S
Idioms beginning with "S"
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[sweet talk]
1. {n.}, {informal}
Too much praise; flattery.
Sometimes a girl's better judgment is overcome by sweet talk.
2. {v.}, {informal}
To get what you want by great praise; flatter.
Polly could sweet talk her husband into anything.
[sweet tooth] {n. phr.}
A great weakness or predilection for sweets.
Sue has such a sweet tooth that she hardly eats anything else but cake.
[sweetie pie] {n.}, {informal}
A person who is loved; darling; sweetheart.
Arnold blushed with pleasure when Annie called him her sweetie pie.
Nancy is Bill's sweetie pie.
[swelled head] {n.}, {informal}
A feeling that you are very important or more important than you really are.
When John won the race, he got a swelled head.
Pretty girls shouldn't get a swelled head about it.
- [swell-headed] {adj. phr.}
* […]
[swim against the current] or [swim against the stream] {v. phr.}
To do the opposite of what most people want to do; go against the way things are happening; struggle upstream.
* /The boy who tries to succeed today without an education is swimming […]