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A Case Of Identity ( Sherlock Holmes
story
)
A Scandal in Bohemia ( Sherlock Holmes
story
)
A Study in Scarlet ( Sherlock Holmes
story
)
A Tale Of Two Cities ( Charles Dickens book )
A
legend
in his own lifetime
(
the meaning and origin of this phrase...
)
A
legend
in the making
A piece of
tail
Aga
saga
(
the meaning and origin of this phrase...
)
All behind, like a cow's
tail
America's
story
teller ( Kodak advertising slogan )
An everyday
story
of country folk ( A catchphrase from The Archers )
And thereby hangs a tale
As you make your bed so must you
lie
on it
Bald-faced
lie
Bare-faced
lie
Breaking
story
Can't make head or
tail
of it
Character driven
fiction
Chase your own
tail
Chasing
tail
( of a man pursuing the female sex )
Cock and bull
story
(
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Couldn't make head or
tail
of it
Cover
story
Cut a long
story
short
Dead men tell no
tales
End of
story
Every picture tells a
story
( Doanes Backache Kidney Pills advertising slogan )
Fact not
fiction
Fairytale ending ( a happy simplistic ending to a
story
similar to those found in fairy
tales
)
Feed a dog its own
tail
Fishy
story
Get off my
tail
Give the
lie
to
Got a tiger by the
tail
Got his
tail
up
Grow a
tail
He just wouldn't let it
lie
Hips Don't
Lie
( Shakira with Wyclef Jean song )
His Last Bow ( Sherlock Holmes
story
)
I cannot tell a
lie
I tell a
lie
If you
lie
down with dogs, you will get up with fleas
In two shakes of a lamb's
tail
Inside
story
It was the best of times: it was the worst of times ( the opening line of A Tale Of Two Cities )
L A
Story
( Steve Martin movie )
Larry
Legend
( Nickname of Larry Bird )
Let sleeping dogs
lie
Lie
back and think of England
Lie
doggo
Lie
down on the job
Lie
down with dogs: get up with fleas
Lie
fallow
Lie
in
Lie
in state
Lie
in wait
Lie
like a trooper
Lie
low
Lie
through his teeth
Little white
lie
Live a
lie
Live to tell the tale
Living
legend
Long
Tall
Sally ( Little Richard song )
Love
Story
( Ali MacGraw / Ryan O'Neal movie )
Love
Story
( Taylor Swift song )
Love means never having to say you're sorry ( Love
Story
)
Love the Way You
Lie
( Eminem with Rihanna song )
Make your bed and
lie
in it
My side of the
story
Myth
versus reality
Nail a
lie
Never tell
tales
out of school
Nose to
tail
Old wives' tale
One side of the
story
Pin the
tail
on the donkey
Pulp
Fiction
( Quentin Tarantino movie )
Rag, tag and bobtail
Same old
story
See a pin and pick it up, all the day you'll have good luck; see a pin and let it lie, bad luck you'll have all day
Silver Blaze ( Sherlock Holmes
story
)
Sit on someone's
tail
Sob
story
Someone ears are burning
Story
of my life
Stranger than
fiction
Swallows And Amazons ( children's adventure
story
by Arthur Ransome )
Tail
between your legs
Tales
of the unexpected
Tall
dark and handsome
Tall
in the saddle
Tall
order
Tall
task
Tattle tale
Tell tale sign
Tell
tales
out of school
The Adventure of Black Peter ( Sherlock Holmes
story
)
The Adventure of Charles Augustus Milverton ( Sherlock Holmes
story
)
The Adventure of Shoscombe Old Place ( Sherlock Holmes
story
)
The Adventure of Wisteria Lodge ( Sherlock Holmes
story
)
The Adventure of the Abbey Grange ( Sherlock Holmes
story
)
The Adventure of the Beryl Coronet ( Sherlock Holmes
story
)
The Adventure of the Blanched Soldier ( Sherlock Holmes
story
)
The Adventure of the Blue Carbuncle ( Sherlock Holmes
story
)
The Adventure of the Bruce-Partington Plans ( Sherlock Holmes
story
)
The Adventure of the Cardboard Box ( Sherlock Holmes
story
)
The Adventure of the Copper Beeches ( Sherlock Holmes
story
)
The Adventure of the Creeping Man ( Sherlock Holmes
story
)
The Adventure of the Crooked Man ( Sherlock Holmes
story
)
The Adventure of the Dancing Men ( Sherlock Holmes
story
)
The Adventure of the Devil's Foot ( Sherlock Holmes
story
)
The Adventure of the Dying Detective ( Sherlock Holmes
story
)
The Adventure of the Empty House ( Sherlock Holmes
story
)
The Adventure of the Engineer's Thumb ( Sherlock Holmes
story
)
The Adventure of the Gloria Scott ( Sherlock Holmes
story
)
The Adventure of the Golden Pince-Nez ( Sherlock Holmes
story
)
The Adventure of the Greek Interpreter ( Sherlock Holmes
story
)
The Adventure of the Illustrious Client ( Sherlock Holmes
story
)
The Adventure of the Lion's Mane ( Sherlock Holmes
story
)
The Adventure of the Mazarin Stone ( Sherlock Holmes
story
)
The Adventure of the Missing Three-Quarter ( Sherlock Holmes
story
)
The Adventure of the Musgrave Ritual ( Sherlock Holmes
story
)
The Adventure of the Naval Treaty ( Sherlock Holmes
story
)
The Adventure of the Noble Bachelor ( Sherlock Holmes
story
)
The Adventure of the Norwood Builder ( Sherlock Holmes
story
)
The Adventure of the Priory School ( Sherlock Holmes
story
)
The Adventure of the Red Circle ( Sherlock Holmes
story
)
The Adventure of the Red-Headed League ( Sherlock Holmes
story
)
The Adventure of the Reigate Squire ( Sherlock Holmes
story
)
The Adventure of the Resident Patient ( Sherlock Holmes
story
)
The Adventure of the Retired Colourman ( Sherlock Holmes
story
)
The Adventure of the Second Stain ( Sherlock Holmes
story
)
The Adventure of the Six Napoleons ( Sherlock Holmes
story
)
The Adventure of the Solitary Cyclist ( Sherlock Holmes
story
)
The Adventure of the Speckled Band ( Sherlock Holmes
story
)
The Adventure of the Stockbroker's Clerk ( Sherlock Holmes
story
)
The Adventure of the Sussex Vampire ( Sherlock Holmes
story
)
The Adventure of the Three Gables ( Sherlock Holmes
story
)
The Adventure of the Three Garridebs ( Sherlock Holmes
story
)
The Adventure of the Three Students ( Sherlock Holmes
story
)
The Adventure of the Veiled Lodger ( Sherlock Holmes
story
)
The Adventure of the Yellow Face ( Sherlock Holmes
story
)
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes ( Sherlock Holmes
story
)
The Boscombe Valley Mystery ( Sherlock Holmes
story
)
The Case-Book of Sherlock Holmes ( Sherlock Holmes
story
)
The Disappearance of Lady Frances Carfax ( Sherlock Holmes
story
)
The Final Problem ( Sherlock Holmes
story
)
The Five Orange Pips ( Sherlock Holmes
story
)
The Greatest
Story
Ever Told ( Charlton Heston movie )
The Hound of the Baskervilles ( Sherlock Holmes
story
)
The Invisible Man ( HG Wells
story
and later a film )
The Lord of the Rings ( J R R Tolkien
story
and Peter Jackson movie )
The Man Who Mistook His Wife For A Hat And Other Clinical
Tales
( Oliver Sacks book )
The Man with the Twisted Lip ( Sherlock Holmes
story
)
The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes ( Sherlock Holmes
story
)
The Palm Beach
Story
( Claudette Colbert movie )
The Philadelphia
Story
( Cary Grant / Katharine Hepburn movie )
The Problem of Thor Bridge ( Sherlock Holmes
story
)
The Return of Sherlock Holmes ( Sherlock Holmes
story
)
The Scarlet Letter ( Nathaniel Hawthorne
story
)
The Sign of the Four ( Sherlock Holmes
story
)
The
Story
Of Tracy Beaker ( children's
story
by Jacqueline Wilson )
The Tell-Tale Heart
The Valley of Fear ( Sherlock Holmes
story
)
The Winters Tale
The camera doesn't
lie
The
lie
of the land
The lion may
lie
down with the lamb, but the lamb won't get much sleep ( Woody Allen line )
The man, the myth, the
legend
The old lie: Dulce et Decorum Est ( from a poem by Owen )
The one that got away
The
tail
wagging the dog
Thereby hangs a tale
To cut a long
story
short
To infinty and beyond ( line from the movie Toy
Story
)
To make a long
story
short
Too
Tall
( Nickname of Ed Jones )
Top and
tail
Toy
Story
( Tom Hanks movie )
Truth is stranger than
fiction
Two shakes of a lamb's
tail
Urban
myth
Walk
tall
We really move our
tail
for you ( Continental Airlines advertising slogan )
West Side
Story
( Leonard Bernstein musical and Natalie Wood movie )
What becomes a
legend
most? ( Blackglama Great Lakes Mink advertising slogan )
What's The
Story
Morning Glory? ( Oasis album )
Whenever I feel the need to exercise, I
lie
down until it goes away ( Robert Maynard Hutchins quotation )
Where the rubber meets the road ( where the important facts or realities
lie
)
With your
tail
between your legs
Yarn
bombing ( Adorning street furntiure and buildings with knitted items as a form of graffiti )
You made your bed, now
lie
in it