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A
Short
History Of Nearly Everything ( Bill Bryson book )
A
Short
History Of Tractors In Ukrainian ( Marina Lewycka book )
A bear of very
little
brain
A few bricks
short
of a full load
A few cards
short
of a full deck
A
little
bird told me
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A
little
dab'll do ya ( Brylcreem advertising slogan )
A
little
help from above
A
little
knowledge is a dangerous thing
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A
little
learning is a dangerous thing ( from a poem by Alexander Pope )
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A
little
of what you fancy does you good
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A slip of a thing
A still small voice
Action Man ( children's male doll )
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All children, except one, grow up ( the opening line of Peter Pan )
All creatures great and small
All you need is love. But a
little
chocolate now and then doesn't hurt ( Charles M. Schulz quotation )
Art is long and life is
short
As small as the hairs on a gnat's bollock
As sure as God made
little
green apples
As thick as two
short
planks
At the last
minute
Atom
Heart Mother ( Pink Floyd album )
Atom
smasher
Attention to
detail
Baby grand
Bama Lama Bama Loo (
Little
Richard song )
Big fish eat
little
fish
Big fish in a small pool ( someone considered influential compared to their less significant peers )
Big fleas have
little
fleas
Bits and bobs
Bits and pieces
Bring up
short
Caught by the
short
and curlies
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Caught
short
Chicken feed
Children
and fools tell the truth
Children
should be seen and not heard
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Children's shoes have far to go ( Start-Rite Shoes advertising slogan )
Children, one is one, two is fun, three is a house full
Come up
short
Computer says no ( A catchphrase from
Little
Britain )
Crazy
Little
Thing Called Love ( Queen song )
Cut a long story
short
Daddy's
little
girl
Day late and a dollar
short
Day surgery (
minor
surgery that does not require the patient to stay in hospital overnight )
Dirty
little
secret
Dog and pony show
Don't close your eyes for a
minute
Don't sweat the small stuff
Don't trouble your pretty
little
head about it
Dream a
little
dream of you
Drop in the bucket
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Drop in the ocean
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Every
Little
Thing She Does Is Magic ( Police song )
Every
little
helps ( Tesco advertising slogan )
Everything you want from a store and a
little
bit more ( Safeway Supermarkets advertising slogan )
Father of The
Atomic
Bomb ( Nickname of Robert Oppenheimer )
First World problem ( a relatively
trivial
problem only affecting the affluent )
Forward
Short
Leg ( field position in the game of cricket )
Get a
little
extra help ( Halifax advertising slogan )
Glow
Little
Glow-worm ( children's nursery rhyme )
Gnat's bollock ( slang term for a very small unit of measurement )
Good Golly Miss Molly (
Little
Richard song )
Good things come in small packages
Good things come in small parcels
Goodnight
children
everywhere ( A catchphrase from Uncle Mac )
Grapes, like children, need love and affection ( Almaden advertising slogan )
Greasy spoon ( a small cheap cafe selling fried food )
Half pint
Hang on a
minute
Have Yourself A Merry
Little
Christmas ( Judy Garland song )
Hold on a
minute
I Say A
Little
Prayer ( Aretha Franklin song )
I am the only gay in the village ( A catchphrase from
Little
Britain )
I spy with my
little
eye
I want that one ( A catchphrase from
Little
Britain )
I'll Get By With
Little
Help From My Friends ( The Beatles song )
I'm a laydee ( A catchphrase from
Little
Britain )
I'm a
little
bit wooooor, a
little
bit waaaaaaaaaayy, I'm a geezer! ( A catchphrase from Chris The Crafty Cockney In The Fast Show )
I've got a
little
list
In
short
order
In
short
supply
In the
short
run
Into every life a
little
rain must fall
It doesn't take a
minute
to bag it and bin it ( UK public advertisement advertising slogan )
Itsy Bitsy spider climbing up the spout, down came the rain and washed the spider out ( line from nursery rhyme )
Itsy bitsy
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Jagged
Little
Pill ( Alanis Morissette album )
Just a glint in his father's eye
Keep A Knockin' (
Little
Richard song )
Lady Madonna,
children
at your feet ( Beatles song lyric )
Last
minute
Laugh a
minute
Let's rock ( A catchphrase from Al Bundy In Married With
Children
)
Life's
little
luxuries
Life's too
short
Little
Bo peep has lost her sheep ( line from nursery rhyme )
Little
Boxes ( Pete Seeger song )
Little
Boy Blue come blow your horn ( line from nursery rhyme )
Little
Brown Jug ( Glenn Miller tune )
Little
Chocolate ( Nickname of George Dixon )
Little
Cuba ( Nickname of Miami Florida )
Little
Deuce Coupe ( Beach Boys song )
Little
General ( Nickname of Avery Johnson )
Little
Hands of Stone ( Nickname of Michael Carbajal )
Little
Hitler
Little
Jack Horner sat in a corner ( line from nursery rhyme )
Little
London ( Nickname of Gothenburg Sweden )
Little
Miss Muffet sat on a tuffet eating her curds and whey ( line from nursery rhyme )
Little
New York ( Nickname of Carmelo Anthony )
Little
Poison ( Nickname of Lloyd Waner )
Little
Red Corvette ( Prince song )
Little
Red Rooster ( Rolling Stones song )
Little
Rhody ( Nickname of the US state of Rhode Island )
Little
Robin Red breast sat upon a tree ( line from nursery rhyme )
Little
Sure Shot ( Nickname of Annie Oakley )
Little
Tommy Tucker sings for his supper ( line from nursery rhyme )
Little
White Bull ( Tommy Steele song )
Little
Women ( Louisa May Alcott book )
Little
black book
Little
black dress
Little
black number
Little
blighter
Little
boxes made of ticky tacky
Little
by
little
Little
devil
Little
fish in a big pond ( someone considered unimportant compared to their more significant peers )
Little
gentleman in the velvet coat
Little
green men
Little
pitchers have big ears
Little
strokes fell great oaks
Little
thieves are hanged, but great ones escape
Little
things please
little
minds
Little
tin god
Little
treasure
Little
white lie
Long Tall Sally (
Little
Richard song )
Make
little
of
Make
short
work of
Mary had a
little
lamb its fleece was white as snow ( line from nursery rhyme )
Mickey Mouse organisation
Midnight's
Children
Mighty oaks from
little
acorns grow
Mother's
little
helper
Move On Up a
Little
Higher ( Mahalia Jackson song )
Nasty, brutish and
short
New York
minute
Next to nothing
No big deal
No job too small
No room to breathe
No room to swing a cat
Nothing to worry your pretty
little
head about
O ye, of
little
faith
Oh
little
town of Bethlehem
One brick
short
of a load
One
minute
to midnight
One of life's
little
ironies
One small step for man, one giant leap for mankind ( Neil Armstrong quotation )
Our
children
are not our
children
Pint sized
Pizza! Pizza! (
Little
Caesars restaurants advertising slogan )
Pocket rocket
Poison
dwarf
Poor
little
rich girl
Precious
little
Pull someone up
short
Quite the
little
gentleman
Ready Teddy (
Little
Richard song )
Red
Dwarf
( BBC comedy television series )
Restricted growth
Santa's
Little
Helpers ( allusion to the elves that help Father Christmas )
Seeing small business differently ( SBC Communications advertising slogan )
Shit ( or
short
) end of the stick
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 )
Short
and curlies
Short
and sweet
Short
arms, long pockets
Short
but sweet
Short
change
Short
end of the stick
Short
fuse
Short
list
Short
sharp shock
Short
shrift
Short
sighted
Short
stuff
Show a
little
leg
Small beer
Small fortune
Small is beautiful
Small minded
Small potatoes
Small wonder
Small wonder ( Volkswagen advertising slogan )
Smoke me a kipper, I'll be back for breakfast ( A catchphrase from Red
Dwarf
)
So many books, so
little
time ( Frank Zappa quotation )
Sold
short
Solutions for a small planet ( IBM advertising slogan )
Sticks and snails and puppy dog's tails that's what
little
boys are made of ( line from nursery rhyme )
Suffer the
little
children
Sugar and spice and all things nice that's what
little
girls are made of ( line from nursery rhyme )
Sweet
Little
Sixteen ( Chuck Berry / Beatles song )
Take a long walk off a
short
pier
Take a long walk off a
short
plank
The Best
Little
Whorehouse In Texas ( Burt Reynolds / Dolly Parton movie )
The Devil is in the
detail
The Famous Five ( characters in Enid Blyton's series of children's book )
The Girl Can't Help It (
Little
Richard song and movie )
The God Of Small Things ( Arundhati Roy book )
The
Little
Big Man ( Nickname of Sharmba Mitchell )
The
Little
Buttercup ( Nickname of Ralph Kramden ( Jackie Gleason ) )
The
Little
Corporal ( Nickname of Napoleon Bonaparte )
The
Little
Drummer Boy ( Harry Simeone Chorale song )
The
Little
Engine ( Nickname of T.J.Ford )
The
Little
Lady ( Nickname of Jo Anne Santini ( Michele Scarabelli ) )
The
Little
Master ( Nickname of Sachin Tendulkar - Indian cricketer )
The
Little
Mermaid ( Disney cartoon movie )
The
Little
Paris ( Nickname of Bucharest Romania )
The
Little
Queen of the Soap Operas ( Nickname of actress Anne Francis )
The
Little
Sparrow ( Nickname of Edith Piaf )
The
Little
Witch ( Nickname of Juan Sebastian Veron )
The difficult we do immediately; the impossible takes a
little
longer
The
little
boys' room
The
little
dog laughed to see such fun
The
little
engine that could
The
little
people
The long and
short
of it
The next small thing
The patter of
tiny
feet
The
short
end of the stick
The small screen
The still small voice of God
The wheels on the bus go round and round ( title of children's song )
The winner takes it all, the loser standing small ( ABBA lyric )
There's a
little
McDonald's in Everyone ( McDonald's advertising slogan )
There's one born every
minute
These
little
things are sent to try us
Think small ( Volkswagen advertising slogan )
This
little
piggy had roast beef, this
little
piggy had none ( line from nursery rhyme )
This
little
piggy went to market, this
little
piggy stayed at home ( line from nursery rhyme )
Throw another
shrimp
on the barbie ( Australian Tourist Commission advertising slogan )
Thumb your nose
Thumbnail sketch
Time out for
tiny
little
tea leaves in Tetley Tea ( Tetley Tea advertising slogan )
Tiptoe through the tulips ( 1920s Broadway song and
Tiny
Tim hit )
To cut a long story
short
To make a long story
short
Too little, too late
Trap and ball ( children's ball game )
Try A
Little
Tenderness ( Otis Redding song )
Tutti Frutti (
Little
Richard song )
Twas the night before Christmas - the
children
were dreaming of a Ford in their future - smart, swanky and gleaming ( Ford Cars advertising slogan )
Twinkle twinkle
little
star, how I wonder what you are ( line from nursery rhyme )
Twist around your
little
finger
Two bricks
short
of a load
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 sandwiches
short
of a picnic
Under the
microscope
Wait just a cotton picking
minute
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Wee small hours of the morning
Who's
little
boy are you?
Widow's mite
With A
Little
Help From My Friends ( The Beatles song )
Women and
children
first
Wrapped around your
little
finger
Yeah but, no but ( A catchphrase from
Little
Britain )
Yeah, I know ( A catchphrase from
Little
Britain )
You can leave in a huff. If that's too soon, you can leave in a
minute
and a huff ( Groucho Marx line )
You'll look a
little
lovelier each day, with fabulous pink Camay ( Camay Soap advertising slogan )