S
sabotage
saccharine testimonials (blurbs)
sack of potatoes (derogatorysacred cows
sacrifices (baseball?)
sacrifices, goats and tragedies
sailors, original yarn spinnerssails, trimming your
Salad Days...Pickles & Cool Cucumbers
salad, caesar
salaries
salient
sally
salt of the earth (salaries)
salves (quacksalvers)
Samuel Maverick
Samuel Purchase's thoughts on womensanctions
sanctity
Sandwiches...Heroes et al
Sanger, Margaret and 'Planned Parenthood'
sanguine temper see also Temper, Temper and Testing One's Mettle
sardine's whiskers, the
sausages from Vienna (weinerwurst)
savages
Save and Bring Home the BaconSavoy, Duke of (turncoat)
scales
scamps and champions
scandal see also Watergating
Scapegoat...Capricious seealso The Horns of a Dilemma and Sheepskin Alert
scared or just chicken?
scatterbrained (harum scarum)scene, make or create a
Scholarship
school
scintilla
scintillating
scoop
Scotch (Great Scott!)
scotched
scot-free
Scott, General Winfield (Great Scott!)
scratch, up to
screwed up
scrupulous scruples
sea gulls
sealed lips (mum) see also Read My Lips
Seattle WTO meet (Battle Royal)
second fiddle, playing
secrets, blackmailed
see eye to eye
see you later alligator
seeing is believing
Seeing Red Carpets see also A Bull Story, Bears and Bulls, Stiff Necks, and Follow the Bouncing Bill
segregate
self-effacing erudites
selling one another down the riverSeminal...Seminars...Erudite
seminaries
sensational
sense, horse see also Horse Power and Straight from the Gift Horse's Mouthsensitive
sensual
sentence
sentimental
sentire
separating the sheep from the goats see also The Horns of a Dilemma and Scapegoat...Capricioussequels
sequential
serendipity
Sergeant Molly, birth anniversary of
seventh heaven
Sew What's New?
Sex
sexes, battle of the see also Battle Royal
Shacking Up
Shake, Rattle, and Roll see alsoTensions...Bones of Contentionshamrock (Green Ribbon Day)
shave, a close
shebang, the whole
sheepish see also Sheepskin Alert
Sheepskin Alert see also The Horns of a Dilemma and Scapegoat...Capricious
Sheer Lunacy
shilling or hog
shines, make hay while the sun
ship of state, the
Shipley Joseph (moron)
ships, loose lips sink
shipshape, original meaning ofshirts, stuffed
shoes, the gnu's
shoot first and ask questions later
shooter, square
shooting ones bolt
Shoptalk
short fuse, a
short shrift
short, make a long story
shots, calling the see also Top Guns and Big Shots
shrift
shtick
shut-eye
shutting up (putting a sock in it)shysters
significant
significant other
Silesia and sleaze
silly
silver dollar (buck) see also Money and the Almighty Dollar
simple
simpleton (suckers)
sine nobilite (snobs)
sing like a canary see also Birds of a Feather, A Little Birdie Told Me...Birdbrain,What's Eating You?, Teeing Off, Albatross around one's neck, Something to Crow About, Talking Turkey, Cold Turkey, and Feathers in Caps...Panache & Pennants
Singer, Isaac (sewing machines)
single whammy (jinxes)
sinister (left?)
sink ships, loose lips
sink, everything but the kitchensins, cardinal
siren
Sirius, the dog star see also A Star's Itinerary, Star Wars, and Thank Your Lucky Stars
sitting ducks
skedaddle
skeletons in closet see also Tensions...Bones of Contention
skeptics
skid road
skid row
skidoo
skinny on the coffee
skoal
skull, out of your
slang
slapstick
sleaze
Sleazy Jeans
sleeve, heart on
slightly overweight
slitting the nose see also The Nose Knows and Right On!
slogan
slush fund
small fry
smart apples
Smathers, George (smear campaign)Smear This
smell a rat
smile
smirk
smoke, blowing
Smokescreens...Smoking out the Facts
smoking controversies
smoking out the facts
Smoothing the Way see also Washing Hands and No Soap
snake, parlor
Snapper Garrison finish
snitch (stool pigeon)
snobs, changes in meaning of
snooping
snubbed
snuff
snug as a bug in a rug
So Much Hype
soap (bribe) see also Greasing Palms with Subsidiesand Smoothing the Way
soap operas
sober
Sock it to Me!
soft soaping see also Smoothing the Way
solicitation
Solomon's messenger (birdies)see also Birds of a Feather
something is rotten in the state of Denmark
Something to Crow About seealso Birds of a Feather, A Little Birdie Told Me...Birdbrain,What's Eating You?, Teeing Off, Albatross around one's neck, Stool Pigeons...Sing Like a Canary,Talking Turkey, Cold Turkey, and Feathers in Caps...Panache & Pennants
Son of a Gun
song, for a
song, swan
soothsayers inspiration, birdssee also Birds of a Feather
soothsayings
Sophisticated Nitwits
sophistry
sophists
sophomores
sophomoric
SOS...Mayday...Nauseous
sound as a bell
sound bites
sounding boards
spade a spade, calling a
spectacle
Spectacular, Stupendous, and Stupidspectators
speed, changes in meaning of
spies
spik and span
spin doctor see also Doctrinaire Doctors
spinach
Spinning and Spin Doctors seealso Doctrinaire Doctors
spinning yarns
spirit
Spiritual Inspiration...Enthusiasm
spittin' image
split the scene
sponge, throw in the
spongers (suckers)
sports
sports and athletics
Sports Cars et al see also Jeeps
spouse
Spouses and the Wedding Gamble
spread thin
sputnik, meaning of
square meal
square shooter
square, on the
Squaring Matters
squeeze play
Squeeze plays and Curveballs
St. Audrey (tawdry)
St. Bernard and dogs
St. George
St. Patrick clover (shamrock)St. Peter (for Pete's sake)
stack up
stacked against you, cards aren'tstagnations (doldrums)
Star Wars see also Thank Your Lucky Stars and A Star's Itinerary
star, hitch our wagon to (Emerson) see also Star Warsand A Star's Itinerary
Star's Itinerary, A see also Star Wars and Thank Your Lucky Stars
station
status
statutes and statutory see also Stiff Necks see also Laying Down the Law
Staying Posted
steam, blowing off some
Steel, the Man of
Stein, Gertrude (rose is a rose...)
stereotypes
sterling
sterner sex, the
Stevenson, Adlai (egghead)
stick, the big
stickler
sticks (tally)
Sticky Fingers
Stiff Necks see also A Bull Story, Bears and Bulls, Seeing Red Carpets, and Follow the Bouncing Bill
stigma
stitch
stock market's bulls and bears
stock-jobber (lame duck)
stogies (stogyes) and cigars
stoic
stolen thunder
stone cold
stonewalled
Stool Pigeons...Sing Like a Canary see also Birds of a Feather, A Little Birdie Told Me...Birdbrain, What's Eating You?, Teeing Off, Albatross around one's neck, Something to Crow About, Talking Turkey, Cold Turkey, and Feathers in Caps...Panache & Pennants
store, grocery
stories, fish see also Fish to Fry
story short, make a long
stout hearts
stove, everything but the kitchenstraight dope
Straight from the Gift Horse's Mouth see also Horseplay andHorse Power
Straighten up and fly right seealso Flying Colors
strain
Strategic Defense Initiative (SDI)straws, clutching at
streaks, blue
Stress...Prestidigitation & Prestige
strict
Striking Bargains, Balances & Chords see also All the Weighstring along
Stringing You Along
strings of an instrument (fiddle)strung out see also Stringing You Along
stubborn
students, precocious ones
stuffed shirts
stunk to high heaven
stupendous
stupid
stupor
sub rosa
submarine (sandwich)
subsidy
subtle
subtract
subversives
success, forecasting
successful spin on things, putting a
succinct
Suckers...Whipping Boys and Patsies
sue
suite
suitor
suits
sun shines, make hay while the
sundae
Super Bowl, history of
Supercilious Highbrows and Eggheads
superfluous
supermarket
superstition
supper
Supreme, Forever
Sure Cure, A
sure thing (lock)
surgeon see also Surgeons and Chiropractors
Surgeons and Barber Poles seealso Surgeons and Chiropractors
Surgeons and Chiropractors seealso Surgeons and Barber Polessurgery see also Surgeons and Barber Poles
swallow
swan song
sweatshop, year of origin
Sweet Talk and Lemons
swim?, can a duck
swollen heads
sympathy
sympatico, meaning of, see also Care