show someone a good time
Recognized English idiom; full definition pending editorial review.
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show someone a thing or two
teach someone new skills or ideas
show someone one's etchings
Recognized English idiom; full definition pending editorial review.
show someone the door
to ask someone to leave
show the flag
To display or demonstrate one's presence or support
show up
To arrive or attend an event
show who's boss
Recognized English idiom; full definition pending editorial review.
shower and shave
to wash and groom oneself
shower down
To give or bestow something generously and abundantly
shower thought
a sudden, often profound idea that occurs unexpectedly
shreddies
Underwear.
shrimp
A little diminutive person.
shrimp
A diminutive person.—Chaucer.
shrinking violet
A shy and modest person
shrouds have no pockets
You can't take wealth with you when you die
Shrove Tuesday
The day before Ash Wednesday; "Pancake day." It used to be the great "Derby Day" of cock-fighting in England.
shtuck
Trouble.
shtumer
A horse against which money may be laid without risk. See SAFE UN.
shtup
push
shuck
The shell or husk, especially of grains (e.g. corn/maize) or nuts (e.g. walnuts).
shuck and jive
to deceive or evade someone with clever talk
shunt
To avoid, to turn aside from. From the railway term.
shut in
To confine.
shut my mouth
to stop talking or be silent
shut of
Or SHOT OF, i.e., rid of. A very common expression amongst the London lower orders. One costermonger will say to another:—"Well, Ike, did yer get SHUT O’ them there gawfs [apples]?" i.e., did you sell them all?
shut one's eyes
Deliberately ignore or refuse to notice something
shut one's eyes and think of England
Recognized English idiom; full definition pending editorial review.
shut one's face
be quiet or stop talking
shut one's gob
to be quiet or stop talking
shut one's trap
to be quiet or stop talking
shut up!
Be quiet, don’t make a noise; to stop short, to cease in a summary manner, to silence effectually. The following is from a literary paper:—"Only the other day we heard of a preacher who, speaking of the scene with the doctors in the Temple, remarked that the Divine disputant completely SHUT THEM UP!" SHUT UP, utterly exhausted, done for.
shvantz
The penis.
shy
A throw. See the following:—
shy bladder
inability to urinate in presence of others
shy cock
One who keeps within doors for fear of bailiffs.
shyster
A duffer, a vagabond. Variation of "shicer."
si quis
A candidate for "orders." From the notification commencing SI QUIS—if any one.
Siamese Twins
Yoke-fellows, in- separables; so called from the original pair, Eng and Chang, who were born of Chinese parents about 1814 and discovered at Mekong, Siam, in 1829, and were subsequently exhibited as freaks. Their bodies were united by a band of flesh, stretching from breast-bone to breast- bone. They married two sisters, had offspring, and died within three hours of each other on January 17th, 1874.
sice
To excite.
sices
Or SIZES, a throw of sixes at dice.
Sicilian Vespers
The massacre of the French in Sicily, which began at the hour of vespers on Easter Monday in 1282. The term is used proverbially of any treacherous and bloody attack.
sick and tired
Extremely frustrated or annoyed
sick as a cat
Very ill.
sick as a cat
Cats are very subject to vomiting. Hence one is said to cat, or to shoot the cat in vomiting.
sick as a dog
Very ill.
sick as a horse
Very ill.
sick at heart
Feeling deeply sad or depressed
sick list
Recognized English idiom; full definition pending editorial review.
sick man
A person or thing that requires constant care or attention
sick puppy
Something or someone that is problematic or not functioning properly
sick to the back teeth
Completely fed up or bored with something
sick up
To vomit.
sickener
A dose too much of anything. Too much of even a good thing will make a man sick.
sid
sadiki
side
An affirmative expression in the cant language of the northern towns. "Do you stoll the gammy?" (Do you understand cant?) "SIDE, cove" (yes, mate).
side issue
A secondary or unrelated issue
side out
three outs.
side part
a hairstyle with the hair parted on the side
side pocket
He has as much need of a wife as a dog of a side pocket; said of a weak old debilitated man. He wants it as much as a dog does a side pocket; a simile used for one who desires any thing by no means necessary.
side-boards
Or STICK-UPS, shirt collars. Name applied some years ago, before the present style of collars came into fashion.
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