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3 6 3 Rule
Above the
law
Against the
law
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
)
Bend the
rules
Born To
Run
( Bruce Springsteen song )
Britannia
rules
the waves
Britannia waives the
rules
Brush with the
law
Bun
run
Business is like a car, it will not
run
by itself except downhill
Chatham House
rules
Click it or ticket ( United States seat belt
law
advertising slogan )
Close enough for
government
work
Cold Mountain ( Jude
Law
/ Renee Zellweger / Nicole Kidman movie )
Command and
control
Control
freak
Cost
control
Crowd
control
Cruise
control
Cut and
run
(
the meaning and origin of this phrase...
)
Do as I say not as I do
Don't try to
run
before you can walk
Don't walk on the grass
Don't you just love being in control? ( British Gas advertising slogan )
Dry
run
Eat and
run
Empire
State Building
Empire
State of Mind ( Jay-Z with Alicia Keys song )
Fall foul of the
law
Go to
law
Going going gone ( A baseball expression by which an announcer describes a home
run
that is heading over the fence )
Golden rule
Government
is not the solution to our problems;
government
is the problem ( Political slogan )
Had a good
run
Hard cases make bad
law
His word is
law
Hit and
run
Hold with the hare and
run
with the hounds
Home rule
Home
run
Honesty is the best
policy
House
rules
I arrest you in the name of the
law
I before E except after C
I fought the
law
and the
law
won
I'm from the government, and I'm here to help
In the eyes of the
law
In the long
run
In the short
run
It doesn't matter who you vote for, the
government
always gets in
Keep off the grass
Law
abiding
Law
and order
Law
unto oneself
Lay the
law
down
Let your imagination
run
riot
Lose
control
Majority
rules
Mob rule
No smoking
On the
run
One
law
for the rich and another for the poor
Open door
policy
Open
government
Out of
control
Outside the
law
Play by the
rules
Portion
control
Possession is nine tenths of the
law
Primal therapist ( psychotherapist who uses Primal Scream
method
of treatment )
Quality
control
Radio
control
Regime
change
Revolving door
policy
Rubber bullet ( a bullet made of rubber or plastic and used for riot
control
)
Rule Britannia
Rule of thumb
Rule out
Rule the roost
Rule with a rod of iron
Rule with an iron fist
Rules
and regulations
Rules
are made to be broken
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
Scorched Earth
Policy
See how they
run
like pigs from a gun ( The Beatles song lyric )
See what we mean (
Canon
advertising slogan )
Spiral out of
control
Stickler for the
rules
Still waters
run
deep
Sue grabbit and
run
Take someone to
law
Take the
law
into your own hands
Take the money and
run
The Brittas
Empire
( BBC comedy television series )
The Chrysanthemum Throne ( the traditional term for the
reign
of the Emperor of Japan )
The Cider House
Rules
( Michael Caine movie )
The
Empire
State ( Nickname of the US state of New York )
The
Empire
State ( Nickname of the US state of South Georgia )
The
Empire
State Building ( tourist attraction in New York USA )
The
Empire
Strikes Back ( George Lucas movie in the Star Wars series )
The Evil
Empire
The cat who doesn't act finicky soon loses
control
of his owner ( 9 Lives Cat Food advertising slogan )
The course of true love never did
run
smooth
The
empire
on which the sun never sets
The exception which proves the rule
The hand that rocks the cradle
rules
the world
The
law
is an ass
The
law
of averages
The
law
of diminishing returns
The
law
of the jungle
The
law
of the land
The letter of the
law
The long arm of the
law
The rise and fall of the Roman
Empire
The sun never sets on the British
Empire
There ought to be a
law
There's an exception to every rule
There's
method
in my madness
There's no
law
against it
This one will
run
and
run
Though this be madness, yet there is
method
in it
Three blind mice, see how they
run
( line from nursery rhyme )
Up and down like the Ottoman
Empire
( line from Monty Python's Life Of Brian )
Whoever you vote for the
government
gets in ( Anarchist political slogan )
Work to rule
World
government
World
ruler
You can
run
but you can't hide
Your fragrance Your
rules
( Hugo Boss Deep Red advertising slogan )