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A Day In The Life ( The Beatles song )
A Life Less Ordinary ( Ewan McGregor / Cameron Diaz movie )
A dog is for life, not just for Christmas
A legend in his own
lifetime
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A life changing experience
A life for a life
A life on the ocean waves
A man who is tired of London is tired of life
A moment on the lips, a
lifetime
on the hips
A once in a
lifetime
opportunity
Accelerate your life ( US Navy advertising slogan )
Alive
alive
O
Alive
and kicking
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Alive
and well
All human life is there ( News Of The World advertising slogan )
All part of life's rich pattern
All part of life's rich tapestry
All walks of life
Alternative
energy
Always Look On The Bright Side Of Life ( Monty Python's Flying Circus song )
America
lives
in Dacron ( Dacron Fabric advertising slogan )
America's Oldest
Living
Teenager ( Nickname of game show host Dick Clark )
And for the life of me I don't know why ( A catchphrase from David Letterman )
Anything for a quiet life
Appetite for life
Aqua vitae
Are You
Being
Served? ( BBC comedy television series )
Are your friends
living
beyond your means? ( Chivas Regal Scotch advertising slogan )
Art imitating life
Art is long and life is short
As if your life depended on it
As large as life
As large as life and twice as handsome
Bane of my life
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Beat the
living
crap out of
Beat the
living
daylights out of
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Beat the
living
snot out of
Because life's complicated enough ( Abbey National advertising slogan )
Being
For The Benefit Of Mr. Kite! ( The Beatles song )
Being
There
Better things for better living, through chemistry ( Dupont advertising slogan )
Blessed are the cheese makers ( line from Monty Python's Life of Brian )
Bread of life
Breathe new life into
Build A Better Life By Stealing Office Supplies ( Dilbert )
Careless talk costs
lives
( WWII slogan )
Cash if you die, cash if you don't ( Lloyd's Life Insurance advertising slogan )
Cat has nine
lives
Celebrate the Moments of Your Life ( General Foods International Coffee advertising slogan )
Cell division (
biology
)
Chance of a
lifetime
Change of life
Circle Of Life ( Elton John song )
Come Alive! You're in the Pepsi Generation ( Pepsi advertising slogan )
Comparison With the
Living
Artist Reveals No Difference ( Edison Records advertising slogan )
Depart this life
Design for life
Dog's life
Don't you just love
being
in control? ( British Gas advertising slogan )
Eat someone
alive
Eaten
alive
Eke out a
living
Elixir of life
Energy
to burn
Energy
vampire
Every time a bell rings, an angel gets it's wings ( line from It's A Wonderful Life )
Facts of life
Famous for
being
famous
Far better for
being
near to you ( The Chesham Building Society advertising slogan )
Finer things of life
Flavor of Life ( Utada Hikaru song )
For life ( Volvo advertising slogan )
For successful
living
( Diesel advertising slogan )
For the rest of your life ( Adjustamatic Beds advertising slogan )
For the time
being
For years we've been making our products as if
lives
depend on them ( Squib drug products advertising slogan )
Friends for life
Gee, I wish I had a nickel ( Life Savers Candy advertising slogan )
Get a life
Get busy living, or get busy dying ( line from the movie The Shawshank Redemption )
Get on in life
Gift of life
Give a man a fish and you feed him for a day. Teach a man to fish and you feed him for a
lifetime
Good for Life! ( Dr Pepper advertising slogan )
Got To Get You Into My Life ( The Beatles song )
Grab life by the horns ( Dodge Motors advertising slogan )
Had a good innings
Half
alive
Half life
Hang on for dear life
Has it changed your life yet? ( Compaq advertising slogan )
He who
lives
by the sword shall die by the sword
He's not the Messiah, he's a very naughty boy ( line from the movie Life of Brian )
High life
His life's an open book
Hold on for dear life
Holiday of a
lifetime
How are the other half
lives
I bear a charmed life
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I married my husband for life, not for lunch
I swear on my mother's life
I'm free! ( A catchphrase from Mr Humphries In Are You
Being
Served? )
If I've only one life, let me live it as a blonde! ( Clairol Hair Colouring advertising slogan )
If life deals you lemons made lemonade
If life were like that, you wouldn't need a VISA card ( VISA advertising slogan )
If only everything in life was as reliable as a Volkswagen ( Volkswagen advertising slogan )
If you're not busy
being
born, you're busy dying ( Bob Dylan song lyric )
In
living
memory
In the land of the
living
In the midst of life we are in death
In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life: it goes on ( Robert Frost quotation )
Into every life a little rain must fall
It is better to remain silent at the risk of
being
thought a fool, than to talk and remove all doubt of it ( Maurice Switzer quotation )
It's A Wonderful Life ( James Stewart movie )
It's Miller time! ( Miller High Life advertising slogan )
It's a
living
It's life Jim, but not as we know it ( A catchphrase from Star Trek )
It's not the men in your life it's the life in your men that counts
Joie de vivre
Keep hope
alive
Kiss of life
La dolce vita
Large as life and twice as handsome
Larger than life
Lay down your life
Lead a charmed life
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Lead a dog's life
Life On Mars? ( David Bowie song )
Life after death
Life and death struggle
Life and limb
Life and soul of the party
Life begins at forty
Life coach
Life force
Life goes on
Life in the fast lane
Life is a bed of roses
Life is a sexually transmitted disease
Life is better Twisted ( Tropicana Twister advertising slogan )
Life is but a vale of tears
Life is full of misery, loneliness, and suffering - and it's all over much too soon ( Woody Allen line )
Life is just a bowl of cherries
Life is just one damned thing after another
Life is our life's Work ( Pfizer advertising slogan )
Life is rosy
Life is stimulating enough ( Like Cola advertising slogan )
Life is what happens to you while you're busy making other plans ( John Lennon quotation )
Life is what happens while you are busy doing other things
Life is what you make it
Life lesson
Life of its own
Life partner
Life size
Life support
Life's a beach
Life's a bitch then you die
Life's a breeze
Life's like that
Life's little luxuries
Life's not all beer and skittles
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Life's not all moonlight and roses
Life's simple pleasures
Life's too short
Life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness
Like
being
savaged by a dead sheep
Live Your Life ( T.I. with Rihanna song )
Live life in Comfort ( Comfort fabric softener advertising slogan )
Living
as man and wife
Living
in a box
Living
in sin
Living
is easy with eyes closed ( Beatles song lyric )
Living
legend
Living
off the fat of the land
Living
on borrowed time
Living
the dream
Living
together
Living
well is the best revenge
Living
will
Look
alive
Love life
Love of life
Low life
Made the American Way ( Miller High Life advertising slogan )
Make life difficult
Mama always said that life is like a box of chocolates. You never know what you're gonna get ( line from the movie Forrest Gump )
Matter of life and death
Mikey likes it ( Life cereal advertising slogan )
More dead than
alive
Most men live
lives
of quiet desperation
My one regret in life is that I am not someone else ( Woody Allen line )
New lease on life
No music, no life ( Tower Records advertising slogan )
Not for the life of me
Not on your life
Once In A Liftime ( Talking Heads' song )
Once in a
lifetime
One for sorrow, two for mirth, three for a wedding, four for a
birth
One half of the world does not know how the other half
lives
One of life's little ironies
Pardon me for
living
Partners for life
Pepsi's got your taste for life ( Pepsi advertising slogan )
Pond life
Prime of life
Private life
Prolongs active life ( PAL dog food advertising slogan )
Pure life ( Nestle Aberfoyle Natural Spring Water advertising slogan )
Risk life and limb
Run For Your Life ( The Beatles song )
Run for your life
Sakes
alive
Saturday's child works hard for a
living
Say the magic word and win $100 dollars ( A catchphrase from Groucho Marx In You Bet Your Life )
Scare the
living
daylights out of
Schooldays are the happiest days of your life
Scrape a
living
Separated at
birth
Sex life
Simple life
Skin
alive
Slice of life
Snakes
alive
Snakes
alive
( Bingo call for number fifty five )
So no one told you life was gonna be this way
Sophisticated
living
Staff of life
Stayin'
Alive
( Bee Gees song )
Still life ( a form of painting in which inanimate objects are the subject )
Story of my life
Such is life
Summertime, And The
Living
Is Easy ( George Gershwin song )
Summertime, and the
living
is easy
Supreme
being
Survival
of the fittest
Suspended
animation
Take your life
Take your life in your hands
Teeming with life
That's Life ( Frank Sinatra song )
That's life
The Best Years Of Our
Lives
( William Wyler movie )
The
Birth
of a Nation ( D W Griffith / Lillian Gish movie )
The Champagne of Beers ( Miller High Life advertising slogan )
The Drive of your life ( Peugeot advertising slogan )
The
Heartbeat
of America: Chevrolet ( Chevrolet advertising slogan )
The Hypochondriac's Guide To Life And Death ( Gene Weingarten book )
The Importance Of
Being
Earnest ( Oscar Wilde book )
The Importance of
Being
Ernest ( play by Oscar Wilde )
The Life And Times Of Judge Roy Bean ( Paul Newman movie )
The
Living
Death ( Nickname of Lew Jenkins )
The best things in life are free
The breath of life
The cat who doesn't act finicky soon loses control of his owner ( 9
Lives
Cat Food advertising slogan )
The company you keep ( New York Life advertising slogan )
The happiest days of your life
The life of Riley
The light of my life
The love of my life
The smallest worm will turn,
being
trodden on
The unexamined life is not worth
living
( philosophical opinion by Socrates )
The walk of life
The worst in
living
memory
There's life in the old dog yet
There's no life like it ( Canadian Armed Forces advertising slogan )
This is the life
This is your life
Three score and ten
Time of your life
To the life
Today is the first day of the rest of your life
Today something we do will touch your life ( Union Carbide and Carbon advertising slogan )
Trip of a
lifetime
Up and down like the Ottoman Empire ( line from Monty Python's Life Of Brian )
Variety is the spice of life
Vital signs
Want him to be more of a man? Try
being
more of a woman! ( Coty Perfumes advertising slogan )
Wanted, dead or
alive
Water of life
We bring good things to life ( General Electric advertising slogan )
What a revoltin' development this is ( The Life Of Riley )
What is this life if, full of care, we have no time to stand and stare ( from a poem by Davies )
Where there's life, there's Bud ( Budweiser Beer advertising slogan )
Where there's life, there's hope
Who
lives
in a house like this? ( A catchphrase from Through the Keyhole )
Wishing your life away
Without music, life would be a mistake ( Friedrich Nietzsche quotation )
Work life balance
You Are The Sunshine Of My Life ( Stevie Wonder song )
You are in a Beauty Contest Every Day of your Life ( Camay Soap advertising slogan )
You light up my life
You'll never put a better bit of butter on your knife ( Country Life butter advertising slogan )
You'll never take me
alive
copper
Your money or your life