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A String Of Pearls ( Glenn Miller tune )
A bull and cow ( Cockney rhyming slang for
row
or argument )
A
chain
is only as strong as its weakest link
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As camp as a
row
of tents
As smooth as
silk
At the end of your
rope
Ball and
chain
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Bless his/her
cotton
socks
Captain Corelli's
Mandolin
( Louis de Bernieres book )
Cat's Cradle
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Chain
gang
Chain
letter
Chain
of command
Chain
of fools ( Aretha Franklin song )
Chain
reaction
Chain
smoker
Chain
smoking
Chicago
piano
Cut the
cord
Cut the umbilical
cord
Daisy
chain
Desolation
Row
( Bob Dylan song )
Do you know the piano's on my foot?
Don't shoot the
piano
player
Don't yank my
chain
Fibre
art ( Artwork consisting of natural or synthetic fibres )
Food
chain
Get your ducks in a
row
Give a man enough
rope
and he will hang himself
Give him enough
rope
and he'll hang himself
Got the world on a string
Hanging by a
thread
Hard
row
to hoe
Harp
on about
Harp
puts out the fire (
Harp
Lager advertising slogan )
Have a second string to your bow have
He will never play the
piano
again
Highly
strung
Hold the purse
strings
How long is a piece of string?
I took my
harp
to the party but no one asked me to play
In high
cotton
In quick
succession
It's jack-a-licious! ( Jack in the Box fast food
chain
advertising slogan )
Jack's back ( Jack in the Box fast food
chain
advertising slogan )
Jump
rope
Like a puppet on a string
Live on a
shoestring
Lose the
thread
Money for old
rope
Moral
fibre
More than one string to your bow
Murderers'
Row
( A baseball expression denoting a group of talented individuals or valuable assets )
No
strings
attached
On death
row
On skid
row
One two many and you might turn Bertie ( Bassett's
Liquorice
Allsorts advertising slogan )
Pull
strings
Rope
in
Row
up Salt River
Row, row,
row
your boat
Shoestring
budget
String along
String someone along
Thai - smooth as
silk
( Thai Airways International advertising slogan )
The
Cotton
State ( Nickname of the US state of Alabama )
The Indian
rope
trick
The old ball and
chain
There's many a good tune played on an old
piano
Tied to his mother's apron
strings
Tough
row
to hoe
Tug at your heartstrings
Two
strings
to his bow
Wait just a
cotton
picking minute
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With silver bells and cockle shells and pretty maids all in a
row
( line from nursery rhyme )
Yarn
bombing ( Adorning street furntiure and buildings with knitted items as a form of graffiti )
You can't make a
silk
purse from a sow's ear