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>A list of phrases containing the word "act"...
A list of phrases containing the word "act"...
A class act
Act of God
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Act out
Act the fool
Act the giddy goat
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Act the part
Act up
Act white
Act your age
Balancing act
Caught in the act
Class act
Clean up your act
Couldn't act his way out of a paper bag
Do a disappearing act
Double act
Foot in the bucket ( A baseball expression meaning to act timidly or cowardly )
Get in on the act
Get your act together
Hard act to follow
High wire act
Human Rights Act
In on the act
Phone it in ( perform an act in an uncommitted disinterested manner )
Play hardball ( A baseball expression meaning to be or act tough or aggressive )
Put on an act
Random act of kindness
Read the riot act
Sister Act ( Whoopie Goldberg movie )
The act you've known for all these years ( Beatles song lyric )
The cat who doesn't act finicky soon loses control of his owner ( 9 Lives Cat Food advertising slogan )
Think global, act local
Think globally, act locally ( Friends of the Earth advertising slogan )
Triple play ( A baseball expression denoting the act of making three outs during the same play )
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