scientific romance
noun
A work of speculative fiction or science fiction, especially one characterized by a spirit of serious intellectual inquiry; such fiction as a genre; compare science fiction (now chiefly historical ).
Origin
Late 18th century; earliest use found in Isaac D'Israeli (1766–1848), writer.
- (as) full as a goog
- (as) full as a Pommy complaint box
- (as) game as a pissant
- as game as Ned Kelly
- Asgard
- as God is my witness (or God be my witness)
- (as) good as gold
- (as) good as new
- as good as ——
- ash
- a shade ——
- ashamed
- ashamedly
- Ashanti
- A-shaped
- (as) happy as a sandboy (or Larry or a clam or vulgar slang a pig in shit)
- (as) happy (or lucky, miserable, etc.) as a bastard on Father's Day
- (as) hard as nails
- ash blond
- ash blonde
- ashcan
- Ashcan School
- Ashcroft, Dame Peggy
- Ashcroft, John David
- ash dieback