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A

A for effort

AA

Abide by (something)

Abide by a decision

Able to (do something) standing on one's head

Able to (do something) with one's eyes closed/shut

Able to breathe easily again

Able to breathe easily/freely again

Able to do (something) blindfolded

Able to take a joke

About time

About to (do something)

Above and beyond

Above average

Above board

Above par

Above reproach

Above suspicion

Absent-minded

According to Hoyle

Ace in the hole

Achilles' heel (of someone or something)

Aching heart

Acid test

Acquire a taste for (something)

Across the board

Act high and mighty

Act of God

Act one's age

Act up

AD

Add fuel to the fire

Add insult to injury

Add up

Add up (to something)

Adjourn a meeting

Advise against (something)

Afraid of one's own shadow

After a fashion

After all

After all is said and done

After hours

After one's own heart

After the fact

Against one's will

Against the clock

AGM

Ahead of one's time

Ahead of the game

Ahead of the pack

Ahead of time

AI

AIDS

Air (something) out

Air one's dirty laundry/linen in public

Air one's dirty linen in public

Air one's grievances

Albatross (around someone's neck)

Alive and well/kicking

All along

All at once

All day long

All ears

All eyes

All eyes are on (someone or something)

All for (someone or something)

All hands on deck

All in

All in (someone's) mind

All in a day's work

All in all

All in one breath

All in one piece

All manner of (someone or something)

All night long

All of a sudden

All over but the shouting

All over the place

All right

All rolled up in one

All set

All sweetness and light

All systems go

All talk (and no action)

All the rage

All the time

All thumbs

All to the good

All told

All-in-one

All-out-effort

Alley cat

Allow for (someone or something)

Almighty dollar

Along with (someone or something)

AM

Amount to (something)

Amount to the same thing

Answer to (someone)

Ante up

Any number of (someone or something)

AOB

AOK

APB

Appear out of nowhere

Apple of (one's) eye

Apple of (someone's) eye

Argue for the sake of arguing/argument

Arm and a leg

Arm in arm

Armed and dangerous

Armed to the teeth

Armpit of (somewhere)

Around the clock

Arrive on the scene

Arrow in one's quiver

As a duck takes to water

As a last resort

As a matter of fact

As a result of (something)

As a rule

As awkward as a cow on roller skates

As bald as a baby's backside

As bald as a coot

As black as a skillet

As black as a stack of black cats

As black as a sweep

As black as coal

As black as night

As black as pitch

As black as the ace of spades

As blind as a bat

As broad as a barn door

As busy as a beaver

As busy as a bee

As busy as a one-armed paperhanger

As busy as popcorn on a skillet

As calm as a toad in the sun

As clean as a hound's tooth

As conceited as a barber's cat

As cool as a cucumber

As crazy as a bedbug

As crazy as a loon

As crooked as a dog's hind leg

As dead as a dodo

As drunk as a skunk

As dry as a bone

As easy as ABC

As easy as apple pie

As easy as duck soup

As far as

As far as possible

As fat as a pig

As flat as a pancake

As free as a bird

As full/tight as a tick

As gaudy as a butterfly

As gentle as a lamb

As good as one's word

As graceful as a swan

As gruff as a bear

As happy as a clam

As happy as a lark

As hard as nails

As hoarse as a crow

As hungry as a bear

As innocent as a lamb

As long as

As luck would have it

As mad as a hornet

As mad as a wet hen

As meek as a lamb

As merry as a cricket

As naked as a jaybird

As nervous as a cat

As nutty as a fruitcake

As old as the hills

As one

As phony as a three-dollar bill

As plain as the nose on one's face

As poor as a church mouse

As proud as a peacock

As quiet as a mouse

As red as a cherry

As red as a lobster

As red as a poppy

As red as a rose

As red as a ruby

As red as blood

As scarce as hen's teeth

As scarce as hen's teeth/scarcer than hen's teeth

As scared as a rabbit

As sick as a dog

As silly as a goose

As slippery as an eel

As sly as a fox

As snug as a bug in a rug

As sober as a judge

As soft as a baby's bottom

As soft as down

As sound as a dollar

As sour as vinegar

As strong as a horse/lion/ox

As stubborn as a mule

As such

As sweet as honey/sugar

As the crow flies

As thick as pea soup

As ugly as a toad

As usual

As warm as toast

As weak as a kitten

As well as

As white as a ghost

As white as a sheet

As white as the driven snow

As wild as a tiger

As wise as an owl

As yet

ASAP

Ask (someone) out

Ask for someone's hand in marriage

Ask for the moon

Ask for trouble

Asleep at the switch

Assault and battery

Assault the ears

Assemble a case (against someone)

Assume liability

At (someone's) beck and call

At (someone's) earliest convenience

At (someone's) service

At a loss

At a loss (for words)

At a premium

At a sitting

At a stretch

At all costs

At any rate

At arm's length

At bay

At best

At cross-purposes

At death's door

At each other's throats

At ease

At every turn

At face value

At fault

At first

At first blush

At hand

At heart

At home

At it again

At large

At last

At least

At length

At loggerheads with (someone)

At loose ends

At odds (with someone)

At once

At one sitting

At one time

At one with (someone)

At one's fingertips

At one's heels

At one's wit's end

At peace

At random

At risk

At sea

At sea (about something)

At sixes and sevens

At stake

At the appointed time/hour

At the bottom of the hour

At the bottom of the ladder

At the crack of dawn

At the drop of a hat

At the eleventh hour

At the end of one's rope

At the end of the day

At the expense of (someone or something)

At the hands of (someone or something)

At the latest

At the mercy of (the court/someone)

At the present time

At the top of one's lungs

At the top of the hour

At this juncture

At this stage of the game

At times

At will

Attend to (someone or something)

Attract (someone's) attention

Attracted to (someone)

Augur well for (someone or something)

Avail oneself of (something)

Avenue of escape

Avoid (someone or something) like the plague

AWOL

B

B&B

B&E

BA

Back and forth

Back down

Back down (from someone or something)

Back in circulation

Back of beyond

Back on one's feet

Back out (of something)

Back the wrong horse

Back to basics

Back to square one

Back to the drawing board

Back to the salt mines

Back up (someone or something)

Back-to-back

Bad blood (between people)

Bad egg

Bad hair day

Bad-mouth (someone or something)

Bad/rotten apple

Badger (someone)

Bag of tricks

Bail (someone or something) out

Bail (someone) out

Bail a company out

Bail out (of something)

Balance the books/accounts

Ball is in (someone's) court

Ball of fire

Ball park figure/estimate

Ballpark estimate/figure

Balls of one's feet

Bang for the buck

Bang/beat one's head against the wall

Bank on (someone or something)

Banker's hours

Bankroll someone

Baptism of fire

Bare bones (of something)

Bargain for (something)

Bargain on (something)

Barge in on (someone or something)

Bark is worse than one's bite

Bark up the wrong tree

Base one's opinion on (something)

Bat a thousand

Bat out of hell

Bats in the belfry

Batten down the hatches

Bawl out (someone)

Be a new one on (someone)

Be all ears

Be all things to all people

Be at one's wit's end

Be cricket

Be curtains for (someone or something)

Be dealt a bad hand/deal someone a bad hand

Be game

Be hand in hand

Be into (something)

Be laid up

Be of the persuasion that (something) is so

Be off

Be off on the wrong foot

Be off to a bad start

Be that as it may

Be the case

Be the death of (someone)

Be to blame

Be/have something going for (one)

Bean counter

Bear (someone or something) in mind

Bear (something) out

Bear fruit

Bear in mind

Bear one's cross

Bear the brunt of (something)

Bear with (someone or something)

Bear witness (to something)

Bear/hold a grudge (against someone)

Beat (someone) to the punch/draw

Beat (something) into (someone's) head

Beat a hasty retreat

Beat a path to (someone's) door

Beat around the bush

Beat one's brains out

Beat one's head against the wall

Beat the clock

Beat the gun

Beat the living daylights out of (someone)

Beat the rap

Beat the tar out of (someone)

Beat up (someone)

Becoming on/to (someone)

Beef up (something)

Before long

Beg the question

Beg to differ with (someone)

Begin to see the light

Behind (someone's) back

Behind closed doors

Behind in/on (something)

Behind one's back

Behind schedule

Behind the eight ball

Behind the scenes

Behind the times

Belabor the point

Believe one's ears

Believe one's eyes

Below average

Below par

Belt (something) out

Bend (someone's) ear

Bend over backwards (to do something)

Bent on doing (something)

Beside oneself (with something)

Beside the point

Best bib and tucker

Best-laid plans of mice and men

Best/better part of (something)

Bet on the wrong horse

Bet one's boots

Bet one's bottom dollar

Better off

Between a rock and a hard place

Between the devil and the deep blue sea

Betwixt and between

Beyond a reasonable doubt

Beyond a shadow of a doubt

Beyond measure

Beyond one's depth

Beyond one's means

Beyond the pale

Beyond words

Bid adieu to (someone or something)

Bide one's time

Big cheese

Big cheese/gun/wheel

Big enchilada

Big fish in a small pond

Big frog/fish in a small pond

Big of (someone)

Big shot

Bigmouth

Bigwig

Binge and purge

Bird brain

Bird in hand is worth two in the bush

Bird in the hand is worth two in the bush

Birds and bees

Birds of a feather flock together

Birds-eye view

Birthday suit

Bite (someone's) head off

Bite off more than one can chew

Bite one's nails

Bite one's tongue

Bite the bullet

Bite the dust

Bite the hand that feeds (someone)

Bite the hand that feeds one

Bitten by (some kind of) bug

Bitter pill to swallow

Black and blue

Black and white

Black box

Black eye

Black market

Black out

Black sheep of the family

Black-tie event/affair

Blackball (someone)

Blacklist (someone)

Blackmail (someone)

Blackout

Blast off

Blaze a trail (in something)

Bleeding heart

Bleep (something) out

Blessing in disguise

Blind date

Blind leading the blind

Blood is thicker than water

Blood runs cold

Blood, sweat, and tears

Blow (someone or something) off

Blow (someone's) cover

Blow (someone's) mind

Blow (someone) away

Blow (something)

Blow (something) out of all proportion

Blow a fuse

Blow one's nose

Blow one's own horn

Blow one's stack/top

Blow one's top/stack

Blow over

Blow the lid off (something)

Blow the whistle on someone

Blow to smithereens

Blow up (at someone)

Blow up in (someone's) face

BLT

Blue blood

Blue in the face

Blue-ribbon

BO

Body blow

Bog down

Boggle one's mind

Boil down to (something)

Bona fide

Bone of contention

Bone up (on something)

Bonehead

Booked solid

Bookworm

Boot out

Bore (someone) stiff/to death

Bored out of one's mind/skull

Born out of wedlock

Born with a silver spoon in one's mouth

Bosom friend

Boss (someone) around

Bottle (something) up

Bottom dollar

Bottom drops/falls out of (something)

Bottom line

Bottom out

Bottoms up!

Bounce a check

Bounce something (an idea) off someone

Bound and determined

Bound for somewhere

Bound hand and foot

Bound to (do something)

Bow and scrape

Bow out

Bowl (someone) over

Boys in the backroom

Brain (someone)

Brain drain

Brain teaser

Brainchild

Brainless

Brains behind (something)

Brainstorm something

Brainwash (someone)

Brand-new

Breach of promise

Breach of the peace

Bread and butter

Bread and water

Break (someone's) fall

Break (someone's) heart

Break (something) down

Break (something) to (someone)

Break a habit

Break a law

Break a leg!

Break a record

Break camp

Break down

Break down (something)

Break even

Break fresh/new ground

Break ground for (something)

Break in (someone or something)

Break into a cold sweat (about something)

Break into tears

Break loose (from someone or something)

Break off

Break one's back/neck (to do something)