S
Idioms beginning with "S"
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Contents of S:
[set forth] {v.}, {formal}
1. To explain exactly or clearly.
The President set forth his plans in a television talk.
2. To start to go somewhere; begin a trip.
The troop set forth on their ten-mile hike early.
Compare: [SET OUT].
[set free] {v. phr.}
To liberate.
The trapper set all the small animals free before the snowstorm hit.
[set in] {v.}
To begin; start; develop.
Before the boat could reach shore, a storm had set in.
He did not keep the cut clean and infection set in.
The wind set in from the east.
[set in one's ways] {adj. phr.}
Stubborn; opinionated; unchangeable.
My grandfather is so old and set in his ways that he'll eat nothing new.
[set off] {v.}
1. To decorate through contrast; balance by difference.
The bright colors of the birds were set off by the white snow.
A small gold pin set off her plain dark dress.
2. To balance; make somewhat equal.
* /Her great wealth, as […]
[set of new threads] {n. phr.}
New men's suit.
"Nice set of new threads'" Ed said, when he saw Dave in his new tailor-made outfit.
[set on] also [set upon] {v.}
1. To begin suddenly to fight against; attack fiercely.
Tom was walking through the park when a gang of boys set on him.
2. To cause to attack.
Some boys went to steal melons but the farmer set his dog on them.
[set one's cap for] {v. phr.}, {informal}
To attempt to win the love of or to marry.
Usually used of a girl or woman.
The young girl set her cap for the new town doctor, who was a bachelor.