S
Idioms beginning with "S"
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[stock-in-trade] {n. phr.}
The materials which one customarily deals, sells, or offers.
Imported silk blouses from the Orient are the stock-in-trade of their small shop.
Anecdotes are often an after-dinner speaker's stock-in-trade.
[stomach]
See:
[EYES BIGGER THAN ONE'S STOMACH],
[BUTTERFLIES IN YOUR STOMACH],
[TURN ONE'S STOMACH].
[stone]
See:
[CAST THE FIRST STONE],
[HEART OF STONE],
[KILL TWO BIRDS WITH ONE STONE],
[LEAVE NO STONE UNTURNED],
[PEOPLE WHO LIVE IN GLASS HOUSES SHOULD NOT THROW STONES],
[ROLLING STONE GATHERS NO MOSS].
[stone wall] or [brick wall] {adj.}
Something hard to overcome; an idea or belief that is hard to change.
The students ran into a brick wall when they asked the principal to put off the examination.
* /Dick tried to change Father's mind about […]
[stone's throw] or [within a stone's throw] {adv. phr.}
Within a very short distance.
They live across the street from us, just within a stone's throw.
See: [HOP, SKIP AND A JUMP].
[stone-blind] {adj. phr.}
1. Completely blind.
Poor Al is stone-blind and needs help to get across the street carefully.
2. Highly intoxicated.
George drank too much and got stone-blind at the office party.
See: [GET STONED], [THREE SHEETS […]
[stone-broke] or [dead broke] or [flat broke] {adj.}, {informal}
Having no money; penniless.
Jill wanted to go to the movies but she was stone-broke.
The man gambled and was soon flat broke.
[stone-cold] {adj.}
Having no warmth; completely cold. — Used to describe things that are better when warm.
The boys who got up late found their breakfast stone-cold.
The furnace went off and the radiators were stone-cold.