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Words
for Snow ( Kate Bush song )
A picture paints a thousand
words
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A still small
voice
A word to the wise
Actions speak louder than
words
Address the ball ( golfing
term
denoting readiness to play )
Alpha and omega ( the first two letters of the Greek alphabet, used as a name for God or Jesus )
Alphabet soup ( a jumble of
words
or letters, often in reference to organsiations known by their initials, like CIA or BBC )
An Englishman's word is his bond
Any word?
As good as your word
At a loss for
words
Bandy
words
with
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Bedroom tax ( slang
term
for UK's removal of Spare Room Subsidy )
Breach of
promise
Bunny suit ( Canadian military slang
term
for a cbrn ( chemical, biological, radiological, nuclear ) )
Chain
letter
Click bait ( an eye ctaching word or image on a website )
Code monkey ( slang
term
for a computer programmer )
Coin a
phrase
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Complex
sentence
( a
sentence
containing subordinate clauses )
Data
dictionary
Dead
letter
Deeds not
words
Don't mince
words
Eat your
words
Empty
words
Famous last
words
Fine
words
butter no parsnips
Four
letter
word
French
letter
From the word go
Full of Eastern
Promise
( Fry's Turkish Delight advertising slogan )
Get a word in edgeways
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Give your word
Go back on a
promise
Go back on one's word ( Retract a previous
promise
)
Greed, for lack of a better word, is good ( Wall Street )
Hang on every word
Hard
words
Have a word with yourself
Have
words
with
He understands every word I say to him
Here's a word from our sponsor
His word is law
Hit the bricks ( a cursory slang
term
telling someone to leave )
Hobson's choice ( Cockney rhyming slang for
voice
)
Honey bunny ( a mawkish
term
of affection )
I'll not hear a word against him
In a word
In as many
words
In love with the sound of your own
voice
In other
words
In the beginning was the word
In three
words
I can sum up everything I've learned about life: it goes on ( Robert Frost quotation )
In
words
of one syllable
Inner
voice
Just say the word
Keep your
promise
Keep your word
Kind
words
Last word
Letter
bomb
Letter
for
letter
Letter
perfect
Letter
quality
Lick and a
promise
Lost for
words
Man of few
words
Man of his word
Many a true word is spoken in jest
Mark my
words
Marriage isn't a word it's a
sentence
Mince your
words
Mum's the word
Mumm's the word ( Mumm's Champagne advertising slogan )
My word is my bond
My word!
Nary, a word
Not in so many
words
Pass
sentence
Poison pen
letter
Pommy bashing ( Australian slang
term
for physical or verbal attacks on the English )
Promise
her anything, but give her Arpege ( Arpege Perfume advertising slogan )
Put in a good word for
Put the hard word on
Put
words
into someone's mouth
Red
letter
day
Rubber johnny ( a British slang
term
for a condom )
Say a few
words
Say the magic word and win $100 dollars ( A catchphrase from Groucho Marx In You Bet Your Life )
Shack rat ( Canadian military slang
term
for a promiscuous female who visits military barracks to sleep with soldiers )
Somebody somewhere wants a
letter
from you ( British Post Office advertising slogan )
Sorry Seems To Be The Hardest Word ( Elton John song )
Sparrow fart ( jokey
term
for the early morning )
Spread the word
Sticks and stones may break my bones but
words
will never hurt me
Suck face ( slang
term
for kissing )
Swallow the
dictionary
Take someone's word for it
Take the
words
out of my mouth
The Active
voice
The Chrysanthemum Throne ( the traditional
term
for the reign of the Emperor of Japan )
The Devil's
Dictionary
( Ambrose Bierce book )
The F word
The French Have A Word For It ( Josh Lanyon book )
The French have a word for it
The Purloined
Letter
The Purloined
Letter
( Edgar Allan Poe book )
The Scarlet
Letter
( Nathaniel Hawthorne story )
The
Voice
of Canada ( Nickname of actor Lorne Greene )
The bull in the bowler hat ( jokey
term
for artificial insemination )
The
letter
of the law
The
phrase
that pays
The still small
voice
of God
The word on the street
Three
letter
acronym
Throw your
voice
To have
words
with
To the
letter
Turn of
phrase
Voice
mail
Voice
of doom
Voice
of reason
Voice
your concern
War of
words
Warm
words
Way with
words
Weasel
words
Well-chosen
words
What's the good word?
Whisper
words
of wisdom, let it be ( The Beatles song lyric )
Word association football
Word for word
Word has it
Word in your ear
Word in your shell-like
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Word of honour
Word of mouth
Word to the wise
Words
Of Love ( Buddy Holly song )
Words
of wisdom
Yellow belly ( slang
term
for a coward )
You Took The
Words
Right Out Of My Mouth, It Must Have Been Whilst You Were Kissing Me ( Meatloaf song )