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101 Dalmatians ( Disney cartoon and Glenn
Close
movie )
A
close
thing
A
goal
in mind
A good beginning makes a good
ending
A means to an end
Aim
high
All good things must come to an end
All's Well, That
Ends
Well
Alpha and omega ( the first two letters of the Greek alphabet, used as a name for God or Jesus )
And so to bed
At a loose end
At
close
quarters
At the end of a gun
At the end of the day
At the end of your rope
At the end of your tether
At your wits' end
Axe
to grind
Because I could not
stop
for death he kindly stopped for me ( from a poem by Dickinson )
Best
stop
now
Blind Before I
Stop
( Meatloaf song )
Blind alley
Brilliant cleaning starts with
Finish
(
Finish
Detergent advertising slogan )
Bring to an end
Burn the candle at both
ends
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Business end
Can't see beyond the end of your nose
Cheer up, it's not the end of the world
Classic Hollywood
ending
Close
Encounters of the Third Kind ( Richard Dreyfuss movie )
Close
call
Close
enough for government work
Close
enough for jazz
Close
friends
Close
of play
Close
proximity
Close
quarters
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Close
ranks
Close
shave
Close
the books
Close
to home
Close
to the bone
Close
to the mark
Close
your eyes and think of England
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Close, but no cigar
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Come to a screeching
halt
Come to a sticky end
Dangerous Liaisons ( Glenn
Close
movie )
Dead end
Doctor Strangelove Or How I Learned To
Stop
Worrying And Love The Bomb ( Peter Sellers movie )
Don't Stand So
Close
To Me ( Police song )
Don't
Stop
Believin' ( Journey song )
Don't
Stop
Me Now ( Queen song )
Don't
close
your eyes for a minute
Doubt is the beginning not the end of wisdom
Draw to a
close
End in itself
End of a perfect day
End of an era
End of story
End of the ball game
End of the line
End product
End up at
Every stick has two
ends
Face that could
stop
a clock
Fairytale
ending
( a happy simplistic
ending
to a story similar to those found in fairy tales )
Fatal Attraction ( Glenn
Close
/ Michael Douglas movie )
From the
ends
of the earth
Get hold of the wrong end of the stick
Get to the end of your tether
Get your end away
Go off the deep end
Grind to a
halt
Have your hair stand on end
Holding your cards
close
to your chest
I Can't
Stop
Loving You ( Ray Charles song )
I've started so I'll
finish
( A catchphrase from Mastermind )
If enough people would
stop
smoking and start drinking, we could get out of ashtrays and into vermouth ( Cinzano advertising slogan )
It will all end in tears
It's The End Of The World As We Know It ( R.E.M. song )
Journey's end
Keep your end up
Keep your friends close, keep your enemies closer ( proverbial saying )
Know which end is up
Light at the end of the tunnel
Long
Stop
( field position in the game of cricket )
Loose
ends
Make
ends
meet
Makes your hair stands on end
Never hear the end of it
Nice guys
finish
last
Ninth inning ( A baseball expression meaning an event or process is near the end )
No end of
Not the beginning of the end, but the end of the beginning
Odds and
ends
On the receiving end
On your beam
ends
Once you pop you can't
stop
( Pringles advertising slogan )
One
stop
shop
Photo
finish
Play both
ends
against the middle
Put an end to
Ring down the curtain
Sail
close
to the wind
Score an own
goal
Shallow end
Shit ( or short ) end of the stick
Shoot down in flames (
destroy
an argument or theory )
Short end of the stick
Sign off
Sitting
target
Soft
target
Stop
all the clocks, cut off the telephone ( from a poem by Auden )
Stop
and smell the roses
Stop
at nothing
Stop
drop and roll
Stop
faffing about
Stop
it you're killing me
Stop
me and buy one ( Wall's Ice Cream advertising slogan )
Stop
me if you've heard this one
Stop
messing about ( A catchphrase from Kenneth Williams )
Stop
on a dime
Stop
pumping your gums
Stop
the clock, I've found a clue
Stop
the rot
Stop
the show
Stop
the world I want to get off
Stop
traffic
Stop! In The Name Of Love ( The Supremes song )
Stop, In The Name Of Love
Stop, Look and Listen; remember the Green Cross Code ( UK Road Safety Campaign advertising slogan )
Stop, or my mom will shoot ( line from Sylvestor Stallone movie )
Take
aim
The
Axe
effect (
Axe
deodorant advertising slogan )
The Blue End State ( Nickname of the US state of Delaware )
The End Of The World ( Nickname of Anchorage Alaska )
The be all and end all
The beginning of the end
The bitter end
The deep end
The end of civilization as we know it
The end of the road
The end of the world is nigh
The
ends
justify the means
The
ends
of the Earth
The light at the end of the tunnel may just be a train coming the other way
The means to an end
The pot of gold at the end of the rainbow
The shit end of the stick
The short end of the stick
The thick end of
The war to end wars
Thin end of the wedge
Thrown in at the deep end
Tie up the loose
ends
Till the end of time
To cut a long story short
Too
close
for comfort
Too
close
to call
Toward this end
Until the last dog is hung
Up
close
and personal
We
aim
to please
We never
stop
working for you ( Verizon Wireless advertising slogan )
When you are in a hole,
stop
digging
World without end