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69 position
A
Place
in the Sun ( Elizabeth Taylor movie )
A house divided against itself cannot
stand
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A
place
for everything and everything in its
place
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A
place
in the sun ( an idealistic dream of a sunny hideaway )
A woman's
place
is in the home
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According to Hoyle
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All over the
place
Any time, any place, any where ( Martini advertising slogan )
As deaf as a
post
As patient as
Job
As you make your bed so must you
lie
on it
At knife
point
At this
point
in time
Back
seat
driver
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Bald-faced
lie
Bare-faced
lie
Base
station
Be It Ever So Humble There's No
Place
Like Home ( John Howard Payne and Sir Henry Bishop song )
Beside the
point
Between a rock and a hard
place
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Blow
job
Boob
job
Botched
job
Buckle your
seat
belts it's going to be a bumpy ride
By the
seat
of your pants
Click into
place
Click it or ticket ( United States
seat
belt law advertising slogan )
Cop an
attitude
Cop an
attitude
( adopt an aggressive stance )
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Cover
Point
( field position in the game of cricket )
Cross the floor
Curve ball ( a difficult proposition - deriving from baseball terminology )
Daily grind ( the daily routine of a dull or boring
job
)
Deep Extra Cover ( field position in the game of cricket )
Deep Fine Leg ( field position in the game of cricket )
Deep Gully ( field position in the game of cricket )
Deep Mid Wicket ( field position in the game of cricket )
Deep
Point
( field position in the game of cricket )
Deep Square Leg ( field position in the game of cricket )
Democracy Wall ( wall in Bejing China where dissidents
post
letters poems etc )
Doing a sterling
job
Don't
Stand
So Close To Me ( Police song )
Don't give up the day
job
Don't just
stand
there, do something ( A catchphrase from Wacky Races )
Drive your
point
home
Ducks on a pond ( A baseball expression meaning having runners in scoring position )
Extra Cover ( field position in the game of cricket )
Face off
Fall down on the
job
Favoured
status
Feel 95
point
great ( Capital FM advertising slogan )
Field Marshall ( the highest
rank
in the British Army )
First Slip ( field position in the game of cricket )
First among equals ( the most senior person in a group of equal
rank
)
First past the
post
Flash
point
Fly by the
seat
of your pants
Forward Short Leg ( field position in the game of cricket )
Gentlemen please lift the
seat
Get a gold star ( earn a merit
point
for doing well )
Get straight to the
point
Get the
point
Give the
lie
to
Glued to your
seat
Good Time, Great Taste, That's Why This is My
Place
( McDonald's advertising slogan )
Hand
job
Happy
place
Hard to
place
Hatchet
job
Have your hair
stand
on end
Hazards of the
job
He just wouldn't let it
lie
Hips Don't
Lie
( Shakira with Wyclef Jean song )
Hold down a
job
Hold on to your
seat
I cannot tell a
lie
I see you
stand
like greyhounds in the slips
I tell a
lie
I'm only doing my
job
Ideas above your
station
If a
job
is worth doing it is worth doing well
If it doesn't get all over the place, it doesn't belong in your face ( Carl's Jr advertising slogan )
If you can't
stand
the heat, get out of the kitchen ( A catchphrase from Harry S Truman )
If you don't get it, you don't get it ( The Washington
Post
advertising slogan )
If you don't
stand
for something you will fall for anything ( Malcolm X quotation )
If you
lie
down with dogs, you will get up with fleas
In
point
of fact
In the box
seat
In the catbird
seat
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In the right
place
at the right time
Inside
job
It's a dirty job, but somebody has to do it ( A catchphrase from Nick Stone In Tightrope )
It's complicated ( Facebook relationship
status
)
Jockeying for position
Jumping off
point
Just the
job
Kept in your
place
Know where we
stand
Leg Gully ( field position in the game of cricket )
Leg Slip ( field position in the game of cricket )
Let Hertz put you in the driver's
seat
( Hertz Car Rental advertising slogan )
Let sleeping dogs
lie
Lie
back and think of England
Lie
doggo
Lie
down on the
job
Lie
down with dogs: get up with fleas
Lie
fallow
Lie
in
Lie
in state
Lie
in wait
Lie
like a trooper
Lie
low
Lie
through his teeth
Lightning never strikes twice in the same
place
Little white
lie
Live a
lie
Long Leg ( field position in the game of cricket )
Long Off ( field position in the game of cricket )
Long On ( field position in the game of cricket )
Long Stop ( field position in the game of cricket )
Love the Way You
Lie
( Eminem with Rihanna song )
Major league ( A baseball expression meaning at the top
rank
)
Make a good
job
of it
Make the best of a bad
job
Make your bed and
lie
in it
Making the sky the best
place
on Earth ( Air France advertising slogan )
McDonald's is Your Kind of
Place
( McDonald's advertising slogan )
Mid Off ( field position in the game of cricket )
Mid On ( field position in the game of cricket )
Mid Wicket ( field position in the game of cricket )
Missionary position
Moot
point
More than flesh and blood can
stand
N*ggers with
attitude
Nail a
lie
Name, rank, and serial number
Nice
place
to visit, but I wouldn't want to live there
No
job
too small
Not a dry
seat
in the house
Not to put too fine a
point
on it
On the edge of my
seat
On the
job
On the
job
training
One night
stand
One night
stand
investment
Out of
place
Pipped at the
post
Place
of safety
Place
your bets
Point
Break ( Keanu Reeves movie )
Point
Percy at the porcelain
Point
blank range
Point
duty
Point
of sale
Point
of view
Point
out
Point
the finger
Point
to
point
Pole position
Post
early for Christmas (
Post
Office advertising slogan )
Post
haste
Post
modern
Post
mortem
Post
partum
Press your
point
home
Pride of
place
Pull
rank
Pushed from pillar to
post
Put in his
place
Put-up
job
Quality is
job
one ( Ford Cars advertising slogan )
Rank
and file
Rear admiral ( naval
rank
)
Rhapsody In Blue ( George Gershwin composition )
Rockin' All Over The World (
Status
Quo song )
Rush
job
Screw your courage to the sticking
place
Second slip ( field position in the game of cricket )
See a pin and pick it up, all the day you'll have good luck; see a pin and let it lie, bad luck you'll have all day
Seriously though, he's doing a grand
job
( A catchphrase from David Frost )
Short Fine Leg ( field position in the game of cricket )
Short Mid Wicket ( field position in the game of cricket )
Short Square Leg ( field position in the game of cricket )
Silly Mid Off ( field position in the game of cricket )
Silly Mid On ( field position in the game of cricket )
Silly
Point
( field position in the game of cricket )
Single
point
of contact
Snow
job
Somebody somewhere wants a letter from you ( British
Post
Office advertising slogan )
Square Leg ( field position in the game of cricket )
Stand
By Your Man ( Tammy Wynette song )
Stand
and deliver
Stand
before your maker
Stand
by
Stand
down
Stand
in good stead
Stand
it on its head
Stand
like a Stoughton bottle
Stand
off
Stand
on ceremony
Stand
on one's dignity
Stand
on your own two feet
Stand
out
Stand
out from the crowd
Stand
up and be counted
Stand
up fight
Stand
up for yourself
Stand
up guy
Status
quo
Sticking
point
Stretch a
point
Strike Up The Band ( George Gershwin composition )
Take a back
seat
Take a
seat
Take a
stand
Talking
point
The Adventure of Shoscombe Old
Place
( Sherlock Holmes story )
The Italian
Job
( Michael Caine movie )
The best
seat
in the house ( Jockey Shorts advertising slogan )
The camera doesn't
lie
The case in
point
The cheque is in the
post
The happiest
place
on Earth ( Disneyland advertising slogan )
The
lie
of the land
The lion may
lie
down with the lamb, but the lamb won't get much sleep ( Woody Allen line )
The mind is its own place, and in itself, can make a Heav'n of Hell, a Hell of Heav'n ( from a poem by Milton )
The old lie: Dulce et Decorum Est ( from a poem by Owen )
The patience of
Job
The
point
of contact ( Sprint advertising slogan )
The
point
of no return
The right man for the
job
The right
place
at the wrong time
The right tool for the
job
The right tools for the
job
The
station
of the nation ( Radio Caroline advertising slogan )
The
station
of the stars ( Radio Luxembourg advertising slogan )
The toughest
job
you'll ever love ( United States Peace Corps advertising slogan )
There's A
Place
For Us ( Leonhard Bernstein song )
There's a time and a
place
for everything
There's no
place
like HBO ( Home Box Office advertising slogan )
There's no
place
like home
They also serve who only
stand
and wait ( from a poem by Milton )
Third Slip ( field position in the game of cricket )
Third man ( field position in the game of cricket )
This position closed
Tipping
point
To make that tough
job
easier - you deserve M&M candy ( M&Ms advertising slogan )
United we
stand
divided we fall
War room ( the
place
where war plans are directed )
War zone ( the area that a war has taken
place
)
Wardrobe malfunction ( when an item of clothing slips out of
place
to expose part of the body - typically a woman's breast )
What is this life if, full of care, we have no time to
stand
and stare ( from a poem by Davies )
What's the point?
Whenever I feel the need to exercise, I
lie
down until it goes away ( Robert Maynard Hutchins quotation )
Where the rubber meets the road ( where the important facts or realities
lie
)
Wicket Keeper ( field position in the game of cricket )
Will the real ...
stand
up? ( A catchphrase from To Tell The Truth )
Winning
post
Without a leg to
stand
on
You made your bed, now
lie
in it
You were only supposed to blow the bloody doors off! ( line from the Michael Caine movie The Italian
Job
)
Your
place
or mine?
Zabriskie
Point
( Michelangelo Antonioni movie )