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A cat may
look
at a king
A class
act
A
move
in the right direction
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
Ahead of his time
Ahead of the game
All I
know
is what I read in the papers ( Will Rogers quotation )
Always
Look
On The Bright Side Of Life ( Monty Python's Flying Circus song )
And don't I
know
it
And for the life of me I don't
know
why ( A catchphrase from David Letterman )
As sober as a
judge
Assume
nothing
Back office bean
counter
Balancing
act
Be the first to
know
( CNN advertising slogan )
Bean
counter
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Better the Devil you
know
than the Devil you don't
Blank
look
Bold
move
Bust a
move
( dance in a stylish way )
Career limiting
move
Caught in the
act
Class
act
Clean up your
act
Cooks who
know
trust Crisco ( Crisco Vegetable Shortening advertising slogan )
Couldn't
act
his way out of a paper bag
Counter
intelligence
Did the earth
move
for you
Dirty
look
Do They
Know
It's Christmas? ( Band Aid song )
Do You Want To
Know
A Secret? ( Beatles song )
Do a disappearing
act
Do you
know
the piano's on my foot?
Does my bum
look
big in this? ( A catchphrase from The Fast Show )
Doesn't
know
beans
Doesn't
know
his arse from a hole in the ground
Doesn't
know
his arse from his elbow
Doesn't
know
shit from Shinola
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Don't
Look
Now ( Julie Christie / Donald Sutherland movie )
Don't keep us in suspense
Don't
know
Dick
Don't
know
what to do with yourself
Don't
know
which way to
look
Don't
know
your born
Don't
look
a gift horse in the mouth
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Don't you
know
there's a war on? ( WWII slogan )
Double
act
Everything You Wanted To
Know
About Sex But Were Afraid To Ask ( Woody Allen movie )
Expect
the unexpected
Faith will
move
mountains
Faraway
look
Fit But You
Know
It ( The Streets' song )
Foot in the bucket ( A baseball expression meaning to
act
timidly or cowardly )
For all I
know
Forgive them for they
know
not what they do
Funny, you don't
look
Jewish
Get a
move
on
Get in on the
act
Get your
act
together
Good things come to those who
wait
( Guinness advertising slogan )
Hanging
judge
Hard
act
to follow
Have a Captain Cook ( Cockney rhyming slang for
look
)
Have a
look
Heaven Can
Wait
( Warren Beatty movie )
Here comes de
judge
( A catchphrase from Rowan and Martin's Laugh In )
High wire
act
Human Rights
Act
Hurry up and
wait
I Like To
Move
It ( Reel 2 Reel song )
I don't
know
him from Adam
I don't
know
much about art but I
know
what I like
I
know
I packed it ( Horlicks advertising slogan )
I
know
nothing! ( A catchphrase from Hogan's Heroes )
I
look
at the world and I notice it's turning ( The Beatles song lyric )
I may not
know
much about art, but I
know
what I like
I'm Sexy And I
Know
It ( LMFAO song )
I've been cheated by you since I don't
know
when ( ABBA lyric )
If you haven't looked at Ford lately,
look
again ( Ford Cars advertising slogan )
If you're happy and you
know
it, clap your hands
In on the
act
In the
know
It takes one to
know
one
It's The End Of The World As We
Know
It ( R.E.M. song )
It's beginning to
look
a lot like Christmas
It's life Jim, but not as we
know
it ( A catchphrase from Star Trek )
It's not what you
know
it's who you
know
Judge
Judy
Judge
not, that ye be not judged
Jump the gun
Know
all
Know
all the answers
Know
backwards
Know
by heart
Know
by sight
Know
for a fact
Know
full well
Know
how
Know
how many beans make five
Know
like the back of your hand
Know
no pity
Know
someone in the biblical sense
Know
the ropes
Know
the score
Know
thyself
Know
too much
Know
what you are about
Know
what's what
Know
where we stand
Know
which end is up
Know
which side your bread is buttered
Know
your enemy
Know
your stuff
Let me not
judge
anyone until I have walked a mile in his moccasins
Lie in
wait
Look
Ma, no cavities! ( Crest Toothpaste advertising slogan )
Look
a fright
Look
after number one
Look
after the pennies and the pounds will
look
after themselves
Look
alive
Look
and feel
Look
away now
Look
before you leap
Look
both ways
Look
daggers
Look
death in the eye
Look
down on
Look
down your nose
Look
for the Golden Arches ( McDonald's advertising slogan )
Look
in on
Look
into
Look
lively
Look
ma, no hands!
Look
no further
Look
on my works, ye mighty, and despair ( from a poem by Shelley )
Look
out
Look
out for number one
Look
over
Look
over your shoulder
Look
sharp
Look
sharp, feel sharp ( Gillette advertising slogan )
Look
someone up and down
Look
that up in your Funk and Wagnalls! ( A catchphrase from Rowan And Martin's Laugh-In )
Look
the other way
Look
to your laurels
Look
up to
Look
what the cat dragged in
Look
who's talking?
Look
you bach
Look
your best while you wear our least ( Jockey Shorts advertising slogan )
Look, no hands
Looking forward to
Love, love me do, you
know
I love you ( Beatles song lyric )
Mad, bad and dangerous to
know
Make a
move
on
Make your
move
Mother Superior jumped the gun ( Beatles song lyric )
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
Never
judge
a book by its cover
Never
look
a gift horse in the mouth
Never
look
back
Not a lot of people
know
that ( A catchphrase from Michael Caine )
Old fashioned
look
On a need to
know
basis
On the
move
One Of Us Must
Know
( Bob Dylan song )
One half of the world does not
know
how the other half lives
One step ahead
Over the teeth and through the gums,
look
out stomach here it comes
Phone it in ( perform an
act
in an uncommitted disinterested manner )
Play hardball ( A baseball expression meaning to be or
act
tough or aggressive )
Pre-emptive strike
Prepare for the worst
Prepare to rock
Put on an
act
Random
act
of kindness
Read the riot
act
Save it for the
judge
Schhh! You
know
who? ( Schweppes advertising slogan )
Sexy and I
Know
It ( LMFAO song )
Sister
Act
( Whoopie Goldberg movie )
Smooth
move
Somebody That I Used to
Know
( Gotye with Kimbra song )
Stop,
Look
and Listen; remember the Green Cross Code ( UK Road Safety Campaign advertising slogan )
Suck it up ( accept a bad situation and
move
on )
Take a butchers ( Cockney rhyming slang for
look
)
Take a cold hard
look
That Friday feeling ( anticipation of the weekend after a hard working week )
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Roy Bean ( Paul Newman 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 )
The end of civilization as we
know
it
The husband is always the last to
know
The
look
is Immac-ulate ( Immac Depilatory advertising slogan )
The right hand doesn't
know
what the left hand is doing
The
wait
is over
They also serve who only stand and
wait
( from a poem by Milton )
Think global,
act
local
Think globally,
act
locally ( Friends of the Earth advertising slogan )
Time and tide
wait
for no man
To
Know
Him Is To Love Him ( Phil Spector song )
To
assume
makes an ass out of u and me
Tonic water by you
know
who ( Schweppes advertising slogan )
Triple play ( A baseball expression denoting the
act
of making three outs during the same play )
Under the
counter
Victory won't
wait
for the nation that's late ( Big Ben Clocks advertising slogan )
Wait
in line
Wait
just a cotton picking minute
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We
know
where the bodies are buried
We
know
where you live
We really
move
our tail for you ( Continental Airlines advertising slogan )
Well, she was just seventeen you
know
what I mean ( The Beatles song lyric )
What you don't
know
can't hurt you
When Saturday comes
Yeah, I
know
( A catchphrase from Little Britain )
You
Know
I'm No Good ( Amy Winehouse song )
You are now free to
move
about the country ( Southwest Airlines advertising slogan )
You be the
judge
You don't
know
jack
You don't
know
you are born
You don't
know
your ass from a hole in the ground
You don't
know
your own strength
You don't need a weather man to
know
which way the wind blows
You
know
it makes sense ( A catchphrase from Only Fools And Horses )
You
know
it makes sense ( Road Safety Campaign advertising slogan )
You
know
the drill
You
know
what sailors are
You
know
what? I'm happy ( A catchphrase from Droopy )
You
know
when you've been Tango'd ( Tango advertising slogan )
You
look
as if you've been dragged through a hedge backwards
You
look
as though you've seen the ghost
You look... Mahvelous! ( A catchphrase from Saturday Night Live )
You'll
look
a little lovelier each day, with fabulous pink Camay ( Camay Soap advertising slogan )
Your Mother Should
Know
( The Beatles song )