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A
Fish
Called Wanda ( John Cleese movie )
A woman without a man is like a
fish
without a bicycle
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All is
fish
that comes to the net
Balance
of nature
Balance
of payments
Balance
of power
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Balance
of probabilities
Balance
of trade
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Big
fish
eat little
fish
Big
fish
in a small pool ( someone considered influential compared to their less significant peers )
Bigger
fish
to fry
Climb the greasy
pole
Cold
fish
Come home to
roost
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Cry stinking
fish
Dancing pleats that won't
sit
out ( Orlon Fabric advertising slogan )
Different kettle of
fish
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Do Ya Think I'm Sexy? (
Rod
Stewart song )
Don't
Sit
Under The Apple Tree ( Glenn Miller tune )
Don't just
sit
there
Drink like a
fish
Dropped off the perch
Fish
always rot from the head downwards
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Fish
and finger pie ( Beatles song lyric )
Fish
and guests smell after three days
Fish
it out
Fish
or cut bait
Fish
out
Fish
out of water
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Give a man a
fish
and you feed him for a day. Teach a man to
fish
and you feed him for a lifetime
Got bigger
fish
to fry
He Hate Me ( Nickname of American football player
Rod
Smart )
Hot
Rod
( Nickname of basketball player Rodney Hundley )
I wouldn't touch it with a barge
pole
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I wouldn't touch it with a ten-foot
pole
In The Heat Of The Night ( Sidney Poitier /
Rod
Steiger )
In the
balance
Like a
fish
out of water
Like shooting
fish
in a barrel
Little
fish
in a big pond ( someone considered unimportant compared to their more significant peers )
Lose your
balance
Low man on the totem
pole
Maggie Mae (
Rod
Stewart song )
Make a
rod
for your own back
Mental
balance
Neither
fish
nor flesh, nor good red herring
Odd
fish
Off
balance
Old
trout
On
balance
Pole
position
Pretty kettle of
fish
Queer
fish
Redress the
balance
Rule the
roost
Rule with a
rod
of iron
School of
fish
Sit
it out
Sit
on it ( A catchphrase from Happy Days )
Sit
on someone's tail
Sit
on the fence
Sit
on your hands
Sit
tight
Sit
up and beg
Sit
up and take notice
So long and thanks for all the
fish
(line from Douglas Adams' Hitchhiker's Guide)
Spare the
rod
and spoil the child
Strike a
balance
The First Cut Is The Deepest (
Rod
Stewart song )
The Foul
Pole
( Nickname of Andrew Golota )
The
balance
of his mind was disturbed
The chickens have come home to
roost
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There's plenty more
fish
in the sea
Tip the
balance
To call you stupid would be an insult to stupid people! ( line from the movie A
Fish
Called Wanda )
Trout
pout
Up the
pole
Weigh something in the
balance
Weighed in the
balance
and found wanting
Wet
fish
What does that have to do with the price of fish?
Work life
balance
You Wear It Well (
Rod
Stewart song )