Twain Phrases

Phrases

• A Bicycle Built For Two (Victorian popular song)
• A Tale Of Two Cities (Charles Dickens book)
• A bird in the hand is worth two in the bush
• A foot in both camps
• A plague on both your houses
• A two pipe problem
• All I Want For Christmas Is My Two Front Teeth (Spike Jones song)
• All over him like a cheap suit
• And it's goodnight from, me, and it's goodnight from him (A catchphrase from The Two Ronnies)
• And never the twain shall meet
• 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
• At a price to suit your pocket
• Between two stools
• Big Mac (Nickname of baseball player Mark McGwire)
• Black mark
• Both oars in the water
• Both sides of the desk
• Bunny suit (Canadian military slang term for a cbrn (chemical, biological, radiological, nuclear))
• Burn the candle at both ends
• Caught in two minds
• Cauliflower is nothing but cabbage with a college education (Mark Twain quotation)
• Children, one is one, two is fun, three is a house full
• Cloak and dagger
• Close to the mark
• Come On Over (Shania Twain album)
• Come On Over (Shania Twain song)
• Cut your coat to suit your cloth
• Dance With The One That Brought You (Shania Twain song)
• Deep Throat (Nickname of Mark Felt)
• Don't give two hoots
• Double denim (denim jeans worn with a denim shirt or jacket)
• Double header (A baseball expression denoting two events held on the same day with the same participants)
• Eating for two
• Every Step Of The Way (Mark Ballas song)
• Every stick has two ends
• Follow suit
• Four by two
• Full Metal Jacket (Stanley Kubrick movie)
• Game of two halves
• Get off the mark
• Goody two shoes
• Happy sad (a bitterweet feeling combining both happiness and sadness)
• Hasn't got two cents to rub together
• Have it both ways
• Have your bread buttered on both sides
• He doesn't have both oars in the water
• Hello, one two three testing
• High visibility jacket (reflective coat worn to be easily seen)
• I'm Gonna Love Her For The Both Of Us (Meatloaf song)
• If you can't ride two horses at once, you shouldn't be in the circus
• If you tell the truth, you don't have to remember anything (Mark Twain quotation)
• In two minds
• In two shakes
• In two shakes of a lamb's tail
• In your birthday suit
• 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)
• Jump in with both feet
• Kill two birds with one stone
• Like a dog with two dicks
• Like a dog with two tails
• Look both ways
• Mad Dog (Nickname of Mark Madsen)
• Make your mark
• Mark down
• Mark my words
• Mark time
• Mark your card
• Meat and two veg
• My precious (The Lord of the Rings: Two Towers)
• Never put off until tomorrow what you can do the day after tomorrow (Mark Twain quotation)
• Never the twain shall meet
• No Jacket Required (Phil Collins album)
• No man can serve two masters
• Not two pennies to rub together
• Number two
• Off the mark
• On the mark
• On your mark, get set, go

• One fall, two submissions or a knockout
• One for sorrow, two for mirth, three for a wedding, four for a birth
• 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
• Penguin suit
• Play both ends against the middle
• Pox on both your houses
• Put two and two together
• Quick off the mark
• Royal flush (in poker - a hand including a ten jack queen king and ace of the same suit)
• Six and two threes
• Six, two and even
• Stand on your own two feet
• Step up to the mark (mark yourself ready to take responsibility)
• Suit up
• Suit you, sir (A catchphrase from The Fast Show)
• Suit yourself
• Swing both ways
• Table for two
• Take down a peg or two
• Take two aspirin and call me in the morning
• Tea for two
• Teach someone a thing or two
• That's going to leave a mark
• The Man With Two Brains (Steve Martin movie)
• The Woman In Me (Shania Twain album)
• The animals went in two by two
• The beast with two backs
• The best of both worlds
• The lesser of two evils
• The man who does not read has no advantage over the man who cannot read (Mark Twain quotation)
• The mark of Cain
• The mark of a man (Old Spice aftershave advertising slogan)
• The mark of the Beast
• The reports of my death are greatly exaggerated
• The square on the hypotenuse equals the sum of the squares on the other two sides
• There are two sides to every question
• Today the discriminating family finds it absolutely necessary to own two or more motor cars (Buick advertising slogan)
• Two Jags (Nickname of John Prescott)
• Two Out Of Three Ain't Bad (Meatloaf song)
• Two Ton Tessa
• Two all beef patties special sauce lettuce cheese pickles onions on a sesame seed bun (McDonald's advertising slogan)
• Two and eight (Cockney rhyming slang for state)
• Two and two make five
• Two and two make four
• Two blacks don't make a white
• Two bricks short of a load
• Two buck chuck
• Two can play at that game
• Two cents worth
• Two faced
• Two fat ladies (Bingo call for number eighty eight)
• Two fisted
• Two for joy (Magpie nursery rhyme)
• Two for me, none for you! (Twix advertising slogan)
• Two for one
• Two four six eight who do we appreciate (cheerleader chant)
• Two heads are better than one
• Two irons in the fire
• Two left feet
• Two little dicky birds sitting on a wall, one named Peter, one named Paul (line from nursery rhyme)
• Two little ducks (Bingo call for number twenty two)
• Two of a kind
• Two on the aisle
• Two pot screamer
• Two sandwiches short of a picnic
• Two shakes of a lamb's tail
• Two steps forward and one step back
• Two strings to his bow
• Two timing
• Two turtle doves (line from A Partridge In A Pear Tree)
• Two wrongs don't make a right
• Two's company three's a crowd
• Up to the mark
• Us versus them (denoting the emnity between two opposing groups)
• Way off the mark
• We're number two. We try harder (Avis Rent-a-Car advertising slogan)
• Whistle and flute (Cockney rhyming slang for suit)
• Winning is the mark of the Rebel (Rebel Sport advertising slogan)
• With both barrels
• Work both sides of the street
• Zoot suit

Related

• And never the twain shall meet
• Cauliflower is nothing but cabbage with a college education (Mark Twain quotation)
• Come On Over (Shania Twain album)
• Come On Over (Shania Twain song)
• Dance With The One That Brought You (Shania Twain song)
• If you tell the truth, you don't have to remember anything (Mark Twain quotation)
• Never put off until tomorrow what you can do the day after tomorrow (Mark Twain quotation)
• Never the twain shall meet
• The Woman In Me (Shania Twain album)
• The man who does not read has no advantage over the man who cannot read (Mark Twain quotation)