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scurry awayTo run away, especially fearfully.Rate it:

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se casserTo get lost, go away, leaveRate it:

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se piquer au jeu(lit.) To continue obstinately to play although losing; (fig.) To go on in an enterprise in spite of all obstacles.Rate it:

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sécher sur piedTo pine away.Rate it:

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sell awayTo sell all of an item or group of items.Rate it:

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sell awayTo sell a financial product without the authorization of one's employing broker-dealer to sell that product.Rate it:

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sell in may and go away"Sell in May and go away" is a popular adage or saying in the stock market that suggests investors should sell their stocks or investments in May and stay out of the market until the end of October. The idea behind this saying is that the stock market tends to experience weaker performance during the summer months, particularly from May to October. This pattern is often attributed to factors such as reduced trading activity, lower corporate earnings reports, or investors' vacation periods.Rate it:

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send awayTo dismiss from one's presence.Rate it:

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send awayTo send to a particular place for a long time, as a family member, an employee, etc.Rate it:

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send away forTo write to a business or other organisation, requesting a thing.Rate it:

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send forTo send away for, to request a delivery of.Rate it:

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send offdismiss from playRate it:

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send someone packingTo expel, eject, or dismiss someone; to send away, chase off, or force out.Rate it:

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sexual congressLoose translation of the title of Aristophanes' play Ecclesiazousae, more literally translated as Assemblywomen.Rate it:

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she would rip a dog off a gut wagonA gut wagon was a horse drawn wagon that was used for collecting butcher's scraps for further processing. The wagons were often followed by determined and persistent dogs intent on eating the contents of the wagon. It took a great deal of effort to keep these dogs away from or off the wagon. A person's appearance ugly or objectionable enough to discourage or scare the dogs from the gut wagon would be ugly indeed.Rate it:

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short-sheetTo play a prank by folding someone's bed sheets to make the space for lying in the bed unusably short.Rate it:

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shotgunA play formation in which the quarterback is a few feet behind the snapper when the ball is hiked, ideally allowing for an easier pass play.Rate it:

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show a clean pair of heelsto run away quickly; to make an escape quickly; to outpaceRate it:

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shrink awayto draw back in fear; cringe, back down, shy awayRate it:

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shrink backTo back away or retreat; to abandon an effort.Rate it:

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shy awayto draw back in fear, cringe, back downRate it:

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shy away fromto avoid, evadeRate it:

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shy away from somethingTo avoid certain locations, events, people, foods, etc.Rate it:

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skate one's laneTo play in one's assigned position rather than straying to where the current action is.Rate it:

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skip ropeTo jump over a rope, both of whose ends are held by the jumper or by two others, while the rope is moved under the jumper's feet in a continual rhythm; to play the game of jump rope or exercise by jumping rope.Rate it:

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skive offTo skive; to play truant; to slack off.Rate it:

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skoffedDo sartastically whistle air out of your mouth and look awayRate it:

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Sky is the LimitNo limits to achieve your goals, to go far away in reaching your destinationRate it:

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slap and tickleMild or playful kissing, cuddling, and other amorous play.Rate it:

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slattern awayTo consume carelessly or wastefully; to waste.Rate it:

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slave awayTo work very hard.Rate it:

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slide offTo leave a place, a meeting, etc., without being noticed; to slip away, slip off.Rate it:

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slip awayTo leave a place, or a gathering, without being noticed.Rate it:

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slip awayTo pass quickly, almost unnoticed.Rate it:

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slip awayTo disappear; to elude one.Rate it:

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slip awayTo die peacefully.Rate it:

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slip inTo play a subtle pass into someone in a goalscoring position.Rate it:

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slug awayTo work very hard (at); to toilRate it:

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sneak awayTo leave a place, or a meeting, without being seen or heardRate it:

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sod offGo away.Rate it:

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softly, softly, catchee monkeyCapture a target without startling it to run away.Rate it:

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spear carrierA person in a play or movie with a minimal part; an extra.Rate it:

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spending money as if it were waterlack of respect for the dollar, frittering away one's paycheck.Rate it:

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spirit awayTo remove without anyone's noticing.Rate it:

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split offTo break away from a group or mass.Rate it:

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square awayTo finish, complete, tidy or put in order.Rate it:

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squirrel awayTo stash or hide; to hoard, collect, save, or accumulate; to create a reserve, stash, or hoard of some supply, so as to recall a squirrel's burying of nuts.Rate it:

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stack offTo play an all in pot; to commit all of one's chips to a pot.Rate it:

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stalking horseA candidate put forward to serve a hidden, ulterior purpose in a political campaign, such as testing the field for another potential candidate by gauging voter sentiment or covertly helping another candidate by attracting voters away from a third candidate.Rate it:

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stand patTo play one's hand without drawing any more cards.Rate it:

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