How to make grep only match if the entire line matches?

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grep -Fx ABB.log a.tmp

From the grep man page:

-F, –fixed-strings
Interpret PATTERN as a (list of) fixed strings
-x, –line-regexp
Select only those matches that exactly match the whole line.

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