Idioms and phrases starting from A with their meanings.
Idioms and Phrase |
Meaning |
A bed or roses |
An easy or comfortable situation |
A bad egg |
A worthless |
A big cheese |
An important or powerful person |
A gentleman at large |
An unreliable person |
A wolf in sheep’s clothing |
A dangerous person pretending harmless |
Alpha and omega |
First and last letter of Greek alphabet, means-beginning and end |
At sixes and seven |
Disorder or having different opinion |
A litmus test |
A method which clearly proves something |
A pretty penny |
Very expensive |
Above board |
Things done in legal and proper manner |
Act of God |
Happenings which human beings can not control |
Add fuel to the fire |
Making bad situation worse |
Against the clock |
You have very little time to do it |
Age before beauty |
Allowing older person to do something first |
All eyes on me |
Everyone is paying attention to me |
At the heels of |
To follow someone |
Appear out of now here |
To appear suddenly without warning. |
Asleep at the switch |
Not to be alert on opportunity |
A red letter day |
An important day |
All in your head |
Something imagined and it is not real. |
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