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A Daniel
come
to judgement
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A bit previous
A
move
in the right direction
A work in
progress
Accelerate
your life ( US Navy advertising slogan )
Advance guard
Advance warning
Advanced
in years
Advanced
notice
Ahead
of his time
Ahead
of the curve
Ahead
of the game
Air
support
All Things Must
Pass
( George Harrison album )
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All access
pass
All good things must
come
to an end
All
rise
All things
come
to he who waits
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Any advance on
As mad as a
march
hare
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As tough as they
come
Balanced
approach
Beware the Ides of
March
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Boarding
pass
Bold
move
Bright and
early
Built for the road
ahead
( Ford Cars advertising slogan )
Bust a
move
( dance in a stylish way )
Can't
win
for losing
Career limiting
move
Carry
forward
Catches
win
matches
Change has
come
to America
Cheaters never win, and winners never cheat ( proverbial saying )
Climb
onto the bandwagon
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Climb
the corporate ladder
Climb
the greasy pole
Climb
the walls
Come
Alive! You're in the Pepsi Generation ( Pepsi advertising slogan )
Come
And Get It ( Badfinger song )
Come
Away with Me ( Norah Jones album )
Come
Fly With Me ( Frank Sinatra song )
Come
Into The Garden Maud ( Tennyson poem and Victorian song )
Come
On Baby Light My Fire ( The Doors song )
Come
On Over ( Shania Twain album )
Come
On Over ( Shania Twain song )
Come
Running ( Van Morrison song )
Come
Together ( The Beatles song )
Come
a cropper
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Come
about
Come
across
Come
again?
Come
and get it
Come
and talk to the listening bank ( Midland Bank advertising slogan )
Come
apart at the seams
Come
back for more
Come
between
Come
clean
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Come
down hard on
Come
down on someone like a ton of bricks
Come
down to earth with a bump
Come
down to the line
Come
easy to
Come
from behind
Come
full circle
Come
good
Come
hell or high water
Come
hither eyes
Come
home to Birds Eye Country ( Birds Eye Frozen Foods advertising slogan )
Come
home to a real fire ( Coal Board advertising slogan )
Come
home to roost
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Come
in from the cold
Come
into bloom
Come
into line
Come
into view
Come
into your own
Come
of age
Come
off it
Come
on down ( A catchphrase from The Price Is Right )
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Come
on in, the water's fine
Come
on like gangbusters
Come
on over
Come
on stream
Come
on women, man the factories ( WWII slogan )
Come
out
Come
out and play
Come
out fighting
Come
out in a cold sweat
Come
out in the wash
Come
out of the closet
Come
out of the woodwork
Come
out of your shell
Come
out on top
Come
out swinging
Come
out with your hands up
Come
out you're surrounded
Come
over all funny
Come
rain or shine
Come
round
Come
running
Come
the three corners of the world in arms
Come
to
Come
to Jesus
Come
to Marlboro Country ( Marlboro Cigarettes advertising slogan )
Come
to a head
Come
to a screeching halt
Come
to a sticky end
Come
to blows
Come
to fruition
Come
to grief
Come
to light
Come
to mama
Come
to nothing
Come
to papa
Come
to rest
Come
to the Central Park Zoo Cafeteria. Let the animals watch you eat for a change ( Central Park Zoo advertising slogan )
Come
to the aid of the party
Come
to the edge
Come
to the party
Come
to think of it
Come
to where the flavor is ( Marlboro Cigarettes advertising slogan )
Come
to your senses
Come
together right now over me ( Beatles song lyric )
Come
unstuck
Come
up and see me sometime ( A catchphrase from Mae West )
Come
up short
Come
up smelling of roses
Come
up trumps
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Come
up with
Come
up with the goods
Come
what
come
may
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Come
wind
come
weather
Come
with a begging bowl
Come
with me to the casbah ( A catchphrase from Charles Boyer )
Come
within an ace
Companion plant ( a plant grown near to another species to enhance its
growth
)
Court of last resort ( a legal court from which no
further
appeals may be made )
Daylight saving time ( the
adjustment
of clocks to provide longer evening daylight )
Did the earth
move
for you
Do not
pass
Go
Do you
come
here often?
Don't
come
the raw prawn
Don't cross the bridge till you
come
to it
Don't just travel.
Travel
right ( Expedia advertising slogan )
Don't
pass
gas ( American Legacy Foundation advertising slogan )
Dream
come
true
Drum up
support
Due a
win
Early
adopter
Early
bath
Early
bird
Early
black
Early
days
Early
doors
Early
riser
Early
to bed and
early
to
rise
makes a man healthy wealthy and wise
Easy
come
easy go
Ego
boost
Faith will
move
mountains
Fall and
Rise
of Reginald Perrin
Fast
forward
First
come
first served
Forge
ahead
Forward
Short Leg ( field position in the game of cricket )
Forward
momentum
Forward
with Britain ( Daily Mirror advertising slogan )
Forward
with the People ( Daily Mirror advertising slogan )
Front money
Full steam
ahead
Gain ground
Get a
move
on
Get on with it
Give someone a
boost
Go ahead, make my day ( A catchphrase from Sudden Impact )
Go directly to jail, do not
pass
go
God willing and the creek don't
rise
Going
forward
Good things
come
in small packages
Good things
come
in small parcels
Good things
come
in threes
Good things
come
to those who wait ( Guinness advertising slogan )
Growth
spurt
Hard to
come
by
Have gun, will
travel
( A catchphrase from TV series )
Head them off at the
pass
Heads I win, tails you lose
Heavenly host ( The angels that
support
God )
Here I
come
to save the day ( A catchphrase from Mighty Mouse )
Home
improvement
How To
Win
Friends And Influence People ( Dale Carnegie book )
How come?
I Like To
Move
It ( Reel 2 Reel song )
I've
come
here to chew bubblegum and kick ass... and I'm all out of bubblegum
Idea whose time has
come
If you build it they will
come
If you want to get ahead, get a hat ( Hat Council advertising slogan )
Improve
beyond recognition
It came to
pass
It's better to
travel
hopefully than to arrive
It's
come
to a pretty
pass
It's not whether you
win
or lose, it's how you play the game
It's the
early
bird that gets the worm
Johnny
come
lately
Just slightly
ahead
of our time ( Panasonic advertising slogan )
Khyber
pass
( Cockney rhyming slang for arse )
Kick the can
further
down the road
Leagues
ahead
Left right, left right,
march
Liar's
loan
Life
support
Little Boy Blue
come
blow your horn ( line from nursery rhyme )
Loan
shark
Look no
further
Looking
forward
to
Lost Another
loan
to Ditech! ( Ditech advertising slogan )
Make a
move
on
Make a
pass
at
Make giant strides
Make one's hackles
rise
Make your
move
March
Of The Penguins ( Morgan Freeman movie )
March
comes in like a lion and goes out like a lamb
March
from Bridge on the River Kwai ( Mitch Miller song )
March
of time
March
winds and April showers bring forth May flowers
Mount
Etna ( tourist attraction in Italy )
Mount
Fuji ( tourist attraction in Japan )
Mount
Rushmore ( tourist attraction in the USA )
Move
It On Over ( Hank Williams song )
Move
On Up a Little Higher ( Mahalia Jackson song )
Move
heaven and earth
Move
in the best circles
Move
over
Move
right along
Move
with the times
Moving
forward
( Toyota advertising slogan )
Mr.
March
( Nickname of Alex Rodriguez )
Must
win
game
My Boomerang Won't
Come
Back ( Charlie Drake song )
My ship has
come
in
Neck beard ( hair
growth
on the neck )
No win, no fee
Not backward in coming
forward
Now is the time for all good men to
come
to the aid of the party
On the
move
One jump
ahead
of
One step
ahead
One step forward, two steps back
Pass
by
Pass
down
Pass
it on
Pass
muster
Pass
my lips
Pass
off
Pass
on
Pass
out
Pass
over to the other side
Pass
sentence
Pass
the Dutchie ( Musical Youth song )
Pass
the baton
Pass
the buck
Pass
the hat
Pass
the parcel
Pass
the time of day
Pass
up
Pass
with flying colours
Plan
ahead
Play to
win
Post
early
for Christmas ( Post Office advertising slogan )
Praise the lord and
pass
the ammunition
Press
pass
( a priority ticket giving access to events to the media )
Progress
is our most important product ( General Electric advertising slogan )
Pump your money back into Canada ( Petro Canada,
early
advertising slogan )
Put the make on
Put your best foot
forward
Quit while you're
ahead
Rain, rain go away,
come
again another day ( line from nursery rhyme )
Raise a
loan
Restricted
growth
Rise
and shine
Rise
from the ashes
Rise
like a Phoenix from the ashes
Rise
through the ranks
Rise
to the bait
Rise
to the challenge
Rise
to the occasion
Rise
without trace
Rock And Roll Dreams
Come
True ( Meatloaf song )
Room for
improvement
Say the magic word and
win
$100 dollars ( A catchphrase from Groucho Marx In You Bet Your Life )
Ships that
pass
in the night
Simply years
ahead
( Philips advertising slogan )
Skim milk does not
come
from skinny cows ( Alba Dry Milk advertising slogan )
Smooth
move
Sneak
preview
Some day my prince will
come
Some day my prints will
come
Some you win: some you lose
Sparrow fart ( jokey term for the
early
morning )
Spring forward, Fall back
Stay
ahead
of the curve
Steal a
march
Streets
ahead
of
Stupid-o'-clock ( US army slang term that refers to any time very
early
in the morning )
Sub-prime
mortgage
Suck it up ( accept a bad situation and
move
on )
Summer time ( the time adopted during the summer in advance of the standard time )
Support
network
Take a Thomas Cook at our prices! ( Thomas Cook
Travel
advertising slogan )
Taste Me! Taste Me!
Come
on and Taste Me! ( Doral Cigarettes advertising slogan )
Temple
Mount
( tourist attraction in Israel )
Thank you,
come
again ( A catchphrase from Apu In The Simpsons )
The Delia Effect (
increase
in sales of food ingredients featured on Delia Smith's cookery shows )
The Mad
March
Hare
The
Mount
of Olives ( tourist attraction in Israel )
The Pilgrim's
Progress
( John Bunyan book )
The best is yet to
come
The chickens have
come
home to roost
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The court will
rise
The
early
bird catches the worm
The
rise
and fall of the Roman Empire
The shape of things to
come
The time has
come
the walrus said to talk of many things
The time has come, the Walrus said, to talk of many things, Carroll )
The wheel has
come
full circle
The wheels have
come
off
They never
come
back
They shall not
pass
Things to
come
This too shall
pass
Those who sleep with dogs will
rise
with fleas
Till the cows
come
home
Time
travel
To kingdom
come
To
travel
hopefully is a better thing than to arrive
Travel
broadens the mind
Travel
light
Travel
plans
Travel
well ( Lincoln advertising slogan )
Two steps
forward
and one step back
Wax
and wane
Wax
lyrical
Wax
wroth
We really
move
our tail for you ( Continental Airlines advertising slogan )
We will cross that bridge when we
come
to it
What a revoltin'
development
this is ( The Life Of Riley )
What goes up must
come
down
What has
come
over you?
When sorrows come, they
come
not single spies, but in battalions
When the bough breaks the cradle will fall, and down will
come
baby, cradle and all ( line from nursery rhyme )
When you
come
to think of it
Where you at? (
Boost
Mobile advertising slogan )
Who are you? ( Nintendo Game Boy Advance advertising slogan )
Whole ball of
wax
Why don't you
come
up sometime and see me? ( She Done Him Wrong )
Win
big
Win
by a head
Win
by a mile
Win
by a neck
Win
by a nose
Win
faster ( One Brand Group advertising slogan )
Win
friends and influence people
Win
lose or draw
Win
on points
Win
over
Win
some, lose some
Win
the day
Win
the wooden spoon
Win
win
situation
Win
your spurs
Without
further
ado
You are now free to
move
about the country ( Southwest Airlines advertising slogan )
You can't
win
them all
You have to be in it to
win
it
You
win
some: you lose some
You'd be so nice to
come
home to
You've
come
a long way, baby ( Virginia Slims Cigarettes advertising slogan )