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A pot of
gold
Accept a wooden
nickel
Acid test
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After The
Gold
Rush ( Neil Young song )
All roads
lead
to Rome
All that glisters is not
gold
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As bold as
brass
As good as
gold
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As hard as
iron
As hard as nails
As heavy as
lead
As tough as tough
Babe
magnet
Bang, bang, Maxwell's
silver
hammer came down upon her head ( The Beatles song lyric )
Born with a
silver
spoon in his mouth
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Brass
In Pocket ( The Pretenders song )
Brass
monkey weather
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Brass
tacks ( Cockney rhyming slang for facts )
British Steel, British
mettle
( British
Steel
advertising slogan )
Cadmium
red
Cadmium
yellow
Cast
iron
alibi
Cast
iron
guarantee
Cat On A Hot
Tin
Roof ( play by Tennesee Williams and Elizabeth Taylor movie )
Chick
magnet
Chrome
pony
Coffee at its best ( Nescafe
Gold
Blend advertising slogan )
Cold enough to freeze the balls off a
brass
monkey
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Copper
bottomed
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Crock of
gold
Cross my palm with
silver
Death metal
Does exactly what it says on the
tin
( Ronseal advertising slogan )
Dr.
Iron
Fist ( Nickname of Vitali Klitschko )
Dream On ( Aerosmith song )
Eat
lead
sucker
Every dark cloud has a
silver
lining
Fanny
magnet
First with the Hits (
Mercury
Records advertising slogan )
Fist of
Steel
( Nickname of boxer Chevelle Hallback )
Five for
silver
( Magpie nursery rhyme )
Fool's
gold
( a brassy yellow mineral that the inexperienced prospector may mistake for
gold
)
Full Metal Jacket ( Stanley Kubrick movie )
Gee, I wish I had a
nickel
( Life Savers Candy advertising slogan )
Get a
gold
star ( earn a merit point for doing well )
Get down to
brass
tacks
Get the
lead
out
Go for
gold
Go where the green lights
lead
you
Gold
digger
Good as
gold
( Golden Flake Potato Chips advertising slogan )
Heart Of
Gold
( Neil Young song )
Heart of
gold
Heavy metal
Hiyo
Silver
away ( A catchphrase from The Lone Ranger )
Imagine yourself in a
Mercury
(
Mercury
advertising slogan )
In the
lead
Iron
Man ( Nickname of John Terry )
Iron
Mike ( Nickname of Mike Tyson )
Iron
fist in velvet glove
Iron
hoof ( Cockney rhyming slang for poof )
Iron
out
Iron
out the wrinkles
Is your film as good as Gold? ( Kodak advertising slogan )
Jack jump over the
candlestick
( line from nursery rhyme )
Juvenile
lead
Lead
a charmed life
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Lead
a dog's life
Lead
a merry dance
Lead
by example
Lead
by the nose
Lead
from behind
Lead
from the front
Lead
into temptation
Lead
on
Lead
pipe cinch
Lead
someone to the altar
Lead
the field
Lead
up the garden path
Lead
up to
Lead
with the chin
Led Zeppelin
Like a cat on a hot
tin
roof
Little
tin
god
Maxwell's
Silver
Hammer ( The Beatles song )
Men's evil manners live in brass; their virtues we write in water
Metal fatigue
My wings are a shield of
steel
( A catchphrase from Batfink cartoon )
Nerves of
steel
New doors opened (
Mercury
advertising slogan )
Nickel
and dime
Nickel
bag
Not a cough in a carload ( Old
Gold
Cigarettes advertising slogan )
Not worth a plugged
nickel
Not worth a tinker's dam
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Packing
lead
Protect a
lead
Pump
iron
Pure
gold
( Benson & Hedges advertising slogan )
Put
lead
in your pencil
Put the pedal to the metal
Put the
tin
hat on it
Rule with a rod of
iron
Rule with an
iron
fist
Scrap
Iron
( Nickname of Phil Garner )
See the face you love light up with Terry's All
Gold
( Terrys Chocolates advertising slogan )
Selling the family
silver
Silver
Blaze ( Sherlock Holmes story )
Silver
bullet ( a simple and seeming effortless solution to a difficult problem )
Silver
circle
Silver
fox ( a handsome grey-haired man )
Silver
screen
Silver
service ( a method of serving food using
silver
cutlery )
Silver
surfer ( an older person who uses the World Wide Web )
Silver
threads amongst the
gold
( blonde hair that is turning grey )
Silver
tongued ( eloquent or persuasive manner of speech )
Silver
wedding ( a celebration of twenty-five years of marriage )
Six for
gold
( Magpie nursery rhyme )
Speech is
silver
but silence is golden
Star of the
silver
screen
Steel
Magnolia ( Nickname of Rosalynn Carter )
Steel
yourself
Strike while the
iron
is hot
Swing the
lead
TV
gold
Take the
lead
That Silver-Haired Daddy of Mine ( Gene Autry song )
That and a
nickel
will get you a ride on the subway
The Adventure of the
Copper
Beeches ( Sherlock Holmes story )
The Boy David ( Nickname of English politician David
Steel
)
The
Brass
Cupcake ( Nickname of Dee Dee McCall ( Stepfanie Kramer ) )
The
Bronze
Goddess of Fire ( Nickname of LaWanda Page )
The
Cannonball
Kid ( Nickname of tennis player Roscoe Tanner )
The
Copper
State ( Nickname of the US state of Arizona )
The Eiffel Tower ( tourist attraction in Paris France )
The
Gold
Rush ( Charlie Chaplin movie )
The
Gold
Standard
The
Iron
Chancellor ( Nickname of Otto Von Bismark )
The
Iron
Curtain ( notional barrier between capitalist West and communist states )
The
Iron
Duke ( Nickname of Arthur Duke of Wellington )
The
Iron
Horse ( Nickname of Lou Gehrig )
The
Iron
Lady ( Nickname of Margaret Thatcher )
The
Iron
Man ( Nickname of Cal Ripken Jr. )
The Man in the
Iron
Mask
The Midas touch
The
Silver
Fox ( Nickname of Edwin Snider )
The
Silver
Prince ( Nickname of Sourav Ganguly - Indian cricketer )
The
Steel
City ( Nickname of Pittsburgh Pennsylvania )
The
Steel
City ( Nickname of Sheffield England )
The
Steel
Heart Of The Republic ( Nickname of Ostrava Czech Republic )
The family
silver
The pot of
gold
at the end of the rainbow
The streets of London are paved with
gold
There's
gold
in them thar hills
This precious stone set in the
silver
sea, this sceptered isle
Tin
ear
To gild refined gold, to paint the lily
Wabash
Cannonball
( Roy Acuff song )
We're tobacco men not medicine men. Old
Gold
cures just one thing. The World's Best Tobacco ( Old
Gold
Cigarettes advertising slogan )
Went down like a
lead
balloon
Where there's muck there's
brass
With a hearty hiho
Silver
With
brass
knobs on
With
silver
bells and cockle shells and pretty maids all in a row ( line from nursery rhyme )
Worth one's weight in
gold
You can
lead
a horse to water but you can't make it drink
You can
lead
a whore to culture but you can't make her think
You can't top the
copper
top ( Duracell Batteries advertising slogan )
You'll never take me alive
copper