- A nation of shopkeepers
- A piece of the action
- A spanner in the works
- A1 at Lloyds
- Above my pay grade
- All publicity is good publicity
- All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy
- Another day, another dollar
- As busy as a one-armed paperhanger
- As busy as a bee
- As mad as a hatter
- Backroom boy
- Bean counter
- Bricks and clicks
- Bring home the bacon
- Buckle down
- Burning the midnight oil
- Canteen culture
- Cheap at half the price
- Elbow-grease
- Everybody out
- Friday afternoon car
- Give a man a fish and you will feed him for a day
- Grist to the mill
- Have your work cut out
- Jack of all trades, master of none
- Knuckle down
- Market forces
- Men in suits
- Movers and shakers
- My way or the highway
- Never knowingly undersold
- Nothing is certain but death and taxes
- Nothing succeeds like success
- On the dole
- One stop shop
- Piece of the action
- Point-and-click
- Queer Street
- Sex and shopping
- Stump up
- The balance of trade
- The customer is always right
- There's no such thing as a free lunch – Tanstaafl
- There's no such thing as bad publicity
- Vorsprung Durch Technik
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