A
Idioms beginning with "A"
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[all set] {adj. phr.}
Ready to start.
"Is the plane ready for take-off?" the bank president asked. "Yes, Sir," the pilot answered. "We're all set."
[all shook up] also [shook up] {adj.}, {slang}
In a state of great emotional upheaval; disturbed; agitated.
What are you so shook up about?
[all systems go] {Originally from space English, now general colloquial usage.}
Everything is complete and ready for action; it is now all right to proceed.
After they wrote out the invitations, it was all systems go for the wedding.
[all the] (2) {adv. phr.}
Than otherwise; even. — Used to emphasize comparative adjectives, adverbs, and nouns.
Opening the windows made it all the hotter.
Take a bus instead of walking and get home all the sooner.
* /If you don't eat your […]
[all the ---er] {substandard}
The ---est; as ... as. — Used with a comparative adjective or adverb and subordinate clause in place of a superlative adjective or adverb.
That was all the bigger he grew.
Is that all the faster you can go?
[all the same] (1) or [all one] {n. phr.}
Something that makes no difference; a choice that you don't care about.
If it's all the same to you, I would like to be waited on first.
You can get there by car or by bus — it's all one.
[all the same] (2) or [just the same] {adv. phr.}, {informal}
As if the opposite were so; nevertheless; anyway; anyhow; still.
Everyone opposed it, but Sally and Bob got married all the same.
* /Mary is deaf, but she takes tap dancing lessons just […]
[all the thing] or [all the rage], [the in thing] {n. phr.}
The fashionable or popular thing to do, the fashionable or most popular artist or form of art at a given time.
After "The Graduate" Dustin Hoffman was all the rage in the movies.
* /It […]