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A World
first
A boy's
best
friend is his mother ( Psycho )
A dog is a man's
best
friend
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A girl's
best
friend
A
head
for business and a body for sin
Above my
head
Acid
head
Ain't my
first
rodeo ( said by someone who has experience of a situation )
Air
head
All the
best
All's for the
best
in the
best
of all possible worlds ( Voltaire quotation - in Candide )
America's
best
record ( Puritan Records advertising slogan )
As mad as a bear with a sore
head
At
first
blush
At
first
hand
Attack is the
best
form of defence
Bang your
head
against a brick wall
Bang, bang, Maxwell's silver hammer came down upon her
head
( The Beatles song lyric )
Be it on your
head
Be the
best
( British Army advertising slogan )
Be the
first
to know ( CNN advertising slogan )
Best
bib and tucker
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Best
friend
Best
friends forever
Best
in class
Best
in show
Best
of all
Best
of breed
Best
of friends
Best
practice
Best
stop now
Bite someone's
head
off
Bone
head
Breast is
best
( slogan of breastfeeding campaign )
Bring out the Hellmann's, and bring out the
best
( Hellmann's Mayonnaise advertising slogan )
Bring out your
best
( Bud Light advertising slogan )
Bring to a
head
Bring your A game ( perform to your
best
ability )
Bury your
head
in the sand
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Business end
Butt
head
Calendar year ( twelve months beginning from the
first
of January )
Can't Get You Out of My
Head
( Kylie Minogue song )
Can't make
head
or tail of it
Cast the
first
stone
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Coffee at its
best
( Nescafe Gold Blend advertising slogan )
Come to a
head
Couldn't make
head
or tail of it
Diamonds are a girl's
best
friend
Do your
head
in
Do your level
best
Doing what we do
best
( American Airlines advertising slogan )
Don't mess with my
head
Don't trouble your pretty little
head
about it
Drink Camp - its the best! ( Camp Coffee advertising slogan )
East, west, home's
best
Even your
best
friend won't tell you ( Lifebuoy Soap advertising slogan )
Even your
best
friends won't tell you ( Listerine Mouthwash advertising slogan )
Experience is the
best
teacher
Eyes in the back of your
head
Father Knows
Best
( American TV Show )
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
Fish always rot from the
head
downwards
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For the
best
Ford is the
Best
in Texas ( Ford Cars advertising slogan )
Fountain
head
Full
head
of hair
Funny in the
head
Get it into your
head
Get to
first
base
Get to
first
base with
Get your
head
around something
Get your
head
down
Get your
head
together
Get your retaliation in
first
Give it your
best
shot
Go and boil your
head
Go boil your
head
Go to your
head
Good
head
on his shoulders
Got your
head
screwed on
Hang your
head
Hanging over your
head
Have your
best
interests at heart
Have your
head
examined
He went to bed and bound his
head
with vinegar and brown paper ( line from nursery rhyme )
Head
and shoulders above
Head
banger
Head
case
Head
count
Head
doctor
Head
first
Head
for figures
Head
for heights
Head
for the Border ( Taco Bell Restaurants advertising slogan )
Head
for the hills
Head
for the mountains ( Busch Beer advertising slogan )
Head
games
Head
honcho
Head
hunting
Head
in the clouds
Head
in the sand
Head
like a sieve
Head
of hair
Head
of steam
Head
of the family
Head
of the household
Head
off
Head
on
Head
on collision
Head
over heels in love
Head
start
Head
them off at the pass
Head
to
head
Head
to toe
Head
up
Head
wind
Heap coals of fire on someone's
head
Hit the nail on the
head
Hold a gun to his
head
Hold up your
head
Hold your
head
up high
Honesty is the
best
policy
Hope for the
best
I could do that standing on my
head
I never knew you had dandruff (
Head
and Shoulders shampoo advertising slogan )
If at
first
you don't succeed try, try and try again
If you ain't first, you're last
If you can keep your
head
when all about you ( from a poem by Kipling )
If you change your mind, I'm the
first
in line ( ABBA lyric )
In over your
head
Iowa's
Leading
Edge ( Nickname of Council Bluffs Iowa )
It was the
best
of times: it was the worst of times ( the opening line of A Tale Of Two Cities )
It's all done in the
best
possible taste ( A catchphrase from Kenny Everett )
Keep a civil tongue in your
head
Keep a cool
head
Keep your
head
Keep your
head
above water
Keep your
head
down
Kelloggs, because your
best
days start with breakfast ( Kelloggs advertising slogan )
Knock it on the
head
Knowing me, knowing you, it's the
best
I can do ( ABBA lyric )
Knuckle
head
La Belle Epoque ( the golden age or beautiful era preceding the
First
World War )
Ladies
first
Last in
first
out
Laugh your
head
off
Laughter is the
best
medicine
Leading
authority
Leading
edge
Leading
fashion hub
Leading
indicator
Leading
light
Leading
question
Leadoff hitter ( A baseball expression denoting the player who bats
first
)
Level
head
Like a chicken with its
head
cut off
Living well is the
best
revenge
Loaf of bread ( Cockney rhyming slang for
head
)
Look your
best
while you wear our least ( Jockey Shorts advertising slogan )
Lose your
head
Love at
first
sight
Main
chance
Main
event
Main
squeeze
Make
first
base
Make the
best
of a bad job
Make your
head
spin
Making the sky the
best
place on Earth ( Air France advertising slogan )
Man's
best
friend
Me
first
Meat
head
Might and
main
Mother knows
best
Move in the
best
circles
My
head
is spinning
Need your
head
examined
Next to myself, I like BVD
best
( BVD Underwear advertising slogan )
Not
best
pleased
Not right in the
head
Nothing but the
best
Nothing to worry your pretty little
head
about
Of the
first
water
Off the top of my
head
Off with his
head
Off your
head
Old
head
on young shoulders
On me
head
son ( Invitation to cross a football so that another player can
head
it )
On your
best
behaviour
On your own
head
be it
One's level
best
Only the
best
for the Captain's table ( Birdseye advertising slogan )
Opening night ( the
first
night of a theatrical performance )
Out of your
head
Outside of a dog, a book is man's
best
friend. Inside of a dog it's too dark to read ( Groucho Marx line )
Over your
head
Pecker
head
Petrol
head
Pinch, punch,
first
of the month
Pointy
head
Pot
head
Price on his
head
Probably the
best
lager in the World ( Carlsberg advertising slogan )
Propeller
head
Puddin'
Head
( Nickname of Colonel Sherman Potter ( Harry Morgan ) )
Puddin'
Head
( Nickname of Willie Jones )
Pull your
head
in
Put a gun to your
head
Put your
best
foot forward
Put your
head
above the parapet
Put your
head
into the lion's mouth
Put your
head
on the block
Raindrops Keep Falling On My
Head
( Burt Bacharach song )
Revenge is a dish
best
served cold
Safety
first
Second
best
Second thoughts are
best
Shoot first, ask questions later
Simply The
Best
( Tina Turner song )
Simply the
best
there is ( Britvic advertising slogan )
Six of the
best
Sleepy
head
Snap someone's
head
off
Soft in the
head
Some of our
best
men are women ( United States Army advertising slogan )
Stand it on its
head
Strike out swinging ( A baseball expression meaning to fail while giving it your
best
effort )
Strong in the arm and thick in the
head
Sunday
best
Surely the
best
tactic ( Tic Tac Candy advertising slogan )
Take it into your
head
Talk over your
head
Talking
head
The
Best
Bad Girl on TV ( Nickname of Cloris Leachman )
The
Best
Little Whorehouse In Texas ( Burt Reynolds / Dolly Parton movie )
The
Best
Second Banana in the Business ( Nickname of Art Carney )
The
Best
Years Of Our Lives ( William Wyler movie )
The
Best
never rest ( Ford Trucks advertising slogan )
The Devil has all the
best
tunes
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 Girl Of My
Best
Friend ( Elvis Presley song )
The
Head
Ball Coach ( Nickname of Steve Spurrier )
The
best
a man can get ( Gillette advertising slogan )
The
best
defence is a good offence
The
best
is the enemy of the good
The
best
is yet to come
The
best
laid plans
The
best
laid schemes of mice and men
The
best
of British
The
best
of British luck
The
best
of both worlds
The
best
part of waking up is Folgers in your cup ( Folgers Coffee advertising slogan )
The
best
seat in the house ( Jockey Shorts advertising slogan )
The
best
that money can buy
The
best
thing since sliced bread
The
best
things in life are free
The
best
to you each morning ( Kelloggs advertising slogan )
The
best
tyres in the world have Goodyear written all over them ( Goodyear Tyres advertising slogan )
The
best
way of expressing your intelligence ( Zenith Data Systems advertising slogan )
The
best
way to get music out of your system ( Philips advertising slogan )
The blind
leading
the blind
The brightest and the
best
The
first
network for men ( Spike TV advertising slogan )
The
first
time is never the
best
( Campari advertising slogan )
The good is the enemy of the
best
The
main
drag
The
main
event
The mainspring in a Bulova is made to last 256 years or 146 leather straps - whichever comes
first
( Bulova Watches advertising slogan )
The original and the
best
The power to be your
best
( Apple Computer advertising slogan )
Thousands of possibilities, get yours (
Best
Buy advertising slogan )
Throw a beanball ( A baseball expression meaning to attack an opponent by aiming at their
head
)
To cast the
first
stone
Today is the
first
day of the rest of your life
Towel
head
( derogatory slang term referring to an Arab man )
Turn on the fun (
Best
Buy advertising slogan )
Uneasy lies the
head
that wears a crown
Upon your
head
be it
We're tobacco men not medicine men. Old Gold cures just one thing. The World's
Best
Tobacco ( Old Gold Cigarettes advertising slogan )
Wet the baby's
head
What a tangled web we weave when
first
we practice to deceive
When war is declared, truth is the
first
casualty
Which came
first
the chicken or the egg?
Who blinked first?
Who's got the
best
darn burgers in the whole wide world? ( Burger King and I advertising slogan )
Win by a
head
With the
best
will in the world
Women and children
first
World's
first
Yorkshire born in Yorkshire bred, strong in the arm and weak in the
head
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 would forget your
head
if it weren't screwed on
You're As Good As The
Best
And Better Than The Rest ( Tina Turner song )
You've seen the rest, now try the
best
Your
best
bet
Your
best
bet for a fuller flavour ( Carling Black Label advertising slogan )