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A
Boy
Named Sue ( Johnny Cash song )
A Place in the
Sun
( Elizabeth Taylor movie )
A Suitable
Boy
( Vikram Seth book )
A boy's best friend is his mother ( Psycho )
A
child
is an island of curiosity surrounded by a sea of question marks ( Shell advertising slogan )
A place in the
sun
( an idealistic dream of a sunny hideaway )
A touch of the
sun
After
sun
All happy families are alike; each unhappy
family
is unhappy in its own way ( the opening line of Anna Karenina )
All work and no play makes Jack a dull
boy
Art Of War (
Sun
Tzu book )
Atta
boy
Back room
boy
(
the meaning and origin of this phrase...
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Be like Dad, keep mum ( WWII slogan )
Beanpole
family
Beautiful
Boy
( John Lennon song )
Bhatti
boy
( slang term for a homosexual )
Big
Daddy
( Nickname of American football Dan Wilkinson )
Big
Daddy
( Nickname of Idi Amin )
Black sheep of the
family
(
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Blue-eyed
boy
Boy
made good
Boy
meets girl
Boy
next door
Boy, is my face red ( A catchphrase from David Letterman )
Bricks and mortar ( Cockney rhyming slang for
daughter
)
Broth of a
boy
Brum brum ( child's play idiom expressing the sound of a vehicle )
Busy old fool, unruly
sun
( from a poem by John Donne )
Caught the
sun
Child
of God
Child's play
Clean cut
boy
Crank That ( Soulja
Boy
) ( Soulja
Boy
Tell 'Em song )
Currant bun ( Cockney rhyming slang for
sun
)
Dad's Army ( BBC comedy television series )
Daddy's little girl
Did I do that? ( A catchphrase from
Family
Matters )
Disneyland
daddy
Don't Let The
Sun
Go Down On Me ( Elton John song )
Don't panic ( A catchphrase from Dad's Army )
Don't put your
daughter
on the stage Mrs Worthington
Down
boy
Dysfunctional
family
East of the
sun
and west of the moon
Eclipse of the
sun
Every mother's son
Everything under the
sun
Evil Under The
Sun
( Agatha Christie book )
Family
fortunes
Family
man
Family
matters
Family
ties
Family
tree
Family
values
Four for a
boy
( Magpie nursery rhyme )
Get your
family
into Shape, without them even noticing ( St. Ivel Yogurt advertising slogan )
Go on my son
Go with
child
Golden
boy
Goodnight John
Boy
( A catchphrase from The Waltons )
Happy is the bride the
sun
shines on
He's not the Messiah, he's a very naughty
boy
( line from the movie Life of Brian )
Head of the
family
Heavy with
child
Hello big boy, would you like a nice time?
Here Comes The
Sun
( The Beatles song )
His father's son
Home
boy
How sharper than a serpent's tooth it is to have a thankless child?
I Think I Love You ( The Partridge
Family
song )
I'll Be Missing You ( Puff
Daddy
with Faith Evans and 112 song )
I'll Follow The
Sun
( The Beatles song )
In the
family
way
It is
Sun
what won it
It's a
family
affair
Keep it in the
family
Kiss Me Thru the Phone ( Soulja
Boy
Tell 'Em song )
Leave no
child
behind ( Political slogan )
Leicester's Favourite Son ( Nickname of Gary Lineker )
Let not the
sun
go down on your wrath
Like father, like son
Little
Boy
Blue come blow your horn ( line from nursery rhyme )
Love
child
Lover
boy
Mad dogs and Englishmen go out in the midday
sun
Make hay while the
sun
shines
Man and
boy
Mother's
boy
My arse ( A catchphrase from Royle
Family
)
My mistress' eyes are nothing like the
sun
( from a poem by Shakespeare )
My son the doctor
Nancy
boy
Nash
Daddy
( Nickname of Steve Nash )
Number one son
Oh
Boy
( Buddy Holly song )
On me 'ead, son
On me head son ( Invitation to cross a football so that another player can head it )
Our survey says ( A catchphrase from
Family
Fortunes )
Player's please ( John Player &
Sons
advertising slogan )
Poster
boy
Pretty
Boy
( Nickname of David Carr )
Pretty
Boy
( Nickname of Floyd Mayweather Jr. )
Pretty
Boy
Floyd ( Nickname of Charles Floyd )
Problem
child
Runs in the
family
Ryan's
Daughter
( David Lean movie )
Saturday's
child
works hard for a living
Saviour sibling ( a
child
born in order to provide a transplant for another with a fatal disease )
Seasons in the
Sun
( Terry Jacks song )
Selling the
family
silver
Send a salami to your
boy
in the army
Son of Sam ( Nickname of David Berkowitz )
Son of a gun
Son of a whore ( a bastard, or a general term of abuse )
Spare the rod and spoil the
child
Spend more time with my
family
Steptoe and Son ( BBC comedy television series )
Sugar
daddy
Sun
King ( The Beatles song )
Sun
drenched
Sun
yourself
Sun, sea and sand
Sunday's
child
is full of grace
That Silver-Haired
Daddy
of Mine ( Gene Autry song )
That's my
boy
The All-American
Boy
( Nickname of Dick Jones )
The Boston Strong
Boy
( Nickname of John L. Sullivan )
The
Boy
David ( Nickname of English politician David Steel )
The
Boy
In The Bubble ( Paul Simon song )
The
Boy
Wonder ( Nickname of Robin )
The Golden
Boy
( Nickname of Billy Walker )
The Golden
Boy
( Nickname of Oscar de la Hoya )
The Golden
Boy
( Nickname of Paul Hornung )
The Golden
Boy
( Nickname of Tom Brady )
The Grocer's
Daughter
( Nickname of Margaret Thatcher )
The House of the Rising
Sun
( The Animals song )
The Land of The Rising
Sun
( Nickname of Japan )
The Little Drummer
Boy
( Harry Simeone Chorale song )
The Man
Child
( Nickname of Dwight Howard )
The Man with the
Child
in His Eyes ( Kate Bush song )
The Royle
Family
( BBC comedy television series )
The
Sun
King ( Nickname of King Louis XIV )
The Valley Of The
Sun
( Nickname of Phoenix Arizona )
The bank of mum and
dad
The
boy
is father to the man
The
boy
stood on the burning deck
The
child
is father of the man ( from a poem by Wordsworth )
The empire on which the
sun
never sets
The
family
jewels
The
family
silver
The
family
that prays together stays together
The network is the computer (
Sun
Microsystems advertising slogan )
The shoemaker's son always goes barefoot
The
sun
is over the yardarm
The
sun
never sets on the British Empire
The
sun
shines out of his backside
There's nothing new under the
sun
This
Boy
( Beatles song )
Thursday's
child
has far to go
Today the discriminating
family
finds it absolutely necessary to own two or more motor cars ( Buick advertising slogan )
Tom Tom the pipers son stole a pig and away he ran ( line from nursery rhyme )
Toy
boy
Under the
sun
Unleash the power of the
sun
( Sunny Delight advertising slogan )
Voodoo
Child
( Jimi Hendrix song )
War baby ( someone born during the war - especially the illegitimate
child
of a soldier )
We put the . in dot.com (
Sun
Microsystems advertising slogan )
We're Just One Big Happy
Family
( Richard Hawley song )
We're just one big happy
family
Wednesday's
child
has far to go
What did you do in the war Daddy?
Whipping
boy
Who are you? ( Nintendo Game
Boy
Advance advertising slogan )
Who's a pretty
boy
then?
Who's little
boy
are you?
Who's your daddy?
Wide
boy
With
child
You can choose your friends but you can't choose your
family
You can put that where the
sun
doesn't shine
You dirty old man ( A catchphrase from Steptoe and Son )
You stupid boy! ( A catchphrase from Dad's Army )