Twelve Phrases

Phrases

• 11:30, Diet Coke break (Coca Cola advertising slogan)
• Back number
• Baker's dozen
• Beer and sandwiches at Number 10
• Brighton line (Bingo call for number fifty nine)
• Calendar year (twelve months beginning from the first of January)
• Cheaper By The Dozen (Steve Martin movie)
• Clickety click (Bingo call for number sixty six)
• Complex number (a number containing real and imaginary parts)
• Cushy number
• Daily dozen
• Dime a dozen
• Do a number on
• Doctor's Orders (Bingo call for number nine)
• Droopy drawers (Bingo call for number forty four)
• Eleven pipers piping (line from A Partridge In A Pear Tree)
• Eleven secret herbs and spices (claim made for the recipe of Kentucky Fried Chicken)
• Employee Number 8 (Nickname of Antoine Walker)
• Film at eleven
• Got your number
• High Noon (Gary Cooper movie)
• I've got your number
• It was a bright cold day in April, and the clocks were striking thirteen (the opening line of Nineteen Eighty-Four)
• Key of the door (Bingo call for number twenty one)
• Legs eleven (Bingo call for number eleven)
• Little black number
• Look after number one
• Look out for number one
• Love Potion Number Nine (Leiber and Stoller song)
• Lucky number seven
• Morning, noon, and night
• Name, rank, and serial number
• Nine while nine
• Nineteen to the dozen
• 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
• Ocean's Eleven (Brad Pitt / George Clooney movie)
• Ocean's Thirteen (Brad Pitt / George Clooney movie)
• Ocean's Twelve (Brad Pitt / George Clooney movie)
• Public Enemy Number One (Nickname of John Dillinger)
• Rain before seven, fine before eleven
• Six of one and half a dozen of the other
• Snakes alive (Bingo call for number fifty five)
• So easy to use, no wonder it's number one (AOL advertising slogan)
• The magic number
• The stroke of midnight
• These go to eleven (line from the movie This Is Spinal Tap)
• Times without number
• Top of the hour
• Top of the shop (Bingo call for number ninety)
• Twelve drummers drumming (line from A Partridge In A Pear Tree)
• Twelve good men and true
• Two fat ladies (Bingo call for number eighty eight)
• Two little ducks (Bingo call for number twenty two)
• Unlucky for some (Bingo call for number thirteen)
• Was she worth it (Bingo call for number fifty six)
• We're number two. We try harder (Avis Rent-a-Car advertising slogan)