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...Baby
One
More Time ( Britney Spears album and song )
A great
one
for
A person is known by the company he keeps
All children, except one, grow up ( the opening line of Peter Pan )
All for
one
and
one
for all
All
human
life is there ( News Of The World advertising slogan )
All
one
to me
All the lonely people, where do they all come from? ( Beatles song lyric )
An army of
one
( United States Army advertising slogan )
And then there was
one
Angel Cups ( Nickname of soap
character
Marcy Rhoades )
Another
One
Bites The Dust ( Queen song )
Are You
Being
Served? ( BBC comedy television series )
Art is going
one
step too far
As busy as a
one
armed paper hanger
As busy as a
one
legged arse kicker
As
one
door closes, another
one
opens
Ask the Man who Owns
One
( Packard advertising slogan )
At
one
another's throats
At
one
fell swoop
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Atone for one's sins
Avert one's eyes
Avert one's gaze
Back to square
one
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the meaning and origin of this phrase...
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Bare one's teeth
Bat Masterson ( Nickname of American western
character
William Barclay Masterson )
Being
For The Benefit Of Mr. Kite! ( The Beatles song )
Being
There
Betcha can't eat just
one
( Lay's potato chips advertising slogan )
Bite the big
one
Boat person
Body painting ( a form of painting that uses the
human
body as a canvas )
Breathe one's last
Buy one, get
one
free
By royal
appointment
Cat person
Character
assassination
Character
driven fiction
Children,
one
is one, two is fun, three is a house full
Chopsticks are
one
of the reasons the Chinese never invented custard ( Spike Milligan line )
Colour one's view
Computers help
people
help
people
( IBM advertising slogan )
Connecting
people
( Nokia advertising slogan )
Cop
one
Dance With The
One
That Brought You ( Shania Twain song )
Day
one
Desperate Dan ( a cowboy strongman
character
in the British comic The Dandy )
Displaced person
Doff one's cap
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the meaning and origin of this phrase...
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Don't put all your eggs in
one
basket
Don't you just love
being
in control? ( British Gas advertising slogan )
Don't you
people
have homes to go to?
Down it in
one
Down to the last out ( A baseball expression meaning to have
one
last chance )
Down to the pub for a quick
one
Ethnic stocking ( the
appointment
to political office on the basis of ethnicity )
Evening person
Every
one
a winner
Exercise one's discretion
Exert one's
authority
Famous for
being
famous
Far better for
being
near to you ( The Chesham Building Society advertising slogan )
Feed one's mind
Figure painting ( a form of painting in which the
human
body is the subject )
First among equals ( the most senior person in a group of equal rank )
For No
One
( Beatles song )
For the time
being
Forward with the
People
( Daily Mirror advertising slogan )
Fourpenny
one
From day
one
Games
people
play
Genius bonus ( a joke or theme added to a programme aimed at well informed
people
)
Genius is
one
percent inspiration and 99 percent perspiration ( Thomas Edison quotation )
Give one's eye teeth for
Give one's right arm for
Go off on
one
Go
one
better
Got it in
one
Have
one
on me
Have you any last requests? ( humorous question asked as though a person was about to be killed )
He's
one
sick puppy
Heavy hitter ( A baseball expression meaning a powerful or commanding person )
Hell is other
people
( Jean-Paul Sartre quotation )
Hello,
one
two three testing
Here's
one
I prepared earlier ( A catchphrase from Blue Peter )
Here's
one
in your eye
High occupancy vehicle lane ( a traffic lane reserved for vehicles carrying several
people
)
Hole in
one
Hope springs eternal in the
human
breast ( from a poem by Alexander Pope )
How To Win Friends And Influence
People
( Dale Carnegie book )
How does it feel to be
one
of the beautiful people? ( Beatles song lyric )
Human
Rights Act
Human
condition
Human
error
Human
kind cannot bear very much reality ( from a poem by Eliot )
Human
nature
Human
resources
Human
rights
I don't believe it ( A catchphrase from Victor Meldrew,
One
Foot In The Grave )
I have it on good
authority
I have not slept
one
wink
I see dead
people
( The Sixth Sense )
I took my harp to the party but no
one
asked me to play
I want that
one
( A catchphrase from Little Britain )
I'm free! ( A catchphrase from Mr Humphries In Are You
Being
Served? )
I'm good enough, I'm smart enough, and doggone it,
people
like me! ( A catchphrase from Stuart Smiley In Saturday Night Live )
I'm only
human
If I've only
one
life, let me live it as a blonde! ( Clairol Hair Colouring advertising slogan )
If enough
people
would stop smoking and start drinking, we could get out of ashtrays and into vermouth ( Cinzano advertising slogan )
If you're not busy
being
born, you're busy dying ( Bob Dylan song lyric )
In
one
ear and out the other
In
one
piece
In person
In the kingdom of the blind the
one
eyed man is king
In words of
one
syllable
Individual
streak
It Happened
One
Night ( Clark Gable movie )
It Takes
People
Like You To Make
People
Like Me ( Buck Owens song )
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 takes 40 dumb animals to make a fur coat, but only
one
to wear it
It takes
one
to know
one
It was just
one
of those things
It's all about you (
People
Telecom advertising slogan )
It's an ill wind that blows no
one
any good
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the meaning and origin of this phrase...
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Join the Pepsi
People
( Pepsi advertising slogan )
Just
one
more thing ( A catchphrase from Columbo )
Just
one
of those days
Key of the door ( Bingo call for number twenty
one
)
Kill two birds with
one
stone
Knit
one
purl
one
Last
one
there is a rotten egg
Launch one's lunch
Leading
authority
Lend one's name
Let me make
one
thing perfectly clear
Let
one
go
Let
one
thousand flowers bloom
Life is just
one
damned thing after another
Like
being
savaged by a dead sheep
Look after number
one
Look out for number
one
Make one's hackles rise
Makes you feel
human
again ( Solpadeine advertising slogan )
Massage one's ego
Minority of
one
Mirror mirror on the all who is the fairest
one
of all?
More
human
interest ( Washington Mutual advertising slogan )
More than
one
string to your bow
Morning person
Mortal
remains
My
one
regret in life is that I am not someone else ( Woody Allen line )
Near to one's heart
Neither
one
thing nor the other
Nice
one
Cyril ( A catchphrase from Wonderloaf )
No
One
( Alicia Keys song )
No
one
can make you feel inferior without your consent ( Eleanor Roosevelt quotation )
No
one
expects the Spanish Inquisition ( A catchphrase from Monty Python's Flying Circus )
No
one
likes us, we don't care ( A catchphrase from Millwall football supporters )
None other than
Not a lot of
people
know that ( A catchphrase from Michael Caine )
Not my type ( not a person
one
is attracted to )
Now There is only
one
Mars ( Mars Chocolate advertising slogan )
Number
one
Number
one
concubine ( name given to the partner of Bertrand Russell )
Number
one
son
Odd
one
out
Of
Human
Bondage ( Bette Davis movie )
Of the people, for the people, by the
people
On the
one
hand
One
Cent ( Nickname of Anfernee Hardaway )
One
Dog ( Nickname of Lance Johnson )
One
Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest ( Jack Nicholson movie )
One
Foot In The Grave ( BBC comedy television series )
One
Hundred Years Of Solitude ( Gabriel Garcia Marquez book )
One
More Cup Of Coffee ( Bob Dylan song )
One
More Night ( Maroon 5 song )
One
Of Us Must Know ( Bob Dylan song )
One
Size ( Nickname of Fitz Hall )
One
Too Many Mornings ( Bob Dylan song )
One
Tough ( Nickname of Joaquin Andejar )
One
and all
One
and the same
One
armed bandit
One
brick short of a load
One
by
one
One
card for home and abroad ( Maestro advertising slogan )
One
fall, two submissions or a knockout
One
fine day
One
foot in the grave
One
for all and all for
one
One
for sorrow ( Magpie nursery rhyme )
One
for sorrow, two for mirth, three for a wedding, four for a birth
One
for the book
One
for the road
One
good turn deserves another
One
half of the world does not know how the other half lives
One
hand tied behind your back
One
hand washes the other
One
hell of
One
horse town
One
in a billion ( McDonald's advertising slogan )
One
in a million
One
in the eye
One
instinctively knows when something is right ( Croft Original Sherry advertising slogan )
One
jump ahead of
One
law for the rich and another for the poor
One
leg at a time ( Dockers advertising slogan )
One
liner
One
man and his dog
One
man's meat is another man's poison
One
man's trash is another man's treasure
One
man:
one
vote
One
may as well be hanged for a sheep as for a lamb
One
minute to midnight
One
moment please
One
more time
One
night stand
One
night stand investment
One
of life's little ironies
One
of the boys
One
of these days, Alice ... Pow! To the moon! ( A catchphrase from The Honeymooners )
One
off
One
off the wrist
One
on
one
One
out, all out
One
over the eight
One
ringy-dingy...two ringy-dingies ( A catchphrase from Ernestine In Rowan and Martin's Laugh-In )
One
second
One
side of the story
One
size fits all
One
small step for man,
one
giant leap for mankind ( Neil Armstrong quotation )
One
smart cookie
One
sprint many solutions ( Sprint advertising slogan )
One
step ahead
One
step at a time
One
step forward, two steps back
One
stop shop
One
swallow doesn't make a summer
One
taste and your stuck on golden flake ( Golden Flake Potato Chips advertising slogan )
One
that Last ( Duracell Batteries advertising slogan )
One
thing leads to another
One
to
one
One
to remember
One
toe over the line
One
track mind
One
trick pony
One
two buckle my shoe ( line from nursery rhyme )
One
two many and you might turn Bertie ( Bassett's Liquorice Allsorts advertising slogan )
One
two three o'clock four o'clock rock
One
volunteer is worth ten pressed men
One
wedding brings another
One
year's seeds make seven year weeds
Only
human
Out of
character
People
carrier ( a car with several passenger seats )
People
in here are trying to sleep
People
mover ( a car with several passenger seats )
People
of colour
People
person
People
power
People
smuggler ( someone involved in smuggling immigrants between countries, often illegally )
People
watching
People
who like
people
like Dial ( Dial Soap advertising slogan )
People
who live in glass houses shouldn't throw stones
People's republic ( a communist state )
Person of interest
Person to person
Places to go,
people
to see, things to do
Pleasing
people
the world over ( Holiday Inn advertising slogan )
Plus
one
Portrait painting ( a form of painting in which the
human
face is the subject )
Potty mouth ( a foul mouthed person )
Power to the
people
Prepare to want
one
( Hyundai advertising slogan )
Public Enemy Number
One
( Nickname of John Dillinger )
Pull a fast
one
Pumped Up Kicks ( Foster the
People
song )
Put
one
foot in front of the other
Put
one
over on
Quality is job
one
( Ford Cars advertising slogan )
Quick
one
Real food for real
people
( The beef industry advertising slogan )
Rolled into
one
Room for
one
more inside
Route
one
Seen one, seen them all
Shoot a birdie ( score
one
under par in a golf shot )
Shuffle off this
mortal
coil
Six of
one
and half a dozen of the other
Sleep with
one
eye open
So easy to use, no wonder it's number
one
( AOL advertising slogan )
So no
one
told you life was gonna be this way
Still the
One
( ABC advertising slogan )
Stop me and buy
one
( Wall's Ice Cream advertising slogan )
Stop me if you've heard this
one
Supreme
being
Take
one
day at a time
Take
one
for the team
Take someone to
one
side
Ten
one
hundred
That's a new
one
on me
The Amazing
One
( Nickname of Alfredo Amezaga )
The Chosen
One
( Nickname of LeBron James )
The Great
One
( Nickname of comedian Jackie Gleason )
The
Human
Eraser ( Nickname of Marvin Webster )
The
Human
Highlight Reel ( Nickname of Dominique Wilkins )
The
Human
Rain Delay ( Nickname of Mike Hargrove )
The
Human
Termite ( Nickname of Joe Interleggi )
The
Human
Victory Cigar ( Nickname of Darko Milicic )
The Importance Of
Being
Earnest ( Oscar Wilde book )
The Importance of
Being
Ernest ( play by Oscar Wilde )
The People's Champ ( Nickname of Freddie Mitchell )
The People's Cherce ( Nickname of Dixie Walker )
The People's Princess ( Nickname of Diana Princess of Wales )
The People's Republic Of Berkeley ( Nickname of Berkeley California )
The People's Republic Of Cambridge ( Nickname of Cambridge Massachusetts )
The People's Republic of South Yorkshire ( Nickname of Sheffield England )
The Special
One
( Nickname of football manager Jose Mourinho )
The Wild
One
( Marlon Brando movie )
The flower of one's youth
The
human
race
The lights are on but there's no
one
at home
The little
people
The milk of
human
kindness
The most
human
handset ( DiStar advertising slogan )
The
one
and only Wonderbra ( Wonderbra advertising slogan )
The
one
and only cereal that comes in the shape of animals ( Crispy Critters advertising slogan )
The
one
that got away
The
one
to watch ( Channel 7 Australia advertising slogan )
The people's choice ( a person or thing chosen by public acclamation )
The person, be it gentleman or lady, who has not pleasure in a good novel, must be intolerably stupid ( Jane Austen quotation )
The right
one
( Martini advertising slogan )
The smallest worm will turn,
being
trodden on
The world around
one
There's more than
one
way to skin a cat
There's not a soul out there, no
one
to hear my prayer ( ABBA lyric )
There's
one
born every minute
There's only
one
This
one
will run and run
Tie
one
on
To call you stupid would be an insult to stupid people! ( line from the movie A Fish Called Wanda )
To err is human, but to really foul things up requires a computer
To get one's back up
To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most
people
exist, that is all ( Oscar Wilde quotation )
Toilet mouth ( a foul mouthed person )
Top
people
take the Times ( The Times advertising slogan )
Two for
one
Two heads are better than
one
Two little dicky birds sitting on a wall,
one
named Peter,
one
named Paul ( line from nursery rhyme )
Two steps forward and
one
step back
Want him to be more of a man? Try
being
more of a woman! ( Coty Perfumes advertising slogan )
Wardrobe mistress ( a person in charge of the costumes of a theatrical company )
We answer to a higher
authority
( Hebrew National hot dogs advertising slogan )
We make things that bring
people
closer ( Western Electrics advertising slogan )
We the
people
We used to have
one
of those, but the wheels fell off
We're Just
One
Big Happy Family ( Richard Hawley song )
We're just
one
big happy family
We're the
one
( Sky Television advertising slogan )
We're tobacco men not medicine men. Old Gold cures just
one
thing. The World's Best Tobacco ( Old Gold Cigarettes advertising slogan )
What Makes You Beautiful (
One
Direction song )
What with
one
thing and another
What's in your wallet? ( Capital
One
advertising slogan )
When E F Hutton talks,
people
listen ( EF Hutton advertising slogan )
Where rocking horse
people
eat marshmallow pies ( Beatles song lyric )
Wherever particular
people
congregate ( Pall Mall Cigarettes advertising slogan )
Who are the
people
in your neighborhood?
Will no
one
rid me of this turbulent priest?
Win faster (
One
Brand Group advertising slogan )
Win friends and influence
people
With
one
bound he was at her side
Work one's fingers to the bone
World
authority
Worth one's weight in gold
Wring one's hands
Y.M.C.A. ( Village
People
song )
You are a
one
You can kiss that
one
goodbye
You meet the nicest
people
on a Honda ( Honda advertising slogan )
You only get
one
chance to make a first impression
You only hurt the
one
you love
You're Wendy's kind of
people
( Wendy Burgers advertising slogan )
You're the
One
That I Want ( John Travolta and Olivia Newton-John song )
You, of all
people
( exclamation when meeting someone unexpectedly )
You, you're the
one
( McDonald's advertising slogan )