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A bed of roses
A bee in your bonnet
A bird in the hand is worth two in the bush
A bit of a do
A blast from the past
A blot on the landscape
A bolt from the blue
A bun in the oven
A bunch of fives
A bunny boiler
A Christmas box
A cock and bull story
A countenance more in sorrow than in anger
A curate's egg
A Daniel come to judgement
A dead ringer
A diamond in the rough
A diamond is forever
A dish fit for the gods
A drop in the bucket
A dust up
A face like a bulldog chewing a wasp
A face like the back of a bus
A fate worse than death
A fool's paradise
A foregone conclusion
A friend in need is a friend indeed
A frog in the throat
A game of two halves
A bee in your bonnet
A bird in the hand is worth two in the bush
A bit of a do
A blast from the past
A blot on the landscape
A bolt from the blue
A bun in the oven
A bunch of fives
A bunny boiler
A Christmas box
A cock and bull story
A countenance more in sorrow than in anger
A curate's egg
A Daniel come to judgement
A dead ringer
A diamond in the rough
A diamond is forever
A dish fit for the gods
A drop in the bucket
A dust up
A face like a bulldog chewing a wasp
A face like the back of a bus
A fate worse than death
A fool's paradise
A foregone conclusion
A friend in need is a friend indeed
A frog in the throat
A game of two halves
A hard man is good to find
A horse, a horse, my kingdom for a horse
A house divided against itself cannot stand
A knee jerk reaction
A knock back
À la carte
A labour of love
A laughing stock
A leopard cannot change its spots
A lick and a promise
A little knowledge is a dangerous thing
A load of codswallop
A man after my own heart
A man's got to do what a man's got to do
A Mars a day helps you work rest and play
A Mexican wave
A Mickey Finn
A ministering angel shall my sister be
A Molotov cocktail
A moveable feast
A multitude of sins
A nation of shopkeepers
A picture paints a thousand words
A place for everything and everything in its place
A plague on both your houses
A priori
A riddle wrapped up in an enigma
A rose by any other name would smell as sweet
A rose is a rose is a rose
A horse, a horse, my kingdom for a horse
A house divided against itself cannot stand
A knee jerk reaction
A knock back
À la carte
A labour of love
A laughing stock
A leopard cannot change its spots
A lick and a promise
A little knowledge is a dangerous thing
A load of codswallop
A man after my own heart
A man's got to do what a man's got to do
A Mars a day helps you work rest and play
A Mexican wave
A Mickey Finn
A ministering angel shall my sister be
A Molotov cocktail
A moveable feast
A multitude of sins
A nation of shopkeepers
A picture paints a thousand words
A place for everything and everything in its place
A plague on both your houses
A priori
A riddle wrapped up in an enigma
A rose by any other name would smell as sweet
A rose is a rose is a rose
A rough diamond
A rum do
A safe pair of hands
A sea change
A shot across the bows
A shot in the arm
A shot in the dark
A small step for man, a giant leap for mankind
A sorry sight
A square meal
A sticky wicket
A stone's throw
A stool pigeon
A thing of beauty is a joy forever
A thorn in the flesh
A two and eight
A whipping boy
A white elephant
A whiter shade of pale
A woman needs a man like a fish needs a bicycle
A word in your shell-like
A1 at Lloyds
Abandon all hope ye who enter here
Abide with me
About face
About turn
Above board
Absence makes the heart grow fonder
Absent without leave
A rum do
A safe pair of hands
A sea change
A shot across the bows
A shot in the arm
A shot in the dark
A small step for man, a giant leap for mankind
A sorry sight
A square meal
A sticky wicket
A stone's throw
A stool pigeon
A thing of beauty is a joy forever
A thorn in the flesh
A two and eight
A whipping boy
A white elephant
A whiter shade of pale
A woman needs a man like a fish needs a bicycle
A word in your shell-like
A1 at Lloyds
Abandon all hope ye who enter here
Abide with me
About face
About turn
Above board
Absence makes the heart grow fonder
Absent without leave