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Sad news
 
"Sorry to hear the sad news."

Sail under false colors
 
"Lewis was sailing under false colors - he never told her he was a journalist."

Salt of the earth(world)
 
"Robert D. Raven is the salt of the earth."

Same old stuff
 
"Have you any new arrivals besides this same old stuff?"

Save lots of grief
 
"Today with the inventions and usage of modern electronic gadgets, housewives save lots of grief to run their houses."

Save one's breath
 
"She figured that they might as well save their breath — her mind was made up."

Save the day
 
"Naturally, the hero saves the day by shooting the kidnappers and rescuing the hostages just in the nick of time."

Save up
 
"I'm saving up for a new car."

Say it with flowers
 
"The most effective way to win over people is to say it with flowers."

Say no more
 
"Say no more, I am not in the mood to listen now."

Says you!
 
"Says you! You make up the whole story to bluff us."

Scare the devil out of somebody
 
"The alarm scared the devil out of me."

Screw-ball
 
"He is a loner and a screw-ball; no-one ever bothers about him."

Search me
 
"Where's Jack gone?""Search me!"

Second sight
 
"Sometimes Jean thought her daughter was fey, had second sight."

Secret sorrow
 
"From his cheerful expression, no one can guess his secret sorrow."

See after
 
"Mother Teresa and her nuns see after the poorest of the poor."

See eye to eye
 
"I don't always see eye to eye with my father."

See it through
 
"The course would take me three years to complete, but I was determined to see it through ."

See my point
 
"Can you see my point?"

See off
 
"My parents saw me off at the airport."

See to it
 
"Don't worry - I'll see to it."

See you around
 
"Have a good trip.""OK, see you around."

Sell like hot cakes
 
"Copies of the book are selling like hot cakes."

Sell somebody down the river
 
"The workers were promised that they would not lose their jobs as a result of the merger. Later they found out that they had been sold down the river."

Send in
 
"I sent in a few job applications last week."

Serve somebody right
 
"She kicked me!""Serves you right, teasing her like that."

Service station
 
"Johnson was reading a local newspaper he had bought at the Frankenwald service station when his phone trilled discreetly."

Set about
 
"A team of volunteers set about the task with determination."

Set back
 
"Then I needed a second operation, which really set me back."

Set forth
 
"He set forth an idealistic view of society."

Set one's heart on
 
"She had set her heart on becoming a hairdresser."

Set the world on fire
 
"The restaurant offers a decent menu, but it wouldn't set the world on fire."

Settle down
 
"When Kyle was a baby we used to take him for rides in the car to settle him down."

Seventh heaven
 
"We got Darren a puppy for Christmas, and he was in seventh heaven."

Shake a leg
 
"Come on, shake a leg! The film starts in 20 minutes."

Shake and make up
 
"It is not good to bear the grudge for long, go shake and make up with each other."

Shame on you!
 
"Shame on you! For being so cruel and for playing such a dirty trick on the poor kid."

She's a smart dresser
 
"She’s a smart dresser; her friends like to copy and follow her fashion."

She's been two-timing me
 
"I broke up with my girl friend, because she has been two timing me."

She's got it!
 
"She has many fans following her, she’s got it!"

She's not the only fish in the sea
 
"Don’t be disheartened; she’s not the only fish in the sea."

Shedding crocodile tears
 
"They shed crocodile tears for the poor, but are basically happy with things as they are."

Shit of luck
 
"Today he got up from the wrong side of bed, whole day he had shit of luck."

Shoe is on the other foot
 
"Now that I don't smoke, the shoe is on the other foot and I don't want people smoking around me."

Show off
 
"He couldn't resist showing off on the tennis court."

Show somebody the ropes
 
"Miss McGinley will show you the ropes and answer any questions."

Show somebody the (back)door
 
"A couple of security guards showed me the door after they saw my camera."

Show up
 
"We had 200 people show up for our seminar."

Side money
 
"During evenings and weekends, he works as waiter to earn side money."

Side-kick
 
"His father and my father are side-kicks from their childhood."

Sign up for
 
"I'm thinking of signing up for a yoga course."

Sink in the scale
 
"The actor leads a wild life, so his reputation sinks in the scale."

Sitting pretty
 
"We've paid off the mortgage, so we're sitting pretty now."

Sixth sense
 
"He seemed to have a sixth sense for knowing when his brother was in trouble."

Size up
 
"It only took a few seconds for her to size up the situation."

Sleep in this morning
 
"He wanted to sleep in this morning but caught by the teacher."

Slip one's memory
 
"I meant to buy some milk, but it completely slipped my memory."

Slow-poke
 
"We would have won the race, if not for that slow-poke in our team."

Slowly but surely
 
"We are slowly but surely gaining the support of the public."

Small potato
 
"Even with £10,000 to invest, you are still small potato for most investment managers."

Smoke like a chimney
 
"She's only thirteen and she already smokes like a chimney."

Snake in the grass
 
"It's upsetting to learn that someone you once viewed as a good colleague is in fact a snake in the grass."

Snap out of it
 
"Chantal's been depressed for days. I wish she'd snap out of it."

Snowed
 
"I was snowed by your question."

So that's it
 
"They said they were held up by the heavy traffic, so that’s it."

So what?
 
"She might tell someone.""So what? No one will believe her."

Soft-soap
 
"Don't think you can soft-soap me!"

Somehow or other
 
"This girl at my school has somehow or other fallen in love with me."

Sore spot/point
 
"I tried not to make any reference to Mike's drinking habits - I know it's a sore point with Kay at the moment."

Sorry to have kept you waiting
 
"The artists apologized to the audience that they were sorry to have kept them waiting."

Sounds just like
 
"Her voice sounds just like her mother."

Speak of the devil
 
"Well, speak of the devil, here's Patrick now."

Speak the same language
 
"Environmentalists and developers don't speak the same language."

Spell out something
 
"The report spelled out in detail what the implications were for teacher training."

Spill the beans
 
"It was then that she threatened to spill the beans about her affair with the president."

Spoil the show
 
"The bad weather had spoiled the show."

Square deal
 
"I'm not getting a square deal here."

Stab-in-the-back business
 
"Don't be involved in any stab-in-the-back business; it is unethical."

Stop by
 
"Stop by on your way home and I'll give you that book."

Stand a chance
 
"We might stand a chance of winning if we continue to play as well as we did today."

Stand on one's own feet
 
"She’s never learned to stand on her own feet."

Stand one's ground
 
"Jason vowed to stand his ground, even if it meant losing his job."

Stand somebody up
 
"I was supposed to go to a concert with Kyle on Friday, but he stood me up."

Stand up for something
 
"It's time we stood up for our rights."

Standing ovation
 
"The Chancellor’s entrance was greeted with a standing ovation."

Stay away from
 
"Stay away from my daughter!"

Stay out O.P.B (other people's business)
 
"You stay out of it. It's none of your business."

Stay up late
 
"I stayed up late to clear things up, and got up early to do the same thing."

Steamed up
 
"Don't get so steamed-up about it - it's not really important."

Step on one's toes
 
"I'm not worried about stepping on anybody's toes."

Step out
 
"She's just stepped out for a few minutes."

Something must be done
 
"Something must be done quickly to evacuate the people to a safer place before the typhoon comes."

Something tells me
 
"Something tells me that there is something wrong with the arrangement of the exhibitions."

Stick around
 
"Tom will be sticking around for a while."

Stick your nose into
 
"She always has to stick her nose into matters that do not concern her."

Stick-up
 
"Did executives of the Colorado Rockies pull a stick-up at the city treasury?"

Stomach's growling
 
"Do you hear my stomach's growling?"

Stop pulling my leg
 
"Did Ronnie really call or are you just pulling my leg?"

Storm in a teacup
 
"The succession issue seems rather a storm in a teacup to me."

Straight from the horse's mouth
 
"I got a tip yesterday, and if it wasn't straight from the horse's mouth it was jolly well the next thing to it"

Strike out
 
"Unhappy young people will often strike out at the people closest to them."

String somebody along
 
"He's just stringing you along."

Stuffed shirt
 
"Marcus was a true intellectual stuffed shirt."

Sugar daddy
 
"The point is that Sun's kind of sugar daddy is neither uncommon, illegal or even fattening."

Sugar report
 
"She is the heartthrob of her school, everyday she gets a pile of sugar report."

Suit one's taste
 
"There are books to suit everyone's tastes."

Sunday dress
 
"She went for interview in her Sunday dress, in order to make a good impression."

Swelled head
 
"No one can stand Reggie, because he has a swelled head."

Switch majors
 
"Harry finally decided to switch majors. He’s not interested in his origin major."

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