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101 Dalmatians ( Disney cartoon and Glenn
Close
movie )
A
close
thing
A means to an
end
All good things must come to an
end
All over bar the shouting
Apple
polish
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
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 )
Bottom it
Bow out
Break the back of something
Brilliant cleaning starts with Finish ( Finish Detergent advertising slogan )
Bring to an
end
Bring your A game (
perform
to your best ability )
Business
end
Buttoned up
Call it a day
Call it quits
Call time on
Can't see beyond the
end
of your nose
Carry out
Cheer up, it's not the
end
of the world
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 sticky
end
Complete
shambles
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Cut off at the knees
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
Drink up
Eat up
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
Face that could
stop
a clock
Fatal Attraction ( Glenn
Close
/ Michael Douglas movie )
Finishing touch
From soup to nuts
Get hold of the wrong
end
of the stick
Get to the
end
of your tether
Get your
end
away
Go in for the kill
Go off the deep
end
Go the distance
Going, going, gone
Have your hair stand on
end
Hit it out of the park ( A baseball expression denoting a
complete
or spectacular success )
Holding your cards
close
to your chest
Hole out
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 )
In at the death
Is the Pope Polish?
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 )
Knock it on the head
Knock it out of the park ( A baseball expression denoting a
complete
or spectacular success )
Knock off
Knocking off
Know which
end
is up
Last straw
Last trump
Light at the
end
of the tunnel
Long
Stop
( field position in the game of cricket )
Make a
complete
fool of yourself
Make light work of
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
On the receiving
end
Once you pop you can't
stop
( Pringles advertising slogan )
One
stop
shop
Out the window
Phone it in (
perform
an act in an uncommitted disinterested manner )
Photo finish
Polish
off
Put an
end
to
Ring off
Sail
close
to the wind
Save the last dance for me
See something through
Shallow
end
Shit ( or short )
end
of the stick
Short
end
of the stick
Sign off
Some are born great, some
achieve
greatness, and some have greatness thrust upon 'em
Some men are born mediocre, some men
achieve
mediocrity, and some men have mediocrity thrust upon them
Spit and
polish
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 )
That's all folks ( A catchphrase from Bugs Bunny )
The Blue
End
State ( Nickname of the US state of Delaware )
The
End
Of The World ( Nickname of Anchorage Alaska )
The
Polish
Cannon ( Nickname of Sebastian Janikowski )
The
Polish
Hammer ( Nickname of Sebastian Janikowski )
The
Polish
Powderkeg ( Nickname of Sebastian Janikowski )
The
Polish
Prince ( Nickname of singer Bobby Vinton )
The be all and
end
all
The beginning of the
end
The bitter
end
The clean plate club
The deep
end
The
end
of civilization as we know it
The
end
of the road
The
end
of the world is nigh
The finishing line
The jig is up
The joke's over
The last straw that broke the camel's back
The light at the
end
of the tunnel may just be a train coming the other way
The means to an
end
The party's over
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
Throw the towel in
Thrown in at the deep
end
Tie up the loose ends
Till the
end
of time
Too
close
for comfort
Too
close
to call
Top it off
Toward this
end
Under the wire
Until the last dog is hung
Up
close
and personal
We never
stop
working for you ( Verizon Wireless advertising slogan )
When all is said and done
When you are in a hole,
stop
digging
When your shoes shine, so do you ( Kiwi Shoe
Polish
advertising slogan )
Where wonders never
cease
( Alton Towers advertising slogan )
Win by a head
Win by a neck
Win by a nose
Wind up
Winning post
World without
end
Wrap it up
Wrap up