S
Idioms beginning with "S"
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[shopping center] {n.}
A place usually for neighborhood shopping, where there is a group of stores and shops inside of a large parking lot.
There is a bowling alley at the nearest shopping center.
* /All the stores in our shopping center stay open […]
[shopworn] {adj.}
A piece of merchandise that is offered below the usual price because it is slightly damaged or soiled.
Although shopworn, the jacket was perfectly usable, so he eagerly bought it.
[shore leave] {n.}
Permission given to a man in the Navy to leave his ship and go where he wants for a certain length of time.
Jim went to visit New York when he was given three days' shore leave.
* /The ship did not dock long enough for the […]
[shore patrol] {n.}
The police of a navy.
The sailors who were fighting in town were arrested by the shore patrol.
The shore patrol was ordered to search every sailor who went on board the ship.
[shore up] {v.}
To add support to (something) where weakness is shown; make (something) stronger where support is needed; support.
When the flood waters weakened the bridge, it was shored up with steel beams and sandbags until it could be rebuilt.
[…]
[short]
See:
[CAUGHT SHORT],
[FALL SHORT],
[FOR SHORT],
[IN BRIEF] or [IN SHORT],
[IN SHORT ORDER],
[IN SHORT SUPPLY],
[MAKE SHORT WORK OF],
[RUN SHORT],
[SELL SHORT],
[THE LONG AND THE SHORT].
[short and sweet] {adj.}
Brief and to the point.
Henry's note to his father was short and sweet. He wrote, "Dear Dad, please send me $5. Love, Henry."
[shortchange] {v. phr.}
To return less money to a customer in a store than is coming to him or her; cheat.
I was shortchanged by the cashier when I got seven dollars back instead of eight.
[shortcut] {n.}
A road shorter than the one that people normally take.
We can save twenty minutes if we take this shortcut over the hill.