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A
Short
History Of Nearly Everything ( Bill Bryson book )
A
Short
History Of Tractors In Ukrainian ( Marina Lewycka book )
A Spoonful Of Sugar Helps The Medicine Go
Down
( Julie Andrews song )
A burr
under
your saddle
A few bricks
short
of a full load
A few cards
short
of a full deck
All
hell
broke loose
Ankle
deep
Art is long and life is
short
As black as the Earl of Hell's waistcoat
As thick as two
short
planks
Atishoo atishoo all fall
down
Away go troubles
down
the drain ( Roto-Rooter advertising slogan )
Back
down
Bang, bang, Maxwell's silver hammer came
down
upon her head ( The Beatles song lyric )
Bat Out Of
Hell
( Meatloaf song )
Batten
down
the hatches
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Be
under
no illusion
Bear
down
Bear
down
on
Beat
hell
out of
Beauty is only skin
deep
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Bed
down
Below par
Below stairs
Below the belt
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Below the salt
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Beneath
contempt
Beneath
your dignity
Between the Devil and the
deep
blue sea
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Black Hawk
Down
( Ewan McGregor movie )
Bob up and
down
Bogged
down
Boils
down
to
Bolt
down
Boogie on
down
Born
Under
A Bad Sign ( Cream song )
Born
under
a bad sign
Born
under
a lucky star
Bow
down
before
Bread always falls butter side
down
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Breathing
down
your neck
Bring
down
Bring the house
down
Bring up
short
Brought
down
Brought
down
to earth
Bubble
under
Buckle
down
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Buckle
under
Buckle
under
the strain
Burn in
hell
Burning
Down
The House ( Talking Heads song )
By the hairs on my chinny chin chin, I'll blow your house
down
Calm
down
Calm down, calm
down
( A catchphrase from Harry Enfield In The Scousers )
Can't Slow
Down
( Lionel Richie album )
Cat in Hell's chance
Catch
hell
Caught by the
short
and curlies
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Caught
short
Caught with your pants
down
Caught with your trousers
down
Chow
down
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Chucking it
down
Clamp
down
on
Cold day in
Hell
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
hell
or high water
Come on
down
( A catchphrase from The Price Is Right )
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Come up
short
Cool
down
Couldn't put it
down
Cut a long story
short
Cut someone
down
in their prime
Cut someone
down
to size
Cut the ground from
under
your feet
Day late and a dollar
short
Death is nature's way of telling you to slow
down
Deep
Extra Cover ( field position in the game of cricket )
Deep
Fine Leg ( field position in the game of cricket )
Deep
Gully ( field position in the game of cricket )
Deep
Mid Wicket ( field position in the game of cricket )
Deep
Point ( field position in the game of cricket )
Deep
Square Leg ( field position in the game of cricket )
Deep
Throat ( Nickname of Mark Felt )
Deep
Web ( the part of the World Wide Web that is not indexed by search engine )
Deep
dark secret
Deep
in thought
Deep
linking
Deep
pockets
Deep
sea data diving
Deep
six
Deep
space
Deep
throat
Deep
web ( The part of the WWW not visible via standard search engines )
Deeper Than The
Deep
Blue Sea ( Frank Sinatra song )
Dial
down
( adjust a device to reduce sound or temperature )
Dig
deep
Don't Let The Sun Go
Down
On Me ( Elton John song )
Don't Sit
Under
The Apple Tree ( Glenn Miller tune )
Don't kick a man when he's
down
Don't let the bastards grind you
down
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Don't let the grass grow
under
your feet
Don't take it lying
down
Doss
down
Double
down
Down
Under
( Nickname of Australia )
Down
among the dead men
Down
and out
Down
at heel
Down
boy
Down
came a blackbird and pecked off her nose ( line from nursery rhyme )
Down
for the count
Down
in the dumps
Down
in the mouth
Down
it in one
Down
memory lane
Down
on all fours
Down
on his luck
Down
pat
Down
south
Down
the drain
Down
the hatch
Down
the pan
Down
the tubes
Down
to earth
Down
to the ground
Down
to the last out ( A baseball expression meaning to have one last chance )
Down
to the pub for a quick one
Down
to the wire
Down
tools
Dress
down
Dress
down
Friday
Dressing
down
Drill
down
Drop
down
dead
Drunk
under
the table
Dumbing
down
Dust
down
Everything
under
the sun
Evil
Under
The Sun ( Agatha Christie book )
Eye someone up and
down
Face
down
Factory farming ( rearing livestock
under
industrial conditions )
Fall
down
on the job
Falling
down
drunk
Fire
down
below
For the
hell
of it
Forward
Short
Leg ( field position in the game of cricket )
Garbage something
down
Get
down
Get
down
Shep ( A catchphrase from John Noakes On Blue Peter )
Get
down
and dirty
Get
down
and get funky
Get
down
to brass tacks
Get
down
to business
Get
down
with the kids
Get into
deep
water
Get the
hell
out of Dodge
Get the low
down
Get
under
way
Get
under
your feet
Get
under
your skin
Get your feet
under
the table
Get your head
down
Give someone
hell
Go
down
a storm
Go
down
fighting
Go
down
for the third time
Go
down
in flames
Go
down
on
Go
down
on bended knee
Go
down
the drain
Go
down
the tubes
Go
down
the wrong way
Go
down
to the wire
Go
down
with flying colours
Go
down
with the ship
Go off the
deep
end
Go to
Hell
Go to
hell
in a handbasket
Go
under
the knife
Going
down
Going
down
the tubes
Got it
down
to a fine art
Gun
down
Hand me
down
Hands up if you use Right Guard, Hands
down
if you don't ( Right Guard antiperspirant advertising slogan )
Hard to pin
down
He huffed and he puffed and he blew their house
down
He's got a yellow streak
down
his back
Hell
bent
Hell
cat
Hell
for leather
Hell
hath no fury like a woman scorned
Hell
hole
Hell
is other people ( Jean-Paul Sartre quotation )
Hell
on earth
Hell
on wheels
Hell
to pay
Hell
yes!
Hell's bells and buckets of blood
Hell's half acre
Hell's teeth
Hide your light
under
a bushel
Hoe
down
Hold
down
a job
Hose
down
Hot
under
the collar
How
Deep
Is Your Love? ( Bee Gees song )
Hunker
down
Hunt
down
Hurry on
down
to Hardee's ( Rolaids advertising slogan )
I get knocked down, but I get up again ( Chumbawumba song )
I'm
Down
( Beatles song )
I'm as mad as hell, and I'm not going to take this anymore! ( line from the movie Network )
If you lie
down
with dogs, you will get up with fleas
In
deep
In
deep
doo-doo
In
deep
shit
In
deep
water
In
short
order
In
short
supply
In the
short
run
It all boils
down
to this
It needn't be
hell
with Nicotinell ( Nicotinell advertising slogan )
It went
down
the wrong way
It won't let you
down
( Sure anti-perspirant advertising slogan )
Itsy Bitsy spider climbing up the spout,
down
came the rain and washed the spider out ( line from nursery rhyme )
Jack fell
down
and broke his crown ( line from nursery rhyme )
Jot
down
Jump
down
my throat
Jumping up and
down
with annoyance
Keep it
down
Keep it
under
your hat
Keep
under
wraps
Keep your head
down
Kick a man when he's
down
Kick
hell
out of
Kick the can further
down
the road
Kicking dead whales
down
the beach
Kip
down
Knee
deep
in
Knock
down
drag out
Knuckle
down
to
Knuckle
under
Labour
under
a misapprehension
Lay
down
roots
Lay
down
rubber
Lay
down
your arms
Lay
down
your life
Lay the law
down
Let
down
Let me take you down, cos I'm going to Strawberry Fields ( Beatles song lyric )
Let not the sun go
down
on your wrath
Let the side
down
Let your hair
down
Levelling
down
Lie
down
on the job
Lie
down
with dogs: get up with fleas
Life's too
short
Light a fire
under
him
Light a fire
under
some
Like a bat out of
hell
Like
hell
London bridge is falling
down
( line from nursery rhyme )
Look
down
on
Look
down
your nose
Look someone up and
down
Lose hands
down
Make
short
work of
Mark
down
Marry
beneath
you
Mister Gorbachev, tear
down
this wall! ( A slogan from President Reagan )
Mow
down
Mr. Gorbachev, tear
down
this wall ( Political slogan )
Nail
down
Narrow
down
Nasty, brutish and
short
Neighbours from
Hell
Never kick a dog when he's
down
On lock
down
One brick
short
of a load
One
hell
of
Out from
under
Pace up and
down
Park yourself
down
Party
down
Pass
down
Pipe
down
Play
hell
Private
hell
Pull someone up
short
Pull the rug from
under
your feet
Put someone
down
Put the hammer
down
Put your foot
down
Raise
hell
Reds
under
the bed
Ring aring of roses, a pocketful of posies, atishoo, atishoo, all fall
down
( line from nursery rhyme )
Ring
down
the curtain
River
Deep
Mountain High ( Ike and Tina Turner song )
Roll
deep
Rolling in the
Deep
( Adele song )
Rot in
hell
Round
down
Sailing
under
false colours
Scroll
down
Send
down
Shake
down
Shit ( or
short
) end of the stick
Shoot a birdie ( score one
under
par in a golf shot )
Shoot
down
in flames ( destroy an argument or theory )
Shoot him
down
in flames
Short
Fine Leg ( field position in the game of cricket )
Short
Mid Wicket ( field position in the game of cricket )
Short
Square Leg ( field position in the game of cricket )
Short
and curlies
Short
and sweet
Short
arms, long pockets
Short
but sweet
Short
change
Short
end of the stick
Short
fuse
Short
list
Short
sharp shock
Short
shrift
Short
sighted
Short
stuff
Shot to
hell
Shove it
down
someone's throat
Show
down
Six feet
under
Skin
deep
Smooth runs the water where the brook is
deep
Snowball in hell's chance
Snowed
under
Sold
down
the river
Sold
short
Splash
down
Stand
down
Step
down
Still waters run
deep
Suits you
down
to a tee
Suits you
down
to the ground
Sweep it
under
the carpet
Take a few
deep
breaths
Take a long walk off a
short
pier
Take a long walk off a
short
plank
Take
down
a peg or two
Take
under
your wing
Talk
down
to
Teeming
down
with rain
The bread always falls buttered side
down
The chips are
down
The
deep
blue sea
The
deep
end
The lion may lie
down
with the lamb, but the lamb won't get much sleep ( Woody Allen line )
The long and
short
of it
The low
down
The mind is its own place, and in itself, can make a Heav'n of Hell, a
Hell
of Heav'n ( from a poem by Milton )
The road to
hell
is paved with good intentions
The
short
end of the stick
There's nothing new
under
the sun
Throw
down
the gauntlet
Thrown in at the
deep
end
Thumbs
down
Thunder from
Down
Under
( Nickname of Konstantin Kostya Tszyu )
To
Hell
and back
To cut a long story
short
To make a long story
short
Top
down
Trade
down
Turn that frown upside
down
Twenty thousand leagues
under
the sea
Two bricks
short
of a load
Two sandwiches
short
of a picnic
Under
My Thumb ( Rolling Stones song )
Under
Pressure ( David Bowie song )
Under
a cloud
Under
age
Under
construction
Under
cover of darkness
Under
fire
Under
lock and key
Under
new management
Under
pressure
Under
protest
Under
starter's orders
Under
the affluence of incohol
Under
the big top
Under
the boardwalk
Under
the bonnet
Under
the cosh
Under
the counter
Under
the greenwood tree
Under
the gun
Under
the hammer
Under
the heel of
Under
the hood
Under
the influence
Under
the microscope
Under
the radar
Under
the skin
Under
the spotlight
Under
the sun
Under
the thumb
Under
the weather
Under
the wire
Under
way
Under
your belt
Under
your breath
Under
your own steam
Underneath
Your Clothes ( Shakira song )
Underneath
it all
Underneath
the arches
Until
Hell
freezes over
Up and
down
like a bride's nightie
Up and
down
like a whore's drawers
Up and
down
like the Ottoman Empire ( line from Monty Python's Life Of Brian )
Up and
down
the city road
Up hill and
down
dale
War is
hell
Water
down
Water
under
the bridge
Watership
Down
( Richard Adams book )
Well blow me
down
Went
down
like a lead balloon
What fresh
hell
is this?
What goes up must come
down
What the
hell
When the bough breaks the cradle will fall, and
down
will come baby, cradle and all ( line from nursery rhyme )
When the chips are
down
Whenever I feel the need to exercise, I lie
down
until it goes away ( Robert Maynard Hutchins quotation )
Winning hands
down
Wolf
down
You can't keep a good man
down
You could have knocked me
down
with a feather
Your choice
down
at Wendy's, where quality is our recipe ( Wendy Burgers advertising slogan )
Your fragrance Your rules ( Hugo Boss
Deep
Red advertising slogan )