- against one's will
- a great number of
- all of a tremble
- amendment
- auto-da-fe
- anima
- adopt the style of
- autotype
- a Roland for an Oliver
- arguments
- additions
- autochthonic
- as likely as not
- arise from
- at a crisis
- a horde of
- a hint of
- amazingly
- apprised
- as pretty as a picture
- as bold as brass
- a bit on the side
- averment
- amassing
- act towards
- a put-on
- a spanner in the works
- able to eat a horse
- asseverate
- a mixed bag of
- aye
- a tad
- a suspicion of
- across the board
- a good idea
- asseveration
- a slew of
- admix
- a break
- annex to
- agin
- argue for
- aping
- attuned
- arm and a leg
- arousing
- as if to wake the dead
- at the core of
- at the end of one's tether
- acreage
- a stone's throw away from
- any day now
- auspice
- antithetical to
- a bind
- abbrevi-ate
- amused
- affiction
- a taste of someone's own medicine
- avouch
- act the goat
- aggravating
- abide in
- ad interim
- a piece of cake
- a stack
- appetency
- acerbic vitriolic
- ally oneself with
- a great many
- as clean as a whistle
- adroitness adeptness
- ache for
- ask me another
- a stew
- anterior to
- a bold as brass
- albatross
- airway
- a ton
- as thick as thieves
- a multiplicity of
- a large number
- an additional amount
- as far as one can see
- as plain as a pikestaff
- aggravated
- a multitude of
- auster
- a hole
- armed robber
- arraign tell off
- and all
- able to talk the hind legs off a donkey
- approaching
- a la mode
- agley
- accolades
- a leg up
- abandon one's principles