SHUT OF, or SHOT OF, rid of.
SHUT UP! be quiet, don’t make a noise; to stop short, to make cease
in a summary manner, to silence effectually. “Only the other day we
heard of a preacher who, speaking of the scene with the doctors in
the Temple, remarked that the Divine disputant completely SHUT THEM
UP!”—_Athen._ 30th July, 1859. SHUT UP, utterly exhausted, done for.
SHY, a throw.
SHY, “to fight SHY of a person,” to avoid his society either from
dislike, fear, or any other reason. SHY has also the sense of flighty,
unsteady, untrustworthy.
SHY, to fling; COCK-SHY, a game at fairs, consisting of throwing short
sticks at trinkets set upon other sticks,—both name and practice
derived from the old game of throwing or SHYING at live cocks.
SICES, or SIZES, a throw of _sixes_ at dice.
SICK AS A HORSE, popular simile,—curious, because a horse never vomits.
SICKNER, or SICKENER, a dose too much of anything.
SIDE BOARDS, or STICK-UPS, shirt collars.
SIGHT, “to take a SIGHT at a person,” a vulgar action employed by
street boys to denote incredulity, or contempt for authority, by
placing the thumb against the nose and closing all the fingers except
the little one, which is agitated in token of derision.—_See_ WALKER.
SIM, one of a Methodistical turn in religion; a low-church-man;
originally a follower of the late Rev. Charles Simeon.—_Cambridge._
SIMON, a sixpenny piece.
SIMON PURE, “the real SIMON PURE,” the genuine article. Those who have
witnessed Mr. C. Mathews’ performance in Mrs. Centlivre’s admirable
comedy of _A Bold Stroke for a Wife_, and the laughable coolness
with which he, the _false_ SIMON PURE, assuming the quaker dress and
character of the REAL ONE, elbowed that worthy out of his expected
entertainment, will at once perceive the origin of this phrase.—_See_
act v., scene 1.