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A Spoonful Of Sugar Helps The Medicine Go Down ( Julie Andrews song )
A
feather
in your cap
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Across
The Universe ( The Beatles song )
Across
the board
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All
fur
coat and no knickers
Are We Downhearted? No! No! No! ( Ray Sherwood song )
As light as a
feather
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 )
Batten down the hatches
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Bear down
Bear down on
Bed down
Below
par
Below
stairs
Below
the belt
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Below
the salt
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Birds of a
Feather
( BBC comedy television series )
Birds of a
feather
flock together
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Bit of
fluff
Black Hawk Down ( Ewan McGregor movie )
Bob up and down
Bogged down
Boils down to
Bolt down
Boogie on down
Bow down before
Bread always falls butter side down
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Breathing down your neck
Bring down
Bring the house down
Brought down
Brought down to earth
Buckle down
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Burning Down The House ( Talking Heads song )
Business is like a car, it will not run by itself except
downhill
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 )
Caught with your pants down
Caught with your trousers down
Chow down
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Chucking it down
Clamp down on
Come
across
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 on down ( A catchphrase from The Price Is Right )
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Cool down
Couldn't put it down
Cut someone down in their prime
Cut someone down to size
Death is nature's way of telling you to slow down
Dial down ( adjust a device to reduce sound or temperature )
Don't Let The Sun Go Down On Me ( Elton John song )
Don't kick a man when he's down
Don't let the bastards grind you down
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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
Dumbing down
Dust down
Economic downturn
Eye someone up and down
Face down
Fall down on the job
Falling down drunk
Feather
in your cap
Feather
your nest
Fire down
below
Fish always rot from the head downwards
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Foggy Mountain Breakdown ( Lester Flatt and Earl Scruggs tune title )
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 the low down
Get your head down
Get your message
across
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
downhill
Going down
Going down the tubes
Got it down to a fine art
Gun down
Hand me down
Hand me
downs
Hands
across
the sea
Hands up if you use Right Guard, Hands down if you don't ( Right Guard antiperspirant advertising slogan )
Hard row to
hoe
Hard to pin down
He huffed and he puffed and he blew their house down
He's got a yellow streak down his back
Hoe
down
Hold down a job
Hose down
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 )
If you lie down with dogs, you will get up with fleas
In full
feather
It all boils down to this
It takes 40 dumb animals to make a
fur
coat, but only one to wear it
It went down the wrong way
It won't let you down ( Sure anti-perspirant advertising slogan )
It's all
downhill
from here
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 your head down
Kick a man when he's down
Kick the can further down the road
Kicking dead whales down the beach
Kip down
Knock down drag out
Knockdown price
Knuckle down to
Lay down roots
Lay down rubber
Lay down your arms
Lay down your life
Lay the law down
Lead up the garden path
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
London bridge is falling down ( line from nursery rhyme )
Look down on
Look down your nose
Look someone up and down
Lose hands down
Mark down
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
Never kick a dog when he's down
Number 10
Downing
Street ( address of the British Prime Minister )
On lock down
Pace up and down
Park yourself down
Party down
Pass down
Pipe down
Put
across
an idea
Put someone down
Put the hammer down
Put your foot down
Ring aring of roses, a pocketful of posies, atishoo, atishoo, all fall down ( line from nursery rhyme )
Ring down the curtain
Round down
Scroll down
Send down
Shake down
Shoot down in flames ( destroy an argument or theory )
Shoot him down in flames
Shot
across
the bows
Shove it down someone's throat
Show down
Show the white
feather
Sold down the river
Splash down
Splashed
across
the front page
Stand down
Step down
Suits you down to a tee
Suits you down to the ground
Take down a peg or two
Talk down to
Teeming down with rain
The bread always falls buttered side down
The chips are down
The
fur
began to fly
The lion may lie down with the lamb, but the lamb won't get much sleep ( Woody Allen line )
The low down
Throw down the gauntlet
Thumbs down
Thunder from Down Under ( Nickname of Konstantin Kostya Tszyu )
Top down
Tough row to
hoe
Trade down
Turn that frown upside down
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
Ups and
downs
Upstairs, downstairs
Walking
across
a minefield
Water down
Watership Down ( Richard Adams book )
Well blow me down
Went down like a lead balloon
What goes up must come down
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 )