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A Day At The
Races
( Marx Brothers movie )
A
move
in the right direction
A
nation
of shopkeepers
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A touch of the tarbrush
Act white
After The Gold
Rush
( Neil Young song )
All the lonely people, where do they all come from? ( Beatles song lyric )
Angry white male
At breakneck
speed
At lightning
speed
Athlete's foot
Back the field
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Beat the
rush
Beauty
contest
( a political
contest
in which the result is infuenced by personality and image more than by policy )
Beauty parade ( a political
contest
in which the result is infuenced by personality and image more than by policy )
Beltway bandit
Black flagged
Blistering
speed
Blown off
course
Boat race ( Cockney rhyming slang for face )
Bold
move
Born To
Run
( Bruce Springsteen song )
Breakneck
speed
British
racing
green
Built for comfort not
speed
Built for
speed
Bum's
rush
Bun
run
Business is beautiful (
Sprint
advertising slogan )
Business is like a car, it will not
run
by itself except downhill
Bust a
move
( dance in a stylish way )
But of
course
Career limiting
move
Chart a
course
Chase
it up
Chase
the dragon
Chase
your own tail
Computers help
people
help
people
( IBM advertising slogan )
Connecting
people
( Nokia advertising slogan )
Correspondence
course
Course
you can, Malcolm ( Vick's Sinex Nasal Spray advertising slogan )
Crash and
dash
Crash
course
Cut a
dash
Cut and
run
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Cut throat
competition
Cut to the
chase
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Dash
to pieces
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Dead heat
Did the earth
move
for you
Don't just stand there, do something ( A catchphrase from Wacky
Races
)
Don't try to
run
before you can walk
Don't you
people
have homes to go to?
Dry
run
Each way bet
Eat and
run
Egg and spoon race
Eye up the
competition
Face the
competition
Faith will
move
mountains
First past the post
Fools
rush
in where angels fear to tread
Forward with the
People
( Daily Mirror advertising slogan )
Games
people
play
Genius bonus ( a joke or theme added to a programme aimed at well informed
people
)
Gentlemen, start your engines
Get a
move
on
Get up to
speed
Go and
chase
yourself
God
speed
God's
speed
Going going gone ( A baseball expression by which an announcer describes a home
run
that is heading over the fence )
Had a good
run
Hell is other
people
( Jean-Paul Sartre quotation )
High occupancy vehicle lane ( a traffic lane reserved for vehicles carrying several
people
)
High
speed
gas ( Gas Council advertising slogan )
Hit and
run
Hold with the hare and
run
with the hounds
Home
run
How To Win Friends And Influence
People
( Dale Carnegie book )
How do you spell soap? Why P-E-A-R-S, of
course
( Pears' Soap advertising slogan )
How does it feel to be one of the beautiful people? ( Beatles song lyric )
How does the wireless industry make you feel? (
Sprint
PCS advertising slogan )
Hurry
along
Hurry
hard
Hurry
off with
Hurry
on down to Hardee's ( Rolaids advertising slogan )
Hurry
up
Hurry
up and wait
I Like To
Move
It ( Reel 2 Reel song )
I see dead
people
( The Sixth Sense )
I'm good enough, I'm smart enough, and doggone it,
people
like me! ( A catchphrase from Stuart Smiley In Saturday Night Live )
If enough
people
would stop smoking and start drinking, we could get out of ashtrays and into vermouth ( Cinzano advertising slogan )
In due
course
In the long
run
In the short
run
It Takes
People
Like You To Make
People
Like Me ( Buck Owens song )
It's all about you (
People
Telecom advertising slogan )
Join the Pepsi
People
( Pepsi advertising slogan )
Last one there is a rotten egg
Let nature take its
course
Let your imagination
run
riot
Make a
move
on
Make your
move
Matter of
course
Melting pot
Mixed marriage
More haste, less
speed
Move
It On Over ( Hank Williams song )
Move
On Up a Little Higher ( Mahalia Jackson song )
Move
heaven and earth
Move
in the best circles
Move
over
Move
right along
Move
with the times
Moving at the
speed
of business ( UPS advertising slogan )
Neck and neck
No
contest
No
rush
Not a lot of
people
know that ( A catchphrase from Michael Caine )
Now, that's better (
Sprint
PCS advertising slogan )
Of the people, for the people, by the
people
Off
course
Oh, the
humanity
On a collision
course
On the flat
On the
move
On the
run
On your mark, get set, go
One
sprint
many solutions (
Sprint
advertising slogan )
Par for the
course
People
carrier ( a car with several passenger seats )
People
in here are trying to sleep
People
mover ( a car with several passenger seats )
People
of colour
People
person
People
power
People
smuggler ( someone involved in smuggling immigrants between countries, often illegally )
People
watching
People
who like
people
like Dial ( Dial Soap advertising slogan )
People
who live in glass houses shouldn't throw stones
People's republic ( a communist state )
Pipped at the post
Piss like a race horse
Pissing
contest
Places to go,
people
to see, things to do
Play the race card
Pleasing
people
the world over ( Holiday Inn advertising slogan )
Point to point
Power to the
people
Pumped Up Kicks ( Foster the
People
song )
Race against the clock
Race against time
Race for the taste, the honey sweet taste!, the honey-nutty taste of Honey Nut Cheerios ( Cheerios Cereals advertising slogan )
Race proven performance ( Kumho Tires advertising slogan )
Race to the bottom
Rat race
Ready set go
Ready steady go
Ready, get set, go
Real food for real
people
( The beef industry advertising slogan )
Romp home
Rubber cheque ( a cheque that is returned ( bounced ) due to insufficient funds )
Rubber is
racing
Run
For Your Life ( The Beatles song )
Run
Forrest, Run! ( line from the movie Forrest Gump )
Run
a fever
Run
a tight ship
Run
along
Run
amuck
Run
for cover
Run
for the border ( Taco advertising slogan )
Run
for the hills
Run
for your life
Run
for your money
Run
it up the flagpole and see who salutes
Run
its
course
Run
like the wind
Run
of the Millsap ( Nickname of Paul Millsap )
Run
of the mill
Run
off at the mouth
Run
off your feet
Run
out of gas
Run
out of steam
Run
out of town on a rail
Run
rabbit,
run
rabbit,
run
run
run
Run
rings around
Run
the gauntlet
Run
the plates
Run
the risk
Run
to fat
Run
to ground
Run
to seed
Run
toward the sound of gunfire
Run
with the ball
Run
with the hare and hunt with the hounds
Run
yourself ragged
Rush
job
Rush
of blood
Rush
the growler
Rush
to judgement
Sack race
See how they
run
like pigs from a gun ( The Beatles song lyric )
Smooth
move
Speed
dating
Speed
demon
Speed
freak
Speed
it up
Speed
kills
Speed
merchant
Stay on
course
Stay the
course
Stiff
competition
Still waters
run
deep
Suck it up ( accept a bad situation and
move
on )
Sue grabbit and
run
Sugar
rush
Take the chequered flag
Take the money and
run
The Amazing Race ( US TV show )
The Birth of a
Nation
( D W Griffith / Lillian Gish movie )
The Gold
Rush
( Charlie Chaplin movie )
The Master Race
The People's Champ ( Nickname of Freddie Mitchell )
The People's Cherce ( Nickname of Dixie Walker )
The People's Princess ( Nickname of Diana Princess of Wales )
The People's Republic Of Berkeley ( Nickname of Berkeley California )
The People's Republic Of Cambridge ( Nickname of Cambridge Massachusetts )
The People's Republic of South Yorkshire ( Nickname of Sheffield England )
The
course
of true love never did
run
smooth
The finishing line
The human race
The little
people
The need for
speed
The people's choice ( a person or thing chosen by public acclamation )
The point of contact (
Sprint
advertising slogan )
The race is not to the swift, nor the battle to the strong ( quotation from the Bible - Ecclesiastes
The station of the
nation
( Radio Caroline advertising slogan )
The thrill of the
chase
There goes the neighbourhood
This one will
run
and
run
Three blind mice, see how they
run
( line from nursery rhyme )
To call you stupid would be an insult to stupid people! ( line from the movie A Fish Called Wanda )
To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most
people
exist, that is all ( Oscar Wilde quotation )
Too good to
hurry
mints ( Murray Mints advertising slogan )
Top breeders recommend it (
Pedigree
Chum Dog food advertising slogan )
Top
people
take the Times ( The Times advertising slogan )
Under starter's orders
Up to
speed
Victory won't wait for the
nation
that's late ( Big Ben Clocks advertising slogan )
Warp
speed
( A catchphrase from Star Trek )
We make things that bring
people
closer ( Western Electrics advertising slogan )
We really
move
our tail for you ( Continental Airlines advertising slogan )
We the
people
When E F Hutton talks,
people
listen ( EF Hutton advertising slogan )
Where rocking horse
people
eat marshmallow pies ( Beatles song lyric )
Wherever particular
people
congregate ( Pall Mall Cigarettes advertising slogan )
Who are the
people
in your neighborhood?
Wild goose
chase
Win by a head
Win by a neck
Win by a nose
Win friends and influence
people
Y.M.C.A. ( Village
People
song )
Yes you can (
Sprint
advertising slogan )
You Can't
Hurry
Love ( The Supremes song )
You are in a Beauty
Contest
Every Day of your Life ( Camay Soap advertising slogan )
You are now free to
move
about the country ( Southwest Airlines advertising slogan )
You can
run
but you can't hide
You meet the nicest
people
on a Honda ( Honda advertising slogan )
You're Wendy's kind of
people
( Wendy Burgers advertising slogan )
You, of all
people
( exclamation when meeting someone unexpectedly )