Expressions (A–Z)

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• Smooth tongue

  See: "smooth tongue."

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  Smouldering brands / feeble and hopeless persons

  Coals that still emit smoke. Figuratively: a term for places left desolate after...

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  Smuggled assets

  To conceal assets or wealth in order to prevent their delivery to an authority o...

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  snap of the fingers

  See: 'He Struck with a Finger of Anger.'

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  Snatch and Eat/ to eat quickly/ to bolt one's food/ let us enjoy the present

  Figuratively: an attitude of chasing after pleasures; take quickly while it is s...

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  Snatch some sleep, take a quick nap, be overtaken by sleep/ to be seized with sleep/ fall asleep

  To take a quick nap. To take a short nap (to take a quick nap).

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  Snatched a nap

  (slang) fell asleep for a short time.

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  snow eggs

  See: "bird’s milk"

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  snowman

  A doll made of snow.

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  So It Is

  Indeed, that is the case. A response meant to emphasize that this is how things...

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