The A-Team
Hired guns, wrongly-accused
The A-Team is a 1980s American television series about former military commandos who work as mercenaries while evading the law.
By extension, an A-team is any group of top performers or first-choice personnel assembled for a task: They brought in their A-team for the negotiations.
The phrase implies elite status compared to backup options.
- mercenarySoldier fighting for pay
- actionProcess of doing
- action heroFilm's combat-driven protagonist
- catchphrasesMemorable associated expressions
- squadSmall working group
soldier · commando · resourcefulness · Hannibal · mission · theme song · improvisation · NBC · van · Murdock · MacGyver · ingenuity · Airwolf · fugitive · Miami Vice · adventure · tactics · gold chains
- Military TV/FilmMASH, Band of Brothers, The Pacific, JAG, NCIS
- 80s Pop CultureBack to the Future, E.T., Ghostbusters, Indiana Jones, The Breakfast Club
- Retro TVI Love Lucy, The Honeymooners, Leave It to Beaver, The Andy Griffith Show, The Twilight Zone
- action filmschase scene, car chase, explosion, stunt, shootout
The A-Teamamateurs
Nonprofessional participants
incompetents · second string · bush league · losers · scrubs
The A-Teamregular army
Nation's permanent military force
authorized personnel · conventional forces · MPs · military police