ABSTRACT
This collection will appeal to everyone who has ever wondered about the origin of phrases like "all part of life's rich pattern" and "long time no see". It covers a wide range of catch phrases in current use in all parts of the English-speaking world. Most entries are drawn from the second edition of Eric Partridge's Dictionary of Catch Phrases (second edition, edited by Paul Beale), but have been completely rewritten in the light of recent research, and there are many additions. Catch Phrases include: close your eyes and think of England! have I got news for you! ... refreshes the parts that other ... cannot reach some mothers do'ave'em! you are awful, but I like you.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
letter 1|7 pages
A
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Abyssinia!
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Accidentally on purpose
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Accidents will happen in the best-regulated families
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According to plan
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Act to follow, a hard (or tough)
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Act your age!
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Against my religion, it's
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Age before beauty
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Age of miracles is not past, the
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Aha, me proud beauty!
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Ain't nobody here but us chickens! (, there)
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Ain't you got no homes to go to?
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Alaska
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Alive and well and living in…
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All ashore that's (or as is) going ashore!
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All bitter and twisted
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All chiefs and no Indians
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All clever stuff
entry |1 pages
All contributions gratefully received (, however small)
entry |1 pages
All day!
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All done with mirrors (, it's)
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All dressed up and no place (or nowhere) to go
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All dressed up like a Christmas tree
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All good clean fun
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All hands on deck!
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All human life is there!
entry |1 pages
All I know is what I read in the papers
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All mouth and trousers
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All my eye and Betty Martin!
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All my own work
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All over bar the shouting (, it's)
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All over the place like a mad woman's shit
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All part of life's rich pattern (, it's)
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All part of the service
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All piss and wind
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All present and correct!
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All right for some! (, it's)
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All right on the night
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All-singing, all-dancing
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All systems go
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Although (or though) I says it as shouldn't
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Always read the small print
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And a merry Christmas to you too!
entry |1 pages
And all that
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And don't you forget it!
entry |1 pages
And how!
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And I don't mean maybe
entry |1 pages
And like it!
entry |1 pages
And no mistake
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And now for something completely different
entry |1 pages
And so to bed
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And so we say farewell
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And that ain't hay!
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And that's flat!
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And that's your lot!
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And the band played on
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And the rest!
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And then some
entry |1 pages
And very nice too!
entry |1 pages
Angle of dangle is inversely proportional to the heat of the meat, the
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Another day, another dollar
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Another fine mess you've gotten me into! (, here's)
entry |1 pages
Answer is a lemon, the
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Answer is in the plural and they bounce, the
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Any colour you like, so long as it's black
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Any complaints?
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Any joy?
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Any more for any more?
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Anyone for tennis?
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Anyone's bet (, it's or that's)
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Anything for a laugh
entry |1 pages
Anything goes!
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Anything that can go wrong will go wrong
entry |1 pages
Apples, she's (or she'll be)
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Are there any more at home like you?
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Are we downhearted?
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Are you a man or a mouse?
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Are you kidding?
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Are you sitting comfortably? (Then I'll begin)
entry |1 pages
Are you trying to tell me something?
entry |1 pages
Are you with me?
entry |1 pages
Aren't we all?
entry |1 pages
Aren't you (or I) the lucky one!
entry |1 pages
Aren't you the one!
entry |2 pages
Arm and a leg, an
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As camp as a row of tents
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As clear as mud
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As camp as a row of tents
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As clear as mud
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As happy (or lucky) as a bastard on Father's Day
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As happy as a pig in shit
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As I live and breathe
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As I used to was
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As if I cared!
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As large as life and twice as natural
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As much chance as a snowball in hell
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As nutty as a fruitcake
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As old as my tongue and a little older than my teeth
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As queer as Dick's hatband
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As soft as shit and twice as nasty
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As the actress said to the bishop
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As thick as two short planks
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Ask a silly question and you'll get a silly answer
entry |1 pages
Ass in a sling, have (or get) (one's)
entry |1 pages
At least she won't die wondering
entry |1 pages
Attaboy!
entry |1 pages
Aw shucks!
letter 2|4 pages
B
entry |1 pages
Back to square one
entry |1 pages
Back to the drawing-board!
entry |1 pages
Back to the grindstone!
entry |1 pages
Ball game, it's a different (or whole new)
entry |1 pages
Balloon goes up, the
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Band played on, the
entry |1 pages
Bang, bang, you're dead!
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Bang to rights
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Bangs like a shithouse door (, she)
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Be a devil!
entry |1 pages
Be an angel!
entry |1 pages
Be good!—and if you can't be good, be careful!
entry |1 pages
Be my guest!
entry |1 pages
Be seeing you!
entry |1 pages
Be your age!
entry |1 pages
Beats working (, itor that)
entry |1 pages
Because it's there
entry |1 pages
Because the higher the fewer
entry |1 pages
Been and gone and done it, I've (or you've, he's, she's, etc.)
entry |1 pages
Bee's knees, the
entry |1 pages
Believe it or not!
entry |1 pages
Believe you me!
entry |1 pages
Bells and whistles
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Best thing since sliced bread, the
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Better out than in!
entry |1 pages
Better than a dig (or poke) in the eye with a blunt (or burnt) stick
entry |1 pages
Between a rock and a hard place
entry |1 pages
Beulah, peel me a grape
entry |1 pages
Bfn
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Big Brother is watching you!
entry |1 pages
Big conk: big cock
entry |1 pages
Big deal!
entry |1 pages
Bigger they are, the harder they fall, the
entry |1 pages
Bird is flown, the
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Bless his (or her or their) little cotton socks!
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Blind Freddie could see that (, even)
entry |1 pages
Blinded with science
entry |1 pages
Bob's your uncle!
entry |1 pages
Brass-monkey weather
entry |2 pages
Break a leg!
entry |1 pages
Bright-eyed and bushy-tailed
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Bring on the dancing girls!
entry |1 pages
Brute force and ignorance
entry |1 pages
Buck stops here, the
entry |1 pages
Built like a brick shithouse
entry |1 pages
Bully for you!
entry |1 pages
Business as usual
entry |1 pages
By guess and by God
entry |1 pages
Bye for now!
letter 3|4 pages
C
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Camp as a row of tents (, as)
entry |1 pages
Can do
entry |1 pages
Can of worms
entry |1 pages
Can you beat that?
entry |1 pages
Can't be bad!
entry |1 pages
Can't complain
entry |1 pages
Can't tell shit from Shinola (, he)
entry |1 pages
Captain is at home, the
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Carrying all before her
entry |1 pages
Casting nasturtiums
entry |1 pages
Cat got your tongue?
entry |1 pages
Cat in hell's chance, not a
entry |1 pages
Cat laugh, enough to (or it would) make a
entry |1 pages
Chalk it up to experience!
entry |2 pages
Chance would be a fine thing!
entry |1 pages
Charge like the Light Brigade (, they)
entry |1 pages
Cheap and cheerful
entry |1 pages
Cheap at half the price (, it would be)
entry |1 pages
Cheeky monkey!
entry |1 pages
Cheer up: it may never happen
entry |1 pages
Chips are down, the
entry |1 pages
Chocks away!
entry |1 pages
Christmas comes but once a year—thank God!
entry |1 pages
Cinch, it's (or that's) a
entry |1 pages
Clear as mud (, as)
entry |1 pages
Clever chaps (or devils) these Chinese!
entry |1 pages
Close, but no cigar (, it was)
entry |1 pages
Close your eyes and think of England!
entry |1 pages
Cloth ears, he (or she) has
entry |1 pages
Cloud nine, on
entry |1 pages
Cobblers!
entry |1 pages
Cold as a witch's tit (, as)
entry |1 pages
Cold enough to freeze the balls off a brass monkey
entry |1 pages
Collapse of stout party
entry |1 pages
Come again?
entry |1 pages
Come and get it!
entry |1 pages
Come back…, all is forgiven
entry |1 pages
Come home, all is forgiven
entry |1 pages
Come home with your knickers tom and say you found the money! (, you)
entry |1 pages
Come in, number six (or four, eight, etc.), your time is up
entry |1 pages
Come off your perch!
entry |1 pages
Come on in, the water's fine
entry |1 pages
Come to papa!
entry |1 pages
Come up and see me sometime
entry |1 pages
Come up smelling of violets (or roses)
entry |1 pages
Come up and see my etchings
entry |1 pages
Cool it!
entry |1 pages
Cop (a load of) that lot!
entry |1 pages
Could eat the hind leg off a donkey (, I or he, etc.)
entry |1 pages
Couldn't give a monkey's
entry |1 pages
Couldn't knock the skin off a rice-pudding (, you or he, etc.)
entry |1 pages
Couldn't organize a piss-up in a brewery (, you or he, etc.)
entry |1 pages
Count the spoons!
entry |1 pages
Crazy mixed-up kid
entry |1 pages
Cross my palm with silver! (, first)
entry |1 pages
Cry all the way to the bank
entry |1 pages
Curtains for you (or him, etc.)! (, it's)
entry |1 pages
Cut off my legs and call me Shorty! (, well)
letter 4|6 pages
D
entry |1 pages
Daddy, buy me one of those!
entry |1 pages
Damn white of you!, that's
entry |1 pages
Damned clever these Chinese!
entry |1 pages
Dead, and never called me ‘mother'
entry |1 pages
Death-adders in your pocket?, have you got
entry |1 pages
Decisions, decisions!
entry |1 pages
Dedigitate!
entry |1 pages
Depends on what you mean by
entry |1 pages
Did he fall or was he pushed?
entry |1 pages
Did it fall (or drop) off a lorry?
entry |1 pages
Did she fall or was she pushed?
entry |1 pages
Did you say something?
entry |1 pages
Did you shoot it yourself?
entry |1 pages
Didn't come down in the last shower, I (or he, etc.)
entry |1 pages
Different ball game, it's a
entry |1 pages
Different strokes for different folks
entry |1 pages
Difficult we do at oncedifficult we do at once; the impossible will take a little longer, the
entry |1 pages
Dirty mind is a constant joy (or a joy for ever), a
entry |1 pages
Ditto
entry |1 pages
Do I have to spell it out for you (or draw you a diagram)?
entry |1 pages
Do me a favour!
entry |1 pages
Do one for me
entry |1 pages
Do tell!
entry |1 pages
Do you come here often?
entry |1 pages
Do you know any other funny stories?
entry |1 pages
Do you know something?
entry |1 pages
Do you know what?
entry |1 pages
Do you mind!
entry |1 pages
Do you see what I see?
entry |1 pages
Do you think I'm made of money?
entry |1 pages
Do you want jam on it (or on both sides)?
entry |1 pages
Do your own thing!
entry |2 pages
Doctor Livingstone, I presume
entry |1 pages
Does a bear shit in the woods?
entry |1 pages
Does your mother know you're out?
entry |1 pages
Doesn't everyone?
entry |1 pages
Doesn't give a monkey's
entry |1 pages
Doesn't it make you want to spit?
entry |1 pages
Done up like a dog's dinner
entry |1 pages
Don't all speak at once!
entry |1 pages
Don't ask!
entry |1 pages
Don't ask me, I only live (or work) here
entry |1 pages
Don't be filthy!
entry |1 pages
Don't bet on it!
entry |1 pages
Don't call us, we'll call you
entry |1 pages
Don't come the (old) acid with me!
entry |1 pages
Don't come the (old) tin soldier with me!
entry |1 pages
Don't come the raw prawn!
entry |1 pages
Don't do anything I wouldn't do!
entry |2 pages
Don't fire until you see the whites of their eyes
entry |1 pages
Don't fret!
entry |1 pages
Don't get mad, get even!
entry |1 pages
Don't get your knickers in a twist!
entry |1 pages
Don't give me that!
entry |1 pages
Don't go out of your way!
entry |1 pages
Don't hold your breath!
entry |1 pages
Don't I know it!
entry |1 pages
Don't just stand there: do something!
entry |1 pages
Don't keep a good woman waiting!
entry |1 pages
Don't knock it!
entry |1 pages
Don't let's play games!
entry |1 pages
Don't look now, but…
entry |1 pages
Don't make a meal of it!
entry |1 pages
Don't make a production of it!
entry |1 pages
Don't make waves!
entry |1 pages
Don't mind me!
entry |1 pages
Don't mock the afflicted!
entry |1 pages
Don't rock the boat!
entry |1 pages
Don't shit on your own doorstep (, you)
entry |1 pages
Don't shoot the pianist (—he's doing his best)!
entry |1 pages
Don't some mothers have (or 'ave) 'em!
entry |1 pages
Don't spend it all at once (or in one shop)
entry |1 pages
Don't strain yourself!
entry |1 pages
Don't take any wooden nickels!
entry |1 pages
Don't tell me: let me guess!
entry |1 pages
Don't we all?
entry |1 pages
Don't worry: it may never happen
entry |1 pages
Don't you forget it!
entry |1 pages
Don't (you) fret!
entry |1 pages
Don't you know there's a war on?
entry |1 pages
Doom and gloom (, gloom and doom)
entry |1 pages
Down, Fido (or Rover)!
entry |1 pages
Dressed up like a dog's dinner
entry |1 pages
Drop dead!
entry |1 pages
Duty calls!
entry |1 pages
D'you know something?
entry |1 pages
D'you want jam on both sides?
letter 5|3 pages
E
entry |1 pages
Earwig! earwig!
entry |1 pages
Eat your heart out!
entry |1 pages
'Eave'art a brick at'im!
entry |1 pages
Education has been sadly neglected, your
entry |1 pages
Egg on (one's) face
entry |1 pages
Elementary, my dear Watson!
entry |1 pages
English as she is spoke
entry |1 pages
Enjoy your trip?
entry |1 pages
Enough said!
entry |1 pages
Enough to make a cat laugh
entry |1 pages
Enough to piss off the Pope
entry |1 pages
Even blind Freddie could
entry |1 pages
Even paranoids have real enemies
entry |1 pages
Every day and in every way
entry |1 pages
Every home should have one
entry |1 pages
Every little helps, as the old woman said when she pissed in the sea
entry |1 pages
Every silver lining has its cloud
entry |1 pages
Every time he opens his mouth he puts his foot in it
entry |1 pages
Everybody say ‘aah!'
entry |1 pages
Everything but the kitchen sink
entry |1 pages
Everything in the garden is lovely
entry |1 pages
Everything's coming up roses
entry |1 pages
Everything's under control
entry |1 pages
Excuse my French!
entry |1 pages
Excuse my pig: he's a friend!
entry |1 pages
Expect me when you see me
entry |1 pages
Extract the manual digit!
entry |1 pages
Eyes like piss-holes in the snow
letter 6|4 pages
F
entry |1 pages
Face that would stop a clock, a
entry |1 pages
Fair do's (or doo's)
entry |1 pages
Fair enough!
entry |1 pages
Fair go!
entry |1 pages
Fair to middling
entry |1 pages
Fame at last!
entry |1 pages
Family, hold back (or off)!
entry |1 pages
Famous last words!
entry |1 pages
Fate worse than death, a
entry |1 pages
Feeding time at the zoo
entry |1 pages
Feel free!
entry |1 pages
Feeling no pain
entry |1 pages
Fifty million Frenchmen can't be wrong
entry |1 pages
Fine weather for ducks!
entry |1 pages
Finger of suspicion points at you!, the
entry |1 pages
Fings ain't wot they used t'be
entry |1 pages
First catch your hare
entry |1 pages
Fish, or cut bait!
entry |1 pages
Flattery will get you nowhere
entry |1 pages
Fleet's lit up!, the
entry |1 pages
Flings money around like a man with no arms
entry |1 pages
Floats like a brick-built shithouse
entry |1 pages
Fools seldom differ
entry |1 pages
For my next trick
entry |1 pages
For obvious reasons
entry |1 pages
For the hell of it
entry |1 pages
For the man who has everything
entry |1 pages
For this relief, much thanks!
entry |1 pages
For those few kind words, thank you (or many thanks)
entry |1 pages
For what we are about to receive
entry |1 pages
For your information
entry |1 pages
Forget it!
entry |1 pages
From the sublime to the gorblimey
entry |1 pages
Fuck a duck!
entry |1 pages
Fuck'em all!
entry |1 pages
Fuck'em and chuck'em
entry |2 pages
Fuck that (or this) for a lark!
entry |1 pages
Fuck you, Jack, I'm all right
entry |1 pages
Fucked by the fickle finger of fate
entry |1 pages
Full stop, end of story!
entry |1 pages
Funny peculiar or funny ha-ha?
entry |1 pages
Funny thing happened (to me) on the way to the theatre, a
entry |1 pages
Fur coat and no knickers
letter 7|4 pages
G
entry |1 pages
Gangway!
entry |1 pages
Garbage in, garbage out
entry |1 pages
Geese flying out of one's backside, like
entry |1 pages
Get lost!
entry |1 pages
Get off my case!
entry |1 pages
Get off my cloud!
entry |1 pages
Get stuck in!
entry |1 pages
Get the lead out of your pants!
entry |1 pages
Get you!
entry |1 pages
Get your act together!
entry |1 pages
Get your ass in gear!
entry |1 pages
Get your finger out!
entry |2 pages
Getting any (lately)?
entry |1 pages
Ghost walks on Friday, the
entry |1 pages
Gissa (or gizza) job!
entry |1 pages
Git there fustest with the mostest!
entry |1 pages
Give a monkey's, couldn't (or doesn't)
entry |1 pages
Give it a whirl!
entry |1 pages
Give me some skin!
entry |1 pages
Give me strength!
entry |1 pages
Give the cat another goldfish!
entry |1 pages
Gizza job!
entry |1 pages
Gloom and doom
entry |1 pages
Go (and) boil your head!
entry |1 pages
Go (and) chase yourself!
entry |1 pages
Go (and) jump in the lake!
entry |1 pages
Go and play in the traffic!
entry |1 pages
Go and see a taxidermist!
entry |1 pages
Go boil your head!
entry |1 pages
Go chase yourself!
entry |1 pages
Go fly a kite!
entry |1 pages
Go fuck a duck!
entry |1 pages
Go jump in the lake!
entry |1 pages
Go to the top of the class!
entry |1 pages
God is alive and well and living in…
entry |1 pages
Going in and out like a fiddler's elbow
entry |1 pages
Going to hell in a hand-basket, the world's (or he's, she's, etc.)
entry |1 pages
Gone for a Burton
entry |1 pages
Good in parts, like the curate's egg
entry |1 pages
Good night!
entry |1 pages
Good place to be from
entry |1 pages
Good question!
entry |1 pages
Good thinking!
entry |1 pages
Good time was had by all, a
entry |1 pages
Got it in one!
entry |1 pages
Great minds think alike
entry |1 pages
Greatest thing since sliced bread
entry |1 pages
Greeks had a word for it, the
entry |1 pages
Grow on trees, it doesn't (or they don't)
entry |1 pages
Grow up!
letter 8|6 pages
H
entry |1 pages
Ha bloody ha!
entry |1 pages
Half past kissing time and time to kiss again
entry |1 pages
Hand it to you, I have (or I've got)
entry |1 pages
Hang in there!
entry |1 pages
Hang loose!
entry |1 pages
Happy as a bastard on Father's Day(, as)
entry |1 pages
Happy as a pig in shit (, as)
entry |1 pages
Hard cheese!
entry |1 pages
Hard act to follow
entry |1 pages
Has the cat got your tongue?
entry |1 pages
Has the ghost walked yet?
entry |1 pages
Has the penny dropped?
entry |1 pages
Have a good trip?
entry |1 pages
Have a heart!
entry |1 pages
Have at you!
entry |1 pages
Have gun, will travel
entry |1 pages
Have I got news for you!
entry |1 pages
Have one for me
entry |1 pages
Have you any more funny stories?
entry |1 pages
Have you got a snake in your pocket?
entry |1 pages
Have you heard any good stones lately?
entry |1 pages
Have you heard the latest?
entry |1 pages
Have you quite finished?
entry |1 pages
Having a wonderful time—wish you were here
entry |1 pages
Having fun?
entry |2 pages
He can make it sit up and beg
entry |1 pages
He can put his shoes under my bed any time he likes
entry |1 pages
He can't tell shit from Shinola
entry |1 pages
He flings (or throws) money around like a man with no arms
entry |1 pages
He (or she) has cloth ears
entry |1 pages
He (or she) has seen something nasty in the woodshed
entry |1 pages
He promised her the world, with a little red fence around it
entry |1 pages
He thinks it's just to pee through
entry |1 pages
He thinks the sun shines out of (sb's) arsehole
entry |1 pages
He went thataway
entry |1 pages
He who smelt it dealt it
entry |1 pages
He'd fuck a snake if he could get it to hold still
entry |1 pages
He'd fuck anything on two legs
entry |1 pages
He'll take off any minute now
entry |1 pages
He's had a smell of the barman's apron
entry |1 pages
Heads I win, tails you lose
entry |1 pages
Heard any good ones (or stones) lately?
entry |1 pages
Hello, hello, hello!
entry |1 pages
Hello, sailor!
entry |1 pages
Help yourself!
entry |1 pages
Hence the pyramids
entry |1 pages
Here am I, slaving over a hot stove all day
entry |1 pages
Here endeth the first lesson
entry |1 pages
Here goes!
entry |1 pages
Here we go!
entry |1 pages
Here we go again!
entry |1 pages
Here's a couple of matchsticks
entry |1 pages
Here's another fine mess you've gotten me into!
entry |1 pages
Hi ho, Silver(, away)!
entry |1 pages
Hills are closing in on him, the
entry |1 pages
Hint! hint!
entry |1 pages
Hold me back!
entry |1 pages
Hold onto your hat!
entry |1 pages
Hold your horses!
entry |1 pages
Home, James(, and don't spare the horses)!
entry |1 pages
Honest Injun!
entry |1 pages
Horse of another (or a different) colour, a
entry |1 pages
Horses for courses
entry |1 pages
Horses sweat, men perspire, (and or but) ladies only glow
entry |1 pages
Hot and strong
entry |1 pages
How about that!
entry |1 pages
How can (or could) you?
entry |1 pages
How daft can you get?
entry |1 pages
How does that grab you?
entry |1 pages
How goes the enemy?
entry |1 pages
How long is a piece of string?
entry |2 pages
How many beans make five?
entry |1 pages
How many times?
entry |1 pages
How much?
entry |1 pages
How much to get out?
entry |1 pages
How to win friends and influence people
entry |1 pages
How's that?
entry |1 pages
How's tricks?
entry |1 pages
How's your father?
entry |1 pages
How's your love life?
entry |1 pages
Howzat! (or howsat!)
entry |1 pages
Hubba! hubba!
letter 9|16 pages
I
entry |1 pages
I ask you!
entry |1 pages
I believe you, (but) thousands wouldn't
entry |1 pages
I bet you say that to all the girls
entry |1 pages
I can take a hint
entry |1 pages
I can hardly wait
entry |1 pages
I could care less
entry |1 pages
I could eat that without salt
entry |1 pages
I couldn't care less
entry |1 pages
I didn't know you cared
entry |1 pages
I do not wish to know that
entry |2 pages
I don't mind if I do!
entry |1 pages
I don't know!
entry |1 pages
I don't know much about art (or music, etc.), but I know what I like
entry |1 pages
I don't know whether I'm Arthur or Martha
entry |1 pages
I don't mean maybe
entry |1 pages
I don't think!
entry |1 pages
I don't wish to know that
entry |1 pages
I feel like a mushroom: everyone keeps me in the dark and is always feeding me bullshit
entry |1 pages
I forgot to duck
entry |1 pages
I guess you're trying to tell me something
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I had'em rolling in the aisles
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I have my agents
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I have to hand it to you
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I have to
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I haven't got a thing to wear
entry |2 pages
I haven't laughed so much since my auntie caught her tit in the mangle
entry |1 pages
I hear what you say
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I hope I'm not interrupting anything
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I kid you
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I like it!
entry |1 pages
I like my women hot and strong
entry |1 pages
I like that! (, well)
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I like work: I could watch it all day
entry |1 pages
I like your nerve!
entry |1 pages
I love you too
entry |1 pages
I must go and shake hands with the wife's best friend
entry |1 pages
I must love you and leave you
entry |1 pages
I need that like (I need) a hole in the head
entry |1 pages
I never liked it, anyway!
entry |1 pages
I note what you say
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I only asked
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I only do it for kicks
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I only work here
entry |1 pages
I owe you one
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I say, I say, I say!
entry |1 pages
I see, said the blind man
entry |1 pages
I shan't play!
entry |1 pages
I should be so lucky!
entry |1 pages
I should cocoa!
entry |1 pages
I should live so long!
entry |1 pages
I should worry!
entry |1 pages
I tell you what!
entry |1 pages
I thought you'd never ask!
entry |1 pages
I took my harp to the party, but nobody asked me to play
entry |1 pages
I want it yesterday
entry |1 pages
I washed my hair last night and now I can't do a thing with it
entry |1 pages
I wasn't born yesterday
entry |1 pages
I wouldn't be seen dead in it
entry |1 pages
I wouldn't believe him (or her, etc.) on a stack of Bibles
entry |1 pages
I wouldn't bet on it!
entry |1 pages
I wouldn't kick her out of bed
entry |1 pages
I wouldn't know!
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I wouldn't know him from a bar of soap
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I wouldn't like to meet him (or her) in the dark
entry |1 pages
I wouldn't piss on him (or her) if he was on fire
entry |1 pages
I wouldn't say no!
entry |1 pages
I wouldn't trust him (or her) as far as I could throw him (or her)
entry |1 pages
I wouldn't want to be a pawnbroker's sign on a night like this
entry |1 pages
I'd love to be a fly on the wall
entry |1 pages
I'd rather sleep with her with no clothes on than with you in your best suit
entry |1 pages
I'll cut you off with (or without) a shilling
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I'll drink to that!
entry |1 pages
I'll eat my hat!
entry |1 pages
I'll expect you when I see you
entry |1 pages
I'll go out into the garden and eat worms
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I'll hate myself in the morning
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I'll have your guts for garters!
entry |1 pages
I'll let you off this time
entry |1 pages
I'll love you and leave you
entry |1 pages
I'll say!
entry |1 pages
I'll see you in court!
entry |1 pages
I'll see you in hell first
entry |1 pages
I'll show you mine if you'll show me yours
entry |1 pages
I'll strike you out of my will
entry |1 pages
I'll take a rain-check
entry |1 pages
I'll tell you one thing, and that's not (or that ain't) two
entry |1 pages
I'll tell you what!
entry |1 pages
I'll try anything once
entry |1 pages
I'm a big girl (or boy) now
entry |1 pages
I'm a devout coward
entry |1 pages
I'm a stranger here myself
entry |1 pages
I'm all right, Jack
entry |1 pages
I'm from Missouri(, you('ll) have to show me)
entry |1 pages
I'm not just a pretty face(, you know)
entry |1 pages
I'm not playing!
entry |1 pages
I'm not as (or so) green as I'm cabbage-looking
entry |1 pages
I'm not that kind of girl
entry |1 pages
I'm only here for the beer
entry |1 pages
I've been there
entry |1 pages
I've got news for you!
entry |1 pages
I've got the time if you've got the inclination
entry |1 pages
I've got to hand it to you
entry |1 pages
I've got to
entry |1 pages
I've had more women than you've had hot dinners (or breakfasts)
entry |1 pages
I've had my moments
entry |1 pages
I've started, so I'll finish
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If all else fails, read the instructions!
entry |1 pages
If, and it's a big if
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If anything can go wrong, it will
entry |1 pages
If he doesn't like it he may do the other thing!
entry |1 pages
If he fell in the shit he'd come up smelling of violets (or roses)
entry |1 pages
If it's Tuesday, it must be Belgium
entry |1 pages
If the wind changes, you'll get stuck like that
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If you can't beat'em, join'em
entry |1 pages
If you can't fight, wear a big ‘at
entry |1 pages
If you can't stand the heat, get out of the kitchen
entry |1 pages
If you don't like it you can lump it!
entry |1 pages
If you knows of a better 'ole (, go to it)! (, well)
entry |1 pages
If you say
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If you want to get ahead, get a hat!
entry |1 pages
Ignorance is bliss
entry |1 pages
Illegal, immoral or fattening
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Illegitimis non carborundum
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Impossible we do at once; miracles take a little longer, the
entry |1 pages
In a while, crocodile
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In like Flynn (, he's)
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In spades
entry |1 pages
In the big league
entry |1 pages
In the same ball-park
entry |1 pages
In the wrong business, I'm (or we're, you're, etc.)
entry |1 pages
Include me out!
entry |1 pages
Is everybody happy?
entry |1 pages
Is he (or she) with you?—no, I thought he was (or she) with you!
entry |1 pages
Is my face red!
entry |1 pages
Is that a threat or a promise?
entry |1 pages
Is that all?
entry |1 pages
Is that good?
entry |1 pages
Is the Pope Catholic?
entry |1 pages
Is there a doctor in the house?
entry |1 pages
Is there a law against it?
entry |1 pages
Is there room for a little one?
entry |1 pages
Is you is or is you ain't?
entry |1 pages
Isn't he (or she) the lucky one!
entry |1 pages
Isn't that just like a man (or woman)!
entry |1 pages
Isn't that something?
entry |1 pages
It adds up
entry |2 pages
It all depends (on) what you mean
entry |1 pages
It beats working
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It come off in me 'and
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It couldn't happen (or have happened) to a nicer chap (or guy)
entry |1 pages
It didn't strike on my box
entry |1 pages
It doesn't add up
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It doesn't stand up
entry |1 pages
It fell off the back of a lorry
entry |1 pages
It fits where it touches
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It had my name (or number) on it
entry |1 pages
It happens in the best-regulated (or best of) families
entry |1 pages
It just goes to show
entry |1 pages
It looks like a wet weekend
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It must have been something he (or she) ate
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It seemed like a good idea at the time
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It shouldn't happen to a dog!
entry |1 pages
It stinks
entry |1 pages
It sucks a variant of it stinks.
entry |1 pages
It takes all sorts
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It takes one to know one
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It takes two to tango
entry |1 pages
It was close, but no cigar
entry |1 pages
It was on for young and old
entry |1 pages
It went down like a lead balloon
entry |1 pages
It went like a bomb
entry |1 pages
It would be cheap at half the price
entry |1 pages
It would make a cat laugh
entry |1 pages
It'll all be the same in a hundred years
entry |1 pages
It'll all come out in the wash
entry |1 pages
It'll be a cold day in hell (when…)
entry |2 pages
It'll be all right on the night
entry |1 pages
It'll never get off the ground
entry |1 pages
It'll put hair on your chest
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It'll see me out
entry |1 pages
It's a bastard
entry |1 pages
It's a big if
entry |1 pages
It's a breeze
entry |1 pages
It's a cinch
entry |1 pages
It's a different (or whole new) ball game
entry |1 pages
It's a doddle
entry |1 pages
It's a dog's life
entry |1 pages
It's a fair cop
entry |1 pages
It's a free country
entry |1 pages
It's a great life if you don't weaken
entry |1 pages
It's a hard life!
entry |1 pages
It's a living, already
entry |1 pages
It's a long time between drinks
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It's a new one on me
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It's a nice place to visit but I wouldn't want to live there
entry |1 pages
It's a piece of cake
entry |1 pages
It's a small world
entry |1 pages
It's against my religion
entry |1 pages
It's all clever stuff, y'know
entry |1 pages
It's all coming out now
entry |1 pages
It's all done with mirrors
entry |1 pages
It's all go
entry |1 pages
It's all good clean fun
entry |1 pages
It's all good for trade
entry |1 pages
It's all happening
entry |1 pages
It's all money
entry |1 pages
It's all over bar the shouting
entry |1 pages
It's all part of life's rich pattern (or pageant or tapestry)
entry |1 pages
It's all (or just) part of the service
entry |1 pages
It's all right for some!
entry |1 pages
It's all water under the bridge
entry |1 pages
It's anyone's bet
entry |1 pages
It's being so cheerful as keeps me going
entry |1 pages
It's curtains for you (or him, etc.)!
entry |1 pages
It's good clean dirt
entry |1 pages
It's got bells on
entry |1 pages
It's (just) one of those days
entry |1 pages
It's just one of those things
entry |1 pages
It's like money in the bank
entry |1 pages
It's like shooting fish in a barrel
entry |1 pages
It's made my day
entry |1 pages
It's money for old rope
entry |1 pages
It's naughty but it's nice
entry |1 pages
It's no go
entry |1 pages
It's no skin off my nose
entry |1 pages
It's not cricket!
entry |1 pages
It's not done
entry |1 pages
It's not much if you say it quickly
entry |1 pages
It's not on
entry |1 pages
It's not the end of the world
entry |1 pages
It's not what you know but who you know
entry |1 pages
It's only money!
entry |1 pages
It's the gipsy (or gypsy) in me
entry |1 pages
It's the (or an) old army game
entry |1 pages
It's the only game in town
entry |1 pages
It's the pits
entry |1 pages
It's the same difference!
entry |1 pages
It's the thought that counts
entry |1 pages
It's time I wasn't here
entry |1 pages
It's your funeral
letter 10|1 pages
J
entry |1 pages
Jamaica
entry |1 pages
Jobs for the boys
entry |1 pages
Join the club!
entry |1 pages
Joint is jumping, the
entry |1 pages
Jolly hockey sticks!
entry |1 pages
Just because you're paranoid, it doesn't mean to say they aren't all out to get you
entry |1 pages
Just fancy!
entry |1 pages
Just for the hell of it
entry |1 pages
Just for the record
entry |1 pages
Just goes to show, it
entry |1 pages
Just good friends
entry |1 pages
Just part of the service
entry |1 pages
Just the job!
entry |1 pages
Just what the doctor ordered
letter 11|2 pages
K
entry |1 pages
Keep on truckin'!
entry |1 pages
Keep taking the tablets!
entry |1 pages
Keep it under your hat!
entry |1 pages
Keep the faith (, baby)
entry |1 pages
Keep your fingers crossed!
entry |1 pages
Keep your hair on!
entry |1 pages
Keep your hand on your ha'penny
entry |1 pages
Keep your legs together!
entry |2 pages
Keep your pecker up!
entry |1 pages
Keeping up with the Joneses
entry |1 pages
Kill another canary and give the cat a treat!
entry |1 pages
Kilroy was here
entry |1 pages
Kindly leave the stage
entry |1 pages
Kiss me, Hardy!
entry |1 pages
Kiss my arse! an
entry |1 pages
Kiss of death, the
entry |1 pages
Knock! knock!
letter 12|4 pages
L
entry |1 pages
Large as life and twice as natural (, as)
entry |1 pages
Large mouth: large cunt
entry |1 pages
Last of the big spenders, the
entry |1 pages
Late for (one's) own funeral
entry |1 pages
Laugh all the way to the bank
entry |1 pages
Laugh? I thought I should have died
entry |1 pages
Lead me to it!
entry |1 pages
Lead on, Macduff!
entry |1 pages
Let it all hang out!
entry |1 pages
Let me tell you!
entry |1 pages
Let the dog see the rabbit!
entry |1 pages
Let's get the show on the road!
entry |1 pages
Let's have some light on the subject!
entry |1 pages
Let's not play games!
entry |1 pages
Let's run it up the flagpole (and see who salutes)
entry |1 pages
Let's try it on the dog!
entry |1 pages
Lie back and enjoy it!
entry |1 pages
Lies, damned lies and statistics
entry |1 pages
Life begins at forty
entry |1 pages
Life is just a bowl of cherries
entry |1 pages
Life is just one damned thing after another
entry |1 pages
Life's too short
entry |1 pages
Light the blue touchpaper and retire immediately!
entry |1 pages
Like a fart in a colander
entry |1 pages
Like a spare prick at a wedding
entry |1 pages
Like hell I will!
entry |1 pages
Like something the cat's brought in
entry |1 pages
Like sparrows (or geese) flying out of one's backside
entry |1 pages
Like the curate's egg
entry |1 pages
Like there was no tomorrow
entry |1 pages
Little of what you fancy does you good, a
entry |1 pages
Little things please little minds
entry |1 pages
Living on the smell of an oil-rag
entry |1 pages
Living the life of Riley (or Reilly)
entry |1 pages
Long nose is a lady's liking, a
entry |1 pages
Long time no see!
entry |1 pages
Look, no hands!
entry |1 pages
Look what the cat's dragged in!
entry |1 pages
Look who's talking!
entry |1 pages
Look you!
entry |1 pages
Looks like a million dollars, he (or she)
entry |1 pages
Looks like a wet weekend (, it)
entry |1 pages
Love you and leave you, I must (or I'll)
entry |1 pages
Lovely weather for ducks!
entry |1 pages
Low man on a (or the) totem pole(, the)
entry |1 pages
Lower than a snake's belly
entry |1 pages
Lucky as a bastard on Father's Day (, as)
entry |1 pages
Lucky one!, aren't you (or I) the
letter 13|4 pages
M
entry |1 pages
Made my day, you've (or that's or it's)
entry |1 pages
Make love, not war!
entry |1 pages
Make no mistake!
entry |1 pages
Makes you think, doesn't it?
entry |1 pages
Man's gotta do what a man's gotta do, a
entry |1 pages
Many thanks for those few kind words
entry |1 pages
Maybe they know something we don't
entry |1 pages
Me and my big mouth!
entry |1 pages
Me Tarzan, you Jane
entry |2 pages
Meanwhile, back at the ranch
entry |1 pages
Meeting like this, we can't go on (or we must stop)
entry |1 pages
Men are only interested in one thing
entry |1 pages
Merry Christmas to you too!
entry |1 pages
Message received
entry |1 pages
Miaow! miaow!
entry |1 pages
Mighty white of you!, that's
entry |1 pages
Miles and miles and bloody miles of sweet fuck-all
entry |1 pages
Mind boggles, the
entry |1 pages
Mind how you go!
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Mind you, I've said nothing
entry |1 pages
Mind your backs!
entry |1 pages
Mission accomplished
entry |1 pages
Mixture as before, the
entry |1 pages
Money talks
entry |1 pages
Monkey see, monkey do!
entry |1 pages
More fun than a barrel of monkeys
entry |1 pages
More power to your elbow!
entry |1 pages
More than somewhat
entry |1 pages
More than you could poke (or shake) a stick at
entry |1 pages
Morning after the night before, the
entry |1 pages
Mox nix
entry |1 pages
Must you stay? can't you go?
entry |1 pages
Mustn't grumble
entry |1 pages
Mutton dressed as lamb
entry |1 pages
My arse is dragging
entry |1 pages
My belly thinks my throat's cut
entry |1 pages
My (or her) country cousins have come
entry |1 pages
My dogs are barking my feet are sore. Adopted from US servicemen towards the end of World War II.
entry |1 pages
My elbow!
entry |1 pages
My feet are killing me
entry |1 pages
My foot!
entry |1 pages
My guts are beginning to think my throat's cut
entry |1 pages
My heart bleeds for you
entry |1 pages
My hero!
entry |1 pages
My lips are sealed
entry |1 pages
My spies are everywhere
entry |1 pages
My stomach thinks my throat's cut
entry |1 pages
My wife doesn't understand me
letter 14|5 pages
N
entry |1 pages
Name of the game, the
entry |1 pages
Name your poison!
entry |1 pages
Natives are restless tonight, the
entry |1 pages
Naughty, naughty!
entry |1 pages
Need I say more?
entry |1 pages
Never a dull moment!
entry |1 pages
Never darken my door (or doorstep) again!
entry |1 pages
Never explain and never apologize
entry |1 pages
Never fear:… is here
entry |1 pages
Never give a sucker an even break!
entry |1 pages
Never had it so good, you've (or they've, etc.)
entry |1 pages
Never mind the quality: feel the width!
entry |1 pages
Never say die!
entry |1 pages
Never shit where you eat
entry |1 pages
New one on me, it's (or that's) a
entry |1 pages
Nice bit o' cloth you got there, my boy
entry |1 pages
Nice guys finish last
entry |1 pages
Nice (little) place you've got here
entry |1 pages
Nice place to live out of, (it's) a
entry |1 pages
Nice weather for ducks!
entry |1 pages
Nice work if you can get it
entry |1 pages
Nil carborundum
entry |1 pages
No, but you hum it and I'll pick up the tune
entry |1 pages
No can do
entry |1 pages
No chance!
entry |1 pages
No comment!
entry |1 pages
No dice!
entry |1 pages
No flies on him (or her), there are
entry |1 pages
No go, it's
entry |1 pages
No harm in trying(, there's)
entry |1 pages
No, I'm with the Woolwich
entry |1 pages
No joy
entry |1 pages
No kidding?
entry |1 pages
No names, no pack drill
entry |1 pages
No offence (meant)—none taken(, I'm sure)
entry |1 pages
No prizes for guessing…
entry |1 pages
No rest for the wicked! (, there's)
entry |1 pages
No sir(ree)!
entry |1 pages
No skin off my nose, it's
entry |1 pages
No sweat!
entry |1 pages
No way!
entry |1 pages
None the better for your asking
entry |1 pages
Not a bad drop, this!
entry |1 pages
Not a cat in hell's chance
entry |1 pages
Not a pretty sight
entry |1 pages
Not all it's cracked up to be (, it's)
entry |1 pages
Not as (or so) green as I'm cabbage-looking, I'm
entry |1 pages
Not bloody likely!
entry |1 pages
Not cricket!, it's (or that's)
entry |1 pages
Not half!
entry |1 pages
Not if I see you first!
entry |1 pages
Not in front of the children!
entry |1 pages
Not in the same ball-park
entry |1 pages
Not much!
entry |1 pages
No ton your life!
entry |1 pages
Not on your nelly (or Nelly or Nellie)! a variant of not on your life!
entry |1 pages
Not Pygmalion likely!
entry |1 pages
Not quite quite
entry |1 pages
Not so as (or so's) you'd notice (it)
entry |1 pages
Not so green as I'm cabbage-looking, I'm
entry |1 pages
Not to worry!
entry |1 pages
Not tonight, Josephine
entry |1 pages
Not waving but drowning
entry |1 pages
Not what (or all) it's cracked up to be(, it's)
entry |1 pages
Nothing for nothing, and very little for tuppence-ha'penny (, you get)
entry |1 pages
Nothing to write home about
entry |1 pages
Now he tells me!
entry |1 pages
Now I've seen (or heard) everything!
entry |1 pages
Now tell me the one about the three bears
entry |1 pages
Now then, what's all this ‘ere?
entry |1 pages
Now you see it, now you don't
entry |1 pages
Now you tell me!
entry |1 pages
Now you're talking!
entry |1 pages
Nudge, nudge, wink, wink!
entry |1 pages
Nuff said!
entry |1 pages
Nutty as a fruitcake(, as)
letter 15|3 pages
O
entry |1 pages
Of all the nerve!
entry |1 pages
Off like a bride's nightie
entry |1 pages
Oh, brother!
entry |1 pages
Oh, come on!
entry |1 pages
Oh, la! la!
entry |1 pages
Oh, mother, is it worth it?
entry |1 pages
Oh, my giddy aunt!
entry |1 pages
Oi, oi!
entry |1 pages
Okay by me! (, it's or that's)
entry |1 pages
Okey-doke!
entry |1 pages
Old army game, it's the (or an)
entry |1 pages
Old as my tongue and a little older than my teeth (, as)
entry |1 pages
Old enough to know better
entry |1 pages
Old soldiers never die: they only fade away
entry |1 pages
On a hiding to nothing
entry |1 pages
On cloud nine
entry |1 pages
On my shit list, he's (or you're)
entry |1 pages
On with the motley!
entry |1 pages
On your (or yer) bike!
entry |1 pages
Once aboard the lugger and the girl is mine
entry |1 pages
Once is enough!
entry |1 pages
One for the book (, that's)
entry |1 pages
One for the road
entry |1 pages
One of those days
entry |1 pages
One sniff at the barmaid's apron and he's away
entry |1 pages
One that got away, the
entry |1 pages
Only here for the beer, I'm
entry |1 pages
Only in the mating season
entry |1 pages
Only when I laugh
entry |1 pages
Ooh, you are awful(, but I like you)!
entry |1 pages
Oompah, oompah, stick it up your jumper!
entry |1 pages
Out of this world
entry |1 pages
Out to lunch
entry |1 pages
Overpaid, over-sexed and over here
entry |1 pages
‘Owzat! (or 'owsat!)
letter 16|3 pages
P
entry |1 pages
Paddle your own canoe!
entry |1 pages
Panic stations!
entry |1 pages
Par for the course, that's about
entry |1 pages
Pardon me for living!
entry |1 pages
Pardon my French!
entry |1 pages
Patter of tiny feet, the
entry |1 pages
Pay up and look pleasant
entry |1 pages
Peel me a grape
entry |1 pages
Penny has dropped, the
entry |1 pages
Phantom…strikes again!, the
entry |1 pages
Pick on somebody your own size!
entry |1 pages
Pin back your lug-holes (or lug'oles)!
entry |1 pages
Pip, pip!
entry |1 pages
Piss, or get off the pot!
entry |1 pages
Pissed (up)on from a great height, he should be (or deserves to be)
entry |1 pages
Play it again, Sam!
entry |1 pages
Plot thickens, the
entry |1 pages
Poet and don't know it, you're (or I'm) a
entry |1 pages
Poets
entry |1 pages
Point Percy at the porcelain
entry |1 pages
Point taken
entry |1 pages
Poor chap, he hasn't got two yachts to mb together
entry |1 pages
Pork chop in a synagogue
entry |1 pages
Pox-doctor's clerk, like a
entry |1 pages
Promises, promises!
entry |1 pages
Protocol, alcohol and geritol
entry |1 pages
Public enemy number one
entry |1 pages
Pull the other one (or leg)—it's got bells on it!
entry |1 pages
Pull your finger out!
entry |1 pages
Pull your socks up!
entry |1 pages
Put her (or him) down, you don't know where she's (or he's) been
entry |1 pages
Put in a good word for me!
entry |1 pages
Put it where the monkey put the nuts (, you(or he, she, etc.) can)
entry |1 pages
Put up or shut up!
entry |1 pages
Put your money where your mouth is!
letter 17|1 pages
Q
entry |1 pages
Qed
entry |1 pages
Queer as Dick's hatband (, as)
entry |1 pages
Quick and dirty
letter 18|2 pages
R
entry |1 pages
Rather you than me!
entry |1 pages
Read any good books lately?
entry |1 pages
Read my lips
entry |1 pages
Red hat and no knickers
entry |1 pages
Reds under the bed
entry |1 pages
…Refreshes the parts that other…cannot reach
entry |1 pages
Remember the Alamo!
entry |1 pages
Remember there's a war on!
entry |1 pages
Rhubarb, rhubarb, rhubarb!
entry |1 pages
Ride'em, cowboy!
entry |1 pages
…Rides again!
entry |1 pages
Right on!
entry |1 pages
Right you are!
entry |1 pages
Rise and shine
entry |1 pages
Roger the lodger
entry |1 pages
Roll on, death!
entry |1 pages
Roll on, duration!
entry |1 pages
Rolling in the aisles
entry |1 pages
Run it up the flagpole (and see who salutes), let's
entry |1 pages
Run that (one) by me again
entry |1 pages
Rushing around like a blue-arsed fly
letter 19|8 pages
S
entry |1 pages
Safety in numbers (, there's)
entry |1 pages
Said he (or she)
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Same difference! (, it's the)
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Same here!
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Same to you with (brass) knobs on!, the
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San fairy Ann
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Sandman is coming, the
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Save the last dance for me
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Saved by the bell
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Say cheese!
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Say hey!
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Say it, don't spray it!
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Say it with flowers!
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Say no more!
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Say one for me!
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Say something, even if it's only goodbye!
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Say what?
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says who? who says so?; usually uttered in a truculent or sarcastic tone of voice, with the implication ‘I
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Says you!
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Scout's honour!
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Screw and bolt
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Search me!
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See a man about a dog, I have (or I've got) to
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See you!
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See you around!
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See you in court! (, I'll) ajocular or ironic valediction. Since around 1910.
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See you later, alligator!
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See you under the clock!
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Seen any good plays (or films) lately?
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Sell in May and go away
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Send for the marines!
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Separate the men from the boys, that'll (or this'll)
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Sex rears its ugly head
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Sez you!
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Shake hands with the wife's best friend, I must go and
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Shake the lead out of your ass!
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Shall we dance?
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Shan't play!
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Shape up or ship out!
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Shat (up)on from a great height, he should he (or deserves to he)
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She bangs like a shithouse door
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She has seen something nasty in the woodshed
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She hasn't had it so long
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‘She' is the cat's mother (or grandmother)
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She thinks the sun shines out of (sb's) arsehole
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She walks like she's got a feather up her ass
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She wants the whole world, with a little red fence around it
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She'd take you in, and blow you out again in little bubbles
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She'll be apples
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She'll be right!
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She'll die wondering
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She's apples
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She's got a bun in the oven
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She's got legs (right) up to her bum
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She's got round heels
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She's joined the club
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She's right!
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Shit hits the fan, the
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Shit off a shovel, (move) like
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Shit, or get off the pot!
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Shit out of luck
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Shooting fish in a barrel, it's like
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Shouldn't happen to a dog!, it (or that)
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Shove it where the monkey shoved the nuts (, you (or he, she, etc.) can)
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Shoving money upstairs
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Show a leg!
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Show must go on, the
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Shut your eyes and think of England!
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Sign of a misspent youth, the
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Since Pontius was a pilot
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Sir, you are speaking of the woman I love
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Sit down, you're rocking the boat
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Sitting by (or with) Nellie
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Sky's the limit, the
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Slaving over a hot stove all day
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Sleep tight! mind the fleas (or bugs) don't bite!
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Slice of the action, a
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Snafu
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Snake in your pocket?, have you got a
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Snowball's chance in hell, a
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So fast his (or her, your, etc.) feet won't touch (the ground)
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So stupid that he (or she) can't chew gum and walk straight at the same time
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So sue me!
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So what?
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So what else is new?
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Sock it to me!
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Soft as shit and twice as nasty, as
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Softly, softly, catchee monkey
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Sold to the man (or woman) in the…
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Some hope!
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Some like it hot
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Some mothers do ‘ave (or have) 'em!
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Some of my best friends are Jews
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Some say…—others (or I) say
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Somebody up there likes me (or you)
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Something is rotten in the state of Denmark
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Something nasty in the woodshed, he (or she) has seen
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Sometimes I wonder!
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Sort out the men from the boys, that'll
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Spare my blushes!
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Sparrows flying out of one's backside, like
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Speak softly and carry a big stick
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Spell it out for you?, do I have to
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Spending money as if it were going out of fashion
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Spot on!
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Spray it again, will you?
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Squeeze till the pips squeak
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Stand by to repel boarders!
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Stand up and be counted!
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Steal anything that's not too hot or too heavy, he'd (or she'd, etc.)
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Step outside and say that!
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Sticks like shit to a blanket, he (or she)
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Stop me if you've heard it (or this one)
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Stop the world, I want to get off
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Stopped the show, he (or she)
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Story of my life!, (that's) the an
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Strong, silent type, (a or the)
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Suck it and see!
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Sucking (on) the hind tit
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Sure thing!
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Surprise me!
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Surprise! surprise!
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Surprised? you could have fucked me through my oilskins!
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Ta-ta for now!
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Take a running jump at yourself! (, go and)
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Take all you want: take two!
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Take me to your leader!
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Take your finger out!
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Talk about laugh!
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Tall, dark and handsome
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Tell it like it is
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Tell me another!
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Tell me news (—that's ancient history)!
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Tell me something I don't know!
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Tell that to the marines!
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Tell you what!
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Ten a penny
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Tennis, anyone?
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Tgif
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Thank you for having me
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Thank you for nothing! I
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Thank you for sharing that with us
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Thank you for those few kind words
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Thanks, but no thanks!
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Thanks for having me
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Thanks for nothing!
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That adds up
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That ain't hay!
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That beats working
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That makes two of us
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That really rattled his (or her) cage
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That shook him (or her)!
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That shouldn't happen to a dog!
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That takes the cake!
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That was no lady: that was my wife
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That went down like a lead balloon
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That won't wash!
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That would be telling!
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That'll be the day
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That'll put lead in your pencil
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That'll separate (or sort out) the men from the boys
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That's a cinch
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That's a good question!
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That's a good'un (or one)!
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That's a hell of a note!
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That's a hell of a way to run a railway (or railroad)!
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That's a horse of another (or a different) colour
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That's a load of old cobblers!
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That's a new one on me
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That's a rhyme if you take it in time
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That's a turn-up for the book!
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That's a very good question!
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That's a whole nother matter
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That's about par for the course
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That's about the size of it
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That's all I need!
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That's all she wrote
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That's all water under the bridge
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That's another can of worms
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That's anyone's bet
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That's flat!
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That's for me to know and you to find out
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That's for the birds
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That's going some!
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That's life!
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That's made my day
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That's mighty (or damn) white of you!
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That's more like it!
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That's my boy!
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That's my story and I'm sticking to it
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That's no lady: that's my wife
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That's not cricket!
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That's not my department
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That's one for the book
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That's put the (tin) lid on it
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That's showbiz for you!
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That's something else (again)
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That's something like it!
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That's straight from central casting
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That's strictly bush
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That's strictly for the birds
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That's that
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That's the name of the game
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That's the sixty-four (thousand) dollar question!
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That's the stuff to give the troops!
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That's the ticket!
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That's the way it goes
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That's life!
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That's the way the ball bounces a less common synonym of that's the way the cookie crumbles.
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That's the way the cookie crumbles
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That's the way the ball bounces
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That's the whole ball of wax
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That's too bad!
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That's torn it!
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That's what you think!
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That's where it's at
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That's your best bet
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That's your funeral
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That's your lot!
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Then the shit'll hit the fan
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There ain't no justice!
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There ain't no such animal
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There ain't nobody here but us chickens!
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There and back
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There are no flies on him (or her)
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There are no two ways about it
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There are only a few of us left
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There are plenty more fish in the sea
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There he stood with his finger in his ass
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There is always (a) tomorrow
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There must be an easier way (or easier ways) of making a living
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There ought to be a law against it!
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There's a nigger in the woodpile
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There's gold in them thar hills
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There's life in the old dog yet
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There's no answer to that!
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There's no harm in trying
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There's no rest for the wicked!
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There's no two ways about it
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There's nowt so queer as folk
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There's one born every minute
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There's (plenty) more where that came from
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There's safety in numbers
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There's trouble at t'mill
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They charge like the Light Brigade (or a wounded bull)
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They don't yell, they don't tell, and they're very (very) grateful
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They fit where they touch
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They think their shit doesn't stink
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They went thataway
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They're two (or ten) a penny
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Thick as two short planks (, as)
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Things ain't what they used to be
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Things I do for you!, the
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Think nothing of it!
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Thinks his (or her) shit doesn't stink, he (or she)
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Thinks the sun shines out of (sb's) arsehole, he (or she) he (or she)
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This hurts me more than it hurts you
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this I must hear (or see)!
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This is a bit of all right!
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This is going to hurt me more than it hurts you
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This is so sudden!
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This is something like!
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This is the end!
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This is the life!
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This is where the men are separated from the boys
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This is where we came in
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This is your captain speaking
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This week's deliberate mistake
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This will hurt me more than it hurts you
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This won't buy (the) baby a frock
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Though I says it as shouldn't
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Thought you'd never ask! (, I)
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Throws money around like a man with no arms
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Till death us do (or do us) part
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Till hell freezes over
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Time, gentlemen, please: haven't any of you got a home to go to?
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Time I wasn't here (, it's)
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To coin a phrase
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Today…, tomorrow the world!
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Tonight's the night!
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Too bloody Irish!
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Too many chiefs and not enough Indians
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Too too
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Touch wood!
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Tough act to follow
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Tough shit!
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Tough titty!
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Trouble at t'mill (, there's)
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Try it on the dog! (, let's)
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Try this for size!
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Ttfn
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Twisting slowly, slowly in the wind
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Two cents' worth
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U
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Unaccustomed as I am to public speaking
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Unhand me, villain (or sir)!
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Up Alice's
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Up and down like a bride's nightie
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Up, Guards, and at'em!
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Up shit creek without a paddle
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Use your imagination
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V
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Ve haf vays of making you talk
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Vergin' on the ridiculous
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Very interesting… but stupid! a catch
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Very nice too! (, and)
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Vive la différence!
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Vote early and often
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W
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Wait and see!
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Wait for it!
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Wake up and smell the coffee!
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Wakey, wakey!
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Wanna fight? I'll hold your coat
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Want to make something of it?
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Warts and all
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Was my (or his, her, etc.) face red!
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Watch my dust!
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Watch my lips
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Watch the dicky bird!
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Water under the bridge, it's (or that's) all
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We aim to please
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We all have our moments
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We are not alone
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We are not amused
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We can't go on (or we must stop) meeting like this
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We have ways of making you talk
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We speak the same language
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We was (or wuz) robbed!
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We're in business
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We're just good friends
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We've got a right one'ere!
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Wear it in health
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Welcome aboard!
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Well, I (do) declare!
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Well, I like that!
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Well, if you knows of a better'ole(, go toit)!
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Well, what do you know!
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Went down like a lead balloon, it (or that)
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Went thataway, he (or they)
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Were you born in a barn?
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Wha' hap'?
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Wham, bam, thank you, ma'am
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What a life!
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What a nerve!
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What a shower!
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What a turn-up for the book!
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What a way to run a railway (or railroad)!
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What about the workers?
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What can you expect from a pig but a grunt?
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What did your last servant die of?
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What do you know!
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What do you take me for?
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What do you think that is—Scotch mist?
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What do you want—jam on it?
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What else did you get for Christmas?
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What else is new? (, so)
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What gives?
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What goes up must come down
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What has he (or she) got that I haven't (got)?
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What have you got to lose?
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What says the enemy?
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What the well-dressed…is wearing usually
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What was the name of the engine-driver?
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What will they think of next?
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What would happen if you were in an accident?
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What would shock me would make a pudding crawl
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What you see is what you get
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What does a man have to do to get a beer around here?
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What's a nice girl like you doing in a place like this?
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What's (all) this in aid of?
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What's bit you?
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What's cooking?
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What's eating you?
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What's happening?
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What's it to you?
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What's new? what's the news? Since World War II
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What's that when it's at home?
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What's the big idea?
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What's the damage? what's the cost?; how much do I
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What's the difference between a chicken?
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What's the dirt?
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What's the drill?
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What's the form?
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What's the score?
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What's this in aid of?
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What's up, Doc?
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What's your beef?
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What's yours is mine, and what's mine is my own
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Whatever turns you on
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Wheel it on!
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When all else fails, read the instructions!
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When did your last servant die?
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When he says ‘frog', she jumps
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When hell freezes over
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When push comes to shove
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When the shit hits the fan
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When will the ghost walk?
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When you gotta go, you gotta go! used jocularly, especially when excusing oneself to go to the lavatory. The phrase may have originated as a reference to mortality, in US gangster films of the 1930s or (in British usage) during World War II.
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When you were just a gleam in your father's eye
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When you were wearing short pants
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When you've quite finished
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When you've seen one, you've seen'em all
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Where have you been all my life?
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Where the nuts come from
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Where's he (or she) coming from?
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Where's the beef?
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Where's the fire?
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Which would you rather, or go fishing?
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White man speak with forked tongue
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Who am I to contradict him (or her)?
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Who are these guys?
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Who kicked your kennel?
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Who looks at the mantelpiece when poking the fire?
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Who needs it? I
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Who rattled your cage?
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Who's a pretty boy then?
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Who's afraid of the big bad wolf?
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Who's counting?
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Who's for tennis?
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Who's he (or she) when he's (or she's) at home?
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Who's minding the shop (or store)?
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Who's ‘she' the cat's mother?
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Who's (that) taking my name in vain?
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Who's up who (and who's paying the rent)?
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Whole new ball game, it's a
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Why don't you drop dead!
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Why is a mouse when it spins?
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Wind changes you'll get stuck like that, if the
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Wish you were here
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With bells on
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With brass fittings
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With difficulty!
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With friends like that, who needs enemies?
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With knobs on
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With me? (or you!)
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With thumb in bum and mind in neutral
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Wogs begin at Calais
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Women and children first!
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Word in your shell-like, a
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Words fail me I
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Work is the curse of the drinking classes
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Worse things happen at sea
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Would you believe
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Would you buy a used (or second-hand) car from this man?
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Wrong business, I'm (or we're, you're, etc.) in the
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X
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X marks the spot
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Y
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Ye gods and little fishes!
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Yer blood's worth bottling
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Yes sir, no sir, three bags full, sir
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Yes, we have no bananas
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You ain't'art a one!
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You ain't heard (or seen) nothin' yet!
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You and me both!
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You and whose army?
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You are a one!
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You are awful (, but I like you)! (, ooh)
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You are Mr Lobby Lud
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You beaut!
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You bet your life!
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You better believe it!
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You can go off (some) people, you know
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You can put (or shove) it where the monkey put (or shoved) the nuts
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You can say that again!
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You can spray that again!
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You can talk!
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You can't take him (or her) anywhere!
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You can't take it with you
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You can't think!
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You can't win!
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You can't win'em all!
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You could have fooled me
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You come home with your knickers torn and say you found the money!
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You could twist my arm
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You dirty rat!
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You don't get many of those to the pound
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You don't have to be mad to work here, but it helps
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You don't say!
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You don't shit on your own doorstep
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You haven't got the brains you were born with!
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You heard!
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You hum it and I'll pick up the tune
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You kill me!
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You know what?
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You know what you can do with it
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You look good enough to eat
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You must be joking!
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You must be out of your cotton-picking (or tiny) mind!
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You must think I'm made of money!
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You name it, we have it
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You need eyes in your backside!
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You need your head examined!
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You never know your luck
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You pays your money and you takes your choice
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You play the cards you're dealt
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You said a mouthful!
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You said it!
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You say the nicest things
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You slay me!
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You were just a gleam in your father's eye
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You what?
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You win some (or a few). you lose some (or a few)
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You'd forget your head if it wasn't screwed on (properly)
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You'll be a long time dead
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You'll hate yourself in the morning
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You're a big girl (or boy) now
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You're a dirty stop-out
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You're a long time dead
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You're all heart!
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You're breaking my heart
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You're damned if you do and damned if you don't
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You're full of shit!
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You're getting a big girl (or boy) now
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You're joking!
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You're not the only pebble on the beach
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You're so sharp you'll cut yourself
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You're telling me!
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You're the expert
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You've forgotten the piano!
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You've got a nerve!
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You've got a one-track mind
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You've got another think coming
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You've got it made
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You've got something there!
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You've got to be in it to win it
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You've got to be joking!
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You've made my day
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You've never had it so good
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You've talked me into it
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Your best friend won't tell you
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Your education has been sadly neglected
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Your friendly neighbourhood…
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Your funeral, it's (or that's)
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Your guess is as good as mine