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A
Murder
Is Announced ( Agatha Christie book )
A View To A Kill ( James Bond movie Roger Moore )
As fit as a butcher's dog
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At death's door
At the end of a
gun
Badgered to
death
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Ban the
bomb
Because I could not stop for
death
he kindly stopped for me ( from a poem by Dickinson )
Billy The Kid ( Nickname of Henry McCarty aka William Bonney )
Bite the
bullet
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Blood sports
Blow someone away
Blow your brains out
Blown away
Blue
murder
Blue screen of
death
Bored to
death
Brush with
death
Bullet
Joe ( Nickname of baseball player Charles Rogan )
Bump off
Butcher
of Baghdad ( Nickname of Saddam Hussein )
Butcher
of the Somme ( Nickname of General Douglas Haig )
Cake or
death
( line from Eddie Izzard comedy )
Catch your
death
of cold
Chew a
gun
Cop
killer
Cot
death
Cowards may die many times before their
death
Crazy
Gun
Barney ( Nickname of Barney Fife ( Don Knotts ) )
Curiosity
killed
the cat
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Dance of
death
Dead men tell no tales
Death
In Venice ( Dirk Bogade / Luchino Visconti movie )
Death
On The Nile ( Agatha Christie book )
Death
On The Orient Express ( Agatha Christie book )
Death
Valley ( tourist attraction in Arizona USA )
Death
by PowerPoint
Death
by a thousand cuts
Death
by chocolate
Death
by committee
Death
by misadventure
Death
is nature's way of telling you to slow down
Death
metal
Death
of a Salesman ( play by Arthur Miller )
Death
trap
Dice with
death
Die a
death
Do away with
Do something to
death
Doctor Strangelove Or How I Learned To Stop Worrying And Love The
Bomb
( Peter Sellers movie )
Dodged a
bullet
Domestos
kills
all known germs - Dead! ( Domestos Bleach advertising slogan )
Domestos
kills
ninety-nine per cent of all known germs ( Domestos Bleach advertising slogan )
Don't
shoot
the messenger
Don't
shoot
the piano player
Don't
shoot
until you can see the whites of their eyes
Done to
death
Dressed to kill
Drive by shooting
Faster than a speeding
bullet
( A catchphrase from Superman )
Fate worse than
death
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Father of The Atomic
Bomb
( Nickname of Robert Oppenheimer )
Get away with
murder
Give it the
gun
Give me liberty or give me
death
Go in for the kill
Grim
death
Grip of
death
Group of
death
( the most difficult or competitive group in a sports tournament )
Gun
down
Hang on like grim
death
Hanged, drawn and quartered
Happiness Is A Warm
Gun
( The Beatles song )
Hard work never
killed
anyone
Have gun, will travel ( A catchphrase from TV series )
Have you any last requests? ( humorous question asked as though a person was about to be
killed
)
Hold a
gun
to his head
How To
Murder
Your Wife ( Jack Lemmon movie )
I could
murder
a cup of tea
I could
murder
a curry
I'd kill for a cup of tea
If I tell you I will have to
shoot
you
If I tell you, I'll have to kill you
If it
kills
me
If looks could kill
In at the
death
In at the kill
In the midst of life we are in
death
Into the valley of
death
rode the six hundred
Is that a
gun
in your pocket, or are you just glad to see me?
Jack the Ripper ( Nickname of Victorian murderer )
Jump the
gun
Just
shoot
me
Kill Bill ( Quentin Tarantino movie )
Kill or be
killed
Kill or cure
Kill stone dead
Kill the fatted calf
Kill the goose that lays the golden egg
Kill time
Kill time until time
kills
you
Kill two birds with one stone
Kill with kindness
Killer
Queen ( Queen song )
Killer
Ray ( Nickname of Ray Allen )
Killer
app
Killer
instinct
Killer
wave
Killing
In The Name Of Love ( Firewind song )
Killing
Me Softly With His Song ( Roberta Flack song
Killing
the goose that lays the golden eggs
Kills
bugs dead ( Raid advertising slogan )
Kiss of
death
Knock off
Lady
killer
Leave the gun, take the cannoli ( line from The Godfather )
Letter
bomb
Licence To Kill ( James Bond movie Timothy Dalton )
Licensed to kill
Life after
death
Life and
death
struggle
Like a pig from a
gun
Like
death
warmed up
Look
death
in the eye
Looks like a
bomb
has hit it
Machine
Gun
Kelly ( Nickname of George Kelly )
Magic
bullet
Make a
killing
Matter of life and
death
Meat is
murder
Merchant of
death
Mercy
killing
Mother Superior jumped the
gun
( Beatles song lyric )
Mow down
Murder
On The Dance Floor ( Sophie Ellis-Bexter song )
Murder
will out
Near
death
experience
Nothing is certain but
death
and taxes
Oh my God, they
killed
Kenny ( A catchphrase from South Park )
On
death
row
On pain of
death
Out of the jaws of
death
Psycho
Killer
( Talking Heads song )
Put a
gun
to your head
Put an end to
Put out a contract on
Put the fear of
death
into someone
Put to
death
Put to sleep
Put to the sword
Road kill
Rub out
Rubber
bullet
( a
bullet
made of rubber or plastic and used for riot control )
Scared to
death
Scream bloody
murder
Scream blue
murder
See how they run like pigs from a
gun
( The Beatles song lyric )
Serial
killer
Shoot
'em up
Shoot
a birdie ( score one under par in a golf shot )
Shoot
a fairy
Shoot
blanks
Shoot
down in flames (
destroy
an argument or theory )
Shoot
first, ask questions later
Shoot
from the hip
Shoot
him down in flames
Shoot
hoops
Shoot
it out
Shoot
me now
Shoot
on sight
Shoot
someone a line
Shoot
straight ( to talk or deal honestly )
Shoot
the breeze
Shoot
the moon ( remove household goods by night to avoid paying rent )
Shoot
the puppy
Shoot
through ( to leave or abscond )
Shoot
to kill
Shoot
your cuffs
Shoot
your mouth off
Shoot
yourself in the foot
Sick to
death
of
Silver
bullet
( a simple and seeming effortless solution to a difficult problem )
Slay
the dragon
Smoking
gun
Snuff out
Son of Sam ( Nickname of David Berkowitz )
Son of a
gun
Speed
kills
Stop it you're
killing
me
Stop, or my mom will
shoot
( line from Sylvestor Stallone movie )
Stronger ( What Doesn't Kill You ) ( Kelly Clarkson song )
Take care of
Take no prisoners
Take someone out
Take your life
That which does not kill us makes us stronger ( Friedrich Nietzsche quotation )
The Acid-bath
Killer
( Nickname of John Haigh )
The Angel of
Death
( Nickname of Josef Mengele )
The Boston Strangler ( Nickname of Albert DeSalvo )
The Clown
Killer
( Nickname of John Gacy )
The Fast
Gun
From Texas ( Nickname of Dan Troop ( John Russell ) )
The
Gun
That Won The West ( Nickname of the Colt revolver )
The Hillside Strangler ( Nickname of Alessio and Angelo )
The Hog
Butcher
Of The World ( Nickname of Chicago Illinois )
The Hypochondriac's Guide To Life And
Death
( Gene Weingarten book )
The Living
Death
( Nickname of Lew Jenkins )
The Lonesome
Death
Of Hattie Carroll ( Bob Dylan song )
The Man With The Golden
Gun
( James Bond movie Roger Moore )
The Masque of the Red
Death
The Mississippi
Bullet
( Nickname of Monta Ellis )
The Moors Murderers ( Nickname of Ian Brady and Myra Hindley )
The Zodiac
Killer
( Nickname of Seda Heriberto )
The
killing
fields
The reports of my
death
are greatly exaggerated
The valley of the shadow of
death
( line from the Lord's Prayer )
The wages of sin is
death
There are more ways of
killing
a cat than choking it with cream
They
Shoot
Horses Don't They? ( Jane Fonda movie )
Thou shalt not kill
Tickled to
death
Till
Death
Us Do Part ( BBC comedy television series )
Time to kill
To Kill A Mockingbird ( Gregory Peck movie )
Turkey
shoot
Under the
gun
Until
death
do us part
Video
Killed
The Radio Star ( The Buggles song )
Wall of
death
Weather
bomb
( a rapidly deepening low pressure area causing severe storms )
Whispering
Death
( Nickname of Michael Holding - West Indies cricketer )
Who
killed
Cock Robin ( line from nursery rhyme )
You'll be the
death
of me
You're
killing
me