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A golden
key
can open any door
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All your
base
are belong to us ( broken English phrase used in the video game Zero Wing )
As
plain
as a pikestaff
As
plain
as day
As
plain
as the nose on your face
Back to basics
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Base
jumping
Base
station
Basic Instinct ( Sharon Stone movie )
Bog
standard
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Broad brush
Brown bag lunch
Caught off
base
( A baseball expression meaning unawares or by surprise )
Central
Park ( tourist attraction in New York USA )
Central
casting
Central
heating for kids ( Ready Brek porridge advertising slogan )
Come to the
Central
Park Zoo Cafeteria. Let the animals watch you eat for a change (
Central
Park Zoo advertising slogan )
Command
central
Core competencies
Core technology
Crayola colours
Double
standard
Fear Is The
Key
( Barry Newman movie )
Get to first
base
Get to first
base
with
Get to second
base
Hidden in
plain
sight
If God did not exist, it would be
necessary
to invent him
In
plain
sight
Is this trip necessary?
It's so
simple
( Polaroid advertising slogan )
Keep it real
Keep it
simple
stupid
Key
of the door ( Bingo call for number twenty one )
Key
to your heart
Life's
simple
pleasures
Lock him up and throw away the
key
Low
key
Make first
base
Makes sensible buying
simple
( Access Credit Card advertising slogan )
No frills
No introduction
necessary
Off
base
Off
key
Out of the box
Plain
Jane
Plain
sailing
Plain
speaking
Primal
Fear ( film starring Richard Gere )
Primal
Rage ( film and video game )
Primal
Scream ( a psychological treatment for neurosis )
Primal
fear ( Neurosis therapy and British rock band )
Primal
therapist ( psychotherapist who uses
Primal
Scream method of treatment )
Pure and
simple
Purl or
plain
Raw data
Rough and ready
Silver bullet ( a
simple
and seeming effortless solution to a difficult problem )
Simple
Simon met a pieman going to the fair ( line from nursery rhyme )
Simple
life
Simple
yet effective
Skeleton
key
Standard
of the World ( Cadillac advertising slogan )
Steal third
base
Summer time ( the time adopted during the summer in advance of the
standard
time )
The Gold
Standard
The
key
to a nice, relaxed evening ( Horlicks advertising slogan )
The rain in Spain falls mainly on the
plain
The truth is rarely pure and never
simple
( Oscar Wilde quotation )
Throw away the
key
Today the discriminating family finds it absolutely
necessary
to own two or more motor cars ( Buick advertising slogan )
Touch
base
Under lock and
key
Vital
signs
Vital
statistics
Vodka as it should be ( Russian
Standard
advertising slogan )
We make it
simple
( Honda advertising slogan )