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Nail your colours to the mast

Nasty, brutish and short

Neither a borrower nor a lender be

Neither fish nor flesh, nor good red herring

Neither here nor there

Never give a sucker an even break

Never knowingly undersold

Never never land

Never the twain shall meet

New kid on the block

No man is an island

No manager ever got fired for buying IBM

No more cakes and ale?

No names: no packdrill

No rest for the wicked

No room to swing a cat

North and south

Not playing with a full deck

Not the ill wind which blows no man to good

Not tonight Josephine

Not worth a plugged nickel

Not worth a tinker's dam

Not worth the candle

Nothing is certain but death and taxes

Now is the winter of our discontent

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