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Sad clown
Sad optimist
Sad smile
Sadly amused
Sadly funny
Safe investment
Safe and sane fireworks
Safe bet
Safe investment
Safe sex
Safe weapons
Safety hazard
Same difference
Sanitary landfill
Sanitary napkin
Scented deodorant
Scheduled spontaneity
School cafeteria food
School system
School vacation
Science fiction
Scientific belief
Scientific creationism
Scientific speculation
Scientific chiropractic
Scottish Danish (a pastry)
Scripted spontaneity
Seacoast
Sea farming
Seaport
Seashore
Search party
Second best
Second initial
Secret FBI files
Secret rumor
Secretarial science
Secular fundamentalism
Sedate sex
Sedentary living
Self-help book
Self-help group
Semi-boneless ham
Semi-precious
Semi-private
Semi-professional
Semi-retired
Semi-truck
Senate Ethics Committee
Senate Intelligence Committee
Sensitive male
Serial monogamy
Serious fun
Serious humor
Seriously funny
Service station
Sexual tension
Sexy ugly
"Harvey Keitel—he's very sexy-ugly."
Heather Juergensen, from the 2001 film, Kissing Jessica Stein
Shared monopoly
Sharp curve
She-male
Short distance
Short survey
Short tall-tale
Shorty Long (American entertainer: www.shortylong.com)
Shy exhibitionist
"We're shy exhibitionists." Geena Davis, on actors
Sight unseen
Silent alarm
Silent applause
Silent auction
Silent barber
Silent scream
"I sat screaming silently."
Pauline Kael, on the 1991 film Silence of the Lambs
Silent sound (see sound of silence)
Silent testimony
Simple calculus
Simple medical procedure
Simply awesome
Simply splendid
Simply superb
Sincere deceivers
Sincere deception
Sincere flattery
Sincere insincerity
Sincere lie
Single copy
Single pair
Singular relationship
Sit up
Slave master
Sleeper hit
Sleepwalk
Slight exaggeration
Slight hernia
Slightly pregnant
Slightly surprised
Sloppy chic
Slow-motion explosion
Slow run
Slow speed
Slumber party
Small crowd
Small fortune
Small world
Smart blonde
Smart bomb
Smart drugs
Smokeless cigarette
Snow white tan
"Came on so loaded, man, well hung and snow white tan."
David Bowie, lyric from Ziggy Stardust
Sober drunk
Social science
Social Security
Socialist worker
Soft porn
Soft rock
Solid glass
Solid rumor
Solo concert
Someone
Somewhat awesome
Somewhat destroyed
Somewhat legal
Sophomore (literally "wise fool')
Sound of silence
"Hello darkness my old friend
I've come to talk to you again.
The words of the prophets
Are written on the subway walls
And tenement halls
And whispered in the sounds of silence."
Paul Simon, lyrics from The Sound of Silence (1964)
Soviet economy
Soviet union
Space walk
Spare rib
Specialize in generalities
Spectator sport
Speechwriting
Speed bump
Speed limit
Spendthrift
Splendid failure
"A splendid failure."
William Faulkner's characterization of his 1929 novel, The Sound and the Fury
Splendid misery
"The second office of the government is honorable and easy,
the first is but a splendid misery."
Thomas Jefferson, comparing the vice-presidency with the presidency
Splendidly dull
Spoken thought
Spontaneous demonstration
"Napoleon has commanded that once a week there should be held
something called a Spontaneous Demonstration."
George Orwell, in Animal Farm
Sports sedan
Square wheels
"The wheels of justice … they're square wheels."
Barbara Cororan, in The Hideaway (1987)
Squared circle (wrestling term)
Squaw man
The Squaw Man, title of first full-length Hollywood feature film,
by Cecil B. Demille, Samuel Goldwyn, and Jesse Lasky
Stable progression
Staged accident
Stand down
Stand fast
Standard deviation
Standard option
State worker
Stationary bicycle
Stationary orbit
Statistical humor
Stealth bomber
Steel wool
Still moving
Still wind
Stool pigeon
Stop action
Straight angle
Straight-forward subterfuge
Straight hook
Strangely familiar
Strategic withdrawal
Strawberry blonde
Strenuous idleness
"A day
Spent in a round of strenuous idleness."
William Wordsworth, in "The Prelude"
Strippers dressing room
Strong decaf
Strong weakness
"Strong people have strong weaknesses." Peter F. Drucker
Student athlete
"Until colleges are tested for the education they are providing
their athletes, the term "student-athlete" will remain
the most tragic oxymoron in the American vocabulary."
Murray Sperber, college professor & author of College Sports, Inc.
Student teacher
Studied indifference
Study break
Stunted growth
Stupid genius
Subjective data
Sublime noise
"It will be generally admitted that Beethoven's Fifth Symphony is
the most sublime noise that has ever penetrated into the ear of man."
E. M. Forster
Subtle exaggeration
Subversive compliance
Successful suicide
Sugarless candy
Summer school
Sun screen
Sun shade
Sun shower
Superette (literally "big-small")
Super small
Sure bet
Sure fire tip
Sure guess
Sweet and sour
Sweet crude
Sweet compulsion
"Such sweet compulsion doth in music lie." John Milton
Sweet disorder
"A sweet disorder in the dress
Kindles in clothes a wantonness."
Robert Herrick
Sweet pain
Sweet sorrow
"Parting is such sweet sorrow."
William Shakespeare, in Romeo and Juliet
Sweet-sour
Sweet tart
Swiss army
Synthetic natural gas
Talk show
The Tall Dwarfs (New Zealand rock group)
Tame beast
Tame cat
Taped live
Targeted spam
Tax cut
Tax free
Tax return
Tax simplification
Television critic
Temporary government job
Temporary tax increase
Tense calm
Tentative conclusion
Terribly enjoyable
Terribly good
Terribly nice
Terribly pleased
Terrific headache
Texas chic
Thinking out loud
Threatening benevolence
"That look of threatening benevolence."
Moss Hart, on first-night productions
Thundering silence
Tight slacks
Tiny mountain
Toll free
Tomorrow's headlines today
Top floor
Tough love
Tough softy
"(James) Gandolfini plays the compassionate cold-blooded hit man,
a role that sounds as ridiculous as it looks. Gandolfini might as well
stamp 'tough softy' on his forehead. His work on 'The Sopranos'
has dug him a type-cast grave."
J. H. Wyman, in a 2001 review of the "The Mexican"
Traditional revolution
(first appearance in Edward Bellamy's 1899 book Equality)
Tragi-comic
Tragi-comedy
Train schedule
Tremendous ignorance
Tremendously small
Trial separation
Trouble in paradise
True counterfeit
True fiction
True gossip
True illusion
True lies
"The matters I relate
Are true lies."
Jean Cocteau
True Lies
Title of 1994 movie starring Arnold Schwarzenegger
True story
True counterfeit
Truth-in-advertising
Truth-in-lending
Turned up missing
Turkey bacon
Turkey ham
Twelve-ounce pound cake
Typically atypical
Ugly win
Unacceptable solution
Unbiased news
Unbiased opinion
Uncommonly common
Uncommonly normal
Uncontested divorce
Uncrowned king
Underdone
Understanding banker
Understanding editor
Undocumented report
Unfunny joke
Uninvited guest
Union worker
Unique uniform
United Nations
United States
Unknown identity
Unsalted Saltines
Unscented incense
Unscented deodorant
Unspoken suggestion
Unsung hero
Unthaw
Unusual routine
Unwelcome greeting
Upcoming downtrend
Upside down
User friendly
Vacation bible school
Vaguely aware
Valley Heights
Veiled accusation
Vegetable beef soup
Vegetarian meatloaf
Veggie burger
Vertical horizon
Vice-presidential power
Vices of our virtues
Vices of our Virtues, title of 1996 article by Robert Samuelson
Victimless crime
Violent agreement
Virgin wool
Virtual reality
Voluntary taxes
Voodoo science
Waking dream
War games
Warlord
Waste management
Weak muscle
Wealthy professor
Weather forecaster
Wedded bliss
Weekday
Well-preserved ruins
Wet drywall
Wheeled walker
White chocolate
White gold
White Negro
White Noise
White Noise, title of book by Don DeLillo
White rose
Whole half
Whole hemisphere
Whole part
Whole piece
Wholesome
Wicked good
Wild boar
Wilderness management
Willing slave
Windburn
Wireless Cable TV
"Wise fool" (the literal meaning of sophomore)
Wordless book
Work party
Working breakfast
Working dinner
Working lunch
Working vacation
Young adult
Young Republican
Young sixty
Zero deficit
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