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A slip of the
pen
Appalachian Spring ( Aaron Copland musical
score
)
Architecture is
music
frozen in time ( Friedrich von Schelling quotation )
As you
make
your bed so must you lie on it
Beecham's pills
make
all the difference ( Beecham's Pills advertising slogan )
Before you
make
up your mind, open it ( Irish Independent advertising slogan )
Buy Opera today And
make
this banner go away ( Opera advertising slogan )
Can't
make
head or tail of it
Couldn't
make
head or tail of it
Create
a storm ( Monsoon advertising slogan )
Crunch all you want, we'll
make
more ( Doritos advertising slogan )
Cut a wide swathe (
make
a pompous display )
Details
make
the difference
Dip your
pen
in gall
Does it
make
sense to jump out of a warm bed into a cold cereal? ( Quaker Oats advertising slogan )
Doesn't
make
a blind bit of difference
Don't
make
a big production out of it
Don't
make
a federal case of it
Don't
make
a peep
Don't
make
waves
Ear for
music
Elevator
music
Empty vessels
make
the most noise
Enough to
make
a cat laugh
Enough to
make
the angels weep
Enough to
make
you sick
Enough to
make
your hair curl
Face the
music
Fake it till you
make
it
Four
score
and seven years ago
Go ahead,
make
my day ( A catchphrase from Sudden Impact )
Go on punk
make
my day
Good fences
make
good neighbours
Graded grains
make
finer flour ( Homepride Flour advertising slogan )
Hard cases
make
bad law
Hey Jude, Don't
Make
It Bad ( The Beatles song lyric )
House
music
How does the wireless industry
make
you feel? ( Sprint PCS advertising slogan )
I Do Like To Be Beside The Seaside ( British
Music
Hall song )
I love deadlines. I love the whooshing noise they
make
as they go by ( Douglas Adams quotation )
I never forget a face, but in your case I'll be glad to
make
an exception ( Groucho Marx line )
I will
make
you fishers of men
I'll
make
it my business
I'm going to
make
him an offer he can't refuse ( The Godfather )
(
the meaning and origin of this phrase...
)
If
music
be the food of love, play on ( from Twelth Night by Shakespeare )
If you don't
make
mistakes you don't
make
anything
It Takes People Like You To
Make
People Like Me ( Buck Owens song )
It don't
make
no nevermind
It takes 40 dumb animals to
make
a fur coat, but only one to wear it
It takes a tough man to
make
a tender chicken ( Perdue Farms advertising slogan )
It takes all sorts to
make
a world
It's the things that
make
you go Mmmmm ( Macdonalds advertising slogan )
Keep
score
Kiss and
make
up
Know how many beans
make
five
Know the
score
Land of
make
believe
Let me
make
one thing perfectly clear
Let's face the
music
and dance
Let's
make
things better ( Philips advertising slogan )
Life is what you
make
it
Like mother used to
make
Made to
make
your mouth water ( Opal Fruits advertising slogan )
Make
7-up yours ( 7-Up advertising slogan )
Make
Your Own Kind Of
Music
( Mama Cass Elliot song )
Make
a back
Make
a balls of something
Make
a beeline for
Make
a bid for
Make
a bolt for the door
Make
a break for it
Make
a bundle of money
Make
a clean break
Make
a clean breast of it
Make
a complete fool of yourself
Make
a date
Make
a day of it
Make
a deal with the devil
Make
a difference
Make
a face
Make
a fool of yourself
Make
a fresh start
Make
a fuss
Make
a go of it
Make
a good fist of it
Make
a good job of it
Make
a hash of it
Make
a killing
Make
a list; check it twice
Make
a man out of you
Make
a meal of it
Make
a monkey out of him
Make
a mountain out of a molehill
Make
a move on
Make
a name for yourself
Make
a pass at
Make
a pig of yourself
Make
a pitch
Make
a pitch for
Make
a play for
Make
a rod for your own back
Make
a sale
Make
a scene ( causing a disturbance )
Make
a song and dance about
Make
a spectacle of yourself
Make
a splash
Make
a virtue out of a necessity
Make
a world of difference
Make
allowances
Make
amends
Make
an ass of yourself
Make
an entrance
Make
an example of
Make
an exhibition of yourself
Make
an honest woman of
Make
believe
Make
bold
Make
contact
Make
do
Make
do and mend
Make
ends meet
Make
every day a McDonalds Day ( McDonald's advertising slogan )
Make
eyes at
Make
fast
Make
first base
Make
free with
Make
friends
Make
fun of
Make
giant strides
Make
good
Make
good time
Make
good your escape
Make
great play of
Make
haste
Make
haste slowly
Make
hay
Make
hay while the sun shines
Make
heavy weather of
Make
history
Make
inquiries
Make
it big
Make
it rain
Make
it snappy
Make
it so ( A catchphrase from Star Trek )
Make
it up
Make
life difficult
Make
light of
Make
light work of
Make
like a banana and split
Make
like a tree and leave
Make
little of
Make
love
Make
love not war
Make
magic
Make
matters worse
Make
me beautiful
Make
mention of
Make
merry
Make
mincemeat out of
Make
mine Moxie ( Moxie soda advertising slogan )
Make
mine a double
Make
mischief
Make
my day
Make
nice
Make
no bones about
Make
no mistake
Make
no secret of
Make
off with
Make
old bones
Make
one's hackles rise
Make
out
Make
over
Make
poverty history
Make
ready
Make
room
Make
sail
Make
sense of
Make
sheep's eyes at
Make
short work of
Make
some noise
Make
someone happy with a phone call ( British Telecom advertising slogan )
Make
someone's toes curl
Make
the best of a bad job
Make
the cut
Make
the feathers fly
Make
the grade
Make
the most of it
Make
the scene
Make
the team
Make
tracks
Make
trouble
Make
up
Make
up for lost time
Make
war
Make
waves
Make
way
Make
welcome
Make
whoopee
Make
your bed and lie in it
Make
your fortune
Make
your head spin
Make
your mark
Make
your move
Make
your way
Make
yourself at home
Make
yourself heard ( Ericsson advertising slogan )
Make
yourself scarce
Make-up to
make
love in ( Mary Quant advertising slogan )
Many hands
make
light work
Men's evil manners live in brass; their virtues we
write
in water
Mr Kipling does
make
exceedingly good cakes ( Mr Kipling Cakes advertising slogan )
Music
Box ( Mariah Carey album )
Music
City ( Nickname of Nashville Tennessee )
Music
has charms to soothe the savage breast
Music
is art. Muzak is science ( Muzak Corporation advertising slogan )
Music
to my ears
Nine tailors
make
a man
No music, no life ( Tower Records advertising slogan )
No one can
make
you feel inferior without your consent ( Eleanor Roosevelt quotation )
Nothing to
write
home about
On the
make
One swallow doesn't
make
a summer
One year's seeds
make
seven year weeds
Pen
and ink ( Cockney rhyming slang for stink )
Poison
pen
letter
Popular
music
Put
pen
to paper
Put the
make
on
Score
an own goal
Score
points off
Score
to settle
Shoot a birdie (
score
one under par in a golf shot )
Sweet
Music
( Nickname of Frank Viola )
Take a bath in the dark tonight and let the water
make
love to your skin ( Lavin Perfumes & Soaps advertising slogan )
Tetley
make
teabags
make
tea ( Tetley Tea advertising slogan )
Thank you for the music, the songs I'm singing ( ABBA lyric )
The Sound Of
Music
( Julie Andrews movie )
The West Coast Sound ( name applied to Californian pop music, especially that of The Beach Boys )
The best way to get
music
out of your system ( Philips advertising slogan )
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
music
of the spheres
The
pen
is mightier than sword
The road isn't built that can
make
it breathe hard! ( Chevrolet advertising slogan )
Things that
make
you go 'mmm' ( McDonald's advertising slogan )
Three
score
and ten
To
make
a long story short
To
make
that tough job easier - you deserve M&M candy ( M&Ms advertising slogan )
Together we
make
a great team ( Midland Bank advertising slogan )
Two and two
make
five
Two and two
make
four
Two blacks don't
make
a white
Two wrongs don't
make
a right
Van Gogh's ear for
music
War eagle ( the golden eagle - used by Native Americans to
make
headdresses )
We
make
it simple ( Honda advertising slogan )
We
make
money the old fashioned way, we earn it ( Smith Barney advertising slogan )
We
make
things that bring people closer ( Western Electrics advertising slogan )
We
make
things that
make
communications work ( Lucent Technologies advertising slogan )
We won't
make
a drama out of a crisis ( Commercial Union advertising slogan )
Wind someone up ( deliberately draw attention to something that will
create
agitation )
With rings on her fingers and bells on her toes she shall have
music
wherever she goes ( line from nursery rhyme )
Without music, life would be a mistake ( Friedrich Nietzsche quotation )
Won't
make
a pom tiddly ( Swan Light advertising slogan )
World
music
Write
off for
You
Make
Me Feel Like A Natural Woman ( Carole King song )
You can lead a horse to water but you can't
make
it drink
You can lead a whore to culture but you can't
make
her think
You can't
make
a silk purse from a sow's ear
You can't
make
an omelette without breaking eggs
You can't
make
bricks without straw
You couldn't
make
it up
You
make
your bed, you sleep in it
You only get one chance to
make
a first impression