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460 phrases and expressions related to "single".

Phrases

  • ...Baby One More Time (Britney Spears album and song)
  • A Double Diamond works wonders (Double Diamond advertising slogan)
  • A bone to pick
  • A chain is only as strong as its weakest link
  • A double date
  • A great one for
  • A journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step
  • A woman is only a woman but a good cigar is a smoke
  • A woman's right to choose
  • All children, except one, grow up (the opening line of Peter Pan)
  • All for one and one for all
  • All one to me
  • Always pick Flowers (Flowers Fine Ales advertising slogan)
  • An army of one (United States Army advertising slogan)
  • And then there was one
  • Another One Bites The Dust (Queen song)
  • Art is going one step too far
  • As busy as a one armed paper hanger
  • As busy as a one legged arse kicker
  • As one door closes, another one opens
  • Ask the Man who Owns One (Packard advertising slogan)
  • At one another's throats
  • At one fell swoop
  • At the double
  • Atone for one's sins
  • Avert one's eyes
  • Avert one's gaze
  • Bachelor gay
  • Bachelor girl
  • Bachelor pad
  • Back to square one
  • Bare one's teeth
  • Beauty is only skin deep
  • Bent double
  • Betcha can't eat just one (Lay's potato chips advertising slogan)
  • Bite the big one
  • Bone to pick with you
  • Breathe one's last
  • Buy one, get one free
  • Cherry pick
  • Children, one is one, two is fun, three is a house full
  • Choose your weapon
  • Choosy Moms choose Jif (Jif Peanut Butter advertising slogan)
  • Chopsticks are one of the reasons the Chinese never invented custard (Spike Milligan line)
  • Colour one's view
  • Cop one
  • Dance With The One That Brought You (Shania Twain song)
  • Day one
  • Does she or doesn't she? Only her hairdresser knows for sure (Clairol advertising slogan)
  • Doff one's cap
  • Don't put all your eggs in one basket
  • Don't vote; it only encourages them (Anarchist political slogan)
  • Double Dutch
  • Double Indemnity (Billy Wilder movie)
  • Double O Seven
  • Double act
  • Double back
  • Double blind test
  • Double check
  • Double click
  • Double coverage
  • Double cross
  • Double denim (denim jeans worn with a denim shirt or jacket)
  • Double digits
  • Double dip
  • Double dip recession
  • Double dipping (Taking a second dip into food using an item that one has already put into ones mouth)
  • Double down
  • Double duty
  • Double edged sword
  • Double entendre
  • Double entry book-keeping
  • Double exposure
  • Double header (A baseball expression denoting two events held on the same day with the same participants)
  • Double or nothing
  • Double or quits
  • Double quick
  • Double standard
  • Double take
  • Double time
  • Double trouble
  • Double up
  • Double whammy
  • Double your pleasure, double your fun (Wrigley's Doublemint Chewing Gum advertising slogan)
  • Double, double toil and trouble, fire burn and cauldron bubble
  • Double-dip recession (A financial recession with two low points)
  • Down it in one
  • Down to the last out (A baseball expression meaning to have one last chance)
  • Down to the pub for a quick one
  • Drink To Me Only With Thine Eyes (Ben Jonson poem and Victorian song)
  • Dual income no kids
  • Eleanor Rigby (Beatles song)
  • Every one a winner
  • Exercise one's discretion
  • Exert one's authority
  • Face that only a mother could love
  • False jeopardy (plot device in TV melodramas where danger is threatened only for it to be found to be a false alarm)
  • Feed one's mind
  • First World problem (a relatively trivial problem only affecting the affluent)
  • Five, six, pick up sticks (line from nursery rhyme)
  • For No One (Beatles song)
  • For Your Eyes Only (James Bond movie Roger Moore)
  • For your eyes only
  • Fourpenny one
  • From day one
  • Genius is one percent inspiration and 99 percent perspiration (Thomas Edison quotation)
  • Give one's eye teeth for
  • Give one's right arm for
  • Go off on one
  • Go one better
  • God Only Knows (Beach Boys song)
  • Got it in one
  • Have a bone to pick
  • Have one on me
  • He's one sick puppy
  • Hello, one two three testing
  • Here's one I prepared earlier (A catchphrase from Blue Peter)
  • Here's one in your eye
  • Hiyo Silver away (A catchphrase from The Lone Ranger)
  • Hole in one
  • Home alone
  • How does it feel to be one of the beautiful people? (Beatles song lyric)
  • I am the only gay in the village (A catchphrase from Little Britain)
  • I don't believe it (A catchphrase from Victor Meldrew, One Foot In The Grave)
  • I have not slept one wink
  • I took my harp to the party but no one asked me to play
  • I want that one (A catchphrase from Little Britain)
  • I want to be alone (A catchphrase from Grand Hotel)
  • I'm Only Sleeping (The Beatles song)
  • I'm only doing my job
  • I'm only here for the beer (Double Diamond advertising slogan)
  • I'm only human
  • If I've only one life, let me live it as a blonde! (Clairol Hair Colouring advertising slogan)
  • 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 only
  • If only everything in life was as reliable as a Volkswagen (Volkswagen advertising slogan)
  • In name only
  • In one ear and out the other
  • In one piece
  • In the kingdom of the blind the one eyed man is king
  • In words of one syllable
  • Indian file
  • Individual streak
  • It Happened One Night (Clark Gable movie)
  • It can only be Heineken (Heineken advertising slogan)
  • 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 only hurts when I laugh
  • It takes 40 dumb animals to make a fur coat, but only one to wear it
  • It takes one to know one
  • It was just one of those things
  • It's Only Rock And Roll, But I Like It (Rolling Stones song)
  • It's an ill wind that blows no one any good
  • It's only a game
  • It's only natural
  • Just like a chocolate milkshake, only crunchy (Coco Pops advertising slogan)
  • Just one more thing (A catchphrase from Columbo)
  • Just one of those days
  • Ke-mo sah-bee (A catchphrase from Tonto In The Lone Ranger)
  • Kemo Sabe (Nickname of The Lone Ranger (Clayton Moore))
  • Key of the door (Bingo call for number twenty one)
  • Kill two birds with one stone
  • Knit one purl one
  • Last one there is a rotten egg
  • Laugh and the world laughs with you, weep and, you weep alone
  • Launch one's lunch
  • Leave well enough alone
  • Lend one's name
  • Let alone
  • Let me make one thing perfectly clear
  • Let one go
  • Let one thousand flowers bloom
  • Let well alone
  • Life is just one damned thing after another
  • Listen I will say zis only wunce (A catchphrase from Allo Allo)
  • Look after number one
  • Look out for number one
  • Lovely jubbly (A catchphrase from Only Fools and Horses)
  • Make mine a double
  • Make one's hackles rise
  • Man does not live by bread alone
  • Massage one's ego
  • Midnight double feature
  • Minority of one
  • Mirror mirror on the all who is the fairest one of all?
  • More than one string to your bow
  • My one regret in life is that I am not someone else (Woody Allen line)
  • Near to one's heart
  • Neither one thing nor the other
  • Nice one Cyril (A catchphrase from Wonderloaf)
  • No One (Alicia Keys song)
  • No one can make you feel inferior without your consent (Eleanor Roosevelt quotation)
  • No one expects the Spanish Inquisition (A catchphrase from Monty Python's Flying Circus)
  • No one likes us, we don't care (A catchphrase from Millwall football supporters)
  • Not my type (not a person one is attracted to)
  • Not the only pebble on the beach
  • Now There is only one Mars (Mars Chocolate advertising slogan)
  • Number one
  • Number one concubine (name given to the partner of Bertrand Russell)
  • Number one son
  • Odd one out
  • On the double
  • On the one hand
  • On your Pat (Cockney rhyming slang for alone)
  • On your jack (Cockney rhyming slang for alone)
  • On your tod (Cockney rhyming slang for alone)
  • One Cent (Nickname of Anfernee Hardaway)
  • One Dog (Nickname of Lance Johnson)
  • One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (Jack Nicholson movie)
  • One Foot In The Grave (BBC comedy television series)
  • One Hundred Years Of Solitude (Gabriel Garcia Marquez book)
  • One More Cup Of Coffee (Bob Dylan song)
  • One More Night (Maroon 5 song)
  • One Of Us Must Know (Bob Dylan song)
  • One Size (Nickname of Fitz Hall)
  • One Too Many Mornings (Bob Dylan song)
  • One Tough (Nickname of Joaquin Andejar)
  • One and all
  • One and the same
  • One armed bandit
  • One brick short of a load
  • One by one
  • One card for home and abroad (Maestro advertising slogan)
  • One fall, two submissions or a knockout
  • One fine day
  • One foot in the grave
  • One for all and all for one
  • One for sorrow (Magpie nursery rhyme)
  • One for sorrow, two for mirth, three for a wedding, four for a birth
  • One for the book
  • One for the road
  • One good turn deserves another
  • One half of the world does not know how the other half lives
  • One hand tied behind your back
  • One hand washes the other
  • One hell of
  • One horse town
  • One in a billion (McDonald's advertising slogan)
  • One in a million
  • One in the eye
  • One instinctively knows when something is right (Croft Original Sherry advertising slogan)
  • One jump ahead of
  • One law for the rich and another for the poor
  • One leg at a time (Dockers advertising slogan)
  • One liner
  • One man and his dog
  • One man's meat is another man's poison
  • One man's trash is another man's treasure
  • One man: one vote
  • One may as well be hanged for a sheep as for a lamb
  • One minute to midnight
  • One moment please
  • One more time
  • One night stand
  • One night stand investment
  • One of life's little ironies
  • One of the boys
  • One of these days, Alice ... Pow! To the moon! (A catchphrase from The Honeymooners)
  • One off
  • One off the wrist
  • One on one
  • One out, all out
  • One over the eight
  • One ringy-dingy...two ringy-dingies (A catchphrase from Ernestine In Rowan and Martin's Laugh-In)
  • One second
  • One side of the story
  • One size fits all
  • One small step for man, one giant leap for mankind (Neil Armstrong quotation)
  • One smart cookie
  • One sprint many solutions (Sprint advertising slogan)
  • One step ahead
  • One step at a time
  • One step forward, two steps back
  • One stop shop
  • One swallow doesn't make a summer
  • One taste and your stuck on golden flake (Golden Flake Potato Chips advertising slogan)
  • One that Last (Duracell Batteries advertising slogan)
  • One thing leads to another
  • One to one
  • One to remember
  • One toe over the line
  • One track mind
  • One trick pony
  • 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
  • One volunteer is worth ten pressed men
  • One wedding brings another
  • One year's seeds make seven year weeds
  • Only 1 out of 25 men is color blind. The other 24 just dress that way (Mohara Suits advertising slogan)
  • Only A Pawn In Their Game (Bob Dylan song)
  • Only Fools and Horses
  • Only Girl In the World (Rihanna song)
  • Only Love Can Break Your Heart (Neil Young song)
  • Only Nixon could go to China
  • Only Smarties have the answer (Smarties advertising slogan)
  • Only a matter of time
  • Only connect
  • Only fools and horses work
  • Only game in town
  • Only half there
  • Only human
  • Only in America
  • Only in a Jeep (Jeep advertising slogan)
  • Only the best for the Captain's table (Birdseye advertising slogan)
  • Only the brave deserve the fair and the fair deserve JAEGER (Jaeger Sportswear advertising slogan)
  • Only time will tell
  • Only you can prevent forest fires (United States Forest Service advertising slogan)
  • Open the box (A catchphrase from Take Your Pick)
  • Opportunity only knocks once
  • Oranges are not the only fruit
  • P.P.Pick up a Penguin (United Biscuits advertising slogan)
  • Pick a card, any card
  • Pick a fight
  • Pick and choose
  • Pick holes in
  • Pick me up
  • Pick nits
  • Pick of the bunch
  • Pick of the litter
  • Pick off
  • Pick on
  • Pick the bones out of that
  • Pick up the gauntlet
  • Pick up the pieces
  • Pick up the reins
  • Pick up the tab
  • Pick up your marbles and go home
  • Pick your brains
  • Plus one
  • Prepare to want one (Hyundai advertising slogan)
  • Public Enemy Number One (Nickname of John Dillinger)
  • Pull a fast one
  • Put one foot in front of the other
  • Put one over on
  • Quality is job one (Ford Cars advertising slogan)
  • Quick one
  • Rank and file
  • Rolled into one
  • Room for one more inside
  • Route one
  • Scotch and the Single Girl (J&B Scotch advertising slogan)
  • See a penny and pick it up
  • See a pin and pick it up
  • See a pin and pick it up, all the day you'll have good luck; see a pin and let it lie, bad luck you'll have all day
  • Seen one, seen them all
  • Shoot a birdie (score one under par in a golf shot)
  • Single Ladies (Put a Ring on It) (Beyonce song)
  • Single file
  • Single out
  • Single point of contact
  • Single sign-on
  • Six of one and half a dozen of the other
  • Sleep with one eye open
  • Smile and the world smiles with you, cry and you cry alone
  • So easy to use, no wonder it's number one (AOL advertising slogan)
  • So no one told you life was gonna be this way
  • Solo pound
  • Standing room only
  • Still the One (ABC advertising slogan)
  • Stop me and buy one (Wall's Ice Cream advertising slogan)
  • Stop me if you've heard this one
  • Stunt double
  • Take one day at a time
  • Take one for the team
  • Take someone to one side
  • Take your pick
  • Ten one hundred
  • That's a new one on me
  • The Adventure of the Noble Bachelor (Sherlock Holmes story)
  • The Adventure of the Solitary Cyclist (Sherlock Holmes story)
  • The Amazing One (Nickname of Alfredo Amezaga)
  • The Chosen One (Nickname of LeBron James)
  • The Daily Double (Nickname of Dwight Howard)
  • The Great One (Nickname of comedian Jackie Gleason)
  • The Lone Ranger (Pseudonym of John Reid (Clayton Moore))
  • The Lone Star Cobra (Nickname of Donald Curry)
  • The Lone Star State (Nickname of the US state of Texas)
  • The Only Way Is Essex (British reality television series)
  • The Special One (Nickname of football manager Jose Mourinho)
  • The Top Ten
  • The Wild One (Marlon Brando movie)
  • The cheese stands alone
  • The flower of one's youth
  • The lights are on but there's no one at home
  • The longest journey starts with a single step
  • The one and only Wonderbra (Wonderbra advertising slogan)
  • The one and only cereal that comes in the shape of animals (Crispy Critters advertising slogan)
  • The one that got away
  • The one to watch (Channel 7 Australia advertising slogan)
  • The only 'sauce' I dare give Father (Burma Sauce advertising slogan)
  • The only constant is change
  • The only good Indian is a dead Indian
  • The only show in town
  • The only thing we have to fear is fear itself (Political slogan)
  • The only way to fly (Western Airlines advertising slogan)
  • The right one (Martini advertising slogan)
  • The world around one
  • There's more than one way to skin a cat
  • There's not a soul out there, no one to hear my prayer (ABBA lyric)
  • There's one born every minute
  • There's only one
  • They also serve who only stand and wait (from a poem by Milton)
  • This one will run and run
  • This time next year we will be millionaires (A catchphrase from Only Fools And Horses)
  • Tie one on
  • To get one's back up
  • Two for one
  • Two heads are better than one
  • Two little dicky birds sitting on a wall, one named Peter, one named Paul (line from nursery rhyme)
  • Two steps forward and one step back
  • Ugly is only skin-deep (Volkswagen advertising slogan)
  • Unique in All the World (Ford Thunderbird advertising slogan)
  • We pick you up (Enterprise Car Rental advertising slogan)
  • We used to have one of those, but the wheels fell off
  • We're Just One Big Happy Family (Richard Hawley song)
  • We're just one big happy family
  • We're the one (Sky Television advertising slogan)
  • We're tobacco men not medicine men. Old Gold cures just one thing. The World's Best Tobacco (Old Gold Cigarettes advertising slogan)
  • What Makes You Beautiful (One Direction song)
  • What with one thing and another
  • What's in your wallet? (Capital One advertising slogan)
  • When sorrows come, they come not single spies, but in battalions
  • When the oak is before the ash, then you will only get a splash; when the ash
  • While in Europe, pick up an ugly European (Volkswagen advertising slogan)
  • Who was that masked man? (A catchphrase from The Lone Ranger)
  • Why do only fools and horses work?
  • Will no one rid me of this turbulent priest?
  • Win faster (One Brand Group advertising slogan)
  • With one bound he was at her side
  • Work one's fingers to the bone
  • Worth one's weight in gold
  • Wring one's hands
  • You Are My Sunshine, My Only Sunshine (Johnny Cash song)
  • You Only Live Twice (James Bond movie Sean Connery)
  • You are a one
  • You can choose your friends but you can't choose your family
  • You can kiss that one goodbye
  • You know it makes sense (A catchphrase from Only Fools And Horses)
  • You only get one chance to make a first impression
  • You only hurt the one you love
  • You only live once
  • You only live once, but if you do it right, once is enough (Mae West quotation)
  • You were only supposed to blow the bloody doors off! (line from the Michael Caine movie The Italian Job)
  • You'll never walk alone
  • You're never alone with a Strand (Strand Cigarettes advertising slogan)
  • You're only young once
  • You're the One That I Want (John Travolta and Olivia Newton-John song)
  • You, you're the one (McDonald's advertising slogan)
  • Young and sweet, only seventeen (ABBA lyric)
  • Your mission, if you choose to accept it ... (A catchphrase from Mission Impossible)

Related

  • A journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step
  • 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)
  • Scotch and the Single Girl (J&B Scotch advertising slogan)
  • Single Ladies (Put a Ring on It) (Beyonce song)
  • Single file
  • Single out
  • Single point of contact
  • Single sign-on
  • The longest journey starts with a single step
  • When sorrows come, they come not single spies, but in battalions