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A Town
Like
Alice ( Nevil Shute book )
A Town
Like
Malice ( The Jam song )
A cat may look at a king
A close thing
A day without orange juice is
like
a day without sunshine ( Florida Citrus Commission advertising slogan )
A day without sunshine is like, you know, night ( Steve Martin quotation )
A face
like
a Greek god
A fine line
A marriage made in heaven
A
match
made in heaven
A room without books is
like
a body without a soul ( Marcus Tullius Cicero quotation )
A woman without a man is
like
a fish without a bicycle
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the meaning and origin of this phrase...
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A-1 makes hamburgers taste
like
steakburgers ( A-1 Steak Sauce advertising slogan )
All behind,
like
a cow's tail
All happy families are alike; each unhappy family is unhappy in its own way ( the opening line of Anna Karenina )
All men are cremated equal ( Spike Milligan line )
All over him
like
a cheap suit
And shining morning face, creeping
like
a snail unwillingly to school
Another
level
As You
Like
It
As
alike
as two peas in a pod
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the meaning and origin of this phrase...
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As soon as you
like
At it
like
knives
At it
like
rabbits
At times
like
this
Avoid
like
the plague
Be It Ever So Humble There's No Place
Like
Home ( John Howard Payne and Sir Henry Bishop song )
Be
like
Dad, keep mum ( WWII slogan )
Be up with
Between two stools
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the meaning and origin of this phrase...
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Birds do it, bees do it,
even
educated fleas do it
Black
tie
Bleeding
like
a stuck pig
Break
even
Breed
like
flies
Breed
like
rabbits
Built
like
a brick outhouse
Business is
like
a car, it will not run by itself except downhill
By the
same
token
Carry on
like
a pork chop
Caught
like
a rabbit in the headlights
Come down on someone
like
a ton of bricks
Come on
like
gangbusters
Comes to the
same
thing
Corduory road ( a road that is ridged and furrowed
like
the fabric )
Creep
like
a snail
Cry
like
a rat eating onions
Cut from the
same
cloth
Dance
like
nobody's watching
Dead heat
Do you
like
hospital food?
Do you want a shape
like
a bra? Or do you want a shape
like
a woman? ( Warner's Body Bra advertising slogan )
Do your
level
best
Don't get mad get
even
Don't treat your puppy
like
a dog ( Ralston Purina Pet Food advertising slogan )
Done up
like
a Christmas tree
Done up
like
a kipper
Double header ( A baseball expression denoting two events held on the
same
day with the
same
participants )
Drink
like
a fish
Drop It
Like
It's Hot ( Snoop Dogg song )
Drop it
like
a hot potato
Drop
like
a stone
Dropping
like
flies
E
equals
mc squared
Eat
like
a bird
Eat
like
a horse
Eat
like
a pig
Equal opportunities
Equal pay, equal time ( Bulova Watches advertising slogan )
Even
Steven
Even
a blind hog finds an acorn once in a while
Even
a worm will turn
Even
at the turning of the tide
Even
chance
Even
handed
Even
money
Even
out
Even
up with
Even
your best friend won't tell you ( Lifebuoy Soap advertising slogan )
Even
your best friends won't tell you ( Listerine Mouthwash advertising slogan )
Eyes
like
saucers
Face
like
a bulldog chewing a wasp
Face
like
a fiddle
Face
like
an unmade bed
Face
like
the back of a bus
Face
like
thunder
Fall
like
a stone
Fifty-fifty
Fight
like
a man
Fight
like
cat and dog
First Among
Equals
( Jeffrey Archer book )
First among
equals
( the most senior person in a group of equal rank )
First amongst
equals
Fits
like
a glove
Flat out
like
a lizard drinking
Flatten the pyramid
Float
like
a butterfly, sting
like
a bee
For all the world
like
For every action there is an equal and opposite reaction
For those who
like
the trade rough ( Travis aftershave advertising slogan )
Game set and
match
Get
even
Get on
like
a house on fire
Get your family into Shape, without them
even
noticing ( St. Ivel Yogurt advertising slogan )
Go halves
Go
like
the clappers
Go
like
the wind
Good coffee is
like
friendship: rich and warm and strong ( Pan-American Coffee Bureau advertising slogan )
Grapes,
like
children, need love and affection ( Almaden advertising slogan )
Great minds think
alike
Hang on
like
grim death
Hatch,
match
and dispatch
He drives
like
Barney Oldfield
He lies
like
a rug
He shot through
like
a Bondi tram
He smokes
like
a chimney
Head
like
a sieve
Hear what you like, when you
like
( Rex Records advertising slogan )
Hell hath no fury
like
a woman scorned
Hello big boy, would you
like
a nice time?
How do you feel? I feel
like
a Toohey's ( Toohey's beer advertising slogan )
How do you
like
them apples?
Hung
like
a donkey
Hung
like
a horse
I Do
Like
To Be Beside The Seaside ( British Music Hall song )
I
Like
It ( Enrique Iglesias with Pitbull song )
I
Like
To Move It ( Reel 2 Reel song )
I call them
like
I see them
I can read you
like
a book
I don't know much about art but I know what I
like
I don't
like
that ( A catchphrase from Marie In Everybody Loves Raymond )
I feel
like
a Guinness - I wish you were ( Guinness advertising slogan )
I
like
Ike ( Political slogan )
I
like
the Sprite in you ( Sprite advertising slogan )
I may not know much about art, but I know what I
like
I see you stand
like
greyhounds in the slips
I wouldn't breath the
same
air
I'd
Like
to Teach the World to Sing ( The New Seekers song )
I'd
like
to buy the world a Coke ( Coca Cola advertising slogan )
I'd
like
to teach the world to sing
I'll
level
with you
I'm good enough, I'm smart enough, and doggone it, people
like
me! ( A catchphrase from Stuart Smiley In Saturday Night Live )
If I had to do the
same
again, I would my friend Fernando ( ABBA lyric )
If it looks
like
a duck and it quacks
like
a duck, it probably is a duck
If life were
like
that, you wouldn't need a VISA card ( VISA advertising slogan )
If you
like
a lot of chocolate on your biscuit join our Club ( Jacob's Club advertising slogan )
In keeping with
In
like
Flynn
In
like
a lion out
like
a lamb
In the
same
ballpark
In the
same
boat
In the
same
box
In the
same
bracket
In the
same
breath
In the
same
vein
Insanity is doing the
same
thing, over and over again, but expecting different results ( Albert Einstein quotation )
It Takes People
Like
You To Make People
Like
Me ( Buck Owens song )
It makes you feel
like
the man you are ( Buick advertising slogan )
It was the night before Christmas and all round the house, not a creature was stirring, not
even
a mouse
It's Only Rock And Roll, But I
Like
It ( Rolling Stones song )
It's been a hard day's night, and I'd been working
like
a dog ( Beatles song lyric )
It's beginning to look a lot
like
Christmas
Just
Like
A Woman ( Bob Dylan song )
Just
like
a chocolate milkshake, only crunchy ( Coco Pops advertising slogan )
Just
like
that ( A catchphrase from Tommy Cooper )
Keep an
even
keel
Knock for knock
Know
like
the back of your hand
Laugh
like
a drain
Leak
like
a sieve
Legs
like
tree trunks
Letter for letter
Level
head
Level
headed
Level
off
Level
pegging
Level
playing field
Level
temper
Level
up
Level
with
Lie
like
a trooper
Life is stimulating enough (
Like
Cola advertising slogan )
Life's
like
that
Lightning never strikes twice in the
same
place
Like
A Rolling Stone ( Bob Dylan song )
Like
I should care
Like
a Prayer ( Madonna song )
Like
a bat out of hell
Like
a bee to a honeypot
Like
a blue arsed fly
Like
a bolt from the blue
Like
a breath of fresh air
Like
a bull at a gate
Like
a bull in a china shop
Like
a candle in the wind
Like
a cat on a hot coals
Like
a cat on a hot tin roof
Like
a chicken with its head cut off
Like
a dog with two dicks
Like
a dog with two tails
Like
a dose of salts
Like
a duck to water
Like
a fart in a colander
Like
a fish out of water
Like
a fox in a henhouse
Like
a good neighbor ( State Farm )
Like
a good neighbor, State Farm is there ( State Farm Insurance advertising slogan )
Like
a hog on ice
Like
a moth to a flame
Like
a pig from a gun
Like
a pig in muck
Like
a puppet on a string
Like
a rag doll
Like
a rat up a drainpipe
Like
a rock ( Bob Seeger song title and Chevrolet Trucks advertising slogan )
Like
a shot
Like
a thief in the night
Like
a ton of bricks
Like
being savaged by a dead sheep
Like
billy-oh
Like
blazes
Like
bumps on a log
Like
buttah ( A catchphrase from Linda Richman in Saturday Night Live )
Like
death warmed up
Like
father,
like
son
Like
for
like
Like
hell
Like
herding cats
Like
it or lump it
Like
it or not
Like
lambs to the slaughter
Like
looking for a needle in a haystack
Like
mother used to make
Like
no other ( Mercedes Benz advertising slogan )
Like
nobody's business
Like
nothing else on Earth ( Hummer advertising slogan )
Like
nothing on earth
Like
pulling teeth
Like
rats leaving a sinking ship
Like
rearranging the deck chairs on the Titanic
Like
shit off a shovel
Like
shit through a goose
Like
shooting fish in a barrel
Like
something the cat dragged in
Like
tea used to be ( Yorkshire Tea advertising slogan )
Like
the devil
Like
the dickens
Like
the wind
Like
trying to nail jello to a wall
Like
turkeys voting for Christmas
Like
water off a duck's back
Like
white on rice
Lit up
like
a Christmas tree
Live
like
a king
Live
like
a lord
Looking
like
a wet weekend
Looks
like
a bomb has hit it
Love and marriage go together
like
a horse and carriage
Love
match
Make
like
a banana and split
Make
like
a tree and leave
Mama always said that there would be days
like
this
March comes in
like
a lion and goes out
like
a lamb
Meet your
match
Memory
like
a sieve
Mirror image
Mix and
match
More than a
match
for
Moves
like
Jagger ( Maroon 5 with Christina Aguilera song )
My mistress' eyes are nothing
like
the sun ( from a poem by Shakespeare )
Neutral ground
Never give a sucker an
even
break ( A catchphrase from W C Fields )
Next to myself, I
like
BVD best ( BVD Underwear advertising slogan )
Nobody Can Do It
Like
McDonald's Can ( McDonald's advertising slogan )
Nobody Makes Your Day
Like
McDonald's Can ( McDonald's advertising slogan )
Nobody does chicken
like
KFC ( Kentucky Fried Chicken advertising slogan )
Nobody doesn't
like
Sara Lee ( Sara Lee Cakes advertising slogan )
Not in the
same
league
Nothin' says lovin'
like
somethin' from the oven ( Pillsbury advertising slogan )
Nothing fitz
like
a Ritz ( Ritz Crackers advertising slogan )
Nothing less than
Nothing runs
like
a Deere ( John Deere Tractors advertising slogan )
Nothing succeeds
like
a parrot with no teeth
Nothing succeeds
like
success
Nothings sucks
like
an Electrolux ( Electrolux advertising slogan )
Old school
tie
On a par with
On an equal footing
On an
even
keel
On the
level
On the
same
page
On the
same
wavelength
On you
like
a chicken on a junebug
One and the
same
One's
level
best
Ooh, you are awful, but I
like
you ( A catchphrase from Dick Emery )
Out
like
a light
Party
Like
It's 1999 ( Prince song )
Party
Like
a Rock Star ( Shop Boyz song )
Peer
pressure
People who
like
people
like
Dial ( Dial Soap advertising slogan )
Perfect
match
Piss
like
a fire engine
Piss
like
a race horse
Pound for pound
Purr
like
a cat
Quid pro quo
Redress the balance
Ride
like
the wind
Rise
like
a Phoenix from the ashes
Roar, Boys, Roar, It tastes
like
more, What a flavor, Zippity-zow - its grand - and HOW ( Grape-Nuts Flakes Cereal advertising slogan )
Round and round the garden
like
a teddy bear ( line from nursery rhyme )
Royal flush ( in poker - a hand including a ten jack queen king and ace of the
same
suit )
Run
like
the wind
Running
like
clockwork
Same
Bat-time,
same
Bat-channel ( A catchphrase from Batman TV show )
Same
day delivery
Same
difference
Same
here
Same
old
same
old
Same
old story
Same
time tomorrow? ( Diet Pepsi advertising slogan )
Sea
level
See America at see
level
( Amtrak advertising slogan )
See how they run
like
pigs from a gun ( The Beatles song lyric )
Selling
like
hot cakes
Service
level
agreement
Shake
like
a leaf
Share and share
alike
She bangs
like
the shithouse door
Sing
like
a bird
Singing from the
same
hymn sheet
Singing
like
a duck
Sink
like
a stone
Six and two threes
Six of one and half a dozen of the other
Six, two and
even
Skin
like
peaches and cream
Sleep
like
a baby
Sleep
like
a log
Sleep
like
a top
Smells
Like
Teen Spirit ( Nirvana song )
Smiling
like
a Cheshire cat
Smoke
like
a chimney
Some
Like
It Hot ( Jack Lemmon / Tony Curtis / Marilyn Monroe movie )
Someone
Like
You ( Adele song )
Sometimes you feel
like
a nut, sometimes you don't ( Peter Paul Mounds advertising slogan )
Speak the
same
language
Spend money
like
water
Split decision
Spread
like
wildfire
Stand
like
a Stoughton bottle
Stick to you
like
glue
Sticks out
like
a sore thumb
Swear
like
a trooper
Sweat
like
a pig
Swings and roundabouts
Take it
like
a man
Take it to the next
level
Tarred with the
same
brush
Tell it
like
it is
The
Same
Old Song ( Four Tops song )
The Thriller In Manila ( Ali versus Frazier boxing
match
)
The more things change, the more they stay the
same
The smoker's
match
( Swan Vesta matches advertising slogan )
The square on the hypotenuse
equals
the sum of the squares on the other two sides
There Is Nothing
Like
A Dame ( Richard Rodgers and Oscar Hammerstein song )
There's No Business
Like
Show Business ( Judy Garland song )
There's no fool
like
an old fool
There's no life
like
it ( Canadian Armed Forces advertising slogan )
There's no place
like
HBO ( Home Box Office advertising slogan )
There's no place
like
home
There's no taste
like
Stones ( Stones Bitter advertising slogan )
There's no time
like
the present
They don't
like
it up em
Three on a
match
Tie
a Yellow Ribbon Round the Ole Oak Tree ( Dawn with Tony Orlando song )
Tie
one on
Tie
the knot
Tie
up the loose ends
Tie
yourself in knots
Time flies
like
an arrow. Fruit flies
like
a banana ( Groucho Marx line )
Treat someone
like
dirt
Triple play ( A baseball expression denoting the act of making three outs during the
same
play )
Try it, you'll
like
it ( Alka Seltzer advertising slogan )
Up above the world so high ,
like
a diamond in the sky ( line from nursery rhyme )
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 )
Walk and chew gum at the
same
time
Walk
like
an Egyptian ( Bangles song )
Watch you
like
a hawk
Water seeks its own
level
Well, nobody's perfect ( line from the movie Some
Like
It Hot )
Went down
like
a lead balloon
What are you like?
What's not to like?
Whatever You
Like
( T.I. song )
When all you have is a hammer, everything looks
like
a nail
Who lives in a house
like
this? ( A catchphrase from Through the Keyhole )
Whole shooting
match
Winston tastes good
like
a cigarette should ( Winston Cigarettes advertising slogan )
Wipe your face
With friends
like
that who needs enemies?
Work
like
a Trojan
Work
like
a beaver
Work
like
a dog
Works
like
a charm
Would you
like
fries with that?
You Make Me Feel
Like
A Natural Woman ( Carole King song )
You are cheeky but I
like
you
You cannot step into the
same
river twice ( philosophical comment by Heraclitus )
You don't need caffeine. And neither does your cola (
Like
Cola advertising slogan )
You too can have a body
like
mine ( Charles Atlas advertising slogan )
You're going to
like
us ( Trans World Airways advertising slogan )
Zero sum game