| "___ a sock in it!" | 29 |
| "___ a small world..." | 32 |
| "___ a small world ..." | 33 |
| "___ a small world . . ." | 35 |
| "___ a Small Hotel" | 29 |
| "___ a small hotel . . . " | 36 |
| "___ a slitted sheet I sit" (tongue twister phrase) | 61 |
| "___ a slitted sheet I sit" | 37 |
| "___ a Sin" ('87 Pet Shop Boys hit) | 49 |
| "___ a silly question" | 32 |
| "___ a short madness": Horace | 39 |
| "___ a Shoo In," 1961 song | 36 |
| "___ a Shepherd," poem by St. Teresa | 46 |
| "___ a Secret" | 24 |
| "___ a sea of dew": Field | 35 |
| "___ a Rose," 1925 song | 33 |
| "___ a Rose": Frimi | 29 |
| "___ a Rose" | 22 |
| "___ a rose is she": Coleridge | 40 |
| "___ a rose . . . " | 29 |
| "___ a room!" | 23 |
| "___ a roll!" | 23 |
| "___ a Rock" (1966 hit) | 33 |
| "___ a Rock" | 22 |
| "___ a Rebel": The Crystals (1962) | 44 |
| "___ a Rebel" (1962 hit) | 34 |
| "___ a Rebel" (1962 Crystals hit) | 43 |
| "___ a Rebel" (1962 #1 hit) | 37 |
| "___ a Rebel" (1962 #1 hit by the Crystals) | 53 |
| "___ a Rebel" (#1 hit for the Crystals) | 49 |
| "___ a Rebel" | 23 |
| "___ a real nowhere man" (Beatles lyric) | 50 |
| "___ a Putty Tat" (Friz Freleng short) | 48 |
| "___ a problem" | 25 |
| "___ a Prayer" (Duran Duran) | 38 |
| "___ a poor wayfaring . . . " | 39 |
| "___ a plain man live . . . ?": Shak. | 47 |
| "___ a Pizza" (William Steig children's book) | 59 |
| "___ a pity" | 22 |
| "___ a pious fraud . . . ": J. R. Lowell | 50 |
| "___ a Piano," 1915 Berlin song | 41 |
| "___ a perfumed sea ...": Poe | 39 |
| "___ a penny, two . . . " | 35 |
| "___ a penny . . . hot cross buns" | 44 |
| "___ a penny . . . " | 30 |
| "___ a Peach" (Allman Brothers album) | 47 |
| "___ a partridge in a pear tree" | 42 |
| "___ a Parade," 1931 song | 35 |
| "___ a Parade" | 24 |
| "___ a Number: A Portrait of Paul Erdös" | 53 |
| "___ a Number" (1993 documentary about mathematician Paul Erdös) | 77 |
| "___ a Nightingale": Keats | 36 |
| "___ a Nightingale" | 29 |
| "___ a New High" (1937 Lily Pons song) | 48 |
| "___ a New High" | 26 |
| "___ a nerve!" | 24 |
| "___ a Name" (Jim Croce hit) | 38 |
| "___ a Name" (Croce tune) | 35 |
| "___ a Name" (Croce hit) | 34 |
| "___ a Name" (1973 Jim Croce hit) | 43 |
| "___ a Most Unusual Day" | 34 |
| "___ a Moon Out Tonight" (1961 hit) | 45 |
| "___ a Mockingbird" | 29 |
| "___ a miracle!" | 26 |
| "___ a million" | 25 |
| "___ a million years!" | 32 |
| "___ a Message" (INXS song) | 37 |
| "___ a Mean One, Mr. Grinch" | 38 |
| "___ a manger . . . " | 31 |
| "___ a man..." | 24 |
| "___ a Man," John Ciardi poetry collection | 52 |
| "___ a Man," Ciardi book | 34 |
| "___ a Man" (Calder Willingham novel and play) | 56 |
| "___ a Man" | 21 |
| "___ a man with seven wives" | 38 |
| "___ a man with seven . . . " | 39 |
| "___ a man with ..." | 30 |
| "___ a man with . . . " | 33 |
| "___ a man who wasn't there" | 42 |
| "___ a man who . . . " | 32 |
| "___ a man is but a mind" | 35 |
| "___ a man in Reno" ("Folsom Prison Blues" lyric) | 69 |
| "___ a man . . . " | 28 |
| "___ a Lovely Day Today" | 34 |
| "___ a long way to Tipperary" | 39 |
| "___ a long way . . . " | 33 |
| "___ a long story" | 28 |
| "___ a Lonesome Old Town" | 35 |
| "___ a loaf is . . . " | 32 |
| "___ a living" | 24 |
| "___ a Little Tenderness" | 35 |
| "___ a little shadow . . . ": R.L.S. | 46 |
| "___ a little shadow . . . " | 38 |
| "___ a Little Prayer" | 31 |
| "___ a little pony" | 29 |
| "___ a little pony . . . " | 36 |
| "___ a little nut tree" | 33 |
| "___ a little lamb" | 29 |
| "___ a little kinder": Guest | 38 |
| "___ a lift?" | 23 |