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...Baby
One
More Time ( Britney Spears album and song )
A World first
A great
one
for
Ain't my first rodeo ( said by someone who has experience of a situation )
All children, except one, grow up ( the opening line of Peter Pan )
All for
one
and
one
for all
All
one
to me
An army of
one
( United States Army advertising slogan )
And then there was
one
Another
One
Bites The Dust ( Queen song )
Art is going
one
step too far
As busy as a
one
armed paper hanger
As busy as a
one
legged arse kicker
As
one
door closes, another
one
opens
Ask the Man who Owns
One
( Packard advertising slogan )
At first blush
At first hand
At
one
another's throats
At
one
fell swoop
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Atone for one's sins
Avert one's eyes
Avert one's gaze
Back
number
Back to square
one
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Bare one's teeth
Be the first to know ( CNN advertising slogan )
Beer and sandwiches at
Number
10
Betcha can't eat just
one
( Lay's potato chips advertising slogan )
Big white
chief
Bite the big
one
Bits per
second
Blaze a trail
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Breathe one's last
Brighton line ( Bingo call for
number
fifty nine )
Buy one, get
one
free
Calendar year ( twelve months beginning from the first of January )
Cast the first stone
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Chief
cook and bottle washer
Chief
of staff
Children,
one
is one, two is fun, three is a house full
Chopsticks are
one
of the reasons the Chinese never invented custard ( Spike Milligan line )
Clickety click ( Bingo call for
number
sixty six )
Colour one's view
Columbus egg
Complex
number
( a
number
containing real and imaginary parts )
Cop
one
Cushy
number
Dance With The
One
That Brought You ( Shania Twain song )
Day
one
Desmond Tutu ( Cockney rhyming slang for
Second
class
degree
( 2,2 ) )
Dief the
Chief
( Nickname of John Diefenbaker )
Do a
number
on
Doctor's Orders ( Bingo call for
number
nine )
Doff one's cap
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Don't put all your eggs in
one
basket
Down it in
one
Down to the last out ( A baseball expression meaning to have
one
last chance )
Down to the pub for a quick
one
Droopy drawers ( Bingo call for
number
forty four )
Employee
Number
8 ( Nickname of Antoine Walker )
Every
one
a winner
Exercise one's discretion
Exert one's authority
Feed one's mind
First Among Equals ( Jeffrey Archer book )
First Slip ( field position in the game of cricket )
First World ( the indutrialised affluent and wealthy nations )
First World problem ( a relatively trivial problem only affecting the affluent )
First among equals ( the most senior person in a group of equal rank )
First amongst equals
First and
foremost
First blood
First came to fame
First catch your hare
First come first served
First comes love, then comes marriage
First contact
First cut
First flush
First footing ( making a round of visits at New Year )
First impressions last
First light
First past the post
First rate
First relationships last ( First National Bank of Chicago advertising slogan )
First responder ( the member of the emergency services to arrive at a disaster )
First strike
First thing
First things first
First time caller
First to market
First up
First with the Hits ( Mercury Records advertising slogan )
First, do no harm
For No
One
( Beatles song )
Fourpenny
one
From day
one
Genius is
one
percent inspiration and 99 percent perspiration ( Thomas Edison quotation )
Get to first base
Get to first base with
Get to
second
base
Get your retaliation in first
Give one's eye teeth for
Give one's right arm for
Go off on
one
Go
one
better
Got it in
one
Got your
number
Hail to the
chief
Half a
second
Handbrake turn ( 180
degree
turn in a car by locking the back wheels )
Have a
second
string to your bow have
Have
one
on me
He's
one
sick puppy
Head first
Hello,
one
two three testing
Here's
one
I prepared earlier ( A catchphrase from Blue Peter )
Here's
one
in your eye
Hole in
one
How does it feel to be
one
of the beautiful people? ( Beatles song lyric )
I
Second
That Emotion ( Smokey Robinson song )
I don't believe it ( A catchphrase from Victor Meldrew,
One
Foot In The Grave )
I have not slept
one
wink
I took my harp to the party but no
one
asked me to play
I want that
one
( A catchphrase from Little Britain )
I've got your
number
If I've only
one
life, let me live it as a blonde! ( Clairol Hair Colouring advertising slogan )
If at first you don't succeed try, try and try again
If you ain't first, you're last
If you change your mind, I'm the first in line ( ABBA lyric )
In
one
ear and out the other
In
one
piece
In the kingdom of the blind the
one
eyed man is king
In words of
one
syllable
It Happened
One
Night ( Clark Gable movie )
It takes 40 dumb animals to make a fur coat, but only
one
to wear it
It takes
one
to know
one
It was just
one
of those things
It's an ill wind that blows no
one
any good
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Just
one
more thing ( A catchphrase from Columbo )
Just
one
of those days
Key of the door ( Bingo call for
number
twenty
one
)
Kill two birds with
one
stone
Knit
one
purl
one
La Belle Epoque ( the golden age or beautiful era preceding the First World War )
Ladies first
Last in first out
Last
one
there is a rotten egg
Launch one's lunch
Leadoff hitter ( A baseball expression denoting the player who bats first )
Legs eleven ( Bingo call for
number
eleven )
Lend one's name
Let me make
one
thing perfectly clear
Let
one
go
Let
one
thousand flowers bloom
Life is just
one
damned thing after another
Little black
number
Look after
number
one
Look out for
number
one
Love Potion
Number
Nine ( Leiber and Stoller song )
Love at first sight
Lucky
number
seven
Maiden speech
Maiden voyage
Make first base
Make one's hackles rise
Massage one's ego
Me first
Minority of
one
Mirror mirror on the all who is the fairest
one
of all?
More than
one
string to your bow
My
one
regret in life is that I am not someone else ( Woody Allen line )
Name, rank, and serial
number
Near to one's heart
Neither
one
thing nor the other
Nice
one
Cyril ( A catchphrase from Wonderloaf )
No
One
( Alicia Keys song )
No
one
can make you feel inferior without your consent ( Eleanor Roosevelt quotation )
No
one
expects the Spanish Inquisition ( A catchphrase from Monty Python's Flying Circus )
No
one
likes us, we don't care ( A catchphrase from Millwall football supporters )
Not my type ( not a person
one
is attracted to )
Now There is only
one
Mars ( Mars Chocolate advertising slogan )
Number
10 Downing Street ( address of the British Prime Minister )
Number
Six ( Pseudonym of Peter Smith The Prisoner ( Patrick McGoohan ) )
Number
crunching
Number
one
Number
one
concubine ( name given to the partner of Bertrand Russell )
Number
one
son
Number
two
Number
unobtainable
Odd
one
out
Of the first water
On
second
thoughts
On the
one
hand
One
Cent ( Nickname of Anfernee Hardaway )
One
Dog ( Nickname of Lance Johnson )
One
Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest ( Jack Nicholson movie )
One
Foot In The Grave ( BBC comedy television series )
One
Hundred Years Of Solitude ( Gabriel Garcia Marquez book )
One
More Cup Of Coffee ( Bob Dylan song )
One
More Night ( Maroon 5 song )
One
Of Us Must Know ( Bob Dylan song )
One
Size ( Nickname of Fitz Hall )
One
Too Many Mornings ( Bob Dylan song )
One
Tough ( Nickname of Joaquin Andejar )
One
and all
One
and the same
One
armed bandit
One
brick short of a load
One
by
one
One
card for home and abroad ( Maestro advertising slogan )
One
fall, two submissions or a knockout
One
fine day
One
foot in the grave
One
for all and all for
one
One
for sorrow ( Magpie nursery rhyme )
One
for sorrow, two for mirth, three for a wedding, four for a birth
One
for the book
One
for the road
One
good turn deserves another
One
half of the world does not know how the other half lives
One
hand tied behind your back
One
hand washes the other
One
hell of
One
horse town
One
in a billion ( McDonald's advertising slogan )
One
in a million
One
in the eye
One
instinctively knows when something is right ( Croft
Original
Sherry advertising slogan )
One
jump ahead of
One
law for the rich and another for the poor
One
leg at a time ( Dockers advertising slogan )
One
liner
One
man and his dog
One
man's meat is another man's poison
One
man's trash is another man's treasure
One
man:
one
vote
One
may as well be hanged for a sheep as for a lamb
One
minute to midnight
One
moment please
One
more time
One
night stand
One
night stand investment
One
of life's little ironies
One
of the boys
One
of these days, Alice ... Pow! To the moon! ( A catchphrase from The Honeymooners )
One
off
One
off the wrist
One
on
one
One
out, all out
One
over the eight
One
ringy-dingy...two ringy-dingies ( A catchphrase from Ernestine In Rowan and Martin's Laugh-In )
One
second
One
side of the story
One
size fits all
One
small step for man,
one
giant leap for mankind ( Neil Armstrong quotation )
One
smart cookie
One
sprint many solutions ( Sprint advertising slogan )
One
step ahead
One
step at a time
One
step forward, two steps back
One
stop shop
One
swallow doesn't make a summer
One
taste and your stuck on golden flake ( Golden Flake Potato Chips advertising slogan )
One
that Last ( Duracell Batteries advertising slogan )
One
thing leads to another
One
to
one
One
to remember
One
toe over the line
One
track mind
One
trick pony
One
two buckle my shoe ( line from nursery rhyme )
One
two many and you might turn Bertie ( Bassett's Liquorice Allsorts advertising slogan )
One
two three o'clock four o'clock rock
One
volunteer is worth ten pressed men
One
wedding brings another
One
year's seeds make seven year weeds
Opening night ( the first night of a theatrical performance )
Original
Gangster Ice T song
Original
sin
Pinch, punch, first of the month
Play
second
fiddle
Plus
one
Prepare to want
one
( Hyundai advertising slogan )
Pride of place
Primal
Fear ( film starring Richard Gere )
Primal
Rage ( film and video game )
Primal
Scream ( a psychological treatment for neurosis )
Primal
fear ( Neurosis therapy and British rock band )
Primal
therapist ( psychotherapist who uses
Primal
Scream method of treatment )
Public Enemy
Number
One
( Nickname of John Dillinger )
Pull a fast
one
Put
one
foot in front of the other
Put
one
over on
Quality is job
one
( Ford Cars advertising slogan )
Quick
one
Rolled into
one
Room for
one
more inside
Route
one
Safety first
Second
banana
Second
best
Second
bite of the cherry
Second
childhood
Second
class
Second
degree
burns
Second
generation
Second
nature
Second
sight
Second
slip ( field position in the game of cricket )
Second
storey man
Second
thoughts
Second
thoughts are best
Second
to none
Second
wind
Seen one, seen them all
Shoot a birdie ( score
one
under par in a golf shot )
Shoot first, ask questions later
Six of
one
and half a dozen of the other
Sleep with
one
eye open
Snakes alive ( Bingo call for
number
fifty five )
Sneak preview
So easy to use, no wonder it's
number
one
( AOL advertising slogan )
So no
one
told you life was gonna be this way
Sorry about that, Chief. ( A catchphrase from Get Smart )
Still the
One
( ABC advertising slogan )
Stop me and buy
one
( Wall's Ice Cream advertising slogan )
Stop me if you've heard this
one
Take
one
day at a time
Take
one
for the team
Take someone to
one
side
Ten
one
hundred
That's a new
one
on me
That's the
second
biggest ... I've ever seen! ( A catchphrase from Get Smart )
The Adventure of the
Second
Stain ( Sherlock Holmes story )
The Amazing
One
( Nickname of Alfredo Amezaga )
The Best
Second
Banana in the Business ( Nickname of Art Carney )
The
Chief
( Nickname of Robert Parish )
The Chosen
One
( Nickname of LeBron James )
The First Cut Is The Deepest ( Rod Stewart song )
The First Garden City Of The World ( Nickname of Letchworth England )
The First Lady of Television ( Nickname of Faye Emerson )
The First State ( Nickname of the US state of Delaware )
The Great
One
( Nickname of comedian Jackie Gleason )
The
Original
Live Test-Pattern Girl ( Nickname of Nanette Fabray )
The Special
One
( Nickname of football manager Jose Mourinho )
The Wild
One
( Marlon Brando movie )
The first network for men ( Spike TV advertising slogan )
The first time is never the best ( Campari advertising slogan )
The flower of one's youth
The lights are on but there's no
one
at home
The magic
number
The mainspring in a Bulova is made to last 256 years or 146 leather straps - whichever comes first ( Bulova Watches advertising slogan )
The nth
degree
The
one
and only Wonderbra ( Wonderbra advertising slogan )
The
one
and only cereal that comes in the shape of animals ( Crispy Critters advertising slogan )
The
one
that got away
The
one
to watch ( Channel 7 Australia advertising slogan )
The
original
and the best
The right
one
( Martini advertising slogan )
The world around
one
There's more than
one
way to skin a cat
There's not a soul out there, no
one
to hear my prayer ( ABBA lyric )
There's
one
born every minute
There's only
one
Third
degree
This
one
will run and run
Tie
one
on
Times without
number
To cast the first stone
To get one's back up
Today is the first day of the rest of your life
Top of the shop ( Bingo call for
number
ninety )
Two fat ladies ( Bingo call for
number
eighty eight )
Two for
one
Two heads are better than
one
Two little dicky birds sitting on a wall,
one
named Peter,
one
named Paul ( line from nursery rhyme )
Two little ducks ( Bingo call for
number
twenty two )
Two steps forward and
one
step back
Unlucky for some ( Bingo call for
number
thirteen )
Was she worth it ( Bingo call for
number
fifty six )
We used to have
one
of those, but the wheels fell off
We're Just
One
Big Happy Family ( Richard Hawley song )
We're just
one
big happy family
We're
number
two. We try harder ( Avis Rent-a-Car advertising slogan )
We're the
one
( Sky Television advertising slogan )
We're tobacco men not medicine men. Old Gold cures just
one
thing. The World's Best Tobacco ( Old Gold Cigarettes advertising slogan )
What Makes You Beautiful (
One
Direction song )
What a tangled web we weave when first we practice to deceive
What with
one
thing and another
What's in your wallet? ( Capital
One
advertising slogan )
When war is declared, truth is the first casualty
Which came first the chicken or the egg?
Who blinked first?
Will no
one
rid me of this turbulent priest?
Win faster (
One
Brand Group advertising slogan )
With
one
bound he was at her side
Women and children first
Work one's fingers to the bone
World
champion
World's first
Worth one's weight in gold
Wring one's hands
You are a
one
You can kiss that
one
goodbye
You don't get a
second
chance at a first impression
You heard it here first
You only get
one
chance to make a first impression
You only hurt the
one
you love
You're the
One
That I Want ( John Travolta and Olivia Newton-John song )
You, you're the
one
( McDonald's advertising slogan )