- amendment
- a Roland for an Oliver
- adopt the style of
- alabaster
- arise from
- aculeate
- arguments
- affright
- a plethora of
- as bold as brass
- abase oneself
- anti-feminist
- a good turn
- anti
- atman
- and sinker
- anatomization
- anxious to
- autochthonic
- as pretty as a picture
- all in
- attach to
- auto-da-fe
- and jump away from
- a quantity of
- argy-bargy
- a jiffy
- appetency
- ask me another
- avouch
- aping
- a piece of cake
- a great many
- acerbic vitriolic
- anterior to
- ache for
- adroitness adeptness
- ad interim
- a mixed bag of
- abide in
- as clean as a whistle
- a stack
- act the goat
- attuned
- affiction
- argue for
- a suspicion of
- a bold as brass
- a good idea
- as if to wake the dead
- asseveration
- across the board
- agin
- auspice
- a taste of someone's own medicine
- annex to
- amused
- a bind
- a tad
- abbrevi-ate
- a stew
- able to eat a horse
- any day now
- acreage
- asseverate
- a slew of
- antithetical to
- at the core of
- at the end of one's tether
- admix
- a break
- a stone's throw away from
- arm and a leg
- aye
- arousing
- aggravating
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- abandon one's principles
- agley
- aggravated
- a dribble of
- a leg up
- any moment now
- aye aye
- apropos of
- ambrosial
- act for
- ad libitum
- and all
- as busy as a bee
- airway
- amateurishly
- a la mode
- a hole
- almsgiver
- accidie
- Achilles heel
- accolades
- at close quarters
- a cold sweat