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A New
Hope
( George Lucas movie in the Star Wars series )
A
Prayer
For Owen Meany ( John Irving book )
A Streetcar Named
Desire
( Marlon Brando movie )
A Streetcar Named
Desire
( Tennessee Williams play )
A drowning man
will
clutch at a straw
A face as
long
as a fiddle
A forlorn
hope
A friend in
need
is a friend indeed
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A week is a
long
time in politics
Abandon
hope
all ye who enter here ( warning from Dante's Divine Comedy )
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Accidents
will
happen
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Against your
will
All I Really
Want
To Do ( Bob Dylan song )
All I
Want
For Christmas Is My Two Front Teeth ( Spike Jones song )
All I
Want
For Christmas Is You ( Maria Carey song )
All I know is what I read in the papers (
Will
Rogers quotation )
All You
Need
Is Love ( Beatles song )
All the best
All we
want
is the facts Ma'am ( A catchphrase from Dragnet )
All you
need
is love. But a little chocolate now and then doesn't hurt ( Charles M. Schulz quotation )
Answer to a maiden's
prayer
Any way you
want
it
Aren't you glad you use Dial? Don't you wish everybody did? ( Dial Soap advertising slogan )
Art is
long
and life is short
As
Long
As He Needs Me ( Shirley Bassey song )
As broad as it is
long
As honest as the day is
long
As
long
as a month of Sundays
As
long
as your arm
As merry as the day is
long
As nervous as a
long
tailed cat in a room full of rocking chairs
As true as the day is
long
At
long
last
Baby I
Need
Your Loving ( Four Tops song )
Be careful what you wish for
Be the change that you wish to see in the world ( Mahatma Gandhi quotation )
Beg
a favour
Beg
off
Beg
pardon?
Beg
the question
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Beg
to differ
Beg, borrow or steal
Bend to my
will
Beyond
hope
Blonde
ambition
Blood
will
out
Boys
will
be boys
Build a better mousetrap and the world
will
beat a path to your door
Build up your hopes
Burning
desire
Business is like a car, it
will
not run by itself except downhill
Business
need
Cast a
long
shadow
Catch a falling star
Center of
hope
Champagne wishes and caviar dreams ( Lifestyles of the Rich and Famous sign-off )
Constant
Craving
( k d lang song )
Cooler heads
will
prevail
Cross my heart and
hope
to die
Crunch all you want, we'll make more ( Doritos advertising slogan )
Cut a
long
story short
Dancing is a perpendicular expression of a horizontal
desire
( George Bernard Shaw quotation )
Danger,
Will
Robinson ( A catchphrase from The Robot In Lost In Space )
Do You Really
Want
to Hurt Me ( Culture Club song )
Do You
Want
To Know A Secret? ( Beatles song )
Do you
want
a shape like a bra? Or do you
want
a shape like a woman? ( Warner's Body Bra advertising slogan )
Do you
want
the good news or the bad news?
Dream on
Driving
ambition
Eats shooots and leaves ( classic example of the
need
for punctuation )
Even a worm
will
turn
Everything you
want
from a store and a little bit more ( Safeway Supermarkets advertising slogan )
Faith
will
move mountains
Fingers crossed
Flattery
will
get you everywhere
Flattery
will
get you nowhere
For the benefit of Mr.Kite there
will
be a show tonight on trampoline ( Beatles song lyric )
For
want
of a nail the shoe was lost ( line from nursery rhyme )
For
want
of a nail the shoe was lost; for
want
of a shoe the horse was lost; and for
want
of a horse the man was lost
Forever is a
long
time
Free
will
Gee, I wish I had a nickel ( Life Savers Candy advertising slogan )
Get well soon
Gettin' Jiggy Wit' It (
Will
Smith song )
Girls Just
Want
To Have Fun ( Cyndi Lauper song )
Give a man enough rope and he
will
hang himself
Give one's eye teeth for
Give one's right arm for
Glimmer of
hope
Got your heart set on
Grapes, like children,
need
love and affection ( Almaden advertising slogan )
Great white
hope
Have gun,
will
travel ( A catchphrase from TV series )
Have you ever wished you were better informed? ( The Times advertising slogan )
He who sups with the Devil should use a
long
spoon
He
will
give the Devil his due
He
will
never play the piano again
Heads
will
roll
Heart's
desire
High hopes
Hope
against
hope
Hope
for the best
Hope
springs eternal
Hope
springs eternal in the human breast ( from a poem by Alexander Pope )
How
long
is a piece of string?
How long, O Lord, how long?
I Say A Little
Prayer
( Aretha Franklin song )
I
Want
Somebody To Love ( The Beatles song )
I
Want
To Hold Your Hand ( Beatles song )
I
Want
You ( Bob Dylan song )
I
Want
You Back ( The Jackson 5 song )
I
Will
Always Love You ( Whitney Houston song )
I
Will
Survive ( Gloria Gaynor song )
I
beg
your pardon
I don't
want
to say I told you so, but I told you so
I feel like a Guinness - I wish you were ( Guinness advertising slogan )
I
need
it yesterday
I
want
YOU for the US Army ( World War I and World War II advertising slogan )
I
want
my MTV ( MTV advertising slogan )
I
want
my Maypo ( Maypo advertising slogan )
I
want
that one ( A catchphrase from Little Britain )
I
want
to be alone ( A catchphrase from Grand Hotel )
I
want
to talk to the organ grinder not the monkey
I
will
if you
will
I
will
make you fishers of men
I
will
wear my heart upon my sleeve
I wish I was an Oscar Meyer Wiener ( Oscar Meyer advertising slogan )
I wish they all could be Caledonia girls ( Caledonia Airlines advertising slogan )
I'm not afraid of death; I just don't
want
to be there when it happens ( Woody Allen quotation )
If I tell you I
will
have to shoot you
If anything can go wrong, it
will
If drafted, I
will
not run; if nominated, I
will
not accept; if elected, I
will
not serve
If life were like that, you wouldn't
need
a VISA card ( VISA advertising slogan )
If only
If this is wrong I don't
want
to be right
If wishes were horses beggars would ride
If you build it they
will
come
If you don't stand for something you
will
fall for anything ( Malcolm X quotation )
If you got the munchies, nothing else
will
do! ( Hostess potato chips advertising slogan )
If you keep late hours for Society's sake, Bromo-Seltzer
will
cure that headache ( Bromo-Seltzer advertising slogan )
If you lie down with dogs, you
will
get up with fleas
If you
want
Kentucky Fried Chicken, you have to visit me ( Kentucky Fried Chicken advertising slogan )
If you
want
a thing done well, do it yourself
If you
want
to get ahead, get a hat ( Hat Council advertising slogan )
If you
want
to impress someone, put him on your Black list ( Johnny Walker Black Whiskey advertising slogan )
Ill
will
In the
long
run
It Won't Be
Long
( The Beatles song )
It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in
want
of a wife ( the opening line of Pride and Prejudice )
It
will
all end in tears
It
will
be all right on the night
It
will
blow over
It's My Party And I'll Cry If I
Want
To ( Lesley Gore song )
It's a
long
way to Tipperary
It's everywhere you
want
to be ( Visa advertising slogan )
Keep
hope
alive
Keep the shop and the shop
will
keep you
Kick it into the
long
grass
Kicked into the
long
grass
Land of
hope
and glory
Last
will
and testament
Like a
Prayer
( Madonna song )
Listen I
will
say zis only wunce ( A catchphrase from Allo Allo )
Live
long
and prosper ( A catchphrase from Star Trek )
Live today. Tomorrow
will
cost more ( Pan-Am World Airways advertising slogan )
Living
will
Long
Bob ( Nickname of Robert Meusel )
Long
Day's Journey into Night ( play by Eugene O'Neil )
Long
Haired Lover From Liverpool ( Jimmy Osmond song )
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 )
Long
Tall Sally ( Little Richard song )
Long
division
Long
drawn out
Long
face
Long
faced
Long
in the tooth
Long
long
ago
Long
lost
Long
odds
Long
shot
Long
sighted
Long
suffering
Long
time no see
Look after the pennies and the pounds
will
look after themselves
Love is all you
need
( The Beatles song lyric )
Love
will
find a way
Man In The
Long
Black Coat ( Bob Dylan song )
Money, That's What I
Want
( The Beatles song )
Murder
will
out
My Heart
Will
Go On ( Celine Dion song )
Need
You Now ( Lady Antebellum song )
Need
your head examined
Never had it, never
will
( 7-Up advertising slogan )
Nice place to visit, but I wouldn't
want
to live there
Not a
hope
Not by a
long
chalk
Not by a
long
shot
Not
long
for this world
On a
need
to know basis
On a wing and a
prayer
On the wings of a
prayer
One fine day
Only time
will
tell
Pipe dream
Polly
want
a cracker?
Prepare to
want
one ( Hyundai advertising slogan )
Put it on the
long
finger
Rock a bye baby on the tree top, when the wind blows the cradle
will
rock ( line from nursery rhyme )
Set your heart on something
Short arms,
long
pockets
Sit up and
beg
Smoke Craven 'A' -
will
not affect your throat ( Craven 'A' Cigarettes advertising slogan )
So
long
So
long
and thanks for all the fish (line from Douglas Adams' Hitchhiker's Guide)
Soft, strong and very
long
( Andrex toilet tissue advertising slogan )
Some day my prince
will
come
Some day my prints
will
come
Sticks and stones may break my bones but words
will
never hurt me
Stop the world I
want
to get off
Stop, or my mom
will
shoot ( line from Sylvestor Stallone movie )
Take a
long
walk off a short pier
Take a
long
walk off a short plank
Take care of the pence and the pounds
will
take care of themselves
That Obscure Object Of
Desire
( Luis Bunuel movie )
That and a nickel
will
get you a ride on the subway
The Conservative Party at
prayer
( The Church of England )
The Great White
Hope
( Nickname of James J.Jeffries )
The King is dead,
long
live the King
The
Long
And Winding Road ( The Beatles song )
The Revolution
Will
Not Be Televised ( Gil Scott-Heron song )
The Thrill ( Nickname of
Will
Clark )
The Wailing Wall ( site of
prayer
in Jerusalem )
The best of British luck
The court
will
rise
The
long
and short of it
The
long
and winding road that leads to your door ( Beatles song lyric )
The
long
arm of the law
The long, hot summer
The more you get the more you
want
The
need
for speed
The smallest worm
will
turn, being trodden on
The stuff of dreams
The stuff of legends
The truth
will
out
The valley of the shadow of death ( line from the Lord's
Prayer
)
The wish is father to the thought
There are none so blind as those that
will
not see
There
will
be an answer, let it be ( The Beatles song lyric )
There
will
be tears before bedtime
There's none so blind as those who
will
not see
There's none so deaf as they that
will
not hear
There's not a soul out there, no one to hear my
prayer
( ABBA lyric )
They
will
do anything
This one
will
run and run
This tape
will
self-destruct in five seconds ( A catchphrase from Mission Impossible )
This time next year we
will
be millionaires ( A catchphrase from Only Fools And Horses )
Those who sleep with dogs
will
rise with fleas
Throw enough dirt and some
will
stick
Time
will
tell
To cut a
long
story short
To make a
long
story short
Today something we do
will
touch your life ( Union Carbide and Carbon advertising slogan )
Tomorrow
will
be cancelled due to lack of interest
Triumph of
hope
over experience
Wannabee
Want
a better Internet? You belong at America Online ( AOL advertising slogan )
Want
him to be more of a man? Try being more of a woman! ( Coty Perfumes advertising slogan )
Want
some seafood Mama ( Fats Waller song )
Want
to reach 8 out of 10 adults - walk this way ( Yellow Pages advertising slogan )
Waste not,
want
not
We
Need
To Talk About Kevin ( Lionel Shriver book )
We
Will
Rock You ( Queen song )
We are going to
need
considerably bigger buns ( line from Calendar Girls )
We
will
cross that bridge when we come to it
We
will
fight on the beaches
We
will
sell no wine before it is time ( Paul Masson Wines advertising slogan )
We're gonna
need
a bigger boat ( Jaws advertising tagline )
What You
Want
is What You Get ( McDonald's advertising slogan )
What we
want
is Watney's ( Watney's beer advertising slogan )
What
will
you do with all the money you save? ( Toyota advertising slogan )
What women
want
Whatever
will
be
will
be
When better automobiles are built, Buick
will
build them ( Buick advertising slogan )
When the bough breaks the cradle
will
fall, and down
will
come baby, cradle and all ( line from nursery rhyme )
When the cat's away the mice
will
play
When the oak is before the ash, then you
will
only get a splash; when the ash
When you wish upon a star
Whenever I feel the
need
to exercise, I lie down until it goes away ( Robert Maynard Hutchins quotation )
Where do you
want
to go today? ( Microsoft advertising slogan )
Where there's a
will
there's a way
Where there's life, there's
hope
Who
will
rid me of this troublesome priest?
Who's finger do you
want
on the trigger?
Will
You Still Love Me Tomorrow? ( Carole King song )
Will
do
Will
no one rid me of this turbulent priest?
Will
the real ... stand up? ( A catchphrase from To Tell The Truth )
Wind someone up ( deliberately draw attention to something that
will
create agitation )
Wish for the moon
Wish me luck as you wave me goodbye
Wish you were here
Wishful thinking
Wishing your life away
With the best
will
in the world
Without us, some guys
will
starve ( Carl's Jr. advertising slogan )
You Can't Always Get What You
Want
( The Rolling Stone song )
You can have any colour as
long
as it's black
You don't
need
a weather man to know which way the wind blows
You don't
need
caffeine. And neither does your cola ( Like Cola advertising slogan )
You say you
want
a revolution ( Line from Beatles song )
You'll wish you had never been born
You're a
long
time dead
You're going to
need
a bigger boat ( Jaws )
You're the One That I
Want
( John Travolta and Olivia Newton-John song )
You've come a
long
way, baby ( Virginia Slims Cigarettes advertising slogan )