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• Saigon moment.
A Saigon moment is when people realise that something has gone wrong and that they will lose or fail.
• Say uncle.

If you say uncle, you admit defeat (‘Cry uncle’ is an alternative form.)
• Sharp as tack.

If someone is as sharp as a tack, they are very clever endeed.
• Sharped your pencil.

If someone says this when negotiating, they want the other person to make a better offer, a lower price.
• Slap leather.

This is used as an instruction to tell people when to draw their guns.
• Slower than molasses going uphill in january.
The move extremely slowly. Molasses drips slowly anyway but add January cold and gravity, dripping uphill

would be an impossibility, thereby making the molasses move very slowly indeed!
• Squeaky wheel gets the grease.

When people say that the squeaky wheel gets the grease, they mean that the person who complains or protests
the loudest attracts attention and service.

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