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A Day In The
Life
( The Beatles song )
A
Life
Less Ordinary ( Ewan McGregor / Cameron Diaz movie )
A dog is for life, not just for Christmas
A
life
changing experience
A
life
for a
life
A
life
on the ocean waves
A man who is tired of London is tired of
life
A
person
is known by the company he keeps
A whole different
animal
( Frontier Airlines advertising slogan )
Accelerate your
life
( US Navy advertising slogan )
All
human
life
is there ( News Of The World advertising slogan )
All part of life's rich pattern
All part of life's rich tapestry
All walks of
life
Always Look On The Bright Side Of
Life
( Monty Python's Flying Circus song )
And for the
life
of me I don't know why ( A catchphrase from David Letterman )
Animal
Crackers ( Marx Brothers movie )
Animal
Farm ( George Orwell book )
Animal
attraction
Animal
instinct
Animal
liberation
Animal
magic
Animal
magnetism
Animal
rights
Anything for a quiet
life
Appetite for
life
Are You Being Served? ( BBC comedy television series )
Art imitating
life
Art is long and
life
is short
As if your
life
depended on it
As large as
life
As large as
life
and twice as handsome
Bane of my
life
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Be there in
spirit
Because life's complicated enough ( Abbey National advertising slogan )
Being For The Benefit Of Mr. Kite! ( The Beatles song )
Being There
Blessed are the cheese makers ( line from Monty Python's
Life
of Brian )
Boat
person
Body painting ( a form of painting that uses the
human
body as a canvas )
Bonus genius ( a good
spirit
accompanying and supporting someone )
Bread of
life
Breathe new
life
into
Build A Better
Life
By Stealing Office Supplies ( Dilbert )
Cash if you die, cash if you don't ( Lloyd's
Life
Insurance advertising slogan )
Cat
person
Catch that Pepsi spirit. Drink it in, drink it in, drink it in ( Pepsi advertising slogan )
Celebrate the Moments of Your
Life
( General Foods International Coffee advertising slogan )
Change of
life
Circle Of
Life
( Elton John song )
Creature
comforts
Creature
of habit
Depart this
life
Design for
life
Displaced
person
Dog's
life
Don't you just love being in control? ( British Gas advertising slogan )
Elixir of
life
Enter into the
spirit
of it
Evening
person
Every time a bell rings, an angel gets it's wings ( line from It's A Wonderful
Life
)
Facts of
life
Famous for being famous
Far better for being near to you ( The Chesham Building Society advertising slogan )
Figure painting ( a form of painting in which the
human
body is the subject )
Finer things of
life
First among equals ( the most senior
person
in a group of equal rank )
Flavor of
Life
( Utada Hikaru song )
For
life
( Volvo advertising slogan )
For the rest of your
life
( Adjustamatic Beds advertising slogan )
For the time being
Free
spirit
Friends for
life
Gee, I wish I had a nickel (
Life
Savers Candy advertising slogan )
Get a
life
Get on in
life
Gift of
life
Good for Life! ( Dr Pepper advertising slogan )
Got To Get You Into My
Life
( The Beatles song )
Grab
life
by the horns ( Dodge Motors advertising slogan )
Half
life
Hang on for dear
life
Has it changed your
life
yet? ( Compaq advertising slogan )
Have you any last requests? ( humorous question asked as though a
person
was about to be killed )
He's not the Messiah, he's a very naughty boy ( line from the movie
Life
of Brian )
Heavy hitter ( A baseball expression meaning a powerful or commanding
person
)
High
life
His life's an open book
Hold on for dear
life
Hope springs eternal in the
human
breast ( from a poem by Alexander Pope )
Human
Rights Act
Human
condition
Human
error
Human
kind cannot bear very much reality ( from a poem by Eliot )
Human
nature
Human
resources
Human
rights
I bear a charmed
life
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I married my husband for life, not for lunch
I swear on my mother's
life
I'm free! ( A catchphrase from Mr Humphries In Are You Being Served? )
I'm only
human
If I've only one life, let me live it as a blonde! ( Clairol Hair Colouring advertising slogan )
If
life
deals you lemons made lemonade
If
life
were like that, you wouldn't need a VISA card ( VISA advertising slogan )
If only everything in
life
was as reliable as a Volkswagen ( Volkswagen advertising slogan )
If you're not busy being born, you're busy dying ( Bob Dylan song lyric )
In
person
In the midst of
life
we are in death
In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life: it goes on ( Robert Frost quotation )
Into every
life
a little rain must fall
It is better to remain silent at the risk of being thought a fool, than to talk and remove all doubt of it ( Maurice Switzer quotation )
It was the night before Christmas and all round the house, not a
creature
was stirring, not even a mouse
It's A Wonderful
Life
( James Stewart movie )
It's Miller time! ( Miller High
Life
advertising slogan )
It's
life
Jim, but not as we know it ( A catchphrase from Star Trek )
It's not the men in your
life
it's the
life
in your men that counts
Kindred
spirit
Kiss of
life
Large as
life
and twice as handsome
Larger than
life
Lay down your
life
Lead a charmed
life
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Lead a dog's
life
Life
On Mars? ( David Bowie song )
Life
after death
Life
and death struggle
Life
and limb
Life
and soul of the party
Life
begins at forty
Life
coach
Life
force
Life
goes on
Life
in the fast lane
Life
is a bed of roses
Life
is a sexually transmitted disease
Life
is better Twisted ( Tropicana Twister advertising slogan )
Life
is but a vale of tears
Life
is full of misery, loneliness, and suffering - and it's all over much too soon ( Woody Allen line )
Life
is just a bowl of cherries
Life
is just one damned thing after another
Life
is our life's Work ( Pfizer advertising slogan )
Life
is rosy
Life
is stimulating enough ( Like Cola advertising slogan )
Life
is what happens to you while you're busy making other plans ( John Lennon quotation )
Life
is what happens while you are busy doing other things
Life
is what you make it
Life
lesson
Life
of its own
Life
partner
Life
size
Life
support
Life's a beach
Life's a bitch then you die
Life's a breeze
Life's like that
Life's little luxuries
Life's not all beer and skittles
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Life's not all moonlight and roses
Life's simple pleasures
Life's too short
Life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness
Like being savaged by a dead sheep
Live Your
Life
( T.I. with Rihanna song )
Live
life
in Comfort ( Comfort fabric softener advertising slogan )
Love
life
Love of
life
Low
life
Made the American Way ( Miller High
Life
advertising slogan )
Make
life
difficult
Makes you feel
human
again ( Solpadeine advertising slogan )
Mama always said that
life
is like a box of chocolates. You never know what you're gonna get ( line from the movie Forrest Gump )
Matter of
life
and death
Mikey likes it (
Life
cereal advertising slogan )
More
human
interest ( Washington Mutual advertising slogan )
Morning
person
Mortal
remains
My one regret in
life
is that I am not someone else ( Woody Allen line )
New lease on
life
No music, no
life
( Tower Records advertising slogan )
Not for the
life
of me
Not my type ( not a
person
one is attracted to )
Not on your
life
Of
Human
Bondage ( Bette Davis movie )
One of life's little ironies
Only
human
Partners for
life
Party
animal
People
person
Pepsi's got your taste for
life
( Pepsi advertising slogan )
Person
of interest
Person
to
person
Political
animal
Pond
life
Portrait painting ( a form of painting in which the
human
face is the subject )
Potty mouth ( a foul mouthed
person
)
Prime of
life
Private
life
Prolongs active
life
( PAL dog food advertising slogan )
Pure
life
( Nestle Aberfoyle Natural Spring Water advertising slogan )
Risk
life
and limb
Run For Your
Life
( The Beatles song )
Run for your
life
Say the magic word and win $100 dollars ( A catchphrase from Groucho Marx In You Bet Your
Life
)
Schooldays are the happiest days of your
life
Sex
life
Shuffle off this
mortal
coil
Simple
life
Slice of
life
Smells Like Teen
Spirit
( Nirvana song )
So no one told you
life
was gonna be this way
Staff of
life
Still
life
( a form of painting in which inanimate objects are the subject )
Story of my
life
Such is
life
Supreme being
Take your
life
Take your
life
in your hands
Team
spirit
Teeming with
life
That's
Life
( Frank Sinatra song )
That's
life
That's the
spirit
The
Animal
( Nickname of Edmundo )
The Champagne of Beers ( Miller High
Life
advertising slogan )
The Drive of your
life
( Peugeot advertising slogan )
The
Human
Eraser ( Nickname of Marvin Webster )
The
Human
Highlight Reel ( Nickname of Dominique Wilkins )
The
Human
Rain Delay ( Nickname of Mike Hargrove )
The
Human
Termite ( Nickname of Joe Interleggi )
The
Human
Victory Cigar ( Nickname of Darko Milicic )
The Hypochondriac's Guide To
Life
And Death ( Gene Weingarten book )
The Importance Of Being Earnest ( Oscar Wilde book )
The Importance of Being Ernest ( play by Oscar Wilde )
The
Life
And Times Of Judge Roy Bean ( Paul Newman movie )
The
Spirit
of American Style ( Buick advertising slogan )
The
animal
kingdom
The best things in
life
are free
The breath of
life
The company you keep ( New York
Life
advertising slogan )
The happiest days of your
life
The
human
race
The
life
of Riley
The light of my
life
The love of my
life
The milk of
human
kindness
The most
human
handset ( DiStar advertising slogan )
The person, be it gentleman or lady, who has not pleasure in a good novel, must be intolerably stupid ( Jane Austen quotation )
The smallest worm will turn, being trodden on
The
spirit
is willing but the flesh is weak
The
spirit
of '76 ( Unocal advertising slogan )
The unexamined
life
is not worth living ( philosophical opinion by Socrates )
The walk of
life
There's
life
in the old dog yet
There's no
life
like it ( Canadian Armed Forces advertising slogan )
This is the
life
This is your
life
Time of your
life
To err is human, but to really foul things up requires a computer
To the
life
Today is the first day of the rest of your
life
Today something we do will touch your
life
( Union Carbide and Carbon advertising slogan )
Toilet mouth ( a foul mouthed
person
)
Up and down like the Ottoman Empire ( line from Monty Python's
Life
Of Brian )
Variety is the spice of
life
Want him to be more of a man? Try being more of a woman! ( Coty Perfumes advertising slogan )
Wardrobe mistress ( a
person
in charge of the costumes of a theatrical company )
Water of
life
We bring good things to
life
( General Electric advertising slogan )
What a revoltin' development this is ( The
Life
Of Riley )
What is this
life
if, full of care, we have no time to stand and stare ( from a poem by Davies )
Where there's life, there's Bud ( Budweiser Beer advertising slogan )
Where there's life, there's hope
Wishing your
life
away
Without music,
life
would be a mistake ( Friedrich Nietzsche quotation )
Work
life
balance
You Are The Sunshine Of My
Life
( Stevie Wonder song )
You are in a Beauty Contest Every Day of your
Life
( Camay Soap advertising slogan )
You light up my
life
You'll never put a better bit of butter on your knife ( Country
Life
butter advertising slogan )
Your money or your
life