S
Idioms beginning with "S"
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[skid lid] {n.}, {slang}
A crash helmet worn by motorcyclists and race drivers.
How much did you pay for that handsome skid lid?
[skid row] {n.}
The poor part of a city where men live who have no jobs and drink too much liquor.
That man was once rich, but he drank and gambled too much, and ended his life living on skid row.
The Bowery is New York City's skid row.
[skim the surface] {v. phr.}
To do something very superficially.
He seems knowledgeable in many different areas but his familiarity is very superficial, since he only skims the surface of everything he touches.
[skin]
See:
[BY THE SKIN OF ONE'S TEETH],
[GET UNDER ONE'S SKIN],
[JUMP OUT OF ONE'S SKIN],
[KEEP ONE'S EYES PEELED] or [KEEP ONE'S EYES SKINNED],
[SAVE ONE'S NECK] or [SAVE ONE'S SKIN],
[WITH A WHOLE SKIN] or [IN A WHOLE SKIN].
[skin alive] {v. phr.}
1. {informal}
To scold angrily.
Mother will skin you alive when she sees your torn pants.
2. {informal}
To spank or beat.
Dad was ready to skin us alive when he found we had ruined his saw.
3. {slang}
To defeat.
* […]
[skin and bones] {n.}
A person or animal that is very thin; someone very skinny.
The puppy is healthy now, but when we found him he was just skin and bones.
Have you been dieting? You're nothing but skin and bones!
[skin off one's nose] {n. phr.}, {slang}
Matter of interest, concern, or trouble to you. Normally used in the negative.
Go to Jake's party if you wish. It's no skin off my nose.
* /Grace didn't pay any attention to our argument. It wasn't any skin […]
[skin-deep] {adj.}
Only on the surface; not having any deep or honest meaning; not really or closely connected with what it seems to belong to.
Mary's friendliness with Joan is only skin-deep.
* /Ralph crammed for the test and got a good grade, […]