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Sack, to give any one the, [30]
Safe bind, safe find, [160]
Saintly look, to put on a, [17]
Saint Swithin’s Day, [159]
Salt, not worth his, [176]
Salt on bird’s tail, to put, [211]
Same old story, [203]
Satan finds mischief still, [173]
Save appearances, to, [92]
Sea-legs, to have one’s, [186]
Secret, an open, [191]
Secret of two, [211]
Self-praise no recommendation, [152]
Sell like wildfire, [108]
Send about one’s business, [109]
Serves you right, it, [23], [38], [117], [176]
Set a beggar on horseback, [174]
Set a thief to catch a thief, [80]
Set fox to keep geese, [153]
Seven-league boots, [180]
Shakes, no great, [219]
Shanks’ nag, [97]
Sharp as a needle, as, [13]
Sheep, the black, [49]
Shelf, to be put on the, [201]
Shilly-shallying, [65]
Shine at wrong end, to, [217]
Shirk work, never, [74]
Shoe lost for want of nail, [16]
Shoemaker’s wife the worst shod, [65]
Shoe pinches, where the, [32]
Shoot the moon, [71], [153], [227]
Short life and merry, [19], [42]
Short reckonings make long friends, [42]
Shoulder, the cold, [33]
Show the white feather, [53]
Sick and tired of anything, [101]
Silence gives consent, [78], [165]
Silent sow sucks wash, [48]
Silk purse out of sow’s ear, [51]
Silks and satins put out the kitchen fire, [228]
Silver spoon in one’s mouth, [74]
Sin, as ugly as, [182]
Six of one and half-a-dozen of another, [43]
Skeleton in the cupboard, [79]
Skin a flint, to, [144]
Sleep like a top, to, [100]
Sleep upon it, to, [77]
Slippery as an eel, [16]
Slow and sure wins the race, [12], [65]
Small parcels, fine wares, [173], [209]
Smart for it, [89]
Smell of the lamp, [143]
Smoke, to end in, [2]
Smoke without fire, no, [132]
Snake in the grass, [17]
So many men, [24]
So much to the good, [194]
Song, to buy for a mere, [3]
Sooner the better, [224]
So-so, [74]
Sowing wild oats, [136]
Sow by wrong ear, [152]
Spade a spade, to call a, [18], [63]
Spare the rod, spoil the child, [10]
Speak ill in absence, [216]
Speak of angels, [152]
Speech silvern, silence golden, [179]
Split difference, to, [190]
Split hairs, [85]
Split sides with laughter, [44]
Spoil ship for ha’porth of tar, [60]
Spoke in wheel, to put, [33]
Sprat to catch a herring, [122], [171]
Stand the racket, [56]
Stake, your life is at, [8], [12]
Stale news, [191]
Stare in the face, to, [87], [171]
Stick, to get hold of wrong end of, [16]
Still tongue, wise head, [210]
Still waters run deep, [102]
Sting is in the tail, [199]
Stirrup-cup, [112]
Stitch in time saves nine, [190]
Stolen joys are sweet, [18], [176]
Stone unturned, to leave no, [106]
Store is no sore, [2]
Strain at a gnat, [59]
Strain every nerve, to, [122], [209]
Straw breaks camel’s back, the last, [46]
Straw, not to care a, [15], [171]
Stretch one’s legs, [92]
Strike while iron is hot, [121]
String to bow, more than one, [201], [216]
Struck all of a heap, [121]
Stuck pigs, to look like, [69]
Stuff and nonsense, all, [29], [142]
Style man himself, [142]
Success justifies the means, [124]
Sufficient to the day is the evil thereof, [147]
Sunday-best, [107]
Sweep, to make a clean, [217]