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Second Phrases

421 phrases and expressions related to "second".

Phrases

  • ...Baby One More Time (Britney Spears album and song)
  • ...of the clock
  • A Bicycle Built For Two (Victorian popular song)
  • A Brief History Of Time (Stephen Hawking book)
  • A Tale Of Two Cities (Charles Dickens book)
  • A World first
  • A bird in the hand is worth two in the bush
  • A good time was had by all
  • A moment of clarity
  • A moment on the lips, a lifetime on the hips
  • A stitch in time saves nine
  • A two pipe problem
  • A week is a long time in politics
  • About time too
  • Accuracy to seconds a month (Pulsar Watches advertising slogan)
  • Ahead of his time
  • Ain't my first rodeo (said by someone who has experience of a situation)
  • All I Want For Christmas Is My Two Front Teeth (Spike Jones song)
  • All in a good time
  • All the taste, 1/3 of the calories (Pepsi Max advertising slogan)
  • All the time in the world
  • All time low
  • And it's goodnight from, me, and it's goodnight from him (A catchphrase from The Two Ronnies)
  • Any time, any place, any where (Martini advertising slogan)
  • Any time, anywhere, acid indigestion can catch you out (Alka Selzer advertising slogan)
  • Architecture is music frozen in time (Friedrich von Schelling quotation)
  • Around the clock
  • As alike as two peas in a pod
  • As cross as two sticks
  • As happy as a dog with two tails
  • As thick as two short planks
  • As time goes by
  • At a moment's notice
  • At first blush
  • At first hand
  • At sixty miles an hour the loudest noise in the new Rolls-Royce comes from the electric clock (Rolls Royce advertising slogan)
  • At the last minute
  • At this moment in time
  • At this point in time
  • Back number
  • Bad time
  • Bath time
  • Be the first to know (CNN advertising slogan)
  • Beat the clock
  • Beer and sandwiches at Number 10
  • Better luck next time
  • Between two stools
  • Bide your time
  • Big time
  • Bits per second
  • Brighton line (Bingo call for number fifty nine)
  • Buy some time
  • Buy time
  • Calendar year (twelve months beginning from the first of January)
  • Call time on
  • Cast the first stone
  • Caught in two minds
  • Caught up in the moment
  • Children, one is one, two is fun, three is a house full
  • Christmas is a time to believe in things you can't see (3M Company Scotch Tape advertising slogan)
  • Chucking out time
  • Clean your clock
  • Clickety click (Bingo call for number sixty six)
  • Clock on
  • Clock watching
  • Close Encounters of the Third Kind (Richard Dreyfuss movie)
  • Complex number (a number containing real and imaginary parts)
  • Crunch time
  • Cushy number
  • Daylight saving time (the adjustment of clocks to provide longer evening daylight)
  • Dead on time
  • Desmond Tutu (Cockney rhyming slang for Second class degree (2,2))
  • Dickens of a time
  • Do a number on
  • Do hard time (Spend time in a high security prison)
  • Doctor's Orders (Bingo call for number nine)
  • Don't close your eyes for a minute
  • Don't give two hoots
  • Double header (A baseball expression denoting two events held on the same day with the same participants)
  • Double time
  • Droopy drawers (Bingo call for number forty four)
  • Eating for two
  • Employee Number 8 (Nickname of Antoine Walker)
  • Equal pay, equal time (Bulova Watches advertising slogan)
  • Every stick has two ends
  • Every time a bell rings, an angel gets it's wings (line from It's A Wonderful Life)
  • Every time a good time (McDonald's advertising slogan)
  • Face palm moment
  • Face that could stop a clock
  • Face time
  • First Among Equals (Jeffrey Archer book)
  • First Slip (field position in the game of cricket)
  • First World (the indutrialised affluent and wealthy nations)
  • First World problem (a relatively trivial problem only affecting the affluent)
  • First among equals (the most senior person in a group of equal rank)
  • First amongst equals
  • First and foremost
  • First blood
  • First came to fame
  • First catch your hare
  • First come first served
  • First comes love, then comes marriage
  • First contact
  • First cut
  • First flush
  • First footing (making a round of visits at New Year)
  • First impressions last
  • First light
  • First past the post
  • First rate
  • First relationships last (First National Bank of Chicago advertising slogan)
  • First responder (the member of the emergency services to arrive at a disaster)
  • First strike
  • First thing
  • First things first
  • First time caller
  • First to market
  • First up
  • First with the Hits (Mercury Records advertising slogan)
  • First, do no harm
  • For the time being
  • Forever is a long time
  • Four by two
  • From the beginning of time
  • From this moment on
  • From time immemorial
  • From time to time
  • Game of two halves
  • Game time
  • Geological time
  • Get to first base
  • Get to first base with
  • Get to second base
  • Get your retaliation in first
  • Gift of time
  • Go down for the third time
  • Good Time, Great Taste, That's Why This is My Place (McDonald's advertising slogan)
  • Good time charlie
  • Good time girl
  • Goody two shoes
  • Got no time for
  • Got your number
  • Half a jiffy
  • Half a second
  • Handbrake turn (180 degree turn in a car by locking the back wheels)
  • Hang on a minute
  • Hang time
  • Hasn't got two cents to rub together
  • Have a second string to your bow have
  • Have you ever had a bad time in Levi's? (Levi's Jeans advertising slogan)
  • Head first
  • Hello big boy, would you like a nice time?
  • Hello, one two three testing
  • Hickory dickory dock the mouse ran up the clock (line from nursery rhyme)
  • High old time
  • High season (the most popular time to visit a resort or attraction - when prices are highest)
  • High time
  • Hold on a minute
  • I Second That Emotion (Smokey Robinson song)
  • I've got your number
  • Idea whose time has come
  • If at first you don't succeed try, try and try again
  • If you ain't first, you're last
  • If you can't do the time, don't do the crime
  • If you can't ride two horses at once, you shouldn't be in the circus
  • If you change your mind, I'm the first in line (ABBA lyric)
  • If you've got the time, we've got the beer (Miller Beer advertising slogan)
  • In a jiffy
  • In good time
  • In less than no time
  • In no time flat
  • In real time
  • In record time
  • In the fullness of time
  • In the heat of the moment
  • In the nick of time
  • In the right place at the right time
  • In two minds
  • In two shakes
  • In two shakes of a lamb's tail
  • In your own time
  • Is this a great time or what? (MCI Communications advertising slogan)
  • It doesn't take a minute to bag it and bin it (UK public advertisement advertising slogan)
  • It takes two hands to hold a Whopper (Burger King advertising slogan)
  • It takes two to tango
  • It was the best of times: it was the worst of times (the opening line of A Tale Of Two Cities)
  • It's Miller time! (Miller High Life advertising slogan)
  • It's a Good Time for the Great Taste of mcdonald's (McDonald's advertising slogan)
  • It's about time
  • It's high time
  • It's payback time
  • It's that Condor moment (Condor tobacco advertising slogan)
  • It's time for U (UPN advertising slogan)
  • It's time to call it a day
  • It's time to fly (United Airlines advertising slogan)
  • Just a question of time
  • Just in time
  • Just slightly ahead of our time (Panasonic advertising slogan)
  • Keep time with
  • Key of the door (Bingo call for number twenty one)
  • Kill time
  • Kill time until time kills you
  • Kill two birds with one stone
  • La Belle Epoque (the golden age or beautiful era preceding the First World War)
  • Ladies first
  • Lapse of time
  • Last in first out
  • Last minute
  • Last time of asking
  • Laugh a minute
  • Leadoff hitter (A baseball expression denoting the player who bats first)
  • Legs eleven (Bingo call for number eleven)
  • Like a dog with two dicks
  • Like a dog with two tails
  • Little black number
  • Live for the moment
  • Living on borrowed time
  • Local time
  • Long time no see
  • Look after number one
  • Look out for number one
  • Lose track of time
  • Love In The Time Of Cholera
  • Love Potion Number Nine (Leiber and Stoller song)
  • Love at first sight
  • Lucky number seven
  • Make first base
  • Make good time
  • Make up for lost time
  • Man of the moment
  • March of time
  • Marilyn Monroe moment
  • Mark time
  • Matter of time
  • Me first
  • Meat and two veg
  • Miller Time (Nickname of Reggie Miller)
  • Mind the time
  • My precious (The Lord of the Rings: Two Towers)
  • Name, rank, and serial number
  • Never a dull moment
  • New York minute
  • No man can serve two masters
  • Not two pennies to rub together
  • Now is the time for all good men to come to the aid of the party
  • Number 10 Downing Street (address of the British Prime Minister)
  • Number Six (Pseudonym of Peter Smith The Prisoner (Patrick McGoohan))
  • Number crunching
  • Number one
  • Number one concubine (name given to the partner of Bertrand Russell)
  • Number one son
  • Number two
  • Number unobtainable
  • Of the first water
  • Old before your time
  • On second thoughts
  • On the spur of the moment
  • Once Upon A Time In America (Robert De Niro movie)
  • Once upon a time
  • One fall, two submissions or a knockout
  • One for sorrow, two for mirth, three for a wedding, four for a birth
  • One leg at a time (Dockers advertising slogan)
  • One minute to midnight
  • One moment please
  • One more time
  • One second
  • One step at a time
  • One step forward, two steps back
  • One two buckle my shoe (line from nursery rhyme)
  • One two many and you might turn Bertie (Bassett's Liquorice Allsorts advertising slogan)
  • One two three o'clock four o'clock rock
  • Only a matter of time
  • Only time will tell
  • Opening night (the first night of a theatrical performance)
  • Out Of Time (Rolling Stones song)
  • Party time
  • Pass the time of day
  • Peace in our time
  • Pinch, punch, first of the month
  • Play for time
  • Play second fiddle
  • Prime time
  • Procrastination is the thief of time
  • Public Enemy Number One (Nickname of John Dillinger)
  • Put the clock back
  • Put two and two together
  • Quality time
  • Race against the clock
  • Race against time
  • Richard the Third (Cockney rhyming slang for turd)
  • Rock Around The Clock (Bill Haley song)
  • Sack time
  • Safety first
  • Same time tomorrow? (Diet Pepsi advertising slogan)
  • Say kids, what time is it? (A catchphrase from Howdy Doody Show)
  • Screen time
  • Second banana
  • Second best
  • Second bite of the cherry
  • Second childhood
  • Second class
  • Second degree burns
  • Second generation
  • Second nature
  • Second sight
  • Second slip (field position in the game of cricket)
  • Second storey man
  • Second thoughts
  • Second thoughts are best
  • Second to none
  • Second wind
  • Secondhand rose
  • Seconds count
  • Seconds out
  • Senior moment
  • Serve your time
  • Shoot first, ask questions later
  • Since time immemorial
  • Six and two threes
  • Six, two and even
  • Snakes alive (Bingo call for number fifty five)
  • So easy to use, no wonder it's number one (AOL advertising slogan)
  • So many books, so little time (Frank Zappa quotation)
  • Some other time
  • Spend more time with my family
  • Squeaky bum time
  • Stand on your own two feet
  • Steal third base
  • Stop the clock, I've found a clue
  • Summer time (the time adopted during the summer in advance of the standard time)
  • Sweet as the moment when the pod went 'pop' (Birds Eye Peas advertising slogan)
  • Table for two
  • Take a moment
  • Take down a peg or two
  • Take one day at a time
  • Take time out
  • Take two aspirin and call me in the morning
  • Tea for two
  • Teach someone a thing or two
  • That's the second biggest ... I've ever seen! (A catchphrase from Get Smart)
  • The Adventure of the Second Stain (Sherlock Holmes story)
  • The Best Second Banana in the Business (Nickname of Art Carney)
  • The First Cut Is The Deepest (Rod Stewart song)
  • The First Garden City Of The World (Nickname of Letchworth England)
  • The First Lady of Television (Nickname of Faye Emerson)
  • The First State (Nickname of the US state of Delaware)
  • The Last Time (Rolling Stones song)
  • The Last Time I Saw Paris (Elizabeth Taylor movie)
  • The Man With Two Brains (Steve Martin movie)
  • The Third Man (Orson Welles movie)
  • The Third Rome (Nickname of Moscow Russia)
  • The Time (Dirty Bit) (The Black Eyed Peas song)
  • The animals went in two by two
  • The beast with two backs
  • The biological clock is ticking
  • The clock is ticking
  • The first network for men (Spike TV advertising slogan)
  • The first time is never the best (Campari advertising slogan)
  • The land that time forgot
  • The lesser of two evils
  • The magic number
  • The mainspring in a Bulova is made to last 256 years or 146 leather straps - whichever comes first (Bulova Watches advertising slogan)
  • The moment of truth
  • The nth degree
  • The right place at the wrong time
  • The sands of time
  • The square on the hypotenuse equals the sum of the squares on the other two sides
  • The third age
  • The time has come the walrus said to talk of many things
  • The time has come, the Walrus said, to talk of many things, Carroll)
  • There are two sides to every question
  • There's a time and a place for everything
  • There's no time like the present
  • There's one born every minute
  • Thin time of it
  • Third Slip (field position in the game of cricket)
  • Third degree
  • Third man (field position in the game of cricket)
  • Third time lucky
  • Third time's a charm
  • Third way
  • This tape will self-destruct in five seconds (A catchphrase from Mission Impossible)
  • This time it's personal (Jaws The Revenge advertising tagline)
  • This time next year we will be millionaires (A catchphrase from Only Fools And Horses)
  • Till the end of time
  • Time Out Of Mind (Bob Dylan song)
  • Time after time
  • Time and again
  • Time and tide wait for no man
  • Time and time again
  • Time flies
  • Time flies like an arrow. Fruit flies like a banana (Groucho Marx line)
  • Time flies when you are having fun

Related

  • Bits per second
  • Desmond Tutu (Cockney rhyming slang for Second class degree (2,2))
  • Get to second base
  • Half a second
  • Have a second string to your bow have
  • I Second That Emotion (Smokey Robinson song)
  • On second thoughts
  • One second
  • Play second fiddle
  • Second banana
  • Second best
  • Second bite of the cherry
  • Second childhood
  • Second class
  • Second degree burns
  • Second generation
  • Second nature
  • Second sight
  • Second slip (field position in the game of cricket)
  • Second storey man
  • Second thoughts
  • Second thoughts are best
  • Second to none
  • Second wind
  • That's the second biggest ... I've ever seen! (A catchphrase from Get Smart)
  • The Adventure of the Second Stain (Sherlock Holmes story)
  • The Best Second Banana in the Business (Nickname of Art Carney)
  • You don't get a second chance at a first impression