a bad workman always blames his tools »
It is not the tools we use which make us good, but rather how we employ them.
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a camel is a horse designed by a committee »
An expression critical of committees
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a cat may look at a king »
Even a purported inferior has certain abilities, even in the presence of a purported superior
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a closed mouth gathers no feet »
One who does not speak can be certain he won't say anything embarrassing.
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a day late and a dollar short »
Action that was taken too late and too feeble to be of any use.
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a dumb priest never got a parish »
(Irish) Those who fail to speak up fail to get what they want.
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a good beginning makes a good ending »
Good beginnings promise a good end; start off on a good note to reap the benefits at the end.
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a house is not a home »
A home is not merely a building but requires inhabitants and a friendly atmosphere.
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a little bird told me »
Of information which was gathered from a source not to be overtly exposed.
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a man's home is his castle »
(US) a proverbial expression of personal privacy and security
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a miss is as good as a mile »
A failure remains a failure, regardless of how close to success one has actually come.
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a number of »
Several of.
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a picture paints a thousand words »
A visualisation is a better description than a verbal description.1971, David Gates (of Bread), If, from Manna album:If a picture paints a thousand wordsThen why can't I paint you;The words will never showThe you I've come to know.1989, Alan Kay, quoted in K?o-tung Huang, Timothy D. Huang, Introduction to Chinese, Japanese and Korean Computing, World Scientific, ISBN 9971506645, p. 9:Most human beings, no matter how familiar they are with abstract symbols, respond to voice and images better than written language. In other words, A picture paints a thousand words.2006, Paul Shakespeare, Building a Dune Buggy: The Essential Manual, ISBN 1904788734, p. 52:See accompanying diagram: a picture paints a thousand words, and all that!
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a pull of the hair for being unfair »
The general response to "A kick and a flick for being so quick", which is in turn a response in itself to "A pinch and a punch for the first day of the month".
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a rolling stone gathers no moss »
A person who never settles in one place will never be successful.A person who does not keep active will grow mouldy.
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