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A Case Of Identity ( Sherlock Holmes
story
)
A Scandal in Bohemia ( Sherlock Holmes
story
)
A
String
Of Pearls ( Glenn Miller tune )
A Study in Scarlet ( Sherlock Holmes
story
)
A
Tale
Of Two Cities ( Charles Dickens book )
America's
story
teller ( Kodak advertising slogan )
An everyday
story
of country folk ( A catchphrase from The Archers )
And thereby hangs a
tale
Baa baa black sheep have you any wool? ( line from nursery rhyme )
Bad
Romance
( Lady Gaga song )
Bless his/her
cotton
socks
Breaking
story
Cock and bull
story
(
the meaning and origin of this phrase...
)
Cover
story
Cut a long
story
short
Cut the
cord
Cut the umbilical
cord
Don't get your knickers in a
twist
Dyed in the
wool
End of
story
Every picture tells a
story
( Doanes Backache Kidney Pills advertising slogan )
Eye of newt and toe of frog,
wool
of bat and tongue of dog
Fairytale ending ( a happy simplistic ending to a
story
similar to those found in fairy tales )
Fibre
art ( Artwork consisting of natural or synthetic fibres )
Fishy
story
Got the world on a
string
Guerrilla
knitting
( Street art using knitted items )
Hanging by a
thread
Have a second
string
to your bow have
His Last Bow ( Sherlock Holmes
story
)
Holiday
romance
How long is a piece of string?
In high
cotton
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 )
Like a puppet on a
string
Live to tell the
tale
Lose the
thread
Love
Story
( Ali MacGraw / Ryan O'Neal movie )
Love
Story
( Taylor Swift song )
Love means never having to say you're sorry ( Love
Story
)
Mary had a little lamb its
fleece
was white as snow ( line from nursery rhyme )
May to December
romance
Moral
fibre
More than one
string
to your bow
My side of the
story
Old wives'
tale
One side of the
story
Pull the
wool
over someone's eyes
Round the
twist
Same old
story
Silver Blaze ( Sherlock Holmes
story
)
Sob
story
Stick to your
knitting
Story
of my life
String
along
String
someone along
Swallows And Amazons ( children's adventure
story
by Arthur Ransome )
Tattle
tale
Tell
tale
sign
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
Cotton
State ( Nickname of the US state of Alabama )
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 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 Valley of Fear ( Sherlock Holmes
story
)
The Winters
Tale
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
Toy
Story
( Tom Hanks movie )
Twist
And Shout ( Beatles song )
Twist
around your little finger
Twist
in the wind
Twist
of fate
Twist
the knife
Twist
your arm
Wait just a
cotton
picking minute
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the meaning and origin of this phrase...
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West Side
Story
( Leonard Bernstein musical and Natalie Wood movie )
What's The
Story
Morning Glory? ( Oasis album )
Yarn bombing ( Adorning street furntiure and buildings with knitted items as a form of graffiti )