Alliterative HYBRID

 

Above (beyond), and art(ifice), and bag and baggage, aid/abet,

Askew/akimbo, ask and answer, beg and borrow, deep in debt.

And bits and bytes, and black and blue, and belles and beaus, and do or die,

And cliques and clans, and cash and carry, cute and cuddly, baby's cry.

There's bed and breakfast, beam and balance, big/bad/bold and beautiful, 

Command/control, and bread and butter, dos and don'ts, and dutiful, 

And born and bred, and bigger/better, bric-a-brac, concur/agree,

And cliques and clans, and dear departed, flew through flue, the fly and flea. 

There’s Dungeons/Dragons, dine and dash, and down and dirty, drink and drive,

And each and every feast or famine, first and foremost, four or five,

And fast and furious, fur and feathers, fun and frolic, fight or flight,

And farm and factory, friend or foe, at dusk til dawn, all day and night.

grins and giggles, hems and haws, and his and hers, guys/gals (or dolls)
And quake and quiver, black and blue, right/wrong, St. Peter's and St. Paul's. 

There’s stress and strain, and short and stout, and scratch and save, and shirts and shorts
Shoes/socks, and art and artifice, and toil and trouble, tarts and tortes
And read and write, bold/beautiful, and beg or borrow, this-and-thats
Moon o'er Miami, baked and battered, where or when, and heads and hats.

There's prince and pauper, prim and proper, pots and pans, and put-upon 
And drunken and disorderly, warp/woof, wrack/ruin, and AlAnon.
The order of paired elements - important? yes, no, may-aybe;
Be careful not to throw out the bathwater with the ba-aby.

Yet, slip and slide, not hair nor hide, the definition gets defied, 
Like 'Prejudice' before the 'Pride', so 'side by side' is classified
With home sweet home, rose is a rose, eye for an eye, and nose to nose - 
These phrases pose the gap to close that spaces poetry from prose.

There's Jack and Jill, from dusk 'til dawn, bumper to bumper, inch by inch,
And first and foremost, hand in hand, with spice and sugar, just a pinch.
"What's right is right, what's fair is fair", said more and more by Mo-other,
From sea to shining sea, if it's not one thing, it's ano-other. 

For house and home, and king and country, love or leave it, bull or bear

And wild and woolly, weeping wailing, whys and wherefores, wash and wear
There’s lend and lease, lewd and lascivious, longitude and latitude
And odds and evens, wax and wane, and hoot and holler, crass and crude.

There’s form and function, farm and factory, and fling and flirta-ation
And feast or famine, rhyme and reason, rest and relaxa-ation
There’s rough and ready, rags to riches, rock and roll, down and dirty
And dine and dash, and cheque or cash, and foppery and frippery.

There's live and learn, and last (not least), and lemon-lime, and life and limb
Safe and secure, and search and seizure, signs and symptoms, sink or swim
And sweet and sour, and Stars and Stripes, and sticks and stones, and sights and sounds
And hale and hearty, hot and heavy, birds and bees, and horse and hounds.

There’s flora fauna, fun and frolic, fin and fur, forgive/forget
And over/out, and tots and toddlers, tit for tat, restore/reset
And Jew and Gentile, dribs and drabs, and naughty/nice, and juke and jive
And one and only, publish/perish, bed and breakfast, drink and drive.

There’s poke and prod, and pen and paper, post and pillar, pig in poke
And rant and rave, and bread and butter, mix and match, and jeer and joke
Hell or high water, rod and reel, gruff/grim, footloose and fancy-free,
Deny his due to devil, dos and don'ts, and also deep blue sea.

There's nieces/nephews, peas in pod, and kit/caboodle, meek and mild
And ghosts and goblins, trick or treat, and witches/warlocks, wet and wild
And trials and tribulation, tried and true, thick/thin, and tic-tac-toe
And cute and cuddly, fair or foul, and spick and span, and friend or foe.