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A buck well spent ( Springmaid Sheets advertising slogan )
A
healthy
mind in a
healthy
body
A hewer of wood and a drawer of
water
A laurel and
hearty
handshake
Alive and well
All hands to the
pump
All the news that's
fit
to print ( New York Times advertising slogan )
All's Well, That Ends Well
An ill-favoured thing sir, but
mine
own
Anti personnel
mine
As cold as a well digger's arse
As
fit
as a butcher's dog
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As
fit
as a fiddle
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As well as can be expected
Augur well
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Back to the salt
mine
Black
water
rafting
Blood in the
water
Blood is thicker than
water
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Blow out of the
water
Both oars in the
water
Bottomless
pit
Brain
bucket
Bridge Over Troubled
Water
( Simon and Garfunkel album and song )
Bucket
and spade holiday
Bucket
shop
Buy a
bucket
of chicken and have a barrel of fun ( Kentucky Fried Chicken advertising slogan )
Can't carry a tune in a
bucket
Clear blue
water
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Clearly Canadian Sparkling Mineral
Water
in Wild Fruit Flavours ( Adelma Mineral Waters advertising slogan )
Come hell or high
water
Come on in, the water's fine
Couldn't carry a tune in a
bucket
Dead in the
water
Didn't they do well! ( A catchphrase from Bruce Forsyth In The Generation Game )
Ding dong bell Pussy's in the well ( line from nursery rhyme )
Dip your toe into the
water
Dish
fit
for the gods
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Drop in the
bucket
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Early to bed and early to rise makes a man
healthy
wealthy and wise
Exceedingly well read
Fighting
fit
Fish out of
water
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Fit
But You Know It ( The Streets' song )
Fit
Dunlop and be satisfied ( Dunlop Tyres advertising slogan )
Fit
a quart into a pint pot
Fit
for a king
Fit
for purpose
Fit
in with
Fit
of the giggles
Fit
the bill
Fit
to a T
Fit
to be tied
Flea
pit
Foot in the
bucket
( A baseball expression meaning to act timidly or cowardly )
Genius bonus ( a joke or theme added to a programme aimed at well informed people )
Get a gold star ( earn a merit point for doing well )
Get into deep
water
Get into hot
water
Get well soon
Go through fire and
water
for
Go well Go Shell ( Shell advertising slogan )
Going swimmingly
Gut
bucket
Hail fellow well met
Hale and
hearty
Have a
fit
He doesn't have both oars in the
water
He's fallen in the
water
( A catchphrase from The Goon Show )
Health and wellness
Healthy
respect for
Her Honeymoon - and it should have been mine! ( Listerine Mouthwash advertising slogan )
Hissy
fit
Hold
water
I Me
Mine
( The Beatles song )
I scratch your back and you scratch
mine
If a job is worth doing it is worth doing well
If you want a thing done well, do it yourself
In deep
water
In hot
water
In the
pit
of your stomach
Jack and Jill went up the hill to fetch a pail of
water
( line from nursery rhyme )
Just add
water
Just as well
Just when you thought it was safe to go back in
water
( Jaws II advertising tagline )
Keep going well - keep going Shell ( Shell advertising slogan )
Keep your head above
water
Kick the
bucket
Know full well
Laugh
fit
to burst
Leave well enough alone
Let the punishment
fit
the crime
Let well alone
Like a duck to
water
Like a fish out of
water
Like
water
off a duck's back
Lipton's gets into more hot
water
than anything ( Lipton Tea advertising slogan )
Living well is the best revenge
Made to make your mouth
water
( Opal Fruits advertising slogan )
Make
mine
Moxie ( Moxie soda advertising slogan )
Make
mine
a double
Men's evil manners live in brass; their virtues we write in
water
Might as well
Mine
host
Mine
is bigger than yours
Mine
of information
Mosh
pit
Neer do well
Not
fit
for a dog
Not
fit
for purpose
Of all the gin joints in all the towns in all the world, she walks into
mine
( Casablanca )
Of the first
water
Oil and
water
don't mix
One may as well be hanged for a sheep as for a lamb
Parish
pump
Party
hearty
Perfect
fit
Pit
Bull ( Nickname of Mike James )
Pit
your wits against
Poor thing but
mine
own
Pour cold
water
on
Pump
and dump
Pump
iron
Pump
up the volume
Pump
your money back into Canada ( Petro Canada, early advertising slogan )
Pure life ( Nestle Aberfoyle Natural Spring
Water
advertising slogan )
Rust
bucket
Smooth runs the
water
where the brook is deep
Spend money like
water
Take a bath in the dark tonight and let the
water
make love to your skin ( Lavin Perfumes & Soaps advertising slogan )
Take a
healthy
interest
Test the
water
That Silver-Haired Daddy of
Mine
( Gene Autry song )
That's all well and good
The Hot
Water
State ( Nickname of the US state of Arkansas )
The Invisible Man ( HG
Wells
story and later a film )
The
Pit
and the Pendulum
The worried well
Throw cold
water
on
Tonic
water
by you know who ( Schweppes advertising slogan )
Travel well ( Lincoln advertising slogan )
Victory is
mine
Walk on
water
Wash your mouth out with soap and
water
Water
down
Water
of life
Water
seeks its own level
Water
under the bridge
Water
water
everywhere and not a drop to drink
Well I never
Well blow me down
Well endowed
Well fed
Well
fit
Well heeled
Well hung
Well in with
Well liked
Well off
Well turned calf
Well turned out
Well up with
Well, actually, he forgot Poland
Well, duh
Well, nobody's perfect ( line from the movie Some Like It Hot )
Well, she was just seventeen you know what I mean ( The Beatles song lyric )
White
water
rafting
Whoever smelled it welled it
With a
hearty
hiho Silver
You Wear It Well ( Rod Stewart song )
You can lead a horse to
water
but you can't make it drink
You gotta ask yourself, do I feel lucky, well do ya punk? ( Dirty Harry )
You too can have a body like
mine
( Charles Atlas advertising slogan )
Your guess is as good as
mine
Your place or mine?