Aphra Behn
/beɪn
/ /bɛn/ (1640–89), English novelist and playwright, regarded as the first professional woman writer in England. Notable works: The Rover (comic play, 1678) and Oroonoko, or the History of the Royal Slave (novel, 1688).
- ASLEF
- AS level
- a slice of life
- a slice of the action
- (as) light as a feather
- (as) like as not
- as likely as not
- a slip of a ——
- as long as
- as long as one's (or someone's) arm
- aslope
- a slow burn
- as luck would have it
- ASM
- a smack in the face (or eye)
- (as) mad as a box of frogs
- (as) mad as a gum tree full of galahs
- (as) mad as a hatter
- (as) mad as a March hare
- (as) mad as a meat axe
- a small fortune
- as many
- Asmara
- Asmera
- (as) merry (or lively) as a grig