Twopence 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 penny saved is a penny earned
• 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
• Bad penny
• Between two stools
• Caught in two minds
• Children, one is one, two is fun, three is a house full
• Cost a pretty penny
• Cut off without a penny
• Don't give two hoots
• Double header (A baseball expression denoting two events held on the same day with the same participants)
• Earn an honest penny
• Eating for two
• Every stick has two ends
• Four by two
• Game of two halves
• Goody two shoes
• Half a pound of tuppenny rice, half a pound of treacle (line from nursery rhyme)
• 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 Penny Lane there is a barber showing photographs (Beatles song lyric)
• In for a penny in for a pound
• 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 a penny to bless yourself with,
• 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
• Penny Lane (Beatles song)
• Penny Lane is in my ears and in my eyes (Beatles song lyric)
• Penny for your thoughts
• Penny pinching
• Penny wise, pound foolish
• Pretty penny

• Put two and two together
• See a penny and pick it up
• Six and two threes
• Six, two and even
• Spend a penny
• Stand on your own two feet
• Table for two
• Take care of the pence and the pounds will take care of themselves
• Take down a peg or two
• Take two aspirin and call me in the morning
• Tea for two
• Teach someone a thing or two
• Ten a penny
• 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 penny drops
• 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)