
Garden City Of The World ( Nickname of Letchworth England )
The
First
Lady of Television ( Nickname of Faye Emerson )
The
First
State ( Nickname of the US state of Delaware )
The
Five
Orange Pips ( Sherlock Holmes story )
The Grand old Duke of York he had
ten
thousand
men ( line from nursery rhyme )
The Great
One
( Nickname of comedian Jackie Gleason )
The Magnificent
Seven
( Steve McQueen / Yul Brynner / Charles Bronson movie )
The Man With
Two
Brains ( Steve Martin movie )
The Man of a
Thousand
Voices ( Nickname of Mel Blanc )
The
Nine
Days Queen ( Nickname of Lady Jane Grey )
The Same Old Song (
Four
Tops song )
The
Seven
Pillars of Wisdom ( Autobiography of T E Lawrence ( of Arabia ) )
The Sign of the
Four
( Sherlock Holmes story )
The Special
One
( Nickname of football manager Jose Mourinho )
The
Ten
Commandments ( Charlton Heston movie )
The
Third
Man ( Orson Welles movie )
The
Third
Rome ( Nickname of Moscow Russia )
The
Three
Musketeers ( Alexandre Dumas book )
The Top
Ten
The Wild
One
( Marlon Brando movie )
The animals went in
two
by
two
The beast with
two
backs
(
the meaning and origin of this phrase...
)
The best way of expressing your intelligence ( Zenith
Data
Systems advertising slogan )
The cat who doesn't act finicky soon loses control of his owner ( 9 Lives Cat Food advertising slogan )
The face that launched a
thousand
ships
The
first
network for men ( Spike TV advertising slogan )
The
first
time is never the best ( Campari advertising slogan )
The flower of one's youth
The
four
noble truths
The future's so bright, I gotta wear shades ( song by Timbuk 3 )
The glorious
twelfth
( of August - the start of the British grouse shooting season )
The lesser of
two
evils
The lights are on but there's no
one
at home
The magic number
The mainspring in a Bulova is made to last 256 years or 146 leather straps - whichever comes
first
( Bulova Watches advertising slogan )
The north south
divide
The
one
and only Wonderbra ( Wonderbra advertising slogan )
The
one
and only cereal that comes in the shape of animals ( Crispy Critters advertising slogan )
The
one
that got away
The
one
to watch ( Channel 7 Australia advertising slogan )
The right
one
( Martini advertising slogan )
The sixty-four
thousand
dollar question
The square on the hypotenuse equals the
sum
of the squares on the other
two
sides
The
third
age
The whole is greater than the
sum
of its parts ( proverbial saying )
The world around
one
There are
three
kinds of lies: lies, damnable lies, and statistics
There are
two
sides to every question
There's more than
one
way to skin a cat
There's not a soul out there, no
one
to hear my prayer ( ABBA lyric )
There's
one
born every minute
There's only
one
These go to
eleven
( line from the movie This Is Spinal Tap )
Third
Slip ( field position in the game of cricket )
Third
degree
Third
man ( field position in the game of cricket )
Third
time lucky
Third
time's a charm
Third
way
Thirty
for now
This
one
will run and run
This tape will self-destruct in
five
seconds ( A catchphrase from Mission Impossible )
Three
Finger ( Nickname of Mordecai Brown )
Three
French hens ( line from A Partridge In A Pear Tree )
Three
Mile Lyle ( Nickname of Lyle Alzado )
Three
blind mice, see how they run ( line from nursery rhyme )
Three
dog night
Three
figures
Three
for a girl ( Magpie nursery rhyme )
Three
letter acronym
Three
line whip
Three
on a match
Three
score
and
ten
Three
sheets to the wind
Three
strikes and you are out
Three
wise men
Three's a charm
Three's a crowd
Three, four, knock at the door ( line from nursery rhyme )
Tidy
sum
Tie
one
on
Times without number
To cast the
first
stone
To get one's back up
To our members, we're the
fourth
emergency service ( Automobile Association advertising slogan )
To
sum
it all up
Today is the
first
day of the rest of your life
Today the discriminating family finds it absolutely necessary to own
two
or more motor cars ( Buick advertising slogan )
Tonight's top
ten
list ( A catchphrase from David Letterman In The Late Show )
Too clever by
half
Top of the shop ( Bingo call for number
ninety
)
Total
Eclipse Of The Heart ( Bonnie Tyler song )
Total
package
Total
stranger
Total
up
Triple
decker
Triple
play ( A baseball expression denoting the act of making
three
outs during the same play )
Triple
threat
Triple
whammy
Turn of the
century
Twelfth
Night
Twelve
drummers drumming ( line from A Partridge In A Pear Tree )
Twelve
good men and true
Twenty
Miles Of Bad Road ( The Janeys song )
Twenty
thousand
leagues under the sea
Twenty
three
skidoo
Twenty
twenty
vision
Two
Jags ( Nickname of John Prescott )
Two
Out Of
Three
Ain't Bad ( Meatloaf song )
Two
Ton Tessa
Two
all beef patties special sauce lettuce cheese pickles onions on a sesame seed bun ( McDonald's advertising slogan )
Two
and
eight
( Cockney rhyming slang for state )
Two
and
two
make
five
Two
and
two
make
four
Two
blacks don't make a white
Two
bricks short of a load
Two
buck chuck
Two
can play at that game
Two
cents worth
Two
faced
Two
fat ladies ( Bingo call for number
eighty
eight
)
Two
fisted
Two
for joy ( Magpie nursery rhyme )
Two
for me, none for you! ( Twix advertising slogan )
Two
for
one
Two
four
six
eight
who do we appreciate ( cheerleader chant )
Two
heads are better than
one
Two
irons in the fire
Two
left feet
Two
little dicky birds sitting on a wall,
one
named Peter,
one
named Paul ( line from nursery rhyme )
Two
little ducks ( Bingo call for number
twenty
two
)
Two
of a kind
Two
on the aisle
Two
pot screamer
Two
sandwiches short of a picnic
Two
shakes of a lamb's tail
Two
steps forward and
one
step back
Two
strings to his bow
Two
timing
Two
turtle doves ( line from A Partridge In A Pear Tree )
Two
wrongs don't make a right
Two's company three's a crowd
Unlucky for some ( Bingo call for number
thirteen
)
Us versus them ( denoting the emnity between
two
opposing groups )
Want to reach 8 out of 10 adults - walk this way ( Yellow Pages advertising slogan )
Was she worth it ( Bingo call for number
fifty
six
)
We used to have
one
of those, but the wheels fell off
We'll leave the light on for you ( Motel 6 advertising slogan )
We're Just
One
Big Happy Family ( Richard Hawley song )
We're just
one
big happy family
We're number two. We try harder ( Avis Rent-a-Car advertising slogan )
We're the
one
( Sky Television advertising slogan )
We're tobacco men not medicine men. Old Gold cures just
one
thing. The World's Best Tobacco ( Old Gold Cigarettes advertising slogan )
Welcome to our network ( 3 Mobile advertising slogan )
Well, she was just
seventeen
you know what I mean ( The Beatles song lyric )
What I tell you
three
times is true
What Makes You Beautiful (
One
Direction song )
What a tangled web we weave when
first
we practice to deceive
What with
one
thing and another
What's in your wallet? ( Capital
One
advertising slogan )
When shall we
three
meet again?
When war is declared, truth is the
first
casualty
Which came
first
the chicken or the egg?
Who blinked first?
Whole
nine
yards
Will no
one
rid me of this turbulent priest?
Win faster (
One
Brand Group advertising slogan )
With
one
bound he was at her side
Women and children
first
Work one's fingers to the bone
World's
first
Worth one's weight in gold
Wring one's hands
You are a
one
You can
count
on me
You can kiss that
one
goodbye
You don't get a
second
chance at a
first
impression
You give us 22 minutes, we'll give you the world ( WINS Radio, New York advertising slogan )
You got a friend in the business ( Gateway 2000 advertising slogan )
You heard it here
first
You only get
one
chance to make a
first
impression
You only hurt the
one
you love
You're the
One
That I Want ( John Travolta and Olivia Newton-John song )
You, you're the
one
( McDonald's advertising slogan )
Young and sweet, only
seventeen
( ABBA lyric )
Your days are numbered
Your number's up
Your starter for
ten
( A catchphrase from University Challenge )
Zero
hour
Zero
in
Zero
out
Zero
sum
game
Zero
tolerance