Phrases Starting with "S" (53 Total)

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Found 53 phrases starting with the letter "S". Click on any phrase to view its detailed meaning, origin, and usage examples.

Group 1 - 18 phrases
Sackcloth and ashes
Wear sackcloth and ashes
Saddle someone with
Safe and sound
Sound and safe
Salad days
In one's salad days
My salad days
Salt of the earth
Saved by the bell
Be saved by the bell
Was saved by the bell
Say uncle
cry uncle
holler uncle
make someone say uncle
Scarce as hen's teeth
As scarce as hen's teeth
Rare as hen's teeth
Scarcer than hen's teeth
Scot-free
Get off scot-free
Scraping the barrel
Screw the pooch
screwed the pooch
screwing the pooch
See a man about a dog
See a man about a horse
See the elephant
go to see the elephant
I've seen the elephant
seen the elephant
See which way the wind blows
Wind blows
Send someone packing
Be sent packing
Send her packing
Send him packing
Send someone to Coventry
Be sent to Coventry
Send to Coventry
Set your teeth on edge
Put your teeth on edge
Shanks's pony
Shank's mare
Shanks' pony
Shanks's nag
Group 2 - 18 phrases
Sharp as a tack
Shipshape and Bristol fashion
Bristol fashion and shipshape
Ship-shape and Bristol fashion
Shoot from the hip
From the hip
Shoot the breeze
Short shrift
A short shrift
Get short shrift
Give short shrift to
Show a leg
Show a leg and turn out
Sick as a dog
Sick as a parrot
As a parrot
Sick as a pig
Sick to death
To death
Sick to the back teeth
Back teeth
Signs of the times
A sign of the times
Sign of the times
The signs of the times
Sing like a bird
Sing like a canary
Like a canary
Skeleton in the closet
Sly as a fox
As a fox
Smart aleck
smart Alec
smart-Alec
Soft day, thank God
A soft day, thank God
Soft day, thanks be to God
Group 3 - 17 phrases
Spare the rod and spoil the child
He that spareth his rod hateth his son
Spare the rod and spill the child
Spare the rod, spoil the child
Spend a penny
Go and spend a penny
Spending a penny
Spick and span
Spick and span new
Spill the beans
Spill all the beans
Spit and image
Spitten image
Spitting image
Splice the mainbrace
Square the circle
Stag and doe
buck and doe
Jack and Jill
stag and doe party
stag-and-doe
Steal someone's thunder
Steal their thunder
Stick your neck out
Neck out
Still waters run deep
Still water runs deep
Stool pigeon
stool-pigeon
stoolie
Straight from the horse's mouth
From the horse's mouth
Right from the horse's mouth
Strange bedfellows
Make strange bedfellows
Misery acquaints a man with strange bedfellows
Politics makes strange bedfellows
Suffer fools gladly
Gladly suffer fools
Sweet as
All sweet as
Choice as
Sweet as, bro
Sweet-as
Swing the lead
Be swinging the lead
Lead-swinging
Try to swing the lead