Two Phrases

Phrases

• ...Baby One More Time (Britney Spears album and song)
• 2001 A Space Odyssey (Stanley Kubrick movie)
• 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 bridge too far
• A deaf husband and a blind wife are always a happy couple
• A double date
• A great one for
• A step too far
• A two pipe problem
• A volunteer is worth twenty pressed men
• About time too
• All I Want For Christmas Is My Two Front Teeth (Spike Jones song)
• All children, except one, grow up (the opening line of Peter Pan)
• All for one and one for all
• All one to me
• America's Favorite Couple (Nickname of Ozzie and Harriet Nelson)
• An army of one (United States Army advertising slogan)
• And baby makes three
• And it's goodnight from, me, and it's goodnight from him (A catchphrase from The Two Ronnies)
• And never the twain shall meet
• And the next object is (A catchphrase from Twenty Questions)
• And then there was one
• Another One Bites The Dust (Queen song)
• Art is going one step too far
• As alike as two peas in a pod
• As busy as a one armed paper hanger
• As busy as a one legged arse kicker
• As cross as two sticks
• As happy as a dog with two tails
• As large as life and twice as handsome
• As one door closes, another one opens
• As thick as two short planks
• 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
• Back number
• Back to square one
• Bare one's teeth
• Beer and sandwiches at Number 10
• Bent double
• Bet you can't eat three (Shredded Wheat advertising slogan)
• Betcha can't eat just one (Lay's potato chips advertising slogan)
• Between two stools
• Bite the big one
• Bits per second
• Breathe one's last
• Brighton line (Bingo call for number fifty nine)
• Buy one, get one free
• Catch 22 (Joseph Heller book)
• 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
• Chopsticks are one of the reasons the Chinese never invented custard (Spike Milligan line)
• Chuck the deuce
• Clickety click (Bingo call for number sixty six)
• Colour one's view
• Come On Over (Shania Twain album)
• Come On Over (Shania Twain song)
• Come the three corners of the world in arms
• Complex number (a number containing real and imaginary parts)
• Cop one
• Cushy number
• Damn fine coffee (A catchphrase from Twin Peaks)
• Dance With The One That Brought You (Shania Twain song)
• Day one
• Desmond Tutu (Cockney rhyming slang for Second class degree (2,2))
• Deuces wild
• Do a number on
• Doctor's Orders (Bingo call for number nine)
• Doff one's cap
• Don't Think Twice It's Alright (Bob Dylan song)
• Don't give two hoots
• Don't put all your eggs in one basket
• 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
• Droopy drawers (Bingo call for number forty four)
• Dual income no kids
• Eating for two
• Employee Number 8 (Nickname of Antoine Walker)
• Et tu, Brute
• Every one a winner
• Every stick has two ends
• Evil twin
• Exercise one's discretion
• Exert one's authority
• Feed one's mind
• Fish and guests smell after three days
• Fool me once, shame on you, fool me twice, shame on me
• For No One (Beatles song)
• Four and twenty blackbirds baked in a pie (line from nursery rhyme)
• Four by two
• Fourpenny one
• Fresh pair of eyes
• From day one
• Game of two halves
• Genius is one percent inspiration and 99 percent perspiration (Thomas Edison quotation)
• Get to second base
• Give one's eye teeth for
• Give one's right arm for
• Go off on one
• Go one better
• Goody two shoes
• Got it in one
• Got your number
• Great Pair, Says the Bear (Golden Flake Potato Chips advertising slogan)
• Grow a pair
• Had a couple
• Half a second
• Hasn't got two cents to rub together
• Have a second string to your bow have
• 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
• Hole in one
• How does it feel to be one of the beautiful people? (Beatles song lyric)
• I Second That Emotion (Smokey Robinson song)
• 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'm Too Sexy For My Shirt (Right Said Fred song)
• I'm only here for the beer (Double Diamond advertising slogan)
• I've got your number
• If I've only one life, let me live it as a blonde! (Clairol Hair Colouring advertising slogan)
• 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)
• If your friend jumped off a cliff, would you do it too?
• In one ear and out the other
• In one piece
• In the kingdom of the blind the one eyed man is king
• In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life: it goes on (Robert Frost quotation)
• In two minds
• In two shakes
• In two shakes of a lamb's tail
• In words of one syllable
• It Happened One Night (Clark Gable movie)
• It takes 40 dumb animals to make a fur coat, but only one to wear it
• It takes one to know one
• It takes two hands to hold a Whopper (Burger King advertising slogan)
• It takes two to tango
• It was just one of those things
• It was the best of times: it was the worst of times (the opening line of A Tale Of Two Cities)
• It was twenty years ago today Sgt. Pepper taught the band to play (Beatles song lyric)
• It's an ill wind that blows no one any good
• It's never too late
• It's never too late to learn
• It's not too heavy, not too sweet, it's right for you (RC Cola advertising slogan)
• It's too cold to snow
• Joy to the World (Three Dog Night song)
• Just one more thing (A catchphrase from Columbo)
• Just one of those days
• Key of the door (Bingo call for number twenty one)
• Kill two birds with one stone
• Knit one purl one
• Knock Three Times (Tony Orlando and Dawn song)
• Know too much
• Large as life and twice as handsome
• Last one there is a rotten egg
• Launch one's lunch
• Legs eleven (Bingo call for number eleven)
• Lend one's name
• Let me make one thing perfectly clear
• Let one go
• Let one thousand flowers bloom
• Life is full of misery, loneliness, and suffering - and it's all over much too soon (Woody Allen line)
• Life is just one damned thing after another
• Life's too short
• Lightning never strikes twice in the same place
• Like a dog with two dicks
• Like a dog with two tails
• Line is full of misery and lonliness and it's over much too soon (Woody Allen line)
• Little Deuce Coupe (Beach Boys song)
• Little black number
• Look after number one
• Look out for number one
• Love Potion Number Nine (Leiber and Stoller song)
• Lucky number seven
• Make a list; check it twice
• Make mine a double
• Make one's hackles rise
• Massage one's ego
• Measure twice, cut once
• Meat and two veg
• 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)
• My precious (The Lord of the Rings: Two Towers)
• Name, rank, and serial number
• Near to one's heart
• Neither one thing nor the other
• Never put off until tomorrow what you can do the day after tomorrow (Mark Twain quotation)
• Never the twain shall meet
• Nice one Cyril (A catchphrase from Wonderloaf)
• Nice pair of legs
• No One (Alicia Keys song)
• No challenge too great
• No job too small
• No man can serve two masters
• 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)
• None too pleased
• None too shabby
• Not my type (not a person one is attracted to)
• Not to put too fine a point on it
• Not too heavy, not too light, its just right! (Kelloggs advertising slogan)
• Not two pennies to rub together
• Now There is only one Mars (Mars Chocolate advertising slogan)
• 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
• Odd one out
• On second thoughts
• On the double
• On the one hand
• Once bitten, twice shy
• Once or twice
• 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
• Opportunity never knocks twice
• Outside of a dog, a book is man's best friend. Inside of a dog it's too dark to read (Groucho Marx line)
• Pair off
• Play second fiddle
• 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
• Put two and two together
• Quality is job one (Ford Cars advertising slogan)
• Quick one
• Rolled into one
• Room for one more inside
• Route one
• Safe pair of hands
• 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
• Seen one, seen them all
• Shoot a birdie (score one under par in a golf shot)
• Show a clean pair of heels
• Silver wedding (a celebration of twenty-five years of marriage)
• Six and two threes
• Six of one and half a dozen of the other
• Six, two and even
• Sleep with one eye open
• Snake eyes
• Snakes alive (Bingo call for number fifty five)
• So easy to use, no wonder it's number one (AOL advertising slogan)
• So no one told you life was gonna be this way
• Stand on your own two feet
• 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
• Table for two
• Take down a peg or two
• Take one day at a time
• Take one for the team
• Take someone to one side
• Take two aspirin and call me in the morning
• Tea for two
• Teach someone a thing or two
• Ten one hundred
• That's a new one on me
• That's the second biggest ... I've ever seen! (A catchphrase from Get Smart)
• The Adventure of the Second Stain (Sherlock Holmes story)
• The Adventure of the Three Gables (Sherlock Holmes story)
• The Adventure of the Three Garridebs (Sherlock Holmes story)
• The Adventure of the Three Students (Sherlock Holmes story)
• The Amazing One (Nickname of Alfredo Amezaga)
• The Best Second Banana in the Business (Nickname of Art Carney)
• The Chosen One (Nickname of LeBron James)
• The Daily Double (Nickname of Dwight Howard)
• The Dynamic Duo
• The English summer: three fine days and a thunderstorm
• The Great One (Nickname of comedian Jackie Gleason)
• The Man Who Knew Too Much (Peter Lorre / Alfred Hitchcock movie)
• The Man With Two Brains (Steve Martin movie)
• The Odd Couple (Jack Lemmon / Walter Matthau movie)
• The Postman Always Rings Twice (Jack Nicholson movie)
• The Special One (Nickname of football manager Jose Mourinho)
• The Three Musketeers (Alexandre Dumas book)
• The Twin Cities (Nickname of Minneapolis/St. Paul Minnesota)
• The Wild One (Marlon Brando movie)
• The Woman In Me (Shania Twain album)
• The animals went in two by two
• The beast with two backs
• The flower of one's youth
• The lady doth protest too much, methinks (from Hamlet by Shakespeare)
• The lesser of two evils
• The lights are on but there's no one at home
• The magic number
• The man who does not read has no advantage over the man who cannot read (Mark Twain quotation)
• 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 right one (Martini advertising slogan)
• The square on the hypotenuse equals the sum of the squares on the other two sides
• The world around one
• There are three kinds of lies: lies, damnable lies, and statistics
• There are two sides to every question
• 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
• There's too much arson about here
• Think once, think twice, think bike (UK Public Information Film advertising slogan)
• Think twice
• This one will run and run
• This too shall pass
• Three Finger (Nickname of Mordecai Brown)
• Three French hens (line from A Partridge In A Pear Tree)
• Three Mile Lyle (Nickname of Lyle Alzado)
• Three blind mice, see how they run (line from nursery rhyme)
• Three dog night
• Three figures
• Three for a girl (Magpie nursery rhyme)
• Three letter acronym
• Three line whip
• Three on a match
• Three score and ten
• Three sheets to the wind
• Three strikes and you are out
• Three wise men
• Three's a charm
• Three's a crowd
• Three, four, knock at the door (line from nursery rhyme)
• Tie one on
• Times without number
• To get one's back up
• Today the discriminating family finds it absolutely necessary to own two or more motor cars (Buick advertising slogan)
• Too Busy Thinking About My Baby (Marvin Gaye song)
• Too Easy (Nickname of Baron Davis)
• Too Much Monkey Business (Chuck Berry song)
• Too Tall (Nickname of Ed Jones)
• Too big for your boots
• Too big for your britches
• Too clever by half
• Too close for comfort
• Too close to call
• Too good to be true
• Too good to hurry mints (Murray Mints advertising slogan)
• Too hot to handle
• Too little, too late
• Too many chiefs and not enough indians
• Too many cooks spoil the broth
• Too many irons in the fire
• Too much information
• Too much of a good thing
• Too much of a good thing is wonderful
• Too much too soon
• Too pooped to pop
• Too posh to push
• Too posh to wash
• Top of the shop (Bingo call for number ninety)
• Triple play (A baseball expression denoting the act of making three outs during the same play)
• Twenty Miles Of Bad Road (The Janeys song)
• Twenty thousand leagues under the sea
• Twenty three skidoo
• Twenty twenty vision
• 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
• Two-ton Tessie (Nickname of Tessie O'Shea)
• Unlucky for some (Bingo call for number thirteen)
• Us versus them (denoting the emnity between two opposing groups)
• Was she worth it (Bingo call for number fifty six)
• We used to have one of those, but the wheels fell off
• We're A Couple Of Swells (Judy Garland song)
• We're Just One Big Happy Family (Richard Hawley song)
• We're a couple of swells
• We're just one big happy family
• We're number two. We try harder (Avis Rent-a-Car advertising slogan)
• 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 I tell you three times is true
• What Makes You Beautiful (One Direction song)
• What with one thing and another
• What's in your wallet? (Capital One advertising slogan)
• When shall we three meet again?
• Which twin has the Toni? (Toni advertising slogan)
• 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 Only Live Twice (James Bond movie Sean Connery)
• You are a one
• You are never too old to learn
• You can have too much of a good thing
• You can kiss that one goodbye
• You can leave in a huff. If that's too soon, you can leave in a minute and a huff (Groucho Marx line)
• You can't be too careful
• You can't have your cake and eat it too
• You cannot step into the same river twice (philosophical comment by Heraclitus)
• You don't get a second chance at a first impression
• You only get one chance to make a first impression
• You only hurt the one you love
• You too can have a body like mine (Charles Atlas advertising slogan)
• You'll Wike it too (Wike Farms Cheese advertising slogan)
• You're the One That I Want (John Travolta and Olivia Newton-John song)
• You, you're the one (McDonald's advertising slogan)

Related

• 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 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 thick as two short planks
• Between two stools
• Caught in two minds
• Children, one is one, two is fun, three is a house full
• Don't give two hoots
• Double header (A baseball expression denoting two events held on the same day with the same participants)
• Eating for two
• Every stick has two ends
• Four by two
• Game of two halves
• Goody two shoes
• Hasn't got two cents to rub together
• Hello, one two three testing
• 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)
• Kill two birds with one stone
• Like a dog with two dicks
• Like a dog with two tails
• Meat and two veg
• My precious (The Lord of the Rings: Two Towers)
• No man can serve two masters
• Not two pennies to rub together
• Number two
• 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
• Put two and two together
• Six and two threes
• Six, two and even
• Stand on your own two feet
• 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 Man With Two Brains (Steve Martin 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
• 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
• Us versus them (denoting the emnity between two opposing groups)
• We're number two. We try harder (Avis Rent-a-Car advertising slogan)