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A Bicycle Built For
Two
( Victorian popular song )
A Tale Of
Two
Cities ( Charles Dickens book )
A bird in the hand is worth
two
in the bush
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A foot in
both
camps
A plague on
both
your houses
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A
two
pipe problem
All I Want For Christmas Is My
Two
Front Teeth ( Spike Jones song )
All over him like a cheap
suit
And it's goodnight from, me, and it's goodnight from him ( A catchphrase from The
Two
Ronnies )
And never the twain shall meet
As alike as
two
peas in a pod
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As cross as
two
sticks
As happy as a dog with
two
tails
As thick as
two
short planks
At a price to
suit
your pocket
Between
two
stools
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Big Mac ( Nickname of baseball player
Mark
McGwire )
Black
mark
Both
oars in the water
Both
sides of the desk
Bunny
suit
( Canadian military slang term for a cbrn ( chemical, biological, radiological, nuclear ) )
Burn the candle at
both
ends
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Caught in
two
minds
Cauliflower is nothing but cabbage with a college education (
Mark
Twain quotation )
Children, one is one,
two
is fun, three is a house full
Cloak
and dagger
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Close to the
mark
Come On Over ( Shania Twain album )
Come On Over ( Shania Twain song )
Cut your coat to
suit
your cloth
Dance With The One That Brought You ( Shania Twain song )
Deep Throat ( Nickname of
Mark
Felt )
Don't give
two
hoots
Double denim ( denim jeans worn with a denim shirt or
jacket
)
Double header ( A baseball expression denoting
two
events held on the same day with the same participants )
Eating for
two
Every Step Of The Way (
Mark
Ballas song )
Every stick has
two
ends
Follow
suit
Four by
two
Full Metal
Jacket
( Stanley Kubrick movie )
Game of
two
halves
Get off the
mark
Goody
two
shoes
Happy sad ( a bitterweet feeling combining
both
happiness and sadness )
Hasn't got
two
cents to rub together
Have it
both
ways
Have your bread buttered on
both
sides
He doesn't have
both
oars in the water
Hello, one
two
three testing
High visibility
jacket
( reflective coat worn to be easily seen )
I'm Gonna Love Her For The
Both
Of Us ( Meatloaf song )
If you can't ride
two
horses at once, you shouldn't be in the circus
If you tell the truth, you don't have to remember anything (
Mark
Twain quotation )
In
two
minds
In
two
shakes
In
two
shakes of a lamb's tail
In your birthday
suit
It takes
two
hands to hold a Whopper ( Burger King advertising slogan )
It takes
two
to tango
It was the best of times: it was the worst of times ( the opening line of A Tale Of
Two
Cities )
Jump in with
both
feet
Kill
two
birds with one stone
Like a dog with
two
dicks
Like a dog with
two
tails
Look
both
ways
Mad Dog ( Nickname of
Mark
Madsen )
Make your
mark
Mark
down
Mark
my words
Mark
time
Mark
your card
Meat and
two
veg
My precious ( The Lord of the Rings:
Two
Towers )
Never put off until tomorrow what you can do the day after tomorrow (
Mark
Twain quotation )
Never the twain shall meet
No
Jacket
Required ( Phil Collins album )
No man can serve
two
masters
Not
two
pennies to rub together
Number
two
Off the
mark
On the
mark
On your mark, get set, go
One fall,
two
submissions or a knockout
One for sorrow,
two
for mirth, three for a wedding, four for a birth
One step forward,
two
steps back
One
two
buckle my shoe ( line from nursery rhyme )
One
two
many and you might turn Bertie ( Bassett's Liquorice Allsorts advertising slogan )
One
two
three o'clock four o'clock rock
Penguin
suit
Play
both
ends against the middle
Pox on
both
your houses
Put
two
and
two
together
Quick off the
mark
Royal flush ( in poker - a hand including a ten jack queen king and ace of the same
suit
)
Six and
two
threes
Six,
two
and even
Stand on your own
two
feet
Step up to the
mark
(
mark
yourself ready to take responsibility )
Suit
up
Suit
you, sir ( A catchphrase from The Fast Show )
Suit
yourself
Swing
both
ways
Table for
two
Take down a peg or
two
Take
two
aspirin and call me in the morning
Tea for
two
Teach someone a thing or
two
That's going to leave a
mark
The Man With
Two
Brains ( Steve Martin movie )
The Woman In Me ( Shania Twain album )
The animals went in
two
by
two
The beast with
two
backs
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The best of
both
worlds
The lesser of
two
evils
The man who does not read has no advantage over the man who cannot read (
Mark
Twain quotation )
The
mark
of Cain
The
mark
of a man ( Old Spice aftershave advertising slogan )
The
mark
of the Beast
The reports of my death are greatly exaggerated
The square on the hypotenuse equals the sum of the squares on the other
two
sides
There are
two
sides to every question
Today the discriminating family finds it absolutely necessary to own
two
or more motor cars ( Buick advertising slogan )
Two
Jags ( Nickname of John Prescott )
Two
Out Of Three Ain't Bad ( Meatloaf song )
Two
Ton Tessa
Two
all beef patties special sauce lettuce cheese pickles onions on a sesame seed bun ( McDonald's advertising slogan )
Two
and eight ( Cockney rhyming slang for state )
Two
and
two
make five
Two
and
two
make four
Two
blacks don't make a white
Two
bricks short of a load
Two
buck chuck
Two
can play at that game
Two
cents worth
Two
faced
Two
fat ladies ( Bingo call for number eighty eight )
Two
fisted
Two
for joy ( Magpie nursery rhyme )
Two
for me, none for you! ( Twix advertising slogan )
Two
for one
Two
four six eight who do we appreciate ( cheerleader chant )
Two
heads are better than one
Two
irons in the fire
Two
left feet
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
of a kind
Two
on the aisle
Two
pot screamer
Two
sandwiches short of a picnic
Two
shakes of a lamb's tail
Two
steps forward and one step back
Two
strings to his bow
Two
timing
Two
turtle doves ( line from A Partridge In A Pear Tree )
Two
wrongs don't make a right
Two's company three's a crowd
Up to the
mark
Us versus them ( denoting the emnity between
two
opposing groups )
Way off the
mark
We're number two. We try harder ( Avis Rent-a-Car advertising slogan )
Whistle and flute ( Cockney rhyming slang for
suit
)
Winning is the
mark
of the Rebel ( Rebel Sport advertising slogan )
With
both
barrels
Work
both
sides of the street
Zoot
suit