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A Double Diamond
works
wonders ( Double Diamond advertising slogan )
A Hard Day's Night ( Beatles song and movie )
A Mars a day helps you work, rest and play ( Mars Chocolate advertising slogan )
A dirty
business
A hands turn
A head for
business
and a body for sin
A lot on your plate ( having many responsibilities )
A poor workman blames his tools
A work in progress
Ads work harder in the new Granada ( Granada advertising slogan )
All in a day's work
All my own work
All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy
Alpha Mom ( an ambitious mother who aims to excel at work while raising children )
Another day older and deeper in debt
Another day, another dollar
Aren't you glad you
use
Dial? Don't you wish everybody did? ( Dial Soap advertising slogan )
As patient as
Job
Attention
deficit disorder
Attention
to detail
Back in
business
Back to school
Back to the salt mine
Balance of
trade
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Bayer
works
wonders ( Bayer Aspirin advertising slogan )
Be careful how you
use
it! ( Hai Karate Aftershave advertising slogan )
Beast of burden
Beast of the fields
Beaver away at
Big Blue ( Nickname of International
Business
Machines ( IBM ) )
Blow
job
Blue Monday
Blue collar
worker
Boob
job
Botched
job
Brain drain
Bread and butter
Break your back
Bring home the bacon
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Buckle down
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Burn the midnight oil
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Bury yourself in your work
Business
acumen
Business
as usual
Business
at hand
Business
before pleasure
Business
class
Business
end
Business
is beautiful ( Sprint advertising slogan )
Business
is like a car, it will not run by itself except downhill
Business
jet
Business
need
Business
or pleasure
Business
partner
Business
plan
Business
to
business
By the sweat of his brow
Cap and
trade
( A policy tool aimed at protecting the environment )
Captain of
industry
Centre of
attention
Chief cook and bottle washer
Clock on
Close enough for government work
Come out of the
woodwork
Company man ( a
worker
especially loyal to the employer he
works
for )
Cottage
industry
Crawl out of the
woodwork
Daily grind ( the daily routine of a dull or boring
job
)
Die in harness
Die with your boots on
Dirty work at the crossroads
Do the
business
Do your
business
Do your
homework
Do your level best
Doing a land-office
business
Doing a sterling
job
Don't give up the day
job
Don't mix
business
with pleasure
Don't put a cold in your pocket! -
Use
Kleenex Tissues ( Kleenex Tissues advertising slogan )
Don't
use
that tone with me
Donkey work
Double, double
toil
and trouble, fire burn and cauldron bubble
Downsizing
Duvet day
Ear popping ( a sound that is loud or that catches the
attention
)
Earn an honest penny
Earn your corn
Elbow grease
Everybody out ( A catchphrase from The Rag
Trade
)
Excite
attention
Fair
Trade
Fall down on the
job
Fancy footwork
Fetch and carry
Fish or cut bait
For those who like the
trade
rough ( Travis aftershave advertising slogan )
Free
trade
Friday afternoon car
Fruits of your
labour
Genius is one percent inspiration and 99 percent perspiration ( Thomas Edison quotation )
Get behind in your work
Get down to
business
Get off your arse
Get off your bike
Get stuck in
Get your hands dirty
Give me the
works
Glutton for punishment
Go about your
business
Go the extra mile
Go to town
Go to work on an egg ( British Egg Marketing Board advertising slogan )
Got My Mojo
Working
( Muddy Waters song )
Grab
attention
Graveyard shift
Gum up the
works
Hand
job
Hand's turn
Hands up if you
use
Right Guard, Hands down if you don't ( Right Guard antiperspirant advertising slogan )
Hard at it
Hard
labour
Hard work never did anyone any harm
Hard work never killed anyone
Hatchet
job
Have your work cut out for you
Hazards of the
job
He who sups with the Devil should
use
a long spoon
Heave ho
Hit the
woodwork
Hive of
industry
Hold down a
job
Home
worker
Honey I'm home
How does the wireless
industry
make you feel? ( Sprint PCS advertising slogan )
I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work ( Thomas Edison quotation )
I have nothing to offer but blood
toil
tears and sweat ( Winston Churchill quotation )
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I'll make it my
business
I'm only doing my
job
If a
job
is worth doing it is worth doing well
If ifs and ands were pots and pans there'd be no work for tinkers
Imagination at Work ( General Electric advertising slogan )
In harness
In the line of duty
In the
works
Inside
job
It's a dirty job, but somebody has to do it ( A catchphrase from Nick Stone In Tightrope )
It's been a hard day's night, and I'd been
working
like a dog ( Beatles song lyric )
It's no
use
locking the stable door after the horse has bolted
Just the
job
Keep the show on the road
Keep the wolf from the door
Keep up the good work
Keep your nose to the grindstone
Keep your shoulder to the wheel
Knock off
Knuckle down to
Labour
in vain
Labour
intensive
Labour
of love
Labour
pains
Labour
saving device
Labour
under a misapprehension
Laid off
Land office
business
Lie down on the
job
Life is our life's Work ( Pfizer advertising slogan )
Light duties
Like nobody's
business
Line of work
Look on my works, ye mighty, and despair ( from a poem by Shelley )
Loves
Labour
Lost
Maid of all work
Make a good
job
of it
Make light work of
Make short work of
Make the best of a bad
job
Many hands make light work
Mean
business
Mind your own
business
Money doesn't grow on trees
Monkey
business
Moonlighting
Moving at the speed of
business
( UPS advertising slogan )
Multimedia you can
use
( Apple Computer advertising slogan )
Nasty piece of work
Never do a stroke of work
Nice work if you can get it
Night shift
No
job
too small
Off sick
Office work
On the
job
On the
job
training
Only fools and horses work
Open for
business
Overworked, and underpaid
Parents who
use
drugs have kids who
use
drugs ( The Partnership for a Drug-Free America advertising slogan )
Phone in sick
Pin money
Pressure of work
Prison
works
Put a spanner in the
works
Put to good
use
Put your hand to the plough
Put-up
job
Quality is
job
one ( Ford Cars advertising slogan )
Quick and dirty
Rag
trade
Real food for real people ( The beef
industry
advertising slogan )
Real piece of work
Risky
business
Roll up your sleeves
Root hog or die
Rough
trade
Running like clockwork
Rush
job
Saturday's child
works
hard for a living
Seeing small
business
differently ( SBC Communications advertising slogan )
Seriously though, he's doing a grand
job
( A catchphrase from David Frost )
Sing for your supper
Sitting next to Nellie
Slave away at
Slog away
Smokers are requested to
use
Swan Vestas ( Swan Vesta matches advertising slogan )
Snow
job
So easy to use, no wonder it's number one ( AOL advertising slogan )
Spade work
Spanner in the
works
Stock in
trade
Strictly
business
Sunrise
industry
Sunset
industry
Take someone to
task
Taking care of
business
Talk shop
Talking shop
Tall
task
Thankless
task
That Friday feeling ( anticipation of the weekend after a hard
working
week )
That Monday morning feeling
The Beehive Of
Industry
( Nickname of Providence Rhode Island )
The Best Second Banana in the
Business
( Nickname of Art Carney )
The Devil finds work for idle hands to do
The Internet at Work ( UUNET advertising slogan )
The Italian
Job
( Michael Caine movie )
The Rag
Trade
( BBC comedy television series )
The Show
Business
Capital Of The World ( Nickname of Hollywood California )
The Smartest Dumbbell in the History of Show
Business
( Nickname of comedienne Gracie Allen )
The
business
The
business
of America is
business
The dog ate my
homework
The oldest
profession
The patience of
Job
The right man for the
job
The right tool for the
job
The right tools for the
job
The spirit is willing but the flesh is weak
The toughest
job
you'll ever love ( United States Peace Corps advertising slogan )
There's No
Business
Like Show
Business
( Judy Garland song )
This Woman's Work ( Kate Bush song )
This line of
business
To make that tough
job
easier - you deserve M&M candy ( M&Ms advertising slogan )
To no
avail
Too Much Monkey
Business
( Chuck Berry song )
Tools of the
trade
Tote that bale
Tote that barge
Trade
down
Tricks of the
trade
Up to the
task
Use
Somebody ( Kings of Leon song )
Use
it or lose it
Use
matches sparingly ( Swan Vesta matches advertising slogan )
Use
your loaf
We Can Work It Out ( Beatles song )
We make things that make communications work ( Lucent Technologies advertising slogan )
We mean
business
We never stop
working
for you ( Verizon Wireless advertising slogan )
We'll do the
homework
( Bendix Appliances advertising slogan )
What a piece of work is man
Whatever
Works
( Woody Allen movie )
Where there's muck there's brass
Whistle while you work
Why do only fools and horses work?
Wind someone up ( deliberately draw
attention
to something that will create agitation )
Woman's work is never done
Work both sides of the street
Work expands so as to fill the time available
Work hard. Fly right ( Continental Airlines advertising slogan )
Work it
Work itself up into a lather
Work life balance
Work like a Trojan
Work like a beaver
Work like a dog
Work of art
Work one's fingers to the bone
Work the phone
Work the rabbit's foot on
Work to rule
Work wonders
Work your ass off
Work your butt off
Work your ticket
Work yourself into the ground
Working
Working
Class Hero ( John Lennon song )
Working
agreement
Working
all the hours God sends
Working
capital
Working
class
Working
for peanuts
Working
from home
Working
girl
Working
hard or hardly working?
Working
knowledge of
Working
on our night moves
Working
party
Works
like a charm
Works
like a dream ( )
You don't have to be mad to work here, but it helps
You got a friend in the
business
( Gateway 2000 advertising slogan )
You were only supposed to blow the bloody doors off! ( line from the Michael Caine movie The Italian
Job
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