Twice Phrases

Phrases

• A Bicycle Built For Two (Victorian popular song)
• A Double Diamond works wonders (Double Diamond advertising slogan)
• A Tale Of Two Cities (Charles Dickens book)
• A bird in the hand is worth two in the bush
• A double date
• A once in a lifetime opportunity
• A two pipe problem
• All I Want For Christmas Is My Two Front Teeth (Spike Jones song)
• And it's goodnight from, me, and it's goodnight from him (A catchphrase from The Two Ronnies)
• As alike as two peas in a pod
• As cross as two sticks
• As happy as a dog with two tails
• As large as life and twice as handsome
• As thick as two short planks
• At the double
• Bent double
• Between two stools
• Caught in two minds
• Children, one is one, two is fun, three is a house full
• Christmas comes but once a year
• Don't Think Twice It's Alright (Bob Dylan song)
• Don't give two hoots
• 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)
• Eating for two
• Even a blind hog finds an acorn once in a while
• Every stick has two ends
• Fool me once, shame on you, fool me twice, shame on me
• Four by two
• Game of two halves
• Give it a once over
• Goody two shoes
• Hasn't got two cents to rub together
• Hello, one two three testing
• I once had a girl, or should I say, she once had me (The Beatles song lyric)
• I'm only here for the beer (Double Diamond advertising slogan)
• If I've told you once, I've told you a thousand times
• If you can't ride two horses at once, you shouldn't be in the circus
• In two minds
• In two shakes
• In two shakes of a lamb's tail
• 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)
• Just this once
• Kill two birds with one stone
• Large as life and twice as handsome
• Lightning never strikes twice in the same place
• Like a dog with two dicks
• Like a dog with two tails
• Make a list; check it twice
• Make mine a double
• Measure twice, cut once
• Meat and two veg
• Midnight double feature
• My precious (The Lord of the Rings: Two Towers)
• No man can serve two masters
• Not two pennies to rub together

• Number two
• On the double
• Once In A Liftime (Talking Heads' song)
• Once In Royal David's City (Christmas Carol title)
• Once Upon A Time In America (Robert De Niro movie)
• Once a cheater, always a cheater (the notion that cheats never change their ways)
• Once a thief, always a thief
• Once and for all
• Once and future king
• Once bitten, twice shy
• Once driven, forever smitten (Vauxhall Motors advertising slogan)
• Once in a blue moon
• Once in a lifetime
• Once in a while
• Once more unto the breach, dear friends, once more
• Once or twice
• Once removed
• Once upon a time
• Once you pop you can't stop (Pringles advertising slogan)
• 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
• Opportunity never knocks twice
• Opportunity only knocks once
• Put two and two together
• Six and two threes
• Six, two and even
• Stand on your own two feet
• Stunt double
• 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
• The Daily Double (Nickname of Dwight Howard)
• The Man With Two Brains (Steve Martin movie)
• The Postman Always Rings Twice (Jack Nicholson movie)
• The animals went in two by two
• The beast with two backs
• The lesser of two evils
• The square on the hypotenuse equals the sum of the squares on the other two sides
• There are two sides to every question
• Think once, think twice, think bike (UK Public Information Film advertising slogan)
• Think twice
• Today the discriminating family finds it absolutely necessary to own two or more motor cars (Buick advertising slogan)
• Try everything once, except incest and folk dancing (Sir Thomas Beecham quotation)
• 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
• Us versus them (denoting the emnity between two opposing groups)
• We're number two. We try harder (Avis Rent-a-Car advertising slogan)
• You Only Live Twice (James Bond movie Sean Connery)
• You cannot step into the same river twice (philosophical comment by Heraclitus)
• You only live once
• You only live once, but if you do it right, once is enough (Mae West quotation)
• You're only young once

Related

• As large as life and twice as handsome
• Don't Think Twice It's Alright (Bob Dylan song)
• Fool me once, shame on you, fool me twice, shame on me
• Large as life and twice as handsome
• Lightning never strikes twice in the same place
• Make a list; check it twice
• Measure twice, cut once
• Once bitten, twice shy
• Once or twice
• Opportunity never knocks twice
• The Postman Always Rings Twice (Jack Nicholson movie)
• Think once, think twice, think bike (UK Public Information Film advertising slogan)
• Think twice
• You Only Live Twice (James Bond movie Sean Connery)
• You cannot step into the same river twice (philosophical comment by Heraclitus)