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A head for business and a
body
for sin
A healthy mind in a healthy
body
A room without books is like a
body
without a soul ( Marcus Tullius Cicero quotation )
Accept a
wooden
nickel
All
set
As
dead
as a dodo
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As
dead
as a doornail
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As
dead
as mutton
As stiff as a poker
At death's door
At the
dead
of night
Back from the
dead
Badgered to
death
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Because I could not stop for
death
he kindly stopped for me ( from a poem by Dickinson )
Better
dead
than red
Better off
dead
Blue screen of
death
Body
and soul
Body
bag
Body
blow
Body
building
Body
heat
Body
language
Body
mass index
Body
of evidence
Body
of opinion
Body
off Baywatch, face off Crimewatch
Body
painting ( a form of painting that uses the human
body
as a canvas )
Body
politic
Body
popping
Body
snatcher
Body
surfing
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Bored stiff
Bored to
death
Brain
dead
Bring out your
dead
Brown bread ( Cockney rhyming slang for
dead
)
Brush with
death
Cake or
death
( line from Eddie Izzard comedy )
Catch your
death
of cold
Chivalry is not
dead
Cot
death
Cowards may die many times before their
death
Cut out the
dead
wood
Cut someone
dead
Dance of
death
Dead
Man Walking ( Helen Prejean book )
Dead
Men Don't Wear Plaid ( Steve Martin movie )
Dead
Ringer For Love ( Meatloaf song )
Dead
air
Dead
and buried
Dead
and gone
Dead
cat bounce
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Dead
cinch
Dead
duck
Dead
easy
Dead
end
Dead
from the neck up
Dead
giveaway
Dead
heads
Dead
heat
Dead
in the water
Dead
issue
Dead
letter
Dead
loss
Dead
man walking
Dead
meat
Dead
men tell no tales
Dead
men's shoes
Dead
of night
Dead
of winter
Dead
on arrival
Dead
on time
Dead
presidents
Dead
reckoning
Dead
ringer
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Dead
to rights
Dead
to the world
Dead
white European male ( derogatory reference to someone who has an unjustified reputation )
Dead
white male
Dead
wood
Death
In Venice ( Dirk Bogade / Luchino Visconti movie )
Death
On The Nile ( Agatha Christie book )
Death
On The Orient Express ( Agatha Christie book )
Death
Valley ( tourist attraction in Arizona USA )
Death
by PowerPoint
Death
by a thousand cuts
Death
by chocolate
Death
by committee
Death
by misadventure
Death
is nature's way of telling you to slow down
Death
metal
Death
of a Salesman ( play by Arthur Miller )
Death
trap
Dice with
death
Dick and Jane is
dead
( Encyclopaedia Britannica advertising slogan )
Die a
death
Do something to
death
Do you want a shape like a bra? Or do you want a shape like a woman? ( Warner's
Body
Bra advertising slogan )
Does a
wooden
horse have a hickory dick?
Doesn't have a jealous bone in his
body
Domestos kills all known germs - Dead! ( Domestos Bleach advertising slogan )
Done to
death
Down among the
dead
men
Drop
dead
Drop
dead
gorgeous
Drop
dead
list
Drop down
dead
Drop the
Dead
Donkey ( BBC comedy television series )
Face card ( the jack queeen or king in a
set
of playing cards )
Fate worse than
death
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Fifteen men on a
dead
man's chest
Figure painting ( a form of painting in which the human
body
is the subject )
Flogging a
dead
horse
Fruiting
body
Game
set
and match
Give me liberty or give me
death
Given up for
dead
God is
dead
( philosophical comment by Friedrich Nietzsche )
Good and
dead
Got your heart
set
on
Grim
death
Grip of
death
Group of
death
( the most difficult or competitive group in a sports tournament )
Hang by the neck until
dead
Hang him out to dry
Hang on like grim
death
He's
dead
Jim ( A catchphrase from Star Trek )
Heavenly
body
Horsy
set
I see
dead
people ( The Sixth Sense )
I wouldn't be caught
dead
If I said you had a beautiful
body
would you hold it against me?
If it ain't Stiff it ain't worth a f*ck ( Stiff Records advertising slogan )
In at the
death
In the midst of life we are in
death
Into the valley of
death
rode the six hundred
Keep a stiff upper lip
Keep
body
and soul together
Kicking
dead
whales down the beach
Kill stone
dead
Kills bugs
dead
( Raid advertising slogan )
Kiss of
death
Knock 'em
dead
Left for
dead
Let the
dead
bury the
dead
Life after
death
Life and
death
struggle
Like being savaged by a
dead
sheep
Like
death
warmed up
Look
death
in the eye
Loud enough to waken the
dead
Matter of life and
death
Merchant of
death
Milk. It does a
body
good ( Milk Marketing Board advertising slogan )
More
dead
than alive
Near
death
experience
Never speak ill of the
dead
Nothing is certain but
death
and taxes
Numbered with the
dead
On
death
row
On pain of
death
On your mark, get set, go
Out of the jaws of
death
Over my
dead
body
Play
dead
Put on the
wooden
overcoat
Put the fear of
death
into someone
Put to
death
Raise the
dead
Ready
set
go
Ready, get set, go
Rictus grin
Rigor mortis
Roll over and play
dead
Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are
Dead
( play by Tom Stoppard )
Scared stiff
Scared to
death
Set
Fire to the Rain ( Adele song )
Set
a thief to catch a thief
Set
eyes on
Set
foot in
Set
forth
Set
great store by
Set
in concrete
Set
in motion
Set
in train
Set
of wheels
Set
sail
Set
straight
Set
the Thames on fire
Set
the record straight
Set
the stage
Set
the world on fire
Set
the world to rights
Set
tongues wagging
Set
your cap at
Set
your face against something
Set
your hair on fire
Set
your heart on something
Set
your mind at ease
Set
your sights on
Set
your stall out
Set
your teeth on edge
Set
yourself apart
Sick to
death
of
So round, so firm, so fully packed ( Lucky Strike Cigarettes advertising slogan )
Stiff competition
Stiffed for the fee
Stops
body
odour ( Lifebouy Soap advertising slogan )
Straight laced
Tense
nervous headache
The Angel of
Death
( Nickname of Josef Mengele )
The
Body
Guard ( Nickname of Baron Davis )
The Day of the
Dead
( Horror movie )
The Hypochondriac's Guide To Life And
Death
( Gene Weingarten book )
The King is dead, long live the King
The Living
Death
( Nickname of Lew Jenkins )
The Lonesome
Death
Of Hattie Carroll ( Bob Dylan song )
The Masque of the Red
Death
The
body
is still warm
The
body
of evidence
The only good Indian is a
dead
Indian
The reports of my
death
are greatly exaggerated
The rot has
set
in
The stage is
set
The truth shall
set
you free
The valley of the shadow of
death
( line from the Lord's Prayer )
The wages of sin is
death
This precious stone
set
in the silver sea, this sceptered isle
Tickled to
death
Till
Death
Us Do Part ( BBC comedy television series )
Until
death
do us part
Up the
wooden
hill to Bedfordshire
Vacation is a world where there are no locks on the doors or the mind or the
body
( Club Med Resorts advertising slogan )
Wall of
death
Wanted,
dead
or alive
Wardrobe malfunction ( when an item of clothing slips out of place to expose part of the
body
- typically a woman's breast )
Whispering
Death
( Nickname of Michael Holding - West Indies cricketer )
Win the
wooden
spoon
Wooden
Heart ( Elvis Presley song )
Yellow matter custard dripping from a
dead
dog's eye ( Beatles song lyric )
You too can have a
body
like mine ( Charles Atlas advertising slogan )
You'll be the
death
of me
You're a long time
dead