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...Baby One More Time ( Britney Spears album and song )
A
Boy
Named Sue ( Johnny Cash song )
A Portrait Of The Artist As A
Young
Man ( James Joyce book )
A Suitable
Boy
( Vikram Seth book )
A boy's best friend is his mother ( Psycho )
A child is an island of curiosity surrounded by a sea of question marks ( Shell advertising slogan )
A
girl
with kaleidoscope eyes ( Beatles song lyric )
A girl's best friend
A ministering angel shall my
sister
be
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Absent
parent
Action Man ( children's male doll )
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After The Gold Rush ( Neil
Young
song )
All children, except one, grow up ( the opening line of Peter Pan )
All work and no play makes Jack a dull
boy
All-American
Girl
( Nickname of boxer Vonda Ward )
Am I my brother's keeper?
And
baby
makes three
Angry
young
man
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Ankle biter
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Are we there yet? ( A catchphrase from Bart In The Simpsons )
As easy as taking candy from a
baby
As helpless as a
baby
As smooth as a baby's bottom
Atta
boy
Atta
girl
Attila the Nun ( Nickname of
Sister
Agnes ( Priscilla Lopez ) )
Babe
Ruth ( Nickname of George Herman Ruth )
Babe
in arms
Babe
in the woods
Babe
magnet
Baby
Braves ( Nickname of a group of Atlanta Braves )
Baby
Bull ( Nickname of baseball player Orlando Cepeda )
Baby
Cakes ( Nickname of Cliff Huxtable ( Bill Cosby ) )
Baby
Doc ( Nickname of Jean Claude Duvalier )
Baby
Doll ( Nickname of boxer Elena Reid )
Baby
Girl
( Nickname of boxer Leatitia Robinson )
Baby
Gramps ( Nickname of basketball player Greg Oden )
Baby
I Need Your Loving ( Four Tops song )
Baby
Jordan ( Nickname of basketball player Harold Miner )
Baby
Love ( The Supremes song )
Baby
Please Don't Go ( Muddy Waters song )
Baby
Shaq ( Nickname of Sofoklis Schortsanitis )
Baby
You're A Rich Man ( The Beatles song )
Baby
blues
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Baby
boomer
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Baby
brain ( forgetfulness caused by lack of sleep when caring for a
newborn
)
Baby
bunting
Baby
face
Baby
father
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Baby
grand
Baby
needs new shoes
Baby
on board
Baby
shower
Baby
snatcher
Baby
split
Baby
steps
Baby
you can drive my car ( Beatles song lyric )
Baby, you can park my car
Baby, you're the greatest. ( A catchphrase from The Honeymooners )
Bachelor
girl
Back room
boy
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Barbie
Girl
( Aqua song )
Beach
babe
Bean Burrito ( Nickname of basketball player Nick
Young
)
Beautiful
Boy
( John Lennon song )
Bhatti
boy
( slang term for a homosexual )
Big
Baby
( Nickname of basketball player Glen Davis )
Big
Brother
Big
Brother
is watching you
Big girl's blouse
Billy The
Kid
( Nickname of Henry McCarty aka William Bonney )
Blood blister ( Cockney rhyming slang for
sister
)
Blossoming
youth
Blue-eyed
boy
Boston Tar
Baby
( Nickname of boxer Sam Langford )
Boy
made good
Boy
meets
girl
Boy
next door
Boy, is my face red ( A catchphrase from David Letterman )
Bright
young
thing
Bringing Up
Baby
( Cary Grant / Katharine Hepburn movie )
Broken home
Broth of a
boy
Brother
Jonathan
Brum brum (child's play idiom expressing the sound of a vehicle )
Butch Cassidy And The Sundance
Kid
( Paul Newman / Robert Redford movie )
Call
girl
Child of God
Child's play
Childhood
friend
Childhood
memories
Childhood
sweetheart
Children
and fools tell the truth
Children
should be seen and not heard
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Children's shoes have far to go ( Start-Rite Shoes advertising slogan )
Children, one is one, two is fun, three is a house full
Chip off the old block
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Cinnamon
Girl
( Neil
Young
song )
Clean cut
boy
Come On
Baby
Light My Fire ( The Doors song )
Crank That ( Soulja
Boy
) ( Soulja
Boy
Tell 'Em song )
Cry
baby
Curtain climber
Daddy's little
girl
Day surgery (
minor
surgery that does not require the patient to stay in hospital overnight )
Dead-end
kid
Diamonds are a girl's best friend
Don't Worry
Baby
( Beach Boys song )
Don't be such a
baby
Down
boy
Drill, baby, drill
Enfant terrible
Every mother's
son
Four for a
boy
( Magpie nursery rhyme )
Fourth Quarter Vince ( Nickname of American football player Vince
Young
)
Fresh faced
George, don't do that ( A catchphrase from Joyce Grenfell )
Girl
Friday
Girl
From The North Country ( Bob Dylan song )
Girl
With A Pearl Earring ( Scarlett Johansson / Colin Firth movie )
Girl
next door
Girl
power
Give up
Give your
baby
something you never had as a baby. A drier bottom ( Pampers advertising slogan )
Glamour
girl
Glow Little Glow-worm ( children's nursery rhyme )
Go West
young
man
Go on my
son
Go with child
Golden
boy
Good time
girl
Goodnight John
Boy
( A catchphrase from The Waltons )
Goodnight
children
everywhere ( A catchphrase from Uncle Mac )
Grapes, like children, need love and affection ( Almaden advertising slogan )
Greasy kid's stuff
Handle with
kid
gloves
Has your
girl
turned into a refrigerator? If her air is arctic, try MUM ( Mum Deodorant advertising slogan )
Hasta la vista
baby
( A catchphrase from Arnold Schwarzeneggar )
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He ain't heavy, he's my
brother
He's not the Messiah, he's a very naughty
boy
( line from the movie Life of Brian )
Heart Of Gold ( Neil
Young
song )
Heavy with child
Helicopter
parent
Hello big boy, would you like a nice time?
Helpless Helpless Helpless Helpless ( Neil
Young
song lyric )
Here's looking at you
kid
( Casablanca )
Hey, Soul
Sister
( Train song )
His father's
son
Hockey Mom
Home alone
Home
boy
Honey
Girl
( Nickname of boxer Melissa Del Valle )
How sharper than a serpent's tooth it is to have a thankless child?
I Got You
Babe
( Sonny and Cher song )
I Kissed a
Girl
( Katy Perry song )
I
kid
you not ( A catchphrase from Jack Parr )
I once had a girl, or should I say, she once had me ( The Beatles song lyric )
I'll Be Your
Baby
Tonight ( Bob Dylan song )
I'm going to tell on you
Ice, ice
baby
Is You Is Or Is You Ain't, My Baby? ( Louis Jordan song )
Is you is or is you ain't, my baby?
It Ain't Me,
Babe
( Bob Dylan song )
It's All Over Now
Baby
Blue ( Bob Dylan song )
Jack the
lad
Kid
Canada ( Nickname of Steve Nash )
Kid
Delicious ( Nickname of Kevin Durant )
Kid
Thunder ( Nickname of Shane Sutcliffe )
Kid
n' Play ( Nickname of Kevin Martin )
Kid
tested Mother approved ( Kix advertising slogan )
Kid's stuff
Kiss Me Thru the Phone ( Soulja
Boy
Tell 'Em song )
Lad
mag
Lady Madonna,
children
at your feet ( Beatles song lyric )
Latchkey
kid
Leave no child behind ( Political slogan )
Left holding the
baby
Leicester's Favourite
Son
( Nickname of Gary Lineker )
Let's rock ( A catchphrase from Al Bundy In Married With
Children
)
Like father, like
son
Little
Boy
Blue come blow your horn ( line from nursery rhyme )
Little blighter
Love child
Love in This Club ( Usher with
Young
Jeezy song )
Love's
young
dream
Lover
boy
Man and
boy
Material
Girl
( Madonna song )
Maybe
Baby
( Buddy Holly song )
Midnight's
Children
Million Dollar
Baby
( Hilary Swank / Clint Eastwood movie )
Mother's
boy
My
Baby
Left Me ( Elvis Presley song )
My
Girl
( Smokey Robinson song )
My
son
the doctor
Nancy
boy
New arrival ( colloquial term for a
newborn
baby
)
New
kid
on the block
Not so
young
as you were
Number one
son
O
Brother
Where Art Thou ( A catchphrase from Ed Murrow and George Clooney movie title )
Oh
Boy
( Buddy Holly song )
Old head on
young
shoulders
On me 'ead,
son
On me head
son
( Invitation to cross a football so that another player can head it )
Only
Girl
In the World ( Rihanna song )
Only Love Can Break Your Heart ( Neil
Young
song )
Orphan
problem
Our
children
are not our
children
Page 3
girl
Party
girl
Pass the Dutchie ( Musical
Youth
song )
Pepsi - for those who think
young
( Pepsi advertising slogan )
Poor little rich
girl
Poster
boy
Pretty
Boy
( Nickname of David Carr )
Pretty
Boy
( Nickname of Floyd Mayweather Jr. )
Pretty
Boy
Floyd ( Nickname of Charles Floyd )
Pride and joy
Problem child
Rock Your
Baby
( George McCrae song )
Rock a bye
baby
on the tree top, when the wind blows the cradle will rock ( line from nursery rhyme )
Rockin' In The Free World ( Neil
Young
song )
Rug rat
Saturday's child works hard for a living
Saviour sibling ( a child born in order to provide a transplant for another with a fatal disease )
Scotch and the Single
Girl
( J&B Scotch advertising slogan )
Second
childhood
See that girl, watch that scene ( ABBA lyric )
Send a salami to your
boy
in the army
Shouldn't your
baby
be a Gerber baby? ( Gerber Products advertising slogan )
Singapore Girl, you're a great way to fly ( Singapore Airlines advertising slogan )
Sister
Act ( Whoopie Goldberg movie )
Sister
of mercy
Skin and blister ( Cockney rhyming slang for
sister
)
Sleep like a
baby
So Farley's, so good ( Farley's
Baby
Food advertising slogan )
Soccer Mom
Son
of Sam ( Nickname of David Berkowitz )
Son
of a gun
Son
of a whore ( a bastard, or a general term of abuse )
Soul
brother
Soul
sister
Spare the rod and spoil the child
Steptoe and
Son
( BBC comedy television series )
Stick with me,
kid
Strapping
young
man
Success has many fathers, while failure is an
orphan
Suffer the little
children
Sunday's child is full of grace
Sweet
Baby
James ( James Taylor song )
Talk to me,
baby
Teenage
Dream ( Katy Perry song )
Test tube
baby
That's my
boy
The All-American
Boy
( Nickname of Dick Jones )
The Bandstand Cover
Girl
( Nickname of Carol Scaldeferri )
The Best Bad
Girl
on TV ( Nickname of Cloris Leachman )
The Boston Strong
Boy
( Nickname of John L. Sullivan )
The
Boy
David ( Nickname of English politician David Steel )
The
Boy
In The Bubble ( Paul Simon song )
The
Boy
Wonder ( Nickname of Robin )
The Cannonball
Kid
( Nickname of tennis player Roscoe Tanner )
The Charlie Chaplin of Television ( Nickname of comedian Alan
Young
)
The Cincinnati
Kid
( Steve McQueen movie )
The Coca-Cola
Girl
( Nickname of singer Anita Bryant )
The Comeback
Kid
( Nickname of Bill Clinton )
The Dumbest
Girl
in America ( Nickname of Kelly Bundy ( Christina Applegate ) )
The Famous Five ( characters in Enid Blyton's series of children's book )
The
Girl
Can't Help It ( Little Richard song and movie )
The
Girl
Of My Best Friend ( Elvis Presley song )
The
Girl
With A Million-Dollar Legs ( Nickname of Betty Grable )
The
Girl
with the Upside-Down Eyes ( Nickname of actress Glynis Johns )
The Golden
Boy
( Nickname of Billy Walker )
The Golden
Boy
( Nickname of Oscar de la Hoya )
The Golden
Boy
( Nickname of Paul Hornung )
The Golden
Boy
( Nickname of Tom Brady )
The Home Of Paul Bunyan And
Babe
The Blue Ox ( Nickname of Westwood California, Brainerd Minnesota and Bemidji Minnesota )
The It
Girl
( Nickname of Clara Bow )
The
Kid
( Nickname of Ken Griffey Jr. and Ted Williams )
The
Kid
( Nickname of Kevin Garnett )
The Little Drummer
Boy
( Harry Simeone Chorale song )
The Man Child ( Nickname of Dwight Howard )
The Man with the Child in His Eyes ( Kate Bush song )
The Naughty Corner
The Original Live Test-Pattern
Girl
( Nickname of Nanette Fabray )
The
Parent
Trap ( Hayley Mills movie )
The Say Hey
Kid
( Nickname of Willie Mays )
The Sundance
Kid
( Nickname of Harry Longbaugh )
The Sweater
Girl
( Nickname of Lana Turner )
The
Young
Ones ( BBC comedy television series )
The
Young
Pretender ( Nickname of Charles Edward Stuart )
The apple never falls far from the tree
The
boy
is father to the man
The
boy
stood on the burning deck
The child is father of the man ( from a poem by Wordsworth )
The flower of one's
youth
The fountain of
youth
The good die
young
The night is
young
The patter of tiny feet
The shoemaker's
son
always goes barefoot
The wheels on the bus go round and round ( title of children's song )
This
Boy
( Beatles song )
Those whom the Gods love die
young
Three for a
girl
( Magpie nursery rhyme )
Throw the
baby
out with the bathwater
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Thursday's child has far to go
Tom Tom the pipers
son
stole a pig and away he ran ( line from nursery rhyme )
Too Busy Thinking About My
Baby
( Marvin Gaye song )
Toy
boy
Trap and ball ( children's ball game )
Twas the night before Christmas - the
children
were dreaming of a Ford in their future - smart, swanky and gleaming ( Ford Cars advertising slogan )
Voodoo Child ( Jimi Hendrix song )
War
baby
( someone born during the war - especially the illegitimate child of a soldier )
We Are
Young
( fun with Janelle Monae song )
Wednesday's child has far to go
Wet the baby's head
What's a
girl
to do?
Whatever Happened To
Baby
Jane? ( Bette Davis movie )
When the bough breaks the cradle will fall, and down will come baby, cradle and all ( line from nursery rhyme )
Whipping
boy
Who are you? ( Nintendo Game
Boy
Advance advertising slogan )
Who loves ya baby? ( A catchphrase from Kojak )
Who's a pretty
boy
then?
Who's little
boy
are you?
Wide
boy
Wise beyond your years
With child
Women and
children
first
Working
girl
You Must Have Been A Beautiful
Baby
( Bing Crosby song )
You can't
kid
a kidder
You dirty old man ( A catchphrase from Steptoe and
Son
)
You go
girl
You stupid boy! ( A catchphrase from Dad's Army )
You're as
young
as you feel
You're only
young
once
You've come a long way,
baby
( Virginia Slims Cigarettes advertising slogan )
Young
Frankenstein ( Mel Brooks / Gene Wilder movie )
Young
Thunder ( Nickname of Dwight Howard )
Young
and sweet, only seventeen ( ABBA lyric )
Young
at heart
Young
fogey
Young
turk
Young, Gifted and Black ( Nina Simone song )
Youth
is wasted on the
young