Phrases and Collocations for Fluent English

A8 Phrases - continuation
A patchwork of compromises
A patience worthy of admiration
A perfect carnival of fun
A perfect crime of clumsiness
A permanent and habitual state of mind
A pernicious and growing tendency
A perversion of judgment
A phantom of the brain
A piece of grotesque stupidity
A piteous aspect of woe
A pleasant flow of appropriate language
A pompous failure
A portent full of possible danger
A potential menace to life
A potion to be delicately supped at leisure
A powerful agitation oppressed him
A powerful and persuasive orator
A prevailing sentiment of uneasy discontent
A prevalent characteristic of her nature
A prey to listless uneasiness
A prey to the tongue of the public
A pristine vigor of style
A profound and absorbing interest
A profound and eager hopefulness
A profound and rather irritating egotist by nature
A profusion of compliments
A proof of this is
A prop for my faint heart
A propitious sky, marbled with pearly white [propitious = favorable; kindly; gracious]
A proposition inherently vicious
A protest wavered on her lip
A puerile illusion [puerile = immature; childish]
A puissant and brilliant family [puissant = powerful; mighty]
A purpose as the steady flame
A queer, uncomfortable perplexity began to invade her
A quenchless thirst for expression
A question deep almost as the mystery of life
A quibbling mouth that snapped at verbal errors like a lizard catching flies
A quick flame leaped in his eyes

A quick shiver ruffled the brooding stillness of the water