S
Idioms beginning with "S"
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[second-best] {adj.}
Next to best; second in rank.
Mary wore her second-best dress.
Bob was the second-best player on the team.
"I am the second-best student in this school because I was second best in the Milwaukee competition."
[second childhood] {n. phr.}
Senility; dotage.
"Grandpa is in his second childhood; we must make allowances for him at the dinner table," my mother said, as Grandpa dropped food all over the place.
[second class] {n.}
1. The second best or highest group; the class next after the first.
Joe was good enough in arithmetic to be put in the second class but was not good enough for the first.
Compare: [FIRST CLASS].
2. The place or quarters, […]
[second-class] (1) {adj.}
1. Belonging in the class that is next to the highest or next best.
He was only a second-class math student.
His parents traveled as second-class passengers on the boat.
The periodical came as second-class mail.
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[second-class(2)] {adv.}
By second class.
We went second-class on the train to New York.
I mailed the newspaper second-class.
[second cousin] {n.}
A child of your father's or mother's first cousin.
Mary and Jane are second cousins.
[second-guess] {v. phr.}
1. To criticize another's decision with advantage of hindsight.
The losing team's coach is always second-guessed.
2. To guess what someone else intends or would think or do.
* /Television planners try to second-guess the […]
[secondhand] {adj.}
Used; not new; preowned.
Sometimes a secondhand car is just as reliable as a brand new one.
[second nature] {n.}
Something done without any special effort, as if by natural instinct.
Cutting tall trees has become second nature to the experienced lumberjack.
[second-rate] {adj.}
Of mediocre or inferior quality.
The movie received a bad review; it was second-rate at best.
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