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Ace
Ventura Pet Detective ( Jim Carrey movie )
Ace
in the hole
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Ace
up his sleeve
Adolf Hitler: My Part In His Downfall (
Spike
Milligan book )
Air
ace
All I Want For Christmas Is My Two Front Teeth (
Spike
Jones song )
All men are cremated equal (
Spike
Milligan line )
An
ace
caff with a nice museum attached ( Victoria & Albert Museum advertising slogan )
Another nail in the coffin
As black as the
ace
of spades
As bright as a new
pin
As dead as a
doornail
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As difficult as nailing jelly to a tree
As hard as
nails
As neat as a new
pin
As sharp as a
tack
Bang, bang, Maxwell's silver
hammer
came down upon her head ( The Beatles song lyric )
Bite your
nails
Blow your own
horn
Cash on the nail
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Chip and
pin
Chopsticks are one of the reasons the Chinese never invented custard (
Spike
Milligan line )
Coffin nail
Come within an
ace
Contraceptives should be used on all conceivable occasions (
Spike
Milligan line )
Fight tooth and nail
For want of a nail the shoe was lost ( line from nursery rhyme )
For want of a nail the shoe was lost; for want of a shoe the horse was lost; and for want of a horse the man was lost
Go at it with
hammer
and tongs
Hammer
and tongs
Hammer
it home
Hammer
it out
Hard to
pin
down
Hit the nail on the head
Horn
in on
I Saw Mommy Kissing Santa Claus (
Spike
Jones song )
I told you I was ill (
Spike
Milligan line inscribed on his gravestone )
King
pin
Like trying to nail jello to a wall
Little Boy Blue come blow your
horn
( line from nursery rhyme )
Maxwell's Silver
Hammer
( The Beatles song )
Nail a lie
Nail down
Nail your colours to the mast
Ne'er cast a
clout
till May is out
Off the
peg
On the
horn
On the nail
Pay on the nail
Peg
out
Pin
money
Pin
the tail on the donkey
Pin
your ears back
Pin
your hopes on
Pull the
pin
Put the
hammer
down
Royal flush ( in poker - a hand including a ten jack queen king and
ace
of the same suit )
See a
pin
and pick it up
See a
pin
and pick it up, all the day you'll have good luck; see a
pin
and let it lie, bad luck you'll have all day
Sharp as a
tack
Square
peg
in a round hole
Take down a
peg
or two
The
Hammer
( Nickname of Josh Willingham )
The
Hammer
( Nickname of Kris Humphries )
The
Hammer
( Nickname of Matt Carroll )
The
Hammer
of The Scots ( Nickname of King Edward I )
The Hebrew
Hammer
( Nickname of Ryan Braun )
The Holland
Hammer
( Nickname of Rick VandenHurk )
The
Peg
( Nickname of Winnipeg Manitoba )
The Polish
Hammer
( Nickname of Sebastian Janikowski )
The first network for men (
Spike
TV advertising slogan )
There's a lot of it about ( A catchphrase from
Spike
Milligan )
Thumbnail sketch
Toot your own
horn
Tooth and nail
Under the
hammer
When all you have is a hammer, everything looks like a nail
Within an
ace
You could have heard a
pin
drop