red sky at night, shepherd’s delight

to have a clean slate

there’s many a slip twixt cup and lip

to be small beer

to be small potatoes

a snake in the grass

not to have/stand a snowball’s chance in hell

to pull one’s socks up

to put a sock in it

to buy something for a song

to sell something for a song

it takes all sorts (to make a world)

from soup to nuts

to call a spade a spade

to throw a spanner in the works

to be the (dead) spit of someone

to be born with a silver spoon in one’s mouth

to get/win the wooden spoon

to be up the spout

to set a sprat to catch a mackerel

to go back to square one

to step on the gas

more than you can shake a stick at

to be in a cleft stick

to get (hold of) the wrong end of the stick

sticks and stones may break my bones (but names will never hurt me)

a sting in the tail

a stitch in time (saves nine)

to be in stitches

a rolling stone gathers no moss

to fall between two stools

a storm in a teacup

a straw in the wind

the straw which broke the camel’s back

to have a yellow streak

to be on easy street

by any stretch of the imagination

different strokes for differents folks

to be in a brown study

to follow suit

one swallow does not make a summer

to sweep something under the rug/carpet

what you lose on the swings you gain on the roundabouts

sword of Damocles

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