S
Idioms beginning with "S"
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Contents of S:
[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 cousin] {n.}
A child of your father's or mother's first cousin.
Mary and Jane are second cousins.
[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 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 […]
[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-class(2)] {adv.}
By second class.
We went second-class on the train to New York.
I mailed the newspaper second-class.