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50 Words for Snow ( Kate Bush song )
A
River
Runs Through It ( Brad Pitt movie )
A buck
well
spent ( Springmaid Sheets advertising slogan )
A child is an island of curiosity surrounded by a
sea
of question marks ( Shell advertising slogan )
A hewer of wood and a drawer of water
A
wet
weekend
Acid
rain
Adam's ale
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Alive and
well
All at
sea
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All
wet
All's Well, That Ends
Well
Angel Falls ( tourist attraction in Venezuela )
Ankle deep
Apres moi le
deluge
Aqua vitae
As boring as a
wet
weekend in Wigan
As cold as a
well
digger's arse
As cold as
ice
As dull as ditchwater
As mad as a
wet
hen
As right as
rain
As
well
as can be expected
At the
drop
of a hat
Augur
well
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Baby Please Don't Go ( Muddy
Waters
song )
Bail out
Between the Devil and the deep blue
sea
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Big fish in a small
pool
( someone considered influential compared to their less significant peers )
Black water rafting
Blood in the water
Blood is thicker than water
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Blow off
steam
Blow out of the water
Body surfing
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Both oars in the water
Brain
bucket
Break the
ice
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Bridge Over Troubled Water ( Simon and Garfunkel album and song )
Bucket
and spade holiday
Bucket
shop
Buy a
bucket
of chicken and have a barrel of fun ( Kentucky Fried Chicken advertising slogan )
Can't carry a tune in a
bucket
Cast your bread upon the
waters
Castles made of sand fall into the
sea
eventually
Chicken Man ( Nickname of baseball player
Wade
Boggs )
Chocolate
drop
Clear blue water
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Clearly Canadian Sparkling Mineral Water in Wild Fruit Flavours ( Adelma Mineral
Waters
advertising slogan )
Come hell or high water
Come on in, the
water's
fine
Come
rain
or shine
Couldn't carry a tune in a
bucket
Course you can, Malcolm ( Vick's Sinex Nasal
Spray
advertising slogan )
Cover the waterfront
Cry me a
river
Cut no
ice
Cuts no
ice
with
Dead in the water
Deep
sea
data diving
Deeper Than The Deep Blue
Sea
( Frank Sinatra song )
Denial ain't just a
river
in Egypt! ( A catchphrase from Saturday Night Live )
Designer
dyke
Didn't they do well! ( A catchphrase from Bruce Forsyth In The Generation Game )
Ding dong bell Pussy's in the
well
( line from nursery rhyme )
Dip your toe into the water
Doggy
paddle
Don't
rain
on my parade
Drip
drip
drip
Drip
feed
Drop
It Like It's Hot ( Snoop Dogg song )
Drop
a bombshell
Drop
a brick
Drop
a bundle
Drop
a clanger
Drop
a dime
Drop
a hint
Drop
a sprog
Drop
by
Drop
dead
Drop
dead gorgeous
Drop
dead list
Drop
down dead
Drop
in on
Drop
in the
bucket
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Drop
in the ocean
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Drop
it like a hot potato
Drop
like a stone
Drop
me a line
Drop
off
Drop
someone off
Drop
the Dead Donkey ( BBC comedy television series )
Drop
the ball
Drop
your aitches
Drop
your bundle
Drop
your cookies
Drop
your drawers
Drop
your guard
Drop
your pants
Ducks on a
pond
( A baseball expression meaning having runners in scoring position )
Each Record a Masterpiece ( Van
Dyke
Records advertising slogan )
Exceedingly
well
read
Extreme refreshment ( Bud
Ice
advertising slogan )
Eye watering
Fire And
Rain
( James Taylor song )
Fish out of water
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Flash crash ( the sudden
drop
in the Dow Jones Index in 2010 )
Foot in the
bucket
( A baseball expression meaning to act timidly or cowardly )
Fountain
head
Fresh squeezed glaciers ( Adelma Mineral
Waters
advertising slogan )
From
sea
to shining
sea
From the Land of Sky-Blue
Waters
( Hamm's Beer advertising slogan )
Full
steam
ahead
Gargle
factory
Genius bonus ( a joke or theme added to a programme aimed at
well
informed people )
Get a gold star ( earn a merit point for doing
well
)
Get into deep water
Get into hot water
Get the
drop
on
Get up
steam
Get
well
soon
Get your feet
wet
Go and jump in a
lake
Go through fire and water for
Go
well
Go Shell ( Shell advertising slogan )
God willing and the
creek
don't rise
Good to the last
drop
( Maxwell House Coffee advertising slogan )
Got My Mojo Working ( Muddy
Waters
song )
Gut
bucket
Hail fellow
well
met
Hands across the
sea
Hands that do dishes can feel soft as your face, with mild green Fairy
Liquid
( Fairy
Liquid
advertising slogan )
Hard Rain's A Gonna Fall ( Bob Dylan song )
He doesn't have both oars in the water
He's fallen in the water ( A catchphrase from The Goon Show )
Head of
steam
Hold water
Hoochie Coochie Man ( Muddy
Waters
song )
Ice
cold
Ice
cream social
Ice
maiden
Ice
up
Ice,
ice
baby
If a job is worth doing it is worth doing
well
If all the world were Jell-O, And whipped cream filled the sea, Then the only spoon from here to the moon Would have to belong to me ( Jell-O Gelatin Dessert advertising slogan )
If you want a thing done well, do it yourself
In deep water
In hot water
Into every life a little
rain
must fall
Is she or isn't she? ( Harmony hair
spray
advertising slogan )
Itsy Bitsy spider climbing up the spout, down came the
rain
and washed the spider out ( line from nursery rhyme )
Jack and Jill went up the hill to fetch a pail of water ( line from nursery rhyme )
Jerkwater town
Just add water
Just as
well
Just when you thought it was safe to go back in water ( Jaws II advertising tagline )
Keep going
well
- keep going Shell ( Shell advertising slogan )
Keep your head above water
Kick the
bucket
Know full
well
Leave
well
enough alone
Let it
drop
Let off
steam
Let
well
alone
Let's get out of these
wet
clothes and into a dry Martini
Like a duck to water
Like a fish out of water
Like a hog on
ice
Like water off a duck's back
Lipton's gets into more hot water than anything ( Lipton Tea advertising slogan )
Liquid
assets
Liquid
engineering ( Castrol Motor Oil advertising slogan )
Liquid
lunch
Little fish in a big
pond
( someone considered unimportant compared to their more significant peers )
Living
well
is the best revenge
Looking like a
wet
weekend
Made to make your mouth water ( Opal Fruits advertising slogan )
Make it
rain
March from Bridge on the
River
Kwai ( Mitch Miller song )
Men's evil manners live in brass; their virtues we write in water
Might as
well
Mop up
Mouth-watering
Muddy the
waters
My Own Private Idaho (
River
Phoenix movie )
Neer do
well
Niagara Falls ( tourist attraction in Canada )
Of the first water
Oil and water don't mix
Old
soak
On The Waterfront ( Marlon Brando movie and Clark Gable movie )
On
ice
One may as
well
be hanged for a sheep as for a lamb
Original Gangster
Ice
T song
Paddle
your own canoe
Pan galactic
gargle
blaster
Penis Von Lesbian ( Nickname of actor Dick Van
Dyke
)
Pocket
pool
Pond
life
Pond
scum
Pour cold water on
Pour oil on troubled
waters
Pure life ( Nestle Aberfoyle Natural Spring Water advertising slogan )
Purple
Rain
( Prince song and album )
Put on
ice
Rain
before seven, fine before eleven
Rain,
rain
go away, come again another day ( line from nursery rhyme )
Red
River
( John Wayne / Howard Hawks movie )
River
Deep Mountain High ( Ike and Tina Turner song )
Rode hard and put away
wet
Row up Salt
River
Run out of
steam
Rust
bucket
Say it, don't
spray
it
Sea
Bass ( Nickname of Sebastian Janikowski )
Sea
change
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Sea
level
Set Fire to the
Rain
( Adele song )
She sells
sea
shells on the
sea
shore
Shop 'till you
drop
Singin' in the
Rain
( Gene Kelly movie )
Skating on thin
ice
Slippery When
Wet
( Bon Jovi album )
Slippery when
wet
Smooth runs the water where the brook is deep
Sold down the
river
Spend money like water
Spitting with
rain
Steam
coming out of your ears
Still
waters
run deep
Stop
drop
and roll
Stop me and buy one ( Wall's
Ice
Cream advertising slogan )
Sun,
sea
and sand
Swing by ( slang expression meaning
drop
in for a visit )
Swing the lead
Take a bath in the dark tonight and let the water make love to your skin ( Lavin Perfumes & Soaps advertising slogan )
Take a dip
Take me to the
river
Teeming down with
rain
Test the water
That's all
well
and good
The Big
Pond
( nickname of the Atlantic Ocean between the UK and the USA )
The Bride Of The
Sea
( Nickname of Venice Italy )
The Bridge On The
River
Kwai ( David Lean movie )
The Coward Of Bitter
Creek
( Nickname of Jason McCord ( Chuck Connors ) )
The Great
Lake
State ( Nickname of the US state of Michigan )
The Hot Water State ( Nickname of the US state of Arkansas )
The Human
Rain
Delay ( Nickname of Mike Hargrove )
The
Ice
Box ( Nickname of Tim Newton )
The Mistake On The
Lake
( Nickname of Cleveland Ohio )
The Old Man And The
Sea
( Spencer Tracy movie )
The Owl and the Pussycat went to
sea
in a beautiful pea-green boat ( line from nursery rhyme )
The Panama Canal ( tourist attraction in Panama )
The
Rain
Man ( Nickname of Ray Allen )
The Tide Is Turning ( Roger Waters, 1987 song )
The Trevi
Fountain
( tourist attraction in Italy )
The deep blue
sea
The
fountain
of youth
The
rain
in Spain falls mainly on the plain
The worried
well
There's plenty more fish in the
sea
This precious stone set in the silver sea, this sceptered isle
Throw cold water on
Throw the baby out with the
bathwater
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Tonic water by you know who ( Schweppes advertising slogan )
Travel
well
( Lincoln advertising slogan )
Turn on, tune in,
drop
out ( A catchphrase from Timothy Leary )
Twenty thousand leagues under the
sea
Under your own
steam
Up shit
creek
without a
paddle
Victoria Falls ( tourist attraction in Zambia )
Waiting for the other shoe to
drop
Walk on thin
ice
Walk on water
Wash your mouth out with soap and water
Water down
Water of life
Water seeks its own level
Water under the bridge
Water water everywhere and not a
drop
to drink
Watering hole
Well
I never
Well
blow me down
Well
endowed
Well
fed
Well
fit
Well
heeled
Well
hung
Well
in with
Well
liked
Well
off
Well
turned calf
Well
turned out
Well
up with
Well, actually, he forgot Poland
Well, duh
Well, nobody's perfect ( line from the movie Some Like It Hot )
Well, she was just seventeen you know what I mean ( The Beatles song lyric )
Wet
behind the ears
Wet
blanket
Wet
dream
Wet
fish
Wet
the baby's head
Wet
through
Wet
your beak
Wet
your whistle
What's The Story Morning Glory? (
Oasis
album )
White water rafting
You Wear It
Well
( Rod Stewart song )
You can lead a horse to water but you can't make it drink
You cannot step into the same
river
twice ( philosophical comment by Heraclitus )
You could have heard a pin
drop
You gotta ask yourself, do I feel lucky,
well
do ya punk? ( Dirty Harry )
You shop, we
drop
( Tesco home delivery advertising slogan )