S
Idioms beginning with "S"
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[second-run] {adj.}
Of a movie: Shown in many movie theaters before, and allowed to be shown later in other movie theaters.
Tickets to second-run movies cost much less.
[second sight] {n. phr.}
Intuition; prescience; clairvoyance.
Some police departments employ psychics to find missing persons or objects as they are said to have second sight.
[second thought] {n.}
A change of ideas or opinions resulting from more thought or study.
Your second thoughts are very often wiser than your first ideas.
* /We decided to climb the mountain, but on second thought realized that it was too […]
[second to none] {adj. phr.}
Excellent; first rate; peerless.
Our new State University campus is second to none. There is no need to pay all that high tuition at a private college.
[second wind] also [second breath] {n.}
1. The easier breathing that follows difficult breathing when one makes a severe physical effort, as in running or swimming./
* /After the first quarter mile, a mile runner usually gets his second wind and can […]
[section gang] or [section crew] {n.}
A group of railroad workers who watch and repair a number of miles of track.
The section crew was called out to fix the broken bridge.
[section hand] {n.}
A worker who repairs railway track; one of the men in a section gang.
The section hands moved off the track while the train went by.
[security blanket] {n.}, {slang}, {colloquial}
An idea, person, or object that one holds on to for psychological reassurance or comfort as infants usually hang on to the edge of a pillow, a towel, or a blanket.
* /Sue has gone to Aunt Mathilda for a […]