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  • southeastwards — Also, southeastwards. toward the southeast.
  • southern cross — Also called Cross. Astronomy. a southern constellation between Centaurus and Musca. Compare Northern Cross.
  • southern crown — the constellation Corona Australis.
  • southern ocean — that part of the Indian Ocean south of Australia
  • southern slavs — one of a group of peoples in eastern, southeastern, and central Europe, including the Russians and Ruthenians (Eastern Slavs) the Bulgars, Serbs, Croats, Slavonians, Slovenes, etc. (Southern Slavs) and the Poles, Czechs, Moravians, Slovaks, etc. (Western Slavs)
  • southern stars — the Australian women’s national cricket team
  • southern yemen — a former name of Yemen (def 1).
  • southern-fried — coated with flour, egg, and bread crumbs and fried in deep fat: Southern-fried chicken.
  • speech therapy — treatment for speaking disorders
  • spermatothecae — a female reproductive organ in some insects
  • spy-in-the-sky — of or relating to a surveillance camera mounted on an aircraft or orbiting satellite
  • stack the deck — a more or less orderly pile or heap: a precariously balanced stack of books; a neat stack of papers.
  • stand the gaff — harsh treatment or criticism: All the gaff he took never made him bitter.
  • stand the pace — to keep up with the speed or rate of others
  • stay the night — If you stay the night in a place, you sleep there for one night.
  • steal the show — to cause or allow to be seen; exhibit; display.
  • stick together — be united
  • stop the clock — an instrument for measuring and recording time, especially by mechanical means, usually with hands or changing numbers to indicate the hour and minute: not designed to be worn or carried about.
  • street theater — the presentation of plays or other entertainments by traveling companies on the streets, in parks, etc., often with the use of temporary or mobile stages.
  • street theatre — dramatic entertainments performed esp in shopping precincts
  • studio theatre — a small theatre within which the stage and seating can usually be rearranged
  • subtherapeutic — indicating a dosage, as of a drug or vitamin, less than the amount required for a therapeutic effect.
  • sugar the pill — to make something unpleasant more agreeable by adding something pleasant
  • sulfuric ether — ether (def 1).
  • summer clothes — light clothes which are suitable for summer
  • summer theater — a theater that operates during the summer, especially in a suburban or resort area, usually offering a different play or musical comedy each week.
  • swing the lead — to malinger or make up excuses
  • synthesization — to form (a material or abstract entity) by combining parts or elements (opposed to analyze): to synthesize a statement.
  • synthetic fuel — fuel in the form of liquid or gas (synthetic natural gas) manufactured from coal or in the form of oil extracted from shale or tar sands.
  • systems theory — an approach to industrial relations which likens the enterprise to an organism with interdependent parts, each with its own specific function and interrelated responsibilities
  • take the chair — to preside as chairman for a meeting, etc
  • take the count — to be unable to continue after a count of ten
  • take the field — an expanse of open or cleared ground, especially a piece of land suitable or used for pasture or tillage.
  • take the fifth — next after the fourth; being the ordinal number for five.
  • take the floor — that part of a room, hallway, or the like, that forms its lower enclosing surface and upon which one walks.
  • take the stand — to sit (or stand) in the designated place in a courtroom and give testimony
  • test the water — If you test the water or test the waters, you try to find out what reaction an action or idea will get before you do it or tell it to people.
  • the all blacks — the international Rugby Union football team of New Zealand
  • the all whites — the former name for the international soccer team of New Zealand
  • the apple isle — Tasmania
  • the archeozoic — the Archean (see phrase under Archean)
  • the atomic age — the current historical period, initiated by the development of the first atomic bomb towards the end of World War II and now marked by a balance of power between nations possessing the hydrogen bomb and the use of nuclear power as a source of energy
  • the bear state — a name for the state of Arkansas
  • the beatitudes — the pronouncements in the Sermon on the Mount, which begin “Blessed are the poor in spirit”: Matt. 5:3-12
  • the better off — those with more money
  • the betting is — If you say the betting is that something will happen or is true, you are suggesting that it is very likely to happen or to be true.
  • the bible belt — those states of the S US where Protestant fundamentalism is dominant
  • the black belt — a region of the southern US extending from Georgia across central Alabama and Mississippi, in which the population contains a large number of Black people: also noted for its fertile black soil
  • the black caps — the international cricket team of New Zealand
  • the black isle — a peninsula in NE Scotland, in Highland council area, between the Cromarty and Moray Firths
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