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Brief
History Of Time ( Stephen Hawking book )
A Short History Of Nearly Everything ( Bill Bryson book )
A Short History Of Tractors In Ukrainian ( Marina Lewycka book )
A bear of very
little
brain
A few bricks short of a full load
A few cards short of a full deck
A
little
bird told me
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A
little
dab'll do ya ( Brylcreem advertising slogan )
A
little
help from above
A
little
knowledge is a dangerous thing
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A
little
learning is a dangerous thing ( from a poem by Alexander Pope )
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A
little
of what you fancy does you good
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A still
small
voice
All creatures great and
small
All you need is love. But a
little
chocolate now and then doesn't hurt ( Charles M. Schulz quotation )
Art is long and life is short
As
small
as the hairs on a gnat's bollock
As sure as God made
little
green apples
As thick as two short planks
Bama Lama Bama Loo (
Little
Richard song )
Below
par
Below
stairs
Below
the belt
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Below
the salt
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Big fish eat
little
fish
Big fish in a
small
pool ( someone considered influential compared to their less significant peers )
Big fleas have
little
fleas
Brief
Encounter ( David Lean movie )
Bring up short
Caught by the short and curlies
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Caught short
Come up short
Computer says no ( A catchphrase from
Little
Britain )
Crazy
Little
Thing Called Love ( Queen song )
Cut a long story short
Daddy's
little
girl
Day late and a dollar short
Dirty
little
secret
Don't sweat the
small
stuff
Don't trouble your pretty
little
head about it
Dream a
little
dream of you
Eat my
shorts
( A catchphrase from The Simpsons )
Every
Little
Thing She Does Is Magic ( Police song )
Every
little
helps ( Tesco advertising slogan )
Everything you want from a store and a
little
bit more ( Safeway Supermarkets advertising slogan )
Exceed your
brief
Fire down
below
Form is temporary, class is permanent
Forward Short Leg ( field position in the game of cricket )
Get a
little
extra help ( Halifax advertising slogan )
Glow
Little
Glow-worm ( children's nursery rhyme )
Gnat's bollock ( slang term for a very
small
unit of measurement )
Good Golly Miss Molly (
Little
Richard song )
Good things come in
small
packages
Good things come in
small
parcels
Greasy spoon ( a
small
cheap cafe selling fried food )
Half measure
Half measures
Have Yourself A Merry
Little
Christmas ( Judy Garland song )
I Say A
Little
Prayer ( Aretha Franklin song )
I am the only gay in the village ( A catchphrase from
Little
Britain )
I spy with my
little
eye
I want that one ( A catchphrase from
Little
Britain )
I'll Get By With
Little
Help From My Friends ( The Beatles song )
I'm a laydee ( A catchphrase from
Little
Britain )
I'm a
little
bit wooooor, a
little
bit waaaaaaaaaayy, I'm a geezer! ( A catchphrase from Chris The Crafty Cockney In The Fast Show )
I've got a
little
list
In short order
In short supply
In the short run
Into every life a
little
rain must fall
Jagged
Little
Pill ( Alanis Morissette album )
Keep A Knockin' (
Little
Richard song )
Knee high to a duck
Knee high to a grasshopper
Let me be
brief
Life's
little
luxuries
Life's too short
Little
Bo peep has lost her sheep ( line from nursery rhyme )
Little
Boxes ( Pete Seeger song )
Little
Boy Blue come blow your horn ( line from nursery rhyme )
Little
Brown Jug ( Glenn Miller tune )
Little
Chocolate ( Nickname of George Dixon )
Little
Cuba ( Nickname of Miami Florida )
Little
Deuce Coupe ( Beach Boys song )
Little
General ( Nickname of Avery Johnson )
Little
Hands of Stone ( Nickname of Michael Carbajal )
Little
Hitler
Little
Jack Horner sat in a corner ( line from nursery rhyme )
Little
London ( Nickname of Gothenburg Sweden )
Little
Miss Muffet sat on a tuffet eating her curds and whey ( line from nursery rhyme )
Little
New York ( Nickname of Carmelo Anthony )
Little
Poison ( Nickname of Lloyd Waner )
Little
Red Corvette ( Prince song )
Little
Red Rooster ( Rolling Stones song )
Little
Rhody ( Nickname of the US state of Rhode Island )
Little
Robin Red breast sat upon a tree ( line from nursery rhyme )
Little
Sure Shot ( Nickname of Annie Oakley )
Little
Tommy Tucker sings for his supper ( line from nursery rhyme )
Little
White Bull ( Tommy Steele song )
Little
Women ( Louisa May Alcott book )
Little
black book
Little
black dress
Little
black number
Little
blighter
Little
boxes made of ticky tacky
Little
by
little
Little
devil
Little
fish in a big pond ( someone considered unimportant compared to their more significant peers )
Little
gentleman in the velvet coat
Little
green men
Little
pitchers have big ears
Little
strokes fell great oaks
Little
thieves are hanged, but great ones escape
Little
things please
little
minds
Little
tin god
Little
treasure
Little
white lie
Long Tall Sally (
Little
Richard song )
Look your best while you wear our least ( Jockey
Shorts
advertising slogan )
Make
little
of
Make short work of
Mary had a
little
lamb its fleece was white as snow ( line from nursery rhyme )
Mighty oaks from
little
acorns grow
Mother's
little
helper
Move On Up a
Little
Higher ( Mahalia Jackson song )
Nasty, brutish and short
No job too
small
Nothing to worry your pretty
little
head about
O ye, of
little
faith
Oh
little
town of Bethlehem
One brick short of a load
One of life's
little
ironies
One
small
step for man, one giant leap for mankind ( Neil Armstrong quotation )
Pizza! Pizza! (
Little
Caesars restaurants advertising slogan )
Poor
little
rich girl
Precious
little
Pull someone up short
Quite the
little
gentleman
Ready Teddy (
Little
Richard song )
Red Light
Curt
( Nickname of
Curt
Schilling )
Santa's
Little
Helpers ( allusion to the elves that help Father Christmas )
Seeing
small
business differently ( SBC Communications advertising slogan )
Shit ( or short ) end of the stick
Short Fine Leg ( field position in the game of cricket )
Short Mid Wicket ( field position in the game of cricket )
Short Square Leg ( field position in the game of cricket )
Short and curlies
Short and sweet
Short arms, long pockets
Short but sweet
Short change
Short end of the stick
Short fuse
Short list
Short sharp shock
Short shrift
Short sighted
Short stuff
Show a
little
leg
Slim volume
Small
beer
Small
fortune
Small
is beautiful
Small
minded
Small
potatoes
Small
wonder
Small
wonder ( Volkswagen advertising slogan )
So many books, so
little
time ( Frank Zappa quotation )
Sold short
Solutions for a
small
planet ( IBM advertising slogan )
Sticks and snails and puppy dog's tails that's what
little
boys are made of ( line from nursery rhyme )
Suffer the
little
children
Sugar and spice and all things nice that's what
little
girls are made of ( line from nursery rhyme )
Sweet
Little
Sixteen ( Chuck Berry / Beatles song )
Take a long walk off a short pier
Take a long walk off a short plank
The Best
Little
Whorehouse In Texas ( Burt Reynolds / Dolly Parton movie )
The Girl Can't Help It (
Little
Richard song and movie )
The God Of
Small
Things ( Arundhati Roy book )
The
Little
Big Man ( Nickname of Sharmba Mitchell )
The
Little
Buttercup ( Nickname of Ralph Kramden ( Jackie Gleason ) )
The
Little
Corporal ( Nickname of Napoleon Bonaparte )
The
Little
Drummer Boy ( Harry Simeone Chorale song )
The
Little
Engine ( Nickname of T.J.Ford )
The
Little
Lady ( Nickname of Jo Anne Santini ( Michele Scarabelli ) )
The
Little
Master ( Nickname of Sachin Tendulkar - Indian cricketer )
The
Little
Mermaid ( Disney cartoon movie )
The
Little
Paris ( Nickname of Bucharest Romania )
The
Little
Queen of the Soap Operas ( Nickname of actress Anne Francis )
The
Little
Sparrow ( Nickname of Edith Piaf )
The
Little
Witch ( Nickname of Juan Sebastian Veron )
The best seat in the house ( Jockey
Shorts
advertising slogan )
The difficult we do immediately; the impossible takes a
little
longer
The
little
boys' room
The
little
dog laughed to see such fun
The
little
engine that could
The
little
people
The long and short of it
The next
small
thing
The short end of the stick
The
small
screen
The still
small
voice of God
The winner takes it all, the loser standing
small
( ABBA lyric )
There's a
little
McDonald's in Everyone ( McDonald's advertising slogan )
These
little
things are sent to try us
Think
small
( Volkswagen advertising slogan )
This
little
piggy had roast beef, this
little
piggy had none ( line from nursery rhyme )
This
little
piggy went to market, this
little
piggy stayed at home ( line from nursery rhyme )
Time out for tiny
little
tea leaves in Tetley Tea ( Tetley Tea advertising slogan )
To cut a long story short
To make a long story short
Too little, too late
Try A
Little
Tenderness ( Otis Redding song )
Tutti Frutti (
Little
Richard song )
Twinkle twinkle
little
star, how I wonder what you are ( line from nursery rhyme )
Twist around your
little
finger
Two bricks short of a load
Two
little
dicky birds sitting on a wall, one named Peter, one named Paul ( line from nursery rhyme )
Two
little
ducks ( Bingo call for number twenty two )
Two sandwiches short of a picnic
Wee
small
hours of the morning
What the well-dressed man is wearing this year ( Jockey
Shorts
advertising slogan )
Who's
little
boy are you?
With A
Little
Help From My Friends ( The Beatles song )
Wrapped around your
little
finger
Yeah but, no but ( A catchphrase from
Little
Britain )
Yeah, I know ( A catchphrase from
Little
Britain )
You'll look a
little
lovelier each day, with fabulous pink Camay ( Camay Soap advertising slogan )