Genesis Phrases

Phrases

• A good beginning makes a good ending
• Adam's ale
• Adam's apple
• Begin at the beginning
• Bible basher
• Big Donkey (Nickname of baseball players Billy Butler and Adam Dunn)
• Bump start
• Calendar year (twelve months beginning from the first of January)
• Doubt is the beginning not the end of wisdom
• Fresh start
• From the beginning of time
• Gentlemen, start your engines
• Get off to a bad start
• Get off to a flying start
• Head start
• I don't know him from Adam
• If enough people would stop smoking and start drinking, we could get out of ashtrays and into vermouth (Cinzano advertising slogan)
• In the beginning was the word
• It's beginning to look a lot like Christmas
• Jump start
• Kelloggs, because your best days start with breakfast (Kelloggs advertising slogan)
• Kick start
• Make a fresh start
• New start
• Not the beginning of the end, but the end of the beginning
• On The Origin Of Species (Charles Darwin book)
• One for sorrow, two for mirth, three for a wedding, four for a birth
• Separated at birth
• Start again
• Start from scratch
• Start over
• Start the ball rolling
• The Bible Belt
• The Birth of a Nation (D W Griffith / Lillian Gish movie)
• The Donkey (Nickname of Adam Dunn)
• The Stache (Nickname of Adam Morrison)
• The beginning of the end
• The glorious twelfth (of August - the start of the British grouse shooting season)
• The race is not to the swift, nor the battle to the strong (quotation from the Bible - Ecclesiastes
• The start of a beautiful friendship
• To boldly go where no man has gone before (A catchphrase from Start Trek)
• Would you Adam and Eve it? (Cockney rhyming slang for would you believe it?)