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woman in the street) strength (at full strength; in full strength; in strength; with all one’s strength) stretch (at a stretch; on the stretch) stride (get into one’s stride; take some- thing in one’s stride) strike (lucky strike) string (have someone on a string; lead someone in a string; on a string; pull the string of the shower-bath; pull the strings) stripe (candy stripe) stroke (at a stroke; at the stroke; off one’s stroke; on the stroke) strong (come on strong; feel strong; go it strong; go strong) strongly (feel strongly) student (graduate student; post-gradu- ate student) stuff (green stuff; hot stuff ) stump (dumb as a stump; on the stump; up a stump) succession (by succession; in succes- sion) such (as such; such and such) sugar (neither sugar nor salt) suggestion (practicable suggestion; practical suggestion) suit (monkey suit) summer (high summer) sun (in the sun; under the sun) sunday (mothering sunday; palm sun- day; sad palm sunday) support (for the support of someone; in support of someone) suspicion (above suspicion; on suspi- cion; under suspicion) swan (black swan) sweat (don’t sweat it; don’t sweat the small stuff; no sweat) sweep (make a clean sweep of some- thing) swim (be in the swim) swing (get into full swing; get into the swing of things) syndrome (china syndrome; chinese restaurant syndrome; vietnam syn- drome) system (all systems go; economic sys- tem; economical system; star route system; star system) table (dressing table; lay something on the table; on the table; under the table) tack (on the tack; on the right tack) tail (horse tail; mare’s tail ; nose to tail; twist someone’s tail) take (give and take; give or take; one’s take on something) tale (live to tell the tale; tell tales; tell tales out of school; tell the same tale; tell the tale; twice-told tale) talk (be talked out; be talked out of something; big talk; don’t talk to me about it; little talk; money talks; short talk; small talk; talk small talk; talk the talk; tall talk; walk the talk; you should talk; you shouldn’t talk) tall (ride tall) tan (black and tan; black and tans, the) tap (on tap; on the tap) tape (on tape; on the tape; red tape) target (beat the target; hit the target) tartar (young tartar) taste (add to taste; add to the taste; have a taste for something; have a taste in something; have a taste of something; out of taste; to taste; to the taste; without taste) tea (beef-tea; cup of tea, a; different cup of tea, a; high tea; low tea; meat tea; not someone’s cup of tea; thick tea; thin tea) teacher (career teacher; careers teacher; pupil teacher; student teacher) telegraph (bush telegraph; field tele- graph) tell (don’t tell me; go tell it to the birds; i’m telling you; never tell me; tale that is told; you tell ’em; you tell me; you’re telling me) temper (get into a temper; get out of temper; in a temper; in no temper; out of temper) ten (top ten; upper ten) tenterhooks (on tenterhooks) territory (cover the territory; north- west territories; northwest territory) test (driving test; put someone to the acid test; screen test; screening test) than (sooner…than) thanks (no thanks to; offer one’s thanks; thanks but no thanks to) that (how’s that; how’s that for high) theater (movie theater; moving theater; operating theater; planetarium the- ater) them (pack them; pack them in) then (now and then; now then) there (be there for me; be there or be square; here and there; here, there and everywhere; such as there is; you had to be there) thick (as thick as peas in a pod) thief (thick as thieves) thin (spread oneself thin) thing (close thing; closest thing, the; do one’s thing; do that small thing; do the other thing; for one thing; have a thing about someone; have a thing with someone; it’s just one of those things; it’s just the thing; know a thing or two; last thing, the; latest thing, the; little thing; nearest thing, the; not a thing; not quite the thing; not the thing; one final thing; quite the thing; small thing; soft thing; soft things; taking one thing with another; that’s the thing; very near thing, a; what with one thing and another) think (don’t even think of it; have another think coming; not even think of something; not think much of something) thought (don’t give it a second thought; don’t give it a thought; give it a second thought; have no thought of something; have second thoughts) thousand (one in a thousand) threshold (pain threshold) throat (be at each other’s throats; cut each other’s throats; cut someone’s throat; have a lump in one’s throat) thus (thus and thus) tick (in a tick; on the tick; on tick) ticket (get a ticket; get one’s ticket; get one’s ticket punched; have tickets on oneself; work off one’s ticket; work one’s ticket; write one’s own ticket) ticking-off (give someone a ticking- off ) tide (go out with the tide; go with the tide) tie (fit to be tied; get tied up; old school tie) tiger (catch a tiger by the tail; have a tiger by the tail) time (actual time; after a time; after time; ahead of one’s time; ahead of time; all the time; any time; arrive dead on time; at a time; at all times; at any one time; at any time; at full time; at no time; at one time; at one time and another; at one time or another; at one’s time of life; at the same time; at the time of something; at this time; at times; bad time; bad times; be over one’s time; beat some- one’s time; beat the time; before one’s time; before time; behind one’s time; behind the times; behind time; break time; broken time; by the time; close time; closing time; dead Key Word Index – 394 –