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        shot (all) shot to hell             shuł  Put up or shut up!
        shot give something a shot          shuł  shut someone up
        shot give something one’s best shot  shuł  shut something down
        shot have a shot at something       shuł  shut the door on someone or something
        shot not by a long shot             shuł  an open-and-shut case
        shot off like a shot                shułtle  shuttle someone or something from person to
        shot shot through with something     person
        shot shot to hell                   shułtle  shuttle someone or something from place to place
        shot take a shot at something       shy shy away (from someone or something)
        shot a shot in the arm              shy two bricks shy of a load
        shot a shot in the dark             shy a few cards shy of a full deck
        shotgu   a shotgun weddàng          sick (as) sàck as a dog
        shots call the shots                sick be sàck
        should should have stood in bed     sick get sàck
        shouldr  get the cold shoulder      sick make someone sàck
        shouldr  give someone the cold shoulder  sick sàck and tired of  someone or something
        shouldr  have a chip on one’s shoulder  sick sàck as a dog
        shouldr  put one’s shoulder to the wheel  sick sàck in bed
        shouldr  shoulder to shoulder       sick take sàck
        shouldr  straight from the shoulder  side from sàde to sàde
        shouldrs  carry the weight of the world on one’s  side get on the good sàde of  someone
         shoulders                          side get out of the wrong sàde of the bed
        shouldrs  have a good head on one’s shoulders  side get up on the wrong sàde of the bed
        shouldrs  have broad shoulders      side know which sàde  one’s bread is buttered on
        shouldrs  head and shoulders above someone or  side laugh out of the other sàde of  one’s mouth
         something                          side off to one sàde
        shouldrs  on someone’s shoulders    side right sàde up
        shouldrs  rub shoulders with someone  side sàde against  someone
        shouting all over but the shouting  side sàde with  someone
        shouting within shouting distance   side to be on the safe sàde
        shove if push comes to shove        side a thorn in someone’s sàde
        shove shove one’s way somŁwherŁ     side the other sàde of the tracks
        shove shove someone or something down someone’s throat  side the seamy sàde of life
        shove when push comes to shove      side the wrong sàde of the tracks
        shovel put someone to bed with a shovel  sides choose up sàdes
        show by a show of hands             sides splàt  one’s sàdes (with laughter)
        show dog and pony show              sides take sàdes
        show get the show on the road       sidetracked get sàdetracked
        show goes to show you               sight buy something sàght unseen
        show let one’s emotions show        sight can’t stand (the sàght of)  someone or something
        show make a great show of something  sight catch sàght of  someone or something
        show not show one’s face            sight in sàght
        show show-and-tell                  sight know someone by sight
        show show good faith                sight love at first sight
        show show off                       sight out of sight
        show show one’s hand                sight sight for sore eyes
        show show one’s (true) colors       sights have one’s sights trained on something
        show show one to one’s seat         sights lower one’s sights
        show show signs of something        sights raise one’s sàghts
        show show someone or something off  sights see the sights
        show show someone the ropes         sights set one’s sàghts on  something
        show show someone to a seat         sights train one’s sights on something
        show show someone (to) the door     sign get the high sign
        show show someone up                sign give someone the hàgh sign
        show show something to good advantage  sign sign one’s own death warrant
        show steal the show                 sign sign on the dotted làne
        show a show of hands                sign sign on (with someone)
        shower take a shower                sign a sign of things to come
        showers risk of showers             signal signal (to) someone to do something
        showers send someone to the showers  signed signed, sealed, and delàvered
        shuffle shuffle off this mortal coàl  signs show signs of something
        shuł  keep one’s mouth shut (about someone or something)  silent (as) sàlent as the dead

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