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  • Really using the flood of attention to earn some do-re-mi mon-ey.

    Palin back at crucial campaign stop 2009

  • Despite Mr. Rabin's training and experience, it's not always as easy as do-re-mi.

    Didn't Get That Role? Don't Blame the Piano Player Joanne Kaufman 2011

  • I'm as yet unpublished, but of course already worried about the ins-and-outs of PR, the future of publishing, and the bottom line ... the do-re-mi, to quote Woody Guthrie!

    Writers & Money: What the h*ll are we doing? 2007

  • And this time, it ` s Rob Lowe ` s attorney who ` s speaking out for the first time about Lowe ` s allegations that Lowe ` s former nanny, Jessica Gibson, tried to extort the "Brothers and Sisters" star out of some big do-re-mi.

    CNN Transcript Apr 11, 2008 2008

  • Tanya was after some of his do-re-mi for our fashion museum.

    Holly Would Dream Karen Quinn 2008

  • Remove the fourth and seventh scale degrees from the familiar "do-re-mi" diatonic scale — or F and B — and you will reach the same C D E G A sequence.

    Amazing grace, in the key of black 2008

  • The children mimic her arm movements as they belt out a deafening do-re-mi song of nonsense syllables.

    Soap Operas, Frozen Food And Convertibles 2008

  • Tanya was after some of his do-re-mi for our fashion museum.

    Holly Would Dream Karen Quinn 2008

  • Remove the fourth and seventh scale degrees from the familiar "do-re-mi" diatonic scale — or F and B — and you will reach the same C D E G A sequence.

    Archive 2008-06-01 2008

  • I'd love to help these guys, but the tragedy of my life is I don't have the do-re-mi to preserve all the stuff I'd like to.

    Some Guy Wants to Save the Moondance Diner Brooks of Sheffield 2007

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  • Citation on do-re-mi.

    June 30, 2012

  • See also grouchbag.

    June 30, 2012

  • fa-so-la-ti

    June 30, 2012

  • so-la-ti-do

    June 30, 2012

  • la-ti-do-re

    June 30, 2012

  • ti-do-re

    June 30, 2012

  • do-re-ti... do-re-to? (in the chips)????

    June 30, 2012

  • fais do-do, a Cajun hootenanny.

    June 30, 2012

  • fa(r)-so-e-do

    July 1, 2012