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...Baby
One
More Time ( Britney Spears album and song )
2001 A Space Odyssey ( Stanley Kubrick movie )
A Bicycle Built For Two ( Victorian popular song )
A
Double
Diamond works wonders (
Double
Diamond advertising slogan )
A Tale Of Two Cities ( Charles Dickens book )
A bird in the hand is worth two in the bush
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the meaning and origin of this phrase...
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A bridge
too
far
A deaf husband and a blind wife are always a happy
couple
A
double
date
A great
one
for
A step
too
far
A two pipe problem
A volunteer is worth
twenty
pressed men
About time
too
All I Want For Christmas Is My Two Front Teeth ( Spike Jones song )
All children, except one, grow up ( the opening line of Peter Pan )
All for
one
and
one
for all
All
one
to me
America's Favorite
Couple
( Nickname of Ozzie and Harriet Nelson )
An army of
one
( United States Army advertising slogan )
And baby makes
three
And it's goodnight from, me, and it's goodnight from him ( A catchphrase from The Two Ronnies )
And never the
twain
shall meet
And the next object is ( A catchphrase from
Twenty
Questions )
And then there was
one
Another
One
Bites The Dust ( Queen song )
Art is going
one
step
too
far
As alike as two peas in a pod
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As busy as a
one
armed paper hanger
As busy as a
one
legged arse kicker
As cross as two sticks
As happy as a dog with two tails
As large as life and
twice
as handsome
As
one
door closes, another
one
opens
As thick as two short planks
Ask the Man who Owns
One
( Packard advertising slogan )
At
one
another's throats
At
one
fell swoop
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At the
double
Atone for one's sins
Avert one's eyes
Avert one's gaze
Back
number
Back to square
one
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the meaning and origin of this phrase...
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Bare one's teeth
Beer and sandwiches at
Number
10
Bent
double
Bet you can't eat
three
( Shredded Wheat advertising slogan )
Betcha can't eat just
one
( Lay's potato chips advertising slogan )
Between two stools
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the meaning and origin of this phrase...
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Bite the big
one
Bits per
second
Breathe one's last
Brighton line ( Bingo call for
number
fifty nine )
Buy one, get
one
free
Catch 22 ( Joseph Heller book )
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the meaning and origin of this phrase...
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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
Chopsticks are
one
of the reasons the Chinese never invented custard ( Spike Milligan line )
Chuck the
deuce
Clickety click ( Bingo call for
number
sixty six )
Colour one's view
Come On Over ( Shania
Twain
album )
Come On Over ( Shania
Twain
song )
Come the
three
corners of the world in arms
Complex
number
( a
number
containing real and imaginary parts )
Cop
one
Cushy
number
Damn fine coffee ( A catchphrase from
Twin
Peaks )
Dance With The
One
That Brought You ( Shania
Twain
song )
Day
one
Desmond Tutu ( Cockney rhyming slang for
Second
class degree ( 2,2 ) )
Deuces wild
Do a
number
on
Doctor's Orders ( Bingo call for
number
nine )
Doff one's cap
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Don't Think
Twice
It's Alright ( Bob Dylan song )
Don't give two hoots
Don't put all your eggs in
one
basket
Double
Dutch
Double
Indemnity ( Billy Wilder movie )
Double
O Seven
Double
act
Double
back
Double
blind test
Double
check
Double
click
Double
coverage
Double
cross
Double
denim ( denim jeans worn with a denim shirt or jacket )
Double
digits
Double
dip
Double
dip recession
Double
dipping ( Taking a
second
dip into food using an item that
one
has already put into ones mouth )
Double
down
Double
duty
Double
edged sword
Double
entendre
Double
entry book-keeping
Double
exposure
Double
header ( A baseball expression denoting two events held on the same day with the same participants )
Double
or nothing
Double
or quits
Double
quick
Double
standard
Double
take
Double
time
Double
trouble
Double
up
Double
whammy
Double
your pleasure,
double
your fun ( Wrigley's Doublemint Chewing Gum advertising slogan )
Double,
double
toil and trouble, fire burn and cauldron bubble
Double-dip recession ( A financial recession with two low points )
Down it in
one
Down to the last out ( A baseball expression meaning to have
one
last chance )
Down to the pub for a quick
one
Droopy drawers ( Bingo call for
number
forty four )
Dual
income no kids
Eating for two
Employee
Number
8 ( Nickname of Antoine Walker )
Et tu, Brute
Every
one
a winner
Every stick has two ends
Evil
twin
Exercise one's discretion
Exert one's authority
Feed one's mind
Fish and guests smell after
three
days
Fool me once, shame on you, fool me twice, shame on me
For No
One
( Beatles song )
Four and
twenty
blackbirds baked in a pie ( line from nursery rhyme )
Four by two
Fourpenny
one
Fresh
pair
of eyes
From day
one
Game of two halves
Genius is
one
percent inspiration and 99 percent perspiration ( Thomas Edison quotation )
Get to
second
base
Give one's eye teeth for
Give one's right arm for
Go off on
one
Go
one
better
Goody two shoes
Got it in
one
Got your
number
Great Pair, Says the Bear ( Golden Flake Potato Chips advertising slogan )
Grow a
pair
Had a
couple
Half a
second
Hasn't got two cents to rub together
Have a
second
string to your bow have
Have
one
on me
He's
one
sick puppy
Hello,
one
two
three
testing
Here's
one
I prepared earlier ( A catchphrase from Blue Peter )
Here's
one
in your eye
Hole in
one
How does it feel to be
one
of the beautiful people? ( Beatles song lyric )
I
Second
That Emotion ( Smokey Robinson song )
I don't believe it ( A catchphrase from Victor Meldrew,
One
Foot In The Grave )
I have not slept
one
wink
I took my harp to the party but no
one
asked me to play
I want that
one
( A catchphrase from Little Britain )
I'm
Too
Sexy For My Shirt ( Right Said Fred song )
I'm only here for the beer (
Double
Diamond advertising slogan )
I've got your
number
If I've only
one
life, let me live it as a blonde! ( Clairol Hair Colouring advertising slogan )
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 )
If your friend jumped off a cliff, would you do it too?
In
one
ear and out the other
In
one
piece
In the kingdom of the blind the
one
eyed man is king
In
three
words I can sum up everything I've learned about life: it goes on ( Robert Frost quotation )
In two minds
In two shakes
In two shakes of a lamb's tail
In words of
one
syllable
It Happened
One
Night ( Clark Gable movie )
It takes 40 dumb animals to make a fur coat, but only
one
to wear it
It takes
one
to know
one
It takes two hands to hold a Whopper ( Burger King advertising slogan )
It takes two to tango
It was just
one
of those things
It was the best of times: it was the worst of times ( the opening line of A Tale Of Two Cities )
It was
twenty
years ago today Sgt. Pepper taught the band to play ( Beatles song lyric )
It's an ill wind that blows no
one
any good
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It's never
too
late
It's never
too
late to learn
It's not
too
heavy, not
too
sweet, it's right for you ( RC Cola advertising slogan )
It's
too
cold to snow
Joy to the World (
Three
Dog Night song )
Just
one
more thing ( A catchphrase from Columbo )
Just
one
of those days
Key of the door ( Bingo call for
number
twenty
one
)
Kill two birds with
one
stone
Knit
one
purl
one
Knock
Three
Times ( Tony Orlando and Dawn song )
Know
too
much
Large as life and
twice
as handsome
Last
one
there is a rotten egg
Launch one's lunch
Legs eleven ( Bingo call for
number
eleven )
Lend one's name
Let me make
one
thing perfectly clear
Let
one
go
Let
one
thousand flowers bloom
Life is full of misery, loneliness, and suffering - and it's all over much
too
soon ( Woody Allen line )
Life is just
one
damned thing after another
Life's
too
short
Lightning never strikes
twice
in the same place
Like a dog with two dicks
Like a dog with two tails
Line is full of misery and lonliness and it's over much
too
soon ( Woody Allen line )
Little
Deuce
Coupe ( Beach Boys song )
Little black
number
Look after
number
one
Look out for
number
one
Love Potion
Number
Nine ( Leiber and Stoller song )
Lucky
number
seven
Make a list; check it
twice
Make mine a
double
Make one's hackles rise
Massage one's ego
Measure twice, cut once
Meat and two veg
Midnight
double
feature
Minority of
one
Mirror mirror on the all who is the fairest
one
of all?
More than
one
string to your bow
My
one
regret in life is that I am not someone else ( Woody Allen line )
My precious ( The Lord of the Rings: Two Towers )
Name, rank, and serial
number
Near to one's heart
Neither
one
thing nor the other
Never put off until tomorrow what you can do the day after tomorrow ( Mark
Twain
quotation )
Never the
twain
shall meet
Nice
one
Cyril ( A catchphrase from Wonderloaf )
Nice
pair
of legs
No
One
( Alicia Keys song )
No challenge
too
great
No job
too
small
No man can serve two masters
No
one
can make you feel inferior without your consent ( Eleanor Roosevelt quotation )
No
one
expects the Spanish Inquisition ( A catchphrase from Monty Python's Flying Circus )
No
one
likes us, we don't care ( A catchphrase from Millwall football supporters )
None
too
pleased
None
too
shabby
Not my type ( not a person
one
is attracted to )
Not to put
too
fine a point on it
Not
too
heavy, not
too
light, its just right! ( Kelloggs advertising slogan )
Not two pennies to rub together
Now There is only
one
Mars ( Mars Chocolate advertising slogan )
Number
10 Downing Street ( address of the British Prime Minister )
Number
Six ( Pseudonym of Peter Smith The Prisoner ( Patrick McGoohan ) )
Number
crunching
Number
one
Number
one
concubine ( name given to the partner of Bertrand Russell )
Number
one
son
Number
two
Number
unobtainable
Odd
one
out
On
second
thoughts
On the
double
On the
one
hand
Once bitten,
twice
shy
Once or
twice
One
Cent ( Nickname of Anfernee Hardaway )
One
Dog ( Nickname of Lance Johnson )
One
Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest ( Jack Nicholson movie )
One
Foot In The Grave ( BBC comedy television series )
One
Hundred Years Of Solitude ( Gabriel Garcia Marquez book )
One
More Cup Of Coffee ( Bob Dylan song )
One
More Night ( Maroon 5 song )
One
Of Us Must Know ( Bob Dylan song )
One
Size ( Nickname of Fitz Hall )
One
Too
Many Mornings ( Bob Dylan song )
One
Tough ( Nickname of Joaquin Andejar )
One
and all
One
and the same
One
armed bandit
One
brick short of a load
One
by
one
One
card for home and abroad ( Maestro advertising slogan )
One
fall, two submissions or a knockout
One
fine day
One
foot in the grave
One
for all and all for
one
One
for sorrow ( Magpie nursery rhyme )
One
for sorrow, two for mirth,
three
for a wedding, four for a birth
One
for the book
One
for the road
One
good turn deserves another
One
half of the world does not know how the other half lives
One
hand tied behind your back
One
hand washes the other
One
hell of
One
horse town
One
in a billion ( McDonald's advertising slogan )
One
in a million
One
in the eye
One
instinctively knows when something is right ( Croft Original Sherry advertising slogan )
One
jump ahead of
One
law for the rich and another for the poor
One
leg at a time ( Dockers advertising slogan )
One
liner
One
man and his dog
One
man's meat is another man's poison
One
man's trash is another man's treasure
One
man:
one
vote
One
may as well be hanged for a sheep as for a lamb
One
minute to midnight
One
moment please
One
more time
One
night stand
One
night stand investment
One
of life's little ironies
One
of the boys
One
of these days, Alice ... Pow! To the moon! ( A catchphrase from The Honeymooners )
One
off
One
off the wrist
One
on
one
One
out, all out
One
over the eight
One
ringy-dingy...two ringy-dingies ( A catchphrase from Ernestine In Rowan and Martin's Laugh-In )
One
second
One
side of the story
One
size fits all
One
small step for man,
one
giant leap for mankind ( Neil Armstrong quotation )
One
smart cookie
One
sprint many solutions ( Sprint advertising slogan )
One
step ahead
One
step at a time
One
step forward, two steps back
One
stop shop
One
swallow doesn't make a summer
One
taste and your stuck on golden flake ( Golden Flake Potato Chips advertising slogan )
One
that Last ( Duracell Batteries advertising slogan )
One
thing leads to another
One
to
one
One
to remember
One
toe over the line
One
track mind
One
trick pony
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
One
volunteer is worth ten pressed men
One
wedding brings another
One
year's seeds make seven year weeds
Opportunity never knocks
twice
Outside of a dog, a book is man's best friend. Inside of a dog it's
too
dark to read ( Groucho Marx line )
Pair
off
Play
second
fiddle
Plus
one
Prepare to want
one
( Hyundai advertising slogan )
Public Enemy
Number
One
( Nickname of John Dillinger )
Pull a fast
one
Put
one
foot in front of the other
Put
one
over on
Put two and two together
Quality is job
one
( Ford Cars advertising slogan )
Quick
one
Rolled into
one
Room for
one
more inside
Route
one
Safe
pair
of hands
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Second
banana
Second
best
Second
bite of the cherry
Second
childhood
Second
class
Second
degree burns
Second
generation
Second
nature
Second
sight
Second
slip ( field position in the game of cricket )
Second
storey man
Second
thoughts
Second
thoughts are best
Second
to none
Second
wind
Seen one, seen them all
Shoot a birdie ( score
one
under par in a golf shot )
Show a clean
pair
of heels
Silver wedding ( a celebration of twenty-five years of marriage )
Six and two threes
Six of
one
and half a dozen of the other
Six, two and even
Sleep with
one
eye open
Snake eyes
Snakes alive ( Bingo call for
number
fifty five )
So easy to use, no wonder it's
number
one
( AOL advertising slogan )
So no
one
told you life was gonna be this way
Stand on your own two feet
Still the
One
( ABC advertising slogan )
Stop me and buy
one
( Wall's Ice Cream advertising slogan )
Stop me if you've heard this
one
Stunt
double
Table for two
Take down a peg or two
Take
one
day at a time
Take
one
for the team
Take someone to
one
side
Take two aspirin and call me in the morning
Tea for two
Teach someone a thing or two
Ten
one
hundred
That's a new
one
on me
That's the
second
biggest ... I've ever seen! ( A catchphrase from Get Smart )
The Adventure of the
Second
Stain ( 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 Amazing
One
( Nickname of Alfredo Amezaga )
The Best
Second
Banana in the Business ( Nickname of Art Carney )
The Chosen
One
( Nickname of LeBron James )
The Daily
Double
( Nickname of Dwight Howard )
The Dynamic
Duo
The English summer:
three
fine days and a thunderstorm
The Great
One
( Nickname of comedian Jackie Gleason )
The Man Who Knew
Too
Much ( Peter Lorre / Alfred Hitchcock movie )
The Man With Two Brains ( Steve Martin movie )
The Odd
Couple
( Jack Lemmon / Walter Matthau movie )
The Postman Always Rings
Twice
( Jack Nicholson movie )
The Special
One
( Nickname of football manager Jose Mourinho )
The
Three
Musketeers ( Alexandre Dumas book )
The
Twin
Cities ( Nickname of Minneapolis/St. Paul Minnesota )
The Wild
One
( Marlon Brando 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 flower of one's youth
The lady doth protest
too
much, methinks ( from Hamlet by Shakespeare )
The lesser of two evils
The lights are on but there's no
one
at home
The magic
number
The man who does not read has no advantage over the man who cannot read ( Mark
Twain
quotation )
The
one
and only Wonderbra ( Wonderbra advertising slogan )
The
one
and only cereal that comes in the shape of animals ( Crispy Critters advertising slogan )
The
one
that got away
The
one
to watch ( Channel 7 Australia advertising slogan )
The right
one
( Martini advertising slogan )
The square on the hypotenuse equals the sum of the squares on the other two sides
The world around
one
There are
three
kinds of lies: lies, damnable lies, and statistics
There are two sides to every question
There's more than
one
way to skin a cat
There's not a soul out there, no
one
to hear my prayer ( ABBA lyric )
There's
one
born every minute
There's only
one
There's
too
much arson about here
Think once, think twice, think bike ( UK Public Information Film advertising slogan )
Think
twice
This
one
will run and run
This
too
shall pass
Three
Finger ( Nickname of Mordecai Brown )
Three
French hens ( line from A Partridge In A Pear Tree )
Three
Mile Lyle ( Nickname of Lyle Alzado )
Three
blind mice, see how they run ( line from nursery rhyme )
Three
dog night
Three
figures
Three
for a girl ( Magpie nursery rhyme )
Three
letter acronym
Three
line whip
Three
on a match
Three
score and ten
Three
sheets to the wind
Three
strikes and you are out
Three
wise men
Three's a charm
Three's a crowd
Three, four, knock at the door ( line from nursery rhyme )
Tie
one
on
Times without
number
To get one's back up
Today the discriminating family finds it absolutely necessary to own two or more motor cars ( Buick advertising slogan )
Too
Busy Thinking About My Baby ( Marvin Gaye song )
Too
Easy ( Nickname of Baron Davis )
Too
Much Monkey Business ( Chuck Berry song )
Too
Tall ( Nickname of Ed Jones )
Too
big for your boots
Too
big for your britches
Too
clever by half
Too
close for comfort
Too
close to call
Too
good to be true
Too
good to hurry mints ( Murray Mints advertising slogan )
Too
hot to handle
Too
little,
too
late
Too
many chiefs and not enough indians
Too
many cooks spoil the broth
Too
many irons in the fire
Too
much information
Too
much of a good thing
Too
much of a good thing is wonderful
Too
much
too
soon
Too
pooped to pop
Too
posh to push
Too
posh to wash
Top of the shop ( Bingo call for
number
ninety )
Triple play ( A baseball expression denoting the act of making
three
outs during the same play )
Twenty
Miles Of Bad Road ( The Janeys song )
Twenty
thousand leagues under the sea
Twenty
three
skidoo
Twenty
twenty
vision
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
Two-ton Tessie ( Nickname of Tessie O'Shea )
Unlucky for some ( Bingo call for
number
thirteen )
Us versus them ( denoting the emnity between two opposing groups )
Was she worth it ( Bingo call for
number
fifty six )
We used to have
one
of those, but the wheels fell off
We're A
Couple
Of Swells ( Judy Garland song )
We're Just
One
Big Happy Family ( Richard Hawley song )
We're a
couple
of swells
We're just
one
big happy family
We're
number
two. We try harder ( Avis Rent-a-Car advertising slogan )
We're the
one
( Sky Television advertising slogan )
We're tobacco men not medicine men. Old Gold cures just
one
thing. The World's Best Tobacco ( Old Gold Cigarettes advertising slogan )
What I tell you
three
times is true
What Makes You Beautiful (
One
Direction song )
What with
one
thing and another
What's in your wallet? ( Capital
One
advertising slogan )
When shall we
three
meet again?
Which
twin
has the Toni? ( Toni advertising slogan )
Will no
one
rid me of this turbulent priest?
Win faster (
One
Brand Group advertising slogan )
With
one
bound he was at her side
Work one's fingers to the bone
Worth one's weight in gold
Wring one's hands
You Only Live
Twice
( James Bond movie Sean Connery )
You are a
one
You are never
too
old to learn
You can have
too
much of a good thing
You can kiss that
one
goodbye
You can leave in a huff. If that's
too
soon, you can leave in a minute and a huff ( Groucho Marx line )
You can't be
too
careful
You can't have your cake and eat it
too
You cannot step into the same river
twice
( philosophical comment by Heraclitus )
You don't get a
second
chance at a first impression
You only get
one
chance to make a first impression
You only hurt the
one
you love
You
too
can have a body like mine ( Charles Atlas advertising slogan )
You'll Wike it
too
( Wike Farms Cheese advertising slogan )
You're the
One
That I Want ( John Travolta and Olivia Newton-John song )
You, you're the
one
( McDonald's advertising slogan )