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A list of phrases related to the word "cannon"...
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A house divided against itself
cannot
stand
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A leopard
cannot
change its spots
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Age
cannot
wither her, nor custom stale her infinite variety
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Assault with a deadly
weapon
At the end of a
gun
Ban the
bomb
Big bazooka
Bricks and
mortar
( Cockney rhyming slang for daughter )
Cannon fodder
Chew a
gun
Choose your
weapon
Clicks and
mortar
Crazy
Gun
Barney ( Nickname of Barney Fife ( Don Knotts ) )
Doctor Strangelove Or How I Learned To Stop Worrying And Love The
Bomb
( Peter Sellers movie )
Father of The Atomic
Bomb
( Nickname of Robert Oppenheimer )
Give it the
gun
Gun
down
Gunpowder
treason and plot ( line from nursery rhyme )
Happiness Is A Warm
Gun
( The Beatles song )
Have gun, will travel ( A catchphrase from TV series )
He who can, does; he who cannot, teaches ( George Bernard Shaw quotation )
Hold a
gun
to his head
Human kind
cannot
bear very much reality ( from a poem by Eliot )
I
cannot
be doing with it ( I am unwilling to tolerate it )
I
cannot
tell a lie
Is that a
gun
in your pocket, or are you just glad to see me?
Jump the
gun
Leave the gun, take the cannoli ( line from The Godfather )
Letter
bomb
Like a pig from a
gun
Looks like a
bomb
has hit it
Loose cannon
Machine
Gun
Kelly ( Nickname of George Kelly )
Mother Superior jumped the
gun
( Beatles song lyric )
Put a
gun
to your head
Refreshes the parts other beers
cannot
reach ( Heineken lager advertising slogan )
Secret
weapon
See how they run like pigs from a
gun
( The Beatles song lyric )
See what we mean (
Canon
advertising slogan )
Smoking
gun
Son of a
gun
The Cajun Cannon ( Nickname of Bobby Hebert )
The
Cannonball
Kid ( Nickname of tennis player Roscoe Tanner )
The Fast
Gun
From Texas ( Nickname of Dan Troop ( John Russell ) )
The
Gun
That Won The West ( Nickname of the Colt revolver )
The Man With The Golden
Gun
( James Bond movie Roger Moore )
The Polish Cannon ( Nickname of Sebastian Janikowski )
The man who does not read has no advantage over the man who
cannot
read ( Mark Twain quotation )
Things fall apart; the centre
cannot
hold ( from a poem by Yeats )
Under the
gun
Wabash
Cannonball
( Roy Acuff song )
Weather
bomb
( a rapidly deepening low pressure area causing severe storms )
You
cannot
be serious ( A catchphrase from John McEnroe )
You
cannot
serve God and Mammon
You
cannot
step into the same river twice ( philosophical comment by Heraclitus )