[
  {
    "ID": "1-1",
    "Idiom": [
      "11 Downing Street"
    ],
    "Meaning": "The office of the Chancellor of the Exchequer.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "1-2",
    "Idiom": [
      "11 Downing Street"
    ],
    "Meaning": "HM Treasury of the United Kingdom.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "2",
    "Idiom": [
      "110 proof"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Very strong.",
    "Sentence": [
      "In those days a Hollywood hero had to be 110 proof....",
      "Then I was wondering who this Bob Dylan was who wrote this great song, and then I was going deeper and deeper to the stuff that's 110 proof.",
      "Attention must be paid to Dr. Ron Paul, the 110-proof libertarian in the Republican race."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "3",
    "Idiom": [
      "11th commandment"
    ],
    "Meaning": "A well-known, unbreakable convention.",
    "Sentence": [
      "A “hood,” he said, isn’t necessarily a neighborhood, adding that the same culture is seen on Wall Street, “where the 11th commandment is ‘Thou shalt not get caught.’ ”",
      "Some of the accused did not know Basil’s real identity; the others stuck by the old-school criminal’s 11th commandment, “Thou shalt not grass.”"
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "4",
    "Idiom": [
      "12-ounce curls"
    ],
    "Meaning": "The activity of drinking beer.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Don't burn out your biceps with 12-ounce curls."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "5",
    "Idiom": [
      "15 minutes of fame"
    ],
    "Meaning": "A brief period of celebrity.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Paula Jones was, even to her lawyers, a loose cannon—as prepared to risk her marriage and her well-being to get the president to confess his original sin as she was intent on making big money and getting her fifteen minutes of fame.",
      "In the next chapter, we'll meet twenty-five hopefuls who have already begun to experience their fifteen minutes of fame as a result of exposure on YouTube.",
      "By the time we went to Central Park, someone walking in the park said they had just seen us on Fox that morning. It was like being a rock star with a whole fifteen minutes of fame. So it was fun for a time.",
      "After just a month on television, this ordinary chap from Catford, south London, was an overnight superstar, ready to milk his 15 minutes of fame.",
      "One day in early January 1970, Michael James Brody Jr. stepped off a Pan Am jet at John F. Kennedy Airport and into what would be one of the new decade’s shortest, strangest 15 minutes of fame."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "6",
    "Idiom": [
      "23 Skidoo Street"
    ],
    "Meaning": "A generic or fictitious location.",
    "Sentence": [
      "\"Apply at once to XYZ, 23 Skidoo St., New York.\"",
      "Olive Oyl: 23 Skidoo Street, driver."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "7-1",
    "Idiom": [
      "23 skidoo"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To leave quickly or at an opportune moment.",
    "Sentence": [
      "... the 'varsity quarter, who at the close of each meeting discards the conventional \"I move we adjourn, sir,'\" for the more modern \" 23, skidoo.\"",
      "I can imagine nothing more shocking than to hear some one use a slang expression current ten years ago, such as ‘ 23 skidoo ’ or ‘you’re off your base.’"
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "7-2",
    "Idiom": [
      "23 skidoo"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To leave quickly.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "8",
    "Idiom": [
      "3-on-the-tree"
    ],
    "Meaning": "A three-speed manual transmission mounted on the steering column.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Mother and Father learned to drive in a car with a 3-on-the-tree."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "9-1",
    "Idiom": [
      "800-pound gorilla"
    ],
    "Meaning": "An entity that dominates.",
    "Sentence": [
      "When it comes to the lucrative search market, Google, not Microsoft, is the 800-pound gorilla.",
      "The thing he unfortunately doesn't recognise is there is an 800-pound gorilla when it comes to major American motor sports. The 800-pound gorilla is Nascar.",
      "It was poetically fitting. For almost a year, Mr. Trump has been the 800-pound gorilla whose unpredictable rampages have obsessed the news media. Now he was completing the circle by commenting on the 400-pound gorilla who briefly stole the spotlight from him for one holiday weekend.",
      "Apache Spark is a cluster-computing framework. It’s the 800-pound gorilla you turn to when it’s impossible to fit your data in memory."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "9-2",
    "Idiom": [
      "800-pound gorilla"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Something obvious but unaddressed that is dangerous or intimidating.",
    "Sentence": [
      "However, a co-author of the new study said those arguments ignore the “ 800-pound gorilla ”: sky-high prices everywhere."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "10",
    "Idiom": [
      "Abbot's Priory"
    ],
    "Meaning": "A former prison in London.",
    "Sentence": [
      "after this lady’s retirement to enjoy the otium cum dignitate [leisure with dignity] in Abbot’s Priory, she was visited by a gentleman who had previously and subsequently rendered her the most unequivocal and disinterested assistance, by frequent pecuniary supplies.",
      "Upon inquiring after George Charteris, Esq. he finds that he has bolted from Palace-yard, and taken refuge in “ Abbot’s Priory;” and, to comfort him, the person who has received the 200 l. bill, informs him “that Charteris is a notorious swindler.”",
      "Ned and Tom were soon outside of the King’s Bench, (or Abbot’s Priory, as it was called by the prisoners,) they had not walked far before they fell in with Little Kiam"
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "11",
    "Idiom": [
      "Adam Tiler"
    ],
    "Meaning": "A pickpocket's accomplice.",
    "Sentence": [
      "\"In the same way as I got this,\" showing a handful of silver, \"by turning autem diver, or, if you like it better, my Adam tiler.\"",
      "He waved his hand. \"Well, you know how these sods gas. Most likely there's nothing in it. It's a cert Gursey sank dead on the gutter at the Flat. It'd be hard to prove he was Jem's Adam Tiler.\"",
      "\"In Mr Yarde's picturesque but somewhat obscure language, he — er — tipped the cole to Adam Tiler. Have I that right?'",
      "“And do you know what an Adam Tiler does?” Wickham looked a bit embarrassed. “Is he employed in the repair of roofs, sir?”... “An Adam Tiler is the associate of a Fork, better known as a pickpocket.”",
      "“Then Sue lifted his passkey as he turned to go back to the office.” “Lifted?” I said. “So now you've got the lingo down? Next you'll be telling me about marks, nippers, and Adam Tilers.” The Adam Tiler bit brought a puzzled look from even Sue. “Oh, oh, I was the misdirection,” Narlene blurted. “I sort of let my pareo slip off of my shoulder at just the right time.”"
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "12",
    "Idiom": [
      "Adam's ale"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Water.",
    "Sentence": [
      "She had loaded Floss into the basket, tied a sugarbag containing necessities—sketch pad, pencils, corned beef sandwiches wrapped in newsprint, a bottle of water from the garden tap, the best water, the clearest, Adam's ale — to the frame of her bicycle and set off, Floss sits up in the basket, looking ahead, though of course she can't see, but her nose is up, her world a dizzy palette of smell, as clear and bright as it is to Sybil, pedalling carefully along the river and down Fitzgerald Avenue towards the hills."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "13-1",
    "Idiom": [
      "American Dream"
    ],
    "Meaning": "The aspiration for a better life for one's children.",
    "Sentence": [
      "They are not racists or sick; they are not guilty of the crime that plagues the land. They are black and they are white —they're native born and foreign born—they're young and they're old. They give drive to the spirit of America. They give lift to the American Dream."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "13-2",
    "Idiom": [
      "American Dream"
    ],
    "Meaning": "A belief that anyone can achieve success through hard work and determination.",
    "Sentence": [
      "If America has stood for anything unique in the history of the world, it has been for the American dream, the belief in the common man and the insistence upon his having, as far as possible, equal opportunity in every way with the rich one.",
      "“The whole notion of the American dream,” said Frank Levy, an M.I.T. economist, “described a mass upward mobility that is just a lot harder to achieve right now.”",
      "Now, a new crop of Republican candidates and elected officials are using the phrase in a different way, invoking the same promise but arguing in speeches, ads and mailings that the American dream is dying or in danger, threatened by what they see as rampant crime, unchecked illegal immigration, burdensome government regulations and liberal social policies."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "14-1",
    "Idiom": [
      "April showers bring May flowers"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Rain in April leads to blooming flowers in May.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "14-2",
    "Idiom": [
      "April showers bring May flowers"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Hardship can lead to happiness.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "15",
    "Idiom": [
      "Attic salt"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Delicate wit.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Koznyshev, who knew better than anyone how at the end of a most abstract and serious dispute unexpectedly to administer a grain of Attic salt and thereby to change his interlocutor's frame of mind, did so now.",
      "But Attic salt is not the sole preservative against the decay that threatens all human writings; nor can mere eloquence rekindle the ashes of a dead controversy."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "16",
    "Idiom": [
      "Augean stables"
    ],
    "Meaning": "A place or situation marked by corruption or moral decay.",
    "Sentence": [
      "We have assembled to discuss those principles of government—principles which have been subverted to the purposes of the present administration. We have seen the effect of some of the measures of the administration at Washington, and it is high time, my fellow-citizens, that the Augean stable there was cleansed. The Augean stable at Washington has had a number of animals in it for nearly twelve years, without being cleaned out. [Laughter.]",
      "'What an Augean stable !' he muttered to himself. 'Where does one begin? With the masses? Educate the masses?' He shook his head. 'Not a chance there. It would take centuries. A handful of men at the top. Or even one man with vision – an enlightened dictator. People are scared of the word nowadays. But what kind of democracy can exist side by side with so much corruption and ignorance? Perhaps a half-way house – a sort of compromise.'",
      "Augean stables are everywhere under the Congress Raj—whether in agriculture or elsewhere. Only a few days back there was a huge fraud in the CHS dispensaries.",
      "For him , daft, culturally sanctioned gesturalism is an Augean stable, and he the Hercules whose duty it is to disinfect it. At this time, for example, he mounted an attack on the ultimate in post-war expressionism. Unfortunately, his version of a chimpanzee painting remains unfinished.",
      "The legacy of State-based political machines—I need to win an election despite them. And then I can clean out the Augean stables : abolish the National Executive for what they did to Cookie, and abolish the primacy of the State branches.",
      "The military administration wasted little time in getting down to the business of cleaning up the Augean Stable. The constitution was suspended. All political appointees lost their job. They were all hounded into detention, collectively accused of corruption."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "17",
    "Idiom": [
      "Banbury story of a cock and a bull"
    ],
    "Meaning": "A nonsensical story.",
    "Sentence": [
      "BANBURY STORY, of a Cock and a Bull, an Idle relation, in order to pick Acquaintance on the Road, till a convenient Place and Opportunity offer to rob or plunder.",
      "A Banbury Story of a Cock and a Bull.—The saying \"It is a cock and bull story\" is common enough, as every one knows, at the present day; but in former times—I mean in the last century—the phrase always ran thus \"It is a Banbury story of a cock and a bull.\" Can you inform me why was Banbury in particular fixed upon as the locality of the story? — Falgate.",
      "Fanny, how is this? I promise you I thought the whole tale a Banbury story, but, upon my soul, what do I find but that fellow closeted with you!",
      "Balderdash! Do not seek to pull wool over my eyes, miss! Fabricate me no Banbury stories !",
      "Nor was she uncaring, mean-spirited or likely to go about spreading a Banbury story of a cock and a bull.",
      "'I never got the chance. Mama sent me to my room for telling fibs.' Nella's bottom lip trembled. 'She threatened to paddle me with a hairbrush. Called it a Banbury story of a cock and bull.'"
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "18",
    "Idiom": [
      "Bat-Signal"
    ],
    "Meaning": "A signal that attracts or summons.",
    "Sentence": [
      "The power of that promise is part of why Trump's election win was like a Bat-Signal for hatemongers of all kinds.",
      "\"Have you met my mom? She's like a Bat-Signal for jerks. I'm never falling in love, Kellan. Ever. It's so stupid.\"",
      "I honked the horn and flickered the lights as a bat signal for my mom to save me."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "19",
    "Idiom": [
      "Bob's your uncle"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Indicates a simple, successful outcome.",
    "Sentence": [
      "And you're not going to give me that stuff about just shoving over the lever and bob's your uncle. You forget the times the fellow gets caught and has to be kicked off the edge of the trap hole.",
      "Click the Import Contacts button and— Bob's your uncle (that's \"Tada!\" for my readers)—you should see a confirmation that all went according to plan, and your contacts have been imported into your Gmail address book.",
      "Simply type in a description of your item and Bob's your uncle : someone, somewhere in the eBay virtual universe will be selling something similar.",
      "All you need to do is learn to make these little loops and Bob's your uncle, you're a real live knitter.",
      "Insert the plug, press the switch, and Bob's your uncle.",
      "You want to go to the stadium? Go straight on until you reach the park, take the first left and Bob's your uncle !"
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "20",
    "Idiom": [
      "Brownian motion"
    ],
    "Meaning": "A state of chaos.",
    "Sentence": [
      "The sun was hot on my legs. I moved out of the doorway and stood in the room with my thoughts in Brownian motion.",
      "That's pretty much what I'm doing here today—asking you, right now, to sit down, take a deep breath, and stop. Try to see a future beyond that Brownian motion of your daily affairs."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "21",
    "Idiom": [
      "Buckley's and none"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Describes a very small chance or no chance at all.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "22",
    "Idiom": [
      "Buckley's chance"
    ],
    "Meaning": "A very small chance.",
    "Sentence": [
      "\"So he has a chance,\" said Connie. \" Buckley's chance, the way his luck is. Fell out with his girl he did, and lost his job, and now 'e's goin' to lose 'is life. The unluckiest man that ever lived.\""
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "23",
    "Idiom": [
      "Buggins's turn"
    ],
    "Meaning": "A term for appointing someone by rotation based on length of service rather than merit.",
    "Sentence": [
      "I remembered your old saying \"Some day the Empire will go down because it is Buggins's turn.\"'",
      "He will be appointed on the principle of Buggins's turn."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "24",
    "Idiom": [
      "Bumfuck, Egypt"
    ],
    "Meaning": "The middle of nowhere.",
    "Sentence": [
      "One screwup and he could be splitting rocks on a chain gang somewhere in Bumfuck, Egypt."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "25",
    "Idiom": [
      "Cadillac problem"
    ],
    "Meaning": "An insignificant problem of a privileged person.",
    "Sentence": [
      "My sponsor, when I present him with a nagging problem (usually trivial, although blown out of proportion in my warped mind), invariably replies, \"Lou, that's a Cadillac problem. Read page 417, and get grateful for what you have … now !\"",
      "It might not seem like a big deal and in the grand scheme of suffering, it is a Cadillac problem. But for me it was a significant step toward self-acceptance, and in that way, I guess it was brave."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "26",
    "Idiom": [
      "Caesar's wife must be above suspicion"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Those in authority should avoid any hint of wrongdoing.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "27",
    "Idiom": [
      "Catch-22"
    ],
    "Meaning": "A situation with no escape due to conflicting conditions.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Herein lies my personal “ Catch 22 ”; the choice between three hours sleep and some discomfort or six hours sleep and real pain. Usually I choose the lesser evil of insomnia because in addition to the pain at 6am, I am incapacitated by the hangover from the sedative.",
      "For us it’s been a real Catch-22 : when we have the time to take a vacation, we don’t have enough money, and when we have enough money, we don’t have the time."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "28-1",
    "Idiom": [
      "China syndrome"
    ],
    "Meaning": "A hypothetical catastrophic failure of a nuclear reactor.",
    "Sentence": [
      "The Ergen report contains an analysis showing that the high-temperature mass would sink into the earth and grow in size for about two years. This behavior projection is known as the China syndrome.",
      "Dr. Lowell: If that's true, we came very close to the China Syndrome. Kimberly Wells: The what? Dr. Lowell: If the core is exposed for whatever reason, the fuel heats beyond core heat tolerance in a matter of minutes. Nothing can stop it. And it melts down right through the bottom of the plant, theoretically to China. But of course, as soon as it hits ground water, it blasts into the atmosphere and sends out clouds of radioactivity.",
      "The molten mass did not even fully penetrate the 0.5-cm cladding, confirming tests in Karlsruhe, Germany, and in Idaho, that the \" China syndrome \" is not a credible possibility."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "28-2",
    "Idiom": [
      "China syndrome"
    ],
    "Meaning": "A specific type of failure.",
    "Sentence": [
      "The report judged the risks of catastrophic nuclear power plant accidents (known as core meltdowns or China syndromes) to be socially acceptable.",
      "Ames maneuvered the Avalon around the Alfa ' s bow, working the directional propeller carefully and adjusting trim to cruise down the other side, actually the top of the dead sub. \"See any evidence of a hull fracture?\" \"No,\" the ensign answered, \"just the two burn-throughs. I wonder what went wrong?\" \"A for-real China Syndrome. It finally happened to somebody.\" Ames shook his head. If there was anything the navy preached about reactors, it was safety. \"Get the transducer against the hull. We'll see if anybody's alive in there.\"",
      "Contrary to accounts in the media, he states, \"bugs of this nature don't cause China Syndromes or missile launches, at least not generally.\""
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "28-3",
    "Idiom": [
      "China syndrome"
    ],
    "Meaning": "A situation involving a potential catastrophe related to China.",
    "Sentence": [
      "And then there is the China syndrome. China now represents about 20% of Korea's total trade."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "29",
    "Idiom": [
      "China's final warning"
    ],
    "Meaning": "An empty threat.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "30-1",
    "Idiom": [
      "Chinaman on one's back"
    ],
    "Meaning": "A drug addiction.",
    "Sentence": [
      "The chances are that he will stay with his first love, the needle, and that the habit will lose the glorious drive and tingle that it had at first, and become the chinaman on his back who drives him like a slave to get more money to buy more junk."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "30-2",
    "Idiom": [
      "Chinaman on one's back"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Withdrawal symptoms.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "31",
    "Idiom": [
      "Chinaman's chance"
    ],
    "Meaning": "No chance.",
    "Sentence": [
      "And if I weren’t here now, Driscoll and Ann wouldn’t have a Chinaman’s chance.’",
      "The Chinese, who in the mid-19th century had come to America by the tens of thousands and helped build the transcontinental railway, were on the receiving end of much prejudicial legislation.... In the slang wisdom of the day, sojourners from the Middle Kingdom \"didn't stand a Chinaman's chance.\""
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "32",
    "Idiom": [
      "Chinese Wall"
    ],
    "Meaning": "An information barrier to ensure confidentiality and prevent conflicts of interest.",
    "Sentence": [
      "I concur in the opinion of Justice Haning, but write separately to comment on the apparently widespread use of the term \" Chinese Wall \" to describe the type of screening mechanism discussed in this case. While our opinion uses the term \"screen,\" both the parties and the trial court used the term \" Chinese Wall,\" which seems to have become a term of art. I write to express my profound objection to the use of this phrase in this context.",
      "The enthusiasm for handy phrases of verbal shorthand is understandable. Occasionally, however, lawyers and judges use a term which is singularly inappropriate. \" Chinese Wall \" is one such piece of legal flotsam which should be emphatically abandoned. The term has an ethnic focus which many would consider a subtle form of linguistic discrimination. Certainly, the continued use of the term would be insensitive to the ethnic identity of the many persons of Chinese descent."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "33",
    "Idiom": [
      "Chinese compliment"
    ],
    "Meaning": "A veiled or subtle insult.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "34",
    "Idiom": [
      "Chinese overtime"
    ],
    "Meaning": "A type of overtime that lowers the hourly rate with more hours.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "35",
    "Idiom": [
      "Chinese puzzle"
    ],
    "Meaning": "A senseless situation.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "36",
    "Idiom": [
      "Chinese water torture"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Any repeated irritation that causes cumulative damage.",
    "Sentence": [
      "The growth of subsidies is a Chinese water torture on individual liberty.",
      "The end wasn't about money, nobody had an affair, and no firearms were involved. I think what I learned from the experience is that if there are things that bother you before you get married and you can't even discuss them, can't even talk about how to change or deal with whatever issues are going on, run. It was an exercise in Chinese water torture for me.",
      "Compared to Hansen's own blitzkrieg appointment, it was a drawn-out affair, like some kind of political Chinese water torture."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "37",
    "Idiom": [
      "Christmas came early"
    ],
    "Meaning": "A pleasant surprise.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "38",
    "Idiom": [
      "Christmas comes but once a year"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Emphasizes the annual uniqueness of Christmas.",
    "Sentence": [
      "At Christmas play and make good cheere, / For Christmas comes but once a yeere. The term does not appear in the 1st edition of the work (1557).",
      "I urged to the good lady that this was Christmas-eve; that Christmas comes but once a year,—which is unhappily too true, for when it begins to stay with us the whole year round we shall make this earth a very different place;",
      "\" Christmas comes but once a year, / And then Mother wishes it wasn't here.\"",
      "Christmas comes but once a year, which is just as well—shopping during the festive season can be no fun at all. (Can we archive this URL ?)"
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "39",
    "Idiom": [
      "Christmas graduate"
    ],
    "Meaning": "A freshman who drops out after the first semester.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "40",
    "Idiom": [
      "Christmas tree bill"
    ],
    "Meaning": "A bill with many unrelated amendments that benefit various groups.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "41",
    "Idiom": [
      "Daniel come to judgement"
    ],
    "Meaning": "One who wisely settles a difficult matter.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "42",
    "Idiom": [
      "Davy Jones's locker"
    ],
    "Meaning": "The bottom of the ocean, viewed as a grave for lost sailors and items.",
    "Sentence": [
      "\"Damn my eyes,\" says he, \"they are gone to Davy Jones's locker.\" NOTE: Partridge erroneously refers to this as from the journal of Richard rather than Nicholas Cresswell.",
      "... are discovered singing a melancholy duet, bewailing the loss of an honest tar, whom they suppose (to use the burthen of the song) \"is in Davy Jones's locker.\""
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "43",
    "Idiom": [
      "December bride"
    ],
    "Meaning": "A woman who marries significantly older than most brides.",
    "Sentence": [
      "She was too old. Too dried-up. A December bride rescued from spinsterhood and assigned the place of helpmeet, companion, cook and laundress, with the sex thrown in as a bonus.",
      "Marguerite: She's afraid y'all will laugh at 'em and make fun of 'em for getting married when they're so old.... Mr Mingo: Oh, we'll laugh a little bit. They have to expect that. A December bride has to expect some teasing."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "44",
    "Idiom": [
      "Delhi belly"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Digestive illness or diarrhea experienced by visitors to India.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "45",
    "Idiom": [
      "Derangement Syndrome"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Acute paranoia triggered by a specific topic.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "46",
    "Idiom": [
      "Disgusted of Tunbridge Wells"
    ],
    "Meaning": "A stereotypical conservative.",
    "Sentence": [
      "The Post Office bitterly resents the criticism that is constantly voiced in the British press, both by \" Disgusteds of Tunbridge Wells \" and journalists.",
      "It was refreshing that what raised the hackles of Disgusted of Tunbridge Wells had nothing to do with a colourful range of jumpers, nor a flighty Italian art director/photographer.",
      "Of course ' Disgusted of Tunbridge Wells' was never a Labour voter.",
      "The Sussex Weald is all small towns and villages, 99 per cent white, gravel-drived, car-owning, the sort of place Disgusted of Tunbridge Wells would move to if he found Tunbridge Wells a bit too bustling.",
      "The inanity of the British attack is obvious from some of the words the early Disgusteds of Tunbridge Wells complained about."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "47",
    "Idiom": [
      "Dunkirk spirit"
    ],
    "Meaning": "The spirit of unity in overcoming adversity.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "48-1",
    "Idiom": [
      "Dutch courage"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Courage induced by alcohol.",
    "Sentence": [
      "I was beginning to wish I'd had the sense to spend the last hour in a pub. Dutch courage would have been better than no courage at all."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "48-2",
    "Idiom": [
      "Dutch courage"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Alcoholic drink taken to boost courage.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Another five minutes wait and we finally raise glasses in a toast to the evening. ‘So, what's the plan?’ ‘Well, we can go straight to the casino after this or we can get half a skinful of Dutch courage.’"
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "49",
    "Idiom": [
      "Dutch reckoning"
    ],
    "Meaning": "A falsified, unjustifiably high bill that is not itemised.",
    "Sentence": [
      "As if all Light of Reasoning were so shut up in Clavius his Brain, that because he does not see, the rest of Mankind must be blind; and what is that way of Reasoning that he betakes himself to, but by huddling the Principles of Geometry into Confusion, without order of method of Reasoning, to make a Conclusion, like a Dutch Reckoning of Allem-al ?",
      "\"You knows we never took Mike's duds till you couldn't pay his charges any longer; and since we comes to that, there's two weeks of three shillings and sixpence due for your lodging in the Star-Chamber, for yourself and Master Lionel Falconer, which I supposes you means to pay with a Dutch reckoning : you sees I can speak some names right enough,—d'ye take me,—hey?\" and with an ill-natured leer he left the hall.",
      "'That's better!' he said, still smiling, but very much more pleasantly. 'Rig Jane out in the first style of elegance, and send me a Dutch reckoning : I don't want to know the particulars.'"
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "50",
    "Idiom": [
      "E ticket"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Something thrilling or exciting.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Definitely an E ticket.",
      "Well this sure ain't no E ticket.",
      "We did not expect the \"E\" ticket ride, nor did our newest riding adventurer, Greg."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "51",
    "Idiom": [
      "Elvis has left the building"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Announces the end of a show.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "52",
    "Idiom": [
      "Elysian Fields"
    ],
    "Meaning": "A place of ideal happiness; paradise.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "53-1",
    "Idiom": [
      "Evel Knievel"
    ],
    "Meaning": "A daredevil.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "53-2",
    "Idiom": [
      "Evel Knievel"
    ],
    "Meaning": "A reckless showboater.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "54",
    "Idiom": [
      "F in the chat"
    ],
    "Meaning": "An expression of condolences or sympathy.",
    "Sentence": [
      "One hour ago, however, Gaules put out a mysterious tweet. \"If you have faith, leave your F in the chat,\" he wrote. The word F, in gaming culture, means to pay your respects when someone dies.",
      "Some players are already throwing Fs in the chat for EA's latest shooter.",
      "Drop some Fs in the chat for abortion rights because we gotta find someone who can solve this thing A satirical article."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "55-1",
    "Idiom": [
      "Faustian bargain"
    ],
    "Meaning": "An agreement sacrificing moral values for personal gain.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Most people nowadays, in this country at least, do not seem to be able to see anything else but money. They would cheerfully sell their souls to hell for it. Quite a number of them, according to the tencent magazines, have already made this Faustian bargain.",
      "I've made my Faustian bargain —for this woman, I've sold my immortal soul …",
      "A number of characters in Middle-earth engage in some kind of Faustian bargain where they are tempted with promises of power, wealth, and status. This is how Sauron ensnares the kings of men and dwarves with the elf-crafted rings of power.",
      "Rejuvenation was associated with a reinvigorated sex drive, and this connection generated an anxiety expressed in the Faustian bargain : damnation for a few extra years of carnal pleasure.",
      "The university’s abandonment of its founding value of academic freedom in exchange for the corporation’s large financial contribution was a Faustian bargain."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "55-2",
    "Idiom": [
      "Faustian bargain"
    ],
    "Meaning": "A deal focusing on immediate gain without considering long-term consequences.",
    "Sentence": [
      "It has been remarked that all technology is a Faustian bargain : one obtains conveniences and sometimes luxuries, but in exchange one gets an increased potential for catastrophe.",
      "And the law's long arm loosened its grip on some drug dealers when prosecutors offered them deals for their testimony. \"The government was hell-bent on convicting [Manuel] Noriega no matter what the cost,\" said Rep. Charles E. Schumer, D-N.Y., chair of the House Subcommittee on Crime and Criminal Justice. \"When you look at some of the Faustian bargains that were struck, you have to wonder: Did we really have to burn the village down in order to save it?\"",
      "But for decades, many executives actually employed sokaiya as muscle to keep unruly investors in check during their choreographed annual meetings. Yet executives' reliance on mobsters turned out to be a Faustian bargain. By the 1970s, the sokaiya had figured out how to become stockholders themselves and threaten to ask embarrassing questions at annual meetings.",
      "Vice President Joseph R. Biden Jr. used a speech at Moscow State University to criticize Russia’s legal and political systems, a move likely to irritate the country's leaders. “I urge all you students here: Don’t compromise on the basic elements of democracy. You need not make that Faustian bargain.”"
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "56",
    "Idiom": [
      "Faustian deal"
    ],
    "Meaning": "A deal sacrificing moral integrity for power or knowledge.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Ali Abbasi’s feature — which has just been announced as part of the 2024 Cannes main competition — charts Trump’s ascent to power through what is described as a “ Faustian deal ” with the influential right-wing lawyer and political fixer Roy Cohn (seen in the still being portrayed by Jeremy Strong)."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "57",
    "Idiom": [
      "Faustian dilemma"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Choosing between short-term gain with long-term consequences and an option with short-term hardship but better future outcomes.",
    "Sentence": [
      "I find that many people see sustainability as a version of a Faustian dilemma; they often knowingly make choices that have immediate personal benefits, but in the long run are disastrous for all of us."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "58",
    "Idiom": [
      "Fort Knox"
    ],
    "Meaning": "A place that is very secure.",
    "Sentence": [
      "After the security upgrades, the facility was essentially Fort Knox."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "59",
    "Idiom": [
      "Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Harbingers of doom.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse,... Here and now those dread specters are: Divorce, Illness, Unemployment and Overspending. These are now the harbingers of economic doom",
      "[One authority] has identified four types of communication, which he calls the \" Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse,\" that are signs of a marriage having problems"
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "60-1",
    "Idiom": [
      "French leave"
    ],
    "Meaning": "A departure taken without notice or permission.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "60-2",
    "Idiom": [
      "French leave"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Desertion or absence without permission.",
    "Sentence": [
      "he may have felt a particular need to mitigate the responsibility of those who shirked their duty, for as he wrote that letter he had just returned from French leave himself."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "61",
    "Idiom": [
      "Gary Glitter"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Slang for the anus, often in relation to anal sex.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Just because we like to take it up the Gary Glitter, darling, it doesn't mean we have to grow fat to satisfy the fears of our friends",
      "\"...and I bet she's dirty, and all. She's bound to take it up the Gary Glitter.” “I'm sure that Mel's a nice church-going lass,” I countered, almost managing a straight face, “who has never been kissed, let alone done up the arse.”"
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "62",
    "Idiom": [
      "German goiter"
    ],
    "Meaning": "A protruding stomach from excessive beer consumption.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Brothers Gribble, Berger, Wolf, Shadwill and the writer are still nursing their “beer muscles.” I mean German goitres.",
      "Any man who likes playing Santa Claus is in much better shape come Christmas if he has a German goiter."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "63",
    "Idiom": [
      "German virgin"
    ],
    "Meaning": "A poker hand consisting of two nines.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "64",
    "Idiom": [
      "God doesn't give with both hands"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Nobody is gifted in all areas; strengths come with weaknesses.",
    "Sentence": [
      "\"Here's the thing: pretty and funny and a good actress—that's a hard combination,\" says casting director Lisa Miller Katz (Everybody Loves Raymond). ' God doesn't give with both hands ' is the saying.\"",
      "Cameron Tucker: Laugh at his jokes. Lily Tucker-Pritchett: What if they aren't funny? Cameron Tucker: Oh, honey, the cute ones rarely are. God doesn't give with both hands.",
      "That was Kirihara Takuto. They say God doesn't give with both hands, but this guy was handsome, charismatic, and good at everything he tried—top stats across the board."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "65",
    "Idiom": [
      "God forbid"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Indicates that something undesirable should not happen.",
    "Sentence": [
      "If, God forbid, there's a fire, head for the nearest exit door."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "66",
    "Idiom": [
      "God forfend"
    ],
    "Meaning": "A plea against an undesirable outcome.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "67-1",
    "Idiom": [
      "God is in the detail"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Details are important.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "67-2",
    "Idiom": [
      "God is in the detail"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Truth is in the details.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "68-2",
    "Idiom": [
      "God works in mysterious ways"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Seemingly unfavorable situations may have future benefits.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Person A: It seems that I'm about to be fired from my job.",
      "Person B: Well, God works in mysterious ways — maybe it'll be the kick you need to apply to university..."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "69",
    "Idiom": [
      "God's gift"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Describes someone with an inflated sense of self-importance or something overvalued.",
    "Sentence": [
      "He thinks he's God's gift to music lovers.",
      "They're acting as if his new album is God's gift to all music lovers."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "70",
    "Idiom": [
      "God's gift to men"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Someone irresistible to men.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "71",
    "Idiom": [
      "God's gift to women"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Someone seen as irresistible to women.",
    "Sentence": [
      "After one encounter she confided to Rose, \"You know, Glen's grown to simply love himself so much, he just thinks he's God's gift to women. All the girls at that stupid uni seem to fall over each other to ride in his precious car"
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "72",
    "Idiom": [
      "God's green earth"
    ],
    "Meaning": "The world.",
    "Sentence": [
      "A MEC model that will do nothing on God's green earth but take two steps forward, say 'Pleased to meet you, sir,' shake hands, then take two steps back...",
      "Few places on God's green earth are as imbued with primordial magic as those bordering the phantasmagoric waters of Fundy.",
      "And with regard to the Toad Island bridge, junior, there's not a damn thing you or anyone else on God's green earth can do to stop it.",
      "No way on God's green earth is that going to happen."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "73",
    "Idiom": [
      "God's honest truth"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Unquestionable, absolute truth.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "74",
    "Idiom": [
      "God's work"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Important and necessary work, often unrecognized or unpaid.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "75",
    "Idiom": [
      "Good Samaritan"
    ],
    "Meaning": "A person who selflessly helps others in need.",
    "Sentence": [
      "America as the dynamic center of ever-widening spheres of enterprise, America as the training center of the skillfull servants of mankind, America as the Good Samaritan, really believing again that it is more blessed to give than to receive,",
      "Respirited for the moment, he hopped down from the wagon and attempted to pay the good Samaritan for the ride."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "76",
    "Idiom": [
      "Greek calends"
    ],
    "Meaning": "A time that never occurs.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Blockheads, friends of my heart and liver, cousins of my tripe, are you ignorant that this symposium is as authentic as any of those tales of the Greek Calends, which you swallow and digest so easily, ?",
      "My book with Professor [John Ronald Reuel] Tolkien – any book in collaboration with that great but dilatory and unmethodical man – is dated, I fear, to appear on the Greek Kalends !"
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "77",
    "Idiom": [
      "HE-double-L"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Hell.",
    "Sentence": [
      "As narrow and close as a coffin, and dark as H E double L."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "78",
    "Idiom": [
      "HE-double-hockey-sticks"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Hell.",
    "Sentence": [
      "His voice rose about an octave, actually just short of a scream, and he said something to the effect that \"it's an HE-double-hockey-sticks -week at work.\"",
      "He's made the mother's life a living HE-double-hockey-sticks, my daughter says.",
      "She knew Kate didn't have a snowball's chance in HE-Double hockey-sticks, with Angelina's Zee-Zee and Bud's Mister Dobson winning everything."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "79",
    "Idiom": [
      "HE-double-toothpicks"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Hell.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Yet you try it out and the gimpy ones will scream H-E double toothpicks about Social Security in their golden years, which I want to tell them I need some security right now or I'm not going to have any golden years.",
      "Rural Mormons like my friend do not use the \"H word\" lightly. They say \" HE double toothpicks \" rather than pronounce the word out loud.",
      "When they do, all kinds of h-e-double-toothpicks can ensue—including a mac that freezes during the startup process."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "80",
    "Idiom": [
      "Hollywood moment"
    ],
    "Meaning": "A moment of great drama or sentimentality.",
    "Sentence": [
      "He dived low to stop O'Hara's free-kick from swinging in before twice saving from Doyle. But his Hollywood moment came in the second half when his double save denied Fletcher and Hammill."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "81-1",
    "Idiom": [
      "Holy of Holies"
    ],
    "Meaning": "The inner sanctum of a temple.",
    "Sentence": [
      "The holy of holies, a cubical space of ten cubits on the side, was separated from the larger antechamber by four columns, which were also covered with gold and stood upon silver sockets; they bore a second curtain of four colors."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "81-2",
    "Idiom": [
      "Holy of Holies"
    ],
    "Meaning": "The most sacred place in a building.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "81-3",
    "Idiom": [
      "Holy of Holies"
    ],
    "Meaning": "One's private retreat.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "81-4",
    "Idiom": [
      "Holy of Holies"
    ],
    "Meaning": "The holiest place or thing.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Rabbi Akiba declared that if the other books of the Bible are holy, Shir Hashirim is the \" holy of holies.\""
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "82",
    "Idiom": [
      "Honest Abe"
    ],
    "Meaning": "A forthright and honest person.",
    "Sentence": [
      "What we need to restore faith in government is an Honest Abe.",
      "Don't trust him, he's just doing the Honest Abe bit."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "83",
    "Idiom": [
      "Humpty Dumptyism"
    ],
    "Meaning": "The practice of defining a word as desired.",
    "Sentence": [
      "\"It seems to be saying one or both of two things. One is that any score that comes out of any procedure that purports to measure intelligence is a value of the scale, intelligence. If so, this would be Humpty Dumptyism.\""
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "84",
    "Idiom": [
      "I before E, except after C"
    ],
    "Meaning": "A spelling rule for \"I\" and \"E.\"",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "85",
    "Idiom": [
      "I can tell you",
      "i'll tell you",
      "i'm telling you",
      "i tell you"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Emphasizes the truth of a statement.",
    "Sentence": [
      "We had trouble getting that grand piano up the stairs, I can tell you !",
      "Well you've got all the rights to his money, I'll tell you."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "86",
    "Idiom": [
      "I can't hear you over the sound of"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Said to dismiss someone's words.",
    "Sentence": [
      "“I'm sorry, I can't hear you over the sound of your stupidity.”",
      "I can't hear you over the sound of me being awesome.”",
      "“ I can't hear you over the sound of your imminent death.”",
      "I can't hear you over the sound of how awesome I am.",
      "Sorry, I can't hear you over the sound of how awesome I am.",
      "\"What was that, Will? I can't hear you over the sound of how bloody awesome and powerful I am!\"",
      "“ Sorry, I can't hear you over the sound of your sweatshirt continuing to rip,” I sniped back.",
      "\"Mom, just listen.\" \"I' m sorry, I can't hear you over the sound of your rent checks bouncing!\""
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "87",
    "Idiom": [
      "I can't lie"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To be honest.",
    "Sentence": [
      "I can't lie, I was hoping you wouldn't notice."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "88",
    "Idiom": [
      "I choose violence"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Expresses commitment to one's choices despite disapproval.",
    "Sentence": [
      "You see, I have this funny thing I say every morning and to my close circle of women friends quite often, especially when they're looking for advice on how to deal with white privilege and entitlement, and that is: 'Choose violence' I don't mean this literally. But when we say what needs to be said, a Black woman will always be seen as aggressive or arrogant, instead of confident, unafraid and assertive. But choosing the easier path doesn't benefit me, harmlessness does not benefit me. I choose violence.",
      "On my last night in town before heading to the Midwest, I decide to try the hot dog at the Cape Cod Cafe. The suggestion draws some mockery on both sides of the family, who know damn well that coming to CCC without getting a bar pizza is a waste of their money (I offer to pay: \"Oh my God, Mrs. Hollywood with her own frickin' money, huh,\" an aunt says before slapping down a Visa with travel points). It is overpriced, eight dollars without any description except \"hot dog.\" I choose violence. I order the hot dog.",
      "The boring asss griiiiind. I usually enjoy the grind, I’m currently up to my ears in Diablo4 grind. It was just so bland and monotonous. Same with Witcher3 and Skyrim…… I choose violence."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "89",
    "Idiom": [
      "I could eat a horse"
    ],
    "Meaning": "I am very hungry.",
    "Sentence": [
      "She said: \"I'm starved. I could eat a horse.\" I told her she was lying, because I had once eaten horse."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "90",
    "Idiom": [
      "I don't fancy yours"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Used to express disinterest in someone's companion.",
    "Sentence": [
      "\" I don't fancy yours !\" I said to Davoh, and broke into a trot to reach her first. \"Finders, keepers!\" I puffed as I drew alongside. She grinned, tossed her dark hair and went on talking to her friend about something too important to be interrupted"
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "91",
    "Idiom": [
      "I don't know about that"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Expresses doubt or skepticism.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "92",
    "Idiom": [
      "I hardly know her"
    ],
    "Meaning": "A joking retort highlighting potential sexual innuendo.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Darryl Philbin (Craig Robinson): How many people a year do you think get their arms cut off in a baler? Michael Scott (Steve Carrell): Baler? I hardly know her.",
      "Bangor ? I hardly know her ! *the audience erupts in laughter as I do a silly little dance*",
      "Oppenheimer? i hardly know her !",
      "Person 1: My face is breaking out again, I gotta go buy new cleanser. Person 2: Cleanser? I hardly know her !"
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "93",
    "Idiom": [
      "I have a bridge to sell you"
    ],
    "Meaning": "An expression for gullibility.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "94",
    "Idiom": [
      "I just work here"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Indicates lack of knowledge or authority on the topic.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "95",
    "Idiom": [
      "I never did"
    ],
    "Meaning": "An exclamation of surprise.",
    "Sentence": [
      "‘Why, good gracious, Amy, what ever brought you here?’ ‘I wanted to see you, Fanny dear; and as I am going out all day to-morrow, and knew you might be engaged all day to-day, I thought—’ ‘But the idea, Amy, of you coming behind! I never did !’",
      "\"Well, I never did !\" she exclaimed in a scandalized whisper. \"Trying to set fire to the 'ouse — oh, fie\"."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "96",
    "Idiom": [
      "I never miss"
    ],
    "Meaning": "I am aware of what is going on.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "97",
    "Idiom": [
      "I rest my case"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Encapsulates my view.",
    "Sentence": [
      "The drive will be too long, the seats too few, and the people too many. I rest my case."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "98-1",
    "Idiom": [
      "I see, said the blind man"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Expressing confusion.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "98-2",
    "Idiom": [
      "I see, said the blind man"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Expressing understanding after confusion.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "99",
    "Idiom": [
      "I take it"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Expresses understanding of another's position.",
    "Sentence": [
      "I take it you're not a very big fan of the carrot?"
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "100",
    "Idiom": [
      "I tell a lie"
    ],
    "Meaning": "I am mistaken.",
    "Sentence": [
      "I visited Canada in 1996—no, I tell a lie, in 1997."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "101",
    "Idiom": [
      "I want doesn't get"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Impolite demands do not lead to getting what one wants.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "102",
    "Idiom": [
      "I wish"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Expresses a desire for a different reality.",
    "Sentence": [
      "- I don't know how I'm going to afford all these Christmas presents. - Maybe you'll win the lottery and become a millionaire overnight. - I wish !"
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "103",
    "Idiom": [
      "I would"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Indicates sexual attraction.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Look at that chick hanging out by the entrance.",
      "I would !"
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "104",
    "Idiom": [
      "I'd like to see someone try"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Expressing a challenge.",
    "Sentence": [
      "\"Pretty deadly, eh? I mean your stepfather. Makes you toe the mark I suppose.\" \" I'd like to see him try,\" answered Paul scornfully. \"No, sir, he let's me alone and I let him alone. He knows I haven't any use for him."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "105",
    "Idiom": [
      "I'd say"
    ],
    "Meaning": "It is my opinion.",
    "Sentence": [
      "I'm no doctor, but I'd say he needs an ambulance."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "106",
    "Idiom": [
      "I'll be"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Expressing surprise.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Johnny passed his exams despite not heeding your advice to study hard. Well, I'll be !"
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "107",
    "Idiom": [
      "I'll be a monkey's uncle"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Expresses complete surprise or disbelief.",
    "Sentence": [
      "\"Well, I'll be a monkey's uncle !\" Lem said. \"I've heerd of rifles with transits on 'em, but I ain't ever seen one. Mind if I look at her?\"",
      "Well, I'll be a monkey's uncle, I actually solved that one.",
      "I made as if to step inside—wham, bang, I'll be a monkey's uncle if he didn't slam the door in my face! What was I supposed to do now? It wasn't exactly a cheerful situation.",
      "But I know I am better than that. I completed two and a half years at the M.J.C., and I'll be a monkey's uncle if I did it all just to be neglected in some backwoods, drafty, lo-tech, no-glory, never-been-remembered-for-all-the-great-things-I-do, dead end court wizard position.",
      "Well, I'll be a monkey's uncle if it isn't my old pal, Captain Pete. I haven't seen you in years. Good to see you!",
      "\"Well, I'll be a monkey's uncle. That's incredible and …\" he was silent working it out, \"and that means that I am actually the last of the McNaughtens and now live here in Weatherwood.\"",
      "Well I’ll be a monkey's uncle ! I would never have thought that tourists would go into space!"
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "108",
    "Idiom": [
      "I'll be bound"
    ],
    "Meaning": "An expression of certainty or assurance.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Well, I'll be bound !! Another example of following the rules and being undercut on pricing by those who don't follow the regs.",
      "\"Well, I'll be bound,\" Ruby said with a dreamy sigh."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "109-1",
    "Idiom": [
      "I'll be damned"
    ],
    "Meaning": "An expression of surprise.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "109-2",
    "Idiom": [
      "I'll be damned"
    ],
    "Meaning": "A strong assertion of refusal.",
    "Sentence": [
      "My mechanisms / Of defense are down / And my resistance / Is out on the town / I was alarmed by your attack / This isn't a boxing match / But I'll be damned if I ever let you win",
      "I'll be damned if I'm having a thief like him stay in my house."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "110",
    "Idiom": [
      "I'll be danged"
    ],
    "Meaning": "An expression of surprise.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "111",
    "Idiom": [
      "I'll say"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Indicates emphatic agreement.",
    "Sentence": [
      "- Jack's put on a bit of weight recently. - I'll say !"
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "112",
    "Idiom": [
      "I'm not being funny"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Used to soften a potentially offensive statement.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Clara: Well, I'm not being funny, but those clothes aren't really suitable for having meetings with clients. John: Really? Clara: I think so – a shirt and tie, or suit and shirt would be better.",
      "I'm not being funny, but you make me nervous.",
      "You know, I'm not being funny, but, you know, when he's with all his cool new 'creative' mates. They ain't real, Tony. They ain't like us. They sit around, with ironic trousers on and three haircuts each, waiting to be discovered."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "113",
    "Idiom": [
      "I'm not the one"
    ],
    "Meaning": "A warning after being offended or insulted.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "114",
    "Idiom": [
      "I'm sure"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Indicates denial or contradiction.",
    "Sentence": [
      "— You're just using that as an excuse to ditch class and go surfing.",
      "— Uh!... I'm sure!..."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "115",
    "Idiom": [
      "Indian sign"
    ],
    "Meaning": "A curse causing bad luck.",
    "Sentence": [
      "\"You certainly are my jinx, sonny. You have hung the Indian sign on me all right.\"",
      "\"We have been jinxed with a vengeance. Some one has held the Indian sign on us for sure.\"",
      "Vincent Parry (Humphrey Bogart): Nah, I've got the Indian sign on me. It seems I can't win.",
      "\"You're the only woman who ever had the Indian sign on me. I married late and I know I'll never marry again.\"",
      "Argentina have held an Indian sign over Nigeria at World Cups going back to 1994, when the African nation first qualified."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "116",
    "Idiom": [
      "Jane Doe"
    ],
    "Meaning": "An unknown or anonymous female.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "117",
    "Idiom": [
      "Jane Hancock"
    ],
    "Meaning": "A woman's signature.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "118",
    "Idiom": [
      "Jane Roe"
    ],
    "Meaning": "The female equivalent of Richard Roe.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "119",
    "Idiom": [
      "Jedi mind trick"
    ],
    "Meaning": "A mental feat that influences others or gives the impression of mind reading.",
    "Sentence": [
      "I watched the show to see what kind of guy he was, and the character on the show ain't too bright, so I figured if he came up to me I could use the Jedi mind trick on him. Mr T would go, “I heard you did some jokes about me!” “No, you didn't!” “Maybe I didn't!”",
      "Screamin’ “Brand new!”, when they just sanitized the old shit / Suppose it's just another clever Jedi mind trick",
      "You have to estimate your own starting weights, using trial and error. There's no way to get around it. I've met personal trainers who were phenomenally good at figuring out their clients' starting weights. Maybe it's some kind of Jedi mind trick. But unless you have one of those trainers, you have to figure it out on your own.",
      "\"It's the Fourth Law of Magic,\" I said. \"You aren't allowed to control the mind of another human. But … hell, it's of the first things a lot of these stupid kids try—the old Jedi mind trick. Sometimes they start with maybe getting homework overlooked by a teacher or convincing their parents to buy them a car. \"",
      "Brian was a good diversion. For every girl that went loopy over him, there was one less chick she had to worry about being in Craig's face. All she had to do was stay as far away from Brian as possible … you know, just in case that Jedi mind trick thing melted the BF shield."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "120",
    "Idiom": [
      "Jesus, Mary and Joseph"
    ],
    "Meaning": "An expletive used for surprise or emphasis, especially by Catholics.",
    "Sentence": [
      "\" Jesus, Mary and Joseph. The man ran you down?\""
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "121",
    "Idiom": [
      "Joe Average"
    ],
    "Meaning": "A representation of the average or common person.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Write the instructions so that any Joe Average can understand them."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "122",
    "Idiom": [
      "Joe Citizen"
    ],
    "Meaning": "A hypothetical average citizen.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "123",
    "Idiom": [
      "Joe Public"
    ],
    "Meaning": "A representation of the average person.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Quoting Joe Public proved a dangerous game in the 2008 US presidential elections after he was personified in Joe 'the' Plumber, an actual plumber without previous media exposure."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "124",
    "Idiom": [
      "Joe Random"
    ],
    "Meaning": "A hypothetical average or generic individual.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "125",
    "Idiom": [
      "John Hancock"
    ],
    "Meaning": "A person's signature.",
    "Sentence": [
      "The man is pressed for his \" John Hancock \" with all the persuasiveness and eloquence of a practiced operator on masculine vanity.",
      "Can I have your auto—your John Hancock, please?",
      "Audrey and crew even squeezed frail grocer Frank Morgan, the victim, into adding his John Hancock to the parole petition. The cherry was getting Hanging Judge Joe Williams to sign on as well.",
      "[Jack] Lew is not the first Treasury secretary to change his John Hancock upon arrival at 1500 Pennsylvania Ave.",
      "Please put your John Hancock on the dotted line to close the deal."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "126",
    "Idiom": [
      "John Henry"
    ],
    "Meaning": "One's signature.",
    "Sentence": [
      "They stepped forward. Bury held a pen at them. “So if you fellows will just put your John Henrys on this document, it's all legal.” The two privates signed it."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "127",
    "Idiom": [
      "John Q. Public"
    ],
    "Meaning": "A hypothetical average citizen.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Even careful safety precautions in the factory do not make it a good place for John Q. Public to wander unattended."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "128",
    "Idiom": [
      "Johnny-come-lately"
    ],
    "Meaning": "A newcomer or novice.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Morris now shared financial decisions with a woman, a female Johnny-come-lately. Imagine the eventuality of Morris's share of their fortune ever falling into such Johnny-come-lately hands. God forbid!",
      "In a field increasingly populated with Johnnies-come-lately, Gittings is a Johnny-come-early: one only has to read this book to feel the depth and span of his knowledge.",
      "The government should give the agency its independence back so that it can get on with the task of protecting consumers in relation to food without political interference from johnny-come-lately ministers.",
      "All these Johnny-come-latelies typically come out as irreverent, vulgar or immature and childlike.",
      "She might take offense if some Johnny-come-lately thinks he can do a better job."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "129-1",
    "Idiom": [
      "Johnny-one-note"
    ],
    "Meaning": "A person who focuses on a single opinion or subject.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "129-2",
    "Idiom": [
      "Johnny-one-note"
    ],
    "Meaning": "A narrow viewpoint frequently expressed.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Whether his boss (Hearst) had told him to get off his Johnny-one-note of hate toward labor leaders, foreigners and New Dealers, or whether Pegler had decided all by himself to change his tune, no one knew."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "130",
    "Idiom": [
      "King Shit of Turd Island"
    ],
    "Meaning": "An individual with inflated self-importance.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Back in Belding, he was always the tough guy, the one who rode around in his dad's Pontiac Lemans with the vinyl top and the automatic on the floor. He drove that car like he was the King Shit of Turd Island, and I guess all of us was."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "131",
    "Idiom": [
      "King of the Jungle"
    ],
    "Meaning": "The lion.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "132",
    "Idiom": [
      "Kool-Aid smile"
    ],
    "Meaning": "A large, beaming smile.",
    "Sentence": [
      "\"We in E,\" they said in unison as big Kool-Aid smiles popped up on everybody's faces."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "133",
    "Idiom": [
      "L-bomb"
    ],
    "Meaning": "The word love or an expression that alters a relationship.",
    "Sentence": [
      "“Then take her on a tour of places that are special to the two of you — the bar where you had your first date, the park where you dropped the L-bomb, ”"
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "134-1",
    "Idiom": [
      "Last Supper"
    ],
    "Meaning": "The meal Jesus had with his disciples before his death.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "134-2",
    "Idiom": [
      "Last Supper"
    ],
    "Meaning": "An artistic representation of a significant event.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "135",
    "Idiom": [
      "Lord willing and the creek don't rise"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Barring unforeseen circumstances.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Lord willing and the creek don't rise, we'll have that new barn finished in time for the harvest."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "136-1",
    "Idiom": [
      "Lord's Supper"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Eucharist.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "136-2",
    "Idiom": [
      "Lord's Supper"
    ],
    "Meaning": "The Last Supper of Jesus with his disciples.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "137",
    "Idiom": [
      "Main Street"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Represents everyday working-class people and small businesses.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Thanks to a $700 billion TARP bailout and hundreds of billions of dollars in nearly free of charge loans by the Federal Reserve (a policy Soros himself told me was a \"hidden gift\" to the banks), Wall Street has surged back to pre-crisis levels of compensation even as Main Street continues to struggle."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "138",
    "Idiom": [
      "March comes in like a lion and goes out like a lamb",
      "in like a lion, out like a lamb"
    ],
    "Meaning": "The weather in March typically starts harsh and ends mild.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "139",
    "Idiom": [
      "Mary Celeste"
    ],
    "Meaning": "A ghost ship found empty and seemingly abandoned.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "140",
    "Idiom": [
      "Master John Goodfellow"
    ],
    "Meaning": "A euphemism for the penis.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Hold!—showing his long codpiece—this is Master John Goodfellow, that asks for lodging!—and with that would have embraced her; but she began to cry out, yet not very loud.",
      "As she approached Mick, the machine-bed was wound down and Mick heaved his Master John Goodfellow out of his capacious slacks and laid it out for her perusal, just as he had done with me."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "141-1",
    "Idiom": [
      "Master of the Universe"
    ],
    "Meaning": "A powerful person.",
    "Sentence": [
      "First, by them made obstinate by the onetime masters of the universe.",
      "I have told you, where the air is pure, where every sound soothes, where one is sure to be humbled, however proud may be his nature. I love that humiliation, I, who am master of the universe, as was Augustus",
      "They felt themselves lords and masters of the universe, with power over life and death."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "141-2",
    "Idiom": [
      "Master of the Universe"
    ],
    "Meaning": "A highly successful person.",
    "Sentence": [
      "The Masters of the Universe were a set of lurid, rapacious plastic dolls that his otherwise perfect daughter liked to play with. On Wall Street he and a few others—how many?—three hundred, four hundred, five hundred?—had become precisely that... Masters of the Universe. There was... no limit whatsoever!",
      "They had their suit jackets off, and at this hour of morning—9:20 a.m.—they were leaning back in their seats, reading their Wall Street Journals, and congratulating themselves on being young Masters of the Universe.",
      "No matter how much you may dislike the Masters of the Universe, my friends, there are plenty of other parts of the universe that would welcome them.",
      "The man who once boasted he was \" master of the universe \" for making Vivendi a global media giant arrived in less triumphant fashion on Wednesday – through the back door of a Paris court."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "142",
    "Idiom": [
      "Merry Andrew"
    ],
    "Meaning": "A person who clowns publicly; a buffoon.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Instead, therefore, of answering my landlady, the puppet-show man ran out to punish his Merry-Andrew",
      "The games of the circus—the wild-beast fight and the gladiators, the rope-dancers, the merry-andrews, and the posture-masters,—were more to their taste than clever intrigue and brilliant dialogue.",
      "One of them, the eldest, was a sort of merry andrew and was not above dressing the part with a weird cap of jackal's skin with many hanging tails and tassels."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "143",
    "Idiom": [
      "Mexican breakfast"
    ],
    "Meaning": "A breakfast consisting of a cigarette and a glass of water.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "144",
    "Idiom": [
      "Mickey Mouse"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Of inferior quality or trivial.",
    "Sentence": [
      "\"They are putting a Mickey Mouse operation on the ice,\" added Gretzky, who extended apologies to New Jersey goaltenders Ron Low and Chico Resch.",
      "You mean, somebody who, for example, is a retired Army officer, has been teaching, as you do in the Army about half the time for about 30 years, you mean he couldn't go in and teach in the school' cause he didn't take some Mickey Mouse course in education at a state university?",
      "California (78-67): This is no Mickey Mouse outfit, even though Disney is buying into the team. / The Angels didn't make many changes in personnel during the winter."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "145",
    "Idiom": [
      "Midas touch",
      "golden touch"
    ],
    "Meaning": "The ability to achieve success easily and consistently.",
    "Sentence": [
      "In fine, his [ Nathaniel Hawthorne 's] golden touch is as unfailing as was that of Midas, and transmutes whatever he lays hand upon. He so transforms incidents and transactions of the most trivial character, as to render them grand, pathetic, or grotesque. His golden touch, we would then say, imposes no superficial glitter, but brings out upon the surface, and concentrates into luminous points, the interior gilding, which is attached to the meanest objects and the lowliest scenes by their contact with the realm of sentiment, emotion, and spiritual life.",
      "On May 8, 1945—V.E. Day— John Hersey won the Pulitzer Prize for his first novel, A Bell for Adano. Twenty years later, with the appearance of his eleventh book, White Lotus, he has been told that while he once aspired to have a silver tongue, he has been given instead a golden touch; that instead of writing literature for all time, he has written books that make the Book-of-the-Month Club. Hersey should not have been discouraged by such remarks.",
      "\"He's something of a whiz-kid in City matters, you know. The golden touch, in a modest kind of way.\" He looked around his sitting-room, as if to say there were golden touches and golden touches. \"As a matter of fact that happens to be my form of bingo too. So we've been … thrown together, on occasion.\"",
      "The extension [of the Toronto Street Railway's Avenue Road streetcar line] was not only convenient, it also added considerably to the value of Benvenuto and the property around it. When it came to railways, [William] Mackenzie had all of the Scotsman's golden touch.",
      "What if the precogs have somehow lost their golden touch and their predictions are no longer impeccable? What if some errors of commission, or some errors of omission, have slipped in? How can we know that they haven't?",
      "[John] Hammond had high expectations for [Bob] Dylan. After all, he had a reputation to maintain. He had a lot riding on Dylan—not the least that he wanted to prove to the executives at Columbia that he still had the golden touch.",
      "He was respected, climbing up the corporate ladder, and receiving accolades from his colleagues for all his good work. On the outside, he was the guy everyone wanted to be; people said he had the golden touch. However, he believed his success was like a house of cards that could come crashing down at any moment because, in his mind, he was a fake, and somehow he had been fooling people for a long time.",
      "Luckily for England, they have a world-class striker with a golden touch in [Harry] Kane, who was coolness personified to carefully direct in the winner."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "146",
    "Idiom": [
      "Miller of Dee"
    ],
    "Meaning": "A person living independently and selfishly.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Mr. Wallace, although fortified with a letter bearing the mitred seal of the Bishop the diocese, feels that he is about to come in contact with a great power; an awful something that is not to be trifled with; one of the noblest institutions of our land, who is a very Miller of Dee, and accountable to nobody.",
      "He was a regular \" Miller of Dee,\" caring for nobody; and yet he was likeable, that humorous old stoic, who suffered from gall-stone, and bore horrible bouts of pain like a hero.",
      "\"None at all? No parents, no wives, no children of your own?\" \"Not one, thank God. Miller of Dee, that's me.\""
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "147",
    "Idiom": [
      "Miss Right"
    ],
    "Meaning": "A perfect female companion.",
    "Sentence": [
      "He waited for years and years, hoping someday to find Miss Right."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "148",
    "Idiom": [
      "Mister Right"
    ],
    "Meaning": "An ideal male companion.",
    "Sentence": [
      "She waited for years and years, hoping someday to find Mister Right."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "149",
    "Idiom": [
      "Mister Wrong"
    ],
    "Meaning": "A completely unsuitable partner.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "150",
    "Idiom": [
      "Monday-morning quarterback"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Someone who criticizes with hindsight.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "151",
    "Idiom": [
      "Monopoly money"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Fictional or worthless money.",
    "Sentence": [
      "They did so to conceal the fact that they were playing with Monopoly money —fabricating profits as phony as the pastel-colored money used in the classic Parker Brothers board game."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "152",
    "Idiom": [
      "Mother Hubbard"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Empty.",
    "Sentence": [
      "\"Other than my earthquake kit, the cupboards are looking pretty Mother Hubbard. We can go to the Farmers Market and get some produce.\"",
      "\"It's a bit Mother Hubbard, I'm afraid.'\" We made our way through the empty house."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "153-1",
    "Idiom": [
      "Nantucket sleigh ride"
    ],
    "Meaning": "An instance of a harpooned whale dragging a whaleboat.",
    "Sentence": [
      "If we can fasten a good fish tomorrow when you are with us,\" said the captain of the New Bedford whaling bark Morning Star to me, \"I will try to give you a Nantucket sleigh ride.\"",
      "[The] crew pushed out in a small boat and pierced the whale with a harpoon attached to a rope secured to the boat. Then it was hang on for your life. “A whale barreling along at the surface would take the men on the proverbial Nantucket sleigh ride, a bone-jarring, terrifying and, at times, no doubt exhilarating trip over the waves,” Dolin writes."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "153-2",
    "Idiom": [
      "Nantucket sleigh ride"
    ],
    "Meaning": "An instance of a boat being towed by a water creature or vessel.",
    "Sentence": [
      "They said they planned to hook the shark with a gaff and go for a \" Nantucket sleigh ride.\"",
      "Still fresh in my mind was the 15-pound striped bass that took me on a miniature Nantucket sleigh ride around Sandy Hook Bay last fall.",
      "The only note of caution that I would put down is, look at what happens to modern fishing vessels when they occasionally accidentally catch a modern submarine; now, granted, of course modern submarines are far more powerful in terms of their propulsion systems, and far larger, often massively outmassing the fishing vessels that they capture, so the fishing vessels either end up being dragged under or if they're lucky taken on a bit of a Nantucket sleighride before they cut their lines or the net breaks"
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "154",
    "Idiom": [
      "Nikon choir"
    ],
    "Meaning": "A large group of photographers capturing images simultaneously.",
    "Sentence": [
      "And with television, radio, the \" Nikon choir \" of photographers and 10 daily newspapers in London, there's plenty to manipulate. The Chuck and Di show opened to smash reviews and, 10 years later, has evolved into a thriving industry.",
      "After drinking vodka and cranberry juice at the Pangaea nightclub in the West End, he came out at to be confronted by the \" Nikon choir \" of paparazzi.",
      "Fortunately, the Royal baby has sensible parents. I congratulate them on how they managed to arrive at St Mary's hospital without the Nikon Choir outside getting sight of them."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "155",
    "Idiom": [
      "Nixon in China"
    ],
    "Meaning": "A reputable politician can take controversial actions that would be criticized if done by someone else.",
    "Sentence": [
      "“People have tried to duplicate Nixon in China over and over again, including Iran,” Mann said. He cites the ill-fated 1986 journey by President Ronald Reagan’s national security adviser Robert “Bud” McFarlane, who traveled to Tehran carrying a Bible with a handwritten verse from Reagan and a key-shaped cake as a goodwill gesture for Iranian leaders."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "156",
    "Idiom": [
      "Nuremberg defense"
    ],
    "Meaning": "An excuse for wrongful behavior, claiming orders from superiors.",
    "Sentence": [
      "“‘ Nuremberg defense ’, universally pleaded in war crimes trials,” is in actuality the Nuremberg nondefense, universally rejected in war crimes trials. It is a pity that the law of the Nuremberg Tribunal is so little understood after the passage of nearly a quarter of a century.",
      "Recognition of the reliance on an official interpretation of the law defense for government officials and private citizens may initially seem to be the same as the Nuremberg defense of “I was just following orders.”",
      "“It seems like he's [ Charles Graner 's] wanting to do the Nuremberg defense : ‘I was following orders,’” says Thomas Moran, a Houston attorney and a former military lawyer."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "157",
    "Idiom": [
      "Officer Friendly"
    ],
    "Meaning": "A police officer.",
    "Sentence": [
      "I was pulled over by Officer Friendly last night."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "158",
    "Idiom": [
      "Old School"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Having conservative or traditional views.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Local politicians assume various appellations, such as New School and Old School Democrats, Snyderites, Clintonians, and many others, mostly derived from the name or principles of some popular demagogue."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "159",
    "Idiom": [
      "Oreo cookie"
    ],
    "Meaning": "A term referring to a Black person who is perceived as adopting white cultural traits.",
    "Sentence": [
      "oreo cookie, derogatory term from the 1960s, from the trade name for the cookies consisting of two chocolate biscuits sandwiching a white creamy center. Oreo is used for a black person — black on the outside white on the inside.",
      "other subtypes (Uncle Tom, Oreo cookie) might be salient in other contexts.",
      "You don't have to be like an Oreo cookie, brother"
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "160",
    "Idiom": [
      "Pandora's box"
    ],
    "Meaning": "A source of unforeseen trouble.",
    "Sentence": [
      "There was an evil in Pandora's box Beyond all other ones, yet it came forth In guise so lovely, that men crowded round And sought it as the dearest of all treasure."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "161",
    "Idiom": [
      "Peter Pan syndrome"
    ],
    "Meaning": "A psychological phenomenon of immaturity in some men who avoid adult responsibilities.",
    "Sentence": [
      "The husband himself (called \"he\" to emphasize his role as Typical Male) comes across as a rather dense, naughty adolescent boy. He is clearly suffering from a terminal case of the Peter Pan syndrome."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "162",
    "Idiom": [
      "Pierian spring"
    ],
    "Meaning": "The source of knowledge or inspiration.",
    "Sentence": [
      "A little Learning is a dang'rous Thing; Drink deep, or taste not the Pierian Spring.",
      "At school I enjoyed the inestimable advantage of a very sensible, though at the same time, a very severe master. He showed no mercy to phrase, metaphor, or image, unsupported by a sound sense, or where the same sense might have been conveyed with equal force and dignity in plainer words. In fancy I can almost hear him now, exclaiming \" Harp? Harp? Lyre? Pen and ink, boy, you mean! Muse, boy, Muse? Your Nurse's daughter, you mean! Pierian spring ? Oh 'aye! the cloister-pump, I suppose! \"",
      "a studious land Where humming youth, intent upon the page, Thirsting for knowledge with a noble rage, Drink dry the whole Pierian spring",
      "For him the library represented a Pierian spring, that metaphorical source of knowledge and inspiration. He drew deeply there, quelling his intellectual insecurities and nourishing his fanatic ambitions."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "163",
    "Idiom": [
      "Polish parliament"
    ],
    "Meaning": "A deliberative but indecisive institution.",
    "Sentence": [
      "But the conversation produced no result. In a summit conference the nay-saver is in a position to prevent what his allies desire. An alliance among democratic nations is a Polish parliament in which the liberum veto functions (within certain limits)."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "164",
    "Idiom": [
      "Potemkin village"
    ],
    "Meaning": "A false construct to disguise a shortcoming.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Such concentration not only simplifies the task of keeping tabs on foreigners' movements, but it also enables the Government to influence the outside world's picture of Russia by arranging matters in Moscow to make it a sort of huge, latter-day Potemkin Village.",
      "When a government substitutes propaganda for governing, the Potemkin village is all. Since we don't get honest information from this White House, we must instead, as the Soviets once did, decode our rulers' fictions to discern what's really happening.",
      "When Soviet bureaucrats wanted to impress foreign visitors with the success of the grand experiment, they would visit Potemkin villages —fake towns where actors pretended to be living a life of luxury amid bulging granaries and well-paved streets bustling with happy babushkas pushing prams."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "165-1",
    "Idiom": [
      "Promised Land"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Heaven or the afterlife.",
    "Sentence": [
      "\"Be good, my boy, and God will make you great.\" Then she said she was cold, and... murmured: \"I'll away, I'll away to the Promised Land —to the Promised Land. It is cold—so cold—God keep my boy!\"",
      "On Sunday night, April 29, 1900 Engineman John Luther Jones, called \"Casey\", took his farewell journey to the promised land."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "165-2",
    "Idiom": [
      "Promised Land"
    ],
    "Meaning": "A place sought for improvement or fulfillment.",
    "Sentence": [
      "The country, too, which had been the promised land of my boyhood, did not, like most promised lands, disappoint me.",
      "When Frances had developed her plan, she intimated, in some closing sentences, her hopes for the future. And what was to hinder us from going to live in England? England was still her Promised Land.",
      "That is the danger that always menaces people when they get over into their Promised Land.",
      "I just want to do God's will. And He's allowed me to go up to the mountain. And I've looked over. And I've seen the Promised Land. I may not get there with you. But I want you to know tonight, that we, as a people, will get to the Promised Land.",
      "When the angels from above / Fall down and spread their wings like doves / As we walk hand in hand / Sister, brothers, we'll make it to the promised land"
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "166",
    "Idiom": [
      "Quaker gun"
    ],
    "Meaning": "A deceptive imitation of a gun or artillery.",
    "Sentence": [
      "\"At all events, your honour, I will carry the quaker in,\" said Joyce, tossing the stuffed figure on a shoulder. \"He do to man the quaker gun at least, and may be of use in frightening some one of the other side.\"",
      "The Quaker gun found there was consigned to the flames to-day, and in its stead heavy artillery, of the genuine sort, commands all the surrounding country."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "167-1",
    "Idiom": [
      "Queer Street"
    ],
    "Meaning": "A stunned condition.",
    "Sentence": [
      "In any event, the German slugger nailed down 21 of his 39 victories by putting his opponent on Queer Street via the knockout route.",
      "Frazier had him on Queer Street in the 11th round.... He was glad he got off Queer Street."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "167-2",
    "Idiom": [
      "Queer Street"
    ],
    "Meaning": "A difficult circumstance, especially bankruptcy.",
    "Sentence": [
      "But soon they led a Queer-street life, / 'Twas what she'd not expected / Like cat and dog, with snarl and strife, / And love and lamps neglected. / About his work he would not wag",
      "The only reason Ms Beverley-Stevenson and her two companies are in business is to make a profit, otherwise she and her partners would be on Queer Street.",
      "He is one of those men who have overshot their true generation. He should have been a buck in the days of the Regency—a boxer, an athlete, a plunger on the Turf, a lover of fair ladies, and, by all account, so far down Queer Street that he may never find his way back again.",
      "I found the wadding of the pistol with which the deceased Mr. Tulkinghorn was shot. It was a bit of the printed description of your house at Chesney Wold. Not much in that, you'll say, Sir Leicester Dedlock, Baronet. No. But when my foreign friend here is so thoroughly off her guard as to think it a safe time to tear up the rest of that leaf, and when Mrs. Bucket puts the pieces together and finds the wadding wanting, it begins to look like Queer Street."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "167-3",
    "Idiom": [
      "Queer Street"
    ],
    "Meaning": "A difficult circumstance.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "167-4",
    "Idiom": [
      "Queer Street"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Suspicious circumstances.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "168",
    "Idiom": [
      "Red Baron"
    ],
    "Meaning": "An ace fighter pilot.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Do you think you're the next Red Baron ?",
      "Billy Bishop was the Canadian Red Baron",
      "He's another Red Baron"
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "169",
    "Idiom": [
      "Roma locuta est, causa finita est"
    ],
    "Meaning": "The discussion is over.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "170",
    "Idiom": [
      "Rome wasn't built in a day"
    ],
    "Meaning": "It takes time to achieve something significant.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Rome was not built in one day (quoth he), and yet stood / Till it was finisht, as some say, full fayre. The spelling has been modernized.",
      "But, \" Rome wasent built in a day,\" nor will one thump of the pate make a soldier.",
      "Thou must have patience. Rome was not built in a day —you cannot become used to your court-suit in a month's time, any more than when you changed your long coat for a doublet and hose;",
      "Rome wasn't built in a day, nor, for that matter, Templetown 'ither, though it may be said to be a quick-growing place.",
      "\"As Rome,\" it was suggested, \" had not been built in a day, so neither had Mademoiselle Gérard Moore's education been completed in a week, or by merely wishing to be clever. It was effort that had accomplished that great work:",
      "Rome wasn't built in a day and the path of black and white relationships in the South won't be solved overnight, either.",
      "I feel like Rome wasn't built in a day, and I know that everybody is really impatient, but I know that with time things can be turned around.",
      "I actually believe in some respects we may be in danger of working too quickly, simply to address that perception. As the ridiculously over-used cliché notes, Rome was not built in a day. What I do accept is that the 100-day project that saw the new city plan designed was done at breakneck speed. This was a phenomenally challenging time frame but absolutely crucial. For a community still suffering, still shocked, and literally still shaking, there clearly needed to be a plan put in place as quickly as possible.",
      "I know this project is a big undertaking, but you need to have patience and be hopeful. Remember that Rome wasn’t built in a day."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "171",
    "Idiom": [
      "Rome wasn't burned in a day"
    ],
    "Meaning": "It takes time to achieve significant results.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "172-1",
    "Idiom": [
      "Russian roulette"
    ],
    "Meaning": "A deadly game involving a revolver with a single bullet, where players take turns pulling the trigger aimed at their head.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "172-2",
    "Idiom": [
      "Russian roulette"
    ],
    "Meaning": "An activity with a high risk of death or disaster.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "173",
    "Idiom": [
      "Santa's workshop"
    ],
    "Meaning": "A busy, productive work environment.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Like a Santa's workshop for the rich, the huge shopping atrium was jammed with frenzied workers pushing to finish by Monday's opening.",
      "An acid-tongued blonde who writes a legal-affairs column for the right-wing weekly Human Events, Ann Coulter... laughed. \"There are lots of us busy elves working away in Santa's workshop.\"",
      "U.S. consumers... will look to China, as they have since the country a decade ago became a regular Santa's workshop for toys, clothes and electronic gizmos.",
      "Next week 500 books not shipped elsewhere directly from the printer will arrive at our house.... At that point my Brooklyn brownstone will turn into Santa’s workshop as I package courtesy copies for all the sources who helped and people whose photos appear in the book. I will also send out review copies."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "174",
    "Idiom": [
      "Scotch mist"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Something imaginary or nonexistent.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Scotch mist, the R.A.F. term for something imaginary. The joke of it is that Scotch mist is as wetting as English rain."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "175",
    "Idiom": [
      "Speedy Gonzales"
    ],
    "Meaning": "A fast person.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "176",
    "Idiom": [
      "Spock ears"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Pointy ears resembling those of Spock.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "177",
    "Idiom": [
      "Sunday best"
    ],
    "Meaning": "A person's finest clothing, often for church.",
    "Sentence": [
      "And how then was the Devil drest? / Oh! he was in his Sunday's best",
      "It took all the power and skill of that energetic woman to get her son into his Sunday best.",
      "It was a brave sight on a Sunday morning to see those old Tottenhamites—each with his comfortable lady-wife on his arm—proceeding in their stiff Sunday best to the morning service; pitying the Quaker friends they met on their way for their incomplete and unenlightened faith—the Quakers, of course, pitying the Churchmen for theirs.",
      "More than 250 people, most of them African-American churchgoers dressed in their Sunday best, erupted in screams when the presidential motorcade turned onto the street."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "178",
    "Idiom": [
      "Sunday driver"
    ],
    "Meaning": "A leisurely or inexperienced driver.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Wallace is hardly your typical Sunday driver out on a jaunt in the countryside.",
      "I was eager to get there, but I got stuck behind one Sunday driver after another on that trip."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "179",
    "Idiom": [
      "Sunday-go-to-meeting clothes"
    ],
    "Meaning": "One's best clothes.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "180",
    "Idiom": [
      "Sussex Drive"
    ],
    "Meaning": "The Canadian prime minister or government.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Campaigns are underway to persuade households, including even those at 10 Downing Street and the White House (no word on Sussex Drive), to plant vegetable gardens this year as buffers against dismal economic times."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "181",
    "Idiom": [
      "Three Musketeers"
    ],
    "Meaning": "A closely associated trio.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Mona: A fire giant finger toast to the Three Musketeers !",
      "We're the Three Musketeers of gardening!"
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "182",
    "Idiom": [
      "Three Stooges"
    ],
    "Meaning": "A group of three foolish people.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "183",
    "Idiom": [
      "Tinker to Evers to Chance"
    ],
    "Meaning": "A task accomplished quickly by teamwork.",
    "Sentence": [
      "The sonarman picks up the enemy, shoots the position to the radar controller sitting near him, and the radar controller, in a Tinker-to-Evers-to-Chance play, vectors a hovering helicopter to the spot.",
      "It was like Tinker to Evers to Chance. Colson-Chance then flipped the good news to Hugh Scott, who read Mrs. Beard's denial on the Senate floor that same day.",
      "When it comes to computers, though, systems integration is too often more reminiscent of the Keystone Kops than Tinker to Evers to Chance.",
      "Prothrombin-to-thrombin-to-fibrin had a Tinker-to-Evers-to-Chance simplicity that was 100 percent American in some way.",
      "Spiegel caught the names Schoenberg, Webern, and Berg, whom he gathered were a kind of upscale Tinker to Evers to Chance.",
      "... a financial Tinker-to-Evers-to-Chance operation involving Bankers Life and Casualty, plus an old company called Hotel Men's Mutual Benefit Association,...."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "184",
    "Idiom": [
      "Trojan-horse"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To introduce slyly or to sneak in.",
    "Sentence": [
      "We all know how genius “Kamp Krusty,” “A Streetcar Named Marge,” “Homer The Heretic,” “Itchy & Scratchy: The Movie” and “Mr. Plow” are, but even the relatively unheralded episodes offer wall-to-wall laughs and some of the smartest, darkest, and weirdest gags ever Trojan-horsed into a network cartoon with a massive family audience.",
      "Suddenly he realized that the arguments and social criticism he wanted to assert could live and breathe on their own. He didn’t have to Trojan-horse them into his novels’ characters or plot points anymore.",
      "They have successfully Trojan-horsed into your heart and mind, and that is exactly where they want to be so they can control you most effectively."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "185",
    "Idiom": [
      "Whitman's sampler"
    ],
    "Meaning": "A diverse collection.",
    "Sentence": [
      "So here we go, offering a Whitman's Sampler of local talent, just a hint of the multitude of hopeful artists working their way toward the spotlight.",
      "In a June 13 court filing, plaintiffs cite the memo as one of \"a Whitman's Sampler \" of V&E papers showing that the firm \"was present at the creation, active throughout and still in on [Enron's] fraudulent scheme when it finally collapsed.\"",
      "Witness just this Whitman's Sampler of sweet author treats: The first female secretary of state (Madeleine Albright). A perennial best-seller and an Oprah pick (Sue Miller). A winner of the Nobel Peace Prize (Muhammad Yunus). Three local black poets (Colleen J. McElroy, Gloria Burgess, Lauri Conner). A humor writer for \"Saturday Night Live\" and The New Yorker, turned best-selling debut novelist (Patricia Marx).",
      "Dozens of investors have filed lawsuits seeking redress from the rating agencies, contending that the companies bear responsibility for investors’ losses, under a Whitman’s sampler of theories."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "186-1",
    "Idiom": [
      "X factor"
    ],
    "Meaning": "An unknown or hard-to-define influence.",
    "Sentence": [
      "We slid into our office, past two women discussing the \" X factor,\" an apparently undefined quality their firm felt they lacked.",
      "The map can be misleading. It can appear to contain all the relevant information, but in real life, there is always an X factor.",
      "And put him on an LA film set and he glowed with that indefinable X-factor that agents the world over wished they could bottle.",
      "Whether it's trade, global warming, Darfur or North Korea, China has become the new x factor, without which no durable solution is possible."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "186-2",
    "Idiom": [
      "X factor"
    ],
    "Meaning": "A special talent or quality.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "187",
    "Idiom": [
      "X marks the spot"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Find what you're looking for at a clear indication.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "188-1",
    "Idiom": [
      "X's and O's"
    ],
    "Meaning": "The fundamental elements of a play.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "188-2",
    "Idiom": [
      "X's and O's"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Delineation of roles in a project.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "189",
    "Idiom": [
      "Yankee dime"
    ],
    "Meaning": "A kiss.",
    "Sentence": [
      "If you bring me a glass of sweet iced tea, I will give you a Yankee dime."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "190",
    "Idiom": [
      "Yes. And?"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Asks for clarification or the next point.",
    "Sentence": [
      ""
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "191-1",
    "Idiom": [
      "a Roland for an Oliver"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Equal measure.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Mr. Godwin has lately attempted an answer to the Essay (thus giving Mr. Malthus a Roland for his Oliver) but we think he has judged ill in endeavouring to invalidate the principle, instead of confining himself to point out the misapplication of it.",
      "It was rather a ticklish matter to go into politics, but he might speak on them generally, knowing that if he overstepped the mark he would be brought up standing. His friend on the right had a respected relative in the Ministry, and if he trod on his corns, or did what he should not, he would, as he had often done before, give him a Roland for an Oliver.",
      "It is held to be a good taunt, and somehow or other to clinch the question logically, when an old gentleman waggles his head and says: \"Ah, so I thought when I was your age.\" It is not thought an answer at all, if the young man retorts: \"My venerable sir, so I shall most probably think when I am yours.\" And yet the one is as good as the other: pass for pass, tit for tat, a Roland for an Oliver.",
      "I had to bite my lip to prevent myself from laughing. What he said had a hateful truth in it, and another defect of my character is that I enjoy the company of those, however depraved, who can give me a Roland for my Oliver."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "191-2",
    "Idiom": [
      "a Roland for an Oliver"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Responding with an equivalent action; tit for tat.",
    "Sentence": [
      "He responded to the insult a Roland for an Oliver, striking back just as hard."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "192-1",
    "Idiom": [
      "a bad penny always turns up",
      "the bad penny always comes back",
      "the bad penny always turns up",
      "a bad penny always comes back"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Unwanted or unpleasant people or things tend to reappear at inconvenient times.",
    "Sentence": [
      "It has been wisely said: “ A bad penny always turns up again.”... Merwin K. Hart turns up again and again. And the Money-Changers of the Republican Party have knowingly sought to profit from Hart's lobby activities.",
      "Elsa Schneider: I never expected to see you again.",
      "Being superstitious was common among a lot of the military.... Aircraft were given names such as The Bad Penny (as in a bad penny always turns up).",
      "I had managed to avoid Julie for almost four years, but, as my grandmother used to say, the bad penny always turns up, and Julie Evanson was one very bad penny."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "193-2",
    "Idiom": [
      "a bad penny always turns up"
    ],
    "Meaning": "An improperly handled action eventually causes problems.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "194",
    "Idiom": [
      "a bad tree does not yield good apples"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Bad influences lead to negative outcomes.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "195-1",
    "Idiom": [
      "a bad workman always blames his tools"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Skills, not tools, determine quality.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "195-2",
    "Idiom": [
      "a bad workman always blames his tools"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Blaming tools for failure is easier than acknowledging personal shortcomings.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "196",
    "Idiom": [
      "a barking dog seldom bites",
      "barking dogs seldom bite",
      "a barking dog never bites",
      "barking dogs never bite"
    ],
    "Meaning": "People who make threats rarely act on them.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "197",
    "Idiom": [
      "a bird in the hand is worth two in the bush"
    ],
    "Meaning": "A sure thing is preferable to potential gains.",
    "Sentence": [
      "It is more sykyr a bryd in youre fyste Than to have thre in the sky above And more profitabyl to youre behove.",
      "[An] acquaintance... proposed to pay a... proportion of the cost of the cellar provided he should have as his own everything of value that might be found [excavating]. A bird in the hand, thought Bardolph, is worth two in the bush, so he... accepted the proposal."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "198",
    "Idiom": [
      "a bridge too far"
    ],
    "Meaning": "An act of overreaching.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Cloning was an interesting concept. Cloning body parts was again just man's search for immortality riding on the back of naive altruistic medicinal benevolence. But cloning a person was a bridge too far.",
      "“Maybe we are seeing a similar phenomenon with NFTs — but it could be a bridge too far for people with collections in other media.”"
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "199",
    "Idiom": [
      "a buck's a buck",
      "a buck is a buck",
      "a buck is a buck is a buck"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Every dollar counts; money motivates, even in tough situations.",
    "Sentence": [
      "“When you play for money,” said Mrs. Prudence Reynolds of Short Hills. N.J., “the temperament changes. A trophy is a trophy, but a buck's a buck.”",
      "It shouldn't matter whether a murderer tips you or a businessman. A buck's a buck. There's no morality attached to money.",
      "Anything that involves money is business to me. Granted, this is only pocket change to you, but a buck's a buck.",
      "And if many of the lawyers I work for are jerks, well, a buck's a buck."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "200",
    "Idiom": [
      "a camel is a horse made by committee",
      "a camel is a horse made by a committee",
      "a camel is a horse designed by a committee"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Too many people on a project can lead to conflicting ideas.",
    "Sentence": [
      "A camel is a horse designed by a committee, so we hope that this committee will—and I think it will—function appropriately.",
      "And we all know the saying, which is true as well as witty, that a camel is a horse that was designed by a committee.",
      "If a camel is a horse designed by a committee, what is a materials policy statement prepared by seven study teams?",
      "Whoever concluded that a camel is a horse designed by a committee could have similar thoughts about taxicabs.",
      "\"A camel,\" it has been said, \"is a horse designed by committee.\" This might sound like a telling example of the terrible deficiencies of committee decisions, but it is really much too mild an indictment.",
      "\"This is a presidential address, Andrea, not a camel (...) A camel! A horse built by committee! \" (Toby Ziegler)",
      "To quote another ancient proverb, \" A camel is a horse designed by a committee.\" Life or Something Like It is the movie designed by the camel.",
      "\"You know what they say about committees, a camel is a horse designed by a committee - Honorable Mayor Lawrence Werther, Mayor of the Incorporated Village of Mineola, New York."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "201",
    "Idiom": [
      "a cat in gloves catches no mice"
    ],
    "Meaning": "One cannot achieve desires without taking risks.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "202",
    "Idiom": [
      "a cat may look at a king",
      "a cat can look at a king"
    ],
    "Meaning": "An inferior can have rights even in the presence of a superior.",
    "Sentence": [
      "a doctrine which James characteristically parodied as the belief that a cat can not look at a king unless some higher entity is looking at them both."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "203",
    "Idiom": [
      "a chain is only as strong as its weakest link",
      "a chain is no stronger than its weakest link",
      "a chain is as strong as its weakest link"
    ],
    "Meaning": "An organization is only as strong as its weakest member.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "204",
    "Idiom": [
      "a change is as good as a rest"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Doing something different can be as refreshing as a break.",
    "Sentence": [
      "\"I guess there's a novelty factor element involved in working them. I think drivers like driving different traction, and there might also be a ' change is as good as a rest' element."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "205-1",
    "Idiom": [
      "a closed mouth catches no flies"
    ],
    "Meaning": "It's best to stay silent.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "205-2",
    "Idiom": [
      "a closed mouth catches no flies"
    ],
    "Meaning": "It's better to remain silent than to say something problematic.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "206",
    "Idiom": [
      "a closed mouth doesn't get fed"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Those who don't express their needs are less likely to get them.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "207",
    "Idiom": [
      "a closed mouth gathers no feet"
    ],
    "Meaning": "One who remains silent avoids embarrassment.",
    "Sentence": [
      "From the wall of a New York bar: \" A closed mouth gathers no feet.\"",
      "A closed mouth gathers no feet.",
      "Now disinflation is conventional wisdom on Wall Street, and Rutledge makes no apologies for his flamboyance: \" A closed mouth gathers no feet,\" he says.",
      "Or just keep your mouth shut. As sex therapist Marty Klein says, \" A closed mouth gathers no feet.\"",
      "So open your mouth to speak about what is good. And above all remember that \" a closed mouth gathers no feet !\"",
      "Bubba said he would like to go along. Leonard said, \"That's okay, Bubba, but please allow me to do the talking. Remember, a closed mouth gathers no feet.\""
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "208",
    "Idiom": [
      "a cold day in July"
    ],
    "Meaning": "An event that will never happen.",
    "Sentence": [
      "It'll be a cold day in July when that happens."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "209",
    "Idiom": [
      "a contented mind is a perpetual feast"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Contentment depends on attitude, not circumstances.",
    "Sentence": [
      "It has been observed that \" a contented mind is a perpetual feast \", and has been remarked, that persons of destitute of ambition and avarice, are peculiarly likely to enjoy long life.",
      "If they are content with this sort of locomotion, happy are they — \" a contented mind is a perpetual feast.\"",
      "True enjoyment is entirely independent of outward circumstances. It depends upon the proper and harmonious development and action of the mind, and upon a conscious harmony with the will of God; and those who perhaps seek enjoyment least have it most abundantly. \" A contented mind is a perpetual feast.\"",
      "Of course, a contented mind is a perpetual feast, and many argue that it is better to live with a bad situation than move to an even worse one.",
      "In addition, it includes ecological-friendly concept of consumption which values thrift and moderate development such as “ a contented mind is a perpetual feast ” and “restraint of desire”."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "210-1",
    "Idiom": [
      "a creaking door hangs longest",
      "a creaking door hangs long on its hinges"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Someone in poor health may outlive the seemingly stronger.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "211-2",
    "Idiom": [
      "a creaking door hangs longest"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Something bothersome lasts a long time.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "212",
    "Idiom": [
      "a danger foreseen is half avoided"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Foreseeing danger helps in avoiding it.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "213-1",
    "Idiom": [
      "a day late and a dollar short"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Too late and ineffective.",
    "Sentence": [
      "His apology was a day late and a dollar short."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "213-2",
    "Idiom": [
      "a day late and a dollar short"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Too late to be useful or relevant.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Help arrived a day late and a dollar short."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "214",
    "Idiom": [
      "a dime a dozen"
    ],
    "Meaning": "So common as to be worthless.",
    "Sentence": [
      "People with your skills are a dime a dozen these days."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "215",
    "Idiom": [
      "a drowning man will clutch at a straw"
    ],
    "Meaning": "A desperate person will seek any help, no matter how small.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "216",
    "Idiom": [
      "a dumb priest never got a parish"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Those who fail to speak up will not achieve their desires.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "217",
    "Idiom": [
      "a fair booty makes many a thief"
    ],
    "Meaning": "People are tempted to dishonesty by substantial rewards.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "218",
    "Idiom": [
      "a fault confessed is half redressed"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Confessing faults is the first step to making amends.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "219-1",
    "Idiom": [
      "a fool and his money are soon parted"
    ],
    "Meaning": "It is easy to obtain money from foolish people.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "219-2",
    "Idiom": [
      "a fool and his money are soon parted"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Careless individuals lose their money quickly.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "220",
    "Idiom": [
      "a foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Consistency can hinder growth; changes are necessary.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "221-1",
    "Idiom": [
      "a friend in need is a friend indeed"
    ],
    "Meaning": "A true friend helps in times of need.",
    "Sentence": [
      "A friend in need is a friend indeed, Een vrient in noot / is een vrient in der daet.",
      "The gentlemen on the other side of the House have been peculiarly called the friends of the people; remember a friend in need is a friend indeed. Is there, then, no some one who will step out from among them to save this tottering branch of our Government from falling!",
      "Friends should be ready to assist each other. Kind offices ought never to be omitted, but they are especially called for in seasons of affliction. \"A friend loveth at all times, and a brother is born for adversity.\" \" A friend in need is a friend indeed.\"",
      "I had a flight plan to cancel so asked if there were a telephone near. Mr. Littrell said his neighbor across the way had one. He was happy to drive us there—about three miles across some fields that would shake your eye teeth out. They say “ a friend in need is a friend indeed.” Mr. Littrell proved it. I am grateful.",
      "But I sat there trying to pretend that everything was OK, that this wasn't happening, trying to think instead of all the good things that happened to me in my life, trying to think of some important person I knew who could help me, but I couldn't think of anyone. A friend in need is a friend, indeed, and I sure could have used one then.",
      "I'm going to turn over the chair to my friend, colleague, and at this point someone— a friend in need is a friend indeed —Senator [Amy] Klobuchar.",
      "There is a well-known proverb, \" A friend in need is a friend indeed.\" Americans have always been our true friends. They stretched out warm helping hands to us when we were in direst need. The Fulbright Program, which was initiated in the throes of the Korean War, has been one such helping hand."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "221-2",
    "Idiom": [
      "a friend in need is a friend indeed"
    ],
    "Meaning": "A true friend helps in difficult times.",
    "Sentence": [
      "'Stan!' Ian replies, with a hurt look on his face. 'Would I do a thing like that? I'm just here to give you moral support. I reckon you're going to need all the help you can get. You know what they say; a friend in need is a friend indeed.'/ 'Or in your mind, a friend in need is a soft target. Now piss off!'",
      "\"You know, they say a friend in need is a friend indeed. I donated blood, but others even donate hearts, so after all, I feel pretty good that my friend is now safe from the little blood I could drop,\" Katy said passionately."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "222",
    "Idiom": [
      "a golden key can open any door"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Wealth can achieve anything.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "223",
    "Idiom": [
      "a good beginning makes a good ending"
    ],
    "Meaning": "A good start leads to positive outcomes.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "224",
    "Idiom": [
      "a good conscience is a soft pillow"
    ],
    "Meaning": "A clear conscience allows peaceful sleep.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "225",
    "Idiom": [
      "a good deal"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To a great extent; a lot.",
    "Sentence": [
      "He said he was sometimes whistling a tune to himself — for, like me, he sawed a good deal on the fiddle;",
      "She was a good deal frightened by this very sudden change, but she felt that there was no time to be lost, as she was shrinking rapidly: so she set to work at once to eat some of the other bit.",
      "We had a good deal more money after winning the lottery."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "226",
    "Idiom": [
      "a good deed is its own reward"
    ],
    "Meaning": "One should perform good deeds for satisfaction, not for rewards.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "227",
    "Idiom": [
      "a great deal"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To a great extent; a lot.",
    "Sentence": [
      "We had a great deal more money after winning the lottery."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "228",
    "Idiom": [
      "a healthy body is a healthy mind"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Physical fitness contributes to mental sharpness.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "229",
    "Idiom": [
      "a hit dog will holler"
    ],
    "Meaning": "An offended response indicates the statement applies to the complainer.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "230",
    "Idiom": [
      "a house divided against itself cannot stand"
    ],
    "Meaning": "A divided group cannot remain united.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Thirdly, sometimes by setting and fomenting divisions among Christians, Preacher against Preacher, Church against Church, well knowing, that a house divided against it selfe cannot stand.",
      "‘ A house divided against itself cannot stand.’ I believe this government cannot endure, permanently half slave and half free.",
      "If good is done, then there is the spirit of God and not the spirit of evil, for a house divided against itself cannot stand."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "231",
    "Idiom": [
      "a house is not a home"
    ],
    "Meaning": "A home requires inhabitants and a friendly atmosphere.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "232",
    "Idiom": [
      "a hundred and ten percent"
    ],
    "Meaning": "A level of effort beyond the usual.",
    "Sentence": [
      "We busted our tails and won; we really gave 110% in that game."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "233",
    "Idiom": [
      "a hungry man is an angry man"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Deprivation of basic needs leads to anger.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "234",
    "Idiom": [
      "a journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Every long journey starts with a first step.",
    "Sentence": [
      "It has often been said that a journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step. We have made many steps in our journey towards the republic, and perhaps are closer to our destination than we imagine.",
      "“ A thousand-mile journey begins with the first step ” and can only be taken one step at a time. If you don't let a teacher know at what level you are—by asking a question, or revealing your ignorance—you will not learn or grow.",
      "The problems are great--but this means that the opportunities are also great. In this situation it is well to remember the ancient wise words of Lao Tzu \" A journey of a thousand miles must begin with a single step.\""
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "235",
    "Idiom": [
      "a leopard cannot change its spots",
      "a leopard does not change its spots"
    ],
    "Meaning": "One cannot change one's nature.",
    "Sentence": [
      "End now all unkindness. Let us put the Jew to ransom, since the leopard will not change his spots, and a Jew he will continue to be.",
      "The leopard cannot change his spots, old boy.",
      "My sother has been loved and respected since the day she was born. It is easy to see why she found it so damnably difficult to risk losing her mother's love. It is easy to see also why I knew she would not lose her mother's love. A leopard doesn't change its spots. If her mother was indeed the woman she had always been, then she would act accordingly no matter what."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "236",
    "Idiom": [
      "a lie can run around the world before the truth can get its boots on"
    ],
    "Meaning": "A falsehood may spread widely before the truth is known.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "237",
    "Idiom": [
      "a lie has no legs"
    ],
    "Meaning": "A lie cannot be sustained; the truth will eventually be revealed.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "238",
    "Idiom": [
      "a little bird told me"
    ],
    "Meaning": "I received information from an undisclosed source.",
    "Sentence": [
      "I did lately heere, / How fleck and his make use their secret haunting, / By one byrd, that in myne eare was late chaunting. The spelling has been modernized.",
      "VVell, vvell; I had a little bird told me all this—",
      "'Yes,' replies she, 'and what do you care about them?' / 'It's very much I care,' replied I, 'for a little bird has whispered a secret to me.'",
      "‘Is Harry Fortescue in love with Florry Carlton?’ asked Lady Charity. ‘ A little bird told me he was as good as engaged to her.’",
      "\"Sorry to disturb you,\" said the Major, \"but you're to be transferred to another prison—why, you aren't undressed!\" / \"No,\" said Manfred, lazily kicking off the cover, \"but I thought the transfer would be earlier.\" / \"How did you know?\" / \"About the transfer—oh, a little bird told me,\" said the prisoner, stretching himself.",
      "A little bird told me you were likely to be soon engaged—and to an earl's nephew",
      "Let’s just say I know because a little bird told me."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "239",
    "Idiom": [
      "a little bit of bread and no cheese"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Represents the song of the yellowhammer.",
    "Sentence": [
      "The song of the yellow-hammer consists of little more than a monotone, repeated quickly several times, some emphasis being laid on the last note, which is also uttered at greater length. It is almost the only bird whose note is heard in the heat of a summer's day. The cow-boys in some parts of the country have given the following interpretation to the yellow-hammer's song:— \" A lit—tle bit of bread, and no cheese.\"",
      "In Devonshire it [the yellowhammer] goes by the names of \"Little-bread-and-no-cheese,\" and \"Gladdy.\" Of the latter name I do not know the origin; that of the former is clear enough; for if the words \" A little bit of bread and no cheese \" be chanted rapidly in one note, descending at the word \"cheese,\" the performance, both in matter and style, will bear a close resemblance to the bird's song.",
      "As twilight sets in, the Yellow Hammer may still be heard, and is perhaps the last bird to give a parting note to the retiring day, with the exception of his congener the Corn-Bunting, who sings till it is quite dusk. Country people imitate the note of the Yellow Hammer by the words, \" a little bit of bread and no cheese,\" the accent on the last word; but sometimes the utterance alters in tone, the request being for a \" little bit of bread and no cheese,\" the last word being dropped and the accent on the penultimate.",
      "The yellowhammer, who also had words as well as tune, sang his refrain of \" a little bit of bread and no cheese,\" with a tremendous emphasis on the no;",
      "It is delightful to hear the yellowhammer's song—his only song: \" A little bit of bread and no c h e e s e.\"",
      "There were several sorts of little birds, twittering different songs. The first one sang—“Who’s bin digging-up my nuts? Who’s-been-digging-up my nuts?” And another sang—“ Little bita bread and - no - cheese ! Little bit - a - bread an’ - no - cheese !”",
      "\" A little bit of bread and no cheese !\" cry the yellowhammers petulantly. But no one takes any notice of them.",
      "The Africans, it seems, have the British countryman's habit of making a phonetically similar sentence out of a bird's call. The yellow-hammer, for instance, is supposed to say \" a-little-bit-of-bread-and-no-cheese \". In Zande, the laughing dove calls urugu nolu akpi akpi, which can be translated as \"the planter of eleusine [a local cereal] will die\".",
      "In Europe the song of the Yellowhammer (Emberiza citrinella) can be heard, with a little poetic licence, as ‘ a little bit of bread and no cheese ’, the Quail (Coturnix coturnix) as ‘wet my lips’."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "240",
    "Idiom": [
      "a little from column A, a little from column B"
    ],
    "Meaning": "A combination of two factors.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Clinton would take a little from column A, a little from column B, depending on the day, his mood, and whom he had talked to last.",
      "Which is how I thought I knew it was going to be either really boring, or about my family, or a little from column A, a little from column B."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "241",
    "Idiom": [
      "a little learning is a dangerous thing",
      "a little knowledge is a dangerous thing"
    ],
    "Meaning": "A small amount of knowledge can lead to overconfidence.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Of course anybody can saw off a limb; but here, as so often happens, a little knowledge is a dangerous thing, and a little more will often save a dear old friend of the family and the neighborhood."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "242",
    "Idiom": [
      "a little of something goes a long way"
    ],
    "Meaning": "A small amount can have significant impact.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "243",
    "Idiom": [
      "a man is known by the company he keeps"
    ],
    "Meaning": "People are similar in character to their friends.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "244",
    "Idiom": [
      "a mind is a terrible thing to waste"
    ],
    "Meaning": "One should use their mental abilities wisely.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "245",
    "Idiom": [
      "a miss is as good as a mile"
    ],
    "Meaning": "A failure remains a failure, regardless of proximity to success.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "246",
    "Idiom": [
      "a mite"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To a small extent.",
    "Sentence": [
      "\"I hope Mary has been the best of girls?\" / \"The bestest little girl, Sir— a mite too lively, perhaps, especially when she hears you're coming to see her, .\"",
      "\"Silas, now,\" Esther Whitley had said, \"would be a good one for you, Hannah. He's a mite on the old side, but he's steady, an' he's been wed before. He knows the ways of a woman better'n some.\"",
      "Those trousers are a mite too big, but you'll soon grow into them.",
      "Words, words, words, bemoans Hamlet, in conversation with the garrulous but inconsequential Polonius, whom he labels a \"seller of fish\". Given that the Prince of Denmark is himself legendary for vacillation and inaction, this always seemed a mite cheeky to me.",
      "The new show’s look is a mite slicker and the comic situations are set up and executed better, including Episode 1 in which Beavis and Butt-Head mistake an escape room’s bathroom for the place they need to escape.",
      "In those circumstances, you’d have thought someone who had just blown $36bn of his company’s money in the pursuit of a personal obsession would have been a mite apologetic, wouldn’t you?"
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "247",
    "Idiom": [
      "a moment on the lips, a lifetime on the hips"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Indulgence in food leads to temporary pleasure but may cause long-term weight gain.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "248",
    "Idiom": [
      "a new broom sweeps clean",
      "a new broom sweeps clean, but an old broom knows all the corners",
      "a new broom sweeps clean, but the old broom knows the corners",
      "new brooms sweep clean"
    ],
    "Meaning": "New management often implements significant changes.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "249",
    "Idiom": [
      "a new broom sweeps clean, but an old broom knows the corners"
    ],
    "Meaning": "New management makes changes, but experienced individuals have valuable knowledge.",
    "Sentence": [
      "It is said that a new broom sweeps clean, but an old broom knows the corners – this does not apply to Mbombela’s social scene.",
      "Chibnall, like Moffat, like Davies, like Capaldi, Tennant, and many others involved in the triumphant reboot, is a lifelong Doctor Who fan. His arrival should remind us of the full version of the old adage: a new broom sweeps clean but an old broom knows the corners. There are lives in the old Doctor yet.",
      "It has been noted that the new broom sweeps clean, but the old broom knows the corners. Every now and then, the older broom must trust the young broom's judgment."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "250",
    "Idiom": [
      "a nod is as good as a wink",
      "a nod is as good as a wink to a blind horse"
    ],
    "Meaning": "A hint can be understood without further explanation.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "251",
    "Idiom": [
      "a notch above"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Superior to; of higher quality.",
    "Sentence": [
      "The hotel we stayed in this year was fabulous. It put our vacation a notch above the rest."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "252",
    "Idiom": [
      "a penny saved is a penny gained",
      "a penny saved is a penny earned"
    ],
    "Meaning": "A maxim for thrift.",
    "Sentence": [
      "I have reason to fear, that too many masters of ships forget that good old saying, \" A penny saved is a penny earned \"."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "253",
    "Idiom": [
      "a picture paints a thousand words",
      "an image is worth a thousand words",
      "a picture is worth a thousand words"
    ],
    "Meaning": "A visual is more descriptive than words.",
    "Sentence": [
      "An image is worth a thousand words. That’s why we display pictures for many words.",
      "If a picture paints a thousand words",
      "Most human beings, no matter how familiar they are with abstract symbols, respond to voice and images better than written language. In other words, A picture paints a thousand words.",
      "See accompanying diagram: a picture paints a thousand words, and all that!"
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "254",
    "Idiom": [
      "a pound to a penny"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Very likely.",
    "Sentence": [
      "\"I'll lay you a pound to a penny that proud Miss Nelly marries John Ormandy in the end.\"",
      "...and where was out boy?...Discharged early from the National Service in Cyprus! A pound to a penny he was home with Mum...",
      "Mrs. Seaton raised her eyebrows. \"What does she think will happen? She might respect what you have to say, but I'll put a pound to a penny no one else at that table will.\""
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "255",
    "Idiom": [
      "a problem shared is a problem halved",
      "a worry shared is a worry halved"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Sharing a problem makes it easier to solve.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "256",
    "Idiom": [
      "a promise is a promise"
    ],
    "Meaning": "One must keep promises.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "257",
    "Idiom": [
      "a promise made is a promise kept"
    ],
    "Meaning": "A promise should be honored.",
    "Sentence": [
      "We'll never rise together if we allow medical bills to swallow family budgets or let people retire penniless after a lifetime of hard work, and so today we must demand that when it comes to commitments made [to] working men and women on health care and pensions, a promise made is a promise kept."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "258",
    "Idiom": [
      "a prophet is not without honor save in his own country",
      "a prophet has no honor in his own country"
    ],
    "Meaning": "A person may be respected by others but not by those closest to them.",
    "Sentence": [
      "\"(Now Jesus himself had pointed out that a prophet has no honor in his own country.)\""
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "259",
    "Idiom": [
      "a revolution is not a dinner party"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Achieving change requires abandoning formalities and norms.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "260",
    "Idiom": [
      "a rising tide lifts all boats"
    ],
    "Meaning": "A truly good outcome benefits all.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Whereas in the 1960s, incomes rose as the economy grew—to use President Kennedy's phrase, “ a rising tide lifts all the boats ”—this no longer applied in the 1980s.",
      "Hay and other early gay rights activists were influenced by the Black civil rights movement in a broader sense, too. The rising tide of African American organizing raised all boats, and the hopes of all whose dreams had been deferred."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "261-1",
    "Idiom": [
      "a rolling stone gathers no moss"
    ],
    "Meaning": "A transient person may lack stability and success.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "261-2",
    "Idiom": [
      "a rolling stone gathers no moss"
    ],
    "Meaning": "A person must stay active to avoid stagnation.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "262",
    "Idiom": [
      "a short drop and a sudden stop"
    ],
    "Meaning": "A fall to death by hanging.",
    "Sentence": [
      "I see, in other words, a short drop and then a sudden stop ?",
      "I intend to see to it that any man who sails under a pirate flag or wears a pirate brand gets what he deserves: A short drop and a sudden stop.",
      "> But, yeah, the death penalty is a little stiff just for pretentious writing. > Punning now… it’d be a capital idea, there. Let’s not start _that_ row. Give it a quick drop and a sudden stop, rather than letting them hang…",
      "If you were lucky enough to survive all this lunacy, you always risked capture. There your story would end with a quick drop and a sudden stop, for piracy was punishable by hanging."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "263",
    "Idiom": [
      "a smooth sea never made a skilled sailor"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Challenging experiences are educational and beneficial.",
    "Sentence": [
      "A smooth sea never made a skilled sailor and the same concept applies to a relationship. If you have a relationship where there is never tough times to work through together, there will never be an opportunity to gain strength within the relationship. Accept the good with the bad because it all happens for a reason, and will teach you something."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "264",
    "Idiom": [
      "a sorrow shared is a sorrow halved",
      "shared sorrow is half sorrow"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Grief can be alleviated by sharing it with others.",
    "Sentence": [
      "As a result, the optimist always has the lower hand, given that everyone around him is the opposite. You’d be considered a leper if you did not participate in the average, mediocre people’s wailing and complaining. If I’m not happy, I’ll not let you stay happy. After all, sorrow shared is sorrow halved. So let’s whine together!",
      "Standing shoulder- to- shoulder regularly with other men strengthens our listening skills, increases our ability to be present and open, and helps us work through some of our issues— qualities that also tremendously enhance intimacy with our partner. An old tribal proverb remembers that shared joy is double joy, and shared sorrow is half sorrow."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "265",
    "Idiom": [
      "a spoonful of sugar makes the medicine go down",
      "a spoonful of sugar helps the medicine go down"
    ],
    "Meaning": "An unpleasant situation can be made more pleasant by adding a positive element.",
    "Sentence": [
      "One is known as the \"sweetening parable,\" that is to say a spoonful of sugar helps the medicine go down. Thus, when the aim is to preach to the people, to guide them along the \"bitter,\" arduous path of upholding burdensome precepts and prohibitions, a tale can lighten the load, make the \"medicine\" easier \"to swallow.\"",
      "It put some fun into the tedious business of preparing for a presidential debate. A spoonful of sugar helps the medicine go down, right?",
      "If a spoonful of sugar helps the medicine go down, a barrel of laughs can wash down the big pills you might need to swallow."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "266",
    "Idiom": [
      "a stitch in time saves nine"
    ],
    "Meaning": "A small effort early prevents bigger problems later.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "267-1",
    "Idiom": [
      "a stopped clock is right twice a day",
      "a broken clock is right twice a day",
      "even a stopped clock is right twice a day"
    ],
    "Meaning": "An unreliable source can occasionally be correct.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "268-2",
    "Idiom": [
      "a stopped clock is right twice a day"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Someone who is often wrong can still be right sometimes.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "269",
    "Idiom": [
      "a straw shows which way the wind blows",
      "a straw shows how the wind blows"
    ],
    "Meaning": "A general situation can be inferred from minor indications.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "270",
    "Idiom": [
      "a sucker is born every minute",
      "there's a sucker born every minute"
    ],
    "Meaning": "There will always be fools who are easily swindled.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "271",
    "Idiom": [
      "a trouble shared is a trouble halved"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Talking about difficulties can alleviate worry and stress.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "272",
    "Idiom": [
      "a watched pot never boils over",
      "watched toast never burns",
      "a watched kettle never boils",
      "a watched pot never boils"
    ],
    "Meaning": "A process seems slower when closely monitored rather than when distracted by other activities.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "273-1",
    "Idiom": [
      "a week from next Tuesday"
    ],
    "Meaning": "A future time reference.",
    "Sentence": [
      "You are thinking that in ten minutes from now you must do something — or it may be tomorrow, or a week from next Tuesday. Sometimes you think a year ahead,...",
      "Even the best weatherman can't tell if it's going to rain or shine a week from next Tuesday. With the stars it is different. We can always tell in advance..."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "273-2",
    "Idiom": [
      "a week from next Tuesday"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Refers to a specific time; after next Tuesday.",
    "Sentence": [
      "On the other hand, too wide a notch means you have to drill until a week from next Tuesday to get enough dust to fill the darn thing."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "274",
    "Idiom": [
      "a week is a long time in politics"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Much change can occur quickly in politics.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "275",
    "Idiom": [
      "a wild goose never laid a tame egg"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Most things are inherited and predetermined.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "276-1",
    "Idiom": [
      "a woman's work is never done"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Housework is never finished.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "276-2",
    "Idiom": [
      "a woman's work is never done"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Women often have ongoing responsibilities, both at home and in the workplace.",
    "Sentence": [
      "\"Six o'clock, and working still! They say a woman's work is never done,\" remarked Ik Stanton, dropping into the easiest chair in the studio, \"and for this reason, were there no other, your muse is evidently of the feminine persuasion.\"",
      "As Professor Myerhoff writes: \"The adage ' A woman's work is never done' calls attention to the continuity of woman's tasks on a daily basis.\"",
      "According to the old maxim, a woman’s work is never done. It certainly never counts, a least not by the economic formulae that figure out the wealth of a nation.",
      "They say a woman’s work is never done. If certain Brexiteers have their way, that might be truer than ever. A no-deal Brexit would mean a disastrous shortfall in care staff, which would force women out of the office and into unpaid social care roles, looking after elderly parents."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "277",
    "Idiom": [
      "a year and a day"
    ],
    "Meaning": "A long time.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "278",
    "Idiom": [
      "abound in one's own sense"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To follow one's own inclinations and opinions.",
    "Sentence": [
      "But for that very reason that the conventional requires softness or impressionability to the dear little urbanities in you, if you abound in your own sense they are weak, & soon at your mercy.",
      "The clearly defined purpose of the order, and the full and all but dryly legalistic expressions of its constitutions left no scope for interpreters abounding in their own sense and made schism impossible.",
      "Having escaped what he described as the “Ph.D. death rattle,” Copey abounded in his own sense at Harvard, where “Every man in his humour” was the motto for professors who were actors often and characters all the time."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "279",
    "Idiom": [
      "about time"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Long overdue.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Our food has finally arrived. ― About time too, if you ask me! We've been waiting about 45 minutes for it!"
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "280",
    "Idiom": [
      "about to"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Indicates something that will happen very soon.",
    "Sentence": [
      "And when Paul was now about to open his mouth, Gallio said unto the Jews, If it were a matter of wrong or wicked lewdness, O ye Jews, reason would that I should bear with you:",
      "I was about to say that I had known the Celebrity from the time he wore kilts. But I see I will have to amend that, because he was not a celebrity then, nor, indeed, did he achieve fame until some time after I left New York for the West.",
      "He's standing at the edge, and I think he's about to jump.",
      "She seemed about to say something."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "281-1",
    "Idiom": [
      "above board"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Openly, without deceit.",
    "Sentence": [
      "' And he explained this business of confidential commissions?' / 'Yes, he did. And it seemed to turn out quite respectable and above board.' Mrs Meatyard considered. 'Or almost above board."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "281-2",
    "Idiom": [
      "above board"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Honestly and reputably.",
    "Sentence": [
      "They conducted the negotiations completely above board."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "282",
    "Idiom": [
      "above one's bend",
      "above one's huckleberry"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Beyond one's power or ability.",
    "Sentence": [
      "I shall not attempt to describe the curiosities at Peale's Museum; it is above my bend.",
      "It would be above my bend to attempt telling you all we saw among the Redskins."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "283",
    "Idiom": [
      "above par"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Better than average.",
    "Sentence": [
      "\"Certainly, sir, that will be an excellent method of trial.\" \"Ay, ay, know the way! soon find if they are above par. Be sure don't mind gold waistcoats; nothing but tinsel, all shew and no substance; better leave the matter to me; take care of you myself; know where to find one will do.\""
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "284",
    "Idiom": [
      "above the curve"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Above average innovative performance or quality.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "285-1",
    "Idiom": [
      "above the fray"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Uninvolved in a conflict.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "285-2",
    "Idiom": [
      "above the fray"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Maintaining a detached or mature perspective in a petty dispute.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "286",
    "Idiom": [
      "above the law"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Exempt from laws.",
    "Sentence": [
      "'The law,' she laughed with scorn - 'the law! Canst thou not understand, oh Holly, that I am above the law, and so shall my Kallikrates be also? All human law will be to us as the north wind to a mountain.'",
      "If we hesitate to call those actions and their perpetrator criminal, then we are saying he is above the law and giving license to future presidents to do whatever they want.",
      "The emperor is above the law.",
      "You may think you're above the law, but you're not."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "287",
    "Idiom": [
      "above the salt"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Of high standing or honor.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "288",
    "Idiom": [
      "above water"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Out of financial difficulty.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "289",
    "Idiom": [
      "absence makes the heart go yonder",
      "absence makes the heart grow fonder"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Distance increases feelings of love and affection.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "290",
    "Idiom": [
      "absence makes the heart go yonder",
      "long absent, soon forgotten"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Love fades when people are distant.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Does Absence Make the Heat Grow Fonder? Sometimes. And sometimes absence makes the heart go yonder.",
      "Work if you must, but don't take a night job. Absence makes the heart go yonder.",
      "Absence makes the heart go yonder, sweetheart. Wherever he's at, that's where you need to be also.",
      "There is truth in the old adage \"Absence makes the heart grow fonder,\" but it is also true that \" Absence makes the heart go yonder.\" Intimacy with God cannot survive and grow without a sense of God's actual presence with His people in the here and now."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "291",
    "Idiom": [
      "absence makes the heart grow fonder"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Distance increases affection for loved ones.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "292",
    "Idiom": [
      "abuse of distress"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Wrongful use of an item or animal that has been seized.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "293",
    "Idiom": [
      "accident of birth"
    ],
    "Meaning": "A circumstance beyond a person's control from birth.",
    "Sentence": [
      "He said to himself that he was a very good-looking man, and could have adorned a much higher sphere in life than that in which the accident of birth had placed him.",
      "\"You're no brother of mine,\" she broke in. \"At most it is an accident of birth I disown. I'll have no relationship with you of any sort.\"",
      "An accident of birth had made him a citizen of the United States—his father having owned a ranch which lay north instead of south of the Rio Grande."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "294",
    "Idiom": [
      "accident waiting to happen"
    ],
    "Meaning": "A situation likely to lead to an accident.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Maguire looked totally devoid of confidence, a lost soul and an accident waiting to happen, which it eventually did.",
      "Someone needs to repair that worn-out old bridge. It's an accident waiting to happen !"
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "295",
    "Idiom": [
      "accidents will happen in the best regulated families"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Accidents can occur even in the best circumstances.",
    "Sentence": [
      "In spite of all precautions, accidents will happen in the best regulated families, and wolves steal in, in the fleeces of Merinos.",
      "“Why, for my own part, I never like to alarm people—I hate that; but, when accidents will happen in the best regulated families, why not in this very irregular?”",
      "It is an old saying, that \" accidents will happen in the best-regulated families;\" and as it is important for every farmer to know how to repair the damages to which he is liable, I send you an account of an accident which occurred in my experience last months, and the remedy which was successfully applied.",
      "We do not claim to be infallible; as the proverb says, “ accidents will happen in the best regulated families;” but so far as integrity and the exercise of the utmost care and circumspection on the part of the Proprietors, and the employment by them of experienced and careful hands, will ensure correctness, purchasers may rely upon every variety sent proving true to name.",
      "“ Accidents will happen in the best regulated families,” and the best regulated steam-ships may not enjoy perfect immunity from them; but as some children are eternally in mischief, and some persons never walk out of their own houses without meeting with adventures out of the common way, so there are steam-vessels, and the Virago seems to be one of them, which never put to sea without an accident.",
      "\"My dear friend Copperfield,\" said Mr. Micawber, \" accidents will occur in the best regulated families; and in families not regulated by that pervading influence which sanctifies while it enhances the —a— I would say, in short, by the influence of Woman, \"",
      "With home and family defined as the private sphere, its members were reminded that Accidents will happen in the best regulated families and they should not wash dirty linen in public.",
      "Occasionally there is a hiatus; for instance, our sweet potatoes, turnips and cabbages arrived late this morning but \" accidents will happen in the best regulated families."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "296",
    "Idiom": [
      "according to Cocker",
      "according to gunter"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Done properly and reliably.",
    "Sentence": [
      "“Well, so you ought to be, according to Cocker, spending all your time in sick rooms.” “According to who?” “ According to Cocker.” “Who is Cocker?” “Oh, I don't know; some old fellow who wrote the rules of arithmetic, I believe; it's only a bit of slang. ”",
      "A man rode at an Arab who fired and missed him, and then seized his spear, with the apparent intention of meeting him as an infantry soldier should, according to Cocker.",
      "It seems that a certain constable whose beat included Dorchester Square was going his round rather late one evening when he noticed a hansom cab drawn up about the middle of the south side of the square. There was no sign of the driver, and no one minding the horse; and as this was not quite according to Cocker, it naturally attracted his attention."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "297",
    "Idiom": [
      "according to Hoyle"
    ],
    "Meaning": "In accordance with established rules or norms.",
    "Sentence": [
      "This isn't a country where things are cut and dried, and done according to Hoyle.",
      "When you're lost in the Wild, and you're scared as a child, / And Death looks you bang in the eye, / And you're sore as a boil, it's according to Hoyle / To cock your revolver and... die.",
      "The opening round of the Presidents' Athletic Conference men's basketball tournament went according to Hoyle."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "298",
    "Idiom": [
      "ace up one's sleeve",
      "ace in the hole",
      "trick up one's sleeve"
    ],
    "Meaning": "A hidden advantage.",
    "Sentence": [
      "SCP-7450 is an apocalyptic scenario where the Foundation has to resort to an ace up their sleeves and belief in a higher power solves the problem, but not in the way anyone would expect.",
      "You didn't think I'd risk losing the battle for Gotham's soul in a fistfight with you? No. You need an ace in the hole. Mine's Harvey.",
      "Our ace in the hole left our opponents stupefied; it isn't every day that an NBA star plays street basketball."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "299",
    "Idiom": [
      "acknowledge the corn"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To admit to a mistake or a point of truth.",
    "Sentence": [
      "I hope he will give up the argument, or to use a familiar phrase acknowledge the corn.",
      "I should like to take a job of that kind on a wager with him, or any other New Hampshire man, and if I did not come out a little ahead on the \"home stretch,\" why then I would \" acknowledge the corn,\" and own myself beaten.",
      "Will the hon. gentleman acknowledge the corn ? He does not do it. He is non-committal.",
      "They had simply to \" acknowledge the corn,\" round up, and — \"vamoose\"; then, so soon as the soldiers had gone back to the fort, there was no law to prevent their returning."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "300",
    "Idiom": [
      "acquired taste"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Something appreciated after initially being unappealing.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Since most adults do not share this director's unquenchable optimism, even his best movies tend to be an acquired taste.",
      "This research seemed to suggest that the product's acquired taste which they had been fuelling could also be a latent disadvantage. The advertising campaign implied that Guinness was an acquired taste for the discerning drinker;",
      "NBA Hall of Famer Arnold \"Red\" Auerbach was an acquired taste for most people who had to deal with him on a regular basis. Inexplicably tactless one minute and charming the next, he ran the Boston Celtics as a compassionate dictatorship, his rough edges becoming part and parcel of his storied success.",
      "Mr. Farzan, who eats as many as 100 pawpaws a year in various dishes, acknowledged that the flavor is an acquired taste."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "301",
    "Idiom": [
      "across the board"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Pertaining to all categories or things.",
    "Sentence": [
      "in favor of a straight across-the-board salary increase",
      "A common technique (variously known as an emergency brake or meat axe budgeting) used by governments is across-the-board cuts;",
      "Chile provides the region's best example of a country that has successfully reformed its core public administration across the board."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "302",
    "Idiom": [
      "act of Congress"
    ],
    "Meaning": "An authorization that is difficult to obtain.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Should Frederick stick around — and apparently it would take an act of Congress to get him out of the ICU — he might take up where Molly had brutally left off.",
      "Since it seemed like getting a glass of wine was going to require an act of Congress, I quickly agreed.",
      "Another problem was bureaucratic: the transfer of the ship required, literally, an act of Congress. It was an agonizing process that ground along for twenty-six months, through the tenures of three secretaries of the navy, two presidents, and two mayors of New York.",
      "Does it take an act of Congress just to get a stop sign on a corner?"
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "303",
    "Idiom": [
      "act one's age",
      "act one's age, not one's shoe size"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To behave appropriately for one's age.",
    "Sentence": [
      "You should act your age, not your shoe size !"
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "304-1",
    "Idiom": [
      "act out"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To perform something specific.",
    "Sentence": [
      "What was acted out in the American and French Revolutions had been thought out beforehand in the writings of Locke and Rousseau, the scenarists for the drama of modern politics.",
      "Despite already being aware, he will be acting out the pretence of a surprise.",
      "I've wanted to do this for so long, but I never thought I could act it out."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "304-2",
    "Idiom": [
      "act out"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To perform a scene.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "304-3",
    "Idiom": [
      "act out"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To perform a fantasy.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "305",
    "Idiom": [
      "act the hypocrite"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To behave hypocritically.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "306-1",
    "Idiom": [
      "act up"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To misbehave or cause trouble.",
    "Sentence": [
      "My allergies act up during hay fever season.",
      "Children may act up in class in an effort to get attention.",
      "My car started acting up after I drove through that huge puddle."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "306-2",
    "Idiom": [
      "act up"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To deputize for a superior.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Acting up is always recommended when you find yourself under a new boss."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "307",
    "Idiom": [
      "actions have consequences"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Individual actions can lead to negative outcomes.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "308-1",
    "Idiom": [
      "actions speak louder than words"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Action is more impactful than words.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "308-2",
    "Idiom": [
      "actions speak louder than words"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Actions indicate true feelings more reliably than words.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "309",
    "Idiom": [
      "activist judge"
    ],
    "Meaning": "A judge who makes rulings based on personal political views rather than the law.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "310",
    "Idiom": [
      "activist justice"
    ],
    "Meaning": "A justice influenced by personal political views rather than the law.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "311",
    "Idiom": [
      "add fuel to the fire",
      "feed the fire",
      "pour fuel on the fire",
      "pour gasoline on the fire"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To worsen a conflict.",
    "Sentence": [
      "But this had no effect, only to add fuel to the fire; so that, at last, both parties were so exasperated, that, had not the magistrates of Frankfort (who were now head of the English reformed church) interposed, they were on the point of coming to blows.",
      "and to admit women into active participation in politics will certainly be to increase disorder and add fuel to the fire of strife.",
      "Instead of apologizing to his girlfriend, he decided to add fuel to the fire.",
      "Instead of using the opportunity to ease the tensions between Bonn and Washington, Acheson chose to pour gasoline on the fire.",
      "The Ayatollah Khomeini poured gasoline on the fire with his comments on the mosque seizure, which were broadcast by Iranian radio the day after the attack.",
      "As I waited, my silence seemed to pour gasoline on the fire of Jack Reagan's irritation."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "312",
    "Idiom": [
      "add insult to injury"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To worsen an already unfavorable situation.",
    "Sentence": [
      "the line crossed over an iron bridge spanning Ludgate Hill itself neatly obliterating any view of St Paul's from Ludgate Circus and Fleet Street. A thousand people had put their names to a petition against the bridge. To add insult to injury it carried a small thicket of railway signals as well as regular steam trains.",
      "As if the hostile takeover weren't enough, to add insult to injury they scrapped ninety percent of our products and replaced them with their own."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "313",
    "Idiom": [
      "add up"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To be reasonable or consistent.",
    "Sentence": [
      "His story just doesn't add up. Why would he have been at the restaurant the day before the event?"
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "314",
    "Idiom": [
      "added value"
    ],
    "Meaning": "The positive difference made by someone.",
    "Sentence": [
      "The purpose of a value-added tax is to harness a portion of the added value in a commercial value chain and apply it to the public purse."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "315",
    "Idiom": [
      "adorn oneself with borrowed plumes"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To claim another's honor as your own.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "316",
    "Idiom": [
      "adrenaline rush"
    ],
    "Meaning": "An event or activity that induces excitement or thrill.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Blackpool continue to thrive on the adrenaline rush of the end-of-season shoot-out and are heading for a second Wembley date in two years after negotiating a nervy path past Birmingham."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "317",
    "Idiom": [
      "afraid of one's own shadow"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Exceptionally timid.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "318-1",
    "Idiom": [
      "after all"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Indicates a statement is true despite other considerations.",
    "Sentence": [
      "“What a charming amusement for young people this is, Mr. Darcy! There is nothing like dancing after all.—I consider it as one of the first refinements of polished societies.”",
      "After all, it is undeniable that the B.R. standard coach scored highly in comparative trials with other European railway vehicles on the Continent a few years ago, so that B.R. civil engineers must share responsibility for any defects in its behaviour over here.",
      "I’d prefer to keep things straightforward and stick in the lovely, tasty yolks, too. After all, there’s no such thing as too rich when it comes to brownies.",
      "After all, they never come home for Christmas.",
      "Of course he won't give you credit. After all, his first and last concern is his company's profit margin."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "318-2",
    "Idiom": [
      "after all"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Used to refer to an unexpected or contrary outcome.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Then the idea returned to her that, after all, her son might not be innocent in the Ellen matter—and this was so interesting that she felt bound to get as near the truth as she could.",
      "They won't be coming home for Christmas after all."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "319-1",
    "Idiom": [
      "after one's own heart"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Having the same feelings or opinions as someone else.",
    "Sentence": [
      "I turn with great complacency to the fourth class of my readers, who are men, or, if possible, women, after my own heart; grave, philosophical and investigating; fond of analyzing characters, of taking a start from first causes, and so hunting a nation down, through all the mazes of innovation and improvement.",
      "Look, Pisistratus, man after my own heart, see the gleam of bronze and gold—of amber, ivory, and silver. Everything is so splendid that it is like seeing the palace of Olympian Jove. I am lost in admiration.",
      "Professor Cusins: you are a young man after my own heart.",
      "I found the father of Thuvia a man after my own heart, and that night saw the beginning of a friendship which has grown until it is second only to that which obtains between Tars Tarkas, the green Jeddak of Thark, and myself.",
      "“I am impressed, young Frank,” began the master criminal. “Breaking into my house in the dead of night. You are a boy after my own heart. You need to come and live here with me and your mother. I could be the father you never had. I could train you up. Teach you everything I know. You could become a master criminal like me. One day all this could be yours.”"
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "319-2",
    "Idiom": [
      "after one's own heart"
    ],
    "Meaning": "According to one's own desire or taste.",
    "Sentence": [
      "In this particular party, small as it was, culture, learning, art, arms, landed interest and hereditary sway were properly personified. It was, indeed, a representative gathering after the Talberts' own hearts.",
      "During these wanderings I once hit on a vegetarian restaurant in Farringdon Street. The sight of it filled me with the same joy that a child feels on getting a thing after its own heart. This was my first hearty meal since my arrival in England."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "320",
    "Idiom": [
      "after the Lord Mayor's show"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Describes a disappointing event after an exciting one.",
    "Sentence": [
      "as is usual on all such occasions, after gaiety comes squalor; or, as we observe in respect to the annual pageant of the City of London that \"after the Lord Mayor's Show comes a,—donkey-cart,",
      "The All Whites came into this match hotfoot from their stunning victory over Castres last Tuesday which took them into the semi-final of the prototype European Cup.... For a while it looked as if it might be a case of after the Lord Mayor's show as Swansea struggled with one of their dozy moods, against Treorchy.",
      "\" After the Lord Mayor's Show.\" Freddy looked up from reading Punch. \"What is, old fruit?\" \"The excitement's gone. Back to dull monotony.\""
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "321-1",
    "Idiom": [
      "after the fact"
    ],
    "Meaning": "After an action or event has occurred.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "321-2",
    "Idiom": [
      "after the fact"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Too late; after something is finished.",
    "Sentence": [
      "You made the commitment, and you can't change the terms after the fact."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "322",
    "Idiom": [
      "against all odds"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Despite significant obstacles.",
    "Sentence": [
      "But, against all the odds, one company is still alive and most definitely kicking.",
      "Against all odds, the inexperienced new player won the tournament."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "323",
    "Idiom": [
      "against the clock"
    ],
    "Meaning": "In a time-restricted manner to meet a deadline.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "324",
    "Idiom": [
      "against the collar"
    ],
    "Meaning": "In a tight spot.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "325-1",
    "Idiom": [
      "against the grain"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Contrary to societal expectations.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Get the thinkers out into the open like Vidal and Buckley, a really radical idea, against the grain.",
      "For Nabiullina, the developments unpick almost a decade of work going against the grain of Putin’s increasing global isolation by opening up the economy.",
      "By going against the grain and going to work nude, you've made yourself a laughing stock."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "325-2",
    "Idiom": [
      "against the grain"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Contrary to one's nature.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Say, you chose him / More after our commandment than as guided / By your own true affections, and that your minds, / Preoccupied with what you rather must do / Than what you should, made you against the grain / To voice him consul: lay the fault on us.",
      "It went much against the grain with him."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "326",
    "Idiom": [
      "against the run of play"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Contrary to the flow of the game.",
    "Sentence": [
      "The Gunners dominated for long periods but, against the run of play, Denilson fouled Max Gradel and Robert Snodgrass put Leeds ahead from the spot."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "327",
    "Idiom": [
      "against the world"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Together as a group or couple.",
    "Sentence": [
      "It's you and me against the world."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "328",
    "Idiom": [
      "age before beauty"
    ],
    "Meaning": "A phrase for allowing older people to go first.",
    "Sentence": [
      "It is recorded that Mrs. Parker and a snooty debutante were both going in to supper at a party: the debutante made elaborate way, saying sweetly \" Age before beauty, Mrs. Parker.\" \"And pearls before swine,\" said Mrs. Parker, sweeping in."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "329",
    "Idiom": [
      "age is just a number"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Age is not important.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "330",
    "Idiom": [
      "agree to disagree"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To peacefully acknowledge differing opinions without further argument.",
    "Sentence": [
      "By 1849, they agreed amicably to disagree, and McCormick bought the Ogden and Jones half of the business for $65,000.",
      "We knew that no agreement concerning Taiwan could be reached at this time. While both sides could agree that Taiwan was a part of China — a position supported by both the Peking and Taiwan governments — we would have to oppose the use of military force by Peking to bring Taiwan under Communist rule. Our lengthy discussions resulted as we expected: we could only agree to disagree and to reflect our differences in the communiqué. Thanks largely to Kissinger's negotiating skill and Chou's common sense, the Chinese finally agreed to sufficiently modified language.",
      "I know we’re never going to agree on the merits of vegetarianism, so let’s agree to disagree, shall we?"
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "331",
    "Idiom": [
      "aha moment"
    ],
    "Meaning": "The moment a solution or realization becomes clear.",
    "Sentence": [
      "We are never made to understand why Oskar Schindler, the Nazi war profiteer, risked his life to save more than 1,200 Jews; there is no defining Aha! moment that accounts for his heroism.",
      "Her aha moment came in 2003: \"This, I realized, was my passion.\"",
      "Microsoft’s marketing gurus hope that Bing will evoke a sound — the ringing of a bell that signals the “aha” moment when a search leads to an answer."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "332",
    "Idiom": [
      "ahead of one's time"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Innovative or advanced compared to current ideas.",
    "Sentence": [
      "With his practice of dream interpretation by free association, Freud was both ahead of his time and behind his time."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "333-1",
    "Idiom": [
      "ahead of the curve"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Staying innovative or advanced compared to others.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "333-2",
    "Idiom": [
      "ahead of the curve"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Generally performing well.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "334",
    "Idiom": [
      "ahead of the game"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Prepared or anticipating.",
    "Sentence": [
      "If you start work on the new assignment now, you'll be ahead of the game for when the teacher sets it officially."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "335",
    "Idiom": [
      "ahead of the pack"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Performing better than others.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Some very significant but not very widely known news (even in the sector itself) is that rail is not only uniquely placed to benefit from this promised change of direction, there is already solid evidence to put the rail sector ahead of the pack as a potential investment priority."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "336",
    "Idiom": [
      "ain't what it used to was"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Is not what it used to be; expresses nostalgia.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Thanksgiving ' ain't what it used to was.'",
      "Your memory ain't what it used to was, my man, or what it ought to be.",
      "Then Grandmother snuffled a teardrop And said. \"It is jest like I suz T’ th’ parson—Grandfather’s liver Ain’t what it used to was.\"",
      "With a few more years to procrastinate, as we used to say of the old gray mare, we'll be able to say of the elementary schools, \"It ain't what it used to was !\""
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "337",
    "Idiom": [
      "air out",
      "bronx cheer"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To expose to air.",
    "Sentence": [
      "If you air out your sleeping bag after you use it, it will smell better the next time you get in.",
      "Princeton's defeat by Annapolis is regretted here as the Staggs say if they win in the East it won't be held as such-a-much, whereas if Chicago loses the East will grin and give Western football the jolly old Bronx cheer.",
      "There is no reason, no sound reason—forgetting once more the beer-weeping—why our restaurants should not step out and claim the world's championship, give the homemade product the Bronx cheer, and have done with all this nonsense.",
      "\"Why doesn't he write a few words to you? Or you could write a few words to him.\" / \"A Bronx cheer on you.\" / \"It's my letter,\" Teddy said. / \"I don't care who writes it,\" said Newman. \"I could write a message for you wishing him luck. I could say you hope he gets out of here soon.\" / \"A Bronx cheer to that.\"",
      "In London or New York in the late 1970s dada meant what it meant in Paris and New York at the end of the First World War: a not-quite-naked prank, a jape clothed in the barest g-string of aesthetic authority, a Bronx cheer in three-part harmony, Tzara's affirmation of the right “to piss and shit in different colors.”",
      "The original ending [of Charles Ives 's Symphony No. 2 ] is preferable; the final dissonance in the published version is a Bronx cheer completely out of the spirit of the rest of the work.",
      "He lost major battles and wars, signed ruinous treaties, handed over territories to his enemies, and so completely undermined his personal reputation that in 1715 his corpse was greeted with Bronx cheers as it went to its resting place.",
      "As I walked up to the stage, numerous members of the audience recognized me and mostly yelled out, \"Good luck,\" though there were some Bronx cheers. I felt like a heavyweight fighter approaching the ring to the cheers and boos of the crowd."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "338",
    "Idiom": [
      "air rage"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Aggressive, disruptive behavior on an aircraft.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Repeated incidents of air rage have led to stricter security on airplanes."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "339",
    "Idiom": [
      "alarums and excursions"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Frantic activity.",
    "Sentence": [
      "He had been well aware ever since his coming to Hathelsborough of an atmosphere of intrigue and mystery; every development that occurred seemed to thicken it.... It puzzled him, being still a stranger to the habits and customs of these people, to see that life in Hathelsborough went on, amidst all these alarums and excursions.",
      "The various alarums and excursions in The Rock that early evening did not dent attendance at these meetings very much"
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "340",
    "Idiom": [
      "albatross around one's neck",
      "albatross round one's neck"
    ],
    "Meaning": "A burden that hinders success.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Less attention was paid to the albatross that Bain, KKR, and Vornado had placed around the company’s neck. Toys “R” Us had a debt load of $1.86 billion before it was bought out.",
      "“Marine wants to be French president, and her chance are pretty good for 2027,” said one former senior AfD official. “Why would she want a bunch of German neo-Nazis like an albatross round her neck ?”",
      "He bought the properties last year hoping to make a profit by reselling them; however, with the economic downturn, they have become an albatross around his neck."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "341",
    "Idiom": [
      "alive and kicking"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Healthy and thriving, especially despite challenges.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "342",
    "Idiom": [
      "all along"
    ],
    "Meaning": "For the entire time.",
    "Sentence": [
      "He thought he had me fooled, but I knew the truth all along."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "343",
    "Idiom": [
      "all and some"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Everyone.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "344-1",
    "Idiom": [
      "all and sundry"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Everyone.",
    "Sentence": [
      "And decerns and declares all and sundry, who either gainsay the word of the evangel to be no members of the said kirk within this realm, and true religion presently professed, so long as they keep themselves so divided from the society of Christ's body.",
      "Miss Phyllis Morgan, as the hapless heroine dressed in the shabbiest of clothes, appears in the midst of a gay and giddy throng; she apostrophises all and sundry there, including the villain, and has a magnificent scene which always brings down the house, and nightly adds to her histrionic laurels.",
      "From morning till night you saw her sitting on a low chair in the kitchen, surrounded by a Chinese cook and two or three native girls, giving her orders, chatting sociably with all and sundry, and tasting the savoury messes she devised."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "344-2",
    "Idiom": [
      "all and sundry"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Everyone.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "345",
    "Idiom": [
      "all animals are equal, but some animals are more equal than others"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Satirizes hypocrisy in societies claiming equality.",
    "Sentence": [
      "But Musk's concept of what constitutes democracy is way off of what it is by definition, hence this classic \" all animals are equal, but some animals are more equal than others \" move.",
      "Dear @FIDE_chess and organisers of the Championship! As known, all animals are equal, but some are more equal than others. Is it fair to provide @MagnusCarlsen a personal lounge where he can rest and prepare to the game using a laptop, while nobody else has such an opportunity?"
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "346",
    "Idiom": [
      "all at once"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Unexpectedly.",
    "Sentence": [
      "When all at once I saw a crowd, / A host, of golden daffodils",
      "I was on my way to the door, but all at once, through the fog in my head, I began to sight one reef that I hadn't paid any attention to afore."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "347-1",
    "Idiom": [
      "all bark and no bite"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Full of talk but lacking action.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "347-2",
    "Idiom": [
      "all bark and no bite"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Talks harshly but is actually gentle.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "347-3",
    "Idiom": [
      "all bark and no bite"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Aggressive but non-confrontational.",
    "Sentence": [
      "The phrase \"all bark, no bite\" could have been coined for our mutts; couple of wimps, those two."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "348",
    "Idiom": [
      "all bedlam breaks loose"
    ],
    "Meaning": "The situation becomes chaotic.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "349-1",
    "Idiom": [
      "all bets are off"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Indicates uncertainty and invalidates prior agreements.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "349-2",
    "Idiom": [
      "all bets are off"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Anything can happen; previous expectations are dismissed.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "350",
    "Idiom": [
      "all cats are gray in the dark"
    ],
    "Meaning": "All appearances can be deceiving.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "351-1",
    "Idiom": [
      "all cats are grey in the dark",
      "all cats are grey by night",
      "all cats are gray at night",
      "all cats are grey at night",
      "joan's as good as my lady in the dark"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Physical attractiveness doesn't matter in darkness.",
    "Sentence": [
      "‘ When all candles be out all catts be gray :’ This none but careless leachers will say.",
      "The Face first grows lank and wrinkled; then the Neck; then the Breast and Arms; the lower Parts continuing to the last as plump as ever: So that covering all above with a Basket, and regarding only what is below the Girdle, it is impossible of two Women to know an old from a young one. And as in the dark all Cats are grey, the Pleasure of corporal Enjoyment with an old Woman is at least equal, and frequently superior, every Knack being by Practice capable of Improvement.",
      "However—the Frenchman's a practical man... He's trained to spot the redeeming graces as adroitly as a highly bred pig sniffs truffles. And faced with the homeliest dame he'll work over her until he can say, \"Yes—she's certainly homely, but she has 'delightful ears'\"; or \"and exciting back to her neck\"; or \"provocative biceps.\" And the worst he cares to admit about any woman is \"Yes, she is very ugly, but she has 'something' (Elle a quelque chose).\" And if you get him in a cynical but wholesome mood he'll indicate that after all, \" All cats are grey at night! \"",
      "In one poem, unjustly attributed to Voltaire, the regent was accused of conducting an affaire with his eldest daughter, the Duchesse de Berry, which seems to have been true. The libertine regent loved women, but none more than his remarkable mother Liselotte, and it was to her that he uttered the famous rebuke when she complained he chose such ugly mistresses: \"Bah! Mama, all cats look gray in the dark !\"",
      "\"All Japanese look alike\" is the racist counterpart to the sexist \" In the dark, all cats are gray.\"",
      "No matter how capable and cultivated the mind, how subtle and sensitive the spirit, the individual Negro is still not free. \" All cats are grey at night,\" and it is still long hours to go before dawn, over much of America. They order these things better in France. Double the honor, then, when a Negro succeeds, for half the strength of his genius must be spent in raising himself to the level of his inferiors, in overcoming the handicap of color.",
      "‘ Ioan in the darke is as good as my lady :’ Nay, perhapps better, such ladies there may bee.",
      "Here is as good bread made as in France; and in the night Joan is as good as my lady; and unhappy is that man that is to break his fast at two of the clock in the afternoon and there’s no heart a handful bigger than another; and the stomach is filled with the coarsest victuals; and the little fowls in the air have God for their provider and cater; and four yards of coarse Cuenca cloth keep a man as warm as four of fine Lemster wool of Segovia; and when we once leave this world, and are put into the earth, the prince goes in as narrow a path as the journeyman; and the pope’s body takes up no more room than a sexton’s, though the one be higher than the other; for when we come to the pit all are even, or made so in spite of their teeth and—and good night.",
      "... in the darke, all Cats are blacke, and Jone is as faire as my Lady...",
      "...when Henslowe notes Heywood's next play he has a little more respect for him; for, although the total was again but five pounds, three pounds on February 10, 1598/9 and the rest two days later, the dramatist on both occasions is Mr. Heywood. The only surviving fragment of the piece, ‘ Jonne as good as my ladey ’, may be a song in Γ υναικεῖον with the burden 'What care I how faire she bee...",
      "The current proverb ‘ In the dark Joan is as good as my lady ’ carried no moral overtones; it merely reflected upon male anxieties that social superiority might bring some kind of special benefits in terms of the quality of sexual pleasure. A countryman, so the story went, who had given a large sum to have sex with a lady was overheard on his way home from behind a hedge moaning about his wasted money with the line that his Joan at home was as good as the lady had turned out.",
      "A wife. But what wife and when? Pretty, yes, but godly and modest. He remembers something Taffy said once: ‘ A homely Joan is as good as a lady when the lights are out.’ Aye, Taf, he thinks, but best to marry one whose face you can worship. An image of Lucy Tompkins pops unbidden into his mind."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "352-2",
    "Idiom": [
      "all cats are grey in the dark"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Individual distinctions may not matter in certain situations.",
    "Sentence": [
      "In such a darkness, in which all cats are grey, Lucrezia Borgia might well seem as white as a blue-eyed Persian. But the paradox remains that Corvo might not impossibly be right. As, but for superhuman strainings, Dreyfus might have gone down to history as a traitor to France, so may the Borgian Lucrezia have been as blameless as the Tarquinian to whom indeed Ariosto boldly compares her. The woman who protected the Jews during a famine, provided poor girls with dowries, passed evenings over her embroidery frame and held the esteem of the greatest poet and the greatest stylist of her day, may really have lived up to that washing list.",
      "No matter how capable and cultivated the mind, how subtle and sensitive the spirit, the individual Negro is still not free. \" All cats are grey at night,\" and it is still long hours to go before dawn, over much of America. They order these things better in France. Double the honor, then, when a Negro succeeds, for half the strength of his genius must be spent in raising himself to the level of his inferiors, in overcoming the handicap of color.",
      "Technical assistance operations were also a part of the aid the Economic Cooperation Administration was offering to Europe and Asia. Therefore, under the influence of what Philip Glick has called the \" at-night-all-cats-are-grey argument\" Point 4 was lumped together with economic and military assistance."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "353",
    "Idiom": [
      "all dressed up and nowhere to go"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Fully prepared for an event that doesn't happen.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Listen to my tale of woe, It's terribly sad but true. All dressed up, no place to go, Each evening I'm awfully blue.",
      "General Fauso Topete's troops, encamped south of here and faced with the impossible problem of how to attack the federal garrison without firing into Naco Ariz., virtually were in the position of soldiers all dressed up and nowhere to go.",
      "\"If you declare an emergency, you must have policies to carry out,\" adds Stein. \"Otherwise you're like a man without a ticket — all dressed up and nowhere to go.\"",
      "For the sailors aboard this aircraft carrier, war preparations had flipped into high gear.... By 4 a.m., when the deadline passed, orders to begin the assault had still not come down the ranks. For many of the commanders at sea, it was a classic \" all dressed up and nowhere to go \" scenario.",
      "All dressed up and nowhere to go, nearly 7,000 competitors in almost 1,000 yachts were left drifting around in the central Solent yesterday."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "354",
    "Idiom": [
      "all duck or no dinner"
    ],
    "Meaning": "All or nothing.",
    "Sentence": [
      "\"You know,\" said Bob, \"they'll be pushing their luck getting across the tides of the Irish Sea. It's going to be all duck or no dinner for Captain Carlsen. ”",
      "This is what might be termed an all-duck-or-no-dinner approach in which “a univocal meaning” containing no “ anti-liberationist❞ strain is sought.",
      "The afternoon I moved out of home, my father said, 'You're all duck or no dinner', which still applies to me today, although I can sometimes moderate the extremes."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "355-1",
    "Idiom": [
      "all ears"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Listening intently.",
    "Sentence": [
      "The students were all ears when they found out the topic of the film was \"reproduction.\" They were disappointed to discover that it was also about fish."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "355-2",
    "Idiom": [
      "all ears"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Listening attentively.",
    "Sentence": [
      "I am all ears to find out how my car, which used to have a perfectly functional engine, will no longer start."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "356",
    "Idiom": [
      "all ends up"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Completely; totally.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "357-1",
    "Idiom": [
      "all eyes"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Watching attentively.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "357-2",
    "Idiom": [
      "all eyes"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Being the center of attention.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "357-3",
    "Idiom": [
      "all eyes"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Gazing devotedly.",
    "Sentence": [
      "He was all eyes for her."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "358",
    "Idiom": [
      "all eyes and ears"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Very attentive.",
    "Sentence": [
      "The volatility of children is proverbial: from the cradle their attention is attracted toward the visible objects around them, particularly towards those which shine or move, or emit sound. Thus they have accustomed themselves to be all eyes and ears; not indeed for the dumb language of a book, or for lessons which are often monotonous and unintelligible, but in order to see and hear whatever may stimulate their natural curiosity."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "359",
    "Idiom": [
      "all fur coat and no knickers",
      "all fur and no knickers"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Superficially attractive but lacking substance.",
    "Sentence": [
      "A nurse spoke for a number of her colleagues when she said that she felt that these developments were a waste of time and ' all fur coat and no knickers' (personal interview, 1994).",
      "From this viewpoint some forms of Post-Modernism mean new façades for old concepts, dressing the skyscraper, or the vast supermarket in the garb of the tart - ' all fur coat and no knickers'.",
      "\"What about the wife?\" \"Bridget. She was all fur coat and no knickers. A real social climber.\" \"But you liked her?\" \"Yes.\""
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "360-1",
    "Idiom": [
      "all good"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Everything is fine.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "360-2",
    "Idiom": [
      "all good"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Everything is fine.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "361",
    "Idiom": [
      "all good things must come to an end",
      "all good things come to an end"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Nothing good lasts forever.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "362",
    "Idiom": [
      "all hat and no cattle"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Full of talk but lacking substance.",
    "Sentence": [
      "A fortune can be made on the prairie, and that's what me and Mr. B aim to do. Don't aim to be all hat and no cattle forever, let me tell you!",
      "They provided a lot of talk, what Texans refer to as “ all hat and no cattle.”",
      "There’s an old Texas saying about a cowboy who was “ all hat and no cattle.” That is, he was all show and no substance.",
      "Drusilla: It's time, Angel. She's ready for you now, she's dancing, dancing with death.",
      "\"Big Hat, no cattle / Big head, no brain / Big snake, no rattle\".",
      "We expect a leader to be effective in his job, not just a public relations artist who is \" all hat and no cattle.\"",
      "She slapped my backside. Yew ol’ cowpoke."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "363",
    "Idiom": [
      "all hat and no cowboy"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Full of big talk but lacking action or substance.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Don't waste your time with him - he's all hat and no cowboy."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "364",
    "Idiom": [
      "all heart"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Motivated by positive emotions, especially generosity or kindness.",
    "Sentence": [
      "\"Far from wanting feeling, Charlotte Henley is all heart. To use your own language,\" she added, turning her eyes towards him archly, \"it is for her heart that I most love her.\"",
      "Joseph Michael Valachi looks a bit like a Damon Runyon gangster—the tough guy who really is all heart.",
      "Greyhounds in general are all heart, kind and gentle souls that love to please and be with their owners.",
      "\"If you were sad, he would put his arms around you and go out and buy a present even if he didn’t have any money that month. He was all heart.\""
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "365",
    "Idiom": [
      "all hell breaks loose"
    ],
    "Meaning": "The situation becomes chaotic.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Came not all hell broke loose ?",
      "I think it's kind of fun because, had Hillary Clinton spoken at the Democratic Convention, all hell would have broken loose.",
      "The U.S. commanders received the news in a moment of stunned silence. Then, all hell broke loose as, off in the distance, antiaircraft fire was spotted as the antisubmarine patrol aircraft made optimistic and recklessly-brave assaults; four aircraft in total, armed with depth charges, attacked over a dozen enemy fleet units.",
      "It was a shocking attack, and within hours all hell had broken loose."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "366",
    "Idiom": [
      "all holiday"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Signifies that something is finished or has no future.",
    "Sentence": [
      "It is all holiday at Peckham.",
      "It is all holiday with him."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "367",
    "Idiom": [
      "all hollow"
    ],
    "Meaning": "As a foregone conclusion.",
    "Sentence": [
      "He was beat all hollow, i.e. he had no chance of conquering. It was all hollow, or a hollow thing, it was a decided thing from the beginning."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "368",
    "Idiom": [
      "all is fair in love and war",
      "all's fair in love and war"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Unpleasant behavior is acceptable in love and conflict.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "369",
    "Idiom": [
      "all is fish that comes to the net"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Anything that happens can be advantageous.",
    "Sentence": [
      "But there is no question that all is fish that comes to the net with them unless the eye of the conservator is on them."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "370",
    "Idiom": [
      "all it's cracked up to be"
    ],
    "Meaning": "As good as claimed.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Association executives visit one of the world's most glamorous cities and find that it's all it's cracked up to be.",
      "Love is everything its cracked up to be.",
      "She thinks the Abbeyfield idea sounds great. Let's hope it's all it's cracked up to be.",
      "This expensive software is not all it's cracked up to be. It still has a lot of problems."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "371",
    "Idiom": [
      "all kidding aside"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Used to make a serious point in a lighthearted conversation.",
    "Sentence": [
      "All kidding aside, I doubt we'll ever bomb Japan as long as [the Japanese] make Epson printers.",
      "\" All kidding aside, Carlysle...\" \"Carla,\" I corrected him automatically. \"I'm too used to thinking of you as 'Carlysle' and male to change both at once... All kidding aside, it'd be better for you not to stay on here any longer than the storm.\"",
      "Max, just remember, when we call, I call, just say \"Yes, Joe,\" okay? (Laughter.) All kidding aside, thanks for your great help in this, Max."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "372",
    "Idiom": [
      "all mouth and trousers",
      "all mouth and no trousers"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Superficial and boastful talk without substance.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "373",
    "Idiom": [
      "all of a heap"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Into a sudden state of collapse or astonishment.",
    "Sentence": [
      "I walked straight in expecting to find her waiting for me in the front room, — I was struck all of a heap when I found she wasn’t there.",
      "What caught me all of a heap was that million-dollar sense of beauty, youth, and happiness.",
      "All of a sudden he remembered the spooks, and it knocked him all of a heap."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "374-1",
    "Idiom": [
      "all one's born days"
    ],
    "Meaning": "One's whole life.",
    "Sentence": [
      "I've never seen such an ugly man in all my born days.",
      "He's lived in that cottage for all his born days."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "374-2",
    "Idiom": [
      "all one's born days"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Throughout one's whole life.",
    "Sentence": [
      "He'd been a bachelor all his born days."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "375",
    "Idiom": [
      "all one's life's worth"
    ],
    "Meaning": "A serious risk or difficult situation.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Many of its streets are cavern-like, for they run under the houses.... There is no regularity of style about them, and it is all one's life is worth to try to find the way among them without a guide and a torch.",
      "\"I'm going to take a much-needed nap—and it'll be all your life's worth to let me miss that train!\"",
      "\"It's all one's life is worth to board one of these confounded cable-cars.\"",
      "\"Fancy planting a capitol in this Godforsaken spot. Fairly reeks of ague and alligators and things. 'Tis all one's life's worth to put foot out of doors.\"",
      "It is particularly bad out in front of the House Office Building between 5 and 7 o'clock in the evening. It is all your life is worth to get a cab then.",
      "\"It's about all your life's worth to go out into that blizzard, even for just a few feet.\"",
      "\"I'm afraid you need to wait until the women say you can come in. It would be all your life's worth to go bustin in now.\""
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "376",
    "Idiom": [
      "all one's taste is in one's mouth"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Lacks good taste in aesthetics or culture.",
    "Sentence": [
      "“I pay to get into the movies just like everybody else, and I sure wouldn't waste my money on you.” “That's because all your taste is in your mouth.”",
      "“Their cars are maroon and red. You should see them in the driveway.” He shuddered. “ All his taste is in his mouth.”",
      "It's all about vintage shag rugs in bad colors and milk crates stuffed with magazines and board-and-brick bookcases like kids make in graduate school, which makes me wonder whether all her taste is in her mouth.",
      "She doesn't like my decorating style, eh? Well, that's because all her taste is in her mouth !"
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "377-1",
    "Idiom": [
      "all out"
    ],
    "Meaning": "With maximum effort.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "377-2",
    "Idiom": [
      "all out"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Without regard for risk.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "377-3",
    "Idiom": [
      "all out"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Altogether.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Oh, bedad! He was all out the worst sight ever came across ould Ireland",
      "Intemperate Venus is all out as bad in the other extreame ."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "378-1",
    "Idiom": [
      "all over"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Over an entire extent.",
    "Sentence": [
      "He was covered all over with mud."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "378-2",
    "Idiom": [
      "all over"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Everywhere.",
    "Sentence": [
      "I've looked all over for it.",
      "I'm itching all over."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "378-3",
    "Idiom": [
      "all over"
    ],
    "Meaning": "In every way; thoroughly.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Dancing with everyone, singing show tunes all night: that was Luke all over."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "378-4",
    "Idiom": [
      "all over"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Everywhere; covering completely.",
    "Sentence": [
      "He dropped the bucket and got paint all over the floor and his clothes."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "379",
    "Idiom": [
      "all over bar the shouting"
    ],
    "Meaning": "The outcome is known but not officially confirmed.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "380",
    "Idiom": [
      "all over but the shouting"
    ],
    "Meaning": "The outcome is decided; only the reactions remain.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "381",
    "Idiom": [
      "all over hell's half acre"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Everywhere.",
    "Sentence": [
      "We came back outside and the neat pile of leaves we had raked had been blown all over hell’s half acre."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "382",
    "Idiom": [
      "all over oneself"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Feeling self-satisfied.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Then the Frogs surrounded this Rabbit, an' they re-captured the skull, an' the Rabbits charged with ambition, an' the Frogs passed to the left, an' there was old Leapin' Frog himself, grinnin' all over himself with his club reached out a-puntin' the skull along like sixty-seven.",
      "Anyway, the network tells me Ishaka is all over himself over his new baby, kissing and cuddling her and calling her every endearing name I didn't even know existed.",
      "Nowadays, UGA recruiters would be all over themselves to enroll three high-achieving African American students like Kerry Rushin Miller, Harold A. Black and Mary Blackwell Diallo.",
      "Those women lite up they were so excited they were all over themselves we did it girls we made the King happy and Diane to."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "383",
    "Idiom": [
      "all over the board"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Scattered or inconsistent.",
    "Sentence": [
      "The numbers I got for that were all over the board."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "384-1",
    "Idiom": [
      "all over the map"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Widely scattered or differing greatly.",
    "Sentence": [
      "The Kip Hanrahan Band, which opened the concert, is after its own ambitious American-Latin fusion, with internationalist rhythms, introspective lyrics and musicians from all over the map.",
      "The reactions were swift, impassioned and all over the map.",
      "Prices are even more all over the map than usual here; I've seen them range from just $36 all the way up to $160..."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "384-2",
    "Idiom": [
      "all over the map"
    ],
    "Meaning": "In widely scattered directions.",
    "Sentence": [
      "“I hit it all over the map,” Anderson joked."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "385-1",
    "Idiom": [
      "all over the place"
    ],
    "Meaning": "In multiple directions or locations, often haphazardly.",
    "Sentence": [
      "I couldn't believe it. “This is insane! You don't know what you're getting into, Dad. We can't have lots of people swarming all over the place. You're supposed to be getting rest.”",
      "They started firing all over the place.",
      "In Genoa there are stray cats all over the place.",
      "I've been looking for you all over the place."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "385-2",
    "Idiom": [
      "all over the place"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Inconsistent; lacking a clear pattern.",
    "Sentence": [
      "England were all over the place for the majority of the opening 45 minutes as gaps broke in defence.",
      "I asked each person in turn, and their answers were all over the place."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "386",
    "Idiom": [
      "all over with"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Completely finished.",
    "Sentence": [
      "When the event is all over with, make sure that the place is cleaned up and the lights are turned off."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "387",
    "Idiom": [
      "all points of the compass"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Every direction.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "388",
    "Idiom": [
      "all politics are local",
      "all politics is local"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Voters care most about local issues that impact their lives.",
    "Sentence": [
      "\"The campaign never ends,\" said the 44-year-old Congressman.... \"I win by reaching out to people one by one, through relentless retail politics.\" In other words, Mr. Bacchus is betting his congressional career on the adage that all politics is local.",
      "All politics is local and Kerry North is more local than most. In the electorate, the view is that Mr Ferris got in because... he has been an assiduous local councillor and constituency worker, painstakingly building up a formidable Sinn Fein machine that has delivered on local issues.",
      "But in the end, all politics is local, and almost every race is decided by local issues.",
      "\" All politics is local. I believe in a grassroots approach that is founded on strong representation for constituents.\""
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "389",
    "Idiom": [
      "all rights reserved"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Copyright holder preserves all rights to the work and can take legal action against infringement.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "390",
    "Idiom": [
      "all roads lead to Rome"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Different paths can lead to the same goal.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "391",
    "Idiom": [
      "all roads lead to mecca",
      "all roads lead to sydney",
      "all roads lead to Rome"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Different paths can lead to the same goal.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "392",
    "Idiom": [
      "all set"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Ready or prepared.",
    "Sentence": [
      "GMMTV’s 23.5 is all set to premiere on March 08, 2024, at 8:30 p.m. ICT.",
      "I'm all set to leave for my vacation.",
      "Is everything all set for the wedding?"
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "393",
    "Idiom": [
      "all sixes and nines"
    ],
    "Meaning": "In a state of confusion.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Dear Kori, I'm all sixes and nines... whatever that means. Fragments of me are loosely hanging together."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "394",
    "Idiom": [
      "all sizzle and no steak"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Fails to fulfill expectations.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Y2K may be the equivalent of the Kohotek comet— all sizzle and no steak.",
      "Her latest novel is all sizzle and no steak."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "395",
    "Idiom": [
      "all talk and no cider"
    ],
    "Meaning": "All talk and no results.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "396",
    "Idiom": [
      "all that",
      "all that jazz"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Very.",
    "Sentence": [
      "By now, I hope that you are getting the message that life really isn't all that complicated.",
      "We do not have all that much time to finish.",
      "My kind of town, Chicago is / My kind of razzmatazz / And it has all that jazz",
      "He went to school to study math and science and all that jazz."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "397",
    "Idiom": [
      "all that glisters is not gold",
      "all that glitters is not gold"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Things that appear valuable may not be.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "398",
    "Idiom": [
      "all the gear and no idea"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Possessing expensive equipment without the necessary knowledge.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "399",
    "Idiom": [
      "all the marbles"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Everything at stake.",
    "Sentence": [
      "After a day's worth of events, it came down to one last match; this one was for all the marbles."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "400",
    "Idiom": [
      "all the rage"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Very fashionable and popular.",
    "Sentence": [
      "She sent me to the theatre to see a dancing-woman who was all the rage;"
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "401",
    "Idiom": [
      "all the same"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Nevertheless.",
    "Sentence": [
      "So GCN calls and I'm thinking — what can I say in the pages of an anti-racist, but all the same White newspaper? What will I choose not to say?",
      "It's a distant solar system / I tried to phone but they don't list 'em / So I asked her for a number all the same",
      "He knew it was risky. He did it all the same.",
      "It's sleeting. All the same, I'll take the dog out."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "402",
    "Idiom": [
      "all the tea in China"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Something very valuable.",
    "Sentence": [
      "KIRK: Ha, ha, ha. Okay, the truth. I am from what, on your calendar, would be the late twenty-third century. I've come back in time to bring two humpback whales with me in an attempt to repopulate the species. GILLIAN: Well, why didn't you just say so? I mean, why all the coy disguises? KIRK: You want the details? GILLIAN: Oh! I wouldn't miss this for all the tea in China.",
      "I wouldn't trade you away for all the tea in China."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "403",
    "Idiom": [
      "all the way to Egery and back"
    ],
    "Meaning": "A long distance to travel.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "404",
    "Idiom": [
      "all the while"
    ],
    "Meaning": "At the same time, usually over an extended period.",
    "Sentence": [
      "The good fortune which attended him throughout life may have been partly owing to this cause as well as to his undoubted valour, for though he never lost a battle, nothing is more astounding than his imprudence and the easy confidence with which he trusted Somerset, Warwick, Montague, and others, all the while they were betraying him.",
      "Sulla, encamped near Scipio, and amusing him with caresses under pretence of an approaching peace, was all the while corrupting his troops.",
      "And all with that vital piece of evidence burning a hole in his pocket the while !",
      "All the while, my intention was to amuse her, and divert her out of her hellish thoughts, and show to her the wide world of which she could now be a part."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "405",
    "Idiom": [
      "all the world's a stage"
    ],
    "Meaning": "People have roles to play in life like actors on a stage.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Now we meet singers who depict Earth, Moon, Bread, and a pair of actors, played gamely by William Redfield and Rae Allen, who were meant to promote the notion that all the world's a stage. The saying that all the world's a stage is true enough. But it doesn't follow conversely that the stage is the world. The stage is more demanding than the world, and its rules are even harsher. As Dude proves, it can't get by on good intentions.",
      "\"Joey, my husband, was torn between the stage and the law,\" Mari's mother said. \"I don't know which one won and which lost.\" / \"My dear, you know that all the world's a stage. Boards or bench. I'll get the drinks.\"",
      "This is not simply to rehash the rather meaningless notion that all human behaviour is performance, or even that ‘ all the world’s a stage ’, but instead to suggest that there is something in the appearing that takes place in the theatre that seems capable of activating in an audience a feeling of our compromised, alienated participation in the political and economic relations that make us appear to be who we are.",
      "We live in a civilised society, and in a civilised society everyone is an actor – film, TV, drama, crosstalk, sketch – we're all acting. Don't they say that all the world's a stage ?"
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "406",
    "Idiom": [
      "all there"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Mentally competent.",
    "Sentence": [
      "A suspicion that “he was not all there,” and therefore “one of God’s bairns,” had insured him, during his long orphanage, the food, and clothes, and shelter, necessary for life; but no one had given him love.",
      "His submission is that he is of Mongolian extraction and irresponsible for his actions. Not all there, in fact.",
      "She smiled at me in a such a silly way, I thought to wonder if she was all there.",
      "Is he all there ?",
      "I don't think he's all there...",
      "I think he's not all there...",
      "She's pretty on the ball... she's definitely all there."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "407",
    "Idiom": [
      "all things come to those who wait"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Patience is rewarded.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "408-1",
    "Idiom": [
      "all things considered"
    ],
    "Meaning": "In terms of the big picture.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Of course some areas are more dangerous than others, but all things considered Glasgow is quite a safe place to live."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "408-2",
    "Idiom": [
      "all things considered"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Taking everything into account.",
    "Sentence": [
      "“ and all things considered, I don't much regret that this affair with Miss Amory is manquée, though I wished for it once—in fact, all things considered, I am very glad of it.”",
      "Yet, all things considered, she was not of an evil mind or an unkindly disposition.",
      "All things considered, he would not have been such a bad match for Ida, only that I knew the child did not really care about him, and there was Georgie breaking her proud, patient little heart for his sake, and nobody saw it but one old woman, who had been through it all herself, and knew what it meant.",
      "Though only a few people attended the premiere, all things considered the play was rather a success."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "408-3",
    "Idiom": [
      "all things considered"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Taking everything into account.",
    "Sentence": [
      "We had a good stock of tea, with which we treated our friends, as above, and we lived very cheerfully and well, all things considered.",
      "Jurgis lost his temper very little, however, all things considered.",
      "Although rationing was strict, they had a couple of chickens and a vegetable patch and they ate well, all things considered."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "409",
    "Idiom": [
      "all things to all people"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Someone or something that satisfies everyone's diverse expectations.",
    "Sentence": [
      "It was obviously his policy to appear all things to all people. He could not venture to take any decided course.",
      "No longer can we be all things to all people ! We must decide which path to follow — are we to be physicians assistants, coordinators, supervisors, or skilled practitioners of nursing. The choice is ours!",
      "Most Poles realize that Solidarity cannot go on being all things to all people : trade union, political party, shaper of the country's future.",
      "Mr. Clinton is often accused of wanting to be all things to all people, but that is a classic occupational hazard of his job.",
      "\"There's also a problem about schools being expected to be all things to all people.\""
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "410",
    "Idiom": [
      "all thumbs"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Clumsy or awkward.",
    "Sentence": [
      "I am all thumbs when it comes to shuffling cards."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "411-1",
    "Idiom": [
      "all to smash"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Ruined.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "411-2",
    "Idiom": [
      "all to smash"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Completely, to the point of destruction.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "412",
    "Idiom": [
      "all told"
    ],
    "Meaning": "In total.",
    "Sentence": [
      "I think they had over 300 people there, all told."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "413-1",
    "Idiom": [
      "all very well"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Partially acceptable, but problematic beyond that.",
    "Sentence": [
      "That's all very well, but how are we supposed to move 900 pounds of equipment out there, at all?"
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "413-2",
    "Idiom": [
      "all very well"
    ],
    "Meaning": "True, as far as it goes.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "414-1",
    "Idiom": [
      "all wet"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Utterly incorrect.",
    "Sentence": [
      "...you're all wet, calling me out on that close play at second base!",
      "The he'll report back to Rita that she's all wet, on account I can't possibly be interested in you when I'm carrying the torch for him, see?",
      "The lull gave Johnson a chance to show such critics as Canada's Prime Minister Lester Pearson and Senate Foreign Relations Committee Chairman J. William Fulbright that they were all wet in arguing that a halt in the bombing might open the way to negotiations.",
      "If you think I withheld the ransom for the glory of France, you're all wet."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "414-2",
    "Idiom": [
      "all wet"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Deliberately untruthful.",
    "Sentence": [
      "They've figured out she's a sort of a kind of Joan of Arc. I think she's all wet, and it burns me up to see such a grand person as Ash Banner fall for that stuff!"
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "415-1",
    "Idiom": [
      "all work and no play makes Jack a dull boy"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Too much focus on work can make someone dull.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "415-2",
    "Idiom": [
      "all work and no play makes Jack a dull boy"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Too much hard work without leisure can be unhealthy.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "416",
    "Idiom": [
      "all's well that ends well"
    ],
    "Meaning": "A happy ending offsets earlier troubles.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "417",
    "Idiom": [
      "all-weather friend"
    ],
    "Meaning": "A reliable friend in any situation.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "418",
    "Idiom": [
      "almighty dollar"
    ],
    "Meaning": "The dollar, satirically viewed as a god.",
    "Sentence": [
      "The almighty dollar, that great object of universal devotion throughout our land, seems to have no genuine devotees in these peculiar villages; and unless some of its missionaries penetrate there, and erect banking houses and other pious shrines, there is no knowing how long the inhabitants may remain in their present state of contented poverty."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "419",
    "Idiom": [
      "almost doesn't count"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Near success is not enough.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "420",
    "Idiom": [
      "along about"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Approximately; at around some time.",
    "Sentence": [
      "If you ask for it back Sunday he might return it along about Wednesday."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "421",
    "Idiom": [
      "amateur hour"
    ],
    "Meaning": "A situation demonstrating a lack of skill or professionalism.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Two years into its first term the [Jimmy] Carter Administration developed a foreign policy that seems in perfect continuity with its six predecessors. Little change has taken place during what has been called \"the amateur hour \" except for a slight quickening of the Cold War pulse.",
      "The First World War may have brought, as Dos Passos maintained, an end to \"the bully amateur's world,\" but amateur hour was already closing down as American soldiers struggled up San Juan Hill. Three books written between 1897 and 1899 are flashes that streaked the sky at the moment \"the boy culture\" of volunteers was displaced (and absorbed) by the \"dirtywork\" of regulars committed to the culture of management.",
      "\"It's the kind of foul-up that suggests that his [ Rudy Giuliani 's] campaign team isn't functioning as well as it should,\" the G.O.P. source said. \"Presidential campaigns are not the time for amateur hour.\"",
      "Next week, at some place in Indianapolis where time has been instructed to stand still, Mark Emmert, president of the NCAA , will convene what is being called, without irony, a \"retreat.\" Assembled will be about 50 college presidents, pledged, it seems, to make sure that college athletics continue to remain firmly in the past, in the antiquated amateur hours."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "422",
    "Idiom": [
      "amber gambler"
    ],
    "Meaning": "A driver who accelerates on amber lights, risking violation.",
    "Sentence": [
      "The sins the foundation has identified include eating at the wheel, becoming a traffic-light hopping \" amber gambler \" and drinking and driving."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "423",
    "Idiom": [
      "amber light"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Hesitance to proceed.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "424",
    "Idiom": [
      "amber nectar"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Beer.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Fortunately, once in the beergarden with the good Doctor and a cold and frothy schooner of the amber nectar, everything fell into place.",
      "The Czech lands have been famous for centuries for producing some of the finest amber nectar in the world.",
      "After my spot has finished, I weave my way to the bar for a nice cool bottle of Stella, and as I'm swigging down the amber nectar, who should walk into the room but my newfound nemesis: Dave Doyle.",
      "This was one of our personal little wins over the army, and as soldiers do, we love to down a few amber nectars from time to time."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "425-1",
    "Idiom": [
      "an apple a day keeps the doctor at bay",
      "an apple a day keeps the doctor away"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Eating apples promotes health and prevents illness.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Now, an apple is one of the most wonderful of fruits, and the most wholesome. The old adage went, \" An apple a day keeps the doctor away,\" and my young son, three years ago, when he was only three years old, came to me with an amendment to that and said: \"Father, two apples a day keeps the dentist away,\" because there is not a better toothbrush than the apple, and he got the idea that two apples a day would keep the dentist away.",
      "Of course I eat an apple every evening— an apple a day keeps the doctor away —but still, you ought to have more prunes, and not all these fancy doodads.",
      "The apple has been as formidable in history as it has been in recipe books. It has inspired legend (Johnny Appleseed), nicknames (New York, \"the big apple\") and any number of old saws (\" An apple a day keeps the doctor away \").",
      "The saying \" an apple a day keeps the doctor away \" is often countered with the one \"an onion a day keeps everybody away\". Whether these were even proven true or not I do not know but I do know that both apples and onions were among the staples kept in our home.",
      "an apple a day keeps the doctor away —an apple is nutritious and you will stay healthy if you eat one every day. My mother always told us that an apple a day keeps the doctor away, so we would eat apples to stay healthy.",
      "An old saying in Western countries goes, \" An apple a day keeps the doctor away \", so now there is a new saying in China, \"A sea cucumber a day keeps the doctor away\"."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "426-2",
    "Idiom": [
      "an apple a day keeps the doctor away"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Healthy eating prevents illness.",
    "Sentence": [
      "He advocated the increased use of fruit, for he believed in the old saying, \" An apple a day keeps the doctor away.\"",
      "The old adage, \" an apple a day keeps the doctor away,\" might quite as well have read \"a carrot or an onion a day,\" and probably the result would be about the same as regards reducing the doctor's bill. Vegetables of all kinds are necessary in the diet, but particularly valuable are those available in the spring and summer, say specialists of the United States Department of Agriculture.",
      "Many people believe that the concept of an \" apple a day keeps the doctor away \" is just a played out, overused saying that adults made up to get their children to eat healthier."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "427",
    "Idiom": [
      "an arm and a leg"
    ],
    "Meaning": "A very high price for an item or service.",
    "Sentence": [
      "That Polack costs me an arm and a leg, he thought.",
      "Bangle bracelets in fourteen-karat gold that do not cost an arm and a leg are always in demand.",
      "Her house was fabulous, her tits perfection – besides – the Beverly Hills Hotel was costing him an arm and a leg."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "428",
    "Idiom": [
      "an army marches on its stomach"
    ],
    "Meaning": "You must eat properly to perform tasks well.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "429",
    "Idiom": [
      "an englishman's home is his castle",
      "a man's home is his castle"
    ],
    "Meaning": "A proverb about personal privacy and security.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "430",
    "Idiom": [
      "an eye for an eye makes the whole world blind"
    ],
    "Meaning": "A policy of revenge leads to ongoing conflict.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "431",
    "Idiom": [
      "an eye for an eye, a tooth for a tooth"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Reciprocal justice by inflicting equal harm.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "432",
    "Idiom": [
      "an old dog for a hard road"
    ],
    "Meaning": "It takes an experienced person for a difficult task.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "433",
    "Idiom": [
      "an ounce of prevention is better than a pound of cure"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Prevention is better than trying to fix problems later.",
    "Sentence": [
      "It has been said, that the wisdom of a nation is seen in the spirit of their common sayings and proverbs; ours has one in point to the present purpose, that the ounce of prevention is more worth than the pound of cure."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "434-1",
    "Idiom": [
      "an ounce of prevention is better than an ounce of cure",
      "an ounce of prevention is better than a pound of cure",
      "an ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Preventing a problem is better than solving it.",
    "Sentence": [
      "\"It is best to come clean,\" Mr Kendall said. \"But an ounce of prevention is better than an ounce of cure.\"",
      "Let us clean up beautiful Jamaica. Clean up the issues before the problems gets worse and get out of control. Government, I call on you to save Jamaica now, because an ounce of prevention is better than an ounce of cure.",
      "“It’s very rewarding because you can make an impact at a population level,” Dr. Gaglani said. “ An ounce of prevention is better than an ounce of cure.”"
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "435",
    "Idiom": [
      "anaconda mortgage"
    ],
    "Meaning": "A loan secured by one's home and property.",
    "Sentence": [
      "It was not given to the prophet Isaiah even, to look down the vista of time for 2,500 years and read the Statutes of Arkansas. Under them every man who executes an anaconda mortgage is considered to plant and eat not; for them the heavens might as well be brass and the earth iron.",
      "Furthermore, the merchants soon discovered the Anaconda mortgage, which forced the owner to back up his crop lien with everything he owned — land, money, and personal property.",
      "In 1883 Alabama established the \"Anaconda\" mortgage, which \"gave the landlord the right to take not only his tenant's crop... but also his furniture, household goods, and personal effects,\" again with primacy over merchant claims."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "436",
    "Idiom": [
      "ancient history"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Refers to something that happened long ago and is no longer relevant.",
    "Sentence": [
      "\"I want to have a notion how we stand about the bankruptcy.\" / \"Oh, that's ancient history,\" cried Jim.",
      "Who cares if he said those things at the beginning of the year? That's ancient history now."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "437",
    "Idiom": [
      "and I don't mean maybe"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Indicates seriousness.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "438-1",
    "Idiom": [
      "and all"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Including everything related.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Now proper French tradition requires that when you eat the ortolan, you drape a napkin over your head and consume the bird in one bite, beak, bones and all.",
      "The facts of the accident, however, are too ambiguous to reek of malice or recklessness. And the drivers involved, flaws and all, are hardly demons.",
      "We had six large trees ripped from the ground, roots and all. A firefighter told me that the wind hit 110 mph in West U.",
      "He ate the whole fish, bones and all."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "438-2",
    "Idiom": [
      "and all"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Suggests unstated relevant implications.",
    "Sentence": [
      "What with you saying he was sick and all, I figured neither of you were coming."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "439",
    "Idiom": [
      "and all this"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Implies additional information can be inferred.",
    "Sentence": [
      "She likes punk rock, screamo, death metal and all this."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "440",
    "Idiom": [
      "and change"
    ],
    "Meaning": "A quantity less than the next round number.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Kate saw a wedge of land rearing up nineteen thousand feet and change, its pointed peak testing the boundaries of the sky.",
      "She wasn't much taller than five feet and change, and when she pulled off her mask she looked reassuringly human.",
      "“Six hundred and change shares of Grauptham House,” she said. “As soon as we have these notarized in the morning.\"",
      "Seven years and a few months after leaving Earth, we where about to survey the last of six planets around an amazingly stable star some eight hundred and change light years from Earth.",
      "This ain't your speed young man, run in your lane / So I can come through doin' a hundred and change",
      "It cost me two dollars and change. (i.e., more than $2 but less than $3)",
      "How fast was he going? A hundred and change. (i.e., more than 100 but less than 110)."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "441",
    "Idiom": [
      "and counting"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Indicates a continuously changing number.",
    "Sentence": [
      "This online dictionary has 100,000 articles — and counting.",
      "Hurry up: the train leaves in three minutes. No, two minutes and counting !"
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "442",
    "Idiom": [
      "and finally"
    ],
    "Meaning": "A light news story at the end of a bulletin.",
    "Sentence": [
      "All this was broadcast on the evening of 23 February 1956, and it's the earliest surviving example of an Independent Television News bulletin. Even then, there was an ‘ And finally... ’ item, but on this occasion it was merely the good news that a thaw was on the way.",
      "The best ‘ and finallies ’ of 2005.",
      "Racing domestic animals in funny costumes on soapbox sleds is surely no more offensive than watching David Blaine take a dump in a Perspex box, and will look much better as an ‘ And finally... ’ on the news.",
      "The shots were included as part of BBC natural history producer Fergus Beeley nature diary from Beinn Eighe’s National Nature Reserve show water being blown back uphill on a windy day in Torridon. They have been picked up by the media as an ‘ and finally ’ and widely circulated."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "443",
    "Idiom": [
      "and his mother"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Serves as an intensifier for inclusive nouns or phrases.",
    "Sentence": [
      "It looks like everyone and his mother has come out tonight.",
      "Anyone and his mother could see through that disguise."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "444",
    "Idiom": [
      "and how"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Used to strongly confirm.",
    "Sentence": [
      "However, just as Wenger was preparing to introduce Andrey Arshavin and Tomas Rosicky, Van Persie struck - and how.",
      "Liverpool have resembled a shadow of their real selves this season. The old guarantees, such as intensity and firepower, have been missing far too often. They all returned here - and how - in the most spectacular manner as Manchester United, who have been undergoing a revival this season, were blown away by a team in full cry.",
      "Did it create a disruption? And how !",
      "It created a disruption, and how."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "445",
    "Idiom": [
      "and shit",
      "and crap"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Indicates additional items.",
    "Sentence": [
      "It's this really funky artiste-type hang out. Dark. Very intellectual and shit. I was impressed.",
      "Oh no! All this seaweed and shit is getting all over me!"
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "446",
    "Idiom": [
      "and so forth"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Indicates that a list continues similarly.",
    "Sentence": [
      "[David] Wain packs They Came Together with supporting characters, most of them variations on stock rom-com archetypes—the exes, the siblings, the co-workers, the yuppie parents, and so forth.",
      "Don't forget to pack weather items appropriate for the climate: sunscreen, rain gear, and so forth."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "447",
    "Idiom": [
      "and so on"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Indicates that a list continues similarly.",
    "Sentence": [
      "The dirty secret of the internet is that all this distraction and interruption is immensely profitable. Web companies like to boast about \"creating compelling content\", or offering services that let you \"stay up to date with what your friends are doing\", \"share the things you love with the world\" and so on.",
      "It could ensure that the labour force is on board with a scheme to make the railways a key area of skills development - not just in engineering, but in other aspects of railway operation, just as it was under BR. And so on. But at the moment, all we are hearing are vague plans to 'renationalise the railways', whereas what is needed is a well-worked-out strategy for a public-owned railway.",
      "Put things where you will use them: sponges next to the sink, knives next to the cutting board, and so on."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "448",
    "Idiom": [
      "and such"
    ],
    "Meaning": "and other like things.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "449",
    "Idiom": [
      "and the like"
    ],
    "Meaning": "And other similar items.",
    "Sentence": [
      "And farther back still in the evolutionary process we may trace the divinisation of four-footed animals and birds and snakes and trees and the like .",
      "Similarly, Fingilish usually refers to transliterated Farsi in chatrooms, text messages, and the like."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "450",
    "Idiom": [
      "and then some"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Confirms an understatement.",
    "Sentence": [
      "“Space travel isn’t a tax-free holiday for the wealthy,” said Representative Earl Blumenauer, Democrat of Oregon. “We pay taxes on plane tickets. Billionaires flying into space — producing no scientific value — should do the same, and then some !”",
      "I told you that we faced a generation-defining moment, and that we as a society would not be judged by some government action, but by the small acts of kindness that we showed one another. You met that challenge, and then some, and I've never been prouder to be British.",
      "Case in point: Her 2019 When We All Fall Asleep Tour has an estimated total gross of $18 million while her 2022 Happier Than Ever Tour reportedly made *checks notes* $131.8 million. ¶ Oh, and she's on track to make that (and then some !) again on her upcoming HIT ME HARD AND SOFT Tour. We simply love to see it.",
      "It created a disruption, and then some."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "451",
    "Idiom": [
      "and whatnot"
    ],
    "Meaning": "And so on.",
    "Sentence": [
      "In the old, old days when men were wiser than they are in these times, there lived a great philosopher and magician, by name Nicholas Flamel. Not only did he know all the actual sciences, but the black arts as well, and magic, and what not."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "452",
    "Idiom": [
      "angel's advocate"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Someone who supports an idea.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "453",
    "Idiom": [
      "angle for farthings"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To beg from a prison window using a cap or box.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "454-1",
    "Idiom": [
      "another day in paradise"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Everything is going well.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "454-2",
    "Idiom": [
      "another day in paradise"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Used ironically to imply something has gone wrong.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "455-1",
    "Idiom": [
      "another day, another dollar"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Everything is routine and mundane.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "455-2",
    "Idiom": [
      "another day, another dollar"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Life goes on; work is necessary to earn money.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Poor Tom suffered the tortures. He got up, yawned, and said, «Well, another day another dollar, good night,» and disappeared upstairs.",
      "Another day, another dollar, another war",
      "Another day, another dollar / More money, more murder"
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "456",
    "Idiom": [
      "another nail in someone's coffin"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Increases the likelihood of failure.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Following the divorce and the lawsuit, bankruptcy is just another nail in his coffin."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "457",
    "Idiom": [
      "another string to one's bow"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Another skill or resource for backup.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "458",
    "Idiom": [
      "answer on a postcard"
    ],
    "Meaning": "A brief answer or opinion.",
    "Sentence": [
      "John sent me a three-page report when I just wanted an answer on a postcard."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "459",
    "Idiom": [
      "answer someone's prayers"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To fulfill someone's wishes or requests.",
    "Sentence": [
      "As if answering our prayers, her team just posted an official mood board for Short n' Sweet Tour outfits. The vibe? Pastel colors, platform shoes, babydoll dresses, sparkles, and heart and kiss motifs."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "460",
    "Idiom": [
      "answer the call of nature"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To satisfy a bodily urge.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Che [Guevara] jumped from his seat and rushed from the room, pursued by the entire press corps. Down the hall he went, and into the men's room where, surrounded by reporters, he proceeded to answer the call of nature, shouting: \"Liberdad!\"",
      "Unfortunately mountain climbers, like everybody else, need to answer the call of nature, and there are few toilet facilities on mountains."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "461",
    "Idiom": [
      "answer to someone's prayers"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Exactly what someone has been wishing for.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "462",
    "Idiom": [
      "any hole's a goal"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Any receptive partner is acceptable.",
    "Sentence": [
      "See, I don't really like screwing men, although any hole's a goal and all that, but women are soft and smooth and weak and small. They're easy to grab, easy to control.",
      "“Probably because you were only thinking about one thing.” She smothered her own thoughts and feelings as she took on the necessary role. “That's what men are like, right? Any hole's a goal ?”",
      "\"Of course I knew that it all goes to the same place,\" she beamed back at him. \"I can't believe how nice you are to me. I mean you're right, my throat really has been getting pretty sore lately, and any hole's a goal.\" She had no idea what this meant, but it sounded like the right thing to say.",
      "Being a virgin is not cool (the cool people are not virgins). I heard at my secondary school, that kids get battered if they're a virgin. Sexual promiscuity, for the most part, elicits a positive peer response. Any hole's a goal. Britain has more sexually active under-18s than any other country in Europe. We also have the highest number of teenage mothers and the highest teenage abortion rate in Western Europe."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "463",
    "Idiom": [
      "any more for any more"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Asking if anyone wants more.",
    "Sentence": [
      "We've come up with three ideas so far. Any more for any more ?"
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "464",
    "Idiom": [
      "any nook or cranny",
      "any old nook or cranny"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Any part of a place.",
    "Sentence": [
      "An absolute system cannot afford to leave any nook or cranny of existence unexplored.",
      "This book could be in any nook or cranny of the house.",
      "[Aunt Dahlia] had done Wilbert well where sleeping accommodation was concerned. What he had drawn when clocking in at Brinkley Court was the room known as the Blue Room, a signal honour to be accorded to a bachelor guest, amounting to being given star billing, for at Brinkley, as at most country-houses, any old nook or cranny is considered good enough for the celibate contingent. My own apartment, to take a case in point, was a sort of hermit's cell in which one would have been hard put to it to swing a cat, even a smaller one than Augustus, not of course that one often wants to do much cat-swinging."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "465",
    "Idiom": [
      "any old"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Any typical or average.",
    "Sentence": [
      "I don't do the things that you do I don't go the places that you go I don't say the bad things that you say But I love you any way, Dara I love you any ole way, Dara I love you any way, Dara",
      "You don't need special tools for this; any old hard surface will do.",
      "This wasn't just any old fan, but the president of his local fan club."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "466",
    "Idiom": [
      "any old thing"
    ],
    "Meaning": "anything at all.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "467",
    "Idiom": [
      "any port in a storm"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Accept any option in a difficult situation.",
    "Sentence": [
      "I'll give you the journal, my boy, eight A.M. Bonypart running away; nine A.M. Bonypart on board; ten A.M. Bonypart sinking; eleven A.M. Bonypart in Davy's Locker; Meridian Bonypart in the north corner of ——, where it burns and freezes at the same time: but you know any port in a storm, Bony, so there I'll leave ye.",
      "As this Scotsman's howf lies right under your lee, why, take any port in a storm.",
      "I was equally indifferent to cost and convenience in my choice of a lodging—\" any port in a storm \" was the principle on which I was prepared to act;",
      "After finding both stairwells untenable at the roof, the Captain and the rookie take the window‐washing scaffold— any port in a storm —down the side of the building to the fire floor.",
      "Most supporters have been surprised at how Joe has steadied the ship and most people seemed to have warmed to him. He wasn’t the most popular appointment, but I think the phrase ‘ any port in a storm ’ came to mind when we were getting turned down by everyone."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "468",
    "Idiom": [
      "any time now"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Very soon.",
    "Sentence": [
      "The train will be arriving any time now."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "469",
    "Idiom": [
      "any time soon"
    ],
    "Meaning": "soon",
    "Sentence": [
      "Southgate's first choice defenders have not proved reliable against international opposition of the highest quality - and produced no evidence here to suggest they will do so any time soon.",
      "The train will not be arriving any time soon."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "470",
    "Idiom": [
      "anybody who is anybody"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Any important or well-known person.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Gwendolen: Personally I cannot understand how anybody manages to exist in the country, if anybody who is anybody does. The country always bores me to death.",
      "Vogue magazine, meanwhile, is holding a big cocktail party on Tuesday with photographers, models, designers and anybody who is anybody in Milan.",
      "Still, anybody who is anybody managed to wrangle an invitation to the event. That included Prime Minister Stephen Harper and his wife Laureen, Governor General Michaélle Jean, Nova Scotia Premier Darrell Dexter and a bevy of soggy dignitaries."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "471",
    "Idiom": [
      "anyone's guess"
    ],
    "Meaning": "A mystery or unpredictable outcome.",
    "Sentence": [
      "It was a disappointing way for the game to finish, with Sagna guilty of leaning his head in towards Zabaleta's after a challenge by the touchline, though what the Argentine did to warrant a dismissal is anyone's guess."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "472",
    "Idiom": [
      "anything goes"
    ],
    "Meaning": "There are no rules or restrictions.",
    "Sentence": [
      "In olden days a glimpse of stocking Was looked on as something shocking But now, Heaven knows, Anything goes.",
      "My way, your way, anything goes tonight!",
      "fucking and sucking by providing an anything-goes atmosphere reminiscent of the wildest days of the baths."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "473",
    "Idiom": [
      "ape leader"
    ],
    "Meaning": "An old maid.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "474",
    "Idiom": [
      "apothecary's Latin"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Badly-spoken Latin.",
    "Sentence": [
      "As this bit of apothecary's Latin was quoted to the town-clerk at a corporation dinner, and was by him translated to the mayor to mean that the municipal body had not a leg to stand upon, it gave very serious offence indeed."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "475",
    "Idiom": [
      "appeal from Philip drunk to Philip sober"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To ask someone to reconsider a decision made in an altered state of judgment.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "476",
    "Idiom": [
      "appearances are deceptive"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Outward appearances can be misleading.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "477",
    "Idiom": [
      "appetite comes with eating"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Starting an activity increases desire to continue.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "478",
    "Idiom": [
      "apple of someone's eye"
    ],
    "Meaning": "A person or thing that someone deeply cherishes or prefers.",
    "Sentence": [
      "If you touche him in the Indies, you touche the apple of his eye; for take away his treasure, which is neruus belli [the sinews of war], and which he hath almoste oute of his West Indies, his olde bandes of souldiers will soone be dissolved, his purposes defeated, his power and strengthe diminished, his pride abated, and his tyranie utterly suppressed.",
      "Poor Richard was to me as an eldest son, the apple of my eye, and my destined heir; but he died in his duty, and I—I— I live to avenge him.",
      "It lost, moreover, on its very first evening, one of the very apples of its eye in the removal of Mr. Brown's grand heifer, who was the gold medallist of her sex. She was seized with distemper, and at once removed to an adjacent stall.",
      "You are the sunshine of my life / That's why I'll always be around / You are the apple of my eye / Forever you'll stay in my heart",
      "You see the apple of your eye, stackin' peaches in a five foot pile / Just waitin' for some guy to come, and take her rollin' down the aisle",
      "She's got all the friends that money can buy / She's the apple of her daddy's eye",
      "I hoped that he had truly loved us, that we had honestly been the apples of his eye.",
      "Sara was never the same after losing her daughter, the apple of her eye."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "479",
    "Idiom": [
      "apple polisher"
    ],
    "Meaning": "A sycophant.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "480",
    "Idiom": [
      "apple-polish"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To seek favors through flattery.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "481",
    "Idiom": [
      "apples and oranges"
    ],
    "Meaning": "An incompatible analogy.",
    "Sentence": [
      "So on the one hand, comparing policing issues in Scotland with what is happening in England may be like comparing apples and oranges.",
      "In comparing Britain with other countries, it is important to remember that we are not comparing like with like; there is an apples and oranges issue.",
      "It's apples and oranges. You can't convert square meters to linear inches."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "482",
    "Idiom": [
      "apples to apples",
      "oranges with oranges"
    ],
    "Meaning": "A comparison of similar items.",
    "Sentence": [
      "I think you are right in saying it was comparing oranges with oranges or apples with apples.",
      "In other words, we suggest comparing lemons with lemons and oranges with oranges rather than as the advisory group proposal does, lemons with oranges.",
      "If one wants to compare intentions and movements with each other, one, metaphorically speaking, compares apples with oranges rather than apples with apples and oranges with oranges."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "483",
    "Idiom": [
      "apples to apples, oranges to oranges"
    ],
    "Meaning": "A comparison of similar items, distinguishing between different sets or categories.",
    "Sentence": [
      "When you search for comparable objects, be sure you have a realistic opinion of your building. If your building is an older garden apartment, the rents of a luxury high-rise nearby are not valuable for comparison purposes. Compare apples to apples, oranges to oranges. Be sure the apples you compare are similar in age, styles, class and amenities.",
      "Comparing utilization and financial data among different health centers is always difficult. Variations in reimbursement, record-keeping and reporting practices, as well as other factors, present formidable barriers to assuring \" apples to apples, oranges to oranges \" comparisons.",
      "After reading the claims: \"Thus, the syntax of the claim suggests comparison of like entities to like entities- apples to apples, oranges to oranges, heating medium to heating medium.\"",
      "Immediately, I know, the electricians and plumbers are going to say you can't do it that way with the work they do. But you can. And people do. And the point of all this is to be able to always compare comparable things. Apples to apples. Oranges to oranges. Repair estimates written using standard unit costs, itemized on a line item basis are much easier to read, understand and compare than contractors' proposals.",
      "This type of mistake could be very, very costly. Remember, apples to apples, oranges to oranges. It doesn't matter which option's volatility of the spread you move as long as you get both options to an equal base volatility.",
      "Here the \" apples to apples, oranges to oranges \" comparison involves comparing one type of test to another type of test while comparing the format of one such test to the formats of the other type of test.",
      "While a two-mode network can help us intuit interesting patterns within the data, for actual analysis, we need to transform it so that we have apples to apples, oranges to oranges."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "484",
    "Idiom": [
      "apron string"
    ],
    "Meaning": "A symbol of domestic ties.",
    "Sentence": [
      "The opinion of the country was that my lord was tied to his wife's apron-strings, and that she ruled over him.",
      "\"Pooh!\" said Jerry, throwing out his chest, \"I guess I can take care of myself without being tied to my mother's apron strings !\""
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "485",
    "Idiom": [
      "apron-string hold"
    ],
    "Meaning": "An estate held by a man during his wife's life.",
    "Sentence": [
      "He resided at Staleck and the fief made was converted into an \" apron-string hold \" and hereditary fief, for the benefit of his wife and daughter; for that in opposition to the Emperor himself, he had remained firm to the Archbishop in a Diet held at Mainz."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "486",
    "Idiom": [
      "arch doxy"
    ],
    "Meaning": "The leader of a group of female travelers or gypsies.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "487",
    "Idiom": [
      "are you deaf"
    ],
    "Meaning": "A rhetorical question used to confront someone who has not heard.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "488",
    "Idiom": [
      "are your ears burning"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Asked about someone's absence while they were being talked about.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Are your ears burning ? We were just talking about you."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "489",
    "Idiom": [
      "arm candy"
    ],
    "Meaning": "An attractive companion for social status or attention.",
    "Sentence": [
      "All About Eve (1950, FoxVideo). [ Marilyn Monroe had] already had mini-roles in eight movies when she turned up as George Sanders ' arm candy in the party scenes of this film.",
      "Friends described her as always ready to serve as \" arm candy \"—that is, a pretty date—to industry players, in hopes of landing a role.",
      "James is arm candy. His wife buys him all these expensive clothes. The two of them look like something out of a travel brochure: the perfect couple on vacation."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "490",
    "Idiom": [
      "arm to the teeth"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Thoroughly equipped with weapons.",
    "Sentence": [
      "There, on the ramparts of the forts, stood Nicholas Koorn, armed to the teeth, flourishing a brass-hilted sword.",
      "Who can murmur sweet nothings to his adored when two soldiers armed to the teeth have been instructed never to let him out of their sight?",
      "Both sides armed the Taiwan Strait to the teeth, turning it into one of Asia's most dangerous military flash points."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "491",
    "Idiom": [
      "arm up"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To supply with weapons.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "492-1",
    "Idiom": [
      "arm's length"
    ],
    "Meaning": "A position suggesting distance or lack of intimacy.",
    "Sentence": [
      "She remained at arm's length though we worked together for many years."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "492-2",
    "Idiom": [
      "arm's length"
    ],
    "Meaning": "A condition of independence and equality in a transaction.",
    "Sentence": [
      "\"Government should have an arms-length relationship with the railway,\" it adds.",
      "In any viable scenario of renationalisation, the idea was always to ensure that the railways were at arm's length from the Department, since it was recognised that allowing civil servants to run the show is always a bad idea.",
      "The police work at arm's length from the army."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "492-3",
    "Idiom": [
      "arm's length"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Distant or detached.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "492-4",
    "Idiom": [
      "arm's length"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Independent but related.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Kate Bingham's success is powerful validation of what has been RAIL 's opinion on this key question for many months now: that we must have a new arm's length body, similar to the Vaccine Task Force, to strategically plan and organise our railways... and quickly too."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "493-1",
    "Idiom": [
      "armchair quarterback"
    ],
    "Meaning": "A person who critiques sports from a distance without active involvement.",
    "Sentence": [
      "To turn an armchair quarterback into a triple-threat man, just ask him to rake the leaves. He'll put up a terrific kick, pass the buck to his kids, and put up a long run.",
      "My dad is such an armchair quarterback; he recognizes every bad decision the coach makes as soon as the play is over and he knows whether or not it worked."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "493-2",
    "Idiom": [
      "armchair quarterback"
    ],
    "Meaning": "A critic lacking involvement or expertise.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "494",
    "Idiom": [
      "army volunteer"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To make someone perform an unwanted task.",
    "Sentence": [
      "\"She ' army volunteered' me,\" he says. \"She said, 'You called; you're on the committee.'\"",
      "It was dreadful. Especially when it was raining -- the whole performance of getting all the plastic hoods off the double buggy, then trying to womanhandle<g> double buggy, shopping, both boys onto the bus. You ended up by ' army volunteering' the passengers behind you.",
      "Coutts was originally press-ganged into playing the game by one of his former intermediate teachers. Despite some initial scepticism, he eventually became hooked. \"It was something that I got sort of army-volunteered into but looking back at it now, it's been one of the best things of my life, just because of the experiences and opportunities I've been given,\" he said."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "495-1",
    "Idiom": [
      "around Robin Hood's barn"
    ],
    "Meaning": "A roundabout or circuitous route.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "495-2",
    "Idiom": [
      "around Robin Hood's barn"
    ],
    "Meaning": "All over the place.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "496",
    "Idiom": [
      "around the Horn"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Via shipboard communications.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "497",
    "Idiom": [
      "around the clock"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Constantly.",
    "Sentence": [
      "They worked around the clock to finish the project on time."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "498-1",
    "Idiom": [
      "around the corner"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Imminent; very soon.",
    "Sentence": [
      "He has been studying hard, but his exam is just around the corner and he's nervous."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "498-2",
    "Idiom": [
      "around the corner"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Close or very near.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Hell is round the corner where I shelter / Isms and schisms, we're living helter skelter"
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "499",
    "Idiom": [
      "arrive at"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To reach an objective or conclusion.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "500",
    "Idiom": [
      "arrow in the quiver"
    ],
    "Meaning": "One of several options or courses of action.",
    "Sentence": [
      "The ability to enter a planning obligation by means of an undertaking is an additional arrow in the quiver of a developer faced with a recalcitrant local authority which might either be holding out for excessive and unreasonable gain or be so unwilling to contemplate granting permission that it will not discuss how to overcome its planning objections.",
      "And sooner or later, the European indictment will become a standard arrow in the quiver of aggrieved parties across the globe, from Afghanistan to Zimbabwe.",
      "While it is true that news media operations have become one more arrow in the quiver of modern warfare, a direct attack on information gatherers of any stripe is deeply troubling."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "501",
    "Idiom": [
      "arse end of nowhere"
    ],
    "Meaning": "A very remote place.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "502",
    "Idiom": [
      "arse over tip"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Tumbling or falling.",
    "Sentence": [
      "An unlucky camel increased the confusion by firing one of the many Turkish trip-mines as it entered the yard. The explosion blew it arse over tip, and caused a panic."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "503",
    "Idiom": [
      "arse over tit"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Tumbling or falling upside-down.",
    "Sentence": [
      "I missed the step and went arse over tit."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "504",
    "Idiom": [
      "arsy varsy"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Tumbling upside down.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "505",
    "Idiom": [
      "arsy versy"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Tumbling upside down.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Who would not haue iudged that same ryche man to haue been a perfecte exaumple and paterne of most welthie and happy state: and this poore Lazare man to be a paterne of vtter miserie? But felicitie is in nowyse to be measured by such thinges as fortune geueth to men in this lyfe. But in the matter that we nowe speake of, altogether was sodainly turned in and out clene arsie versy.",
      "Dost thou not know that from the beginning the world goes arsie-versie.",
      "the estate of that flourishing towne was turned arsie versie, topside the otherwaie, and from abundance of prosperitie quite exchanged to extreame penurie.",
      "“You put your back up in the wrong place and you’re passive in the wrong place. You’ve got everything arsy-versy. ”",
      "Us going in on foot and then the equipment being airlifted in is about as arsy-versy as you can get."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "506",
    "Idiom": [
      "art is long, life is short"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Art endures longer than life.",
    "Sentence": [
      "In the side of a storage structure, I note a surely-not-officially sanctioned graffiti slogan, \" Art is Long, Life is Short \".",
      "Remembrance of Things Past Marc Lida's Proust Watercolors Jonathan Weinberg \" Art is long, life is short,\" or so we are told.",
      "Alas! art is long and life is short ! My friends would comfort me with the idea of a name, they say I shall leave behind me; and they tell me I have lived long enough to nature and to glory."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "507",
    "Idiom": [
      "artful dodger"
    ],
    "Meaning": "A crafty person who engages in minor crimes or unscrupulous behavior.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Meg made many moral rules, and tried to keep them, but what mother was ever proof against the winning wiles, the ingenious evasions, or the tranquil audacity of the miniature men and women who so early show themselves accomplished Artful Dodgers ?",
      "Timothy Mack has spent 13 years spiriting wallets from the pockets and purses of Los Angelenos, an artful dodger's career that has been interrupted by 20 arrests and two jail terms.",
      "Perfect little con man and artful dodger, always on the make for some angle or another."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "508",
    "Idiom": [
      "as I was saying"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Refers back to a previous statement.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "509",
    "Idiom": [
      "as a dog returns to his vomit, so a fool repeats his folly"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Foolish people repeat their mistakes.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "510",
    "Idiom": [
      "as a rule"
    ],
    "Meaning": "In general.",
    "Sentence": [
      "His forefathers had been, as a rule, professional men—physicians and lawyers; his grandfather died under the walls of Chapultepec Castle while twisting a tourniquet for a cursing dragoon; an uncle remained indefinitely at Malvern Hill; .",
      "As a rule, single sentences should not be written or printed as paragraphs. An exception may be made of sentences of transition, indicating the relation between the parts of an exposition or argument.",
      "We go fishing every Sunday as a rule, but today the lake is frozen."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "511",
    "Idiom": [
      "as a whole"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Considered all together.",
    "Sentence": [
      "If a Bushel of Wheat be considered as a Whole whose Parts are Eight Gallons, and if Five of those Gallons be assumed, then the remaining Three are the Complement of that Part to the Whole.",
      "And just as it is only the animal organism as a whole that can be regarded as a real entity, the calls of which it is composed having no distinct independent life, so Comte constantly repeats that 'Humanity is the only real existence, the individual being a mere metaphysical abstraction.'",
      "Economically, too, London is startlingly different. The capital, unlike the country as a whole, has no budget deficit: London’s public spending matches the taxes paid in the city. The average Londoner contributes 70 percent more to Britain’s national income than people in the rest of the country."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "512",
    "Idiom": [
      "as all get-out"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Extremely; very much.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Miss Collins looks pretty as all get out on a club floor, much more so than a frequent TV camera shot would lead you to suppose.",
      "John and I got over to the house around eight o’clock and were all set to watch a television show when we noticed Mr. Pignati was sad as all get out."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "513",
    "Idiom": [
      "as best one can"
    ],
    "Meaning": "In the best possible way, given one's circumstances.",
    "Sentence": [
      "We tried to make our lives comfortable as best we could.",
      "As best I can tell, this wound does not seem grievous."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "514",
    "Idiom": [
      "as clever as a cartload of monkeys"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Very clever or cunning.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "515",
    "Idiom": [
      "as ever",
      "as ever trod shoe leather"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Consistent with past behavior.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Everything was insipid. Every day the old lady asked me whether I liked the food, but what could she do? I was still as shy as ever and dared not ask for more than what was put before me.",
      "As handsome a gentleman, to be sure, as ever trod shoe leather ! I wonder that old folks can be so very, very blind!",
      "\"He is a brave Indian, sir.\" – \"Oh – is that all?\" – \"As brave a man, as ever trod shoe leather.\" – \"Hum!\" – \"Yes.\" – \"But Indians – do they tread shoe leather?\" – \"He's very brave, I mean – very.\" – \"Why not say so, then?\" – \"I do.\"",
      "It's his temper as has saved his life; he's the best-temperdest cretur as ever trod shoe leather."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "516",
    "Idiom": [
      "as ever trod shoe-leather"
    ],
    "Meaning": "As ever existed.",
    "Sentence": [
      "As grate a rascal, as ever trod shoe-leather.",
      "As handsome a gentleman, to be sure, as ever trod shoe leather ! I wonder that old folks can be so very, very blind!",
      "\"He is a brave Indian, sir.\" – \"Oh – is that all?\" – \"As brave a man, as ever trod shoe leather.\" – \"Hum!\" – \"Yes.\" – \"But Indians – do they tread shoe leather?\" – \"He's very brave, I mean – very.\" – \"Why not say so, then?\" – \"I do.\"",
      "It's his temper as has saved his life; he's the best-temperdest cretur as ever trod shoe leather.",
      "I've ne'er heard his name named since I saw him go out of the yard as stout a man as ever trod shoe-leather.",
      "It was as finely organized a Church as ever trod shoe-leather.",
      "I'm sure I never shall forget the turn young S IMMONS gave me when he came in with that paper as he'd been and copied out of a winder thro' being in a west-end house, tho' livin' at home with his mother, as steady a woman as ever trod shoe-leather,"
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "517",
    "Idiom": [
      "as far as one knows"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To the best of one's knowledge.",
    "Sentence": [
      "John could be dead as far as I know."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "518",
    "Idiom": [
      "as if"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Indicates that something is highly unlikely.",
    "Sentence": [
      "“Better wait, hadn't you, Laura,” said Aunt Wess’, “and see. Maybe he'll come up and speak to us.” “Oh, as if !” contradicted Laura.",
      "Ooo! Get off of me! Uh, AS IF !",
      "\"I'm going to clean your whole house.\" — \" As if !\"",
      "Me, take up yoga and become a vegetarian? As if !"
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "519",
    "Idiom": [
      "like there is no tomorrow",
      "as if there were no tomorrow"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To an excessive degree with little regard for future consequences.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Starting with the Pranksters, who were the first to take LSD out of the war labs and hospitals, hippies were mixing drugs as if there were no tomorrow."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "520",
    "Idiom": [
      "as in"
    ],
    "Meaning": "In the sense of.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Getting to the bottom of Selmes' thinking is not the easiest of tasks but what in essence he is doing is trading a mummy (as in King Tut) for a big daddy (as in Tennessee Williams).",
      "'You won't even have to touch me if you don't want to,' he said witheringly. 'But we are going to sleep together. As in spend the nights side by side.'",
      "\" bow \" as in the weapon, not the front of a ship",
      "That's B as in boy."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "521",
    "Idiom": [
      "as is"
    ],
    "Meaning": "In its present state or condition.",
    "Sentence": [
      "I bought the car as is, so the seller was within his legal rights to refuse to repair it when it broke down after two days."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "522",
    "Idiom": [
      "as it happens"
    ],
    "Meaning": "By coincidence.",
    "Sentence": [
      "In the second volume of his autobiography, he writes of a journey up the Padma by paddle steamer (built, as it happens, on the river outside my window), where the dry season had exposed many sandbanks...",
      "I have my guitar with me in the car, as it happens. I’ll go and get it.",
      "―“You won’t know Paris, I suppose.” ―“ As it happens, I went to university there!”"
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "523-1",
    "Idiom": [
      "as long as"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Provided that.",
    "Sentence": [
      "I don't care who you are, where you're from, what you did, as long as you love me",
      "I don't mind if he stays there, as long as he cleans up after himself when he's done."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "523-2",
    "Idiom": [
      "as long as"
    ],
    "Meaning": "While, since.",
    "Sentence": [
      "As long as you're here, you may as well help me with the garden."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "524",
    "Idiom": [
      "as luck may have it"
    ],
    "Meaning": "By chance, luckily.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "525",
    "Idiom": [
      "as luck would have it"
    ],
    "Meaning": "By good fortune.",
    "Sentence": [
      "I said, “I’ll send the first sane soul I meet to keep you company.” As luck would have it, I never met one, — only kids, and a baker, who wouldn’t leave his cart, or take it with him either.",
      "I didn't plan to stop there, but as luck would have it, they were open when I went by."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "526",
    "Idiom": [
      "as of"
    ],
    "Meaning": "At or by a specified time.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Under the most splendid house in the city is still to be found the cellar where they store their roots as of old, and long after the superstructure has disappeared posterity remark its dent in the earth.",
      "All leave is cancelled as of now.",
      "The server will be down for maintenance as of tomorrow afternoon."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "527",
    "Idiom": [
      "as of late"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Recently.",
    "Sentence": [
      "You seem to be quite busy as of late."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "528",
    "Idiom": [
      "as often as not"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Approximately half the time; frequently.",
    "Sentence": [
      "\"These old people—there's no trusting them, Fred.... You can't calculate upon 'em, and even then they deceive you just as often as not.\"",
      "\"I am a man that tries to do his duty, and makes a mess of it as often as not.\"",
      "If he discovered a sale where there were books he would as often as not waste half the next day in going again to acquire a job lot of them.",
      "The hall porter said that, as often as not, the flat was untenanted.",
      "As often as not, the perpetrators have been other Americans — motivated not by patriotism for a foreign flag, but by simple profit."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "529",
    "Idiom": [
      "as soon as"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Indicates priority or preference for the first action over the second.",
    "Sentence": [
      "\"He was a bad guy. He would hit you with a chunk of pipe as soon as look at you.\"",
      "\"They are the worst of the worst and they will shoot you just as soon as say Hello.\"",
      "I'd jump out the window as soon as not."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "530",
    "Idiom": [
      "as the crow flies"
    ],
    "Meaning": "In a straight line distance between two locations.",
    "Sentence": [
      "ʽFire,ʼ said Bill, ʽin the form of a common cowshed, is burnin' about nor'-nor'-east as the crow flies.ʼ",
      "The distance from Sarajevo to Ploce is 75 miles as the crow flies, but because of the difficult terrain the new line is 120 miles long.",
      "Then it told me the distance between the two is 331 miles, which is totally irrelevant as that's as the crow flies and not the 393 miles of the rail route.",
      "It is 15 kilometers as the crow flies."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "531",
    "Idiom": [
      "as the day is long"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Very thorough or to a high degree.",
    "Sentence": [
      "He shows me where the bachelors sit, and there live we as merry as the day is long.",
      "And you shall do nothing but what you choose, and shall be as happy as the day is long.",
      "They are quiet, peaceable, tractable, free from drunkenness, and they are as industrious as the day is long.",
      "\"Oh, I don't think they would steal the box. Bart Andrews and Jack Thompson are as honest as the day is long.\"",
      "Monica: Alright, wait a second! Why would Ross tell everyone in your class that you are \"as gay as the day is long \"?",
      "\"He is direct, honest as the day is long, hard-working and a good lad to have around.\""
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "532",
    "Idiom": [
      "as the gull flies"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Straight-line distance between two locations.",
    "Sentence": [
      "It is 240 miles as the gull flies."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "533",
    "Idiom": [
      "as the next girl"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To a reasonable degree.",
    "Sentence": [
      "I like reading as much as the next girl.",
      "I'm as friendly as the next girl."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "534",
    "Idiom": [
      "as the next guy"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To a reasonable degree.",
    "Sentence": [
      "I like reading as much as the next guy.",
      "I'm as friendly as the next guy."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "535",
    "Idiom": [
      "as the twig is bent, so is the tree inclined"
    ],
    "Meaning": "A person's early experiences shape their adult character.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "536",
    "Idiom": [
      "as the wind blows"
    ],
    "Meaning": "According to circumstances.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "537",
    "Idiom": [
      "as they come"
    ],
    "Meaning": "As it is possible to be.",
    "Sentence": [
      "\"Has he got a pulse?\" \"With that hole in his head? You kiddin', a pulse? Give me a break, will ya? He's about as dead as they come.",
      "My eight-year-old, as die-hard a Potterholic as they come, a kid who can probably remember Hogwarts minutiae that even JK has forgotten, walked out of the multiplex and gave it a five out of 10."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "538",
    "Idiom": [
      "as well"
    ],
    "Meaning": "In addition; also.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Wearing his hat and coat, he looked outside and decided he should take an umbrella as well."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "539",
    "Idiom": [
      "as yet"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Up to the present.",
    "Sentence": [
      "As yet, we have not received the letter you sent us."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "540",
    "Idiom": [
      "as you go"
    ],
    "Meaning": "While doing something; as one progresses.",
    "Sentence": [
      "learn as you go",
      "pay as you go"
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "541",
    "Idiom": [
      "as you have brewed, so you must drink",
      "as you sow, so shall you reap"
    ],
    "Meaning": "You reap what you sow.",
    "Sentence": [
      "“So, Jim,” said the doctor sadly, “here you are. As you have brewed, so shall you drink, my boy. Heaven knows, I cannot find it in my heart to blame you, but this much I will say, be it kind or unkind: when Captain Smollett was well, you dared not have gone off; and when he was ill and couldn’t help it, by George, it was downright cowardly!”"
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "542",
    "Idiom": [
      "as you know"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Already known.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "543",
    "Idiom": [
      "as you make your bed, so you must lie in it"
    ],
    "Meaning": "You must face the consequences of your actions.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "544",
    "Idiom": [
      "ask a stupid question, get a stupid answer",
      "ask a silly question, get a silly answer"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Expect silly answers to obvious questions.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "545",
    "Idiom": [
      "ask after"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To enquire about someone's health or progress.",
    "Sentence": [
      "He was surprised at my presence, I believe, but reacted with perfect aplomb. He asked after my Aunt Mamie, I after some of his cousins..."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "546",
    "Idiom": [
      "ask around"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To inquire with different people about something.",
    "Sentence": [
      "So a concom has to look twice, ask around, and gather information judiciously.",
      "I don't know the answer to that, but maybe someone else does – I'll ask around."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "547",
    "Idiom": [
      "ask for it"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To provoke an unwanted action.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Leaving your wallet visible on the car seat is just asking for it."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "548",
    "Idiom": [
      "ask for the moon"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To desire something unattainable.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Major publishers think they are taking enough risk by simply publishing gay material. To want them to publish challenging, original gay books is asking them for the moon when they think they're already giving us the stars."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "549",
    "Idiom": [
      "ask my arse"
    ],
    "Meaning": "A common reply to a question, often dismissive.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "550-1",
    "Idiom": [
      "ask round"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To enquire of several people.",
    "Sentence": [
      "I don't know the answer to that, but maybe someone else does; I'll ask round."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "550-2",
    "Idiom": [
      "ask round"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To invite someone over.",
    "Sentence": [
      "I think I'll ask John and Betty round for supper on Friday."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "551",
    "Idiom": [
      "asking for a friend"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Indicates an embarrassing question is being asked on someone else's behalf.",
    "Sentence": [
      "“Oh, please, like we'd ever believe that whole 'I'm asking for a friend ' routine.”",
      "How many more of these #debates do we have to suffer through? Asking for a friend. — Eva Amurri Martino (@TheHappilyEva)",
      "\"So what really is \"in the shooting motion\" rule?!?!?\" James wrote on Twitter. \" Asking for a friend @OfficialNBARefs.\""
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "552",
    "Idiom": [
      "asleep at the switch",
      "sleeping at the switch"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Neglectful of an important responsibility.",
    "Sentence": [
      "His vote demonstrates that the people of Philadelphia are not asleep at the switch, are not indifferent to their political duties.",
      "My guardian angel had not been asleep at the switch.",
      "It is sometimes difficult to guess whether a sentence has been garbled by the author or the typesetter.... In either case, the editors were asleep at the switch.",
      "Why America (but not Canada) failed to set up a needed synfuels industry."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "553",
    "Idiom": [
      "asphalt jungle"
    ],
    "Meaning": "A city characterized by pavement and an alienating atmosphere.",
    "Sentence": [
      "The sound track tingles with cool jazz, the dry atonal music of the asphalt jungle.",
      "Harlem comes through as an urban hothouse mean with exotic hustle and violence, a tangible asphalt jungle with its own abrasive laws of motion."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "554-1",
    "Idiom": [
      "ass over teakettle"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Tumbling upside down.",
    "Sentence": [
      "When the top step gave way, he went ass over teakettle back down to the bottom."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "554-2",
    "Idiom": [
      "ass over teakettle"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Frantically.",
    "Sentence": [
      "We've been scrambling ass over teakettle to get this thing done on time."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "554-3",
    "Idiom": [
      "ass over teakettle"
    ],
    "Meaning": "In complete disarray.",
    "Sentence": [
      "After all that hard work cleaning up, along comes one big storm and we're ass over teakettle again."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "555-1",
    "Idiom": [
      "ass-backwards"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Hopelessly misguided or contrary to what is normal.",
    "Sentence": [
      "No wonder it doesn't work. The whole design is ass-backwards."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "555-2",
    "Idiom": [
      "ass-backwards"
    ],
    "Meaning": "In a misguided or illogical manner.",
    "Sentence": [
      "They did the whole design ass-backwards. No wonder it doesn't work."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "556",
    "Idiom": [
      "assault and battery"
    ],
    "Meaning": "The combination of assault (threat of violence) and battery (physical violence).",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "557",
    "Idiom": [
      "assume room temperature"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To die.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "558",
    "Idiom": [
      "assume the mantle"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To take on a specific role with associated responsibilities.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "559-1",
    "Idiom": [
      "assume the position"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To prepare for a search by turning away with hands in a visible position.",
    "Sentence": [
      "A day or two later we took down another seller and this time the rookie performs the search. Assume the position! he tells the guy. So the guy leans against the side of the car."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "559-2",
    "Idiom": [
      "assume the position"
    ],
    "Meaning": "An order to bend over, often for punishment.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "560",
    "Idiom": [
      "at a canter"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Effortlessly or easily.",
    "Sentence": [
      "“When an artist becomes pop, it’s because the people choose it,” she says, now speaking at a canter.",
      "It was down to Foden that any anxious moments on Wednesday evening - and there were some - were forgotten as City ended winners at a canter while showing the fluency, rhythm and threat they did not offer against Arsenal."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "561",
    "Idiom": [
      "at a distance"
    ],
    "Meaning": "At a level of detachment or separation.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "562",
    "Idiom": [
      "at a draught"
    ],
    "Meaning": "In a single swallow.",
    "Sentence": [
      "I emptied the glass at a draft, and another, and another. I felt disgusted with the world, and took another—to think that men will be so bamboozled—one more—when they can get the real thing, right on the spot, too—a sip—and no false bottom in the bot tle—madame's good health—wonder if she's not the daughter of the prince—sip, sip, sip—amazing large bottles, but the road long— vita brevis est —positively no more, Madame Metternich!",
      "The Time Traveler did not seem to hear. \"Don't let me disturb you,\" he said, with a certain faltering articulation. \"I'm all right.\" He stopped, held out his glass for more, and took it off at a draught.",
      "Lord Winchelmere said quietly: \"We've been just striking a bargain, Geraldi, and I've given Mary Ingall the emerald... as duly agreed.\" Deliberately he reached down for the cup of coffee and drained it at a draft."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "563",
    "Idiom": [
      "at a glance"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Upon cursory examination.",
    "Sentence": [
      "This report is certainly not comprehensive; it is more of a \"Marketing Division at a glance \".",
      "At a glance it seems that he is a nice guy, but upon digging deeper the truth emerges."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "564",
    "Idiom": [
      "at a loss"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Uncertain; lacking ideas or direction.",
    "Sentence": [
      "I have fixed the parts I understand, and the rest leaves me at a loss.",
      "His policies may be ineffective, but he is never at a loss for words.",
      "I'm at a loss how to proceed."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "565",
    "Idiom": [
      "at a loss for words"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Stunned or speechless.",
    "Sentence": [
      "She was at a loss for words when she saw the number of people who had come to grieve for her husband."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "566",
    "Idiom": [
      "at a low ebb"
    ],
    "Meaning": "At a low point or in a state of decline.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Polls show the prime minister’s popularity is at a low ebb."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "567",
    "Idiom": [
      "at a moment's notice"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Immediately or without warning.",
    "Sentence": [
      "The soldiers were ready at a moment's notice."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "568-1",
    "Idiom": [
      "at a pinch"
    ],
    "Meaning": "By a small margin.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "568-2",
    "Idiom": [
      "at a pinch"
    ],
    "Meaning": "In an urgent or difficult situation.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "569-1",
    "Idiom": [
      "at a stand"
    ],
    "Meaning": "In a state of confusion or uncertainty.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Well proceede; What, at a stand ? has true loue got the power, To strike dumbe such a nimble wit?",
      "Some how or other my eye encountered with Miss Maria’s at the end of this speech; she seemed conscious, and on my observing that Mr. Wellworth was an excellent young man, she reddened excessively, and seemed at a stand for words.",
      "I began for the first time to falter, and was at a stand to know what course to pursue.",
      "He asked me, had I heard any untoward news abroad? I replied instantly that I had not. Nothing of foreigners come into the neighbourhood? This put me rather at a stand.",
      "Now I am quite at a stand."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "569-2",
    "Idiom": [
      "at a stand"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Not progressing or changing.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Debreas on the other side, with cheerefull speech, and his owne valour, so encouraged his souldiors, that Scanderbeg was there notably resisted, and his fortune as it were at a stand :",
      "Thus are their Figures never at a stand,",
      "It is, however, these exclusive affections, and an individual manner of seeing things, produced by ignorance, which keep women for ever at a stand, with respect to improvement",
      "During this season of distress, the discouragements to marriage, and the difficulty of rearing a family are so great, that population is at a stand.",
      "The debate was at a stand"
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "570",
    "Idiom": [
      "at all",
      "for beans"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Indicates a greater than zero degree, quantity, or frequency.",
    "Sentence": [
      "He did not seem to think that he at all deserved a medal from the Humane and Magnanimous Societies.",
      "The judge, by the way, was the King; and as he wore his crown over the wig, (look at the frontispiece if you want to see how he did it), he did not look at all comfortable, and it was certainly not becoming.",
      "After a while he descended the steps into the road again and he stood there and looked all about him and listened for any sound at all but there was nothing.",
      "You mustn't speak to her at all.",
      "Can you see anyone at all ?",
      "Are you at all bothered by the noise?",
      "Let me know if you are at all concerned.",
      "Were you angry that he was laughing too hard, or that he was laughing at all ?",
      "I'm glad that she didn't stay long, but sorry that she came at all.",
      "This is the only one of the issues for which I am at all responsible.",
      "Then he'd go and do some piss-ass thing that didn't count for beans and blow his horn.",
      "Senator: Lie to me. Foreman: Okay. It'll, uh, feel like a gentle massage. Senator: House is a lousy teacher. You can't lie for beans."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "571-1",
    "Idiom": [
      "at all hours"
    ],
    "Meaning": "At all times of the day.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "571-2",
    "Idiom": [
      "at all hours"
    ],
    "Meaning": "At late or early hours, when people should be sleeping.",
    "Sentence": [
      "It's hard to sleep with the neighbors playing the radio so loud and that dog barking at all hours."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "572",
    "Idiom": [
      "at any given moment"
    ],
    "Meaning": "At any point in time.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "573",
    "Idiom": [
      "at arm's length"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Avoiding closeness.",
    "Sentence": [
      "She's been keeping me at arm's length all the time. She doesn't want to get involved."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "574-1",
    "Idiom": [
      "at bay"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Unable to come closer.",
    "Sentence": [
      "In that case the enemy himself could have occupied the defences of Corinth and held at bay all the Union troops that arrived.",
      "These two books—of sacred, and secular, passages for memory—will serve other good purposes besides merely occupying vacant hours: they will help to keep at bay many anxious thoughts, worrying thoughts, uncharitable thoughts, unholy thoughts.",
      "The home side grew in confidence after keeping the visitors at bay and took the lead after only nine minutes, from their first foray into the penalty area."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "574-2",
    "Idiom": [
      "at bay"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Prevented from advancing or escaping.",
    "Sentence": [
      "The hills, like giants at a hunting, lay / Chin upon hand, to see the game at bay,— / \"Now stab and end the creature - to the heft!\"",
      "For a moment my gaze traversed the landscape beneath until it was caught and held by four figures near the base of the cliff—a human figure held at bay by three hyaenodons, those ferocious and blood-thirsty wild dogs of the Eocene.",
      "Instead of mounted riders following a pack of hounds, it is envisaged that just two dogs will be used to locate a stag and hold it at bay."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "575",
    "Idiom": [
      "at bottom"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Basically, fundamentally.",
    "Sentence": [
      "They concerted Matters, and all at once fell to selling off their Stock, giving out daily Reports that they would be no longer concern'd, that it was a losing Trade, that the Fund at bottom was good for nothing.",
      "I know you are a good man at bottom.",
      "\"Tess is queer.\" \"But she's tractable at bottom. Leave her to me.\"",
      "At bottom I supposed that he had mistaken another book for mine.",
      "As the New Year opened, the survival of Western democracy rested, at bottom, on the case the U.S. would make for it.",
      "At bottom, he does not accept any authority higher than himself."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "576",
    "Idiom": [
      "at cross-purposes"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Mutually misunderstanding each other.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "577",
    "Idiom": [
      "at daggers drawn"
    ],
    "Meaning": "In a state of open hostility.",
    "Sentence": [
      "And upon this point, vvere they at Daggers Dravvn vvith the Emperour.",
      "The new duke of Orléans, son of the Regent, was a callow and shallow youth and worse still—for the house of Condé, collateral with the Bourbons, was perennially at daggers drawn with the rival Orléans dynasty—had just married and already made his wife pregnant.",
      "But [David] Cameron nevertheless feels confident, because he is pretty sure that he has got Labour where he wants it, still off the centre ground on economic credibility and increasingly at daggers drawn with the Liberal Democrats, not least over the pivotal electoral event of this parliament, the AV referendum."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "578",
    "Idiom": [
      "at death's door"
    ],
    "Meaning": "About to die.",
    "Sentence": [
      "The minstrel woman who left the Castle yesterday has spread the report everywhere, that the Duke of Rothsay is murdered, or at death's door.",
      "One of my Polynesian sailors lay at death's door with blackwater fever.",
      "Clearly, a business with $26 billion in cash reserves isn't exactly at death's door."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "579",
    "Idiom": [
      "at each other's throats"
    ],
    "Meaning": "In mutual conflict.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Hariri's endorsement of Aoun for the presidency on Thursday is a dramatic and expedient marriage of opposing political camps that have been at each other's throats for years."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "580",
    "Idiom": [
      "at first"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Initially.",
    "Sentence": [
      "“Well,” I answered, at first with uncertainty, then with inspiration, “he would do splendidly to lead your cotillon, if you think of having one.” ¶ “So you do not dance, Mr. Crocker?” ¶ I was somewhat set back by her perspicuity.",
      "At first I was afraid, I was petrified / Kept thinking I could never live without you by my side",
      "KIRA: Look, Dukat, I know you're angry, but maybe you ought to think about what you're proposing. I mean, you can't go to war against the whole Klingon Empire with one bird of prey. DUKAT: Why not? Your people fought against us for fifty years with much less sophisticated weaponry than this. And you beat us. KIRA: It's not the same. The Bajoran people were united. We were all fighting for the same goal. You and your crew would be out there alone. DUKAT: Maybe at first, but perhaps our actions would inspire others to join the struggle!",
      "If at first you don't succeed, try, try again."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "581",
    "Idiom": [
      "at first blush"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Upon first impression or consideration.",
    "Sentence": [
      "The finer and more distinctive features of a land require deep study and long acquaintance, but the broader traits of nationality are caught in an instant, or not caught at all. Familiarity with, destroys them, and it is only at first blush that we learn to appreciate them with force.",
      "At first blush it appears rather strange to consider for even a moment the possibility that corporate financial and business disclosure rises to the dignity of speech protected by the First Amendment.",
      "Third, it is only at first blush that one finds no exercises in conceptual elucidation",
      "That may sound innocent at first blush, but a phrase like \"American leadership is good … for the world\" is a signal that these people want to impose their will on others; and when military strength and moral principle are added, the caution flag must be raised.",
      "At first blush it seemed the attacks by the werewolf were random."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "582",
    "Idiom": [
      "at full tilt"
    ],
    "Meaning": "At full speed.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Don't go racing around corners at full tilt or you'll hit someone."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "583",
    "Idiom": [
      "at home"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Comfortable.",
    "Sentence": [
      "I feel at home around my girlfriend's family.",
      "I'm right at home in my new university.",
      "He's quite at home discussing French literature."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "584",
    "Idiom": [
      "at large"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Roaming freely; not confined.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Officials say the unknown male suspect is still at large and request anyone with information regarding the case to contact Crimeline at (800) 423-8477.",
      "For a nervous twenty-four hours, three wanted criminals were at large in the city.",
      "The ambassador- at-large was designated to the Middle East as a region, rather than to a specific country."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "585-1",
    "Idiom": [
      "at last"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Eventually.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Now that the dog has stopped barking, perhaps we can at last get some rest.",
      "After three hundred years had passed, at last the vampire's soul was free."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "585-2",
    "Idiom": [
      "at last"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Finally.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Upon balancing the account, the profit at last will hardly countervail the inconveniences that go along with it.",
      "No matter how early I came down, I would find him on the veranda, smoking cigarettes, or . And at last I began to realize in my harassed soul that all elusion was futile, and to take such holidays as I could get, when he was off with a girl, in a spirit of thankfulness.",
      "She was so mad she wouldn't speak to me for quite a spell, but at last I coaxed her into going up to Miss Emmeline's room and fetching down a tintype of the missing Deacon man.",
      "After all their troubles, at last they lived happily ever after.",
      "After exhausting all possibilities, Holmes was at last satisfied the problem was unsolvable."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "586",
    "Idiom": [
      "at latter Lammas"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Never.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "587",
    "Idiom": [
      "at long last"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Finally.",
    "Sentence": [
      "At long last, the referee's whistle was mercifully blown. It had been a sobering and underwhelming tournament, but one that must now fuel the future, with a changing of the guard needed ahead of next year's Euro 2024 qualifying campaign."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "588",
    "Idiom": [
      "at loose ends"
    ],
    "Meaning": "In an uncertain position or situation.",
    "Sentence": [
      "I am really at loose ends about this choice; I am between the proverbial rock and hard place."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "589",
    "Idiom": [
      "at odds"
    ],
    "Meaning": "In disagreement; conflicting.",
    "Sentence": [
      "In the passage they encountered Mr. Mould the undertaker: a little elderly gentleman, bald, and in a suit of black; with a note-book in his hand, a massive gold watch-chain dangling from his fob, and a face in which a queer attempt at melancholy was at odds with a smirk of satisfaction;",
      "At Pleasant Valley sheepmen and cattlemen were at odds over the grazing. Sooner or later they would clash.",
      "Evidence now proves that the Primus and the Archon are at odds. Investigations show that the Primus disapproves of the Archon's single-minded interest in Remnant technology, believing it to be a distraction from the kett's attempts to conquer Heleus.",
      "The witness’s statement seems to be at odds with the evidence—not a good sign for the prosecutor."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "590",
    "Idiom": [
      "at one's feet"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Easily controlled by someone.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "591",
    "Idiom": [
      "at one's fingertips"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Readily available.",
    "Sentence": [
      "He seemed to have all sports knowledge at his fingertips : we could scarcely finish a question before he had answered it."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "592",
    "Idiom": [
      "at pains"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Making careful effort.",
    "Sentence": [
      "The agency has been at pains to stress that its decisions are still based on sound science.",
      "He was at great pains to distance himself from the rumours."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "593",
    "Idiom": [
      "at peace"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Calm and content; free from conflict.",
    "Sentence": [
      "He was unhappy when he was alive, but now he's at peace."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "594-1",
    "Idiom": [
      "at peace with"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Not disturbed or upset by.",
    "Sentence": [
      "He lay down, cuddled the blankets up to his ears, closed his eyes and composed himself to sleep, at peace with his conscience and the world."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "594-2",
    "Idiom": [
      "at peace with"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Not hostile.",
    "Sentence": [
      "If I have rewarded evil unto him that was at peace with me; (yea, I have delivered him that without cause is mine enemy:) let the enemy persecute my soul, and take it."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "595",
    "Idiom": [
      "at places"
    ],
    "Meaning": "In some rare places.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Light to moderate rain/temporary showers accompanied by temporary gusty wind is likely to occur at many places over the area with moderately heavy falls at places.",
      "Concern about the relationship between disorder and crime is further deepened by the fact that disorder and crime often co-exist at places.",
      "I felt dizzy and fainting at places, but I still made it to the finish line."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "596",
    "Idiom": [
      "at rack and manger"
    ],
    "Meaning": "At another's expense.",
    "Sentence": [
      "tearing out the bowels of St. Edmundsbury Convent (its larders namely and cellars) in the most ruinous way, by living at rack and manger there.",
      "For we are not as other hypocrites, reprobates, and enemies of the state, but unto us thou hast given, from them thou hast taken, (blessed be thy name A Lard) they are at rack and manger, but we are at full meal"
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "597",
    "Idiom": [
      "at rest"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Not moving; stationary.",
    "Sentence": [
      "The yatch lies at rest in the marina.",
      "At rest, the car is impressive, but when it's moving, the sight is astounding."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "598",
    "Idiom": [
      "at sea"
    ],
    "Meaning": "In a state of confusion.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Wojciech Szczesny was then called into action twice in a minute to parry fierce drives from Djebbour and Torossidis as Arsenal's back four looked all at sea.",
      "Most of the class was at sea after the first week.",
      "Oh, great, the handle just broke—well, we're really all at sea now, aren't we?"
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "599-1",
    "Idiom": [
      "at sixes and sevens"
    ],
    "Meaning": "In a state of confusion.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Yet if his majesty our sovereign lord Should of his own accord Friendly himself invite, And say \"I'll be your guest to-morrow night.\" How should we stir ourselves, call and command All hands to work! Let no man idle stand. For 'tis a duteous thing To show all honour to an earthly king, And after all our travail and our cost, So he be pleas'd, to think no labour lost. But at the coming of the King of Heaven All's set at six and seven : We wallow in our sin, Christ cannot find a chamber in the inn. We entertain him always like a stranger, And as at first still lodge him in the manger.",
      "Oh, what a racket! And everything on deck apparently at sixes and sevens. Mail-bags and passengers mixed up in every direction.",
      "A few days after the battle started, we abandoned Pa-chung County. The enemy troops were elated and boasted of their victory. In fact, the loss of Pa-chung County was a great setback for us. The local people, seeing our departure, could not help wavering. Even those engaged in the work of the Soviet government were not altogether clear about the strategy of our army. They were at sixes and sevens, and some went to such lengths as to make preparations for the eventuality that the Red Army might back out of northern Szechwan."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "599-2",
    "Idiom": [
      "at sixes and sevens"
    ],
    "Meaning": "In a state of dispute or disagreement.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Her outlook on life was so different from what he conceived a woman's outlook should be, that he was more often than not at sixes and sevens with her.",
      "All you will see is a girl you once knew, although she's dressed up to the nines, at sixes and sevens with you."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "600",
    "Idiom": [
      "at someone's disposal"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Available for use as needed.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Many might with joy have sought out her liberal dwelling, but no one had idly waited till the moment it was at her disposal.",
      "Stephens used the largest weapon at his disposal —his New York Times column—to imply that the Jewish professor who mildly teased him online was the equivalent of a Nazi propagandist."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "601-1",
    "Idiom": [
      "at someone's door"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Very nearby.",
    "Sentence": [
      "“What we are seeing in markets is the realisation that ECB tightening is at our door,” said Rohan Khanna, a fixed-income strategist at UBS."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "601-2",
    "Idiom": [
      "at someone's door"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Being someone's fault or responsibility.",
    "Sentence": [
      "“Absolutely those deaths are at the door of the Texas Department of Agriculture,” Gilbert spokesman Vince Leibowitz charges. “They should have noticed those problems and they should have done something about it. Clearly they didn’t and Todd Staples is the one who needs to be held accountable for it.”"
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "602",
    "Idiom": [
      "at someone's heels"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Following someone closely.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "603",
    "Idiom": [
      "at spearpoint"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To be in a leading position during a difficult situation.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "604",
    "Idiom": [
      "at stake"
    ],
    "Meaning": "At risk.",
    "Sentence": [
      "I see my reputation is at stake My fame is shrewdly gored.",
      "How, Lucia, wou’dst thou have me sink away In pleasing Dreams, and lose my self in Love, When ev’ry moment Cato ’s Life’s at Stake ?",
      "as I have a great deal more at stake on this point than anybody else can have, I think it rather unnecessary in you to be advising me.",
      "What is at stake in these next 20 minutes is the championship.",
      "Doesn't he realize that all of our lives are at stake here too?"
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "605-1",
    "Idiom": [
      "at that"
    ],
    "Meaning": "In addition to what has been said.",
    "Sentence": [
      "One would have expected something more perfected from a don—and a lecturer at McGill at that.",
      "He went to a famous school, and a good one at that."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "605-2",
    "Idiom": [
      "at that"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Now that it has been mentioned.",
    "Sentence": [
      "\"Someone needs to get these naive kids up to speed on what goes on in the real world.\" I spoon-fed him some more sugar. \"And it sounds like you're just the man to do it.\" \"Maybe I am. Maybe I am at that.\""
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "605-3",
    "Idiom": [
      "at that"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Directly after, and as a result of, that.",
    "Sentence": [
      "he heard the birds sing, and at that he felt comforted."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "606",
    "Idiom": [
      "at the best of times"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Even under the most favorable conditions.",
    "Sentence": [
      "When that gentleman came from the city, and was welcomed in the drawing-room by his daughters and the elegant Miss Wirt, they saw at once by his face—which was puffy, solemn, and yellow at the best of times —and by the scowl and twitching of his black eye-brows, that the heart within his large white waistcoat was disturbed and uneasy.",
      "Monsieur Defarge sold a very thin wine at the best of times, but it would seem to have been an unusually thin wine that he sold at this time.",
      "She could only reply that I was welcome to any thing she could tell me in return for the kindness I had shown to Anne. But as she was not very quick and ready, at the best of times, in talking to strangers, she would beg me to put her in the right way, and to say where I wished her to begin.",
      "In the case of the Cusack-Bremmils, this reaction did not set in till the third year after the wedding. Bremmil was hard to hold at the best of times; but he was a beautiful husband until the baby died, and Mrs. Bremmil wore black, and grew thin, and mourned as if the bottom of the Universe had fallen out.",
      "His shoes were covered with mud, and he was looking very rough and touzled; but then he had never been a very smart man, the Badger, at the best of times.",
      "Opening a new railway is no mean feat at the best of times, but the Elizabeth Line had its own challenges."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "607",
    "Idiom": [
      "at the coal face"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Directly engaged in the operations of a business.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "608",
    "Idiom": [
      "at the disposal of"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Available for use.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "609",
    "Idiom": [
      "at the door of"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Very near to; imminent.",
    "Sentence": [
      "The endorsement by the three Democrats is a victory for Senator John L. Sampson of Brooklyn, the minority leader, who spent months coaxing a consensus out of his often-fractious conference. / “We are at the door of marriage equality,” Mr. Sampson said.",
      "Ahead of crucial games against Watford and Chelsea, Tottenham are at the door of the top four, and in Eriksen, they possess one of the Premier League’s finest locksmiths."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "610",
    "Idiom": [
      "at the drop of a hat"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Instantly, without hesitation.",
    "Sentence": [
      "A tremendous thing happened when Dean met Carlo Marx. Two keen minds that they are, they took to each other at the drop of a hat.",
      "Let's face it. We are swollen up like an overfed slug, our breath stinks, the tiniest irritant is magnified ten thousand times, and we cry at the drop of a hat.",
      "We're expected to just do it at the drop of a hat.",
      "If you need help, just call on Mike. He can come at the drop of a hat."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "611",
    "Idiom": [
      "at the elbow"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Very near.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "612",
    "Idiom": [
      "at the end of one's tether"
    ],
    "Meaning": "At the limit of one’s patience.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "613",
    "Idiom": [
      "at the end of the day"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Ultimately.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Arms control was always something between a sham and a sideshow.... At the end of the day, a democratic Russia integrated into the West becomes no more a nuclear threat to us than Britain or France.",
      "At the end of the day, it is commodities that will have the biggest impact on the Canadian dollar over the next year."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "614-1",
    "Idiom": [
      "at the expense of"
    ],
    "Meaning": "At one's responsibility.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "614-2",
    "Idiom": [
      "at the expense of"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To the detriment of.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Bengali, like other Aryan languages of India, has spread, and is still spreading, at the expense of the aboriginal tongues."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "614-3",
    "Idiom": [
      "at the expense of"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Derides someone for amusement.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "615",
    "Idiom": [
      "at the feet of"
    ],
    "Meaning": "As a disciple or subordinate.",
    "Sentence": [
      "I am a Jew, born in Tarsus in Cilicia, but brought up in this city, educated at the feet of Gamaliel according to the strict manner of the law of our fathers, being zealous for God as all of you are this day."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "616",
    "Idiom": [
      "at the helm"
    ],
    "Meaning": "In charge of a company or project.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "617-1",
    "Idiom": [
      "at the high port"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Held above the head, often used for charging or running.",
    "Sentence": [
      "I raced across the desert, rifle above my head at the high-port. A man screamed, and throwing up his hands, rolled head over heels. I jumped over him and kept on running.",
      "If you mistakenly referred to your rifle as a gun, you found yourself doubling around the parade ground with your rifle in one hand above your head at the high port, and your other hand clutching your balls. As you ran you had to shout: 'This is my rifle, this is my gun, this is for fighting, this is for fun.'",
      "'Place your rifle at the high port ! That means above your head Mitchell!' James lifted the weapon and held over his head as ordered."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "617-2",
    "Idiom": [
      "at the high port"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Hair standing up at a marked angle.",
    "Sentence": [
      "I have seen no more romantic figure than Stewart Carter, his head and shoulders wrapped in a flaming red head-scarf, moustaches at the high port, crouched fanatically over the steering-wheel of a stripped-down Land Rover.",
      "Once, they disturbed a family of forest hog, which trotted off with tails at the high port; once a lone hyena,",
      "We had just changed On another patrol Kinyua indicated that he could hear something in the undergrowth ahead. We had just changed places and I had assumed the lead position, when he thrust me to one side and stabbed with his shotgun a gigantic porcupine that was coming down the track at me with its bristles at the high port !",
      "Here he ran out of words, and drew himself up, beard at the high port, shaking his great head while he clasped my hand, and I meditated on the astonishing ease with which strong men of Victorian vintage could be buffaloed into incoherent embarrassment by the mere mention of feminine frailty."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "617-3",
    "Idiom": [
      "at the high port"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Held in an authoritative or aggressive manner.",
    "Sentence": [
      "We can all surely see, though, that there will be heads who will weep for joy at the challenges posed by LFM, which may yet provide for the apotheosis of those colleagues who want to see a full exercise book before issuing a new one. Calculators at the high port they will prowl their schools switching off lights, cutting pencils in half and pondering the cost-effectiveness of — as an ex-colonial head with whom I worked longed to do — deterring vandals by establishing a family of baboons in the school grounds.",
      "Thomas Tring, emerging with violin in left hand and bow vertical at the high port in his right, looked about Clark's age, had a long head with thin untidy hair round a clear parting. His accompanist, two yards behind, was ruddy-faced with glasses",
      "The warden had spotted them. Mouth open in a predatory snarl which showed a metal tooth which it was rumoured actually grew there, she advanced towards them, her note-book held before her like a buckler, her pencil at the high port. The men turned and looked at her. That was all. Just looked."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "617-4",
    "Idiom": [
      "at the high port"
    ],
    "Meaning": "At once, quickly.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Eventually he went off, still bubbling with enthusiasm. When his motorbike was out of earshot I went to look for Smithy. He must have taken off smartly at the high port as soon as he saw Elmer but I ran him down in the end.",
      "So we thought we'd better hop our frames out of there at the high port.",
      "inimitable drivers had taken it into their heads to leave at the high-port when the firing started.",
      "No sooner had the shot been fired than they took off at the high port, racing hell bent for leather right in our direction."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "617-5",
    "Idiom": [
      "at the high port"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Ready for immediate use.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Two seconds later Charlie comes out with his hand at the high port, ready for shaking.",
      "Among the other Americans was a bright, bird-like lady with her note-book at the high port and her biro uncapped and ready...",
      "We can all surely see, though, that there will be heads who will weep for joy at the challenges posed by LFM, which may yet provide for the apotheosis of those colleagues who want to see a full exercise book before issuing a new one. Calculators at the high port they will prowl their schools switching off lights, cutting pencils in half and pondering the cost-effectiveness of — as an ex-colonial head with whom I worked longed to do — deterring vandals by establishing a family of baboons in the school grounds.",
      "The warden had spotted them. Mouth open in a predatory snarl which showed a metal tooth which it was rumoured actually grew there, she advanced towards them, her note-book held before her like a buckler, her pencil at the high port. The men turned and looked at her. That was all. Just looked."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "618",
    "Idiom": [
      "at the last minute"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Very close to a deadline.",
    "Sentence": [
      "At the last minute, he refused to approve the plan.",
      "At the last minute, the hero regained consciousness and rolled out of the path of the tank."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "619",
    "Idiom": [
      "at the mercy of"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Under someone's control or power.",
    "Sentence": [
      "The stories did not seem to me to touch life. … They left me with the impression of a well-delivered stereopticon lecture, with characters about as life-like as the shadows on the screen, and whisking on and off, at the mercy of the operator.",
      "Most of Britain's railways were built in the Victorian era. Railway routes were not only at the mercy of geography, but also of local landowners who wanted to minimise the impact on their estates. Construction was carried out by navvies armed with picks and shovels, with very little understanding of the underlying geology.",
      "The ball game is scheduled for Saturday, but we're still at the mercy of the weather."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "620",
    "Idiom": [
      "at the ready"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Ready; in a state of preparation or anticipation.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Her apartment is filled with evidence of a furiously busy creative life: a laptop perched on a crate atop the dining table; lyric revisions in notebooks on a music stand by an ever- at-the-ready guitar.",
      "The soldiers held their rifles at the ready and listened for the enemy.",
      "The soldiers' rifles were at the ready."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "621",
    "Idiom": [
      "at the top of one's lungs"
    ],
    "Meaning": "As loudly as possible.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Wolfman Jack, he's speaking in tongues He's going on and on at the top of his lungs",
      "She started screaming at the top of her lungs when she saw a snake."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "622",
    "Idiom": [
      "at the top of one's voice"
    ],
    "Meaning": "As loudly as possible.",
    "Sentence": [
      "\"Go away!\" he screamed at the top of his voice."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "623",
    "Idiom": [
      "at the very least"
    ],
    "Meaning": "As an absolute minimum.",
    "Sentence": [
      "After all, if we think of the Vatican as a vast and hugely successful multinational corporation, then this interview would appear to be the equivalent of a profits warning. At the very least, it would seem to be tinkering with the formula of the biggest spiritual brand in the world, analogous to Coca-Cola changing its famous recipe in 1985."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "624",
    "Idiom": [
      "at the very most"
    ],
    "Meaning": "At most; absolute maximum.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "625-1",
    "Idiom": [
      "at the wheel"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Driving.",
    "Sentence": [
      "It is a shame, his first day driving and he falls asleep at the wheel."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "625-2",
    "Idiom": [
      "at the wheel"
    ],
    "Meaning": "In control or in charge.",
    "Sentence": [
      "We were thriving when Bill was at the wheel, but since the new CEO has started things have been going south."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "626",
    "Idiom": [
      "at this point in time"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Currently or in the near future.",
    "Sentence": [
      "While we are not able to assist you at this point in time, we will be sure to call you if an opportunity arises."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "627",
    "Idiom": [
      "at times"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Sometimes.",
    "Sentence": [
      "If at times Van Gaal ’s players let themselves down with careless concessions of possession, Carver knew his side had been reprieved when, back to goal, Wayne Rooney controlled the ball on his chest, swivelled and dinked a shot wide.",
      "This means, at times, long and perhaps overly discursive discussions of other taxa.",
      "I feel lonely at times, but then somebody phones, or calls round, and I cheer up again."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "628",
    "Idiom": [
      "at variance"
    ],
    "Meaning": "In a state of disagreement.",
    "Sentence": [
      "For the good and the wicked are ever at variance with each other, and also sometimes the wicked are at variance with each other, and moreover a wicked man is sometimes at variance with himself."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "629",
    "Idiom": [
      "at will"
    ],
    "Meaning": "At one's preference.",
    "Sentence": [
      "I gif the witt, I gif the strenght, / of all thou sees, of brede & lengthe; / thou shall be wonder wise. / Myrth and Ioy to haue at will, / All thi likyng to fulfill, / and dwell in paradise. I give thee consciousness, I give thee strength over all thou seest, over all its breadth and length thou shalt be wondrously wise. Mirth and joy [you shall] have at will to fulfil all thy liking and dwell in paradise.",
      "there is no special incentive to adopt a design on the latest French pattern, in which the gear ratio can be changed at will to permit higher tractive efforts on freight duties as an alternative to higher speeds on passenger duties.",
      "And yet, United always carried the greater threat. Their movement in attack constantly confounded Southampton's defenders, with Rooney, Van Persie and Januzaj swapping places and eluding markers at will.",
      "I'm writing my book at will - there's no deadline or minimum word count."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "630",
    "Idiom": [
      "atomic cocktail"
    ],
    "Meaning": "A drink containing a radioactive substance for medical use.",
    "Sentence": [
      "For most patients, the old-fashioned basal metabolism test is a mild form of torture... and four Navy researchers have come to the conclusion that in big medical centers with facilities for handling radioisotopes it should be replaced by the \" atomic cocktail.\"",
      "Lilienthal's speech to the scientists at G.E. revelled in possibilities for atomic measurement and medicine, especially how a man dying of a huge throat tumor was treated with an atomic cocktail, causing the tumor to disappear completely in a matter of days.",
      "The test showed excessive hormone, so the doctor prescribed an “ atomic cocktail,” a radioactive iodine mixture designed to partially kill the thyroid gland.",
      "I was at Good Samaritan Hospital in Los Angeles for a radioactive iodine scan, this one at diagnostic levels—less radiation than the therapeutic levels I would eventually endure. I drank my first atomic cocktail : a vial of liquid radioactive iodine diluted in what seemed like gallons of water."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "631",
    "Idiom": [
      "attention whore"
    ],
    "Meaning": "A person who seeks attention inappropriately.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "632",
    "Idiom": [
      "attitude reflects leadership"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Subordinates mirror the behavior of their leaders.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "633-1",
    "Idiom": [
      "auld lang syne"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Days gone by.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Should auld acquaintance be forgot / And never brought to mind? / Should auld acquaintance be forgot, / And auld lang syne ! / [Chorus] For auld lang syne my jo, / For auld lang syne, / We'll tak a cup of o' kindness yet for auld lang syne.",
      "That \" Auld Langsyne \" had still its authority both with preceptor and scholar, was proved by the manner in which he sometimes promptly passed the distance she usually maintained between them, and put down her high reserve with a firm, quiet hand.",
      "The \"Grand Carver\" of olden times, a functionary of no ordinary dignity, was pleased when he had a hare to manipulate, for his skill and grace had an opportunity of display. Diners à la Russe may possibly, erewhile, save modern gentlemen the necessity of learning the art which was in auld lang syne one of the necessary accomplishments of the youthful squire; but, until side-tables become universal, or till we see the office of \"grand carver\" once more instituted, it will be well for all to learn how to assist at the carving of this dish, which, if not the most elegant in appearance, is a very general favourite.",
      "“I don’t see how we can make any return, unless you’ll be good enough to buy yourself a bit more tobacco.” / “My dear boy—if you’ll excuse me using such a word,” returned Bowcher, “I don’t want to rob you of your pocket money. If I’ve been any help to you—well, we’ll say it’s for ‘ auld lang syne ’.”",
      "It is in ‘ auld lang syne ’ that we who are dead find our full despotic kingdom at last—that oneness of sway that even the truest, sweetest love can never assure us of while living.",
      "He had to win Harper's respect on his own terms, on hers, even if that meant they were never more than old friends saying farewell for auld lang syne."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "633-2",
    "Idiom": [
      "auld lang syne"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Former times.",
    "Sentence": [
      "For auld lang syne, my jo, for auld lang syne, we’ll tak’ a cup o’ kindness yet, for auld lang syne. (please add an English translation of this quotation)",
      "Yet, man, it’s lang sen we, togither / Hev hed a crack wi’ yen anither / An now I’m nowther leath nor lither / If ye’ve a meynde / To reang first tea part an’ than t’other / Of auld lang syne. (please add an English translation of this quotation)",
      "And when I’m cutting, and stitching, and hammering, at the window, and dreaming o’ auld lang syne, and fechting my battles ower again, and when I think o’ this and that awra’ time that I have seen wi’ brave comrades noo lying in some neuk in Spain (please add an English translation of this quotation)"
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "634",
    "Idiom": [
      "autem cackler"
    ],
    "Meaning": "A dissenter not following the Established Church.",
    "Sentence": [
      "On one occasion a Jew was selling cocoa-nut when the \" autem cackler,\" i.e., dissenting minister, came and wanted to impart to the Israelite the sin he committed in carrying on his vocation on such a day.",
      "'Get the autem cackler,' his companion says, pointing at Tyers, mistaking him for a preacher.",
      "\"A military cove will damn us first, then tip us a sixpence, whilst an autem cackler calls down God's blessing and parts not from a thin farthing.\""
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "635",
    "Idiom": [
      "autem diver"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Pickpockets in churches.",
    "Sentence": [
      "“You are up to a thing or two,” said he, “and it is a pity to see a fine lad like you nailed to a stall, like a clodpole.” “But how am I to get hold of money otherwise?” “In the same way as I got this,” showing a handful of silver, “by turning autem diver...\""
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "636",
    "Idiom": [
      "autem mort"
    ],
    "Meaning": "A hired or borrowed female beggar with children to evoke charity.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "637",
    "Idiom": [
      "autumn romance"
    ],
    "Meaning": "A romantic relationship later in life.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Robin and Marian — Autumn romance with Audrey Hepburn as older Maid Marian who, now in a convent, meets up with older Robin, Sean Connery.",
      "Ms. Stuart and Mr. Ritchie also began an autumn romance that lasted until Mr. Ritchie's death in 1996 at the age of 91.",
      "It was an autumn romance in the September of my years"
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "638-1",
    "Idiom": [
      "avant la lettre"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Before the term was coined.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Could the Greeks of that time, whose minds were frustrated and demoralized by defeat and misery, be expected to give a welcome to those premature Quakers and to those Tolstoyans “ avant la lettre ”?",
      "How is it, then, that Flaubert was a somber impressionist avant la lettre, when the school of painters was remarkably cheerful with the exception of both Degas and Van Gogh?",
      "as St Francis of Assisi was recently discovered to be an ecologist avant la lettre",
      "a work with a title that is a marketing dream, pure Julia Child well avant la lettre : Le Cuisinier français, The French Chef.",
      "One might even advance the case for Wilde's being a celebrity avant la lettre, famous partly for being famous",
      "You have to feel a little sorry these days for professors married to their former students. They used to be respectable citizens—leaders in their fields, department chairs, maybe even a dean or two—and now they’re abusers of power avant la lettre.",
      "Suffragettes were feminists avant la lettre. (the word \"feminist\" did not exist during their era)",
      ""
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "638-2",
    "Idiom": [
      "avant la lettre"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Before the term was coined.",
    "Sentence": [
      "C’était un écologiste avant la lettre. She was an environmentalist before the term existed.",
      ""
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "639",
    "Idiom": [
      "average bear"
    ],
    "Meaning": "The norm; an average person.",
    "Sentence": [
      "She's no smarter than the average bear.",
      "I'm not saying he's fat, but he is heavier than the average bear..."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "640",
    "Idiom": [
      "average up"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To calculate an average.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "641",
    "Idiom": [
      "away game"
    ],
    "Meaning": "An athletic contest played away from home.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "642-1",
    "Idiom": [
      "away with the fairies"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Slightly crazy.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Now, I know the story is away with the fairies, but he produces a body and I take him down to the station to talk to the detectives.",
      "That was so ridiculous I laughed. A smile would crack Alison's poetic persona so she looked serious. She put her thin hand to her cheek like a lady writer in a photograph with eyes that could penetrate surfaces. She was certainly away with the fairies.",
      "Hobday was wild, mad, and totally away with the fairies.",
      "Don't believe a word he says, pet. He's away with the fairies."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "642-2",
    "Idiom": [
      "away with the fairies"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Dazed or distracted.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "643",
    "Idiom": [
      "aye aye, sir"
    ],
    "Meaning": "A response indicating understanding and readiness to comply with an order.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "644",
    "Idiom": [
      "babe in arms"
    ],
    "Meaning": "An infant.",
    "Sentence": [
      "He was still a babe in arms when his father died overseas."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "645",
    "Idiom": [
      "babe in the woods"
    ],
    "Meaning": "A naive or inexperienced person in an unfamiliar situation.",
    "Sentence": [
      "\"Orde, you're all right on the river,\" said Newmark, with a dry little laugh, \"but you're a babe in the woods at this game.\"",
      "Taylor is aware of the perception that he is the innocent, exploitable babe in the woods of the Geelong defence."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "646",
    "Idiom": [
      "babe magnet"
    ],
    "Meaning": "A person who attracts women.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Donald Rumsfeld had become a sex symbol. She observed that he was called a “virtual rock star” on CNN, a “ babe magnet ” on Fox, and “Rumstud” by the president."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "647",
    "Idiom": [
      "babies in the eyes"
    ],
    "Meaning": "The reflection of oneself in another's eyes.",
    "Sentence": [
      "\"Nay, my lord, you must give me leave to conclude my picture.--Sussex governs England--the Queen's health fails--the succession is to be settled--a road is opened to ambition more splendid than ambition ever dreamed of. You hear all this as you sit by the hob, under the shade of your hall-chimney. You then begin to think what hopes you have fallen from, and what insignificance you have embraced; and all that you might look babies in the eyes of your fair wife oftener than once a fortnight.\""
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "648",
    "Idiom": [
      "baby and bathwater"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Discarding something valuable while eliminating the unwanted.",
    "Sentence": [
      "From this perspective, the limits of the radical feminist worldview seemed increasingly frustrating to the feminist radicals. In some cases, this led to a baby and bathwater sort of reaction, where even the important lessons of consciousness raising were dismissed as middle-class diversions."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "649",
    "Idiom": [
      "baby elephant in the room"
    ],
    "Meaning": "An obvious but inconsequential issue.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "650-1",
    "Idiom": [
      "baby up"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To treat like a baby.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "650-2",
    "Idiom": [
      "baby up"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To have children.",
    "Sentence": [
      "I've been babied up for more than a decade."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "651-1",
    "Idiom": [
      "babysitter test"
    ],
    "Meaning": "An informal method for assessing someone's maturity and reliability.",
    "Sentence": [
      "The babysitter, presumably between the ages of ten and 15, is quite explicitly expected to function in a way usually expected of mature individuals.",
      "To highlight the inadequacy of such evidence, we propose what we call “the babysitter test ” for future prosecution witnesses in death penalty cases. We suggest that, to send someone to the gurney or the electric chair on the word of one witness, the prosecutor must agree to hire that witness as a babysitter for her or his kids for one evening.",
      "I use a babysitter test when it comes to Israel, Indyk said. Do I trust this man or woman with my child? Will he or she be in the trenches when it really counts? Obama would."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "651-2",
    "Idiom": [
      "babysitter test"
    ],
    "Meaning": "A test for user-friendliness of household appliances.",
    "Sentence": [
      "\"We set out to create a remote that passes the babysitter test,\" says Klarke, director of marketing and development for Harmony remotes.",
      "I call it the babysitter test. Can I give a remote control to a 15-year-old, gum-snapping Valley Girl and explain, clearly and succinctly in less than 3 minutes, how she can watch TV? Without getting a panicked call when American Idol begins? TiVo passes the test.",
      "At the devices’ launch, the company claimed this ease of use would pass “the babysitter test ” of making TVs and DVD players intuitive to use."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "652",
    "Idiom": [
      "back at you"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Used to return a greeting or insult.",
    "Sentence": [
      "\"Hey, good luck with that, buddy!\" / \"Right back at you, man!\"",
      "\"You're an idiot!\" / \"Yeah? Well, back at you, moron!\""
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "653-1",
    "Idiom": [
      "back down"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To take a less aggressive position in a conflict.",
    "Sentence": [
      "By the time politicians in several cities backed down on Tuesday and announced that they would cut or consider reducing fares, the demonstrations had already morphed into a more sweeping social protest, with marchers waving banners carrying slogans like “The people have awakened.”",
      "I was about to sue them, but I had to back down.",
      "I was going to sue them, but now I'm going to have to back down."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "653-2",
    "Idiom": [
      "back down"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To withdraw from a commitment or position.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "654",
    "Idiom": [
      "back forty"
    ],
    "Meaning": "The most remote or inaccessible part of a place.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "655",
    "Idiom": [
      "back gammon player"
    ],
    "Meaning": "A term for a homosexual who engages in anal sex.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Sir Thomas found it convenient to believe Doctor Nooth's assertion, and therefore packed up his baggage and effects to sail for England, on board the Triumph, with his military friend and back gammon player, Colonel Willington; this gentleman, while on shore, laughed at the absurdity of fearing the infection, but the moment he was on board, his opinion altered, it shifted with the wind, he began to insinuate, that it might be communicable, and in consequence, Sir George Barlow absolutely refused to permit Sir Thomas, or his baggage, to have a passage in the Triumph: Sir George acted very prudently, and Sir Thomas staid from necessity.",
      "They always have boys with them because they're all back-gammon players, which is what we call sodomites.",
      "“Hey, you ain't a backgammon player, are you?” Mr. Temple drew a pistol from his pocket and pointed it at Guy. “Imply once more that I am of that breed who prefer amors with their own sex and I shall blow your head off,” he said levelly."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "656",
    "Idiom": [
      "back in the day"
    ],
    "Meaning": "In the distant past, often nostalgically remembered.",
    "Sentence": [
      "I wanted to do a song that epitomizes the feeling and vibe from back in the day while still being current.",
      "Sean May played like they did back in the day, kind of like 29 long years ago, when his father led Indiana to a national championship in 1976.",
      "Ah, back in the day. After stumbling out of the service entrance, and wandering to the beach to swim off our buzz, we would barefoot it down the beach to the Outrigger, where Mr. Don would sometimes do a cameo at the microphone."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "657-1",
    "Idiom": [
      "back in the game"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Having recovered from a disadvantage.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "657-2",
    "Idiom": [
      "back in the game"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Regains chances for success.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "657-3",
    "Idiom": [
      "back in the game"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To return to an industry or discipline.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "658",
    "Idiom": [
      "back in the groove"
    ],
    "Meaning": "A return to normalcy or stability.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "659-1",
    "Idiom": [
      "back into"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To advance to the post-season due to another team's loss.",
    "Sentence": [
      "The 2006 St. Louis Cardinals backed into the playoffs."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "659-2",
    "Idiom": [
      "back into"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Forced into a situation by circumstances.",
    "Sentence": [
      "I didn't have any other options, I was backed into it."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "660",
    "Idiom": [
      "back of one's hand"
    ],
    "Meaning": "A display of disrespect.",
    "Sentence": [
      "\"Out upon ye, Mr. Saddletree!\" exclaimed David,... \"out upon your General Assembly, and the back of my hand to your Court o' Session!\"",
      "And the back of my hand to them that have come in the way, bringin' sorrow, an' desolation, an' misery on gentlefolks.",
      "'And have you nothing for me, duckie?' 'O, you! The back of my hand to you!' said Mrs Kernan tartly.",
      "\"As I said, Truman showed him the back of his hand rather than any desire to cooperate.\"",
      "When German Chancellor Angela Merkel in 2009 invited him to come to Berlin to help celebrate the twentieth anniversary of the Fall of the Wall, Mr. Obama gave her the back of his hand."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "661-1",
    "Idiom": [
      "back off"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To become less aggressive or assertive.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Republicans on Capitol Hill, who were gearing up to use Graeme as evidence that Democrats have overexpanded the health program to include families wealthy enough to afford private insurance, have backed off.",
      "You need to back off, or the situation could turn ugly.",
      "I was going to sue until my legal advisors told me to back off."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "661-2",
    "Idiom": [
      "back off"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To withdraw or stop involvement.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Could you back off the volume a bit? It’s really loud."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "662",
    "Idiom": [
      "back office"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Support services for a company, separate from its public operations.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "663-1",
    "Idiom": [
      "back to square one"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Back to the starting point after a setback.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Withal he has the problem of maintaining the interest of the reader who is always being sent back to square one in a sort of intellectual game of snakes and ladders.",
      "After spending six hours on the intake we realized that there was nothing wrong with it, so we are back to square one."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "663-2",
    "Idiom": [
      "back to square one"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Back to the start after failure.",
    "Sentence": [
      "After spending six hours on the intake we realized that there was nothing wrong with it, so we went back to square one."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "664",
    "Idiom": [
      "back to the drawing board"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Indicates the need to try a different strategy after failure.",
    "Sentence": [
      "For such cases the only thing is to go back to the drawing board and do it better; and it is here that the highest qualities of vision and human leadership are needed.",
      "If we head for lay up tomorrow, those plans are right down the toilet and it's back to the drawing board.",
      "Poverty is created by institutions, concepts, and policies. We need to go back to the drawing board to redesign these and remove the barriers.",
      "Big business wants the main parties to go back to the drawing board on climate policy after the election to try to come up with an agreed plan for an economically efficient way to reduce Australia's emissions and offer investment certainty.",
      "“It’s become clear that in the current environment, ATEAC can’t function as we wanted. So we’re ending the council and going back to the drawing board,” a Google spokesperson told the Guardian in a statement on Thursday.",
      "Well, that didn't work at all, so it's back to the drawing board, I guess."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "665",
    "Idiom": [
      "back to the wall"
    ],
    "Meaning": "A very difficult situation with no options for action.",
    "Sentence": [
      "From this place—so he told himself—had emanated that policy of extortion, oppression and injustice that little by little had shouldered the ranchers from their rights, till, their backs to the wall, exasperated and despairing they had turned and fought and died.",
      "Bernald felt that his extreme docility in such matters was proportioned to the force of resistance which, for nearly half a life-time, had kept him, with his back to the wall, fighting alone against the powers of darkness.",
      "His back to the wall, Ahmedinajad resorted to the tactic favored by cornered politicians everywhere: distract attention from yourself by pointing to a bogeyman.",
      "The England international may not have been at his best but it was his intervention when United had their backs to the wall and trailed that dragged them back into a cup final they were in danger of losing."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "666-1",
    "Idiom": [
      "back up",
      "put someone's back up"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To move backwards, especially a vehicle.",
    "Sentence": [
      "We expressed our readiness, and in ten minutes were in the station wagon, rolling rapidly down the long drive, for it was then after nine. As we reached the lodge we heard the whistle, and we backed up against one side of the platform as the train pulled up at the other.",
      "That beeping sound indicates that the truck is backing up.",
      "That is exactly the kind of remark that is guaranteed to put certain masters' backs up, isn't it?",
      "You really put her back up there, John."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "667-2",
    "Idiom": [
      "back up"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To move a vehicle backwards.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Back up the car a little, you're blocking the driveway."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "667-3",
    "Idiom": [
      "back up"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To undo one's actions.",
    "Sentence": [
      "I couldn't see how to finish the project, so I backed up and tried it another way."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "667-4",
    "Idiom": [
      "back up"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To reconsider.",
    "Sentence": [
      "This isn't working. Let's back up and think about it."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "667-5",
    "Idiom": [
      "back up"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To create a copy of data for restoration if the original is lost.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Back up your documents folder before applying the update."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "667-6",
    "Idiom": [
      "back up"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To provide support.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Thank you for backing me up. I know it's not easy delivering bad news-especially to a friend-but sometimes it's the only way we can move forward and begin to heal.",
      "Researching and corroborating facts to put in my script is one thing, but getting sources to back up the assertions of interviewed contributors can be quite another.",
      "You should be careful. This guy is backed up by the local gang.",
      "When he said I wasn't there, I told him I was, and my buddy backed me up."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "667-7",
    "Idiom": [
      "back up"
    ],
    "Meaning": "For the non-striker to take a few steps down the pitch in preparation for a run.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "667-8",
    "Idiom": [
      "back up"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To position oneself behind a teammate to stop the ball and prevent overthrows.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "667-9",
    "Idiom": [
      "back up"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To halt movement.",
    "Sentence": [
      "When I flushed the toilet, the plumbing backed up and burst."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "667-10",
    "Idiom": [
      "back up"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To fill up due to a backlog.",
    "Sentence": [
      "WAITRESS: Hurry up with those drinks, Lucy. We're backing up. (Grabs the drinks LUCY has poured.) What are you doing? These are regular. They all ordered large."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "668",
    "Idiom": [
      "back up the truck"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To take advantage of favorable pricing by buying in bulk.",
    "Sentence": [
      "When spreads are very low and contracting, back up the truck and buy equities. When they are high and rising, it's time to hide."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "669",
    "Idiom": [
      "back-burner"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Low urgency; not currently important.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "670",
    "Idiom": [
      "back-cloth star"
    ],
    "Meaning": "An actor who draws attention to himself by positioning himself upstage.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "671",
    "Idiom": [
      "back-of-the-envelope"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Approximate or rough estimation.",
    "Sentence": [
      "The original estimates are frequently back-of-the-envelope -type estimates made internally without detailed engineering studies, if you go all the way back to Day 1.",
      "We joke about having to make back-of-the-envelope calculations, while in the university environment we might spend 2 or 3 weeks computerizing the calculations. I might say, however, that making back-of-the-envelope calculations and later checking them out on computers has impressed me that we have developed a considerable skill in back-of-the-envelope calculations.",
      "On one defense item, somebody kept referring to it as a back-of-an-envelope cost estimate. Do you have a back-of-an-envelope cost estimate?",
      "Apart from those manuscripts which were intended as more or less complete, self-contained works, [William] Petty left a huge body of papers, much of which amounts to fragments and hastily written private notes – many the seventeenth-century equipvament of back-of-the-envelope calculations and comments. These papers constitute a further testament to his sustained investigation of economic and political subjects.",
      "The reader will not need to be warned that the calculations involved are of the back of an envelope type and statements of the form ‘ a equals b ’ should be read ‘ a equals b approximately’ or even ‘with a bit of luck, a and b will be of the same order of magnitude’.",
      "Misapplying a basic feature of diffusion theory, [Werner] Heisenberg arrived at an impossibly high figure for a critical mass of pure U235. This was done by means of a seductively simple \" back of an envelope \" calculation in 1940,",
      "Back of the envelope calculation: I've traveled roughly 17 million miles since we left the crew quarters at Cape Kennedy, not including the van ride to the pad … in fact, Earth seems a bit dreamlike these days, as we are connected only by crackling voices on the radio and the photographs brought along and our memories.",
      "I remember very distinctly in October 1995, after I completed my paper design, I had an epiphany. This back-of-the-envelope design was five years ahead of its time.",
      "It quickly became apparent that the natural mapping we had thought of—and which seemed to make perfect sense back when we were doing our back-of-the-envelope estimates—turned out not to be acceptable at all.",
      "Now, those Treasury mandarins unfamiliar with the railway might assume on the back of an envelope that if only 80% of trains are running, then that will cost 20% less. If only it were that simple.",
      "We can do some back-of-the-envelope calculations before all the facts come in."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "672",
    "Idiom": [
      "back-patty"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Self-congratulatory.",
    "Sentence": [
      "We can all start off feeling back-patty and warm with our secret selves, having identified a literary allusion.",
      "But before we get all back-patty about our leaps and bounds in the progress of human endeavor, it is worth remembering that the world of science can seem extraordinarily backward when it comes to those with two X chromosomes.",
      "So what's got me feeling mildly smug and back-patty today?"
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "673",
    "Idiom": [
      "back-pocket"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To keep in reserve for future use.",
    "Sentence": [
      "“All the lyrics talk about is humility and heartbreak, and then at the end it’s exuberance and joy,” Hines said. “The only way that fits is if the Caps win the Stanley Cup, so I sort of back-pocketed the idea for years. I put together multiple iterations of it in my head, and it just never panned out, because they never ended up finishing the deal.”"
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "674",
    "Idiom": [
      "back-to-back-to-back"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Sequential or consecutive for three events.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "675",
    "Idiom": [
      "backhanded compliment"
    ],
    "Meaning": "An insult disguised as a compliment.",
    "Sentence": [
      "\" regardless of what he may say to you, he respects your great learning, and, therefore, has immense confidence in your judgment. The poor dear cannot differentiate between erudition and wisdom.\" Mr. Philander, with a mildly puzzled expression on his face, turned to pursue Professor Porter, and in his mind he was revolving the question of whether he should feel complimented or aggrieved at Miss Porter's rather back-handed compliment.",
      "Perhaps, finally, the Netherlands will shed itself of the backhanded compliment of being the best team never to win a world championship.",
      "In a backhanded compliment, Markopolos said the SEC is a \"bad regulator, but the best of a very sorry lot.\""
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "676",
    "Idiom": [
      "bacon-faced"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Having a fat, sleek face.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "677",
    "Idiom": [
      "bacon-fed"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Implying excess or indulgence.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "678-1",
    "Idiom": [
      "bad actor"
    ],
    "Meaning": "An individual or entity with a criminal history or legal sanctions.",
    "Sentence": [
      "More needs to be done to combat financial crime, a senior lawyer at HSBC has said as he called for global collaboration over the rules imposed on banks to keep “ bad actors ” out of the financial system.",
      "The top-ranking Democrat on the Senate intelligence committee has warned that YouTube’s powerful recommendation algorithm may be “optimising for outrageous, salacious and often fraudulent content” or susceptible to “manipulation by bad actors, including foreign intelligence entities”."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "678-2",
    "Idiom": [
      "bad actor"
    ],
    "Meaning": "A person with malicious intent.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "678-3",
    "Idiom": [
      "bad actor"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Ill-intentioned or mean person.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "679",
    "Idiom": [
      "bad apple"
    ],
    "Meaning": "A person with a negative influence.",
    "Sentence": [
      "There is one bad apple, and that is Katie, the beautiful prostitute with whom Catcher Bruce is in love. Unlike the cliche harlot of fiction, she is as short of compassion as Bruce is of IQ.",
      "While most union leaders are people of integrity, there are still bad apples.",
      "If anyone still harbors the fantasy that the business scandals of the past few years were the handiwork of just a few bad apples, they should read John Bogle's \"Battle for the Soul of Capitalism.\""
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "680-1",
    "Idiom": [
      "bad blood"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Feelings of hostility or ill will.",
    "Sentence": [
      "The government at home, and the people of the colonies, are getting to have bad blood between them.",
      "There was bad blood between us from a couple of weeks back, and we was only friends in the way of business.",
      "All those wretched quarrels, in his humble opinion, stirring up bad blood, from some bump of combativeness or gland of some kind, erroneously supposed to be about a punctilio of honour and a flag,"
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "680-2",
    "Idiom": [
      "bad blood"
    ],
    "Meaning": "A serious feud or grudge.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Now for these and other things (whereof I could tell a thousand) was the reckoning come that night; and not a line we missed of it; soon as our bad blood was up. I like not to tell of slaughter, though it might be of wolves and tigers; and that was a night of fire and slaughter, and of very long-harboured revenge. Enough that ere the daylight broke upon that wan March morning, the only Doones still left alive were the Counsellor and Carver."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "680-3",
    "Idiom": [
      "bad blood"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Hostility or resentment between people.",
    "Sentence": [
      "If we dare not search ourselves close enough to discover the low breeding, the bad blood in us, it will one day come out plain as the smitten brand of the forcat.",
      "\"Humph! Thought there was bad blood somewhere!\" he exclaimed.... \"No!\" was the determined answer.... Because his father was dishonest is no proof that he is a thief.\"",
      "She has bad blood in her. Her mother... went to pieces, poor dear, and Judge Lawton wisely sent her East."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "681",
    "Idiom": [
      "bad books"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Disfavor.",
    "Sentence": [
      "I’m afraid I’m in my boss’s bad books after showing up late for work four times last week."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "682",
    "Idiom": [
      "bad company"
    ],
    "Meaning": "The wrong crowd.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "683",
    "Idiom": [
      "bad egg"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Someone with reprehensible or irresponsible behavior.",
    "Sentence": [
      "\"Dat's right!\" piped up the newsboy who had brought the policeman. \"I see him do de trick jest a minit ago!\" \"This is a plot against me!\" fumed the swindler. \"Dat feller is a bad egg !\" went on the newsboy. \"His name is Bill Butts. He's a slick one, he is. Hits de country jays strong, he does!\"",
      "I've been a fairly bad egg, Byrne, for a great many years; but, by George! I'm not entirely rotten yet.",
      "My son had a drug problem and hired a bad egg as a chief accountant",
      "\"And the fifth immortal we know tried to kill you.\" \" He is a bad egg. We stick to good eggs.\""
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "684",
    "Idiom": [
      "bad facts make bad law"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Unusual circumstances can lead to poor legal precedents.",
    "Sentence": [
      "The tired adage \"bad facts make bad law\" is given new life in a recent decision by the North Carolina Supreme Court.",
      "Just as \"bad facts make bad law,\" so too odd facts make odd law.",
      "There is an adage among lawyers that \"bad facts make bad law.\" By the 1950s, the \"bad facts\" that came from ignoring LaRue, Stabler, and Silbert—the disconnect between the paper allocations of the Law and the River and the wet water of the actual Colorado—were driving the basin towards bad law."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "685",
    "Idiom": [
      "bad hair day"
    ],
    "Meaning": "A day when things seem unmanageable or go wrong.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Okay, girls, here’s the plan. I’ll call Jerry and tell him we need to get to Tahiti A.S.A.P. Clover, you free the Bees and restore their memories. Alex, you figure out how to end this very, very, very bad hair day.",
      "What's the matter with Fred? Oh, he's just having a bad hair day."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "686",
    "Idiom": [
      "bad iron"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Bad luck.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "687",
    "Idiom": [
      "bad joke"
    ],
    "Meaning": "A poorly executed or illogical situation.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Disarmament must be total, or it was merely \"a bad joke \".",
      "But it is amusing to note that whenever the tables were turned on him he would mutter \" Bad joke. Very bad joke \".",
      "\"Maybe it was just a bad joke. \" \"A bad joke !\" shrieked David, and in that cry I could detect all the ancient terrors of Israel.",
      "It is this bad joke which, almost one century later, was still to be found in the government's campaign of 'We are Europe' from 1994.",
      "This might be a bad joke for you and to the people able to fly back to Miami but this is not a joke at all to me.",
      "Upon seeing Keyes' face, 15 MSNBC executives promptly resigned. Alan Keyes ? Alan Keyes Is Making Sense Alan Keyes? You've gotta be kidding me. Incidentally, the name of that show always seemed like a bad joke to me.",
      "Perhaps if he spent less time putting really bad jokes on Twitter (How should you drain pasta at Christmas? Use an Advent Colander - yes really!), the minister might know what is happening in his Department.",
      "Mayor Smith's new traffic rules were a bad joke."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "688-1",
    "Idiom": [
      "bad money drives out good"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Debased money replaces better quality money.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "688-2",
    "Idiom": [
      "bad money drives out good"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Inferior currency drives out superior currency in transactions.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "688-3",
    "Idiom": [
      "bad money drives out good"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Overvalued talent replaces undervalued talent.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "689",
    "Idiom": [
      "bad news",
      "bad business"
    ],
    "Meaning": "An irritating or harmful situation.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Many are warning Spears that he is bad news and is trying to use her."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "690",
    "Idiom": [
      "bad news travels fast"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Bad news circulates quickly.",
    "Sentence": [
      "After all, reorganizations, personnel changes, new policies on subjects such as travel and expense reports, are everyday occurrences, but the rumor that the Vice President of Sales has a son at college who was arrested for possession of a controlled substance, aha! That is another matter. That is news! Once put out on the grapevine, it will travel with blinding speed around the circuit. Bad news travels fast.",
      "Bad news travels fast, especially when it travels by satellite. I had picked up the receiver with a sense of dread. I expected to hear on the other end an obscene caller, a local news person looking for fresh dirt, a concerned but nosy friend.",
      "In small towns, as the saying goes, bad news travels fast. St. Charles, Idaho was no exception. Recent going's on eventually makes their way to people one might not expect."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "691",
    "Idiom": [
      "bad old days"
    ],
    "Meaning": "The past, viewed as worse.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "692",
    "Idiom": [
      "bad penny"
    ],
    "Meaning": "A person or thing that is unpleasant or unwanted, especially when it keeps reappearing.",
    "Sentence": [
      "\"Felix Marchand'll have much money— bad penny as he is,\" continued Christine in her normal voice.",
      "Pierce remembered Hilda's prophecy that her indigent husband would turn up, like a bad penny.",
      "But as the perennial bad penny of British political life, he keeps turning up at embarrassing moments."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "693-1",
    "Idiom": [
      "bad taste in one's mouth"
    ],
    "Meaning": "A feeling of moral disgust.",
    "Sentence": [
      "The more I thought of my orders, the more it left a bad taste in my mouth."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "693-2",
    "Idiom": [
      "bad taste in one's mouth"
    ],
    "Meaning": "A feeling of guilt or embarrassment.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Knowing that I had inadvertently aided a killer, left me with a bad taste in my mouth."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "693-3",
    "Idiom": [
      "bad taste in one's mouth"
    ],
    "Meaning": "A feeling of disappointment.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "694",
    "Idiom": [
      "bad things come in threes"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Unfortunate events often happen in groups of three.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "695",
    "Idiom": [
      "bad trot"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Bad luck.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "696",
    "Idiom": [
      "bad word"
    ],
    "Meaning": "A vulgar word.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "697",
    "Idiom": [
      "badge bunny"
    ],
    "Meaning": "A woman attracted to police officers.",
    "Sentence": [
      "\"She could be... a cop groupie or a badge bunny, one of those kind of people.\"",
      "And cops seem to have their share of followers, too. The most common term for these women is \" badge bunny.\"",
      "Crews and Reese (Damian Lewis, Sarah Shahi) discover the dead teacher was a woman who exclusively dated cops—a \" badge bunny \" (9 pm NBC)."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "698",
    "Idiom": [
      "badge of honor"
    ],
    "Meaning": "An outward sign of distinction.",
    "Sentence": [
      "I view [the fact USA has the world's highest number of cases of coronavirus] as a badge of honor."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "699",
    "Idiom": [
      "bag of bones"
    ],
    "Meaning": "A skinny, malnourished individual.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Bradly came out from hiding with a dyspeptic grunt, too depressed by ignominy to send a curse after the old woman. That old bag of bones to bring down cataclysm on him! That old thing the nemesis of an inspired aspiration!"
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "700-1",
    "Idiom": [
      "bag of tricks"
    ],
    "Meaning": "A set of skills or resources used to achieve goals.",
    "Sentence": [
      "\"When the time comes I'll go down in the little bag of tricks and dig up anything you need, from a jig dance to a jimmy and a bottle of soup.\"",
      "I was expecting the tearful ticking off, the girlish recriminations and all the rest of the bag of tricks along those lines.",
      "Daly went to his bag of tricks and found, what else, a way to win.",
      "But investigators have a hefty bag of tricks to expose them—powder, chemicals, lasers and lights."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "700-2",
    "Idiom": [
      "bag of tricks"
    ],
    "Meaning": "A collection of diverse items or skills.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Instead of to the credit side of my account he had put the whole bag of tricks to my debit.",
      "When it was built fifteen years ago it was considered a model—six bathrooms, its own electric light plant, steam heating, and independent boiler for hot water, the whole bag of tricks."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "701-1",
    "Idiom": [
      "bail out"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To rescue, especially financially.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Stanning, who was commissioned from Sandhurst in 2008 and has served in Afghanistan, is not the first soldier to bail out the organisers at these Games but will be among the most celebrated.",
      "Once again, the industry got itself in trouble and government had to bail it out."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "701-2",
    "Idiom": [
      "bail out"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To leave or abandon a situation quickly.",
    "Sentence": [
      "I'm going to bail out of class today.",
      "She's bailing out on the project."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "701-3",
    "Idiom": [
      "bail out"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To abandon someone in difficulty.",
    "Sentence": [
      "When I got arrested, she bailed out on me."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "701-4",
    "Idiom": [
      "bail out"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To sell holdings in investments.",
    "Sentence": [
      "I'm going to bail out of stocks and buy gold instead."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "701-5",
    "Idiom": [
      "bail out"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To fail badly.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "701-6",
    "Idiom": [
      "bail out"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To abandon a situation when facing danger.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "702",
    "Idiom": [
      "bake up"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To prepare by baking.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "703",
    "Idiom": [
      "baker's dozen"
    ],
    "Meaning": "A group of thirteen.",
    "Sentence": [
      "A Baker's Dozen, Treize dans la Douzaine.",
      "Well, what do you think I'll give you? Why, fourteen kisses, and that's a baker's dozen you know; and so no more at present, from yours till I'm married, In the disposal of her baker's dozens, she is admonished not to be profuse; and, moveover, not to be any body's till she is married, not even her well-wisher's.",
      "When some half dozen of bakers' dozens of constables are to be created, is it not very tiresome that a magistrate shall sit in an easy arm chair, in a snug room, and before a roaring fire, whilst the oath is read to each, and whilst each kisses the book, until the moisture of their breath has saturated with damp, the sheep or calf skin in which the book is packed up? There is something very tedious and unpleasant in all this, and great praise is due to the steward of Squire Screw, for having invented the means by which such annoying forms may be set aside.",
      "\"… But the police have an idea that I committed—\" / \"What—for the love of Mike?\" / \"Murder!\" / \"Good heavens!\" / \"And that isn't all, Bob. They've a couple of bakers' dozens of witnesses, all cocked and primed to swear to it!\"",
      "Around the thirteenth century, bakes began to add an extra loaf to every dozen. They did not want to be accused of cheating their customers. So 13 items has become known as a baker's dozen. Today, some bakers still bake bread in \" baker's dozens.\""
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "704",
    "Idiom": [
      "baker's half dozen"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Seven.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "705",
    "Idiom": [
      "balance out"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To counteract each other to achieve balance.",
    "Sentence": [
      "If you add consider all the negative and all the positive factors, it should balance out to something acceptable."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "706",
    "Idiom": [
      "balance the books"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To reconcile financial accounts.",
    "Sentence": [
      "I hardly think that cancelling Yorkshire's HS2 line counts as levelling up, but must admit that the South has its troubles too - particularly in London, where Transport for London is facing the prospect of cutting services to balance its books, as the pandemic continues to deter passengers and government appears unwilling to help."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "707",
    "Idiom": [
      "balancing act"
    ],
    "Meaning": "An effort to manage conflicting interests.",
    "Sentence": [
      "While I have not found corroboration for King's claim, Ivy and Bean series author Annie Barrows has acknowledged that there is a delicate balancing act involved in representing free-range children today",
      "It is a difficult balancing act because Maguire might not wish to be taken out of the line of fire and such are United's current struggles that Solskjaer may feel he needs his leader going in to battle for him.",
      "Labour is also facing a delicate balancing act in managing the expectations of trade unions, following its pledge to nationalise the railways."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "708",
    "Idiom": [
      "bale up"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To pack into a bale or bundle.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "709",
    "Idiom": [
      "ball hog"
    ],
    "Meaning": "A player who monopolizes the ball in team sports.",
    "Sentence": [
      "\" Ball hog !\" Linda Shanklin howled from the stands. \"Pass the ball!\""
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "710",
    "Idiom": [
      "ball of fire"
    ],
    "Meaning": "A highly active or ambitious person.",
    "Sentence": [
      "\"I wonder how fast this feller is? Ever heard?\" \"They seem to think he's a whirlin' ball of fire, but that don't worry you none, does it?\"",
      "Despite Kennedy's glowing tribute, Hernandez was no ball of fire his first year as a pro.",
      "\"Tell me what you can about her supervisor,\" I requested. \"Woman in her mid-fifties. No ball of fire. She's been with the company for twenty-two years and demonstrated no desire to climb any further.\"",
      "He really knows how to make a woman feel good. He's a ball of fire in bed."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "711",
    "Idiom": [
      "ball-breaker"
    ],
    "Meaning": "A person or task that is excessively demanding.",
    "Sentence": [
      "My slave-driving boss expects me to work over the weekend. What a ball-breaker !"
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "712",
    "Idiom": [
      "ballistic podiatry"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Sabotaging oneself.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "713",
    "Idiom": [
      "balloon goes up"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Something exciting, risky, or troublesome begins.",
    "Sentence": [
      "‘You tell Alfonso..that one more break like that will give him a good swift start for Spain.’..‘In brief, Alfonso, cut out the musical extras or your balloon goes up.’",
      "This was the moment when he must put his fortune to the test, to win or lose it all. Now or never must the balloon go up.",
      "”Time’s up, my chickens!” “What time?” said Fanny. “Why, the truce, of course!” said Harry. “You’ve had your twenty-four hours and longer. After dinner tonight the balloon goes up.” And go up it did.",
      "Mr. Addabbo. But TACFIRE, because it is big and noisy and radiates heat, is vulnerable. If the balloon goes up TACFIRE won't last long. It is also very old technology. / General Keith. What I am saying is if the balloon goes up tomorrow, we will have something over the next few years to greatly enhance the efficiency of our field artillery. I cannot tell you when we will be able to say when the balloon goes up we have got something that is that much better.",
      "― When is your job interview? ― The balloon goes up at 10 tomorrow."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "714",
    "Idiom": [
      "balloon knot"
    ],
    "Meaning": "The anus.",
    "Sentence": [
      "The Bloodhound Gang said Pennsylvania's official song \"sucks mad balloon knot... making the Keystone State look as lame as one of the Dakotas.\"",
      "I know what you're thinking, but there's nothing gay about getting naked, bending over in front of your guido buddy, and offering up your balloon knot to him for a healthy waxing. There's nothing gay about a smooth anus. Right?",
      "Vanilla Lies is full of Joss Whedon characters (Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Angel and Firefly) all porned. See Spike’s balloon knot, Angel’s schlong and Zander’s wanton posing."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "715",
    "Idiom": [
      "ballpark estimate"
    ],
    "Meaning": "A very rough approximation.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "716",
    "Idiom": [
      "ballpark figure"
    ],
    "Meaning": "An estimation within acceptable bounds.",
    "Sentence": [
      "No more stalling. Give me a ballpark figure of our projected losses."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "717",
    "Idiom": [
      "balls of steel"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Courage or audacity.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "718-1",
    "Idiom": [
      "balls to the wall"
    ],
    "Meaning": "With maximum effort or commitment.",
    "Sentence": [
      "I told the staff...the day before the hurricane struck that I expected them to cut every piece of red tape, do everything they could, that it was balls to the wall, that I didn't want to hear anybody say that we couldn't do anything—to do everything they humanly could to respond.",
      "“I always go balls to the wall,” founding Ape Gordon Goner tells Rolling Stone over Zoom.",
      "“Asian women on-screen, especially in America and Hollywood, have been so sexualized and fetishized for the benefit of other people’s stories or jokes,” Ashley says. “And we’re like, ‘We’re gonna go balls to the wall, further than anyone’s gone with Asian women.’”"
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "718-2",
    "Idiom": [
      "balls to the wall"
    ],
    "Meaning": "At maximum speed.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "719-1",
    "Idiom": [
      "balls-out"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Extreme.",
    "Sentence": [
      "He's making a balls-out run for Motor City by nightfall."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "719-2",
    "Idiom": [
      "balls-out"
    ],
    "Meaning": "With great abandon.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "719-3",
    "Idiom": [
      "balls-out"
    ],
    "Meaning": "At the fastest possible speed.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "720",
    "Idiom": [
      "balum rancum"
    ],
    "Meaning": "A dance performed by naked dancers.",
    "Sentence": [
      "And just when did you last see decorous Sea Officers, Lewrie asked himself in wonder at such a ludicrous statement? Leaping rantipole and playing balum-rancum in church? Hymn-singing in brothels?"
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "721-1",
    "Idiom": [
      "banana nose"
    ],
    "Meaning": "A large, unusual nose.",
    "Sentence": [
      "The man with the banana nose was on my right.",
      "Shortly before giving an exam, Throckmorton puts on a pair of Elmo slippers, a banana nose and a funny hat.",
      "With his banana nose, hunched shoulders and hustling ways, Matthau's Buttermaker had an unmistakably Nixonian cast."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "721-2",
    "Idiom": [
      "banana nose"
    ],
    "Meaning": "A person with a banana-shaped nose.",
    "Sentence": [
      "But 30 years ago, it was a pleasure to relax at the track—win or lose. The only remark I ever heard made to a jockey by a fan in those days was a friendly \"Hey, banana nose \" addressed to the great Eddie Arcaro.",
      "Sometimes the kids at school call me Banana Split, and when my father heard the name, he said, \"You mean Banana Nose. You always had a big nose.\"",
      "“How many, young Millar?” asked Flanders, a giant with tight clothes, lambchop sideburns, a ruddy complexion and an enormous nose that defied gravity. The kids called him Banana Nose."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "722-1",
    "Idiom": [
      "banana republic"
    ],
    "Meaning": "A politically unstable country dependent on a single export and characterized by a corrupt government.",
    "Sentence": [
      "At that time we had a treaty with about every foreign country except Belgium, and that banana republic, Anchuria.",
      "The banana workers of this former banana republic were exceptionally well organized and effective in their demands from the very beginning of the revolution.",
      "The McCanns, it is hinted and sometimes expressed explicitly, cannot possibly be treated fairly under this inadequate Portuguese system. There is a touch of arrogant xenophobia here, as if Portugal was some backward banana republic"
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "722-2",
    "Idiom": [
      "banana republic"
    ],
    "Meaning": "A politically unstable country dependent on foreign businesses.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "723",
    "Idiom": [
      "band together"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To unite.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "724",
    "Idiom": [
      "bandwagon fan"
    ],
    "Meaning": "A fan who supports a team only when it is successful or popular.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "725",
    "Idiom": [
      "bane of someone's existence"
    ],
    "Meaning": "A significant problem for someone.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "726",
    "Idiom": [
      "bang a uey"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To make a U-turn while driving.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "727-1",
    "Idiom": [
      "bang away"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To strike or hit repeatedly.",
    "Sentence": [
      "bang away on the drums"
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "727-2",
    "Idiom": [
      "bang away"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To work tirelessly.",
    "Sentence": [
      "I've been banging away at the essay for ages, but it still isn't finished."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "727-3",
    "Idiom": [
      "bang away"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To constantly and irritatingly talk.",
    "Sentence": [
      "My folks keep banging away at me to study harder."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "728",
    "Idiom": [
      "bang down the door"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To present oneself as a strong candidate.",
    "Sentence": [
      "\"He's proved himself as a handy wingman and forward at VFL level and I'm sure he'll be banging down the door for senior selection next year.\""
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "729",
    "Idiom": [
      "bang for the buck"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Value or cost-effectiveness.",
    "Sentence": [
      "And according to Hughes, HM Treasury is still sceptical about rail electrification. \"It's not because they don't see electrification as a good thing, but I think when you look at it from the UK-wide perspective, if you have £x billion to spend on decarbonisation, you don't necessarily start with rail. Rail's not where you get the biggest bang for the buck in terms of decarbonisation.\"",
      "Do you think he would get as much bang for the buck out of a fancier, more expensive car?"
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "730",
    "Idiom": [
      "bang one's head against a brick wall"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To waste effort on a futile project.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "731",
    "Idiom": [
      "bang out"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To do something quickly and poorly.",
    "Sentence": [
      "They bang out bubblegum punk that couldn't be more reductive if Joey Ramone himself were hovering over their shoulders with his Gabba Gabba Hey! sign.",
      "Punters put up with all this for the thrill of seeing someone perform live – not for a ghoulish sanitised projection, soullessly banging out the hits.",
      "I've got this paper due tomorrow, but I think I can bang it out in one night.",
      "The band were banging out a vaguely recognisable version of the Star Spangled Banner."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "732",
    "Idiom": [
      "bang some heads together"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Get results from a difficult group, often through force.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Your role as a chieftain is to bring peace to your hall, and sometimes it is going to mean banging some heads together, other times it is going to require some skilful diplomacy.",
      "What we need is somebody to bang some heads together and make sure that the funding, the infrastructure and the direction are there to promote the kind of excellence in research that we would like.",
      "The Bosnian War ended during the Clinton administration when Richard Holbrooke banged some heads together in Dayton, Ohio.",
      "We need to bang some heads together to get the plan finished before the deadline."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "733",
    "Idiom": [
      "bang straw"
    ],
    "Meaning": "A farmer's servant, especially a thresher.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Strange fastened it to his cane, for he fancied his little stick even on shipboard. With this he sprung onto the bulwark and roared out to Williams: 'I've not struck, sir! Tell your bloody bang-straws to try and hit my stick!'"
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "734-1",
    "Idiom": [
      "bang to rights"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Caught in the act.",
    "Sentence": [
      "We had a man once who got caught with a bundle of railroad stocks. They got him bang to rights and would have shoved him, only when he swore he’d found them, they couldn’t prove he hadn’t.",
      "The silk! Hide it! Throw it away! If they get us with that—we’re bang to rights.",
      "Looking at the evidence, I’d assumed that the hapless pair was bang to rights and that we’d have little trouble placing him on remand and giving the law-abiding residents of Surrey a brief respite."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "734-2",
    "Idiom": [
      "bang to rights"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To have indisputable evidence of someone's wrongdoing.",
    "Sentence": [
      "I am as intent on banging them all to rights as the next bleeding heart middle-class liberal, but take a look at the record so far.",
      "Good week for: Cyclists, after Britain's most prolific bicycle thief was banged to rights.",
      "His alter-ego Batman utters nothing more provocative than the occasional “holy smoke” as he bangs adversaries to rights",
      "He'd been untouchable for the past decade, but now Roy Grace had finally banged him to rights."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "735",
    "Idiom": [
      "bang up"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Excellent.",
    "Sentence": [
      "He's doing a bang up job."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "736",
    "Idiom": [
      "bank night"
    ],
    "Meaning": "An event where ticket holders have the chance to win money if their ticket is drawn while they are present.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "737",
    "Idiom": [
      "banker's dozen"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Eleven.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Not a low baker's dozen, you will perceive, but two high banker's dozen !",
      "There were 11 in number (a reference has been made to them as constituting a banker's dozen), representing the following organizations :",
      "It concludes with a banker's dozen of 11 items labeled \"What to Read\" — a well chosen list on the urban, technological disruption of man's life and the earth's biosphere.",
      "Caroline arranged to have appear at her concert a banker's dozen (eleven) of New York's most admired amateur and professional musicians, including the alluring divorcee Fanny Ronalds, who — it was rumored — was accomplished in arts more erotic than the one she would demonstrate that night.",
      "George counted eleven of them. A banker's dozen, he said to himself."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "738",
    "Idiom": [
      "bankers' hours"
    ],
    "Meaning": "An easy job with a short working day.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Q: How's she like her new job? A: She's careful not to admit it, but it's bankers' hours and she knows it."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "739",
    "Idiom": [
      "bankrupt cart"
    ],
    "Meaning": "A one-horse chaise.",
    "Sentence": [
      "\" No, no, I was too prudent when I was young to risk the expenses of a bankrupt cart, and now I am old I am too wise to attempt the difficult art of driving one.\""
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "740-1",
    "Idiom": [
      "banyan day"
    ],
    "Meaning": "A day when no meat is served on ships.",
    "Sentence": [
      "This was a favourable circumstance in one respect to myself and the ship's company, for as Tuesday is a sumptuous day in point of allowance in the navy, beef and pudding being the prescribed fare for dinner, we by this accident feasted two days together; whereas had it occurred on a Monday, Wednesday, or Friday, two successive banyan (or starvation) days would have been our dismal portion."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "740-2",
    "Idiom": [
      "banyan day"
    ],
    "Meaning": "A picnic or cookout for crew members.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "741",
    "Idiom": [
      "bar none"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Without exception.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Mexican horses are the finest in the world, bar none.",
      "... Ireland, or something of that sort, which he described in his lengthy dissertation as the richest country bar none on the face of God's earth.",
      "They were all invited bar none."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "742-1",
    "Idiom": [
      "bar sinister"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Illegitimacy.",
    "Sentence": [
      "He was not influenced by sordid considerations.... Had she been merely of illegitimate birth, he would have overlooked the bar sinister.",
      "Parlay's a full-blooded Frenchman.... About a hundred miserable Paumotans lived on the island. He married the queen—native fashion.... Now before the queen died she gave birth to a girl.... She was educated like a princess, and she accepted herself in much the same way. Also, she thought she was all-white, and never dreamed of a bar sinister.",
      "James Smithson was the illegitimate son of the first Duke of Northumberland, third creation. His mother was a lineal descendant of Henry VII. Despite so much blue blood, the bar sinister seared James Smithson all his life."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "742-2",
    "Idiom": [
      "bar sinister"
    ],
    "Meaning": "A dishonorable or shameful characteristic; a stigma.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Europe is troubled with sensational rumors as well as our own country. Among the most recent was one prevailing at Paris that Maximilian I, Emperor elect of Mexico, had recognized the independence of the Confederate States. But this rumor was pronounced improbable from the fact that Maximilian had not yet been formally offered the crown by the deputation from Mexico charged with the duty of tendering it. This does seem a bar sinister to the report that has doubtless ere this given much joy in Dixie.",
      "Then there is untouchability.... There are thousands of men and women like me who cling to Hinduism; because they believe that there is in it the amplest scope for mental, moral and spiritual expansion. This bar sinister put upon nearly sixty million human beings is a standing demonstration against that claim. Men like me feel that untouchability is no integral part of Hinduism. It is an excrescence."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "743",
    "Idiom": [
      "bar star"
    ],
    "Meaning": "A woman who frequents bars.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "744",
    "Idiom": [
      "barber's sign"
    ],
    "Meaning": "A traditional symbol outside barber shops.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "745",
    "Idiom": [
      "bare one's soul"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To reveal one's innermost feelings and thoughts.",
    "Sentence": [
      "“ But the world might guess it; and I will not bare my soul to their shallow, prying eyes. My heart shall never be put under their microscope. ”",
      "\"Must a Romany bare his soul before a stranger?\" replied Rhodo.... Must the secret of the dead be spoken before the robber of the dead—\"",
      "Her thoughts wandered about among the various friends whose judgment might serve at this crisis to clear her own thoughts.... No, she could not bare her soul to the bishop.",
      "Duritz's vocals are more anguished and torn than ever; he's as emotionally naked as a daytime talk-show guest, baring his soul and searching for empathy."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "746",
    "Idiom": [
      "bare one's teeth",
      "show one's teeth"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To show aggression.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "747",
    "Idiom": [
      "bare poles"
    ],
    "Meaning": "The condition of a sailing boat without sails.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "748",
    "Idiom": [
      "bargain basement"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Of poor quality or low value.",
    "Sentence": [
      "\"This nation can't afford bargain-basement cops any more,\" says Oregon's Multnomah County (Portland) Sheriff Donald Clark.... Almost everyone agrees that U.S. police sorely need more education.",
      "\"We are not going to ask the brave young men and women who defend this country to put their lives on the line using obsolete weapons and bargain-basement equipment.\""
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "749",
    "Idiom": [
      "bark up the wrong tree"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To take the wrong approach to a situation.",
    "Sentence": [
      "You're not the first man who has made such a mistake, and found he was barking up the wrong tree.",
      "They all went into the house, and left me feeling a precious idiot. I had been barking up the wrong tree this time.",
      "\"We want West. He's a cowardly murderer—killed the man who trusted him.\"... \"Of course we may be barking up the wrong tree,\" the officer reflected aloud. \"Maybe West isn't within five hundred miles of here.\"",
      "After three failed marriages I realised that I may have been barking up the wrong tree and should abandon the search for the perfect wife."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "750",
    "Idiom": [
      "barn find",
      "shed find"
    ],
    "Meaning": "A valuable item, often a vintage automobile, found in poor storage.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "751",
    "Idiom": [
      "barrel of laughs"
    ],
    "Meaning": "A source of enjoyment or entertainment.",
    "Sentence": [
      "As they say, getting older is not a barrel of laughs.",
      "We went to a karaoke bar and had a barrel of laughs.",
      "I gather he's a funeral director. That must be why he's such a barrel of laughs. (sarcastic)"
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "752",
    "Idiom": [
      "barrel of monkeys"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Something very amusing or funny.",
    "Sentence": [
      "He thinks he’s a barrel of monkeys, but he’s not particularly entertaining."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "753",
    "Idiom": [
      "base over apex"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Falling over awkwardly.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "754",
    "Idiom": [
      "basement battler"
    ],
    "Meaning": "A team near the relegation zone.",
    "Sentence": [
      "The Cottagers had previously gone eight games without a win and had slipped into the relegation zone over Christmas, with boss Hughes criticised by fans after their 3-1 home defeat by fellow basement battlers West Ham on Boxing Day."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "755-1",
    "Idiom": [
      "bash into shape"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To fix or build something, often roughly.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "755-2",
    "Idiom": [
      "bash into shape"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To train a person, often in a strict manner.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "756",
    "Idiom": [
      "bash someone's face in"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To beat someone violently.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "757",
    "Idiom": [
      "bash someone's head"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To violently attack someone.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "758",
    "Idiom": [
      "bash the bishop"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To masturbate.",
    "Sentence": [
      "“Hello, Gladys,” I said, shaking her by the hand. “Joffy here used to bash the bishop so much when he was a boy we all thought he would go blind.”"
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "759",
    "Idiom": [
      "bask in the sunshine"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To enjoy a glorious moment.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "760",
    "Idiom": [
      "basket house"
    ],
    "Meaning": "A cafe where performers are paid by audience donations.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Like a union is what some bearded beatniks and long-tressed girls are trying to form at Greenwich Village \" Basket Houses.\" \" Basket Houses \" are coffee houses where they pass the basket to collect tips for the entertainers, who are not on the payroll.",
      "Next month the Four Winds, an old cafe and the last basket house in the Village, will close to make way for a dress shop.",
      "Vince Martin showed up, Bob Gibson was expected, and all of a sudden the rogue's gallery of remember whens from the basket house days were all there.",
      "Unlike many of the other clubs, it was not a so-called basket house, where walk-on performers of widely ranging competence earned only what they managed to collect in a basket they passed around the audience."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "761-1",
    "Idiom": [
      "bass-ackwards"
    ],
    "Meaning": "A spoonerism of ass-backwards.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Their whole approach is bass-ackwards."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "761-2",
    "Idiom": [
      "bass-ackwards"
    ],
    "Meaning": "A playful term for being backward or incorrect.",
    "Sentence": [
      "It’s certainly not helped by the bass-ackwards direction of team director Walter Godefroot. The man never met talent he couldn’t squander.",
      "What do you expect? They did the job bass-ackwards."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "762",
    "Idiom": [
      "bastardly gullion"
    ],
    "Meaning": "A bastard's bastard.",
    "Sentence": [
      "An evil, clever, murderin', bastardly gullion of a Malouin corsair,"
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "763-1",
    "Idiom": [
      "bat a thousand"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To achieve success consistently.",
    "Sentence": [
      "He's batting a thousand so far with the new boss."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "763-2",
    "Idiom": [
      "bat a thousand"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To achieve perfection.",
    "Sentence": [
      "No one can bat a thousand for the whole season."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "763-3",
    "Idiom": [
      "bat a thousand"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To achieve consistent success.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "764",
    "Idiom": [
      "bat an eyelid"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To react or care.",
    "Sentence": [
      "he got the drop on Cox, the only time I had seen or heard of its being done — had his pistol out and stuck in Cox's face before Cox could bat an eyelid.",
      "If you were to walk into a salon in America after a few 10–12 hour days of sweaty, dusty travel with no shower, you'd probably be politely asked to leave and not return until you've cleaned up. But here in a land whose resources and infrastructure cannot sustain such frivolity, the barber doesn't even bat an eyelid.",
      "Dublin's not a bad place to be gay. Most people wouldn't bat an eyelid at public displays of affection between same-sex couples",
      "When laptop computers first came out they were something of a novelty. These days, nobody bats an eyelid."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "765",
    "Idiom": [
      "bat five hundred"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To be successful half of the time.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "766",
    "Idiom": [
      "bat for the other team"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To be homosexual.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "767",
    "Idiom": [
      "bat one's eyes"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To feign romantic interest by fluttering one's eyelids.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "768",
    "Idiom": [
      "bat the breeze"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To chat.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "769",
    "Idiom": [
      "batten down the hatches"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To prepare for trouble.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "770",
    "Idiom": [
      "bawl one's eyes out"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To cry loudly.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "771",
    "Idiom": [
      "bawl out"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To scold angrily.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "772",
    "Idiom": [
      "be a hundred years too early"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To be immature and unprepared for an accomplishment.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Don't make me waste my time! You are a hundred years too early to be an opponent worthy of fighting me!"
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "773",
    "Idiom": [
      "be a man"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Take responsibility and endure without complaining.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "774-1",
    "Idiom": [
      "be around"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To be present or existent.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Well, sir, you remember this young Georgie sort of disappeared, after his grandfather's death, and nobody seemed to know much what had become of him—though I did hear, once or twice, that he was still around somewhere.",
      "The New York-style hot dog I love has been around for well over a hundred years.",
      "I'll be around for another hour or so.",
      "This restaurant has been around since 1938."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "774-2",
    "Idiom": [
      "be around"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To be near or socialize with someone.",
    "Sentence": [
      "You're fun to be around."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "775",
    "Idiom": [
      "be at the plague"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To be bothered.",
    "Sentence": [
      "One of a hundred a year, or so, is all I wish:—I would not be at the plague of paying land-tax for a larger.",
      "I am a man of few word but I am laird at hame, as weel as in the field; deil a brute or body about my house but I can manage when I like, except Rory Bean, my powny; but I can seldom be at the plague, an it binna when my bluid's up."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "776",
    "Idiom": [
      "be down with"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To approve of or agree with.",
    "Sentence": [
      "I am not down with you children bullying and disrespecting one another, so cut it out!",
      "She can come into the VIP lounge, it's alright, because she' s down with us."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "777",
    "Idiom": [
      "be in and out"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To quickly enter and leave a place.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Hiro: Is this gonna take long?"
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "778",
    "Idiom": [
      "be in for"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To expect or anticipate, typically something unpleasant.",
    "Sentence": [
      "The weather forecast says we are in for three feet of snow over the next week."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "779",
    "Idiom": [
      "be in luck"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To be lucky in obtaining something desired.",
    "Sentence": [
      "You're in luck : this is the last one."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "780",
    "Idiom": [
      "be it as it may"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Nevertheless.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "781-1",
    "Idiom": [
      "be left at the post"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To be beaten from the start.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "781-2",
    "Idiom": [
      "be left at the post"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To be completely overwhelmed or dominated.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "782",
    "Idiom": [
      "be left holding the baby"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To be left with responsibility for a problem.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "783-1",
    "Idiom": [
      "be like"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To say.",
    "Sentence": [
      "This weekend he called me up and he’s all “Where were you today?” and I’ m like “I’m at my Grandmother’s house”",
      "A lotta times I grabbed bags of frozen chicken nuggets to take home. “You know what they say,” Ricky would be like. “Dude’s gotta have nugs.”",
      "When they were deciding my age in that place it was like they are going to buy you.",
      "Cassy, don’t be like you don’t understand.",
      "Imi, it was like she was going to a wedding, she even had makeup on, and a black hat.",
      "“People bet on you. Whether you win or lose. How many rounds. Anything. You’re good for the economy. Don’t be like you don’t know.” / Yeah, he knew. Maybe he didn’t care.",
      "If he’ s like “I don’t want to”, then be like “Pretty please! – It means a lot to me”."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "783-2",
    "Idiom": [
      "be like"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To say.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "784",
    "Idiom": [
      "be mother"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To pour out tea for others.",
    "Sentence": [
      "They went to a cafe and had afternoon tea. 'Shall l be mother ?' Marcus said, lifting a utilitarian brown teapot, all cosied up in something that looked like a bobble hat.",
      "' Be mother, will you, Charity? Teile and Letizia have a watered-down version.' So they had a pleasant tea, although Charity kept an anxious eye on the clock, keen not to outstay her welcome.",
      "Ah, here are the cakes and tea; shall I be mother ?"
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "785",
    "Idiom": [
      "be my guest"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Do as you wish.",
    "Sentence": [
      "If you want to think you're smart because you and your stupid family elected to live in a cesspool...Hey, be my guest, ASSHOLE!",
      "Lai: Can I leave? Frank: Be my guest.",
      "If you want to give it a try, be my guest !"
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "786",
    "Idiom": [
      "be no match for"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To be outmatched by.",
    "Sentence": [
      "King William number four, I guess, would be no match for him as an orator – he'd talk him out of sight in half an hour.",
      "I am. no match for a physician in any matters connected with his pursuits, nor would the physician be a match for me in a legal argument.",
      "He was a dull dog, and he knew it; but though he was no match for Garling intellectually, he knew himself a match and more than a match for him physically.",
      "The two soon had their heads close together in conversation, and while it was clear the gentleman was no match for her in appearance or style, there was no denying the strength of the connection between them."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "787",
    "Idiom": [
      "be on to"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To realize the truth.",
    "Sentence": [
      "I was planning it as a surprise, but I think he is on to me."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "788",
    "Idiom": [
      "be one's own worst enemy"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To cause problems for oneself; self-sabotage.",
    "Sentence": [
      "“Mark is his own worst enemy. Good night.” True. No enemy however powerful and malicious, can so work a man's ruin as his own unbridled passions and depraved appetites.",
      "For each man is his own worst enemy, and has no foe more deadly than his own intemperance, which is sure to kill him, if the enemy be not quick.",
      "Pochettino set his team up ideally to keep City at bay but once again, as they did in that Carabao Cup final loss to Liverpool, Chelsea were their own worst enemies as they squandered opportunities to banish memories of that reverse."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "789-1",
    "Idiom": [
      "be oneself"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To act naturally without concern for others' opinions.",
    "Sentence": [
      "I've heard players saying I am like a different person this season and it's true. When you are back with the team you can be yourself again, you can join in the fun and express yourself more normally.",
      "Seeing Murphy's long pushed aside mushy feelings is a sweet moment. It almost feels inevitable that these two would find each other. Murphy has found someone she can be herself around and a built-in family with a surrogate daughter who understands what Murphy has gone through.",
      "She was also there when I cut my hair, which sounds trite, but for me it was a big deal. I've been on hormones three years now and I'm almost at the point of where I want to be. I feel like I'm finally myself.",
      "All you have to do is be yourself."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "789-2",
    "Idiom": [
      "be oneself"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To act in a genuine and authentic manner.",
    "Sentence": [
      "At that moment it seemed to me that everything was possible for Monica and me; and going up to her I said, \"I've never seen you like this!\" With her eyes still closed she said, \" I'm not myself today!\" She began to laugh. Then I began to laugh, because of what we had both said, and because of her laughter and the sun and the sky and the lake.",
      "One bright June afternoon, he pulled us aside and told us he wasn't himself. He was doing what he loved most — playing basketball, swimming in the lake — but he couldn't enjoy anything.",
      "I also think it is because I portray myself, I am more confident and outgoing - I am finally myself again.",
      "What's wrong? You're not yourself today."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "790",
    "Idiom": [
      "be out for"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To seek or pursue something for personal benefit.",
    "Sentence": [
      "He's out for all he can get.",
      "The king was out for revenge."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "791",
    "Idiom": [
      "be someone's to lose"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Anticipated to be won by someone.",
    "Sentence": [
      "The debate continues around England's goalkeeping position with Everton 's Jordan Pickford out injured but he has been Southgate 's favoured keeper for some time so it still seems to be his position to lose if he is fit.",
      "Widely considered the favorite, the election is his to lose, but an upset is still possible if a scandal emerges."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "792",
    "Idiom": [
      "be still my heart"
    ],
    "Meaning": "An admonition to calm down when excited, especially romantically.",
    "Sentence": [
      "How strange, how hellish (God forgive me for saying so!) it seems that she should love him. But, does she love him? Can she love him? Could she love him if she knew all? Know him she shall before she marries him. For the present, be still, my heart.",
      "Roll tape! Action! \"I can't feel a pulse!\" shouts Ms. Brunette Beauty, RN. \"Call a code!\" commands Blue-Eyed Hunk, MD.... He's talking to me. Be still my heart.",
      "Calling her installation \"information as art,\" Hesh will have 28 separate documents and artifacts on view, one of which is— be still my heart —a stack of old newspapers."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "793",
    "Idiom": [
      "be taken ill"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To become ill.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "794",
    "Idiom": [
      "be that as it may"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Nevertheless.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Be that as it may, the duty of all communicants lies plain.",
      "But be that as it may, the principle of it is founded in truth.",
      "We English people, be that as it may, have among us the best nursing for love and the worst nursing for money that can be got in Europe.",
      "It has frequently been asserted in the Indian press that the United States does not understand India's position.... Be that as it may, it is certainly true that some sectors of Indian opinion likewise do not adequately understand the motives of the United States.",
      "\"They seem to think I'm photogenic.\" Be that as it may, and Rollins surely is a striking figure, his music and only his music matters."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "795",
    "Idiom": [
      "be the bigger man"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To avoid escalating a conflict.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Even if it's in retaliation for a roommate disrespecting your room, be the bigger Man and leave his room alone.",
      "I left 'em in the evidence locker. Someday, he's gonna come apologizing to me and I'll be the bigger man and let him have 'em.",
      "I remember at a very early age being taught that, when faced with the prospect of fighting, I should always be the bigger man and walk away from it. It's something young boys hear over and over again in their early life. The idea of being the 'bigger man' evokes the belief that those who don't fight are, in fact, superior in their masculinity as they don't have to prove their dominance physically."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "796",
    "Idiom": [
      "be there"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To provide comfort and support, especially during difficult times.",
    "Sentence": [
      "She knows that I'll always be there for her."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "797",
    "Idiom": [
      "be-all and end-all"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Something considered of utmost importance.",
    "Sentence": [
      "That but this blow / Might be the be-all and the end-all !",
      "The compulsory tests in reading, writing and maths at the end of years 2 and 6 are often mistakenly seen as the be-all and end-all of a child's chances in life, and the quality of their school.",
      "He thought that cars were the be-all and end-all of life.",
      "Profit is the be-all and end-all of business."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "798",
    "Idiom": [
      "bean counter"
    ],
    "Meaning": "A person focused on financial details and cost control.",
    "Sentence": [
      "As any good bean counter will tell you, it costs money to treat people at a hospital.",
      "And, in our case, the accounting firm of Halpern & Mantovani, CPA, in Encino, Calif., Chais' chief bean counter, pumped out the quarterly statements as if it were all rock solid."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "799",
    "Idiom": [
      "bear a hand"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To help quickly.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Hawkins, neither you nor I are much account at the shooting; we’ll stand by to load and bear a hand.",
      "The Old Wife is ready to bear a hand in the work of harvesting."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "800",
    "Idiom": [
      "bear away the bell"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To be superior in something.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "801",
    "Idiom": [
      "bear fruit"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To produce good results or succeed.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Although the trains are still far from becoming overcrowded, it is understood that the efforts to make the services more widely known have borne fruit.",
      "Maguire, outstanding once more, broke the deadlock on the half-hour when another England set-piece bore fruit - Leicester City's powerful defender flashing a header past Sweden keeper Robin Olsen from Ashley Young's corner.",
      "Many people had looked but it was unusual to see these searches bearing fruit."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "802",
    "Idiom": [
      "bear in mind"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To remember or consider something.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Bearing in mind the exact position—the avowed and public position in which I stand, as connected with the Court; and having a due acquaintance, which you state you have, with the character of Mr. Beckendorff, what think you of this letter?",
      "He bore in mind his father's advice: \"Take care and economise your copeks, or you will come to a bad end.\"",
      "If any railway official, policeman, or member of the Forces on duty, requests the discontinuance of any particular form of observation or note-taking, it is clearly right to give immediate compliance, especially when it is borne in mind that public authorities now have very wide powers to hold members of the general public in custody while inquiries are being conducted as to their bona fides.",
      "To avoid pricks in these problems, bear in mind that each solution makes use of a pin in some way or other.",
      "Were the possibilities of improving the efficiency of British Railways' steam locomotives by making the best use of the reasonably satisfactory low-grade lump coal available today, and thereby saving more high-grade locomotive coal, borne in mind when it was decided to go ahead rapidly with replacement of steam traction?",
      "Bear in mind you could lose it all if you're not careful.",
      "As it turned out, [Diego] Costa was not too badly missed bearing in mind his replacement, Loïc Rémy, scored Chelsea’a goal.",
      "Labour must bear this in mind when it finally comes out with its rail plans.",
      "Bear in mind that I’m not as young as I was, so I can’t walk as fast as you."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "803",
    "Idiom": [
      "bear oneself"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To behave in a way that earns respect.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Let us therefore brace ourselves to our duties, and so bear ourselves, that if the British Empire and its Commonwealth last for a thousand years, men will still say, This was their finest hour."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "804",
    "Idiom": [
      "bear the brunt"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To endure the worst part.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "805-1",
    "Idiom": [
      "bear up"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To endure hardship cheerfully.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "805-2",
    "Idiom": [
      "bear up"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To support or endure.",
    "Sentence": [
      "[Religious hope] does not only bear up the mind under her sufferings. The spelling has been modernized."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "806",
    "Idiom": [
      "bear with"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To be patient.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Please bear with me a moment while I connect you to his office."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "807",
    "Idiom": [
      "beard the lion in his den"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To confront an adversary in their environment.",
    "Sentence": [
      "And dar'st thou then / To beard the lion in his den, / The Douglas in his hall?",
      "George and John Rennie, and James Ekron, a servant of my father’s, announced their determination to march in and beard the lion in his den, provided three of the Mulattoes, who were superior marksmen, would support them.",
      "Duty called me to beard the lion in his den; and though no Daniel, I took on the job without fear and trembling…"
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "808",
    "Idiom": [
      "beast with two backs"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Two people engaged in sexual intercourse.",
    "Sentence": [
      "He remained one of the few boys of his year with whom Adrian had never made the beast with two backs, or rather with whom he had never made the beast with one back and an interestingly shaped middle,"
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "809",
    "Idiom": [
      "beat Banaghan"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To tell remarkable stories.",
    "Sentence": [
      "\"'Jack Palmer, as I'm a sinner,' cried Titus. 'Why this beats Banaghan. Arrah ! Jack, honey, what does this mean ? Is it yourself I see in such company?'\"",
      "\"He watched her as she slowly disappeared, and shook his head with a puzzled air. ¶'This beats Banaghan, and he beats --'\"",
      "\"'So you see, it was a gallimaufry of a mess until you appeared.' ¶ ' Beats Banaghan,' agreed the boy.\"",
      "\"Whenever he can find an audience, Doherty will spin some tale of local history or ancestral lineage in that inimitable Irish blend of fact and blarney. 'He beats Banaghan,' as the Irish saying goes of one who tells wonderful stories.\""
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "810",
    "Idiom": [
      "beat a dead horse",
      "dead horse"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To continue beyond any purpose or interest.",
    "Sentence": [
      "The library director believes the argument about “professionalism” is a “ dead horse we should stop beating.”",
      "A friend, the political scientist Irving Bernstein, told me that political scientists and historians are inclined to regard the question of objectivity as a dead horse that one should stop beating, and maintained that it is not the scholar but the lay person who has problems with objectivity.",
      "I won’t stop beating this dead horse until (male) TV executives stop this sexist practice.",
      "After having shown us three hours of instructional and safety videos, the inspector was simply beating a dead horse by telling us to buckle up as we got into the van."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "811-1",
    "Idiom": [
      "beat around the bush"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To avoid the main point of a topic.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "811-2",
    "Idiom": [
      "beat around the bush"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To avoid discussing something difficult or unpleasant.",
    "Sentence": [
      "\"Look here,\" said Smith, menacingly, \"if you think I cheated you, you might as well say so right out. I don't like beating around the bush.\"",
      "Just stop beating around the bush and tell me what the problem is!"
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "812",
    "Idiom": [
      "beat as one"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To share the same feelings.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Thou, too, delightest in the freshness and the bloom; thine eye follows and answers mine in its admiration of the beautiful, and our hearts beat as one to the music and gladness of nature.",
      "It is all very fine to talk about love in a cottage, two souls with but a single thought, two hearts that beat as one, and all that sort of thing; but in any cottage that love wouldn't turn up his nose at there is very substantial rent to pay, and, even waiving the usual contingences, at least two mouths to be filled, that the most perfect singleness of thought, the most thorough union of hearts, can never make one.",
      "The Deus vult of the crusaders was no longer uttered with one voice from hearts beating as one. The Allah Khbur of the Saracens was the utterance of faith that was firm unto death.",
      "Their hearts had once beaten as one. How was it possible that she could still be here if her sister was not?",
      "Two voices raised together call to the hearts of everyone and let them beat as one. And in that single heart beat is the unity of love proclaimed and given welcome.",
      "It was one of those rare and seldom-experienced times when the disciples of the Lord are perfectly united, when every heart beats as one, and when the same Spirit burns in every bosom....",
      "Their souls will yearn to beat as one, once again and this can only be done by the sealing of the bond.",
      "Asriel: Right now, I can feel everyone's hearts beating as one. They're all burning with the same desire."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "813-1",
    "Idiom": [
      "beat feet"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To run.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "813-2",
    "Idiom": [
      "beat feet"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To flee.",
    "Sentence": [
      "A druggie would grab the pricey electronics and such, and beat feet."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "814-1",
    "Idiom": [
      "beat it"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To leave; to go away.",
    "Sentence": [
      "and he said, \"You beat it.\" So I beat it two squares up to Seventeenth Street and went into a saloon.",
      "Showin' how funky and strong is your fight / It doesn't matter who's wrong or right / Just beat it"
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "814-2",
    "Idiom": [
      "beat it"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To leave or go away.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "815-1",
    "Idiom": [
      "beat off"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To drive something away with force.",
    "Sentence": [
      "...which Action did not so much grieve the English, as trouble and vex the Picts and Scots, who were incessantly gauled and frequently beat off by these Danish Troops.",
      "First reports were that the Reds, in five gunboats and swarms of junks, succeeded in landing on tiny Wuchiu in Formosa Strait, but were beaten off with many captured.",
      "(Betty) Did you have any trouble rescuing me? (Archie) I sure did, Betty! I had to beat off three other guys!",
      "London Liverpool Street beat off stiff competition to be highly commended in this category, despite having had no major redevelopment for three decades."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "815-2",
    "Idiom": [
      "beat off"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To masturbate.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Example 1: \"I don't need a girlfriend. I just need some swimsuit catalogs, so I can beat off six or seven times a day.\""
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "815-3",
    "Idiom": [
      "beat off"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To waste time.",
    "Sentence": [
      "I beat off at work all day; I didn't get anything done."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "816",
    "Idiom": [
      "beat off with a stick"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To reject unwanted advances.",
    "Sentence": [
      "I mentioned that while pictures from my teens and twenties showed I was pretty cute, somehow I'd never attracted many guys, while my (no-less-adorable) kid sister had to beat them off with a stick.",
      "After about sixteen weeks, Clemmie obviously took a swim in a hormone bath because suddenly she was all over me like a rash that no ointment could cure – I couldn't beat her off with a stick so we had sex.",
      "He probably had more women than he could beat off with a stick. His kind always did."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "817",
    "Idiom": [
      "beat one's brain"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To struggle to think or remember.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "818",
    "Idiom": [
      "beat one's swords into ploughshares"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To redirect efforts from violence to peaceful purposes.",
    "Sentence": [
      "There are two choices before us: We can beat our plowshares into swords and prepare for war, or we can beat our swords into plowshares and prepare for peace.",
      "What do the 90s mean for those who wish to beat swords into plowshares ? First, they call for gratitude to the courageous women and men who nonviolently toppled dictators and tumbled walls.",
      "Since 1987, Mugabe has been the President of the country. Here is a man, who, at independence, made us believe that we had beaten our swords into ploughshares and our spears into pruning hooks only to torment Joshua Nkomo and his Zapu, as well as innocent civilians."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "819",
    "Idiom": [
      "beat someone round the ears"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To hit someone in the head.",
    "Sentence": [
      "'I wanted to beat that supervisor round the ears with his clipboard.'"
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "820",
    "Idiom": [
      "beat someone's ass",
      "beat someone's arse"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To defeat or severely punish someone.",
    "Sentence": [
      "God say spoil the apple, rot the apple, beat the child,\" some shit like that. Uh-huh, which mean beat your ass.",
      "While one of the gangbangers may beat your ass down this way, the other of the gangbangers will definitely beat your ass down that way.",
      "Why can't you come up with another form of punishment because beating is not going to work, because it's not working now? Terry said \"it will work if I have to beat your ass all day” with a smirk on his face.",
      "We got to do whatever it takes and beat their ass.",
      "Knowing that we next played Nebraska in two years there, I slid a piece of paper over to Tom: \"The only way to shut this guy up is to beat their ass in Lincoln. \"",
      "We decided to take a break and went bowling because there really wasn't much to do at that time of night. We played four rounds of bowling, and James beat our ass in all four rounds."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "821",
    "Idiom": [
      "beat someone's brains out"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To severely beat someone.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "822",
    "Idiom": [
      "beat the bishop"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To masturbate.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "823-1",
    "Idiom": [
      "beat the clock"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Successfully complete a task within a time limit.",
    "Sentence": [
      "He and Mr. Goldie have managed to beat the clock, finishing and printing the book themselves while Mr. Murray is still alive.",
      "Evander Kane just beat the clock in the final hour before the NHL lockout, agreeing to terms with the Winnipeg Jets on a six-year, $31.5 million contract."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "823-2",
    "Idiom": [
      "beat the clock"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To meet a deadline.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Judge Randall Thomas dropped a dozen theft charges against Hunt..., ruling that the indictment came after a three-year state statute of limitations had run out. One ethics charge—punishable by up to $10,000 and 10 years behind bars—did beat the clock."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "823-3",
    "Idiom": [
      "beat the clock"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To live a long, healthy life.",
    "Sentence": [
      "The man who looked like an ageing rocker trying to beat the clock, was none other than Robert Lee Vesco.",
      "From getting a good night's sleep to keeping your teeth and gums healthy, there are plenty of tricks you can employ to beat the clock."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "824",
    "Idiom": [
      "beat the cock"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To masturbate.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "825",
    "Idiom": [
      "beat the crowd"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To arrive before a large group.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Dhava beat the crowd to the sweets counter and was back within minutes with two boxes of Black Magic chocolates, which he handed to Sharda."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "826-1",
    "Idiom": [
      "beat the daylights out of"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To beat someone severely.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Punching fast and furiously, I would beat the daylights out of them until they were bloody all over."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "826-2",
    "Idiom": [
      "beat the daylights out of"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To defeat someone thoroughly, especially in a fight.",
    "Sentence": [
      "The guy beat the daylights out of me, and I made a dollar. My wrestling license cost five dollars."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "827",
    "Idiom": [
      "beat the drum for"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To promote or support.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "828",
    "Idiom": [
      "beat the dust"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To perform curvets improperly.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "829",
    "Idiom": [
      "beat the odds"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To succeed despite unlikely circumstances.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "830",
    "Idiom": [
      "beat the pants off"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To thoroughly and decisively defeat someone.",
    "Sentence": [
      "American workers can outcompete and beat the pants off anybody, anywhere.",
      "Jeffrey Vinik, manager of the $56 billion Fidelity Magellan Fund, the world's largest and most closely watched mutual fund, \" beat the pants off the managers of other large funds,\" in the words of one analyst.",
      "Their counterparts in Canada, Europe and Japan made less than half as much, sometimes while beating the pants off them in the marketplace."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "831-1",
    "Idiom": [
      "beat the poop out of"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To severely beat someone.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "831-2",
    "Idiom": [
      "beat the poop out of"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To decisively defeat someone in a fight or competition.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "832-1",
    "Idiom": [
      "beat the shit out of"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To severely beat someone.",
    "Sentence": [
      "He had beat the shit out of her. Almost broke her jaw.",
      "“Just a bunch of scumbags out to wreck Dublin city. The gardaí [police] should have free rein to beat the shit out of them.”"
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "832-2",
    "Idiom": [
      "beat the shit out of"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To decisively defeat someone in a fight or competition.",
    "Sentence": [
      "I think if it was one game, winner take all, and everyone was in shape... I would have to go with Dream Team I. To tell you the truth, I think they would beat the shit out of us."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "833-1",
    "Idiom": [
      "beat the stuffing out of"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To beat severely.",
    "Sentence": [
      "If you ever use that kind of language in front of my girlfriend again, I am going to beat the stuffing out of you.",
      "At the fiesta, the kids beat the stuffing out of the pinata, and their parents beat the stuffing out of a drunk who walked up and made threats."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "833-2",
    "Idiom": [
      "beat the stuffing out of"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To outdo or triumph over.",
    "Sentence": [
      "The U.S. ski team beat the stuffing out of the Austrians in Alpine, but Norway took the gold home in Nordic."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "834",
    "Idiom": [
      "beat to the punch"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To act before someone else.",
    "Sentence": [
      "I was planning to take care of the problem for him, but he beat me to the punch and did it himself."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "835-1",
    "Idiom": [
      "beat with the ugly stick"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Describes someone as unattractive.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "835-2",
    "Idiom": [
      "beat with the ugly stick"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Refers to someone unattractive.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "836",
    "Idiom": [
      "beats me"
    ],
    "Meaning": "I don't know.",
    "Sentence": [
      "\"Flowering shrubs don't thrive in the subterranean caverns from which geysers spring,\" suggested Bradley. Olson shook his head. \"It beats me,\" he said.",
      "Do you have any idea what \"tergiversate\" means? Beats me !",
      "Beats me how he finds out when we're goofing off."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "837",
    "Idiom": [
      "beautiful people"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Fashionable, privileged, glamorous people.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Now these \"rich young brats\" have succeeded café society, the jet set and the beautiful people as social pacesetters.",
      "Polo... is a jewel of a game for the beautiful people, though, and nowhere is there a higher incidence of beautiful people than Palm Beach.",
      "We were granted access with her VIP passes and received a first-hand look at the Dubai party scene. The club was filled with all the beautiful people of Dubai."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "838",
    "Idiom": [
      "beauty fades, dumb is forever"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Attractiveness fades, but stupidity lasts forever.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "839",
    "Idiom": [
      "beauty is but skin-deep",
      "beauty is only skin deep"
    ],
    "Meaning": "A person's character matters more than appearance.",
    "Sentence": [
      "\"Handsome those that handsome do say I; beauty is only skin deep; it is the principle of the heart I consider.",
      "And she graced the transition. Beauty is only skin-deep, but the nerves lie very near to the skin. Nerve—but just here will you oblige by perusing again the quotation with which this story begins?",
      "Isn’t it time the marketing budgets were reapportioned to the bones and muscles of the building themselves? At present, the beauty in London’s building boom is barely skin deep."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "840",
    "Idiom": [
      "beauty is in the eye of the beholder"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Beauty is subjective.",
    "Sentence": [
      "He is referring to the relativity of \" Beauty is in the eye of the beholder \" an idea that became popular in the 18th cent."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "841",
    "Idiom": [
      "beauty never boiled the pot",
      "beauty won't boil the pot",
      "beauty won't make the pot boil"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Physical attractiveness alone is insufficient for financial success.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "842",
    "Idiom": [
      "beauty queen"
    ],
    "Meaning": "The female winner of a beauty contest.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "843-1",
    "Idiom": [
      "beauty sleep"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Sleep taken to enhance beauty or health.",
    "Sentence": [
      "A medical man, who may be called up at any moment, must make sure of his ‘ beauty-sleep.’",
      "And would I please to remember that I had roused him up at night, and the quality always made a point of paying four times over for a man's loss of his beauty-sleep. I replied that his loss of beauty-sleep was rather improving to a man of so high complexion; and that I, being none of that quality, must pay half-quality prices;",
      "At first he was quite peevish. \"What's the idea,\" he said, \"coming and spoiling a man's beauty-sleep ? Get out.\""
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "843-2",
    "Idiom": [
      "beauty sleep"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Extra sleep.",
    "Sentence": [
      "But eager as Kate was for her beauty sleep, the light burned late in her room; and long after she had seen Mrs. Murray snugly tucked in for the night, she sat with Ranald's open letter in her hand, reading it till she almost knew it by heart.",
      "\"I know I ought to be taking a beauty sleep,\" she thought, \"so I'll be all fresh and fine for the evening, but I must find it [a piece of turquoise], for I promised Phil I'd wear it.\""
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "844",
    "Idiom": [
      "beaver away"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To work hard.",
    "Sentence": [
      "The most obvious impact of the strike was the “havoc” created at Glasgow and London’s Heathrow airports by striking air traffic controllers (who joined the strike in solidarity and are not themselves directly involved in the dispute). But quietly and without fuss, thousands of scientists normally beavering away in seclusion downed microscopes, test tubes, and oscilloscopes.",
      "I was thinking more of the tendency today for people to develop whole areas of mathematics on their own, in a rather abstract fashion. They just go on beavering away.",
      "On the other side there was a floor to ceiling partition, on which the mining share prices and dealing boards were fixed, separating the mining sales desk from the specialist mining research group who beavered away behind the partition.",
      "\"I'm still baffled at what you were able to accomplish. The rubberband effect would have lasted at least another... well, it could have lasted ten years without you beavering away in there. Maybe longer. I couldn't... we couldn't have waited that long. We needed you back, and here you are.\"",
      "She won't be going out much, as she's beavering away on her thesis."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "845",
    "Idiom": [
      "become of"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To happen to.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Then the Witch looked at the big, shaggy Lion and asked, \"When Dorothy has returned to her own home, what will become of you?\""
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "846",
    "Idiom": [
      "become one flesh"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To join together in marriage.",
    "Sentence": [
      "\"We must become one flesh without any delay, Jane: there is but the licence to get—then we marry.\"",
      "Just when it seemed like BRAD PITT and GWYNETH PALTROW were moving so smoothly into becoming one flesh that they even had the same haircut, they abruptly called it all off.",
      "“When my husband and I got married, we became one flesh,” Drummond wrote in a recent post."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "847",
    "Idiom": [
      "bed blocker"
    ],
    "Meaning": "An elderly hospitalized person whose discharge is delayed due to a lack of suitable care options.",
    "Sentence": [
      "A 72-year-old \" bed blocker \" was yesterday ordered to vacate the hospital bed he has refused to leave for three years, despite being in good health.",
      "There will also be a fee charged to a \" bed blocker \"—someone fit for discharge from an acute hospital but reluctant to go until a nursing home place is provided.",
      "Dimitra was slapped with a hospital bill worth $18,238, for taking up an acute car bed for too long.... \"Maria's mother was desperately ill and needed hospital care and she was treated like a bed blocker.\""
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "848",
    "Idiom": [
      "bed in"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To help someone settle in or feel at home.",
    "Sentence": [
      "The new trains were introduced in conjunction with Automatic Train Operation and new signalling, but it took months for this to ' bed in', But now the new signalling has bedded in, and the Central is the line that got its upgrade out of the way early.",
      "ScotRail is seeking the views of the public before recasting its Edinburgh/Perth/Dundee passenger timetable in 2025, once the reopened Levenmouth line has bedded in.",
      "It took some time to be bedded in, but soon he knew his way around his new workplace."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "849",
    "Idiom": [
      "bed of roses"
    ],
    "Meaning": "A pleasant or easy situation.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Just speak to the stars about the bed of roses which is popularly supposed to be their resting place in the rarified atmosphere of the stellar regions!",
      "I thank you all / But it's been no bed of roses / No pleasure cruise",
      "It's a straightforward job, but it's no bed of roses, with such long hours."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "850",
    "Idiom": [
      "beddy-bye"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Bedtime or going to sleep.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "851",
    "Idiom": [
      "bee in one's bonnet",
      "burr in one's saddle"
    ],
    "Meaning": "An obsession.",
    "Sentence": [
      "The BBC is well used to being a punchbag for every crank with a bee in their bonnet or a score to settle but some critics are not so easily dismissed.",
      "McCain stands up for nuclear energy. This puts a spring in my step and a song in my heart. I have to give him credit; when he has a bee in his bonnet, he is often willing to stand up for things, like free trade and immigration, that freak voters out.",
      "Giraffedata has a single bee in his bonnet, the phrase \"comprised of.\" He has written a 6,000-word essay on his Wikipedia user page explaining why he thinks it's an egregious error.",
      "Reader Vivien Bailey also has a bee in her bonnet : “The usage that I detest is the growing use of the word ‘birth’ as a verb. This seems to have come in waves starting five or six years ago, and we’re in the middle of a wave now.”",
      "He has had a bee in his bonnet ever since he heard about the problem."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "852",
    "Idiom": [
      "beef to the hoof"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Fat, particularly in the legs.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "853",
    "Idiom": [
      "been there, done that",
      "been there, done that, got the t-shirt"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Indicates personal experience and reluctance to revisit it.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Huntsman feints at being the Snow White retelling no one has ever seen before, but ultimately becomes the “ been there, done that ” of fairy-tale filmmaking.",
      "He looked down at my résumé. “Wow, you interned at The New Yorker. Did you apply there?” ¶ “Nope.” ¶ He looked up. ¶ I gave the line a tug. ¶ “I just felt like, ‘ been there, done that,’ you know? Also, I dated a few guys in the office so it would've been awkward.”",
      "No, I don't wanna go paragliding. Been there, done that. I found it awful."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "854",
    "Idiom": [
      "been there, done that, bought the T-shirt"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Expresses complete familiarity with a situation, often with cynicism or exhaustion.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "855",
    "Idiom": [
      "been to the rodeo"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Experienced.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Some years ago I was talking to a ten-year-old boy who had been to the Rodeo. He was a lad whom most casual observers would readily have called tough.",
      "I'm a man past his prime who's been to the rodeo and back, as they say. I've been an actor, a bartender, a maitre d', and a hustler, without much success at any of them.",
      "I was one of the few graduating privates promoted from Army class El to E-2. To paraphrase Joan Crawford, I'd been to the rodeo and survived."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "856",
    "Idiom": [
      "beer and skittles"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Fun times.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Well, well, we must bide our time. Life isn't all beer and skittles —but beer and skittles, or something better of the same sort, must form a good part of every Englishman's education.",
      "Being a soldier's wife isn't all beer and skittles.",
      "His plight reveals a truth that's often obscured by the envy of newspaper readers; that it's not all beer and skittles in restaurant-critic land.",
      "Such highly intensive deployment left little wriggle room, something with which Dunster is all too familiar. \"It hasn't all been beer and skittles,\" he says dryly."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "857",
    "Idiom": [
      "beer goggles"
    ],
    "Meaning": "The illusion of increased attractiveness due to alcohol.",
    "Sentence": [
      "“Their findings essentially suggest that while intoxication may not have resulted in beer goggles, it did seem to increase liquid courage, in that people were more likely to indicate a desire to interact with attractive others,” said Monk, whose previous research had found some evidence to support the beer goggles effect."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "858-1",
    "Idiom": [
      "beer muscles"
    ],
    "Meaning": "An aggressive attitude from drinking alcohol.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Many people, especially after a few beers, grow “ beer muscles ” and are ready to fight for any reason.",
      "The show has become a come-on for drunks to flex their beer muscles.",
      "“Everybody's out partying, people start drinking, old beefs pop up, and people get their beer muscles out and start fighting.”"
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "858-2",
    "Idiom": [
      "beer muscles"
    ],
    "Meaning": "A sign of excessive beer consumption.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Grothers Gribble, Berger, Wolf, Shadwill and the writer are still nursing their “ beer muscles.” I mean German goitres.",
      "“You can't find a better-tasting beer,” said Farmer Cheatle, a resident who was losing a battle to hold in a bulging belly he called “ beer muscles ”.",
      "Nick made legs of his fingers and walked them on the baby's belly.... “Look at those beer muscles !”"
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "859",
    "Idiom": [
      "before it was cool"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Before something was popular or appreciated.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "860-1",
    "Idiom": [
      "before someone's time"
    ],
    "Meaning": "From before one was born or aware.",
    "Sentence": [
      "At thirteen, I liked a lot of music that was before my time : Louis Armstrong and Dixieland jazz, Sousa marches, and barbershop quartet singing.",
      "I don't know — that was before my time"
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "860-2",
    "Idiom": [
      "before someone's time"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Refers to something that happened before a person was born or old enough to experience it.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Oh yes, and tell her to take care of herself too, and not get herself all banged up again, or she will look old before her time.",
      "Jimi Hendrix is buried at Evergreen Memorial Park in Renton. The electric guitar player extraordinaire died before his time at the young age of 27.",
      "\"Unless you become the third apprentice to quit before his time ?\"",
      "dead before his time"
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "861",
    "Idiom": [
      "before you can say knife"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Very quickly.",
    "Sentence": [
      "'Oh, we'll pull you off before you can say knife. Take care of His Excellency. I shall try to get a little sleep now.'",
      "‘Ginger, Ginger, before you can say knife she'll make you into a damned missionary.’ I don't know that I'd mind that so much if we had a little mission of our own."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "862",
    "Idiom": [
      "beg for one's life"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To plead for survival.",
    "Sentence": [
      "They got hearing after hearing. They begged for their lives; they pled for their millions invested in a \"legitimate industry\"; they told of the thousands of men who would be thrown out of employment if this bill should go through, and of the thousands of slaughtering machines owned by Jersey men, that would be confiscated if this bill should become a law.",
      "If we have to draw on the resources of our communities, going about asking for parts of people's salaries and things of that kind, to meet emergency relief, and they tell us they cannot give any more for our program, it means that we must close our doors. In a way we are begging for our lives, hoping that each of us will go home and take up immediately this study of where our relief shall come from, so that we may lift the burden from our local communities.",
      "We, who clung to the coat-tails of foreigners, begging for their scraps, begging for our lives — we have remaining to us this one final degradation.",
      "Furthermore, our open publication of a proposal offering to abolish slavery will be viewed everywhere as an indication that the Confederacy is militarily and politically weak. Foreign nations will construe it as an admission that we're losing the war and we're begging for our lives.",
      "Without me knowing, a meeting was convened at the ground on Monday where they begged for their lives. Scott granted their request for one last chance against the Wigan on the opening Saturday."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "863",
    "Idiom": [
      "beg off"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To cancel or excuse oneself from an event.",
    "Sentence": [
      "That's an issue that I have not discussed with the legal people. I don't know what authority we have to prevent insurance companies from setting criteria for those people that they would insure. Whether that rests with us or with the Commissioner of Insurance, I don't know. I'm going to have to beg off that question.",
      "I wonder if I can beg off going to the meeting that day, since it will take me an extra two hours out of my way."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "864-1",
    "Idiom": [
      "beg to differ"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To offer an opposing opinion.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Thus Lord King asserted, February 28, 1818, \"That the whole of what the noble Secretary of State, Lord Liverpool, had said, amounted to this, that the Sinking Fund was only nominal, and had not paid one shilling of the debt.\" To which Lord Liverpool replied, \"He begged to differ with his Lordship, and was of opinion, that the Sinking Fund was real.\"",
      "\"Look here, sir, this is all very well,\" he began, \"but why can't I fall in love with your daughter? I'm a Doctor of Science and all that sort of thing. I've a perfectly decent outlook. My father was rather a swell in his science. I'm an entirely decent and respectable person.\" / \"I beg to differ,\" said Mr. Pope. / \"But I am.\" / \"Again,\" said Mr. Pope, with great patience, and a slight forward bowing of the head, \"I beg to differ.\"",
      "Most of the conversation was taken up with an agonised appraisal of the Prince's [ i.e., Charles, Prince of Wales 's] proper role, together with much royal muttering (conventional wisdom in 1985) that Britain had lost its dynamism for which it was once famous. I begged to differ, and implored the Prince to consider the new, entrepreneurial, street-cred economy being created at that very moment in the clubs and streets, the fashion houses and TV studios and advertising agencies of Soho and Covent Garden."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "864-2",
    "Idiom": [
      "beg to differ"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To disagree strongly.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Now the pluralists may say that a place where they run up new houses, and pull down old ones, is by no means disqualified for occupation, but he begs to differ from them decidedly.",
      "Esther Lardent, chief consultant to the ABA's Post Conviction Death Penalty Representation Project, which has helped recruit pro bono lawyers for death row appeals since 1987, begs to differ. Finding a lawyer to represent a death row inmate has never been easy, Lardent says. And finding one now, she says, will be harder than ever.",
      "Fortunately, bowerbirds cannot talk, so we are free to use sexual selection to explain their work, without them begging to differ.",
      "I saw this morning that the Supreme Leader of Iran said that street challenge is not acceptable. This is challenging democracy after the elections. Well, we beg to differ and the people of Iran are begging to differ. When you can count paper ballots, millions of them, within a couple of hours, something's funny.",
      "If The Adventures Of Tintin and The BFG suggested that the director's craftsmanship rarely extends to entirely CGI worlds, this IMAX-scaled spectacle begs to differ."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "865",
    "Idiom": [
      "beggars can't be choosers"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Those in need should accept any help available.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Mo went online and found me a beggars-can't-be-choosers flight out of Denver: a 5.45 a.m. takeoff, a three-hour layover at O'Hare. I'd land in Hartford by late afternoon. \"I'll be fine,\" I said. \"Drink a lot of coffee, drive right from school to the airport. I can crash once I get on the plane.\" She frowned. \"Okay, let me rephrase that. I can sleep once I get on the plane.\""
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "866",
    "Idiom": [
      "behind bars"
    ],
    "Meaning": "In jail, in prison.",
    "Sentence": [
      "There is one kind of prison where the man is behind bars, and everything that he desires is outside; and there is another kind where the things are behind the bars, and the man is outside.",
      "Some 460,000 Americans are behind bars for drug offenses.",
      "Leading Jordanian exponents of the Salafi-jihadi world view, such as Abu Muhammad al-Maqdisi, are now behind bars or silent, fearing arrest by the powerful mukhabarat secret police."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "867-1",
    "Idiom": [
      "behind closed doors"
    ],
    "Meaning": "In private.",
    "Sentence": [
      "A brilliant piece of undercover reporting revealed extraordinary details of how senior City executives behave behind closed doors.",
      "A major problem has been the making of bad decisions behind closed doors.",
      "What you do with your girlfriend behind closed doors is none of my business."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "867-2",
    "Idiom": [
      "behind closed doors"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Without public spectators.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Libya's opening home match in the World Cup qualifiers against Cameroon will be played at a neutral venue and behind closed doors, FIFA said on Friday. 2"
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "867-3",
    "Idiom": [
      "behind closed doors"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Conducted in secret.",
    "Sentence": [
      "In other research, scientists have found that people who kept cereal out in the open were often about 20 pounds heavier than people who kept cereal behind closed doors."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "868",
    "Idiom": [
      "behind every successful man there stands a woman",
      "behind every great man is a great woman",
      "behind every great man there stands a woman"
    ],
    "Meaning": "A man's achievements are supported by a woman.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "869",
    "Idiom": [
      "behind its time"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Showing characteristics of the past.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "870",
    "Idiom": [
      "behind someone's back"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Without someone's knowledge; secretly.",
    "Sentence": [
      "I had never defrauded a man of a farthing, nor called him knave behind his back. But now the last rag that covered my nakedness had been torn from me. I was branded a blackleg, card-sharper, and murderer.",
      "Giant machines, precision tools, monster missiles, and all such [they] did lack. Indeed, the last industrial revolution happened behind their back.",
      "You can all just kiss off into the air / Behind my back I can see them stare / They'll hurt me bad, but I won't mind / They'll hurt me bad, they do it all the time",
      "The employees talked about their boss behind his back.",
      "You will lose good karma if you say bad things behind people's backs."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "871",
    "Idiom": [
      "behind the bit"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Evading responsibility.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "872",
    "Idiom": [
      "behind the counter"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Medications dispensed without a prescription.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "873",
    "Idiom": [
      "behind the eight-ball"
    ],
    "Meaning": "In a difficult situation or at a disadvantage.",
    "Sentence": [
      "After his last two projects failed, he was really behind the eight-ball.",
      "He was desperate, playing behind the eight-ball."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "874-1",
    "Idiom": [
      "behind the scenes"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Backstage or during production.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Many videos come with features that show what went on behind the scenes to make the movie and special effects."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "874-2",
    "Idiom": [
      "behind the scenes"
    ],
    "Meaning": "In secret; out of public view.",
    "Sentence": [
      "The government has been negotiating behind the scenes with the separatists for months."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "875",
    "Idiom": [
      "behind the times"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Out of date; old-fashioned.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "876",
    "Idiom": [
      "behind time"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Late.",
    "Sentence": [
      "We should leave now - I don't want to be too behind time.",
      "I'm running behind time. I should be home in half an hour or so."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "877",
    "Idiom": [
      "belemnite battlefield"
    ],
    "Meaning": "A fossil site with abundant belemnite rostra.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "878",
    "Idiom": [
      "believe it or not"
    ],
    "Meaning": "This may be surprising, but it's true.",
    "Sentence": [
      "That depends on how long the sentence is. Believe it or not, there’s a canon of construction about provisos, and the test is anything but clear: …",
      "One common cause of “flipped bit” memory errors is, believe it or not, cosmic rays.",
      "The descending opening phrase of the aria is, believe it or not, Tatyana’s Fate theme from her Letter Scene, though now in a minor, not major key: …"
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "879",
    "Idiom": [
      "believe one's ears"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To believe that something heard is true.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "880",
    "Idiom": [
      "believe one's eyes"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To trust what one sees.",
    "Sentence": [
      "He could scarcely believe his eyes as she appeared on the floor unsurpassed in beauty and grace, her favor sought by all. Was that the simple girl who had leaned against his shoulder?",
      "She was so amazed at the change in him that she could not believe her eyes.",
      "Millions of Greeks worldwide erupted in joyful celebration, hardly believing their eyes after Greece beat hosts Portugal in the Euro 2004 finals."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "881",
    "Idiom": [
      "believe you me"
    ],
    "Meaning": "An emphatic form of \"believe me.\"",
    "Sentence": [
      "Well, sir, believe you me, I'll give that lassy as good a strapping as ever she got when she comes back.",
      "But many a time, believe you me, I bought a rabbit from you, when I could put something else in the pot...",
      "That's change, if you like to call it so. But the heart of things is just the same. Balzac stands for Paris, believe you me.",
      "But, Sandy lad, believe you me, I loe ye like a brither!",
      "\" Believe you me,\" said Meldon, \" she'll know how to manage him.\"",
      "Believe you me, if the people in this country think they’re going to be cheated, they’re going to be betrayed, then we will see political anger the likes of which none of us in our lifetimes have ever witnessed in this country."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "882-1",
    "Idiom": [
      "believing is seeing"
    ],
    "Meaning": "One must believe to understand.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "882-2",
    "Idiom": [
      "believing is seeing"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Faith precedes miracles.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "883",
    "Idiom": [
      "bell out"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To open into a bell shape.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Her dress belled out at the bottom."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "884",
    "Idiom": [
      "bell the cat"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To undertake a dangerous action for a group.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "885",
    "Idiom": [
      "bells and whistles"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Extra features for show rather than function.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Charles’s coronation was a full-color spectacle, showing off the peacocked glory of British tradition and the bells and whistles of 21st-century TV. Britain brought out its finest garments, its finest relics, its finest rain.",
      "His new car has all the bells and whistles, but it doesn't move through traffic jams any faster.",
      "The bells and whistles do not impress me.",
      "I need a new phone, but I don’t want all those fancy bells and whistles on it!"
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "886",
    "Idiom": [
      "bellwether state"
    ],
    "Meaning": "A state that typically votes for the winning candidate.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "887-1",
    "Idiom": [
      "belly up"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Dead or defunct.",
    "Sentence": [
      "After several financial failures, the organization went belly up."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "887-2",
    "Idiom": [
      "belly up"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To approach eagerly or assertively.",
    "Sentence": [
      "He bellied up to the bar as soon as he saw a free stool."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "888",
    "Idiom": [
      "belly up to the bar"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To commit to a challenge or responsibility.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Allen declines to discuss acquisition plans.... Nonetheless, W. Whitley Hawkins, whom Allen recently promoted to president from executive vice-president for marketing, asks the question out loud: \"Are we going to belly up to the bar ? All Pan Am assets for sale have some appeal to us.\"",
      "\"The congressional committees aren't gonna belly up to the bar and say, 'We authorized this,'\" says Scheuer.",
      "“When he was going through his impeachment problems, it was the black community that bellied up to the bar,” Mr. Clyburn said.",
      "\"They're going to have to belly up to the bar and take up these difficult issues,\" said G. William Hoagland, who served as director of budget and appropriations."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "889",
    "Idiom": [
      "below par"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Not meeting average standards.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Steve Gerrard, unusually, had a below-par night, too, even if it was a lovely delivery to set up Welbeck to make it 2-2 with a glancing header."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "890",
    "Idiom": [
      "below the belt"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Unfair or against accepted standards.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Commenting on his bachelorhood in a debate on marital ethics was a bit below the belt, don't you think?"
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "891",
    "Idiom": [
      "below the salt"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Of low standing.",
    "Sentence": [
      "His fashion is not to take knowledge of him that is beneath him in clothes. He never drinks below the salt."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "892",
    "Idiom": [
      "bench jockey"
    ],
    "Meaning": "A person who annoys and distracts opponents from the sidelines.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "893",
    "Idiom": [
      "bend one's elbow"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To drink alcohol.",
    "Sentence": [
      "One day is no worse than the next for El Caucho; so it's a whim when he starts bending his elbow or ties one on. When he is really \"plastered,\" El Caucho looks grim, but he isn't really nasty."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "894",
    "Idiom": [
      "bend over backwards"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To make a great effort.",
    "Sentence": [
      "The police were plainly on his side. Lawyers helped, too, with a letter he used to justify his strategy. And of course the government of the day bent over backwards to ensure nothing would stand in the way of the media baron's ambitions.",
      "They bent over backwards to make sure everything was just right for the visit."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "895-1",
    "Idiom": [
      "bend someone's ear"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To talk at length to someone.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Sorry to bend your ear with the whole story, but I think you ought to know."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "895-2",
    "Idiom": [
      "bend someone's ear"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To call someone's attention.",
    "Sentence": [
      "I managed to bend his ear about the current crisis. I hope he will act now."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "896",
    "Idiom": [
      "bend someone's will"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To persuade someone to change their views or actions.",
    "Sentence": [
      "When Catherine tried to draw him to court by proposing a marriage between him and her youngest daughter Margaret, Jeanne left him at home, and went herself to court. Catherine tried in vain to bend her will.",
      "Even her love could not avail to bend his will. As if the hold of her arms was that of a child's he loosened it and stepped away.",
      "Despite Shearer's insistence that he intends to hang up his scoring boots at the end of the season, Souness has pledged to keep pestering him to change his mind. Whether the Iron Laddie is for turning remains to be seen, but the pressure to bend his will is being applied from within the Newcastle dressing-room as well as from the manager's office."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "897",
    "Idiom": [
      "bend the brain"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Difficult to comprehend.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Rogan studied her architectural drawings for the four-level, 1,200 square metre centre closely: “Every line meant something. It bends the brain. I’m in love with this building and I can’t hide it.”",
      "Making sense of their logic bends the brain, but QAnon followers report feeling an insider adrenaline as they piece together the “breadcrumbs.” They first surged into public view at a Tampa rally for Donald Trump in 2018 and show few signs of fading."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "898-1",
    "Idiom": [
      "bend the knee"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To swear loyalty to someone.",
    "Sentence": [
      "The timid among them declared that he would burn the houses and hang all that had bent the knee to King Louis.",
      "The Earls have power over their lands and people, but must bend the knee to the King and serve as his vassals, just as their own vassals bend the knee to them, and serve them.",
      "Joffrey, Renly, Robb Stark: they're all thieves. They'll bend the knee or I'll destroy them."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "898-2",
    "Idiom": [
      "bend the knee"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To submit or show reverence.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Jezebel, though she bent the knee to Baal, was pleasing in Ahab’s sight; and he saw that her father’s army, though deplorably pagan, wielded heavy swords.",
      "We will realize that in our weakness He is strong and that as we bend the knee to His lordship, God is more than able to deliver us.",
      "For one thing, Christians refused to bend the knee to anyone but God, certainly not to Caesar."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "898-3",
    "Idiom": [
      "bend the knee"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To show excessive obedience or support.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Some thought we had in Mr. [Abraham] Lincoln the nerve and decision of an Oliver Cromwell; but the result shows that we merely have a continuation of the Pierces and Buchanans, and that the Republican President bends the knee to slavery as readily as any of his infamous predecessors.",
      "But there's something more sinister in the need for companies to bend the knee to Washington politicians.",
      "Kafka had bent the knee to his father’s desires and taken a job in an insurance office."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "899",
    "Idiom": [
      "bend the truth"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To alter facts to influence a response.",
    "Sentence": [
      "In his warped attempt to bend the truth completely out of shape,....",
      "In a Feb. 5 column, Dottie Lamm seemed quite happy to bend the truth in all directions",
      "KGB had always been on the lookout for hard facts, but then reported those facts to people besotted with a dream, who then bent the truth in the service of that dream. When the truth had finally broken through, the dream had suddenly evaporated like a cloud of steam in a high wind, and reality had poured in like the flood following the breakup of an icebound river in springtime.",
      "In relating the story to Julie, he decided to bend the truth just enough to make her think he had really been in danger."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "900",
    "Idiom": [
      "bend to one's will"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To compel someone or something to conform to one's desires.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Cenci: For Beatrice worse terrors are in store / To bend her to my will. Lucretia: Oh! to what will? / What cruel sufferings more than she has known / Canst thou inflict?",
      "His wicked lust for gold kindled at the news, and he bent her to his will.",
      "Morrison had a superfluity of gifts and, like few other writers of her era, bent language to her will."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "901",
    "Idiom": [
      "bend to someone's will"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To yield to someone's pressure or influence.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Bangs beset her at every turn, meeting her in her walks and rides, coming on her when she was in the field, and could not escape from him, and urging his suit with persuasions, promises, and threats, determined to win her, in spite of the most firm and decided rejection repeated again and again. Bangs waxed more and more wroth at her steadfast refusal to bend to his will.",
      "this slavedriver, who spends his life making thousands of rough violent workmen bend to his will and sweat for him.",
      "Other branches of government often bent to his will."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "902",
    "Idiom": [
      "beneath the surface"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Beyond what is obvious.",
    "Sentence": [
      "She saw what was beneath the surface and realized he was not such a bad guy."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "903",
    "Idiom": [
      "benevolent overlord"
    ],
    "Meaning": "A kind and non-tyrannical authority figure.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Ever since our benevolent overlords, the Japanese, began to panic everything has been all turned around.",
      "Look, the benevolent overlord attitude might have gone a lot further for you back in the day, but don't even think you can use it on me."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "904",
    "Idiom": [
      "bent on"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Completely determined.",
    "Sentence": [
      "A colossal bipartisan investment of American force, treasure and diplomacy to defeat a hostile ideology bent on the creation of an Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan has failed.",
      "He was bent on reaching the end of the book, even if it meant staying up all night."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "905",
    "Idiom": [
      "bent on a splice"
    ],
    "Meaning": "About to be married.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "906",
    "Idiom": [
      "beside oneself"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Overcome by an emotion.",
    "Sentence": [
      "he contemplated it most calmly. Comparatively, all other men, North and South, were beside themselves.",
      "His widow was beside herself with grief."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "907-1",
    "Idiom": [
      "beside the point"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Irrelevant.",
    "Sentence": [
      "His many charitable donations are beside the point. They do not make up for the fact that he stole the money to begin with."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "907-2",
    "Idiom": [
      "beside the point"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Irrelevant or off-topic.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Judges in the British law courts used to tell lawyers who spoke beside the point or quoted irrelevant cases that they might as well say that Robin Hood in Barnsdale stood."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "908",
    "Idiom": [
      "best bet"
    ],
    "Meaning": "The best proposal or plan.",
    "Sentence": [
      "I think your best bet would be to book the Italian tour for the end of June."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "909",
    "Idiom": [
      "best laid plans"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Plans can easily go awry.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "910",
    "Idiom": [
      "best of both worlds"
    ],
    "Meaning": "A combination of two contrasting benefits.",
    "Sentence": [
      "That movie was both hilarious and touching; it was the best of both worlds."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "911",
    "Idiom": [
      "best of the bunch"
    ],
    "Meaning": "The best or most preferred in a group.",
    "Sentence": [
      "I once heard father say that, with all his faults, he was the best of the bunch.",
      "Then there is Lucy; she is the best of the bunch, which is not saying much.",
      "He proved the best of the bunch. He deserved better than being frozen like a Popsicle under that glacier."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "912",
    "Idiom": [
      "best pleased"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Displeased or upset.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Satisfaction levels among performers might be generally high, but there are whispers from old-school theatre folk that they're not best pleased about Hollywood coming in and stealing the limelight.",
      "Can't say we'd be best pleased if the terrifying sound of explosives was going on underneath our bedroom window, but the assembled crowd seem to enjoy it.",
      "They said: “I'm hardly best pleased to receive this and neither, I presume, are all the others whose confidentiality has been breached by this.”"
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "913",
    "Idiom": [
      "best regards"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Polite letter closing.",
    "Sentence": [
      "I look forward to finally meeting you in person. Best regards, Peter."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "914",
    "Idiom": [
      "best-kept secret"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Something interesting or important but not widely known.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Forget the Great Wall - Beijing's best-kept secret is its crazy taxi drivers."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "915",
    "Idiom": [
      "bet one's boots"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To be absolutely sure of something.",
    "Sentence": [
      "\"You see,\" he said, \"she never knew the fearful importance of marriage... and treated him badly, I'll bet my boots.\"",
      "\"If a man tells you he's a gentleman you can bet your boots he isn't,\" he retorted.",
      "Lord Sutherland sees tuition fees in Scotland as inevitable. “Only you can bet your boots they won't call it a fee,” he said."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "916",
    "Idiom": [
      "bet one's bottom dollar"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To be absolutely sure of something.",
    "Sentence": [
      "He talks about it a lot, but I would bet my bottom dollar that he has never actually been there."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "917",
    "Idiom": [
      "bet the farm",
      "bet the house",
      "bet the ranch"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To be absolutely certain.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Since Rupert Murdoch famously bet the farm on Premier League football to rescue Sky TV in 1991, it has been the catnip that has underpinned subscriber loyalty and, even in a far more complicated media landscape, is seen as so vital as to be worth almost any price.",
      "I'd be surprised if those two are still dating come Christmas, but I'm not betting the farm on a breakup just yet.",
      "Such thinking runs counter to the conventional wisdom in the hedge-fund industry, which is that the only way to score big is to bet the house.",
      "But what if he now decides to bet the ranch on large language models and AI?"
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "918",
    "Idiom": [
      "bet the jockey, not the horse",
      "bet on the jockey, not the horse"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Invest based on management, not the product.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "919",
    "Idiom": [
      "better an egg today than a hen tomorrow"
    ],
    "Meaning": "It's better to have something certain now than to risk it for something greater later.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "920",
    "Idiom": [
      "better angels"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Morally positive attributes of human character.",
    "Sentence": [
      "So do the shadows of our own desires stand between us and our better angels, and thus their brightness is eclipsed.",
      "The mystic chords of memory, stretching from every battle-field and patriot grave to every living heart and hearthstone all over this broad land, will yet swell the chorus of the Union when again touched, as surely they will be, by the better angels of our nature.",
      "A Christmas without children would be like a sleigh ride without snow. What gives this day its special grace is the glimpse it yields of a child's belief in the better angels of a grown-up world. Selfishness recedes, good will and gentleness for a blessed moment prevail.",
      "Call me wrong, call me right / But I bring my better angels to every fight",
      "Of his fellow tech CEOs – the ones competing to rush out their rival chatbots – he said: “I think the better angels are going to win out.” Better angels ? At Google?"
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "921",
    "Idiom": [
      "better dead than red"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Preferable to be dead than to live under Communism.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Canon Collins urged the electors to reject the candidate nominated by the Crown, Dr. R. W. Stopford, Bishop of Peterborough, who, he claimed, had said \"it would be better to have nuclear war than to permit Communist domination over Britain.\" Canon Collins said: \"I cannot believe it is proper for a bishop of the church to encourage the idea which is popularly expressed In the formula ‘ better dead than red.’\"",
      "The recertification of El Salvador's progress on human rights is nothing but a basic restatement of the Reagan foreign policy, which is \" better dead than Red.\"",
      "In a country whose motto not long ago was “ Better dead than Red ”, it is ironic that today Time Magazine awarded Vladimir Putin the “Man of the Year Award”."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "922",
    "Idiom": [
      "better for it"
    ],
    "Meaning": "In a more favorable position due to something, despite drawbacks.",
    "Sentence": [
      "You said, \"Forever,\" in the end I fought it / Please, be honest, are we better for it ?",
      "You’ve just received a hefty tax rebate? Show your appreciation with a gentle wiggle at the post office when you open your mail. You’ll feel better for it, I promise.",
      "America has struggled for centuries with increasing diversity and the resulting shifts of power. And we are better for it. As a daughter of Korean immigrants, I have greater faith in our businesses and government because today there are leaders whose stories reflect my own.",
      "Whether women actually became more beautiful by applying Body Performance Anti-Cellulite Visible Contouring Serum, or whether they would have done as well with a quick douse in cold water, is impossible to say. Clearly, many felt better for it."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "923",
    "Idiom": [
      "better nature"
    ],
    "Meaning": "The amiable qualities of someone.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "924",
    "Idiom": [
      "better place"
    ],
    "Meaning": "A state of happiness after death.",
    "Sentence": [
      "He's in a better place now."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "925",
    "Idiom": [
      "better safe than sorry"
    ],
    "Meaning": "It's better to be cautious than to regret being careless.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Moreover, apart from official restrictions, drivers do not a little easing of their engines on their own account, where they consider that the feel of the track makes this desirable; and they can hardly be blamed in consequence. It is better to be safe than sorry.",
      "But I'll be stumbling away / Slowly learning that life is OK / Say after me / It's no better to be safe than sorry"
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "926",
    "Idiom": [
      "better than sex"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Superlative.",
    "Sentence": [
      "It's insane the way people compare everything to sex. For years now, Arnold Schwarzenegger has made the talk-show rounds telling audiences that pumping iron is better than sex. No wonder it took him so long to find a bride.",
      "In the second generation, Marc Andreessen and Eric Bina developed NCSA Mosaic at the University of Illinois. Several million then suddenly noticed that the Web might be better than sex.",
      "I mean, Madonna says they [Manolos] are better than sex and Suzy Menkes marvels at the way no one but Manolo can build so much sexual arousal into a sliver of suede."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "927",
    "Idiom": [
      "better the devil you know than the devil you don't know",
      "better the devil you know than the one you don't",
      "better the devil you know than the devil you don't",
      "the devil we know is better than the devil we don't",
      "better the devil you know than the one you don't know",
      "better the devil you know",
      "the devil that you know is better than the devil that you don't know",
      "the devil you know is better than the devil you don't",
      "the devil you know",
      "the devil you know is better than the devil you don't know",
      "the devil we know is better than the devil we don't know"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Something familiar is preferable to the unknown.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "928",
    "Idiom": [
      "better to light one candle than to curse the darkness",
      "better to light a candle than to curse the darkness",
      "better to light one small candle than to curse the darkness",
      "better to light a single candle than to curse the darkness"
    ],
    "Meaning": "It's better to take small positive actions than to complain about a bad situation.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "929",
    "Idiom": [
      "between Scylla and Charybdis"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Between two dangers.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "930-1",
    "Idiom": [
      "between a rock and a hard place"
    ],
    "Meaning": "In a difficult and inescapable position.",
    "Sentence": [
      "After meeting again that afternoon with Donna, Wilbur had advised her that she was indeed between a rock and a hard place. She could not hope to recover and build back the lost business until the suits were settled, and it appeared that the only way to settle the suits without going to court was to liquidate the mortuary assets or tap into the Clifton's personal funds.",
      "A dish gone awry after adding the wrong ingredient. Chewing your way through this won't be fun, but it will fill you up when you're between a rock and a hard place."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "930-2",
    "Idiom": [
      "between a rock and a hard place"
    ],
    "Meaning": "In a difficult situation with two unpleasant choices.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Husbands, it seems to me, are caught between the Rock of Feminism and the Hard Place of their own marriages",
      "If Washington Mutual needs to raise capital quickly, it will very likely find itself between a rock and a hard place, because credit markets have all but closed their doors to troubled banks."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "931",
    "Idiom": [
      "between the devil and the deep blue sea"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Undesirable alternatives.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "932",
    "Idiom": [
      "between the hammer and the anvil"
    ],
    "Meaning": "In a predicament with two unpleasant options.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Yet for a time the nation was again placed between the democracy of the levellers and the despotism of the Stuarts, — between the hammer and the anvil.",
      "The sinner / Will testify / They'll suffer / When sacrificed on high / The burning sermons purge their evil words / Between the hammer and the anvil"
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "933",
    "Idiom": [
      "between the jigs and the reels"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Eventually, despite the confusion.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "934",
    "Idiom": [
      "between the pipes"
    ],
    "Meaning": "With respect to the goaltender position.",
    "Sentence": [
      "A shutout performance calls for a brilliant display between the pipes and Bill was right on the job.",
      "The Finns might just have the best goaltending in the 12-team tournament."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "935",
    "Idiom": [
      "between you, me, and the bedpost"
    ],
    "Meaning": "A confidential remark.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Between you and me and the bed-post – young master’s quarrelled with old master."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "936-1",
    "Idiom": [
      "betwixt and between"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Neither one thing nor the other.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "936-2",
    "Idiom": [
      "betwixt and between"
    ],
    "Meaning": "In an uncertain or intermediate position.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "937",
    "Idiom": [
      "beware of Greeks bearing gifts"
    ],
    "Meaning": "One should not trust enemies.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "938-1",
    "Idiom": [
      "beyond one's pay grade"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Beyond one's level of authority.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Sir, I think that is a policy decision only the President can make. That is beyond my pay grade."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "938-2",
    "Idiom": [
      "beyond one's pay grade"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Beyond one's capability.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Figuring out how it would work logistically is above and beyond my pay grade and my brain power."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "939",
    "Idiom": [
      "beyond one's years"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Extraordinary for one's age.",
    "Sentence": [
      "I know now after raising a very bright and sensitive son myself, no parents could have handled me better than my own. I was intelligent beyond my years, but emotionally, ...",
      "I am beyond my years, but I cannot keep count, as my Abacus runs to computer grail.",
      "I was always very smart beyond my years. Everyone always said so. Heeeheee.",
      "Dear Diary, In some ways I am beyond my years. I mean how many eighteen year olds feel ready to settle down and marry this day and age? Most people my age are going away to college, partying on the weekends, and still trying to figure  ...",
      "She told me a story of how the doctor who delivered me told her that I was special...and I was smart beyond my years. He told her my reflexes were not only on target but better than other babies. I loved this story. For an instant I felt special.",
      "Of herself, she has said, “Most people who get to know me would say that I am beyond my years, and I do feel that way. All that I have experienced has aged me mentally.” In the opinion of this professor, that translates to: wiser than her years.",
      "Being intelligent beyond my years I soon put two and two together, and understood it all: she had run into the garden, taking advantage of the absence of my stern parents, to steal in among the raspberry bushes, or to pick herself some  ..."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "940",
    "Idiom": [
      "beyond the black stump"
    ],
    "Meaning": "In an extremely isolated place.",
    "Sentence": [
      "While Millard did not shift from log cabin to White House, he did transport himself from beyond the Black Stump to strike it rich at Stawell.",
      "“Just don't go gettin' serious,” Frank warned. “We don't want any trouble. We're gonna be beyond the black stump out there, not at the bloody Lennox Hotel.”",
      "Kimberly, his eldest daughter who we love dearly, is very pregnant with our great grand daughter, the father of whom I have never met and who has shot through to the outback far beyond the black stump."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "941",
    "Idiom": [
      "beyond the pale"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Outside the bounds of acceptable behavior or judgment.",
    "Sentence": [
      "The very date which put them beyond the pale as belligerents was that which they seem to have chosen in order to prove what active and valiant soldiers they still remained.",
      "Socially Mack and the boys were beyond the pale. Sam Malloy didn't speak to them as they went by the boiler. They drew into themselves and no one could foresee how they would come out of the cloud. For there are two possible reactions to social ostracism - either a man emerges determined to be better, purer, and kindlier or he goes bad, challenges the world and does even worse things. This last is by far the commonest reaction to stigma.",
      "“The teaching of methods of terror and other seditious conduct should be beyond the pale,” he continued, adding as an afterthought, “along with obscenity and immorality.”",
      "For most British voters – the people whom Labour claimed to represent – Labour was, quite simply, ‘ beyond the pale ’."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "942",
    "Idiom": [
      "bi now, gay later"
    ],
    "Meaning": "A slogan suggesting bisexuals may become exclusively gay later in life.",
    "Sentence": [
      "One of the most common misconceptions about bisexuality is that it's some kind of stepping-stone on the way to coming out \"all the way,\" as gay and/or lesbian. This pernicious stereotype, sometimes referred to as “ bi now, gay later,” is often used to warn straight people away from dating bi folks. If “ bi now, gay later ” is one side of an offensive, disrespectful coin, the LUG (or “lesbian until graduation”) stereotype is its counterpart.",
      "\"And I did that usual sort of bi now gay later thing, so I was like I'm bisexual, I'm bisexual, I like women as well. Just to make it more acceptable.\""
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "943",
    "Idiom": [
      "bide one's time"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To wait for a suitable opportunity.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Ravenswood, who had assumed the disguise of a sewer upon the occasion, answered, in a stern voice, “I bide my time ”; and at the same moment a bull’s head, the ancient symbol of death, was placed upon the table.",
      "I sat on the rug, biding my time / Drinking her wine / We talked until two / And then she said, \"it's time for bed\"",
      "“Some say he died. Codswallop, in my opinion. Dunno if he had enough human left in him to die. Some say he’s still out there, bidin’ his time, like, but I don’ believe it.",
      "There are times, Machiavelli concedes, where it might be more advantageous to be cautious and bide one's time in order to ascertain the dispensation of the goddess more clearly.",
      "Above the concourse, the underneath of the platforms has been clad with attractive wood panelling, while the columns holding them up are surrounded with seating - for use by passengers biding their time waiting for their trains, or who have used one of the 70-or-so eateries or shops that form part of the retail developments at the station."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "944-1",
    "Idiom": [
      "big boy"
    ],
    "Meaning": "A large object or person.",
    "Sentence": [
      "I've been dying to get behind the wheel of this big boy."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "944-2",
    "Idiom": [
      "big boy"
    ],
    "Meaning": "An adult male seen as mature and independent.",
    "Sentence": [
      "He is a big boy and can take care of himself."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "945",
    "Idiom": [
      "big boys"
    ],
    "Meaning": "People or entities with significant influence or power.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Joe said: “You big boys ought to find a farm, And make good farmers, and leave other fellows The city work to do. There's not enough For everybody as it is in there.” “God!” one said wildly, and, when no one spoke: “Say that to Jimmy here.",
      "If you think you can do better than the big boys of electronic engineering, then good luck."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "946",
    "Idiom": [
      "big break"
    ],
    "Meaning": "A breakthrough for an unknown performer in entertainment.",
    "Sentence": [
      "The East London Line gained a connection to the Jubilee Line Extension when a new station was added at Canada Water in 1999, but its big break came in 2010, when it was incorporated into the London Overground, a network that rehabilitates some dowdy and obscure suburban lines (most particularly the old North London Railway) to create an orbital railway for the capital."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "947",
    "Idiom": [
      "big bucks"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Lots of money.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Ohio always was home, where his family and friends were, and such is the man’s allegiance to Ohio State that he once donated the equivalent of a full scholarship back to the school—and this was before he was making the big, big bucks.",
      "But he was unable to get a gun permit and make the big bucks of an armed security guard, so he made minimum wage as a seasonal-hire watchman",
      "After all the carping about how little teachers are paid, if someone enters the teaching profession for the big bucks aren't they too stupid to be teaching our kids?",
      "The new managing director must be making big bucks after his promotion."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "948",
    "Idiom": [
      "big cheese"
    ],
    "Meaning": "A very important figure.",
    "Sentence": [
      "I know. But it's his ship now, his command; he's in charge, he's the boss, the head man, the top dog, the big cheese, the head honcho, number one...",
      "If not for all these bills and taxes, our income would more than suffice. I feel like a real big cheese, until everybody takes a slice!",
      "He’ll be meeting with the big cheese first thing tomorrow, to present his proposal."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "949-1",
    "Idiom": [
      "big deal",
      "no biggie"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Something very important or significant.",
    "Sentence": [
      "It's a big deal to him to get this promotion.",
      "It's no big deal if you don't finish it today.",
      "Why do you always have to make such a big deal of tiny punctuation errors?",
      "My teeth are, like, too small / But no biggie / It's so awesome",
      "It's no biggie. It should only take five minutes to make a new one."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "950-2",
    "Idiom": [
      "big deal"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Someone important.",
    "Sentence": [
      "She's a big deal in music in Spain."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "950-3",
    "Idiom": [
      "big deal"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Indicates that something is not important.",
    "Sentence": [
      "He can run a mile in six minutes? Big deal! Some people can do it in four.",
      "So you beat the worst team in the league. Big deal, call the TV crews."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "951",
    "Idiom": [
      "big end of town"
    ],
    "Meaning": "The elite or powerful segment of society.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "952-1",
    "Idiom": [
      "big fat"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Complete or total.",
    "Sentence": [
      "He's a big fat idiot."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "952-2",
    "Idiom": [
      "big fat"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Huge.",
    "Sentence": [
      "I know a society who will pay you a big fat sum if you'll sign over them eyes for post-mortem laboratory work.",
      "[Porkypine:] Why, it's a big fat honor... They'll speech at you an' feed you chicken foot stew an'... [Pogo:] But I don't like to listen to them speeches an' I don't care for chicken foots. [Porkypine:] If yo' public is gone give you honor, son, they isn't gone let yo' personal taste stand in the way.",
      "As Jürgen Klopp took Sadio Mané in his arms and spun him like a beloved ballroom partner, there was a moment of sing-song communion with the Kop. They love these big fat emotional notes here."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "953",
    "Idiom": [
      "big fish"
    ],
    "Meaning": "An important person.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Nevertheless, First looks set to become a big fish in this marginal pond."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "954",
    "Idiom": [
      "big fish in a small pond"
    ],
    "Meaning": "A person of significance in a small, unimportant context.",
    "Sentence": [
      "[Arnold] Toynbee worries about the psychosomatic effects when an individual has a constant stature yet finds himself living in complexes of ever-increasing magnitude. In a community small enough to identify with, yet large enough to offer sufficient choices, man need not be either a big fish in a small pond or a small fish in a big pond.",
      "No doubt many would feel that being a big fish in a small pond for a small time is not enough. Fortunately the system could and would continue to work well without such people.",
      "Then there is the profile, desired or acquired, by opera houses, how much they are prepared to spend being a measure of how keen they are on international prestige. The big names they draw are not big fish in small ponds. They are big on the international circuit, which fosters the kind of cultural mixing (in aesthetic, organizational, managerial, and financial terms) that operates in a very pronounced way in opera today, as well as in the performance arts aspiring to its status and scale.",
      "He had come to New York to escape the claustrophobia of being a big fish in a small pond, and to make his way as a writer.",
      "Indeed, Josh [White ]'s status throughout the 1950s would often be that of a big fish in a small pond. The major labels, films, and network television shows were barred to him, but the newer, smaller folk promoters considered him an established star, and some, at least, assumed that his price would be out of their reach.",
      "\"I'd have gotten promotion, so I would have been higher up in a smaller organization.\" / \"What's wrong with that? Big fish in a small pond, right?\"",
      "Most of the businesses are big fish in small ponds, holding sway in a local area but wielding little market or political power on a national or even regional scale.",
      "Dr. Jones could get a professorship at an Ivy League university, but he enjoys being a big fish in a small pond too much to ever leave Hannover College."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "955",
    "Idiom": [
      "big girl"
    ],
    "Meaning": "An adult female.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "956",
    "Idiom": [
      "big gun"
    ],
    "Meaning": "A powerful or influential person or thing.",
    "Sentence": [
      "This has been a great day for the big guns. This does not refer to Prof. Lummis and the other big guns of the Board of Visitors, for every day is a great one for them.",
      "Berra Is Big Gun In Yankee Victory",
      "And the administration's big guns — Bush, Cheney, Powell and once-and-current Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld — had the clout to make bold and necessary changes.",
      "Clapton kept the big guns for last, finishing the set off with Derek and the Domino's \"Layla\", complete with the haunting instrumentals at song's end."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "957-1",
    "Idiom": [
      "big head"
    ],
    "Meaning": "An inflated ego.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Don't let the Mayor's compliments give you a big head.",
      "He has gotten a little success, and a big head to go with it."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "957-2",
    "Idiom": [
      "big head"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Contrast between rational thought and lust.",
    "Sentence": [
      "\"I wasn't thinking.\" \"Oh, you were thinking, just not with your big head. A sexy skirt catches your eye, and you're blind to what's in front of you.\""
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "957-3",
    "Idiom": [
      "big head"
    ],
    "Meaning": "A type of distribution in statistics.",
    "Sentence": [
      "My friend Mark Wieman noted recently that the Long Tail has gotten so long and so thick that there's not much left in the Big Head."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "958",
    "Idiom": [
      "big kahuna"
    ],
    "Meaning": "A boss or leader.",
    "Sentence": [
      "You'll have to talk with the big kahuna to get a decision on that."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "959-1",
    "Idiom": [
      "big mouth"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Someone who talks too much or reveals too much information.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Shut your big mouth or I'll shut it for you."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "959-2",
    "Idiom": [
      "big mouth"
    ],
    "Meaning": "A person who talks too much or reveals information inappropriately.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Shut up, big mouth !"
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "960-1",
    "Idiom": [
      "big name"
    ],
    "Meaning": "A widely-known reputation.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Solly had carried on the old business, and was making a big name for himself.",
      "He made a big name in the war. And since he's been in the ranger service he's done wonders.",
      "Do you want to go out there and do the right things or do you want to make that big hit to gain a big name ?"
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "960-2",
    "Idiom": [
      "big name"
    ],
    "Meaning": "A prominent individual.",
    "Sentence": [
      "\"You don't want me, you want a big name. They're all set to hang you over there.... It's a job for the biggest and best criminal lawyer in town.\"",
      "With the big names of Europe assembled in Washington for the signing of the Atlantic Pact, the pact itself and its implications continue to be the world's biggest story.",
      "Just before Christmas 1983... our editors were alerted that the surrealist painter Joan Miro had died. (A big name almost always dies around Christmas.)"
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "961",
    "Idiom": [
      "big old"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Emphatically or impressively big.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "962-1",
    "Idiom": [
      "big picture"
    ],
    "Meaning": "The totality of a situation.",
    "Sentence": [
      "I do not care whether it is placed or not, if I get my stuff to that ship. Now, it is my job to look at the big picture.",
      "We need somebody who will overlook the petty details, look at the big picture, decide what is necessary to end the war, make a plan,",
      "I met an executive from Missouri who turned around a failing plant by sharing information with employees about the company's performance. When the employees understood the big picture, they did even better at their jobs.",
      "In the prewedding whirlwind of bridal showers, dress shopping, and parties, even the most budget savvy bridesmaids can overspend by mistake. Because the events span several months, it can be easy to lose track of the big picture and splurge at each event.",
      "Having laid out these big-picture figures, the report then begins its analysis of traffic types against route mileage."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "962-2",
    "Idiom": [
      "big picture"
    ],
    "Meaning": "The main aspect or overall view of a situation.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "963",
    "Idiom": [
      "big screen"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Related to movies or cinema.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Stars of the stage and the big screen gathered for the awards ceremony.",
      "Jane Smith made her big-screen debut in 2005, appearing as a librarian in a Hollywood crime thriller."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "964",
    "Idiom": [
      "big shop"
    ],
    "Meaning": "A large, regular grocery purchase.",
    "Sentence": [
      "I do a monthly big shop and get bits in between. I think I would be better off planning meals for the week and going weekly.",
      "These changes, experienced by all the \"Big Four\" supermarkets, suggest that the era of the once-a-week big shop is nearing an end.",
      "A lot of consumers are moving away from one big shop a week to ‘basket shopping’. They visit two or three times a week to top up.",
      "If they are trying to get people to enjoy their time there, whether going out for a meal, to the cinema or for a big shop, they don’t want to be keeping an eye on the clock.",
      "If your order is under the threshold, you’ll have to pay a delivery charge, which can vary from £1.49 to £6 depending on what you purchase. So try and do a big shop rather than lots of little ones."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "965-1",
    "Idiom": [
      "big shot"
    ],
    "Meaning": "A person of importance or power.",
    "Sentence": [
      "They stopped traffic so some big shot and his entourage could have the whole road to themselves."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "965-2",
    "Idiom": [
      "big shot"
    ],
    "Meaning": "A person who is important or highly regarded.",
    "Sentence": [
      "her one big shot at the brass ring"
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "966",
    "Idiom": [
      "big sleep"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Death.",
    "Sentence": [
      "What did it matter where you lay once you were dead? In a dirty sump or in a marble tower on top of a high hill? You were dead, you were sleeping the big sleep, you were not bothered by things like that.",
      "Before I sink into the big sleep / I want to hear / The scream of the butterfly"
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "967",
    "Idiom": [
      "big spender"
    ],
    "Meaning": "One who frequently makes large, extravagant purchases.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "968-1",
    "Idiom": [
      "big talk"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Boastful or exaggerated statements.",
    "Sentence": [
      "\"Me, I just dropped in to hear yore big talk. Reminds me of old Geronimo. Like you, he gets all filled up with words about every so often and has to steam off. Go ahead, Gurley. Don't let me interrupt you. Make heap oration.\"",
      "Classmates remembered him as brash and jug-eared and full of big talk about his sexual experience.",
      "In an industry built on big talk and swagger, Bank of America's Kenneth Lewis is an anomaly."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "968-2",
    "Idiom": [
      "big talk"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Major topic of conversation.",
    "Sentence": [
      "At the annual livestock convention in Toronto's Royal York Hotel last week, the big talk was about Holsteins.",
      "\"The big talk of the street at the moment is that the Fed will raise the discount rate 50 basis points,\" said Kenneth Ducey."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "969",
    "Idiom": [
      "big tamale"
    ],
    "Meaning": "A very important figure or high-ranking person.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "970",
    "Idiom": [
      "big tent"
    ],
    "Meaning": "A movement that seeks to attract a broad range of members or views.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Humanism is an expansive trisyllable, a veritable \" big-tent \" of a word, sheltering many varieties of performance under its spreading canvas.",
      "The Democratic governor of Mississippi, Paul Johnson, has endorsed Republican presidential nominee Barry Goldwater. He said he is confident that the majority of Mississippians \"Have no desire to get under Lyndon Johnson 's big tent and to share the company already assembled there.\"",
      "The newcomers often bring an array of ancillary problems to meetings, including emotional trauma and addiction to other drugs. As the organization metamorphoses, its supporters wonder whether A.A. [Alcoholics Anonymous] can or should be such a big tent.",
      "They are not a slice of Americana, as we usually say, but rather, a broad brush of it. While most of our successful sports franchises display some distinct personality, only the [Dallas] Cowboys offer the big tent.",
      "And here in essence is the problem with the Democrats' big tent, as well as the grounds for a wholly new kind of culture war that is probably going to make us long for the clear lines and simple enmities of the old one.",
      "#MeToo, that vast and disembodied and ongoing protest march, has been subject to similar dynamics: the big tent, flinging its flaps ever wider; the entropic impulse as both a matter of promise and a matter of peril.",
      "Vox was established a decade ago when its leader, Santiago Abascal, split from the Popular Party, long a big center-right tent that included monarchists, libertarian supporters of same-sex marriage, ultraconservative Catholics and Spaniards who detested the independence movements of the north."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "971",
    "Idiom": [
      "big things come in small packages"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Things shouldn't be underestimated due to their size.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "972",
    "Idiom": [
      "big wheel"
    ],
    "Meaning": "A person with significant power or influence.",
    "Sentence": [
      "She's a big wheel at IBM."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "973-1",
    "Idiom": [
      "bigger fish to fry"
    ],
    "Meaning": "A more pressing issue to attend to.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Thanks for the vegan idioms, Peta, but there are bigger fish to fry [title] Trying to enforce non-meaty alternatives to phrases like ‘bring home the bacon’ will only harm the veganism cause."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "973-2",
    "Idiom": [
      "bigger fish to fry"
    ],
    "Meaning": "A higher priority or more important matter.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "974",
    "Idiom": [
      "bill of goods"
    ],
    "Meaning": "A set of misleading or deceptive claims.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Truman bought quite a bill of goods from the old cronies who had flocked to Harriman."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "975",
    "Idiom": [
      "bio queen"
    ],
    "Meaning": "A biologically female performer in drag.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "976",
    "Idiom": [
      "bird in the bosom"
    ],
    "Meaning": "A secret pledge for another.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "977",
    "Idiom": [
      "bird of one's own brain"
    ],
    "Meaning": "One's own idea.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "978",
    "Idiom": [
      "bird's-eye view"
    ],
    "Meaning": "A high or direct view from above.",
    "Sentence": [
      "“What makes you think there is a mouse in this room?” “The evidence points that way.” “And why were you standing on a chair?” “Sort of just trying to get a bird's-eye view, as it were.” “Do you often go looking for mice in other people's rooms?”",
      "Looking down from the seventh floor balcony gave them a bird's-eye view of the street below."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "979-1",
    "Idiom": [
      "birds and bees"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Informal education about sex.",
    "Sentence": [
      "We learned about birds and bees back in school."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "979-2",
    "Idiom": [
      "birds and bees"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Sex education.",
    "Sentence": [
      "I had the birds and bees with your mother."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "980-1",
    "Idiom": [
      "birds of a feather"
    ],
    "Meaning": "People with similar traits or interests.",
    "Sentence": [
      "And since we're so near, like birds of a feather,",
      "Birds of a feather do fall out sometimes.",
      "Paul Blanshard has two bogeymen of almost equal fearsomeness: one dwells in the Kremlin, the other in the Vatican.... Blanshard has satisfied himself that Stalin and the Pope are pretty much birds of a feather."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "980-2",
    "Idiom": [
      "birds of a feather"
    ],
    "Meaning": "People with similar interests or characteristics tend to associate with each other.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "981",
    "Idiom": [
      "birds of a feather flock together"
    ],
    "Meaning": "People with similar traits tend to associate with each other.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "982",
    "Idiom": [
      "birds of the feather flock together",
      "birds of a feather flock together"
    ],
    "Meaning": "People of similar traits tend to associate with each other.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "983",
    "Idiom": [
      "birth tourism"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Traveling to another country to give birth for citizenship purposes.",
    "Sentence": [
      "In Ireland,a sort of birth tourism emerged in which non-EU nationals sought to give birth there to secure citizenship for their children and exemption from deportation for themselves",
      "Ground zero for U.S. birth tourism appears to be San Gabriel Valley, located in the county of Los Angeles.",
      "The Harper government is considering changes to the citizenship rules to target so-called birth tourism — where a foreign national comes to Canada to give birth so the baby can get Canadian citizenship.",
      "“ Birth tourism ” is a xenophobic myth."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "984",
    "Idiom": [
      "birthday suit"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Nakedness.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Nature, the universal tailor, provides for every other animal a birthday suit of clothes which is to outlast his life; but man, though so peculiarly sensitive to the assaults of the elements, is ushered into this nether sphere without any covering, in order that he may be compelled to exert his faculties, and become his own tailor, and thereby his own civilizer.",
      "At last I'm down to the nitty-gritty, my original birthday suit. Where do I put my hands? I need pockets.",
      "The terms naturalistic and naturalism suffer from the fact that they have a range of meanings, covering a variety of things from the Romantic submission to nature or the collecting of butterflies to the practice of bathing on the beach clad only in one's birthday suit.",
      "A person suddenly caught naked by the collapse of a building wall is treated quite differently than a person who intentionally “streaks” a public gathering in his or her birthday suit.",
      "George embarrassed his aunt by answering the door in his birthday suit."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "985",
    "Idiom": [
      "bis dat qui cito dat"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Prompt assistance is more valuable than delayed assistance.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "986",
    "Idiom": [
      "bit by a barn mouse"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Slightly drunk.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "987-1",
    "Idiom": [
      "bitch goddess"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Success in wealth and fame.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "987-2",
    "Idiom": [
      "bitch goddess"
    ],
    "Meaning": "A successful, rich, or famous woman.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "988-1",
    "Idiom": [
      "bite me"
    ],
    "Meaning": "An expression of discontent or annoyance.",
    "Sentence": [
      "She swiped at her tears with the palm of her hand, slipped his front-door key into the breast pocket of his leather suit jacket, whispered to the dead man, \" Bite me, asshole.\""
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "988-2",
    "Idiom": [
      "bite me"
    ],
    "Meaning": "A taunting phrase meaning \"I don't care.\"",
    "Sentence": [
      "\"We was talking and stuff, and I'm, like, I am SO not going there! And he just went, okay whatever, and I'm like FINE! Like I could care less, and then he goes, like, yeah bite me —\"",
      "\"I don't know, Tedd; can you sing without soap?\" \" Bite me. \"",
      "\"Whatever. I'm going to go use your computer, see if Rhoda or Lucy are online.\" \"Just be sure to stay out of the folder named 'Gender Studies' before eleven-fifty!\" \" Bite me. \""
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "988-3",
    "Idiom": [
      "bite me"
    ],
    "Meaning": "A command to go away.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "989-1",
    "Idiom": [
      "bite my ass"
    ],
    "Meaning": "An expression of disdain or dismissal.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "989-2",
    "Idiom": [
      "bite my ass"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Rejection or refusal.",
    "Sentence": [
      "You want me to find all the books for you? You can bite my ass !"
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "990",
    "Idiom": [
      "bite my shiny metal ass"
    ],
    "Meaning": "An expression of discontent or annoyance.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "991",
    "Idiom": [
      "bite of the cherry"
    ],
    "Meaning": "A chance.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "992",
    "Idiom": [
      "bite of the reality sandwich"
    ],
    "Meaning": "A wake-up call.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "993-1",
    "Idiom": [
      "bite off"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To commit to a challenging task or responsibility.",
    "Sentence": [
      "In between what she called the \"goody-good\" or \"frilly-knickers\" Hollywood films, she bit off some more demanding parts back home.",
      "\"And for the next couple of years, with Nokia having bitten off so much, Vuorilehto is the right guy for the task they face.\"",
      "We have set a plan that we believe everyone at News Corp. will bite off on.",
      "They think it's politically too much for the government to bite off right now."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "993-2",
    "Idiom": [
      "bite off"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To acquire abruptly or forcefully.",
    "Sentence": [
      "To thicken that buffer zone Britain joined other powers in biting off larger chunks of China.",
      "For R.I.M. to bite off just a tiny piece of that market would help it grow considerably."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "994",
    "Idiom": [
      "bite off more than one can chew"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To take on more than one can handle.",
    "Sentence": [
      "I think I bit off more than I could chew when I agreed to paint this house by myself."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "995",
    "Idiom": [
      "bite one's lip"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To prevent oneself from speaking to avoid conflict or saying something inappropriate.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Buckingham bit his lip, for he saw the introduction of Lady Derby was likely to confuse and embroil every preparation which he had arranged for his defence;",
      "He broke off and bit his lip, feeling that he had better subdue the rising anger in his voice."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "996",
    "Idiom": [
      "bite one's nails"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To worry or fret.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "997",
    "Idiom": [
      "bite one's tongue"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To resist the urge to speak out.",
    "Sentence": [
      "She wanted to go see a movie called Gigi, which I was not too thrilled about. But being a gentleman, I bit my tongue and said, “Okay.”",
      "I used to bite my tongue and hold my breath / Scared to rock the boat and make a mess.",
      "my automatic tongue-biting mechanism kicked in just in time.",
      "I swear I meant to mean the best when it ended / Even try to bite my tongue when you start shit / Now you're texting all my friends, asking questions / They never even liked you in the first place"
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "998",
    "Idiom": [
      "bite someone's hand off"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To enthusiastically accept an offer.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Early next morning, before Stephen left for town, Juan called us again with his final offer. We bit his hand off.",
      "I tried to look cool but I bit his hand off and verbally accepted the provisional offer.",
      "Whilst Michael did not refuse her offer, he did not exactly bite her hand off either but, as Charley later admitted to herself, he was a very busy man."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "999",
    "Idiom": [
      "bite someone's head off"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To severely criticize someone.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "1000",
    "Idiom": [
      "bite the big one"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To fail.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Empire of the Sun was an enormous literary and commercial success in Britain but pretty much bit the Big One on its own in the United States."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "1001",
    "Idiom": [
      "bite the biscuit"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To undertake an unpleasant task or acknowledge an unfavorable situation.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Weibe, who fought the effects of allergy medicine and a winless streak since the Hardee's Golf Classic (1986), had to bite the biscuit and settle for second place.",
      "Sometimes owners need to bite the biscuit and call in professional help in order to solve a nasty canine behavioral problem."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "1002",
    "Idiom": [
      "bite the bullet"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To accept a negative situation to move forward.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "1003",
    "Idiom": [
      "bite the curb"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To be curb stomped.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Watch out those crazy skinheads! They made someone bite the curb the other night."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "1004-1",
    "Idiom": [
      "bite the dust"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To die.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Three more warriors bit the dust...",
      "Tons of engine sheds would bite the dust with the end of steam, and many would be demolished with their time in the spotlight over. We're lucky that the one at Didcot survived into preservation."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "1004-2",
    "Idiom": [
      "bite the dust"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To fail or be defeated.",
    "Sentence": [
      "London calling, now don't look to us / Phony Beatlemania has bitten the dust",
      "My old backpack finally bit the dust the other day."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "1005",
    "Idiom": [
      "bite the hand that feeds one"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To harm a benefactor, risking one's own interests.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Granted that it is not \"exquisitely rational\" to bite the hand that feeds you, yet that is just what clients and patients do which is one reason they need therapy.",
      "And the reality is, for all the talk about lobbying reform, Congress has never been known to bite the hand that feeds it.",
      "For entirely self-serving reasons, ministers and civil servants never dispelled the public belief that uncaring 'fat cat' privateers or foreign state railways were in control, ramping up fares and creaming off profits which either enriched shareholders or subsidised European rail fares. DfT left train operators to 'take the heat' - which they dutifully did, fearful of speaking up and ' biting the hand that feeds'.",
      "\"Daddy, don't say that. I don't bite the hand that feeds me. What a horrible expression, 'the hand that feeds you'. How can you say that to me when you used to refuse to feed me, when you punished me by locking me in my room without a scrap of food, so I'd be skinny like Luz and like Mother.\""
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "1006",
    "Idiom": [
      "bite to eat"
    ],
    "Meaning": "A snack or quick meal.",
    "Sentence": [
      "I'll go and get a bite to eat after school."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "1007",
    "Idiom": [
      "bitter end"
    ],
    "Meaning": "The end of a long and difficult process.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "1008",
    "Idiom": [
      "black and white"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Easily divided into opposing views.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "1009",
    "Idiom": [
      "black babies"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Refers to charities supporting underprivileged children.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Jim met his wife when she was collecting for the black babies."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "1010",
    "Idiom": [
      "black day"
    ],
    "Meaning": "A day of misfortune or unhappiness.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "1011",
    "Idiom": [
      "black gold"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Crude oil.",
    "Sentence": [
      "With the black gold already gushing from his country's wells, the Iranian monarch did not show much interest in what the Republic of China had to offer in agricultural know-how, commerce, and cultural interflow."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "1012",
    "Idiom": [
      "black mark"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Something that harms reputation.",
    "Sentence": [
      "\"It taints your CV as people look at it and see what's gone on and it does put a bit of a black mark against you,\" says the man who, in 2006, was head hunted by Preston only for his tenure to be brought to a halt 17 months later."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "1013",
    "Idiom": [
      "black over Bill's mother's"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Describes dark rain clouds.",
    "Sentence": [
      "“It looks a bit black over Bill's mother's,” I said. “I don't like the look of them bleeding clouds for one minute.”",
      "“Oh, that's nice.” said Mrs Jones looking out of the window at the rain. “It has gone real black over Bill's mother's,” she said using one of the old sayings from around those parts.",
      "Lalla puffed contentedly at his pipe. Then he removed it, spat, and looked at the sky. “It's getting black over Bill's mother's. We ought to be making a start.”"
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "1014",
    "Idiom": [
      "black rider"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Famine, one of the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "1015-1",
    "Idiom": [
      "black sheep"
    ],
    "Meaning": "A nonconformist or unconventional person, often rejected by others.",
    "Sentence": [
      "He always was the black sheep in the family, as an artist among doctors and lawyers."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "1015-2",
    "Idiom": [
      "black sheep"
    ],
    "Meaning": "A person who is untrustworthy or unconventional.",
    "Sentence": [
      "“It’s just what I should have expected,” said Mr. Hawley, mounting his horse. “Any cursed alien blood, Jew, Corsican, or Gypsy.”¶ “I know he’s one of your black sheep, Hawley. But he is really a disinterested, unworldly fellow,” said Mr. Farebrother, smiling.",
      "Kissinger, after all, is a figure of renown among the self-appointed leaders of \"the people from whom he stems\" and a frequent speaker at Jewish charity galas, whereas Ajami is a man almost entirely deserted by his people, a pariah at what should be his hour of triumph. In Arnoun, a family friend told me, \"Fouad is a black sheep because of his staunch support for the Israelis.\"",
      "To get into the SAR, we all do a great deal of research into our families. It can help you connect with your family and learn about your ancestors. If you have a black sheep (we all do), you can learn from them and not do whatever it was that they did. The SAR gives you experiences you wouldn't have had otherwise."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "1015-3",
    "Idiom": [
      "black sheep"
    ],
    "Meaning": "A person who betrays a group, usually for personal gain.",
    "Sentence": [
      "It used to be the law that a black sheep could be brought into the fold of conformity: where there were 'recognised terms of employment – a standard created by a collective agreement or award covering a substantial proportion of the employers and workers in any trade or industry"
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "1016",
    "Idiom": [
      "black-and-white"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Classifying as two polar opposites; inflexible.",
    "Sentence": [
      "The pseudo-community of enemies in The Day the Earth Stood Still consists of politicians, the military, and businessmen, whereas the pseudo-community of friends, the element that complements the enemies and reinforces the black-and-white morality of paranoia (Cameron, \"Revisited\" 56), is composed of scientists, women, and children.",
      "Security people are often the black-and-white kind of people that I can't stand.",
      "“It's complicated. Not everything is black-and-white, Ginny. Sometimes, it's just gray.” The disillusionment in Ginny's eyes hurt bone-deep. She was a black-and-white kind of person. Actions were either right or wrong. No room for in-betweens.",
      "You could say that inflexible thinking is black-and-white thinking and flexible thinking is rainbow thinking. Black-and-white thinkers have difficulty being flexible in their mind and seeing different possibilities and perspectives."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "1017",
    "Idiom": [
      "blame Canada"
    ],
    "Meaning": "A phrase for humorously shifting blame away from a problem.",
    "Sentence": [
      "So, if you don't like this performance, blame Canada !",
      "We surely can't blame Canada. Nike, we suspect, is where we must point the finger for what has become the somewhat too familiar norm in television advertising put forth by major global sporting goods brands. As we all know by now, it was Nike and the agency's longtime marketing partner Wieden+Kennedy in Portland, Ore., that became famous for delivering a steady stream of soft-sell advertising that sold mood, atmosphere and brand image with minimal reference to the actual goods a particular television commercial might have been created to push.",
      "Basically, instead of blaming the U.S. government or society or poor parenting for the way our children behave (poorly), we'll just blame Canada. Everything is Canada's fault.",
      "Blame their partner for something bad that happened It really depends on the circumstances for this one. If the something bad that happened was your dog getting run over, by your partner, then they might deserve to be blamed for it. Especially if they were drunk at the time. This doesn't necessarily mean you’re in an unhealthy relationship. Sometimes people are at fault. And if in doubt, just blame Canada."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "1018",
    "Idiom": [
      "blame game"
    ],
    "Meaning": "A situation where people blame others instead of solving a problem.",
    "Sentence": [
      "She was, in addition, always extremely careful to share with the friends in her Support System her belief that it would be whiny and pathetic to play what she derisively called the \" Blame Game \" and blame her constant and indescribable adult pain on their parents' traumatic divorce or their cynical use of her.",
      "The UK and France are “engaging in a blame game ” over people making perilous Channel crossings in small boats, Labour has said, rather than sitting down together to try to work out a way to prevent more deaths.",
      "A blame game is taking place between Network Rail and the Football Association regarding the closure of the West Coast Main Line over the Easter Bank Holiday, which coincides with an FA Cup semi-final taking place at Wembley Stadium on April 16.",
      "The estimates of the cost of “Trussonomics” will intensify a bitter blame game now being played out at the top of the Tory party.",
      "Political parties are ensnared in a blame game, with the ruling and opposition parties blaming each other. An audit will no doubt follow.",
      "Devastated Democrats Play the Blame Game, and Stare at a Dark Future [title] (Can we archive this URL ?)"
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "1019-1",
    "Idiom": [
      "blank out"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To temporarily lose memory.",
    "Sentence": [
      "He removed the paper from the heat, and the paper blanked out.",
      "The screen blanked out during the power cut.",
      "He blanked out five minutes into the meeting.",
      "I'm blanking out on your name, I'm afraid."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "1019-2",
    "Idiom": [
      "blank out"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To neutralize.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Beckham's second-half goal blanked out Filippi's first-half header to put the score at 1-1."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "1020",
    "Idiom": [
      "blanket term"
    ],
    "Meaning": "A word or phrase that describes multiple related things.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "1021",
    "Idiom": [
      "blare out"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Produced loudly.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "1022",
    "Idiom": [
      "blast from the past"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Something or someone that evokes nostalgia.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Now there's a golden oldie, a blast from the past, when the heavyweight division was still strong and vibrant and unified (...)",
      "In the process, he managed to make the Republican tax cut sound like a blast from the past.",
      "\"Ellie!\" he shouted. \"What a blast from the past! This is just like old times, when you used to walk in that very door!\"",
      "But their early celebration was interrupted by a blast from the past : gubernatorial nominee Bob McDonnell's controversial 1989 graduate-school thesis (...)"
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "1023",
    "Idiom": [
      "blast off"
    ],
    "Meaning": "to begin ascent with a rocket.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "1024-1",
    "Idiom": [
      "blast out"
    ],
    "Meaning": "to produce loud music or noise.",
    "Sentence": [
      "The speakers are blasting out their announcements."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "1024-2",
    "Idiom": [
      "blast out"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To produce loud music or noise.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Music was blasting out from their house."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "1025-1",
    "Idiom": [
      "blaze a trail"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To show the way.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "1025-2",
    "Idiom": [
      "blaze a trail"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To set precedent or do something novel.",
    "Sentence": [
      "We don't want to blaze a trail when we can imitate something that has already been done."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "1026-1",
    "Idiom": [
      "blaze away"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To fire repeatedly.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Scott, somewhat stunned and now worried that everybody might have opened fire at the U.S. destroyers (he presumably missed Laffey and Farenholt merrily blazing away with their own guns into the darkness), ordered all firing to cease after a couple of minutes."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "1026-2",
    "Idiom": [
      "blaze away"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To work enthusiastically.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "1027",
    "Idiom": [
      "bleed red ink"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To suffer severe losses.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "1028",
    "Idiom": [
      "bleeding edge"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Something too new and untested to be reliable.",
    "Sentence": [
      "They would be the creators of strategy, generators of action and the bleeding edge of the church, ever pushing toward the front lines of conflict.",
      "A few leading edge (some say \"bleeding\" edge) users have stepped into the arena and their experiences have helped sharpen our perception of what the electronic office can be.",
      "The motion-captured ape characters are the bleeding edge of digital effects, rarely short of impressive.",
      "on the bleeding edge of drone technology"
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "1029",
    "Idiom": [
      "bleeding-edge"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Pertains to something very new and untested, often in technology.",
    "Sentence": [
      "As you'd expect from a bleeding-edge tablet, it has plenty of other high-end features as well."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "1030",
    "Idiom": [
      "bless someone with"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To give or bestow as a gift.",
    "Sentence": [
      "\"The Lord has blessed me with a great family,\" Rivera said as he looked toward his teammates. \"All these men have been part of my family. I love you guys, and you are all special to me and my family.\"",
      "The Lord has blessed me with a beautiful family!"
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "1031-1",
    "Idiom": [
      "bless you"
    ],
    "Meaning": "A polite remark after someone sneezes.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "1031-2",
    "Idiom": [
      "bless you"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Used to express non-understanding of an unusual word or phrase.",
    "Sentence": [
      "‘What’s that?’ said Ron, pointing at a large dish of some sort of shellfish stew that stood beside a large steak-and-kidney pudding. ‘Bouillabaisse,’ said Hermione. ‘ Bless you,’ said Ron. ‘It’s French,’ said Hermione. ‘I had it on holiday, summer before last, it’s very nice.’"
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "1032-1",
    "Idiom": [
      "blessed event"
    ],
    "Meaning": "The birth of a baby.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Alexander Loudon, Netherlands Minister to the U.S., when asked if the blessed event was in prospect, hedged: \"A royal child born on the soil of freedom-loving America would be both a blessing and a good omen.\"",
      "Soon we come to the mother-to-be-any-minute-now in the delivery room, and there is some question about whether the father can/will/wants to get to the hospital in time for the blessed event."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "1032-2",
    "Idiom": [
      "blessed event"
    ],
    "Meaning": "A noteworthy and enjoyable occurrence.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Mr. Spenlow told me this day week was Dora's birthday, and he would be glad if I would come down and join a little picnic on the occasion.... I think I committed every possible absurdity in the way of preparation for this blessed event.",
      "There was a time not so long ago when a company poised to go public would invite a reporter inside to memorialize the moments leading up to the blessed event."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "1033",
    "Idiom": [
      "blimp out"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To become fatter from excessive eating.",
    "Sentence": [
      "I'd get my weight down for the event, then blimp out to where I couldn't fit into Orson Welles' cape.",
      "Now that I am exercising regularly, I can pig out without blimping out."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "1034",
    "Idiom": [
      "blind date"
    ],
    "Meaning": "A romantic meeting between two people who have never met before.",
    "Sentence": [
      "A blind date is a blinkered meeting / A rendez-vous with some person unknown / A secret tryst, a shady dealing / A gambler's chance when love's dice are thrown"
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "1035",
    "Idiom": [
      "blind leading the blind"
    ],
    "Meaning": "A situation where the unqualified lead others.",
    "Sentence": [
      "\"The Lord preserve us from evil times.... Without his grace, we are the blind leading the blind.\"",
      "\"I have been giving them some good advice.\" \"Good advice!\" laughed Janet. \"Between you and Jamie Logan, it is the blind leading the blind, and nothing better.\"",
      "Instructor George Breathitt asked an audience of 300 computer enthusiasts in Louisville, Kentucky, how many seniors in the group would like to teach other seniors about computers. A younger member of the audience quipped disdainfully, \"Wouldn't that be the blind leading the blind ?\"",
      "Look, we're as fucked-up as you are. It's like the blind leading the blind.",
      "Grandma teaching you to drive is like the blind leading the blind."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "1036",
    "Idiom": [
      "blind with science"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To overwhelm someone with details to influence or mislead them.",
    "Sentence": [
      "He had no doubt that they would all have highly convincing stories, and would try to blind him with science if he attempted to pin them down.",
      "If you give him the full printed accounts of his company, he will react by saying that you are blinding him with science, and will pick on figures with many noughts after them and ask where all that money has gone.",
      "My Hon. Friend the Member for the City of Chester has explained what could happen if he comes up against a really hot surveyor who blinds him with science and produces all sorts of cases of which the valuation officer has not heard.",
      "He'd blinded him with science. He'd tied him up with references and precedents. He'd cited Rabbi This from Cracow and Rabbi That from Vilna, till apparently the Great Developer looked like nothing so much as a bull quilled with banotilleros.",
      "Betting was how most of the money Bill earned from helping Fred ended up back in Fred's pocket and not in his. Fred blinded him with science and it always turned out to be to Fred's advantage, Bill thought ruefully."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "1037",
    "Idiom": [
      "blink of an eye",
      "bat of an eye"
    ],
    "Meaning": "A very short period of time.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Mother, remember the blink of an eye / When I breathed through your body?",
      "In the blink of an eye it just all slips away",
      "Just a blink of an eye later, he was gone."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "1038",
    "Idiom": [
      "blink-and-you-miss-it"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Barely visible because it happens too quickly.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Now, driving down the shadowy street, appreciating its early-morning peace and quiet, she reached down to the truck's cup holder and picked up the mug of hot coffee, Utopia was one of those blink-and-you-miss-it towns, on a road that didn't go much of anywhere.",
      "The famous actor's blink-and-you-miss-it appearance in the short film is little known.",
      "The blink-and-you-miss-it town is located between two major highways."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "1039",
    "Idiom": [
      "block out"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To prevent a thought from entering one's mind.",
    "Sentence": [
      "After finding out she had terminal cancer, she tried to block out any thoughts of her own mortality."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "1040",
    "Idiom": [
      "blocking and tackling"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Basic tasks or skills.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Some are caught up in the vision. Others are turned off and say he's a self-promoter who doesn't know anything about the blocking and tackling of the brokerage business.",
      "Cummings has been instrumental in the design of a computer simulation that he says will teach \"the basic blocking and tackling of urban warfare.",
      "This is admittedly the bare basics of journalism, and one would hope it took more than simple journalistic blocking and tackling to become our most trusted practitioner."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "1041",
    "Idiom": [
      "blood and guts"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Gore or gruesome images.",
    "Sentence": [
      "It is a film for more mature audiences, but there is plenty of blood and guts to please the younger viewers too."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "1042",
    "Idiom": [
      "blood in the water"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Exhibiting weakness in a competitive situation.",
    "Sentence": [
      "The first reason Powell gave to explain Carter's press miseries was the idea of \" blood in the water \"—that more bad press goes to those who have just had bad press. Almost nobody in main-stream politics is as likely as a fourth-year incumbent to have just come off a stint of bad press.",
      "But Justice won the Intuit round, and now Microsoft-baiters want to block deployment of the Microsoft Network. As a recent article in the Wall Street Journal aptly noted, competitors sense blood in the water.",
      "[The] Democrats smell blood in the water. Twelve long years sitting on the sidelines. Twelve lean years. Twelve hungry years."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "1043",
    "Idiom": [
      "blood is thicker than water"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Family ties are stronger than non-family relationships.",
    "Sentence": [
      "It seems as though you had come to be so very near to us; and blood is thicker than water, is it not? If cousins are not friends, who can be?",
      "The old clans are scattered now, but blood is thicker than water still, and you're welcome to the fireside of your kinsman!",
      "You know blood is thicker than water / But you just want everyone to get along"
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "1044",
    "Idiom": [
      "blood, sweat and tears"
    ],
    "Meaning": "A person's determination and hard work.",
    "Sentence": [
      "She concludes: \"I have put blood, sweat and tears into this business. I am genuinely more excited now than I have ever been. I plan to stick around.\""
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "1045-1",
    "Idiom": [
      "bloom is off the rose"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Lost its novelty or appeal.",
    "Sentence": [
      "The matter was clear as daylight, and would be disposed of in half an hour or so; but during that half-hour he, Soames, would go down to hell; and after that half-hour all bearers of the Forsyte name would feel the bloom was off the rose.",
      "\"Thatcher's style, her arrogance, her kind of assertiveness, have suddenly gone out of fashion,\" said Ralph Miliband.... Outside of Britain, too, the bloom is off the rose. Mrs. Thatcher had a warm relationship with President Ronald Reagan, but her standing with President Bush is less certain.",
      "The bloom is off the rose concerning the imperial CEO. Finally shareholders are becoming incensed by these reprehensible bonuses and severance packages."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "1045-2",
    "Idiom": [
      "bloom is off the rose"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Business conditions have declined.",
    "Sentence": [
      "\"I would say that the bloom is off the rose a little bit, yes,\" said the senior vice president of video retailing for Lorimar Telepictures, Peter Temple, speaking of the home-shopping phenomenon.",
      "\"I think that for general advertising, the bloom is off the rose. That is a declining revenue model.\""
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "1046",
    "Idiom": [
      "blossom out"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To show beauty.",
    "Sentence": [
      "\"It must be Rena,\" he murmured. \"Who could have dreamed that she would blossom out like that? It must surely be Rena!\""
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "1047",
    "Idiom": [
      "blot on the escutcheon"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Something damaging to one's reputation.",
    "Sentence": [
      "In the sin of adultery, for instance, hath the government provided any law to punish it; or doth the priest take any care to correct it? On the contrary, is the most notorious practice of it any detriment to a man’s fortune, or to his reputation in the world? doth it exclude from him any preferment in the state, I had almost said, in the church? Is it any blotch in his escutcheon, any bar to his honour?",
      "The most zealous advocates of the unfortunate monarch cannot deny that this is an indelible blot on his escutcheon.",
      "He had been commissioned by Chapman & Hall to write another Christmas book— The Kickleburys on the Rhine —had received and advance payment, and with it had removed the last blot from his stepfather’s escutcheon by paying off the last instalment of his debt.",
      "Consequently, where the pardon became a convenient punching bag among contending Democrats, it was no blot on Ford’s escutcheon in the primary contest between Ford and Reagan."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "1048",
    "Idiom": [
      "blot one's copy book"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To damage one's reputation through bad behavior.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "1049",
    "Idiom": [
      "blow a fuse"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To lose one's temper.",
    "Sentence": [
      "When he learned that his daughter had eloped, he blew a fuse."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "1050",
    "Idiom": [
      "blow a hole through"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To destroy integrity or cohesion.",
    "Sentence": [
      "That one small confession to a man she barely knew blew a hole through her emotional dam and everything she'd held back for the last week flooded out.",
      "'By taking down the towers, Sept 11 blew a hole through the errors of the past.",
      "Unless the letters were fake, they blew a hole through Martha's story.",
      "By rolling into the city that Vladimir Putin still claimed as his own, the leader of Ukraine would blow a hole through the stories of conquest and imperial glory that Russian propagandists had been using for months to justify the war."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "1051",
    "Idiom": [
      "blow a kiss"
    ],
    "Meaning": "A gesture of affection done by kissing the hand and blowing it towards someone.",
    "Sentence": [
      "We haven't yet kissed, but she blew me a kiss as the train pulled out of the station. That meant a lot to me."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "1052-1",
    "Idiom": [
      "blow away"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To kill (someone) with a firearm.",
    "Sentence": [
      "The kid just blew the clerk away."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "1052-2",
    "Idiom": [
      "blow away"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To utterly destroy.",
    "Sentence": [
      "In the end, the question proved to be academic. When SCP-3125 arrived, whether it knew ω-0 was there or not, it took no special action against it, and had no need to. Most of ω-0's members' anchors were Foundationers, or Foundation-adjacent. With those people's minds blown away in the first strike, the dense web of mutual memory which had held the Task Force together since its formation tore loose. More than half of the Task Force was cast into the void and died; the final, real death they had evaded for years."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "1052-3",
    "Idiom": [
      "blow away"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To impress greatly.",
    "Sentence": [
      "The critics were blown away by their latest album."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "1053-1",
    "Idiom": [
      "blow chunks"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To vomit.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "1053-2",
    "Idiom": [
      "blow chunks"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To suffer from explosive diarrhea.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "1053-3",
    "Idiom": [
      "blow chunks"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To be very bad or unpleasant.",
    "Sentence": [
      "The old version was okay, but the new version blows chunks."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "1054",
    "Idiom": [
      "blow hot and cold"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To behave inconsistently.",
    "Sentence": [
      "He blows hot and cold. He will speak for or against.",
      "Geminis, like air, blow hot and cold. They go this way today and another way tomorrow.",
      "The Xinhua commentary said that Chen \" blows hot and cold, behaves capriciously and is a hard man to trust.\""
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "1055",
    "Idiom": [
      "blow me"
    ],
    "Meaning": "An expression of discontent or aggravation.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Some things never happen, he reminds himself. But this one always does, says the still small voice of mortality. Blow me, Laney tells it.",
      "When she told him to get lost, he said, \" Blow me, bitch!\""
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "1056",
    "Idiom": [
      "blow me down"
    ],
    "Meaning": "A cry of surprise.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "1057",
    "Idiom": [
      "blow off"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To shirk, abandon, or reject someone or something.",
    "Sentence": [
      "I decided to blow off the meeting and leave early.",
      "We've both been blowing off Peter all day: he's really boring."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "1058-1",
    "Idiom": [
      "blow off steam"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To vent and relieve stress.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Don't take it personally when he shouts like that. He's just blowing off steam.",
      "I told her she could call me and talk any time she wanted to blow off steam."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "1058-2",
    "Idiom": [
      "blow off steam"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To release excess energy or stress.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "1059",
    "Idiom": [
      "blow one's chance"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To ruin an opportunity.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "1060-1",
    "Idiom": [
      "blow one's load"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To ejaculate.",
    "Sentence": [
      "“I want your big cock up my ass so bad, I'm jacking off, and if I don't stop soon, I'm gonna blow my load.\""
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "1060-2",
    "Idiom": [
      "blow one's load"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To expend resources or opportunities, especially prematurely.",
    "Sentence": [
      "He blew his load in the first round and went home early."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "1061",
    "Idiom": [
      "blow one's own trumpet"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To praise oneself.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "1062-1",
    "Idiom": [
      "blow one's wad"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To spend all of one's money.",
    "Sentence": [
      "When a man \" blows his wad,\" at least two different things could have occurred: he either spent or lost all his money in a wager (his wad), or he spent or ejaculated his sperm (his wad). Thorne goes on to suggest that since at least the 1950s \"blow,\" in this context, is a euphemism for \"ejaculate.\""
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "1062-2",
    "Idiom": [
      "blow one's wad"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To expend all resources or efforts.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "1062-3",
    "Idiom": [
      "blow one's wad"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To ejaculate.",
    "Sentence": [
      "When a man \" blows his wad,\" at least two different things could have occurred: he either spent or lost all his money in a wager (his wad), or he spent or ejaculated his sperm (his wad). Thorne goes on to suggest that since at least the 1950s \"blow,\" in this context, is a euphemism for \"ejaculate.\"",
      "There's a cock ring he keeps stretched around a hairbrush; he rolls it off and slides it down into place against the base of his shaft, to help him stay hard without blowing his wad."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "1063",
    "Idiom": [
      "blow out of proportion",
      "blow out of proportions"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To overreact or overstate.",
    "Sentence": [
      "I don’t think we need to blow it out of proportion. There’s a problem, and we should fix it."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "1064",
    "Idiom": [
      "blow out of the water"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To defeat thoroughly.",
    "Sentence": [
      "This turn of events sheds a whole new light on the case. Destiny's attorneys seem to have a new pep in their step. They get busy making phone calls and assuring the family that things are about to turn in their favor. \"We now have information to blow them out of the water !\" the lead attorney asserts vigorously."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "1065",
    "Idiom": [
      "blow over"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To calm down or subside.",
    "Sentence": [
      "They huddled, waiting for the storm to blow over.",
      "You cannot simply wait for a problem like that to blow over."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "1066",
    "Idiom": [
      "blow smoke"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To speak nonsense or without credibility.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Are these \"statistics\" they cite verifiable, or are they just blowing smoke, trying to scare people?"
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "1067",
    "Idiom": [
      "blow someone's brains out"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To perform fellatio on another person.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "1068-1",
    "Idiom": [
      "blow someone's cover"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To reveal someone's true identity or situation.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Iskander's role as a G.A.M. operative was secret—until I unwittingly blew his cover that day.",
      "Others have tried to blow his cover : George Galloway, a left-wing British politician and supporter of the Palestinian cause, published Mr. Mahmood’s photo on his website in 2006 and accused Mr. Mahmood of disguising himself as an Arab businessman and trying to entice him to make anti-Semitic comments over lunch.",
      "One of her adopted brothers said that she had asked him not to reveal that she is white. \"She took me aside and just told me not to blow her cover,\" Ezra Dolezal, one of her African American adopted siblings, told KREM-TV."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "1068-2",
    "Idiom": [
      "blow someone's cover"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To reveal someone's false identity or deception.",
    "Sentence": [
      "This spy film purports to be inspired by the true story of Kim Philby (1912-1988), a British intelligence officer and Soviet spy during the 1940s and '50s who gained international notoriety when he blew his cover and defected to the USSR in 1963."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "1069",
    "Idiom": [
      "blow someone's mind"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To astonish someone.",
    "Sentence": [
      "I'll pick up your hand and slowly blow your little mind / Cause I made my mind up you're going to be mine",
      "Still I keep loving you / More and more each time / Girl, what am I gonna do / Because you blow my mind",
      "Powers are for the weak. I have no powers. I mean, unless you count the power to blow minds with my weapons-grade philosophical insights.",
      "We brought him out of retirement. He is awesome. He's a slow-talking Texan, and he will blow people's minds."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "1070",
    "Idiom": [
      "blow the cobwebs away"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To make room for new ideas.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "1071",
    "Idiom": [
      "blow the doors off"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To be much more impressive than.",
    "Sentence": [
      "You won “Last Comic Standing” in 2006. What impact did that have on your career? Well, it just blew the doors off everything I was doing up to that point. I’ve been doing 200 shows a year ever since then. It definitely launched me into the abyss."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "1072",
    "Idiom": [
      "blow the lid off"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To uncover a secret or scandal.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Her presence forces churchpeople to consider on what grounds gay relationships can be sanctioned within the community. This question blows the lid off of notions of the special sacredness of heterosexual monogamy."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "1073",
    "Idiom": [
      "blow the whistle"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To disclose illegal or harmful actions to the public or authorities.",
    "Sentence": [
      "In some jurisdictions, it is illegal to fire a person for blowing the whistle on an employer."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "1074",
    "Idiom": [
      "blow this Popsicle stand"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To leave a place, often for something more exciting.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "1075",
    "Idiom": [
      "blow this pop stand"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To leave a boring place.",
    "Sentence": [
      "I'm bored out of my mind; let's blow this pop stand."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "1076",
    "Idiom": [
      "blow to kingdom come"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To totally destroy.",
    "Sentence": [
      "If this gas ignites, it'll blow you to kingdom come, you venal viper!",
      "The hostages were trembling when they heard a man exclaim / “Let’s blow this place to kingdom come, let Con Edison take the blame”"
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "1077",
    "Idiom": [
      "blow town"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To suddenly leave.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "1078",
    "Idiom": [
      "blow up in one's face"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To fail disastrously.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Whether the specific pecking order of the game I let them play today had anything to do with the fact that it blew up in my face after five minutes is a question that can be answered only in empirical terms.",
      "If I took the risk to speak with my friend and the whole thing blew up in my face, I'd probably feel ashamed and exposed whenever I thought about it for a very, very long time.",
      "So I wish you luck, but don't come crying to me when it blows up in your face."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "1079",
    "Idiom": [
      "blue chamber"
    ],
    "Meaning": "A forbidden room.",
    "Sentence": [
      "“ Matty would scarcely find fault with my visiting their blue chamber. ”",
      "On Sundays, Miss Pross dined at the Doctor’s table, but on other days persisted in taking her meals, at unknown periods, either in the lower regions, or in her own room on the second floor—a blue chamber, to which no one but her Ladybird ever gained admittance.",
      "My mother dared not break the lock, as my father had prohibited any one from entering this, his blue chamber; and what was worse, he had the key."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "1080-1",
    "Idiom": [
      "blue devils"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Low spirits or depression.",
    "Sentence": [
      "\"… the disease is either extinct, or exists in such a mild form that a short course of aperient medicine carries it off. It is sometimes called the Blue-devils now or the Mulleygrubs. Queer names, ain't they?\""
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "1080-2",
    "Idiom": [
      "blue devils"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Depressants, especially amobarbital.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "1081",
    "Idiom": [
      "blue moon"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Infrequent occurrence.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "1082-1",
    "Idiom": [
      "blue note"
    ],
    "Meaning": "The flatted 5th scale degree in the blues scale.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "1082-2",
    "Idiom": [
      "blue note"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Notes in blues music that clash with underlying harmony, typically including the flatted third, fifth, and seventh.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "1083",
    "Idiom": [
      "blue state"
    ],
    "Meaning": "A state that generally votes Democratic.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "1084",
    "Idiom": [
      "blue wall of silence"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Strict secrecy among police about controversial actions.",
    "Sentence": [
      "We've all heard of the Blue Wall of Silence, the code under which cops stay mum about rogue cops who poison the barrel.",
      "When the blue wall of silence broke, it was all over for New York City police officer Justin Volpe. The witnesses for the prosecution had badges, and they had stories to tell.",
      "The indictment of officer Michael Roberts also highlights another color barrier that can complicate matters of police discipline—that's the so-called blue wall of silence. Former Minneapolis police officer Mike Quinn says that wall is what keeps some cops from turning in their fellow cops.",
      "On the streets it is called \"No snitching.\" In law enforcement it is called \"The blue wall of silence \"."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "1085",
    "Idiom": [
      "blue-ball"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To tease someone with false promises, causing frustration and dissatisfaction.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Stop blue-balling me and tell me what happened!"
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "1086",
    "Idiom": [
      "blue-eyed"
    ],
    "Meaning": "A favorite.",
    "Sentence": [
      "“I wouldn't marry anyone else if they came to me bringing apes, ivory and peacocks. Tell me what he was like as a boy.” “Oh, much the same as the rest of us.” “Nonsense!” “Except, of course, for rescuing people from burning buildings and saving blue-eyed children from getting squashed by runaway horses.” “He did that a lot?” “Almost daily.”",
      "blue-eyed boy"
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "1087",
    "Idiom": [
      "blue-eyed boy"
    ],
    "Meaning": "The favorite, especially of someone in power.",
    "Sentence": [
      "...this cove was so deucedly civil, and all that, that now she won't look at anybody else. He's the blue-eyed boy, and everybody else is an also-ran.",
      "\"Keep it up, Mandrake,\" he said. \"Just keep it up. You may be the Prime Minister's blue-eyed boy now, but how long's that going to last if you don't deliver?\""
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "1088",
    "Idiom": [
      "blue-sky thinking"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Creative thinking that is not limited by current realities.",
    "Sentence": [
      "He found that at the “take-off point,” every one of them began engaging in what he called “blue-sky thinking.” In blue-sky thinking, you imagine that all things are possible for you, just like looking up into a clear blue sky with no limits.",
      "Much work in future scenario planning has relied on the astute few to undertake blue-sky thinking, usually in committees, and so ‘futures thinking’ presents only a partial view of what tomorrow's society might look like and how this impacts on the future workings of the industry.",
      "If the stakeholders say they want “ blue-sky thinking,” you can use carefully selected exploratory concepts to test your blue-sky ideas and watch their reactions.",
      "The metaphorical blue-sky thinking recommended by startup accelerators in Silicon Valley is no substitute for the blue sky itself, which will go on shining whether we are here to look at it or not."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "1089",
    "Idiom": [
      "blur the line"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Minimize or erase the distinction between two things.",
    "Sentence": [
      "David Gaddis feels comics and animation are distinct forms. \"Comics are still images you move through actively, whereas animations are images you sit back and experience passively,\" but even he admits web artists such as Demian 5 are blurring the line."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "1090",
    "Idiom": [
      "blurt out"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To say suddenly and thoughtlessly.",
    "Sentence": [
      "When in court, it is inadvisable to blurt out the first thing you think of. Instead, take time to construct coherent sentences."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "1091",
    "Idiom": [
      "body English"
    ],
    "Meaning": "A motion to influence the direction of a propelled object.",
    "Sentence": [
      "A mountain rider will as he loses momentum will turn out a bit, reducing the angle of attack. He will continue carving switchbacks, using body english jumping from one side of his sled to the other, as he continues climbing higher and higher."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "1092",
    "Idiom": [
      "body blow"
    ],
    "Meaning": "A serious setback.",
    "Sentence": [
      "\"I can hardly exaggerate the body blow to the Service such a decision would give. Nobody will believe in it again.\"",
      "The polio vaccination program took a body blow last spring when the disease developed in children injected with vaccine from the Cutter Laboratories of Berkeley, Calif.",
      "And the government received a psychological body-blow with the crushing defeat of the Blakeney government in neighboring Saskatchewan.",
      "Drone strikes... have delivered body blows to Al Qaeda's leadership in the tribal areas of northern Pakistan without risking a single American soldier on the ground."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "1093",
    "Idiom": [
      "bog off"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To go away.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "1094",
    "Idiom": [
      "bogged down"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Delayed or made slower.",
    "Sentence": [
      "However, if the project manager has a sense that the project is getting bogged down, there is one additional strategy that can be employed..."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "1095",
    "Idiom": [
      "boil over"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To act aggressively due to anger.",
    "Sentence": [
      "He b'iled right over, and the tongue-lashing he give that boss Right Liver beat anything I ever listened to. There was heap of Scriptur' language in it, and more brimstone than you'd find in a match factory.",
      "But as the half progressed, Liverpool's pressure and high-tempo passing game increased United's frustration and it threatened to boil over on the stroke of half-time when Van Persie, who had already been booked, was involved in angry verbal exchanges with several Liverpool players, particularly Gerrard."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "1096",
    "Idiom": [
      "boil up"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To become more intense or exciting.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "1097",
    "Idiom": [
      "boiling frog"
    ],
    "Meaning": "A person or thing unaware of a gradually worsening situation until it's too late.",
    "Sentence": [
      "You can guess what the politicians said back then, too. \"Don't worry,\" I'll bet they claimed, \"tax rates will never rise!\" It's the Boiling Frog Syndrome all over again.",
      "The greatest challenge to an accurate current self-image (that is, seeing yourself as others see you and in a way consistent with your other internal states, beliefs, emotions, and so forth) is the boiling frog syndrome. Several factors contribute to this syndrome. First, people around you may not let you see a change. They may not give you feedback or information about how they see it. Also, they may be victims of the boiling frog syndrome themselves, adjusting their perception daily.",
      "The boiling frog syndrome portrays how people react to change. Dramatic sudden changes instigate resistance and even anger in many individuals. Conversely, people do well at adjusting to slow change that occurs over a long period of time.",
      "DotCloud was a \" boiling frog.\" That's how [Solomon] Hykes and early investor Peter Fenton of Benchmark now describe dotCloud as it struggled in 2012. Put a frog in water and gradually heat it, the folk legend goes, and the frog won't notice that it's being cooked until it's too late.",
      "Look at Facebook: Every company moved their brand presence to Facebook, sending out messages for their customers to receive. Now, you have to pay to send out your messages to people who chose to follow you. [You’ve become] a boiling frog.",
      "The World Health Organisation ’s latest data on air pollution proves there are more boiling frogs in India than anywhere else. People in 14 Indian cities are breathing the world’s most toxic air. Yet, like the metaphorical frogs who boil to death slowly without being aware of the danger, they are completely oblivious to the tragic fate that awaits them.",
      "Some people have described Theresa May ’s approach to the hard Brexiters in her cabinet as boiling frogs : raising the temperature of the water so gradually that [David] Davis, Boris Johnson, Michael Gove and Liam Fox don’t realise they are being cooked.",
      "Our attractiveness as a location for investment is diminished. Unfortunately the pain is a boiling frog, as we can never know the investment and growth opportunities we will forsake.",
      "Environmental pollution and the overconsumption of nonreplenishable resources is the boiling frog syndrome of the 21st century."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "1098",
    "Idiom": [
      "boiling hot"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Extremely hot.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "1099",
    "Idiom": [
      "boiling mad"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Extremely angry.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "1100",
    "Idiom": [
      "boiling point"
    ],
    "Meaning": "A state of high aggression.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Although the encounter was bathed in sunshine, the match failed to reach boiling point but that will be of little concern to Gerard Houllier's team, who took a huge step forward before they face crucial matches against their relegation rivals."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "1101",
    "Idiom": [
      "boldly go where no man has gone before"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To break new ground.",
    "Sentence": [
      "While Strauss would not exactly be boldly going where no man has gone before if he led England to victories this year in away Test series against Pakistan, Sri Lanka and India, he set foot on an airbus to Dubai knowing that 2012 represents the last great examination of his side.",
      "E-Racer Based loosely upon one of the original Rutan designs, the airplane goes where no man has gone before. In the first place, the composite canard machine is the first known example of the Rutan Long-EZ clones to have",
      "These were the voyages of Scott, Amundsen, Shackleton and Mawson, Nordenskjold, Borchgrevink, de Gerlache and von Drygalski, Filchner, Shirase, Bruce and Bull, national heroes most of them, who boldly went where no man had gone before."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "1102",
    "Idiom": [
      "bolt bucket"
    ],
    "Meaning": "A clunky or unreliable machine, especially an automobile.",
    "Sentence": [
      "He's still driving the old boltbucket he drove while he was in school."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "1103",
    "Idiom": [
      "bolt to the bran"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To examine thoroughly for important details.",
    "Sentence": [
      "This boults the matter fairly to the bran.",
      "The report of the committee was examined and sifted and bolted to the bran."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "1104",
    "Idiom": [
      "bomb out"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To fail or be eliminated.",
    "Sentence": [
      "The excitement along TV row this time of year generally is confined to the new season's shows—how many will hit or how many will bomb out ?",
      "Jane Fonda may be a hit at the box office, but she is bombing out politically.",
      "Brazil started as favourites and as luck would have it, they bombed out in the quarterfinals."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "1105",
    "Idiom": [
      "bone hard"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Extremely hard.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "1106",
    "Idiom": [
      "bone in her teeth"
    ],
    "Meaning": "A prominent bow wave from high speed.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Big E in her heyday – deck packed with Sailors and warbirds, a bone in her teeth and course set for the distant horizon."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "1107",
    "Idiom": [
      "bone in the throat"
    ],
    "Meaning": "A source of continuing annoyance.",
    "Sentence": [
      "For an unbelieving face, whether the dull dining countenance of a mayor, or the keen searching countenance of a barrister, is a sad bone in the throat of utterance.",
      "The inability to deduct losses from commercial or residential rentals from other real estate income has been a bone in the throat of real estate development companies.",
      "The act... gave the USDA \"authority to set nutritional standard for all foods regularly sold in schools during the day.\" That was a bit of a bone in the throat for parents who think their children should be governed by the smallest bureaucracy possible.",
      "Even though Obamacare relies on the typical American mix of private sector profit and government regulation, it remains a bone in the throat of American politics."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "1108",
    "Idiom": [
      "bone of contention"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Something that is disputed or causes disagreement.",
    "Sentence": [
      "England's \"Football Coming Home\" anthem became a serious bone of contention at the World Cup - with Croatia using it as a sign of arrogance from their opponents in the build up to the semi-final.",
      "It is still a bone of contention whether to go ahead with the original plan in light of the new evidence."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "1109",
    "Idiom": [
      "bone-crunching"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Very violent or hard impact.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Indeed, when baby-voiced Teresa describes the bone-crunching finishes in her new home, a 12,000-square-foot French chateau simulacrum that’s “all granite, marble and onyx,” and avers her commitment to the brand-spanking new (“I just skeeve looking at other people’s houses,” she says.",
      "The bone-crunching AC/DC classic Back In Black landed at number six, followed by Metallica's Enter Sandman and the chiming riff of The Beatles' Day Tripper at eight.",
      "Back in August, the Toon ace was kicked from pillar to post by Karl Henry in a bone-crunching midfield battle at Molineux."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "1110",
    "Idiom": [
      "bone-deep"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Extremely deep or profound.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Parody, in its purest form, is an act of both mockery and appreciation. True masters of the practice possess a bone-deep understanding of their targets; they skewer because they love—or at least, because they’ve done their homework."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "1111",
    "Idiom": [
      "bone-dry",
      "bone dry"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Completely dry.",
    "Sentence": [
      "When I went out to water my garden, the soil was bone dry. No wonder plants were drooping."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "1112",
    "Idiom": [
      "bone-idle"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Utterly lazy.",
    "Sentence": [
      "For the last three weeks I have been going what you call bone-idle."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "1113",
    "Idiom": [
      "bone-shaking"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Unsteady or rickety.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "1114",
    "Idiom": [
      "booby prize"
    ],
    "Meaning": "A prize awarded jokingly to a loser or for poor performance.",
    "Sentence": [
      "At the end of the conference, they awarded him with a rubber chicken as a booby prize for complaining the loudest."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "1115",
    "Idiom": [
      "boogie on down"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To go to a place or event.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "1116",
    "Idiom": [
      "book burning"
    ],
    "Meaning": "A form of censorship involving the destruction of books and other media due to objections.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Exhuming McCarthy (meet me at the book burning, meet me at the book burning)"
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "1117",
    "Idiom": [
      "book dumping"
    ],
    "Meaning": "The practice of donating unwanted old books.",
    "Sentence": [
      "...there is some sensitivity in Africa to being the recipient of the West's unwanted or secondhand surplus goods, and sometimes well-intentioned gifts of educational materials have been criticized by their recipients as examples of \" book dumping \" - equivalent, that is, to garbage disposal or to the removal to Africa of European and American toxic wastes.",
      "Many book donation programs, though well-intentioned, engage in “ book dumping,” a practice of shipping old used books that burden rather than assist communities.",
      "... the unfortunate reality for much of the developing world has been that a combination of book dumping, poverty and underfunding of libraries has severely limited the ability of librarians to collect relevant, high-quality resources (Sturges, 2014; Edem, 2010; Otike, 1993)."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "1118",
    "Idiom": [
      "book in"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To check in (to a hotel).",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "1119",
    "Idiom": [
      "boot camp"
    ],
    "Meaning": "An intensive training course.",
    "Sentence": [
      "We will institute a boot camp for training the sales force in these new products."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "1120",
    "Idiom": [
      "booze can"
    ],
    "Meaning": "A nightclub or bar, often illegal or disreputable.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Mom Wassilyn claims she and Pal Hal had a one-night stand after a night at a \" booze can \" (after-hours joint) and son Mike was the result.",
      "\"The establishment was operating as a booze can serving drinks well after hours,\" Mammoliti said."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "1121",
    "Idiom": [
      "bop the bishop"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To masturbate.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Five men's faces and penises. Each bops the bishop and blows a wad. Simple enough, but curiously abstracted.",
      "There’s also much to learn here – for instance, I never knew that some of my brethren refer to yanking their crank as “ bopping the bishop.”",
      "We may not “tug the slug” or “pump the python.” Nor, routinely, do we “ bop the bishop ” or “make the bald man puke.” But listen. We surely burp the baby, we toss the salad, we choke the chicken",
      "Were priests allowed, as Russell had said, to bop the bishop ?"
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "1122",
    "Idiom": [
      "bored out of one's mind"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Extremely bored.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "1123",
    "Idiom": [
      "bored shitless"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Very bored.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "1124",
    "Idiom": [
      "born and bred"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Shows characteristics of birth and upbringing in a specific location.",
    "Sentence": [
      "That’s because Nikos Zouganelis, “ born and bred ” on the party island, has deliberately sought to do something new.",
      "She is a born and bred New Yorker.",
      "Oh, you're from America? — Born and bred."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "1125-1",
    "Idiom": [
      "born in a barn"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Criticizes someone for leaving a door or window open.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Neither bothered to lock or shut the house's front or back doors. \"It was like they had been born in a barn,\" she says."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "1125-2",
    "Idiom": [
      "born in a barn"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Criticizes someone for being ill-mannered or lacking etiquette.",
    "Sentence": [
      "His aunt said angrily: \"Fritz, were you born in a barn ? Don't you have any manners?\"",
      "Phone at a symphony concert? I'd ask if these people were born in a barn, but that would disrespect the animals."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "1126",
    "Idiom": [
      "born with a silver spoon in one's mouth"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Born rich or from a wealthy family.",
    "Sentence": [
      "He was born with a silver spoon in his mouth and probably never had to work a day in his life."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "1127-1",
    "Idiom": [
      "borrow trouble"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To worry about uncontrollable future events that may not happen.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "1127-2",
    "Idiom": [
      "borrow trouble"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To invite trouble.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "1128",
    "Idiom": [
      "borrowed time"
    ],
    "Meaning": "A limited period before a situation ends.",
    "Sentence": [
      "At eighty a body is living on borrowed time.",
      "A century ago you could expect to live 40 years. Anything beyond that was borrowed time.",
      "\"Basically, my back is a career-ending injury.\" It might seem like a Faustian bargain, but Ho is making the best of his borrowed time.",
      "The thing about borrowed time is that it always runs out quicker than you want it to.",
      "Several duplicate routes were on borrowed time, having escaped the Beeching cuts of half a decade earlier, but were nevertheless on the hit list for closure because they fell outside the recently devised social grants system.",
      "Ever since the abortive coup, speculation had been that Yevgeny Prigozhin could be living on borrowed time.",
      "to live on borrowed time"
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "1129",
    "Idiom": [
      "bottle away"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To store or stock up.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "1130",
    "Idiom": [
      "bottle up"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To keep suppressed.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Pennsylvania gay activists were taken by surprise at the bill's assignment to the Labor Relations Committee. They had hoped to \" bottle up \" the bill in another House committee but an early poll of Labor Relations members indicates that attempts to stop the bill may now be more difficult.",
      "Those brave students who laid down their lives against the tanks of Tiananmen Square confirmed what I'd always believed: that no totalitarian society can bottle up the instinctive drive of men and women to be free, and that once you give a captive people a little freedom, they'll demand more.",
      "Young man in need of someone to share all this bottled up love with.",
      "Emotions are often bottled up rather than dealt with, which can lead to stress in later life."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "1131",
    "Idiom": [
      "bottom dollar"
    ],
    "Meaning": "The last of one's money.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "1132",
    "Idiom": [
      "bottom fall out"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To fail or collapse.",
    "Sentence": [
      "With the ten thousand dollars, I hired an office, printed circulars, distributed glowing accounts of imaginary wealth, etc. It cost considerable for advertising, but I sold seventy thousand shares, and when I had gathered in the money I let the bottom fall out.",
      "But in the last four months, the bottom has fallen out of the job market, officials say.",
      "The first major financial crisis occurred in Mexico, in December 1994, when the bottom fell out of the stock market"
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "1133",
    "Idiom": [
      "bottom fishing"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Buying assets at low prices during market downturns.",
    "Sentence": [
      "So should you put a few bucks into commodities while they're dirt cheap?... Because of their low correlations with stocks and bonds, you may want to consider bottom-fishing in futures now, either to speculate on an upswing or insulate the rest of your portfolio against any downturns.",
      "Bottom fishing for bargains in the stocks of distressed companies is a surprisingly popular sport.",
      "“ Bottom fishing during and after financial crises is nothing new,” says Jerry Haar, a professor at the business school of Florida International University.",
      "But the activity was concentrated to a few days with active traders swooping in when the stock hit its 52-week low, leading to speculation the investors were largely bottom fishing."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "1134",
    "Idiom": [
      "bottom line"
    ],
    "Meaning": "The most important information.",
    "Sentence": [
      "I need your lovin' and that's the bottom line / I need your lovin' or just a little time",
      "When Gorbachev totals up the balance sheet of Soviet strengths and weaknesses, the bottom line is not encouraging. Moscow has put itself into a unique historical position: It does not have a single ally among the major powers of the world.",
      "The bottom line is this - England have little or no chance of beating quality international sides if they defend as shoddily and carelessly as this, if they give possession away as cheaply as this and are as easy to get at as Kosovo made it look.",
      "But the bottom line is that passengers want to see staff at a station and be able to find them easily.",
      "The bottom line is that there simply are not enough hours in the day to finish all there is to do."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "1135",
    "Idiom": [
      "bottom of the line"
    ],
    "Meaning": "The worst or lowest quality.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Our simple-pattern stainless flatware is the bottom of the line, but very practical.",
      "The bottom-of-the-line patterns don't have complex designs, which are harder to make."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "1136",
    "Idiom": [
      "bottom of the ninth"
    ],
    "Meaning": "A final opportunity.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "1137-1",
    "Idiom": [
      "bottom out"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To touch or drag along a surface.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Going over that speed bump, my car bottomed out."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "1137-2",
    "Idiom": [
      "bottom out"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To touch the bottom of a water body.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "1138",
    "Idiom": [
      "bottom the house"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To clean a house extremely thoroughly.",
    "Sentence": [
      "The half-length lace curtains keep out most of what little sun there is, but they establish your privacy: the window-ledges and doorsteps scrubbed and yellowed with scouring-stone further establish that you are a 'decent' family, that you believe in ' bottoming' the house each week.",
      "She had ' bottomed' the house (ie spring-cleaned) and cooked specially for me.",
      "My mother-in-law pickled walnuts and covered floors in rag rugs she bottomed the house each spring"
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "1139-1",
    "Idiom": [
      "bottom-line"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To set a minimum acceptable condition.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Thanks to Kim, her husband is also living a sober, productive life. When he came to visit her at the hospital one day, she \" bottom-lined \" him.",
      "The most common mistake a man makes when initiating sex with his woman is \" bottom-lining \" it. Now, this approach may be good for you in your life, your work, and the way you best communicate. However, when it comes to sex with your woman, you will need to throw this approach out the window.",
      "And in the next breath he said, \"And what are you going to do about it?\" He \" bottom lined \" me with those words. I put the cork in the bottle, and this time, I approached sobriety differently.",
      "If, as you say, your Rik has safeguarded Chinese orphans in the streets, put friends through school, he doesn't sound like a man who walks away. He's a sticker. He isn't finished with something until he bottom lines it.",
      "In today's verse, we're given the secret to living a life marked by wisdom and blessed by prosperity. David doesn't mince words. He bottom-lines it. And his hope is to take the guesswork out of living right with God.",
      "\"Barn could work if you have a light source or a sunroom off your back porch, \" he added hopefully. \"What are you thinking?\" Huck bottom-lined him."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "1139-2",
    "Idiom": [
      "bottom-line"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To provide the most important or relevant information.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Anyway, bottom lining it: Sunnis and other extremists are targeting and killing civilians along with Iraqi Security Forces.",
      "And then he bottom lines and says the tragedies of the great majority of these deaths can be readily prevented at low cost."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "1140",
    "Idiom": [
      "bounce back"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To recover from a negative situation.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Chelsea bounced back from the disappointment of losing at Wolves in midweek to end City's 21-game unbeaten league run stretching back to April, and a sequence of 14 unbeaten games away from home.",
      "The current Coronavirus pandemic has obviously had an effect on the line's traffic, but I have little doubt that the numbers will bounce back sooner or later because the ELL has proved too vital a link for both business and leisure travel.",
      "We thought he'd die from the crash, but he bounced back to normal after 10 days in hospital."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "1141",
    "Idiom": [
      "bounce off"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To test ideas on someone.",
    "Sentence": [
      "I have a plan to bounce off you.",
      "Let me bounce an idea off you."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "1142-1",
    "Idiom": [
      "bounce off the walls"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To be overly active in a confined space.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "1142-2",
    "Idiom": [
      "bounce off the walls"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To be full of agitation or energy.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Acme Inc was our best customer, but they're hopping mad now. They're bouncing off the walls over there.",
      "These kids need to get outside for recess. They're bouncing off the walls in here."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "1143",
    "Idiom": [
      "bouquets and brickbats"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Praise and criticism.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "1144",
    "Idiom": [
      "bow and scrape"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To behave in a servile or excessively polite manner.",
    "Sentence": [
      "But he is not one of those lawyers who bow and scrape before wealthy clients. He will not be pushed around."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "1145",
    "Idiom": [
      "bow down"
    ],
    "Meaning": "A gesture of deference or respect.",
    "Sentence": [
      "8 Thou shalt not make thee any grauen image, or any likenesse of any thing that is in heauen aboue, or that is in the earth beneath, or that is in the waters beneath the earth. 9 Thou shalt not bow downe thy selfe vnto them, nor serue them: for I the Lord thy God am a ielous God, visiting the iniquity of the fathers vpon the children, vnto the third and fourth generation of them that hate me, 10 And shewing mercy vnto thousands, of them that loue me, and keepe my commandements.",
      "You were all so powerful, so overwhelming. The whole world bowed down before you.",
      "Shepard: The rest of the galaxy isn't just going to bow down just because we tell them to. We'll need the fleets to bring them in line."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "1146",
    "Idiom": [
      "bow out"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To resign or leave while maintaining credibility.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Joe Biden Is a Good Man and a Good President. He Must Bow Out of the Race. [title]",
      "“Even though I am extremely flattered and grateful to be nominated for the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame, I don’t feel that I have earned that right,” Parton, 76, wrote in a statement posted to social media. “I really do not want votes to be split because of me, so I must respectfully bow out.”",
      "After 16 years not just at the heart of Europe but also at the head of the continent’s most prestigious symphony orchestra, Sir Simon Rattle bowed out as the chief conductor of the Berlin Philharmonic this week, in an emotional farewell concert in the German capital.",
      "Jane had a long spell as chairman, but bowed out after she had a child."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "1147",
    "Idiom": [
      "bow-legged wi' brass"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Wealthy.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Wi t'car shoo's drivin, Aw bet thee shoo's bow-legg'd wi brass."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "1148",
    "Idiom": [
      "bowl a googly"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To surprise someone with something unexpected.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Fred bowled me a googly when he asked me to explain those statistics in the meeting."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "1149",
    "Idiom": [
      "bowl of cherries"
    ],
    "Meaning": "An enjoyable experience.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Life is just a just a bowl of cherries / Don't take it serious, it's too mysterious / You work, you save, you worry so / But you can't take it with you when you / go, go, go. / Oh, life is just a bowl of cherries / so live and laugh at it all.",
      "Della thought it meant that you just get your bowl of cherries in life and that's your lot and you eat them one by one and then you die.",
      "She did not believe that life was a bowl of cherries, and she never had."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "1150-1",
    "Idiom": [
      "bowl over"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To overwhelm.",
    "Sentence": [
      "This tribe lived largely upon the smaller animals which they bowled over with their stone hatchets after making a wide circle about their quarry and driving it so that it had to pass close to one of their number.",
      "The Celtic midfielder appeared to be bowled over by Milorad Pekovic but Italian referee Luca Banti waved play on.",
      "There was only one more guard between her and her goal, and despite her preparation, it almost all went south. The woman walked out of a door Fina hadn't even known was there, nearly bowling her over, and it was all she could do to bring the butt of the rifle up to smash the insurgent's nose in. She cried out, and Fina brought the butt 'round again, and this time the bone must have pierced the brain because the body went limp with a final, plaintive gurgle."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "1150-2",
    "Idiom": [
      "bowl over"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To overwhelm with astonishment.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "1151",
    "Idiom": [
      "bowl up"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To pack a pipe with smokable material.",
    "Sentence": [
      "When we bowled up, it was at the tail end of a weekend party. There was a lot of smoking going on, there was a little kid, about 12 years old, rapping for everyone; he was great.",
      "Of the many points Musk missed when he bought Twitter, one concerned the standard of content he was seeking to govern. It's like watching a drunk frat boy bowl up and flash Dorothy Parker."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "1152",
    "Idiom": [
      "box clever"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To act wisely.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "1153",
    "Idiom": [
      "box oneself into a corner"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To create a predicament with no good alternatives.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Brüno was a case of diminishing returns, intermittently amusing but not nearly as bracing or funny as Borat—it didn’t help that Brüno was the most thinly conceived of all his Da Ali G Show characters—and the lead-up to Baron Cohen’s new comedy, The Dictator, made it look like he’d boxed himself into a corner."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "1154",
    "Idiom": [
      "box seat"
    ],
    "Meaning": "A favorable vantage point.",
    "Sentence": [
      "His desk afforded him a box seat to see who spoke to whom at the watercooler."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "1155",
    "Idiom": [
      "box someone's ears"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To slap someone on the side of the head as punishment.",
    "Sentence": [
      "\"Was it the Matron's practice to box the girls' ears whilst you were at the Home?\" \"I have seen her do so. She came into the workroom one day when, I think, A— was there. I know it was one of the bigger girls. I took particular notice, because I had never seen anyone using both hands before.\" \"You mean in boxing both ears? \" \"Yes, first one hand and then the other\" \"Was that the Matron?\" \"Yes. I did not know anything had happened until presently I heard a noise, and then I walked out of the room.\"... \"Was it a matter of notoriety amongst the staff that the Matron was in the habit of boxing the girls' ears ?\" \"I think the staff all know it.\""
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "1156",
    "Idiom": [
      "box the compass"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To completely change one's position or opinion.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "1157-1",
    "Idiom": [
      "boy howdy"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Expresses strong support or agreement.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Boy howdy. There was indeed no rest for the wicked.",
      "I greeted Shannon's request enthusiastically, \" Boy, howdy !\"",
      "\"Talk to me, Zaidu. What do you mean?\" she asked quietly. \"I'm more than a little confused here. I know what's happening in my life.\" Boy howdy, did she!",
      "“ Boy howdy, are you ever. You're on number four but there's no Doppler shift!\""
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "1157-2",
    "Idiom": [
      "boy howdy"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Expresses emphasis.",
    "Sentence": [
      "\" Boy, howdy! Where do you get that stuff, you rummy?\"",
      "Boy howdy, boy howdy, boy howdy! I was buried alive in noise, and the heat and cinders stung my neck and legs and the bottoms of my feet.",
      "Boy, howdy, is it cold! This is not Paris, as in \"gay Paree,\" in France.",
      "l saw her just a standin' there with her little blue suitcase and l said, ' Boy howdy, would l like to crawl into her pants!'",
      "If there wasn't a dragging brake beam to rip me down the back, I was go'n make it! Boy howdy, I did some fancy praying."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "1158",
    "Idiom": [
      "boy in the boat"
    ],
    "Meaning": "A slang term for the human clitoris.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Go in with your finger at the top parting of your genital lips and find that tiny penis, that nub, that \" boy in the boat,\" and feel gently around it.",
      "\"It's all right here, sweetie,\" Gretchen said, nodding down toward her open legs as she smilingly pulled the lips of her pussy apart, exposing her boy in the boat.",
      "\"Shoot it here on my clitty,\" she ordered. I dropped to my knees and took aim on her girl-dick. She kept the tip of one finger against it so that I could find it, but it was so erect that it made an easy target. The pink core glistened like a little pearl at the tip. I moved closer until the head of my cock was no more than two or three inches from the boy in the boat."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "1159",
    "Idiom": [
      "boy toy"
    ],
    "Meaning": "A younger man pursued for sex by an older person.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "1160",
    "Idiom": [
      "boys and girls"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Used to address an audience.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "1161",
    "Idiom": [
      "boys and their toys"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Men often obsess over gadgets and toys in a childish way.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "1162-1",
    "Idiom": [
      "boys will be boys"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Boys have a natural tendency for playfulness and mischief.",
    "Sentence": [
      "But just then there was a slight altercation between Master Tommy and Master Jacky. Boys will be boys and our two twins were no exception to this golden rule."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "1162-2",
    "Idiom": [
      "boys will be boys"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Men often retain childish behaviors or qualities.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Boys will be boys, grinned Grandpa as he watched his adult son playing with the fancy train-set he had given his grandson for Christmas."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "1162-3",
    "Idiom": [
      "boys will be boys"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Justifies excusable behavior based on gender.",
    "Sentence": [
      "It's not hard to see the parallels between the sexual assault accusations against Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh and the 2012 Steubenville rape case. Three decades apart, there is one central difference: Kavanaugh has denied the allegations, and has never been criminally charged. In the Steubenville case, two star football players were convicted of raping a girl, and sentenced to prison. But amid the outrage in both cases, there has been a chorus of \" boys will be boys,\" the excuse of youth, of teenage brains that can't control themselves and the victim shaming that accompanies that perception."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "1163",
    "Idiom": [
      "brace of shakes"
    ],
    "Meaning": "A very short time.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "1164-1",
    "Idiom": [
      "bragging rights"
    ],
    "Meaning": "The right to boast about an achievement.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Worth as much as $900 million, he estimates, the author clearly thinks he has earned bragging rights, and he intends to exercise them.",
      "It won't be remembered as a classic in the pantheon of great South Wales derbies, but nobody on the Cardiff City side of the divide will care as their team secured the first ever set of Premier League bragging rights in the Welsh capital.",
      "He is talking to RAIL immediately after his station regained its traditional position as 'Britain's busiest' , and there is no disguising his delight. \"The bragging rights are once again Waterloo's,\" he grins."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "1164-2",
    "Idiom": [
      "bragging rights"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Honor or prestige.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "1165",
    "Idiom": [
      "brain bucket"
    ],
    "Meaning": "A protective helmet.",
    "Sentence": [
      "The Air Force not only makes up words and phrases (e.g., brain bucket for crash helmet)....",
      "Roy Knickman of 7-Eleven said he fears more crashes today and will not keep his helmet far from sight. \"I always wear my brain bucket,\" he said.",
      "Riding a 500-pound motorcycle in the middle of 3-ton Ford Expeditions and 40-ton trucks is dangerous, with or without a brain bucket or a leather jacket."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "1166",
    "Idiom": [
      "brain candy"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Entertainment lacking intellectual depth.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Venom is spine-tingling brain candy about a deadly snake on the loose in a London townhouse during a kidnapping attempt.",
      "After years of chewing on murder mysteries as my form of “ brain candy,” I thought I'd sample westerns for a change of pace.",
      "Matriculated, my favorite, is written and directed by Peter Chung.... The result is electric-Kool-Aid brain candy, with a twist of unexpected pathos."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "1167-1",
    "Idiom": [
      "brain drain"
    ],
    "Meaning": "The migration of skilled individuals to more developed areas.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Fortunately, the often-discussed problem of \"the brain drain \" is not as serious in agriculture as in most other fields, particularly the \"hard sciences.\"",
      "Former HS2 Ltd chairman Sir David Higgins provided a timely reminder of why Britain needs HS2 in a letter to The Times on September 25, in which he asked: \"Why are so few FTSE 100 companies based outside the South East? Why is there such a brain drain of graduates from the North? Why do northern cities underperform compared with their European counterparts?"
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "1167-2",
    "Idiom": [
      "brain drain"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Deprivation of educated or talented individuals due to migration.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "1167-3",
    "Idiom": [
      "brain drain"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Refers to mental or psychological exhaustion.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "1168",
    "Idiom": [
      "brain surgeon"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Someone very intelligent and skilled.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "1169",
    "Idiom": [
      "brain surgery"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Overly complex or confusing.",
    "Sentence": [
      "It's not brain surgery. Just screw in the bulb and flip the switch."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "1170",
    "Idiom": [
      "branch off"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To diverge into separate paths.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "1171",
    "Idiom": [
      "branch out"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To expand interests or activities.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Once relegated to facelifts and fat reduction, medical tourism has branched out into almost every kind of procedure, including bypass surgery, heart-valve replacement, angioplasty, knee reconstruction, and spinal fusion.",
      "Here's the briefest history of rail freight. The railways are conceived for moving coal. They do well at that and immediately branch out into other freight. They do quite well at that, too - after all, compared with a horse and cart, they are a revelation.",
      "Studying Latin may make it easier to branch out into Spanish or Italian."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "1172",
    "Idiom": [
      "brass ceiling"
    ],
    "Meaning": "A barrier to promotion for women in law enforcement or the military.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "1173",
    "Idiom": [
      "brass farthing"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Something worthless.",
    "Sentence": [
      "The man, as a matter of fact, under no circumstances, ever cared a brass farthing for what I or anybody else in his ship thought."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "1174",
    "Idiom": [
      "brass monkey"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Very cold.",
    "Sentence": [
      "This is brass monkey weather and it'll get worse.",
      "I forgot it'd be brass monkey weather in good old London.",
      "Had to milk cows besides, and them winters up there in Wisconsin is brass monkey cold.",
      "It's brass monkey weather today, isn't it?"
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "1175",
    "Idiom": [
      "brass monkeys"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Very cold.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Blimey, it's brass monkeys out there today."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "1176-1",
    "Idiom": [
      "brass neck"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Shamelessness.",
    "Sentence": [
      "This year's commemorations of the start of World War One are a stark reminder of the sacrifices politicians make with other people's lives – except nowadays they'll do so wearing a Help for Heroes t-shirt (almost entirely covering their brass necks). When it comes to the hypocritical lauding of the armed forces while simultaneously shafting them, no one does it better than this government.",
      "That’s why it’s particularly outrageous for the government to sneak out its rubbish “blueprint” for cycling and walking on Easter Sunday, and having the brass neck to try to spin its laughably small investment in cycling and walking as a genuine attempt to make them people’s choice for shorter journeys and to reduce the rate of cyclists killed or seriously injured.",
      "Theresa May’s former chief of staff has accused the UK’s chief Brexit negotiator, David Frost, of having a “ brass neck ” after he said the UK government had “blinked first” in negotiations.",
      "After the Conservatives’ economic failure left working people worse off, it takes some real brass neck for the Tory top team to tell the public that it’s really all their fault. It’s the same old Tories. They haven’t changed and they’ve learned nothing."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "1176-2",
    "Idiom": [
      "brass neck"
    ],
    "Meaning": "A person with boldness or audacity.",
    "Sentence": [
      "And it will need a strong hand to wield that knife, and it will need a steady nerve besides, because they have necks of brass, these aristocrats, I tell you: brass necks, all of them!",
      "Mostly, though, open data acts as a deterrent against committing fraud in the first place, since it would take the brassiest of brass necks to post a fake dataset on a public website."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "1177",
    "Idiom": [
      "brass-neck"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To behave boldly or shamelessly.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "1178",
    "Idiom": [
      "brass-necked"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Shameless or cheeky behavior.",
    "Sentence": [
      "I was at Stansted airport with my wife, younger kids and a niece the other week to take a flight to Dublin; one provided by that brass-necked, self-proclaimed champion of the air-travelling masses Michael O'Leary and his low-cost trailblazer Ryanair.",
      "“Humbug”. That word may sink him. “Unfit” was Corbyn’s sombrely measured term. Brazen, brass-necked, thrashing about wildly in proclaiming the 11 supreme court justices “wrong”, Boris Johnson’s performance last night defied all democratic dignity."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "1179",
    "Idiom": [
      "brassed off"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Annoyed or fed up.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "1180",
    "Idiom": [
      "brave out"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To tolerate bravely.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "1181",
    "Idiom": [
      "brazen out"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To confront one's misconduct without shame.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "1182-1",
    "Idiom": [
      "bread and butter"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Central to one's business or income.",
    "Sentence": [
      "“There’s a big lockout at the foundry.” / “Lockout, what!” cried several. / “Sure as blazes, boys; just when the procession was passin’ I takes a squint at the big foundry door, and there I seen it writ, as clear as sunshine with a hole through it, on a bit o’ paper, that the ould foundry’s shut after Sathurday next, till further notice. Divil a bit less, but I’m shure them’s the very words.” / Silence fell on the crowd in the tobacco smoke. Most of them were foundry-men and had families. Their bread and butter were at stake.",
      "Every escort has at least one or two regular clients; they are our bread and butter.",
      "They will do some machining if you ask them, but sheet metal has always been their bread and butter."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "1182-2",
    "Idiom": [
      "bread and butter"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Basic necessities for survival.",
    "Sentence": [
      "What the nation, like the man, earns for itself by the honest labor of its people—when a man exerts himself to anything in an honorable calling—he is said to be earning his bread and butter, which includes his food and clothes and house-rent and all the rest of the thing he pays for. Now, if a man does not earn his bread and butter, he must either have it given to him as a gift, or steal it, as our forefathers nearly all did, honest, good people, too, as they were.... It is worth while examining as to whether we earn all our bread and butter... We ought to look after the bread and butter on our farms, and see that we eat the best bread and butter."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "1183",
    "Idiom": [
      "bread and circuses"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Food and entertainment provided to placate the people.",
    "Sentence": [
      "The government of William Ewart Gladstone may not supply the people, as the Roman emperors did, with \" bread and circuses,\" but if giving them plenty to talk about can satisfy a nation, we Britishers ought just now to be very happy. A whole week is never permitted to elapse without some piece of political gaucherie being enacted for the public amusement.",
      "Take a Mahommedan at his devotions, and he is a model of religious abstraction; but see him in his hours of relaxation, or on the occasion of a public holiday, and he is as garrulous and full of laughter as a big child. Like a child, too, he loves noise and movement for the mere sake of noise and movement, and looks upon swings and fireworks as the height of human felicity. Now swings and fireworks are Arabic for bread and circuses, and our pleb's passion for them is insatiable.",
      "In movie terms, it suggests Paul Verhoeven in Robocop / Starship Troopers mode, an R-rated bloodbath where the grim spectacle of children murdering each other on television is bread-and-circuses for the age of reality TV, enforced by a totalitarian regime to keep the masses at bay."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "1184",
    "Idiom": [
      "bread of life"
    ],
    "Meaning": "A source of spiritual nourishment.",
    "Sentence": [
      "if we could look with the eye of faith, we should see that their living and dying has been bread of life to those they left behind."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "1185",
    "Idiom": [
      "break a leg"
    ],
    "Meaning": "A wish for good luck in performance.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Go out there and break a leg tonight. Put on a great show!",
      "I told my friend to break a leg, before she went on stage."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "1186",
    "Idiom": [
      "break a sweat"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To put in effort.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Consider, for instance, that Roger Federer, Novak Djokovic, Marat Safin and even the supposedly out-of-sorts Lleyton Hewitt all won the opening set of their first-round matches 6-0 before barely breaking a sweat in the two sets that followed.",
      "I've stumbled over gaming's simplest hurdles, been humiliated by the lowliest of enemies and will often go for an easy mode if one's available, and yet I've run through Bloodborne twice without ever really breaking much of a sweat.",
      "He succeeded effortlessly, without breaking a sweat."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "1187",
    "Idiom": [
      "break cover"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To disclose true thoughts and intentions.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Government MPs sympathetic to the opposition's arguments are starting to break cover."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "1188-1",
    "Idiom": [
      "break down"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To give in or give up.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Is it worth taking it to a repair shop, or should I just break down and buy a new one?"
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "1188-2",
    "Idiom": [
      "break down"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To become unstable or collapse due to stress.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Sophia broke down here. Even at this moment she was subconsciously comparing her rendering of the part of the forlorn bride with Miss Marie Lohr's.",
      "As to Ernest... He is quite as nervously broken down as I am but it manifests itself in different ways. His inclination is towards megalomania and mine towards melancholy.",
      "She is back to work now, after she broke down the other day."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "1188-3",
    "Idiom": [
      "break down"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To become weak and ineffective.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Hodgson's approach may not illuminate proceedings in Poland and Ukraine but early evidence suggests they will be tough to break down.",
      "His authority and influence over his coordinates broke down gradually."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "1188-4",
    "Idiom": [
      "break down"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To divide into parts for more detailed analysis.",
    "Sentence": [
      "If you don't understand, ask him to break down the numbers for you."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "1189-1",
    "Idiom": [
      "break even"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To neither gain nor lose.",
    "Sentence": [
      "The BTC had no clear plan how to fulfil its remit to break even, year-on-year.",
      "After an entire night playing poker, he nearly broke even."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "1189-2",
    "Idiom": [
      "break even"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To neither advance nor regress.",
    "Sentence": [
      "It's a lot of work just to break even and keep the weeds down."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "1190",
    "Idiom": [
      "break gates"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To enter college grounds after curfew.",
    "Sentence": [
      "He broke gates to-day; and then there was something that Grove did'nt seem inclined to be very explicit about.",
      "From 12½ to past 2 at a College meeting: we rusticated 'sine die', an ill-conducted idle reckless vagabond named Moore — he had been gated, but he broke gates, shirked Sunday Evening Chapel & went to a Hotel to drink & smoke till they shut up the house & turned him out: —we did a good deal of Bursarial work.",
      "Students were frequently caught by the proctors and bulldogs for breaking gates (i.e. going absent without leave)."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "1191-1",
    "Idiom": [
      "break in"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To cause something new to function smoothly through use or wear.",
    "Sentence": [
      "These shoes will be more comfortable after they have broken in.",
      "These shoes will be more comfortable after I have broken them in."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "1191-2",
    "Idiom": [
      "break in"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Starting something new.",
    "Sentence": [
      "He broke in with the New York Yankees."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "1192-1",
    "Idiom": [
      "break into"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To enter illegally or by force.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Somebody broke into his car and stole his tools and CDs.",
      "Hackers broke into the bank's computer system and stole customer data."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "1192-2",
    "Idiom": [
      "break into"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To begin using.",
    "Sentence": [
      "I finally broke into the second package of cookies."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "1192-3",
    "Idiom": [
      "break into"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To successfully enter a profession or business.",
    "Sentence": [
      "He hopes to break into show business."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "1193",
    "Idiom": [
      "break into a run"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To start running.",
    "Sentence": [
      "When they realized they might miss the train, they broke into a run."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "1194",
    "Idiom": [
      "break it to"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To deliver upsetting news.",
    "Sentence": [
      "[Spoken by a shopkeeper] Hmmm... Hate to break this to you, but you don't have enough money.",
      "Look, I hate to break it to you, but Tim doesn't want anything to do with you anymore."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "1195",
    "Idiom": [
      "break one's duck"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To do something for the first time.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Best had come on as a substitute in the 1-0 win at Wigan last weekend and wasted a goalscoring opportunity after stumbling as he was about to shoot, so many of the fans in black and white could have been forgiven for thinking that perhaps the burly forward was destined not to break his duck."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "1196",
    "Idiom": [
      "break one's lance"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To engage in a noble struggle.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Then you have Sweden, too, burning with desire to break a lance with Russia on the question of Polish independence.",
      "Inasmuch as our correspondent has such a poor opinion of the capacity of men to write understandingly and impartially upon feminine topics, we say to her and everybody else, \"The lists are open, ladies— hissez alia !\" We will be but as the heralds at the tourney, to sound the trumpets and preserve order. There is a fair field for our correspondent, whether she desires to break a lance with those detractors of her sex whom she so indignantly castigates, or only desires to set the world of fashion right as to the style of a bonnet.",
      "That is that you haven't broken your lance in any really major cause, that you haven't been actually out front and center on the really controversial issues. What is your comment on that criticism?\"",
      "There is no record of More's paying any special attention to heresy until Henry VIII took it upon himself to break a lance with Martin Luther, and summoned More to join him in the lists."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "1197",
    "Idiom": [
      "break one's neck"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To make extraordinary efforts to achieve a goal.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "1198",
    "Idiom": [
      "break out"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To bring out for use or presentation.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Break out the bubbly and celebrate.",
      "Before you immediately break out calculus, consider that there might be a more elegant way to find the answer in this case.",
      "Picks and shovels had been perfectly adequate for the sporadic digging we’d had to do over the last month, but when faced with 30 cubic yards of earth to move in at once, we decided to break out the heavy equipment."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "1199",
    "Idiom": [
      "break ranks"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To publicly disagree with one's group.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "1200",
    "Idiom": [
      "break someone's face"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To violently assault someone.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "1201",
    "Idiom": [
      "break someone's heart"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To cause grief, disappointment, or sadness.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Don't go breaking my heart / I couldn't if I tried / Honey if I get restless / Baby you're not that kind",
      "If you break her heart, I'll break your legs.",
      "\"We're just friends,\" what are you sayin'? / Said \"there's another,\" and looked right in my eyes / My first love broke my heart for the first time",
      "Oh no, I was doin' better alone / But when you said \"Hello\" / I know that was the end of it all / I should've stayed at home / 'Cause now there ain't no letting you go / Am I falling in love / With the one that could break my heart ?"
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "1202-1",
    "Idiom": [
      "break the Internet"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To cause the Internet to malfunction.",
    "Sentence": [
      "“Click on everything including graphics, buttons, and links, to see where they lead. Don't be afraid to get lost, and don't worry about making mistakes. 'You can't break the Internet,' says Warren Shaver, project manager for ASTD Online Services.”",
      "Advocacy groups warned that entertainment companies—who invested heavily in lobbying for the bills—where trying to “ break the Internet ”;"
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "1202-2",
    "Idiom": [
      "break the Internet"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To overwhelm a web server due to high user demand.",
    "Sentence": [
      "“Well furnished Dahlings, don't all rush on at once as you might break the internet, but The Conran Shop has a new website!”"
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "1202-3",
    "Idiom": [
      "break the Internet"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To deliberately overwhelm a web server, causing it to go offline.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "1202-4",
    "Idiom": [
      "break the Internet"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To go viral.",
    "Sentence": [
      "“Obviously, Kim isn’t the first person to claim to ’ break the Internet.’ In September Taylor Swift “ broke the Internet ” when she wore a T-shirt saying ’no it’s Becky,’ a super- meta reference to a Tumblr post where a user insisted that a picture of young Taylor was, in fact, someone named Becky. Beyoncé ’s surprise album ’ broke the Internet ’ when she secretly released it last year. Alex from Target ’ broke the Internet ’ just by looking cute at work. Even Obama ’s sensationally tan suit was almost able (but not quite) to ’ break the Internet,’ according to Shape magazine.”",
      "After the singer and actor wore it on the 2000 Grammy awards red carpet, the tech team at Google noticed it was the most popular search query ever. At a 2019 Versace show, J-Lo broke the internet again when she wore a take on the original dress."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "1203",
    "Idiom": [
      "break the Sabbath"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To violate the sanctity of the Sabbath.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Matthew 12:5 Or have you not read in the Law, that on the Sabbath the priests in the temple break the Sabbath and are innocent? (New American Standard Bible, ©1995)"
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "1204",
    "Idiom": [
      "break the back of",
      "break one's back",
      "break someone's back"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To complete the main part of a project or problem.",
    "Sentence": [
      "broke the back of the housing problem in this country.",
      "I think we will find, or I predict that we will find, that during the course of this year we will break the back of the energy crisis.",
      "I plan to grab my chance to take a break by trying to break the back of all the tasks that have flown through the ether into my inbox during the course of the morning.",
      "I've broken the back of painting the shed – I'll finish it after lunch.",
      "They're talkin' bout the night Santa went crazy The night St. Nicholas flipped Broke his back for some milk and cookies Sounds to me like he was tired of gettin' gypped",
      "See, it's not that I'm a disagreeable person. I just have a motto that I won't break. If I'm asked to do something, I'll break my back to see that it's done.",
      "My books are sitting at the top of the stack now The longer words are really breaking my back now.",
      "Would it break your back to pay me a compliment once in a while?"
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "1205",
    "Idiom": [
      "break the bank"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To exhaust one's finances.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "1206",
    "Idiom": [
      "break the buck"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To fall below one dollar in value.",
    "Sentence": [
      "In 1994, during the Orange County bankruptcy, a few funds were poised to break the buck, until their parent companies stepped in.",
      "\"We were likely going to see more funds halt redemptions\" and break the buck. The insurance program is part of a wider rescue package …"
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "1207",
    "Idiom": [
      "break the cycle"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To end a repeating pattern of negative behavior.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "1208",
    "Idiom": [
      "break the deadlock"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To score first in a competition.",
    "Sentence": [
      "The Gunners continued to press after the break but it was Leeds who broke the deadlock in the 54th minute. There was no doubt about the penalty either, with Denilson clumsily fouling Gradel and Snodgrass stepping up to find the bottom corner of the net.",
      "Sterling was once again England's key figure, as he was in the Euros, scoring the goal that broke the deadlock before setting up the second for Kane.",
      "However, Colombia broke the deadlock, Leicy Santos toying with Rachel Daly after collecting Caicedo’s pass, before sweeping a dipping effort over a caught-out Mary Earps. It was a luscious finish and the crowd enjoyed it."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "1209",
    "Idiom": [
      "break the fourth wall"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To communicate directly with the audience.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "1210-1",
    "Idiom": [
      "break the ice"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To ease social awkwardness and encourage conversation.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Including a few fun details in large group introductions can be a great way to break the ice."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "1210-2",
    "Idiom": [
      "break the ice"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To initiate conversation.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "1211",
    "Idiom": [
      "break the seal"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To urinate after drinking alcohol.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "1212-1",
    "Idiom": [
      "break the story"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To be the first to publicize an issue.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "1212-2",
    "Idiom": [
      "break the story"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To outline a screenplay's story.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "1213-1",
    "Idiom": [
      "break the wheel"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To end a pattern of oppression or injustice.",
    "Sentence": [
      "The head of one of Canada's largest unions says it's time to break the wheel and change the way businesses are operated.",
      "Finally, the fact that both protagonists are teenagers is worth considering not only as a mere feature of the dystopian fiction subgenre, but as a representation of the power of the younger generations in breaking the wheel and transforming society not only when they grow up and become adults, but from today.",
      "I do not see any possibility for breaking the wheel of the prevailing capitalist and liberal ideology or any kind of ideology."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "1213-2",
    "Idiom": [
      "break the wheel"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To instigate major change.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Cassandra a woman in her late 60’s was a hairdresser and owner of her own beauty salon in the UK. However, she felt like she was working long hours and never had time for herself. She describes coming to Spain as a way to ‘ break the wheel ’ and dedicating time to what she loves, which involves a variety of sports, socializing, and spending time with her mother (Interview March 31st 2019).",
      "Polar codes break the wheel in channel coding area with its unconventional perspective of code construction than that of the traditional codes and become a youngest contender in the 5G race.",
      "This is an example of Kant's 'Copernican Revolution' breaking the wheel of empiricism and rationalism, inaugurating a new form of transcendental regulation that is to say weak correlationism."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "1214-1",
    "Idiom": [
      "break up"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To end a relationship.",
    "Sentence": [
      "She broke up with her boyfriend last week."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "1214-2",
    "Idiom": [
      "break up"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To dissolve a relationship.",
    "Sentence": [
      "So the meeting broke up, and the torchlight grew dimmer, and died away as it had come in a red flicker on the roof, and the footsteps sounded fainter as they went up the passage, until the vault was left to the dead men and me.",
      "The meeting finally broke up after a three-hour discussion."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "1214-3",
    "Idiom": [
      "break up"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To close for the holidays at the end of term.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Once the schools break up for the holidays, children across the country are at a loose end and instances of kids doing stupid things on the railway become far too common."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "1214-4",
    "Idiom": [
      "break up"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To separate people who are fighting.",
    "Sentence": [
      "The police came in to break up the disturbance."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "1214-5",
    "Idiom": [
      "break up"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To become disorganised.",
    "Sentence": [
      "England's superior conditioning began to show in the final quarter and as the game began to break up, their three-quarters began to stamp their authority on the game. And when Foden went on a mazy run from inside his own 22 and put Ashton in for a long-range try, any threat of an upset was when and truly snuffed out."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "1214-6",
    "Idiom": [
      "break up"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To cause to end a relationship.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "1215",
    "Idiom": [
      "break wind"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To fart.",
    "Sentence": [
      "I broke wind and excused myself afterwards."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "1216",
    "Idiom": [
      "breath of fresh air"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Something refreshing or new.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Harper's speech was a breath of fresh air and offers a new beginning.",
      "After all those old policies and procedures, the new management approach is a breath of fresh air around here."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "1217",
    "Idiom": [
      "breathe a sigh of relief"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To feel relief.",
    "Sentence": [
      "And the home fans breathed a huge sigh of relief barely two minutes later when Andros Townsend's cross was finished by Defoe."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "1218",
    "Idiom": [
      "breathe a word"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To reveal a secret.",
    "Sentence": [
      "I warn you not to breathe a word of this to anyone, or else!"
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "1219",
    "Idiom": [
      "breathe down someone's neck"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To supervise someone too closely, causing discomfort.",
    "Sentence": [
      "My boss never lets me get on with my work. He's always breathing down my neck and checking up on me."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "1220",
    "Idiom": [
      "breathe easy"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To relax or feel secure.",
    "Sentence": [
      "You can breathe easy knowing that your savings account is insured against loss."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "1221",
    "Idiom": [
      "breathe one's last"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To die.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Ah, Warwick! Montague hath breathed his last; And to the latest gasp cried out for Warwick,",
      "She breathed her last surrounded by her family and friends, commending them to God and the study of his word.",
      "The Green Council” is a tense chess game of an episode, kicking off the power vacuum that we knew was coming the moment Viserys breathed his last."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "1222-1",
    "Idiom": [
      "bred-in-the-bone"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Firmly established or deep-seated.",
    "Sentence": [
      "They had the kind of bred-in-the-bone manners that were unobtrusively the same for one and all.",
      "But few could match the bred-in-the-bone exceptionalism rooted deep in America's self-image.",
      "Her navy had barely broken off its pursuit of the fleeing Spaniards, in fact, when Elizabeth exposed her bred-in-the-bone selfishness, her cold indifference to the well-being of the subjects whose supposed love for her she and the royal propagandists endlessly celebrated as one of the wonders of the age."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "1222-2",
    "Idiom": [
      "bred-in-the-bone"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Inveterate or habitual.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Antrim, bred-in-the-bone Republican conservative, has a proud patriotic tradition.",
      "Critics see an unreasonable craving for authority in Newman's anti-liberalism. He was also a bred-in-the-bone Tory, and as the youthful leader of the Oxford Movement that sought a bulwark against Parliamentary manipulation of Anglicanism in its ancient Catholic roots, he could be savagely polemical.",
      "The point of this political genealogy is not only that Lawrence Cannon was a bred-in-the-bone Liberal,"
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "1223",
    "Idiom": [
      "breed in the bone"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Ingrained within someone's nature.",
    "Sentence": [
      "\"And for thy ill tongue, and worse practices, his lordship knows they are bred in the bone of thee.\"",
      "\"My father was a born aristocrat. I think, in some preexistent state, he must have been in the higher circles of spirits, and brought all his old court pride along with him; for it was ingrain, bred in the bone, though he was originally of poor and not in any way of noble family.\"",
      "Davies meticulously establishes the background, the breeding in the bone, of his hero's life.",
      "The distinctiveness of Bellocchio's approach lay in his taking mental affliction, in this case epilepsy, and figuring it as symbolic of the self-immolating rage and frustration that the dysfunctional family breeds in the bone.",
      "One principle ought to be bred in the bone of any European after the carnage of the 20th century: that no act of state bears such ominous consequences as changing a border by force."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "1224",
    "Idiom": [
      "brevity is the soul of wit"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Conciseness is essential for wit.",
    "Sentence": [
      "The same complaint must be made against Mr. Matthew's excellent survey of the theory of evolution, as against Dr. Erasmus Darwin's original exposition of the same theory, namely, that it is too short. It may be very true that brevity is the soul of wit, but the leaders of science will generally succeed in burking new-born wit, unless the brevity of its soul is found compatible with a body of some bulk.",
      "\"If people would only settle their affairs in that way, a good part of the occupation of lawyers would be gone. Brevity is the soul of wit; and the fear of simplicity is the beginning of litigation.\"",
      "Brevity is the Soul of Wit. Talking to your infant is good, but uttering individual words might be better.",
      "Y'see, a guy named William Shakesman once said, \"Brevity is the soul of wit.\" This just means don't waste my time."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "1225",
    "Idiom": [
      "brick in"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To enclose with bricks.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "1226",
    "Idiom": [
      "brick in one's hat"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Drunkenness.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Seated at the same table with our Mr.—, was a gentleman, who, to use the current phrase, ‘had a brick in his hat.’",
      "Her husband had taken to the tavern, and often came home very late, “with a brick in his hat,” as Sally expressed it."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "1227",
    "Idiom": [
      "bridge the gap"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Create a connection between disconnected things.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Today there is no doubt that Dominican women have been actively involved in building the community, in struggling to keep their cultural heritage alive, and in keeping families together by bridging the gap between Dominicans from the homeland and those who live in the United States.",
      "It is argued that the precautionary principle provides an important mechanism for bridging the gap between public and private sectors in their approach to financial harm.",
      "The Bantams bridged the gap between the bottom division of English league football and the Premier League to secure a place at Wembley, despite a 2-1 second-leg defeat.",
      "GWR ran trains between Salisbury and Cardiff Central, and between Romsey and Portsmouth Harbour, with buses bridging the gap.",
      "The order would help to bridge the gap at the now empty factory, which delivered its last train on March 21, before the start of work on HS2 trains which Transport Secretary Mark Harper said will be in \"early 2026\"."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "1228",
    "Idiom": [
      "bridge-builder"
    ],
    "Meaning": "A person who creates friendly relations.",
    "Sentence": [
      "A longtime advocate for racial and social justice with a degree from Virginia Commonwealth University, Walker, 40, got into politics at the urging of Edwards, an African American woman widely praised as a bridge-builder between the city’s haves and have-nots."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "1229",
    "Idiom": [
      "bright and early"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Very early in the morning.",
    "Sentence": [
      "And this morning, bright and early, the beak parted him from ten quid.",
      "Bright and early on Monday, Elon Musk sent the government a surprising new document. In it, the world's wealthiest man laid out his possible intentions towards Twitter, in which he has amassed a 9.2 percent stake, underlining how drastically his position had changed from a week ago."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "1230",
    "Idiom": [
      "bright lights"
    ],
    "Meaning": "The glamour and glitz of a big city.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "1231",
    "Idiom": [
      "bright line"
    ],
    "Meaning": "A clear distinction.",
    "Sentence": [
      "In these situations, there is no bright line between aggressive play and outright cheating."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "1232",
    "Idiom": [
      "bright side"
    ],
    "Meaning": "A consoling aspect of a difficult situation.",
    "Sentence": [
      "God knows that I tried / Seeing the bright side / (I'm wide awake) / But I'm not blind anymore"
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "1233",
    "Idiom": [
      "bright spark"
    ],
    "Meaning": "A person who is intelligent or clever.",
    "Sentence": [
      "At some point the subject got onto sex and some bright spark decided it would be a good idea if I lost my virginity that night. I was not too keen on the idea as I was knackered and exceedingly pissed.",
      "John's youngest is doing well at school. He's a bright spark, isn't he?"
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "1234",
    "Idiom": [
      "bright young thing"
    ],
    "Meaning": "A youthful, clever, and attractive person.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Mr. Faggus gave his mare a wink, and she walked demurely after him, a bright young thing, flowing over with life, yet dropping her soul to a higher one, and led by love to anything; as the manner is of females.",
      "And even as her pure young voice arose above the screams of the departure whistle, she threw a double back-somersault on the quarterdeck, cleverly alighting on the spikes of the wheel before the delighted captain. \"Jingle my electric bells,\" be said, looking at the bright young thing, \"but you're a regular minx—\"",
      "\"So you're going back to college in a fortnight,\" I said to the Bright Young Thing on the veranda of the summer hotel. \"Aren't you sorry?\" \"In a way I am,\" she said, \"but in another sense I'm glad to go back. One can't loaf all the time.\"... How full of purpose these modern students are, I thought to myself.",
      "YOUNG COLLEGE MAN, travelled, slightly peeved and irked, not disenchanted, would relish hearing from bright young things with gay outlook, brilliant notions.",
      "Charles Wigoder, the 34-year-old chief executive of Peoples Phone, the mobile telephone business, is very much a bright young thing —the kind of businessman who features in magazine articles called '40 under 40', alongside other rising stars who have done unlikely things at unusual ages.",
      "As a bright young thing —which, it could be argued, is what he remained until almost his dying day—Noël Coward wrote letters filled with effusive glee.",
      "Think of banking today and the image is of grey-suited men in towering skyscrapers. Its future, however, is being shaped in converted warehouses and funky offices in San Francisco, New York and London, where bright young things in jeans and T-shirts huddle around laptops, sipping lattes or munching on free food."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "1235",
    "Idiom": [
      "bright-eyed and bushy-tailed"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Eager and lively.",
    "Sentence": [
      "\"They're eager to learn, bright-eyed and bushy-tailed,\" coach Jon Gruden said."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "1236",
    "Idiom": [
      "bright-line rule"
    ],
    "Meaning": "A clear-cut decision-making guideline.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "1237",
    "Idiom": [
      "bring a knife to a gunfight"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To enter a challenging situation without being adequately prepared.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Isn't that just like a wop? Brings a knife to a gun fight.",
      "That is why one should never bring a knife to a gunfight, a worm should not challenge Godzilla, and a chump should never box a boxer.",
      "We can shoot down missiles.... Our Kingfisher sonars can detect mines.... Our ships are hardened against chemical and biological weapons. But how do you stop a torpedo?... The best engineers in the business agree that nearly every class of torpedo currently being deployed has the capacity to sink one of our ships with a single shot.... We are the poor bastards that brought a knife to a gunfight."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "1238",
    "Idiom": [
      "bring a lump to someone's throat"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To elicit a strong emotional response.",
    "Sentence": [
      "The highly political tone, intended to bind the empire together, delivered in the princess’s formal voice, it was said, brought a lump to millions of throats."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "1239-1",
    "Idiom": [
      "bring about"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To cause to happen.",
    "Sentence": [
      "The catalyst was the introduction of the Health & Safety at Work Act in 1974. While it applied to all workplaces, it gradually brought about a sea change in the attitude towards death and injury. Accidents were no longer accepted as 'inevitable'.",
      "The collapse of the gold standard brought about much of the economic turmoil of that era."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "1239-2",
    "Idiom": [
      "bring about"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To accomplish or achieve.",
    "Sentence": [
      "I hope to bring about a successful conclusion."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "1240",
    "Idiom": [
      "bring down the curtain"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To bring something to an end.",
    "Sentence": [
      "At the other end of the day, Crewe Carriage Sidings is the destination of rolling stock from all routes, which bring terminating workings into the station before going to the depot for servicing. The 2155 ex-Cardiff brings down the curtain at 0103."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "1241",
    "Idiom": [
      "bring down the hammer"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To treat very harshly.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "1242",
    "Idiom": [
      "bring down the house"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To elicit enthusiastic applause or laughter.",
    "Sentence": [
      "\"Well, your recitations just brought down the house, Anne. That sad one was simply splendid.\""
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "1243",
    "Idiom": [
      "bring forward"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To call up for consideration.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Unsurprisingly, the Group was highly critical of the BTC's organisation and finances, and this prompted Marples to bring forward the Transport Act 1962, which created BR as a standalone entity with its own Board, headed by a full-time chairman. Beeching accepted this latter position, and initially became the BTC chairman in June 1961."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "1244-1",
    "Idiom": [
      "bring home"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To earn money.",
    "Sentence": [
      "I bring home 10000 dollars a month."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "1244-2",
    "Idiom": [
      "bring home"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To clarify or emphasize.",
    "Sentence": [
      "War is the greatest of all agents of change. It speeds up all processes, wipes out minor distinctions, brings realities to the surface. Above all, war brings it home to the individual that he is not altogether an individual.",
      "The economics of rebuilding all the stations covered by the electrification would be prohibitive, but to help bring home to the Glasgow public that their North Clyde suburban service has been transformed, not merely re-equipped with new trains, stations have at least been associated psychologically with the rolling stock by a common colour scheme.",
      "This brought home the inadequacies of NIH policy regarding informed consent, as well as its continued reliance on the ethical judgment of its individual investigators.",
      "This incident really brings home the whole question of access, the point of entry for people into observing or seeing art at that kind of level.",
      "This was brought home to me, an NT, when I asked an autistic E-mail correspondent, who is mordantly expressive on line, what it would be like to meet.",
      "It really brings home the amount of deprivation you lived through, and it's very common for grief to come up like this.",
      "Both the UK and Europe have experienced record summer temperatures in the past couple of years, which have brought home the fact that climate change is happening."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "1245",
    "Idiom": [
      "bring home the bacon"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To earn a living.",
    "Sentence": [
      "It's just that I think I'm going to lose my job at the studio and am damned scared of not being able to bring home the bacon.",
      "No one brought home the bacon better than Stevens.",
      "I have to say I like being the man, bringing home the bacon."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "1246",
    "Idiom": [
      "bring it weak"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To fail to put in maximum effort.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Unwilling to try his hardest, Jason instead chose to bring it weak at the gym, and didn't even break a sweat."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "1247-1",
    "Idiom": [
      "bring on"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To cause.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Excessive drinking can bring on depression."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "1247-2",
    "Idiom": [
      "bring on"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To introduce or present something.",
    "Sentence": [
      "The impatience here is palpable: 2000, here we come! Bring on Gore! Bring em all on !",
      "Stevenage's first-half performance forced a change of formation from Newcastle at the break, as they brought on Nile Ranger for Leon Best and switched to a 4-2-3-1 set-up."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "1247-3",
    "Idiom": [
      "bring on"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To pose a challenge or threat.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Not that Briggs was capable of bringing it on. He got in, maybe, one really good shot: a right to Foreman's ample belly",
      "Kevin Frey and Lucas Johnson stared back and gestured to bring it on.",
      "Christina Aguilera has a strong voice (she really brought it on in \"Lady Marmalade,\" but I'm afraid her hairdo wouldn't make it past the security devices",
      "It's the performances, and thus far only Big Daddy truly brings it on.",
      "We have a very young team and I think they've really brought it on strong at the end.",
      "We have some good defensive players and Breanna Mails is really bringing it on as a pitcher",
      "\"She really brought it on when she needed it,\" Rockets Coach Watson Prather said of his pitcher."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "1248",
    "Idiom": [
      "bring one's arse to an anchor"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To sit down.",
    "Sentence": [
      "The young Fleming went in search of Smyllie in the Palace Bar, where he and his group were discussing the arguments for and against the Resurrection. \" Bring your arse to an anchor, boy,\" Smyllie instructed Fleming, before ordering him to come for a formal .",
      "‘Well, in that case,’ said Kelly, ‘ bring your arse to an anchor,’ inviting him to sit down."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "1249",
    "Idiom": [
      "bring one's own hide to market"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To create one's own fate through one's actions.",
    "Sentence": [
      "\"Thou art a living passenger upon this earth, and must look out for thyself. Help yourself! Nobody forwards thee to thy destination; and we Germans have a proverb that comes near it in meaning: 'Each one must carry his own hide to market.'\"",
      "In this grandfatherly letter about my paternal grandfather, whom I never knew, let me end by offering you, as part of your heritage, this saying ascribed to my other grandfather, John Hoyer, whom I knew well, who watched me grow from infancy and who lived in good health until he was over ninety. You carry your own hide to market.",
      "Arnold said whoever was responsible for her sister's death eventually will face punishment. \"I don't know why they did it to her,\" Arnold said. \"But like I said, it's over with. But they've got to take their hide to market.\"",
      "Avlon: Rudy Giuliani... made it really clear in sort of a fit of fatalism that he doesn't feel responsible for his legacy. And that's ultimately his choice. You take your own hide to market."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "1250",
    "Idiom": [
      "bring out in a rash"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To irritate or provoke someone.",
    "Sentence": [
      "The heat has brought American business out in a rash."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "1251",
    "Idiom": [
      "bring owls to Athens"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To undertake a pointless venture.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Euelpides: Who brings owls to Athens ?",
      "Forgive me, then, for bringing owls to Athens as a thanks-offering.",
      "Perhaps we have not been sufficiently aware that talking about access and its implications in Scandinavia is like bringing owls to Athens."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "1252-1",
    "Idiom": [
      "bring round"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To cause to regain consciousness.",
    "Sentence": [
      "We thought he was going to die, but the doctors managed to bring him round."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "1252-2",
    "Idiom": [
      "bring round"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To change someone's opinion.",
    "Sentence": [
      "She was opposed to the new housing development, but we eventually brought her round."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "1253",
    "Idiom": [
      "bring someone to their knees"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To defeat and subdue.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "1254",
    "Idiom": [
      "bring to bear"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To apply or employ something for a purpose.",
    "Sentence": [
      "to bring pressure to bear on someone, to bring influence to bear on someone",
      "Every possible pressure was brought to bear on the minister to ensure the unjust law was not passed."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "1255-1",
    "Idiom": [
      "bring to heel"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To compel someone to obey.",
    "Sentence": [
      "They wanted a lesson, and they would get it; but it would take three months at least to bring them to heel.",
      "Even some fellow Conservatives maintain that Sir William has shown a dangerously authoritarian streak since enlisting as a general in Mrs. Thatcher's single-minded campaign to bring broadcasters to heel.",
      "In reference to black teenagers, \"We also have to have an organized effort against gangs…. They are not just gangs of kids anymore. They are often the kinds of kids that are called superpredators. No conscience, no empathy. We can talk about why they ended up that way, but first we have to bring them to heel.",
      "Now Pasha says the ISI is the only organization that can bring the wayward Taliban to heel.",
      "We know that Putin has vastly improved Russia’s armed forces, adding everything from hypersonic missile capabilities to advanced cyberwarfare tools. He has the firepower to bring Ukraine to heel.",
      "Network Rail, which had been able to secure funding from a multitude of 'patient capital' players across the world, was brought to heel, its credit card scissored."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "1255-2",
    "Idiom": [
      "bring to heel"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To enforce discipline.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "1256",
    "Idiom": [
      "bring to justice"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To bring an alleged offender to trial.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "1257",
    "Idiom": [
      "bring to light"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To reveal something hidden.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "1258",
    "Idiom": [
      "bring to nought"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To thwart.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Mr. Rattray remarks on the fine spirit of the men, even when faced with the disappointment of seeing their efforts brought to nought by subsequent storms."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "1259",
    "Idiom": [
      "bring to the hammer"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To put up for auction.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "1260",
    "Idiom": [
      "bring to the table"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To contribute to a group effort or discussion.",
    "Sentence": [
      "I don’t have time for a man unless he can bring something big to the table, like a huge amount of money."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "1261",
    "Idiom": [
      "bring together"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To cause togetherness.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "1262",
    "Idiom": [
      "bring up the rear"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To be last in a line or group.",
    "Sentence": [
      "As for the guides, they were debarred from the pleasure of discourse, the one being placed in the van, and the other obliged to bring up the rear.",
      "Whenever I find myself growing grim about the mouth; whenever it is a damp, drizzly November in my soul; whenever I find myself involuntarily pausing before coffin warehouses, and bringing up the rear of every funeral I meet;"
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "1263",
    "Idiom": [
      "broad and shallow"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Associated with inclusivity and a lack of depth.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "1264",
    "Idiom": [
      "broad in the beam"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Wide across the hips.",
    "Sentence": [
      "The women of Falesa are a handsome lot to see. If they have a fault, they are a trifle broad in the beam."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "1265",
    "Idiom": [
      "broad shoulders"
    ],
    "Meaning": "The ability to take criticism or accept responsibility.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "1266-1",
    "Idiom": [
      "broad strokes"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Major features or key points.",
    "Sentence": [
      "The President made his proposals in broad strokes, and the details remain to be worked out.",
      "His plan, in broad strokes, was to outfit a small fleet of cars with a number of miniature directional microphones.",
      "A bipartisan group of nine U.S. Senators, after meeting for nine months behind closed doors, is nearing an agreement on the broad strokes of a health-care-reform bill."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "1266-2",
    "Idiom": [
      "broad strokes"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Presented in a bold or sweeping manner, without detail.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Maurice hastily climbed the fence, and while he was thus occupied Mr. Samuel Williams received a great enlightenment. With startling rapidity Penrod, standing just outside the storeroom door, extended his arm within the room, deposited the licorice water upon the counter of the drug store, seized in its stead the bottle of smallpox medicine, and extended it cordially toward the advancing Maurice. Genius is like that—great, simple, broad strokes !",
      "While the movie unfolds in broad strokes, Ms. MacLaine treats this character with exquisite sensitivity and without condescension.",
      "So sketch with broad strokes, dial up the imagery on a few main points, and leave room for a reader to play a part in your novel."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "1267",
    "Idiom": [
      "broad-beamed"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Wide across the hips.",
    "Sentence": [
      "' \"May I use your phone book? he asked the broad-beamed, middle-aged proprietor. \"In the rear,\" the proprietor said amiably, with a jerk of his heavy thumb.'"
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "1268",
    "Idiom": [
      "broad-brush"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To generalize.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "1269",
    "Idiom": [
      "broaden someone's horizons"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To increase someone's interests or experiences.",
    "Sentence": [
      "He broadened his horizons by finally trying Vietnamese cuisine.",
      "Travel broadens a person's horizons."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "1270",
    "Idiom": [
      "broken home"
    ],
    "Meaning": "A home where parents have separated or divorced.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "1271",
    "Idiom": [
      "broken man"
    ],
    "Meaning": "A man who has endured significant emotional pain.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "1272",
    "Idiom": [
      "broken record"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Someone or something that constantly repeats itself.",
    "Sentence": [
      "She repeated several little anecdotes or remarks about Gertrude Stein, Ezra Pound and George Antheil. Disconcertingly she kept asking me if I knew them, if I’d been in Paris then, what had happened to them and others, most of them dead. Her mind wandered, repeating itself like a broken record.",
      "In spite of reading all the materials on the Steps, talking to my sponsor, sharing at meetings, I felt like a broken record.",
      "She was a broken record forever singing the same song, a lame, blind in one eye, fucked too often by life's injustice sufferer of the flesh.",
      "to sound like a broken record"
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "1273",
    "Idiom": [
      "broken vessel"
    ],
    "Meaning": "A person who feels flawed or broken.",
    "Sentence": [
      "I am forgotten as a dead man out of mind; I am like a broken vessel.",
      "I am a broken vessel, Lord rubble where a soul should be.",
      "I’m a broken vessel —thankfully, God uses broken vessels."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "1274",
    "Idiom": [
      "bros before hos",
      "bros before hoes"
    ],
    "Meaning": "A man should prioritize his friends over romantic interests.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Sheldon : Howard made it very clear that my allegiance should be to male comrades before women who sell their bodies for money."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "1275-1",
    "Idiom": [
      "brown bag"
    ],
    "Meaning": "A short presentation, often at lunchtime.",
    "Sentence": [
      "So what student would choose to work in Washington for zero compensation, with benefits listed as \" brown-bags,\" \"farewell reception\" and \"athletic and service opportunities\"?",
      "Did you attend the brown bag Tuesday on healthy exercise habits?"
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "1275-2",
    "Idiom": [
      "brown bag"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To carry a packed lunch from home instead of buying food.",
    "Sentence": [
      "I'm brown bagging it again this month because the combination of healthy plus inexpensive is hard to beat otherwise."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "1276",
    "Idiom": [
      "brown bread"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Dead.",
    "Sentence": [
      "I thought I was ready for the cold cook then. I swear it. I really thought I was brown bread."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "1277",
    "Idiom": [
      "brown noser"
    ],
    "Meaning": "One who flatters for personal gain.",
    "Sentence": [
      "“Unbelievable. Boimler's cozying up with those brownnosers to get out of trash day? Such a great call.” “More trash for the rest of us. I smell adventure.”",
      "“W-wait, why isn't Gumball in here with us?” [Laszlo chuckles] “Because Guillermo is the only one out of all of you that has ever shown me any kindness.” “[coughs] Brownnoser.” “And yet you all treat him so shabbily that even after all this time of waiting to become one of you... he's force to give up and take matters into his own hands.”"
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "1278",
    "Idiom": [
      "brown power"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Electricity from conventional sources.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "1279",
    "Idiom": [
      "brown study"
    ],
    "Meaning": "A melancholy mood with deep thought.",
    "Sentence": [
      "So gathering up the shavings with another grin, and throwing them into the great stove in the middle of the room, he went about his business, and left me in a brown study.",
      "Finding that Holmes was too absorbed for conversation, I had tossed aside the barren paper, and leaning back in my chair, I fell into a brown study. Suddenly my companion's voice broke in upon my thoughts.",
      "After that he kept such a silence, falling as it seemed to me into a brown study, that he went away without so much as bidding me farewell, or being conscious, as far as I could tell, of my presence.",
      "Once or twice she spoke harshly to Louis; she fell at other times into a brown study; and when she thought that I was not watching her, her face wore a look of deep anxiety.",
      "But Quatrefages glared at his plate in a brown study."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "1280",
    "Idiom": [
      "brown thumb"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Lack of skill at growing plants.",
    "Sentence": [
      "I have a terrible brown thumb. I could probably kill silk flowers."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "1281",
    "Idiom": [
      "browned off"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Annoyed or fed up.",
    "Sentence": [
      "\"I went AWOL because I was browned off with being a latrine orderly and not because I wanted hazardous duty,\" Hill said in making his plea.",
      "\"Some of our young troop get a bit browned off will constant criticism.\"",
      "Bob was browned off when he was passed over for promotion."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "1282",
    "Idiom": [
      "brownie point"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Credit for good work to gain favor.",
    "Sentence": [
      "However, you get Brownie points for having spelled my names right—all of them, and the first time too!",
      "You're really going to get some brownie points from the teacher for that fantastic essay!"
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "1283-1",
    "Idiom": [
      "brush aside"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To disregard or dismiss something as unimportant.",
    "Sentence": [
      "He brushed aside all my objections and went ahead with the project regardless."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "1283-2",
    "Idiom": [
      "brush aside"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To disregard or dismiss easily.",
    "Sentence": [
      "The ease with which Stoke brushed aside their Israeli opponents bodes well for the return fixture in early November, when a win could could secure their passage to the last 32."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "1284",
    "Idiom": [
      "brush by"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To walk past someone, accidentally touching them and ignoring them.",
    "Sentence": [
      "The production manager brushed by me on the stairs. He seemed to be in a real hurry."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "1285",
    "Idiom": [
      "brush down"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To tidy up one's appearance.",
    "Sentence": [
      "After tripping over, he picked himself up, brushed himself down, and carried on walking."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "1286",
    "Idiom": [
      "brush off"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To disregard or dismiss as unimportant.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Again I begged her to keep an eye on her blood pressure and not get so worked up, and once more she brushed me off, this time with a curt request that I would go and boil my head."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "1287",
    "Idiom": [
      "brush up"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To review or improve a skill.",
    "Sentence": [
      "How many will be rich enough to travel in style is difficult to know—but already 30% of the guests at the very expensive Mandarin Oriental in Hong Kong are from mainland China. Reception staff around the world had better start brushing up their Mandarin language skills.",
      "I'll need to brush up (on) my Greek before my trip to Athens."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "1288",
    "Idiom": [
      "bubble over"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To be very enthusiastic or excited.",
    "Sentence": [
      "They stayed together during three dances, went out on to the terrace, explored wherever they were permitted to explore, paid two visits to the buffet, and enjoyed themselves much in the same way as if they had been school-children surreptitiously breaking loose from an assembly of grown-ups. The boy became volubly friendly and bubbling over with unexpected humour and high spirits.",
      "She was bubbling over with laughter as she ran into the room."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "1289-1",
    "Idiom": [
      "buck fever"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Excitement and nervousness felt by a new hunter.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "1289-2",
    "Idiom": [
      "buck fever"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Nervousness or excitement that impairs performance, often in hunting or sports.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "1290",
    "Idiom": [
      "buck for"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To strive for something persistently.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "1291",
    "Idiom": [
      "buck the trend"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To go against the norm or majority opinion.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Incidentally, I'm not sure you're bucking the trend so much as going along with it; FTM crossplay is getting pretty popular, although you see more women going for bishounen and visual-kei genderfucky stars than anything else.",
      "However, one region bucking this trend by combatting the current deficiencies in skills development while simultaneously addressing sector demand is the West Midlands.",
      "Party has been relegated to near-irrelevance as Spain bucks European trend of shift towards far right."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "1292-1",
    "Idiom": [
      "buck up"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Cheer up; take courage.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "1292-2",
    "Idiom": [
      "buck up"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Encourages someone to be more enthusiastic or positive.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "1292-3",
    "Idiom": [
      "buck up"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To become encouraged or cheerful.",
    "Sentence": [
      "I realized I needed to buck up and tackle the problem head-on."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "1292-4",
    "Idiom": [
      "buck up"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To encourage.",
    "Sentence": [
      "I knew I had to try and buck up the rest of my team as well."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "1292-5",
    "Idiom": [
      "buck up"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Encouragement to improve.",
    "Sentence": [
      "You better buck up or you'll never make it."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "1292-6",
    "Idiom": [
      "buck up"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To dress oneself up smartly.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "1292-7",
    "Idiom": [
      "buck up"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To pass on responsibility to someone else.",
    "Sentence": [
      "He started bucking up everything to management when he didn't get a raise.",
      "He just bucked everything risky up to management.",
      "Instead of dealing with the customer's complaint himself, he just bucked it up to his boss."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "1292-8",
    "Idiom": [
      "buck up"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To hit or fight.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "1293",
    "Idiom": [
      "buck up one's ideas"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Improve one's attitude or performance.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "1294",
    "Idiom": [
      "buck-passing"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Blameshifting; avoiding responsibility by claiming lack of authority.",
    "Sentence": [
      "It's from here onwards that the whole web of buck-passing and excuses began."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "1295",
    "Idiom": [
      "bucket down"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To rain heavily.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "1296-1",
    "Idiom": [
      "bucket list"
    ],
    "Meaning": "A list of tasks to be dealt with later.",
    "Sentence": [
      "A \" bucket \" list is simply a formal procedure for recording items of concern that arise during work on other agenda items.",
      "The figures and section drawings contain many of the most important locus numbers. We are not publishing a complete bucket list. Apparently used to refer to a comprehensive list.",
      "As you go through each step during the session, keep a \" bucket list \" of items that will need followup action",
      "Focus on only one issue at a time. Whenever a new issue arises, don't ignore it, but don't allow the meeting to get distracted from the current topic. Always record each new issue on a posted \"parking lot\" or \" bucket list \" in the meeting room."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "1296-2",
    "Idiom": [
      "bucket list"
    ],
    "Meaning": "A list of things to accomplish before death or a deadline.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Q: What projects are you working on now and in the near future? I'm hoping by the end of October to be shooting a film I've been working on called \"The Bucket List,\" starring Jack Nicholson and Morgan Freeman. They find out they are terminal. They know they don't have much longer to live. It's about working out the issues you need to work out before you die. Q: Do you have your own \" bucket list \"? [Reiner] You know, I don't. I've gone on with my life always trying to do positive things and make things better and the world better. I want to see my kids do well, but that's not a \" bucket list \"",
      "I'm a helicopter pilot, not a writer. Still, it's been a dream of mine to someday write a book. It's ranked near the top on my list of things I want to do someday, my \" bucket list,\" if you will.",
      "\"They told me hiking down into the canyon was on their bucket list.\" / She nodded. \"I hear that all the time. People all over the world have the Grand Canyon on their bucket list.\" / Jake frowned. \"I don't have a bucket list.\"",
      "The beauty of bucket lists is that just as they represent us and our dreams, like us they also grow and change. You will be surprised once you have begun the bucket list journey at how opportunities spring up around you. New ideas beg to be added to your list. Even the act of completing a bucket list goal can be the source of further exploration.",
      "a winter bucket list"
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "1296-3",
    "Idiom": [
      "bucket list"
    ],
    "Meaning": "A list of things to accomplish before death.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "1296-4",
    "Idiom": [
      "bucket list"
    ],
    "Meaning": "A list of experiences or achievements one wants to accomplish before dying.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Using a bucket list structure , the program sorts each incoming word serially, constructing a list within each of 256 buckets for good words of a given alphabetic range",
      "In place of direct storage in the block we might substitute pointers to linked bucket lists of the elements having the same hash addresses. After hashing B x {\\displaystyle B_{x}} and retrieving the pointer to the appropriate bucket list, we search the list for B x {\\displaystyle B_{x}}, and if not found, add it to the end of the list."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "1296-5",
    "Idiom": [
      "bucket list"
    ],
    "Meaning": "A list of goals or experiences one wants to achieve before dying.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "1297",
    "Idiom": [
      "bucket of bolts"
    ],
    "Meaning": "A piece of machinery with little value, often an old car.",
    "Sentence": [
      "On the outside, the Trans-Am still looked like a rusty bucket of bolts, but if all his little adjustments kicked in as planned, the thing should take off like a rocket."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "1298",
    "Idiom": [
      "bucket of syrup"
    ],
    "Meaning": "A sticky situation.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "1299",
    "Idiom": [
      "buckle down",
      "buckle to"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To focus and apply serious effort to a task.",
    "Sentence": [
      "I confess that the recollection of what this bell could do when it buckled down to it gave me pause as I stood that night at 12.30 p.m. prompt beside the outhouse where it was located.",
      "If he would buckle down and do his homework, he could be an excellent student.",
      "Then the sergeant let us out, and introducing us to a pile of wood and saws and axes, informed us that when this had been cut up into firewood we should get our breakfast. He sat at the door of his kitchen watching, and seeing there was nothing else for it we buckled to and soon had the job done; when we were admitted to the kitchen and given a really good meal."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "1300-1",
    "Idiom": [
      "buckle up"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To fasten a seat belt.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Buckle up every time you drive somewhere in a car, and make sure your passengers buckle up, too."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "1300-2",
    "Idiom": [
      "buckle up"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To prepare oneself.",
    "Sentence": [
      "So buckle up for what's coming, readers!"
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "1301",
    "Idiom": [
      "buff out"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To correct minor defects or imperfections.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Nevertheless, if a man has the salesman's qualifications, a little scientific study of salesmanship will sandpaper him, buff out his inequalities and make him a better man.",
      "Like everybody I've met, he spoke exquisite English, right down to the American syntax, as if he wanted to buff out his German cultural ties. That's common too.",
      "So, the momentum alone has been built up quite well for Wimbledon and Nadal still has roughly one week to buff out the rough spots on grass."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "1302",
    "Idiom": [
      "buff the muffin"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To masturbate.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Dear Peter, I need your stuffin'",
      "\"Dear Miss Manners, myself and my three girlfriends are playing buff the muffin this weekend and we'd like to know who's supposed to peel and slice the cucumbers for salad afterwards?\"",
      "“Molly?” Lena said. “You sound out of breath. Are you okay?”"
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "1303-1",
    "Idiom": [
      "buff up"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To improve.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Mr. Kurz was quickly seen in Europe as the poster boy of an ascendant right for a new generation, a political Wunderkind who had salvaged conservatism by borrowing the far right’s agenda, buffing it up and bringing it into the mainstream."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "1303-2",
    "Idiom": [
      "buff up"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To become more muscular.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "1303-3",
    "Idiom": [
      "buff up"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To study hard on a subject.",
    "Sentence": [
      "I'll need to buff up on my Italian before my trip to Genoa."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "1304",
    "Idiom": [
      "bug off"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Tells someone to go away.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "1305",
    "Idiom": [
      "bug storm"
    ],
    "Meaning": "A large number of insects in the air, often encountered by vehicles.",
    "Sentence": [
      "The fun and free “vibe” all changed when we hit a bug storm, getting bugs in our mouth and a few stings in the face."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "1306-1",
    "Idiom": [
      "bugger off"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Go away.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "1306-2",
    "Idiom": [
      "bugger off"
    ],
    "Meaning": "An expression of dismissal or rejection.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Bugger off ! You are joking, aren't you?"
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "1306-3",
    "Idiom": [
      "bugger off"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To go away.",
    "Sentence": [
      "We tried to catch him, but he had already buggered off."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "1307",
    "Idiom": [
      "build a better mousetrap"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To invent something better or more effective.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Build a better mousetrap, and the world will beat a path to your door. misattributed to Ralph Waldo Emerson",
      "Of all the inventors to obtain patents, only a few have really built a better mousetrap."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "1308",
    "Idiom": [
      "build a case"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To compile evidence supporting a charge.",
    "Sentence": [
      "A 10-minute leaked video showing a group of Thai police officers allegedly manhandling a drug suspect, putting a plastic bag over his head to extort money from him, has gone viral, sparking outrage on social media. Thailand's police chief...told reporters on Tuesday the force will build the case and press charges once ready."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "1309",
    "Idiom": [
      "build bridges"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To establish friendly relations or links.",
    "Sentence": [
      "The Tories appear to have embarked on permanent conflict with the European Union. Instead of building bridges they are burning them.",
      "to build bridges between China and the West"
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "1310",
    "Idiom": [
      "build castles in the air"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To have unrealistic dreams or plans.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Look you, Amanda, you may build castles in the air, \"and fume, and fret, and grow thin and lean, and pale and ugly, if you please.\" But I tell you, no man worth having is true to his wife, or can be true to his wife, or ever was, or will be so.",
      "If you have built castles in the air, your work need not be lost; that is where they should be. Now put the foundations under them.",
      "Labor and you build castles in the air. Vote Conservative and you can live in them."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "1311",
    "Idiom": [
      "build character"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To improve a person's character by developing traits like resilience or responsibility.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Pretty convenient how every time I build character, he saves a couple hundred dollars."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "1312",
    "Idiom": [
      "build on sand"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To put something in an unstable position without a secure foundation.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Loveless marriages often end in divorce because they are built on sand."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "1313",
    "Idiom": [
      "build the plane while flying it"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Developing a strategy while executing a project.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "1314-1",
    "Idiom": [
      "build up"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To accumulate or increase gradually.",
    "Sentence": [
      "The first English Electric units were not fitted with an anti-slip brake, but a hurried consultation of the wiring diagram showed that it should be possible to hold in the low-voltage anti-slip relay for long enough to let speed build up without cutting off the motor current.",
      "Their first half was marred by the entire side playing too deep, completely unable to build up any form of decent possession once the ball left their bewildered defence.",
      "As we age, the major arteries of our bodies frequently become thickened with plaque, a fatty material with an oatmeal-like consistency that builds up along the inner lining of blood vessels.",
      "Ever since the secretary left, the letters in my inbox have started to build up."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "1314-2",
    "Idiom": [
      "build up"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To strengthen.",
    "Sentence": [
      "\"It took it out of me, though. I'm a rag this morning.\" \"They work you too hard, dear. I'll take you to Margate and build you up.\" \"Well, maybe at Easter we could do a week.\"",
      "They had to build up their fortress to protect against attack."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "1315",
    "Idiom": [
      "built different"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Extremely talented or unusual.",
    "Sentence": [
      "I learnt that true rock climbers are built different. Their bodies will do things mere humans can't.",
      "Some people are built different, and kudos to them who are like that, but I'm built different. I always say I'm the most competitive person I know, and look at my wife, she rolling her eyes probably.",
      "Not many coaches in the nation have the ability to turn overlooked recruits into All-Americans, but [Mark] Dantonio is built different.",
      "We fully know our bodies and what we are risking especially at the professional level. He's [ Kevin Durant 's] built different than the ppl saying he shouldn't have played. Maybe that's why they haven’t gotten where he is.",
      "You are built different, sir. Our church is blessed to have such a faithful and committed leader.",
      "In the comments section, users recounted their alleged experience with the physical labor of working in an Amazon warehouse. / \"My feet was so mfin sore. & the breaks were more like 5mins,\" claimed a commenter. \"I only worked for two days.\" / \"My shoulder still hurts and I haven't worked there since 2020,\" stated a second. / \"I literally had quit on my second day,\" a further user added. \"You built different if you work there.\"",
      "How many shows have truly stuck the landing? Lost 's final act cast a long, long shadow over its island shenanigans, Seinfeld 's finale felt deliberately frustrating, and even The Sopranos – the gold standard – is talked about for all the wrong reasons because of its cut-to-black ending. Better Call Saul, however, is built different. Not long after the finale aired, fans have rushed to social media to dish out praise for the Breaking Bad spin-off, even going as far as christening it one of the best TV episodes of all time.",
      "The 48-year-old not only blew them out of the water, but also clocked an incredible sub-4.40 time in the 40-yard dash. Even among world-class athletes, some people are just built different."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "1316-1",
    "Idiom": [
      "built like a brick shithouse",
      "built like a brick outhouse",
      "built like a brick shipyard"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Having a muscular body.",
    "Sentence": [
      "With a nickname that aptly translates to \"Tree Stump\" in Portugese, Palhares is built like a brick shit-house.",
      "As for the '66', the HSE noted that because of its \"robust construction and mass\" it sustained comparatively \"minor structural damage\". Built like the proverbial brick outhouse, it nevertheless had \"no energy-absorbing design features\"."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "1317-2",
    "Idiom": [
      "built like a brick shithouse"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Having an athletic or muscular body.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Sonia is a hot young blonde who is built like a brick shithouse ! She is stacked and well put together."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "1318",
    "Idiom": [
      "bulk billing"
    ],
    "Meaning": "The process of charging the government for a patient's medical expenses.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "1319",
    "Idiom": [
      "bull session"
    ],
    "Meaning": "An informal group discussion on various topics.",
    "Sentence": [
      "For instance, if you were having a bull session in somebody’s room, and somebody wanted to come in, nobody’d let them in if they were some dopey, pimply guy.",
      "\"We had the usual bull sessions about solving the world's problems or what would be the result of something,\" recalls Breidbart.",
      "There's an old joke that I used to hear occasionally on British television shows: \"It's not theft—it's socialism!\" I couldn't help but think of it repeatedly as I read this paper on self-organizing institutional arrangements among pirates, which bears some disturbing similarities to an hours-long anarcho-capitalist bull session.",
      "NASA administrator Jim Bridenstine ordered reviews of SpaceX and Boeing. Apparently this was planned before the whiskey-and-weed bull session on The Joe Rogan Experience."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "1320",
    "Idiom": [
      "bum rap"
    ],
    "Meaning": "An undeservedly unfavorable portrayal.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Orthopedic surgeon Robert Marx, with New York's Hospital for Special Surgery, says that findings from the current study should not give arthroscopic knee surgery a bum rap."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "1321",
    "Idiom": [
      "bum rush"
    ],
    "Meaning": "A storming into a place.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "1322",
    "Idiom": [
      "bum steer"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Bad advice or misinformation.",
    "Sentence": [
      "He never, so far as I knew, gave me a bum steer."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "1323",
    "Idiom": [
      "bum's rush"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Forcible ejection from a place.",
    "Sentence": [
      "\"I didnt' think you fellows'd put the bum's rush onto me,\" he complained, \"I ain't no bum.\"",
      "It seems that the board appointed to look into alleged shortcomings of leftish Council leaders didn't like the \"observers\" who were brought along and decided to give them the bum's rush.",
      "But suddenly he has a lucid interval... senses exactly what is going on. And he gives me this furious look. Astonishes me by saying, with all the old force, in his old, frightening growl: “This is a bum's rush !”",
      "Early last September, some fellow beekeepers reported that the females in their bee colonies had already given the bum's rush to the males, the drones, kicking them out in the cold."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "1324-1",
    "Idiom": [
      "bump and grind"
    ],
    "Meaning": "A sexually suggestive dance.",
    "Sentence": [
      "One of the oddest spectacles in America, in fact, has to be a Tom Jones audience, in which a couple of dozen women, usually attractive and well dressed, throw their panties onto the stage and compete for what appears to be a deep kiss from the male master of the bump and grind."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "1324-2",
    "Idiom": [
      "bump and grind"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To perform suggestive dance movements.",
    "Sentence": [
      "A dozen exercisers show up twice a week to \" bump and grind,\" \"do some belly rolls\" and \"loosen the hip joints.\""
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "1325-1",
    "Idiom": [
      "bump in the road"
    ],
    "Meaning": "A minor setback or obstacle.",
    "Sentence": [
      "\"The stock market has gone down, but it's just a bump in the road,\" she says.",
      "Ms. Leopold... said today that she saw the attack, for which she received more than 50 stitches, as more of a bump in the road than a serious deterrence to her goal.",
      "If there is a potential bump in the road for the NBA in the UK, it is its lack of a television deal."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "1325-2",
    "Idiom": [
      "bump in the road"
    ],
    "Meaning": "A minor obstacle or setback.",
    "Sentence": [
      "\"We're such a small bump in the road that driving through Sylvester is like hitting an armadillo at 60 miles an hour,\" drawls local businessman David Register.",
      "\"Believe it or not, that ugly little town was the county seat originally, when Pickax was only a bump in the road.\"",
      "The town of Juliette, Ga., wasn't even on the map until after 1991.... Now, the one-stop-sign bump in the road is officially marked along Georgia's long and lonesome Highway 16.",
      "The Lord has been a good provider in the small farming town of Mattoon, Illinois.... The scheme, which began in 1994, proved a bonanza for Mattoon, no more than a bump in the road halfway between St Louis and Indianapolis."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "1326",
    "Idiom": [
      "bump into"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To meet by chance.",
    "Sentence": [
      "We bumped into each other at the library yesterday."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "1327-1",
    "Idiom": [
      "bump off"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To kill, especially to murder.",
    "Sentence": [
      "\"Well, he's been wrong ever since I had to bump off Tim Harrigan. Talks about a fair break. As if I had a chance to let the old man get to a gun.\"",
      "The snow goons aren't moving! They're asleep! Now's our chance to go bump 'em off !",
      "In Match Point, when a mistress is about to blab to a wife, threatening a man's comfortable life, his solution is to bump off the girlfriend."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "1327-2",
    "Idiom": [
      "bump off"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To skip class.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "1328-1",
    "Idiom": [
      "bump up"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To increase something suddenly.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "1328-2",
    "Idiom": [
      "bump up"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To promote to a higher grade.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "1328-3",
    "Idiom": [
      "bump up"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To advance position or increase prominence.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "1328-4",
    "Idiom": [
      "bump up"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To collide with something.",
    "Sentence": [
      "It bumps up on the wall here."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "1328-5",
    "Idiom": [
      "bump up"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To come into conflict over something.",
    "Sentence": [
      "The legalization movement bumped up against political realities.",
      "The program is bumping up on its fiscal cap."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "1329",
    "Idiom": [
      "bumper crop"
    ],
    "Meaning": "A large yield.",
    "Sentence": [
      "The kindergarten seems to have a bumper crop of new children this year."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "1330",
    "Idiom": [
      "bun fight"
    ],
    "Meaning": "A debate or disagreement involving multiple parties.",
    "Sentence": [
      "\"Our interest in the thing is all lackadaisical, a kind of bun-fight of pet notions. There's no real steam.\"",
      "One of the big new hits on the Web is a silly, two-minute satire of the current Republican-Democrat bun fight, starring President Bush and Senator John Kerry as animated cutout figures.",
      "The debate over public service funding turned into a bun fight, says the communications minister.",
      "“Nigerian politics is one big bun-fight over oil money,” says Antony Goldman, a consultant."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "1331-1",
    "Idiom": [
      "bundle of energy"
    ],
    "Meaning": "One who is lively and active.",
    "Sentence": [
      "In truth it may be said he is a bundle of energy, and when he enlists in any good cause, he is a living illustration of St. Paul's motto: \"But this one thing I do, forgetting those things which are behind and reaching forth unto those things which are before, I press toward the mark for the prize.\"",
      "To children there are few greater delights than that of building a fire in the woods.... Winnie and Bobsey, little bundles of energy that they were, seemed unwearied in feeding the flames.",
      "Anyone looking for a kitten should consider that it is a tiny bundle of energy."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "1331-2",
    "Idiom": [
      "bundle of energy"
    ],
    "Meaning": "A lively and active person.",
    "Sentence": [
      "But Dubielewicz has a bundle of energy and the fans and his teammates feed off it."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "1332-1",
    "Idiom": [
      "bundle of joy"
    ],
    "Meaning": "A newborn baby or child.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Nature took its course, and Marie did give birth to a bundle of joy, but she soon discovered that motherhood was not all bliss."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "1332-2",
    "Idiom": [
      "bundle of joy"
    ],
    "Meaning": "A term for a baby or young child, often used affectionately.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "1333",
    "Idiom": [
      "bundle of laughs"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Something or someone very funny.",
    "Sentence": [
      "When she was alone with you, she could be a bundle of laughs. But if we were going to a large party, Sunny would break out in welts from nerves.",
      "Grim and gloomy Protestantism has never been exactly a bundle of laughs but lately humour in the church, particularly the evangelical wing, seems to be undergoing a revival.",
      "Eddie Murphy once said he's worked on films where it has been a bundle of laughs, and other times it has been absolute hell, and you can not tell whether the film will be any good, or terrible based on the experience."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "1334-1",
    "Idiom": [
      "bundle of nerves"
    ],
    "Meaning": "A very nervous or excitable person.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Being in point of fact a complete bundle of nerves and nothing else, his thin figure shook like a harp-string in painful excitement at a contretemps which would scarcely have quickened the pulse of an ordinary man.",
      "She is a jittery bundle of nerves rather than the tough stoic she ought to be."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "1334-2",
    "Idiom": [
      "bundle of nerves"
    ],
    "Meaning": "A nervous or anxious person.",
    "Sentence": [
      "\"Come and take lunch with me.\" The speaker was a walking, talking bundle of nerves, clothed in black broadcloth. A flawless diamond sparkled on the scarlet scarf that peeped above his close-fitting Prince Albert coat, and a pair of roguish eyes danced above two rosy cheeks.",
      "He found Pesita pacing back and forth before his tent—an energetic bundle of nerves which no amount of hard riding and fighting could tire or discourage."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "1335-1",
    "Idiom": [
      "bundle off"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To send someone away quickly.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Her mother came back in and pulled her out into the hallway as if she were bundling her off on a date and whispered urgently to her."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "1335-2",
    "Idiom": [
      "bundle off"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To leave abruptly.",
    "Sentence": [
      "The porpoises gave us one last push and our strange-looking craft bumped gently on a low beach. Then, thanking our lucky stars for a chance to stretch our cramped legs, we all bundled off on to the land—the first land, even though it was floating land, that we had trodden for six weeks."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "1336",
    "Idiom": [
      "bunny hop"
    ],
    "Meaning": "A dance involving small jumps with feet together.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "1337",
    "Idiom": [
      "bunny hug"
    ],
    "Meaning": "A style of dance.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "1338-1",
    "Idiom": [
      "buoy up"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To uplift or raise spirits.",
    "Sentence": [
      "I have supported with very great zeal, and I am told with some degree of success, those opinions, or if his Grace likes another expression better, those old prejudices, which buoy up the ponderous mass of his nobility, wealth, and title.",
      "With this training complete, and the crews of his cruisers and destroyers somewhat buoyed up by the experience, he then headed into the seas around Guadalcanal on the 9th"
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "1338-2",
    "Idiom": [
      "buoy up"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To keep afloat.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "1339",
    "Idiom": [
      "buried treasure"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Something valuable concealed and later rediscovered.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "1340",
    "Idiom": [
      "burn a hole in someone's pocket"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Causes someone to spend money.",
    "Sentence": [
      "The fortune burned a hole in his pocket, and he could not resist spending several thousand francs on jewelry for Eveline;",
      "In frustration, I go to the local Circuit City, my Visa card burning a hole in my pocket. \"Here's a grand! Two grand,\" I shout, \"for the salesperson who can bring me a VCR that I can use to record TV shows.",
      "When I later thought about the fifteen hundred dollars in hundred-dollar bills burning a hole in my pocket, and about how I was prepared to go immediately to the Democratic Party offices and plunk it down to campaign with a manager"
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "1341",
    "Idiom": [
      "burn bread"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To jinx something for someone by mentioning it.",
    "Sentence": [
      "I don't mean to burn bread on the guy, but if LaT cares to press it, he could be living in a dumpster before he gets too much older.",
      "“Si, I'll set up the meeting. I want you plugged in with the Cubans. Just in case something was to ever happen to me.” Rico shot his brother a scornful. “Listen, I got no problem wit' none a dat shit you talking, but I ain't trying' hear dat' just in case something happen' to you bullshit … you need to stop talking dat stupid shit fo'real. You only burnin' bread on yourself.”",
      "“Yo' ass gon' get fired.” “No, I'm not. Don't be burning bread on me like that.” Gray knocked on wood. “Besides, I've been working my ass off. ”",
      "\" I was just playing, but I see you've seen it through, just like that famous lawyer who played mind games on his wife.\" ¶ \"Yeah. Well what happened?\" Randol asked. ¶ \"He got caught, darling. Be careful.\" ¶ \"Hey, don't burn bread. I'm not like that stupid lawyer. \""
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "1342",
    "Idiom": [
      "burn daylight"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To waste time.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Mercutio. Come, we burn daylight, ho! Romeo. Nay, that's not so. Mercutio. I mean, sir, in delay. We waste our lights in vain, like lamps by day.",
      "Brad calls out, “Let's not burn daylight when there's work to be done!”",
      "Said he knows how Jack hates to burn daylight —so he'll be here afore you pull out.",
      "Now, let's head out, ma'am. We're burning daylight,”",
      "You will find that the time goes quickly, so don't burn daylight —get marketing!",
      "Without anything to look forward to that night, I settled into a very slow pace just trying to burn daylight."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "1343",
    "Idiom": [
      "burn one's bridges"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To destroy connections or opportunities intentionally.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Even if you are dismissed from a job in the worst way, take care not to burn your bridges with unseemly comments on the way out, since you never know who you will meet again."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "1344",
    "Idiom": [
      "burn one's fingers"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To suffer consequences of one's actions.",
    "Sentence": [
      "He burned his fingers in the stock market and has been timid about investing ever since."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "1345",
    "Idiom": [
      "burn out"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To make someone unavailable for work due to excessive exposure.",
    "Sentence": [
      "The repairs on this nuclear reactor have burned out every welder in the province."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "1346",
    "Idiom": [
      "burn rubber"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To accelerate quickly from a stop, leaving tire marks.",
    "Sentence": [
      "“We’re rammed to the gills with foreigners doing mad shit. You can’t do this to Irish people. I’m getting out of this country, I’m burning rubber. It’s not safe to walk around here.”"
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "1347",
    "Idiom": [
      "burn someone's ears"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Causes embarrassment.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "1348",
    "Idiom": [
      "burn that bridge when one comes to it"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To act in a way that alienates others while anticipating future problems.",
    "Sentence": [
      "That takes care of Kay. As for the man, I'll burn that bridge when I come to it.",
      "...when the time came in making the inevitable break. Well — he'd burn that bridge when he came to it.",
      "Tonight the happy couple were to sleep at Dyer House, as generations of Dukes and their Duchesses had before them, but — as Wessex's partner often said — they would burn that bridge when they came to it.",
      "“We can't do anything about that now. Emma, we'll burn that bridge when we come to it, okay?”",
      "Clients often whistled a different tune at a later date, but one could burn that bridge when one came to it."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "1349-1",
    "Idiom": [
      "burn the candle at both ends"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To overwork or overexert oneself.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Von Gerhard's face was unsmiling. “So,” he said, slowly. “You burn the candle at both ends. All day you write, is it not so? And at night you come home to write still more? Ach, Kindchen!—Na, we shall change all that.",
      "I don’t look older, I just look worse, I think. Honestly, when I’m walking down the street, no one’s ever like, “Hey, look at that man!” I think they’re just like “Whoa! That tall child looks terrible! Get some rest, tall child! You can't keep burning the candle at both ends !\" Just take my kindergarten photo and yellow the teeth and put bags under the eyes and be like “This is what he would look like now.”"
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "1349-2",
    "Idiom": [
      "burn the candle at both ends"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To waste resources excessively.",
    "Sentence": [
      "The dividends were divided from capital and not from profit—for, in truth, the concern never earned a penny in the sense in which the term profit is commonly employed. The pipe-making concern burned the candle at both ends, and burned it steadily;",
      "And another thing not to be forgotten is that the expense rate, the cost of production, has kept pace with the reduction in premiums, thus burning the candle at both ends;",
      "Speaking financially, Mrs. Ormsby had burned the candle at both ends. Her establishment was costly on the one hand; her pleasures costly on the other.",
      "Now the Department of the Interior is trying to burn the candle at both ends by narrowing the margin of profit and at the same time cutting down the amount of production.",
      "Oceana is a world younger than our own, wedded to a star with but a fraction of the life expectancy of Sol. It is a world burning the candle at both ends, enjoying twice the light in half the time, and spinning all the faster toward annihilation and the Void."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "1350",
    "Idiom": [
      "burn the midnight oil"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To work late into the night.",
    "Sentence": [
      "You worked at whatever task you were engaged in — churning out steel nuts for the car companies or churning out essays in college — until you were done, even if you had to burn the midnight oil. No excuses, no whining, no cheating.",
      "He was burning the midnight oil to finish his paper.",
      "She was burning the midnight oil to finish her part of the project."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "1351",
    "Idiom": [
      "burn the roof"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To have a great time dancing and enjoying music.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "1352",
    "Idiom": [
      "burn time"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To waste time unnecessarily.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "1353",
    "Idiom": [
      "burning question"
    ],
    "Meaning": "An important question that urgently requires an answer.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "1354",
    "Idiom": [
      "burst in"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To enter suddenly.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "1355",
    "Idiom": [
      "burst into tears"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To suddenly start crying.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "1356",
    "Idiom": [
      "burst out laughing"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To start laughing suddenly.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "1357",
    "Idiom": [
      "burst someone's bubble"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To disillusion someone.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Second, the romance option brings up a unique issue: having sex with an alien. It’s somewhat difficult to say what the Christian should think on this issue because, well, the Bible doesn’t talk about aliens. Probably because they don’t exist (sorry to burst your bubble). Would this be considered bestiality? Or is it not bestiality since they are also beings capable of rational and ethical thought and self-reflection unlike usual animals?",
      "I hate to burst his bubble, but he is going to be disappointed if he tries that idea."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "1358",
    "Idiom": [
      "bury one's head in the sand",
      "put one's head in the sand",
      "stick one's head in the sand"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To deliberately ignore reality.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Now this doubtness is an unhappy state of affairs to the lover of the steam locomotive, but we cannot, like the proverbial ostrich, bury our heads in the sand and refuse to face facts."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "1359",
    "Idiom": [
      "bury the hatchet"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To cease fighting or reach a truce.",
    "Sentence": [
      "They need to calm down and bury the hatchet before someone gets hurt."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "1360",
    "Idiom": [
      "bury the lead"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To begin with less重要 details, delaying the main points.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "1361",
    "Idiom": [
      "bury the lede"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To start with less important details while delaying key points.",
    "Sentence": [
      "The news account started by recounting details of the candidate's appearance and buried the lede by not mentioning his new call for tax reform until the 19th paragraph."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "1362",
    "Idiom": [
      "bus plunge"
    ],
    "Meaning": "A phrase used for filler headlines in newspapers.",
    "Sentence": [
      "“One of them said to me, ‘We’re keeping up the bus plunges in your absence,’ or words to that effect,” says Siegal. Bus plunges had become an inside joke, with editors scouting the wire s for new ones.",
      "Here's the thing about newspapers: they can't publish blank space. You've gotta put something in there. So editors started putting in lots of \" bus plunge \" briefs because they were short, simple, and filled space easily.",
      "We ran a bus plunge story on page 6 to fill the empty space so we could make deadline. (In journalism contexts, the omission of an article such as \"the\" before \"deadline\" is idiomatic.)",
      ""
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "1363-1",
    "Idiom": [
      "bush league"
    ],
    "Meaning": "An amateurish or inferior level of something.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "1363-2",
    "Idiom": [
      "bush league"
    ],
    "Meaning": "A low-ranking or inferior level.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "1364-1",
    "Idiom": [
      "bush telegraph"
    ],
    "Meaning": "A means of communication over long distances in remote areas.",
    "Sentence": [
      "When I was born, family and friends came from all over, thanks to the bush telegraph. There were very few telephones where I grew up, so my father mentioned my birth to someone at the market. And that woman told a man who was delivering rice to a place up the road. He told someone there, who was taking a herd of cattle south, toward the villages. And pretty soon the news of my birth had spread far and wide."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "1364-2",
    "Idiom": [
      "bush telegraph"
    ],
    "Meaning": "A gossip network.",
    "Sentence": [
      "I suppose you've received information, by bush-telegraph, that that third assistant understrapper and ex-sailorman at Tulagi is going to deport me as an undesirable immigrant."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "1365-1",
    "Idiom": [
      "business as usual"
    ],
    "Meaning": "The normal course of activity despite unusual circumstances.",
    "Sentence": [
      "The phase “Business as Usual” ran about the world, and the papers abounded in articles in which going on as though there was no war at all was demonstrated to be the truest form of patriotism. “ Business as usual during Alterations to the Map of Europe” was the advertisement of one cheerful barber, widely quoted....",
      "In other words, it is business as usual on the Korean Peninsula. Perhaps, when the atmosphere cools down, an argument can be made for giving North Korea’s leaders some of the assistance they want, if they are willing to make concessions of their own.",
      "This was very well illustrated when Extinction Rebellion protests disrupted traffic in London in April 2019, and Mayor Sadiq Khan insisted that while he shared “the passion about tackling climate change of those protesting” Londoners needed to be able to return to “ business as usual ”."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "1365-2",
    "Idiom": [
      "business as usual"
    ],
    "Meaning": "The normal execution of standard operations.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "1365-3",
    "Idiom": [
      "business as usual"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Normal and expected activity.",
    "Sentence": [
      "This vehicle would be likely to cost about $1,500 more at retail than the business as usual vehicle, which achieves 33 mpg."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "1366",
    "Idiom": [
      "business before pleasure"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Prioritizing responsibilities over leisure.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "1367",
    "Idiom": [
      "business end"
    ],
    "Meaning": "The essential or most important part of an object or activity.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Indeed, it is universally agreed to be a place of a very disagreeable description, though certainly preferable to that in which \"Strangers\" are placed. You find yourself at so great a distance from the Speaker's, or business end of the House, that you cannot distinctly recognise the features of a single Member.",
      "Speed by now was now down to 25 m.p.h., but that universal tool, the insulated screwdriver, with its business end gingerly applied to the relay coil, enabled us to keep going as far as Grantham, where a more permanent remedy could be effected.",
      "The preacher stood up from his table, in his right hand he held a bible (hey-hey) / And in his left, the business end of a Winchester rifle",
      "There is even an example of convergent evolution at a molecular level in two enzymes, one from soil bacteria and the other from man, which have exactly the same patterns of amino acids at the \" business ends.\"",
      "On this day, with expectation rising and the unmistakable feeling around this sweeping Samara Stadium that the World Cup is really reaching the business end, England delivered.",
      "staring down the business end of a [calibre of pistol here]",
      "The business end of a hammer is known as the head."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "1368",
    "Idiom": [
      "business girl"
    ],
    "Meaning": "A female prostitute.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "1369",
    "Idiom": [
      "busman's holiday"
    ],
    "Meaning": "A vacation spent doing work-related activities.",
    "Sentence": [
      "I shall indeed take a holiday soon, probably on the Continent; but it will be a \" Busman's Holiday.\" The bus-driver spends his \"day off\" in driving on a pal's bus, on the box-seat by his pal's side; and I know that night after night, all through my holiday, I shall be in and out of this hall and that theatre, never happy except when I am watching some theatrical piece or Variety entertainment. The author was an English music hall performer. This is the earliest attestation of the term listed in the Oxford English Dictionary.",
      "Is not the following a rather notable instance of \"the busman's holiday \"? At a recent meeting of the Twickenham Education Committee Mr. F. W. Pearce, who is surveyor to that body as well as to the urban district council, was asked what progress had been made with regard to the affixing of tablets on historic houses in the district. To this Mr. Pearce replied that he felt responsible for any delay in the matter, but would devote to it the first week of his holiday!",
      "In his opinion one of the chief defects in detective stories—for he was given to busmen's holidays —was that authors made their 'sleuths' like unto the angels, watching for days without, so to speak, taking their eye off the ball. It was not so in real life.",
      "Cervinia is a Mecca for the skiing greats of the world. When the season is over at home—even as long a season as at Colorado's Snowmass—the pros take their busmen's holidays on the sunny slopes of the Plateau Rosa.",
      "While it would seem that the judges have a long vacation each year, they actually have a sort of \" busman's holiday \" in that they take their \"homework\" with them. They study applications for review during the summer recess.",
      "Although it is in the nature of a busman's holiday, I always try to visit a nursery and a botanic garden when I'm traveling.",
      "When he first joined the Star, he had requested an annual five-week holiday. Beland Honderich agreed, but suggested that two of the weeks should be \"disguised as an assignment.\" As a result, Berton's travels produced several multi-part series of columns and Close-Up interviews. Janet accompanied him on these busman's holidays whenever circumstances permitted.",
      "I have come to realize that the busman's holiday is an elemental part of my life. Actually, I don't know where my work life stops and my recreational life begins."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "1370",
    "Idiom": [
      "bust a cap"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To shoot with a gun.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "1371-1",
    "Idiom": [
      "bust a move"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To dance.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Damn, see that guy on the dance floor? He can bust a move !"
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "1371-2",
    "Idiom": [
      "bust a move"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To initiate an action.",
    "Sentence": [
      "It's time to go. Let's bust a move.",
      "What you looking at me like that for? C'mon man, bust a move if you're feeling froggy."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "1372-1",
    "Idiom": [
      "bust a nut"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To ejaculate.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Genter was so excited he like to bust a nut. He had a telephone plugged in at the table and called people up."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "1372-2",
    "Idiom": [
      "bust a nut"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To put in a lot of effort.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "1373-1",
    "Idiom": [
      "bust ass"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To work hard to achieve a goal.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "1373-2",
    "Idiom": [
      "bust ass"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To work very hard.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "1374",
    "Idiom": [
      "bust chops"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To nag or hound someone.",
    "Sentence": [
      "The boss has been busting chops all day.",
      "The boss busted our chops all week."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "1375",
    "Idiom": [
      "bust on"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To ridicule or make fun of.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Mr. Moffatt explained different signals that students use to express friendship, like \" busting \" on one another. To \" bust on \" someone is \"to deflate their pretensions by means of aggressive verbal mockery.\" Mr. Moffatt explained that students only \" bust on \" their friends.",
      "Three days after Nets Coach John Calipari called a reporter a \"Mexican idiot,\" the team publicly apologized today.... \"The way I understand it, what Cal was trying to do was bust on Garcia,\" Fenech said. \"Once he saw Garcia's reaction, he realized he didn't think he was kidding.\"",
      "His wife bought him his first Utilikilt four years ago, but it took him six months to get up the courage to wear it outside. He finally decided to debut it at a local beer festival. \"A lot of guys were busting on me,\" he recalled. But others wanted their picture taken with him, asking where they could get their own kilts.",
      "Diane Keaton, Candice Bergen, Jane Fonda and Mary Steenburgen took time out from shooting the 2018 movie Book Club on Monday to take in the eclipse, goofy glasses and all. While Bergen was rocking Instagram, however, Fonda actually posted less-than-perfect pics on Twitter that busted on the former \"Murphy Brown\" star. \"Watching eclipse on set of BOOK CLUB,\" the Grace and Frankie star wrote. \"Diane Keaton, Mary Steenburgen and I are rapt. Candice Bergen could care less#SolarEclipse2017.\""
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "1376",
    "Idiom": [
      "bust one's balls"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To work very hard.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "1377",
    "Idiom": [
      "bust one's chops"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To exert oneself.",
    "Sentence": [
      "I've been busting my chops to get this out by end of day."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "1378",
    "Idiom": [
      "bust the dust"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To clean dust off something.",
    "Sentence": [
      "After I scrub the floor, I'm going to bust the dust."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "1379",
    "Idiom": [
      "busted flush"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Ends up worthless despite potential.",
    "Sentence": [
      "If this [Tony Blair] is such an utterly busted flush of a leader, why are so many Tories and their outriders so keen to have this Prime Minister gone before he can fight another election?",
      "\"In November last year, at the annual conference, a decision went against me and I took the view that I couldn't carry on. I was a busted flush as the General Secretary, and in a position where I did not have the support of everyone, so it was best that I moved on."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "1380",
    "Idiom": [
      "busy as a bee"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Very active.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Lord, I have been as busy as a bee ever since dinner!",
      "Heidi ran backwards and forwards as busy as a bee and brought out everything she could find in the cupboard, for she did not know how to be pleased enough that she could help to entertain the doctor.",
      "There was his father bending over his papers at his writing-table before the window, busy as a bee no doubt at some new enthusiasm which was destined to infuriate his neighbours."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "1381",
    "Idiom": [
      "busy as a nailer"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Working constantly.",
    "Sentence": [
      "So the Colonel went down stairs, and the Ould Fellow worked away as busy as a nailer, shovellin' in the guineas by hundherds and thousands.",
      "The result was obvious; the nailer was no longer “as busy as a nailer,” and there was no prospect that he ever would be fully employed.",
      "she would be as busy as a nailer in the Abbey Shop ensuring that Mass cards were ready for those who came, and helping out in any other way she could."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "1382",
    "Idiom": [
      "busy work"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Work that occupies time without being productive.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Until we have a system clearly established, entering more data is just busy work."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "1383",
    "Idiom": [
      "but good"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To a high degree; very thoroughly.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Ryder rode beside her, pleased at her pleasure, knowing that he'd surprised her but good.",
      "The debate is a sublime mismatch: He's expected to whip this guy, but good.",
      "Dr. Gerald Bortolazzo, or Doc, as he is known, has some story to tell about a horse, his new career as a horseman and how he, if he did not exactly cheat death, fooled it but good."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "1384",
    "Idiom": [
      "but seriously folks"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Used to redirect attention after a failed joke.",
    "Sentence": [
      "A nightclub comic who gets off a bad joke, nobody laughs, but he goes right on with: \" But, seriously, folks \" ….",
      "But seriously, folks, on behalf of the Copacabana — and believe me, I'd love to be half of the Copacabana",
      "\"Take my life, … please,\" Colombo continued, a wry smile creasing his face. (Apparently he was a fan of Henny Youngman.) \"Badaboom! But, seriously, folks, I learn long ago, during my life, that justice, she does not exist. ….\""
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "1385",
    "Idiom": [
      "but then"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Used to present an alternative viewpoint.",
    "Sentence": [
      "He may finish writing his novel next year; but then, he may never finish."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "1386",
    "Idiom": [
      "butcher's bill"
    ],
    "Meaning": "death toll.",
    "Sentence": [
      "What's the butcher's bill ?"
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "1387",
    "Idiom": [
      "butt heads"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To argue uncompromisingly.",
    "Sentence": [
      "\"Eventually, I just pieced it together, figuring your butting heads could probably be explained by a break up. Years of anime shipping trained me for this.\"",
      "They always seem to butt heads when they end up talking about politics."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "1388",
    "Idiom": [
      "butt in"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To interrupt or join unwelcome.",
    "Sentence": [
      "That spurt of rage took Bradly in the midriff before he could control it. He was standing over Podson with such eminent threat in his bristling beard that Podson said sulkily, \"Oh, all right, I don't want to butt in, if you feel like that about it.\"",
      "Hey, this is none of your business; don’t butt in !",
      "Forgive me for butting in."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "1389-1",
    "Idiom": [
      "butt up"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To press closely or scrape against.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Tonight’s sumptuous two-hour gig butts up hard against the curfew. Minutes often go by during which Murphy dispenses entirely with the business of singing pop songs. She’ll vogue, or reanimate some acid house moves, letting the beat take over."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "1389-2",
    "Idiom": [
      "butt up"
    ],
    "Meaning": "In sharp contrast or confrontation.",
    "Sentence": [
      "At their zenith—arguably their infamous two-consecutive-night Knebworth gigs in 1996— Oasis embodied a very particular swaggering Manchester-ness, an unmatched scally confidence that butted up against a more constructed, dare I say pretentious, British music scene."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "1390",
    "Idiom": [
      "butter one's bread on both sides"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To profit from two contradictory things simultaneously.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "1391",
    "Idiom": [
      "butter the cony"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To take advantage of an opportunity.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "1392-1",
    "Idiom": [
      "butter wouldn't melt in someone's mouth"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Appears innocent but is actually untrustworthy or mean-spirited.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Col. Why, they say she's one of the chief toasts in town. Lady S. Ay, when all the rest are out of it. Miss. Well; I wouldn't be as sick as she's proud for all the world. Lady A. She looks as if butter wouldn't melt in her mouth but, I warrant, cheese won't choke her.... Col. I can't pardon her for her rudeness to me.",
      "When a visitor comes in, she smiles and languishes, you'd think that butter wouldn't melt in her mouth : and the minute he is gone, very likely, she flares up like a little demon, and says things fit to send you wild.",
      "\"Yes, he is a ruffian and a brute, and I don't see what Mr. Cameron sees about him to like, I am sure.\" \"Probably the boy makes him think he is a model of excellence. Such boys are apt to be deceitful.\" \"He's deceitful enough. You'd think butter wouldn't melt in his mouth.\"",
      "Yes, he is the bishop's chaplain; a Jesuit in disguise I call him, with his moping and mowing and sneaky ways. Butter wouldn't melt in his mouth;",
      "\"Evil, wise and cruel,\" reflected Rob, as he restored the spectacles to his pocket. \"How easily such a man could impose upon people. To look at him one would think that butter wouldn't melt in his mouth !\"",
      "\"There's old Stephen Grant coming in,\" exclaimed Peg viciously, shaking her floury fist at him, \"and looking as if butter wouldn't melt in his mouth. He may be an elder, but he's a scoundrel just the same.\"",
      "\"I've often laughed, seeing you walk past me as though butter wouldn't melt in your mouth and everybody saying what a nice young man Mr. So-and-so is, and I have thought, if they only knew that this sleek lad—\" \"Shut up!\" said the other savagely.",
      "One villager said: \"This lad looks like butter wouldn't melt in his mouth with his blonde hair and good looks. But he is no cherub in real-life. He is the devil child for many people around here.\""
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "1392-2",
    "Idiom": [
      "butter wouldn't melt in someone's mouth"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Describes someone as prim, proper, or standoffish.",
    "Sentence": [
      "All unmarried women are necessarily in the market; but if they behave themselves properly they make no signs. Now there was Griselda Grantly; of course she intended to get herself a husband, and a very grand one she has got: but she always looked as though butter would not melt in her mouth.",
      "It was a very long way from Mozart's Pamina, Handel's Alcina, Donizetti's Adina or Bizet's butter-wouldn't-melt-in-her-mouth Micaela. Indeed, Lisa Milne had put away her shining soprano for the night.... The only way to reach the songs of Jacques Brel is from the heart; the only way to deliver them, from the gut.",
      "Sir Robert is the type of whom it is said that butter wouldn’t melt in his mouth; Mr. Nivola invests him with such a potent blend of froideur and hauteur that you imagine that butter wouldn’t melt anywhere within a 10-foot radius of him."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "1393",
    "Idiom": [
      "butterfly upon a wheel"
    ],
    "Meaning": "An innocent person crushed by life's adversities.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "1394-1",
    "Idiom": [
      "button nose"
    ],
    "Meaning": "A small, flat, round nose often considered cute.",
    "Sentence": [
      "She had little features, a button nose, a pretty chin and a long graceful neck.",
      "Tintin, the comic strip hero with the button nose, poppy-seed eyes and blond flip hairdo, is now an institution.",
      "You can't buy BRAD PITT's icy blue eyes or JENNIFER ANISTON's adorable button nose."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "1394-2",
    "Idiom": [
      "button nose"
    ],
    "Meaning": "A person with a button-shaped nose.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Surprisingly, the film is delightful—mostly because of 15-year-old Hayley Mills, the blonde button nose who played the endearing delinquent in Tiger Bay."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "1395",
    "Idiom": [
      "button one's lip"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To remain silent, especially to keep a secret.",
    "Sentence": [
      "\"Yes,\" put in Solomon. \"I've been tipped off to this guy Mars, and you'd better tell him to button up his lip and not start anything.\"",
      "\"We advised John not to talk, to button his lip, but he talked anyway.\"",
      "Busch wisely buttoned his lip and didn't say anything else."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "1396-1",
    "Idiom": [
      "button-down",
      "buttoned-down"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Serious and businesslike.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "1397-2",
    "Idiom": [
      "button-down"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Conservative or conventional.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "1398",
    "Idiom": [
      "buy a dog and bark oneself"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To do something oneself that one has paid someone else to do.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Don't buy a dog and bark yourself. Corporate sales are complex and risky. Appoint experienced advisers and get them to manage the process under your I Information.",
      "\"Me, cook?\" Berties lip curled. \"I've Flo. You don't buy a dog and bark yourself. Why'd you want to know that anyway?”",
      "\"We could indeed,\" I said, \"but I'm left wondering why you'd buy a dog and bark yourself. What are you up to?\"",
      "A large board doing its own selection is not buying a dog and barking itself, it is hiring a surgeon and operating itself."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "1399",
    "Idiom": [
      "buy a ticket to"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Indicates agreement with an assertion or suggestion.",
    "Sentence": [
      "You know, some days I feel like just quitting my job and walking out of here.",
      "I'll buy a ticket to that. Working here really sucks."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "1400",
    "Idiom": [
      "buy cheap, buy twice",
      "good work ain't cheap, cheap work ain't good"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Buying a cheap product may lead to needing a replacement.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "1401",
    "Idiom": [
      "buy into"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To believe or accept something as valid.",
    "Sentence": [
      "I don't buy into all this propaganda."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "1402",
    "Idiom": [
      "buy out"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To purchase everything of something.",
    "Sentence": [
      "the present Earl had no colour or pretence of right to the estate; and yet the appellants had thought fit to buy him out,",
      "and when he complained met with the reply that if he did not like his partner's methods he could either clear out or buy him out."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "1403",
    "Idiom": [
      "buy straw hats in winter"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Buy when demand and price are low to sell when high.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "1404",
    "Idiom": [
      "buy the farm"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To die.",
    "Sentence": [
      "You're just as dead if you buy the farm in an \"incident\" as if you buy it in a declared war.",
      "Then tracers laced the sky in front of me. Forget the shooting! If I get distracted now, I'll buy the farm anyway!",
      "BETTY. Shoot, if I knew you was gonna buy the farm I coulda asked for everything you got in the world... How were you gonna do it? ¶ROGER (takes revolver out of briefcase). With this.",
      "They gambled with as much reckless abandon as they flew their airplanes. They knew they might buy the farm tomorrow."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "1405",
    "Idiom": [
      "buy time"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To cause a delay for a specific purpose.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Parliament, dominated by supporters of the government, voted on Thursday to delay making a decision on whether it will amend the constitution. The decision angered protesters and opposition parliamentarians, who accused parliament of trying to buy time.",
      "We need you to buy us some time, so distract the security guard for a few minutes."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "1406",
    "Idiom": [
      "buy to let"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To purchase a property as an investment to rent out.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "1407-1",
    "Idiom": [
      "buy up"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To purchase the entire stock of something.",
    "Sentence": [
      "The marshland was bought up by a housing company."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "1407-2",
    "Idiom": [
      "buy up"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To buy everything available of something.",
    "Sentence": [
      "According to this saga of intellectual-property misanthropy, these creatures [patent trolls] roam the business world, buying up patents and then using them to demand extravagant payouts from companies they accuse of infringing them. Often, their victims pay up rather than face the costs of a legal battle."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "1407-3",
    "Idiom": [
      "buy up"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To buy off or pay in blackmail.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Sir Leicester Dedlock, Baronet, it's for you to consider whether or not to buy this up. I should recommend, on the whole, it's being bought up myself; and I think it may be bought pretty cheap."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "1408-1",
    "Idiom": [
      "buzz off"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Go away.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Don’t let anyone say, “Buzz off!”"
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "1408-2",
    "Idiom": [
      "buzz off"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To go away.",
    "Sentence": [
      "“Where's Daddy?” Phyllis asked. “He suddenly decided to go to London,” said Bobbie. “To London?” “That's what he said.” “Why?” “He didn't tell me.” “I must go and see him,” said Phyllis, and buzzed off. “He's asking for his dinner, the sweet little angel. All right, darling, Mother's coming,” she fluted, and buzzed off on the errand of mercy. “That's life,” she said, and buzzed off to keep her vigil, leaving me kicking myself because I'd forgotten to say anything about the quality of mercy not being strained."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "1409",
    "Idiom": [
      "buzzer-beater"
    ],
    "Meaning": "A last-minute winning (or tying) shot in a game.",
    "Sentence": [
      "The Knicks immediately went 7-0 upon Lin's insertion in the lineup. He dropped 38 against the Lakers and beat Toronto with a buzzer-beater."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "1410",
    "Idiom": [
      "by a hair's breadth"
    ],
    "Meaning": "By a narrow margin.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "1411",
    "Idiom": [
      "by a landslide"
    ],
    "Meaning": "With a huge difference.",
    "Sentence": [
      "I think he is going to win by a landslide.",
      "USA beat Jamaica by a landslide in last night's game."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "1412",
    "Idiom": [
      "by a long shot"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Indicates a very big difference or disparity.",
    "Sentence": [
      "‘Yes, I do recognize it now. It is the most wonderful thing I ever heard of; by a long shot the most wonderful—and unexpected.’",
      "Well, he won’t find Billy Roberts a sissy by a long shot.",
      "See here: You KNOW you feel superior to folks. You're not as bad as I say, but you're not as good as you say—not by a long shot ! What’s the reason you’re so superior?",
      "He couldn't keep up with me, not by a long shot.",
      "He speaks better than he writes, by a long shot."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "1413",
    "Idiom": [
      "by a long way"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To a considerable extent; indicates something not easily changed.",
    "Sentence": [
      "“Now this won’t do - not by a long way ”."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "1414",
    "Idiom": [
      "by all accounts"
    ],
    "Meaning": "According to what people have said.",
    "Sentence": [
      "The reputation of the elder Baron, although by all accounts justly merited, was destined to be completely thrown into the shade by that of his son",
      "that they say, by all accounts, it costs him great trouble to make, by rason that he must fast a long time, and pray by the day, afore he gets himself",
      "I sent the particulars to the ship-builder, and by all accounts the news killed him, for he died not long after.",
      "The society had apparently been formed the previous year, but as the Cheltenham Spa Railway Society, which sounded rather parochial and unambitious - particularly as (by all accounts) its founders had gathered in a garden shed in the town."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "1415",
    "Idiom": [
      "by an eyelash"
    ],
    "Meaning": "By a very small amount.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "1416",
    "Idiom": [
      "by and large"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Mostly or generally.",
    "Sentence": [
      "“The people doing this by and large don’t have any real concept of how to tell a story, and neither do any kind of A.I.,” Ms. Williams said on Wednesday.",
      "Akers claims that ETCS signalling renewals are roughly 50% of the cost of conventional renewals. If nothing else, this is an important reason for NR to be keen to switch. \"There's no rocket science or magic in that, there's just physically less to deliver,\" he says. \"There are no trackside signals. Yes, you have balises and marker boards, and you still have train detection, but by and large there is simply less to deliver.",
      "It was, by and large, an unexceptional presentation."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "1417",
    "Idiom": [
      "by any means",
      "by no stretch of the imagination"
    ],
    "Meaning": "In any manner whatsoever.",
    "Sentence": [
      "I do not by any means blame the employees for the collapse of the company."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "1418",
    "Idiom": [
      "by any stretch of the imagination"
    ],
    "Meaning": "In any sense.",
    "Sentence": [
      "The British Prime Minister isn't a monarch by any stretch of the imagination."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "1419",
    "Idiom": [
      "by failing to prepare, you are preparing to fail",
      "he who fails to prepare, prepares to fail",
      "failure to prepare is preparing to fail"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Failing to prepare leads to failure.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "1420",
    "Idiom": [
      "by far"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To a large extent.",
    "Sentence": [
      "These are by far the most impressive narrow-gauge engines in Greece.",
      "Paris is by far the largest city in France."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "1421",
    "Idiom": [
      "by guess or by gosh"
    ],
    "Meaning": "At random.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "1422",
    "Idiom": [
      "by halves"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Partially or inadequately.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Thou fool, I ne'er do things by halves, Farthings are made for Irish slaves; No brass for me, it must be gold, Or fifty pounds in silver told.",
      "I have no notion of loving people by halves; it is not my nature. My attachments are always excessively strong.",
      "Johnson, who, as we have before remarked, rarely praised or dispraised things by halves, broke forth in a warm eulogy.",
      "She was too thoroughgoing to do things by halves.",
      "\"When things happen to us in Latin America, it is never by halves. There is no equilibrium, so when it rains, towns get inundated and disappear, and when we have a revolution, half the population dies.\"",
      "They don't do things by halves in the States. Whether it is cars, burgers or waistlines, Americans like to think bigger."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "1423",
    "Idiom": [
      "by hand"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Manually; without machines.",
    "Sentence": [
      "The computers went down and they had to do all the bookkeeping by hand that day."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "1424",
    "Idiom": [
      "by hook or by crook"
    ],
    "Meaning": "By any means possible.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Nor wyll suffre this boke / By hoke ne by croke / Prynted for to be,",
      "Novv if you could put us in a vvay, by hook or by crook, to get her out of the convent—",
      "P.S. I hope you will be enabled by hook or by crook, to send B—— and H——, together with a certain Mr. Guthrie, to Philadelphia, for their winter quarters.",
      "Thus, by diverse little make shifts, in that ingenious way which is commonly denominated \" by hook and by crook,\" the worthy pedagogue got on tolerably enough, and was thought, by all those who undersood nothing of the labour of headwork, to have a wonderful easy life of it.",
      "Since we've looked up a little in the world, I saved up five guineas, by hook or by crook, and tried to get Poll back again, but the lady said she wouldn't take fifty guineas for him.",
      "Can you not drive over and see me? Do come by hook or by crook.",
      "In these fields of Mr. Tulkinghorn's inhabiting, where the shepherds play on Chancery pipes that have no stop, and keep their sheep in the fold by hook and by crook until they have shorn them exceeding close, every noise is merged, this moonlight night, into a distant ringing hum, as if the city were a vast glass, vibrating.",
      "And, by hook or by crook, Hedger Luxellian was made a lord, and everything went on well till some time after, when he got into a most terrible row with King Charles the Fourth—",
      "I wouldn't have believed it of myself; but, then—you see—I felt somehow I must get there by hook or by crook.",
      "He had destroyed his talent by not using it, by betrayals of himself and what he believed in, by drinking so much that he blunted the edge of his perceptions, by laziness, by sloth, and by snobbery, by pride and by prejudice, by hook and by crook.",
      "She was determined to win the contract by hook or by crook."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "1425",
    "Idiom": [
      "by mistake"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Accidentally; without intention.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Today I took your packed lunch to work by mistake."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "1426",
    "Idiom": [
      "by no means"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Certainly not.",
    "Sentence": [
      "He by no means gave up his shop. On the contrary, he kept well abreast of new discoveries. He followed the great movement of chocolates; he was the first to introduce \"cocoa\" and \"revalenta\" into the Seine-Inferieure.",
      "Every photographer of experience has his own theories and methods of working, but for the last 14 years I have used a Leica exclusively, and have found it best adapted to the somewhat exacting demands of railway photography, which is by no means an easy branch of the art.",
      "Well, during our short staycation at Humberston Fitties, just south of Cleethorpes, we cycled through the very unspoilt Lincolnshire Wolds, which are by no means flat and boring as conventional wisdom about the county suggests.",
      "By no means am I suggesting that euthanasia should be outlawed, but rather that we should look at its inherent risks."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "1427",
    "Idiom": [
      "by one's lights"
    ],
    "Meaning": "According to one's understanding.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "1428",
    "Idiom": [
      "by one's own hand"
    ],
    "Meaning": "As a result of one's own actions, especially suicide.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Since his death by his own hand in France, in 2018, there’s been a steady drip of books and documentaries and television specials and magazine one-offs about his life and career.",
      "Like too many deeply depressed people, she died by her own hand.",
      "He gained all his wealth by his own hand."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "1429-1",
    "Idiom": [
      "by right"
    ],
    "Meaning": "According to what is right or entitled.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Whiche praise, with the honour thereunto due, as inheritaunce discendeth by righte unto his most noble sonne, our moste dere soueraigne lorde that nowe presently raigneth. For, as Tulli saithe, the best inheritance that the fathers leue to their children, excellynge all other patrimonie, is the glorie or praise of vertue and noble actis.",
      "Tall and stately men, and fair ladies, worthy of the days when the gentry of England were by due right the leaders of the people, by personal prowess and beauty, as well as by intellect and education.",
      "Well, whether the gentlemen really do deprive us of any little matters which ought to be ours by rights, I cannot say for certain; but the opinion of the old ones is they do.",
      "He told me not to tell anyone. I suppose that I should not by rights have told you.",
      "The rest will be speculators, that's men trying to get between you and the oilmen to get some of the money that ought, by rights, come to you.",
      "By rights I ought to have been lolling in bed this morning, but Nancy was ill and I had to goalkeep for the Second.",
      "The post of vice-president should, by right, have been given to John."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "1429-2",
    "Idiom": [
      "by right"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Correctly or truthfully.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "1430",
    "Idiom": [
      "by the Grace of Allah"
    ],
    "Meaning": "By divine will.",
    "Sentence": [
      "By the Grace of Allah, we, Sultan Haji Hassanal Bolkiah Mu'izzaddin Waddaulah ibni Al-Marhum Sultan Haji Omar 'Ali Saifuddien Sa'adul Khairi Waddien, , the Sultan and Yang Di-Pertuan of the Sovereign State and Territory of Brunei Darussalam and all its Dependencies. To all to whom these presents shall come.",
      "By His Majesty His The Yang di-Pertuan Agong, by the Grace of Allah, Supreme Head of the States and Territories of Malaysia"
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "1431",
    "Idiom": [
      "by the Grace of God"
    ],
    "Meaning": "By divine will.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "1432-1",
    "Idiom": [
      "by the book"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Strictly follows rules or official procedures.",
    "Sentence": [
      "As far as he is concerned, he umpired by the book."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "1432-2",
    "Idiom": [
      "by the book"
    ],
    "Meaning": "In a rigid or overly formal manner.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Romeo: Sin from thy lips? O trespass sweetly urged! Give me my sin again. They kiss again. Juliet: You kiss by th' book."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "1433",
    "Idiom": [
      "by the eye"
    ],
    "Meaning": "In abundance.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Assure thyself thou shalt have broth by the eye"
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "1434-1",
    "Idiom": [
      "by the moment"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Quickly as time passes.",
    "Sentence": [
      "But this war was being thrust on us, and our situation was becoming more dangerous by the moment.",
      "He's getting crazier by the moment.",
      "She clasped her hands in front of her chest. “I'm feeling luckier by the moment.”"
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "1434-2",
    "Idiom": [
      "by the moment"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Focused on the present moment.",
    "Sentence": [
      "They do not live by the moment; they do not make soul and body conform to God's time, which is the present moment.",
      "I gauged my understanding by comparing the expressions which registered on people's faces with what was occurring by the moment in my own inner reactions to the talk.",
      "Now, in hindsight, I see the far-reaching effects this focus on God had on my life and on the miracles I experienced by the moment."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "1435",
    "Idiom": [
      "by the numbers"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Exactly or precisely.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "1436",
    "Idiom": [
      "by the same token"
    ],
    "Meaning": "For a similar reason.",
    "Sentence": [
      "The petroleum and gas of eastern Ohio, and by the same token, of western Pennsylvania and New York are unquestionably derived from the great shale formation of Devonian and subcarboniforous age that underlies this territory, and they are stored in sandstones overlying or interstratified with these shales.\""
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "1437",
    "Idiom": [
      "by the score"
    ],
    "Meaning": "A great amount.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "1438",
    "Idiom": [
      "by the skin of one's teeth"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Barely; by a narrow margin.",
    "Sentence": [
      "I would have liked to have hung around in Birmingham, but my connections are tight owing to a points failure, and I make the CrossCountry Class 170 to Derby by the skin of my teeth.",
      "I passed the test by the skin of my teeth."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "1439-1",
    "Idiom": [
      "by the way"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Used to introduce additional information.",
    "Sentence": [
      "I had counted on a life-lease of the profits, whereas I only received those of a few short years. But this is by the way.",
      "“A very welcome, kind, useful present, that means to the parish. By the way, Hopkins, let this go no further. We don't want the tale running round that a rich person has arrived. Churchill, my dear fellow, we have such greedy sharks, and wolves in lamb's clothing. ”",
      "His mother will be coming for dinner tomorrow, and, by the way, she recently sold her collection of ceramic eggs."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "1439-2",
    "Idiom": [
      "by the way"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Introduces off-topic information.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "1440",
    "Idiom": [
      "by trade"
    ],
    "Meaning": "As a profession.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Although he was a gifted musician, he was a plumber by trade and never played music professionally."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "1441",
    "Idiom": [
      "by vice of"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Due to something negative or unfavorable.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "1442",
    "Idiom": [
      "by virtue of",
      "in virtue of"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Due to; because of.",
    "Sentence": [
      "We guarantee by virtue of our power and the confidence of those who accept the guarantee; it is given by means of a word, which is accepted as a pledge for the future performance of a contract;",
      "Sir Isaac Newton was the first person to theorize that any two objects would be attracted towards each other by virtue of their masses, and that strength of the force of attraction – the gravitational force – would depend on the masses of the two objects and their distance apart.",
      "England 's domination of the first half was almost total, but they somehow contrived to allow Tunisia to raise themselves off the floor by virtue of rank carelessness from [Gareth] Southgate 's side.",
      "For nearly the entire television age, his mother was the visual representation of royalty. His wedding was one of the biggest TV events of the 20th century, but he came first in “Charles and Diana” only by virtue of birth and, perhaps, the alphabet."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "1443",
    "Idiom": [
      "by-the-book"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Strictly adhering to rules or procedures.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Given the troubled Bayou State's long history of rogues and demagogues, the most unusual thing about Gov. Jindal may be his record of by-the-book ethics."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "1444",
    "Idiom": [
      "by-the-numbers"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Done in a predictable manner.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "1445",
    "Idiom": [
      "cake crumbs"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Hardly anything.",
    "Sentence": [
      "All that was left of his business were a few measly cake crumbs."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "1446",
    "Idiom": [
      "cake walk"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Something extremely easy.",
    "Sentence": [
      "The three mile run was a cake walk for \"Blondy\" Romig, of Penn State."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "1447-1",
    "Idiom": [
      "cakes and ale"
    ],
    "Meaning": "The simple material pleasures of life.",
    "Sentence": [
      "To furnish the cakes and ale of the mind, is, we take it, the proper virtue of novels. It is for mental delight and recreation that we resort to them."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "1447-2",
    "Idiom": [
      "cakes and ale"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Lively fun and merrymaking.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "1448",
    "Idiom": [
      "call a lid"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To inform the press that no further news will be released.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "1449",
    "Idiom": [
      "call a spade a spade"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To speak the truth bluntly.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Maybe God just calls a spade a spade, when the president talks to God."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "1450",
    "Idiom": [
      "call an audible"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To change plans at the last minute.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Mr. Krosnick explained with the help of a football analogy. \"If somebody called an audible, we'd be right there It has always been that way. We never did that much planning. All the talk and analysis was intended to outline the parameters of our instincts.\"",
      "\"We will be calling audibles every time we come to the line,\" one participant recalls [Condoleezza Rice] saying to [Bush] then.",
      "We found this insurgency much more virile than we expected, so we called an audible.",
      "Based on that decoding process, we may need to call an audible and either fine-tune or change channels in an attempt to help teenagers decode our messages more accurately.",
      "I reflected on what must have been their instructions, and what would have been the consequences for them of not following them, or of calling an audible, not a concept known in the North Korean foreign ministry."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "1451-1",
    "Idiom": [
      "call it"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To end something, like work for the day.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Right, I'm going to call it, that's enough for me.",
      "I'm going to call it. See you all tomorrow ✌🏻💙👋🏻",
      "Yeah I think I’m gunna call it, see you guys on Friday"
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "1451-2",
    "Idiom": [
      "call it"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To predict.",
    "Sentence": [
      "I'm going to call it now. If DMB",
      "Gonna call it now. Tyler is gonna be singing in the next album.",
      "I call it now - I think Joel would be a great father"
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "1452-1",
    "Idiom": [
      "call it a day"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To cease an activity.",
    "Sentence": [
      "“Do you often go looking for mice in other people’s rooms?” “I wouldn’t say often. Just when the spirit moves me, don’t you know?” “I see. Well…” When people say “Well” to you like that, it usually means that they think you are outstaying your welcome and that the time has come to call it a day. She felt, I could see, that Woosters were not required in her son’s sleeping apartment",
      "We have been at this for hours; let’s call it a day and come back tomorrow when we are fresh."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "1452-2",
    "Idiom": [
      "call it a day"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To stop working for the day.",
    "Sentence": [
      "After suffering massive losses for three years in a row, the boss decided to call it a day, and sold his company."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "1452-3",
    "Idiom": [
      "call it a day"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To end a period of activity.",
    "Sentence": [
      "After he was reprimanded for slacking on the job, they decided to call it a day and fire Allen."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "1453-1",
    "Idiom": [
      "call it a night"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To go to bed.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "1453-2",
    "Idiom": [
      "call it a night"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To cease activities for the night.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "1454",
    "Idiom": [
      "call it an early night"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To go to bed earlier than usual.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "1455",
    "Idiom": [
      "call it stumps"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To decide to end an activity.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Eventually I decided to call it stumps and the last thing he said to me as I retired to his spare room was, `So you're not going to Inskip are you?' I answered that no, he was right, I wouldn't go and he tottered off happy."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "1456-1",
    "Idiom": [
      "call off the dogs"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To ease up on harsh treatment.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "1456-2",
    "Idiom": [
      "call off the dogs"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To withdraw dominant players from a one-sided game.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Doing the opponents an obvious favor, the football coach decided to call off the dogs early after his team was up 56-0."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "1457-1",
    "Idiom": [
      "call on"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To visit someone.",
    "Sentence": [
      "I really should call on my aunt more often."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "1457-2",
    "Idiom": [
      "call on"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To select someone to answer.",
    "Sentence": [
      "“Mr. Rayney, Mr. Rayney,” the reporters clamored, and hands shot up. ¶ Charlotte called on the reporter from the L.A. Times, promising herself that she would lead with the OC Register reporter next time.",
      "He sat there, baffled, hoping nobody would call on him."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "1457-3",
    "Idiom": [
      "call on"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To request or select someone for a task.",
    "Sentence": [
      "The alma mater had again called on her sons in her hour of need and again they had responded.",
      "Because of the drastic reduction in the use of petrol and tyres the railway is now called on to effect practically all the island's transport, with the exception of a small amount handled by one coastwise steamer.",
      "President Kennedy imposed a naval blockade on Cuba to prevent delivery of the missiles and called on his allies for support.",
      "De Gaulle called on the military to break with their hierarchical superiors and on the other French citizens to distance themselves from their government.",
      "The king called on his subjects to take up arms and defend the kingdom."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "1457-4",
    "Idiom": [
      "call on"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To seek help or support.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Exhausted, he called on his last ounce of strength.",
      "The young adventurer set out on the new planet alone, thankful that she could still call on her captain for advice in case of emergency."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "1457-5",
    "Idiom": [
      "call on"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To point out an error.",
    "Sentence": [
      "The salesman persisted in quoting a rate higher than was listed, until we called him on it."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "1458-1",
    "Idiom": [
      "call out"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To specify, especially in detail.",
    "Sentence": [
      "They call out 304 stainless steel in the drawing, but the part was made from aluminum."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "1458-2",
    "Idiom": [
      "call out"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To summon into service.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Ninety-nine Decision Street Ninety-nine ministers meet To worry, worry, super scurry Call the troops out in a hurry",
      "The Governor called out the National Guard."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "1458-3",
    "Idiom": [
      "call out"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To challenge or criticize someone.",
    "Sentence": [
      "He added: \"We've always had spin, especially from Government. But this is not spin. This is dishonesty and so it's our rail media's urgent responsibility to call it out because non-specialist journalists across the country will report this and gradually these untruths will be accepted.",
      "He was very insulting. Finally Jack called him out and shut him up.",
      "She called them out on their lies."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "1458-4",
    "Idiom": [
      "call out"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To criticize or denounce someone.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "1459",
    "Idiom": [
      "call roll"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To take attendance.",
    "Sentence": [
      "As the 20–25 freshmen stood at attention in formation on the first day of orientation, I began to call roll.",
      "Instead of always beginning with the first name in the alphabet, some groups rotate how they call roll.",
      "Make sure to have a roster handy to call roll to make sure all of your students are safely out of the building or in their assigned positions for a lockdown drill. Teach them that you will call roll to provide for their safety and that you expect them to answer quickly."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "1460",
    "Idiom": [
      "call someone every name in the book"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To call someone many abusive names.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "1461",
    "Idiom": [
      "call someone everything but a child of God"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To call someone many abusive names.",
    "Sentence": [
      "That I have been called everything but a child of God; from witch to rebel to Jezebel and the list goes on God, and to make matters worse, I am a woman!",
      "And her cursing was not helping the situation at all. Willie didn't think it was an image a lady should have. But she'd gotten it off her chest doing so. Sam had been called everything but a child of God in the process.",
      "He would call me everything but a child of God. I was broken down in so many ways."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "1462",
    "Idiom": [
      "call someone's bluff"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To confront someone to reveal the truth of their claims.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Eventually the NUR overplayed its hands with an all-out strike. And when Peter Parker, the then-chairman of BR, who was well regarded among his staff, called their bluff by threatening to close down the entire network, they caved in.",
      "She was tempted to call his bluff, hardly believing that he would carry out his threat."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "1463",
    "Idiom": [
      "call someone's number"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To focus on someone and challenge them.",
    "Sentence": [
      "I am glad to have that comment, Sir. I think you have about called our number on that.",
      "\"I'm sure about this one,\" I said. \"I'm starting the preparations.\" “Ok, I'm calling your number on this one. I got your word, and everyone else is out of the way.”",
      "People have certainly died from laughing gas,” he says. “They can get into serious trouble using tanks and masks and they certainly shouldn’t be driving while doing it and should be careful round rivers and swimming pools,” he says. “But the second you get into saying people using nitrous in balloons is a massive issue, people will call your number on that, and they’re right. It’s a concern that it’s going up, the numbers of people using are quite stunning, but it’s not the most dangerous thing by a mile.”"
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "1464",
    "Idiom": [
      "call to account"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To hold answerable for something.",
    "Sentence": [
      "TravelWatch SouthWest Chairman Chris Irwin said: \"This is intolerable. The South West deserves levelling up, not running down. SWR and its sponsors in the Department of Transport must be called to account.\""
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "1465-1",
    "Idiom": [
      "call to the bar"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Admission to practice law.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "1465-2",
    "Idiom": [
      "call to the bar"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To admit someone to practice law.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "1466",
    "Idiom": [
      "call up"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To call on the telephone.",
    "Sentence": [
      "You take that book Of Human Bondage, by Somerset Maugham, though. I read it last summer. It’s a pretty good book and all, but I wouldn’t want to call Somerset Maugham up. I don’t know. He just isn't the kind of a guy I'd want to call up, that's all."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "1467",
    "Idiom": [
      "calm before the storm"
    ],
    "Meaning": "A period of peace before a disturbance or crisis.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Calm before the storm, Marines. Enjoy it.",
      "The meeting may be peaceful now, but this is only the calm before the storm."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "1468",
    "Idiom": [
      "camel through the eye of a needle"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Illustrates something impossible to do.",
    "Sentence": [
      "You are endeavouring to pass a bill that never can and that never will pass the House of Lords. Do you want to make a camel go through the eye of a needle ?",
      "Getting George to wake up before 7 o'clock is harder than getting a camel through the eye of a needle."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "1469",
    "Idiom": [
      "camel's nose"
    ],
    "Meaning": "A situation where a small act leads to a larger undesirable consequence.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "1470",
    "Idiom": [
      "camp out"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To wait or queue for something, often overnight.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "1471",
    "Idiom": [
      "can it"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To be quiet or to stop.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Can it, you two! I'm trying to work.",
      "I told him to can it, 'cause he was getting to be annoying."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "1472",
    "Idiom": [
      "can of corn"
    ],
    "Meaning": "An easily caught fly ball.",
    "Sentence": [
      "He hits a can of corn to left."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "1473-1",
    "Idiom": [
      "can of worms"
    ],
    "Meaning": "A complex, troublesome situation.",
    "Sentence": [
      "If someone gets a promotion that might not be deserved, it could open up a whole can of worms with the other employees."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "1473-2",
    "Idiom": [
      "can of worms"
    ],
    "Meaning": "A troublesome situation or contentious issue.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Questioning the decision would definitely open a can of worms."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "1473-3",
    "Idiom": [
      "can of worms"
    ],
    "Meaning": "A difficult or unpleasant issue best avoided.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "1474",
    "Idiom": [
      "can't carry a tune in a bucket"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Sings very badly.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "1475",
    "Idiom": [
      "can't get enough"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Greatly enjoys.",
    "Sentence": [
      "With so many labels, so much fashion information and incessant celebrity style hype, it seems we all can't get enough of the scene and its material trappings.",
      "We'll need to bake more of those new chicken and mushroom pies. The customers can't get enough."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "1476",
    "Idiom": [
      "can't help"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Be unable to avoid or stop something.",
    "Sentence": [
      "I can't help crying whenever I see \"Romeo and Juliet\"."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "1477",
    "Idiom": [
      "can't stand"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Cannot tolerate.",
    "Sentence": [
      "I can’t stand people who smoke in public places."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "1478",
    "Idiom": [
      "can't stand the sight of"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To hate vehemently.",
    "Sentence": [
      "\"I can't stand the sight of him,\" he would say, \"and I'd be glad if somebody would come along and knock his block off—when he was not in the ring.\""
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "1479",
    "Idiom": [
      "can't wait"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To eagerly anticipate something.",
    "Sentence": [
      "I can't wait for that party on Friday."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "1480",
    "Idiom": [
      "canary fit"
    ],
    "Meaning": "A state of emotional distress or anger.",
    "Sentence": [
      "The thousand odd officers and men on parade nearly threw a canary fit.",
      "When put out, she would declare that she'd been thrown 'into a canary fit'."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "1481",
    "Idiom": [
      "canary in a coal mine"
    ],
    "Meaning": "An early warning indicator of greater danger or trouble.",
    "Sentence": [
      "\"A mussel is a canary in a coal mine,\" Clemens explained. \"When the freshwater mussels are healthy, it indicates good water quality.\"",
      "On the job, she was like a canary in a coal mine : If the subtle energy wasn't in balance, she was the first to notice.",
      "Thanks to rampant real estate development that revitalized the city starting in the '90s, Dublin has been something of a canary in a coal mine with regard to the global financial meltdown — the credit crunch hit here early and hard."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "1482",
    "Idiom": [
      "cancel someone's Christmas"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To kill or destroy someone.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "1483",
    "Idiom": [
      "candle in the wind"
    ],
    "Meaning": "A fragile or vulnerable thing.",
    "Sentence": [
      "A woman of flame, they had called her. The flame had flickered and died like a candle in the wind --in the restless trade-wind blowing from the Koolau Range.",
      "The South Koreans have indeed accomplished an economic miracle in the past three decades but their economy is ' a candle in the wind'",
      "... tyranny in Cameroon today is a candle in the wind. Its days, it is hoped, are numbered...",
      "There are a good number of people who feel that the girl child's life in India is a ' candle' in the wind which flickers for a moment to be extinguished for ever.",
      "Sometimes around here, it seems like hope is a candle in the wind.",
      "Ethiopia is a candle in the wind, the winds of war and fate"
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "1484",
    "Idiom": [
      "cannot make it"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Describes inability to meet standards or perform competently.",
    "Sentence": [
      "A noble effort but somehow the only words that came to mind were “ cannot make it, lah ”.",
      "“it never ended preliminarily at ‘he cannot make it ’, it was always ‘let's do this or that to help him’.”"
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "1485",
    "Idiom": [
      "cap in hand"
    ],
    "Meaning": "In a humble and respectful manner.",
    "Sentence": [
      "He has also been good enough to recommend to me many tradesmen who are ready to supply these articles in any quantities; each of whom has been here already a dozen times, cap in hand, and vowing that it is quite immaterial when I pay—which is very kind of them;",
      "But with income from fares largely wiped out, it has come at a price. TfL had to go cap-in-hand to central Government for money. In doing so, it had to agree to changes - interference, if you prefer that choice of word - that it previously would have resisted.",
      "The notion that London will go cap in hand for a bailout too big for the IMF to deliver is absurd.",
      "No longer were we required to go cap in hand to the banks if we wanted money: they were coming to us."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "1486-1",
    "Idiom": [
      "cap it all off"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To finish or complete something.",
    "Sentence": [
      "We went for a walk along the beach, watched the sunset, and then capped it all off with a lovely meal.",
      "What a day. I lost my wallet, my mobile phone broke, then to cap it all I got a flat tyre."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "1486-2",
    "Idiom": [
      "cap it all off"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To surpass or outdo.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "1487",
    "Idiom": [
      "cap over the windmill"
    ],
    "Meaning": "In a bizarre or eccentric manner.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "1488",
    "Idiom": [
      "captain's pick"
    ],
    "Meaning": "A decision made by a leader independently.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "1489",
    "Idiom": [
      "card of ten"
    ],
    "Meaning": "A bold front.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Fyrste pycke a quarell and fall oute with hym then, / And soo outface hym with a carde of ten.",
      "And the noblemen and gentylmen, which shold be the ponysshers of theft, be the chefe mayntayners of robry; bi this meanys often thei robbe & be not taken; but in case he be taken, eyther he shal haue fauor for his masters sake, or els bragg it owt with a carde of.x",
      "A vengeance on your crafty withered hide, / Yet I haue fac'd it with a card of ten",
      "Some must be knaves, some varlets, bawds, and ostlers, / As aces, deuces, cards o' ten, to face it / Out i' the game, which all the world is."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "1490",
    "Idiom": [
      "care a button"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To care at all.",
    "Sentence": [
      "the filthy and foule desire of gaine preuailed with one of the garrison, a most wretched and desperate villaine of all men liuing to be abhorred: who being corrupted by the large and perilous offers of Ottoman, did not care a button for the safetie of his citizens, of his countrey, nor of his frendes or kinsfolkes",
      "If you are treated ill and put on, ’Tis natural to make a Fuss; To see it and not care a Button, Is just as natural for us.",
      "Half-a-dozen gas-lamps out of the street wouldn't have lighted the entry too well, so you may suppose that it was pretty dark with Scrooge's dip. ¶ Up Scrooge went, not caring a button for that.",
      "You’re the only chap I care a button for",
      "Twenty years since we sat on top Of the world, amusing ourselves and sneering At other manners and customs, jeering At other nations, living in clover— Not any more. That’s done and over. No one nowadays cares a button For the upper classes—they’re dead as mutton."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "1491",
    "Idiom": [
      "care a jackstraw"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To care at all.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Dangerfield was content to leave the question in abeyance, and did not seem to care a jackstraw what the townspeople said or thought—",
      "“ who’d care for the reputation of a schoolmaster? Do you think I’d care a jackstraw about Benson’s character if he was to die to-morrow?”"
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "1492",
    "Idiom": [
      "care a whit"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To have interest or concern for something.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "1493",
    "Idiom": [
      "care killed a cat",
      "curiosity killed the cat",
      "care killed the cat"
    ],
    "Meaning": "One should avoid curiosity about dangerous things.",
    "Sentence": [
      "“Come, come,” said Silver; “stow this talk. He’s dead, and he don’t walk, that I know; leastways, he won’t walk by day, and you may lay to that. Care killed a cat. Fetch ahead for the doubloons.”"
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "1494",
    "Idiom": [
      "care killed the cat"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Excessive worry is mentally burdensome.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "1495",
    "Idiom": [
      "care package"
    ],
    "Meaning": "A package with favorite foods or comfort items sent from home or loved ones.",
    "Sentence": [
      "While he was away at university, he looked forward to his mother's monthly care packages of cookies and supplies."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "1496-1",
    "Idiom": [
      "carpe diem"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Make the most of today.",
    "Sentence": [
      "It is the carpe diem religion; but the carpe diem religion is not the religion of happy people, but of very unhappy people.",
      "Indeed, in an extreme carpe diem society, children are raised without being given any sense that they have a transgenerational duty to the as yet unborn— the duty to leave them a better world.",
      "Just grab those opportunities when you see 'em / Cause every day's a brand new day, you gotta carpe diem"
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "1496-2",
    "Idiom": [
      "carpe diem"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Enjoy the day.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "1496-3",
    "Idiom": [
      "carpe diem"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Seize the day.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "1497",
    "Idiom": [
      "carriage trade"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Wealthy or upper-class people.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "1498",
    "Idiom": [
      "carried away"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Made excessively emotional or excited.",
    "Sentence": [
      "the unusual degree of taste and energy which Annie, who appeared carried away by the interest of the drama, infused into her reading,",
      "She sounds carried away.",
      "As the speech continues, Mercutio seems carried away by it, so that Romeo 's interruption (addressing Mercutio by name for the first time, as if to call him to himself) is like the breaking of a rapture.",
      "“People got carried away, myself included,” Kwarteng told the Financial Times. “There was no tactical subtlety whatsoever.",
      "I only meant to buy one new dress, but I got carried away and ended up with five."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "1499",
    "Idiom": [
      "carrot and stick"
    ],
    "Meaning": "The combination of rewards and punishments.",
    "Sentence": [
      "It was this carrot and stick discipline to which Mr. John Mill was subjected, and which he accepted dutifully as flowing from that perfect wisdom of which up to this time his father had been the representative.",
      "There was no similar carrot and stick for use against the French land armaments.",
      "The proposal to use the world trade order as a source of carrots and sticks for the pursuit of environmental objectives is based on three illusions.",
      "the artful tactic of carrot and stick bore relatively plentiful fruit."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "1500",
    "Idiom": [
      "carry a torch"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To be romantically infatuated, especially unrequited love.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Someday, I know that Jim will up and leave me / But even if he does you can believe me / I'll go on carryin' the torch for Jim / I'll go on lovin' my Jim",
      "Brunhilde, a kind of earth-mother goddess, carries a torch for her lost love.",
      "Lachey, for his part, seems to still carry a torch for his estranged wife."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "1501",
    "Idiom": [
      "carry coals to Newcastle"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To do something unnecessary or redundant.",
    "Sentence": [
      "However curious it may seem for an oil-ship to be borrowing oil on the whale-ground, and however much it may invertedly contradict the old proverb about carrying coals to Newcastle, yet sometimes such a thing really happens; and in the present case Captain Derick De Deer did indubitably conduct a lamp-feeder as Flask did declare.",
      "He's the fellow who likes to let off stink bombs in night clubs, which rather falls under the head of carrying coals to Newcastle"
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "1502-1",
    "Idiom": [
      "carry forward"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To transfer to a new entity.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "1502-2",
    "Idiom": [
      "carry forward"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To apply to future taxable income, reducing the tax burden.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "1503",
    "Idiom": [
      "carry off"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To act convincingly or succeed in creating an impression.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Given my general shape I'd look pretty ridiculous in the sort of outfit which, to carry it off, needs rather more height and less bulk than I have.",
      "The actress carried off a difficult performance with dash."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "1504-1",
    "Idiom": [
      "carry on"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To continue as before.",
    "Sentence": [
      "I’ll be gone for a few days, but I hope you will carry on in my absence."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "1504-2",
    "Idiom": [
      "carry on"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To continue or pursue an activity.",
    "Sentence": [
      "He carried on a long conversation with the dragoman in Turkish, the upshot of which was that he would give me a \"buyuruldu\" or special order to go to Sivas, and would provide an escort if the British Consul would send a written guarantee that I was a bona fide traveller.",
      "The Schynige Platte Railway carries on its traffic with no more than four electric locomotives (with one steam locomotive in reserve).",
      "In his favour, Beeching declared that he supported carrying on with the existing modernisation projects, but that the rest of the business needed root and branch reform.",
      "to carry on commerce in a market",
      "Carry on the good work.",
      "It is difficult to carry on a conversation with so many distractions."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "1504-3",
    "Idiom": [
      "carry on"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To talk continuously, often excessively.",
    "Sentence": [
      "He’s always carrying on about his stupid aquarium."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "1504-4",
    "Idiom": [
      "carry on"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To misbehave or attract attention.",
    "Sentence": [
      "I really wish you wouldn't carry on like that in public!"
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "1504-5",
    "Idiom": [
      "carry on"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To have an illicit relationship.",
    "Sentence": [
      "I thought he was my friend, but all the time he was carrying on with my wife!"
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "1504-6",
    "Idiom": [
      "carry on"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To take luggage onto an airplane rather than check it.",
    "Sentence": [
      "You may only carry on items that are smaller than a certain size."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "1505",
    "Idiom": [
      "carry one's weight"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To contribute one's fair share.",
    "Sentence": [
      "I think our jobs here are secure as long as we each carry our weight."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "1506-1",
    "Idiom": [
      "carry oneself"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To move, emphasizing one's manner.",
    "Sentence": [
      "She was thin, but always carried herself bolt upright, and would never even lean back in her chair.",
      "He was carrying himself with less than his usual stoop."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "1506-2",
    "Idiom": [
      "carry oneself"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To behave in a way that reflects one's self-image.",
    "Sentence": [
      "\"Do I not carry myself well in the hour of defeat?\" / \"You do, Your Majesty.\" / \"Am I pale, Le B—?\" / \"No—no—oh, no, not at all, Sire.\" / \"Tell me the truth, Le B—. We must not let the enemy find us broken when they arrive. How do I look? Out with it.\"",
      "She carried herself with a little touch of hauteur—an air of aloofness, as it were."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "1507",
    "Idiom": [
      "carry out"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To fulfill.",
    "Sentence": [
      "The Boy was going to the seaside to-morrow. Everything was arranged, and now it only remained to carry out the doctor's orders.",
      "Capello warned his players that caution was not an option as they went in search of the result that would take England to Euro 2012. And his message was carried out to the letter in the opening exchanges as England played with a tempo and threat Montenegro struggled to subdue.",
      "She finally carried out her lifelong ambition when she appeared in a Hollywood blockbuster."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "1508-1",
    "Idiom": [
      "carry over"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To transfer something to a later time.",
    "Sentence": [
      "The rent was carried over to December."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "1508-2",
    "Idiom": [
      "carry over"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To transfer.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Though the idea of placing wacky made-up characters in a real-life context was carried over from Da Ali G Show—wherein Buzz Aldrin was once asked if he was upset that Michael Jackson got all the credit for inventing the moonwalk—Sacha Baron Cohen’s Borat felt like something new, an attempt to square an improvised, guerrilla style of underground comedy with reality-TV stunt shows like Jackass or Fear Factor."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "1509",
    "Idiom": [
      "carry someone's water"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To serve someone's interests.",
    "Sentence": [
      "\"I hear things are good.\" / Moran shrugged. \"Depends on who you're talking to. Who would you be talking to, Squire?\" / \"Frank\" / \"I thought that might be it. You still carrying his water ?",
      "I've discovered the Lord doesn't need lackeys, lieutenants, minions, representatives and envoys to carry His water and discharge His affairs.",
      "\"Nope. Just here to see a staffer about something.\" / \"Staffers. Yeah, well. They hold the Congressman's bag and carry his water sometimes all right.\""
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "1510",
    "Idiom": [
      "carry the ball"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To take responsibility or initiative.",
    "Sentence": [
      "What is perhaps embarrassing to gay men is that women are making honest, gritty statements — carrying the balls, as it were — and producing very interesting gay writing, gay music, gay films, gay politics as (gulp) Lesbians."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "1511",
    "Idiom": [
      "carry the can"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To take responsibility in a difficult situation.",
    "Sentence": [
      "For Vajpayee, who is keen that he alone does not carry the can for his unwieldy alliance, it is a tough decision.",
      "You could reasonably argue that Brown himself should carry the can for much of the regulatory failure of the banks.",
      "They're not going to play the patsy where they carry the can for all the woes caused by a tanking in oil prices that's already happened."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "1512",
    "Idiom": [
      "carry the mail"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To work diligently.",
    "Sentence": [
      "\"My objective was to carry the mail for the President, working with the Congress, forging that new bill.\"",
      "To say the Pittsburgh Penguins are a top-heavy club is an understatement.... The club is therefore completely reliant on Crosby and Co. to carry the mail up front.",
      "The coaches will say, \"We have two starters at running back,\" but the guy who'll carry the mail is DeMarco Murray."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "1513-1",
    "Idiom": [
      "carry the message to Garcia",
      "deliver the message to garcia"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To perform a task despite obstacles.",
    "Sentence": [
      "... its demand being for men who could face difficult decisions and achieve results, who could \" carry the message to Garcia \" without delay or dallying.",
      "...determined to always carry the message to Garcia, irrespective of adverse conditions and circumstances.",
      "...grasp the demands and exactions of business life. He learns that the main thing to do is to \" deliver the message to Garcia \"....",
      "What we need is people who get the job done, no matter how. We don't want pickers who'll only learn if we use their preferred learning method. Have you read \"A Message to Garcia\" ? That's what we need today - young people who can deliver the message to Garcia.",
      "Programmers are consistently dehumanized because so many do indeed deliver the message to Garcia only to be at best ignored.",
      "...heaves in a deep breath, gathers himself as though he's crossed a continent to deliver the message to Garcia."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "1514-2",
    "Idiom": [
      "carry the message to Garcia"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To complete a task without specific instructions.",
    "Sentence": [
      "...do it when you are told once. That is to say, carry the Message to Garcia !",
      "\"And leaders will emerge. Men who can take the initiative, carry the message to Garcia. That's what I want.\" [The character in the novel said these words in 1952.]"
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "1515",
    "Idiom": [
      "carry through"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To perform successfully to the end.",
    "Sentence": [
      "An agreeable sense of victory and the afterglow of the flash carried Emily through the afternoon in spite of the fact that Miss Brownell ridiculed her for her mistakes in spelling.",
      "He was clearly dealing with extremely small quantities, and considering the clumsy structure of telescopes then in use, it is surprising he managed to carry through the procedure at all. Nevertheless, he obtained a remarkably good value"
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "1516",
    "Idiom": [
      "carry water for"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To perform menial tasks for or to endorse someone or something insincerely.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Julie heard a woman's voice saying that she certainly was not going to carry water for any conceited bitches who thought themselves too good for ordinary....",
      "For such a caring man she would carry water for the rest of her life: no man of her acquaintance would have done what Edward Cooper did, for a woman.",
      "\"We won't get another chance to talk, so tell me, deab : is Peter the man to carry water for me between the Israelis and the Palestinians, or should I find another horse for that plow?",
      "His job was to watch Stanton's back, not carry water for his ex-boss."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "1517",
    "Idiom": [
      "carved in stone"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Unchangeable.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Until you sign it, the terms of the contract aren't yet carved in stone."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "1518-1",
    "Idiom": [
      "case the joint"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To thoroughly observe a place for criminal planning.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "1518-2",
    "Idiom": [
      "case the joint"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To thoroughly observe or examine a place.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "1519-1",
    "Idiom": [
      "cash in one's chips"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To discontinue an activity, accepting gains or losses.",
    "Sentence": [
      "\"Looks like these grandees'll have to cash in their chips and quit, but it's a darned shame.\"",
      "Yesterday the polo-playing executive cashed in his chips at Harrah's to take a post with even higher stakes, agreeing to become president and chief executive of Resorts International Inc.",
      "\"I am not going to stand by and watch this company bleed to death. If we can't make money, I will cash in my chips.\""
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "1519-2",
    "Idiom": [
      "cash in one's chips"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To die.",
    "Sentence": [
      "A tough old hombre, unregenerate to the last, cashed in his chips in Oklahoma City the other day.",
      "So what are trained readers of spy novels supposed to believe when Michael cashes in his chips and two strangers arrive to remove his body from the premises?",
      "Two years and one month ago I broke my neck in a car accident. I made it through but just barely. I came real close to cashing in my chips."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "1520",
    "Idiom": [
      "cash on the barrelhead"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Payment made in cash at the time of the transaction.",
    "Sentence": [
      "\"We're selling, to the highest bidder, and for cash on the barrel head.... Cash in hand, no checks accepted.\"",
      "In 1946 the U.S. exported $2,166 million worth of food.... Most of this ($1,354 million) was paid for, cash on the barrelhead. But $628 million was the U.S. contribution to UNRRA stocks, and $184 million went through Lend-Lease.",
      "In return for support of an Iraq invasion, Turkey wanted—and got—immediate aid, cash on the barrelhead, rather than mere assurances about future help."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "1521-1",
    "Idiom": [
      "cash up"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To count the day's earnings.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "1521-2",
    "Idiom": [
      "cash up"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To count and verify cash in a register.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "1521-3",
    "Idiom": [
      "cash up"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To earn money.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "1522",
    "Idiom": [
      "cashed up"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Wealthy or financially well-off.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "1523",
    "Idiom": [
      "cast a chill"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To provoke an uneasy feeling that halts a conversation.",
    "Sentence": [
      "...the perusal of the letter he had brought from his master cast a chill over things.",
      "His menacing presence cast a chill over everyone."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "1524",
    "Idiom": [
      "cast a shadow"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To dampen future events.",
    "Sentence": [
      "With the descent of the cold war, relations between the two countries (for this is, to all intents and purposes, what they became after the end of the war) were almost completely broken off, with whole families split for the ensuing decades, some for ever. This event and its after-effects, along with the war against the Japanese in the 1940s, was to cast a long shadow over the years ahead, and led to the creation of the wholly unprecedented worship of Kim Il-sung, and his elevation to almost God-like status. It was also to create the system in which his son was to occupy almost as impossibly elevated a position."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "1525",
    "Idiom": [
      "cast aspersions"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To make damaging remarks.",
    "Sentence": [
      "“You are casting aspersions,” remonstrated Peter Ivanovitch, “which as far as you are concerned—” “No!” Razumov interrupted without heat. “Indeed, I don’t want to cast aspersions, but it’s just as well to have no illusions.” Peter Ivanovitch gave him an inscrutable glance of his dark spectacles, accompanied by a faint smile. “The man who says that he has no illusions has at least that one,” he said, in a very friendly tone.",
      "Dismissing stability as the refusal to innovate (or rather cut costs), business leaders cast aspersions on the steadying tenets of the first half of the twentieth century, including social provisions and job security.",
      "However, the exhibition was refused classification as it “contains materials that cast aspersions on the integrity of, and undermine public trust and confidence in public institutions involved in the administration of justice”.",
      "Don't cast aspersions on me, or on my patriotism."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "1526",
    "Idiom": [
      "cast in concrete"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Solidly established and hard to change.",
    "Sentence": [
      "The roadmap, he asserted, was a \"guide,\" a starting point. It was not cast in concrete and not likely to be the ultimate solution."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "1527-1",
    "Idiom": [
      "cast in someone's teeth"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To accuse or reproach someone.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "1527-2",
    "Idiom": [
      "cast in someone's teeth"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To taunt or challenge someone.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "1528",
    "Idiom": [
      "cast loose"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To set free or loosen.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "1529",
    "Idiom": [
      "cast not a clout till may be out",
      "ne'er cast a clout till May be out"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Don't change clothes for summer until June due to possible cold weather in May.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Leave not off a Clout, / Till May be out.",
      "There is another ungracious rhyme about this favourite month of the poets— / Till May be out / Change na a clout : / That is, thin not your winter-clothing till the end of May—a good maxim if we are to put faith in the great father of modern medicine, [Herman] Boerhaave, who, on being consulted as to the proper time for putting off flannel, is said to have answered, \"On Midsummer night, and—put it on again next morning!\"",
      "Of old it was said,— / \" Ne'er cast a clout / Till May is out.\" / More recently the version is, / \"No garment cast / Till May be past.\" / The advice is the same, but how different the style!",
      "The defenses against him [the month of March] should be more carefully watched than those of the depth of Winter. Fires are left to smolder down in the warmth of the day until the house is thoroughly chilled, and a sudden damp wind springs up in the afternoon and carries disease and death into the open windows. \" Till May be out, Ne'er cast a clout,\" is counsel as good as homely.",
      "In this sense the Boeotian poetry may be taken to have its germ in maxims similar to our English / \" Till May be out, ne'er cast a clout,\" / or / \"A rainbow in the morning / Is the Shepherd's warning.\"",
      "Proverbs emphasise the protective function of clothes, which are valued more highly if they protect from heat or cold, rain or sun: It was better to wear too much than too little, and one should not be in too much of a hurry to shed one's winter clothes at the first sign of fine weather: ‘ Ne’er cast a clout till May be out.’",
      "The well-known phrase ‘ Cast ne’er a clout [or ‘ Ne’er cast a clout ’] till May is out ’ cautions people not to cast off their winter clothes until they are sure that summer is with us. In recent years it has been commonly stated that the phrase does not refer to the month of May but rather to the blossoming of the hawthorn, which in many parts is referred to as ‘may’, but many earlier references to the phrase make it perfectly clear that the month is what is meant. The saying was often extended to include other months, as in a rhyme printed in Notes & Queries in 1870 but claimed to be current in Yorkshire a hundred years before: / Don’t change a clout / Till May is out; / If you change in June / ’Twill be too soon.",
      "May 31st is the day to look out and iron summer dresses, as our grandmothers used to say. / \" Ne'er cast a clout / Till May be out.\""
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "1530",
    "Idiom": [
      "cast one's bread upon the waters"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To perform a kind deed without expecting anything in return.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "1531",
    "Idiom": [
      "cast one's mind back"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To remember something from the past.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "1532",
    "Idiom": [
      "cast one's net wide"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To explore many options.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "1533",
    "Idiom": [
      "cast one's vote"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To vote.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "1534-1",
    "Idiom": [
      "cast over"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To consider or think about.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "1534-2",
    "Idiom": [
      "cast over"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To spread a sense of doom.",
    "Sentence": [
      "The projections cast doubt over the future of the business."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "1535",
    "Idiom": [
      "cast pearls before swine"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To give valuable things to those who won't appreciate them.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Blanche:...Physical beauty is passing. A transitory possession. But beauty of the mind and richness of the spirit and tenderness of the heart—and I have all of those things—aren't taken away, but grow! Increase with the years! How strange that I should be called a destitute woman! When I have all of these treasures locked in my heart. [A choked sob comes from her] I think of myself as a very, very rich woman! But I have been foolish— casting my pearls before swine !"
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "1536",
    "Idiom": [
      "cast the first stone"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To accuse others while believing oneself to be blameless.",
    "Sentence": [
      "I knew I couldn't cast the first stone as I knew I had weaknesses.... (But) as a leader of the government trying to uphold the rule of law I have no choice but to move forward and say you cannot accept perjury in your highest officials."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "1537",
    "Idiom": [
      "cast up one's accounts"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To vomit.",
    "Sentence": [
      "To cast up one's accounts upon excessive drinking; either, says Cotgrave, because in spewing one makes a noise like a fox that barks, or (from the subject to the effect) because the flaying of so unsavoury a beast will make any one spew.",
      "A foul taste. Vomit. 'Struth! Embarrassing memory flooded back. He'd cast up his accounts in front of a woman.",
      "As he handed the tray over, he heard the knocker echo through the house. Thinking it might be Jimmy, he turned back to his father to warn him only to see him reach for the chamber pot and cast up his accounts.",
      "She was about to be sick right here in front of them all. That would be the worst humiliation imaginable. Mustn't cast up my accounts, mustn't cast up my accounts."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "1538",
    "Idiom": [
      "castle in the air"
    ],
    "Meaning": "An unrealistic desire or idea.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Look you, Amanda, you may build castles in the air, \"and fume, and fret, and grow thin and lean, and pale and ugly, if you please.\" But I tell you, no man worth having is true to his wife, or can be true to his wife, or ever was, or will be so.",
      "Her unlimited devotion for \"the family,\" readily induced the old lady to acquiesce in his proposal, though not without a gentle sigh over the ruins of a castle in the air, which was founded on the well-saved purse of Mistress Deborah Debbitch.",
      "She had a vivid imagination; and it is a fact, that while she was dressing for dinner, and after she had asked Amelia whether her brother was very rich, she had built for herself a most magnificent castle in the air, of which she was mistress, with a husband somewhere in the background (she had not seen him as yet, and his figure would not therefore be very distinct);",
      "If you have built castles in the air, your work need not be lost; that is where they should be. Now put the foundations under them.",
      "We used to build castles in the air. We had big dreams. I'm not sure if you still have those dreams, but I still have dreams."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "1539",
    "Idiom": [
      "cat and dog life"
    ],
    "Meaning": "An unhappy married life marked by conflict.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "1540",
    "Idiom": [
      "cat got someone's tongue"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Why someone is silent.",
    "Sentence": [
      "You used to be alright / What happened? / Did the cat get your tongue ? / Did your string come undone?",
      "Why won't you tell me that secret? Cat got your tongue?"
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "1541",
    "Idiom": [
      "cat in the meal-tub"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Something concealed.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "1542",
    "Idiom": [
      "cat in the sack"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Something to be suspicious of.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "1543",
    "Idiom": [
      "cat piss"
    ],
    "Meaning": "A beverage of low quality.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "1544-1",
    "Idiom": [
      "cat that ate the canary"
    ],
    "Meaning": "A person who appears smug while hiding something.",
    "Sentence": [
      "He talked freely and carried the smile of the cat that swallowed the canary.",
      "You have to hand it to Curtis Joseph. Not only does he keep pucks out of the net, he keeps secrets too. \"It's taboo,\" said Joseph, grinning like the cat that ate the canary. \"You're not going to get anything.\"",
      "I stood there looking like the cat that ate the canary.... But he knows me too well and pondered out loud what I had been up to."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "1544-2",
    "Idiom": [
      "cat that ate the canary"
    ],
    "Meaning": "A person who appears guilty yet satisfied or nonchalant.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Like the cat that swallowed the canary. Not only do you feel a little bit guilty 'cause you can't stop, but you feel pretty good, too.",
      "Daley said that Tietjen, who lives in Middle Island, had the \" cat who ate the canary \" look when he was pulled over. The 32-year-old driver was apologetic, and never tried to dispute the ticket."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "1545",
    "Idiom": [
      "cat's cradle"
    ],
    "Meaning": "A complicated structure without purpose.",
    "Sentence": [
      "There was the a risk that my research might reveal the original, rightful owner of an instrument, which could open up a cat's cradle of restitution claims."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "1546-1",
    "Idiom": [
      "cat's meow"
    ],
    "Meaning": "A self-satisfied person.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "1546-2",
    "Idiom": [
      "cat's meow"
    ],
    "Meaning": "A highly sought-after example.",
    "Sentence": [
      "The flapper tells her “cakie” that a Chauve Souris sundae is “just the cat’s meow ”.",
      "That new car was really the cat’s meow."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "1547",
    "Idiom": [
      "cat-and-mouse"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Suspenseful, involving alternating roles of attack and defense.",
    "Sentence": [
      "From a cat-and-mouse sequence at a busy airport to a long car chase through Rome to a grand finale aboard a runaway train, each action scene tops the one before it.",
      "Does that produce a different dynamic when they meet in battle? ‘It does,’ said Hoy. ‘I tell myself that it doesn’t matter who you race against, you try to expose their weaknesses. The only difference is that they know your weaknesses. It just makes it a bit more of a mind game, a cat-and-mouse strategy.",
      "A cat-and-mouse thriller with delusions of grandeur, The Statement arrives wrapped in an intimidating mystique of high-minded solemnity that makes its vagueness and incoherence all the more disappointing when the pieces don't add up."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "1548",
    "Idiom": [
      "cat-foot"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To walk quietly or stealthily.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "1549",
    "Idiom": [
      "cat-footed"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Quiet or stealthy while walking.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "1550",
    "Idiom": [
      "catbird seat"
    ],
    "Meaning": "An enviable position of advantage.",
    "Sentence": [
      "With a big victory in the primary, he was sitting in the catbird seat."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "1551",
    "Idiom": [
      "catch a body"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To kill.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Niggas be runnin' through the block shootin' Time to start the revolution, catch a body, head for Houston",
      "Mo' money, mo' murder, mo' homicide You catch that body, nigga? Better have that alibi You never know, it might just be your time, you take your ride To them pearly white gates, watch that suicide"
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "1552",
    "Idiom": [
      "catch a break"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To experience a small amount of good luck.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "1553-1",
    "Idiom": [
      "catch a cold"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To contract a cold.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "1553-2",
    "Idiom": [
      "catch a cold"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To encounter difficulties.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Don't catch a cold because of the state pension freeze.",
      "If the U.S. goes into recession in 2021, the rest of the world is expected to catch a cold."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "1554",
    "Idiom": [
      "catch a fade"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To get knocked out.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Recently, Chappelle was attacked on stage. The assaulter has since claimed he was angry at the comedian over a transphobic joke, and ended up catching a fade for his trouble."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "1555",
    "Idiom": [
      "catch a packet"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To be fired upon.",
    "Sentence": [
      "While here last night we caught a packet, and some shrapnel came into our house here. However, no casualties in cars or men.",
      "From then onwards about every minute we caught a packet from somewhere: 'Crash! Rattle! Bump! Thump!' Eventually there was an even worse one than usual which knocked us all off our perches;"
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "1556",
    "Idiom": [
      "catch a wave"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To derive benefit from a fortunate opportunity.",
    "Sentence": [
      "The size of his fortune, he said, revealed only that \"we caught a wave. We were lucky. We had more luck than we deserved.\"",
      "He did have one brief spell in the second set when he seemed to catch a wave, pounding his backhand and winning 11 of 14 points."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "1557",
    "Idiom": [
      "catch air"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To make a jump.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "1558",
    "Idiom": [
      "catch as catch can"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Use any available means or methods.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Which being done, the Women run in the dark to catch as catch can; and whatever Lot they light on,"
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "1559",
    "Idiom": [
      "catch big air"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Make a big jump high off the ground.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "1560",
    "Idiom": [
      "catch dust"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To be rarely used.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "1561-1",
    "Idiom": [
      "catch fire"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To become engulfed in flames.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Ships' logs noted observations of the northern lights as far south as the Caribbean, and telegraph systems across the world were disrupted as electrical currents were induced in the copper lines. Several telegraph operators received electric shocks and some telegraph stations even caught fire."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "1561-2",
    "Idiom": [
      "catch fire"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To become very popular or widespread.",
    "Sentence": [
      "The news caught fire through the school, and Layla found herself — a mere first-year student at the secondary school — the center of attention and admiration."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "1561-3",
    "Idiom": [
      "catch fire"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To be inspired by passion.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "1562",
    "Idiom": [
      "catch flies"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To keep one's mouth wide open.",
    "Sentence": [
      "You'd better close your mouth; are you trying to catch flies ?"
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "1563",
    "Idiom": [
      "catch hands"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To take a punch.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Do you really want to catch these hands ? Then keep running your mouth."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "1564",
    "Idiom": [
      "catch heat"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To get into trouble or be scolded.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Another area in which corporations have been catching heat is in the area of environmental pollution, and justifiably so."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "1565-1",
    "Idiom": [
      "catch hell"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To be severely reprimanded or punished.",
    "Sentence": [
      "It’s not exactly a Pixar-level examination of complicated family dynamics, and the movie still has plenty of knuckled-headed, Sandler-style boys-will-be-dumbasses shtick: Children everywhere will surely thrill to the sub-subplot about Frank catching hell about his gambling problem from his wife, Eunice (Fran Drescher)!"
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "1565-2",
    "Idiom": [
      "catch hell"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To experience trouble or difficulty.",
    "Sentence": [
      "I'm catching hell living here alone / Hmm, I never realized, oh, Lord / That you mean so much to me / I'm catching hell living here alone"
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "1566",
    "Idiom": [
      "catch it"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To be severely punished or reprimanded.",
    "Sentence": [
      "\"You'll catch it, you know,\" said Tom, nodding his head in an admonitory manner, and hesitating a little as he took the scissors.",
      "If they beat us, we shall catch it, and serve us right.",
      "I'll catch it for your mischief in running away. And I'll catch it again when the tutor claps eyes on the handwriting."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "1567",
    "Idiom": [
      "catch napping"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To surprise someone by taking advantage of their inattention.",
    "Sentence": [
      "The rout started after four minutes when Chelsea were caught napping by Kevin De Bruyne 's quick free-kick which left Raheem Sterling to fire in at the far post before Aguero, who had already missed an open goal, curled a magnificent right-foot finish past the stretching Kepa Arrizabalaga from 25 yards.",
      "Still, a dozen men with rifles, and cartridges to match, stayed behind when they filed through a white aldea lying silent amid the cane, and the Sin Verguenza swung into slightly quicker stride. If the Colonel Morales was to be caught at all he must be caught napping, and, as they knew, he usually slept with one eye open."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "1568",
    "Idiom": [
      "catch of the day"
    ],
    "Meaning": "A desirable romantic partner.",
    "Sentence": [
      "“Live Oaks is where I met my husband. Hands down, Bud was the catch of the day.\"",
      "He was tall, dark and handsome. He was considered the catch of the day, except that he never got caught.",
      "If you make $20,000 or more and you look clean, you may be the catch of the day."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "1569-1",
    "Idiom": [
      "catch on"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To understand or realize.",
    "Sentence": [
      "He didn't have to explain; I caught on right away.",
      "She's been catching on pretty well."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "1569-2",
    "Idiom": [
      "catch on"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To become popular or commonplace.",
    "Sentence": [
      "They were largely advertised, important firms rented expensive shops for retail purposes, and at one time it looked as though the American bicycle would catch on. The attempted invasion failed; a small army reached our shores but it got swallowed up and the officers retired with discomfiture.",
      "It's a crummy idea, and I certainly hope it does not catch on.",
      "At first, many people didn't like that kind of music, but after a while it caught on."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "1570-1",
    "Idiom": [
      "catch one's breath"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To take a break while being active to ease breathing.",
    "Sentence": [
      "They stopped for a moment at the end of the set to catch their breath before resuming play."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "1570-2",
    "Idiom": [
      "catch one's breath"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To recover from shock or surprise.",
    "Sentence": [
      "John caught his breath when he saw the bottle rolling unstoppably towards the opposite edge of the table."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "1571",
    "Idiom": [
      "catch one's death"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To contract a serious illness due to exposure to cold or wet weather.",
    "Sentence": [
      "\"You'll get drenched to the skin—You'll catch your death !\" said Peechy Prauw, affectionately.",
      "\"My eye as like! you don't think I'm such a fool as to catch my death of cold, and let the horses catch their death too.\"",
      "\"You shall trudge away, and do your errands in the rain, and if you catch your death and ruin your bonnet, it's no more than you deserve.\"",
      "Now Linda's catching her death outside in nothing but her nightie.",
      "Carla left him weeping in the rain, soaked to the skin, in his trademark tight white shirt. He may yet catch his death."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "1572",
    "Idiom": [
      "catch sight of"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To see for a brief period.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Di Matteo clearly saw Drogba's power as a potential threat to a Barcelona defence stripped of Gerard Pique - but he barely caught sight of goal in a first 45 minutes in which the Catalans exerted their technical superiority."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "1573",
    "Idiom": [
      "catch some rays"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To sunbathe.",
    "Sentence": [
      "\"We want to sit on the beach, watch the girls, and go catch some rays.\"",
      "Basking in the sun whether it's on the porch or on the boat, he just loves to lay out and catch some rays.",
      "If the weather is good, take your summer reading outside and catch some rays at the same time."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "1574",
    "Idiom": [
      "catch some z's"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To sleep.",
    "Sentence": [
      "His boss found him catching some z's at his desk yesterday."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "1575",
    "Idiom": [
      "catch someone napping"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To take advantage of someone's inattention.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Wigan keeper Ali Al Habsi was forced to deny Stewart Downing and Bent in quick succession, and again got down well to deny Bent after a Young free-kick had caught Steven Caldwell napping."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "1576",
    "Idiom": [
      "catch someone's drift"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To understand someone's meaning or intent.",
    "Sentence": [
      "I was a burglary detective for three years before I joined the Speaker's Bureau, and you might say I managed to acquire a few things at a five-finger discount, if you catch my drift.",
      "I see you catch my drift.",
      "I caught her drift when she looked at me from across the noisy lunchroom and went over to her table."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "1577",
    "Idiom": [
      "catch someone's eye"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To capture someone's attention.",
    "Sentence": [
      "The window display really catches my eye."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "1578",
    "Idiom": [
      "catch the eye"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To attract attention.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Meantime, the train went on to Brighton without further incident. No small stir was caused by its arrival with No. 61 at its head, resplendent with \"East London Line Special\" head boards, which at once caught the eye of William Stroudley, who was observing the traffic working from his office window.",
      "Lawrie Wilson caught the eye with a surging run, although his strike was blocked, while Bostwick's powerful low strike drew an excellent save from Krul."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "1579-1",
    "Idiom": [
      "catch the sun"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To sunbathe.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "1579-2",
    "Idiom": [
      "catch the sun"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To become sunburned.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "1579-3",
    "Idiom": [
      "catch the sun"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To reflect sunlight.",
    "Sentence": [
      "A coin on the ground caught the sun and I stooped to pick it up."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "1579-4",
    "Idiom": [
      "catch the sun"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To be in a sunny position.",
    "Sentence": [
      "The sunflowers will catch the sun if they are planted there."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "1580",
    "Idiom": [
      "catch-as-catch-can"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Done as circumstances allow; intermittent.",
    "Sentence": [
      "My wife did indeed provide the more dependable contributions to our income while mine came catch-as-catch-can.",
      "My efforts lately have been catch-as-catch-can, not carefully planned."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "1581",
    "Idiom": [
      "cats rule; dogs drool",
      "cats rule, dogs drool"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Cats are better than dogs.",
    "Sentence": [
      "He never put his claws out and never drew blood or left scratch marks. It was a \" cats rule; dogs drool \" sort of statement.",
      "There is the saying, cats rule; dogs drool. My long-time experience of living with both cats and dogs tells me this saying is true.",
      "When it comes to cats, there simply is no middle ground. People either love them or hate them. The thing you need to know is that all of my life I’ve been in the other group, loving more than my fair share of cats—some strays, some pets—since I was a little girl. My motto was always Cats rule; dogs drool !"
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "1582",
    "Idiom": [
      "cattle call"
    ],
    "Meaning": "An open audition attracting many inexperienced applicants.",
    "Sentence": [
      "The other extreme is a cattle call audition, when dozens or even hundreds of performers are auditioned in groups, only getting a chance to speak a few lines, sing a few bars, or dance a few steps.",
      "And to what extent is there a world beyond it? Is there going to be a moment where populism needs a new leader and you’re back to that cattle call in New Hampshire looking at different opportunities?"
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "1583-1",
    "Idiom": [
      "caucus race"
    ],
    "Meaning": "A political party's candidate selection process.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Mr. Gingrich, who is now the minority whip, announced last week that he had rounded up more than 100 commitments from House Republicans for the caucus race to come after the election next year."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "1583-2",
    "Idiom": [
      "caucus race"
    ],
    "Meaning": "A political competition for votes.",
    "Sentence": [
      "she was backing southern moderate John Spratt in his strong but unsuccessful caucus race for Budget Committee chairman."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "1583-3",
    "Idiom": [
      "caucus race"
    ],
    "Meaning": "A futile activity that expends energy without achieving a goal.",
    "Sentence": [
      "With the dominant figure in U.S. politics forced to the sidelines for—perhaps—the rest of the year, the national political situation last week began to take on the unreal air of the Dodo's caucus race.",
      "The American economic system is beginning to resemble the caucus race in Alice in Wonderland. Is it not something of a contradiction to cut taxes to facilitate the resurgence of buying power that will increase the demand for appliances and, especially, vehicles —and at the same time enforce a reduction in demand for the petroleum fuels that must drive the cars and power the machines that will manufacture the appliances?",
      "A more free and easy attitude prevailed in selecting research topics than today, when the funding squeeze keeps most academic scientists in a tight caucus race of grant getting and paper production that precludes forays into risky serendipitous pursuits."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "1584",
    "Idiom": [
      "caught up"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Involuntarily involved in a situation.",
    "Sentence": [
      "The invited guest was caught up in a family quarrel."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "1585",
    "Idiom": [
      "caught with one's pants down"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Caught off guard or unprepared.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "1586",
    "Idiom": [
      "cause a stir"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To cause controversy or disturbance.",
    "Sentence": [
      "The news story caused a stir."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "1587",
    "Idiom": [
      "cave-in"
    ],
    "Meaning": "The act of relenting.",
    "Sentence": [
      "It was a cave-in, but I let my child have a candy to shut her up."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "1588",
    "Idiom": [
      "caveat lector"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Reader beware.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "1589",
    "Idiom": [
      "caviar to the general"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Something of quality unbefitting its audience.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "1590",
    "Idiom": [
      "cede the field"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To withdraw from a confrontational situation.",
    "Sentence": [
      "In some smokestack industries—steel, machine tools and especially cars—the choice was to raise productivity and quality a lot or cede the field to the competition, as American companies did in consumer electronics.",
      "State Senator McClintock appeared on CNN's Inside Politics on Tuesday and told me he had no intention of following Ueberroth's lead and ceding the field to Schwarzenegger: \"I'm in this race right to the finish line.\"",
      "And what will happen to Windows Phone? One can't imagine that Ballmer will call it a day and cede the field to Google and Apple."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "1591",
    "Idiom": [
      "center field"
    ],
    "Meaning": "A central role requiring speed.",
    "Sentence": [
      "I'd be happy to play center field on this proposal. I can cover a lot of ground."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "1592",
    "Idiom": [
      "chalk and cheese"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Said of things that are very different.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "1593-1",
    "Idiom": [
      "chalk off"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To record a score or event.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Yet Wayne Rooney scored at a good time, three minutes after the restart, to soothe any gathering nerves and the night can ultimately be chalked off as one of the finest occasions of Hodgson's 17 months in the job."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "1593-2",
    "Idiom": [
      "chalk off"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To disallow or cancel.",
    "Sentence": [
      "In one last extraordinary twist, City thought they had snatched victory and Sterling a hat-trick, but emotions switched instantly as once again VAR had the final word and the goal was chalked off."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "1594",
    "Idiom": [
      "chalk something up to experience"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Learn from a bad outcome.",
    "Sentence": [
      "However, if the amounts are small and you've exhausted your personal resources, you can chalk it up to experience and write it off at the end of the year. (I did this on several small checks returned for insufficient funds.)",
      "When I am scammed, I take my lumps and chalk it up to experience. I then use all my resources and skills to destroy those involved in committing the scam.",
      "'Take them to court – or just chalk it up to experience.' 'Don't suppose for a moment that Kodomo would adopt the same attitude. He brought you all the way out here to do something for him. Whatever it is, he'll expect you to deliver."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "1595",
    "Idiom": [
      "chalk up to"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To attribute or account for something.",
    "Sentence": [
      "“You can chalk it up maybe to, as one of my friends says, a nautical superstition,” he said. “Maybe I read too many Greek tragedies. I don't believe something’s going to happen like that until it’s happened.",
      "Some of the best pre-mortems for Steve Ballmer, out-going CEO of Microsoft, have chalked up the company's problem to the \"innovator's dilemma.\"",
      "Chalk it up to fear that he didn't finish."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "1596",
    "Idiom": [
      "champ at the bit"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To show impatience or frustration when delayed.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Pittsburgh supercomputer is complete, and scientists are champing at the bit to use it.",
      "Everyone is champing at the bit to be labelled innovative.",
      "We had quite a few people in last weekend. They’re champing at the bit, ready to go."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "1597",
    "Idiom": [
      "champagne taste on a beer budget"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Expensive desires beyond one's financial means.",
    "Sentence": [
      "The traveller who expects to satisfy a champagne taste on a beer budget in this food-conscious city may be in for a disappointment.",
      "The fact is the school system has spent itself into debt, at least partly by exhibiting a champagne taste on a beer budget.",
      "We would all like to live in a palatial estate with a dozen bedrooms and as many bathrooms. Having champagne taste on a beer budget is nothing new. However, be realistic."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "1598",
    "Idiom": [
      "chance upon"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To find unexpectedly.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "1599",
    "Idiom": [
      "chances are"
    ],
    "Meaning": "It is likely or probable.",
    "Sentence": [
      "There are the inevitable life lessons about family and making time, plus a big speech in which Pooh serves as an unlikely guru of the importance of paid vacation days. Chances are you’ve seen seen this all before. But at least this time, you’re seeing it with Pooh.",
      "If you leave before 7, chances are you'll miss the traffic."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "1600",
    "Idiom": [
      "change hands"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To become someone else's property.",
    "Sentence": [
      "The line has since changed hands several times, and is now to re-open as a preserved railway (a railway for leisure only), running vintage diesels and electrics, but with the aim of restoring steam.",
      "The food got a lot worse after the restaurant changed hands."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "1601",
    "Idiom": [
      "change horses in midstream",
      "swap horses in midstream"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To change plans during an ongoing effort.",
    "Sentence": [
      "A change in the weather is known to be extreme / But what's the sense of changing horses in midstream ?"
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "1602",
    "Idiom": [
      "change of clothes"
    ],
    "Meaning": "A set of clothes in addition to what is already worn.",
    "Sentence": [
      "I always carry a change of clothes in my backpack.",
      "Bring at least two changes of clothes."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "1603",
    "Idiom": [
      "change of heart"
    ],
    "Meaning": "A change of opinion or decision.",
    "Sentence": [
      "We can go out driving on Slow Hand Row / We could stay inside and play games, I don't know / And you could have a change of heart",
      "\"I thought you were loyal to the cause, Paul.\" “I was,” Grayson answered. “Then I saw the kind of people who share your vision, and I had a change of heart.”",
      "The Keswick - Carlisle, Bury - Rawtenstall, Watford - Croxley Green and Haltwhistle - Alston services had run out of friends, but the hit-listed Oldham - Rochdale and Inverness - Kyle of Lochalsh lines would benefit from a change of heart.",
      "Unfortunately, in 1979 Lipburger was convicted of erecting unapproved street signs and jailed for ten weeks. Following a change of heart, the government later invited Lipburger to move his construction to Vienna’s Prater Park, where it still sits today.",
      "He quit work on Friday, but on Monday he had a change of heart and decided to come back."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "1604",
    "Idiom": [
      "change of life"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Menopause.",
    "Sentence": [
      "But of course she's coming near her change of life, for she's years older than he is."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "1605",
    "Idiom": [
      "change of pace"
    ],
    "Meaning": "A shift from one activity to another.",
    "Sentence": [
      "The island’s small fishing boats (Luzzus) and karrozzins (horse-drawn carriages) provided a welcome change-of-pace from the flattop Shangri-La ’s sailors and airmen had been riding since October."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "1606",
    "Idiom": [
      "change of scenery"
    ],
    "Meaning": "A movement from one location to another.",
    "Sentence": [
      "I've been stuck in this house for too long. I could use a change of scenery. Maybe I'll go to the beach."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "1607",
    "Idiom": [
      "change of tack"
    ],
    "Meaning": "A reversal of an opinion.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "1608",
    "Idiom": [
      "change one's battery"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To take a new approach to achieve an objective.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "1609",
    "Idiom": [
      "change one's mind"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To decide differently.",
    "Sentence": [
      "So don’t necessarily assume that something has changed if I appear to have changed my mind, sometimes my mind is all that’s changed.",
      "Of course, I was not always right. I questioned the value of Crossrail (a scheme revived by Prescott after being scrapped by the Conservatives), suggesting wrongly that it may be \"doomed to hit the buffers\" . A dozen years later, I published my book on it, extolling the line's wonders. We are all allowed to change our minds.",
      "She started up the stairs, changed her mind, and turned to go back down."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "1610-1",
    "Idiom": [
      "change one's tune"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To reconsider or reach a different conclusion.",
    "Sentence": [
      "The heaters, the S.R. now says, will \"help tremendously\" if there is severe snow and ice—a welcome change of tune from last winter, when the Region was countering criticism of its operation during the January freeze-up with a bland defence of existing precautions .",
      "Labour frontbencher Louise Haigh (Shadow Transport Secretary for heaven's sake!) initially lambasted TOCs before the handful of specialist rail commentators fell on her tweets and she changed her tune, refocusing her fire on Government.",
      "They say my way of doing things is slower, but I think they'll change their tune as soon as they try it."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "1610-2",
    "Idiom": [
      "change one's tune"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To change one's opinion or behavior.",
    "Sentence": [
      "The suspect changed his tune when he learned the police had the evidence."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "1611",
    "Idiom": [
      "change over"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To transition from one system to another.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "1612",
    "Idiom": [
      "change someone's mind"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To convince someone to change their opinion or decision.",
    "Sentence": [
      "How can I change your mind about quitting?",
      "This new film that everyone loves is crap. There, I said it. Change my mind. [a challenge inviting a counterargument]"
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "1613",
    "Idiom": [
      "change the channel"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To redirect someone’s attention.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Repeated attempts to \" change the channel \" to pocketbook issues that traditionally favor Democratic candidates have flopped.",
      "“This is all smoke and mirrors because the issue in this campaign is taxes, which candidate is going to raise them and which candidate is going to cut them,” Harris said. “Bill McBride doesn’t want that to be the focus so he’s trying to change the channel.”",
      "Conservative Leader Stephen Harper tried to change the channel on a campaign of distractions Wednesday as he deftly neutralized the Afghan mission as an election issue.",
      "[Big banks] have become the perfect foil for the White House as it tries to lead the Democratic Party out of its post-Massachusetts morass — and to change the channel from the seemingly unending debate over health insurance.",
      "Hudema responded, “This government doesn’t want to have a public discussion on the industry’s disastrous safety record, or the toxic effects that spills from a 1,170-kilometre tarsands pipeline would have on indigenous rights, the Rocky Mountains, the B.C. coast, or the more than 1,000 rivers and streams this pipeline would cross. Instead, they try to change the channel by inventing scapegoats and bogeymen. …”"
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "1614",
    "Idiom": [
      "change the game"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To revolutionize a field.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Today, Moore is in transition from a communications-product company to an information-management company, selling information-management systems— How has this changed the game for Moore salespeople?",
      "Brave and resourceful, creative and effective, will be the hallmarks of the transformative CEO. For the transformative CEO has no choice but to change the game, and to change the game forever.",
      "Four years before Fury Road, the Welsh director Gareth Evans made the berserker Indonesian fight movie The Raid: Redemption, changing the game by reducing the action movie to its simplest elements, telling it with visceral style.",
      "“ Crazy Rich Asians ” simply changes the game. It shows that minorities don’t need Spandexed suits or powers to be bankable (though one could argue that the comedic team of Ken Jeong and Awkwafina are superheroes in their own right). They can be glamorous and sassy and intimidating and genuine – and still relate to virtually all audiences.",
      "“If we were able to get a really high vaccination rate, that changes the game completely,” said Hassan Vally, an associate professor in epidemiology at La Trobe University in Melbourne."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "1615",
    "Idiom": [
      "character assassination"
    ],
    "Meaning": "A discourse intended to damage someone's reputation.",
    "Sentence": [
      "For months, Dati warned she would refuse to stand aside. Now she has stunned the political class with an open letter to Fillon in Le Monde, a scathing character assassination accusing him of the \"lone ambition\" of a disillusioned political elite, of doing politics in a way that \"never favoured women\" and stopping ethnic-minority candidates from progressing at elections. She said he was committing \"a sad mistake\" in trying to run in Paris."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "1616",
    "Idiom": [
      "charge down"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To lose electrical power.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "1617",
    "Idiom": [
      "charge up"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To motivate or instill determination.",
    "Sentence": [
      "The coach had to charge up his players with a powerful speech before the final."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "1618",
    "Idiom": [
      "charity begins at home"
    ],
    "Meaning": "One should help those closest to oneself first.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Charity begins at home, is the voyce of the world, yet is every man his greatest enemy, and as it were, his owne executioner."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "1619",
    "Idiom": [
      "charity mugger"
    ],
    "Meaning": "A person who solicits donations for a charity on the street.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "1620",
    "Idiom": [
      "charley horse"
    ],
    "Meaning": "A muscle cramp.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Of course there had been plenty of bruises—one mild case of charley-horse, several dislocated or sprained fingers, a wrenched ankle or two and any number of cuts and scrapes,"
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "1621",
    "Idiom": [
      "charm offensive"
    ],
    "Meaning": "A campaign using charm and flattery to achieve a goal.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Putin’s speech was a culmination of the Kremlin’s two-day charm offensive with China, aimed at cementing ties between the two countries amid Russia’s growing isolation from the west."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "1622",
    "Idiom": [
      "charm the birds from the trees"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To behave in a charming manner.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "1623",
    "Idiom": [
      "charmed life"
    ],
    "Meaning": "A life marked by luck and safety from danger.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Walcott thought he should have had a penalty when his cross appeared to strike the arm of Vincent Kompany and, either side of the break, Van Persie forced Hart to save one shot and fired another wide as City's goal continued to lead a charmed life."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "1624",
    "Idiom": [
      "chase a rainbow"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To pursue something impractical or impossible.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "1625",
    "Idiom": [
      "chase after"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To pursue someone romantically.",
    "Sentence": [
      "He began to tell her that he loved her, and he chased after her for six months"
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "1626",
    "Idiom": [
      "chase off"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To drive someone or something away.",
    "Sentence": [
      "The bears were interested in the campers' food, but they chased them off."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "1627",
    "Idiom": [
      "chase one's tail"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To waste time on busy but ineffective tasks.",
    "Sentence": [
      "People wanting to get married... would have to trail around separately to arrange flowers, cars, a photographer, the cake and a reception venue.... \"At the moment, they have to chase their tail making sure all these things are done.\"",
      "\"You're forever chasing your tail when you're dealing with such large areas.... It was difficult to see how we would ever get on top of the problem.\"",
      "The phone rings pretty much immediately and I have a conversation, usually apologising for something or explaining why I haven't managed to do something. I'm always chasing my tail.",
      "“If you end up changing your strategy based on hot or cold tendencies, more often than not, you’re chasing your tail and you’re actually destroying value rather than sticking to what you know is right based off the data over a longer period of time,” Luhnow said.",
      "What is unbearable, in fact, is the feeling, 13 years after 9/11, that America has been chasing its tail; that, in some whack-a-mole horror show, the quashing of a jihadi enclave here only spurs the sprouting of another there; that the ideology of Al Qaeda is still reverberating through a blocked Arab world whose Sunni-Shia balance (insofar as that went) was upended by the American invasion of Iraq."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "1628",
    "Idiom": [
      "chase rainbows"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To pursue unrealistic goals.",
    "Sentence": [
      "\"I'm sorry to spoil your daydreams and stop you chasing rainbows, and all that, but aren't you forgetting that the shop belongs to me?\"",
      "The message of the campaign brochure was slick and soothing: \"Bentsen. He dreams dreams. But he doesn't chase rainbows.\"",
      "But Johnson says he knows the score and intends to approach the challenges ahead with a strong sense of realism. \"I don't want to chase rainbows,\" he said."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "1629",
    "Idiom": [
      "chase tail"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To pursue a sexual partner.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Let's go out clubbing tonight and chase some tail."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "1630",
    "Idiom": [
      "chase the dragon"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Pursuing the elusive high from addiction.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "1631",
    "Idiom": [
      "chat up"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To talk to someone casually, often flirtatiously, with romantic intent.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Have you been chatting up my girlfriend?",
      "He spent all evening chatting her up."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "1632",
    "Idiom": [
      "cheap thrill"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Something simple and inexpensive for pleasure.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Rather than fulfilling its original function as an integral part of an emotional relationship, sex is for them little more than a cheap thrill, something that men \"do\" to women and for which women should be grateful.",
      "Another doctor's bill, a lawyer's bill, another cute cheap thrill",
      "One NWA [Northwest Arkansas] gun shop owner said people get them for all different reasons like saving money and getting a cheap thrill."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "1633",
    "Idiom": [
      "cheap-arse Tuesday"
    ],
    "Meaning": "A day when businesses offer discounts.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "1634",
    "Idiom": [
      "cheaper by the dozen"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Describes greater efficiency when handling items as a group.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "1635",
    "Idiom": [
      "cheat on"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To be unfaithful in a romantic relationship.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Six years of a happy relationship, and then she had the nerve to cheat on me with a barman!"
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "1636",
    "Idiom": [
      "cheat sheet"
    ],
    "Meaning": "A summary or quick reference for assistance.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "1637",
    "Idiom": [
      "cheaters never prosper",
      "cheats never prosper"
    ],
    "Meaning": "One does not profit by cheating.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "1638-1",
    "Idiom": [
      "check and balance"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Mutual oversight to prevent abuses of power.",
    "Sentence": [
      "A second distinguishing feature, Shackleton contends, is that the separation of powers also stresses the checking and balancing of one power against another, whereas the mixed state combines all interests solely to prevent or stall the inevitable degeneration of government, not to check power.",
      "Since each branch had exclusive powers, separated powers did not mean an aggressively political process of checking and balancing of executive policy choices by Congress.",
      "The Constitution achieves this checking and balancing function in several ways.",
      "Rather, they should find their proper places in a dialectics of mutual checking and balancing toward forming a convergence and universalization of feelings.",
      "As technology takes new forms, it brings new opportunities for corruption and hence demands new checking and balancing."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "1638-2",
    "Idiom": [
      "check and balance"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Mutual oversight by independent organizations.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Whoever has taken a critical and serious look at human history will indisputably come to conclusion that man's madness and craziness know no boundary or limit even when check and balance of power are being applied.",
      "Because of the check and balance function of journalists, they are sometimes called the “watchdog for the people”.",
      "In this way, moral check and balance is combined with legal check and balance (i.e., legally based check and balance).",
      "Practices show that check and balance of powers and democratic oversight belong to two different categories, with differences in their subjects, objects, methods and other aspects."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "1639",
    "Idiom": [
      "check is in the mail"
    ],
    "Meaning": "An excuse to delay payment.",
    "Sentence": [
      "The reply was usually either a story about financial problems, or the \" check is in the mail \" dodge.",
      "It was the sure-fire sign of a business — or an individual — in financial distress: The old check-is-in-the-mail ploy.",
      "The person with whom you speak may be well schooled in the \" check is in the mail \" run-around.",
      "Your check is in the mail. I gave it to my son to mail yesterday. I hope he remembered."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "1640",
    "Idiom": [
      "check the math"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To verify accuracy.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "1641-1",
    "Idiom": [
      "check through"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To permit onward passage after verification.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "1641-2",
    "Idiom": [
      "check through"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To inspect something for errors or problems.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "1642",
    "Idiom": [
      "cheeky monkey"
    ],
    "Meaning": "An impudent person, usually a child.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "1643-1",
    "Idiom": [
      "cheer up"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To become happier.",
    "Sentence": [
      "I cheered up after seeing the results."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "1643-2",
    "Idiom": [
      "cheer up"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To make someone happier.",
    "Sentence": [
      "The arrival of the unexpected letter cheered him up almost immediately."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "1644",
    "Idiom": [
      "cheesed off"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Annoyed or angry.",
    "Sentence": [
      "You have no reason to be mad at me. I mean, you know, you broke my heart. I should be royally ticked off at you, you know. I should be really cheesed off. I shouldn’t wanna talk to you anymore.",
      "I'm really cheesed off about the lack of hand dryers in this washroom!"
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "1645-1",
    "Idiom": [
      "cherry-pick"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To select the best items for advantage or favorable presentation.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Screeners can help you cherry-pick a promising group of stocks that meet your exact specifications.",
      "\"We're not offering you a chance to cherry-pick the Caerphilly Zoo to fill in the gaps in your own collection.",
      "In time The Simpsons would, indeed, resort to spoofing such decidedly non-spooktacular fare like E.T and Mr. And Mrs. Smith (both in “Treehouse Of Horror XVIII”) but in 1992 the field was wide-open and the show could cherry-pick the most iconic and beloved fright fare of all time.",
      "The situation became more acute as road competition began to grow during the 1930s. A national road network was built, and road hauliers could cherry-pick the most profitable movements."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "1645-2",
    "Idiom": [
      "cherry-pick"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To make selective choices for an easy advantage.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "1645-3",
    "Idiom": [
      "cherry-pick"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To select specific items from a larger set.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Those stations that will send CNN tapes of their local and regional news for CNN to cherry-pick from, in turn will be allowed to cherry-pick themselves."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "1646",
    "Idiom": [
      "chess piece"
    ],
    "Meaning": "A person being manipulated.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "1647",
    "Idiom": [
      "chesterfield rugby"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Sexual activity.",
    "Sentence": [
      "As to necking and petting, as a kind of part time recreation, frankly, it's a failure. You'll do better to dance together or play tennis than to use up all that ebulience in what we used to call chesterfield rugby.",
      "\"There are so many adults with fitness problems today because, other than a little chesterfield rugby, they never exercise,\" said Allan Little, Edmonton YMCA supervisor."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "1648",
    "Idiom": [
      "chew off"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To reprimand or scold.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "1649",
    "Idiom": [
      "chew on"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To consider or ponder.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Once you chew on it that way, you start thinking, jeez, maybe QAnon was almost inevitable."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "1650",
    "Idiom": [
      "chew the cud"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To meditate or ponder before answering.",
    "Sentence": [
      "chewed the thrice turned cud of wrath",
      "George sat chewing the cud over matters. Unhappy memories."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "1651",
    "Idiom": [
      "chew the meat and spit out the bones"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To selectively accept information while ignoring what is irrelevant.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Do not swallow every story that is told. There may be a grain of truth somewhere in all the myths, but chew the meat and spit out the bones."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "1652",
    "Idiom": [
      "chew the scenery"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To act in an exaggerated or melodramatic manner.",
    "Sentence": [
      "The way the six stars chew the scenery is nothing compared to their abuse of one another.",
      "Starring as a Great White Hope police commissioner sent to clean up Washington, D.C., Nelson displays a set of pipes barely hinted at in his years on \"Coach,\" spending the long pilot hour barking, bloviating, singing(!) and generally chewing the scenery."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "1653",
    "Idiom": [
      "chew up"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To ruin by digging.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "1654",
    "Idiom": [
      "chicken feed"
    ],
    "Meaning": "A very small or insignificant amount.",
    "Sentence": [
      "\"Some of them old skinflints has no heart Al but why should I fight with a old man over chicken feed like $10?\"",
      "The 20 per cent cut is chicken feed compared to us having to pay Moore compensation for the remaining 16 months"
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "1655",
    "Idiom": [
      "chicken out"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To avoid something due to fear or uncertainty.",
    "Sentence": [
      "I dismiss Reporters Without Borders. Completely nonsensical. We invited them in for a select committee hearing, and in the true heritage of free speech, they chickened out.",
      "We almost convinced his dad to ride the roller coaster, but he chickened out when he saw how high it went."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "1656",
    "Idiom": [
      "chicken scratch"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Illegible handwriting.",
    "Sentence": [
      "The pencil in my hand was limp between my fingers and I couldn't focus on the chicken scratch on the pages. My breathing had become shallow and my heart was racing. I was in the midst of a full-blown panic attack."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "1657",
    "Idiom": [
      "chicks before dicks"
    ],
    "Meaning": "A woman should prioritize her female friends over men.",
    "Sentence": [
      "\"I meant for us girls to have fun tonight. I didn't mean go snogging blokes. Chicks before dicks, babe.\""
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "1658",
    "Idiom": [
      "child's play"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Something easy or simple.",
    "Sentence": [
      "The brawny craftsman finds it no child's play to mould his unpliant rugged masses; neither is guidance of men a dilettantism: what it becomes when treated as a dilettantism, we may see!",
      "In every county there were elderly gentlemen who had seen service which was no child's play.",
      "He'd pull his bars apart like bow and bow-string, / And let them go and make them twang until / His hands had worn them smooth as any ox-bow. / And then he'd crow as if he thought that child's play — / The only fun he had.",
      "I knew something of the railway engineer's uncanny genius for finding a path through such barriers if any path existed; yet I also knew the path would be no child's play.",
      "Compared to my last job, this is child’s play."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "1659",
    "Idiom": [
      "children should be seen and not heard"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Children should be well-behaved and quiet around adults.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Until you can organize yourself and those who share your discontent, and compile and reconstruct some proposals for meeting the needs of gay youths, until you can present them in an adult (and I stress that word — ADULT) manner; lay low, my friend, for children should be seen and not heard."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "1660",
    "Idiom": [
      "chill to the bone"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To make or feel extremely cold.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Till now I always got by on my own / I never really cared until I met you / And now it chills me to the bone / How do I get you alone? / How do I get you alone?",
      "I was just chilled to the bone."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "1661",
    "Idiom": [
      "chilly climate"
    ],
    "Meaning": "A male-dominated environment with discrimination against women.",
    "Sentence": [
      "A chilly climate is not conducive for women students' learning...",
      "Most frequently, issues of chilly climate are noted among women pursuing doctorates in the sciences and engineering."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "1662-1",
    "Idiom": [
      "chime in"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To join in conversation or discussion.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Atherton chimed in. ‘To that I say, Amen!’ He lifted his hand. ‘God is my witness!’",
      "We appreciate your input, so please don't hesitate to chime in with comments and questions."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "1662-2",
    "Idiom": [
      "chime in"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To agree or add input.",
    "Sentence": [
      "I was therefore obliged to chime in with her plan, which in truth seemed well arranged:",
      "What I saw upon this cliff, although surely an object of very extraordinary nature, the place and season considered, at first neither startled nor amazed me—so thoroughly and appropriately did it chime in with the half-slumberous fancies that enwrapped me."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "1663",
    "Idiom": [
      "chink in the armor"
    ],
    "Meaning": "A weakness or vulnerable point.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "1664",
    "Idiom": [
      "chink up"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To fill cracks in something.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "1665",
    "Idiom": [
      "chip away"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To reduce or weaken gradually.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Iraneus contrasts the unity and integrity of these writings with the distorted, contextless citations of the Gnostics. He describes the code of textual harassment that allows these heretics to chip away at the Scriptures,",
      "Matthew Towers, senior industry analyst at Frost & Sullivan, thinks the PowerPC will gradually build market share over the next several years. “They'll ‘chip’ away at Intel, but slowly,” he says.",
      "Antismoking groups continue their efforts to chip away at the public support for smoking as well as at the favorable treatment of tobacco products.",
      "Darcy Lever: Bolton Council has rejected a plan to build 112 homes across the trackbed of the former Bury line. It is concerned that it would prevent any future extension of Manchester Metrolink, and chip away at green space land."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "1666-1",
    "Idiom": [
      "chip in"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To make a contribution or help, often financially.",
    "Sentence": [
      "It was England up the right, with Jordan Henderson – back in the starting XI for Kalvin Phillips – chipping in, too, popping up in inside positions to flip over a couple of dangerous crosses.",
      "If we all chip in, we can afford to buy a pizza for lunch."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "1666-2",
    "Idiom": [
      "chip in"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To contribute.",
    "Sentence": [
      "He chipped in twenty for the retirement gift.",
      "She chipped in for the gift."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "1666-3",
    "Idiom": [
      "chip in"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To interrupt a discussion to make a comment.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Will Godfrey, director of economics, finance and markets at ORR, chips in : \"Reducing cancellations and maintaining punctuality as passengers return after the pandemic is a really vital objective."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "1667",
    "Idiom": [
      "chip off the old block"
    ],
    "Meaning": "A person similar to one of their parents.",
    "Sentence": [
      "A new Parliment is called at York, where the elder Spencer is advanced to the Earldom of Winchester; and Harkely, another Chip of the same Block, is made Earl of Carlisle.",
      "He's a chip off the old block —quick to anger just like his father."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "1668-1",
    "Idiom": [
      "chip on one's shoulder"
    ],
    "Meaning": "A habitually combative attitude due to a grievance or sense of inferiority.",
    "Sentence": [
      "The city of Herculaneum held its neighbors in hearty contempt, like the youth who has suddenly found his man's strength, and parades round with a chip on his shoulder.",
      "The young John McCain was a constant breaker of rules, a brawler and a slob, an undersize punk with an oversize chip on his shoulder.",
      "One minute this \"Jihadi John\" was struggling to get by, and get accepted, in drizzly England, unemployed with a mortgage to pay and a chip on his shoulder, and the next he stands in brilliant Levantine sunlight, where everything is clear and etched, at the vanguard of some Sunni Risorgimento intent on subjecting the world to its murderous brand of Wahhabi Islam."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "1668-2",
    "Idiom": [
      "chip on one's shoulder"
    ],
    "Meaning": "A tendency to take offense easily.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "1669",
    "Idiom": [
      "chip shot"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Something that is easy to achieve.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Barnes could hardly get the words out: \"It's a, it's a, it's a chip shot for Democrats to take the House,\" he added."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "1670",
    "Idiom": [
      "chip up"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To cause damage with chips, cracks, or dents.",
    "Sentence": [
      "It were when my father were employed as mason under 'brick and mortar Benson,' as they called him, for repairs of a wall, and they were short of stones, and they chipped up the figure I be telling you of."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "1671-1",
    "Idiom": [
      "chirk up"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To make more cheerful.",
    "Sentence": [
      "\"Well, I think,\" said Mis' Jane Moran, \"that we've hit on the only way we could have hit on to chirk each other up over a hard time.\"",
      "My idea was to chirk him up at the start."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "1671-2",
    "Idiom": [
      "chirk up"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To become more cheerful.",
    "Sentence": [
      "\"Go ahead,\" he says, and I see Jim chirk up to listen.",
      "Now you jest wipe your eyes and chirk up.",
      "She was terrified but in control. n. How, on the trip around the country my parents took the year after my birth, their mood sank so low that even my brother sensed it. \" Chirk up, guys,\" he said. \" Chirk up.\" They laughed at that."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "1672",
    "Idiom": [
      "chocolate teapot"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Something totally useless.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "1673-1",
    "Idiom": [
      "choke off"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To cause to come to an end.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "1673-2",
    "Idiom": [
      "choke off"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To stop someone or something from accomplishing a task.",
    "Sentence": [
      "\"It was a discreditable business. There were one or two folk who were inclined to take him seriously, but he soon choked them off.\" \"How?\" \"Well, by his insufferable rudeness and impossible behavior.\"",
      "to choke off a speaker by uproar"
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "1673-3",
    "Idiom": [
      "choke off"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To choke up.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "1673-4",
    "Idiom": [
      "choke off"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To cause someone to lose interest in a conversation.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "1674",
    "Idiom": [
      "choke the chicken"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To masturbate.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "1675",
    "Idiom": [
      "chomp at the bit"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Shows impatience or frustration when delayed.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Electronics makers chomping at the bit.",
      "But I wouldn't say [they're frustrated], I think our players are just chomping at the bit to go.",
      "Curt Schilling was \" chomping at the bit \" following Monday’s three-inning stint in an intrasquad minor-league game."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "1676",
    "Idiom": [
      "choose one's fighter"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To select one's preferred choice from a set of options.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Choose your fighter : the golden arches or the golden crown. This one-off doc charts how two of the most recognisable brands in the world grew from homespun enterprises to become the fast-food behemoths they are today.",
      "Facebook alone will balance competing values like newsworthiness against privacy, or the old print belief in transparency against the digital aversion to “doxxing” — that is, publishing people’s identifying information against their will. And in the standoff with The Post this month, all you can do is choose your fighter : Mark Zuckerberg or Rupert Murdoch.",
      "Adding layers of texture to a cookie by folding in ground-down bits of goodness is one of our favorite ways to pack a big punch, but you need to choose your fighter wisely. If you pick something too smooth, your cookie won't gain any oomph, and if you choose something too flavorful, your cookie may end up overwhelming (sorry, Flamin' Hot Cheetos)."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "1677-1",
    "Idiom": [
      "choose up"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To form teams by having two players choose their teammates.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "1677-2",
    "Idiom": [
      "choose up"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To choose to work as a prostitute for a particular pimp.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "1677-3",
    "Idiom": [
      "choose up"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To select or make a final decision.",
    "Sentence": [
      "She prostituted for a couple of pimps before meeting MacD in Oakland. When Dakota got into his car, MacD said, \"Bitch, my name is MacDaddy,” and added: \"You've just gotten in a pimp's car, and you've chosen up.",
      "A couple bitches tried to play me They tried to have my babies I’m like “bitches, you crazy?” I’m tryna git my loot up … Money or a broke bitch It ain’t hard for me to choose up",
      "They would chose up and leave me with the choice to decide. That was giving me power from the beginning. Submission! I didn't have to be first to make a move. It's always better to be chosen."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "1678",
    "Idiom": [
      "choose violence"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To audaciously insult or disrespect someone.",
    "Sentence": [
      "In a post on his Instagram story Thursday, the Saturday Night Live head writer expressed his desire to \"make fun of Simone Biles.\" In the next post, he wrote: \"I got like 3 mins of Simone Biles jokes in my head. I'm going to the cellar tonight to say them into a microphone. As the dorky kids say, I'm choosing violence.\"",
      "RuPaul Charles chose violence on this week's episode of Drag Race UK when he chose to eliminate, not one, but two fan-favourite contestants from the competition.",
      "Still, the broadcast decided to show that Verstappen was leading him by more than 77 seconds. Sharing a snap of the visual, one Twitter user posted: \"F1 CHOSE VIOLENCE WITH THIS GRAPHIC.\"",
      "For Payne's sake, we hope he figures out who he wants to be soon — and that it's not the same man who woke up and chose violence on Logan Paul's podcast.",
      "I have read enough online listing BS — and watched enough terrible HGTV to make my own realtor's head hurt — that the line between parody and straight-faced is probably permanently blurred for me. The internal adjustments you learn to make to the manic cheerleading for basic structural details—sorry, \"charming historical elements\"—are a reflex at this point, to say nothing of the eye strain from listings that considered proper capitalization and punctuation and chose violence instead.",
      "wake up and choose violence"
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "1679",
    "Idiom": [
      "chop down"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To curtail or shorten.",
    "Sentence": [
      "In the final edit, the film was chopped down to two hours."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "1680",
    "Idiom": [
      "chopped liver"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Something insignificant or unworthy of notice.",
    "Sentence": [
      "You've been nice enough, but what am I, chopped liver or something?",
      "Two hundred and eighty million dollars in the Union's welfare fund. That ain't chopped liver.",
      "Well, now, I wouldn't make this change seem like a major overhaul. After all, you weren't exactly chopped liver before! But I did sense that you were deliberately trying to downplay your attractiveness, for whatever reason. Not that you succeeded, of course.",
      "God is the father of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob. What about Sarah and Rebecca ? What about Leah and Ruth ? What are they, chopped liver ? All your god respects are the men. Women are nothing to Him.",
      "Zaid is especially happy with his friend's visit (you know, the one he keeps telling us is his only real friend ever – I guess we were chopped liver).",
      "But it really rankled Mets fans when anyone assumed that the Yankees were New York's main baseball team and the Mets were the little brother, the chopped liver, the city's second team.",
      "Someone had hit the pause button, and I ended up on the waiting list. My beautiful plans had just turned into chopped liver."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "1681",
    "Idiom": [
      "chrome dome"
    ],
    "Meaning": "A bald head.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Linebacker Carlton Bailey shaved his head last year.... Soon, the bald head became the rage among the linebackers. Now, just about every Giants linebacker has a chrome dome.",
      "Few Presidents have been bald. The last was Dwight D. Eisenhower. Luckily, he ran both times against another chrome dome, Adlai Stevenson.",
      "Where Patrick's hair lay thick and fair, Carter's was dark and thinning; his scalp gleamed through his comb-over. Soon he'd be a chrome dome."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "1682",
    "Idiom": [
      "chrome horn"
    ],
    "Meaning": "The front bumper of a car used to signal a desire to pass.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Dale Earnhardt just put the chrome horn to that lapped car in front of him."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "1683",
    "Idiom": [
      "chum in the water"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Something that provokes a strong reaction.",
    "Sentence": [
      "The year 1999 was a big one for polls here at TIME.com. Pre-millennial fever seemed to add an extra edge to all the passions that motivate people to express themselves — political tension, national pride, economic disparity, religious fervor — and our polls were chum in the water for those with an overwhelming need to make themselves heard. The polls that touched a nerve and set off huge responses gave us insights.",
      "It will be like chum in the water, almost as invigorating to the crazies as bagging Dan Rather.",
      "It happened again in Medinah. \"Major winner! Major winner!\" was the chant-cum-taunt from the crowd as Poulter came out to play his singles match. That might have unsettled more bashful characters, but with Poulter, it was throwing chum in the water. Poulter won all four of his matches at Medinah."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "1684",
    "Idiom": [
      "chum up"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To be friendly, especially to ingratiate.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Having met Mr. Hodson many years at various shows, and “ chummed up,” as naturally we should have, he invited me to go and see him at his home in Somersetshire.",
      "He said he met a stranger in a saloon last night, and that they chummed up together, and started in to make a night of it.",
      "“ which would you rather do: be in with a lot of greasy mechanics and laboring-men, or chum up to a real fellow like Lord Wycombe, and get invited to his house for parties?”",
      "‘Were you in your basha just before you went on guard duty?’ ‘Yes, sir.’ ‘With other chaps. Men you’d chummed up with?’ ‘Yes, sir.’",
      "I chummed up with a few of my new work colleagues."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "1685-1",
    "Idiom": [
      "chump change"
    ],
    "Meaning": "A sum of money considered insignificant.",
    "Sentence": [
      "He spent $300,000 for his new car, but that's chump change for a billionaire like him."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "1685-2",
    "Idiom": [
      "chump change"
    ],
    "Meaning": "An insultingly small amount of money.",
    "Sentence": [
      "It was hard to get two dollars out of either of them, and whatever chump change they gave Mere'maw they expected her to squeeze it until it hollered.",
      "\"First of all, there's no we. You're talking me, solo, busting my hump slinging shards. I got profile now. Don't you get that? DEA's up my ass. No, I'm not exposing myself to that level of risk for chump change. No way.\"",
      "If you sell one of those cars, your commission will be chump change.",
      "I don't work for chump change. I quit!"
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "1686",
    "Idiom": [
      "chump-change"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Something of little monetary value.",
    "Sentence": [
      "For a chump-change price of $2,000, any library could gain both the tools to create its own 24/7 digital reference service and access to a Global Reference Network of colleagues.",
      "These key principles apply nicely to nearly any negotiation, whether it is an international high-finance deal or a chump-change haggle.",
      "We don't have much money, but we can at least pay some of these chump-change bills."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "1687-1",
    "Idiom": [
      "circle back"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To return to a previous topic or issue.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Well, a Palm Springs property known as Elvis Presley's honeymoon retreat has circled back on the market at $3.2 million – the same price as early this year.",
      "My goal is to hit \"Amazing\" by 7 a.m., which allows me to circle back to the puzzle all day, pick, pick, picking until I hit \"Genius.\"",
      "We eat dinner at 6 every day. I'm not proud of this, but I circle back to my work after dinner to get done what I need to do.",
      "I have to circle back to the office to pick up a few things."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "1687-2",
    "Idiom": [
      "circle back"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To revisit a previous topic.",
    "Sentence": [
      "It seems the phone numbers may be inoperative and some people may be in hiding, so I think we're going to be circling back with the government to check those numbers.",
      "I will circle back to the meteorology of this event in a moment.",
      "\"We will circle back on that\" was all Victor Escalon of the Texas Department of Public Safety had to say at a press conference Thursday when asked what, exactly, police were doing between 11:30 a.m. and 1:00 p.m. while an armed man was inside an elementary school classroom killing children.",
      "We're out of time right now, but we can circle back on this tomorrow."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "1688",
    "Idiom": [
      "circle the drain"
    ],
    "Meaning": "In a state of rapid decline leading to failure.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Our emergency medical services are, nonetheless, circling the drain.",
      "Presciently, the high-end Japanese bathroom-fixtures manufacturer Toto chose a time when the economy is circling the drain to launch its newest product—a $5,000 commode with a super-efficient flush.",
      "Needless to say, the guy on the phone would be watching his life circle the drain, imagining the horrific press and the life-destroying damage this false accusation would cause."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "1689",
    "Idiom": [
      "circle the wagons"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To prepare for defense against criticism.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "1690",
    "Idiom": [
      "circuit slugger"
    ],
    "Meaning": "A talented baseball batter.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Gil Hodges became the greatest circuit slugger ever to wear Dodger flannels."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "1691",
    "Idiom": [
      "circular file"
    ],
    "Meaning": "The trash container.",
    "Sentence": [
      "He was completely underqualified for the job, so I put his resume directly into the circular file."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "1692",
    "Idiom": [
      "circular firing squad"
    ],
    "Meaning": "A group in disarray due to internal disputes.",
    "Sentence": [
      "\"What we're seeing here is a kind of circular firing squad, with everybody standing in a circle pointing fingers at the person beside them,\" said Representative Robert S. Walker of Pennsylvania, the chief deputy Republican whip.",
      "He said it was not the party that had lost the last election, but the \" circular firing squad \" of MPs.",
      "Just about everyone who helped create this mess is busy pointing fingers, scapegoating the other guys, firing the lower-downs and diming out the higher-ups. Last week what was once envisioned as a new kind of company resembled little more than a circular firing squad of executives, accountants, consultants and lawyers."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "1693",
    "Idiom": [
      "civil tongue"
    ],
    "Meaning": "A polite manner of speaking.",
    "Sentence": [
      "\"There would not have been the least offence had the youth only possessed a civil tongue.\"",
      "\"Mister Duane,\" began Bosomer, in low, stinging tones, \"I happen to be Luke Stevens's side-pardner.... An' I want the hoss an' them guns,\" he shouted. \"You or anybody else can have them, for all I care. I just fetched them in. But the pack is mine,\" replied Duane. \"And say, I befriended your pard. If you can't use a civil tongue you'd better cinch it.\"",
      "They sang \"good morrow\" in reply, making sure they addressed him with a civil tongue; they, after all, wanted a tip for their good service."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "1694",
    "Idiom": [
      "claim to fame"
    ],
    "Meaning": "One's reason for being well-known or famous.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Ryde Pier's claim to fame is being the world's oldest seaside pleasure pier, with construction starting in 1813.",
      "Her only claim to fame is being married to a socialite.",
      "It seems to me that \"grass seed capital of the world\" is a fairly shaky claim to fame."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "1695",
    "Idiom": [
      "clamp down on"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To take measures to stop or control something more harshly.",
    "Sentence": [
      "American referee Mike Geiger's failure to clamp down on early misdemeanours led to him losing control of a game that Colombia seemed determined to turn into a battle.",
      "A few chilling examples of what GPT-4 can do — or, more accurately, what it did do, before OpenAI clamped down on it — can be found in a document released by OpenAI this week.",
      "The government aims to clamp down on underage drinking."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "1696",
    "Idiom": [
      "clap eyes on"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To see.",
    "Sentence": [
      "And four years after Pep from Catalonia first clapped eyes on Phil from Stockport across a crowded rondo, here finally was the consummation."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "1697",
    "Idiom": [
      "claret would be port if it could"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Everybody would change their circumstances if possible.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "1698",
    "Idiom": [
      "clash of the ash"
    ],
    "Meaning": "A sport called hurling.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "1699",
    "Idiom": [
      "class clown"
    ],
    "Meaning": "A student who often makes jokes.",
    "Sentence": [
      "He was always the class clown, constantly telling jokes and attracting everyone's attention in school.",
      "She was such a class clown, her jokes usually irritates our teacher in the class."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "1700",
    "Idiom": [
      "claw me, claw thee"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Mutual assistance or reciprocal help.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "1701",
    "Idiom": [
      "clean break"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Complete termination of a relationship or situation.",
    "Sentence": [
      "How bitter it is to be slowly separated from great friends! Far better make a clean break and remain in solitude—the natural climate for man.",
      "He decided to make a clean break with his employer.",
      "I'm ready for a clean break with my ex-girlfriend."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "1702",
    "Idiom": [
      "clean hands"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Freedom from guilt, especially regarding dishonesty or bribery.",
    "Sentence": [
      "He that hath clean hands shall be stronger and stronger."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "1703-1",
    "Idiom": [
      "clean money"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Money that is legally earned.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "1703-2",
    "Idiom": [
      "clean money"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Legitimate money or assets obtained from illegal sources.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "1704",
    "Idiom": [
      "clean someone's clock"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To defeat someone decisively.",
    "Sentence": [
      "\"When big business goes head to head with unions, the unions clean their clock,\" said one Republican aide in Congress.",
      "Barack Obama cleaned her clock in the debates.",
      "The heavily-tattooed Perez never recovered, getting nailed with flush head shots before a clean-up left hook cleaned his clock."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "1705-1",
    "Idiom": [
      "clean up"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To improve one's appearance for a special occasion.",
    "Sentence": [
      "He sure cleans up nice."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "1705-2",
    "Idiom": [
      "clean up"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To improve or purify.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Gays in Providence have suggested that the raid on the Club Baths was a political action. There is some belief that the newly re-elected Cianci administration wants to prove that it is \"out to clean up the city.\" During the election campaign, the Cianci administration was attacked by opponents as being \"soft on crime.\"",
      "clean up one's act"
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "1705-3",
    "Idiom": [
      "clean up"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To make a large profit or win significantly.",
    "Sentence": [
      "And for Rodgers, who cleaned up with Celtic in Scotland, this was another significant addition to his CV, as his expert guidance of Leicester - who are in a strong position to finish in the Premier League's top four and face Chelsea again at Stamford Bridge on Tuesday - now has a tangible reward in the shape of the FA Cup.",
      "Man, he sure cleaned up last night at the blackjack table.",
      "The investors cleaned up when the stock hit the roof last year."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "1706",
    "Idiom": [
      "clean up one's act"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To reform or improve habits.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Someday I'm going to clean up my act and start researching more carefully."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "1707",
    "Idiom": [
      "clean-timbered"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Well-proportioned and symmetrical.",
    "Sentence": [
      "I thinke Hector was not so cleane timber'd."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "1708",
    "Idiom": [
      "cleanliness is next to godliness"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Emphasizes the importance of cleanliness and purity.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "1709",
    "Idiom": [
      "clear blue water"
    ],
    "Meaning": "An obvious divide between two parties' policies.",
    "Sentence": [
      "It was the Conservatives' policy, designed in part to put some clear blue water between themselves and Labour and to refresh Conservative Party ideas.",
      "But, Boyle's admission does put clear blue water between CC and the autonomist politics of another notorious commons enthusiast, Peter Linebaugh, who is also included in this chapter.",
      "the Conservatives can still create clear blue water between them and Labour by showing how they prioritise the family over the State.",
      "I was of the view that there ought to be clear blue water between us and the Tories on this issue.",
      "Sitting on the bottom of both league tables - with clear blue water between it and the next worst operator - is Avanti West Coast."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "1710",
    "Idiom": [
      "clear cut"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Straightforward or obvious.",
    "Sentence": [
      "It looks like a simple enough problem, but the answer might not be as clear cut as you suppose."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "1711",
    "Idiom": [
      "clear off"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To pay off debts.",
    "Sentence": [
      "I hope you clear off your bill before you leave."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "1712",
    "Idiom": [
      "clear one's lines"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To remove the ball from a risky area.",
    "Sentence": [
      "The Canaries went ahead when the home defence failed to clear their lines and Pilkington was on hand to slide in his eighth goal of the campaign."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "1713",
    "Idiom": [
      "clear the air"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To resolve a tense situation.",
    "Sentence": [
      "After much bitter in-fighting over the issue of the BF and other issues, I felt it was time to clear the air rather than deal in back-biting.",
      "This relationship began when you went to the Father and cleared the air by asking Him to forgive your past mistakes and sins.",
      "Good table manners? Yep. He cleared the air by expressing his nervousness about using chopsticks."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "1714",
    "Idiom": [
      "clear the table"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To remove items from a table after a meal.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "1715",
    "Idiom": [
      "click into gear"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To start performing effectively.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "1716-1",
    "Idiom": [
      "climb down"
    ],
    "Meaning": "An abandonment or softening of a previously stated opinion or argument.",
    "Sentence": [
      "It is interesting to speculate on what combination of factors acted within the Bush administration to bring about the climb-down from its previous position.",
      "His climb-down from the \"hard, secular\" image was mainly to widen his support base.",
      "Hours before his climb down, the premier's own cabinet ministers had vigorously defended the curriculum."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "1716-2",
    "Idiom": [
      "climb down"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To soften or withdraw a previously expressed opinion or argument.",
    "Sentence": [
      "But Ekeus said Iraq had climbed down in its confrontation with the UN.",
      "No, but it may be a way for Clinton to climb down from a policy he seems increasingly to view as a no-win proposition.",
      "If they are interested in climbing down from their oppositionism, Democrats ought to consult the Progressive Policy Institute, which has been critical of Bush, but which is developing a balanced, positive approach to the energy crisis."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "1717",
    "Idiom": [
      "climb the walls"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To behave in a distressed or frantic manner.",
    "Sentence": [
      "There are purists who climb the walls when German Conductor-Organist-Harpsichordist Karl Richter performs Bach.... To them, imagination—and Richter has plenty—is the ultimate transgression.",
      "Or maybe we could locate a place to camp and fish that would be close to your mother. The area wouldn't be as nice, but we could still be outdoors and meet other needs as well. And the boys wouldn't be climbing the walls."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "1718",
    "Idiom": [
      "clip it"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To move swiftly.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Some falcon stoops at what her eye designed, / And, with her eagerness the quarry missed, / Straight flies at check, and clips it down the wind.",
      "That we better glide out of this before three in the morning, and clip it down the river with what we've got.",
      "The little boy ran after him as fast as he could clip it,"
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "1719",
    "Idiom": [
      "clip someone's wings"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To restrict someone's freedom.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "1720",
    "Idiom": [
      "clock in"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To be measured at.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Night falls and on come the Grateful Dead, who begin with St Stephen, a pretty song, largely instrumental, that clocks in at two minutes",
      "Big Joe clocks in at 384 pounds, far outweighing his opponent."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "1721",
    "Idiom": [
      "clock is ticking"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Time is running out.",
    "Sentence": [
      "I have the feeling that even while the clock is ticking we are moving on to terrible things.",
      "The clock is ticking for Mikhail Gorbachev too. Of all the failures of political and economic theory in this century, the Soviet failure is the most spectacular.",
      "\"We know the clock is ticking, and the longer it takes us to find the person who has been kidnapped, the less likely the case is to have a successful outcome.\"",
      "The clock is ticking. And with every tick, the Trudeau government’s goal of bringing 25,000 refugees from the Middle East to Canada by the end of the year grows more improbable."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "1722",
    "Idiom": [
      "clock the tea"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To discover the truth about something.",
    "Sentence": [
      "On Tuesday (Dec. 8), Cardi revealed her tips and tricks and praised that no one checked her for them. “It’s the fact that I used to put 2 thick a– tights under my jeans in Highschool to make my a– look fatter and nobody ever clock the tea,” she tweeted."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "1723",
    "Idiom": [
      "clog up"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To completely block.",
    "Sentence": [
      "The fat that I drained off the meat clogged up the drain."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "1724",
    "Idiom": [
      "clogs to clogs in three generations",
      "shirtsleeves to shirtsleeves in three generations"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Wealth rarely lasts beyond three generations.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "1725-1",
    "Idiom": [
      "close enough for government work",
      "good enough for government work"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Adequate or acceptable despite imperfections.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "1726-2",
    "Idiom": [
      "close enough for government work"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Acceptable.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "1727-1",
    "Idiom": [
      "close in on"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To enclose or tighten.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Sometimes it feels like the walls are closing in on me."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "1727-2",
    "Idiom": [
      "close in on"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To near the end of a pursuit.",
    "Sentence": [
      "The police closed in on the suspect."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "1727-3",
    "Idiom": [
      "close in on"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To approach a goal or completion.",
    "Sentence": [
      "I think we are closing in on the end of this project."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "1728",
    "Idiom": [
      "close on the heels of"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Near in time or place.",
    "Sentence": [
      "So back they ran to the Abbey, dodged the Baronet, armed themselves, and got the old pointer Mark'em (named after his profession and the keeper at a blow) close to their heels, and, by skirting outhouses and slinking under walls, escaped to the security that favors the commencement of adventures of this sort, and made for the coverts of the park."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "1729",
    "Idiom": [
      "close one eye"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Deliberately ignore or overlook something.",
    "Sentence": [
      "\"It's also a distinctly Singaporean trait to carry on with whatever you can get away with,\" he added. \"As long as the authorities close one eye.\""
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "1730-1",
    "Idiom": [
      "close one's eyes",
      "lie back and think of england",
      "shut one's eyes and think of england"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To ignore something.",
    "Sentence": [
      "He tried to back away, but she was on him like a vixen on heat, pushing him back onto the bed, rubbing her body against him, opening her legs, reaching for him, her mouth coming down hard on his and her tongue lancing into his mouth. He struggled for a moment, then thought, ‘Well, I’d better lie back and think of England.’",
      "Once she got going on the subject of that poor mutt's performance—or, more properly, lack of it—there was no stopping her. I hardly knew where to put my face, let alone various other portions of my anatomy. It was what you might call an illustrated lecture, see? Everything but the magic lantern slides. In the end I just shut my eyes and thought of England."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "1731-2",
    "Idiom": [
      "close one's eyes"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To sleep.",
    "Sentence": [
      "I wanna close my eyes, why don't you drive for a bit?"
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "1732",
    "Idiom": [
      "close one's eyes and think of England"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To endure sexual activity as a marital duty.",
    "Sentence": [
      "I am happy now that Charles calls on my bedchamber less frequently than of old. As it is, I now endure but two calls a week and when I hear his steps outside my door I lie down on my bed, close my eyes, open my legs and think of England.",
      "...when the test comes, when the United Kingdom gets into trouble again, and when the King calls upon his loyal subjects all over the world, the Canadian knows at a still deeper level of his being that he will undoubtably do as he has always done before. He will close his eyes and think of England.",
      "Meltenham and her mother had prepared her for marriage in an entirely Victorian spirit. The day before she left home, Lady Plunkwell had delivered her final advice: \"I know, my dear, it's disgusting. But do as I did with Edward: just close your eyes and think of England !\" Like her mother and her mother's mother before her, Ursula closed her eyes. She thought of the future of England.",
      "One finds as many mentions in Edwardian literature to the chastity, the holy purity of upper class women, indeed to their active abhorrence of sex, as one does in the nineteenth century. There was the passage I quoted from Lady Hillingham at the head of this chapter—\"... close my eyes, open my legs and think of England \". The source for this quotation is a little suspect. The sentiment expressed is without question typical and accurate."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "1733",
    "Idiom": [
      "close one's mind"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Refuses to understand.",
    "Sentence": [
      "He closed his mind to the facts."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "1734",
    "Idiom": [
      "close only counts in horseshoes and hand grenades",
      "almost only counts in horseshoes and hand grenades",
      "close only counts in horseshoes and darts",
      "close only counts in horseshoes"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Coming close to achieving a goal is not enough.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Maybe you're the runner-up but the first one to lose the race Almost only really counts in horseshoes and hand grenades."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "1735",
    "Idiom": [
      "close season"
    ],
    "Meaning": "A period when an activity is prohibited.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "1736-1",
    "Idiom": [
      "close the book on"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To stop worrying about or trying to do something.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Roth's continued productivity ensures that we can't yet close the book on his career.",
      "What greater pleasure for a child than to be able to close the book on all his terrors and go to sleep.",
      "I guess it would take a genius to figure that out and perhaps that is why Pilot Insurance Company and General Accident were so content to close the book on this subject."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "1736-2",
    "Idiom": [
      "close the book on"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To finish or conclude.",
    "Sentence": [
      "We do not presume that our reconstruction will close the book on the evolutionary origins of great ape cognition.",
      "Michael X's execution seemed to close the book on the revolution that rock stars and radicals alike had been awaiting for the previous decade.",
      "The gathering, an unprecedented convocation of rulers, influential diplomats and their entourages, was meant to be a grand ending and a grand beginning—the movers and shakers were looking to close the book on the strife and upheavals of the Napoleonic Wars and begin a new chapter of world peace."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "1737",
    "Idiom": [
      "close the books"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To finalize financial records.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "1738",
    "Idiom": [
      "close the face"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To turn the bat inward to hit the ball to the leg side.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "1739",
    "Idiom": [
      "close the stable door after the horse has bolted"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To attempt to prevent a problem that has already occurred.",
    "Sentence": [
      "We are now in an election period, with WhatsApp and closed Facebook groups being used, as we speak, in electoral campaigning, but the law has not changed since the DCMS Committee, on which I serve, raised these issues. We have yet another instance of shutting the door after the horse has bolted."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "1740-1",
    "Idiom": [
      "close to home"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Affecting one's family or close relations.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "1740-2",
    "Idiom": [
      "close to home"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Affecting one personally.",
    "Sentence": [
      "when you laugh about people who feel so very lonely / I wish I could laugh / but that joke isn't funny anymore / it's too close to home / and it's too near the bone",
      "Watching another icon's anguished passing was evidently far too close to home for him to comfortably endure.",
      "Smiling, Pichai said he never watched the popular show [Silicon Valley]. “Too close to home,” he remarked. “You watch TV to relax.”",
      "Friends warned me against watching Baby Reindeer, the hit Netflix series about the comedian Richard Gadd and “Martha”, the character based on his alleged real-life stalker. It was too close to home, they said.",
      "to hit close to home"
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "1741",
    "Idiom": [
      "close, but no cigar"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Indicates near correctness or success, but not quite.",
    "Sentence": [
      "The long distance trophy [for alumni who had traveled the furthest to attend the reunion], an appropriately inscribed silver cigarette case, was awarded to Em Gooch who had made the trip from Lincoln, Neb. for the occasion. Several other members came close, but no cigar, and we trust that all those in New York and Philadelphia who failed to show up, without reason, will read these lines with a quiver.",
      "Betty ran all out in the sprint race; yet, it was close, but no cigar."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "1742",
    "Idiom": [
      "closed book"
    ],
    "Meaning": "A person or thing that is incomprehensible or puzzling.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Her courteous, sedate, inexorable husband, whose will she could not bend, whom she could not cajole, whose mind was a closed book to her — a book which had lain by her hand for three years, which she had never had the curiosity to open!",
      "Like the activities of British Railways Research Department, developing, testing and modifying diesel locomotives before their acceptance for service is another behind-the-scenes activity which is a closed book to most passengers and to many railwaymen."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "1743",
    "Idiom": [
      "clothes don't make the man"
    ],
    "Meaning": "You cannot judge a person solely by appearances.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "1744",
    "Idiom": [
      "clothes maketh the man"
    ],
    "Meaning": "A person's appearance matters.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "1745-1",
    "Idiom": [
      "cloud nine"
    ],
    "Meaning": "A state of bliss or happiness.",
    "Sentence": [
      "In your zeal you may not feel you are undertaking a thing for your own sake but think you are doing so for God. Nevertheless, you should remember that at the time of great excitement as though you were on cloud nine, you may perhaps be most fleshly!",
      "Following a highly successful tour of Italy in July/August 1993, with recital and orchestral appearances and an especially inspiring last performance, I returned to New York on cloud nine and full of euphoria.",
      "Most of us do not think of excitement as a problem. After all, doesn't everybody like to be on cloud number nine ? I agree: if we could stay on cloud number nine, life might be very pleasant. But, as all of us know, the cloud eventually evaporates. Then we not only come abruptly back to earth; we usually burrow right into its depths and hide – that is, we go into a depression.",
      "A. A. scanned the crowd and spotted Lili's happy face. Lili had been on cloud nine ever since she and Max had gotten back together.",
      "On the first day at the university I was on cloud nine that I had begun my intellectual life. I was happy to join the cream of creams.",
      "Falling from cloud nine / Crashing from the high / I'm letting go tonight / Yeah, I'm falling from cloud nine",
      "He was on cloud nine for days after she agreed to marry him."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "1745-2",
    "Idiom": [
      "cloud nine"
    ],
    "Meaning": "A state of extreme happiness.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Now, the system approach, needless to say, wants to help out in that particular problem, but it lives up on cloud nine for the most part. This is one of the reasons that it has not made more headway than it has in the civilian agencies of government.",
      "Mr. Walsh – It sounds like the purpose of the geographic base coding system is to fulfill a planning function of the agency. If that is not the case, then I am concerned as that is one way to get up on \" cloud nine \"—that is, to not associate with end products.",
      "Members are living on cloud nine if they think that playing the stock-numbers game is doing anything for the farmers or the country.",
      "By coming to grips with these problems, we can demonstrate that libertarianism is not just a beautiful ideal somewhere on Cloud Nine, but a tough-minded body of truths that enables us to take our stand and to cope with the whole host of issues of our day."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "1746",
    "Idiom": [
      "clout list"
    ],
    "Meaning": "A secret list of people granted special access or influence due to relationships with authority.",
    "Sentence": [
      "By the way, joining Ronan in the move from \"10 worst\" to the clout list is his on-and-off nemesis, House Speaker Michael Madigan (D-Chicago).",
      "Gov. Blagojevich's office kept a clout list of hundreds of state employees recommended by lobbyists, lawmakers and major fund-raisers.",
      "The University of Illinois announced Monday that it will temporarily suspend the use of a clout list in the admissions process—a practice school officials first downplayed after it was described in a Tribune investigation."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "1747",
    "Idiom": [
      "clue stick"
    ],
    "Meaning": "A metaphorical tool for conveying understanding to someone who struggles to learn.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Leadbetter needs to be thwacked with a legal clue stick. The law he's talking about applies only to Internet service providers, not reporters.",
      "I think the author needs a good whack with the clue stick."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "1748-1",
    "Idiom": [
      "clutch artist"
    ],
    "Meaning": "A skilled driver, especially of manual transmission vehicles.",
    "Sentence": [
      "On the highway or merely playing around a good dirt track, the engine exhibits loads of good low rmp torque and flexibility from scratch, but sink those tires in sand and you've got to be a real clutch artist.",
      "If you can drive a manual transmission, you have to be a clutch artist to handle brake, accelerator and clutch on an uphill start.",
      "Donnie’s used to finessing race cars, he was the clutch artist on Larry Miersch’s Huntington Beach, California-based A/Fuel dragster for five years."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "1748-2",
    "Idiom": [
      "clutch artist"
    ],
    "Meaning": "A player who excels in critical moments.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Roddy Osborne had set up the score with a 32-yard pass to \" clutch artist \" Don Watson.",
      "Shaq has perhaps the next great point guard in the NBA in Cleveland Cavaliers clutch artist Kyrie Irving.",
      "The Chicago Blackhawks... will have a slew of decisions to make and contracts to sign.... Team captain Jonathan Toews and designated clutch artist Patrick Kane need extensions.",
      "Joe Johnson is still a fourth-quarter clutch artist."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "1749",
    "Idiom": [
      "coals to Newcastle"
    ],
    "Meaning": "A pointless venture.",
    "Sentence": [
      "No more coals to Newcastle, no more Hoares to Paris."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "1750",
    "Idiom": [
      "cobbler, keep to your last"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Do not criticize matters outside your expertise.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "1751-1",
    "Idiom": [
      "cock a snook"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To perform a disrespectful gesture.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "1751-2",
    "Idiom": [
      "cock a snook"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To show disrespect.",
    "Sentence": [
      "to cock a snook at authority"
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "1752",
    "Idiom": [
      "cock cheese"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Dried bodily fluid on the penis, typically under the foreskin.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Holding his stiff prick by the base with pre-cum oozing out of it, I swabbed the drool off the rosy bullet-shaped head, tasting the cock cheese."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "1753",
    "Idiom": [
      "cock in the henhouse"
    ],
    "Meaning": "A man in a situation with access to many women, often with seductive intent.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Elizabeth's divorce would cut her loose to go her merry, cheating way; which left him free as a cock in the henhouse to seek female companionship",
      "But his strutting like a cock in the henhouse had done him no good with the privy council, nor with his brother the Lord Protector, nor even with his nephew the young king."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "1754",
    "Idiom": [
      "cock of the roost"
    ],
    "Meaning": "A proud or conceited person.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "1755",
    "Idiom": [
      "cock of the walk"
    ],
    "Meaning": "A proud or conceited person.",
    "Sentence": [
      "With his smart witty talk",
      "\"That fellow was not born yesterday. He is the cock of the walk here,\" said Peter; \"I shouldn't wonder if it is our old friend himself.\" Three more birds came in, and as each took up his roosting place, the old bird repeated his challenge by snapping his beak at them."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "1756",
    "Idiom": [
      "cock off"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To leave or go away.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Oh cock off then."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "1757",
    "Idiom": [
      "cock one's toes"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To die.",
    "Sentence": [
      "I'll be well pickled by the time I'm ready to cock my toes !",
      "Captain Giles: Fianna Fáil would like to see you cock your toes but I hope they will not be able."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "1758",
    "Idiom": [
      "cock-and-bull story"
    ],
    "Meaning": "A highly dubious or fanciful story.",
    "Sentence": [
      "The grinning landlord, as well as the boarders, seemed amazingly tickled at the sudden friendship which had sprung up between me and Queequeg—especially as Peter Coffin’s cock and bull stories about him had previously so much alarmed me concerning the very person whom I now companied with.",
      "Finding us easy in our ways, he told me a cock-and-bull story with the moral of another five francs for the narrator. The thing was palpably absurd; but I paid up, and at once dropped all friendliness of manner, and kept him in his place as an inferior with freezing British dignity. He saw in a moment that he had gone too far, and killed a willing horse; his face fell; I am sure he would have refunded if he could only have thought of a decent pretext.",
      "\"Challenger was the man who came with some cock-and-bull story from South America.\" \"What story?\" \"Oh, it was rank nonsense about some queer animals he had discovered.\""
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "1759",
    "Idiom": [
      "coffee money"
    ],
    "Meaning": "A small bribe or gratuity.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Singapore is free of corruption as any place on earth. (Even small-scale bribery attempts lead to immediate arrest.) Ironically, this has surfaced as a disadvantage for Singaporeans conducting business in other countries - where contacts aren’t always considered binding, bureaucratic inefficiency can make a mockery of time tables, infrastructures can be unreliable, “quality” may be seen as a relative term and “tea money” (known as “ coffee money ” during Singapore’s British colonial days) is a prerequisite to getting anything done.",
      "Obviously he was trying to wear out your patience in the hope that you will hand over some undercounter coffee money to him instead of paying for the official tax/fine which does not benefit him at all.",
      "If you have ever paid or are thinking of paying ‘ Coffee Money ’ when stopped for traffic or other offences, don’t ever do this again."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "1760",
    "Idiom": [
      "coffee talk"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Informal conversation among friends.",
    "Sentence": [
      "\"We didn't expect this,\" Kantamala said later of the exchange, \"so I took this opportunity to say what I think.\" Said Press Secretary Mary Hoyt later, \"Mrs. Carter would appreciate that kind of forthrightness. It takes it out of purely coffee talk and makes it something meaningful.\"",
      "Ms. Couric demonstrated a self-deprecating humor and a penchant for the giggle-filled coffee talk so familiar to the early-morning shows.",
      "Ali and Jaser met occasionally for coffee to chat.... “Every so often he’d talk about radicalism and that,” said Ali. “I just thought it was coffee talk.”"
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "1761",
    "Idiom": [
      "coil up"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To become coiled.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "1762-1",
    "Idiom": [
      "coke dick"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Erectile dysfunction from cocaine use.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Half the time we went to bed, he'd get coke dick and we'd just sit around talking.",
      "“He's got coke dick,” says Tia Lee flatly.",
      "Another perk of fucking a nice guy is that he was never too drunk or too fucked up on drugs, so he never got whiskey or coke dick."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "1762-2",
    "Idiom": [
      "coke dick"
    ],
    "Meaning": "A penis affected by cocaine-induced erectile dysfunction.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Anyways, how does Stephan fuck all his groupies with a coke dick ?",
      "I really wanted to get fucked but I could see that wasn't going to happen, not with a coke dick, but he really loved giving oral, I discovered.",
      "You'd look down and see your horribly shriveled coke dick and think, “Maybe coke's not so great.”"
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "1763",
    "Idiom": [
      "cold chills"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Feelings of fear.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "1764",
    "Idiom": [
      "cold comfort"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Insufficient reassurance or comfort.",
    "Sentence": [
      "The table was smoking and hissing; and Romeo Clawbonny, who acted as the everyday house-servant, or footman, had several times intimated that it might be well to commence operations, as a cold breakfast was very cold comfort.",
      "At least I should not die alone. Human eyes would watch me end. It was cold comfort I presume, but yet I derived some slight peace of mind from the contemplation of it.",
      "But statistics are cold comfort when the latest explosion has leveled a nearby building."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "1765",
    "Idiom": [
      "cold day in Hell"
    ],
    "Meaning": "An event that will never happen.",
    "Sentence": [
      "It'll be a cold day in hell when that happens."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "1766",
    "Idiom": [
      "cold fish"
    ],
    "Meaning": "A heartless individual lacking empathy.",
    "Sentence": [
      "He wouldn't have thought her such a cold fish. Pity. Still, there was plenty of time. Perhaps when she got used to his company she would thaw a little.",
      "You're a cold fish. You have no heart."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "1767",
    "Idiom": [
      "cold hand"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Refers to a player who fails to succeed in making shots.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Anthony’s performance was all the more glaring as he frequently found himself isolated on the wing or elbow, trying to break down Oklahoma City’s defense but finding himself caught in a forest of burly Thunder big men or clanging shots off the rim. / At times, the Knicks’ offense looked short-circuited. Anthony, despite his cold hand, kept shooting."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "1768",
    "Idiom": [
      "cold hands, warm heart"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Indicates warmheartedness despite physical coldness.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "1769-1",
    "Idiom": [
      "cold hard cash"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Money seen as an incentive that overrides doubts or ethics.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "1769-2",
    "Idiom": [
      "cold hard cash"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Physical money in banknotes and coins.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "1770-1",
    "Idiom": [
      "cold shoulder"
    ],
    "Meaning": "A deliberate act of disrespect or disregard.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "1770-2",
    "Idiom": [
      "cold shoulder"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Deliberately ignoring or snubbing someone.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "1771",
    "Idiom": [
      "cold snap"
    ],
    "Meaning": "A short and sudden period of cold weather.",
    "Sentence": [
      "A recent cold snap damaged citrus crops."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "1772-1",
    "Idiom": [
      "cold treatment"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Disregard or indifference.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "1772-2",
    "Idiom": [
      "cold treatment"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Silent treatment.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "1773",
    "Idiom": [
      "cold turkey"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Quitting a habit abruptly and completely.",
    "Sentence": [
      "I knew that, if I had daily access to video games, I would spend literally every day playing them, forever. So I cut myself off, more or less cold turkey, and as a result I was more or less happy and productive.",
      "Joan Baez:: ‘I talk to trees to get answers. They give it to you cold turkey ’.",
      "It is difficult, but possible to quit smoking cold turkey."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "1774",
    "Idiom": [
      "collect dust"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To remain unused for a long time.",
    "Sentence": [
      "The trophies on his wall reminding him of his heyday are now just collecting dust."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "1775",
    "Idiom": [
      "collect one's thoughts"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To become mentally composed or organized.",
    "Sentence": [
      "I got up feverish and nervous. I walked out before breakfast, striving to collect my thoughts and tranquilize my feelings.",
      "I took a moment to collect my thoughts, and likewise to frame in French the sentence by which I proposed to open business.",
      "She fell sprawling upon a green meadow and was so dazed and bewildered by her bumpy journey across the Merry-Go-Round Mountains that she lay quite still for a time to collect her thoughts.",
      "\"I'm a believer, umm,\" Mr. Bloomberg said before standing silently at the lectern for seven seconds as he collected his thoughts."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "1776",
    "Idiom": [
      "come a cropper"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To suffer a failure or misfortune.",
    "Sentence": [
      "I should feel certain that I should come a cropper, but still I'd try it. As you say, a fellow should try.",
      "You couldn't help feeling he'd be caught out one day, and then what an almighty cropper he'd come !",
      "We are accustomed to seeing Morphy conquer brilliantly against great odds; but this time he comes a cropper.",
      "You tried to convey too much and you conveyed nothing. You came a cropper, major.",
      "We had been taught Latin, French and German grammar; but English grammar was something we felt we were expected to infer from our reading – which is doubtless why I came a cropper over “its” and “it’s”.",
      "Although they were meant to reach the Moon no matter what, cryptocurrencies are also coming a cropper.",
      "She came a cropper on the stairs and broke her leg."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "1777",
    "Idiom": [
      "come a long way"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To make significant progress.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Computer-generated graphics have come a long way in the past few decades."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "1778-1",
    "Idiom": [
      "come across"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To change sides.",
    "Sentence": [
      "You argued well in court but your firm doesn't pay its lawyers well, so why don't you come across to ours?"
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "1778-2",
    "Idiom": [
      "come across"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To seem or appear in a certain way.",
    "Sentence": [
      "“Because of the British empire, I mean. On which the sun never sets. There’s no offence intended. That’s what I want to be sure of. That the line doesn’t come across as an insult to your country’s glorious past.”",
      "How did she come across when you met with her?",
      "How did she come across to you?",
      "She came across as sharp and well-grounded.",
      "A business suit and adequate elocution help her to come across as the competent professional she is."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "1778-3",
    "Idiom": [
      "come across"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To find, usually by accident.",
    "Sentence": [
      "In the meadow he came across a rare flower."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "1778-4",
    "Idiom": [
      "come across"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To acquiesce or give in.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "1778-5",
    "Idiom": [
      "come across"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To have sex.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "1778-6",
    "Idiom": [
      "come across"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To confess to something.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "1779-1",
    "Idiom": [
      "come again"
    ],
    "Meaning": "A request for repetition due to lack of understanding or surprise.",
    "Sentence": [
      "\"Who says he did?\" / \"Aubry.\" / \"Yeah? A guy in for murder? Come again. \" / \"Glad to. Beebe says so too.\"",
      "Vincent: A \"please\" would be nice. / The Wolf: Come again? / Vincent: I said a \"please\" would be nice. / The Wolf: Get it straight, Buster. I'm not here to say \"please\". I'm here to tell you what to do."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "1779-2",
    "Idiom": [
      "come again"
    ],
    "Meaning": "A polite invitation to return.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "1780",
    "Idiom": [
      "come alive"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To become responsive and animated.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Southgate 's faith was rewarded when Kane got off the mark with England's crucial second in the 2-0 win over Germany. It was the catalyst for the real Kane to come alive in the tournament - and he punished Ukraine in trademark style."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "1781-1",
    "Idiom": [
      "come along"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To arise or appear.",
    "Sentence": [
      "When the telephone first came along, it was mostly just for businesses and rich people, but eventually almost everyone got one."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "1781-2",
    "Idiom": [
      "come along"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To progress or make progress.",
    "Sentence": [
      "The renovation is coming along nicely, and should be ready within a month."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "1782",
    "Idiom": [
      "come around"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To change one's mind or accept something previously resisted.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Give her time, and she may come around and see things your way."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "1783",
    "Idiom": [
      "come back from the dead"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Experiencing a resurgence after a decline.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "1784",
    "Idiom": [
      "come clean"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To confess or admit the truth.",
    "Sentence": [
      "\"You better come clean, Swan, and tell the whole thing. What was it? Don't talk in circles.\"",
      "Perhaps it is only fair to come clean at the start and confess that I found J.R.R. Tolkien's Unfinished Tales a disappointment.",
      "When the sub got stuck, the brass kept the fact under wraps for 32 hours before Russia came clean and asked for foreign help."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "1785",
    "Idiom": [
      "come down"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To return to a normal state after an elevated experience.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Navarre is in superb control of his prose, distorting it more and more as the poppers mint Luc's mind, clarifying it as he comes down.",
      "In the middle of the night, it feels alright / But then tomorrow morning / Ooh, ooh, then you come down",
      "In 1967, a Shulgin compound called DOM enjoyed a brief vogue in Haight-Ashbury under the name STP, at doses several times larger than those at which Shulgin had found significant psychoactive effects, and emergency rooms saw a spike in the number of people coming in thinking they would never come down.",
      "Britpop had revitalised rock, and an unprecedented explosion in dance music – sparked off by a second consecutive sunny and idyllic Glastonbury – transformed how Britain thought, listened, partied and came down afterwards.",
      "He finally came down from his post-bonus high."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "1786",
    "Idiom": [
      "come down in stair rods"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To rain heavily.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "1787",
    "Idiom": [
      "come down to"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To ultimately depend on a single factor.",
    "Sentence": [
      "The decision comes down to whether you really want to pay that much for a little extra convenience.",
      "The game is going to come down to the last five seconds."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "1788",
    "Idiom": [
      "come down to earth"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To be brought back to reality.",
    "Sentence": [
      "So many good things have been happening for me, and I've just been such a happy man. I've wanted to write earlier but couldn't come down to earth long enough."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "1789",
    "Idiom": [
      "come down to us"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To survive to the present day.",
    "Sentence": [
      "It is somewhat remarkable that none of bishop Ridley’s sermons have come down to us.",
      "There is some confusion about this work since the original has disappeared, and scholars have assumed that what has come down to us is not by Mozart.",
      "As you’ll have noticed, a large number of pre-Renaissance writings on language have come down to us without any indication of their author’s name, or with a false one attached."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "1790-1",
    "Idiom": [
      "come first"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To win first place.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Sally came first in the calligraphy competition."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "1790-2",
    "Idiom": [
      "come first"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To be the most important.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Ooh, baby, do you know what that's worth? / Ooh, heaven is a place on Earth / They say in heaven, love comes first / We'll make heaven a place on Earth / Ooh, heaven is a place on Earth",
      "Don't forget: safety comes first."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "1791",
    "Idiom": [
      "come forward"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To offer help or information.",
    "Sentence": [
      "I’m coming forward to publicly share my own story in the hope that I can encourage others to do the same and help tear down the wall of silence that perpetuates further abuse."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "1792",
    "Idiom": [
      "come from a Cracker Jack box"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To refer to something that is useless, cheap, or fake.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "1793",
    "Idiom": [
      "come from a good place"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Motivated by decency, kindness, or good intentions.",
    "Sentence": [
      "“In the 1990s, there was actually tremendous pressure to put women on hormone therapy, and it came from a good place,” Dr. Bates says.",
      "Ironically, this hesitation to condemn comes from a good place – the part of the British psyche that rightly prides itself on respecting other cultures.",
      "That gushing, glowing, 2,500-word goodbye e-mail does come from a good place. That doesn't make it a good idea.",
      "My anxiety was my body's way of trying to protect me, to look after me. So the impulse was coming from a good place."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "1794-1",
    "Idiom": [
      "come full circle"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To make a complete change.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "1794-2",
    "Idiom": [
      "come full circle"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Completing a cycle and returning to the starting point after gaining experience.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "1795",
    "Idiom": [
      "come hell or high water"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Regardless of hardships.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Her crew knew that deep in her heart beat engines fit and able to push her blunt old nose ahead at a sweet fourteen knots, come Hell or high water.",
      "The pioneers were determined to build a community in the wilderness come hell or high water."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "1796",
    "Idiom": [
      "come home by weeping cross"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To return in disappointment or regret.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Those that will try experiments, smart for it in the issue. Solomon came home by weeping-cross : Eccles. i. 14, 'I have seen all the works that are done under the sun, and behold, all is vanity and vexation of spirit.'",
      "This was a fine Rhodomontade, but it fail'd in the Execution: For, making an irruption into Provence, he came home by Weeping-Cross.",
      "He came home by weeping cross, and I believe he would not for his kingdom have repeated the sin: after which he had scarce a good day.",
      "But the time will come when, coming home by weeping cross, thou shalt confess that it is better to be at home in the cave of an hermit than abroad in the court of an emperor, and that a crust with quietness shall be better than quails with unrest."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "1797",
    "Idiom": [
      "come home to roost"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To have negative consequences of past actions.",
    "Sentence": [
      "At some point, he warned, sentiment among foreign investors could turn against America's deteriorating fundamentals, triggering a sharp sell-off in U.S. stocks and bonds that would threaten to throw the economy's expansion into reverse. \"Will those risks ever come home to roost ? One can't predict with great confidence,\" said Summers."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "1798-1",
    "Idiom": [
      "come in from the cold"
    ],
    "Meaning": "A spy returning home after being undercover.",
    "Sentence": [
      "I mean … one can't be out in the cold all the time; one has to come in from the cold … do you see what I mean?"
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "1798-2",
    "Idiom": [
      "come in from the cold"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To gain acceptance in a group or society.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Long an outsider in Western politics, Portugal came in from the cold after the 1974 Carnation Revolution."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "1799",
    "Idiom": [
      "come in handy"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To prove useful or helpful.",
    "Sentence": [
      "This is where what I learned in High School really came in handy.",
      "A charismatic personality is not necessary in most managerial situations, but can come in handy in times of turmoil when workers need to be inspired and reassured about the need for significant changes in their values, goals, and group norms.",
      "As I mentioned earlier, this is where an understanding of child development comes in handy !",
      "Even though he doesn't really know how to use them, he keeps the tools around, figuring they might come in handy someday."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "1800",
    "Idiom": [
      "come in hot"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To enter a situation quickly and aggressively.",
    "Sentence": [
      "The chopper came in hot, with guns blazing."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "1801",
    "Idiom": [
      "come into being"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To start to exist.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Sociologists would like to study how this phenomenon came into being."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "1802",
    "Idiom": [
      "come into one's own"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To achieve strength, confidence, or social acceptance.",
    "Sentence": [
      "And not only did he learn by experience, but instincts long dead became alive again. The domesticated generations fell from him.... The old tricks... came to him without effort or discovery, as though they had been his always.... The ancient song surged through him and he came into his own again.",
      "Sally just swept along smiling at every one.... Sally looked just as if she had come into her own and was made for it; I never did see her look so pretty.",
      "The eyes of the wood-cutter flash like actual possession. He seems now to have come into his own. With all his senses, he is dominant, sure.",
      "Everywhere the people would come into their own, and war and tyranny would vanish like a hateful nightmare! Speaker after speaker got up to proclaim this glorious future.",
      "Aerial photography was coming into its own, and flying shutterbugs pushed the envelope, striving to outsnap each other.",
      "The subsequent decade played host to numerous stories of Asian nations coming into their own with robustly growing economies.",
      "\"We have some areas on the Mallaig line where you have no road access at all,\" Phil explains. \"This is where the road-rail vehicles come into their own.\""
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "1803-1",
    "Idiom": [
      "come into the world"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To be born.",
    "Sentence": [
      "It was early spring when my little baby boy came into the world."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "1803-2",
    "Idiom": [
      "come into the world"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To start to exist.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Without adequate sources, we cannot know how this book came into the world."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "1804",
    "Idiom": [
      "come knocking"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To arrive uninvited.",
    "Sentence": [
      "So I put up bar and shutter When the wind goes howling by. For I know when it comes knocking That some evil thing is nigh.",
      "So, putting all these thoughts together, what do we do when temptation comes knocking ?",
      "Dennis Menace Dennis is always in trouble — and it's not always his fault. If trouble comes knocking, it comes knocking for Dennis."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "1805-1",
    "Idiom": [
      "come of age"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To reach legal adulthood.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "1805-2",
    "Idiom": [
      "come of age"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To mature or develop fully.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Eager to find a better life, you joined the Alliance military when you came of age. You volunteered for an expedition to Akuze: a lush world on the outskirts of Alliance space that had suddenly dropped out of contact."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "1806-1",
    "Idiom": [
      "come on"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To show interest.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Wait a minute. Are you like coming on to me? Is this a pass? Because, I mean, if it is, sex is like totally out of the question.",
      "And so you went with Neve / Oh yeah, and Neve was coming on",
      "She started coming on to me as soon as my wife left the room."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "1806-2",
    "Idiom": [
      "come on"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To start menstruating.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Overall, menstrual modernity in the form of a more efficient throwaway technology was seized on and celebrated, as was the opportunity to send your man off to the shop to get it if you came on suddenly."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "1807",
    "Idiom": [
      "come on over"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To visit someone's location.",
    "Sentence": [
      "“I’m so glad it isn’t worse.” “Yes, ain’t, abody still has something to be thankful for? Then you’ll come on over, Amanda?” “Yes, I’ll be over.”"
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "1808-1",
    "Idiom": [
      "come on strong"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To approach with intensity.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Most grass racing places a premium on the ability of better horses to save ground on the turns, cut the corner into the home stretch and come on strong at the end.",
      "People who don't come on strong aren't listened to. If you compromise, you won't get what you want. People won't take you seriously, or think you are a real man (or woman) unless you are tough.",
      "A century later, riches from the New World began to improve the city's outlook and by the 19th century Santander had come on strong as an innovator in the Spanish banking industry, a role it still holds in the 21st century.",
      "So you can challenge initial dominance and come on strong to take over by the end of a debate, meeting, or conference."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "1808-2",
    "Idiom": [
      "come on strong"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To be very eager, especially in a romantic context.",
    "Sentence": [
      "You don't have to come on strong at first. Don't say things like, “I could totally see us married a year from now.” But let that person know you're ready for a relationship. See where she is. Talk.",
      "I don't have to come on strong, or remind him that I am a good catch."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "1809-1",
    "Idiom": [
      "come online"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To become active.",
    "Sentence": [
      "It will be some time before the new factory comes online, and until then we can't fulfill demand."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "1809-2",
    "Idiom": [
      "come online"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To log in to an online communication platform.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Come online later; I want to talk to you."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "1810",
    "Idiom": [
      "come out"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To reveal one's sexual orientation.",
    "Sentence": [
      "I had not come out yet and he was out but wasn't; quite ungay, I would say, and yet gay.",
      "Like many gay Chinese growing up at the turn of the millennium, Duan Shuai began his long, deliberate process of coming out online. After school, he would visit the newly opened internet cafe in his hometown, Xinzhou, a small city in Shanxi Province bounded by a veil of mountains. He would pick a desktop facing away from the wall so that nobody could look over his shoulder. Then he’d go to QQ, the new instant-messaging service and online forum, and type in the Chinese word for “homosexual” — tongzhi, or comrade.",
      "In March 2017, a 90-year-old second world war veteran called Patricia Davies came out as a transgender woman and began taking hormones, shortly after discussing her lifelong gender dysphoria with her doctor.",
      "He came out to his parents as gay last week."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "1811-1",
    "Idiom": [
      "come out in the wash"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Problems or difficulties will resolve naturally over time.",
    "Sentence": [
      "It may look like a huge mess now, but I expect that it will all come out in the wash as time goes on."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "1811-2",
    "Idiom": [
      "come out in the wash"
    ],
    "Meaning": "The truth will be revealed in the future.",
    "Sentence": [
      "You can do everything you can to hide this, but everything comes out in the wash."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "1812",
    "Idiom": [
      "come out of one's shell"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To become more socially active.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "1813",
    "Idiom": [
      "come out of the broom closet"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To publicly reveal one’s neopagan beliefs.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Second, despite constitutional guarantees of religions freedom and practice, and despite the rhetoric of tolerance with which religion in American society is cloaked, \" coming out of the broom closet \" and declaring oneself Wiccan or Witch remains a very risky act for many people, precisely because of the different cultures in which they reside.",
      "In 1986, a federal appeals court ruled that Wicca is a legal religion. That means that the practice of Wicca is protected by the U.S. Constitution. Ever since the ruling, more and more Wiccans have \" come out of the broom closet.\"",
      "I cannot claim that I ever came out of the broom closet, because I didn't even know that I had the option of hiding in said closet when I began to self-identify as a Pagan at the age of seventeen."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "1814-1",
    "Idiom": [
      "come out of the closet"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To disclose one's sexual orientation or gender identity.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Now, we're coming out / Out of our closets / Out on the streets / Yeah, we're coming out",
      "He came out of the closet as gay to his friends."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "1814-2",
    "Idiom": [
      "come out of the closet"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To self-disclose about one's identity or preference.",
    "Sentence": [
      "She finally came out of the closet to her religious family regarding her atheism."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "1815",
    "Idiom": [
      "come out of the woodwork"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To appear unexpectedly, often in large numbers.",
    "Sentence": [
      "90-day wonders were kicked around by harassed Regulars who were just too busy to take time to spare the feelings of those strange creatures who came out of the woodwork and wanted the privileges of officers, without being fully prepared to do the work of officers.",
      "Would-be informants came crawling out of the woodwork, drawn to McCarthy as moths to light, each peddling a new version of Lattimore's evil deeds.",
      "And suddenly they came out of the woodwork. I don't actually know what that expression means. What come out of the woodwork? Cockroaches maybe. Mice?",
      "With the fall of the fascist regime, Italy was virtually overrun by several political parties who came out of the woodwork to fill in the vacuum.",
      "He won the lottery last year and he has had old \"friends\" and distant relatives coming out of the woodwork ever since."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "1816-1",
    "Idiom": [
      "come out swinging"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To initiate interaction aggressively or confrontationally.",
    "Sentence": [
      "New York baseball commissioner Bowie Kuhn, rolling up his sleeves and coming out swinging for the first time Monday, bluntly told Pete Rozelle to quit \"kidding the people\" about football being the nation's no. 1 sport.",
      "So ingrained is the instinct for massive retaliation that Downing St. came out swinging before mastering the facts."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "1816-2",
    "Idiom": [
      "come out swinging"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To show strength or determination in challenging situations.",
    "Sentence": [
      "There's ferment is Philadelphia where the ad agency with the oldest name in the business after a very bad year is picking itself up and coming out swinging.",
      "She'd endured cruelty and grief and still came out swinging."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "1817",
    "Idiom": [
      "come right"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To have a successful or satisfying conclusion.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "1818-1",
    "Idiom": [
      "come the acid"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To exaggerate.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "1818-2",
    "Idiom": [
      "come the acid"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To be unpleasant, especially through sarcasm.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Proper scrapper, old Ma. Nobody never come the acid with her.",
      "'I know,' I said, 'but don't come the acid with me, friend.'"
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "1819",
    "Idiom": [
      "come the old soldier"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To deceive or take advantage of someone using one's age or experience.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Were it not that I think he has scarce the impudence to propose such a thing to succeed, curse me but I should think he was coming the old soldier over me, and keeping up his game.",
      "But you needn't try to come the old soldier over me. D—n it, I'm not such a fool as that.",
      "Don’t come the old soldier with me, sunshine! Do you think I was born yesterday?"
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "1820",
    "Idiom": [
      "come thick and fast"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To arrive rapidly in large groups.",
    "Sentence": [
      "England had never before come back to win from a margin of more than 12 points, and the errors continued to come thick and fast as Tom Croft became the latest to cough up the ball."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "1821-1",
    "Idiom": [
      "come through"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To endure.",
    "Sentence": [
      "He came through the surgery unharmed."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "1821-2",
    "Idiom": [
      "come through"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To succeed or overcome struggles.",
    "Sentence": [
      "It was felt Liverpool's potent attack would provide their most severe test - and to come through against Jurgen Klopp's unbeaten side with a point will do wonders for belief and self-confidence.",
      "The team came through in the end and won the pennant."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "1822-1",
    "Idiom": [
      "come to"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To recover consciousness.",
    "Sentence": [
      "She came to with the aid of smelling salts."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "1822-2",
    "Idiom": [
      "come to"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To stop a sailing vessel by turning into the wind.",
    "Sentence": [
      "The flood had made, the wind was nearly calm, and being bound down the river, the only thing for it was to come to and wait for the turn of the tide."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "1823-1",
    "Idiom": [
      "come to Jesus"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To experience a significant personal transformation or a moment of realization.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "1823-2",
    "Idiom": [
      "come to Jesus"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To become committed to a cause.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "1823-3",
    "Idiom": [
      "come to Jesus"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To have a sudden important realization.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "1824",
    "Idiom": [
      "come to a close"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To end.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Big hair went out of style as the 1980s came to a close."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "1825-1",
    "Idiom": [
      "come to a head"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To reach a turning point or climax.",
    "Sentence": [
      "In retrospect, it was small wonder that Railtrack found its finances under pressure, as with ever increasing demand there was an inevitable effect on infrastructure renewals. Matters came to a head with the Hatfield accident on October 17 2000, when there was a high-speed derailment as a result of deferred track maintenance.",
      "The escalating crisis between England and her American colonies came to a head when fighting broke out in 1775."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "1825-2",
    "Idiom": [
      "come to a head"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To suddenly reveal itself after being hidden.",
    "Sentence": [
      "His festering anger came to a head after the incident."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "1825-3",
    "Idiom": [
      "come to a head"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To reach a critical point.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "1826",
    "Idiom": [
      "come to a sticky end"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To die unpleasantly due to one's actions.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Newbery in England and Isaiah Thomas in the U.S.A. insisted that their books for children were of a high moral tone. Children had to be good in order to escape from hell, and most bad children came to a very sticky end."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "1827",
    "Idiom": [
      "come to an end"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To stop or cease.",
    "Sentence": [
      "The protests in Brazil are unfolding just as its long and heralded economic boom may be coming to an end."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "1828",
    "Idiom": [
      "come to blows"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To fight; to initiate physical conflict.",
    "Sentence": [
      "I'll follow you, Floating Tom, into the Mingo camp, on such an arr'nd, and will strive to do my duty, should we come to blows; though, never having been tried in battle, I don't like to promise more than I may be able to perform.",
      "There is a variety of drunkenness.... Some stagger about in each other's arms, whispering maudlin words—others start quarrels upon the slightest pretext, and come to blows and have to be pulled apart.",
      "The argument grew heated and teammates grabbed the pair to prevent them from coming to blows.",
      "Iraqi security forces and peshmerga almost came to blows in the disputed area of Khanaqin, in Diyala province, after Iraqi troops tried to enter the mixed town."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "1829",
    "Idiom": [
      "come to grief"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To suffer a disastrous outcome.",
    "Sentence": [
      "These elves and half-elves and wizards, they would come to grief perhaps.",
      "Immediately beyond Churn Lane the climb begins at 1 in 78, steepening to 1 in 66. Speed soon falls and a number of heavy hop-pickers' specials have come to grief here."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "1830",
    "Idiom": [
      "come to grips with"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To confront or deal with directly.",
    "Sentence": [
      "On Thursday, Robert A. Iger, Disney’s chief executive, put the sale of the company’s “noncore” channels, including ABC and FX, on the table. He called the decline in traditional television “a reality we have to come to grips with.”",
      "Until she comes to grips with her mother's death, she has no hope of putting it behind her."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "1831-1",
    "Idiom": [
      "come to life"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To become alive or to be brought into existence.",
    "Sentence": [
      "We want to know exactly how the first cells came to life on earth.",
      "I don't think of Hobbes as a doll that miraculously comes to life when Calvin's around. Neither do I think of Hobbes as the product of Calvin's imagination... Hobbes is more about the subjective nature of reality than about dolls coming to life."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "1831-2",
    "Idiom": [
      "come to life"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To appear alive.",
    "Sentence": [
      "The CGI-generated characters came to life through an incredible display of a cutting-edge 3D technology."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "1831-3",
    "Idiom": [
      "come to life"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To start to beEnergetic.",
    "Sentence": [
      "It was only after Yakubu sliced another chance into the side netting, a bad miss by the former Everton striker, that Norwich came to life."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "1832",
    "Idiom": [
      "come to light"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To be revealed.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "1833",
    "Idiom": [
      "come to mention it"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Used to change the subject or introduce a related statement.",
    "Sentence": [
      "\"What do you think of the banking reforms?\" / \" Come to mention it, I've got to get to the bank before it closes today.",
      "\"Did you see that hat he was wearing?\" / \" Come to mention it, he always wears funny clothes.\""
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "1834",
    "Idiom": [
      "come to mind"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To appear in one's thoughts.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Sarcastic comments came to mind, but I said nothing."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "1835",
    "Idiom": [
      "come to nothing"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To fail completely.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Another scheme for electrifying the Swansea & Mumbles also dates from 1898, and was connected with the proposal for the Gower Light Railway from Black Pill to Port Eynon, which came to nothing.",
      "Yet another road/railer trial that came to nothing.",
      "The Bank of England's anti-inflation efforts will come to nothing if the US Federal Reserve refuse to join in the plan."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "1836",
    "Idiom": [
      "come to nought"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To fail completely.",
    "Sentence": [
      "As he pointed out, however, there was \"still more to come\". By 1977-78, \"the use of the first Advanced Passenger Trains will reduce journey times between London and Glasgow to four hours\". It was a grand statement of optimism that would sadly come to nought.",
      "The Bank of England's anti-inflation efforts will come to nought if the U.S. Federal Reserve refuse to join in the plan."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "1837-1",
    "Idiom": [
      "come to one's senses"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To regain awareness or clarity of thought.",
    "Sentence": [
      "He dropped from his seat at my side, like a man struck dead. The stifling heat in the theater had proved too much for him. We carried him out at once into the fresh air. When he came to his senses, my friend entreated me to leave him, and see the end of the play.",
      "He turned toward the door, plunged forward, fell unconscious.... When he came to his senses he was in his bed—comfortable, weak, lazy.",
      "The accident sent Bahutule into coma straight away. When he came to his senses, he lay in bed with a fractured right femur bone and a crushed left elbow."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "1837-2",
    "Idiom": [
      "come to one's senses"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To become reasonable or responsible after being confused or irresponsible.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Dick had not been altogether in his right senses.... He found his mother weeping as though her heart would break; whereat his own heart smote him so that he came to his senses there and then, and knelt in humility and shame at her feet.",
      "\"I shall never divorce you,\" he said, as if a nail had been driven in.... She went upstairs and told Hilda the upshot. \"Better get away tomorrow,\" said Hilda, \"and let him come to his senses.\"",
      "\"She is mad with sorrow, but maybe after a few days she will come to her senses,\" says one man."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "1838",
    "Idiom": [
      "come to oneself"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To gain consciousness or self-control.",
    "Sentence": [
      "When I came to myself I was lying, not in the outer blackness of the Mohune vault, not on a floor of sand; but in a bed of sweet clean linen, and in a little whitewashed room, through the window of which the spring sunlight streamed.",
      "The patient invariably falls down in a swoon and is carried like dead to his hammock, where he is tightly lashed with cords. As they come to themselves, they writhe in agony, so that their hammocks rock violently to and fro."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "1839",
    "Idiom": [
      "come to papa"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Encourages someone or something to approach.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Cut loose, let your hair down, honey / Unwind, turn the lights down low / Relax, let's uncork the stopper / Come to papa, come on, let's go"
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "1840",
    "Idiom": [
      "come to power"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To be installed in high office.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "1841",
    "Idiom": [
      "come to someone's aid"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To assist someone.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "1842",
    "Idiom": [
      "come to someone's rescue"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To rescue someone from harm.",
    "Sentence": [
      "With the hosts not able to find their passes - everything that went forward was too heavy or too short - Terry once again had to come to his side's rescue after Davies had brilliantly nodded into the path of Elmander, who followed up swiftly with a deflected shot."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "1843",
    "Idiom": [
      "come to terms"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To reach an agreement or resolve a conflict.",
    "Sentence": [
      "We hope someday she and her mother will come to terms on the matter."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "1844-1",
    "Idiom": [
      "come to terms with"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To resolve a conflict.",
    "Sentence": [
      "She finally came to terms with her addictions at her third rehab clinic and rarely drank again."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "1844-2",
    "Idiom": [
      "come to terms with"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To accept something emotionally painful.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Until he comes to terms with the likelihood of failure, he will not succeed."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "1845",
    "Idiom": [
      "come to think of it"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Indicates something brought to mind.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Come to think of it, it's curious that nobody was there."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "1846",
    "Idiom": [
      "come to time"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To maintain an appointment or meet expectations.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "1847",
    "Idiom": [
      "come unhinged"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To lose control or sanity.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Dad came unhinged when he saw the report card with such bad grades."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "1848",
    "Idiom": [
      "come unstuck"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To get into trouble or have an accident.",
    "Sentence": [
      "“Well, if you must know,” he said, “she's broken the engagement.” This didn't get us any farther. We had assumed as much. You don't go calling people rats if love still lingers. “But it's only an hour or so,” I said, “since I left her outside a hostelry called the ‘Fox and Goose’, and she had just been giving you a rave notice. What came unstuck ? What did you do to the girl?”",
      "It is true that when political philosophers have tried to intervene directly in political life, they have usually come unstuck."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "1849",
    "Idiom": [
      "come up"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To emerge or become known unexpectedly.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Unless anything comes up, I'll be there every day this week."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "1850-1",
    "Idiom": [
      "come up and bite"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To be extremely obvious to someone.",
    "Sentence": [
      "These new recruits are terrible soldiers. They wouldn't know what to do with an enemy if one came up and bit them."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "1850-2",
    "Idiom": [
      "come up and bite"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To expose itself clearly to someone.",
    "Sentence": [
      "You really think you can convince the committee? Come on! You wouldn't know charisma if it came up and bit you."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "1851",
    "Idiom": [
      "come up roses"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To develop in a favorable manner.",
    "Sentence": [
      "All of a sudden, or so it seemed, the world had turned around and they were coming up roses. Now, instead of the bottle being half empty it was suddenly half full, and getting closer and closer to the top.",
      "\"Buck up, mister. Why, with your background, your knowledge, you'll come up roses.\"",
      "Everything came up roses for Warren Beatty. The all-important New York Times review by Brooks Atkinson called him \"earnest and attractive\"."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "1852",
    "Idiom": [
      "come up with"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To produce or present something by inventing or obtaining it.",
    "Sentence": [
      "And now we're waiting for the very same people to establish GBR, drive through urgently needed fares reform, and come up with imaginative and effective train operating contracts...",
      "Eric Andre : Were you born black or did you come up with a stage name and get a ton of surgery? Blac Chyna : I came up with it.",
      "How can you come up with such brilliant ideas?",
      "Unless Geoff can come up with the money for that train ticket, he'll be stuck in Des Moines for the weekend."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "1853",
    "Idiom": [
      "come up with snake eyes"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To fail to produce results.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "1854",
    "Idiom": [
      "come up with the goods"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To produce what was expected or required.",
    "Sentence": [
      "This was the acid test - at least before Sunday's final with formidable Italy - and they came up with the goods not only in the context of Euro 2020 but also in demonstrating their character and big match mentality."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "1855",
    "Idiom": [
      "come what may"
    ],
    "Meaning": "In spite of anything that might happen.",
    "Sentence": [
      "If you vant a more polished sort o' feller, vell and good, have him; but vages or no vages, notice or no notice, board or no board, lodgin' or no lodgin', Sam Veller, as you took from the old inn in the Borough, sticks by you, come what may.",
      "We are here of a set purpose and we will go forward with it, come what may.",
      "Still, now the prime minister remains \"on message,\" reiterating that the election will be held in January, come what may.",
      "May it be, come what may, that I rest all my days in the goodness of Jesus."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "1856",
    "Idiom": [
      "come with the territory"
    ],
    "Meaning": "A common aspect of a situation or occupation.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Johnny Carson's three-year tenure as top man of \" Tonight \" leaves him less edgy than any of that grind's predecessors and he has a fine relaxed philosophy about the side irritants of the nation's favorite chatterthon: \"Loss of privacy comes with the territory.\"",
      "When one decides to raise sheep, he accepts the fact that coyotes come with the territory.",
      "Many checkers have been upbraided by lordly writers and editors and big shots of all stripes. Such abuse came with the territory.",
      "Impatience... is chronic in the mass media. Indeed, it comes with the territory."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "1857-1",
    "Idiom": [
      "come-to-Jesus"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Relating to Christian conversion or public confession.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "1857-2",
    "Idiom": [
      "come-to-Jesus"
    ],
    "Meaning": "A significant moment of realization or confrontation.",
    "Sentence": [
      "With the coaches still in the room, the veteran leaders on offense, one by one, took turns addressing the rest of the unit. / \"It was a come-to-Jesus meeting,\" guard Daryn Colledge said Wednesday."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "1857-3",
    "Idiom": [
      "come-to-Jesus"
    ],
    "Meaning": "A blunt discussion of an unpleasant truth.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Joe Biden’s growing frustration with the Israeli prime minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, continued to mount, with the Democratic US president captured on a hot mic saying that he and the Israeli leader will need to have a “ come to Jesus meeting”.",
      "To bring someone in for a come-to-Jesus talk."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "1858",
    "Idiom": [
      "comedy gold"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Something very funny.",
    "Sentence": [
      "... where the streets were paved with comedy gold as far I was concerned.",
      "Those little irritating habits of your parents can be comedy gold.",
      "Lastly, the audience will surprise you and laugh in places you never even thought were funny and teach you where the true comedy gold lies in your performance.",
      "This was comedy gold for me. How could I not get better after doing that for a while?",
      "You have just turned chaos into comedy gold with a flick of your laughter wand."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "1859",
    "Idiom": [
      "comedy of errors"
    ],
    "Meaning": "A series of amusing mistakes.",
    "Sentence": [
      "\"It's the poor Le Bretons who have brought us two thus together. And yet, they were both once our dearest rivals. You were in love with Edie Le Breton: I was half in love with Ernest Le Breton: and now—why, now, Arthur, I do believe we're both utterly in love with one another. What a curious little comedy of errors !\"",
      "Those who had remained so long began to view the game as what it really was, a comedy of errors, and got lots of fun out of it.",
      "Reference to Flamborough brings to mind an amusing comedy of errors, which although not strictly a matter of station-naming, at least concerns station names. The actual name was Marton for Flamborough, and, by some error, it appeared in Bradshaw, at the end of 1858, as Marton from Flamborough. After two or three months, this was evidently noticed, and instructions given to correct it, but unfortunately the correction appeared as Marton or Flamborough, which remained undetected for several months more.",
      "What follows is a painful comedy of errors. Almost from her arrival she is pursued by a bellhop who interprets her every rebuff as a coy invitation.",
      "Though Lalita and Darcy's budding romance nearly falls prey to assumptions, back-biting gossip, and various coincidences and comedies of errors, pride and prejudice are both overcome so that love may conquer all in the end.",
      "Initially, despite this comedy of errors by the Italian command structure, the battle seemed to be going badly for the Austrians.",
      "In what can only be described as a comedy of errors, an Argentinian TV news channel delivered a stunning, if slightly flawed, scoop on Thursday night when it reported that William Shakespeare, “one of the most important writers in the English language” had died five months after receiving the Covid vaccine."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "1860",
    "Idiom": [
      "comfort girl"
    ],
    "Meaning": "A female sex worker.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "1861",
    "Idiom": [
      "comfort woman"
    ],
    "Meaning": "A woman forced into brothels by Japanese occupation forces during World War II.",
    "Sentence": [
      "She carefully watches the efforts of Koreans who are suing Japan to get reparations for the comfort women. It was only in 1993 that Japan formally recognized its involvement in the forced prostitution."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "1862",
    "Idiom": [
      "comfort zone"
    ],
    "Meaning": "The range of circumstances where one feels relaxed.",
    "Sentence": [
      "The demanding interview panel took him well out of his comfort zone."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "1863",
    "Idiom": [
      "comfortable in one's own skin"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Relaxed and confident in oneself.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Says his wife Marlene: \"He presents the same face to people in Washington that he does to our sons' friends. He's just comfortable in his own skin.\"",
      "She had been completely natural from the first with him, utterly comfortable in her own skin.",
      "Perot was witty and comfortable in his own skin, which I thought would reassure his supporters and perhaps sway some of the undecided voters."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "1864",
    "Idiom": [
      "comfortably off"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Reasonably wealthy.",
    "Sentence": [
      "From the time he was twenty-three he had all the leisure that a man could want, and as much money as he needed. A bachelor don in Trinity in the 1900's was comfortably off."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "1865",
    "Idiom": [
      "coming into the world"
    ],
    "Meaning": "The act of being born.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "1866",
    "Idiom": [
      "command performance"
    ],
    "Meaning": "A task to satisfy someone in authority.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Some big client of Arthur's is coming to town, and Sally is supposed to entertain the man's wife. She says it's a command performance."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "1867",
    "Idiom": [
      "common ground"
    ],
    "Meaning": "A shared characteristic or interest.",
    "Sentence": [
      "The first thing to do is to find common ground with the person you just met."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "1868",
    "Idiom": [
      "common or garden variety"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Ordinary, standard kind.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "1869",
    "Idiom": [
      "common purse"
    ],
    "Meaning": "A shared fund.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "1870",
    "Idiom": [
      "common run"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Ordinary persons, things, or events.",
    "Sentence": [
      "I saw nothing else that is superior to the common run of parks.",
      "Burns never dreamed of looking down on others as beneath him, merely because he was conscious of his own vast superiority to the common run of men.",
      "His whole appearance was something out of the common run."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "1871",
    "Idiom": [
      "common sense is neither common nor sensical"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Many intuitive assumptions are often incorrect.",
    "Sentence": [
      "In fact, much of what we call common sense is neither common, nor sensical. We use the hindsight bias to pretend facts which come to us were apparent all along. As a result we rob ourselves of the strangeness that lies ahead.",
      "As some anthropologists are fond of saying, common sense is neither common nor sensical.",
      "They say that Common Sense is neither common nor sensical, and the things we believe about our bodies prove it."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "1872",
    "Idiom": [
      "common touch"
    ],
    "Meaning": "A quality of understanding and relating to ordinary people.",
    "Sentence": [
      "If you can talk with crowds and keep your virtue, Or walk with kings—nor lose the common touch;... Yours is the Earth and everything that's in it",
      "The crowd roared its approval and gave a standing ovation to the new President of Africa's most populous nation. That common touch has served Babangida well.",
      "The admiral is the first enlisted man to lead the Navy, and Navy aides are busy cultivating his image as a four-star officer with a common touch.",
      "From the first moments of his papacy it has been evident that Francis is a “people person,” with a gentle common touch and a gift for pastoral outreach."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "1873",
    "Idiom": [
      "common-and-garden"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Ordinary.",
    "Sentence": [
      "It's just a common-and-garden fridge, but it works fine."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "1874",
    "Idiom": [
      "company town"
    ],
    "Meaning": "A town controlled by a single large business.",
    "Sentence": [
      "The workmen lived farther along the line, in a sort of company town, which at present greatly resembled a Western mining-camp, though ultimately it was to be a bungalow town.",
      "Now here we have a company town depicted by our authority in the UMW [United Mine Workers] as one of the worst imaginable company towns, where the employer ran the schools, the local administration of justice, and even the churches.",
      "Back in the days when Poughkeepsie was a company town and the company was International Business Machines, it wasn't unusual for 18-year-olds in Poughkeepsie to go straight from high school to I.B.M.",
      "The firm's sprawling factory complexes lie only a short distance from the town center, and, as in any company town, the paychecks of Toyota employees are the main source of support for its restaurants and shops."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "1875",
    "Idiom": [
      "compare notes"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To exchange information about related experiences.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Two minutes are allowed \"Condor\" at Carlisle, and those involved had no time to compare notes on the state of the nation, the management, the unions or the racing calendar.",
      "Priscilla's only problem in the first trimester was fatigue. She said, \"It helped to compare notes with women who had many more discomforts than I did.\"",
      "They cultivate rootlessness and cynicism, shout ironic encouragement from the sidelines of football fields, compare notes on the boring ineffectuality of adults, compare notes on ventures in piss-taking, indolently lay sardonic plans for the future.",
      "It follows, of course, that when people from different countries with different moneys compare notes they find that their ideas are in conflict."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "1876",
    "Idiom": [
      "comparison is the thief of joy"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Comparing oneself to others leads to unhappiness.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "1877",
    "Idiom": [
      "concrete jungle"
    ],
    "Meaning": "An urban area with a high density of concrete buildings, lacking greenery and perceived as unattractive or unsafe.",
    "Sentence": [
      "There is nothing quite like the affection of a transplanted New Yorker for his native concrete jungle.",
      "Spain plans to restore a fifth of its coastline from overdeveloped concrete jungle to a more natural state."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "1878",
    "Idiom": [
      "confront one's demons"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To address and resolve painful past experiences.",
    "Sentence": [
      "But a personal and almost menopausal crisis brings him back to an Edinburgh he hardly recognises. As if in a Sergio Leone film, Renton has an obscure need to return, to confront the demons of his past, in particular the three guys he ripped off after a drug deal at the end of the last story."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "1879",
    "Idiom": [
      "connect the dots"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To make connections for a better understanding of a situation.",
    "Sentence": [
      "If only the Bush team connected the dots, it would see what a nutty war on terrorism it is fighting, explains Mr. Prestowitz.",
      "“I started just connecting the dots between extreme weather and climate change, and then the volume of pushback started to increase quite dramatically,” he said in an interview with the Associated Press."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "1880-1",
    "Idiom": [
      "connect up"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To join together.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "1880-2",
    "Idiom": [
      "connect up"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To join a network or supply.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "1881",
    "Idiom": [
      "conscience money"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Money voluntarily paid to atone for guilt or wrongdoing.",
    "Sentence": [
      "The Secretary of the Treasury is almost daily in receipt of installments of conscience-money, which the perturbed moral sense of a guilty office-holder or other defrauder of the government suggests the payment of in order to obtain \"a still and quiet conscience.\"",
      "\"Whatever I've done, I've always been criticized.... If I donated to a church, it was called conscience money; and if I didn't donate to it, they said I was mean and miserly.\"",
      "Other US companies, keen to be seen making the politically correct investment now, are bringing ‘ conscience money ’ to the new South Africa.",
      "He described the aid work done by religious missions as \" conscience money \" to make up for the harm they have done."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "1882",
    "Idiom": [
      "contain multitudes"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To have a complex and contradictory nature that is admirable.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Do I contradict myself? / Very well then … I contradict myself; / I am large … I contain multitudes.",
      "Mirror in My House is both a portrait of the artist ([Seán] O'Casey himself) and a portrait of an artist (a fictional John-Johnny-Sean Casside who contains multitudes), yet it is the unrelenting single vision of a particular personality with a fixed point of view.",
      "[Sergei] Diaghilev would show Europe that Russia was large and contained multitudes : multitudes of social classes and occupations, and multitudes of indigenous musical styles, not all of them \"Asiatic\" or peasant.",
      "In taking on this new role, Boyd had learned that Les Miz's \"bad guy\" contains multitudes —not unlike the stars he sings about."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "1883",
    "Idiom": [
      "cook someone's goose"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To spoil one's plans or hopes.",
    "Sentence": [
      "I like this Goose Lake country better than any I've seen east of the Cascade range, and if some mishap don't cook my goose, I hope to give you a good account of it, if not of myself.",
      "When is it reasonable to think that the Americans will be able to put in that immense army of three millions, fully equipped, each man with a hair mattress, a hot-water bottle, a gramophone, and a medicine chest, which they tell us will get to Berlin and ‘ cook the goose ’ of the Kaiser? [In a letter from F. S. Oliver to his brother.]",
      "A strange, awkward thought! Had Fleur cooked her own goose by trying to make too sure?",
      "\"Well,\" remarked Dobbie succinctly, \"that rather cooks his goose, doesn't it?\"",
      "\"I am afraid Bill is rapidly cooking his own goose by lobbying,\" Dykes recorded on 4 April. \" [Walter Bedell] Smith is getting completely fed up with [Donovan].\"",
      "Well I don't care if it's a thing or a mammal or a skunk, he can't sleep on our money. I'll cook that mammal's goose !",
      "To express his antipathy, the lawyer manipulates the judicial process, its language and technicalities, to show that if he was formerly unprepared to serve Guillaume the promised feast, he is now eager to help him cook his own goose.",
      "One false step can cook your goose for good. Before you know it, there's such a big stink that it's smeared all over the newspapers."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "1884-1",
    "Idiom": [
      "cook the books"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To manipulate accounting information illegally.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Enron Corp., once a major U.S. corporation, is now famous for cooking the books."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "1884-2",
    "Idiom": [
      "cook the books"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To falsify financial records.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Those that cooked the books and presented them with bias minds; They sugar-coated the stories; and twisted and exaggerated events",
      "Two years after he received his piece of the Nobel Prize, Mann was drawn into controversy over a series of e-mails stolen from the University of East Anglia in the United Kingdom that some climate change skeptics charged provided proof that Mann and his fellow scientists were cooking the books on climate, though for what reason, the skeptics never made clear.",
      "One does suspect that the authors of Numbers cooked the books a bit to make the more important and respected tribes (Judah, for instance) look good with higher population numbers."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "1885-1",
    "Idiom": [
      "cook up a storm"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To create a chaotic or intense situation.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Given this information, my imagination was cooking up a storm of other disrupting possibilities. I slept badly and woke up sick to my stomach.",
      "Air and water can cook up a storm if left too much to their own devices.",
      "Love and fear were now dehumanised products, trapped beneath his skin but cooking up a storm inside.",
      "It was clear that Destiny's kindness to Tep, was cooking up a storm of jealousy and anger inside Sou.",
      "Domestic disputes are common with this card, as are petty arguments, aggravations, or things spoken in anger. Rod is largely inflammatory in effect and cooks up a storm over time, like when a person finally snaps after repeated criticism.",
      "Have we the wisdom to pray for a storm and for the faith to ride it out with Christ? Perhaps we lack courage - but it's worth remembering that a calm life can be boring, dull, predictable and empty, and storms can be exciting, wild, energizing, invigorating and transforming. Jesus – cook up a storm and lead us on."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "1885-2",
    "Idiom": [
      "cook up a storm"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To make a big fuss or generate unnecessary activity.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Iranians cook up a storm in Harare: Iran's President Ali Khamenei, on the final leg of a six-nation tour in mid- January, became embroiled in what the Zimbabwe Herald termed an \"unprecedented diplomatic incident\" when he refused to attend a banquet held in his honor by Prime Minister Robert Mugabe.",
      "Well the weather is similar, the hot dang LLVs are still cooking up a storm yet we hardly get the old Hill Street Blues adage of \"Let's be careful out there\" and any form of liquid is noticable by its absence.",
      "If she was mad at me, she'd frown, stomp around a lot, cook up a storm, then talk when she'd calmed down.",
      "The British, by this time ensconced in Batavia, cooked up a storm of manufactured outrage in response and despatched a fleet to Palembang."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "1886",
    "Idiom": [
      "cookie-cutterish"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Having a similar appearance or being overly standardized, often implying boredom or lack of uniqueness.",
    "Sentence": [
      "\"We tried to make something that wasn't cookie-cutterish,\" said Maureen Moore, creative director. \"The idea is the same in each, but the situation is different. The spots are fresh and reward the viewer.\"",
      "Maybe the analyses look all too cookie-cutterish. They seem to make things all too simple.",
      "Most of us don't fit that cookie cutterish background anymore... Each one of us has a different tale to tell and none of them will be identical.",
      "“Don't you think the Applied Dynamics Web site is a bit cookie-cutterish ?” Garrick swiftly moved his hand around his tablet screen. “Yeah, most certainly. Nothing special about it, not really any company art other than the logo.”"
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "1887",
    "Idiom": [
      "cooking with gas"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Functioning particularly effectively.",
    "Sentence": [
      "She said, 'What are you doing? Tell me, I want to know.' The blind man said, 'We're drawing a cathedral. Me and him are working on it. Press hard,' he said to me. 'That's right. That's good,' he said. 'Sure. You got it, bub. I can tell. You didn't think you could. But you can, can't you? You're cooking with gas now. You know what I'm saying? We're really going to have us something here in a minute. How's the old arm?' he said. 'Put some people in there now. What's a cathedral without people?'",
      "With the updated software, I was really cooking with gas. I got the project done in half the time."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "1888-1",
    "Idiom": [
      "cool cat"
    ],
    "Meaning": "A person who appreciates jazz and has a relaxed style.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Step up and take a look at the U.S.'s latest secret weapon. A hot missile? No, a cool cat —Earl (\"Fatha\") Hines, jazz pianist nonpareil.",
      "In 1964, Dizzy Gillespie ran for the US presidency on an anti-racism, pro-bebop platform. Sholto Byrnes looks back on the very brief political career of one very cool cat."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "1888-2",
    "Idiom": [
      "cool cat"
    ],
    "Meaning": "A calm and self-assured person.",
    "Sentence": [
      "We had just opened after only 10 cliff‐hanging days in Boston... [and] were all doing our first show. The only cool cat among us was the remarkable director, George Abbott, who had been there many times before and looked pleased, proud and relaxed.",
      "\"I've talked to a lot of young people, and they're all very excited that he's such a cool cat —not black or white or anything like that—just such a cool guy.\""
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "1889",
    "Idiom": [
      "cool head"
    ],
    "Meaning": "A calm and focused demeanor.",
    "Sentence": [
      "He had been engaged in divers hostile expeditions against the aborigines, and on all occasions had he shown a cool head and a resolute mind.",
      "Joan had a cool head —the only cool head there—and she took command and brought order out of that chaos.",
      "It requires a cool head, which Mr. Murray most assuredly has, as well as the ability to remain unruffled by bizarre apparitions.",
      "A telegenic personality who connected easily with journalists, Gerberding quickly became the public face of the CDC—a rare cool head among a parade of increasingly confused health bureaucrats."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "1890",
    "Idiom": [
      "cool one's heels"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To wait, often impatiently.",
    "Sentence": [
      "I cooled my heels in the cloisters till nine, then went in to the music-meeting.",
      "Remember I say it—he'll cool his heels in a prison, if he's no wiser than of late, before a twel'month.",
      "Indeed his annoyance had time to augment a good deal; for he was allowed to cool his heels a full half hour in the ante-room before those gentlemen emerged and he was ushered into the presence.",
      "\"Though Death has been cooling his heels at my door these three weeks, I have not had time to see him.\"",
      "There is the story of the famous Hollywood glamour photographer who cooled his heels around Washington for three months while waiting for one of our leading commanders, and then was granted exactly 15 minutes for the sitting.",
      "Once in the White House, Currie became an expert at making small talk with visiting dignitaries, members of Congress, Cabinet Secretaries and other Administration officials as they cooled their heels waiting for the ever tardy Clinton."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "1891",
    "Idiom": [
      "cooler heads must prevail",
      "cool heads must prevail",
      "cooler heads will prevail",
      "cool heads prevail",
      "cooler heads prevail",
      "cool heads will prevail"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Calm and focused individuals are more likely to succeed or influence events.",
    "Sentence": [
      "The cooler heads will prevail when the top four men in the world do battle Friday in the semifinals at Wimbledon.",
      "This book assumes that cooler heads will prevail. Russian and American negotiators will find some way to accommodate the deployment of a modest interceptor force."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "1892",
    "Idiom": [
      "coon's age"
    ],
    "Meaning": "A very long time.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Jarn hasn't seen Schnie in a coon's age.",
      "We've been waiting a coon's age for our damn food."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "1893-1",
    "Idiom": [
      "cop on"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Common sense.",
    "Sentence": [
      "While she is right that some cyclists do cycle in a dangerous manner, pedestrians need to have some \" cop on \" as well.",
      "Fixtures' secretary Jimmy Henry refuted the comments. \"I wouldn't have got this job if I hadn't some cop on,\" he said.",
      "Molloy’s solicitor said that there was a element of naivety here in that his client, who is “quite brilliant” in his studies in physics, has “no cop on ” and took a “scientist’s approach” to growing cannabis.",
      "That eejit has no cop on."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "1893-2",
    "Idiom": [
      "cop on"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To stop behaving immaturely.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Drink, drink and more drink. Ulster Bank, College Green, was filled with sore heads for the entire month of the world cup. I knew it was time to start copping on when my housemate, O'Dea, who was a much harder drinker than I ever was, said to me, 'Jaysus, I was fierce worried about you during the World Cup, you were on the lash every fuckin' night, fallin' home in some state.'",
      "After a while, though, we matured and copped on.",
      "The inference was clear. You Irish were all very naughty and it's time you copped on and grew up.",
      "“ Cop on, Anne Marie,” her parents said. “Time to be normal now.”",
      "You'll get in trouble with the boss if you don't cop on."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "1894",
    "Idiom": [
      "cop one's whack"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To die.",
    "Sentence": [
      "...or the time the phone rang in the middle of the night and they knew before they answered that Auntie Jeanie had copped her whack.",
      "See if there's anybody deserves to cop their whack then it's him, surely, it's him and all the rest of they lying bastards, because they knew, they knew long before anybody else did.",
      "Pick a day, pick a week, and if the big man cops his whack, you're in."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "1895",
    "Idiom": [
      "cop oneself on"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Stop behaving immaturely.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "1896-1",
    "Idiom": [
      "cop out"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To avoid or shirk responsibility.",
    "Sentence": [
      "There was no bird fair at Druridge so I didn't have to feel guilty about copping out of it.",
      "Faced with the prospect of cooking for himself, his first thought was to cop out and order a pizza."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "1896-2",
    "Idiom": [
      "cop out"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To avoid responsibility or commitment.",
    "Sentence": [
      "His lawyer copped him out on just one felony charge."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "1896-3",
    "Idiom": [
      "cop out"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To avoid responsibility or a difficult situation.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Somebody should have copped him out last night."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "1896-4",
    "Idiom": [
      "cop out"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To abandon or betray someone.",
    "Sentence": [
      "She thought I'd copped out on her."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "1896-5",
    "Idiom": [
      "cop out"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To win someone over.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "1897",
    "Idiom": [
      "copper-bottomed"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Thoroughly reliable.",
    "Sentence": [
      "The copper-bottomed angel at Messrs. Paff’s in Broadway."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "1898-1",
    "Idiom": [
      "corner the market"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To monopolize a resource or commodity.",
    "Sentence": [
      "\"Why, there ain't going to be any wheat left in Chicago by May! If I get in now and buy a long line of cash wheat, where are all these fellows who've sold short going to get it to deliver to me?\"... Jadwin sprang forward, gripping the broker by the shoulder. \"Sam,\" he shouted, \"... we can corner the market !\""
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "1898-2",
    "Idiom": [
      "corner the market"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To have exclusive possession.",
    "Sentence": [
      "It will not do to say that the Irish have a monopoly on stupidity, yet there have been times when I thought they nearly cornered the market."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "1899",
    "Idiom": [
      "corporate ladder"
    ],
    "Meaning": "The hierarchy of employment positions within a business organization, viewed as a ladder to higher-ranking positions.",
    "Sentence": [
      "The Apartment. Producer-Director Billy Wilder tells of a sweet-natured schnook (brilliantly played by Jack Lemmon) who shoots up the corporate ladder.",
      "\"Good grooming is increasingly important as you move up the corporate ladder,\" said Camille Lavington, a New York image consultant.",
      "He's climbing the corporate ladder fast and is moving from New York City to CNN headquarters in Atlanta."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "1900",
    "Idiom": [
      "corporate welfare bum"
    ],
    "Meaning": "A business receiving significant government financial assistance.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Another $8 million went to keep alive Quebecair, a corporate welfare bum if ever there was one.",
      "Meanwhile: every telecomm company is as big a corporate welfare bum as you could ask for.",
      "Elon Musk... is also — and this you read less about — a serial, almost kleptomaniacal, corporate welfare bum whose greatest talent seems to be sucking at the U.S. government’s teat for personal gain and glory.",
      "Corporate welfare bum Bombardier is already demanding a billion more dollars in corporate bailouts from Trudeau’s Liberals."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "1901",
    "Idiom": [
      "corporation pop"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Drinking water supplied by a utility company.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "1902",
    "Idiom": [
      "cost the earth"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To be a huge expense.",
    "Sentence": [
      "\"That's a nice suit, Noelene. Is it new?\" Of course it's bloody new. Cost me the earth."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "1903",
    "Idiom": [
      "cotton to"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To like or approve of.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Her heart's as hard as taxes, and as bad; / She does not even cotton to her dad."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "1904",
    "Idiom": [
      "cotton-picking"
    ],
    "Meaning": "An intensifier for emphasis or to imply something is of little value.",
    "Sentence": [
      "\"Now hold up here just a cotton-picking minute,\"",
      "\"Oh, wait one damn cotton-picking minute,\" Andy said.",
      "I think the President's Adviser on Domestic Affairs should keep his cotton-picking hands off the economic policy for a change.",
      "Santana spat, “You've got to be out of your cotton-picking mind. Who the hell would go back to that place?”"
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "1905",
    "Idiom": [
      "couch potato"
    ],
    "Meaning": "A person who is sedentary and indulges in passive activities.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "1906-1",
    "Idiom": [
      "cough up"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To reluctantly give or pay.",
    "Sentence": [
      "\" Usually businessmen. Married, middle-aged guys who'll cough up fifty bucks to smoke my pole.\"",
      "\"Anyhow, you go and cough it up and then we shall see.\"",
      "Cough it up, Cooper.",
      "Do you think he'll be able to cough up the three grand by Tuesday?"
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "1906-2",
    "Idiom": [
      "cough up"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To lose a competition due to one's own mistakes.",
    "Sentence": [
      "That team had the game won, but they coughed it up in the end."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "1906-3",
    "Idiom": [
      "cough up"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To reveal or disclose.",
    "Sentence": [
      "England had never before come back to win from a margin of more than 12 points, and the errors continued to come thick and fast as Tom Croft became the latest to cough up the ball."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "1907",
    "Idiom": [
      "could not get elected dogcatcher"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Describes someone who is very unpopular.",
    "Sentence": [
      "An insolent Republican newspaper asserts that Mr. Cleveland is so unpopular in Washington that he could not be elected dog catcher for the district. This may be true, yet Mr. Cleveland has caught a great many dogs in his day—stealing. His success in that line would naturally make him unpopular with the claims agents and other parasites that throng the capital.",
      "It is a well known fact that the average American town will not elect well educated men to municipal offices if they can help it. A man who wears kid gloves and a plug hat couldn't be elected dog catcher in any town in Oklahoma. That is why the affirmative wish the city manager to be elected by a commission.",
      "Men like him couldn't get elected dogcatcher. He was a natural lieutenant, not a leader, and it was a fact he accepted with neither bitterness nor regret. The title page of the work states: “Since his death [in 2001] the Estate of Robert Ludlum has worked with a carefully selected author and editor to prepare and edit this work for publication.”",
      "\"She 's not a viable candidate for any office in the state of Delaware,\" said the state party chairman, Tom Ross, who is backing Castle. \"She could not be elected dog catcher.\"",
      "Trump, who has a glancing relationship with the truth and speaks English only as a second language, has hurled his insults at Corker (whom he said couldn't get elected dog-catcher in his home state) and at McCain – even as he journeyed to Capitol Hill to try to build support for tax reform."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "1908",
    "Idiom": [
      "couldn't be more different"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Two entities with nothing in common.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Japan couldn't be more different than the United States."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "1909",
    "Idiom": [
      "couldn't care less"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To have no interest or concern.",
    "Sentence": [
      "I used to be so careless / As if I couldn't care less"
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "1910",
    "Idiom": [
      "couldn't carry a note in a bucket"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Not musically talented.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "1911",
    "Idiom": [
      "couldn't happen to a nicer"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Sarcastically asserts that someone deserves their fate.",
    "Sentence": [
      "So the CEO of ScamCo is going to prison? Couldn't happen to a nicer guy."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "1912",
    "Idiom": [
      "couldn't organise a piss-up in a brewery"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Is incompetent.",
    "Sentence": [
      "“Deladrieux should have stayed an accountant,” Murphy sighed. “He's got three people working for him but they're just administrative clerks, pencil-pushers, they couldn't organise a piss-up in a brewery. That's what you get when you assign engineering jobs to non-engineers. ”",
      "'It'll be a sad day when the British leave. You lot couldn't organise a piss-up in a brewery without the Queen, God bless her'.",
      "But, a tip for everyone reading this, don't use Visa Machine, as it couldn't organise a piss-up in a brewery ! And I should know, as I have had three breweries and I can!"
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "1913",
    "Idiom": [
      "couldn't stop a pig in a passage"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To be bow-legged.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Joe laughed. ‘Aye, I know I'm a funny little feller. I couldn't stop a pig in a passage, could I lass? But I'm good at me job, else Eddie wouldn't have asked me to come and look at that there roof.’",
      "I remember seeing old ladies with incredible bowlegs caused by rickets. Unkind folks would remark ‘They couldn't stop a pig in a passage ’.",
      "And he's got funny-looking legs from all the football he plays; talk about bowed legs! Couldn't stop a pig in a passage, that one."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "1914-1",
    "Idiom": [
      "count noses"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To count people.",
    "Sentence": [
      "While I have never counted noses, it is utterly preposterous to estimate that 40 per cent of the total, or 383,658 Federal civil jobs, are held by Jews.",
      "Upon entering, this Candida does not even pause to count noses, see who's there.",
      "Statisticians say counting noses isn’t the best way to come up with the right number--at least not for a population as large and varied as that of the United States. Far more accurate, they say, is a statistical method called sampling."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "1914-2",
    "Idiom": [
      "count noses"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To determine the number of supporters.",
    "Sentence": [
      "The last time we met — only three days ago — his great project was coming up before Parliament, and he told me, in confidence, that he was sure of a favorable result, — that he had counted noses, and had the most comfortable assurances from all the great leaders of the day, — and in short, between ourselves, that grass would be growing on the London Exchange within two years.",
      "Although Israel strongly opposes beefing up military aid to Egypt, the Israelis, as one reliable source puts it, \"have counted noses in Congress and know they can't stop it.\"",
      "Because it appears the Speaker has not learned to accurately count noses in his own caucus yet.",
      "\"The highest levels of American law enforcement were trying to figure out what to do with the president,\" Pelley said. \"They were counting noses. They were not asking cabinet members whether they would vote for or against removing the president, but they were speculating this person would be with us, that person would not, and they were counting noses in that effort.\"",
      "They reached professional maturity during the years when their political party began to struggle in the face of Republican attacks on the ethos of big-government liberalism, and they prided themselves on their pragmatism, their ability to count noses and preserve disparate coalitions."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "1915",
    "Idiom": [
      "count one's blessings"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To focus on the positive aspects of life.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Of course if she begins to preach, and to tell me to count my blessings, I shall send her away.",
      "Rupert Murdoch isn't somebody to sit back and count his blessings.",
      "The other out-of-town Dons patiently listened, perhaps counting their blessings that each had a city all to himself."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "1916",
    "Idiom": [
      "count one's days"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To prepare for imminent retribution or termination.",
    "Sentence": [
      "That damn slob Bledstone had better count his days.",
      "Ahahahahaha the net closes, count your days Paddington you little cunt"
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "1917",
    "Idiom": [
      "count sheep"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To try to sleep by thinking of something boring.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "1918",
    "Idiom": [
      "count to ten",
      "count to five",
      "count to three"
    ],
    "Meaning": "A process for pausing to regain composure.",
    "Sentence": [
      "There is a temptation at this point to jump up and down, shouting about how often you have asked about that point. Instead, count to ten.",
      "Bok believes that media violence undermines... psychological mechanisms that allow people to bounce back and to count to 10 before they lash out.",
      "We need to step back, take a deep breath and count to ten."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "1919",
    "Idiom": [
      "country mile"
    ],
    "Meaning": "A long distance.",
    "Sentence": [
      "I liked to imagine that my father had been a pretty fair country ballplayer who didn't pay attention to his batting average but could hit the ball a country mile and run like the wind.",
      "But the passengers we spoke to seemed very happy with the trains - and yes, they are an improvement on the Class 170 by a country mile.",
      "by a country mile"
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "1920",
    "Idiom": [
      "courage of one's convictions"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Steadfast adherence to one's beliefs despite criticism.",
    "Sentence": [
      "\"I prefer those who have the courage of their convictions, and who stand by them publicly.\"",
      "Nance was eager to oblige, but she had the courage of her convictions and held her point.",
      "The courage of his convictions made him a conscientious objector to military service in the Second World War and underpinned half a century of conscientious humanitarian service thereafter.",
      "Chief Justice John G. Roberts Jr. accused Mr. Obama from the bench on Wednesday of not having “the courage of his convictions ” for continuing to enforce the marriage law even after concluding that it violated constitutional equal protection guarantees.",
      "A report into West Midlands performance suggests that Network Rail lacked the courage of its convictions to raise concerns about the impact of planned timetable changes, says Philip Haigh"
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "1921",
    "Idiom": [
      "court of public opinion"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Public judgment by media and society.",
    "Sentence": [
      "In the court of public opinion, the burden of proof clearly rests on the side of the Government to show that Microsoft has done anything illegal.",
      "After ending Great Britain's 79-year wait for the Davis Cup, Andy Murray revealed that he discovered a ghost town when he visited the National Tennis Centre in Roehampton a couple of months ago, and his verbal volley has pushed the Lawn Tennis Association into a vulnerable position in the court of public opinion.",
      "I had been acquitted in a court of law, but sentenced to life by the court of public opinion as, if not a killer, then at least a slut, or a nutcase, or a tabloid celebrity."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "1922",
    "Idiom": [
      "covenant of salt"
    ],
    "Meaning": "A long-lasting agreement.",
    "Sentence": [
      "... God gave the Kingdom unto David for ever, or by a Covenant of Salt."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "1923",
    "Idiom": [
      "cover one's bases"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To prepare thoroughly or completely.",
    "Sentence": [
      "She eats a balanced diet, but takes vitamin pills anyway, to cover her bases."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "1924",
    "Idiom": [
      "cover one's feet"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To lower one’s garment for privacy during toileting.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "1925-1",
    "Idiom": [
      "cover up"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To conceal or disguise.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Even when [the mechanics] didn't know how to fix everything, they never cheated anybody or covered up. So over the years they kept learning new makes and new techniques, and now can repair about anything.",
      "TransPennine Express has removed all QR codes from its 71 car parks after scammers covered up a genuine code sticker with a false one and stole £13,000 from a woman's bank account.",
      "The politician tried to cover up his involvement in the scandal."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "1925-2",
    "Idiom": [
      "cover up"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To clothe.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "1925-3",
    "Idiom": [
      "cover up"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To put covers over oneself.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Please cover up and go to sleep now."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "1926",
    "Idiom": [
      "cow juice"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Cow's milk.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Cow Juice. Milk.",
      "She called, “Alice Jean, a cow juice,” and laughed, exposing gold fillings. “We seen it ordered that way in a picture show,” she said. Alice Jean brought the milk foamy from the spigot and went away without speaking.",
      "“ Perhaps beef tea ?” / “I had that boiled cow juice before, no thanks.”",
      "Her fingers were brittle, broken at the wrinkles in her knuckles. These tiny white cracks caught cow juices and ragged slits of tobacco. Ira Sloan remembered: his mother smelled of hot pungent milk and sweet smoke.",
      "The French treat butter as if it were meat juice twice removed, and it is a form of natural sauce if thought of as condensed cow juice.",
      "“I’ll have a veggie wimpy and a cow juice,” she told the lunch Lady. “And for dessert I’d like an Eve with a lid.” She had no idea where the third-grader had learned the secret lunchroom language, but she gave Katie a veggie burger, a container of milk, and a slice of apple pie anyway.",
      "Plans for more sequels deserve to be sliced, diced, drown in a vat of mulched cow juices and buried.",
      "The baffled visitor will often encounter pasteurised milk, skimmed milk, semi-skimmed milk, fat-free milk, cream, coffee cream, sour milk, fortified milk, and usually also a lactose-free, fat-free milk -free milk so removed from everyday cow juice that European Union food regulations insisted its name be changed Milk Drink (maitojuoma).",
      "‘Cheese is fermented cow juices ?’ / ‘Milk – gross!’",
      "Chocolate milk is not the byproduct of brown cows; it is not gathered and siphoned into cartons after chocolate rainstorms; it's just normal cow juice with some cocoa mixed in.",
      "Kitty stated, “My husband, me, and my daughter; Bella, and Constance, will have three coffees, and milk.” / The waitress hollered, “Order up! I need; 3 Angels on horseback, with 3 Belly warmers, and a cow juice !”"
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "1927-1",
    "Idiom": [
      "cowboy shower"
    ],
    "Meaning": "A simple shower to remove dirt while working with livestock.",
    "Sentence": [
      "A “cowboy” shower usually means a shower set up in the horse area of a trailer. Cowboy showers may be warm or cold water."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "1927-2",
    "Idiom": [
      "cowboy shower"
    ],
    "Meaning": "A quick shower to remove dirt before entering a home.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "1928",
    "Idiom": [
      "cowboy up"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To adopt a more masculine demeanor to fit in.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "1929",
    "Idiom": [
      "cowgirl position"
    ],
    "Meaning": "A sex position where the woman is on top facing the man.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "1930",
    "Idiom": [
      "crab mentality"
    ],
    "Meaning": "A mindset where one wants to prevent others from succeeding.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "1931",
    "Idiom": [
      "crack a crust"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To make a living.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Yet for all this I do not hear one giving him a good name, though there are many cracking a crust on his account.",
      "\" Cracking a tidy crust, thank you, mate,\" Abe said sheepishly.",
      "BIANCA: Well, it's a cooshy enough way to crack a crust..."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "1932",
    "Idiom": [
      "crack a fat"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To get an erection.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "1933-1",
    "Idiom": [
      "crack a smile"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To smile, especially when trying not to.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Life is a gamble, we scramble for money I might crack a smile, but ain't a damn thing funny",
      "I, I tried / To be complacent for a while / It got hard to crack a smile"
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "1933-2",
    "Idiom": [
      "crack a smile"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To begin smiling.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "1934",
    "Idiom": [
      "crack down"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To take harsh action against something.",
    "Sentence": [
      "He wished he had tens of thousands more troops under Andez's control so he could round up every one of these demonstrators. But it was futile to continue cracking down. The stunnings, beatings and arrests had only inflamed them further.",
      "The authorities are trying to crack down on drunk driving during the holidays.",
      "At this point they're hoping that the government will crack down and will put an end to deceptive rental offerings."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "1935",
    "Idiom": [
      "crack of dawn"
    ],
    "Meaning": "The first moment of daylight.",
    "Sentence": [
      "\"This is high-speed travel, Muriel. Not fun. I'm waking up at crack of dawn.\""
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "1936",
    "Idiom": [
      "crack on"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To continue a task promptly.",
    "Sentence": [
      "What's the use of cracking-on for nothing? Would you slip it now if you got the chance?",
      "Landlady: You're not stoppin' for a brew ? Gene Hunt: No thanks, love. Better crack on.",
      "\"We strongly urge the Government to crack on with projects for electrifying lines throughout the UK or identify alternative lower-carbon motive power solutions.\"",
      "Naked Twister will have to wait. I must crack on with my essay."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "1937-1",
    "Idiom": [
      "crack through"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To penetrate.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "1937-2",
    "Idiom": [
      "crack through"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To overcome.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "1938-1",
    "Idiom": [
      "crack up"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To laugh heartily.",
    "Sentence": [
      "The joy of “Ticket to Paradise” comes not from its predictable plotting or razor-thin screenplay; it’s from watching them together, from observing how the sparks still fly, and (when the former flames get drunk and let their guards down, or during the end-credit outtakes) watching them crack each other up.",
      "It was hilarious. We were cracking up the whole time.",
      "The joke about the nuns in the bath cracked me up.",
      "He's always cracking up at me about that."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "1938-2",
    "Idiom": [
      "crack up"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To laugh heartily.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "1938-3",
    "Idiom": [
      "crack up"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To cause laughter.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "1938-4",
    "Idiom": [
      "crack up"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To break down or fall apart; to lose control emotionally.",
    "Sentence": [
      "All rather inhuman and undernourished, isn’t it? Well, that, children, is the true sign of cracking up.",
      "From all directions they came to the rescue, one predominant fear gripping their hearts: Fire! Someone had cracked-up. It was for this they sped. The flames that so frequently burst from a crashed airplane became an instantaneous cauldron; many a pilot has lived through the crash to die in the fire that followed.",
      "When I reported this to Burwell by telephone, he called me a Chinese ace — in those days Chinese aces were pilots who cracked up their own airplanes",
      "She got through the war, but cracked up when her sister died.",
      "The university was really cracking up, losing faculty, students and donors, and it seemed like to go under.",
      "My motorcycle cracked up before I arrived.",
      "I have to crack up that little clique.",
      "We can send you a hundred pounds a month of pecans to crack up.",
      "The refinery cracks up the heavier oils."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "1938-5",
    "Idiom": [
      "crack up"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To suffer a mental breakdown.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "1938-6",
    "Idiom": [
      "crack up"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To break down or fall apart.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "1938-7",
    "Idiom": [
      "crack up"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To separate a group.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "1939",
    "Idiom": [
      "cradle robber"
    ],
    "Meaning": "A person involved romantically with someone much younger.",
    "Sentence": [
      "\"And no mother,\" he shouted, \"can call ME a ‘fortune-hunter’ and a ‘ cradle-robber ’ and think I'll make good by marrying her daughter!\"",
      "I was a 50-year-old woman; he was a 25-year-old man.... I was out of my pajamas and into a short skirt before you could say “ cradle robber ”."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "1940",
    "Idiom": [
      "cradle snatcher"
    ],
    "Meaning": "A person who dates significantly younger individuals.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "1941",
    "Idiom": [
      "cradle-to-grave"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Spanning an entire lifetime.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Unsustainable human activities are creating an open loop “ cradle-to-grave ” system that cannot continue and has one day to reach a conclusion. Closing the loop for renewable resources is the role of changing the “ cradle-to-grave ” concept to a “cradle-to-cradle” concept as discussed in chapter 1.",
      "Politics should be a cradle-to-grave calling: anything else is mere distraction.",
      "The ' cradle-to-grave' approach that the company takes to rolling stock, which typically has an asset lifecycle of up to 35 years, has made the sector attractive to investors - ."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "1942",
    "Idiom": [
      "cramp someone's style"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Restricts someone's free action or expression.",
    "Sentence": [
      "What are you doing? I'm trying to get a date, you're cramping my style !",
      "I don't want my Mum to go to the party: she'd really cramp my style."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "1943",
    "Idiom": [
      "crank one's hog"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To masturbate.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "1944",
    "Idiom": [
      "crank out"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To produce in large volumes.",
    "Sentence": [
      "The teenager spent hours cranking out volumes of bad poetry."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "1945",
    "Idiom": [
      "crank the handle"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To perform a process.",
    "Sentence": [
      "There are various ways you can do this, including creating capacity by building a strong team, or by setting the sales stream up in such a way that anyone can crank the handle and keep the products going out and the customer demand coming in.",
      "“What do you mean?” said Ozbek. “All he has to do is slide some paper in there, ink the quill and crank the handle ”",
      "The suspension of one's critical faculty is not possible in a risk management exercsie. It is not simply a “ crank the handle ” process: intelligent analysis needs to be applied at all times throughout the activity, including critical review of the appropriateness of any methodology for an organisation's specific circumstances.",
      "These five questions provide a framework for analyzing the benefits and costs, opportunities and risks. It won't provide a bright-line test or a crank-the-handle algorithm. But you shouldn't be looking for that here anyway."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "1946-1",
    "Idiom": [
      "crank up"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To gather energy to do something.",
    "Sentence": [
      "I kept thinking: this has nothing to do with my interests, with what I believe is a desirable subject for literature. I was doing it as a performance. I kept cranking myself up to perform, to meet the demands of the genre. I know this sounds terribly inartistic."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "1946-2",
    "Idiom": [
      "crank up"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To prepare (something).",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "1946-3",
    "Idiom": [
      "crank up"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To increase the volume, power, or energy of something.",
    "Sentence": [
      "And it was not until Ryan Shawcross's towering header was cleared off the line by Danny Murphy on the stroke of half-time that Stoke started to crank up the pressure and suggest they were capable of getting back into the match.",
      "He cranked up the volume to 11."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "1947-1",
    "Idiom": [
      "crap up"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To ruin or mess up.",
    "Sentence": [
      "This whole thing's his big, bright idea because they don't like having me around crapping up their big, romantic weekends."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "1947-2",
    "Idiom": [
      "crap up"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To make a mistake.",
    "Sentence": [
      "I really crapped up on my fucking school work, so I had to do that frustrating piece of shit all over again."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "1947-3",
    "Idiom": [
      "crap up"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To mislead or give someone false information.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "1948",
    "Idiom": [
      "crash course"
    ],
    "Meaning": "A quick and intense learning experience.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Students were essentially given a ‘ crash course ’ in how to be a lexicographer over a number of tutorial classes, beginning with lexicographical data collection.",
      "He got a crash course in babysitting when his sister dropped off his nephew for the afternoon."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "1949-1",
    "Idiom": [
      "crash dive"
    ],
    "Meaning": "An emergency maneuver by a submarine to suddenly descend to avoid danger.",
    "Sentence": [
      "As the crash dive began at 1:50 p.m., the overboard ventilation valve had not been closed, which resulted in tons of water flooding the submarine."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "1949-2",
    "Idiom": [
      "crash dive"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To perform a crash dive.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Cuthburt turned the Grandmere in time to see the U-69 within yards of his ship. Graf wasted no time in taking evasive action, crash diving and turning, barely escaping the Grandmere’s efforts to ram him."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "1949-3",
    "Idiom": [
      "crash dive"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To make a submarine dive quickly.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Siegmann was still obliged to crash-dive the sub three more times to escape twelve more bombs."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "1950",
    "Idiom": [
      "crawl before one walks"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Learn the basics before progressing.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "1951",
    "Idiom": [
      "crawl over each other"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To compete eagerly or fiercely for the same goals.",
    "Sentence": [
      "We crawl over each other in our race for power, wealth, and fame.",
      "By the time \"The Contest\" was repeated on April 29, 1993, the first night of that year's May sweeps, Seinfeld was a Top Ten show on Thursday nights, and advertisers were crawling over each other to sign up.",
      "game shows like Survivor, where young, attractive (mainly white, but definitely affluent or unthreateningly petit-bourgeois) people are invited to pretend that they are alone in the 'wilderness' and must crawl over each other for access to food, shelter and sex."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "1952",
    "Idiom": [
      "crawl with"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To be covered with large numbers of something.",
    "Sentence": [
      "The kitchen was crawling with cockroaches.",
      "The scene of the incident was crawling with reporters for days afterwards."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "1953",
    "Idiom": [
      "cream in one's coffee"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Something that one relishes.",
    "Sentence": [
      "You're the cream in my coffee. You're the salt in my stew. You will always be my necessity. I'd be lost without you.",
      "As for sideburns, the attraction was lost on me even in the 50s, but big, anachronistic muttonchops on hippy boys were the cream in my coffee in the 60s."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "1954-1",
    "Idiom": [
      "cream in one's jeans"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To ejaculate while clothed.",
    "Sentence": [
      "And you always cream in your jeans when your neck breaks. It has something to do with the pressure on the spinal cord being transmitted through the prostate."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "1954-2",
    "Idiom": [
      "cream in one's jeans"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To become sexually aroused.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "1954-3",
    "Idiom": [
      "cream in one's jeans"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To be thoroughly excited or delighted.",
    "Sentence": [
      "First time I was in here I come in with a Chinese M.P. We busted right in, that M.P. creamed in his jeans when he sees this colonel.",
      "Myrna was certain the woman would cream in her jeans at this opportunity to be a good neighbor."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "1955",
    "Idiom": [
      "cream of the crop"
    ],
    "Meaning": "The best or most desirable.",
    "Sentence": [
      "They hoped to hire only the cream of the crop for the new project team."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "1956",
    "Idiom": [
      "cream the crop"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To select the best from a group for personal benefit.",
    "Sentence": [
      "In the past, most agencies assumed that the other agencies were “ creaming the crop,” training (or placing) the easiest or most docile or best-educated clients, manipulating data (or losing it if necessary) to look good: promising to do next year what they had promised to do the year before.",
      "Taking new designs and young designers upmarket can take them out of context, though, killing idealistic ambitions with adult realities and removing them from the wider audience that might stand to profit from the value of their solutions. Mr. Pucci risks criticism that he could be creaming the crop.",
      "Principals of nearby schools felt they had students “taken” from them, other teachers thought small schools were being given special treatment and more money, and some thought the small schools were “ creaming the crop ”—taking the best students from other schools."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "1957",
    "Idiom": [
      "creature comfort"
    ],
    "Meaning": "A detail that enhances comfort and a sense of home.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Remember, it is laid upon thee to promote communion with thy God and Saviour. The cross is laid upon thee, a heavy, a bitter cross: it deprives thee of all sensible comfort, and is kept upon thee till thou hast no prospect of any. Hope in creature comfort has failed: this is a sweet season for spiritual communion with thy Jesus.",
      "In the reverse direction, creature comforts were not closely studied, and the vessel left Antwerp at 1 p.m., to arrive in Harwich at the awkward hour of 2 a.m. The boat train was waiting for the weary stream of passengers, who straggled up George Street, encumbered with luggage, or following burdened porters in the darkness.",
      "Almost everyone has a favorite doll, an aging teddy, or an unraveling blankie—either safely put away in a drawer or still lovingly tucked into bed at night. Adults and children alike treasure these creature comforts because they offer security, lifelong friendship, and the smell of home.",
      "It is time to remind you that festooning a small boat with a lot of gear and supporting systems is a two-edged sword. While it might increase convenience and creature comfort, it also will weigh down the boat, which means it won't sail at peak performance, especially not in light air and it will alter its behavior in a seaway.",
      "'Are you thinking of making an offering?' Kohana asked, after she finished filling my cup and stood back. / 'It's an old Japanese custom to make an offering at a shrine or temple, as a token for departed souls, and often we leave saké.' / 'Oh, I see. Fair enough.' I raised my cup. 'Well, here's to the gods of abundance and creature comfort.'",
      "The opening crawl (and a stirring propaganda movie) informs us that \" The Hunger Games \" are an annual event in Panem, a North American nation divided into 12 different districts, each in service to the Capitol, a wealthy metropolis that owes its creature comforts to an oppressive dictatorship.",
      "My stereo is a creature comfort. As long as I have it I can relax and be happy.",
      "On weekends, she enjoys creature comforts like sleeping in and long baths."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "1958",
    "Idiom": [
      "creature feature"
    ],
    "Meaning": "A horror film featuring monsters.",
    "Sentence": [
      "\"Godzilla\" is one of the classic creature features."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "1959",
    "Idiom": [
      "creature of habit"
    ],
    "Meaning": "One who follows a routine.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "1960",
    "Idiom": [
      "creature of the night"
    ],
    "Meaning": "A prostitute.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "1961",
    "Idiom": [
      "crime doesn't pay"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Committing a crime often leads to punishment.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "1962",
    "Idiom": [
      "criss-cross applesauce"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Cross-legged sitting.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Sit criss-cross applesauce."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "1963-1",
    "Idiom": [
      "crocodile tear"
    ],
    "Meaning": "A false display of sorrow.",
    "Sentence": [
      "At last he contrived to squeeze out one of his little hysterical tears, and drop it on her hand. Now, the girl was not butter, like some of her sex; far from it: but neither was she wood—indeed, she was not old enough for that—so this crocodile tear won her for the time being."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "1963-2",
    "Idiom": [
      "crocodile tear"
    ],
    "Meaning": "A display of false tears.",
    "Sentence": [
      "And in all her letters since, she had spoken of her aunt as a silly, vain, worldly woman, weeping crocodile tears, for an old husband whose death had released her from the tedium of his company."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "1964",
    "Idiom": [
      "crony capitalism"
    ],
    "Meaning": "A form of capitalism reliant on corrupt relationships with government officials.",
    "Sentence": [
      "While many things can be blamed for the rampant crony capitalism in India (e.g., British imperialism, the License Raj, etc.), we are particularly interested in understanding what role cultural values play in fostering crony capitalism."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "1965",
    "Idiom": [
      "crop up"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To occur suddenly or unexpectedly.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Cares crop up in villas.",
      "The potential for conflicts cropped up immediately. In April 2012, after her maternity leave and while she was waiting to get her S.G.E. designation, Teneo asked her to intercede on behalf of its client Judith Rodin, the president of the Rockefeller Foundation, in obtaining a seat on the President’s Global Development Council.",
      "We'll finish tonight if no problems crop up."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "1966",
    "Idiom": [
      "cross my heart"
    ],
    "Meaning": "A declaration of truthfulness.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "1967",
    "Idiom": [
      "cross my heart and hope to die"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Emphasizes serious honesty in a promise or statement.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "1968-1",
    "Idiom": [
      "cross off"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To strike out or mark something as removed.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "1968-2",
    "Idiom": [
      "cross off"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To regard something as complete.",
    "Sentence": [
      "I can cross off another project from the list."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "1969-1",
    "Idiom": [
      "cross out"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To draw a line through something.",
    "Sentence": [
      "If you make a mistake, just cross it out."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "1969-2",
    "Idiom": [
      "cross out"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To disrespect someone by covering up their graffiti.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "1970",
    "Idiom": [
      "cross paths"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To encounter each other by chance.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Presidential campaigns cross paths in up-for-grabs Iowa.",
      "Paddock came from the small town of Mesquite, some 60 miles (100 km) north-east of Las Vegas, and had resided in the hotel since 28 September. Police in Mesquite have searched his premises and recovered a number of weapons. But they say he had not crossed paths with the police in the past."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "1971",
    "Idiom": [
      "cross someone's palm"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To pay for goods or services.",
    "Sentence": [
      "For all who cross his palm with silver he condescends to lift the drapery that hides the reclining figure, and the larger the coin the longer the look.",
      "\"I'd go into a trance and see if I could locate my chum.\" \"You don't have to do that,\" declared Arnold. \"Just cross my palm with a piece of silver and I'll locate him for you.\"",
      "After crossing his palm with a donation, I felt entitled at least to ask where he was from."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "1972-1",
    "Idiom": [
      "cross someone's path"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To meet someone by chance.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Ewan McGregor is back as the lead character, Renton, perhaps best remembered for his visit in the first film to the “Worst Toilet in Scotland.” Robert Carlyle appears as Begbie, who starts brawls with almost anyone who crosses his path; Ewen Bremner returns as the dimwitted Spud, who, in the first movie, has a memorable job interview while high on speed; and Jonny Lee Miller is back as Sick Boy, now known as Simon.",
      "None of the sportsmen who have crossed my path have made as great an impact on me as Ian."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "1972-2",
    "Idiom": [
      "cross someone's path"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To oppose someone's plans.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Woe to the maid whose lover Shall cross his path to-day!"
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "1973-1",
    "Idiom": [
      "cross swords"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To quarrel or argue with someone.",
    "Sentence": [
      "You say that you do not see how you and I have crossed swords with the priests.",
      "I must cross swords with the author of the article on the Mountain Railways of the Bernese Oberland, on two points.",
      "Loring Pickering and George K. Fitch, the owners of these newspapers, had as early as 1870 crossed swords with the local typographical union, and had been defeated in a strike when they had attempted a reduction in wages.",
      "Crossing swords with oligarchs is one problem. An equally tough problem is crossing swords with the straight political elites, particularly the power ministries."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "1973-2",
    "Idiom": [
      "cross swords"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To urinate simultaneously such that the streams intersect.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "1974",
    "Idiom": [
      "cross that bridge when one comes to it"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Deal with a problem only when it arises.",
    "Sentence": [
      "It's possible we'll eventually have more books than available space for them, but we'll cross that bridge when we come to it."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "1975",
    "Idiom": [
      "cross the Rubicon"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To make an irreversible decision.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Britain will cross a “legal and ethical Rubicon ” if parliament votes to permit terminally ill patients to end their lives, said the archbishop of Canterbury, Justin Welby, as leaders of all the UK’s major faith groups call on MPs to reject plans to allow assisted suicide.",
      "Having crossed the Rubicon, we can't go back. The impact of this transition is underlined by the fact that, despite our long evolutionary history as foragers, we generally can't survive by hunting and gathering when we have been stripped of that relevant culturally acquired know-how.",
      "Will China cross the Rubicon by sending its military to Hong Kong? As the world contemplates whether Beijing will cross the Rubicon and use military force to quell protests in Hong Kong, one question naturally comes to mind: Would the existing garrison be used, or would tanks and soldiers, recently seen moving toward the border in nearby Shenzhen, come across from the mainland? Would they conceivably act as a combined force?",
      "With the invasion of Ukraine the Russian president, Vladimir Putin, has thrown himself into the unthinkable. He has crossed the Rubicon into a time of war. He has no way back.",
      "When the inevitable moment arrives to cross the romantic Rubicon in “Ticket to Paradise,” the machinery of the screenplay and the far-fetched nature of the moment don’t matter — they can just look at each other and sell it.",
      "He knew that by coming out to his family he would be crossing the Rubicon, but he could not live a lie anymore."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "1976-1",
    "Idiom": [
      "cross the aisle"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To cooperate with another political party for action.",
    "Sentence": [
      "It's voters who seem to want Republicans and Democrats in the next Congress to cross the aisle and try something different in Iraq.",
      "The British prime minister doesn't need any support from the opposition party; he has a ruling majority by definition. The American system, by contrast, is one of shared power, overlapping functions, and checks and balances. Progress requires broad coalitions between the two parties and politicians who will cross the aisle."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "1976-2",
    "Idiom": [
      "cross the aisle"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To change political allegiance in a parliament.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Liberal members pounded their desks in delight as Social Crediter Horace (Bud) Olson (Medicine Hat) picked up his books and papers and crossed the aisle to take the last seat in the third row on the Government side. This symbolic gesture completed his defection.",
      "A Conservative member of Parliament crossed the aisle this weekend to join the resurgent Labor Party of Tony Blair.",
      "When asked by Duffy about rumours that he was being heavily courted by the Tories to cross the aisle and join them, Kilgour replied that they've opened \"No doors.\"",
      "After Stronach's 2005 defection to Paul Martin's Liberals.... at least one Tory MP openly called her a \"whore\" for crossing the aisle."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "1977",
    "Idiom": [
      "cross the line"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To overstep a boundary or limit.",
    "Sentence": [
      "I don't even know her But I feel a responsibility to do what's upstanding and right It's kinda like a code, yeah And you've been getting closer and closer, and crossing so many lines",
      "Bring me margaritas, champagne and red wine / We're gonna have a party / Where we all cross the line",
      "Climate change protesters “ crossed the line ” between their right to protest and their responsibility towards the rest of the public when they caused huge tailbacks by blocking three key London roads on Monday, the policing minister, Kit Malthouse, has said.",
      "I can tolerate a lot, but they really crossed the line when they broke the equipment."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "1978",
    "Idiom": [
      "cross to bear",
      "cross to take up"
    ],
    "Meaning": "A difficult problem or burden one must accept and deal with.",
    "Sentence": [
      "We all have our crosses to bear.",
      "The loss was a heavy cross for her to bear."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "1979",
    "Idiom": [
      "cross-purpose"
    ],
    "Meaning": "A conflicting purpose or misunderstanding.",
    "Sentence": [
      "We are working at cross-purposes here, if you're trying to reduce the count and I'm trying to increase it."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "1980",
    "Idiom": [
      "crowd in on"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To intrude or join an unwelcome situation.",
    "Sentence": [
      "These objects [on the sun's surface], some of which were as large in superficial area as all Europe, and some even as the surface of the whole earth, were found to shoot in thin streams across the spots, bringing them over in well-defined streams or comparative lines, ; sometimes by crowding in on the edges of the spot they closed it in, and frequently at length thus obliterated it.",
      "Seemingly here was an intruder who was violating custom. Moreover, the partners had come to look upon this exceedingly rich district as their exclusive property. And so their indignation was extreme. \"The low-down, ornery cuss!\" said Dobbs. \"The nerve of him, crowdin' in on us, just as if there wasn't lots of other places for him to go!\"",
      "Oh, we can populate the dark with horrors, even we who think ourselves informed and sure, believig nothing we cannot measure or weigh. I knew beyond all doubt that the dark things crowding in on me either did not exist or were not dangerous to me, and still I was afraid.",
      "Do the companions of Muḥammad, the blessing and peace of God be upon him, think that they can have him all to themselves; by God, we will crowd in on them until they realize that they have left to come after them men (worthy of him).",
      "Back east, wherever you look, you see something. The world crowds in on you. I can't tell you how homesick I got for the prairies, where a man can look for miles and not see anything … not feel crowded.",
      "But in 1883 the queen abandoned this place on the death of John Brown; wherever she now went the memories crowded in on her."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "1981",
    "Idiom": [
      "crowd sail"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To carry excessive sail to increase a vessel's speed.",
    "Sentence": [
      "the Spaniards busied themselves in making the most of a sudden favourable change of wind, and, without much regard to order, were crowding sail to get near the land."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "1982",
    "Idiom": [
      "cruel mistress"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Something with significant positive and negative aspects.",
    "Sentence": [
      "For bandleaders, society can be a cruel mistress. At debutante parties they receive compliments but not calling cards, at charity balls they take their breaks with their players instead of their patrons",
      "Even if you can’t afford a new one, the cruel mistress of depreciation will soon have her way with the Stinger and that’s very good news."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "1983",
    "Idiom": [
      "crunch numbers"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To do the math.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Before you buy a car, spend some time crunching numbers and make sure you can afford it."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "1984",
    "Idiom": [
      "crush it"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To do something excellently.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "1985-1",
    "Idiom": [
      "cry all the way to the bank"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To be happy for receiving money despite a negative reason.",
    "Sentence": [
      "When his rich aunt died, he was crying all the way to the bank."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "1985-2",
    "Idiom": [
      "cry all the way to the bank"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Unconcerned with criticism due to financial success.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "1986",
    "Idiom": [
      "cry cupboard"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To show signs of hunger.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Footman. Madam, Dinner's upon the Table. Col. Faith, I am glad of it; my Belly began to cry Cupboard.",
      "Let's see what prog we have for supper; the kettle has boiled long enough; my stomach cries cupboard; and I'll warrant our guest is in no mood to dally with his trencher.",
      "I'm rayther peckish — my stomick's bin a- crying cupboard for a hour past."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "1987-1",
    "Idiom": [
      "cry down"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To condemn or disparage.",
    "Sentence": [
      "‘I, for my part, don't want to cry Sir Robert down, though he does not deal at my shop.’"
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "1987-2",
    "Idiom": [
      "cry down"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To cry until exhaustion.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "1988",
    "Idiom": [
      "cry for help"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Expresses a subconscious desire for attention or help.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Tucker Carlson (also a jacket and tie guy) picked up on the hoo-ha on his Fox News show, calling the hoodie-jacket combination a “ cry for help ” and inviting Roger Stone, the disgraced former political operative and author of his own “Best and Worst dressed List,” to comment.",
      "In her second year at the school Alexis stopped doing her homework and would often scribble on walls. Her teachers wondered whether this was a cry for help, or if she was simply misbehaving."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "1989",
    "Idiom": [
      "cry foul"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To protest against perceived injustice.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "1990",
    "Idiom": [
      "cry in one's beer"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To feel sorry for oneself, often with self-pity.",
    "Sentence": [
      "It was a pleasure to talk to a movie producer who wasn't crying in his beer over what the European war has done to the picture business.",
      "He was bitter about the whole thing, but he wasn't crying in his beer.",
      "\"When you win, you're supposed to drink to celebrate, and when you lose, you're supposed to cry in your beer.\"",
      "Christopher Nolan need not cry in his beer over Inception's demotion to the No. 2 spot."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "1991",
    "Idiom": [
      "cry one's eyes out"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To weep excessively or for a long time.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "1992",
    "Idiom": [
      "cry oneself to sleep"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To cry until falling asleep.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "1993-1",
    "Idiom": [
      "cry someone a river"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To weep excessively.",
    "Sentence": [
      "It is rather shaming to be quite so wet over nothing in particular, but at least Fielding does it too. He cries gallons over slow-motion bits at the ends of films, especially Gladiator, and begins to worship Roman values, then Italian footballers kissing in slo-mo to the strains of Nessun Dorma. Sniffle, sniffle. And QPR being relegated in 1996. He can cry you a river over that one, and over a darling little clump of daffodils growing by the traffic island."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "1993-2",
    "Idiom": [
      "cry someone a river"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To seek sympathy through complaining.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Port Authority Transit should cry me a river. Before raising fares it should cut an unnecessary expense."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "1994",
    "Idiom": [
      "cry the blues"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To complain for sympathy.",
    "Sentence": [
      "\"The average citizen gets an extreme emotional delight in ‘ crying the blues ’ to anyone who might lend an attentive ear.\"",
      "We have immense corporations that cry the blues all day long about how their pension costs are ruining them."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "1995",
    "Idiom": [
      "cry wolf"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To raise a false alarm, causing disbelief when a real threat occurs.",
    "Sentence": [
      "The newspaper placards that had cried \"wolf!\" so often, cried \"wolf!\" now in vain.",
      "and the critical sense of the professors counts for little, for they cry wolf too often",
      "those who created the worst economic mess in postwar history should be the last people crying wolf 1,000 days into this administration",
      "These intensifying disasters now striking richer countries, she said, show that developing countries seeking the world’s help to fight climate change “have not been crying wolf.”",
      "The politicians would cry wolf at the slightest provocation so when the real threat appeared no one believed them."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "1996",
    "Idiom": [
      "crying shame"
    ],
    "Meaning": "A disgraceful or deplorable situation.",
    "Sentence": [
      "It's a crying shame that so much money has been wasted on this pointless political campaign."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "1997",
    "Idiom": [
      "crystal clear"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Completely clear and understood.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Is it not crystal clear, then, comrades, that all the evils of this life of ours spring from the tyranny of human beings?",
      "At a very basic level, technology almost always supplants some level of humanity. Not only does machine power replace manpower, but it distances, if not isolates, us from each other and from reality in the process. / See for yourself. Pick a technology. Any technology. / The crystal clearest example is probably the advance from cannon balls to atom bombs.",
      "For more than 30 years, the science has been crystal clear. How dare you continue to look away and come here saying that you're doing enough, when the politics and solutions needed are still nowhere in sight.",
      "The key is that only the original negative can produce the crystal clearest photographic image.",
      "On the lowest level are broad meadow lands, through which wanders a stream of the most crystal clear water imaginable.",
      "Near by, where the crystal clear River Llugwy is crossed by a bridge, stands a small and ancient church built of massive, irregular boulders.",
      "It is these beliefs that set Clearview Stoves apart and set their company on a quest to design and build a stove that would set new standards and quite simply be the best. Their quest led to a stove with traditional styling, that is simple to use and highly efficient with a wonderful view of the flames behind crystal clear glass.",
      "Jimmy and Ravi put together fine silver cutlery, crystal clear glasses and oriental decorated crockery.",
      "Whence it comes that even in the crystal clearest weather Madeira’s sunshine spectrum is inordinately full of water-vapour stopped lines, the sun’s direct rays, though to general observation luminous enough, are signally deprived of their proper scorching heat, and the temperature range of the climate is immensely reduced for both the day and the year;",
      "Jones Beach Pond on Long Island, so close to New York that the tops of the Empire State and the Chrysler Building can be seen on the horizon on crystal clear days, is one of the best shore-bird resorts I know.",
      "On crystal clear days, such as those during or just following a Santa Ana windstorm, the Salton Sea can be spotted from this area.",
      "There is still space available for the STARFIRE BAND performance featuring the crystal clearest, cleanest Pittsburgh Born and Bred Alto Vocals of the sensational Miss Judi Figel in our Summer Street Dance and Al Fresco Dining (inside if rain) series Music & Dancing 7-11 P.M",
      "With the slightly nasal, melodic whine of Wooten’s crystal clear vocals this song has a catchy sound to it that guarantees that it has potential to be an ear-bug.",
      "A truly powerful and versatile unit, crystal clear music is played through a pair of stereo speakers and has RCA line outputs for amplifier or Hi-Fi system integration.",
      "Reread through the manual until the instructions are crystal clear in your head.",
      "The picture on this TV is crystal clear – you can see every grain of sand!"
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "1998-1",
    "Idiom": [
      "crystal dick"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Erectile dysfunction from drug use.",
    "Sentence": [
      "A former hustler who has been at this bar every night this week says \" crystal dick \" isn't a problem for him, but he has seen others rub their dicks so raw that they bleed.",
      "Users also report that crystal heightens sexual arousal and increases stamina by delaying orgasm, and they report highly intense orgasms. However, after long-term use, the urge to ejaculate becomes all-comsuming. Impotence is a long-term consequence, and users develop “ crystal dick,” which is the inability to have an erection.",
      "The impotence drug finally gave meth users a way around \" crystal dick,\" the erectile dysfunction typical with crystal.",
      "Some crystal users report that the combination of increased anal sensitivity and crystal dick tends to make them “instant bottoms” (Frosch, Shoptaw, Huber, Rawson, & Ling, 1996; Heredia, 2003)."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "1998-2",
    "Idiom": [
      "crystal dick"
    ],
    "Meaning": "A flaccid penis due to drug use.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "1999",
    "Idiom": [
      "crème de la crème"
    ],
    "Meaning": "The very best.",
    "Sentence": [
      "‘Plainly,’ said Miss Brodie, ‘you were not listening to me. If only you small girls would listen to me I would make of you the crème de la crème.’",
      "Whether you've been on the hunt for a pair of quality overalls or you just wanna cosplay as Mrs. Robert Rausch (the ‘ Love Island ’ girlies know), these ones from Dickies are the crème de la crème.",
      "To be an astronaut you must be the crème de la crème."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "2000",
    "Idiom": [
      "cue up"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To prepare people or things for their cues.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "2001",
    "Idiom": [
      "culture hero"
    ],
    "Meaning": "A figure representing the values or achievements of a society.",
    "Sentence": [
      "A precisely similar notion was found by Avila among the Indians of Huarochiri, whose divine culture-hero imposed, by a curse or a blessing, their character and habits on the beasts.",
      "The U.S. has long been the Land of Efficiency.... Here mass production was born, the assembly line for good or ill became the modern cornucopia, and Henry Ford once reigned as the leading culture hero.",
      "These were mostly Russian intellectuals, hard-core Stalinists, and democratic socialists... whose book-lined apartments were filled with leftist tracts and records by the Red Army Chorus and the black American Communist culture hero Paul Robeson."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "2002",
    "Idiom": [
      "cum grano salis"
    ],
    "Meaning": "With a bit of common sense and skepticism.",
    "Sentence": [
      "This observation, taken cum grano salis, applies more or less to all who are daily exposed to the temptations of a superfluous table.",
      "The claim of Dr. Hodge that our standards sustain the view which he advocates, must be taken cum grano salis.",
      "Perhaps the ascription of grammatical structure to Classical Chinese sentences must even more often be taken cum grano salis, with a pinch of salt."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "2003-1",
    "Idiom": [
      "cup of joe"
    ],
    "Meaning": "A cup of coffee.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Pike Place is Starbucks' attempt to address complaints that its regular cup of joe is bitter, overroasted and \"burnt.\""
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "2003-2",
    "Idiom": [
      "cup of joe"
    ],
    "Meaning": "One's personal preference.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "2004",
    "Idiom": [
      "curate's egg"
    ],
    "Meaning": "A thing with good and bad parts, but overall spoiled by the bad.",
    "Sentence": [
      "We cannot say we are uniformly favourably impressed with such portions of the work as we have read. The work strikes us as being rather unequal. Like the curate's egg, parts of it are excellent, but parts provide bad material for assimilation.",
      "But what does he give us? A mess of pottage—or a curate's egg, if you prefer that—where fine, descriptive passages in good English, and showing a sensitive nature that appreciates beauty, go cheek by jowl with bad grammar, and casual intimacies such as one would look for in the personal story of a Simplicissimus.",
      "Like the fabled \" curate's egg,\" it may be good in parts. I agree with the last speaker in regard to the State having control of the appointmentof the directors, but I also endorse his objections to some other powers that are given under the Bill.",
      "The neat and tidy temporal ordering is, like the curate's egg, good in parts, but only in some parts. Neither of us vaunts much competence in the egg world, but it must have been rotten, the curate's egg.",
      "Works of art are not like curates' eggs, only good in parts. Nothing inspires the engineer or layman alike more than a daring bridge design, but what makes a really good bridge is how the structure manages to integrate all the demanding and conflicting requirements over a period of time and still give artistic satisfaction.",
      "The comparison of models and theories needs to be qualitative and specific. Theories, like curates' eggs, can be good in parts."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "2005-1",
    "Idiom": [
      "curb appeal"
    ],
    "Meaning": "The visual attractiveness of a property from the street.",
    "Sentence": [
      "A brand-new landscaped lawn complete with picket fence boosts the classic home's curb appeal.",
      "Among the criteria brokers use to classify office buildings are age, location, curb appeal, tenancy, building infrastructure and ownership."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "2005-2",
    "Idiom": [
      "curb appeal"
    ],
    "Meaning": "The visual attractiveness of something from the street.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Hyundai hopes Genesis will lure the well-heeled with curb appeal even if it lacks snob appeal.",
      "The G35's exterior styling... looks suitably sporty but lacks the Caddy's curb appeal."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "2006",
    "Idiom": [
      "curb crawler"
    ],
    "Meaning": "A client of a prostitute who searches by car.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "2007",
    "Idiom": [
      "curiouser and curiouser"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Describes an increasingly mysterious or peculiar situation.",
    "Sentence": [
      "\" Curiouser and curiouser !\" cried Alice (she was so much surprised, that for the moment she quite forgot how to speak good English); \"now I'm opening out like the largest telescope that ever was! Good-bye, feet!\"",
      "Greco-German ‘Fingergate’ Gets Curiouser and Curiouser [title]"
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "2008",
    "Idiom": [
      "curl someone's hair"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To frighten or disturb someone.",
    "Sentence": [
      "\"I'm not hankering for the dramatic in life, but we had a run last night that would curl your hair.\"",
      "\"Tell the son-of-a-gun for me that next time we meet I'll curl his hair right.\"",
      "\"I'd have written him such a letter as would have curled his hair.\"",
      "After I printed that letter the volume of mail I received from survivors of child sexual abuse curled my hair.",
      "Yanking open the door to the bathroom, I was greeted with a stink foul enough to curl my hair."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "2009",
    "Idiom": [
      "curry favor"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To seek favor through flattery.",
    "Sentence": [
      "always promising to pay, promising to pay, tomorrow, and dying today, insolvent; seeking to curry favor, to get custom, by how many modes, only not state-prison offences;",
      "Other people would say so, and would allege that he was currying favor with Bulstrode for the sake of making himself important and getting on in the world.",
      "Poor old Uncle Silas—why, it’s pitiful, him trying to curry favor that way—so hard pushed and poor, and yet hiring that useless Jubiter Dunlap to please his ornery brother.",
      "And what of those thousands and tens of thousands who join the church because it is a part of the regime of respectability, a way to make the acquaintance of the rich, to curry favor and obtain promotion, to get customers if you are a tradesman, to extend your practice if you are a professional man?",
      "The full text of these exchanges, provided to The Atlantic, shows that Manafort attempted to leverage his leadership role in the Trump campaign to curry favor with a Russian oligarch close to the Russian president, Vladimir Putin.",
      "Unlike Sansa, Daenerys can’t rely on her family name to curry favor; unlike Jon or even Arya, she can’t regale the Northerners with tales of exploits, though that’s probably for the best when it comes to her “liberating” Yunkai and Meereen."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "2010",
    "Idiom": [
      "curses, like chickens, come home to roost",
      "the chickens come home to roost"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Past wrongdoings will have consequences.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Never were truer words than the Spanish proverb, ‘All lies, like chickens, come home to roost.’",
      "Being an old farm boy myself, chickens coming home to roost never did make me sad; they've always made me glad.",
      "I suppose you could blame it on my generation, chickens from the 60s finally coming into roost.",
      "Malcolm X ain't never lie; Chickens do come home to roost! And you would think that a senator from Kentucky would know that better than anyone.",
      "Opponents see the latest indictments as a case of the chickens coming home to roost.",
      "I did not expect, Mr. President, to hear such a doctrine as this from the gentleman who, this morning, so eloquently denounced alt attempts at disunion. That gentleman should remember the old Spanish proverb—“ Curses, like chickens, come home to roost.”",
      "Have you ever heard the old Spanish proverb, “ Curses, like chickens, come home to roost ?” If so, it were well for you to ponder its meaning.",
      "“Peace, old mother,” he said in Spanish. “Remember that curses, like chickens, come home to roost. Put another on my head and I'll blow your beads down your throat.”"
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "2011",
    "Idiom": [
      "curtain-raiser"
    ],
    "Meaning": "A prelude or introduction.",
    "Sentence": [
      "It is my opinion that your part in the affair is only a curtain-raiser to graver things.",
      "But the first foray by Russian strategic bombers into the Western hemisphere since the Cold War is simply the curtain raiser for joint naval maneuvers that will bring Russian warships into Venezuelan waters in November.",
      "When the Paris Olympics opening ceremony begins on Friday night, it will be the first time the theatrical curtain-raiser for the world’s biggest sporting event has taken place outside a stadium."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "2012",
    "Idiom": [
      "cut a dash"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To make a conspicuous impression.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "2013",
    "Idiom": [
      "cut a deal"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To reach a negotiated agreement.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Mr. Jeffries’s troops have grown increasingly anxious this week about the possibility that Mr. Biden is going to cut an unsatisfactory deal to raise the debt limit."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "2014",
    "Idiom": [
      "cut a figure"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To make an impression.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Your desire was to cut a figure in the Fashionable World. Well, to-day you have your wish—to-day you are famous.",
      "Dirk Stroeve cut such an absurd figure that I felt inclined to laugh.",
      "As a leader of the free world the United States cuts an unconvincing figure with its racial segregation.",
      "Composed and genial, the Corries cut an impressive figure in the sun-drenched Haifa courthouse.",
      "Standing in a field at an army barracks in Poznan, Poland, and wearing the black Stetson that is customary for the 2nd Cavalry, Colonel McChrystal cut a figure both commanding and incongruous."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "2015",
    "Idiom": [
      "cut a rug"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To dance energetically.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Young-generation patrons seem to be as fascinated watching the more mature dancers cut a rug.",
      "Came here to get ya, but I can't wait / To grab me a partner and cut a rug up tonight",
      "The way you can cut a rug, watching you's the only drug I need.",
      "Let's dance / Cut a rug together / Looking at forever / It's the way that I want it to be",
      "Shake it up, throw your hands up and get loose / Cut a rug, lean into the fuckin' youth"
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "2016",
    "Idiom": [
      "cut a wide swath",
      "cut a swath",
      "cut swathes"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To behave in a showy or influential manner.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Girls who like to cut a wide swath ought to come out to China, for they will have enough flattery and attention to turn their heads.",
      "During the two years that he [the Count] cut a wide swath in the city [Berlin] his name was constantly associated with that of some dancer, actress or other woman whose notoriety drew more attention than her talent.",
      "The company certainly cut a wide swath in a conservative industry.",
      "With his signature red beret and class-based rhetoric, president Hugo Chavez has cut a wide swath through this oil-rich but impoverished nation.",
      "Those were all landmark moments to cherish. Just as appealing was the manner in which Alex Oxlade-Chamberlain and Milner cut swathes down either flank, albeit through flustered full-backs who had looked poorly positioned and horribly jittery from the start."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "2017",
    "Idiom": [
      "cut about"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To move around from person to person.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Calum’s always cutting about spouting shite about his pals."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "2018-1",
    "Idiom": [
      "cut above"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Superior to the norm.",
    "Sentence": [
      "As a speaker, he is a cut above."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "2018-2",
    "Idiom": [
      "cut above"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Superior to.",
    "Sentence": [
      "He is a cut above the rest in his public speaking."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "2019",
    "Idiom": [
      "cut and thrust"
    ],
    "Meaning": "The use of vigorous debate.",
    "Sentence": [
      "He likes the cut and thrust, the falls, bruises, and dry blows of an argument: as to any good or useful results that may come of the amicable settling of it, any one is welcome to them for him.",
      "Several cabinet ministers, including Nadine Dorries and Michael Gove, have since defended the remarks, however, with the justice secretary, Dominic Raab, calling it part of the “ cut and thrust ” of parliamentary debate.",
      "This might all simply be the cut and thrust of business.",
      "He never got used to the cut and thrust of political debate."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "2020",
    "Idiom": [
      "cut away one's soul"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To be extremely displeased.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "2021",
    "Idiom": [
      "cut bait"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To give up on something to pursue another option.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Jenny knew it was time to cut bait, since her relationship with Joe was never going to progress beyond the current level of commitment."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "2022-1",
    "Idiom": [
      "cut below"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Inferior to the norm.",
    "Sentence": [
      "As a speaker, he is a cut below."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "2022-2",
    "Idiom": [
      "cut below"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Inferior to.",
    "Sentence": [
      "He is a cut below the rest in his public speaking."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "2023-1",
    "Idiom": [
      "cut both ways"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Has both benefits and drawbacks.",
    "Sentence": [
      "A redundant observation about Ben Fouhy: It's not easy being him. \"No, not really. But that cuts both ways you know, that affords me the opportunities, the highs and lows, the heights and depths that perhaps other people don't... experience.\""
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "2023-2",
    "Idiom": [
      "cut both ways"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Has implications for both sides.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Readers are invited at this point to listen to the pleasant sound of the recordings in LT [Lehman’s temperament], which can be found on this page. Together with the record value of MSS [Music Sameness of Scales], this makes a convincing case for Lehman’s hypothesis. But arguments, like a razor,(5) cut both ways : some lesser known temperament might achieve a better MSS than LT",
      "And the findings could cut both ways. / \"It's certainly possible that an intruder was responsible for the murder, but I don't think that the DNA evidence proves it,\" said William C. Thompson Similarly, the findings don't implicate or exonerate anyone in the family.",
      "It may be tempting to criticize my analogy because it assumes a case where one vote can actually influence the outcome. That would be fair, of course, but it would also cut both ways. / If you're vote can't be strategic because it is statistically meaningless, then neither can it be moral. / In which case both arguments - vote your conscience & vote your strategy - should be dumped in favor of a third: don't vote.",
      "This argument cuts both ways."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "2024",
    "Idiom": [
      "cut corners"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To do a job poorly or take shortcuts.",
    "Sentence": [
      "The guy who built the fence cut corners when sinking the posts, and the fence fell over in the last storm.",
      "Do you know why Wendy's has square burgers? Because they don't cut corners."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "2025-1",
    "Idiom": [
      "cut down"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To insult or belittle.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "2025-2",
    "Idiom": [
      "cut down"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To reduce the amount of something.",
    "Sentence": [
      "By wholesale omission of connections and by the use of a microscopic scale of photographic reproduction which makes some of the most important tables difficult to read, the size has been cut down from last winter's 580 to 520 pages only.",
      "He wants to cut down on extra steps.",
      "Please don't put the candy jar right next to my desk. I'm trying to cut down on sugar."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "2025-3",
    "Idiom": [
      "cut down"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To slay, often in large quantities.",
    "Sentence": [
      "I will cut you down where you stand."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "2026",
    "Idiom": [
      "cut from the same cloth"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Very similar.",
    "Sentence": [
      "These men are no more lost souls than we are—are, in fact, woven out of the same yarn and cut from the same cloth.",
      "\"Now ain't they jist the finest gentlemen?\" said Katy. \" Cut right off of a piece of the same cloth as your father.\"",
      "Kiss the Girls, adapted from a novel by James Patterson, is cut from the same cloth as The Silence of the Lambs.",
      "Kremlinologists and Vaticanisti are cut from the same cloth — fantastically adept at identifying the most important signs amid the smoke-and-mirrors maneuvering of their respective subjects."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "2027-1",
    "Idiom": [
      "cut in"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To intrude or interrupt.",
    "Sentence": [
      "“If something breaks during the day, work hours up until the evening, we’ll cut in — if we’re in the middle of, let’s say, a magazine program or a podcast on tape or a re-air of the game,” Radovich said.",
      "Taxon concepts are being produced at a fast rate and, as long as some minimal aspect of the rules of nomenclature laid down in the relevant code is fulfilled, these concepts can become permanent even when they may be deeply flawed scientifically. It is an ideal situation for someone to cut in – inappropriately – and produce large quantities of taxon names.",
      "This is cutting in on my free time."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "2027-2",
    "Idiom": [
      "cut in"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To replace someone's dance partner.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "2028",
    "Idiom": [
      "cut it"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To suffice or be effective.",
    "Sentence": [
      "I couldn't cut it as a poor man, stealing",
      "Sometimes, professional tools are necessary and homespun solutions just don't cut it."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "2029-1",
    "Idiom": [
      "cut it fine"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Achieving something at the last moment or with no margin for error.",
    "Sentence": [
      "‘No, — I hadn’t time. I was due at the station, — I was cutting it pretty fine as it was.’"
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "2029-2",
    "Idiom": [
      "cut it fine"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To be stingy.",
    "Sentence": [
      "“O stop, stop,” cried the Mole in ecstacies: “This is too much!” “Do you really think so?” enquired the Rat seriously. “It’s only what I always take on these little excursions; and the other animals are always telling me that I’m a mean beast and cut it very fine !”"
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "2030-1",
    "Idiom": [
      "cut loose"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To set someone or something free.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "2030-2",
    "Idiom": [
      "cut loose"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To behave freely and without restraint.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Cut loose, let your hair down honey Unwind, turn the lights down low Relax, let's uncork the stopper Come to papa, come on let's go",
      "England cut loose at the end of the half, Ashton, Mark Cueto and Mike Tindall all crossing before the break."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "2031",
    "Idiom": [
      "cut of one's jib"
    ],
    "Meaning": "A person's general appearance or style.",
    "Sentence": [
      "We have only farther to notice Meg's mode of conducting herself towards chance travellers, who, stumbled upon her house of entertainment. Her reception of these was as precarious as the hospitality of a savage nation to sailors shipwrecked on their coast. If she disliked what the sailor calls the cut of their jibb —or if, above all, they were critical about their accommodations, none so likely as Meg to give them what in her country is called a sloan.",
      "About eleven o'clock, the captains who were to be our Minos and our Rhadamanthus, made their appearance, and we all agreed that we did not much like the \" cut of their jibs.\"",
      "I axes you, because I see you're a sailor by the cut of your jib.",
      "\"You'll not know him from any one else,\" said Mrs Avenel. \"Well, that is a good one! Not know an Avenel! We've all the same cut of the jib —have we not, father?\"",
      "I have seen that girl on the deck, and I like the cut of her jib. I like the way she walks. Her independence suits me.",
      "Jack thinks, by the cut of their jibs, they were Frenchmen, one an officer and the other his servant.",
      "Mr Bloom watched her as she limped away. Poor girl! That's why she's left on the shelf and the others did a sprint. Thought something was wrong by the cut of her jib. Jilted beauty. A defect is ten times worse in a woman.",
      "We were drawn together from the first as young men will be: we liked the cuts of each other's jibs : we were both sailors (and there is only one sea-service in spite of the guns and gold-lace) and then the far distant dim relationship gave us the feeling that many of the barriers, of race and faith and custom, were down from between us.",
      "\"By the cut of their jibs I shall know them!\" That's the way Ham Hamberger summed it up as he looked ahead to his coming battle employment, and speculated upon those with whom he would be called upon to serve—not knowing. And by the cut of their jibs he did know them when the time came, and they him,",
      "Mr. Burns: Who's that goat-legged fellow? I like the cut of his jib. / Waylon Smithers: Uh, the Prince of Darkness, sir. He's your eleven o'clock.",
      "\"You don't like me much, do you?\" / \"Let's just say I don't like the cut of your jib, Mr. Tate.\""
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "2032",
    "Idiom": [
      "cut off one's nose to spite one's face"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To harm oneself while trying to harm someone else.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "2033",
    "Idiom": [
      "cut one loose"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To fart.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "2034",
    "Idiom": [
      "cut one's cloth to suit one's purse"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To adjust expectations based on limited resources.",
    "Sentence": [
      "A super-educated fish whose purpose seems bent on humiliating us? Or does he cut his cloth to suit-his purse, becoming choosy when the occasion allows, returning to catholic tastes when times are harder?",
      "If I had to go back then I would but I “ cut my cloth to suit my purse ” as my mum would have said and adjust to what I need and not fritter money away.",
      "We have just got to cut our cloth to suit the purse."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "2035",
    "Idiom": [
      "cut one's coat according to one's cloth"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Live within one's means.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "2036",
    "Idiom": [
      "cut one's teeth"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To gain early experience.",
    "Sentence": [
      "He cut his teeth flying model airplanes as a child, so aeronautical engineering came naturally."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "2037",
    "Idiom": [
      "cut out"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Well suited for a particular activity or purpose.",
    "Sentence": [
      "I was cut out to be a jazzman the way the righteous are chosen for the church.",
      "I'm not really cut out for camping outdoors. I'm allergic to mosquito bites.",
      "We've got our work cut out for us. See have one's work cut out for one",
      "",
      "Do you think he is cut out for the role of manager?"
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "2038",
    "Idiom": [
      "cut red tape"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To reduce bureaucracy.",
    "Sentence": [
      "This insurance company is an expert at cutting red tape to process your claim faster."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "2039",
    "Idiom": [
      "cut someone loose"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To let someone go from a position or relationship.",
    "Sentence": [
      "The pizza chain was forced to close several locations and cut employees loose."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "2040",
    "Idiom": [
      "cut someone some slack"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To make allowances for someone and be lenient.",
    "Sentence": [
      "He's the new kid on the block and doesn't know the way we do things around here yet. Cut him some slack and let him learn from this."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "2041",
    "Idiom": [
      "cut the cheese"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To fart loudly.",
    "Sentence": [
      "You know, did you cut some cheese ? Did you fart?",
      "I cannot believe that you cut the cheese at the dinner table!"
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "2042",
    "Idiom": [
      "cut the cord"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To end a child's over-dependence on their parents.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "2043",
    "Idiom": [
      "cut the mustard"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To meet the expected standard.",
    "Sentence": [
      "By nature and doctrines I am addicted to the habit of discovering choice places wherein to feed. So I looked around and found a proposition that exactly cut the mustard. I found a restaurant tent just opened up by an outfit that had drifted in on the tail of the boom.",
      "If a man gets a loan and over a period of years he has demonstrated that he cannot cut the mustard, how is he going to demonstrate it in a period of 12 months?",
      "Give me the bigger hammer. This little one just doesn’t cut the mustard."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "2044",
    "Idiom": [
      "cut the pigeon wing"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To dance gracefully.",
    "Sentence": [
      "that was because no manager could imagine that audiences would pay to see Negro performers in any other role than that of Mississippi River roustabouts; but there was lots of talent and ambition. I often heard the younger and brighter men discussing the time when they would compel the public to recognize that they could do something more than grin and cut pigeon-wings.",
      "They all tried to be polite, and Russ grew quite friendly with one of the bellboys who brought them ice water. He asked that boy if he knew how to cut the pigeon wing, and the boy grinned very broadly."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "2045",
    "Idiom": [
      "cut the umbilical cord"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To end a child's overdependence on their parents.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "2046-1",
    "Idiom": [
      "cut through"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To quickly deal with an obstruction or waste of time.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Can we cut through the bureaucracy and make a decision on the spot?"
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "2046-2",
    "Idiom": [
      "cut through"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To reach an audience.",
    "Sentence": [
      "making the case that you cannot understand the climate crisis without understanding that there is an arch from slavery to colonialism and imperialism to the climate crisis … Now we are seeing those arguments cut through."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "2047",
    "Idiom": [
      "cut to pieces"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To utterly defeat or overwhelm.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Cut my life into pieces. This is my last resort. Suffocation, no breathing, don't give a fuck if I cut my arm bleeding.",
      "You will be firing down on them, and you can use everything you have, even mortars. You will cut them to pieces.",
      "Last time we played Cardiff, in the early 80s, we kicked the fuck out of them, cut them to pieces.",
      "They were hotly pursued by the English, who, having lost but a single vessel in the fight, might have cut them to pieces, had not Elizabeth's suicidal economy stinted them in body powder and provisions.",
      "Ana could imagine watching this on TV at home, and how exciting it must be. How gleeful the audience would be, watching Downs cut them to pieces."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "2048",
    "Idiom": [
      "cut to the chase"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To get to the point.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Allen Gregory DeLongpre: I don't like to play games, the whole wait three days to text you, flirt with other women in front of you. It's exhausting. Let's just cut to the chase. We're in love with each other.",
      "We don't have much time here. Could you cut to the chase ?"
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "2049-1",
    "Idiom": [
      "cut up"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To distress emotionally.",
    "Sentence": [
      "And even Scrooge was not so dreadfully cut up by the sad event"
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "2049-2",
    "Idiom": [
      "cut up"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To severely criticize or censure.",
    "Sentence": [
      "“I didn’t mean any offence—beg pardon—hang it, you cut up quite savage,” said Pen’s astonished interlocutor.",
      "The reviewer cut up the book mercilessly."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "2049-3",
    "Idiom": [
      "cut up"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To act in a playful or comical manner.",
    "Sentence": [
      "I had been cutting up some caper or other—I think it was trying to crawl up the chimney, as I had seen a little sweep do a few days previous; and my stepmother who, somehow or other, was all the time whipping me, or sending me to bed supperless,—my mother dragged me by the legs out of the chimney and packed me off to bed, though it was only two o’clock in the afternoon of the 21st June, the longest day in the year in our hemisphere.",
      "We need to talk about Johnny's tendency to cut up in class."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "2049-4",
    "Idiom": [
      "cut up"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To maneuver aggressively in traffic.",
    "Sentence": [
      "If you are a victim of Road Rage, this normally means you may have inadvertently cut someone up on the road, or he may perceive that you have cut him up.",
      "The third gave an account of losing her temper in traffic, after being cut up by another driver, then bursting into tears.",
      "One night coming home from work, I was driving through a quiet housing estate and had a driver cut me up. I had my window open, and mouthed some obscenity towards him."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "2049-5",
    "Idiom": [
      "cut up"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Emotionally upset or distressed.",
    "Sentence": [
      "She was seriously cut up over her dog disappearing."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "2050",
    "Idiom": [
      "cut up nasty"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Becoming angry or making a fuss.",
    "Sentence": [
      "They are Churchillian theme parks of red pillar boxes, fish and chips and warm beer. But they want the smooth without the rough. When the neighbours cut up nasty, they demand that those whose taxes protect them should send soldiers, diplomats and lawyers to their aid."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "2051",
    "Idiom": [
      "cut up rough"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To become angry.",
    "Sentence": [
      "As anticipated, however, the Parlement cut up rough over a new stamp duty on public and printed documents",
      "Third, while there is no immediate risk of Greece being kicked out of the club, such a threat could materialise if German taxpayers were to cut up rough and exert real political pressure on Angela Merkel's government."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "2052",
    "Idiom": [
      "cutting edge"
    ],
    "Meaning": "The forefront of advancement in a field.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Looking far from overawed throughout, they frequently took the game to the visitors, but it was Saints' lack of a cutting edge and United's superior finishing that proved the difference in the end.",
      "Creating the incentives for new ideas to be introduced, through competitions like this one, allows the UK's railway to stay at the cutting edge of technology.",
      "The company prides itself for staying at the cutting edge of technology."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "2053",
    "Idiom": [
      "daily grind"
    ],
    "Meaning": "The routine tasks of daily work.",
    "Sentence": [
      "“Why bother with the daily grind when you can go to Mosul, get paid $400 a month, get a wife – and live an Islamic way,” went an exchange between two men overheard by a fellow passenger in a taxi. Rumour has it that a woman whose husband died fighting with Isis now receives a generous widow’s pension from jihadi coffers.",
      "As soon as he has the money to retire, he plans to leave the daily grind and travel more."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "2054",
    "Idiom": [
      "damn by association"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Discrediting by attacking associations.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "2055",
    "Idiom": [
      "damn right"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Expresses enthusiastic agreement or emphasis.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "2056",
    "Idiom": [
      "damn straight"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Certainly.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "2057",
    "Idiom": [
      "damn the torpedoes"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Dismisses the risks of a dangerous action.",
    "Sentence": [
      "There's too much attention paid to the wrong issues. Let's just damn the torpedoes and get it done."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "2058",
    "Idiom": [
      "damn with faint praise"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To provide minimal praise that implies it's the best possible.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Damn with faint praise, assent with civil leer, And without sneering teach the rest to sneer.",
      "The patronizing manner in which the hero of Nashville is damned with faint praise would amuse were it not so exasperating.",
      "Four of them returned it with a cold, printed note of rejection; one of them “ damned with faint praise.” They wrote that “Our readers report that they find some merit in your story, but not enough to warrant its acceptance.”",
      "And then, finally, when W. could avoid it no longer, he mentioned Vice, damning with faint praise : “Dick Cheney’s advice was consistent and strong.”"
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "2059",
    "Idiom": [
      "damned if one does and damned if one doesn't"
    ],
    "Meaning": "A situation where either choice leads to a negative result.",
    "Sentence": [
      "You can and you can't—You shall and you shan't—You will and you won't—And you will be damned if you do—And you will be damned if you don't.",
      "If John leaves for New York to follow his career, his father will disinherit him. He's damned if he does and damned if he doesn't.",
      "Damned if I do and damned if I don't.",
      "Damned if you do and damned if you don't."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "2060",
    "Idiom": [
      "damp squib"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Anything that fails to meet expectations.",
    "Sentence": [
      "The anonymous oracle, the author of this pamphlet, is an example of entertaining dullness. He has manufactured a very damp squib; he is a serious man in motley; and practical ideas occasionally drop in among his fantastic vaticinations.",
      "It sounds very token, another damp squib which will probably end up benefiting more bureaucrats than artists or scientists.",
      "Arsène Wenger confessed: \"The result was not an accurate indication of the match.\" Certainly, at half-time it seemed unlikely that Arsenal would catch fire so spectacularly because the first half was a damp squib of a display from Wenger's team, as Newcastle initially showed no ill-effects from their Old Trafford ordeal.",
      "A third collection of David Foster Wallace's essays contains genius and damp squibs .",
      "That whole campaign was a damp squib, they cranked it up as a real possibility that Scotland might win, and when we actually got there it didn't happen like that, and everybody came home quite early with their tails between their legs.",
      "Guy Verhofstadt, the European Parliament’s Brexit coordinator, took the criticism one step further, dubbing the U.K. proposal a “ damp squib ” that reduces Europeans to “the status of ‘third-country nationals’ in the U.K., with fewer rights than British citizens are offered throughout the EU.”",
      "How did Kamala Harris go from being a rising star to a damp squib ? [title]"
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "2061",
    "Idiom": [
      "dance attendance"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To wait obsequiously on someone.",
    "Sentence": [
      "A man of his place, and so near our favour, / To dance attendance on their lordships' pleasure.",
      "Astonishingly, the king's health rallied, causing Orléans's antechamber to become deserted again as courtiers rushed back to dance attendance at the royal bedside."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "2062-1",
    "Idiom": [
      "dance of the seven veils"
    ],
    "Meaning": "A striptease performance.",
    "Sentence": [
      "And as for the next room, which was for the dances of the ‘Seven Veils’, I could not wait to see the mind-blowing performance! I joined the men in the queue and jostled my way into the room, seating myself on one of the rickety chairs.",
      "If King had any wit he would have included a scene where a burka-clad Samantha performs the dance of the seven veils for one of her many smitten studs."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "2062-2",
    "Idiom": [
      "dance of the seven veils"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Incremental disclosure of information.",
    "Sentence": [
      "\"Testing the waters\" is a veil for what candidates do in the years when it's too unseemly to be seen actually running for president.... But this veil is dropped when candidate and handlers believe the coyness has begun to cloy. And then the candidate's dance of the seven veils has begun.",
      "Mr. Putin’s succession and (likely) restoration is a leisurely dance of the seven veils in which one veil is dropped only for another to be donned.",
      "Every year around this time, staff and politicians take the first steps in the annual budget process — called the Dance of the Seven Veils in some quarters."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "2063",
    "Idiom": [
      "dance on nothing"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To be hanged.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Oh! Do hang him-we have waited Many a day for such a chance; Let the hempen cord be baited; See how gracefully he'll dance Dance on nothing ! oh, how funny!",
      "I would much rather be here, my lady, than dancing on nothing in the Hanging-wood, near Parkend"
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "2064",
    "Idiom": [
      "dance on someone's grave"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To celebrate someone's death or downfall.",
    "Sentence": [
      "This is all aside from my personal disgust at the idea that we should spare any thought for those who would kill us. No one is suggesting dancing on their graves, but neither should we shed even a fraction of a tear for them."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "2065",
    "Idiom": [
      "dance with the devil"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Engaging in risky and immoral behavior.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "2066",
    "Idiom": [
      "dark cloud"
    ],
    "Meaning": "A situation causing worry or unhappiness.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Strikes remain the other dark cloud hanging over the railway."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "2067-1",
    "Idiom": [
      "dark horse"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Someone with hidden talents or unexpected advantages.",
    "Sentence": [
      "‘She’s a dark horse,’ he said. ‘She knows just as much about climbing mountains as you or I. In fact, she was ahead of me the whole time, and I lost her.’",
      "As she pulled the door closed behind her, she heard the nurse say, “Well! You’re a dark horse, I must say! Do you know that extraordinary-looking girl?”",
      "“Well!” Genevieve laughs – the kind of bright, trilling laugh you give when you’re really quite annoyed about something. “Ed, you are a dark horse ! I had no idea you had a girlfriend!”"
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "2067-2",
    "Idiom": [
      "dark horse"
    ],
    "Meaning": "An unexpected candidate.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "2068",
    "Idiom": [
      "darken a church door"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To attend a church service.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "2069",
    "Idiom": [
      "darken someone's door"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To unexpectedly visit someone.",
    "Sentence": [
      "\"I'll tell you, Peter,\" said I, \"were I my lord, and a friend or kinsman of mine should leave the town while the court was sitting, that kinsman, or be he what he liked, should never darken my door again.\"",
      "He promised the poor His heaven, He loved and lived with the poor; He said that the rich man's shadow Should never darken His door.",
      "The squire ain't sociable an' the neighbors never darken his door.",
      "Luckily, I'd scored some good-paying clients in the past two months along with the usual losers who darken my door and waste my time."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "2070-1",
    "Idiom": [
      "darn tootin'"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Absolutely correct.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Pink... nodded assent. \"You're durn tootin’ it's right!\" he testified."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "2070-2",
    "Idiom": [
      "darn tootin'"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Absolute agreement or emphasis.",
    "Sentence": [
      "I’ve decided that Wii Fit is darn tootin’ fun."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "2070-3",
    "Idiom": [
      "darn tootin'"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Assuredly or absolutely.",
    "Sentence": [
      "In speech, in rapid responses, in interviews, Kerry and Edwards remind us these days how darn tootin’ chock full of values they really are."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "2070-4",
    "Idiom": [
      "darn tootin'"
    ],
    "Meaning": "You are absolutely correct.",
    "Sentence": [
      "\"May I assume you wish to enter a plea of not guilty?\" \" Darn tootin’.\""
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "2071",
    "Idiom": [
      "dart about"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To move around quickly and change directions frequently.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "2072",
    "Idiom": [
      "dash off"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To write quickly.",
    "Sentence": [
      "In the '50s, she worked as an usherette at the famed Apollo Theater, joined a jazzy trio called the Halos, recorded as the \"Dee\" half of a short-lived Shirley & Lee-ish Jay & Dee, and dashed off tunes in her spare time.",
      "Let me dash off a quick note."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "2073",
    "Idiom": [
      "dash someone's hopes"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Undermine someone's dreams or aspirations.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "2074",
    "Idiom": [
      "date with destiny"
    ],
    "Meaning": "An inevitable or momentous future event.",
    "Sentence": [
      "The American people want no rendezvous with a destiny plotted on blueprints in a Washington office. When they have a date with destiny they want to know what the lady looks like.",
      "Hennessey: You need fifty grand, Griffin? I got a suggestion for you. Why don't you kill Daggermouth?",
      "So much has been said about Europe's long-awaited date with destiny that it was hard to sort out the predictable hyperbole from the reality."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "2075",
    "Idiom": [
      "daughter of Eve"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Any woman or girl.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "2076",
    "Idiom": [
      "dawn of a new day"
    ],
    "Meaning": "A new beginning or important turning point.",
    "Sentence": [
      "A distant gleam shone through the weight of his troubles, seeming to promise the dawn of a new day.",
      "This—this is the dawn of a new day in human living.",
      "It’s the dawn of a new day —a new era, even—for the Queens Chamber of Commerce."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "2077",
    "Idiom": [
      "dawn on"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To be realized by.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Although the Celebrity was almost impervious to sarcasm, he was now beginning to exhibit visible signs of uneasiness, the consciousness dawning upon him that his eccentricity was not receiving the ovation it merited.",
      "\"Sir,\" he remarked, \"you have been robbed,\" and then it suddenly dawned on me that it must have taken place as I was passing the men congregated in the corridor.",
      "What dawned on me as the night went on is that even in apparently frivolous conditions the establishment asserts control, and won't tolerate having that assertion challenged, even flippantly, by that most beautifully adept tool: comedy.",
      "It finally dawned on him that he could automate the process instead of doing it by hand each time."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "2078",
    "Idiom": [
      "day after day"
    ],
    "Meaning": "For an indefinite number of days.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Throughout October the campaign in Korea made excellent progress. Pyongyang, the North Korean capital, was taken on October 19, and day after day MacArthur's forces were on the march.",
      "Day after day it reappears Night after night my heartbeat shows the fear Ghosts appear and fade away",
      "Fine, I will. And YOU can start washing your OWN clothes, and fixing your OWN meals, and picking up your OWN toys, and making your OWN bed, and cleaning up your OWN messes, day after day after DAY !",
      "Day after day they added entries.",
      "The images we see day after day numb us."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "2079",
    "Idiom": [
      "day and age"
    ],
    "Meaning": "A time period.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Who's still using a typewriter in this day and age ?"
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "2080",
    "Idiom": [
      "day at the beach"
    ],
    "Meaning": "An easy and pleasant situation.",
    "Sentence": [
      "If she could do that, snowshoeing down a mountain pass seemed like a day at the beach in comparison.",
      "\"This battle will make the last one look like a day at the beach.\""
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "2081",
    "Idiom": [
      "day in the sun"
    ],
    "Meaning": "A time of glory.",
    "Sentence": [
      "The American Party enjoyed a brief day in the sun : in 1854 proponents elected seventy-five members of the House of Representatives and in Massachusetts garnered 376 of 378 seats in the state legislature."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "2082",
    "Idiom": [
      "day in, day out"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Daily; continuously, often monotonously.",
    "Sentence": [
      "There were derailments happening day in and day out, due in part to 'shunting mishaps' but more frequently involving wagons in freight trains due to a combination of poor track and speed.",
      "Even if you like peanut butter sandwiches, eating the same sandwiches day in, day out will get old."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "2083",
    "Idiom": [
      "day lark"
    ],
    "Meaning": "A person who wakes up early.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "2084",
    "Idiom": [
      "day of days"
    ],
    "Meaning": "A particularly noteworthy day.",
    "Sentence": [
      "\"It is a day of days,\" she said, as I approached; \"a day of all days either to live or die.... I am dying, yet shall I live.\"",
      "At last came the day of days, my release.",
      "It was a day of days for California railbirds. Not only was it the day of the $100,000 Santa Anita Handicap, world's richest horse race, but this was the now-or-never race for doughty old Seabiscuit, darling of U. S. racing fans, Cinderella of the turf.",
      "Super Saturday has been the centerpiece of the United States Open for nearly three decades. But this day of days is heading toward a multimillion-dollar extreme makeover."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "2085",
    "Idiom": [
      "day or night"
    ],
    "Meaning": "At any time.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "2086",
    "Idiom": [
      "day out"
    ],
    "Meaning": "An excursion returning home the same day.",
    "Sentence": [
      "My fellow passengers are a mixture of people returning from a day out in the capital, locals doing short hops, and a few (like me) heading farther afield.",
      "A visit to the Science Museum in London will be a day out to remember."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "2087-1",
    "Idiom": [
      "daylight robbery"
    ],
    "Meaning": "The practice of overcharging or cheating.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "2087-2",
    "Idiom": [
      "daylight robbery"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Unfairly deprives someone of an advantage.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "2088",
    "Idiom": [
      "days of yore"
    ],
    "Meaning": "The past.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "2089",
    "Idiom": [
      "dead 'n' buried"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Refers to something that is definitively over or no longer relevant.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "2090-1",
    "Idiom": [
      "dead air"
    ],
    "Meaning": "An unintended silence in a broadcast.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "2090-2",
    "Idiom": [
      "dead air"
    ],
    "Meaning": "A quiet or awkward moment in a conversation.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "2091-1",
    "Idiom": [
      "dead and buried"
    ],
    "Meaning": "An issue that is irrelevant or forgotten.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "2091-2",
    "Idiom": [
      "dead and buried"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Wholly dispensed with; never to be completed or revived.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "2092",
    "Idiom": [
      "dead asleep"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Sleeping deeply.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "2093",
    "Idiom": [
      "dead cat bounce"
    ],
    "Meaning": "A temporary recovery in a declining financial instrument's price.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Now, if you look at the chart of a stock that has suffered a collapse, you will see that at the bottom of each drop there is a small uptick, a rise in the price. This uptick, representing the smart money getting out because it knows what is coming, and fools getting in because they don't, is known as the dead cat bounce, so-called because if you drop a dead cat off a skyscraper the cat will bounce, too, but the movement doesn't mean the cat is alive.",
      "There's this thing called the Dead Cat Bounce. It's a stock market term, I believe. What it's talking about is the fact that even a stock that is essentially worthless and really going nowhere but down for ever can register a slight upward movement, just for a bit, because there is generally a floor for almost everything. The comparison rests on the fact that even when a cat hits the pavement from forty stories high and dies instantly, it'll still bounce back up a little.",
      "Avoid taking a position in stocks that show dead-cat bounces. Those stocks see their price drop at least 15 percent in one session. A stock showing a dead-cat bounce tends to bounce higher and then decline, sometimes suffering additional dead-cat bounces three and six months later (if earnings related )."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "2094",
    "Idiom": [
      "dead center"
    ],
    "Meaning": "The exact center.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "2095-1",
    "Idiom": [
      "dead duck"
    ],
    "Meaning": "In serious danger or trouble.",
    "Sentence": [
      "She's a dead duck if she starts flirting with my boyfriend!"
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "2095-2",
    "Idiom": [
      "dead duck"
    ],
    "Meaning": "A doomed project.",
    "Sentence": [
      "The \"most important suburban line—to Clifton Down, Avonmouth Dock and Severn Beach\" has, I fear, been a dead duck for years. (It still exists in 2021)",
      "They may have finished 11 points behind West Ham and lost both league games, conceding eight goals, but the Tangerine dream remains alive. Holloway said: “We won’t get a bigger test than West Ham but we’ve got one chance. If you’d asked me last summer when I lost all those players I’d have said this was a dead duck, but we don’t lie down at this club.”",
      "The government decision meant that the proposed boycott of South African goods was a dead duck."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "2096-1",
    "Idiom": [
      "dead end"
    ],
    "Meaning": "A path that is blocked or leads to nowhere.",
    "Sentence": [
      "That road comes to a dead end at the lake."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "2096-2",
    "Idiom": [
      "dead end"
    ],
    "Meaning": "A position that offers no hope for progress.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Her father suggested that she decline the job because it was a dead end."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "2097-1",
    "Idiom": [
      "dead fish"
    ],
    "Meaning": "A partner who is unresponsive during sex.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "2097-2",
    "Idiom": [
      "dead fish"
    ],
    "Meaning": "A hit that travels a short distance before dropping.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "2098",
    "Idiom": [
      "dead giveaway"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Something that unintentionally reveals a fact or intention.",
    "Sentence": [
      "\" Instead of slowing down his arm when he throws it — a dead giveaway to hitters — Igawa had better arm action, Eiland said \"",
      "Most torpedoes solved this problem by supplying the engine with compressed air, but this held a couple of problems, as regular air is only 21% oxygen, meaning that 79% of said compressed air is useless and will simply be vented as a hot gas, along with any combustion products from the burning of the fuel. This would then lead to a train of bubbles that were something of a dead giveaway of a torpedo's presence, and the limited amount of oxygen within the compressed air also limited the torpedo's range. More oxygen would mean fewer bubbles, as there was less exhaust gas; more burn time, as there was more oxygen to burn with the fuel; and a more complete and energetic combustion of the fuel, all of which would allow a torpedo that was equipped with an enriched-oxygen mix to travel further, faster, and stealthier.",
      "That disguise is a dead giveaway ! Choose something less obvious."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "2099",
    "Idiom": [
      "dead heat"
    ],
    "Meaning": "A close contest with no apparent winner.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Just as Hank had predicted, we had reached the work site in a dead heat with gray dawn.",
      "Polls indicated a dead heat for the office of dog catcher."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "2100",
    "Idiom": [
      "dead inside"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Unable to feel emotions.",
    "Sentence": [
      "If driving the Miata doesn't make you smile, well, you're dead inside.",
      "I've struggled with major depression for the better part of my life. In the first couple months of 2020, I was functional, but I was very depressed. It was back when things were still normal. I was going to award shows and sitting in press rooms. I was productive, but I was dead inside.",
      "The majority of commenters were supporting the suggested suicide, while other users shared commentary about their loneliness, many suggesting \"they feel dead inside.\" One commenter even suggested their own suicide in the next four hours."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "2101",
    "Idiom": [
      "dead last"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Finishing in last place.",
    "Sentence": [
      "And compared with Canada, Japan, Australia, New Zealand, and 14 European countries, the United States ranks dead last, with the highest death rate for people under age 75 from conditions that could have been treated or prevented with timely medical care.",
      "That high-school football team only scored 18 points all year! No wonder they were dead last in the league."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "2102",
    "Idiom": [
      "dead loss"
    ],
    "Meaning": "A total loss.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "2103",
    "Idiom": [
      "dead meat"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Someone in danger of punishment.",
    "Sentence": [
      "We'll be dead meat if anyone catches us smoking."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "2104",
    "Idiom": [
      "dead men can tell no tales",
      "dead men tell no tales"
    ],
    "Meaning": "A dead person can no longer reveal secrets.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "2105",
    "Idiom": [
      "dead men's shoes"
    ],
    "Meaning": "A position or property attainable only upon the current holder's death.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Folks come in sometimes when I'm lonely and make jest of it, saying that a creaking gate hangs long, and that it's weary waiting for dead men's shoes."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "2106",
    "Idiom": [
      "dead of night"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Middle of the night.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Write loyal cantons of contemnèd love / And sing them loud even in the dead of night.",
      "I was feeling just as I had felt in the old Malvern House epoch when I used to sneak down to [the schoolmaster]'s study at dead of night in quest of the biscuits he kept there in a tin on his desk, and there came back to me the memory of the occasion when, not letting a twig snap beneath my feet, I had entered his sanctum in pyjamas and a dressing-gown, to find him seated in his chair, tucking into the biscuits himself.",
      "Blackbird singing in the dead of night / Take these broken wings and learn to fly"
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "2107",
    "Idiom": [
      "dead of winter"
    ],
    "Meaning": "The coldest part of winter.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Eleanor chronicled both her solo journey from Beijing via the Trans-Siberian Railroad to Novosibirsk and Semipalatinsk and then via sled in the dead of winter to Chuguchak and the couple's subsequent travels in Turkestan Reunion. Their odyssey together across Xinjiang provided the framework for Lattimore's much broader cultural and historical observations in High Tartary."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "2108",
    "Idiom": [
      "dead on"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Exactly.",
    "Sentence": [
      "The train arrived dead on 2 o'clock."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "2109",
    "Idiom": [
      "dead ringer"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Someone or something that closely resembles another.",
    "Sentence": [
      "In 1987, in “The Rules of Attraction,” he wrote about casual sex and obsessive drug use among bored students of a dead ringer for Bennington College, which Mr. Ellis attended.",
      "On our next date, she told me I could come back home if I wanted to. There was one condition, though: couples counseling. Our therapist, the sari-wearing, no-nonsense Dr. Beena Patel, was a dead ringer for Supreme Court justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg.",
      "Twentysomething Alice works in publishing, so is instantly in awe of this old man offering her chocolate with a trembling hand. He is world-famous writer Ezra Blazer, a dead ringer for Philip Roth, with whom Halliday had a relationship in her 20s.",
      "He is a dead ringer for his grandfather at that age."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "2110",
    "Idiom": [
      "dead soldier"
    ],
    "Meaning": "An empty container for alcohol.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Another Dead Soldier ! (Lays the bottle gently on its side.)",
      "We knocked another couple back / The dead soldiers lined up on the table",
      "When my mother drinks beer, she peeks in the bottle to make sure it's a dead soldier.",
      "By the time the pint was a dead soldier, Decker had the man's life story."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "2111",
    "Idiom": [
      "dead to rights"
    ],
    "Meaning": "With sufficient evidence of responsibility.",
    "Sentence": [
      "have someone dead to rights on something",
      "Because of the video replay, the ref had him dead to rights on the penalty."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "2112",
    "Idiom": [
      "dead tree edition"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Paper version of a publication.",
    "Sentence": [
      "dead-tree edition Derogatory cyberspeak for the paper version of a periodical....",
      "The city's major daily newspaper, the Oregonian, is losing subscribers to the dead-tree edition but has a large online following."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "2113-1",
    "Idiom": [
      "deadbeat dad"
    ],
    "Meaning": "A man who fails to provide required child support.",
    "Sentence": [
      "If the '90s offer one villain by consensus, it is the deadbeat dad, that selfish fugitive condemned by liberals and conservatives alike for his irresponsible behavior and generous contributions to the cycle of welfare dependency."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "2113-2",
    "Idiom": [
      "deadbeat dad"
    ],
    "Meaning": "A man who neglects his children.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "2114",
    "Idiom": [
      "deadstick landing"
    ],
    "Meaning": "A forced landing of an unpowered aircraft.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "2115",
    "Idiom": [
      "deafening silence"
    ],
    "Meaning": "A silence signifying disapproval or lack of enthusiasm.",
    "Sentence": [
      "The suggestion that they work through the holidays met with deafening silence."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "2116",
    "Idiom": [
      "deal a bad hand"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To assign unfavorable circumstances to someone.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "2117",
    "Idiom": [
      "deal a good hand"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Assign favorable circumstances in life to someone.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "2118",
    "Idiom": [
      "deal a hand"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Assign life circumstances to someone.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "2119",
    "Idiom": [
      "death by a thousand paper cuts"
    ],
    "Meaning": "An ultimate negative outcome caused by many small problems.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "2120",
    "Idiom": [
      "death is the great leveller"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Death balances all.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "2121",
    "Idiom": [
      "death warmed up"
    ],
    "Meaning": "A person who looks pale or unhealthy.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "2122",
    "Idiom": [
      "deathbed conversion"
    ],
    "Meaning": "A last-minute change in beliefs to escape a threat or improve chances of success.",
    "Sentence": [
      "The dilemma was how to propose a big tax cut and still look credible. Dole knew that the Democrats would mock him for a deathbed conversion.",
      "\"A deathbed conversion \" was how Representative John LaFalce of New York State described the House Republicans' change of heart.",
      "Gordon Brown's deathbed conversion to electoral reform may look like pure opportunism and widening the goalposts for his team just as the match kicks off."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "2123",
    "Idiom": [
      "debris field"
    ],
    "Meaning": "An area containing wreckage or remnants from an event.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "2124",
    "Idiom": [
      "decimal dozen"
    ],
    "Meaning": "A group of ten.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "2125",
    "Idiom": [
      "deep cut"
    ],
    "Meaning": "An obscure work recognized mainly by connoisseurs.",
    "Sentence": [
      "\"...there’s still an interesting batch of films on Blu-ray and DVD, like a Blake Lively vehicle, a Brian De Palma classic, and a Wes Craven deep cut.\"",
      "I'm a fan of Kurosawa's films, but The Bad Sleep Well is a bit of a deep cut."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "2126",
    "Idiom": [
      "deep dive"
    ],
    "Meaning": "An in-depth examination of a topic.",
    "Sentence": [
      "\"The interesting thing as a writer about Snodgrass was that it liberated you from all the clichés about John Lennon, because you could do what you liked with him. There was no official legend of the Beatles to have to fit into,\" says Quantick, who also wrote a book in 2002, Revolution, which was a deep-dive into the band’s White Album."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "2127",
    "Idiom": [
      "deep down"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Fundamentally; in essence.",
    "Sentence": [
      "He seems like an average businessman, but deep down he's an overgrown kid with a necktie."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "2128",
    "Idiom": [
      "deep pockets"
    ],
    "Meaning": "An ample supply of money.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Out of deep pockets in three weeks flowed 18 six-figure gifts totaling $3,100,000.",
      "It is commonly claimed that juries award plaintiffs who sue corporations larger sums of money because the jurors believe that the corporations, with their \" deep pockets,\" can afford more.",
      "The federal government was the one party with the deep pockets to meet the rent-seeking needs of insurers and high-risk property owners.",
      "We need an investor with deep pockets to help us get our invention to market."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "2129",
    "Idiom": [
      "deep six"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To discard or completely end something.",
    "Sentence": [
      "We wonder why that mild-mannered woman we met at the faculty mixer was on the committee that came close to deep-sixing the career of a liberal professor who did nothing wrong.",
      "They had put many hundreds of hours into the project before it was deep-sixed by management."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "2130",
    "Idiom": [
      "deep thinker"
    ],
    "Meaning": "A person whose thoughts are profound.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Then came a disquisition on pride, with quotations and commonplaces;—then an eulogium, by his lordship, on his lordship's own knowledge of the human heart, and more especially of that \"moving toyshop,\" the female heart; then anecdotes illustrative, comprising the gallantries of thirty years in various ranks of life, with suitable bon-mots and embellishments;—then a little French sentiment, by way of moral, with some philosophical axioms, to show that, though he had led such a gay life, he had been a deep thinker.",
      "THOMAS PAINE. \"Oh what fun it is to be a rebel,\" says Mr. Bradford. Paine \"was a commonplace rebel, entirely practical.\" Not educated, not a deep thinker.",
      "Gingrich fancies himself an intellectual, a historian, a deep thinker"
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "2131",
    "Idiom": [
      "deep water"
    ],
    "Meaning": "A difficult or embarrassing situation.",
    "Sentence": [
      "You will be in deep water if you are found copying work from other students."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "2132-1",
    "Idiom": [
      "deep-dive"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To conduct an in-depth examination or analysis.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "2132-2",
    "Idiom": [
      "deep-dive"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To thoroughly immerse oneself in something.",
    "Sentence": [
      "All of us, when in deep trauma, find we hesitate, we stammer; there are long pauses in our speech. The thing is stuck. We get our language back through the language of others. We can turn to the poem. We can open the book. Somebody has been there for us and deep-dived the words.",
      "Michod told a Venice Film Festival press conference today that the pair “worked out really early on we were going to drift away from the plays themselves. We deep-dived the research and then made a whole bunch of stuff up. I can’t remember what’s real, what’s made up and what’s from Shakespeare,” he laughed.",
      "Love Daisy Jones & the Six ? Spending your free time deep-diving Fleetwood Mac drama? Suddenly need to know literally everything about Riley Keough, including how much she was paid for this show, not to mention her total net worth?"
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "2133-1",
    "Idiom": [
      "deer in the headlights"
    ],
    "Meaning": "A state of mental shock or confusion.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "2133-2",
    "Idiom": [
      "deer in the headlights"
    ],
    "Meaning": "A person with a stunned or confused expression.",
    "Sentence": [
      "\"What! I thought you were finished with principal photography.\" He looked disoriented, the deer in the headlights. Hints of extra crew time always had that effect on him."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "2134",
    "Idiom": [
      "delight in"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To enjoy.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "2135",
    "Idiom": [
      "deliver the goods"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To fulfill expectations.",
    "Sentence": [
      "many drivers who fired those engines in their hey-day have all confirmed to me that they were free-steaming machines, which when pressed could \" deliver the goods \".",
      "Euro 2022 stars Beth Mead, Alessia Russo and Toone all came off the bench to help inspire a comeback and it was the Manchester United midfielder, who scored the opening goal in that European success at Wembley, who delivered the goods again.",
      "Empowered staff deliver the goods and exceed your expectations. Disempowered staff develop a 'sullen obedience' where they stop driving new initiatives and just await orders.",
      "The government promised a lot, but failed to deliver the goods."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "2136",
    "Idiom": [
      "deliver up to"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To hand over or surrender.",
    "Sentence": [
      "The hostages were delivered up to the waiting agents."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "2137",
    "Idiom": [
      "den of iniquity"
    ],
    "Meaning": "A place of immoral behavior.",
    "Sentence": [
      "The young men made their preparations with alacrity, and, headed by this western patriarch, we proceeded at a rapid gait to surprize the tenants of this den of iniquity.",
      "\"Shet up!\" I snarled. \"I'm jest payin' yuh back for all the pain and humiliation I suffered in this den of iniquity --\""
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "2138",
    "Idiom": [
      "depart with"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To resign or part with.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Iohn to stop Arthurs Title in the whole, Hath willingly departed with a part,"
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "2139",
    "Idiom": [
      "desk jockey"
    ],
    "Meaning": "A person focused on desk work, often prioritizing procedure over practical outcomes.",
    "Sentence": [
      "The production manager was annoyed because some desk jockey in the main office reassigned her staff without even consulting her."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "2140",
    "Idiom": [
      "detective work"
    ],
    "Meaning": "investigative research.",
    "Sentence": [
      "We did some detective work and found out that the water was getting in through a cracked pipe."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "2141",
    "Idiom": [
      "devil dancing"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Risky or reckless behavior.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "2142",
    "Idiom": [
      "devil in disguise"
    ],
    "Meaning": "A deceptive person or thing that appears good but is harmful.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "2143",
    "Idiom": [
      "devil's advocate"
    ],
    "Meaning": "One who debates a viewpoint to test its validity.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Now, play devil's advocate. Can't you live 20 years on $145,000 if you're living out of a motor home and just eating and painting and writing books? I mean, this is what we talked about when we were 19. Remember, we kept saying, \"Let's find ourselves,\" but we didn't have a dollar! So, we watched television instead.",
      "I don't really believe all that – I was just playing devil's advocate."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "2144",
    "Idiom": [
      "devil's luck"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Astounding good luck.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "2145",
    "Idiom": [
      "dial back"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To reduce or restrain intensity.",
    "Sentence": [
      "The Des Moines station asked him to dial back his coverage, facing what he called an understandable pressure to maintain ratings."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "2146",
    "Idiom": [
      "dial down"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To reduce in effect or intensity.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Let's dial down the anger in this conversation.",
      "We felt there was too much graphic detail in the first draft, and thus asked the writer to dial it down."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "2147",
    "Idiom": [
      "diamonds are a girl's best friend"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Material wealth, especially jewelry, is more valuable to a girl than love.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "2148",
    "Idiom": [
      "diarrhea of the mouth"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Foolish talkativeness.",
    "Sentence": [
      "He's just a kid, and he's got diarrhea of the mouth, but he's pretty cool.",
      "A psychologist might call his behavior narcissistic, egotistical, and, no doubt, a sign of hidden insecurity. Donald himself called it \"truthful hyperbole.\" Broker Ed Gordon labeled it \" diarrhea of the mouth.\"",
      "When the person holding the highest office in the land makes derogatory comments about people who have held, or are holding high positions in our military and other institutions of our democracy, this kind of thoughtless diarrhea of the mouth has repercussions around the world."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "2149",
    "Idiom": [
      "dice roll"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Something unpredictable or unexpected.",
    "Sentence": [
      "But Tsurigasaki Beach is no Teahupo’o in Tahiti – one of the world’s best breaks and the completely offshore venue for the 2024 Paris Olympics – and the decision to eschew recent advances in wave technology in favour of the ocean is something of a dice roll by the organisers."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "2150",
    "Idiom": [
      "dick milk"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Semen.",
    "Sentence": [
      "It took me and Chauncey about a good five minutes after that to catch our breaths before straightened up and heading out, leaving the homeowner to whack himself off to a satisfying conclusion with the curded dick milk we left on his face and back.",
      "As his orgasm subsided, Tim slipped the head of his cock back into my mouth and I whimpered like a puppy, sucking greedily, enjoying the taste of his sperm bursting on my tongue. I stroked my cock as I lapped at Tim's cockhead, savoring his dick milk. I let out a muffled cry and shot my own load. It spurt through the air, landing on my belly in thick drops.",
      "My hands ran across his stubby nipples, and that was what I hung on to as my throat gobbled down his erupting dick milk."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "2151",
    "Idiom": [
      "dick munch"
    ],
    "Meaning": "An idiot or foolish person.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "2152",
    "Idiom": [
      "dictated but not read"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Written without review or editing.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "2153",
    "Idiom": [
      "die a thousand deaths"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To suffer extreme embarrassment or anxiety.",
    "Sentence": [
      "since I know no greater Pleasure than the Love of you, I should too willingly run the Risque of any Disadvantage that could happen by it. I die a thousand Deaths every Hour, and still revive, to die them over again",
      "his enormous wealth yielded him no happiness, his suspicious soul feared a traitoress in each of his beautiful attendants, he trusted no one but his chief-councillor, Sir Small-grove, and while waiting for the just retribution he knew must sooner or later follow his crime, died a thousand deaths.",
      "As she looked in the mirror over the fireplace that she might settle her hat-pin straight, she noticed that in touching the china dog she had disturbed the mantle cloth, and in so doing had exposed her hoard of pawn-tickets. Thanks be to God I noticed that, had anyone come in I’d have died a thousand deaths.",
      "Died a thousand deaths Man, I wore so much Ed Hardy, how could I forget? That love kills slowly"
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "2154",
    "Idiom": [
      "die down"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To subside.",
    "Sentence": [
      "\"I think you should consider your responsibility,\" said one critic. \"How many patients went off the medications due to that publication, without consulting their doctor?\" When the applause after this question died down, Deacon defended the right of scientists to question popular medications:",
      "We'll be able to sail safely across the bay once the storm dies down.",
      "By the morning the fire had died down."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "2155-1",
    "Idiom": [
      "die on one's arse"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To fail completely.",
    "Sentence": [
      "He explains: \"Labour still has its historic competitive advantage – people. Tory party membership is dying on its arse and no one is joining the Liberal Democrats.\"",
      "the record failed miserably to chart. \"That album died on its arse, to be honest,\" admits Shane."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "2155-2",
    "Idiom": [
      "die on one's arse"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To be poorly received.",
    "Sentence": [
      "this was very far from being my best bits. It was me, in various venues, dying on my arse, over and over again.",
      "The worst thing you can say to a comedian right after they come off stage is: \"Did you enjoy that?\" If somebody says that, I know I’ve died on my arse.",
      "KEY: I've been known to get up on that stage and deliver a bad, um... HORNE: Poem. I've seen you deliver some bad poems... KEY: Yeah, I've seen you die on your ass."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "2156",
    "Idiom": [
      "die on the vine"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To fail early or never succeed, often due to neglect or lack of resources.",
    "Sentence": [
      "His ambitious plan to build a flying car died on the vine."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "2157-1",
    "Idiom": [
      "die out"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To become extinct.",
    "Sentence": [
      "The original family who had begun to build a palace to rival Nonesuch had died out before they had put up little more than the gateway, .",
      "Shepard: I thought you always needed another species to serve as one of the parents. Liara : Think about it, Shepard. If we were not able to mate with our own species, we would have died out long before we ever mastered space flight and left our homeworld.",
      "The dinosaurs died out a long time ago."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "2157-2",
    "Idiom": [
      "die out"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To cease gradually.",
    "Sentence": [
      "However, apart from all this, the Chief was a grand old man, belonging to a class of individualists which seems to be dying out in these days, when standard behaviour seems to be as prevalent as standard designs.",
      "The prejudice has died out."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "2158",
    "Idiom": [
      "die the way one lived"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To die in a manner that reflects one's character or passions.",
    "Sentence": [
      "At least the daredevil, who unfortunately failed his famed stunt attempt, died the way he lived."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "2159",
    "Idiom": [
      "different clowns, same circus",
      "same shit, different toilet"
    ],
    "Meaning": "The same problems persist despite seeming changes.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "2160",
    "Idiom": [
      "different strokes for different folks"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Different people have different preferences.",
    "Sentence": [
      "There is a yellow one that won't accept the black one / That won't accept the red one, that won't accept the white one / Different strokes for different folks"
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "2161",
    "Idiom": [
      "dig a hole for oneself"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To create a difficult situation for oneself.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "2162",
    "Idiom": [
      "dig deep"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To make a lot of effort.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Arsene Wenger's side showed little of the style and fluidity that is their hallmark but this was about digging deep and getting the job done, qualities they demonstrated and that will serve them well as the season reaches its climax.",
      "If you want to join the marines, there's no room for laziness. You really have to dig deep."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "2163-1",
    "Idiom": [
      "dig in"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To prepare for defense.",
    "Sentence": [
      "If Russia choses to dig in, then the military balance – which typically favours the defender on a 3-1 ratio – is reversed."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "2163-2",
    "Idiom": [
      "dig in"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To adopt a resolute state of mind.",
    "Sentence": [
      "to dig in one's feet, heels, etc."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "2164",
    "Idiom": [
      "dig in one's heels"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To firmly maintain one's beliefs or position despite opposition.",
    "Sentence": [
      "What we want are more women of combined business efficiency and integrity to get into public life and dig in their heels against the forces of war, lust, and injustice.",
      "Margaret Thatcher tried to do it again, digging in her heels, lecturing archly on her achievements, illuminating our European partners on the superior virtue of her ways.",
      "The teachers' unions are still pretty much digging in their heels on the tenure issue."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "2165",
    "Idiom": [
      "dig one's heels in"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Refuses to change plans or ideas.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "2166",
    "Idiom": [
      "dig one's own grave"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To act in a way that leads to one's own downfall.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "2167",
    "Idiom": [
      "dig oneself in a hole"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To create more trouble for oneself.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "2168",
    "Idiom": [
      "dig out of a hole"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To save from trouble.",
    "Sentence": [
      "The Blues, without new big-money signings Fernando Torres and David Luiz, relied on their old guard to dig them out of an early hole."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "2169",
    "Idiom": [
      "dig up"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To discover something by digging.",
    "Sentence": [
      "dig up information",
      "dig up proof",
      "dig up some scandalous stories",
      "dig some gossip up on him."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "2170",
    "Idiom": [
      "dig up dirt"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To find negative information to embarrass or discredit someone.",
    "Sentence": [
      "The freelance investigative reporter made a career of digging up dirt on celebrities for tabloids."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "2171",
    "Idiom": [
      "dim and distant"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Of a very long time ago.",
    "Sentence": [
      "the dim and distant past",
      "a dim and distant memory"
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "2172",
    "Idiom": [
      "dime's worth"
    ],
    "Meaning": "An insignificant amount.",
    "Sentence": [
      "But why, he asks, should a similarly rapt and adoring crowd bank up before a lighted wall niche containing nothing but a dime's worth of daffodils and a couple of sprays of forsythia in a blue dish?",
      "Why is he here? Nothing will change. At best, he'll make a dime's worth of difference."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "2173",
    "Idiom": [
      "diminishing returns"
    ],
    "Meaning": "A condition where extra inputs yield progressively lesser quality or quantity of outputs.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Brüno was a case of diminishing returns, intermittently amusing but not nearly as bracing or funny as Borat—it didn’t help that Brüno was the most thinly conceived of all his Da Ali G Show characters—and the lead-up to Baron Cohen’s new comedy, The Dictator, made it look like he’d boxed himself into a corner.",
      "He added, however, that the system operator is unlikely to use the cellphone alert often, lest Californians start to ignore it. The governor agreed that diminishing returns were a risk."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "2174",
    "Idiom": [
      "dine on ashes"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To dwell on past failures.",
    "Sentence": [
      "His redemptive power — propels us forward. It will not allow us to continue dining on ashes. The journey is yet before us, with Him. There is yet much to be done. There are many successes yet before us, and He calls us to move toward them.",
      "Yet again his studies could not relieve the sense of defeat. He could not help dining on ashes. How long had he struggled on this stupid thesis?"
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "2175-1",
    "Idiom": [
      "dip into"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To spend a portion of savings or funds.",
    "Sentence": [
      "If people in the community wish HCHS to survive, then it's time they dip into the old checkbook and demonstrated their commitment."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "2175-2",
    "Idiom": [
      "dip into"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To engage in something casually.",
    "Sentence": [
      "“The Midnight Gospel,” which debuted on Netflix last year, is a show that I dipped into slowly, like a pint of oddly flavored artisanal ice cream: It was tasty yet confounding, more idiosyncratic than my usual preferred flavors, suitable for consumption only when I was in a very specific mood.",
      "Surveying the breadth of Auerbach’s practice and the diverse bodies of knowledge they dip into, I began to think of the artist as a sort of antenna, picking up invisible signals from across time and space (this impression was likely bolstered by the way they wear their eyeliner: antenna-like, drawn an inch or so past each outer canthus).",
      "Dip into a nice book."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "2176",
    "Idiom": [
      "dip one's toe in",
      "dip a toe into"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To explore or begin tentatively.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Given how many other politicians, from Ed Miliband to Bill Clinton, have dipped their toes into the world of podcasting, it’s perhaps inevitable that Barack and Michelle Obama are entering the field too.",
      "The Happy Gnome, on Selby Av. in St. Paul, became a place to dip one's toe in the burgeoning beer world. With a focus on domestic craft and quality import beers, this cozy bar was a welcome home to curious beer lovers.",
      "Artists' books seldom dip a toe into literature.",
      "Surfers Paradise is just over the border in Queensland, and I was eager to dip a toe into that interesting and erratic state.",
      "Surabaya's crumbling old town is the best place to dip a toe into the city's soul."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "2177",
    "Idiom": [
      "dip out"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To leave without informing others.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "2178",
    "Idiom": [
      "diplomatic flu"
    ],
    "Meaning": "An excuse for absence based on political factors.",
    "Sentence": [
      "The winner... was conservative Charles Griffin, 41, and he carefully avoided the race issue. Avoiding the campaign as well, Griffin stayed home with a case of diplomatic flu while Evers' forces staged a get-out-the-vote campaign.",
      "That is a carom-shot criticism of the administration, which has come down with a case of the diplomatic flu known as international conference-itis.",
      "While the Liberals may be considering the scenario of an epidemic of diplomatic flu to save themselves from toppling the minority government, no such virus will decimate Bloc ranks in the event of a confidence vote."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "2179",
    "Idiom": [
      "dirt file"
    ],
    "Meaning": "A compilation of negative information about someone.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "2180",
    "Idiom": [
      "dirt-poor"
    ],
    "Meaning": "In a condition of extreme poverty.",
    "Sentence": [
      "In recent months, the dirt-poor peasants of Honduras have invaded farms and blockaded bridges to force the government to fulfill its promises.",
      "A few years ago it was a dirt-poor outpost populated by rural migrants."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "2181",
    "Idiom": [
      "dirty laundry",
      "air one's dirty linen in public",
      "wash one's dirty laundry in public",
      "wash one's dirty linen in public"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Unflattering or embarrassing secrets.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Look, we all have trouble in our lives but most of us aren't hanging our dirty laundry out there for the whole world to see.",
      "If you don't tell me why you did it, I'll air all your dirty laundry to your boss."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "2182",
    "Idiom": [
      "dirty look"
    ],
    "Meaning": "An unpleasant or disdainful look.",
    "Sentence": [
      "He gave his ex-girlfriend a dirty look when he saw her with another man."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "2183",
    "Idiom": [
      "dirty money"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Money that is illegally gained or used.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Corruption is a force multiplier for the West's enemies, and yet the West continues to accept dirty money into its economies by the billion.",
      "Taken together, the articles exposed a dark truth: “ Dirty money ” — terrorist financing, drug cartel funds, fortunes embezzled from developing nations, the profits from organized crime — flows so freely through the world’s most powerful financial institutions that it has become inextricable from the so-called legitimate economy."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "2184",
    "Idiom": [
      "dirty word"
    ],
    "Meaning": "A topic a person prefers to avoid.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Work is a dirty word to him."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "2185",
    "Idiom": [
      "dirty work"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Unpleasant or disreputable tasks.",
    "Sentence": [
      "... a sort of little back kitchen, where dirty work, such as washing up dishes, might be done.",
      "\"I am no telltale,\" said James scornfully.... Jasper urged James to give information about Rodney, but he steadily refused. \"I leave others to do such dirty work,\" he said.",
      "Many a business-man can say he doesn't do dirty work, because he has others do it for him.",
      "In a job like that you see the dirty work of Empire at close quarters. The wretched prisoners huddling in the stinking cages of the lock-ups, the grey, cowed faces of the long-term convicts, the scarred buttocks of the men who had been Bogged with bamboos – all these oppressed me with an intolerable sense of guilt.",
      "US experts believe the Iraqi intelligence service will set the plots in motion, then recruit or extort amateurs to do the dirty work."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "2186",
    "Idiom": [
      "discretion is the better part of valour",
      "discretion is the better part of valor"
    ],
    "Meaning": "It is wise to avoid unnecessary risks.",
    "Sentence": [
      "The better part of valour is discretion; in the which better part, I have saved my life.",
      "At least there was no problem with Alison travelling on the 'wrong' train - discretion was the better part of valour for ticket checks [on a train full of football supporters]."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "2187",
    "Idiom": [
      "dish the dirt"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To share gossip.",
    "Sentence": [
      "The tabloid newspaper was eager to dish the dirt on celebrities."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "2188",
    "Idiom": [
      "dishpan hands"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Hands rough and dry from prolonged exposure to hot, soapy water.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Avoid dishpan hands. Those 1950s sitcom moms had it right (and probably had lovely hands): Wear rubber gloves while cleaning and doing dishes."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "2189",
    "Idiom": [
      "dismal science"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Economics.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Not a \"gay science,\" but a rueful—which finds the secret of this universe in \"supply and demand\"... a dreary, desolate and, indeed, quite abject and distressing one; what we might call, by way of eminence, the dismal science.",
      "Galbraith has managed to write with wit and style about the ‘ dismal science ’ of economics.",
      "Two Dismal Sciences : Economics and National Security —Writing during World War II, J. B. Condliffe lamented, \"Economists have not contributed in very large measure to the recent outpouring of publications on the causes, conduct, and consequences of war.\" By the turn of the millennium, however, the situation had changed."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "2190",
    "Idiom": [
      "dive in"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To start a new endeavor enthusiastically.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Don't just get a toe wet; dive in and create your first entry.",
      "The new project at work is so exciting - I want to dive right in."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "2191-1",
    "Idiom": [
      "divide and conquer"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To gain and maintain power by breaking up larger concentrations of power into weaker segments.",
    "Sentence": [
      "It added that it can't begin pay talks without permission from Transport Scotland, and then cited a TSSA union survey of ScotRail that suggested that most of its members were against strikes, instead preferring job security rather than a pay rise. This prompted the TSSA to accuse ScotRail of trying to divide and conquer."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "2191-2",
    "Idiom": [
      "divide and conquer"
    ],
    "Meaning": "A strategy for gaining control.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "2191-3",
    "Idiom": [
      "divide and conquer"
    ],
    "Meaning": "An algorithm design technique that solves a problem by recursively splitting it into smaller, simpler problems.",
    "Sentence": [
      "The quicksort algorithm is an example of divide and conquer."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "2191-4",
    "Idiom": [
      "divide and conquer"
    ],
    "Meaning": "A technique to split and manage parts of a whole.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "2191-5",
    "Idiom": [
      "divide and conquer"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Manage opponents by creating division among them.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "2192",
    "Idiom": [
      "do a bunk"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To escape or flee.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "2193",
    "Idiom": [
      "do a slow burn"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To gradually feel anger or frustration.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Booed for muffing an easy fly ball in a game with the Yankees, Outfielder Williams did a slow burn. By the time he made a game-saving catch, even the cheers sounded like jeers to Terrible-Tempered Ted.",
      "“Not working...” I said, growing testy.... I did a slow burn. I was way beyond my computer comfort level, and that was apparent to all."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "2194",
    "Idiom": [
      "do as I say and not as I do",
      "do as i say, not as i do",
      "do what i say, not what i do"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Obey my instructions, not my behavior.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Do what I say now, not what I do The dilettantish peekaboo"
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "2195-1",
    "Idiom": [
      "do away with"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To abolish or eliminate.",
    "Sentence": [
      "For no nearness in space, no closeness of relations, no daily intimacy, can do away with the inexorable laws which give the adept his seclusion.",
      "Using electricity as motive power for railroads will do away with fuel trains, tenders, coal handling, water, and all that.",
      "Centralised traffic control does away with intermediate operators over long stretches of line.",
      "In most countries, homework has come to be an integral part of the schooling system. So much so that parents are suspicious when schools do away with homework."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "2195-2",
    "Idiom": [
      "do away with"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To eliminate or get rid of.",
    "Sentence": [
      "unless we can begin to understand that the vast majority of those who do away with themselves—and of those who attempt to do so—do not do it because of any frailty, and rarely out of impulse, but because they are in the grip of an illness that causes almost unimaginable pain."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "2196",
    "Idiom": [
      "do by halves"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To do a task partially or inadequately.",
    "Sentence": [
      "A pedestrian tour of Europe could not be complete without them. Of course that decided me at once to see them, for I never allow myself to do things by halves, or in a slurring, slipshod way.",
      "Rin-Tin-Tin does nothing by halves, for he tracks the murderer himself and kills him.",
      "Never do anything by halves if you want to get away with it. Be outrageous. Go the whole hog!",
      "If there was one word to describe her, it was \"intense\" - so well chosen in her brother Michael's moving eulogy. Nothing, absolutely nothing was done by halves.... Her commitment was total."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "2197",
    "Idiom": [
      "do cartwheels"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To be extremely happy.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "2198",
    "Idiom": [
      "do down"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To belittle or intimidate.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "2199",
    "Idiom": [
      "do drugs"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To abuse illegal drugs, often due to addiction.",
    "Sentence": [
      "There is growing understanding that people drink or do drugs for difference reasons - and it may be linked to times of stress."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "2200",
    "Idiom": [
      "do exactly what it says on the tin"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To do what is expected or described.",
    "Sentence": [
      "[The Erotic Art Museum] does exactly what it says on the tin : presents erotic art",
      "“That update is doing exactly what it says on the tin,” Jack started, demonstrating the date of birth restriction. It only returned the day and month now, holding back the year, causing some of Jack's regression tests to fail.",
      "\"Until we get a train that performs to specification, it's difficult to put a timeline on it. The train does not do what it says on the tin.",
      "The solutions to this crisis are clear. We must keep fossil fuels in the ground and deliver a clean, green and affordable energy system. We need publicly owned utilities to do what they say on the tin, rather than simply siphon off obscene profits to shareholders."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "2201",
    "Idiom": [
      "do ill"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To harm or injure.",
    "Sentence": [
      "So he who does unbelievingly, whatever he does, does ill; and he who does ill, sins. The good works which an unbeliever does are the works of Him who turns evil to good.",
      "We exercise our power over others by doing them good or by doing them ill —that is all we care for! Doing ill to those on whom we have to make our power felt; for pain is a far more sensitive means for that purpose than pleasure:—",
      "Many jihadist plots have been foiled and the security apparatus is getting better, overall, at pre-empting those who would do us ill. But, they say, the nature of the threat and the terrorists’ increasing use of low-tech, asymmetrical tactics such as hire vehicles and knives, make it all but impossible to stop every assault."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "2202",
    "Idiom": [
      "do it tough"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To struggle in a difficult situation.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Families doing it tough will receive more assistance from the government."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "2203-1",
    "Idiom": [
      "do justice"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To fully appreciate or honor something.",
    "Sentence": [
      "It was classified as \"all others\" under vehicle type , but that category doesn't do a motorized barstool justice.",
      "And it’s daunting because each segment has to tell a full, complete story in something like six minutes while doing justice to revered source material and including the non-stop laughs and genius gags that characterized The Simpsons in its god-like prime."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "2203-2",
    "Idiom": [
      "do justice"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To enjoy fully.",
    "Sentence": [
      "a magnificent cold supper was awaiting him in the dining-room, where he did full justice to a game pie and a bottle of claret."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "2204",
    "Idiom": [
      "do me a favour"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Expressing incredulity.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Debbie remained seated. \"Go to bed,\" she ordered. \"With you here? Why what do you think I'll do, cut my throat with an electric razor? I know this dump's enough to drive anybody nuts but do me a favour.\"",
      "You expect me to clean up all this mess for you? Do me a favour."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "2205",
    "Idiom": [
      "do me a lemon"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Expresses disbelief.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "2206",
    "Idiom": [
      "do not sit in Rome and strive with the Pope"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Avoid opposing someone in their own territory.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "2207",
    "Idiom": [
      "do numbers"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To be popular based on metrics.",
    "Sentence": [
      "I wasn't made for no casket or no prison cell / Every title doin' numbers like I'm Miss Adele"
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "2208",
    "Idiom": [
      "do one's business"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To defecate or urinate.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Honey, the neighbor's dog's doing its business in our yard again."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "2209",
    "Idiom": [
      "do one's damnedest"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To make every effort.",
    "Sentence": [
      "I think he'll do his damnedest to become CEO one day."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "2210",
    "Idiom": [
      "do one's darnedest"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To make every effort.",
    "Sentence": [
      "I don't think he'll succeed, but he's doing his darnedest to build a working spaceship."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "2211",
    "Idiom": [
      "do one's homework"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To prepare or research in advance.",
    "Sentence": [
      "As the hearing went on, Harradence impressed me. When the judge asked for his comment on an issue, Harradence had clearly done his homework and was never taken by surprise."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "2212",
    "Idiom": [
      "do one's own thing"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To do what one chooses or considers best for oneself.",
    "Sentence": [
      "The psychological patter of the '70s is as inescapable as Muzak and just as numbing: Are you relating? Going through heavy changes? In touch with yourself and doing your own thing ?",
      "This weekend, Mr. Rouse is doing his own thing : leading his own quartet with John Hicks on piano, Santi DeBriano on bass, and Ed Blackwell on drums, and playing his own compositions.",
      "OK, so I want my kids to find their own way, do their own thing, become their own people.",
      "If we look at Stephen Harper’s wife, she was basically a non-entity in public. She maintained real distance from political life and just kept doing her own thing."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "2213",
    "Idiom": [
      "do one's own time"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Serve a prison sentence independently.",
    "Sentence": [
      "He did his own time, minded his own business.",
      "But typically, if an inmate just minded his own business and did his own time, he could usually stay out of serious trouble.",
      "Anyways, like I said, your dad went his own way, minded his own business, did his own time; all's he wanted to do was finish his stretch and get back home to you and your mother."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "2214",
    "Idiom": [
      "do one's utmost"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To make the greatest effort.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Please try to do your utmost to be there on Saturday. It's really important that you are there."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "2215",
    "Idiom": [
      "do right by"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To act morally and honorably toward someone.",
    "Sentence": [
      "The American people, as a whole, know what's right; they know what's wrong, and they act on what's right and what's wrong. And in the long run, this equal rights thing will become a part of the custom of the United States as well as the law. No use putting a thing into the law if the people are not for it. And most of the American people, I think the vast majority of them, want to do what's right by whole population.",
      "We will do right by our troops and taxpayers, and we will build the 21st Century military that we need.",
      "I know her new husband is a good man and wants to do right by our family.",
      "Hey man, did you finish that transaction with my cousin? You do right by him?"
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "2216",
    "Idiom": [
      "do somebody wrong"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To treat someone badly or unfairly.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "2217",
    "Idiom": [
      "do someone like that"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To treat someone negatively.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Lance Allan: \"When you first saw that video of you in a snowmobile suit at five years old on national TV and on our air. Were you a little bit like, c'mon Mom and Dad, are you going to do me like that ?\"",
      "“I can’t believe wordle would do me like that with RUPEE why 😭😭,” said another distraught fan."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "2218",
    "Idiom": [
      "do someone one better"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To exceed someone's expectations.",
    "Sentence": [
      "- Could you drive me to the station please? - I'll do you one better and lend you my car keys: you can drive yourself anywhere."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "2219-1",
    "Idiom": [
      "do someone proud"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To cause someone to feel pride or satisfaction.",
    "Sentence": [
      "He very politely assured her that she would ‘ do him proud ’, whenever she might please to call at Hook Court.",
      "\"Well, honest to God, it does me proud to meet you,\" he blurted out. \"Shake hands.\"",
      "I was absolutely delighted with the way we competed and the players did me proud."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "2219-2",
    "Idiom": [
      "do someone proud"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To honor or make someone proud.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Fortune did them proud, for by the time they got to Wilmington, gold had risen to such heights in Confederate currency that their salaries dwarfed those paid to Southerners doing the same work.",
      "We are all in rags now but we did him proud. Wish he could be here to see it all.",
      "The Misses March did me proud. They'd really gone to town and made all the party food that they thought someone my age would like"
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "2220",
    "Idiom": [
      "do someone's head in"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To frustrate or irritate someone.",
    "Sentence": [
      "‘So you spend the nights listening to music?’ ‘And thinking. Does my head in, thoughts going round and round. Dope stops it. The medication sort of does a bit, but not the same.’",
      "I just want to get out there to me bird really...′cos she don′t want me in here all the time, it′s doing her head in. It′s doing my head in. It didn′t used to do my head in, it used to be like care, if you know what I mean, when I first started coming to jail. It used to be like ‘yeah, I′m back in care’ kind of thing.",
      "The endless hours spent in my cell did my head in. With my diagnosed mental illness I find it shocking that I should have had to endure this.",
      "Please stop reading the name of every sign we come across; it's doing my head in !"
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "2221",
    "Idiom": [
      "do the dash"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To hurriedly leave or escape.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "2222",
    "Idiom": [
      "do the decent thing"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To take the honourable or appropriate action, regardless of personal interest.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Mr Speaker, will the Prime Minister do the decent thing and resign?"
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "2223",
    "Idiom": [
      "do the dirty on"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To cheat or betray.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "2224-1",
    "Idiom": [
      "do the honors"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To act as a host.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "2224-2",
    "Idiom": [
      "do the honors"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To perform a duty.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "2225",
    "Idiom": [
      "do the math"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To analyze a situation based on the available facts.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Gore has looked into buying cable channel News World International. Despite initial reports, Gore's camp says he and his backers intend to make the channel not a liberal mouthpiece but a \"hip\" news channel. Maybe; maybe not. (Gore has long complained about the undue influence of conservatives on talk radio and Fox News, so you do the math.)",
      "“The child has marks all over. I saw them when I took her to the bathroom. Ian, she is hurting this child. Now I don't know for sure what's going on here, and maybe it's none of my business. Nevertheless, even I can do the math. You can't let her keep this child for one more day.”",
      "“I can’t tell you what we’re going back to consider,” said Darrell Jordan, a special prosecutor assigned to the case, who cited Texas law regarding grand jury secrecy. “But you can do the math and figure out what it is.”"
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "2226",
    "Idiom": [
      "do the talking"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To communicate an idea or create an impression.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Averaging 82 sunny degrees year round, fringed with blond beaches and lapped by turquoise shallows, Aruba lets the climate do the talking when it comes to appealing to tourists.",
      "For the flashy occasion, Fox wore a jaw-dropping black gown by LaQuan Smith. She let the dress do most of the talking, eschewing flashy jewelry and instead wearing a single chunky silver ring."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "2227",
    "Idiom": [
      "do the trick"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To be successful or solve a problem.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Just that little extra second did the trick.",
      "\"It was the chemicals from this young man's airship that did the trick !\"",
      "Sometimes hormone therapy does the trick, but many infertile couples require more sophisticated manipulation of sperm and eggs."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "2228",
    "Idiom": [
      "do unto others as you would have them do unto you"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Treat others how you want to be treated.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Therefore all things whatsoever ye would that men should do to you, do ye even so to them: for this is the law and the prophets.",
      "And as ye would that men should do to you, do ye also to them likewise."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "2229-1",
    "Idiom": [
      "do up"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To fasten or tighten.",
    "Sentence": [
      "I can't do up my shirt. The button is missing.",
      "Help me do up this zipper.",
      "You hold it in place while I do up the nut."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "2229-2",
    "Idiom": [
      "do up"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To redecorate or improve a space.",
    "Sentence": [
      "If I had been asked what was the rent of the house, I should have said, at the most, not more than twenty pounds, — because, between you and me, it wants a good bit of doing up, and is hardly fit to live in as it stands.",
      "So many people were doing up their apartments that supplies of high-grade fixtures and fittings were at a premium.",
      "I'm going to do up the living room next.",
      "They've done up the house so that they can sell it more easily."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "2229-3",
    "Idiom": [
      "do up"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To execute a task.",
    "Sentence": [
      "This time I'm going to do it up right."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "2229-4",
    "Idiom": [
      "do up"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To pack together.",
    "Sentence": [
      "I did up the parcel with string and took it to the post office."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "2230",
    "Idiom": [
      "do well by doing good"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Achieving success through benevolent actions.",
    "Sentence": [
      "The sanctioning doctrine of Good Works has been at hand every since Benjamin Franklin canonized the Arminian Heresy. So Cash McCall, like his patron saint, does well by doing good.",
      "Of course, like most aid donors, Japan does well by doing good.",
      "He wants companies selling Red products to make a profit by helping the poor— doing well by doing good."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "2231",
    "Idiom": [
      "do well for oneself"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To thrive or succeed.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "2232",
    "Idiom": [
      "do what"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Expresses surprise or lack of comprehension.",
    "Sentence": [
      "\"The throbulator is connected via the tertiary wiring loom.\"' — \" Do what ??\""
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "2233-1",
    "Idiom": [
      "do with mirrors"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Implying trickery or sham through optical illusions.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "2233-2",
    "Idiom": [
      "do with mirrors"
    ],
    "Meaning": "A joking explanation for the fantastic or unexplained.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "2234",
    "Idiom": [
      "do-or-die"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Requiring a determined effort to avoid failure.",
    "Sentence": [
      "At that period the L.N.W.R., with its Webb compounds, was addicted to late arrivals at Carlisle and the Caledonian proceeded to make up the arrears with a \" do-or-die \" attitude.",
      "Clinton and Dole brought different needs to the debate. For Dole it was do or die. He had to hit Clinton hard but without seeming harsh, a conundrum for him all year.",
      "This could be our do-or-die moment — with Democrats holding the White House and barely controlling Congress, this may be the country’s last best political opportunity to do something big on the climate."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "2235",
    "Idiom": [
      "doctors make the worst patients"
    ],
    "Meaning": "It is difficult to advise experts on their own fields.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "2236",
    "Idiom": [
      "dodge a bullet"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To avoid disaster or an undesirable situation.",
    "Sentence": [
      "\"We have all these thousands of bill payers trying to dodge a bullet, trying to shift costs and pay less.\"",
      "Haiti dodged a bullet when Tropical Storm Tomas, once a hurricane, did minimal damage to the country's earthquake-ravaged capital of Port-au-Prince.",
      "By finding and fixing my aneurysm before it ruptured, I had miraculously dodged a bullet."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "2237",
    "Idiom": [
      "does Macy's tell Gimbel's"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Competitors do not share business secrets.",
    "Sentence": [
      "The \" Does Macy's tell Gimbel's? \" gag has been a standard one in New York for many years. It was somewhat shattered last night at the Copacabana, when two young couples were seated at a ringside table and conversed at great length....\"Well, Macy's may not tell Gimbel's,\" said one of the young men, \"But Bloomingdale's does.\"",
      "In other words the older circuit will give the Johnny-come-lately as little help and comfort as it can. After all, does Macy's tell Gimbel's?",
      "...As a lesson in merchandising, not only store products, but good-will, this \"Miracle on 34th Street\" is a dandy. Does Macy's tell Gimbel's? It should!",
      "Col. Hogan (to Col. Klink) Does Macy tell Gimbel?"
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "2238",
    "Idiom": [
      "does the Pope shit in the woods"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Rhetorical question implying an emphatic yes.",
    "Sentence": [
      "\"You still interested in a writing job?\" he asked. Is the Pope Catholic? Does a bear shit in the woods? Or, as one of the guys had said a few weeks before, Does the Pope shit in the woods? A writing job. “Yeah,” was all she could say.",
      "\"I asked her if she would like a coffee. She turned round, smiled and said: ' Does the Pope shit in the woods? ' The wife was aghast. Of course I got the blame!”",
      "\" do you understand that last point about combining two jokes together?\" I almost replied 'Does a bear shit in the woods?' but then I saw the chance to answer in a way that would show I understood them perfectly. \" Does the pope shit in the woods? \" There was a huge round of applause from the invisible audience, in fact it wasn't just a round of applause, ..."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "2239",
    "Idiom": [
      "does the Pope wear a funny hat"
    ],
    "Meaning": "A rhetorical question indicating an emphatic yes.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "2240",
    "Idiom": [
      "dog and cat"
    ],
    "Meaning": "A team with one male and one female, often in a subordinate relationship.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "2241",
    "Idiom": [
      "dog and pony show"
    ],
    "Meaning": "A presentation that is elaborate but lacks substance.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Here, the academics put on a bit of a dog-and-pony show, demonstrating their latest breakthroughs and giving sponsors a chance to meet students who are about to receive their PhDs and start looking for jobs.",
      "Look, I know this may all seem somewhat untoward, and we can go through a whole dog-and-pony show here where I pretend that this column exists as a forum for ideas, and that I act as an independent voice who isn't beholden to advertisers, and the power of the First Amendment, and blah blah, etc. etc. But let's get real for a second here, okay?",
      "They put on a whole dog and pony show for the investors, but I'm not sure they've convinced anyone."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "2242-1",
    "Idiom": [
      "dog around"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To follow diligently.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "2242-2",
    "Idiom": [
      "dog around"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To treat someone poorly, especially in a romantic relationship.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "2243",
    "Idiom": [
      "dog in the hunt"
    ],
    "Meaning": "A position with potential for gain.",
    "Sentence": [
      "The ideal solution is to find individuals or agencies without what is often called \" a dog in the hunt.\" Governmental monitoring organizations and the World Health Organization (WHO), are probably the most reliable sources of raw data [for this issue]",
      "A national political party is unlikely to feel it has a particular dog in the hunt for a typical small town mayoral race."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "2244",
    "Idiom": [
      "dog in the manger"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Someone who denies others something they cannot use.",
    "Sentence": [
      "No adjective is strong enough for characterizing this wicked dog-in-the-manger policy. From various sources I hear tales of such wanton destruction of nations' property in all parts of India."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "2245",
    "Idiom": [
      "dog my cats"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Used as a mild oath or expression of astonishment.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Why, dog my cats, they must a ben a house-full o' niggers in there every night for four weeks to a done all that work, Sister Phelps.",
      "\"I began to feel sorry for Hubby, dog my cats if I didn't.\""
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "2246",
    "Idiom": [
      "dog that caught the car"
    ],
    "Meaning": "A person who has achieved a goal but is uncertain about what to do next.",
    "Sentence": [
      "So I went out, and I was telling the President about what a tough time being Governor was. I felt like the dog that caught the car; I really wasn't equipped to be governor... When I got ready to leave, I realized that I had bored a guy who had to make the decision to drop the bomb, telling him what a tough job being the governor of Arkansas was.",
      "Mr Reynolds, you might be interested, who seems to be one of the six who run the Labor Party in Western Australia, says this about Mr Kobelke : 'As I have said before Mr Kobelke and the government are like a dog that caught the car —they didn't know what to do about it when they caught it.'\"",
      "It captures the face of a dog that's caught the car.",
      "Since its use on the very day after the referendum, it has become a cliché to say that Brexiters are like ‘ the dog that caught the car ’, achieving something they had never expected and then did not know what to do with. That was obvious from the very first hours after the 2016 vote, when Johnson and Gove appeared on TV looking both shocked and scared.",
      "In this sense, the GOP are the proverbial dog that caught the car. For decades, they have been working their voters into frothing hysteria over the need to protect the unborn from abortionists and their Democratic protectors. But what this means in practice... is far less appealing. From a public health standpoint, the draft decision leaked on Monday is an abomination. From a political standpoint, it imperils midterm victories that were for all intents and purposes inevitable."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "2247",
    "Idiom": [
      "dog who caught the tire"
    ],
    "Meaning": "One who achieves an impossible feat but is uncertain about the next steps.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "2248",
    "Idiom": [
      "dog's breakfast"
    ],
    "Meaning": "A mess.",
    "Sentence": [
      "So complex was the scheme that neither blacks nor whites could say for certain who had won. \"A dog's breakfast,\" cried Laborite M.P. James Callaghan. \"I say frankly that I do not begin to understand it.\"",
      "Critics here are reserving judgement on whether ABC will do \"Life in Mars\" justice or make a dog's breakfast of it.",
      "I'd trade one of their sublime sentences for the entire crop of sprawling, show-offy novels – dog′s breakfasts of facetiousness – that are currently the literary vogue."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "2249",
    "Idiom": [
      "dog's chance"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Little or no likelihood.",
    "Sentence": [
      "\"Poor old boy was in a pretty bad way. Fact is,I didn't give him a dog's chance.\"",
      "One day, more than 60 years ago, we went as a family to the National Wallace Monument. My father took a binary, black-and-white approach to people and things: in toothpaste, Colgate was bad and Euthymol good; in bicycles, Raleigh was preferred to BSA; in Polar explorers, Captain Scott didn’t stand a dog’s chance against Amundsen."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "2250-1",
    "Idiom": [
      "dog's life"
    ],
    "Meaning": "A miserable existence.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Mr. Ford afterwards had a dogs life among them."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "2250-2",
    "Idiom": [
      "dog's life"
    ],
    "Meaning": "A life of indolence and freedom.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "2251",
    "Idiom": [
      "dog-tired"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Exhausted.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "2252",
    "Idiom": [
      "dogs have masters; cats have staff",
      "dogs have owners, cats have staff",
      "dogs have masters, cats have staff"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Dogs are loyal to their owners; cats expect to be served.",
    "Sentence": [
      "> ~Krysta Sutterfield / Lady Shandra > Chaos Coordinator > Dogs have masters; cats have staff.",
      "According to Masson, cats are innately spiritual (“There does seem to be a Zen of cats”), their psychological lives are complicated, and we humans had better be aware of the immutable fact that “ dogs have masters; cats have staff.”",
      "She lives in Brookeville, Maryland, with her husband and two cats who live by the adage “ Dogs have masters; cats have staff !”",
      "If I could divide the world into two nice, neat camps, it’d look like this: Dog People and Other. Some sage put it this way: “ Dogs have masters; cats have staff.” That sums it up pretty well, huh?",
      "As the joke goes, a dog looks at all the things we provide for it and thinks, You must be God. A cat looks at all the things we provide for it and thinks, I must be God. Here’s another favorite: “ Dogs have masters; cats have staff.”",
      "Like Deloris’s conversations, the writings often incorporated what she had heard on television. Dogs have masters; cats have staff.",
      "She’d lost all sympathy for the dog. Eva was more of a cat person anyway. She admired their character. Dogs have masters; cats have staff. Felix demonstrated this time and time again.",
      "We have two cats we’re crazy about, but it would be nice to once again have a pet that seems to actually be happy that we are alive. As the saying goes, dogs have masters; cats have staff.",
      "There is a saying that \" dogs have owners, cats have staff.\" This must refer to the fact that dogs are inherently eager to please.",
      "Someone once said, \" Dogs have owners, cats have staff.\" Dogs are better pets than cats because of the fact that they provide more services for their owners.",
      "'It's no good,' said Amana. 'They'll never understand - dogs have owners, cats have staff."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "2253",
    "Idiom": [
      "dole out"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To distribute in portions.",
    "Sentence": [
      "The McCains, by contrast, dole out such homespun wisdom as \"in Arizona, the only way to get around the state is by small private plane\" and understand that in this crazy modern world where the typical family owns eleven homes and spends hundreds of thousands of dollars per year on household staff, you can't possibly expect transportation alternatives to gain popularity.",
      "Only then did we learn that he doled out billions in secret, last-minute bonuses to his staff last month, just before Bank of America took over and just before the government ponied up a second bailout to cover Merrill’s unexpected $15 billion fourth-quarter loss.",
      "The animators, writers and Gilbert do a fantastic job of making Laura an eminently crush-worthy figure of adolescent yearning but the episode doles out scenes of her and Bart together sparingly."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "2254",
    "Idiom": [
      "dollar-sign eyes"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Greediness.",
    "Sentence": [
      "“Damn,” he said to no one in particular but looking at Trixie with dollar-sign eyes, the hardness displayed toward her softening. “We sure 'nuf gonna be seven-figure niggas, huh?”",
      "Like other big cities he'd traveled to, the dollar-sign eyes of the young women couldn't resist staring at the fancy automobile he drove."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "2255",
    "Idiom": [
      "don't buy green bananas"
    ],
    "Meaning": "One should not make long-term plans.",
    "Sentence": [
      "I don't buy green bananas anymore. I only buy one yellow banana, for I may not be around tomorrow.",
      "\"I'm so old, I don't buy green bananas !\" \"Don't say that, Granma! You're not so old...\""
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "2256",
    "Idiom": [
      "don't call me sir, I work for a living"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Indicates that the speaker is a non-commissioned officer.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "2257",
    "Idiom": [
      "don't call us, we'll call you"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Indicates that a candidate will not be hired.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "2258",
    "Idiom": [
      "don't count your chickens before they're hatched"
    ],
    "Meaning": "One should not depend on uncertain outcomes.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Make Fools believe in their fore-seeing / Of things before they are in Being; / To swallow Gudgeons ere th' are catch'd, / And count their Chickens ere th' are hatch'd,"
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "2259",
    "Idiom": [
      "don't count your chicks"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Don't assume success before it happens.",
    "Sentence": [
      "“I figure between fifteen and seventeen hours. She’s already coming out of rigor.” / Dina did a fast calculation. “So that would be somewhere between four and six p.m. yesterday.” / “ Don’t count your chicks, Lieutenant. It’s not over ’til the fat lady sings.” / “I’m approximating. Cause?”",
      "Angie, Margaret, and Mary joined them in chortling as their mates and sons went about the adult game. / “Mine’s longer than yours,” said one. / “Hell, it is not,” answered another. / Joe said, “Wait a minute, guys, don’t count your chicks. We haven’t measured Freddy’s or mine yet. Right, Fred?”",
      "“Good work, Jackson.” Doreen Heckle-Flipper and a couple other penguins from the Mom Squad came shuffling over. “I think we’re soon gonna have to start calling you Mayor Rockflopper!” / The Games official next to them shook her head. “ Don’t count your chicks. Look up there!” / The head scarf-wearing grandma penguin who’d been behind Jackson in the line bounded across the tightrope above them, almost in one leap."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "2260-1",
    "Idiom": [
      "don't drive faster than your guardian angel can fly"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Drive at a safe speed.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Don't drive faster than your guardian angel can fly is one of my favourite proverbs directed at drivers.",
      "Mr. Kelley often shared trucker wisdom as visitors left him to drive home. His three Rules of the Road apply to life as well as to driving: Keep the greasy side down. Watch the car behind the car in front of you. Don’t drive faster than your guardian angel can fly.",
      "Don't drive faster than your guardian angel can fly. Whether you're traveling or in an argument, you better stop when you see red."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "2260-2",
    "Idiom": [
      "don't drive faster than your guardian angel can fly"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Do not rush impulsively into things.",
    "Sentence": [
      "The instructor's concluding trope, “ Don't drive faster than your guardian angel can fly,” conveyed the sentiment that agents should not let their emotions get the better of them.",
      "He gave me a facial expression of recognition, '“ Don't drive faster than your guardian angel can fly ”,' I finished with a smile.",
      "How do we, who have been the doers, step back and learn to accept or even ask for help of these who are new to caregiving? Don't drive faster than your guardian angel can fly, they say."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "2261",
    "Idiom": [
      "don't drop the soap"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Used to mock someone facing imprisonment.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "2262",
    "Idiom": [
      "don't fight the tape"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Do not bet against the trend in financial markets.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "2263",
    "Idiom": [
      "don't fish off the company dock",
      "you don't dip your pen in the inkwell",
      "you don't dip your pen in the company's ink",
      "don't get your honey where you make your money",
      "don't get your meat where you get your bread",
      "you don't get your nookie where you get your cookies",
      "you don't fish off the company pier",
      "you don't dip your pen in company ink",
      "don't dip your pen in company ink"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Avoid workplace romantic relationships.",
    "Sentence": [
      "\"In my job, young hot things have been coming up to me for years,\" says Fletcher, the retired pilot. \" You don't dip your pen in company ink.\"",
      "It wasn't money that attracted his current wife, Madeleine Deininger, who started working for Ravenswood in 1985.... \"We had the policy that you don't dip your pen in company ink. We stayed good friends for a long time,\" Peterson says."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "2264",
    "Idiom": [
      "don't get above your raising"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Do not act above your upbringing.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "2265",
    "Idiom": [
      "don't get mad, get even"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Suggests retaliating instead of getting angry.",
    "Sentence": [
      "To Peter's surprise, Breslin was emphatic: \"Stay in the system. Don't get mad―get even! \"",
      "She said that about you behind your back? Don't get mad, get even !"
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "2266",
    "Idiom": [
      "don't get someone started"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Used to avoid a discussion.",
    "Sentence": [
      "\"Do you know what the veterinary bill was?\" / \"Oh, don't get me started.\"",
      "Don't get him started on conspiracy theories, or you'll never hear the end of it!"
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "2267",
    "Idiom": [
      "don't get your hopes up",
      "don't count your chickens before the eggs have hatched",
      "don't count your chicks before they hatch",
      "don't count your chickens before they've hatched",
      "don't sell the skin till you have caught the bear",
      "don't count your chicks before they're hatched",
      "don't count your chickens"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Don't rely on a positive outcome too soon.",
    "Sentence": [
      "“We’ve started now,” the hot-heads crowed. “’Twon’t be long ’fore we’ve got Nappy on the run from end to end of the Continent.” / “ Don’t count your chickens,” the wise retorted. “’Tis mightily encouraging, but the greatest military power on earth ain’t likely to throw in his hand because an odd battle has gone agin’ him.”",
      "Only the inexperience of a Will Dorman would leap to conclusions. / “Want a word of advice, Will? Don’t count your chickens. The wardrobe sketches for Lucretia have already been approved by Rex. I’m starting fittings on Monday.” / “I’ll admit I’m not used to backing winners, but this time I’ve got my money on the nose. It’s Show Folks On The River, by two lengths, Laurette.”",
      "“They do not know we have landed on Earth,” Mardan cried gleefully. “All thanks to you, Mel Prather. . .” / “ Don’t count your chickens,” the farmer remarked, failing to make sense to them. “In any case,” Prather went on, “you have no reason to fear the police or anybody else unless you have criminal or treasonous leanings. You promise that you haven’t, folks?”",
      "“ Don’t count your chickens before they’ve hatched,” Frank put in. “We’ll have to catch him first, and that won’t be easy.”",
      "The rare privilege of being pampered will delight you, but don’t count your chickens before they’ve hatched.",
      "“ Don’t count your chickens before they’ve hatched,” I warned her. “Sure it seems like we’ve won, but you never know when something bad might happen. ”",
      "This is the last week of this semester, fellows. Are all your spirits high? Or are they like your grades? I’m glad those exams are down the river, aren’t you? Don’t count your chicks before they hatch. We have one more semester before we celebrate all summer.",
      "Armstrong (with scorn): Abe, where are your muscles? I’m gonna throw you, Stringbean! / Lincoln (speaking slowly): Oh, I have a few muscles, Jack. You will see. Don’t count your chicks before they hatch.",
      "“I think I’ll adopt that little Baby Doe myself,” Martha said. “I know they’ll have a hard time finding a home willing to take in a crack baby, and I’ll already have her as a foster child.” / Nettie Lee blew air through her teeth. “ Don’t count your chicks before they hatch.” She stopped rocking and looked at Martha. “You know, folks get paid money to take those babies in. I thought you said money didn’t interest you. Guess you say anything that suits you at the time. Being a foster is a paid job, just like anything else.”",
      "Don’t count your chicks before they’re hatched / As victory from you may be snatched. / Though many boastful claims are made, / The game’s not over till it’s played.",
      "“Oh, well, I just thought, if it is getting that bad with you and Mabel, perhaps I ought to be looking around for a bridesmaid’s outfit.” John laughed a queer, hard laugh. / “ Don’t count your chicks before they’re hatched, Sis. We may break off yet, for all you know.”",
      "Hannah saw the smile and warmed to it like the sun. This was how she always wanted to see him—happy, open, and trusting. She sighed. All this for that doomed goose egg. / “Now Jess,” she said softly, “you’d best not be gettin’ your hopes up too high. It’s not for nothin’ they say it, you know: Don’t count your chicks before they’re hatched.”",
      "‘We can’t do nothing about it now but we’ll skin him this evening,’ said one of the men. / ‘Yeah,’ said the other. They were both pleased with themselves and with their good fortune. / Renard lying doggo on the baskets just behind them, said nothing but smiled to himself. ‘ Don’t count your chicks before they’re hatched, nor your foxes before they’re skinned,’ he thought."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "2268",
    "Idiom": [
      "don't give up your day job"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Advice suggesting someone is unlikely to succeed in their talent.",
    "Sentence": [
      "\"I remember after the school was over,\" he said, \"I went up to the instructor just completely wound up like: ‘O.K. man, how do I do this and become a real racecar driver? I want to quit my job and do this.’... And he goes: ‘Other Sports Beckon. You suck. Don't give up your day job.’ \"",
      "When the accounting department's barbershop quartet was warming up, the sales team was ribbing them, yelling, \" Don't give up your day job! \""
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "2269",
    "Idiom": [
      "don't go there"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Do not broach that topic.",
    "Sentence": [
      "'Surely, in hindsight, you realise she was an unsuitable wife for you,' he stated unequivocally. ' Don't go there, Dad,' Luc warned, hard ruthless steel in his own eyes. 'You've lost one son. You're very close to losing another.'"
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "2270",
    "Idiom": [
      "don't hate the player, hate the game",
      "hate the game, not the player"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Blame the system, not the individuals.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "2271",
    "Idiom": [
      "don't hold your breath"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Don't wait; it's unlikely to happen.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Don't hold your breath and don't jump to conclusions, but there is likely to be an announcement about the future of the railways in the next few weeks - .",
      "- The government says it's going to introduce free meals for all schoolchildren. - Huh, don't hold your breath."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "2272",
    "Idiom": [
      "don't keep a dog and bark yourself"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Don't do tasks assigned to qualified people.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "2273",
    "Idiom": [
      "don't knock yourself out"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Don't overexert yourself.",
    "Sentence": [
      "I'll get round to it soonish. — Well, don't knock yourself out!"
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "2274",
    "Idiom": [
      "don't let the door hit you on the way out"
    ],
    "Meaning": "A command to leave, often indicating indifference about the person's departure.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "2275",
    "Idiom": [
      "don't look a gift horse in the mouth",
      "never look a gift horse in the mouth"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Don't overly criticize or question a gift.",
    "Sentence": [
      "No man ought to looke a geuen hors in the mouth.",
      "He ne’er consider'd it, as loth To look a Gift-horse in the mouth."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "2276-1",
    "Idiom": [
      "don't put all your eggs in one basket"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Do not dedicate all resources to one option.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "2276-2",
    "Idiom": [
      "don't put all your eggs in one basket"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Don't rely on a single option for security.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "2277",
    "Idiom": [
      "don't shit where you eat"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Avoid causing trouble in familiar places, as it may have negative consequences.",
    "Sentence": [
      "The guiding principle is Don't shit where you eat. Office romances are always destructive of morale and objectivity.",
      "Limbaugh was scheduled to deliver the keynote speech at the NAB convention in, of all places, Philadelphia, thus violating the cardinal law of the animal kingdom: Don't shit where you eat.",
      "Mitchell refused to indulge in on-set romances with either gender. \"You don't shit where you eat,\" he told me, plainly."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "2278",
    "Idiom": [
      "don't shoot the messenger"
    ],
    "Meaning": "The bearer of bad news is not to blame.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "2279",
    "Idiom": [
      "don't sweat it"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Do not worry.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "2280",
    "Idiom": [
      "don't sweat the small stuff"
    ],
    "Meaning": "One should not worry about insignificant matters.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "2281",
    "Idiom": [
      "don't tell me"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Introduces a guess at a fact or situation.",
    "Sentence": [
      "“Sorry. Excuse me. Am I very late?” Henrietta shrugged. They had travelled the world together on commissions for the Morning Graphic. They had been in many scrapes but the irritation she felt with him never went away. She admonished him. “ Don't tell me. You've brought that damn Morgan Aero8 sports car with you, haven't you? You've been trying to park it, keeping me waiting.”"
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "2282",
    "Idiom": [
      "don't try to teach grandma how to suck eggs"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Don't give advice to the experienced.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "2283",
    "Idiom": [
      "done and dusted"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Completed thoroughly and satisfactorily.",
    "Sentence": [
      "All to be done and dusted before the National Honey Show. After this the grand clear up."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "2284",
    "Idiom": [
      "done deal"
    ],
    "Meaning": "A final agreement.",
    "Sentence": [
      "“You get a win and suddenly the crowd’s on your side again. It was a shot in the arm for two reasons. First, when we work together, we are stronger. Second, this isn’t a done deal.”"
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "2285",
    "Idiom": [
      "donkey work"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Menial, tedious work.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Labi said she did not need to carry planks of wood on her head any more, it was donkey work for idiots",
      "But what looks like donkeywork is a necessary step in a formulaic approach, a set of prescribed practices that have their own embedded wisdom.",
      "Why does everyone else get the interesting work while I have to do all the donkey work ?"
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "2286",
    "Idiom": [
      "donkey's ears"
    ],
    "Meaning": "A long time.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Now for my first bath for what the men call ‘ Donkey’s ears ’, meaning years and years."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "2287",
    "Idiom": [
      "donkey's years"
    ],
    "Meaning": "A long time.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Didn't you ask him how long it had been in his possession? I can't recollect that. I might have done so. Didn't he say for years and years and donkey's years ?",
      "With a heavy make-up, you’ll be the cutest vamp I’ve seen in donkey’s years."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "2288",
    "Idiom": [
      "doomed if you do, doomed if you don't"
    ],
    "Meaning": "A dilemma where either choice leads to a negative outcome.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "2289-1",
    "Idiom": [
      "dope sheet"
    ],
    "Meaning": "A summary document with important facts and background information.",
    "Sentence": [
      "\"He went to Alaska and made a fortune. Then he squandered it, drinking, fighting, gambling, and frittering it away on women....\" \"Hold up! Your dope sheet is way to the bad.... Who told you all that?\" \"Never mind. I have proof.\"",
      "Then she started filling me in on background information that you could get from any press agent's dope sheet.",
      "Bradley O'Leary, a devout Republican, and Victor Kamber, a staunch Democrat, are publishers of the Washington-based political dope sheet called the O'Leary/Kamber Report.",
      "Karoulis's face twitched with a combination of fear and hope, wondering what news his Homicide Detective had for him.... \"Name was Sten Doppleman. A known pusher, and a punk.... According to his dope sheet, he's a vicious son of a bitch.\""
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "2289-2",
    "Idiom": [
      "dope sheet"
    ],
    "Meaning": "A publication that summarizes information for wagering on competitions.",
    "Sentence": [
      "The Bruins, seeking their third straight NCAA title, are picked on The Times dope sheet with 59 points.",
      "Also, he probably attends harness races, for he once accidentally left a dope sheet behind."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "2289-3",
    "Idiom": [
      "dope sheet"
    ],
    "Meaning": "A summary of content and technical information for photographs.",
    "Sentence": [
      "The \"field number\" of the film is indexed into a reference file, along with the cameraman's \"dope\" sheet.",
      "Moreover, both the official cameramen and the newsreel cameramen were required to write a detailed ‘ dope sheet ’ describing each shot they had taken.",
      "The dope sheet for the photographs, which may have been written some time later reads: \"Accidentally shot by an Englishman while hunting in Africa.\""
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "2289-4",
    "Idiom": [
      "dope sheet"
    ],
    "Meaning": "A set of detailed instructions for production.",
    "Sentence": [
      "From a workflow point of view, the access to these tools seems to have been guided by artists with experience with exposure sheets (a dope sheet for lip synch is included) and traditional animation."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "2290",
    "Idiom": [
      "dormitive principle"
    ],
    "Meaning": "A tautology explaining an item using different words.",
    "Sentence": [
      "We note Bateson's (1968) dormitive principle at work in which behaviors are described as traits such as LD, which then are used to explain the behavior.",
      "For Arrow, many socioeconomic phenomena are explained in terms of the \"dormitive principle\", which, he says, simply repeats the phenomenon being explained.",
      "If we examine traditional explanations of behavior through the lens of recursion, we will sometimes find what Bateson called \" dormitive principles,\" a form of circular description. A \"dormitive principle\" is a more abstract repackaging of a description of the item you claim to be explaining. To paraphrase Bateson, this occurs when the cause of a simple action, as for example, when aggression is explained as being caused by an \"aggressive instinct\" or psychotic symptomatology is attributed to \"madness.\"",
      "And to any intelligent reader, explanation of an 'inherent ability' was reminiscent of Molière's mock explanation of the soporific effects of opium - that it contained a ' dormitive principle'.",
      "Similarly, to view “leadership\" as something that resides in a person is to generate a dormitive principle. This would inspire such pseudoexplanations as “He leads because he possesses leadership qualities.”",
      "Prevent disability from becoming a dormitive principle that can, per se, justify any conduct or event in the interaction of the disabled person",
      "To say that \"he only uses drugs because he is the black sheep” is to mix up these logical types, also called invoking the dormitive principle."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "2291",
    "Idiom": [
      "dormitive virtue"
    ],
    "Meaning": "A tautology explaining something with itself in different words.",
    "Sentence": [
      "The inevitable next suggestion -— that aesthetic experience is distinguished not by pleasure at all but by a special aesthetic emotion can be dropped on the waste-pile of \" dormitive virtue ” explanations",
      "Solidity now has all the defects of a dormitive virtue, obscurity, unobservability, something-we-know-notwhattery — and none of the advantages of a dormitive virtue",
      "Because (1) is postulated and at the same time used as a covering law, the putative explanations are vacuous in the sense in which explanatory appeals to dormitive virtue are.",
      "Now admittedly, this has the look of a dormitive virtue argument: the reason the intellect can recollect its own activity is that it possesses just such a recollective capacity.",
      "But if talk of such facts just arises via hypostatizations out of the relevant truths, then the facts posited can't explain the truths except via a blatant dormitive virtue explanation.",
      "Fitness is not the empty idea of a dormitive virtue. The point is that although fitness is explanatory, it seems to be a placeholder for a deeper account that dispenses with the concept of fitness [again the propensity concept]."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "2292",
    "Idiom": [
      "dot the i's and cross the t's"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To be meticulous and attend to every detail.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Pray, sir, what is the object of referring a bill to a committee —merely to dot the i's and cross the t's ?",
      "Before taking the project to the CEO, let's make sure we dot the i's and cross the t's."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "2293-1",
    "Idiom": [
      "double Dutch"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Incomprehensible language.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "2293-2",
    "Idiom": [
      "double Dutch"
    ],
    "Meaning": "A language game.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "2293-3",
    "Idiom": [
      "double Dutch"
    ],
    "Meaning": "A game of jump rope with two ropes.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "2293-4",
    "Idiom": [
      "double Dutch"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Use of two forms of contraception.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "2294",
    "Idiom": [
      "double back"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To retrace one's steps.",
    "Sentence": [
      "And now she has the real dilemma: press on to King’s Landing, where I have no doubt she could get as close to killing Cersei as anyone else, or double back to Winterfell to reunite with her family.",
      "They doubled back in hopes of finding the road again."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "2295",
    "Idiom": [
      "double booked"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Reserved for two different users at the same time.",
    "Sentence": [
      "The room was double booked for a convention and a wedding in the same night."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "2296",
    "Idiom": [
      "double in brass"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To perform multiple tasks within the same project.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Angela, like several of the Chase faculty, had to double in brass and offer the seminary's few courses in an academic field other than her specialized area of ethics and moral theology."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "2297",
    "Idiom": [
      "double over"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To bend over.",
    "Sentence": [
      "A padded knee shattered my balls. I doubled over in the hallway, coughing up blood and yellow stuff I thought might be bile.",
      "“Do you have documents on you?” asked one of the guards. “Good, then we’ll know how to mark your grave if you fall behind the convoy.” The joke made his comrades double over with laughter.",
      "doubled over in pain"
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "2298",
    "Idiom": [
      "double taker"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Something causing surprise or reconsideration.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "2299",
    "Idiom": [
      "double tap"
    ],
    "Meaning": "A shooting technique of quickly firing two shots at the same target.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "2300",
    "Idiom": [
      "double-tongued"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Deceitful in speech.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "2301-1",
    "Idiom": [
      "dough-faced"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Cowardly.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "2301-2",
    "Idiom": [
      "dough-faced"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Easily influenced or submissive.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "2302",
    "Idiom": [
      "dowdy up"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To make something appear plain and unattractive.",
    "Sentence": [
      "I don't want one ounce of sex appeal emanating from me. I find flip-flops that are too big, and roll up the hem. Hell, I'm even going to dowdy up my hair."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "2303",
    "Idiom": [
      "down and out"
    ],
    "Meaning": "In a condition of poverty or weakness due to setbacks.",
    "Sentence": [
      "So if I ever get my hand on a dollar again, I'm gonna hold on to it 'til them eagles grin Nobody knows you, when you down and out In my pocket not one penny, and my friends I haven't any",
      "Didn't take too long 'fore I found out What people mean by down and out",
      "People who are down and out need some place to turn."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "2304",
    "Idiom": [
      "down at heel"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Shabbily dressed or impoverished.",
    "Sentence": [
      "He was a queer shoot, again, in his unkempt longish hair and slovenly clothes, a sort of very vulgar down-at-heel American in appearance.",
      "For the likes of her, the down-at-heels support of Hoboken pier was plenty good enough.",
      "Last year, he was down at heel, homeless and had an erratic relationship with his family.",
      "A down-at-the-heels advertising copywriter when he hit on the idea, he originally meant it as a joke.",
      "Researchers analysed 500 interviews with people in right-wing strongholds in France and Germany, places such as Gelsenkirchen-Ost, a down-at-heel suburb north-east of Essen blighted with high levels of unemployment and where anti-immigrant party Alternativ für Deutschland (AfD) garnered nearly a third of the vote in the 2017 elections"
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "2305",
    "Idiom": [
      "down but not out"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Temporarily incapacitated but not defeated.",
    "Sentence": [
      "He raised dim eyes to her, eyes that seemed already filmed with death's opaque curtains, but bravely, slowly smiled. \"I'm down, but not out, darlin'. That brute of a doctor jolted me hard; I nearly took the count—but I'm—still in the ring. \"",
      "The intention is not to make it a hotel for downs and outs, the riffraff of Chicago’s slums, but to have it a hotel where men who are ‘down’ but not ‘out’ can obtain comfortable rooms and wholesome food at nominal prices.",
      "By midnight, two hours after the polls had closed, the first results showed a massive 10 per cent swing right across the country. A defeated David Cameron and his wife, Samantha, left the count down but not out."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "2306",
    "Idiom": [
      "down cellar"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Downstairs.",
    "Sentence": [
      "I had to run down cellar to turn off the water main."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "2307-1",
    "Idiom": [
      "down for the count"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Decisively beaten or defeated.",
    "Sentence": [
      "“But what puts me down for the count is the action of the fellow. Never showed up; just made her miss two performances.”",
      "But every time the music world thought it was down for the count, the orchestra has managed to rise again.",
      "So, while Europe is still groggy and the U.S. is just starting to show signs of a pulse (and Japan of course is still down for the count), little Korea will grow anywhere from 3.2% to 6% this year."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "2307-2",
    "Idiom": [
      "down for the count"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Unconscious or asleep.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "2308",
    "Idiom": [
      "down in the dumps"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Sad and lacking enthusiasm.",
    "Sentence": [
      "\"You've got down in the dumps and can't see what's sensible and to your own advantage.\"",
      "\"Being out of work sometimes makes you feel down in the dumps and being out here with my buddies helps.\""
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "2309",
    "Idiom": [
      "down in the mouth"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Sad or discouraged in appearance.",
    "Sentence": [
      "\"Is the old 'un here?\" asked the robber. \"Yes,\" replied the voice, \"and precious down in the mouth he has been.\"",
      "Said Chrysler's tough, dynamic boss, K. T. Keller: \"Don't get down in the mouth about business in this country. There is going to be a lot of money spent here.\"",
      "\"He was down in the mouth and low on self-confidence,\" says his mother, Nina Engel."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "2310",
    "Idiom": [
      "down on one's luck"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Unlucky or experiencing a period of bad luck.",
    "Sentence": [
      "I'm sorry to hear you are down on your luck;",
      "If Crabtree is down on his luck he will most likely be willing to do anything for money.",
      "--He is down on his luck. He asked me to ask you to ask somebody named Boylan, a billsticker, to give him a job as a sandwichman.",
      "Willie \"tries to resist\"—being, as the synopsis explains, \"an attractive and intelligent girl who is simply down on her luck in the ruins of postwar Germany.\"",
      "Pitcher Kyle Lohse, 29, who has had unsuccessful stints with the Minnesota Twins, Cincinnati Reds and Philadelphia Phillies, seems to have found a home with the St. Louis Cardinals, a team that has a knack for turning around pitchers down on their luck."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "2311",
    "Idiom": [
      "down on one's uppers"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Impecunious; lacking money.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "2312",
    "Idiom": [
      "down the drain"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Wasted or irretrievable.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Well, my sense of humanity has gone down the drain Behind every beautiful thing there's been some kind of pain."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "2313",
    "Idiom": [
      "down the line"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Further along in time or progress.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Southgate's side cast off the clouds of dread that have come over England in penalty shootouts in the past, a psychological lift that may yet help them further down the line.",
      "The person said one of the reasons the Chinese had been so pliant in development of a joint position on AI governance was that “playing nice” and acting as a “responsible partner” could help foster conversations about relaxation of US trade barriers later down the line.",
      "They decided to save money by using the cheapest components available, but down the line they ran into problems with reliability."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "2314",
    "Idiom": [
      "down the road"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Further along in time or progress.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Sometimes I go to the bars and see these kids and think about the meaninglessness and the emptiness that they'll be feeling five or six years down the road when they're tired of partying.",
      "Ten years down the road : car giant foresees the non-polluting, accident-proof saloon [title]",
      "Although the precision medicine initiative will probably yield its greatest benefits years down the road, there should be some notable near-term successes.",
      "They decided to save money by using the cheapest components available, but down the road they ran into problems with reliability."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "2315",
    "Idiom": [
      "down the road, not across the street"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Along the radial artery rather than across.",
    "Sentence": [
      "We repeated the words ‘ down the road, not across the street ’ when discussing the use of knives. To cut horizontally was to commit the gravest possible sin for a young woman: to do something for attention."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "2316",
    "Idiom": [
      "down the toilet",
      "down the cludgie",
      "down the khazi",
      "down the pan",
      "down the tubes",
      "go down the drain",
      "go down the khazi",
      "go down the pan",
      "go down the tubes"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Into a state of collapse or failure.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Well, their reputation is down the toilet.",
      "\"Whoever the hell is running the place now has made a terrible mess of it,\" he said... \"Not in the sense that it looks different, or that it isn't pretty much permanently full. It's just that the food as gone utterly down the khazi.\"",
      "\"Whoever the hell is running the place now has made a terrible mess of it,\" he said... \"Not in the sense that it looks different, or that it isn't pretty much permanently full. It's just that the food as gone utterly down the khazi.\"",
      "The project would seriously go down the pan if Mrs. Foster weren't here to keep it on the straight and narrow.",
      "Meanwhile, Susan's own workplace shut down, and she found herself \"on the street with no job and a two-year-old kid. I was trying my damndest and I was going right down the tubes.\"",
      "The entire plan went down the tubes when they found they couldn't get strawberries in December."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "2317",
    "Idiom": [
      "down the track"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Further along in time or progress.",
    "Sentence": [
      "I would like to support your proposal, but I can't guarantee how I'll feel down the track."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "2318",
    "Idiom": [
      "down to a fine art"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To a point of exceptional proficiency.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "2319-1",
    "Idiom": [
      "down to the short strokes"
    ],
    "Meaning": "In the final steps of a lengthy undertaking.",
    "Sentence": [
      "\"I would say we are down to the short strokes, down to the cleanup phase\" of the investigation, said E. Campion Kersten, a Fox Point lawyer."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "2319-2",
    "Idiom": [
      "down to the short strokes"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To the final steps of a lengthy undertaking.",
    "Sentence": [
      "\"You should never count Lyndon out,\" Nixon said. \"When it comes down to the short strokes, there's no one who can handle them better than Lyndon Johnson.",
      "When the budget negotiations get down to the short strokes in October, should I cave or take the \"train wreck\"?",
      "Anyone who wants to vote on delegates who will then decide whether to ratify the deal must have a membership by the end of this week. \"It's getting down to the short strokes,\" MacKay said."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "2320-1",
    "Idiom": [
      "down to the wire"
    ],
    "Meaning": "At the very end of a process, especially before a deadline.",
    "Sentence": [
      "He was almost done with the paper, but tomorrow's due date meant it would be down to the wire."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "2320-2",
    "Idiom": [
      "down to the wire"
    ],
    "Meaning": "At the very end of a process or project.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Liverpool created a host of chances and had a Joel Matip goal ruled out for a foul and offside in an incident-packed game that went right down to the wire before Jurgen Klopp 's side prevailed.",
      "He was almost done with the paper, but tomorrow's due date meant it would come down to the wire."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "2321",
    "Idiom": [
      "down tools"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To stop work.",
    "Sentence": [
      "But when railway workers downed tools almost a year later, on September 26 1919, Britain was in many ways still a country at war.",
      "In Coventry, 300 GMB members plan to down tools over long hours, bad management and a 50p-an-hour pay rise."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "2322-1",
    "Idiom": [
      "down under"
    ],
    "Meaning": "In Australia.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Surfing is a popular sport down under."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "2322-2",
    "Idiom": [
      "down under"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Refers to Australia.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Thank you Boris and I want to thank that fella down under. Thank you very much, pal; appreciate it Mr. Prime Minister.",
      "We traveled down under for our vacation."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "2323",
    "Idiom": [
      "down with the kids"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Attempts to appeal to young people by imitating them.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "2324",
    "Idiom": [
      "down-and-outer"
    ],
    "Meaning": "A person who is struggling or in difficult circumstances.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "2325-1",
    "Idiom": [
      "down-to-earth"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Practical and realistic.",
    "Sentence": [
      "He had a down-to-earth attitude that translated into a straightforward, but effective strategy."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "2325-2",
    "Idiom": [
      "down-to-earth"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Ordinary or realistic.",
    "Sentence": [
      "\"I'm sorry, but I'm not going to devote any of tonight's news to evil monkey shenanigans unless you can find something more down to earth to focus your report on.\""
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "2326",
    "Idiom": [
      "drag on"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Lasts too long.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Debate on the Kellogg Mar renunciation treaty dragged on in the senate today with no immediate prospect of final action.",
      "In Washington state, the race for governor drags on – and on [title]",
      "The villain is a grotesque exterminator voiced by Paul Giamatti, and the climactic battle against him, though it drags on a bit too long, does have its moments.",
      "He wants to offer a better experience of the railways, especially as women and children are increasingly making return visits to see the men of their families as the war drags on and their exile becomes semi-permanent."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "2327-1",
    "Idiom": [
      "drag one's feet"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To procrastinate or make slow progress.",
    "Sentence": [
      "There was much to love about this last season, from the tense opening barfight to the finale shootout with the IRA, which was so disorientingly murky and gas-filled it felt otherworldly. But it struggled to ever quite get going, with the first five episodes dragging their feet in a way that began to frustrate.",
      "I have been dragging my feet about filing my taxes."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "2327-2",
    "Idiom": [
      "drag one's feet"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To intentionally stall or delay.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "2328",
    "Idiom": [
      "drag through the mud"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To tarnish or spoil someone's reputation.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Red Moon Monster: Ever since that cheesy movie dragged our names through the mud, life hasn't been the same!"
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "2329",
    "Idiom": [
      "drain the python"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To urinate.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Riley got sent to the office for draining the python on the school playground."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "2330",
    "Idiom": [
      "drain the snake"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To urinate.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "2331",
    "Idiom": [
      "drama king"
    ],
    "Meaning": "An overly dramatic person, especially a man or boy.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "2332",
    "Idiom": [
      "drama queen"
    ],
    "Meaning": "An overly dramatic person.",
    "Sentence": [
      "If he is thwarted in his effort to enjoy them, he may either go to the dogs or the drama queens, become short-tempered, sullen, grouchy and eventually feel that, in a way he is a failure.",
      "I’ve known quite a few drama queens in my time, and I always have the same thought: She reminds me of junior high. Most girls are drama queens at that age."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "2333",
    "Idiom": [
      "drastic times call for drastic measures",
      "desperate times call for desperate measures",
      "desperate times require desperate measures"
    ],
    "Meaning": "In tough situations, extreme actions may be necessary.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "2334-1",
    "Idiom": [
      "draw a blank"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Unable to recall information.",
    "Sentence": [
      "I should know that person's name, but I'm drawing a blank."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "2334-2",
    "Idiom": [
      "draw a blank"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To fail to produce a response or solution.",
    "Sentence": [
      "\"Oh,\" she replied, \"when I came to think of it, I saw, that you were right. I thought, 'twas quite likely it [the lottery ticket] would draw a blank. \"",
      "When she brainstormed about what else she would do, where else she would go, her mind drew a blank."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "2335",
    "Idiom": [
      "draw a line"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To set a boundary.",
    "Sentence": [
      "How to strike this balance —deterring China, on the one hand, accommodating its legitimate growth, on the other— is the central strategic challenge for American diplomacy. The United States can and should draw lines with China. But it should also recognize that it cannot draw lines everywhere.",
      "Seth Diamond, commissioner of the Department of Homeless Services, drew a line between evacuees and the “traditional homeless,” arguing that court-ordered rules on shelter standards do not apply to short-term shelter from a natural disaster."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "2336",
    "Idiom": [
      "draw a long bow"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To lie or exaggerate.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "2337",
    "Idiom": [
      "draw a straight furrow"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To live correctly or ethically.",
    "Sentence": [
      "None could n't quicker pitch a ton Nor dror a furrer straighter"
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "2338",
    "Idiom": [
      "draw even"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To attain the same level as a competitor.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "2339-1",
    "Idiom": [
      "draw fire"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To attract gunfire from an adversary to gain a tactical advantage.",
    "Sentence": [
      "\"If you find only a handful of men there, drive them off; if they are in force, get near enough to draw their fire and find out their strength.\"",
      "But the latest Santa Fe development, while not spurring the Rock Island to any further acceleration, has drawn fire from a totally unexpected quarter.",
      "Sometimes troops go into insurgent areas for the principal purpose of drawing their fire —so the Americans can shoot back and capture or kill them.",
      "The Navy Seals drew fire from only one al-Qaida gunman and quickly killed him."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "2339-2",
    "Idiom": [
      "draw fire"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To create a distraction for an advantage.",
    "Sentence": [
      "By-the-way, you've never had much talk with Miss Woodburn, have you, March?\" \"Not so much as with Miss Woodburn's father.\" \"Well, he is rather apt to scoop the conversation. I must draw his fire, sometime, when you and Mrs. March are around, and get you a chance with Miss Woodburn.\""
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "2339-3",
    "Idiom": [
      "draw fire"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To attract criticism or anger.",
    "Sentence": [
      "The Compugraphics Corporation, a company that once drew fire for its income‐augmenting accounting practices, is making an impression in Wall Street these days with a solid record of quality earnings gains.",
      "An Irish writer living in Devon, Trevor is alert to the quirks of people on both sides of the Irish Sea Bullies and bigots of every stripe draw his fire.",
      "CBS television President Les Moonves has been the man in the hot seat. After a conservative outcry, he abruptly canceled a mini-series about Ronald Reagan, only to draw fire from liberals complaining that he caved in to pressure."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "2340-1",
    "Idiom": [
      "draw in"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To attract.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Their concerts draw in big crowds.",
      "The campfire drew in numerous unwary moths."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "2340-2",
    "Idiom": [
      "draw in"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To get someone involved.",
    "Sentence": [
      "They drew in the quiet boy who hadn't wanted to participate."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "2340-3",
    "Idiom": [
      "draw in"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To approach.",
    "Sentence": [
      "They saw that the night was quickly drawing in, so they pitched their tent."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "2340-4",
    "Idiom": [
      "draw in"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To become darker earlier due to seasonal change.",
    "Sentence": [
      "It's that time of year again when the evenings really start to draw in."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "2341",
    "Idiom": [
      "draw off"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To remove using a siphon.",
    "Sentence": [
      "The butler drew off wine from a barrel."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "2342",
    "Idiom": [
      "draw one's last breath"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To die.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "2343",
    "Idiom": [
      "draw stumps"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To cease doing something.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "2344",
    "Idiom": [
      "draw the line"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To set a boundary or limit.",
    "Sentence": [
      "By contrast, the British government draws the line at giving the Community a significant new role in setting minimum standards on working conditions, labor representation on corporate boards, and social affairs.",
      "I don't mind if they have some fun, but I draw the line at anything that might harm others."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "2345",
    "Idiom": [
      "draw the long bow",
      "pull the long bow"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To exaggerate.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Dublin residents, like those jarvies waiting news from abroad, would tempt any ancient mariner who sailed the ocean seas to draw the long bow about the schooner Hesperus and etcetera."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "2346",
    "Idiom": [
      "draw the short straw"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To be selected for an undesirable task.",
    "Sentence": [
      "I drew the short straw and got stuck doing the whole project alone."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "2347",
    "Idiom": [
      "dress down"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To scold.",
    "Sentence": [
      "One night – it was 2.30am – he dressed down a graduate, screaming in her face: “Are you stupid? Are you a fucking stupid cunt?” I had never seen anything like it in a workplace, or on TV, and I haven’t since.",
      "Mark Zuckerberg, Jeff Bezos and other tech luminaries have all been dressed down on Capitol Hill by lawmakers upset with their companies."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "2348",
    "Idiom": [
      "dress to kill"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To dress up to impress others.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "2349",
    "Idiom": [
      "dressed to kill"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Dressed in a fashionable style.",
    "Sentence": [
      "She's a scented magazine/Looking sharp and living clean/Living well and dressed to kill /But she looks like hell to me",
      "During the 1980s, its vivid streetlife became a symbol of the “consumer socialism” that distinguished Hungary from other Eastern Bloc states, but Budapesters today are rather less enamoured of Váci: dressed-to-kill babes and their sugar daddies would rather pose in malls, and teenagers can find McDonald's anywhere, leaving Váci utterly dependent on tourists for its livelihood and bustle."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "2350",
    "Idiom": [
      "dressed to the nines"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Very fancily or formally dressed.",
    "Sentence": [
      "During the early part of the day he took a stroll in the vicinity of \"Fell's Point,\" dressed to the nines, with his cravat, and pin, and shirt collar neatly folded over.",
      "All you will see is a girl you once knew, although she's dressed up to the nines, at sixes and sevens with you.",
      "He arrived at the gala, dressed to the nines in his top hat and tails."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "2351",
    "Idiom": [
      "dressing-down"
    ],
    "Meaning": "A reprimand.",
    "Sentence": [
      "\"I'll give him a dressing down, see if I don't.\" Mrs. Mudge's eyes snapped viciously, and she clutched the relics of the broom with a degree of energy which rendered it uncertain what sort of a dressing down she intended for her husband.",
      "When the blacksmith saw what Babo had done to his mother, he caught him by the collar, and fell to giving him such a dressing down as never man had before.",
      "\"We must all bow to you, and try to get a favorable word, must we? This man shall have a leg up, and this man shall have a dressing down !\"",
      "Just ask Gen. Yevgeny I. Ignatov, a former mayor of Torzhok, who stepped down two years ago after a dressing-down from the regional governor."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "2352",
    "Idiom": [
      "dried-fish woman"
    ],
    "Meaning": "A woman lacking a significant other.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "2353",
    "Idiom": [
      "drift apart"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To lose contact or closeness.",
    "Sentence": [
      "To think of what we've been, and not to kiss again, seems like pretending it isn't ending, two friends drifting apart, two friends but one broken heart",
      "We used to be good friends but we drifted apart over the years."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "2354-1",
    "Idiom": [
      "drift off"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To fall asleep gradually.",
    "Sentence": [
      "He went to sleep, lying there under a wing of his plane, and presently Bland himself drifted off into dreams."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "2354-2",
    "Idiom": [
      "drift off"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To lose concentration.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "2355-1",
    "Idiom": [
      "drill down"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To examine information in greater detail.",
    "Sentence": [
      "From the employee list, you can drill down to find addresses and pay history."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "2355-2",
    "Idiom": [
      "drill down"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To replace data with more specific data.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Clicking here lets you replace the annual sales data with monthly data, drilling down to help you track revenue."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "2356-1",
    "Idiom": [
      "drink from a firehose"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To be overwhelmed with an excessive amount.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "2356-2",
    "Idiom": [
      "drink from a firehose"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To take a small amount from an overwhelming quantity.",
    "Sentence": [
      "If we are to be drinking from a firehose, with billions of web pages at our fingertips, then we should possess the skills to manage its flow."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "2357",
    "Idiom": [
      "drink with the flies"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To drink alcohol alone.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "2358",
    "Idiom": [
      "drinking hole"
    ],
    "Meaning": "A bar.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "2359",
    "Idiom": [
      "dripping water hollows a stone"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Minor influences can lead to significant change over time.",
    "Sentence": [
      "In this case, as in all others of the kind, the report was known to all the chapter before it had been heard by the archdeacon or his wife. The dean heard it, and disregarded it; as did also the dean's wife—at first; and those who generally sided with the Grantlys in the diocesan battles pooh-poohed the tidings, saying to each other that both the archdeacon and Mrs. Grantly were very well able to take care of their own affairs. But dripping water hollows a stone; and at last it was admitted on all sides that there was ground for fear,—on all sides, except at Plumstead."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "2360",
    "Idiom": [
      "drive a coach and horses through"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To spoil or render ineffective.",
    "Sentence": [
      "These findings drive a coach and horses through the claim that Wonga has been lending responsibly.",
      "We’ve been told that No 10 is preparing to update its obesity strategy. Part of that must be to get us all eating more healthily.¶ But a sugary, junk-filled trade deal will drive a coach and horses through it all."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "2361",
    "Idiom": [
      "drive a stake through its heart"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Destroy permanently.",
    "Sentence": [
      "The Chandlers also were interested in retaining the family fortune, not squandering it, and the Mirror-News was losing $2 million a year. If, the Chandlers thought, they could kill the Mirror-News and drive a stake through its heart, they would be much better off.",
      "\"You can't reform ODOT,\" he says wearily, \"you can only drive a stake through its heart.\"",
      "We hear great debate about how this is a bad treaty and we should defeat it and drive a stake through its heart, but what, then, should we do?",
      "We can't tinker with this tax code monstrosity or try to reform around the edges. The only thing we can do with this hideous beast is kill it, drive a stake through its heart, bury it, and hope that it never rises again to terrorize the American people."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "2362-1",
    "Idiom": [
      "drive a wedge"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To separate.",
    "Sentence": [
      "(Can we add an example for this sense?)"
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "2362-2",
    "Idiom": [
      "drive a wedge"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Causes dispute or hostility between people.",
    "Sentence": [
      "“German trade with China dwarfs all other member states, and Germany clearly drives policy on China in the E.U.,” said Theresa Fallon, director of the Center for Russia Europe Asia Studies in Brussels. Germany’s economic dependence on China “is driving a wedge in trans-Atlantic relations,” Ms. Fallon said."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "2363",
    "Idiom": [
      "drive away"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To force someone or something to leave.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Sébastien Bassong is being driven away by the \"madness\" at Newcastle United, a source close to the Frenchman has told the local Evening Chronicle newspaper.",
      "We would like to believe in the enchanting influence of Gandhigiri as the single absolute force that drove away the whites who probably went muttering, 'bloody Indians', an expression that was enthusiastically attributed to Englishmen by innumerable Hindi films.",
      "I managed to drive the vultures away by shouting and waving my arms about.",
      "Unsanitary conditions are driving away business."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "2364-1",
    "Idiom": [
      "drive down"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To cause a decrease.",
    "Sentence": [
      "The wind chill drives down the temperature."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "2364-2",
    "Idiom": [
      "drive down"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To drive south.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "2365",
    "Idiom": [
      "drive for show, putt for dough"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Emphasizes the importance of putting over long drives in golf for success.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "2366",
    "Idiom": [
      "drive off"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To force to leave.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "2367",
    "Idiom": [
      "drive out"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To force someone or something out of a place.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "2368-1",
    "Idiom": [
      "drive someone crazy"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To annoy or irritate.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Jesse Helms, the Republican from North Carolina, drove me crazy at first."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "2368-2",
    "Idiom": [
      "drive someone crazy"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To cause infatuation.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Dance for you / Don't it drive you crazy baby?"
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "2369",
    "Idiom": [
      "drive someone up the wall"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To infuriate.",
    "Sentence": [
      "There is nothing and no one that's going to shut him up. That's what makes [Chris] Tucker funny. It's also what can drive you up the wall about him.",
      "Her persistent nagging and constant bickering with me nearly drove me up the wall."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "2370-1",
    "Idiom": [
      "drive up"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To cause an increase.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "2370-2",
    "Idiom": [
      "drive up"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To drive to a location further north.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "2371",
    "Idiom": [
      "drive-by media"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Media providing quick, misleading statements without context.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "2372",
    "Idiom": [
      "drool bucket"
    ],
    "Meaning": "A person with low intelligence.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Howard get paid countless millions every year to make fun of drool buckets like you!",
      "\"You're a worthless human being, RonB, we won't even let you play a kazoo in our band. Not *even* a kazoo, you drool bucket.\"",
      "Ceepak's dad is currently bunking with the drool bucket : Nicky Nichols."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "2373",
    "Idiom": [
      "drop a bollock"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To make a mistake.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "2374",
    "Idiom": [
      "drop a bombshell",
      "drop a bomb",
      "drop a brick"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To announce surprising or alarming information suddenly.",
    "Sentence": [
      "When the two men got together to discuss contract arrangements, the challenger dropped a bombshell. \"If you lie down you can have the whole purse — $10,000,\" O'Brien told him. 23",
      "John and Rick were knee-deep in pre-production when the client dropped a bombshell : Both of the tax services spots had been killed, but they still needed to air something in the same time frame.",
      "\"Yeah, you are my baby's daddy. Well I have to leave, but we'll be in touch.\" Asia dropped a piece of paper on my desk and walked out the door with a huge smile on her face. How could Asia just come in and drop a bombshell and then walk out like there was nothing to it?",
      "Three hours after Hussein Kamel left, he called my office and dropped a bomb on me. “President Saddam has asked to see you in person,” he said."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "2375",
    "Idiom": [
      "drop a brick"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To commit a faux pas, especially by mentioning a sensitive subject.",
    "Sentence": [
      "It was on one of those Tuesdays that I dropped a brick, the memory of which still haunts me after more than forty years. A very loquacious lady, whom I had never seen before, appeared to be talking through her nose. “Don't you think,” I said to one of my neighbours, by way of starting conversation, “that lady would be well advised to sound her trumpet less often?” “You bet I do! I've not been able to get used to it these thirty years.” And as I stared at him, horror-struck: “Yes. I'm her husband.”",
      "I remember dropping a brick when I first met her. As she at once started calling me 'Harry' in the way Americans are apt to do, the surname becoming immediately superfluous. I ventured to ask her what her Christian name was. ‘I'm not a Christian, Harry.’"
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "2376",
    "Idiom": [
      "drop a dime"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To make a telephone call.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "2377",
    "Idiom": [
      "drop a hint"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To reveal a clue.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "2378",
    "Idiom": [
      "drop a log"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To defecate.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "2379",
    "Idiom": [
      "drop acid, not bombs"
    ],
    "Meaning": "An anti-war slogan encouraging LSD use.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "2380",
    "Idiom": [
      "drop in"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To arrive casually and unannounced.",
    "Sentence": [
      "We made an odd party before the arrival of the Ten, particularly when the Celebrity dropped in for lunch or dinner.",
      "And so you felt like droppin’ in and just expect me to be free / Well, now I'm saving all my lovin’ for someone who's lovin’ me",
      "I was in the garden covered with mud when my grandmother dropped in for a visit."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "2381",
    "Idiom": [
      "drop in the bucket"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Something of little importance compared to a bigger issue.",
    "Sentence": [
      "A $100 donation from an individual is generous, but it is a drop in the bucket compared to the $100,000 fundraising goal."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "2382",
    "Idiom": [
      "drop in the ocean"
    ],
    "Meaning": "A small or insignificant amount.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "2383",
    "Idiom": [
      "drop in the pond"
    ],
    "Meaning": "A very small or insignificant amount.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Of course, considering tobacco is a $100 billion market, and the industry continues to spend billions every year, the campaign is a drop in the pond. But it certainly stands out."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "2384",
    "Idiom": [
      "drop in the sea"
    ],
    "Meaning": "A very small or insignificant amount.",
    "Sentence": [
      "And while the Democrat-passed infrastructure bill will provide some $65 billion for upgrades to our sagging and squirrel-ravaged grid is a good start, it’s just a drop in the sea of public works efforts necessary to contend with not just our existing power transmission issues, but with the increased need for electrical capacity"
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "2385-1",
    "Idiom": [
      "drop off"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To fall asleep.",
    "Sentence": [
      "And when the Boy dropped off to sleep, the Rabbit would snuggle down close under his little warm chin and dream, with the Boy's hands clasped close round him all night long.",
      "After two glasses of whiskey, Tom soon dropped off in front of the television."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "2385-2",
    "Idiom": [
      "drop off"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To deliver or leave someone/something.",
    "Sentence": [
      "After dropping off travellers at Foregate Street, my train terminates at Shrub Hill - a station which boasts one of the best selection [sic] of semaphore signals left in the country.",
      "Can you drop the kids off at school?",
      "I'll drop off your books when I see you tonight."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "2386",
    "Idiom": [
      "drop off the hooks"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To die.",
    "Sentence": [
      "\"You'd do harm if you dared to,\" the woman said. \"You'd like to kill him. We don't want him to drop off the hooks. Not much !'"
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "2387",
    "Idiom": [
      "drop off the radar"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To vanish or become forgotten.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Not long after that, the band seemed to drop off the radar entirely, leading many to assume that they had broken up...",
      "So why have users stuck with the site when so many other search engines have dropped off the radar ? Well, they're not logging on just for the search engine.",
      "Greenbaum didn't dramatically drop off the radar as soon as that song peaked, but kept slogging away for five years with diminishing returns..."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "2388-1",
    "Idiom": [
      "drop out"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To leave something prematurely and voluntarily.",
    "Sentence": [
      "He [Bill Gates] dropped out of a better school than I dropped out of.",
      "After all this time, the little girl who watched her father get beheaded, who was captured and impressed as her enemy’s servant, who was captured again and taken to the site of her family’s massacre, who enrolled at assassin school, who went blind, who dropped out to pursue vengeance, the woman who endured all that by focusing on her hit list can be swayed from her course by the prospect of her family and her home.",
      "Altman has long been viewed as a Silicon Valley wunderkind. In the tradition of other tech founders before him, Altman dropped out of Stanford in 2005 to launch his social-networking app, Loopt, which he later sold for $43m.",
      "Nothing went well in high school, so he dropped out."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "2388-2",
    "Idiom": [
      "drop out"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To cause someone to fail or leave, especially in an educational context.",
    "Sentence": [
      "The ground dropped out from under him.",
      "When she left him, his world dropped out beneath him."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "2389",
    "Idiom": [
      "drop someone a line"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Write a note to someone.",
    "Sentence": [
      "If you get a chance, drop me a line when you arrive in Cairo."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "2390",
    "Idiom": [
      "drop the ball"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To fail in responsibilities or make a critical mistake.",
    "Sentence": [
      "The movie ought to sputter out here, but Crowe and Cruise don't drop the ball."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "2391",
    "Idiom": [
      "drop the bomb"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To reveal dramatic and unexpected news.",
    "Sentence": [
      "A mere two months after the New Orleans hearings, the Supreme Court dropped the bomb that Eastland and other white southerners feared: Brown. Much as the Chinese Communists' victory and the Russian's building of the atomic bomb in 1949 had ignited the Cold War and anti-Communism, the Brown decision took the struggle for and against black freedom to a new level of intensity.",
      "Melanie dropped the bomb. \"His buddy was a Mr. Henry Decatur.\"",
      "Sylvia finally returned my calls yesterday, and while I was in the middle of chewing her out about the airconditioning, she dropped the bomb. Said it didn't matter because she'd sold the building.",
      "Natasha gulped and tried to look cheerful when she dropped the bomb on him. “Four down, forty-six to go.” Jeff froze. “Excuse me? Did I hear you right? That means you have to buy fifty Christmas presents?”",
      "Then she'd dropped the bomb : she was pregnant."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "2392-1",
    "Idiom": [
      "drop the f-bomb"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To use the word fuck inappropriately.",
    "Sentence": [
      "I swear to God, I've never heard David (Robinson) or Avery (Johnson) swear. I sometimes sit down and think, \"Gosh, I've never heard them drop the F-bomb.\"",
      "It's fitting that Clay Aiken, a man who rarely, if ever, drops the f-bomb, topped the list of the Ten Best-Mannered People of 2003.",
      "From hip-hop artists to bloggers to the vice president of the United States, everyone's dropping the F-bomb."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "2392-2",
    "Idiom": [
      "drop the f-bomb"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To say the word faggot.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "2393-1",
    "Idiom": [
      "drop the gloves"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To engage in a fight.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Nobody used to care when players such as John Ferguson, Bobby Orr, Gordie Howe and Maurice Richard dropped the gloves, because they could play the game, too."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "2393-2",
    "Idiom": [
      "drop the gloves"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To prepare for or engage in a dispute.",
    "Sentence": [
      "But Bradley, who dropped the gloves on Gore in a combative debate Wednesday night and called the vice president chronically dishonest, ignored Sullivan's advice."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "2394",
    "Idiom": [
      "drop the mic"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To do or say something decisive or impressive.",
    "Sentence": [
      "In their past work, both Whedon and Goddard have shown an inclination to embrace tropes so tightly that you're forced to question them – and with Cabin, as one journalist in the room suggests, 'There's kind of a sense of this movie dropping the mic [on the genre] and walking away like, 'There it is guys. Ball's in your court.'",
      "Rodarte just dropped the mic on fashion week. After last season's esoteric tribute to \"Star Wars\" – really, how many women would wear a gown emblazoned with a giant Luke Skywalker? – sisters Kate and Laura Mulleavy's dazzling spring outing mixed the right amount of fantasy and commercial appeal."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "2395",
    "Idiom": [
      "drop the topic"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To stop discussing the topic.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "2396",
    "Idiom": [
      "drop the writ"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To call an election.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Mr. Chrétien visited Governor-General Adrienne Clarkson and asked her to drop the writ, meaning that for the next 36 days, Canada will be hit with election fever."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "2397",
    "Idiom": [
      "drop trow"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To pull down one's trousers.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "2398",
    "Idiom": [
      "drown out"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To overwhelm by being louder.",
    "Sentence": [
      "The fire had burned through the night and seemed barely affected by the efforts to drown it out and almost as if it were simply bored of the festival it had created, the fire lessened at daybreak.",
      "Charlie Mulgrew could easily have been shown two yellow cards by a stricter referee and amid all the usual Anglo-Scottish pleasantries, the two sets of fans put an awful lot of effort into trying to drown out one another’s national anthems.",
      "Stop using your words as weapons / They're never gonna shoot me down / Stop, it's time that you learned a lesson / My love is gonna drown you out",
      "But Harry, in his civilian suit, was also a reminder of the schism between the traditional and the modern in the royal family that can’t be drowned out by pageantry.",
      "He uses the music to drown out other noises around him."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "2399",
    "Idiom": [
      "drown the miller"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To overdilute.",
    "Sentence": [
      "I tell my Bowl Friends, that our ministers have spoilt the punch. Sometimes they give us too much spirit, as when they display a vigour beyond the law; and sometimes, as we say, they drown the Miller, and make sad insipid stuff of it; again they sting our throats with acid; but it is not once in a century that we have cause to complain of an excess of sugar."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "2400-1",
    "Idiom": [
      "drug of choice"
    ],
    "Meaning": "The substance a person is addicted to.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "2400-2",
    "Idiom": [
      "drug of choice"
    ],
    "Meaning": "The preferred medication for a specific condition.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "2401",
    "Idiom": [
      "drug on the market"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Something that's currently overabundant and not in demand.",
    "Sentence": [
      "for days and days he patrolled the town in vain; seeking for work, and finding none. The place, as his candid informer had said, was filled with clerks like himself in search of employment; and they, linguists especially, were a drug in the market — the cessation of the Franco-German War having flooded the country with foreign labour.",
      "...the bread fruit, roasted in the ashes of the fire, and the custard apples, with tea, furnished forth such a luxurious feast that all fears of possible starvation vanished, while the humble cocoanut at once became a drug on the market, useful enough perhaps as a thirst-quencher but otherwise of little value."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "2402",
    "Idiom": [
      "drum into"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To repeatedly emphasize something until it is understood or accepted.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "2403",
    "Idiom": [
      "drum out"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To remove unfairly from an organization or position.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Walker at last drums Mehring out of the gay movement (whatever that is) because \"he is very myopic and naive,\" and by implication is not among \"those of us who understand how politics works.\"",
      "Another career that wouldn't survive the battle was that of Admiral Abe, who Yamamoto never forgave and essentially drummed out of Japanese navy service.",
      "I was drummed out of the job by slanderous lies."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "2404",
    "Idiom": [
      "drum up"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To generate or encourage.",
    "Sentence": [
      "From 1910, to drum up custom, the Metropolitan would operate a luxury Pullman service from Verney Junction to Aldgate.",
      "In America alone, people spent $170 billion on “direct marketing”—junk mail of both the physical and electronic varieties—last year. Yet of those who received unsolicited adverts through the post, only 3% bought anything as a result. If the bumf arrived electronically, the take-up rate was 0.1%. And for online adverts the “conversion” into sales was a minuscule 0.01%. That means about $165 billion was spent not on drumming up business, but on annoying people, creating landfill and cluttering spam filters.",
      "The candidate gave speeches, shook hands, and kissed babies in an effort to drum up support before the election."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "2405",
    "Idiom": [
      "drunk words are sober thoughts",
      "the truth is in the wine",
      "in wine, there is truth"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Drunk words reveal true beliefs not expressed when sober.",
    "Sentence": [
      "It is a saying, that “wine inspires wit;' and that in wine “there is truth. ” These sayings are the apologies of drinkers.",
      "In wine there is truth. People who love wine and have a lot of it still like to get a great wine as a present.",
      "In wine there is truth, or so they say, and this just may be the way to heaven, then again we began this time just fine, with a bottle of red wine, parked on an incline just you and I, not far from my safe haven, inhabited by ravens sex laden, with a maiden which is you,",
      "“My grandfather never understood the point of a mission statement. But whenever anybody asked him about making wine, he always said this,” and Mr. Main pointed at a sign that read: In wine, there is truth. In good wine, there is hard work.",
      "In wine there is truth, and although I was able to contain my excesses, and fell short of protesting my undying amour, our conversation had touched on most remarkably personal matters."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "2406",
    "Idiom": [
      "dry behind the ears"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Seasoned or experienced.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Why, you irreclaimable donkey, don’t you know the “notice” was an advertisement? When will you get dry behind the ears?",
      "When you fellers was his age, you wa'n't dry behind the ears yet. He never was no kid. He was born a full-grown man.",
      "\"You're past twenty-one,\" he said, \"an' dry behind the ears.\"",
      "”When you bastards get dry behin' the ears, you'll maybe learn to let a ol' fella sleep.\"",
      "That wearing of blinders by our intelligence agents was recently revealed by The Washington Post's columnist and editor Jim Hoagland, who is dry behind the ears, to say the least."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "2407",
    "Idiom": [
      "dry eye"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Emotionally unmoved.",
    "Sentence": [
      "There wasn't a dry eye in the audience after her heart-wrenching performance."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "2408",
    "Idiom": [
      "dry one's eyes"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To cease crying.",
    "Sentence": [
      "\"Be careful!\" cried the green girl. \"The tears will fall on your green silk gown and spot it.\" So Dorothy dried her eyes and said, \"I suppose we must try it; but I am sure I do not want to kill anybody, even to see Aunt Em again.\"",
      "Dry your eyes mate I know you want to make her see how much this pain hurts But you've got to walk away now, it's over"
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "2409",
    "Idiom": [
      "dry out"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To sober up or quit using drugs or alcohol.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "2410",
    "Idiom": [
      "dry run"
    ],
    "Meaning": "A practice or rehearsal.",
    "Sentence": [
      "They did a dry run of the demonstration before showing it to the CEO."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "2411",
    "Idiom": [
      "dry up and blow away"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To go away or disappear.",
    "Sentence": [
      "No-one wants to donate a large sum of hard-earned money to an agency that may dry up and blow away next year."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "2412-1",
    "Idiom": [
      "duck down"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To crouch for protection or concealment.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "2412-2",
    "Idiom": [
      "duck down"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To quickly lower oneself to avoid something.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "2413-1",
    "Idiom": [
      "duck off"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To lie low or hide.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "2413-2",
    "Idiom": [
      "duck off"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To leave quickly.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "2414-1",
    "Idiom": [
      "duck out"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To leave quickly and discreetly before an event concludes.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Wile they was still talking along these lines, the orchestra begin to drool a Perfect Day, so I ducked out on the porch for air.",
      "Fearful of missing a roll-call, Representative Charles E. Bennett has ducked out of funerals, bolted from hospital beds and defied snowstorms to get to the House chamber.",
      "Cathy Song needed to duck out from work at 3pm to ferry her child from pre-school to a neighbour's."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "2414-2",
    "Idiom": [
      "duck out"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To leave quickly and discreetly before something ends.",
    "Sentence": [
      "The four-term Democrat, known to critics as \"King Kevin\" and \"Mayor De Luxe,\" has been threatened with recall petitions and recently ducked out the back door of a restaurant to avoid picketers."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "2414-3",
    "Idiom": [
      "duck out"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To avoid or escape.",
    "Sentence": [
      "In the one moment he saw his opponent ducking out of his field of vision and the background of white, watching faces; in the next moment he again saw his opponent and the background of faces.",
      "Congress even now is considering enlarging that deficit by cutting those taxes.... It means ducking out of the basic Social Security problem.",
      "Any project for renewal is subject to a wide variety of destabilizing forces, not least when elites seek to duck out from the commitments they themselves have made."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "2415",
    "Idiom": [
      "duck soup"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Something easy.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "2416",
    "Idiom": [
      "ducked off"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Lying low; hidden.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "2417",
    "Idiom": [
      "ducks and drakes"
    ],
    "Meaning": "The squandering of resources, especially money.",
    "Sentence": [
      "This royal Caesar doth regard no cash; Has thrown away as much in ducks and drakes As would have bought some 50,000 capons.",
      "Pendennis’s uncle, the Major, seldom does anything without me; and as he is likely to be extravagant we’ve tied up the property, so that he can’t make ducks and drakes with it.",
      "He soon made ducks and drakes of what I gave him, sank lower and lower, married another woman, I believe, became an adventurer, a gambler, and a cheat."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "2418",
    "Idiom": [
      "due course"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Regular or appropriate timing.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Let us be cleared / Of being tyrannous, since we so openly / Proceed in justice, which shall have due course, / Even to the guilt or the purgation.",
      "This is all according to the due Course of Things:",
      "but it did not oppress them by any means so long; and, after a due course of useless conjecture, that “it was a strange business, and that he must be a very strange man,” grew enough for all their indignation and wonder;",
      "The Reform Bill, although the Duke of Wellington described it as \" a revolution by due course of law,\" set up in fact but a very limited suffrage,",
      "You all know that in the due course of time / If you continue scratching on a stone, / Little by little some image thereon / Will he engraven."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "2419",
    "Idiom": [
      "dumb as a post"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Utterly mute; unable to speak.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "2420-1",
    "Idiom": [
      "dumb down"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To simplify complex ideas, often condescendingly.",
    "Sentence": [
      "The public won't understand this concept. We need to dumb down our explanation of it."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "2420-2",
    "Idiom": [
      "dumb down"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To become simpler in expression or content.",
    "Sentence": [
      "The dumbing down of America is most evident in the slow decay of substantive content in the enormously influential media, the 30-second sound bites (now down to 10 seconds or less), lowest common denominator programming, credulous presentations on pseudo-science and superstition, but especially a kind of celebration of ignorance.",
      "As the reports are written for both the industry and general public, inspectors are required to use accessible language that is free from jargon but without ' dumbing down'.",
      "Television has really dumbed down over the past ten years."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "2421",
    "Idiom": [
      "dumb luck"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Pure chance.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "2422",
    "Idiom": [
      "dummy run"
    ],
    "Meaning": "A trial or practice before the real attempt.",
    "Sentence": [
      "We'll try a dummy run with a small group first, to check that it works correctly."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "2423",
    "Idiom": [
      "dummy spit"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Overreacting childishly in an angry or frustrated manner.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Did you hear about John's dummy spit over the management changeover?"
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "2424",
    "Idiom": [
      "dump one's load"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To ejaculate or defecate.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Suddenly she plunged her tongue deep inside my asshole. I immediately began dumping my load into Todd's warm, tight bunghole.",
      "I spread her legs and shoved my cock in her tight young pussy. I gave her a good fuck and dumped my load deep inside her.",
      "On my second visit I even got to feel a locker key bouncing off my nuts as I dumped my load down the throat of a young man"
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "2425",
    "Idiom": [
      "durance vile"
    ],
    "Meaning": "A long prison sentence.",
    "Sentence": [
      "In durance vile here must I wake and weep",
      "Two of the tribe were captured and put in irons, Binmook and Tommy, whose photographs, taken when in durance vile, I have by me still.",
      "That is, Messrs Brown and Hinton would have been in durance vile before the issue could be litigated: the High Court does not give advisory decisions."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "2426",
    "Idiom": [
      "dust mouse"
    ],
    "Meaning": "A dust bunny.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "2427",
    "Idiom": [
      "dust off a batter"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To throw a pitch at a batter to intimidate or make them stand farther back.",
    "Sentence": [
      "He never attempted to dust off a batter; and his control was so great that no hitter was ever afraid to stand right up to the plate and look Matty's fast ball right in the eye.",
      "That pitcher doesn't like the hitters too close to the plate so every once in a while he'll dust off a batter."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "2428",
    "Idiom": [
      "dust settles"
    ],
    "Meaning": "A tense situation calms down.",
    "Sentence": [
      "I tried to make amends after the dust settled.",
      "You should let the dust settle.",
      "when the dust settles"
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "2429",
    "Idiom": [
      "dusty miller"
    ],
    "Meaning": "A phrase for a miller, related to milling dust.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Hey, the dusty miller, / And his dusty coat! / He will win a shilling, / Ere he spend a groat. / Dusty was the coat, / Dusty was the colour; / Dusty was the kiss, / That I gat frae the miller.",
      "The stereotypical image of the \"dusty miller\", as depicted in popular legend and some traditional literature, is a barrier, and milling is seen by younger people as low-status. There is an urgent need to change this perception through measures such as changing the designation to something like \"grain and feed processing technician\" and improving training provision and prospects.\""
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "2430",
    "Idiom": [
      "duty calls"
    ],
    "Meaning": "The speaker must attend to something important.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Excuse me, gentlemen, but I'm afraid duty calls."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "2431",
    "Idiom": [
      "dwarf standing on the shoulders of giants"
    ],
    "Meaning": "One who learns from previous knowledge.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "2432",
    "Idiom": [
      "dyed-in-the-wool"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Firmly established in one's beliefs or habits.",
    "Sentence": [
      "We all know a process, sir, by which the whole Essex Junto could, in one hour, be all washed white from their ancient federalism, and come out, every one of them, an original democrat, dyed in the wool !",
      "He might truly be termed a legitimate son of the revenue system, dyed in the wool, or rather, born in the purple; since his sire, a Revolutionary colonel, and formerly collector of the port, had created an office for him, and appointed him to fill it, at a period of the early ages which few living men can now remember.",
      "Although appreciating the rapidity and frequency of the Southern electric services I was now to use on short journeys, I became more than ever convinced that electric traction offers very little of interest to the dyed-in-the-wool railwayist.",
      "For all he says he isn’t, he’s a bit of an ultramontane, in practice though not in theory, and we can’t have that in the Church of England, we must stay dyed-in-the-wool Anglican.",
      "Our president is no lover of Jews and more than likely a dyed-in-the-wool anti-Semite",
      "Again, to go back to the history of British Railways, there were moves to introduce electrification more widely when the West Coast Main Line was sparked up in the 1960s, but this was rejected by dyed-in-the-wool old regional railway managers who did not like the hassle of putting up the wires.",
      "Smith was a dyed-in-the-wool typist and never really got used to writing on computers.",
      "John Major was described by his opponents as a dyed-in-the-wool Conservative."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "2433",
    "Idiom": [
      "dying breed"
    ],
    "Meaning": "A group that is becoming less numerous over time.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Book lovers are a dying breed; now people just watch online videos."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "2434",
    "Idiom": [
      "dying quail"
    ],
    "Meaning": "A weak pop fly that falls short.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "2435",
    "Idiom": [
      "dynamite charge"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Instructions to a jury to encourage further deliberation.",
    "Sentence": [
      "\"There are no studies comparing deadlocked juries blasted with the dynamite charge to those left to their own devices.\""
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "2436",
    "Idiom": [
      "e pluribus unum"
    ],
    "Meaning": "\"Out of many, one.\"",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "2437",
    "Idiom": [
      "e-thumb"
    ],
    "Meaning": "A natural skill for working with electronics or computers.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Oh, I'll never have an e-thumb, no matter how long I stay at it. Nothing ever seems to work for me. Every program I launch crashes."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "2438-1",
    "Idiom": [
      "each to his own",
      "to each his own",
      "to each their own"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Everyone has their own preferences.",
    "Sentence": [
      "I would never want my bathroom decorated in chartreuse and turquoise, but to each his own, I suppose.",
      "Certainly I don't mind other people eating turkey — each to his own, after all, is the American Way"
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "2439",
    "Idiom": [
      "eager beaver"
    ],
    "Meaning": "A person who is very enthusiastic about starting a task.",
    "Sentence": [
      "PULASKI: I am unfamiliar with this symbol. DATA: It indicates a genetically engineered biological life-form. PULASKI: About twenty percent of the specimens fall into that category. Some eager beaver at play. DATA: Query: \" eager beaver ?\" PULASKI: Well in this case, eager beaver refers to some over achieving genetic engineer, who probably because of lack of anything better to do has forced this strain of virus to mutate, just so he can see how bad bad can get.",
      "An “ eager beaver ” in terms of computing, Gates apparently started programming at age eleven."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "2440-1",
    "Idiom": [
      "eagle eye"
    ],
    "Meaning": "A keen eye for detail.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "2440-2",
    "Idiom": [
      "eagle eye"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Someone with a keen eye for detail.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "2441",
    "Idiom": [
      "eagle out"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To leave a scouting troop after achieving Eagle Scout rank.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "2442",
    "Idiom": [
      "eagle up"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To achieve the rank of Eagle Scout.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "2443",
    "Idiom": [
      "ear to the ground"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Carefully gathering information.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Congress never enacts a measure which is believed to oppose public opinion;—your Congressman keeps his ear to the ground.",
      "“There's no telling what a man might happen onto accidentally if he travels with his ear to the ground.”",
      "The tavern keeper's an old friend of mine—we was shipmates when we was younger—and he sort of keeps his ear to the ground for me.",
      "TIME Justice Department correspondent Elaine Shannon is keeping her ear to the ground as candidates' names start to pop up."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "2444",
    "Idiom": [
      "ear tunnel"
    ],
    "Meaning": "A piece of jewelry for a stretched earlobe.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "2445",
    "Idiom": [
      "ear-piercing"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Extremely loud.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "2446",
    "Idiom": [
      "early bath"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Receiving a red card in soccer.",
    "Sentence": [
      "That was a horrible tackle, he can expect an early bath for that."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "2447",
    "Idiom": [
      "early bird"
    ],
    "Meaning": "A person who wakes or arrives early.",
    "Sentence": [
      "If you’re a bird, be an early bird — But if you’re a worm, sleep late."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "2448",
    "Idiom": [
      "early to bed, early to rise, makes a man healthy, wealthy and wise"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Encourages early sleeping and waking for a successful life.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "2449",
    "Idiom": [
      "earn one's crust"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To earn money.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Their substitutes featured two players from League One clubs and Miller, who earns his crust these days with Vancouver Whitecaps."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "2450-1",
    "Idiom": [
      "earn one's keep"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To support oneself financially through work or services.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Being a very strong, active man, with gift of versatile hand and brain, and early acquaintance with handicrafts, Christopher Bert could earn his keep.",
      "Klee also left home to make his name, moving in his late teens to Munich, where he studied art, earned his keep as a musician and, in 1906, married Lily Stumpf."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "2450-2",
    "Idiom": [
      "earn one's keep"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To be worthwhile.",
    "Sentence": [
      "The lack of bottom-end grunt presents as a particular problem in hilly terrain where the five-speed manual gearbox really earns its keep."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "2451",
    "Idiom": [
      "ears are burning"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Being discussed by others.",
    "Sentence": [
      "His ears are burning."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "2452",
    "Idiom": [
      "easier said than done"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Difficult to accomplish.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Which is a thing more easily said, than made good in the way of doing.",
      "Scott Parker was desperately urging England's players to keep possession - but it was easier said than done amid waves of Ukraine attacks and it needed a penalty area block from the Tottenham midfield man to thwart Devic."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "2453",
    "Idiom": [
      "easy come, easy go"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Easily won and easily lost.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Ridin' high when I was king / Played it hard and fast cause I had everything / Walked away, wonderin' then / But easy come and easy go and it would end",
      "I'm just a poor boy, I need no sympathy / Because I'm easy come, easy go / Little high, little low",
      "They took $200 with them into the casino, and regarded their winnings as easy come, easy go."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "2454",
    "Idiom": [
      "easy does it"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Do something gently or carefully.",
    "Sentence": [
      "“Nothing is bugging me, and nobody gave me any big pitch.” “Maybe that's what's bugging you, nobody give you the pitch. Did I strike oil there, June?” “ Easy does it there, Rich,” said Wigman. “Don't get personal.”",
      "Easy does it on the salt. I'm trying to cut down.",
      "Easy does it! That thing is heavy and fragile."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "2455",
    "Idiom": [
      "easy on the eyes",
      "easy on the eye"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Physically attractive.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Truly was this maiden, as his Chamberlain had said, noticeably easy on the eyes. Her beauty was as water in the desert, as fire on a frosty night, as diamonds, rubies, pearls, sapphires, and amethysts.",
      "Those lovers, played by Vincent Perez and Rachel Weisz, are certainly easy on the eyes, but their romantic chemistry is tentative at best.",
      "Svatok was fortunate to dodge a first-half booking for a heavy challenge on Jude Bellingham, who was yet again so easy on the eye."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "2456",
    "Idiom": [
      "easy pickings"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Something easily acquired.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "2457",
    "Idiom": [
      "easy street"
    ],
    "Meaning": "A carefree lifestyle, often due to wealth.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Stocks are light, while packers will be able to get financial aid, which will, so far as that is concerned, place them on \" easy street.\"",
      "Once after this I asked the \"pardners\" if Jimsey's mascot was bringing him luck. / \"Yes, lady,\" said Tom, \"we walks on de shady side of de street now—don't we, Jimsey?\" / \"Yes, we lives on Easy street.\" Republished from the Chicago Times.",
      "There was big money in it—the fellows who did that job might live on Easy Street the rest of their lives.",
      "Honestly, Sally, it's the chance of a lifetime. It would put you right on easy street. Isn't there really any way you could get your money out of this other thing and take on this deal?",
      "Sometimes I'm tired and I wonder / What's so all-fired important / About being someplace at some time / Oh, but I don't really mind / 'Cause I could be on Easy Street",
      "Easy street, easy street / Where the rich folks play (yeah, yeah, yeah) / Move them feet to easy street / When you get there, stay"
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "2458",
    "Idiom": [
      "eat an elephant one bite at a time"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To do something one step at a time.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "2459",
    "Idiom": [
      "eat away"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To destroy gradually or cause ongoing concern.",
    "Sentence": [
      "At your Table I vvill proue / If I can eate avvay my loue.",
      "The sun still eats away the shadow inch by inch, beating down with such intensity that finally everybody disappears except a few passers by.",
      "During the second year, Magnus's extracurricular activities ate away at his finances. Drugs and women did not come cheap.",
      "Although you didn't want him around at first, the thought of losing him now is eating away at you.",
      "If Horton had stuck it out for only two more days, his value would have increased. Instead, he buckled at absolutely the worst time. This ate away at him.",
      "The guilt of having lied was eating away at him.",
      "Not confessing that I had stolen the money ate away at me until I could no longer sleep."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "2460",
    "Idiom": [
      "eat crow"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To admit one has made a humiliating mistake.",
    "Sentence": [
      "He must apologise, he saw that clearly enough, must eat crow, as he told himself.",
      "The Nationals started with Jerome Herman (\"Dizzy\") Dean, who reveled in striking out Lou Gehrig in the first inning. Gehrig made Dean eat crow in the third inning by smashing a home run.",
      "In political libel, furthermore, a public recanting by the vilifier is more likely to be believed by the public, for it is well known that no politician likes to \" eat crow \" unless he has to.",
      "[Alison] Roman, now typical for such cases, ate crow with an apologetic statement about how she had reflected and realized her error.",
      "Today’s change means we only have one Senate race, Ohio, rated as a Toss-up. Democrats surely hope we’ll have to eat crow on today’s update and pull Montana back into the Toss-up category later in the cycle."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "2461",
    "Idiom": [
      "eat dirt"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To be humbled or forced to accept a lower status.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "2462",
    "Idiom": [
      "eat for two"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To be pregnant.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "2463",
    "Idiom": [
      "eat humble pie"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To admit faults or apologize humbly.",
    "Sentence": [
      "They were good-natured enough out of their cups, and ate their humble-pie with very good appetites at a reconciliation dinner which Colonel W. had with the 44th, and where he was as perfectly stupid and correct as Prince Prettyman need be. Hang him!",
      "Polly had a spice of girlish malice, and rather liked to see domineering Tom eat humble-pie, just enough to do him good, you know.",
      "Angela shook her head. “Men are dull creatures.” “I have already granted that, and I am eating humble pie in asking for an explanation.”",
      "You square the G.V., and go home before you have to. That’s my advice. If you don’t eat humble-pie now you may live to fare worse later.",
      "But there seems little doubt that Fukuyama has had to eat rather a lot of humble pie."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "2464",
    "Idiom": [
      "eat it",
      "eat one's cake and have it too",
      "have it both ways"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Used to taunt or dismiss someone.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "2465",
    "Idiom": [
      "eat my shorts"
    ],
    "Meaning": "An irreverent rebuke or dismissal.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Notre Dame boys greeted one another with \"Eat It\" to be answered by \"Eat It Raw\" or \"Eat a Big One\" or \" Eat My Shorts,\" sometimes \"Eat My Crusty Shorts.\"",
      "Mickey: You could be the biggest fairy of them all! Meat: Eat my shorts !",
      "Richard Vernon: You're not fooling anyone, Bender. The next screw that falls out will be you. John Bender: Eat my shorts. Richard Vernon: What was that? John Bender: Eat... My... Shorts.",
      "Her eyes are telling me, \" Eat my shorts, you precocious little fart.\" I definitely haven't made a friend.",
      "For instance, Bart often expresses his irreverence toward authority on \"The Simpsons\" by exclaiming \" Eat my shorts.\""
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "2466",
    "Idiom": [
      "eat one's Wheaties"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To prepare for something demanding.",
    "Sentence": [
      "But he just couldn't get the ball through the goal posts (poor Harry... he didn't eat his Wheaties, or else his shoe was on backwards).",
      "Jo-Ann Wonsik answered a Herald want ad for a career requiring day after day of heavy lifting.... \"And you've got to eat your Wheaties on this job,\" she said.",
      "Of all the movie promotions in all the towns in all the world, Keanu Reeves had to walk into this one: a California Institute of Technology forum at which he was asked, “How could an alien being grow so fast without violating standard mass- and energy-conservation laws?”... He paused. “I ate my Wheaties.”"
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "2467",
    "Idiom": [
      "eat one's feelings"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To use food for comfort in response to emotional issues.",
    "Sentence": [
      "The way I eat my feelings now is much different from how I ate my feelings when I was growing up. I used to use “bad food” as a reward system. If I went to the gym, I deserved a pizza,",
      "When I got home, I knew I needed to eat so I could sober up, but that led to a massive binge as I ate my feelings. Potato chips, cookies, ice cream — everything I could find in our cabinet or fridge, I ate."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "2468",
    "Idiom": [
      "eat one's gun"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To commit suicide with a firearm.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "2469",
    "Idiom": [
      "eat one's hat"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Expresses disbelief in a proposition.",
    "Sentence": [
      "He said he would eat his hat if more than ten people came. He'd better fetch a knife and fork!"
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "2470",
    "Idiom": [
      "eat one's head off"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Of an animal: to be more expensive to feed than its value.",
    "Sentence": [
      "And then, as he sauntered up Whitehall towards Charing Cross, with Robarts on his arm, he again pressed upon him the sale of that invaluable hunter, who was eating his head off his shoulders in the stable at Chaldicotes.",
      "Now Jim and I had found it necessary to buy a horse and cart, and the animal was eating its head off in a stable by the mill.",
      "He knew that, only a few hours from London, the Hunt was cubbing over his ancestral and much-mortgaged acres, while his own horse ate its head off in a stable."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "2471",
    "Idiom": [
      "eat one's heart out"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To feel overwhelming sorrow or longing.",
    "Sentence": [
      "The Serbians are eating their hearts out over their defeat by Brazil in the World Cup.",
      "Eat your heart out, pal! We won the title!"
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "2472",
    "Idiom": [
      "eat one's own"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To attack members of one's own group.",
    "Sentence": [
      "So, in a way, they sat back and watched liberals eat their own —they watched as just deserts advocates undermined the legitimacy of rehabilitation in a way they never could have."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "2473",
    "Idiom": [
      "eat one's own dog food"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To use one's own products or services.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "2474",
    "Idiom": [
      "eat one's seed corn"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To consume what is meant for investment.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "2475",
    "Idiom": [
      "eat one's young"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To betray someone for selfish reasons.",
    "Sentence": [
      "With bankruptcy looming, the corporation eventually began eating its young; massive layoffs were announced, and all employee benefits and bonuses were suspended."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "2476",
    "Idiom": [
      "eat out of someone's hand"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To behave submissively towards someone.",
    "Sentence": [
      "When a woman has her husband eating out of her hand, says Washout, you can bet she also has him eating out of cans.",
      "Jana Pittman, the new 400m hurdles world champion, had the media eating out of her hand in the aftermath of her victory.",
      "Violetta is well aware of all this and goes out of her way to charm him.... He eats out of her hand and would not notice if she fed him rocks."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "2477",
    "Idiom": [
      "eat shit"
    ],
    "Meaning": "An expression of discontent or aggravation.",
    "Sentence": [
      "\"I fucked your sister!\" \" Eat shit !\""
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "2478",
    "Idiom": [
      "eat someone out of house and home"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To consume someone's food supply.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "2479",
    "Idiom": [
      "eat someone's dust"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To be outrun.",
    "Sentence": [
      "You better move fast before you eat his dust."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "2480",
    "Idiom": [
      "eat someone's lunch"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To thoroughly defeat or outdo someone.",
    "Sentence": [
      "So in a classic it-ain't-broke-so-let's-fix-it-anyway move, some of our managers and salespeople began complaining that it wasn't written for Windows. If we didn't rewrite for Windows, they insisted, our competitors would eat our lunch !",
      "\"I would also suggest to my free enterprise colleagues—especially conservatives here—whether you think it's all a bunch of hooey , what we've talked about in this committee, the Chinese don’t,\" the South Carolina Republican said in his opening remarks. \"And they plan on eating our lunch in this next century.\"",
      "It seemed inevitable: Slither was going to eat our lunch unless we upped our game and out-Slithered Slither. But here's the thing, The Slither Corporation doesn't actually exist. It's our fictive nemesis, our imaginary bad guys. Rather than battling a poorly performing company, we went up against our worst enemy—the company that we knew could put us out of business (if it really existed).",
      "Today, thanks in large part to [Elon] Musk 's pace-setting, auto companies from VW to Nissan are jostling to invest billions in electric vehicles. Their about-face is driven less by altruism than by a dawning realization that Musk is eating their lunch.",
      "Platforms such as TikTok and Instagram are, indeed, eating traditional comedy’s lunch lately when it comes to funny characters."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "2481",
    "Idiom": [
      "eat the mic"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To speak or sing into a microphone closely.",
    "Sentence": [
      "The sound engineer, frustrated with constantly having to adjust the levels, told the singer to eat the mic."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "2482",
    "Idiom": [
      "eat the onion"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To take satire literally.",
    "Sentence": [
      "No, the original plan for Chicago 's street layout was not scribbled on the back of a napkin by an ancestor of Roger Ebert; you just ate the onion."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "2483",
    "Idiom": [
      "eat the rich"
    ],
    "Meaning": "An expression of contempt for capitalism and the wealthy, advocating for wealth redistribution.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Eat the Rich : there's only one thing that they're good for Eat the Rich : take one bite now - come back for more Eat the Rich : I gotta get this off my chest Eat the Rich : take one bite now, spit out the rest",
      "There have been many cries to “ eat the rich ” over recent years in relation to white collar crime.",
      "There is something thrilling about an artwork that does not just investigate, explore or expose questions about today, but makes explicit the injustices of the present system, proudly brandishing a call to eat the rich and fight a class war.",
      "There's this whole cycle of eat-the-rich movies right now with “Joker” and “Parasite.” How do you feel knowing the movie you’ve made and then seeing those other movies coming out?",
      "The eat-the-rich movie is directed by Mark Mylod, whose recent work includes episodes of “Succession,” “Shameless,” and “Game of Thrones”",
      "First of all, I want to say I’m not a fan of the, how do I say, advertisement of the movie as an “ eat the rich ” movie because what I actually tried to do was to portray everybody as nice."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "2484",
    "Idiom": [
      "eat up with a spoon"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To accept something eagerly.",
    "Sentence": [
      "The public not only has the right to know, they eat it up with a spoon. Ratings rocketed.",
      "I liked how relaxing it was, sleeping with Colin. He never pushed, and he touched me like I was worth memorizing, cherishing. I hadn't had a lot of that in my life, and heaven help me, I ate it up with a spoon."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "2485",
    "Idiom": [
      "eat, breathe, and sleep"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To devote one's time obsessively to.",
    "Sentence": [
      "It is so easy to begin to eat, breathe, and sleep autism, but it will do no good — not for you, not for your spouse, and not even for your child."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "2486",
    "Idiom": [
      "eat, drink and be merry"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Enjoy yourself and forget your worries.",
    "Sentence": [
      "And if you do not put the motto \" Eat, drink, and be merry,\" above your dining-room door, fix it in your mind, and put it into practice. Laugh, talk, and crack jokes at the table, and thereby heal an injured body.",
      "He says his motto is ' Let us eat, drink, and be merry.' Just so, young man : my motto is exactly the same as yours, ' Let us eat, drink, and be merry.'",
      "Life is not all bread and butter. It is not eat, drink and be merry. It is much more.",
      "Our days here were spent visiting beaches and resting under huge parasols to hide from the sun and eat, drink and be merry while occasionally joining the children to bathe in the warm, grey sea."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "2487-1",
    "Idiom": [
      "eat, drink and be merry for tomorrow we die"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Enjoy life while you can.",
    "Sentence": [
      "But are more inclined to take for their guide the maxim of \"a penny saved is a penny got\" than that of \"let us eat drink and be merry for tomorrow we die.\"",
      "Eat, drink, and be merry / For tomorrow, we'll die / Cause we're tripping billies",
      "Vovo said, only half arguing, \"Who can you point out that ever profited by this moderation teaching? Who inhistory every got anywhere practicing moderation. Some say you must live to the hilt. Eat, drink and be merry, for tomorrow we die.”",
      "The younger decided to leave and live the fast life and be carefree— eat, drink, and be merry, for tomorrow we die."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "2487-2",
    "Idiom": [
      "eat, drink and be merry for tomorrow we die"
    ],
    "Meaning": "In reference to enjoying life because it is short.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Instead of saying as the epicure, \"let us eat drink and be merry for tomorrow we die; \" or on the other hand, murmuring against the appointments of God, and indulging our vain objections; let us seek for a lively hope, a submissive will, and a contented mind",
      "Yea, and there shall be many which shall say: Eat, drink, and be merry, for tomorrow we die; and it shall be well with us. And there shall also be many which shall say: Eat, drink, and be merry; nevertheless, fear God—he will justify in committing a little sin; yea, lie a little, take the advantage of one because of his words, dig a pit for thy neighbor; there is no harm in this; and do all these things, for tomorrow we die; and if it so be that we are guilty, God will beat us with a few stripes, and at last we shall be saved in the kingdom of God."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "2488",
    "Idiom": [
      "eaten bread is soon forgotten"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Kind deeds are often forgotten once received.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Promised increases in productivity following previous pay rises never materialised -- as eaten bread is soon forgotten -- but we'll be paying for the crumbs for a long time to come.",
      "Eaten bread is soon forgotten, as we do seem to quickly forget the immense funding we did receive from the EEC and then the EU over 30 years, culminating in almost IR£1bn in the late 1990s, under Albert Reynolds's time as Taoiseach.",
      "It is obvious that eaten bread is soon forgotten by anyone asking teachers to take another one for the team."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "2489",
    "Idiom": [
      "economical with the truth"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Not telling the whole truth or being untruthful.",
    "Sentence": [
      "A senior British civil servant, arguing that the book ‘ Spycatcher ’ should not be published, let slip how ‘being economical with the truth ’ is an option in matters of government policy. The phrase became a headline in Australia, highlighting, as much as anything, British duplicity. In fact, it originated with Edmund Burke, the eighteenth century statesman and constitutional theorist. In effect, the idea of ‘being economical with the truth ’ underlines the challenge any manager or public servant faces – that unguarded, inappropriate, or even appropriate comment can lead to damaging and undesirable reactions.",
      "So, I am now asking you, was he economical with the truth ? Bearing in mind you are now telling us that there were heaps of telephone conversations, things that you described elsewhere as “lovely” conversations, “nice” conversations, “interesting” conversations and that when politicians ring you, you take notice.",
      "There was one overriding technique used by both sides to dupe the public, and it was the deliberate omission of key information about any demoralising incident, operation or battle, such as facts about their own or even the enemy's losses. This approach can probably be best described as ‘being economical with the truth ’ – a phrase whose literal meaning has rather been lost over the years, as it has rather erroneously come to signify telling outright lies.",
      "I would be being economical with the truth if I were to tell you that I was enjoying myself."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "2490",
    "Idiom": [
      "edge of the earth"
    ],
    "Meaning": "A very remote place.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "2491",
    "Idiom": [
      "edge of the world"
    ],
    "Meaning": "A very remote place.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "2492",
    "Idiom": [
      "edge out"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To narrowly defeat in a contest.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Crawley missed two penalties but still edged out League Two Torquay to become the first non-league side to reach the FA Cup fifth round for 17 years."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "2493",
    "Idiom": [
      "effluxion of time"
    ],
    "Meaning": "The passage of time determining the end of a period.",
    "Sentence": [
      "we often fail to make sufficient allowance for the changes in standards brought about by the effluxion of time."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "2494",
    "Idiom": [
      "egg on"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To encourage reckless behavior.",
    "Sentence": [
      "He resented the idea of interference from those who had egged him on to a new peril.",
      "Then I heard that at morning one brother the other / With edges of irons egged on to murder,",
      "She had deliberately egged him on to wreck his prospects."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "2495",
    "Idiom": [
      "eggs in moonshine"
    ],
    "Meaning": "An unrealistic or ludicrous concept.",
    "Sentence": [
      "You may discourse of Hermes' ascending spirit, of Orpheus' enchanting harp, of Homer's divine fury, of Tyrtaeus' enraging trumpet, of Pericles' bouncing thunderclaps, of Plato's enthusiastical ravishment, and I wot not what marvellous eggs in moonshine : but a fly for all your flying speculations when one good-fellow with his odd jests, or one mad knave with his awk hibber-gibber, is able to put down twenty of your smuggest artificial men, that simper it so nicely and coyly in their curious points.",
      "your Majesty knows I think the Horn—and that bit of broken stone over there—and your great King Peter—and your Lion Aslan—are all eggs in moonshine."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "2496",
    "Idiom": [
      "elbow grease"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Effort or hard work.",
    "Sentence": [
      "It is astonishing what miserable saws are sometimes used by mechanics, or those claiming to be such. The only way they can be coaxed or driven through the wood is by having an enormous set, a liberal use of oil, and another lubricator called elbow-grease.",
      "When we were young we used to be told, in our house at home, that \" elbow-grease \" was the one essential necessary to getting a tough piece of work well done. If a mahogany table was to be made to shine, it was elbow-grease that the operation needed.",
      "Some soapy water and a little elbow grease and we'll have the Glam Van clean in no time."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "2497",
    "Idiom": [
      "elbow mentality"
    ],
    "Meaning": "An attitude of self-interest prioritizing personal benefit over others.",
    "Sentence": [
      "In both samples, hierarchic self-interest, a syndrome of self-enhancing value orientations, sometimes called an ‘ elbow mentality ’ [Hadjar 2004] or a ‘ capitalist mentality’ [Boehnke and Dragolov forthcoming], negatively predicted generalised trust, though once again the effect sizes were quite low.",
      "Elbow mentality and competition with the aim of absolute profit maximization seem to drive trade and economic relations.",
      "We believe in high fives instead of elbow mentality. This means above all that we help each other, celebrate our successes together and treat each other amicably.",
      "Germany's ethics council, an independent body that advises the government, has recommended that no special conditions be granted to the inoculated. It declared it was “currently unacceptable to lift state restrictions on civil liberties ”, arguing not only was there a lack of evidence over whether vaccinated people could still spread the virus, but that introducing special privileges for them might encourage an “ elbow mentality ” which could lead to unrest. If there was to be a priority, it should go to the vaccinated residents of care homes in recognition of the extraordinary burdens they face."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "2498",
    "Idiom": [
      "electronic superhighway"
    ],
    "Meaning": "The internet.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "2499",
    "Idiom": [
      "element of surprise"
    ],
    "Meaning": "A strategic advantage through surprise.",
    "Sentence": [
      "We exist separately from ACT UP/New York because it's impossible to conduct small actions [i.e. protests] that rely on the element of surprise for their success, when you need to tell 200 people about them first.",
      "We should attack the enemy's camp now while we still have the element of surprise."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "2500",
    "Idiom": [
      "elephant in the room"
    ],
    "Meaning": "A significant problem that is ignored for comfort.",
    "Sentence": [
      "There is an elephant in the room that nearly every politician and green campaigner is ignoring. It’s called population growth.",
      "While the Swiss bank remained positive on the sector through 2022, the coronavirus situation remained “ the elephant in the room,” he added."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "2501",
    "Idiom": [
      "eleventh hour"
    ],
    "Meaning": "A point in time that is nearly too late.",
    "Sentence": [
      "If she repented, though at the eleventh hour, it was not too late.",
      "Highly providential was the appearance on the scene of Corny Kelleher when Stephen was blissfully unconscious but for that man in the gap turning up at the eleventh hour the finish might have been that he might have been a candidate for the accident ward",
      "I have extricated myself so far at many eleventh hours and perhaps there is some hope in this.",
      "Egypt had managed to bring the two sides to the brink of a deal two weeks ago, before internal political dynamics prompted the Israelis to back out at the eleventh hour.",
      "Thus, the famous title of the dictionary is, at base, derogatory. This explains why Yule kept the title secret until the eleventh hour, why some contemporary reviewers took exception to the title, and why Yule highlighted Burnell’s approval of the title."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "2502",
    "Idiom": [
      "eleventh-hour"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Just before it's too late; last-minute.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Eleventh-hour executive changes are not unique to this outgoing Administration — President Bill Clinton launched a number himself before leaving office.",
      "Cal State Fullerton students Chenglin Lee and Samuel Ortiz saved me with eleventh-hour bibliographic assistance."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "2503",
    "Idiom": [
      "embarrassment of riches"
    ],
    "Meaning": "An overabundance of something.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Roger was in the library, trying to choose, from an embarrassment of riches, the ten of his father's books which he was to be permitted to take to the city.",
      "What might be an embarrassment of riches —a city with three independent and artistically distinct opera companies—may become a lose-lose-lose situation."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "2504",
    "Idiom": [
      "emotional cripple"
    ],
    "Meaning": "A person affected by debilitating emotions, resulting in indecisiveness and alienation.",
    "Sentence": [
      "The truth is I was an emotional cripple when I met her, drunk more often than not, punishing myself for doing things that went against my nature.",
      "His mother's affliction was \"panic disorder with agoraphobia, which made her an emotional cripple for many years.\"",
      "If I ever come across as a maladjusted, socially isolated, sad, hunched emotional cripple (I'm thinking mainly of Sunday mornings in February, here), then it's those four weeks of having to wear short trousers in September 1964 that are to blame."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "2505",
    "Idiom": [
      "emperor's new clothes"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Something obvious and embarrassing that is ignored.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Marks & Spencer announced a 19% fall in annual profits on Tuesday."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "2506",
    "Idiom": [
      "employ a steam engine to crack a nut"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To overcomplicate a simple task.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "2507",
    "Idiom": [
      "empty barrels make the most noise",
      "empty vessels make the most sound",
      "empty cans make the most noise",
      "empty vessels make the most noise"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Talkative, opinionated people are often ignorant.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "2508-1",
    "Idiom": [
      "empty the clip"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To compete vigorously with many attempts.",
    "Sentence": [
      "DeRozan emptied the clip. The fans at the ACC emptied theirs, too. Every person in that arena was ready to leave it all on the floor.",
      "That completed an unraveling of an early Blue Jays lead that stood at five runs after the second inning as Toronto emptied the clip on Tampa Bay starter Austin Pruitt.",
      "The Stars emptied the clip and were the better team in last two periods."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "2508-2",
    "Idiom": [
      "empty the clip"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To speak vehemently or aggressively.",
    "Sentence": [
      "When prodded about his team's struggles Boudreau completely emptied the clip before storming out of his postgame press conference."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "2509",
    "Idiom": [
      "empty the tank"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To make the utmost effort.",
    "Sentence": [
      "“It's important over the next five games to empty the tank and give all we've got.”",
      "“You’ve got to empty the tank,” he said. “You can see the finish line. You know what you have to do.”",
      "Stewart referenced Springsteen's work ethic and heart: “He empties the tank, every time. He empties that tank for his family, he empties that tank for his art, he empties that tank for his audience and he empties that tank for his country.”"
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "2510",
    "Idiom": [
      "empty words"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Talk with little meaning.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "2511",
    "Idiom": [
      "end in smoke"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To be destroyed or ruined.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "2512",
    "Idiom": [
      "end in tears"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To end badly.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "2513",
    "Idiom": [
      "end of"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Indicates finality or conclusion.",
    "Sentence": [
      "End of, stop sulking / Get out, you're walkin' / Too bad, I've spoken / But when I look at you you're forgiven",
      "‘I came round here to try and help you.’ ‘But no one in here is looking for your help, Keisha! This is it! I ain't looking for you, end of.’",
      "Boris Johnson, never one to fuss about detail, does not realise that without a deal there will be no implementation period. No withdrawal agreement means just that—no agreement. Just out. End of. But as both contenders now consider no deal a serious option, we need to be 100% honest about the implications.",
      "But if you search up a list of news stories on the subject over the years you find, as with the climate crisis, an overwhelming consensus: alcohol is really quite bad for you, end of."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "2514",
    "Idiom": [
      "end of the line"
    ],
    "Meaning": "The final cessation of a process, institution, or person.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Well, Joe lost control, went into a skid / And gave his life to save that bunch-a kids / And there at that crossroads, was the end of the line / For Big Joe and Phantom 309",
      "Gyanendra's 269-year-old Shah dynasty has reached the end of the line."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "2515",
    "Idiom": [
      "end of the world"
    ],
    "Meaning": "A catastrophic or devastating change.",
    "Sentence": [
      "You make it sound as though moving house is the end of the world."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "2516",
    "Idiom": [
      "enough is as good as a feast"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Just the right amount is as good as excess; excess has no value.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Here is enough, I am satisfied, (sayd he). / Since enough is enough, (sayd I), here may we / With that one word take end good, as may be geast: / For folke say, enough is as good as a feast. The spelling has been modernized."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "2517",
    "Idiom": [
      "enough to choke a horse"
    ],
    "Meaning": "An excessive quantity.",
    "Sentence": [
      "There's poison underneath the sink, of course. There's also enough formaldehyde to choke a horse.",
      "You didn't have to buy enough wrapping paper to choke a horse, just because it was on sale."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "2518",
    "Idiom": [
      "enough to go around"
    ],
    "Meaning": "An adequate amount for everyone involved.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Angels on the sideline Puzzled and amused Why did Father give these humans free will? Now they're all confused Don't these talking monkeys know that Eden has enough to go around ? Plenty in this holy garden, silly monkeys Where there's one, you're bound to divide it Right in two"
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "2519",
    "Idiom": [
      "enough to make a cat laugh"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Very outrageous.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "2520",
    "Idiom": [
      "enough to make the angels weep"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Causes a loss of hope and faith.",
    "Sentence": [
      "For several years the government has continuously reduced the amount of money spent on education. Now they complain that teachers are not doing their job properly- It's enough to make the angels weep."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "2521",
    "Idiom": [
      "enter on the boards"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To inscribe a student's name on a board in college.",
    "Sentence": [
      "having been entered on the boards of Trinity college"
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "2522",
    "Idiom": [
      "err on the side of"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To behave in a biased manner.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Every man would prefer that the woman in whom he feels an interest should err on the side of bigotry rather than on that of what is called liberalism in points of religious belief.",
      "My case is, as I have told you, almost complete; but we must not err on the side of over-confidence.",
      "But perhaps you tend to err on the side of severity. Perhaps you make too little allowance for human weakness.",
      "Let us err, then, if we err, on the side of liberty.",
      "She loved to read poetry and when she got a keepsake from Bertha Supple of that lovely confession album with the coralpink cover to write her thoughts in she laid it in the drawer of her toilettable which, though it did not err on the side of luxury, was scrupulously neat and clean."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "2523",
    "Idiom": [
      "err on the side of caution"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To act with caution when uncertain about consequences.",
    "Sentence": [
      "They are all zealous to the last degree in support of the extreme policy.... They certainly will not err on the side of caution.",
      "In any uncertain situation, government tends to err on the side of caution and delay.",
      "But many savers are more concerned with the safety of their deposits and are even spreading their money over several institutions to err on the side of caution."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "2524",
    "Idiom": [
      "escape fire"
    ],
    "Meaning": "An unconventional solution to a difficult problem.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "2525",
    "Idiom": [
      "esprit de corps"
    ],
    "Meaning": "A shared spirit of camaraderie and devotion among group members.",
    "Sentence": [
      "“Well done, sister! I honour your esprit du corps . When I am a wife, I mean to be just as staunch myself; and I wish my friends in general would be so too. It would save me many a heartache.”",
      "Always happening like that. The very moment. Girl in Eustace street hallway Monday was it settling her garter. Her friend covering the display of. Esprit de corps. Well, what are you gaping at?",
      "Also, much depended on an exceptional esprit de corps which permeated the whole staff, and achieved miracles of promptitude in such details as engine-changing and the marshalling of trains."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "2526-1",
    "Idiom": [
      "est modus in rebus"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Live with moderation; find a middle ground.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "2526-2",
    "Idiom": [
      "est modus in rebus"
    ],
    "Meaning": "There is a proper measure in things.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "2526-3",
    "Idiom": [
      "est modus in rebus"
    ],
    "Meaning": "There is a proper measure in things.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "2527",
    "Idiom": [
      "eternal sleep"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Death.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "2528",
    "Idiom": [
      "eternal triangle"
    ],
    "Meaning": "A relationship involving three people with competing romantic attachments.",
    "Sentence": [
      "\"There weren't even any words,\" she said. \"He knocked Loerke down and stunned him, he half strangled me, then he went away.\" To herself she was saying: \"A pretty little sample of the eternal triangle !\"",
      "Wives and Lovers perkily proves that the eternal triangle is still good for laughs. The triangle consists of Author Van Johnson, Wife Janet Leigh and Literary Agent Martha Hyer, who sells Van's novel to a publisher, a book club, a Broadway producer and a movie company.... Not content with her 10%, she tries to collect the author too.",
      "And then there’s the eternal triangle thing with Duke fancying Olivia who fancies Sebastian."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "2529",
    "Idiom": [
      "eureka moment"
    ],
    "Meaning": "A moment of sudden discovery.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "2530",
    "Idiom": [
      "even Homer nods",
      "even jove nods"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Even the best can make mistakes.",
    "Sentence": [
      "And Homer nods : The Arizona Cardinals and Philadelphia Eagles played in this year's NFC championship, not NFL championship as we said in a Friday follow-up (since corrected)."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "2531",
    "Idiom": [
      "even a blind squirrel finds an acorn every now and then",
      "even a blind squirrel can find a nut once in a while",
      "even a blind pig can find an acorn once in a while",
      "even a blind squirrel finds an acorn every once in a while"
    ],
    "Meaning": "An unreliable person can be right occasionally by chance.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "2532",
    "Idiom": [
      "even a worm will turn"
    ],
    "Meaning": "The meek will retaliate if pushed too far.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "2533-1",
    "Idiom": [
      "even keel"
    ],
    "Meaning": "A state of being controlled and balanced.",
    "Sentence": [
      "The disease... plays havoc with mood, personality, perception and thought, and can require constant adjustments by friends and relatives just to keep life on an even keel."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "2533-2",
    "Idiom": [
      "even keel"
    ],
    "Meaning": "A state of being well controlled and smooth.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Wall Street was on a fairly even keel Tuesday morning but the same could not be said for Best Buy as the company's stock plummeted."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "2534",
    "Idiom": [
      "even money"
    ],
    "Meaning": "An event that is somewhat likely to happen.",
    "Sentence": [
      "It's even money that it will rain today."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "2535",
    "Idiom": [
      "even the score"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To seek revenge.",
    "Sentence": [
      "When the student pulled a prank on the principal, the principal evened the score by giving the student a suspension."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "2536",
    "Idiom": [
      "ever after"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Forever.",
    "Sentence": [
      "I've dreamt in my life dreams that have stayed with me ever after, and changed my ideas; they've gone through and through me, like wine through water, and altered the colour of my mind.",
      "Catherine: What do we do now, Nick?"
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "2537",
    "Idiom": [
      "everlasting staircase"
    ],
    "Meaning": "A prison treadmill.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "2538",
    "Idiom": [
      "every Jack has his Jill"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Everyone will eventually find a romantic partner.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "2539",
    "Idiom": [
      "every accusation is a confession"
    ],
    "Meaning": "A person who accuses others often shares the same fault.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "2540",
    "Idiom": [
      "every bit"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To its full degree.",
    "Sentence": [
      "The display and result must be placed in the context that was it was against a side that looked every bit their Fifa world ranking of 141 - but England completed the job with efficiency to record their biggest away win in 19 years."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "2541",
    "Idiom": [
      "every cloud has a silver lining",
      "every dark cloud has a silver lining"
    ],
    "Meaning": "There is something good in any bad situation.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Every cloud has a silver lining; but in the old-fashioned meeting-houses every cloud of hymnal melody generally had a nasal lining before the congregation",
      "that \"a little reserve and thou'lt fail surely,\" will prove to be true in our experience. Every cloud has a silver lining and so has every sorrow,",
      "But the most popular attitude toward what we may call \"sad\" plays is the peculiar one of believing that, since every cloud has a silver lining,",
      "Patrick O'Brien: No hard feelings ? I've been falsely accused, had the crap kicked out of me, now I have no job. Gene Hunt: Look on the bright side. Still got your health. So, you know, every cloud."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "2542",
    "Idiom": [
      "every dog must have his day",
      "every dog must have its day",
      "every dog has his day",
      "every dog has its day"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Everyone experiences success at some point in life.",
    "Sentence": [
      "\"To lose, it hurt. But I learned from that. I learned that every dog has its day. I learned patience.\"",
      "The Hearts manager John McGlynn was thrilled to be drawn against Liverpool in the Europa League play-offs. McGlynn said: \".... I would imagine the bookmakers would favour Liverpool but every dog has its day.\""
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "2543",
    "Idiom": [
      "every inch"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Totally, completely.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Wigan looked every inch a side languishing in the relegation zone and there was never any indication they would arrest a run that had seen them lose all of their previous eight Premier League matches at Arsenal.",
      "It hopes for an order for the Bakerloo Line, where trains dating from 1972 still ply the route, looking every inch their 50 years."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "2544",
    "Idiom": [
      "every last"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Used for emphasis, meaning every one without exception.",
    "Sentence": [
      "He never leaves without checking every last door."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "2545",
    "Idiom": [
      "every law has its loophole",
      "every law has a loophole"
    ],
    "Meaning": "There is always a way to circumvent rules.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "2546",
    "Idiom": [
      "every little helps",
      "every little bit helps"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Even the smallest things contribute to a goal.",
    "Sentence": [
      "\"There's not much money - if that's what you mean.\" \"Approximately.\" \"Once all the debts are paid there will be very little.\" \"Nevertheless. Every little helps. The Brothers are sorely in need of it this weather.\""
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "2547",
    "Idiom": [
      "every man Jack"
    ],
    "Meaning": "All members of a group without exceptions.",
    "Sentence": [
      "When the captain offered a free round of grog to the crew, every man Jack of them lined up for a cupful."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "2548",
    "Idiom": [
      "every man has a price",
      "every man has his price"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Everyone can be bribed or corrupted.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "2549",
    "Idiom": [
      "every man is the architect of his own fortune"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Each person shapes their own success or failure.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "2550",
    "Idiom": [
      "every miller draws water to his own mill"
    ],
    "Meaning": "People are primarily concerned with their own interests.",
    "Sentence": [
      "As the saying goes, ' every miller draws water to his own mill.'"
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "2551",
    "Idiom": [
      "every rose has its thorn",
      "every rose has a thorn"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Every good situation comes with challenges.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Bill—just remember every rose has it's thorn and you have Lee King.",
      "But every rose has its thorn, and the sharpest was yet to jab us.",
      "However, every rose has its thorn, and alopecia universalisis no different.",
      "He pricked a finger. Every rose has a thorn. Isabella is a rose. Her father is a thorn.",
      "I then See it a rose with a thorn on it the last One there and I grab it and tell the guy I will take it with a card saying to my True love let this rose be a gift to you Even though every rose has a thorn But my heart will always be yours.",
      "However, every rose has a thorn.",
      "Perhaps, like every rose has a thorn, every latent-variable SEM model begins with a contirmatory Factor analysis (CFA) model."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "2552",
    "Idiom": [
      "every shut eye isn't asleep"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Some seemingly inattentive people are actually attentive.",
    "Sentence": [
      "The other girls appeared to be sleeping through it as well, but there's an old saying that says every closed eye isn't sleeping.",
      "“Hi, Daddy. I thought you were asleep.” “ All closed eyes aren't sleep, baby,” he said, and peeped at his watch."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "2553",
    "Idiom": [
      "every silver lining has a cloud"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Every good situation can have negative aspects.",
    "Sentence": [
      "A great partnership isn't a self-maintaining entity. Perseverance and persistence make it thrive. For every silver lining has a cloud. Ignorance of this reality is not an option."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "2554",
    "Idiom": [
      "every stick has two ends"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Every situation has two sides.",
    "Sentence": [
      "But every stick has two ends, says a Russian proverb, and if the chemical shells helped the Germans, so, by and by, when we and our Allies began to adopt them, they caused also a great deal of damage to the Germans.",
      "Apparently forgetting the times in which we live, the U.S. defense secretary, far from advocating mutual disarmament, called on America to increase its strength so as to be able to destroy the socialist countries both singly and combined. We scarcely need point out that this bellicose call by a representative of the Pentagon is fraught with great danger and above all, to America itself. Every stick has two ends.",
      "The saying “ every stick has two ends ” is apropos here. Every situation has an upside and downside, and the bigger the stick, the bigger the ends."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "2555",
    "Idiom": [
      "every time"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Indicates a strong preference for one thing over another.",
    "Sentence": [
      "You can keep your wine — give me beer every time !",
      "If I had the choice between going to work and staying at home, I'd pick staying at home every time."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "2556",
    "Idiom": [
      "every which where"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Everywhere.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "2557",
    "Idiom": [
      "every woman Jill"
    ],
    "Meaning": "All female members of a group without exceptions.",
    "Sentence": [
      "\"It's got to happen to us all Every man Jack and every woman Jill of us go the same way.\""
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "2558",
    "Idiom": [
      "everybody and his brother"
    ],
    "Meaning": "A large number of people.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "2559",
    "Idiom": [
      "everybody who is anybody"
    ],
    "Meaning": "All well-known or important people.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Sir William: I'm convinced that everybody who is anybody has got to buckle to, and save the landmarks left. Unless we're true to our caste, and prepared to work for it, the landed classes are going to go under to this infernal democratic spirit in the air.",
      "Every year there is something new, something that everybody who is anybody gourmetwise, has to eat and rave about.",
      "Suddenly, the Canadian embassy is where everybody who is anybody wants to be—not least for its uniquely panoramic view of Capitol Hill and Pennsylvania Ave."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "2560",
    "Idiom": [
      "everything but the kitchen sink",
      "everything and the kitchen sink"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Almost everything, regardless of necessity.",
    "Sentence": [
      "She must have brought everything but the kitchen sink along on the trip, and how she lifted her suitcase, I do not know."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "2561",
    "Idiom": [
      "everything happens for a reason"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Used for consolation after an unfavorable experience, encouraging a positive outlook.",
    "Sentence": [
      "I also believe that everything happens for a reason, so as the tears and self-pity subsided, I knew that there must be another way in which my newfound knowledge and Punch's sparkling desire to perform could be utilized.",
      "Okay, everything happens for a reason. All is for the good. Only fear G-d. All the Chassidic dictums about life were racing through my mind.",
      "As she put it, “I keep telling myself,' everything HAPPENS for a reason. 'So, I mean I think everything happens for a reason, and hopefully something positive will come out of it.",
      "Louise Wilson notes that everything happens for a reason. She believes the adversity she has faced in her life only serves to make her stronger.",
      "Everything happens for a reason. I don't think I would be alive if I did not have that hope.",
      "At that moment this incredible feeling of peace came over me, and I was filled with a belief that everything happens for a reason. I realized that I lost my job for a reason, and I needed to trust that everything would work out.",
      "I also remember when you told us all that your mother would say “ Everything happens for a reason ” from time to time when you were a girl and that helped with the choice that was made on behalf of the firm.",
      "I also believe that everything happens for a reason, so as the tears and self-pity subsided, I knew that there must be another way in which my newfound knowledge and Punch's sparkling desire to perform could be utilized."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "2562",
    "Idiom": [
      "everything in the garden is rosy"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Things are going well.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "2563",
    "Idiom": [
      "everything is fair in love and war"
    ],
    "Meaning": "People disregard norms in love and conflict.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "2564",
    "Idiom": [
      "everything one touches turns to gold"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Everything someone does succeeds.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Albert is so talented and creative, that everything he touches turns to gold. The major studios want to hire him!"
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "2565",
    "Idiom": [
      "everything one touches turns to shit"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Everything someone does fails or worsens.",
    "Sentence": [
      "This irresponsible artist turned everything he touched into shit, wrecking whatever projects he was assigned into with such a shoddy performance."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "2566",
    "Idiom": [
      "evil be to him who evil thinks"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Deserves evil if one harbors disgraceful thoughts.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "2567",
    "Idiom": [
      "evil twin"
    ],
    "Meaning": "A counterpart that acts in a contrary or harmful manner.",
    "Sentence": [
      "...we see the flip side, the evil twin, the dark side of addition. Human nature contains both a thing and its opposite in varying degrees of tension, and so for every plus there is a minus.",
      "...[he]..lived his life under [another man's name], becoming his evil twin : Staas bought and sold homes, opened bank accounts, obtained credit, married twice, and was arrested at least three times.",
      "As a ploy to discredit the reformist politician, the opposing party had hired a lookalike to act as his evil twin and be seen in a variety of compromising situations."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "2568-1",
    "Idiom": [
      "excess baggage"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Something or someone considered burdensome or unnecessary.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Come on, you dog-gone, bullnecked, beetlebrowed, hogjowled, peanutbrained, weaseleyed four flushers, false alarms and excess baggage !",
      "Exiles and refugees... are likely to find the old ways and old language excess baggage, especially if their adopted homeland is the U.S., where the race is to the swift and the adaptable."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "2568-2",
    "Idiom": [
      "excess baggage"
    ],
    "Meaning": "An unhelpful mental outlook or emotional burden.",
    "Sentence": [
      "A chin-whiskered man in Walla-Walla, carrying a line of hope as excess baggage, had grubstaked us.",
      "The Pirates entered the season lugging no one's expectations as excess baggage.",
      "Every candidate for public office probably has some excess baggage to carry around that he'd rather not have. With Sen. John Kerry, it's undoubtedly his anti-Vietnam War activism."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "2569",
    "Idiom": [
      "exchange contracts"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To formally agree to a transaction involving property, typically with a deposit.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "2570",
    "Idiom": [
      "exchange flesh"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To engage in sexual intercourse.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Will-she, nill-she, she must have Roger's company nightly in her bed, to ensure that he lay not with another.... To exchange flesh with Roger she would bid all the world defiance.",
      "She thinks to herself, What crime have I committed? If two people exchange flesh for money, why is it that only the one who contributes the flesh is a criminal and not the one who pays?"
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "2571",
    "Idiom": [
      "exchange of contracts"
    ],
    "Meaning": "The stage at which a contract for a property transaction is established, typically involving a deposit.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "2572-1",
    "Idiom": [
      "execution-style"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Resembling an execution, where the victim is aware but unable to resist.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "2572-2",
    "Idiom": [
      "execution-style"
    ],
    "Meaning": "In a manner resembling an execution.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "2573",
    "Idiom": [
      "exit stage left"
    ],
    "Meaning": "An orderly departure that avoids distraction.",
    "Sentence": [
      "We played until our fellow participants began to reenter the gym. Then we pulled on our shirts, left the ball for dead on the foul line, and made a quick exit stage left.",
      "But like the career paths of so many Israeli politicians, his exit stage left was really a prelude to entering stage right: \"I'll continue to serve,\" Peres told NEWSWEEK..."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "2574",
    "Idiom": [
      "experience is the best teacher"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Lessons learned from experience are the most lasting.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "2575-1",
    "Idiom": [
      "expose oneself"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To display genitalia inappropriately.",
    "Sentence": [
      "On Thursday the police in Miami Beach arrested the man, Weston J. Hill, 44 years old, charging him with indecent exposure.... He had been charged with exposing himself to children.",
      "While the President was on the telephone, according to Ms. Lewinsky, \"he unzipped his pants and exposed himself,\" and she performed oral sex.",
      "Elsewhere in Sweden recently, two underage girls pressed charges when a teenage boy exposed himself to them at a lake. The court decided, despite the victims' testimonies, that the offence was \"not of a sexual nature\" and dismissed it.",
      "The police arrested the man who had exposed himself in public."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "2575-2",
    "Idiom": [
      "expose oneself"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To put oneself in a vulnerable position.",
    "Sentence": [
      "The soldiers exposed themselves by moving into unfamiliar territory."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "2576",
    "Idiom": [
      "express elevator"
    ],
    "Meaning": "A fast mode of transport.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Throw in Mr Trump's promise of a \"great, great wall along our southern border\" - with estimates starting at $12bn - and \"massive tax relief for the middle class\", and the price tag for his speech proposals is on an express elevator to astronomical."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "2577-1",
    "Idiom": [
      "extend one's hand"
    ],
    "Meaning": "A gesture of welcome or cordiality.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Prominent Substacker Charlotte Clymer compared the news to Michael Jordan ’s return to the NBA, and a U.S. senator, Jon Tester, also extended a hand in welcoming Stewart back."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "2577-2",
    "Idiom": [
      "extend one's hand"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To offer assistance or support.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "2578",
    "Idiom": [
      "extra pair of hands"
    ],
    "Meaning": "The assistance of another person.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Compadres visit each other frequently, usually several times a week, and assist each other with labor whenever an extra pair of hands is needed.",
      "We needed an extra pair of hands. So Marcus Sandford became our extra pair of hands.",
      "Do you need an extra pair of hands to help you pass out slices of cake and to clean up after the party is over?"
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "2579",
    "Idiom": [
      "extract the urine"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To mock or make fun of something.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Now, Merilyn is neither bizarre nor eccentric in the ordinary sense but when she started talking about the ‘presence’ in her shop I thought she was extracting the urine.",
      "Actually Connie it refers to the way we extract the urine out of the apparent social differences between each country.",
      "This is what the English do; take the piss (or as we say at school, extract the urine)."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "2580",
    "Idiom": [
      "extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Outlandish claims need exceptional evidence to be credible.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "2581",
    "Idiom": [
      "eye for an eye"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Retaliation through equivalent harm.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "2582",
    "Idiom": [
      "eye of the beholder"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Subjective perception and judgment.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Beauty is in the eye of the beholder.",
      "Since czar isn't an official job title, the number is somewhat in the eye of the beholder."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "2583",
    "Idiom": [
      "eye of the storm"
    ],
    "Meaning": "A period of calm in chaos.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "2584",
    "Idiom": [
      "eye sex"
    ],
    "Meaning": "A lustful glance exchanged between two people.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Eye sex. She'd heard the phrase but never experienced it before. The look he gave her was smoldering, showing her that he found her attractive.",
      "Our eyes met. Plain and simple we were having eye sex. If his eyes were a pool I could've drowned in them, sunk to the bottom never to come up for air.",
      "We played it again and I watched as the bride danced with her new husband but had eye sex with Tommy from across the room."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "2585-1",
    "Idiom": [
      "eye-catching"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Visually attractive.",
    "Sentence": [
      "The substitute then scored again when the ball broke to him following another jagged run by Walcott, who saved his most eye-catching contribution for stoppage time, when he turned up on the left wing and scampered into the area before showing splendid composure to ignore a foul and dink the ball over Krul."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "2585-2",
    "Idiom": [
      "eye-catching"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Attracts attention.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "2586",
    "Idiom": [
      "eye-catchingly"
    ],
    "Meaning": "In a striking manner.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "2587",
    "Idiom": [
      "eye-opener"
    ],
    "Meaning": "A startling or shocking revelation.",
    "Sentence": [
      "That was a very big eye-opener for me, after being very cocooned, living most of my life in the city where I was born and raised.",
      "A visit to the slaughterhouse was a real eye-opener to anyone who thought they understood where their food came from."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "2588",
    "Idiom": [
      "eyes on the prize"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Focus on one's goal.",
    "Sentence": [
      "[Abbas's] tenure would be taken as an opportunity by various Young Turks to cement their own claims. Men such as Gaza security chieftain Mohammed Dahlan and his former West Bank counterpart Jibril Rajoub may have their eyes on the prize.",
      "We like to think of ourselves as walking face forward into the future, eyes on the prize.",
      "\"It was an honor to watch the determination and focus as Sydney locked her eyes on the prize and shot a 5-under par 31,\" Cavaliers' coach Lee Smith said.",
      "Clinton must weigh up the excitement of a rule-breaking all-female ticket against the cold, hard political calculation of how best to win the presidential race. She's a realist who has her eyes on the prize, and winning the White House will likely trump all other considerations."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "2589",
    "Idiom": [
      "face down"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To confront.",
    "Sentence": [
      "That old philosopher grew cross, / Who could not tell what motion was; / Because he walked against his will, / He faced men down, that he stood still.",
      "An already febrile atmosphere within the ground before the start had been stoked still further when France's players formed an arrow formation to face down the haka, and then advanced slowly over halfway as the capacity crowd roared."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "2590",
    "Idiom": [
      "face facts"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To accept an unpleasant truth.",
    "Sentence": [
      "The Home Member said they could not refuse to face facts and Mr. S. R, Das, Law Member, said the partial co-operation which had been received from the Swarajists in the House had been forced out of them by their minority position there.",
      "Now this doubtness is an unhappy state of affairs to the lover of the steam locomotive, but we cannot, like the proverbial ostrich, bury our heads in the sand and refuse to face facts.",
      "Not long after a particularly aggressive soccer game in my youth, when I went down hard with a severe injury, I had to face facts : my soccer days were over.",
      "“You must face facts,” he said, taking a step toward her."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "2591",
    "Idiom": [
      "face like the back end of a bus"
    ],
    "Meaning": "A very ugly face.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "2592-1",
    "Idiom": [
      "face that would stop a clock"
    ],
    "Meaning": "A shockingly unattractive face.",
    "Sentence": [
      "He described the thug as a very ugly and wicked-looking man, with a face that \"would stop a clock\".",
      "We realize that all women are fair only in theory and that if we arranged them in the order of fairness we should have at one end the face that launched a thousand ships and at the other end the face that would stop a clock.",
      "Archie was an artist, finely chiselled, \"the type girls go for like catnip.\" He... was expected to marry an American heiress. But she loved a muscular curate with a face that would stop a clock."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "2592-2",
    "Idiom": [
      "face that would stop a clock"
    ],
    "Meaning": "A shockingly attractive face.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Hey darlin' I can remember when you could stop a clock."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "2593",
    "Idiom": [
      "face the music"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To confront the unpleasant consequences of one's actions.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Hudson personally would not face the music at that meeting and the business could hardly proceed for groans and hisses and cries of \"Hudson! Hudson! Why is Hudson not here?\" and so the ungrateful shareholders to whom Hudson had generously paid dividends out of their own capital cast out Hudson bag and baggage, including therein the agreement with the Newmarket Railway.",
      "Trevor Philips (Steven Ogg) : Time to face the music !"
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "2594",
    "Idiom": [
      "face value"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Literal or direct meaning.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Few museums have such a coherent collection that covers so many different areas of interest as the London Transport Museum. At face value, it is a collection of urban transport in London. In reality, it is so much more.",
      "Please take this comment at face value and don't try to read anything into it."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "2595",
    "Idiom": [
      "faceless bureaucrat"
    ],
    "Meaning": "A stereotypical anonymous government official.",
    "Sentence": [
      "The desk-killer operates from within a network of other faceless functionaries radiating in every direction and in which the sense of responsibility could be passed along from faceless bureaucrat to faceless bureaucrat with the greatest of ease, as if it is nothing but an item passed along a conveyor belt on a mass-production line.",
      "If you want a parliamentary democracy with responsible and accountable ministers, you have to complement the high-profile political role of a minister with that of a neutral, faceless bureaucrat, confined to the role of an adviser.",
      "The faceless bureaucrat, the rigidly rule-bound and unresponsive public servant, the mysterious labyrinth of corridors, the long customer service wait times—these are all part of the imagery of public bureaucracy deeply imbedded in American culture.",
      "when cancer therapy tends to hit the press is when access to a new therapy is denied someone, usually presented as a variant of the staple news story of 'patient refused life-saving drug by faceless bureaucrat'.",
      "Probably the most powerful of the myths about the modern administrative state concerns the identity of the typical bureaucrat. The faceless bureaucrat of myth is inefficient and lazy on one hand, aggressive and hyperactive in meddling in people's lives on the other. But in truth bureaucrats are ordinary people."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "2596",
    "Idiom": [
      "fact is"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Actually, in truth.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Was it a dominating performance? No. Were you expecting dominance? Fact is, Sounders FC created more than twice the chances of the home team. While the finishing was sub-par, the run of play was controlled by the guys in green until the unfortunate mistakes."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "2597",
    "Idiom": [
      "fact is stranger than fiction",
      "truth is stranger than fiction"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Actual events can be stranger than fiction.",
    "Sentence": [
      "It has often been said that truth is stranger than fiction. But what writer of the most extravagant fiction could have thought up such a life as that of William Kiffin? A poor orphan becoming one of the wealthiest merchants in the country;",
      "In the end, truth is stranger than fiction : reality has more complications, more unanticipable twists and turns than fiction could ever imagine."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "2598",
    "Idiom": [
      "factor in"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To consider.",
    "Sentence": [
      "In addition to employment in the area, once you factor in the patronage of people visiting the various sites, it's not difficult to see why it's being redeveloped. The current station building is tiny in comparison to other stations with a similar patronage.",
      "The apartment seemed like good value until we factored in the cost of the repairs."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "2599",
    "Idiom": [
      "factor space"
    ],
    "Meaning": "A space formed by identifying equivalent points.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "2600",
    "Idiom": [
      "facts don't care about your feelings"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Facts exist independently of emotions.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "2601-1",
    "Idiom": [
      "facts on the ground"
    ],
    "Meaning": "The situation in reality.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "2601-2",
    "Idiom": [
      "facts on the ground"
    ],
    "Meaning": "The presence of military forces affecting ownership.",
    "Sentence": [
      "The author referred to \"continued evictions and relentless purchases of Palestinian homes in East Jerusalem, the process of the right of return granted to Jews but not to Arabs, the so-called facts on the ground of hardening concrete over the future, over future generations of Palestinian and Israeli children who will inherit the conflict and find it even more difficult to resolve than it is today.\""
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "2602",
    "Idiom": [
      "facts speak louder than words"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Facts are more convincing than words.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "2603-1",
    "Idiom": [
      "fade out"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To slowly disappear.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "2603-2",
    "Idiom": [
      "fade out"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To sneak away.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "2604",
    "Idiom": [
      "fail at life"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To fail significantly.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "2605",
    "Idiom": [
      "fail upwards"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Advancing in a career despite failures or incompetence.",
    "Sentence": [
      "I got trapped in an absurd, \" failing upwards \" trajectory. Heathers got me work on a bigger film called Ford Fairlane. When that movie failed, I was given a post on an even bigger film, Hudson Hawk. After that one really, really failed, I was rewarded with the assignment of Batman Returns.",
      "In Hollywood, as in many industries, there are countless tales of people who fail upwards. It means that no matter how poorly someone performs with one project, the next one he or she will be given will be significantly greater. If a director makes a flop for $15 million, you can bet the ranch that his next picture deal will be for $25 million.",
      "He was your standard show business example of failing upwards, and the Postman had no doubts that eventually Goldstone would be running a major Hollywood film studio into receivership.",
      "Gates himself would move to the White House as deputy national security adviser—in effect, failing upwards."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "2606",
    "Idiom": [
      "failure is the best teacher"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Failing teaches better than success.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "2607",
    "Idiom": [
      "faint heart never won fair lady"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Success requires taking risks.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "2608",
    "Idiom": [
      "fair enough",
      "very well"
    ],
    "Meaning": "An expression of acknowledgment or understanding.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Puel was let go in June despite leading Southampton to their first major final for 14 years and an eighth-place finish in the Premier League. But apparently his style was too boring and some players and many fans disliked his method, so he had to go – fair enough but look at them now.",
      "You can play the exercises pretty well on piano, fair enough, but can you play the movement expressively?"
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "2609",
    "Idiom": [
      "fair exchange is no robbery"
    ],
    "Meaning": "An honest deal involves equal value.",
    "Sentence": [
      "\"You can get anything you need here,\" Shamlack explained. \"Longheads will adapt to whatever trade is needed at any given time and they have an excellent eye and mind for business. They are always honest, but don't ever expect to get anything for nothing -- you get what you ask for and nothing more or less than that.\" \"Well, you know, fair exchange is no robbery,\" one of the Longheads chipped in, overhearing them.",
      "When you add all the other elements (risk, security, deposit, currency, condition, title, mortgage interest, planning consents, inhibitions, tenants' titles, access, utilities, damage, landscaping and so on) of the sale or purchase of the building, the 'equal' movement fantasy is exposed as meaningless in detail. ' Fair exchange is no robbery' is true but it says nothing about a fair exchange being equal in some way. In fact, no exchange is an equal transaction.",
      "The current maxim that a fair exchange is no robbery —so confidently urged— cannot apply to the profit system, for if the exchange is fair there is no profit, and if there is no profit there will be no exchange",
      "An old saying has it that “ fair exchange is no robbery,” and in fact, exchange, per se, is a form of interdependence that can make both sides better off."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "2610-1",
    "Idiom": [
      "fair game"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Actions permissible by the rules.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Pretending to be slow is fair game. Pretending to be injured is not.",
      "The referee ruled the unprecedented play fair game."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "2610-2",
    "Idiom": [
      "fair game"
    ],
    "Meaning": "A legitimate target or objective.",
    "Sentence": [
      "After the middle sister's call from a friend's house, her slice of cake was fair game."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "2610-3",
    "Idiom": [
      "fair game"
    ],
    "Meaning": "An acceptable subject for criticism or attack.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Anyone running for office is fair game for criticism."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "2611",
    "Idiom": [
      "fair sex"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Women collectively.",
    "Sentence": [
      "The younger Gentry, or Dons, to express their Gallantry, carry about them Egg-shells, fill'd with Orange or other sweet Water, which they cast at Ladies in their Coaches, or such other of the fair Sex as they happen to meet in the Streets.",
      "\"Permit me rather to perform my duty in attending them,\" said Roland, anxious to show he was possessed of the high tone of deference prescribed by the rules of chivalry towards the fair sex, and especially to dames and maidens of quality.",
      "Our entrance was attended with the usual ceremony, now familiar to the reader: the warmen danced, shot, and shouted, a rabble of adults, youths and boys crowded upon us, the fair sex lulliloo'd with vigor.",
      "“Now, Watson, the fair sex is your department,” said Holmes, with a smile, when the dwindling frou-frou of skirts had ended in the slam of the front door.",
      "And he had his friends among the fair sex —not lovers, friends."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "2612",
    "Idiom": [
      "fair shake"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Reasonable, unbiased treatment.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Raymond J. Williams, the board's executive secretary, told a reporter, \"We tried to give the guy [Arnold] a fair shake.\"",
      "\"America is not ideologically racist. Americans are willing to give people a fair shake.\"",
      "The average citizen in the republic wants to go to bed at night and feel that Catholics in Northern Ireland are receiving a fair shake.",
      "A vast network of fathers’ groups, labour lawyers, bloggers and social advocates rallied to his cause, forcing a national conversation about whether caregiving fathers were getting a fair shake.",
      "“You feel like you’re the underdog and you don’t get a fair shake, so you look for people that are going to shake it up,” she said of the local support for Mr. Trump’s dispute of the election results."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "2613",
    "Idiom": [
      "fair share"
    ],
    "Meaning": "A significant or excessive amount.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Arsenal have had more than their fair share of injury troubles in recent weeks, but they were given a welcome boost before kick-off as Saka and Takehiro Tomiyasu, who both suffered knocks in Wednesday's 2-0 win over Sevilla, were passed fit to start.",
      "He endured a fair share of criticism during his lifetime, but his works are now universally considered to be masterpieces."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "2614",
    "Idiom": [
      "fair to middling"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Somewhat favorable.",
    "Sentence": [
      "\"O'er Waiting Harpstrings of the Mind\" is pretty good, quite fair to middling —the whole seven of the stanzas—but repetition would be certain to take the excitement out of it in the course of time.",
      "Not a heluva good one, but fair to middlin’.",
      "For the next five months, Knicks fans will have to watch a collection of underachievers, inexperienced players and fair-to-middling pros attempt to be respectable."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "2615",
    "Idiom": [
      "fair weather fan"
    ],
    "Meaning": "A fan who only supports their team during successful times.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "2616",
    "Idiom": [
      "fair-haired boy"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Someone's favorite, especially a young one.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "2617",
    "Idiom": [
      "fair-weather friend"
    ],
    "Meaning": "One who is only supportive when it's convenient.",
    "Sentence": [
      "The liberty of the press was not to be looked upon as fit only for seasons of calmness, as a fair-weather friend to be discarded in a storm.",
      "Ere long a portion of the village spire began to appear among the trees, and the gilded telltale on its top, in which the slippery politician, and the fair weather friend, and the doubting disciple, who is blown about by every wind of doctrine, may behold a happy emblem of life and practice.",
      "She did not even attempt to make a reply, or to ask her fairweather friend to remain; but suffered her to leave the room and the house without a word.",
      "Be not pestered with too many friends. There are as many grades of friends as there are plaids in the tartan. There is the friend of \" ifs, buts, and ands,\" who always signifies that he would if he could, but as he can't, how can he? Then comes your fair weather friend, who deserts you the very first time you founder in the mud !",
      "She put little nosegays from her garden on his desk, and tried in every way to show that she was not a fair-weather friend, but faithful through evil as well as good repute.",
      "[Sandro] Pertini is being embraced as the leader of a staunch and increasingly important ally—a country that, as [Ronald] Reagan put it, \"is no fair-weather friend but instead is an indispensable partner.\"",
      "One respondent to a Gibbs and Humphries's research initiative characterised their senior management as ‘ fair weather friends ’ – keen to support the partnering initiative on day one and when things are going well, but eager to distance themselves when times got tough."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "2618",
    "Idiom": [
      "fairy money"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Unexpectedly discovered money or treasure.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "2619",
    "Idiom": [
      "faith can move mountains",
      "faith will move mountains"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Belief can help overcome obstacles.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "2620-1",
    "Idiom": [
      "fall apart",
      "come apart at the seams"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To be emotionally in crisis.",
    "Sentence": [
      "At first I used to look at so many of us having fights or crying or staggering around messed up somehow and think, \"God, are we fucked up!\" but now what I think is that it was a safe place to fall apart in — one of the few. You didn't have to be politically correct or well-behaved; you could be wild or angry or miserable.",
      "As a result of being addicted to heroin, she was falling apart."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "2621-2",
    "Idiom": [
      "fall apart"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To separate.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Again the mountains fall apart, and in a wide basin of corn-land and pasture lies the bourgade of La Thuile.",
      "Others come on behind relentlessly and, in this way, it arrives before me as a tumbleweed of moving birds. Occasionally two of them, newly vanished, suddenly pop back up, all legs and squabbling beak, then they fall apart and resume the stab-and-prise feeding technique that scientists call Zirkeln."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "2622",
    "Idiom": [
      "fall around"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To fall over repeatedly due to clumsiness or drunkenness.",
    "Sentence": [
      "falling around the place"
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "2623",
    "Idiom": [
      "fall asleep"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To go numb.",
    "Sentence": [
      "My left leg has fallen asleep !"
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "2624",
    "Idiom": [
      "fall at the last hurdle"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To fail near the end of something.",
    "Sentence": [
      "When she falls at her last hurdle, it is through her own act, motivated by the identical combination of curiositas and simplicitas that has been her undoing from the start.",
      "Now, at the point of action, it's easy to appear to fall at the last hurdle. In fact, you are unlikely to fail here. If it goes wrong now, it will [be] because you slipped at a previous waterjump and didn't notice the splash you made.",
      "Mortal Kombat 2 is the sequel to Mortal Kombat. Sub Zero—the mysterious icy ninja, is one of the best fighters out of the brave warriors trying to save earth from the hands of Shao Khan. Falling himself also at the last hurdle of doing away with Tsung, wants to get his frosty hands on Khan now.",
      "The resources of local land settlement commissions could be tied up for many months or years in a continuous process of devising and revising enclosure projects, only for the final project to fall at the last hurdle.",
      "Armagh (and it is one of the most memorable chapters in the history of Gaelic football) were fated to fall at the last hurdle when they were beaten by Kerry in the All-Ireland decider.",
      "I remembered my failed attempt at flying training, how I had fallen at the last hurdle.",
      "Some units penetrated as far as the last street before the river, but once more poor intelligence, lack of coordination and limited firepower meant that Operation Iron Fist fell at the last hurdle."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "2625",
    "Idiom": [
      "fall behind"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To be late.",
    "Sentence": [
      "You're falling behind with the rent."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "2626",
    "Idiom": [
      "fall between the cracks"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To be overlooked or not addressed.",
    "Sentence": [
      "I submitted my application for student finance months ago, but haven't heard back. I think I've fallen between the cracks."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "2627-1",
    "Idiom": [
      "fall between two stools"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Fails to fit into either of two categories.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Unfortunately, it fell between two stools : it was not good enough to be a competition car and those who wanted a roadburner preferred the Iso Grifo, which was better equipped.",
      "Even Henry's will embodies that suspension between two poles, or falling between two stools, which characterises so much of his church's history from the point.",
      "Patterson's therory has profound implications for any critical interpretation of the play: if, as she argues, we should recognise two distinct versions of the play with very different political effects, an interpretation which ignores the differences is likely to fall between two stools."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "2627-2",
    "Idiom": [
      "fall between two stools"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To try two roles and fail at both.",
    "Sentence": [
      "“ She could not bear to lose the land she had got by a swindle; and then she could not bear the loss of her lover. So she fell between two stools. ”",
      "Failing to get rid of the old love before taking on the new—in other words, wasting his strength over a new and untried method before having fully established the old—he fell between two stools.",
      "The Council, by trying to combine its functions as the responsible executive of the League with some of the representative attributes of the Assembly, has to some extent fallen between two stools, and gives the impression of not being certain of its rôle.",
      "As your chances of mega-success increase so do your chances of falling between two stools, and if you get it wrong, you could end up with a dog’s dinner that satisfies no one."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "2628",
    "Idiom": [
      "fall by the wayside"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To fail to be completed or neglected.",
    "Sentence": [
      "When I faint and fall by the wayside of my cares, it [a \"cup of favor\"] shall give me strength to bear up, as the refreshments of your sympathy seem to flow from its lip, and when I thirst, it shall be as one of the consecrated fountains of my relief.",
      "Nature's precious link between a squalid Past and a nobler Future, broken, snatched away from her allotted place in the long chain of the ages! Heiress of infinite hope, and dowered with latent fitness to fulfil her part, now so suddenly fallen by the wayside !",
      "The boy and girl taking their cue from us also fail to put \"first things first\" and we find them falling by the wayside because our sense of relative values failed to function.",
      "At this stage the learner tries to master the new tasks by the only means known—memorizing the rule for each kind of problem. This task being now impossible, even the outward appearance of progress ceases, and, with accompanying distress, another pupil falls by the wayside.",
      "Dying dramatic arts like Kabuki and No (or Noh) that have existed for years are falling by the wayside because of the onslaught of VCRs and the Hollywoodization of the dramatic arts.",
      "Zooey, here's the deal. Peter's always been a girlfriend guy. He put all his focus and energy into his relationships, and all his dude friends just fell by the wayside.",
      "Throughout the years, milk drinking has fallen by the wayside as soda drinking has gained in popularity.",
      "Given the absence of an accepted government that unites Somalis behind it, the question of Somali nationality and identity falls by the wayside.",
      "Planned orders for new trains fell by the wayside, justified amid passenger figures that had fallen back following the recession of the late 2000s (caused by the banking crash)."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "2629-1",
    "Idiom": [
      "fall for"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To be fooled or deceived.",
    "Sentence": [
      "I can't believe how many people still fall for the coin glued to the sidewalk."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "2629-2",
    "Idiom": [
      "fall for"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To fall in love with.",
    "Sentence": [
      "They told me he was bad / But I knew he was sad / That's why I fell for the Leader of the Pack",
      "The neighbor is eventually able to sell her home despite Homer’s pants-less affronts to propriety and decency and Bart falls deeply and instantly for one of its new inhabitants, a tough but charming and funny tomboy girl named Laura (voiced by Sara Gilbert) with just the right combination of toughness and sweetness, granite and honey.",
      "Beautiful hearts are in your eyes / I've been waiting for you to fall for me / And let me in your life",
      "He really fell for the attractive waitress at his favorite restaurant."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "2630-1",
    "Idiom": [
      "fall foul"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To collide or conflict with.",
    "Sentence": [
      "If they be any ways offended, they fall foul.",
      "He was, literally speaking, drunk; which circumstance, together with his natural impetuosity, could produce no other effect than his running immediately up to his daughter, upon whom he fell foul with his tongue in the most inveterate manner"
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "2630-2",
    "Idiom": [
      "fall foul"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To be defeated or thwarted.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Sky News fell foul of its own woolly reporting on Tuesday, when it reported \"human remains\" had been found on Saddleworth Moor. Ever keen to spin a good yarn, they immediately linked the story to moors murderers Ian Brady and Myra Hindley - only for the police to emerge seven hours later and announce that, after very careful inspection, they could confirm the carcass was not human",
      "If Chelsea were to fall foul of profit and sustainability, they would be expected to cite unforeseen circumstances, much as some clubs have claimed Covid writedowns: their books would have been sound but for the pandemic.",
      "Passengers may find themselves in a catch-22 situation, unable to buy a ticket for any number of reasons, ranging from an out-of-order ticket vending machine to a lengthy queue to use one, and yet then fall foul of the penalty fare regime."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "2631",
    "Idiom": [
      "fall from grace"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To lose prestige, status, or power.",
    "Sentence": [
      "The row started over who will run for parliament in a wealthy rightwing constituency on the left bank in Paris, a safe seat for Sarkozy's ruling UMP. Dati is already a local mayor in the neighbourhood, a job felt to have been handed to her on a plate when she was a Sarkozy favourite. She has since fallen from grace, and when she left government she took a European parliament seat, considered a consolation prize.",
      "His father fell from grace with the emperor.",
      "The cyclist fell from grace because of steroids and lies."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "2632",
    "Idiom": [
      "fall in line"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To obey or conform to authority.",
    "Sentence": [
      "It will be to your interest to accept my suggestions and fall in line with my plans.",
      "If I had your life I'd put my throat to a knife, Fill your days with emptiness, but I don't have the time; I won't grow up, I won't fall in line."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "2633-1",
    "Idiom": [
      "fall into"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To enter something unexpectedly.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Most of us didn't plan to be designers; we just fell into the job."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "2633-2",
    "Idiom": [
      "fall into"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To be classified as.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Trees fall into two main categories: deciduous and evergreen."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "2634-1",
    "Idiom": [
      "fall into a trap"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To make a mistake and get into a difficult situation.",
    "Sentence": [
      "If you are not careful, you can fall into a trap of focusing too much on getting more loans instead of paying off other bills."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "2634-2",
    "Idiom": [
      "fall into a trap"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To be fooled and get into a difficult situation.",
    "Sentence": [
      "He fell into a trap by believing his childhood friend and giving away all of his savings."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "2635",
    "Idiom": [
      "fall into place"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To become clear and complete when elements come together.",
    "Sentence": [
      "This is the day / Your life will surely change / This is the day / When things fall into place",
      "If weapons and trained troops fall into place in time, Ukraine is capable of inflicting losses on the Russian Army that could have far-reaching geopolitical consequences",
      "If it weren't for your heroic deed, his evil plan would have fallen into place.",
      "Everything fell into place when he figured out who the murderer was."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "2636",
    "Idiom": [
      "fall into someone's lap"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Received with little or no effort or by chance.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "2637",
    "Idiom": [
      "fall into the wrong hands"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To be possessed or discovered by an unfriendly third party.",
    "Sentence": [
      "The policeman was concerned that the lost handgun would fall into the wrong hands."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "2638",
    "Idiom": [
      "fall off a truck"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To acquire something illegally or stolen.",
    "Sentence": [
      "He said he bought it at the markets but I think it fell off a truck."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "2639",
    "Idiom": [
      "fall off the back of a lorry"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Acquired illegally.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "2640",
    "Idiom": [
      "fall off the back of a truck"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Acquiring something through illegal or dubious means.",
    "Sentence": [
      "The movie is still in theaters, but I got a copy that fell off the back of a truck."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "2641",
    "Idiom": [
      "fall off the turnip truck"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To be naive or unsophisticated.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Doesn't it strike you as funny that this city, which prides itself on its erudition and sophistication, can oftimes get suckered like a bumpkin who just fell off the turnip truck ?"
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "2642",
    "Idiom": [
      "fall off the wagon"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To lapse back into an old habit or addiction.",
    "Sentence": [
      "In 2006, he checked himself into the Hazelden center in Springbrook, Ore., to be treated for an addiction to alcohol, having fallen off the wagon after some 20 years of sobriety.",
      "After nearly 17 years of sobriety, Zevon fell off the wagon hard when he was diagnosed.",
      "Though he fell off the wagon several times, he eventually succeeded in quitting."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "2643",
    "Idiom": [
      "fall on a grenade"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To sacrifice oneself for others.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Another longtime Gore adviser says: \"Nobody would fall on a grenade for him. People respect him but don't love him. He just doesn't inspire that kind of loyalty.\"",
      "It is unrealistic in most project settings to expect a team member to “ fall on a grenade ” to sacrifice his life for the sake of his teammates."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "2644",
    "Idiom": [
      "fall on one's face"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To fail dramatically or decisively.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Judge Charles R. Richey last week tried to apply some firm rules of law to such indelicate situations. He came close to succeeding, then fell on his face.",
      "But defense lawyers have compared the case to a \"trashy novel\" in which the Government presented plenty of gossip, hearsay and innuendo but little credible evidence.... \"I think the Government fell on their face,\" said Michael Critchley.",
      "Others grumbled, questioning whether this man knew anything about fighting in the desert or was simply a strutting martinet who, once he was confronted with the tactical brilliance of Rommel, would fall on his face like so many before him. Unfortunately, if Montgomery failed, he would no doubt take a good part of the Eighth Army with him."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "2645-1",
    "Idiom": [
      "fall on one's sword"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To resign under pressure.",
    "Sentence": [
      "[Bob] Stempel was laboring to undo the damage when GM's board forced him to fall on his sword after little more than two years on the job.",
      "‘There is no sympathy for her ’ one Minister said. ‘She [Jacqui Smith] may just fall on her sword, or Gordon [Brown] might humiliate her with a demotion to something like the Department for International Development.",
      "The minister fell on his sword after a day that began with senior Tories observing a deliberate silence over Hancock’s future – seemingly to test public opinion in their constituencies – before many later broke ranks to insist he had to go."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "2645-2",
    "Idiom": [
      "fall on one's sword"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To voluntarily take the blame.",
    "Sentence": [
      "The bemedaled Marine refused to fall on his sword and take full blame for the scandal.",
      "Humility does not require you to fall on your sword.",
      "In written testimony given to Congress and made public the day before the hearing, Hurd falls on his sword, apologizing for HP's spying on its own directors and invading the privacy of journalists."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "2646",
    "Idiom": [
      "fall on someone's neck"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To embrace someone affectionately.",
    "Sentence": [
      "When Theseus saw him, his heart leapt into his mouth, and he longed to fall on his neck and welcome him.",
      "If he expected either of them to fall on his neck and weep tears of gratitude at his pompous announcement, the colonel was disappointed.",
      "I ought to fall on your neck with joy.... You are my father's friend, my mother's, mine.",
      "\"The moment your delinquent showed the slightest sign of decency... you fell on his neck as if he had rescued you from drowning.\"",
      "After falling on my neck and hugging me and calling me “cousin” like a character from a Jane Austen novel,... she sat me down."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "2647-1",
    "Idiom": [
      "fall out"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To cease being friends.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Before the incident Robins had fallen out with Knutton, 30. Knutton had made a complaint over Robins' boyfriend.",
      "Dave and I fell out after a long argument."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "2647-2",
    "Idiom": [
      "fall out"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To report for duty at a new location.",
    "Sentence": [
      "The company fell out for an artillery drill."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "2647-3",
    "Idiom": [
      "fall out"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To cause someone to fall down.",
    "Sentence": [
      "The ground fell out from under him.",
      "When she left him, his world fell out beneath him."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "2648",
    "Idiom": [
      "fall out of the ugly tree and hit every branch"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To become extremely unattractive.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "2649-1",
    "Idiom": [
      "fall over"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To fall from standing to a horizontal position.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "2649-2",
    "Idiom": [
      "fall over"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To fail to be valid.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "2649-3",
    "Idiom": [
      "fall over"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To crash.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "2649-4",
    "Idiom": [
      "fall over"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To become inoperable.",
    "Sentence": [
      "We'll have to walk; my car has fallen over."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "2650",
    "Idiom": [
      "fall seven times, stand up eight"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Never give up.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "2651",
    "Idiom": [
      "fall short"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To be inadequate or insufficient.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Ample proof that the maintenance of locomotives and track in the mid-Victorian era sometimes fell far short of present-day standards is afforded by an accident which occurred on July 3, 1866, near Royston, on the Cambridge branch of the Great Northern Railway.",
      "They have fallen short on so many occasions that an England team who rises to the occasion are worthy of the highest praise.",
      "But if being is not a whole through being affected by that affection, and there is such a thing as the whole itself, it follows that being falls short of itself.",
      "I did my best, but fell far short of the score cutoff."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "2652",
    "Idiom": [
      "fall through"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To be unsuccessful or cancelled.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Lynton & Barnstaple Railway revivalists have unexpectedly been given a second chance to purchase the station, after the original sale deal fell through.",
      "Their plans to go hiking Saturday fell through because it rained."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "2653",
    "Idiom": [
      "fall through the cracks"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To be missed or overlooked.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Although more than two decades have passed, not a day goes by that I don't wonder how things could and should be different for the many children like Lydia who fall through the cracks because they are misdiagnosed, mistreated, or simply misunderstood."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "2654",
    "Idiom": [
      "fall victim"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To suffer due to external circumstances or others' actions.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Obviously, birds are very vulnerable to human persecution at such passage sites, where hecatombs of raptors fall victim every year to human greed or pleasure. Examples of important areas for seasonal mass migration and / or resting of",
      "F. Platten led a group of several score Swiss workers with their families (many of them subsequently also fell victim to repression) who had organized an agricultural co-operative not far from Simbirsk, Lenin's birthplace, back in 1923.",
      "Arsenal also have a score to settle with Liverpool after losing 2-0 at home in the recent FA Cup third-round tie, when they had so many chances to score before almost inevitably falling victim to two late sucker-punches."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "2655",
    "Idiom": [
      "falling out"
    ],
    "Meaning": "A rift following a disagreement.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Since the falling out with his neighbor, they have kept their distance."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "2656-1",
    "Idiom": [
      "false alarm"
    ],
    "Meaning": "An occurrence that causes fear but is later found to be harmless.",
    "Sentence": [
      "\"This may be a false alarm, or a forged letter,\" said De Bracy.",
      "The terrible announcement that the baby had been taken in the act of putting a doll's frying-pan into his mouth, and was more than suspected of having swallowed a fictitious turkey, glued on a wooden platter! The immense relief of finding this a false alarm !",
      "Cuthbert had often been summoned to her dying bed, only to find that she was alive and well. He expected that this summons would be another false alarm.",
      "Robert Swanson expected civilization to melt down on Jan. 1, 2000 He's not sure yet that Y2K was a false alarm."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "2656-2",
    "Idiom": [
      "false alarm"
    ],
    "Meaning": "A situation that initially causes concern but turns out to be harmless.",
    "Sentence": [
      "\"I don't believe you're a bank robber, at all! I don't believe you are even a rustler! You're a false alarm !\"",
      "\"He's an old false alarm, anyway. I'll bet he never heard a real gun go off!\"",
      "\"I had a good job, putting in a power plant for his nibs\"—he indicated the retreating Gordon with a disrespectful jerk of the thumb—\"but I quit Do you think I'd work for this four-flusher if you were in the country?\" \"You think Gordon is a false alarm ?\"",
      "\"I only came over here to see that darned false alarm of a play of mine put on.\""
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "2657",
    "Idiom": [
      "false light"
    ],
    "Meaning": "A misleading or inaccurate representation.",
    "Sentence": [
      "To the untrue man, the whole universe is false—it is impalpable—it shrinks to nothing within his grasp. And he himself in so far as he shows himself in a false light, becomes a shadow.",
      "It was not I, but these things working in me—on my brain, making me see things in a false light !",
      "Some of the charges against them... are due merely to the false light in which they are regarded.",
      "Don Lehe, a Republican state representative from a rural district in Indiana, said online videos can cast farmers in a false light and give them little opportunity to correct the record."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "2658-1",
    "Idiom": [
      "false note"
    ],
    "Meaning": "An indication of untruth, insincerity, or inconsistency.",
    "Sentence": [
      "His words were grave, his manner was earnest, and his speech came from the fulness of his heart. If there had been a false note, a false look, Harry would have detected both,",
      "The screenplay... even suggests that this contributed to the false note on which The African Queen actually ends.",
      "Shreve creates a little world, peoples it with believable characters, and puts them through agonizing and joyful moments without a false note or a dissonant figure of speech."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "2658-2",
    "Idiom": [
      "false note"
    ],
    "Meaning": "An indication of incongruity or inappropriateness.",
    "Sentence": [
      "The only false note in an otherwise classic and elegant collection was the gratuitous flash of black fishnet stockings and suspenders under otherwise unremarkable paisley and floral shirts."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "2659",
    "Idiom": [
      "familiarity breeds contempt",
      "the more one learns about people, the more one likes one's pet"
    ],
    "Meaning": "The closer you are to someone, the more likely you are to notice their flaws and dislike them.",
    "Sentence": [
      "“Suffer [your children] not to carry themselves unreverently or contemptuously towards you [parents]; but to keep their distance. For too much familiarity breedeth contempt, and imboldeneth to disobedience.”",
      "“For a person to read his own works over with any great delight, he ought first to forget that he ever wrote them. Familiarity naturally breeds contempt.”",
      "For Ayesha was certainly an exception to the rule. Familiarity with her might and did breed passion and wonder and horror, but it certainly did not breed contempt.",
      "This was the beginning of evil, for if no man is a hero to his valet de chambre, much less can he remain a god for long in the eyes of a curious woman. Here, as in other matters, familiarity breeds contempt."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "2660",
    "Idiom": [
      "family jewels"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Testicles.",
    "Sentence": [
      "But what do three testicles mean? A mystical trinity illuminating some absurd need to procreate? A symbol suggesting a metaphysic of pawnbroking? Likely as not, it is simply an animation of the familiar euphemism, \"the family jewels.\"",
      "The whole crowd cringed as he got hit right in the family jewels."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "2661",
    "Idiom": [
      "fan dance"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Incrementally revealing enticing information.",
    "Sentence": [
      "In what may be the most farcical episode of an 18-month-long fan dance, baseball players and ownership will sit down Monday in Los Angeles to discuss \"non-economic issues\" regarding the expired collective bargaining agreement.",
      "Microsoft did a fan dance of sorts today, giving the public a glimpse at the upcoming Vista operating system.",
      "Bettman, meanwhile, performed his now-traditional fan dance, skating around the revelation of a third group interested in buying the Coyotes."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "2662",
    "Idiom": [
      "fan the flames",
      "stir the embers"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To intensify or worsen a situation.",
    "Sentence": [
      "In simple terms, both superpowers poured gasoline on the fire and fanned the flames, hoping that out of the ashes would arise a region committed either to democracy or to Soviet-style communism.",
      "Far from putting a distance between them, his absence was only fanning the flames of her affection.",
      "They worried, too, that such a war would only fan the flames of the Islamic world's animosity toward the United States, producing \"a further cycle of terrorist attacks, American casualties and escalation\"",
      "Atlanta newspapers fanned the flames of racial hatred by carrying stories of lynchings and calling for a renewed Ku Klux Klan to “control” blacks.",
      "What I don't see happening is the government fanning the flames of competition."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "2663",
    "Idiom": [
      "fancy one's chances"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To believe in a good chance of success.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Iceland played with courage, skill and togetherness and might also fancy their chances against France in Sunday’s quarter-final."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "2664",
    "Idiom": [
      "far and away"
    ],
    "Meaning": "By a large degree or margin.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Their coffee is far and away the best in town."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "2665",
    "Idiom": [
      "far be it"
    ],
    "Meaning": "A disclaimer expressing that something should not happen or that someone would never do or think a certain thing.",
    "Sentence": [
      "And Joab answered and said, Far be it, far be it from me, that I should swallow up or destroy.",
      "Far be it that soe much guilt should sticke to your hands, who live in a citye so renowned for the clere shininge light of the Gospell.",
      "Deirdre (that's my wife) and I have always been very close companions, and I never particularly anticipated any marital strife. Indeed, the very idea of consulting such a professional marital advisor as yourself has always been of the greatest repugnance to me. Although, (chuckles) far be it from me to impugn the nature of your trade, or... or profession.",
      "` Far be it from me,' he said, `to tell you, Weston, that any girl you'd find for me would meet with no danger on this expedition.\"",
      "Shepard: I don't have time for this, Conrad. I'm not here to be a role model. Conrad Verner: Oh, I see how it is. Commander Shepard doesn't have time for the little people! Conrad Verner: Far be it for me to get in your way! You go be a hero."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "2666",
    "Idiom": [
      "far cry"
    ],
    "Meaning": "A significant difference.",
    "Sentence": [
      "The perineometer of Kagele was unheard of and the hormonology of today is a far cry from the rather crude and relatively weak hormones available in the early and mid-thirties.",
      "Brienne intervenes in the story of Jaime Lannister, adding to his legend with the exploits she believes paint the picture of him that deserves to live on. Her words are a far cry from those Jaime used to describe himself at their last encounter, instead recounting his deeds and ending with the simple, “He died protecting his queen,” a sentence that belies the complicated mix of nobility and tragedy entwined in his actions.",
      "It's a far cry from a previous trip on a Class 150, where the set wheezed and vibrated so much as it staggered up Dainton Bank that I thought it was going to shake itself to bits!",
      "Life in the big city was a far cry from his upbringing on a quiet, small farm."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "2667",
    "Idiom": [
      "far post"
    ],
    "Meaning": "The goalpost farthest from the cross.",
    "Sentence": [
      "United looked on course to end the season empty-handed as well as missing out on Champions League football when substitute Jason Puncheon's powerful far-post finish put Palace ahead with 12 minutes left."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "2668",
    "Idiom": [
      "fare thee well"
    ],
    "Meaning": "A farewell or goodbye.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "2669",
    "Idiom": [
      "farm nigger"
    ],
    "Meaning": "A derogatory term for a black person.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "2670",
    "Idiom": [
      "farm out"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To subcontract or outsource a task.",
    "Sentence": [
      "These companies are simply paper companies... they farm out the contracts to the real builders.",
      "The summer of 1976 founnd Jacqui at the Pied Piper in Provincetown doing disco seven nights a week. Come fall, Jacqui farmed out her talents to four separate gay bars — three in Boston and one in Tyngsboro, Mass.",
      "The U.S. military had hoped to farm out the Bagram detainees to prisons run by Afghanistan and other nations."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "2671",
    "Idiom": [
      "farmer's tan"
    ],
    "Meaning": "A tan line from clothing.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "2672",
    "Idiom": [
      "fart fan"
    ],
    "Meaning": "A bathroom ceiling fan.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "2673",
    "Idiom": [
      "fart in a windstorm"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Something insignificant or ineffective.",
    "Sentence": [
      "It vanished like a fart in a windstorm.",
      "We might hear of the declining profits of GM, or rising oil prices, or the latest pronouncements from Alan Greenspan (all of which are of less consequence to the long-term order of the universe than a gnat fart in a windstorm).",
      "“It didn't do no more good than a fart in a windstorm.”",
      "Like a fart in a windstorm so are the days of their lives."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "2674",
    "Idiom": [
      "fart in an elevator"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Something unpopular or unwelcome.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Second, if I told people that God didn't create the world, I have a feeling it would probably go over about as big as a fart in an elevator.",
      "“Which means you'll be about as helpful as a fart in an elevator. Jesus, civilians. Why don't you leave saving the world to the experts and stay in your heated tents.”"
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "2675",
    "Idiom": [
      "fas est et ab hoste doceri"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Be open to learning from everyone, including enemies.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "2676",
    "Idiom": [
      "fash one's thumb"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To worry about something.",
    "Sentence": [
      "As soon as Balquherrie got his turn served, away he went and never fashed his thumb about his debt, that he knew would beggar honest folk.",
      "How I heard of your imprisonment or the wrong intended ye, never fash your thumb"
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "2677",
    "Idiom": [
      "fashionably late"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Arriving late to an event stylishly.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Three hours later— fashionably late, of course—the Stuart party swept in state into their box.",
      "Ex-Senator Blount's party of three was fashionably late at the function in Mesa Circle, but in the crush filling the spacious drawing-rooms the hostess and her long line of receiving assistants were still on duty.",
      "The sofa which she had counted on to hold four looked crowded with three and when the Simpsons came, fashionably late (having only just finished dinner), they had to content themselves with the end of a holland-covered form hired from the baker.",
      "Well, she's fashionably lean / And she's fashionably late / She'll never rank a scene / She'll never break a date"
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "2678",
    "Idiom": [
      "fast and furious"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Rapid and energetic.",
    "Sentence": [
      "In the second part, entitled “Familiar Dialogues,” the fun grows fast and furious.",
      "The pace was fast and furious most of the time, with new high records of prices constantly being established.",
      "The first reference was in 1862, stating: \"The next day we had dog-races, and foot-races, and football, and the fun was fast and furious.\"",
      "The AMA Pro Flat Track racing action was fast and furious at the Illinois State Fairgrounds this weekend as the top ten riders finished within one second of each other, with flat track ‘Mile Specialist’ Willie McCoy squeaking out his first career Grand National victory after over 20 years of competing."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "2679",
    "Idiom": [
      "fast asleep"
    ],
    "Meaning": "In a deep sleep.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "2680",
    "Idiom": [
      "fat chance",
      "chance'd be a fine thing"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Little or no chance of success.",
    "Sentence": [
      "As soon as the word comes out of your mouth your own servant is going to size you up as one of those limousine liberals, or whatever epithet they use, who are busy pouring white soul all over the black movement, and would you do as much for the white lower class, for the domestics of the East Side, for example, fat chance, sahib.",
      "Fat chance that I’ll ever go back to Swansea.",
      "Mrs Hawthon: Why didn't you get wed if you were so curious? There's plenty would have had you. Fanny: Chance is a fine thing. Happen I wouldn't have had them! Mrs Hawthorn: Happen you'll be sorry for it before long. There's not so many will have you now, if this gets about.",
      "Come on. You're management, Corrigan. Get it sorted. Right. Chance would be a fine thing. That's a thing people say, isn't it... Mark, can't you reset it? Chance would be a fine thing, Lisa. I know what you should do. Coffee run. Corrigan, 200 lattes. Good, good one Jeff. Chance would be a fine thing, a fine thing indeed. Hmm. Saying that too often now.",
      "Dr Clarkson: Sit down and put your feet up if you can. Mrs Patmore: Oh, chance'd be a fine thing.",
      "Me winning the lotto? Chance'd be a fine thing."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "2681",
    "Idiom": [
      "fat finger"
    ],
    "Meaning": "A cause of typographical errors due to incorrect key presses.",
    "Sentence": [
      "The first subcategory is what I choose to call Fat Fingers Syndrome. This is a problem obviously caused by poor typing techniques which result in a single finger striking two keys instead of one. The opposite of the fat finger problem is what I call simply the Missed Key(s). This can also result in the writing of real (but wrong) words, such as \"rod\" for rode or \"trace\" for trance.",
      "The London Stock Exchange is to enhance the measures it has in place to ensure ‘ fat finger ’ trades do not occur.",
      "Although it appeared to be triggered by unrest in Greece, the real cause could be a trader's \" fat fingers.\"",
      "The Securities and Exchange Commission is on the case, pursuing a lead that a \" fat finger \" keystroke error on a trade in Procter & Gamble, one of the 30 stocks in the Dow Jones Industrial Average, turned a trade of millions into a trade of billions.",
      "A typical operational risk that needs to be countered is the ‘ fat finger ’ where, in stressful and fast-moving markets, a trader might key in a wrong order. There are numerous examples where such an order moved the market and generated a loss for the executing firm. A fat finger limit will prevent a portfolio manager keying in a trade with a size beyond a particular trigger level.",
      "Maximum quantity limits help prevent human and algorithmic \" fat finger \" errors by enforcing the maximum order sizes and trading positions.",
      "Someone with fat fingers pressed a wrong number is my guess. I suppose I'd better give them a ring and fess up.",
      "Still, due to fat fingers, user-interface elements need to be large enough and spaced far apart enough so that users' fingers can find their way around the interface comfortably.",
      "I must have dialed the wrong number. Fat fingers and all that."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "2682",
    "Idiom": [
      "fat is flavor",
      "fat is flavour"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Foods need fat to taste flavorful.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "2683",
    "Idiom": [
      "fat lip"
    ],
    "Meaning": "A swollen lip, typically from an impact.",
    "Sentence": [
      "He has a very ugly temper, and I have to be careful what I say to him or I'll end up with a fat lip."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "2684",
    "Idiom": [
      "fat lot of good"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Of no use or help.",
    "Sentence": [
      "\"Well, there's your friend Silent Simon, and all the police—\" / \"A fat lot of good they are!\" said Ned.",
      "Fat lot of good that'll do me!"
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "2685",
    "Idiom": [
      "fat of the land"
    ],
    "Meaning": "The finest and most abundant share of resources.",
    "Sentence": [
      "And take your father, and your housholds, and come vnto mee: and I wil giue you the good of the land of Egypt, and ye shall eat the fat of the land.",
      "“O.K. Someday—we’re gonna get the jack together and we’re gonna have a little house and a couple of acres an’ a cow and some pigs and——” “ An’ live off the fatta the lan’,” Lennie shouted.",
      "to live off the fat of the land",
      "Under capitalism, the wealthy live off the fat of the land."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "2686",
    "Idiom": [
      "faux queen"
    ],
    "Meaning": "A bio queen.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "2687",
    "Idiom": [
      "feast or famine"
    ],
    "Meaning": "A situation of extreme abundance or scarcity.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "2688",
    "Idiom": [
      "feather in one's cap"
    ],
    "Meaning": "An accomplishment, often boasted about.",
    "Sentence": [
      "And contrary to his own Expectation, as well as that of every Body else, when he came to Court, the seven and twentieth of July, the Staff was taken from him, rather with mortifying, than agreeable Circumstances; When a considerable Pension, or at least a Feather in his Cap, was the least that was expected for him.",
      "Everyone was elated with this turn of events, most of all Colonel Cathcart, who was convinced he had won a feather in his cap.",
      "However, one of the biggest feathers in Perez's cap is thanks to the 2003 crossover JLA/Avengers, a project nearly two decades in the making that was derailed by bureaucracy and bullheaded decision-making years prior.",
      "He thinks it is quite a feather in his cap that he figured it out for himself."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "2689",
    "Idiom": [
      "feather one's nest"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To amass personal wealth, often through unethical means.",
    "Sentence": [
      "It may do him some harm, perhaps, but Dempster must have feathered his nest pretty well; he can afford to lose a little business.",
      "“It's a handful of west coast financiers doing what Wall Street bankers have long done— feathering their nests,” says Michael Moritz, the billionaire former leader of Sequoia Capital."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "2690",
    "Idiom": [
      "feathered friend"
    ],
    "Meaning": "A bird.",
    "Sentence": [
      "This little family is said to live together on the most affectionate terms. The feline part of it are so 𝑒𝑥𝑡𝑟𝑒𝑚𝑒𝑙𝑦 𝑓𝑜𝑛𝑑 of their feathered friends, that they are almost ready 𝑡𝑜 𝑒𝑎𝑡 𝑡ℎ𝑒𝑚 𝑢𝑝.",
      "The illustrations accompanying this week's \"Notes of a Naturalist in Western Australia\" show two of the conspicuous \" feathered friends \" which he describes."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "2691",
    "Idiom": [
      "feathered oof-bird"
    ],
    "Meaning": "A source of money.",
    "Sentence": [
      "And didn’t Conklin say ‘Hah! Hah! Hah! I want gold!’ or words to that effect? And didn’t you tell him that the pawn shop that he has there is the home of the feathered oof-bird ?”"
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "2692",
    "Idiom": [
      "featherless biped"
    ],
    "Meaning": "A human being.",
    "Sentence": [
      "The schoolmen—or rather certain of the schoolmen—for nothing is much shallower than to speak of all those disputants as one school—defined woman, \"a featherless biped vehemently addicted to jealousy.\" Whether she is more featherless than the male, can be decided at the trifling expense of time, money, and reason: you have but to go to court. But as for envy and jealousy, I think it is pure, unobservant, antique Cant which has fixed them on the female character distinctively.",
      "A boy should be directed and restrained; while to a man should be given the range of a large discretion. But the college student is often neither a boy nor a man. Reference is here made, of course, to that species of featherless biped which at times, especially when taken alone, seems to show many of the characteristics of rational intelligence, but which, when merged into a crowd of its fellows, is apt, on the least provocation, to part with its power of thought and lapse into all manner of irrational ways.",
      "There were, of course, other elements in the medieval Christian system which were adapted to breed in the featherless biped a high sense of his cosmic importance and of the momentousness of his own doings.",
      "Aristotle 's characterization of humans as featherless bipeds is an attempt at a demarcation criterion. It happens to be a poor attempt, since apes, tyrannosaurs, and plucked chickens are also featherless bipeds. But even if humans were, in point of fact, the only featherless bipeds, the featherless-biped criterion would at most give us a litmus for distinguishing humans from other species. If what we wanted was an explanation of what makes Plato a human being, the fact that he is a featherless biped is clearly a non-starter.",
      "The day Microsoft went public, [Bill] Gates became an instant megamillionaire (actually a $234-millionaire, based on the IPO price). But it wasn't until July 17, 1995, that Forbes magazine named him the richest featherless biped on the planet, with a net worth just shy of $13 billion."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "2693",
    "Idiom": [
      "fed up"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Frustrated or tired of something.",
    "Sentence": [
      "We are all fed up with the seemingly endless rounds of industrial action on our railways.",
      "After two days, I am fed up with this nonsense."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "2694",
    "Idiom": [
      "fee simple absolute in possession"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Unqualified and unrestricted ownership of land.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "2695",
    "Idiom": [
      "feed a cold, starve a fever"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Eating more helps with a cold, while eating less helps with a fever.",
    "Sentence": [
      "\" Feed a cold, starve a fever.\" There is a deal of wisdom in the first part of this advice. A person with a catarrh should take an abundance of light nutritious food, and some light wine, but avoid spirits, and above all tobacco.",
      "I have a cold. ' Feed a cold, starve a fever.' You certainly know that.",
      "They say feed a cold, starve a fever, but they don't tell you what to do when you got both, so I figured scrambled eggs, tea, and toast."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "2696",
    "Idiom": [
      "feed off"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To get stimulus from an external source.",
    "Sentence": [
      "It seems like her boss feeds off her unhappiness."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "2697-1",
    "Idiom": [
      "feed the dragon"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To outsource jobs to China.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "2697-2",
    "Idiom": [
      "feed the dragon"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To buy or sell products labeled as \"Made in China.\"",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "2698",
    "Idiom": [
      "feed the meter"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To pay a parking or gas meter.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "2699",
    "Idiom": [
      "feeding frenzy"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Intense competition for limited resources.",
    "Sentence": [
      "The manager hesitated to open the doors to the thronging holiday crowds, knowing that a feeding frenzy would soon ensue near the display of coveted toys."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "2700-1",
    "Idiom": [
      "feel for"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To experience sympathy for.",
    "Sentence": [
      "I feel for him: he’s lost two family members in two months."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "2700-2",
    "Idiom": [
      "feel for"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To search for something by touch.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Harry felt for his purse in his left-hand trousers pocket, but it was not there. He then tried his right-hand trousers pocket, but it was not there. He then tested the left hand pocket of his vest, but it was not there. He then explored the right-hand pocket of his vest, but it was not there. He then darted a hand into each of the pockets of his shooting-jacket, but it was not there.",
      "He felt for his purse."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "2701",
    "Idiom": [
      "feel free"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To feel able without hesitation.",
    "Sentence": [
      "The co-pilot didn't feel free to speak up to the pilot in the cockpit."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "2702",
    "Idiom": [
      "feel one's way"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To proceed cautiously or tentatively.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "2703",
    "Idiom": [
      "feel out"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To ascertain a person's viewpoint or situation subtly.",
    "Sentence": [
      "I feel out strangers that come in to make sure they know they're in a gay place and won't cause any trouble.",
      "I think we should feel out your mom's thoughts about this before we decide anything."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "2704",
    "Idiom": [
      "feel the pinch"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To experience hardship, especially financial pressure.",
    "Sentence": [
      "The tramway was offered to the Dublin, Wicklow & Wexford Railway, but that company expressed no interest in it. Then the tramway proprietors decided to electrify their line, and cut the fares by half, and the railway was soon feeling the pinch.",
      "Working-class families are feeling the pinch in the wake of the recession."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "2705",
    "Idiom": [
      "feel up"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To grope someone in a sexual manner.",
    "Sentence": [
      "“ Feel me up and rub your pussy against mine, that'll make the pain in my bummy go away, it will,” she told me. I felt sorry for her. And I guess that's why I let her show me how girls made out without boys.",
      "Mostly we heard her laughing and the squeaking of the porch swing while the boyfriend felt her up. All the boys went to second base with Diana Estabrook."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "2706",
    "Idiom": [
      "feet first"
    ],
    "Meaning": "In the manner of a deceased person.",
    "Sentence": [
      "\"If that door opens and any one of you cusses lets on there's anything unusual, right here and then I sure start plugging. They ain't a soul'll get out the room except feet first.\"",
      "\"‘Anybody resigns from us resigns feet first, understand?’ he tells me. So I didn't resign.\"",
      "\"They'll probably have to take me out of here feet first,\" says Ms. Steinem, punctuating the prediction with a growl of laughter (mortality has been in the back of her mind since breast cancer treatment a dozen years ago...)."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "2707",
    "Idiom": [
      "feet of clay"
    ],
    "Meaning": "A hidden weakness in someone seemingly strong.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Those Pagod things of sabre-sway, / With fronts of brass, and feet of clay.",
      "Oh yes, man is a fool / And he thinks he'll be okay / Dragging on, feet of clay",
      "He was disillusioned to find that even Lincoln had feet of clay."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "2708",
    "Idiom": [
      "fence in"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To restrict freedom.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Many people feel fenced in by the new rules."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "2709",
    "Idiom": [
      "fence the tables"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To address attendees at the Lord's Supper and discourage unworthy individuals from participating.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Felt great help in fencing the tables",
      "To be the bride of Christ was the thought that filled her heart; and when, at the fencing of the table, Dr. Chrystal preached from Matthew nine and fifteen, 'Can the children of the bridechamber mourn as long as the bridegroom is with them?' it was remarked by sundry that Ailie's face was liker the countenance of an angel than of a mortal lass."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "2710",
    "Idiom": [
      "fence-sit"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To remain neutral on a topic.",
    "Sentence": [
      "My point, therefore, in beginning with what everyone knows are the two main views of Othello (and hence Othello) is not to adjudicate between them, nor to dismiss both, nor to fence-sit, but to suggest that each answers to something important in the play – which also means that each underestimates something important as well."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "2711",
    "Idiom": [
      "fencepost problem"
    ],
    "Meaning": "A problem with initial or boundary values in a discrete context.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "2712",
    "Idiom": [
      "fend and prove"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To engage in argument.",
    "Sentence": [
      "The dexterous management of terms, and being able to fend and prove with them, I know has, and does pass in the world for a great part of learning; but it is learning distinct from knowledge;",
      "All Pulpit-fools are enemies to Love, If e'er they think, 't is how to fend and prove."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "2713",
    "Idiom": [
      "fend away"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To ward off.",
    "Sentence": [
      "She fended away his eager hands."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "2714",
    "Idiom": [
      "fetch a compass"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To take a circuitous route.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "2715-1",
    "Idiom": [
      "fetch and carry"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To serve obsequiously or gossip.",
    "Sentence": [
      "A nephew of hers, after receiving some learning at her ladyship's expence, got a commission, and fell upon the field of Waterloo; another is still at her heels, as a sort of jackall to fetch and carry when required.",
      "Fitz was thus changed at once into \"only my husband\"—the humblest of all humble animals. He fetches and carries; goes errands, lugs bandboxes and bundles; takes up the yelling little Fitzgigs at night, when they squall, and walks in his shirt with them up and down the room for hours, whether the weather be warm or cold;",
      "They fetched and carried, and toadied and jobbed, and corrupted, and ate heaps of dirt, and were indefatigable in the public service.",
      "But in reality, if girls get under kind mistresses who would teach them, and they were willing, they would be fit for any kitchen maid's situation; And then see what advantages those young girls had who were only fit to fetch and carry as they were ordered, but nevertheless had their wits about them and picked up a deal of knowledge, while only useful to hand things.",
      "Can't I carry those things anywhere for you? No? to Lady River's room you say, and I should disturb her. Too clumsy, in fact—but what am I good for but to fetch and carry for you?",
      "Without his inspiring companionship her spirits would have sunk, her heart must have broken. He fetched and carried, cooked and toiled, for her comfort; he devised a dozen schemes to divert her.",
      "So for weeks the king was a drudge, fetching and carrying for this surly, bullying master.",
      "Miss [Marie] Recio dominated [Hector] Berlioz who fetched and carried for her in the rôle of the henpecked lover, a part ridiculously at odds with the composer's arrogance – nor did it suit those eyes and that head.",
      "If they all knew how she was feeling, they'd probably start treating her like an old person. Raising their voices and speaking in simple sentences and fetching and carrying. Hermione Moore had no intention of being fetched and carried for as long as she could assume a vertical position.",
      "This young woman had an own cousin lived servant with her father, he was counsel keeper on both sides, and often fetched and carried.",
      "What is called talebearing? He that fetches and carries, goes about from one to another, and says, \"I have heard so and so from such an one. Such an one has done such a thing.\" And even should what he asserts be true, it is still mischievous and pernicious, as this prohibition comprises the fearful sin of speaking evil of any one, though it be truth."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "2715-2",
    "Idiom": [
      "fetch and carry"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To serve submissively.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "2715-3",
    "Idiom": [
      "fetch and carry"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To carry gossip or news from one person to another.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "2715-4",
    "Idiom": [
      "fetch and carry"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To convey gossip or news between people.",
    "Sentence": [
      "While he was fetching and carrying the gossip of Kensington Palace and Carlton House, he fancied that he was engaged in politics, and when he recorded that gossip, he fancied that he was writing history.",
      "The gossiping good-sort-of-man doctor, who \" fetches and carries scandal;\"",
      "You come here to watch that girl, and spy upon her, and fetch and carry stories about her, to get her dismissed from the choir; I dare say that's why you come here."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "2716",
    "Idiom": [
      "fetch way"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To come loose.",
    "Sentence": [
      "When running before the wind, she rolled so deep that almost everything fetched way, and a dismal night I passed."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "2717",
    "Idiom": [
      "fever pitch"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Extreme excitement.",
    "Sentence": [
      "There was a wonderful exhilaration about it all: my blood was kept at fever-pitch",
      "After all the hype, all the fever pitch build-up, the encounter never really lived up to expectations – as is so often the case with derbies – and the atmosphere was even a little subdued at times.",
      "The Second World War was reaching fever pitch, with the entire Allied effort in top gear for the imminent invasion of Europe, while later that month buzz bombs would start falling on London."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "2718",
    "Idiom": [
      "few and far between"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Rare and scarce.",
    "Sentence": [
      "There are, of course, exceptions to every rule, and I have met several lamas, notably the Phodong Lama of Sikhim and others like him, men who were thoroughly capable, who acted up to their principles, and whom I thoroughly respected, but I am sorry to say such men were few and far between.",
      "On a line like the Santa Fe, in such desert country as that on the Chicago-Los Angeles main line through Arizona and New Mexico, stations are few and far between, and at many of them one or two employees are the only permanent staff.",
      "As with other railways, more Mk 1s are urgently required but disposals by BR are few and far between at present.",
      "The gear change never happened and although chances were few and far between in the second half it looked like below-par Arsenal would escape the DW Stadium with three points - especially when N'Zogbia was sent off with 12 minutes to play."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "2719",
    "Idiom": [
      "few cards shy of a full deck"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Mentally unstable.",
    "Sentence": [
      "That guy might be a few cards shy of a full deck — he thinks that substitute sugar is really a government tracking system."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "2720",
    "Idiom": [
      "few sandwiches short of a picnic"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Not sane or mad.",
    "Sentence": [
      "He said to hang on, then went to his bike and came back with a black case. When he opened it I suddenly thought I was dealing with someone a few sandwiches short of a picnic.",
      "“He was a nice fellow, but we all know he was a few sandwiches short of a picnic.”",
      "I think the lady down the road is a few sandwiches short of a picnic —you often hear strange bangings at odd hours in the morning."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "2721",
    "Idiom": [
      "fiddle while Rome burns"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To neglect important issues while focusing on trivial matters.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "2722-1",
    "Idiom": [
      "field day"
    ],
    "Meaning": "A period of bustling activity.",
    "Sentence": [
      "A family of frisky squirrels was having a field day amongst the towering obstacle course of foliage.",
      "They went to the park and had a field day playing on the swings."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "2722-2",
    "Idiom": [
      "field day"
    ],
    "Meaning": "A great time, often at someone else's expense.",
    "Sentence": [
      "What a field day for the heat (Ooo-ooo-ooo) / A thousand people in the street (Ooo-ooo-ooo) / Singing songs and a-carryin' signs (Ooo-ooo-ooo) / Mostly say \"Hooray for our side\" (Ooo-ooo-ooo)",
      "It had become a legal nightmare. All parties had retained attorneys; the community and press were having a field day.",
      "I thought I'd been so thorough, so efficient, and so cost conscious, but look where I was now. The devil was having a field day with my head.",
      "The reporters were having a field day with our saga and the courtroom filled with spectators.",
      "The Russian foreign ministry had a field day denouncing what it called western propaganda as a high-level lie.",
      "The reporters will have a field day with a comment like that.",
      "The scandal was a field day for the press."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "2723",
    "Idiom": [
      "fifth wheel"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Superfluous or unnecessary.",
    "Sentence": [
      "A subjunctive mode should no more exist in the English grammar, than a fifth wheel be given to a wagon.",
      "Why I'm of no more use in my own house, than a fifth wheel would be to a wagon.",
      "Compressed and concentrated, confined to a single sharp pang or two, but none the less in wait for him there on the Euston platform and lifting its head as that of a snake in the garden, was the disconcerting sense that \"respect,\" in their game, seemed somehow—he scarce knew what to call it—a fifth wheel to the coach.",
      "He said his name was Sheridan, Captain Sheridan, and that he was a sort of headquarters quartermaster, to look after the staff comforts. He did not seem to have a very exalted opinion of his duties, rather regarding himself as a fifth wheel.",
      "After the first minute of conversation with her I stopped feeling like a fifth wheel. We got on fine together. Of course I don't know whether I was a fifth wheel or not. There was no way I could discover just what the line-up was.",
      "The most common excuse is that they [line managers] do not have enough time to train every employee and perform their other supervisory duties. In an environment such as this, a new hire often feels like a fifth wheel and begins to develop frustration and fear.",
      "Hope suddenly felt like a fifth wheel. She was happy for Noah and Gillian, but seeing them together just made her feel lonelier.",
      "I felt like a fifth wheel when both of them started giggling and making out during dinner."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "2724",
    "Idiom": [
      "fifth-rate"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Terrible or awful.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "2725",
    "Idiom": [
      "fifty-cent tour",
      "nickel tour"
    ],
    "Meaning": "A fast and general introduction.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Spider then gave me the fifty-cent tour of the facility, showing me all the various departments and telling me their functions.",
      "Investigator Bays quickly gave his young rookie the fifty-cent tour of downtown.",
      "“Well,” she said boldly, “if you're looking for ways to keep out of the house, I'd be happy to take you on the fifty-cent tour of the island sometime.”",
      "Let me give you the fifty-cent tour of the office.",
      "Our nickel tour doesn't do justice to GA mechanics, but even a longer explanation would leave us scratching our heads and asking how such simple operators might do anything useful, let alone promote an effective, robust search for good stuff.",
      "Just what I needed, another nickel tour by another roommate; “What was it with roommates and nickel tours ?” I wondered.",
      "\"Come on. Fix me a cup of sissy coffee and I'll take you on the nickel tour.” The nickel tour included such highlights as the spot where the uncomfortable floral couch held court in the parlor and a little borderline sexual stroking of the aforementioned chair rails in the dining room.",
      "“Come on, let’s give you the nickel tour,” he suggested. “Welcome aboard, Lieutenant Harper.”"
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "2726",
    "Idiom": [
      "fight a losing battle"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To attempt a task with no chance of success.",
    "Sentence": [
      "The bus was oppressively warm and the air-conditioning was fighting a losing battle with the heat."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "2727",
    "Idiom": [
      "fight fire with fire"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To respond to an attack with a similar counter-attack.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Close enough but not too far / Maybe you know where you are / Fightin' fire with fire",
      "Fight fire with fire"
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "2728",
    "Idiom": [
      "fight fires"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To deal with urgent matters instead of long-term work.",
    "Sentence": [
      "I spent all of Monday fighting fires and didn't get a single thing done on my project."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "2729-1",
    "Idiom": [
      "fight for one's life"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To be in danger of dying.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Six dead and 37 fighting for life after drinking fake booze at Brit favourite holiday destination"
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "2729-2",
    "Idiom": [
      "fight for one's life"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To be in a highly unfavorable situation.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Credit Suisse, the 166-year-old institution that was once an emblem of Swiss pride, is fighting for its life after investors, fearing that the bank would run out of money, dumped its stock and sent the price of insuring its debt against a default skyrocketing."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "2730",
    "Idiom": [
      "fight one's corner"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To defend one's interests or views.",
    "Sentence": [
      "The right hon. Gentleman the Member for Trinity College, who had fought his corner well for the landlords, must know the heavy disabilities under which the tenants referred to suffered through no fault of their own.",
      "Mr Kornhauser could now have the British Government helping to fight his corner. Malcolm Rifkind, the Foreign Secretary, is to put pressure on the Swiss government.",
      "Mr. Berezovsky left Russia for a relatively opulent self-exile.... He estimated his fortune at some $3 billion and he has enlisted high-powered public relations and law firms to fight his corner.",
      "Dermot Ahern established himself as a reforming and combative minister during his two years holding the Justice portfolio.... He relished fighting his corner with successive opposition spokesmen.",
      "The gull stabbed and weaved. The big crab held up its fighting claws and circled. Suddenly all the birds in the tide water flew up at once in a clatter of wings. The crab fought his corner."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "2731",
    "Idiom": [
      "fight shy of"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To avoid something.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "2732",
    "Idiom": [
      "fighting chance"
    ],
    "Meaning": "A chance of success in a struggle.",
    "Sentence": [
      "This essential medicine will give him a fighting chance against the disease.",
      "I don't have a fighting chance to hand this article in on time."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "2733",
    "Idiom": [
      "fighting spirit"
    ],
    "Meaning": "One's willpower to persevere through challenges.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "2734",
    "Idiom": [
      "file away"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To remember later; to hold back expression until the right time.",
    "Sentence": [
      "His words hurt, but I'll file away my emotions until I can get my revenge."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "2735",
    "Idiom": [
      "file off the serial numbers"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To remove copyrighted elements from a work for commercial publication.",
    "Sentence": [
      "For a while now, I've been pottering away at a Star Wars fanfic novella ([URL redacted], if you must know). I've received a few pokes about filing off the serial numbers and trying to sell it as an independent work.",
      "I've heard a rumor that Bujold started the Barrayar series as Star Trek fanfic, and there's enough resemblance there to make that seem very plausible to me. Suppose she did. By filing off the serial numbers, she was able to make the universe her own, to change as she needed to.",
      "I say “may have” because [E. L.] James has “ filed off the serial numbers ” of her fanfic."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "2736-1",
    "Idiom": [
      "fill in"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To inform someone, especially to provide missing information.",
    "Sentence": [
      "If you know anything about this, maybe you can fill me in."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "2736-2",
    "Idiom": [
      "fill in"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To substitute for someone or something.",
    "Sentence": [
      "He can't go on vacation very often because there is nobody to fill in for him."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "2737-1",
    "Idiom": [
      "fill in the blank"
    ],
    "Meaning": "A placeholder for various possible answers.",
    "Sentence": [
      "It was important that she make something memorable. She wanted to be complimented. She wanted people to go home after the party and say, “Wasn't Dorothy's — fill in the blank — amazing?\""
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "2737-2",
    "Idiom": [
      "fill in the blank"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To complete an ambiguity or vagueness in understanding.",
    "Sentence": [
      "The Zionists intended to shape the perceptions of a global public with limited interest in or understanding of the issues, filling in the blanks with their own narrative."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "2738",
    "Idiom": [
      "fill one's boots"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To perform at a high level in one's role.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Rashford added insult to injury as he drilled through the legs of Ward, with England firmly in the mood to fill their boots against a ragged Wales."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "2739",
    "Idiom": [
      "fill one's face"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To eat greedily.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Today is the last day to fill your faces with fare from Taste of the Town, at Town Center at Boca Raton.",
      "But if you happen to be at a half-decent eaterie come May time, and you see a bloke filling his face, come up and say hello. It might just be me.",
      "Three or four times a week we'd see Ronnie Kray filling his face at Browns in the pulsatingly plush restaurant.",
      "Last night, after the celeb chefs and food lovers at the South Beach Wine and Food Festival filled their faces at the massive barbecue event BubbleQ and Best of the Best, they headed to the parking garage.",
      "“And they're all eating! Peanuts, doughnuts, potato chips, just filling their faces. The fat Americans!”"
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "2740",
    "Idiom": [
      "fill one's hand"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To draw a handgun for confrontation.",
    "Sentence": [
      "\"Now everybody fill his hand !\" shouted Mr. Hickok, pulling his 8-inch six-shooters.",
      "\"He just looks at me and says: ‘ Fill your hand stranger’ and hauls out an old rusty six shooter and I take off across Lincoln Park, bullets cutting all around me.\"",
      "\" Fill your hand, you sonuvabitch,\" the old lawman cries, clamping the reins of his horse between his teeth and filling his own hands with six-gun and repeater."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "2741",
    "Idiom": [
      "fill someone's shoes"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To perform someone's role.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Does he take care of you? / Or could I easily fill his shoes ? / But you say no, you say no",
      "\"As I was chairing a committee that had only ever been chaired by Labour women, I was fairly conscious that I was filling some fairly big shoes left behind by Louise and Gwyneth.",
      "I don't think anyone could ever fill her shoes, doing all she does."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "2742",
    "Idiom": [
      "fill up"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To annoy or displease by taunting or nagging.",
    "Sentence": [
      "The teachers that taught me weren't cool. / You're holding me down, / Turning me 'round, / Filling me up with your rules."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "2743",
    "Idiom": [
      "filter down"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To move slowly down to lower levels of an organization or population.",
    "Sentence": [
      "They might say that the economy is improving, but it is taking a long time for any money to filter down to the poorer classes."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "2744",
    "Idiom": [
      "filter up"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Information or knowledge moving up within an organization or population.",
    "Sentence": [
      "There are some brilliant new approaches being created at grass-roots level, but it is taking a long time for them to filter up to the larger institutions."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "2745",
    "Idiom": [
      "filthy lucre"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Money obtained dishonestly.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Both her auditors, brother and sister, assented to this, and declared on their own knowledge that no man lived less addicted to filthy lucre than the warden.",
      "The abomination of filthy lucre has made such inroads among the rulers of the churches, that certain of those who call themselves religious men and women, forgetting the commandments of the Lord have been altogether led astray, and for the sake of money have received those presenting themselves for the sacerdotal order and the monastic life.",
      "The reason why, like pretty much everything these days connected with the current Duke and his wife Meghan, Duchess of Sussex, comes down to their various money-making gambits. (With a reported $68,000-a-month mortgage to pay and a hen house full of chooks to keep in gluten-free grain, these days the couple need filthy lucre the exact same way that you and I do.)"
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "2746",
    "Idiom": [
      "filthy rich"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Very rich.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "2747-1",
    "Idiom": [
      "final cut"
    ],
    "Meaning": "The final released version of a film.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "2747-2",
    "Idiom": [
      "final cut"
    ],
    "Meaning": "The final selected candidates.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "2748",
    "Idiom": [
      "final nail in the coffin",
      "last nail in the coffin"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Something that causes inevitable failure.",
    "Sentence": [
      "The Slurpie Shack franchise was already considering filing for bankruptcy after five years of poor profits, but a fire that destroyed the flagship restaurant was the final nail in the coffin."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "2749",
    "Idiom": [
      "final say"
    ],
    "Meaning": "The right to make a final decision.",
    "Sentence": [
      "The TUCC's role was to assess what (if any) hardship a BR closure proposal would cause, and to make recommendations to ministers who would have the final say.",
      "In all matters relating to the family business, mum has the final say."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "2750-1",
    "Idiom": [
      "find another gear"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To achieve an extra burst of performance.",
    "Sentence": [
      "But the Devils found another gear in the third period and found the energy that had been lacking throughout a sluggish second period.",
      "If the 24-year-old Djokovic wants to replicate or even surpass his 2011 results, he'll have to keep finding another gear.",
      "Swimmers talk about finding another gear when they need it.",
      "Trailing Kostelic by.017 seconds after her first run, Paerson found another gear on her second trip down the deteriorating course to finish with a combined time of 1min 38.65sec—almost a half-second clear of her Croatian rival."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "2750-2",
    "Idiom": [
      "find another gear"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To achieve enhanced performance.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Management's ultimate goal is to become one of the world's top five automakers. That will require finding another gear.",
      "It's amazing that after seven-plus seasons as one of the most consistently compelling shows on TV, NCIS still finds another gear with certain story arcs."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "2751",
    "Idiom": [
      "find fault"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To criticize excessively.",
    "Sentence": [
      "When one has an intimate knowledge of a business it is easy—and to some extent self-satisfying—to find fault with the way it is run by those in charge.",
      "No matter what I do, he always finds fault.",
      "My supervisor always finds fault with my work."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "2752",
    "Idiom": [
      "find it in one's heart"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To be compassionate or gracious enough to help or forgive.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "2753",
    "Idiom": [
      "find one's feet"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To gain confidence in a new situation.",
    "Sentence": [
      "If you ask for help when you need it, you will soon find your feet."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "2754",
    "Idiom": [
      "find one's place"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To discover one's purpose or sense of belonging.",
    "Sentence": [
      "He's apparently found his place at the monastery."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "2755",
    "Idiom": [
      "find one's tongue"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To speak after being silent or unable to do so.",
    "Sentence": [
      "H AVGHTY. Is this the silent woman? C ENTAVRE. Nay, shee has found her tongue since shee was married, master T RVE-WIT sayes.",
      "Jones, tho’ perhaps, the most astonished of the three, first found his Tongue; and he burst into a loud Laughter",
      "But I did not answer at once. I stared incredulous. For an instant I could not believe my eyes. I gave an inarticulate cry. I gripped his arm. I pointed. “Look!” I cried, finding my tongue. “There! Yes! And there!”",
      "Joyce knew things were going badly, but she couldn’t find her tongue to smooth it out. A million dangerous double entendres were sitting at the back of her throat, and, if she opened her mouth even a slit (!), she feared one of them was going to come out."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "2756",
    "Idiom": [
      "find one's voice"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To express one's opinions.",
    "Sentence": [
      "The biggest cheer of the night came shortly afterwards. St James’ Park finally found its voice to welcome back Jonás Gutiérrez into a Newcastle side for the first time since his diagnosis with testicular cancer 17 months ago."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "2757-1",
    "Idiom": [
      "find oneself"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To discover one's identity and desires in life.",
    "Sentence": [
      "All that mattered now was figuring out what she wanted to do with the rest of her life. It was time to find herself again. The shelby she'd been without Drew. Strong and confident.",
      "When he was in his early twenties, he backpacked around Europe to find himself."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "2757-2",
    "Idiom": [
      "find oneself"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To unexpectedly begin to do or experience something.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Anne and Henrietta, finding themselves the earliest of the party the next morning, agreed to stroll down to the sea before breakfast.",
      "There is a scene in the popular movie \" Ferris Bueller's Day Off \" when the character Cameron finds himself at the Art Institute of Chicago transfixed by \" A Sunday Afternoon on The Island of La Grande Jatte \" by Georges Seurat.",
      "[Danny] Boyle revives some of the stylistic tics which found themselves being ripped off by geezer-gangster Britflicks back in the day, but now the freezeframes are briefer, sharper; the movie itself refers back to the original with variant flashback versions of famous scenes, but also Super 8-type images of the boys' poignant boyhood in primary school.",
      "As you enter the cafe, you find yourself wondering why they decided to paint the entire room blue.",
      "When news of his wife’s murder spread around the media, he found himself in front of a press conference explaining his actions."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "2757-3",
    "Idiom": [
      "find oneself"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To be in a particular state of mind.",
    "Sentence": [
      "How do you find yourself this morning?"
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "2758",
    "Idiom": [
      "find out"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To discover through inquiry or investigation.",
    "Sentence": [
      "\"Why shouldn't somethin' new and wonderful lie in such a country? And why shouldn't we be the men to find it out ?\"",
      "I haven't booked, so I don't have a clue as to whether the service will be busy or not. Supposedly, reservations are compulsory, but I want to find out what would happen if you just turn up.",
      "I don't know who the twenty-first president of the United States was, but it should be very easy to find out."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "2759",
    "Idiom": [
      "find the net"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To score a goal.",
    "Sentence": [
      "It is testimony to QPR's spirit then that it was they who next found the net as Bothroyd's goalbound header from an Armand Traore cross ultimately found the net courtesy of the back of Helguson, who was on the goalline but - despite the protestations of a number of City players - not offside."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "2760",
    "Idiom": [
      "finders, keepers",
      "finders, keepers; losers, weepers"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Whoever finds something gets to keep it.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "2761",
    "Idiom": [
      "fine feathers make fine birds"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Appearance can imply quality or value.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "2762",
    "Idiom": [
      "fine line"
    ],
    "Meaning": "A vague and difficult difference.",
    "Sentence": [
      "There's a fine line between fishing and just standing on the shore like an idiot.",
      "\"We're not arrogant, we're confident about what we're doing,\" says Hill, \"But there's a fine line between them, isn't there?\"",
      "San Francisco songsters The Richter Scales give the world their take on the subprime meltdown in a song that advises there's also a fine line \"between the theories and the facts\", \"between what's solid and what cracks\" and \"between a gain and a crippling, crushing, mortally wounding decline\".",
      "Harvesting Easter eggs is now integral to our consumption of entertainment. But there’s a fine line between perceptiveness and paranoia."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "2763",
    "Idiom": [
      "fine print"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Details or conditions in a contract, often in small print.",
    "Sentence": [
      "One of the biggest problems many investors face is that it can be hard to figure out what's important in the fine print. Even pros who are experienced at reading the footnotes face this problem.",
      "Did I read the fine print ? Of course not. Do I wish I would have? Well, maybe. Who knows, potentially the fine print would have touched on issues like refunds for rude, late or inconsiderate dates.",
      "Before signing up for such an offer, be sure to read the fine print carefully."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "2764",
    "Idiom": [
      "fine words butter no parsnips"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Empty words or flattery achieve nothing.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "2765",
    "Idiom": [
      "fine-feathered friend"
    ],
    "Meaning": "A well-dressed person.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "2766",
    "Idiom": [
      "finer things"
    ],
    "Meaning": "High quality or tasteful items.",
    "Sentence": [
      "I'm not materialistic, though I do enjoy the finer things in life."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "2767",
    "Idiom": [
      "finest hour"
    ],
    "Meaning": "A distinguished or admirable achievement.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Winston Churchill proclaimed today to his Parliament and people the beginning of \"the battle for Britain\" \"Let us brace ourselves to our duty, and so bear ourselves that, if the British Empire and Commonwealth last for a thousand years, men will still say: ‘This was their finest hour.’\"",
      "Commonwealth countries were called upon to rise to their finest hour against the double crises of Rhodesia and global poverty.",
      "The U.S. exulted 40 years ago when it brought its three Apollo 13 astronauts back safely from a disaster in space. Early Wednesday morning, Chile can celebrate its own finest hour as it rescues its 33 miners from the abyss.",
      "Speaking on Radio 4’s Today programme on Thursday morning, the UK’s security minister, Tom Tugendhat, criticised “irresponsible speculation” and said it had not been “the BBC’s finest hour ”."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "2768",
    "Idiom": [
      "finger in the pie"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Involvement.",
    "Sentence": [
      "They informed us that the cause of her committing this rash deed was a dispute with her mistress, but on further inquiry it appears that Cupid had a finger in the pie.",
      "The Foundation had, however, decided to keep a finger in the pie and to pay its share in the running costs of the school."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "2769",
    "Idiom": [
      "finger to the wind"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Awareness of current trends.",
    "Sentence": [
      "At the height of the great oil boom, in the frenzied summer of 1981 when everybody said oil prices could go nowhere but up, the crafty old Texas wildcatter put his finger to the wind and decided it was not going to last much longer.",
      "The DPJ, in this view, had pursued a similar path: riding to power on the back of telegenic politicians and with a finger-to-the-wind fidelity to public opinion polls, the party had allowed, in effect, the mass media to dictate outcomes",
      "How they choose: They hold up a finger to the winds of recent awards results",
      "This is a reform that the ancien regime, always with a finger to the wind of public opinion, spotted as an electoral nightmare and ducked.",
      "A crafty man-of-the-world keeps his finger to the wind."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "2770",
    "Idiom": [
      "fingers were made before forks"
    ],
    "Meaning": "A lighthearted excuse for eating with hands.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "2771-1",
    "Idiom": [
      "finish with"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To end a relationship or interaction.",
    "Sentence": [
      "After finding out he'd been cheating, I had to finish with him."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "2771-2",
    "Idiom": [
      "finish with"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To complete or end the use of.",
    "Sentence": [
      "After finishing with his homework, he was allowed to use his game machine.",
      "After finishing with his game machine, he put it away and went to sleep."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "2772",
    "Idiom": [
      "fire drill"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Any chaotic or unproductive activity.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Since they've changed the standards again, our previous efforts now just amount to a fire drill."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "2773-1",
    "Idiom": [
      "fire hose"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Any fast, heavy stream.",
    "Sentence": [
      "She felt she was standing in front of a fire hose of instructions, trying to absorb them all with a sponge."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "2773-2",
    "Idiom": [
      "fire hose"
    ],
    "Meaning": "A slang term for a human penis.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "2774",
    "Idiom": [
      "fire in anger"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To fire a weapon with the intent to harm an opponent.",
    "Sentence": [
      "The Napier of Magdala Battery never fired a shot in anger : it never engaged in combat."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "2775",
    "Idiom": [
      "fire in the belly"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Inner drive or passion to achieve something.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Carlyle, indeed, had so much more depth and knowledge of the heart, his portraits of mankind are felt and rendered with so much more poetic comprehension, and he, like his favourite Ram Dass, had a fire in his belly so much more hotly burning than the patent reading lamp by which Macaulay studied.",
      "I felt no conviction of a burning sincerity, of that fire in the belly which made some of the wilder nonconformist parsons of my youth appear almost incandescent.",
      "“He has the fire in the belly to make this thing work,” said Mr. Emery.",
      "In Washington, some Republicans are skeptical that Thune has the fire in the belly for the brutal campaign process.",
      "Sent back out by Johnson with fire in their bellies, England at last began to threaten as Manu Tuilagi smashed Sean Lamont and then sent Delon Armitage racing down the left touchline."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "2776",
    "Idiom": [
      "fire is a good servant but a bad master"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Fire is useful when controlled but dangerous when it's not.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "2777",
    "Idiom": [
      "fire on all cylinders"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To operate at maximum effectiveness.",
    "Sentence": [
      "The performance was a sign of real intent for Arsenal as they continue their pursuit for silverware on four fronts - and with Van Persie firing on all cylinders, the odds look good on them winning a first trophy since 2005.",
      "\"How long does it usually take for me to recover?\" \"A few months,\" Wheeler says. \"But if you want the honest truth, people in this division are as competent on day one as they'll ever be. You come to the job firing on all cylinders, or not at all. The rest is just fine-tuning and chemistry.\""
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "2778",
    "Idiom": [
      "fire sale"
    ],
    "Meaning": "A clearance sale at greatly reduced prices.",
    "Sentence": [
      "By the following year, Lehman’s enormous holdings in subprime loans were all but wiped out, and Bush was enlisted to see if he could engineer a fire sale of some of the bank’s empire of debt to the Mexican billionaire Carlos Slim.",
      "Bruce was happy with a point and is now focused on surviving a fire-sale at the KC Stadium before the transfer window shuts, with Tom Huddlestone linked with West Ham. “We have lost 14 players and brought in five or six but the transfer window [closing] is still three weeks away,” he said.",
      "The fire sale comes a week after FTX provided a $250 million emergency line of credit to BlockFi."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "2779",
    "Idiom": [
      "fire the starting gun"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To launch or trigger an event.",
    "Sentence": [
      "The TV and radio star Noel Edmonds, who is expected to join ITV’s I’m a Celebrity … Get Me Out Of Here jungle camp this week, is also likely to fire the starting gun on a £60m lawsuit against Lloyds Bank.",
      "Halks-Miller’s discovery fired the starting gun on the race to develop a diagnostic blood test. Illumina spun off a new company, Grail, to develop the test, raising more than $2bn from investors including Bill Gates, Jeff Bezos and the Chinese company Tencent."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "2780",
    "Idiom": [
      "fire-breathing"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Caustic or scathing.",
    "Sentence": [
      "a fire-breathing rant"
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "2781-1",
    "Idiom": [
      "firing line"
    ],
    "Meaning": "A situation in which someone is targeted.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Directly in their firing line was Sir Brian Robertson, the retired Commander-in-Chief of the Middle East Land Forces in the Second World War, who had been appointed chairman of the British Transport Commission (BTC) in 1953."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "2781-2",
    "Idiom": [
      "firing line"
    ],
    "Meaning": "The vanguard of an activity.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "2782-1",
    "Idiom": [
      "firm up"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To make plans more definite.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Just got a call from Falces office firming up my hospital date.",
      "Sometime soon (if it isn't happening already), Labour leader Sir Kier Starmer and his team will be firming up plans for what they want to do in the crucial first 100 days of a new government.",
      "Can we firm up plans for the barbecue Sunday?"
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "2782-2",
    "Idiom": [
      "firm up"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To become more definite.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Let me know as soon as your plans firm up."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "2783",
    "Idiom": [
      "first among equals"
    ],
    "Meaning": "A leader within a group of equals.",
    "Sentence": [
      "I wonder whether Margaret Thatcher, Harold Macmillan, Winston Churchill, Lloyd George, Benjamin Disraeli and William Gladstone (going back in time) thought of themselves as mere firsts among equals.",
      "The Orthodox consider the bishop of Rome to have always been merely a first among equals."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "2784",
    "Idiom": [
      "first and last"
    ],
    "Meaning": "A person's full name.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Hi, Yes, I'm here to register as a new primary care patient. OK, I'll have you fill out a form on this digital tablet, but first I need your first and last, date of birth, and the last four of your social [the ending digits of an identification number]."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "2785",
    "Idiom": [
      "first annual"
    ],
    "Meaning": "The first occurrence of an event intended to be annual.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "2786",
    "Idiom": [
      "first catch your hare"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Secure what you need before making plans.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "2787",
    "Idiom": [
      "first come, first served"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Served in the order of arrival.",
    "Sentence": [
      "This complicated situation means that strategically managing services through the central Manchester area and beyond is not possible for signallers in the Greater Manchester area, and trains are invariably dealt with on a ' first come, first served' basis."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "2788",
    "Idiom": [
      "first loser"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Second place.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "2789",
    "Idiom": [
      "first love"
    ],
    "Meaning": "One's most fundamental interest or attachment.",
    "Sentence": [
      "He had a very strong and faithful attachment for places: Chatham, I think, being his first love in this respect.",
      "Even though he made his millions from refrigerators, radios, scalp exercisers, bed coolers and sundry other gadgets, Powel Crosley Jr.'s first love was always the automobile."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "2790",
    "Idiom": [
      "first mile"
    ],
    "Meaning": "The initial stage of delivery from seller to distribution center, often involving more effort or cost.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "2791",
    "Idiom": [
      "first of all"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Firstly; before anything else.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "2792",
    "Idiom": [
      "first of never"
    ],
    "Meaning": "A nonexistent day.",
    "Sentence": [
      "since the first of never",
      "on the first of never"
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "2793",
    "Idiom": [
      "first off"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Firstly; introduces the first point in a list.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "2794",
    "Idiom": [
      "first port of call"
    ],
    "Meaning": "The first place to start a process.",
    "Sentence": [
      "When you move to a new country, your first port of call is often the local police.",
      "To find the meaning of a word, your first port of call should be a decent dictionary."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "2795",
    "Idiom": [
      "first up"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Firstly.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "2796",
    "Idiom": [
      "first-mover disadvantage"
    ],
    "Meaning": "A disadvantage for the first to introduce an idea due to competitors copying or improving it.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "2797",
    "Idiom": [
      "first-rate"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Of the best sort; very high quality.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Our only first-rate body of contemporary poetry is the German.",
      "He used to drop into my chambers once in a while to smoke, and was first-rate company. When I gave a dinner there was generally a cover laid for him. I liked the man for his own sake, and even had he promised to turn out a celebrity it would have had no weight with me.",
      "\"I once did something right. I played first-rate basketball. I really did. And after you're first-rate at something, no matter what, it kind of takes the kick out of being second-rate.\""
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "2798",
    "Idiom": [
      "fish and company stink after three days"
    ],
    "Meaning": "A guest who overstays will cease to be welcome.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "2799",
    "Idiom": [
      "fish in troubled waters"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To take advantage of a troubled situation.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "2800",
    "Idiom": [
      "fish or cut bait"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Make a decision to take action or let it go.",
    "Sentence": [
      "The admiral... may stay in the bay and keep approaches to the city of Manila tightly closed for a long time to come, until perhaps some demand from the governments of Europe that the United States fish or cut bait comes in such shape that it must be heeded.",
      "\"The Mayor cannot straddle this question any longer—he must either fish or cut bait.\"",
      "\"One of the attributes of an administrator is his ability to stick his neck out, to open his mouth and say something, to decide what side of the fence he is on and to take a stand there, to fish or cut bait, to put up or shut up,\" she says.",
      "“She told him fish or cut bait. Her and the kid, or him and the Army. He chose the Army.”",
      "It's time to fish or cut bait : either we buy this house now, or we must start looking for another one."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "2801",
    "Idiom": [
      "fish out"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To search and extract an item.",
    "Sentence": [
      "I fished out my keys from the bottom of my bag."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "2802",
    "Idiom": [
      "fish out of water"
    ],
    "Meaning": "A person in unfamiliar surroundings.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Into this queer assembly, something of a fish out of water and wholly out of his element, strode Cherry Bim, that redoubtable man.",
      "A pitcher at bat is usually considered such a fish out of water that he is expected to foul, ground or strike out.",
      "“The basis of this show is fish out of water,” said the executive producer, Quincy Jones, the music impresario who has never before put his name on a television series but whose work as producer of Michael Jackson's albums won him respect in Hollywood as a canny judge of public tastes.",
      "Many stay-at-home fathers find that they are fish out of water, too."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "2803",
    "Idiom": [
      "fish scale"
    ],
    "Meaning": "An early Canadian nickel.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "2804",
    "Idiom": [
      "fish to fry"
    ],
    "Meaning": "A matter to attend to.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "2805",
    "Idiom": [
      "fish-eating grin"
    ],
    "Meaning": "A euphemistic form of \"shit-eating grin.\"",
    "Sentence": [
      "I had a few questions for him myself, but I just stood there and stared. He had a fish-eating grin on his face.",
      "Then the Gypsy makes a crack about my accent. \"You talk like a Spanish cow,\" he says with a fish-eating grin."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "2806",
    "Idiom": [
      "fishing expedition"
    ],
    "Meaning": "A search for information without a specific goal.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "2807",
    "Idiom": [
      "fist magnet"
    ],
    "Meaning": "An annoying individual who provokes others to anger.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "2808",
    "Idiom": [
      "fit for a king"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Lavish; luxurious.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Mum cooked us a meal fit for a king."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "2809",
    "Idiom": [
      "fit out"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To provide someone or something with necessary equipment or supplies.",
    "Sentence": [
      "On hearing of this determination, Mr. [John Jacob] Astor immediately proceeded to fit out a ship called the Enterprise, to sail in company with the Adams, freighted with additional supplies and reinforcements for Astoria.",
      "On April 7, 1863, I received orders from General Rosecrans to proceed with the Provisional Brigade... to Nashville, and to fit out as speedily as possible for an expedition to the interior of Alabama and Georgia, for the purpose of destroying the railroads and other rebel property in that country.",
      "Moreover, if Bonaparte had wished to acquire territory in Australia, he was not so foolish a person as to fit out an expedition estimated to cost over half a million francs, 2 and which actually cost a far larger sum, when he could have obtained what he wanted simply by asking."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "2810",
    "Idiom": [
      "fit the bill",
      "fill the bill"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To satisfy a need or fulfill requirements.",
    "Sentence": [
      "You've got a head on your shoulders, you have! I guess you'll fill the bill.",
      "He said that the automotive industry must find a substitute for gasoline, on which the elder Edison commented that the electric storage battery has already filled the bill.",
      "For those looking for the unusual, Boston, like most cities, has an abundance of shops that fill the bill. Forever Flamingo, on Newbury St., is now a veritable three-ring circus of some of the best examples of art-deco memorabilia."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "2811",
    "Idiom": [
      "fit to be tied"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Very agitated or angry.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Mrs. Pepper reprimanded the master in the middle of the Park, before all the quality—Sunday afternoon, and the band playing, and the officers laughing, and he fit to be tied.",
      "A thought struck him: he would play off the old lady for her ill-breeding, and he imparted his plan to Filagree. Shortly, they were whisked into a [train] tunnel, and all was darkness. Smack! Smack! from Cromwell, and ditto, ditto, from the Muffin, as they faithfully imitated loud kissing. It was pitch dark, and the old lady was \" fit to be tied.\" \"Girls, what are you about?\" Smack! Smack! again.",
      "Rage, frenzy and grief, fluctuated in my breast with a terrible power. I was as one distraught, as one fit to be tied.",
      "Some girls can set around until they're blue moulded, and never a feller to ask 'em, and others the boys'll fret and pleg until they're fit to be tied, with nerves!",
      "I was fit to be tied though I wouldnt give in with that gentleman of fashion staring down at me with his glasses and him the other side of me talking about [Baruch] Spinoza",
      "I’m fit to be tied right now. I’d like to throw my cap up into the air and yell Blue Blazes.",
      "A man has a lot of time to think about a wife's anger during a long commute, You have all the way in to work to let it get into your head. And then if you've also been caught in a traffic jam, you're maybe fit to be tied by the time you get to work in the morning of you get home at night. You get the most depressing, down thoughts.",
      "You can run! / You can hide! / But we'll be right on your tail, / And we're all fit to be tied !"
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "2812",
    "Idiom": [
      "fit to wake the dead"
    ],
    "Meaning": "At an extremely loud volume.",
    "Sentence": [
      "\"Maybe they're asleep.\" The ensign switched on the locator sonar. The high-frequency waves resonated through both vessels. It was a sound fit to wake the dead, but there was no response. The air supply in the Politovskiy had run out a day before.",
      "They were screaming fit to wake the dead."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "2813",
    "Idiom": [
      "fits and starts"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Intermittent activity with interruptions.",
    "Sentence": [
      "We act by fits and starts, like drowning men, But just peep up, and then pop down again.",
      "T'other day as Apollo sat pitching his darts, / Through the clouds of November, by fits and by starts, / He began to consider how long it had been, / Since the bards of Old England a session had seen.",
      "I spent the night in fits and starts, getting up and lying down full twenty times, and dreaming the same dream over and over again.",
      "It is a stammered, sleazy chronicle, told by fits and starts in bits and pieces, and constantly interrupted by the director and actors.",
      "Paying for the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan in fits and starts undermines US military planning and risks the gains made by US troops.",
      "Progress in this project has come in fits and starts."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "2814",
    "Idiom": [
      "five will get you ten"
    ],
    "Meaning": "I strongly believe.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Five will get you ten that your sheet will have an editorial on the Orchard case Sunday, and what will it say?",
      "Five will get you ten that he's either gone or dead by midnight Sunday.",
      "She has a nice strong tone that falters just a bit in the upper ranges; five'll get you ten that problem clears up as soon as [she] gets completely comfortable with performing publicly.",
      "As it is I'm going to be in big trouble financially if I lose my job and five will get you ten the bastards will try to drum me out."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "2815",
    "Idiom": [
      "fix someone's wagon"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To cause someone distress or punishment.",
    "Sentence": [
      "When Randy Gumpert went in to hurl the sixth the Yankees immediately fixed his wagon. Successive errors by Steve Souchock and Stirnweiss, the latter making his first misplay of the year at third base, put two runners on and both counted.",
      "According to Mr Breeden, Lord Black said that the libel laws in the UK and Canada would permit him to sue and indicated he would go after the houses of board members. \"He was going to fix their wagon good,\" said Mr Breeden."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "2816",
    "Idiom": [
      "fix the roof while the sun is shining"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Address a problem while conditions are favorable.",
    "Sentence": [
      "You state it well: we should fix the roof while the sun is shining, and expand our nuclear-electric generating capacity while interest rates are low"
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "2817",
    "Idiom": [
      "flag down"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Use a signal to get someone's attention.",
    "Sentence": [
      "If you want a taxi in Central London, you'll have to stand in the road and flag one down."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "2818",
    "Idiom": [
      "flame up"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To suddenly become very angry.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "2819",
    "Idiom": [
      "flannelled fool"
    ],
    "Meaning": "A cricketer.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "2820",
    "Idiom": [
      "flap one's gums"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To speak idly.",
    "Sentence": [
      "What's that old coot flapping his gums about this time?"
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "2821",
    "Idiom": [
      "flash back"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To recall or remember something.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "2822-1",
    "Idiom": [
      "flash for cash"
    ],
    "Meaning": "A scam involving staged car accidents.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "2822-2",
    "Idiom": [
      "flash for cash"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Related to speed enforcement.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "2823",
    "Idiom": [
      "flash the cash"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To spend money ostentatiously.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "2824-1",
    "Idiom": [
      "flat chat"
    ],
    "Meaning": "At maximum capability or speed.",
    "Sentence": [
      "If there was a radio we'd have it going flat-chat, boy.",
      "I spun around yet again and took off flat chat.",
      "I′m driving flat chat as I cross Green Gully, a nondescript depression in the wide flat plain of western New South Wales.",
      "We had the car going flat chat down the highway when the cops pulled us over."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "2824-2",
    "Idiom": [
      "flat chat"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Extremely busy.",
    "Sentence": [
      "“Look,” he went on, “I don′t even remember writing anything in the bloody diary, for Christ′s sake. I was flat chat at the time.”",
      "“Sorry, I′m flat chat with work. I don′t see how you can get away until Saturday.”",
      "Except that I was too flat chat to get up and collect it myself so I motioned to Wok as surreptitiously as I could, nodding in the direction of the note lying invitingly on the asphalt. Wok stared back at me uncomprehendingly.",
      "Can you call me back tomorrow, mate? I′m flat chat at the moment."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "2825",
    "Idiom": [
      "flat on one's back"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Helpless.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "2826-1",
    "Idiom": [
      "flat out"
    ],
    "Meaning": "At top speed.",
    "Sentence": [
      "I was already sliding and too dedicated to change my line and just went flat out completely off the course.",
      "When antelope are running flat out, they resemble very rapidly departing dots; some say they can hit 60 mph.",
      "I was half way down the strip when I heard a speedboat and ran flat out back to the landing spot.",
      "The company's growth in the rail freight market, with a mix of new-to-rail and contract gains, has led to it working flat out.",
      "After 10 minutes of running flat out, he was out of breath."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "2826-2",
    "Idiom": [
      "flat out"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Bluntly or outright.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Suppose that Professor Turk has won a prestigious grant and wants to impress his hearer with this fact, without saying flat out that he won it.",
      "If, on the other hand, you simply deny flat out that you can give a metaphysical account of the concept “woman,” on the grounds that women are not essentially like one another in any respect— a position that, it′s important to notice, entails a commitment to your thinking that the idea of giving such an account is at least coherent— then you leave yourself with a problem about how to justify a politics based on the oppression of women.",
      "“You′re gonna die,” he flat-out told Arfons.",
      "Sometimes an eagerly promoted product turns out to be a joke — and sometimes it′s just flat out dangerous to life, limb, or commerce.",
      "The media (in all its forms) has been known to stoop to even lower levels by flat out abusing non-whites such as the Bulletin's little description of Patrick Bowman reported above and then the Referee's self-congratulatory note that Evans (the Balmain nigger ped) had found gainful employment (at which he was 'very handy' rather than competent or skilled) and had ceased to waste everybody's time with his running.",
      "But I was disappointed and really unhappy with myself because I′d given in to a gut reaction that was flat-out wrong.",
      "She thought it was best to tell him she didn't love him flat out.",
      "He was flat out furious when his car was stolen."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "2827-1",
    "Idiom": [
      "flat strap"
    ],
    "Meaning": "At maximum capability or intensity.",
    "Sentence": [
      "We had the car going flat strap down the highway when the cops pulled us over."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "2827-2",
    "Idiom": [
      "flat strap"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Extremely busy.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Can you call me back tomorrow, mate? I′m flat strap at the moment."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "2828",
    "Idiom": [
      "flatten out"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To become more even.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "2829",
    "Idiom": [
      "flavor of the week"
    ],
    "Meaning": "A temporary trend or interest.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "2830",
    "Idiom": [
      "flea in one's ear"
    ],
    "Meaning": "A stinging rebuke or rebuff.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Thus spoke the pert hussy and view'd me all round With an eye of disdain and thrice spit on the ground; Look'd proud of her charms, with an insolent sneer, And sent me away with a flea in my ear.",
      "\"I came away with two fleas in each ear,\" Mark recalled cheerfully, ten years later.",
      "As for him getting a flea in his ear, when I had finished with him he did not have an ear left into which a flea could have been deposited.",
      "For when she got home her Instructress severe / Dismissed her to bed with a Flea in her Ear.",
      "If he bothers me again, I'll send him home with a flea in his ear."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "2831",
    "Idiom": [
      "flesh one's maiden sword"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To succeed in combat or struggle for the first time.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Come brother Iohn, full brauely hast thou flesht / Thy mayden sword.",
      "Well, Lord Althorpe has last night fleshed his maiden sword as a finance minister—and the result, I am sorry to say, is a failure.",
      "Day after day, and year after year, we have heard the Native question discussed in an intelligible and statesmanlike manner, when the subject was brought forward in a practicable form, but not when presented in the style of a young member of a debating society endeavouring to “ flesh his maiden sword.”",
      "The Ragged Guardists, when they did flesh their maiden swords on the 12th, could do nothing more spectacular than kidnap three Czech soldiers from Csap railway station."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "2832",
    "Idiom": [
      "flesh out"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To create details from a basic outline.",
    "Sentence": [
      "The model shows the basics, but we still need to flesh out the details."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "2833",
    "Idiom": [
      "flight of fancy"
    ],
    "Meaning": "An unrealistic or impractical idea.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Who might not, by a very easy flight of fancy, have believed that everything about him took this haunted tone, and that he lived on haunted ground?",
      "No German troops were mobilized along Canada's border last week, no Canadian cities had been bombed, and only by the remotest flight of fancy could alarmists see the Dominion as a battleground.",
      "Aguilar-Millan et al. published an ambitious flight of fancy which explored the “post-scarcity world” of 2050 in light of technical advancements which they argue will decrease costs to providers until almost everything becomes free to the end user."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "2834",
    "Idiom": [
      "flip one's lid"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To become explosively angry.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Wait, you'll see. Three hours on a night like this is enough to make you flip your lid.",
      "Drag him out your window / Dragging out the dead / Singing \"I miss you\" / Snakes and ladders / Flip the lid",
      "His parents flipped their lids when the two lovebugs got hitched. Jonnie couldn't stand the fact that her beautiful young son, gone so long over seas, had now tangled up with an older woman, and even worse, an older divorced woman"
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "2835-1",
    "Idiom": [
      "flip one's wig"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To become very angry.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "2835-2",
    "Idiom": [
      "flip one's wig"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To act irrationally or appear insane.",
    "Sentence": [
      "You've flipped your wig !"
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "2836",
    "Idiom": [
      "flip shit"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To freak out.",
    "Sentence": [
      "If my mom finds out about this, she'll flip shit !"
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "2837",
    "Idiom": [
      "flip the bird"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To make a rude gesture, typically by extending the middle finger.",
    "Sentence": [
      "He held his right hand up in front of his face and flipped the bird.",
      "The vaunted Attitude era was built, in many ways, on a level of crudity never before seen in wrestling. You had guys flipping the bird, women nearly naked in the ring and guys telling each other to “suck it.”",
      "This summer, she took some time off in Maine, and before she went posted a picture of herself on Gawker in a bathing suit flipping the bird — \"At least I didn't put up the ones of myself in a silver-lame bikini. That would have been a little much,\" she said, laughing.",
      "I accidentally bumped into him, and he flipped me the bird."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "2838",
    "Idiom": [
      "flip-flop"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To alternate between opposing opinions or decisions.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "2839",
    "Idiom": [
      "flog a dead horse"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To pursue a futile effort.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "2840",
    "Idiom": [
      "flog a dead pony"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To pursue something futile or that cannot yield further results.",
    "Sentence": [
      "much greater impact on actual practice when the topic wasn't flogging a dead pony (advocating a change already wide-spread)",
      "Now was not the time to lose her temper. He was baiting her, and going over the Brazil incident was like flogging a dead pony. She was tired and the pony was past caring."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "2841",
    "Idiom": [
      "flog the dolphin"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To masturbate.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "2842",
    "Idiom": [
      "flog the log"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To masturbate.",
    "Sentence": [
      "He was a normal horny boy who flogged the log with the best of them."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "2843-1",
    "Idiom": [
      "flood the zone"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To fill a relevant area.",
    "Sentence": [
      "The NFL renaissance of Doug Flutie is a reminder of one of the great plays in college football history. \"The play was called 'Trips Right, Flood Tip,'\" Phelan said. \"That meant three receivers to the right side, flood the zone and try for the tip.\"",
      "McCarthy could spot his curveball for strikes, and flooded the zone with fastballs and cutters.",
      "Of the 17 Padres position players who saw the most playing time in 2017, 16 of them were 29 or younger. Of course, simply flooding the zone with young players doesn't guarantee anything."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "2843-2",
    "Idiom": [
      "flood the zone"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To provide a large quantity.",
    "Sentence": [
      "While Washington should flood the zone with research funding, it should refrain from trying to pick a winner.",
      "Republicans believe that they have a chance of taking control of the Senate in November. And big-money conservatives are flooding the zone with cash to ensure victory.",
      "As former Trump advisor Stephen K. Bannon so eloquently puts it — “the real opposition is the media. And the way to deal with them is to flood the zone with sh–.”",
      "The strategy has existed since at least 2018, when the former Trump administration strategist Stephen K. Bannon boasted of the ability to overwhelm Democrats and any media opposition through a determined effort to “ flood the zone ” with initiatives. This time, the flood is bigger, wider and more brutally efficient."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "2844-1",
    "Idiom": [
      "floor it"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To accelerate to the maximum.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "2844-2",
    "Idiom": [
      "floor it"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To move at full speed.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "2845",
    "Idiom": [
      "floor one could eat off"
    ],
    "Meaning": "An extremely clean floor.",
    "Sentence": [
      "The soot-pervaded smoke from it had turned the walls and ceiling completely black so we had a black-walled kitchen, but with a floor you could eat off.",
      "Cinnamon went on a tear to get the house ready As it stands she has an empty room with a floor you could eat off and a mess of aches and pains, but she's determined to finish up today."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "2846",
    "Idiom": [
      "floppy infant syndrome"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Hypotonia.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "2847",
    "Idiom": [
      "flower of the flock"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Something exceedingly good or the best.",
    "Sentence": [
      "None of the Pontifexes were deficient in good looks; they were a well-grown shapely family enough, but Alethea was the flower of the flock even as regards good looks, while in respect of all other qualities that make a woman lovable, it seemed as though the stock that had been intended for the three daughters, and would have been about sufficient for them, had all been allotted to herself, her sisters getting none, and she all."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "2848-1",
    "Idiom": [
      "flunk out"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To fail to complete a course or school due to poor grades.",
    "Sentence": [
      "He flunked out of high school as a youth, but finished school later in life."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "2848-2",
    "Idiom": [
      "flunk out"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To fail a student, often requiring retaking coursework.",
    "Sentence": [
      "They could simply have replied, \"No, we're way too square. And until you do come up with an answer, stick to the syllabus so that we don't have to flunk out your mixed-up students when we get them next quarter.\""
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "2849",
    "Idiom": [
      "flush out"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To drive out or expose.",
    "Sentence": [
      "At that time a Special Investigative Unit (SIU) was set up to initiate a witch-hunt against homosexuals in government. So the SIU established this big file on homosexuals in government. Of course the real purpose was to flush out dissident civil servants, using homosexuality as an excuse. It was used as a political weapon by those who wielded power to get rid of their antagonists and their enemies.",
      "Fingers and Thumbs immediately started rushing around, wielding their iron bars as if going into battle. They whacked everything in sight – bushes, bins, even the burnt-out burger van – in an effort to flush out whoever had hurt their glorious leader.",
      "The dogs flushed out some doves.",
      "The army flushed out the enemy spy."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "2850",
    "Idiom": [
      "flutter in the dovecote"
    ],
    "Meaning": "A disturbance within a generally calm group.",
    "Sentence": [
      "I further argued that the principal cause for the political deadlock that persisted for thirty years after the guns fell silent was Israeli intransigence rather than Arab intransigence. The appearance of the first wave of revisionist studies excited a great deal of interest and controversy in the media and more than a flutter in the academic dovecote."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "2851",
    "Idiom": [
      "flutter the dovecote"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To create a disturbance among a calm group.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "2852",
    "Idiom": [
      "fly blind"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To proceed without a clear plan, relying on intuition.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "2853",
    "Idiom": [
      "fly by"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To pass quickly, often with little interaction.",
    "Sentence": [
      "I like to sit and watch the world fly by.",
      "The rest of the day flew by quickly."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "2854-1",
    "Idiom": [
      "fly by the seat of one's pants"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To act instinctively without a plan.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Between world wars, when Douglas Bader was a cocky, teen-age R.A.F. cadet... a man could navigate by eye and the nearest railroad track and fly by the seat of his pants."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "2854-2",
    "Idiom": [
      "fly by the seat of one's pants"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To improvise without a plan or complete information.",
    "Sentence": [
      "“Unlike Obama and his methodical process, McCain was flying by the seat of his pants,” the authors observe."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "2855",
    "Idiom": [
      "fly in the face of"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To contradict or counteract.",
    "Sentence": [
      "DB Cargo is clearly upset by the Royal Mail decision. Not only will it lose a valuable customer, but this flies in the face of its own high-profile campaign, called Freight Belongs on Rail.",
      "The new design is very edgy and certainly flies in the face of tradition."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "2856",
    "Idiom": [
      "fly in the ointment"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Something that spoils everything else or adds a problem.",
    "Sentence": [
      "And yet, in truth, he was not then a child of God. His pride and uncharitableness, were flies in the ointment.",
      "A Poor Relation—is the most irrelevant thing in nature,— —a fly in your ointment,—a mote in your eye,— —the ounce of sour in a pound of sweet.",
      "Not one moment are we to be indolently reconciled to this ever-haunting imperfection of our life-work; but the work itself must be patiently surveyed in its true character. Nothing is gained by pretending there are no flies in the ointment.",
      "Nothing, of course, in this world is perfect; and, rosy as were the glasses through which Archie looked on his new surroundings, he had to admit that there was one flaw, one fly in the ointment, one individual caterpillar in the salad.",
      "Our gods are the unaccountable, uncontainable facts, the flies in the ointment.",
      "Bummy Davis is no longer a pugilist. Willie is very aware of this fact and lets Johnny Attell know that there is a fly in the ointment, and Johnny, who is a very shrewd article, has his chauffeur drive him to Bradford Street so he can change the kid's mind.",
      "The flies in the ointment are that Harry is a commitment-phobe, and the young doctor, Julian (Keanu Reeves), who is half Erica's age, is smitten with her. Naturally, the obstacles are overcome, and the happy pair is reunited, in a validation of middle-aged romance.",
      "Today's action is a reminder of just how fickle markets can be. The earnings themselves were not awful, but the market has priced tech to near perfection and thus one fly – maybe even a fruit fly – in the ointment could perpetuate a sell-off.",
      "But Patel said there was a “ fly in the ointment ”, noting that between the first results and the new data, uncertainty has increased around the theoretical prediction of the frequency.",
      "But there is one fly in the ointment, which is only too evident at Queen Street and Central... buddleia."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "2857-1",
    "Idiom": [
      "fly low"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To have one's zipper undone.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "2857-2",
    "Idiom": [
      "fly low"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To act discreetly or sneaky.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "2858",
    "Idiom": [
      "fly off"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To flee rapidly.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "2859",
    "Idiom": [
      "fly off at a tangent"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To digress from a topic.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "2860",
    "Idiom": [
      "fly off the shelves"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To be sold quickly and in large quantities.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "2861",
    "Idiom": [
      "fly on the wall"
    ],
    "Meaning": "A quiet observer or eavesdropper.",
    "Sentence": [
      "James W. Gerard, ex-Ambassador to Germany, the first speaker of the evening, said that at that moment he would like to be a fly on the wall of the palace at Potsdam to hear what the Potsdam gang were saying about our soldiers.",
      "I wish I'd been a little fly on his chamber wall when he found out that he had to go through the Michigan Child Custody Act!"
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "2862",
    "Idiom": [
      "fly out of the traps"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To start quickly.",
    "Sentence": [
      "The hosts flew out of the traps and with Scott Parker and Mark Noble working beautifully together in tandem in the centre of their midfield they began to exert serious pressure on Foster's goal."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "2863",
    "Idiom": [
      "fly solo"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To do something independently.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Playing with freedom and no fear, Ashleigh Barty has powered into the Australian Open third round without even a coach. Barty clubbed China’s Yafan Wang 6-2, 6-3 on Wednesday before revealing she had been largely flying solo during her charge to the last 32 for only the second time."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "2864",
    "Idiom": [
      "fly the coop"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To escape or flee.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Not liking the accommodations, I took the first chance and flew the coop.",
      "By the time the disk was out, most of Smith had apparently flown the coop; only Gayle and Jerry remained"
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "2865",
    "Idiom": [
      "fly the flag"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To support one's country.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Now they are the English champions, flying the flag for their country in Europe’s premier club competition and managed by a 53‑year‑old who only got the job on Sunday night."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "2866",
    "Idiom": [
      "fly too close to the sun"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To become overly ambitious or greedy.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Did Jackson fly too close to the sun ? Should he have followed the Royals' advice -- the Royals' pleading, really -- that he play only baseball?",
      "Descalzi's friends at Telemundo worry that he is taking on too much, accelerating too quickly. They know he can fly too close to the sun -- and plunge into self-destructive indulgence.",
      "When powerful men fly too close to the sun, two things can happen: they modify their course, or they come crashing down.",
      "Studies indicate that women are more comprehensive thinkers and less attracted to excessive risk than are their male peers. It seems we have reached a fairly broad consensus on the meltdown: Guys were the ones flying too close to the sun.",
      "Although superficially I had nothing in common with his characters apart from studying at Oxford, I couldn't avoid all sorts of emotional identification with them. This is the quintessential novel of Oxford gilded youth flying too close to the sun.",
      "In the end, one could say with minimal originality, but considerable accuracy, that Bill Simmons simply flew too close to the sun. He miscalculated how much value ESPN put on him and on his unique abilities and talents."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "2867",
    "Idiom": [
      "fly under the radar"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To go unnoticed.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "2868-1",
    "Idiom": [
      "fly-by-night"
    ],
    "Meaning": "A person or business that is untrustworthy or transient.",
    "Sentence": [
      "The automobile industry rose almost overnight. Orders poured into the offices of companies already organized; new companies were formed by dozens, capitalized at millions of dollars. Fly-by-night concerns sprang up like mushrooms, flooded the country with stock-selling schemes, established factories where parts of motor cars, bought elsewhere, were assembled.",
      "True, it was a good advertisement at Boosters' Club lunches, and all the varieties of Annual Banquets to which Good Fellows were invited, to speak sonorously of a thing called Ethics, whose nature was confusing but if you had it you were a High-class Realtor and if you hadn't you were a shyster, a piker, and a fly-by-night.",
      "Second, it will ensure that when fly-by-night providers go bankrupt, Medicare is at the top of the list of debts to be repaid. And finally, it will bring down costs by allowing Medicare to purchase goods and services at a competitive price."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "2868-2",
    "Idiom": [
      "fly-by-night"
    ],
    "Meaning": "A traveling businessman or tradesman.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "2869",
    "Idiom": [
      "flying start"
    ],
    "Meaning": "An especially good start.",
    "Sentence": [
      "And six minutes in they should have got off to a flying start. Aluko caused the damage. The winger slipped away from Ledley then stood up a cross to the back post which seemed perfect for Lee Wallace charging in.",
      "The new restaurant got off to a flying start, packing out every night."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "2870",
    "Idiom": [
      "flying visit"
    ],
    "Meaning": "A very short visit.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Rishi Sunak is not interested in the climate emergency – and everyone knows it. Forced to make a flying visit to Cop27, Mr Sunak’s intransigence made him an outcast at the UN summit in Sharm el-Sheikh, Egypt.",
      "COVID seems to have increased traffic to such locations, as 'staycations' have become more popular. But for me, it's a flying visit. I am merely changing trains to continue along the coast to Hastings, aboard another Southern Class 377.",
      "My favorite novelist was on a flying visit to London last week for a book signing."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "2871",
    "Idiom": [
      "fog a mirror"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To be alive.",
    "Sentence": [
      "I'm so tired of being alone, I would marry anyone who could fog a mirror."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "2872",
    "Idiom": [
      "fogged out"
    ],
    "Meaning": "In a confused mental state.",
    "Sentence": [
      "When I finally saw Arlene, she was very weak, and a bit fogged out. She didn't seem to know what was happening. She stared straight ahead most of the time, looking around a little bit from time to time, and was trying to breathe.",
      "He couldn't think straight. His mind was totally fogged out, and he wanted to pee more than anything else. But still, the fact that she'd offered to suck his dick...",
      "The first question Smith addressed was why he didn't use his Academy Award for Best Actor acceptance speech to apologize to Rock, who he slapped minutes earlier after the comedian made a joke about Smith's wife, Jada Pinkett Smith. ¶ \"I was fogged out at that point,\" Smith said. \"It's all fuzzy.\""
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "2873",
    "Idiom": [
      "fold like a cheap suit"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To give up easily.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "2874",
    "Idiom": [
      "fold one's tent"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To withdraw discreetly.",
    "Sentence": [
      "And the night shall be filled with music, And the cares that infest the day",
      "\"I won't quietly fold my tent and go away,\" snapped Sister Catherine.",
      "Following the failure of the Quilty forces to obtain the BL/GPA endorsement in June, the PAC folded its tents and did not meet again.",
      "There are a good number of Democrats who are unhappy with John Kerry, thinking he folded his tent without a fight."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "2875-1",
    "Idiom": [
      "fold up"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To make more compact by folding.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Meanwhile Nanny Broome was recovering from her initial panic and seemed anxious to make up for any kudos she might have lost, by exerting her personality to the utmost. She took the policeman's helmet and placed it on a chair, and unfolded his tunic to shake it and fold it up again for him.",
      "It used to be said there were two kinds of chairs to go with two kinds of Ministers: one sort that folds up [pun] instantly, the other sort goes round and round in circles (laugh track).",
      "Please fold up these towels so they will fit on the shelf."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "2875-2",
    "Idiom": [
      "fold up"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To go out of business or stop doing something.",
    "Sentence": [
      "When Grimaldi left the group in 1976, Rod folded his band up.",
      "That place folded up years ago."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "2875-3",
    "Idiom": [
      "fold up"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To move on or dismantle and relocate.",
    "Sentence": [
      "They will fold up on Sunday and be gone from here.",
      "The circus folded up its tent and headed north."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "2876",
    "Idiom": [
      "folk devil"
    ],
    "Meaning": "A person blamed for societal problems during a moral panic.",
    "Sentence": [
      "It may be true, as Fred Robinson, a senior researcher at Newcastle University said, \"Many people view Mrs. Thatcher as a kind of folk devil.",
      "\"Every time things become problematic we start careering towards social causes and pick on a folk devil to attribute all evil.\"",
      "There is always a tendency, in the mainstream as much as the fringes, to blame real or imagined social problems on a folk devil."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "2877",
    "Idiom": [
      "follow someone off a cliff"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To follow a leader blindly, risking negative outcomes.",
    "Sentence": [
      "(Can we add an example for this sense?)"
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "2878",
    "Idiom": [
      "follow suit"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To imitate or copy the actions of another.",
    "Sentence": [
      "After World War II it took time to clear up the arrears of track maintenance on both lines and it was not until 1953 that the L.M.R. restored any two-hour schedules, the W.R. following suit a year later.",
      "The wise man built his words upon the rocks / But I'm not bound to follow suit",
      "I had a natural African American impulse to let this worldlywise middle-aged black woman's maternalism wash over me. And as a post-civil rights African American, I assumed that it was a white audience's job to follow suit.",
      "But unless there is a Damascene conversion in the Treasury, the chances of the UK Government following suit currently look slim.",
      "If you are not sure of the proper etiquette, watch what others do and follow suit."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "2879",
    "Idiom": [
      "follow the crowd"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To conform to majority beliefs or practices.",
    "Sentence": [
      "As much as the next guy, I don't like to follow the crowd."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "2880-1",
    "Idiom": [
      "follow through"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To complete a commitment.",
    "Sentence": [
      "They kicked around some ideas for doing their own thing, like moonlighting as music video producers, but they never followed through.",
      "I don't appreciate salesmen who make promises and then fail to follow through."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "2880-2",
    "Idiom": [
      "follow through"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To continue movement after making contact.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "2881",
    "Idiom": [
      "follow to the grave"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To cease existence or importance with someone upon their death.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Credit card debt doesn’t follow you to the grave. Rather, after death, it lives on and is either paid off through estate assets or becomes the responsibility of a joint account holder or cosigner."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "2882-1",
    "Idiom": [
      "food baby"
    ],
    "Meaning": "A protruding belly from overeating.",
    "Sentence": [
      "I went to the restroom to give birth to a food baby...",
      "JUNO: (in low tones) Dude, I'm pregnant. LEAH: Maybe it's just a food baby. Did you have a big lunch?",
      "\"Becs, look, I ate so much I have a food baby,\" I said, pushing out my stomach for her entertainment.",
      "If this hadn't been a dinner for me and I had been a little bit trashier, I totally would have undone my belt and button on my jeans, because my food baby was kicking.",
      "Dishes are largely composed of lighter fare - such as smoked swordfish and salmon salad - much appreciated when you're still carrying a food baby from a previous meal."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "2882-2",
    "Idiom": [
      "food baby"
    ],
    "Meaning": "A feeling of bloating after a large meal.",
    "Sentence": [
      "—Do you need help in there? —I'm having a food baby !"
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "2883",
    "Idiom": [
      "food chain"
    ],
    "Meaning": "A hierarchy.",
    "Sentence": [
      "With my promotion this month I will continue my steady journey to the top of the food chain."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "2884",
    "Idiom": [
      "food for thought"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Information worth contemplating.",
    "Sentence": [
      "If I were ScotRail management, I'd be looking at the feasibility of taking some more trailer cars to make them five-car sets, and even the possibility of using them on the West Highland, Kyle and Far North lines as well (although I fear that is a cost too far, but food for thought)."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "2885",
    "Idiom": [
      "food noise"
    ],
    "Meaning": "A mental preoccupation with food that leads to overeating.",
    "Sentence": [
      "the concept that once the meal is over, it's time to move on to other tasks. When you use one or more of them at the end of a meal or snack, you help to quiet the part of your mind that distracts you with thoughts about food, thus creating more mental energy for work, hobbies, and other tasks. Without all of the \" food noise \" in your head, you'll find you are much more productive. Consider using any or all of the following strategies to add closure to your meals. / • Light a candle for your meal and blow it out once you've finished. This simple strategy effectively says, \"The meal is over.\" / • Brush your teeth after meals. Besides creating a mentally reinforcing ritual, brushing your teeth offers two side benefits."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "2886-1",
    "Idiom": [
      "fool around"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To engage in frivolous behavior.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "2886-2",
    "Idiom": [
      "fool around"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To engage in casual sexual acts.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Jake has been fooling around with a married woman."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "2887",
    "Idiom": [
      "fool away"
    ],
    "Meaning": "to waste.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "2888",
    "Idiom": [
      "fool me once, shame on you; fool me twice, shame on me"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Learn from mistakes to avoid being tricked again.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "2889",
    "Idiom": [
      "fool's bargain"
    ],
    "Meaning": "A bad bargain that leaves someone worse off.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "2890-1",
    "Idiom": [
      "fool's errand",
      "lost errand",
      "sleeveless errand"
    ],
    "Meaning": "A foolish or pointless undertaking.",
    "Sentence": [
      "If I were to travel only that I might be discontented with that which I can get at home, methinks I should go but on a fool's errand.",
      "Shultz took little notice of the Soviet view or that of others who said his Middle East mission was a fool's errand. \"You can't be too afraid of failing,\" said the 67-year-old diplomat.",
      "The detective expressed his conviction that they were both on a lost errand. He was convinced that the boy would not make his appearance; although when pressed by Clive to do so, he declined to give the reasons for his conviction.",
      "It was in vain that I urged that this would be but a sleeveless errand, arguing that I could not fight men of straw, that these our composers had no real standing in the concert halls, and that pushing them over would be an easy exercise for a child of ten."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "2891-2",
    "Idiom": [
      "fool's errand"
    ],
    "Meaning": "A pointless or wasted effort.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "2892",
    "Idiom": [
      "fool's paradise"
    ],
    "Meaning": "A state of happiness based on illusion or false hope.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Now, afore God, I am so vexed, that every part about me quivers. Scurvy knave! Pray you, sir, a word: and as I told you, my young lady bade me inquire you out; what she bade me say, I will keep to myself: but first let me tell ye, if ye should lead her into a fool's paradise, as they say, it were a very gross kind of behavior, as they say: for the gentlewoman is young; and, therefore, if you should deal double with her, truly it were an ill thing to be offered to any gentlewoman, and very weak dealing.",
      "The Devon School record books contained a mistake, a lie, and nobody knew it but Finny and me. A. Hopkins Parker was living in a fool's paradise, wherever he was. His defeated name remained in bronze on the school record plaque, while Finny deliberately evaded an athletic honor.",
      "A report by the Pensions Commission warned that the number who were failing to save enough for their retirement was higher than 12 million, and said that Britain had been living in a \" fool's paradise \" for 25 years."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "2893",
    "Idiom": [
      "fools rush in where angels fear to tread"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Impulsive individuals get involved in risky situations that cautious people avoid.",
    "Sentence": [
      "“It's the first article of your creed—that marriage is a holy sacrament, that no power on earth or in hell can ever dissolve its bonds? Fools rush in where angels fear to tread, my dear! They always have—they always will, I suppose.",
      "The year following my graduation the new Captain of my Alma Mater's team asked me if I would aid him in developing the squad for next year. Well, \" Fools rush in where angels fear to tread,\" so I said Yes.",
      "Then, too, a record of failures—particularly if it is a dignified and well-authenticated record—deters a young man from trying. We get some of our best results from letting fools rush in where angels fear to tread."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "2894",
    "Idiom": [
      "foot the bill"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To pay for something.",
    "Sentence": [
      "The cop tried the door. “It's locked, hey,” he said. “Bust it down,” roared Oedipa, “and Hitler Hilarius here will foot the bill.”",
      "When I spoke to Hitachi, it was very open that it will foot the bill, not taxpayers or farepayers."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "2895",
    "Idiom": [
      "foot voting"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Expressing preferences through actions, often by moving away from an undesirable situation.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Foot voting provides much stronger incentives than ballot box voting for both information acquisition and rational information use.",
      "Foot voting is an inherently selfish individual move; it is not intended to serve the body politic.",
      "We already do a lot of foot voting in Nigeria, mostly by migrating abroad in search of greener pastures for reasons that are usually economic. Even within Nigeria, some foot voting is happening with the increase in rural-urban migration."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "2896",
    "Idiom": [
      "foot-in-mouth disease"
    ],
    "Meaning": "A tendency to make inappropriate remarks.",
    "Sentence": [
      "They attempt to straddle all issues and, consequently, when a slip occurs, the result is foot-in-mouth disease.",
      "Maybe you suffer from foot-in-mouth disease, too, at least occasionally. If so, then I expect you've also learned about the remedy."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "2897",
    "Idiom": [
      "for England"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Very well or for a long time.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Before Venita, who could chatter for England, had a chance to hand over too much more information, Marty jumped in defensively.",
      "She always wore the most disgustingly old-fashioned clothes and she could moan and complain for England but the thing that really bugged Sharon about Anne was that, despite having the disposition of a wet weekend in Scarborough, she always signed her departmental notes 'Annie' and she always turned the dot on the 'i' into a flower.",
      "She could sleep for England. It's not unusual for teenagers to sleep for England, I know, but I believe Amy experienced depressions in her early teens."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "2898",
    "Idiom": [
      "for Pete's sake"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Expresses frustration or annoyance.",
    "Sentence": [
      "For Pete's sake, get off the computer! You've been on there for ages!"
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "2899",
    "Idiom": [
      "for XYZ reasons"
    ],
    "Meaning": "For unspecified reasons.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "2900",
    "Idiom": [
      "for a change"
    ],
    "Meaning": "As a departure from the usual.",
    "Sentence": [
      "He had had a hard time in the City, so he explained. Harris, who is callous in his nature, and not prone to pity, said: \"Ah! and now you are going to have a hard time on the river for a change; change is good for everyone. Out you get!\"",
      "If you've had \"nuff\" of \"the blood of the lamb,\" Then join in the grand Industrial band; If, for a change, you would have eggs and ham, Then come! Do your share, like a man.",
      "\"I've supported her for seventeen years. Why shouldn't she support herself for a change ?\"",
      "\"... But I ain't all softness and mush--feel this here for a change !\"",
      "I'd like to use that Superfund to clean up pollution for a change and not just pay lawyers."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "2901",
    "Idiom": [
      "for a fact"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Without doubt.",
    "Sentence": [
      "I know this for a fact."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "2902",
    "Idiom": [
      "for a song"
    ],
    "Meaning": "For a very low price.",
    "Sentence": [
      "They remembered then that they could have bought for a song canvases which now were worth large sums.",
      "The contents of aircraft that once commanded prices up to $148m are now being sold off for a song after being torn apart in Gloucestershire's aviation charnel house.",
      "In his senior year, he had run across an old '66 Chevy Super Sport headed for the junkyard, bought it for a song, and overhauled it with his dad's help, turning it into the big red muscle car it was back in its day.",
      "He bought it for a song in 1984 compared with what his fellow financiers were spending on tonier Park and Fifth Avenues."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "2903",
    "Idiom": [
      "for all one is worth"
    ],
    "Meaning": "With as much effort as possible.",
    "Sentence": [
      "And although they were pushed harder than even Lennon might have expected on a night of galeforce winds, they clung on to the lead Ledley gave them for all they were worth until their rivals had blown themselves out and surrendered top spot.",
      "You should see him out there in the snow, shoveling for all he's worth."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "2904",
    "Idiom": [
      "for all the world"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Entirely, to all appearances.",
    "Sentence": [
      "not a ha'porth of him left but a goodish piece of his skin, just for all the world like a hedgehog's, and a piece o' old iron furbished up.",
      "Phil offering and giving advice sagely and gravely, for all the world as though he had been old enough to be this young woman's father",
      "the babies looking for all the world as though they had stepped out of pictures by Gian Bellini or by Fra Bartolommeo, that greatest of baby painters."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "2905",
    "Idiom": [
      "for all the world to see"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Clearly visible.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "2906",
    "Idiom": [
      "for chrissake"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Expresses annoyance or frustration.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "2907",
    "Idiom": [
      "for crying out loud"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Expresses frustration, exasperation, or annoyance.",
    "Sentence": [
      "'I knew yeh weren't gettin' yer letters but I never thought yeh wouldn't even know abou' Hogwarts, fer cryin' out loud !'",
      "Waldo739 asks a \"what would you do?\" question: \"So it's August 31st, 1939, and you are Captain Gustav Kleikamp\" - I think - \"standing on the bridge wing of SMS\" - oh, for crying out loud - \"SMS Schleswig-Holstein, drinking a cup of tea \"",
      "Oh, for crying out loud, get off the computer! You've been on there for ages!"
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "2908",
    "Idiom": [
      "for dear life"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Desperately.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Paolo sat crosslegged on his bench, stitching away for dear life.",
      "As they passed, accelerating, on to the bridge and felt the first bite of the incline beyond, one had a fleeting glimpse of driver and fireman, illumined as by the fires of hell, the one tugging at the regulator handle, the other shovelling for dear life.",
      "After 12 successive league wins Charlton were nobbled by the First Division's no-hopers, who profited from a goalkeeping bloomer then held on to their lead for dear life.",
      "I remember the heat, the deluge of rain-squalls that kept us baling for dear life (but filled our water cask), and I remember sixteen hours on end with a mouth dry as a cinder and a steering oar over the stern to keep my first command head on to a breaking sea.",
      "We want you to see that these years can be a rollercoaster ride where sometimes you have to hang on for dear life —but you will come through it.",
      "Each morning you get in the roller coaster car, strap yourself in, and hold on for dear life hoping you won't throw up or pass out.",
      "Then came the collision: it was \"like a rollercoaster ride\" and she held onto the table in front of her \" for dear life. Then it just stopped and all I could hear was people screaming.\""
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "2909",
    "Idiom": [
      "for fear of"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To prevent a particular incident or event.",
    "Sentence": [
      "but in the damp conditions prevailing the driver sensibly was unwilling to attempt the climb up through Combe Down tunnel without help, for fear of slipping to a standstill in the unventilated bore, ."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "2910",
    "Idiom": [
      "for fuck's sake"
    ],
    "Meaning": "An expression of anger or frustration.",
    "Sentence": [
      "For fuck’s sake, mate! Stop violating the requirements and instructions for your job!",
      "For fuck’s sake, shut Nicola up!",
      "For fuck’s sake, who’s this tosh?"
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "2911",
    "Idiom": [
      "for fudge's sake"
    ],
    "Meaning": "An expression of anger or frustration.",
    "Sentence": [
      "For fudge's sake, mate! Stop shooting at me!"
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "2912",
    "Idiom": [
      "for good"
    ],
    "Meaning": "In a conclusive and final way.",
    "Sentence": [
      "This day I left Chelsea for good (that's a genteel phrase) and am got into Suffolk street.",
      "Well, now, I'm no scholar, and you're a lad as can read and figure; and, to put it straight, do you take it as a dead man is dead for good, or do he come alive again?",
      "What I want is to get out of this fix, for good —so I can go to sleep at night without worrying over what's going to happen to me tomorrow, and next month, and next year.",
      "Yes, and thanks for the trouble you took from her eyes. I thought it was there for good so I never tried.",
      "Whatever I said, whatever I did, I didn't mean it / I just want you back for good",
      "He unbuttons the bottom of his jacket so the rumors can be dispelled for good : he no longer wears his double belts.",
      "A bad haircut is no fun, but at least you’re not stuck with it for good, only until it grows out."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "2913",
    "Idiom": [
      "for good and all"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Conclusive and final.",
    "Sentence": [
      "hauing prepared a like feather to the same, of some other Hawke or fowle, resembling the broken feather: you muste cutte the quyll of it, and so force it togyther, as it maye enter the broken quyll of the Hawkes feather, annoynting it before you thruste it in, or seeme to place it for good and all, in the gummie fatte of a fygge",
      "It is so long since the reader has been parted from the midwife, that it is high time to mention her again to him, merely to put him in mind that there is such a body still in the world, and whom I am going to introduce to him for good and all :",
      "“Come,” said Gamfield; “say four pound, gen’lmen. Say four pound, and you’ve got rid of him for good and all. There!”",
      "‘It gets worse and worse the further we go,’ said Acorn. ‘Where are we going and how long will it be before some of us stop running for good and all ?’",
      "we gonna talk this through for good and all."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "2914",
    "Idiom": [
      "for good measure"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Added as an extra.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Spain plans to issue “digital nomad” visas giving Britons and other non-EU citizens the chance to work in the sun and enjoy a lower cost of living with tax breaks thrown in for good measure.",
      "He tossed in a couple of extra shirts for good measure and closed the suitcase."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "2915-1",
    "Idiom": [
      "for goodness' sake"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Expresses frustration or annoyance.",
    "Sentence": [
      "You're 47, for goodness' sake. Too old for this!",
      "She's 1.98m for goodness sake ! How can you not find her!?",
      "For goodness' sake, get off the computer ! You've been on there for ages!"
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "2915-2",
    "Idiom": [
      "for goodness' sake"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Expresses surprise or amazement.",
    "Sentence": [
      "No salesman is ever a bore if he can make us throw up our hands and say, \"Well, for goodness' sake ! What do you know about that ?\" Yes, surprise is the thing.",
      "“ For goodness' sake,” Einstein exclaimed. “So that was the famous caviar!\" He paused for a moment, then added, \"Well, if you offer gourmet food to peasants like me, you know they won't appreciate it.\"",
      "For goodness' sake, we go to Spain for a week and get new next-door neighbors! How lovely!",
      "I thought, for goodness' sake, fancy them being the same!",
      "For goodness' sake, I spelled that word correctly. I never knew I could do that."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "2915-3",
    "Idiom": [
      "for goodness' sake"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Used for emphasis.",
    "Sentence": [
      "They'll try all they can to deceive and to cheat, But for goodness sake don't say I told you.",
      "Well, for goodness sake let me know if I can do anything.",
      "I am not normally a stickler for tradition – I had a baby out of wedlock, for goodness sake – but for some reason I want Harry to be my husband.",
      "But for goodness sake, please review the plan and come up with detail that distinguishes each groups cultural identity and is something that the players can own.",
      "These young women are busy, for goodness' sake, tired and overworked, stressed, trying to find time for themselves in days that have too little."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "2916-1",
    "Idiom": [
      "for goodness' sakes"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Expresses frustration or annoyance.",
    "Sentence": [
      "' For goodness' sakes, Father,' cried Emma, the bright tears in her eyes drying because her eyeballs were so hot and angry, ' for goodness' sakes, Father, the idea of acting - so - horrid.",
      "\"Didn't you talk to her, for goodness sakes ? Just what have you been doing in there for the past hour?\"",
      "\"Oh, for goodness sakes. At least can you tell me if she's there?\"",
      "' For goodness sakes, Ray,' Aunty Bea exclaimed exasperated, 'haven't you noticed the state of your niece?'"
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "2916-2",
    "Idiom": [
      "for goodness' sakes"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Used for emphasis.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Learn to play a reed instrument; do not borrow money; do not lend money; do not make money — [laughter] — and for goodness sakes, do not lose money.",
      "The most important thing that I would say to you, is as you develop those priorities, for goodness sakes, also take the time to think about the future and the burden that we are going to put on future generations by what you do today.",
      "They finished each other's sentences, for goodness sakes !",
      "He was an undercover agent, for goodness sakes. Once a job was done, of course he would move on."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "2916-3",
    "Idiom": [
      "for goodness' sakes"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Expresses surprise or amazement.",
    "Sentence": [
      "For goodness' sakes !\" Fannie broke out in surprise when she saw Molly there. \" For goodness' sakes ! Where you been hiding these days?\"",
      "Surprise, surprise, do you believe your eyes? Well for goodness sakes, that takes the cake.",
      "\" For goodness sakes — \" she repeated. Now she was just surprised."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "2917",
    "Idiom": [
      "for grins"
    ],
    "Meaning": "For fun or entertainment.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "2918-1",
    "Idiom": [
      "for heaven's sake"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Expresses frustration or urgency.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Don't ever use the hood on your anorak; and, if you do, for heaven's sake don't pull the string tight so that you peep out like a little baby in a siren suit.",
      "Labour frontbencher Louise Haigh (Shadow Transport Secretary for heaven's sake !) initially lambasted TOCs before the handful of specialist rail commentators fell on her tweets and she changed her tune, refocusing her fire on Government."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "2918-2",
    "Idiom": [
      "for heaven's sake"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Expresses surprise.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Well, for heaven's sake! Look who's here! Good to see you again!"
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "2919",
    "Idiom": [
      "for keeps"
    ],
    "Meaning": "A determination to win or succeed.",
    "Sentence": [
      "\"We both got a job to do. They play for keeps and we play for keeps too,\" Haggans said."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "2920",
    "Idiom": [
      "for mercy's sake"
    ],
    "Meaning": "An expression of mild exasperation.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "2921",
    "Idiom": [
      "for my money"
    ],
    "Meaning": "In my opinion.",
    "Sentence": [
      "For my money, if you have to pick the one best athlete of all time, it's Brazil's nonpareil Pele, the Michael Jordan of soccer.",
      "“ For my money, he's the funniest person in America,” said Seth Meyers."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "2922",
    "Idiom": [
      "for old times' sake"
    ],
    "Meaning": "An appeal to nostalgia to persuade someone.",
    "Sentence": [
      "When gang leader Chen Xinfu was apprehended in Haikou, capital of south China’s island province of Hainan, earlier this month he told his arresting officers: “Guys, take good care of me, for old times’ sake.” Unlike the hundreds of other mob bosses who have been rounded up in recent months, Chen has a special relationship with the police: before his descent into the criminal underworld, he was deputy head of the public security bureau in the city’s Xiuying district."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "2923",
    "Idiom": [
      "for once"
    ],
    "Meaning": "A rare exception.",
    "Sentence": [
      "The invitation for the next evening was accepted, and Cecilia, for once, felt no repugnance to joining the company.",
      "For once I would have taken him up upon his insulting wager.",
      "Sell her her waste, please, and give her good measure if you can make up your mind to do the liberal thing for once.",
      "In France, in Germany, in Austro-Hungary, in Italy, in the United States, writers of all shades of opinion, for once unanimous, have paid a willing tribute to the worth of our great countryman, ignored in life by the official representatives of the kingdom, but laid in death among his peers in Westminster Abbey by the will of the intelligence of the nation.",
      "For once in her life she was surprised out of her reserve; she caught her girl in her arms and crushed her and her flowers against her heart, kissing the bright hair and sweet face warmly."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "2924",
    "Idiom": [
      "for one's life"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Extremely desperately.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Basel continued to defend for their lives while occasionally threatening on the break."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "2925",
    "Idiom": [
      "for one's particular"
    ],
    "Meaning": "From one's perspective.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "2926",
    "Idiom": [
      "for pity's sake"
    ],
    "Meaning": "An especially mild oath.",
    "Sentence": [
      "All this cry about \"showing the male body\" disgusts me, too. For pity's sake -- look at the ad -- there is nothing distinguishable below the chest."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "2927",
    "Idiom": [
      "for real and for true"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Genuinely; truly.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "2928",
    "Idiom": [
      "for reasons"
    ],
    "Meaning": "For reasons the speaker does not know or wish to discuss.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "2929",
    "Idiom": [
      "for shits and giggles"
    ],
    "Meaning": "For fun or entertainment, without a specific reason.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "2930-1",
    "Idiom": [
      "for show"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Intended to be seen rather than used.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Guys, get down from the climbing frames ! They're just there for show!",
      "Wealthy Nauruans spent their abundant money on cars that were for show."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "2930-2",
    "Idiom": [
      "for show"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Done to impress others insincerely.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "2931",
    "Idiom": [
      "for that matter"
    ],
    "Meaning": "As far as that is concerned.",
    "Sentence": [
      "\"I can't send a young, pretty girl, or for that matter even a homely one if you'd have her, on a job like this without telling her what to expect.\"",
      "I didn't do it. For that matter, I didn't even know that it happened."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "2932-1",
    "Idiom": [
      "for the ages"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Especially memorable and noteworthy.",
    "Sentence": [
      "The comparison may seem unfair to Churchill now that he is a man for the ages by reason of his glorious bravado when the world, including Hitler, knew that his heart was heavy with dread.",
      "It wasn't a speech for the ages. It was barely a speech for the evening.",
      "Centenarian George Abbott's revival with attitude makes a '50s baseball musical one for the ages.",
      "This year’s Fashion Week is turning out to be a weeklong party for the ages, with so many events, hardly anyone can keep them straight.",
      "It was a clash for the ages as the battling All Blacks were full value for their effort. They can hold their heads high after it looked like South Africa was in control halfway through the match."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "2932-2",
    "Idiom": [
      "for the ages"
    ],
    "Meaning": "In a manner that produces long-lasting effects.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Little did Mr. Quiney think, when he wrote that letter, that he was writing for the ages.",
      "Some men build hastily and quickly so that their work serves only its transient purpose, and is soon forgotten. Others build for the ages.",
      "President Franklin Roosevelt loved Camp Pendleton, and decreed that the old ranch house... should be preserved for the ages.",
      "Day-Lewis lets us see how the war and the presidency have aged Lincoln while teaching him to think for the ages."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "2933",
    "Idiom": [
      "for the asking"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Available freely upon request.",
    "Sentence": [
      "he said: ' I would far rather that you sent him to England. My son Kevalram says it is very easy to become a barrister. In three years' time he will return. Also expenses will not exceed four to five thousand rupees. Think of that barrister who has just come back from England. How stylishly he lives! He could get the Diwanship for the asking. I would strongly advise you to send Mohandas to England this very year. Kevalram has numerous friends in England. He will give notes of introduction to them, and Mohandas will have an easy time of it there.'",
      "All you have to do is go to the interview. The job is yours for the asking."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "2934",
    "Idiom": [
      "for the birds"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Worthless or pointless.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Says he: \"This gettin' up at 5 o'clock is something for the birds.\"",
      "One ally of the Deputy Prime Minister said: \"This is blue-sky thinking, but it is strictly for the birds. It is going to cost billions.\"",
      "When asked if the trial has taken a lot out of him, Benson said, \"Ahh, no, man. You know, it's not fun, it's not any fun. To have your kids turn against you, that's for the birds.\""
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "2935",
    "Idiom": [
      "for the book"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Notable or remarkable.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "2936-1",
    "Idiom": [
      "for the chop"
    ],
    "Meaning": "About to lose one's job.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "2936-2",
    "Idiom": [
      "for the chop"
    ],
    "Meaning": "About to be stopped or eliminated.",
    "Sentence": [
      "That service is for the chop."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "2937",
    "Idiom": [
      "for the hell of it",
      "for the fuck of it"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Done for fun or to relieve boredom.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Gave me gear; thank you, dear, bring your sister over here / Let her dance with me just for the hell of it",
      "There's no big unrest; we're having a revolution just for the hell of it."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "2938",
    "Idiom": [
      "for the love of"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Expresses exasperation.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "2939",
    "Idiom": [
      "for the love of me"
    ],
    "Meaning": "No matter what I do.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "2940",
    "Idiom": [
      "for the most part"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Mostly or generally.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Such souls can with assistance rise to better things, but it is a very arduous task and for the most part they remain rejoicers in evil.",
      "For the most part they were small standard gauge 0-6-0 side tanks of the type illustrated, with long tapered chimneys and an unusual feature for the Continent in the shape of domeless boilers, the protuberance just behind the chimney being a sandbox.",
      "With half-time approaching, England rather switched off, but for the most part it was an improved first 40 minutes from Johnson's side, which came in for much criticism following stuttering displays in their first two games.",
      "She talked about her kids, for the most part."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "2941",
    "Idiom": [
      "for the nonce"
    ],
    "Meaning": "For the time being, with the expectation of change.",
    "Sentence": [
      "'Idiot!' exclaimed the doctor, who for the nonce was not capable of more than such spasmodic attempts at utterance.",
      "For the nonce he was rather nonplussed but inasmuch as the duty plainly devolved upon him to take some measures on the subject he pondered suitable ways and means during which Stephen repeatedly yawned.",
      "'We part, then, for the nonce, do we?' 'I fear so, sir.' 'You take the high road, and self taking the low road, as it were?' 'Yes, sir.' 'I shall miss you, Jeeves.' 'Thank you, sir.'",
      "That will do for the nonce, but we'll need a better answer for the long term."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "2942-1",
    "Idiom": [
      "for the plot"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Everything happens for a reason.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "2942-2",
    "Idiom": [
      "for the plot"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Suggests taking a risk or doing something adventurous for the sake of it.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "2943",
    "Idiom": [
      "for the time being"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Temporarily or for now.",
    "Sentence": [
      "And so, unfortunately, this great and spreading network of railways, that recently showed such promise as a major instrument in the modern development of China, must be left for the time being in the melting-pot of Armageddon.",
      "Neither Aracil nor his five friends have the money to pay for the costs of the demolition, which, they say, are punitively over-inflated. For the time being, their hopes rest on legal appeals, and should those fail, on a crowdfunding campaign.",
      "I think I will ignore the problem for the time being."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "2944",
    "Idiom": [
      "for this once"
    ],
    "Meaning": "On this particular occasion, to make an exception.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "2945",
    "Idiom": [
      "for toffee"
    ],
    "Meaning": "At all, especially regarding a skill or ability.",
    "Sentence": [
      "This book was always going to be on the cards. As her work testifies, she may not be able to spell for toffee but words are very important to her.",
      "Bleeding Nora! Half head, it was. Do you want a flake in that, love? Couldn't pull a pint for toffee.",
      "I can't swim for toffee."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "2946",
    "Idiom": [
      "for two pins"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Readily, with minimal encouragement.",
    "Sentence": [
      "He doesn't, but he's a man with an eye in his head, and he knows what we are, a boneless lot without organization. I say it myself, I said it only last night in this here bar, and I say it again, for two pins I'd chuck my party. I would so.",
      "For two pins he really would slap a glove in each of their faces.",
      "But for two pins I'd hand in blank papers and tell school where to shove Pythagoras triangles and Lord of the Flies and their life cycles of worms."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "2947",
    "Idiom": [
      "forbidden fruit"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Illicit pleasure.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "2948",
    "Idiom": [
      "force down someone's throat"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To impose something on someone.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "2949",
    "Idiom": [
      "force of habit"
    ],
    "Meaning": "An automatic act due to repetition.",
    "Sentence": [
      "The Tin Woodman lay down on his bed from force of habit, for he remembered when he was made of flesh; but not being able to sleep, he passed the night moving his joints up and down to make sure they kept in good working order.",
      "\" Only force of habit will explain why people today do honor to Christopher Columbus. \" - New York Times, 1937"
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "2950",
    "Idiom": [
      "force someone's hand"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Forces someone to act, often prematurely.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "2951",
    "Idiom": [
      "forever and a day"
    ],
    "Meaning": "For a very long time.",
    "Sentence": [
      "What you gonna do when you just found forever? / Where you gonna get to when you can't get it together? / Forever and a day",
      "I went to the front yard, talked for maybe two more hours with Colombina and Rosita, his caretaker, and then we had to leave, but Nicanor still had enough material for forever and a day.",
      "Honestly, I had acne forever and a day and just struggled to find a routine that addressed my sensitive skin and so I made it!",
      "I'll love you forever and a day."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "2952",
    "Idiom": [
      "forewarned is forearmed",
      "forewarned, forearmed"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Advance awareness prepares one to deal with a situation.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Whatever a young gentleman of that age says to you, he says to many other ladies; but your experience is not equal to your sense; so profit by mine... forewarned is forearmed.",
      "Sometimes, they say, it is wiser to remain in ignorance; at other times forewarned is forearmed.",
      "\"Well, Miss Maxwell, I think it only fair to tell you that you may have trouble with those boys when they do come. Forewarned is forearmed, you know.\""
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "2953",
    "Idiom": [
      "forget oneself"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To lose one's dignity or self-control.",
    "Sentence": [
      "\"Look'ee here, Pip,\" said he, laying his hand on my arm in a suddenly altered and subdued manner; \"first of all, look'ee here. I forgot myself half a minute ago. What I said was low; that's what it was; low."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "2954",
    "Idiom": [
      "forget to take one's medication this morning"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To be irritable due to missing medication.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "2955",
    "Idiom": [
      "forget you"
    ],
    "Meaning": "A forceful expression of anger or dismissal.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "2956",
    "Idiom": [
      "forgive and forget"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To absolve someone for a past wrongdoing without resentment.",
    "Sentence": [
      "\"We will go away in the yacht. Does it matter where we live, so long as we live for each other? Forgive and forget ! Oh, Valeria, Valeria, forgive and forget !\"",
      "'Not long before he died, the old man disowned him. Then a year and a half ago mom forgave and forgot.'"
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "2957",
    "Idiom": [
      "forgive but don't forget"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Pardon someone while remaining aware of their past behavior.",
    "Sentence": [
      "'Forgive, forget,' we're wisely told, Is held a maxim good and old; But half the maxim's better yet,– THEN OH FORGIVE–BUT DON'T FORGET",
      "Amanda feels strongly that it is necessary \"to forgive, but don't forget. Don't forget what happened to you, but it's in the past, just leave it.\""
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "2958",
    "Idiom": [
      "fork off"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To diverge into separate paths.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "2959",
    "Idiom": [
      "fork over"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To pay or give up a large amount of money.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Valentine’s Day means different things for different people. For Homer, it means forking over a hundred dollars for a dusty box of chocolates at the Kwik-E-Mart after characteristically forgetting the holiday yet again. For Ned, it’s another opportunity to prove his love for his wife. Most germane to the episode, for Lisa, Valentine’s Day means being the only person in her entire class to give Ralph a Valentine after noticing him looking crestfallen and alone at his desk.",
      "Hundreds of spectators forked over the 70 bucks for tickets."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "2960",
    "Idiom": [
      "forked tongue"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Deceptiveness or duplicity.",
    "Sentence": [
      "This man has a forked tongue and lacks credibility."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "2961",
    "Idiom": [
      "fortune favors the bold",
      "fortune favours the daring",
      "fortune favors the brave",
      "fortune favours the bold",
      "fortune favors the daring",
      "fortune favours the brave"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Luck is usually on the side of those who take risks.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "2962",
    "Idiom": [
      "forty minutes of hell"
    ],
    "Meaning": "A demanding and intense playing style in basketball.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "2963",
    "Idiom": [
      "forty winks"
    ],
    "Meaning": "A short sleep or nap.",
    "Sentence": [
      "who evidently a glutton for work, it struck him, was having a quiet forty winks for all intents and purposes on his own private account while Dublin slept.",
      "Powell: I... sometimes I need a nap to get through my shift. I sneak off behind the crates to grab forty winks where the supervisor can't find me.",
      "As you're so tired, why not try to catch forty winks before you leave?"
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "2964-1",
    "Idiom": [
      "forward-leaning"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Disposed to take action or show initiative.",
    "Sentence": [
      "\"I got a little too rambunctious, like a colt that got out of the barn to play, and I pulled myself in. I didn't do it all myself. My task force lawyer was whispering like Jiminy Cricket in my ear. I probably got us a little too far forward leaning at one point in time and then pulled us back.\" - Alan Fiers, a C.I.A. official, on secretly aiding Nicaraguan rebels. (A2:2.)",
      "He denied ever using the phrase \" forward-leaning \" (a euphemism at the Pentagon for the most coercive techniques) over torture policy.",
      "“He was right to say they could be more forward leaning about what they could possibly do against ISIS,” said James Lewis, a cybersecurity expert at the Center for Strategic and International Studies."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "2964-2",
    "Idiom": [
      "forward-leaning"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Progressive or innovative.",
    "Sentence": [
      "The 52-year-old Nagano has made a career on fiery yet polished accounts of edgy contemporary music. Nagano works frequently with forward-leaning composers like Rihm.",
      "Now Switzerland is a trailblazer in the quest to return stolen assets to developing nations. \"Passing such a forward-leaning law is not easy,\" says Mark Vlasic, a professor at Georgetown University.",
      "However, he said the UK would not pander to “protectionist agendas, disguised as arguments about financial stability” and would instead address concerns by “ forward-leaning proposals for greater transparency, cooperation, and agreed standards based on international norms”."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "2965",
    "Idiom": [
      "foul up"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To make a mistake.",
    "Sentence": [
      "You really fouled up this time."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "2966",
    "Idiom": [
      "fountain of youth"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Something that restores health, vitality, or a youthful appearance.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Who has not known some even-tempered old man or woman who seemed to have drunk of the fountain of youth ?",
      "Injections of hGH have become increasingly popular as a virtual “rejuvenator” or “ fountain of youth.”",
      "Just watching the advertisement, you'd think the face cream was a fountain of youth."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "2967",
    "Idiom": [
      "four score and seven years ago"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Indicates a past event is significant; a long time ago.",
    "Sentence": [
      "It was established four score and seven years ago, and since that time its activities have been intertwined with the internal development of the Nation itself.",
      "I imagined momentarily that it was four score and seven years ago, that I had just been brought forth from my mother",
      "Four score and seven years ago, I began writing an annual letter to be enclosed in my Christmas cards."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "2968",
    "Idiom": [
      "four sheets to the wind"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Extremely drunk.",
    "Sentence": [
      "You see, it's a well known fact, you know / I'm four sheets to the wind, I'm glad you're gone",
      "After a couple of hours many people were four sheets to the wind, having had a few too many drinks.",
      "He would flee the apartment when the baby fussed and cried, only to return much later four sheets to the wind."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "2969",
    "Idiom": [
      "four-eyes"
    ],
    "Meaning": "A person who wears glasses.",
    "Sentence": [
      "As soon as he saw me he hailed me as “ Four eyes,” in reference to my spectacles, and said, “ Four eyes is going to treat.” I joined in the laugh and got behind the stove and sat down, thinking to escape notice."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "2970",
    "Idiom": [
      "four-leaf clover"
    ],
    "Meaning": "A bringer of good luck.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "2971",
    "Idiom": [
      "four-minute warning"
    ],
    "Meaning": "A warning of an imminent nuclear attack.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "2972",
    "Idiom": [
      "four-on-the-floor"
    ],
    "Meaning": "A steady beat with the bass drum on every beat in 4/4 time.",
    "Sentence": [
      "A four-on-the-floor rhythm: Audio playback is not supported in your browser. You can download the audio file."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "2973",
    "Idiom": [
      "fourth estate"
    ],
    "Meaning": "A term for journalism or the press.",
    "Sentence": [
      "“Of what profession is Mr. Archer?” “Of the Corporation of the Goosequill—of the Press, my boy,” said Warrington; “of the fourth estate.”",
      "The fourth estate is a term to describe the power that journalists and news media have to keep the powers of government in check by informing the citizens. The way citizens have received news and information has always evolved, but throughout that whole time, having an informed audience was seen as a necessity to a functioning democracy. The newspaper itself has been dying for a while, even before social media, all thanks to 24-hour news."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "2974",
    "Idiom": [
      "fourth gear"
    ],
    "Meaning": "A maximal level of effort.",
    "Sentence": [
      "During the seventies, Shashi Kapoor went into fourth gear in Bollywood, while Merchant and Ivory made a slew of films, many of which were not set in India.",
      "After all, he did the very same thing, pool and lunch, every Friday afternoon for five months—Friday perfect because it gave his cock a rest before the weekend, when it went into fourth gear."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "2975",
    "Idiom": [
      "fourth wall"
    ],
    "Meaning": "The imaginary barrier between the audience and the action in a play.",
    "Sentence": [
      "This is a flat, unnecessary, and strangely disturbing denial of the fourth-wall convention, that unwritten agreement between playwright and playgoer whereby you think of yourself at the theatre as a privileged, exonerated, comfortably seated eavesdropper.",
      "There's been a convention in the theater world to think of the division between audience and spectacle as a fourth wall, a wall that the playwright tries to eliminate through the force of his drama."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "2976",
    "Idiom": [
      "fourth-rate"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Terrible or awful; of low quality.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "2977",
    "Idiom": [
      "fox in the henhouse"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Someone untrustworthy in a position of trust that can cause harm for personal gain.",
    "Sentence": [
      "While the Commissioner of Patents is normally expected to understand and to promote the patent system as a bulwark for promoting the U.S. economy, the current Commissioner is, in many ways, a fox in the henhouse, undertaking to destroy that which he was commissioned to protect and to strengthen."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "2978",
    "Idiom": [
      "fox sleep"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Feigning sleep while remaining alert.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "2979",
    "Idiom": [
      "fox's socks"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Something very pleasing.",
    "Sentence": [
      "@DEATHOFMYHEART is the fox's socks and will be an awesome father.",
      "1920x1080 IPS LCD and the T450 touchpad is the fox's socks, in my opinion.",
      "The new Credit Karma spots from TAXI are the fox's socks !"
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "2980",
    "Idiom": [
      "freak flag"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Unconventional or nonconformist behavior or views.",
    "Sentence": [
      "\"We were just blatantly flaunting our freak flag,\" she says. \"We were trying to be badder than anyone else—and we were getting away with it!\"",
      "Tom Robbins, whose cosmic-absurdist, stoner-philosophical novels have moved undergraduates to scrawl So true!!! in the margins for decades, has again deputized himself to carry the freak flag of irreverence and fleshly indulgence.",
      "Q: You've got that \"Don't mess with Texas\" attitude down, don't you? A: If you ever watched \"The Family Stone,\" it says, \"Everyone has a freak flag, so fly your freak flag proudly.\" So that's kind of the way I am."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "2981",
    "Idiom": [
      "free hand"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Gives someone freedom or control.",
    "Sentence": [
      "\"Since I've been here, I've been given a fairly free hand by the GCR board to get on with things, properly understand the organisation from a different perspective, and develop a new business plan for the future,\" he tells RAIL."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "2982",
    "Idiom": [
      "free lunch"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Something obtained without payment or effort.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "2983",
    "Idiom": [
      "free ride"
    ],
    "Meaning": "An opportunity or benefit with no cost, often at others' expense.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Previously, shoppers were given a free ride on charges until the end of the month. Now interest will start on the day of purchase on accounts with balances.",
      "Financially, the two New York teams have not asked for the sort of free ride at taxpayer expense that has been commonplace elsewhere."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "2984",
    "Idiom": [
      "freedom's not free",
      "freedom is not free",
      "freedom isn't free",
      "freedom ain't free"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Freedom requires active effort and protection.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "2985",
    "Idiom": [
      "freeze out"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To forcibly exclude or snub someone.",
    "Sentence": [
      "It is sometimes a long time before a player who is frozen out can get into a game again.",
      "His appointment too was the result of a political bargain that froze out the young, reformist Move Forward party, which had won the most seats and votes in last year's general election. It was a stunning victory that raised hopes for a fresh start for Thailand but Move Forward was blocked from forming the government by the military-appointed senate.",
      "The first step in freezing out competitors is to create a superior product.",
      "After finding out her horrible secret, the son froze his mother out of his life."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "2986-1",
    "Idiom": [
      "freezing cold"
    ],
    "Meaning": "extremely cold.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "2986-2",
    "Idiom": [
      "freezing cold"
    ],
    "Meaning": "extreme and unpleasant cold.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "2987",
    "Idiom": [
      "fresh legs"
    ],
    "Meaning": "A substitute with more energy than players on the field.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Arsenal had the ideal fresh legs for extra time in Theo Walcott, and though he was sent on after 10 minutes he was uninvolved in the winning goal.",
      "But they survived some real pressure as David Murphy flashed a header inches wide of Rob Green 's right-hand post and then struck the killer blow on the night - and, they hope, the tie - after introducing the fresh legs of Cole and Zavon Hines.",
      "The tired France were unable to break down the German defence, so they brought on some fresh legs."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "2988",
    "Idiom": [
      "fresh off the boat"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Newly arrived from a foreign place, often unfamiliar with local customs.",
    "Sentence": [
      "You were fresh off the boat from Virginia / I had a year in New York City under my belt / We met in a dream, we were both nineteen",
      "Metropolis is the story of a harmless, hapless, nameless young German immigrant, fresh off the boat in 1860-something, who has a knack for naively stumbling into complicated plots through no fault of his own."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "2989-1",
    "Idiom": [
      "fresh out of"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Recently transitioned to a new stage of life.",
    "Sentence": [
      "That boy was one of the new draft, fresh out of boot camp, and yet it was his duty to pass messages upon which the fate of a battle might depend.",
      "Students fresh out of college have highly specialized skills in newer technologies.",
      "Fresh out of the South and a tour of duty in Vietnam, I was seriously conservative and frightened to death of almost everything..."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "2989-2",
    "Idiom": [
      "fresh out of"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Recently run out of something.",
    "Sentence": [
      "So if it was help Michael wanted, well, whoops, he was fresh out of luck.",
      "...Judy the receptionist had looked at me like I was a mental case trick-or-treater and she was fresh out of candy.",
      "Fear fun, fear love / Fresh out of fucks forever"
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "2990",
    "Idiom": [
      "fresh start"
    ],
    "Meaning": "A new beginning.",
    "Sentence": [
      "After the past disputes between the two countries, both sides decided to make a fresh start by agreeing to trade with each other again."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "2991",
    "Idiom": [
      "fresh-faced"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Looking young and healthy.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "2992",
    "Idiom": [
      "fret the gizzard"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To worry.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "2993",
    "Idiom": [
      "friend of Bill W."
    ],
    "Meaning": "A recovering alcoholic, often a member of Alcoholics Anonymous.",
    "Sentence": [
      "He was a friend of Bill W. and had just celebrated Ten Years of Sobriety.",
      "The Sandy Beaches cruise offers Alcoholics Anonymous meetings billed simply as Friends of Bill W.",
      "Most people in recovery know that asking if you are a friend of Bill W. is an anonymous way to identify yourself as a member of AA."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "2994",
    "Idiom": [
      "friend with benefits"
    ],
    "Meaning": "A casual sexual relationship with a friend.",
    "Sentence": [
      "“I’m just saying that usually when you have a friend who’s a girl, it’s not just that she’s your friend. Either you’ve known her a long time, or she’s a friend with benefits.”",
      "Gender norms influence how young men orient themselves to sexual partners and girlfriends, and men’s procreative consciousness is sometimes affected by how they define a potential or actual sex partner (e.g., casual or serious girlfriend, “ friend with benefits ”, hookup).",
      "“Can I be so bold as to ask if I can be a friend with benefits ?”",
      "The College Relationship is the hook up that turns into a “a person to hang out with,” more or less, a friend with benefits. This is a person whose company you sincerely enjoy, and you choose to spend extra time both hanging out and hooking up with, but there is no spoken commitment involved."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "2995",
    "Idiom": [
      "friends in high places"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Friends with authority or influence who can help protect one's interests.",
    "Sentence": [
      "\"Herr Freudenberg himself has great friends here, friends in high places. He will see that nothing happens.\"",
      "In recent years he was protected by friends in high places.",
      "Being far from the distant throne, we little people need more important people to plead our cause and obtain spiritual and material blessings. We need friends in high places, so to speak. Because she is the Mother of the Lord, Mary is the most powerful intercessor of all, obtaining gifts that might otherwise be denied.",
      "In Petrograd they were in great danger but had many friends in high places, and with money for bribes they avoided arrest.",
      "I walk into the corner of my room / See my friends in high places / I don't know which is which or who is whom / They've stolen each other's faces"
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "2996-1",
    "Idiom": [
      "friends in low places"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Friends with questionable connections or backgrounds.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "2996-2",
    "Idiom": [
      "friends in low places"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Friends who lack culture or sophistication.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "2997",
    "Idiom": [
      "friendship with benefits"
    ],
    "Meaning": "A platonic friendship that includes sexual activities without commitment.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "2998",
    "Idiom": [
      "frig it"
    ],
    "Meaning": "An expression of frustration.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "2999-1",
    "Idiom": [
      "frog in one's throat"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Hoarseness or need to cough.",
    "Sentence": [
      "I had a frog in my throat and the words didn't come out very clearly."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "2999-2",
    "Idiom": [
      "frog in one's throat"
    ],
    "Meaning": "A temporary difficulty in speaking.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "3000",
    "Idiom": [
      "from A to Z"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Covering a complete range or comprehensively.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Sunny, thank you for the truth you let me see / Sunny, thank you for the facts from A to Z / My life was torn like windblown sand / Then, a rock was formed when we held hands / Sunny, one so true, I love you"
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "3001",
    "Idiom": [
      "from A to izzard"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Thoroughly; covering the whole range.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "3002",
    "Idiom": [
      "from a mile away"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Well in advance.",
    "Sentence": [
      "When Talley met with his seniors privately after a practice in mid-August, he posed the question, “Are we going to have problems with any of the freshmen?” Almost in a chorus, the group had identified Antwon Young as the potential problem child, a situation that Talley had seen coming from a mile away.",
      "For tactile kids I always suggest keeping nutritious snacks around — peanut butter, bananas, or carrots — so that their blood sugar doesn't drop too low, because if they get caught up in some kind of intense game or sport, they may forget to eat, and you'll want to have a quick antidote to the tantrum you can see coming from a mile away.",
      "“You could see the betrayal coming from a mile away,” said a Romney insider."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "3003",
    "Idiom": [
      "from away"
    ],
    "Meaning": "A non-native Mainer, often with idealized views of the state.",
    "Sentence": [
      "It was the most From Away thing I could have done; it was also the most Maine thing I could have done.",
      "Those people from away are making housing unaffordable."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "3004",
    "Idiom": [
      "from can see to can't see"
    ],
    "Meaning": "From dawn to dusk.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "3005",
    "Idiom": [
      "from cover to cover"
    ],
    "Meaning": "From the first page to the last page.",
    "Sentence": [
      "She read Gone With the Wind from cover to cover in less than six hours."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "3006",
    "Idiom": [
      "from dawn to dusk"
    ],
    "Meaning": "All day.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "3007",
    "Idiom": [
      "from dusk to dawn"
    ],
    "Meaning": "All night.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "3008",
    "Idiom": [
      "from here to Sunday"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Everywhere.",
    "Sentence": [
      "And then there's strolling through the aisles at Wal-Mart and seeing his face on everything from here to Sunday, like the Jeff Gordon 8-piece BBQ Set, the Jeff Gordon Edition Tire Valve Caps, and, for the ladies, the Jeff Gordon DuPont Racing #24 Clutch."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "3009",
    "Idiom": [
      "from home"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Away from home.",
    "Sentence": [
      "men are merriest when they are from home",
      "the old Gentleman being from Home, or out of the way when my Messenger came, my Letter came directly to my Sons Hand",
      "I cannot bear the thoughts of a Christmas spent from home",
      "He had excuses. His family difficulties, his long stay from home."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "3010",
    "Idiom": [
      "from hunger"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Of poor quality; only acceptable when necessary.",
    "Sentence": [
      "\"That's the place for you, the San Berdoo. I live there so I ought to know. The owner's strictly from hunger. Come on, I'll get you fixed up swell.\"",
      "The play went on and on with people shouting and using dirty language. The jokes were from hunger and there was only one sexy scene",
      "This place is a dump. I mean your bathrooms are from hunger. Where's the Jacuzzi? Where's the 'his and her' sinks? Where's the towel warmer?",
      "\"The men in this hamlet are either married, or worn out, or ignorant, or religious zealots, or indigent.\" Esther was forced to agree that the boys in this town were from hunger, but said, \"That's what marriage brokers are for....\"",
      "She looked good, but as an actress she was strictly from hunger. 1"
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "3011",
    "Idiom": [
      "from my cold, dead hands"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Will not relinquish something until death.",
    "Sentence": [
      "You can have my shotgun when you pry it from my cold, dead hands."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "3012",
    "Idiom": [
      "from pillar to post"
    ],
    "Meaning": "From one place to another.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Mr. [Charles] Babbage, in his work on the Economy of Manufactures, suggests a new plan of forwarding the mail. Mr. Babbage proposes the erection of pillars along each line of road; these pillars are to be connected by inclined wires, or iron rods, along which the letters, inclosed in cylinders attached to the rods by rings, are to slide; persons stationed on these columns are to forward the cylinders from each point, after having extracted the contents belonging to their own station. In this manner it is calculated that a letter might be sent (from pillar to post), to the farthest limits of the land in the course of a very small portion of time;",
      "Q. You applied to Secretary [George Sewall] Boutwell because you had ascertained you could not get redress anywhere else?—A. No; we were sent from pillar to post, and from post to pillar, and we got no satisfaction any way.",
      "All these things, and others of like nature, are in their minds floating possibilities; in consequence of which they are sent from pillar to post in the realms of opinion, and are never anchored anywhere.",
      "gays are still hounded from pillar to post by the watchdogs of American society.",
      "We campaigned like hell. On election day we went from pillar to post begging people to support us.",
      "When the bill becomes an act, it will provide a big relief to people who now run from pillar to post and are forced to pay bribes to get their work done in government offices.",
      "Back in August, the Toon ace was kicked from pillar to post by Karl Henry in a bone-crunching midfield battle at Molineux.",
      "There was also a belief that they had been taken advantage of - \"kicked from pillar to post, the bottom dogs in the labour market because of the inherent love of railmen for their jobs\", according to one NUR member."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "3013",
    "Idiom": [
      "from post to pillar"
    ],
    "Meaning": "From one place or task to another.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Whyche dooñ he hym sent to Contrycion, / And fro thensforth to Satysfaccion. / Thus fro poost to pylo ur was he made to daunce, / And at the last he went forthe to Penaunce.",
      "{“A Dialogue Containing the Number of the Effectual Proverbs in the English Tongue. Part II. Chapter II.”, page 55 } What, a post of physic, (said she)? Yea a post; / And from post to pillar, wife, I have been tossed / By that surfeit. And I feel a little fit / Even now, by former attempting of it.",
      "The bill for the temporary removal of the seat of Government of the United States to the city of Baltimore was taken up for its second reading. Does it not show, in terms of unequivocal meaning, that it was the opinion of the men best qualified to decide, that the seat of Government, once fixed under the provision of the constitution, must be permanent? It was not then imagined that the Government ought to be travelling about from post to pillar, according to the prevalence of this or that party or faction.",
      "Q. You applied to Secretary [George Sewall] Boutwell because you had ascertained you could not get redress anywhere else?—A. No; we were sent from pillar to post, and from post to pillar, and we got no satisfaction any way.",
      "How often we see men who have been nearly everything in the world outside the unelastic professions—directors and secretaries, clerks in all manner of offices, and managers of all sorts of schemes—knocking about from America to England, and from Australia to Japan; without specialty, but with a good general business faculty, understanding all about tare and tret and double entry and working up a business, they are the very embodiments of the popular saying, and are flung from pillar to post and from post to pillar, as a juggler flings his plates or balls from one hand to the other."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "3014-1",
    "Idiom": [
      "from scratch"
    ],
    "Meaning": "From the beginning, with no prior preparation.",
    "Sentence": [
      "If you wish to make an apple pie from scratch, you must first invent the universe.",
      "The advantages are that you may be able to build your services more quickly because you would not be starting from scratch, and you would proved a very friendly experience for your users, potentially eliminating or at least decreasing a variety of status inquiries and the possibility of missubmitting requests.",
      "There were so many errors in the program that the programmer decided to rewrite it from scratch.",
      "When the writer finished writing his book, it was stolen and now he has to rewrite it from scratch.",
      "He had no money and no rich friends, so he had to build his business from scratch."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "3014-2",
    "Idiom": [
      "from scratch"
    ],
    "Meaning": "From basic materials or ingredients.",
    "Sentence": [
      "He sat there Friday night and built an entire model ship from scratch.",
      "\"By having a research and design facility in north Derbyshire, we will once again build trains from scratch on our shores.\"",
      "She said she wanted to build a new house from scratch.",
      "He was out of pancake mix so he had to make the batter from scratch."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "3015",
    "Idiom": [
      "from stem to stern"
    ],
    "Meaning": "From front to back.",
    "Sentence": [
      "The horse was the vainer brute of the two; he was far worse beflounced, bebonneted, and bemantled, than any fair lady.... This poor animal from stem to stern was swamped in finery.",
      "Michigan's Mackinac Island, the Lake Huron resort where automobiles are barred, was sprayed from stem to stern with DDT.",
      "Weighing in at four pounds, the lobster was rubbery and tasteless from stem to stern."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "3016",
    "Idiom": [
      "from the Department of the Bleeding Obvious"
    ],
    "Meaning": "So obvious that it was unnecessary.",
    "Sentence": [
      "That call I took as we arrived here was to tell me about another meeting with the AC tomorrow. More nit-picking and recommendations from the Department of the Bleeding Obvious.",
      "WHEN READING REPORTS from the Department of the Bleeding Obvious one may find a statement saying that \"China doesn't like Japan very much.\"",
      "Eating while driving is dangerous, says a new report from the Department of the Bleeding Obvious.",
      "Once again, the solution comes from the Department of the Bleeding Obvious, but is worth repeating nonetheless."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "3017",
    "Idiom": [
      "from the East German judge"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Used to refer to a fictional low score in a competition.",
    "Sentence": [
      "The Birdman receives straight 6-figure contracts across the board except from the East German judge, who makes him pay for his own lunch and won't even validate parking.",
      "“Nice pop, Aldo.” “Well, I guess a five-point-six from the East German judge. Let’s get moving.”",
      "The Camry interior styling and fit and finish get eights, even from the East German judge, but the Kia's pull solid nines."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "3018",
    "Idiom": [
      "from the cradle to the grave",
      "from womb to tomb"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Spanning an entire lifetime.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "3019",
    "Idiom": [
      "from the gecko"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Misspelling of \"from the get-go.\"",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "3020",
    "Idiom": [
      "from the get-go"
    ],
    "Meaning": "From the very beginning.",
    "Sentence": [
      "I am 15 and in love with a fellow that goes to college in another state. I met him during the summer vacation and liked him from the get go.",
      "An artist from the get-go, Gilot declared at the age of 21 that she “felt painting was my whole life”, and her output ranges from portraits to landscapes, still lifes to collage.",
      "I watched him closely from the get-go because I did not trust him."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "3021",
    "Idiom": [
      "from the ground up"
    ],
    "Meaning": "From the beginning; starting with the basics.",
    "Sentence": [
      "A bright, ambitious kid just out of technical school, learning railroading from the ground up."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "3022-1",
    "Idiom": [
      "from the rooter to the tooter"
    ],
    "Meaning": "From head to toe.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "3022-2",
    "Idiom": [
      "from the rooter to the tooter"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To use all available resources.",
    "Sentence": [
      "We use 'em from the rooter to the tooter — everything but the squeal!"
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "3023",
    "Idiom": [
      "from the word go"
    ],
    "Meaning": "From the very beginning.",
    "Sentence": [
      "\"I promise to take care of myself. Yes; I won't take any risks. Not a single blessed risk. Of course not. I mean to hang out. Don't worry. Jove! I feel as though nothing could touch me. Why! this is luck from the word Go.\"",
      "I watched him closely from the word go because I did not trust him."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "3024",
    "Idiom": [
      "from time to time"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Occasionally.",
    "Sentence": [
      "I'll find out your man, / And he shall signify from time to time / Every good hap to you that chances here.",
      "On these red embers Hatteraick from time to time threw a handful of twigs.",
      "“A tight little craft,” was Austin’s invariable comment on the matron; . ¶ Near her wandered her husband, orientally bland, invariably affable, and from time to time squinting sideways, as usual, in the ever-renewed expectation that he might catch a glimpse of his stiff, retroussé moustache.",
      "But at my back from time to time I hear / The sound of horns and motors,",
      "From time to time the coaches of the Lötschberg Railway itself, which in comfort and décor can rank with the finest in Europe today, travel far from the frontiers of Switzerland on through workings such as these.",
      "Despite all the evidence confirming the existence of the Protheans, little is known about their culture and society. From time to time, dig sites will yield new clues, but after 50,000 years of decay, little of value is unearthed.",
      "Life on Earth has developed over billions of years, largely unaffected by the solar storms that wash over our planet from time to time."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "3025-1",
    "Idiom": [
      "front and center"
    ],
    "Meaning": "A command to approach the center of attention.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "3025-2",
    "Idiom": [
      "front and center"
    ],
    "Meaning": "At the center of attention.",
    "Sentence": [
      "All these familiar flavors are again front and center in The Pirates! Band Of Misfits, the feature that returns Aardman to theatrical stop-motion after the CGI of Arthur Christmas and Flushed Away.",
      "But despite improvements, Mr Baruch says some complaints persist. “Pay to stay [cash to secure shelf space] is front and centre of the complaints we receive — it’s supply chain bullying and anti-competitive. They shouldn’t try to create barriers to business — it’s fundamentally unfair, particularly at a time when small business confidence is at an all-time low.”",
      "The Greens leader, Richard Di Natale, is putting climate change front and centre in a speech committing his party to cooperating with Labor and turfing out a government that “don’t deserve to govern”.",
      "Biden Is Expected to Keep Scrutiny of Tech Front and Center [title]",
      "Swift is many things onstage—vulnerable and triumphant, playful and sad—but the intimacy of her songcraft is front and center."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "3026",
    "Idiom": [
      "front runner"
    ],
    "Meaning": "The most likely winner in a contest or election.",
    "Sentence": [
      "The American League pennant did not shape up as much of a race. There were the Indians and the Yankees, front runners as usual.",
      "Dubai, which would be the first host of a world’s fair in the Middle East, has emerged as the front-runner, offering the most financial and governmental support.",
      "The Conservative leadership frontrunner, Liz Truss, has rejected “handouts” as a way of helping people affected by the cost of living crisis."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "3027",
    "Idiom": [
      "frown at"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To disapprove of.",
    "Sentence": [
      "This town frowns at scandalous behavior."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "3028",
    "Idiom": [
      "fruit of one's loins"
    ],
    "Meaning": "One's child or descendants.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Men and brethren, let me freely speak unto you of the patriarch David... being a prophet, and knowing that God had sworn with an oath to him, that of the fruit of his loins, according to the flesh, he would raise up Christ to sit on his throne.",
      "\"Come into the yard with me, Micah,\" quoth my father. \"... If I am old and worn, there is the fruit of my loins to stand in my place and to wield the same sword in the same cause. You shall go in my place, Micah.\"",
      "And behind the mare, or beside her, or else cavorting ahead, came a slim black colt, the fruit of her loins, without bridle or rope."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "3029",
    "Idiom": [
      "fruit of the poisonous tree"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Evidence obtained from illegal actions by law enforcement, excluded from trial.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "3030",
    "Idiom": [
      "fruit of the union"
    ],
    "Meaning": "A child from a marriage or union.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "3031",
    "Idiom": [
      "fruit up"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Inappropriate touching.",
    "Sentence": [
      "I had been \" fruited up.\" There was no distinction made back then that this man was a pedophile, and even my mother told me that this is what queer people do.",
      "My experience with the brothers was that if you were one of their favorites you would be regularly groped. We kids called it “being fruited up.\""
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "3032",
    "Idiom": [
      "fry up"
    ],
    "Meaning": "A full English breakfast.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Though fattening, a fry up is without doubt my favourite way to start the day."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "3033",
    "Idiom": [
      "fuck if I know"
    ],
    "Meaning": "I have no idea.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Hit by a mortar or an M16 round or maybe he was dead years ago... fuck if I know.",
      "Fuck if I know, and honestly, I don't give a shit.",
      "Fowler is lying on the floor, switching CDs. He props himself up on his elbow. He says, “You think it'd hurt us though?” I shrug. “ Fuck if I know.”",
      "“She's married?” “She's not only married, she's leaving. Or she already left. Fuck if I know.”"
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "3034-1",
    "Idiom": [
      "fuck it"
    ],
    "Meaning": "An expression of indifference.",
    "Sentence": [
      "I took a pill in Ibiza / To show Avicii I was cool / And when I finally got sober, felt 10 years older / But fuck it, it was something to do",
      "I was going to clean my room, but thought \" fuck it, nobody's going to see it.\""
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "3034-2",
    "Idiom": [
      "fuck it"
    ],
    "Meaning": "An expression of frustration.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Fuck it, I can't be arsed to look for that bloody key anymore."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "3034-3",
    "Idiom": [
      "fuck it"
    ],
    "Meaning": "An expression of anger or dismissal.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Honey, would you please help me serve the hors d'oeuvres? You know,... I'm really busy right now hosting and entertaining all my friends... Fuck it ! I'll do it myself.",
      "",
      ""
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "3035",
    "Idiom": [
      "fuck knows"
    ],
    "Meaning": "I don't know.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Fuck knows what we'll do now the car's broken down."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "3036-1",
    "Idiom": [
      "fuck off"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To go away or leave.",
    "Sentence": [
      "If you've come to fight, get outta here / You ain't no better than the bouncers / We ain't trying to be police / When you ape the cops it ain't anarchy / Nazi punks / Nazi punks / Nazi punks, fuck off !",
      "Fuck you / And your friends / That I'll never see again / Everybody but your dog / You can all fuck off",
      "I wish you'd just fuck off.",
      "Haven't seen John for years. Someone said he had fucked off to Australia."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "3036-2",
    "Idiom": [
      "fuck off"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To express annoyance or to tell someone to go away.",
    "Sentence": [
      "we force ourselves to have jobs and maintain apartments and push ourselves into positions of high adulthood, when really we could all just fuck it off and live in a camper van and play beach volleyball all day, but we don't, because we're pussies.",
      "It really fucks me off when you do that.",
      "I'm bored. Shall we just fuck this off and go home?"
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "3037",
    "Idiom": [
      "fuck someone's brains out"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To engage in vigorous and pleasurable sexual activity.",
    "Sentence": [
      "I fucked her brains out … for eleven seconds."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "3038-1",
    "Idiom": [
      "fuck this"
    ],
    "Meaning": "A dismissive expression of indifference.",
    "Sentence": [
      "I was going to enter the competition, but thought, \" Fuck this; nobody's going to know whether I did it or not.\""
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "3038-2",
    "Idiom": [
      "fuck this"
    ],
    "Meaning": "An expression of frustration.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Fuck this; I refuse to get you a game for this upcoming holiday because you behaved like an asshole this week."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "3039-1",
    "Idiom": [
      "fuck with"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To interact in a careless or inappropriate way.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Don't fuck with that gang! They all carry guns!"
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "3039-2",
    "Idiom": [
      "fuck with"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To tease or joke with someone.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Don't take it serious, man, I'm just fucking with you."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "3039-3",
    "Idiom": [
      "fuck with"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To trouble or harass.",
    "Sentence": [
      "The thought that she might be cheating on me is really fucking with me."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "3039-4",
    "Idiom": [
      "fuck with"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To associate with or enjoy.",
    "Sentence": [
      "“I’m promoting you, dawg. I’m planning an early retirement, and I gotta know that my business is in good hands. I worked hard to get shit to this point, yo. You think you could handle being the boss one day?” “Muthafuckin’ right,” Smurf said beating his chest. “I’m ready to do whatever is asked of me for the team.” “That’s why I fuck with you, Smurf,” Dink said with a sly smile.",
      "“Yo, Kid, Dude is my cousin.” “Oh well! I’m sorry, Son, but your cousin fucked up!” “Nah, I mean, you’re my peoples. I fuck with you heavy. I don’t even fuck with that nigga like that, but he is family. If you kill him, then I gotta go to the funeral.”",
      "How can I fuck with the fun again, when I'm known?",
      "“Boss, no disrespect. I fuck with you, and what shorty just pulled was foul. I know y’all got history, but I hope you ain’t planning on going back to the bitch anytime soon.”",
      "RODOLFO RAMIREZ (played by Amaury Nolasco):What do you know about how we roll on the West coast? TOMMY EGAN (played by Joseph Sikora): Not much. But I fucks with that Cali herb hard.",
      "I fuck with you heavy."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "3040",
    "Idiom": [
      "fuck y'all"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Expression of discontent towards a group.",
    "Sentence": [
      "\"So fuck y'all. All y'all. If y'all don't like me, blow me\".",
      "“ Fuck y'all niggaz! I'm getting out the business anyway. I don't need y'all!",
      "“Nigga, fuck y'all,” Fatboy and Flick said. They already knew they would make it outta this alive."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "3041-1",
    "Idiom": [
      "fuck you"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Expression of discontent or contempt.",
    "Sentence": [
      "And this was the time he heard Goldman say to Bennett, \" Fuck you, you little bastard, we will get you later.\"",
      "If you had a million years to do it in, you couldn't rub out even half the \" Fuck you \" signs in the world. It's impossible.",
      "\"Fuck you,\" said Czernobog. \"Fuck you\" and fuck your mother and fuck the fucking horse you fucking rode in on.",
      "So you're not gonna help me?! Well, fuck you !",
      "What made you decide to mistreat him? Fuck you, that's what."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "3041-2",
    "Idiom": [
      "fuck you"
    ],
    "Meaning": "An expression of anger or insult.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Fuck you —I’m not giving you any!",
      "You’ve done enough to ruin our outing, so fuck you !"
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "3042",
    "Idiom": [
      "fuck's sake"
    ],
    "Meaning": "An expression of frustration or annoyance.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "3043",
    "Idiom": [
      "fucked by the fickle finger of fate"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Victimized by bad luck.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "3044",
    "Idiom": [
      "fucked off"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Annoyed or irritated.",
    "Sentence": [
      "I sat in the kitchen, all fucked off / Imagining over and over what they were all doing behind my back"
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "3045",
    "Idiom": [
      "fucked over"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Having been taken advantage of.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Now he's really fucked over."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "3046-1",
    "Idiom": [
      "fucking hell"
    ],
    "Meaning": "An exclamation of surprise.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Fucking hell, that wrestler's huge."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "3046-2",
    "Idiom": [
      "fucking hell"
    ],
    "Meaning": "An exclamation of anger.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Fucking hell, why are you so bloody late?"
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "3046-3",
    "Idiom": [
      "fucking hell"
    ],
    "Meaning": "An exclamation of bewilderment.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Fucking hell, what the fuck?"
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "3047",
    "Idiom": [
      "fucking shit"
    ],
    "Meaning": "An expression of bewilderment or surprise.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "3048-1",
    "Idiom": [
      "fudge factor"
    ],
    "Meaning": "A quantity to compensate for uncertainty.",
    "Sentence": [
      "We don't know exactly how much the load will weigh, so we'll add in a fudge factor to make sure we don't underestimate."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "3048-2",
    "Idiom": [
      "fudge factor"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Padding or compensation in a guess or estimate.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "3048-3",
    "Idiom": [
      "fudge factor"
    ],
    "Meaning": "A measure of tolerance or adjustment in calculations.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "3049",
    "Idiom": [
      "fudge the issue"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Adopt a superficial solution that ignores the larger issue.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "3050",
    "Idiom": [
      "full blast"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Maximum capacity or effort.",
    "Sentence": [
      "At Fallgate a short branch leading to a quarry is disused, but some gravel pits are working at full blast; ."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "3051",
    "Idiom": [
      "full butt"
    ],
    "Meaning": "With full force.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Two Whimsical Chimeras, that were abroad upon Adventure, happen'd to encounter, head to head, full-Butt, upon the way",
      "The corporal ran full butt at the lieutenant.",
      "\"Now, Challenger, it's up to you to tell us where we are. We ain't nervous folk, as you know well; but when it comes to makin' a week-end visit and finding you've run full butt into the Day of Judgment, it wants a bit of explainin'.\""
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "3052",
    "Idiom": [
      "full circle"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Returning to the starting point after gaining experience.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Now the wheel is turning back full circle.",
      "He'd begin with a premise and wrap it up at the end, full circle, the moral of the story hanging on the last word of the last line.",
      "This therefore marks our return full circle to the optical proofs in the Diotprique with which our detective work began."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "3053",
    "Idiom": [
      "full marks"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Complete approval or agreement.",
    "Sentence": [
      "I would have to give you full marks for that statement."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "3054-1",
    "Idiom": [
      "full of beans"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Energetic and enthusiastic.",
    "Sentence": [
      "\"What do you mean by the expression 'Bucks you up'?\" \"Well, makes you full of beans, you know. Makes you fizz.\" \"I don't understand a word you say. You're English, aren't you?\"",
      "Irwin's friend Chris White reflected on a friendship that began in 1975.... \" Full of beans, full of life, gung-ho, fearless, tenacious at anything he attempted.\"",
      "\"The antibiotics are working a treat and he's full of beans. Too many beans, actually. He's asleep now.\" She gestured to the chaos of the sitting room."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "3054-2",
    "Idiom": [
      "full of beans"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Incorrect; uninformed; exaggerating.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Anybody who tells you that they know what today's readers want is full of beans.",
      "McCain says he can save $100 billion in earmarks, but he's full of beans."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "3054-3",
    "Idiom": [
      "full of beans"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Lively and energetic.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "3055",
    "Idiom": [
      "full of hot air"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Talks a lot without saying anything valuable.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Did the salesman tell you anything new, or was he just full of hot air ?"
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "3056",
    "Idiom": [
      "full of it"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Covering up dishonesty or insincerity.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Do you believe him? I think he's full of it."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "3057",
    "Idiom": [
      "full of oneself"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Egotistical and self-centered.",
    "Sentence": [
      "I thought it not amiss to write him a line to let him know the regard you had for him, for as I know him to be vastly vain and full of himself I thought this might be a spur to his zeale."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "3058",
    "Idiom": [
      "full of piss and vinegar"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Exuberant or overly enthusiastic.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "3059-1",
    "Idiom": [
      "full ride"
    ],
    "Meaning": "A scholarship covering all educational costs.",
    "Sentence": [
      "The Ivy Group and the Big Ten were the most notable conferences to initially avoid full ride scholarships.",
      "If you showed half the interest in school as most of the kids, you could get a full ride to any college in the country.",
      "For some reason, his college counselor saw talent in Ron that he didn't see himself, and when the SAT scores came out, Ron was offered a full ride to Louisiana State.",
      "But because we didn't have any money, the notion of applying to a college that specialized in theater— by that time the die was fully cast—seemed a waste of time unless I was going to get a full ride."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "3059-2",
    "Idiom": [
      "full ride"
    ],
    "Meaning": "A total experience.",
    "Sentence": [
      "You had better get off your ass and be my husband because I signed on for the full ride.",
      "Only this time, I knew I was going for the full ride. The only thing was that I didn't know was what kind of ride I was going on.",
      "Advanced readers may, as a result, wish to read selectively, but we believe that novices will benefit from taking the full ride."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "3060-1",
    "Idiom": [
      "full speed ahead"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Maximum effort without hesitation.",
    "Sentence": [
      "We got the OK on the conversion project. It's full speed ahead."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "3060-2",
    "Idiom": [
      "full speed ahead"
    ],
    "Meaning": "With maximum effort and no delay.",
    "Sentence": [
      "He charged full speed ahead into his studies."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "3060-3",
    "Idiom": [
      "full speed ahead"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Unhesitant.",
    "Sentence": [
      "I was always so busy and full-speed ahead that I didn't take any time out to really listen to God.",
      "And what he's done in climbing is no less than world class — a blend of vision and genetic athleticism, with a full-speed-ahead approach that dwells on the possibilities, not the problems.",
      "The company's full speed ahead approach to product development would ultimately be its downfall."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "3061",
    "Idiom": [
      "full tilt"
    ],
    "Meaning": "As quickly as possible.",
    "Sentence": [
      "She can type 65 words per minute, and sometimes as much as 80, if she's going at it full tilt."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "3062-1",
    "Idiom": [
      "full tilt boogie"
    ],
    "Meaning": "At full capacity.",
    "Sentence": [
      "So we ran, full tilt boogie. Behind us, the footsteps echoed. ¶ Natalie and I shot around the corner. Before our pursuers appeared, I pointed up. Natalie flapped to the roof. I scrambled after her.",
      "I told myself, I'm going to die reaching these goals. I had to go full-tilt boogie, or I'd suck."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "3062-2",
    "Idiom": [
      "full tilt boogie"
    ],
    "Meaning": "An extreme level.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Full capacity is the zinger, of course. When production hits full-tilt boogie sometime this year, the annualized rate will be about 40,000 units.",
      "Within a year of his release, he'd OD'd on the full-tilt boogie."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "3063",
    "Idiom": [
      "full to the gills"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Completely full.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Even though the room was full to the gills with people, they managed to push enough people aside to open up a small dance floor."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "3064-1",
    "Idiom": [
      "full whack"
    ],
    "Meaning": "The entire amount.",
    "Sentence": [
      "We had to pay the full whack."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "3064-2",
    "Idiom": [
      "full whack"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To the maximum extent.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "3065",
    "Idiom": [
      "full-fledged"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Fully qualified or developed.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Ansible is not a full-fledged programming language, but it does have several programming language features, and one of the most important of these is variable substitution.",
      "After she passes the bar exam, she will be a full-fledged lawyer."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "3066",
    "Idiom": [
      "full-stretch"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Stretched to the fullest extent.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Paul Robinson produced a spectacular full-stretch stop to deny David Fox his first goal of the season from 25 yards before Elliott Bennett fired into the side netting when he should have done much better from eight yards."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "3067",
    "Idiom": [
      "fully rigged"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Well-equipped.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "3068",
    "Idiom": [
      "fun and games"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Easy, enjoyable activities.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Being a film director isn't all fun and games.",
      "You wouldn't believe the fun and games I had trying to find somewhere to park."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "3069-1",
    "Idiom": [
      "funny bone"
    ],
    "Meaning": "The ulnar nerve in the elbow that causes a tingly sensation when hit.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Ouch, I just hit my funny bone."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "3069-2",
    "Idiom": [
      "funny bone"
    ],
    "Meaning": "One's sense of humor.",
    "Sentence": [
      "His wisecracks always tickle my funny bone."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "3070",
    "Idiom": [
      "funny stuff"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Irregular or illegal activities.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "3071-1",
    "Idiom": [
      "gagging for it"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Having a strong desire for something.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "3071-2",
    "Idiom": [
      "gagging for it"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Sexually aroused.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "3072",
    "Idiom": [
      "gain time"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To cause a delay to obtain more time.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "3073",
    "Idiom": [
      "gall and wormwood"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Bitterness and resentment.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "3074",
    "Idiom": [
      "gallows humor"
    ],
    "Meaning": "A form of humor that arises from tragic or hopeless situations.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Author Neumann defiantly admits why he wrote this historical-romantic farce: \"Because I wanted to fight against the general and my personal depression, and because in hard and bad times there is always one tragicomic feeling in place— gallows humor.\"",
      "The term was part of the language before Freud wrote an essay on it -- 'gallows humour.' This is middle European humour, a response to hopeless situations. It's what a man says faced with a perfectly hopeless situation and he still manages to say something funny. Freud gives examples: A man being led out to be hanged at dawn says, 'Well, the day is certainly starting well.' It's generally called Jewish humour in this country. Actually it's humour from the peasants' revolt, the thirty years' war, and from the Napoleonic wars. It's small people being pushed this way and that way, enormous armies and plagues and so forth, and still hanging on in the face of hopelessness. Jewish jokes are middle European jokes. And the black humourists are gallows humourists, as they try to be funny in the face of situations which they see as just horrible.",
      "True enough, there are such things as laughless jokes, what Freud called gallows humor.... While we were being bombed in Dresden, sitting in a cellar with our arms over our heads in case the ceiling fell, one soldier said as though he were duchess in a mansion on a cold and rainy night, \"I wonder what the poor people are doing tonight.\"",
      "Mattis, it turned out, was meeting with Trudeau at NATO headquarters. Already engaging in gallows humor, I wondered if Mattis was defecting."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "3075-1",
    "Idiom": [
      "game face"
    ],
    "Meaning": "A readiness to face difficult work or challenges.",
    "Sentence": [
      "The editor told his star reporter to put his game face on, because he was going to cover a potentially hours-long city council meeting where they were going to discuss the controversial issue and tempers were expected to flare."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "3075-2",
    "Idiom": [
      "game face"
    ],
    "Meaning": "A facial expression to hide emotions.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "3076",
    "Idiom": [
      "game is game"
    ],
    "Meaning": "The end justifies the means in pursuing a sexual partner.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "3077",
    "Idiom": [
      "game out"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To explore scenarios and outcomes based on different decisions.",
    "Sentence": [
      "In a gathering Cold War atmosphere, American officials are gaming out responses should Russia resort to battlefield nuclear weapons."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "3078",
    "Idiom": [
      "game plan"
    ],
    "Meaning": "A strategy to achieve a goal.",
    "Sentence": [
      "But as his rumpus with Mr. Christie entered its second and third rounds, Mr. Rubio appeared to abandon that game plan.",
      "Southgate 's decision to select two defensively-minded midfield men once more in Declan Rice and Kalvin Phillips was another strong indicator that this will be his preferred formation at the Euros this summer. It is a game plan which has looked stodgy on occasions, particularly in two Uefa Nations League games against Denmark, a goalless draw in Copenhagen and a defeat at Wembley, and leaves Southgate open to accusations of over-caution.",
      "So what is the game plan ? We need to get everyone out of this alive, and I am clueless."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "3079",
    "Idiom": [
      "game, set, match"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Indicates finality in a rivalry’s conclusion.",
    "Sentence": [
      "A few years after that, Mikhail Gorbachev effectively surrendered in a cold war that had lasted almost four decades, and in a few more years the Berlin Wall came down. Game, set, match.",
      "The atom bomb: U.S. 1, U.S.S.R. 0. Then came Sputnik, and the score was tied at 1 apiece. Then Apollo and putting a man on the moon — game, set, match.",
      "This is game, set and match for Microsoft.... If Microsoft can pull off one operating system and one companion App Store that functions seamlessly across all device types from smartphones, to tablets, notebooks, hybrid 2-in-1 devices and desktops, all with common apps that just work, they could very well one-up the competition."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "3080",
    "Idiom": [
      "gandy dancer"
    ],
    "Meaning": "A railway laborer.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Gandy dancer —A section hand or track laborer.",
      "The oddest gandy-dancer on the railroads in Manitoba during the summer of 1926 was a 6-ft. 4-in. American medical student named Ben Spock.",
      "In railroad slang, a gandy dancer is a track worker, one who lays or maintains track."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "3081",
    "Idiom": [
      "gang up"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To join together against someone.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "3082",
    "Idiom": [
      "gang up on"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To join together to overpower someone.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "3083",
    "Idiom": [
      "gapers' block"
    ],
    "Meaning": "A traffic jam caused by people slowing to look at an incident.",
    "Sentence": [
      "In the lingo of the traffic reporters, \" gapers' block \" is a tie-up caused by motorists slowing down to gape at an accident.",
      "In the pretty, tranquil valley, elk were feeding just off the highway, creating a gapers block."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "3084",
    "Idiom": [
      "garbage in, garbage out",
      "rubbish in, rubbish out"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Unreliable input leads to unreliable output.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Officials explained that the quality of the computer's work depends on the quality of the data fed into it. Neil Hoke, administrative assistant to Stewart, quoted an adage of computer men: \" Garbage in, garbage out. \"",
      "The old caveat \"GIGO\"— garbage in, garbage out —is as valid in architectural design as in any other computer-aided activity."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "3085-1",
    "Idiom": [
      "garden variety"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Ordinary or common.",
    "Sentence": [
      "I can usually recover from a garden variety cold with rest and fluids."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "3085-2",
    "Idiom": [
      "garden variety"
    ],
    "Meaning": "An ordinary kind.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "3086",
    "Idiom": [
      "gather rosebuds"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Enjoy life's immediate pleasures.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Pottleby : I like to see young people enjoying their youth— gathering rosebuds.",
      "Gather rosebuds, Gráinne, gather rosebuds. Look at your moths and butterflies and think of possibilities, think of love, Gráinne, think of open spaces and freedom and love.",
      "But the sun shines on me still, and like any other poet I am gathering rosebuds while I may, for the glory of flowers too soon is past and summer hath too short a lease.",
      "... Or the poets who have kept turning out exhortations to seize the day and gather rosebuds.",
      "“Fleet Foxes” meandered and gathered rosebuds and killed time, but it also announced the arrival of a significant young songwriter."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "3087-1",
    "Idiom": [
      "gather way"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To begin to move.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "3087-2",
    "Idiom": [
      "gather way"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To move with increasing speed.",
    "Sentence": [
      "The boat beginning to gather way, too, I threw Sennit the end of a lower-studding-sail halyards, that were brought aft for the purpose, ordered his bowman to let go his hold of the tackle, and dropped the boat a safe towing distance astern",
      "The ship tacked with the same admirable precision as before, and on gathering way was found to be looking well up for the entrance to the narrow channel."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "3087-3",
    "Idiom": [
      "gather way"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To gain momentum or progress using sails or steam.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "3088",
    "Idiom": [
      "gavel to order"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To initiate or restore order in a meeting or assembly.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "3089-1",
    "Idiom": [
      "gear up"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To prepare for an activity.",
    "Sentence": [
      "As this issue of RAIL went to press, NR was gearing up to deliver a further £80m of upgrades over the Late May Bank Holiday (May 29-31), across 620 projects.",
      "The hardware store is gearing up for spring in February with garden supplies and seeds.",
      "We're gearing ourselves up for a busy week ahead."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "3089-2",
    "Idiom": [
      "gear up"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To put on special clothing or equipment.",
    "Sentence": [
      "The soldiers geared up and loaded onto the assault craft. They would have a forty-five minute ride to the beach."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "3090",
    "Idiom": [
      "gender bender"
    ],
    "Meaning": "A person who blurs gender norms through clothing.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "3091",
    "Idiom": [
      "gender is between your ears, not between your legs"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Gender is a social construct, not limited to biological sex.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "3092",
    "Idiom": [
      "genetic lottery"
    ],
    "Meaning": "The uncertain nature of inherited genetic traits.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "3093",
    "Idiom": [
      "genius is one percent inspiration, ninety-nine percent perspiration"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Genius relies more on hard work than on inspiration.",
    "Sentence": [
      "The whole thing is to keep working and pretty soon they'll think you're good. Genius is one percent inspiration, ninety-nine percent perspiration.",
      "In the adage that says “ genius is one percent inspiration, ninety-nine percent perspiration,” this is the all important one percent.",
      "His life mirrored his words: “ Genius is one percent inspiration and ninety-nine percent perspiration.”",
      "Certainly he has shown himself to be one step cleverer than inventor Thomas Edison with the simple philosophy he has brought to Stamford Bridge, very much in line with the famous quote, “ Genius is one percent inspiration, ninety-nine percent perspiration. ”",
      "Thomas Edison famously said that “ Genius is one percent inspiration, ninety-nine percent perspiration.” What that means is “inspired” ideas may come and go, but to make them function is a lot of hard work"
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "3094",
    "Idiom": [
      "gentle as a lamb"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Very caring and calm.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "3095",
    "Idiom": [
      "gentle giant"
    ],
    "Meaning": "A large or strong individual with a friendly nature.",
    "Sentence": [
      "... lest he be should be brought into the like state as was the gentle giant."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "3096",
    "Idiom": [
      "gentle sex"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Refers to a gentle approach to sex.",
    "Sentence": [
      "A patriotic virago, armed with a brace of pistols, enacted prodigies; and a young man, who distinguished himself in a remarkable manner, has since proved to be of the gentle sex."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "3097",
    "Idiom": [
      "get a charge out of"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Derive excitement or pleasure from.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Anyway, I used to get a charge out of the writing on the walls in the John.",
      "Even landlubbers who find yacht racing about as exciting as watching grass grow might get a charge out of the litigious storm swirling around the America's Cup.",
      "There are gamblers who get a charge out of playing the odds and thrive off risk."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "3098",
    "Idiom": [
      "get a clue"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To become aware of the obvious reality of a situation.",
    "Sentence": [
      "How many more such incidents have to happen at Fox News — or elsewhere — before everyone gets a clue about basic workplace — and overall social — behavior?",
      "\"How many times do I have to tell you that this relationship is over? Get a clue! \", she said after her ex-boyfriend asked her again to get back together."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "3099",
    "Idiom": [
      "get a fix"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To obtain something necessary, especially an addictive drug or compulsively sought item.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "3100",
    "Idiom": [
      "get a grip"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To regain composure and clarity after strong emotions.",
    "Sentence": [
      "She made her innocent bow, and retired without a suspicion that she had been an embarrassment. Nothing would have happened, now, perhaps, if quiet could have been maintained for a few minutes, so that the people could get a grip upon themselves, but the strain overpowered my old maid partner and she exploded like a bomb; a general and unrestrained crash of laughter followed, of course, the happy tears flowed like brooks, and no one was sorry of the opportunity to laugh himself out and get the blessed relief that comes of that privilege in such circumstances.",
      "When I reached this stage of visual chaos I stopped for a moment to get a grip on myself. It would not do to let my nerves get the better of me at the very outset of what would surely be a trying experience, …",
      "Panic thoughts chased about in my brain. I attempted to get a grip upon myself.",
      "Fuck all you hoes. Get a grip, motherfucker.",
      "He needs to get a grip if he's getting that angry over such a little thing."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "3101",
    "Idiom": [
      "get a kick out of"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To be delighted or amused.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Some get a kick from cocaine / I'm sure that if I took even one sniff / That would bore me terrifically too / Yet I get a kick out of you",
      "I really got a kick out of that clown's juggling act."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "3102-1",
    "Idiom": [
      "get a leg up"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To gain an advantage.",
    "Sentence": [
      "I can climb over the fence if I get a leg up from you."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "3102-2",
    "Idiom": [
      "get a leg up"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To gain an advantage.",
    "Sentence": [
      "He hopes that all the extra advertising will allow him to get a leg up on the competition."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "3103",
    "Idiom": [
      "get a life"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To seek a more interesting or fulfilling life.",
    "Sentence": [
      "\"He's really broken. Hopefully he'll be able to find work somewhere and get a life.\"",
      "\"Harriet, please get a life,\" someone begged her on a message board, \"and leave us poor Amazon customers alone.\""
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "3104",
    "Idiom": [
      "get a line on"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To obtain information.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "3105",
    "Idiom": [
      "get a move on"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To hurry up.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Bradly tapped the ashes from his pipe, signifying a leisured interlude over. \"Time to get a move on,\" he said, and began unlace his boots for wading.",
      "The train was handed over 21 min. late at Salisbury, so there was every encouragement to Driver Moore, of Salisbury, to \" get a move on.\"",
      "I need to get a move on if I'm going to arrive before dark."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "3106",
    "Idiom": [
      "get a rise out of"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To obtain a reaction, especially annoyance.",
    "Sentence": [
      "He's just doing it to get a rise out of you. Just ignore him.",
      "Ahmadinejad is no simpleton.... His Holocaust denial is a flagrant ploy—the easiest way to get a rise out of the Jewish community."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "3107",
    "Idiom": [
      "get a room"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Instructs a couple to stop displaying affection in public.",
    "Sentence": [
      "One night he kissed me on a park bench. I knew we shouldn’t but he would be gone so soon. The next night a homeless guy on a bench nearby hollered at us to get a room, but we couldn’t as we both had fierce landladies."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "3108",
    "Idiom": [
      "get a wiggle on"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To hurry up.",
    "Sentence": [
      "“If yeh're goin' to see yer fren', yeh better get a wiggle on. He won't last long.”",
      "Get a wiggle on you, fellows. We'll never get out at this rate.",
      "AMERICAN: My eggs! Get a wiggle on you! WAITER: Yes, sare.",
      "“If it is up to Cricket Australia to come up with rules and regulations, then maybe they would like to get a wiggle on because this thing is about to start.”"
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "3109",
    "Idiom": [
      "get a wriggle on"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To hurry up.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Informed our hostess a thousand times we had to leave early, and do you think she'd get a wriggle on with the tea ?",
      "While accepting he needs to get a wriggle on, Australia's annual great hope remains defiant and insists he can overcome a nightmare draw and once again challenge for the Norman Brookes Challenge Cup."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "3110-1",
    "Idiom": [
      "get ahead of oneself"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Focuses too much on the future, neglecting the present.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Montgomerie suspected he was getting ahead of himself. \"I think I am thinking about next week too much,\" he said.",
      "\"I felt like she plays just one shot at a time. She never gets ahead of herself.\"",
      "The eager American warriors were getting ahead of themselves. The Allies had neither the troops nor the landing craft needed to carry out Operation Sledgehammer or Roundup or the other code-named plans."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "3110-2",
    "Idiom": [
      "get ahead of oneself"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To act prematurely or form opinions without sufficient information.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Channel 4 News's Samira Ahmed rather got ahead of herself when she told viewers on Saturday afternoon that Liverpool had beaten Chelsea in the FA Cup semi-final-even thought it was still 90 minutes away from kick-off.",
      "“Frankly,” he said in a moment, “I think the chief constable has got ahead of himself on this one. There's no real evidence the man was murdered.”",
      "Mother sometimes got ahead of herself and didn't think things through."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "3110-3",
    "Idiom": [
      "get ahead of oneself"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To act or think too early in a process.",
    "Sentence": [
      "She talked so excitedly that she got ahead of herself and looked bewildered and cried out, \"What was I saying?\"",
      "I think he just got ahead of himself in telling first of the arrest of John, then jumped back to the earlier baptism of Jesus.",
      "People often interrupt themselves mid-sentence. Why? Perhaps they're excited over something and get ahead of themselves as they speak."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "3111-1",
    "Idiom": [
      "get along"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To interact or coexist well.",
    "Sentence": [
      "I wish the kids would get along better.",
      "She never did get along with her brother."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "3111-2",
    "Idiom": [
      "get along"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To survive or do well enough.",
    "Sentence": [
      "She didn’t have a lot of money, but she had enough to get along."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "3112",
    "Idiom": [
      "get amongst it"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To engage actively in an activity.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "3113",
    "Idiom": [
      "get away with"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To escape punishment for wrongdoing.",
    "Sentence": [
      "The late Professor Pat White was an outspoken critic. In his 1986 book Forgotten Railways, he dismissed as smoke and mirrors the oft-used argument that 33% of rail routes carried only 1% of the traffic, as it ignores the fact that a third of the national road network also only carried 2% of cars and lorries. But unlike rail, road got away with it because no mention was made of how much it cost the taxpayer to keep them usable.",
      "Do you think we could get away with taking Dad’s car?",
      "Not many people have gotten away with stealing that much money.",
      "Our teacher's so strict, he'd never let us get away with anything in class."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "3114",
    "Idiom": [
      "get back at"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To retaliate; to take revenge.",
    "Sentence": [
      "She put toothpaste in his shoes to get back at him for the frog he left in her refrigerator."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "3115",
    "Idiom": [
      "get back on the horse that bucked one"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To return to something that previously caused harm.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "3116",
    "Idiom": [
      "get bent",
      "go soak your head"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Dismisses a person or their comments, ending the conversation.",
    "Sentence": [
      "You're not crazy, just extremely annoying. Go soak your head, jerkwad."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "3117",
    "Idiom": [
      "get bent out of shape"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To become angry or upset.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Just reflecting on the events of the twentieth century alone could take your breath away, so why get bent out of shape about the ultimate fate of the earth?",
      "They stopped inviting him to the gatherings, and he really got bent out of shape about it."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "3118",
    "Idiom": [
      "get better"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To recover from illness.",
    "Sentence": [
      "[Sir Bedevere]: What makes you think she's a witch?"
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "3119",
    "Idiom": [
      "get blood out of a stone"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To do something difficult or pointless.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Bradley looked at the fire, with a working face, and was silent for a while. At last he said, with what seemed an inconsistent composure of voice and feature: ‘You can’t get blood out of a stone, Riderhood.’",
      "\"I suppose the law has some protection to offer them.\" \"Can the law get blood out of a stone ? I haven't any money. I've got about a hundred pounds.\""
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "3120",
    "Idiom": [
      "get by"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To survive or manage at a minimal level.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Good girls do bad things sometimes / But we get by with it / Good girls do bad things sometimes / But we get by with it",
      "Do you think they can get by on only one salary?"
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "3121",
    "Idiom": [
      "get changed"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To change clothing.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "3122",
    "Idiom": [
      "get down to brass tacks",
      "get down to bedrock",
      "get down to cases"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To discuss the most important details or facts.",
    "Sentence": [
      "When you come down to brass tacks – if we may be allowed the expression – everybody is governed by selfishness.",
      "\"But I called here with a purpose. I expect you are a busy man and I know that I am, so I'll get down to the brass tacks.\"",
      "That's no answer. Get down to brass tacks.",
      "Let's get down to brass tacks here. How much for the ape?",
      "We're gonna stop playing games with these Arabs and get down to brass tacks !",
      "You must be Jules, which would make you Vincent. Let's get down to brass tacks, gentlemen. If I was informed correctly, the clock is ticking. Is that right, Jimmie?",
      "And if the government got a grip, got down to brass tacks and started doing their actual job, all these things could be avoided."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "3123",
    "Idiom": [
      "get down to business"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To commit to a serious task or activity.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "3124",
    "Idiom": [
      "get even"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To inflict harm in return for harm received.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Pinkerton man, murdering bastard / I’m gonna get even, get even with you",
      "But I warn you, Anita, we're through. I'm through with all of you! I'll get even. Just wait! You'll be sorry! You fools! You...YOU IDIOTS!"
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "3125",
    "Idiom": [
      "get fresh"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To flirt.",
    "Sentence": [
      "So don't you get fresh with me / No moneyman can win my love / It's sweetness that I'm thinking of"
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "3126",
    "Idiom": [
      "get grey hair from"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To acquire frustration, confusion, or anxiety from something or someone.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "3127-1",
    "Idiom": [
      "get high"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To intoxicate oneself with substances.",
    "Sentence": [
      "I get high with a little help from my friends",
      "But now you've sucked Your lemon peel dry, / so why not get high, high, high",
      "I was going to make love to you, but I got high"
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "3127-2",
    "Idiom": [
      "get high"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To become euphoric without using drugs.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "3128-1",
    "Idiom": [
      "get in"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To enter something.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Hurry up and get in the car!",
      "He tried to go after the ball but couldn't get in the game.",
      "You'd better get in gear. We've got work to do!"
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "3128-2",
    "Idiom": [
      "get in"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To gain admission to a selective school.",
    "Sentence": [
      "All of our students who applied to university got in."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "3128-3",
    "Idiom": [
      "get in"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To be elected to office.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Do the early results say our candidate will get in ?"
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "3129",
    "Idiom": [
      "get in the boat and row"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To make a substantial effort in cooperation with others.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Mr. Keene himself only found out he was the committee's choice last Friday, \"I have to spend the next six months finding out what's going on,\" he said. \"I'm just going to get in the boat and row.\"",
      "He [Ruckelshaus] encourages people not just to complain, but get into public service, or be involved. \" Get in the boat and row,\" is his advice.",
      "Everyone has to contribute to the company. Whether they're an individual employee, a team lead, a manager, or someone from the overall executive team, everyone has to get in the boat and row."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "3130",
    "Idiom": [
      "get ink"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To receive publicity.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Soon everybody, not just the Lefraks, was sneering. Donald Trump was getting more ink than Harry Helmsley, and there were no buildings to show for it, just bizarre stories with acronyms like CPC, UDC, MTA in them.",
      "[The amendment wi]ll get overturned. Big fuss for nothing. — It might get overturned, but it gets ink along the way."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "3131",
    "Idiom": [
      "get into one's stride"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To become familiar with something.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Tottenham were slow to get into their stride in a first 45 minutes characterised by Arsenal's defensive discipline - but once they moved through the gears the Gunners simply could not live with them.",
      "As the passenger franchises got into their stride, remarkable levels of growth were recorded."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "3132",
    "Idiom": [
      "get into someone's pants"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To have sex with someone.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Remember that day? First day I was there. I knew that I couldn't get into your pants unless I said… um… what did I say? Oh yeah, “May I have my bill please, I have to leave?”",
      "The call had come to her at the diner where she worked, and in her dreams, Norville, the short-order cook who had always been trying to get into her pants in those days, turned to her again and again, holding out the telephone."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "3133",
    "Idiom": [
      "get into the act"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To participate in an activity.",
    "Sentence": [
      "The scramble for this business is already on; everybody wants to get into the act. More than 370 American concerns have applied for franchises to give service over foreign and domestic airways."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "3134",
    "Idiom": [
      "get into the wrong hands"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To fall into dangerous or inappropriate possession.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "3135-1",
    "Idiom": [
      "get into trouble"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To be punished for wrongdoing.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "3135-2",
    "Idiom": [
      "get into trouble"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To cause punishment.",
    "Sentence": [
      "You'll get us all into trouble if you don't keep quiet."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "3135-3",
    "Idiom": [
      "get into trouble"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To fall into difficulty.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "3135-4",
    "Idiom": [
      "get into trouble"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To become pregnant.",
    "Sentence": [
      "He got a girl into trouble and had to marry her."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "3135-5",
    "Idiom": [
      "get into trouble"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To become involved in problems or risky situations.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "3135-6",
    "Idiom": [
      "get into trouble"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To become involved in a problematic situation.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "3136",
    "Idiom": [
      "get it"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To receive punishment or negative consequences.",
    "Sentence": [
      "After the way she spoke to him, she's really going to get it this time."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "3137",
    "Idiom": [
      "get it how one lives"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To achieve wealth or success by any means.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "3138",
    "Idiom": [
      "get it on"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To hurry up or start.",
    "Sentence": [
      "I need to get it on : there's not much time left."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "3139",
    "Idiom": [
      "get late"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To approach nighttime.",
    "Sentence": [
      "It ' s getting late."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "3140",
    "Idiom": [
      "get life"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To receive a life sentence.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "3141",
    "Idiom": [
      "get lost"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To exit from the scene.",
    "Sentence": [
      "I don't want to have to tell you again: Get lost!",
      "They had a row and Fred told Jack to get lost.",
      "Jack did a good job of getting lost : nobody saw him for 4 years."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "3142",
    "Idiom": [
      "get misty"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To feel sentimental.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "3143",
    "Idiom": [
      "get moving"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To start hurrying.",
    "Sentence": [
      "We should get moving with the props if we want this play ready on time."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "3144",
    "Idiom": [
      "get off lightly"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To receive a mild punishment or avoid serious harm.",
    "Sentence": [
      "@Socrates Got off lightly, all things considered. They just want me to drink this hemlock stuff. BRB. 8.11am, March 22, 399 BC",
      "My cousin got off lightly with a restraining order after he broke the boy’s leg."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "3145",
    "Idiom": [
      "get off one's chest"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To relieve oneself emotionally by speaking.",
    "Sentence": [
      "I wanna tell you things and show you all the rest / Broadcast my emotions on the radio and take them off my chest / I hope you're listening / Are you? Are you?"
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "3146",
    "Idiom": [
      "get off one's high horse"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To stop being arrogant or overbearing.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "3147-1",
    "Idiom": [
      "get off the ground"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To begin to succeed.",
    "Sentence": [
      "His big plans to get rich never quite seemed to get off the ground."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "3147-2",
    "Idiom": [
      "get off the ground"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To make (something) succeed.",
    "Sentence": [
      "He couldn't get George's career off the ground."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "3148",
    "Idiom": [
      "get off the mark"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To score one's first points.",
    "Sentence": [
      "And now Leclerc has won two races while Vettel is still to get off the mark this year. Looking at the remaining races - the tracks they are on, and the pattern of Ferrari's form - it is far from certain he will get another chance."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "3149",
    "Idiom": [
      "get on someone's grill"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To intrude aggressively into someone's personal space.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Raise my flag, can't step on my heel Crime means cops that'll get on my grill If I don't bust in the ends, who, what Blud, if I don't bust in the ends, who will?"
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "3150",
    "Idiom": [
      "get on someone's nerves"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To annoy or irritate someone.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Gerty wished to goodness they would take their squalling baby home out of that and not get on her nerves...",
      "There’s an insect buzzing around in my bedroom tonight, and it’s really getting on my nerves."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "3151",
    "Idiom": [
      "get on the end of"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To connect with.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "3152",
    "Idiom": [
      "get on the stick"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To get started.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "3153",
    "Idiom": [
      "get one's act together"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To become organized and focused.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Thanet got its act together after the August 3 accident, with no more major accidents over its remaining history.",
      "It didn't look like he'd ever get his act together, but eventually the project got going."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "3154",
    "Idiom": [
      "get one's ass in gear"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To start moving or making progress.",
    "Sentence": [
      "He had been sitting there for two hours until the boss showed up and told him to get his ass in gear."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "3155",
    "Idiom": [
      "get one's bowels in an uproar"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To become upset.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "3156",
    "Idiom": [
      "get one's butt somewhere"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Go somewhere quickly.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Get your butt here this instant! You're in big trouble!",
      "I've got to get my butt to class."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "3157",
    "Idiom": [
      "get one's claws into"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To have controlling influence.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Once that bank gets its claws into you, it doesn't let go easily."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "3158",
    "Idiom": [
      "get one's claws out"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To prepare to attack or retaliate.",
    "Sentence": [
      "You'd better watch out: she's got her claws out for you."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "3159",
    "Idiom": [
      "get one's clock cleaned"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To be thoroughly defeated.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "3160",
    "Idiom": [
      "get one's feet wet"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To begin gaining experience.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Thomas barely got his feet wet at the Education Department before he was sworn in nine months later as EEOC commissioner.",
      "These programs, often offered by community colleges and vocational schools, can offer students a way to get their feet wet in the medical field without committing to the years of school and expertise it takes to become a doctor.",
      "Let the new hire do that project so she can get her feet wet.",
      "Why don't you try getting your feet wet on the beginner slopes."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "3161",
    "Idiom": [
      "get one's fill"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To be satisfied or have enough of something.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "3162",
    "Idiom": [
      "get one's finger out"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To take action.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "3163",
    "Idiom": [
      "get one's fingers burnt"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To suffer unexpected harm.",
    "Sentence": [
      "He developed a special interest in coconut cultivation after witnessing the success of some farmers who made huge money only to get his fingers burnt.",
      "Artur Fischer, for example, is the head of the Berlin stock-exchange who got his fingers burnt in China.",
      "He got his fingers burnt in that stock market scam, but at least he didn't lose his house."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "3164",
    "Idiom": [
      "get one's foot in the door"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To gain access or an opportunity, especially in a job.",
    "Sentence": [
      "And the legislature had better study Texas, before it commits this state to parimutuel betting, thus letting the professional gambler get his foot in the door.",
      "Guinier recognizes the need for minorities to get their feet in the door, but argues that \"insiders\" must be authentic representatives in order for minorities to achive real political power.",
      "But despite his academic credentials, Julian had to fight just to get his foot in the door at most laboratories.",
      "He was able to gain employment as a cleaner relatively quickly. It was a ' foot in the door', but it wouldn't appease his ambition for long and he later qualified as a 'passed cleaner' (a fireman in all but name), based at King's Cross and St Pancras."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "3165-1",
    "Idiom": [
      "get one's freak on"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To have sex.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "3165-2",
    "Idiom": [
      "get one's freak on"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To dance.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "3165-3",
    "Idiom": [
      "get one's freak on"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To go wild or have fun.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "3165-4",
    "Idiom": [
      "get one's freak on"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To party.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "3166",
    "Idiom": [
      "get one's fuck on"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To have sex.",
    "Sentence": [
      "I used to see him, in The Tunnel, with fuckers at dawn Whisper in my ear he wanna get his fuck on"
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "3167",
    "Idiom": [
      "get one's hands dirty"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To get involved in unpleasant aspects of a task.",
    "Sentence": [
      "If you expect to seal up every possible source of draftiness, you'll have to get your hands dirty — there will be some kneeling and crawling involved.",
      "He doesn't get his hands dirty — that's what the henchmen and the plausible deniability are for."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "3168",
    "Idiom": [
      "get one's head straight"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To think clearly.",
    "Sentence": [
      "It took me a long time to get my head straight. I met this woman. She was on welfare, had two children, practically illiterate she was; she could barely read the labels on canned food. Lucky they had pictures on most food.",
      "I would need to get my head straight before I hurt somebody. Speaking of getting my head straight, I couldn't stand to look at myself in the mirror. My hair was a hot mess. So of course I called the Dominicans and booked yet another",
      "He had suggested that I should ask my brother to come and live with me in Nightingale Square. Not permanently, just until he got his head straight and some of our mother's inuence out of his system. Jacob thought that being so close to",
      "Hell, don't come to Sweden if you don't want to. Go to Australia or Cancun or Timbuktu for all I care. Just get away for a while so you can get your head straight. The boys are going to need you to have your shit together when the"
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "3169",
    "Idiom": [
      "get one's hopes up"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To become enthusiastic about something uncertain.",
    "Sentence": [
      "I try to set low expectations and not to get my hopes up."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "3170-1",
    "Idiom": [
      "get one's juices flowing"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To inspire creativity.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Many people think that the best way to make meetings tolerable is to walk into the room and fire away with lots of ideas to get juices flowing. Such ideas goad uncreative colleagues into building more elaborate strategies to conceal their lack of creativity."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "3170-2",
    "Idiom": [
      "get one's juices flowing"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To sexually excite.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "3171",
    "Idiom": [
      "get one's kicks"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To enjoy oneself.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Well, if you ever plan to motor west / Jack, take my way, it's the highway that's the best / Get your kicks on Route 66",
      "“Fine, fine, we lushing it up.” “That ain’t nowhere. Blast Little Eva with some pot. Let her get her kicks.” “I’ll see to it that she gets her kicks,” he said."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "3172",
    "Idiom": [
      "get one's knickers in a twist",
      "get one's knickers in a knot",
      "get one's panties in a bunch",
      "get one's panties in a pretzel",
      "get one's panties in a wad",
      "get one's shorts in a knot",
      "get one's undies in a bundle"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To become unnecessarily upset over a trivial matter.",
    "Sentence": [
      "\"I understand what you're trying to say, but the fact that it IS crowded will mean you'll stand out less. So try not to get your panties in a bunch.\"",
      "“Don't get your panties in a pretzel, darling. I simply want to scare him so that he pulls over.” Kitty yanked off her fez and stuck her head into the howling wind. Her hair whipped around her eyes, and she pushed it out of the way."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "3173",
    "Idiom": [
      "get one's marching orders"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To be dismissed disgracefully.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "3174",
    "Idiom": [
      "get one's monkey up"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To make someone angry or annoyed.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "3175",
    "Idiom": [
      "get one's shine box"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Used as an insult.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Make note of his stubby fingers and small hands – we all know what that means. When he responds with ever-increasing insults and shushing, tell him to go get his shinebox."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "3176",
    "Idiom": [
      "get one's shirt out"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To become angry or annoyed.",
    "Sentence": [
      "\"All right, sir, all right,\" said Chizzlem, lighting a huge cigar; \"there it is, don't get your shirt out about it. I daresay I'll get along well enough without you. Though why you should be ashamed at what some of the flyest men do regularly, I can't tell.\"",
      "I dare him, says he, and I doubledare him to send you round here again or if he does, says he, I'll have him summonsed up before the court, so I will, for trading without a licence. And he after stuffing himself till he's fit to burst. Jesus, I had to laugh at the little jewy getting his shirt out."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "3177",
    "Idiom": [
      "get one's skates on"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To start doing something quickly.",
    "Sentence": [
      "If I don't get my skates on now I'm going to be late!"
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "3178",
    "Idiom": [
      "get one's tits in a wringer"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To get into trouble.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "3179",
    "Idiom": [
      "get one's way"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To obtain desired circumstances.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Next stop Manchester? This [scene] is a re-creation of the 1960s, but if Rossendale Borough Council gets its way, 21st century DMUs will ferry commuters from the Irwell Valley into the city.",
      "My little sister is so spoiled. She always gets her way, even when she misbehaves."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "3180",
    "Idiom": [
      "get one's wires crossed"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To misunderstand one another.",
    "Sentence": [
      "\"TELEPHONE MATCH, 1949. White gets his wires crossed from trying to call on two variations at once and picks the wrong number in Black who cuts him off short.\"",
      "We got our wires crossed so I went to the bus station and she headed to the railway station."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "3181",
    "Idiom": [
      "get oneself together"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To prepare oneself for an event.",
    "Sentence": [
      "I need to get myself together before we leave."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "3182",
    "Idiom": [
      "get out of Dodge"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To leave quickly, especially from a difficult situation.",
    "Sentence": [
      "The pulp mills, he predicts, \"are going to just high-grade all the best trees and get the hell out of Dodge.\"",
      "When Jasper surfaced, Skiles thought to himself, Woody will come through. He'll find the way. He always gets us out of predicaments like this. Now that he's back it's just a matter or gearing up, getting in the water and getting the hell out of Dodge."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "3183",
    "Idiom": [
      "get out of bed on the wrong side"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To start the day in a bad mood.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Our CO must have gotten out of bed on the wrong side, for he gave the whole company hell for their poor morale, dirty barracks, etc."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "3184",
    "Idiom": [
      "get out of here"
    ],
    "Meaning": "An exclamation of disbelief.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Did she really say that? Get out of here!"
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "3185",
    "Idiom": [
      "get out of jail free card"
    ],
    "Meaning": "A privilege that provides relief from undesirable situations or consequences.",
    "Sentence": [
      "\"I don't care to know who spanked her or looked at her cross-eyed when she was little.\" \"Trust me, Henry,\" Ivy said. \"It goes way beyond spanking.\" \"So that gives her a get-out-of-jail-free card ?\" \"Of course it doesn't. What I am saying is―\" \"No, here's what I'm saying. She's combative, she refuses to do the work, and if she shows up in my class wearing those penis earrings again, she's going to get the boot, same as she got today.\"",
      "...this decision is not intended to send out a message that due to the pandemic there exists a revolving door policy for offenders to commit crime with the expectation of release or that offenders can now benefit with a \"get out of jail free\" card. Indeed, if this were the case generally, it would erode the public confidence in the criminal justice system, especially as it pertains to violent offenders or crimes of violence."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "3186",
    "Idiom": [
      "get out of someone's hair"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To stop bothering someone.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Me, if I broke up with a man, I would not have sex with him again just to get him out of my hair as easily as possible."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "3187",
    "Idiom": [
      "get out the vote"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To increase voter turnout.",
    "Sentence": [
      "What happens when there's that knock at the door? Moscow's hastily-organised referendums in occupied parts of Ukraine coming complete with house-to-house searches of ballot recipients. It takes the concept of \" get out the vote \" to a whole new level. We'll ask about turnout numbers that already beggar belief and what happens after Vladimir Putin's Friday address scheduled before a joint session of the Russian parliament."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "3188",
    "Idiom": [
      "get out while the getting's good"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Sell while conditions are favorable to avoid losses.",
    "Sentence": [
      "It costs pretty near as much to sell a used truck as a new one and there is usually... close down business right away and get out while the getting's good."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "3189",
    "Idiom": [
      "get outta here"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Indicates disbelief or requests confirmation.",
    "Sentence": [
      "A: I just got a date with Cindy.",
      "B: Get outta here !"
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "3190-1",
    "Idiom": [
      "get over"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To overcome.",
    "Sentence": [
      "I'm trying to get over my fear of flying."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "3190-2",
    "Idiom": [
      "get over"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To recover.",
    "Sentence": [
      "I'm having problems getting over a bad cold."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "3190-3",
    "Idiom": [
      "get over"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To forget and move on.",
    "Sentence": [
      "She was in love with me for 10 years, and still hasn't got over the fact that the feeling wasn't mutual."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "3190-4",
    "Idiom": [
      "get over"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To successfully communicate.",
    "Sentence": [
      "In our lectures we need to get over the importance of online safety."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "3191",
    "Idiom": [
      "get rid of"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To be free of or released from something.",
    "Sentence": [
      "to get rid of fools and scoundrels",
      "Shepard: The Council was always holding us back. When I saw the opportunity to get rid of them, I took it.",
      "Greater Manchester Mayor Andy Burnham pulled no punches in March 20's Transport for the North board meeting in Leeds. He wants rid of Avanti West Coast. And he may yet get his way, although ministers in London are holding the line at the moment.",
      "Over the weekend he spent some time getting rid of the clothes he no longer wears.",
      "I want to get rid of your influence over my life!"
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "3192",
    "Idiom": [
      "get some air"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To breathe refreshing outdoor air, often to feel invigorated.",
    "Sentence": [
      "It was enough to send her rattling away again in a cab, through deserts of gritty streets, where many people crowded at the corner of courts and byways to get some air.",
      "He took occasion to remark that it was lovely on the balcony: one really got some air, the breeze being from that quarter.",
      "\"Ah, I see! You went for a little walk to get some air !\"",
      "\"You'd better begin to get some air and exercise and quit hanging about in the house all day.\"",
      "\"We got out of the van to get some air on the Gower peninsula.\"",
      "Gaza City had become generally calmer on Thursday after a cease-fire between Fatah and Hamas, and residents had emerged into the streets to buy food and get some air."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "3193",
    "Idiom": [
      "get someone's back up"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To annoy or anger someone.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Telling someone that her child can and should be doing better and not offering some solutions immediately gets my back up.",
      "That joke really got my boss's back up."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "3194",
    "Idiom": [
      "get someone's dander up"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To anger or annoy someone.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Miss Jessie ain't afeard of the great, wicked, white man heself, when she gets her dander up;",
      "so it wasn't to be expected that I should not feel disagreeable when the two got their dander up, and went into such a tantrum with each other.",
      "Sorry, I'm sorry Geoffrey / but it gets my goat / It gets my dander right up !"
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "3195",
    "Idiom": [
      "get someone's goat"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To annoy or infuriate someone.",
    "Sentence": [
      "If he had legged it on his own account, because what he heard me say got his goat, I could understand that.",
      "\"Unfortunately,\" said Soames, \"there's no such thing as luck in properly regulated assurance, as we shall find, or I'm much mistaken. I shouldn't be surprised if an action lay against the Board for gross negligence!\" That had got the Chairman's goat !— Got his goat ? What expressions they used nowadays!",
      "But there's one litte thing that gets my goat, / That certainly strikes a sour note. / It's that Southern Ship who has my place— / With her larger decks and her faster pace.",
      "It sure did get their goat; they turned without saying a word and walked off toward the highway, red-necked, us laughing behind them. I forget sometimes what laughter can do.",
      "Sometimes people are quite simply intent on riling us; on getting our goat. If you don't want them to get your goat, don't let them know where it is.",
      "As Sandra Strain had seen it, as quickly as Natty had gotten her goat, she had slaughtered it by being apologetic. This was not what the girl had anticipated, nor wanted to hear.",
      "It really gets my goat when inconsiderate people drop litter in public."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "3196",
    "Idiom": [
      "get something over with"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To do something unpleasant quickly to move on.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Let's just get this over with. I'm sure we've all got things we'd rather be doing",
      "I hate getting shots, but it's best just to get it over with."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "3197",
    "Idiom": [
      "get started"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To begin discussing something in detail.",
    "Sentence": [
      "He is also an avid photographer and falconer. Don't get him started talking about his birds because he won't stop for a while."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "3198",
    "Idiom": [
      "get stuck in"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To dedicate a large amount of effort.",
    "Sentence": [
      "He's really getting stuck in to his new job as chief executive. He's sacked half the boardroom staff already."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "3199-1",
    "Idiom": [
      "get stuck into"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Become occupied with.",
    "Sentence": [
      "After pulling our boat up the beach there wasn’t much to do but collapse onto the sand and get stuck into some serious drinking.",
      "But although some timber for the house was eventually delivered, he never got around to the building stage. ‘I′ll hire some help and we'll get stuck into it,’ he would say, but the only thing he ever got stuck into was his vodka.",
      "If you really want to get stuck into a bit of archaeology, check out the Archaeological Resource Centre..."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "3199-2",
    "Idiom": [
      "get stuck into"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To start eating.",
    "Sentence": [
      "She took a big slurp of wine, and then we all got stuck into the food.",
      "‘And get stuck into your breakfast, or I will be forced to relieve you of at least one of those splendid pork sausages.’",
      "Then get stuck into one of the char-grilled steaks, the sesame-encrusted tuna, or slow-cooked lamb shank.",
      "Dinner's ready! Quick, get stuck into it!"
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "3199-3",
    "Idiom": [
      "get stuck into"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To criticize or attack someone.",
    "Sentence": [
      "My dad′s getting stuck into me at the moment. He doesn′t think my English is good enough.",
      "Discussion, as Jackson notes, was lively, ‘with the union (through Cleary and Aarons) getting stuck into management and we getting stuck into them’.",
      "Of course there are some kids who get stuck into him, and sometimes that′ll make him curl up like a poked snail. But they don't do that very much anymore, because most of the other kids get stuck into them when that happens.",
      "Why are you getting stuck into me all of the sudden? I didn't do anything!"
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "3200-1",
    "Idiom": [
      "get taken in"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To be fooled.",
    "Sentence": [
      "I wonder how many people will get taken in by their addition of a fancy-looking front panel to a crummy device."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "3200-2",
    "Idiom": [
      "get taken in"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To be unofficially fostered.",
    "Sentence": [
      "When her mother died, she got taken in by the next-door neighbour."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "3201",
    "Idiom": [
      "get the ball rolling"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To begin or start action.",
    "Sentence": [
      "The execution of Littlefinger is formal, although his trial admittedly gives us ample opportunity to appreciate the tables finally turning on the man who got the ball rolling on all this bloodshed.",
      "I knew who you were as a Drag Race fan. So I was gagged personally and I still am gagged, but it was quite divine intervention. Thom Kerr, the photographer, really got the ball rolling and I had no idea what to expect of this shoot besides greatness.",
      "Did you ever get the ball rolling on your plans to build a shed?"
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "3202-1",
    "Idiom": [
      "get the better of"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To overwhelm or overcome.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Adam said, \"My temper got the better of me, and I said things as wasn't true.\"",
      "Though this sort of thing went on every other night or very near it still Stephen's feelings got the better of him in a sense though he knew that Corley's brandnew rigmarole on a par with the others was hardly deserving of much credence.",
      "Many people returned to work a bit anxious, they acknowledged, but grimly determined not to let terrorists get the better of them.",
      "Thomas Tuchel got the better of his Manchester City counterpart Pep Guardiola for the third time since succeeding sacked Frank Lampard in January to bring European club football's biggest prize back to Stamford Bridge for the first time since 2012."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "3202-2",
    "Idiom": [
      "get the better of"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To trick or con.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "3202-3",
    "Idiom": [
      "get the better of"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To gain an advantage.",
    "Sentence": [
      "He got the better of him early in the match, but ended up losing."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "3203-1",
    "Idiom": [
      "get the boot"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To be dismissed from a job.",
    "Sentence": [
      "\"Put it down in your diary, my young friend, and send it to your rag.\" \"And be ready to get the toe-end of the editorial boot in return,\" said Lord John.",
      "Tony Parsons has claimed that he quit before he \" got the boot \" from the Daily Mirror, after former colleagues expressed their anger over remarks that he made suggesting he had defected to the Sun because he needed to support his family."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "3203-2",
    "Idiom": [
      "get the boot"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To be made to leave.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "3204",
    "Idiom": [
      "get the bullet"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To be fired from a job.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "3205-1",
    "Idiom": [
      "get the chop"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To be dismissed from employment.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "3205-2",
    "Idiom": [
      "get the chop"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To be eliminated.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "3206",
    "Idiom": [
      "get the dirty water off one's chest"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To achieve sexual satisfaction after a period of abstinence.",
    "Sentence": [
      "'You've got to get the dirty water off your chest some time.'",
      "Why not, I wonder, on my way, / Bored stiff and womanless for months, / To swim among and perv upon / The inaccessible Greek girls / And topless tourists round the bay, / Have random, casual sex and get / The dirty water off my chest ?",
      "I'm in serious need of some ugandan activities. Any of you birds out there at a loose end and want to get the dirty water off your chest ?"
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "3207",
    "Idiom": [
      "get the door"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To open a door for someone.",
    "Sentence": [
      "I'll get the door. Someone's knocking to be let in.",
      "Can you get the door ? I'm carrying these heavy crates."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "3208",
    "Idiom": [
      "get the drawers"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Indicates sexual conquest or seduction.",
    "Sentence": [
      "He always whispering to some broad, and watch tomorrow he tell us he got them drawers."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "3209",
    "Idiom": [
      "get the drift"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To understand generally.",
    "Sentence": [
      "By now you're probably starting to get my drift that cutting costs in today's rail industry is not going to be either easy or pain-free.",
      "I don't really read French, but I can often guess enough to get the drift."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "3210",
    "Idiom": [
      "get the goods on"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To acquire evidence about someone's character or behavior.",
    "Sentence": [
      "\"Bob, they've got the goods on you. There's a warrant out.\"",
      "\"You've got the goods on me. I can't deny I'm the man the police are lookin' for.\"",
      "\"With marked money and marked bottles, we ought to be able to get the goods on that gang.\"",
      "And the film shows how mother-care can be more convincing than a legal brief in getting the goods on the corporate villains.",
      "The state's flawed deregulation scheme practically invited unscrupulous behavior. Still, it's encouraging that Washington is finally getting the goods on the manipulators."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "3211",
    "Idiom": [
      "get the lead out"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To hurry up.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "3212-1",
    "Idiom": [
      "get the nod"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Be selected or approved.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Burnley's Nick Pope got the nod in goal but he barely touched the ball in the entire game. This was a cap and clean sheet for this talented keeper but nothing else."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "3212-2",
    "Idiom": [
      "get the nod"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Receive a signal or approval.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "3213",
    "Idiom": [
      "get the point"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To understand.",
    "Sentence": [
      "He just doesn't get the point that this is not a race."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "3214",
    "Idiom": [
      "get the sack"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To be dismissed from a job.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "3215",
    "Idiom": [
      "get the show on the road"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To begin or launch.",
    "Sentence": [
      "If we're all in agreement about how to proceed, let's get the show on the road."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "3216",
    "Idiom": [
      "get the wind up"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To become frightened or disturbed.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "3217",
    "Idiom": [
      "get the word out"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To make information widely known.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "3218",
    "Idiom": [
      "get thee behind me"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Rejects temptation or unwanted influence.",
    "Sentence": [
      "“Jesu Maria!” exclaimed the younger. “Oh, fie, Sister Seraphina! Fie, fie!--VADE RETRO-- get thee behind me !”",
      "Peter most assuredly would have risen in his wrath, would have said to his distinguished-looking temptress, \" Get thee behind me, Miss Ramsbotham.\"",
      "Get thee behind me, Derrida! Skeptical postmodernists may have reduced the certainties of Western intellectual life to a pile of gaudy plastic tchotchkes, but Pope John Paul II is fighting back.",
      "Get thee behind me, Santa. Curious news from Germany, where a group has launched a campaign to persuade people to turn their backs on Santa Claus and return to St Nicholas instead."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "3219",
    "Idiom": [
      "get there"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To succeed after effort.",
    "Sentence": [
      "He's having trouble completing the sudoku puzzle, but he'll get there eventually."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "3220",
    "Idiom": [
      "get through one's head"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To accept a fact one previously could not.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Pearl nodded obediently, pretending understanding. \"If Jack can get his back off the bed in the morning, and get it through his thick head that he has to do his share of mucking out and grooming, not just riding the gee-gees, he ́ll be laughing. \"",
      "He still couldn't get through his head that she was interested in him. Outside of Gloria Williams, the little girl next door who suddenly moved away, he couldn't remember anyone who paid that much attention to him."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "3221-1",
    "Idiom": [
      "get to first base"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To reach the first milestone of a goal.",
    "Sentence": [
      "We are not just people who \"happen to be queer\" — we are a terribly oppressed minority who will never get to first base in our battle for human and constitutional rights until we stop pretending that we are \"like everyone else\" and start fighting for our uniqueness."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "3221-2",
    "Idiom": [
      "get to first base"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To get as far as kissing in romantic advances.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "3222-1",
    "Idiom": [
      "get to grips with"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To confront or deal with something decisively.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "3222-2",
    "Idiom": [
      "get to grips with"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To understand or deal with something.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Estonia were struggling to get to grips with the game while Ireland were showing a composure and guile that demonstrated their experience in play-off ties."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "3222-3",
    "Idiom": [
      "get to grips with"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To gain understanding.",
    "Sentence": [
      "… autism is the integral explanation of the phenomenon Kafka in all its expressions, and autism can explain the mystery of Kafka like no other of the interpretations proposed by literary scholars and critics in the history of Kafka research. … The search by Kafka in his writing was for the unknown perspective in his fellow human beings which could put him at ease but he never managed to find it. He intuited this other state of mind and his writing is a testament of his search for this alien state of mind or self-consciousness which he tried to describe via parables, animal stories, aphorisms and images. His problem was that he could not ' get to grips with reality, more specifically his own reality, because he could not live with it."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "3223",
    "Idiom": [
      "get to the bottom of"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To discover the truth or solve.",
    "Sentence": [
      "I don't know what's going on here, but I'll get to the bottom of it sooner or later."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "3224",
    "Idiom": [
      "get to the fireworks factory"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To reach the most important part of a storyline.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Jesus falls again, and now some woman brings him a drink. I'm getting so tired of this whole sequence. When are they going to get to the fireworks factory !?",
      "Is Raven ever going to wrestle on TV? Or at least get to the fireworks factory ?",
      "No, that's a different crazy Egyptian tycoon, and that's assuming he even is crazy, which is a pretty safe assumption because once Diana Spencer marries into your family all her new relatives are automatically crazy, especially if any of them produced the terrible Spielberg movie \"Hook\" in which Robin Williams takes forever to get to the fireworks factory.",
      "The narrative going around about the new Godzilla, which waits about an hour before it finally gets to the fireworks factory, is that it’s a radical return to this kind of old-fashioned creature-feature restraint.",
      "Punching up and punching down. I've flirted with these terms a bit already, without adequately exploring their trajectories. Here, in Chapter 3, we finally get to the fireworks factory."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "3225",
    "Idiom": [
      "get to the point"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To state something directly.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Unlike Shakespeare, though, the dialogue is stripped to the bare minimum by the apes' rudimentary language, which is rather refreshing since everyone gets to the point."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "3226",
    "Idiom": [
      "get together"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To start dating.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "3227-1",
    "Idiom": [
      "get under someone's skin",
      "get underneath someone's skin"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To irritate someone.",
    "Sentence": [
      "This Bolshevist stuff gets under my skin. I've got a home and a family here. I started in to work when I was thirteen, and all I've got I've made and saved right here.",
      "She could get under his skin and drag on the raw places.",
      "The pope has not said if Milei’s tirades have got under his skin. “I know they say things about me but I ignore it for my mental health,” he said in a television interview. “I will pray for them.”"
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "3228-2",
    "Idiom": [
      "get under someone's skin"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To impact someone's feelings, often unexpectedly or unwantedly.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Some TV shows get under your skin with lovable characters or subtle writing.",
      "More than 400 people died from heat in 2022, but there was one story, an African American teenager called Caleb Blair, which got under my skin."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "3229",
    "Idiom": [
      "get up on the wrong side of the bed"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To feel irritable or be in a bad mood for no particular reason.",
    "Sentence": [
      "I think my boss got up on the wrong side of the bed this morning. He's been grumpy all day."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "3230-1",
    "Idiom": [
      "get up the yard"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Get lost.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "3230-2",
    "Idiom": [
      "get up the yard"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Expresses disbelief.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "3230-3",
    "Idiom": [
      "get up the yard"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Conveys disagreement.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "3231",
    "Idiom": [
      "get up with the chickens"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To wake up early.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "3232-1",
    "Idiom": [
      "get well"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To recover from an illness or injury.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "3232-2",
    "Idiom": [
      "get well"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To recover from difficulties.",
    "Sentence": [
      "With a single blockbuster, the studio got well."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "3233",
    "Idiom": [
      "get wet"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To become sexually aroused.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Sometimes I get wet right away, but other times I'm aroused but not very wet."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "3234",
    "Idiom": [
      "get what's coming to one",
      "get what one asked for"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To experience consequences for one's actions.",
    "Sentence": [
      "I hope that creep gets what's coming to him, and soon!"
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "3235",
    "Idiom": [
      "get wind"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To become public.",
    "Sentence": [
      "The Algonquins held a council and resolved to appease the spirit of the net by marrying him to two such very young girls that he could have no complaint on that score for the future. They did so, and the fishing turned out all that could be wished. The thing got wind among their neighbors the Hurons, and they adopted the custom.",
      "The story soon got wind."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "3236",
    "Idiom": [
      "get wind in one's jaws"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To talk too much or express one's opinion excessively.",
    "Sentence": [
      "And anytime you got wind in your jaw you were automatically fired.",
      "\"Boy, you got wind in your jaws or somethin'? What you suckin' wind fer? Honh?\""
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "3237",
    "Idiom": [
      "get wind of"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To learn of something that was meant to be secret.",
    "Sentence": [
      "The secret was still a secret, except that you had got wind of it.",
      "\"It's no easy matter,\" said Inspector Weymouth, \"to patrol the vicinity of John Ki's Joy-Shop without their getting wind of it.\"",
      "He asks that I don't identify his name and profession, saying he doesn't want colleagues to get wind of his habits.",
      "The ensuing snarknado also seemed to goose the TV ratings. Hundreds of thousands of viewers switched on the movie after it began, suggesting that they’d gotten wind through Twitter of the bananas spectacle that was unfolding.",
      "Fearing that if Mr. Altman got wind of their plan he would marshal his network against them, they acted quickly and secretly."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "3238-1",
    "Idiom": [
      "get with the program"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To become aware or adopt the prevailing viewpoint.",
    "Sentence": [
      "When the student was behind on his vocabulary, the teacher said, \"get with the program!\""
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "3238-2",
    "Idiom": [
      "get with the program"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To adapt and engage with current objectives.",
    "Sentence": [
      "In the first season of Stranger Things, no character was more extra than Steve Harrington — Nancy Wheeler’s frequently possessive, largely confused, often douchey boyfriend. Though he eventually got with the program and helped fight some monsters, he wasn’t exactly what you’d call the pick of the litter.",
      "Though natural gas prices dropped, the folks doing solar didn't get with the program."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "3238-3",
    "Idiom": [
      "get with the program"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To comply with accepted norms or practices.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Dude, get with the program ! We don't do casual Fridays any more."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "3239",
    "Idiom": [
      "get with the times"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To become aware of modern trends.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Kyle: This fat fuck thinks he's PewDiePie! Because of him I can't get Ike to come out of his room!"
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "3240",
    "Idiom": [
      "get-rich-quick"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Promises large profits quickly, often with little chance of success.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Private companies have, traditionally, dominated Britain's railway history. The first railways were built by private individuals and groups, and by the late 1830s building a railway was considered the ideal ' get rich quick' scheme.",
      "Five companies offering get-rich-quick schemes to property investors have been shut down.",
      "Get-rich-quick email scams are on the increase."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "3241-1",
    "Idiom": [
      "get-up-and-go"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Enthusiastic drive or ambition.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "3241-2",
    "Idiom": [
      "get-up-and-go"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Indicates enthusiasm or energy.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "3242",
    "Idiom": [
      "ghetto bird"
    ],
    "Meaning": "A police helicopter in urban areas with high crime.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Had to pull a strap on a fool named Louis the Third"
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "3243",
    "Idiom": [
      "ghetto lottery"
    ],
    "Meaning": "A financial windfall for a disadvantaged person.",
    "Sentence": [
      "The experts all agree that sports betting and the numbers game—the ghetto lottery —are the biggest sources of income for the mob, and this money is used to finance other rackets like narcotics, loansharking, pornography, and the infiltration of legitimate businesses and unions.",
      "Marcia’s father, known in his neighborhood as “Duke,” became quite a gambler, betting on horses, dogs, boxing matches, and even policy, or “playing the numbers,” which was the ghetto lottery, so to speak.",
      "It's called the ghetto lottery. Perp got handled a little too rough by a cop? He calls the People's Law office and sues the department for millions."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "3244",
    "Idiom": [
      "ghost at the feast"
    ],
    "Meaning": "A presence that causes guilt or revives unwelcome memories.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "3245",
    "Idiom": [
      "ghost from one's past"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Something unpleasant from the past that still affects someone.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "3246",
    "Idiom": [
      "ghost home"
    ],
    "Meaning": "A vacant residence owned by an absentee owner.",
    "Sentence": [
      "The house is an example of what is popularly referred to as a \" ghost home,\" a property owned by a nonresident (sometimes noncitizen) who has no plans on ever moving in.",
      "So then we get to the deliberate ghost home investors. How do we tell that the empty flat has been purposely left unoccupied?",
      "The outcome of the new tax is being watched closely as cities around the world struggle with the rise of so-called ghost homes : scarcely used residences in prime urban locations seen by investors as a safe way to park their cash."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "3247",
    "Idiom": [
      "gift horse"
    ],
    "Meaning": "An apparent gift with significant drawbacks.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Having now, as he thought, balanced this little account of friendship, the captain was about to shift his saddle to this noble gift-horse when the affectionate patriarch plucked him by the sleeve, and introduced to him a whimpering, whining, leathern-skinned old squaw, that might have passed for an Egyptian mummy, without drying. \"This,\" said he, \"is my wife; she is a good wife--I love her very much.--She loves the horse--she loves him a great deal--she will cry very much at losing him.--I do not know how I shall comfort her--and that makes my heart very sore.\"",
      "To human beings, on the other hand, each meme vehicle is a potential friend or foe, bearing a gift that will enhance our powers or a gift horse that will distract us, burden our memories, derange our judgment.",
      "\"Don't worry. You can keep them. You don't have to pay for them.\" / Well, a gift horse and all that. I took the sneakers.",
      "The woman on the telephone in the science-faculty office found me an address for Timothy Butler in no time at all. Full marks for information retrieval. Zero for security. If I had been consulted, I would have insisted that callers produce something more compelling than a vague interest in locating a student before his address could be handed over. Still, what it is they say about a gift horse ?",
      "You know what they say about a gift horse, man. This is free help. Don't take it for granted."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "3248",
    "Idiom": [
      "gift of the gab"
    ],
    "Meaning": "The ability to speak easily and persuasively.",
    "Sentence": [
      "\"Ay, that he shall,\" replied Fagin, \"and we'll have a big-wig, Charley: one that's got the greatest gift of the gab : to carry on his defence; and he shall make a speech for himself too, if he likes.\"",
      "I had meant to speak for ten minutes and must now go on for forty, and, though I've been racking my brains for three hours to think of something, I simply cannot last the course. Now you've got to be a good chap and help me. You're a Free Trader and can tell our people what a wash-out Protection is in the Colonies. All you fellows have the gift of the gab.",
      "He is a political chameleon, as charming to business leaders he met privately in Aberdeen on Friday night as he has been inspiring to distressed and desperate Labour defectors in Glasgow and beyond. The ex-oil economist can do it all because he has the gift of the gab and used to be a leftwing tearaway, expelled from the SNP ranks in stuffier times."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "3249",
    "Idiom": [
      "gift that keeps on giving"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Something with continuous positive consequences.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "3250",
    "Idiom": [
      "gild the lily"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To embellish something unnecessarily.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "3251",
    "Idiom": [
      "gimme a five"
    ],
    "Meaning": "A request for a high five.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "3252",
    "Idiom": [
      "ginger knob"
    ],
    "Meaning": "A male redhead.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "3253",
    "Idiom": [
      "ginger up"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To make something more lively or interesting.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "3254",
    "Idiom": [
      "gird up one's loins"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To prepare oneself for a challenge.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Man came into this world, not to sit down and muse, not to befog himself with vain subtleties, but to gird up his loins and to work.",
      "Then Susan said briskly, \"Well, we must just gird up our loins and pitch in.\"",
      "King Gyanendra must gird up his loins and prepare himself for all exigencies."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "3255",
    "Idiom": [
      "give a damn"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To care about something.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Frankly, my dear, I don't give a damn.",
      "Long as I have my clams I don't give a damn about revolution",
      "My stepfather loved me as much as he loved his own three sons. I knew how much he wanted to help me and how lacking in financial resources he was. Nothing could erase the image I gained of my real father that day: a carefree, well-to-do man who didn't really give a damn about the hopes and dreams of his firstborn son.",
      "Call someone who'll listen and might give a damn Maybe one of your sordid affairs But don't you come 'round here handin' me none of your lies Here's a quarter, call someone who cares",
      "Unhappiness where's when I was young / And we didn't give a damn",
      "He doesn't give a damn about your child's painting, he's just interested in the gold frame.",
      "If she actually gave a damn what the law said, she wouldn't have stolen the car in the first place, now would she?"
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "3256",
    "Idiom": [
      "give a dog a bad name and hang him"
    ],
    "Meaning": "A besmirched reputation leads to hardship.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "3257",
    "Idiom": [
      "give a fuck"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To care.",
    "Sentence": [
      "I don't give a fuck /They done pushed me to my limit, I'm all in/I might blow up any minute, did it again",
      "And I don't give a fuck if calling the pope a motherfucker / means you unthinkingly brand me an unthinking apostate.",
      "We did some very rough estimates, and, with 35 employees contributing just $6,000 a year, after 30 years, half a percent could add up to roughly a million dollars! That number was so high you’ll never guess what happened: Janice in accounting actually gave a fuck ! I’m serious! She’s a changed woman now!",
      "Aline Brosh McKenna, one of the creators of The CW TV series Crazy Ex-Girlfriend, told a reporter in 2020: “I often say, ‘Lord, give me the moxie of a post-menopausal women who gives absolutely no fucks.’”",
      "The committee doesn't give a fuck about this issue, but you know what, I give a fuck !"
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "3258",
    "Idiom": [
      "give a good account of oneself"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To act creditably.",
    "Sentence": [
      "He was one of two changes to the Spurs starting line-up as interim manager Ryan Mason called up Bale and Dele Alli in place of Harry Winks and Lucas Moura. Both gave good accounts of themselves - Alli showing sparkles of quality in the first half before fading in the second."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "3259",
    "Idiom": [
      "give a hang"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To care about something.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "3260",
    "Idiom": [
      "give a hoot"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To care about something.",
    "Sentence": [
      "I don't care for a glorious name— / I wouldn't give a hoot for fame;",
      "Give a hoot — don't pollute!"
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "3261",
    "Idiom": [
      "give a light"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To care.",
    "Sentence": [
      "I don't think I ever heard / A single little civil word from those guys / But you know I don't give a light",
      "White man, white man / Don't you give a light / For the blood you've shed?"
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "3262",
    "Idiom": [
      "give a man a fish"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Teaches the importance of education and self-sufficiency over temporary solutions.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "3263",
    "Idiom": [
      "give a man a fish and you feed him for a day; teach a man to fish and you feed him for a lifetime"
    ],
    "Meaning": "It's better to teach someone to be self-sufficient than to provide for them temporarily.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "3264",
    "Idiom": [
      "give a monkey's"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To care or have concern.",
    "Sentence": [
      "He knows what he can do with his calendars. I don't give a monkey's. I'm leaving. I've got another job.",
      "I couldn't give a monkey's. What I am interested in is the things that drive the big numbers.",
      "Though a huge majority of the population may have continued not to give a monkey's for Derrida, Lacan, or Foucault themselves",
      "A friend living in France reports that the French don't give a monkey's about unpasteurized dairy products (cheese, etc.) but that they are completely paranoid about le toxoplasmosis."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "3265",
    "Idiom": [
      "give a rat's arse"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To care a minimum amount.",
    "Sentence": [
      "I just don't give a rat's arse !",
      "She couldn't give a rat's arse whether he shows up or not.",
      "I don't give a rat's arse about politics."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "3266",
    "Idiom": [
      "give a rip"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To care.",
    "Sentence": [
      "If anyone gives a rip about the team they will be at practice.",
      "I can tell you do not give a rip about me or my opinions."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "3267",
    "Idiom": [
      "give a sneck posset"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To reject someone.",
    "Sentence": [
      "She gave him a sneck posset."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "3268",
    "Idiom": [
      "give and take"
    ],
    "Meaning": "A process of compromise.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Will be run for on Huish Downs..A Free Plate of ₤50. Give and Take, by any Horse, Mare, or Gelding.",
      "My mama said \"you can't hurry love / No, you'll just have to wait\" / She said \"love don't come easy / But it's a game of give and take \"",
      "They hoped for an amicable solution, but both knew it would require some give and take."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "3269",
    "Idiom": [
      "give as good as one gets"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To respond in kind to others' behavior, especially when insulted or mistreated.",
    "Sentence": [
      "On balance, it was harsh on Hearts, who had given as good as they got against their more-fancied opponents, who, despite not being at full strength, fielded a multi-million pound team.",
      "The Foreign Correspondents Association's annual banquet last week turned into an angry slanging match. Botha gave as good as he got. \"I am sick and tired of a lot of foreign representatives descending on my country and picking up on all the dirty work instead of all the beauty, promise and goodwill,\" Botha said."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "3270",
    "Idiom": [
      "give away the store"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To negotiate poorly by conceding too much.",
    "Sentence": [
      "But he left the impression he wanted, of a man prepared to be conciliatory who would never give away the store.",
      "\"Bush's tax plan offers next to nothing to average Americans, while giving away the store to multimillionaires,\" said Senate Minority Leader Harry Reid.",
      "Then Biden gave away the store. Republicans in the Senate had balked at the climate plan, especially its effort to raise taxes on the wealthy to pay for many of its investments."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "3271",
    "Idiom": [
      "give back"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To contribute to charity as repayment for one's success.",
    "Sentence": [
      "We organize this Thanksgiving dinner at the old-age home to give back to the community."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "3272",
    "Idiom": [
      "give birth"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To become the source of.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Einstein gave birth to a famous equation relating energy to mass."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "3273",
    "Idiom": [
      "give chase"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To begin chasing or pursuing.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Without thinking, Zoe ran along the outside of the building, as her stepmother and Tina fought to be first out on to the scaffold to give chase.",
      "Under the policy, officers may give chase if they believe a person is committing or is about to commit a felony, a Class A misdemeanor such as domestic battery, or a serious traffic offense that could risk injuring others, such as drunken driving or street racing.",
      "The footage, which was captured at approximately 10:30 pm on September 24, shows two vehicles speeding past the patrol car on Highway 400, prompting the sheriff’s deputy to give chase.",
      "An NYPD officer struck in the arm by a bullet allegedly fired by a teen gunman ignored his wound and gave chase to the 16-year-old suspect, cops said Tuesday.",
      "After the robbery, the police gave chase but didn't catch the suspect."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "3274",
    "Idiom": [
      "give curry"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To direct abusive language at someone.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "3275",
    "Idiom": [
      "give ear"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To listen; to pay attention.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Give ear to his motions: Master Slender, I will description the matter to you, if you be capacity of it.",
      "Leaves and rain and the days of the year, (Water-willow and wellaway,) All these fall, and my soul gives ear"
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "3276-1",
    "Idiom": [
      "give face"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To honor or pay respect.",
    "Sentence": [
      "We gave face to one another.",
      "While she gave face to the director, his subordinates, and her colleagues, she had no face left to herself.",
      "As one example among many of good intent gone wrong, we can mention the western top manager who felt that he gave face to the Chinese side by suddenly showing up himself to negotiate instead of sending a lower ranked employee."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "3276-2",
    "Idiom": [
      "give face"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To perform oral sex.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Boys gave face, girls gave head.",
      "Frank had pushed her pants down to reveal her pink pussy and was giving her face. She was in ecstasy.",
      "I'd hold her ass while I was giving her face, licking and sucking while she tried to escape, anticipating her orgasm when all of the sudden she would burst sweet honey and come all over my face while the earth shook."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "3277",
    "Idiom": [
      "give head",
      "give dome"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To perform oral sex.",
    "Sentence": [
      "But she never lost her head / Even when she was giving head",
      "You were talking so brave and so sweet / Givin' me head on the unmade bed / While the limousines wait in the street",
      "Ah, what the fuck, I only saw her for a minute. First impressions of this kind can often be misleading. Does she give head ?"
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "3278",
    "Idiom": [
      "give heed"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To pay attention.",
    "Sentence": [
      "I will be bold with time and your attention: / Then marke th’inducement. Thus it came; giue heede too’t: /"
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "3279",
    "Idiom": [
      "give him enough rope and he'll hang himself"
    ],
    "Meaning": "If given enough freedom, someone may harm themselves through their own actions.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "3280",
    "Idiom": [
      "give in"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To relent or surrender.",
    "Sentence": [
      "I finally gave in and let him stay up to watch TV.",
      "OK, I don't know the answer. I give in.",
      "Try not to give in to temptation."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "3281",
    "Idiom": [
      "give it one's best shot"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To make one's best effort or attempt.",
    "Sentence": [
      "I didn't win the contest, but I sure gave it my best shot."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "3282",
    "Idiom": [
      "give it the gun"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To accelerate a vehicle.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "3283",
    "Idiom": [
      "give life to"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To render something into active use.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "3284",
    "Idiom": [
      "give lip"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To speak rudely or disrespectfully.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "3285",
    "Idiom": [
      "give notice"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To announce one's intent to leave a job.",
    "Sentence": [
      "A Cambridgeshire man recently gave notice with a message piped on top of a passion cake. A half-baked idea, or a generous parting gift for the office?",
      "He gave notice yesterday that he'll leave in two weeks.",
      "Did you hear that Jack gave notice today?"
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "3286",
    "Idiom": [
      "give one's all"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To make the utmost effort with full commitment.",
    "Sentence": [
      "The Cemeterial Division... has taken up the huge task of establishing contact with the mothers or widows of the 30,000 American soldiers who gave their all and whose bodies rest in graves across the sea.",
      "Police officers expressed shock at the news of their fellow officer's death. \"He gave his all; he literally gave his all,\" said Officer Edward Looney."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "3287",
    "Idiom": [
      "give one's head a shake"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To reassess one's behavior or ideas.",
    "Sentence": [
      "If you're thinking about topping your burger with ketchup, mustard, relish and perhaps a couple of pickle slices, you might want to \" give your head a shake.\"",
      "But give your head a shake, people. Stop pushing for Wi-Fi at campgrounds around B.C. The entire premise of going camping is to escape from the hustle and bustle of our busy lives.",
      "Talk about focussing on the unimportant. Give your head a shake, Google."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "3288",
    "Idiom": [
      "give oneself airs"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To act pretentiously or snobbishly.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "3289",
    "Idiom": [
      "give out"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To complain or sulk.",
    "Sentence": [
      "You shouldn't give out to your brother like that.",
      "He was always giving out about the weather."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "3290",
    "Idiom": [
      "give pause"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Causes concern.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Here is a fact that will give you pause. Many states do not publish the voting records of their legislators."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "3291",
    "Idiom": [
      "give someone Hail Columbia"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To scold someone severely.",
    "Sentence": [
      "The teacher gave her students Hail Columbia over their poor test scores.",
      "If mother finds out I broke the window, she'll give me Hail Columbia for sure!"
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "3292",
    "Idiom": [
      "give someone a bloody nose"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To defeat or frustrate someone without lasting harm.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "3293-1",
    "Idiom": [
      "give someone a break"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To allow someone a rest.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "3293-2",
    "Idiom": [
      "give someone a break"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To stop harassing or demanding.",
    "Sentence": [
      "“Oh, give me a break, sport. You want to pick my brain but you're not going give me anything in return? What's up with that?”"
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "3293-3",
    "Idiom": [
      "give someone a break"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To provide someone with an opportunity for advancement.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "3294-1",
    "Idiom": [
      "give someone a hand"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To help or assist.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Could you please give me a hand carrying this mattress?"
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "3294-2",
    "Idiom": [
      "give someone a hand"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To help someone.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Please give all our dedicated volunteers a hand for their hard work."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "3295-1",
    "Idiom": [
      "give someone a hard time"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To cause difficulty or trouble for someone.",
    "Sentence": [
      "During WWII, German troops gave the Allies a hard time in Italy, but eventually the Allies broke through."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "3295-2",
    "Idiom": [
      "give someone a hard time"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To tease or mock someone.",
    "Sentence": [
      "He's usually pretty good-natured when the children give him a hard time about his bald spot."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "3296",
    "Idiom": [
      "give someone a piece of one's mind"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To voice strong disagreement or dissatisfaction.",
    "Sentence": [
      "I was nothing but a mass of trembling. As for answering him back, or giving him a piece of my mind, as I had meant to, I wouldn’t have done it not for a thousand pounds.",
      "That is the fourth time this week my neighbor's barking dog has woken me up. I'm going to go give her a piece of my mind about it."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "3297",
    "Idiom": [
      "give someone a ring"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To call someone.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "3298",
    "Idiom": [
      "give someone a shout"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To contact someone.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Give me a shout next time you're in town."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "3299",
    "Idiom": [
      "give someone a speaking to"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To scold someone.",
    "Sentence": [
      "When she comes home I will certainly be giving her a speaking to about breaking curfew."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "3300",
    "Idiom": [
      "give someone an earful"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To scold someone loudly.",
    "Sentence": [
      "I should never have tried to grind the computer system to a halt. Firstly I got sacked, and then my boss gave me a right earful."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "3301",
    "Idiom": [
      "give someone an inch and someone will take a mile",
      "give them an inch and they'll take a mile"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Granting a small allowance can lead to larger demands.",
    "Sentence": [
      "O the tyranny of aristocracy!— give it a furlong, and it will take a mile,—a veto stopped me once from going to Brussels: and now comes a Lettre de cachet ordering me to Paris. (With \"furlong\" being probable wordplay on the usual form.)",
      "If you had a horse or a small article of property taken, you would recover it by law; not for the value of the article itself, but if you give an aggressor an inch, he will take a mile.",
      "Show them that those who have defended the nation with the sword can control it by the ballot-box. Give no cowardly scamp an inch, or he will take a mile.",
      "Buy for them beautiful pictures, and encourage them to decorate their rooms each in his or her own childish way. Give them an inch and they will take a mile. Allow them the privilege and they will make your home beautiful.",
      "Undertake to make men of students by giving full immunities, and lawlessness, or perhaps we should say carelessness and indifference, results. \" Give them an inch and they will take a mile,\" is the maxim that illustrates their course.",
      "Don't let us tempt the devil to tempt us. If we give Satan an inch, he will take a mile.",
      "If Kirishima-san had known the proverb about giving some people an inch and they take a mile, she would have applied it to Jack. The moment she showed the least sign of relenting from the stiff, almost solemn attitude she usually assumed when trying to teach him, and gave him the smallest word of approbation, he immediately took advantage of it.",
      "The North therefore felt herself often obliged to give way, which encouraged the South to take a mile the next time when we gave her an ell. (Combining elements of both new and old forms of the proverb.)",
      "Let them know that even should they get the best of you now, that you will still be men and demand your rights as such. Never give an inch. If you do, the employer will take a mile. (Having the proverb split between sentences.)",
      "His language was not clear, but his intent was. To yield to his demands meant that he would take what money I had and perhaps do more mischief; give him an inch and he will take a mile.",
      "The easy-going officers are perhaps our worst enemies. We all like them at the schools, and we all take a mile when they give us a foot. (With the two clauses reversed from the usual form.)",
      "Hardly is a law on the statute books before someone proposes some way to improve it. People who distrust social security anyway are likely to complain about the entering wedge or to say, give an inch and they take a mile.",
      "Give the aggressor an inch and he'll take a mile. Give him a country and he'll ask for a continent. Ten years ago, there were those who hoped to buy “peace in our time” from Hitler; Henry Wallace by the same course would have us today try to buy “peace in our time” from Stalin.",
      "Early in the trial respondent cautioned petitioner against “putting on a show” and added that “if you give him an inch, he'll take a mile. I might as well sit on him now.”",
      "However, now that you have given me the broad scope I will take advantage of it. When you give me an inch, I will take a mile!"
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "3302-1",
    "Idiom": [
      "give someone enough rope"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To allow someone to act without interference.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "3302-2",
    "Idiom": [
      "give someone enough rope"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To allow someone to act freely, believing they will eventually harm themselves.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "3303",
    "Idiom": [
      "give someone grey hair"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Causes frustration, confusion, or anxiety.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "3304",
    "Idiom": [
      "give someone grief"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To hassle or abuse someone.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Some of his colleagues have \" given him a bit of grief \" for leaving his house, but Haines is quick to counter that he's following Government guidelines while out and about.",
      "Fred was giving me grief over the money I owed him."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "3305",
    "Idiom": [
      "give someone hell"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To criticize harshly.",
    "Sentence": [
      "I gave it off to her and then I stormed right over to her husband, my colleague, and gave him hell as well.",
      "He stopped calling me Space Barbie after Mike gave him hell last week.",
      "When the hospital called and told him Roberta was missing, Dr. Meducca gave them hell.",
      "I gave him hell about his sloppy uniform; but don't worry, I'll get him shaped up pretty damn quick."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "3306",
    "Idiom": [
      "give someone his head"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To allow someone to act without constraint.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "3307",
    "Idiom": [
      "give someone line"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To allow someone temporary freedom until it is convenient to intervene.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "3308",
    "Idiom": [
      "give someone something to think about"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To provide a challenge or provoke thought.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Arsenal were untroubled elsewhere, Forest's risk-averse gameplan making it a relatively easy night for their defenders until Awoniyi emerged after being out with injury since October, finally giving them something to think about."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "3309",
    "Idiom": [
      "give someone the bag"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To disappoint someone.",
    "Sentence": [
      "I have felt of the power and terrors of what is yet unseen, he would not thus have lightly given us the bag"
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "3310",
    "Idiom": [
      "give someone the boot"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To fire or eject someone.",
    "Sentence": [
      "I am sorry for your husband and children, but I have to give you the boot.",
      "They said I couldn't do the job and gave me the boot. So, now I'm looking for work again."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "3311",
    "Idiom": [
      "give someone the brush-off"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To rebuff or reject someone.",
    "Sentence": [
      "I asked three different clerks, and they all gave me the brush-off."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "3312-1",
    "Idiom": [
      "give someone the business"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To treat someone harshly or wrongfully.",
    "Sentence": [
      "“I hope you're right, Mike. I hope you aren't giving me the business.” I grinned at him. “The only one who can get shafted is me.”",
      "\"They wouldn't waste the women. I'd guess they've got them up at the hotel, taking it in turn to give them the business. Four women only – they won't last till morning.\""
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "3312-2",
    "Idiom": [
      "give someone the business"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To criticize or ridicule someone.",
    "Sentence": [
      "The Red Dean's utterances, as usual, got on some people's nerves. The irreverent New York Daily News gave him the business, in a full-column editorial, ending; \"Nobody curbs these whizbangs in the United States or England, where they are free to be as nutty as their capacities will permit.\"",
      "Then the kids at school started giving me the business about being a fairy, called me the African Queen.",
      "They'd switch frequencies and there she'd be like Tokyo Rose, giving them the business. “What you doing here, Marines? You come to kill us? Why? We haven't done nothing to you.”"
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "3313",
    "Idiom": [
      "give someone the chair"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To sentence a person to execution by electric chair.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Joseph O'Dell, convicted of a brutal rape and murder, was sentenced to death after a Virginia prosecutor told the jury that if they didn't give him the chair, he'd one day get out and be free to kill again."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "3314",
    "Idiom": [
      "give someone the cold shoulder"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To snub or reject someone.",
    "Sentence": [
      "I must have made him angry with my comment. He’s been giving me the cold shoulder ever since I said it."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "3315",
    "Idiom": [
      "give someone the creeps"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To cause uneasiness or mild fright.",
    "Sentence": [
      "As for Leo, he did not altogether like it either, but ran his fingers through his yellow curls, and remarked that it gave him the creeps.",
      "It’s the emptiness; there’s no one on the street at that time, along the river. It gives me the creeps.",
      "Walking through the graveyard late at night really gives me the creeps."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "3316",
    "Idiom": [
      "give someone the heave-ho",
      "give someone the old heave-ho"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To fire or end a relationship with someone.",
    "Sentence": [
      "I accused her in set terms of giving me the heave-ho in order that she could mercenarily marry a richer man.",
      "I'm looking for work again because they gave me the heave-ho.",
      "Possibly a lot of them gained entry because there were so many other strange bees in the hive, but once they started to load up and run, the natives joined with the old ones and gave them the old heave-ho.",
      "Now I won't have to explain to her what sort of friend you really were and why I gave you the old heave-ho.",
      "I think maybe that's why they gave me the old heave-ho from the convent.",
      "The least she could do was crawl back into her severely stylish shell, so she wouldn't look pitiful when he gave her the old heave-ho.",
      "So, she gave him the old heave ho !"
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "3317",
    "Idiom": [
      "give someone the runaround"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To delay or frustrate someone with misleading information.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Deitch decided seven years ago that she wanted to film a lesbian love story. When major producers gave her the run-around, she formed her own production company, hustled for backers and gathered the right crew of technicians and actors to make it happen.",
      "They gave me the runaround when I called. I got a full tour of the facility by phone, but no answer to my question."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "3318",
    "Idiom": [
      "give someone the slip"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To evade or escape someone.",
    "Sentence": [
      "One way or another I'm gonna lose ya, I'm gonna give you the slip.",
      "The police chased the suspect for two days before he finally gave them the slip and vanished."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "3319",
    "Idiom": [
      "give someone their cards"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To dismiss someone from employment.",
    "Sentence": [
      "HEAD WAITER: It’s filthy! Gaston, find out who washed this up and give them their cards immediately!",
      "Her noble husband, in urgent need of an heir, has dispatched her here with instructions to get herself into working order; should this not come to pass, Monica will be given her cards and told to vacate the premises so that Sir John can make alternative arrangements.",
      "I looked up at him as he turned his back and a few minutes later, the foreman brought me up and reluctantly gave me my cards as the boss, the horrid face of capital, had sacked me for not wearing protective boots."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "3320",
    "Idiom": [
      "give someone time"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To allow someone time to change their viewpoint or attitude.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "3321",
    "Idiom": [
      "give someone to understand"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To tell someone indirectly.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Hadn't she explained and described and even—though lightly, of course; she couldn't say such a thing directly— given him to understand that this was the one unforgivable thing."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "3322",
    "Idiom": [
      "give someone what for"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To punish or rebuke.",
    "Sentence": [
      "She gave him what for all right. But you could see she was ever so pleased and she went around telling everybody about it.",
      "He robbed from the rich, and he gave to the poor / Stood up to The Man and he gave him what for.",
      "... 'e gived 'em up, an' repented somethin' horrid — there still bein' the buns to come — but Miss Soapy she gave 'im what- for -proper, she did!"
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "3323",
    "Idiom": [
      "give someone what-for"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To admonish or berate.",
    "Sentence": [
      "He really gave the kid what-for about the baseball through his window."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "3324",
    "Idiom": [
      "give someone wood"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To cause an erection due to sexual arousal.",
    "Sentence": [
      "I don't really like her, but in that dress she's giving me wood."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "3325",
    "Idiom": [
      "give something a go"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To try or attempt.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Why not give it a go ? You may find it easier than you thought."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "3326",
    "Idiom": [
      "give something a miss"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To forgo something.",
    "Sentence": [
      "I decided to give the new book a miss."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "3327",
    "Idiom": [
      "give something a try"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To attempt something.",
    "Sentence": [
      "I always wanted to give windsurfing a try. I reckon it could be fun."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "3328",
    "Idiom": [
      "give something a whirl"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To try or attempt.",
    "Sentence": [
      "If you've never tried a recumbent bicycle before, you're welcome to give it a whirl.",
      "I don't know how to begin, but I'll give it a whirl, anyway."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "3329",
    "Idiom": [
      "give the axe"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To fire.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "3330",
    "Idiom": [
      "give the devil his due"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Acknowledge the positive qualities of someone unpleasant.",
    "Sentence": [
      "for he was never yet a breaker of proverbs: he will give the devil his due.",
      "Yet give the devil his due; Says grace before he doth a deed of villainy.",
      "And to give the devil his due he's finer than ever. Too damn fine for this crowd!",
      "We are obliged, at least this once, to give the devil his due — and to consider the possibility that he may even be, in this instance, the angel of bleak truthfulness."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "3331",
    "Idiom": [
      "give the elbow"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To fire or reject someone.",
    "Sentence": [
      "They said I couldn't do the job so they gave me the elbow. So, now I'm looking for work again.",
      "When are you finally going to give your boyfriend the elbow ?"
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "3332",
    "Idiom": [
      "give the game away"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To reveal a secret unintentionally.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Just as the fearsome prison guard Mr Swivel was becoming more and more suspicious as to why these two had been under the table for so long, Flip slid up on to Dad’s chair. Without her glasses and wearing Dad’s prison overalls, she passed rather well for her nephew. Next, Dad slid up on to Flip’s chair. The boy had to stifle a giggle at the sight of his dad wearing one of Flip’s famous floaty dresses. The glasses softened his face, and from a distance he might just pass as the elderly librarian. “Stop giggling, mate!” hissed Dad. “You’ll give the game away.”",
      "You don't want to mention the money involved; that would give the game away."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "3333",
    "Idiom": [
      "give the lie"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To accuse someone of lying, often in a challenging context.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Say to the Court, it glowes, and shines like rotten wood; Say to the Church, it shewes whats good, and doth no good: If Church and Court reply, then giue them both the lye.",
      "It is reputed so great a shame to be accounted a lyer, that any other injury is cancelled by giving the lie; and he that receiveth it, standeth so charged in his honor and reputation, that he cannot disburden himselfe of that imputation, but by striking of him that hath so giuen it, or by challenging him the combat.",
      "Ariel : Thou liest. Stephano : Do I so? Take thou that! [ Beats Trinculo] As you like this, give me the lie another time! Trinculo : I did not give the lie ! Out o' your wits and hearing too?",
      "The great Violation of the Point of Honour from Man to Man, is giving the Lie. One may tell another he Whores, Drinks, Blasphemes, and it may pass unresented; but to say he Lies, tho’ but in Jest, is an Affront that nothing but Blood can expiate.",
      "Whatever injury was the initial cause of the quarrel, conflict might move into its physically violent phase only through the particular act of resentment constituted by giving the lie.",
      "Giving the lie became the fundamental way of questioning a man’s status as a gentleman."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "3334",
    "Idiom": [
      "give the lie to"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To prove something false; to refute.",
    "Sentence": [
      "As you like this, give me the lie another time.",
      "The automatic under his pillow gave the lie to that statement.",
      "The bet against Treasuries gave the lie to a criticism sometimes made of Dalio—that he is basically a bond-market investor, who has benefitted from a twenty-year rally in bonds.",
      "They found plenty of emails that gave the lie to his assertion that he didn't know about the incident."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "3335",
    "Idiom": [
      "give the royal treatment"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To treat someone extremely well.",
    "Sentence": [
      "We would spit in the food of difficult customers and give the royal treatment to those who treated us with respect. I could never comprehend how a patron could treat somebody they entrusted with their food with anything but the utmost of esteem..."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "3336",
    "Idiom": [
      "give the sack"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To dismiss from employment.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "3337-1",
    "Idiom": [
      "give the time of day"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To acknowledge or show respect to someone.",
    "Sentence": [
      "If you're lucky, she might give you the time of day."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "3337-2",
    "Idiom": [
      "give the time of day"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To ignore or disrespect someone.",
    "Sentence": [
      "\"Daddy, please,\" Leanne laughed, \"Give Linds a little credit. She wouldn't give the time of day to someone like Connor.\"",
      "He won't give the time of day to someone like you or me.",
      "I tried to say \"hi\", but she wouldn't give me the time of day."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "3338",
    "Idiom": [
      "give them an inch and they'll take an ell"
    ],
    "Meaning": "A variation of \"give them an inch and they'll take a mile.\"",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "3339-1",
    "Idiom": [
      "give up the ghost"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To die.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "3339-2",
    "Idiom": [
      "give up the ghost"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To quit or cease functioning.",
    "Sentence": [
      "We've got a problem. A big one. The controller chip for our water purification system has given up the ghost. We can't make another one and the process is too complicated for a work-around system. Simply put, we're running out of drinking water. No water, no Vault.",
      "My old computer finally gave up the ghost the other day."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "3340-1",
    "Idiom": [
      "give weight"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To attach importance to.",
    "Sentence": [
      "“ merely observing that if you were to give weight to such an objection, there is not a panel who would not be entitled to the same benefit ”",
      "Mr. Bailey: Well, I man, that's the opinion of an adversary, if it's a sincere opinion, which I question. I wouldn't give it much weight.",
      "There certainly are some cases in which a person's failure to give weight to his or her future interests is irrational.",
      "Requiring concrete suggestions or motivations beyond those actually needed by a person of ordinary skill in the art, and failing to give weight to suggestions implicit from the prior art as a whole errs on the side of issuing patents to obvious inventions \""
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "3340-2",
    "Idiom": [
      "give weight"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To improve credibility or legitimacy.",
    "Sentence": [
      "What were these 250 men to come for? – I imagined it was to give weight to the petition.",
      "The next question is, we are told that this sham Estimate – for there is no intention of making it a real Estimate – is to give weight to this country in the approaching Conference.",
      "We soldiers don’t hate one another when the war is over, and maybe the fact that I’ve fought through it will give weight to my words.",
      "He started the Jerusalem Foundation to raise money for the city, seeking to give it cultural weight to match it's historical importance. The Israel Museum and the Biblical Zoo were among his pet projects."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "3341",
    "Idiom": [
      "give what for"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To scold or punish verbally.",
    "Sentence": [
      "When she found out, she really gave him what for."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "3342",
    "Idiom": [
      "given enough eyeballs, all bugs are shallow"
    ],
    "Meaning": "With enough people involved, most problems will be quickly identified and easily fixable.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "3343",
    "Idiom": [
      "glad tidings"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Good news.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "3344",
    "Idiom": [
      "glass ceiling"
    ],
    "Meaning": "An unwritten barrier to promotion for a specific demographic group.",
    "Sentence": [
      "There are fears of hitting a \" glass ceiling \" beyond which known or suspected gay men and lesbians cannot rise. According to Fortune : \"In a 1987 survey by the Wall Street Journal, 66% of major-company CEO's said they would be reluctant to put a homosexual on management committees\"",
      "Women are “woefully” under-represented in parliament, the courts and the boardroom, with new research showing that the glass ceiling is still holding back 6,000 women from the top 33,000 jobs in Britain.",
      "it was the genteel chauvinism of the enlightened elites at Kleiner Perkins that carried with it the sting of betrayal. They promised her a meritocracy and gave her a glass ceiling instead: “It just wasn’t fair.”",
      "“Has the glass ceiling shattered?” said Bakari Sellers, a political ally of Harris. “No, but it does have another crack.”",
      "And yet as we stand amid the metaphorical shards of all those shattered glass ceilings, it’s hard to ignore the fact that empowerment feminism hasn’t really delivered on its promises.",
      "“My father really believed at some point that [communism] would be great for humanity, perhaps also because he was facing all the glass ceilings for being a Jewish boy,” she says."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "3345",
    "Idiom": [
      "glass-half-empty"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Pessimistic.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Susan Kropf, the company's president and chief operating officer, says that while the management team is “by nature optimistic,” there is a “ glass half empty kind of mentality.” Says Kropf. “We always think about what more we could have done, or how we could have done it better.”"
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "3346",
    "Idiom": [
      "glass-half-full"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Optimistic.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Normally she is an extremely positive, glass half-full sort of girl, someone who can find the silver lining in any situation. However, when it came to her breakup, she refused to see the many positive things that could come from it..."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "3347",
    "Idiom": [
      "glory be"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Expresses surprise.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "3348-1",
    "Idiom": [
      "gloss over"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To cover up a mistake or wrongdoing.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Plausibility, I know, can only be unmasked by shewing the absurdities it glosses over, and the simple truths it involves with specious errors.",
      "They glossed over the problem, hoping that the customers wouldn't notice."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "3348-2",
    "Idiom": [
      "gloss over"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To treat something with less care than it deserves.",
    "Sentence": [
      "This book only glosses over quantum mechanics, and doesn't go into detail.",
      "We glossed over the petty small talk and got directly into the problem."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "3349",
    "Idiom": [
      "glutton for punishment"
    ],
    "Meaning": "One who persists despite negative consequences.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Other gluttons for punishment include Phil Whittingham, from Avanti West Coast, who has returned for four events in a row.",
      "I should have quit this job long ago, but I guess I'm just a glutton for punishment."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "3350",
    "Idiom": [
      "gnaw someone's vitals"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To deeply trouble someone.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "3351",
    "Idiom": [
      "go Dutch"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To split the cost when going out.",
    "Sentence": [
      "GOING DUTCH Some girls are quite willing to pay part of the expenses on special dates. When something is planned which is beyond the boy's means....",
      "Ashley Olsen may be a teenage zillionaire, but when she's out on the town with pals, she goes dutch."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "3352",
    "Idiom": [
      "go Galt"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To withdraw from society and stop contributing, particularly in protest against perceived injustice.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Smith, who’s still mulling over ways that she can “ go Galt,” sees a possibility for a moral stand. During the Iraq War, she read about a painter who’d painted less, reducing his income, in order to dodge taxes and thereby make sure he didn’t fund the war.",
      "We job creators are not going to take it. We are going Galt ! Just like in Ayn Rand's Atlas Shrugged, we are gonna leave you parasites behind and relocate to an island where only rich people can live — Manhattan!"
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "3353",
    "Idiom": [
      "go Hollywood"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To adopt a lifestyle aimed at fame, often in a superficial manner.",
    "Sentence": [
      "They'll put you in the movies, you'll have your video And if you're young and sexy, you'll be rollin' in the dough You'll sell a million records, so that must mean you're good Move on over, Ernest Tubb, Nashville's gone Hollywood"
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "3354-1",
    "Idiom": [
      "go a long way"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To be helpful for a significant time.",
    "Sentence": [
      "and soon every field-mouse was sipping and coughing and choking (for a little mulled ale goes a long way) and wiping his eyes and laughing and forgetting he had ever been cold in all his life.",
      "“She’s every right to expect a handsome present from me, of course,” she thought, looking vaguely at the leopard on its hind legs, “and I’ve no doubt she does! Money goes a long way with every one. The young are very selfish. ”",
      "Always, always hold her hand / You'll find out, oh just a little love / Goes a long way",
      "Biden Is Hoping Small Changes Go a Long Way on Immigration [title]",
      "This new law will go a long way in addressing this issue.",
      "Thank you for your generous donation; I'm sure it will go a long way."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "3354-2",
    "Idiom": [
      "go a long way"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To achieve considerable success.",
    "Sentence": [
      "All parents hope that their children will go a long way in their lives.",
      "The moment I met him I knew he would go a long way."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "3355",
    "Idiom": [
      "go against the grain"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To defy convention or norms.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Blondes do have more fun, Mrs. Rowland !! Go against the grain this fall and opt for a fully opaque, bright-as-hell platinum dye job. Although it’s unexpected for a season filled with dark colors, the cool undertones are a masterful way to manipulate your way into a fall ’do while going lighter.",
      "His method certainly goes against the grain, but it is unquestionably effective."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "3356",
    "Idiom": [
      "go all around the Wrekin"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Take a long time to arrive.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "3357",
    "Idiom": [
      "go all out"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To put forth all possible effort or resources.",
    "Sentence": [
      "In Longnan Prefecture [Long nan di qu 7150 0589 0966 0575], people have gone all out to grow trees and grass in recent years, creating a new experience in developing mountainous areas.",
      "They went all out for his eightieth birthday party and chartered a tour boat on the bay."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "3358-1",
    "Idiom": [
      "go all the way"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Continue to the conclusion of a task or project.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "3358-2",
    "Idiom": [
      "go all the way"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To have sexual intercourse.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Let's go all the way, baby / Let's not wait / Let's go all the way, down, it's alright",
      "Actually, going all the way is like a really big decision. I can’t believe I was so caprecious about it. Dee, I almost had sex with him."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "3359",
    "Idiom": [
      "go along for the ride"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To accompany someone passively in a project or activity.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Bankman-Fried’s confidants were along for the ride. At his side was Caroline Ellison, Alameda’s CEO and his on-again, off-again lover."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "3360",
    "Idiom": [
      "go along to get along"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To conform for acceptance and security.",
    "Sentence": [
      "He also had a talent for the truth. He would tell it, regardless, a gift that did him little political good in the Army, where you had to go along to get along.",
      "Sezer, meanwhile, was put up by the three-part coalition that was in power as a puppet, someone who would go along to get along. But like a Supreme Court Justice who doesn't vote the way you want, he's turned into a reformer.",
      "Nobody wanted to speak out of turn. Nobody wanted to go against the prevailing wisdom. Everyone wanted to go along to get along. That’s how you got promoted in the IMF.",
      "Don invented a myth of himself, then made it a reality, and he had the stupidity—or the intelligence—to never stop believing in the myth. Lane Pryce, a go-along-to-get-along guy if ever there was one, doesn’t have that myth. All he has is the ability to give and give and give until there’s nothing more to take."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "3361",
    "Idiom": [
      "go along with"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To comply with a proposal despite lack of desire.",
    "Sentence": [
      "\"Hm. I guess I did agree to go along with whatever her conditions were...\" \"We smooched on it. No backsies.\""
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "3362",
    "Idiom": [
      "go along with the gag"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Cooperate in a joke or hoax.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "3363",
    "Idiom": [
      "go around the houses"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Do something circuitously.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "3364",
    "Idiom": [
      "go at a good clip"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To go fast.",
    "Sentence": [
      "The driver told me that at five o'clock there was a direct bus for Lyon on the main road, three kilometers from there. So off we went at a good clip, our wooden soles clacking noisily down the pebbled road.",
      "Without Da's slowing the pace, I was able to go at a good clip, stopping only to catch my breath every hour or so"
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "3365",
    "Idiom": [
      "go back in time"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To refer to the past.",
    "Sentence": [
      "A trip down the Borderlands line is like going back in time. At many stations, passengers still cross between platforms at track-level.",
      "Let's go back in time and see what caused World War I."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "3366",
    "Idiom": [
      "go back to the drawing board"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To start again from the beginning.",
    "Sentence": [
      "After the original plan failed miserably, they decided to go back to the drawing board and come up with something new."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "3367",
    "Idiom": [
      "go ballistic"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To become very angry.",
    "Sentence": [
      "She'd go ballistic, possibly even fling a fireball or two, if she knew Selene had him in her apartment.",
      "Allen Gregory DeLongpre: Hey, sorry for going ballistic back there. I think the whole Julie-being-alive thing affected me more than I thought.",
      "The guy went ballistic when I tried to tell him he couldn't return the socks if the package had been opened."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "3368-1",
    "Idiom": [
      "go bananas"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To get angry or crazy.",
    "Sentence": [
      "I just told her she couldn’t have any pudding until after dinner, and she went bananas !"
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "3368-2",
    "Idiom": [
      "go bananas"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To become silly or excited.",
    "Sentence": [
      "The music was going bananas with immensity at this point.",
      "As my colleague Glenn MacDonald, an economics professor at Washington University in St. Louis, told me when I asked him if all these tech companies had gone bananas, “It all depends on how you think about risk aversion.”"
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "3369",
    "Idiom": [
      "go batshit"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To react in an irrationally extreme manner.",
    "Sentence": [
      "When I told him about the latest numbers, he went batshit."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "3370",
    "Idiom": [
      "go begging"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To be unused or unutilized.",
    "Sentence": [
      "\"Principles without leaders go begging,\" he replied.",
      "As prosperity piles up the paperwork, the shortage becomes more severe; some 250000 secretarial jobs go begging every day.",
      "Three match points went begging as that potent first serve deserted her and even a magnificent backhand lob could not stop Bartoli making it 5-5, before going on to level the match in the tie-break."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "3371",
    "Idiom": [
      "go berserk"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To become wildly uncontrollable.",
    "Sentence": [
      "I watched the game in New York City's unofficial Redskins bar. When the game ended, we went berserk, performing a celebratory Fun Bunch and singing \"Hail to the Redskins!\"",
      "Let's say I touch my own hand with my finger. My brain can perceive that signal and then cancel it out. But Novichok makes it not get cancelled out, so it feels like I'm touching my own hand a million times a second, and every cell in my body goes berserk, and the brain understands that this is the end.",
      "As we exited the observatory's parking lot, the truck's computer monitor started bleeping angrily. Before we reached the main road, we picked up 13 wireless signals. Within a half mile, we found 66 signals. Niday's gadgetry was going berserk.",
      "If someone sneaks my lunch again, I'm actually going to go berserk.",
      "The fans immediately went berserk as the singer walked onstage."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "3372",
    "Idiom": [
      "go big or go home"
    ],
    "Meaning": "One must either fully commit or not participate at all.",
    "Sentence": [
      "She had the motivation, but I reminded her that this was a go big or go home situation."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "3373-1",
    "Idiom": [
      "go by the board"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To be discarded or disregarded.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "3373-2",
    "Idiom": [
      "go by the board"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To be ignored or dismissed.",
    "Sentence": [
      "How many cups of tea I drank, because Dora made it, I don’t know. But, I perfectly remember that I sat swilling tea until my whole nervous system, if I had had any in those days, must have gone by the board."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "3374",
    "Idiom": [
      "go by the wayside"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To become obsolete.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "3375",
    "Idiom": [
      "go climb a tree"
    ],
    "Meaning": "A rude dismissal.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "3376",
    "Idiom": [
      "go commando"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To forgo wearing underpants.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Ross : … why do you have to wear underwear tonight?",
      "A little girl in pink exited one of the stalls with her mother behind her. “I wear big girl underpants now!” she proclaimed. She looked up at my sister. “Do you wear big girl underpants?” Nicki stared down at her. “No, I generally go commando.”",
      "Cute, but I saw a panty line. I stripped my panties off. No time to do more shopping—I'd just go commando."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "3377",
    "Idiom": [
      "go down in flames"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To fail miserably.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "3378",
    "Idiom": [
      "go down on"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To perform oral sex.",
    "Sentence": [
      "An older version of me / Is she perverted like me? / Would she go down on you in a theater?"
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "3379",
    "Idiom": [
      "go down that road"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To decide to do something in a particular way.",
    "Sentence": [
      "We haven't decided if we want to move yet, but if we go down that road, there'll clearly be no way back."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "3380",
    "Idiom": [
      "go down the road"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To do something in a particular way.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Stay focused on the company's mission so that you can continue to take steps in that direction. Whatever you do, don't go down the road of being a control freak!"
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "3381-1",
    "Idiom": [
      "go down the toilet"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To fail.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "3381-2",
    "Idiom": [
      "go down the toilet"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To degenerate rapidly.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "3382",
    "Idiom": [
      "go down the wrong way"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To mistakenly inhale something instead of swallowing it, causing coughing or choking.",
    "Sentence": [
      "She took a big drink of milk and it went down the wrong way. She was coughing for the next two minutes."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "3383",
    "Idiom": [
      "go downhill"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To worsen.",
    "Sentence": [
      "I usually run fast enough, but my speed goes downhill when I don't sleep enough."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "3384",
    "Idiom": [
      "go downtown"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To perform oral sex.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Rappin about going downtown on the kitty Let me do you and I won't cum too soon.",
      "Go downtown on her for an oral dessert.",
      "You see my mistress needs new sexy lingerie and a VACATION TO A REMOTE ISLAND FAR FROM THE CITY where my wife resides. I must provide this for her, because, she goes downtown on me.",
      "Are these normal reactions to your still-hot looking ex? I suppose so. I mean, it was merely a month ago since that mouth went downtown on my body."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "3385-1",
    "Idiom": [
      "go far"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To attain success.",
    "Sentence": [
      "The new shed, in conjunction with the existing multiple-unit shed, goes far to provide a complete diesel motive power depot at Stratford, .",
      "Keep studying and you'll go far."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "3385-2",
    "Idiom": [
      "go far"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To cover significant expenses.",
    "Sentence": [
      "A ten-pound note doesn't go far these days."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "3386",
    "Idiom": [
      "go fash, lose cash"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Businesses catering to right-wing extremism may lose customers.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "3387",
    "Idiom": [
      "go fish"
    ],
    "Meaning": "A firm negative response.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Q: Do you sell bongs? A: Go fish !"
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "3388",
    "Idiom": [
      "go fly a kite"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To go away.",
    "Sentence": [
      "A guy came to my door selling some weird coupon subscription. I told him to go fly a kite."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "3389",
    "Idiom": [
      "go for"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To cost.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Here in Texas, gas can go for as little as two dollars a gallon."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "3390",
    "Idiom": [
      "go for a song"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Sold at a very low price.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "3391",
    "Idiom": [
      "go for broke"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To make a final, all-out effort.",
    "Sentence": [
      "These shoeless gladiators \"shoot the works\" or as they themselves term it \" go for broke \" in each game. They battle for every inch...",
      "Well, we shot the line and we went for broke With a thousand screamin' trucks An' eleven long-haired Friends a' Jesus In a chartreuse microbus.",
      "Going for broke, the BRB said that Edinburgh-Aberdeen and Hull-Doncaster-Leeds should be considered [for electrification], along with Plymouth-Penzance and Crewe-Holyhead, all to be in place by 2001. Norman Fowler's reply was short and to the point: Sorry, no.",
      "But Mr. Trump’s team went for broke, deciding not to seek a jury instruction that would have permitted jurors to find that Mr. Trump committed a misdemeanor rather than a felony."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "3392-1",
    "Idiom": [
      "go for it"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Put maximum effort into achieving something.",
    "Sentence": [
      "To win the competition he has to beat his personal best, and he's going for it.",
      "He really went for it.",
      "Go for it ! You can win this!"
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "3392-2",
    "Idiom": [
      "go for it"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Gives permission or endorsement for a suggestion.",
    "Sentence": [
      "May I use your bathroom? ― Go for it !"
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "3393",
    "Idiom": [
      "go for the gold"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To attempt to achieve the maximum result or reward.",
    "Sentence": [
      "At next year's Senior Olympic event, Griffith plans on adding the 100-meter low hurdle, discus, and the 220-meter run, in addition to the events he entered this year. \"Sam, go for it,\" as General Stubblebine once said, becomes a motto for him. With that thought in mind, Griffith goes for the gold !",
      "For the first three-quarters of the essay, Owens introduced the leading American athletes who would be going for gold. Then he turned to \"an unhappier aspect of the games this year\": the specter of black athletes using the Olympics as a forum of protest against America's treatment of its black citizens.",
      "One look confirms that the Moby Brick is not destined to be a network server; this is a personal power tool to be carried around and plugged in wherever you need top-of-the-line computing power. And Ergo has gone for the gold in terms of the product's design.",
      "Deciding to go for the gold, he leaned close to Luke's ear and whispered, \"Can you tell Mama I should have a dog? A really big dog?\"",
      "Volunteers in the 10-year study \" went for the gold.\" Their objective was to bring their blood sugar levels as close to normal as possible.",
      "The 132-room Gaia Napa Valley Hotel wants to go for the gold, making it the highest-rated hotel in the state and the nation.",
      "Laszlo was second, Ryan third. Both these guys went faster in Beijing than I went for gold in Athens; even so, I had touched more than two seconds ahead of each of them.",
      "Mr. President, in honor of Arnold Palmer, and the presentation of his Gold Medal to him on September 12, 2012, in the U.S. Capitol, for a lifetime of service to his Nation and contributions in the game of golf which has earned him the title of \"The King\", I ask that this poem penned in his honor on this occasion by Albert Caswell be printed in the Record. As this Gold Medal upon you we now so bestow / Because, on the fairways of life you've always gone for gold ! / The Legend of Latrobe!",
      "Beijing bureaucrats promote cricket for one pragmatic reason alone. China will feel obliged to go for gold if cricket ever becomes an Olympics game.",
      "Several Paralympic Winter Games athletes will be swapping snowsuits and skis for summer clothing in Paris. Look out for Italy's Para snowboard athlete Veronica Plebani who goes for gold in Para triathlon."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "3394",
    "Idiom": [
      "go for the throat"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To aggressively target an opponent's vulnerability.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "3395",
    "Idiom": [
      "go forth and multiply"
    ],
    "Meaning": "A crude way to tell someone to leave.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "3396",
    "Idiom": [
      "go free"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To be free and unrestricted.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "3397",
    "Idiom": [
      "go from strength to strength"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To become increasingly successful.",
    "Sentence": [
      "From this time onwards, the Westinghouse air brake literally went from strength to strength, and was triumphantly justified in the course of rigorous trials, both on the Pennsylvania Railroad and at Newark-on-Trent in this country.",
      "The Internet continues to go from strength to strength as it matures, finding new ways to better itself."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "3398-1",
    "Idiom": [
      "go from zero to hero"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To change from a negative to a positive outcome.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "3398-2",
    "Idiom": [
      "go from zero to hero"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To become popular after being unpopular.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "3399-1",
    "Idiom": [
      "go great guns"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To perform particularly well or to be successful.",
    "Sentence": [
      "The game between Hargate and Lord Dreever was still in progress when Jimmy returned to the billiard-room.... \"Hargate's been going great guns. I was eleven ahead a moment ago, but he made a break of twelve.\"",
      "I gave him my putter earlier this year in Oklahoma City. He was having trouble on the greens and I said, ‘Here, try this.’ He did, and he’s been going great guns ever since.",
      "The film is bound to go great guns on video and fans of the early Travolta movies like Saturday Night Fever and Grease should be first in the queue."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "3399-2",
    "Idiom": [
      "go great guns"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To proceed very quickly.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Sam Fuller and the crew of New York Clipper continue to go great guns and retain a comfortable lead as they approach the south eastern tip of Cuba."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "3400",
    "Idiom": [
      "go green"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To adopt eco-friendly practices.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "3401",
    "Idiom": [
      "go halfsies"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To share by splitting in half.",
    "Sentence": [
      "He’s like, ‘I’ll go halfsies with you.’"
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "3402",
    "Idiom": [
      "go halves"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To divide equally between two.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Bobbie couldn't help her face changing a little--not so much because she was disappointed at not getting the engine, as because she had thought it so very noble of Peter, and now she felt she had been silly to think it. Also she felt she must have seemed greedy to expect the engine as well as the sweets. So her face changed. Peter saw it. He hesitated a minute; then his face changed, too, and he said: \"I mean not all the engine. I'll let you go halves if you like.\"",
      "Would you like to go halves on the grocery bill?",
      "Let's go halves on this big watermelon."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "3403",
    "Idiom": [
      "go hang"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To be unworthy of notice or bother.",
    "Sentence": [
      "For she had a tongue with a tang, Would cry to a sailor, ' Go hang !' She loved not the savour of tar nor of pitch, Yet a tailor might scratch her where'er she did itch. Then to sea, boys, and let her go hang !",
      "When Love is kind, cheerful, and free, Love's sure to find welcome from me; But when Love brings heartache and pang, Tears and such things, Love may go hang !",
      "\"And your advice was to let the family go hang and to insure the dog heavily against accidents?\"",
      "You can go hang for all I care."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "3404",
    "Idiom": [
      "go hard or go home"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Make a bold effort or don't participate.",
    "Sentence": [
      "\"Probably top five I would have to do, I’m guessing, to get into the Tour Championship. So it’s either that or a couple weeks off. Go hard or go home.\"",
      "He strikes me as more of a go hard or go home athlete, an impression reinforced by reports of aggressive and competitive behaviour.",
      "Those kind of predictions are for the weak. We believe in going hard or going home. So these are real predictions —not probabilities.",
      "Members of the Newcastle University trampolining team went hard or went home when they took part in a 24-hour sponsored bounceathon."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "3405",
    "Idiom": [
      "go horribly right"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Produces a correct result with undesirable consequences.",
    "Sentence": [
      "I describe it as a stunt that went horribly right because it was designed to fail, in the sense that Chas was going to be the comic relief, to be deployed when we got stopped."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "3406",
    "Idiom": [
      "go in one ear and out the other"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Heard but not attended to.",
    "Sentence": [
      "He told me who he saw, but it went in one ear and out the other."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "3407",
    "Idiom": [
      "go in the out door"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To refer to anal sex.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "3408",
    "Idiom": [
      "go in with"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To commit to or partner with something.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "3409",
    "Idiom": [
      "go into one's shell"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To act defensively.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Instead of gathering the ball, De Gea poked it away with his foot and Streller was able to place a powerful half-volley into the net. United went into their shells and it was not until the 29th minute that they mustered a response - one from which they should have equalised."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "3410",
    "Idiom": [
      "go jump in the lake"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Used to tell someone to go away.",
    "Sentence": [
      "... to sell it to the Mond or the International Nickel Company, and if they didn't choose to take it from us, they would tell us to go jump in the lake.",
      "We would tell the USSR to go jump in the lake. There would be no way we would tolerate that.",
      "When I asked for help cleaning the mess I made, the janitor told me to go jump in the lake, but he was only joking."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "3411",
    "Idiom": [
      "go jump off a building"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Tells someone to go away or indicates refusal.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "3412",
    "Idiom": [
      "go jump off a cliff"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Tells someone to go away or rejects their request.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "3413",
    "Idiom": [
      "go left"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To take a turn for the worse.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Two documentaries have been dedicated to exploring why the Fyre Festival went left, available on Hulu and Netflix — “Fyre: The Greatest Party that Never Happened” and “Fyre Fraud.”"
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "3414-1",
    "Idiom": [
      "go moggy"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To go wild or be adventurous.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "3414-2",
    "Idiom": [
      "go moggy"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To go crazy.",
    "Sentence": [
      "B: \"That's a bad place, I tell you, I nearly went moggy in that jungle, hey.\" A: \"That's only because you got that bump on the head, when that bus ran over...\""
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "3414-3",
    "Idiom": [
      "go moggy"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To become broken or disorganized.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "3415-1",
    "Idiom": [
      "go native"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To adopt the lifestyle of local inhabitants.",
    "Sentence": [
      "for St. Xavier's looks down on boys who ‘ go native all-together.’ One must never forget that one is a Sahib, and that some day, when examinations are passed, one will command natives.",
      "He was an extraordinary figure, with his red beard and matted hair, and his great hairy chest. His feet were horny and scarred, so that I knew he went always bare foot. He had gone native with a vengeance.",
      "Yet while Gauguin went native, taking teenage mistresses, wearing local costumes and building his own wooden hut, his ultimate purpose was to impress the art world back home.",
      "In the case of diplomats, the State Department has had to wrestle with criticisms that regional specialists—say, those who concentrate on the Arab world and speak Arabic—will suffer from “clientitis”: the disease of “ going native,” of developing such sympathy for the people and culture of a given region that one begins to represent its interest to America rather than vice versa.",
      "Although I have tried to avoid bias, I may have failed. For example, I may have \" gone native,\" a visitor seduced by the charms of a new exotic world."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "3415-2",
    "Idiom": [
      "go native"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To become an employee instead of a contractor.",
    "Sentence": [
      "we had to stop putting job-hunting colonels in charge of AFPRO detachments in the plants. It almost always happened that they went native and began to represent the contractor rather than the government."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "3416",
    "Idiom": [
      "go nowhere"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Fails to progress or achieve a favorable outcome.",
    "Sentence": [
      "This project is going nowhere.",
      "The negotiations went nowhere."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "3417",
    "Idiom": [
      "go nowhere fast"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To fail to make progress.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "3418",
    "Idiom": [
      "go off"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To become very angry or overexcited.",
    "Sentence": [
      "I watched a high official on \"inspection\" tease and purposeflly cause a 63 year old man to go off and then made fun of the elderly man.",
      "It all went off when the opposing teams' fans met at the railway station.",
      "When the boss came to know about the scheme, he went off, shouting and throwing everything away."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "3419-1",
    "Idiom": [
      "go off at score"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To break suddenly into a gallop.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "3419-2",
    "Idiom": [
      "go off at score"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To suddenly act impulsively.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Bremmil went off at score after the baby's death and the general discomfort that followed, and Mrs Hauksbee annexed him. She took no pleasure in hiding her captives."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "3420",
    "Idiom": [
      "go off half-cocked"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To take premature or ill-considered action.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Make sure none of your men go off half-cocked and ruin this operation."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "3421-1",
    "Idiom": [
      "go off the boil"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To lose interest.",
    "Sentence": [
      "As one of the rearguard put it, \"We laid up until the Hun had gone off the boil a bit and slipped out the following night.\"",
      "But John, not surprisingly, has gone off the boil, and feels nothing for Annette so strongly as an intense weariness and desire to be rid of her.",
      "Wednesday to Shadow, \"I don't sleep. It's overrated. A bad habit I do my best to avoid - in company, wherever possible, and the young lady may go off the boil if I don't get back to her.\"",
      "By then we'd gone off the boil sexually and he was even less keen than I was about 'marriedness', so it was more like friends deciding to share a flat than the setting-up of a ménage."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "3421-2",
    "Idiom": [
      "go off the boil"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To become less intense or urgent.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "3421-3",
    "Idiom": [
      "go off the boil"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To become less successful.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "3422-1",
    "Idiom": [
      "go on one's merry way"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To proceed happily or without concern.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "3422-2",
    "Idiom": [
      "go on one's merry way"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To proceed without considering other options.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "3423",
    "Idiom": [
      "go on the mitch"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To skip school.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "3424",
    "Idiom": [
      "go on the scout"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To go into hiding.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Killed a man and hauled him off a mile and a half and threw him over at that place, and went on the scout, and never told anybody about it ?",
      "The word from Tuxie Miller, who had seen Zeke after he returned home with Becca, was that Zeke was so apprehensive about the arrival of the white law that he planned to go on the scout the very next day.",
      "Work like this here's the reason I went on the scout in the first place."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "3425",
    "Idiom": [
      "go one's own way"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To act independently or according to one's own wishes.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "3426",
    "Idiom": [
      "go out"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To leave home for recreation or entertainment.",
    "Sentence": [
      "It seems like we go out for pizza a lot these days.",
      "They were going to stay in and read, but instead went out shopping.",
      "On their first date they went out to dinner at a restaurant.",
      "Let's go out tonight and have some fun!"
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "3427",
    "Idiom": [
      "go out of one's way"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To make an extra effort to help or hinder.",
    "Sentence": [
      "As a political system democracy seems to me extraordinarily foolish, but I would not go out of my way to protest against it. My servant is, so far as I am concerned, welcome to as many votes as he can get. I would very gladly make mine over to him if I could.",
      "Have you heard the word \"gadgetbahn\"? It's a portmanteau coined to describe transport proposals that, to all intents and purposes, ought to be delivered using proven railway technology... and yet go out of their way to be anything but a railway.",
      "I wouldn't mind some help, but please don't go out of your way for me."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "3428-1",
    "Idiom": [
      "go out on a limb"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To take a risk.",
    "Sentence": [
      "He doesn't want to go out on a limb, but he really should give it a try."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "3428-2",
    "Idiom": [
      "go out on a limb"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To take a risk.",
    "Sentence": [
      "We all see the way you stare at Kessia. From the way you two talk, it sounds like you knew each other on Kadara. I'm gonna go out on a limb and guess you came here for her.",
      "I’m going to go out on a limb here. You’re together?"
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "3429",
    "Idiom": [
      "go out with a bang"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Depart in a grand or dramatic fashion.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "3430-1",
    "Idiom": [
      "go out with the ark"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To become obsolete.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "3430-2",
    "Idiom": [
      "go out with the ark"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To become old-fashioned.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "3431-1",
    "Idiom": [
      "go over"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To scrutinize or analyze.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Please go over the reports to make sure we haven't missed anything."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "3431-2",
    "Idiom": [
      "go over"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To create a response or impression.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Playing a radio in the office did not go over well with his coworkers."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "3432-1",
    "Idiom": [
      "go over someone's head"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To address an issue with someone’s superior instead of the original person.",
    "Sentence": [
      "She went over his head and took her complaint directly to the president of the company."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "3432-2",
    "Idiom": [
      "go over someone's head"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To escape someone's comprehension.",
    "Sentence": [
      "I listened carefully, but the technical jargon went over my head."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "3433",
    "Idiom": [
      "go over to the majority"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To die.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "3434",
    "Idiom": [
      "go overboard"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To exceed reasonable bounds.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Of course, Bradshaw goes overboard on the cathedral [at Gloucester]: \"a cross, 426 feet long; the oldest parts are the Norman crypt and nave, built in 1089.\"",
      "You can decorate the new room, but don't go overboard with surreal paintings."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "3435",
    "Idiom": [
      "go pear-shaped"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To go wrong.",
    "Sentence": [
      "After the third attack run I was letting back down to low level, passing through about 100 feet on the way down, when there were two bangs very close together. The whole aircraft shook and things went \" pear-shaped \" very quickly after that.",
      "Now the whole world economy seems to be going pear-shaped all at once .",
      "Patsy dwells on this, as though on the last ordinarily weird thing she ever experienced, the last moment of sanity before it all went pear-shaped.",
      "If you are asking people to make decisions, then it's very important that you support them when things go wrong, otherwise they'll never make one again … when things go pear-shaped, and occasionally they do, we try to treat it as a learning experience.",
      "I hope you understand me / I ain't no preaching fucker and I ain't no do-goody-goody either / This is about when shit goes pear-shaped",
      "Once you've acknowledged that things have gone pear-shaped, you need to re-take control and move on.",
      "[Gordon] Strachan was an experienced Scottish international who, under Alex Ferguson, had won European honours with Aberdeen and an FA Cup with Manchester United, but his relationship with his former mentor had gone pear-shaped.",
      "They call for the economics syllabus to be rewritten to reflect the chasm between the confident mechanistic models they are still taught and the real economy which went pear-shaped.",
      "There are a few cases that need to be covered, as they fall under the general umbrella of \"what grids do when things go pear-shaped.\""
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "3436",
    "Idiom": [
      "go places"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To make progress or achieve success.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Herb Alpert’s 50th Album Is Here. What’s Kept Him Going Places ? [title] (Can we archive this URL ?)"
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "3437",
    "Idiom": [
      "go play in the traffic"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To engage in risky behavior or leave.",
    "Sentence": [
      "His father is not a talkative man, so all he ever got was monosyllabic answers speedily followed by an instruction to do the dishes or go play in the traffic.",
      "Suppose the high-skilled worker came into your office and demanded $55 a day. What would be your response? You’d probably tell him to go play in the traffic and hire the three low-skilled workers.",
      "Comment by CyndiChainsaW : Yeah your homophobia is ridiculous. You should go play in the traffic.",
      "“She was pretty rude to me.” Jake has told The News that one member of staff told him to “ go and play in the traffic ”."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "3438-1",
    "Idiom": [
      "go public"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To announce publicly.",
    "Sentence": [
      "They threatened to go public with the photos unless I paid up."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "3438-2",
    "Idiom": [
      "go public"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To launch an initial public offering.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "3439-1",
    "Idiom": [
      "go rogue"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To behave independently and disregard rules or norms.",
    "Sentence": [
      "As the Biden administration and its allies try to secure an elusive cease-fire in Gaza, Israel appears to have gone rogue."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "3439-2",
    "Idiom": [
      "go rogue"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To defect or repudiate allegiance.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "3440",
    "Idiom": [
      "go round in circles"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To repeatedly do the same thing without progress.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "3441",
    "Idiom": [
      "go shit yourself"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To go away; get lost.",
    "Sentence": [
      "That guy hadn't done diddlysquat to help me, so I told him \" go shit yourself \"."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "3442",
    "Idiom": [
      "go snake"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To act erratically or unrestrained.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Industry watchers note that high prices and record revenues likely mean the sector is headed for strong profits, despite its challenges. / “Prices have gone snake. If you think about it, the tariffs have been a constant over the whole thing. ” observed James Beck, a forestry professor at the University of Alberta.",
      "“On the road, refs are going to make their calls; I know that,” Hillis said Friday. “I'm a big boy, I've been on the road before. But there were two really hard fouls (on Wright and Matt Cherkas)... and I finally went snake.”",
      "A few days after I got home from the ER, my mother called to yell at me. Since it turned out I wasn't dying, I hadn't told her of my medical adventure. I didn't want to worry her. Big mistake. A family member ratted me out and my little, white-haired mother went snake on me."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "3443",
    "Idiom": [
      "go so far as"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To reach an unexpected extent.",
    "Sentence": [
      "I know he suffered from depression, but surely he wouldn't go so far as to kill himself?",
      "Sure he's clever, but I wouldn't go so far as to call him a genius."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "3444",
    "Idiom": [
      "go south",
      "head south"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To become unfavorable or worse.",
    "Sentence": [
      "I still had 5 miles (8 km) or so to go to cross the river when all of the controls went south. The bird pitched up, shuddered, rolled right like it was going to spin",
      "There was only one more guard between her and her goal, and despite her preparation, it almost all went south. The woman walked out of a door Fina hadn't even known was there, nearly bowling her over, and it was all she could do to bring the butt of the rifle up to smash the insurgent's nose in. She cried out, and Fina brought the butt 'round again, and this time the bone must have pierced the brain because the body went limp with a final, plaintive gurgle.",
      "I should have walked away from the casino when my luck went south, but I stayed and ended up in the hole."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "3445",
    "Idiom": [
      "go straight"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To become a law-abiding person.",
    "Sentence": [
      "\"Oh,\" said Jimmy, \"if I ever want any one to break into a safe, come to you, huh?\" \"You get me,\" replied the other.... \"I should think,\" said Jimmy, \"that a man of your ability could earn a living by less precarious methods.\" \"You would think so,\" replied the Lizard. \"I've tried two or three times to go straight. Wore out my shoes looking for a job.\"",
      "He got a law passed threatening them with jail if they did not go straight in the future.",
      "He's proved very reliable since he was paroled. He's a good kid tryin' to go straight, for the most part.",
      "\"I can't take no more time in jail,\" he said. \"I'm going straight.\""
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "3446",
    "Idiom": [
      "go the distance"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To endure a difficult challenge until its completion.",
    "Sentence": [
      "\"Do you notice how every one is trying to avoid the subject of the war?... I am sure they cannot keep it up.\" \"They won't go the distance,\" Julian whispered.",
      "“We are very pleased that we went the distance in this case, all the way through a jury trial, and that we were able to obtain such a tremendous recovery for shareholders.”",
      "Selby's charge continued with a half-century in the 30th frame and a fluked red set him on the way to winning the 31st frame. That opened up the possibility of a first Crucible finale to go the distance since Peter Ebdon's 18-17 victory over Stephen Hendry in 2002, but Brecel recovered his composure to get across the line for an emotional victory."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "3447",
    "Idiom": [
      "go the extra mile"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To make an extra effort.",
    "Sentence": [
      "President Reagan pledged at a news conference today “to go the extra mile ” to compromise with Democrats.",
      "The international community demands that Iran go the extra mile to satisfy concerns over its atomic energy program.",
      "The National Rail Awards has a proud history of recognising the extraordinary efforts of railwaymen and women who go 'the extra mile' in their day jobs to deliver wider benefits to both the industry and society."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "3448",
    "Idiom": [
      "go the way of",
      "go the way of the dodo bird"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To end up the same way as.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Vinyl records seem to have gone the way of the dinosaurs [i.e. become extinct, or fallen out of common use].",
      "As many middle-class women entered the workforce, the live-in servant went the way of the dodo bird, and the maids, servants, and hired girls who had helped with the back-breaking housework preferred jobs in offices.",
      "Soon the typewriter would become a back-office curiosity, and the slide-rule would go the way of the Dodo bird.",
      "Without sending the verification, your credit for the find goes the way of the dodo bird.",
      "She wanted to emphasize that postmulticulturalist African American artists had both benefited from and wanted to move on from that narrow focus on racial content over formal quality. She certainly didn't mean to suggest that racism had gone the way of the dodo bird or that race was no longer a concern of these artists—in fact, quite the opposite.",
      "The reason that so many were fleeing the land was simply that small family farms were going the way of the dodo bird.",
      "In the new Atomic Age, little thought was given (again) to the relevancy of the lone shooter, and the allies continued to thumb their noses at history and allowed their sniper programs to go the way of the dodo bird. Not so much the Communists.",
      "During Reconstruction, after [William Tecumseh] Sherman had torched the place, the planners decided to let the old historic landmarks go the way of the dodo bird; and over the next century and a half Atlanta got tarted up in steel and glass."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "3449",
    "Idiom": [
      "go the way of the dinosaurs"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To become extinct or obsolete.",
    "Sentence": [
      "It is good for man to try all changes, progress and corruption, powers, peace and anguish / Not to go down the dinosaur's way until all his capacities have been explored",
      "Washboards went the way of the dinosaurs when washing machines became commonplace."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "3450",
    "Idiom": [
      "go the way of the dodo"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To become extinct or obsolete.",
    "Sentence": [
      "The Polynesian population, for instance, is on the wane—wearing out—as the Red Man is—as the whale is,— going the way of the dodo, and so many other things.",
      "It is long since that disorderly potentate [the Lord of Misrule ] went the way of the Dodo, and hippocras has become almost as mythical as ambrosia; but, once upon a time, they played a prominent part in legal education.",
      "We confess that we should feel a lively satisfaction if we could see the sailor who set his dog at the helpless mass of ovine misery [sheep transported by ship across the English Channel] properly tied down in a conspicuous place on the deck of his ship, stripped to his waist, and then treated to such an allowance of the cat-of-nine-tails (if that animal has not gone the way of the dodo and the great auk) as would make him hate the taste of mutton for the rest of his natural life.",
      "We must have game laws for the Arctic seals, and a \"close time\" for seals as well as for gulls, or else all these animals will go the way of the dodo.",
      "If the silver dollar goes the way of the dodo and the whooping crane, much of the glamour and the polish and the distinction which any entity of the Government has in celebrating its centennial will be gone.",
      "Developed by the same people who invented MP3, mp3PRO is a new format that offers better sound quality than normal MP3s. However, at the time of writing it seems that music fans couldn't care less, and mp3PRO may well go the way of the dodo, the 8-track cartridge and George Michael 's solo career.",
      "Historians have turned from the past to the future, concerned with what will happen to their professional calling in the decades and centuries to come, fearful that in this age of instant communication and gratification, when an era as recent as the sixties can seem to our students as remote as the Wars of the Roses was to us in our college days, that history is going the way of the dodo.",
      "For most of the world, the LP has unfortunately gone the way of the dodo. But although LPs are far from the public eye, they've never really gone away.",
      "If you imagine, then, that the travelling journeyman is simply an anachronism – and went the way of the Dodo, or the Luddites – there would, admittedly, be more than a grain of truth in your reaction. But you would be only partly right.",
      "The semi-formality of that era, along with any sense of attaining even a modicum of comfort in anything but first class [of an aeroplane], has gone the way of the Dodo.",
      "If your prime broker goes the way of the dodo, you can realistically expect that all cash on the books will be gone in the same instance and in the worst case scenario you will also be unable to liquidate your futures positions for days or perhaps weeks.",
      "Now that word-processing has caught on, typewriters have gone the way of the dodo."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "3451-1",
    "Idiom": [
      "go their separate ways"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To cease traveling or spending time together.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "3451-2",
    "Idiom": [
      "go their separate ways"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To end a relationship.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "3452",
    "Idiom": [
      "go through hell"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To have a miserable experience.",
    "Sentence": [
      "If you're going through hell, keep going!"
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "3453",
    "Idiom": [
      "go through the gears"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To gain momentum.",
    "Sentence": [
      "The visitors kept out their opponents for 33 minutes with some determined defending but City always looked capable of going through the gears and they opened the scoring when Foden drove home from inside the box after Alvarez's shot was blocked."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "3454",
    "Idiom": [
      "go through the mill"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To experience hardship or discipline for growth.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "3455",
    "Idiom": [
      "go through the motions"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To do something in a mechanical and unenthusiastic manner.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Aleck was a Christian from the cradle, and duty and the force of habit required her to go through the motions.",
      "They went through the motions of living, but they didn't live.",
      "In screening an adviser, these should be your goals: —To determine whether he or she cares about helping clients or just goes through the motions",
      "The whole \"weapons of mass destruction\" concern was phony from the start, and the drama about inspections was just kabuki: going through the motions."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "3456",
    "Idiom": [
      "go through with"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To carry out something planned or promised.",
    "Sentence": [
      "If you decide to go through with the surgery, remember to leave time to recover."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "3457",
    "Idiom": [
      "go to"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To attend classes at a school.",
    "Sentence": [
      "He went to the University of Kansas for almost two years before he dropped out."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "3458-1",
    "Idiom": [
      "go to Canossa"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To submit to authority.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "3458-2",
    "Idiom": [
      "go to Canossa"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To show humility.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "3459",
    "Idiom": [
      "go to Prestwich"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To go mad.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "3460-1",
    "Idiom": [
      "go to bat"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To actively pursue a goal or action.",
    "Sentence": [
      "The fastest way to destroy one's credibility in Ottawa or anywhere else is to go to bat over something frivolous. I recall Dan McKenzie (Winnipeg South Centre) coming to see me with an article he'd picked up that said metrification would result in a ten-hour day. He even had a picture of the new clock.",
      "Barb, you have to hang in there kid. Two more weeks, maybe three, and we go to bat, Barb."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "3460-2",
    "Idiom": [
      "go to bat"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To provide support.",
    "Sentence": [
      "If he had been guided along the path of righteousness and worked hard for honest people, “Ashie” would have been a good man. But he was, indeed, a victim of circumstances in that he went to bat for the wrong side.",
      "Among foremen who often “ go to bat ” for their men, encouraging efficiency brings an improvement in group production norms"
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "3461",
    "Idiom": [
      "go to great lengths"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To make a major effort, often to an extreme degree.",
    "Sentence": [
      "The most surprising thing was to discover that each job had its little tricks, peculiarities that had been learned in the experience of years, and one of the really pleasing features was the unlimited patience and kindliness of the chargehands and fitters, who would go to great lengths to teach the budding engineer all they themselves knew.",
      "They said good-bye on the eleventh, and the Portuguese noblemen saw him off, going to great lengths to show him respect.\"",
      "Most scholars writing on the mafia were going to great lengths to demonstrate that it did not exist—and the mobsters wanted to keep their brotherhood secret.",
      "As a father, I would go to great lengths to protect my children."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "3462",
    "Idiom": [
      "go to ground"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To hide from public view.",
    "Sentence": [
      "It was more than enough for my fugitives to clear out of the Lausanne station and make some new move, to hide away in an out-of-the-way spot, go to ground in fact, or travel in another direction.",
      "Kerviel's identity was revealed on the Financial Times and Daily Telegraph websites, but was not confirmed by bank officials, who admitted on Thursday that the rogue trader appeared to have gone to ground and that they had no idea where he was."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "3463",
    "Idiom": [
      "go to sea"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To become a sailor.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "3464",
    "Idiom": [
      "go to seed"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To deteriorate or decline into an unkempt condition.",
    "Sentence": [
      "But the \"frump\" will let herself and all her surroundings go to seed, not from humbleness of mind or an overwhelming sense of her own unworthiness, but in pure complacent conceit.",
      "But suppose I hang about till eighty and die a childish old gentleman with a mind all gone to seed.",
      "if this total Taliban takeover and collapse was one of the contingencies that President [Joe] Biden had foreseen, then how come this plan went to seed so rapidly?",
      "I found that slick and graceful enough at 25. Now, with marriages going to seed all around me, it is the insight, the penetration, that makes me smile/wince."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "3465",
    "Idiom": [
      "go to sleep"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Not related to the expression.",
    "Sentence": [
      "My left leg has gone to sleep !"
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "3466",
    "Idiom": [
      "go to someone's head"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To strongly affect a person's thinking or sense of self, often negatively.",
    "Sentence": [
      "That one glass has gone to my head, that is, touched my brain; slightly, to be sure, but enough to weaken my will.",
      "Moreover, Dolores' promise had gone to my head like new wine.",
      "Oh, red, red wine / She goes to my head / The blue cigarette / And your Italian bed",
      "For I am a man of many sorrows. Yet there is no necessity for me to sit sobbing and sighing in someone else's house. Unremitting grief is tiresome and I'm afraid some of your maids or you yourself might lose patience with me and conclude it was the wine that had gone to my head and released this flood of tears.",
      "He caught the biggest fish on record and it really went to his head."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "3467",
    "Idiom": [
      "go to the bow-wows"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To decline or deteriorate.",
    "Sentence": [
      "With lavish hand his cash he spent,",
      "The robber barons of the Middle Ages were perfectly sure that civilization would go to the bow-wows if they were interfered with.",
      "His father died a couple of years ago—he was a Writer to the Signet in Edinburgh—and I fancy Robert has rather gone to the bow-wows since then. Got among a cheerful crowd down there, don't you know, and wasted his substance somewhat."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "3468",
    "Idiom": [
      "go to the dogs"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To decline or deteriorate.",
    "Sentence": [
      "\"The merry old ways of good life have gone to the dogs —upon my carcase, they have!\"",
      "Poor devil, he's gone to the dogs altogether. He's got some twopenny-halfpenny job in the medical at Alexandria—sanitary officer or something like that. I'm told he lives with an ugly old Greek woman and has half a dozen scrofulous kids.",
      "\"The C.I.A. was systematically destroyed by political correctness, by petty Beltway wars, by careerism and much more.\"... Baer, who quit the agency four years ago, says he is angry about all this, but he clearly has a good time recounting how the C.I.A. went to the dogs."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "3469",
    "Idiom": [
      "go to the ends of the earth"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To do everything possible to achieve something.",
    "Sentence": [
      "I'd go to the ends of the earth to be with him."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "3470",
    "Idiom": [
      "go to the mat"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To fight until either victorious or defeated.",
    "Sentence": [
      "He was ready to go to the mat to keep the old color scheme."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "3471",
    "Idiom": [
      "go to the mattresses"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To go to war or use ruthless tactics.",
    "Sentence": [
      "I want Sollozzo. If not, it's all-out war. We'll go to the mattresses.",
      "They will have to go to the mattresses; that is they will have to risk a long ugly strike.",
      "Now, when you're fighting Republicans... Democrats are all rallied around and ready to go ahead and go to the mattresses."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "3472",
    "Idiom": [
      "go to the polls"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To vote.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "3473",
    "Idiom": [
      "go to the scaffold"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To be executed by hanging.",
    "Sentence": [
      "More and more people went to the scaffold as the Terror tightened its grip."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "3474-1",
    "Idiom": [
      "go to the wall"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To make a complete effort.",
    "Sentence": [
      "He'll be the one who goes to the wall when it's needed.",
      "He's always been willing to go to the wall for his friends.",
      "That was the one point he was willing to go to the wall on."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "3474-2",
    "Idiom": [
      "go to the wall"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To fail or run out of options.",
    "Sentence": [
      "That may be cold comfort for the many import-reliant businesses that have gone to the wall as a result of the rial’s recent plunge of 40% against the dollar"
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "3475",
    "Idiom": [
      "go to the well"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To use a resource that may be depleted.",
    "Sentence": [
      "City manager Pep Guardiola asked his side, who suffered such bitter disappointed as their hold on the Champions League trophy was wrestled away by Spanish giants Real, to go to the well once more against a highly-motivated Chelsea in the FA Cup semi-final at Wembley."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "3476",
    "Idiom": [
      "go to town"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To proceed enthusiastically or vigorously.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Never slow to bang the drum, the English press went to town, calling Lineker the “Matador of Madrid” and announcing that “Spain are Linekered.”",
      "The news channels had been the first to figure out that particular wrinkle, but the religions really went to town with it.",
      "Oh, I went to town in the last lockdown, spent a lot of money on the paints, the brushes, the figurines for a game called Hero Quest.",
      "She really went to town with the party preparations."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "3477",
    "Idiom": [
      "go to town on"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To enthusiastically or intensively engage with something.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Is this coming from my role model mother? The shoplifter, the drug addict, the porn star, the whore who let Gene Simmons and Bill Clinton go to town on her?"
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "3478-1",
    "Idiom": [
      "go to work"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To beat up or batter.",
    "Sentence": [
      "I saw Bruno go to work on Big Timmy; when he was through he didn't have much of a face left."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "3478-2",
    "Idiom": [
      "go to work"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To go to work.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "3479-1",
    "Idiom": [
      "go together"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To be in a relationship.",
    "Sentence": [
      "The nurse says \"A very good friend of yours just called to see how you were & his name was J.\" Told her it was amazing he called, that I haven't seen him in 2 years & we had gone together for 10 years.",
      "Everybody knows now that Richard and Betsy go together."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "3479-2",
    "Idiom": [
      "go together"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To correspond or fit well.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Purple and blue are two colors that go together well."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "3479-3",
    "Idiom": [
      "go together"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To be inseparable.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Exercise and sweat often go together."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "3480",
    "Idiom": [
      "go too far"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To exceed acceptable behavior.",
    "Sentence": [
      "I don't mind if you make soup too, but asking for the family recipe is going too far."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "3481",
    "Idiom": [
      "go towards"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To be a contribution to.",
    "Sentence": [
      "This money will go towards paying off the debt."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "3482",
    "Idiom": [
      "go tutti-frutti"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To become angry or act irrationally.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "3483-1",
    "Idiom": [
      "go under"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To collapse or fail.",
    "Sentence": [
      "In the crisis, the company was forced to reduce its costs in order to avoid going under."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "3483-2",
    "Idiom": [
      "go under"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To die.",
    "Sentence": [
      "If we don't get him to a doctor, he'll go under for sure."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "3483-3",
    "Idiom": [
      "go under"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To be named or identified.",
    "Sentence": [
      "He goes under the name of Mr X to remain anonymous."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "3484-1",
    "Idiom": [
      "go up in flames"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To catch fire.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "3484-2",
    "Idiom": [
      "go up in flames"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To be cancelled or ruined completely.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "3485",
    "Idiom": [
      "go up in smoke"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To be completely ruined or destroyed.",
    "Sentence": [
      "There's a gypsy down on Bleecker Street I went in to see her as a kind of joke And she lit a candle for my love luck And eighteen bucks went up in smoke",
      "When the bank refused the credit, all our plans went up in smoke."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "3486",
    "Idiom": [
      "go walking"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To disappear or go missing.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "3487-1",
    "Idiom": [
      "go wild"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To become noisy and excited.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Brazil scored, and the crowd went wild !"
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "3487-2",
    "Idiom": [
      "go wild"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To grant permission or endorse a suggestion without concern for the outcome.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "3488-1",
    "Idiom": [
      "go with"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To choose or accept.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Although I liked your suggestion, I'll go with my original idea."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "3488-2",
    "Idiom": [
      "go with"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To date someone.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "3488-3",
    "Idiom": [
      "go with"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To have sexual relations with someone.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "3489",
    "Idiom": [
      "go with one's gut"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To trust one's intuition or instinct.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "3490",
    "Idiom": [
      "go with the flow"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To conform to common behavior with calm acceptance.",
    "Sentence": [
      "“Look, you know, I go with the flow based on what the campaign wants to do,” Priebus told NBC’s Meet the Press. “I think Kellyanne is doing a phenomenal job. I don’t know Steve Bannon, to tell you the truth, very well.”"
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "3491-1",
    "Idiom": [
      "go with the flow of traffic"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To drive at the same speed as other vehicles.",
    "Sentence": [
      "I was just going with the flow of traffic, and I just happened to look down and I was going a little bit faster than the speed limit.",
      "\"You don't have to do this, guy\" yelled the passenger as he sat there fidgeting in his chair, \"we are only trying to go with the flow of traffic, you know?\""
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "3491-2",
    "Idiom": [
      "go with the flow of traffic"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To blend in with traffic while driving.",
    "Sentence": [
      "I had to get Sera off it as soon as I could, and the fastest way to do that was to go with the flow of traffic heading toward Brooklyn.",
      "She decided to go with the flow of traffic and let it take her through the city and out the other side, with a stop at one of the big supermarkets at the busiest time of the day to shop for the week's groceries en route."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "3492-1",
    "Idiom": [
      "go with the wind"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To follow the wind's direction.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "3492-2",
    "Idiom": [
      "go with the wind"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To be carried away by the wind.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "3492-3",
    "Idiom": [
      "go with the wind"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To disappear or vanish.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "3493-1",
    "Idiom": [
      "go without"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To forgo something.",
    "Sentence": [
      "For days he will go without shaving, for months he lets his toenails grow;",
      "If you forgot to bring your toothpaste, you'll have to go without."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "3493-2",
    "Idiom": [
      "go without"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To lack or be deprived of something.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Jamie would get upset growing up over all the times she, or we, went without, but, looking back, we can see that that was what made us tough.",
      "The poor man's children went without supper."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "3494",
    "Idiom": [
      "go without saying"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Obvious or already established.",
    "Sentence": [
      "It almost goes without saying that the train is fully soundproofed, with double-glazed windows and highly efficient air-conditioning by the British firm of J. Stone.",
      "It goes without saying that our volunteers love their work."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "3495",
    "Idiom": [
      "go woke, go broke",
      "get woke, go broke"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Businesses focused on social activism may lose customers.",
    "Sentence": [
      "According to Ringo, the convention then pushed its conservative members out of its planning committee, attendance dropped over years, and it’s now defunct. “ Get woke, go broke,” he says of any organization who bows to SJW pressure.",
      "Get woke, go broke isn’t just about money, it’s about credibility and truth. These people have been broken by their own pride, their sense of entitlement, and their own disdain of anyone who does not agree with them.",
      "This led to the biting critical slogan “ Get woke, go broke ” to characterise the commercial failure of “woke” (“politically enlightened”) policies in an open marketplace."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "3496-1",
    "Idiom": [
      "go wrong"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To fail or have a bad outcome.",
    "Sentence": [
      "I just don't know what went wrong !",
      "Johnson explained that absolute gauging assumed that everything that could go wrong would go wrong at the same time, resulting in the train hitting the platform. In contrast, probabilistic gauging says that everything can go wrong, but not at the same time.",
      "Everything seems to be going wrong today.",
      "If you want good weather, you can't go wrong with Spain."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "3496-2",
    "Idiom": [
      "go wrong"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To malfunction.",
    "Sentence": [
      "The vending machine went wrong and dispensed five cans of drink at once."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "3496-3",
    "Idiom": [
      "go wrong"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To become wicked or immoral.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Mr. Blue Sky / Please tell us why / You had to hide away for so long (so long) / Where did we go wrong ?"
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "3497",
    "Idiom": [
      "go-getter"
    ],
    "Meaning": "An active and motivated person striving for success.",
    "Sentence": [
      "I must get it from my dad. Can't be from Mom, the world-class go-getter, hand shaker, and baby kisser.”",
      "He's a promising young go-getter, but he needs to learn some things about office politics.",
      "Tom Pitella is a go-getter and does not rely on others to prove things in the field of mathematics to him."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "3498",
    "Idiom": [
      "god that failed"
    ],
    "Meaning": "A notable let-down or flop.",
    "Sentence": [
      "And it is just because [ Sartre ’s] early post-war influence was so great, and his intellectual magnetism so hypnotic, that today he has left such disarray among intellectuals throughout France. God has failed him; but he, too, is a god that failed. Today his public utterances still make headlines, but his real leadership has passed.",
      "Only the ones who stay away can come to terms with [Bob] Dylan’s new irrelevance. He never pretended to have any answers and, now that he seems to have no questions either, he may finally have made it into the ranks of the gods that failed.",
      "Still, reflexive anthropologists are right: the idea of a neatly tied-up ethnographic package, of a realist ethnography that was temporal, functionalist, and unmindful of inequality and power—that was certainly a god that failed.",
      "At its best, the space colonization vision was sophisticated daydreaming, not a future that a large number of Americans wanted to make happen. The vision had its shot and never caught on, despite appearing in the pages of a highly reputable magazine and gaining the attention of political decision makers. [See title]",
      "Get real about English football. It is a god that failed. Stop worshipping it. It is the reflection of the unbalanced, short-termist hedonism of the financial boom era.",
      "For most Assam locals, tea eventually became the god that failed."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "3499",
    "Idiom": [
      "gods may do what cattle may not"
    ],
    "Meaning": "There is a double standard.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "3500-1",
    "Idiom": [
      "going away"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Ahead of the competitors.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Kells Castle has a leading chance in a wide open 25-runner Martinstown Opportunity Series Final Handicap Hurdle. He scored going away by three and a half lengths at Fairyhouse.",
      "Seven weeks later on May 27th, Conibear and his men faced a tough California crew on Lake Washington and defeated them going away in a time of 16:56.",
      "Clearly superior to her opposition, Lady Val got the upper hand late and won going away. What a ride!"
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "3500-2",
    "Idiom": [
      "going away"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Unmistakably.",
    "Sentence": [
      "\"I have never been chewed out like he chewed me out.... It must have worked because we went out in the second half and beat them going away.\""
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "3501",
    "Idiom": [
      "going rate"
    ],
    "Meaning": "The current standard price or rate.",
    "Sentence": [
      "He did a terrible job, and then charged more than twice the going rate for it!"
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "3502",
    "Idiom": [
      "gold in them thar hills"
    ],
    "Meaning": "An opportunity for profit or benefit.",
    "Sentence": [
      "There really is gold in them thar hills. During the 2000 election cycle, zip-code areas on average yielded slightly more than $35,000 in political contributions, while residents of Beverly Hills, 90210, ponied up slightly more than $6.2 million.",
      "I think there's gold in them thar hills if we get the chance."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "3503",
    "Idiom": [
      "gold is where you find it"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Opportunities may be found unexpectedly.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "3504-1",
    "Idiom": [
      "gold mine"
    ],
    "Meaning": "A very profitable venture.",
    "Sentence": [
      "The possessors of Salisbury & Yeovil Railway shares had ample compensation for the anxiety which the first few years of the company's existence had given them, for the concern proved a veritable gold mine.",
      "[Hal Varian] went to work helping Page, Brin, and Schmidt develop more efficient auction algorithms and build the auction model that became such a gold mine for Google.",
      "This oil deposit is a regular gold mine. We make more and more money every year!"
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "3504-2",
    "Idiom": [
      "gold mine"
    ],
    "Meaning": "A plentiful stockpile of something valuable.",
    "Sentence": [
      "The Smithsonian Institution is a goldmine of knowledge, but like most mines, you have to dig for the good stuff."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "3505",
    "Idiom": [
      "golden age"
    ],
    "Meaning": "A period of happiness and prosperity.",
    "Sentence": [
      "The first half of this century has been referred to as the golden age of medicine. To me it seems more probable that we are on the threshold of a much greater age.",
      "When the album succeeds, such as on the swaggering, Queen-esque “Nothing’s Gonna Stop Us,” it does so on The Darkness’ own terms—that is, as a random ’80s-cliché generator. But with so many tired, lazy callbacks to its own threadbare catalog... Hot Cakes marks the point where The Darkness has stopped cannibalizing the golden age of stadium rock and simply started cannibalizing itself."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "3506",
    "Idiom": [
      "golden duck"
    ],
    "Meaning": "A score of zero runs after being out on the first ball faced.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "3507",
    "Idiom": [
      "golden goose"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Something that generates significant profit or advantages.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "3508",
    "Idiom": [
      "golden handcuffs"
    ],
    "Meaning": "An arrangement that discourages leaving by offering attractive benefits or pay.",
    "Sentence": [
      "The stock plan really served as golden handcuffs for the executives."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "3509",
    "Idiom": [
      "golden handshake"
    ],
    "Meaning": "A generous severance payment to encourage someone to leave a job.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Lloyds TSB's 1996 accounts show that the executive fallout following the takeover of TSB by Lloyds meant the departure of two executives clutching substantial golden handshakes."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "3510",
    "Idiom": [
      "golden hello"
    ],
    "Meaning": "A payment to entice an employee to join a company.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "3511",
    "Idiom": [
      "golden opportunity"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Ideal moment to act.",
    "Sentence": [
      "The fact that, to cover low tariffs on bulk commodities, the railways have to charge very high rates on high-value goods, such as manufactures, has provided road operators with a golden opportunity to undercut the railway.",
      "With only two fit centre-backs available, Tottenham boss Harry Redknapp employed young midfielder Jake Livermore at the back alongside Sebastien Bassong but Spurs struggled against a seasoned Champions League outfit, who beat Barcelona at the Nou Camp in 2009-10 and continually worked their way between the home defence to create some golden opportunities.",
      "With the rest of the squad injured, Jones had a golden opportunity to prove his worth to the coach."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "3512",
    "Idiom": [
      "golden parachute"
    ],
    "Meaning": "An agreement for significant benefits upon employment termination.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "3513-1",
    "Idiom": [
      "golden rule"
    ],
    "Meaning": "A fundamental principle.",
    "Sentence": [
      "It is all-important to remember that naturalists have no golden rule by which to distinguish species and varieties;",
      "There is one golden rule of timetable work, that if a passenger train never runs to time it must be altered or other trains must be altered so that it can shake off its chronic unpunctuality.",
      "Here's what we call our golden rule / Have faith in you and the things you do",
      "A new book called When Nothing Works shows which groups have enjoyed the biggest rise in take-home pay since the turn of the millennium. From Tony Blair to Boris Johnson, the authors discover one golden rule : the richer you are, the more money you’re given."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "3513-2",
    "Idiom": [
      "golden rule"
    ],
    "Meaning": "A method for judges to avoid absurd interpretations of the law.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "3514",
    "Idiom": [
      "golden ticket"
    ],
    "Meaning": "A qualification or thing that provides positive opportunities.",
    "Sentence": [
      "So the Harvard diploma is now, more than ever, a golden ticket to a certain kind of success.",
      "The shiny brass trumpet that Pop bought was his golden ticket out of Poorville and onto the streets of the three F's Fame, Fortune and Freedom.",
      "A staffer handed me the coveted golden ticket, indicating that I had been invited to Hollywood, and I danced out the door."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "3515-1",
    "Idiom": [
      "golden years"
    ],
    "Meaning": "The leisure years in old age after retirement.",
    "Sentence": [
      "To make the most of your golden years, study the points enumerated above and then resolve to do just the opposite.",
      "If, by the time you are 50, you haven't started planning for retirement, the golden years won't be golden.",
      "A huge wave of baby boomers may need long-term care in their golden years."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "3515-2",
    "Idiom": [
      "golden years"
    ],
    "Meaning": "A period of flourishing.",
    "Sentence": [
      "The later time of life, when white hairs show that reflection must take the place of action, may well be called golden years.",
      "Almost before Carlyle realized his good fortune he was on Broadway, with offers of engagements on all sides, and more money than he had ever dreamed of. It was when he realized that he was spending the golden years of his life gibbering round a stage with a lot of black men.",
      "Certainly no champion in history was as all-conquering, as invulnerable, as was Mrs. Moody during her golden years.",
      "Seven foot Wilt Chamberlain one day will rule professional basketball with greater authority than George Mikan in his golden years, the Stilt's coach predicted yesterday.",
      "I'll stick with you baby for a thousand years / Nothing's gonna touch you in these golden years"
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "3516",
    "Idiom": [
      "golf widow"
    ],
    "Meaning": "A woman whose husband neglects her due to his frequent golf outings.",
    "Sentence": [
      "It is claimed that the next best thing a golf widow can do if she cannot fill her lonely hours with croquet is to assume a devout interest in her husband's game.",
      "\"It's about being a golf widow,\" shrugged Rita. \"What do women do when their husbands are playing golf?\""
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "3517",
    "Idiom": [
      "gone case"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Irredeemable or hopeless.",
    "Sentence": [
      "gone case – something that cannot be saved (eg. he’s a gone case).",
      "That ex-lecturer-to-be confirm gone case liao.",
      "don't worry, it is already a gone case, and nothing u can do about it but just watch."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "3518-1",
    "Idiom": [
      "gone fishing"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Unavailable for leisure.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "3518-2",
    "Idiom": [
      "gone fishing"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Absent.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "3518-3",
    "Idiom": [
      "gone fishing"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Indicates being unavailable or taking a break.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Crazy. Toys in the attic, I am crazy. Truly gone fishing."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "3519-1",
    "Idiom": [
      "gone north about"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Refers to a sailor who has died from causes other than drowning.",
    "Sentence": [
      "..And he's gone on a cruise he liked better than the one you'd have had him; but that's no matter; I had better have gone north about twenty times over than come athwart you."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "3519-2",
    "Idiom": [
      "gone north about"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Dead.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "3520",
    "Idiom": [
      "gone with the wind"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Dead.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "3521",
    "Idiom": [
      "good God"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Expression of surprise or outrage.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Good God ! Who are this Wretch’s Advisers ?",
      "“Young lady, there is no hope; one side of the Duchesse is struck with palsy; she retains her senses, and will, most probably, to the last; but she cannot live through the night.” / “ Good God !” exclaimed Francesca; “and the Duc de Mercœur left Paris this morning!” For a moment all command over herself was lost, and she sank on a seat, sick and faint with sudden agony.",
      "\" Good God, sir,\" exclaimed the officer, \"is it possible?\" And the next moment his eye lighted up with professional ambition. \"This will make a deal of noise,\" he said."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "3522",
    "Idiom": [
      "good and"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Very; exceptionally; utterly.",
    "Sentence": [
      "As for that swab, he's good and dead, he is.",
      "Democracy is the theory that the common people know what they want and deserve to get it good and hard.",
      "She doesn't insist on the whole vegetable-meat-fish-eggs aspect of eating, saying I'll get around to that when I'm good and ready for it.",
      "good and ready",
      "I'll process his request when I'm good and ready, that's when!"
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "3523",
    "Idiom": [
      "good artists copy, great artists steal"
    ],
    "Meaning": "It's better to incorporate elements of others' work creatively rather than copy them directly.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "3524",
    "Idiom": [
      "good books"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Favorable regard or personal approval.",
    "Sentence": [
      "\" Do you like him?'\" / \"Not at all, just now: his name is entirely blotted from my good books.\" / \"What is the matter? What has he done?\" / \"My uncle and he disagree on politics,\" interposed the low voice of Caroline.",
      "Unfortunately, I was out of her good books, and had orders not to speak to her.",
      "He has a cold way of looking at me which makes me think I am not in his good books.",
      "Neil Smith, the president and general manager, said Momesso \"was not in our good books \" with no goals, no assists and frequent benchings for lethargic play.",
      "\"Tell them we've paid extra to apologize for the inconvenience, eh? You'll be in their good books right off.\""
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "3525",
    "Idiom": [
      "good boy"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Well done, to a male.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "3526",
    "Idiom": [
      "good deal"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Large amount or extent.",
    "Sentence": [
      "You may make a good deal of that little fact if properly worked.",
      "A friend suggested that, if I really wanted to have the satisfaction of taking a difficult examination, I should pass the London Matriculation. It meant a good deal of labour and much addition to my stock of general knowledge, without any extra expense worth the name. I welcomed the suggestion. But the syllabus frightened me. Latin and a modern language were compulsory!",
      "He made a good deal of trouble for us.",
      "We have a good deal of territory to cover.",
      "The audience is generally unaware of the good deal of work that goes into its creation."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "3527",
    "Idiom": [
      "good doctor"
    ],
    "Meaning": "An honorific for a doctor.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Doctor :...So, good night; My mind she has mated, and amaz’d my sight. I think, but dare not speak. Gentlewoman : Good night, good doctor.",
      "Sir Cred. Spare me, good Doctor !",
      "Every woman too is her own legislatrix. Good doctor, reprint this sheet; add, but in capitals,—“ every woman is her own legislatrix.”—These words alone will sell at least nine more editions of your work."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "3528",
    "Idiom": [
      "good doctors"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Plural form of \"good doctor,\" used as an honorific address for doctors.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Oh, good Doctors, do arise, and but give us one more chance for breath, one more chance, that we may at least have the comfort of a genteel death!!",
      "She smiled sweetly at Bryson and then turned to the men standing uncertainly nearby. “Yes, good doctors, what have you found?”",
      "Take heed, good doctors, having world-class training and clinical skills is not always enough to fend off potential legal action."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "3529",
    "Idiom": [
      "good drunk"
    ],
    "Meaning": "A cheerful and sociable person when intoxicated.",
    "Sentence": [
      "In many quarters, \"it is important to be a good drunk to fit in socially\" (make that across the board if you are male).",
      "He was drinking a lot back when I first met him. A real heavy drinker, but a good drunk. He never let his ugly side show.",
      "The boss and my fellow workers were well aware of my drinking habits, but I had always been able to keep my wits about me. I was a good drunk, as they say."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "3530",
    "Idiom": [
      "good egg"
    ],
    "Meaning": "A good person, someone to be trusted.",
    "Sentence": [
      "The chemist and the bacteriologist gave him the third degree and, like most criminals, it was found difficult to tell just when a good egg began to be bad, and it appeared that it depended largely on how he was handled, especially in his youth,",
      "Tom speaks: \"I have a girl friend I want you to meet. She's a good egg.\"",
      "Johnny Parker is in town. I like Johnny. He's a big shot in pictures and he's a good egg.",
      "In contrast, Saito was one of the good eggs … He would let us rest whenever the coast was clear and even shared the odd cigarette.",
      "\"And the fifth immortal we know tried to kill you.\" \" He is a bad egg. We stick to good eggs.\"",
      "Drogon sniffs Jon [Snow ]—and Dany apparently doesn't care enough about Jon's life to get off Drogon so she can witness their interaction on the other side of his fat neck and make sure her son isn't eating his cousin—and seems to sense he's a good egg at the least and quite possibly that he's a Targaryen."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "3531",
    "Idiom": [
      "good enough for jazz"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Sufficient or acceptable.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "3532",
    "Idiom": [
      "good enough to eat"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Supremely beautiful.",
    "Sentence": [
      "The colours in this artwork are good enough to eat."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "3533",
    "Idiom": [
      "good fences make good neighbors"
    ],
    "Meaning": "It's better to mind one's own business.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "3534",
    "Idiom": [
      "good fences make good neighbours"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Good boundaries promote good relationships.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "3535",
    "Idiom": [
      "good girl"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Well done, directed at a female.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "3536",
    "Idiom": [
      "good graces"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Favorable regard or approval.",
    "Sentence": [
      "He had insinuated himself into the good graces of an ancient and rich burgomaster, and, by his handsome person and graceful manners, captivated the affections of his only child.",
      "The twins' charm of manner and easy and polished bearing made speedy conquest of the family's good graces.",
      "David had, in the space of an hour, captured Mrs. Williamson's heart, wormed himself into the good graces of Timothy, and become hail-fellow-well-met with old Robert.",
      "That has prompted leaders of the Patrolmen's Benevolent Association to threaten to withhold support for the Mayor's re-election bid. \"He's not in our good graces now,\" said Louis Matarazzo, the P.B.A. president. \"We're not endorsing anyone now.\"",
      "Joe Lieberman has never been shy about speaking his mind..., leaving his fate as chairman of the Homeland Security Committee and member of the Democratic caucus to depend on the good graces of Senate Democrats."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "3537",
    "Idiom": [
      "good gracious"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Expression of surprise.",
    "Sentence": [
      "\" Good gracious no, I hope not!\"",
      "The Silver Shoes took but three steps, and then she stopped so suddenly that she rolled over upon the grass several times before she knew where she was. At length, however, she sat up and looked about her. \" Good gracious !\" she cried."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "3538",
    "Idiom": [
      "good head on one's shoulders",
      "old head on young shoulders"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Intelligent or shrewd; having good sense or judgment.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "3539-1",
    "Idiom": [
      "good job"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Well done.",
    "Sentence": [
      "If you hadn't hit that last ball, we would have lost. Good job !"
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "3539-2",
    "Idiom": [
      "good job"
    ],
    "Meaning": "A compliment for someone's effort or achievement.",
    "Sentence": [
      "It's a good job that he was there to catch the vase when I dropped it.",
      "Good job Sarah isn't scared of spiders: I don't think I could cope without someone to remove them."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "3540",
    "Idiom": [
      "good life"
    ],
    "Meaning": "The life one dreams of living.",
    "Sentence": [
      "The good life is out there, somewhere / So stay on my arm, you little charmer",
      "The good life, it feel like Atlanta / It feel like L.A., it feel like Miami",
      "He sees them talking with a big smile / But they haven't got a clue / Yeah, they're livin' the good life / Can't see what he is going through"
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "3541",
    "Idiom": [
      "good looker"
    ],
    "Meaning": "A physically attractive individual or object.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Both of these sows have the quality and finish and are noted for their width of back, good hams, good bone and are good lookers."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "3542",
    "Idiom": [
      "good old days"
    ],
    "Meaning": "A fondly remembered period in the past.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Well, the good old days may not return / And the rocks might melt and the sea may burn",
      "\"He's been waiting to jump my brain-bones since I left R&E. I could feel him hammering on the door.\" She trotted to the nearest wall and knocked on it for emphasis. \"But whatever it is that makes us remember the good old days, it also makes us impossible to possess now. That's why Willie and I both woke up, and why Noè never got taken out by Mukami. So all I had to do was open my mind up to the guy, invite him in, then... gas the foyer, as it were.\"",
      "In the good old days we could go to the gasworks and buy coke."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "3543",
    "Idiom": [
      "good run"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Success over time.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Gold has had a good run but don't be surprised now that it's falling [title]",
      "It’s been the very definition of a good run. After seven series and 156 episodes, Alicia Florrick’s story has ended – in a way, where it began; with a well-deserved slap delivered by a rightly furious woman in an anonymous corridor.",
      "I had a good run playing horses in my mind / Left my heart out somewhere running",
      "to have a good run"
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "3544",
    "Idiom": [
      "good sense"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Common sense.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Every one has good sense enough to see other peoples' faults, and good nature enough to overlook their own.",
      "Miss [Elizabeth Isabella] Spence is amongst the number of those industrious and praiseworthy ladies, of whose good sense we are so well assured that we shall very freely make such remarks as strike us, on her present sketches, &c. without the smallest apprehension of giving offence.",
      "They had come to an open space of sunlight, which seemed to express to Syme the final return of his own good sense; and in the middle of this forest clearing was a figure that might well stand for that common sense in an almost awful actuality.",
      "Escalation is the film's nuclear energy source. It's there, of course, in the downright lunatic stunts performed by Cruise, again defying good sense and his own advancing years to top his previous feats of reckless self-endangerment."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "3545",
    "Idiom": [
      "good things come in small packages"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Small gestures can be more valuable than expensive ones.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "3546",
    "Idiom": [
      "good things come in threes"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Good events often happen in sets of three.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "3547",
    "Idiom": [
      "good things come to those who wait"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Patience leads to satisfaction.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "3548",
    "Idiom": [
      "good turn"
    ],
    "Meaning": "A good deed.",
    "Sentence": [
      "I am doing you a good turn this year by sending you a friend,",
      "One good turn deserves another."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "3549-1",
    "Idiom": [
      "good value"
    ],
    "Meaning": "A friendly and easy-going person.",
    "Sentence": [
      "He is a good value —earnest, sympathetic, solid to the bone and not overcomplicated—just the way you′d hope your undertaker would be."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "3549-2",
    "Idiom": [
      "good value"
    ],
    "Meaning": "A humorous or witty person.",
    "Sentence": [
      "‘Not anymore,’ she said, quickly ‘But he′s worth his weight in gold at a party. He always has something to say, and most of the time it′s interesting. That reflects well on me for inviting him.’ ‘He is a good value.’",
      "Hugh Grant is always good value, and Martin Freeman and Joanna Page do very well as a couple who fall in love while working as stand-ins for what is apparently an expensively produced hardcore porn film.",
      "Friday, 17 July 1981 Yesterday: morning with Germaine Greer – she is a good value, stimulating company and completely ridiculous: for the original feminist she is hilariously man-mad."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "3550",
    "Idiom": [
      "good voice to beg bacon"
    ],
    "Meaning": "An unpleasant-sounding voice.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "3551",
    "Idiom": [
      "good wine needs no bush"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Good quality speaks for itself.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "3552",
    "Idiom": [
      "good-for-nothing"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Useless; worthless.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "3553",
    "Idiom": [
      "good-hearted"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Kind and well-intentioned.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Good-hearted fellows in their way, true to each other, and invariably gentle and courteous to women, is the much-maligned and misunderstood digger.",
      "It’s sweet of you to forgive her, Emily dear. You are better-hearted than I am. I’m afraid I could never pardon any one who had made me such a laughing stock.",
      "‘My pa is the best-hearted man in all of London,’ Lottie said, spooning pease pudding onto the plates. ‘He’s never turned anyone from the door or walked past a beggar on the streets.’",
      "But Pirates! comes with all the usual Aardman strengths intact, particularly the sense that its characters and creators alike are too good-hearted and sweet to nitpick. The ambition is all in the craft rather than in the storytelling, but it’s hard to say no to the proficiency of that craft, or the mild good cheer behind it."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "3554",
    "Idiom": [
      "goodness gracious",
      "goodness gracious me"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Expressing great surprise.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Goodness gracious, great balls of fire!"
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "3555",
    "Idiom": [
      "goodness me"
    ],
    "Meaning": "An expression of mild surprise.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "3556",
    "Idiom": [
      "goodnight Irene"
    ],
    "Meaning": "An involuntary departure.",
    "Sentence": [
      "What the bleedin' 'ell? We were havin' a right rip snorter 'ere, and then this piker shows up, and just like that it's \" Good night, Irene \"!"
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "3557",
    "Idiom": [
      "goon squad"
    ],
    "Meaning": "A group of enforcers or hired thugs.",
    "Sentence": [
      "He denied charges that the union was using \" goon squads,\" as strong-arm detachments are called on the West Coast, and asserted that any violence was provoked by the employers.",
      "No one has ever accused Uganda's mercurial President Idi (\"Big Daddy\") Amin Dada of running a democracy.... In Kampala, the capital, much of the terror is committed by Big Daddy's personal goon squad, the 3,000-man Public Safety Unit.",
      "But becoming the \"Spirit Father\" to a group of cave dwellers threatened by \"bandits, insurgent guerrillas\" and \" goon squads hired by greedy logging companies\" gives him a newfound purpose in life."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "3558",
    "Idiom": [
      "gooseberry eye"
    ],
    "Meaning": "A prominent, dull eye.",
    "Sentence": [
      "He enjoyed the Countess Rossakoff's society partly because of her aristocratic provenance, and he was not going to have his enjoyment spoiled by a spectacled little girl with boiled gooseberry eyes and a degree in psychology!",
      "Aged only twenty, she caught the gooseberry eye of Lord Randolph Churchill. He proposed to her almost at once."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "3559",
    "Idiom": [
      "gooseberry season"
    ],
    "Meaning": "A period of light-hearted and offbeat news reporting.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "3560",
    "Idiom": [
      "gorilla in the room"
    ],
    "Meaning": "A significant issue that is obvious but ignored.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "3561-1",
    "Idiom": [
      "got it going on"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Be attractive and outgoing.",
    "Sentence": [
      "\"You got it going on, girlfriend. Don't she, Joey?\" \"It's working for you, sweetheart,\" Joseph said, and took a sip of his coffee.",
      "One is the sort of girl who's really got it together and who has a sort of boyish look and who's really got it going on.",
      "But then monikers aren't all that important when you've got it going on like this MC. Even drowning in layers of winter clothes and speaking in a barely-there voice, Murray is clearly the beautifulest, his edgy grace plain for all to see."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "3561-2",
    "Idiom": [
      "got it going on"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Appreciates someone's success or attractiveness.",
    "Sentence": [
      "People always told me that owning property was a big turn-on for many women – a sign that a bloke has got it going on financially.",
      "In other words, Detroit has got it going on big time these days. With not one, but two new sports stadiums...",
      "Ooooooooh Ebony! You got it going on ! I could have screamed when I saw David Justice and Halle Berry on the cover of the April issue."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "3562",
    "Idiom": [
      "gouty-handed"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Slow to reward.",
    "Sentence": [
      "In matters of disbursement he was (to use an eighteenth century idiom) “monstrous gouty-handed.\""
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "3563",
    "Idiom": [
      "grab and go"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To get something quickly.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Download websites should be designed so that those who wish to can just grab and go."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "3564",
    "Idiom": [
      "grab by the lapels"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To exert control.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Rooney, back in his central role, had a good opportunity soon afterwards but his left foot has never been a great weapon and Suárez was the only attacker here capable of grabbing the game by its lapels."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "3565",
    "Idiom": [
      "grab the popcorn"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Expresses anticipated enjoyment from watching a conflict.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "3566",
    "Idiom": [
      "grain of truth"
    ],
    "Meaning": "A small amount of truth among falsehoods.",
    "Sentence": [
      "There's not a grain of truth in what you just told me.",
      "It may be a tall tale, but there is a grain of truth to it as well."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "3567",
    "Idiom": [
      "grammar Nazi"
    ],
    "Meaning": "A person who excessively criticizes others' grammar and language use.",
    "Sentence": [
      "He had to explain that the grammar Nazi' s tantrum was mistaken because interposing an adverb to fall between the components of a to-infinitive is usually not wrong in English grammar."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "3568",
    "Idiom": [
      "grammar police"
    ],
    "Meaning": "One or more people who criticize someone's English usage.",
    "Sentence": [
      "The grammar police are cruising the info highway, and they're writing tickets. In newsgroups... bad English does not go unnoticed.",
      "Some wordsmiths wield their lexicological powers like an angry red pen, rooting out errors and marking them for all the world to see. (We're talking to you, Grammar Police.)",
      "A leading Oxford University academic has implored “the grammar police ” and spelling pedants to be a bit more relaxed about changing standards of written English.",
      "Since my mother-in-law was a former public school teacher, she is the Grammar Police."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "3569",
    "Idiom": [
      "grand poobah"
    ],
    "Meaning": "A person who is important or high-ranking.",
    "Sentence": [
      "He once played golf with the grand poobah of their company."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "3570",
    "Idiom": [
      "grand scheme"
    ],
    "Meaning": "The big picture.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "3571",
    "Idiom": [
      "grand total"
    ],
    "Meaning": "The final sum.",
    "Sentence": [
      "The bill came to a grand total of $2560."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "3572-1",
    "Idiom": [
      "grandstand play"
    ],
    "Meaning": "A showy maneuver in sports to impress spectators.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Instead of throwing it to center, however, she tried to make a grandstand play and threw it the entire length of the gymnasium to the waiting forward.",
      "Every baseball fan is acquainted with the sarcastic reminder, \"two hands are the fashion nowadays,\" often hurled at the infielder who foozles an attempt at a grandstand play in the form of a one-handed catch."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "3572-2",
    "Idiom": [
      "grandstand play"
    ],
    "Meaning": "An excessively dramatic action intended to appeal to an audience.",
    "Sentence": [
      "\"He goes strike-breakin'. Grandstand play, that's what I call it. Gets his name in the papers an makes all the skirts he runs with fluster up an' say: ‘My! Some bear, that Roy Blanchard, some bear.’\"",
      "Dag Hammarskjold and Russia's fellow Security Council members, bent on quieting the Congo turmoil, had watched the Soviets stir the fires of chaos, make a grandstand play to Africans by labeling the U.N. a partner to a colonial conspiracy.",
      "“Congratulations to Governor Cuomo for another grandstand play for the attention of his millionaire friends at the expense of the real working people of New York,” Danny Donohue, president of the largest union of state workers, the Civil Service Employees Association, said in a statement."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "3573",
    "Idiom": [
      "granny dumping"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Abandonment of an elderly relative in a public place.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "3574",
    "Idiom": [
      "granny-bashing"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Assault or abuse of the elderly.",
    "Sentence": [
      "But it also tackles problems like granny bashing and the overprescribing of drugs to elderly patients.",
      "There are many factors that militate against healthy living and contribute to family conflict, which may result in child abuse, wife battering, granny bashing, teenage runaways, mental disturbance or substance abuse."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "3575",
    "Idiom": [
      "grasp all, lose all"
    ],
    "Meaning": "One who seeks everything may end up with nothing.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "3576-1",
    "Idiom": [
      "grasp at straws"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To pursue improbable options due to a lack of clear choices.",
    "Sentence": [
      "I've never met his mother, so I'm grasping at straws for an appropriate gift for her."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "3576-2",
    "Idiom": [
      "grasp at straws"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To seek help in a desperate or ineffective way.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "3577",
    "Idiom": [
      "grasp the nettle"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To act boldly despite short-term drawbacks.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Hence it was that a few dozen policemen, resolutely grasping the nettle, had no difficulty in handling it.",
      "President Truman, when at last he grasped the nettle and dismissed MacArthur, knew well enough the outcry that would follow.",
      "That Tony Blair should wait until the dying days of his premiership before grasping the nettle of nuclear expansion has proved dangerously neglectful.",
      "We must be bold. We must grasp the nettle and make the most of this opportunity."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "3578-1",
    "Idiom": [
      "grass tops"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Related to local influential figures.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Along with the ads, industry worked to mobilize local politicians and business executives in what business groups called a \" grass tops \" campaign.",
      "\"Some of the work is grassroots,\" he said, \"and some of it is grass-tops – like this summit.\"",
      "[Mitchell] Schwartz said [Hillary] Clinton 's campaign in California – which has been heavy on endorsements and organization – is more \" grasstops \" than \"grassroots,\" while the Illinois senator has \"a campaign of inspiration and not obligation.\"",
      "In recent years, groups have made considerable use of \"outside lobbying\" techniques, which try to persuade ordinary citizens to serve as their frontline advocates. Prominent here are \"grass-roots\" and \" grass-tops \" lobbying. Grass-tops lobbying strives to favorably energize an elite rather than the masses."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "3578-2",
    "Idiom": [
      "grass tops"
    ],
    "Meaning": "People in local positions of power or influence.",
    "Sentence": [
      "They also had important connections to advocacy groups and the local \" grass tops.\"",
      "\"We are grassroots, not grass-tops,\" Kaplan said, meaning Common Sense Action seeks the opinions of all members regardless of leadership status within the group."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "3579",
    "Idiom": [
      "gravity's pull"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Stress or pressure of a situation.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Feeling Gravitys [sic] Pull",
      "Call it a dark night of the soul. / Ticking the clocks, gravity's pull."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "3580",
    "Idiom": [
      "gravy train"
    ],
    "Meaning": "A situation that generates significant benefits with minimal effort or risk.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Johnston claims that Reuben Nelson and another tall negro were in New Haven the night of the escape and that they broke into the lockup. Johnson further states that the next day Nelson laughingly told him that the New Haven lockup was ‘a gravy train ’.",
      "Of course these foreigners want to come to America. To them America is the land of the free ride; and they want to climb aboard the gravy train, even though that means abandoning their friends and neighbors, the ashes of their fathers and the temples of their gods, to a struggle to which they themselves are no longer equal.",
      "Hatcher derailed the gravy train by consolidating City Hall operations into five general departments headed by three special assistants and two members of the Board of Works.",
      "And did we tell you the name of the game, boy? / We call it riding the gravy train",
      "Freeloaders are a prime example of the people that will repeatedly burn you if they have the chance. They would much rather find someone with a generous nature, and ride that gravy train till the gravy runs out.",
      "This whole gay marriage clamor is really about spousal and other benefits that this welfare state provider has made so enticing. It's only natural that everybody wants to get on a gravy train or ride a free horse.",
      "Free medical and schooling for illegals; Citizenship for babies of illegals; Free schooling; Free language education. On and on goes the gravy train. Who wouldn't bust into this country for the easy life.",
      "It is clear that dissent can no longer be tolerated, and no one is above using their position to stifle thought that frightens them or threatens to upset the gravy train.",
      "This isn't so much the gravy train, but the express gravy train, and just like Eurostar, it runs a lot faster in Europe than in the UK."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "3581",
    "Idiom": [
      "gray hat"
    ],
    "Meaning": "A morally ambiguous character.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "3582",
    "Idiom": [
      "grease monkey"
    ],
    "Meaning": "A mechanic, usually an automobile mechanic.",
    "Sentence": [
      "If you appear like a tramp or grease-monkey how can you expect to meet the people who are able to support your business.",
      "Maybe some other \" grease monkey,\" as I call mechanics, will correct me.",
      "Brother W.M. Hillery resigned from his job as grease monkey and is working for Armour and Company, but as we understand he is just itching to get with the old bunch."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "3583",
    "Idiom": [
      "grease payment"
    ],
    "Meaning": "A small bribe to expedite a transaction.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Critics say there is no distinction between extortion and bribery, and that the distinction between a payoff (illegal) and a \"grease\" payment made to speed along normal duties (legal under the act) is unclear.",
      "An important legal distinction is the difference between bribery and “ grease payments,” which are paid in these countries not to affect someone’s decision-making but to speed the process of dealing with government."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "3584",
    "Idiom": [
      "grease someone's palm"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To bribe someone.",
    "Sentence": [
      "I was never guilty of disloyalty to King Lewis, but I killed my wife's mother, pardieu!—which the judge seemed to think almost as vile, till I sent a friend to grease his palm with the last sou of my patrimony.",
      "We arrived at Almaty Airport, and from the moment the customs officer made it obvious in his fractured English that our entrance would be made easier if we greased his palm, we realised that all our Anglo-Saxon assumptions about how societies are run were not very relevant here."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "3585",
    "Idiom": [
      "grease the skids"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To create favorable conditions for future developments.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "3586",
    "Idiom": [
      "grease the wheels"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To facilitate or accelerate positive outcomes.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Once a way of greasing the wheels of a gruesome bureaucracy, bribery has now become part of the cost of doing business.",
      "The banks will feel more comfortable about lending to each other, which is something we desperately need to help grease the wheels of the economy.",
      "Worker mobility, which greases the wheels of hiring, dropped off sharply last year.",
      "People will be more inclined to pay sooner if they can pay less – even a small discount might be enough to speed up the process and help grease the wheels."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "3587",
    "Idiom": [
      "greasy spoon"
    ],
    "Meaning": "An inexpensive diner or informal restaurant.",
    "Sentence": [
      "I find that most gay men love to cook for others but would rather visit any greasy spoon than eat by themselves.",
      "From the highway, Phil's looked like any other greasy spoon inviting the weary traveler off the road for a little indigestion and a cup of coffee — the same red booths patched with black electrical tape and faded formica counters lined with chrome-sided stools, a glass pie pin near the cash register, and coffee served in thick white mugs.",
      "Reward yourself for a week of healthful eating with breakfast at a greasy spoon. Nutritionists say an occasional cheat meal can make it easier to stick with a healthy diet.",
      "We found a good little greasy spoon down a side street."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "3588",
    "Idiom": [
      "great balls of fire"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Expressing great surprise.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Goodness gracious, great balls of fire !"
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "3589",
    "Idiom": [
      "great beyond"
    ],
    "Meaning": "The afterlife.",
    "Sentence": [
      "First his mother passed into the Great Beyond, and by the time the poignant misery of his loss had become a dull ache, his father had also solved the Great Riddle."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "3590",
    "Idiom": [
      "great deal"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Large number or amount.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Mind you, clothes were clothes in those days. There was a great deal of them, lavish both in material and in workmanship.",
      "Physicians wield a great deal of power.",
      "The low-keyed vision of Poland as a small and humble supplicant of the European Union still has a great deal of supporters.",
      "We have a great deal of territory to cover.",
      "Few expressed any great deal of confidence in the legislative branch.",
      "The audience is generally unaware of the great deal of work that goes into its creation.",
      "They didn't realize he had this great deal of intellectual depth."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "3591",
    "Idiom": [
      "great haste makes great waste"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Doing things too quickly results in mistakes.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "3592",
    "Idiom": [
      "great job"
    ],
    "Meaning": "A praise for someone's efforts.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "3593",
    "Idiom": [
      "great minds"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Great minds think alike.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "3594",
    "Idiom": [
      "great minds think alike"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Used to remark on sharing the same thought, implying both are clever.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Person A: He looks a bit like David Beckham...",
      "Person B: I was just thinking that!",
      "Person A: Great minds think alike, eh?",
      "Person C: More like fools seldom differ in this case..."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "3595",
    "Idiom": [
      "great unwashed"
    ],
    "Meaning": "The general populace, especially the working class.",
    "Sentence": [
      "The gentlemen of the inns of court, and the gentlemen of the universities… live in abodes which were erected long before the custom of cleanliness and decency obtained among us. … Gentlemen, there can be but little doubt that your ancestors were the Great Unwashed : and in the Temple especially, it is pretty certain, that only under the greatest difficulties and restrictions the virtue which has been pronounced to be next to godliness could have been practised at all.",
      "The Liberal campaign was so carefully orchestrated that McLeod was never in a position to be confronted by the great unwashed. Unfortunately, the great unwashed rarely vote for a leader whom they have never met."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "3596",
    "Idiom": [
      "greater of two evils"
    ],
    "Meaning": "The lesser of two undesirable options.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "3597",
    "Idiom": [
      "greatest thing since sliced bread",
      "best thing since sliced bread",
      "best thing since sliced pan"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Something amazing or outstanding, especially a recent invention that improves lives.",
    "Sentence": [
      "This column is about the greatest thing since sliced bread.",
      "Because if he starts to write a check for the full amount and I say, “Take off $250”, or “I'll throw in door-guard trim and five steel radials for nothing”, Charley is going to think I am the greatest thing since sliced bread.",
      "It was the greatest thing since sliced bread when it first came out, and I remember selling a big project to a customer by demonstrating it."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "3598",
    "Idiom": [
      "green about the gills"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Ill or unwell in appearance.",
    "Sentence": [
      "\"You're looking rather green about the gills, old chap.\" \"I feel a little chippy to-day.\" \"That's the worst of these cheap champagnes.\"",
      "Although he boarded his ship with wristbands and pills intended to ward off any possible queasiness, he did not turn green about the gills."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "3599",
    "Idiom": [
      "green as grass"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Inexperienced or naive.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "3600",
    "Idiom": [
      "green fingers"
    ],
    "Meaning": "A natural gardening ability.",
    "Sentence": [
      "To some they are a rural escape in the centre of the city, to others they are a chance to test their green fingers and design skills. Now London mayor Boris Johnson has found a new use for urban roof gardens – as a key weapon on the front line against global warming."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "3601",
    "Idiom": [
      "green handshake"
    ],
    "Meaning": "A bribe disguised as a tip.",
    "Sentence": [
      "ended the long local tradition of green handshakes for building inspectors"
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "3602",
    "Idiom": [
      "green in earth"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Refers to a deceased person, recently buried.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "3603",
    "Idiom": [
      "green light"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Approval or permission to proceed.",
    "Sentence": [
      "And Crossrail's Class 345 Aventra fleet finally has the green light to carry passengers to Heathrow Airport, after the Office of Rail and Road granted approval for the European Train Control System (ETCS) Level 2 overlay system.",
      "We have a green light on the project. Work starts today."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "3604",
    "Idiom": [
      "green state"
    ],
    "Meaning": "A U.S. state perceived as environmentally friendly.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "3605",
    "Idiom": [
      "green thumb"
    ],
    "Meaning": "A natural skill for gardening.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Everyone knows someone who has a \" green thumb,\" who seems to be able to get plants to grow well just by being around, by talking or even playing music",
      "they leave gardening to those who presumably have lots of time to read and better yet, have a \" green thumb.\"",
      "Oh, I'll never have a green thumb, no matter how long I stay at it. Nothing ever seems to work for me. Everything I plant dies.",
      "Wow, did you plant this entire garden on your own? You really must have a green thumb."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "3606",
    "Idiom": [
      "green with envy"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Consumed by envy.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "3607",
    "Idiom": [
      "greener pastures"
    ],
    "Meaning": "A more favorable or beneficial situation.",
    "Sentence": [
      "After years of dating Scott Disick and causing everyone to be in a constant state of side-eye, Sofia Richie has moved onto greener relationship pastures and is officially married (!!!) to her family friend Elliot Grainge—who also happens to be a fancy record executive.",
      "He worked there for two years before leaving for greener pastures."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "3608-1",
    "Idiom": [
      "grey area"
    ],
    "Meaning": "An ambiguous or unclear situation between two categories.",
    "Sentence": [
      "It exists in a grey area between legal and illegal."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "3608-2",
    "Idiom": [
      "grey area"
    ],
    "Meaning": "A topic open to interpretation.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Fame is a grey area ."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "3609",
    "Idiom": [
      "grey cells"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Refers to intelligence or mental ability.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "3610",
    "Idiom": [
      "grey matter"
    ],
    "Meaning": "A person's ability to think.",
    "Sentence": [
      "\"I'd better be putting my grey matter into that algebra instead of wasting it plotting for a party dress that I certainly can't get.\"",
      "\"Inspector Pepys!\" gasped Bernard Megger, swallowing between the words, \"I shall remember you!\" \"You will be wasting grey matter !\" replied the man.",
      "How many phone numbers are stored in your grey matter ?"
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "3611",
    "Idiom": [
      "grey power"
    ],
    "Meaning": "The influence of senior citizens, especially when united by a common interest.",
    "Sentence": [
      "The outstanding example of grey power in action is the AARP—once known as the American Association of Retired Persons. This is probably the most influential lobbying set-up in the world.",
      "Grey power is increasing its influence over the world's tourism industry—and with a new nickname. If you're over 60 and have the time, the inclination and the funds to travel, you're now a \"bloomer\", according to a British holiday company.",
      "If you needed any proof that grey power rules Maritime politics, check out the party platforms in the Nova Scotia provincial election.... Sure, dead people don’t vote, the party reasons. But pensioners do."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "3612",
    "Idiom": [
      "grin and bear it"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To endure a difficult situation with good humor.",
    "Sentence": [
      "They made me work the Saturday of our wedding anniversary; what could I say? I just had to grin and bear it."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "3613",
    "Idiom": [
      "grind down"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To weaken someone's morale over time.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Djokovic broke twice in each of the opening two sets, dismantling 6ft 8in Anderson's service game and grinding him down in the rallies.",
      "I'm living in a world where I don't really fit Every day walking through the same old shit I'm gonna get my gun, gonna get prepared I'm not impressed and I'm not scared Don't let the bastards grind you down ! Don't let them grind you down ! Don't let the bastards grind you down ! Don't let them grind you down !"
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "3614",
    "Idiom": [
      "grind the corn"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To engage in a specific sexual technique.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "3615",
    "Idiom": [
      "grinding machine"
    ],
    "Meaning": "A tool that uses a rotating wheel to shape workpieces.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "3616",
    "Idiom": [
      "grist for the mill",
      "grist to the mill"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Something useful or advantageous.",
    "Sentence": [
      "The Lesbian Primer does not profess to cover every conceivable aspect of lesbianism. But for someone trying to get or expand knowledge of the subject, this book provides much good grist for the mill.",
      "They were sitting across from each other at the bar as Lionel described his odyssey across the country in a Trailways bus, gathering material, as he put it. It was all grist for the mill, life real and raw out there west of New Jersey.",
      "In 1951, Guy Burgess and Donald Maclean, two gay double-agents working in British intelligence, fled to the Soviet Union. This was grist for the mill, linking homosexuality with communist \"treason.\"",
      "What evil will not a rival say to stop the flow of grist to the mill of the hated one?",
      "This might all seem grist to Berkeley’s mill. Berkeley himself knew that we interpret our experience in spatio-temporal, objective terms. But he thought we had to ‘speak with the vulgar but think with the learned’: in other words, learn to regard that interpretation as a kind of façon de parler, rather than the description of a real, independent, objective world."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "3617",
    "Idiom": [
      "grit one's teeth"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To face a difficult situation and deal with it.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Japan's revolutionary New Tokaido Line, the 310-mile, 150 m.p.h. route between Tokyo and Osaka that is due to open for passenger traffic in October, has run into the same kind of budgetary trouble that held up our own LMR electrification, though the Japanese Government, unlike our own, has apparently gritted its teeth and allowed the project to go ahead to planned completion.",
      "There's a storm coming, so I grit my teeth and start rowing with all my might."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "3618",
    "Idiom": [
      "ground ball with eyes"
    ],
    "Meaning": "A weakly hit ground ball that avoids infielders.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "3619",
    "Idiom": [
      "ground rule"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Basic rules or standards.",
    "Sentence": [
      "The apparent success of the City and South London triggered an avalanche of bills for Tube railways, and in 1892 a Joint Select Committee of Parliament set out some ground rules.",
      "Make sure everybody knows the ground rules for the trip before they leave."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "3620",
    "Idiom": [
      "ground-breaking"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Innovative and unique.",
    "Sentence": [
      "There were papers such as John Aspinall's presidential address about his ground-breaking work on railway electrification in 1909 .",
      "ground-breaking technology"
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "3621",
    "Idiom": [
      "grow a pair",
      "get a pair",
      "grow a set"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To be brave; to show courage.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "3622",
    "Idiom": [
      "grow a tail"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To be unable to hold in a bowel movement.",
    "Sentence": [
      "When man needs to grow a tail, man must run to bathroom without fail. Thou shalt groweth thy tail with great care, or though might staineth thine underwear!",
      "Kathy is teasing Dad that Mom is growing a tail in the toilet. Guess he understands to a degree and had a strange look on his face when I came out, so assure him I am fine and did not grow a tail.",
      "A steaming pile of toilet humour might not be everyone's cup of tea, but there's no denying the hilarity in some of these messages from beyond the bowl. Our readers managed to snap these delightful deuces before breaking the seal, splashing the pirate, building a log cabin, growing a tail... you get the idea.",
      "The only other guy doing any work around here was the fat old cop down in the can, strugglin' to grow a tail."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "3623",
    "Idiom": [
      "grow apart"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To gradually become estranged.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "3624",
    "Idiom": [
      "grow cold"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To lose interest or enthusiasm.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Men grow cold as girls grow old / And we all lose our charms in the end."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "3625",
    "Idiom": [
      "grow on"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To become more likable.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Blinking and swallowing, she checked her list of questions. “What are some of your favorite outdoor and indoor activities?” “Well, whale watching is growing on me.”",
      "I didn't like this song at first, but now it's starting to grow on me."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "3626-1",
    "Idiom": [
      "grow out of"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To become too large for something.",
    "Sentence": [
      "I give my old clothes to charity when I've grown out of them."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "3626-2",
    "Idiom": [
      "grow out of"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To become too mature for something.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Still, I see you mean well enough, and are merely suffering from the debilitating cheerfulness of youth. You will soon grow out of that."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "3627",
    "Idiom": [
      "grow some balls"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To be brave; to show courage.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "3628",
    "Idiom": [
      "grow up"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To stop acting like a child.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Will you grow up please, and stop making silly faces?"
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "3629",
    "Idiom": [
      "gruesome twosome"
    ],
    "Meaning": "A troublesome or unpleasant pair of people.",
    "Sentence": [
      "But Carr Hartley’s most remarkable possessions are his two white rhinos, Mitzi and Gus. The differences between black and white rhinos are marked, and it has often been pointed out that the name ‘white’ does not come from the skin colour. However, Carr’s gruesome twosome are strangely light in shade.",
      "Lederer and Jackson use a similar system of labels to discriminate the happiest (\"the heavenly twins\") from the unhappiest marriages (\"the gruesome twosome \").",
      "All he could think about was the gruesome twosome in the back of the room, and why is he in my dreams.",
      "Armitage was squeaking like crazy. At that moment there was a gurgling sound and the gruesome twosome passed through the machine. It clunked and groaned like never before, as they passed through the rollers. Finally two very large burgers trundled out. In one, Burt’s shattered wraparound shades poked out. In another, Sheila’s pink furry slippers were clearly visible. They were two distinctly unappetising-looking burgers.",
      "Mbappé and Neymar were a gruesome twosome for any defence to come up against."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "3630",
    "Idiom": [
      "grunt level"
    ],
    "Meaning": "The most basic level.",
    "Sentence": [
      "The point being that most of the work at the grunt level was not being done by FEMA, which never had many bodies, or even by the National Guard, which should have had many more bodies, but by Regular Army units.",
      "This is a book about war at the grunt level, and another reviewer was good enough to remark that the story is “told straight.”"
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "3631",
    "Idiom": [
      "grunt work"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Menial or undesirable work.",
    "Sentence": [
      "She has not only participated in the left as a star, even though she came into the role quite young. When Holly was between entertainment jobs, she volunteered for grunt work in anti-war organizations.",
      "He plans to hire somebody to do the grunt work of digging the trenches for the pipes."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "3632-1",
    "Idiom": [
      "guess what"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Introduces a surprising outcome.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Guess what the top two success drivers were from his detailed research: a unique, superior, differentiated product; strong market orientation and voice of the customer built in. Guess what the top two deficiencies were: lack of market orientation; poor quality of execution.",
      "She started down on one end, and whether she knew you or not, she walked right up to you, got six inches away from your face, and said, “ Guess what, I won!”",
      "Have you ever said “abracadabra”, “hocus pocus”, or “presto chango”? Well, guess what ? You were casting a spell!"
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "3632-2",
    "Idiom": [
      "guess what"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Used to introduce an unsurprising outcome.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Yesterday evening at 6:30 P.M. there's a new charge nurse, he's going to give me my seizure medication and guess what ? There isn't any!",
      "I've only had two job interviews and – guess what – no job offers."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "3633-1",
    "Idiom": [
      "guilt trip"
    ],
    "Meaning": "A feeling of unwarranted shame or embarrassment.",
    "Sentence": [
      "The prosperous business owner whose infant daughter had a serious genetic disease decided to find a foundation whose annual report was less based on guilt trips. She appreciated that another foundation's annual report had much more emphasis on what they were able to accomplish with the money her family donated."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "3633-2",
    "Idiom": [
      "guilt trip"
    ],
    "Meaning": "An act that induces guilt.",
    "Sentence": [
      "The fund raisers were criticized for too much of their appeal to donors being a guilt trip about how there would be more starving feral kittens unless donors significantly increased their donations.",
      "He still resented his grandmother laying a guilt trip on him about starving children in China when he didn't finish her home-grown cabbage that he detested."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "3634",
    "Idiom": [
      "guilty pleasure"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Something enjoyable but considered taboo or lowbrow.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Rock bands record classic albums, while pop stars create \" guilty pleasure \" singles. It's supposed to be self-evident: U2's entire oeuvre deserves respectful consideration, while a spookily seductive song by an R&B singer named Tweet can only be, in the smug words of a recent VH1 special, \"awesomely bad.\"",
      "We all have guilty pleasures, don't we? During the summer of 1993, my guilty pleasure was watching Saved by the Bell reruns.",
      "In postmodernism, mass culture is not so much a guilty pleasure as it is the white noise of our time.",
      "For the renowned sushi chef, it was a guilty pleasure to eat fish sticks drowned in tartar sauce."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "3635",
    "Idiom": [
      "gum up"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To make non-functional or interfere with.",
    "Sentence": [
      "He had the car pushed to a near-by stable, amidst the mixed emotions of the little crowd, and next day he had it hauled home. / \"You were right,\" he said, when I met him out again in it, a week later. \"It was gummed up, so to speak; but it's working like a charm to-day. \"",
      "Erhard presumably felt it was no time to give his enemies grounds for charging him with gumming up relations with France.",
      "In the old days, a storm like this would gum up the entire system."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "3636",
    "Idiom": [
      "gun jumping"
    ],
    "Meaning": "An act of acting prematurely.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "3637",
    "Idiom": [
      "gunboat diplomacy"
    ],
    "Meaning": "The use of military power to influence foreign policy.",
    "Sentence": [
      "The British and French, who had sought to make policy by reviving 19th century gunboat diplomacy, had temporarily lost their credentials for world statesmanship.",
      "China has ratcheted up its standard gunboat diplomacy —the repeated warnings that it would use force if necessary to unite the island and mainland—more than a month before Taiwanese voters go to the polls."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "3638",
    "Idiom": [
      "gunner's daughter"
    ],
    "Meaning": "A punishment for sailors.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "3639",
    "Idiom": [
      "guns blazing"
    ],
    "Meaning": "With much force or bravado.",
    "Sentence": [
      "The champions came out (with) all/both guns blazing."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "3640",
    "Idiom": [
      "gut check"
    ],
    "Meaning": "An honest appraisal of one's true feelings about a concern.",
    "Sentence": [
      "\"I told them what we needed was a gut check to see whether we had the stomach to go ahead.\"",
      "There's an old parlor game, a kind of gut check for the heart and head. Would you rather be rich or pretty? Happy or famous? Is it better to be good or to be smart?",
      "But for investors looking for long-term winners at the start of the year, it’s best to give yourself a gut check before you buy.",
      "For President Obama, this is gut-check time on Iraq. He is moving the nation back onto a pitiless battlefield, with a war plan that is long on good intentions and short on clarity about the ultimate mission."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "3641",
    "Idiom": [
      "gut factor"
    ],
    "Meaning": "A personal, emotional influence on decision-making.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "3642",
    "Idiom": [
      "gut feeling"
    ],
    "Meaning": "An instinct or intuition.",
    "Sentence": [
      "“At the root are these moral intuitions — these gut feelings — and they are very strong,” said Jeff Huntsinger, a social psychologist at Loyola University Chicago who studies emotion and decision-making and collaborated with Dr. Omer’s team.",
      "Don't think too hard about the answers to a personality test; just go with your gut feeling.",
      "Houston had a gut feeling he was being followed, so he hurried to his car."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "3643",
    "Idiom": [
      "gut reaction"
    ],
    "Meaning": "An instantaneous, instinctive reaction.",
    "Sentence": [
      "When he saw that lion leaping towards him, his gut reaction was to run."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "3644",
    "Idiom": [
      "gut-wrenched"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Sickened.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "3645-1",
    "Idiom": [
      "gut-wrenching"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Sickening.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "3645-2",
    "Idiom": [
      "gut-wrenching"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Difficult to tolerate.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "3646",
    "Idiom": [
      "gutless wonder"
    ],
    "Meaning": "A coward.",
    "Sentence": [
      "What in the hell was wrong with him, anyway. Just a gutless wonder - nothing more or less.",
      "Yer can't even fight unless you've got a knife or picket or broken bottle, yer gutless wonder."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "3647",
    "Idiom": [
      "hack it"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To cope or succeed despite adversity.",
    "Sentence": [
      "I don't know if I can hack it here; the work is too hard for me."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "3648",
    "Idiom": [
      "had better"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Should or ought to.",
    "Sentence": [
      "You had better finish that homework on time, if you want to get a good grade.",
      "“Will we get it finished?” / “We had better. ”",
      "The project had better get finished by the current deadline."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "3649",
    "Idiom": [
      "hair of the dog"
    ],
    "Meaning": "An alcoholic drink consumed to alleviate a hangover.",
    "Sentence": [
      "But with the morning cool repentance came. I felt, in the keenest manner, the violence and absurdity of my conduct, and was obliged to confess that wine and passion had lowered my intellects.... I descended to the breakfast hall, like a criminal to receive sentence.... He poured out a large bumper of brandy, exhorting me to swallow \"a hair of the dog that had bit me.\"",
      "Ha ha! Put a good face upon it, and drink again. Another hair of the dog that bit you, captain!",
      "The good times are killing me / Enough hair of the dog to make myself an entire rug",
      "I'll be right back. I just need a little hair of the dog that bit me."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "3650",
    "Idiom": [
      "hair out of place"
    ],
    "Meaning": "The slightest sign of disorder.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Never fussed none about the work. Never hardly got a hair out of place."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "3651",
    "Idiom": [
      "hair today, gone tomorrow"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Hair is temporary and not a big deal to lose.",
    "Sentence": [
      "JOHN DONNELLY—brilliant advertiser for Noonan's Hair Restorer, says it makes you look \"Neet\" and causes your hair to \"come out\" fine. But he forgets the old saying, \" Hair today, gone tomorrow.\"",
      "Snip, snip, snip, I went, and watched it tumble to the floor. Snip, snip, snip. Cut, cut, cut. Bye, bye. Slán leat. And as they say in France, au revoir. Hair today, gone tomorrow. That's the way things were these days."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "3652",
    "Idiom": [
      "hair's breadth"
    ],
    "Meaning": "A very small amount or distance.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Measure Maddalena, and measure Minerva, and, from forehead to chin, you won't find a hair's breadth of difference between them.",
      "\"And then at last I see him, and behold, my chance is gone but by a hair's breadth even before I have it, for he is in the very jaws of death, whence no power of mine can draw him.\"",
      "We won by a hair's breadth.",
      "He missed me by a hair's breadth when he ran past me yesterday.",
      "They came within a hair's breadth of contacting electrified water."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "3653",
    "Idiom": [
      "hair-on-fire"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Impassioned or frantic.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Almost no singer in rock enunciates better, and he used that skill to make noise: teeth-and-tongue clucking, gut-punch bellows, hair-on-fire shrieking.",
      "The most common reactions to Ryan ranged from gnawing apprehension to hair-on-fire anger.",
      "I’ve made something of a career in debunking nonsense when it comes to science, from people who think the Moon landings were faked to hair-on-fire UFOlogists who think every lens flare and dust mote in a photo is the precursor to an alien invasion."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "3654",
    "Idiom": [
      "hair-splitting"
    ],
    "Meaning": "The act of finding insignificant differences.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Dick's Tribune poked endless fun at the hair-splitting sectarianism of the various Trotskyist groups jostling on the fringes of the Labour party at that time."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "3655",
    "Idiom": [
      "hair-splittingly"
    ],
    "Meaning": "With exceedingly small and unimportant differences.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Nobody expected the vote to be so hair-splittingly close."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "3656-1",
    "Idiom": [
      "hairy molly"
    ],
    "Meaning": "A hairy caterpillar.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "3656-2",
    "Idiom": [
      "hairy molly"
    ],
    "Meaning": "The vulva.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "3657",
    "Idiom": [
      "halcyon days"
    ],
    "Meaning": "A nostalgic period of calm in the past.",
    "Sentence": [
      "And, by the way, during those halcyon days (the halcyon was there, too, chattering above every creek, as he is all over the world) we fought another battle.",
      "Then for the teeming quietest, happiest days of all! / The brooding and blissful halcyon days !",
      "It was a halcyon day, and as they neared the shore and the salt breezes scurried by, he began to picture the ocean and long, level stretches of sand and red roofs over blue sea.",
      "And the ragged rock in the restless waters, / Waves wash over it, fogs conceal it; / On a halcyon day it is merely a monument, / In navigable weather is always a seamark / to lay a course by: but in the sombre season / Or the sudden fury, is what it always was.",
      "halcyon days of yore",
      "halcyon days of youth"
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "3658-1",
    "Idiom": [
      "hale and hearty"
    ],
    "Meaning": "In robust good health.",
    "Sentence": [
      "He was a hale and hearty man at that time, and remained hale and hearty for many years afterwards; so hale and hearty, that in the year 1798, being then turned seventy-eight, and having lived in America ten years, he married a young woman of Scottish extraction",
      "Three of the four are hale and hearty today, and it is doubtful they have forgotten a single detail of that event."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "3658-2",
    "Idiom": [
      "hale and hearty"
    ],
    "Meaning": "In good health.",
    "Sentence": [
      "This is a hale and hearty dish, filled with beef, potatoes and carrots."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "3659",
    "Idiom": [
      "half a brain",
      "half a head"
    ],
    "Meaning": "A minimal level of intelligence.",
    "Sentence": [
      "anyone with half a brain",
      "Anyone with half a brain should have known what to do.",
      "Well, if he had half a brain, then we wouldn't be having this conversation."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "3660",
    "Idiom": [
      "half a loaf is better than no bread",
      "half a loaf is better than no loaf",
      "half a loaf is better than none"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Something is better than nothing.",
    "Sentence": [
      "\"I have the beginnings of genius,\" he finally decided, \"that is, I can see for myself, but I cannot pass the vision on to others by production.\" \" Half a loaf is better than none,\" said Miss Enistor soothingly.",
      "\"I'm a business man, and I tell you before you're half through with this fight, you'll come to the conclusion that half a loaf is better than none at all—particularly in the matter of extra large loaves. You'll come to me and compromise.\"",
      "\"There are some people,\" he said, \"who would have you so stand on principle that if you don't get all that you've asked for from the legislature, why you jump off the cliff with the flag flying.\" Mr. Reagan said that \"a half a loaf is better than none \" and that unyielding critics had \"misread\" his tactics.",
      "Audience: Green groups Obama's Pitch: Sometimes half a loaf is better than no loaf at all."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "3661",
    "Idiom": [
      "half a mind"
    ],
    "Meaning": "A moderate inclination.",
    "Sentence": [
      "His behaviour gives me half a mind to throw him out."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "3662-1",
    "Idiom": [
      "half joke"
    ],
    "Meaning": "A statement that mixes humor and seriousness.",
    "Sentence": [
      "\"Well, let's wait. Perhaps the shooting will die out.\" \"Maybe the soldiers and settlers will die out with it,\" I say, another half-joke."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "3662-2",
    "Idiom": [
      "half joke"
    ],
    "Meaning": "A humorous remark made with partial seriousness.",
    "Sentence": [
      "\"You know why I think you're working with Cristos? Because once I was captured, once he got what he wanted, it would be far easier to pin it all on me, to kill my wife, dump her body where it would never be found, convince me and the world that I was crazy, no trial, just lock me up in a padded room until I succumbed to the cancer.\" \"That sounds like a pretty good plan,\" Frank said, half joking."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "3663",
    "Idiom": [
      "half murder"
    ],
    "Meaning": "The committing of a grievous, but non-fatal, injury.",
    "Sentence": [
      "That was the half murder. The next one was a liquor seller, Philips Daruwala, and that was the first proper murder.",
      "Before he could get out Rita was already arrested for half-murder of her step-father."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "3664",
    "Idiom": [
      "half-naked"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Wearing very few clothes; revealing the body.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "3665",
    "Idiom": [
      "half-night stand"
    ],
    "Meaning": "A brief sexual encounter with no intention of a lasting relationship.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Allison had not even reached mistress status, just a half-night stand.",
      "Still, as he refused to concede that he was incapable of fucking, in the years that followed, there were more forgettable half-night stands.",
      "He'd been the byproduct of a quart of Old Bushmills and a half-night stand."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "3666",
    "Idiom": [
      "halfway decent"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Better than expected.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "3667",
    "Idiom": [
      "ham it up"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To deliberately exaggerate emotions or overact.",
    "Sentence": [
      "You can count on him to ham it up for the camera."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "3668",
    "Idiom": [
      "hammer and tongs"
    ],
    "Meaning": "In a serious and forceful manner.",
    "Sentence": [
      "She sort of let things go, didn't get me a proper dinner when I came home from work, and if I said anything, flew out at me. And I flew back, hammer and tongs.",
      "When they had an argument they went at it hammer and tongs."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "3669",
    "Idiom": [
      "hammer home"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To repeatedly emphasize an opinion or idea for understanding.",
    "Sentence": [
      "In other situations, you might know someone who adds colour with personal anecdotes and feelings. You could shoot off a similar response – perhaps including a short story of your own to hammer home your point.",
      "Seeing that it was withdrawn in perfectly good working order hammers it home : these trains are on borrowed time.",
      "The politicians seem to think that they have to hammer home every policy for the public to understand it: I would have thought we're more intelligent than that."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "3670",
    "Idiom": [
      "hammer-headed"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Stupid or ignorant.",
    "Sentence": [
      "We tug our hammer-headed mules along the tourist trails of Petra, the fabled Nabataean capital cut from rock the color of living muscle."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "3671-1",
    "Idiom": [
      "hamster wheel"
    ],
    "Meaning": "A monotonous, unfulfilling activity with no progress.",
    "Sentence": [
      "The overall mood of this volume is one of melancholy and loss, weary resignation to one's lot—trudging round and round on the rusty hamster wheel of life.",
      "Before the current pandemic, the rail industry appeared to be trapped on an ever-accelerating hamster wheel, trying to keep up with customer demand and political expectation on an essentially historic system itself exposed to greater impacts of climate change."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "3671-2",
    "Idiom": [
      "hamster wheel"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To cycle fruitlessly.",
    "Sentence": [
      "I was shocked that I'd forgotten about the game that morning, but my mind had hamster-wheeled around for hours during the night, long after I should have been asleep.",
      "But my brain was hamster-wheeling on that one hopefully-not-true-but-probably-was fact."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "3672",
    "Idiom": [
      "hand down"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To donate secondhand.",
    "Sentence": [
      "When my older brother grows out of his clothes, he hands them down to me."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "3673",
    "Idiom": [
      "hand in glove"
    ],
    "Meaning": "In very close cooperation.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Isn't it beautiful to see two people / So much in love? / Barenaked as two virgins hand in hand / And hand and hand in glove",
      "The vendors were working hand in glove with our people."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "3674",
    "Idiom": [
      "hand in one's dinner pail"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To die.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "3675",
    "Idiom": [
      "hand it to someone"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To give credit or praise.",
    "Sentence": [
      "You have to hand it to him for finishing such a big project so quickly."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "3676",
    "Idiom": [
      "hand off"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To pass or transfer.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Before we hand off the project to him, let's make sure to write some instructions."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "3677-1",
    "Idiom": [
      "hand over"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To give control or possession of something to someone.",
    "Sentence": [
      "The train was handed over 21 min. late at Salisbury, so there was every encouragement to Driver Moore, of Salisbury, to \"get a move on.\"",
      "When classes start in September, the University of Macau’s new campus — still under construction on about a square kilometer, or roughly 250 acres, on Hengqin Island in southern Guangdong Province — will be “ handed over ” to Macau governance in accordance with a 2009 bill by the National People’s Congress in Beijing.",
      "Liverpool still have a game in hand but City have made up most of that lost ground and this was a resounding message that they will not be handing over the title.",
      "I handed over the controls to the copilot."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "3677-2",
    "Idiom": [
      "hand over"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To deliver.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "3678",
    "Idiom": [
      "hand over fist"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Quickly or in great quantity.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Are you coming over again to see me some day soon? I keep returning, and now hand over fist, from the realms of Hades: I saw that gentleman between the eyes, and fear him less after each visit.",
      "Now, since cattle had risen and meat and all to such a price, he was making money hand over fist.",
      "He was a live man and a brisk talker, and had two journeymen and three apprentices, and was doing a raging business. In fact, he was getting rich, hand over fist, and was vastly respected.",
      "Why, those Dalmatians are showing Pajaro apples on the South African market right now, and coining money out of it hand over fist.",
      "Now we are in the War and our business is booming, we are making money hand over fist.",
      "Still it’s the same fish perhaps old Micky Hanlon of Moore street ripped the guts out of making money hand over fist finger in fishes’ gills can’t write his name on a cheque think he was painting the landscape with his mouth twisted.",
      "And while pulling in dollars hand over fist might have some educational value, I doubt it's what Congress had in mind.",
      "to make money hand over fist"
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "3679-1",
    "Idiom": [
      "hand over hand"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Passing hands alternately, especially with rope.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Max went up the rigging hand over hand, and brought his red head with a bump against the base of Harry’s back."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "3679-2",
    "Idiom": [
      "hand over hand"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Rapidly.",
    "Sentence": [
      "In this way he made money hand over hand; became a rich and mighty man, and exalted his cocked hat upon change.",
      "He was making money, hand over hand, then; and he never stopped speculating and improving till he'd scraped together three or four hundred thousand dollars"
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "3680",
    "Idiom": [
      "hand over head"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Negligently or rashly.",
    "Sentence": [
      "the facility of the titles, which hand - over - head have served their turn"
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "3681",
    "Idiom": [
      "hand someone his hat"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To dismiss someone.",
    "Sentence": [
      "McNeil replied, \"It may have been Hitler who helped Chamberlain with his overcoat but don't forget it was the British people who handed him his hat.\"",
      "You grew up under dictators who would have put people to the sword if they dared hand them their hats and invite them to buzz off.",
      "The President's men, nonetheless, view him the way the Vatican saw Galileo—as a dangerous heretic.... They would hand him his hat if they dared."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "3682",
    "Idiom": [
      "hand someone his head"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To defeat utterly.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "3683",
    "Idiom": [
      "hand someone their cards"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To dismiss someone from employment.",
    "Sentence": [
      "To begin with, you were not sacked; it was you who gave notice. Upon which he handed me my cards and my wages.",
      "Now they say that times are hard and they’ve handed me my cards. They say there’s not the work to go around. And when the whistle blows, the gates will finally close. Tonight they’re going to shut this factory down. Then they’ll tear it d-o-w-n",
      "I was handed my cards yesterday and so today I’m looking for a new job."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "3684",
    "Idiom": [
      "hand to God"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Used to affirm sincerity or truthfulness.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Hand to God, I was planning on paying by Tuesday."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "3685",
    "Idiom": [
      "hand to mouth"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Living with very little or just enough to survive.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Hundreds of thousands of Syrians shelter beneath UN canvas in Jordan. In the irrigated fields of As Safi, these refugees survive hand to mouth, picking tomatoes for $11 a day.",
      "Don’t abuse a laborer who is destitute and needy, whether he is a fellow Israelite or a foreigner living in your land and in your city. Pay him at the end of each workday; he’s living from hand to mouth and needs it now. If you hold back his pay, he’ll protest to G OD and you’ll have sin on your books.",
      "\"Meanwhile, we are sitting here starving. Let's not beat about the bush - we are absolutely living hand to mouth now on TfL."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "3686",
    "Idiom": [
      "hand waving"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Discussion involving approximation or vagueness.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Protesters who demand that this brilliantly humane enterprise be stopped should have their motives questioned. Their protest is nothing but the mindless hand waving of Luddites.",
      "The sales pitch sounded good, but there was a lot of hand waving about the price."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "3687",
    "Idiom": [
      "hand-in-glove"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Closely cooperative.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "3688-1",
    "Idiom": [
      "hand-sitter"
    ],
    "Meaning": "A person who is idle when action is needed.",
    "Sentence": [
      "A key factor in Nelson Rockefeller's noncandidacy decision was the failure of the Republican governors—and leading liberal Republicans—to come out for him publicly after New Hampshire. There were personal telephone calls urging him to run, but that was all … Among the biggest hand-sitters was a former Republican governor"
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "3688-2",
    "Idiom": [
      "hand-sitter"
    ],
    "Meaning": "An unenthusiastic audience member.",
    "Sentence": [
      "They were such a responsive audience, for one thing, so unlike the academic hand-sitters he was used to, and they'd turned out in such large numbers, despite a heavy downpour, filling the basement of the First Presbyterian Church to capacity, even standing in the back and along the walls."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "3689",
    "Idiom": [
      "hand-to-mouth",
      "hand to mouth"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Living in poverty with barely enough to survive.",
    "Sentence": [
      "She has been a widow these six or eight years, and has lived, I imagine, in rather a hand-to-mouth fashion.",
      "The Migrant Fleet has little economic base, operating in a state of perpetual \" hand-to-mouth \". While quarian ships include light manufacturing and assembly plants, they lack heavy industries such as refining and shipbuilding. The fleet has tankers for water purification and oxygen cracking, but the space-intensive nature of agriculture limits food production. A single disaster could destroy the fragile balance."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "3690",
    "Idiom": [
      "handbags at dawn"
    ],
    "Meaning": "A petty argument.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "3691-1",
    "Idiom": [
      "handle oneself"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To behave.",
    "Sentence": [
      "surprisingly, the girls handled themselves at the dinner"
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "3691-2",
    "Idiom": [
      "handle oneself"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To conduct oneself.",
    "Sentence": [
      "he handled himself well under trying circumstances"
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "3692",
    "Idiom": [
      "handle with kid gloves"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To treat something very delicately.",
    "Sentence": [
      "He does not trifle with them, or handle them with kid gloves. No, he judges them to be the scum of the earth, and he treats them accordingly by putting them away.",
      "[Richard] Ingrams has always enjoyed a reputation for insensitivity. As with other columnists in the British press, he treads on toes to make his point and rides roughshod over issues that others handle with kid gloves, or avoid altogether.",
      "The campaign staff cautioned the candidate to handle the issue with kid gloves."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "3693-1",
    "Idiom": [
      "hands down"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Easily.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "3693-2",
    "Idiom": [
      "hands down"
    ],
    "Meaning": "By a large margin.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "3693-3",
    "Idiom": [
      "hands down"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Undoubtedly.",
    "Sentence": [
      "That is a rather difficult task, hands down."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "3694-1",
    "Idiom": [
      "hands up"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Raise your hands to participate.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "3694-2",
    "Idiom": [
      "hands up"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Surrender!",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "3695",
    "Idiom": [
      "handsome is that handsome does",
      "handsome is as handsome does"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Actions define true handsomeness.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Miss Trotwood, or Miss Betsey, as my poor mother always called her, when she sufficiently overcame her dread of this formidable personage to mention her at all (which was seldom), had been married to a husband younger than herself, who was very handsome, except in the sense of the homely adage, ‘handsome is, that handsome does’ - for he was strongly suspected of having beaten Miss Betsey, and even of having once, on a disputed question of supplies, made some hasty but determined arrangements to throw her out of a two pair of stairs’ window."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "3696",
    "Idiom": [
      "hang a Louie"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Make a left turn while driving.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Hang a Louie up at the next stoplight."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "3697",
    "Idiom": [
      "hang a Ralph"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To make a right turn while driving.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Hang a Ralph up at the next stoplight."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "3698",
    "Idiom": [
      "hang a leg"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To hesitate.",
    "Sentence": [
      "You have your hands on thousands, you fools, and you hang a leg! You'd be as rich as kings if you could find it, and you know it's here, and you stand there skulking."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "3699",
    "Idiom": [
      "hang a uey"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To make a U-turn while driving.",
    "Sentence": [
      "You missed the turn, so hang a uey at the stoplight."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "3700",
    "Idiom": [
      "hang an arse"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To hang back or hesitate.",
    "Sentence": [
      "For though in her he settles well his tarse, Yet his dull, graceless bollocks hang an arse."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "3701-1",
    "Idiom": [
      "hang around"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To stay or linger.",
    "Sentence": [
      "I would have liked to have hung around in Birmingham, but my connections are tight owing to a points failure, and I make the CrossCountry Class 170 to Derby by the skin of my teeth.",
      "If you hang around after the show, you can meet the cast."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "3701-2",
    "Idiom": [
      "hang around"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To spend time or socialize.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Oh well uh, you might think I'm crazy / To hang around with you / Or maybe you think I'm lucky / To have somethin' to do",
      "My daughter likes to hang around with older kids after school."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "3702",
    "Idiom": [
      "hang by a thread"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To be in a precarious situation.",
    "Sentence": [
      "A giant section of an Antarctic ice shelf is hanging by a thread and could break off at any moment, researchers have revealed.",
      "Life in the SCP universe continually hangs by a thread, threatened constantly by the existence of a number of dangerous and apocalyptic anomalies. These threats are countered and contained by the existence of organizations such as the SCP Foundation or the Global Occult Coalition.",
      "Do you ever get a little bit tired of life / Like you're not really happy, but you don't wanna die / Like you're hanging by a thread, but you gotta survive / 'Cause you gotta survive"
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "3703",
    "Idiom": [
      "hang heavy"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Time seems to pass slowly.",
    "Sentence": [
      "The town of Tompasobaru, a six-hour drive from Tangkoko, is known for the fragrant cloves that carpet the front yards of homes, drying on tarps in the sun. But in the town’s open market, the air hung heavy with the metallic smell of the butcher’s wares.",
      "What was it all, to have a duke and to have lords dining with her, to dine with lords or with a duke itself, if life were dull with her, and the hours hung heavy !"
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "3704",
    "Idiom": [
      "hang in"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To persist or endure.",
    "Sentence": [
      "It feels important to me to have people like yourself who have \" hung in \" through the various changes and the various battles, because you have such a wealth of information.",
      "The brothers hung in there long enough to lay down some sunny album tracks and a few singles with names like \"Come Down Baby\" and \"Monkey Tamarino.\""
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "3705",
    "Idiom": [
      "hang in the balance"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To be in a precarious situation with an uncertain future.",
    "Sentence": [
      "His life was left hanging in the balance after he was shot in the side."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "3706",
    "Idiom": [
      "hang low"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To droop or sag heavily.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "3707-1",
    "Idiom": [
      "hang on"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To wait a moment.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Hang on. Let me check."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "3707-2",
    "Idiom": [
      "hang on"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To hold or grip.",
    "Sentence": [
      "\"If you'll come along, then hang on !\" said Hans, and the man had to hang on and limp along on one leg, whether he would or no; and when he tried to tear himself loose, he made it still worse for himself, for he was very nearly falling on his back whenever he struggled to get free.",
      "Old Applegate, in the stern, just set and looked at me, and Lord James, amidship, waved both arms and kept hollering for help. I took a couple of everlasting big strokes and managed to grab hold of the skiff's rail, close to the stern. Then, for a jiffy, I hung on and fought for breath.",
      "Hang on to the handle so you don't drop it."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "3707-3",
    "Idiom": [
      "hang on"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To keep or store something for someone.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Hang on to my jacket until I get back."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "3707-4",
    "Idiom": [
      "hang on"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To pay close attention to.",
    "Sentence": [
      "The audience hangs on his every word."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "3707-5",
    "Idiom": [
      "hang on"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To have faith in something.",
    "Sentence": [
      "He's got a philosophy he hangs on to."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "3707-6",
    "Idiom": [
      "hang on"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To persevere.",
    "Sentence": [
      "It's such a perfect day, I'm glad I spend it with you / Such a perfect day you just keep me hanging on / You just keep me hanging on",
      "Hanging on in quiet desperation is the English way",
      "Just hang on and keep going; this pain won't last forever."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "3707-7",
    "Idiom": [
      "hang on"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To depend upon.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Medically, autism is classified as a neurodevelopmental disorder, hanging on a set of observed and reported behavioral characteristics.",
      "Everything hangs on whether the boss agrees."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "3707-8",
    "Idiom": [
      "hang on"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To weigh down or oppress.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "3708",
    "Idiom": [
      "hang on every word"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To be fully attentive to someone's words.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "3709",
    "Idiom": [
      "hang one's hat"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To call a place home.",
    "Sentence": [
      "But all my ex’s live in Texas",
      "“Where does Hobart hang his hat ?” Slocum asked. “His spread's up north, east of the Chugwater, and maybe north some.”"
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "3710-1",
    "Idiom": [
      "hang out"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To spend time with someone.",
    "Sentence": [
      "\"I promise to take care of myself. Yes; I won't take any risks. Not a single blessed risk. Of course not. I mean to hang out. Don't worry. Jove! I feel as though nothing could touch me. Why! this is luck from the word Go.\"",
      "The sisters, and their cousin Thomas Cummins, had gone onto the bridge that night to see a poem Julie Kerry had painted on it, and as they did so they bumped into Clemons and three other young men who were hanging out there.",
      "After the film, do you want to go hang out ?",
      "He hung out with his friends all day yesterday."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "3710-2",
    "Idiom": [
      "hang out"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To spend time casually.",
    "Sentence": [
      "'I say, old boy, where do you hang out ?' / Mr. Pickwick replied that he was at present suspended at the George and Vulture."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "3711",
    "Idiom": [
      "hang out one's shingle"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To open a business or office.",
    "Sentence": [
      "She's good enough at fixing vacuum cleaners that she should hang out her shingle and try making some money at it."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "3712",
    "Idiom": [
      "hang out to dry"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To abandon someone in need or danger.",
    "Sentence": [
      "I'll take advantage while / You hang me out to dry",
      "Without supplemental health insurance, we would have been hung out to dry.",
      "It's hard to avoid the conclusion that young people are being hung out to dry."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "3713",
    "Idiom": [
      "hang over someone's head"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To threaten or preoccupy someone.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Lord Justice Roskill delivered the decision of the three justices, upholding the fines against the paper and editor Lemon. The justices also granted court costs to anti-gay crusader Mary Whitehouse, the person who brought the suit against the paper. A prison sentence hanging over Lemon's head was dismissed.",
      "So Congress enacted a statute, the net effect of which is to hinge the freedom to speak on the speaker’s willingness to run the gauntlet of post hoc value assessments by prosecutors and juries with a five year felony sentence hanging over his head."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "3714",
    "Idiom": [
      "hang the moon"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Attributes superlative admiration or infatuation to someone.",
    "Sentence": [
      "\"Everybody in the 8th Wing thinks he hung the moon,\" says one of Olds's aviators. \"We'd follow him anywhere.\"",
      "If I had two dozens roses and an older bottle of wine, If I really could have hung the moon, Would it change your mind?",
      "Did you really think last night would last forever? Did you really think that guy hung the moon ? Right now you hate yourself 'cause you know better But there's no use crying over spilled perfume."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "3715-1",
    "Idiom": [
      "hang together"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To be connected.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "3715-2",
    "Idiom": [
      "hang together"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To correspond or fit well.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "3715-3",
    "Idiom": [
      "hang together"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To be in a romantic relationship.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "3715-4",
    "Idiom": [
      "hang together"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To be united.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "3716",
    "Idiom": [
      "hang tough"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To remain strong-willed or brave in tough situations.",
    "Sentence": [
      "But Hoop Dreams isn't mainly about sport, or even about life and death in the inner city. It's about families hanging tough on nerve and prayer."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "3717-1",
    "Idiom": [
      "hang up",
      "hang up one's fiddle"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To terminate a telephone call.",
    "Sentence": [
      "And as I hung up the phone, it occurred to me He'd grown up just like me My boy was just like me.",
      "When my mother started telling me to be careful over the phone, I threatened to hang up on her."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "3718-2",
    "Idiom": [
      "hang up"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To stop talking.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "3719",
    "Idiom": [
      "hang up one's boots"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To retire.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "3720-1",
    "Idiom": [
      "hang up one's hat"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To end one's career.",
    "Sentence": [
      "The film even picks up with his colleagues at the university throwing him a retirement party, but it never explores how Indy feels about finally hanging up his hat as a professor."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "3720-2",
    "Idiom": [
      "hang up one's hat"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To make oneself at home.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "3721",
    "Idiom": [
      "hang upon"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To depend upon.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Everything hangs upon whether the boss agrees."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "3722-1",
    "Idiom": [
      "hangar queen"
    ],
    "Meaning": "A grounded aircraft used for spare parts.",
    "Sentence": [
      "In the Air Forces, \" Hangar Queen \" is not a proud title. It refers to any grounded plane which is being systematically \"cannibalized\" (stripped of its parts) so that other planes may fly."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "3722-2",
    "Idiom": [
      "hangar queen"
    ],
    "Meaning": "An aircraft requiring excessive maintenance.",
    "Sentence": [
      "The F-35... was not only meant to be an affordable fifth-generation fighter-bomber for the U.S. and her allies, but also to have lower maintenance costs than aircraft now in service. These claims may also turn out to be inaccurate, with the F-35 a potential hanger-queen like the F-22 Raptor."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "3723",
    "Idiom": [
      "hanging offence"
    ],
    "Meaning": "A crime punishable by death by hanging.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Word reached the ear of the prosecuting attorney of the only testimony that could establish a motive and make the crime a hanging offence.",
      "Since when is it a hanging offense to criticize someone who's not doing the job he's paid generously to do?"
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "3724",
    "Idiom": [
      "happen along"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To arrive by chance.",
    "Sentence": [
      "\"Now, if a rattling good earthquake were to happen along, you might awake in the morning to find yourself on an island, or even under water.\"",
      "\"We can't 'spect a cyclone to happen along and take us to the Emerald City now.\"",
      "Novae, or new stars, are always happening along.",
      "\"Well, you're the one who's always telling me not to leave my purse in the cart, and that's probably what that woman had done, and someone happened along and just took it.\""
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "3725",
    "Idiom": [
      "happily ever after"
    ],
    "Meaning": "A formulaic ending indicating lasting happiness.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Except in our dreamiest moods, we scornfully reject the slightest hint of witchery, and yet find no difficulty in believing that the hero and heroine of the last new novel \"married and lived happily ever after \" the conclusion of the third volume, without the help of any fairy godmother.",
      "I might find somewhere where I can finish my book. I have thought of a nice ending for it: and he lived happily ever after to the end of his days.",
      "After Pygmalion came back to consciousness, he proposed to his perfect woman. They got married, had a few kids, and lived happily ever after. The weird thing, though? The stories don't even tell us what the ivory girl's name was.",
      "And they lived happily ever after."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "3726",
    "Idiom": [
      "happy as a pig in mud"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Very happy or content.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "3727",
    "Idiom": [
      "happy as a pig in shit"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Extremely happy and carefree.",
    "Sentence": [
      "He's \" happy as a pig in shit \". \"This is what I really enjoy, working with film-makers,\" he says.",
      "And he pays generous tribute to Noble who, he says, actively encouraged him... to venture further into the classics with Romeo and Juliet, Othello and Henry IV. \"Speaking purely as a director, I was happy as a pig in shit.\"",
      "\"I am as happy as a pig in shit —you can quote me on that—doing what I'm doing at the moment.\"",
      "Beauty products are the one thing that I waste my money on. Give me a hundred bucks and plop me in the nearest Duane Reade, and I’m happy as a pig in shit."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "3728",
    "Idiom": [
      "happy chappy"
    ],
    "Meaning": "A particularly happy person, often a young boy or teenager.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "3729",
    "Idiom": [
      "happy landings"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Successful outcomes.",
    "Sentence": [
      "But one set of Washington policies is all happy landings : the Government's campaign to stop skyjackers is working.",
      "He missed much of his senior year, drifted, but finally graduated. He hasn't gone to college and realizes now that he wants that experience. Some of these stories have happy landings."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "3730",
    "Idiom": [
      "happy medium"
    ],
    "Meaning": "A balanced position between two extremes.",
    "Sentence": [
      "The tone of the paper strikes a happy medium between layman approachability and technical accuracy."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "3731",
    "Idiom": [
      "happy place"
    ],
    "Meaning": "A mental escape to a pleasant location.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "3732",
    "Idiom": [
      "happy wife, happy life"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Keep your wife happy to avoid trouble.",
    "Sentence": [
      "There's all sorts of antiquated marriage advice out there, but it turns out that there's one relationship trope that actually holds true: \" Happy wife, happy life.\"",
      "In a “ Happy Wife Happy Life ” relationship, men suffer in silence and women believe everything is okay as long as they’re getting what they want."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "3733-1",
    "Idiom": [
      "hard as nails"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Very unsympathetic.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "3733-2",
    "Idiom": [
      "hard as nails"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Tough and enduring.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "3734-1",
    "Idiom": [
      "hard cases make bad law"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Extreme cases shouldn't dictate general law.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "3734-2",
    "Idiom": [
      "hard cases make bad law"
    ],
    "Meaning": "A general law should suit average circumstances.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "3735",
    "Idiom": [
      "hard cheese"
    ],
    "Meaning": "An unsympathetic response to someone's misfortune.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "3736",
    "Idiom": [
      "hard done by"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Cheated or exploited.",
    "Sentence": [
      "United could have made it 3-0 with further chances, but Norwich's Andrew Crofts also had a shot saved and his side can come away from this encounter with some reason to feel hard done by.",
      "King should feel a bit hard done by after being replaced in the team."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "3737",
    "Idiom": [
      "hard feelings"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Resentment or anger.",
    "Sentence": [
      "If you will name the price you put upon the articles, it is possible the damage may be quietly settled between us, and all hard feelings forgotten.",
      "This foreign visitor asked me how I felt about the war, and I told him that it was over, and I bore no hard feelings.",
      "The eviction itself went relatively smoothly, but the hard feelings it generated resound deep inside Israeli army barracks."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "3738-1",
    "Idiom": [
      "hard nut to crack"
    ],
    "Meaning": "A challenging problem.",
    "Sentence": [
      "He saw the dilemma.... It was a hard nut to crack. He could see no way out of it.",
      "Germany's inflation proves a hard nut to crack."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "3738-2",
    "Idiom": [
      "hard nut to crack"
    ],
    "Meaning": "A difficult situation or person to deal with.",
    "Sentence": [
      "The coast lad found the veteran Mike McTigue a hard nut to crack and judging from the look on the Californian's face when the final bell sounded, he was mighty happy that the fight was over.",
      "\"But Belarus is a hard nut to crack, and it has used these methods to slip out of these East-West pincers before,\" says Alexander Klaskovsky."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "3738-3",
    "Idiom": [
      "hard nut to crack"
    ],
    "Meaning": "A difficult challenge to solve.",
    "Sentence": [
      "The next day Archie, with Andrew Macpherson and Cluny Campbell, made their way through the woods until within sight of the castle.... \"It would be a hard nut to crack, Sir Archie,\" his lieutenant said. \"Unless by famine, the place could scarce be taken.\"",
      "Durango, however, may be a hard nut to crack, as it is strong strategically and is reported guarded by 4000 rebels.",
      "Nice work if you can get it, but the luxury market is a hard nut to crack."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "3738-4",
    "Idiom": [
      "hard nut to crack"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Something that is difficult to solve or understand.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "3739",
    "Idiom": [
      "hard of hearing"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Having difficulty hearing.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Speak loudly, because Grandpa is somewhat hard of hearing."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "3740",
    "Idiom": [
      "hard on the eyes"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Ugly.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "3741",
    "Idiom": [
      "hard telling, not knowing"
    ],
    "Meaning": "I don't know.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "3742",
    "Idiom": [
      "hard to swallow"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Difficult to accept.",
    "Sentence": [
      "We've already been through a lot, and now with this latest affront, it's getting to be hard to swallow."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "3743",
    "Idiom": [
      "hard-and-fast"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Strictly maintained; not subject to variation.",
    "Sentence": [
      "to stick to hard-and-fast rules"
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "3744",
    "Idiom": [
      "hard-nosed"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Stubborn or uncompromising.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "3745-1",
    "Idiom": [
      "hard-pressed"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Having difficulty doing something.",
    "Sentence": [
      "From the 'fifties onwards the development of the South Wales & Monmouthshire coalfield went on at terrific speed, and railway construction was hard pressed to keep pace with it.",
      "These units will replace the 2,800 h.p. motor coaches on the fast and heavy Zurich-Berne-Lausanne-Geneva push-and-pull expresses, which in their turn have been relieving the hard-pressed 2,520 h.p. Bo-Bo locomotives of the Re 4/4 type.",
      "Although they are still available, I think we would be hard-pressed to find one on short notice."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "3745-2",
    "Idiom": [
      "hard-pressed"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Experiencing difficulty or stress.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Speaking to Parliament on March 23, Sunak announced a temporary cut in fuel duty of 5p per litre to hard-pressed motorists who have faced spiralling prices for diesel and petrol in recent weeks.",
      "The earthquake left the residents hard-pressed."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "3746",
    "Idiom": [
      "harden someone's heart"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To make someone more resistant to emotions or feelings.",
    "Sentence": [
      "And I will harden Pharaoh's heart, and multiply my signs and my wonders in the land of Egypt. But Pharaoh shall not hearken unto you, that I may lay my hand upon Egypt, and bring forth mine armies, and my people the children of Israel, out of the land of Egypt by great judgments.",
      "Farrell had been to prison, and he thought the daily malignancy he had witnessed there had hardened his heart.",
      "Seeing so much suffering for so long hardened his heart.",
      "She hardened her heart against his inevitable pleas."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "3747",
    "Idiom": [
      "harp on one string"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To persistently focus on a single subject.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "3748",
    "Idiom": [
      "harp on the same string"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To repeatedly say the same thing.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "3749",
    "Idiom": [
      "has left the building"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Something is gone forever.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Organisational capital is typically described as dead. It is what has been left behind after human capital has left the building.",
      "The quality-control department has left the building and anyone with a halfdecent memory of a half-remembered match is out there publishing his memoirs. The scraps, the scrapes, the sessions — oh, what fun we had. Except we didn't have much fun, did we? Most of them are poor.",
      "When a Risk Taker gets a hold of an idea, reason has left the building. And with it go concern for other people's feelings, attention to details, and longrange planning.",
      "Just as I can run through a long succession of too many negative \"what if\" scenarios, my mom is equally efficient at producing a long list of what could go right. Of course, she generally takes it a step beyond into the absolute impossibility of positivity after the logic train has left the building; I find her rosy interpretations rather annoying and frustrating.",
      "Sales 1.0 —and its outdated and ineffective sales tactics— has left the building. Today's Sales 2.0 is fueled by tools."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "3750",
    "Idiom": [
      "hash out"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To work through the details or difficulties.",
    "Sentence": [
      "The Iraqi people have shown their impulse toward democracy; they need security in order to hash out the many remaining differences that still divide them.",
      "As 25/7’s lawyers hashed out terms with APG throughout the early spring,",
      "They stayed up late hashing out the details of the contract."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "3751",
    "Idiom": [
      "hash slinger"
    ],
    "Meaning": "A cook or server in a cheap restaurant, often discourteous.",
    "Sentence": [
      "At first the spread was not very elaborate.... Originally it consisted of a chunk of well greased sole leather served hot, two boiled potatoes, a cup of muddy coffee, a bold of bread, a grunt or growl from the hash slinger, and, in warm weather, a few flies.",
      "The ‘ hash-slinger ’ type of waitress of former years has disappeared from the great majority of restaurants.",
      "San Diego still has trouble making up its mind as to which it wants to be—a hash-slinger or a gourmet chef."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "3752",
    "Idiom": [
      "haste makes waste"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Being too hasty leads to mistakes.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "3753",
    "Idiom": [
      "hat hair"
    ],
    "Meaning": "An accidental messy hairstyle from wearing a hat.",
    "Sentence": [
      "But winter can also be judged by the prominence of another scourge, one that is especially irksome in a city that places a premium on being well-groomed and immaculately coiffed: hat hair.",
      "Beanie hair: Officially the worst hat hair to have: flat, fuzzy and drab."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "3754",
    "Idiom": [
      "hat in hand"
    ],
    "Meaning": "With humility or in an apologetic manner.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Hat in hand, the sailors stood deferentially in a semicircle before him.",
      "\"D'you think the proud English corporations are going to let you inside? Not them. The most you'll get will be the scraps that fall from their table, my poor Lazarus, and for these you'll have to go hat in hand to Dives.\"",
      "Turkish leaders are accustomed to visiting Europe with hat in hand, seeking to make compromises.",
      "But the Americans should also not expect Mr Xi to be arriving hat in hand and eager to please.<r>Many believe mutual suspicion will endure and the two leaders will not likely remove existing trade and economic roadblocks put up in the name of national security."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "3755",
    "Idiom": [
      "hatchet man"
    ],
    "Meaning": "A male who carries out unpleasant duties for another, like firing employees.",
    "Sentence": [
      "After the layoffs, he gained a reputation as a hatchet man and ended up eating lunches alone."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "3756",
    "Idiom": [
      "hate someone's guts"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To hate intensely or passionately.",
    "Sentence": [
      "“I am so, so sorry, Frank. I took a wrong turn in life. I made a mistake walking out, but I’ve had to live with it. I know I let you down, Frank. I bet you hate my guts.”",
      "When the singer of a band is screaming, only eight minutes in, “I hate your fucking guts ” over a sea of boos and chants of another artist’s name, it suggests the gig isn’t going so well.",
      "She caught him seeing another woman, and now she hates his guts."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "3757",
    "Idiom": [
      "haters gonna hate"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Ignore critics; their opinions don't matter.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Playas gonna play / Haters gonna hate / That's the way it is / That's just how it's been",
      "If anyone asks why you're wearing a bathrobe in public, just roll your eyes and keep on strutting. Haters gonna hate.",
      "[Amanda Palmer:] I think the key is to NOT defend yourself too much. Haters gonna hate, especially in the age of the Internet, where everyone can hide behind their walls and masks while spewing venom, truisms, and righteousness.",
      "Cause the players gonna play, play, play, play, play And the haters gonna hate, hate, hate, hate, hate Baby, I'm just gonna shake, shake, shake, shake, shake I shake it off, I shake it off"
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "3758",
    "Idiom": [
      "haul someone over the coals"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To express anger clearly over someone's wrongdoing.",
    "Sentence": [
      "The teacher hauled him over the coals for not doing his homework."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "3759",
    "Idiom": [
      "have Jesus in one's heart"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To be a firm believer in Christianity.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "3760",
    "Idiom": [
      "have a ball"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To have lots of fun or excitement.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Are you hanging up a stocking on your wall? / It's the time that every Santa has a ball / Does he ride a red-nosed reindeer? / Does a ton up on his sleigh / Do the fairies keep him sober for a day?",
      "In my dreams I have a plan / If I got me a wealthy man / I wouldn't have to work at all, I'd fool around and have a ball",
      "His victim screams, he has a ball The bigger the head, the harder they fall",
      "When the party was nice, the party was jumpin' / And everybody havin' a ball",
      "“Well, after they retired down here, they must have had a ball ordering anything and everything.”",
      "I hope you had a ball in effacing lives!",
      "Yesterday was Thursday, Thursday / Today i-is Friday, Friday / We-we-we so excited / We so excited / We gonna have a ball today",
      "The kids had a ball playing in the fountain."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "3761",
    "Idiom": [
      "have a bite"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To eat a quick snack.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "3762",
    "Idiom": [
      "have a bone to pick"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To have a complaint or grievance.",
    "Sentence": [
      "\"I offered her that sum if she would take the garment back. And she did, she did, and I shall never have to wear that dreadful satin again.\" ¶ I made a note of this dressmaker's name. She and I may have a bone to pick some day.",
      "\"I have a bone to pick with you,\" said Mrs Bosenna.... \"You have not been near Rilla for weeks,\" she went on, reproachfully.",
      "Clearly, Mr. Jarrett has a bone to pick with musicians like Branford Marsalis, whom he believes \"sell out\".",
      "Author John Putzier has a bone to pick with organizations that treat their employees as if they were all clones of one another."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "3763",
    "Idiom": [
      "have a brick in one's hat"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To be drunk.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Seated at the same table with our Mr.—, was a gentleman, who, to use the current phrase, ‘ had a brick in his hat.’"
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "3764",
    "Idiom": [
      "have a fable for"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To have a weakness for.",
    "Sentence": [
      "I had always had a fable for nudes. Unfortunately my wife did not feel the same way.",
      "“My mother, just like your wife, had a fable for Gaelic names, and Seamus is the Gaelic version of James.”",
      "Those that have a fable for good music combined with excellent food will love the unique concept of this club!"
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "3765-1",
    "Idiom": [
      "have a fit"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To experience an extreme reaction or outburst.",
    "Sentence": [
      "She needs to keep her sugar level low or she'll have a fit."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "3765-2",
    "Idiom": [
      "have a fit"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To become suddenly angry.",
    "Sentence": [
      "She'll have a fit when she finds out a younger woman got the job she was hoping for."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "3766",
    "Idiom": [
      "have a gas"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Have a good time.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "3767-1",
    "Idiom": [
      "have a go"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To attack someone physically.",
    "Sentence": [
      "'Yes, me and Marty had a go when he didn't believe me about the girl.'",
      "But there were occasions when someone or other had a go — when I was going to have a drink from the fountain, for instance, and had to stand on tiptoe at the side to reach the jet of water. Then it was that the clever dogs saw their chance to do something tough atmy expense",
      "I heard you had a go at Jack the other night."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "3767-2",
    "Idiom": [
      "have a go"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To criticize.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Except her dad had a go last time, the last time she'd brought home a detention slip for him to sign.",
      "He had a go because I'm on the dole and I had a go back because he deals pills and robs kids.",
      "My teacher had a go at me earlier, just for missing one sodding homework. I was fuming."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "3768",
    "Idiom": [
      "have a good one"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To enjoy an event or occasion.",
    "Sentence": [
      "You're turning nineteen tomorrow? I hope you have a good one !"
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "3769",
    "Idiom": [
      "have a good time"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To enjoy oneself.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "3770",
    "Idiom": [
      "have a hand in"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To contribute to or influence.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Jude Bellingham was England's star man, setting up the first goal for Jordan Henderson with a perfect cross after 38 minutes then having a hand in the second on the stroke of half-time, combining with Phil Foden as captain Harry Kane powered home his first of the tournament.",
      "Things would be better if you let me have a hand in the planning process.",
      "It was clear she had a hand in this."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "3771-1",
    "Idiom": [
      "have a handle on"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To understand or grasp.",
    "Sentence": [
      "To work efficiently, it's important to have a handle on the procedures involved."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "3771-2",
    "Idiom": [
      "have a handle on"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To be in control of.",
    "Sentence": [
      "But the other three problems had all grown out of assigning jobs to people he had no handle on.",
      "We don't have to report to them anymore, but they still have a handle on our Justice Department and the police."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "3772",
    "Idiom": [
      "have a hard time"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To experience difficulty in achieving goals.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "3773",
    "Idiom": [
      "have a head for"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To be knowledgeable or skilled in something.",
    "Sentence": [
      "I've always had a head for figures; that's why I became an accountant.",
      "I can't come rock climbing because I don't have a head for heights."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "3774",
    "Idiom": [
      "have a heart"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To be kind or sympathetic.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Have a heart and be lenient with him; he's only a child."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "3775",
    "Idiom": [
      "have a jag on"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To be drunk.",
    "Sentence": [
      "\"The old man must have an awful jag on today,\" was casually remarked when an extra fluffiness and imbecility was noticeable in the passing Bones.",
      "Wilfred John Funk, who whiles away his time writing jingles sometimes pretends to be a drinking man. A Funk jingle published last week: Myra, if I have a jag on / I am apt to hitch my wagon / To a street light on occasion."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "3776-1",
    "Idiom": [
      "have a laugh"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To joke or kid around.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Some of the kids had a laugh and put glue on the teacher's chair.",
      "Fifty quid for that piece of junk? You're having a laugh !"
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "3776-2",
    "Idiom": [
      "have a laugh"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To enjoy oneself.",
    "Sentence": [
      "We had a great laugh yesterday at the funfair."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "3777",
    "Idiom": [
      "have a mind of one's own"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To think for oneself and act independently.",
    "Sentence": [
      "\"Don't be anxious, daddy!\" said he, with assumed playfulness; \"she's not a girl to take the first that offers. She has a mind of her own.\"",
      "Captain Evans had a mind of his own, and did not choose to adopt any man's judgment or prejudices blindly.",
      "That little man has a mind of his own, and even if I do figure on his payroll as confidential secretary, he doesn't tell me everything he knows.",
      "Be a little audacious — disagree on at least one thing so they know you have a mind of your own."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "3778",
    "Idiom": [
      "have a moment"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To achieve popularity at a specific time.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Arte Povera, the politicized avant-garde art movement that blossomed in Italy in the late ’60s, is having a moment.",
      "Posh salt is having a moment – does enjoying it make me pretentious? [title]",
      "I’ll go ahead and state the obvious: These sandals are not attractive. Luckily for me (and all of us), ugly shoes are having an extremely long moment —and even if the moment ends, I think I’m permanently on board."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "3779",
    "Idiom": [
      "have a mountain to climb"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To face a difficult challenge.",
    "Sentence": [
      "The Black Cats had a mountain to climb after James Morrison's header and Shane Long's neat side-foot finish gave Albion a 2-0 lead five minutes in."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "3780",
    "Idiom": [
      "have a pair"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To be manly or brave.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Sound off like you got a pair! (drill sergeant in Full Metal Jacket)"
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "3781",
    "Idiom": [
      "have a quiet word"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To speak privately.",
    "Sentence": [
      "When you get a moment I'd like to have a quiet word."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "3782",
    "Idiom": [
      "have a rough time of it",
      "have a bad time of it",
      "have a hard time of it",
      "have a poor time of it"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To have a difficult time.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "3783",
    "Idiom": [
      "have a say"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To voice one's opinion.",
    "Sentence": [
      "The essence of a democracy is not that people vote on whatever they want, but that every adult has a say in how he or she is governed.",
      "We go to school and we go to work under conditions where people don't have a say in their day-to-day life; they don't have a say in the things that happen around them.",
      "He didn't have a say in deciding where he and his family would go on vacation."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "3784",
    "Idiom": [
      "have a seat"
    ],
    "Meaning": "A polite directive to sit.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Thanks for coming in. Please, have a seat."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "3785",
    "Idiom": [
      "have a snootful"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To be drunk.",
    "Sentence": [
      "\"It strikes me as a dish invented by men in a hunt camp,\" he added, \"men who have a snootful, who say, ‘What would happen if we took this bird and put it in this bird?’\""
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "3786",
    "Idiom": [
      "have a stab"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To make an attempt.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "3787",
    "Idiom": [
      "have a thin time of it"
    ],
    "Meaning": "In a difficult situation due to lack of money.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "3788",
    "Idiom": [
      "have a tiger by the tail"
    ],
    "Meaning": "In a difficult or dangerous situation that's hard to escape from.",
    "Sentence": [
      "\"Sounds like you have a tiger by the tail. Hawthorne won't go down without a battle and will probably sue you if he wins,\" Clair admonished."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "3789",
    "Idiom": [
      "have a time of it",
      "have a time"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To undergo a painful or difficult experience.",
    "Sentence": [
      "We had a time with our brother because of this, trying to get him into the hospital for treatment.",
      "Even in the best of times us older Autistics have a time handling two or three things at once.",
      "Mama had a time tryin' to have him released in her custody, because of his severe medical condition.",
      "Our hopes began to revive, at least from no longer lacking food, for I really had a time with several of my men who, often believing us lost on the prairie or surely to die from hunger, thirst, or at the hands of the Sioux, were continually cursing the moment when they had embarked on such a voyage."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "3790",
    "Idiom": [
      "have a way with"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To be skilled or adept at something.",
    "Sentence": [
      "The slinger can put a stone through a gnat's eye at forty paces, and the ugly one has a way with horses, but if my queen says that they must die...”",
      "She has a way with animals, and they seem instinctively to trust her.",
      "to have a way with words"
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "3791",
    "Idiom": [
      "have a whale of a time"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To enjoy oneself greatly.",
    "Sentence": [
      "We had a whale of a time at the party Saturday night."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "3792",
    "Idiom": [
      "have a word"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To speak to someone, often in private, usually to admonish.",
    "Sentence": [
      "I think we should have a word.",
      "She knew she was in big trouble when the teacher asked to have a word with her after class."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "3793",
    "Idiom": [
      "have a word in someone's ear"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To speak to someone privately.",
    "Sentence": [
      "When you get a moment I'd like to have a word in your ear."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "3794",
    "Idiom": [
      "have a word with oneself"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To reflect on one's behavior for improvement.",
    "Sentence": [
      "He thinks that everything revolves around him; he needs to have a word with himself."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "3795",
    "Idiom": [
      "have an accident"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To urinate or defecate outside of a toilet.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Michael had an accident at the playground. I had to take him home and change his clothes."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "3796",
    "Idiom": [
      "have an easy time of it",
      "have a good time of it"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To have few problems.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "3797",
    "Idiom": [
      "have an eye for"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To discern or appreciate easily.",
    "Sentence": [
      "He has an eye for fine porcelain dishes and figurines."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "3798",
    "Idiom": [
      "have another think coming",
      "have another thing coming"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To need to rethink or reconsider one's plans or expectations.",
    "Sentence": [
      "If you think you're going to marry my daughter, you have another think coming."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "3799-1",
    "Idiom": [
      "have at"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To attack or engage in combat.",
    "Sentence": [
      "The Prince of Venosa was in their midst, shouting: \" Have at the traitor! Kill! Kill!\""
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "3799-2",
    "Idiom": [
      "have at"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To begin dealing with.",
    "Sentence": [
      "A huge dish of food was served, and we had at it."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "3800",
    "Idiom": [
      "have bats in one's belfry"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To be crazy or eccentric.",
    "Sentence": [
      "You would certainly take the prize for bats in the belfry !--flying off on a wild-goose chase across a country where even the geese need a compass to keep to the course.",
      "\"That's sane,\" he replied mechanically. \"I figured all along there were no bats in your belfry.\"",
      "Anyone declaring himself Emperor of San Francisco probably had bats in his belfry."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "3801",
    "Idiom": [
      "have been around"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To be experienced in worldly matters.",
    "Sentence": [
      "\"Oh, I've been around a little before,\" said Tom coolly. \"Yes, you look like a lad who has seen something of the world.\"",
      "Barnes: John McCain has been tested. He has been tested in war, and he passed that test. When has Hillary been tested? She has been tested in her marriage. That's about it. Williams: You're being very mean. Barnes: No I'm not. I'm being honest. Williams: She has been around. She has met world leaders."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "3802",
    "Idiom": [
      "have blood on one's hands"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To be responsible for a violent act.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "3803-1",
    "Idiom": [
      "have done with"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To finish or stop dealing with something.",
    "Sentence": [
      "To cut a long story short, I’m willing to take on the job, provided you really want to have done with it.",
      "Be satisfied that I will not have done with thee until I have taken away thy life, and sent thy soul squealing bodiless into the unknown.",
      "He was happy to finally have done with his thesis.",
      "Let’s have done with this silly argument."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "3803-2",
    "Idiom": [
      "have done with"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To end relations.",
    "Sentence": [
      "\"I am tired,\" said Miss Havisham. \"I want diversion, and I have done with men and women. Play.\"",
      "You are an inveterately bad girl, and a false sister, and I have done with you. For ever, I have done with you!",
      "O All the gods save One, Lords of the Worlds, whose child is the eclipse, take back thy pestilence from Sidith, for ye have played the game of the gods too long with the people of Sidith, who would fain have done with the gods."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "3804-1",
    "Idiom": [
      "have eyes bigger than one's stomach"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To take more than one can eat.",
    "Sentence": [
      "He has eyes bigger than his stomach.",
      "You have eyes bigger than your stomach."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "3804-2",
    "Idiom": [
      "have eyes bigger than one's stomach"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To want more than one can manage.",
    "Sentence": [
      "When choosing software, don't have eyes bigger than your stomach. Rather, stick to whatever level of software you need, and no more."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "3805",
    "Idiom": [
      "have eyes in the back of one's head"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To be exceptionally observant.",
    "Sentence": [
      "It's so busy at our office you need eyes in the back of your head to work here!",
      "Don't think you can misbehave while I'm cooking dinner. I have eyes in the back of my head."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "3806-1",
    "Idiom": [
      "have got"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To have.",
    "Sentence": [
      "“Well, your mother has got three windows into my dancing room, and you have three into my garret.”",
      "I' d got her by the collar.",
      "Jim 's got his eyes closed, so you don't have to worry about him seeing you undressed."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "3806-2",
    "Idiom": [
      "have got"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To be obliged or obligated.",
    "Sentence": [
      "I' ve got to do my homework."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "3807-1",
    "Idiom": [
      "have had it"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To have endured all one can.",
    "Sentence": [
      "I 've had it with your shenanigans!"
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "3807-2",
    "Idiom": [
      "have had it"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To be worn out beyond repair.",
    "Sentence": [
      "My old car has just about had it."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "3807-3",
    "Idiom": [
      "have had it"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To be at the end of one's limits or tolerance.",
    "Sentence": [
      "The dog got hit by a car, and I'm afraid he 's had it."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "3808",
    "Idiom": [
      "have had it up to here"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To have reached the limit of one's patience or tolerance.",
    "Sentence": [
      "I have had it up to here with your nonsense!"
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "3809",
    "Idiom": [
      "have had one's chips"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To be dead or finished.",
    "Sentence": [
      "He must have had his chips, she thought, and our children will be born fatherless."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "3810",
    "Idiom": [
      "have in mind"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To consider or intend.",
    "Sentence": [
      "That's not what I had in mind, but I'll take it.",
      "I had in mind going shopping this afternoon.",
      "I had in mind to go shopping.",
      "I had your birthday in mind when I went shopping.",
      "I had in mind your birthday when I went shopping.",
      "I had buying you a present in mind when I went to the store.",
      "I had in mind buying you a present when I went to the store."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "3811",
    "Idiom": [
      "have it all"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To lead a successful life.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "3812",
    "Idiom": [
      "have it coming"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To deserve the consequences of one's actions.",
    "Sentence": [
      "He was on his first vacation in ten years and he figured he had it coming to him.",
      "But when the shock had faded, more hard-headed reaction set in. This wasn’t just the feeling that, however tactfully you dress it up, the United States had it coming.",
      "Although one might baulk at giving an 83-year-old a hard time, this particular 83-year-old has it coming."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "3813",
    "Idiom": [
      "have it going on"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To be attractive or socially successful.",
    "Sentence": [
      "The brother did have it going on though. He was 6'4\", a copper-tone tan, not too black and not too light, a military career, and was looking for a job",
      "Stacy's mom has got it goin' on She's all I want and I've waited for so long Stacy, can't you see you're just not the girl for me I know it might be wrong but I'm in love with Stacy's mom",
      "\" I see you on a runway with the petite models, and you have it going on, and then some.” I smiled at his words."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "3814",
    "Idiom": [
      "have it in one"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To have the capacity to achieve something.",
    "Sentence": [
      "MAC: Who’s the father, Juno? JUNO: Um… it’s Paulie Bleeker. MAC: Paulie Bleeker? I didn’t think he had it in him.",
      "Do you have it in you to show any respect, politeness, patience, or, God forbid, an ounce of forbearance?"
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "3815",
    "Idiom": [
      "have it large"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To engage intensely in pleasure.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Unlike Oasis, the point wasn't simply to have it large and live a whacked-out existence as professional rock stars.",
      "that cultural theorists could be forgiven for thinking that every young Briton between the ages of 15 and 25 was out having it large.",
      "On the dance floor, people are having it large : hands in the air, whooping and yelling, boogieing in a sweaty drug fueled mass."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "3816-1",
    "Idiom": [
      "have it made"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To have accomplished everything, with no further work or difficulty.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "3816-2",
    "Idiom": [
      "have it made"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To have achieved a comfortable and fortunate lifestyle.",
    "Sentence": [
      "It's a great idea, and if it catches on and sells well, we'll have it made."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "3817",
    "Idiom": [
      "have it your way"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Do something your way, accepting the consequences.",
    "Sentence": [
      "OK, have it your way : format the hard disk and see what happens."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "3818",
    "Idiom": [
      "have its moments"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Experiences brief periods of distinction.",
    "Sentence": [
      "The film didn't interest me much, but I suppose it had its moments."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "3819",
    "Idiom": [
      "have legs"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To have endurance or lasting potential.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Your plan will tell you if your idea has legs and is viable.",
      "The longer a film plays (which, in show business terms, means that the film has legs), the more the theater gradually earns from ticket sales."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "3820",
    "Idiom": [
      "have more chins than a Chinese phone book"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To be exceedingly fat, especially under the chin.",
    "Sentence": [
      "\"This woman has more chins than a Chinese phone book,\" says Comedian Joan Rivers in a not at all funny pay cable television special.",
      "Our leadoff hitter has more chins than a Chinese phone book.",
      "My friend, Hank Zona, used to nod his head in someone's direction and whisper, \"That guy has more chins than a Chinese phone book.\""
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "3821",
    "Idiom": [
      "have more money than God"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To be extremely rich.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "3822-1",
    "Idiom": [
      "have no time for"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Expresses dislike.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "3822-2",
    "Idiom": [
      "have no time for"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To not allow or prioritize.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "3823",
    "Idiom": [
      "have none of something"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To be unwilling to accept or support something.",
    "Sentence": [
      "I don't watch horror movies, because I'm having none of it. I don't listen to ugly or inciting lyrics in angry music, because I'm having none of it. I don't eat junk food, because I'm having none of it.",
      "When Jo and I sat down with Mike and Jonah to review the new procedures, they rolled their eyes and slammed out of the meeting. They were having none of it.",
      "Bellusdeo had no intention of going to the High Halls, and there'd been some argument about the designated \"neutral\" venue, but Teela was having none of it. Mandoran, on the other hand, wanted to go. And Teela was having none of that, either.",
      "However, the Clyde Navigation Trust was having none of it, citing concerns that a railway bridge would suffocate trade on the busy river.",
      "I'm having none of that nonsense."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "3824",
    "Idiom": [
      "have one more time"
    ],
    "Meaning": "On the verge of facing consequences for bad behavior.",
    "Sentence": [
      "“I do know one thing. She has one more time to bump me,” I remarked sternly.",
      "\"Cordella has one more time to cross me, Clark,\" she huffed, one lone finger in the air for emphasis",
      "I will not spend my days trying to babysit a grown-ass woman because she has one more time to call me a bitch, and I promise you I'll never miss her."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "3825",
    "Idiom": [
      "have one's act together"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To be organized and responsible.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Teresa also shows us that to have one's act together and stay within the boundaries of conventional piety is not the goal of the spiritual life.",
      "He was determined to wear his best shirt in the hopes of seeming like he had his act together.",
      "It's wonderful that my mom is alive and my dad isn't a distracted asshole and Greta is, I mean, she's awesome. Scabrous, incautious, and sharp. She deserves to live, much more than I do. Clearly John has his act together in a way I never did."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "3826",
    "Idiom": [
      "have one's back up"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To be angry or defensive.",
    "Sentence": [
      "He's had his back up all morning. There's no point in trying to talk to him."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "3827",
    "Idiom": [
      "have one's bread buttered for life"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To be well provided for.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "3828",
    "Idiom": [
      "have one's cake and eat it too"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To seek benefits from two incompatible things.",
    "Sentence": [
      "It's not possible to get your savings and keep the piggy bank intact. You can't have your cake and eat it too !"
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "3829",
    "Idiom": [
      "have one's ducks in a row"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To be organized and coordinated.",
    "Sentence": [
      "\"You didn't need us.\" The man standing next to the steps laughed. \"The work was done before to-night. You had your ducks in a row all right.\"",
      "Wouldn't it be nice to have our ducks in a row and not have to search for the papers every time we needed them?"
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "3830",
    "Idiom": [
      "have one's ears lowered"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To get a haircut.",
    "Sentence": [
      "When you need a haircut, you go to a barber, so here I am at Tommy's Bronxville's tonsorial prepared to get clipped. Or, as we said as kids, have my ears lowered."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "3831-1",
    "Idiom": [
      "have one's ears pinned back"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To be strongly scolded or reprimanded.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "3831-2",
    "Idiom": [
      "have one's ears pinned back"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To be soundly defeated.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "3832",
    "Idiom": [
      "have one's finger on the trigger"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To be prepared to take decisive action.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "3833",
    "Idiom": [
      "have one's fingers in many pies"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To be involved in many different things.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "3834",
    "Idiom": [
      "have one's hand in the till"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To steal from one's place of business.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Francis Urquhart: You've been a bit of a bad lad, haven't you, Roger? Roger O'Neill: What? FU: You've had your hand in the till. RO: Francis, you're joking! FU: Your expenses are paid by Central Office, aren't they? But you've been claiming quite large sums from the advertising agency as well. It's a bit naughty, Roger."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "3835",
    "Idiom": [
      "have one's hand out"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Requests benefits, especially money, often without entitlement.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Mr. Lombardo told him Union City “was probably the most graft‐ridden community in New Jersey—everybody had their hand out.”",
      "\"Everybody wanted my money. Everybody had their hand out.\"",
      "Chung described Ashe as a predator, seeking money at every turn. “He had his hand out constantly,” she said.",
      "Whenever there was an appropriations bill, he always had his hand out for his guys."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "3836",
    "Idiom": [
      "have one's hands full"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To be busy or preoccupied.",
    "Sentence": [
      "They had their hands full to defend themselves from firing.",
      "He already has his hands full with two kids and a full-time job, yet he still makes time to volunteer."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "3837",
    "Idiom": [
      "have one's head read"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To have one's mental health assessed.",
    "Sentence": [
      "\"A guy who thinks he gets smart in this horse-race game oughta have his head read.\"",
      "She is not crazy so don't tell me to take her to a doctor to have her head read.",
      "Mr Gibbs says those who think Mr Obama is like George W Bush need to “ have their heads read ”."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "3838",
    "Idiom": [
      "have one's heart in the right place"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To have good intentions.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Mr. Cherry has thought proper to place most of his compliments to England in the mouth of an Irishman, a facetious gentleman, full of generosity and blunders, “with a head that may err, but a heart in the right place \"",
      "No one amongst them, as far as I know, with his heart in the right place, stood up and asked in council, What is to become of the poor who cannot pay these high rents?",
      "\"Why Jack, old fellow, I wronged you!\" I exclaimed,—\" your heart is in the right place after all.\"",
      "My brother doesn't always do the right thing, but he has his heart in the right place."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "3839",
    "Idiom": [
      "have one's mind about one"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To be composed or lucid.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "3840",
    "Idiom": [
      "have one's moments"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To experience brief periods of distinction.",
    "Sentence": [
      "They certainly had their moments and will complain of ill-fortune, about a suspicion of handball before Tielemans' goal and those magnificent saves from Schmeichel but this was a stuttering Chelsea, not the smooth machine that saw off Real Madrid with such comfort in the Champions League semi-final second leg at Stamford Bridge."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "3841-1",
    "Idiom": [
      "have one's name on"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To be reserved for someone.",
    "Sentence": [
      "That new bartender has got my name on her. Hands off!"
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "3841-2",
    "Idiom": [
      "have one's name on"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To be part of one's destiny.",
    "Sentence": [
      "That bullet had my name on it."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "3842",
    "Idiom": [
      "have one's name taken"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To receive a warning or reprimand.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Healy’s first act was to crudely wipe out Forrest on the touchline. He saw yellow when it could have been red. Lafferty then had his name taken for a late one on Adam Matthews."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "3843",
    "Idiom": [
      "have one's name written all over"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To be characteristic of an individual, especially in relation to a crime or scheme.",
    "Sentence": [
      "The attempted hit on me today was personal, and it has Marisol's name written all over it."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "3844",
    "Idiom": [
      "have one's number on it"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Destined for someone.",
    "Sentence": [
      "I'll catch that fish. It has my number on it."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "3845-1",
    "Idiom": [
      "have one's way"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To do what one wishes or to have others do it.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "3845-2",
    "Idiom": [
      "have one's way"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To achieve a desired result.",
    "Sentence": [
      "He held out to me a bowl of steaming broth, that filled the room with a savour sweeter, ten thousand times, to me than every rose and lily of the world; yet would not let me drink it at a gulp, but made me sip it with a spoon like any baby. And so it was ten days or more before youth and health had their way, and I was strong again; and all that time Elzevir Block sat by my bed, and nursed me tenderly as a woman. So piece by piece I learned the story of how they found me."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "3846",
    "Idiom": [
      "have one's way with"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To engage in sexual intercourse, often without consent.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Their daughter is being married in haste because she had the misfortune to go out with a terrible young man who took her to a wild beach party, got her drunk, and then had his way with her.",
      "\"She passed out, and when she passed out he had his way with her,\" Assistant District Attorney Anthony J. Marotta told the jury in his closing argument."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "3847",
    "Idiom": [
      "have one's wig snatched"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To be shocked or stunned.",
    "Sentence": [
      "It's been a month since the notorious op-ed was published in \"he failing New York Times by an anomynisssss... really an anomynisssss, gutlesssss coward\" and had America's wig snatched.",
      "Take these trends and make them your own, I can't wait to have my wig snatched by the creative outfits this fall.",
      "Also, be prepared to have your wig snatched."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "3848",
    "Idiom": [
      "have one's wits about one"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To remain calm and aware.",
    "Sentence": [
      "He was confused, half elated, half disappointed, and had not his wits about him.",
      "Luke alone seemed to have his wits about him. He saw that there was not a moment to lose, and, gathering up his strength, dashed to the old lady's assistance.",
      "And if you think he won't have his wits about him, just you try to fool him on some deal, and see.",
      "And so this woman from across the hills, a soft-spoken creature with her wits about her, and by name Oline, she stayed with them a couple of days, and had the little room to sleep in."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "3849",
    "Idiom": [
      "have one's work cut out for one"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To face a difficult task.",
    "Sentence": [
      "While Henry will no doubt earmark areas for improvement, and take into account the weakness of the opposition, it was a far more efficient and focused display than against Tonga and suggests the French will have their work cut out to avoid finishing second in the group in Auckland next week.",
      "Republicans will have their work cut out for them trying to shift blame to Democrats for their own erratic, haphazard and incoherent process.",
      "If he plans to translate all the idioms, he has his work cut out for him."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "3850",
    "Idiom": [
      "have other fish to fry"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To have more important things to do.",
    "Sentence": [
      "I have other fish to fry; so good-morrow, my ladies all, good-morrow.",
      "Your uncle will not return yet; he has other fish to fry : he will be galloping backwards and forwards from Briarfield to Stilbro' all day,",
      "\"May I ask whether you will be persuaded to come?\" \"No, for certain. I have other fish to fry here.\""
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "3851",
    "Idiom": [
      "have other ideas"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To propose an alternative.",
    "Sentence": [
      "He wanted to get home and warm up, but his dog had other ideas. 'Jasper, you daft dog. Come here.' The dog continued to bark, and Harry knew he would have to go and retrieve the dog himself."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "3852",
    "Idiom": [
      "have second thoughts"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To change one's opinion about a decision.",
    "Sentence": [
      "At first it seemed a good idea, but now it's getting close I'm having second thoughts."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "3853",
    "Idiom": [
      "have seen one's day"
    ],
    "Meaning": "No longer useful or effective; worn-out.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Now, as you say, and most every other one says, the grooving plan has seen its day. We must try some other plan.",
      "The old Boeing flying boats have seen their day, he added. They will be replaced with more economical land planes.",
      "Written off by most observers as a champion who had seen his day, the Sampras who stalked the courts as world number one for six straight years in the 1990s rose from the ashes to add to his lustre with a record-setting 14th Grand Slam title."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "3854",
    "Idiom": [
      "have seen one's last gum tree"
    ],
    "Meaning": "On the edge of death.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "3855",
    "Idiom": [
      "have seen this movie"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Refers to experiencing a situation that is similar to the current one, often with a sense of unpleasantness or repetition.",
    "Sentence": [
      "The 2008 presidential race may have been branded a \"change\" election, but abortion rights advocates have seen this movie before.",
      "After the defeat of the Soviets in 1989, civil war, state collapse and Taliban victory followed. The Afghan people have seen this movie already.",
      "Dominic Rossi, global chief investment officer at Fidelity, said “We have seen this movie before. One emerging market country after another gets left stranded.”",
      "After bringing in a new management team that made changes such as upgrading the quality of the company’s products and tailoring them to its customer base, the firm helped it go public. It now has the most stores of any U.S. retail chain. Firms “bring resources and capabilities and [have] seen the movie before,” Kapp said."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "3856",
    "Idiom": [
      "have several seats"
    ],
    "Meaning": "A directive to calm down and stay silent about a topic.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "3857",
    "Idiom": [
      "have someone by the balls"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To exercise total control over someone.",
    "Sentence": [
      "You think I wouldn't have him Unless I could have him by the balls You think I just dish it out You don't think I take it at all",
      "I feared what was to come. I was knuckling under to my blackmailer. It was a sure sign of weakness. If he didn't already, he'd know he had me by the balls as soon as he saw me wearing the shirt.",
      "Angel Batista immediately makes the connection that Quinn has been banging Nadia, a stripper working for Isaac’s people. Quinn adamantly denies that he would steal evidence and then storms into the strip club to demand that Nadia be set free. Unfortunately, they have him by the balls because they could kill Nadia at any moment and destroy Quinn’s police career once and for all if they revealed his tampering with evidence."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "3858",
    "Idiom": [
      "have someone by the short hairs",
      "have someone by the short and curlies"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To have control over someone in a difficult situation.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Beginning with a curt “Listen, Buster,” she proceeded to sketch out with admirable clearness the salient points in the situation as she envisaged it, and judging from the loud buzzing noises that came over the wire, clearly audible to me though now standing in the background, it was evident that the nub was not escaping him. They were the buzzing noises of a man slowly coming to the realization that a woman's hand had got him by the short hairs.",
      "The Saudis know that as long as we consume 7 billion barrels per year (4 billion of them imported from abroad), they have us by the short hairs."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "3859",
    "Idiom": [
      "have someone on toast"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To have someone in a compromising or helpless position.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Every crime commentator on cable news will have him on toast.",
      "If he'd waited ten seconds until I was on the lighted porch, he'd have had me on toast."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "3860",
    "Idiom": [
      "have someone's back"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To support or defend someone.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Liz Truss has promised Britons she has “ got your back ” and set out a plan for “growth, growth and growth” in a conference speech disrupted by protesters asking who voted for her plan.",
      "If you ever need help, just ask. You know I have your back."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "3861",
    "Idiom": [
      "have someone's blood on one's head"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To be responsible for someone's death or misfortune.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "3862",
    "Idiom": [
      "have someone's guts for garters"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To reprimand severely.",
    "Sentence": [
      "If you go out and play and get your clothes dirty, I'll have your guts for garters !"
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "3863",
    "Idiom": [
      "have someone's head"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To punish someone severely.",
    "Sentence": [
      "The boss will have his head for losing the biggest customer over a mistake."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "3864",
    "Idiom": [
      "have someone's hide"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To punish someone.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Why doesn't The St. Petersburg Times scrape together $30 million and purchase football's Tampa Bay Buccaneers? Then, when I tell John McKay how to coach, he'd listen or I'd have his hide."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "3865",
    "Idiom": [
      "have someone's number"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Understanding a person's character or situation.",
    "Sentence": [
      "\"Say! He's the hardest guy I ever saw,\" Stoner declared, admiringly. Mallow spoke last, but he spoke with conviction. \"You said it, Brick. I had his number from the start. He's a master crook, and—it'll pay us all to string with him.\"",
      "Morelli has her number : \"Lots of energy, not much control, sexy as hell.\"",
      "Llodra, a doubles specialist who is ranked 38 in singles, was charging to the net at every opportunity and played some brilliant shots but Murray seemed to have his number at that stage."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "3866",
    "Idiom": [
      "have something over with"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To complete something.",
    "Sentence": [
      "I am going to let the evidence (T-3745) stand for whatever it is worth and you may go ahead and put the other one in too and then we will have that over with, and you can go ahead and put the other one in.",
      "Best to have it over with. Let us have done with the ghastly business by all means.",
      "Rosellen wished she and Darius had this over with.",
      "One part of him knew that this is what she really wanted, to get out of this world, have it over with, to end her pain.",
      "We were anxious to have it over with."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "3867",
    "Idiom": [
      "have something to show for something"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To have a result or benefit from one's efforts or investments.",
    "Sentence": [
      "I've been panning for gold for two years, and this tiny speck is all I have to show for it"
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "3868",
    "Idiom": [
      "have the biscuit"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Of no further use; near death.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "3869",
    "Idiom": [
      "have the blues"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To feel sad or depressed.",
    "Sentence": [
      "I've had the blues ever since my sweetheart left."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "3870",
    "Idiom": [
      "have the floor"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To have permission or time to speak.",
    "Sentence": [
      "The representative from New Hampshire has the floor."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "3871",
    "Idiom": [
      "have the hots for"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To be attracted to someone.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Whoa. Wait a minute, Doc. Are you trying to tell me that my mother has got the hots for me?",
      "I met this chick and she just moved right up the block from me / And uh, she got the hots for me",
      "“How was Hubertus? Bernard thought he might have the hots for you, to put it bluntly.”",
      "I think Donnie has the hots for Lisa."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "3872",
    "Idiom": [
      "have the last laugh"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To succeed after being underestimated.",
    "Sentence": [
      "The author had the last laugh over the publishers who had rejected her now best-selling book."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "3873",
    "Idiom": [
      "have the law of"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To take legal action against someone.",
    "Sentence": [
      "But those citizens of the Corporation, hungry to have the law of him, saw nothing it may be but a bad example.",
      "It is a kind of lottery, in which every man, staking his own wit or cunning against his neighbour's property, feels that he has little to lose, and much to gain. \"I'll have the law of you, so I will!\" — is the saying of an Englishman, who expects justice."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "3874",
    "Idiom": [
      "have the right time"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To know the correct time.",
    "Sentence": [
      "No, sir; I told him I didn't have the right time. The fellows that was behind had the right time.",
      "Depend on it, George does have the right time. He bought a watch from us five years ago.",
      "Trying to ignore his butterflies, he looks down at his watch just about every minute to make sure he has the right time."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "3875",
    "Idiom": [
      "have the tiger by the tail"
    ],
    "Meaning": "In a difficult or dangerous situation that is hard to escape.",
    "Sentence": [
      "\"We have the tiger by the tail,\" Paul whispered. \"We can't go down, can't land…and I don't think I can lift us out of this. We'll have to ride it out.\""
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "3876",
    "Idiom": [
      "have the whole bakery"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To have large buttocks.",
    "Sentence": [
      "John's sister has the whole bakery."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "3877",
    "Idiom": [
      "have the wind up"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To be frightened or disturbed.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "3878",
    "Idiom": [
      "have the wolf by the ear"
    ],
    "Meaning": "In a dangerous situation that is difficult to escape.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "3879",
    "Idiom": [
      "have the world by the tail"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To possess great influence and opportunity.",
    "Sentence": [
      "\"Webb thinks he's got the world by the tail for a downhill pull. I'll show him.\"",
      "No nation had the World by the tail this week, but the rear end of the British lion was within measurable distance of Adolf Hitler's grasp.",
      "\"You think you're set. You think everything's taken care of. I thought I had the world by the tail.\""
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "3880",
    "Idiom": [
      "have time on one's hands"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To have extra time with no specific tasks.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "3881-1",
    "Idiom": [
      "have time on one's side"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To have plenty of time to do something.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "3881-2",
    "Idiom": [
      "have time on one's side"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To be in a situation that improves over time.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "3882",
    "Idiom": [
      "have truck with"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To have dealings with.",
    "Sentence": [
      "\"How can I decide?\" said I. \"You have not told me what you want of me. But I tell you now that if it is anything against the safety of the fort I will have no truck with it, so you can drive home your knife and welcome.\"",
      "Warsaw Pact governments had little truck with pacifists, but their successors are more understanding.",
      "Ant taxonomists have decided that anything that's worth separating should be separated at the species level, and have no truck with subspecies at all. Butterfly taxonomists, however, like the triple-barrelled name approach and dote on subspecies. As a result, the numbers of ant species and butterfly species are not directly comparable.",
      "Malik eventually tracks down Lennon, living a simple life – in a hut, with a fishing boat called Imagine – away from the spotlight he never had shone upon him, and dispensing nuggets of homespun wisdom. Which is not a portrayal Sheffield has much truck with.",
      "You shouldn't have any truck with them. They cheat.",
      "I've had no truck with them for some time."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "3883",
    "Idiom": [
      "have up"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To accuse or arrest for a crime.",
    "Sentence": [
      "In the police courts it is not uncommon to hear that such and such low persons have been \" had up \" for \"cat and kitten sneaking,\" i.e., stealing quart and pint pots.",
      "\"He broke a dog's leg with a stone, and there was some talk of having him up for it, but the people were afraid of him, and no one would prosecute.\"",
      "If Richard Dawkins had his way, a fair number of you and, as it happens, me, would be had up for child abuse. According to him, that's what religious indoctrination of children by their parents is."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "3884-1",
    "Idiom": [
      "have words"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To argue.",
    "Sentence": [
      "\"It's no treat to me to 'and the dishes when the atmosphere's what you might call electric....\" \"Did they have words ?\" Parker shook his head impatiently. \"That sort don't have words, Ellen. They just sit and goggle.\""
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "3884-2",
    "Idiom": [
      "have words"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To speak sternly or angrily.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Clare was for a while protected by the man's unreadiness to have words with his brother, who always took his wife's part.",
      "Gratton has had a series of meetings with Toros president John F. Bassett since he quit the Blues last week after having words with coach Garry Young.",
      "\"This man is highly irresponsible,\" a spokeswoman tells the Post. \"We definitely want to have words with him.\""
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "3885",
    "Idiom": [
      "hazard a guess"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To make a guess.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "3886",
    "Idiom": [
      "he that mischief hatches, mischief catches"
    ],
    "Meaning": "People who behave wickedly face consequences.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "3887-1",
    "Idiom": [
      "he who denied it supplied it",
      "he who smelt it dealt it",
      "you smelt it, you dealt it",
      "whoever smelt it dealt it"
    ],
    "Meaning": "A person who complains likely deflects blame for their own actions.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "3888",
    "Idiom": [
      "he who digs a pit for others falls in himself"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Someone who schemes against others may face the same consequences.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "3889",
    "Idiom": [
      "he who hesitates is lost",
      "one who hesitates is lost"
    ],
    "Meaning": "A person who hesitates may miss an opportunity.",
    "Sentence": [
      "One who hesitates is lost, goes the old saw, but so is one who plunges blindly ahead along a fixed path."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "3890",
    "Idiom": [
      "he who laughs last laughs best",
      "he who laughs last laughs hardest",
      "he laughs best that laughs last"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Success is sweeter after overcoming ridicule.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "3891",
    "Idiom": [
      "he who pays the piper calls the tune",
      "who pays the piper calls the tune"
    ],
    "Meaning": "The payer has control over decisions.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "3892",
    "Idiom": [
      "he who said the rhyme did the crime"
    ],
    "Meaning": "The person who mentions something is often the one responsible for it.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "3893-2",
    "Idiom": [
      "he who smelt it dealt it"
    ],
    "Meaning": "The person who complains may actually be the cause.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "3894",
    "Idiom": [
      "he who sups with the devil should have a long spoon"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Be cautious when dealing with bad people.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Labor should beware, though, of aligning itself with the dreadlocks and thumb-locks brigade – he who sups with the devil should have a long spoon."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "3895",
    "Idiom": [
      "head and shoulders"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To a considerable degree.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Both the New York Central and Pennsylvania systems, which in speed tower head-and-shoulders over other American lines, have added substantially to their high speed mileage between 1939 and 1940, .",
      "She was head and shoulders better than any of her rivals.",
      "He was head and shoulders above the others in the law firm."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "3896",
    "Idiom": [
      "head for the hills"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To seek refuge or flee.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Goldman Sachs warned that we are ‘only at the start of a steep downturn’ and advised investors to head for the hills."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "3897",
    "Idiom": [
      "head of steam"
    ],
    "Meaning": "A significant amount of energy or momentum.",
    "Sentence": [
      "\"They were keeping a full head of steam, and a profound rumbling, as of an empty furniture van trotting over a bridge, made a sustained bass to all the other noises of the place.\"",
      "Soon after passing the site of Stretfordbridge Junction Edwards opened out to 25 per cent; boiler pressure was still full up, and Taylor was spreading what was left of the fire so as to arrive in Shrewsbury with only a light head of steam.",
      "[literal sense] Caffiers and Boulogne were passed with a full boiler and a full head of steam, and going up Neufchâtel I couldn't stop her blowing off.",
      "Arsenal were starting to work up a head of steam and Tractor Boys boss Paul Jewell cut an increasingly frustrated figure on the touchline.",
      "[literal sense] The film is really about the driver taking control of his charge... the fireman creating a fine head of steam... the signalman keeping the traffic moving safely... ."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "3898-1",
    "Idiom": [
      "head over heels"
    ],
    "Meaning": "In love or very excited.",
    "Sentence": [
      "I was knocked head over heels about 20' from where I was before.",
      "She tripped and rolled head over heels down the hill."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "3898-2",
    "Idiom": [
      "head over heels"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Frantically.",
    "Sentence": [
      "It told its readers that people all over the country were \"rushing head over heels toward the El Dorado on the Pacific— that wonderful California, which sets the public mind almost on the highway to insanity.\"",
      "Hearing the noise in the dark, the children ran head over heels back home."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "3898-3",
    "Idiom": [
      "head over heels"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Deeply in love.",
    "Sentence": [
      "I am head over heels in trouble.",
      "Some of them lose and wind up head over heels in debt. Some of them win and wind up head over heels in debt.",
      "There over, hereunder / You got me head over heels / There's nothing left to fear / If you really feel the way I feel",
      "I mean, do I just fall head over heels for the last girl I've kissed?",
      "For research we went to Africa, and found ourselves head over heels into ritual (chapter 4).",
      "She told me that her mom and Joey's dad aren't just in love, they are head-over-heels in love."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "3898-4",
    "Idiom": [
      "head over heels"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Hopelessly smitten or madly in love.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Something happens and I'm head over heels / Ah, don't take my heart, don't break my heart / Don't, don't, don't throw it away",
      "Steve is the hottest, smartest, funniest, and most athletic boy in all of Edison High. Who knew a jock could be captain of the math team? He is also the guy that every girl is head over heels for.",
      "Not to mention the young man that I was head over heels with was the jock at the school he attended. He played football and was damned good at it!",
      "From what it appeared to most everyone on the set, including Presley right down to the lowly stagehands, Ireland was head over heels with the impish young actress Weld from the start.",
      "Obviously at my age my interest was purely paternal but my younger self was head over heels."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "3899-1",
    "Idiom": [
      "head start"
    ],
    "Meaning": "An advantage from starting early.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Fred gave his younger brother a five minute head start in the Easter egg hunt.",
      "I want to set off at dawn to get a head start over the competition."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "3899-2",
    "Idiom": [
      "head start"
    ],
    "Meaning": "A factor for advantage and success.",
    "Sentence": [
      "His father's money gave him a head start in life."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "3900",
    "Idiom": [
      "head to toe"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Completely; over one's full body.",
    "Sentence": [
      "He fell in a puddle and ended up covered head to toe in mud."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "3901",
    "Idiom": [
      "head-emptier"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Something that does not involve thinking.",
    "Sentence": [
      "And for all the goofiness and great yawning gaps of plot logic, \"The Lawnmower Man\" is a fun bad movie, a diverting head emptier, a movie Twinkie."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "3902",
    "Idiom": [
      "head-on"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Direct and unequivocal.",
    "Sentence": [
      "In what way do we benefit from speaking of things indirectly? How does such a distancing allow us to better discover - and describe - people and objects? How does distancing produce an effect? Westerners find it natural and normal to meet the world head-on. But what can we gain from approaching the world obliquely ?",
      "a head-on approach to a problem"
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "3903-1",
    "Idiom": [
      "head-scratching"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Confusing or perplexing.",
    "Sentence": [
      "He became for a short time delirious, in consequence of attempting to comprehend the works of Mr. Nebulous, in which the English language is exhibited casting of summersets, with many prancings to and fro, before earnest-gazing, head-scratching readers, in murkiest obscuration, marvel stricken, with maddest humour and grinning contortions, heels-over-head, wondrous!",
      "Yogi Berra is best known as a Hall of Fame catcher with the 1950s Yankees and for spouting head-scratching malapropisms such as \"Ninety per cent of the game is half mental,\" but he also was a solid baseball man with good managerial instincts.",
      "For someone who professed such deep respect for numbers, Plato certainly used some head-scratching ones in his Atlantis story. The dates don't match up even remotely with ancient history."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "3903-2",
    "Idiom": [
      "head-scratching"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Confusion.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Milly got out of her basket to reconsider the matter. It took some deliberation and head scratching to decide the best method;",
      "You remember what a lot of head-scratching the kings had to go through in order to raise money. When there was no extensive and well-developed system of taxation, they were never sure of getting enough cash where they needed it when they needed it.",
      "One morning I just started writing about how Judy met JFK in the winter of '60, and it seemed to go pretty well – better, anyway, than the false starts and head scratchings that were all I had to show thus far.",
      "It is possible to spend a long time looking at this inscription. An informal survey of scholars at the University of Chicago, all versed in Hebrew, suggests that the inscription is at once enticing and frustrating, not quite nonsensical enough for immediate dismissal, nor sufficiently cogent actually to yield a reading. Instead, \" mystère admirable,\" it invites hours of fruitless headscratching. The beholder, in this situation, winds up in much the same situation as the Pharisees in the picture: pointing, puzzling, and conversing.",
      "And yet, arresting figures suggesting a decline in early season ratings have prompted an outbreak of soul‑searching at those broadcasters and head‑scratching among analysts."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "3904",
    "Idiom": [
      "head-spinning"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Incredible, overwhelming.",
    "Sentence": [
      "It’s all very headspinning, and there is real Yellow Submarine quality to the film’s innocent urgency and idealism which take it to the very brink of incoherence."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "3905",
    "Idiom": [
      "head-spinningly"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Incredibly or overwhelmingly.",
    "Sentence": [
      "“Marge Gets A Job” is just about perfect. There is not a wasted sequence or unfunny gag. It’s head-spinningly smart in a way that doesn’t call attention to itself—like setting the retirement party at The Spruce Caboose, a giant, unwieldy, trainwreck-themed eatery whose name and conceit are brilliant parodies of Howard Hughes’ giant wooden airplane, the Spruce Goose.",
      "Things get headspinningly trippy when she makes it to the moon, where the goddess Chang’e turns out to be real and spends her time belting out disco-pop bangers in the style of Katy Perry to a stadium audience of glowing, bubblegum-coloured blobs."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "3906",
    "Idiom": [
      "head-the-ball"
    ],
    "Meaning": "A stupid person.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "3907",
    "Idiom": [
      "heads or tails"
    ],
    "Meaning": "A method to choose between two alternatives using a coin flip.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "3908",
    "Idiom": [
      "heads up"
    ],
    "Meaning": "An informal warning or call for attention.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Heads up, Marines! We got trouble.",
      "Heads up ! I'm about to let go.",
      "Heads up ! The boss is coming."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "3909",
    "Idiom": [
      "heads will roll"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Some people will be fired.",
    "Sentence": [
      "If this project isn't completed on time, heads will roll."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "3910",
    "Idiom": [
      "heads-down"
    ],
    "Meaning": "In a state of intense concentration.",
    "Sentence": [
      "I am heads-down finishing my project."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "3911",
    "Idiom": [
      "heads-up"
    ],
    "Meaning": "A warning or advisory notice.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Send everyone a heads-up about the inspection tomorrow."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "3912",
    "Idiom": [
      "health is your first wealth"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Health is the most valuable asset.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "3913",
    "Idiom": [
      "hear out"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To listen until someone has finished speaking.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Stop interrupting and hear me out !"
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "3914",
    "Idiom": [
      "hear the end of it"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To stop being nagged or informed about something.",
    "Sentence": [
      "The Right Hon Sir J. G. Ward. — Mr. Symes did not know it. They published this private and confidential letter without either Mr. Symes's or Mr. McCluggage's knowledge or consent. Why, if any of us were to do that sort of thing we would never hear the end of it, nor would any one else hear the end of the improper use of a letter which was beyond all question private and confidential.",
      "What happens at the end of July? Seems like those dates ring a bell. I know, it's our state bandmaster's convention. This is the year they are having all those great clinicians. I helped set up the program from our region. No choice: if I don't attend and go to our annual breakfast, I'll never hear the end of it. That's not too bad, it will be fun and there is still all of August to jump in the boat and do some serious fishing.",
      "Kill your dreams if male validation is all that you need / Being a man ain't all that it seems / Yeah, by all means, bro, say what you need / I'll never hear the end of it",
      "berdly if your friends were homestuck characters who would they be. //sorry autism wants me dead, berdlys my fav character and hs is my spin. you will never heard the end of it from me",
      "If I spilled wine on their new carpet, I'd never hear the end of it."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "3915-1",
    "Idiom": [
      "hear the grass grow"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To have an extremely sensitive sense of hearing.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Heimdall is the watchman of the gods.... So acute is his ear that no sound escapes him, for he can even hear the grass grow and the wool on a sheep's back."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "3915-2",
    "Idiom": [
      "hear the grass grow"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To hear very well in an exceptionally quiet environment.",
    "Sentence": [
      "A suburban arena that was so sepulchral you could hear the grass grow."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "3915-3",
    "Idiom": [
      "hear the grass grow"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To be very aware or discerning.",
    "Sentence": [
      "He was quick to appreciate Blankenhorn's engaging personality and intelligent use of his skills. Chief among these was a remarkable ability to keep track of developments—to ‘ hear the grass grow ’."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "3916",
    "Idiom": [
      "hear things"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To perceive nonexistent sounds; to have auditory hallucinations.",
    "Sentence": [
      "You didn't hear that? Am I hearing things ?"
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "3917",
    "Idiom": [
      "hear through the grapevine"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To hear rumors.",
    "Sentence": [
      "I heard it through the grapevine / Not much longer would you be mine",
      "I heard through the grapevine that she likes him."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "3918",
    "Idiom": [
      "hear voices"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To experience auditory hallucinations.",
    "Sentence": [
      "They're hearing voices, they may have delusional thinking. They may have illogical thinking, so that when you talk to them they don't make very good sense. That's the disease called schizophrenia.",
      "From this time onward, [John] Mason was a changed man: he began to hear voices and experience visions of the coming millennium."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "3919",
    "Idiom": [
      "heart balm"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Something that soothes fears or emotions.",
    "Sentence": [
      "So many things, however, are a genuine heartbalm like the prickles of the Pleiades rising on the night."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "3920",
    "Idiom": [
      "heart of glass"
    ],
    "Meaning": "A fragile romantic state easily prone to heartbreak.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Once I had a love and it was a gas / Soon turned out, had a heart of glass"
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "3921",
    "Idiom": [
      "heart of gold"
    ],
    "Meaning": "A kind or compassionate nature.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Don't let her rough exterior fool you; underneath that grumpy disposition beats a heart of gold."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "3922",
    "Idiom": [
      "heart of hearts"
    ],
    "Meaning": "One's innermost feelings.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Yet the darling sin is there in our heart of hearts; we hug it close—we hide it from every human eye. But in the still night-watches it comes forth like a serpent out of his hole, and rears its venomous crest, and stings us with the horror of our guilt.",
      "With the \"Constance,\" which in his heart of hearts he loathed, departed the last remnant of Cheyne's millionairedom, and he gave himself up to an energetic idleness.",
      "She was grieved, and bitterly sorry for the man who was hurt so much. But still, in her heart of hearts, where the love should have burned, there was a blank."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "3923",
    "Idiom": [
      "heart of stone"
    ],
    "Meaning": "A hardhearted character.",
    "Sentence": [
      "It would take a heart of stone, or an opposition supporter, not to feel some measure of sympathy for a player whose career has come to a standstill at club level and does not seem able to catch a break when he does make a rare appearance.",
      "She's got a heart of stone."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "3924",
    "Idiom": [
      "heart-breaking"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Causes extreme sorrow or grief.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "3925",
    "Idiom": [
      "heart-free"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Not in love.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Nay, gentle maidens, you sing well but vainly, for Rose is still heart-free, and looks but coldly upon her many suitors.",
      "The scene is set; and there am I alone, in my best looks, heart-free, waiting.",
      "The merry ring of heart-free laughter filled the air, and all around were peace and contentment."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "3926",
    "Idiom": [
      "heart-shattering"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Heart-breaking.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "3927",
    "Idiom": [
      "hearts and flowers"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Ideal romance.",
    "Sentence": [
      "And I'm not saying it's all hearts and flowers, but where's the passion? Where's the need to be near that other person so much that you get so distracted you can't think of anything else?",
      "When that attention is one sided or become lacking, you can't expect everything to be wonderful and all hearts and flowers in the home or the bedroom."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "3928",
    "Idiom": [
      "hearts on sleeves"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Transparent emotions.",
    "Sentence": [
      "As they have avoided the consequences of one defeat in Standing Committee, we are trying to get another opportunity for the House to consider the matter in order to bring home to the Government that it is no use Ministers coming here with hearts on sleeves and being full of good intentions aimed at the electorate and anybody else who cares to listen.",
      "Played with all hearts on sleeves. With angst. angst. angst.",
      "THE SCHIAVO CASE: THE SCENE; Protesters With Hearts on Sleeves and Anger on Signs",
      "Well, you’re not bothered – hearts on sleeves and all that – touché.",
      "It is a time for reflection, for hearts on sleeves and for dedications.",
      "On our last trip, hearts on sleeves and neighbourly love in spades had been replaced by clubs in hand and diamond geezers in warring gangs.",
      "What I love about bluegrass is that it’s hearts on sleeves, and getting everyone involved, and rocking out.",
      "Hearts on sleeves as Scotland faces moment of truth",
      "With hearts on sleeves and sparklers in hand, may we all see glittering lights in the darkness.",
      "Instead of hearts on sleeves, expect caution, philosophical doubt, a bland smile.",
      "It’s as you would expect, all love and longing, hearts on sleeves and happily ever afters."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "3929",
    "Idiom": [
      "heat wave"
    ],
    "Meaning": "A period of exceptionally hot weather.",
    "Sentence": [
      "We're havin a heat wave / A tropical heat wave / The temperatures rising, it isn't surprising / She certainly can, can can! / She started a heat wave / By letting her seat wave, / in such a way that the customers say / that she certainly can, can-can!"
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "3930",
    "Idiom": [
      "heaven forbid"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Expresses the desire that something does not happen.",
    "Sentence": [
      "\"Now, by Our Lady's grace,\" cried the Butcher, \"well do I know thy name, and many a time have I heard thy deeds both sung and spoken of. But Heaven forbid that thou shouldst take aught of me! An honest man am I, and have wronged neither man nor maid; so trouble me not, good master, as I have never troubled thee.\" \"Nay, Heaven forbid, indeed,\" quoth Robin, \"that I should take from such as thee, jolly fellow! Not so much as one farthing would I take from thee, for I love a fair Saxon face like thine right well—more especially when it cometh from Locksley Town, and most especially when the man that owneth it is to marry a bonny lass on Thursday next. But come, tell me for what price thou wilt sell me all of thy meat and thy horse and cart.\"",
      "Here’s the worst case scenario: You’ve just wasted your time on a few meaningless Tinder messages and not an actual date—or heaven forbid, a full-blown relationship."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "3931",
    "Idiom": [
      "heaven helps those who help themselves",
      "heaven helps those that help themselves"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Encourages self-initiative in solving problems.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "3932",
    "Idiom": [
      "heavy as a dead donkey"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Very heavy.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "3933",
    "Idiom": [
      "heavy equipment"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Large machines used in construction and mining for earthmoving tasks.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "3934",
    "Idiom": [
      "heavy going"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Difficult to progress or tedious.",
    "Sentence": [
      "That report is heavy going."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "3935",
    "Idiom": [
      "heavy hitter"
    ],
    "Meaning": "A significant person or organization with decision-making power or capability.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Even Mrs Clinton, the heavy hitter, will need every ounce of her formidable powers.",
      "For Yamana, its El Penon mine in Chile is its heavy hitter, with production expectations of 450,000 to 500,000 ounces per year.",
      "Müller used this speech, delivered in the presence of Cardinal Angelo Scola of Milan, another heavy-hitter in the Catholic world, to draw some lines in the sand."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "3936",
    "Idiom": [
      "heavy lifting"
    ],
    "Meaning": "The most demanding part of a task.",
    "Sentence": [
      "That's what I call the heavy-lifting part of the problem, and that's really where the term genetic caching comes into play.",
      "Alliances are two-way processes and, where we are in agreement, we should not leave it to the United States to do all of the heavy lifting just because they are the world’s superpower.",
      "At home, I told Mo I'd packed it in as Velvet's tutor. \"Why?\" she said. \"Because she's an unappreciative little brat,\" I said. \"I'm sick of her rudeness, and I'm sick of doing all the heavy lifting with this 'buddy' thing.\"",
      "We want our experts to spend their time on this and do the heavy lifting for us.",
      "Richard DeLongpre: Well, that went well. Come here, you. Jeremy DeLongpre: Oh, I'm really exhausted. Richard: That's okay, I'll do the heavy lifting.",
      "any time there’s emotional heavy lifting to be done, we hear about what happened in passing as opposed to actually seeing how Indy is grappling with his ever-changing world."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "3937",
    "Idiom": [
      "heavy with child"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Visibly pregnant.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "3938",
    "Idiom": [
      "heavy-footed"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Slow-moving.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Nani's 76th-minute goal summed up Birmingham's state of mind as he skipped across the screen of their heavy-footed defence to slam a powerful goal past Foster from 15 yards into the corner of the net."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "3939",
    "Idiom": [
      "heavy-hearted"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Sad or melancholic.",
    "Sentence": [
      "The mourners left the funeral heavy-hearted and silent.",
      "He gave a heavy-hearted sigh."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "3940",
    "Idiom": [
      "hedge one's bets"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To reduce the risk of making a mistake by keeping options open.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Whether Glass will ever become a mass-market product, and smartglasses take off, is still unclear. Google is hedging its bets, however, with its new Android Wear and smartwatch initiative which is expected to be shown off at Google’s I/O developer conference in San Francisco later this week.",
      "He prayed on Fridays with the Muslims, on Saturdays with the Jews and on Sundays with the Christians. 'Since each religion claims that it is the only true one and that the others are invalid', the king explained, 'I have decided to hedge my bets'.",
      "I thought that these generals may never have intended to defect, or had at least hedged their bets enough that they could jump either way on Tuesday, depending on what course events took.",
      "At this stage, Northern is hedging its bets as to the power source it wants."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "3941",
    "Idiom": [
      "hell and half of Georgia"
    ],
    "Meaning": "A very large region.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Seems to me I been on foot all over hell and half of Georgia, since this ruckus began.",
      "Idiot, she scolded herself. You've tracked Alex through hell and half of Georgia, only to fall in a stupid well!",
      "The hitch is that the ship is so powerful—it must be, to do the things for which it has been designed—that its twin rotors blast away Hell and half of Georgia with the turbulence it causes on landing or taking off."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "3942",
    "Idiom": [
      "hell from above"
    ],
    "Meaning": "A powerful bombardment from above.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "3943",
    "Idiom": [
      "hell has no fury like a woman scorned",
      "hell hath no fury like a woman scorned"
    ],
    "Meaning": "A woman will seek revenge if rejected.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Rather than presenting Medea as the epitome of the \" hell hath no fury like a woman scorned...,\" this Medea shows her not so much as a woman bent upon revenge, but as someone who has been betrayed and must for her own sense of preservation must right the wrongs done to her."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "3944",
    "Idiom": [
      "hell mend someone"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Expresses exasperation towards someone ignoring warnings about potential trouble.",
    "Sentence": [
      "'You do not want to look after yourself at all. You want Roderick Peters to look after you. Well, hell mend you, Nicola, hell mend you,' Charlotte snapped...",
      "And then hell mend you. You've never danced in your life, have you? Well, by God, she'll lead you a dance.",
      "Just because he's single he thinks he can do anything he wants with anybody and hell mend him if this latest venture turns sour on him."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "3945",
    "Idiom": [
      "hell on earth"
    ],
    "Meaning": "A very unpleasant situation.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "3946",
    "Idiom": [
      "hell on wheels"
    ],
    "Meaning": "A tough, aggressive, and chaotic situation.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "3947",
    "Idiom": [
      "hell or high water"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Highly adverse circumstances.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Even though sportswriters are supposed to be impartial, I'm a Brooklyn boyo and Dodger fan through hell or high water, so my beer is Schaefer.",
      "Bankers call this a hell-or-high-water deal because it protects the buyer from the directors and offers from other bidders.",
      "Corn had to be hoed three times and plowed five in spite of hell or high water"
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "3948",
    "Idiom": [
      "hell to pay"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Unpleasant consequences or trouble.",
    "Sentence": [
      "\"When I'm hungry, there's hell to pay if I'm not fed quick.\"",
      "\"I told him I had sent for you an' when you got heah these slippery, mysterious thieves, whoever they were, would shore have hell to pay.\"",
      "Congressman Bart Stupak of Michigan... vows that \"there will be hell to pay \" if his language gets stripped out of, or weakened in, the final legislation."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "3949",
    "Idiom": [
      "hell week"
    ],
    "Meaning": "A challenging initiation period for new members.",
    "Sentence": [
      "She was among a number of cadets taken to the infirmary with heat sickness on the first day of the rigorous drills called hell week."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "3950",
    "Idiom": [
      "helmet hair"
    ],
    "Meaning": "An unkempt hairstyle caused by wearing a helmet.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "3951",
    "Idiom": [
      "help a lame dog over a stile"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To help someone in distress or need.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "3952",
    "Idiom": [
      "helping hand"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Assistance or help.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Thanks for lending a helping hand to the project."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "3953",
    "Idiom": [
      "hem and haw"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To hesitate or procrastinate.",
    "Sentence": [
      "If you hem and haw long enough, someone else will do it first."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "3954",
    "Idiom": [
      "hen's tooth"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Rare or unusual occurrence.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Indeed, many of the Dutch in Pernambuco were won over to the Church of Rome, ‘whereas converts from Catholicism to Calvinism were as rare as hens’ teeth ’.",
      "as rare as a hen's tooth"
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "3955",
    "Idiom": [
      "herd cats"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To attempt to control the uncontrollable.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Finally, you present this vision and your goals to the authors; after that it’s like herding cats. Authors have their own perspectives on their topics, their own notions about what constitutes significant issues and adequate coverage",
      "Trying to predict the future of office automation is like trying to herd cats. Things go in so many directions, you end up with a fist full of air.",
      "The job of leader has often been compared to herding cats. It is not easy, but Senator DASCHLE did an outstanding job.",
      "It must feel like herding cats, with 20-or-so members and with the big five franchise owning groups.",
      "Managing volunteers from fourteen different organizations is like herding cats."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "3956",
    "Idiom": [
      "here goes nothing"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Indicates lack of confidence about an upcoming effort.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Well, I checked everything and I think it's wired up correctly, so I guess all that's left is to turn it on. Here goes nothing !"
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "3957",
    "Idiom": [
      "here we are"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Indicates ambivalence or resignation about current circumstances.",
    "Sentence": [
      "And I don’t have a nose, and yet here we are."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "3958",
    "Idiom": [
      "here we go again"
    ],
    "Meaning": "An expression of frustration at repetition.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "3959",
    "Idiom": [
      "here you are"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Said when giving something to someone, often to draw attention to the exchange.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "3960",
    "Idiom": [
      "here's to"
    ],
    "Meaning": "A phrase used for a toast.",
    "Sentence": [
      "So ‘ere's to you, Fuzzy-Wuzzy, at your 'ome in the Soudan; ⁠You're a pore benighted ‘eathen but a first-class fightin’ man; An’ ‘ere’s to you, Fuzzy-Wuzzy, with your ‘ayrick 'ead of ‘air— You big black boundin’ beggar—for you broke a British square!",
      "And here's to you, Mrs. Robinson Jesus loves you more than you will know Whoa, whoa, whoa",
      "Cheers! Here's to our future, and here's to absent friends!"
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "3961",
    "Idiom": [
      "here, there and everywhere"
    ],
    "Meaning": "In or to many different places.",
    "Sentence": [
      "After our stop, we return to Ulceby, where we reverse and then head to the industrial heartlands of Immingham Docks and a visit to the Bulk terminal. This is a fascinating rail network, with lines here, there and everywhere."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "3962",
    "Idiom": [
      "hewers of wood and drawers of water"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Those who do menial or servile work.",
    "Sentence": [
      "All these groups are among the hewers of wood and drawers of water whom Marx assured that they would have nothing but their chains to lose if they rose against their oppressors."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "3963",
    "Idiom": [
      "hic Rhodus, hic salta"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Prove what you can do, here and now.",
    "Sentence": [
      "As a philosophic writing, it must be on its guard against constructing a state as it ought to be. Philosophy cannot teach the state what it should be, but only how it, the ethical universe, is to be known. Idou Podos, idou kai to pidima / Hic Rhodus, hic saltus.",
      "On the other hand, proletarian revolutions, like those of the nineteenth century, constantly criticize themselves, constantly interrupt themselves in their own course, return to the apparently accomplished, in order to begin anew; they deride with cruel thoroughness the half-measures, weaknesses, and paltriness of their first attempts, seem to throw down their opponents only so the latter may draw new strength from the earth and rise before them again more gigantic than ever, recoil constantly from the indefinite colossalness of their own goals – until a situation is created which makes all turning back impossible, and the conditions themselves call out: Hic Rhodus, hic salta !",
      "The repeated retreat of the mass of the European workers' movement in the face of the Hic Rhodus, hic salta of the 1918-1920 period, a retreat which included the violent destruction of its radical minority, favored the completion of the Bolshevik development and let this false result present itself to the world as the only proletarian solution.",
      "Hic Rhodus, hic saltus"
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "3964",
    "Idiom": [
      "hidden in plain sight"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Seemingly hidden, but actually easy to find.",
    "Sentence": [
      "The postcard is “not a secret hidden document that nobody can find,” Mr. van der Veen said. “A lot of people have already seen it, and recognize the subject, the motif of tree roots. It was hidden in plain sight.”"
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "3965",
    "Idiom": [
      "hide in plain sight"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To be unnoticeable while remaining visible.",
    "Sentence": [
      "I have satisfied myself that she is alive, and apparently well, and hiding in plain sight. Prudence prevents me from saying where."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "3966",
    "Idiom": [
      "hide nor hair"
    ],
    "Meaning": "A trace or evidence of a person.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Not a one of us could catch hide nor hair nor sight nor sound of them.",
      "No rational explanation for her lamentable condition is advanced, neither hide nor hair of a leopard is ever spotted, and certainly no scene in which woman literally turns into cat, or vice versa, is ever played.",
      "He retired last June, and his coworkers have seen neither hide nor hair of him since."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "3967",
    "Idiom": [
      "hide one's light under a bushel"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To conceal one's positive qualities or talents.",
    "Sentence": [
      "\"Really, Mrs. Scudder,\" said gallant old General Wilcox, \"where have you kept such a beauty all this time? It's a sin and a shame to hide such a light under a bushel.\"",
      "He is singularly sparing in his correspondence, and unaccountably hides his light under a bushel.",
      "You've got a bright, intelligent face. I shouldn't wonder if you weren't rather clever. Why do you hide your light under a bushel ?",
      "He says I must become a writer. Think of it, me a writer! He says I'm a young Shakespeare, that I've been lazy and hid my light under a bushel !",
      "If he has ever hidden his light under a bushel, I am not aware of it. I have not observed that he is of the shrinking-violet type …",
      "For all his enormous vanity, it can be said that [James] Boswell hid his true light under a bushel.",
      "Provoked by the hesitancy of a Pennsylvania friend to display his artistic talent, [Ned] Cartledge created this work. Cartledge accused him of hiding his light under a bushel and has inscribed the back of his panel: \"Modesty is for those without talent.\"",
      "British soroptimists have hidden their light under a bushel : there's a feeling here that we shouldn't seek publicity because we'd be drawing attention to ourselves."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "3968",
    "Idiom": [
      "hide the sausage"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To have sex.",
    "Sentence": [
      "He pressed his rock hard cock against the soft flesh hidden by her cotton shorts. “But at night, I want to be all 'growed' up again so I can play hide the sausage in your bed!”",
      "It's a bit like Dubai. Yes, there is a sea and sand, and providing you don't play hide the sausage with someone's else's wife, you will have a nice time."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "3969",
    "Idiom": [
      "hiding to nothing"
    ],
    "Meaning": "A situation where victory holds little value, but defeat carries significant consequences.",
    "Sentence": [
      "It would have been madness to encourage them to back the mare : in fact I was on a hiding to nothing whatever happened.",
      "No legitimate excuse for introduction existed, or could exist, and the odds looked like a hiding to nothing should Bayard attempt to force a meeting …",
      "It is a nasty situation and DFR knows that he is on a good hiding to nothing. He sometimes feels that he is the least understood and most unloved ATCO in [the UK]",
      "This often makes it a nervous, hiding-to-nothing game in which disasters are so much more memorable than successes",
      "Company directors are on a hiding to nothing when it comes to trusting their reputations to the accounting statements for which they are responsible."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "3970-1",
    "Idiom": [
      "high and dry"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Abandoned or stranded.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "3970-2",
    "Idiom": [
      "high and dry"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Refers to being abandoned or left in a difficult situation.",
    "Sentence": [
      "\"There are two recognized parties in the church of England, the old High-and-dry church party, and the so-called Evangelical. To one or other of these two the Anglo-Catholic must conform.\""
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "3970-3",
    "Idiom": [
      "high and dry"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Left without help or resources.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "3971",
    "Idiom": [
      "high and low"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Everywhere.",
    "Sentence": [
      "He searched high and low for the car keys, through every room in the house."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "3972",
    "Idiom": [
      "high and mighty"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Overbearingly arrogant.",
    "Sentence": [
      "When Inanna returns she finds that Dumuzi has not been lamenting her but has been acting high and mighty in his seat of kingship.",
      "For the swooning faithful, all the high-and-mighty talk of the rule of the law is of little account compared with the hot flush, the racing pulse, the pure yee-haw MAGA-hellion USA high they get from glowing in the radiant heat of the Strong Man.",
      "The high and mighty are to be found at the Fairlawn Country Club on pleasant afternoons.",
      "Ever since she was placed in the gifted program, she's become so high and mighty that no one wants to be near her."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "3973",
    "Idiom": [
      "high cotton"
    ],
    "Meaning": "A time of well-being.",
    "Sentence": [
      "We're in high cotton now."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "3974",
    "Idiom": [
      "high ground"
    ],
    "Meaning": "A position of advantage in a conflict.",
    "Sentence": [
      "President George W. Bush had once again outmaneuvered them by taking the national-security high ground in an election year."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "3975",
    "Idiom": [
      "high horse"
    ],
    "Meaning": "An appearance of smug superiority.",
    "Sentence": [
      "\"I tell you Miss Abbott, it's one thing for England and another for Italy. There we plan and get on high moral horses. here we find what asses we are, for things go off quite easily, all by themselves."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "3976-1",
    "Idiom": [
      "high noon"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Exactly noon.",
    "Sentence": [
      "The same streets that are inviting and quiet at high noon may be intimidating at night."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "3976-2",
    "Idiom": [
      "high noon"
    ],
    "Meaning": "The peak of an experience or activity.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "3976-3",
    "Idiom": [
      "high noon"
    ],
    "Meaning": "A time for an important decision or confrontation.",
    "Sentence": [
      "whereas, ten years since, there were thousands who could not endure my lightest word of rebuke to the South, they can now easily swollow John Brown whole, and his rifle into the bargain. In firing his gun, he has merely told us what time of day it is. It is high noon, thank God!"
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "3977",
    "Idiom": [
      "high on the hog"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Living comfortably or extravagantly due to great wealth.",
    "Sentence": [
      "With all the tenderloin, spareribs and backbones, we lived “high off the hog”.",
      "Down our way there is a favorite expression used quite often— “eating high on the hog”. That is what our competitors have been doing…",
      "The synthetic belle wins the prize and her creators are eating high off the hog until the nation’s Press demands a look at the original.",
      "If she was pulling this scam off all that time, I think she'd be living a little higher on the hog, don't you?",
      "Ever since his promotion, they’ve been living high on the hog."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "3978",
    "Idiom": [
      "high on the totem pole"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Accorded high importance.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "3979",
    "Idiom": [
      "high road"
    ],
    "Meaning": "A dignified or honorable course of action.",
    "Sentence": [
      "The high road of public service and the low road of political advantage seem inextricably intertwined."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "3980",
    "Idiom": [
      "high strangeness"
    ],
    "Meaning": "A quality of being peculiar or bizarre.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Also included is an article on Fortean matters along the lines of the research presented in Caverns, Cauldrons, and Concealed Creatures, Mott's definitive non-fiction opus on high strangeness, hidden beings, and real-life mysteries."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "3981",
    "Idiom": [
      "high summer"
    ],
    "Meaning": "The hottest part of summer.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "3982-1",
    "Idiom": [
      "high time"
    ],
    "Meaning": "A point in time when something is overdue to occur.",
    "Sentence": [
      "\"But it is high time for me to have done with the argument, as it is to be judged of according to scripture evidence.\"",
      "\"I will await no longer,\" said Lindesay; \"it is high time the business were done.\"",
      "I thought it was high time, now or never, before the light was put out, to break the spell in which I had so long been bound.",
      "\"But I haven't ridden for years.\" \"Then it's high time you began again.\"",
      "It is high time to cease sensationalism and war mongering, pause and think twice about where we are heading."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "3982-2",
    "Idiom": [
      "high time"
    ],
    "Meaning": "A very enjoyable or exciting time.",
    "Sentence": [
      "There's going to be a high time in the Blue City tonight. We'll have music and dancing and eating.",
      "For Alice had lived, from early in her girlhood, a life of flowers, and song, and wine, and dance.... And her tight tongue had served her well.... None ever heard her gossip of the times of Kalakaua's boathouse, nor of the high times of officers of visiting warships.",
      "The film intelligently deploys familiar thriller elements: chases; shoot-outs; high-level duplicity; terse, sassy dialogue; and a cast having a high time playing preening villains and wily good guys."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "3983-1",
    "Idiom": [
      "high-pressure"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Tense or stressful.",
    "Sentence": [
      "High-pressure situations can lead to nervous breakdowns."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "3983-2",
    "Idiom": [
      "high-pressure"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To coerce someone through psychological pressure.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "3984",
    "Idiom": [
      "high-risk, high-reward"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Involves significant potential for loss but also offers substantial gains if successful.",
    "Sentence": [
      "It has attracted to it (from outside and inside Monsanto) young entrepreneurs (usually M.B.A.s from the graduate schools) with the willingess and capacity to flourish in a high risk, high reward situation.",
      "I warned him that this was a high-risk, high reward situation and that he should be prepared to lose it all."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "3985",
    "Idiom": [
      "high-stakes"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Involving significant risks or rewards.",
    "Sentence": [
      "But it was in the early 2000s that the high-stakes TV pop contest really arrived, along with promises that it would propel a few lucky auditionees to obscene levels of success and fame."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "3986",
    "Idiom": [
      "high-strung"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Nervous or anxious.",
    "Sentence": [
      "\"Why, you're shakin' all over!\" \"I suppose I wouldn't be a medium if I wasn't high strung.\"",
      "Three cups of coffee made him a fidgety and high-strung lecturer."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "3987",
    "Idiom": [
      "higher than a kite"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Very much under the influence.",
    "Sentence": [
      "After several years of experience as the locums doctor in various E.R.s located in big cities across the country, Matt had learned how to handle addicts flying higher than a kite, as dangerous as a violent criminal."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "3988",
    "Idiom": [
      "highway robbery"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Said of excessive prices.",
    "Sentence": [
      "They think they can charge $400 for a shirt? That's highway robbery."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "3989-1",
    "Idiom": [
      "hike up"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To lift or pull upwards.",
    "Sentence": [
      "He hiked up his sagging trousers."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "3989-2",
    "Idiom": [
      "hike up"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To raise or increase sharply.",
    "Sentence": [
      "They tried to make more money by putting lots of salt in the popcorn and hiking up the price of drinks."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "3989-3",
    "Idiom": [
      "hike up"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To move upwards.",
    "Sentence": [
      "He was wearing a maroon cashmere muffler which had hiked up on his neck, giving him next to no protection against the cold."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "3990",
    "Idiom": [
      "hill to die on"
    ],
    "Meaning": "An issue to pursue with strong conviction, regardless of the cost.",
    "Sentence": [
      "\"I'm sorry, Alisha. I can't overrule the European director's decision to move you out of her arena. This isn't a hill to die on.",
      "Is correct laundry folding really a hill to die on ?",
      "Though I simply apologized and told him his ranting wasn't necessary. He made a bad decision. I made a good one. As livid as I was, I realized this situation was not a hill to die on."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "3991",
    "Idiom": [
      "hind tit"
    ],
    "Meaning": "An inferior source of resources.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "3992",
    "Idiom": [
      "hindsight is 20/20"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Evaluating past choices is clearer than at the time they were made.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Another common error dealing with memory is that of \"hindsight bias.\" This is the tendency to exaggerate what could have been anticipated in the past. This is also known as \"Monday morning quarter backing\" or \"hindsight is 20/20\" where the \"right\" decision as to what should have been done appears to be more obvious now than it was in the past.",
      "Honestly? If you would have told me that becoming a professional tennis player might net me a decent supply of free pasta, I would have never begged my mom to quit my lessons. 😭 Hindsight = 20/20."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "3993",
    "Idiom": [
      "hired gun"
    ],
    "Meaning": "A person employed to advance their employer's interests, often using aggressive methods.",
    "Sentence": [
      "One of Gore's senior advisers, top-tier lobbyist Peter Knight, is a hired gun for pharmaceuticals giant Schering-Plough."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "3994",
    "Idiom": [
      "hired muscle"
    ],
    "Meaning": "A person hired for physical tasks.",
    "Sentence": [
      "He used a hired muscle to remove the unruly from the audience.",
      "They were often hired muscle during labor strikes."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "3995",
    "Idiom": [
      "hissing hot"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Very hot.",
    "Sentence": [
      "And in the height of this bath, when I was more than half stewed in grease, like a Dutch dish, to be thrown into the Thames, and cooled, glowing hot, in that surge, like a horse-shoe; think of that,— hissing hot,—think of that, Master Brook.",
      "a hissing hot fever laid hold of him; and the doctors, with all their rank and file of phials and bolusses, could hardly drive him out of his veins.",
      "Mrs. Cratchit made the gravy (ready beforehand in a little saucepan) hissing hot",
      "When a man has lived in such hissing hot places that he is fain to spend his life under cover, he is glad to keep abroad in this green English sweetness.",
      "Mrs Willy Nilly full of tea to her double-chinned brim broods and bubbles over her coven of kettles on the hissing hot range always ready to steam open the mail."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "3996",
    "Idiom": [
      "history is written by the victors"
    ],
    "Meaning": "History is told by those who prevail.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "3997",
    "Idiom": [
      "history repeats itself"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Past events tend to recur.",
    "Sentence": [
      "If it be true that history repeats itself, then assuredly a narrative of domestic trials, of political emergencies, and of religious animosities can never be out of date, since men and women still bear in their hearts, passions as vindictive, a patriotism as ardent, and, let us hope, a piety as sincere as distinguished, in the sixteenth century, Philip and Charlotte du Plessis de Mornay.",
      "If history repeats itself, so does religious experience. As the story of the Church unfolds, the individual finds himself as part of the providential purpose of God within the realm in which the living God reigns.",
      "In other words, Ballard's pseudo-scientific tales remap social history's penchant for psychoanalysing the impact of historical atrocity (World War II) by deflecting it onto another historical disaster (Vietnam). Only, history repeats itself in Ballard's text with one crucial, contemporary difference: in 'Love and Napalm: Export USA' it is no longer the combatant, the active participant of war, who comes under psychological scrutiny, but the passive spectators",
      "We all know [in paraphrase] Marx's remark that history repeats itself first as a tragedy and then as a farce. Marx had in mind the tragedy of the fall of Napoleon I and the later farce of the reign of his nephew Napoleon III. Back in the 1960s, Herbert Marcuse remarked that the lesson of Nazism seems to be the opposite one: first as a farce (throughout the 1920s, Hitler and his gang were mostly taken as a bunch of marginal political clowns), then as a tragedy (when Hitler effectively took power)."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "3998",
    "Idiom": [
      "hit a snag"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To encounter an unexpected problem.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Ms. Harris opted for buying hair and getting a beautician to make it into a two “forever wigs,” right for her face and head measurements. Even so, she hit several snags. When her wigs arrived, one was just too full.",
      "Their plans to finish the garden that weekend hit a snag when an unseasonal snowfall dropped several inches on what should have become the pumpkin patch that day."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "3999",
    "Idiom": [
      "hit a wall"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To face an insurmountable problem.",
    "Sentence": [
      "“One day we just hit a wall,” said Dr. Steven Furr, who practices family medicine in rural Jackson, Ala., where he has even made house calls to give patients their Covid shots. “We had vaccinated everybody who wanted to be vaccinated and there was nobody left.”"
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "4000-1",
    "Idiom": [
      "hit and run"
    ],
    "Meaning": "A one-night stand.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "4000-2",
    "Idiom": [
      "hit and run"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Engaging in brief sexual encounters without commitment.",
    "Sentence": [
      "You can't hit and run / I've got to be number one / Better make up your mind / 'Cause you'll never find a love so divine"
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "4001",
    "Idiom": [
      "hit home"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To be fully understood or significant.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Which led me to publish it, to see if it hits home at all. Which, to me, is the point of the written word, the novels: Our desire to be reassured and read that, in all this, we're not alone.",
      "Do you think the message really hit home with him?",
      "Baked goodies can really hit home with a crowd."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "4002",
    "Idiom": [
      "hit it big"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To have great success.",
    "Sentence": [
      "I wasn't expecting it to work, but I hit it big when I tried the new approach."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "4003",
    "Idiom": [
      "hit it up"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To develop a friendly relationship quickly.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "4004",
    "Idiom": [
      "hit like a ton of bricks"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To have a sudden and significant emotional impact.",
    "Sentence": [
      "“For any decent, law-abiding citizen, there is no honour in this. None at all. You are a bad man, Mr Goodie. And, worst of all, a bad dad. A very bad dad.” That hit Gilbert like a ton of bricks. He looked over to his son with tears in his eyes, as the judge announced the sentence. “Gilbert Goodie, I sentence you to ten years in prison!”",
      "His depression hit him like a ton of bricks."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "4005",
    "Idiom": [
      "hit like a truck"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To hit with great force.",
    "Sentence": [
      "That boxer's punches hit like a truck !"
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "4006",
    "Idiom": [
      "hit on",
      "knock it out of the park"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To discover or realize.",
    "Sentence": [
      "He hit on a great idea for improving the design.",
      "I think you've just hit right on the solution.",
      "D’Arcy continues to knock it out of the park —and make me weep—with their scene opposite Considine later that night."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "4007",
    "Idiom": [
      "hit one out of the ballpark"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To produce a spectacular achievement.",
    "Sentence": [
      "The Canada Institute, part of the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars, has hit one out of the ballpark with its Montreal fundraiser."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "4008",
    "Idiom": [
      "hit pause"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To pause an activity.",
    "Sentence": [
      "We need to hit pause on this project for now, and switch gears to the next thing."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "4009",
    "Idiom": [
      "hit pay dirt"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To strike it rich or succeed unexpectedly.",
    "Sentence": [
      "With his third novel he finally hit pay dirt and wrote a bestseller."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "4010",
    "Idiom": [
      "hit someone for six"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To affect someone profoundly with unexpected news.",
    "Sentence": [
      "When I heard about the accident, it hit me for six."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "4011",
    "Idiom": [
      "hit the big time"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To become successful and widely known.",
    "Sentence": [
      "After years of hard work, they finally hit the big time with their sixth album."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "4012",
    "Idiom": [
      "hit the bottle"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To drink excessively, often due to a setback.",
    "Sentence": [
      "He's been hitting the bottle hard since his wife left him."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "4013-1",
    "Idiom": [
      "hit the bricks"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To travel, especially on foot.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Thousands of brewers, waiters and waitresses, bartenders, cooks, checkers, cashiers, dishwashers, hotel maids and bellmen, too, would be forced to hit the bricks in search of other work.",
      "Hundreds of joggers and walkers from the condos hit the bricks of the Coal Harbor Seawalk starting at 6 a.m. for their morning constitution around Stanley Park."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "4013-2",
    "Idiom": [
      "hit the bricks"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To leave or depart.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Alas, Hancock did not have his receipt, so the shop owner told him to hit the bricks.",
      "On Friday and Saturday nights, the old-timers who usually populate the enormous room hit the bricks as an army of young people storm the hall to play \"Cosmic Bingo.\""
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "4013-3",
    "Idiom": [
      "hit the bricks"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To participate in a strike or protest.",
    "Sentence": [
      "When Harry Bridges told his boys to hit the bricks, Charley was always up front in the longshoremen's wall of flesh. His picketing record in the bloody dockside strife of 1934 and in the all-out strike of 1937 was perfect.",
      "Queens bus driver Mousie Garcia, 30, said she doesn't want a strike but will hit the bricks if the MTA doesn't come through with no-strings-attached raises."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "4014",
    "Idiom": [
      "hit the buffers"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To stop suddenly and unexpectedly.",
    "Sentence": [
      "The Midlanders will hope the victory will kickstart a campaign that looked to have hit the buffers, but the sense of trepidation enveloping the Reebok Stadium heading into the new year underlines the seriousness of the predicament facing Owen Coyle's men."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "4015",
    "Idiom": [
      "hit the fan"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To have a dramatic negative effect.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Let me ask you, Congressman, the case of a lot of these corporate scandals, I followed enough of them to know how -- how it works out. Once everything starts hitting the fan, the CEO, the chairman or maybe a large share of the board of directors simply leaves, resigns",
      "They were just clowning around, when suddenly it all hit the fan.",
      "Then the shit really hit the fan."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "4016-1",
    "Idiom": [
      "hit the gas",
      "hit the accelerator"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To go faster.",
    "Sentence": [
      "They're gaining on you; you'd better hit the gas, now!",
      "If Frey is right about the technology trap then this may also imply that China could leap ahead in the AI arms race. Sensitive to voter interests, western democracies may yet touch the brakes when it comes to mass deployment of AI technology, while authoritarian regimes hit the accelerator hard."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "4017-2",
    "Idiom": [
      "hit the gas"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To do something more quickly or energetically.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "4018",
    "Idiom": [
      "hit the ground running"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To begin an activity immediately and fully committed.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Employers these days look for candidates that can hit the ground running, so that they spend less on training."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "4019",
    "Idiom": [
      "hit the high notes"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To achieve a high level of success or satisfaction.",
    "Sentence": [
      "The flavors of the food hit the high notes : the rightly famous Canlis salad, the signature Peter Canlis sweet prawns floating on a sea of butter, and a succulent Kobe-style steak.",
      "If all that extra money isn't being used to shore up vital day-to-day Facebook operations, that's probably good news—but whatever the case, the site hasn't hit the high notes quite yet.",
      "During his public life, Obama has hit the high notes of poetic romance — his 2008 campaign."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "4020-1",
    "Idiom": [
      "hit the jackpot"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To receive an unexpectedly favorable outcome, especially through luck.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Before 1914, coal was a true cash-cow, and on paper, the GWR looked to have hit the jackpot by being handed all the railways in the South Wales coal fields."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "4020-2",
    "Idiom": [
      "hit the jackpot"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To achieve great success or luck.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "4021",
    "Idiom": [
      "hit the nail on the head"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To identify something exactly.",
    "Sentence": [
      "\"Scotte's discovery of Witchcraft dismasketh sundry egregious impostures, and in certaine principall chapters, and speciall passages, hitteth the nayle on the head with a witnesse.\"",
      "He hit the nail on the head when he said the problem was the thermostat."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "4022-1",
    "Idiom": [
      "hit the pavement"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To travel on foot.",
    "Sentence": [
      "But getting people to hit the pavement is more than just a health concern.... Municipalities are looking to combat inner-city decay by keeping the streets flush with pedestrians."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "4022-2",
    "Idiom": [
      "hit the pavement"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To begin traveling or moving by vehicle.",
    "Sentence": [
      "\"And when we hit the pavement, we found we had covered the last 54 miles in an hour and twenty minutes.\""
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "4023-1",
    "Idiom": [
      "hit the road"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To begin traveling.",
    "Sentence": [
      "If we're gonna make it by sunset, we'd better hit the road."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "4023-2",
    "Idiom": [
      "hit the road"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To leave a place.",
    "Sentence": [
      "It's time for me to hit the road and walk home."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "4024",
    "Idiom": [
      "hit the rocks"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To reach a low point.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "4025",
    "Idiom": [
      "hit the roof"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To be explosively angry.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Half a year of profits gone and now there's hell to pay / The cops say they know who, but there's no proof / The banker hit the roof / and damn near took the car.",
      "When he found out I wrecked his brand-new car, he hit the roof."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "4026",
    "Idiom": [
      "hit the shelves"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To become available for purchase.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "4027",
    "Idiom": [
      "hit the shops"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To become available for purchase.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "4028",
    "Idiom": [
      "hit the spot"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To be just right.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Even in the Midwestern summer heat, Al’s dogs hit the spot. Chicago is indisputably a hot-dog town, and there may be no better time than summer to feel that sunshine in your hands.",
      "Some ice cold lemonade would hit the spot on a warm afternoon."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "4029",
    "Idiom": [
      "hit the stores"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To become available for purchase.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "4030-1",
    "Idiom": [
      "hit the streets"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To go out in search of something.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "4030-2",
    "Idiom": [
      "hit the streets"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To become available for purchase.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "4031-1",
    "Idiom": [
      "hit the wall"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To experience sudden fatigue.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "4031-2",
    "Idiom": [
      "hit the wall"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To lose physical attractiveness due to aging.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Don't tell Heather Locklear. She won't be able to hear you anyway, as she is over forty and will have to turn up her hearing aid. By the way, please note that, according to urbandictionary.com, men don't hit the wall.",
      "Ninety percent of girls hit 24, they hit the wall; 25 they hit the wall because they don't care take care of themselves. They don't know any better because they hit their peak so young."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "4032-1",
    "Idiom": [
      "hit too close to home"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To happen dangerously or uncomfortably near.",
    "Sentence": [
      "I just barely managed to keep my job during the layoff – it really hit too close to home."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "4032-2",
    "Idiom": [
      "hit too close to home"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Causes negative emotions by reminding one of personal experiences.",
    "Sentence": [
      "As a veteran, the war film I watched yesterday hit too close to home, making me remember many awful things."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "4033",
    "Idiom": [
      "hit upon"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To discover or invent.",
    "Sentence": [
      "They hit upon the idea of a site that would help users exchange video files."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "4034",
    "Idiom": [
      "hit with the stupid stick"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Describes someone as stupid or unintelligent.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "4035",
    "Idiom": [
      "hitch one's wagon to"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To rely on (someone or something) for success.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Finally, I wanted to tell a more personal story that might inspire young people considering a life of public service: how my career in politics really started with a search for a place to fit in, a way to explain the different strands of my mixed-up heritage, and how it was only by hitching my wagon to something larger than myself that I was ultimately able to locate a community and purpose for my life."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "4036",
    "Idiom": [
      "hitch one's wagon to a star"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To commit to an aspirational goal.",
    "Sentence": [
      "[Emerson] was not afraid to be homely and racy in expressing thought of the highest spirituality. \" Hitch your wagon to a star \" is a good instance of his favorite manner.",
      "Well, he was done, he solaced himself. He had hitched his wagon to a star and been landed in a pestiferous marsh.",
      "So if you've had enough of life as an employee and you're planning to set up your own home-based business, do the sensible thing and hitch your wagon to the fastest rising star today — the Internet.",
      "Pick a star, or hero, or whatever product/service/idea you are presenting, and hitch your wagon to it."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "4037",
    "Idiom": [
      "hive of activity"
    ],
    "Meaning": "A very busy place.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Prior to the 1908 departure, the platform is always a hive of activity as teams prepare and the traincrew load the vast amount of supplies we need for the trip (most of which is kindly donated).",
      "As more and more people arrived, the office became a hive of activity."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "4038",
    "Idiom": [
      "hoe one's row"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To do one's part.",
    "Sentence": [
      "I have to begin where I left off; but you cannot realize but that you have to take one jump away ahead, when you come to leave your bodies and go into the spirit world. That is not so, for you will have to commence to hoe your row where you left off.",
      "“I ain’t sharing my room with assassins. Gilvey is ignorant and a brute. If you say so I’ll join you and we’ll lick him. We could do it easy, only it wouldn’t help you much. For the men would say I had to help you hoe your row.”",
      "There was a time when, jocund as the day, The toiler hoed his row and sung his lay, Found something gleeful in the very air, And solace for his toiling everywhere."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "4039-1",
    "Idiom": [
      "hoes before bros"
    ],
    "Meaning": "A woman should prioritize female friends over male partners.",
    "Sentence": [
      "\"Well, I just happened to mention you were a little depressed about the whole Trent thing and needed some girl support, yadda yadda, and my mom totally swallowed it whole. She's all about the hoes before bros,\" Jen said with a shrug.",
      "After contemplating the friendship code for a situation like this, I knew hoes before bros was the correct answer. Hoes being a term of endearment in this case, of course.",
      "No! I would never date him after this! Hoes before bros, right?",
      "At the moment, so many of the terms and phrases we use around female friendship are either twee or ultimately a bit meaningless: sisterhood, sisters before misters, tribe, girl squad, hoes before bros, hovaries before brovaries, life force, power posse, BFF."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "4039-2",
    "Idiom": [
      "hoes before bros"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Prioritizing romantic interests over friendships.",
    "Sentence": [
      "'He always puts hoes before bros,' Layla moaned.",
      "I think there is something perverse about this request but if I say no Osama will tell the boys tomorrow I'm a dog, that I'm always putting hoes before bros, and it's not worth copping that for Nada, who doesn't even seem to like me.",
      "I admit it, sure: the world definitely wouldn't feel great if the saying were hoes before bros. But. It's not."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "4040",
    "Idiom": [
      "hog heaven"
    ],
    "Meaning": "A state of bliss.",
    "Sentence": [
      "The boys were in hog heaven fishing with their dad."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "4041",
    "Idiom": [
      "hoist by one's own petard"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Hurt by one's own scheme.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Unhappily, the country as well as Mr. Marples has been hoist by the Minister's petard. (Mr. Marples was the Minister concerned)",
      "The danger with Trump would seem to be that, like Berlusconi, he would be hoist by his own petard, self-destructing precisely through the agent of his rise, and dragging the rest of us with him.",
      "At last, the opposition spoke with one voice, and Boris Johnson was hoist by his own petard. It’s hard to see how he gets out of it.",
      "He has no one to blame but himself; he was hoisted by his own petard."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "4042",
    "Idiom": [
      "hold a grudge"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To stay angry at someone.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Jürgen Klopp accused the referee Paul Tierney of holding a grudge against Liverpool and of speaking out of turn during his team’s thrilling stoppage‑time victory over Tottenham.",
      "That guy sure can hold a grudge when something goes wrong.",
      "I made a mistake. That's not a good reason to hold a grudge against me."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "4043-1",
    "Idiom": [
      "hold back"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To contain one's full measure or power.",
    "Sentence": [
      "The TSSA union, which along with the RMT represents many of the staff affected by the closures, hasn't held back on its criticism.",
      "Don't hold back. Hit it as hard as you can."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "4043-2",
    "Idiom": [
      "hold back"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To contain or stop.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Fabregas coolly slotted home after Ben Parker held back Theo Walcott and only a super Kasper Schmeichel save stopped Denilson winning it for the Gunners.",
      "The dam can't hold back that much water."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "4043-3",
    "Idiom": [
      "hold back"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To delay progress.",
    "Sentence": [
      "He's a year older than his classmates, because he was held back in second grade."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "4044",
    "Idiom": [
      "hold by the button"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To detain in conversation to the point of weariness.",
    "Sentence": [
      "When a slanderer addresses himself to any one, let him only withhold his attention, while he argues thus with himself: --- Why does this man hold me by the button, and seem so desirous of calling my attention to another's failings?"
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "4045",
    "Idiom": [
      "hold cheap"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To have a low esteem for someone or something.",
    "Sentence": [
      "We shall not always plant while others reap / The golden increment of bursting fruit, / Not always countenance, abject and mute / That lesser men should hold their brothers cheap;"
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "4046",
    "Idiom": [
      "hold court"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To be the center of attention in a social gathering.",
    "Sentence": [
      "She was the centre of a very brilliant group, a most beautiful woman holding court, as was only right and proper, among her admirers.",
      "Suddenly I heard a familiar laugh, headed down to the bar and found José Andrés holding court with journalists on behalf of a solar-powered cookstove that cheaply boils water for people with little or no access to fuel.",
      "With a rumpled, folksy manner, he held court for years in the smoke-filled beer hall of the King Louis Hotel in Calgary."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "4047-1",
    "Idiom": [
      "hold down"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To restrain.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Please hold the noise down.",
      "You hold him down while I search him."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "4047-2",
    "Idiom": [
      "hold down"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To maintain or support.",
    "Sentence": [
      "I held down that job for years.",
      "Thank you to everyone who's been holding us down while we've been going through this difficult time."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "4048",
    "Idiom": [
      "hold fast"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Hold firm.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "4049",
    "Idiom": [
      "hold firm"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To maintain conviction or practice unwaveringly.",
    "Sentence": [
      ".... the depressed person's emotional agony had so completely overwhelmed her... that whenever a member of her Support System finally said that she was dreadfully sorry but she absolutely had to get off the telephone, the primal instinct for sheer emotional survival now drove the depressed person to... beg shamelessly for two or even just one more minute of the friend's time and attention, and - if the \"supportive friend\" held firm and terminated the conversation - to spend now hardly any time listening dully to the dial tone...."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "4050-1",
    "Idiom": [
      "hold off"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To delay temporarily.",
    "Sentence": [
      "The breakthrough came after 63 minutes as United’s unorthodox defence desperately tried to hold off a spell of sustained pressure.",
      "Let's try to hold off the lawyers until we are ready for them."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "4050-2",
    "Idiom": [
      "hold off"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To delay an action.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Hold off (on) the decision one more day so I can answer your question.",
      "Hold off (on) baking until I get there."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "4051-1",
    "Idiom": [
      "hold on",
      "hold one's alcohol",
      "hold one's drink"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To keep or store something for someone.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Hold on to my umbrella while I ride the roller coaster.",
      "Annie tells me that Thomas wrote hundreds of poems in this house, with his greatest output coming between ages 16 and 20. He worked in the morning and drank late, Annie says. Unfortunately, Thomas couldn’t hold his alcohol — perhaps because he was a diabetic, as it’s now believed — so he became a “performing monkey,” she says.",
      "When Laws asked how he could hold his drink, Le Vell provoked mirth in the public gallery by recounting how he had once taken part in a programme intended to test the effects of alcohol and people's ability behind the wheel of a car."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "4052-2",
    "Idiom": [
      "hold on"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To retain an advantage.",
    "Sentence": [
      "I'm holding on to my trump cards until I really need them."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "4052-3",
    "Idiom": [
      "hold on"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Wait a short while.",
    "Sentence": [
      "The departure was not unduly prolonged. In the road Mr. Love and the driver favoured the company with a brief chanty running. “Got it?—No, I ain't, ' old on,—Got it? Got it?—No, ' old on sir.”",
      "Hold on while I get my coat."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "4052-4",
    "Idiom": [
      "hold on"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To remain loyal.",
    "Sentence": [
      "He didn't give up his fandom when others did; he held on."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "4052-5",
    "Idiom": [
      "hold on"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To persist.",
    "Sentence": [
      "This trade held on for many years.",
      "That scare aside, Wolves had little trouble in holding on for their first league away win of the season and their first over the Reds since little-known striker Steve Mardenborough gave them a victory at Anfield in January 1984."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "4053",
    "Idiom": [
      "hold one's breath"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To wait expectantly for something.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Petraeus hoped they would succeed, and lent his support, but he was not holding his breath.",
      "It would be nice to think there are grown-ups in the Government ready to sort out the mess for the sake of London and its people... but I'm not holding my breath.",
      "He might pay back the money he borrowed without you reminding him, but I wouldn't hold my breath."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "4054",
    "Idiom": [
      "hold one's fire"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Wait; don't retaliate.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Hold your fire and let me explain."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "4055",
    "Idiom": [
      "hold one's head high"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To act with pride.",
    "Sentence": [
      "And I spent oh so many nights just feeling sorry for myself / I used to cry, but now I hold my head up high",
      "So a man's put to task and challenges / I was taught to hold my head high / Collect what is mine / Make the best of what today has.",
      "How on earth are we supposed to hold our heads high as the 'mother of parliaments' when we allow to continue the practice of almost openly buying a seat in parliament?",
      "It was a clash for the ages as the battling All Blacks were full value for their effort. They can hold their heads high after it looked like South Africa was in control halfway through the match."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "4056",
    "Idiom": [
      "hold one's horses"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To be patient.",
    "Sentence": [
      "\"I'm going to tell you, ain't I?\" he said, gruffly. \"Just hold your horses a minute, please.\"",
      "\"I would ask everybody to hold their horses until we go through the process,\" ElBaradei said."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "4057",
    "Idiom": [
      "hold one's jaw"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To refrain from talking.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "4058",
    "Idiom": [
      "hold one's liquor"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To show few signs of intoxication after consuming alcohol.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Just because a person is descended from hard-drinking ancestors is no sign that he can \" hold his liquor \" better than others.",
      "Sandy Marsh didn't hold her liquor particularly well; she could get tipsy on two glasses of red wine.",
      "When I first came to London and fell in with Sebastian and Evangeline, neither could hold their liquor, nor judge which glass should be their last."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "4059",
    "Idiom": [
      "hold one's nerve"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To stay calm in a stressful situation.",
    "Sentence": [
      "She held her nerve after failing to serve out the match at the first attempt, seeing three match points slip by in a nervous service game at 6-4 5-4 and recovering from losing the tie-break to dominate the decider."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "4060",
    "Idiom": [
      "hold one's own"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To demonstrate capability or provide worthy competition.",
    "Sentence": [
      "At any rate, he was like John Bull in one respect: he was sturdy and square, and fit to hold his own with any man.",
      "At the receptions Antonia could hold her own in a discussion with two or three men at a time.",
      "If it came to blows, the younger man could not hope to hold his own with the huge policeman.",
      "In his view, this eminent locomotive engineer had very decided opinions of his own, and was not afraid of putting them into practice; but a weakness lay in the fact that there was no one on his staff in a position sufficiently strong to hold his own with Stroudley in argument.",
      "Charlie: Are you a good pilot? Maverick: I can hold my own.",
      "But Ford, and Chrysler continued to hold their own against the latest competition from the Japanese."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "4061",
    "Idiom": [
      "hold one's peace"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To refrain from speaking.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Thurio: How likes she my discourse? Proteus: Ill, when you talk of war. Thurio: But well, when I discourse of love and peace? Julia: [Aside] But better, indeed, when you hold your peace.",
      "I was dumb with silence, I held my peace",
      "Ne'er hold my peace, and ne'er stand still: I fart with twenty ladies by; They call me beast; and what care I?",
      "Unless he can give better arguments than he has given to show the truth of his observations, it would be well for him to hold his peace.",
      "Washington was still waiting last week for Franklin Roosevelt to say or do something about Sit-Down.... But if he held his peace on one topic, he spoke out boldly on another.",
      "Supermarket suppliers with a grievance have been urged to speak up soon or forever hold their peace."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "4062",
    "Idiom": [
      "hold one's tongue"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To refrain from speaking.",
    "Sentence": [
      "“ Hold your tongue, beadle,” said the second old gentleman, when Mr. Bumble had given vent to this compound adjective. “I beg your worship’s pardon,” said Mr. Bumble, incredulous of his having heard aright,—“did your worship speak to me?” “Yes— hold your tongue.”",
      "I don't like his political ideas, but I will hold my tongue."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "4063",
    "Idiom": [
      "hold one's water"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To be patient.",
    "Sentence": [
      "\"C'mon, move it! Get your ass in gear!\" \" Hold your water !\" Stiehl yelled back. \"I'm writing farewell letters.\"",
      "Hold your water, I'll get to you in a minute."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "4064",
    "Idiom": [
      "hold onto"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To keep something.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Desperate to hold onto power, Pervez Musharraf has discarded Pakistan's constitutional framework and declared a state of emergency."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "4065",
    "Idiom": [
      "hold onto your hat"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Prepare for a surprise or shock.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Hold onto your hat —intersecting planes are planes that cross, or intersect."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "4066-1",
    "Idiom": [
      "hold out"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To offer or present something.",
    "Sentence": [
      "The prospectus held out the promise of enormous profits to be made."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "4066-2",
    "Idiom": [
      "hold out"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To wait or refuse for something better.",
    "Sentence": [
      "I am holding out for more money.",
      "How long has he been holding out ?"
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "4066-3",
    "Idiom": [
      "hold out"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To endure.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Stevan Jovetic gave Montenegro hope when he unleashed a pile-driver but Wales held out for a much-needed win.",
      "For the third game in a row, the Boks held out with just one point after seeing off France and England in the quarters and semis respectively.",
      "How long can they hold out without water?"
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "4066-4",
    "Idiom": [
      "hold out"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To withhold something.",
    "Sentence": [
      "You've got a key! Why have you been holding out on me?"
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "4067-1",
    "Idiom": [
      "hold over"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To support or sustain someone temporarily.",
    "Sentence": [
      "These crisps should hold me over until supper."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "4067-2",
    "Idiom": [
      "hold over"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To save or delay.",
    "Sentence": [
      "We will have to hold over these files until tomorrow."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "4068",
    "Idiom": [
      "hold over someone's head"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To continuously remind someone of a mistake or defeat.",
    "Sentence": [
      "I get one parking ticket and he holds it over my head for six months."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "4069",
    "Idiom": [
      "hold someone's feet to the fire"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To maintain pressure on someone to ensure accountability.",
    "Sentence": [
      "In this letter the governor explained that he was being threatened with impeachment and needed all the jobs in his gift to stave off such proceedings and to \" hold the feet of members of the legislature to the fire.\"",
      "We want to hold the Administration's feet to the fire to secure a decent agreement.",
      "He kept tabs on presidents, monitored members of Congress, held bureaucrats' feet to the fire."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "4070",
    "Idiom": [
      "hold someone's hand"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To guide or assist someone closely.",
    "Sentence": [
      "I'll give you advice on writing an article, but I won't hold your hand through the entire process."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "4071",
    "Idiom": [
      "hold sway"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To have the greatest influence or to dominate.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Within Lololand, of course, no Chinese writ runs, no Chinese magistrate holds sway, and the people, more or less divided among themselves, are under the government of their tribal chiefs.",
      "Not only is Jon’s claim to the Iron Throne stronger than hers, thanks to a patriarchal society, but her heroic deeds—and the attendant risks— hold no sway in the North.",
      "Neither appeal seemed to hold sway with Kaplan, who stated that while he took into account that Bankman-Fried has autism and is socially awkward, he had committed a very serious crime."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "4072",
    "Idiom": [
      "hold tack"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To last or endure.",
    "Sentence": [
      "But if this twig be made of wood That will hold tack, I'll make the fur Fly 'bout the ears of that old cur; And th' other mungrel vermin, Ralph, That brav'd us all in his behalf."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "4073",
    "Idiom": [
      "hold that thought",
      "park that thought"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To pause a conversation for an interruption.",
    "Sentence": [
      "\"...and then...\" / \"John, hold that thought. I need to take this call.\""
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "4074",
    "Idiom": [
      "hold the cards"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To be in a strong position or in control of a situation.",
    "Sentence": [
      "\"But if you make conditions I have no choice but to accept them, seeing that you hold the cards.\"",
      "Once a ticket is paid for and the airline has your money, it holds the cards.",
      "\"In the short term, from a power perspective, the current Zimbabwe elite is holding the cards,\" says Steven Friedman, director of the Center for the Study of Democracy."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "4075",
    "Idiom": [
      "hold the floor"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To give a long speech that is the focus of attention.",
    "Sentence": [
      "... floor of the Senate under which it is possible for a Senator to take the floor, and then an understanding be reached that he will hold the floor over the night recess and have the floor at the beginning of the next day's session.",
      "23 presiding officer to recognize first the majority leader when no other Senator holds the floor and the majority leader seeks recognition. This precedent is the structural basis for the majority leader's capacity to propose unanimous"
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "4076",
    "Idiom": [
      "hold the line"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To maintain one’s viewpoint or practices.",
    "Sentence": [
      "The UN General Assembly was expected to hold the line again today against seating Red China.",
      "The quarterly survey... said banks were holding the line on lending standards for commercial loans and were more willing to lend to individuals.",
      "Think of our heroes: the Silent Step, who defeated a nation with a single shot. Or the Ever Alert, who kept armies at bay with hidden facts. These giants do not seem to give us solace here, but they are not all that we are. Before the network, there was the fleet. Before diplomacy, there were soldiers. Our influence stopped the rachni, but before that, we held the line. Our influence stopped the krogan, but before that, we held the line ! Our influence will stop Saren! In the battle today, we will hold the line !",
      "But the GOP lawmakers are happy to take home the news that they have held the line against deficit spending.",
      "So you put your finger on how complicated and complex this relationship is, but we have to hold the line. I mean, on matters of national security, particularly things like artificial intelligence semiconductors, which, we are way ahead of China, and they want in order to expand/improve their military- there can be no room for compromise.",
      "Greater Manchester Mayor Andy Burnham pulled no punches in March 20's Transport for the North board meeting in Leeds. He wants rid of Avanti West Coast. And he may yet get his way, although ministers in London are holding the line at the moment."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "4077",
    "Idiom": [
      "hold the phone"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Stop or wait.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Hold the phone! We've had this problem before, with the other machine."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "4078",
    "Idiom": [
      "hold the purse strings"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To have control over spending.",
    "Sentence": [
      "The other branch was more immediately the representatives of the people, and it was a maxim that the people ought to hold the Purse-strings.",
      "The power structure of the family is being shared by wives and husbands, mothers and fathers. Both hold the purse strings."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "4079",
    "Idiom": [
      "hold the reins"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To be in charge or in control.",
    "Sentence": [
      "These terms... will place the future behavior of Germany at the dictation of the associated powers regardless of what form of provisional government may hold the reins at Berlin.",
      "The convention also delivered a slap to the technocrats who have held the reins of government for more than a decade.",
      "While conservatives hold the reins at the SBC, moderates have retained control of the Baptist General Convention of Texas."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "4080-1",
    "Idiom": [
      "hold the ring"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To be a spectator at a fight or argument.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "4080-2",
    "Idiom": [
      "hold the ring"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To oversee a situation without getting involved.",
    "Sentence": [
      "In England a century earlier it had been a struggle between two warring houses, in France it was now a struggle between three: Guise, Montmorency and Bourbon, with the feeble government of Catherine de Medici vainly trying to hold the ring.",
      "While this debate was going on in Nature another was being conduct in Archaeometry. This was between Betancourt – and his old colleague Michael – and Warren, with the English archaeometrist M. J. Aitken holding the ring.",
      "It is the great powers that create international upheavals. In 1912–13 the Balkan powers fought two bitter wars among themselves, while the great powers held the ring.",
      "Lieutenant-General Fry says that coalition forces will continue military operations \"to separate the two sides of the sectarian conflict\" but that such operations were meant to hold the ring until the politicians come up with a solution.",
      "Police held the ring during the protests."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "4081",
    "Idiom": [
      "hold the stage"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To dominate or be the main focus.",
    "Sentence": [
      "At this time Selye’s theories of stress held the stage, and the beneficial effects of spa treatment were considered in 1950 to be possibly due to adrenocortical stimulation and increased glucocorticoid output, rather than to simple physical and psychological factors."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "4082-1",
    "Idiom": [
      "hold up"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To impede or detain.",
    "Sentence": [
      "It worked to perfection. Ferrari's decision not to stop on the next lap simply made life easier, especially when Alonso was held up by Marussia's Charles Pic during that period - for which the Frenchman earned a drive-through penalty.",
      "I've got to get to work now. Why are you holding me up ?",
      "What is holding up traffic?",
      "The guy tried to hold up a bank."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "4082-2",
    "Idiom": [
      "hold up"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To detain by threat for robbery.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "4082-3",
    "Idiom": [
      "hold up"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To support or fulfill an agreement.",
    "Sentence": [
      "In order to accommodate the new platform 4 and the reversibly signalled slow line, a deep cutting had to be cut back and held up in places with a concrete retaining wall.",
      "Mind you, clothes were clothes in those days. …  Frills, ruffles, flounces, lace, complicated seams and gores: not only did they sweep the ground and have to be held up in one hand elegantly as you walked along, but they had little capes or coats or feather boas.",
      "Hold up the table while I slide this underneath.",
      "His lectures held up Napoleon as an example of the phenomenon.",
      "I don't think he's holding up his end of the bargain."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "4082-4",
    "Idiom": [
      "hold up"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To highlight or display.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "4082-5",
    "Idiom": [
      "hold up"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To fulfill an agreement.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "4082-6",
    "Idiom": [
      "hold up"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To persist or maintain despite challenges.",
    "Sentence": [
      "The now infamous '108 woodlands' figure published by the Woodlands Trust, and later used by others to infer that HS2 would destroy 108 woodlands, does not hold up to scrutiny.",
      "For what will the World say; Why could not he hold up ? What made him come on so heavily, but that he wanted either Management or Metal",
      "hold up to scrutiny",
      "hold up to heavy use",
      "how're you holdin up ?",
      "Bride of Frankenstein is an old film, but it holds up."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "4082-7",
    "Idiom": [
      "hold up"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To withstand or survive.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "4082-8",
    "Idiom": [
      "hold up"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To maintain composure despite hardship.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "4083",
    "Idiom": [
      "hold up one's end"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To fulfill one's promise or obligation.",
    "Sentence": [
      "I'm holding up my end and you had better hold up yours."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "4084",
    "Idiom": [
      "hold water"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To be valid or withstand scrutiny.",
    "Sentence": [
      "At the parlay, Tyrion also tries to claim Tywin’s murder was self-defense, which holds some water, and despite Jaime’s anger, I suspect he can see it from that side.",
      "\"Young man,\" he said, \"upon this point I can only say that your story is grossly improbable. It won't hold water.\""
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "4085-1",
    "Idiom": [
      "hold with the hare and run with the hounds"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To be hypocritical.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Well, if you ask me, Pastor Hawkins is trying to hold with the hare and run with the hounds by opposing casino gambling when his church operates a bingo game every Thursday night."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "4085-2",
    "Idiom": [
      "hold with the hare and run with the hounds"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To remain neutral by appeasing two opposing sides.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Julianna needs to be careful if she keeps holding with the hare and running with the hounds; she might wind up making enemies of both labor and management."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "4086",
    "Idiom": [
      "hold yew hard"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Wait for a moment.",
    "Sentence": [
      "\" Hold yew hard,\" said old Joe. \"Will a hunnerd pounds hurt ye for the passage? We might make that a feeshin' in the time.\"",
      "\" Hold yew hard,\" Sweetnin' adjured him, \"while I get that there little step-ladder.\"",
      "Mum flew at her sister like a tiger. ' Hold yew hard !' she bawled, spit coming out of her mouth. 'What dew yew mean by layin' inter that child like that? 'E in't dewin' yew no 'arm. Yew always was a spiteful bitch! Yew c'n git out a' my 'ouse, quick as yew like, or I'll fist yew one in the snout!'",
      "He held up his hand in defence. \" Hold yew hard, Mr Challiss; hear me out afore yew blow me 'ead orf. \""
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "4087",
    "Idiom": [
      "hold-up play"
    ],
    "Meaning": "A play where an attacker keeps the ball for teammates to advance.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Arsenal must have been pleased that Leeds' leading scorer Luciano Becchio was ruled out with a back injury and the hosts missed his hold-up play and threat for long periods as Wenger's side produced wave after wave of attack."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "4088",
    "Idiom": [
      "holding pattern"
    ],
    "Meaning": "A state of inactivity or unproductiveness.",
    "Sentence": [
      "All of Sellafield is in a holding pattern, trying to keep waste safe until it can be consigned to the ultimate strongroom: the geological disposal facility (GDF), bored hundreds of metres into the Earth’s rock, a project that could cost another £53bn.",
      "This project is in a holding pattern until all the parts arrive."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "4089",
    "Idiom": [
      "hole in one"
    ],
    "Meaning": "A rare or remarkable accomplishment.",
    "Sentence": [
      "If we can get the entire thing moved over in a day, it'll be a hole in one with the customer."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "4090",
    "Idiom": [
      "holy catfish"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Expresses terror, awe, surprise, or astonishment.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "4091",
    "Idiom": [
      "holy cow"
    ],
    "Meaning": "An exclamation of surprise.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Holy cow I think he's gonna make it!"
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "4092",
    "Idiom": [
      "holy crap"
    ],
    "Meaning": "An expression of amazement.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "4093",
    "Idiom": [
      "holy crap on a stick"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Emphatic expression of surprise or disbelief.",
    "Sentence": [
      "\" I shoved thoughts of Hank the Skank out of my head. Aunt Bel stood by while I wrestled the fifty-pound case off the belt. Holy crap on a stick, Aunt Bel, what do you have in here?.\""
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "4094",
    "Idiom": [
      "holy crickets"
    ],
    "Meaning": "An expression of surprise.",
    "Sentence": [
      "But… holy crickets. He's naked."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "4095",
    "Idiom": [
      "holy doodle"
    ],
    "Meaning": "An expression of surprise.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "4096",
    "Idiom": [
      "holy fuck"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Expression of strong emotion, such as terror or surprise.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Will cash my lucky stars on the bank. Holy Fuck — it sags. It cracks.\""
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "4097",
    "Idiom": [
      "holy macaroni"
    ],
    "Meaning": "An expression of surprise.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "4098",
    "Idiom": [
      "holy mackerel"
    ],
    "Meaning": "An expression of surprise.",
    "Sentence": [
      "‘ Holy mackerel !’ he whispered. ‘Englehorn! Driscoll! Get a look at this thing.’",
      "Holy Mackerel! Here Comes the Bride!\"",
      "\" Holy mackerel ! Just any old dumb hag who can cook and lie on her back?\""
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "4099",
    "Idiom": [
      "holy shit"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Expression of terror, awe, surprise, or astonishment.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Holy shit, that car just exploded!"
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "4100",
    "Idiom": [
      "holy smoke"
    ],
    "Meaning": "An expression of astonishment.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "4101",
    "Idiom": [
      "home away from home"
    ],
    "Meaning": "A place where one feels as comfortable as at home.",
    "Sentence": [
      "I stayed in a lot of hotels in New York with the Dead and with Jerry's band, but the Navarro, more than any other, became our home away from home.",
      "Here's how you can create your own home away from home if you travel often: keep some of your favorite things that say home in a bag—like a backpack or travel bag—so you can take it with you."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "4102",
    "Idiom": [
      "home game"
    ],
    "Meaning": "An athletic contest played at the team's location.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "4103",
    "Idiom": [
      "home is where the heart is"
    ],
    "Meaning": "One's true home is where one feels happiest.",
    "Sentence": [
      "That which is to make home desirable does not abide in the parlor, the cellar, or the garret; it does not grow with the flowers of the garden, nor with the grass of the meadow, but is fitly expressed in the quaint old adage, \" Home is where the heart is.\""
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "4104",
    "Idiom": [
      "home is where you hang your hat"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Home is wherever you live.",
    "Sentence": [
      "One place is like the other let's say",
      "\"Did I ever think that Jamaica would be my home? Never,\" he says, \"but I have been living as a foreigner in someone else's country for most of my life,\" he says, \"and I guess it is true that home is where you hang your hat.\""
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "4105-1",
    "Idiom": [
      "home sweet home"
    ],
    "Meaning": "One's comfortable and enjoyable home.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "4105-2",
    "Idiom": [
      "home sweet home"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Expresses contentment at being home.",
    "Sentence": [
      "After my work in the City, I like to be at home. What 's the good of a home, if you are never in it? \" Home, Sweet Home,\" that's my motto."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "4106",
    "Idiom": [
      "home team"
    ],
    "Meaning": "The team playing in its usual location.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "4107",
    "Idiom": [
      "home training"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Manners and social etiquette taught at home.",
    "Sentence": [
      "The truth is that the child has not received any home training from his or her parents or guardian. The lack of home training causes a child to misbehave in the class room or in the school compound"
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "4108",
    "Idiom": [
      "homeless dumping"
    ],
    "Meaning": "The practice of releasing homeless patients onto the streets instead of providing proper care.",
    "Sentence": [
      "A hospital van dropped off a homeless paraplegic man on Skid Row and left him crawling in the street with nothing more than a soiled gown and a broken colostomy bag.... Police said the incident was a case of \"homeless dumping\" and were questioning officials from the hospital.",
      "Authorities have launched a criminal investigation into suspected dumping of homeless people on Skid Row after police witnessed ambulances leaving five people on a street there during the weekend."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "4109",
    "Idiom": [
      "homely as a hedge fence"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Lacking physical attractiveness; very plain in appearance.",
    "Sentence": [
      "\"I must have a husband!\" said Miss Crooks, \"what shall I do? Here I am hard upon my 25th year, and they say I am as homely as a hedge fence to boot! what shall I do?\"",
      "This Subaru station wagon was as homely as a hedge fence and cramped as a corn crib, but it was the immediate hit of every ski town in the country.",
      "\"Louise had been sweet-tempered but homely as a hedge fence,\" Charlotte observes, \" pools of wrinkles widened out over her face like somebody had thrown a pebble in it.\""
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "4110",
    "Idiom": [
      "honest John"
    ],
    "Meaning": "An ordinary, honest person.",
    "Sentence": [
      "The high street was a place of utility once, with concentrated amenities. It was a place of wildly fluctuating codes of behaviour and scruples. Particular smells. Finicky proprietors. Honest johns. Crooks."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "4111",
    "Idiom": [
      "honesty is the best policy"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Honesty is preferable because it leads to better outcomes.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Honesty is the best policy; but he who acts on that principle is not an honest man. He only is an honest man who does that which is right because it is right, and not from motives of policy; and then, he is rewarded by finding afterwards that the honest course he has pursued was in reality the most politic."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "4112",
    "Idiom": [
      "honey do list"
    ],
    "Meaning": "A list of household tasks assigned by a partner.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "4113-1",
    "Idiom": [
      "honey hole"
    ],
    "Meaning": "A valuable location or situation.",
    "Sentence": [
      "The water swirling gently at the base of the muscular willow crowding the brook was the color of pea soup, and so deep that the bottom was invisible—a feature so dramatic on this small ribbon of water that it qualified as an authentic \" honey hole \". This is the angler's catch phrase for one of those rare, reliable places that always hold fish.",
      "Lewis, 33, got his start repossessing cars when he was 14, helping his dad tow vehicles in the dead of night. Repos clustered in unexpected ways. Lewis pointed to one apartment complex so stocked with repos it became his honey hole."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "4113-2",
    "Idiom": [
      "honey hole"
    ],
    "Meaning": "A term for the vagina or vulva as an object of sexual interest.",
    "Sentence": [
      "While humping her on the side of the road, she died one day. He saw the big eighteen-wheeler coming, but her back was turned, and she saw nothing. He was suddenly scared, which helped obtain his freedom from her honey hole."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "4114",
    "Idiom": [
      "honey trap"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Using a romantic relationship to obtain secret information.",
    "Sentence": [
      "“Some girl had made a fool of him,” said Connie with great contempt. “The Dutch set him a honey trap, my dear, and he barged in with his eyes wide shut.”"
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "4115-1",
    "Idiom": [
      "honey-mouthed"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Having a sweet and smooth voice.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Truely, when I reade a Sermon of Chrysostome, or of Chrysologus, or of Ambrose, Men, who carry in the very signification of their Names, and in their Histories, the attributes of Hony mouthed, and Golden-mouthed Men, I finde my selfe oftentimes, more affected, with the very Citation, and Application of some sentence of Scripture, in the middest or end of one of their Sermons, then with any witty, or forcible passage of their owne.",
      "they had much profitable conversation, McCampbell quoting the doctrines of a rabbi called John Calvin, and our grandfather’s grandfather replying with Talmud and Torah till McCampbell would almost weep that such a honey-mouthed scholar should be destined to eternal damnation."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "4115-2",
    "Idiom": [
      "honey-mouthed"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Indirectly delivering a message to make it sound more pleasant or persuasive.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Now to thintent thou mayest playnly beholde and Iudge rightly of these hony mouthed false feynyng flatterours and auncient enemyes of Christes religion the better and more readily",
      "He must be told on’t, and he shall: the office Becomes a woman best; I’ll take’t upon me: If I prove honey-mouth’d let my tongue blister And never to my red-look’d anger be The trumpet any more.",
      "“ Tryan’s sermons [are] not at all what I expected—dull, stupid things—nothing of the roaring fire-and-brimstone sort that I expected.”"
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "4116",
    "Idiom": [
      "honor in the breach"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Demonstrates a rule by breaking it.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Hamlet: Ay, marry, is't: But to my mind, though I am native here And to the manner born, it is a custom More honour'd in the breach than the observance.",
      "Many religious precepts are honoured in the breach."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "4117",
    "Idiom": [
      "honorable mention"
    ],
    "Meaning": "An award for noteworthy performance without achieving a higher standing.",
    "Sentence": [
      "How good are DCGs from a linguistic perspective? Well, mixed. At one stage (in the early 1980s) they were pretty much state of the art. They made it possible to code complex grammars in a clear way, and to explore the interplay of syntactic and semantic ideas. Certainly any history of parsing in computational linguistics would give DCGs an honourable mention."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "4118",
    "Idiom": [
      "hook it"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To depart in a hurry.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Duncan was wounded, and the escort hooked it.",
      "‘Did she cry?’ ‘She began to, but I can't stand women when they cry, so I said she'd better hook it.’"
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "4119-1",
    "Idiom": [
      "hook up"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To supply someone with goods or services.",
    "Sentence": [
      "That guy didn't get his ticket; can you hook him up for me?",
      "Hey man, can you hook me up with some weed?",
      "He's been hooking me up for years.",
      "When you need a new car, come see me, I can hook you up with friend prices."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "4119-2",
    "Idiom": [
      "hook up"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To provide someone with goods or services.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "4119-3",
    "Idiom": [
      "hook up"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To sell contraband.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "4119-4",
    "Idiom": [
      "hook up"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To give a good deal or more than expected.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "4120-1",
    "Idiom": [
      "hoover up"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To consume quickly, often without cutlery.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "4120-2",
    "Idiom": [
      "hoover up"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To avidly absorb something.",
    "Sentence": [
      "a deputy governor of China’s central bank pointed out that China no longer hoovers up dollar reserves with its past abandon.",
      "Essentially, the problem dates back to pre-privatisation, cost-driven British Rail practices which featured an unholy pact between management and unions, whereby management was able to employ fewer drivers and limited pension cost liabilities, while drivers were able to hoover up lots of lucrative Sunday overtime."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "4121",
    "Idiom": [
      "hop off"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To back off.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "4122",
    "Idiom": [
      "hop the wag"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To play truant.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "4123",
    "Idiom": [
      "hop up"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To improve or enhance something.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "4124",
    "Idiom": [
      "hope against hope"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To hope despite unlikely outcomes.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "4125",
    "Idiom": [
      "hope springs eternal",
      "while there's life, there's hope",
      "hope springs eternal in the human breast"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Hopefulness endlessly renews itself.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Night after night his disappointment is acute, but hope springs eternal in the scholastic breast, and he follows me again to-morrow.",
      "But, as hope springs eternal in the human breast, he still goes from doctor to doctor for fresh advice.",
      "But hope springs eternal in diehard Tiger fans, and Peter is convinced that someday, somehow, he and his son will see Detroit clinch a championship."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "4126",
    "Idiom": [
      "hopping mad"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Extremely angry.",
    "Sentence": [
      "\"And you hit him? dear old Father Bhaer?\" \"I was hopping mad at the time, and thought I shouldn't mind a bit, rather like it perhaps. But when I'd hit uncle one good crack I couldn't go on. I felt so mean.\"",
      "Dora wouldn't help me make pies 'cause she was afraid of messing her clo'es and that made me hopping mad.",
      "The biggest press news in Washington last week was that the \"White House gang\" — the little group of reporters whose beat is covering the President — was hopping mad at Franklin Roosevelt. Most of them felt that the President had played them for suckers and they were no happier when other newsmen rubbed it in.",
      "Rhonda L. Gaynier, a New York lawyer, is hopping mad because, she says, getting on an airplane these days means being groped by a stranger.",
      "He was hopping mad when he came home and discovered that she had bought a new car without consulting him."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "4127",
    "Idiom": [
      "horizontal dancing"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Sexual intercourse.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "4128",
    "Idiom": [
      "horizontal jogging"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Sexual intercourse.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Sex in those days was regarded not so much as a playful sport, horizontal jogging it might be, as an unspeakable obsession needing pseudo-new assistance, the sin that dare not speak its name except in obscure, allusive, Latinate verbiage.",
      "Yes, I understand that the current expression is horizontal jogging, Minister.",
      "His sports were team games like football and basketball, not to mention horizontal jogging."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "4129",
    "Idiom": [
      "horizontal mambo"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Sexual intercourse.",
    "Sentence": [
      "She says Peters continually harassed her, touching her breasts and buttocks, tried to push her onto a bed when he was naked, tried to kiss her breasts and offered her money for the horizontal mambo."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "4130",
    "Idiom": [
      "horizontal refreshments"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Sexual intercourse.",
    "Sentence": [
      "The cold, during the winter night, is very severe, and the sentinels are frequently obliged to be relieved every half-hour, and the officers, so long as they possess the \"prima flora juvenus,\" may enjoy horizontal refreshments in peace; but when they obtained those manly appendages, yclept whiskers, find that turing in bed becomes hopeless, and being \"brought up with a round turn,\" discover that they have become frozen to the sheets.",
      "Here at The Federalist, we talk about sex a lot as is. Join us this week for some additional fun and deep-thinking about, well, you know — dancing in the sheets, horizontal refreshments, the beast with two backs, Blitzkrieg mit dem fleischgewehr, gland to gland combat, and more."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "4131",
    "Idiom": [
      "horizontal tango"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Sexual intercourse.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Researchers spoke to 312 men between the ages of 20 and 40 at a San Diego urology clinic and found that 3.4 percent of men preferred flying solo with co-pilot porn to a horizontal tango with a partner."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "4132",
    "Idiom": [
      "horror show"
    ],
    "Meaning": "A horrifying or appalling experience.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Colleen Fallscheer, a cheerful 40-year-old mother of two from Waterford, Mich., is living proof that breast-cancer therapy is not the horror show it used to be.",
      "A good start, a strong finish, but it was a Scotland horror show in the middle as the team flirted with Rugby World Cup humiliation.",
      "Survivors waded through a horror show of corpse-filled waters."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "4133",
    "Idiom": [
      "horse and rabbit stew"
    ],
    "Meaning": "A mixture of crude and delicate elements, with the crude dominating.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Also, in alleging that nonmarket parameters are not measurable, in some sense, proponents of the argument from horse and rabbit stew appear to forget that...",
      "a Filipino representative at the Greenlake, 1981 conference said that the ‘…partnership is often like the proverbial “ horse and rabbit stew ” supposedly mixed in equal proportions, that is, one horse to one rabbit.'"
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "4134",
    "Idiom": [
      "horse armor"
    ],
    "Meaning": "A cosmetic microtransaction in a video game considered poor value.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "4135",
    "Idiom": [
      "horse around"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To engage in playful or silly behavior.",
    "Sentence": [
      "As Norah Jones coos sweet nothings on the soundtrack, the happy couple—played by Paul Rudd and Amy Poehler —canoodle through a Manhattan montage, making pasta for two, swimming through a pile of autumn leaves, and horsing around at a fruit stand.",
      "A novel about writing a novel; a narrator who is and is not the author; general metafictional horsing around reflecting both the author’s and reader’s ambivalence about the novel.",
      "\"Genghis Khan! Abe Lincoln! That’s funny until someone gets hurt.\" But Genghis Khan and Lincoln keep horsing around.",
      "I told him that if I passed out before we got to a hospital I wanted him to see to it that no quack horsed around with my leg.",
      "Can we quit horsing around and get some work done?",
      "Stop horsing around with the controls, before you break something."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "4136",
    "Idiom": [
      "horse of a different color"
    ],
    "Meaning": "An unrelated matter with different significance.",
    "Sentence": [
      "\"Against physical danger I am willing to offer myself at any time to your Highness.... But to walk straight into jail, with my eyes open, that's a horse of a different color.\""
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "4137-1",
    "Idiom": [
      "horse opera"
    ],
    "Meaning": "A western.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Three new examples of Hollywood's staple commodity, the horse opera, all filmed in color, contain the full quota of galloping and gunplay.",
      "It's in this horse-opera mode that War For The Planet Of The Apes finds its most rewarding rhythms: in the parallels between Caesar's woodland stronghold and the archetypal frontier settlements of Western fiction;"
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "4137-2",
    "Idiom": [
      "horse opera"
    ],
    "Meaning": "An equestrian show.",
    "Sentence": [
      "The Ravels, after having played a successful engagement at the Metropolitan, closed last evening, and sail to-day for New-Orleans, and now we have no amusement but nigger minstrels and the horse opera — i.e., circus.",
      "Nor is it much easier to give the analysis of this extraordinary odyssey, which relates the trials, sufferings, and adventures of an ex-Sous-Prefêt, who has married a circus rider, and has abandoned home, friends, and position, to become the manager of an itinerant horse-opera."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "4138-1",
    "Idiom": [
      "horse pill"
    ],
    "Meaning": "A large medicinal pill that is difficult to swallow.",
    "Sentence": [
      "I'm lucky enough to remember to take my horse pill, much less drop it into a glass and wait 45 minutes.",
      "I do know that I feel better when I remember to take my multivitamin, iron and vitamin D supplements, and the occasional fish oil horse pill."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "4138-2",
    "Idiom": [
      "horse pill"
    ],
    "Meaning": "A difficult fact or claim to accept.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Even pro-Soviet Communists will find the Geneva accord a difficult horse pill to swallow.",
      "Mac Carey, an aide to leading tax-cut crusaders in Congress, called the draft language in Reagan's radio speech \"a horse pill. It's very difficult to swallow.\"",
      "Officials know that if this year's budget is a bitter pill to swallow, next year's will be a bitter horse pill.",
      "They need to swallow that big horse pill that is the West Virginia loss, forget about it and re-focus this week."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "4139-1",
    "Idiom": [
      "horse's ass"
    ],
    "Meaning": "A jerk or unpleasant person.",
    "Sentence": [
      "At the party he behaved like a real horse's ass."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "4139-2",
    "Idiom": [
      "horse's ass"
    ],
    "Meaning": "A visually unappealing thing or person.",
    "Sentence": [
      "That is one horse's ass of a paint job."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "4140",
    "Idiom": [
      "horse's mouth"
    ],
    "Meaning": "An authentic source.",
    "Sentence": [
      "I thought it would be quicker to hear it from the horse's mouth."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "4141",
    "Idiom": [
      "horses for courses"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Different people are suited for different situations.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Not long ago, a group of Thames-side penthouses went up for sale with giveaway Ducati motorbikes worth £13,000 apiece. \"In many cases giveaways are horses for courses, the inducements matching the styles of properties being marketed,\" he [David Hollingworth of London and Country Mortgages] adds.",
      "Far be it from me to judge what anyone else finds attractive – each to their own, horses for courses, beauty is in the eye of the beholder, and any number of similar well-meaning platitudes – but no one's going to start arguing forcefully that Mick [Hucknall ]'s ever been 'classically handsome'.",
      "Emailed greeting cards and digital photos may be more acceptable now, but are not a substitute for the post on every occasion. \"People will still want to pour their heart out in letter or want that special photo of a grandchild. It's horses for courses,\" he [Alki Manias of NetValue] said.",
      "However intense music becomes, there's always a limit to how far it can go. And that limit is marked out by its genre or style. It's an age-old rule, this insistence on \" horses for courses \", but in the modern era many musicians have become impatient with it. They dream of a music that knows no limits, which can do everything, all at once.",
      "We must note, too, the good position (third) gained by Esmond as an undeniable instance of the \" horses for courses \" theory, for Esmond won the Peverill of the Peek Plate on this course two years in succession—1892–3.",
      "Almost immediately he went on to press for stricter standardisation in the future, saying that \" horses for courses \" was a luxury B.R. could not afford and that manufacturers must expect more detailed specifications from railway engineers in the future."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "4142",
    "Idiom": [
      "horseshoe up one's ass"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Exceptionally favorable luck.",
    "Sentence": [
      "But Mary Ziganetti shook her head. \"Teresa never had the luck. Some people, they got a horseshoe up their ass, but not Teresa.\"",
      "METALLICA frontman James Hetfield once observed that Mustaine must have been born with a horseshoe up his ass. That's how lucky he has been.",
      "The next thing I knew, she'd run off to the roulette table, slapped some of her money down on the number 22, and the rest was history. This girl had a major horseshoe up her ass. Nineteen-thousand dollars."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "4143",
    "Idiom": [
      "hose down"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To calm down a person or situation.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "4144",
    "Idiom": [
      "hot air"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Empty talk lacking meaning or substance.",
    "Sentence": [
      "\"You'll never get anywhere so long as youse trail with that reform bunch. It's all hot air and tomfool theory.\"",
      "\"You give me a lot of hot air about your conscience. Why don't you get a soap-box and preach on the street-corners?\"",
      "Some of the steam in Washington rises from real issues, but a lot is the hot air of partisan politics.",
      "Klein diagnoses impressively what hasn’t worked. No more claptrap about fracked gas as a bridge to renewables. Enough already of the international summit meetings that produce sirocco-quality hot air, and nonbinding agreements that bind us all to more emissions.",
      "I'm afraid I must disagree with Sir Michael Holden, for whom I have enormous respect, when he wrote in RAIL 977 that Transport Secretary Mark Harper's keynote speech for the George Bradshaw lecture in February was \"a breath of fresh air\". More like hot air to me, given Harper's emphasis on the private sector through both a kind of renewed franchising model and open access."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "4145-1",
    "Idiom": [
      "hot and bothered"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Aggravated or irritated.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "4145-2",
    "Idiom": [
      "hot and bothered"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Sexually aroused.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "4146",
    "Idiom": [
      "hot and cold"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Ambivalent; conflicting emotions.",
    "Sentence": [
      "They went hot and cold about the proposal for a whole year, before finally saying no."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "4147",
    "Idiom": [
      "hot and heavy"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Passionate.",
    "Sentence": [
      "They had a hot and heavy love affair during the summer.",
      "The argument was hot and heavy."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "4148",
    "Idiom": [
      "hot desking"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Sharing desks or workstations among workers.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Hot desking just requires the ability to obtain a desk and log onto a computer in a shared office environment."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "4149-1",
    "Idiom": [
      "hot hand"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Refers to a player on a successful scoring streak.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "4149-2",
    "Idiom": [
      "hot hand"
    ],
    "Meaning": "A streak of good luck.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "4150",
    "Idiom": [
      "hot off the presses"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Freshly created or published.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "4151-1",
    "Idiom": [
      "hot on",
      "hot on the trail"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Enthusiastic for.",
    "Sentence": [
      "He is hot on white-water rafting."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "4152-2",
    "Idiom": [
      "hot on"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Knowledgeable about.",
    "Sentence": [
      "He is hot on Anglo-Saxon history."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "4152-3",
    "Idiom": [
      "hot on"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Skilled at.",
    "Sentence": [
      "He is hot on mental arithmetic."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "4153",
    "Idiom": [
      "hot on someone's heels"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Pursuing or following closely.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Newcastle beat Bolton to increase the pressure on the Londoners, while Chelsea are also hot on the heels of faltering Tottenham, who have one win from their last eight games.",
      "Hot on the heels of Network Rail remodelling King's Cross comes news of cuts to East Coast Main Line services.",
      "She left the restaurant with him hot on her heels."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "4154",
    "Idiom": [
      "hot potato"
    ],
    "Meaning": "An awkward or delicate problem that people avoid.",
    "Sentence": [
      "The “lame duck” Johnson Administration, in its final fortnight in office, grappled last week with a diplomatic hot potato in the form of the latest Soviet proposal for a “just and lasting” Middle East peace settlement.",
      "How do you handle the work of a woman out on leave, yet not lose a valuable employee down the road? At the same time, companies know this is a hot potato, and they have to do something.",
      "Full connectivity returned 72 hours later, but the issue has become a hot potato in the US."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "4155",
    "Idiom": [
      "hot shit"
    ],
    "Meaning": "An exceptionally impressive person or thing.",
    "Sentence": [
      "There are some Jim Dandys in this business who think they are hot shit with their stay-pressed suits and their lifestyle research computer info, who will try to tell you what to do.",
      "I have been called hot shit before, never knew what hot shit was, better than cold shit I guess.",
      "Jolie knows she's hot shit right now and next year, at this time, she will probably be hotter shit.",
      "You think you're pretty hot shit, don't you?\""
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "4156-1",
    "Idiom": [
      "hot stuff"
    ],
    "Meaning": "An attractive person.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Hey, hot stuff, wanna dance?"
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "4156-2",
    "Idiom": [
      "hot stuff"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Something excellent or exciting.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Both teams think they're hot stuff this year."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "4156-3",
    "Idiom": [
      "hot stuff"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Hot bitumen used by roofers.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "4157-1",
    "Idiom": [
      "hot under the collar"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Angry or agitated.",
    "Sentence": [
      "\"Oh, cut it,\" said Steve wearily. \"... I don't want to listen to drivel like that.\" \"Drivel?\" repeated the other, puzzled. \"... I don't see why you need to get so hot under the collar.",
      "\"What do you mean, sir?\" cried the old boy, getting purple.... \"Now don't get hot under the collar. I'm only asking. I've a right to know.\"",
      "The Tennessee Football fans who couldn't buy Sugar Bowl tickets were furious, but it's a toss-up whether they were any hotter under the collar than some of those who got them.",
      "A controversial history textbook has IFP members hot under the collar and has resulted in two protest marches being scheduled for KwaZulu-Natal on Wednesday.",
      "The prime minister had earlier sought to row back from the Savile claims on Thursday, saying “a lot of people have got very hot under the collar ”."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "4157-2",
    "Idiom": [
      "hot under the collar"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Angry or agitated.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "4158-1",
    "Idiom": [
      "hot water"
    ],
    "Meaning": "A dangerous situation.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Both students are in hot water from fighting."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "4158-2",
    "Idiom": [
      "hot water"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Fierce criticism.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Zuckerberg got into hot water on Wednesday when he stated that Facebook wouldn’t necessarily remove Holocaust deniers from its platform because people “get things wrong” and because it’s not always possible to understand the deniers’ intent.",
      "The government's new proposal has landed them in hot water."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "4159",
    "Idiom": [
      "hotter than a pistol"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Exceptionally popular or marketable.",
    "Sentence": [
      "\"Carl Perkins and I were in Amory, Mississippi, with Elvis. Now Elvis, of course, was hotter than a pistol. He had his second record out.\"",
      "Leasing activity is frenzied throughout Manhattan.... \"Broadway is hotter than a pistol and you have to shoehorn your way into SoHo,\" reports Faith H. Consolo.",
      "Joey Logano, who's hotter than a pistol, won the NASCAR Chase race at Kansas Sunday."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "4160",
    "Idiom": [
      "house cooling party"
    ],
    "Meaning": "A party to celebrate leaving a home.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "4161",
    "Idiom": [
      "house nigger"
    ],
    "Meaning": "A subservient or acculturated black person.",
    "Sentence": [
      "\"You look like a house nigger.\""
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "4162",
    "Idiom": [
      "house of God"
    ],
    "Meaning": "A church.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Young man, that is not at all a way to act in a house of God."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "4163",
    "Idiom": [
      "house of cards"
    ],
    "Meaning": "A structure built on a shaky foundation.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "4164",
    "Idiom": [
      "house of ill fame"
    ],
    "Meaning": "A brothel.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Thirty men were arrested July 26 and charged with \"open and gross lewdness\" in an early-morning vice squad raid on the Quagmire bar basement. Police also arrested the bar's manager, Barcaly Churchill, and owner, Lloyd Swanson, charging them with a number of counts, including the keeping of a house of ill fame and the dissemination of obscene matter."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "4165",
    "Idiom": [
      "house poor"
    ],
    "Meaning": "In financial difficulty due to high home ownership costs.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "4166-1",
    "Idiom": [
      "how are you"
    ],
    "Meaning": "An informal greeting.",
    "Sentence": [
      "I'm very well, thank you. How are you ? (formal) I'm fine, thank you. / Fine, thanks. (informal) / Fine, and you? (informal)"
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "4166-2",
    "Idiom": [
      "how are you"
    ],
    "Meaning": "An expression of derision.",
    "Sentence": [
      "'Christmas how are you !' exclaimed Jim O'Hanlon ruefully. 'We will remember this one for quite a while anyway.' He was grateful that at least no one was injured in the incident."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "4167",
    "Idiom": [
      "how come"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Why; for what reason or purpose?",
    "Sentence": [
      "How come you didn’t leave when you had the chance?"
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "4168",
    "Idiom": [
      "how goes it"
    ],
    "Meaning": "An informal greeting.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Here comes the Lady Paulina's Steward: hee can deliuer you more. How goes it now (Sir.)",
      "‘Scotty, man, how goes it ?’ Bennie said, patting me warmly on the back as we shook hands."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "4169-1",
    "Idiom": [
      "how so"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Asks for clarification or explanation.",
    "Sentence": [
      "I'm feeling really depressed. ― How so ?"
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "4169-2",
    "Idiom": [
      "how so"
    ],
    "Meaning": "For what reason.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Yet how so ere I love, I must be wife.",
      "That picture wasn't much to look at, being so old and all, but Mrs. Oaks made like it looked so nice; or, that's what she said as she stared at it, looking back and forth at the picture and me like it wasn't so. Only, she just didn't know how so it wasn't. It wasn't me at all.",
      "My reflection in you warbled, because you see only hints, of what I see to beacon of me. Who am I who is reflecting from you? How so do I identify my soul in you?"
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "4170",
    "Idiom": [
      "how you get them is how you lose them"
    ],
    "Meaning": "How a relationship begins reflects how it will end.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "4171",
    "Idiom": [
      "how's the weather"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Indicates a change of subject to trivial topics.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "4172",
    "Idiom": [
      "how's tricks"
    ],
    "Meaning": "An informal greeting.",
    "Sentence": [
      "He was smoking a cigar (a most unusual occurrence), and a smile of satisfaction lit up his serene countenance. \" How's tricks, Harry my boy?\" I asked of that gentleman."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "4173",
    "Idiom": [
      "howl at the moon"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To engage in a futile or hopeless endeavor.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "4174",
    "Idiom": [
      "huckleberry above a persimmon"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Someone or something that is superior.",
    "Sentence": [
      "\"He's a huckleberry above a persimmon, for sure,\" Katherine said, following her gaze. \"I hear tell he broke a lot of hearts in San Antone when he married you.\""
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "4175",
    "Idiom": [
      "huckleberry above one's persimmon"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Something beyond one's power or ability.",
    "Sentence": [
      "still it is a huckleberry above my persimmon to cipher out how it is with six months' schooling only"
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "4176",
    "Idiom": [
      "hugs and kisses"
    ],
    "Meaning": "An informal sign-off for a loved one.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "4177",
    "Idiom": [
      "hum and haw"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To procrastinate or delay a decision.",
    "Sentence": [
      "We hummed and hawed before finally deciding to buy this house."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "4178-1",
    "Idiom": [
      "human touch"
    ],
    "Meaning": "The ability to interact with empathy and warmth.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Some politicians lack the human touch to connect with voters."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "4178-2",
    "Idiom": [
      "human touch"
    ],
    "Meaning": "The positive qualities of humans in a place or object.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Before the renovation the hotel lacked the human touch to attract visitors."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "4179",
    "Idiom": [
      "humble pie"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Humility.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Talking of piemen, humble-pie before proud-cake for me. This notion of being lone and lofty is a sad mistake."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "4180",
    "Idiom": [
      "hunger is a good sauce"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Hunger makes one less concerned about food taste.",
    "Sentence": [
      "His bread and cheese were somewhat dry, to be sure; his ale had become flat, and considerably warmer than was desirable; but hunger is a good sauce, and thirst is not particular."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "4181",
    "Idiom": [
      "hunger is the best pickle",
      "hunger is the best seasoning",
      "hunger is the best spice"
    ],
    "Meaning": "When hungry, anything tastes good.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "4182",
    "Idiom": [
      "hunger is the best sauce"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Being hungry makes one less concerned about food's taste.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "4183",
    "Idiom": [
      "hunger sauce"
    ],
    "Meaning": "An enticing flavor or aroma in food.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "4184-1",
    "Idiom": [
      "hunker down"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To take shelter or focus on a task.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Imagine that you are in a storm; you would not shake your fists at the clouds and the rain and yell, “Stop it, stop it NOW! This is unacceptable.” You would hunker down for safety and wait until it passes.",
      "If you are on a higher level and can't get to a lower apartment, hunker down in the breezeway of the apartment building",
      "If you didn’t secure a partner before coronavirus hit, you’re staring down weeks without snuggles or kisses “until further notice,” as the shuttered eateries and storefronts ominously posted.¶ “I have no one to hunker down with,” I texted my mom.",
      "Early in the pandemic, there was speculation that the major changes in the life of American families could lead to a recovery in the birthrate, as couples hunkered down together.",
      "Whitney, mother of Xavier, is a real estate titan who, along with her British husband, has found her niche selling luxurious underground bunkers to wealthy clients looking for a safe space to hunker down in the event of a climate apocalypse.",
      "That test is worth half your grade, so you'd better hunker down and start studying."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "4184-2",
    "Idiom": [
      "hunker down"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To stubbornly hold a position.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "4185",
    "Idiom": [
      "hunt where the ducks are"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Seek opportunities where they are most likely to be found.",
    "Sentence": [
      "In determining the content of his telecast [Richard] Nixon had, in the vernacular, chosen to hunt where the ducks were, i.e., he made his pitch to that vast television audience which had long shown a preference for the “I Love Lucy” show over the more erudite forms of television fare.",
      "With his education policy Buckley went “ hunting where the ducks were,” knowing that his anti-busing position and neighborhood schools program would warm the hearts of whites fearful of African-American encroachment in their neighborhoods.",
      "I wish you had pushed your history back a few years, to Barry Goldwater’s remark following his defeat in ’64 that his fellow Republicans should hunt where the ducks are — by which he meant, look for votes among southern whites who were Democrats, but who were unhappy that the Democratic party had embraced the civil rights movement.",
      "It's a curious strategy for a Liberal leader to focus on the West when, to paraphrase former premier Ralph Klein, he would be better off hunting where the ducks are. There's got to be stronger growth potential from hard-selling the brand in Ontario.",
      "The governor is requesting funds... to boost tax collections and examinations of tax returns, particularly those filed by major corporations operating in multiple states.... \"You hunt where the ducks are,\" said Robert Bliss, Department of Revenue spokesman.",
      "John Sides, Michael Tesler, and Lynn Vavreck show that [Donald] Trump ’s distinctive commingling of economic and cultural grievances, and particularly his hawkish views on migration, appealed to a significant portion of the party’s rank-and-file base—a cohort that had been visible for years before the billionaire declared his candidacy. As these authors put it, Trump “simply hunted where the ducks are ” better than any of his rivals."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "4186-1",
    "Idiom": [
      "hurler on the ditch"
    ],
    "Meaning": "A person giving unsolicited advice from the sidelines.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "4186-2",
    "Idiom": [
      "hurler on the ditch"
    ],
    "Meaning": "An opinionated person who gives unsolicited advice.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "4187",
    "Idiom": [
      "hurrah's nest"
    ],
    "Meaning": "A state of chaos and confusion.",
    "Sentence": [
      "A perfect hurrah's nest in our kitchen.",
      "\"What's all this hurrah's-nest for'ard?\" said Dan, pointing to a wild tangle of spare oars and dory-roding, all matted together by the hand of inexperience."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "4188",
    "Idiom": [
      "hurry up and wait"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To rush for little or no result due to unmet requirements.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "4189",
    "Idiom": [
      "hurt a fly"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To harm anything, even slightly.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Talking of being eaten by dogs, there's a dachshund at Brinkley who when you first meet him will give you the impression that he plans to convert you into a light snack between his regular meals. Pay no attention. It's all eyewash. He wouldn't hurt a fly, but he has to put up a front because his name's Poppet. One can readily appreciate that when a dog hears himself addressed day in and day out as Poppet, he feels he must throw his weight about. His self-respect demands it."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "4190",
    "Idiom": [
      "hurt people hurt people"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Hurt people tend to inflict hurt on others.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "4191",
    "Idiom": [
      "hurt someone's feelings"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To emotionally hurt someone.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "4192",
    "Idiom": [
      "hustle and bustle"
    ],
    "Meaning": "A large amount of noisy activity.",
    "Sentence": [
      "He moved to his parents' farm to have a break from the hustle and bustle of the big city."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "4193-1",
    "Idiom": [
      "hutch up"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To move slightly to create space for someone.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "4193-2",
    "Idiom": [
      "hutch up"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To share living space with another person.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "4193-3",
    "Idiom": [
      "hutch up"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To adopt a more heterosexual manner for acceptance.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "4194",
    "Idiom": [
      "hydrate or diedrate"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Encourages drinking enough water to avoid dehydration.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "4195",
    "Idiom": [
      "ice cool"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Calm and composed under pressure.",
    "Sentence": [
      "The ice cool Van der Vaart placed the kick in exactly the same place and beat Jaaskelainen again but Clattenburg ordered a retake for encroachment, with replays showing that Jermain Defoe and Wilson Palacios had strayed into the area before the ball was struck."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "4196",
    "Idiom": [
      "ice maiden"
    ],
    "Meaning": "A beautiful but heartless woman.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "4197",
    "Idiom": [
      "ice queen"
    ],
    "Meaning": "A beautiful but heartless woman.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Miss O'Neil's duplicitous power-mad ice queen epitomizes cruel hauteur with a streak of lethal saccharine—she is a nightmare stepmother.",
      "Rice has never been the robot she plays on national television. She built the image the public has of her as an ice queen stuck on repeat. It’s the downside of her extreme loyalty to Bush.",
      "If I think money matters, I must be a heartless ice queen who can't take care of herself.",
      "Wilson: Log Update: I can't figure Miranda out. As project director, she should be ecstatic at all the progress we've made. But she's still the same old ice queen. Wilson: Maybe she's worried Shepard might become the new favorite. Or maybe she's just a pure, cold-hearted bitch.",
      "It was there—after she fired most of the staff—that Fleet Street began to paint [Anna Wintour] as an ice queen."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "4198-1",
    "Idiom": [
      "ice-calm"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Extremely calm.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "4198-2",
    "Idiom": [
      "ice-calm"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Extreme calm.",
    "Sentence": [
      "There was no distracting Rosol's ice-calm as he killed the fifth set and match. Ace, cross-court forehand winner, ace, forehand winner – a blistering eighth game took him to 5-3 and informed Nadal precisely how nerveless the Czech was."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "4199",
    "Idiom": [
      "icing on the cake"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Something that enhances an already good situation.",
    "Sentence": [
      "“I'm happy right now. I don't need to test-drive a bunch of lemons to get me there. But happily ever after? That's a trip worth taking. The pièce de résistance. The crème de la crème. The—” “ The icing on the cake,” Dana said. Michelle raised her glass in a toast. “Exactly.”",
      "We went out for dinner and dancing and the icing on the cake was when my boyfriend proposed to me as we danced."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "4200",
    "Idiom": [
      "idiot box"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Television.",
    "Sentence": [
      "During the long, dreary, wet winter I amused myself by watching college and Pro basketball on the idiot box."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "4201",
    "Idiom": [
      "idiot mittens"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Mittens connected by string to prevent loss, typically worn by small children.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "4202",
    "Idiom": [
      "idle hands are the devil's tools",
      "idle hands are the devil's playthings",
      "the devil makes work for idle hands",
      "idle hands are the devil's workshop"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Idleness can lead to negative behavior.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "4203",
    "Idiom": [
      "if I'm honest"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To be honest.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "4204",
    "Idiom": [
      "if I'm not there, start without me"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Indicates lack of interest in attending.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "4205-2",
    "Idiom": [
      "if all you have is a hammer, everything looks like a nail"
    ],
    "Meaning": "A tendency to apply one solution to all problems based on limited experience or tools.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "4206-1",
    "Idiom": [
      "if anything"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Suggests that something may be the case, often contrary to previous implications.",
    "Sentence": [
      "My sensitivity to the crystals has, if anything, increased. I have to spend a great deal of energy just keeping myself together, because my impulse is to blast the damn things to flinders.",
      "\"Then Lieutenant Pullman didn't express uncertainties about any aspect of his primary responsibility or of his other duties onboard the ship?\" / \"No. If anything, he acted like he was bored by instruction and training. As if he already knew everything. You know the type.\"",
      "The situation is, if anything, worsening rather than improving.",
      "“Do you think she’s tall?” / “Oh, no. If anything, she’s short.”",
      "“Do you think she’s tall?” / “Oh, yes. If anything, she’s very tall.”"
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "4206-2",
    "Idiom": [
      "if anything"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Used in questions when the speaker is uncertain about the listener's knowledge.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Question. What, if anything, did the Indians say respecting their ability to procure the white captives then in possession of the Sioux? Answer. That they thought it would be difficult to do so,",
      "What are values in the first place? What, if anything, make value judgments correct or incorrect?",
      "What can you tell me, if anything, about this book?"
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "4207",
    "Idiom": [
      "if at first you don't succeed"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Persistence is important for success.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "4208",
    "Idiom": [
      "if at first you don't succeed, try try again"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Emphasizes the importance of persistence.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "4209",
    "Idiom": [
      "if it ain't broke, don't fix it",
      "if it ain't busted, don't fix it",
      "don't change a winning team",
      "don't mess with success"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Leave something alone if it is already sufficient.",
    "Sentence": [
      "I know it’s an ugly-looking antenna, but it gets the job done, and if it ain't broke, don't fix it."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "4210",
    "Idiom": [
      "if it looks like a duck, swims like a duck, and quacks like a duck, then it probably is a duck"
    ],
    "Meaning": "A subject can be identified by its characteristics.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "4211",
    "Idiom": [
      "if it works, it works"
    ],
    "Meaning": "The outcome is more important than the action itself.",
    "Sentence": [
      "My front bumper is currently only held on by duct tape, but, hey, if it works, it works !"
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "4212",
    "Idiom": [
      "if it's all the same"
    ],
    "Meaning": "If it makes no difference.",
    "Sentence": [
      "“Well, am I goin' your way, or are you comin' mine?” he asked. “I'll come with you, if it's all the same,” said Miss Moss. And she sailed after the little yacht out of the café.",
      "If it's all the same to you, I'd prefer to stay at a hotel instead of at your house."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "4213",
    "Idiom": [
      "if looks could kill"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Characterizes a look of strong hostility.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "4214",
    "Idiom": [
      "if need be"
    ],
    "Meaning": "If necessary.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "4215",
    "Idiom": [
      "if needs be"
    ],
    "Meaning": "If there is a need.",
    "Sentence": [
      "I have fought against white domination, and I have fought against black domination. I have cherished the ideal of a democratic and free society in which all persons live together in harmony and with equal opportunities. It is an ideal which I hope to live for and to achieve. But if needs be, it is an ideal for which I am prepared to die."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "4216",
    "Idiom": [
      "if nothing else"
    ],
    "Meaning": "At the very least.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Briefly, they had threatened to turn the game upside-down after Wayne Rooney ’s first-ever World Cup goal made it 1-1 after 75 minutes. If nothing else, England had shown perseverance but, then again England always show qualities of endurance."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "4217-1",
    "Idiom": [
      "if only"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Signifies a wish or desire for something.",
    "Sentence": [
      "If only I could win the lottery.",
      "My gambling ex could come to his senses, if only."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "4217-2",
    "Idiom": [
      "if only"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Signifies regret about a past action.",
    "Sentence": [
      "If only I had ​listened to my parents.",
      "We didn't have that luxury. If only !"
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "4217-3",
    "Idiom": [
      "if only"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Expresses longing or regret for something that is not the case.",
    "Sentence": [
      "I was pretty sure what I wanted, but I still tried on another if only to make sure."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "4217-4",
    "Idiom": [
      "if only"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Indicates a hypothetical or wishful condition for an unlikely outcome.",
    "Sentence": [
      "He could be a great student if only he got [ or: if he only got] a little non-judgmental encouragement.",
      "If you'd only quit interrupting me, I'll tell you!"
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "4218",
    "Idiom": [
      "if pigs had wings"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Impossible.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "4219",
    "Idiom": [
      "if pigs had wings they would fly"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Expresses skepticism toward a hypothetical argument.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "4220",
    "Idiom": [
      "if the mountain won't come to Muhammad",
      "if the mountain won't come to mohammed",
      "if the mountain won't come to muhammad, then muhammad must go to the mountain",
      "as the mountain could not wait upon mahomet, mahomet would go to the mountain"
    ],
    "Meaning": "If something cannot be done as desired, find another way to achieve your goal.",
    "Sentence": [
      "It was obvious that, if Opec was going to survive much longer, it had to be taken seriously by the world’s major oil companies. So Yamani decided, if the mountain won’t come to Muhammad, Opec had somehow to impose its presence on the oil companies.",
      "On Tuesday evening he sent a message to the office of the Stamford paper, requesting that, as the \" mountain could not wait upon Mahomet, Mahomet would go to the mountain, \"—or, in other words, that the printer would call upon him, and receive an order for executing some hand-bills announcing Mr. Lambert's arrival, and his desire to see company.",
      "But for a recent work trip from his home base of Milan to the small town of Corridonia in the country’s Marche region, Zanini did something out of the ordinary: He brought along a Polaroid camera, and captured what he saw over three days of meetings, fittings and factory visits exclusively with T. (He even took a break for some chocolate.) “To extensively travel between workshops and factories is my way of doing my job: As a designer I always seek direct contact and one-to-one exchange of ideas with artisans, pattern-makers and seamstresses,” he says. “In my opinion, fashion is about teamwork, and I believe that the designer shouldn’t live aloof in his or her ivory tower... I always prefer to be on the front line!” Ancona, 11:30 a.m., Nov. 8: “More travel. It’s an ‘ If the mountain won’t come to Muhammad, then Muhammad must go to the mountain ’ kind of thing...”"
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "4221",
    "Idiom": [
      "if the shoe fits"
    ],
    "Meaning": "If it applies to you, accept it.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "4222-1",
    "Idiom": [
      "if the shoe fits, wear it"
    ],
    "Meaning": "If a description applies to you, accept it.",
    "Sentence": [
      "\"Do you mean to insult me by that?\" he roared. \" If the shoe fits, you can wear it. \" \"I'll knock you down for the insult.\""
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "4222-2",
    "Idiom": [
      "if the shoe fits, wear it"
    ],
    "Meaning": "If it applies to you, accept it.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "4223",
    "Idiom": [
      "if there's grass on the pitch, play ball",
      "if there's grass on the field, play ball"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Indicates readiness for sexual activity upon reaching puberty.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Mitchell's taste for girls ran to the barely pubescent. 'If there's grass on the field, play ball, that's what he used to say,' the 'classmate' remembered.",
      "You see the way she looks at you? What are you, some kind of faggot? She's fifteen, man. If there's grass on the field, you can play ball.",
      "The work puts him in contact with...men who offer dating advice like 'If she's old enough to bleed, she's old enough to breed' and 'If there's grass on the field, I say it's time to play ball.\" Grass refers metaphorically to female pubic hair. Doyle (2007a) 199 Cf \"When they are BIG enough, they are old enough\" and \"Old enough to BLEED, old enough to breed.\"",
      "Before I went away, I banged his fourteen-year-old sister. Took her virginity. Fool didn't have a clue. Told him I was helping her with her history homework. Try the history of popping cherries. What's your problem, superstar? If there's grass on the field, you gotta play ball."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "4224",
    "Idiom": [
      "if these walls could talk"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Denotes a location with an interesting or controversial history.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "4225",
    "Idiom": [
      "if we had some ham we could have some ham and eggs, if we had some eggs",
      "if we had ham we could have ham and eggs, if we had eggs"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Highlights the futility of a plan without necessary resources.",
    "Sentence": [
      "The situation reminds me of the statement that \" if we had ham, we could have ham and eggs — if we had eggs \" — but in a world in which there are no hens. In theory, truly secure systems are impossible.",
      "\"And if we had ham, we could have ham and eggs, if we had eggs,\" Esbeth grumped.",
      "This is the, ' If we had ham, we could have ham and eggs, if we had eggs' philosophy.... Delivering our cash to dictatorial and silly governments was bad, but even worse was delivering our big ideas about centralization, economic planning, and social justice to a country that had 120 university graduates at the time of independence.",
      "This is the \" if we had ham, we could have ham and eggs, if we had eggs \" philosophy. Or as Nzezele put it as I was leaving Dar after having given him a large and not very well-earned tip, \"When you get back to America, if you find that you have any extra money, could you send me a wristwatch?\"",
      "In some minds, optical computing was \"wishful thinking on the order of: if we had some ham we could have some ham and eggs—if we had some eggs.\"",
      "Despite the closures of Castles, the drop in profits, and the trend of overall decline, Billy Ingram joked in the General Letter of April, \" If we had some ham we could have some ham and eggs if we had some eggs. If we had enough help we could do a good business if we had something to sell.\"",
      "At this point, one is reminded of the saying, \" If we had some ham, we could have some ham and eggs— if we had some eggs.\" It does little good to know what quality professional development might look like if schools and school systems are incapable of supporting it."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "4226",
    "Idiom": [
      "if wishes were horses, beggars might ride",
      "if ifs and buts were candy and nuts, we'd all have a merry christmas",
      "if wishes were horses, beggars would ride"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Merely wishing for something has no effect.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "4227",
    "Idiom": [
      "if you aim at nothing, you'll hit it every time"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Lack of ambition leads to lack of success.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "4228",
    "Idiom": [
      "if you believe everything you read, better not to read"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Don’t always trust what you read.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "4229",
    "Idiom": [
      "if you build it, they will come"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Creating the right circumstances will achieve the desired goal.",
    "Sentence": [
      "The region may be sparsely populated now, but our new infrastructure project will surely attract tons of development and investment. If you build it, they will come.",
      "Once we got the product out, I'm sure we will see the sector skyrocket! Sure, there might be very little market demand now, but if you build it, they will come."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "4230",
    "Idiom": [
      "if you can't beat them, join them",
      "if you can't lick them, join them"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Join the stronger side instead of opposing them.",
    "Sentence": [
      "GWM seeks gay female for liberal marriage. If you can't beat them, join them!",
      "\"It don't pay to worry and try to change the world,\" he pointed out. \"I always say take things the way they are. If you can't lick 'em, join 'em.\""
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "4231",
    "Idiom": [
      "if you can't do the time, don't do the crime"
    ],
    "Meaning": "One should not act if not prepared for the consequences.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "4232",
    "Idiom": [
      "if you can't stand the heat, get out of the kitchen"
    ],
    "Meaning": "If you can't handle the pressure, don't stay in that situation.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "4233",
    "Idiom": [
      "if you find yourself in a hole, the first thing to do is stop digging",
      "when you find yourself in a hole, the first thing to do is stop digging"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Assess the situation before worsening it with further actions.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "4234",
    "Idiom": [
      "if you fly with the crows, you get shot with the crows"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Associating with undesirable people leads to being judged as one of them.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "4235",
    "Idiom": [
      "if you go far enough left, you get your guns back"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Far-left ideologies do not support firearm restrictions.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "4236",
    "Idiom": [
      "if you lie down with dogs, you get up with fleas",
      "if you lie with dogs you will get fleas"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Associating with bad individuals can lead to acquiring their negative traits.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "4237",
    "Idiom": [
      "if you pay bananas, you get monkeys",
      "if you pay peanuts, you get monkeys"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Low payment attracts unqualified workers.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "4238",
    "Idiom": [
      "if you torture the data long enough, it will confess to anything"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Statistics can be manipulated to support any conclusion.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "4239",
    "Idiom": [
      "if you want a thing done well, do it yourself"
    ],
    "Meaning": "It is better to do something oneself than to rely on others.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "4240",
    "Idiom": [
      "if you want peace, prepare for war"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Preparing for conflict can deter enemies.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "4241",
    "Idiom": [
      "ignorance is bliss"
    ],
    "Meaning": "A lack of knowledge can lead to happiness.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "4242",
    "Idiom": [
      "ignore all rules"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Breaking rules can be acceptable when beneficial.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "4243",
    "Idiom": [
      "ill doers are ill deemers"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Bad people expect bad behavior from others.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "4244",
    "Idiom": [
      "ill health"
    ],
    "Meaning": "A state of illness or poor health.",
    "Sentence": [
      "There are the engines that develop ill-health and begin to lose time, or the wagons that develop hot boxes and have to be removed, initiating delays that steadily pile up—or at worst, the weather lays its hand on the whole District.",
      "I have to cancel my holidays due to continuing ill health."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "4245",
    "Idiom": [
      "ill news spreads apace"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Bad news circulates quickly.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Aware of the too great proneness of his countrymen to ideas of despondency, knowing that ill news spreads apace, and that in an overgrown metropolis few have the opportunity of ocular demonstration of the state of the country's agriculture, this insidious letter has been written, that it might become the subject of conversation, and thus glide unawares into the ears of those who are inclined to view things on the gloomy side— If it only raise doubt, much of the writer's or his abettor's views are answered; but where it is received as fast, and thus propagated to others, every purpose he intended is fulfilled.",
      "Ill news spreads apace, nor was it long before the tale reached Ertha von Reuth.",
      "Ill news spreads apace, and I found, on returning to the stage, Miss Foote and Mrs. Edmund Phelps crying bitterly, and waiting to descend with their condolences on the poor mother when she came out of her dressing-room; but I bundled both the ladies out of the theatre, for which, of course, I was put down as an unsympathetic brute!"
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "4246",
    "Idiom": [
      "ill-gotten gains never prosper"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Dishonestly acquired wealth does not bring true happiness.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "4247",
    "Idiom": [
      "imitation is the sincerest form of flattery"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Copying someone shows admiration.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "4248",
    "Idiom": [
      "in Abraham's bosom"
    ],
    "Meaning": "No longer living.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "4249",
    "Idiom": [
      "in Dickie's meadow"
    ],
    "Meaning": "In trouble or a difficult situation.",
    "Sentence": [
      "\"Now we are in Dickie's meadow, and how are you going to get us out?\""
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "4250",
    "Idiom": [
      "in Dutch"
    ],
    "Meaning": "In trouble or disfavor.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Thirteen youthful nurses at the Worcester City Hospital enriched a local barber to the extent of $13 a few days ago when they had their hair bobbed and now the entire 13 are very much in dutch with the authorities at the hospital.",
      "“And for that amount of money you're willing to get yourself in Dutch with half the law enforcement of this county?”",
      "He got in dutch with City Manager George Schrader when he made some ill-chosen remarks.",
      "Don Juan: Well, think how you would feel if you were made to take off this mask that you are wearing. Jack Mickler: Oh, well, our masks really get us in dutch, don't they? How long you been wearing yours?"
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "4251",
    "Idiom": [
      "in a bake"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Very angry.",
    "Sentence": [
      "O, Dedalus, he cried, Doyle is in a great bake about you. Macmillan Press Ltd, paperback, 81"
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "4252",
    "Idiom": [
      "in a big way"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To a great extent or with great passion.",
    "Sentence": [
      "\"We are moving up into the northwest in a big way next year so maybe I'll have a chance to come and visit you yet.\"",
      "\"Fred got into Pumping Iron in a big way.\"",
      "\"Noah's commitment paid off in a big way when only he, his wife and sons and his son's wives were saved from the flood that destroyed the entire earth \""
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "4253",
    "Idiom": [
      "in a bind"
    ],
    "Meaning": "In a difficult situation or dilemma.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "4254-1",
    "Idiom": [
      "in a box"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Under restrictive limits or boundaries.",
    "Sentence": [
      "By virtue of the sonnet's many complications, Shakespeare put himself in a box when writing poetry."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "4254-2",
    "Idiom": [
      "in a box"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Confined or limited.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "4255",
    "Idiom": [
      "in a flash"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Instantaneously; very quickly.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Therefore its completeness, though instantaneous, was total. His realisation was in a flash, but it did not vanish like a flash.",
      "“I bet you want to come and live here in this big house in the lap of luxury with me and Biggie, don’t you?” “NO,” replied the boy in a flash.",
      "It happened so fast that it was all over in a flash."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "4256",
    "Idiom": [
      "in a foam"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Foaming at the mouth.",
    "Sentence": [
      "while the horses and mares were all in a foam, and scarcely able to breathe;"
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "4257",
    "Idiom": [
      "in a heartbeat"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Without hesitation.",
    "Sentence": [
      "“Colgate would sell Princess House in a heartbeat, if it could find a buyer,” said Bonita Austin.",
      "Sjostrom's game is predicated on strong skating. He accelerates in a heartbeat with a lightning quick stride and changes direction smoothly.",
      "If I had to do away with either handwriting or typing for the rest of my life, I'd give up handwriting in a heartbeat.",
      "If we could, we would trade it all in a heartbeat to go back in time to get our reputation back.",
      "“He’s the kind of person who would pick up the bill in a heartbeat,” she says."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "4258",
    "Idiom": [
      "in a hen's hiney"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Absolutely not.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "4259",
    "Idiom": [
      "in a jam"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To be in a difficult situation.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "4260",
    "Idiom": [
      "in a league of one's own"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Far excelling and unmatched.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "4261",
    "Idiom": [
      "in a major key"
    ],
    "Meaning": "In an expansive manner.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "4262",
    "Idiom": [
      "in a minor key"
    ],
    "Meaning": "In a restrained manner.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "4263",
    "Idiom": [
      "in a nutshell"
    ],
    "Meaning": "In summary.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Sadio Mané wasted a glorious chance in the first half and, late on, Mohamed Salah turned his shot against a post after a goal-line clearance had spun his way. That, in a nutshell, perhaps sums up the difference between Messi and the players on the next rung below – the ones who can be described as great footballers without necessarily being football greats.",
      "The yarns of seamen have a direct simplicity, the whole meaning of which lies within the shell of a cracked nut.",
      "He had a lot to say, but his answer, in a nutshell, was no."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "4264",
    "Idiom": [
      "in a pig's arse"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Absolutely not.",
    "Sentence": [
      "\"My wife and I have asked a crowd of craps To come and waste their time and ours: perhaps You'd care to join us?\" \" In a pig's arse, friend.\""
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "4265",
    "Idiom": [
      "in a pig's eye"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Under very unlikely circumstances.",
    "Sentence": [
      "“Then he planned to kill you, and take over himself as governor.” “Hah, in a pig's eye,” said Nasty Three."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "4266",
    "Idiom": [
      "in a pig's patoot"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Absolutely not.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "4267",
    "Idiom": [
      "in a pinch"
    ],
    "Meaning": "In an urgent or difficult situation.",
    "Sentence": [
      "It's not a great fashion statement, but in a pinch a large trash bag will keep you dry."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "4268-1",
    "Idiom": [
      "in a right state",
      "in a real state"
    ],
    "Meaning": "In a mess or chaotic state.",
    "Sentence": [
      "“Come off it,” said Ron, “you’re in a right state !”",
      "The COVID-19 pandemic had the world in a right state.",
      "At the end of a long day at work, I’m usually in a right state."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "4269-2",
    "Idiom": [
      "in a right state"
    ],
    "Meaning": "In a state of panic or confusion.",
    "Sentence": [
      "The dancers were in a right state as their track wouldn’t play minutes before their performance.",
      "Trigonometry lectures always had me in a right state !"
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "4270-1",
    "Idiom": [
      "in a rut"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Stuck in a boring or monotonous routine.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "4270-2",
    "Idiom": [
      "in a rut"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To be stuck in a repetitive routine.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "4271",
    "Idiom": [
      "in a state"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Agitated and anxious.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "4272",
    "Idiom": [
      "in a walk"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Easily; without difficulty.",
    "Sentence": [
      "... Underhand has done at Newcastle what Vampyre just failed to do at Ascot; and both the Two Thousand and the Thousand have been absolutely won in a walk."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "4273",
    "Idiom": [
      "in addition"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Also; as well; besides.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Plant breeding is always a numbers game. The wild species we use are rich in genetic variation, and individual plants are highly heterozygous and do not breed true. In addition, we are looking for rare alleles, so the more plants we try, the better."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "4274",
    "Idiom": [
      "in all honesty"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Honestly.",
    "Sentence": [
      "I didn't get a girlfriend, though in all honesty, I'm still undecided whether I really want to have one."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "4275",
    "Idiom": [
      "in all one's glory"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Completely naked.",
    "Sentence": [
      "The Olympic athlete wore no clothes, and those of us who have gone to the Eisenhower Theater remember that out in front on the mezzanine floor is the statue of the Greek god that was rescued from the depths of the ocean, and he's out there in all his glory in the nude.",
      "She noticed R.D. passing by a few times, wearing less clothing each time until he was down to the sweats. She hadn't worried until his shirt came off. Then he slipped behind a pillar and came out in all his glory, ready to leap into the Bosporus, I assume.",
      "Alena asked, wanting him to strip naked and see him standing in all his glory under the hot afternoon sun, but thinking of Raven and modesty's sake perhaps it was best if Ares should find some type of bathing trunks.",
      "'You said it,' she repeated, stepping out of her dress and standing before him in all her glory –naked except for a thin diamond chain around her waist, a rhinestone encrusted thong and Jimmy Choo stilettos.",
      "In his bedchamber, he kept the portrait of the naked Nell hidden behind a secret panel on which was painted a staid Dutch landscape. By sliding back the panel, Charles could reveal Nell in all her glory.",
      "She quickly dressed for fear that someone would walk through the shower door and see her in all her glory."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "4276",
    "Idiom": [
      "in and of itself"
    ],
    "Meaning": "By itself; intrinsically.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "4277",
    "Idiom": [
      "in and out"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Sexual intercourse, especially brief.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "4278",
    "Idiom": [
      "in any way, shape, or form"
    ],
    "Meaning": "In any way at all.",
    "Sentence": [
      "I beg that you will first present some evidence or proof that you are my superior in any way, shape, or form relative to the question in hand.",
      "We, the undersigned wagon-masters, assistants, teamsters and all other employees of the firm of Russell, Majors & Waddell, do hereby sign that we will not swear, drink whisky, play cards or be cruel to dumb beasts in any way, shape or form.",
      "“I no longer live with or wish to be related to my biological father in any way, shape or form,” she said in a petition for both a name change and a new birth certificate."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "4279",
    "Idiom": [
      "in at the deep end"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Placed in a complex situation without adequate preparation.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "4280",
    "Idiom": [
      "in bad odor"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Regarded with disapproval or disliked.",
    "Sentence": [
      "So in conversing with men, women, and children, I gradually found out that Tim Hibblethwaite was in bad odor, and that he held himself doggedly aloof from all.",
      "New Hampshire was in bad odor with the English government; but the farmers could endure that with equanimity.",
      "Mosk could not pay his rent and was already in bad odour with his landlord,",
      "For the political right, naturally eager to put the left in bad odor, the naming frenzy was a bonanza.",
      "The public looks at them as just a bunch of CEOs — a group in bad odor."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "4281",
    "Idiom": [
      "in bad taste"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Offensive or inappropriate.",
    "Sentence": [
      "While some envied not finding their own Rolls-Royce like his under the tree, and instead smiled as they opened a pair of socks or new pajamas, others saw it as an ostentation in bad taste.",
      "Jokes about someone’s physical appearance are in bad taste."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "4282",
    "Idiom": [
      "in bed"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Regarding sexual activities.",
    "Sentence": [
      "She wasn't kind or smart, attractive or even funny. Her only redeeming feature was that she was fantastic in bed.",
      "You've been in bed with the opposite party all year and that's why you keep saying we need to compromise."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "4283",
    "Idiom": [
      "in black and white"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Clearly and without misunderstanding.",
    "Sentence": [
      "I'll believe that when I see it in black and white."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "4284",
    "Idiom": [
      "in business"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Ready to proceed.",
    "Sentence": [
      "I finally got the vents back from the chrome shop. / Now you're in business !"
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "4285-1",
    "Idiom": [
      "in character"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Acting as the character.",
    "Sentence": [
      "It was difficult to stay in character, because I kept wanting to laugh."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "4285-2",
    "Idiom": [
      "in character"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Consistent with one's personality.",
    "Sentence": [
      "That kind of shouting wasn't very in character for her."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "4286",
    "Idiom": [
      "in cold blood"
    ],
    "Meaning": "In a ruthless and unfeeling manner, especially regarding premeditated murder.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Police have arrested a suspect in the murder-robbery of a gold shop in Lop Buri two weeks ago, in which a young child and two adults were killed in cold blood.",
      "It was not a suicide! He was murdered in cold blood."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "4287",
    "Idiom": [
      "in control"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Exercising control over a situation or object.",
    "Sentence": [
      "It was a bitter blow to England's players, who sank to their knees in disappointment, after fighting so hard but a draw does not cause too much damage and they still remain in control of their own destiny.",
      "The General said that his troops were now in control of the situation."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "4288",
    "Idiom": [
      "in detail"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Thoroughly, including every detail.",
    "Sentence": [
      "When this conversation was repeated in detail within the hearing of the young woman in question, and undoubtedly for his benefit, Mr. Trevor threw shame to the winds and scandalized the Misses Brewster then and there by proclaiming his father to have been a country storekeeper.",
      "I do not understand it; would you please explain it to me in detail."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "4289",
    "Idiom": [
      "in effigy"
    ],
    "Meaning": "A symbol representing a real person or thing.",
    "Sentence": [
      "to burn in effigy",
      "The politician was hanged in effigy by the crowd."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "4290",
    "Idiom": [
      "in every sense of the word"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Used to add emphasis.",
    "Sentence": [
      "The prince is not a prig, nor yet a milksop, but in every sense of the word a manly young fellow.",
      "He declared further that the depression had precipitated a crisis of democracy in every sense of the word.",
      "The East London Museum's motto, \"No time like the present\", has throughout the year been lived up to in every sense of the word."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "4291",
    "Idiom": [
      "in evidence"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Visibly present.",
    "Sentence": [
      "the guardians of the law were well in evidence, the obvious reason being they were paid to protect the upper classes.",
      "The Renaissance saw a renewed interest in flowers and decoration became more studied and elaborate, garlands and wreaths being much in evidence in paintings of this time.",
      "The usual managerial incompetence was in evidence in yesterday's meeting."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "4292",
    "Idiom": [
      "in fee"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Absolute ownership of land with full disposal rights.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "4293",
    "Idiom": [
      "in fighting trim"
    ],
    "Meaning": "In good condition; ready to confront a challenge.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "4294",
    "Idiom": [
      "in focus"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Clearly perceived.",
    "Sentence": [
      "As he spoke the plan became in focus."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "4295",
    "Idiom": [
      "in for a dime, in for a dollar"
    ],
    "Meaning": "An expression indicating that if you are committed to something, you might as well go all the way.",
    "Sentence": [
      "In for a dime, in for a dollar, he thought crazily, and said what he had to say in a voice he forced to stay level and calm.",
      "In for a dime, in for a dollar. I whispered to Gerry, “Count me in”. Heroin was unromantic, neither sacred nor satanic; it was simply inevitable.",
      "This obligation flows from the principle recognized in virtually all jurisdictions that when the policyholder is required to defend any one claim, all elements of the case must be defended (i.e., “in for a dime, in for a dollar”).",
      "I had bought some of Cemp’s MGM stock for myself. “Listen”, I told Edgar, “ in for a dime, in for a dollar ”. There was no point in selling at $8. If we were going to lose we might as well lose the whole thing."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "4296",
    "Idiom": [
      "in for a penny, in for a pound"
    ],
    "Meaning": "See something through to the end.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Nothing venture, nothing win - / Blood is thick, but water's thin - / In for a penny, in for a pound - / It's love that makes the world go round!",
      "Under the circumstances it seemed to be a case of ‘in for a penny, in for a pound’. If the Institute’s team were still prepared to accept the challenge, the Administration was willing to do likewise…",
      "… in for a penny, in for a pound : if one undertakes something, it must be carried through at whatever cost.",
      "Turning before the mirror, she studied the gown she’d spent much of her savings on in Belle Terre. “Okay, but not great. In for a penny, in for a pound. Soon I have to get a job.”",
      "I rummaged in my bag for Miss Addie’s keys, turned off the car, and marched purposefully toward the building. “‘In for a penny, in for a pound’”, I mumbled under my breath as I pushed open the door and headed for the elevator.",
      "It appears to be a situation where the greenhouse proponents are in for a penny, in for a pound. As long as the myth needs to be kept alive, this is the inescapable conclusion."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "4297",
    "Idiom": [
      "in for an inch, in for a mile"
    ],
    "Meaning": "No reason to hold back when already partially committed.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Afterwards, she took him farther south. His uneasiness grew with every step.... \" In for an inch, in for a mile,\" he muttered.",
      "I soon found the water lapping at my toes so I figured, “ in for an inch, in for a mile ” and continued on in after the oystercatcher."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "4298-1",
    "Idiom": [
      "in for it"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Irrevocably committed to something.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "4298-2",
    "Idiom": [
      "in for it"
    ],
    "Meaning": "In trouble.",
    "Sentence": [
      "\"You sure did [hit someone with the snowball],\" added Teeter, stiffling a laugh. \"And of all persons in the school but Professor Rodd. Oh my! Oh wow! You're in for it now! He won't do a thing to you fellows! Look at his hat! Here he comes!\""
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "4299",
    "Idiom": [
      "in for the kill"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Intending to kill or destroy.",
    "Sentence": [
      "If you go hunting and want to bring something back to eat, you have to be in for the kill.",
      "After bashing up his victim, the murderer went in for the kill."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "4300",
    "Idiom": [
      "in front of one's nose"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Clearly apparent or obvious.",
    "Sentence": [
      "All that time we've been searching for the answer, and it was right in front of our noses."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "4301",
    "Idiom": [
      "in full force"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Totally, fully, completely.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Far from closing the door on the leadership of the ’60s generation, Mr. Obama’s presidency seems to have brought it back in full force."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "4302",
    "Idiom": [
      "in full gear"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Fully underway or in progress.",
    "Sentence": [
      "We arrived an hour late and found the event already in full gear."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "4303",
    "Idiom": [
      "in good odor"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Liked or favored by someone.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "4304",
    "Idiom": [
      "in heaven's name"
    ],
    "Meaning": "An intensifier used in questions.",
    "Sentence": [
      "In heaven’s name, get your hair out of his face! I pushed my hair behind my ears.",
      "What in heaven's name are you doing?",
      "Who in heaven's name told you to do that?",
      "Where in heaven's name are my darn shoes?"
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "4305",
    "Idiom": [
      "in high dudgeon"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Filled with indignation or anger.",
    "Sentence": [
      "“When civil dudgeon first grew high, \\ And men fell out, they knew not why; \\ When hard words, jealousies, and fears, \\ Set folks together by the ears..”",
      "He puts on a querulous voice and says, \"Question. What particular altitude is dudgeon inevitably? Answer. High.\" He laughs and slaps his knees."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "4306",
    "Idiom": [
      "in high gear"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Serious and intense.",
    "Sentence": [
      "The show goes in high gear when Bill is on screen."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "4307",
    "Idiom": [
      "in jest"
    ],
    "Meaning": "As a joke.",
    "Sentence": [
      "He only tried to mimic the other's movements in jest."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "4308",
    "Idiom": [
      "in jig time"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Rapidly.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "4309",
    "Idiom": [
      "in kind"
    ],
    "Meaning": "In a reciprocal manner.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Vardy drilled over after getting behind Bartley and also hit the side-netting, resulting in the loudest cheer of the day from the Swansea fans after he kicked an advertising board in frustration. He responded in kind by showing them three fingers with one hand and making a zero with the other.",
      "Armor-piercing shells were heading up the shell hoists, but this procedure took a few minutes, allowing the battered American flagship to reply in kind, the gunners somewhat motivated to set new records for the rate of fire as the cruiser raked the larger ship from stem to stern in response."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "4310",
    "Idiom": [
      "in layman's terms",
      "in layperson's terms"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Phrased simply, without jargon.",
    "Sentence": [
      "I would like to get into this $3 million deficit, Doctor. I would like to hear about it in layman's terms rather than accounting terms.",
      "“ In layman’s terms, he transitioned from the high performance climb to the Split S too low and too fast, and by not deselecting his afterburners during the maneuver, he continued to accelerate,” according to the Navy investigation’s report. “The net effect of these deviations was that the aircraft was simply too low and too fast to avoid impacting the ground.”",
      "Aragón started at Clemson in 2016 and is well-known for her research into dimorphous expressions, which in layman’s terms are strangely negative responses to positive events, like crying tears of joy or seeing a puppy so cute you want to squeeze it or a baby so cute you want to smoosh its face.",
      "Okay, Einstein, but how about putting it in layman's terms, so the rest of us can understand?"
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "4311",
    "Idiom": [
      "in laywoman's terms"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Phrased simply.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "4312-1",
    "Idiom": [
      "in light of"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Given, considering.",
    "Sentence": [
      "The United Nations then became the one great attempt to establish a formal institution to unify the world, especially in light of the darkness that preceded it.",
      "In light of such conceptualisations of the power of linguistic landscapes, we set out to examine the connection between the visual landscape and the spoken landscape in our institution."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "4312-2",
    "Idiom": [
      "in light of"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Because of, as a result of.",
    "Sentence": [
      "The star, 55, who has stepped away from her singing career in light of her health woes, was visibly emotional as she walked onstage with the support of eldest son"
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "4313",
    "Idiom": [
      "in line"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Suitable or appropriate.",
    "Sentence": [
      "\"[Plant] rescues are usually organized by local garden clubs, but before you grab your shovel and head for the door, check with local government agencies to make sure you're in line with regulations.\"",
      "Shepard: The rest of the galaxy isn't just going to bow down just because we tell them to. We'll need the fleets to bring them in line."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "4314",
    "Idiom": [
      "in living memory"
    ],
    "Meaning": "In recent history that people can remember.",
    "Sentence": [
      "The snowstorm of Sunday, January 28, was the worst in living memory.",
      "The Roberts Court is the most politically conservative in living memory.",
      "Last summer, Georgia was hit by the mightiest heat wave in living memory.",
      "Long believed to be extinct, the purple-bellied speckled turtle was sighted for the first time in living memory in a remote pasture near Chicago."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "4315",
    "Idiom": [
      "in no small measure",
      "in no small part"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To a very great extent.",
    "Sentence": [
      "The Inspecting Officer draws attention to the remarkable way in which the train held together after the final derailment; this was due in no small measure to the robustness of the buckeye couplings fitted to the coaches."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "4316-1",
    "Idiom": [
      "in no time"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Very soon.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Just give me a ring and I'll be over in no time."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "4316-2",
    "Idiom": [
      "in no time"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Very quickly.",
    "Sentence": [
      "My hopes wa'n't disappointed. I never saw clams thicker than they was along them inshore flats. I filled my dreener in no time, and then it come to me that 'twouldn't be a bad idee to get a lot more, take 'em with me to Wellmouth, and peddle 'em out. Clams was fairly scarce over that side of the bay and ought to fetch a fair price.",
      "Neil Lennon and his players have, in no time at all, roared back from trailing Rangers by 15 points in November to ending the year two points clear."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "4317",
    "Idiom": [
      "in no uncertain terms"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Definitely and clearly.",
    "Sentence": [
      "The latter held up the lamp where it wouldn't get smashed and admonished them in no uncertain terms that he wanted me alive.",
      "Kennedy assured West German Ambassador Wilhelm Grewe in no uncertain terms that he does not intend to let West Berlin go down the drain.",
      "We think it's time the people whose lives are being affected by callous indifference and malignant neglect let elected representatives and government agencies know their concerns in no uncertain terms.",
      "In no uncertain terms do I believe that we should outlaw or 'wuss down' contact sports!!!"
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "4318",
    "Idiom": [
      "in no way, shape, or form"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Not in any way at all.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Hugh vehemently denied this in his first hearing: “I never did anything in any way, shape, or form during the war— in no way, shape, or form was I connected with it or had anything to do with it!”"
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "4319",
    "Idiom": [
      "in nothing flat"
    ],
    "Meaning": "A very short amount of time.",
    "Sentence": [
      "After so many years of practice, she can often find the problem and fix it in nothing flat."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "4320",
    "Idiom": [
      "in one bite"
    ],
    "Meaning": "In an unbroken or undivided manner.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "4321",
    "Idiom": [
      "in one foul swoop"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Achieved with a single action.",
    "Sentence": [
      "The acquiescence of the party as the result of hasty and immature deliberation, is indicative of a supreme contempt of comrades, and vitiates in one foul swoop the conditions that regulate the movement.",
      "All their suspicions had evaporated in one foul swoop by Neil's announcement, and was now confirmed by a document that if they signed, asked them to become trustees of Neil's charity.",
      "I need to get it all out at once, inflicting the damage in one foul swoop before facing the fallout left in my wake."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "4322",
    "Idiom": [
      "in one go"
    ],
    "Meaning": "In a single attempt.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Ling Xiao, next time you have a breakthrough, you will be able to break through your Mysterious Transformation Realm in one go and become a saint on the spot!\" Reincarnation Grandmaster suddenly said with a smile. \"What?"
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "4323",
    "Idiom": [
      "in one's altitudes"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Drunk.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "4324",
    "Idiom": [
      "in one's back pocket",
      "in one's hip pocket"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Ready if needed.",
    "Sentence": [
      "There’s tremendous opportunities at The Bay in order to modify the offering in order to be attractive to a larger segment to the population. Having the Lord & Taylor banner in their back pocket, they’ve got an extra option there.",
      "Spitzer thinks it's an outrage that the same bankers who brought down the world economy are still firmly in place, bonuses in hand, a government guarantee in their back pocket.",
      "I didn’t mention my son’s remark to my parents because it seemed emotionally manipulative, but I have it in my back pocket just in case.",
      "She bosses around all the blokes in the European Union; has won three elections; and even has a physics degree in her back pocket.",
      "“Wyden right now is coming up with his own provisions that could fit into that” final legislation, said Nathan Dean, a government analyst at Bloomberg Intelligence. “Think of this as something to have in his hip pocket when the Democrats start negotiating.”"
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "4325",
    "Idiom": [
      "in one's bare skin"
    ],
    "Meaning": "In a state of nudity.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "4326",
    "Idiom": [
      "in one's bones"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Derived from instinct or intuition.",
    "Sentence": [
      "He understood in his bones that the odds were not in his favor.",
      "She could feel the rhythm in her bones."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "4327",
    "Idiom": [
      "in one's cups"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Drunk.",
    "Sentence": [
      "The natives were an honest, social race of jolly roysterers, who had no objection to a drinking bout, and were very merry in their cups.",
      "They grew only the more sober in their cups; there was no confused babble nor boisterous laughter. They sucked in the joyous fire of the decanters and kept it smouldering in their inmost recesses.",
      "Here he gambled, there he drank; and in his cups every virtue dissolved.",
      "The woman on the other hand is in her cups swigging from one wine glass while another stands at her elbow."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "4328",
    "Idiom": [
      "in one's dreams"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Expresses that a statement reflects a desire rather than reality.",
    "Sentence": [
      "\"Can't go? Why not? Got a hot date tonight?\" / \" In my dreams ! No, I've got to visit a friend in the hospital.\"",
      "\"They said the economy will boost sales next quarter.\" / \" In their dreams ! Maybe next year the economy will recover.\""
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "4329-1",
    "Idiom": [
      "in one's head"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Within one's mind.",
    "Sentence": [
      "The old-school way, with the chief scout having it all in his head, gave no continuity. If he gets run over by a bus he takes all the knowledge with him.",
      "\"I have actually gotten to revisit, in my head, all the museums I've ever gone to.\""
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "4329-2",
    "Idiom": [
      "in one's head"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Within one's imagination.",
    "Sentence": [
      "\"Kids disappear into imaginary relationships all the time\"... but \"usually there's a limit to how far that imaginary relationship can go, because it's all in their head.\"",
      "When a neurologist ruled out medical causes like Lyme disease, Ms. Abaspour recalled, her husband said, “I think we should just give her a placebo — it’s all in her head.”",
      "The tape was the piece of evidence that assured Cohle that this grand conspiracy wasn't all in his head."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "4329-3",
    "Idiom": [
      "in one's head"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Mentally.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Captain Whalley, who seemed lost in a mental effort as of doing a sum in his head, gave a slight start."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "4329-4",
    "Idiom": [
      "in one's head"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Anxious due to overthinking.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "4330",
    "Idiom": [
      "in one's own good time"
    ],
    "Meaning": "At one's own pace, unhurriedly.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "4331",
    "Idiom": [
      "in one's own little way"
    ],
    "Meaning": "In an individual manner that creates an effect.",
    "Sentence": [
      "They are all helping each other, as loving sisters should; and perhaps some day they will meet, and will realize how each in her own little way has done some service for the others.",
      "In their own little way, they made me feel like I was special — just being me.",
      "In her own little way, Thérèse tried to remedy that community deficiency.",
      "Like the little white Sheep, the most important thing I admire about you, honestly, is how in your own little way you seem to amaze people, especially me; how you can take the bad experiences that have occurred in your hidden past, and turn them into positive achievements."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "4332",
    "Idiom": [
      "in one's pocket"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Under someone’s control due to bribery.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "4333",
    "Idiom": [
      "in one's right mind"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Thinking clearly and reasonably.",
    "Sentence": [
      "“ Is Mike Hartley in his right mind, do you think, sir?” inquired Sweeting, simply. “Can’t tell, Davy; he may be crazed or he may be only crafty—or, perhaps, a little of both.”",
      "If you find she was not in her right mind, that she was the victim of insanity, hereditary or momentary, as it has been explained, your verdict will take that into account.",
      "But the poor fellow was—what is it?—demented. He was not in his right mind.",
      "Who in his right mind would want to know he had a disease that would inevitably rob him of that mind?"
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "4334",
    "Idiom": [
      "in one's wildest dreams"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Much better than expected.",
    "Sentence": [
      "At the same time, the Count de B—— very philanthropically hired an old discolored-looking horse, which was grazing peaceably outside the hut, and mounting the astonished quadruped, who had never, in his wildest dreams, calculated upon having so fine a chevalier on his back, galloped off in search of more solid food, while we set the Indian women to baking tortillas.",
      "Those most rural routes will not get overhead wires. As Reeve told the seminar: \"Even in my wildest dreams, I can't see a business case for electrifying the Far North Line.\""
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "4335-1",
    "Idiom": [
      "in order"
    ],
    "Meaning": "In accordance with rules governing formal meetings.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "4335-2",
    "Idiom": [
      "in order"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Appropriate or worthwhile.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Now that we have finally finished, I think a celebration is in order."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "4335-3",
    "Idiom": [
      "in order"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Indicates purpose or intent.",
    "Sentence": [
      "In order to grant the rich these pleasures, the social contract is reconfigured. The welfare state is dismantled. …",
      "She stood in order to see over the crowd. / She stood to see over the crowd."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "4335-4",
    "Idiom": [
      "in order"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Indicates purpose.",
    "Sentence": [
      "She stood in order for her husband to see her. / She stood for her husband to see her."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "4336-1",
    "Idiom": [
      "in other news"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Introduces unrelated news.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "4336-2",
    "Idiom": [
      "in other news"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Introduces an unrelated topic.",
    "Sentence": [
      "“Humph,” he says. “Did you ask for extra soy sauce?” ¶ “Yes. Dad. It's in the bag,” she says, rolling her eyes at me. “Well, in other news, the kids I cast as Emily and George are amazing!” ¶ My grandfather's head snaps up. \"You're doing Our Town ? That show is a snooze.”"
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "4337",
    "Idiom": [
      "in other words"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Used to introduce an explanation or clarification.",
    "Sentence": [
      "On Tuesday evening he sent a message to the office of the Stamford paper, requesting that, as the \"mountain could not wait upon Mahomet, Mahomet would go to the mountain,\"—or, in other words, that the printer would call upon him, and receive an order for executing some hand-bills announcing Mr. Lambert's arrival, and his desire to see company.",
      "Hanks is known as being an avid reader of history and biography, and seems to seek out stories which offer a certain optimism and humanism. In other words, he plays – fundamentally – good people.",
      "He has another appointment on Thursday. In other words, I don't think he'll be attending your gathering."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "4338",
    "Idiom": [
      "in plain sight"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Very easy to see or notice.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "4339",
    "Idiom": [
      "in plain view"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Easily seen, very visible.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "4340",
    "Idiom": [
      "in rare form"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Performing at a high level or at one's best.",
    "Sentence": [
      "He's usually quite confrontational anyway, but he's in rare form today so watch out."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "4341",
    "Idiom": [
      "in reaction"
    ],
    "Meaning": "A response to a stimulus or event.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Viewed in its proper historical context this reaction fits a not-unfamiliar pattern seen first after emancipation of slaves and the Thirteenth Amendment, then in reaction to blacks holding political office during reconstruction."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "4342",
    "Idiom": [
      "in recent memory"
    ],
    "Meaning": "In living memory.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "4343-1",
    "Idiom": [
      "in record time"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Faster than any previously recorded time.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "4343-2",
    "Idiom": [
      "in record time"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Very quickly.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "4344",
    "Idiom": [
      "in safe hands"
    ],
    "Meaning": "In the care of someone trustworthy.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Don't worry: I gave the necklace to a friend of mine. It's in safe hands.",
      "I told the president that I'm glad the future of the country is in safe hands."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "4345",
    "Idiom": [
      "in shape"
    ],
    "Meaning": "In good physical fitness or appearance.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Whoa, look over here We got a cute little ol' runner to the right Blue shorts, no shirt You're looking good darling That's right, stay in shape",
      "I hope to get in shape for summer swimsuit season."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "4346",
    "Idiom": [
      "in short trousers"
    ],
    "Meaning": "In childhood.",
    "Sentence": [
      "We didn't have computers or mobile phones back when I was in short trousers !"
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "4347",
    "Idiom": [
      "in someone's face"
    ],
    "Meaning": "In front of someone's eyes.",
    "Sentence": [
      "This hypocrite will laugh in your face, and cut your throat...",
      "They smilin' in your face / All the time, they want to take your place / The back stabbers",
      "Well well they smile in your face / When all the time they wanna take your place / Them backstabbers"
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "4348",
    "Idiom": [
      "in someone's pocket"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Under someone's influence for financial gain or favors.",
    "Sentence": [
      "All the leaders here are in the local mafia's pocket."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "4349",
    "Idiom": [
      "in someone's shoes",
      "step into someone's shoes"
    ],
    "Meaning": "In someone's situation.",
    "Sentence": [
      "I wouldn't personally repose much trust in that boon companion of yours who contributes the humorous element, Dr Mulligan, as a guide, philosopher and friend if I were in your shoes."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "4350-1",
    "Idiom": [
      "in spades"
    ],
    "Meaning": "In large quantities or to a high degree.",
    "Sentence": [
      "\"He is three times that bad in spades,\" I said. \"He ain't washed his socks in four months for one thing,\"",
      "Character the hotel has in spades. It begins at the parking lot, where bison roam.",
      "This caution hurt JPMorgan 's profits at the time but paid off in spades in 2009, as the bank earned $8.5 billion in the first three quarters.",
      "Last year we harvested almost no potatoes, but this year we're getting them in spades."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "4350-2",
    "Idiom": [
      "in spades"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Beyond doubt.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "4351",
    "Idiom": [
      "in spite of"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Despite.",
    "Sentence": [
      "No evening I had passed at Bly had the portentous quality of this one; in spite of which—and in spite also of the deeper depths of consternation that had opened beneath my feet—there was literally, in the ebbing actual, an extraordinarily sweet sadness."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "4352",
    "Idiom": [
      "in stitches"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Laughing vigorously.",
    "Sentence": [
      "\"I was just dancing with old Doctor Riley, and he kept me in stitches. Half the time he had almost to carry me around, I was laughing so.\"",
      "Leaving the White House after a unilateral chat with Coolidge, Actress Barrymore, in stitches from laughter, was confronted by perplexed newsmen wondering what was so funny.",
      "I took a graduate seminar in close-reading of Dylan Thomas and Joyce, and among the smart students a nun and a rabbi kept us in stitches with their endless whimsy and scholarship."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "4353-1",
    "Idiom": [
      "in stride"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Without disturbing one's activities.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "4353-2",
    "Idiom": [
      "in stride"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Without emotional upset.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "4354",
    "Idiom": [
      "in the act"
    ],
    "Meaning": "In the process of committing a crime or wrongdoing.",
    "Sentence": [
      "She denied it but she had been spotted in the act.",
      "He was caught in the act in the store after hours.",
      "He was caught in the act of climbing out the window."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "4355",
    "Idiom": [
      "in the altogether"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Naked.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Hearing that his wife was posing in the altogether for the great Spanish satirist, the Duke of Alba swore that he would paint Goya's picture in Goya's blood.",
      "Last week, a Cleveland news anchor, Sharon Reed, was caught on camera stripping nude and joining a gaggle of other people in the altogether."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "4356-1",
    "Idiom": [
      "in the black"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Having positive net income or making a profit.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "4356-2",
    "Idiom": [
      "in the black"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Having positive net worth.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "4357",
    "Idiom": [
      "in the blink of an eye"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Immediately.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Picking the ball up in his own half, Januzaj threaded a 40-yard pass into the path of Rooney to slice Southampton open in the blink of an eye."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "4358",
    "Idiom": [
      "in the books"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Finished; concluded; a matter of record.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Two Bird swishes and a Johnny Davis three-point air ball later, the victory was in the books.",
      "The 1998 Academy Awards ceremony is in the books, and now that we have had a chance to reflect on the big event, we can put the proceedings in some context.",
      "With the presidential debates in the books and a commanding lead in the polls, Barack Obama appears to be coasting toward history."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "4359",
    "Idiom": [
      "in the buff"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Nude.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Not to mention, nudity can be just plain convenient. “Laundry is minimal,” Schulte notes. It also doesn’t hurt that being in the buff spices up his workday.",
      "She was in the buff on the beach.",
      "The streaker ran across the playing field in the buff."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "4360",
    "Idiom": [
      "in the business of"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Involved with a practice or behavior.",
    "Sentence": [
      "People who level these insults are just in the business of putting others down."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "4361",
    "Idiom": [
      "in the can"
    ],
    "Meaning": "At a late stage of completion.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "4362",
    "Idiom": [
      "in the cards"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Destined or fated to happen.",
    "Sentence": [
      "You will not sell enough to put in your eye. It is not in the cards.",
      "Sometimes a trip to the spa is not in the cards, even if your gel manicure has seen waaaay better days. These polish remover tools help cut costs and keep your natural nails looking v nice.",
      "I don't think another child is in the cards for them."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "4363-1",
    "Idiom": [
      "in the clear"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Not guilty or not suspected of wrongdoing.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Offshore sports betting...is judged illegal in the U.S. under laws originally drawn up in the '60s; sites offering casino-style virtual gaming claimed they were in the clear."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "4363-2",
    "Idiom": [
      "in the clear"
    ],
    "Meaning": "No longer in danger.",
    "Sentence": [
      "“Think we're in the clear ?” Leif asked, still studying the rooftops and doorways for new threats. Before Nick could answer, the whole world exploded in fire and smoke."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "4364-1",
    "Idiom": [
      "in the crosshairs"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Subject to close scrutiny.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Industry experts are concerned that if the railway doesn't change tack, it would soon find itself out of step with the needs of the nation and in the crosshairs of a Treasury looking to slash spending."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "4364-2",
    "Idiom": [
      "in the crosshairs"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Singled out for blame or unwanted attention.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Nettles lives in the crosshairs, with the secret police, his sympathizers, and his now and would-be lovers making impossible demands on him.",
      "The German industrial giants that exploited slave labor during the war, from Volkswagen to Krupp, are in the crosshairs of class-action suits from Holocaust survivors.",
      "U.S. Representative Jane Harman, a California Democrat, has found herself in the crosshairs of a potential scandal."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "4365",
    "Idiom": [
      "in the dark"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Without information.",
    "Sentence": [
      "You must remember, Mr Atherton, that I am wholly in the dark as to what has happened.",
      "Until two or three days before Carter's December 15 announcement, the State Department spokesman was still saying that no decisions had been reached on the timing and the modality for normalization of relations with Peking. Meanwhile, the administration had been keeping Congress, including its leadership, completely in the dark. Then, taking advantage of the Christmas holidays, during which no one was watching on Capitol Hill, Carter sprang his surprise.",
      "Management kept the board of directors completely in the dark.",
      "They remained in the dark until the newspaper story came out."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "4366",
    "Idiom": [
      "in the dock"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Under accusation or scrutiny.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "4367",
    "Idiom": [
      "in the doghouse"
    ],
    "Meaning": "In a situation of disapproval or anger, especially from a spouse.",
    "Sentence": [
      "I had a mighty interesting visitor. It was the Crown Prince of Germany's son. He is a mighty likable young fellow, about 26 years old, the second son, but the oldest one married outside the thoroughbred pasture and now he is in the doghouse as far as any succession is concerned.",
      "Nick was deep in the doghouse with Louella after three days of persistent phone calls and his final less-than-tactful message.",
      "He forgets his anniversary, he's in the doghouse, but he pulls out of it with a romantic (i.e. expensive) dinner."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "4368-1",
    "Idiom": [
      "in the drink"
    ],
    "Meaning": "In or into a body of water.",
    "Sentence": [
      "\"I'm broke. I came down here wondering whether I'd better throw myself in the drink.\"",
      "\"I've been in the drink,\" and he related the tale of his recent adventures. \"Your raftsman saved my life.\"",
      "When it comes to cameras, the only thing worse than dropping one on the ground is dropping one in the drink."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "4368-2",
    "Idiom": [
      "in the drink"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Under the influence of alcohol.",
    "Sentence": [
      "He ain't so bad neither, when he's not in the drink. He's sorry he hit me now.\"",
      "\"It's no place for the loike o' yez,\" she said. \"An' it black noight, an' men and women wild in the drink; an' Pat Harrigan insoide bloind an' mad in liquor.\"",
      "\"I cannot tell what I may have done in the drink. I may even have told his name, though I remember nothing about it!\""
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "4369-1",
    "Idiom": [
      "in the driver's seat",
      "in the driving seat"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Having the most important role or control.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "4370-2",
    "Idiom": [
      "in the driver's seat"
    ],
    "Meaning": "In control of a situation.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "4371-1",
    "Idiom": [
      "in the face of"
    ],
    "Meaning": "When confronted with.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Significant rail projects have been mothballed before in the face of changed circumstances - in particular, the LNER Woodhead project which was postponed due to wartime conditions and not revived until 1948, as money became available after nationalisation.",
      "Responsible for public affairs, business strategy, corporate development and finance, he [Donald Tang] now faces the task of getting an initial public offering over the line in London after ditching earlier plans to list in New York in the face of US political opposition.",
      "in the face of growing pressure, the company changed its logo"
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "4371-2",
    "Idiom": [
      "in the face of"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Despite; against; contrary to.",
    "Sentence": [
      "They declare ringing confirmation for their theories even in the face of feeble data.",
      "His daughters were serious. In fact the elder one had joined the Communist Youth, where the kids were almost puritanical, growing up with principles in the face of the triple enemy: capitalism-imperialism-Americanocracy."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "4371-3",
    "Idiom": [
      "in the face of"
    ],
    "Meaning": "In the face of.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "4372",
    "Idiom": [
      "in the fast lane"
    ],
    "Meaning": "A fast-paced and risky lifestyle.",
    "Sentence": [
      "For baby-boomer parents, life without kids often feels like suddenly slamming on the brakes after years in the fast lane.",
      "He readily admits to a life of promiscuity and a history of many liaisons with prostitutes. \"I lived in the fast lane,\" he confesses."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "4373",
    "Idiom": [
      "in the final analysis"
    ],
    "Meaning": "In conclusion.",
    "Sentence": [
      "I have not been personally in a conversation with anybody in the Astronaut Office that is antirobotic for some philosophical reason. They are a group of people who, in the final analysis, have the responsibility to get the job done."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "4374-1",
    "Idiom": [
      "in the first place"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To begin with.",
    "Sentence": [
      "The question is not whether I still enjoy the job, when I never enjoyed it in the first place."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "4374-2",
    "Idiom": [
      "in the first place"
    ],
    "Meaning": "At all; typically in non-negated statements.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Why does this exist in the first place?"
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "4375",
    "Idiom": [
      "in the flower of one's youth"
    ],
    "Meaning": "In youth.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "4376",
    "Idiom": [
      "in the foothills"
    ],
    "Meaning": "In the earliest stages.",
    "Sentence": [
      "LeBaron followed electronics stocks, which were in the foothills of a major market surge.",
      "We seemed in the foothills of a fabulous conversation when quite suddenly he was asleep.",
      "Ruby recognised his discomfort talking about whether they might actually be in the foothills of a relationship."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "4377-1",
    "Idiom": [
      "in the front row"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Able to witness everything.",
    "Sentence": [
      "For my entire life the comet hurtled sunward, and then for a fleeting moment I positioned myself in the front row to enjoy its passage as it returned into distant space. For me the 1985-86 Halley apparition will be fondly remembered long after the Halley bars are eaten and the T-shirt fades.",
      "It's just that whenever I screw up, you're always in the front row.",
      "I'm proud of your talent and your compassion for people and your place in our family. However your dreams unfold, I'll be in the front row to watch it happen.",
      "Few passengers cried on the way to the prison. almost all cried on the way home. Camila and aunt Maria sat in silence at first, letting their tears stream unchecked. Then Camila asked, “is anyone from our family going to be there?” “i doubt it.” “i'm surprised. i thought Grandma Vickie would be in the front row.”"
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "4377-2",
    "Idiom": [
      "in the front row"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Prominent, demanding attention.",
    "Sentence": [
      "I wrote the HOW and attracted people who were reaching out for help and prepared to help; genuine and loving people who expanded my network, positioned themselves in the front row of my life, new and divine relationships that pushed me to the edge of my comfort zone.",
      "He himself had worked for organisations not always up to the task they had set, but always in the front row to declare their skills and success.",
      "The director in the front row of your mind is the result of critical thinking. He or she is the part of you that keeps you on track, helps you stay in the moment, and gives you focus and guidance with your performance."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "4378-1",
    "Idiom": [
      "in the game"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Competing with a chance of winning.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Foster had been left unsighted by Scott Dann's positioning at his post, but the goalkeeper was about to prove his worth to Birmingham by keeping them in the game with a series of stunning saves as West Ham produced waves after wave of attack in their bid to find a crucial second goal."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "4378-2",
    "Idiom": [
      "in the game"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Focused and engaged.",
    "Sentence": [
      "This wouldn't wipe the slate, but would show he was still in the game.",
      "He's seriously doing badly in school right now. He needs to get back in the game, or he's gonna drop out."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "4379",
    "Idiom": [
      "in the green tree … in the dry"
    ],
    "Meaning": "In a better situation compared to a worse one.",
    "Sentence": [
      "If this is seen in the green tree, what will it be in the dry ? If this is so apparent now when the earth is loaded with her spontaneous fruits; what will it be when winter shall find them unprovided with the necessaries of life?",
      "disfranchisement was imposed upon 10,000 legal voters by a tribunal which had no jurisdiction to exclude a vote; if these things can be done in the green tree, what may we not expect to see in the dry ?",
      "If you do that sort of thing in the green tree, what will you do in the dry ? When the honourable member does it to members who support the Prime Minister, what will he do to members of his own party?",
      "His case, though never called, was kept in suspense for more than a year, and the dozen Italian workmen, arrested with him, too poor and friendliess to raise the exorbitant bail, remained in prison all that time. These things, and worse, were done in the green tree. Mr. Wallas’ article gives altogether too mild an impression of what is being done in the dry.",
      "They saw it as an ominous, a fatal precedent; for if these things were done in the green tree, what would be done in the dry, when the Whigs returned despite the king?"
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "4380-1",
    "Idiom": [
      "in the groove"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Performing extremely smoothly.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "4380-2",
    "Idiom": [
      "in the groove"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Playing perfectly or in sync.",
    "Sentence": [
      "The jazz musicians gave no grandstand performances; they simply got a great burn from playing in the groove."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "4381",
    "Idiom": [
      "in the here and now"
    ],
    "Meaning": "In present practice rather than in theory.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "4382-1",
    "Idiom": [
      "in the hole"
    ],
    "Meaning": "In debt.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Further testimony to his commercial incompetence lay in the fact that, at fifty cents a copy, a complete sellout would have left him worse than $300 in the hole —proof enough, if proof was needed, that it wasn't primarily money he was after; it was fame.",
      "Finance Director Robert Law added that even if Camden laid off all of its civilian employees, it would still be millions in the hole.",
      "Instead it was a critical and commercial bomb that put his production company millions in the hole, necessitating two Pusher sequels (in 2004 and 2005) to get him in the black."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "4382-2",
    "Idiom": [
      "in the hole"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Of a card dealt face down; idiomatically means in reserve.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "4383",
    "Idiom": [
      "in the hopper"
    ],
    "Meaning": "In preparation or production.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Already in the hopper was another bill, by Florida's stanch New Deal Senator Claude Pepper, to outlaw poll taxes altogether.",
      "Mr. Kotick put a lot of faith in the new “Call of Duty” game due out Tuesday and the other titles in the hopper."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "4384",
    "Idiom": [
      "in the hospital"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Admitted as a patient in a hospital.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "4385",
    "Idiom": [
      "in the hot seat"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Under pressure or scrutiny.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Mr. Tenev, 33, is now in the hot seat again after Robinhood abruptly curtailed its customers’ trading last week amid a frenzy in stocks such as GameStop, which were driven sky high by an army of online investors.",
      "They really put me in the hot seat during that last job interview. They asked lots of tough questions."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "4386",
    "Idiom": [
      "in the interest of justice"
    ],
    "Meaning": "The judge dismisses a case to serve justice.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "4387",
    "Idiom": [
      "in the lead"
    ],
    "Meaning": "In first place.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "4388",
    "Idiom": [
      "in the least"
    ],
    "Meaning": "At all.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "4389",
    "Idiom": [
      "in the limelight"
    ],
    "Meaning": "In the focus of attention.",
    "Sentence": [
      "The politician was in the limelight from the moment the scandal became public."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "4390",
    "Idiom": [
      "in the line of duty"
    ],
    "Meaning": "While performing official duties.",
    "Sentence": [
      "\"I'd hate to have the Inspector send in a report to headquarters, 'Constable Beresford missing in the line of duty.'\"",
      "Last year 88 other U.S. policemen were killed in the line of duty.",
      "Quinn's friends repeat the mantra that Officer Galluzzo was just doing his job, the implication being that mistakes made in the line of duty should be forgiven."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "4391",
    "Idiom": [
      "in the long run"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Eventually, over a long period of time.",
    "Sentence": [
      "But this long run is a misleading guide to current affairs. In the long run we are all dead.",
      "If we have learned one thing from the history of invention and discovery, it is that, in the long run — and often in the short one — the most daring prophecies seem laughably conservative."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "4392",
    "Idiom": [
      "in the long term"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Over a long period of time.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "4393",
    "Idiom": [
      "in the making"
    ],
    "Meaning": "In development or evolving.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Illicit teenage parties were, of course, a health risk. But sad, withdrawn, angry kids who would rather roll over than face another day in lockdown represent a whole new medical crisis in the making.",
      "You're witnessing a great reference work in the making."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "4394",
    "Idiom": [
      "in the money"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Possessing money; wealthy.",
    "Sentence": [
      "We're in the money. We're in the money. / We've got a lot of what it takes to get along."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "4395",
    "Idiom": [
      "in the nick of time"
    ],
    "Meaning": "At the last possible moment.",
    "Sentence": [
      "He finished writing his paper and slid it under the door just in the nick of time."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "4396",
    "Idiom": [
      "in the nip"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Nude.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Father Dougal : Those women were in the nip !",
      "The streaker ran across the playing field in the nip."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "4397-1",
    "Idiom": [
      "in the offing"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Soon to come; likely to happen.",
    "Sentence": [
      "We have known wives to forget that they had husbands, especially when they supposed that a tax bill or a notification to do military duty might be in the offing !",
      "The Ship of the Spring in the offing at last! / Oh, rude blew the hindering gales, / But perfumes entrancing, the danger o'erpast, / Are wafted afar, from her sails!",
      "He [countertenor Anthony Roth Constanzo] also enjoys being the catalyst whereby opera fertilises other art forms: recently, he's collaborated with Japanese kabuki actors, and a project with dancers from New York City Ballet is in the offing.",
      "He has a happy home life, two sitcoms on the go and a new book in the offing. So why is the comedian, actor and Observer columnist still so crotchety?"
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "4397-2",
    "Idiom": [
      "in the offing"
    ],
    "Meaning": "At a distance, but visible.",
    "Sentence": [
      "The moment I saw the man standing there, registering respectful attention, a weight seemed to roll off my mind. I felt like a lost child who spots his father in the offing. There was something about him that gave me confidence."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "4398",
    "Idiom": [
      "in the pink of health"
    ],
    "Meaning": "In very good health.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "4399",
    "Idiom": [
      "in the pipeline"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Scheduled to occur in the future.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "4400",
    "Idiom": [
      "in the post"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Soon to arrive.",
    "Sentence": [
      "We have survived our trials; yours are in the post."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "4401-1",
    "Idiom": [
      "in the raw"
    ],
    "Meaning": "In the natural state.",
    "Sentence": [
      "He was seeing life in the raw, and it was a different life from what he had known within the printed books of his library.",
      "He read there in the raw what is perhaps the most amazing page in the history of human development, and in the end he was forced to the conclusion that all his early preconceptions had been at fault, and that it was such exalted, passionate enthusiasts as Vilmorin who had been right.",
      "In spite of defending indecency, Jacob doubted whether he liked it in the raw."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "4401-2",
    "Idiom": [
      "in the raw"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Naked.",
    "Sentence": [
      "He stood gawking at Cyndee, who was standing in the raw on the shore of the pond his daddy had put in.",
      "As he waited for Pamela to return, Richard was standing in the raw before his full-length mirror.",
      "James brought his hand away and immediately jumped at the sight of Cole standing in the raw, calmly passing the bag back to the inspector. “I thought you said it was safe to look,” he accused."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "4402",
    "Idiom": [
      "in the red"
    ],
    "Meaning": "In debt.",
    "Sentence": [
      "The figures are going to be in the red this year."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "4403",
    "Idiom": [
      "in the reign of Queen Dick"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Never.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "4404",
    "Idiom": [
      "in the right place at the right time"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Being fortunate to benefit from a situation by chance.",
    "Sentence": [
      "And the Premier League's all-time top-goalscoring midfielder proved he has not lost the knack of being in the right place at the right time with a trio of clinical finishes.",
      "Many of us have looked at others success and commented, \"That person was just in the right place at the right time !\"",
      "Knowing the right person or merely being in the right place at the right time continues to be the best way of getting a job."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "4405-1",
    "Idiom": [
      "in the running"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Potential or likely; worthy of consideration.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Even if I were looking for a boyfriend, I don't think he would be in the running."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "4405-2",
    "Idiom": [
      "in the running"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Still eligible and able to win.",
    "Sentence": [
      "My favourite singer wasn't eliminated, so she's still in the running !"
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "4406",
    "Idiom": [
      "in the sack"
    ],
    "Meaning": "In bed, especially regarding sexual activity.",
    "Sentence": [
      "I'm sorry for all those things I said to you last night. You're not the worst fuck I ever had. Believe me, I've had worse. You don't puff or snorkel and make death-like rattles. As a matter of fact, you're rather serene in the sack.",
      "I'm pooped—I'll be in the sack if anyone needs me.",
      "Her girlfriend was amazing in the sack."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "4407",
    "Idiom": [
      "in the same boat"
    ],
    "Meaning": "In the same situation or predicament.",
    "Sentence": [
      "You can ignore their problems, but you could be in the same boat someday."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "4408",
    "Idiom": [
      "in the same breath"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Said or done almost simultaneously.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "4409",
    "Idiom": [
      "in the same shoes"
    ],
    "Meaning": "In the same situation.",
    "Sentence": [
      "How are you getting on with fronted adverbials? I only ask because my timeline on social media is suddenly full of parents telling me that they don’t know what these are and they don’t know why their children need to know them. Perhaps, as a parent, you are in the same shoes.",
      "The push-pull puts us more or less in the same shoes as protagonist Lucy (Grace Van Patten), who spends years wriggling on his hook before she’s finally able to cut herself free — and it’s that keen understanding of the psychology driving its central relationship that distinguishes Tell Me Lies from any number of dramas about steamy but doomed romances."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "4410",
    "Idiom": [
      "in the short run"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Lasting only a short time.",
    "Sentence": [
      "In the short run yo-yo dieting will work, but eventually it makes it nearly impossible to lose weight."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "4411",
    "Idiom": [
      "in the spotlight"
    ],
    "Meaning": "In the focus of attention.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "4412",
    "Idiom": [
      "in the stratosphere"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Attained an exceptionally high level of success.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "4413",
    "Idiom": [
      "in the swim"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Actively participating or involved.",
    "Sentence": [
      "He had very little money, but he was lucky at cards, made many acquaintances, took part in all entertainments, in a word, he was in the swim.",
      "These punctual jaunts, very sensibly practised as a purge against dullness, together with the stir and hubbub of a garrison town in which his walled garden stood isolated, as it were, all day long, amid marchings, countermarchings, bugle-calls, and the rumble of wagons filled with material of war, gave him a sense of being in the swim —of close participation in the world's affairs.",
      "But \"he's right there in the center of things, in the swim of art history.\""
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "4414-1",
    "Idiom": [
      "in the tank"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Supportive or favorably disposed.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Journalists were stung by a pair of \"Saturday Night Live\" skits that portrayed them as in the tank for Obama.",
      "\"We are working hard to get the word out and meet the people, but in some ways it seems as if the press is in the tank for Villaraigosa.\"",
      "Leading the charge of the utterly crazy is, you won’t be surprised to hear, Donald Trump, who has accused the Fed of being in the tank for Democrats."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "4414-2",
    "Idiom": [
      "in the tank"
    ],
    "Meaning": "In a state of decline or failure.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "4414-3",
    "Idiom": [
      "in the tank"
    ],
    "Meaning": "In reserve for future use.",
    "Sentence": [
      "“When you lose a fight knowing you had more in the tank or that you should’ve done something different, those regrets haunt you,” MacDonald said. “You learn from that, so it never happens again. It makes you better.”",
      "“I’m leaving, because with such a privileged role comes responsibility — the responsibility to know when you are the right person to lead and also when you are not,” said Ms. Ardern . “I know what this job takes. And I know that I no longer have enough in the tank to do it justice. It’s that simple.”"
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "4415",
    "Idiom": [
      "in the thick of"
    ],
    "Meaning": "In the middle of something difficult.",
    "Sentence": [
      "In the thick of the railway controversies of his day, Francis naturally had his prejudices. It seems that he cordially disliked the aristocracy in general.",
      "His stories about Huey, Eleanor and Jack, and other bigwigs of various worlds, reveal a life lived in the thick of legend.",
      "Rooney was fit to return to United's line-up after missing two games with an ankle injury - and he was in the thick of the action right away as he raced on to Dimitar Berbatov's pass only to send a presentable finish wide from an acute angle."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "4416",
    "Idiom": [
      "in the thick of it"
    ],
    "Meaning": "In a precarious situation.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "4417",
    "Idiom": [
      "in the toilet"
    ],
    "Meaning": "At an ignoble end.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Doing that again will put your job in the toilet."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "4418",
    "Idiom": [
      "in the trenches"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Working in challenging or demanding situations.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "4419",
    "Idiom": [
      "in the twinkling of an eye"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Immediately.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Father, come, ile take my leaue of the Iew in the twinkling of an eye.",
      "All my dreams for him have been cut short in the twinkling of an eye. Why was my son murdered?"
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "4420",
    "Idiom": [
      "in the valley of the blind, the one-eyed man is king",
      "in the land of the blind, the one-eyed man is king",
      "in the country of the blind, the one-eyed man is king"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Limited abilities can be valued more in a less capable context.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "4421-1",
    "Idiom": [
      "in the wake of"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Following.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "4421-2",
    "Idiom": [
      "in the wake of"
    ],
    "Meaning": "As a result of.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "4422",
    "Idiom": [
      "in the way"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Obstructing or blocking.",
    "Sentence": [
      "I really wanted a clear photo of the president, but all the journalists were in the way."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "4423-1",
    "Idiom": [
      "in the way of"
    ],
    "Meaning": "In relation to.",
    "Sentence": [
      "He had seen Death many times, - met him in the way of trade, and got acquainted with him.",
      "Of what that involves in the way of doctrine I have no idea nor the time to inform myself.",
      "Certainly their extracurricular talents in the way of sport have not gone unnoticed."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "4423-2",
    "Idiom": [
      "in the way of"
    ],
    "Meaning": "In a position to achieve something.",
    "Sentence": [
      "The King sought out the farmer who had been branded and sold as a slave... and put him in the way of a comfortable livelihood.",
      "But it would certainly put her in the way of a grand marriage.",
      "I am in the way of knowing that one of you will not reach your destination, but I don’t know which will be the one to fall. I am in the way of knowing that the rest will be taken before this man Flagg, who is not a man at all but a supernatural being. It’s not my place to argue with you, or convince, but only to put you in the way of understanding God’s plan for you."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "4423-3",
    "Idiom": [
      "in the way of"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Similar to.",
    "Sentence": [
      "\"My dear young friend, rely upon my doing my little all in your absence, by keeping the fact before the mind of Joseph.—Joseph!\" said Mr. Pumblechook, in the way of a compassionate adjuration.",
      "I don't think there's anything in the way of a haircut or a shave or a shampoo that could make me like my girl any less."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "4424-1",
    "Idiom": [
      "in the weeds"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Immersed in details or complexities.",
    "Sentence": [
      "It was in a series of such back-and-forth sessions that Rumsfeld crafted the war on Iraq.... Generals were alarmed to see a Defense Secretary get so far down in the weeds of a military operation.",
      "Mr. Obama devoted so much time to the Afghan issue — nearly 11 hours on the day after Thanksgiving alone — that he joked, “I’ve got more deeply in the weeds than a president should, and now you guys need to solve this.”",
      "In order to ban prop trading, you first have to define it, and when you try, you are immediately in the weeds."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "4424-2",
    "Idiom": [
      "in the weeds"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Overwhelmed with tasks.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Anger may be the only recourse when you're \" in the weeds,\" as chefs call the nightmare of not being ready when orders pour in and you fall behind and can't see a way out.",
      "She saw that she was in the weeds on every front. There were unanswered phone messages from a food writer at the Times, from an editor at Gourmet, and from the latest restaurateur hoping to steal Brian’s chef.",
      "She took on way too much work in the kitchen and didn't know when to say when.... Like one of the judges said, \"No matter how great a chef you are, once you get in the weeds, it's over.\""
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "4425-1",
    "Idiom": [
      "in the wind",
      "spit in the wind",
      "spit into the wind"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Imminent.",
    "Sentence": [
      "There is something in the wind, that we cannot get in.",
      "There's trouble in the wind, my boys.",
      "A grand strategic bargain between Russia and the US could be in the wind, after years of deteriorating relations.",
      "In this period, road building continued unabated, but change was in the wind as the UK government recognised it had to make more use of the rail network and increase investment on a scale that it could not afford, and which would require private sector participation."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "4426-2",
    "Idiom": [
      "in the wind"
    ],
    "Meaning": "At an unknown location, especially when lost to authorities.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "4427",
    "Idiom": [
      "in the wink of an eye"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Instantaneously.",
    "Sentence": [
      "\"The Silver Shoes,\" said the Good Witch, \"have wonderful powers. And one of the most curious things about them is that they can carry you to any place in the world in three steps, and each step will be made in the wink of an eye. All you have to do is to knock the heels together three times and command the shoes to carry you wherever you wish to go.\""
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "4428",
    "Idiom": [
      "in the works",
      "throw a monkey wrench in the works",
      "throw a wrench in the gears",
      "throw a wrench in the works"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Being planned or developed.",
    "Sentence": [
      "They always have some wonderful new project in the works."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "4429",
    "Idiom": [
      "in the world"
    ],
    "Meaning": "An intensifier used in questions.",
    "Sentence": [
      "\"My darling child!\" she cried, folding the little girl in her arms and covering her face with kisses. \"Where in the world did you come from?\"",
      "What in the world was that?",
      "Who in the world would want to do that?"
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "4430",
    "Idiom": [
      "in the worst way"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Urgently or desperately.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Man, I need a life in the worst way.",
      "I wanted this to work in the worst way because my reputation was on the line here....",
      "Stern as well as assorted television executives needed a game seven in the worst way, and \"the worst way\" might be how they're getting one.",
      "I need a drink of water in the worst way."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "4431",
    "Idiom": [
      "in the wrong place at the wrong time"
    ],
    "Meaning": "At a location or in a situation where something bad occurs by chance.",
    "Sentence": [
      "... W.H. Waring (Dellow) nearly cut short the life of a native of those parts who was in the wrong place at the wrong time, and J.W. Cox got his Dellow up at incredible speed, with the front wheels leaping in the air most of the way.",
      "It is a perplexing expression, since many of these young people were not in the \"wrong place.\"... I believe that when they say \"I guess I was in the wrong place at the wrong time,\" they are reflecting on the randomness of violence."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "4432",
    "Idiom": [
      "in the zone"
    ],
    "Meaning": "In a state of focused concentration.",
    "Sentence": [
      "It's when I'm in the zone that I feel by myself, the most vibrantly alone.",
      "Just let yourself play, enjoying all of the feelings and sensations that come when you are in the zone.",
      "Athletes in these circumstances comment on the pain, but often refer to the experience as being \" in the zone,\" a condition of distraction...",
      "Indeed, game researchers Bryce and Rutter (2001) reported that the feeling many gamers have of being in the zone (ie, totally engrossed, losing sense of time) is comparable to what athletes experience on the field.",
      "These elements represent the essential features of optimal performances, which athletes have described as \"hot,\" \"in a groove,\" \"on a roll,\" or \" in the zone \"."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "4433",
    "Idiom": [
      "in this day and age"
    ],
    "Meaning": "In the current era.",
    "Sentence": [
      "In this day and age, our understanding of, well, everything is molded far more by social media than any Socratic questioning."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "4434",
    "Idiom": [
      "in thunderation"
    ],
    "Meaning": "In any circumstances.",
    "Sentence": [
      "How in thunderation could anyone anticipate a result like this?",
      "Where in thunderation have you been?",
      "Why in thunderation should I believe anything you say?",
      "There is no way in thunderation that I'm going to that wedding."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "4435",
    "Idiom": [
      "in token of"
    ],
    "Meaning": "As an indication of.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Therefore be it knowne, / As to vs, to all the World, That Caius Martius / Weares this Warres Garland: in token of the which, / My Noble Steed, knowne to the Campe, I giue him, With all his trim belonging;",
      "Let euery one of vs speake a sentence: hee that shall ouercome, & whose sentence shall seeme wiser then the others, vnto him shall the king Darius giue great gifts, and great things in token of victory:"
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "4436",
    "Idiom": [
      "in too deep"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Involved in a situation that is difficult to escape.",
    "Sentence": [
      "But he didn’t regret killing Qian. The doctor was in too deep. The notes on the flash drive showed a steady progression into dementia, a deteriorating mental state directly linked to incidents of exposure to Sovereign.",
      "We are simply in too deep to consider extrication from today's technologically infused world. To assert the contrary is akin to seeking disconnection from the human race itself.",
      "I believe, I believe, I believe, I believe / That I'm in too deep / And jealousy, jealousy, jealousy, jealousy / Get the best in me"
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "4437",
    "Idiom": [
      "in touch"
    ],
    "Meaning": "In contact or communication.",
    "Sentence": [
      "I must keep in touch with Jesus / For he will keep in touch with me",
      "Dear Trevor The reason I'm writing is because I've lost your address and have no way of getting in touch with you. For that reason, chances are you won't receive this, in which case you should not feel obligated to reply. If however, this letter does reach you and you wish to answer, please enclose your current address so I will know where to send this. By the way, you can ignore the return address on this envelope, as I am moving next week and, although I don't yet have my new address, I will be sending it along as soon as I hear from you.",
      "The WSR has remained in touch with GO-OP, despite the group deciding to back away from the project in the short term.",
      "Let's stay in touch.",
      "I'm not reachable over the weekend, but I'll be in touch early in the week.",
      "How can I get in touch with her? It's urgent."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "4438",
    "Idiom": [
      "in two shakes"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Very quickly.",
    "Sentence": [
      "by George! we would souse the Lords o' the Admiralty themselves, if they were here, in a couple of shakes",
      "She tried to get the case open.... \"I wish Father was here,\" said Phyllis; \"he'd get it open in two shakes.\"",
      "I'll have coffee ready in two shakes of a cow's tail.",
      "I'll be back in two shakes of a dog's tail.",
      "In two shakes of a duck's tail Gussie, with all that lapping about inside him, will be distributing the prizes at Market Snodsbury Grammar School.",
      "Skilled sheep shearers can get the wool off a ewe in two shakes of a lamb's tail."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "4439",
    "Idiom": [
      "in unity, there is strength"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Collaboration leads to greater success than individual efforts.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "4440-1",
    "Idiom": [
      "in vain"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Without success or a result.",
    "Sentence": [
      "that we here highly resolve that these dead shall not have died in vain",
      "On the mountains of truth you can never climb in vain.",
      "For some time Grannie tried in vain to comfort her.",
      "All these great plans were in vain, however, for in the cold dawn following the \"Mania\" years of 1845–46 the M.B.M. & M.J.R. project was truncated to an 11 + 1 ⁄ 2 -mile line from Ambergate to Rowsley."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "4440-2",
    "Idiom": [
      "in vain"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Lacking proper respect or sincerity.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Methinks I see him even now in my mind's eye;— the firm and upright figure,— the step, quick and determined, — the eye, which shot so keen and so penetrating a glance,— the features on which care had already planted wrinkles, and hear his language, in which he never wasted word in vain, expressed in a voice which had sometimes an occasional harshness, far from the intention of the speaker.",
      "A fetishist regime attempts to annul the separation of image and spectator, to reinstall an immediate relation that promises (in vain) to provide satisfaction to desire itself.",
      "This petition is the reverse side of the commandment against taking God's name in vain.",
      "McLaren's task, it seems, is to set Jesus in a more appropriate and biblical context so that we won't use his name “ in vain.”",
      "That's fine. I know you won't engage your word in vain."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "4440-3",
    "Idiom": [
      "in vain"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Unsuccessful, failed.",
    "Sentence": [
      "The problems concerning contrast induced hyperemia and the in vain efforts to search for a contrast agent not influencing flow",
      "Their efforts were in vain and he succumbed to his injuries."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "4441",
    "Idiom": [
      "in view of"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Considering.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Mr. Thomas adds that, by the time it was scrapped, Kingsley was in very bad condition, little more than a shell in fact. In view of the rough usage to which the engine had been subjected, this is not surprising.",
      "France, he said, was “almost a Bolshevik country”, in view of the “hidden scandals” such as that of the former Budget minister Jerome Cahuza"
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "4442-1",
    "Idiom": [
      "in vino veritas"
    ],
    "Meaning": "In wine, there is truth.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "4442-2",
    "Idiom": [
      "in vino veritas"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Alcohol can reveal a person's true feelings.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "4443",
    "Idiom": [
      "in with a chance"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Having a chance.",
    "Sentence": [
      "I doubt I'll ever win the lottery, but as long as I buy a ticket I'm in with a chance."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "4444",
    "Idiom": [
      "in words of one syllable"
    ],
    "Meaning": "In simple, straightforward language.",
    "Sentence": [
      "I am at present engaged in preparing a vest-pocket edition of the philosophical works of Schopenhauer in words of one syllable.",
      "So I explained in words of one syllable that I went there to pick edelweiss from the fire escapes.",
      "Felix propounded the story of the arrest, so far as might be, in words of one syllable.",
      "The President used \" words of one syllable \" to convey his insistence that Poland be \"free and independent\".",
      "Or, in words of one syllable, it's Cirque's sex show."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "4445",
    "Idiom": [
      "in your dreams"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Expresses skepticism about someone's unrealistic expectations.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "4446",
    "Idiom": [
      "in your face"
    ],
    "Meaning": "A triumphal or mocking remark.",
    "Sentence": [
      "I got picked for the cheerleading squad, and YOU didn't. In your face !"
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "4447",
    "Idiom": [
      "inch-perfect"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Perfectly measured.",
    "Sentence": [
      "When the second goal came, it was a belter - Fabregas launching an inch-perfect ball over the top for Van Persie to volley in without breaking stride."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "4448-1",
    "Idiom": [
      "ink in"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To schedule in a calendar.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "4448-2",
    "Idiom": [
      "ink in"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To sign a document.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "4449-1",
    "Idiom": [
      "inner circle"
    ],
    "Meaning": "A group of closest friends or associates.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "4449-2",
    "Idiom": [
      "inner circle"
    ],
    "Meaning": "A small, exclusive group of people close to power.",
    "Sentence": [
      "It was upon his return to London that Bok learned, through the confidence of a member of the British “ inner circle,” the amazing news that the war was practically over: that Bulgaria had capitulated and was suing for peace;",
      "Sassoon used the close relationship of Yedidia and Bankman-Fried to explore the FTX inner circle ’s luxe lifestyle and allege how it hid a house of cards."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "4450",
    "Idiom": [
      "inner strength"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Mental resilience and determination.",
    "Sentence": [
      "In any trouble, such as was this about the necklace, there would come over his face a look of weakness which betrayed the want of real inner strength.",
      "To do as your aunt and uncle in their kindness wish, would, I am sore afraid, end in depriving you of the inner strength and happiness which God only gives to those who do their duty and try courageously to repair their errors.",
      "First, it says the candidate has the inner strength or the wisdom or whatever it takes to address the unpredictable challenges he or she will face if elected."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "4451",
    "Idiom": [
      "ins and outs"
    ],
    "Meaning": "The details or fine points of something.",
    "Sentence": [
      "After a few months, you will know all the ins and outs of the system thoroughly."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "4452-1",
    "Idiom": [
      "inside baseball"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Technical matters often unnoticed by the general audience.",
    "Sentence": [
      "There always has been a tendency to overlook the catcher, possibly because so much of him is covered up during the game, but more because the greatest part of his work is inside baseball and of the kind which the general public can neither see nor appreciate.",
      "Here, the game is marked by the \"little things\" that have come to be defined as \" inside baseball \"."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "4452-2",
    "Idiom": [
      "inside baseball"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Matters of interest to insiders.",
    "Sentence": [
      "But in fact, redistricting remained very much a game of inside baseball.",
      "the more inside-baseball the name, the nerdier the subject matter."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "4453",
    "Idiom": [
      "inside job"
    ],
    "Meaning": "A crime committed by someone with a relationship to the victim.",
    "Sentence": [
      "... while the police are calling it an inside job just because the old lady's nephew teaches a Bible class.",
      "It seems to me it must have been what the police at home call \" an inside job \"; because whoever it was apparently knew the combination of the safe.",
      "In Britain, where the British BeeKeepers Association (BBKA) has been urging members to microchip their hives for some time, the continuing mystery and the belief that the crimes are inside jobs are taking their toll."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "4454",
    "Idiom": [
      "inside joke"
    ],
    "Meaning": "A joke understood only by a specific group.",
    "Sentence": [
      "After the incident with the potato peeler, references to potatoes became an inside joke among the witnesses."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "4455-1",
    "Idiom": [
      "inside out"
    ],
    "Meaning": "With the inside turned outside.",
    "Sentence": [
      "I now realise that I have my shirt on inside out."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "4455-2",
    "Idiom": [
      "inside out"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Thoroughly.",
    "Sentence": [
      "I know IBM Assembler Language inside out."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "4455-3",
    "Idiom": [
      "inside out"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Completely.",
    "Sentence": [
      "We're hometown hockey fans inside out."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "4455-4",
    "Idiom": [
      "inside out"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Describes a pitch hit to the off side.",
    "Sentence": [
      "He hit the ball inside out in an ugly manner, but scored a four."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "4456",
    "Idiom": [
      "inside scoop"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Exclusive or confidential information.",
    "Sentence": [
      "I welcome the opportunity to give you the inside scoop on the raunchiest crew of lungers who ever rode a mattress.",
      "Whether you have heard of the center or not, or taken some of its courses, you may be interested in getting some of the inside scoop.",
      "Having spent weeks talking to middle-class pot-smokers (over 30) all around the city, I traveled to the tip of Manhattan for the inside scoop from the Federal Bureau of Narcotics & Dangerous Drugs.",
      "A lot of young men are getting the inside scoop about the Air Force Academy from the outside."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "4457",
    "Idiom": [
      "inside the box"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Restricted by convention.",
    "Sentence": [
      "\"To the extent the box keeps the outside world away — then, yes, it is better to think inside the box.\""
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "4458",
    "Idiom": [
      "installed base"
    ],
    "Meaning": "The number of currently used units of a system or product.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "4459",
    "Idiom": [
      "interpret away"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To reinterpret a text contrary to its original meaning.",
    "Sentence": [
      "While there is much room for reassessing the specifics, the basic fact that the Bible teaches some form of patriarchy cannot be interpreted away."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "4460",
    "Idiom": [
      "into detail"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Thoroughly, including every detail.",
    "Sentence": [
      "I don't know much about it, so I hope I don't have to go into detail."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "4461",
    "Idiom": [
      "into thin air"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Disappeared suddenly and without explanation.",
    "Sentence": [
      "He seemed to vanish into thin air."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "4462",
    "Idiom": [
      "iron eagle"
    ],
    "Meaning": "An American military officer at the rank of colonel.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "4463",
    "Idiom": [
      "iron fist"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Ruthless control.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Joseph Stalin ruled the Soviet Union with an iron fist."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "4464",
    "Idiom": [
      "ironing board"
    ],
    "Meaning": "A flat-chested woman.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "4465",
    "Idiom": [
      "irons in the fire"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Tasks in progress.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Although she plans to step back from the boards of NSAR and East West Rail, there are \"a couple of other irons in the fire \"."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "4466",
    "Idiom": [
      "it ain't over till it's over"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Don't assume the outcome until something has concluded.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "4467",
    "Idiom": [
      "it ain't over until the fat lady sings",
      "it ain't over 'til the fat lady sings",
      "it's not over till the fat lady sings",
      "it's not over until the fat lady sings",
      "it's not over 'til the fat lady sings",
      "it isn't over till the fat lady sings",
      "it ain't over till the fat lady sings",
      "it isn't over 'til the fat lady sings",
      "it isn't over until the fat lady sings"
    ],
    "Meaning": "One should not assume the outcome of an event that's still in progress.",
    "Sentence": [
      "When the score climbs to 10–1, I ask him how it feels. A huge grin spreads across his face as he replies, “Great.” Some pitchers would try to be tough in the situation: It’s not over till the fat lady sings, the last man is out, and all that. Not Sid . He’s happy and why hide it?",
      "“Gee, we’re slowing down? We may be tight on fuel—” / “This would be really tough,” Dick said, “if we had to sweat fuel. You know how I hate to sweat fuel.” Hah, hah. Little did we know. / The guy in charge of this gauntlet we were running was not going to let us home free. He was going to make us sweat every damn mile. / “Well,” I kept reminding Dick, “remember it’s not over till the fat lady sings.”",
      "I’m reminded of what he often said to audiences: “Fasten your seat belts!” And as Bette Davis said, “It’s going to be a bumpy night!” However, as with both of these icons—for whom theatrical producing was always worthwhile—with results still only in sight, we must acknowledge that “ It’s not over till the fat lady sings ” (and the bills are paid).",
      "“I figure between fifteen and seventeen hours. She’s already coming out of rigor.” / Dina did a fast calculation. “So that would be somewhere between four and six p.m. yesterday.” / “ Don’t count your chicks, Lieutenant. It’s not over ’til the fat lady sings.” / “I’m approximating. Cause?”",
      "She didn’t remember the rest of the auditions. They passed in a haze of certain failure. Finally, the ordeal was over. Barri couldn’t get out of the auditorium fast enough! As she and Melanie started for the doors, Joel caught up with them. Noticing Barri’s glum expression, he slung his arms around Barri’s and Melanie’s shoulders. “ It’s not over ’til the fat lady sings,” he reminded them. “She just did,” Barri replied sadly, “only she was wearing a disguise and looked like a tall, thin, beautiful redhead.”",
      "\"There's hundreds of them out there!\" he hissed \"And they've got a battering ram! We're done for!\" Sera bit her lip. Then she came to a decision. \" It's not over 'til the fat lady sings !\" she shouted gathering up her dwarven artefacts. \"Or until the fat lady doesn't get reinforcements and gets stepped on by a giant, in my case! Here, take a weapon or two.\"",
      "Despite Yaffe’s ruling, Bradford said he was unbothered by Tuesday’s decision. “ It’s not over until the fat lady sings, and you can quote me on that,” he said, noting his intention to appeal Yaffe’s decision.",
      "Just when you think it’s all over, there’s another tale to be told … What do they say? ‘ It’s not over until the fat lady sings.’",
      "“Of course we can’t treat anything as being in the bag. Not just yet.” / Claire appeared to agree. “Naturally. What do they say? It’s not over until the fat lady sings.” / “It’s not over until Terence is kind enough to sign. Which he will.”"
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "4468-1",
    "Idiom": [
      "it ain't the meat, it's the motion",
      "it's not the meat, it's the motion"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Technique during intimacy is more important than size.",
    "Sentence": [
      "It ain't the meat it's the motion /That makes your daddy want to rock/ It ain't the meat it's the motion /It's the movement it ain't the stock.",
      "We girls know the truth in that old song “ It Ain't the Meat, It's the Motion,” but no matter how confident a man is, he secretly believes that the motion just isn't enough.",
      "'What that they say, girl: it ain't the meat it's the motion ?' 'They lie.' And I go and kiss his cock as it rests half soft on his thigh.",
      "Richard's hands are on her hips and he's poking once in a while but he isn't as big as she'd have thought but then again it's not the meat it's the motion that makes your baby want to rock...",
      "There's a book of simple answers for that: The Codes. But you miss the context. It's not the meat, it's the motion. It's the way they reason."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "4469-2",
    "Idiom": [
      "it ain't the meat, it's the motion"
    ],
    "Meaning": "The way one uses tools is more important than the tools themselves.",
    "Sentence": [
      "When the engineer was asked by other clients, \"Can you make the drums sound like Bonham?,\" he simply smiled and said, \"Sure! Just play like 'im!\" So lesson number one is that it ain't the meat, it's the motion, to paraphrase the old blues tune.",
      "By focusing on the medium rather than the message, the pottery rather than the pattern, the typeface rather than the tale, philosophers who claim that something ineffable about carbon's chemistry is indispensable for consciousness miss the boat. As Daniel Dennett once wittily remarked in a rejoinder to John Searle's tiresome \"right-stuff\" refrain, \" It ain't the meat, it's the motion.\"",
      "So it ain't the meat, it's the motion. That said, we all like new tools and cool gear."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "4470",
    "Idiom": [
      "it ain't the whistle that pulls the train",
      "the whistle does not pull the train",
      "the whistle doesn't pull the train",
      "it is not the whistle that pulls the train",
      "it's not the whistle that pulls the train",
      "it isn't the whistle that pulls the train"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Bravado does not equate to actual achievement.",
    "Sentence": [
      "“In the words of the nursery rhyme,” says Mr. Green, “‘ it isn't the whistle that pulls the train.’”",
      "Until then, remember, don't brag, it's not the whistle that pulls the train.",
      "The shiny aluminum body of the 1928 Peerless race car with its rumble seat and purchase price of 50 dollars must have put Kenwood in a boastful mood because Grandma Proper immediately stated, “Kenwood you must remember that it is not the whistle that pulls the train.”"
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "4471",
    "Idiom": [
      "it can't be helped"
    ],
    "Meaning": "It is inevitable.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "4472",
    "Idiom": [
      "it figures",
      "that figures"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Indicates something is unsurprising based on known facts.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "4473",
    "Idiom": [
      "it is a wise child that knows his own father"
    ],
    "Meaning": "One can never be sure of one's paternity.",
    "Sentence": [
      "\"My mother,\" answered Telemachus, \"tells me I am son to Ulysses, but it is a wise child that knows his own father.\""
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "4474",
    "Idiom": [
      "it is always darkest just before the dawn",
      "the darkest hour is just before the dawn",
      "it is darkest before the dawn",
      "the darkest hour is always just before the dawn",
      "it is always darkest before the dawn",
      "it is darkest just before the dawn"
    ],
    "Meaning": "The worst situation comes before a good one.",
    "Sentence": [
      "While I'm far away from you my baby / Whisper a little prayer for me my baby / Because it's hard for me my baby / And the darkest hour is just before dawn",
      "“Sometimes the darkest hour is just before the dawn,” he said.",
      "“‘ The darkest hour is just before dawn.’ I indulged myself in total chaos, ordering it made me get clearance again,” Sevdaliza said via email. Her debut album is set for 2017.",
      "The New Day's downfall was a combination of bad storytelling and an ill-advised gimmick in a cynical era. But the overly positive group will be the first to tell you that the darkest hour is just before the dawn."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "4475",
    "Idiom": [
      "it is better to travel hopefully than to arrive"
    ],
    "Meaning": "The journey is more important than the destination.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "4476",
    "Idiom": [
      "it is easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle than for a rich man to enter into the kingdom of God"
    ],
    "Meaning": "It is unlikely that the wealthy will go to heaven.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "4477",
    "Idiom": [
      "it is easy to be wise after the event"
    ],
    "Meaning": "It's easy to judge decisions after their outcomes are known.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Tuchel may wonder whether he should have kept the unbeatable Mendy on for penalties after his heroic performance but it is easy to be wise after the event and Kepa has proved his quality from penalties in the past."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "4478",
    "Idiom": [
      "it is easy to find a stick to beat a dog"
    ],
    "Meaning": "If determined to blame someone, a reason will be found.",
    "Sentence": [
      "The ancient Prouerbe will be well effected, A Staffe is quickly found to beat a Dogge.",
      "For all this, however, poor Tom smarted in the flesh; for though Thwackum had been inhibited to exercise his arm on the foregoing account, yet, as the proverb says, It is easy to find a stick, &c. So was it easy to find a rod; and, indeed, the not being able to find one was the only thing which could have kept Thwackum any long time from chastising poor Jones."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "4479",
    "Idiom": [
      "it is what it is"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Expresses resignation to a situation without complaint.",
    "Sentence": [
      "I shall not criticize the Treaty of Versailles. It is a fact. It is what it is.",
      "I would prefer to start further up than where I am, but it is what it is and we'll just go out there and get to work.",
      "Air Force One comin' in through the gate Johnson sworn in at 2:38 Let me know when you decide to throw in the towel It is what it is, and it's murder most foul",
      "Unfortunately the insurance doesn't cover that. Sorry, but it is what it is."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "4480",
    "Idiom": [
      "it never rains but it pours",
      "it never rains but that it pours"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Unfortunate events occur in abundance.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "4481",
    "Idiom": [
      "it pays to advertise"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Good qualities need promotion to be recognized.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "4482",
    "Idiom": [
      "it takes a heap of living to make a house a home",
      "it takes a heap o' livin' to make a house a home",
      "it takes a lot of living to make a house a home"
    ],
    "Meaning": "A house becomes a home through life experiences and emotional connections.",
    "Sentence": [
      "We often hear the famous lines quoted that it takes a heap of living to make a house a home, but we have to recognize that the family cannot do it without a house in which to start.",
      "It may take a heap of living to make a house a home, as the old cross-stitched samplers used to urge, but a commission-collecting realtor cannot deposit a six percent cut of a seller's hearth sentiments in a bank account.",
      "Just as \" it takes a heap of living to make a house a home,\" and just as it takes character to turn an individual into a reliable person, so it takes sustained moral human interactions to make any institution viable."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "4483",
    "Idiom": [
      "it takes a village to raise a child"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Community support is essential for a child's healthy development.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "4484",
    "Idiom": [
      "it takes all kinds to make a world"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Diversity is essential.",
    "Sentence": [
      "He irons his clothes how ?! That's crazy! Well, I guess it takes all kinds to make a world."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "4485",
    "Idiom": [
      "it takes all sorts"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Everyone is different.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "4486",
    "Idiom": [
      "it takes all sorts to make a world",
      "it takes all kinds"
    ],
    "Meaning": "All kinds of people contribute to the world.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "4487",
    "Idiom": [
      "it takes one to know one"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Implying that one must possess certain qualities to recognize them in others.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "4488",
    "Idiom": [
      "it takes two to make a quarrel"
    ],
    "Meaning": "One cannot blame a quarrel entirely on one side.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "4489",
    "Idiom": [
      "it takes two to tango"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Some things require cooperation from both parties.",
    "Sentence": [
      "I can't do it by myself, and neither can you – it takes two to tango.",
      "He started it! Well, it takes two to tango."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "4490",
    "Idiom": [
      "it took nixon to go to china",
      "only nixon can go to china",
      "only Nixon could go to China"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Only a respected leader can act against their own values without losing credibility.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "4491",
    "Idiom": [
      "it wasn't only only"
    ],
    "Meaning": "An act or task was harder than it seems.",
    "Sentence": [
      "But but, it wasn't only only.",
      "Then you could use http client again 🙂 still a bit hacky, but but it isn’t only only",
      "It wasn't only only, but but.",
      "It isn’t only only, to be a fly fisherman today.",
      "It's not only only, but but"
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "4492-1",
    "Idiom": [
      "it's a long road that has no turning"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Progress through life involves change.",
    "Sentence": [
      "It is a long road that has no turning; and the road the Labour Government is travelling will have a turning, too. Like every new Government, it is making changes; but the present Administration is making a welter of it.",
      "The next two decades were a political education for Taft as he moved from civil governor of the Philippine Islands to Secretary of War, President of the United States, Kent Professor at Yale and co-chairman of the National War Labor Board. It is a long road that has no turning though.",
      "“ It's a long road that has no turning, and so Lena and I have rounded the corner. We have a healthy baby girl."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "4492-2",
    "Idiom": [
      "it's a long road that has no turning"
    ],
    "Meaning": "The situation is likely to change eventually.",
    "Sentence": [
      "He was of a wild and restless disposition in those days, and his acquaintances were wont to call him by the name of Jack the Rambler. But it is a long road that has no turning,—he had now been many years at sea,—was the captain of a free trader, and as remarkable for his steadiness and worldly wisdom as he had been noted for wildness in his youth.",
      "He never has had any rights. Whenever anyone wanted anything the stockman was using he simply took it, and the Federal Government stood behind him to back him up. But it is a long road that has no turning, and it is a long dog that has no tail. The stockman's day has arrived if he only has the gumption to see it and to take advantage of it.",
      "Well, it's a long road that has no turning. Something has got to drop some o' these days. Anyhow, we'll have to stick it out as best we can. It will come all right in a hundred years or so, and our present enlistments can't last forever.",
      "I was rather startled at the sudden despondency of her tone. Apparently the road that Mrs. Samway trod was not strewn with roses. \"Still,\" I said,\" it is a long road that has no turning.\" \"It is,\" she agreed, bitterly, \"but many have to travel such a road, to find the turning at last barred by the churchyard gate.\""
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "4493",
    "Idiom": [
      "it's a man's world"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Society favors males, especially in positions of authority.",
    "Sentence": [
      "The real issue, says Fox, \"is whether male and female roles are totally flexible and reversible.\" As far as Fox is concerned, the answer is no. Millett admits that \" All I did was substantiate a cliche which we all know — that it's a man's world.\"",
      "It's a man's world. But the fact that men dominate television makes it a kind of zoo in which to study them.",
      "Blame culture. Or genes. Or Dilbert. In engineering, it's a man's world — for now.",
      "\" It's a man's world — the top echelons of politics and business here are all dominated by men,\" said Emily Lau."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "4494-1",
    "Idiom": [
      "it's a tough job, but someone's got to do it"
    ],
    "Meaning": "The job is difficult and undesirable.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Firefighters have to put themselves in serious danger in order to save lives. It's a tough job, but someone's got to do it."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "4494-2",
    "Idiom": [
      "it's a tough job, but someone's got to do it"
    ],
    "Meaning": "The role is difficult but necessary.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Most days, firefighters get paid to do nothing at all. It's a tough job, but someone's got to do it !"
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "4495",
    "Idiom": [
      "it's about time"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Expresses impatience over something long overdue.",
    "Sentence": [
      "So Johnny has finally learned the alphabet - it's about time too, he's 6!"
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "4496",
    "Idiom": [
      "it's all Greek to me"
    ],
    "Meaning": "I don't understand it.",
    "Sentence": [
      "During the processions they trilled and quavered most melodiously betwixt their teeth I do not know what antiphones, or chantings, by turns. For my part, ’twas all Hebrew-Greek to me, the devil a word I could pick out on’t;",
      "\"Well,\" said Alfred, \"it may be a letter, but I confess it is all Greek to me. I certainly do not see why you wish to keep it a secret. Tell me.\"",
      "I ran after him, and received an order to go aloft and “slush down the main-top mast.” This was all Greek to me, and after receiving the order, I stood staring about me, wondering what it was that was to be done.",
      "“Look here, Mr. Count,” he said; “I am only a rough Englishman, and a lot of what you have been saying about mission and that sort of thing is just so much Greek to me.”",
      "“It's more like some firm's paper. All this printed stuff at the top. Drachenflieger. Drachenballons. Ballonstoffe. Kugelballons. Greek to me.”",
      "A Parsi lawyer was examining a witness and asking him question regarding credit and debit entries in account books. It was all Greek to me.",
      "Cavanaugh explained the network-affiliate relationship, which of course was all Greek to me and remained so even after his explanation.",
      "it was expected of me, or it was considered an honor, to lecture on seventeenth-century philosophy: Descartes (which was all Greek to me), Descartes to Spinoza.",
      "I tried reading the instructions, but it’s all Greek to me."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "4497",
    "Idiom": [
      "it's all fun and games until someone loses an eye"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Rough play can lead to injury.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "4498",
    "Idiom": [
      "it's all good"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Expresses unconcern.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "4499",
    "Idiom": [
      "it's an ill bird that fouls its own nest"
    ],
    "Meaning": "A condemnation of self-damaging behavior.",
    "Sentence": [
      "They say it's an ill bird that fouls its own nest. My own feeling is that a well-behaved bird will neither foul its own nest nor another's, but that, finding it in any wise foul, it will openly say so, and clean it.",
      "It's an ill bird that fouls his own nest, and we are all Scots folk and all Hieland.",
      "The saying, “ It's an ill bird that fouls its own nest ” expresses the most universal of ethical norms, and is probably the source of all such norms.",
      "He admitted then to having had, for two years, “documents in [his] possession sufficient to have destroyed [the Fenians operating in Montreal], but [he had] thought it was an ill bird that fouled its own nest."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "4500",
    "Idiom": [
      "it's an ill wind that blows no one any good",
      "it's an ill wind",
      "it's an ill wind that blows no good"
    ],
    "Meaning": "A situation that negatively affects everyone.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "4501",
    "Idiom": [
      "it's an ill wind that blows nobody any good"
    ],
    "Meaning": "An action must be very bad if it benefits no one.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "4502",
    "Idiom": [
      "it's better to ask forgiveness than permission",
      "it's easier to ask forgiveness than to get permission"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Act decisively and apologize later rather than seek approval and risk delays.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "4503",
    "Idiom": [
      "it's better to be judged by twelve than to be carried by six"
    ],
    "Meaning": "It’s wiser to act decisively than to face worse consequences through inaction.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "4504",
    "Idiom": [
      "it's five o'clock somewhere"
    ],
    "Meaning": "An excuse for drinking outside of customary hours.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "4505",
    "Idiom": [
      "it's lonely at the top"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Highly successful individuals often feel isolated.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "4506",
    "Idiom": [
      "it's never too late to mend"
    ],
    "Meaning": "It's never too late to change or learn.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "4507",
    "Idiom": [
      "it's none of your business"
    ],
    "Meaning": "It's a matter you're not entitled to know about.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "4508",
    "Idiom": [
      "it's not what you know but whom you know",
      "it's not what you know but who you know"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Success relies more on personal connections than on knowledge or skills.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Eighty-four students referred to political influence as a disadvantage of federal employment with such remarks as: \"There are too many political connections necessary... it's not what you know but who you know —in spite of apparent merit systems.\"",
      "\"In Hollywood, it's not what you know but who you know,\" said Cross, who added that the awards ceremony was the perfect place to make connections.",
      "\" It's not what you know but who you know,\" Shelby said, as she rummaged through a bag to find the business card he'd handed her."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "4509",
    "Idiom": [
      "it's not what you say but how you say it"
    ],
    "Meaning": "The tone and delivery of communication are as important as the content.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Say the punch line loud and clear. You can even increase your volume and really emphasize the last word. Sometimes it's not what you say but how you say it."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "4510",
    "Idiom": [
      "it's the hit dog that howls"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Someone who complains is likely affected by the issue.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "4511",
    "Idiom": [
      "it's the thought that counts"
    ],
    "Meaning": "The kindness behind an act is more important than the act itself.",
    "Sentence": [
      "I know the gift he gave you for your wedding is not worth much, but I hope you'll understand it's the thought that counts."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "4512",
    "Idiom": [
      "itch the ditch"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To masturbate.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "4513-1",
    "Idiom": [
      "itchy feet"
    ],
    "Meaning": "A strong desire to travel.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "4513-2",
    "Idiom": [
      "itchy feet"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Restlessness.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "4514",
    "Idiom": [
      "itchy trigger finger"
    ],
    "Meaning": "A tendency to act hastily or without consideration.",
    "Sentence": [
      "They all have an itchy trigger finger when it comes to advertising.",
      "Under these kinds of circumstances, players with significant exposure, tight stops, and itchy trigger fingers can end up overreacting to what is essentially noise.",
      "Look at Afghanistan and Iraq, it's plain to see that our current President has an itchy trigger finger.",
      "Given any remote chance to gun down an effective spokesman for conservative economics as a secret fascist and torturer, even Nobel laureates can, we see, succumb to an itchy trigger finger."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "4515-1",
    "Idiom": [
      "iura novit curia"
    ],
    "Meaning": "The court knows the applicable law.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "4515-2",
    "Idiom": [
      "iura novit curia"
    ],
    "Meaning": "The court knows the law.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "4516",
    "Idiom": [
      "ivory tower"
    ],
    "Meaning": "A sheltered, disconnected perspective.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Hamilton College is an ivory tower with an open bar, and so I - who work and play equally hard - have come to love this place, and have been dead-set against leaving it.",
      "Since the launch early last year of two Silicon Valley start-ups offering free education through MOOCs, massive open online courses, the ivory towers of academia have been shaken to their foundations. University brands built in some cases over centuries have been forced to contemplate the possibility that information technology will rapidly make their existing business model obsolete.",
      "Such a proposal looks fine from an ivory tower, but it could never work in real life."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "4517",
    "Idiom": [
      "jack in"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To stop a regular activity.",
    "Sentence": [
      "And when I came round, after a couple of months of darkness, I found to my surprise that I had jacked in my course and was working in Record and Tape Exchange in Camden.",
      "I've had enough of working nights, so I'm going to jack in my job.",
      "I'm going to jack my job in."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "4518",
    "Idiom": [
      "jack of all trades"
    ],
    "Meaning": "One competent in many areas, often perceived as not excelling in any.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Printer, postmaster, almanac maker, essayist, chemist, orator, tinker, statesman, humorist, philosopher, parlor man, political economist, professor of housewifery, ambassador, projector, maxim-monger, herb-doctor, wit:— Jack of all trades, master of each and mastered by none—the type and genius of his land.",
      "\"I am my own engineer, and my own carpenter, and my own plumber, and my own gardener, and my own Jack of all Trades,\" said Wemmick, in acknowledging my compliments.",
      "A fellow can always get some sort of a job—I was coming up here to see if they needed an extra clerk or a waiter, or chauffeur, or anything that meant a roof and something to eat—but I suppose they don't need a jack-of-all-trades.",
      "In 1823, when this drawing was made, there was anesthesia for dentistry and in fact very little dentistry except the extraction of teeth. Much of this extraction was conducted by itinerant quacks or jacks-of-all-trades who did it as a side line to their business."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "4519",
    "Idiom": [
      "jack of all trades, master of none"
    ],
    "Meaning": "A person with many skills but not exceptional in any.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "4520",
    "Idiom": [
      "jam today"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Availability of a resource now.",
    "Sentence": [
      "The consumption-possibilities curve illustrates the choice which must be made: more jam today means less jam tomorrow; less jam today means more jam tomorrow.",
      "A basic human characteristic is the preference for consumption today over consumption tomorrow. Jam today is always better than jam tomorrow, unless sufficient incentive is offered to forgo the immediate enjoyment of today's jam. This is not because of uncertainty about the likely receipt of tomorrow's jam, but merely a property of the passage of time.",
      "For one-period optimization, the obvious course of action to maximize consumption is to consume the whole of output by “eating up” the capital stock. The inapplicability of this tactic to an industrializing nation is transparent—it gets a lot of jam for today but leaves little for tomorrow. Jam today has therefore to be balanced against jam tomorrow."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "4521-1",
    "Idiom": [
      "jam tomorrow"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Promised benefits that never come.",
    "Sentence": [
      "The “purposive” man... does not love his cat, but his cat’s kittens; nor, in truth, the kittens, but only the kittens’ kittens, and so on forward forever to the end of cat-dom. For him jam is not jam unless it is a case of jam to-morrow and never jam to-day.",
      "Yet they've proved that common men can show astonishing fortitude in chasing jam tomorrow.",
      "It always seems to be a problem to be dealt with when resources (later) permit. Jam tomorrow, as usual."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "4521-2",
    "Idiom": [
      "jam tomorrow"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Availability of something promised in the future.",
    "Sentence": [
      "The consumption-possibilities curve illustrates the choice which must be made: more jam today means less jam tomorrow; less jam today means more jam tomorrow.",
      "A basic human characteristic is the preference for consumption today over consumption tomorrow. Jam today is always better than jam tomorrow, unless sufficient incentive is offered to forgo the immediate enjoyment of today's jam. This is not because of uncertainty about the likely receipt of tomorrow's jam, but merely a property of the passage of time.",
      "For one-period optimization, the obvious course of action to maximize consumption is to consume the whole of output by “eating up” the capital stock. The inapplicability of this tactic to an industrializing nation is transparent—it gets a lot of jam for today but leaves little for tomorrow. Jam today has therefore to be balanced against jam tomorrow."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "4522",
    "Idiom": [
      "jaw away"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To talk excessively.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "4523-1",
    "Idiom": [
      "jerk off"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To masturbate.",
    "Sentence": [
      "But to learn to love manhood, sooner or later you have to learn to jerk off in one particular way, to the exclusion of some other possible ways.",
      "Look at me, jerking off in the shower. This will be the highlight of my day. It's all downhill from here.",
      "My partner and I jerk off together sometimes."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "4523-2",
    "Idiom": [
      "jerk off"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To manually stimulate someone else's penis.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Once in cofessional I told a priest I had jerked off another boy. Man, you'd have thought I'd killed him. What a lecture I got about hell and damnation! I was hoping to get some guidance and understanding. That was the end of confessions for years.",
      "She jerked me off with both hands and it felt so good I almost started crying."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "4523-3",
    "Idiom": [
      "jerk off"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To waste time.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Stop jerking off. We've got a deadline."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "4523-4",
    "Idiom": [
      "jerk off"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To deceive.",
    "Sentence": [
      "He was jerking us all off about how advanced the project was."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "4523-5",
    "Idiom": [
      "jerk off"
    ],
    "Meaning": "An act of masturbation.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "4523-6",
    "Idiom": [
      "jerk off"
    ],
    "Meaning": "A stunt involving being pulled off a horse by a cable.",
    "Sentence": [
      "He became one of the industry's top horsemen, specializing in Running Ws, pit falls, and cable jerk-offs."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "4524",
    "Idiom": [
      "jerkin the gherkin"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Sexual intercourse.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "4525",
    "Idiom": [
      "jet set"
    ],
    "Meaning": "A social class of wealthy travelers.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "4526",
    "Idiom": [
      "jet-setter"
    ],
    "Meaning": "A rich person who travels for pleasure.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "4527",
    "Idiom": [
      "jet-setting"
    ],
    "Meaning": "A lifestyle of frequent, fashionable travel.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "4528",
    "Idiom": [
      "jewel in the crown"
    ],
    "Meaning": "The most valuable or important among others.",
    "Sentence": [
      "They eventually found each other and forged a powerful doubles partnership. In 1956, they won the French Championships and Wimbledon, the jewel in the crown of a sport that had hardly welcomed them.",
      "The 226-year-old auction house ranks behind only Sotheby’s and Christie’s as one of the sector’s major international players, . It has stood alongside Chelsea as one of the jewels in the crown of Russian investments in “Londongrad”."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "4529",
    "Idiom": [
      "jill of all trades"
    ],
    "Meaning": "A woman skilled in many areas.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Sitting in a dive in Central Square, the one where she works as a dishwasher, barmaid, jill of all trades (illegal, no papers, below-the-minimum cash payments, afternoon and early evening shifts), she stared into a mug of beer and told herself: There comes a point.",
      "If you intend to work primarily in one field, that approach would be reasonable. But if you aspire to be a jack or jill of all trades, you may want to begin by looking at some general guides for nonspecialized writers.",
      "Sister Josephine was a jill of all trades. She served as bursar, school secretary, meals supervisor, welfare officer and troubleshooter."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "4530-1",
    "Idiom": [
      "jive turkey"
    ],
    "Meaning": "A fool or chump.",
    "Sentence": [
      "[1970s school principal:] You girls better get with what's going down! I am not a jive turkey and this school is not a jive turkey ! Any questions?"
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "4530-2",
    "Idiom": [
      "jive turkey"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Someone who is insincere or pretentious.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "4530-3",
    "Idiom": [
      "jive turkey"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Someone who is insincere or disingenuous.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "4531-1",
    "Idiom": [
      "joe job"
    ],
    "Meaning": "An uninteresting, low-level job.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Steve Wozniak may be a well-heeled philanthropist and world-renowned tinkerer, but at one time he had a Joe job as an engineer in Hewlett-Packard's calculator division."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "4531-2",
    "Idiom": [
      "joe job"
    ],
    "Meaning": "An act of e-mail spamming that uses an innocent person's identity to damage their reputation or overwhelm them with bounces.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "4532-1",
    "Idiom": [
      "jog on"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To continue on one's way.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "4532-2",
    "Idiom": [
      "jog on"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Go away.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "4533",
    "Idiom": [
      "jog someone's memory"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To cause someone to remember something.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "4534",
    "Idiom": [
      "join forces"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To unite or combine efforts.",
    "Sentence": [
      "The poor [banana] is even further shrunken. It is no longer spotted. The flecks have joined forces to form brown blotches all over the fruit.",
      "It all started 6 years ago, as Rutgers University scientists Allan Conney, Ph.D., and George C. Wagner, Ph.D., chatted at an office get-together. From this conversation, the two decided to pool their knowledge and join forces.",
      "When Hollywood and the neocons join forces against something, you know it has to be good.",
      "MPs and non-affiliated peers from across the Leeds City Region have joined forces and are calling on Government to publicly commit to building HS2 East to Leeds at the same time as HS2 West is built to Manchester."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "4535",
    "Idiom": [
      "join hands"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To work together for a common goal.",
    "Sentence": [
      "To get the government to change its policy of not providing antiretroviral treatment in the late 1990s and early 2000s, lawyers, scientists, doctors, economists, journalists and communities of people living with HIV joined hands to stand up to the state."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "4536",
    "Idiom": [
      "join issue"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To argue with someone.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "4537",
    "Idiom": [
      "join the club"
    ],
    "Meaning": "An expression of sympathy for a shared experience.",
    "Sentence": [
      "You're getting poor response times? Join the club !"
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "4538",
    "Idiom": [
      "joined at the hip"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Closely connected or inseparable.",
    "Sentence": [
      "We're very close. In fact, we're joined at the hip.",
      "When people suggest to me that it would be best if politics were left out of the railways, I always point out that the two are joined at the hip. Throughout the near 200-year existence of the railways, there has never been a time when they have been free of political interference."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "4539",
    "Idiom": [
      "jolly along"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To keep someone happy or compliant through encouragement or flattery.",
    "Sentence": [
      "When there was a shipping delay, the salesman jollied the purchasing agent along to keep him from canceling the order."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "4540",
    "Idiom": [
      "jot and tittle"
    ],
    "Meaning": "The smallest details.",
    "Sentence": [
      "O all ye twelve Holy Fathers of our tribe! what a losing venture is this for one who hath duly kept every jot and tittle of the law of Moses.—Fifty zecchins wrenched from me at one clutch, and by the talons of a tyrant!",
      "Firm as the lasting hills, / This cov'nant shall endure, / Whose potent shalls and wills / Make ev'ry blessing sure: / When ruin shakes all nature's frame, / Its jots and tittles stand the same.",
      "That is not to say, for a regime to be meaningfully constitutional, every jot and tittle of its formal constitutional language must be followed in every case. It is to say first, there must be a substantial correspondence between the actual arrangement of governing power and that described in the constitution and, second, the individual's rights created by the constitution must be taken seriously by those who exercise governmental power.",
      "Furthermore, we may seek to offset our violation of her [ Emily Dickinson 's] major intentions by attending to her minor ones every so scrupulously, cleaving to an editorial policy that would respect every jot and tittle of her manuscripts—at least, every jot and tittle that the institutions of printing and publishing can practically accommodate—or, at least, every jot and tittle that can be accommodated at an affordable price.",
      "Obedience to the rules of the dance is more poetic than military, more pomp than mundane legalism—for skilled dancers are less concerned with the jot and tittle of their regimen than with the perfect harmony of their movement.",
      "The flip side of failing to recall an irregular form is tripping a false alarm for one when the verb is in fact regular. Word lookup is not instantaneous, and as it proceeds a few irregular verbs in memory might crudely match a regular probe. That could temporarily slow down the rule until the last jots and tittles of the word are properly matched and the false matches have petered out; only then will the rule be allowed to proceed unhindered.",
      "Software makers pushed into the market with so-called customer-relationship management packages, enabling companies to track each jot and tittle of business they did with buyers.",
      "He did not get every jot and tittle, but the plan ultimately adopted was viable."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "4541",
    "Idiom": [
      "jot down"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To write down hurriedly.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Tell me his number, and I'll jot it down on this scrap of paper."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "4542",
    "Idiom": [
      "judge not, that you be not judged",
      "judge not, that ye be not judged",
      "judge not, lest ye be judged"
    ],
    "Meaning": "One should not criticize others if unprepared for criticism.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Judge me not lest ye be judged thineself"
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "4543",
    "Idiom": [
      "judge, jury and executioner"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Someone with full power to judge and punish others.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "4544",
    "Idiom": [
      "jug ears"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Ears that protrude significantly from the head.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Wolfowitz, who is sixty-three, has jug ears, hazel eyes, a furrowed brow, and thinning gray hair that he combs to the right. -"
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "4545",
    "Idiom": [
      "juggling act"
    ],
    "Meaning": "A situation involving multiple conflicting tasks.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Parenthood is always a juggling act, balancing time and energy and finances and emotions with your child's — and your own — natural good days and bad days."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "4546",
    "Idiom": [
      "juice up"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To charge.",
    "Sentence": [
      "I need to juice up my phone because the battery's dead."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "4547",
    "Idiom": [
      "jump at"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To accept something enthusiastically.",
    "Sentence": [
      "I jumped at the position as soon as it was offered."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "4548",
    "Idiom": [
      "jump at the chance"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To seize an opportunity.",
    "Sentence": [
      "When I was offered a placement working at the South Pole, I jumped at the chance."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "4549",
    "Idiom": [
      "jump before one is pushed"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To act before being compelled.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "4550",
    "Idiom": [
      "jump down someone's throat"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To criticize excessively and unexpectedly.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Opposing counsel has a right to question you, and if you respond with smart talk or give evasive answers, opposing counsel may jump down your throat.",
      "‘Thanks, Jean,’ he said. ‘Mike I'm sorry. I didn't mean to jump down your throat. Thanks for the advice. I will be careful.’",
      "“I'm sorry I jumped on you — jumped down your throat,” he amended, feeling like a complete idiot.",
      "Try to remember next time, but don’t fret — I won’t jump down your throat if you forget."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "4551",
    "Idiom": [
      "jump for joy"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To exult or rejoice.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "4552",
    "Idiom": [
      "jump in one's skin"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To start with fright.",
    "Sentence": [
      "The neighborhood, to our ears, seemed haunted by approaching footsteps; and what between the dead body of the captain on the parlor floor, and the thought of that detestable blind beggar hovering near at hand, and ready to return, there were moments when, as the saying goes, I jumped in my skin for terror."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "4553-1",
    "Idiom": [
      "jump on"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To criticize excessively.",
    "Sentence": [
      "I hate the way she's always jumping on me for the slightest little mistake."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "4553-2",
    "Idiom": [
      "jump on"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To take immediate action.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Community banks can jump on the opportunity to make changes.",
      "So later in life, when the Z's — and even onetime Z's who became A's through marriage — see an item they really like for sale or are offered a deal, they jump on it."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "4554",
    "Idiom": [
      "jump on the bandwagon"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To join a trend.",
    "Sentence": [
      "After the incredible success of Wonka's latest low-fat chocolate bar, Fickelgruber has jumped on the bandwagon, and released a low-fat version."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "4555-1",
    "Idiom": [
      "jump out"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To emerge suddenly.",
    "Sentence": [
      "He would hide in corners and other dark places, and jump out, scaring one half to death.",
      "Wikipedia Science literally claims that existence jumps out of nonexistence, that observable events jump out of unreal wavefunctions, that life jumps out of lifeless atoms, that mind jumps out of mindless atoms, that consciousness jumps out of things with no glimmer of consciousness, and so on.",
      "Jump out of a loop completely under certain conditions, thereby terminating the execution of a loop."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "4555-2",
    "Idiom": [
      "jump out"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To be noticeably different and capture attention.",
    "Sentence": [
      "If your wallpaper has green and red in it and you put a red carpet in the room then the red jumps out.",
      "If you're ever in a situation where you need to make a quick educated guess, that rule of thumb is this. When you look at a skull for the first time, ask yourself what the first thing you notice is. The very first thing. What jumps out at you?",
      "All are class acts, but Mary's picture jumps out as the best overall."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "4556",
    "Idiom": [
      "jump salty"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To become angry.",
    "Sentence": [
      "I will have to jump salty Lord, 'cause it went against my rules Now, if you think that he liked it Hoo-well, you just a black-eyed fool"
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "4557",
    "Idiom": [
      "jump someone's bones"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To have sex with someone.",
    "Sentence": [
      "“He’ll jump my bones in bed,” one fat woman explained to us about her current lover, “but he won’t take me out in public. At least the sex is great!”",
      "His bruises from the fight did funny things to her womanly instincts. She couldn't decide whether to say “poor baby” or jump his bones.",
      "“This night is going to be hard enough—no pun intended there—so I better back up before you jump my bones and I can’t fight you off.” “You arrogant... Ooooh... me jump your bones ?” Asha fussed.",
      "‘So … I tell you I used to torture kitty cats, and that stops you from wanting to jump my bones ?’"
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "4558-1",
    "Idiom": [
      "jump the gun"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To act or begin too soon.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Taking advantage of advance press releases, gabby Walter Winchell jumped the gun a full two weeks by announcing in his radio period and tabloid column that the 1933-34 prizewinner was Men in White by Sidney Kingsley.",
      "The former prime minister appears to be jumping the gun, pre-empting the legal process that is just beginning to dig deeper."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "4558-2",
    "Idiom": [
      "jump the gun"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To act prematurely based on undisclosed information.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "4559",
    "Idiom": [
      "jump the queue"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To receive preferential treatment.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "4560-1",
    "Idiom": [
      "jump the shark"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Represents a disappointing change in direction.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Happy Days infamously jumped the shark when Fonzie literally jumped a shark on water skis. I Love Lucy jumped the shark when Lucy and Ricky moved to the suburbs. The Brady Bunch jumped the shark when Cousin Oliver moved in.",
      "From that point on, Dallas was never the same. It hit its peak. It lost credibility. It jumped the shark.",
      "Returning show everyone will say has jumped the shark : \"House.\""
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "4560-2",
    "Idiom": [
      "jump the shark"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To experience a decline in quality or appeal.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Pintsize: Wait, don’t you want to know why I’m tied up and hanging from the ceiling? Faye: Not really. Nighty night! Pintsize: Shit! My wacky antics have jumped the shark !",
      "The Bangles were a fine all-woman band, starting with a lovely cover of Prince's \"Manic Monday.\" \"Walk Like an Egyptian\" was cute, and the ladies rocked out an unlikely cover of Simon and Garfunkel's \"Hazy Shade of Winter.\" But they jumped the shark with the treacly \"Eternal Flame,\" and the end of the road was in sight.",
      "And I knew something was up when I started getting press releases about \"tape labels.\" Maybe vinyl had finally jumped the shark, and magnetic tape was due for a return."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "4561",
    "Idiom": [
      "jump through hoops"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To put forth great effort to meet arbitrary requirements.",
    "Sentence": [
      "If learning is deemed valuable and important to the student, then the educator doesn't need a scripted curriculum or a fad initiative that has students and the educator jumping through hoops.",
      "If a government says to citizens, “We will punish you for abstaining, unless you jump through the following legal hoops,” it is still coercing citizens.",
      "Caregivers also described having to “ jump through hoops ” to accomplish what they needed.",
      "They really made the salesman jump through hoops before buying anything."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "4562",
    "Idiom": [
      "jump to conclusions"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To make conclusions prematurely.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Don't hold your breath and don't jump to conclusions, but there is likely to be an announcement about the future of the railways in the next few weeks - ."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "4563",
    "Idiom": [
      "jumped-up"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Acts as if superior or more important than one is.",
    "Sentence": [
      "We're doomed if this wee jumped-up monkey gets Gordon Smith's blessing."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "4564-1",
    "Idiom": [
      "jungle telegraph"
    ],
    "Meaning": "A long-distance communication system in primitive cultures.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Working both sides of the stream, they got native chieftains to pass the word by jungle telegraph."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "4564-2",
    "Idiom": [
      "jungle telegraph"
    ],
    "Meaning": "A gossip network.",
    "Sentence": [
      "And the jungle telegraph at Bryant Park is alive with rumors that the show's biggest name, Lauren Conrad, will be here any day."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "4565",
    "Idiom": [
      "junkyard dog"
    ],
    "Meaning": "An individual with a nasty and combative demeanor.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Badder than old King Kong / And meaner than a junkyard dog",
      "House minority whip... Gingrich has earned enmity in abundance for his junkyard-dog tactics.",
      "\"I'm gonna hire me a lawyer,\" he said. \"A real junkyard dog.\""
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "4566",
    "Idiom": [
      "jury is out"
    ],
    "Meaning": "An outcome is still unknown and awaited.",
    "Sentence": [
      "The jury is out as to whether there is life anywhere else in the universe."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "4567-1",
    "Idiom": [
      "just a minute"
    ],
    "Meaning": "A short period of time.",
    "Sentence": [
      "The hero of the turf accepted this bet, and on the day appointed, just a minute before starting, qualified his stallion to run for the purse."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "4567-2",
    "Idiom": [
      "just a minute"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Used to interrupt for a comment or question.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Miss Girzie at these words started up, and said, \"Sir, sir, just a minute.\" \"I can hear no more,\" cried I; \"it is plain you intend to make a bargain with my friend..."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "4568-1",
    "Idiom": [
      "just a second"
    ],
    "Meaning": "A short wait.",
    "Sentence": [
      "And so it proved with our wise couple; for, unfortunately, just a second before they arrived, Mr. Sharpwrit, and his lady, were sat down to dinner,..."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "4568-2",
    "Idiom": [
      "just a second"
    ],
    "Meaning": "A request for a brief pause.",
    "Sentence": [
      "\"...hang it! Just outside the room — just a second ! or up in a corner will do.\""
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "4569",
    "Idiom": [
      "just about"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Approximately.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Afore we got to the shanty Colonel Applegate stuck his head out of the door. His temper had been getting raggeder all the time, and the sousing he got when he fell overboard had just about ripped what was left of it to ravellings.",
      "‘Have you already reached your sales target?’ ‘ Just about.’"
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "4570",
    "Idiom": [
      "just another pretty face"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Someone attractive but lacking depth.",
    "Sentence": [
      "After screening her application, the office manager decided that the young woman was just another pretty face and decided to hire someone who was better.",
      "A former underwear model, he was always afraid of being seen as just another pretty face."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "4571",
    "Idiom": [
      "just deserts"
    ],
    "Meaning": "A deserved punishment or reward.",
    "Sentence": [
      "It may appear that they're getting ahead by cheating, but they'll get their just deserts in the end."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "4572-1",
    "Idiom": [
      "just folks"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Ordinary, unpretentious people.",
    "Sentence": [
      "\"You still think they come all boxed, sorted, and labeled, do you?\" he said. \"And that they aren't ‘ just folks ’ at all?\" \"Yes, I still think so. They never seem a bit like ‘folks’ to me. It's their business to sit up there stiff and solemn and stern.\"",
      "He was happy... to be going out to a restaurant without having to sign books or talk to students about Whitman and Melville.... Idolized Bech loved, at the end of a long day impersonating himself, being just folks.",
      "\"She has gone from being just folks to being a bit imperial, assuming a bit more of a queenly role,\" said Ms. Allgor."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "4572-2",
    "Idiom": [
      "just folks"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Unpretentious and informal.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Even his mussed cravat and cow licked hair had a \" just folks \" quality.",
      "George Bush's attempt at just-folks normalcy was undermined when he turned a blind eye to his chief of staff flying military jets to private appointments."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "4573",
    "Idiom": [
      "just in case"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To prepare for a possible event.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Dudley and his council \"gave no credit to these suspicions\" but decided to strengthen the colony's defenses just in case the rumors turned out to be true.",
      "Throughout 1782 and most of 1783 there was a mixture of defacto [sic] peace but preparedness for war just in case it should be resumed, a sort of cold war.",
      "I'll take an umbrella, just in case. [or:...just in case it rains. ]"
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "4574",
    "Idiom": [
      "just like that"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Suddenly and unexpectedly.",
    "Sentence": [
      "We were jogging slowly in the park when, just like that, she collapsed."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "4575",
    "Idiom": [
      "just the same"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Nevertheless.",
    "Sentence": [
      "He didn't like it one bit, but he smiled just the same."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "4576",
    "Idiom": [
      "justice delayed is justice denied"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Delay in justice is equivalent to a denial of justice.",
    "Sentence": [
      "It is an old maxim that ‘ justice delayed is justice denied ’ and another might be added, perhaps equally true, that justice bought is valueless.",
      "If, as an eminent jurist once said, justice delayed is often justice denied, it must be an object worthy of all effort to procure local courts, where speedy justice can be obtained;",
      "But above all, if we be just men, we shall go forward in the name of truth and right, and bear this in mind, that when the case is ripe and the hour has come, justice delayed is justice denied.",
      "In British courts, lawsuits, civil and criminal, come to trial within six months. In the U.S., which professes as much respect as Britain for the principle that \" justice delayed is justice denied,\" it takes more than four years.",
      "Cases may be delayed, and justice delayed may be justice denied. Sometimes the parties may die before they get justice, but theoretically all the cases are considered at one time or another anyway.",
      "\"Dr. Martin Luther King said justice delayed is justice denied,\" says Joe Roy, director of the Intelligence Project for the Southern Poverty Law Center in Montgomery, Ala. \"As a society, we need to bring closure to these cases, but it depends on the evidence and witnesses still living. In the Cherry case, they were able to get witnesses to come forward.\"",
      "The old adage that justice delayed is justice denied is as true now as ever.",
      "In the history of literature, justice delayed need not be justice denied.",
      "Harold Evans, Reuters editor at large who led a campaign for compensation of thalidomide victims as editor of Britain's Sunday Times from the late 1960s, said justice delayed was justice denied. \"Fifty years of injustice is not to be assuaged by the most heartfelt apology, unaccompanied as it is by any compensation for the pain and suffering thousands of survivors endure every day,\" he said.",
      "We can decide whether justice delayed means justice denied and we can decide whether the 'colour of a man's skin is of no more significance than the colour of his eyes'."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "4577",
    "Idiom": [
      "justice is blind"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Justice is to be applied impartially.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "4578",
    "Idiom": [
      "kangaroo court"
    ],
    "Meaning": "An unjust or illegitimate judicial proceeding.",
    "Sentence": [
      "The Concordia Intelligencer says \"several loafers were lynched in Natchez last week upon various charges instituted by the Kangaroo court. \" What is a Kangaroo court, neighbor?",
      "On the evening succeeding the election, a meeting was gotten up some what in imitation of a \" Kangaroo Court,\" for the purpose of trying three individuals,",
      "One of the principal amusements of the bar during these sessions of the court, is to assemble in some sufficiently capacious room, and after indulging in all the boyish games that occur to them, to institute mock proceedings against some one of their number, for some ridiculous, imaginary offence. By an unanimous vote, Judge G.—the fattest and funniest of the assembly—was elected to the bench, and the \"Mestang\" [ i.e., mustang] or \" Kangaroo Court \" regularly organized.",
      "Sol Tuttle interposed; \"Don't you let nobody hev any witnesses in this kangaroo court ?\"",
      "He [Judge Murray] endeavors to place me in the position of having assailed him, by describing the courts held by him as Kangaroo courts, and imputes to me a settled purpose to alienate all social and friendly relations, between the bench, bar, officers of the court, and all others, who come in direct contact with the courts. Now, all this is simply untrue, as well as ridiculous.",
      "About twenty prisoners were confined in the city prison at the time and were all more or less drunk on white line (alcohol) furnished through the window by outside parties; two kangaroo courts were held the day on which Varnoff was convicted of violating the prison rules, was fined 50 cents each time and searched by officers of the court.",
      "They take him off to face their kangaroo court in the cellar of a deserted brewery.",
      "Where police take matters in their own hands, seize victims, beat and pound them until they confess, there cannot be the slightest doubt that the police have deprived the victim of a right under the Constitution. It is the right of the accused to be tried by a legally constituted court, not by a kangaroo court.",
      "A military commission trial falling short of the full UCMJ standard is all but certain to be pejoratively judged as a \" kangaroo court \" in the court of public opinion."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "4579",
    "Idiom": [
      "karma is a bitch",
      "karma's a bitch"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Consequences for bad behavior are unpleasant.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "4580-1",
    "Idiom": [
      "keel over"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To capsize or turn on its side.",
    "Sentence": [
      "What a tiny little schooner! But is it not bold to spread both sails? And see, now that we have come round to the wind, how the skiff keels over.",
      "His bandaged cry was, to beach him on the whale's topmost back. Nothing loath, his bowsman hauled him up and up, through a blinding foam that blent two whitenesses together; till of a sudden the boat struck as against a sunken ledge, and keeling over, spilled out the standing mate.",
      "The tributaries made their appearance from the house, advancing in a singular manner. They were all clothed in immense pieces of tappa looped about their persons. First one crawled on all fours for a few yards; then he keeled over, head over heels; then he brought up on his haunches, resting for a moment; after which he resumed the same procedure until he came within a few paces of \"Old Snuffy.\"",
      "At home, the water had deepened; it tumbled like rapids across the yard; it encroached upon the house; it shoved one-foot stones aside and carved grooves through the gravel driveway; the chain link fence was keeling over under the pressure surging through it."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "4580-2",
    "Idiom": [
      "keel over"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To collapse or faint.",
    "Sentence": [
      "A huge double-fisted fellow hits Marshall a biff on the ear; the General keels over and catches in his fall another gentleman, who hits a fourth, and the party clinging, all fall through a window, and drop through a partly closed cellar-door.",
      "\"I bleeve I could smoke this pipe all day,\" said Joe. \" I don't feel sick.\" / \"Neither do I,\" said Tom. \" I could smoke it all day. But I bet you Jeff Thatcher couldn't.\" / \"Jeff Thatcher! Why he'd keel over just with two draws. Just let him try it once. He'd see!\"",
      "We should all go inside before somebody keels over from the heat."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "4580-3",
    "Idiom": [
      "keel over"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To die.",
    "Sentence": [
      "The enemy had planted a piece of ordinance within gun-shot of the fort during the night, and the first thing in the morning they commenced a brisk cannonade, point-blank, against the spot where I was snoring. I turned out pretty smart, and mounted the rampart. The gun was charged again, a fellow stepped forth to touch her off, but before he could apply the match I let him have it, and he keeled over. A second stepped up, snatched the match from the hand of the dying man, but Thimblerig, who had followed me, handed me his rifle, and the next instant the Mexican was stretched on the earth beside the first.",
      "A staunch old ship she was too, There was no hurry in her building. Mynheer Von Dert hewed the logs for her keel, and slept with his fathers. His son Petrus prepared the keelson, then keeled over, and was laid beside his venerable sire.",
      "Plucky old Walder Frey gathers his family for a feast and toasts to their massacre of the Stark family. He compliments their bravery in stabbing a pregnant woman and her fetus to death. As every last Frey man swigs their special wine, Walder hypes the cunning it took to invite guests into your home and ambush them. But then things take a turn, the men starting to keel over as Walder seems to admonish them for leaving certain threads hanging. At last the room is empty but for Arya Stark, holding Walder Frey's face, and a couple girls she leaves alive to spread the legend. \"Winter came for House Frey.\""
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "4581",
    "Idiom": [
      "keep a civil tongue in one's head"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Maintain a polite manner of speaking.",
    "Sentence": [
      "\"I've had enough of that kind of talk. I don't intend to submit to your impudence. When you speak to me keep a civil tongue in your head.\"",
      "\" Keep a civil tongue in your head,\" cried the young man, his face paling in anger, at the insulting tone of the sailor.",
      "If every high-tempered man knew that his wife would leave him if he dared curse her because the coffee was cold, or dinner fifteen minutes late, he would keep a civil tongue in his head.",
      "After Helena Bonham Carter, the great-granddaughter of Herbert Asquith, complained that for all her advantages and beauty directors would not hire her because she was not \"trendily working class\", an exasperated Kathy Burke found the effort of keeping a civil tongue in her head too much to bear. \"As a lifelong member of the non-pretty working classes,\" she told Time Out, \"I would like to say to Helena Bonham Carter: shut up you stupid cunt.\""
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "4582",
    "Idiom": [
      "keep a close watch"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To pay careful attention to a situation or thing.",
    "Sentence": [
      "The prime minister asked the home secretary to keep a close watch on the flooding situation."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "4583",
    "Idiom": [
      "keep a cool head"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To stay calm.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "4584",
    "Idiom": [
      "keep a lid on"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To keep something secret.",
    "Sentence": [
      "If he was listening to the England fans who gathered and sang non-stop late into the Moscow night behind the goal in the Spartak Stadium, it may have dawned on him that keeping a lid on expectations is likely to be a losing battle.",
      "It's supposed to be a surprise, so try to keep a lid on it, will you?"
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "4585",
    "Idiom": [
      "keep a low profile"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To be discreet.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "4586",
    "Idiom": [
      "keep a weather eye open"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To remain alert to changes without full attention.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "4587",
    "Idiom": [
      "keep an eye on"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To monitor closely.",
    "Sentence": [
      "\" We are making sure that a firm eye is kept on this.\"",
      "I must keep an eye on this sauce in case it curdles."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "4588-1",
    "Idiom": [
      "keep an eye open"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To remain vigilant.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "4588-2",
    "Idiom": [
      "keep an eye open"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To remain vigilant for danger.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "4589",
    "Idiom": [
      "keep an eye out"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To watch for.",
    "Sentence": [
      "I think we're getting close, so keep an eye out for the next street."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "4590",
    "Idiom": [
      "keep an eye peeled"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To look out attentively.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Keep an eye peeled, you never know when the ice-cream truck will pass by."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "4591-1",
    "Idiom": [
      "keep company"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To date.",
    "Sentence": [
      "It was rumoured that the lady and the gentleman were keeping company.",
      "He was keeping company with her."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "4591-2",
    "Idiom": [
      "keep company"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To socialize.",
    "Sentence": [
      "If you care about your reputation you ought to be careful whom you keep company with."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "4592",
    "Idiom": [
      "keep good time"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To be punctual.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "4593",
    "Idiom": [
      "keep house"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To take care of domestic chores.",
    "Sentence": [
      "So I went to keep house with him at the Why Not? and my aunt sent down my bag of clothes, and would have made over to Elzevir the pittance that my father left for my keep, but he said it was not needful, and he would have none of it."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "4594",
    "Idiom": [
      "keep it between the ditches"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Stay out of trouble or follow a righteous path.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "4595-1",
    "Idiom": [
      "keep it in the family"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Restrict knowledge to a small group.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "4595-2",
    "Idiom": [
      "keep it in the family"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To remain loyal to one's family.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "4596",
    "Idiom": [
      "keep it moving"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To continue despite obstacles.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "4597",
    "Idiom": [
      "keep it one hundred"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To be authentic.",
    "Sentence": [
      "“I keep it one hundred with my boys cause the world is real, life is real,” says Shabazz."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "4598",
    "Idiom": [
      "keep it real"
    ],
    "Meaning": "An exhortation to stay genuine or authentic.",
    "Sentence": [
      "A: I'm out, bro. B: Keep it real, son."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "4599",
    "Idiom": [
      "keep it together"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To maintain composure.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "4600-1",
    "Idiom": [
      "keep it up"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To maintain or continue success.",
    "Sentence": [
      "The new teacher was so enthusiastic; I hope she can keep it up until the end of the year."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "4600-2",
    "Idiom": [
      "keep it up"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To maintain one's effort or performance.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Ever hear of Viagra ? It's not my fault you can't keep it up anymore."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "4601",
    "Idiom": [
      "keep off the streets"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To encourage avoidance of negative behaviors or situations.",
    "Sentence": [
      "\"Dolly Nemeroff said you're a private detective in California.\" \"It's an archaic line of work, but it keeps me off the streets.\"",
      "The Prague-born Jelinek, 32, arrived in Toronto this month to become a principal with the National Ballet of Canada. But he'd never have reached this point if his single mom, who died when he was 17, hadn't put him in ballet school to keep him off the streets.",
      "\"The kids love it because they love computers,\" said Ms. Hanson, \"and I love it because it helps them with their education while keeping them off the streets.\"",
      "And back then, our parents knew that if they loved and encouraged us, if they kept us off the streets and out of trouble, then we'd be okay."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "4602-1",
    "Idiom": [
      "keep on",
      "keep one's tits on"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To persist or continue.",
    "Sentence": [
      "The young woman kept on down Front Street, Warwick maintaining his distance a few rods behind her.",
      "Keep on trucking!",
      "Mum, Jimmy keeps on poking me!"
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "4603-2",
    "Idiom": [
      "keep on"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To persist in talking about a subject annoyingly.",
    "Sentence": [
      "For goodness sake, will you stop keeping on about it!"
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "4603-3",
    "Idiom": [
      "keep on"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To maintain a position or state.",
    "Sentence": [
      "The charge against Zagallo then is not so much that he started Ronaldo, but that when it should surely have been clear that the player was in no fit state to take part he kept him on.",
      "The new boss would like to keep the present secretary on.",
      "Should I turn off this light or keep it on ?",
      "Should I shut off this water or keep it on ?"
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "4603-4",
    "Idiom": [
      "keep on"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To remain in an active state.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "4604",
    "Idiom": [
      "keep on about"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To continue discussing something repeatedly.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "4605",
    "Idiom": [
      "keep on truckin'"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To continue or persist despite challenges.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "4606",
    "Idiom": [
      "keep one's cards close to one's chest"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To avoid revealing thoughts or plans.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Balthus has always kept his cards close to his chest. When I asked him if Summertime was a transcription of Poussin's Echo and Narcissus —a variant of his lost copy—he did not reply.",
      "Abdullah has not yet revealed his choice for the No 2 post when he takes over as prime minister, preferring to keep his cards close to his chest.",
      "However, the operator is keeping its cards close to its chest."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "4607",
    "Idiom": [
      "keep one's chin up"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To remain positive.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "4608",
    "Idiom": [
      "keep one's cool"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To remain calm and composed in a challenging situation.",
    "Sentence": [
      "All week long I've been keepin' my cool / But tonight I'm gonna let my hair down / And get down with these down home blues",
      "In the heat of the afternoon, while Roger Clemens threw a temper tantrum and the Boston Red Sox became unraveled, Dave Stewart kept his cool.",
      "Fighting back panic, she tried to keep her cool and find a way out from under the rubble.",
      "Taiwan’s president told the self-ruled island’s military units Tuesday to keep their cool in the face of daily warplane flights and warship maneuvers by rival China, saying that Taiwan will not allow Beijing to provoke a conflict."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "4609",
    "Idiom": [
      "keep one's ears open"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Listen for important information.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "4610",
    "Idiom": [
      "keep one's eye on the ball"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To maintain focus on what matters.",
    "Sentence": [
      "My ethos has always been to be very straight with people, tell it as it is. It doesn't often make people happy but I found that over a period of time it's better to be that way. So being straight, also being very focused on your objectives, keep your eye on the ball and not get deflected away from it."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "4611",
    "Idiom": [
      "keep one's eyes peeled"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To be alert and watchful.",
    "Sentence": [
      "And directly below is our Mesozoic jungle river -- where, if you are lucky, you just may catch a glimpse of a very rare carnivore. Keep your eyes peeled, everyone!",
      "lookouts posted to the port and starboard bows keep their eyes peeled for the ghostly outline of approaching traffic."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "4612",
    "Idiom": [
      "keep one's fingers crossed"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To hope for the best.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "4613",
    "Idiom": [
      "keep one's hair on"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To stay calm.",
    "Sentence": [
      "“Oh, nothing, nothing!” “Yes, there’s something. I mean to know!” “ Keep your hair on; it’s nothing.” “Out with it!” cried Addie, scarlet with rage. And he flew at Jaap’s throat.",
      "‘ Keep your hair on, I don't see any crime. ’",
      "“Sorry old chap— keep your hair on —but surely you knew just about everyone was siphoning off the odd bit, here and there?”",
      "All right, all right, just keep your hair on, mate."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "4614",
    "Idiom": [
      "keep one's head"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To remain calm and level-headed in distress.",
    "Sentence": [
      "If you can keep your head when all about you Are losing theirs and blaming it on you...",
      "The ruffian kept his head, and though the dog's teeth were in his shoulder, he managed to get his right hand free.",
      "Officials are calling the woman a hero for keeping her head and finding the only way out amid the panic of the smoke and flames."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "4615",
    "Idiom": [
      "keep one's head above water"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To survive or endure in difficult circumstances.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Blessed be God that ministreth ever some comfort to sweeten the calamities of life, and to keep the soul from fainting, to keep the head above water, that the deep waters swallow us not up.",
      "I endeavoured to obtain a mitigation of this severe sentence, by offering myself to engage for the payment of the remaining sum, to preserve my mother's small salary unencumbered; but he interrupted me with the utmost cruelty, by saying... it would be pretty well if, for some years, I could keep my own head above water.",
      "Besides, I have had to borrow ten thousand dollars of him to keep my head above water.",
      "The capitalist system being one under which a profit must be made by any enterprise that is to keep its head above water, we are forced to call off the fight in this case.",
      "Strong sales in Europe and Asia are helping Tiffany keep its head above water at a time when US consumers are holding onto their wallets."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "4616",
    "Idiom": [
      "keep one's head down"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To avoid trouble or attention.",
    "Sentence": [
      "He's keeping his head down after being blasted for his offensive tweets."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "4617",
    "Idiom": [
      "keep one's head on a swivel"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To be alert and watchful.",
    "Sentence": [
      "You all kept your head on a swivel and that's what you gotta do when you find yourself in a vicious cock fight.",
      "Head on a swivel, opposition like a block away",
      "\"Reentering is about keeping your head on a swivel. Ya gotta keep your head on a swivel, I'm telling ya, because you don't know what's coming, where it's coming from.\""
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "4618",
    "Idiom": [
      "keep one's knickers on"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To stay calm.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Keep your knickers on, mate. It was only a joke."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "4619",
    "Idiom": [
      "keep one's lips sealed"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To keep a secret.",
    "Sentence": [
      "You can certainly trust me to keep my lips sealed about the matter."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "4620",
    "Idiom": [
      "keep one's mouth shut"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To refrain from speaking.",
    "Sentence": [
      "He thought that he could get him a regular salary if he would come to Packingtown and do as he was told, and keep his mouth shut.",
      "Charles has failed to follow the example of his mother, the queen, who has heroically kept her mouth shut for more than 50 years.",
      "He said he had raised his concerns about the invasion with senior embassy staff several times. \"I was told to keep my mouth shut in order to avoid ramifications,\" he said."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "4621",
    "Idiom": [
      "keep one's nose clean"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To stay out of trouble.",
    "Sentence": [
      "They tell us, \" Keep your nose clean and you'll no doubt make a parole.\" So we keep our noses very clean.",
      "Alaska Congressman Don Young... spent a huge share of his campaign donations on legal fees to keep his nose clean in the face of an FBI investigation into his dealings."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "4622",
    "Idiom": [
      "keep one's options open"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To not commit to a decision.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "4623",
    "Idiom": [
      "keep one's pants on"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Stay calm.",
    "Sentence": [
      "All right, okay! Keep your pants on, I'm coming!"
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "4624",
    "Idiom": [
      "keep one's pecker up"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Remain cheerful.",
    "Sentence": [
      "“Of course you will,” said Wraysford, cheerily; “it’s hard lines at first. Keep your pecker up, young ’un.” The young ’un, despite this friendly advice, felt very far from keeping up his pecker. But he did his best, and worked his face into a melancholy sort of a smile.",
      "-- Keep your pecker up, says Joe. She'd have won the money only for the other dog.",
      "\"Nerves a bit dicky, eh? Playing a tune to keep your pecker up ?\"",
      "All you need is a box of goodies to keep your pecker up,..."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "4625",
    "Idiom": [
      "keep one's stick on the ice"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To remain vigilant and ready for action.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "4626",
    "Idiom": [
      "keep one's temper"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To remain calm.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "4627",
    "Idiom": [
      "keep one's voice down"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Speak softly or quietly.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "4628-1",
    "Idiom": [
      "keep pace"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To run at the same speed as someone else.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "4628-2",
    "Idiom": [
      "keep pace"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To progress at the same rate as another.",
    "Sentence": [
      "As he had grown older, he found that he had grown away from his people. Their interests and his were far removed. They had not kept pace with him, nor could they understand aught of the many strange and wonderful dreams that passed through the active brain of their human king. So limited was their vocabulary that Tarzan could not even talk with them of the many new truths, and the great fields of thought that his reading had opened up before his longing eyes, or make known ambitions which stirred his soul.",
      "From the 'fifties onwards the development of the South Wales & Monmouthshire coalfield went on at terrific speed, and railway construction was hard pressed to keep pace with it.",
      "A £3½ million scheme to modify stations, track and signalling for the operation of ten- instead of eight-car trains on the South Eastern Division of the S.R. did no more than keep pace with the growth of peak-hour travel."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "4629",
    "Idiom": [
      "keep quiet"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To refrain from talking.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Remember it's a surprise party, so keep quiet about it."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "4630",
    "Idiom": [
      "keep shtum"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Not tell anyone; keep silent about something sensitive or secret.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Charlie Blüthner is the shmatte king of Panama, and he wouldn't be where he is today if Benny hadn't kept shtum for him just like you did for me.",
      "His only chance of survival was to keep schtum. His only way of saving the others was to keep schtum and the only chance of actually keeping schtum was not to be around to do any talking. He must escape. Now.",
      "This evening, at a thinly attended meeting of the parliamentary party, Jim Sheridan demanded to know why ministers were interfering in the strike by the BA cabin crew – both Andrew Adonis and Gordon [Brown ] denounced the strikers over the weekend. 'How have we got ourselves into this situation?' asked Ken Purchase, pointing out that there had been two ballots, the last of which came out 80 per cent in favour of strike action. 'We should either be keeping shtum or back the workers.'",
      "And I would plead that the situation is not unusual. It's just one of those things you're supposed to keep shtum about.",
      "Reggie is another one who keeps shtum about things. But one Christmas, when I was over here and called in to wish them seasonal good cheer, we had a few whiskies and he got loquacious.",
      "If I tell you, you have to promise to keep shtum about it."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "4631",
    "Idiom": [
      "keep someone company"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To accompany someone for comfort.",
    "Sentence": [
      "I'm a bit nervous. Could you keep me company while I wait for my blind date to arrive?"
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "4632",
    "Idiom": [
      "keep someone in the loop"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To keep someone informed and involved in decisions.",
    "Sentence": [
      "\"A number of regions have certainly shown interest, and everybody is keen to be kept in the loop with developmnts."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "4633",
    "Idiom": [
      "keep someone on ice"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To keep someone uninformed and waiting.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "4634",
    "Idiom": [
      "keep someone on their toes"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To keep someone attentive or alert.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Four-year-old twins will certainly keep you on your toes !"
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "4635",
    "Idiom": [
      "keep someone posted"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To inform someone regularly.",
    "Sentence": [
      "That's all the news for now, but I'll keep you posted about new developments."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "4636",
    "Idiom": [
      "keep someone sweet"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To keep someone friendly or satisfied.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "4637",
    "Idiom": [
      "keep someone up at night"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To make someone disturbed or anxious.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Reporter: You share this border, more than eight hundred miles, with Vladimir Putin. What keeps you up at night ? Niinisto: Nothing keeps me up at night. But in the daytime we... like I have said, we are not afraid, but we are fully awake."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "4638",
    "Idiom": [
      "keep straight"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To keep something clear or organized.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Their names all sounded the same to me at first, and I had trouble keeping straight who was who."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "4639",
    "Idiom": [
      "keep tabs on"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To monitor or keep track of.",
    "Sentence": [
      "He might have spent the hours camped under the trees of the more remote meadow, whence in the brilliant moonlight he could keep tabs on the trails.",
      "I'll catch him—I'll trip him up—I'll keep tabs on his arguments.",
      "Syria's much feared state-security apparatus keeps close tabs on everyone entering and leaving the embassy.",
      "Nadal, absent from the draw for the first time nearly two decades, said he won’t watch it all from afar, but he will be keeping tabs.",
      "If you are careful to keep tabs on your finances, you should be able to stay within a budget.",
      "The police kept close tabs on him during the holidays."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "4640",
    "Idiom": [
      "keep the ball rolling"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To continue an action or process.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Then there was a pause. Our new acquaintance had become involved in a vexatious difficulty with his pipe.... To keep the ball rolling I asked Marlow if this Powell was remarkable in any way.",
      "But the Gap has a long way to go before it climbs back to its high of $77.... Lately, it has been moving back up, closing yesterday at $26.375. On Wednesday, Donald G. Fisher, chairman and chief executive of the Gap, and Millard S. Drexler, president, will try to keep the ball rolling when they talk to New York securities analysts.",
      "Few people thought the Federal Aviation Administration could, as it promised, solve the delay problem at New York's LaGuardia Airport in six months.... Plavin, and others, hope the FAA will keep the ball rolling at the other top ten delay-plagued airports in the country.",
      "The video accrued tens of thousands of views overnight. Four days later, inspired to keep the ball rolling, she made another about the same date. It’s since been viewed 4.2 million times."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "4641",
    "Idiom": [
      "keep the home fires burning"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To maintain daily routines and provide for a home.",
    "Sentence": [
      "We got our water from a pump in the backyard and there is no domestic fatigue indoors or out-of-doors that I have not done continuously, not for fun but to keep the home fires burning.",
      "While the military has moved to gender-neutral language in all its official descriptions of the \"spouses\" who keep the home fires burning during deployments"
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "4642",
    "Idiom": [
      "keep the peace"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To maintain order in a volatile situation.",
    "Sentence": [
      "The police were called in to keep the peace during the political demonstration."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "4643-1",
    "Idiom": [
      "keep the pot boiling"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To maintain one's livelihood.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "4643-2",
    "Idiom": [
      "keep the pot boiling"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To continue actively.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Of course, you intend to reach game eventually; on the next round you can keep the pot boiling with Three Diamonds.",
      "These are in the nature of party games intended for fun rather than competition, though part of the fun may well consist in imposing forfeits on players who fail to keep the pot boiling."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "4644",
    "Idiom": [
      "keep the show on the road"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To proceed with a plan despite difficulties.",
    "Sentence": [
      "So what next? For now, at least, the prevailing wisdom in Europe is that people need something to divert them from the ongoing nightmares elsewhere. Best, some insist, to keep the show on the road and then duck and dive in the event of further Covid-19 issues.",
      "This forced the company to focus on developing advanced projects on its books. And fast. All too often, it ended up selling out at an early stage just to get money in to keep the show on the road."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "4645-1",
    "Idiom": [
      "keep the wolf from the door"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To ward off poverty or hunger.",
    "Sentence": [
      "And my calling be simple and poor, / Yet will I endeavour myself / To keep off the wolf from the door.",
      "This pittance, with a rake-off on photographs and autographs, ought to enable the heroic Viking to meet his coal-bin unflinchingly and keep the wolf from his door next summer.",
      "No first night or ball was complete without him, Sagan. The very mention of his name in their articles must have kept the wolf from the door of needy reporters.",
      "I keep the wolf from the door but he calls me up / Calls me on the phone, tells me all the ways that he's gonna mess me up",
      "They didn't earn much, but it was enough to keep the wolf from the door.",
      "I'll grab a sandwich to keep the wolf from the door until dinner time."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "4645-2",
    "Idiom": [
      "keep the wolf from the door"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To delay sexual ejaculation.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Do you mind if I talk? It helps me keep the wolf from the door, so to speak. Jill, what do you think of the pedestrianization of Norwich city centre?",
      "I find it useful to look at a picture of Mo Mowlam at the change hands point, it helps to ‘ keep the wolf from the door ’ so to speak.",
      "If you haven't got the self-control to keep the wolf from the door yourself, ask your partner to help out. She'll enjoy being the one in the driving seat for a change."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "4646-1",
    "Idiom": [
      "keep up"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To continue with something.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Non obstante the Change of Religion, the Plough-boies, and also the Schooleboies will keep-up and retain their old Ceremonies and Customes and priviledges.",
      "Keep up the good work of entertaining your fans on court Steffi; we know you can do it; your fans are behind you all the way.",
      "If the borrower could no longer afford to keep up the payments, the longer he stayed in the home the more the interest bill mounted."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "4646-2",
    "Idiom": [
      "keep up"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To stay even or ahead.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Rooney and his team-mates started ponderously, as if sensing the enormity of the occasion, but once Scholes began to link with Ryan Giggs in the middle of the park, the visitors increased the tempo with Sunderland struggling to keep up.",
      "However, there are some warning signs. Phases 1 and 2A labour requirements are expected to peak at around 26,500 over the next two years, and there will be a constant labour demand until 2025-26, but there are signs that the skills training programmes may not be able to keep up.",
      "They ran so fast I could hardly keep up."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "4647",
    "Idiom": [
      "keep up appearances"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To maintain an outward appearance.",
    "Sentence": [
      "For my father's sake, I thought I must keep up appearances, but the food stuck in my throat, and I could not swallow another mouthful.",
      "With tact and management it would be possible to partially satisfy creditors, and keep up appearances for six months more."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "4648",
    "Idiom": [
      "keep up with the Joneses"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To compete with others for status or image through spending.",
    "Sentence": [
      "One of the greatest pitfalls in the path of any young couple is the feeling that they must \" keep up with the Joneses.\" We all think of ourselves as belonging to a certain social group—whether we express it in snobbish terms or not.",
      "Nor is it good for the name of the railway industry that skilled men should have to put in so much overtime to keep up financially with the Joneses in other walks of life.",
      "Do you really need a fancy new car or are you just trying to keep up with the Joneses ?"
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "4649",
    "Idiom": [
      "keep up with the times"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To adapt to current trends or modern ideas.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "4650",
    "Idiom": [
      "keep watch"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To guard or monitor.",
    "Sentence": [
      "In the afternoon the sun shone hot in their faces, for there were no trees to offer them shade; so that before night Dorothy and Toto and the Lion were tired, and lay down upon the grass and fell asleep, with the Woodman and the Scarecrow keeping watch."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "4651",
    "Idiom": [
      "keep your friends close, and your enemies closer"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Be aware of both friends and enemies to avoid potential harm.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "4652",
    "Idiom": [
      "kernel of truth"
    ],
    "Meaning": "A core accuracy within a questionable narrative.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Whether the Duke of Wellington really said of the Eton playing-fields that it was there that the battle Waterloo was won, may fairly be doubted. The story has many elements of the myth about it; but, like other myths, it has a kernel of truth.",
      "This statement will be unacceptable to many biographers and historians, but there seems to be a definite kernel of truth in it.",
      "It's about a young man (Billy Crudup) who tries to distill the true biography of his dying father (Albert Finney) by looking for the kernels of truth in the many tall tales he has told.",
      "There may be a kernel of truth in the story of how George Washington confessed to his father that he chopped down the cherry tree."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "4653-1",
    "Idiom": [
      "kettle of fish"
    ],
    "Meaning": "An awkward situation.",
    "Sentence": [
      "\"That's a fine kettle of fish,\" he exclaimed, then turned to his dinner companion. \"Fine kettle of fish. I'm so hungry even that sounds good, and from the looks of this menu that's probably what I'll get.\""
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "4653-2",
    "Idiom": [
      "kettle of fish"
    ],
    "Meaning": "A situation that is different from another.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Network Rail would have faced a bigger issue. Maintaining the track for one freight train a day is one thing - doing so for 200 passenger trains a day was a very different kettle of fish.",
      "That is another kettle of fish entirely."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "4654",
    "Idiom": [
      "keys to the kingdom"
    ],
    "Meaning": "A resource granting access to power.",
    "Sentence": [
      "This fortress, from its strong position, was considered as one of the keys to the kingdom, and had belonged to the Earl of March, a disappointed candidate for the crown, who had now attached himself to the banner of England.",
      "The passwords they control are the keys to the kingdom, so what protections should be taken?",
      "Not many people bother to learn them these days. Everything is so rushed, so many demands on a senator's time. But these rules unlock the power of the Senate. They're the keys to the kingdom."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "4655",
    "Idiom": [
      "kick a dog when it's down"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To worsen someone's adverse situation.",
    "Sentence": [
      "but we learned for the first time last Monday night that the Atalantas would kick a dog when he's down. We were beaten ten pins; of course the At-A-lantas (as Spark puts it) will claim one hundred and ten, but the hundred were felled by Miller jumping on the alleys.",
      "I don't like to kick a dog when he's down, and Earns has had a heap of trouble with his father's death and all"
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "4656",
    "Idiom": [
      "kick against the pricks"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To struggle against fate or authority.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Paul was laid up with an attack of bronchitis. He did not mind much. What happened happened, and it was no good kicking against the pricks.",
      "The whirlwind is in the thorn tree / It’s hard for thee to kick against the pricks",
      "Middle-class, indie-loving, media-savvy 18-40-year-olds in their tens of thousands joined Facebook groups, signed online petitions, added Twibbons, wrote letters of complaint and politely but efficiently kicked against the pricks."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "4657-1",
    "Idiom": [
      "kick ass"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To win decisively.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Did you win? We didn't just win, we kicked ass."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "4657-2",
    "Idiom": [
      "kick ass"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To be very impressive.",
    "Sentence": [
      "The soundtrack to this film really kicks ass !"
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "4658",
    "Idiom": [
      "kick ass and take names"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To dominate in a competition or situation.",
    "Sentence": [
      "We kick ass and take names and call muster.",
      "Hell, I thought, if I were wearing that star, I'd kick ass and take names and have this place turned upside down in a week.",
      "“Fitz,” Assistant Director Roy McKinnon said the day he summoned me to his office at headquarters in Washington in late 1980, “we need an Irishman to go to Boston to kick ass and take names.”"
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "4659",
    "Idiom": [
      "kick at an open door"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To carry out a redundant activity.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Instead of making hard choices and hard decisions, the EU prefers to kick at an open door. By opting for easy policies, everyone agrees — simply because there is nothing to disagree with."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "4660-1",
    "Idiom": [
      "kick at the can"
    ],
    "Meaning": "An attempt or opportunity.",
    "Sentence": [
      "\"We're now in a situation where you get just one kick at the can,\" Mr. Elderfield said.",
      "He figured that Canadian political leaders got only two kicks at the can, and he'd now had both of his.",
      "How many companies get the chance to flail around for 6 years and then get a second kick at the can ?"
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "4660-2",
    "Idiom": [
      "kick at the can"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To make an attempt.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "4661",
    "Idiom": [
      "kick bollocks scramble"
    ],
    "Meaning": "A chaotic situation.",
    "Sentence": [
      "So it's a kick bollocks scramble to try and get funding in place, to get all the contracts, to get everything agreed.",
      "As the project came to an end, it was all a bit of a kick bollocks scramble."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "4662",
    "Idiom": [
      "kick butt"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To be impressive or excellent.",
    "Sentence": [
      "I never thought I'd say it, but being the governor of California kicks butt !"
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "4663-1",
    "Idiom": [
      "kick in"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To begin functioning or contributing.",
    "Sentence": [
      "People expect women [when they give birth] to have this instinct that kicks in.",
      "Once the wet kicks in up north, you can be stranded for months waiting for swollen rivers to subside to a crossable depth.",
      "You have to push the switch hard to get the heater to kick in.",
      "I took my medication an hour ago, and it hasn't kicked in yet.",
      "You should kick in on the work.",
      "The rhythm section will kick in after that point.",
      "For the year-end party, we're asking each employee to kick in twenty dollars.",
      "This is a worthy charity, so everyone should kick in."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "4663-2",
    "Idiom": [
      "kick in"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To start or take effect.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "4663-3",
    "Idiom": [
      "kick in"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To contribute, especially money.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "4663-4",
    "Idiom": [
      "kick in"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To give up on something.",
    "Sentence": [
      "The business is going to kick in most likely."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "4664",
    "Idiom": [
      "kick in the teeth"
    ],
    "Meaning": "A humiliating insult or unexpected setback.",
    "Sentence": [
      "This kick in the teeth, brutal under any circumstances, is more so, given Matoussem Ramoud's gentle, trusting nature and his infatuation with America.",
      "King had remarked after the bill failed that a lot of people had lost faith in America; Roy Wilkins had said, “This defeat was a kick in the teeth to the civil rights effort.”",
      "She had found her niche by being truant from school, giving people a bad time, and basically giving her parents' strict moral values a good, strong kick in the teeth."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "4665",
    "Idiom": [
      "kick into touch"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To evade an issue.",
    "Sentence": [
      "With referee Mark Clattenburg at the centre of a new racism row, is football once more succumbing to a blight many thought had been kicked into touch ?",
      "It seemed like a good idea at the time, but I'm going to kick it into touch."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "4666-1",
    "Idiom": [
      "kick it"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To casually spend time.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Pimp had been kicking it with one of the young jawns hanging around the apartment. She was real young and had bumpy skin and slum rings on every finger.",
      "I really want to come kick it with you / You'll be my American boy",
      "Girl, I'm tryna kick it with ya, (girl) I'm tryna kick it with ya / Man, I'm tryna kick it with ya, my feet up, I kick it with ya",
      "Truly, I ain't got no business here / But since my friends are here, I just came to kick it",
      "You know what you need? You need some time with an old friend. My lady has a couple of coworkers who are single and bad. Let's kick it at my house for old time's sake, and when she gets home, I'll have her call up one of them."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "4666-2",
    "Idiom": [
      "kick it"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To rid oneself of a bad habit or addiction.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "4667",
    "Idiom": [
      "kick loose"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Gives someone the freedom to act freely.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "4668-1",
    "Idiom": [
      "kick off"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To start or launch.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Not since Coventry in 1992 has a Premier League side kicked off a campaign with an all-English XI but things have reached the point where, of the 61 signings who have cost the elite division's 20 clubs a transfer fee this summer, only 12 have involved Englishmen.",
      "On Saturday the group kicked off a weekend of activity ahead of its summer uprising this week, which aims to disrupt five major UK cities and shock people into action against the climate crisis.",
      "To kick it all off, there's a street parade through the Todd Mall, followed by a full-day of competitions with a lolly scramble for the kids.",
      "Let's kick off this project with a planning meeting.",
      "The project kicked off with an energy-sapping meeting."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "4668-2",
    "Idiom": [
      "kick off"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To die or quit.",
    "Sentence": [
      "It's a wonder that old dog hasn't kicked off yet."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "4668-3",
    "Idiom": [
      "kick off"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To shut down or turn off suddenly.",
    "Sentence": [
      "The washer was working fine until it kicked off in the middle of a cycle.",
      "The circuit breaker, a power failure, and the e-stop button are the only things we can think of that might have caused that pump to kick off when it did."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "4668-4",
    "Idiom": [
      "kick off"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To suddenly start.",
    "Sentence": [
      "I understood that I was missing out on a lot of his life and if the war really kicked off I was going to be gone for an even longer amount of time.",
      "The party kicked off when the third bottle of wine was opened."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "4668-5",
    "Idiom": [
      "kick off"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To force a calf away from its mother.",
    "Sentence": [
      "A week after we kicked off her calf that cow was still bawling."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "4668-6",
    "Idiom": [
      "kick off"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To start an argument or behave aggressively.",
    "Sentence": [
      "The chap opposite seems to be trying to pull a fast one, and having seen the guard is trying to buy a ticket online... but doesn't succeed. The guard helpfully sells him one, but not quite at the price of one purchased in advance. In fairness he doesn't kick off, nor does the guard treat him like some common criminal. It's a fair cop - or should that be a fare cop?",
      "When she called him a drunk, it was the last straw. He just kicked off."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "4668-7",
    "Idiom": [
      "kick off"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To start a fight or argument.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Suddenly it all kicked off on the terraces as horrendous violence and disgraceful scenes were picked up by television cameras.",
      "It really kicked off in town when the team lost."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "4669",
    "Idiom": [
      "kick one's heels"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To wait impatiently or restlessly.",
    "Sentence": [
      "whether, in one single instance, any individual has been obliged to kick his heels in the lobby even for one minute, and whether the order was not instantly granted ?",
      "It is the fate of sequels to disappoint those who have waited for them; and my David, having been left to kick his heels for more than a lustre in the British Linen Company’s office, must expect his late re-appearance to be greeted with hoots, if not with missiles.",
      "the older fathers were left to kick their heels in their empty booths, which made them very cross..."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "4670-1",
    "Idiom": [
      "kick out"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To eject or expel.",
    "Sentence": [
      "I've used her password before to get info for Abe Caldwell. But this time I barely finished downloading when the server kicked me out and wouldn't let me log in again.",
      "Charybdis Point House Rules 5. We hold the right to kick your ass out at any time.",
      "They will kick out a disruptive patron.",
      "I got kicked out for eating inside."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "4670-2",
    "Idiom": [
      "kick out"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To stop or disconnect suddenly.",
    "Sentence": [
      "I was driving and the motor just kicked out."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "4671",
    "Idiom": [
      "kick out the jams"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To behave wildly and without restraint.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Then the unthinkable might be actual, the unprecedented possible. You could safely kick out the jams, dissolve the old hesitations, break with adults, be done with compromises, get on with it.",
      "After that, we kick out the jams and explore some of the more interesting things you can do with a webcam.",
      "Bella was in her mid-thirties, had long prematurely gray hair and the face of a serene earth mother, but she could kick out the jams and lay down some howling firepower with her cherry-red 1975 Gretsch Streamliner.",
      "That Friday, Ken retired, signifying the start of a new era without any Bogers involved in the company's operations. It was a good time to acknowlege progress, take stock, paint a vision, back-pat, then feast, drink, and kick out the jams."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "4672",
    "Idiom": [
      "kick rocks"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To leave dismissively.",
    "Sentence": [
      "If I hide my true self, then I cheat myself out of inner happiness. In my opinion, everyone can kick rocks if they can't accept me for who I am."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "4673-1",
    "Idiom": [
      "kick some tail"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To be assertive to achieve something.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "4673-2",
    "Idiom": [
      "kick some tail"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To thoroughly defeat someone.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "4674",
    "Idiom": [
      "kick some tires"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To shop for a vehicle or item to invest in.",
    "Sentence": [
      "... on standard equipment, options, warranties, safety equipment, fuel-economy ratings and – of course – prices, so you can go kick some tires in confidence.",
      "Kick some tires. What is the fund’s expense ratio, and how does it compare with those of its peers?"
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "4675",
    "Idiom": [
      "kick someone when they are down",
      "hit someone when they are down",
      "strike someone when they are down"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To make things worse for someone in a difficult situation.",
    "Sentence": [
      "They would never kick someone when they are down or give themselves an unfair advantage by cheating or stealing. The implications of this type of behavior are huge.",
      "Not to hit a man when he is down is no item in Lord Stanley's code of honour;",
      "but he was already so doubly overthrown by two Learned Opposers, that it seem'd unhandsome and ignoble to strike a man when he was down; his Circumstances making him rather an Object of Pity than Victory."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "4676",
    "Idiom": [
      "kick someone's ass"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To beat someone severely.",
    "Sentence": [
      "With their star quarterback back on the field, the Doves are going to kick the Pigeons' asses tonight."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "4677",
    "Idiom": [
      "kick the beam"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To be found lacking in weight or of little importance.",
    "Sentence": [
      "The latter quick up flew, and kick'd the beam; / Which Gabriel spying, thus bespake the Fiend."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "4678-1",
    "Idiom": [
      "kick the bucket"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To die.",
    "Sentence": [
      "My posthumous book Allegorizings, which will go to press in London and New York the minute I kick the bucket, is loosely governed by my growing conviction that almost nothing in life is only what it seems. It contains nothing revelatory at all.",
      "The old horse finally kicked the bucket."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "4678-2",
    "Idiom": [
      "kick the bucket"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To die.",
    "Sentence": [
      "I think my sewing machine has kicked the bucket."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "4679",
    "Idiom": [
      "kick the can down the road"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To postpone a decision or action.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Ronald Lehman, deputy assistant secretary of defense for strategic and theater nuclear bombs, said the United States was satisfied with its land-based deterrent for many years and \"there was a tendency to kick the can down the road and not pay enough attention to its problems.",
      "To continue haggling over points on which a consensus seems impossible, Lehman said, is to \"just keep kicking the can down the road.\"",
      "Reaching an alliance-wide consensus on them will be difficult. The natural temptation is to cling to the status quo, tinker on the edges or kick the can down the road.",
      "Fundamentalism is a product of decades of official complicity, cowardice and appeasement. Sooner or later, Mr Sharif will be forced to realise that. Until then, he is merely kicking the can down the road.",
      "one might easily despair and kick the can down the road by waiting for the next generation of computers and physical and chemical probes that can be employed for in situ measurements of chemical processes before starting to implement the research program described.",
      "It could not have more obvious that ATC was urgently needed - yet all the new Labour Government did was make vague promises of reviews and 'consideration'. It kicked the can down the road, as did subsequent governments.",
      "“That was a big missed opportunity and I feel it’s unfair that we kicked the can down the road to the larger public,” said Dr. El Sahly, who voted “no” to the question about whether the safety data was adequate."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "4680",
    "Idiom": [
      "kick the habit"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To quit an addiction or habit.",
    "Sentence": [
      "I get it right / I kicked the habit / Shed my skin / This is the new stuff"
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "4681",
    "Idiom": [
      "kick the tires",
      "kick the tyres"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To inspect something before committing to a decision.",
    "Sentence": [
      "But, like the Color-Sonics machine, US operators have had no opportunity to \" kick the tires \" on Cine-Jukebox.",
      "Red Flag 1: When an Analyst Doesn't Kick the Tires or Even Read a Company's Filings",
      "Microsoft finally took some of the wraps off last week, releasing Vista's first major test version to about 500,000 programmers and tech professionals. The goal is to let them kick the tires, run their software on it and provide feedback.",
      "\"Iowa has, the last number of presidential cycles, really been the bellwether state to pick nominees,\" he said. \"And it's got this great balance of rural and somewhat urban, Midwest and Upper Midwest — it's just got a great balance of people so that the rest of the country looks at it. Plus it's a small enough population in size that people get the individual feel of candidates. It's like everybody depends on Iowa to kick the tires on the candidates.\"",
      "In the coming weeks, Albertans will get a chance to kick the tires of the party leaders, their platforms and local candidates.",
      "The Packers will kick the tires on two injured starters in preparation for the playoffs.",
      "Not content with the advantage it gets when 39% of its customers kick the tires on the merchandise in someone else's showroom before buying from them, Amazon decided to go a little further.",
      "The tests give the market the chance to kick the tyres of some of Europe's weaker financial institutions, so you might expect the City to be enthusiastic about them."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "4682",
    "Idiom": [
      "kick to the curb"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To dismiss or reject.",
    "Sentence": [
      "And now the boys are lining up 'cause they hear we got swagger But we kick 'em to the curb unless they look like Mick Jagger.",
      "If Cook is to take Apple to crazy new heights, history says he needs to kick Jobs to the curb."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "4683",
    "Idiom": [
      "kick up a fuss"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To complain loudly about something minor.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "4684-1",
    "Idiom": [
      "kick up one's heels"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To celebrate or have fun.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Above the peals of laughter with which the words were received, rose Jake's voice, \"Come on, ole fiddler, play somefin a nigger kin kick up his heels to; what's de use of singing after dat fashion; dis aint no meetin.\"",
      "He does not get on so well in the evening and night time, when his youthful audience has dispersed, and has been replaced by adults of the tag-rag and draggle-tail breed who have no taste for any tunes but those they can vigorously kick up their heels to, ."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "4684-2",
    "Idiom": [
      "kick up one's heels"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To relax and enjoy oneself.",
    "Sentence": [
      "\"Therefore he has a right, for a change, to ' kick up his heels ?\"",
      "Everybody laughed, for he was a clumsy and comical beast to be decorated with roses and daisies. But the lady is proud of him, and now that pampered donkey has nothing to do but pull her Bath chair about, when she is at Holly Lodge, and kick up his heels on a clover pasture.",
      "With a sum like that the fellow might easily kick up his heels, as the saying is, and run away, not only out of the village, but even out of the District."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "4685",
    "Idiom": [
      "kick upstairs"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To promote someone to a lesser influential position while appearing to give them a higher status.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Faced with slowing foreign investment and a revenue squeeze, Pranab Mukherjee, until recently the finance minister, bizarrely attacked foreign investors, such as Vodafone, and retrospectively tried to rewrite tax rules. That spread uncertainty. Fortunately in July he was booted upstairs to become president."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "4686",
    "Idiom": [
      "kick with the other foot"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To belong to a different religion.",
    "Sentence": [
      "They would have married in a church, but he kicks with the other foot."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "4687",
    "Idiom": [
      "kicking and screaming"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Against someone's will; with extreme reluctance.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Well, then…you can say that I said it is a step in the right direction that will…er…be welcomed by all forward-thinking people and will drag the city kicking and screaming into the Century of the Fruitbat.",
      "to drag someone kicking and screaming"
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "4688",
    "Idiom": [
      "kicking boots"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Ability to kick well.",
    "Sentence": [
      "If these two were outstanding, the others were not far behind. Finlow, having his best game for the School, put Murphy in for the next try and it did not seem to matter that Mangeot had for once left his kicking boots behind, for Lintin, Finlow and H. Cooper were all but over before half-time.",
      "Helped by a quite remarkable individual run by Jason , Jonny found his kicking boots again, Wales succumbed 28—17 and we were through to the semis in Sydney on 16 November.",
      "As in their narrow defeat of Argentina last week, England were indisciplined at the breakdown, and if Georgian fly-half Merab Kvirikashvili had remembered his kicking boots, Johnson's side might have been behind at half-time."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "4689",
    "Idiom": [
      "kid around"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To engage in playful teasing.",
    "Sentence": [
      "I think he was just kidding around when he said that, so don't take it personally."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "4690",
    "Idiom": [
      "kiddie table"
    ],
    "Meaning": "A gathering place for less prominent participants.",
    "Sentence": [
      "EW: You’re nominated for the Best Album for Children. Does that mean you have to sit at a kiddie table ? JR: We are relegated to a pre-televised ceremony.",
      "After failing in 2003 to drag Canada into a disastrous war in Iraq, Stephen Harper has achieved it in 2014. And he will sleep better knowing that, when he next dines with the American president and fellow NATO leaders, he won’t be relegated to the kiddie table.",
      "Organized by Fox News, the main stage, prime-time debate will involve only the candidates polling in the top 10. According to the most recent numbers, Trump, Bush and Walker are leading the way, with everyone else competing closely for the remaining slots — and to avoid the afternoon kiddie table debate.",
      "As if men have not already been the dominating voice in “serious” music, leaving women to the kiddie table of pop."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "4691",
    "Idiom": [
      "kids will be kids"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Children will behave childishly.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "4692",
    "Idiom": [
      "kill one's darlings"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To eliminate cherished elements in art.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Someone asked William Faulkner what the supreme law of art was, and he replied in three words: \" Kill your darlings !\"",
      "[Fans] won’t participate in online dialogues and events, visit message boards and chat rooms or design games. As a result, platforms for supplementary advertising aren’t built, starving even the shows fans profess to love . Aloof and passive fans kill their darlings.",
      "In sharp contrast to choreographers who try to build a repertory that reflects an ongoing personal style, Koresh prefers to \" kill his darlings,\" as he puts it, and start from scratch.",
      "As the curators sifted through more than 100 years of artworks, disagreements inevitably arose. “We all had to kill our darlings,” says Foster."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "4693",
    "Idiom": [
      "kill the fatted calf"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To celebrate someone's return.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "4694",
    "Idiom": [
      "kill the goose that lays the golden eggs"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Seeks short-term gain at the expense of long-term profit.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Have the increases in ordinary fares begun to kill the goose that lays the golden eggs ?"
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "4695",
    "Idiom": [
      "kill two birds with one stone",
      "feed two birds with one scone",
      "hit two targets with one arrow"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To solve two problems with one action.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Biking to work kills two birds with one stone. It saves money travelling and will help to lose weight.",
      "So, what can we do to feed two (or more) birds with one scone and create... a happy income and a happy outcome?",
      "To remove any dreaded exercise stigma, finding forms of exercise that are fun is a way to feed two birds with one scone.",
      "Ghosts and campfires go hand in hand, so why not feed two birds with one scone ?",
      "Doorknobs send palpable shivers of fear through her body, and she has a habit of circling the lounge and nudging household objects with her long sleeves into neat lines, burning extra calories and fixing everything at right angles to each other in one go: two birds, one scone !",
      "\"Estates are often owned by influential people. I thought it was a great way to feed two birds with one scone [,\" said Jackson.] \"Don't you mean \"kill two birds with one stone?...\" \"My phrasing is less violent....\""
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "4696",
    "Idiom": [
      "killer instinct"
    ],
    "Meaning": "A natural drive to succeed, often through aggressive means.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Not for the first time this season, that lack of killer instinct - combined with an approach more responsive than probing - proved costly for Martinez's men."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "4697",
    "Idiom": [
      "kind of"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Slightly or somewhat.",
    "Sentence": [
      "He kind of hated the idea of Hugo having been with someone else, even though that was superhypocritical, considering Brand's own previous arrangements with Ramie and Jackson.",
      "I'm getting kind of tired. Could we finish tomorrow?",
      "That's the right answer, kind of."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "4698",
    "Idiom": [
      "kind regards"
    ],
    "Meaning": "A polite closing of a letter.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "4699",
    "Idiom": [
      "kindest regards"
    ],
    "Meaning": "A polite closing of a letter.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "4700",
    "Idiom": [
      "kindle-coal"
    ],
    "Meaning": "A troublemaker.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "4701",
    "Idiom": [
      "kindle-fire"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Something that initiates events or incites a response.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "4702",
    "Idiom": [
      "kindred soul"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Someone with the same feelings or attitudes.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Many of the participants found themselves among kindred souls who shared their interests."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "4703",
    "Idiom": [
      "kindred spirit"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Someone with similar feelings or attitudes.",
    "Sentence": [
      "I have sought but a kindred spirit to share it, and I have found such in thee.",
      "But his fine qualities being perfectly understood and appreciated in those regions where his lot was cast, and where he had many kindred spirits to consort with, he may be regarded as having been born under a fortunate star, which is not always the case with a man so much before the age in which he lives.",
      "He repeated to Chad what he had been saying in the court to Waymarsh; how there was no doubt whatever that his sister would find the latter a kindred spirit, no doubt of the alliance, based on an exchange of views, that the pair would successfully strike up.",
      "He is a Trump kindred spirit who goads liberals, appeases Russian president Vladimir Putin and promotes the far-right “great replacement” theory that western elites are importing immigrant voters to supplant white people.",
      "She found in her neighbor a good friend, gardening companion and kindred spirit."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "4704",
    "Idiom": [
      "king of all one surveys"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Having control or oversight over a large area or matters within one's influence.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Let the world without go as it may, let kingdoms rise or fall, so long as he has the wherewithal to pay his bill he is, for the time being, the very monarch of all he surveys.",
      "None of the refinements of civilisation enter into the life of an ordinary Boer. His happiness is to live alone in the great wilderness, with his children, his men-servants and his maid-servants, his flocks and his herds, the monarch of all he surveys.",
      "\"If a man is king of all he surveys, he'd best make sure he has a wide enough view,\" Big Will had joked to his ten-year-old son while leaning back in his leather chair and puffing on his favorite brand of Havana cigar.",
      "Here again are the Atlanta Braves, kings of all they survey in whatever division they've been in for 11 seasons, swaying to the chant of the tomahawk chop in October, but here again are all those empty blue seats on the far slopes of Turner Field.",
      "Huw Edwards stands at the top of the circular staircase in the BBC newsroom, king of all he surveys.",
      "He strides around like he's the king of all he surveys through those eyes of his, framed by (okay) wrinkles."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "4705",
    "Idiom": [
      "king of beasts"
    ],
    "Meaning": "The lion.",
    "Sentence": [
      "“Who shot the lions?” Fred asked. / “Yours truly,” answered Terry. “I shot them with my little gun. I wouldn’t tell a lie for a dozen lions.” Nearly every one in the command laughed heartily, and gathered around to see the big game. The scouts told how Terry had brought the two kings of beasts down, each at a single shot."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "4706",
    "Idiom": [
      "king of birds"
    ],
    "Meaning": "The eagle.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "4707",
    "Idiom": [
      "king of the castle"
    ],
    "Meaning": "A person in a position of greater importance or authority.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Mr. Matthews, usually nonjudgmental when writing about O'Connor's domestic relations, can't resist calling him \"the king of the castle, the smug possessor of a bevy of three fine women absolutely de-voted to him.\"",
      "A onetime classmate in Kumamoto said, \"I think Matsumoto is trying to create a closed society like the school for the blind he went to. He is trying to create a society separate from ordinary society in which he can become king of the castle.\"",
      "Darren Clarke's impressive victory on Sunday at Montecastillo in the Volvo Masters, the season's finale, was good enough to leapfrog Lee Westwood into second place on the order of merit, but not to dislodge Monty as the king of the castle.",
      "Wainwright, who is composing the music, is partnered with Daniel MacIvor, who is writing the libretto. “Both Daniel and I are used to being king of the castle,” Rufus confides, “so we need a third party to give us a sense of perspective.”"
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "4708",
    "Idiom": [
      "king of the hill"
    ],
    "Meaning": "A leader in a particular field.",
    "Sentence": [
      "He was considered a renegade in journalism until he won the Pulitzer Prize, but now he is the king of the hill."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "4709",
    "Idiom": [
      "king's cushion"
    ],
    "Meaning": "A four-handed seat created by two people crossing their arms.",
    "Sentence": [
      "in this garb he was now mounted on the hands of two of the rioters, clasped together, so as to form what is called in Scotland, \" The King's Cushion.\""
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "4710",
    "Idiom": [
      "king's ransom"
    ],
    "Meaning": "A very large sum of money.",
    "Sentence": [
      "\"But to yonder pavilion... the moon is glimmering on the gilded ball which crowns its roof, and which is worth a king's ransom.\"",
      "These gold, silver and pewter pieces are part of a king’s ransom of Spanish treasure salvaged from the sea off Florida where they had lain for 250 years.",
      "“ This commercial message is sponsored by Lebenthal in the heartfelt belief that we’re not the only ones who are going to miss the bonds when they’re gone and it costs a king’s ransom to turn on the lights, boil water, or haul the garbage.”",
      "Solving longitude was one of the major preoccupations of European nations from the fifteenth to the eighteenth centuries. King’s ransoms were offered for its solution.",
      "Except that Clarissa Astley would not have been decked out in a king's ransom of diamonds."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "4711",
    "Idiom": [
      "kiss and cry"
    ],
    "Meaning": "The area where figure skaters wait for their scores after a performance.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Harding had seemed physically discomfited earlier as she awaited her marks in the kiss and cry corner.",
      "The seating area where skaters wait for the judges' scores is called the \" kiss and cry \" for good reason.",
      "With cameras in their faces, figure skaters awaiting their scores in the kiss-and-cry area offer a scene unlike any other.",
      "The deafening crowd... chanted and stomped their feet when Stolbova and Klimov came on the ice and Canada's pairs skaters were still sitting in the kiss and cry waiting for their scores."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "4712",
    "Idiom": [
      "kiss and make up"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To settle differences and forgive.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "4713",
    "Idiom": [
      "kiss ass",
      "kiss arse"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To flatter excessively for personal gain.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "4714-1",
    "Idiom": [
      "kiss my ass"
    ],
    "Meaning": "An expression of disdain or dismissal.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "4714-2",
    "Idiom": [
      "kiss my ass"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Rejection or refusal.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Well just kiss my ass from now on! Not me! I'm not gonna take this.",
      "When he asked me to help him fix the bike, I told him to kiss my ass.",
      "As I told to go meet at an invitation, you can kiss my ass."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "4715",
    "Idiom": [
      "kiss of death"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Something that appears positive but ultimately leads to failure.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Confronted with the savage defenses, many of the Japanese pilots flinched. Failure to hold formation was the kiss of death. As they reached the crucial moment of decision—push ahead and drop the torpedo, or lose nerve and turn away—most chose the latter. Turning, they lost airspeed and showed their bellies to the hungry Navy gunners, and that was it. The twenties and forties lit them like fuses. The five-inch guns \"seemed to literally hammer them down,\" Captain Hoover of the Helena remarked.",
      "The role in the soap opera was the kiss of death for Ann's career as a theatrical actress."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "4716",
    "Idiom": [
      "kiss of life"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Mouth-to-mouth resuscitation.",
    "Sentence": [
      "The lifeguard pulled the man out of the lake and gave him the kiss of life."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "4717-1",
    "Idiom": [
      "kiss off"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To say goodbye in a casual way.",
    "Sentence": [
      "My girlfriend came to kiss me off at the airport."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "4717-2",
    "Idiom": [
      "kiss off"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To dismiss or reject casually.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "4718",
    "Idiom": [
      "kiss someone's ass"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To flatter someone excessively to gain their favor.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "4719",
    "Idiom": [
      "kiss someone's ring"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To give respect or express servitude to someone.",
    "Sentence": [
      "The friendship had faltered during their first year at Oxford, when Barnaby had turned jester-in-chief to a pride of strutting young peacocks with titles and country estates. He had made them laugh and kissed their rings and they in return had sneered at him behind his back.",
      "\"… We're taking over and running this industry. Every other label is gonna have to bow down.\" / \"What about Mystique?\" Dreya asks. \"Is she gonna have to bow down too?\" / \"It's only a matter of time,\" Evan says. \"If I don't do anything else in this industry, I'm gonna make sure that diva kisses your ring.\"",
      "Betsy eats up the attention like a bobbysoxer at an Elvis concert. It won't be long before Luca will have them kissing his ring."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "4720",
    "Idiom": [
      "kiss the gunner's daughter"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To be flogged or beaten while restrained.",
    "Sentence": [
      "But I was punished, my lad—made to kiss the wench that never speaks but when she scolds, and that's the gunner's daughter, comrade.",
      "\"No,\" replied Bosun Thorpe, \"for any breaches of discipline by boy seamen are dealt within by making him, in naval jargon, ‘ kiss the gunner's daughter ’.... he bends over one of the guns; then he is lashed across the backside.\""
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "4721-1",
    "Idiom": [
      "kiss up"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To flatter someone, especially a superior, for personal gain.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Yes, I watched Joe kissing up the boss and was very annoyed when he got my promotion!"
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "4721-2",
    "Idiom": [
      "kiss up"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To pay false flattery.",
    "Sentence": [
      "He kisses up more than he works."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "4722",
    "Idiom": [
      "kiss up to"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To flatter excessively.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "4723",
    "Idiom": [
      "kissing goes by favor"
    ],
    "Meaning": "People often show favoritism in giving benefits.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "4724",
    "Idiom": [
      "kitchen table software"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Software developed by amateur or self-employed programmers at home.",
    "Sentence": [
      "So much for kitchen-table software being small potatoes.",
      "However, the need to evaluate software before buying is no less important than in the days of the kitchen-table software developer.",
      "More and more vendors, from IBM to \"kitchen table\" software authors, seem to be heading in this direction."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "4725",
    "Idiom": [
      "knee slapper"
    ],
    "Meaning": "A humorous joke.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "4726",
    "Idiom": [
      "knee-deep in the Big Muddy"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Mired in a difficult situation, especially from poor judgment or bad leadership.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Polls show three-quarters of the people don't want us to invade Haiti. Nonetheless, it appears we're about to go knee-deep in the Big Muddy.",
      "The 40-year-old Fastow, a hot-tempered financial whiz, engineered the controversial partnerships that led to Enron's meltdown.... \"He's knee-deep in the big muddy,\" Meagher says.",
      "In the classic ‘ knee deep in the Big Muddy ’ scenario (Staw, 1976), individuals continue to contribute to a losing cause long after it is clear that this is a tremendous waste of money."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "4727",
    "Idiom": [
      "knee-high by the Fourth of July"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Indicates a corn crop's growth is promising for a good harvest.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "4728",
    "Idiom": [
      "knee-high to a grasshopper"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Refers to being very small or young.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "4729",
    "Idiom": [
      "knight in shining armor"
    ],
    "Meaning": "A hero.",
    "Sentence": [
      "We must work this out on our own and not wait for a knight in shining armor, who may never come."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "4730",
    "Idiom": [
      "knight of the post"
    ],
    "Meaning": "A known perjurer.",
    "Sentence": [
      "But with more lucky hit than those That use to make the stars depose, Like knights o' th' post, and falsely charge Upon themselves what others forge; As if they were consenting to All mischief in the world men do",
      "The fugitive had been cajoled by a certain knight of the post, who undertook to manage the thousand pounds in such a manner, as would, in a very little time, make him perfectly independent .",
      "A knight of the post quoth he, for so I am termed; a fellow that will swear you anything for twelve pence."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "4731",
    "Idiom": [
      "knit one's brows",
      "knit one's eyebrows"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To scowl, indicating anger, worry, or confusion.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "4732",
    "Idiom": [
      "knit together"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To heal or unify.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "4733-1",
    "Idiom": [
      "knock down"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To hit or collapse something, or to reduce a price.",
    "Sentence": [
      "He was out tomcatting one night / When he started a big fight / And a big policeman came and knocked him down.",
      "I won't surrender / I will fight better / You lock me out, you knock me down / But I will find my way around",
      "As I took the can off the shelf, I knocked down the one beside it.",
      "We knocked down the garden shed when we moved.",
      "They knocked it down by another £5, so we bought it.",
      "The furniture is shipped knocked down, so assembly is required."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "4733-2",
    "Idiom": [
      "knock down"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To cause something or someone to fall.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "4733-3",
    "Idiom": [
      "knock down"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To demolish.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "4733-4",
    "Idiom": [
      "knock down"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To reduce the price.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "4733-5",
    "Idiom": [
      "knock down"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To disassemble for shipment.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "4733-6",
    "Idiom": [
      "knock down"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To acquire money, especially through crime.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "4733-7",
    "Idiom": [
      "knock down"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To accumulate money, often illegally.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "4733-8",
    "Idiom": [
      "knock down"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To embezzle.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "4733-9",
    "Idiom": [
      "knock down"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To drink quickly or party extravagantly.",
    "Sentence": [
      "I love to go down the pub and knock down pints of lager."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "4733-10",
    "Idiom": [
      "knock down"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To drink quickly.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "4733-11",
    "Idiom": [
      "knock down"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To spend extravagantly.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "4733-12",
    "Idiom": [
      "knock down"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To reject or override a decision.",
    "Sentence": [
      "They click their glasses and knock down the toast.",
      "She had to wait for the end of the sale before these matters were put up, and as the auctioneer was in a hurry to get the sale over, and most of the bidders had left, she got a full set of servant's bedroom furniture knocked down to her for five pounds.",
      "The judge knocked the award down to a half-million.",
      "The picture was knocked down for £50."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "4733-13",
    "Idiom": [
      "knock down"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To approve a toast by banging glasses.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "4733-14",
    "Idiom": [
      "knock down"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To nominate someone to speak.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "4733-15",
    "Idiom": [
      "knock down"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To introduce someone.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "4733-16",
    "Idiom": [
      "knock down"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To reject or override.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "4733-17",
    "Idiom": [
      "knock down"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To impose a sentence.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "4733-18",
    "Idiom": [
      "knock down"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To declare something sold at an auction.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "4733-19",
    "Idiom": [
      "knock down"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To sell.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "4733-20",
    "Idiom": [
      "knock down"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To signal a train to stop at the correct point.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "4733-21",
    "Idiom": [
      "knock down"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To reduce a fire.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "4734",
    "Idiom": [
      "knock for a loop"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To astonish or confuse.",
    "Sentence": [
      "[Denham answered] \"Gas bombs, Old Man! My own prescription. Gas bombs powerful enough to knock a row of elephants for a loop.\"",
      "A triple threat to the U.S. economy has knocked stock prices for a loop.",
      "Poor Janice, she'll be knocked for a loop. She'll feel she's let her father down.",
      "Karyn McNay as Ulla, the sexy Swedish actress/receptionist/cleaning woman, knocks the audience for a loop too."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "4735",
    "Idiom": [
      "knock it off"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To cease doing something annoying or unpleasant.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Would you two please knock it off with the shouting? I'm trying to sleep."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "4736",
    "Idiom": [
      "knock on heaven's door"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To die or be near death.",
    "Sentence": [
      "I had knocked on heaven's door but they didn't let me in!",
      "During my stay in the high dependency ward I also knocked on heaven's door. At one point I had to be resuscitated and after being resuscitated I found one of the resuscitation discs still on my chest."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "4737-1",
    "Idiom": [
      "knock on wood"
    ],
    "Meaning": "A customary action to prevent misfortune after making a hopeful statement.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "4737-2",
    "Idiom": [
      "knock on wood"
    ],
    "Meaning": "A self-directive to ward off bad luck.",
    "Sentence": [
      "I do a lot of walking, and I have never had any knee problems yet, knock on wood."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "4738",
    "Idiom": [
      "knock oneself out"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Go ahead; do as one pleases.",
    "Sentence": [
      "\"These cookies are my favorite! Can I have some?\" \"Sure, knock yourself out.\" (i.e., have as many as you want)",
      "(sarcastically, indicating lack of interest) \"I'm going to the store.\" / \" Knock yourself out.\""
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "4739-1",
    "Idiom": [
      "knock out",
      "put out",
      "put out"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To render unconscious or defeat; to impress or exhaust.",
    "Sentence": [
      "In the autumn there was a row at some cement works about the unskilled labour men. A union had just been started for them and all but a few joined. One of these blacklegs was laid for by a picket and knocked out of time.",
      "That's a put-you-straight-to-sleep book if there ever was one, and I knocked right out after two paragraphs.",
      "As they were approaching bankruptcy from being knocked out of the calculator market, they began development on the first commercially available microcomputer, the Altair.",
      "Tottenham were knocked out of the Europa League, despite a comfortable victory over Shamrock Rovers in Dublin.",
      "I accidentally knocked out the glass in my picture frame.",
      "The boxer knocked out his opponent in the third round.",
      "The allergy pill knocked him out for a good three hours.",
      "Running errands all day really knocked him out.",
      "The antitank gun knocked out the enemy tank.",
      "“Then you didn't find her so amusing as Tom does?” “I found her pert. There's no other word for it. She says things to puzzle you and put you out.”",
      "England stumbled into the World Cup quarter-finals and almost certainly put Scotland out after an error-ridden victory at Eden Park.",
      "I don't mean to put you out. It's just vital that I get this done tonight."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "4740-2",
    "Idiom": [
      "knock out"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To render unconscious.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "4740-3",
    "Idiom": [
      "knock out"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To put to sleep.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "4740-4",
    "Idiom": [
      "knock out"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To fall asleep suddenly.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "4740-5",
    "Idiom": [
      "knock out"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To exhaust.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "4740-6",
    "Idiom": [
      "knock out"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To impress or overwhelm someone.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "4740-7",
    "Idiom": [
      "knock out"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To render something non-functional by damage or destruction.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "4741",
    "Idiom": [
      "knock out of the box"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To replace something.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "4742",
    "Idiom": [
      "knock some sense into"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To reprimand or reform someone.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "4743",
    "Idiom": [
      "knock someone flat"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To hit someone so they fall.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "4744",
    "Idiom": [
      "knock someone off their perch"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To defeat someone in a dominant position.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Tiger Woods has been knocked off his perch as the No1 player in the world after Vijay Singh beat him in the Deutsche Bank Open last night.",
      "He was the third qualifier of the day and posted a 4-lap, 10-mile qualifying average of 227.566 miles an hour on the two-and-a-half-mile oval, then had to wait through nearly six hours while other drivers tried to knock him off his perch.",
      "\"It would be nice to knock the Germans off their perch, with them winning the last European Championship and the World Cup.\""
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "4745",
    "Idiom": [
      "knock someone over with a feather",
      "knock someone down with a feather"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Expresses great surprise.",
    "Sentence": [
      "She hardly, she said, believed her own senses. You might have knocked her down with a feather. She did not know whether she stood on her head or her heels.",
      "\"I thought you might see what she's up to if she is up to something, and I'm pretty sure she is.\" / \"You could knock me over with a feather,\" Jane said. \"Well! Yes, it does sound as though she's up to something I'd be inclined to say. But you can't be sure with an odd one like Sue. Might be a touch of harmless craziness.\"",
      "Fat cat art collectors shelled out thousands of dollars for works by a popular new painter named DaVinci, and hoity-toity critics called him the king of the canvas – till the world learned that DaVinci is a duck! \"And when all those snooty people found out they'd been bamboozled by a bird, you could have knocked them over with a feather.\"",
      "Reflecting on being told he was to referee the 1991 World Cup final, the former flanker told Radio Wales, \"I couldn't believe it. They talk about knocking you over with a feather, I was in a dream for the rest of the day. \"",
      "She hardly, she said, believed her own senses. You might have knocked her down with a feather. She did not know whether she stood on her head or her heels."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "4746",
    "Idiom": [
      "knock someone's socks off"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To greatly impress or amaze.",
    "Sentence": [
      "But one of the enjoyable things of working around the railway is that no matter how well I think I know something or somewhere, there are always days when my socks are blown clean off.",
      "You wouldn't expect teenagers to sing opera, but these kids will knock your socks off."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "4747-1",
    "Idiom": [
      "knock the living daylights out of"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To beat or strike someone.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Boy, the fellows said he just knocked the living daylights out of him, bounced him six feet across the ground."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "4747-2",
    "Idiom": [
      "knock the living daylights out of"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To thoroughly defeat someone in a fight.",
    "Sentence": [
      "He won the English championship from the six-foot-three-inch, seventeen-stone Sam Hurst, the Staleybridge Infant, knocking the living daylights out of this champion"
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "4747-3",
    "Idiom": [
      "knock the living daylights out of"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To greatly excel against.",
    "Sentence": [
      "...where new and better depreciation regulations and a 7% business investment credit knocked the living daylights out of normal and historical accounting procedures..."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "4748",
    "Idiom": [
      "knock the stuffing out of"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To cause a loss of energy and confidence.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Added to these woes was the Treasury's demands for across-the-board train operator cost-cutting of broadly 10%. Passenger rail's slow, patchy and fragile recovery had the stuffing knocked out of it once more.",
      "Chelsea knocked the stuffing out of Brighton well before the final whistle when they beat them 1-3 at Brighton."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "4749-1",
    "Idiom": [
      "knock together"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To assemble quickly.",
    "Sentence": [
      "I'll just knock together a quick demo."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "4749-2",
    "Idiom": [
      "knock together"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To come together.",
    "Sentence": [
      "This has all the hallmarks of a disagreement that needs some heads knocking together. It's not in passenger interests for company and union to be arguing like this."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "4750",
    "Idiom": [
      "knocking on heaven's door"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Close to death.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "4751",
    "Idiom": [
      "know beans about"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To know very little about.",
    "Sentence": [
      "His primary opponent, Raphael Herman, is a real estate salesman who frankly admits he knows beans about insurance."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "4752",
    "Idiom": [
      "know every trick in the book"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To know everything about a certain discipline.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "4753",
    "Idiom": [
      "know from a bar of soap"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To know or be acquainted with someone.",
    "Sentence": [
      "After she won the lottery, Marge had long-lost relatives she didn't know from a bar of soap come up to her to ask for money."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "4754",
    "Idiom": [
      "know inside and out"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To know very thoroughly.",
    "Sentence": [
      "He's still new to their system, but he knows databases inside and out and will understand the rest soon."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "4755",
    "Idiom": [
      "know no bounds"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Unlimited in scope or extent.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Ever the gentleman, he takes her to bed, then asks if she needs a taxi. Like, as soon as the act is complete. His douchery really does know no bounds."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "4756",
    "Idiom": [
      "know one's ass from a hole in the ground",
      "find one's ass with both hands and a flashlight"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To have an adequate level of knowledge or skill.",
    "Sentence": [
      "\"Why are you so sure and they aren't?\" the landsman said.... \"Because Mr. Ricimer knows his ass from a hole in the ground, sir.\"",
      "Foxx gave a comic's pause. \"Just goes to show you, don't it? Some folks don't know their ass from a hole in the ground.\"",
      "In the unofficial ad, the facilitator says about the man whose wife will be replaced, “This guy wouldn’t know his ass from a hole in the ground.”"
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "4757",
    "Idiom": [
      "know one's own mind"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To clearly understand one's own feelings and desires.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Demi knew his own mind, however, and tranquilly carried out his plans, unmoved by the tongues of the anxious mammas or the jokes of his mates.",
      "He sadly wants strength of purpose; and, like weak men in general, he only knows his own mind when a resolute friend takes him in hand and guides him.",
      "\"Wise girl—strong-minded girl, knows her own mind,\" muttered Mr. Churton.",
      "He was the strong man who knew his own mind and could not be shaken.",
      "\"I'm a conservative Republican who hasn't approved of any conservative Republican in years because most conservative Republicans aren't conservative enough for me.\" So says John J. Wilson, 72, who knows his own mind and does not hesitate to speak it.",
      "Ronald Reagan knew his own mind. He had firm principles - and, I believe, right ones. He expounded them clearly, he acted upon them decisively."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "4758",
    "Idiom": [
      "know someone",
      "know someone from a can of paint"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To have connections with someone.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Matsuo admitted to the paper that he told Rana, \"I know someone, and the TLC's going to get you.\" Get him it did."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "4759",
    "Idiom": [
      "know someone from Adam"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To know or recognize someone at all.",
    "Sentence": [
      "'Who is she, anyway? Interfering... pestering... you must know.' 'I don't know her from Adam,' the Boy said.",
      "\"Well,\" he said, \"do you know me from Adam ?\""
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "4760",
    "Idiom": [
      "know someone in the biblical sense"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To have sex with someone.",
    "Sentence": [
      "James may not have known women in the biblical sense; but had Adams read the novels with care, he would have been agreeably surprised by the keen insights on the feminine psyche displayed there.",
      "As for Modigliani he is not a painter I know so I don't know if he knew Bianca in the biblical sense or not.",
      "Paul says there are still those who knew him, in the Biblical sense, living on the West Coast — that he was \"trade\" for \"everybody.\"",
      "It only stood to reason that a woman who knew Him in a Biblical sense would have to be His bride."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "4761",
    "Idiom": [
      "know the drill"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Familiar with the normal process or procedure.",
    "Sentence": [
      "By the time of my third, five months ago, I was a right bossy cow about what I wanted because I knew the drill. For reasons I shan’t bore you with, I got them to induce me at 39 weeks, at 10am, with the epidural going in first, and it was all a dream."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "4762",
    "Idiom": [
      "know the score"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To be aware of a situation and its consequences.",
    "Sentence": [
      "I've seen it before / I know the score / You're trying to be wild and carefree / You really can't take it no more",
      "Our love wasn't perfect I know, I think you know the score / When you say you love me, oh boy, I can't ask for more"
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "4763",
    "Idiom": [
      "know thyself"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Be aware of your strengths and limitations.",
    "Sentence": [
      "\"Secondly, thou must keep in view what thou art, striving to know thyself, the most difficult thing to know that the mind can imagine. If thou knowest thyself, it will follow thou wilt not puff thyself up like the frog that strove to make himself as large as the ox; if thou dost, the recollection of having kept pigs in thine own country will serve as the ugly feet for the wheel of thy folly.\""
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "4764",
    "Idiom": [
      "know what is what"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To understand the current situation.",
    "Sentence": [
      "He seems to have no trouble understanding stuff that, to me, sounds like hot garbage. He really does know what's what.",
      "She said she was going to house to study French, but I wasn't born yesterday. I know what's what.",
      "Everything is changing so fast... I just don't know what's what anymore!"
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "4765",
    "Idiom": [
      "know where the bodies are buried"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To possess incriminating information about misdeeds or secrets.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Senator John Stennis has been active and effective for so long as a member of the Armed Services Committee that he knows as well as any man can where the bodies are buried in the Pentagon and the boondoggles are buried in the defense budget.",
      "No one except Ecclestone probably really understands the revenues being earned by the sport, such is the secrecy and labyrinthine structure. He knows where the bodies are buried. No one wants to get on his wrong side.",
      "\"My criteria for interviewing people are that they were 'in the room' during the big events, that they know where the bodies are buried and that they are prepared to talk with a degree of candour,\" he says.",
      "Mayor, alderman, park board president. Teacher, coach, athletic director. U.S. Air Force tail gunner and aviator. Pro football player and collegiate wrestler. As a longtime observer of the Waukegan scene once joked — with respect — a guy like Richard Hyde \" knows where the bodies are buried.\""
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "4766",
    "Idiom": [
      "know which end is up"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To have sound judgment or a clear understanding of a situation.",
    "Sentence": [
      "He's so in love, he doesn't know which end is up.",
      "“I'll gladly take criticism from a cop who knows which end is up and isn't afraid to do the job the way it should be done.”",
      "“I'm not some naïve, virginal little nothing who doesn't know which end is up.”",
      "“Believe me, she is some catch for the right boy—for a boy which knows which end is up.”",
      "“When someone doesn't know which end is up, who knows why they do things.”",
      "The whole company is in disarray! Nobody knows which end is up.",
      "He was too stoned to know which end was up."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "4767",
    "Idiom": [
      "know which side one's bread is buttered on"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Aware of where one's interests lie.",
    "Sentence": [
      "“Pshaw!” answered his mercurial companion; “he knows on which side his bread is buttered, and I warrant you has not lived so long among Englishmen, and by Englishmen, to quarrel with us for bearing an English mind.\"",
      "They are all stupid when they are not crafty, and very few of them are crafty. The only wise Republicans are the millionnaires and their conscious henchmen. They know which side their bread is buttered on, and they know why.\"",
      "He knows which side his bread is buttered on though in all probability he never realised what it is to be without regular meals.",
      "The crowd, which included many children, cheered when Truman confided with a smile, “They know what side their bread is buttered on.”",
      "On the other hand, the decision to beef up the standard fare without raising prices is a signal that Intel knows which side of the bread is buttered."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "4768",
    "Idiom": [
      "knowledge is power"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Knowledge increases one's potential for success.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "4769",
    "Idiom": [
      "knuckle down"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To focus on a task.",
    "Sentence": [
      "As students all over the United States knuckle down to learning, the rumble of war drums once more proclaims Mars high man in Europe. Discarding morbid curiosity, every student should consider it vitally necessary to get a general picture of the causes, movements, and possible effects of World War II. The average U. S. citizen's knowledge of World War II will probably decide his role in it.",
      "You should knuckle down and do your homework!"
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "4770",
    "Idiom": [
      "knuckle dragger"
    ],
    "Meaning": "A large, strong, and dimwitted person.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Mickey was wide receiver on the St. Rita Football Team in 2007—a big strapping, robust south side knuckle dragger and chick magnet.",
      "The scientists were frustrated by the constant need to have knuckle draggers following them like mother hens."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "4771",
    "Idiom": [
      "knuckle sandwich"
    ],
    "Meaning": "A punch to the face.",
    "Sentence": [
      "OKKIE. (Raises his fist, kissing the knuckles menacingly—follows her to bottom of steps.) How would you like a knuckle sandwich ?",
      "Rather than an embrace, the Babe would most assuredly like to have given a knuckle sandwich to the executives of that candy corps. Or hit them over the head with his 42-ounce bat.",
      "My brother Basil was probably the most protective of me. He would be willing to wallop anyone with a knuckle sandwich (knuckle sandwiches, not knives or guns, were big back then) who messed with me."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "4772",
    "Idiom": [
      "knuckle under"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To yield under pressure.",
    "Sentence": [
      "The man is a ruffian. I won't knuckle under to him!"
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "4773-1",
    "Idiom": [
      "lab rat"
    ],
    "Meaning": "A student or employee working extensively in a laboratory.",
    "Sentence": [
      "As a graduate student, she loved being a “ lab rat,” Dr. Blackburn said, adding, “I was just really focused on the science, the science, the science.”"
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "4773-2",
    "Idiom": [
      "lab rat"
    ],
    "Meaning": "A person used as the subject of an experiment, often unwillingly.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Tests were done on me that you can't even imagine. For years. Cerberus did them. They tortured me. They used me as a damn lab rat. And now you're teaming up with them like they're any other merc band?",
      "Looking back at the unprecedented meddling of European powers in his country's politics amid the Euro crisis — a series of events that led to his fall as well as Greece becoming the first country in the zone to be forced to accept painful austerities in exchange for bailout loans — Papandreou told TIME, \"I think it couldn't have been avoided. We were a lab rat, an experiment.\"",
      "This time, Vincent... became an unwitting lab rat for a vaccine that turned soldiers into hyperaggressive killing machines."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "4774",
    "Idiom": [
      "labor of love"
    ],
    "Meaning": "A voluntary task done without expectation of reward.",
    "Sentence": [
      "It takes a lot of work to be a dungeon master. As the person in charge of a tabletop role-playing game — even informally among friends — you’re responsible for buying all the rulebooks, drawing up the maps, performing all the ancillary characters, and making sure your friends show up on time for each session. It’s a labor of love; a successful Dungeons & Dragons campaign often feels like a second job.",
      "Writing a textbook has become more a labor of love than a money-making enterprise, wrote the professor, because of the peculiar way the books are now marketed."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "4775",
    "Idiom": [
      "laced mutton"
    ],
    "Meaning": "A prostitute.",
    "Sentence": [
      "A fine laced mutton, Or two; and either has her frisking husband",
      "Ay sir: I, a lost mutton, gave your letter to her, a laced mutton, and she, a laced mutton, gave me, a lost mutton, nothing for my labour."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "4776",
    "Idiom": [
      "laced-up"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Restrained or uptight.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "4777",
    "Idiom": [
      "lady garden"
    ],
    "Meaning": "A woman's pubic area.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Talking of Pussy Galore, have people seen the pics of Britney Spears showing her lady garden ?",
      "That way, when I dropped my towel, my lady garden would only be exposed for a nanosecond before it disappeared under the steamy waters of the pool..."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "4778",
    "Idiom": [
      "lady or tiger"
    ],
    "Meaning": "A gamble with uncertain outcomes.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "4779-1",
    "Idiom": [
      "lady's man",
      "ladies' man"
    ],
    "Meaning": "A man who attracts women.",
    "Sentence": [
      "This promenading was chiefly patronised by the marines, and particularly by Colbrook, a remarkably handsome and very gentlemanly corporal among them. He was a complete lady's man; with fine black eyes, bright red cheeks, glossy jet whiskers, and a refined organisation of the whole man.",
      "You know, Karen, I may not look much like a lady's man, but many a gal has cried when I left.",
      "Oh the gals won't leave me alone / I have to disconnect my phone / That's how it is when you're a lady's man",
      "She told me very frankly that whenever I returned, she would leave her mate and come to me, as she preferred me above all others. I was becoming a ladies' man after a lifetime of bashfulness!"
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "4780-2",
    "Idiom": [
      "lady's man"
    ],
    "Meaning": "A womanizer.",
    "Sentence": [
      "He was the most celebrated portrait painter of his day, a notorious ladies' man, obsessed with women, pale beauties dressed in extravagant gowns... or nothing at all."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "4781",
    "Idiom": [
      "land in someone's lap"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To come into possession without effort or expectation.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "4782",
    "Idiom": [
      "land of opportunity"
    ],
    "Meaning": "The United States.",
    "Sentence": [
      "It is time the international community faced the reality: we have an unmanageable, unfair, distortionary global tax regime. … It is the starving of the public sector which has been pivotal in America no longer being the land of opportunity – with a child's life prospects more dependent on the income and education of its parents than in other advanced countries."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "4783",
    "Idiom": [
      "land on"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To reach a common conclusion or agreement.",
    "Sentence": [
      "I wanted pepperoni pizza, but my friend was a vegetarian, so we landed on having cheese pizza."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "4784",
    "Idiom": [
      "land on one's feet"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To be successful, often in difficult situations.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "4785",
    "Idiom": [
      "land poor"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Inability to meet financial obligations related to land.",
    "Sentence": [
      "\"I was offered a thousand acres, the other day, at twenty-five cents an acre,\" remarked the doctor. \"The owner is so land-poor that he can't pay the taxes.\"",
      "All the rest of the surrounding land was owned by a Frenchman.... He was a land-miser. With no business capacity, old and opinionated, he was land poor, and it was an open question which would arrive first, his death or bankruptcy.",
      "Altho' most of the planters were \" land poor \" and burdened by the heavy taxes of \"Reconstruction,\" and altho' many Negroes, having abandoned hope of \"forty acres and a mule\" from the Federal Government, were now ready to buy ten acres and an ox, the sale of land to Negroes was generally reprobated.",
      "Most ranchers are land poor —lots of land, but not much money."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "4786",
    "Idiom": [
      "land the plane"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To abandon an unsuccessful endeavor.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "4787",
    "Idiom": [
      "landing strip"
    ],
    "Meaning": "A pubic hair grooming pattern with a central strip remaining.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "4788",
    "Idiom": [
      "lap of luxury"
    ],
    "Meaning": "A position of indulgence and luxury.",
    "Sentence": [
      "You'd think being born into the lap of luxury would encourage indolence, but that's not the case for Kilian Hennessy ."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "4789-1",
    "Idiom": [
      "large and in charge"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Dominating a situation with confidence.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Sure, as the captain of your ship, you are the one to blame when things go wrong or fall apart, but you are also large and in charge when they go well.",
      "The little girl in me was crying, \"No more.\" She was large and in charge, front and center—the lead actress in the play about her life.",
      "Hampton Touissant Hamilton held a degree in Business Economics from the United States Naval Academy and he was svelte, tall, large and in charge, black as the skies at midnight and handsome as an Adonis would or could be a real ringer.",
      "Despite the difficulties with Skyler and Mike, Walt is large and in charge again in the cold open to “Say My Name.”"
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "4789-2",
    "Idiom": [
      "large and in charge"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Domineering and using physical presence to assert authority.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Garfield Large & in Charge."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "4790",
    "Idiom": [
      "last burst of fire"
    ],
    "Meaning": "A final effort before stopping.",
    "Sentence": [
      "in a last burst of fire, striking out at \"soft\" targets, like [the] stock market, power utilities, or communications centres.",
      "And that's what my column is -- a futile last burst of fire at the rising tide of busybodies and mediocrity.",
      "And it usually is the last burst of fire - if you still ignore this call, then be prepared to bear with the consequences",
      "It's the final stretch! Give it the last burst of fire. I must really salute each one of you especially all the WTR. It was physically and mentally draining, but all of you have overcome fatigue and have done extremely well.",
      "Getting ready for my last burst of fire for the project during the next 2 weeks. After that I will take my much needed rest."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "4791",
    "Idiom": [
      "last full measure"
    ],
    "Meaning": "A person's life lost in service to a nation or cause.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "4792-1",
    "Idiom": [
      "last hurrah"
    ],
    "Meaning": "A final act or performance marking the end of a career.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "4792-2",
    "Idiom": [
      "last hurrah"
    ],
    "Meaning": "A final effort or performance.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "4793-1",
    "Idiom": [
      "last mile"
    ],
    "Meaning": "The final stage of delivery to the consumer.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "4793-2",
    "Idiom": [
      "last mile"
    ],
    "Meaning": "The final stage of delivering communication signals to the end user.",
    "Sentence": [
      "The problem getting to all these remote customers is still the last mile, no matter how far they live from the switch."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "4794-1",
    "Idiom": [
      "last minute"
    ],
    "Meaning": "An urgent point in time close to a deadline.",
    "Sentence": [
      "“Clown Without Pity,” as the segment is called, opens with Homer forgetting Bart’s birthday and jetting off at the last minute (or rather considerably after the last minute) to pick him up a present. Alas, Homer has the questionable judgment to go gift-shopping at House Of Evil, an establishment that bills itself as “Your one stop evil shop.” That should be a bit of a warning, as is the establishment’s name.",
      "I like to do everything at the last minute. It does tend to make me late for things, though."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "4794-2",
    "Idiom": [
      "last minute"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Very close to a deadline.",
    "Sentence": [
      "“In ten years, this is the most last-minute holiday season that we have ever seen,” a Citigroup analyst, Deborah Weinswig, tells ABC News.",
      "“It can be exhilarating but it can be boring, too,” he said. “I preferred it when it was more last minute, when the adrenaline kicked in.”",
      "That last minute revision really paid off in the exam!"
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "4795",
    "Idiom": [
      "last of the big spenders"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Someone who spends a lot of money.",
    "Sentence": [
      "\"He bought you a sandwich?\" / \"Yeah, you know him, the last of the big spenders.\""
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "4796",
    "Idiom": [
      "last resort"
    ],
    "Meaning": "The only remaining option when others have been excluded.",
    "Sentence": [
      "The present writer was once asked to name what he considered to be \"the most typically English railway approach to a town\": a somewhat tall order, especially as such matters will always be, in the last resort, of individual opinion. But the unhesitating answer to this question (which has not been altered after many years of extended travel throughout England) was \"Sudbury, in Suffolk.\"",
      "\"Only as an absolute last resort will we carry out enforcement in the form of fines. We are sure that the public will want to be responsible and do their part to protect others by wearing face coverings.\"",
      "I wouldn't recommend doing surgery on yourself, unless it is a last resort."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "4797-1",
    "Idiom": [
      "last roundup"
    ],
    "Meaning": "A final gathering or event.",
    "Sentence": [
      "It's last roundup time, my fellow grocery patrons. On Saturday, the receipt redemption programs operated by Giant Food and Safeway ended after a 5 1/2-month run.",
      "By the 1964-65 season, the number of adult westerns had dwindled to seven. That was the genre's last roundup.",
      "This might have been the last roundup for Papelbon, Tim Wakefield, Jason Varitek, Big Papi, J.D. Drew, Miss Heidi, and several of the others you’ve loved all these years."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "4797-2",
    "Idiom": [
      "last roundup"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Death.",
    "Sentence": [
      "So Duke is 66. But don't kid yourself that he's headed for the last roundup —even though it may have looked that way a while back when he surrendered a lung to cancer.",
      "He swears that Jelf is going to beat him to the last roundup in the sky.",
      "Not everyone who runs with the bulls is young, male, drunk and stupid. It also is a way for people of a certain age to do something extraordinary before their last roundup."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "4798",
    "Idiom": [
      "last straw"
    ],
    "Meaning": "A final burden that leads to a breaking point.",
    "Sentence": [
      "First to fail, inevitably, are the airlines. For Flybe, which was already losing money at the rate of £2 million a day, Coronavirus was the last straw.",
      "That's the last straw; it's a petty demand but I’m already under too much work. I quit!"
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "4799",
    "Idiom": [
      "last thing"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Late in the day.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Denis Daviss agrees that practice session timing had a lot to do with it; this was a particular issue at Monaco due to the fact that the circuit was on public roads, so sessions were held first thing in the morning and last thing at night"
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "4800",
    "Idiom": [
      "last thing one needs"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Something unwanted by someone already burdened.",
    "Sentence": [
      "With Yossi Benayoun, Jack Wilshere and Thomas Vermaelen already sidelined, the last thing Arsene Wenger needs is more injuries."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "4801",
    "Idiom": [
      "last trump"
    ],
    "Meaning": "A time that will never come.",
    "Sentence": [
      "We could wait until the last trump and no-one will turn up."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "4802-1",
    "Idiom": [
      "last word"
    ],
    "Meaning": "The ultimate representative of a class.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Little Joe's mother's cake was the last word in cakes;",
      "Michaelis was the last word in what was caddish and bounderish."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "4802-2",
    "Idiom": [
      "last word"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Concluding remark.",
    "Sentence": [
      "\"I have got my leave, and that is all I want.\" / \"You had better receive the last word from my mother,\" said the marquis. / \"Very good; I will go and get it,\" said Newman; and he prepared to return to the drawing-room.",
      "When we had grasped hands for the last time and had said our last good-bye, he added this one more last word : \"Of all the people I have ever known you are the only one I don't know.\""
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "4802-3",
    "Idiom": [
      "last word"
    ],
    "Meaning": "A final decision or remark.",
    "Sentence": [
      "An Afghan Olympic official said the team holds the right to substitute Andyar with another female athlete, though the IOC would have the last word.",
      "have the last word",
      "get the last word"
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "4803",
    "Idiom": [
      "last-ditch"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Final, done in desperation.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Only a last-ditch tackle from Michel Salgado denied Didier Drogba after a clever through-ball from Anelka and, from the resulting corner, Ivanovic flicked the ball on for Ramires, who lashed a half-volley against the bar.",
      "That's the warning from RMT General Secretary Mick Lynch, who has predicted that industrial action could soon spill over into other sectors of the economy, following the failure of last-ditch talks to avert the largest rail strike since 1989.",
      "There was a last-ditch quality to England’s defending and when Pierre-Emile Højbjerg shaped a curler for the far corner in the 85th minute, England’s hearts were in their mouths. The shot was off target.",
      "a last-ditch attack",
      "He sent flowers in a last-ditch effort to keep her from leaving."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "4804",
    "Idiom": [
      "latch onto"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To obtain and keep hold of something.",
    "Sentence": [
      "And there was time for two more All Blacks tries, first flanker Adam Thomson flopping over after a break by Jimmy Cowan, before Williams latched onto a clever cross-kick by Kahui for his second touch-down with three minutes remaining.",
      "They latched onto the idea and gave it up only reluctantly."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "4805",
    "Idiom": [
      "late model"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Recently designed or fabricated.",
    "Sentence": [
      "He drove a late model Ford."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "4806",
    "Idiom": [
      "late to the party"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Late in taking action or adopting an idea.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Some companies that others perceived as being late to the party really cleaned house: Facebook was after MySpace"
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "4807",
    "Idiom": [
      "lathered up"
    ],
    "Meaning": "In a nervous or anxious state.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "4808",
    "Idiom": [
      "laugh a minute"
    ],
    "Meaning": "A funny thing or person.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "4809",
    "Idiom": [
      "laugh all the way to the bank"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To profit easily, often at others' expense.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Ivan Boesky laughed all the way to the bank, as did Milken, as do most people who commit clever, non-violent crimes and fraudulently enrich themselves.",
      "Who cares if he's not funny? The venture capitalists behind Twitter will be laughing all the way to the bank.",
      "George Bancroft stars as ruthless stock manipulator Jim Bradford, who plays his customers for suckers and laughs all the way to the bank."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "4810",
    "Idiom": [
      "laugh and grow fat"
    ],
    "Meaning": "A cheerful attitude leads to success.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "4811",
    "Idiom": [
      "laugh before breakfast, cry before supper"
    ],
    "Meaning": "It is unwise to be complacently happy because things may get worse.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "4812",
    "Idiom": [
      "laugh in one's sleeve",
      "laugh up one's sleeve"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To laugh in secret, often with gloating.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Nixon boastfully called the seven days he spent on the Chinese mainland \"the week that changed the world\"–without, however, specifying whether the change was for the better or for the worse. The way he humbled himself before Mao Tse-tung and Chou En-lai reminded me of the tribute-bearing foreign emissaries of the previous centuries who went to Peking to pay homage at the Chinese Imperial Court. Nixon's hosts must have laughed in their sleeves at his behavior during their meetings."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "4813",
    "Idiom": [
      "laugh one's head off"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To laugh uproariously.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "4814",
    "Idiom": [
      "laugh out of court"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Dismiss as silly something serious.",
    "Sentence": [
      "The claim that his dog wrote the poems was laughed out of court by publishers."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "4815",
    "Idiom": [
      "laughing stock"
    ],
    "Meaning": "An object of ridicule.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Pray you let us not be laughing-stocks to other men's humours.",
      "When he talked, he talked nonsense, and made himself the laughing-stock of his hearers.",
      "If anyone can restore dignity to a franchise that has been close to a laughing stock in the last few years, it's Gibbs.",
      "The split was supposedly triggered by racism — specifically anti-Jewish racism. But on this front, the Independent Group have already become a laughingstock.",
      "Toronto Transit Corporation had real issues. My boss was removed in a coup three months after my arrival. I stood in and my learning curve went through the roof. Over five years, we went from being a laughing stock to winning awards."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "4816",
    "Idiom": [
      "laughter is the best medicine"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Laughing improves mood.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "4817",
    "Idiom": [
      "laundry list"
    ],
    "Meaning": "A long and tedious list of items.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Among the laundry list of inconveniences most of us can't abide: cold coffee, airport delays, the high price of gasoline.",
      "The senior Liberal Democrat, echoing the private views of other senior figures across parties, said a daily \" laundry list \" sent out by the party headquarters contributes to the \"diminution of individual expression or even thought in politics\" as politicians are expected to repeat a positive central message over and over again."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "4818",
    "Idiom": [
      "lay a finger on"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To merely touch.",
    "Sentence": [
      "If you lay a finger on my little brother, I'll have your guts for garters."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "4819",
    "Idiom": [
      "lay an anchor to the windward"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To adopt precautionary measures for success or security.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "4820",
    "Idiom": [
      "lay an egg"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To produce a failure or flop.",
    "Sentence": [
      "That author usually writes good stuff, but he really laid an egg with that last piece."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "4821",
    "Idiom": [
      "lay at someone's door"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To blame someone for a problem.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Conviction of sin held him like a vice: he saw the lassie's death laid at his door; her face haunted him by day and night, and the word of the Lord dirled in his ears, telling of wrath and punishment."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "4822",
    "Idiom": [
      "lay by the heels"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To imprison.",
    "Sentence": [
      "As I live, If the king blame me for 't, I'll lay ye all By the heels, and suddenly; and on your heads Clap round fines, for neglect",
      "My Lord Chief Justice Keeling hath laid the constable by the heels to answer it next Sessions: which is a horrid shame.",
      "I could not but wonder that none of the Middlesex justices took care to lay some of them by the heels.",
      "I read the papers with some attention during my sojourn in France, on the look-out for any chance of laying him by the heels.",
      "If you will come with us to-night I shall be able to help you to lay him by the heels."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "4823",
    "Idiom": [
      "lay down the law"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To assert rules or restrictions authoritatively.",
    "Sentence": [
      "He concluded this sentence with a self-important cough, as one who has laid down the law in an indisputable manner.",
      "Montague could picture the grim, hawk-faced old man, sitting at the head of the council board, and laying down the law to the masters of the Metropolis.",
      "Looks like the governor's laid down the law about the guards getting too lax, so we have to be damned careful."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "4824",
    "Idiom": [
      "lay down the marker"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To set the standard.",
    "Sentence": [
      "City held firm and even threatened to retake the lead when Adam Johnson tested De Gea, but it was United who laid down the marker for the forthcoming Premier League campaign, beginning the defence of their title by collecting more silverware."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "4825",
    "Idiom": [
      "lay eggs"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To produce failures or flops.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Despite his dictum that “when you get a sex story in biblical garb, you can open your own mint,” this particular turkey was laying eggs all over America."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "4826",
    "Idiom": [
      "lay eyes on"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To see or look at.",
    "Sentence": [
      "I remember back in school / When I first laid my eyes on you / I saw your smile and knew right then and there",
      "Does she regard him simply as a workman come to do a job for her, someone whom she need never lay eyes on again; or is she gabbling to hide discomfiture?",
      "We can show the kids the tape and say, ‘Look, that's when we first laid eyes on each other.’"
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "4827-1",
    "Idiom": [
      "lay hands on"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To find or obtain.",
    "Sentence": [
      "What luck, right when I'd laid my hands on flight coupons; had my checkbook in the black!",
      "If we can lay hands on some chicken wire and a black light, we can make some scary Halloween decorations."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "4827-2",
    "Idiom": [
      "lay hands on"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To seize or assault.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "4828-1",
    "Idiom": [
      "lay it on thick"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To exaggerate or overstate.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Everybody else was lookin' and listenin' to me and I laid it on thicker and heavier as I went.",
      "She really laid it on thick when her pet died."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "4828-2",
    "Idiom": [
      "lay it on thick"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To flatter excessively.",
    "Sentence": [
      "He knew he needed to lay it on thick in his job interview."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "4828-3",
    "Idiom": [
      "lay it on thick"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To exaggerate emotions or praise.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Her mother laid it on thick, telling her to call home more often."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "4829-1",
    "Idiom": [
      "lay odds"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To offer a bet with unfavorable odds.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Prince John: \"I will lay odds that, ere this year expire, / We bear our civil swords and native fire / As far as France. I heard a bird so sing, / Whose music, to my thinking, pleas'd the King.\"",
      "\"We're dead safe,\" he assured them with a laugh. \"No salt mines this time, Smoke. But I'll tell you what -- I'll lay odds of five to one it's the Macedonia.\""
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "4829-2",
    "Idiom": [
      "lay odds"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To feel certain about something.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "4830-1",
    "Idiom": [
      "lay of the land"
    ],
    "Meaning": "The physical characteristics of the terrain.",
    "Sentence": [
      "I did not know the exact route, but steered by the lay of the land, as I do in Boston.",
      "He noted well the locality, the trees, and the lay of the land.",
      "Because he knew the lay of the land, he could run faster in the darkness than his pursuer."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "4830-2",
    "Idiom": [
      "lay of the land"
    ],
    "Meaning": "The factors influencing a situation.",
    "Sentence": [
      "I'll feel the pulse of my friends and yours, and when we get the lay of the land, the affair can be accomplished much more easily.",
      "\"Now look here, Mary,\" he said, \"I've been expecting you. I warn you before you begin that I cannot sanction your marriage to a Protestant.\" \"Oh, but I'm going to convart him!\" cried Mary so quickly that the priest laughed harder than ever. \"So that's the lay of the land !\" he chuckled. \"Well, if you'll guarantee that, I'll give in.\"",
      "She saw the boy's glance, she shifted her knees impatiently and her little face grew sullen. Hale smiled inwardly, for he thought he could already see the lay of the land, and he wondered that, at such an age, such fierceness could be.",
      "Slava Tsukerman is a Soviet émigré who has lived in New York City since 1976, apparently long enough for him to get the lay of the land.",
      "McCain: I want to see what the lay of the land is after the November elections."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "4831-1",
    "Idiom": [
      "lay off"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To dismiss workers from employment, usually due to low business volume.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "4831-2",
    "Idiom": [
      "lay off"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To stop doing something.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Lay off the singing, will you! I'm trying to study.",
      "When are you gonna lay off smoking?"
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "4831-3",
    "Idiom": [
      "lay off"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To leave someone alone.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Just lay off, okay! I've had enough!",
      "Things have been better since the boss has been laying off a little.",
      "I told him to lay off me but he wouldn't stop.",
      "Lay off it, already!"
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "4832-1",
    "Idiom": [
      "lay on"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To provide for free.",
    "Sentence": [
      "At the conference, they laid on a wonderful buffet."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "4832-2",
    "Idiom": [
      "lay on"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To repeatedly say something.",
    "Sentence": [
      "He laid on compliments.",
      "She was fed up him laying on the jokes, which she found insulting."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "4833-1",
    "Idiom": [
      "lay on the line"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To state clearly and accurately.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Martin presented the list to the 30-member House Republican Policy Committee, laid the facts on the line in cold political terms.",
      "The way I felt about my approach to him—I just wanted to lay it on the line, get an answer & split, I was so nervous. I didn't have any confidence to flirt my way into getting him to my place. Joyce said I can't just take the male role like that.",
      "Finally, though, he laid it on the line. “I said to her, ‘You gotta tell me if you still love me.’”"
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "4833-2",
    "Idiom": [
      "lay on the line"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To risk.",
    "Sentence": [
      "California's Edmund Gerald Brown, 54, laid his political prestige on the line with a sheaf of legislative proposals.",
      "It was King and his network of Christian and Jewish clergy who laid their jobs and, in some cases, their lives on the line until my fellow Southerners were too ashamed and embarrassed to continue their wickedness."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "4834",
    "Idiom": [
      "lay one's head"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To go to bed.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "4835",
    "Idiom": [
      "lay one's tongue to"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To say.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Mr Lightwood, I will now name to you, that on behalf of the poor dear boy, me and Mrs Boffin have stood out against the old man times out of number, till he has called us every name he could lay his tongue to.",
      "He’s been dabbling in every sort of fool thing you can lay your tongue to,—wild-cat stocks, patent-rights, land speculations, oil claims,—till he’s run through about everything.",
      "He was a terrible man. You couldn’t lay your tongue to a wickedness he had not been in the forefront of—drinking, duelling, gambling,—all manner of sins had been meat and drink to him since he was a boy almost.",
      "Your face I have seen, and your coat-armor also, young sir, though I cannot lay my tongue to your name.",
      "Canaille ! Canaglia ! Schweinerei ! He loathed them in all the languages he could lay his tongue to.",
      "Now it’s none of my business to try to make a man’s mind up for him between two girls. His politics I’ll lecture him on while my breath lasts, but the other thing I won’t lay my tongue to."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "4836",
    "Idiom": [
      "lay over"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To make an intermediary stop.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "4837",
    "Idiom": [
      "lay something at the feet of"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To assign responsibility for something to someone.",
    "Sentence": [
      "How much of our current agricultural policy can we lay at the feet of the Iowa caucuses?",
      "He did not lay the blame at the feet of the territory government, but rather conservative politicians that might have had a hand in convincing the federal government, and through it, the authority, to put a stop to the mooted trial."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "4838",
    "Idiom": [
      "lay the groundwork"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To create a foundation.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Arrests and prosecutions intensified after Isis captured Mosul in June, but the groundwork had been laid by an earlier amendment to Jordan’s anti-terrorism law. It is estimated that 2,000 Jordanians have fought and 250 of them have died in Syria – making them the third largest Arab contingent in Isis after Saudi Arabians and Tunisians.",
      "The introductory mathematics courses will lay the groundwork for all your subsequent engineering studies."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "4839-1",
    "Idiom": [
      "lay to rest"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To bury someone who has died.",
    "Sentence": [
      "He was laid to rest beneath the old oak tree in 1825."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "4839-2",
    "Idiom": [
      "lay to rest"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To close a matter of dispute.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Payment of the court-imposed fine should finally lay this matter to rest."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "4840-1",
    "Idiom": [
      "lead by the nose"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To cause to follow blindly.",
    "Sentence": [
      "let him choose well his referendaries, for else he may be led by the nose",
      "Because he was outorganized, Hutchinson cries foul. Sorry, but I simply cannot accept his view that Alliance members are mindless lackeys lead by the nose by the \"leadership.\""
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "4840-2",
    "Idiom": [
      "lead by the nose"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To lead someone with great guidance or detailed instruction.",
    "Sentence": [
      "We had to lead some users by the nose because they couldn't understand even the simplest instructions."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "4841",
    "Idiom": [
      "lead nowhere"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To have no purpose or result in nothing.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "4842-1",
    "Idiom": [
      "lead on"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To mislead someone.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "4842-2",
    "Idiom": [
      "lead on"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To encourage false romantic interest.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "4843",
    "Idiom": [
      "lead someone up the garden path"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To deceive or mislead someone.",
    "Sentence": [
      "\"You're a pair of conspiring females,\" he growled. \"A fine couple of contriving minxes! You've even led my Peterkin up the garden path.\""
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "4844",
    "Idiom": [
      "lead the line"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To play as center forward.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Martial, who had been an injury doubt, led the line with strength and positivity.",
      "Andy Carroll is leading the line, with Suarez playing behind him."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "4845",
    "Idiom": [
      "lead time"
    ],
    "Meaning": "The time between starting and completing a process.",
    "Sentence": [
      "With long lead times in timetable planning WMT [West Midlands Trains] has stated that the earliest it can recast the timetable will be May 2020.",
      "It's an excellent device, but it has a 10-week lead time, so be sure to order it in advance."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "4846",
    "Idiom": [
      "lead up to"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To act as a preparatory sequence of events.",
    "Sentence": [
      "If it is a new constitution, the historico-legal method is probably the most appropriate, since the events leading up to the introduction of the constitution are still so recent and relevant that they must be used for guidance when the constitution is interpreted.",
      "North not only makes Hoover primary in the FBI's complicity in the cover-up, a fairly common mistake, but also attempts to implicate Hoover in events leading up to the assassination.",
      "Sometimes one feels that Ramus is about to apply his notion of genesis to the abstractive process itself so as to include the steps which lead up to, or can lead up to, scientific knowledge, instead of restricting it to the abstractionist approach of his invention and disposition."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "4847",
    "Idiom": [
      "lead with one's chin"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To behave without caution; to make oneself vulnerable.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "4848",
    "Idiom": [
      "leading light"
    ],
    "Meaning": "An acclaimed expert.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Stephen Hawking is a leading light in physics, people say he's the greatest physicist since Einstein."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "4849",
    "Idiom": [
      "leap out"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To be immediately noticeable or apparent.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "4850",
    "Idiom": [
      "leap to mind"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To appear suddenly in thoughts.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "4851-1",
    "Idiom": [
      "leaps and bounds"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Dramatic improvements.",
    "Sentence": [
      "“And how did he make his money?” “In mining. He had nothing a few years ago. Then he struck gold, invested it, and came up by leaps and bounds.”",
      "although they have made leaps and bounds in some areas, they're still using some of the same medications that they used on my brother 31 years ago with this particular disease"
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "4851-2",
    "Idiom": [
      "leaps and bounds"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Considerably; significantly.",
    "Sentence": [
      "the Afghan War showed that America's ability to project power from a distance had improved leaps and bounds since the 1990 Gulf War.",
      "Our company has progressed leaps and bounds this year."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "4852",
    "Idiom": [
      "learn one's place"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To recognize one's inferior rank or status.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "4853",
    "Idiom": [
      "learn to walk before one can run"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Master simple tasks before tackling complex ones.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Optimal performances can also be used as platforms for achieving greater things in performance later. You might think of optimal performance as learning to walk before you can run or learning the arias before the whole role or running many ten-kilometer races before you try to run a marathon.",
      "Our mathematics education —particularly our arithmetic education— began with the least important numbers and worked through the years to get us to the more important ones. I guess that follows the theory of having to learn to walk before you can run and defers to the lower capacity of the young child's mind to grasp more complex models."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "4854",
    "Idiom": [
      "least said, soonest mended"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Hurt feelings heal faster if not discussed.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "4855",
    "Idiom": [
      "leather working"
    ],
    "Meaning": "The technology of making leather products.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "4856",
    "Idiom": [
      "leather-lunged"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Possessing a strong voice suitable for loud speaking or singing.",
    "Sentence": [
      "He would like to know how she was getting along—and the baby, too.... It was a leather-lunged, red-faced, squirming little mite.",
      "One of the notable effects of technical change has been the obsolescence of leather-lunged oratory of the William Jennings Bryan school, in favor of the \"fireside chat\" of Franklin Roosevelt; with electrical amplification, a speaker could use conversational style and still be understood in a large auditorium.",
      "Some make a story arc of their performances, like Clarkson, who grew over Season 1 from wallflower to leather-lunged sensation."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "4857",
    "Idiom": [
      "leave a sour taste in one's mouth"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Gives an unpleasant feeling or memory.",
    "Sentence": [
      "But after having been employed for her \"entire adult life,\" her experience of being uninsured leaves a sour taste in her mouth.",
      "Some volunteers might opt to stay on in Zambia by other means, but the General election had left a sour taste in my mouth and I was ready to go.",
      "“Your daughter has amnesia, sir,” he said, the honourific leaving a sour taste in his mouth."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "4858",
    "Idiom": [
      "leave at the door"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To omit or disregard something temporarily.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Or, if you’re talking to someone who’s more buttoned up and direct – maybe a superior or an executive – go straight for the answer. Leave the humour at the door, if that’s what they do."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "4859-1",
    "Idiom": [
      "leave behind"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To abandon.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Dr. Chakwas : Shepard? You... you came for us. Shepard: No one gets left behind.",
      "That's because, having left behind his senior position on the national network at the West Midlands Rail Executive in mid-March , the energetic but mild-mannered Holmes has brought a distinctly forward-looking agenda to the Leicestershire heritage operation he now leads.",
      "We left behind our luggage at the hotel.",
      "How could you leave me behind like that?"
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "4859-2",
    "Idiom": [
      "leave behind"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To forget about.",
    "Sentence": [
      "We (accidentally) left behind our bags at the airport."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "4859-3",
    "Idiom": [
      "leave behind"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To be survived by.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Mrs Johnston died at thirty, and left behind three young daughters."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "4859-4",
    "Idiom": [
      "leave behind"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To leave a trace of something.",
    "Sentence": [
      "The wound I got in my car accident left behind a massive scar.",
      "Unfortunately, this cleaning product leaves behind a noticeable residue."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "4859-5",
    "Idiom": [
      "leave behind"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To outdo or progress faster than others.",
    "Sentence": [
      "This product leaves behind all its competitors in the market."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "4860-1",
    "Idiom": [
      "leave for dust"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To abandon someone without help or care.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "4860-2",
    "Idiom": [
      "leave for dust"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To leave quickly to avoid something.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "4861",
    "Idiom": [
      "leave home"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To stop living with one's parents.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "4862-1",
    "Idiom": [
      "leave it all on the field"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Reminds players to focus on performance and not on mistakes.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Use the same advice football coaches give their teams: \"Always do your best. When you return to the locker room at the end of the game, leave it all on the field. Don't replay what you might have done or what someone else might have done...\"",
      "Don't worry about it, just leave it all on the field."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "4862-2",
    "Idiom": [
      "leave it all on the field"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Encourages giving one's best effort.",
    "Sentence": [
      "But the stakes couldn't be higher, so we've got to leave it all on the field.",
      "Go and give it your all! Leave it all on the field!"
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "4863",
    "Idiom": [
      "leave it at that"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To agree to stop further discussion.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Let's leave it at that for today and meet again tomorrow."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "4864",
    "Idiom": [
      "leave no crumbs"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Eat completely or thoroughly.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Blake Butler, a 27-year-old from a small town in East Texas called DeBerry, left no crumbs while on a Carnival Cruise earlier this month. Butler tells MySA the cruise set sail from Galveston on October 16."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "4865-1",
    "Idiom": [
      "leave no stone unturned"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To search or investigate thoroughly.",
    "Sentence": [
      "“This case of police torture and murder is shocking. But this is not the first case and it is unlikely to be the last case until and unless the police conduct serious interrogations and investigations and leave no stones unturned,” said Sunai Phasuk, a senior researcher for Human Rights Watch.",
      "We have a lead inspector who has a global overview of the investigation and will have site handback in mind, although we won't leave any stone unturned."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "4865-2",
    "Idiom": [
      "leave no stone unturned"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To be thorough and meticulous in completing a task.",
    "Sentence": [
      "[He] left unturned no stone / To make my guilt appear, and hide his own.",
      "We mean to leave no stone unturned to carry out our intent.",
      "But we must make it clear that in building our friendship with the Chinese on the mainland we will not sacrifice our Chinese friends on Taiwan. Julian Amery put the issue eloquently: \"It is often necessary and legitimate to abandon causes long supported and to dissolve pledged bonds of alliance. But it is always wrong to abandon men who have been friends to their fate. We may have to jettison their interests but we should leave no stone unturned to save at least their lives.\"",
      "James Sutherland insists Australia had \"no alternative\" but to cancel the tour. \"We have left no stone unturned in trying to ensure the tour could proceed as planned but at the end of the day the safety and security of our employees must come first.\""
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "4866",
    "Idiom": [
      "leave off",
      "let off"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To omit.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "4867",
    "Idiom": [
      "leave on"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To allow to remain on or open.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Should I turn off this light or leave it on ?",
      "Should I shut off this water or leave it on ?"
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "4868",
    "Idiom": [
      "leave someone at the altar"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To abandon a prospective spouse just before marriage.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "4869",
    "Idiom": [
      "leave someone high and dry"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To abandon someone in a critical situation.",
    "Sentence": [
      "When the Met first reached Chesham, in 1889, the townsfolk thought the growth of their town would be inexorable as a result. The cry went up 'At last, we are on the main line!' And so they were - for three years, until the Met decided to carry on to Amersham, leaving Chesham high and dry on a branch.",
      "He just walked out and left her high and dry with two kids and a mortgage."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "4870",
    "Idiom": [
      "leave someone holding the baby"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To abandon someone and leave them with the responsibility.",
    "Sentence": [
      "He said he was very uneasy as the schooner owner owed him over $500 and he couldn't get a cent and feared that the owners had gone bankrupt and left him holding the baby.",
      "This statement might sound lame, but operations and network management will try to squeeze everything into one domestic home firewall hanging off a small DSL line. Then they will leave you holding the baby.",
      "With many of these seized goods auctions condition is everything and I would recommend that, having checked out the goods online, you go to the auction house and view the lots. You will not only get to see the goods themselves but you can find out a lot about the auctioneers themselves. They may be well-established businesses but others could be fly-by-nights and gone the next morning, leaving you holding the baby."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "4871",
    "Idiom": [
      "leave someone in the dust"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To completely overtake someone.",
    "Sentence": [
      "The company has currently no plans to switch away from the old designs, so they could very easily be left in the dust."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "4872",
    "Idiom": [
      "leave someone in the lurch"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To abandon someone in a difficult situation.",
    "Sentence": [
      "And though th'art of a diff'rent Church, / I will not leave thee in the lurch.",
      "“Wayne, bro, I am so sorry. Wayne, I said I'm sorry.” “I heard you. I just was trying to figure out if you're apologizing for this or-or for a whole lifetime of leaving me in the lurch. But then again, I'm the dumbass for thinking you've grown up.” “Serious?” “Serious.”",
      "Frédérique Laurence, the owner of a grocery shop in La Morte, added: “We’ve been left completely in the lurch. We still have loans to pay as we’ve only been here four years. Who will pay them? Our lives have been ruined. That’s what is going to happen to us.”",
      "He left me in the lurch and I had to finish the whole project by myself."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "4873",
    "Idiom": [
      "leave someone no choice"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Forces someone to do something.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "4874",
    "Idiom": [
      "leave someone out in the cold"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To deliberately neglect or ignore someone.",
    "Sentence": [
      "I say again, if I cannot draw a horse, I will not write this is a horse under what I foolishly meant for one. Any key to a work of imagination would be nearly, if not quite, as absurd. The tale is there, not to hide, but to show: if it show nothing at your window, do not open your door to it; leave it out in the cold.",
      "There was as yet no question of his [ Albrecht von Wallenstein 's] abandoning the Emperor , but he obviously meant to leave both Saxony and Bavaria out in the cold.",
      "He promised unemployment insurance—he give us the Wagner-Lewis bill which leaves entirely out in the cold the 17 million now unemployed.",
      "While at first in the U.S.A. it may have been a matter of high-pressure salesmanship—and it has undoubtely been the irresistible enterprise of the General Motors Corporation, through its Electro-Motive subsidiary, that has set in motion this amazingly rapid transformation of American railway motive power, and has caused all the steam locomotive builders in the U.S.A. to follow suit or be left out in the cold —it seems now beyond dispute that, so far as the U.S.A. is concerned, the economics of the power question can be solved no other way.",
      "Although the settlement used the arguments of antismokers as a background, antismokers themselves were marginalized on account of their own long-standing prohibitionist policies. Short of leaving themselves out in the cold and irrelevant, antismokers had no choice but to join as the lesser partners at the settlement table.",
      "He might have been looking for an excuse to cover his ass and leave the boy out in the cold.",
      "To make a long story short, I got them together and left myself out in the cold. That became the beginning of a long and painful relationship between Billy and me.",
      "And there it was, the old power-dynamic reasserting itself: Mum siding physically with Dad, ganging up and leaving her out in the cold.",
      "For a while, the biggest question mark of allegiance is August Walker (Henry Cavill, subverting his man-of-steel screen presence), the brutish CIA tagalong feeding his superiors the theory that [Ethan] Hunt may really be going rogue after years of being left out in the cold by his handlers."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "4875",
    "Idiom": [
      "leave someone to their fate"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To abandon someone to face their fate alone.",
    "Sentence": [
      "I thought I could rely on you, and yet you completely leave me to my fate during my illness!",
      "When the brake pedal stopped working at that speed, I jumped out through the door and left my car to its fate."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "4876",
    "Idiom": [
      "leave someone to their own devices"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To leave alone, unsupervised, without assistance.",
    "Sentence": [
      "‘Forgive me,’ he said to the girl, ‘while I telephone to the Dubernes. I must arrange my rendezvous for dinner tonight. Are you sure you won't mind being left to your own devices this evening?’",
      "But surely one of the most often-heard complaints this past year or so, not only from passengers and traders, but from many of these selfsame railwaymen, is that the latter are left too much to their own devices to sort out their problems as best they can; .",
      "Left to my own devices, I'll spend hours staring into space, just thinking.",
      "Let's leave her to her own devices and see what she comes up with."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "4877",
    "Idiom": [
      "leave something to be desired"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Insufficient in some aspect.",
    "Sentence": [
      "These instructions are too short not to leave something to be desired under certain circumstances; but the knowledge of veterinary surgeons will supply whatever may be incomplete",
      "the drawings of the bats, though very artistic, leave something to be desired as regards detail.",
      "Nevertheless, the trains are well patronised, for road services in the district leave something to be desired.",
      "To say Cuban train toilets leave something to be desired would not just be an understatement, it would suggest the person speaking inhabited an altogether alien reality."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "4878",
    "Idiom": [
      "leave the ball in someone's court"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To hand over responsibility for a decision or action to someone else.",
    "Sentence": [
      "His statement also left the ball in the Security Council’s court, for it is scheduled to discuss the report in August. Saudi Arabia has powerful backers on the Council, including the United States.",
      "The no-nonsense matriarch paid a visit to Cindy’s grandmother Julie (Lesley Manville), alluding to how they had once been friends and noting that both families were misfits – the shady crooks and “the angry strikers in a town full of scabs”. After giving her blessing to the young couple, she left the ball in a shellshocked Julie’s court.",
      "Postecoglou had revealed on Friday that Kane’s move was “imminent” after a breakthrough in negotiations between the clubs was reached on Wednesday night. It left the ball in Kane’s court and he decided on Thursday to leave his boyhood club for Bayern, who will pay an initial £100m with add-ons potentially taking the deal up to an overall fee of £120m."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "4879",
    "Idiom": [
      "leave the door open"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To maintain future possibilities.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Federal Reserve officials raised interest rates to their highest level in 22 years and left the door open to further action as they continued their 16-month campaign to wrestle inflation lower by cooling the American economy.",
      "Harry Kane has left the door open for a return to Tottenham after completing his £100m move to Bayern Munich."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "4880-1",
    "Idiom": [
      "leave the nest"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To stop living with one's parents.",
    "Sentence": [
      "At about the time that the last child is leaving the nest, elderly parents move to a point of needing assistance in their lives.",
      "Soon after our last son left the nest, we decided to cash in some of our frequent flyer points for a summer vacation in Europe.",
      "I never left home - I married directly after I finished my university studies, and now that my own sons are leaving the nest, starting their own lives, I've realised that I never 'left home'."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "4880-2",
    "Idiom": [
      "leave the nest"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To become independent.",
    "Sentence": [
      "He taught, seasoned, encouraged, and broadened all of us while we were his students, and he supported us greatly after we had left the nest.",
      "Among the greatest physician-scientists of our time, Mike Brown and Joe Goldstein argue that the trainee is ready to leave the nest when she or he has acquired technical courage, a sufficient set of skills and experience and self-confidence to develop new tools when the need arises.",
      "I was coming into my own, leaving the nest, combining “old school” techniques with fresh ideas. Reinshagen taught the Simandl method, but its limitations created problems that I have not resolved even to this day."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "4881",
    "Idiom": [
      "leave to the imagination"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Not to reveal.",
    "Sentence": [
      "The new members of the crime organization got the most dangerous jobs. I'll leave the specifics to your imagination.",
      "He stripped down to a pair of see-through briefs that left nothing to the imagination."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "4882",
    "Idiom": [
      "leave with the one what brung ya",
      "dance with the one who brought you",
      "dance with the one that brought you",
      "dance with the one that brung you",
      "dance with the one that brought ya",
      "leave with the one that brung ya",
      "leave with the one who brought you",
      "leave with the one who brung you",
      "dance with the one that brung ya",
      "dance with the one what brought you",
      "dance with the one who brung ya",
      "leave with the one what brought ya",
      "dance with the one who brought ya",
      "leave with the one that brought ya",
      "leave with the one that brung you",
      "leave with the one what brung you",
      "leave with the one who brung ya",
      "leave with the one what brought you",
      "dance with the one what brung ya",
      "dance with the one what brung you",
      "dance with the one what brought ya",
      "dance with the one who brung you",
      "leave with the one who brought ya"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Be loyal to those who support you.",
    "Sentence": [
      "\"I have had people say, ‘Oh, the landscaping business is doing OK. So, you're going to get out of tobacco farming.’ No! I would like to see my landscaping business grow. But, without the cash flow from the farm, I would not have been able to start the landscaping operation,\" the Bunn, N.C., farmer stresses. \"As they say, you dance with the one that brought you.\"",
      "Sometimes you have to dance with the one that brought you. And, ever since he won a crucial Game Four in Cleveland on 16 days rest in the 1998 ALCS, Torre has trusted Hernandez more than any of his starters.",
      "Obama’s approval ratings have fallen below 40 percent. “ Dance with the one that brought you,” the saying goes, but when you are a Senate Democrat stuck with the wrong prom date, there’s only one thing to do: hide in the bathroom.",
      "I mention this Canadian Conservative Prime Minister because he coined the political adage ‘you dance with the one that brought you ’. In less colourful terms Mulroney meant that a Prime Minister should ‘never, ever ignore his party’s base’."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "4883",
    "Idiom": [
      "leaves of three, let it be"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Avoid touching plants with three leaves, as they may be poisonous.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "4884",
    "Idiom": [
      "left turn"
    ],
    "Meaning": "An unexpected change.",
    "Sentence": [
      "After a self-titled debut did well, Miracle took a surprising left turn with 2001's Keep It Country.",
      "Directors Rich Moore and Phil Johnston, both veterans of the original Wreck-It Ralph team, also pull off some inventive, enlivening left turns that bring to mind the first film."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "4885",
    "Idiom": [
      "left-handed compliment"
    ],
    "Meaning": "A compliment that can be interpreted as unflattering or dismissive.",
    "Sentence": [
      "\"We have sat through the whole of dinner and not once mentioned politics.\" \"You made us forget them,\" Tallente murmured. \"A left-handed compliment,\" Jane laughed.",
      "In a somewhat left-handed compliment, UN Secretary-General U Thant described Russia's new bosses as \"competent and unpretentious.\"",
      "Calling someone a \"neglected master\" makes for one hell of a left-handed compliment."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "4886",
    "Idiom": [
      "legal beagle"
    ],
    "Meaning": "A skillful lawyer.",
    "Sentence": [
      "For our part we are quite willing to pass the immortelles to Outerbridge Horsey, Banker Stillman's legal beagle.",
      "Marshall, who didn't know the process server was after him until the legal beagle was called off by his congressional bosses, settled the whole affair late this afternoon by giving the committee the papers it wanted.",
      "You don't want to be a legal beagle about it. You are not a dog! Still, a passing familiarity with employment law isn't such a bad thing when you're working for others.",
      "He made his reputation as a legal beagle as a prosecutor before entering private practice."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "4887",
    "Idiom": [
      "legal duty"
    ],
    "Meaning": "A duty prescribed by law.",
    "Sentence": [
      "I've done my legal duty."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "4888",
    "Idiom": [
      "legend in one's own lifetime"
    ],
    "Meaning": "One who achieves great fame while alive.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Sophia was also a horticulturist, a healer, a historian, and became something of a legend in her own lifetime."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "4889",
    "Idiom": [
      "legend in one's own lunchtime"
    ],
    "Meaning": "One whose fame is insignificant or imaginary.",
    "Sentence": [
      "A legend in his own lunchtime, Bulwer-Lytton became renowned for penning exceptionally bad prose...",
      "At the company's end-of-season party last week, East Sr, a legend in his own lunchtime, grabbed the mic from the house band and regaled guests—including Setanta pundits Steve McManaman and Les Ferdinand —with a Beatles medley.",
      "By way of a change, the Star assistant editor, another legend in his own lunchtime, would regularly fall asleep during the morning conference and we would simply tiptoe past him and leave him to it."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "4890",
    "Idiom": [
      "lemon law"
    ],
    "Meaning": "A law regarding defective items and consumer rights.",
    "Sentence": [
      "You should consult the applicable lemon laws and see if you have grounds for a return or replacement."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "4891",
    "Idiom": [
      "lend a hand"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To help or assist.",
    "Sentence": [
      "If we all lend a hand, the work will go quickly."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "4892",
    "Idiom": [
      "lend an ear"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To listen.",
    "Sentence": [
      "I need an easy friend I do, with an ear to lend I do think you fit this shoe I do, but you have a clue"
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "4893",
    "Idiom": [
      "lend itself to"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To be suitable for.",
    "Sentence": [
      "The belief in a romantic chaos lends itself to pessimism, but it also lends itself to absolute self-assertion.",
      "A secondary protective device used near Greystones consists in the planting of bent grass and sea couch grass to aid reclamation of certain areas. Unfortunately, bent grass lends itself to the formation of dunes, which are very vulnerable. Sea couch grass has proved the best so far."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "4894-1",
    "Idiom": [
      "les jeux sont faits"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Things have reached an irreversible point.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "4894-2",
    "Idiom": [
      "les jeux sont faits"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Things have reached an irreversible point.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "4895-1",
    "Idiom": [
      "less is more"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Smaller quantity can indicate higher quality.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "4895-2",
    "Idiom": [
      "less is more"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Simplicity is often more effective than complexity.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Well, less is more, Lucrezia: I am judged.",
      "The essence of Mies's architectural philosophy is in his famous and sometimes derided phrase, \" Less is more.\" This means, he says, having \"the greatest effect with the least means.\"",
      "The program, which features two premieres—\"Songs,\" a solo, and \"The Pleasure of Stillness,\" a quartet—is founded on the notion that less is more."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "4896",
    "Idiom": [
      "lesser of two evils"
    ],
    "Meaning": "The least harmful of two undesirable choices.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "4897",
    "Idiom": [
      "let George do it"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Let someone else take on the responsibility.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "4898",
    "Idiom": [
      "let a thousand flowers bloom"
    ],
    "Meaning": "One should not interfere with early promising developments.",
    "Sentence": [
      "It is probably safe to say that each year thousands of workers are victims of what might be called the “ let a thousand flowers bloom ” maneuver, formulated by Mao Tse-tung when he controlled the world's most populous country.",
      "There's no haggling over specs or schedules. It's simply: let a thousand flowers bloom (or 140,000 flowers and growing, to be more exact)",
      "One theory advanced by James Brian Quin, a strategy theorist, and others on how to find and develop successful new businesses is to ' let a thousand flowers bloom', tend those that thrive, and let the rest wither.",
      "But if you devolve power and resources to local entities—the “ let a thousand flowers bloom ” approach— you get uneven results."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "4899-1",
    "Idiom": [
      "let alone"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Used to introduce a broader negative clause following a negative statement.",
    "Sentence": [
      "My last run this month is an amazing performance of an \"A2/3\" Pacific, No. 60524, Herringbone (could there possibly be a more infelicitous name for a locomotive than this, let alone for the unhappy horse which first had to bear it?), .",
      "He couldn't boil water, let alone prepare a dinner for eight."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "4899-2",
    "Idiom": [
      "let alone"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Not to mention; introduces an additional item related to the first.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "4900",
    "Idiom": [
      "let bygones be bygones"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Disregard past difficulties or offenses in a relationship.",
    "Sentence": [
      "\"Never mind, I'll give you a hundred dollars for it,\" said the king; \"you did me out of horse and saddle the other day, and the bridle too, but I'll let bygones be bygones, if I get the pot.\"",
      "To intrude as little of his personality as possible upon a gay event with which that personality could show nothing in keeping, he decided not to make his appearance till evening—when stiffness would have worn off, and a gentle wish to let bygones be bygones would exercise its say in all hearts.",
      "You'll find, when you come back, I promise you, Kit, that everyone is willing to let bygones be bygones, and that you can make a fresh start.",
      "But I ain't got no quarrel witcha. Just let bygones be bygones."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "4901",
    "Idiom": [
      "let crazy stick its dick in you"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To have sex with someone considered insane.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "4902",
    "Idiom": [
      "let down"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To disappoint.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Just as they left, the younger of the two turned around and said, \"Mr. President, I just want you to know that we're praying for you,\" and quickly closed the door behind him. I thought about these two men, and about the office workers that afternoon, and about the millions of others like them all across the country who still had faith in me. I knew that by resigning I would let them down.",
      "Sooner or later / You hit the deck, you get found out / Save it for later / Don't run away and let me down",
      "ASLEF General Secretary Mick Whelan said: \"AWC has continued to cancel services and, every day, continued to let passengers down. But the Government doesn't seem to care.",
      "I promised him I would meet him there, and I will not let him down."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "4903",
    "Idiom": [
      "let drive"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To strike with force or attack.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Four rogues in buckram let drive at me—",
      "if ever love had any cause to revenge the wrongs which are done unto him, it is against them they ought to let drive all the arrows of his justice, and make them exemplary unto all such as abuse the name of Lovers.",
      "While he was drinking, one of our men snatcht up his Gun, and let drive at him, and kill’d his Horse",
      "They turn’d immediately upon me, and let drive at me several Blows, which had the good Fortune not to hit me"
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "4904-1",
    "Idiom": [
      "let fly"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To strike or release a projectile forcefully.",
    "Sentence": [
      "One evening when it was barely even dusk a sentry let fly at me from a distance of twenty yards; but he missed me by a yard—goodness knows how many times the Spanish standard of marksmanship has saved my life.",
      "Norwich were back on level terms through an equally stunning finish by Morison in the 53rd minute, the former Millwall player letting fly from the edge of the area after being teed-up by Leon Barnett."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "4904-2",
    "Idiom": [
      "let fly"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To unleash an angry outburst.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Rosemary peeled off Sloane Square, Hartnell, decorations-will-be-worn, fog primroses, crumpets by the fire, and let fly vulgarly at Vythilingam.",
      "Jammed onto a narrow, steep sidewalk, police barricades all around, we march with placards, drums, and angry spirit: \"The Moral Majority, cops and Klan. Work together hand in hand.\" — helmeted tac squad on horses, Hondas, facing us on Powell Street, itching to wield their billy clubs, waiting for any excuse to let fly.",
      "She was furious and let fly at him with a string of obscenities."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "4905",
    "Idiom": [
      "let go and let God"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Consciously surrender to God's will.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "4906",
    "Idiom": [
      "let it all hang out"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To relax and be carefree.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "4907",
    "Idiom": [
      "let it be",
      "leave it alone",
      "leave it be",
      "let it alone"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To allow something to happen naturally without interference.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Whispering words of wisdom, let it be.",
      "Let it be. The more you interfere, the worse it will get."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "4908-1",
    "Idiom": [
      "let loose"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To free; to release from restraint.",
    "Sentence": [
      "I can imagine the man... prepared to oppress rival firms, overthrow inconvenient monarchs, and let loose the dogs of war.",
      "May God's curse rest upon the arrogant men and the unholy ambitions which let loose this horror upon humanity!",
      "When Timothy and Julia hurried up the staircase to the bedroom floor, where a considerable commotion was taking place, Tim took Barry Leach with him. He had him gripped firmly by the arm, since he felt it was not safe to let him loose, and he had no immediate idea what to do with him.",
      "Mardy Fish walloped the final shot of the match for a winner, and he let loose a jubilant roar of his own.",
      "After an initial two weeks on the Hampton Court line, they were let loose on peak and off-peak services to Shepperton and Chessington for a month, and then on Charing Cross/Cannon Street services to Bromley North, Sevenoaks via Orpington, and to Dartford via Bexleyheath and Sidcup."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "4908-2",
    "Idiom": [
      "let loose"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To behave in a raucous or frenzied manner.",
    "Sentence": [
      "He set his teeth, and let loose with a fury before which nothing could stand; and Maurice was forced back step by step until he was almost up with the wall.",
      "Thus encouraged, the Tijuana Brass let loose with its patented version of The Lonely Bull.",
      "As if a giant ape weren't enough to get Jack Black going in King Kong, the actor says he let loose one time while making the film."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "4909-1",
    "Idiom": [
      "let nature take its course"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Allow events to unfold naturally without interference.",
    "Sentence": [
      "\"Do you mean to put a secret-service operative aboard disguised as a deckhand?\" \"Huh! Skinner, you distress me. I'm going to put Matt Peasley aboard the Quickstep as second mate, and let Nature take its course.\"",
      "A boat trip to St. Joe! I and the Missus and the two love birds. And I'd see to it that the chaperons kept their distance and let Nature take its course."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "4909-2",
    "Idiom": [
      "let nature take its course"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To allow natural outcomes without interference.",
    "Sentence": [
      "I have slashed veins in my ankles and am pleasantly bleeding to death in this hot water. There is no greater kindness you can do me than to let nature take its course.",
      "Her life is not worth living, people say; see, she is dependent on others even for food and water; let nature take its course."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "4910",
    "Idiom": [
      "let off"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To forgive and not punish.",
    "Sentence": [
      "The boss let me off for breaking the office window, when in theory she could have fined me about 30 dollars."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "4911",
    "Idiom": [
      "let on"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To reveal unintentionally.",
    "Sentence": [
      "I tried not to let on that I had already guessed the answer.",
      "He's more self-centered than he lets on."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "4912",
    "Idiom": [
      "let one go"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To fart.",
    "Sentence": [
      "I certainly can't recall him letting one go and not apportioning blame to me or one of my brothers"
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "4913",
    "Idiom": [
      "let one's hair down"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To relax and have fun.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Cut loose, let your hair down honey / Unwind, turn the lights down low / Relax, let's uncork the stopper / Come to papa, come on let's go",
      "All week long I've been keepin' my cool / But tonight I'm gonna let my hair down / And get down with these down home blues"
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "4914-1",
    "Idiom": [
      "let oneself go"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To relax and enjoy without restraint.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Natara lets herself go with a cup of coffee after she helps close the café."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "4914-2",
    "Idiom": [
      "let oneself go"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To neglect one's appearance and well-being.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Cherrie fell down the tree of ugly and hit branches galore upon letting herself go."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "4915",
    "Idiom": [
      "let sleeping dogs lie"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To avoid rekindling old arguments.",
    "Sentence": [
      "But, leaving novelists alone, on the whole we find in real life that if speech is silvern, silence is essentially golden, and that more harm is done by saying too much than by saying too little; above all, that infinite mischief arises by not letting sleeping dogs lie.",
      "Sometimes you just had to let stuff go. Endlessly rehashing old hurts just made things worse. It was far better, I'd learned, to let sleeping dogs lie.",
      "Crystal might have said that those perfect lips were zipped, but the kidnappers had no way of knowing that. Should he let sleeping dogs lie?",
      "Eventually, they decided it would be best to let sleeping dogs lie and not discuss the matter any further."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "4916",
    "Idiom": [
      "let slide"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To allow deterioration due to negligence.",
    "Sentence": [
      "He let the farm slide after inheriting it from his father."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "4917",
    "Idiom": [
      "let slip"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To accidentally reveal a secret.",
    "Sentence": [
      "The frizzle-headed man-eaters were loath to leave their fleshpots so long as the harvest of human carcases was plentiful. Sometimes, when the harvest was too plentiful, they imposed on the missionaries by letting the word slip out that on such a day there would be a killing and a barbecue.",
      "He finally let slip that they plan to take over the business."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "4918",
    "Idiom": [
      "let someone down gently"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To reject someone without causing hurt.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "4919",
    "Idiom": [
      "let someone go"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To dismiss someone from a job or relationship.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "4920-1",
    "Idiom": [
      "let someone have it"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To attack someone with force.",
    "Sentence": [
      "purchased a heavy-duty, light-weight, stainless steel purse, complete with a flame throwers and a special attachment that let anyone stupid enough to make a derogatory remark about Gil's sexual persuasion have it right in the family jewels with a bronzed golf shoe.",
      "At dawn we really let 'em have it with a 30 minute artillery barrage."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "4920-2",
    "Idiom": [
      "let someone have it"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To verbally attack someone.",
    "Sentence": [
      "When I came home, he let me have it for wrecking the car."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "4921",
    "Idiom": [
      "let something slip"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To accidentally reveal a secret.",
    "Sentence": [
      "We were talking about Natalie when I let slip that she was pregnant."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "4922",
    "Idiom": [
      "let the buyer beware"
    ],
    "Meaning": "The buyer's responsibility to assess goods or services before purchase.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "4923",
    "Idiom": [
      "let the cat out of the bag"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To disclose a secret.",
    "Sentence": [
      "He proved himself as decent, decorous, and conscientious, as Peter was rampant, boisterous, and —— (this last epithet I choose to suppress, because it would let the cat out of the bag).",
      "It was going to be a surprise party until someone let the cat out of the bag."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "4924",
    "Idiom": [
      "let the chips fall where they may"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To accept outcomes without worry or regret.",
    "Sentence": [
      "He said tinny things to me, thinks like... \"I want to talk cold turkey to you, man to man!\" And he took me down to what he called his \"den\" in order that we might \"... call a spade a spade, and let the chips fall where they may.\"",
      "\"My agenda is to let the Council members come into their own, to be freethinkers and push what they think is right, and let the chips fall where they may,\" Mr. Vallone said.",
      "\"We acted very directly, very swiftly, we told the truth and we'll let the investigation play out and let the chips fall where they may.\""
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "4925",
    "Idiom": [
      "let the cobbler stick to his last",
      "shoemaker, stick to your last",
      "cobbler, keep to your last"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Mind your own business.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "4926",
    "Idiom": [
      "let the grass grow under one's feet"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To dally or fail to make progress.",
    "Sentence": [
      "I haven't let the grass grow under my feet. I was wired for at 3:15, reached Yoxley Old Place at 5, conducted my investigation, was back at Charing Cross by the last train, and straighte to you by cab.",
      "Mr. Fiennes repeated his promise to run expresses between Paddington and Cardiff in 2hr. \"We're not going to let the grass grow under our feet,\" he said in a reference to progress with the Severn Road Bridge, and predicted that the 2hr trains would be running \"before very long\".",
      "What happens when we let the grass grow under our feet for once and just spend a bit of time looking around without imagining that we've got all the answers and that no one before us had anything much to offer?",
      "He and Rebecca then found a secluded boardinghouse to which Will and Susannah would move on Monday. Before the westbound left on Saturday morning, McCaleb spent a few minutes alone with Will. “You'll be released from here Monday,”... Don't let any grass grow under your feet in Cheyenne; once you're there, head for Box Elder Creek.”",
      "If you like being in there at the beginning of a company then get ready to bail out when the company starts to grow. Never let the grass grow under your feet. Jobs for life are history, so if you treat people right but they still want to move onto new things you can't stop them.",
      "She'd scrubbed up. Moved on. Stepped right over Phil, over his grave. For this was not a girl to let the grass grow under her feet, particularly the grass on a mound.",
      "One day the Churl said to him, “Go into the town for salt for my supper, take the short way across the pasture-field, and be sure not to let the grass grow under your feet.",
      "Rod didn't quite understand her reaction. 'I thought you were happy at Owl's Nest? I thought you loved it here?' 'I do. But we've been here long enough. It's been two years since it was finished. We always said we'd move on. Onwards and upwards, that's what you said. Don't let the grass grow under your feet, you said.",
      "His sense of humour, together with his rationalism and ideology, helped me enormously on my road to recovery. Bruce eventually convinced me of the need to move on. “Que sera sera,” he would often say to me. “Ya can't let the grass grow under yer feet, me old mate.”"
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "4927",
    "Idiom": [
      "let the perfect be the enemy of the good"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Insisting on perfection can hinder progress.",
    "Sentence": [
      "More data and more analyses will provide better information for the future, but we dare not let “the perfect be the enemy of the good”.",
      "Of course they are far from perfect, of course we are more than ready to welcome constructive improvements to them, but I beg Parliament and also Member Governments not to let the perfect be the enemy of the good.",
      "Incremental reform can move us forward and can improve the plight of the poor. I hope we do not let “the perfect be the enemy of the good” in welfare reform.",
      "But we shouldn’t let the perfect be the enemy of the good."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "4928",
    "Idiom": [
      "let this cup pass from me"
    ],
    "Meaning": "An appeal to remove suffering.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "4929",
    "Idiom": [
      "let well alone"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Do not interfere.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "4930",
    "Idiom": [
      "let's be having you"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Encourages someone to hurry up and move.",
    "Sentence": [
      "This went on for a while, until one morning I came in about five to eight, not quite due on the shop floor yet, and I stopped outside the tearoom, put on my best Smiler voice: 'Right, lads, come on, let's be having you, let's have you on shop floor now, lads, come on, stop messing around in there with tea, come on, let's be having you.'",
      "You've just been volunteered, friend, so let's be having you.",
      "Draping a cloak round his crooked figure, he leaned on his cane and shuffled awkwardly to the door. ' Let's be having you !' he grumbled, impatiently donning his top hat. 'Or have you forgot we've a sale to attend?'"
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "4931",
    "Idiom": [
      "let's get the party started"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Let's begin the festivities or activities.",
    "Sentence": [
      "\"Has he got a pulse?\" \"With that hole in his head? You kiddin', a pulse? Give me a break, will ya? He's about as dead as they come. Helluva place to do yourself. Hey, look at this, he's got part of his neck chain in his mouth.\" “The dude was loco, man. He was tryin’ to eat gold. Call it in and let’s get the party started. Got to get the body out and the mess cleaned up before light. Wouldn’t want the turistas upset.”"
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "4932",
    "Idiom": [
      "let's get this circus on the road"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Let's start.",
    "Sentence": [
      "\"Then he'd take a quick look at the script and say, ' Let's get this circus on the road.' The cameras would turn.\"",
      "The keys were in the ignition. \"Come on,\" Jargodin said. \" Let's get this circus on the road. I'll follow you.\""
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "4933",
    "Idiom": [
      "let's not and say we did"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Indicates disagreement and refusal to participate.",
    "Sentence": [
      "“We must go on to the Gulf of the St. Lawrence, Pa,” said Seb, bravely. “We can't feel any worse.” “ Let's not and say we did,” groaned the sick father from his position of vantage at the rail.",
      "\"Let's kick in a window on George,\" Dick Buckford said. \" Let's not and say we did,\" Andy Houlihan said.",
      "Many teachers take a \" Let's not and say we did \" attitude toward extended experiential learning in the different styles."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "4934",
    "Idiom": [
      "let-out"
    ],
    "Meaning": "An opportunity to avoid a difficult situation.",
    "Sentence": [
      "It has of course the brilliant let-out that it does not seek to prove that its statements are true, but only that they are “verifiable”. This principle is relatively weak: Wikipedists are supposed to be able to source their remarks."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "4935",
    "Idiom": [
      "letters after one's name"
    ],
    "Meaning": "A list of abbreviations representing a person's qualifications and honors.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Again, as he was a mere student without any letters after his name, he got scant attention, and I never heard that he gained over a single supporter. - Sir Arthur Conan Doyle - The Stark Munro Letters - Page 16"
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "4936",
    "Idiom": [
      "level best"
    ],
    "Meaning": "The very best one can do.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Then came a pause, each man aiming his level best, as indeed one is likely to do when one knows that life itself depends upon the shot.",
      "Val walked out behind his mother, chin squared, eyelids drooped, doing his level best to despise everybody.",
      "―Say papa, baby. Say pa pa pa pa pa pa pa. / And baby did his level best to say it for he was very intelligent for eleven months everyone said and big for his age and the picture of health, a perfect little bunch of love, and he would certainly turn out to be something great, they said.",
      "And, of course, a special credit has to go to those Royal Navy officers who saw the situation for what it truly was, and would do their absolute level best to stop it regardless of treaties or other political considerations, eventually forcing the British Parliament to catch up with their own morality.",
      "The king-to-be is sulking in a carriage beside his mother, who’s doing her level best to prepare her son for what’s to come."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "4937",
    "Idiom": [
      "level off"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To reach a stable level.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Will the exponential growth in TV rights income at home and abroad that has fuelled the endless inflation of the Premier League’s high-octane balloon ever level off ?"
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "4938",
    "Idiom": [
      "level to the ground"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To completely demolish.",
    "Sentence": [
      "They leveled the building to the ground."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "4939",
    "Idiom": [
      "level with"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To be honest and clear with someone.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Why am I here? I'll level with you. For the last few years the Congress has been appropriating about 325 million for the REA program and it hasn't been enough.",
      "Let me level with you, man, as someone guilty of the game / I took the help, I took the cash, I would've taken your last name",
      "Before God and all of you, I give you my word: I will always level with you. I will defend the Constitution. I’ll defend our democracy."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "4940",
    "Idiom": [
      "level-headed"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Possessing sound judgment.",
    "Sentence": [
      "I urge you to weigh calmly, deliberately, as cool, level-headed Canadians, the evidence produced by the prosecution."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "4941",
    "Idiom": [
      "lex dubia non obligat"
    ],
    "Meaning": "A doubtful law is not binding.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "4942",
    "Idiom": [
      "libel chill"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Uneasiness to speak or write due to the threat of libel.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Ira Glasser's Op-Ed article and Anthony Lewis's column of Dec. 10 both address the possible chilling effect on the press raised by the potential cost of defending against a libel action by a public official.",
      "Black enjoys being rude about others—he has an endearing habit of writing sharp letters to his own papers—while reserving the right to sue those who are rude about him. Even Siklos is forced to refer to the \" libel chill \" around Black.",
      "There's been a lot of talk recently about the problem of \" libel chill \" on British science writing, that people self-censor for fear they'd be sued (as Simon Singh was by British Chiropractic Association).",
      "It’s called “ libel chill,” and it means too many writers are hesitating or even refraining from publishing work that goes against the grain for fear of being dragged through our trauma-inducing legal system.",
      "The businessman lost no time in slapping legal notices against every television channel which broadcast the conference. Libel chill, without a shred of doubt, for all the channels went silent."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "4943",
    "Idiom": [
      "licence to print money"
    ],
    "Meaning": "A means of generating a large income with minimal effort.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Owning a machine tool plant, it was said, was almost as good as a license to print money.",
      "the rather casual remark of Lord Thomson, referring to his holding in Scottish Television, that the television contract was 'a licence to print money' was much quoted",
      "More competition means ITV's glory days are long gone - and the new company's bosses know they will have to fight hard to regain the old licence to print money."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "4944-1",
    "Idiom": [
      "lick and a promise"
    ],
    "Meaning": "A quick, superficial action.",
    "Sentence": [
      "She'd given her face a lick and a promise, drawn her hair back tight and walked in.",
      "He never felt quite clean with “cat baths”—as Marcel called them, or “a lick and a promise,” the way Renaud put it.",
      "She had not had time for a proper bath in the week since this journey had begun. She had been forced to bathe in the washbasins of the inns along the route, giving herself what her old nursemaid would have called “a lick and a promise.”"
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "4944-2",
    "Idiom": [
      "lick and a promise"
    ],
    "Meaning": "The hasty or incomplete performance of a task.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Now this is not the way to get a house in order. What this place needs is a real thorough old-fashioned cleaning. A lick and a promise won't do, no, sir!",
      "The snowplows had made what Myles would call a lick-and-a-promise attempt to partially clear the accumulated snow from West End Avenue.",
      "Well, he knows hes supposed to make his bed before he goes to school, so he gives it a lick and a promise and walks out of the room.",
      "Rising out of poverty will require not a lick and a promise but deep reform.",
      "Workers scrambled to slap it all together on nothing but a lick and a promise —unlike the pristine whiteness of the court, the haphazard shacks ahead clashed in color and stripe, some tall, some short, each roof at an awkward angle to the other."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "4945",
    "Idiom": [
      "lick into shape"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To put in effort to improve or transform.",
    "Sentence": [
      "\"People send us their cubs to lick into shape, and what can we do?\" Now the answer to this query concerns parents rather closely: what and how much can the schoolmaster do to make the boy \"sit up\" who has not been to the manner bred?",
      "“I believe we’d just better train up for all we’re worth,” she said at the committee meeting. “It’ll take ages to lick an eleven into shape. What we want is to get a cricket atmosphere into the school. You can’t develop these things all in a few weeks. You’ve got to catch your kids young and teach them, before you get a school with a reputation. I feel with all the games that we’re simply building foundations at present at the Seaton High. This term especially is spade-work. I’ll do all I can to get things going, but it will be the Games Captain who comes after me who’ll reap the reward.”",
      "You're disgracing your pa and I feel for him. And I'd like to see him happy and comfortable, with his buttons on and his meals decent, and you young ones licked into shape, and that old cat of a Martha put in her proper place.",
      "Believe me, Mr. Jellyband was in no two minds about \"them murderin' furriners over yonder\" who had done away with their King and Queen and all their nobility and quality, and whom England had at last decided to lick into shape.",
      "After wrestling with this material whenever opportunity occurred during the next two or three weeks I got matters sorted out and sent the article to [Nigel] Gresley, mentioning in so doing that I felt it still required some licking into shape, and would he please be perfectly frank in dealing with it."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "4946",
    "Idiom": [
      "lick log"
    ],
    "Meaning": "A crucial or challenging moment.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "4947-1",
    "Idiom": [
      "lick one's chops"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To look forward eagerly to something.",
    "Sentence": [
      "[The stranger] handed his platter to the large mastiff dog, who, attracted by the smell of the dinner, had sat down before him for some time, licking his chops, and following with his eye every morsel which the guest raised to his head."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "4947-2",
    "Idiom": [
      "lick one's chops"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To anticipate something eagerly.",
    "Sentence": [
      "When the Federal Government set up the Air Transportation Stabilization Board (ATSB) last fall to help prop up the ailing airlines with $10 billion in loan guarantees, many credit-strapped CEOs licked their chops in anticipation of yet another big, fat government handout."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "4948",
    "Idiom": [
      "lick one's wounds"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To recover from a defeat.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Prevented by internal and external influences, this ideal of placing the sovereignty in the hands of the people was not carried out immediately after the establishment of the Republic of China. With the changes of time, particularly with the relocation of the ROC government to Taiwan, we have gradually carried it out at last, but only after having licked our wounds and built our strength for forty years.",
      "If the ball was out of play, someone in blue would dash to get it back. This was not a side licking its wounds from the humbling of Anfield or Saturday’s ordeal against Manchester United. It was the best team in England with adrenaline running through their veins, playing as if they believed anything was achievable."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "4949",
    "Idiom": [
      "lick out"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To perform cunnilingus.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "4950",
    "Idiom": [
      "lick someone's ass"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To excessively flatter or support someone, especially a superior.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "4951",
    "Idiom": [
      "lick someone's balls"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To act in a subservient manner.",
    "Sentence": [
      "If I knew where Mel Gibson was, I'd be down on the floor licking his balls at this very moment."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "4952",
    "Idiom": [
      "lick the pants off"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To thoroughly defeat someone in a fight or competition.",
    "Sentence": [
      "\"Dang you, Luck, if you wasn't such a little runt I'd come up there and jest about lick the pants off you!\""
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "4953",
    "Idiom": [
      "lie at someone's door"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To be someone's fault or responsibility.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Appointed foreign minister in 2004, he has since then through successive US administrations developed a Putinesque revulsion for all western ideas, if not all western consumer durables. At one point, he said all the ills of the 20th century colonialism, two world wars and the cold war lay at the door of American arrogance."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "4954-1",
    "Idiom": [
      "lie before"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Submits to someone's will.",
    "Sentence": [
      "I lie before you today begging for help."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "4954-2",
    "Idiom": [
      "lie before"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To be situated in front of.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "4955",
    "Idiom": [
      "lie ill in one's mouth"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Sounds artificial or contradictory.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Connolly himself proved the complete pragmatist and it lies ill in his mouth to rail against lack of creativity when his influence has contributed to it."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "4956",
    "Idiom": [
      "lie in one's throat"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To lie outright.",
    "Sentence": [
      "I know not where he lodges, and for mee to deuise a lodging, and say he lies heere, or he lies there, were to lye in mine owne throat."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "4957",
    "Idiom": [
      "lie low"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To remain hidden.",
    "Sentence": [
      "I'll lie low here until you get back, good luck!"
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "4958",
    "Idiom": [
      "lie through one's teeth"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To tell a blatant lie.",
    "Sentence": [
      "When a politician claims he can lower taxes without cutting spending, he's lying through his teeth."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "4959",
    "Idiom": [
      "life is like a box of chocolates"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Life is full of surprises.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "4960",
    "Idiom": [
      "life is not all beer and skittles"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Not everything in life is enjoyable.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "4961",
    "Idiom": [
      "life is too short"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Don't waste time on trivial matters.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "4962",
    "Idiom": [
      "life of Riley"
    ],
    "Meaning": "An ideal life of carefree prosperity.",
    "Sentence": [
      "It's the life of Reilly, but we're not stuck on it at that If I stay her doing this sort of work for another week I won't be fit to work all summer, for I'm getting lazier every day",
      "Michael, according to his own story, had \"been living the life of Riley \" ever since he bolted.",
      "The famous wild cow of Cromwell is no more. After “living the life of Riley ” for over a year, successfully evading the pitchforks and the bullets of the farmers, whose fields she ravaged in all four seasons.",
      "This is the story of the softships of the Third American Army. For the Yankee troops who were assigned to take and hold the Coblenz bridgehead are leading the life of Riley on the Rhine.",
      "Faith and my name is Kelly, Michael Kelly,"
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "4963",
    "Idiom": [
      "life of its own"
    ],
    "Meaning": "An independent existence.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Sartre rejects the notion that an imagined character possesses, in any rational sense, \" a life of its own \".",
      "…, information takes on not only a speed of its own, but a life of its own.",
      "A massive hangover with a life of its own kept Fess pinned to his bed most of Sunday.",
      "take on a life of its own"
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "4964",
    "Idiom": [
      "life of the party",
      "life and soul of the party"
    ],
    "Meaning": "A person who energizes and inspires others at social events.",
    "Sentence": [
      "‘You were the life of the party last night, Ma'am, you know,’ returned Flowers, ‘and you suffer for it, to-day, you see.’",
      "Tom was the life of the party, and the way he \"cut up\" was \"simply awful,\" as Nellie declared.",
      "They were the life of the party and everyone loves them, even though it was not a party that the nation can afford to throw again."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "4965",
    "Idiom": [
      "life's a bitch"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Life can be tough.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Life's a bitch, but God forbid the bitch divorce me",
      "Glory days don't mean shit to me I drank a six-pack of apathy Life's a bitch, and so am I"
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "4966",
    "Idiom": [
      "life's a bitch and then you die",
      "life's a bitch, and then you die"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Acceptance of misfortune in life.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Life’s a bitch, and then you die.",
      "Life’s a bitch, and then you die.",
      "We also printed out several of Kevin’s favorite quotes and sayings and arranged them on the table. Some of the sayings were funny, some were serious, and some were a bit irreverent. For example, one was “Sticks and stones may break my bones, but whips and chains excite me.” Another one said, “ Life’s a bitch, and then you die.”",
      "Yet, dark comedy acts as a reality check for its brave fans—people who can own the old axiom, “ Life’s a bitch, and then you die.”",
      "Farang crawled out of the cage. She ate the food a priestess brought her – it was just gruel, but it didn’t have any poison. Then she wandered off to her secret altar. She laid down in front of it and cried. Her soul stone was captured again. She was back to square one. Life’s a bitch, and then you die. Or should I say, life’s a shit and then you die. Nothing ever changes. The end.",
      "“I guess I just expected more.” Of life, of this conversation, of possibility and the future. What is the use of trying, if this is what comes? / This time, it’s Earvin who shrugs. “That’s all there is and there ain’t no more,” he says. He pushes a coffee cup toward Jersey, full up with black. It says, Life’s a bitch, and then you die, in red block lettering. “I don’t know what you thought you wanted, but this is all you get.”",
      "Cynical’s sensible, and it’s all sunshine and roses until you start fighting and then the next stage is, “ It’s not you – it’s us. Mommy and Daddy still love you both very much. \" ’S’amazing how everyone reverts to cliché. Here’s a cliché – life’s a bitch. Life’s a bitch, and then you die. Everyone knows I’m right, we’re all dancing on the Titanic and no one will admit the Emperor’s got his cock out.",
      "“We also made it easier to find the column—right next to the obituaries.” He chuckled. “Kind of apropos, don’t you think? Life’s a bitch, and then you die.”"
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "4967",
    "Idiom": [
      "lift all boats"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To benefit all participants.",
    "Sentence": [
      "“The strong demand for labor has lifted all boats in the American economy and we are no exception,” Price said."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "4968",
    "Idiom": [
      "lift one's game"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To improve one's performance.",
    "Sentence": [
      "The team has lifted their game since last season."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "4969",
    "Idiom": [
      "lift someone's spirits"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To make someone cheerful.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "4970",
    "Idiom": [
      "light a fire under"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To motivate or encourage someone to act quickly.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Let me see if I can light a fire under the waiter to get our order sooner."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "4971",
    "Idiom": [
      "light at the end of the tunnel"
    ],
    "Meaning": "A better situation after hardship.",
    "Sentence": [
      "If there is no light at the end of the tunnel, chronic pain can render a person dysfunctional. In desperation, people often turn to potent pain-killing medication for relief.",
      "But by fall 2005, there was light at the end of the tunnel. The team could see the new business processes and financial data governance mechanisms actually being used by Nationwide employees."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "4972",
    "Idiom": [
      "light bucket"
    ],
    "Meaning": "A type of reflecting telescope for deep sky observations.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "4973-1",
    "Idiom": [
      "light in the loafers"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Homosexual.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Men of my group are either married or, as S.P. would say, ‘ light in the loafers.’ Homosexuals, you'd call them.",
      "You'll make a nice living; and maybe when you're sixty you'll marry a nice guy, a little light in the loafers maybe, but you'll still be pure by then; and you'll do the grand-lady bit, and he’ll be your escort.",
      "“What about Father Jim and Mr. Gary?” Mary Lane said, passing by me, “They are light in the loafers together.”"
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "4973-2",
    "Idiom": [
      "light in the loafers"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Describes someone as effeminate or not traditionally masculine.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "4974",
    "Idiom": [
      "light into"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To attack.",
    "Sentence": [
      "He lit into that horse with his whip.",
      "She lit into everybody else in the church and gave them a fearful raking down, calling them right out by name and telling them how they all had behaved, and casting up all the quarrels and scandals of the past ten years.",
      "\"Father grabbed the two guns and told me to light into the other man. I jumped on him and started choking him.\"",
      "He speaks with more passion than ever, lighting into George W. Bush for fumbling the economy."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "4975",
    "Idiom": [
      "light someone's ass up"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To scold or punish someone severely.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "4976",
    "Idiom": [
      "light up"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To show an increase in activity or mood.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Clara's eyes lit up at this highly unusual occurrence.",
      "He saw Mary and his face lit up."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "4977",
    "Idiom": [
      "light up a room"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To possess great energy and appeal.",
    "Sentence": [
      "her eyes could light up a room"
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "4978",
    "Idiom": [
      "light-bulb moment"
    ],
    "Meaning": "A moment of sudden realization or inspiration.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "4979",
    "Idiom": [
      "lighten someone's purse"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To take money from someone.",
    "Sentence": [
      "For when Robin Hood caught a baron or a squire, or a fat abbot or bishop, he brought them to the greenwood tree and feasted them before he lightened their purses."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "4980",
    "Idiom": [
      "lighten up"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To become less serious and more cheerful.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Sondheim's sense of life — which is pretty pessimistic (I don't think that anyone ever ends happily ever after in a Sondheim musical) — is brought through without trying to lighten it up.",
      "you lighten up my heart when I start to cry",
      "I wish he'd lighten up a bit and realize that we were only joking.",
      "The mood at work has been tense, so he's looking for ways to lighten it up."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "4981-1",
    "Idiom": [
      "lightning fast"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Extremely fast.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "4981-2",
    "Idiom": [
      "lightning fast"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Extremely quickly.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "4982-1",
    "Idiom": [
      "lightning in a bottle"
    ],
    "Meaning": "A difficult or challenging achievement.",
    "Sentence": [
      "The Yanks were the dominant team throughout, outhitting, outfielding, outpitching and outmaneuvering the Dodgers. Brooklyn was not outgamed but the Dodgers, to use Lippy Leo Durocher’s favorite expression, went out to try to catch lightning in a bottle.",
      "Their fate remained in doubt until the very last game of the season. This truly was a team that captured lightning in a bottle."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "4982-2",
    "Idiom": [
      "lightning in a bottle"
    ],
    "Meaning": "A rare or unlikely achievement.",
    "Sentence": [
      "We tracked down four people who introduced some of the most popular fad items of the past few decades to find out how they handled their sudden prosperity—and rapid exit from the limelight. Some were relaxing and enjoying their spoils. Others were trying to capture lightning in a bottle one more time.",
      "Just like rock bands, authors and Hollywood stars, technology companies can often attribute their rise to the top to a single smash hit. For those lucky few who are talented and lucky enough to catch lightning in a bottle, that single No. 1 album, best-selling book or syndicated television program can be enough to carry their career, and them, for a lifetime."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "4982-3",
    "Idiom": [
      "lightning in a bottle"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Temporary, remarkable success or inspiration.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "4983",
    "Idiom": [
      "lightning never strikes the same place twice",
      "lightning doesn't strike twice in the same place",
      "lightning never strikes twice",
      "lightning does not strike twice in the same place"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Used figuratively to imply that unique events are unlikely to happen again.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "4984-1",
    "Idiom": [
      "lightning never strikes twice in the same place"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Something is not affected the same way twice.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "4984-2",
    "Idiom": [
      "lightning never strikes twice in the same place"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Opportunities never occur again.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "4985",
    "Idiom": [
      "lightning-quick"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Incredibly fast.",
    "Sentence": [
      "City responded immediately with a lightning-quick counter-attack as the template for the game was set..."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "4986",
    "Idiom": [
      "like a bull at a gate"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Acting hastily without much thought.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "4987",
    "Idiom": [
      "like a champ"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Very well; with great skill.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Here's Barbara Mikulski, who enters like a champ with great big hair.",
      "As I'm walking through the festival entrance, a man casually vomits before continuing on, unfazed. ¶ Twenty-year-old me thinks, \"Dope. That guy knows how to get faded like a champ !\" ¶ Thirty-year-old me thinks, \"I'm concerned for the boy's health and the general sanitation of this festival. Where are the comment cards located?!\"",
      "My sunny front lawn, however, grows like a champ. It grows so well that a passer-by, concerned about my boisterous crop of dandelions, once suggested I use her landscaping crew to corral my wild patch. \"They can really get those dandelions under control,\" she said.",
      "Wow, you took that punch like a champ."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "4988",
    "Idiom": [
      "like a chicken with the pip"
    ],
    "Meaning": "In a weakened or confused manner.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Then Condy promptly got the hiccoughs from drinking his tea too fast, and fretted up and down the room like a chicken with the pip.",
      "He seemed plumb possessed of gloom, and moped around like a chicken with the pip.",
      "Then, after two prodigious parting kicks, accurately gauged and delivered, the gambler crossed over to the hotel, leaving the garrulous one to pick himself out of the dust, gasping like a chicken with the pip."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "4989",
    "Idiom": [
      "like a demon"
    ],
    "Meaning": "In a forceful or skilled manner.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Typically for the 'get-on-with-it' era, the railway and military worked like demons to restore the vital rail link. The crater was rapidly filled in and the earth tamped solid, the wreckage was removed by breakdown trains, new rails and sleepers were rushed forward by willing hands, and US Army bulldozers piled in. By 2020 on the same day, both tracks were open for traffic again where there had been a gaping pit just hours before.",
      "He drove like a demon."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "4990",
    "Idiom": [
      "like a duck takes to water",
      "like a duck to water"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Very naturally.",
    "Sentence": [
      "She started skating and learned quickly, like a duck takes to water."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "4991",
    "Idiom": [
      "like a man possessed"
    ],
    "Meaning": "In an energetic or uncontrolled way.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "4992",
    "Idiom": [
      "like a phoenix from the ashes"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Returns triumphantly.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "4993",
    "Idiom": [
      "like butter on a bald monkey"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Very smooth.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "4994",
    "Idiom": [
      "like cheese at fourpence"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Waiting idly or timewasting.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Don't stand there like cheese at fourpence.",
      "\"Why are you standing there like cheese at fourpence ?\"",
      "Then you can stay sat there like cheese at fourpence till Mrs Henshaw gets back with her lawyer."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "4995",
    "Idiom": [
      "like father like son",
      "like father, like son"
    ],
    "Meaning": "A son resembles his father.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Jason is headstrong and impatient— like father, like son.",
      "A: \"My favourate getaway is Puerto Rico.\" B: \" Like father, like son, I see.\""
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "4996",
    "Idiom": [
      "like it or lump it",
      "love it or lump it"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To accept a situation regardless of agreement.",
    "Sentence": [
      "I see you dont like that, any of you; but its true, for all that; so if you dont like it you can lump it.",
      "We’re going to stay home this year. No holidays. You can like it or lump it."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "4997",
    "Idiom": [
      "like mother, like daughter"
    ],
    "Meaning": "A daughter resembles her mother.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "4998-1",
    "Idiom": [
      "like no other"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Very special.",
    "Sentence": [
      "It had an extra floor pedal which gave the piano a rinky-dink sound like no other.",
      "There’s a word that we use in consumer behavior — it singularizes the couple and communicates that this couple is like no other."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "4998-2",
    "Idiom": [
      "like no other"
    ],
    "Meaning": "In a very special way.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Giuliana: Speak for yourself, Rancic. I can run in heels like no other; it's amazeballs!"
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "4999",
    "Idiom": [
      "like one's life depended on it"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Desperately.",
    "Sentence": [
      "With Carlos Tevez chasing down every lost cause like his life depended on it, City always had an out ball but Arsenal had such a monopoly on possession that they barely had to give thought even to the Argentine."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "5000",
    "Idiom": [
      "like someone owns the place",
      "as if someone owns the place"
    ],
    "Meaning": "In a self-important and domineering manner.",
    "Sentence": [
      "“We both live on the same estate. You know I don’t have any cash.” Tina scoffed. “I bet you get pocket money. Always walking around like you own the place. Girls – grab her.” Like clockwork, the bullies circled our little heroine.",
      "Look at you walking in like you own the place !"
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "5001",
    "Idiom": [
      "like talking to a wall"
    ],
    "Meaning": "A futile attempt at communication due to the other party's ignorance or stubbornness.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Are you even listening to me? It's like talking to a wall."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "5002",
    "Idiom": [
      "like that"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Refers to being gay or homosexual.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "5003",
    "Idiom": [
      "like the sound of one's own voice"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To talk a lot.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "5004",
    "Idiom": [
      "like water off a duck's back"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Without lasting effects.",
    "Sentence": [
      "\"She combs me down with her tongue sometimes though, but that just slips off me like water off a duck's back.\"",
      "Scandal after scandal would break, but it would be like water off a duck's back; no heads rolled, and no one seemed particularly perturbed."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "5005",
    "Idiom": [
      "lily-livered"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Cowardly.",
    "Sentence": [
      "But as for that lily-livered sneak—that poor lyin' swindlin' cringin' cur of a Clavering—who stands in my shoes—stands in my shoes, hang him!",
      "Ho! Then you do your best, Lillie. No one could call you lily-livered !"
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "5006",
    "Idiom": [
      "line in the sand"
    ],
    "Meaning": "A defining moment or cutoff point.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "5007",
    "Idiom": [
      "line of country"
    ],
    "Meaning": "One's area of specialization or interest.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "5008",
    "Idiom": [
      "line of fire"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Position vulnerable to attack.",
    "Sentence": [
      "It is a difficult balancing act because Maguire might not wish to be taken out of the line of fire and such are United's current struggles that Solskjaer may feel he needs his leader going in to battle for him."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "5009",
    "Idiom": [
      "line one's pockets"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To accumulate wealth, especially illegally or immorally.",
    "Sentence": [
      "The men who have lined their pockets with public plunder and made the Municipal Government a nest of thieves—will any one in his sober senses believe that in all these men did they were doing more than struggling for a continuance of their own power?",
      "And now, after lining his pockets with other people's money, he kidnaps a white girl belonging to an orchestra.",
      "In most cases, the scofflaws didn't pay their corporate income tax or company owners lined their pockets with the IRS payroll taxes they'd collected from their employees.",
      "However the Labour Party and rail unions regard the move as a step closer to full nationalisation. TSSA General Secretary Manuel Cortes said: \"The ONS has candidly exposed the truth about our railways. They are now in public ownership. Grant Shapps must now take direct control of running them, rather than continue to line the pockets of privateers.\""
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "5010",
    "Idiom": [
      "line someone's pockets"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To make someone wealthier, often in a questionable way.",
    "Sentence": [
      "I refuse to line the pockets of fat-cat bankers."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "5011",
    "Idiom": [
      "linger on"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To continue to ponder or observe something longer than usual.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "5012",
    "Idiom": [
      "lion's den"
    ],
    "Meaning": "A dangerous or frightening place.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Mrs. Bowls cautioned her lodger against venturing into the lion's den, \"wherein you will rue it, Miss B., mark my words, and as sure as my name is Bowls.\"",
      "Despite the girl's assurance, we knew that proximity to the sinister Chinaman must be fraught with danger. We stood, not in the lion's den, but in the serpent's lair.",
      "Yeah, I am born again / Out of the lion's den / I don't have to pretend / (And it's too late) / The story's over now, the end"
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "5013",
    "Idiom": [
      "lion's share"
    ],
    "Meaning": "The majority.",
    "Sentence": [
      "In place of dividing the merit of the discovery between the Englishman and the Scotchman, and giving the lion's share to my countryman, I have given the whole merit of the discovery to Cavendish the Englishman, and have reserved only for [James] Watt the Scotchman, the merit of the previous hypothesis,—a merit freely given him by Cavendish himself, and one which no other person ever claimed.",
      "But when a fortunate section of them should begin to win lions' shares of the spoil through superior aptitude for the struggle, can we doubt in what direction the disappointed ones would seek for consolation and support?",
      "But England suffered great damage, and was put to very heavy expense in compelling restitution. She voluntarily surrendered all claim to the lion's share of the prize, though she certainly did the lion's share of the work, and bore the lion's share of the expense.",
      "The real cause of poverty in Europe is the great wealth of the few. The masses always be poor when a few kings and nobles hoard such enormous lion's shares.",
      "You would have the lion's share of everything. Now for myself I intend to have the lion's share. And why shouldn't I? Isn't it about time some woman had it? You can't have the lion's share if you are not free. I mean to be free. If I marry I shall want a husband that is not a prison …",
      "Accordingly, Mitchell and his fireman, apparently without removing the engine from the up line, set to work and disconnected the motion on the defective side, after which Fireman Richardson, who probably had done the lion's share of the work, betook himself to the refreshment room and had a cup of coffee.",
      "In fact, at the end of some of the Con Game sessions, some subjects suggested playing for money. We must add, however, that it was usually those who had collected the lion's shares of the points who made such suggestions.",
      "Yet it could have been so different for Tony Pulis 's side, who weathered a good start by the hosts to create the lion's share of what few first-half chances came along.",
      "They got a large donation, but the lion’s share of the money went straight into paying off debt."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "5014",
    "Idiom": [
      "lip service"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Empty talk; words without action or intention.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Don’t madam me, — I can’t bear none of your lip service. I’m a plain-spoken woman, that’s what I am, and I like other people’s tongues to be as plain as mine.",
      "Your love is thick, and it swallowed me whole / You're so much braver than I gave you credit for / That's not lip service",
      "“OK, let’s see if he’s really being honest about this,” Ms. Neloms, 42, who is Black, recalled thinking. “My prayer is that it’s not just lip service.”",
      "The candidate gave lip service to fixing the problems, but it is doubtful that he will do much."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "5015",
    "Idiom": [
      "liquid courage"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Alcohol used to boost courage.",
    "Sentence": [
      "“Their findings essentially suggest that while intoxication may not have resulted in beer goggles, it did seem to increase liquid courage, in that people were more likely to indicate a desire to interact with attractive others,” said Monk, whose previous research had found some evidence to support the beer goggles effect."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "5016",
    "Idiom": [
      "listen up"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To pay attention.",
    "Sentence": [
      "His sharp eyes scanned the faces of his charges. \" Listen up !\" he barked.",
      "I'm only gonna say this once, so you really need to listen up."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "5017",
    "Idiom": [
      "little emperor"
    ],
    "Meaning": "A spoiled only child in contemporary China.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Chinese psychologists recently have also written extensively about the emergence of so-called little emperors —arrogant, spoiled children who grow up without siblings.",
      "The Chinese have a special name for those tots: xiao huangdi, or \" little emperors.\""
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "5018",
    "Idiom": [
      "little girl"
    ],
    "Meaning": "One's daughter.",
    "Sentence": [
      "My little girl' s getting married next week!"
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "5019",
    "Idiom": [
      "little head"
    ],
    "Meaning": "The glans of the penis.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Obsessed with Heidi's cleavage, the pervert within may start thinking with his little head instead of his big one."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "5020",
    "Idiom": [
      "little old"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Emphasizes something as harmless or ordinary.",
    "Sentence": [
      "You brought the best little old news you'll ever tote. Secretario, if you never promulgate worse news than that, you'll boost your circulation a thousand a day.",
      "They found afterward to their regret that he was the finest little old poker player that ever struck the village and he carried away a suitcase of yellow-backed bills.",
      "[Pogo:] I'm takin' care of this li'l' ol' backward child.",
      "We Texans have always bragged about having the best little old this and the best little old that.",
      "Well, you nice people, I'm going to let you in on a secret and show you why this kitchen knife is the best little ole product you can get.",
      "Christine Roberts Presley: Elvis was the best little ol' thing. He was so polite.",
      "While still marveling over the magnificent overtime victory his team had over St. John's Sunday, Duke Coach Mike Krzyzewski turned immediately to worrying about what was ahead. Duke plays a little old game against North Carolina tonight.",
      "Last time I seen you, you was a little old girl / I had a crush now we grown and we still so thorough",
      "Well aren't you just a little old sweetheart?",
      "A: I love your dress! B: What, this little old thing?",
      "How about a little old game of pool?"
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "5021",
    "Idiom": [
      "little pitcher"
    ],
    "Meaning": "A child.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Thomas Gradgrind now presented Thomas Gradgrind to the little pitchers before him, who were to be filled so full of facts.",
      "\"Promise not to tell, or I shall be teased to death,\" she added, anxiously, entirely forgetting the two little pitchers gifted with eyes as well as ears, who had been watching the whole performance from afar."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "5022",
    "Idiom": [
      "little pitchers have big ears",
      "little pitchers have long ears"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Small children often overhear more than adults realize.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Seeing me listening to something she was saying to Mamma, she turned round upon me with that odious proverb, \" Little pitchers have long ears.\"",
      "A caution to U. S. parents, but a joy to radio merchandising, is the dread truth that little pitchers have big ears.",
      "No kid ever ran to his mother and said that his little sister just defecated in the tub. I suppose he might say pushed or went woowoo, but took a shit is, I fear, very much in the ballpark (little pitchers have big ears, after all)."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "5023",
    "Idiom": [
      "little strokes fell great oaks"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Small but persistent efforts can lead to significant results.",
    "Sentence": [
      "“ Little strokes fell great oaks,” says the steady worker. “One stroke fells not an oak,” makes a piece of advice to the impetuous. In danger the insignificant may console themselves with the reflection that “Oaks may fall and reeds brave the storm."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "5024",
    "Idiom": [
      "little-ease"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Instruments of punishment in a prison.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "5025",
    "Idiom": [
      "live a lie"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To conceal aspects of oneself, hiding one's true character.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "5026",
    "Idiom": [
      "live and die by"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Be completely reliant upon.",
    "Sentence": [
      "The e-commerce industry lives and dies by metrics, a few of which give us some grasp over this phenomenon."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "5027",
    "Idiom": [
      "live and let live"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Be tolerant and allow others to enjoy life.",
    "Sentence": [
      "\"Hout, neighbour,\" said Mrs. Howden, \"we suld live and let live —we hae been young oursells, and we are no aye to judge the warst when lads and lasses forgather.\"",
      "‘ Live and let live ’ is my motto: let me alone and I'll let you alone.",
      "Our Europe policy is simple: live and let live, flourish and let flourish. That is a modern and mature approach."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "5028",
    "Idiom": [
      "live beyond one's means"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Spend more than one earns.",
    "Sentence": [
      "When young people first leave home, they often get into financial trouble living beyond their means. It is then that they start to learn some of the harsh realities of life."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "5029-1",
    "Idiom": [
      "live by the sword, die by the sword"
    ],
    "Meaning": "One who uses violence can expect a violent response.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "5029-2",
    "Idiom": [
      "live by the sword, die by the sword"
    ],
    "Meaning": "One can expect dire outcomes from one's actions.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "5029-3",
    "Idiom": [
      "live by the sword, die by the sword"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Success can lead to downfall.",
    "Sentence": [
      "And in Dirk Diggler's most anguished scene, as he shouts at Jack Horner, \"I'm ready to shoot my scene RIGHT NOW!\" we learn that those who live by the sword can also die by it.",
      "In the “ live by the sword, die by the sword ” category of ironic litigation, consider the fate of struggling hardware and software maker Sun Microsystems."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "5030",
    "Idiom": [
      "live down"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To cause others to forget an embarrassing event.",
    "Sentence": [
      "I'll never be able to live down that time my pants fell down at the school dance."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "5031",
    "Idiom": [
      "live fast, die young"
    ],
    "Meaning": "A lifestyle of excitement and risk can lead to an early death.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "5032",
    "Idiom": [
      "live in sin"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Cohabit without marriage.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Ralph: Athene gone and got married? Builder: No. It's—it's that she's gone and—and not got married.... I suppose you'd have me eat humble pie and tell Athene she can go on living in sin and offending society."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "5033-1",
    "Idiom": [
      "live in the past"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To dwell on past events.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "5033-2",
    "Idiom": [
      "live in the past"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To cling to outdated traditions or beliefs.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "5034",
    "Idiom": [
      "live in the shadow of"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To be overshadowed by someone or something, often a relative or predecessor.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Many historical personalities have lived in the shadow of great men; Harry Truman in the shadow of Franklin Delano Roosevelt, Joseph Lowery in the shadow of Martin Luther King, Jr., and Hank Aaron in the shadow of Babe Ruth.",
      "Paul Fisher lives in the shadow of his older brother, Erik. Legally blind, Paul still manages to play soccer while Erik steals the family's attention as a star football kicker. Slowly the truth about Paul's blindness comes out in"
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "5035",
    "Idiom": [
      "live it up"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To enjoy oneself.",
    "Sentence": [
      "It is very like the philosophy that opens and closes Yojimbo—that a long life living on gruel in the country is better than short life of living it up in city.",
      "Love in an elevator. Livin' it up when I'm going down!",
      "Just as any grandmother or grandfather will tell you that their best days were spent during the Depression, anyone who was 18 and living it up in 1968 will tell you they spent their better days at this time."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "5036",
    "Idiom": [
      "live large"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To live an extravagant lifestyle.",
    "Sentence": [
      "He lived large, in a suite at the Waldorf Astoria. Expensive and elegant suits, silk shirts, handmade shoes, cashmere topcoats and fedoras enhanced his executive image."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "5037",
    "Idiom": [
      "live not to eat, but eat to live",
      "eat to live, not live to eat"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Eat primarily for health, not for pleasure.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Balance can be used to heighten matched pairs of ideas, as in the maxim \"one should eat to live, not live to eat.\""
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "5038-1",
    "Idiom": [
      "live off"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To depend on financially.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "5038-2",
    "Idiom": [
      "live off"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To survive by consuming specific resources.",
    "Sentence": [
      "I live off nothing in this world / Except the thick grey air that chains itself / Swirls all around and engrains itself",
      "When I was a student, I lived off baked potatoes."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "5039-1",
    "Idiom": [
      "live on"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To endure.",
    "Sentence": [
      "He described the members and organisers of the society as \"a group of enthusiasts celebrating the richness and diversity of the English language\", and is convinced that whether or not enough volunteers can be found to keep the society going, their enthusiasm and love for good English will live on.",
      "Her memory lives on in our hearts."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "5039-2",
    "Idiom": [
      "live on"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To survive solely by consuming something.",
    "Sentence": [
      "When he was in the rainforest, he lived on bugs and rainwater."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "5039-3",
    "Idiom": [
      "live on"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To be defined by.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Let assets live on the grid A = {\\displaystyle {\\mathcal {A}}=[a_{1},a_{2},\\dots,a_{n}]}."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "5040-1",
    "Idiom": [
      "live on the edge"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To have an adventurous or risky lifestyle.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Your idea that murder is the objective correlative of spiritual death, a metaphor for our daily lives, is fascinating. Is living on the edge thrilling and an interesting way to live?",
      "I wanted a chance to get out, to live life on the edge. All right! All right. I can understand you wanting some excitement. But do you have any idea what you're getting involved in here?",
      "\"I like living on the edge,\" said Mr. Wertz, adding that, although winter fishing is far more dangerous, it is also more lucrative.",
      "The President of Taiwan, Chen Shui-bian, seems to relish living on the edge.... Having narrowly won a second four-year term last year after surviving an apparent assassination attempt, Chen, 54, will remain in office until 2008."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "5040-2",
    "Idiom": [
      "live on the edge"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To be in a risky or dangerous situation that threatens well-being.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Any yet what we are talking about today is a threat to life, for 36 million very important Americans living on the margin so to speak, living on the edge, certainly, and living in wonderment as to whether or not they are going to be treated fairly in this process.",
      "\"The bombing was a sudden jolt and we are back to living on the edge again,\" said Gonsherovsky, 23, in Jerusalem's crowded Mahane Yehuda market.",
      "\"The last thing Lesotho needed was another poor harvest since so many vulnerable people are already living on the edge, struggling to cope with the combined impact of successive crop failures, extreme poverty and HIV/Aids,\" said Amir Abdulla, WFP's regional director for Southern Africa."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "5041-1",
    "Idiom": [
      "live one"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Someone who is easily fooled or ridiculed.",
    "Sentence": [
      "There's green as in greenhorn, meaning inexperienced and gullible. Those with a pitch to sell are going to spot a live one —in this case government with dollars practically falling out of its pockets—coming from miles away."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "5041-2",
    "Idiom": [
      "live one"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Someone who is eccentric or nonconformist.",
    "Sentence": [
      "They've got a live one in the crowd, he's scary, he looks dangerous, demon possessed, he doesn't know who he is, he speaks in strange voices.",
      "We've got a live one. Kim Howells burst on to the scene last week with his first foray into university politics as higher education minister. The man best known for labelling the Turner Prize \"conceptual bullshit\" was not sounding very on-message. In a departure from his prepared speech on the launch of an NUS information campaign for would-be students, Howells started, well, rambling."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "5041-3",
    "Idiom": [
      "live one"
    ],
    "Meaning": "A particularly interesting or urgent person, thing, or situation.",
    "Sentence": [
      "\"We got a live one here,\" he said as he speeds up in pursuit of a car."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "5042",
    "Idiom": [
      "live over the brush"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To cohabit without being married.",
    "Sentence": [
      "I know what people think about the North. They think it's all muck and living over the brush with women like Elsie Tanner.",
      "After the birth of their son, Stanley, the couple moved to Bradford and \" lived over the brush \" in West Bowling in a back-to-back terraced house.",
      "I was saying to my Albert, I wouldn't be surprised if him and that so-called wife of his was living over the brush."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "5043",
    "Idiom": [
      "live paycheck to paycheck"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To have just enough money to cover expenses, leaving nothing to save.",
    "Sentence": [
      "But what does all this mean for the men and women who live from paycheck to paycheck ? Prices have skyrocketed to boost the cost of living for the worker to about double the pre-war level.",
      "Hector, who has worked at the Miramar since he arrived from Mexico ten years ago, would like to own his own home someday. \"It's my dream,\" he says. But he can't imagine how he'll ever get there when his family lives paycheck to paycheck and can't put anything away for savings.",
      "Nearly two-thirds of the women who responded to a working woman survey last year cited living from paycheck to paycheck as their most pressing financial concern.",
      "There was a low-income individual in class who never had any savings. He lived paycheck-to-paycheck. [After hearing the story], he said to them, 'You've inspired me. I've always had cable and decided to give it up. For the first time I have money in my savings account.'"
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "5044",
    "Idiom": [
      "live rent-free in someone's head",
      "live rent-free in someone's mind"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To be the constant focus of someone's thoughts.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Gem of the Day: Hanging onto resentment is letting someone you despise live rent free in your head.",
      "The difficult bosses then get under their skin and live “rent-free” in their heads long after they've left work and gone home to sleep.",
      "It may not seem that way, but this is a testament to Hillary's ability to successfully make such a mark on her opposition that she lives rent-free in their heads for decades.",
      "I'm living my life on my own terms. I no longer fall victim to opinions and judgment. Rarely do these people live rent-free in my mind. When I meet someone new I'm not worried about what they'll think of me, because I know what I think of myself,",
      "Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie may not be married anymore, but this look from Mr. and Mrs. Smith will forever live rent free in our minds. Plus, it gets hella bonus points for being super comfy and unique."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "5045",
    "Idiom": [
      "live the dream"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To experience one's aspirations coming true, especially in a career.",
    "Sentence": [
      "But Manny Ramirez is living the dream; two weeks ago, he signed a quarter-million-dollar contract with the Cleveland Indians.",
      "Chester Brown lives the dream.... With the publication of his graphic novel, \"Louis Riel,\" he not only has a hit, but also the accolades of the industry.",
      "Beckham choked back tears.... He said he had \" lived the dream \" but with a new manager taking over it was time for a new captain."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "5046",
    "Idiom": [
      "live to tell the tale"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To survive a difficult situation.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Living with gun violence can desensitize you. Humor was our coping mechanism, designed to keep complex emotions at bay. I’m ashamed to say that I made fun of family members who were shot and lived to tell the tale.",
      "Chepstow is good for excursions, and Bradshaw tells me I can get a fly to Tintern Abbey, although the fare structure seems particularly complicated. Alternatively, I could go for a simpler choice and just opt for \"single horse, 1s\", although I doubt I'd survive to tell the tale."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "5047-1",
    "Idiom": [
      "live with"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To share a home as an unmarried couple.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "5047-2",
    "Idiom": [
      "live with"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To accept or tolerate despite being unsatisfactory.",
    "Sentence": [
      "France's final terms for an Indochina settlement would be terms which the United States can live with.",
      "Israelis don't like the rioting and Molotov cocktails, but they can live with it.",
      "In school systems, leaders have to live with collectivist ideals, which very often get in the way of meaningful and necessary change.",
      "Halsall responded: \"We need to quietly recognise that we are no longer reacting to a pandemic, but living with one. .\""
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "5048",
    "Idiom": [
      "living death"
    ],
    "Meaning": "A state of extreme suffering and lack of meaning.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Mr Tulliver, who had begun, in his intervals of consciousness, to manifest an irritability which often appeared to have as a direct effect the recurrence of spasmodic rigidity and insensibility, had lain in this living death throughout the critical hours when the noise of the sale came nearest to his chamber.",
      "If their creed were no longer tolerated, then, and if they remained true to it, they must either fly from the country or spend a living death tugging at an oar or working in a chain-gang upon the roads.",
      "\"We cling so closely here to our own doctrine of isolation....\" \"Isobel is intended, then?\" I asked. \"For the Church,\" Madame Richard answered.... \"Madame,\" I answered, \"Isobel is meant for life—not a living death.\"",
      "A.L.S., or Lou Gehrig's disease, is often described as a kind of living death in which the body goes flaccid while the mind remains intact and acutely aware."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "5049",
    "Idiom": [
      "living end"
    ],
    "Meaning": "The most extreme or final development in a series of events.",
    "Sentence": [
      "This is the guy who was supposed to be the living end when he came into the NBA in 1959. Yet the Warriors have never been better than second with him.",
      "“We don't pretend that this bill is going to be the living end,” Senate President Phil Lewis said. “... But hopefully this is landmark legislation.”",
      "Hitchcock uses a dazzling bag of tricks in Saboteur (1942)—Sunday at 2 A.M. on Channel 9—and that Statue of Liberty torch-hanger is the living end.",
      "“Cat Brules, you're the living end ! You're the worst boy I ever seen.”",
      "“Well, it's the same old sixes and sevens at our house. The children are driving me wild, now that school is out, and I don't know if I really do want to go on living with him. Last night was the living end.”",
      "I know that sounds cynical, but this latest scandal with cyclist Floyd Landis is the living end."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "5050",
    "Idiom": [
      "living proof"
    ],
    "Meaning": "A real example that proves a point.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Taiwan is not only a beacon of democracy, but also living proof that control of an emerging virus can be achieved through science, technology, and democratic governance. No draconian autocratic measures are required.",
      "His story is living proof that anyone who puts in a good amount of hard work can find success."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "5051-1",
    "Idiom": [
      "load of shit"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Something that is not true or a mass of lies.",
    "Sentence": [
      "They said he survived the fall? What a load of shit !"
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "5051-2",
    "Idiom": [
      "load of shit"
    ],
    "Meaning": "A worthless thing.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Take this load of shit back where you bought it and get your money back."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "5051-3",
    "Idiom": [
      "load of shit"
    ],
    "Meaning": "An event that did not meet expectations.",
    "Sentence": [
      "We thought it was going to be a good night but it turned out to be a load of shit."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "5052",
    "Idiom": [
      "load up"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To fully load a weapon.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "5053",
    "Idiom": [
      "load up on"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To gather or accumulate large quantities of something.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "5054-1",
    "Idiom": [
      "loaded for bear"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Thoroughly equipped for a demanding task or confrontation.",
    "Sentence": [
      "\"The whole Jap Navy,\" said Captain Sams, waving at a map of Japan on the wall behind him, \"has been steaming across the Pacific loaded for bear.\""
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "5054-2",
    "Idiom": [
      "loaded for bear"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Mentally prepared for a confrontation.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Every Elliott and Crawford and MacAllister is on the warpath, loaded for bear."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "5055",
    "Idiom": [
      "loaded language"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Language with strong positive or negative connotations.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "5056",
    "Idiom": [
      "loaded word"
    ],
    "Meaning": "A word with strong positive or negative connotations beyond its ordinary definition.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "5057",
    "Idiom": [
      "loaf about"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To be idle.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "5058",
    "Idiom": [
      "loaf around"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To be idle or do nothing.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Thanks for coming on such short notice to clean my house. I'm just going to loaf around while you work, but I'll let you know if you're in my way."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "5059-1",
    "Idiom": [
      "location, location, location"
    ],
    "Meaning": "The importance of location in real estate.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "5059-2",
    "Idiom": [
      "location, location, location"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Location is crucial.",
    "Sentence": [
      "One could argue that sports are no different from fast foods—it's all location, location, location. Because the core sport product is a game form, simultaneously produced and consumed, it makes sense that the venue of that game form should maximize exposure.",
      "Theatre is all about location, location, location. More than most art forms, it is rooted in a specific time and place.",
      "Location, location, location. The iPhone makes good use of knowing where you are in the Maps app and several other apps and by geotagging photos taken with its camera.",
      "It's all about location, location, location, and Google's goggles will have a direct bead on you 24 hours a day."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "5060",
    "Idiom": [
      "lock horns"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To come into conflict.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "5061-1",
    "Idiom": [
      "lock into"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To firmly commit to something.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "5061-2",
    "Idiom": [
      "lock into"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To involve someone or something in a way that escaping is difficult.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "5062",
    "Idiom": [
      "lock someone up and throw away the key"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To imprison someone indefinitely.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "5063",
    "Idiom": [
      "locked up"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Imprisoned.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "5064",
    "Idiom": [
      "locker room humor"
    ],
    "Meaning": "A type of humor involving crude and sexual jokes.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "5065",
    "Idiom": [
      "log off"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To depart from a conversation or say goodbye.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "5066",
    "Idiom": [
      "lone gunman"
    ],
    "Meaning": "An individual acting alone, especially in questionable matters.",
    "Sentence": [
      "He continues, \"So when someone blows the whistle, the hospital has to start looking for a scapegoat. The hospital looks for the lone gunman —the individual, acting alone, acting counter to his training, who, through a gross act of incompetence....\"",
      "Trial lawyers, always a colorful and eclectic bunch.... Most were lone gunmen too eccentric to keep much of a staff.",
      "The Wilson family had been sorely conflicted because each member had gone off in his or her own direction, thinking that they were all lone gunmen."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "5067",
    "Idiom": [
      "lone it"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To go alone.",
    "Sentence": [
      "who loned it through the streets of Idaho seeking visionary indian angels",
      "I had a long walk home and no company, but I usually lone it anyway, for no reason except that I like to watch movies undisturbed so I can get into them and live them with the actors. … So I loned it.",
      "Gerry had taken hires he shouldn't have taken, loned it across the mountains in a season he shouldn't have."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "5068",
    "Idiom": [
      "long arm"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Far-reaching power.",
    "Sentence": [
      "the long arm of the law"
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "5069",
    "Idiom": [
      "long arm of the law"
    ],
    "Meaning": "The influence of law enforcement.",
    "Sentence": [
      "It is my belief that I could have felt no greater dismay, if the long arm of the Law had laid its hold on me while he was speaking.",
      "The long arm of the law does not protect banks the way it used to.",
      "\"Repeat violent offenders will hopscotch over state lines to avoid the long arm of the law,\" said Maryland Gov. Martin O'Malley."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "5070",
    "Idiom": [
      "long drink"
    ],
    "Meaning": "A weak, voluminous mixed drink with plenty of ice and mixer.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Long drinks generally have more mixer than alcohol and are often served with ice and a straw. The terms ‘straight up’ and ‘on the rocks’ are synonymous with the short drink, which tends to be more about the spirit, which is often combined with a single mixer, at most."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "5071-1",
    "Idiom": [
      "long finger"
    ],
    "Meaning": "A state of postponement or procrastination.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "5071-2",
    "Idiom": [
      "long finger"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Refers to hire purchase or credit.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Jim tries to look flash, but he buys everything on the long finger."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "5072",
    "Idiom": [
      "long gone"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Someone has been absent or missing for a long time.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "5073",
    "Idiom": [
      "long green"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Money, especially cash.",
    "Sentence": [
      "\"Why, a guy come to me and wants to give me half a ton of the long green to go to dat poiper what youse was woikin' on and fix de guy what's runnin' it.\"",
      "Under the latest tax increase, for instance, a worker with a wife and one child who earns $80 a week will have $8.60 taken out before the long green crosses his palm.",
      "Fox's new game show, The Chamber, lets people suffer to their hearts' content, with the hope of winning some long green, too."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "5074",
    "Idiom": [
      "long in the tooth"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Old; aged.",
    "Sentence": [
      "His cousin was now of more than middle age.... She was lean, and yellow, and long in the tooth.",
      "So as Microsoft began its 30th year last month, investors wondered whether it's a little long in the tooth.",
      "There were four relatively-fast, modern cruisers, the Oleg, Aurora, Zhemchug, and Izumrud... aaand the Dmitrii Donskoi, which was twenty-one years old and getting a bit long in the tooth.",
      "For those who are interested, Deaton (1992) remains the best (and most readable) single introduction to the empirics of the canonical permanent income model, though it's now a bit long in the tooth."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "5075",
    "Idiom": [
      "long odds"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Poor chances.",
    "Sentence": [
      "That sense of overcoming long odds probably explained why, despite our differences in age and experience, Harry and I hit it off."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "5076",
    "Idiom": [
      "long pork"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Human flesh.",
    "Sentence": [
      "the doctor still seemed to share the sort of creepiness I felt at the sight of a live nigger who had actually eaten long pork.",
      "Cannibals do not eat \" long pork \" because they are short of animal food but in order to possess the courage of those they devour. For example, a man like Peter Jackson or John L. Sullivan would have been greatly in demand.",
      "They still play chess, but they no longer eat \" long pork \".",
      "From the back of the bar, from the man with the huge pot belly, came a sound like a cannibal might make if he was choking on long pork, \"Ga gobba. Ga gobba.\""
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "5077",
    "Idiom": [
      "long row to hoe"
    ],
    "Meaning": "A difficult, arduous task.",
    "Sentence": [
      "“Don’t you suppose I know all that you’ve been through... ? I’ve followed you every step....” “Well, you’ve had a long row to hoe.”",
      "Japan's six-year economic slump is far from over. “They have a long row to hoe for recovery,” said Richard Koss.",
      "Labour has begun to redress the balance, but there is still a long row to hoe."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "5078",
    "Idiom": [
      "long run"
    ],
    "Meaning": "An extended period of time.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Stocks for the Long Run [title]",
      "in it for the long run",
      "It's a little more work up front, but it will save a lot of time in the long run."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "5079",
    "Idiom": [
      "long screwdriver"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Interference by politicians in military matters.",
    "Sentence": [
      "The telegraph, telephone, and then radio made it easier for governments to intervene in the conduct of military operations, inserting that ' long screwdriver' so resented by modern commanders."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "5080",
    "Idiom": [
      "long shot"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Something unlikely to happen.",
    "Sentence": [
      "His reign in Paris — full of flexed biceps, forehand winners and underrated court craft — is one of the great achievements in any sport, and though a 15th title is a long shot at this late stage, all we know for certain is that Nadal will not be winning it this year.",
      "We can try your plan, but it's a long shot and it probably won't work."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "5081",
    "Idiom": [
      "long since"
    ],
    "Meaning": "A long time ago.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Reluctantly Raj used his fingernail to prise away the bogie he had long since sneezed up there and popped it in his mouth.",
      "I don't know why he asked me to do that, when I had long since finished it.",
      "The building has long since been demolished."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "5082",
    "Idiom": [
      "long story short"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Introducing a short version or conclusion of a story.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Sitting on a park bench / Years away from fighting / Ah, to cut a long story short, I lost my mind",
      "So anyway, long story short... Kenny was always gambling. And six years ago, he bought this lottery ticket and he won. Not much. A million bucks. After taxes, that’s like five hundred thousand dollars. I’m thinking party time.",
      "“So long story short,” Damon continues, obviously enjoying his newfound status as Magic Kingdom iconoclast, “it got back to the director what I did and then it went all the way to [Michael] Eisner’s office. ”",
      "Long story short, I'm on the hook for sending Trong Tri Kelso to college and he doesn't want to go to a state school.",
      "Anyway, long story short, I totally screwed up today."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "5083",
    "Idiom": [
      "long time"
    ],
    "Meaning": "A greeting among people who haven't been in contact for a long time.",
    "Sentence": [
      "\"Hey, Lewis; long time, man.\" / \"Jack.\" / They shook hands."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "5084",
    "Idiom": [
      "long time no hear"
    ],
    "Meaning": "I haven't heard from you in a while.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Dave! Long time no hear ! How has Boston been treating you?"
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "5085",
    "Idiom": [
      "long time no see"
    ],
    "Meaning": "I (or we) have not seen you for a long time.",
    "Sentence": [
      "This lady had only assumed the reins of government a short time, when one morning Appoo made his appearance.—\"Ma-am— long time no see wife—want go to Colombo see wife.\"",
      "\"Maybe. I think I go see my mamma today. Long time no see,\" answered Mamie, who from constant association had, like the other girls of the neighborhood, fallen into the habit of talking pigeon English to the Chinamen.",
      "When we were close enough, I could see that he had a smile on his face, and I knew that he had recognized me. When we rode up to him he said: \"Good morning. Long time no see you,\" and at the same time presented the gun with the breech foremost.",
      "Dave! Long time no see ! How’s Boston been treating you?"
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "5086",
    "Idiom": [
      "long ways, long lies"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Someone far away can lie without being challenged.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "5087",
    "Idiom": [
      "long-burning"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Emerging or unfolding slowly over time.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "5088",
    "Idiom": [
      "long-time listener, first-time caller"
    ],
    "Meaning": "A first-time caller who has been a long-time listener.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Q: I'm a \" long time listener, first time caller,\" and a big fan of your site and your approach to data-driven marketing.",
      "Parcells was set in his ways and not interested in changing for an owner who until now was just a fan, who could have been “Robert from Brookline, long-time listener, first-time caller.”"
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "5089",
    "Idiom": [
      "look as if one had lost a shilling and found sixpence"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To look very disappointed.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "5090",
    "Idiom": [
      "look as if one has lost a shilling and found sixpence"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To look annoyed or displeased.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "5091",
    "Idiom": [
      "look before one leaps"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To think before acting.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "5092-1",
    "Idiom": [
      "look down on",
      "look down upon"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To regard as inferior.",
    "Sentence": [
      "He remembers feeling that people looked down on him, and, ‘realising I was rubbish at academic stuff’, he decided he'd join a circus.",
      "The mechanical toys were very superior, and looked down upon every one else; they were full of modern ideas, and pretended they were real."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "5093-2",
    "Idiom": [
      "look down on"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To view with disdain or contempt.",
    "Sentence": [
      "I get a feeling Kurt Cobain is looking down on Nickelback and wondering what alternative rock has become."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "5094",
    "Idiom": [
      "look down one's nose"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To regard as inferior or distasteful.",
    "Sentence": [
      "You look too high and mighty; customers would think you were looking down your nose at them.",
      "The New York Daily News's Columnist John O'Donnell, a Taftman, looked down his nose at Eisenhower's campaign.",
      "She has such a superior look about her, you know, like some snooty society matron, looking down her nose at the rest of us."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "5095",
    "Idiom": [
      "look forward to"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To anticipate or be excited about something.",
    "Sentence": [
      "When we call to mind the gracious indulgence of Heaven by which the American people became a nation; when we survey the general prosperity of our country, and look forward to the riches, power, and happiness to which it seems destined, with the deepest regret do I announce to you that during your recess some of the citizens of the United States have been found capable of insurrection.",
      "I love Elizabeth and look forward to our union with delight.",
      "Then a passionate celibacy is all that any of us can look forward to.",
      "To such verification, however, we may look forward with reasonable confidence, for Einstein has deduced from the principle of relativity, together with the electromagnetic theory, a number of striking consequences which are remarkably self-consistent.",
      "Now, on Friday noon, I am to become a private citizen. I am proud to do so. I look forward to it.",
      "I look forward to seeing 3417 running under its own power on the main line, and carrying passengers too. That needs central door locking, which will be no mean feat on a 4-VEP with 60 passenger doors.",
      "He was not looking forward to having to repair the downed power lines after the wind storm."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "5096",
    "Idiom": [
      "look here",
      "look ahere"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Listen to me.",
    "Sentence": [
      "\" Look here, you've no business to come asking for me in this way. I thought that was distinctly understood?\"",
      "Look here ! That's enough!",
      "Now look here ! I want you all to stop and sit down",
      "Oh, Prudence! look ahere. A breast-pin, in imitation of California, number one. The set is a glass diamond, found near the fiery mouth of Popocatepel.",
      "Fact, I assure you—now jist look ahere. Senator is a far bigger man than I be anywhere, he has more larnin, more sense, and the gift of speech of ten women’s tongues, reduced and simmered down to an essence; talks like a book: we call him a ‘big bug’ to home.",
      "“ Look ahere, boy; you can stay just twenty minutes. The doctor thinks this feller's shamming just to get up sympathy when his trial comes off.”",
      "“ Look ahere, mister, we don't care one derned red cent for what we snakes out of this here lode. \"",
      "To our little correspondent a store called New Williams said \" Look ahere.\""
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "5097",
    "Idiom": [
      "look into"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To investigate or consider.",
    "Sentence": [
      "If you are buying a new car, you might want to look into getting a hybrid or other high-efficiency vehicle."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "5098-1",
    "Idiom": [
      "look off"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To be deterred by someone's facial expression.",
    "Sentence": [
      "She can look a man on or look him off, either way. I wouldn't have thought any woman could look him off, I'd think she'd need a hatpin or a red-hot poker"
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "5098-2",
    "Idiom": [
      "look off"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To mislead by misdirecting attention.",
    "Sentence": [
      "I went back to pass, tried to look off the safety, turned and fired it out to Jack. It didn't work. The safety closed on the ball and knocked it down."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "5099-1",
    "Idiom": [
      "look on"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To watch or observe without participating.",
    "Sentence": [
      "My performance seems somehow always to get worse when there are other people looking on."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "5099-2",
    "Idiom": [
      "look on"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To perceive something in a specific manner.",
    "Sentence": [
      "I look on him not as a boss, but as a friend.",
      "We don't look kindly on people like you."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "5100",
    "Idiom": [
      "look on the bright side"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To view a negative situation positively.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Patrick O'Brien: No hard feelings ? I've been falsely accused, had the crap kicked out of me, now I have no job. Gene Hunt: Look on the bright side. Still got your health. So, you know, every cloud.",
      "Look on the bright side. At least having a broken leg means Joyce will have to do the TPS reports until they remember to send your laptop over."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "5101",
    "Idiom": [
      "look on the bright side of it"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To view something positively.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "5102",
    "Idiom": [
      "look on the dark side"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To be pessimistic or focus on the negative.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "5103-1",
    "Idiom": [
      "look out",
      "look for number one"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To be vigilant and aware of potential danger.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Thinks I to myself, “Sol, you're run off your course again. This is a rich man's summer‘cottage’ and if you don't look out there's likely to be some nice, lively dog taking an interest in your underpinning.”",
      "While you're in the city center, look out for the dodgy street vendors."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "5104-2",
    "Idiom": [
      "look out"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To hunt out.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Morgan pulled a Greek lexicon toward him (he used a Greek-German), to look out a word, instead of asking it of Pemberton.",
      "Then she straightened the kitchen, lit the lamp, mended the fire, looked out the washing for the next day, and put it to soak.",
      "I had not seen her since long before the war, and I had to look out her address in the telephone-book."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "5105",
    "Idiom": [
      "look out for number one"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To act in one's own interests.",
    "Sentence": [
      "S.—Ah—get out. Look out for number one —that's my doctrine; and let others do the same;—and if they don't, why, the flats must be contented with being gulled—that's all. It is n't my look-out, if a man does n't know enough, or does n't think enough, or is n't careful enough: if I can shave him a little by fair and honorable means, I have a right to do so. F.—You learnt that creed in Foolsborough; you'll recant in Gallowsberg, if you do n't look out. As to your shaving, my boy, if you do n't get pretty cleverly shaved with a handsaw, it will be because the dressing-room of Providence is too respectable for lubberly fellows like you.",
      "The idea is but too prevalent in almost every community, that a man has discharged his duties as a citizen, well enough, if he minds his own business and does not meddle with the affairs of his neighbours. \" Look out for Number One,\" is a great fundamental maxim, which is in every body's mouth, and which every body takes credit to himself for acting upon. It is preached to us sometimes from the pulpit even, and Christians, as well as infidels, pride themselves upon the assiduity with which they can look out for \"Number One.\" We do not intend to deny that this number one is a very important personage, and should be duly cared and provided for: neither shall we dispute that it is one of the highest virtues a man can possess, to act upon the good old motto of \" mind your own business.\" But we must protest against making this the standing plea and excuse, for hanging back from every great and good work which is to be done for humanity, when there is so much need of all the help that can be got, to aid in the noble task, which every man is born to assist in fulfilling—that of blessing and elevating the race. / We are too apt to forget that we are moral, as well as animal beings; that we have souls, as well as bodies; that besides our individuality, we stand in the closest relationship to the whole family of man, all of whom are our brothers and our sisters, and towards whom, we are under obligations, the most solemn and binding. In short, we are too selfish altogether. The \" Main Chance \" is the popular idea; not the main chance that lies between heaven and hell; the hopes of the one and the fears of the other are but secondary to the main chance of getting rich and attaining popularity. This is a great mistake, and one which is productive of much evil",
      "\"I'm a poor widder, Mr. Martin, and I must look out for number one. I can't afford to keep boarders that don't pay their bills.\"",
      "Old Man : A man performs but ONE duty—the duty of contenting his spirit, the duty of making himself agreeable to himself.... He always looks out for Number One."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "5106-1",
    "Idiom": [
      "look out for someone"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To guard or protect.",
    "Sentence": [
      "When Susan comes to Boston, since you're there, can you look out for her and make sure she's alright?"
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "5106-2",
    "Idiom": [
      "look out for someone"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To cover someone’s expenses.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "5106-3",
    "Idiom": [
      "look out for someone"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To treat favorably.",
    "Sentence": [
      "I really need you to look out for me on this deal since the last two have gone sour."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "5107",
    "Idiom": [
      "look over one's shoulder"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To check obsessively for perceived danger.",
    "Sentence": [
      "This is a cutthroat industry. You have to constantly look over your shoulder."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "5108",
    "Idiom": [
      "look the other way"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To ignore something wrong.",
    "Sentence": [
      "The policeman decided to look the other way when he realized the criminal’s act could benefit him."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "5109",
    "Idiom": [
      "look the part"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To appear suitable for a role.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Turner looked assured, picking out his men at the lineouts, while Redpath was seeing plenty of the ball and also looked the part as the Scots probed for opening.",
      "If you want to be a successful business person, you have to look the part.",
      "We were going to cast him in our new movie but unfortunately he didn't look the part."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "5110",
    "Idiom": [
      "look through"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To pretend not to see something or someone visible.",
    "Sentence": [
      "I tried to get Michele's attention at the party, but she looked right through me!"
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "5111-1",
    "Idiom": [
      "look to"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To seek inspiration, advice, or reward from someone.",
    "Sentence": [
      "But the lout looked only to his market, and was not easily repulsed. ¶ \"He's there, I tell you,\" he persisted. \"And for threepence I'll get you to see him. Come on, your honour! It's many a Westminster election I've seen, and beer running, from Mr. Fox, when maybe it's your honour's going to stand! Anyway, it's, Down with the mongers!\"",
      "Whenever I'm upset, I look to Mary to cheer me up."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "5111-2",
    "Idiom": [
      "look to"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To take care of.",
    "Sentence": [
      "He thoroughly cleaned his silver watch-chain with whiting, put new lacing straps to his boots, looked to the brass eyelet-holes, went to the inmost heart of the plantation for a new walking-stick, and trimmed it vigorously on his way back; ."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "5111-3",
    "Idiom": [
      "look to"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To intend to or prepare for something.",
    "Sentence": [
      "I think that cat was looking to bite me if I hadn't run away!",
      "A storm looks to be on the way."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "5112-1",
    "Idiom": [
      "look up"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To have better prospects.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Things started looking up after Jim moved back in with his parents."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "5112-2",
    "Idiom": [
      "look up"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To seek information.",
    "Sentence": [
      "\"Why do you know about transgender stuff? Did you look it up because of me?\" \"Oh no. I find wanting to change forms totally normal. It never would've occurred to me.\"",
      "I didn't know what a mitochondrion was until I looked it up in a dictionary.",
      "If you look up a bunch of random characters, there will probably be no results."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "5112-3",
    "Idiom": [
      "look up"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To reconnect with someone from the past.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Look me up next time you’re in town—if you can bring me some new ideas."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "5113",
    "Idiom": [
      "look up and down"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To scrutinize someone's appearance for judgment.",
    "Sentence": [
      "He looked her up and down. Sucked on the cigar."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "5114",
    "Idiom": [
      "look up to"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To show respect or admiration for someone.",
    "Sentence": [
      "A boy should look up to his father."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "5115",
    "Idiom": [
      "look what the cat's dragged in"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Ironically acknowledges someone's unwelcome arrival.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Still facing the mirror, he drawled, ‘ Look what the cat's dragged in. Where have you been?’ Gabriel rubbed his chin.",
      "“Well, look what the cat drug in, Sam,” says a familiar voice, which comes, of course, from everywhere and nowhere.",
      "‘Well, well, look what the cat's dragged in,’ Gracey said as he moved the thick stump of his neck from side to side and rubbed the back of it with the great towel of his hand. ‘Nice to see you grace us with your presence, Swift. ’"
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "5116-1",
    "Idiom": [
      "look-in"
    ],
    "Meaning": "A quick glance.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "5116-2",
    "Idiom": [
      "look-in"
    ],
    "Meaning": "A brief visit.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "5116-3",
    "Idiom": [
      "look-in"
    ],
    "Meaning": "An opportunity to participate or succeed.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "5117",
    "Idiom": [
      "lookers-on see most of the game"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Observers often see more than participants.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "5118",
    "Idiom": [
      "looks can be deceiving"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Appearance can be misleading.",
    "Sentence": [
      "This algebra problem may look very easy at first glance, but looks can be deceiving."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "5119",
    "Idiom": [
      "loom large"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To have great importance or significance, often implying a threat or concern.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Sooner or later the Catholic question will loom large in our way, so why not take a definite standpoint right from the beginning?",
      "One doubts that adequate assistance would loom large as a factor in the demoralization of the individual.",
      "Nevertheless, even for a country bank, the unpredictable can loom large in the management of its reserve position.",
      "Before the Somerset marshes were drained - between the 10th and 14th centuries - ships could sail as far inland as Glastonbury, and the hill on which High Ham stands was an island, looming large above the lagoons and swamplands of the region.",
      "At the same time, the environmental problems certainly loom large in all transition countries.",
      "Virgin Queens loom large as inspirational icons of both endeavours but Ralegh's substantive commitment in financial and political terms was to the earlier Virginia project, with the Guiana episode appearing as a hastily conceived attempt to re-run the Virginia enterprise.",
      "While the environmental damages might loom large, there are rather the changes on the social structure of the Wopkaimin community and the demands for more participation in the mine's benefits — in other words, there are also social and economical reasons for the emergence of conflicts as well.",
      "This is not to say that Schopenhauer and Nietzsche do not loom large in his work as well, but traveling back and forth between these two thinkers and Hegel is feasible, whereas reconciling Kant and Hegel is not—except perhaps via Schelling, but this would mean walking the romantic route, something Adorno avoids like the plague.",
      "Schmeichel was Denmark's hero as England sought the winner, saving brilliantly from Harry Maguire and Harry Kane as the game went into extra time and the prospect of penalties loomed large.",
      "Taiwan looms large as Joe Biden prepares to meet Xi Jinping in Bali [title]",
      "But the point when it would have to look at alternative new-build vehicles was always looming large, and there would inevitably be a finite number of Class 66s it could source from elsewhere, and a limit to other locomotives it could re-power.",
      "Energy policy will loom large in the policy decisions of the new government."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "5120-1",
    "Idiom": [
      "loose cannon"
    ],
    "Meaning": "An unpredictable person who causes problems for their group.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Sooner or later this party gets busted and all your friends stumble back home But you're the loose cannon who could never be trusted so you'll hide from the cops all alone.",
      "Jack is considered a loose cannon due to his volatile personality and his track record of being unable to maintain his composure."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "5120-2",
    "Idiom": [
      "loose cannon"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Behaves unpredictably, causing potential harm to one's group.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Gerald's loose cannoning triggered a volley of faithfully quoted media coverage which blasted a hole in his company's profits"
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "5121",
    "Idiom": [
      "loose change"
    ],
    "Meaning": "A small sum of money.",
    "Sentence": [
      "\"For Haughley Junction, we are talking of rising cost estimates from £15m to £30m - that's loose change in rail terms. ."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "5122",
    "Idiom": [
      "loose end"
    ],
    "Meaning": "A small unresolved issue before completion.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "5123",
    "Idiom": [
      "loose ends"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Unresolved issues or incomplete tasks.",
    "Sentence": [
      "I would have liked to stay later and tie up some of the loose ends."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "5124",
    "Idiom": [
      "loose lip"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Being overly talkative and revealing private information.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Loose lips might sink ships.",
      "In the classic dramas of private investigation, the cheeky quip is the tough guy's challenge to toughness. In Fletch the quick, smartly paced gags somehow read as signs of vulnerability.... Every minute you expect the hero's loose lip to be turned into a fat one.",
      "Poor fellow, he had \"cemented my reputation forever as a guy who tells too much truth.\"... But his loose lip has ultimately worked out for him."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "5125",
    "Idiom": [
      "loose lips sink ships"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Revealing too much information can be harmful.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Loose Lips Sink Ships, said the wartime poster. Of course the ships will all sink anyway, sooner or later.",
      "‘ Loose lips sink ships,’ she spat at Dad once, when they were arguing about Grandpa, but ‘loose lips killed our son.’"
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "5126",
    "Idiom": [
      "loose tongue"
    ],
    "Meaning": "The habit of revealing private or confidential information.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "5127",
    "Idiom": [
      "loosen someone's tongue"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To cause someone to speak more freely.",
    "Sentence": [
      "He made a long stay in the dining-room after dinner, and, I fear, took an unusual quantity of wine, but not enough to loosen his tongue : for when he came in and found me quietly occupied with my book, too busy to lift my head on his entrance, he merely murmured an expression of suppressed disapprobation",
      "We relapsed into silence. Presently he laughed. “There’s something in this starlight that loosens one’s tongue. I’m an ass, and yet somehow I would like to tell you.”",
      "He admired the dexterity with which their host directed the conversation. The five young men had various tastes and their tongues had been loosened.",
      "Tommy had apparently been plied with ice cream and soda pop at the police station, to loosen his tongue."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "5128",
    "Idiom": [
      "loosen the apron strings"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To allow greater freedom or relax control.",
    "Sentence": [
      "They see how serious it is not to \" loosen the apron strings \"; how unfortunate it may be to talk about a child in his presence; how we must take people where..."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "5129",
    "Idiom": [
      "loosen the purse strings"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To allow increased spending.",
    "Sentence": [
      "He thought the effect of this language from the Prime Minister had been to loosen the purse-strings of the Treasury.",
      "Proponents of the counterterrorism agenda might respond by being less inclined to loosen the purse strings than they would have been if offered a convincing..."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "5130",
    "Idiom": [
      "lord it over"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To behave as if in control or superior.",
    "Sentence": [
      "They were in a manner absolute despots in their little domains, lording it, if so disposed, over both law and gospel, and accountable to none but the mother-country.",
      "Mr. and Mrs. Bumble, deprived of their situations, were gradually reduced to great indigence and misery, and finally became paupers in that very same workhouse in which they had once lorded it over others.",
      "Peter was a little annoyed with them for knowing so much, but if he wanted to lord it over them his triumph was at hand.",
      "The Delhi Durbar of 1911 saw King George V and Queen Mary bedecked in sapphires and rubies lording it over half a million Indian subjects."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "5131",
    "Idiom": [
      "lord of the flies"
    ],
    "Meaning": "A ruler over a worthless kingdom.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "5132",
    "Idiom": [
      "lose face"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To lose the respect of others; to be humiliated.",
    "Sentence": [
      "\"The Chengtu revolutionaries were fantastically colourful in the Szechwanese manner—they costumed themselves as heroes of the stage and their energies were chiefly occupied in tying ropes across the main streets so that when Imperial officials rode by in their litters they would have to get down and crawl under, losing face.",
      "Ahithophel, Absalom's chief counsel, hanged himself when he lost face after his advice was rejected.",
      "The intelligence sources said the Chinese would not want to lose face. One source said, however: \"The show of military muscle has provoked an international reaction and that may be enough face saved.\"",
      "When you start to feel unmotivated, you will look for ways to weasel out of your commitments. We all do it. If there's a stealth way to back out, without ever losing face, you will do it without hesitation.",
      "He had arranged for one of his managers to be present in the office with us, so I should have realised immediately that there was little chance of him backing down since that would have meant losing face in front of a subordinate."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "5133",
    "Idiom": [
      "lose ground"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To experience a setback.",
    "Sentence": [
      "The pre-match mantra from the Scotland camp may have been of it not being a “must win” game but that fooled no-one, Poland’s win in Georgia earlier last night simply crystallised how vital it was for the Scots not to lose any more ground at this stage of an intensely competitive campaign.",
      "He lost ground in his career due to his illness.",
      "They are losing ground to foreign competitors every year."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "5134",
    "Idiom": [
      "lose it"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To lose control of a situation.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Even then, she defended everything she had sought to achieve, saying she had “the right policies at the wrong time”. “That’s when I thought ‘she’s totally lost it ’,” said a former aide."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "5135",
    "Idiom": [
      "lose one's battle"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To succumb to a serious illness.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "5136",
    "Idiom": [
      "lose one's bottle"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To lose courage.",
    "Sentence": [
      "“You'll never lose your bottle for football,” Kate promised him. “No matter how long you'll be out for. Keep the faith, Shaggy. Nothing is set in stone forever. The bloke who nicked the Sea Journey has to be caught.”",
      "On the Friday, I took her home and, after a quick snog, completely lost my bottle.",
      "It was just before she went to Europe, I made her swear that she wouldn't tell you that she had seen me just in case I lost my bottle again and didn't come home."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "5137",
    "Idiom": [
      "lose one's cool"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To lose one's temper.",
    "Sentence": [
      "But in his final singles match against Mandarino, the Menace lost his cool. Visibly rattled by noisy spectators, who chanted \"Brasil! Bra-sil!\" from the third set onward, he collapsed completely in the fifth set.",
      "The fiery femme fatale is notorious for losing her cool, and was once accused of hitting her secretary with a telephone and threatening to throw her from a moving car."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "5138-1",
    "Idiom": [
      "lose one's head"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To be killed, often violently.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "5138-2",
    "Idiom": [
      "lose one's head"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To behave irrationally or lose self-control.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Mrs. Ambient's grief was frantic; she lost her head and said strange things.",
      "Losing his head entirely, the young collier raved like a madman, what with pain and fear of hospital.",
      "He then had to jump, and appears to have lost his head, as instead of walking the short distance forward to Slochd to let the signalman know what had happened, he started the 6½-mile walk back to Carrbridge.",
      "\"He never lost his head in a crisis,\" Mr. Mandela wrote of his comrade."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "5138-3",
    "Idiom": [
      "lose one's head"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To lose control or composure.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "5139",
    "Idiom": [
      "lose one's heart"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To fall in love.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "5140-1",
    "Idiom": [
      "lose one's mind"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To become frustrated or angry.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "5140-2",
    "Idiom": [
      "lose one's mind"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To become crazy or insane.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "5141",
    "Idiom": [
      "lose one's shirt"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To lose all of one's money.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Generosity indeed, but how difficult will it be for some penitent punters to drop a coin in the \"sin box\" if they happen to have already lost their shirt on a bet placed with Paddy Power?",
      "Since nearly losing his shirt in a business deal a few years back, he investigates new opportunities more cautiously."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "5142-1",
    "Idiom": [
      "lose one's shit"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To lose one's temper.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "5142-2",
    "Idiom": [
      "lose one's shit"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To have a sudden burst of emotion.",
    "Sentence": [
      "I watched Lady Gaga’s Telephone video last night, and I lost my shit."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "5142-3",
    "Idiom": [
      "lose one's shit"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To break down in laughter.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "5143",
    "Idiom": [
      "lose one's temper"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To become angry.",
    "Sentence": [
      "When my dad found out I had failed the exams, he completely lost his temper."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "5144",
    "Idiom": [
      "lose one's tongue"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To be unable to speak.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "5145",
    "Idiom": [
      "lose one's touch",
      "lose touch"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To lose proficiency in a skill or activity.",
    "Sentence": [
      "They had more than 45 years in the business, but it was clear they never lost their touch.",
      "Francis Urquhart: I think Lord Billsborough is starting to lose touch a bit. Tim Stamper: Shame. Used to be a hell of an operator in his day."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "5146",
    "Idiom": [
      "lose one's virginity"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To have sexual intercourse for the first time.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Born in Chicago on April 9th, 1926, he was the son of Methodists, served as a noncombatant in World War II, earned a bachelor's degree in psychology at the University of Illinois and didn't lose his virginity until he was 22."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "5147",
    "Idiom": [
      "lose one's wits"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To become irrational.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "5148",
    "Idiom": [
      "lose the bell"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To be defeated in a contest.",
    "Sentence": [
      "In single fight he lost the bell."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "5149",
    "Idiom": [
      "lose the bubble"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To lose situational awareness or control.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "5150",
    "Idiom": [
      "lose the number of one's mess"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To die.",
    "Sentence": [
      "\"What do you think we come to sea for? If we can take a man-of-war of our own size she's worth half a dozen merchant craft, though, to be sure, some of us may lose the number of our mess; but we all know that, and make no count of it.\"",
      "Shore folk think sailors are heartless, and that when a poor chap is lost overboard, they only say that \"So-and-so has lost the number of his mess! \" and, after having an auction over his kit in the fo'c's'le, then dismiss him from their memory!",
      "\"And then before the mast, there was poor John Proby, who lost the number of his mess two days out of Callao.\""
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "5151-1",
    "Idiom": [
      "lose the plot"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To behave irrationally or inconsistently.",
    "Sentence": [
      "I lost the plot for a while then. And I lost the subplot, the script, the soundtrack, the intermission, my popcorn, the credits and the exit sign.",
      "Right then I lost the plot. I did, man, I went over the edge.",
      "Finally, I lost the plot. I got into my car and drove to the police station.",
      "Apologise for losing the plot and explain what made you react the way you did."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "5151-2",
    "Idiom": [
      "lose the plot"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To lose sight of an important objective.",
    "Sentence": [
      "But while there remains a considerable degree of consensus that the consequence of apparently losing the plot sometime between 1914 and 1918 was the cultural and economic malaise of the 1920s and 1930s, there are still some who look back on the interwar years less with criticism than with nostalgia.",
      "Because of this it seems to me that we have somehow lost the plot and we're in desperate need of balance. The idea of Protestant ministers touching the body of Christ (the bread) with great love and tenderness like the priest described is almost incomprehensible.",
      "[Professor Fearnley:] If I can perhaps be a little unkind about my profession — which is fair enough I suppose — I think the accountancy profession, along with other professions, loses the plot from time to time and has to be pulled back from what it was doing before."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "5152",
    "Idiom": [
      "lose touch"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To lose contact.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Friends that I had lost touch with years ago suddenly found me again.",
      "At times, people with psychotic disorders lose touch with reality."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "5153",
    "Idiom": [
      "loss and gain are brothers twain"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Wealth can easily be lost.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "5154",
    "Idiom": [
      "loss of face"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Loss of respect, humiliation, or disgrace.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "5155",
    "Idiom": [
      "lost cause"
    ],
    "Meaning": "A hopeless or futile situation.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Artfully pulling the ball back to leave McCleary chasing a lost cause, Sánchez calmly made space for a shot and applied a finish that beat the despairing dives of both Federici and Michael Hector, the latter vainly attempting to recover position when it was too late.",
      "He has already made up his mind, and it's a lost cause to try to change it."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "5156",
    "Idiom": [
      "lost in the shuffle"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Fails to stand out due to larger changes.",
    "Sentence": [
      "We have allowed ourselves to be \" lost in the shuffle \" of American priorities in the '70s, but we should never lose sight of ourselves and our goals as our priorities.",
      "We get lost in the shuffle, and in the end we don't even know that we have needs - much less know what these needs might be.",
      "That's the way things happen in AIDS Action. The Board makes a very clear mandate and then whatever the executive director and senior staff feel should happen is what actually happens...and the Board action gets lost in the shuffle.",
      "In the occasional highly publicized case, then, the best interests of the child may be lost in the shuffle."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "5157",
    "Idiom": [
      "lost in translation"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Unable to be understood due to poor translation.",
    "Sentence": [
      "I tried reading the instruction manual but many of the steps were unfortunately lost in translation.",
      "The message of the Japanese Prime Minister's speech was lost in translation."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "5158",
    "Idiom": [
      "lost on"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Not understood or appreciated.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Sadly, the distinction was lost on Novillo as she informed viewers of the playwright’s death during the 8-10pm slot on Thursday.",
      "“It’s not lost on me, Lord, that this was an Amazon warehouse, and I, like so many other people in this country, get irritated if I can’t get my Christmas gifts in three days from Amazon,” Sharon Autenrieth, the pastor, said during the service.",
      "Those lessons were lost on him."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "5159",
    "Idiom": [
      "louse up"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To mess up or put into disorder.",
    "Sentence": [
      "To be loused up by Humbolt was really a kind of privilege. It was like being the subject of a two-nosed portrait by Picasso, or an eviscerated chicken by Soutine.",
      "The recent flu epidemic that loused up all my plans to see Pat Bond."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "5160",
    "Idiom": [
      "love at first sight"
    ],
    "Meaning": "An instantaneous attraction.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "5161",
    "Idiom": [
      "love conquers all"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Love overcomes all obstacles.",
    "Sentence": [
      "I used to believe love conquers all / 'Cause that's what's seen in movies"
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "5162",
    "Idiom": [
      "love goggles"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Blindness to criticism regarding someone in love.",
    "Sentence": [
      "I've heard it put this way; they \"wear love goggles \". This means that this person you are falling in love with must be Mr. or Miss. Right.",
      "When you're several years into your relationship, the love goggles may come off, but they're replaced by new lenses that reveal another, fuller picture of your relationship.",
      "I had had love goggles on for many years, thinking that I wanted to marry Dennis and be a part of his family."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "5163",
    "Idiom": [
      "love is blind"
    ],
    "Meaning": "A person in love overlooks faults.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "5164",
    "Idiom": [
      "love is love"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Love in LGBTQ relationships is equivalent to love in heterosexual relationships.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "5165",
    "Idiom": [
      "love muscle"
    ],
    "Meaning": "The heart.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Americans fear the love muscle. Not so in Peru, where grilled beef heart is the unofficial state scent."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "5166-1",
    "Idiom": [
      "love nest"
    ],
    "Meaning": "A residence for a couple to enjoy each other's company.",
    "Sentence": [
      "You two may enter the real estate process assuming that finding a little love nest is simply a matter of spotting a dream pad, placing an offer, and picking out curtains."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "5166-2",
    "Idiom": [
      "love nest"
    ],
    "Meaning": "A place for intimate relations.",
    "Sentence": [
      "She even purchased a Mexican-style house to live in which she described as her \"Los Angeles love nest \"."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "5166-3",
    "Idiom": [
      "love nest"
    ],
    "Meaning": "A euphemism for a place of intimacy.",
    "Sentence": [
      "He jerked my legs apart and, while the unconscious old kraut's juice seeped from my love nest, buried his face in the moist crevice, sucking, licking and lapping with the energy of ten men. 2"
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "5167",
    "Idiom": [
      "love of one's life"
    ],
    "Meaning": "A soulmate.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "5168",
    "Idiom": [
      "love the sinner, hate the sin",
      "love the sinner but hate the sin"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Do not accept or approve of faults while treating people kindly.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "5169",
    "Idiom": [
      "low blow"
    ],
    "Meaning": "An unfair or unscrupulous attack.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "5170",
    "Idiom": [
      "low on the totem pole"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Accorded relatively little importance.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Gaston said, however, that the boycott would not substantially affect Negroes because they are \"so low on the totem pole.\"",
      "He's new to the Pianta syndicate. I think he's still the low man on the totem pole."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "5171",
    "Idiom": [
      "low road"
    ],
    "Meaning": "A course of action that is undignified or wrongful.",
    "Sentence": [
      "\"The national campaign took the low road in too many cases instead of the high road. On the high road would've been the urban agenda. On the low road all we had was personal vilification.\"",
      "Burger King and Hardee's took the low road, heavily promoting gut-busting sandwiches like the Enormous Omelet and the Monster Thickburger."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "5172",
    "Idiom": [
      "low-down"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Of no value.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Seemingly here was an intruder who was violating custom. Moreover, the partners had come to look upon this exceedingly rich district as their exclusive property. And so their indignation was extreme. \"The low-down, ornery cuss!\" said Dobbs. \"The nerve of him, crowdin' in on us, just as if there wasn't lots of other places for him to go!\"",
      "No-count. Even low-down. I still don't see how Loma could of married into that sharecropper white trash."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "5173",
    "Idiom": [
      "low-hanging fruit"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Easily obtained gains.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Low-hanging fruits are those actions that garner early agreement and that are obtainable in the short run.",
      "the low-hanging fruit are picked first",
      "But, Florida aside, the low-hanging fruit is not in Dixie.",
      "But, we want to identify, the low-hanging fruit that we can harvest this year.",
      "Meanwhile, it is nearly a year and a half since the Chartered Institute of Logistics and Transport (CILT) came up with a lower-cost plan to electrify key freight routes, with added benefits for passenger services. The link to London Gateway could be wired for £8 million, which it called the \"the lowest of low-hanging fruit \"."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "5174",
    "Idiom": [
      "low-lying"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Concealed or hidden.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "5175",
    "Idiom": [
      "low-pressure"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Calm and relaxed.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "5176",
    "Idiom": [
      "lower one's sights"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To lower one's expectations and accept less.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "5177",
    "Idiom": [
      "lower the bar"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To lower expected quality standards.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "5178-1",
    "Idiom": [
      "lower the boom"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To use superior strength.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Whenever he got his Irish up, Clancy lowered the boom."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "5178-2",
    "Idiom": [
      "lower the boom"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To scold severely.",
    "Sentence": [
      "When Jack came back late from lunch, the team leader really lowered the boom on him."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "5179",
    "Idiom": [
      "lubrication payment"
    ],
    "Meaning": "A small bribe to expedite a transaction.",
    "Sentence": [
      "A lubrication payment is a small payment to low-level business people or government officials to \"grease the wheels\" of business.",
      "Lubrication payments are made with requests for a person to perform a task faster or more efficiently, whereas subornation is an act of asking officials to neglect their duties or do something illegal."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "5180",
    "Idiom": [
      "luck of the draw"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Random chance affecting outcomes.",
    "Sentence": [
      "A dry ditch or moat... should have been constructed around towers in particularly exposed or vulnerable positions but in some cases it seems that they were selected by the luck of the draw.",
      "Is it merely the luck of the draw that turns some novels into blockbusters and others of equal merit into also-rans?",
      "If you've never been a smoker and you develop lung cancer, how did you get it? Is it genetics, environment, radon, luck of the draw ?",
      "She got a big winner [ticket for a large prize]. It was the luck of the draw !",
      "She got a real dud. Well, that's the luck of the draw for you."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "5181",
    "Idiom": [
      "luck out"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To be extremely fortunate or lucky.",
    "Sentence": [
      "I lucked out and got the last two tickets to the big show."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "5182",
    "Idiom": [
      "luck through"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To take a chance.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "5183",
    "Idiom": [
      "lucky at cards, unlucky in love"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Good fortune in games often accompanies romantic frustration.",
    "Sentence": [
      "The old maxim, \"Lucky at cards, unlucky in love,\" is applied to chess."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "5184",
    "Idiom": [
      "lucky break"
    ],
    "Meaning": "A fortunate event leading to success.",
    "Sentence": [
      "At 17, she got her lucky break when she appeared on television and became a popular musician overnight."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "5185",
    "Idiom": [
      "lucky dip"
    ],
    "Meaning": "A random selection.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "5186",
    "Idiom": [
      "lucky dog"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Someone with great luck.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "5187",
    "Idiom": [
      "lucky star"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Something that brings luck.",
    "Sentence": [
      "The young man's lucky star shone full on him, and dazzled him to a seeming indiscretion.",
      "If exiled, he went without remonstrance, confident that his lucky star would again lead him to the front, and with fertile brain every ready to plan a revolution or arrange a coup d'état."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "5188",
    "Idiom": [
      "lump in one's throat"
    ],
    "Meaning": "A sensation of tightness in the throat due to strong emotion.",
    "Sentence": [
      "There was a lump in Katie Hayward’s throat as she spoke about the emotional impact of the thefts that have cast a shadow over Britain’s beekeepers. “The heartbreaking thing is that it’s a very close community. The fact that one beekeeper does this to another is the hardest thing of all,” she says.",
      "After hearing his story I could hardly speak for the lump in my throat."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "5189",
    "Idiom": [
      "lump to one's throat"
    ],
    "Meaning": "On the verge of tears due to strong emotion.",
    "Sentence": [
      "The final scene of Romeo and Juliet always brings a lump to my throat."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "5190",
    "Idiom": [
      "lunatics have taken over the asylum"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Describes a situation where those in charge are incompetent and deserve scrutiny.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "5191",
    "Idiom": [
      "lush it up"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To drink alcohol excessively.",
    "Sentence": [
      "“Say, man, how you coming with Eva?” the host asked. “Fine, fine, we lushing it up.”"
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "5192",
    "Idiom": [
      "mackerel sky and mare's-tails make lofty ships carry low sails",
      "mackerel sky and mare's-tails make tall ships carry low sails"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Cirrus clouds indicate bad weather.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "5193-1",
    "Idiom": [
      "mad money"
    ],
    "Meaning": "A small amount of money kept for impulsive use.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Ultrasuede minibags \"are just the solution for waste.\" And for crime. Most minis hardly hold more than mad money and a comb."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "5193-2",
    "Idiom": [
      "mad money"
    ],
    "Meaning": "A reserve of money for financial independence in case of a relationship's breakdown.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Such an expression is mad money, noted as early as 1922 by Howard J. Savage (Dialect Notes 5:148) at the end of an article on Bryn Mawr slang. Savage's definition is 'money a girl carries in case she has a row with her escort and wishes to go home alone.'"
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "5194-1",
    "Idiom": [
      "made for each other"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Well suited for a romantic relationship.",
    "Sentence": [
      "\"I half-believe matches are made in Heaven—ours will be Heaven-made, if any are. You think human beings are made for each other, as the saying is, do you not?\"",
      "They were a pair that seemed made for each other, and Martina delighted in match-making.",
      "But the deeper affinity was unmistakable: the two had the same prejudices and ideals.... They had a force of negation which eliminated everything beyond their own range of perception. Gryce and Miss Van Osburgh were, in short, made for each other by every law of moral and physical correspondence.",
      "\"We're made for each other and we love each other and we don't care who knows it.\""
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "5194-2",
    "Idiom": [
      "made for each other"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Compatible.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Sir Georg Solti and the Chicago Symphony Orchestra may have been made for each other, but they were also made to play Beethoven.",
      "\"Photography and the Web were made for each other,\" said Mr. Mattison.",
      "Turkey and cranberries were made for each other."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "5195",
    "Idiom": [
      "made in China"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Cheaply manufactured or of low quality.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Many of the shops filled with cheap made-in-China junk aren't worth a visit, but browse through the center and you may find some worthwhile souvenirs and gifts.",
      "At least some of the plastic made-in-China junk was recyclable.",
      "They would mob you, insisting that you buy this or that, when all they sell is junk made in China.",
      "The moccasins were a work of art. Fleece lined, the dark hide exterior was adorned with intricate beading by a truly skilled artisan. He felt guilty about knocking her store as a repository for cheap crap made in China.",
      "“What is this—plastic? Cheap crap made in China ?” “No, no, no. It's handmade. I made it. It's made of glass, in a torch, you see. I melt glass and then I add colors and clear glass in layers to make a design, and—”",
      "Not the usual ' made in China' junk you pinch from shipping containers."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "5196",
    "Idiom": [
      "made in Japan"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Implies poor quality, especially when associated with East Asia.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "5197",
    "Idiom": [
      "made in the shade"
    ],
    "Meaning": "In a condition of comfort or success.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Republicans should not \"believe these stories that we're taking it easy—that we've got it made in the shade.\"",
      "\"You got it made now, Parson,\" Feeney informed him. \"You know that? Made in the shade.... You lucky bastard,\"",
      "Courtnall has it made in the shade now, big money, owns restaurants and a spiffy log cabin on a cliff over the crashing ocean."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "5198",
    "Idiom": [
      "made of sterner stuff"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Strong and determined.",
    "Sentence": [
      "sign hung from the bronze knob, and it stated without equivocation that the Britannic Museum was \"closed for repairs.\" But the Inspector was made of stern stuff. He closed his right hand and with the resulting fist pounded formidably on the bronze. out popped the gargoylish head of a bulb-nosed old man. \"Hey!\" snapped this apparition. \"Can't you read English?\" \"One side, brother,\" said the Inspector cheerfully. \"We're in a hurry.\" The doorman did not budge",
      "When Hape sauntered over for a try after only three minutes it looked as if England were destined for a comfortable victory, but Georgia are made of sterner stuff, as they showed when running Scotland close in Invercargill last week."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "5199",
    "Idiom": [
      "magic asterisk"
    ],
    "Meaning": "An imaginary future budget cut.",
    "Sentence": [
      "The other technique, known as the \"magic asterisk,\" consisted of hiding phony cuts in the small print of various budget documents in order to exaggerate the Administration's success in spending reduction and to minimize the projected deficit.",
      "Howard Baker, then a Senator, had dubbed them the \"magic asterisk,\" for it was blithely assumed that they would be taken care of at a later date.",
      "\"They have a magic asterisk,\" Hoyer said. The magic asterisk : The words alone are enough to strike fear into the hearts of grizzled veterans of the budget wars."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "5200",
    "Idiom": [
      "magic box"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Television.",
    "Sentence": [
      "The viewer sits in front of the \" magic box,\" being entertained.",
      "A television program is a magic act. It was his [Walter Cronkite's] ability to appear in the magic box that gave him the tremendous authority necessary to lay claim to the absolute truth."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "5201",
    "Idiom": [
      "magic bullet"
    ],
    "Meaning": "A simple remedy for a complex problem.",
    "Sentence": [
      "In recent years, penicillin-based drugs have lost some of their magic bullet status due to the rise of antibiotic-resistant bacteria.",
      "History shows that there's no magic bullet for a global financial crisis."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "5202",
    "Idiom": [
      "magic touch"
    ],
    "Meaning": "An ability to achieve impressive results.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "5203",
    "Idiom": [
      "mail it in"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To perform without commitment or effort.",
    "Sentence": [
      "\"I do think the judges mailed it in during Season 6, relative to previous years,\" Welton says. \"Simon needs to be nastier. \"",
      "So when you have to write two columns a week that are going to be read by a lot of people around the world, you can't just mail it in. You're thinking all the time.",
      "Listen, we're not mailing it in, we're trying to get better."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "5204",
    "Idiom": [
      "main character"
    ],
    "Meaning": "A person who is the focal point of discussion.",
    "Sentence": [
      "With his Jill Biden essay, Joseph Epstein became Twitter’s main character this month.",
      "Unless you’re in the business of receiving hate clicks for profit, you never want to be the “ main character ” of Twitter.",
      "And while Trump, at least, now faces a reckoning over his most consequential tweets via the January 6 hearings, one final way to understand Elon Musk as our new main character is to consider the internet that has incentivized the rise of both men."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "5205",
    "Idiom": [
      "main event"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Anything significant or important.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "5206",
    "Idiom": [
      "main man"
    ],
    "Meaning": "One's closest male friend.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Thanks to Aaron (my main man) Priest...",
      "\"Dungo,\" Henry would say, \"you're my main man.\" He would pronounce these words in front of Jeanine, or even strangers.",
      "As Moody says of his main man, \"Diz influenced me from every standpoint. He was a friend, a father, a confidante, just everything to me."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "5207",
    "Idiom": [
      "make a Virginia fence"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To walk unsteadily due to intoxication.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "5208",
    "Idiom": [
      "make a better door than a window"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Obstructs someone's view, often thoughtlessly.",
    "Sentence": [
      "“You're blocking the picture,” Maria says.... “You make a better door than a window.”",
      "She griped fetchingly at a clot of news workers who blocked her view. \"You make a better door than a window, kid,\" she told one reporter.",
      "An advertising poster on a transit shelter makes a better door than a window, when trying to spot oncoming traffic."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "5209",
    "Idiom": [
      "make a big thing out of"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To make a fuss about something, especially unnecessarily.",
    "Sentence": [
      "\"I don't know but what you are right. We intend to make a big thing out of you, Dick Rover.\" / \"How?\" / \"I told you before you'd find out soon enough.\" / \"I presume you'll try to make my father ransom me, or something like that.\"",
      "\"Mr. Marlowe,\" she told him quietly, \" makes a big thing out of trifles. But when it comes to a really big thing—like saving a man's life—he is out by the lake watching a silly speedboat.\"",
      "I find, for example, that the New York Rock and Roll Ensemble, which has made a big thing out of its members being Julliard graduates and of playing a certain amount of \"straight\" Bach (rather dully) side-by-side with its own songs, has already begun to suffocate itself and its listeners in its own intellectual pretensions.",
      "Next Mr. Gregory went on to make a big thing out of the fact that he had caught them climbing \"into\" the school grounds not long before. He didn't exactly say so, but it was plain that he felt he had interrupted some kind of dry run—a training exercise for a crime in the planning.",
      "I would, out of respect for them [Hank Greenberg's parents], go along with not playing on Yom Kippur. But evidently it made a very big … You see, the press are always looking for unusual news, so they made a big thing out of it.",
      "He’s physical and monosyllabic. He does all sorts of cool shit, and he subtly rediscovers his own heroism without making a big thing out of it. But he’s a supporting character, and he knows it."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "5210",
    "Idiom": [
      "make a break for it"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To attempt to escape.",
    "Sentence": [
      "\"By Gar! it was as well that he made a break for it before the note reached us! I guess he won't show his face in this valley again.\"",
      "To restrain runaways who are too fragile to survive on the outside, Administrator Edward Farmilant of Chicago's Somerset nursing home gave the front door guard pictures of 36 patients who might make a break for it."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "5211",
    "Idiom": [
      "make a career of"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To do something habitually, gaining a reputation.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "5212",
    "Idiom": [
      "make a case"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To argue in support of a position.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "5213",
    "Idiom": [
      "make a case for"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To present an argument in favor of.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "5214",
    "Idiom": [
      "make a clean breast"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To confess.",
    "Sentence": [
      "\"Master,\" he said that day to me, \"this must come to an end. I must make a clean breast of it. This Nemo is leaving land and going up to the north. But I declare to you that I have had enough of the South Pole, and I will not follow him to the North.\"",
      "'It is well, then, that we should be frank,' said the other. 'We both think more than we have said; let us make a clean breast. This masked figure that you saw, did you recognise it?'",
      "You know no doubt that most criminals at some time or other feel an irresistible need of confessing—of making a clean breast of it to somebody—to anybody.",
      "I had lied to Paddock about him, and the whole thing looked desperately fishy. If I made a clean breast of it and told the police everything he had told me, they would simply laugh at me.",
      "Instead, imagine that a software project manager approaches you and makes a clean breast of his uncertainty about your proposed project: \"Look, there are unknowns here, and we have catalogued the following eleven of them.\""
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "5215-1",
    "Idiom": [
      "make a difference"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To take action that leads to significant change.",
    "Sentence": [
      "I was hoping that, by volunteering at this refuge, I could make a difference, however small."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "5215-2",
    "Idiom": [
      "make a difference"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To be of importance.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Increasingly, it does not make a difference —economically, at least—whether the husband or wife is the primary wage earner, or whether either or both of them work.",
      "I don't think it makes a difference whether you come tonight or not."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "5216",
    "Idiom": [
      "make a fist of"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To do something reasonably successfully.",
    "Sentence": [
      "As Dodd – perhaps the only contemporary entertainer who might have made a fist of it – has discovered, in order to survive in a pitiless, hostile environment, you really can't beat a good drum.",
      "He had a go at the restaurant business and made a fairly decent fist of it."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "5217",
    "Idiom": [
      "make a go of"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To succeed, especially in making a living.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Look, I came up to make a go of this. To stop running away from the best thing I've had. To stop you running away.",
      "He quit his regular job and tried to make a go of it as an artist.",
      "They made a go of the new business.",
      "They had to sell farm; after three consecutive crop failures, they just couldn’t make a go of it."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "5218",
    "Idiom": [
      "make a killing"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To earn a large amount of money.",
    "Sentence": [
      "\"Now if they were playing faro I could make a killing.\"",
      "And I said I still make a pretty good living / But you must make a killing / A killing",
      "Danny Boyle's critical darling 'Slumdog Millionaire' has made a killing at the box office and is now being lavished with awards."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "5219",
    "Idiom": [
      "make a leg"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To make a deep bow.",
    "Sentence": [
      "King Richard II : What must the king do now? must he submit? What says King Bolingbroke? will his majesty Give Richard leave to live till Richard die? You make a leg, and Bolingbroke says ay.",
      "\"I beg pardon,\" said Mr. Datchery, making a leg with his hat under his arm, as he addressed himself equally to both gentlemen.",
      "\"Father, return thanks; make a leg —no man can do it better. Master Mordacks, you shall have our utmost duty.\""
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "5220",
    "Idiom": [
      "make a light"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To pass a traffic light before it changes to red.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "5221",
    "Idiom": [
      "make a meal of"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To exaggerate a task or make it overly complicated.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Some people can make a meal out of the simplest task. If you give it to a busy person, they don’t have time to muck around on the edges and worry about it — they’ll just do it.",
      "They both looked good – I would have been happy with either version. There was no point in making a meal of the decision, so I just picked up the one which was nearest to me on the desk and said, ‘We’ll go with this one.’",
      "page 131 : And if he preferred Viva, fine. She wasn't going to make a meal of it or even give them the satisfaction of a scene. page 524 : Make it quick and painless, she'd told herself, don't make a meal of it.",
      "Ford's character is a bit one-note, and his gravelly intonation suggests a drunken poet more than a respected newsman, yet he makes a meal of the role all the same, and his pronunciation of the word \"frittata\" may well be the film's high point."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "5222-1",
    "Idiom": [
      "make a mockery of"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To mock or ridicule, often with contempt.",
    "Sentence": [
      "After Gervinho had been brilliantly denied an early shot on goal by Mats Hummels' outstretched boot, the German champions made a mockery of their fourth-seeding in this season's group-stage draw."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "5222-2",
    "Idiom": [
      "make a mockery of"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To defeat easily and show inadequacy.",
    "Sentence": [
      "and this squadron would include various steamships that made further mockery of the sail-powered slave ships' attempts to evade them.",
      "The burglars made a mockery of the museum's security system."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "5223",
    "Idiom": [
      "make a monkey out of"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To make someone or something appear foolish or to ridicule them.",
    "Sentence": [
      "The rough old sealer swore some terrible oaths, protesting \"that he would not make a monkey of himself, by appearing in this garb.\"",
      "Across France last week, doctors were trying to make a monkey of the government-controlled health-insurance system.... Doctors in many départements went on informal strike.",
      "It is very difficult to make a monkey out of policy makers who can read and write and can argue a case logically."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "5224",
    "Idiom": [
      "make a mountain out of a molehill"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To exaggerate the importance of something trivial.",
    "Sentence": [
      "to slaunder the Gospell ye aggrauate many lies, & will make a mountaine of a mole hill",
      "Others have a custome to bee always relating strange things and wonders, they make Mountaines of Mole-hils, like Charenton-Bridge-Eccho, which doubles the sound nine times.",
      "For of all the Powers exercised by this Passion over our Minds, one of the most wonderful is that of supporting Hope in the midst of Despair. Yet it is equally true, that the same Passion will sometimes make Mountans of Mole-hills, and produce Despair in the midst of Hope;",
      "“I have now only one remark to offer, on leaving this case in your hands. There is such a thing, Sergeant, as making a mountain out of a molehill. Good morning.”",
      "She wondered why he, who did not usually trouble over trifles, made such a mountain of this molehill.",
      "If you’re stuck in traffic, try not to make a mountain out of a molehill worrying about it too much. You could be making it much worse."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "5225-1",
    "Idiom": [
      "make a move"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To take action.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "5225-2",
    "Idiom": [
      "make a move"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To depart from a place.",
    "Sentence": [
      "He swallowed hard on his tea. —Well, ah must be making a move. Thanks again.",
      "“We'll give you a lift, darling,” Lady Genevieve said languidly, rising. “It's time we made a move.”",
      "\"Do you want to stay for another or shall we make a move ?\" He looks at his watch. \"Yeah, let's go.\"",
      "“Should we make a move ?” she asked over the music. “We could find a place to dance. or we could go back to our place.”"
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "5225-3",
    "Idiom": [
      "make a move"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To initiate romantic or sexual engagement.",
    "Sentence": [
      "The video how-to site Howcast... breaks from its more staid counterparts, such as Expert Village and eHow, by injecting a necessary dose of humor. Come here to learn \"how to make a move on a girl while watching a movie on a couch\"."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "5226",
    "Idiom": [
      "make a name for oneself"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To gain fame or become well-known.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "5227",
    "Idiom": [
      "make a night of it"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To continue a pleasurable activity for the entire evening.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "5228",
    "Idiom": [
      "make a noise in the world"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To attract great notoriety.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "5229",
    "Idiom": [
      "make a pig of oneself"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To overeat.",
    "Sentence": [
      "As the intoxicating aroma of hot bread wafted around her, and it was all she could do to keep herself from diving in and making a pig of herself.",
      "Sloan had made a pig of himself with the caviar, accompanied by multiple shots of vodka, which had also been my poison for the evening in the spirit of welcoming 2011.",
      "Happy grinned broadly, entirely unmoved, put his feet up on the opposite seat, and made a pig of himself with free food and drink from the complimentary trolley."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "5230",
    "Idiom": [
      "make a pig's ear of"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To do badly or make a mess of.",
    "Sentence": [
      "England responded with goals of their own from Theo Walcott and Danny Welbeck and, on the balance of play, deserved the victory. Yet there were long spells when they threatened to make a pig's ear of it.",
      "Instead, he had lain awake for hours, knowing he'd made a pig's ear of everything, and trying to think of a way to sort things out."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "5231-1",
    "Idiom": [
      "make a point"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To argue or promote an idea.",
    "Sentence": [
      "I suppose the people who wrote that stuff on the wall were trying to make a point, but they mainly made a mess."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "5231-2",
    "Idiom": [
      "make a point"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To ensure something is done.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Make a point to carry [ or of carrying] your calendar with you at all times.",
      "My wallet is missing! I know I had it earlier: I made a point of bringing it.",
      "He made a point of mentioning that embarrassing incident in front of me whenever he saw me."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "5232-1",
    "Idiom": [
      "make a run for it"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To attempt to escape.",
    "Sentence": [
      "An explosion! All’s over—I have nothing to do but to make a run for it.",
      "We got ourselves at once in marching order, and began to slip from rock to rock one after the other, now crawling flat on our bellies in the shade, now making a run for it, heart in mouth.",
      "Nannie Slagg, terrified at this suggestion, raised her little bony hands to her mouth and raised her shoulders to her ears. Then she gave one frightened look down the passage and was about to make a run for it"
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "5232-2",
    "Idiom": [
      "make a run for it"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To run to escape or avoid something.",
    "Sentence": [
      "he began to go over in his mind the many occasions on which he had heard that toll coming faintly down the breeze, and had to pack his rod in a hurry and make a run for it, to get in before the gates were shut.",
      "In the depths of his body, Bird felt the beginning of an irrepressible and certain crisis. Could he make it in time if he charged in that direction? But how much better to ride the crisis out without having to make a run for it."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "5233",
    "Idiom": [
      "make a scene"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To attract unnecessary attention through emotional display.",
    "Sentence": [
      "I saw, though he tried to conceal it, that he was very much hurt at your behaviour, and I was sure, by his looks, that he did not think my jealous apprehension groundless; however, he protested he did, and persuaded me not to make a scene by arriving her in the middle of the night",
      "The next time I saw Miss Churm after this incident she surprised me greatly by making a scene about it—she accused me of having wished to humiliate her.",
      "She snuggled against me, while from the other side a boy was amateurishly trying to pick my pocket. I opened my mouth to protest, but thought better of it. Why make a scene at the end of such an enjoyable evening?",
      "This time I had really hurt my son. Youqing wasn’t upset because I had hit him, but because I had made a scene in front of so many of his teachers and classmates."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "5234",
    "Idiom": [
      "make a show of oneself"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To embarrass oneself or others publicly.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Will you stop singing, please? You're making a show of yourself."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "5235",
    "Idiom": [
      "make a silk purse of a sow's ear"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Create something valuable from something of little worth.",
    "Sentence": [
      "\"He always was an unmannerly cub,\" said Master Headley, as he read the letter. \"Well, I've done my best to make a silk purse of a sow's ear !\"",
      "PR people can make a silk purse of a sow's ear.",
      "A smart development can make a silk purse of a sow's ear, and the effect on older properties can be quite dramatic."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "5236",
    "Idiom": [
      "make a spectacle of oneself"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To embarrass oneself in public.",
    "Sentence": [
      "She had far too much to drink and made a spectacle of herself by flirting with everyone."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "5237",
    "Idiom": [
      "make a splash"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To attract attention.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "5238",
    "Idiom": [
      "make a statement"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To communicate an idea, often through fashion choices.",
    "Sentence": [
      "As we sometimes also say about elements of fashion and etiquette, the way you use English \" Makes a Statement \" or \"Sends a Message\" — even though these Statements/Messages often have nothing to do with the actual information you're trying to transmit."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "5239",
    "Idiom": [
      "make a stick for one's own back"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To make a decision with negative personal consequences.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Allowing a known trouble-maker to join the team is making a stick for your own back."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "5240",
    "Idiom": [
      "make a virtue of necessity"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To make the best of a difficult situation.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Indeed, because you are a banish'd man, Therefore, above the rest, we parley to you: Are you content to be our general? To make a virtue of necessity And live, as we do, in this wilderness?",
      "Nietzsche, as I gather, regarded the slave-morality as having been invented and imposed on the world by slaves making a virtue of necessity and a religion of their servitude."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "5241",
    "Idiom": [
      "make all the difference"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To be a crucial or deciding factor.",
    "Sentence": [
      "We are all framed of the same mold, hewed out of the same Rocke, made as it were, of the same cloth, the sheares, as they say, onely going betweene; it is therefore onely the free loue and grace of God, which makes all the difference.",
      "To assert the Superiority of the Human Spirit above that of other Animals upon this earth, has been the endeavour of many Persons, who have made their System more coherent than those who have endeavour’d to put Men and Beasts upon a level. Some of this last Party indeed acknowledge the advantage that Mankind have from the Frame of the Body and its Organs, which they pretend makes all the difference.",
      "How am I ever to look him in the face and say such things? Could you do it? But then he is your cousin, which makes all the difference.",
      "They knew that life nowadays was harsh and bare, that they were often hungry and often cold, and that they were usually working when they were not asleep. But doubtless it had been worse in the old days. They were glad to believe so. Besides, in those days they had been slaves and now they were free, and that made all the difference, as Squealer did not fail to point out.",
      "Publishers and booksellers know only too well that a title can make all the difference to the sales of a book"
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "5242",
    "Idiom": [
      "make amends"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To repair a relationship or resolve a conflict.",
    "Sentence": [
      "We dressed up and fought, then thought: \" Make amends \"",
      "But with the home side likewise unable to make the most of a period of first-half ascendancy, Villa were swift to make amends on the restart.",
      "I hope they can stop fighting and make amends."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "5243",
    "Idiom": [
      "make an appearance"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To briefly attend an event.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "5244",
    "Idiom": [
      "make an ass of"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To make someone appear foolish.",
    "Sentence": [
      "I had sprung to my feet. I was speaking, and yet I had prepared no words. Tarp Henry, my companion, was plucking at my skirts and I heard him whispering, \"Sit down, Malone! Don't make a public ass of yourself.\"",
      "O5-8 does an impressive job of controlling himself, keeping his attention focused on Marion. Clay doesn't fare so well, and quickly sweeps the whole room, even checking behind his back. Making an ass of himself, essentially. He finds nothing. He looks baffled."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "5245",
    "Idiom": [
      "make an example of"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To punish someone as a warning to others.",
    "Sentence": [
      "He made an example of the drunken sailor with twenty lashes, to show that he must have a sober crew."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "5246",
    "Idiom": [
      "make an exhibition of oneself"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To embarrass oneself in public by behaving foolishly.",
    "Sentence": [
      "She had far too much to drink and made an exhibition of herself by flirting with everyone."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "5247",
    "Idiom": [
      "make an honest woman"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To marry a woman, often due to an existing sexual relationship.",
    "Sentence": [
      "the mother, Mr Jones, Mr Nightingale, and his love, stept into a hackney-coach, which conveyed them to Doctors' Commons; where Miss Nancy was, in vulgar language, soon made an honest woman, and the poor mother became one of the happiest of all human beings.",
      "I thought about just asking Rosalyn to move in with me, but I decided it was time to make an honest woman out of her."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "5248",
    "Idiom": [
      "make baby Jesus cry"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To provoke a negative reaction.",
    "Sentence": [
      "My mom won't let me watch that show. All the sex and violence makes baby Jesus cry."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "5249",
    "Idiom": [
      "make beautiful music together"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To have a great romantic relationship.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "5250",
    "Idiom": [
      "make believe"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To pretend or imagine.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Only make believe I love you, / Only make believe that you love me. / Others find peace of mind in pretending, / Couldn’t you? / Couldn’t I? / Couldn’t we? / Make believe our lips are blending / In a phantom kiss, or two, or three. / Might as well make believe I love you, / For to tell the truth I do.",
      "Let's build a fort out of chairs and blankets and make believe we are pirates."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "5251",
    "Idiom": [
      "make biscuits"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To knead with the front paws.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "5252-1",
    "Idiom": [
      "make book"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To gamble.",
    "Sentence": [
      "In the American League, front-running Cleveland was an odds-on favorite with the men who make book on baseball."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "5252-2",
    "Idiom": [
      "make book"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To be very confident.",
    "Sentence": [
      "\"Oh, you can make book that she didn't start no love-making. She ain't the kind to curl up in a man's ear and whisper.\""
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "5253",
    "Idiom": [
      "make bricks without straw"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To accomplish a task without the proper materials.",
    "Sentence": [
      "The founders did more than \" make bricks without straw; they dreamed of a great cathedral and laid the foundations for it.",
      "To call on the owners of little farms, the tradesmen, labourers and sailors to pay their proportion of a [£20,000] tax, when perhaps there is not half that sum in circulation is something harder than being forced to make bricks without straw,” he wrote; \"it is to make them without clay.\"",
      "The problems that we may find ourselves confronted with may be similar to a make bricks without straw condition, imposed by not only others but in large measure ourselves."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "5254",
    "Idiom": [
      "make do"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Survive or get by with limited resources.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Pep Guardiola’s team will have to make do with the Premier League title whereas Liverpool will go into Friday’s draw because over the two legs they were more clinical during their spells of superiority.",
      "There is barely enough money, so we will have to make do with what we have."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "5255-1",
    "Idiom": [
      "make do and mend"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Repair and reuse.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "5255-2",
    "Idiom": [
      "make do and mend"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To make the best of a situation.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "5256",
    "Idiom": [
      "make ends meet"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To have enough money to cover expenses.",
    "Sentence": [
      "... a schoolmaster, whose income being small, he was fain to keep a glass of good liquor for the entertainment of passengers, by which he made shift to make the two ends of the year meet.",
      "Although most of the poor and displaced in Khartoum struggle to make ends meet, a very small number not only find work, but form small co-operatives.",
      "'Cause it's a bitter sweet symphony that's life / Trying to make ends meet, you're a slave to money then you die",
      "Very many Londoners reported to us that they were struggling to make ends meet; that it was a constant battle to keep their heads above water, or that they had only just got into the position of being able to breathe freely.",
      "Barclays, which until now has made ends meet with costly loans from the Middle East rather than take public money, may soon join the queue for the emergency medicine too.",
      "Investigators discover that Captain Ospina was forced to take a second job, moonlighting in a bar, in order to make ends meet for his family.",
      "TSSA General Secretary Manuel Cortes was typically forthright in his criticism by claiming that Sunak had \"blatantly failed\" to cure \"a growing tragedy\", as \"every single day, more and more families can't make ends meet \"."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "5257-1",
    "Idiom": [
      "make for"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To move towards.",
    "Sentence": [
      "He makes for England, there to claim the crown.",
      "He disappeared into his house much as a startled weasel makes for its hole."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "5257-2",
    "Idiom": [
      "make for"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To result in.",
    "Sentence": [
      "It was such a day as one dreams about, with that pleasant warmth in the air that makes for indolent content.",
      "A tiny cub is learning the art of stalking a little too well it seems. A video posted on social media shows the cub surprising its mamma and giving her a huge fright. The short clip makes for a delightful watch."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "5257-3",
    "Idiom": [
      "make for"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To strengthen an opinion or theory.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Secondly, we will examine the Cœlestiall Phœnomena that make for the Copernican Hypothesis, as if it were to prove absolutely victorious;",
      "Several very curious varieties of Blues have been taken, which appear to make for Darwin’s theory.",
      "That they are “conditions of thought” does not make for Kant’s theory of the categories one iota more than it makes for the theory of Aristotle or for the theory of Locke."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "5258",
    "Idiom": [
      "make fun of"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To tease or ridicule.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Please stop making fun of your sister and just help her!"
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "5259",
    "Idiom": [
      "make game of"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To ridicule.",
    "Sentence": [
      "But they did not stop. The woman and the man only looked in great rage at the smith for making game of them."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "5260",
    "Idiom": [
      "make garden"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To plant or maintain a garden.",
    "Sentence": [
      "As the spring advanced, and after Jacob left us, he seemed ashamed of sitting in the house doing nothing, and therefore undertook to make us a garden, or “to make garden ” as the Canadians term preparing a few vegetables for the season.",
      "“Can you take care of horses?” “Yes.” “ Make garden ?” “Yes—I always took care of mother’s.”",
      "Ántonia and her mother were making garden, off across the pond in the draw-head.",
      "Crossing a ridge, he was happy to see that Miz’ Doanie and her three children were all out making garden.",
      "In the other century, and for a considerable number of years in this one, the solid citizenry of the town prided itself on home ownership . One got a little place, planted a couple of fruit trees and a currant bush out back, made garden, seeded a lawn, and put a standing lamp on a center table in the living room."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "5261",
    "Idiom": [
      "make good on"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To fulfill or honor a promise.",
    "Sentence": [
      "By now South Koreans understand Pyongyang’s logic and know North Korea is highly unlikely to make good on its gothic threats.",
      "The result ensured that manager Sam Allardyce made good on his promise to take the Hammers back into the top flight after his team narrowly missed out on automatic promotion at the end of the regular season."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "5262",
    "Idiom": [
      "make ground"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Make progress.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Replacement Damien Traille burgled a high ball from Israel Dagg and made good ground, the All Blacks scrum coming under increasing pressure and the crowd falling silent as their World Cup dream threatened to become a nightmare.",
      "Today the territory carved out for the self-proclaimed Donetsk and Luhansk \"peoples' republics\" is shrinking fast as the Ukrainian army makes ground."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "5263",
    "Idiom": [
      "make happen"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To cause or bring about something.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Make your dreams happen."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "5264-1",
    "Idiom": [
      "make hard work of"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To do something in a unnecessarily difficult way.",
    "Sentence": [
      "The motion is from the shoulder rather than from the elbow, moving the whole arm, and there is no need to make hard work of it.",
      "I made hard work of a very easy task.",
      "Don't make hard work of it. An instrument in good condition is easy to blow when properly played.",
      "Unfortunately, Versteegh made hard work of his task once again by using the rather difficult manuscript from Cairo, Dār al-kutub 242 (Versteegh describes this manuscript on p. 156 as \"very hard to read, and we have managed to analyze only parts of it.\")."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "5264-2",
    "Idiom": [
      "make hard work of"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To struggle to accomplish something.",
    "Sentence": [
      "For arithmetic to-day, as the pupils made hard work of the examples yesterday, I changed only the numbers.",
      "While we had made hard work of defeating Sheffield United in our FA Cup semifinal, Spurs were breezing past Burnley 3–0 in the other tie.",
      "As Wright opened the door he made hard work of it, rattling the key in the lock.",
      "England made hard work of the win against a stubborn and well-organised Iceland but were the better and more positive side."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "5265",
    "Idiom": [
      "make haste slowly"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To do things carefully to avoid mistakes.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "5266",
    "Idiom": [
      "make hay"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To take advantage of an opportunity.",
    "Sentence": [
      "I suggested that this was a mistake, particularly at a time of national crisis on the railways, because it opened the way for critics of the railway to make hay - which Institute of Economic Affairs Director Richard Wellings duly did in an anti-rail article in the Daily Telegraph."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "5267",
    "Idiom": [
      "make hay while the sun shines"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Act while an opportunity exists.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Until the mid-2010s, the ROSCOs ' made hay while the sun shone', taking advantage of growing passenger demand and expanding services to find homes for their rolling assets - in some cases, well beyond their expected design lives."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "5268",
    "Idiom": [
      "make head or tail of"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To understand.",
    "Sentence": [
      "See if you can make head or tail of the last section in this chapter. I'm baffled.",
      "He was unable to make head or tail of some of the pattern-solving puzzles in the IQ test."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "5269",
    "Idiom": [
      "make headway"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To progress.",
    "Sentence": [
      "I worked on them all day, but barely made headway at all."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "5270",
    "Idiom": [
      "make heavy going of"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To complicate or exaggerate a situation.",
    "Sentence": [
      "England have made heavy going of Group H but they have handled the pressures of their last two games admirably and playing at their own stadium no longer appears to fill with them with apprehension."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "5271",
    "Idiom": [
      "make heavy weather"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To make progress with difficulty.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "5272",
    "Idiom": [
      "make history"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To do something widely remembered.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Neil Armstrong made history in 1969 when he was the first person to walk on the Moon."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "5273",
    "Idiom": [
      "make interesting"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To bet money on.",
    "Sentence": [
      "I’d definitely beat you over 100 metres. — Yeah? D’you care to make it interesting ?"
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "5274",
    "Idiom": [
      "make it do or do without"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Use what you have or manage without.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "5275",
    "Idiom": [
      "make it interesting"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To bet money.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "5276-1",
    "Idiom": [
      "make it rain"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To bring prosperity or success.",
    "Sentence": [
      "It's time to make it rain, my friend!"
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "5276-2",
    "Idiom": [
      "make it rain"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To display wealth by throwing a large amount of money.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Get your mayo, sell that yayo, strip clubs make it rain / These thugs play the game, get bucks save that cane",
      "John has a propensity to make it rain at parties when he is drunk."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "5277",
    "Idiom": [
      "make it snappy"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Do something quickly.",
    "Sentence": [
      "\"Here's your shirt,\" said Slippery. \" Make it snappy, we're late.\"",
      "Bring me a coffee, and make it snappy !"
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "5278",
    "Idiom": [
      "make it up as one goes along"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To improvise continuously.",
    "Sentence": [
      "This game makes no sense! It's as if you're making it up as you go along !"
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "5279-1",
    "Idiom": [
      "make it up to"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To repay someone's kindness.",
    "Sentence": [
      "After John gave her a lovely wooly hat for her birthday, she wanted to make it up to him so she took him out for dinner.",
      "You've been so kind to me, how can I make it up to you?"
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "5279-2",
    "Idiom": [
      "make it up to"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To redeem oneself.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "5280",
    "Idiom": [
      "make light of"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To regard without seriousness.",
    "Sentence": [
      "It was also a satisfying night for England coach Capello. Not only did he have a vital victory to celebrate, but his team selection was fully justified as Cahill gave an almost flawless performance in defence and Scott Parker's display made light of the surprising exclusion of Frank Lampard.",
      "Messages accessed as part of inquiry show politicians also appeared to make light of cases.",
      "I wish you wouldn't make light of the matter, when it obviously means a great deal to him."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "5281",
    "Idiom": [
      "make light work of"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To manage something easily.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Rooney's goal certainly came at a good time as the news filtered through that Ukraine were making light work of San Marino."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "5282",
    "Idiom": [
      "make like a banana and split"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To leave.",
    "Sentence": [
      "“Don't go anywhere,” she said, like she was a mind reader and could tell that I was already thinking that the second she turned around, me and Charlie should make like a banana and split.",
      "if he's gone, maybe we should make like a banana and split. We could pack it all up and head out west somewhere."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "5283",
    "Idiom": [
      "make like a tree and leave"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To leave.",
    "Sentence": [
      "See ya' later Pete, I'm making like a tree and leaving.",
      "After all the needed malware files have been installed and all the necessary changes to the system have been made to facilitate malware persistency, the malware installer makes like a tree and leaves. Since the job of the malware installer is done, there is no more need for it to linger in the system.",
      "In Cocklecu, gender roles are reversed, to Klim's disgust. (The queen keeps a seraglio of 300 handsome men, and Klim makes like a tree and leaves for fear of being added to them.)"
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "5284",
    "Idiom": [
      "make love to the camera"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To pose or act as if emotionally involved while being filmed or photographed.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "5285",
    "Idiom": [
      "make matters worse"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To worsen an already difficult situation.",
    "Sentence": [
      "The mistake came about when there seemed to be little danger as Dicko swung in an innocuous cross, but the keeper somehow spilled the ball for Henry to head into an empty net. To make matters worse his error came in front of Gordon Strachan, the Scotland manager.",
      "His resentful attitude only made matters worse during the custody proceedings."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "5286",
    "Idiom": [
      "make mention of"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To briefly refer to something.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Moreover he assures them that he thus made mention of them, by an appeal to Deity, and describes God, as the witness of his anxiety, by the adjunct of his own service; \"For God is my witness, whom I serve with my spirit in the gospel of his son.\"",
      "Before taking leave of \"The Wandering Heir\" I must make mention of Edmund Leathes, who was the original James Annesley of the cast. He was a gifted as well as a graceful actor, he made his name as an author, and he vanished from us all too soon.",
      "The visitors were making mention of telephone pour reveiller -- thanks to a strange, instant recall of my elementary school French, which I hadn't uttered in years, I understood immediately and told the clerk they wanted wake-up calls.",
      "The Ontario budget makes mention of an existing Indigenous economic development fund, as well as many investments in off reserve communities, such as $4.5 million in northern Ontario housing funding."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "5287-1",
    "Idiom": [
      "make mincemeat out of"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To defeat easily and completely.",
    "Sentence": [
      "He had the uncanny ability to demolish his opponents with ease and make mincemeat out of them.",
      "But the five ships on the other side of the mined zone were making mincemeat out of them anyway.",
      "The invading army made mincemeat out of our troops."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "5287-2",
    "Idiom": [
      "make mincemeat out of"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To utterly destroy.",
    "Sentence": [
      "He made mincemeat out of that Evelyn Walker book he took over."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "5288",
    "Idiom": [
      "make money"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To earn a profit.",
    "Sentence": [
      "To close a railway simply because it is not making money, he said, \"might be the most expensive thing the Government could do.\""
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "5289",
    "Idiom": [
      "make muffins"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To knead with the front paws.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "5290",
    "Idiom": [
      "make news"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To be published in the news.",
    "Sentence": [
      "He had no idea why the story made news; it did not seem at all newsworthy to him."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "5291",
    "Idiom": [
      "make no bones about"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To say or do something clearly and without hesitation.",
    "Sentence": [
      "What's to prevent him from putting you or anybody else into his place if he likes? Do you think that the Government or the Opposition would make any bones about accepting the seat if he offered it to them?",
      "The squire made no bones about the matter; he despised the captain.",
      "When his master saw the lad returning in such a sorry plight, he understood at once what had happened to him, and making no bones about the matter, he told Antonio what a fool he had been to allow himself to be so imposed upon by the landlord, and to let a worthless animal be palmed off on him instead of his magic donkey.",
      "I was prepared to be persuasive, touching, and hortatory, admonitory and expostulating, if need be vituperative even, indignant and sarcastic; but what the devil does a mentor do when the sinner makes no bones about confessing his sin?",
      "Those other «pure» women had nearly taken all the balls out of me, but she was all right that way. She wanted me, and made no bones about it. And I was as pleased as punch. That was what I wanted: a woman who wanted me to fuck her. So I fucked her like a good un.",
      "\"I guess you don't think much of a woman on a ship do you?\" / \" Not to make any bones about it, she’s usually a cock-eyed pest.\"",
      "One of the Berlin Philharmonic's musicians, horn player Fergus McWilliam from Scotland, said: 'He 's clearly seeing it as his life's work, he's made no bones about that. There is a heightened sense of anticipation among the musicians.'",
      "Vince, a natty 23-year-old financial analyst from Hoboken, made no bones about his agenda. \"I love it here, it's so whorish,\" he said. \"If you want to find sex, this is the place.\""
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "5292-1",
    "Idiom": [
      "make noise"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To applaud or cheer.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "5292-2",
    "Idiom": [
      "make noise"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To criticize very harshly.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "5293",
    "Idiom": [
      "make one's bed and lie in it",
      "make one's bed"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To face the consequences of one's actions.",
    "Sentence": [
      "It was true that he had made his own bed, and he understood the justice which required him to lie upon it.",
      "one of the falsest of proverbs is that you must lie on the bed that you have made. The experience of life shows that people are constantly doing things which must lead to disaster, and yet by some chance manage to evade the result of their folly.",
      "Harry said, \"It's too bad, but of course we couldn't attempt to smuggle him. The old man has made his bed and he must lie in it.\"",
      "What has happened is that all the horrible moves he made during his first term... are perfectly evident to all. Bush made his bed during his first four years, and now he has to lie in it.",
      "“Saakashvili made his own bed,” said Nick Witney, a senior fellow at the European Council on Foreign Affairs and the former chief executive of the European Defense Agency. “It was a pretty catastrophic miscalculation.”",
      "He had made his own bed, chosen his own course in life, taking the path of easy money over hard work and initiative."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "5294",
    "Idiom": [
      "make one's bow"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To debut.",
    "Sentence": [
      "The first named one, it will be observed, is but a debutant. It makes its bow in a drab-colored Quaker-looking dress, and barring a lively McGrawler-like critique upon \" Lewis' Poems,\" is staid and professorial in its tone.",
      "The new product will make its bow on the world market this summer."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "5295",
    "Idiom": [
      "make one's hand"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To gain advantage or profit.",
    "Sentence": [
      "I have lately written to you, I would not advise you to wade any futher in these maters, for it is to be thought that the French king indendeth to make his hand by favoring you in the attaining to the said marriage; which when he shall perceive that by your means he cannot get such things as he desireth, peradventure he shall show some change and alteration in the queen's affairs, whereof great inconvenience might ensue.",
      "For he that listeth to make his hand by pillage, taketh no thought when he hath done all the wickednesse that can be, because there is no redressse nor any order to be také.",
      "Now the French King, supposing to make his hand by these rude ravages in England, brake off his treaty of peace, proclaimed hostilitie, and denounced the same by his Embassador to the King.",
      "Whereby we think, that he thought to make his Hand, by his Untruth to his King's Majefty."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "5296",
    "Idiom": [
      "make one's mark"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To leave a lasting impression or achieve success.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Terry, almost inevitably, made his mark on the game when he headed Chelsea back in front seconds before the interval, sending a scrambled finish past Szczesny from Lampard's corner."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "5297",
    "Idiom": [
      "make one's way"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To move toward a destination or goal.",
    "Sentence": [
      "... to tread upon enemies, and make our way over them, notes the compleatest victory and highest triumph...",
      "Coastal routes always provide difficult engineering problems, where a coast is rocky and cliff-bound, owing to the necessity for crossing all valleys and ravines making their way to the sea.",
      "I'm telling you, I will not rest till I lay down my head, hey / In the house of stone and light / I'll make my way, O gonna be such a beautiful day / In the house of stone and light / In the house of stone and light",
      "It is imperative that we make our way to space and do so as quickly and as safely as possible. As tempting as it is to accelerate the process of developing...",
      "Thousands gathered at São Paulo’s main cathedral and made their way to the mayor’s office, where a small group smashed windows and tried to break in, forcing guards to withdraw.",
      "On arrival at Birmingham New Street, I make my way upstairs to the mezzanine to get shots of an almost deserted concourse, polka-dotted with social distancing circles like some strange board-game."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "5298",
    "Idiom": [
      "make oneself at home"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To make oneself comfortable.",
    "Sentence": [
      "If you were lucky as a child, you were fêted in households other than your own, encouraged to relax, kick back and make yourself at home."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "5299",
    "Idiom": [
      "make oneself clear"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To have one's meaning understood.",
    "Sentence": [
      "ASLEF have made it clear during the negotiations that they want a pay rise without any of the reforms necessary to fund it."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "5300",
    "Idiom": [
      "make out like a bandit"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To profit greatly.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Somebody must be making out like a bandit if they have managed to sell a $50 product for $500 like that!"
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "5301-1",
    "Idiom": [
      "make over"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To renovate or convert to a different use.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Our made-over meat recipes call for the leanest cuts of beef, lamb, and pork",
      "We're going to make over the garage into a guest suite."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "5301-2",
    "Idiom": [
      "make over"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To give a new physical look to a person.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Cindy is going to make over Karen tomorrow."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "5301-3",
    "Idiom": [
      "make over"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To improve or change direction.",
    "Sentence": [
      "The senator needs to make over his image."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "5301-4",
    "Idiom": [
      "make over"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To transfer ownership or care, often legally.",
    "Sentence": [
      "As a political system democracy seems to me extraordinarily foolish, but I would not go out of my way to protest against it. My servant is, so far as I am concerned, welcome to as many votes as he can get. I would very gladly make mine over to him if I could.",
      "Limestone from the quarries at Warcop and Merrygill to Tees-side is now worked on to the former Midland Railway at Appleby and down the Eden Valley to Carlisle, where it is made over to the N.E.R."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "5302-1",
    "Idiom": [
      "make peace"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To settle a dispute.",
    "Sentence": [
      "The committee made peace and agreed to go with the new plan."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "5302-2",
    "Idiom": [
      "make peace"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To accept something unfavourable.",
    "Sentence": [
      "I've finally made peace with the fact that having diabetes means no more sugar."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "5303",
    "Idiom": [
      "make pigs and whistles of"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To ruin or make a mess of something.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "5304-1",
    "Idiom": [
      "make quick work of"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To accomplish a task easily and quickly.",
    "Sentence": [
      "The cupbearers made quick work of the after-dinner cleanup chores."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "5304-2",
    "Idiom": [
      "make quick work of"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To accomplish something quickly.",
    "Sentence": [
      "The spiders made quick work of the human soldiers."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "5305",
    "Idiom": [
      "make room"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To create space for new objects.",
    "Sentence": [
      "This tunnel was 326 yd. long, and the portals were designed by Brunel to represent Norman archways. It was converted into an open cutting, between 1887 and 1889, to make room for the shunting necks of the sidings at Bristol East Depot.",
      "I moved the books off my desk to make room for my labtop."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "5306-1",
    "Idiom": [
      "make sense"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To be reasonable or coherent.",
    "Sentence": [
      "I was in your arms Thinking I belonged there I figured it made sense Building me a fence",
      "Of course you're not coming over / Snap out of it / You're not making any sense",
      "The thing doesn’t make sense to me.",
      "Somehow the combination didn’t make sense, but Cranston took it at face value, whatever that was worth."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "5306-2",
    "Idiom": [
      "make sense"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To understand.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Can you make sense of her handwriting?"
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "5307",
    "Idiom": [
      "make shit of"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To ruin or destroy.",
    "Sentence": [
      "My friend made shit of that CD she borrowed off me."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "5308-1",
    "Idiom": [
      "make short work of"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To do a task quickly or easily.",
    "Sentence": [
      "a cab ride in one of the Birmingham Type 2 diesels over the Mallaig extension demonstrated what short work —and what a transformation of the engineman's lot—these machines make of the gradients by comparison with their steam predecessors.",
      "A good electric screwdriver will make short work of the disassembly process."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "5308-2",
    "Idiom": [
      "make short work of"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To deal with quickly and easily.",
    "Sentence": [
      "\"There was desperate characters here, but the vigilantes made short work of 'em.\"",
      "You impertinent ruffian! You impertinent ruffian! I'll make short work of you!",
      "With what you have learned from your drivers' education course so far, you should be able to make short work of an enemy aircraft.",
      "I arrange some of my things and sit back, making short work of the chocolate bars supplied to passengers."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "5309",
    "Idiom": [
      "make someone's blood boil"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Causes anger or annoyance.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Dove says it makes her blood boil to see the way the poor young gentleman is treated.",
      "The hypocritical smugness of the English makes my blood boil.",
      "Most men gave him a wide berth, and for the sake of peace accepted sneers and insults that made the blood boil.",
      "Yet, I also know how intimidating it is to have a tailgater behind; it makes my blood boil.",
      "A day earlier, he had said wage disparities between genders made his \"blood boil\"."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "5310",
    "Idiom": [
      "make someone's day"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To make someone happy for the day.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Go ahead. Make my day.",
      "Thank you for the unexpected gift. It really made my day."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "5311",
    "Idiom": [
      "make someone's ears sad"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To displease someone's ears.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Your awful \"song\" is making my ears sad."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "5312",
    "Idiom": [
      "make someone's head spin"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To cause dizziness.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "5313",
    "Idiom": [
      "make someone's jaw drop"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To cause someone to be very surprised.",
    "Sentence": [
      "The news that I'm pregnant after so many tries made my husband's jaw drop."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "5314",
    "Idiom": [
      "make someone's skin crawl"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To frighten or disgust.",
    "Sentence": [
      "The sound of fingernails on a chalkboard just makes my skin crawl."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "5315",
    "Idiom": [
      "make someone's teeth itch"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To bother or unsettle a person.",
    "Sentence": [
      "The squeaking won’t do any harm, but if it makes your teeth itch, oil the hinge."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "5316",
    "Idiom": [
      "make something of oneself"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To become successful independently.",
    "Sentence": [
      "He moved to the big smoke when he was 17 to make something of himself."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "5317",
    "Idiom": [
      "make strange"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To behave shyly or uncommunicatively in unfamiliar situations.",
    "Sentence": [
      "\"Come to Granny. You must surely be making strange, with all these foreign faces huffing and puffing around you, you poor little precious diddledums.\"",
      "At a certain age, usually around 8 or 9 months, varying from child to child, most (but not all) children start making strange, meaning they become shy or even hysterical when held or touched by people they do not know well.",
      "When children present with separation anxieties, they visibly ‘ make strange ’ or become distressed when separated from their parents or caregivers."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "5318",
    "Idiom": [
      "make the bald man cry"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To masturbate.",
    "Sentence": [
      "> No thongs! You watching the same thing Bobby? Or were you too busy making the bald man cry ? Thongs galore.",
      "I don't know why people bother to watch Babestation, because the \"babes\" are in really minute windows which are plagued with MPEG artefacts. I can only guess that their viewers use their imagination to the fullest as they're attempting to \" make the bald man cry \".",
      "The scientists say the difference also explains why men may need a \"recovery period\" after forming The Beast with Two Backs, but can happily nip to the loo for five minutes, make the bald man cry, then get straight back to work."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "5319-1",
    "Idiom": [
      "make the best of"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To derive limited advantage from a negative situation.",
    "Sentence": [
      "So make the best of this test and don't ask why It's not a question, but a lesson learned in time"
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "5319-2",
    "Idiom": [
      "make the best of"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To use resources effectively.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "5320",
    "Idiom": [
      "make the best of one's way"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To choose the best route.",
    "Sentence": [
      "you, in this case, are to abandon all thoughts of returning by the northern passage, and are to make the best of your way home-ward, by Cape Horn.",
      "Having uttered this soliloquy, and looked after Job till he was to be seen no more, Mr. Weller made the best of his way to his master’s bedroom.",
      "Thoroughly exhausted by our exertions, we made the best of our way back to the platform, and throwing ourselves upon the bed of leaves, slept sweetly and soundly for some hours."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "5321",
    "Idiom": [
      "make the cut"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To succeed or meet a requirement.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Out of a pool of 20 applicants, only three made the cut."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "5322",
    "Idiom": [
      "make the grade"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To be successful or worthy of merit.",
    "Sentence": [
      "In 1916 the famed Van Sweringen brothers bought their first railroad—the Nickel Plate.... This year, as usual, the tarnished Nickel Plate cannot make the grade. In first seven months it lost $2,003,779.",
      "I read the news today, oh boy About a lucky man who made the grade And though the news was rather sad Well, I just had to laugh",
      "In the end, only eight plucky contestants made the grade."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "5323",
    "Idiom": [
      "make the most of"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To derive the greatest benefit or value from something.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Make the most of yourself, for that is all there is of you.",
      "Help me make the Most of freedom and of pleasure Nothing ever lasts forever Everybody wants to rule the world",
      "But with the home side likewise unable to make the most of a period of first-half ascendancy, Villa were swift to make amends on the restart.",
      "How much time you have doesn’t matter, when you really care about someone, if you make the most of it.",
      "As the 1857 to Manchester Piccadilly rolls in, I scan the windows and realise there are plenty of spare seats, so I hop aboard. The train is a '221'+'220' combo to allow for social distancing - a luxury on an XC train as normally you're playing sardines, so I make the most of it."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "5324",
    "Idiom": [
      "make the running"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To have a leading or influential position.",
    "Sentence": [
      "He added: \"In this period if you looked at the western world and asked who is making the running, from the point of view of modern society and particularly in terms of liberty, it would be Britain and we forget that. Britain is absolutely the model of the future.\""
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "5325",
    "Idiom": [
      "make the weather"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To be extraordinarily effective in a position of authority.",
    "Sentence": [
      "And at three o'clock this afternoon: Eureka! He had it in his hand, a flimsy brown file plucked from the catacombs of the public prosecutor's office. It was marked for destruction but by a miracle had escaped the flames. Bachmann had once more made the weather.",
      "To try to imagine what the country would have looked like without the dominant politician of the past 60 years is a dizzying exercise. Margaret Thatcher made the weather.",
      "Winston Churchill recalled Joseph Chamberlain as \"incomparably the most live, sparkling, insurgent, compulsive figure in British affairs\" at the end of the nineteenth century. He was \"the one\", said Churchill, \"who made the weather \".",
      "\"You cannot get away from the fact that they have made the weather, politically, on two issues, on forcing the referendum and on the question of migration,\" he said. \"They’ve had more of an influence than you would expect from a party that only won one parliamentary election.\""
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "5326",
    "Idiom": [
      "make the welkin ring"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To celebrate or revel.",
    "Sentence": [
      "There was nothing like that spirit which, when the heart goes with the decree of the ruler, makes the welkin ring with its unregulated rejoicings."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "5327",
    "Idiom": [
      "make the world go around"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Plays an essential role in human existence.",
    "Sentence": [
      "\"But say, Jeff, it's said that love makes the world go around. Let me tell you, the announcement lacks verification.... Love and business and family and religion and art and patriotism are nothing but shadows of words when a man's starving!\"",
      "Gabriele Salvatores's \"Mediterraneo\" is a deliberately charming comedy whose most daring conceit is that love, in one form and another, makes the world go around.",
      "\"It takes all kinds of people to make this world go around.... We all need to work together,\" she said.",
      "Money makes the world go around. And every year we make resolutions to save more of it, invest it more profitably and spend more wisely.",
      "Waller said agriculture makes the world go around, and there would be no clothing and no food without it."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "5328-1",
    "Idiom": [
      "make time"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To recover lost time.",
    "Sentence": [
      "We can really make time if we take the freeway.",
      "We made good time on the flight back because we had a tailwind."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "5328-2",
    "Idiom": [
      "make time"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To spend time with someone romantically.",
    "Sentence": [
      "He was always trying to make time with Nancy, but she just wasn't interested."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "5329",
    "Idiom": [
      "make time with"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To flirt or pursue someone romantically.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "5330",
    "Idiom": [
      "make tracks"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To leave or depart, especially hurriedly.",
    "Sentence": [
      "I had better make tracks now, since my plane leaves soon."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "5331",
    "Idiom": [
      "make trial of"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To check the quality or reliability of something.",
    "Sentence": [
      "he supposed it better, rather to craue the doubtfull mercie of his lord, than to make triall of the earle of Murreis certeine reuenge.",
      "I thought among other things of the following Experiment, and made Trial of it.",
      "It [lime] is the wood, which the ingenious Gibbon used, after making trial of several kinds, as the most proper for that curious sculpture, which adorns some of the old houses of our nobility.",
      "he stood up in the midst with his face to the door, and drawing his great sword, made trial of the room he had to wield it in.",
      "Will you not at least let me make trial of my plan?"
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "5332",
    "Idiom": [
      "make up one's mind"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To decide.",
    "Sentence": [
      "\"I was dragged up at the workhouse school till I was twelve. Then I ran away and sold papers in the streets, and anything else that I could pick up a few coppers by—except steal. I never did that. I always made up my mind I'd be a big man some day, and—I'm glad I didn't steal.\"",
      "I can't make up my mind whether to have ice cream or cake."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "5333",
    "Idiom": [
      "make up the numbers"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To provide enough people for an event.",
    "Sentence": [
      "We need eleven players, but we are only nine. Can you help us make up the numbers ?"
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "5334-1",
    "Idiom": [
      "make waves"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To cause a disturbance.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "5334-2",
    "Idiom": [
      "make waves"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To upset the status quo.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "5335",
    "Idiom": [
      "make yourself at home"
    ],
    "Meaning": "An invitation to a guest to feel comfortable.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "5336",
    "Idiom": [
      "mama's boy"
    ],
    "Meaning": "A male closely connected to his mother, often seen as soft or effeminate.",
    "Sentence": [
      "And now we have plenty of mama’s boys who just want to have fun, who just want to —I don't know— use some women, have fun, have great sex, but they are not able to offer this responsibility in case something happens (!) so that’s why women, they are insecure because sex is something very precious that we have to offer; we women, because it’s our bodies, and our bodies, uhm, we become pregnant and men cannot become pregnant, so we bear all of these risks. And, for us, it’s a huge opening if we say yes to a man, if we give ourselves to a man, it’s not only that we open —uh, I’m sorry for the expression— our legs, but, it’s just that we open our heart and soul and we trust that this man is responsible; and if something happens (!) he will take action, he will be there (!) for us; he will behave... like a man.",
      "He's such a mama's boy that he can't even ask a girl out for a date without his mother's approval."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "5337-1",
    "Idiom": [
      "man among men"
    ],
    "Meaning": "A man considered equal to others in society.",
    "Sentence": [
      "I have accomplished my dearest wish, I am a man among men, on an equal footing with Tom, Dick and Harry, and yet it isn't just exactly what I thought it was going to be.",
      "The boy was on terms of perfect equality with Obed and the Panther. They treated him as a man among men.",
      "Willson transformed Roy Fitzgerald into Rock Hudson and secured him an apprenticeship.... He was able to establish his film personality: steady, likable, a man among men."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "5337-2",
    "Idiom": [
      "man among men"
    ],
    "Meaning": "A remarkable man who stands out as a leader or exemplar.",
    "Sentence": [
      "To her distorted fancy he was a man among men, a hero, all that was admirable and magnificent.",
      "At the head of it rode two men—one with a quiet mesmeric power that bred perfect trust at sight, the other with a kindling power of enthusiasm, and a passionate energy, mental, physical, emotional, that was tireless; each a man among men, and both together an ideal leader for the thousand Americans at their heels.",
      "He was so much a man among men, a giant, with a great, lumbering mind, slow to conceive, but moving in a large, impressive way when once conception came.",
      "A prince is a man among men, a canny fighter, a steely sovereign who takes what he wants out of life."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "5338",
    "Idiom": [
      "man down"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To lose courage.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Ministers and a good many of their supporters worked in relays, and had so manned down the feeble and numerically small Opposition till we had not strength nor mental energy enough to resist.",
      "A famous champion, he; super-expert in the art of \" manning down \" his opponent, and sometimes in the heat of battle glowing with such an ardour of excitement that he would make wide jumps, quite against every rule, and sweep off pieces wholesale.",
      "Normally, I'd psych myself out of approaching her. I looked at her, trying to find something that reinforced my manning down."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "5339",
    "Idiom": [
      "man in the street"
    ],
    "Meaning": "A typical person or commoner.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "5340",
    "Idiom": [
      "man is a wolf to man"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Humans can be cruel and predatory towards one another.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "5341",
    "Idiom": [
      "man of few words"
    ],
    "Meaning": "A man who speaks little.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "5342",
    "Idiom": [
      "man of parts"
    ],
    "Meaning": "A talented man in multiple areas.",
    "Sentence": [
      "He was a fellow of parts, quick, humorous, a clever painter, and with an eye for certain poetical effects of sea and ships.",
      "To give an accurate description of what has never occurred is not merely the proper occupation of the historian, but the inalienable privilege of any man of parts and culture."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "5343",
    "Idiom": [
      "man of the people"
    ],
    "Meaning": "A person who understands and relates to ordinary people's concerns.",
    "Sentence": [
      "He could hang about a bar-room, discussing the affairs of the nation, for twelve hours together; and in that time could hold forth with more intolerable dulness, chew more tobacco, smoke more tobacco, drink more rum-toddy, mint-julep, gin-sling, and cocktail, than any private gentleman of his acquaintance. This made him an orator and a man of the people. In a word, the major was a rising character, and a popular character,",
      "Colonel, you are the man, you could influence more votes than any one else on such a measure, an old settler, a man of the people, you know the wants of Missouri;",
      "Besides, I am a man of the people. I like the working class, and am willing to be thought one of them.",
      "It was the story of a man of the people who made good and kept his integrity, who understood the people and could make them laugh and cry.",
      "He is adored by millions as a man of the people because he is of a lower caste — a rarity among politicians."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "5344",
    "Idiom": [
      "man on the street"
    ],
    "Meaning": "An ordinary member of the public.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Such was the airy way with which, not an illiterate man on the street, but a brilliant woman of the world disposed of a tremendous historical fact.",
      "\"When do the Olympics begin?\" a reporter from a Nagano television station asks me in a man-on-the-street interview.",
      "It is not only the man on the street who is characterized by taking one's own system of relevance for granted. This holds true for the expert,...."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "5345",
    "Idiom": [
      "man plans and God laughs"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Plans often go awry.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "5346",
    "Idiom": [
      "man proposes, God disposes"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Things don't always go as planned.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "5347",
    "Idiom": [
      "man shall not live by bread alone"
    ],
    "Meaning": "People need more than food and shelter for a fulfilling life.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Another basic religious and moral consideration is that in foreign aid we actually go beyond material realities. “ Man shall not live by bread alone. ”",
      "(1) Why is it in the national interest to provide Federal support for the humanities and the arts? The first of these three questions was answered succinctly 2,000 years ago: “ Man shall not live by bread alone. ”",
      "I am as anxious as anyone, perhaps more than many in this House, for dollars to be spent in places where they are needed, particularly in the field of old age pensions and other forms of social security. But man shall not live by bread alone. I suggest that the concern for preserving the various cultures of an area like Cape Breton Island is a concern that this House does well to consider."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "5348",
    "Idiom": [
      "man the fort"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To take care of a place or situation in someone's absence.",
    "Sentence": [
      "He excused himself from his nephew, ran a comb through his hair, buttoned up a clean shirt, and told his eight-year-old son to man the fort while he was gone."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "5349",
    "Idiom": [
      "man up"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To be brave or tough enough to face a challenge.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Or do you also have to wait for some veteran civil servant to tell you whether or not you put your pants on the right way round this morning? Honestly mate, just MAN UP.",
      "I was wondering when he would man up and marry that girl he knocked up.",
      "You need to man up and confront your boss about her behavior.",
      "Hey son, man up, okay? There will be time for tears later."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "5350",
    "Idiom": [
      "manners maketh man"
    ],
    "Meaning": "A person is judged by their behavior towards others.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "5351",
    "Idiom": [
      "manoeuvre the apostles"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To borrow money from one person to pay another.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "5352",
    "Idiom": [
      "many a mickle makes a muckle"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Small amounts can add up to a large amount.",
    "Sentence": [
      "People are often ruined before they are aware of the danger, by buying everything they think they want, without adverting to a Scotch adage—than which nothing in nature is more true—\"that many mickles make a muckle.\" According to the Oxford English Dictionary, this is the first occurrence of the term in print."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "5353",
    "Idiom": [
      "many a time and oft"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Frequently.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Signor Antonio, many a time and oft In the Rialto you have rated me About my monies, and my usances:",
      "And all that winter, when at night The wind blew from the mountain-peak, 'Twas worth your while, though in the dark, The church-yard path to seek: For many a time and oft were heard Cries coming from the mountain-head:",
      "\"How? And art thou indeed Little John, and Robin Hood's own right-hand man? Many a time and oft I heard of thee, but never did I hope to set eyes upon thee. \"",
      "The three girl friends were seated on the rocks, enjoying the evening scene and the air which was fresh but not too chilly. Many a time and oft were they wont to come there to that favourite nook to have a cosy chat beside the sparkling waves and discuss matters feminine, ."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "5354",
    "Idiom": [
      "many hands make light work"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Cooperation makes tasks easier.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "5355",
    "Idiom": [
      "many happy returns"
    ],
    "Meaning": "A birthday greeting.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "5356",
    "Idiom": [
      "many moons ago"
    ],
    "Meaning": "A long time ago.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "5357",
    "Idiom": [
      "march to the beat of a different drum"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To do things in one's own way, ignoring societal norms.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Siegfried and Roy, two nuts from Germany, are out of their wealthy little minds. They live in a mansion whose ceiling is painted like the Sistine Chapel, with either Siegfried or Roy (who can remember?) in place of Adam. Roy has a \"meditation chamber\" (the rest of us have dressing rooms) furnished with a mystic rug and cages for his tigers. They wow the crowd with heavy machinery and endangered-species eugenics. I love S&R. They march to the beat of a different drum machine.",
      "The ad ends with a shot of Mark pushing the car down a hill and Suzanne saying, \"He still marches to the beat of a different drum.\"",
      "A defense of non-conformism, deceptively simple in tone and construction, and only slightly political, it is the story of a loner... who stays in bed on Bastille Day and ignores the military parade... \"the good people don't like it when you take a path different from theirs,\" when you march to the beat of a different drum."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "5358",
    "Idiom": [
      "mark my words"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Used to emphasize a statement or prediction.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Mrs. Bowls cautioned her lodger against venturing into the lion's den, \"wherein you will rue it, Miss B., mark my words, and as sure as my name is Bowls.\""
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "5359",
    "Idiom": [
      "mark someone's card"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To correct someone's behavior.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "5360-1",
    "Idiom": [
      "marry in haste, repent at leisure"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Rushing into marriage can result in regret later.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "5360-2",
    "Idiom": [
      "marry in haste, repent at leisure"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Rushing into a commitment can lead to future regret.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "5361",
    "Idiom": [
      "marry off"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To arrange someone's marriage, especially a relative's.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Mark Warshavsky, the composer of the classic \" Oifn Pripitchik \" wrote the melody now well-known from the conclusion of the wedding festivities, in which the parents marrying off their last child, sit with garlands on their heads, while family and friends dance around them."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "5362",
    "Idiom": [
      "marry the ketchup"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To combine ketchup from half-empty bottles.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "5363",
    "Idiom": [
      "mass destruction"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Killing of large numbers of people.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "5364",
    "Idiom": [
      "master plan"
    ],
    "Meaning": "A comprehensive strategy.",
    "Sentence": [
      "The creator has a master plan / Peace and happiness for every man",
      "\"Of course, this wasn't part of some master plan. I impulsively used my vast power to do something nice without thinking it through. And then something I didn't expect happened. Even though I should have expected it.\"",
      "Dr. Eric Green likens the pangenome to a new kind of bodywork manual for automotive repair shops. Whereas before, every mechanic only had the design specs for one kind of car, now there is a master plan that covers different makes and models.",
      "The master plan for the site includes 3.3km of new surfaced and unsurfaced walking routes, more than 1km of new bridleways and cantering routes, and retention of the 2.3km Old Shire Lane bridleway."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "5365",
    "Idiom": [
      "match made in heaven"
    ],
    "Meaning": "A happy and successful relationship due to compatibility.",
    "Sentence": [
      "He and Mrs Jonathan were a remarkable pair; one of those ill-assorted couples that you wonder at. ‘How in the world did they come together?’ was the usual question, the philosophic reply to which would have been, that theirs was actually one of the ‘ Matches made in heaven.’ The gentleman got money to enable him to follow the bent of his genius without anxiety for his daily bread, and therewith a stirring wife to take care of him and his house; the wife got her great desideratum, a husband, and therewith the desideratum of all women, her own way."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "5366",
    "Idiom": [
      "match made in hell"
    ],
    "Meaning": "A relationship likely to be unhappy due to incompatibility.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "5367-1",
    "Idiom": [
      "matter of course"
    ],
    "Meaning": "A natural or logical outcome.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "5367-2",
    "Idiom": [
      "matter of course"
    ],
    "Meaning": "An expected outcome.",
    "Sentence": [
      "York might have known, and very likely did know, how that rein harassed me; but I suppose he took it as a matter of course that could not be helped; at any rate nothing was done to relieve me.",
      "In the eyes of Mr. Farquhar Fenelon Cooke the apotheosis of the Celebrity was complete. The people of Asquith were not only willing to attend the house-warming, but had been worked up to the pitch of eagerness. The Celebrity as a matter of course was master of ceremonies.",
      "On some occasions standing ovations may be given to political leaders as a matter of course, rather than as a special honour."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "5368",
    "Idiom": [
      "matter of life and death"
    ],
    "Meaning": "An extremely urgent matter.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "5369",
    "Idiom": [
      "matter of time"
    ],
    "Meaning": "An inevitable result.",
    "Sentence": [
      "DUKAT: I blame no one but myself. I was indiscreet. I compromised myself and have been punished accordingly. If someone under my command had behaved so outrageously, I would do the same thing to him. Besides, I assure you, this is only a temporary setback. Everything I have lost, I will regain. It's only a matter of time.",
      "In a matter of time it would slip from my mind / In and out of my life, you would slip from my mind / In a matter of time",
      "Dortmund continued to control proceedings, however, and it looked only a matter of time before they would break through."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "5370",
    "Idiom": [
      "may as well"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Used to express reluctance or that an action would not make a notable difference.",
    "Sentence": [
      "For me to love you now Would be the sweetest thing 'Twould make me sing Ah, but I may as well try and catch the wind",
      "They continued their inspection in silence, but at last the Doctor shrugged and said they may as well go back."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "5371",
    "Idiom": [
      "may the Force be with you"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Used to wish someone good luck.",
    "Sentence": [
      "What thoughts are you sending into the universe? Are they seeking the results you want, or are they attracting the things you don’t? The mental sharks will be drawn to you as surely as the results you desire. To be certain, be aware of the messages you are sending, and may the Force be with you, whatever you conceive it to be!"
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "5372",
    "Idiom": [
      "may the Force not be with you",
      "may the force be without you"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Used to wish someone bad luck.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "5373-1",
    "Idiom": [
      "me three"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Expresses agreement.",
    "Sentence": [
      "“... Come if you can—he’d like that a lot.” / “Me, too.” / “ Me, three.” She gave a girlish giggle and unlocked her door.",
      "“I hate saying good-bye,” Lulu said sadly. / “Me too,” Pam said. / “ Me three,” Anna said.",
      "Perhaps a first worker complained about an aspect of their work environment, and others chimed in—Me too, me three !"
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "5373-2",
    "Idiom": [
      "me three"
    ],
    "Meaning": "An expression of support for a previously stated position.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Mostly, I just wanted to say sort of a me-too, or me-three, or me-ten statement at this point: The census is extremely important."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "5374",
    "Idiom": [
      "meal ticket"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Someone or something that provides income or livelihood.",
    "Sentence": [
      "I don't enjoy this job, but it is my meal ticket."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "5375",
    "Idiom": [
      "mean business"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To be serious about achieving a goal.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Say in a week from now, I will undertake to deliver this most marvellous masterpiece, if 'Look here, 'Tony, I mean business, if you don't.",
      "Lorena Bobbit only did what men do to each other all the time: She showed an asshole she meant business.",
      "He projects his concern to all employees and he means business when he says the “buck stops here”."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "5376",
    "Idiom": [
      "mean streak"
    ],
    "Meaning": "A character flaw marked by persistent nastiness or malice.",
    "Sentence": [
      "\"He's worse than mischievous,\" Mr. Lane assured her sourly. \"There's a mean streak in that family.\"",
      "The film's considerable taste for graphic, noisy violence becomes clear during this tumultuous opening. So does its mean streak, as the Colonel delivers outrageous insults to one and all.",
      "England’s combative coach... wants aggression, a touch of the outlaw, a mean streak."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "5377",
    "Idiom": [
      "mean the world to"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To be greatly loved or cared for.",
    "Sentence": [
      "He meant the world to her."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "5378",
    "Idiom": [
      "meant to"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Supposed to or obligated to.",
    "Sentence": [
      "You're meant to wash up after yourselves, don't leave it for me."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "5379",
    "Idiom": [
      "measure swords with"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To compare abilities with an opponent.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "5380",
    "Idiom": [
      "measure the drapes"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To make premature preparations for victory.",
    "Sentence": [
      "While Republicans like Gov. Michael Castle of Delaware exulted that \"I think Bush can start measuring the curtains for the White House,\" the mood among Democrats was somber."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "5381-1",
    "Idiom": [
      "measure twice and cut once",
      "measure twice, cut once"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Double-check measurements for accuracy before cutting.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Look at Carpenters!... In old times it was a proverb \" Measure twice, and cut once.\""
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "5382-2",
    "Idiom": [
      "measure twice and cut once"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Plan carefully before taking action.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Mr. Paz noted that since the onset of the credit crisis, eBay, like other companies, hasn’t been able to \" measure twice and cut once.\""
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "5383",
    "Idiom": [
      "measure up"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To meet expectations.",
    "Sentence": [
      "It's a passable substitute, but it will never measure up to the original."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "5384",
    "Idiom": [
      "meat market"
    ],
    "Meaning": "A place for casual sexual encounters.",
    "Sentence": [
      "The rumors about Carnival 7NC’s are legion, one such rumor being that their Cruises are kind of like floating meat-market bars and that their ships bob with a conspicuous carnal squeakatasqueakata at night."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "5385",
    "Idiom": [
      "meat on one's bones"
    ],
    "Meaning": "An amount of flesh on one's body.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "5386",
    "Idiom": [
      "meat on the bones"
    ],
    "Meaning": "A substantial addition to something unfinished or incomplete.",
    "Sentence": [
      "The Conservatives finally put some meat on the bones of their plans at their annual conference last week.",
      "Co-producer Dan Auerbach of the Black Keys puts meat on the bones of songs that often feel like little more than drowsily repeated phrases.",
      "As Premier Doug Ford scrambles to put some meat on the bones of his vague plan for reopening the economy, he’s asking businesses to suggest regulatory shortcuts."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "5387",
    "Idiom": [
      "meat rack"
    ],
    "Meaning": "A place for meeting potential sexual partners.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Soon, we got up, walked around the west side — toward the \" meat rack \" — the gay part of the park. There, it was as if someone had hung a line of marionettes on the railing: the lonesome young homosexuals, legs dangling, looking, waiting for that one-night's sexual connection..."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "5388",
    "Idiom": [
      "media darling"
    ],
    "Meaning": "A celebrity favored by the media.",
    "Sentence": [
      "TV Correspondent Alexander Krutkov became an overnight media darling with his piercing on-the-spot dispatches.",
      "“The coverage of Obama has been so positive that you have to call him, though I really hate this term, a media darling.”"
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "5389",
    "Idiom": [
      "meet a sticky end"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To die unpleasantly due to one's actions.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "5390-1",
    "Idiom": [
      "meet halfway"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To compromise.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Nelse's ability to act humanely toward those who have previously wronged him suggests that reconciliation between whites and blacks is possible if both are willing to meet halfway.",
      "In the essay, I proposed that the very best storytelling was the kind where the writer and reader meet halfway, the writer only painting fifty percent of the picture and forcing the reader to fill in the rest."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "5390-2",
    "Idiom": [
      "meet halfway"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To compromise.",
    "Sentence": [
      "So please, dear, won't you let us come up and talk nicely together?... We can get you out of this scrape if you will meet us halfway and be a nice sensible boy.",
      "Times are changin', West. Law's comin' into the country an' we old-timers oughta meet it halfway with the glad hand.",
      "\"Mr. Gromyko,\" said Herter himself early in the week, \"appears to mistake the moves we have made to meet him halfway as signs of weakness.\""
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "5390-3",
    "Idiom": [
      "meet halfway"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To make concessions to reach a compromise.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Marcovaldi declared: \"I suggest that the differences be met halfway.\""
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "5391",
    "Idiom": [
      "meet one's maker"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To die.",
    "Sentence": [
      "On the gallows high he has met his Maker...Your victim waits for you to meet your Maker",
      "He didn't die for a half-hour after that; nor did he speak again—aloud; but just a few seconds before he went to meet his Maker, his lips moved in a faint whisper.",
      "This parrot is no more! It has ceased to be! It's expired and gone to meet its maker ! This is a late parrot! It's a stiff! Bereft of life, it rests in peace! If you hadn't nailed it to the perch it would be pushing up the daisies!"
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "5392-1",
    "Idiom": [
      "meeting of the mindless"
    ],
    "Meaning": "A serious disagreement resulting from a discussion or negotiation.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "5392-2",
    "Idiom": [
      "meeting of the mindless"
    ],
    "Meaning": "A gathering of people with differing views.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "5393",
    "Idiom": [
      "meeting of the minds"
    ],
    "Meaning": "An agreement reached through discussion or negotiation.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Exhausted negotiators pored over maps and drafts of a proposed agreement in smoke-filled Cairo hotel rooms, until the morning of the third day, when Israeli Foreign Minister Shimon Peres proclaimed that the two sides had \"reached a meeting of the minds.\"",
      "The market seems to believe that the leaders have had a meeting of the minds and won’t fail when the time comes to act.",
      "Mr. Noda met with Mr. Ozawa twice but the talks failed to yield a meeting of the minds."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "5394",
    "Idiom": [
      "melon head"
    ],
    "Meaning": "A dimwit.",
    "Sentence": [
      "\" Why should I shake his hand? He called me a melon head. \" - Miami Herald, 1992"
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "5395-1",
    "Idiom": [
      "melt in the mouth"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Deliciously soft and creamy.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "5395-2",
    "Idiom": [
      "melt in the mouth"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Deliciously soft and creamy, requiring little chewing.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "5396",
    "Idiom": [
      "melt into"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To gradually disappear into.",
    "Sentence": [
      "The Roman Empire has melted into history.",
      "Either they melted into society or they swept through to there villages",
      "\"The spirits are calling, I must go,\" she said to Lady Miranda, then executed a quick turn and melted into the crowd with an expertise born of years of practice.",
      "A tough Iraqi general, a former special operations officer with a baritone voice and a barrel chest, melted into smiles when asked about Senator Barack Obama."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "5397",
    "Idiom": [
      "member for Barkshire"
    ],
    "Meaning": "A person with a cough that sounds like barking.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "5398",
    "Idiom": [
      "memory lane"
    ],
    "Meaning": "A nostalgic journey through memories.",
    "Sentence": [
      "This is Memory Lane —lonely and drear to some, pleasant and gay to others.... It was New Year's day in the old town, the most hallowed of holidays on Memory Lane; the day when the wharf was deserted, for everyone, great and small, walked over the Lane, many even to the very end.",
      "“How about a stroll down Memory Lane. Remember this?” He thrust a picture at me.",
      "My “ memory lane ” is splotched with recollections that have not dimmed or faded in the last seventy-five years. They stand out clear and sharp, but they are splotches just the same. They have no beginning, nor do they trail off to an ending. They are just there like ink splotches on a white wall.",
      "Sigrid took a bittersweet trip down memory lane when Anne opened the carton of ornaments and lifted out a crumpled tinsel star. All at once she was three years old again and her father was holding her up in his strong arms to place that same star on the very top of their Christmas tree.",
      "Molly sleeps this morning as her parents, per their promise, travel down memory lane from their just-delivered leather sofa. Tim and I have memory-goaders galore, including our album of wedding photos, two separate videotapes of the marriage ceremony, and some random 35-millimeter slides one or the other of us somehow managed to squeeze off that strange and signal day exactly one year and four days ago.",
      "A more straightforwardly nostalgic use of the family album is in oral history, which has used them as a device for family reconstitution and opening up memory lanes.",
      "I decide to take in one last trip for the day - and one very much down memory lane. Changing trains at Central, I board a Class 150 bound for Barry Island, where I have not been for 46 years.",
      "The speaker took us on a trip down memory lane with his recollections of village life fifty years ago."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "5399",
    "Idiom": [
      "mend fences"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To repair a relationship after a disagreement.",
    "Sentence": [
      "And furthermore, just because I agree to take a walk doesn't mean we've mended fences. But he doesn't pick up.",
      "Japan's prime minister, Shinzo Abe, has signalled a rare attempt to mend fences with China when he appointed two MPs considered friendly towards Beijing to two senior posts in his governing Liberal Democratic party (LDP).",
      "She [Meloni] has reduced Italy’s dealings with China, too – and helped mend fences with Orbán.",
      "I don't think he was very happy with my work, so I'm going to talk to him and try to mend fences."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "5400",
    "Idiom": [
      "mend one's ways"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To recognize and improve one's faults.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "5401-1",
    "Idiom": [
      "mental gymnast"
    ],
    "Meaning": "A person who thinks creatively and effortlessly.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "5401-2",
    "Idiom": [
      "mental gymnast"
    ],
    "Meaning": "One who uses complex arguments to justify the unjustifiable.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "5402",
    "Idiom": [
      "mercy fuck"
    ],
    "Meaning": "A sexual act done out of pity.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Slept. Once. Singular. It was a mercy fuck. I felt bad, he only had one ball.",
      "It was unclean and he would have nothing to do with it. So she took what she could get, the mercy fucks that were tossed at her like meager bones and let it go at that. Lee could not understand why she just didn't pack her bags and leave."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "5403",
    "Idiom": [
      "mercy sake's alive"
    ],
    "Meaning": "A mild oath.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Mercy sake's alive, looks like we got us a convoy"
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "5404",
    "Idiom": [
      "mere mortal"
    ],
    "Meaning": "An ordinary person.",
    "Sentence": [
      "If you use computer applications that let you access information from a database system, you're probably a mere mortal."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "5405",
    "Idiom": [
      "merry dance"
    ],
    "Meaning": "A waste of time from deception.",
    "Sentence": [
      "\"That's what happened to me the last time you fired a high snowball. Peaches. That's why I didn't want you to try another while I'm around. You wait until I'm off the campus if you've got to indulge in high jinks. Come on now, fellows, since Peaches has promised to behave himself, let the merry dance go on. Have you tried a shot, Joe? Or you, Sister,\" and Teeter looked at the newcomers.",
      "Argentine defender Martinez, normally so reliable and combative, was taken apart, especially when Salah led him a merry dance to set up Gakpo to settle the game with Liverpool's third five minutes after half-time.",
      "The children led us on a merry dance with their stories of strangers and shadows in the night."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "5406",
    "Idiom": [
      "merry men"
    ],
    "Meaning": "A group of assistants or subordinates.",
    "Sentence": [
      "But none of it is going to be easy, and here are a few thoughts to help Merriman and his merry men in Great Minster House."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "5407",
    "Idiom": [
      "mess of pottage"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Something of trivial value.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "5408-1",
    "Idiom": [
      "mess up"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To make a mess of.",
    "Sentence": [
      "kwatumas, those aggressive and sharp-toothed eels that so thoroughly mess up one's tackle when hooked",
      "The afternoon breeze messed up my hair."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "5408-2",
    "Idiom": [
      "mess up"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To cause a problem or make a mistake.",
    "Sentence": [
      "The change messed something up, and it's not working anymore."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "5408-3",
    "Idiom": [
      "mess up"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To perform poorly.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Well, I messed up my solo, but otherwise it was a good concert."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "5408-4",
    "Idiom": [
      "mess up"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To make a mistake.",
    "Sentence": [
      "He has a hard time getting started because he's afraid he'll mess up.",
      "She messed up on her final exam."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "5408-5",
    "Idiom": [
      "mess up"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To cause mistakes through distraction or bad behavior.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Stop bumping me! You keep messing me up !"
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "5408-6",
    "Idiom": [
      "mess up"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To damage or make a mistake.",
    "Sentence": [
      "He messed up his elbow at the track meet."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "5408-7",
    "Idiom": [
      "mess up"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To handle roughly or improperly.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Her brother's friends messed him up a little after he cheated on her."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "5408-8",
    "Idiom": [
      "mess up"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To confuse or disturb mentally.",
    "Sentence": [
      "That girl totally messed me up, man. I'm not sure who I am anymore."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "5409",
    "Idiom": [
      "mess with the bull and you get the horns",
      "mess with the bull, get the horns",
      "if you mess with the bull, you get the horns",
      "when you mess with the bull, you get the horns"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Provoking someone dangerous leads to aggressive consequences.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "5410",
    "Idiom": [
      "method to one's madness"
    ],
    "Meaning": "A reason for seemingly illogical behavior.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Sometimes, I feel sure he is as mad as a hatter; and then, just as he is at his maddest, I find there is method in his madness.",
      "\"Why is my child not reading in his own book? I bought the books—you see that he reads them!\" talked to these parents and convinced them that there really was a \" method to my madness \". I wanted attractive pre-primers—small books with easy reading material – something to attract his attention to books. Give the child confidence in his first attempts.",
      "Usually there is a method to my madness. I usually have a profound reason as to why I write. Tonight, I do not.",
      "I would also like to think that there is, indeed, a method to my madness, and that stems from being a natural at “out of the box” thinking.",
      "Eventually I came up with my idea as there's always been a method to my madness.",
      "If 21 days seems like an arbitrary amount of time, let me explain the method to my madness. We've all heard the old adage that it takes 21 days to either make or break a habit, and I've found this to be true in many areas of my life."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "5411",
    "Idiom": [
      "mic drop"
    ],
    "Meaning": "A triumphant conclusion or statement.",
    "Sentence": [
      "No mic drop in history will ever be as thoroughly scrutinised as the one performed by Barack Obama during his final White House correspondents’ dinner on Saturday evening. Historians hundreds of years from now will refer to his “Obama out” in the same breath as the Emancipation Proclamation and “Mr Gorbachev, tear down this wall.”",
      "Many crypto bros try to silence skeptics with the same mic drop : “Have fun staying poor.”"
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "5412",
    "Idiom": [
      "middle ground"
    ],
    "Meaning": "A compromise position.",
    "Sentence": [
      "But musical ancestry aside, the influence to which [Justin] Bieber is most beholden is the current trends in pop music, which means Believe is loaded up with EDM accouterments, seeking a comfortable middle ground where Bieber’s impressively refined pop-R&B croon can rub up on techno blasts and garish dubstep drops (and occasionally grind on some AutoTune, not necessarily because it needs it, but because a certain amount of robo-voice is expected these days).",
      "\" I want to work with the unions, I want to listen to their demands. We're not always going to agree, of course, but they want public ownership of the railways to work, and we want public ownership of the railways to work, so actually there's a middle ground here.\"",
      "This is not a land of blowouts. It’s a middle ground, and that’s reflected in voter registration rolls. Nearly 2.6 million North Carolinians declare themselves unaffiliated, while just over 2.4 million identify as Democrats and just under 2.2 million as Republicans. We don’t tilt. We teeter.",
      "You need to find the middle ground between the two extremes."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "5413",
    "Idiom": [
      "middle of nowhere"
    ],
    "Meaning": "A very remote or secluded area.",
    "Sentence": [
      "We set out to demonstrate to the people of the county that a corrupt ring managed the Republican party in this county.... We want that corrupt ring knocked into the middle of Nowhere.",
      "\"Only we don't happen to be in the middle of nowhere ! We're just about a couple of miles from a market town where abides a nice little inn whence petrol can be obtained.\"",
      "The train occasionally stops when it crosses a stream in the middle of nowhere to take on water.",
      "South Florida's Everglades Jetport is a fancy name for a concrete runway in the middle of nowhere.",
      "I've been walking through the middle of nowhere / Trying to get to heaven before they close the door",
      "After weeks of journeying across the monotonous open sea.... “You see nothing for 30 days — you’re in the middle of nowhere, you feel like you are in outer space,” said Mr. Domjan.",
      "In the 1800s, tons of Americans migrated all over in search of one thing: money. Towns just started popping up in the middles of nowhere to mine for gold.",
      "It feels strange to be crossing the site of the old Ripple Lane locomotive depot and freight yards on a new viaduct, to arrive in what used to be the middle of nowhere but which is now a growing new development."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "5414-1",
    "Idiom": [
      "middle of the road"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Having a centrist attitude or philosophy.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Despite her massive mandate, [Jacinda] Ardern's agenda will be resolutely middle of the road [title]",
      "A typical middle of the road compromise is to leave the problem as it is."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "5414-2",
    "Idiom": [
      "middle of the road"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Average or moderate.",
    "Sentence": [
      "If us two competed together, we'd probably score just barely under the middle of the road."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "5415-1",
    "Idiom": [
      "might as well"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Used to express reluctant assent, suggesting an undesirable situation is now more feasible or reasonable.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Razors pain you; / Rivers are damp; / Acids stain you; / And drugs cause cramp. / Guns aren’t lawful; / Nooses give; / Gas smells awful; / You might as well live.",
      "Oh, and while you're here would you like me to look at your fanny? And the girl, says, Yeah, sure, might as well, and off they go.",
      "You arrived too early, but since you're here, you might as well come in.",
      "Macarons are very difficult to make, so you might as well make plentiful if you do decide to make any."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "5415-2",
    "Idiom": [
      "might as well"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Used to suggest that something is a good idea because there are no better options.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Mr. A. Wheeler, and Mr. William Tebb, who, though all were examined and cross-examined on the minutest details, might as well never have appeared so far as any notice in the Final Report is concerned.",
      "\"If she makes as much work after she comes as she has before, we might as well give up hope of ever gettin' any rest,\" sighed Miranda as she hung the dish towels on the barberry bushes at the side door.",
      "As far as I'm concerned each day's a rainy day So it might as well rain until September",
      "Her words trapped him in the bedroom; he might as well have been hanging on the Chairman's torture wall getting his guts ripped out.",
      "You're going to tell her what I said about her? You might as well shoot me!",
      "What a waste of time this has been. We might as well have stayed at home."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "5416",
    "Idiom": [
      "might is right",
      "might makes right"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Power justifies itself.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "5417",
    "Idiom": [
      "mighty oaks from little acorns grow",
      "great oaks from little acorns grow",
      "tall oaks from little acorns grow"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Something great can arise from a small start.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Don't give up on the project - mighty oaks from little acorns grow !"
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "5418",
    "Idiom": [
      "milieu control"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Tactics that control communication through peer pressure and group language.",
    "Sentence": [
      "This may be called milieu control. The Chinese Communist prison is probably the most thoroughly controlled and manipulated group environment that has ever existed.",
      "The milieu control exerted over the broader social environment of Communist China, while considerably less intense, is in its own way unrivalled in its combination of extensiveness and depth; it is, in fact, one of the distinguishing features of Chinese Communist practice.",
      "Although milieu control is more obvious in the situation of a prisoner whose environment is forced on him, spiritual purgation often begins with a similar structuring of a person's physical environment.",
      "The first is that of total milieu control — control of all information exchange and imagery in an environment that seeks to extend itself to internal controls of every kind.",
      "A reliable system of indoctrination requires nearly total ' milieu control' in which the indoctrinatee has few or no alternate sources of information and values.",
      "The totalist administrators 'look upon milieu control as a just and necessary policy, one which need not be kept secret.' The assumption of 'omniscience' and 'ultimate truth' leads these administrators to consider it 'their duty to create an environment containing no more and no less than this 'truth''.",
      "' Milieu Control' involves the control of daily schedule including food intake, sleep, information and time and space for critical reflection.",
      "This kind of ' milieu control' can be brought about through coercion, but at its most successful it convinces individuals that they are acting autonomously — as is the case for the ex-POW Sergeant Raymond Shaw in The Manchurian Candidate. The result is that milieu control disrupts the 'balance between self and the outside world', resulting in 'a profound threat to [the individual's] personal autonomy'.",
      "This kind of ' milieu control' can be brought about through coercion, Lifton believed, but at its most successful it convinces the subject that he or she is acting spontaneously rather than being directed by values that are alien to the self.",
      "In applying Erikson's totalism concept to the Thought Reform experiences of his subjects, Lifton famously identified eight 'themes' of the totalistic milieu: Milieu Control, i.e., monopoly of the spatial and informational environment.",
      "Such accounts are consistent with what Lifton described as ' milieu control', a key aspect of ideological totalism. As Lifton postulated it, this is primarily the use of techniques to dominate the person's contact with the outside world but also their communication with themselves.",
      "A second way in which milieu control is affects group members is linked to groups' conscious efforts in that regard. That is, the groups maintain milieu control especially by way of labeling recalcitrant members as 'subjective' or 'objective agent.' The former term is used for those who are thought to have harmed the organization by their mistakes or failures in groups' operations."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "5419",
    "Idiom": [
      "milk of human kindness"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Compassion shown to others.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Glamis thou art, and Cawdor, and shalt be / What thou art promised. Yet do I fear thy nature; / It is too full o’ th’ milk of human kindness / To catch the nearest way. Thou wouldst be great, / Art not without ambition, but without / The illness should attend it."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "5420-1",
    "Idiom": [
      "milk the clock"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To use time to gain a benefit.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "5420-2",
    "Idiom": [
      "milk the clock"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To waste time for monetary gain.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "5421",
    "Idiom": [
      "milling machine"
    ],
    "Meaning": "A machine tool that cuts shapes into a workpiece using a rotating cutter.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "5422",
    "Idiom": [
      "mince words"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To use euphemisms or avoid blunt language.",
    "Sentence": [
      "\"I ask you, William, could I suppose that the Emperor of Austria was a damned traitor—a traitor, and nothing more? I don’t mince words —a double-faced infernal traitor and schemer.\"",
      "The detective did not mince words. \"It's plain that you're a boob,\" he said.",
      "We remember, too, those admirable reports issued to every passenger during the final stages of the Kent Coast electrification, which did not mince words about the disruption of normal working, but which often turned the situations into an instructive illustration of the complexity of modern railway working.",
      "They all sought the President's views on the world situation in general and the Asian situation in particular. Without mincing words he would comment on his favorite theme, namely, the insidious scheme of the international Communists to conquer the free world.",
      "The coroner did not mince words, in charging the jury with their duty: \"The bridge had been utterly neglected from the time that it was built and there had been no proper inspection of it... .\""
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "5423",
    "Idiom": [
      "mind how you go"
    ],
    "Meaning": "A phrase used when saying goodbye.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "5424",
    "Idiom": [
      "mind one's language"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To speak properly and avoid swear words.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "5425",
    "Idiom": [
      "mind one's own business"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To focus on one's own affairs and not interfere in others' matters.",
    "Sentence": [
      "The idea is but too prevalent in almost every community, that a man has discharged his duties as a citizen, well enough, if he minds his own business and does not meddle with the affairs of his neighbours. \" Look out for Number One,\" is a great fundamental maxim, which is in every body's mouth, and which every body takes credit to himself for acting upon. It is preached to us sometimes from the pulpit even, and Christians, as well as infidels, pride themselves upon the assiduity with which they can look out for \"Number One.\"",
      "Strolling along, minding my own business Well, there goes a girl and a half",
      "I was just walking down the road, minding my own business, when I was attacked by a mugger."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "5426",
    "Idiom": [
      "mind one's ps and qs"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To be careful to behave correctly.",
    "Sentence": [
      "When we go to visit, do remember to mind your ps and qs, children – we don't want another incident like last time."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "5427",
    "Idiom": [
      "mind the store"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To take responsibility for a group or process.",
    "Sentence": [
      "The Administration and Congress have had to prove they are at least attempting to mind the store."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "5428",
    "Idiom": [
      "mind you"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Introduces a qualification or contrast.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Mind you, it was not an outing I would recommend as relaxing.",
      "Mind you, clothes were clothes in those days. There was a great deal of them, lavish both in material and in workmanship.",
      "These shirts are very expensive. Mind you, they are excellent quality."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "5429",
    "Idiom": [
      "mind's ear"
    ],
    "Meaning": "The inner sense for imagining or recalling sounds in the mind.",
    "Sentence": [
      "\"I must read Shakspeare ?\" / \"You must have his spirit before you; you must hear his voice with your mind's ear; you must take some of his soul into yours.\"",
      "Keep our thoughts from wandering, open our minds' ears to hear, open our mouths to sing thy praises, let us not trifle in thy house, but ever remember \"thou God seest me.\"",
      "Even now I have in my mind's ears the merry gibe of some young rogue of a reader,",
      "The likeness of the great bass horn remained upon the retina of his mind's eye, losing nothing of its brazen enormity with the passing of hours, nor abating, in his mind's ear, one whit of its fascinating blatancy.",
      "Perhaps we may hear in our minds' ears echoes of the sacred duets of Orlando di Lasso, Monteverdi, Gibbons, and Lawes, sung in exquisitely responsive improvised harmony to words immediately inspired in them both.",
      "There is harmony in the scene; harmony between heaven and earth; harmony in the sounds that the artist allows us to hear within our minds' ear, issuing from the double rank of pipes, sounding to an angel's touch.",
      "Other people do \" Don't Smoke in Bed \" and \" I've Got Your Number \" and \" You Came a Long Way From St. Louis,\" but when I hear them in my mind's ear, hers is the voice I hear.",
      "I used to be a schoolteacher, teaching children roughly between the ages of ten and thirteen, and I noticed that when they wrote stories, many of them were much better at dialogue than at narrative. What they could do very well was put down the things they were hearing in their minds' ear, because those things already had words.",
      "What's more, it is to assume that we are not, in general, capable of telling whether we are actually looking at a painting or merely imagining one, or actually hearing a string quartet as opposed to listening to our own mind's ears.",
      "Examine as many transcriptions as you can find and compare them to the original Gesellschaft score—you will see the vast range of harmonies transcribers have heard in their minds' ear over the years!",
      "\"Albers\" is musically ambiguous. In its basic form, it isn't unequivocally in C major, but in our minds' ears we tend to make it be in C major."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "5430",
    "Idiom": [
      "mind-numbing"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Excessively boring or dull.",
    "Sentence": [
      "After hours of mind-numbing work sorting hundreds of nearly identical form, he needed to stop and do something else.",
      "The story described the main character's wristwatch in mind-numbing detail."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "5431",
    "Idiom": [
      "miner's canary"
    ],
    "Meaning": "An early warning of danger.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "5432",
    "Idiom": [
      "miners' canary"
    ],
    "Meaning": "An early warning of danger.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "5433",
    "Idiom": [
      "mines and minerals"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Legal title to geological resources beneath a piece of land.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "5434",
    "Idiom": [
      "minor miracle"
    ],
    "Meaning": "An improbable or surprising fortunate occurrence.",
    "Sentence": [
      "When the vessel showed some symptoms of unsteadiness, I arose, walked gravely up to her, ranged the pilgrims around her with their shoulders to the sides, and told them to heave with might.... Each Maghrabi worked like an Atlas... and, sliding heavily through the sand, once more floated off into deep water. This was generally voted a minor miracle, and the Effendi was respected—for a day or two.",
      "Last week over a CBS network Robert Ripley reunited after 40 years a mother and her long-lost son. Having accomplished this minor miracle, Ripley changed the pace of his Believe It Or Not show.",
      "The engineers at AMC have wrought a minor miracle in modifying this archaic transmission so that it is merely inconvenient instead of being an outright disappointment.",
      "The country's telephone service, however, is another matter. Getting a dial tone and holding a conversation free of static are minor miracles.",
      "Richard Dunwoody... did however perform one minor miracle; managing to eat a bowl of cereal on horseback while looking at the camera and still finding his mouth with the spoon without spillage."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "5435",
    "Idiom": [
      "mint condition"
    ],
    "Meaning": "In new or perfect condition.",
    "Sentence": [
      "The obvious advantages of this method of new motor vehicle delivery over long distances,, which the L.M.R. says dealers and ultimate customers are beginning to appreciate, are all-weather reliability, arrival in mint condition and with only a very small mileage \"on the clock\", and the assurance that the car has not been mishandled during its running-in period; ."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "5436",
    "Idiom": [
      "misery enjoys company",
      "misery loves company"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Misery is easier to bear in company.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Tuvok: [It is curious] That my failure, added to your own, should improve your feelings."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "5437",
    "Idiom": [
      "misfortunes never come singly",
      "misfortunes never come alone"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Bad situations often occur together.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "5438",
    "Idiom": [
      "miss the mark"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To fail to achieve the intended result.",
    "Sentence": [
      "In a statement provided to Ad Age, Tor Myhren, Apple’s vice president of marketing, said the company “ missed the mark.”",
      "The party's manifesto missed the mark and failed to attract people's attention."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "5439",
    "Idiom": [
      "missing stair"
    ],
    "Meaning": "A person known for harmful behavior that is unaddressed within a community.",
    "Sentence": [
      "\"Oh yeah, I almost forgot to tell you, there's a missing step on the unlit staircase with no railings. But it's okay because we all just remember to jump over it.\" Some people are like that missing stair.",
      "Many groups, whether they may be families, workplaces, organizations, or groups of friends will have what is sometimes called a “ missing stair.”"
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "5440",
    "Idiom": [
      "mission creep"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Unplanned expansion of a project's objectives or scope.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Initially presented as a purely humanitarian mission, Operation Restore Hope gradually shifted from feeding Somalis to fighting them. Unaware of the \" mission creep,\" the public was outraged when 18 U.S. soldiers died in an October 1993 fire fight.",
      "General John Shalikashvili... said it was important to set a target date of one year and then bring the troops home, because \"in the absence of that, you find yourself staying there, and that's how very often mission creep comes in.\"",
      "The risks of mission creep and a deepening quagmire leading to nation-building would arise only if ownership of the uprising was appropriated from the Libyans by the West, as would happen with ground troops.",
      "A good stand-and-stir cooking show is to the Food Network as the music video is to MTV: ancient relics of both institutions' respective original purposes, before mission creep led them to trashy reality competition programming — apparently the entropic end-stage of all TV."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "5441",
    "Idiom": [
      "misters before sisters",
      "dicks before chicks"
    ],
    "Meaning": "A woman should prioritize her partner over her female friends.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "5442",
    "Idiom": [
      "mists of time"
    ],
    "Meaning": "A time long past where history is unclear.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Far back in the mists of ancient time, in the great and glorious days of the former Galactic Empire, life was wild, rich and largely tax free.",
      "lost in the mists of time"
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "5443",
    "Idiom": [
      "mix apples and oranges"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To confuse two completely different things.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "5444",
    "Idiom": [
      "mix it up"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To compete vigorously or fight.",
    "Sentence": [
      "He would have felt like an irate ticket-holder at a prize-fight where the principals refused to mix it up."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "5445-1",
    "Idiom": [
      "mix up"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To blend thoroughly.",
    "Sentence": [
      "She mixed up peat moss, humus, and compost to make potting soil."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "5445-2",
    "Idiom": [
      "mix up"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To combine thoroughly.",
    "Sentence": [
      "All the smells of the food had mixed up together."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "5445-3",
    "Idiom": [
      "mix up"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To combine ingredients.",
    "Sentence": [
      "She mixed up a batch of her own potting soil."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "5445-4",
    "Idiom": [
      "mix up"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To confuse or reverse.",
    "Sentence": [
      "I always mix up Vermont and New Hampshire on a map.",
      "I always mix up Jack with Jake."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "5445-5",
    "Idiom": [
      "mix up"
    ],
    "Meaning": "A confusion or reversal.",
    "Sentence": [
      "I refuse to send them any more money until they fix this mix up."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "5446",
    "Idiom": [
      "mixed bag"
    ],
    "Meaning": "A mixture of good and bad results or characteristics.",
    "Sentence": [
      "It was Villa, however, who posted the next moment of danger with another long-range effort from Young, forcing Hart - who had been a mixed bag throughout - to dive low to his right to save as Houllier's side continued to perform in a most encouraging fashion",
      "At the same time, it did not alleviate teenagers’ social anxiety and young users did not share more photos, as the company thought they might, leading to a mixed bag of results.",
      "Owning a car is a mixed bag. It is convenient, but also costly."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "5447",
    "Idiom": [
      "mixed blessing"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Something with both good and bad aspects.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Moving house has been a mixed blessing : we're closer to the shops, but the railway is noisy."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "5448",
    "Idiom": [
      "mixed herbs"
    ],
    "Meaning": "A mix of various dried herbs for cooking.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "5449",
    "Idiom": [
      "mixed message"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Any communication that is contradictory or unclear.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Of late, many who are wary of the vaccine say they have become more confused by what they see as mixed messages from federal health agencies and the White House.",
      "Don't you think it's sending a mixed message for the magazine to put \"Lose Five Pounds in A Month\" right next to \"Ten Easy Desserts\"?"
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "5450",
    "Idiom": [
      "mixed picture"
    ],
    "Meaning": "A situation with both negatives and positives.",
    "Sentence": [
      "However, the president also approved more oil and gas drilling permits in his first two years in office than his predecessor, Donald Trump, according to the Bureau of Land Management. It is, Ocasio-Cortez acknowledges, a mixed picture."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "5451",
    "Idiom": [
      "mocking is catching"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Be careful of making fun of others.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "5452",
    "Idiom": [
      "modest proposal"
    ],
    "Meaning": "An extreme or distasteful idea, often presented humorously.",
    "Sentence": [
      "And for all the chuntering about the \"Granny Tax\" it is not as though Osborne made a radical or, if you prefer, modest proposal along the lines of offering tax credits or generous allowances to the heirs of pensioners who plump for voluntary, patriotic euthanasia...",
      "I therefore have a modest proposal aimed at rectifying this situation: let's declare war!",
      "\"I have a modest proposal,\" Alabaster said. \"We need two new examples to demonstrate how awesome nuclear war is, so it will sober up politicians, military men and statesmen, not only here but in the Soviet Union.\""
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "5453",
    "Idiom": [
      "moment in the sun"
    ],
    "Meaning": "A brief moment of attention for an unremarkable person.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "5454",
    "Idiom": [
      "moment of truth"
    ],
    "Meaning": "A deciding instant that reveals success or failure.",
    "Sentence": [
      "The moment of truth comes when you try to start the engine you have just rebuilt."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "5455",
    "Idiom": [
      "money cannot buy happiness",
      "money can't buy happiness"
    ],
    "Meaning": "True happiness comes from within.",
    "Sentence": [
      "They toil, lie, cheat, swindle, and endanger their souls for wealth. There are but few exceptions to this rule—we are nearly all in the same boat. It is strange that humanity will conduct itself thus, when it sees how little pleasure is derived from its riches; when it knows, as well as it knows anything, that money cannot buy happiness.",
      "“Ah! then, why do you not try to marry here?” / “To marry! It seems to me when one has no fortune, the first thought should be to assure one’s self of an independence. You are not absolutely without means; and money cannot buy happiness. I pity young girls who, like Marguerite, are only married for their gold.”",
      "Money cannot buy happiness; as you can see, my family is deeply saddened by the loss of our father."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "5456",
    "Idiom": [
      "money does not stink",
      "money has no smell",
      "money does not smell"
    ],
    "Meaning": "The value of money is unaffected by its source.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "5457",
    "Idiom": [
      "money doesn't grow on trees"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Wealth requires effort; money is not always available.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Perhaps it was a Scotsman who, in response to an idea for lavish expenditure, first said \" Money doesn't grow on trees \".",
      "Today's money worries certainly should make it easier for parents to teach their children that money doesn't grow on trees.",
      "Money doesn't grow on trees — and even the paper for money isn't made of wood!"
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "5458",
    "Idiom": [
      "money for jam"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Money made easily.",
    "Sentence": [
      "For an ex-chainman, the locating business was money for jam at $25.00 for a light morning's work."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "5459",
    "Idiom": [
      "money for old rope"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Money earned with little effort.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "5460",
    "Idiom": [
      "money pit"
    ],
    "Meaning": "A possession that incurs excessive ongoing expenses.",
    "Sentence": [
      "The district does not want to hold on to the nearly 50-year old school for very much longer, as it has outlived its usefulness and has become a money pit.",
      "Critics lambasted the building's design, the art collection and Mr. Hartford, whose gallery became a money pit. Within a year he was nosing around for a partner or buyer.",
      "Close to two decades past deadline and now carrying a projected $100 billion price tag, it has not returned a lick of good science — nor is it likely to."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "5461",
    "Idiom": [
      "money talks",
      "money talks and bullshit walks"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Money has power.",
    "Sentence": [
      "He illustrated the fact of money talking in the case of Mrs. Rita Warren who successfully stopped the showing of 1001 Danish Delights in a local Norwell theatre, yet was promptly arrested when attempting the same picketing in front of the more profitable Ben Sack \"57\" theatre to stop the showing of The Exorcist.",
      "Money still talks — indeed, thanks in part to the Roberts court, it talks louder than ever. Still, ideas matter too, shaping both how we talk about society and, eventually, what we do."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "5462",
    "Idiom": [
      "money talks, bullshit walks"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Money is more effective than words.",
    "Sentence": [
      "“You taught me a great expression a few years ago, Joey—don’t forget it yourself.” “What expression?” I asked. “ Money talks—bullshit walks. Joey, the further away from the Chairman I get, the better I like it.”",
      "As my former congressman put it so inelegantly: \" Money talks; bullshit walks.\"",
      "First rule of the cold approach: money talks, bullshit walks. So Cal would tip the guy twenty dollars on a hundred-dollar tab."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "5463",
    "Idiom": [
      "money talks, wealth whispers"
    ],
    "Meaning": "True wealth is often discreet, while mere material wealth tends to seek attention.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "5464",
    "Idiom": [
      "money won is twice as sweet as money earned"
    ],
    "Meaning": "It is more enjoyable to win money than to earn it.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "5465-1",
    "Idiom": [
      "money's worth"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Satisfaction.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Carl Edwards spent most of his Saturday evening trying to get to Kyle Busch’s rear bumper. Once he finally got there, Edwards made sure he got his money’s worth."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "5465-2",
    "Idiom": [
      "money's worth"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Recompense or compensation for perceived injury or injustice.",
    "Sentence": [
      "\"Listen, Mikey,\" she said, \"when somebody tries to bully you, just punch him on the end of the nose the way you did old Panfilo. You be just as mean as you want to be and at least give him his money's worth."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "5466",
    "Idiom": [
      "monkey around"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To act foolishly.",
    "Sentence": [
      "I wanna be a man, mancub / And stroll right into town / And be just like the other men / I'm tired of monkeyin' around !"
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "5467-1",
    "Idiom": [
      "monkey business"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Mischievous or foolish activity.",
    "Sentence": [
      "I’m going to take off the cuffs, Slim, and off you, Jerry. But don’t try any monkey business. When Peters answers the door, you tell him everything’s O. K., and that you’re the committee, see? Once the door’s open, we’ll do the rest.",
      "I'm looking for monkey business / Just playing around / I'm here on monkey business / And look what I found",
      "Stop all this monkey business and do your homework!"
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "5467-2",
    "Idiom": [
      "monkey business"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Activity that is morally questionable or illegal.",
    "Sentence": [
      "If you ever hear a man talking about his duty as a citizen, by the Living Jingo dont trust him. … He's up to some kind of monkey business nine times out of ten. You dont know what a relief it is to me that you and Joe are comfortably settled in life.",
      "She wondered what sort of monkey business her neighbour was up to, sneaking out of his house at 1:00 am."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "5468-1",
    "Idiom": [
      "monkey up"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To mess up something.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "5468-2",
    "Idiom": [
      "monkey up"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To create a temporary solution or workaround.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "5469",
    "Idiom": [
      "monkey's paw",
      "monkey paw"
    ],
    "Meaning": "A wish fulfilled at significant cost or with ironic consequences.",
    "Sentence": [
      "It’s given me everything I thought I wanted – riches, lucre, affluence, having lots of money, and being very wealthy – but with monkey’s-paw precision it’s turned all my dreams against me.",
      "It’s a monkey’s paw of a legacy, to have birthed an immortal gastronomic titan but not to have attained immortality of one’s own.",
      "For many people, the extended period of quarantine and working from home necessitated by the coronavirus outbreak has turned into a monkey’s paw situation — a theoretical wish come true that has significant downsides.",
      "One person joked that Chet was the result of a monkey's paw situation with his father. ¶ 'Chet hanks is the price tom hanks paid to become tom hanks,' they wrote.",
      "\"Seems we were all living bad dreams,\" he said. \"Wishes coming true in a monkey-paw way.\"",
      "It was Tom's monkey paw, that wish that he could be the provider in the family. Suddenly my father was dead and the gauntlet was passed to my oldest brother.",
      "For obvious reasons, I didn't trust demon favors. I had to think quickly, something that wouldn't backfire. There was a lesson to be learned from that whole monkey paw deal."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "5470",
    "Idiom": [
      "month in, month out"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Continuously.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "5471",
    "Idiom": [
      "month of Sundays"
    ],
    "Meaning": "A very long time.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Let the Sunday papers have their day: it is all they have; though it would require a month of Sundays to read all they publish upon it.",
      "Why, what an orator you are! Really, I haven't heard more fluent or passionate English this month of Sundays.",
      "From many quarters in London even a park is far distant, while we have months of Sundays which are wet and cold, when the dens where many people live would be preferred because affording shelter from the weather.",
      "The most vivacious, sparkling, entertaining piece of comedy you are likely to come across in a month of Sundays.",
      "Just what do you hope to gain by badgering my people down here? They're not going to spill their guts to you in a month of Sundays.",
      "\"But if I told you the rest of the truth, you wouldn't believe me anyway.\" / \"Try me.\" / \"Guarantee it, you won't,\" the man teases. \"Not in a month of Sundays.\"",
      "As I listened to the tapes over months of Sundays, it became clear that I would not work with [John] Lilly. I was more interested in the dolphins speaking to dolphins than in the attempts to teach them our language.",
      "Over the years, she'd visited the McIntoshes and also her daughters in Sydney but she had never, in a month of Sundays, dreamed she would live there herself.",
      "I told her I had, indeed, read the plays of Mr. [Henrik] Ibsen, had seen them in numerous productions, and found them to be quite like the act of eating a box of soap flakes, when they were not like two months of Sundays in church.",
      "It seems like it’s been a month of Sundays since we saw him last."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "5472",
    "Idiom": [
      "moonlight flit"
    ],
    "Meaning": "A disappearing act, often to avoid paying rent.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "5473",
    "Idiom": [
      "moral bankruptcy"
    ],
    "Meaning": "A condition of being morally unethical.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "5474",
    "Idiom": [
      "moral high ground"
    ],
    "Meaning": "A position that is ethically superior to others.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Her legitimacy (as the leader of the party that won the 1990 general election), integrity and stoic acceptance of house arrest enable her to occupy the moral high ground.",
      "Sara Jacobs, a California Democrat on the House armed services committee, said the US should not “cede the moral high ground ”."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "5475",
    "Idiom": [
      "moral low ground"
    ],
    "Meaning": "A position that is unethical or less reputable.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "5476",
    "Idiom": [
      "moral of the story"
    ],
    "Meaning": "The key lesson or message conveyed by an incident or situation.",
    "Sentence": [
      "The moral of the story — \"Wait till you're a big pot\" — is a sound one.",
      "(please add the primary text of this usage example)"
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "5477",
    "Idiom": [
      "morally bankrupt"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Having no morals.",
    "Sentence": [
      "When man loses the simple faith of his childhood, belief in home, family, and God, he is morally bankrupt. When man is morally bankrupt, he seeks something to live by and is ripe for Communist conversion.",
      "Is it morally bankrupt of a company to switch from one generally accepted accounting method to another generally accepted accounting method just because the switch happens to increase reported earnings?",
      "Retreat from governmental protection and from strong advocacy of social justice is caused \"by the morally bankrupt political leadership in America.\" He cited Congressional efforts to maintain a dual, unequal system of public education and lack of enforcement of fair housing."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "5478",
    "Idiom": [
      "more cry than wool"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Dramatic assertions with little evidence.",
    "Sentence": [
      "In rebuttal, the petitioner offers more cry than wool. He points first to the vague threats that his family and friends relayed to him during his 1990 return to El Salvador, and speculates that members of the FMLN still sought to harm him at that time. This is unabashed surmise."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "5479",
    "Idiom": [
      "more equal"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Ostensibly equal, but privileged.",
    "Sentence": [
      "All animals are equal, but some animals are more equal than others.",
      "... men who supposedly enjoyed equality and freedom, but in fact did not. The rich more equal than the poor at Strasbourg?... is there a gap between what human rights say they do and what they actually do?",
      "All the world leaders at the G-8 Summit are supposed to be equal in stature. But in some ways, President George W. Bush is more equal than others.",
      "He clearly believes some states are more equal than others."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "5480",
    "Idiom": [
      "more haste, less speed"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Hurrying can lead to poorer results and slower completion.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "5481",
    "Idiom": [
      "more often than not"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Usually; more likely to be the case than not.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Regular passengers become familiar with their train and attempts to change its make-up or any other aspect of its working are more often than not frowned upon, even though the change is probably for the better.",
      "he would gather his courage and set out between the columned arches to ask one of the unaccompanied women to partner him. More often than not, their answer was no.",
      "More often than not, tomato seeds will sprout even if they are a couple of years old."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "5482",
    "Idiom": [
      "more than meets the eye"
    ],
    "Meaning": "More than what is apparent.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Rock and roll can never die / There's more to the picture than meets the eye"
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "5483",
    "Idiom": [
      "more than one bargained for"
    ],
    "Meaning": "An unexpected and usually unwanted result.",
    "Sentence": [
      "This was more than he had bargained for, and he squeaked shrilly with the pain.",
      "The sound of guns grew louder.... What if the Germans were to break through and sweep over all calculations? This was a little more than Jimmie Higgins had bargained for when he entered the recruiting-office in Leesville, U.S.A.!",
      "They found much and more than they had bargained for. Nestled amid the weeds and debris near the bottom of the slope was a human skull.",
      "A bull elephant gave tourists in Thailand more than they bargained for on Sunday when it sat on and rubbed itself along their cars."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "5484",
    "Idiom": [
      "more's the pity"
    ],
    "Meaning": "It is unfortunate.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Folks, however, cannot (and, alas, more's the pity !) eat and drink, and dance and sing, for ever."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "5485",
    "Idiom": [
      "morning person"
    ],
    "Meaning": "A person who easily wakes up early and is alert in the morning.",
    "Sentence": [
      "\"I am a night person. My husband is a morning person since he had to get up early for years for his job.\" – Mrs. K. G.",
      "I'm a confirmed morning person, a wind-up doll who starts my day in near-manic motion and ends it with slow, mechanical tasks requiring little energy or thought."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "5486",
    "Idiom": [
      "most an end"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Generally.",
    "Sentence": [
      "She sleeps most an end.",
      "[We] have most an end, a strong inclination to make a farce of it, and mingle buffoonry with the most serious scenes."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "5487",
    "Idiom": [
      "mother hen"
    ],
    "Meaning": "An overprotective or assertive person.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Baela sends a letter by raven to her father Daemon spilling all the tea, and the news sends a now-pregnant Rhaenyra into mother-hen mode."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "5488",
    "Idiom": [
      "mother lode"
    ],
    "Meaning": "A source of valuable material.",
    "Sentence": [
      "It is also letting them probe the genomes of other organisms for DNA that could turn out to be a mother lode for medicine.",
      "Emerging, but No Longer a Mother Lode of Profits [title]"
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "5489",
    "Idiom": [
      "mother-hive"
    ],
    "Meaning": "A source for a group of people.",
    "Sentence": [
      "[John Whitman] came over in the True Love in 1640 to America and lived in Weymouth, Mass., which place became the mother-hive of the New Englanders of the name."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "5490",
    "Idiom": [
      "motion of someone's ocean"
    ],
    "Meaning": "The way someone moves during sex.",
    "Sentence": [
      "I wanna be down in your South Seas But I got this notion that the motion of your ocean Means small craft advisory",
      "Phil loved fucking me in the ass and I always let him. Why? Because I loved every minute of it. I wish it could last forever. It was the swivel of his hips, the motion of his ocean, the places he reached, and the things he said as he reached them. In anticipation of the moment, I made sure I sucked his dick twice and drained him. I wanted him to last in this ass. He never disappointed."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "5491",
    "Idiom": [
      "mouth breather"
    ],
    "Meaning": "A person considered boorish or unattractive.",
    "Sentence": [
      "She's a philosophy major from Brown, now working retail at Niagara Falls, living in a trailer and working for a \" mouth breather \" of a boss."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "5492",
    "Idiom": [
      "mouth the words"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To speak insincerely.",
    "Sentence": [
      "They mouth the words “ democracy ” and “ Americanism ”, but they inject in their preachments national hatred, national aggrandizement, and glorification of the fascist dictatorships.",
      "By proposing to eliminate Title II programs for fiscal year 1992, President Bush is sending America's colleges and universities, and those they seek to educate a most disheartening message: that he is willing to mouth the words “educational excellence,” but he is not willing to invest in the programs that can make such excellence realizable."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "5493",
    "Idiom": [
      "mouthful of marbles"
    ],
    "Meaning": "An indistinct or muffled manner of speaking.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Anticholinergic toxicity results in a characteristic mumbling, as if the patient is trying to quickly recite a haiku with a mouthful of marbles."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "5494-1",
    "Idiom": [
      "move furniture"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To engage someone physically.",
    "Sentence": [
      "My guy, I'm telling you. If you hit me, I mean, we gonna be moving some furniture."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "5494-2",
    "Idiom": [
      "move furniture"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To have sex, often vigorously.",
    "Sentence": [
      "How about you come over later and we'll catch up, watch a movie, and move a little furniture ?"
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "5495",
    "Idiom": [
      "move heaven and earth"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To do whatever is necessary, including extreme actions.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Our policy reflects too little of this. The official line is enduring commitment, and promises to move heaven and earth for those most in danger. But in practice Afghanistan is being swept under the carpet.",
      "He would move heaven and earth to make sure his family is healthy."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "5496",
    "Idiom": [
      "move house"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To change residence.",
    "Sentence": [
      "I haven’t had any post since I moved house."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "5497-1",
    "Idiom": [
      "move it or lose it",
      "use it or lose it"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Skills seldom used are likely to be forgotten.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Any piece of curriculum, devoid of an opportunity to wield it, suffers the same fate as unutilized Spanish instruction. The time-tested colloquialism is accurate: use it or lose it."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "5498-1",
    "Idiom": [
      "move on"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To continue.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Moving on again, I catch another GWR Class 802 bound for Oxford via the Cotswold Line.",
      "After spending the night resting in an abandoned church, the group decided to move on in their quest."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "5498-2",
    "Idiom": [
      "move on"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To start dealing with something else.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Well, good for you, I guess you moved on really easily / You found a new girl and it only took a couple weeks",
      "The best revenge is always to just happily move on and let karma do the rest."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "5498-3",
    "Idiom": [
      "move on"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To attempt a seduction, perceived as disloyal or rude.",
    "Sentence": [
      "I think Shane is going to move on my ex tonight."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "5499",
    "Idiom": [
      "move one's body"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To dance.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "5500-1",
    "Idiom": [
      "move out"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To leave one's current location.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Alright, troops, line up and move out !"
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "5500-2",
    "Idiom": [
      "move out"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To vacate a residence or job.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Who needs a house out in Hackensack?",
      "We must move out before the end of the month or we'll be paying extra rent."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "5501",
    "Idiom": [
      "move someone to tears"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To cause to cry.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "5502",
    "Idiom": [
      "move the goalposts"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To change the terms or rules of a negotiation unfairly while it’s ongoing.",
    "Sentence": [
      "The tempo at which events are moving, the technological changes and the new developments being encountered on all sides sometimes gives the impression that the objectives or goal posts are constantly being moved.",
      "The conflict between being a lady and having a career was crystallized when I was in high school. It seemed as if my mother kept moving the goalposts around.",
      "The common thread to these four problems is the question of wha can reasonably be inferred about the covert processes, as opposed to the overt acts, of other organisms if we and they cannot communicate directly through verbal disclosure. No one baulks at applying the same standards of inference to other cultures of our species, but it is still easy to move the goalposts when another species is involved .",
      "Sooner or later we have to have rules, and we have to know that they are not going to change, for people to have business plans developed and so that they can go out and raise capital and stick with their business model. But if there is this constant uncertainty that when the Commission changes, or when they have another rule tha they are going to move the goal posts again, nobody is going to want to have anything to do with this field.",
      "He had to put down a deposit of sixty grand to secure the theatre and just as he was about to sign the cheque, American Equity moved the goalposts yet again.",
      "When a practice harmfully moves the goalposts, but does not violate freedom to trade, the ban on \"unfair methods of competition\" in Section 5 of the FTC Act might be a better fit than the ban on restraints of trade in the Sherman Act.",
      "This is a Government that meets its economic targets and does not move the goalposts.",
      "We were given a moving date, and an exchange date, but the buyers kept moving the goalposts and giving us a later date."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "5503",
    "Idiom": [
      "move the needle"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To change a situation significantly.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Think Red Hots are a taste challenge? Or the Atomic Fireball is the ultimate tongue torture? They barely move the needle for confectionery connoisseurs.",
      "How does a participant in a sector, or an entire sector for that matter, move the needle on climate change?",
      "“Given Apple’s huge success and its sheer magnitude, it needs a monstrous new product or enhancement of an existing product to move the needle on growth.”",
      "A North Star Metric (NSM) allows everyone, irrespective of team status, to ask, “How is what I'm doing today helping move the needle on our NSM?”",
      "Speaking in January, OpenAI’s chief executive, Sam Altman, appeared dismissive of NYT’s relevance to its products. “Any one particular training source, it doesn’t move the needle for us that much,” he said."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "5504",
    "Idiom": [
      "move the yardsticks"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To make progress.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "5505",
    "Idiom": [
      "move through the gears"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To gradually increase speed.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Spain failed to move through the gears despite exerting control for lengthy spells and a measure of perspective must be applied immediately to the outcome."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "5506",
    "Idiom": [
      "move up in the world"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To improve one's social or financial position.",
    "Sentence": [
      "\" And I'll even tolerate Emily's presence if that makes it better for you.\" \"Ooh. Tolerance. I'm moving up in the world.\""
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "5507",
    "Idiom": [
      "move your feet, lose your seat"
    ],
    "Meaning": "If you leave your seat, someone else may take it.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "5508",
    "Idiom": [
      "much ado about nothing"
    ],
    "Meaning": "A lot of fuss about something trivial.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "5509",
    "Idiom": [
      "much less"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To say nothing of.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Of the thing that sustains him through trials man has no inkling, much less knowledge, at the time.",
      "Why, not even a little bird or a tiny butterfly comes here, much less a human being!",
      "It is hopeless for him to return to India and expect to earn bread, much less to make a fortune.",
      "We had not at Chattanooga animals to pull a single piece of artillery, much less a supply train."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "5510",
    "Idiom": [
      "much of a muchness"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Having little significant difference between two or more things.",
    "Sentence": [
      "As to any existing dearth of materials for comedy, I hold it to be merely imaginary; for I believe that on a fair comparison, the manners and morals of the present age and those of the past, would prove much of a muchness.",
      "“He was not,” answered a juror. “Old Peter Goodwin could not have been more than five feet five, and Dorothy was all of that, I should think. When they came to meeting together, they looked much of a muchness.”",
      "In fact, he said, in spite of all efforts to lift the popular taste, things were much of a muchness with the old days when in popular novels the villain, had to be foiled, the hero had to triumph and the lovers had to be united.",
      "Private houses in London are apt to be much of a muchness. The door opens on a dark hall; from the dark hall rises a narrow staircase; off the landing opens a double drawing-room, and in this double drawing-room are two sofas on each side of a blazing fire, six armchairs, and three long windows giving upon the street.",
      "The songs are much of a muchness (or littleness), all sounding forgettably alike.",
      "There are small trees and large shrubs which are much of a muchness, and it may not be possible to say whether an individual plant is a tall member of the shrub layer or a short tree.",
      "There were many legislative and political battles to be fought before the fundamental idea that all people were much of a muchness was translated into a culture of equal rights for all, but gradually rights were extended from landowners, to rich men, to not so rich men, to all men, and then to women.",
      "The majority are much of a muchness so, unless you are desperately trying to find a way to waste money, I’d rarely venture into high double digits."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "5511",
    "Idiom": [
      "mud fence"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Something unattractive or ugly.",
    "Sentence": [
      "homely as a mud fence, uglier than a mud fence, plain as a mud fence"
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "5512",
    "Idiom": [
      "mud monkey"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Refers to a builder using earth, mud, or clay.",
    "Sentence": [
      "He's a mud monkey digging all-day, gathering clay for his sculpture."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "5513",
    "Idiom": [
      "muddle along"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To proceed in an unorganized and unplanned manner.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Executives are content to muddle along as long as profits are satisfactory — Attention to operating matters is a child of adversity.",
      "Indeed, they may muddle along a little better, armed with the view that the world is subject to their control.",
      "But evidence from the past few years indicates that Russia will continue to muddle along and that, in a few years, it will probably “muddle upward”."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "5514",
    "Idiom": [
      "muddy the waters"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To make something unclear.",
    "Sentence": [
      "He insisted that the Basque separatist group Eta remained the main line of investigation, and suggested the tape may have been an attempt to muddy the waters.",
      "“Thank you for having me on,” Banks began. The one statement he made that sounded genuinely credible. It’s not often that someone accused of electoral fraud gets to muddy the waters on live television ahead of a possible criminal investigation."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "5515",
    "Idiom": [
      "muddy up"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To confuse or obscure an issue.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "5516",
    "Idiom": [
      "mug's game"
    ],
    "Meaning": "A foolish or hopeless undertaking.",
    "Sentence": [
      "‘It's a mug's game,’ said Crabbe.",
      "The sheer destructiveness of nuclear weapons makes the quest for defenses a mug's game.",
      "Although they aspired, like all natural-born gamblers, to taking a flutter and beating that system (they all loved the idea of tips, of course), they were sufficiently cynical to know it's a mug's game and that it was largely bound to fail."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "5517",
    "Idiom": [
      "mum's the word"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Indicates a secret that should not be revealed.",
    "Sentence": [
      "… and that mum is the word till I give you liberty to speak",
      "“Well, does she know how you feel?” “Honestly, Charmaine, I do not even know how I feel.” “Aw. Well, you should tell her.” “I should tell no one! Can you keep this secret, Charmaine?” “Mm-hmm.” “Good. Because if you don't, I'll kill you in your sleep.” “Okay, mum's the word.”",
      "She doesn't know anything about it yet, so mum's the word, OK?"
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "5518",
    "Idiom": [
      "murder will out"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Secrets will eventually be exposed.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "5519",
    "Idiom": [
      "mush up"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To crush into a paste.",
    "Sentence": [
      "My baby's food needs to be mushed up before she can eat it."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "5520",
    "Idiom": [
      "music to someone's ears"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Pleasing sound or good news.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Sweete Princesse of my life (said he) what Trophees, what Triumph, what Monuments, what Historis may ever make my fame yeeld so sweete a Musicke to my eares,",
      "The earnestness and passion with which the young man uttered his feelings, made music to her ears :",
      "People who had an ax to grind, or people who for any reason wanted to get on the soft side of him, called him The Christian—a phrase whose delicate flattery was music to his ears, and whose capital T was such an enchanting and vivid object to him that he could see it when it fell out of a person's mouth even in the dark.",
      "And he led the way from the station, stopping once to gloat over the sunset across Trafalgar Square, and again to inhale the tarry scent of the warm wood-paving, which was perfume to his nostrils as the din of its traffic was music to his ears, before we came to one of those political palaces which permit themselves to be included in the list of ordinary clubs.",
      "\"We should aim for a lower ambition,\" [Richard] Dannatt said. Not what you might call music to his boss's ears.",
      "This will be music to the ears of contractors, manufacturers and suppliers, who have long argued that they cannot safeguard jobs if they have to live from year to year."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "5521",
    "Idiom": [
      "mutual admiration society"
    ],
    "Meaning": "A group that excessively praises and supports each other.",
    "Sentence": [
      "And the said members did accordingly resolve themselves into a little \" mutual admiration society \" for the entertainment and benefit of their visitors.",
      "The note is from a special friend of yours; indeed I think you form a little mutual-admiration society.",
      "Vandeloup smiled at this, and came to the conclusion that the Wopples family was a mutual admiration society.",
      "If you don't want a mutual admiration society, which dies as soon as you've all discovered each other's faults, you must nobble the Press.",
      "Joe DiMaggio and Willie Mays had a mutual admiration society and the Clipper was happy to put his respect into writing.",
      "Those two are incessantly flattering one another. They've formed an utterly nauseating mutual admiration society !"
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "5522",
    "Idiom": [
      "my arse"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Indicates disbelief or contradiction.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Does this circuitous process of misinformation display the ‘liquid clearness of an Ionian sky’? My arse it does.",
      "Denise: Dad! Your fly hole's all undone. Jim: Ah, the cage might be open, but the beast is asleep. Barbara: Beast my arse."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "5523",
    "Idiom": [
      "my bad"
    ],
    "Meaning": "My fault.",
    "Sentence": [
      "DMV Tester: Watch out for the bike rid…! Cher: [swerving car to avoid cyclist] Oops! My bad !",
      "Yes, I realise the car isn't supposed to be parked in the heirloom flowerbed. My bad."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "5524",
    "Idiom": [
      "my enemy's enemy is my friend",
      "the enemy of my enemy is my friend"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Cooperate with an adversary to combat a common threat.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "5525",
    "Idiom": [
      "my eye"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Expression of disapproval or disbelief.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "5526",
    "Idiom": [
      "my foot"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Indicates disapproval or disbelief.",
    "Sentence": [
      "\"He's clever at his business,\" Matilda said. \"Clever my foot !\" the Trunchbull shouted.",
      "Aerodynamics, my foot ! The thing drives like a billboard."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "5527",
    "Idiom": [
      "my skull's afly"
    ],
    "Meaning": "I’m awake and alert.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "5528",
    "Idiom": [
      "my way or the highway"
    ],
    "Meaning": "An ultimatum implying compliance with the speaker's demands or exclusion.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Gingrich... My Way or the Highway [title]",
      "His my-way-or-the-highway attitude doesn't fit U.S. foreign-policy concerns or domestic issues."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "5529-1",
    "Idiom": [
      "my word"
    ],
    "Meaning": "An expression of surprise.",
    "Sentence": [
      "My word ! What is that!?"
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "5529-2",
    "Idiom": [
      "my word"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Affirmation or agreement.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "5530",
    "Idiom": [
      "na-na na-na boo-boo"
    ],
    "Meaning": "A taunt indicating superiority or satisfaction in someone's misfortune.",
    "Sentence": [
      "... is that the educators out there aren't aware of this, they don't know it or what? Ms. Bolinger. It's like na na na na boo boo, make me do it. [Laughter.]...",
      "[Translator's note by David R. Slavitt]...here is to make clear that this is a display of Schadenfreude, an elegant cocking of the snooks, a protracted \"Na-na, na-na, boo-boo,\" a symphonic Bronx cheer!"
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "5531",
    "Idiom": [
      "nail down"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To make something firm or certain.",
    "Sentence": [
      "They haven't nailed down their vacation plans yet."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "5532",
    "Idiom": [
      "nail the hammer on the head"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Nonstandard form of \"hit the nail on the head.\"",
    "Sentence": [
      "As far as solving this math problem goes, I'd say you pretty much nailed the hammer on the head."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "5533",
    "Idiom": [
      "naked ape"
    ],
    "Meaning": "A human being.",
    "Sentence": [
      "What, after all, can a poor naked ape do?",
      "Humans are unique among the monkeys and apes in lacking a dense layer of hair covering their bodies.",
      "Anheuser-Busch ads have played up the similarities between ape and naked ape —with the lower primates usually looking better."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "5534",
    "Idiom": [
      "name and shame"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To publicly identify and blame someone for wrongdoing.",
    "Sentence": [
      "The England captain Courtney Lawes believes “unacceptable” racist behaviour must be stamped out of rugby and those responsible named and shamed following last week’s shocking revelations by his former teammate Luther Burrell."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "5535",
    "Idiom": [
      "name names"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To identify specific individuals involved in wrongdoing.",
    "Sentence": [
      "\"Pr'ythee, peace, man,\" said Avenel; \"what need of naming names, so we understand each other? \"",
      "They named names —names which I shall not record here.",
      "He named names; the whole gang was rounded up, and all were sentenced to two years in reform school.",
      "Sometimes it is not the journalist who is in peril but the subject of a story, and naming names can leave both the reporter and the reader uneasy."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "5536",
    "Idiom": [
      "name of the game"
    ],
    "Meaning": "The essential element to achieve a goal.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Behind the turntables is DJ Train / Mixin' and scratchin' is the name of the game",
      "Some recipes also use raising agents, but I don’t think they’re really necessary – fluffiness is not the name of the game here.",
      "In the microprocessor business, speed is the name of the game."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "5537",
    "Idiom": [
      "name one's poison"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Indicates preferred alcoholic beverage.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "5538",
    "Idiom": [
      "narrow down"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To make more specific.",
    "Sentence": [
      "All the food on the menu looked delicious, so I tried to narrow down my choices to only healthy foods.",
      "After consulting with witnesses, the police narrowed down the suspects to those who had facial hair."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "5539-1",
    "Idiom": [
      "native soil"
    ],
    "Meaning": "The place of one's birth or true homeland.",
    "Sentence": [
      "They were peculiarly honored by the unexpected presence in their midst \"of that famous son of the South, Colonel Starbottle,\" who had lately returned to his native soil from his adopted home in California.",
      "\"Look back, Peter,\" he said, \"and you can get your last glimpse of your native soil. The black line that just shows under the sky is Sandy Hook.\"",
      "Nawaz Sharif, two-time Prime Minister of Pakistan, had planned a triumphant return to his native soil nearly seven years after choosing exile."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "5539-2",
    "Idiom": [
      "native soil"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Place of origin or natural habitat.",
    "Sentence": [
      "But who else from seeing a plant in an herbarium can imagine its appearance when growing in its native soil ?",
      "What a strange idea—what a needless labor—to construct artificial ruins in Rome, the native soil of ruin!",
      "An innate passion for all that was thus distinguished and exceptional made her revere Hillbridge as the native soil of those intellectual amenities that were of such difficult growth in the thin air of East Onondaigua."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "5540",
    "Idiom": [
      "nature calls"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Indicates a need to use the bathroom.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "5541",
    "Idiom": [
      "nature of the beast"
    ],
    "Meaning": "The unchangeable nature of something.",
    "Sentence": [
      "This slight way of treating both his book and his ancestors nettled little Puddock – who never himself took a liberty, and expected similar treatment – but he knew Sturk, the nature of the beast, and he only bowed grandly",
      "\"A little slow, that's all; but that's the nature of the beast.\""
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "5542",
    "Idiom": [
      "near and dear"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Loved or cared for greatly.",
    "Sentence": [
      "This bracelet is a gift from my spouse, who I hold near and dear.",
      "Writing has been near and dear to me for a long time."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "5543",
    "Idiom": [
      "near post"
    ],
    "Meaning": "The goalpost nearest to the cross.",
    "Sentence": [
      "This was a small element of a remarkably assured performance that started with a crucial early save from Christian Pulisic and also saw him deny Chelsea a last-gasp win with a near-post block from Romelu Lukaku in the closing seconds of extra time."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "5544",
    "Idiom": [
      "nearest and dearest"
    ],
    "Meaning": "One's closest family and friends.",
    "Sentence": [
      "While all mourned and honoured the dead, thou hast lived to merit our hate and execration—lived to unite thyself with the vile tyrant who murdered thy nearest and dearest —",
      "Several days passed by, and to all appearance we had quite forgotten our poor old servitor, – so heartless in remembrance is weak humanity to its nearest and dearest, – when, in course of time, it got to be New Year's eve, and we were sitting in our study, awaiting the cook's preparations for dinner, when suddenly we heard a noise as of much tramping.",
      "Christmas is the time to nurture friendships and spend as much time as possible with your nearest and dearest.",
      "I think the immigrant, as a rule, clings more to the homeland and to culture and music than the person who's surrounded by it all the time. That would often be the last sight of their homeland, it would be the last sight of their nearest and dearest, and yet, over and above that, they still felt the need to go and try and get a better life, whether it was voluntary and whether they were thrown off their lands or whatever."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "5545",
    "Idiom": [
      "nearly never bulled a cow"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Near enough is not good enough.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "5546",
    "Idiom": [
      "nearly never won the race"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Near enough is not good enough.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "5547",
    "Idiom": [
      "neat and tidy"
    ],
    "Meaning": "In a state of good order.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "5548",
    "Idiom": [
      "necessary evil"
    ],
    "Meaning": "An unfavorable but necessary action.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Another punishing round of chemo is a necessary evil if Lisa is to have a fighting chance against the cancer.",
      "My boss is a real piece of work, but my kids make keeping this job a necessary evil."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "5549",
    "Idiom": [
      "necessity is the mother of innovation",
      "necessity is the mother of invention"
    ],
    "Meaning": "A need for something drives innovation.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "5550",
    "Idiom": [
      "necessity knows no law"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Great need can lead to law-breaking.",
    "Sentence": [
      "\"Necessity knows no law.\""
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "5551",
    "Idiom": [
      "neck and neck"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Very close in progress.",
    "Sentence": [
      "It lay between me and Dick Riot madam; we were neck and neck for three miles, as hard as we could lay leg to ground, and running every inch, but at the first, I felt for him, found I had the foot",
      "Mr. Prendergast's Rainbow filly, watched closely by Paul Jones, took the lead, and they ran almost neck and neck until near the cords, when Paul Jones made a rush, and came home by a length.",
      "Mr. M. N. Rollason points out that on four-track lines on which the fast lines, in the centre, are flanked by the slow lines, and running at speed is permissible on all four, the traveller can enjoy some quite exciting experiences when trains are doing a \" neck-and-neck \" on adjacent lines.",
      "Passing Iver, W.R. 4-6-0 No. 1012 County of Denbigh on the up \"Capitals United Express\" runs neck-and-neck with a parcels train headed by 4-6-0 No. 6821 Leaton Grange.",
      "The polls suggest that the candidates were neck and neck in the election."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "5552-1",
    "Idiom": [
      "neck of the woods"
    ],
    "Meaning": "A local neighborhood or region.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "5552-2",
    "Idiom": [
      "neck of the woods"
    ],
    "Meaning": "A familiar place or area.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "5553",
    "Idiom": [
      "necker's knob"
    ],
    "Meaning": "A knob on a steering wheel that aids steering with one hand, allowing the other hand for romantic gestures.",
    "Sentence": [
      "You remember the necker's knob on your high school jalopy?"
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "5554",
    "Idiom": [
      "necktie party"
    ],
    "Meaning": "An execution by hanging.",
    "Sentence": [
      "\"I expect I'll have an invite to a necktie-party some day.... I'm always afraid the wrong necktie will be mine. Were you ever lynched?\"",
      "I made my jail break just in time to keep from being invited as chief guest to a necktie party.",
      "One peasant threw a grass rope over a hook high on the pole. Said Shupe: \"It sure looked like a necktie party was being organized. I had no doubt they were going to hang me.\"",
      "Last week, my 17-year-old son and I went to see the movie True Grit.... A triple hanging kicks the thing off with a snap as three corpses jerk violently from the gallows. The necktie party is followed by shootings, stabbings and a smorgasbord of violence."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "5555",
    "Idiom": [
      "need yesterday"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To need something urgently.",
    "Sentence": [
      "We need help - and we need it yesterday - if local government is to remain a viable entity in our society",
      "Many people in systems work are so used to digging in and getting the job done in record time (we need it yesterday !) that the thought of taking several weeks to develop a plan before \"doing\" anything might sound like heresy to them.",
      "We need a cultural change and shift in people’s perceptions of the concept of “progress” but we need it yesterday and are fast running out of time.",
      "“Take care of it then,” the President shouted. “I need a summary of the situation and I need a solution. And, I need it yesterday.”"
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "5556",
    "Idiom": [
      "need-to-know"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Given only when necessary.",
    "Sentence": [
      "10 to 2 a.m., X, Yogi DMT and a box of Krispy Kremes In my need-to-know post just outside of Area 51 Contemplating the whole \"Chosen People\" thingy When just a flaming stealth banana split the sky Like one would hope, but never really expect to see in a place like this"
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "5557-1",
    "Idiom": [
      "needle drop"
    ],
    "Meaning": "A digital copy of a vinyl record.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "5557-2",
    "Idiom": [
      "needle drop"
    ],
    "Meaning": "The use of a pre-existing song in a film's soundtrack.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Early on, the film even blunders into outright hackwork, employing laughably literal-minded needle drops. Given the thorny intelligence of Chandor’s previous films (which also include Margin Call and A Most Violent Year), it’s hard to believe that he thought it was a good idea to play Fleetwood Mac’s “The Chain” over a sequence of Pope telling the others that he can’t do this job without them, or to accompany shots of the men running through the jungle with Creedence Clearwater Revival’s “Run Through The Jungle.” (Okay, they’re stealthily walking. But still.)"
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "5558",
    "Idiom": [
      "needle in a haystack"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Something difficult to find.",
    "Sentence": [
      "You'll never find the paper you need on her desk. You're looking for a needle in a haystack."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "5559",
    "Idiom": [
      "needless to say"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Clearly, obviously.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Some time ago I was on the footplate of an engine fresh from the shops after overhaul, and the combined efforts of driver and fireman were needed to open and close the regulator. Needless to say, the men were not in a very happy frame of mind.\"",
      "Having won the championship, he is, needless to say, a very happy man."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "5560",
    "Idiom": [
      "needs must when the devil drives"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Sometimes, one has no choice but to act.",
    "Sentence": [
      "He needs must goe, the Devil drives.",
      "My poor body, madam, requires it: I am driven on by the flesh; and he must needs go that the devil drives.",
      "I doubt we can make it on foot, laden as we are. Dear me! I think we had better have a cab. An extravagance, of course, but needs must where the devil drives, eh?"
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "5561",
    "Idiom": [
      "neither a borrower nor a lender be"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Avoid borrowing or lending money to maintain trust and friendship.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "5562",
    "Idiom": [
      "neither fish nor fowl",
      "neither fish, flesh, nor good red herring"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Not easily categorized; not fitting well in a given group or situation.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Besides, I know I should hate being there without you; I'm a great old thing, as Jasper says, neither fish nor fowl, you know, not come out, and not a little girl in the schoolroom, and it would be very horrid going to a grand place like that on one's own account.",
      "My hump was due, I made no doubt, first, to my precarious position in the wilderness, but more than that to my anomalous social position, for it seemed to me now that I was neither fish nor fowl. I was no longer a gentleman's man—the familiar boundaries of that office had been swept away; on the other hand, I was most emphatically not the gentleman I had set myself up to be, and I was weary of the pretence.",
      "\"To tell you the truth,\" he confided, \"I am a little tired of my job. Neither fish nor fowl, don't you know. I took an observation course at Scotland Yard, but I suppose I am too slow-witted for what they call secret-service work over here.\"",
      "The trouble, Kenneth, is in you. You are neither fish nor fowl. You are a country lout—fit only to associate with pigs.",
      "Ms. [Etta] James, who has been a blues, rhythm-and-blues, funk and soul singer, said she no longer had to worry about being \" neither fish nor fowl.\" \"I know what I am now,\" she declared. \"I'm rock-and-roll.\"",
      "\"Docudrama\" is by its nature a confusing genre— neither fish nor fowl, and thus lacking either taste or substance. (Maybe tofu is a better analogy.)",
      "The work of Ude is intended for the higher ranks, and for people of fortune. We conceive the book and the cook to have been overrated. It is neither French nor English — neither fish, flesh, nor good red herring. For the rest, Lord Sefton, who was too much of a mere glutton, would have perverted the taste of any cook, however good, who had been long in his service.",
      "He had frequent fits of melancholy in which he declared that he was neither fish nor flesh nor good red herring. His was neither an irresponsibly contemplative nature nor a sturdily practical one, and he was for ever looking in vain for the uses of the things that please and the charm of the things that sustain.",
      "It is neither fish, flesh, nor fowl; or Neither fish, flesh, nor good red herring. Not fish (food for the monk), not flesh (food for the people generally), nor yet red herring (food for paupers). Suitable to no class of people; fit for neither one thing nor another. ⁂ Fish comes first because in the Middle Ages the clergy took precedence of the laity. “She would be a betwixt-and-between ... . neither fish nor fowl.” — Mrs. Lynn Linton."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "5563",
    "Idiom": [
      "neither here nor there"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Having no impact on the issue.",
    "Sentence": [
      "I had life troubles and heart troubles which are neither here nor there in this narrative. But, combined with them, were intellectual troubles which are indeed germane.",
      "“It would be most irregular Grandpa!” says Miss Cecily frowning and tapping her foot. “Well, we’re a pretty irregular family so that’s neither here nor there,” says the old man, impish like.",
      "The fact that pledges willingly submit themselves to hazing is neither here nor there, and any organization that engages in hazing will lose its charter."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "5564",
    "Idiom": [
      "nerve-shredder"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Something very suspenseful.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "5565",
    "Idiom": [
      "nerves of steel"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Great bravery or composure.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "5566",
    "Idiom": [
      "nervous hit"
    ],
    "Meaning": "A production with positive reviews but uncertain success.",
    "Sentence": [
      "But it hardly mattered; her singing (including \"My Own Best Friend\" made into a solo) and performing were so strong that few quibbled, especially as she was accomplishing a valiant task by selling out a new, somewhat nervous hit while its regular star recovered."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "5567",
    "Idiom": [
      "never ask the barber if you need a haircut"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Do not seek advice from a biased party.",
    "Sentence": [
      "You never ask the barber if you need a haircut. What do you think he will say? So corn farmers tell Congress that ethanol is good and will help stop the greenhouse effect and make cars run smoother and we will all be in energy heaven if we listen to them."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "5568-1",
    "Idiom": [
      "never change a running system"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Do not change something while it is working.",
    "Sentence": [
      "That is, applying a specialised new policy to only improve a temporary capacity extension may be unsuitable (“ Never change a running system !”).",
      "This is the weakest point of the current practice: the deployment of complex systems on a heterogeneous, distributed platform is typically a nightmare, the required system-level testing is virtually unsupported, and maintenance and upgrading very often turn out to be extremely time consuming and expensive, de facto responsible for the slogan “ never change a running system ”.",
      "“ Never change a running system ” is a widely used statement in software development, and it is also applicable when you consider moving your application to the cloud.",
      "It’s not a coincidence that the following saying offers insight into the CIOs’ minds: ‘ Never change a running system.’ However, just keeping the lights on seems to prevent innovation."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "5568-2",
    "Idiom": [
      "never change a running system"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Don't fix something that works well.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "5569",
    "Idiom": [
      "never fight a land war in Asia"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Avoid taking on an overwhelming challenge.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Although Britain is one of the world's most lucrative markets, with retail sales of £286bn last year, expensive shop rents and world-class local competition have kept international groups at bay. Indeed, some analysts put the UK in the \" never fight a land war in Asia \" category due to the challenges posed by the market.",
      "Apple’s mistake in instigating a patent war with Samsung is illustrative of a larger pattern involving large stockpiles of patents. “ Never fight a land war in Asia ” comes to mind.",
      "\"Well listen here, Walmart,\" wrote blogger Caroline Gallay, \"you should heed the advice of Vizzini in The Princess Bride: Never fight a land war in Asia.\""
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "5570",
    "Idiom": [
      "never in a million years",
      "not in a million",
      "not in a million years"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Absolutely not.",
    "Sentence": [
      "“What am I going to do with him, Raj? My stepmother won’t let me keep him at home, especially as the little fella got me suspended from school. That woman hated my hamster, she is never in a million years going to let me keep a rat.”",
      "“I would never have dreamed in a million years,” he said, “that this would happen.”",
      "Now he was saying with immense satisfaction, \"Why, if a man was to have his pick, he couldn't get a better place than this. Not a blanky soul for miles, that I could see. Why, a man could practically bury himself in a place like this and no one would guess where he was in a million.\""
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "5571",
    "Idiom": [
      "never in a month of Sundays"
    ],
    "Meaning": "At no time whatsoever.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Never in a month of Sundays would I have imagined that you'd be this tall in real life!"
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "5572",
    "Idiom": [
      "never mind"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Not relevant; disregard it.",
    "Sentence": [
      "It’s remarkable that this game could have been even better than it was. The U.S. has rarely outplayed any opponent in its modern era of World Cup games, never mind a superpower that won its opener 6-2 over Iran.",
      "They wouldn't go near that place, never mind spending an entire day there."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "5573",
    "Idiom": [
      "never put off until tomorrow what you can do today"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Do not procrastinate.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "5574",
    "Idiom": [
      "never the twain shall meet"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Emphasizes that two subjects are too different to coexist or agree.",
    "Sentence": [
      "In Silverstein's terms, Frank is an \"excitement seeker\" and the lover is a \"home builder.\" Never the twain shall meet. Again, for a while I saw the conflict between the two in the movie as a refreshing examination of a problem many gay couples (of both sexes) face. But"
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "5575",
    "Idiom": [
      "never waste a crisis"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Exploit opportunities from crises.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "5576",
    "Idiom": [
      "never you mind"
    ],
    "Meaning": "None of your business.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "5577",
    "Idiom": [
      "new dawn"
    ],
    "Meaning": "A new beginning or important turning point.",
    "Sentence": [
      "I have consulted my pride, whether, after a rival's possession, I ought to ruin all my peace for a woman that another has been more blest in, though no man ever loved as I did: but love, victorious love! o'erthrows all that, and tells me, it is his nature never to remember; he still looks forward from the present hour, expecting still new dawns, new rising happiness; never looks back, never regards what is past, and left behind him, but buries and forgets it quite in the hot fierce pursuit of joy before him:",
      "The reformation, however, produced in Iceland a new dawn of learning; and a few rays of that light which had blazed over Europe from the discovery of printing shed a gleam on this remote island;",
      "We might as well be in the middle ages, whereas our sky is flushed with the rosy hue of a new dawn —the dawn of justice—justice not only to man but to woman—justice not to some men and some women, but to all men and all women! [From the Chicago Times.]",
      "Richard Beynon, who toured Australia in 1954, and whose play The Shifting Heart won the 1956 Sydney Journalists Club playwriting competition, hoped that a new dawn of Australian theatrical writing had arisen.",
      "For all that this was an era in which the London sculpture world seemed to lose any sense of cohesive direction, the spirit of invention had its occasional triumphs that gave succour to those of nationalist opinion who expected this to be a new dawn.",
      "More and more of us are living active lives as a consequence of life-saving treatments. Impulsive negative responses to these new dawns are unbecoming of the human spirit. That so many of them are derived from religious beliefs should be, and is here, a concern to other religious believers who hold that the negativity is ill-founded."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "5578",
    "Idiom": [
      "new kid on the block",
      "new kid in town"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Someone or something new to a community.",
    "Sentence": [
      "While the Reform Party is the new kid on the block, its members who attended its first national convention this weekend acted like delegates to any other political convention.",
      "In the first game, humanity was the new kid on the galactic block, struggling for respect as a freshly spacefaring species. As Commander Shepard, you discovered that not only humanity but also all intelligent life was under threat from an insecto-mechanical enemy called the Reapers.",
      "As the new kid in town, Renaissance had to almost muscle in to gain paths on a busy East Coast Main Line - but muscle in it did."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "5579",
    "Idiom": [
      "new normal"
    ],
    "Meaning": "A lasting change from the previous situation.",
    "Sentence": [
      "However, the abnormal condition may last for a few years, and the tendency to return to the former balance may never be more than partially realized. That is to say, the abnormal situation may persist until it becomes a new normal. This is the earliest occurrence of the term recorded by the Oxford English Dictionary.",
      "Well, it is a fact that in most of the food businesses your sales have increased very greatly in the past few years. Whether this is a permanent new level, and whether we are some day going back to what we call a normal level or did call a normal level, I do not know. Maybe this is a new normal and, of course, there is a lag between the time farm products go down, and the time that a processed food product goes down, and the length of that time lag is dependent upon the complexity of the processes through which the basic commodity goes, until it reaches the form in which it gets to the consumer.",
      "Clothing styles lead us quickest into new normals and out of old ones, as we can see quite readily by looking over the pictures in old magazines and books.",
      "I hope you will comply willingly; it will speed the day when I can bow out and life can get back to normal—a new normal, free of the Authority, free of guards, free of troops stationed on us, free of passports and searches and arbitrary arrests.",
      "After nine months of pregnancy, I'm sure you're ready to call your body your own and return to normal. The truth is, you probably won't feel \"normal\" for a while, especially if you're nursing. Even then, your new normal may turn out to be somewhat different from your old normal. Your body deserves time and attention during the weeks and months after your baby's birth so it can create the new normal as quickly and comfortably as possible.",
      "But scientists involved in the effort warned that squabbling among teams and government representatives from more than 100 countries – over how to portray the probable amount of sea-level rise during the 21st century – could distract from the basic finding that a warming world will be one in which shrinking coastlines are the new normal for centuries to come.",
      "The exhibit concluded with the statement about what the modern world owes to the Age of Revolution. It claims that the Age of Revolution “created several ‘ new normals ’,” among them that “slavery was fundamentally inhuman and had to be abolished”; But of course, these were not “normals” for much of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries and are still not “normals” in much of the world today.",
      "How should we respond to the new normal ? China's economic development is now in the new normal. This conclusion is drawn from analyzing the world economic cycle, China's development stage, and the interaction between the two. This conclusion has been widely recognized by the rest of the world. According to the IMF [International Monetary Fund], China's economic development is in the new normal, so is global economic development. Excerpts from a speech delivered in Mandarin at the Central Conference on Economic Work, 18 December 2015.",
      "For a while, therefore, it looked like the great heat wave would be like mass shootings in the United States—mourned by all, deplored by all, and then immediately forgotten or superseded by the next one, until they came in a daily drumbeat and became the new normal.",
      "Representative Joe Neguse of Colorado said mass shootings could not be the \" new normal.\"",
      "Extreme heat in the world's oceans passed the \"point of no return\" in 2014 and has become the new normal, according to research.",
      "It's becoming the new normal on a network with far too many trains being cancelled, and too many cancelled at short notice causing chaos for commuters and local communities.",
      "The new normal for this country is simply to survive economically."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "5580",
    "Idiom": [
      "new school"
    ],
    "Meaning": "A modern style or approach.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Don't tell me that you understand until you hear the man / The book of the new school rap game / Writers treat me like Coltrane, insane",
      "That means I fly rough early, plus, I know Tae Bo / That means I'm new-school, pop pills and stay in beef"
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "5581-1",
    "Idiom": [
      "new wine in an old bottle",
      "new wine in an old wineskin"
    ],
    "Meaning": "A significant change in a traditional system.",
    "Sentence": [
      "But Western analysts have remained skeptical, calling the missiles, modified versions of existing conventional munitions, “ new wine in old bottles.”"
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "5582-2",
    "Idiom": [
      "new wine in an old bottle"
    ],
    "Meaning": "A new thing presented as old.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "5583",
    "Idiom": [
      "next thing one knows"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Suddenly, out of the blue.",
    "Sentence": [
      "([Milton Dosantos]) just said they were on the roof and the next thing they knew, they were flat on their backs",
      "He had three fingers on one hand because one of them had been shot off, and he'd sit there doing this and next thing you know, out would come this three-dimensional folded cage or a box or cranes or snails. Really remarkable.",
      "Roy: You remember the woman from last night? She seemed lovely, right? Moss: She was a delight. Roy: Yeah. We get outside, there's a group of tramps, two of whom she knows by name. She starts screaming at them, \"You owe me money! You owe me money!\" She thinks that the tramps owe her money. Next thing I know, it all kicks off. I'm running for my life. It was a horrible evening, a really horrible evening, and she's a really horrible woman. Moss: Right. But you slept with her? Roy: Yeah."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "5584",
    "Idiom": [
      "next-level"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Significantly more advanced or extreme.",
    "Sentence": [
      "I'm in because look, there's some next-level shit going on around here, and I'm with that.",
      "I would give him some thugged-out braids, a wife-beater, a pair of jeans, and penny loafers. I'd bring him back on some next-level kind of flavor.",
      "This broad-based thinking begins to define areas that require next-level thinking, something that is a major focus of this book.",
      "This isn't that boring brown lentil mush you find in places where food goes to die. We wouldn't do you like that. The spices and lemon makes this some next-level shit that you will actually want to eat."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "5585",
    "Idiom": [
      "nice guy"
    ],
    "Meaning": "An inoffensive adult male seeking romantic companionship but lacks attraction.",
    "Sentence": [
      "The nice guy, they say, finishes last. But in romantic relationships, the nice guy often isn't even in the running. The nice guy may have expressed an interest in dating you. The nice guy is the person who you trust and feel comfortable with, but don't see as \"fun\" or \"challenging\" or really all that \"interesting,\" other than as a friend, of course.",
      "\"My frustrations were pretty typical Nice Guy relationship issues,\" he says. \"Not feeling appreciated, not feeling sexually desired by my wife. I didn't feel like... I received as much as I gave.\"",
      "Nice guys are historically the grail of dating. As both Nora and I reminisced and compared how we were treated by the manwhore and by the nice guy, the manwhore always won out."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "5586",
    "Idiom": [
      "nice guys finish last"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Decent and friendly people often fail because others take advantage of them.",
    "Sentence": [
      "The size of his victory... contradicted the maxim of latter-day fellow Californian Leo Durocher, who once said positively: \" Nice guys finish last.\"",
      "\"He can be as moderate as he likes. Nobody else will be. In Washington these days, nice guys finish last.\"",
      "Nonetheless, a team of business experts claims to have proved the pessimistic notion that \" nice guys finish last \" – at least where money is concerned."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "5587-1",
    "Idiom": [
      "nickel and dime"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Involving small amounts of money; petty or cheap.",
    "Sentence": [
      "I bought my new ride from some nickel and dime used-car salesman.",
      "Don't waste your time with that; their operations are nickel and dime."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "5587-2",
    "Idiom": [
      "nickel and dime"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To charge multiple small amounts that add up to a significant cost.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Even as resort fees are under fire, the nickel-and-diming of travelers that airlines have adopted is seeping into hotel operations. Things that used to be complimentary, such as early check-in or late check-out, now often carry associated fees.",
      "I got nickel and dimed to death by the phone company's sneaky extra charges.",
      "It seems like a great offer, but they will just nickel and dime you until you've spent more than retail anyway."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "5587-3",
    "Idiom": [
      "nickel and dime"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To wear down in small increments; to obsess over trivial matters.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "5588",
    "Idiom": [
      "nickel nurser"
    ],
    "Meaning": "A miser.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "5589",
    "Idiom": [
      "nigger nose"
    ],
    "Meaning": "An insult towards a black person.",
    "Sentence": [
      "The Mister loved to be teased. He frequently asked for it by lying down and fanning the floor with his tail whilst eyeing you invitingly. We used to tease him about his black nose: called him \" nigger nose \".",
      "We get such nicknames as nigger nose, beetle face, big lips, and this tends in a certain way to help gain the closeness of one to the other, but it also acts as a disruptive force in the room",
      "He was teased by his sisters and other children, who called him \" nigger nose \" and \"toe nose.\"",
      "\"Nigger — nigger nose!\" She laughs. \"Fix it? Please?\" I don't want to cry. \"Sure, nigger nose !\"",
      "... of nicknames entered my life just as he was leaving it. \"Fish Face.\" \"Scrambled-Egg Lips.\" \"Dick Snout.\" \"Dufus.\" \" Nigger-nose.\" \"Bottom Feeder.\" \"Almost Monster.\"",
      "... because he always called me nigger, nigger lips or nigger nose",
      "She called me ' nigger nose' and 'nigger lips' and remarked on my buck teeth and lisp-y, effeminate voice."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "5590",
    "Idiom": [
      "nigger rich"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Living ostentatiously or spending recklessly.",
    "Sentence": [
      "The hos were young, nigger-rich and sassy. On a good night these girls age 16 to 23 could earn $80 minimum.",
      "People who spent money foolishly on ostentation were nigger rich.",
      "\"What is this ‘ nigger rich ’ you speak of?\" Grandmother Nina asked, interrupting Walter's saga.... \"Well, ‘ Nigger rich ’ is an expression in America, especially the southeast, which loosely translated means: When a man who has an abundance of money, who has never had that much money, he usually goes out and spends it foolishly. It was attributed to blacks in America, because often, when they acquire a windfall of money, they seem to go out and purchase big cars, usually a Cadillac.\"",
      "Bernie Mac: Yeah, but she think we're old country club rich—Shoot, we just nigger rich. — SCENE FROM THE THE BERNIE MAC SHOW"
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "5591",
    "Idiom": [
      "night in, night out"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Continuously.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "5592",
    "Idiom": [
      "night out"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Spending the evening away from home, often involving nightlife activities.",
    "Sentence": [
      "We know that many male City employees still go to lapdancing clubs for a fun night out. We know City organisations have struggled in their vaunted attempts to get more women on boards."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "5593",
    "Idiom": [
      "night owl"
    ],
    "Meaning": "One who stays up late at night.",
    "Sentence": [
      "\"You are one night owl, Monsieur Reetchie,\" he said. / \"And you seem to prefer the small hours for your visits, Monsieur de St. Gré,\" I could not refrain from replying.",
      "It has been said the perfect transportation salesman must be: \"A man of vision and ambition; an after dinner speaker; before and after dinner goodfellow; he must work all day; be a night owl and still appear fresh the next day; [...\"]",
      "And that's all for tonight, night owls. This is your Number-One- Night Owl saying it's 3 o'clock, all right, and time to rock your daddy to dreams of delight. And Mama, I'm comin' home. And the rest of you night owls gonna have to make it through the rest of the night by yourself, or with the help of your friends, if you know what I mean.",
      "He could make out the figure of a fellow weary eyed night owl standing one space in front of him. He scooted an extra step forward, one and a half cordoned spaces from the counter, but snapped back to his unpleasantly boring reality, empty of enchanting night owls or hopes to be.",
      "Michelle [Obama ] liked to wake up early and could barely keep her eyes open after ten o'clock. I was a night owl and could be a bit grumpy (mean, Michelle would say) within the first half hour or so of getting out of bed.",
      "Night owls are least alert in the morning, most alert at night. This creates problems at work and at school. When night owls try to sleep at socially acceptable times, they have a hard time falling asleep and complain of insomnia.",
      "The thieves know this area. They're night owls. And they're growing bolder."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "5594",
    "Idiom": [
      "night person"
    ],
    "Meaning": "A person who is active at night and sleeps during the day.",
    "Sentence": [
      "\"You see, I'm a creature of the night.\" \"A what?\" \"A night person; I live during the nights, and sleep during the days.\"",
      "I've always been a night person —my mother put me in afternoon kindergarten because she couldn’t get me up in the morning."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "5595",
    "Idiom": [
      "nine times out of ten"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Very often.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "5596",
    "Idiom": [
      "nine you're fine, ten you're mine"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Refers to speed limits and tolerance levels for enforcement.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "5597",
    "Idiom": [
      "nine-day wonder"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Something that generates temporary interest.",
    "Sentence": [
      "But vvhen the frequent Soule-departing Bell / Has pav'd their eares vvith her familiar knell, / It is reputed but a nine dayes vvonder, / They neither feare the Thund'rer, nor his Thunder;",
      "The pleasant scandal which arose next day, / The nine days' wonder which was brought to light, / And how Alfonso sued for a divorce, / Were in the English newspapers, of course.",
      "Everybody else was thinking of his breakdown; some with real sorrow and sympathy; others as of any other nine-days' wonder,—pretty much as if the favorite for the Derby had broken down; others with ill-concealed triumph, for Blake had many enemies amongst the men.",
      "Out of Germany come mesmerism and all the other \"isms\" that pass for nine-day wonders.",
      "Well, dear editor, I suppose you are, like myself, wearied with the \" nine-day wonder,\" and I will merely add that I have thought it possible that in this case, as in many others I have known, the amniotic sac, by some means, was ruptured and the fluid all passed out.",
      "As the matter is to be a \" nine days' wonder,\" they are evidently determined that there shall be no cause of after complaint.",
      "Harold Russell, who plays handless Homer Parrish in The Best Years of Our Lives, is not only a nine-day wonder in the movies but also one of the best-adjusted veterans of World War II. The most widely publicized double amputee of the war, Russell realizes that, though there is talk of his getting an Academy Award, he is strictly a one-shot and will probably act in no more movies.",
      "In his letter to this journal Mr. Lawrence remarked that some traders were waiting to see if \"Condor\" was merely a nine days' wonder before scheduling its use by their goods.",
      "So far as we're concerned, the ashes of Endymion can stay buried for another two hundred years—or another two million. It doesn't matter; come the day when somebody stumbles over the tombstones, they'll just be an archaeological find: a nine day wonder. By then, we'll be out among the stars. Earth will be just our cradle.",
      "It's actually rather easy to assess the scientific influence of, for instance, fractals or chaos. You can't dismiss something as a nine-day wonder when it has survived for nine thousand days and is currently thriving.",
      "Ed[ward] Feigenbaum and I enjoyed the giddy experience of being nine-day wonders. Yes, it's fun to walk along Madison Avenue and see your own book in bookshop windows."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "5598",
    "Idiom": [
      "ninth-inning"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Happening as late as possible.",
    "Sentence": [
      "The result has been that some truck manufacturers already have gone into bankruptcy, while many are making a ninth-inning attempt at re-organization in a desperate attempt to ward off failure.",
      "But we can chalk a lot of this ninth-inning scramble to the fact that Zynga issued 33 million in new stock for the 2010, which was just too much to offer out so early in the game."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "5599",
    "Idiom": [
      "nip and tuck"
    ],
    "Meaning": "So evenly matched that the outcome is uncertain.",
    "Sentence": [
      "It was nip and tuck with me between holding on to my stock and being sold out; but by great industry and prudence I managed to keep a little ahead and my mouth above water.",
      "Bang! One saddle empty. Bang! another one. Bang—bang, and I bagged two. Well, it was nip and tuck with us, and I knew it.",
      "We broke away toward the north, the tribe howling on our track. Across the open spaces we gained, and in the brush they caught up with us, and more than once it was nip and tuck.",
      "Well, it was nip and tuck, but everything worked out fine. Santa Claus got there in time to bring toys to all the boys and girls."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "5600",
    "Idiom": [
      "nip at"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To sip a drink in small amounts.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "5601",
    "Idiom": [
      "nip in the bud"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To stop something early.",
    "Sentence": [
      "“I couldn’t be any more upset,” said Inge Bank, 82, who lives near the bar. “We have to nip it in the bud if the Nazi party is coming back.",
      "These myths need to be nipped in the bud before they become conventional wisdom.",
      "If you see a bad habit begin to develop, try to nip it in the bud so that it does not become ingrained."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "5602",
    "Idiom": [
      "no bones about it"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Without any doubt.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "5603",
    "Idiom": [
      "no bucks, no Buck Rogers"
    ],
    "Meaning": "One must raise money to achieve objectives.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Whether NASA under Trump will stay the course... an old adage attributed to its first human spaceflights of the 1960s is likely to define its fate: no bucks, no Buck Rogers."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "5604",
    "Idiom": [
      "no chance"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Absolutely not.",
    "Sentence": [
      "You want to borrow three hundred dollars? No chance !",
      "I will never again eat that stuff. No chance !"
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "5605-1",
    "Idiom": [
      "no comment"
    ],
    "Meaning": "An official refusal to provide further information.",
    "Sentence": [
      "The district attorney said, \" No comment,\" when the reporter asked if he knew the identity of the murder suspect, for fear that the culprit might be a flight risk."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "5605-2",
    "Idiom": [
      "no comment"
    ],
    "Meaning": "A refusal to respond.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Wrex: And Shepard--I like what you've done with the Normandy. Got tired of always hanging around the cargo bay before. Wrex: I still don't have a window like Liara does... but maybe that's because I don't kiss as well. Shepard: No comment. Wrex: Yeah ... I missed this place."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "5605-3",
    "Idiom": [
      "no comment"
    ],
    "Meaning": "A refusal to comment.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Cette année il a essayé de se fondre parmi les acteurs, actrices pour les prendre en photos mais certains s'y sont opposés avec un certain dédain revendiquant comme Guillaume Canet\" son droit à l'image\". No comment..."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "5606-1",
    "Idiom": [
      "no dice"
    ],
    "Meaning": "An unacceptable alternative.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "5606-2",
    "Idiom": [
      "no dice"
    ],
    "Meaning": "An unfavorable outcome.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "5607",
    "Idiom": [
      "no flies on"
    ],
    "Meaning": "No significant flaws or weaknesses.",
    "Sentence": [
      "\"You're jest about the very woman I'm looking for, miss. Lithe—that's what I call you. I kin put you in the way of making your pile, I kin. This is a bonâ-fide offer. No flies on my business!\"",
      "I give you my word that there are no flies on his personal integrity, if that's what you mean.",
      "\"He knows what we want, you bet\" he whispered. \" No flies on that preacher. I like him. I like any man who can do things without a diagram and directions for using.\"",
      "GERMAN. Wait! You are a young people. AMERICAN. That is so; there are no flies on us.",
      "\"WestJet is tightly run, well managed, there are no flies on those guys,\" said Harry Gow, a board member of the Canadian Association of Airline Passengers."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "5608",
    "Idiom": [
      "no fun at parties"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Boring or dull in social situations.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Of course there is the self-righteous minority convinced that while they may not be perfect, they are pretty close. It is best to avoid these people altogether. They are no fun at parties and, for the most part, are generally irritating the rest of the time.",
      "Serious inductive philosophers are also no fun at parties because they are like little experience-sponges, constantly soaking up new information for their pet thesis.",
      "“The circle you draw is but a poor shadow of the real, eternal idea of a circle.” This is kind of dense, and rumor has it that Plato was no fun at parties."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "5609",
    "Idiom": [
      "no gain without pain",
      "no pain, no gain"
    ],
    "Meaning": "One must endure discomfort to achieve worthwhile goals.",
    "Sentence": [
      "And on a programme of works of this magnitude, passengers will need to be mindful of the age-old maxim of ' no gain without pain'."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "5610-1",
    "Idiom": [
      "no go"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Something that cannot be done.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "5610-2",
    "Idiom": [
      "no go"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Something that cannot be done.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "5611",
    "Idiom": [
      "no good deed ever goes unpunished",
      "no good deed goes unpunished"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Beneficial actions often go unappreciated or face negative consequences.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "5612",
    "Idiom": [
      "no great shakes"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Something unexceptional or not special.",
    "Sentence": [
      "You're welcome to stay here, but this hut ain't no great shakes for such as you.",
      "His tactic of pointing out the flaws of the Democrats does not mean that the Republican Party is any great shakes, as he intimates.",
      "The iPhone's 2.0 megapixel camera is no great shakes, but it's good enough as cellphone cameras go."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "5613",
    "Idiom": [
      "no guts, no glory"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Success requires hard work and struggle.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "5614",
    "Idiom": [
      "no hard feelings"
    ],
    "Meaning": "No lingering anger or resentment.",
    "Sentence": [
      "No need to worry Everything's under control O-U-T, but no hard feelings",
      "Patrick O'Brien: No hard feelings ? I've been falsely accused, had the crap kicked out of me, now I have no job. Gene Hunt: Look on the bright side. Still got your health. So, you know, every cloud."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "5615",
    "Idiom": [
      "no harm, no foul"
    ],
    "Meaning": "No actual damage occurred, so no punishment is necessary.",
    "Sentence": [
      "He parked in my space, but I was away at the time: no harm, no foul."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "5616",
    "Idiom": [
      "no horse in this race"
    ],
    "Meaning": "No vested interest in the outcome.",
    "Sentence": [
      "I have no horse in this race; I just want to see justice done."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "5617",
    "Idiom": [
      "no hymen, no diamond"
    ],
    "Meaning": "A man should marry a virgin.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "5618",
    "Idiom": [
      "no joy"
    ],
    "Meaning": "A negative outcome or failure.",
    "Sentence": [
      "We X-rayed the briefcase last night, but no joy. The P160 technician reckoned it was lined in lead foil.",
      "I've been waiting 20 minutes for a bus, and still no joy."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "5619",
    "Idiom": [
      "no love lost"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Mutual dislike.",
    "Sentence": [
      "I thought I saw him leer in an ugly way at me while the decanters were going round, but as there was no love lost between us, that might easily be.",
      "By Crums, they might get the salts and oxalic acid mixed up if they came to treat me, for there’s no love lost between us.",
      "In the joy of seeing a familiar face Anne forgot that there had never been much love lost between her and Josie.",
      "“My boys are practically all bushmen, while these chaps are salt-water men, and there’s no love lost between them. You watch the fun.”",
      "He hadn't seen his brother for years, and I guess there was no love lost.",
      "Soon they would be out of Turkey. But would Greece be any easier? No love lost between Greece and England.",
      "There was no love lost between the two opponents."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "5620",
    "Idiom": [
      "no man is an island"
    ],
    "Meaning": "All people are connected and dependent on others.",
    "Sentence": [
      "No man is an island, entire of itself; every man is a piece of the continent, a part of the main. any man's death diminishes me, because I am involved in mankind,",
      "The few friends and relatives I once had seem to have forgotten me and I have found out the hard way that no man is an island.",
      "Just as no man is an island, no nation lives in isolation. When freedom is denied in one country, it is diminished in all.",
      "And yet, no man is an island, and Sokurov's desire to promote himself as an insular, unique figure, both in his thinking and in his work, is contradicted by the many arrangements and obligatory associations that cinematic production entails."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "5621",
    "Idiom": [
      "no matter how much milk you put in tea, it's still tea",
      "no matter how much milk you put in coffee, it's still coffee"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Indigenous identity is not determined by blood quantum.",
    "Sentence": [
      "There’s a saying among blak mob, ‘ It doesn’t matter how much milk you put in tea, it’s still tea'.’ I am a descendant of genocide survivors, a child of the oldest living culture on Earth. Nothing, no amount of milk, can change that.",
      "There’s a saying among blak mob, ‘ It doesn’t matter how much milk you put in tea, it’s still tea'.’ I am a descendant of genocide survivors, a child of the oldest living culture on Earth. Nothing, no amount of milk, can change that."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "5622",
    "Idiom": [
      "no matter how thin you slice it, it's still baloney"
    ],
    "Meaning": "The argument remains false or nonsensical regardless of the details.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Some of our leading scholars trace it back to a favorite American saying of that time, \" No matter how thin you slice it, it is still boloney.\"",
      "\"Do you have the ability,\" he asked another juror, \"to discern between the truth and baloney?\" \"I think so, definitely.\" \" No matter how thin you slice it, it's still baloney, right?\""
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "5623",
    "Idiom": [
      "no matter how you slice it, it's still the same old baloney",
      "no matter how thin you slice it, it's still boloney",
      "no matter how thin you slice it, it's still baloney"
    ],
    "Meaning": "It's still false or nonsense, regardless of any arguments.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Some of our leading scholars trace it back to a favorite American saying of that time, \" No matter how thin you slice it, it is still boloney.\"",
      "\"Do you have the ability,\" he asked another juror, \"to discern between the truth and baloney?\" \"I think so, definitely.\" \" No matter how thin you slice it, it's still baloney, right?\""
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "5624",
    "Idiom": [
      "no mill, no meal"
    ],
    "Meaning": "If one does not work, one shall not eat.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "5625-1",
    "Idiom": [
      "no more"
    ],
    "Meaning": "No further.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "5625-2",
    "Idiom": [
      "no more"
    ],
    "Meaning": "No longer in existence.",
    "Sentence": [
      "This parrot is no more ! It has ceased to be! It's expired and gone to meet its maker! This is a late parrot! It's a stiff! Bereft of life, it rests in peace! If you hadn't nailed it to the perch it would be pushing up the daisies!",
      "She held him until he was no more."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "5625-3",
    "Idiom": [
      "no more"
    ],
    "Meaning": "No longer.",
    "Sentence": [
      "If thou wilt not, befall what may befall, I'll speak no more,—but vengeance rot you all!",
      "Farewell to Lochaber, farewell to the glen, No more will he wander Lochaber again.",
      "[There are] No more pencils, no more books, no more teachers' dirty looks.",
      "I think of so many people who are no more, and I pity them. Yet they are not so much to be pitied, for they have solved every problem, beginning with the problem of death.",
      "I will pay no more today.",
      "He will bother you no more."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "5625-4",
    "Idiom": [
      "no more"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Something forbidden or non-existent from a certain point onwards.",
    "Sentence": [
      "So even becoming a doctor created a no more for him — no more guitar playing!",
      "We didn't like to find the areas where we did not see eye-to-eye because they generated their own list of no mores and made us uncomfortable with each other."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "5626",
    "Idiom": [
      "no news is good news"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Lack of information suggests no problems.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "5627",
    "Idiom": [
      "no one ever went broke underestimating the intelligence of the american public",
      "nobody ever went broke underestimating the intelligence of the American people",
      "nobody ever went broke underestimating the intelligence of the american public"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Americans can be easily entertained or fooled for profit.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Ed Wood was a backwards genius, he set out to make horror movies and he didn’t know how to do it.... Mencken said, “ Nobody ever went broke underestimating the intelligence of the American people.” Well, Ed Wood did go broke by underestimating their intelligence.",
      "H. L. Mencken may have noted that no one ever went broke underestimating the intelligence of the American people, but not even he could have anticipated this. Like Bill and Ted, their principal rivals among screen duos who play dumb, Wayne and Garth do their best to elevate stupidity to an art form.",
      "It's noteworthy, by the way, that a pleasure dome like Palm Beach should also be the home of a drama troupe that not only specializes in shows like \"Copenhagen\" and \"The Chairs\" but performs them with flair. We have it on the best of authority that nobody ever went broke underestimating the intelligence of the American people, but Palm Beach Dramaworks seems to be doing quite well for itself by operating on the opposite assumption.",
      "Most advertising seems to be aimed at an extremely unintelligent audience, and yet seems effective in persuading most of us. But the software industry may, I suspect, provide a few exceptions to the old saying that “ nobody ever went broke underestimating the intelligence of the American people.”"
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "5628",
    "Idiom": [
      "no one ever went broke underestimating the taste of the american people",
      "nobody ever went broke underestimating the taste of the American people",
      "no one ever went broke underestimating the taste of the american public",
      "nobody ever went broke underestimating the good taste of the american public",
      "nobody ever went broke underestimating the taste of the american public",
      "nobody ever went broke underestimating the good taste of the american people"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Americans lack sophistication and can be easily amused for financial gain.",
    "Sentence": [
      "“I remembered that nobody ever went broke underestimating the taste of the American public, so I set out to write the worst novel it was humanly possible to write and still get published,” he said."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "5629",
    "Idiom": [
      "no one is born a master"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Skill and knowledge require effort to acquire.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "5630",
    "Idiom": [
      "no one should be judge in his own cause",
      "no one should be judge in his own case"
    ],
    "Meaning": "One should not decide a case in which they have a personal interest.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "5631",
    "Idiom": [
      "no pain, no gain"
    ],
    "Meaning": "One must endure discomfort to achieve worthwhile goals.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "5632",
    "Idiom": [
      "no plan survives contact with the enemy"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Plans often change due to unexpected factors.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "5633",
    "Idiom": [
      "no pressure"
    ],
    "Meaning": "No emotional pressure.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Your boss wants to give the board a quick run-down our project in half an hour. Just five minutes and some question time. No pressure."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "5634",
    "Idiom": [
      "no prize for guessing"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Emphasizes the unsurprising nature of what follows.",
    "Sentence": [
      "You get no prize for guessing what happened when the spider landed on her plate."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "5635",
    "Idiom": [
      "no rest for the weary",
      "no peace for the weary"
    ],
    "Meaning": "People must continue to work despite being tired.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "5636-1",
    "Idiom": [
      "no rest for the wicked",
      "no sleep for the wicked"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Eternal torment awaits sinners.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "5637-2",
    "Idiom": [
      "no rest for the wicked"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Wicked people must work harder.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "5638",
    "Idiom": [
      "no rose without a thorn"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Pleasure often comes with difficulties.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "5639",
    "Idiom": [
      "no score"
    ],
    "Meaning": "A score of zero to zero in a sporting event.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "5640",
    "Idiom": [
      "no screaming hell"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Not impressive; below expectations.",
    "Sentence": [
      "In overall management skills, \"he's no screaming hell,\" says the analyst. \"He doesn't have the long view.\"",
      "Factory speakers are no screaming hell.",
      "I hate to say it but Canadian television was no screaming hell before Corner Gas.",
      "If we're being honest, Markov was no screaming hell in his first four or five games back."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "5641",
    "Idiom": [
      "no sense no feeling"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Don't worry about your minor injury; it won't affect you.",
    "Sentence": [
      "You bashed your head on that low ceiling but so what? No sense, no feeling !"
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "5642",
    "Idiom": [
      "no skin off one's back"
    ],
    "Meaning": "No harm to one.",
    "Sentence": [
      "If he wants to make a mess in his own room, it's no skin off my back."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "5643",
    "Idiom": [
      "no skin off one's nose"
    ],
    "Meaning": "No harm to one.",
    "Sentence": [
      "There was no skin off our nose; however the LAC [local area commander] had different ideas.",
      "You can be as critical of them as you like. It's no skin off my nose."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "5644",
    "Idiom": [
      "no skin off one's teeth"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Of no consequence to one.",
    "Sentence": [
      "No skin off our teeth, right, boys?",
      "IT IS NO skin off our teeth to grant that other creatures may have their wants, needs, and passions as well as varying degrees of intelligence, geniality, and perhaps compassion.",
      "So you're not interested in learning? No skin off my teeth."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "5645",
    "Idiom": [
      "no soap"
    ],
    "Meaning": "It is a failure.",
    "Sentence": [
      "I went back down to the men's room on the second floor and yelled his name in front of the private apartments, but no soap.",
      "I waited for his assistance but it didn't come. He let me trail for I don't know how long. I hollered and cried, cursed, rocked the boat. No soap.",
      "I rang. Nothing happened. I rang again and leaned on it. No soap.",
      "Still and all, after weighing the pluses and minuses of Smooth's offer, he came, to the only possible conclusion for a civilized man— no soap.",
      "And he tried again—Lou always persisted—but no soap."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "5646",
    "Idiom": [
      "no strings attached"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Without conditions or obligations.",
    "Sentence": [
      "In the present century marriage is preceded by a betrothment, gifts are usually interchanged (but with no strings attached), and a causeless withdrawal therefrom by either party is considered infamous.",
      "Mr. [James Gillespie] Blaine 's declination—it is always understood that we assume there is no string attached to his letter—is undoubtedly a wise move on his part.",
      "Listen. We've kept it quiet, but she's in with the elect on French Hill. Her claim's prospected the richest of the outfit. Present indication half a million at least. In her own name, no strings attached. Couldn't she take that and go anywhere in the world and reinstate herself?",
      "\"No,\" I assured him, after receiving his cordial welcome, \"my offer had no string attached. I'm more than ready to help in any way I can, to find a niche for you in this old town and fit you into it. It doesn't matter where you hail from, or how you got here; New York is an all-comers' race, and the devil take the hindmost.\"",
      "Would he ask her out (if he ever did) just for herself, no strings attached ?",
      "As to the $12 billion State share, there is not even the pretense of an attempt at congressional oversight, Federal control, or standards of performance. The State share is totally no-string attached.",
      "'I asked him to think again. I asked him to put Drago's interests first. I repeated that there were no strings attached to my offer.' / 'No visible strings, you mean.'",
      "You say that you want / All of my love / But let's be honest, we don't need all that / I like it better with no strings attached",
      "He also criticised what he called the Government's \"bailout\" of the privatised rail companies with no strings attached, stating: \"There is simply no reason why the same easy solution could not have been applied to London, .\"",
      "When government delivers handouts with no string attached, more people naturally want to use and abuse them, which eventually ruins economy and drains a country's wealth. Essentially the welfare state destroys the ethic which sustains this very state.",
      "For a friend I’ll help out for free, no strings attached."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "5647",
    "Idiom": [
      "no time"
    ],
    "Meaning": "A very short period of time.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Now that the roads are plowed, we'll get home in no time !"
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "5648",
    "Idiom": [
      "no time like the present"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Encourages immediate action.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "5649-1",
    "Idiom": [
      "no two ways about it"
    ],
    "Meaning": "No other option.",
    "Sentence": [
      "There are no two ways about it. We'll have to start over from the very beginning."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "5649-2",
    "Idiom": [
      "no two ways about it"
    ],
    "Meaning": "No other possible interpretation.",
    "Sentence": [
      "A day at the beach is the best way to spend a weekend, no two ways about it."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "5650-1",
    "Idiom": [
      "no way",
      "by no stretch of the imagination",
      "no ways",
      "no ways"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Absolutely not.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Touch that weird rock over there, I dare you! — No way !",
      "No ways, I don’t use traditional healers.",
      "No ways ! Is that real?"
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "5651-2",
    "Idiom": [
      "no way"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Indicates disbelief.",
    "Sentence": [
      "You failed your exam again? No way !",
      "He's hitting 400 for two months? Uh-uh ! No way !"
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "5652",
    "Idiom": [
      "no-count"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Of no value.",
    "Sentence": [
      "No-count. Even low-down. I still don't see how Loma could of married into that sharecropper white trash."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "5653",
    "Idiom": [
      "no-frills"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Basic or simple; only what is necessary.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Another friend gathered a group to go to a no-frills comfort food restaurant, with a vast menu of classics sold at extraordinarily low prices: the only item in the 11-page menu over 1,000 forints was a bottle of sparkling wine, a reasonable 1,190 forints for 0.7 liters.",
      "Other stops retain no-frills brick-built shelters, although local community rail groups do their best to improve the ambience with planting, posters and artwork.",
      "He rented a no-frills apartment and cooked his own meals."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "5654-1",
    "Idiom": [
      "no-good ass"
    ],
    "Meaning": "A contemptible or undesirable person.",
    "Sentence": [
      "He's a no-good ass !"
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "5654-2",
    "Idiom": [
      "no-good ass"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Refers to a contemptible or undesirable person.",
    "Sentence": [
      "He won't show his no-good ass around here again."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "5655",
    "Idiom": [
      "no-hit wonder"
    ],
    "Meaning": "A successful artist without hit songs.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "5656",
    "Idiom": [
      "no-strings-attached"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Characterized by an absence of conditions or obligations.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Since then, Beijing has often offered its support to Islamabad in the way of economic assistance, but also with no-strings-attached military aid."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "5657",
    "Idiom": [
      "nod off"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To fall asleep unintentionally.",
    "Sentence": [
      "The old lady nodded off to sleep many times during the narration, only waking up when George paused, saying it was most interesting.",
      "I dragged him to the house, / And gave him tea and tried to make him smoke. / I tried to make him talk about his travels. / Nothing would do: he just kept nodding off.",
      "All patients struggle against daytime drowsiness and nod off at inopportune moments."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "5658",
    "Idiom": [
      "nod out"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To become drowsy and fall asleep.",
    "Sentence": [
      "The chair had no arms to prop me up, so when I nodded out I'd slump sideways in the chair.",
      "I nodded out while waiting for the bleach to take and woke up an hour or so later with most of my hair fried, leaving a tuft at the front stuck up just enough to prevent anyone from seeing just how short it really was."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "5659-1",
    "Idiom": [
      "nodding acquaintance"
    ],
    "Meaning": "A casual or partial familiarity.",
    "Sentence": [
      "None of the quarrymen were intimate friends of mine. I had a nodding acquaintance with them.",
      "There isn't any doubt but that he had a nodding acquaintance with every pretty girl in town.",
      "A Northwestern University psychologist reported, for what it was worth, a surprising finding: an average college-educated modern man has at least a nodding acquaintance with four times as many words as Shakespeare used.",
      "A government with even a nodding acquaintance with competence and good sense would have launched an all-out war against Al Qaeda, not Iraq, in the immediate aftermath of Sept. 11."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "5659-2",
    "Idiom": [
      "nodding acquaintance"
    ],
    "Meaning": "A distant or superficial acquaintance.",
    "Sentence": [
      "To reach Cattewater I must either fetch a circuit through purlieus where every householder knew me and every urchin was a nodding acquaintance, or make a straight dash.",
      "He could not treat this scandalous matter in his own office.... Who was there he could go to? Linkman and Laver in Budge Row, perhaps—reliable, not too conspicuous, only nodding acquaintances.",
      "She knows only two of them as nodding acquaintances, and has never spoken to them privately."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "5660",
    "Idiom": [
      "non-denial denial"
    ],
    "Meaning": "A statement evading a clear denial.",
    "Sentence": [
      "In a classic non-denial denial, Microsoft said that such a takeover might endanger its $200 million MSNBC network partnership.",
      "\"If you print that, I'll sue you.\" A non-denial denial if ever there was one.",
      "In Washington, there is no higher art form than the non-denial denial, in which politicians try to rebut a storyline without quite denying the specifics.",
      "He has issued a firm non-denial denial. “I didn’t write it,” he told The New York Times. “But if I had written it, I would be saying I didn’t write it.”"
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "5661",
    "Idiom": [
      "non-starter"
    ],
    "Meaning": "An idea or argument that cannot be debated.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "5662",
    "Idiom": [
      "none of someone's business"
    ],
    "Meaning": "A matter not meant for someone's involvement or knowledge.",
    "Sentence": [
      "He asked what I was talking to Sam about. I told him it was none of his business."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "5663",
    "Idiom": [
      "none other than"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Qualifies a notably eminent person in a situation.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Produced by none other than Seth Rogen and Evan Goldberg, Good Boys again most closely resembles a kind of junior-varsity tryout for that duo's Superbad, down to its modestly affecting emotional through-line: an acceptance of the fact that childhood friendships, forged out of proximity and convenience, aren't always destined to last."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "5664",
    "Idiom": [
      "nook and cranny",
      "every old nook and cranny"
    ],
    "Meaning": "A small or hard-to-reach place.",
    "Sentence": [
      "It's strange to come away from home, from your own nook and cranny, to go by ship – which is also a kind of nook and cranny – and then suddenly be more than a hundred miles away and stand in a foreign land!",
      "Ever since the post-war spread of the motor car, the railways have had to contend with tough competition, but have had an inherent advantage in the commuter and inter-city markets. Now they are about to face two new enemies - a technology that everyone has learnt to use and a virus that many people think lurks in every nook and cranny of the rail system.",
      "Everyone helped out to clean every nook and cranny of the house.",
      "Cleaning this equipment really isn't hard except that getting into all the nooks and crannies is time-consuming."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "5665",
    "Idiom": [
      "nook or cranny"
    ],
    "Meaning": "A small or hard-to-reach place.",
    "Sentence": [
      "There was not one nook or cranny in the house to hide it.",
      "There's not a nook or cranny that I haven't looked in.",
      "Everyone went to sleep in some nook or cranny of the house."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "5666-1",
    "Idiom": [
      "north forty"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Farms or agricultural land collectively.",
    "Sentence": [
      "In Dallas and Houston, the dominant architectural forms are glass office towers and air-conditioned shopping malls that owe more to the Bauhaus than to the North Forty.",
      "President Reagan behaved like his predecessors: preaching free enterprise in Washington but playing sugar daddy on the north forty. Mr. Reagan's response to a collapse in world food prices in the early 1980's was to protect American farmers with a $19 billion subsidy.",
      "Not all roadside stands sell produce from the \" north forty,\" rather their produce is the result of efforts before and after someone's day job and a fertile back yard.",
      "Rush to buy acreage fueling bubble in the north forty. (subheading)"
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "5666-2",
    "Idiom": [
      "north forty"
    ],
    "Meaning": "A remote place.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Parts of him, uh, are as far away as the north forty. Muscle has been drawn out.... His arms—can you imagine?—feel longer.",
      "While these cool people could have been visiting with peers and gathering insights in the exhibit hall, they chose to hoof it on up to the north forty, “over the river and through the woods” so to speak, and spend forty-five minutes with me sharing their thoughts.",
      "To prepare for a MLB career, he bought beer for some of the regulars sitting next to him in the north forty of Dodger Stadium."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "5667",
    "Idiom": [
      "north of"
    ],
    "Meaning": "More than.",
    "Sentence": [
      "We have a programme where north of half a billion pounds has been wasted, and has already gone through three programme directors before yourself, and five senior responsible owners.",
      "The holo display leapt up, shaping itself this time into the form of an asari seated at a desk. A little on the stocky side, deeper blue skin than most, average ageless beauty, although Cora knew she was somewhere north of six hundred years old.",
      "Population 39,693 (just north of 115,000 today), Cheltenham has been overtaken by Gloucester in terms of headcount."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "5668",
    "Idiom": [
      "nose out of joint"
    ],
    "Meaning": "An emotional state of being upset due to feeling offended or inferior.",
    "Sentence": [
      "I think he got his nose out of joint when they promoted his friend but not him."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "5669",
    "Idiom": [
      "nose test"
    ],
    "Meaning": "An informal method to assess authenticity or credibility using common sense.",
    "Sentence": [
      "In many cases, said Henry J. Stern, the president of the Citizens Union, a civic group, and a former city Parks Commissioner, \"you have to apply the nose test.\" \"Does it smell?\" he said, referring to such deals. \"Is it based on a personal relationship? Does it run contrary to the city's interest?\""
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "5670-1",
    "Idiom": [
      "nose to the grindstone"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To force someone to work hard or focus intensely on their work.",
    "Sentence": [
      "This Text holdeth their noses so hard to the grynde stone that it clean disfigureth their faces.",
      "I shall to reuenge former hurts, Hold their noses to grinstone.",
      "Be to the Poor like onie whunstane, And haud their noses to the grunstane."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "5670-2",
    "Idiom": [
      "nose to the grindstone"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Means to work hard or focus intensely on tasks.",
    "Sentence": [
      "People whose heads are a little up in the world, have no occasion to keep their nose to the grindstone.",
      "I travelled energetically; I went everywhere and saw everything; took as many letters as possible, and made as many acquaintances. In short, I held my nose to the grindstone.",
      "Thirty years ago, I lived in Stearns County with my wife and little boy in a rented farmhouse south of Freeport, an area of nose-to-the-grindstone German Catholics proud of their redneck reputation."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "5670-3",
    "Idiom": [
      "nose to the grindstone"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Hard at work.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Nose to the grindstone, he was up all night."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "5671",
    "Idiom": [
      "nose-pick"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To pick one's nose.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Children should not nose-pick."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "5672",
    "Idiom": [
      "nose-picker"
    ],
    "Meaning": "A person who picks their nose.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "5673",
    "Idiom": [
      "not a chance"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Absolutely not.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Do I think she'll go out with him? Not a chance."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "5674-1",
    "Idiom": [
      "not a minute too soon"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Just in time.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "5674-2",
    "Idiom": [
      "not a minute too soon"
    ],
    "Meaning": "After an undesirable delay.",
    "Sentence": [
      "She finally dumped her jerk boyfriend, and not a minute too soon"
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "5675",
    "Idiom": [
      "not a pretty sight"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Something disappointing or unworthy of admiration.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Her lover, cheek by jowl with Maria, at the head of that army of Portuguese ragamuffins, was not a pretty sight.",
      "The Tariff Bill was rounded into shape for final passage by the House last week. It was not a pretty sight for soft-hearted political theorists.",
      "They showed little remorse in using this power to its full extent, against each other, against smaller producers and against the laboring poor, including strong-arm tactics of no legality. The result was not a pretty sight."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "5676",
    "Idiom": [
      "not all heroes wear capes"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Real people can be heroic, too.",
    "Sentence": [
      "I don't believe that heroes are extraordinary people— I believe they are ordinary people in extraordinary circumstances. This is a wonderful lesson for adults and children. Not all heroes wear capes !",
      "Everywhere they go, every step they take and no matter who they are with, the band's fans are beside them in spirit and in their hearts, making signs up with slogans such as \"You're proof that not all heroes wear capes !\" and turning up at venues where the band are recording, rehearsing, or performing."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "5677",
    "Idiom": [
      "not as black as one is painted"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Not as bad as portrayed.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "5678-1",
    "Idiom": [
      "not at all"
    ],
    "Meaning": "A reply to express that something is not a problem or inconvenience.",
    "Sentence": [
      "—Thank you for this very thoughtful present. — Not at all."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "5678-2",
    "Idiom": [
      "not at all"
    ],
    "Meaning": "A response to worry or an apology.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "5679",
    "Idiom": [
      "not be able to hit the broad side of a barn"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To have very poor aim.",
    "Sentence": [
      "No, I am really not good at batting in baseball. I cannot hit the broad side of a barn, really.",
      "The new recruit is absolutely worthless with a rifle. Blimey, she wouldn't be able to hit the broad side of a barn if I asked her to."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "5680",
    "Idiom": [
      "not be caught dead"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Refusal to do something, often out of scorn.",
    "Sentence": [
      "I would not be caught dead in such a skimpy dress."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "5681",
    "Idiom": [
      "not by any means"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Not at all.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Though unusual in the Dublin area he knew that it was not by any means unknown for desperadoes who had next to nothing to live on to be abroad waylaying and generally terrorising peaceable pedestrians by placing a pistol at their head..."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "5682",
    "Idiom": [
      "not cricket"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Unsportsmanlike.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "5683",
    "Idiom": [
      "not do someone any favors",
      "not do someone any favours"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To hurt or negatively impact someone.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Shame bestowed upon you for thinking in such a way as that. And still more shame on you for passing that along to your children, as well as to your children's children. You are not doing yourself any favors. You are not doing them any favors.",
      "“The Queen’s Justice” had some fantastic moments of wit and heart but the structure and pacing didn’t do it any favors. The first section of the episode mostly bounced between Jon Snow’s arrival at Dragonstone and Cersei Lannister burning through her enemies and giving nary a fuck.",
      "I wasn't doing myself any favors with thoughts like that.",
      "Your mother's a very smart woman. She loves nice clothes. Has she seen this jumper? Has she? You're not doing yourself any favours.",
      "Anyway, her head was still killing her and the sound of Frost's tirade wasn't doing it any favours."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "5684",
    "Idiom": [
      "not enough to hang a dog on"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Insufficient or weak evidence.",
    "Sentence": [
      "If the evidence had been given at once, I should have said that it looked bad, perhaps, but was not enough to hang a dog on. But after five years of bitter faction?",
      "\"So there we were, and probably you'll agree with me that all the evidence, so far, was less than you'd hang a dog on.\""
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "5685",
    "Idiom": [
      "not for the world"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Absolutely not; under no circumstances.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Would you like to go for dinner with me? Not for the world !",
      "I will never see that movie again. Not for the world !"
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "5686",
    "Idiom": [
      "not grow on trees"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To be rare or not easily acquired.",
    "Sentence": [
      "But I think you should know Before you let love go That true love just don't grow On trees",
      "‘Cook-housekeeper jobs don’t grow on trees,’ went on the woman, ‘leastways not where you can keep a youngster with you.’",
      "The reason why they’re so interested in what we have here is fuel-cell experts don’t grow on trees and it’s relatively high-level expertise you need."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "5687",
    "Idiom": [
      "not half bad"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Pretty good.",
    "Sentence": [
      "It was his first attempt at cooking, but I tried it and it was not half bad."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "5688",
    "Idiom": [
      "not have a leg to stand on"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Lacks support in an argument or negotiation.",
    "Sentence": [
      "‘You see?’ said Mrs Gowan, turning the palms of her hands towards Mr Meagles, as if she were Justice herself, representing to him that he had better confess, for he had not a leg to stand on.",
      "\"But Mr. Elwell's lawyers apparently did not take your view, since I suppose the suit was withdrawn by their advice.\" \"Oh, yes, they knew he hadn't a leg to stand on.\"",
      "It was borne in upon Elizabeth that she hadn't got a leg to stand upon and she sat down.",
      "If his word and image are consistently proven to be false, he doesn't have a leg to stand on."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "5689",
    "Idiom": [
      "not have a prayer"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To have no chance or possibility.",
    "Sentence": [
      "It's all over, people! We don't have a prayer !",
      "When the lights went dark in their flooded compartment, the submariners knew that they did not have a prayer."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "5690",
    "Idiom": [
      "not hit a cow's arse with a banjo"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To have poor aim or miss easy opportunities.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "5691",
    "Idiom": [
      "not in Kansas anymore"
    ],
    "Meaning": "No longer in a familiar or comfortable situation.",
    "Sentence": [
      "John Crosbie? A Tory government? You could be forgiven if your first reaction was the feeling that you were n't in Kansas anymore.",
      "The police action is rough and raw, like Hill Street Blues. But when a courtroom jury, asked for its verdict, breaks into song, we know we're not in Kansas anymore.",
      "C++ meets all three of these classic criteria of object-orientedness, but once you really start to take advantage of them in your programs, you'll find you're definitely not in Kansas anymore.",
      "As soon as I walked into that party I thought, \"I'm not in Kansas anymore.\""
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "5692",
    "Idiom": [
      "not in the least"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Not at all.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "5693",
    "Idiom": [
      "not in the slightest"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Not at all.",
    "Sentence": [
      "The Mountain versus the Hound played out entertainingly, with the elder Clegane still outmatching his younger brother pound for pound and blow for blow. Being turned into a walking zombie of sorts didn’t just amplify his strength; it essentially obviated the need to parry blows, as even Sandor sinking his sword deep into his undead brother didn’t seem to slow him down in the slightest.",
      "- Do you miss your old housemates? - Not in the slightest ! I'm glad to be rid of them."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "5694",
    "Idiom": [
      "not invented here"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Dismissal of external products or technologies.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "5695",
    "Idiom": [
      "not just a pretty face"
    ],
    "Meaning": "More valuable or capable than it appears.",
    "Sentence": [
      "But it's not just a pretty face. This soccer sim also offers authentic physics — including ball dribbling, passing and scoring, and how the players react to one another — and more than 500 officially licensed clubs, totaling roughly 15,000 players.",
      "“I was thinking of flowers being not just a pretty face. They produce oxygen and keep us alive,” said the designer backstage."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "5696",
    "Idiom": [
      "not leave one's thoughts"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To remain in one's mind for a long time.",
    "Sentence": [
      "The accident hasn't left my thoughts in years."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "5697",
    "Idiom": [
      "not likely"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Absolutely not.",
    "Sentence": [
      "“Look,” George said. “If we get pregnant, I will take the baby and raise him on my own.” “ Not likely !” cried Alice."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "5698",
    "Idiom": [
      "not long for this world"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Unlikely to last much longer.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Townsend went there with us, but found himself so unwell that he went home very early. His cough has return'd, with several disagreeable symptoms. I fear exceedingly that he is not long for this world.",
      "He thinks that said soul will have to be resuscitated from its asphyxia; that if it prove irresuscitable, the man is not long for this world.",
      "But I've had a warning, and I'm not long for this world.\" \" Not long for this world ? Oh, nonsense, Plunkett. You mustn't talk like that. A touch of indigestion, that's what you've got, I expect.",
      "Though Aunt Maud had always maintained she was not long for this world, she outlived all her generation.",
      "With Gambier Bay and Hoel sinking and Roberts not much longer for this world, the Johnston is now set upon by four cruisers and a number of destroyers. The ship's crew patch holes as fast as they can, but the ship is literally gradually being taken apart by repeated salvos. The fact that this particular set of Japanese ships is STILL using armor-piercing instead of high explosive is the only saving grace."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "5699",
    "Idiom": [
      "not look a day over"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To appear younger than one's actual age.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "5700",
    "Idiom": [
      "not much of anything"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Very little.",
    "Sentence": [
      "One more song about movin’ along the highway / Can’t say much of anything that's new."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "5701",
    "Idiom": [
      "not on your life"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Absolutely not.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Do you think I will ever go back after that? Not on your life !"
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "5702",
    "Idiom": [
      "not on your nelly"
    ],
    "Meaning": "An emphatic form of no.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "5703",
    "Idiom": [
      "not one's first rodeo"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Indicates past experience in a situation.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "5704",
    "Idiom": [
      "not quite"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Almost, very nearly.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "5705",
    "Idiom": [
      "not see someone for dust"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To not see someone at all.",
    "Sentence": [
      "If I got a job offer as good as that, you wouldn't see me for dust."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "5706",
    "Idiom": [
      "not so fast"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Used to tell someone to slow down or reconsider.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "5707",
    "Idiom": [
      "not the end of the world"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Of minor importance.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Don't worry; it's not the end of the world if he doesn't attend."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "5708",
    "Idiom": [
      "not to mention"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Introduces a point while claiming not to address it.",
    "Sentence": [
      "In fact, the immortal tunemeister Irving Berlin wrote all three [songs], along with about 1,500 others, not to mention the scores for eighteen Hollywood films and nineteen Broadway musicals.",
      "An artificial kidney these days still means a refrigerator-sized dialysis machine. Such devices mimic real kidneys . But they are nothing like as efficient, and can cause bleeding, clotting and infection— not to mention inconvenience for patients, who typically need to be hooked up to one three times a week for hours at a time.",
      "The city was already having staffing difficulties, not to mention having a three million dollar budget shortfall."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "5709",
    "Idiom": [
      "not to put too fine a point on it"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Used to apologize for bluntness.",
    "Sentence": [
      "My little woman is at present in— not to put too fine a point on it —in a pious state, or in what she considers such, and attends the Evening Exertions (which is the name they go by) of a reverend party of the name of Chadband.",
      "En route, to his taciturn, and, not to put too fine a point on it, not yet perfectly sober companion, Mr Bloom, who at all events, was in complete possession of his faculties, never more so, in fact disgustingly sober, spoke a word of caution re the dangers of nighttown, women of ill fame and swell mobsmen,",
      "You explain slowly and clearly that you are doing him the honour of not beating about the bush Well, you will end up – not to put too fine a point on it (you lower your voice) – having sex. And while you are sure that sex would be very nice, the prognosis for a future between the two of you is not good."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "5710",
    "Idiom": [
      "not touch with a barge pole"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To avoid something completely.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "5711-1",
    "Idiom": [
      "not touch with a ten-foot pole"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To avoid something at all costs.",
    "Sentence": [
      "In conclusion, his respect for letter-writing ladies is so great that he would not touch one of them with a ten-foot pole.",
      "... the stock's gone up from nothin' out o' sight. You couldn't tech that stock with a ten-foot pole!",
      "Serious actors of the world wouldn't touch the part with a ten-foot pole."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "5711-2",
    "Idiom": [
      "not touch with a ten-foot pole"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Unable to approach something or someone.",
    "Sentence": [
      "On the contrary, my dear Mr. Gordon, it is because I do know him, or know of him, that I am turning him over to you. You are the one person in the world to obtain that coal lease. I confess I couldn't touch the Major with a ten-foot pole, any more than you could go North and get the cash. But you are his neighbor, and he likes you. What you recommend, he'll do."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "5712",
    "Idiom": [
      "not want to do that"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To avoid doing something one might later regret.",
    "Sentence": [
      "You do not want to do that."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "5713",
    "Idiom": [
      "not win for losing"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To repeatedly fail despite efforts.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Figure 1 depicts a number of these forces, and suggests the ways in which the Individualistic Ethic \"could not win for losing.\"",
      "Manboy grinned, and looked up as Two-Way joined them, laughing. \"Gabe, you is just naturally a Jonah to your own self, and can't win for losing no matter what."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "5714",
    "Idiom": [
      "not worth a Continental"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Worthless or lacking in value.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "5715",
    "Idiom": [
      "not worth a brass farthing"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Worth nothing.",
    "Sentence": [
      "One's own private knowledge of a man's character is not worth a brass farthing as legal evidence.",
      "Democracy is not worth a brass farthing if it is being installed by bayonets."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "5716",
    "Idiom": [
      "not worth a dime"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Worthless.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Eight of the nine who got damages were not worth a dime, and all but six of those who failed to sustain their suits were worthless.",
      "It is extremely vital, because without demonstrating performance and excellence, all the philosophies and reasoning discussed and embedded in the previous two phases are not worth a dime and will look hollow.",
      "This vase is not worth a dime. Why did you pay so much for it?",
      "His opinions are n't worth a dime."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "5717",
    "Idiom": [
      "not worth a plug nickel"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Worthless.",
    "Sentence": [
      "In the screenplay by Lorenzo Semple Jr., and David Rayfiel, Turner very early on stumbles upon the existence of a kind of super-C.I.A. within the C.I.A., after which his life is not worth a plug nickel."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "5718",
    "Idiom": [
      "not worth a whistle"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Worthless or pointless.",
    "Sentence": [
      "We are a set of worthless fellows not worth a whistle.",
      "“The life of a Negro in Mississippi is not worth a whistle,” one of the European newspapers reported.",
      "This, of course, is ridiculous, as most people can plainly see, but you'd be surprised at how often otherwise intelligent individuals fail to distinguish between what's worth fighting over and what's not worth a whistle.",
      "This greatly irritated Mr Hooke and he muttered that Mr Wylde is not worth a whistle'."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "5719",
    "Idiom": [
      "not worth hell room"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Worthless.",
    "Sentence": [
      "\"I'm not sayin' you don't, mister,\" the other returned, mild and unruffled, but with a firmness that surprised Dan. \"You asked me for my opinion on that beast's eyes, and I gave it to you.\" \"It ain't worth hell room !\" the contentious man declared, glaring in bristling ferocity on the sailor."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "5720",
    "Idiom": [
      "not worth salt"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Worthless.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "5721",
    "Idiom": [
      "not worth writing home about"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Unremarkable and mediocre.",
    "Sentence": [
      "The powdered eggs, instant potatoes and dried bacon were not worth writing home about, but it was edible and satisfied the immediate hunger."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "5722",
    "Idiom": [
      "not your father's"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Recently changed or modernized.",
    "Sentence": [
      "This is not your father's computer programmer. The days when the typical information technology professional sat in a cubicle all day hunched over a keyboard, a can of Jolt Cola and a half-eaten Twinkie within arm's reach, seem about as quaint now as a genuine whistle-stop political campaign in the mass media age.",
      "Make no mistake about it, this ain't your dad's Final Fantasy. If you want an effiminate spikey haired main character with amnesia or serious social issues that must shoulder the burden of fighting a great and ancient evil, you're not going to find that here.",
      "Just as this isn't your father's army — it's also not your father's VA. The bureaucracy is bigger, the forms have multiplied, the benefits have become more complicated."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "5723",
    "Idiom": [
      "notch on one's bedpost"
    ],
    "Meaning": "A sexual conquest.",
    "Sentence": [
      "He was a notch on her bedpost, a stepping stone on her quest for stardom.",
      "She'd confused Sam's attentions with real feelings, and now she was just another notch on his bedpost.",
      "Bad enough to think he'd wanted me as just another notch on his bedpost, but to think he'd tried to seduce me for cold-blooded political purposes was unbearable.",
      "He wasn't a notch on her bedpost. They were in love, for crying out loud."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "5724",
    "Idiom": [
      "nothing doing"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Absolutely not.",
    "Sentence": [
      "\"I'll fix his clock all right.\" \" Nothing doing. I won't have it.\"",
      "\"Perhaps you might sell them a submarine or some of your diving apparatus.\" \" Nothing doing, Ned. We've got other plans.\"",
      "The employes of Detroit's Bundy Tubing Co. wanted a raise of 18 1/2 cents an hour. Said Bundy flatly: nothing doing.",
      "She'd consoled herself with a fresh plan: she'd refuse to go to her father when he came back. Nothing doing, she'd say."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "5725",
    "Idiom": [
      "nothing for it"
    ],
    "Meaning": "No alternative; no other options available.",
    "Sentence": [
      "\"You will allow there was nothing for it after this but paying honest Joe Hodges's bill and departing.\"",
      "I (whatever the others might do) saw nothing for it but to comply.",
      "I missed the train home and I couldn't get any kind of a yoke to give me a lift.... So there was nothing for it only to stay the night or to foot it out.",
      "There's nothing for it but to go forward, whether we know where we're going or not."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "5726",
    "Idiom": [
      "nothing if not"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To a high degree; extremely.",
    "Sentence": [
      "He's nothing if not a liar. He is certainly a liar.",
      "",
      "Well, thrift is a virtue, and he's nothing if not careful with money. Not only denotes that he is certainly careful with money (frugal) but also obliquely implies that he is very careful with money (miserly).",
      ""
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "5727",
    "Idiom": [
      "nothing is certain but death and taxes"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Nothing is certain except death and paying taxes.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "5728",
    "Idiom": [
      "nothing less than"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Certainly and completely.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Of course he disappointed you. The man is nothing less than a fraud and a swindler."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "5729",
    "Idiom": [
      "nothing more than"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Merely.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Of course he disappointed you. The man is nothing more than a fraud and a swindler."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "5730-1",
    "Idiom": [
      "nothing special"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Something ordinary.",
    "Sentence": [
      "The sandwich was plain old junk food, nothing special."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "5730-2",
    "Idiom": [
      "nothing special"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Noteworthy.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "5731",
    "Idiom": [
      "nothing succeeds like success"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Success leads to more success.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Always rising, Mr. Delamayn rose next to be Attorney-General. About the same time—so true it is that \" nothing succeeds like success \"—a childless relative died and left him a fortune.",
      "I gained considerable kudos for a lucky catch... and, as nothing succeeds like success, and the constant encouragement of the one great cricketer on the field was in itself an immense stimulus, I actually made a run or two in my very next innings.",
      "The theory of programmed learning is that nothing succeeds like success. It holds that some subjects are learned best when broken into tiny chunks of information that students can master one by one, each step providing its own little thrill of accomplishment.",
      "In television, nothing succeeds like success. So it was Sunday night at the 61st annual Primetime Emmy Awards, where five of the top six categories featured repeat winners from last year."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "5732",
    "Idiom": [
      "nothing to it"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Easy or straightforward.",
    "Sentence": [
      "See? Nothing to it. You just put tab A in slot B and give it a flip."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "5733",
    "Idiom": [
      "nothing to write home about"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Not exceptional or noteworthy.",
    "Sentence": [
      "The vegetables were okay, but the soup was nothing to write home about."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "5734",
    "Idiom": [
      "nothing ventured, nothing gained"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Taking risks is necessary to achieve rewards.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Noght vēter noght haue spare to speke spare to spede Nothing venture, nothing have; spare to speak, spare success",
      "Her husband was one of those unfortunate men, called speculators. He believed that to gain thousands, thousands must be put in jeopardy—“ nothing ventured, nothing gained,” was his rule, and he practiced it to perfection.",
      "Do not allow the danger of making a mistake to inhibit your initiative to the point of “ nothing ventured, nothing gained.” It is much healthier to expect to make mistakes, take a few good risks now and then, and take your medicine when you lose."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "5735",
    "Idiom": [
      "nourish a viper in one's bosom"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To do kind acts that lead to harm and ingratitude.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "5736",
    "Idiom": [
      "now for"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Introduces what comes next.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Charley: I did it! I did it! I beat the game! I defeated the mother ship! And now for the super fantastic secret message!"
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "5737",
    "Idiom": [
      "now or never"
    ],
    "Meaning": "At this sole opportunity or not at all.",
    "Sentence": [
      "As you tender the welfare of your country, I entreat you not to forget or delay so public-spirited a work. Now or never is the time. The spelling has been modernized.",
      "\"Come off, now or never,\" cried Amyas, clutching him by the arm, and dragging him away like a child.",
      "This was the moment when he must put his fortune to the test, to win or lose it all. Now or never must the balloon go up.",
      "It's now or never / Come hold me tight / Kiss me my darling / Be mine tonight / Tomorrow will be too late / It's now or never / My love won't wait",
      "Mamma mia, even if I say / \"Bye-bye\", leave me now or never / Mamma mia, it's a game we play / Bye-bye doesn't mean forever",
      "There had been a sense of now or never about this semi-final for United. Another elimination would be a fifth last-four reverse under the manager and serious questions would be asked regarding their ability to break the psychological barrier that separates also-rans from winners."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "5738",
    "Idiom": [
      "now you mention it"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Used to comment on something just mentioned.",
    "Sentence": [
      "'I—I—I have fought a little, but not in that climbing way or that running way.' / 'No. Now you mention it,' said Billy, 'you don't look as though you were made for climbing or running—much. Well, how was it, old Hay-bales?'",
      "― Everybody gets their own ration of luck, they say. Now you mention it his face was familiar to me. But, leaving that for the moment, how much did you part with, he queried, if I am not too inquisitive?"
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "5739",
    "Idiom": [
      "now you're cooking"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Indicates a more suitable or efficient approach.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Alice: \"Why are you still using that old software? You should try out the new version.\"",
      "Bob: \"Hey, this is really nice; much better than that crusty stuff we were using before.\"",
      "Alice: \" Now you're cooking! \""
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "5740",
    "Idiom": [
      "now you're talking"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Indicates agreement with a suggestion.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Alice: \"I think we should stop coding and go grab a couple of pints.\"",
      "Bob: \" Now you're talking! \""
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "5741",
    "Idiom": [
      "nowhere to be found"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Not present; missing.",
    "Sentence": [
      "And despite Platt’s impressive vocals, the magic he brought to his stage performance (and to so much of his previous screen work) is nowhere to be found here."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "5742",
    "Idiom": [
      "nuclear option"
    ],
    "Meaning": "The most extreme course of action with significant consequences.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Mr. Storey said his “ nuclear option ” was moving to Ocean Drive and living in his house full time, but that, too, came with obvious risks.",
      "In a land that has weathered 12 military coups in the past 91 years, the specter of military intervention looms large, though Thitinan calls it a “ nuclear option ” given the challenges any new junta would face."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "5743",
    "Idiom": [
      "nudge nudge wink wink"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Hints at a euphemistic meaning.",
    "Sentence": [
      "The Opposition is so insensitive to the South Island that it gets a North Island member to move a private member's Bill about a South Island issue. The Bill represents a broken half-promise—\" nudge, nudge, wink, wink \"—by the Leader of the Opposition in Timaru only a short time ago. So down [to the South Island] he goes—\" nudge, nudge, wink, wink \". They let him out of the closet for a while to go down to talk to some South Islanders and he told them they would get 25 percent and 10 percent. Now there is a Bill from a North Island Opposition member, the member for New Plymouth—a Bill that backs off from that promise in the space of a couple of weeks.",
      "Toby Miller, a professor at New York University, commented on [actress Drew] Barrymore 's attitude: \"She seems to be saying, 'I see no reason to hide my sexuality, my body—I want to celebrate it' … And all the women I know, even those who thought such a spectacle was tragic in the Seventies, love it. It's a nudge-nudge, wink-wink parody.\"",
      "Sally unlocked her tiny cubicle and found herself feeling quite nostalgic. No more early mornings on the number 13 bus to work. No more Geordie and his nudge nudge, wink wink greetings; from next month she would be a professional actress, working in repertory."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "5744",
    "Idiom": [
      "nugget of truth"
    ],
    "Meaning": "A small amount of truth in an otherwise false statement.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Even in its moderate form, this argument presupposes that factual elements can be plucked out of panegyric as nuggets of truth isolated from the dross of empty verbiage.",
      "This book identifies twelve teachings that sound plausible because they each contain a nugget of truth.",
      "Unfortunately, there is a nugget of truth to the notion of black and Hispanic tensions but, like politics, the friction tends to be very local."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "5745",
    "Idiom": [
      "nuke the fridge"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Includes a strange or illogical event that disrupts the narrative.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "5746",
    "Idiom": [
      "null and void"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Invalid or unenforceable.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "5747",
    "Idiom": [
      "number games"
    ],
    "Meaning": "The use of misleading statistics to achieve a desired result.",
    "Sentence": [
      "This sounds like we are playing number games, and I wonder if 20000 megawatts is a realistic guess.",
      "To many of their compatriots, politicians seem an innately frivolous breed. When they have to retire backstage, they spend their time playing number games, plotting new combinations, making and unmaking coalitions.",
      "\"In other words, they were playing number games with an author so they didn't look bad to their investors. They do it a lot.\""
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "5748",
    "Idiom": [
      "number one"
    ],
    "Meaning": "First; foremost; best.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Road safety is a daily tragedy that doesn’t seem to make the front pages even though it’s a number one killer. In some countries, it causes more deaths than small firearms, and in others, more than illnesses.",
      "Commuting to work is the number one reason to own a car.",
      "He is my enemy number one."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "5749",
    "Idiom": [
      "number one with a bullet"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Superlative; unbeatable.",
    "Sentence": [
      "We're going down, down in an earlier round / And sugar, we're going down swinging / I'll be your number one with a bullet / A loaded God complex, cock it and pull it",
      "I'm sure primitive man was drumming away and rattling things to make musically pleasing sounds, but then and now the human voice was, and is, number one with a bullet.",
      "I'm number one, number one with a bullet / Bring your guns, fifty shots when I pull it"
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "5750",
    "Idiom": [
      "nut-cutting time"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Time to exert maximum effort due to urgency.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "5751",
    "Idiom": [
      "nuts and bolts"
    ],
    "Meaning": "The basic inner workings or fundamentals of something.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Perhaps those who analyze the prospects for government in an Islamic state based on the works of these theorists forget that, after the revolution, lofty ideals and Utopias are discarded for the nuts and bolts of day-to-day governing.",
      "It also involves working with the nuts and bolts of management and leadership.",
      "The information presented in the previous chapters gives the nuts and bolts of the most common and basic techniques used to prove the truth of mathematical results.",
      "It's really not so hard, once you know the nuts and bolts of the editing process."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "5752-1",
    "Idiom": [
      "nuts to butts",
      "nuts-to-butts"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Closely one behind the other.",
    "Sentence": [
      "I’m a bastard jewboy in the promised land with a big hairy ass and a pocket full of sand livin’ nuts to butts and asshole to bell",
      "Lawrence Rich gave away his iced tea and forced down two grape drinks before lining up \" nuts to butts \" to leave the room.",
      "Like where else could he go? We’re harnessed together nuts to butts.",
      "Another yelled out, “Let me see nuts to butts, c'mon, people, nuts to butts, ladies! This ain't fucking gay, get used to it now! Nuts to butts !”",
      "The vehicles were stacked nuts to butts, with little room to pass between them.",
      "Ironically, I found myself playing peacekeeper, urging elderly English ladies to respect the line, much like I would back in Dehli’s while disembarking from airplanes where people found the need to stand “ nuts to butts ” while pushing forward."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "5753-2",
    "Idiom": [
      "nuts to butts"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Crowded or tightly packed.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Many had never ridden on a train before and were excited as children. They piled in willy-nilly, everywhere, finding room where they could. It was so crowded that some had to stand up in the aisles, nuts to butts, but they didn’t mind.",
      "“When I got down there they already had about 20 crazy fuckers packed together nuts to butts in the same cell smellin’ like fart. I was like, get me the fuck outta here.”",
      "De La Soul, the iconic Long Island hip-hop trio, performed last Saturday to a capacity crowd at Cervantes' Masterpiece Ballroom. It was \" nuts-to-butts crowded,\" as my Tennessee friends like to say.",
      "If it had not been a weekend, the borough would have been quieter. Moreover, the morning crowd would have soon been out, and the area overwhelmed with commuters walking, biking, and driving to work, or packed nuts to butts on public transportation.",
      "Maybe it does take a village. But what if the damned village in question is nuts to butts full of idiots? —Lieutenant Jack Rivera",
      "There's no point in arguing, they believe they are superior and anyone who doesn't live nuts to butts in an overcrowded city is stupid."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "5753-3",
    "Idiom": [
      "nuts to butts"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Arranged closely in a line.",
    "Sentence": [
      "There was a Marine in front of Puller, then Puller, and myself. We were nuts-to-butts, so to speak, and that Marine tripped a booby trap.",
      "They’d been led about the Court in a nuts-to-butts conga line, dancing for the amusement of His Royal Highness.",
      "“All traffic all the time, every minute on the minute.” The radio waves trembled with Mother’s voice. “It’s nuts to butts on the Kennedy all the way into... wait a second... Accident Alert!”",
      "As you approach the door outside the funnel, you get nuts-to-butts and keep the muzzles of your weapons pointed up. You bring the weapon to bear as soon as you enter the room, careful not to sweep your buddy."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "5753-4",
    "Idiom": [
      "nuts to butts"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Tightly crowded or packed.",
    "Sentence": [
      "The Angels’ current facilities, Sliwa emphasized, are “ ‘sardinelike’ or, to use the street euphemism, ‘ nuts to butts.’ Females who have visited felt uncomfortable.”",
      "There are no chairs on the floor, and by show time, it was \" nuts-to-butts \" out there.",
      "The place was nuts-to-butts with state flunkies, troopers and K-9 cops.",
      "The night streets are nuts to butts with jarangs — the derogatory Thai term for white folk — strutting and gaping, hunting for beer and pussy, man’s most essential needs.",
      "There was this \"leaning bar\" behind the seats at the main bar. It was nuts-to-butts in there. I had a \"motorcycle\" jacket on.",
      "The slow motion mosh pit resumed and bodies were crushed together like a man’s junk in 80s jeans. It was nuts to butts as we managed to squeeze the last person on, leaving no room to slide a credit card between us. There were armpits in the face and lumps and bumps pressed against lumps and bumps.",
      "The last game I rode the train from downtown to was the game where the Cubs won the pennant in the year they won the World Series. That thing was nuts to butts. After being in the country 5 years now I would probably die on that train. I hate crowds."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "5754",
    "Idiom": [
      "oat opera"
    ],
    "Meaning": "A film or novel set in the American Old West.",
    "Sentence": [
      "The fourth of the shows directly under the NBC wing is the Hopalong Cassidy oat opera film series (see box on this page).",
      "WITH THE THUNDER of boots setting the stage, a group of hard-riding horsemen burses into view. This is not a new oat opera on TV, but a group which combines love of 4-H with love of horses--the Perry County Boots and Saddle 4-H Club.",
      "A queasy combination of classic Wayne oat opera and happy jalopy jokiness a la Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "5755-1",
    "Idiom": [
      "odd and curious"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Refers to something uncommon or peculiar.",
    "Sentence": [
      "For the odd and curious of us, to fly like a bird is a not an easy thing.",
      "The odd and curious is born good and pure. The society corrupts."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "5755-2",
    "Idiom": [
      "odd and curious"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Refers to special coins that are odd or damaged.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "5756",
    "Idiom": [
      "odd duck"
    ],
    "Meaning": "An unusual person with peculiar traits.",
    "Sentence": [
      "This lad Kelley is an odd duck in many ways.... Unlike most college youngsters, he has no hobbies.",
      "If you are a married woman over 45 and are thinking of taking a plunge into the job market bear in mind that you won't be an odd duck in the employment pool.",
      "Is [Peter] O'Toole—skinny, tottering, eccentric in everything from costume to line-readings—wonderful in this role? Indeed he is. Always more of an odd duck than a leading man, age (he's 74) has given him license to play his essential weirdness."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "5757",
    "Idiom": [
      "odd fish"
    ],
    "Meaning": "An unusual or eccentric person.",
    "Sentence": [
      "We are constantly told how normal and honorable Thoreau was, yet it seems that we would get much further in understanding him if we began, by conceding that he was an odd fish, full of peculiar conceits.",
      "The second work is more promising, but something of an odd fish : the anonymous German treatise Schwester Katrei."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "5758",
    "Idiom": [
      "odds and ends"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Miscellaneous items.",
    "Sentence": [
      "I scraped my palette, stuck my brushes in a bowl of black soap, and I strolled into the smoking-room. I really believe that, excepting Geneviève's apartments, no room in the house was so free from the perfume of tobacco as this one. It was a queer chaos of odds and ends hung with threadbare tapestry.",
      "The garage was filled with a random assortment of odds and ends."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "5759",
    "Idiom": [
      "of a",
      "around the clock",
      "packaged goods",
      "piece of tail"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Indicates a certain time.",
    "Sentence": [
      "He always used to dine at my father's house of a Sunday.",
      "So, next time they come to me of a morning and ask the same question, what do you think my answer might be?",
      "You've got a piece of tail. I want a piece of tail too."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "5760",
    "Idiom": [
      "of a kind"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Of the same type.",
    "Sentence": [
      "All floor traders are of a kind, and most burn out by their late thirties."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "5761",
    "Idiom": [
      "of a piece"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Of the same kind.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Strange as this expectation appears to us, it is quite of a piece with early modes of thought."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "5762",
    "Idiom": [
      "of age"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Refers to a person's age.",
    "Sentence": [
      "One must be 18 years of age to be an eligible voter in most countries."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "5763",
    "Idiom": [
      "of all loves"
    ],
    "Meaning": "For the sake of all love.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Mrs. Arden desired him of all loves to come back again."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "5764",
    "Idiom": [
      "of all people"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Especially; more than others.",
    "Sentence": [
      "You of all people have most need of perfect love; because this alone casts out fear",
      "What have you, of all people in the world, got to do with it?"
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "5765",
    "Idiom": [
      "of all places"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Surprisingly.",
    "Sentence": [
      "They had a Jacuzzi on the deck, which was usually crowded, but I did manage to squeeze in once between two couples from Yakima, Washington, of all places."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "5766-1",
    "Idiom": [
      "of all things"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Especially; more than other things.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "5766-2",
    "Idiom": [
      "of all things"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Surprisingly.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Mother went a little pale. “Preposterous!” she said. “I don’t know what’s got into you!” She fiddled with her bouffant, almost as if she was nervous. “Your father, in a rock band of all things ! First that exercise book full of outrageous stories, and now this!”",
      "Liverpool needed a break and they got it at the beginning of the second half, from, of all things, a misplaced City pass. Aké was the culprit, undercooking his attempt to go back to Ederson and seeing Núñez steal in. He toed it away from the goalkeeper and was promptly cleaned out by him.",
      "He reached into his pocket and pulled out, of all things, an ice cream cone.",
      "Well, of all things ! Who would have expected him to propose to her on stage?"
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "5767",
    "Idiom": [
      "of an"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Indicates a habitual activity during a specific time of day.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Of an evening, I like to play chess. i.e., On some evenings, I like to play chess.",
      "Of a morning, they would work in their garden. i.e., They generally worked in their garden in the morning."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "5768",
    "Idiom": [
      "of choice"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Preferred above others.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Yesterday spears were the weapon of choice in the North Rift; today they are being replaced by the Kalashnikov and rocket-fired grenade.",
      "\"The Doors of Perception,\" as Aldous Huxley called them, had opened wide, and LSD became the drug of choice.",
      "Once the cyst is diagnosed, surgical excision is the treatment of choice."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "5769",
    "Idiom": [
      "of late"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Recently.",
    "Sentence": [
      "I have not visited them of late, but I hear they are doing well."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "5770",
    "Idiom": [
      "of one mind"
    ],
    "Meaning": "In agreement.",
    "Sentence": [
      "\"Come, Mr. Wickham, we are brother and sister, you know. Do not let us quarrel about the past. In future, I hope we shall be always of one mind.\"",
      "The two sisters were more of one mind than usual.",
      "\"How extraordinary that you and my mother should be of one mind about this!\" said Yeobright.",
      "However, just as the critics are not of one mind in their criticism, so they are far from united on what to do.",
      "French President Jacques Chirac may be the anti-George W. Bush in foreign policy, but when it comes to lowering taxes, the two leaders are of one mind."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "5771",
    "Idiom": [
      "of sorts"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Resembling or similar to, but not entirely.",
    "Sentence": [
      "The Mountain versus the Hound played out entertainingly, with the elder Clegane still outmatching his younger brother pound for pound and blow for blow. Being turned into a walking zombie of sorts didn’t just amplify his strength; it essentially obviated the need to parry blows, as even Sandor sinking his sword deep into his undead brother didn’t seem to slow him down in the slightest.",
      "He wrote a polite retraction, as an apology of sorts for his harsh words."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "5772",
    "Idiom": [
      "of the same stripe"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Of the same kind; sharing the same opinion.",
    "Sentence": [
      "The Tribune... may not mislead Union electors by imputing Republicanism to Mr. HECKER. The Tribune takes Mr. O'GORMAN with his secession record—Mr. HECKER is of the same stripe.",
      "\"Well, it is the same thing over again,\" he thought bitterly, \"like mother, like daughter—they are both of the same stripe.\"",
      "I had no gods to bother me, and my friends were of the same stripe.",
      "Once having overthrown Saddam, we would have faced two choices: accepting another dictator of the same stripe... or getting bogged down trying to administer the place ourselves.",
      "It is good old unregulated American greed of the same stripe that drove this country into its current economic meltdown."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "5773",
    "Idiom": [
      "of two minds"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Undecided or unsure.",
    "Sentence": [
      "You could not be indifferent to the war, you could not be of two minds about it. And yet—Jimmie Higgins was of two minds ! He wanted to beat back the Huns, who had made all this fearful mess; but also he wanted to beat the profiteers who were making messes at home.",
      "I'm of two minds about Vegas. I think Vegas is strange, and I don't know where their water comes from. But as a town and a place for an entertainer, there's... no other place you can go to where you can just sit and do six weeks at a time and have your band and your staff be so happy."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "5774",
    "Idiom": [
      "off and running"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Launched vigorously into action.",
    "Sentence": [
      "But both newspapers made the same point.... And so the story was off and running.",
      "The train won't budge, but the film that this scene opens, the Kafkaesque Romanian comedy \"California Dreamin',\" is off and running.",
      "The recovery seems to have entered a new stage in recent months. “We’re finally off and running,” said Mark Zandi, chief economist at Moody’s Analytics."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "5775",
    "Idiom": [
      "off balance"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Surprised or perplexed.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "5776-1",
    "Idiom": [
      "off board"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Not on a means of transportation.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "5776-2",
    "Idiom": [
      "off board"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Not participating.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "5777",
    "Idiom": [
      "off chance"
    ],
    "Meaning": "A slight possibility.",
    "Sentence": [
      "He submitted a job application on the off chance that nobody better would."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "5778",
    "Idiom": [
      "off one's box"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Intoxicated or high.",
    "Sentence": [
      "The 44-year-old has admitted to cleaning up his act of late, kicking well-publicised drug addictions and now leading a healthier lifestyle with regular exercise and a passion for fruit smoothies. He told the M.E.N. last week: \"Innit just natural that when you're a kid you're off your box and when you're a grown up, you're not? It seems totally normal to me, that.\"",
      "Oh yeah, much happier, darling. I saw her smiling yesterday, a real smile and all. Not one of those weird ones she does, when she's off her box on the pills …",
      "So you know when you're off your box and you're dancing to this tune and the tune is one of your favourites, yeah? But because you're off your box, it's better than banging."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "5779",
    "Idiom": [
      "off one's dot"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Crazy; insane.",
    "Sentence": [
      "\"Gone a bit off 'er dot \", he whispered"
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "5780",
    "Idiom": [
      "off one's feed"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Feeling unwell with reduced appetite.",
    "Sentence": [
      "“He wos took wery bad one arternoon, arter having been off his feed, and wery shaky on his legs for some veeks.”",
      "I asked some questions about Jack Benton, and one of the men told me that he was off his feed, and hardly ate anything, and swallowed all the coffee he could lay his hands on, and had used up all his own tobacco and had begun on what his brother had left.",
      "‘Something is the matter with Psmith. He is off his feed. He should try Blenkinsop's Balm for the Bilious.’",
      "The heavyweight champion of the world was off his feed.... Rocky, ordinarily a first-rate trencherman, was pushing away from the breakfast table after downing only two eggs and a pair of lamb chops."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "5781",
    "Idiom": [
      "off one's game"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Performing below usual level.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Big Bertha, the crowd-pleasing sand tiger shark who survived an astonishing four decades at the New York Aquarium, has died. \"She was off her game. She slowed down. She wasn't quite right,\" said Hans Walters, the animal department supervisor.",
      "Adam found himself answering the viewer's questions while also trying to cook—which threw him off his game."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "5782",
    "Idiom": [
      "off one's hinges",
      "off one's hinge"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Unstable or irrational.",
    "Sentence": [
      "'She’s hysterical already,' he murmured gloomily. 'She'll fly off her hinges if you suggest it.'",
      "“Yeah, I’m okay,” she answers with Zen calm, as if she wasn’t completely off her hinges a minute ago.",
      "Facing the business end of the large revolver was bad enough, but the man wielding the gun was off his hinges.",
      "Why, Albro was quite off his hinge one time. They had to put him in a sanitarium.",
      "“Oh, I see. The solitude has driven you off your hinge. Rather ironic, actually,” he added with a hollow chuckle.",
      "“He's got a couple of hysterical people in there with him. The mother is right off her hinge. She's brought along her boyfriend. Chief is trying to calm them down.”"
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "5783",
    "Idiom": [
      "off one's nut"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Insane or crazy.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Old Smith was awfully bucked because he'd taken four wickets. I should think he'd go off his nut if he took eight ever.",
      "\"If I was to spring this news in Mr. Wright's hearin', why, such a sensitive, high-tempered gentleman as he would go plumb off his nut.\"",
      "\"Look at them rapids ahead of us! Why, the guy that laid out this river was off his nut !\""
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "5784",
    "Idiom": [
      "off one's own bat"
    ],
    "Meaning": "On one's own initiative.",
    "Sentence": [
      "My boss didn't tell me to reorganize the filing system; I did it off my own bat."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "5785",
    "Idiom": [
      "off one's tits"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Heavily intoxicated.",
    "Sentence": [
      "“Did this bitch just say what I think he said?” “He did.” “Are you off your tits, boy?” “What?” “He is.” “Exactly. We are in far too deep now, baby. The only way forward is to stick to the plan.”"
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "5786",
    "Idiom": [
      "off one's tree"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Crazy or irrational.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Deirdre was increasingly off her tree in the last sad days of our relationship. Her demands and quirks were ever more extravagant and dislocated.",
      "\"These guys were off their tree,\" David Hawk recalled. At one point, a VMC activist asked the Weathermen what they were really after. \"To kill all rich people,\" Ayers replied.",
      "But after her wedding he goes completely off his tree, runs off into the wilderness and starts ranting in verse and writing poems in the sand with a stick."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "5787",
    "Idiom": [
      "off one's trolley"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Insane.",
    "Sentence": [
      "The Romance is the best part of the four movements. One is a bit off one’s trolley at such times and I should surely write a better Suite at this time after twenty years of sober reflection.",
      "On the whole, bodily symptoms have at least the consolatory fact about them, that they replace mental symptoms, fears of going off one’s trolley; and I suppose that, if I got rid of all the physical symptoms, things would but have been cleared away for a new worry about mental ones?",
      "Being slightly off one’s trolley Uppermost in my list of top four teaching behaviours is being ever-so-slightly crazy... to keep students guessing whether or not I have lost my marbles, and being not quite so predictable."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "5788",
    "Idiom": [
      "off the back foot"
    ],
    "Meaning": "From a defensive position.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "5789",
    "Idiom": [
      "off the bat"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Immediately; right away.",
    "Sentence": [
      "\"We're not going to uplift the frequency until we've got the new trains. But what we've seen straight off the bat has been a big winner for our customers.\"",
      "hot off the bat; straight off the bat",
      "I didn't see anything wrong, off the bat."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "5790",
    "Idiom": [
      "off the beaten path"
    ],
    "Meaning": "In a secluded location.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Jean had thought that the prowler might be some tramp who had wandered far off the beaten path of migratory humans.",
      "Only a small group of websites, well off the beaten path of most surfers, contain the malicious code."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "5791",
    "Idiom": [
      "off the beaten track"
    ],
    "Meaning": "In or to a place not commonly visited.",
    "Sentence": [
      "From Nikko northwards my route was altogether off the beaten track, and had never been traversed in its entirety by any European. I lived among the Japanese, and saw their mode of living in regions unaffected by European contact.",
      "The Manifold Valley is on the borders of Staffordshire and Derbyshire, very much off the beaten track and somewhat difficult of access.",
      "It is not the author's purpose to dwell on famous attractions, but rather to go off the beaten track, and frequently the tourist is encouraged to leave the car and explore the surrounding country on foot.",
      "The search for authenticity arguably motivates backpackers to travel off the beaten track in search of areas not yet contaminated by tourists or other backpackers."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "5792",
    "Idiom": [
      "off the deep end"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Crazy or irrational.",
    "Sentence": [
      "It used to be a funny comic, but lately it has gone off the deep end."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "5793",
    "Idiom": [
      "off the face of the earth"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Emphasizes disappearance or termination.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Those files were wiped off the face of the earth."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "5794-1",
    "Idiom": [
      "off the grid"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Isolated or in seclusion; not participating in a system.",
    "Sentence": [
      "The beach looked like a small swatch of an industrial wasteland.... He had promised me a crowd-free break that was off the grid, and here it was.",
      "They were off the grid —no IDs, no homes, no names, nothing."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "5794-2",
    "Idiom": [
      "off the grid"
    ],
    "Meaning": "In a secluded or isolated situation, away from public communication.",
    "Sentence": [
      "If you're annoying folks, you'll essentially cease to exist, as those you annoy drop you off the grid.",
      "The government of a country with 80 million people and a modernizing economy cut off nearly all access to the network and shut down cellphone service.... Egypt, to an unprecedented extent, pulled itself off the grid."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "5794-3",
    "Idiom": [
      "off the grid"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Secretly or clandestinely.",
    "Sentence": [
      "“You have to have an awful lot of energy and passion to make films with no funding and no prospect of having them seen in public in your home country except under the radar and off the grid,” said Sally Berger, the curator of the festival, who visited China last fall."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "5795-1",
    "Idiom": [
      "off the hook"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Relieved of a duty or responsibility.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Dom (David Jonsson): Tempting, but I think it's actually something I need to do. Like, I get what they did was peak, but I have to take some responsibility, you know? Yas (Vivian Oparah): Like, not at all. You're gonna let them off the hook after how they treated you?",
      "When the boss assigned the project to Tom, the rest of us were relieved to be off the hook.",
      "Without any evidence, the police had to let the suspect off the hook."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "5795-2",
    "Idiom": [
      "off the hook"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Performing extraordinarily well.",
    "Sentence": [
      "That's five three-pointers in a row! Smith is off the hook !"
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "5795-3",
    "Idiom": [
      "off the hook"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Fresh or excellent.",
    "Sentence": [
      "That party was off the hook !"
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "5796",
    "Idiom": [
      "off the radar"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Unlikely to happen or be noticed.",
    "Sentence": [
      "An accession of the Republic of Turkey to the European Union seems to have moved off the radar."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "5797-1",
    "Idiom": [
      "off the rails"
    ],
    "Meaning": "In an abnormal manner causing damage or malfunction.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "5797-2",
    "Idiom": [
      "off the rails"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Insane.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "5797-3",
    "Idiom": [
      "off the rails"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Off the intended path.",
    "Sentence": [
      "... but the plan came off the rails when infuriated Communists called it \"ideological provocation\" and warned against \"kindling political confrontation",
      "\"The DfT appears to have put things on a firmer footing, but the path is littered with cautionary tales of transport projects that later went off the rails."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "5797-4",
    "Idiom": [
      "off the rails"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Out of control.",
    "Sentence": [
      "I reckon it's pretty astonishing that none of us did go off the rails. There really was no telling how any of us would deal with the pressures and the fame."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "5798",
    "Idiom": [
      "off the reservation"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Violating rules or decorum.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "5799",
    "Idiom": [
      "off the scale"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Far beyond normal limits.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Give your head a wobble, Zoë, I told myself. You can't go around being broken-hearted because your heart isn't broken any more. That would be off-the-scale ridiculous.",
      "\"The people who run domestic intermodal are seeing enquiries flying off the scale in terms of what they can do, so there are some people they can help and some people they can't help."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "5800",
    "Idiom": [
      "off the table"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Beyond consideration.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Diplomatic hogwash aside, ‘efficiency and effectiveness’ have nothing to do with the shutting of the Consulate. The decision is but a continuation of successive US measures aimed at “taking Jerusalem off the table ” – as per Trump’s own words - of any future negotiations.",
      "That’s why virtually nothing should be off the table this offseason, including the idea of improving at quarterback.",
      "We will take no options off the table to achieve that goal."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "5801",
    "Idiom": [
      "off the top of one's head"
    ],
    "Meaning": "In an extemporaneous manner.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Ideally, one would wish to explore them through a series of depth interviews extending over several months, rather than by a brief survey interview, which necessarily tends to elicit responses off the top of one's head.",
      "These responses are not analyzed but are intended to discourage answers off the top of one's head to the next question, which explicitly asks if these situated responses reflect the strength of character on focus.",
      "“Oh, I don't have my stuff with me, and I don't know her work phone number off the top of my head. Here, take one of my cards.” “Are you a lawyer, too?” he asked, and then perused her information.",
      "I cannot think of any good examples off the top of my head, but give me a couple of hours and I'm sure I could come up with something."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "5802",
    "Idiom": [
      "off the wagon"
    ],
    "Meaning": "No longer abstaining from an undesirable habit, particularly drinking alcohol.",
    "Sentence": [
      "She kept up her diet for an entire month before falling off the wagon.",
      "He is off the wagon again."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "5803",
    "Idiom": [
      "off to the races"
    ],
    "Meaning": "In or into a process of energetic engagement.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Last week the magazine's tenth annual rating of the nation's leading corporations showed that American business really went off to the races in 1963.",
      "48 Hours was followed by hits such as Trading Places, Beverly Hills Cop and Raw. Eddie Murphy's career was off to the races.",
      "And with that, this tartly funny book is off to the races, inviting readers to tag along on a wild manic ride."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "5804-1",
    "Idiom": [
      "off-color"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Vulgar or obscene, often unpleasant.",
    "Sentence": [
      "The equating of the female genitalia with a wound caused by an axe is a very off-colour metaphor.",
      "He seems to have crawled off the earth after his Texas itinerary, in company with the alleged ex-nun whom he was carting around the country to pander to the prurient appetites of off-color dames by relating naughty tales of desiring nuns and accommodating priests.",
      "Overly risqué jokes and foul language are invitations to being charged with sexual abuse. I must admit to enjoying humor a great deal, and I am guilty of sharing all kinds of stories, some of which are slightly off-color, but far from lewd.",
      "He told an off-color joke."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "5804-2",
    "Idiom": [
      "off-color"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Different than usual.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Since Zappa treats subject matter, dialogue, and song as musical material, Permanent Damage has a casual off-color quality. Permanent Damage and An Evening with Wild Man Fischer were works of oddball sociology as much as they were rock and roll records.",
      "Even the roadside sights seemed a little off-color and was just beginning to lose some of its summer luster.",
      "There was something funny about his eyes... something off-color and old... but he pulled the shades back down before I could get a good look."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "5804-3",
    "Idiom": [
      "off-color"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Feeling mildly unwell.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Nihal Sheshan, one of our officers, tells me our chief has been a little off-color of late. Kind of disoriented sometimes.",
      "One evening she was feeling off-color with a virus and was settled comfortably in the sitting-room.",
      "I feel a bit off-color today."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "5805",
    "Idiom": [
      "off-kilter"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Askew.",
    "Sentence": [
      "On second thought, she reconsidered, looking up into Murphy's eyes; maybe he was a little off-kilter. Just off-kilter enough to want her to live up to that ridiculous term he'd given her—or else.",
      "Up to this point, True Romance has the makings of a gritty, off-kilter, romance movie meets road movie. This strikingly changes, not in direction (because the film is a gritty, off-kilter, romance movie meets road movie) but in symbolism, semiotics",
      "“Do forgive me, Mrs. Patch.” He was generally much better at questioning people, at reading what would upset them or make them reveal their secrets. But this situation had thrown him entirely off-kilter."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "5806",
    "Idiom": [
      "off-roader"
    ],
    "Meaning": "A vehicle designed for off-road driving.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "5807",
    "Idiom": [
      "off-the-cuff"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Spontaneous or without prior preparation.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Off-the-Cuff Obama Line Put U.S. in Bind on Syria [title]",
      "Trump’s Off-the-Cuff Tweets Strain Foreign Ties [title]",
      "Even when people are trying to sell you something, their messages seem off-the-cuff, like trustworthy recommendations rather than sponsored shilling.",
      "He made a few off-the-cuff remarks before launching into his prepared speech."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "5808",
    "Idiom": [
      "off-the-shelf"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Readily available without modification.",
    "Sentence": [
      "We can build a specialized part for you, but an off-the-shelf product will probably cost less."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "5809-1",
    "Idiom": [
      "off-the-wall"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Wildly unconventional or bizarre.",
    "Sentence": [
      "What makes it surprising, though, are the glimmers of wit and self-awareness beneath all the rap star swagger and over-the-top confrontations. Even the fervid finale had a few off-the-wall side jokes.",
      "What kind of a harebrained, off-the-wall idea is that?",
      "She is a very off-the-wall character."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "5809-2",
    "Idiom": [
      "off-the-wall"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Greatly inappropriate behavior.",
    "Sentence": [
      "All of their friends were amazed that they were familiar with a war hero. Some began to understand Chips' moods and drinking. His \" off the wall \" behaviour at times. And unknowingly they were \"forgiving\" him."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "5810",
    "Idiom": [
      "offer affordances"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To provide flexibility or options.",
    "Sentence": [
      "The two sides, the political and the erotic, necessarily obscure and misrepresent each other - but in ways that offer important and shifting affordances to all parties in historical gender and class struggle."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "5811-1",
    "Idiom": [
      "offer one can't refuse"
    ],
    "Meaning": "An irresistible offer.",
    "Sentence": [
      "But in 2001 the government of Singapore made him an offer he couldn't refuse : the directorship of the brand new Genome Institute along with a $25 million starting budget."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "5811-2",
    "Idiom": [
      "offer one can't refuse"
    ],
    "Meaning": "A threatening offer that compels acceptance due to unfavorable consequences.",
    "Sentence": [
      "The Mafia godfather Rocco... makes Jack an offer he can't refuse : marry Carol or else."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "5812",
    "Idiom": [
      "offer one's condolences"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To offer sympathy for a recent loss.",
    "Sentence": [
      "The president offered his condolences to the mother of the dead soldier."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "5813-1",
    "Idiom": [
      "offer up"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To give thanks or praise.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "5813-2",
    "Idiom": [
      "offer up"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To sacrifice.",
    "Sentence": [
      "After the Master Of Whisperers starts composing his written testimony about Jon being the rightful heir to the throne, Tyrion turns on his old friend and offers him up to Dany."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "5813-3",
    "Idiom": [
      "offer up"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To present.",
    "Sentence": [
      "But the World Cup winning veteran's left boot was awry again, the attempt sliced horribly wide of the left upright, and the saltires were waving aloft again a moment later when a long pass in the England midfield was picked off to almost offer up a breakaway try."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "5814",
    "Idiom": [
      "often wrong, never in doubt"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Overconfidence in one's opinions regardless of accuracy.",
    "Sentence": [
      "As stated before, Larry says High D personalities are “ often wrong, never in doubt.”",
      "We have an expression in our day: “ often wrong; never in doubt.” In this case they were always wrong.",
      "“ Often wrong, never in doubt ” was long the motto of editorial writers, but it can be applied to the journalism racket generally.",
      "Following the unwavering credo of, “ Often wrong, never in doubt ”, The Wrath of Woody says: Virginia 34, Virginia Tech 31."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "5815",
    "Idiom": [
      "oh dark hundred"
    ],
    "Meaning": "A term for an early, unpleasant hour of the morning.",
    "Sentence": [
      "I had to get up at oh dark hundred to catch a plane."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "5816",
    "Idiom": [
      "oh dark thirty"
    ],
    "Meaning": "An unpleasant early morning hour.",
    "Sentence": [
      "I had to get up at oh dark thirty to catch a plane."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "5817",
    "Idiom": [
      "oh my"
    ],
    "Meaning": "An expression of surprise or astonishment.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Which might mean shaping it, gelling it, snooting it, barn dooring it, and putting it on a stand or a clamp. Maybe taking the dome diffuser off. Perhaps zooming it. Oh my. And you thought you were just taking a picture."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "5818",
    "Idiom": [
      "oh my goodness gracious"
    ],
    "Meaning": "An expression of surprise or disbelief.",
    "Sentence": [
      "\" Oh, my goodness gracious ! who'd have thought it? Oh, my soul and body!\" exclaimed Ben, dropping the cover, and jumping up with a perfectly absurd look of...",
      "Oh, my goodness gracious me ! where was I? Where was Robert? To happen to me, a sort of prudish old maid, who kept her house so strict!"
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "5819",
    "Idiom": [
      "oh my gosh"
    ],
    "Meaning": "An expression of surprise or shock.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "5820",
    "Idiom": [
      "oh well"
    ],
    "Meaning": "An expression of mild disappointment or resignation.",
    "Sentence": [
      "It was not until he heard a ring at the bell that he wondered how he should address her. Countess? That would seem like rubbing it in. Oh, well, it was n't really necessary to call people anything, if one used a little management.",
      "\" Oh well, it can't be helped,\" returned Teal. \"We'll get him yet. By the way, walk down to the lecture with me this afternoon?\"",
      "The meager X-ray facts are woefully inadequate and there is nothing upon modern roentgen-cardiography. And this book comes out of Boston where Holmes and George practice the art of roentgenology? Oh, well —Prophets without honor, etc.",
      "I'll catch a tongue-thrashing, I warrant … Oh well, I guess I'll risk it. I'd feel unhappy all day if I didn't.",
      "Hello? Hello? Is that zoo? … Well, nobody's talking baby talk. Well, I'm the man that called up about the leopard. You don't have to do anything about it. It's all been a mistake. Yes. Uh … Oh, well, stop them.",
      "He has stories he wants to tell, and if they don’t fit neatly into the mythology, then oh well.",
      "I didn’t know the store closes at five on Thursdays. Oh well, I’ll have to come back tomorrow.",
      "Oh well, I guess."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "5821",
    "Idiom": [
      "oil and water"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Incapable of mixing or coexisting harmoniously.",
    "Sentence": [
      "We are oil and water. There are few things he and I agree on but I believe we would agree on this.",
      "second, that the white and red man were oil and water, incapable of safely sharing a landscape.",
      "Forgiveness and making bargains are oil and water. They don't mix."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "5822-1",
    "Idiom": [
      "oil and water don't mix"
    ],
    "Meaning": "An admonition against interracial relationships.",
    "Sentence": [
      "I don't think you quite realise, Benneville, what it means to be married to a native woman. It will mean that you lose friends, home, and everything that is worth living for to an Englishman. You would not be likely to make friends with the other natives. Oil and water don't mix...",
      "Less dramatic than open bigotry, but equally problematic, is the ignorance displayed by shop stewards and officials subscribing to what Barker (1981) has called the 'new racism', the 'reasonable', and ' acceptable' racism of the 'I'm not racist but... oil and water don't mix' kind.",
      "She say that when nigger people step out o' they place and start for rub shoulders with Bacra, trouble just 'round the corner. She say oil and water don't mix, and she going beat me if I keep company with you."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "5822-2",
    "Idiom": [
      "oil and water don't mix"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Some people or things do not go together.",
    "Sentence": [
      "And the Mennonite boys don't consider her suitable. As you know, oil and water don't mix."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "5823",
    "Idiom": [
      "oil burner"
    ],
    "Meaning": "A device that burns lubricating oil.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "5824",
    "Idiom": [
      "oil trash"
    ],
    "Meaning": "An uncultured, rowdy person in the petroleum industry.",
    "Sentence": [
      "One of my biggest complaints in this mess is that oil people are not speaking out. I am third generation oil trash, and beyond my personal loss in business, I love this industry and the people who gave it birth.",
      "We kicked on to a few more bars, having a good time, until a group of drunk American businessmen called us “ oil trash ” and shoved Erwin. We were not dressed like oil trash, we didn't draw attention to ourselves or look for trouble.",
      "Never called anybody “ oil trash.” Never had a bad word for anybody."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "5825",
    "Idiom": [
      "old as the hills"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Extremely old.",
    "Sentence": [
      "His family is as old as the hills, and infinitely more respectable.",
      "A violent revolution cannot achieve anything except the inevitable results of violence, which are as old as the hills."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "5826",
    "Idiom": [
      "old boy network"
    ],
    "Meaning": "A system of mutual assistance among friends from school or university.",
    "Sentence": [
      "His hiring and promotion of senior officers rested not on merit but on an old-boy network of connections from Wall Street and the Social Register.",
      "Another BWMT member said bars have no open advertising for bartenders and no affirmative action policy. He said bars hire \"young, good looking white men\" through an \" old-boy network.\""
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "5827",
    "Idiom": [
      "old chestnut"
    ],
    "Meaning": "A well-worn story.",
    "Sentence": [
      "\"How's the speech to-night?\" he asked, languidly; \"same old chestnuts, I suppose.\" \"As this is Mr. Grayson's second speech,\" replied Harley, sharply, \"it is a little early to call anything that he says 'same old chestnuts.' Besides, I don't think that repetition will ever be one of his faults. Why haven't you been here?\"",
      "\"Are you trying to pull my leg? If I say 'No,' will you tell me that in that case I shall be very hungry by bedtime, or something? I suppose that old chestnut has just got round to your club. Have you been electing Noah an honorary member?\""
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "5828",
    "Idiom": [
      "old enough to vote"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Not applicable; refers to age eligibility for voting.",
    "Sentence": [
      "It looks, acts and pays property tax like a new airplane, but it's old enough to vote.",
      "I'm going to have to get a new car. Mine is old enough to vote."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "5829",
    "Idiom": [
      "old fart"
    ],
    "Meaning": "An elderly person with old-fashioned views.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "5830",
    "Idiom": [
      "old flame"
    ],
    "Meaning": "A previous romantic partner, often with lingering feelings.",
    "Sentence": [
      "There once lived, in a sequestered part of the county of Devonshire, one Mr Godfrey Nickleby: a worthy gentleman, who, taking it into his head rather late in life that he must get married, and not being young enough or rich enough to aspire to the hand of a lady of fortune, had wedded an old flame out of mere attachment.",
      "\"Edith Bradin's coming,\" said some one to Gordon. \"Didn't she used to be an old flame of yours? Aren't you both from Harrisburg?\"",
      "But Philip still yearns for an old flame : Schiffer, an Oscar-winning actress."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "5831",
    "Idiom": [
      "old fogey"
    ],
    "Meaning": "An old and conservative person.",
    "Sentence": [
      "\"No; the Athletic. Tell you: Course they're always asking me to join the Union, but I always say, 'No, sir! Nothing doing!' I don't mind the expense but I can't stand all the old fogies.\""
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "5832",
    "Idiom": [
      "old habits die hard"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Established habits are difficult to change.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Old habits die hard. The stronger beverage of English ale had been so long in use that the old folks could not be induced to relinquish it for a foreign herb."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "5833",
    "Idiom": [
      "old hand"
    ],
    "Meaning": "A person who is experienced.",
    "Sentence": [
      "The media, needless to say, are very pro-Bloomberg. He’s an old hand at stroking reporters and television executives, and few of them have raised the fact that it was Rudy who inherited a lawless city with crime out of control and over eight years, via his ‘broken windows’ theory, turned Gotham into the safest big city on the planet.",
      "My tax advisor is an old hand at dealing with auditors."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "5834",
    "Idiom": [
      "old hat"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Very familiar or out of date.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Coward is such an old hand at this kind of thing that he makes it seem old hat.",
      "In fact, monorails are rather old hat.",
      "It is old hat for a sex scandal to bring down a politician.",
      "Based on the size of the crowd, perhaps the queen is old hat.",
      "The only real knock against “Mortshall” is that “Rick and Morty get sick of each other and split up for a while” feels kind of old hat at this point—the comic premise of the show requires their relationship to be toxic (because a lot of the humor comes from seeing Rick be a shit and seeing Morty try haplessly to deal with Rick being a shit), and they can only try and sell the illusion that anything is going to change so many times before it starts to get stale."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "5835",
    "Idiom": [
      "old head on young shoulders",
      "wise head on young shoulders"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Someone young with the wisdom of age.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "5836",
    "Idiom": [
      "old money"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Families that have been wealthy for generations.",
    "Sentence": [
      "They found, for example, a significant difference in emphasis as you moved from the “ old money ” rich, or true elite, to the “new money” rich, or unseasoned elite. The women of “ old money ” families tend to be relatively indifferent to swings in fashion; and their taste is oriented more to that of the British upper classes than to the French.",
      "That girl's a student athlete but she's never played a sport Her parents had a seven-figure wedding and divorce She's stolen from the CVS but her daddy's on the board It's gotta be 'cause she's an old money bitch"
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "5837",
    "Idiom": [
      "old salt"
    ],
    "Meaning": "A seasoned sailor.",
    "Sentence": [
      "An old salt don't like to keep under hatches, while powder is burning on deck.",
      "None of the spears, however, had touched any vital part, and being a tough old salt he was able to pull through.",
      "\"You'll always find an old salt at the harbour ready and willing to take you out cod-fishing or lobstering.\"",
      "Peerless hero of U. S. mariners is Captain Ahab, the vindictive old salt who sailed the southern oceans screaming for more canvas, cursing tired crews, laughing wildly into the gale.",
      "The old salt probably had more knowledge than anyone around when it came to the ports on the Atlantic coast, but he sensed the captain needed to talk so he patiently indulged him."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "5838",
    "Idiom": [
      "old saw"
    ],
    "Meaning": "A cliché or overused expression.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Never believe the old saw, \"If you can remember the Sixties, you weren't really there\". Barry Miles remembers the 60s in vivid detail, down to the dress with \"zebra stripes\" that George Martin's wife wore at a dinner party given by Paul McCartney and Jane Asher in 1967, and he certainly was there.",
      "Cooke and Eve Best deliver a verbal showdown that’s twice as thrilling as the Kingsguard swordfight. Alicent brings out all the old saws : Supporting Rhaenyra has left Rhaenys with two dead children, bastards for grandsons, and a grievously wounded husband. “We do not rule, but we may guide the men who do,” the queen finishes.",
      "He's full of old saws, but he's not much for original advice."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "5839-1",
    "Idiom": [
      "old school"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Refers to traditional or conservative styles, methods, or ways of thinking.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Aha! Haha! Did I hear from the fireside armchair the bow-wow of the old school defending its drugs? Ah, believe me, Paddy, the world would be healthier if every chemist's shop in England were demolished.",
      "Pathetic as its passing is, one cannot honestly regret the old school. I was looking last night at the programme of my very first hall, and received a terrible shock to my time-sense. Where are the snows of yesteryear? Where are the entertainers of 1895?",
      "The amount of external pipework is also unusual in a British locomotive, though apparent in the most recent L.M.S.R. designs, such as the Class \"4\" 2-6-0s; but while lacking the tidiness of the old school of British locomotive engineering, this has obvious application for maintenance purposes in present circumstances.",
      "Family experts are advocating a change away from the old school, advising parents not to medicate behavioural problems.",
      "My mom’s a good baker because she’s of the old school. She’d never buy ready-made cookie dough."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "5839-2",
    "Idiom": [
      "old school"
    ],
    "Meaning": "A traditional style of music, often associated with early hip-hop or rap.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Rap is not one particular thing. Just like there are many different types of music, there are different types of rap. Hardcore, like Ice Cube, or OldSchool, like the Sugarhill Gang, are two facets on the gem we call hip hop."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "5839-3",
    "Idiom": [
      "old school"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Characteristic of a traditional method or style.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Many railway officers complain that the deep interest of the old-school railwaymen in their job is dying; the B.T.C.'s new approach seems calculated to hasten its death and breed thousands more time-servers.",
      "The seat reservations are also old-school, with labels in the back of seats.",
      "That teacher’s old-school methods aren’t effective. They’re just annoying.",
      "Man, I love that jacket; it’s so old school."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "5839-4",
    "Idiom": [
      "old school"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Relating to traditional or old-fashioned styles, especially in music.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Also look out for a PHAT PHAT oldskool style tune on Jemini 's album set to drop in the next couple of weeks. It uses the Love Unlimited 'Strange Games and Things' break, and comes on with the old skool rhymes believe …"
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "5839-5",
    "Idiom": [
      "old school"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Having conservative or traditional views.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Local politicians assume various appellations, such as New School and Old School Democrats, Snyderites, Clintonians, and many others, mostly derived from the name or principles of some popular demagogue.",
      "We both agree that you are defrauding some honest man of his just due. I recommend that you form an acquaintance, with a view to prospective results for life, with some well-settled, Old-School Presbyterian clergyman, and send me some of the cake. Quoted from a humorous letter from Tilton to Susan B. Anthony."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "5840",
    "Idiom": [
      "old sins cast long shadows",
      "old sins have long shadows"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Past misdeeds can have lasting consequences.",
    "Sentence": [
      "\"' Old sins have long shadows,'\" he went on musingly. \"And this shadow of Bou Smain may yet engulf you if I am not quick.",
      "“But if it doesn't exist how can it matter?” asked Nichol. “Old file, old company, old news.” “ Old sins have long shadows,” said Gamache. “And this is an old sin.”",
      "Lucinda was happy and deeply in love, but ‘ old sins have long shadows ’, and on the very night of her engagement party the dark, dangerous shadow of her past confronted her."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "5841",
    "Idiom": [
      "old song"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Something of little value.",
    "Sentence": [
      "I do not intend to be thus put off with an old song."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "5842",
    "Idiom": [
      "old stager"
    ],
    "Meaning": "A veteran or experienced person.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Thank goodness for ' old stagers' such as BBC veteran journalist Paul Clifton, who saw the truth behind the spin."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "5843",
    "Idiom": [
      "old stick"
    ],
    "Meaning": "A person.",
    "Sentence": [
      "He's a funny old stick but I think you'll like him."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "5844",
    "Idiom": [
      "old wine in a new bottle"
    ],
    "Meaning": "An old idea presented as new.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Finally, some critics argue that evolutionary psychology is old wine in a new bottle — the old instinct theory in a new package.",
      "Police reform advocate Robert Gangi called the plan “ old wine in a new bottle ” that relied “mainly on punitive law enforcement tactics”."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "5845",
    "Idiom": [
      "old-fashioned look"
    ],
    "Meaning": "A glance of disdain or disapproval.",
    "Sentence": [
      "He produced his Agreement and, as he put it in – that is to say, tendered it as evidence – he gave me an old-fashioned look; and that, of course, told me that the rotten thing wasn't stamped."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "5846",
    "Idiom": [
      "oll korrect"
    ],
    "Meaning": "All right; okay.",
    "Sentence": [
      "It is a curious fact that the telegraph clerks in England and America employ the letters ‘O. K.,’ when they send a telegram that a message has been received Oll Korrect.",
      "\"My Lord!\" exclaimed Levin; \"that's twenty-five dollars, ain't it, sir?\"",
      "When faced with the problem of toponymic derivatives, I turn to Prof. Allen Walker Read, the etymologist who tracked down the source of O.K. (Oll korrect, not Old Kinderhook - stop writing me about this. O.K.?)",
      "Everything about Jacob made me think of sex. Even fairly prosaic things—the way his lips puckered into a pout when he bit into his sandwich, the way he said certain words—minor words, like the abbreviated oll korrect, also known as okay.",
      "Allan Metcalfe's new book... devotes a chapter to trying to explain why readers of the Boston Morning Post might have been amused to see “o. k.” used as a jokey abbreviation for “ oll korrect,” an intentional misspelling of “all correct.”",
      "“Well, hell, that's the glory of English. You can speak it ten thousand different ways, and it's still O. K.” “That barbarous expression! 'O. K.' What does this mean?” “ Oll Korrect,” said Calvin. “Making fun of people who care too much about how words get writ down.”"
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "5847",
    "Idiom": [
      "on a dime"
    ],
    "Meaning": "With agile precision and suddenness in a small space.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Everything will stop on a dime / Everything will crash into itself in good time / Do you want to beat your own heart, beat your own heart / Or leave it behind / Or leave it behind",
      "This boat can turn on a dime.",
      "This car has excellent brakes that will stop it on a dime."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "5848",
    "Idiom": [
      "on a first-name basis"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Having familiarity to use first names.",
    "Sentence": [
      "We are not yet on a first-name basis."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "5849",
    "Idiom": [
      "on a full stomach"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Directly after eating.",
    "Sentence": [
      "You shouldn't swim on a full stomach."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "5850",
    "Idiom": [
      "on a kick"
    ],
    "Meaning": "A period of enthusiasm for an activity.",
    "Sentence": [
      "And he is now on a kick of having me make orange juice, rather than buying the frozen concentrate.",
      "They have a great idea, especially since everyone is on a health kick lately."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "5851",
    "Idiom": [
      "on a lark"
    ],
    "Meaning": "In a frivolous or whimsical manner.",
    "Sentence": [
      "When you meet the girl who wouldn't et cetera you will tell her that your are slumming, visiting your own six A.M. Lower East Side of the soul on a lark, stepping nimbly between the piles of garbage to the gay marimba rhythms in your head."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "5852",
    "Idiom": [
      "on a losing wicket"
    ],
    "Meaning": "In a no-win situation.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Recognize that we are on a losing wicket in Vietnam.",
      "I'm sure we're on a losing wicket but we're fighting technology.",
      "Our part-time Defence Secretary is also on a losing wicket over grim milestones."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "5853",
    "Idiom": [
      "on a regular basis"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Regularly.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "5854",
    "Idiom": [
      "on a shoestring"
    ],
    "Meaning": "On a very tight budget.",
    "Sentence": [
      "The first year after we bought the house, we lived on a shoestring, but we survived."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "5855-1",
    "Idiom": [
      "on a tear"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Engaged in a fast-paced succession of favorable actions.",
    "Sentence": [
      "The team was on a tear, having laid waste to three early round tournament opponents by a total victory margin of 82 points.",
      "To say he went on a tear after turning professional would be an understatement. He went fourteen fights without tasting defeat.",
      "The market has been on a tear for more than six years and continues to trade near record highs."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "5855-2",
    "Idiom": [
      "on a tear"
    ],
    "Meaning": "In a state of intense enthusiasm or activity.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Congress has been hopping mad and the U.N.-haters have been on a tear.",
      "When the gay activist and playwright Larry Kramer goes on a tear, when he really lays into somebody about being politically lazy or not wearing a condom,... you hear rage."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "5855-3",
    "Idiom": [
      "on a tear"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Engaged in heavy drinking.",
    "Sentence": [
      "The man I want to tell you about, the one I met at the bar at Jimmy's Steak House, was on a tear. Hardly surprising, since this was a bar, after all, and what do people do at bars except drink, and one drink leads to another -- and if you're in a certain frame of mind, I suppose, you don't stop for a day or two or maybe more.",
      "That Kelly, when he goes on a tear, he don't wait for the bars to open."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "5856",
    "Idiom": [
      "on a whim"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Without serious consideration.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Germany’s government said press freedom must not be switched “on and off on a whim ” and Downing Street also raised concerns over the suspensions."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "5857-1",
    "Idiom": [
      "on account of"
    ],
    "Meaning": "For the sake of.",
    "Sentence": [
      "and His Imperial Majesty further agrees to pay to the British Government the sum of Three Millions of dollars, on account of debts due to British subjects by some of the said Hong merchants (or Cohong), who have become insolvent, and who owe very large sums of money to subjects of Her Britannic Majesty."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "5857-2",
    "Idiom": [
      "on account of"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Because of.",
    "Sentence": [
      "The rebuilding of damaged stations is proceeding slowly, on account of the shortage of building materials and the pressing needs of housing, but steady progress is being made.",
      "‘My brother, , is at Radley, on account of my parents thinking it a bad idea to have us both at the same school.’ ‘ On account of your being twins?’ said Adrian. ‘Right, on account of my mother OD-ing on fertility drugs. ’"
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "5858",
    "Idiom": [
      "on acid"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Exaggerated or bizarre.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "5859-1",
    "Idiom": [
      "on all fours"
    ],
    "Meaning": "On hands and knees.",
    "Sentence": [
      "A bulky form was seen rising aft, and began marching on all fours with the movements of some big cautious beast.",
      "He was on all fours, with three children on his back, riding him for a horse."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "5859-2",
    "Idiom": [
      "on all fours"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Not applicable; \"on all fours\" typically refers to being in a position on hands and knees, not a comparison or consistency.",
    "Sentence": [
      "The paternal longing ran on all fours with her own desire.",
      "While he brought the ink to the bedside, I read the form and found it on all fours with what he had said.",
      "The new law was precisely on all-fours with the Homestead Act."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "5860",
    "Idiom": [
      "on an irregular basis"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Irregularly.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "5861",
    "Idiom": [
      "on and off"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Intermittently.",
    "Sentence": [
      "With so much worry, I only slept on and off last night."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "5862",
    "Idiom": [
      "on average"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Typically or usually.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "5863-1",
    "Idiom": [
      "on board"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Joining in or participating.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Is that new teammate properly on board yet?"
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "5863-2",
    "Idiom": [
      "on board"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Agreeing or supporting.",
    "Sentence": [
      "The ships' successes made Hitler quite the fan of them, and he supported the idea of more being converted and sent out soon. And so, with the Führer on board, albeit not literally, another six vessels were rapidly placed under conversion.",
      "It's a good idea, but let's see if we can get a few more of the management team on board.",
      "Without management on board, the project has little chance of success."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "5863-3",
    "Idiom": [
      "on board"
    ],
    "Meaning": "In agreement or part of a group.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Soccer players certainly tend not to take fluids on board."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "5864",
    "Idiom": [
      "on cloud nine"
    ],
    "Meaning": "In a state of elation.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "5865-1",
    "Idiom": [
      "on course"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Following the intended route.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "5865-2",
    "Idiom": [
      "on course"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Proceeding as planned.",
    "Sentence": [
      "United were reduced to 10 men when Jonny Evans was sent off early in the second half but City's superiority was such that they looked on course for a landmark victory from the moment they took the lead."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "5865-3",
    "Idiom": [
      "on course"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Likely to happen.",
    "Sentence": [
      "That’s a title the US appears on course to lose – a fall from grace that may prove irreversible. The domestic debacle unleashed by the pandemic, and global perceptions of American selfishness and incompetence, could change everything."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "5866",
    "Idiom": [
      "on demand"
    ],
    "Meaning": "When needed.",
    "Sentence": [
      "The kitten is being fed on demand.",
      "Our new on-demand software delivery system is cutting edge."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "5867",
    "Idiom": [
      "on edge"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Tense or nervous.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Waiting to see who had been chosen, we were all on edge."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "5868",
    "Idiom": [
      "on end"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Continuously.",
    "Sentence": [
      "The arrangement of some seats facing and some one behind the other, bus fashion, seems a sensible compromise; I am one of those who do not enjoy staring at my fellow travellers for perhaps hours on end.",
      "These batteries last for hours on end."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "5869",
    "Idiom": [
      "on eternal patrol"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Lost at sea.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "5870",
    "Idiom": [
      "on file"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Recorded or accepted.",
    "Sentence": [
      "My record of complaints about your business is on file with the Better Business Bureau."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "5871-1",
    "Idiom": [
      "on fire"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Overwhelmed with emotion.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Anytime I am on fire with anxiety about the future, or totally freaking out that I am not being seen, heard, or treated fairly based on my old wounds, it is easy for me to RECOGNIZE that my Character 2 has flared right up in an attempt to not only protect me but help me get my needs met."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "5871-2",
    "Idiom": [
      "on fire"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Excited, enthusiastic, or passionate.",
    "Sentence": [
      "“I'm on fire with an idea,” the 48-year-old businessman proclaimed with excitement similar to that which he projected in 1971 when his company became the first predominantly Black-owned corporation to be listed on the American Stock Exchange."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "5871-3",
    "Idiom": [
      "on fire"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Doing very well.",
    "Sentence": [
      "That striker has scored four goals so far – he's on fire !"
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "5871-4",
    "Idiom": [
      "on fire"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Sexually aroused.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "5872",
    "Idiom": [
      "on good terms"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Having good relations.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "5873",
    "Idiom": [
      "on hand",
      "wait on hand, foot and finger",
      "wait on someone hand, foot and finger",
      "wait upon hand and foot"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Available or ready.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Freight rolling stock distribution is the concern of a section in the office. The clerk in charge of this section receives bulk returns from the districts at regular intervals of wagons on hand and wagon requirements.",
      "Rustu failed to collect a Whitehead corner, Shawcross saw his effort blocked and Crouch was on hand to bundle over the line from three yards out.",
      "She was on hand again in March when the EU gave €7.4bn (£6.3bn) to Egypt’s abusive dictator, Abdel Fatah al-Sisi, partly to curb migrant flows.",
      "If you have cornstarch on hand, use it; otherwise, try a little flour."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "5874",
    "Idiom": [
      "on hold"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Delayed or suspended.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Plans to build a western rail route into Heathrow Airport have been put on hold, with Network Rail saying that staff working on the scheme have been moved to other projects.",
      "This project is on hold until we can get more information."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "5875",
    "Idiom": [
      "on ice"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Not being used; temporarily unavailable or suspended.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Shortly after taking to the ice, the bear broke loose from its leash and went barreling, spinning, slipping, and sliding all around the rink before he was finally restrained and sedated. Needless to say, that act was put on ice.",
      "The agency's dry dock project was on ice. Begun as a routine construction job, the project was now also an archaeological site and, ominously, a resting place for an unknown number of human remains.",
      "He told the press: \"We're not saying never, but that project is on ice for quite a while\" .",
      "But after a public consultation, the three closures were put on ice and the reductions in opening hours revised at many stations .",
      "We're putting the new software features on ice until we can fix the existing bugs.",
      "Boss says there's a mole in our organization. Find him and put him on ice."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "5876",
    "Idiom": [
      "on in years"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Old; advanced in age.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Being rather young at present—I am getting on in years, but still I am rather young—I have no particular adventures of my own to fall back upon.",
      "More years went by, and his wife was dead, and he well on in years.",
      "I am getting on in years; and my partner Lazarus has at last made a stand and insisted that the succession must be settled.",
      "Old as I am,—I do not mean aged, but well on in years,—I believe in love still.",
      "Brittle bones can be more than just a bother for anyone who is getting on in years."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "5877",
    "Idiom": [
      "on its merits"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Considering only intrinsic good or bad points.",
    "Sentence": [
      "The proposal should be discussed on its merits."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "5878",
    "Idiom": [
      "on one's bill"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Alone, on one's own.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Cygan was only used to sitting on his bill in the changing room cos he was too shit to make it into Arsenal's defence."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "5879",
    "Idiom": [
      "on one's deathbed"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Close to death.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "5880-1",
    "Idiom": [
      "on one's feet"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Able to stand; healthy, especially after illness.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Welcome back! It's good to see you back on your feet. The template Template:rfex does not use the parameter(s): 2=need examples without \"back\" for all senses, if possible, otherwise may need entry for bakc on one's feet Please see Module:checkparams for help with this warning. (Can we add an example for this sense?)"
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "5880-2",
    "Idiom": [
      "on one's feet"
    ],
    "Meaning": "In a satisfactory condition.",
    "Sentence": [
      "The organization provides training and assistance to help the unemployed get back on their feet.",
      "It took some time for the lady to get back on her feet after the death of her husband."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "5881",
    "Idiom": [
      "on one's high horse"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Self-righteousness or superiority.",
    "Sentence": [
      "When she gets on her high horse there is not much to do but go along with it or wait for it to pass."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "5882",
    "Idiom": [
      "on one's knees"
    ],
    "Meaning": "On the verge of collapse or at someone's mercy.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Hungry Berbatov then converted a Giggs cross for his third before Nani slotted a fifth with Birmingham on their knees.",
      "The accepted view is that at the end of hostilities in 1945, the railways were on their knees."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "5883-1",
    "Idiom": [
      "on one's last legs"
    ],
    "Meaning": "About to die.",
    "Sentence": [
      "A friend who assists me with a view to future profit... lies like the fox's scent when on his last legs, increasing every moment.",
      "He is on his last legs. His kidneys are 'most gone. Remember, 'tis I must bury him."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "5883-2",
    "Idiom": [
      "on one's last legs"
    ],
    "Meaning": "About to become unusable or ineffective.",
    "Sentence": [
      "The wood was main dark, but had a kind of a low glow in it like a fire on its last legs.",
      "My computer's on its last legs; it crashes running Minesweeper."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "5884",
    "Idiom": [
      "on one's lonesome"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Alone.",
    "Sentence": [
      "\"Sittin' there all on her lonesome the whole day long, it's understandable she gets down in the dumps.\"",
      "But his skills with a bike were unassailable — while the factory teams were struggling with setup, it was Dunlop on his lonesome that gave the company its first International victories.",
      "Working on his lonesome every day definitely had him craving a bit of human company."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "5885-1",
    "Idiom": [
      "on one's mind"
    ],
    "Meaning": "In one's thoughts, especially persistently.",
    "Sentence": [
      "With my mind on my money / And my money on my mind",
      "Oh, Ophelia / You've been on my mind, girl, like a drug / Oh, Ophelia / Heaven help a fool who falls in love"
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "5885-2",
    "Idiom": [
      "on one's mind"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Causing worry or preoccupation.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "5886",
    "Idiom": [
      "on one's own"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Alone; by oneself.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Don't you see / That now you've gone, / And I'm left here on my own, / I will have to follow you / And beg you to come home.",
      "Private operators, for the most part have done an admirable job of keeping these aging aircraft flying, but FAA has essentially said, “It’s public-use aircraft. You’re on your own.”",
      "They may adamantly reject help and insist that they can manage on their own.",
      "After Bridge of Orchy, the line climbs steeply into the wild country of Rannoch Moor. The railway builders chose a different route across the moor from the road - we are completely on our own up here.",
      "A seven-year-old can get dressed on his own, but it might take a long time.",
      "I love cheese on toast, but I won't eat cheese on its own."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "5887",
    "Idiom": [
      "on one's tod"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Alone.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "5888",
    "Idiom": [
      "on one's toes"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Attentive and alert.",
    "Sentence": [
      "I keep my students on their toes with pop quizzes."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "5889",
    "Idiom": [
      "on one's watch"
    ],
    "Meaning": "During one's responsibility.",
    "Sentence": [
      "[Robert] Gates emerged from the first week of hearings bearing only a few scratches. He even vowed to resign if illegal activity occurred on his watch.",
      "Woods dismissed the idea that anyone could get away with election fraud on her watch.",
      "President George Bush today insisted American forces would not withdraw from Iraq \" on my watch \" and give terrorists the chance \"to claim an historic victory over the United States\".",
      "“You look at what’s happening in Europe,” he continued, “you look at what’s happening in other places – we can’t allow that to happen to the United States. Not on my watch.”",
      "Fowler was responsible for a conservative small engine policy at the LMS, previously adopted on the Midland, which led to much double-heading - although the Royal Scot 4-6-0 express passenger locomotive was also introduced on his watch in 1928."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "5890",
    "Idiom": [
      "on opposite sides of the barricades"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Holding opposing views.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "5891",
    "Idiom": [
      "on pins and needles"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Feeling sharp anticipation or anxiety.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Merlin hesitated a moment or two, and I was on pins and needles during that little while.",
      "I was on pins and needles of expectation and curiosity."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "5892",
    "Idiom": [
      "on purpose"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Intentionally; deliberately.",
    "Sentence": [
      "That wasn't an accident! You did it on purpose !"
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "5893",
    "Idiom": [
      "on second thought"
    ],
    "Meaning": "After reconsidering.",
    "Sentence": [
      "I originally thought that it was a good idea, but on second thought I'm not so sure."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "5894",
    "Idiom": [
      "on sight"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Immediately when seen.",
    "Sentence": [
      "\"Permissive\" working allows more than one train to be in a block section at one time but trains must be run at low speed in order to stop on sight behind the train in front. Such working is often authorised to allow freight trains to \"bunch\" together to await a path through a bottleneck instead of being strung out over several block sections, as would be necessary if absolute working were in force.",
      "Somewhat unsurprisingly, unleashing the most powerful navy on the planet with carte blanche to exterminate slavers on sight saw a dramatic and sudden collapse in slaver numbers in the late 1840s and early 1850s.",
      "I recognized him on sight."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "5895-1",
    "Idiom": [
      "on solid ground"
    ],
    "Meaning": "In a safe, secure position.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "5895-2",
    "Idiom": [
      "on solid ground"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Confident or justified regarding a topic.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "5896-1",
    "Idiom": [
      "on someone's account"
    ],
    "Meaning": "For someone's sake.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "5896-2",
    "Idiom": [
      "on someone's account"
    ],
    "Meaning": "According to someone's interpretation.",
    "Sentence": [
      "On the majority's account, a Fourth Amendment \"seizure\" takes place whenever an officer \"merely touches\" a suspect."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "5897",
    "Idiom": [
      "on someone's dime"
    ],
    "Meaning": "At someone else's expense.",
    "Sentence": [
      "They challenged my knowledge of the book, suggested that my article would inevitably be lousy and concluded that J. D. Salinger would be disgusted by what I was doing—all the while drinking on my dime.",
      "Their simple lives contrast sharply with the multimillion-dollar rumors surrounding Osama bin Laden. They weren't living large on his dime.",
      "But if you’re a Haitian, Mexican, or Brit and you step on American soil and are then detained by US officials, without a visa, you’ll be on the next boat back home—and on your dime too."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "5898",
    "Idiom": [
      "on someone's doorstep"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Very nearby.",
    "Sentence": [
      "With ample supplies of these masks available and a more transmissible variant on our doorstep, there has never been a better time to up your mask game. I encourage people to go out and try a few different varieties, find what they like and what fits their face."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "5899-1",
    "Idiom": [
      "on someone's hands"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Being someone's liability or responsibility.",
    "Sentence": [
      "When I started yelling, the other kids started yelling, so Madame Rosa had seven kids on her hands, all bellowing for their mothers"
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "5899-2",
    "Idiom": [
      "on someone's hands"
    ],
    "Meaning": "In someone's possession.",
    "Sentence": [
      "It is most curious to see that you have so much time on your hands that you are able to simply wander about this house bothering others",
      "I've got a lot of time on my hands."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "5900",
    "Idiom": [
      "on someone's mind"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Preoccupying someone; present in someone's thoughts.",
    "Sentence": [
      "She had been on his mind since they met at the bar late last night."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "5901",
    "Idiom": [
      "on steroids"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Exaggerating the characteristics of something.",
    "Sentence": [
      "When a processor is running in real mode, it acts like an \"8088 on steroids \". What this means is that it has the advantage of speed, but it otherwise accesses memory with the same restrictions of the original 8088: a limit of 1 MB of addressable RAM, and slow memory access that doesn't take advantage of the full 32-bit processing of modern CPUs.",
      "\"This planet is much larger than Jupiter or Saturn, and its ring system is roughly 200 times larger than Saturn's rings are today,\" Mamajek said at the time. \"You could think of it as kind of a super Saturn.\" Or, as others have put it, Saturn on steroids.",
      "Medellín, the first track from Madonna’s 14th studio album, arrived like La Isla Bonita on steroids",
      "Panic is anxiety on steroids"
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "5902",
    "Idiom": [
      "on strike"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Withholding labor as a protest.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "5903",
    "Idiom": [
      "on stun"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To a stunning degree.",
    "Sentence": [
      "It's all happening at once, right? All news streams on stun. Everything happening at the same time."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "5904",
    "Idiom": [
      "on sufferance"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Barely tolerated or reluctantly accepted.",
    "Sentence": [
      "In former days every tavern of repute kept such a room for its own select circle, a club, or society, of habitués, who met every evening, for a pipe and a cheerful glass. Strangers might enter the room, but they were made to feel that they were there on sufferance : they were received with distance and suspicion.",
      "I wasn't whole-hearted about the decision but couldn't think of a better one, so went along with it on sufferance for the time being."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "5905-1",
    "Idiom": [
      "on talking terms"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Able to communicate with someone.",
    "Sentence": [
      "They weren't on talking terms last time we saw them.",
      "It is more professional to accept differences, no matter what the grievance, and walk away on talking terms.",
      "We are on talking terms with him about his business."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "5905-2",
    "Idiom": [
      "on talking terms"
    ],
    "Meaning": "In agreement or harmony.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Reality and I were simply not on talking terms."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "5906",
    "Idiom": [
      "on tenterhooks"
    ],
    "Meaning": "In a state of apprehension or suspense.",
    "Sentence": [
      "I made no reply, but left him upon the tenter-hooks of impatient uncertainty.",
      "Having ordered a light repast, to the consternation of the waiter, they awaited its arrival together with that of Mr. Bellby, in silent reaction after the hour and a half's suspense on the tenterhooks of publicity.",
      "Why do you keep me on tenterhooks like this, putting me off and off?",
      "A 30-hour search for an escaped lioness that had residents on the southern fringes of Berlin shelter in their homes and the rest of the German capital on tenterhooks has found that what was thought to be an exotic feline predator was most likely a common wild pig."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "5907",
    "Idiom": [
      "on the Internet, nobody knows you're a dog",
      "on the internet nobody knows you're a dog"
    ],
    "Meaning": "It is easy to conceal one's identity online.",
    "Sentence": [
      "It’s important to caution your readers, however, that they shouldn’t just pluck off an online message and pop it into their story. As they say, on the Internet, nobody knows you’re a dog ! A good reporter should contact the person by phone before sticking an online quote in a story—it’s harder for people to lie (or invent a fictional identity) voice-to-voice than through e-mail.",
      "The Internet is a wild and woolly place. As the old saw goes, on the Internet, nobody knows you’re a dog. Or a hacker. Because you don’t always (or even usually) know who the person is behind that cool Web server you’ve accessed, you need to be very careful when defining new MIME types for your browser to accept.",
      "One of the coolest things about the Internet is the way it links together computers of all races and creeds. As the goofy old saying goes “ On the Internet, nobody knows you’re a dog,” or a Macintosh, or whatever. The Web is supposed to work pretty well no matter what kind of computer you have.",
      "Controversy fuels the Web and gets fed by its loud response. Results of studies and surveys may present the verifiable truth; one voice can claim its case based only on belief. And no seal of credibility will mark the difference. As the joke says, “ On the Internet, nobody knows you’re a dog.”",
      "As the well-known quote goes, “ on the Internet, nobody knows you’re a dog.” Is it accurate also to say that on the Internet, nobody can tell what race you are?",
      "The Internet serves as an equalizer of sorts against common discriminations based on race, gender and age. You have to the opportunity to assess someone based on what they are saying, not WHO is saying it. I think this can provide for some very worthwhile exchanges and allow people who might not do so otherwise, to come to know each other. The downside is that as they say, on the Internet, nobody knows you're a dog. You can lie or say whatever you want and hide behind anonymity.",
      "In many ways, the voices heard on the radio or the words written in a Usenet group or discussion list, while easily identifiable in the form presented, are difficult to translate into a “real-world” persona. Remember, on the Internet, nobody knows you’re a dog.",
      "As the old joke goes, “ on the Internet, nobody knows you’re a dog.” As a result, chat-room perverts and phishers are having a wonderful time fooling everyone else in cyberspace and making life difficult for us honest people.",
      "As the old joke goes, on the Internet, nobody knows you’re a dog. But because the SSL certificate is tied to its holder’s real-world identity, a client that connects to your server can check exactly what kind of dog your company is. (Well, your server, anyway.)",
      "At the risk of sounding heretical, we will venture the proposition that meeting online is sometimes the ideal way to get to know a student or colleague. The by-now-old joke goes, “ On the Internet, nobody knows you’re a dog,” and by the same token, nobody knows whether you’re under twenty-one or over sixty-five years old.",
      "An old joke runs, “ On the Internet, nobody knows you’re a dog.” And until several years into the 21st century, that was largely true, since many — if not most — people who participated in online discussion forums did so under pseudonyms.",
      "On the Internet, nobody knows you’re a dog. And more to the point, “nobody knows you’re 22,” Graham had written. “All users care about is whether your site or software gives them what they want. They don’t care if the person behind it is a high school kid.”",
      "“I don’t have a street address for them. Just the e-mail and Web site.” / “Yeah, and you know what they say. On the Internet, nobody knows you’re a dog.” / “Say that again.” / “ On the Internet, nobody knows you’re a dog. It means that—” / “I know what it means. It’s given me an idea.” / “We’re going to send Byron after them?” / That I just ignored. “Instead of hoping for them to approach me, I’m going to approach them.”",
      "He sometimes picks wrong battles and chooses wrong targets. An example: a few months ago he led a verbal assault on Silicon Valley for not hiring minorities. Now the high-tech industry, which I know intimately because I’m also somewhat technical, happens to be virtually postracial and postnational. As they say, “ on the Internet nobody knows you’re a dog.” (Of course, I don’t mean to equate minorities with dogs.) A close friend of mine, an African-American woman of Creole heritage from Louisiana, is a highly skilled software engineer and platform developer who won a scholarship to MIT and started out her career with Apple.",
      "The quality of Internet content continues to be generally poor. It is still the case that ‘ on the Internet nobody knows you’re a dog,’ and so one cannot trust Internet relationships.",
      "Is not technology neutral and colour-blind? Far from discriminating on ethnic grounds and creating divisions, they say, technology enables people to override the old distinctions and discriminations, to lift themselves out of externally imposed boxes, to reach out to and engage with others of the same or vastly different characters – indeed to be anyone they want. As the saying goes, ‘ On the Internet nobody knows you’re a dog ’.",
      "As suggested by Gronstedt (2007), “Never has the adage that ‘ on the Internet nobody knows you’re a dog ’ been more true” (paragraph 5).",
      "“Who is the top dog for the Earth First Isolationists in Georgia?” I asked. / “An initial review indicates that at least two of the individuals liking their SpaceBook page may be canines,” said my phone. “Though I am uncertain whether or not there are more, because…” / “ On the Internet nobody knows you’re a dog.” This was as bad as having to figure out a foolproof way of wording three wishes."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "5908",
    "Idiom": [
      "on the Q.T."
    ],
    "Meaning": "Secretly or quietly.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Will you be so kind as to impress him with the fact that this expedition is on the Q.T. ? Not that I think he will say anythin'.",
      "Round up some of our friends on the q.t. Don't let Brill get a notion of what's in the air.",
      "All kind of places are good for ads... Got fellows to stick them up or stick himself for that matter on the q.t. running in to loosen a button. Fly by night.",
      "But most are cozy affairs, kept strictly on the Q.T. Nothing is done in writing—no invitations, no tickets, just quiet phone calls.",
      "You heard it first here, dear readers... off the record, \"on the Q.T.\", and very Hush Hush.",
      "Now, what I want is a camp tender to stay in the main camp, where the Forest Service says. But the herder is gonna pitch a pup tent on the Q.T. with the sheep and he's gonna sleep there.",
      "“This is hush-hush,” Mr. Fleischer recalled Mr. Libby as saying in effect. “This is on the Q.T. Not many people know about this.”"
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "5909",
    "Idiom": [
      "on the anvil"
    ],
    "Meaning": "In a state of discussion or preparation; not yet finalized.",
    "Sentence": [
      "I have several things on the anvil, and near finished, that perhaps might be useful if published",
      "She designed his retirement from the Royal Irish Artillery, and had negociated an immediate berth for him on the staff of the Commander of the Forces, and a prospective one in the household of Lord Townshend; she had another arrangement \" on the anvil \" for a seat in Parliament, which she would accomplish, if that were possible; and finally, a wife."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "5910",
    "Idiom": [
      "on the back burner"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Not immediate or requires less attention.",
    "Sentence": [
      "After some years sweating on the back burner of show business, Ms. Brier, 28, has found instant success on the social media platform of the moment, TikTok.",
      "That project is on the back burner until we deal with higher priorities."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "5911",
    "Idiom": [
      "on the back foot"
    ],
    "Meaning": "At a disadvantage.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Lawson wasn't going to be put on the back foot by Brian Duff. \"I don't know what you're on about. But I've kept my nose clean for over twenty years.",
      "Now I was the one on the back foot. He liked me. \"Really?\" \"I'd like to take you out when we're back in LA\"",
      "She was on the back foot now. I had taken the initiative good and proper.",
      "Thitinan said Yingluck's decision to skip the verdict hearing will have \"emboldened\" the military government. \"They would not have wanted to put her in jail, in this scenario, (but her not showing up today) puts her on the back foot and gives them an edge.\"",
      "HS2 Ltd is presumably on the back foot in its relations with Government, because of its cost increases."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "5912-1",
    "Idiom": [
      "on the back of"
    ],
    "Meaning": "As a result of.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Lisicki will rise from her current ranking of 62 to at least 35 in the world on the back of her efforts at the All England Club, but she will have serious designs on a first Grand Slam title after overcoming the 2007 runner-up."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "5912-2",
    "Idiom": [
      "on the back of"
    ],
    "Meaning": "By drawing an advantage from.",
    "Sentence": [
      "This posh hotel makes its money on the backs of poor working women. It's clearly an outfit with no respect for its workers.",
      "The country was built on the back of slave labor."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "5913",
    "Idiom": [
      "on the ball"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Alert and attentive.",
    "Sentence": [
      "If I had been more on the ball I would have asked when he called me."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "5914",
    "Idiom": [
      "on the beach"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Removed from active naval service.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Ericson had been axed from the navy in 1927, after ten years’ service: he had been on the beach for two hard years.",
      "Officers received only half pay when not on active service. Even Horatio Nelson spent five years “ on the beach ”."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "5915",
    "Idiom": [
      "on the bounce"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Consecutively or in succession.",
    "Sentence": [
      "A tough openeing to our Kettering Area Division 4 season, with going out of the cup in the first round, and three straight losses on the bounce.",
      "After those eleven wins on the bounce, it’s desperately disappointing, but Ellison doesn’t seem too down when I find him back on Katana.",
      "Two wins on the bounce. It obviously wasn't luck last week."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "5916",
    "Idiom": [
      "on the brain"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Obsessively in mind.",
    "Sentence": [
      "He's only got one thing on the brain : lust."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "5917",
    "Idiom": [
      "on the breadline"
    ],
    "Meaning": "In a situation of extreme poverty.",
    "Sentence": [
      "She wasn't on the breadline exactly, but she didn't have an awful lot of spare cash to throw around, and she always, always lived within her means.",
      "This life continuously trapped on the breadline was not what I wanted, not forever.",
      "He was wearing a grubby white shirt, jeans and scuffed black slip-on shoes. Anyone would think he was on the breadline too.",
      "With capital of about £16,000 I wasn't exactly on the breadline.",
      "There were times where money was tight and we probably were on the breadline, but I still never really wanted for anything.",
      "Britain survived on the breadline.",
      "It is ridiculous to put our own people on the breadline by reducing their spending power by an enormous sum to save very much less in overseas funds.",
      "The alternative argument states that, for people living on the breadline where every penny counts, the loss of a job may be the last straw factor."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "5918",
    "Idiom": [
      "on the bubble"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Uncertain of success.",
    "Sentence": [
      "The new bond issue now appears to be on the bubble, with support eroding."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "5919",
    "Idiom": [
      "on the button"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Exactly or precisely.",
    "Sentence": [
      "They arrived at 3:30, on the button.",
      "Her landing was right on the button."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "5920",
    "Idiom": [
      "on the cards"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Likely to occur.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Wolves, sensing the comeback of all comebacks was on the cards, kept pressing and set up an exciting finish when Ronald Zubar's header was judged to have crossed the line, even though it appeared that Nigel de Jong had successfully cleared the effort."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "5921-1",
    "Idiom": [
      "on the clock"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Working during paid hours.",
    "Sentence": [
      "I discovered after my arrival that I wouldn't be able to start working for six weeks.... The Beverley Hills Post Office finally worked my status out with the Chicago Post Office. I was back on the clock.",
      "Danica Patrick is still on the clock. Her crew members... are at the end of their workday. Hers drags on.",
      "\"I guess it ain't all bad,\" Kerr said, lighting another cigarette. \"I'm on the clock, so I'm getting paid while I wait.\""
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "5921-2",
    "Idiom": [
      "on the clock"
    ],
    "Meaning": "During official working hours.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Money earmarked for services and repairs often found its way to payroll, to put yet more unskilled workers on the clock.",
      "The board authorized the Building Department to schedule Saturday inspections for water line installations as a service to residents and businesses. It requires inspections to be done \" on the clock \" and in a town vehicle."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "5921-3",
    "Idiom": [
      "on the clock"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Engaged for hire in a taxicab.",
    "Sentence": [
      "If a fare paid him no more than what was on the clock, he'd shout out: \"If you can't afford cabs you should take the 'bus.\"",
      "Significant monies are wasted each week as bankers leave taxis outside, waiting on the clock, while they finish their lunches."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "5922",
    "Idiom": [
      "on the cuff"
    ],
    "Meaning": "On credit, with payment later.",
    "Sentence": [
      "The newspapers were jammed with ads inviting customers to buy on the cuff. Philadelphians could get a $269 television set for $5 down and $4 a week."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "5923",
    "Idiom": [
      "on the cusp"
    ],
    "Meaning": "On the point of a significant change.",
    "Sentence": [
      "on the cusp of stardom",
      "on the cusp between adulthood and old age"
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "5924",
    "Idiom": [
      "on the cutting room floor"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Not included in the finalized version.",
    "Sentence": [
      "The experimental broccoli ice cream flavor was left on the cutting room floor after market research."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "5925",
    "Idiom": [
      "on the debit side"
    ],
    "Meaning": "On the negative side.",
    "Sentence": [
      "On the debit side, I do not recommend the room service."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "5926",
    "Idiom": [
      "on the dot"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Exactly; precisely, especially regarding time.",
    "Sentence": [
      "A hundred damage?! On the dot...",
      "He arrived at 10 o'clock, on the dot."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "5927",
    "Idiom": [
      "on the double"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Rapidly or immediately.",
    "Sentence": [
      "My boyfriend's back and you're gonna be in trouble. / You see him comin'; better cut out on the double.",
      "Liara: We have to hurry. The whole place is caving in! Shepard: Joker! Get the Normandy airbone and lock in on my signal. On the double, mister!",
      "Fortunately, help arrived on the double, and the victim's injuries were soon treated."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "5928-1",
    "Idiom": [
      "on the down-low"
    ],
    "Meaning": "In secret or discreetly.",
    "Sentence": [
      "I'll tell you, but keep it on the down-low."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "5928-2",
    "Idiom": [
      "on the down-low"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Secretly involved with someone outside a relationship.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "5929",
    "Idiom": [
      "on the drum"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Money paid immediately in cash, especially to soldiers.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "5930",
    "Idiom": [
      "on the dry"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Temporarily refraining from alcohol.",
    "Sentence": [
      "I bumped into an old mate of mine, Bill, the other day whom I was banged up with in 1972 in St Bernard's Hospital. He's on the dry now but he told me he has had several lapses since we left muttering that it was all going to be different tomorrow.",
      "Then, maybe two weeks before cameras rolled, he'd put the blinkers on again and totally focus on it, and that included staying off the booze. 'I'm on the dry,' he'd announce.",
      "Jessie J hasn't had an alcoholic drink since October 15, 2012. The 'Wild' singer can remember the exact date she last touched booze and claims she only ever drinks on very special occasions because alcohol leaves her lethargic and she worries it might ruin her career."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "5931",
    "Idiom": [
      "on the edge"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Near an event or state of mind.",
    "Sentence": [
      "The stock market was on the edge of collapse.",
      "on the edge of lunacy"
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "5932",
    "Idiom": [
      "on the edge of one's seat"
    ],
    "Meaning": "In suspense; eagerly awaiting a resolution.",
    "Sentence": [
      "The movie had me on the edge of my seat right from the beginning."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "5933",
    "Idiom": [
      "on the face of"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Notwithstanding.",
    "Sentence": [
      "On the face of all the evidence, he was found guilty."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "5934",
    "Idiom": [
      "on the face of it"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Seemingly; based on initial appearance.",
    "Sentence": [
      "On the face of it, his case seemed hopeless. But appearances can be deceptive."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "5935",
    "Idiom": [
      "on the fly"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Spontaneously or during another activity.",
    "Sentence": [
      "The software program has a table of values for some results, but calculates others on the fly."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "5936",
    "Idiom": [
      "on the fritz"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Malfunctioning or broken.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Actually, no one had noticed, from what I could tell, though I was alarmed to hear about it. Why was our pilot telling us about questionable brakes and a computer on the fritz when we still had a landing to worry about five hours ahead?",
      "No ′40s movie heroine worth the name would have a house that let in gusts of gelid air, had a heating system that went on the fritz constantly and leaked.",
      "“Or your cell-phone reception went on the fritz. We know how often that happens.”",
      "Some time ago, a tenant called me and said her refrigerator was on the fritz. I had a spare, so I took it down to her and exchanged it for her old one.",
      "I'd record it, but my tape deck is on the fritz again.",
      "My washing machine has gone on the fritz, and I have a load of muddy clothes to clean."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "5937",
    "Idiom": [
      "on the front burner"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Currently receiving attention.",
    "Sentence": [
      "arms control was on the front burner. With the fall of the Berlin Wall and with other events in the Soviet Union, arms control has not been on the lips of many Senators or people in Congress"
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "5938",
    "Idiom": [
      "on the front foot"
    ],
    "Meaning": "In a dominant position.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Chelsea saw out the half firmly on the front foot and had three further chances to take the lead.",
      "The leader is mindful of being on the front foot, as if leading the dance, rather than on the back foot being led."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "5939-1",
    "Idiom": [
      "on the game"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Working as a prostitute.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Oh please go on the game. It's a steady job and you'd be working from home.",
      "What's he want it for anyway? Don't tell me he's going on the game."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "5939-2",
    "Idiom": [
      "on the game"
    ],
    "Meaning": "No clear core meaning provided.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "5940",
    "Idiom": [
      "on the go"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Actively busy or moving.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Camila is “extremely dedicated” and “pushes hard” Willis said, noting that they’ve tailored their workouts to her on-the-go lifestyle. “A lot of our workouts include minimal equipment that focus on strength, HIIT, and balance, including complex movements that target the whole body,” Willis said.",
      "A good suitcase is essential for someone who is on the go as much as he is."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "5941",
    "Idiom": [
      "on the gripping hand"
    ],
    "Meaning": "From a third perspective.",
    "Sentence": [
      "But, there is no previously unseen \"far side\" of Mars. It shows us all of itself.¶ On the other hand, the crew of the Kilroy would probably be able to see the back of the moon after the got past its orbit on their way to Mars.¶ On the gripping hand, by the time there was a flight to Mars, one would expect that flights past the moon had previously occurred.",
      "Not all of us are protected by having common names or by having rare names which are all but impossible to remember or spell correctly.¶ However, I haven't seen evidence that such protection is especially necessary. On the gripping hand, con badges with nicknames seems like a low-risk way of making some people more comfortable.",
      "Louise had two new books, one black, one red. Apparently they were about the occult. On the one hand, we needed to know what we were dealing with. On the other, I didn't think that it was the sort of thing we should be getting involved with ourselves. On the gripping hand we didn't have to use it ourselves, so that was alright."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "5942-1",
    "Idiom": [
      "on the heels of"
    ],
    "Meaning": "In close pursuit.",
    "Sentence": [
      "A quarrelsome band of footsore sulky niggers trod on the heels of the donkey.",
      "On the heels of the little lop-sided man appeared an overgrown dolt of a fat youth, followed by another youth.",
      "The men got out quickly, the first ones running on the heels of those who had gotten out of the Mercedes.",
      "Hard on the heels of of punctuality and reliabilty comes capacity. That's either trains frequent enough to meet demand, or long enough."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "5942-2",
    "Idiom": [
      "on the heels of"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Closely following.",
    "Sentence": [
      "One woe doth tread upon another's heel.",
      "To avoid these dreadful consequences, that tread upon the heels of those allowances to sin, will be a task of far more difficulty.",
      "A familiar voice chimed instantly in on the heels of my last word,",
      "When such accidents kept happening, one on the heels of another, even the most callous public could not help asking questions.",
      "As it happened, the shooting came on the heels of a two-day “peace march” against American drone aircraft targeting suspected Islamist militants in Pakistan’s tribal areas close to the border with Afghanistan."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "5943-1",
    "Idiom": [
      "on the high rope"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Elated.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "5943-2",
    "Idiom": [
      "on the high rope"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Arrogant.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "5944",
    "Idiom": [
      "on the high ropes"
    ],
    "Meaning": "In an elated or highly excited mood.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "5945",
    "Idiom": [
      "on the horn"
    ],
    "Meaning": "On the telephone.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Let me get on the horn with him and ask."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "5946",
    "Idiom": [
      "on the horns of a dilemma"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Facing a choice between two undesirable options.",
    "Sentence": [
      "We are on the horns of a dilemma. If things go on in this manner and the rebellion is not suppressed, in a short time government won't have any copper and there is no knowing what may happen. If we get news of victory over the rebels, our doom is sealed, for it's my belief that every one of us will be put into the crucible and reduced to so much waste copper.",
      "He was busy organising opposition to Lord Ranfurly , when, in an unlucky moment for his cause, he was called up to sign the deed of cession as the representative of Avatele. Thus was he impaled on the horns of a dilemma. If he refused, another would have gone down to posterity as a greater than he in his own village; if he accepted, he stultified his own words.",
      "Ignatius [of Loyola ] was on the horns of a dilemma. Should Francis [Borgia ] remain in Spain, his fate was fixed. Should he escape to Rome, the Pope would certainly make him a Cardinal."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "5947",
    "Idiom": [
      "on the house"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Free or complimentary.",
    "Sentence": [
      "It is obviously a \"plum\" job, one distinction being that its motormen are granted an allowance of about 6s. [six shillings] towards the cost of Wagons-Lits food in the crew quarters of the train, . Additionally, by the way, each man is allowed a quarter of a bottle of wine \" on the house \" per trip!",
      "This voucher entitles you to a free drink on the house."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "5948",
    "Idiom": [
      "on the hush"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Secretly.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "5949",
    "Idiom": [
      "on the ladder"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Owning property.",
    "Sentence": [
      "When someone has bought their first house, they are said to have got on the ladder."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "5950",
    "Idiom": [
      "on the lam"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Running away, usually from the police.",
    "Sentence": [
      "The President : 'Hello... I am still on the lam from debt collectors.'",
      "Their top hitman, Joe Russo, was on the lam after murdering Joe Barboza in San Francisco.",
      "There have been more bank runs, executives on the lam, arrests and credit panics than the country has seen in years.",
      "Charges of Russian meddling, including allegations of vote-buying by a Moldovan oligarch on the lam in Russia, could have substance."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "5951",
    "Idiom": [
      "on the level"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Honest, sincere, straightforward, fair.",
    "Sentence": [
      "While I believe that the American people and the players want the game to be on the level, there are two or three things which, it strikes me, are not up to a high standard of honor.",
      "\" On the level, honey, I have an all-time, big-time need for coffee.\"",
      "He looks like a used car salesman, but he's really on the level, so you can trust him."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "5952",
    "Idiom": [
      "on the loose"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Not in captivity or under control.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Went to a bongo party completely by mistake / there were coons and thugs and fat sheboons with all the pavement apes / When I got to the bongo party, it smelled of jenkem juice / someone left the cave door open, there were chimps on the loose."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "5953",
    "Idiom": [
      "on the mark"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Precisely accurate.",
    "Sentence": [
      "The writing was often good, his feel for characters on the mark, but the book was wordy.",
      "Three eminent mainstream British economists told MPs... that the government had struck the right balance between cuts and spending. Austerity is bang on the mark, they said.",
      "The Republicans haven't always been on the mark with doomsday predictions about Democratic presidents."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "5954",
    "Idiom": [
      "on the money"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Precisely accurate.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Did you have the wrong kind? I've never had the wrong kind. Ever. My worst one was right on the money.",
      "Two of the A-4s landed on the money. The third was not so lucky.",
      "For years, Gore had been dismissed, even ridiculed, for his traveling Power Point extravaganza warning about climate change. Today, few would disagree that Al was pretty much on the money.",
      "I always felt that Bob Dylan was on the money when he sang: \"When you got nothing, you got nothing to lose.\"",
      "Its mileage claims were right on the money : I averaged a little over 33 m.p.g. over a weekend of combined city-highway driving in the 2012 SL."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "5955",
    "Idiom": [
      "on the move"
    ],
    "Meaning": "In motion.",
    "Sentence": [
      "We had to pack up and follow the fish. They're actually pretty smart to keep on the move like this. Just use the signal to find us.",
      "Captain Harry Maguire will surely be on the move as he has been marginalised by Ten Hag, who will regard this season as the platform to move United closer to where he wants them to be.",
      "Apple's plans also represent a strong challenge for the BlackBerry range, which was, until now, the only realistic way of providing access to corporate email on the move."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "5956",
    "Idiom": [
      "on the one hand"
    ],
    "Meaning": "From one point of view.",
    "Sentence": [
      "I maintain, however, on the one hand, that there are few occasions upon which large bodies of men, such as politics is concerned with, can rise above selfishness, while, on the other hand, there are a very great many circumstances in which populations will fall below selfishness, if selfishness is interpreted as enlightened self-interest.",
      "The country’s first black president, and its first president to reach adulthood after the Vietnam War and Watergate, Mr. Obama seemed like a digital-age leader who could at last dislodge the stalemate between those who clung to the government of the Great Society, on the one hand, and those who disdained the very idea of government, on the other.",
      "On the one hand, it was quite a good bargain, but on the other hand, do we really need a second car?"
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "5957",
    "Idiom": [
      "on the other hand"
    ],
    "Meaning": "From another point of view.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Its external relations, on the one hand to dynamics, and on the other to heat, light, chemical action, and the constitution of bodies, seem to indicate the special importance of electrical science as an aid to the interpretation of nature.",
      "Thus the study of the language he is supposed to use, to the average American, takes on a sort of bilingual character. On the one hand, he is grounded abominably in a grammar and syntax that have always been largely artificial, even in the country where they are supposed to prevail, and on the other hand he has to pick up the essentials of his actual speech as best he may.",
      "I maintain, however, on the one hand, that there are few occasions upon which large bodies of men, such as politics is concerned with, can rise above selfishness, while, on the other hand, there are a very great many circumstances in which populations will fall below selfishness, if selfishness is interpreted as enlightened self-interest.",
      "The host of business travellers between Bishops Stortford and London would scarcely take kindly to devious routing via the Southbury line; on the other hand, it is not desirable that they should overcrowd the business trains to and from Cambridge.",
      "Well yes, it was quite a good bargain; on the other hand, do we really need one?"
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "5958",
    "Idiom": [
      "on the other side of"
    ],
    "Meaning": "After.",
    "Sentence": [
      "The discussion will be continued on the other side of the commercial break."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "5959",
    "Idiom": [
      "on the outs"
    ],
    "Meaning": "On unfriendly terms.",
    "Sentence": [
      "I marvel that a mind on the outs with itself should have nevertheless made a painstaking record of its every tremor.",
      "A second ill of this day lies in the trend of getting more and more on the outs with those who have been more successful than we.",
      "He's staying at my place because he & Bridg are on the outs.",
      "\"The first country, Nicaragua, was a give-away,\" noted one State Department observer, referring to the GSP review of the country most on the outs with the administration.",
      "The fact that he and her sister seemed to be more on the outs than ever may have been half her motivation in leaving the door open a crack."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "5960",
    "Idiom": [
      "on the outside, looking in"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Excluded and feeling downhearted.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Won't you take me back again? I'll be waiting here till then / On the outside looking in",
      "\"In a sense, I've always felt on the outside, looking in,\" Mr. Douglas says. \"It's my background, damn it. My father was an illiterate Russian immigrant, a ragman, the lowest rung on the economic scale. There were six sisters and my mother; I was the only boy. To be a young Jewish boy in a town—Amsterdam, in upstate New York—that was quite anti-Semitic.\"",
      "A recurrent theme of Theroux's books is this sense of being an alien, on the outside looking in.",
      "While China's economy soars, hundreds of millions of migrant workers and rural peasants have been left on the outside looking in."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "5961",
    "Idiom": [
      "on the pill"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Using oral contraceptives.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Jane went on the pill when she left for college."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "5962",
    "Idiom": [
      "on the plus side"
    ],
    "Meaning": "From a favorable perspective.",
    "Sentence": [
      "My boss spilled water all over my keyboard today. On the plus side, it's much cleaner now."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "5963",
    "Idiom": [
      "on the point of"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Very near to something imminent.",
    "Sentence": [
      "As soon as Julia returned with a constable, Timothy, who was on the point of exhaustion, prepared to give over to him gratefully. The newcomer turned out to be a powerful youngster, fully trained and eager to help, and he stripped off his tunic at once.",
      "Whether health care should remain free at the point of need is not a new controversy.",
      "The old building seemed to be on the point of collapse."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "5964",
    "Idiom": [
      "on the prowl"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Hunting or seeking.",
    "Sentence": [
      "The cat was always on the prowl for bit of string or a dangling shoelace."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "5965",
    "Idiom": [
      "on the pull"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Out seeking a sexual partner.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Rebecca was on the pull. An air of desperation hung over her like Dior's Poison.",
      "Everyone was on the pull, determined to have a bit of a holiday fling.",
      "They're at that new nightclub, on the pull."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "5966",
    "Idiom": [
      "on the radar"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Likely to attract attention in the near future.",
    "Sentence": [
      "After the launch of Sputnik by the Soviet Union, space exploration was on the radar of many Americans who had ignored it earlier."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "5967-1",
    "Idiom": [
      "on the rag"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Menstruating.",
    "Sentence": [
      "She herself had begun menstruation shortly after her eleventh birthday and had gone to the head of the stairs to yell down excitedly: \"Hey, Mum, I'm on the rag !\"",
      "Harold: How is Sarah? I don't want to jump her while she's on the rag."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "5967-2",
    "Idiom": [
      "on the rag"
    ],
    "Meaning": "In a bad mood; irritable.",
    "Sentence": [
      "On the rag, in a bad mood.—College males, Arizona. I had a lousy time last night because she was on the rag."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "5968",
    "Idiom": [
      "on the rails"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Functioning properly.",
    "Sentence": [
      "To The wineplace.com and Chris, Marshy and Chris for keeping me on the rails.",
      "Logic is nothing other than methods we have learned that keep thinking on the rails.",
      "Menin Road got the offensive back on the rails but conditions, which had been deplorable before, favoured the outcome."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "5969",
    "Idiom": [
      "on the rampage"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Behaving violently or in a chaotic manner.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Stoke were on the rampage but their night was soured by the referee's decision to show Jerome a second yellow card on the stroke of half time.",
      "The rioters went on the rampage and wrecked the town hall."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "5970",
    "Idiom": [
      "on the ready"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Well-prepared or set to act.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "5971",
    "Idiom": [
      "on the receiving end",
      "at the receiving end"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Experiencing an unpleasant action.",
    "Sentence": [
      "And their job was done after a sensational opening burst brought four goals in the first 25 minutes as Chelsea were left bedraggled, humiliated and on the receiving end of their worst defeat since they lost 7-0 at Nottingham Forest in April 1991.",
      "I have always been on the receiving end of his unpredictable temper."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "5972",
    "Idiom": [
      "on the rise"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Increasing in number or magnitude.",
    "Sentence": [
      "\"With the number of holidaymakers back on the rise, upgrading critical infrastructure like Gatwick Airport station is key to improving the passenger experience,\" said Rail Minister Wendy Morton."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "5973-1",
    "Idiom": [
      "on the run",
      "in retreat"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Fleeing.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Even without hovering drones, a lurking assassin, a thumping score and a denouement, the real-life story of Edward Snowden, a rogue spy on the run, could be straight out of the cinema. But, as with Hollywood, the subplots and exotic locations may distract from the real message: America’s discomfort and its foes’ glee.",
      "The suspect in the robbery is still on the run."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "5974-2",
    "Idiom": [
      "on the run"
    ],
    "Meaning": "At a disadvantage; forced to flee.",
    "Sentence": [
      "The corruption charges against her aides have her on the run."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "5974-3",
    "Idiom": [
      "on the run"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Constantly traveling or moving.",
    "Sentence": [
      "She's a busy executive and always on the run.",
      "He had to eat on the run."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "5975",
    "Idiom": [
      "on the same page"
    ],
    "Meaning": "In broad agreement or sharing a common understanding.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Our unions want to see their members protected, and we have no desire to get into conflict with them on this. We're all on the same page.",
      "He later emailed OpenAI’s executives, telling them that he had reprimanded Ms. Toner. “I did not feel we’re on the same page on the damage of all this,” he wrote.",
      "I want to make sure we're all on the same page with the game plan for the Acme account."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "5976-1",
    "Idiom": [
      "on the same wavelength"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Having similar thoughts or understanding.",
    "Sentence": [
      "“I love that we’re best friends,” says Emily. “We complete each other’s sentences and we’re on the same wavelength.”",
      "I don't really understand him; we're just not on the same wavelength."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "5976-2",
    "Idiom": [
      "on the same wavelength"
    ],
    "Meaning": "In complete agreement or sharing the same perspective.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Luckily, the members of the committee were on the same wavelength, so we didn't have endless discussions about what words meant."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "5977-1",
    "Idiom": [
      "on the shelf"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Laid aside or unused.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "5977-2",
    "Idiom": [
      "on the shelf"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Unmarried due to lack of interest from potential spouses.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "5977-3",
    "Idiom": [
      "on the shelf"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Injured.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "5978",
    "Idiom": [
      "on the side of the angels"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Supporting what is good or just.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Each likewise portrays itself as on the side of the angels, as fighting the good fight against adversaries who are neither decent nor fair.",
      "But when it comes to the conflict between compassion and cold reason, he is on the side of the angels :",
      "Sherlock Holmes: Oh, I may be on the side of the angels, but don't think for one second that I am one of them."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "5979",
    "Idiom": [
      "on the skids"
    ],
    "Meaning": "In decline or in trouble.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Entering an election year, no Congress obeys a second-term President whose popularity is on the skids."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "5980",
    "Idiom": [
      "on the sly"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Secretly or stealthily.",
    "Sentence": [
      "This diversion was enjoyed on the sly, and unknown to the ladies of the house.",
      "He was working for us on the sly at the Herald-Traveler-Record-American (before it shortened its topheavy name), then as now a reactionary, homophobic rag. Evidently he placed himself at some risk to help us, I learned later, because he was threatened with dismissal for his unauthorized use of the typesetter."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "5981-1",
    "Idiom": [
      "on the spot"
    ],
    "Meaning": "At that very moment.",
    "Sentence": [
      "He liked the house, so he made an offer on the spot."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "5981-2",
    "Idiom": [
      "on the spot"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Having to answer or decide unexpectedly.",
    "Sentence": [
      "All the sudden questions put him on the spot and he had to think quickly."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "5981-3",
    "Idiom": [
      "on the spot"
    ],
    "Meaning": "In a particular place.",
    "Sentence": [
      "I had accepted an engagement to go out with Mystofilms Ltd. in Fake of Dead Man's Bush —the dwarf-men picture, you know, taken on the spot among the Australian bushmen.",
      "on October 29, 1888, the Russian imperial train was derailed at Borki by defective track, and twenty-one persons were killed. Although these did not include the Emperor Alexander III, who escaped with a bruising, a footman serving coffee to him at the critical moment, and his dog, which was lying on the floor beside him, were both killed on the spot.",
      "This report comes from our man on the spot in Gaza.",
      "We exercised by jumping up and down on the spot."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "5982",
    "Idiom": [
      "on the square"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Honest and open.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "5983",
    "Idiom": [
      "on the stocks"
    ],
    "Meaning": "In progress.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "5984-1",
    "Idiom": [
      "on the street"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Without a home.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Delays with universal credit have compounded the problem, pushing people into rent arrears and putting them at risk of losing their homes. And the retrenchment of services such as mental health and drug rehabilitation means that vulnerable people are more likely to find themselves on the street.",
      "We haven't been able to pay rent for five months. Next month we'll be on the street."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "5984-2",
    "Idiom": [
      "on the street"
    ],
    "Meaning": "In actual practice.",
    "Sentence": [
      "But to work \" on the street \" is clearly quite different from \"working the street.\"",
      "Indeed, the contribution of study abroad to significant language gains is commonly believed to derive from the numerous opportunities program participants have to engage in first-hand language practice on \"the street\", in restaurants, in shops, in the homes of native speaker friends and acquaintances as well as a variety of other out-of-class environments in which students find themselves while living in-country.",
      "'We took five years of strategy development before we put a single thing on the street,' Slutkin said."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "5985",
    "Idiom": [
      "on the table"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Open for further attention or action.",
    "Sentence": [
      "\"We made an offer about two weeks ago, which is still on the table,\" he said. \"We have not withdrawn it, and hope they will consider it.\"",
      "Israeli intelligence minister Yuval Steinitz said all options were open for Israel. \"If we have no choice, we have no choice...the military option is on the table,\" he said.",
      "now everything is on the table"
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "5986",
    "Idiom": [
      "on the toss of a coin"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Left to pure chance.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "5987-1",
    "Idiom": [
      "on the trot"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Successively; one after the other.",
    "Sentence": [
      "But they came up against an impressive force in Bayern, who extended their run to 10 wins on the trot, having scored 28 goals in the process and conceding none.",
      "We played five gigs on the trot."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "5987-2",
    "Idiom": [
      "on the trot"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Continually busy.",
    "Sentence": [
      "I've been on the trot all day."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "5988",
    "Idiom": [
      "on the up"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Rising or increasing.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Even then, the line's future could not considered absolutely secure. At best, it was on probation. Road transport was on the up and the railways were on the down."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "5989",
    "Idiom": [
      "on the uptake"
    ],
    "Meaning": "In understanding or absorbing new information.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "5990",
    "Idiom": [
      "on the wagon"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Abstaining from alcohol.",
    "Sentence": [
      "I wanted to git him some whisky, but he shuck his head. 'I'm on the water-cart,' sez he.",
      "\"Where did you get all that money?\" / \"Went to hear Bill and climbed on the water wagon.\"",
      "\"Sit down, bo,\" invited Soup Face. \"I guess you're a regular all right. Here, have a snifter?\" and he pulled a flask from his side pocket, holding it toward The Oskaloosa Kid. / \"Thank you, but;—er—I'm on the wagon, you know,\" declined the youth.",
      "Three years later he began formally to go on the wagon : \"I quit drinking three months ago, hopefully for life.\"",
      "In fact regularly going on the wagon is a sure indication of a serious drink problem. If they genuinely enjoy a drink, why would they even want to go a month without one? Obviously because their drinking was causing them a problem.",
      "The Big Brother house guests drank liquor by the crateful. But Love Island’s tortuous trysts are fuelled by fruit juice and nosecco. Why did reality TV go on the wagon ?"
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "5991",
    "Idiom": [
      "on the wane"
    ],
    "Meaning": "In a period of decrease or decline.",
    "Sentence": [
      "The moon was on the wane."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "5992",
    "Idiom": [
      "on the warpath"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Very angry and eager for confrontation.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Last year a committee of the Federal Council of the Churches of Christ in America issued a report guardedly approving Birth Control. Many Presbyterians heartily disapproved. Last week the Presbyterian General Assembly met in Denver with Philadelphia's Rev. H. McAllister Griffiths and a corps of Fundamentalists on the warpath.",
      "Boating enthusiasts, walkers and others who enjoy relaxing by canals were on the warpath last night after British Waterways announced plans to cut 180 staff.",
      "But BBC executives say they could never have predicted the latest programme to send Chinese officials on the warpath : the corporation's far-fetched spy drama Spooks."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "5993",
    "Idiom": [
      "on the way"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Approaching.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Don't worry, Mr. President, help's on the way Your brothers are comin', there'll be hell to pay",
      "Don't panic! Reinforcements are on the way."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "5994",
    "Idiom": [
      "on the whole"
    ],
    "Meaning": "For the most part.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Davis had a ball lodged in his body, and his right hand shot off; but on the whole, he seems to have been less damaged than his companion.",
      "His class was near enough her own for its manners to vex her. But she found him interesting on the whole.",
      "Both Maidan and Tahrir were peaceful. Maidan was absolutely peaceful, Tahrir saw some unrest but was still peaceful on the whole.",
      "The language was wrong for the period, but, on the whole, I enjoyed the film."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "5995",
    "Idiom": [
      "on the wrong side of history"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Having outdated or disapproved opinions or practices.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Washington reporters... were seen by the president's people as on the wrong side of history —both technologically and politically.",
      "As gays have moved into the mainstream, Republicans have landed on the wrong side of history.",
      "The Roberts court has too often been on the wrong side of history, most pointedly in its retrograde refusal to protect the right to vote."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "5996-1",
    "Idiom": [
      "on thin ice"
    ],
    "Meaning": "In a dangerous or risky situation.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Ever since he was caught stealing office supplies, he has been on thin ice with his boss."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "5996-2",
    "Idiom": [
      "on thin ice"
    ],
    "Meaning": "In a risky or precarious situation.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "5997",
    "Idiom": [
      "on this score"
    ],
    "Meaning": "In reference to the current subject.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "5998",
    "Idiom": [
      "on top"
    ],
    "Meaning": "In a dominant position.",
    "Sentence": [
      "For the second match in a row, Arsenal went into the break completely on top and untroubled.",
      "At the end of the season, Manchester United came out on top."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "5999-1",
    "Idiom": [
      "on top of"
    ],
    "Meaning": "In addition to something else.",
    "Sentence": [
      "No Ammonite or Moabite is to enter the congregation of G OD, even to the tenth generation, nor any of his children, ever. Those nations didn’t treat you with hospitality on your travels out of Egypt, and on top of that they also hired Balaam son of Beor from Pethor in Mesopotamia to curse you.",
      "and on top of all that, I got a puncture!"
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "5999-2",
    "Idiom": [
      "on top of"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Fully informed and in control.",
    "Sentence": [
      "I have sorted out the problems and am now on top of the situation.",
      "You will need to get on top of your nutrition in addition to training for washboard abs."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "6000",
    "Idiom": [
      "on top of the world"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Delighted or exceptionally pleased.",
    "Sentence": [
      "He was on top of the world after she agreed to marry him."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "6001-1",
    "Idiom": [
      "on track"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Proceeding as planned.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Before 1914 the Russian economy was on track to outperform that of France and Britain within a decade."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "6001-2",
    "Idiom": [
      "on track"
    ],
    "Meaning": "On a defined promotion path in an organization.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "6002",
    "Idiom": [
      "on what score"
    ],
    "Meaning": "For what reason?",
    "Sentence": [
      "However, let us see on what score he eulogizes this man himself also. On what score then does he eulogize?",
      "\"Explanation?\" he questioned presently, and looked at her. \"But on what score ?\" \"On the score of the deception you have practiced on us—on me.\""
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "6003",
    "Idiom": [
      "on with you"
    ],
    "Meaning": "An expression of dismissal or contempt.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "6004",
    "Idiom": [
      "on yer bike"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Go away!",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "6005",
    "Idiom": [
      "on-and-off"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Intermittent.",
    "Sentence": [
      "We had an on-and-off relationship and eventually broke up.",
      "an on-and-off kind of chap"
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "6006",
    "Idiom": [
      "on-brand"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Consistent with one's reputation.",
    "Sentence": [
      "\"The attack was on-brand for Trump, who has a well-earned reputation as a counterpuncher when criticized.\"",
      "\"However, Wilson’s response was rather on-brand for the eternally optimistic signal-caller.\"",
      "A Canadian who loves hockey? I guess that's pretty on-brand."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "6007",
    "Idiom": [
      "on-the-spot"
    ],
    "Meaning": "At the scene; in the right place at the exact moment.",
    "Sentence": [
      "The L.M.R. is building up this new district organisation to ensure on-the-spot attention to the Marylebone suburban services, of which dieselisation with multiple-units has made a tentative beginning.",
      "The hikers were issued with an on-the-spot fine for littering.",
      "Now, over to our man in Tokyo for an on-the-spot report."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "6008",
    "Idiom": [
      "once a man, twice a boy",
      "once a man, twice a child"
    ],
    "Meaning": "A man ages from childhood to adulthood and eventually regresses into a childlike state.",
    "Sentence": [
      "In verification of the old saying, \" Once a man, twice a child,\" Mr. Hood tells of \"A School for Adults,\"—and gives a picture of aged men, baldheaded and wigged, whose education had been neglected, studying their A, B, C.",
      "Again, it is a saying, ‘ once a man twice a child,’ but, of cases without number, it may justly be said, once a man always a man; tens of thousands there are whom this second childhood toucheth not, whose inward vigour evidently increaseth as their outward strength decays,",
      "The time will come, dear children, when the mother becomes as a little child. Once a man, twice a child. This must happen to us all if we live to a great age. Bear then, dear ones, with a mother's infirmities, weaknesses, aye, even petulances; you may come to this yourselves.",
      "“I am an old man,” he said; “I avail myself of the privilege of an old man,—to be a child. ‘ Once a man, twice a child. ’ ”",
      "dora : Look at all these games. Once a man, twice a child, my mother used to say. / ansell : What did she mean by that? / dora : She meant that a man grows from a boy, to a man, to a boy again.",
      "Give them an inch, they take a yard / Give them a yard, they take a mile / Once a man and twice a child / And everything is just for a while",
      "The child in people sometimes comes out after one reaches a certain stage in life, which makes the saying, \" Once a man twice a child \" to be the truth."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "6009-1",
    "Idiom": [
      "once a thief, always a thief"
    ],
    "Meaning": "A thief is always considered a thief.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "6009-2",
    "Idiom": [
      "once a thief, always a thief"
    ],
    "Meaning": "A warning that someone who has stolen before is likely to steal again.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "6010",
    "Idiom": [
      "once a woman, twice a child"
    ],
    "Meaning": "A woman transitions from childhood to adulthood and eventually returns to a childlike state in old age.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "6011",
    "Idiom": [
      "once again"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Again, one more time.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Rooney's sending off will be the main talking point, however, and his actions once again raise questions about his temperament that he looked to have gone a long way towards answering in recent times."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "6012",
    "Idiom": [
      "once an adult and twice a child",
      "once an adult, twice a child"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Life involves growing from childhood to adulthood and eventually returning to a childlike state in old age.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Two couples whose combined ages total 300 years were playing cards today and the nerve strain caused by the game was too much for the tired heart and nerves of one and she grew angry and ran home in tears. Once an adult, twice a child.",
      "It has been said of man, “ Once an adult, twice a child.” Young children are by nature dependent, require protection and security. There comes a time when the child struggles to get out from under the parents’ protective covering and exercise self-determination; to progress from dependence to independence. The Senior Citizen, too, often rebels against having his decisions made by others; he struggles against being treated like a child or as a nonentity by his own children and others.",
      "They’re all wound up with Santy coming this morning. Mattie Dillon got a copy of Dolly Parton’s new CD and Dec Hannigan went into a sulk because he only got one of Charlie Landsborough’s and he can’t stand him. Once an adult, twice a child – nothing surer than that!",
      "Mrs. Collins was nearly ninety years old. Her life fittingly illustrates the old proverb “ Once an adult and twice a child.” For a number of years she had been indisposed in mind as well as in body and required almost as much care as a child.",
      "Grandpa Sulivan came out of his room today (Sunday) ranting around to go to town, thinking it was Saturday. Once an adult and twice a child with us now, sure.",
      "My Flossie and I had the Santa Claus tables turned on us Christmas Eve, or maybe it is that old adage, “ Once an adult and twice a child ’ that came true. Anyway we sat up real late Christmas eve so we would be sure Jim Watie and his sister Andrea were asleep when old Santa came to the house. . . we made it or thought that we did but next morning when we got up instead of there being 3 stockings, Jim’s, Andy’s and Allyn’s hanging at the fire place there were five. Those two imps had filled a couple of stockings with our names on them and hung them up along the side of theirs. It was a lot of fun, made especially so because it was my Flossie’s and my first Christmas as grandpa and grandma.",
      "It amazes me that some people find nursing or caring for someone as something no one should do, and it always shocks me to realize that their reaction is so negative. It is as though no one knows how to change diapers on an adult, nor wants to, as though it is something to be ashamed of. Once when I was asked “How can you do this?! I replied with a terse “ Once an adult and twice a child ”. We may have to go through this ourselves one day. It needs to be done."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "6013",
    "Idiom": [
      "once and for all"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Conclusively, finally, permanently.",
    "Sentence": [
      "They replaced the entire door, in hopes of correcting the sticking and squeaking once and for all."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "6014",
    "Idiom": [
      "once bitten, twice shy"
    ],
    "Meaning": "One is cautious after past mistakes.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "6015",
    "Idiom": [
      "once hurt, twice shy",
      "once bitten, twice shy",
      "once burned, twice shy",
      "once burned, twice cautious"
    ],
    "Meaning": "One is cautious after past hurt.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "6016",
    "Idiom": [
      "once in a blue moon"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Very rarely.",
    "Sentence": [
      "We are no advocates for the eternal system of producing foreign operas to the exclusion of the works of English composers, but once in a blue moon such a thing may be allowed.",
      "Time expanded and space contracted, and the name Blue Moon took on a symbolic meaning, as if the future, so delicately plausible, were of a kind that might happen once in a blue moon only."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "6017",
    "Idiom": [
      "once in a purple moon"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Extremely rarely.",
    "Sentence": [
      "However, in spite all of our complainings, there was a distinct pleasure in shopping along this street, because once in a purple moon, one did strike a really nice model and so very reasonable, that one wondered how the manufacturer could afford to bring it out at the price.",
      "Once in a purple moon, it may be necessary for the top men to settle some awful impasse between themselves.",
      "Again, these usually show up in major currency auctions, only once in a purple moon would a dealer have one in stock."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "6018",
    "Idiom": [
      "once in a while"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Occasionally.",
    "Sentence": [
      "He used to drop into my chambers once in a while to smoke, and was first-rate company. When I gave a dinner there was generally a cover laid for him.",
      "I send her a note once in a while to let her know I'm thinking of her."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "6019",
    "Idiom": [
      "once or twice"
    ],
    "Meaning": "A small number of times.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Have you changed a tyre before? — Yes, once or twice."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "6020",
    "Idiom": [
      "once you go black, you never go back"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Once someone has had a black partner, they may prefer not to date non-black partners again.",
    "Sentence": [
      "\"You really think she likes me?\" I asked. \"What do you think? You know what they say! Once you go black, you never go back !\" Zac said rhythmically.",
      "Thus our young man of words turns to an ugly American joke told most often by his black compatriots as he searches for the title of his study. “ Once you go black, you never go back.” Is it true?"
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "6021-1",
    "Idiom": [
      "one after another"
    ],
    "Meaning": "In single file.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "6021-2",
    "Idiom": [
      "one after another"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Individually, in order.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "6021-3",
    "Idiom": [
      "one after another"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Unrelentingly.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Once discipline broke down, problems came one after another."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "6022",
    "Idiom": [
      "one age with"
    ],
    "Meaning": "The same age as.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Is Bill thirty years old now? I thought he was one age with our Sarah."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "6023",
    "Idiom": [
      "one and all"
    ],
    "Meaning": "The entire set of persons or things considered together.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Therefore my friends, stand to it one and all, refuse this filthy trash.",
      "Now this doubloon was of purest, virgin gold and however wanton in their sailor ways, one and all, the mariners revered it as the white whale's talisman.",
      "Men of every condition had laid their hearts at her feet. One and all, they had been compelled to pick them up and take them elsewhere.",
      "Later American literary stars like Hemingway, Faulkner, Sinclair Lewis and John Steinbeck, Nobel Prize-winners one and all, never had more than a spoonful of the great gouts of fame that Twain — and Mrs. Stowe, for that matter — enjoyed everywhere in the world."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "6024-1",
    "Idiom": [
      "one and only"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Unique, one of a kind.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Please welcome the one and only Bruce Springsteen!"
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "6024-2",
    "Idiom": [
      "one and only"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Only love.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Will you be my one and only ?"
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "6025-1",
    "Idiom": [
      "one and the same"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Emphasizes the identity or equivalence of two things.",
    "Sentence": [
      "It's almost as if there's one electron in two places at one and the same time."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "6025-2",
    "Idiom": [
      "one and the same"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Emphasizes the identity or equivalence of two things.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Are the beautiful and the good one and the same ?"
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "6026",
    "Idiom": [
      "one at a time"
    ],
    "Meaning": "During sequential instances.",
    "Sentence": [
      "He ate the peas on his plate one at a time.",
      "One at a time, please! I can't hear you if you all talk at once."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "6027",
    "Idiom": [
      "one bad turn deserves another"
    ],
    "Meaning": "One bad act deserves retaliation.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "6028",
    "Idiom": [
      "one big happy family"
    ],
    "Meaning": "A group that gets along well.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "6029",
    "Idiom": [
      "one brick short of a full load"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Stupid.",
    "Sentence": [
      "You have to be one brick short of a full load to think that '7' is a letter in the alphabet."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "6030",
    "Idiom": [
      "one can run but one can't hide"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Nothing can be done to evade something.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "6031",
    "Idiom": [
      "one can't break sticks in a bundle",
      "sticks in a bundle can't be broken",
      "you can't break a stick in a bundle",
      "one cannot break a twig in a bundle",
      "a twig in a bundle can't be broken",
      "a stick in a bundle cannot be broken",
      "you cannot break sticks in a bundle",
      "one can't break a stick in a bundle",
      "you can't break sticks in a bundle",
      "you can't break a twig in a bundle",
      "sticks in a bundle are unbreakable",
      "a stick in a bundle is unbreakable",
      "a twig in a bundle is unbreakable",
      "you cannot break a twig in a bundle",
      "a twig in a bundle cannot be broken",
      "sticks in a bundle cannot be broken",
      "you cannot break a stick in a bundle",
      "one cannot break a stick in a bundle",
      "one can't break a twig in a bundle"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Cooperation leads to success where individual effort fails.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Sticks in a bundle can’t be broken but sticks taken singly can be easily broken. Same applies to people.",
      "Sticks in a bundle are unbreakable. So says the inspirational Kenyan proverb extolling the power of Unity.",
      "The children learn that there is a whole lot more that they can do together.... When you join together, like sticks in a bundle, you are much stronger.",
      "Scotty: My wee granny used to say, \" Ya cannae break a stick in a bundle.\""
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "6032",
    "Idiom": [
      "one could do it in one's sleep"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Can be done very easily or effortlessly.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "6033",
    "Idiom": [
      "one could hear a pin drop"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Extremely quiet.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Told the waiter Big Joe was settin' me up / Aw!, you coulda heard a pin drop, it got deathly quiet / And the waiter's face turned kinda white"
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "6034",
    "Idiom": [
      "one fell swoop"
    ],
    "Meaning": "One action that achieves multiple results.",
    "Sentence": [
      "...they might be hanging about there or simply marauders ready to decamp with whatever boodle they could in one fell swoop at a moment's notice, your money or your life, leaving you there to point a moral, gagged and garrotted.",
      "Remember that these trains will serve Aintree on race days and both Anfield and Goodison Park (and soon Everton FC's new stadium), so there will be times when they are packed to the gunwales with passengers - albeit, disgorging their footfall at one station in one fell swoop.",
      "Changing the oil lubricates the engine and removes debris in one fell swoop."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "6035",
    "Idiom": [
      "one flesh"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Two people united in marriage.",
    "Sentence": [
      "\"This is reasonable and natural,\" returned Pathfinder; \"... A woman would be likely to follow the man to whom she had plighted faith, and husband and wife are one flesh.\"",
      "Mary: Have not I been the fast friend of your life Since mine began, and it was thought we two Might make one flesh, and cleave unto each other As man and wife?",
      "We know Christ's saying of the married that they are one flesh !"
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "6036",
    "Idiom": [
      "one for the road"
    ],
    "Meaning": "A final drink before leaving.",
    "Sentence": [
      "and the rebuilding of Birmingham New Street with its Taurus Bar (\"where one for the road - the railroad - can be taken with impunity\")."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "6037",
    "Idiom": [
      "one good turn deserves another"
    ],
    "Meaning": "One act of kindness deserves another.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "6038",
    "Idiom": [
      "one hair of a woman can draw more than a hundred pair of oxen"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Women have great influence over men.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "6039",
    "Idiom": [
      "one hand can't hold two watermelons",
      "one can't hold two watermelons in one hand",
      "one can't carry two watermelons under one arm"
    ],
    "Meaning": "One should not take on more than one can handle.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "6040",
    "Idiom": [
      "one in the eye for"
    ],
    "Meaning": "An unpleasant event for someone, especially for those who deemed it impossible or unwelcome.",
    "Sentence": [
      "The success of Firefox is one in the eye for Microsoft."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "6041",
    "Idiom": [
      "one man's fish is another man's poison",
      "one man's meat is another man's poison",
      "one man's fish is another man's poisson"
    ],
    "Meaning": "People have differing tastes.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "6042",
    "Idiom": [
      "one man's loss is another man's gain"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Some people's misfortune benefits others.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "6043",
    "Idiom": [
      "one man's terrorist is another man's freedom fighter"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Perspective affects one's view on war and political violence.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "6044",
    "Idiom": [
      "one man's trash is another man's treasure",
      "one woman's trash is another woman's treasure"
    ],
    "Meaning": "What is useless to one person is valuable to another.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "6045",
    "Idiom": [
      "one may as well hang for a sheep as a lamb"
    ],
    "Meaning": "If you're going to do something wrong, you might as well do it big.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "6046-1",
    "Idiom": [
      "one moment"
    ],
    "Meaning": "A short period of time.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "6046-2",
    "Idiom": [
      "one moment"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Used to request a short pause.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "6047",
    "Idiom": [
      "one more again"
    ],
    "Meaning": "One more time.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Let me give it to you one more again."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "6048",
    "Idiom": [
      "one nail drives out another"
    ],
    "Meaning": "New things replace old ones.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "6049",
    "Idiom": [
      "one night with Venus, a lifetime with Mercury"
    ],
    "Meaning": "A single sexual encounter can lead to long-term consequences.",
    "Sentence": [
      "An eminent physiologist, in the bad old days when Salvarsan and certain other Hg compounds were the only known remedy for venereal diseases, is said to have warned his students that ' One night with Venus may mean a lifetime with Mercury'.",
      "Vincent had opted for the mercury treatment, while Theo, afraid of the time involved (\" One night with Venus, a lifetime with mercury')...",
      "Early treatments with metals (arsenic, bismuth, mercury) led to the cynical summary of syphilitic infection as ' one night with Venus, a lifetime with Mercury'.",
      "Many Welsh people had cause to regret the fact that, for one night of bliss with Venus, they spent a lifetime of regret with Mercury.",
      "But he knew better than to get his hopes up. As the old saying went: one night in Venus and a lifetime of Mercury."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "6050",
    "Idiom": [
      "one of His Majesty's bad bargains"
    ],
    "Meaning": "An incompetent soldier.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "6051-1",
    "Idiom": [
      "one of those things"
    ],
    "Meaning": "An unavoidable event.",
    "Sentence": [
      "It was just one of those things : I spent an hour in traffic and then found that the shop was closed."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "6051-2",
    "Idiom": [
      "one of those things"
    ],
    "Meaning": "An inexplicable or insignificant event.",
    "Sentence": [
      "The moral to this story is that the good research scientist pays strict attention to any peculiar event and does not shrug off a mystery as just \" one of those things. \""
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "6052",
    "Idiom": [
      "one should never meet one's heroes",
      "never meet your heroes"
    ],
    "Meaning": "It is unwise to meet admired individuals, as they may disappoint.",
    "Sentence": [
      "I'm a great believer in the maxim that you should never meet your heroes. I thought of these artists as rebellious, ink-spattered heroes, righting wrongs. What if they turned out to be ranting misanthropes or monosyllabic recluses?",
      "They say you should never meet your heroes, so fans of Canadian DJ and music producer Deadmau5 might want to consider the risks before looking him up online.",
      "You know how they say never meet your heroes ? Well, they’re wrong. Jane was everything I had hoped for and more."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "6053-1",
    "Idiom": [
      "one side"
    ],
    "Meaning": "A place for storage or reservation.",
    "Sentence": [
      "He put next year's reserved seed on one side.",
      "He put some money to one side."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "6053-2",
    "Idiom": [
      "one side"
    ],
    "Meaning": "A demand to move out of the way.",
    "Sentence": [
      "sign hung from the bronze knob, and it stated without equivocation that the Britannic Museum was \"closed for repairs.\"",
      "“This is no time for sympathy,” I said. “Now one side or flipper off — I gotta go to work.”",
      "\"I'm late now, Fatty. C'mon. One side,\" Zooey said. A Philadelphia highboy had been moved out into the hall, and, together with Mrs. Glass's person, it blocked Zooey's passage."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "6054",
    "Idiom": [
      "one small step for man, one giant leap for mankind"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Used to exaggerate an accomplishment or milestone.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "6055",
    "Idiom": [
      "one step ahead"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Maintaining a slight advantage.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Chalaza: Okay, Thursday night, it's mailroom Monday, we just got our new shipment. Xavier (Vernon Chatman): What do you do if the cops come knocking? Chalaza: We toilet-flush the drugs. Xavier: Let's stay one step ahead of the cops, flush them now. Chalaza: I like, one step ahead of the policia.",
      "Wilshere had another shot saved low down by Hart as City struggled to keep up with Arsenal's flowing forward play, the home team always appeared to be one step ahead as City boss Roberto Mancini showed his annoyance by remonstrating with his players on the touchline."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "6056",
    "Idiom": [
      "one step at a time"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Slowly and steadily, without rushing.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "6057",
    "Idiom": [
      "one step forward, two steps back"
    ],
    "Meaning": "A situation where progress is undone by setbacks.",
    "Sentence": [
      "We got all the roofing removed, but the chimney was damaged and we discovered that some rafters had to be replaced. One step forward, two steps back. Or maybe three."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "6058",
    "Idiom": [
      "one swallow doesn't make a summer",
      "one swallow does not a summer make",
      "one swallow does not make a spring",
      "one swallow doesn't a spring make",
      "one swallow does not a spring make",
      "one swallow does not make a summer",
      "one swallow doesn't make a spring",
      "one swallow doesn't a summer make"
    ],
    "Meaning": "One instance does not indicate a trend.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Though one swallow does not make a summer, one engagement is apt to make several, and her boys were, most of them, at the inflammable age when a spark ignites the flame.",
      "One swallow does not a summer make, nor one onion a spring garden.",
      "One swallow does not a summer make and one football game doesn't make a season.",
      "Added one Western diplomat: \"Aquino's success undoubtedly weakens the Communists' appeal to the so-called mass base. But one swallow does not a summer make.\""
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "6059",
    "Idiom": [
      "one too many"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Excessive alcohol leading to drunkenness.",
    "Sentence": [
      "He's had one too many."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "6060",
    "Idiom": [
      "one up"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To outdo or outperform someone.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Every year the neighbors try to one-up each other with their holiday lights. \"Time flies when you're having fun!\" said one of the skiers in our party. \"Yeah, but time's more fun when you're flying,\" Jay one-upped.",
      ""
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "6061",
    "Idiom": [
      "one's back is up"
    ],
    "Meaning": "One is offended or angry.",
    "Sentence": [
      "My back is up, and I cannot hear the thought of wooing him any farther, nor would do it, though he were as pig a gentleman (look you) as Lucifer himself.",
      "And I want you to be nice to Patty. For some reason her back is up.",
      "Now my back is up. “Yes, the witch,” I hiss."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "6062",
    "Idiom": [
      "one's bark is worse than one's bite"
    ],
    "Meaning": "One appears threatening but is harmless.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "6063",
    "Idiom": [
      "one's blood is up"
    ],
    "Meaning": "One is very angry.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "6064",
    "Idiom": [
      "one's days are numbered"
    ],
    "Meaning": "A period of time is ending.",
    "Sentence": [
      "If his performance does not improve very soon, his days at this company are numbered."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "6065",
    "Idiom": [
      "one's heart in one's mouth"
    ],
    "Meaning": "A state of dread.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Winger Cheslin Kolbe, sitting with his jersey over his head in the sin after a yellow card at the death, was probably the sight of millions of South Africans around the country who had their hearts in their mouth as they sat through another nail-biting match.",
      "There was a last-ditch quality to England’s defending and when Pierre-Emile Højbjerg shaped a curler for the far corner in the 85th minute, England’s hearts were in their mouths. The shot was off target.",
      "I rang the doorbell and waited with my heart in my mouth.",
      "I had my heart in my mouth while I waited for news of my son."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "6066-1",
    "Idiom": [
      "one's hour"
    ],
    "Meaning": "A crucial moment to show potential or face challenges.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "6066-2",
    "Idiom": [
      "one's hour"
    ],
    "Meaning": "moment of death.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "6067",
    "Idiom": [
      "one's lips are sealed"
    ],
    "Meaning": "One is keeping a secret.",
    "Sentence": [
      "You're talking a lot / But you're not saying anything / When I have nothing to say / My lips are sealed"
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "6068",
    "Idiom": [
      "one's name is mud"
    ],
    "Meaning": "One's reputation is tarnished.",
    "Sentence": [
      "My name is Mud / Not to be confused with Bill, or Jack, or Pete, or Dennis / My name is Mud, it's always been / 'Cause I'm the most boring sonsabitch you've ever seen / I dress in blue, yes, navy blue from head to toe / I'm rather drab, except my patent shoes / I make 'em shine, well, most the time",
      "Thanks to disastrously unpopular attempts by the likes of BuzzFeed to create AI-assisted content, its name is mud in the media industry.",
      "His name will be mud once people learn the truth about why he was fired."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "6069-1",
    "Idiom": [
      "one's ship comes in"
    ],
    "Meaning": "One acquires a significant amount of money.",
    "Sentence": [
      "I often wish I had the money the eggs and chickens bring; but, when I say so, father answers I shall when his ship comes in. When I was younger, I really thought he owned a ship, which would one day come into port.",
      "He is heir to some property and prefers to loaf at saloons until his ship comes in. In the meantime, the wife's parents practically support her and her children."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "6069-2",
    "Idiom": [
      "one's ship comes in"
    ],
    "Meaning": "One is successful.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "6070",
    "Idiom": [
      "one's socks off"
    ],
    "Meaning": "With a large amount of effort or intensity.",
    "Sentence": [
      "I've been working my socks off all week for no reward whatsoever.",
      "We had a great time at the ball. We danced our socks off."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "6071-1",
    "Idiom": [
      "one's time is one's own"
    ],
    "Meaning": "One's time is self-governed.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "6071-2",
    "Idiom": [
      "one's time is one's own"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Time is free from constant supervision.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "6072",
    "Idiom": [
      "one's word is law"
    ],
    "Meaning": "One's requests or orders must be obeyed.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "6073-1",
    "Idiom": [
      "one-hit wonder"
    ],
    "Meaning": "An artist known for only one hit song.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Eleven years ago, Arrested Development became one of Southern hip-hop's first crossover successes with “Tennessee,” a wistful, bohemian-influenced song about the scars of history. But the group was a one-hit wonder."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "6073-2",
    "Idiom": [
      "one-hit wonder"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Known for a single major accomplishment.",
    "Sentence": [
      "The European company is no one-hit wonder. The company has another best seller in its J-class car, sold as a Vauxhall Cavalier."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "6074",
    "Idiom": [
      "one-horse race"
    ],
    "Meaning": "A situation with only one viable competitor.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Although Mr Balladur is far ahead in the opinion polls, the spring election is far from being a one-horse race.",
      "A system for creating software that runs, unaltered, on all sorts of computers and devices... could transform the software business in the network era from a one-horse race led by Microsoft to a true contest.",
      "The dominance of the men in yellow over the past decade turned international cricket into a one-horse race."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "6075",
    "Idiom": [
      "one-horse town"
    ],
    "Meaning": "A very small town with few attractions.",
    "Sentence": [
      "The journey took 48 hours with a stopover in a Bates-style motel in the one-horse town of Marblemount – the last services for 70 wild miles of boscage and bears.",
      "It's surrounded by beautiful wilderness, but otherwise it's just a one-horse town."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "6076",
    "Idiom": [
      "one-man band"
    ],
    "Meaning": "An organization or business run by one person.",
    "Sentence": [
      "The corporation he will someday inherit—growing, churning—won't work as a one-man band.",
      "It goes on to argue that the Reform UK party is a “ one-man band which at best can win only a handful of MPs”, while the Liberal Democrats are dismissed as “a joke”."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "6077-1",
    "Idiom": [
      "one-night stand"
    ],
    "Meaning": "A single sexual encounter without expectation of further relationship.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "6077-2",
    "Idiom": [
      "one-night stand"
    ],
    "Meaning": "A single sexual encounter between two partners.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Chet's mom was never home. She always went out gambling, partying and staying overnight with one of her sugar daddies. Chet never met his father. He was just a one-night stand she'd had eighteen years ago.",
      "She was a one-night stand he'd met at the gym, and Herschel couldn't remember her name.",
      "“So she was just a one-night stand like all the rest?”"
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "6078",
    "Idiom": [
      "one-note"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Lacking variety or range.",
    "Sentence": [
      "But Pope Brock plays him in such a one-note key of gulping and spitting and snickering cynicism that the spectacle becomes numbing.",
      "The footnotes that attend Ambrose Bierce in the U.S. literary canon roughly place him as a minor writer of grotesque supernatural tales and trenchant war stories, a misanthrope, curmudgeon, a purveyor of stringing sarcasms, a one-note wit.",
      "To his mind, there was only one right and true position on the question. This sort of one-note response is precisely the problem facing politically engaged academics in the U.S. at the moment.",
      "The movie is one long snigger. It might be one-note, but at least it's in the key of funny.",
      "Moreover, Drive Angry offers evidence that Cage hasn't recently been one-note in his performances so much as in his choice of schlocky material."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "6079",
    "Idiom": [
      "one-off"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Done or created only once.",
    "Sentence": [
      "I'll put together a quick one-off as a sample so we can taste the recipe."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "6080",
    "Idiom": [
      "one-star"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Of low quality.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Four minutes later Walcott, who until then had been redundant as a lone striker owing to one-star service, was given his first decent pass of the game and duly took his chance to outshine the Senegalese, springing a poorly conceived offside trap to collect Lukas Podolski 's ball and stroke a low 15-yard shot past Tim Krul and into the far corner."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "6081",
    "Idiom": [
      "one-track mind"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Someone obsessed with one thing.",
    "Sentence": [
      "You're nothing but a dirty, dirty old man / You do your thinking with a one-track mind",
      "I have a one-track mind, I have a one track-mind / There is a method to the madness, to the madness / Gotta have a one-track mind",
      "He has a one-track mind. All he ever talks about is trains and railroads."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "6082",
    "Idiom": [
      "one-trick pony"
    ],
    "Meaning": "A person or group known for only one skill or characteristic.",
    "Sentence": [
      "He's a one-trick pony / One trick is all that horse can do / He does one trick only / It's the principal source of his revenue"
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "6083",
    "Idiom": [
      "one-way ticket to Palookaville"
    ],
    "Meaning": "A dead end or guaranteed failure.",
    "Sentence": [
      "You remember that? \"This ain't your night\"! My night! I coulda taken Wilson apart! So what happens? He gets the title shot outdoors on the ballpark and what do I get? A one-way ticket to Palookaville !",
      "Proper German gentlemen harbored a particular distaste for boxing and its two-fisted muscularity, considering it lower class and bestial, a one way ticket to Palookaville.",
      "History is also not symmetrical; you don't necessarily go down in the same sequence backward. What we might get instead could be just a one-way ticket to Palookaville instead of getting to relive the sixteenth century.",
      "Well, my one-way ticket to palookaville turned out to be the chairmanship of the select Committee on public Administration. it had never been a particularly prestigious select Committee, but I was going to chair it and I could make of it what I wanted."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "6084",
    "Idiom": [
      "onesey-twosey"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Involving very small quantities.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "6085",
    "Idiom": [
      "onesie-twosie"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Individually or in very small groups.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Why don't you prepare a whole stack of handouts in advance rather than getting out the supplies each time, onesie-twosie ?"
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "6086",
    "Idiom": [
      "only dead fish go with the flow"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Conforming to others prevents following personal goals and desires.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "6087",
    "Idiom": [
      "only fools and horses work"
    ],
    "Meaning": "A belief that seeking easy ways to make money is wise.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "6088",
    "Idiom": [
      "only game in town"
    ],
    "Meaning": "The only available opportunity or resource.",
    "Sentence": [
      "It was the first elected position he had ever held, his single incumbency and, he had to admit, his best prospect, the only game in town.",
      "Java won't long be the only game in town. Microsoft already plans to publish a rival software, code-named Blackbird.",
      "If you surf the Web, chances are you're using some version of either Netscape Navigator or Microsoft Internet Explorer. But contrary to popular belief, they aren't the only games in town. While the two combatants offer great interfaces and features, there is something to be said for taking the road less traveled.",
      "When exports are the only game in town, currency gyrations can be a killer.",
      "Once myth and error are dissipated, these are the only games in town. The empirical approach is the only valid way of acquiring knowledge, and this becomes evident as soon as we free ourselves from the thraldom of a false metaphysics.",
      "the underlying message for Britons is relentless: raw capitalism is the only game in town, and you need to start working much harder.",
      "Political power, after all, is the only game in town that ensures unfettered access to the nation's oil riches.",
      "He said that the increasingly fractious tone of interventions from the campaign teams over the weekend had begun to appear like “a race over who can sound more rightwing, as if that’s the only game in town ”."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "6089",
    "Idiom": [
      "only the good die young",
      "the good die young"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Well-regarded people often die young.",
    "Sentence": [
      "\"You'll live,\" put in Mr. Pedagog, with a chuckle. \" The good die young.\"",
      "It is the men and women with vices who have ruled the world. The good die young because there is no useful work for them to do.",
      "\" The good die young,\" is a favorite, sardonic saying of General Don Valeriano Weyler y Nicolau, Marquess of Tenerife, Grandee of Spain, long famed among U. S. citizens as \"Butcher Weyler\" because of his ruthless military governorship of Cuba, prime cause of the Spanish-American war (1896-97). In Madrid last week the doughty \"Butcher,\" now aged 91, arose fully convalescent from a sickness during which Death had been expected hourly for weeks. \"Pah!\" growled he. \"My doctors, my family had no cause for alarm. I had only pneumonia!\"",
      "A 28-year-old pregnant woman was killed and a second woman was seriously injured on Friday afternoon when a driver, apparently intoxicated and following the women as they walked down a Midtown Manhattan street, lost control of a supermarket maintenance van.... “It hasn’t really sunk in,” said Ms. Ramos’s sister.... “ The good die young,” she said."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "6090",
    "Idiom": [
      "ontogeny recapitulates phylogeny"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Individual development mirrors the stages of species or civilization development.",
    "Sentence": [
      "With reference to seedling stages the statement that ontogeny recapitulates phylogeny must be made with great reserve.",
      "Haeckel maintained that ontogeny recapitulates phylogeny, and this idea was incorporated by Lombroso into his parallelism between the criminal and the child.",
      "For even if we accept that \" ontogeny recapitulates phylogeny,\" those responsible for the drafting of ancient legal documents were not children, and are hardly to be endowed with some form of infantile mentality."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "6091",
    "Idiom": [
      "onwards and upwards"
    ],
    "Meaning": "On to greater things.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "6092",
    "Idiom": [
      "oof-bird"
    ],
    "Meaning": "A source of money.",
    "Sentence": [
      "It is a sad and weary time for many, for when the dustman, the man who blacks the boots, and he with the grog-blossom on his nose who does nothing but hold cab-doors open when nobody asks him to have all been paid, the oof bird takes unto itself wings and flies away.",
      "The probability is that he's a crackpot; and if he isn't, he has some little game on foot — in close association with the hunt of the oof-bird ! — which he tried to work off on me, but couldn't'.",
      "If you make an oof-bird and feed him properly all the time, you will grow rich.",
      "\"I guess you're attracted to Africa by the lure of the Oof bird,\" Gifford said eagerly smearing a layer of orange marmalade on thick bread roasted over the campfire."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "6093",
    "Idiom": [
      "open Pandora's box"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Causes unforeseen problems.",
    "Sentence": [
      "It’s a thin line between charming, candy-flavored verisimilitude and craven commercialism, and if Spielberg ultimately stayed on the right side of it, “E.T.” nevertheless helped open a Pandora’s box of product placement."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "6094",
    "Idiom": [
      "open a can of whoop ass"
    ],
    "Meaning": "A light-hearted threat of physical harm.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Chan stars in his first all-American production as chan as Hong Kong Detective Inspector Lee, a noble, innocent and caring police officer who can really bust open a can of whoop-ass when given the chance.",
      "I'm gonna open up a can of whoop-ass on ya."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "6095-1",
    "Idiom": [
      "open book"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Easily interpreted.",
    "Sentence": [
      "There is one, with a dark and thoughtful eye, Who is to all others a mystery; But his soul is to me an open book, And I read his mood in his slightest look;...",
      "This is the secret of Hegel, and the key to his hieroglyphics, and, if consistently used to interpret the sayings of his logic, it becomes an open book.",
      "On the surface of the ground or through the swaying branches of the trees the spoor of man or beast was an open book to the ape-man, but even his acute senses were baffled by the spoorless trail of the airship.",
      "But I have never argued – and never will – that our most sensitive national security matters should be an open book."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "6095-2",
    "Idiom": [
      "open book"
    ],
    "Meaning": "A person who is open and candid.",
    "Sentence": [
      "He is an open book. Everyone can see that he removes nothing, conceals nothing, reserves nothing for himself.",
      "Chapter 3: Are You an Open Book ? How Much Do I Need to Disclose?",
      "Emile's most striking characteristic is that he hides nothing. He is an open book, acting the same in private as in public — \"Emile is worse at disguising his feelings than any man in the world.\""
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "6096",
    "Idiom": [
      "open doors"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Leads to opportunities or advantages.",
    "Sentence": [
      "The training that opens doors for you that men from electrical trade schools can never pass."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "6097",
    "Idiom": [
      "open field"
    ],
    "Meaning": "A situation with no obstacles or limitations.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "6098",
    "Idiom": [
      "open fire"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To begin firing weapons.",
    "Sentence": [
      "The Atlanta was swinging through her own turn to avoid a collision with the van when the searchlight, probably from the destroyer Akatsuki, lit upon her from abaft the port beam. Captain Jenkins reacted as commanders had been trained in peacetime: \"Counter-illuminate!\" he shouted. His gunnery officer, Lieutenant Commander William R. D. Nickelson, Jr., preferred to respond with other hardware. At once he shouted into his headset mike: \"Fuck that! Open fire !\" His assistant, Lloyd Mustin, was recording accurate ranges from the narrowcasting fire-control radar and didn't need help from other wavelengths. \" Action port. Illuminating ship is target, \" he instructed his gun captains. Mustin, controlling the after trio of five-inch mounts, and Nickelson slewed their directors onto the lights and opened fire immediately.",
      "In warfare, whoever opens fire first has a greater chance of victory."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "6099",
    "Idiom": [
      "open invitation"
    ],
    "Meaning": "A situation that encourages unfavorable or illegal actions.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "6100",
    "Idiom": [
      "open one's mind"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To become receptive to new ideas.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "6101",
    "Idiom": [
      "open one's mouth"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To speak.",
    "Sentence": [
      "I advise you: don't open your mouth at the dinner."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "6102-1",
    "Idiom": [
      "open season"
    ],
    "Meaning": "A situation where someone or something is endangered or opposed.",
    "Sentence": [
      "In the country of the Clantons there was always an open season on any one of his name.",
      "The court thus overruled all the states' protective laws, except against outright fraud, and declared open season on any products not protected by patents.",
      "The paparazzi and gossip hounds have declared open season on celebrities."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "6102-2",
    "Idiom": [
      "open season"
    ],
    "Meaning": "A situation or period for routine activity.",
    "Sentence": [
      "\"My dear Miss Parker, this is the open season on terrible practical jokes.\"",
      "The open season on culture in Manhattan used to begin with the first stroke of a Metropolitan Opera baton."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "6103",
    "Idiom": [
      "open someone's eyes"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To make someone aware or enlighten them.",
    "Sentence": [
      "I have to admit that Merseyside was the one area of the railway I had little experience of until this year, but two visits have opened my eyes to what is an incredibly well-run network, with such friendly staff and locals.",
      "Visiting Africa opened my eyes to what it is like living without clean water."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "6104",
    "Idiom": [
      "open the batting"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To commence proceedings.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "6105",
    "Idiom": [
      "open the door"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To allow access.",
    "Sentence": [
      "the court's decision today opens the door to future partisan manipulations",
      "his vacancy opened the door for young people who wanted a position"
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "6106",
    "Idiom": [
      "open the floodgates"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To allow action to proceed more swiftly or extensively.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "6107",
    "Idiom": [
      "open the kimono"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To reveal confidential information.",
    "Sentence": [
      "For the first 10 minutes, Lui refuses to \" open the kimono \" and reveal details about the company.",
      "Before agreeing to “ open the kimono ” and show them everything, first ask exactly what they will want to see—all sales records, from all customers?"
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "6108",
    "Idiom": [
      "open the schools"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Expressing that something should be acknowledged or practiced but is not.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "6109",
    "Idiom": [
      "open wide"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To open one's mouth wide.",
    "Sentence": [
      "During my first day in the woods, Raoul, the big alpha male of Rambo II, opened wide to show me his dagger-sharp canines, then sauntered by and swatted my calf with a stick—letting me know my place in the social order. (Low.)"
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "6110",
    "Idiom": [
      "open-armed"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Welcoming.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Step up, step up, step up; the sky is open-armed. When the light is mine, I felt gravity pull.",
      "We were welcomed in to their home open-armed."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "6111-1",
    "Idiom": [
      "open-door policy"
    ],
    "Meaning": "A policy allowing subordinates to visit an authority figure unannounced to discuss concerns.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Take Continental Airlines's Robert F. Six's view of much touted open-door policies : “‘My door is always open—bring me your problems.’ This is guaranteed to turn on every whiner, lackey and neurotic on the property.”",
      "She's a warm but no-nonsense administrator who has an open-door policy for all students.",
      "Ashley : Commander. You have a minute to talk? Shepard: I keep an open-door policy. If you have any concerns, lay them on me.",
      "\"Managers are trained to be culturally sensitive and have an open door policy to staff for issues like this."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "6111-2",
    "Idiom": [
      "open-door policy"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Encourages immigration and increased access by foreigners.",
    "Sentence": [
      "They also have tried to enlist support from the National Cattlemen's Association, on grounds this open-door policy could lead to easier entry for foreign beef.",
      "Philosopher John Ralston Saul calls Canada \"on the cutting edge, the most experimental country in the world on immigration and citizenship\" for its open-door policy on immigration.",
      "Britain's open-door policy on foreign takeovers is a net gain for the economy."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "6112",
    "Idiom": [
      "opening of an envelope"
    ],
    "Meaning": "A method for self-promotion or visibility.",
    "Sentence": [
      "She's such an attention seeker she'd turn up to the opening of an envelope !"
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "6113",
    "Idiom": [
      "opinions are like assholes"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Everyone has opinions, often of poor quality.",
    "Sentence": [
      "“ Opinions are like assholes,” Tipsy began again. “That would be correct,” Few confirmed acidly. “It's an understatement, too.” “Some people have more than one asshole?” Tipsy asked naively. “Okay. Okay.” Quentin placed both his hands...",
      "Opinions are like assholes and that's all I see. Ya you're so picture perfect. How's it feel to be perfect. Ya you're perfect. Picture perfect to me. What you got comes in a small pill. Pretty sure I've had my fill.",
      "Opinions are like assholes, and there are way too many assholes out there. Call me what you will, but I'll call you what you are. The best way to live is to deserve each day. A born loser isn't just someone who's been desperate for some...",
      "“The shit just got so stupid, and of course Gil kept saying the same thing he always says about this kind of thing: “' Opinions are like assholes...'” “You never know what you're gonna get?” This time they all laughed a little.",
      "“Don't you mean, ' Opinions are like assholes '?” “No, 'shit'. They run too freely from careless openings.” “That's...not a saying.” “No?” Monty chuckled. “You sure?” He sighed. “Anyway, Hitler had opinions. That guy in Wolf Creek had..."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "6114",
    "Idiom": [
      "opportunity knocks at every man's door"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Everyone has opportunities.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "6115",
    "Idiom": [
      "opportunity makes a thief",
      "opportunity makes the thief"
    ],
    "Meaning": "People are more likely to steal when the opportunity arises.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "6116",
    "Idiom": [
      "opportunity seldom knocks twice"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Opportune times seldom appear again.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "6117",
    "Idiom": [
      "opposite number"
    ],
    "Meaning": "A counterpart in another organization.",
    "Sentence": [
      "The first up train was the morning semi-fast ex Buncrana, which sped through with No. 8 at its head, adroitly exchanging staffs at about 15 m.p.h. The next train through Tooban was our opposite number, and we duly received the vital staff.",
      "Except for the mid-winter period, when the 11.30 a.m. from Paddington and its opposite number will be withdrawn - Torquay now has seven daily expresses to and from Paddington as compared with five down and six up previously."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "6118",
    "Idiom": [
      "opposites attract"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Different people can make good partners.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "6119",
    "Idiom": [
      "or else"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Implies a threat if a command is not followed.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Elon Musk to Workers: Spend 40 Hours in the Office, or Else [title]",
      "Joy Behar, who has called the MAGA movement a cult, poked her head into the room and demonstrated how invested she was in Ms. Farah Griffin’s success by offering some advice aimed squarely at me: “Be nice — or else.”",
      "Clean up your room, or else !"
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "6120",
    "Idiom": [
      "or something",
      "look for a dog to kick"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Indicates vagueness or imprecision.",
    "Sentence": [
      "So basically sexperts are reporters about sex, rather than sex professionals. Or something.",
      "I think she's a lawyer or something.",
      "What are you doing?! Are you trying to kill us or something ?",
      "It's not like I hate parks or something; I just think it's too cold outside today."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "6121",
    "Idiom": [
      "or what"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Allows for an unexpressed alternative.",
    "Sentence": [
      "How should he know or guess or what ?",
      "Do they check you at the door or what ?\" Michael laughed.",
      "She asked me, and like you, I didn't know if that was like having heart failure or what.",
      "I don't know if she was joking or what, but I joked back with her anyway. …. Did I take her back to her hotel room and drop her off or what ?"
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "6122",
    "Idiom": [
      "or words to that effect"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Indicates a paraphrase or possible error in reported speech.",
    "Sentence": [
      "they were beyond earshot of the American commander, Capt. James Lawrence, who implored his men: \"Don't give up the ship!\" (or words to that effect).",
      "When he hit his finger with the hammer, he said \"ouch\" or words to that effect."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "6123",
    "Idiom": [
      "ostrich policy"
    ],
    "Meaning": "The tendency to ignore obvious problems.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "6124",
    "Idiom": [
      "other days, other ways"
    ],
    "Meaning": "People in the past had different thoughts and actions.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "6125",
    "Idiom": [
      "other end of the ball"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Implies the opposite side after discussing offense or defense.",
    "Sentence": [
      "They play well on offense, but on the other end of the ball they need work."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "6126-1",
    "Idiom": [
      "other fish in the sea"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Other goals or objectives to pursue.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "6126-2",
    "Idiom": [
      "other fish in the sea"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Other romantic partners to pursue.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "6127",
    "Idiom": [
      "other half"
    ],
    "Meaning": "A spouse.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Oh, I'm still missing my other half / Oh, it must be something I did in the past"
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "6128",
    "Idiom": [
      "other head"
    ],
    "Meaning": "The glans of the penis.",
    "Sentence": [
      "We've had our fill of dumb jocks. But a dumb jock who's also a single-minded horn dog—that's funny. Thinking with his other head has gotten Jason into a lot of trouble."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "6129-1",
    "Idiom": [
      "other side"
    ],
    "Meaning": "The afterlife or a realm of spirits.",
    "Sentence": [
      "It has seemed to me wise to take such measures as may be feasible, to acquire, by courtesy of the press, access to my standing obituaries, with the privilege—if this is not asking too much—of editing, not their Facts, but their Verdicts. This, not for the present profit, further than as concerns my family, but as a favorable influence usable on the Other Side, where there are some who are not friendly to me.",
      "They tell us that something is waiting for us on the other side, that death may be a pilgrimage and not a destination, that the afterlife is a warm awakening after the fretful dream of life.",
      "\"Well, when people from the other side communicate with me, they're using thought energy, just like you can't see radio waves coming into the radio.\""
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "6129-2",
    "Idiom": [
      "other side"
    ],
    "Meaning": "The outcome after overcoming a challenge.",
    "Sentence": [
      "That clarity comes through on another highlight, Love Is Blind. “I found this part of myself that I think is left out of a lot of love songs: the growth on the other side.”"
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "6130-1",
    "Idiom": [
      "other than",
      "take it out on"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Except, besides.",
    "Sentence": [
      "There was no furniture in the abandoned house, other than a broken bedstead.",
      "Don't take it out on your husband if you had trouble with your boss at work."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "6131-2",
    "Idiom": [
      "other than"
    ],
    "Meaning": "In any other way than.",
    "Sentence": [
      "The problem cannot be solved other than by putting in much time and effort."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "6132",
    "Idiom": [
      "otherwise engaged"
    ],
    "Meaning": "busy doing something else.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "6133",
    "Idiom": [
      "our era"
    ],
    "Meaning": "The current era in the Gregorian calendar.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "6134",
    "Idiom": [
      "out and about"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Engaged in day-to-day activities requiring travel.",
    "Sentence": [
      "He carried a cellular phone so that friends could reach him when he was out and about.",
      "She had been in hospital, but now she is out and about again."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "6135",
    "Idiom": [
      "out cold"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Completely asleep or unconscious.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "6136",
    "Idiom": [
      "out for blood"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Intending to kill or severely harm someone, often for revenge.",
    "Sentence": [
      "He watched out for the men in his unit, for the one woman who had saved them so many years ago when they were still raw teens out for blood and revenge on the world, and he watched out for anyone else they stumbled across in their lives that needed protection."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "6137",
    "Idiom": [
      "out loud"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Using the voice; aloud.",
    "Sentence": [
      "I received countless private phone calls from very senior railwaymen and women, all with the same message: \"Please carry on what you're doing. You are saying what we are all thinking but dare not say. You have our support, but we just can't voice it out loud.\"",
      "The teacher asked her students to take turns reading the story out loud to the rest of the class."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "6138",
    "Idiom": [
      "out of a nightmare"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Terrifying; shocking.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "6139-1",
    "Idiom": [
      "out of bounds"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Prohibited area.",
    "Sentence": [
      "You can play wherever you want, but remember that the cemetery is out of bounds."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "6139-2",
    "Idiom": [
      "out of bounds"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Beyond acceptable limits.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Intellectually, the four-year-old is in a growthsome age. He learns best from firsthand experience. He is having fun with language and is liable to run out of bounds verbally.",
      "You were out of bounds to call him a criminal."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "6140",
    "Idiom": [
      "out of central casting",
      "from central casting"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Conforming to a stereotypical image.",
    "Sentence": [
      "\"Do I or do I not have the quintessential in-laws? I swear they're right out of central casting. A blowhard brother-in-law, bratty kids, and a sourpuss mother-in-law wide as a billboard.",
      "Frank Grandin was straight out of central casting, the pompous, self-important, narrow-minded, big businessman, from his full head of suspiciously jet-black hair right down to the oversized gold watch on his wrist.",
      "As cult leaders go, Rajneesh was straight out of central casting. His preferred garb was a satin-trimmed velvet robe and shoes, usually adorned with expensive jewelry.",
      "He was not the pompous university president from central casting, always pontificating; he was more like a charming professor who walked around his campus wearing the navy blue cap of his beloved Boston Red Sox and who just happened to be university president.",
      "Luckily for Giacomo, he had Marzia, an Italian grandmother straight from central casting.",
      "The fact that David Cameron, the conservative prime minister, is a plummy-voiced, Eton-educated, upper-class Brit from central casting has played into [Alex] Salmond's hands."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "6141-1",
    "Idiom": [
      "out of character"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Inconsistent with someone's usual behavior.",
    "Sentence": [
      "In “Treehouse Of Horror” episodes, the rules aren’t just different—they don’t even exist. If writers want Homer to kill Flanders or for a segment to end with a marriage between a woman and a giant ape, they can do so without worrying about continuity or consistency or fans griping that the gang is behaving out of character.",
      "Now, that, admittedly, did do an awful lot more damage (the 5th and 6th were almost completely wiped out), but the High Seas Fleet was, in turn, almost completely wiped out (in fact, basically was wiped out, to a man) by the oncoming rest of the British Grand Fleet, and it was decided by everybody that this kind of, like, suicidal, completely suicidal, charge was probably a bit out of character for Hipper, and so we didn't take that particular one into account.",
      "The burst of anger was out of character for the normally placid boy."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "6141-2",
    "Idiom": [
      "out of character"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Not in character.",
    "Sentence": [
      "I was out of character for most of the first act because those people in the third row wouldn't stop chatting."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "6141-3",
    "Idiom": [
      "out of character"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Not acting within one's usual personality.",
    "Sentence": [
      "After watching him perform so energetically, it is a bit of a trip to hang out with him when he's out of character. In real life, he's really mellow.",
      "Susan asked the GM, out of character, whether she was able to sense magic in the room.",
      "The comedian stepped out of character to mug directly to the audience."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "6142-1",
    "Idiom": [
      "out of date"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Too old to be used or not current.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Owing to the time lag which must occur between the dates of closing for press and publication, it sometimes happens that items of news are out of date, or inaccurate, by the time they reach readers.",
      "My bus pass is out of date — I'll have to go buy a new one.",
      "I can't eat this salad, it's out of date."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "6142-2",
    "Idiom": [
      "out of date"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Old-fashioned or not current.",
    "Sentence": [
      "The dresses she wears are quite out of date."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "6143",
    "Idiom": [
      "out of fix"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Wrong or broken.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Right now the dynamo is out of fix, so I have used the electric light current, with an interrupter."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "6144",
    "Idiom": [
      "out of frame"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Not in correct order or condition.",
    "Sentence": [
      "nor the devil himself, could hurt them, nor make them to go out of frame"
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "6145",
    "Idiom": [
      "out of gas"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Lacking energy or motivation.",
    "Sentence": [
      "After twelve hours straight at the office, he was about out of gas and decided to go home and rest."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "6146",
    "Idiom": [
      "out of house and home"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Deprives someone of a home.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Poets will drink you out of house and home leaving your living room in disarray",
      "The other major reason [to puppy-proof] is to keep you from being chewed out of house and home.",
      "Many amphibians are being heated out of house and home."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "6147",
    "Idiom": [
      "out of kilter"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Not adjusted or functioning properly.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Wall, chilern, whar dar is so much racket dar must be somethin' out o' kilter. I thik dat 'twixt de niggers of de Souf and de womin at de Norf, all talkin' 'bout rights, de white men will be in a fix pretty soon.",
      "They are either round-shouldered, knock-kneed, bow-legged, or parrot-toed; some are also badly cross-eyed. It seems as if they can see two different ways at the same time. Jack says they are lop-sided and out of kilter altogether.",
      "He lived on tinned tomatoes, beef embalmed and sourdough bread, / On rusty beans and bacon furred with mould; / His stomach’s out of kilter and his system full of lead, / But it's over, and his poke is full of gold.",
      "Snowstorms often knock the Government's Salt Lake radio range out of kilter.",
      "This was a champion team out of kilter, stung by what was arguably an act of disrespect to their opponents, a failure to appreciate their threat and the fine planning of Carlos Osorio, and never really able to regain its balance.",
      "I stayed up late to watch a movie, and my entire sleeping schedule has been out of kilter ever since."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "6148",
    "Idiom": [
      "out of line"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Inappropriate or unsuitable behavior.",
    "Sentence": [
      "I hope my comments yesterday were not out of line."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "6149",
    "Idiom": [
      "out of luck"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Experiencing misfortune.",
    "Sentence": [
      "You're out of luck : the train has just left."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "6150",
    "Idiom": [
      "out of nowhere"
    ],
    "Meaning": "In an unexpected manner.",
    "Sentence": [
      "It had been no easy matter when he first drifted in mysteriously out of nowhere to their little mountain cottage.",
      "Mr Pickering's 'Hi!' came out of nowhere and hit him like a torpedo.",
      "The opening goal came out of nowhere and, buoyed, it was a lovely sequence of crisp passes that culminated in Steven Whittaker playing in Nathan Redmond to double the lead."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "6151-1",
    "Idiom": [
      "out of one's box"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Crazy or irrational.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Then she got a leg behind my knee and crash! I'm on the floor and she's flying on top of me, screaming like a maniac. I cover my face, trying to take deep breaths and all of a sudden she's flush on me, her mouth at my ear, laughing like hell with her fingers working on my ribs. Then I'm laughing too. \"You're out of your box, girl,\" I say.",
      "Deep down, I didn't think it would succeed. I probably listened to too many people saying, \"Mirandi, you're out of your box !\"",
      "As with so many things in this life, when it comes to shopping, men are from Marks and women are from Venus (you know gents, Venus, that vintage boutique in that arcade where you sat bored out of your box one Saturday afternoon when you could have been watching that crucial Villa/Blues/Baggies game)."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "6151-2",
    "Idiom": [
      "out of one's box"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Intoxicated.",
    "Sentence": [
      "And Christ anyway, you trust her judgment? She's out of her box man. Fried.",
      "And I'd be quietly filing, recalling that around that time I was dragging a wardrobe out of a ski with a biker who kept screaming like a wolf because he was out of his box on magic mushrooms",
      "It was hard to tell sometimes with Junius Booth whether he was just plain insane or merely out of his box on booze, so famed was he for his eccentric nature."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "6152",
    "Idiom": [
      "out of one's depth"
    ],
    "Meaning": "In a situation one is unprepared to handle.",
    "Sentence": [
      "She doesn’t know Joker, she’s out of her depth. I need to save her.",
      "Weak management and a small team of civil servants who were out of their depth have been roundly blamed for the £4 billion overspend on London's Elizabeth line (Crossrail) and its opening four years late in May 2022.",
      "The team's first game was against the league champions; they were out of their depth and knew it."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "6153",
    "Idiom": [
      "out of one's element"
    ],
    "Meaning": "In an unsuitable or unfamiliar situation.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Mrs. Hobson was particularly out of her element in New York, which she regarded as the most sinful of cities, and seldom ventured out of the apartment for any length of time.",
      "In this varied, often mountainous terrain, the Mongols were out of their element, and they relied on local mercenaries for support.",
      "Unfortunately, Alba appears out of her element in both roles, particularly with respect to her attempt to proximate believable accents for her characters."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "6154",
    "Idiom": [
      "out of one's face"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Drunk or intoxicated.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "6155-1",
    "Idiom": [
      "out of one's mind"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Insane or crazy.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Or was Erskine out of his mind ? And he himself Watt was he not perhaps slightly deranged? And Mr. Knott himself, was he quite right in his head?",
      "You're out of your mind if you think you can jump that far."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "6155-2",
    "Idiom": [
      "out of one's mind"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Temporarily mentally unstable or distressed.",
    "Sentence": [
      "When you didn't phone home, we were out of our minds with worry."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "6156-1",
    "Idiom": [
      "out of order"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Not functioning properly.",
    "Sentence": [
      "You've got my index cards out of order again."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "6156-2",
    "Idiom": [
      "out of order"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Not functioning properly.",
    "Sentence": [
      "The lift is always out of order."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "6156-3",
    "Idiom": [
      "out of order"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Inappropriate or unsuitable.",
    "Sentence": [
      "I suppose my remarks about his wife were out of order."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "6157-1",
    "Idiom": [
      "out of place"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Not in the proper arrangement or situation.",
    "Sentence": [
      "A garden smoothly laid with turf, divided by thick hedges, with raised beds of bright flowers, such as we keep within walls in England, would have been out of place upon the side of this bare hill.",
      "No wonder I couldn’t find it—it was out of place.",
      "She came in out of the storm with not a hair out of place.",
      "Amongst all those horsey people I felt quite out of place."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "6157-2",
    "Idiom": [
      "out of place"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Inappropriate for the circumstances.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Bare lyes vvith bold affections they can face, / But dint of argument is out of place.",
      "All this was extraordinarily distasteful to Churchill. Never before had he felt such repulsion when the vicar displayed his characteristic bluntness or coarseness of speech. In the present connexion—or rather as a transition from the subject that started their conversation—such talk had been distressingly out of place.",
      "[Marcus] Rashford showed the fearless streak [Gareth] Southgate so admires with his constant willingness to run at Brazil's defence with pace, even demonstrating on occasion footwork that would not have been out of place from members of England's illustrious opposition.",
      "That remark was out of place."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "6158-1",
    "Idiom": [
      "out of pocket"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Lacking funds or financially strained.",
    "Sentence": [
      "A local doctor had bought one canvas and but for that lucky chance he would have been out of pocket.",
      "After three races he was £10 out of pocket."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "6158-2",
    "Idiom": [
      "out of pocket"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Not available.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Like a coward, he called his agent's work number and left a voicemail that he'd be out of pocket for several days but would try to check his messages here and there.",
      "Sir, Senders is still in Yosemite camping with his family. He'll be out of pocket until tomorrow night.",
      "I'm going to be out of pocket for a while. Doing some...training."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "6158-3",
    "Idiom": [
      "out of pocket"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Inappropriate or unexpected.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "6159",
    "Idiom": [
      "out of proportion"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Not in proper relation to other things, especially in size.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Six days of the week it [work] soils / With its sickening poison — / Just for paying a few bills! / That's out of proportion.",
      "I only said that she wasn't as young as she used to be, and her response was out of proportion."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "6160",
    "Idiom": [
      "out of shape"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Physically unfit.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "6161-1",
    "Idiom": [
      "out of sight"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Not yet attainable.",
    "Sentence": [
      "With the company merger out of sight, the bankruptcy will proceed."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "6161-2",
    "Idiom": [
      "out of sight"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Superb, excellent.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Another out-of-site thing is in the 2 yrs I've known that place no-one has ever seen a crawly bug, only flies. Not even a spider.",
      "I went to the movie the other night The plot was groovy, it was out of sight",
      "How was the party? Out of sight, man!"
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "6161-3",
    "Idiom": [
      "out of sight"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Very expensive.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "6161-4",
    "Idiom": [
      "out of sight"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Drunk.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "6162",
    "Idiom": [
      "out of sight, out of mind"
    ],
    "Meaning": "When something is not nearby, it is forgotten.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "6163",
    "Idiom": [
      "out of someone's way"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Not on the usual route.",
    "Sentence": [
      "I gave him a lift, even though his house was a little out of my way."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "6164",
    "Idiom": [
      "out of sorts"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Irritable or unwell.",
    "Sentence": [
      "The trooper fails to fasten the brooch. His hand shakes, he is nervous, and it falls off. \"Would any one believe this?\" says he, catching it as it drops and looking round. \"I am so out of sorts that I bungle at an easy job like this!\"",
      "\"My lads,\" said he, \"we've had a hot day and are all tired and out of sorts.\"",
      "Carlo Ancelotti's out-of-sorts team struggled to hit the target in the first half as Bolton threatened with Matthew Taylor lashing just wide."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "6165",
    "Idiom": [
      "out of spoons"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Out of physical and/or mental energy.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "6166",
    "Idiom": [
      "out of the blue"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Unexpectedly.",
    "Sentence": [
      "After I hadn’t heard from her in six months, she called me out of the blue to meet for lunch.",
      "I really can't understand how something like this could simply pop up out of the blue."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "6167-1",
    "Idiom": [
      "out of the box"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Immediately, without customer intervention.",
    "Sentence": [
      "As well as trade union opposition when the new Class 195s arrived, they could not work ' out of the box' due to gauge clearance issues.",
      "This software has to work out of the box, without any fancy installation."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "6167-2",
    "Idiom": [
      "out of the box"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Unconventionally; beyond conventional thinking.",
    "Sentence": [
      "He started out with the rather obvious alternative of talking to Junior; Hesh’s scheme was more imaginative; and Tony’s idea of torching the restaurant really is out of the box.",
      "Mom and dad didn’t have a ready answer to Mort’s out of the box idea, but Mickey did.",
      "She: You’re not trying to think out of the box !"
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "6168",
    "Idiom": [
      "out of the chute"
    ],
    "Meaning": "At the start, immediately.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "6169",
    "Idiom": [
      "out of the frying pan, into the fire"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Moves from a bad situation to a worse one.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "6170",
    "Idiom": [
      "out of the gate"
    ],
    "Meaning": "At or from the very beginning.",
    "Sentence": [
      "If nicknames and partisan battles are inevitable, better to control branding out of the gate."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "6171",
    "Idiom": [
      "out of the loop"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Not informed or included.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Automation technology can lead to complacency when it takes the controller ‘ out of the loop ’ by reducing the need for his interaction with a flightcrew and de-emphasizing the cooperative aspects of the air traffic system.",
      "\"I was out of the loop,\" he added, explaining that he was planning to leave government at that time.",
      "“Well, we've been out of the loop for a few hours. Anything new that you know?”",
      "The members of parliament have felt ignored by their leaders for much of this crisis, and were kept out of the loop during the negotiations."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "6172",
    "Idiom": [
      "out of the mouths of babes and sucklings",
      "out of the mouths of babes"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Truth or wisdom often comes from the honest comments of children.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Not only out of the mouths of babes and sucklings, but out of the mouths of fools and cheats, we may often get our truest lessons.",
      "Again Puck translated to Kadmiel in the strange, solemn-sounding language, and at last Kadmiel laughed. \" Out of the mouths of babes do we learn,\" said he.",
      "Goldie Hawn insists, at times a bit too gushingly, that out of the mouths of babes will inevitably come everything spontaneous and pure in this world.",
      "(CAPTION) Out of the mouths of babes, love is explained. Brooklyn first graders write and read their valentines and describe the meaning of Valentines Day."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "6173",
    "Idiom": [
      "out of the ordinary"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Unusual or exceptional.",
    "Sentence": [
      "The unusual rolling stock, the fare collection methods, and the exchange of train staffs make it quite clear that here is something out of the ordinary run of suburban electric lines.",
      "My house / Is out of the ordinary / That's right / Don't wanna hurt nobody",
      "The food was expensive, and nothing out of the ordinary."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "6174-1",
    "Idiom": [
      "out of the picture"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Not included or considered in the situation.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Within a year, his scientists had worked out a system that virtually elbowed CBS out of the picture.",
      "\"Well, since Ross is pretty much out of the picture, you're sitting in the driver's seat.\"",
      "By mid-2004, confident that deflation was out of the picture, the Fed began raising rates again.",
      "Finance is seldom romantic. But the idea of peer-to-peer lending comes close. This is an industry that brings together individual savers and lenders on online platforms. Banks and credit-card firms are kept out of the picture. Talk to enough people in the field and someone is bound to mention the “democratisation of finance”."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "6174-2",
    "Idiom": [
      "out of the picture"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Dead, missing, or incarcerated.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "6174-3",
    "Idiom": [
      "out of the picture"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Not suitable or relevant to the situation.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Harden-Hickey, in our day, was as incongruous a figure as was the American at the Court of King Arthur; he was as unhappily out of the picture as would be Cyrano de Bergerac on the floor of the Board of Trade.",
      "Only Peter was out of the picture. He was a strange, disconsolate figure, as he shifted about to ease his leg, or gazed incuriously from the window.",
      "Magda devoting her life to good works seemed altogether out of the picture !"
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "6175",
    "Idiom": [
      "out of the question"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Not possible.",
    "Sentence": [
      "A second special was out of the question, as the ordinary local service was already somewhat deranged by the first.",
      "Carried somehow, somewhither, for some reason, on these surging floods, were these travelers, . Even such a boat as the Mount Vernon offered a total deck space so cramped as to leave secrecy or privacy well out of the question, even had the motley and democratic assemblage of passengers been disposed to accord either.",
      "If Suzanne Collins’ novel The Hunger Games turns up on middle-school curricula 50 years from now—and as accessible dystopian science fiction with allusions to early-21st-century strife, that isn’t out of the question —the lazy students of the future can be assured that they can watch the movie version and still get better than a passing grade."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "6176",
    "Idiom": [
      "out of the running"
    ],
    "Meaning": "No longer in a competition.",
    "Sentence": [
      "What that flour is hardly seems to matter too much, either – indeed, one of the finest examples I’ve ever eaten was shared, rather grudgingly, it must be admitted, with a coeliac friend. But, with my usual plain white out of the running here, what’s the best substitute for a deliciously squidgy, delightfully rich result?",
      "When it was revealed he had shielded a friend from prosecution when he was the district attorney, he was out of the running for a judicial appointment."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "6177-1",
    "Idiom": [
      "out of the way"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Not obstructing or hindering.",
    "Sentence": [
      "In his submission to the UN, [Christof] Heyns points to the experience of drones. Unmanned aerial vehicles were intended initially only for surveillance, and their use for offensive purposes was prohibited, yet once strategists realised their perceived advantages as a means of carrying out targeted killings, all objections were swept out of the way.",
      "The railway ran through the resort's narrow streets up to Weymouth Quay station, with thoughtlessly parked vehicles sometimes having to be bumped out of the way.",
      "Please move your bike out of the way."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "6177-2",
    "Idiom": [
      "out of the way"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Taken care of.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Now that the main problems are out of the way, we can start working on the details."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "6178",
    "Idiom": [
      "out of the woods"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Finished with the worst part of a problem or illness.",
    "Sentence": [
      "The Slovakian prime minister, Robert Fico, is in a stable condition but “not out of the woods yet”, officials have said, as they appealed for calm after a shooting that laid bare the deep political divisions of recent months.",
      "The patient is feeling a little better, but she's not out of the woods yet."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "6179",
    "Idiom": [
      "out of thin air"
    ],
    "Meaning": "From nowhere or nothing.",
    "Sentence": [
      "\"The criminal cases against Thanathorn show the military government's contempt for the rights to freedom of expression and peaceful dissent. It's a glaring example of how draconian laws are pulled out of thin air and arbitrarily enforced to punish the prominent opposition leader,\" he said.",
      "They don't seem to want to work to earn a living. They think they can make money out of thin air."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "6180",
    "Idiom": [
      "out of this world"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Of exceptionally high quality.",
    "Sentence": [
      "A team of Irish astronomers have captured an out-of-this-world image of one of the youngest stars known to scientists.",
      "You must try the chef's special: it's just out of this world."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "6181-1",
    "Idiom": [
      "out of touch"
    ],
    "Meaning": "No longer in contact.",
    "Sentence": [
      "I don't feel a single thing / Have the pills done too much / Haven't caught up with my friends in weeks / And now we're outta touch",
      "I had been out of touch with my old friend for a long time when she called."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "6181-2",
    "Idiom": [
      "out of touch"
    ],
    "Meaning": "No longer aware or realistic.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Bought a ticket for a runaway train / Like a madman laughing at the rain / A little out of touch, a little insane",
      "Did his answer strike you as out of touch with reality?"
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "6182",
    "Idiom": [
      "out of wedlock"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Of parents not married.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Some children are born out of wedlock."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "6183",
    "Idiom": [
      "out of whack"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Not working or operating properly; unbalanced.",
    "Sentence": [
      "In its hearty directness, “ Winner ” suggests that being mad as hell at a system that’s out of whack is as American as Hollywood itself.",
      "Our priorities have gotten out of whack.",
      "The floor is so out of whack that the door hits it when opened.",
      "My banged-up left knee is out of whack."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "6184",
    "Idiom": [
      "out on a limb"
    ],
    "Meaning": "In a risky or vulnerable position.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Sitting on the dockside at Oban, watching the to-ing and fro-ing in the harbour on a perfect summer's eve, I reflect on a trip which has taken me through our busiest cities to traverse the country's main lines, as well as explore some of the furthest extremities that were literally out on a limb."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "6185-1",
    "Idiom": [
      "out on one's feet"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Physically exhausted or impaired.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Such schedules frequently leave them ragged and unrested. \"How good is it for a patient to be treated by an intern who is almost out on his feet ?\" she asked.",
      "But several of his teammates later said Toomer was jabbering nonsensically in the huddle and seemed out on his feet.",
      "We had so many games to cram in such a short space of time, it really stretched our squad and the lads were out on their feet."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "6185-2",
    "Idiom": [
      "out on one's feet"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Stupefied or nonfunctional.",
    "Sentence": [
      "\"Well sir, that girl was simply out on her feet. It wasn't from drinking, either. I'm something of a hypnotist myself and I quickly realized that she was in a real hypnotic trance, brought on by Puffy's staring into her eyes.\"",
      "According to Savitt there are many such small concerns who are out on their feet, and still in a state of shock.",
      "The new leader who will be elected on April 6, becoming Prime Minister shortly thereafter, is likely to be very nearly out on his feet."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "6186",
    "Idiom": [
      "out on the tiles"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Out for a night out.",
    "Sentence": [
      "\"I've had a pint of bitter and now I'm feeling better and I'm out on the tiles.\" - Led Zeppelin, Out on the Tiles (1970)."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "6187",
    "Idiom": [
      "out sick"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Absent from work due to illness.",
    "Sentence": [
      "“We didn't think it was right that an executive should get paid when he's out sick while a production worker gets docked.\" Being fair has paid off for American Steel.",
      "Picture the grilling you'll get ahead of time, to anticipate questions that don't arise in typical job interviews: “If you're out sick, will your partner cover for you? What if one of you quits?”"
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "6188-1",
    "Idiom": [
      "out the window"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Made obsolete due to a change in situation.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Women can run, blacks can run, all sorts of people can run. We didn't think people like that could win in years past. That conventional wisdom is out the window now. That's good news.",
      "it's bad for principles that we thought were the basis for post Cold War security -- for example, non-aggression, pluralism, tolerance, things of that kind, and they 're out the window now. I mean this- this framework, for these principles, are the antithesis of principles that we allegedly were backing over the last 45 years of the Cold War.",
      "It is a total, consuming quest to run for president of the United States, and to be president of the United States. You have to realize that privacy is out the window.",
      "They're part a formal letter, part some type of dialogue. So, what are the rules? Is it okay to throw formality out the window ? Does spelling matter?"
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "6188-2",
    "Idiom": [
      "out the window"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Gone; departed; disappeared.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Life had gone out the window and scampered off."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "6189",
    "Idiom": [
      "out to lunch"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Clueless or inattentive.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Zaphod Beeblebrox, adventurer, ex-hippy, good-timer, (crook? quite possibly), manic self-publicist, terribly bad at personal relationships, often thought to be completely out to lunch.",
      "But then along came this biter / And he was so out of touch / So completely self indulgent / Just so out to lunch",
      "After he drove with his turn signal on for five miles, I was pretty sure he was out to lunch."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "6190",
    "Idiom": [
      "out-paramour the Turk"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To have many romantic affairs.",
    "Sentence": [
      "wine loued I deeply, dice deerely, and in woman out paromord the Turke",
      "Thus Woman, Nature’s chastest work, / Lust-struck, out-paramours the Turk.",
      "Another pamphlet asserts of them that \"they out-swear the French, out-drink the Dutch, and out-paramour the Turk.\"",
      "You know Poor Tom's frightful category: false of heart, light of ear, bloody of hand, hog in sloth, fox in stealth, wolf in greediness, dog in madness, lion in prey; loving wine deeply, dice dearly, and in woman out-paramouring the Turk.",
      "He is charged, too, with having out-paramoured the Turk; making himself notorious in New York by his attentions to a Russian lady of distinction;",
      "Napoleon, it has been well said, \" out-paramoured the Turk.\" The history of his liaisons would fill a large volume.",
      "If a candidate for president of the United States were as wicked a man as Edgar depicts himself—one that swore as many oaths as he spoke words, and broke them in the sweet face of Heaven; one that slept in the contriving of lust and waked to do it; who loved wine dearly, dice dearly, and in woman out-paramoured the Turk —we should not say that it was much of anybody's business so long as he attended to his public duties and made no pretence to superior morality.",
      "Several murders were attributed to him; he out-paramoured the Turk, having had throughout this region a variety of white and Indian mistresses; was accused of forgery and larceny, and was withal a tory in the Revolution.",
      "He out paramoured the Turk, falling in love with half the \"military ladies\" of his regiment, or rather he contrived to make them fall in love with him, pay his debts, contribute to his expenses, and wink at his infidelities.",
      "The second influence we have to consider is that of the secular Latin lyric of the Wandering Students or clerici vagantes, that sad, mad, bad, glad brotherhood of scholars who in the Middle Ages travelled in quest of learning through France and Germany, and indeed all the great countries of Europe, taking their pleasure by the way, whenever they could get it. Wine they loved deeply, dice dearly, and in women outparamoured the Turk, but literature has reason to be grateful to them, for they have left behind them a store of songs written with irresistible freshness, brilliancy, and tunefulness.",
      "It was now too late for Erec to pull out of Enid / while she masturbated her clitoris / and S— and I, like, outparamoured the Turk"
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "6191",
    "Idiom": [
      "outpope the Pope"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To act more authentically than an actual member of a group.",
    "Sentence": [
      "But because the pope has not yet stated his position on the use of condoms, the Philippine bishops have actually even ‘outpoped’ the pope."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "6192",
    "Idiom": [
      "outside chance"
    ],
    "Meaning": "A small likelihood.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Then, perhaps, there may be a chance of detecting him; but it's an outside chance.",
      "Harry Truman might get a good share of the popular vote, but few people, outside of Harry Truman, gave him even an outside chance of getting the electoral votes necessary for election.",
      "Given talent and the right connections, opera composers have at least an outside chance of a premiere performance by a reputable opera company."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "6193",
    "Idiom": [
      "outside job"
    ],
    "Meaning": "A crime committed by someone not associated with the location.",
    "Sentence": [
      "The resource officer suspected the rape incident at our high school coffee shop was an outside job."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "6194",
    "Idiom": [
      "outside the box"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Beyond conventional limits.",
    "Sentence": [
      "\"THINK OUTSIDE THE BOX \". If you have kept your thinking process operating inside the lines and boxes, then you are normal and average, for that is the way your thinking has been programmed.... Here are nine dots: If you were asked to pick up a pencil and try to touch every dot using four straight lines only, you would try it this way first. It would be incorrect. That's because this configuration is in the shape of a box and we are conditioned to think this way.",
      "The boss wants some new ideas—it's time to think outside the box."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "6195",
    "Idiom": [
      "outside world"
    ],
    "Meaning": "The world beyond a closed or restricted environment.",
    "Sentence": [
      "The people of Tibet represent a separate case. Conquered by the Chinese in 1950, occupied brutally by troops who killed thousands, desecrated local cultural and religious sites, and denied reasonable demands for autonomy, Tibetans have elicited much sympathy but little support from the outside world."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "6196",
    "Idiom": [
      "over a barrel"
    ],
    "Meaning": "In a disadvantageous or helpless situation.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Ford had the U.A.W. over a barrel; if it failed to sign by midnight, the U.A.W. would be forced to give up its union shop.",
      "Bruce Ohr revealed that \"an unnamed former Russian intelligence official had communicated that Russian intelligence believed 'they had Trump over a barrel', a \"sentiment [that] is echoed in Steele's dossier\"."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "6197",
    "Idiom": [
      "over and out"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Signals the end of a conversation.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "6198",
    "Idiom": [
      "over and over again"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Repeatedly.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "6199",
    "Idiom": [
      "over my dead body"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Under no circumstances.",
    "Sentence": [
      "\"Can I get a new sports car?\" \" Over my dead body !\""
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "6200",
    "Idiom": [
      "over nine thousand"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Beyond expectations.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "6201-1",
    "Idiom": [
      "over one's head"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Beyond one's comprehension.",
    "Sentence": [
      "This is way over my head. Can you explain it more simply?"
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "6201-2",
    "Idiom": [
      "over one's head"
    ],
    "Meaning": "More than one can handle.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Fuck Waist Deep, I'm in over my head / But it's cool, I'ma make it, I'm Good like Meagan",
      "I’m in over my head on this project. Can you help?"
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "6201-3",
    "Idiom": [
      "over one's head"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Beyond one's understanding or ability.",
    "Sentence": [
      "He just shot a spectacularly over his head round of golf and beat all of us."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "6201-4",
    "Idiom": [
      "over one's head"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Directed to someone with authority to avoid needing their approval.",
    "Sentence": [
      "You suspect that he's building a case to go over your head and talk to your boss about performance in your section."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "6202",
    "Idiom": [
      "over one's skis"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Acting or speaking prematurely.",
    "Sentence": [
      "The Michigan coach said Cunningham was “way out over his skis ” in projecting that Lewis’ absence was due to more than a minor injury."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "6203",
    "Idiom": [
      "over the hill"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Old, past one's prime.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Mrs. Joiner is over the hill."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "6204",
    "Idiom": [
      "over the hills and far away"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Far away; not near.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "6205",
    "Idiom": [
      "over the hump"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Past the most challenging part.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "6206",
    "Idiom": [
      "over the line"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Beyond acceptable limits.",
    "Sentence": [
      "But despite being the first episode of The Simpsons to feature Marge ’s naked butt, there’s nothing particularly risque about any of the nudity—if anything, the pitchfork-wielding farmer’s threat of “ass-forking” feels the most over the line."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "6207",
    "Idiom": [
      "over the moon"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Delighted or thrilled.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Winemakers are over the moon to be able to showcase the individual nuances within their vineyards.",
      "Well, I’ve liked Star Wars since the late ’70s. I liked it a lot. But I’m now over the moon about Star Wars, and I think a couple things happened."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "6208",
    "Idiom": [
      "over the top"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Excessive or outrageous.",
    "Sentence": [
      "You might have expected a pop star known for shows in which she has someone vomit paint on to the stage to come up with something similarly over the top for a live rendition of The Sound of Music. But Gaga chose to take the traditional route.",
      "Myers went over the top in the clubhouse, berating a reporter who questioned Myers' terminology.",
      "He has always had an independent style, but don't you think purple spiky hair is a bit over the top ?"
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "6209-1",
    "Idiom": [
      "over the transom"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Unsolicited.",
    "Sentence": [
      "All the over-the-transom articles are handled by our interns.",
      "Only one piece that came in over the transom appears in this issue."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "6209-2",
    "Idiom": [
      "over the transom"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Delivery after a deadline but before the next business day.",
    "Sentence": [
      "They worked into the night and sent an associate to make an over-the-transom filing."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "6210",
    "Idiom": [
      "overstep the mark"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To behave in an unacceptable way.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "6211",
    "Idiom": [
      "ox is in the ditch"
    ],
    "Meaning": "A big problem or demanding work.",
    "Sentence": [
      "\"The ox is in the ditch,\" said she, referring to the New Testament excuse for Sabbath work where the need is great, \"and Billy must mend this gate if it is Sunday.\"",
      "In talking to his staff, Lyndon B. Johnson always announced the onset of catastrophe with the statement: \"The ox is in the ditch !\"",
      "\"It's obvious that the ox is in the ditch big time,\" said Sen. Fred Thompson, R-Tenn., chairman of the Senate Governmental Affairs Committee. The Postal Service is projecting up to $5 billion in losses over the next two years.",
      "\"You oughtn't to work on the Lord's Day, son,\" she told Dad both times. Dad's response was always the same. \"The ox is in the ditch, Ma.\""
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "6212",
    "Idiom": [
      "pack fudge"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To perform anal sex.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Call me a faggot, call me a butt loving, fudge packing queer",
      "She wasn't worried about being alone again; there'd always be some bum who would pack her fudge in exchange for a plate of food."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "6213",
    "Idiom": [
      "pack heat"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To carry handguns, especially concealed.",
    "Sentence": [
      "If the current trend toward relaxation of concealed-weapons laws continues, soon the most important gun restrictions may involve destinations: the states will probably allow various venues—public gathering places, offices, stores—to ban firearms on the premises. The only problem will be how to know who is packing heat."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "6214-1",
    "Idiom": [
      "pack in"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To give up or quit.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Goodbye, old sleepyhead / I'm packing you in like I said / Take care of everything / I'm leaving my wedding ring",
      "I rode 700 miles one day before packing it in for the night, yet after 15 minutes of rest in my hotel room, I realized that I could have gone farther.",
      "As the Senate deliberated in Washington – and packed it in for the night without finalizing a deal — Obama brushed pressed House Democrats to finalize",
      "LAST year I was diagnosed with cervical cancer and had to pack in my job as a full-time cleaner as I needed chemo and radiotherapy"
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "6214-2",
    "Idiom": [
      "pack in"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To include a large amount.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Though co-star Keanu Reeves considered this new trip unnecessary, the \"Speed 2\" crew has packed in lots of references from the original.",
      "An unexpected downside was a new generation of trains where the principal aim was to ' pack them in', leading to a sharp slump in ambience and passenger comfort."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "6215",
    "Idiom": [
      "pack of lies"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Complete untruth.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "6216-1",
    "Idiom": [
      "pack shit"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To be scared or frightened.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "6216-2",
    "Idiom": [
      "pack shit"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To talk nonsense.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "6217",
    "Idiom": [
      "packed to the gills"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Very full or crowded.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "6218",
    "Idiom": [
      "packed to the rafters"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Completely full.",
    "Sentence": [
      "The second reason his disliking of objects seems implausible is that I'm interviewing him in his Victorian terrace house in Islington – and it is packed to the rafters, often rather beautifully, with everything from Memphis glass to mid-century Aalto furniture to William Morris prints to Picasso plates..."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "6219",
    "Idiom": [
      "pact of silence"
    ],
    "Meaning": "A tacit agreement not to discuss a topic.",
    "Sentence": [
      "From the late 1950s to the early 2000s there has been a Parsonian normative solidarity between the state and civil society actors, a pact of silence that guarded the extent of periodic race crimes during the Ottoman and Republican eras—that is, the Thrace events of the 1930s against Jews, the Dersim Genocide, the Kurdish deportation in the late 1930s which included the deportation of “the remnants of the sword” (the leftover Armenians), the Wealth Tax on Minorities, Twenty Class Conscriptions of Armenian, Greek, and Jewish soldiers, the Istanbul Pogrom of 6–7 September 1955, the 1964 Greek Deportation, the Çorum, Maraş, and Sivas massacres, and the internal displacement of Kurds due to the Turkish-Kurdish war over the last thirty years.",
      "The pact of silence refers to the tacit agreement that the divisive issues of the past should be removed from the public sphere (a sort of gag rule)."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "6220-1",
    "Idiom": [
      "pad out"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To add extra content to make something seem more substantial.",
    "Sentence": [
      "With regard to definition-writing students, as a result of having spent years padding out written assignments in order to meet word-length requirements, were somewhat bemused to be told that fewer words were better than a long, wordy definition.",
      "Some students pad out their essays by adding a whole lot of quotes from random sources.",
      "Have you heard about girls padding out their bras to make their breasts look bigger?"
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "6220-2",
    "Idiom": [
      "pad out"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To sleep or go to bed.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Because of my job I usually pad out just before nine o'clock.",
      "My housemate was very annoyed to find my friends padded out on the lounge room floor this morning."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "6221",
    "Idiom": [
      "padded cell"
    ],
    "Meaning": "A room in a mental hospital designed to prevent self-harm.",
    "Sentence": [
      "For the opening of the line 30 bogie coaches of the tramcar type were obtained from the Ashbury Railway Carriage & Iron Co. Ltd., of Manchester, and from their curious design, earned the nickname of \" padded cells \" owing to the upholstery being carried right up to the narrow slits which served as windows.",
      "Ernie looked completely frazzled to Bill, fried; ready for a straight jacket and a padded cell."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "6222",
    "Idiom": [
      "paddle one's own canoe"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To independently make decisions and handle one's own responsibilities.",
    "Sentence": [
      "\"Oh dear, life is pretty tough sometimes, isn't it?\" And Nat took his head in both hands.... \"Very tough, but it is that very struggle with obstacles which does us good. Things have been made easy for you in many ways, but no one can do everything. You must paddle your own canoe now.\"",
      "\"I am too sorry for words,\" said Kate. \"If I had known your plan, I would have followed it.... I thought I had to paddle my own canoe, so I made my own plans.\"",
      "Junior has now arrived. All the laws which formerly protected him as a “minor” are now inapplicable. No longer does his mom or dad have the responsibility of providing his board and room. They may help out once in a while just because they love him, but, legally speaking, Junior is paddling his own canoe.",
      "“There is no valid reason why they can’t join the initiative we have launched. It has been well received,” he said, adding, “Now they seem to want to paddle their own canoe on their own terms.”"
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "6223",
    "Idiom": [
      "page-turner"
    ],
    "Meaning": "A highly engaging written work.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Her debut novel is such a page-turner that it's one of those books that you can't put down."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "6224",
    "Idiom": [
      "paid up"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Fully committed or settled.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Among Wall Street economists, Mr. Roach has not been a paid-up member of the alarmist camp.",
      "Makoni... had a reputation as a technocrat who tended toward moderation and pragmatism, but one who was also a fully paid-up member of the Mugabe machine."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "6225",
    "Idiom": [
      "pain in the neck"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Someone or something annoying or inconvenient.",
    "Sentence": [
      "OK, call me a hypersensitive liberal, if you want. It wouldn’t be the first time. I can be a pain in the neck about racial, ethnic and religious bias sometimes, but I think it’s better to be hypersensitive than insensitive."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "6226",
    "Idiom": [
      "painful on the eyes"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Ugly or disagreeable to look at.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "6227",
    "Idiom": [
      "paint a rosy picture"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To describe a situation optimistically.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Censored dispatches painted a rosy picture of Soviet plenty, but uncensored reports told a different story [with] Soviet bureaucracy malfunctioning as usual.",
      "The company did paint a rosy picture of its investment banking division, booking record revenues of $1.7bn and saying its backlog of work stood at record levels.",
      "Gen. David H. Petraeus, the head of the United States Central Command, did not paint a rosy picture of the situation in Afghanistan. He said needs included not only ground forces but also an array of intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance, military police officers, special operations, cargo and attack helicopters and more."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "6228",
    "Idiom": [
      "paint oneself into a corner"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To create a problem for oneself with no good alternatives.",
    "Sentence": [
      "The Coens write their screenplays in a manner as unorthodox as the films that result from them. They paint themselves into a corner, plotwise, then perform whatever literary gymnastics are necessary in order to paint themselves out.",
      "[Giuliana] Tedeschi thus rejects the mythicization of the Holocaust, in her book and in others'. By claiming a separate, privileged space for documentary writing and survivor nonfiction, she in effect paints herself into a corner, forced thereafter to deny the presence—even the abundance—of literary tropes and writerly devices in her own work.",
      "In his diary entry from 8 January 1914, Franz Kafka writes: \"What have I in common with Jews? I have hardly anything in common with myself and should stand very quietly in a corner, content that I can breathe\" This corner could also, tragically, describe the place where Kafka feels he should position himself, painting himself into a corner, into a dead end, where nothing but bare life stripped of all existential substance and support can subsist.",
      "Executives and businesses are often painted into a corner. They unwittingly lock themselves and their companies into a rigid bureaucratic way of dealing with rules, regulations, and compliance matters."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "6229",
    "Idiom": [
      "paint the town red"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To party or celebrate wildly.",
    "Sentence": [
      "With regard to Mrs. Brown-Potter, as acting is no longer considered absolutely essential for success on the English stage, there is really no reason why the pretty bright-eyed lady who charmed us all last June by her merry laugh and her nonchalant ways, should not—to borrow an expression from her native language—make a big boom and paint the town red.",
      "After that dinner at MacFen's he was done for—went wild. Danced a sword-dance, or a strathspey, or some other blamed thing, on the table, and yelled louder than the pipes. So they all did. Jack, I've painted the town red once myself.",
      "Half a dozen cowboys cantered up the main street of Los Portales in a cloud of dust. One of them, older than the rest, let out the wild yell. A second flung into the blue sky three rapid revolver shots. Plainly they were advertising the fact that they had come to paint the town red and did not care who knew it.",
      "Bitch, I said what I said / I'd rather be famous instead / I let all that get to my head / I don't care, I paint the town red",
      "It was the end of term and students decided to celebrate by painting the town red."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "6230",
    "Idiom": [
      "paint the wagon"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To get things done.",
    "Sentence": [
      "John, you still haven’t closed that deal; you need to paint that wagon now!"
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "6231",
    "Idiom": [
      "paint with a broad brush"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To generalize without attention to details or variations.",
    "Sentence": [
      "I'm just painting with a broad brush. You fellows fill in the details.",
      "To cover this range of issues is clearly to paint with a broad brush on a global canvas.",
      "Painting slavery with a broad brush in literature, film and even political debate has kept us from knowing the real horror and heroism of the institution."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "6232",
    "Idiom": [
      "painting rocks"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Pointless or futile work disguised as employment.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "6233",
    "Idiom": [
      "pair of shoes"
    ],
    "Meaning": "A case or situation that is different from another.",
    "Sentence": [
      "“Shall colonists have their horses (and blood ’uns, if you please, good Lord!) and not my London gentleman? No, no. We’ll show ’em another pair of shoes than that, Pip; won’t us?”",
      "“He’s all there, if that’ll ease their mind. But where he is—that’s another pair of shoes.”",
      "Eckhardt was a very different pair of shoes from Gaál."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "6234",
    "Idiom": [
      "paisa vasool"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Cost-effective or value for money.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Even though a film is well mounted, however much these magazines may bolster it up, if it is not paisa vasool, and pampers the people's values and devotions, they dump it.",
      "I usually look forward to storms. It's a once-in-a-lifetime moment... For me, it's paisa vasool. I get my money back if I go through a storm like that. Otherwise I can always stay at home, you know what I mean.",
      "On a more serious note, the thrill, the rush of a ‘fight or flight’ situation is unmatchable. And it has almost always made for some ' paisa-vasool' moments when translated on screen."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "6235",
    "Idiom": [
      "palace intrigue"
    ],
    "Meaning": "A situation of internal conflict among powerful individuals.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "6236",
    "Idiom": [
      "palace politics"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Internal rivalries and intrigues among government officials and powerbrokers.",
    "Sentence": [
      "The palace at Delhi was known to have been a focus of discontent and intrigue for some time previous to the Revolt. The mode in which the Marquis of Dalhousie treated these matters, in his minute of 1856, has already been adverted to; but it may be well to repeat his words here, to shew the exact state of Delhi palace-politics at that time.",
      "Some Janizaries predicted that Justice Douglas would eventually be either Secretary of State or Chairman of the Defense Commission. He had given the President valiant aid in the campaign, in ideas and memoranda for the six speeches, and was still a chief figure in the palace politics of the inner circle.",
      "As the SACP’s deputy general secretary, Jeremy Cronin, noted in a 2008 article for New Agenda, “The ANC’s 2007 national conference created a situation in which there is the danger of further fragmentation and factionalism, palace politics, a politics of revenge and of rear-guard fight-backs”."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "6237",
    "Idiom": [
      "pale in comparison"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To appear unimportant compared to something else.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "6238",
    "Idiom": [
      "pale rider"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Death or the Grim Reaper.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "6239",
    "Idiom": [
      "palm off"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To deceive by selling or passing off a counterfeit or inferior product.",
    "Sentence": [
      "The inveterate liars of the Semi-Weekly Earthquake are evidently endeavoring to palm off upon a noble and chivalrous people another of their vile and brutal falsehoods",
      "the old mangy parcel he sent at Xmas a cottage cake and a bottle of hogwash he tried to palm off as claret that he couldnt get anyone to drink",
      "(p.359) no one is to be allowed fraudulently to palm off upon the public his goods as those of another. (p.379) It is a fundamental rule that one man has no right to palm off his goods for sale as goods of a rival dealer"
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "6240",
    "Idiom": [
      "paper bag"
    ],
    "Meaning": "A bag made of paper for carrying items.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "6241",
    "Idiom": [
      "paper tiger"
    ],
    "Meaning": "A seemingly powerful entity that is actually ineffective.",
    "Sentence": [
      "The League of Nations was by this time scarcely even a paper tiger, devoid of credibility since its divisions and pusillanimity had been so clearly laid bare following Mussolini's invasion of Abyssinia in the autumn of 1935.",
      "Iran is a paper tiger, a postmodern threat: It has many uses but a third Western war against a Muslim country is a bridge too far."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "6242-1",
    "Idiom": [
      "paper trail"
    ],
    "Meaning": "A written record or evidence.",
    "Sentence": [
      "The only paper trail is the cashed money order, and unless it was cashed at a place where they actually know the payee (like the bank), the money order could have been stolen and cashed by someone else.",
      "Keep a good paper trail in case anyone asks you why you arrived at that conclusion."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "6242-2",
    "Idiom": [
      "paper trail"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Records left during activities.",
    "Sentence": [
      "With a good paperwork system in place, including a working paper trail, it becomes much easier to manage the flow of relevant information regarding your plants and orders.",
      "And unless that paper trail exonerated you from guilt—or,if not that, supported some alternative explanation that granted you plausible deniability—then sooner or later you'd find yourself on the ass end of a federal indictment."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "6243-1",
    "Idiom": [
      "paper-thick"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Very thick.",
    "Sentence": [
      "To make a key of a chamber-door, which to your sight hath its wards and rose-pipe but paper-thick, and yet at pleasure, in a minute of an hour, shall become a perfect pistol, capable to shoot through a breast-plate commonly of carbine-proof, with prime, powder, and firelock, undiscoverable to a stranger's hand."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "6243-2",
    "Idiom": [
      "paper-thick"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Difficult to separate.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "6244",
    "Idiom": [
      "par for the course"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To be expected; normal.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Nigella Lawson and Ralph Fiennes, we were told, might pop by later. The Gopniks smiled calmly: this was all par for the course for them.",
      "The extra scrutiny was a sign of the times, but having never IPO-ed a company before, most of the executive team took it as par for the course.",
      "It took a long time to finish, but that's par for the course on a project like this."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "6245-1",
    "Idiom": [
      "parade of horribles"
    ],
    "Meaning": "A sequence of exaggerated negative scenarios or outcomes used to illustrate potential problems.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "6245-2",
    "Idiom": [
      "parade of horribles"
    ],
    "Meaning": "A rhetorical device presenting a series of terrible potential outcomes.",
    "Sentence": [
      "The Chief Justice was adamant, if alone: 'Nothing in the language or gloss previously placed on this provision of the Fifth Amendment remotely justifies the treatment which the Court today accords to the collateral - estoppel doctrine. Nothing in the purpose of the authors of the Constitution commands or even justifies what the Court decides today; this is truly a case of expanding a sound basic principle beyond the bounds — or needs — of its rational and legitimate objectives to preclude harassment of the accused.' His position rested on the proposition that a second prosecution was barred only if it was for the same offense and here the victims were different and, therefore, the offenses were different. After a parade of horribles, the Chief Justice concluded : 'What the Court is holding is, in effect that the second and third and fourth criminal acts are \"free\", unless the accused is tried for the multiple crimes in a single trial — something defendants frantically use every legal device to avoid, and often succeed in avoiding. This is the reality of what the Court holds today; it does not make good sense and it cannot make good law.'.",
      "To buttress his argument, the petitioner, with the support of amicus, points to grave risks that may be generated by research endeavors such as respondents. The briefs present a gruesome parade of horribles. Scientists, among them Nobel laureates, are quoted suggesting that genetic research may pose a serious threat to the human race, or, at the very least, that the dangers are far too substantial to permit such research to proceed apace at this time. We are told that genetic research and related technological developments may spread pollution and disease, that it may result in a loss of genetic diversity, and that its practice may tend to depreciate the value of human life. These arguments are forcefully, even passionately, presented; they remind us that, at times, human ingenuity seems unable to control fully the forces it creates — that, with Hamlet, it is sometimes better 'to bear those ills we have than fly to others that we know not of.' It is argued that this Court should weigh these potential hazards in considering whether respondent's invention is patentable subject matter under §101. We disagree. The grant or denial of patents on micro-organisms is not likely to put an end to genetic research or to its attendant risks. The large amount of research that has already occurred when no researcher had sure knowledge that patent protection would be available suggests that legislative or judicial fiat as to patentability will not deter the scientific mind from probing into the unknown any more than Canute could command the tides. Whether respondent's claims are patentable may determine whether research efforts are accelerated by the hope of reward or slowed by want of incentives, but that is all.",
      "The majority trotted out a parade of horribles in which judicial line-drawing concerning accommodation would displace legitimate democratic choices."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "6246-1",
    "Idiom": [
      "parade passed someone by"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Someone missed out on an opportunity or experience.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Have you stopped going out in the evening altogether because you don't want to disrupt your child's \"routine\"? Has the parade passed you by ?",
      "Before the parade passes by / I've gotta get some life back into my life / I'm ready to move out in front / I've had enough of just passing by life / With the rest of them / With the best of them / I can hold my head up high / For I've got a goal again / I've got a drive again / I wanna feel my heart coming alive again / Before the parade passes by"
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "6246-2",
    "Idiom": [
      "parade passed someone by"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Someone is no longer competitive and has no future in a role.",
    "Sentence": [
      "In The Five Pennies [1959 Film biography of Red Nichols, directed by Melville Shavelson]...One young man says, \"My father told me all about you.... He said you were smart to get out of the business before the parade passed you by.\" Outraged at this slight and intent on proving that he is still musically potent, Nichols is conveniently handed a cornet by his wife, who sees an opportunity to bring him back to the music after many years."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "6247",
    "Idiom": [
      "paradise on earth"
    ],
    "Meaning": "An ideal place.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "6248",
    "Idiom": [
      "parcel out"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To divide into portions.",
    "Sentence": [
      "It's a large job, but if we parcel it out among several people over several weeks, it shouldn't be too difficult."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "6249-1",
    "Idiom": [
      "pardon me"
    ],
    "Meaning": "An apology.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Pardon me for stepping on your foot."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "6249-2",
    "Idiom": [
      "pardon me"
    ],
    "Meaning": "A polite expression to soften a contradiction.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Pardon me, but that is not true."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "6249-3",
    "Idiom": [
      "pardon me"
    ],
    "Meaning": "A polite request for repetition.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Pardon me?, I didn't hear you."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "6250",
    "Idiom": [
      "pardon my French"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To excuse frankness or profanity.",
    "Sentence": [
      "'Have you been in England long?' / 'A damned sight too long—if you'll pardon my French,' she answered.",
      "Pardon my French, but Cameron is so tight that if you stuck a lump of coal up his ass, in two weeks you'd have a diamond.",
      "Look, now it's the dolly, not Parton / But pardon my French / Give no fucks about no nigga / Give no fucks about no bitch",
      "That computer is a worthless piece of shit, if you’ll pardon my French."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "6251",
    "Idiom": [
      "pare down"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To reduce gradually.",
    "Sentence": [
      "As companies keep paring down their delivery times – from two days to a day to two hours to an hour – longer stretches of the last mile will have to run through urban territory."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "6252",
    "Idiom": [
      "park the bus"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To play very defensively to prevent the opposing team from scoring.",
    "Sentence": [
      "England goalkeeper Gordon Banks resisted everything Liverpool threw at him that day, as City parked the bus and banked on snatching the vital single goal and then holding on.",
      "Dan is Head Groundsman at Swansea, who in 2011/12 won plaudits For their positive, passing game - showing that you don't need to park the bus as a promoted side to retain top-flight status."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "6253",
    "Idiom": [
      "parting of the ways"
    ],
    "Meaning": "A separation due to a disagreement or divergence.",
    "Sentence": [
      "We came to a parting of the ways because of our different ideas about what should be done to move the company forward."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "6254",
    "Idiom": [
      "parting shot"
    ],
    "Meaning": "An insult or barbed comment made when leaving.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Gold Coast Deputy Mayor David Power took a parting shot at the Crime and Misconduct Commission and his council enemies as he announced his bombshell resignation today.",
      "When news arrives that the school must graduate Nathanial to official “Fancy Lad” status early and put him on the Queen Catherine first class to run the Mayweather in Hawaii, the headmaster dutifully complies, but Nathanial gets in a few parting shots on his way out the door."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "6255",
    "Idiom": [
      "party animal"
    ],
    "Meaning": "A person who frequently and enthusiastically attends parties.",
    "Sentence": [
      "... Tad Allagash, a stripling adman and Manhattan party animal with inexhaustible supplies of Bolivian Marching Powder (coy for cocaine)."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "6256",
    "Idiom": [
      "party hardy"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To party very hard.",
    "Sentence": [
      "They gave thanks for whatever they deemed worth being thankful for and proceeded to party hardy.",
      "Would you rather party hardy and die young, or not party at all and live to be an old man?"
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "6257",
    "Idiom": [
      "party hearty"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To engage in unrestrained fun.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "6258",
    "Idiom": [
      "party like it's 1999"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To party intensely and recklessly.",
    "Sentence": [
      "This past year the girls in Laughlin worked hard at protesting Chatham's prohibition and at getting a reputation for the best parties in town. They succeeded at living up to their theme — Party Like it's 1999 !",
      "The European Union is not an organisation to do things by halves, particularly when it comes to a celebration. This time Europe will party like it's 1999. Or more precisely 1 May, 2004.",
      "I was deep in the streets with ole friends and new ones, drinking (as usual), spot hopping and partying like it was 1999."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "6259",
    "Idiom": [
      "party to"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Having knowledge of.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "6260",
    "Idiom": [
      "pass away"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To die.",
    "Sentence": [
      "He was wise, for he had seen a long succession of mechanical toys arrive to boast and swagger, and by-and-by break their mainsprings and pass away.",
      "After a long battle with cancer, the professor passed away yesterday."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "6261-1",
    "Idiom": [
      "pass muster"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To meet or exceed a standard.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Also passing muster were the loin of lamb in a zinfandel sauce and a variation on chicken marsala served with an avocado, tomato and cheese topping.",
      "[George] Harrison's all-American band had passed muster on Dark Horse and were the leading performers of the period",
      "Supple yet tough, these nylon pants can take a week of bushwhacking and still pass muster at a dress-code restaurant.",
      "To get a raise, an employee must pass muster with the boss."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "6261-2",
    "Idiom": [
      "pass muster"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To adequately pass inspection.",
    "Sentence": [
      "So while speaking directly to a celebrated stranger may not be possible without first passing muster with a squad of handlers and publicists, you can do the next best thing: dial the famous person's last listed phone number and talk to the lucky, star-dusted citizen who inherited it.",
      "In any event, the Texas law clearly passes muster under rational basis review, which doesn't presume to grade our citizens' moral judgments as if they were submitted as part of an undergraduate exam in moral philosophy.",
      "Although I had worked on school newspapers, I did not know what news was — that is, what events would make a story and what combination of words would make it into print after passing muster with the night city editor."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "6262",
    "Idiom": [
      "pass on"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To die.",
    "Sentence": [
      "His uncle passed on last year."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "6263",
    "Idiom": [
      "pass the buck"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To transfer responsibility or blame to another person.",
    "Sentence": [
      "McLean was quoted in the Austin American Statesman as saying that although he had expected the guidelines to be ruled illegal, an attorney general's opinion was required in order to clarify the law. But critics say Bernstein and McLean simply passed the buck to the attorney general in order to placate the small group of fundamentalist Christians who had been lobbying them.",
      "He closes the foreword by acknowledging that his proposals would have far-reaching impacts on railway staff, communities and industry - and passes the buck onto government to ensure that these consequences are managed appropriately."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "6264",
    "Idiom": [
      "pass the hat"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To solicit donations or contributions.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Then somebody sings out, \"Take up a collection for him, take up a collection!\" Well, a half a dozen made a jump to do it, but somebody sings out, \"Let HIM pass the hat around!\"",
      "The institutions are opening development offices, hiring professional fund raisers, investing in slick billion-dollar campaigns, and trotting out their presidents to pass the hat."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "6265",
    "Idiom": [
      "pass the river"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To die.",
    "Sentence": [
      "To the beautiful memory of Kenneth Grahame, husband of Elspeth and father of Alastair, who passed the river on the 6th of July, 1932, leaving childhood and literature through him the more blest for all time."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "6266",
    "Idiom": [
      "pass the torch"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To transfer responsibility.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "6267",
    "Idiom": [
      "pass up"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To refuse or forgo.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Everton were, perhaps understandably, deflated at the setback and it was no surprise when Suarez added Liverpool's second after 82 minutes. Distin and Baines were involved in a mix-up as the Uruguayan advanced into the area, and he was not about to pass up the gift to shoot low past Howard.",
      "But he also feared that if he passed up the opportunity, he’d never learn the skills necessary to take his clients to the next level.",
      "He passed up my invitation for dinner, saying he was too busy."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "6268-1",
    "Idiom": [
      "paste up"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To paste items into position for layout.",
    "Sentence": [
      "About all you need to do is paste up the finished art for the printer.",
      "The person to whom the paste-up was entrusted at the printer's neglected to observe this fact and proceeded to paste up the pages with the table of contents printed on the first inside page, thus necessitating an additional signature of eight pages.",
      "When I was a newspaper reporter and editor, I had worked with a layout artist who would carefully paste up what was wanted but never hesitated to rip out everything and start over from scratch if either of us thought the page wasn't working."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "6268-2",
    "Idiom": [
      "paste up"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To display using adhesive.",
    "Sentence": [
      "She joined other fan clubs for other stars in order to get eight-by-ten photos to paste up in her bedroom, and her loyalties changed meteorically.",
      "They didn't understand what they could possibly paste up on the computer for people to read, or worse, how they could sell ads for it.",
      "Paste up some inspirational slogans or cartoons that bring a smile to your face."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "6269-1",
    "Idiom": [
      "pat on the back"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Praise or congratulations.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Give yourself a pat on the back for a job well done."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "6269-2",
    "Idiom": [
      "pat on the back"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To praise or congratulate.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Don't pat yourself on the back so vigorously; you might hurt yourself."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "6270-1",
    "Idiom": [
      "patch up"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To repair.",
    "Sentence": [
      "I needed to patch up my trousers after ripping them on the brambles."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "6270-2",
    "Idiom": [
      "patch up"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To mend.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "6270-3",
    "Idiom": [
      "patch up"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To repair relations.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Nixon was very curious about developments on the Chinese mainland. He particularly wanted to know whether the Vice-Premier saw any possibility of Peking and Moscow patching up their feud in the foreseeable future. Chiang Ching-kuo answered in the negative.",
      "You need to patch things up with your sister after that horrible argument."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "6271",
    "Idiom": [
      "patience is a virtue"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Being patient is valuable.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "6272",
    "Idiom": [
      "patience of Job"
    ],
    "Meaning": "A great amount of patience.",
    "Sentence": [
      "The interference, some of it on a daily basis, that LSC staff have had to endure from the department's civil servants would have tried the patience of Job."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "6273",
    "Idiom": [
      "patience of Mother Teresa"
    ],
    "Meaning": "A great deal of patience.",
    "Sentence": [
      "My teacher, Peter Brown, a man gifted with a perfect swing and the patience of Mother Teresa, keeps replacing ball after ball as I smash 'em wildly and impressively over the green.",
      "I know giving freely is good (we'll talk about that later), but unless you have a high tolerance for being annoyed or are looking to gain the patience of Mother Teresa, then think before you allow your roomie to borrow your stuff.",
      "Once you've painted the front of the molding, finish the sides with a very small angled brush. This can take the steadiness of a surgeon and the patience of Mother Teresa."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "6274",
    "Idiom": [
      "patience of a saint"
    ],
    "Meaning": "A great deal of patience.",
    "Sentence": [
      "I live without restraint / And I would try the patience of a saint",
      "You must have had the patience of a saint to sit through that awful film!"
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "6275",
    "Idiom": [
      "patience of an angel"
    ],
    "Meaning": "A great deal of patience.",
    "Sentence": [
      "I am not endowed with the patience of an angel; but what could I do? The retreat to my room was cut off, they had been washing the floor for Sunday, and the room was no doubt steaming with vapour from the damp boards."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "6276",
    "Idiom": [
      "pave the road to hell"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Leads to disaster despite good intentions.",
    "Sentence": [
      "In the other direction, treatments that were decried in their time as paving the road to hell, including vaccination, transfusions, anesthesia, artificial insemination, organ transplants, and in-vitro fertilization, have become unexceptional boons to human well-being."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "6277-1",
    "Idiom": [
      "pay a visit"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To visit.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Some protesters say the constitution also gives too much power to the king, who paid a rare visit to Thailand on Thursday for ceremonies honouring his grandfather, Prince Mahidol Adulyadej. The king has spent most of his time in Europe since taking the throne nearly four years ago.",
      "Brighton station is awash with people paying a visit to the seaside."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "6277-2",
    "Idiom": [
      "pay a visit"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To go somewhere.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "6278",
    "Idiom": [
      "pay attention"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To focus one's attention.",
    "Sentence": [
      "I was on my way to the door, but all at once, through the fog in my head, I began to sight one reef that I hadn't paid any attention to afore.",
      "Just south of Wamphray station they overtook the runaway. The dim figure of Mitchell could be seen sitting huddled behind the stormboard. They shouted and whistled. He paid no attention.",
      "Please pay attention to the danger signs."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "6279",
    "Idiom": [
      "pay dividends"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Brings positive results from past efforts.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Aoun's alliance with Hezbollah appears finally to have paid dividends in moving him into the presidential palace, which the 128-member parliament must formally vote on, probably next week.",
      "Concentrating fire on the heavy cruiser Kumano, Johnston, somehow still alive, is rewarded by seeing explosions and flames amidst the superstructure of the Japanese cruiser. The destroyer's radar and Mark 37 fire-control system are paying dividends early.",
      "The trains were soon paying dividends - by December, BR was reporting a 15% rise in passenger receipts."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "6280",
    "Idiom": [
      "pay heed"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To give attention.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Now an thou wouldst get possession of this queen and wed this jewel seld-seen and enjoy her beauty and loveliness and grace, do thou pay heed to my words and keep them in thy memory.",
      "You needn't pay heed to his antics."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "6281",
    "Idiom": [
      "pay homage to"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To show honor or respect.",
    "Sentence": [
      "The pattern of services over these lines today still pays homage to their history, which derived in considerable measure from the L.B.S.C.R.'s efforts to prevent infringement of its monopoly at Brighton and Eastbourne."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "6282",
    "Idiom": [
      "pay off old scores"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To settle old grudges through revenge.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "6283",
    "Idiom": [
      "pay one's debt to society"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To serve time for a crime.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "6284",
    "Idiom": [
      "pay one's dues"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To earn the right to enjoy benefits through experience or service.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Everybody wanna know / Why I'm singing the blues / Yes, I've been around a long time / People, I've paid my dues",
      "She spent some time paying her dues at entry-level jobs.",
      "He too championed the anti-apartheid cause, paid his dues, had his works banned.",
      "[Josephine Baker] paid her dues in a touring chorus line, and gradually attracted attention for making funny faces, and was rewarded with a respectable third-banana speaking part in the authors' next show, and got some more attention, and so on."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "6285",
    "Idiom": [
      "pay packet"
    ],
    "Meaning": "The amount a person earns from a job.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "6286",
    "Idiom": [
      "pay the bills"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To provide income for living expenses.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Being a dentist isn't so glamorous, but it pays the bills."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "6287-1",
    "Idiom": [
      "pay the fiddler"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To face the consequences of one's actions.",
    "Sentence": [
      "The three-day party had been a lot of fun, but now it was time to pay the fiddler."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "6287-2",
    "Idiom": [
      "pay the fiddler"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To contribute in order to participate.",
    "Sentence": [
      "If you want to dance, you’ve got to pay the fiddler"
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "6288",
    "Idiom": [
      "pay the freight"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To bear the cost.",
    "Sentence": [
      "I don't want to pay the freight on the kind of conspicuous consumption that thrives on Mercedes or Jaguars.",
      "Stores that were large enough to pay the freight hired their own in-house detectives and security, but lots of companies were far too small to handle that kind of expense on a full-time basis.",
      "McColl was the lawyer of choice for those who could pay the freight."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "6289-1",
    "Idiom": [
      "pay the piper"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To bear the consequences of one's actions.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Those that pay the piper must command the tune.",
      "Be off with you, my boy, and play with your caucuses and leading articles and historic parties and great leaders and burning questions and the rest of your toys. I am going back to my counting house to pay the piper and call the tune."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "6289-2",
    "Idiom": [
      "pay the piper"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To face the consequences of one's actions.",
    "Sentence": [
      "The very constitution of society is based upon this volunteer system of paying the piper. Honest men pay the piper for rogues, and full purses for empty ones.",
      "He wanted to get rich too quickly I suppose.... He's got to pay the piper.",
      "Roosevelt never fully recovered his health, but he refused any regret. \"I am always willing to pay the piper,\" he once wrote, \"when I have had a good dance.\""
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "6290",
    "Idiom": [
      "pay the rent"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To provide compensation to Indigenous Australians based on land claims.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "6291",
    "Idiom": [
      "pay through the nose"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To pay an excessive amount.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Observe here the happy estate of our Ancestors under Monarchy, who, if they gained but this advantage of receiving a few good Grants, and enjoying a pittance of Freedom, once in 4 or 5 ages when their King was too young to play Rex, and there hapned a wise and honest Protector; yet were sure to pay through the nose for it afterwards with double and treble interest for forbearance.",
      "Several persons have already left off snuff-taking, in consequence of the additional duty on tobacco, observing that they have no idea of paying through the nose for the expence of war.",
      "I seem to understand that this gentleman is the fons et origo of the trouble; and, from what I gather, he has already paid through the nose.",
      "\"You'll pay through the nose for this, you scoundrel,\" Sexton whimpered. \"I'll fix you, you traitor.\"",
      "That fellow would milk the settlements somehow, and make his family pay through the nose to keep him out of bankruptcy or perhaps even gaol!",
      "Somebody figured out that a harpooned fish dies quicker and tastes better than one caught by the long-liners' nets. Whole Foods pays through the nose for it, all over the country. So do restaurants.",
      "At a time when other entertainment is available at a sliver of the price from Netflix and other streaming services, live sport is the only thing left to induce viewers to pay through the nose for pay-TV."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "6292-1",
    "Idiom": [
      "pea patch"
    ],
    "Meaning": "A baseball field.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Watching the way the Pirates cut up the pea patch with their merciless hitting and precision fielding, the New Yorkers grew more dejected."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "6292-2",
    "Idiom": [
      "pea patch"
    ],
    "Meaning": "A realm of endeavor.",
    "Sentence": [
      "It behooves any revolutionaries, educational or other, to consider all problems and consequences before they start tearing up the social pea patch."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "6293",
    "Idiom": [
      "pea-time is past"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Something is ruined or irretrievable.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "6294-1",
    "Idiom": [
      "peaches and cream"
    ],
    "Meaning": "A very enjoyable experience.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Those Incarnations — they've got real jobs to do! It isn't all peaches and cream for them, any more than for us!",
      "When I was little, I thought life was peaches and cream.",
      "I'm not trying to make it sound like life as part of a championship-level race team is all peaches and cream. Nothing in life is all peaches and cream."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "6294-2",
    "Idiom": [
      "peaches and cream"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Describes a smooth, unblemished, attractive facial complexion.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "6295",
    "Idiom": [
      "peaches-and-cream"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Smooth and attractive yellow-pink complexion.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "6296",
    "Idiom": [
      "peanut gallery"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Any source of unwelcome commentary or criticism, often from unqualified individuals.",
    "Sentence": [
      "\"No democratic government can function effectively on a stage in which every private conversation and classified document is second-guessed by a peanut gallery of unqualified loudmouths,\" said Danielle Pletka of the American Enterprise Institute.",
      "Enough already from the peanut gallery; if you think you can do a better job, go right ahead."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "6297",
    "Idiom": [
      "pearl of wisdom"
    ],
    "Meaning": "A succinct, insightful piece of advice.",
    "Sentence": [
      "\"I am desolated to lose the pearls of wisdom that habitually fall from your cultivated lips,\" returned Haddo.",
      "How about this pearl of wisdom after France lost to Scotland again, this time in Paris? He said: \"You always lose when your opponents score and you don't.\""
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "6298",
    "Idiom": [
      "pearl-clutcher"
    ],
    "Meaning": "A prim or easily offended person.",
    "Sentence": [
      "It’s a dynamic that goes back to the rude, rule-breaking Groucho Marx—destroyer of élites!—and Margaret Dumont, pop culture’s primal pearl-clutcher.",
      "The intended message of the pearls wasn’t entirely clear, though one interpretation was that the lawmakers were trying to paint members of the group as “ pearl clutchers ” — suggesting that they were being overly sensitive.",
      "It’s my reaction to the violence, however, that I have found most surprising. I have gone from somebody who doesn’t mind any level of gore to a pearl-clutcher of the highest order.",
      "Eco Lifestyle adds features that The Sims’ enormous Gen Z audience had long been asking for, such as septum piercings and boho fashions that would look great down the allotment – and loads that surely nobody was asking for, including candle-making and the attractive prospect of having sex in dumpsters, thus fulfilling every older pearl-clutcher ’s worst imaginings about the filthy eco-conscious young."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "6299",
    "Idiom": [
      "pearl-clutching"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Prim, prudish, or easily offended.",
    "Sentence": [
      "When John Kerry “outed” Mary Cheney in a 2004 presidential debate, it was already well known that Mary Cheney was a lesbian. You can't out the already out, no matter what pearl-clutching pundits would have you believe.",
      "Even the biggest doe-eyed, pearl-clutching Etsy muffin has to find some way to make it okay to be negative, because we have no choice.",
      "There's something truly irresistible about the pearl-clutching cartoons that came out during the time people thought women on bicycles were single-handedly going to bring society to ruin."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "6300",
    "Idiom": [
      "pearl-clutchy"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Prim, prudish, or easily offended.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Elsewhere, news organizations were even more pearl-clutchy.",
      "I doubt he's going to get all pearl-clutchy about people sleeping together.”",
      "I'm not a fan of that theory, mainly because Potter is a British franchise, and Brits tend to be a bit less pearl-clutchy about drinks with trace amounts of alcohol in them."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "6301",
    "Idiom": [
      "pearls before swine"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Offering something valuable to those who won't appreciate it.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Your lecture deserved a much better reception than it got. Pearls before swine!"
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "6302",
    "Idiom": [
      "pearly whites"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Teeth.",
    "Sentence": [
      "The least you can do is keep your pearly whites squeaky clean with a cutting-edge electric toothbrush."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "6303",
    "Idiom": [
      "pebble in one's shoe"
    ],
    "Meaning": "A small and bothersome issue.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "6304-1",
    "Idiom": [
      "pedal to the metal"
    ],
    "Meaning": "At maximum speed.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "6304-2",
    "Idiom": [
      "pedal to the metal"
    ],
    "Meaning": "With maximum effort.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "6305-1",
    "Idiom": [
      "pee in one's pants"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To laugh uncontrollably.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "6305-2",
    "Idiom": [
      "pee in one's pants"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To be extremely frightened.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "6306-1",
    "Idiom": [
      "pee one's pants"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To wet oneself.",
    "Sentence": [
      "(Marvin) I'm so excited about Christmas being less than a week away, I could pee my pants ! (Bitsy) Exactly how is that different than any other time?"
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "6306-2",
    "Idiom": [
      "pee one's pants"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To laugh uncontrollably.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "6306-3",
    "Idiom": [
      "pee one's pants"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To be extremely frightened.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "6307",
    "Idiom": [
      "peed off"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Annoyed or angry.",
    "Sentence": [
      "I was in business then. Some guy named Isidore Lubin sent forms all the time wanting to know what I was doing. I was peed off.",
      "Sandusky said, \"Even if the team wins, Curtis will get peed off because we didn't win big; we just won.\""
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "6308",
    "Idiom": [
      "peel out"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To accelerate sharply from a stop, often causing skid marks.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "6309",
    "Idiom": [
      "peel the onion"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To investigate a matter more deeply, usually step by step.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "6310",
    "Idiom": [
      "peep of day"
    ],
    "Meaning": "The very beginning of the day.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Indeed, the whole chapter of Life in London has been so repeatedly perused by your Majesty, in such a variety of shapes, from the elegant A. the refined B. the polite C. the lively D. the eloquent E. the honest F. the stately G. the peep-o'day H. the tasteful I. the manly J. the good K. the noble L. the stylish M. the brave N. the liberal O. the proud P. the long-headed Q. the animated R. the witty S. the flash T. the knowing U. the honourable V. the consummate W. the funny X. the musical Y. and the poetical Z. that it would only be a waste of your Majesty's valuable time to expatiate further upon this subject.",
      "I shall cancel, without further provocation, the next lecture engagement that is implicated with a peep o' day train."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "6311",
    "Idiom": [
      "peg down"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To identify clearly.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "6312",
    "Idiom": [
      "peg the needle"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To achieve the maximum level of something.",
    "Sentence": [
      "\"There will be plenty of time to cool off when you're dead, so you might as well peg your needle to the red.\"",
      "\"Thus I suspected that a trip to Chelsea might peg the needle on the religious experience meter but if biodiesel one wanted, that is where one got it.\"",
      "\"The returning talent figures to be pegging the needle on the hype meter once again.\""
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "6313",
    "Idiom": [
      "pelt of the dog"
    ],
    "Meaning": "An excessive quantity of alcohol consumed to alleviate a hangover, causing further drunkenness.",
    "Sentence": [
      "There were people — maybe two dozen — in the Knight’s Bar, for lunch, resuscitation, or the pelt of the dog that bit them. Not Yvonne, though. A bit early."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "6314-1",
    "Idiom": [
      "pen picture"
    ],
    "Meaning": "A written description.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Mr. [Timothy Shay] Arthur has been, and is, a close observer, and in his pictures of domestic life, his groups include all the necessary characters, while the back ground and filling up take in all the accessories and incidentals, which, skilfully managed, give a pen-picture its vraisemblance.",
      "Our purpose was to secure a series of Pen Pictures, descriptive,—not of the most important events of the War, for that would be simply metrical history,—but of those events which have relation to the individual, that each and every particular poem might come home to some heart, and there find its abiding place throughg all time;",
      "An afternoon newspaper published in Worcester, Mass., inflected upon its readers a screed worthy the ablest efforts of a Chicago anarchist. It drew a pen picture of the dread disease [cholera] in the act of purging the city of Fall River of such men as would dare to insinuate that the young woman was guilty.",
      "I was most amused by the article on Sir Henry Fowler in the series \"Some C.M.Es. I have Known.\" It was a perfect pen picture of one full of nervous energy.—Major H[ewitt] P[earson] M[ontague] Beames, (formerly Chief Mechanical Engineer, L.M.S.R.).",
      "In the poem, the poet just gives a pen picture of his father, who according to him, represents all that is best in Aryan culture.",
      "If ego development has been disrupted by adverse life events, and especially an absence of nurturing during the formative years , we can expect this developmental weakness to be played out in a range of behaviours that cause society concern and often lead to the individual requiring specialist forms of care and support. Below is a pen picture of a child lacking ego integrity."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "6314-2",
    "Idiom": [
      "pen picture"
    ],
    "Meaning": "A picture drawn with a pen.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "6315",
    "Idiom": [
      "penalty box"
    ],
    "Meaning": "A temporary punishment or setback.",
    "Sentence": [
      "A visit to the penalty box occurs when the salesman has relinquished control of the sales call by immediately answering the customer's question.",
      "What can land you in this metaphorical holding cell, the penalty box of Catholicism?",
      "Florida, Michigan seek exit from Democratic penalty box"
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "6316",
    "Idiom": [
      "pencil in"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To provisionally schedule.",
    "Sentence": [
      "A decision on the DCO [Development Consent Order] is pencilled in for April 2021, with physical work beginning in 2022 and construction completed in 2027.",
      "This was a 'shadow service' ahead of the full launch, pencilled in for May 16, when trains were due to start serving London.",
      "I'll pencil you in for tomorrow at noon."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "6317-1",
    "Idiom": [
      "pencil whip"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To approve without review or understanding.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "6317-2",
    "Idiom": [
      "pencil whip"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To complete a document without the necessary work or evidence.",
    "Sentence": [
      "So, if you pencil-whipped that last survey, you've probably shot yourself in the foot, according to Stanley.",
      "“Nothing should be 9:00, 9:15, 9:30, because the auditors say you're pencil-whipping it. And truth be known, we do pencil-whip it. We can't add by fifteen because that really puts you in a bind. Add by fourteen. That looks pretty come audit time.",
      "Knowing the auditors were coming in just a week, we chose to pencil whip the quarterly inventory forms for the last year."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "6318",
    "Idiom": [
      "pencil-neck"
    ],
    "Meaning": "A weak or insubstantial person.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Mom said, “Sell it to the circus, what the heck.” / Dad said, “Nope, this one's a pencil neck / And if there's one thing lower than a side show freak / It's a grit eatin', scum suckin', pencil neck geek.”",
      "On Thursday, March 28, Trump took the stage in Grand Rapids, Michigan, for a campaign rally, where he unleashed a new schoolyard nickname: “little pencil-neck Adam Schiff.”",
      "That pencil-neck from systems isn't going to tell me what I can't do."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "6319",
    "Idiom": [
      "pencil-necked"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Weak or insubstantial.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Science fiction is more than inelegant prose for pencil-necked teenagers.",
      "That pencil-necked geek isn't going to stop me."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "6320",
    "Idiom": [
      "pennies on the dollar"
    ],
    "Meaning": "A small amount of money, much less than expected.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "6321",
    "Idiom": [
      "penny for your thoughts"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Inquires about someone's thoughts or feelings.",
    "Sentence": [
      "One day, as your ladyship was playing on the harpsichord to my master, Mr Jones was sitting in the next room, and methought he looked melancholy. La! says I, Mr Jones, what's the matter? a penny for your thoughts, says I.",
      "As for Harry, he sate in very deep meditation over the scene; and when Mrs. Lambert offered him a penny for his thoughts, he said, “That he thought, Young Norval, Douglas, What-d'ye-call-'em, the fellow in white satin—who looked as old as his mother—was very lucky to be able to distinguish himself so soon.",
      "And she said to Gerty: —A penny for your thoughts. —What? replied Gerty with a smile reinforced by the whitest of teeth.",
      "The penny-post is, commonly, an institution through which you seriously offer a man that penny for his thoughts which is so often safely offered in jest.",
      "“A penny for your thoughts,” said Miss Wilkinson, looking at him with a smile. “I’m not going to tell you,” he answered. He was thinking that he ought to kiss her there and then.",
      "Is there any thing else to say? My cry upon firing will be, “ A penny for your thoughts.”"
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "6322",
    "Idiom": [
      "penny in the fusebox"
    ],
    "Meaning": "An unsafe improvised repair.",
    "Sentence": [
      "The fix I made was just a penny in the fusebox; we need to revisit it and fix the problem for real."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "6323",
    "Idiom": [
      "penny pincher"
    ],
    "Meaning": "A frugal person.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Over the years, he developed a reputation as a penny pincher who wouldn't spend money for anything."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "6324",
    "Idiom": [
      "penny wedding"
    ],
    "Meaning": "A wedding where guests contribute to cover costs and benefit the couple.",
    "Sentence": [
      "\"Vera true, vera true—we'll have a' to pay, I doubt, less or mair—a sort of penny-wedding it will prove, where all men contribute to the young folk's maintenance, that they may not have just four bare legs in a bed together.\"",
      "Penny weddings, or weddings where volunteer guests brought each his or her contribution to the entertainment, instead of its expense being defrayed jointly by the bridegroom and the bride, were still in vogue and still reckoned respectable.",
      "\"And what's a penny wedding ?\" \"It's a' kin' o' a custom amo' the fishers. There's some gey puir fowk amon' 's, ye see, an' when a twa o' them merries, the lave o' 's wants to gie them a bit o' a start like. Sae we a' gang to the weddin' an' eats an' drinks plenty, an' pays for a' 'at we hae; and they mak' a guid profit out o' 't, for the things doesna cost them nearhan' sae muckle as we pay.\""
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "6325",
    "Idiom": [
      "penny wise and pound foolish"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Being careful with small expenses but reckless with larger ones.",
    "Sentence": [
      "In the past our government has nowhere been more penny wise and pound foolish than in connection with its expenditures for conservation."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "6326",
    "Idiom": [
      "people mountain people sea"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Crowded or jam-packed.",
    "Sentence": [
      "People mountain / people sea / Heads bowed to phones / The road ahead unseen",
      "Jenny was lost among people mountain people sea. I don't blame her in such a gunvernment celebration.",
      "However, this rule seems to have been overturned in the PRC with its \" people mountain people sea \" strategy that played an important role in the successful exploration of mining resources, assisted by advanced technologies and heavy investments (see fig 1.5 for another example of this strategy in action).",
      "I didn't want to be part of Shanghai. I preferred to be an obscure visitor in Shanghai with nobody noticing me. I was fascinated by its noise and the people mountain, people sea."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "6327",
    "Idiom": [
      "people person"
    ],
    "Meaning": "One who enjoys and is skilled at interacting with others.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "6328",
    "Idiom": [
      "people that live in glass houses shouldn't throw stones",
      "those who live in glass houses should not throw stones",
      "people who live in glass houses shouldn't throw stones",
      "those who live in glass houses shouldn't throw stones",
      "people that live in glass houses should not throw stones",
      "people who live in glass houses should not throw stones"
    ],
    "Meaning": "One should not criticize others if one has similar weaknesses.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "6329",
    "Idiom": [
      "people who have, get more",
      "those that have, get",
      "them what has, gets",
      "them that has gets",
      "the rich get richer",
      "people who have, get",
      "them that has, gets more",
      "them what has gets",
      "them what has, gets more",
      "those who have get",
      "those who have, get more",
      "those who have get more",
      "those that have get more",
      "those who have, get",
      "those that have get",
      "those that have, get more",
      "them that has, gets"
    ],
    "Meaning": "People with wealth and status are more likely to gain more, highlighting unfair distribution of opportunities.",
    "Sentence": [
      "You may have heard the old adage about \" those that have, get,\" and it is true.... The getting started on money-making is the hardest part.",
      "In the great capitalist tradition of \" those who have, get,\" Vanderbilt's investment today returns rich dividends to his grandsons.",
      "Those that have, get. For lending their status to Fashion Week events, the rich and the famous scored, among other things, $225 jeans and coupons for $200 PuchiBags for their pets.",
      "In other words, “the rich get richer” or “ those that have, get ” (indeed, distribution of wealth in America follows a scale-free organization)."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "6330",
    "Idiom": [
      "pep in one's step"
    ],
    "Meaning": "A confident and energetic manner.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "6331-1",
    "Idiom": [
      "perfect is the enemy of good",
      "the better is the enemy of the good",
      "perfection is the enemy of good",
      "better is the enemy of good",
      "perfect is the enemy of good enough",
      "the perfect is the enemy of the good",
      "the best is the enemy of the good"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Insistence on perfection can hinder valuable outcomes.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "6332-2",
    "Idiom": [
      "perfect is the enemy of good"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Insistence on perfection hinders progress.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "6333",
    "Idiom": [
      "perfect storm"
    ],
    "Meaning": "A situation where multiple problems worsen the outcome.",
    "Sentence": [
      "They sent a perfect storm of bullets, over, under, and into our men.",
      "Tory said he was worried that \"a perfect storm \" of economic factors could put tourist operators and their communities in peril."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "6334",
    "Idiom": [
      "permanent shave"
    ],
    "Meaning": "A throat-slitting.",
    "Sentence": [
      "(ghost brandishing a noose :) “Brother, you sure gonna get your face lifted.” (ghost brandishing a razor :) “And a permanent shave ! Ha! Ha! Ha!”",
      "‘Last chance,’ she said. ‘Or.’ ‘Or else,’ she said, pantomiming a knife being drawn across her throat. ‘You’re going to shave me?’ ‘A permanent shave,’ she said.",
      "I walked right up to Ravus’s unconscious body with the intention of blasting his brains out, and that’s exactly what would have happened if the hot Fangorian who’d been escorting me to the table hadn’t pulled a blade from out of nowhere and held it up to my neck so hard that if I so much as breathed wrong I’d get a permanent shave."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "6335",
    "Idiom": [
      "perp walk"
    ],
    "Meaning": "A public display of a person in police custody for media attention.",
    "Sentence": [
      "... as well-dressed masters of the universe did the ritualized perp walk with their expensive Armani suit jackets draped over their handcuffs.",
      "FBI agents gave former WorldCom executives Scott Sullivan and David Myers the same star treatment, parading the handcuffed quarry in an early-morning perp walk and prompting Sullivan's lawyer to complain about “the unfair taint of the current political climate.”",
      "The copter’s arrival at the Wall Street heliport led to an extraordinary scene: [Luigi] Mangione, surrounded by a swarm of gun-toting NYPD officers, in a slow, lengthy “ perp walk ” from the helicopter into a black van, with cameras catching every step."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "6336",
    "Idiom": [
      "person from Porlock"
    ],
    "Meaning": "One whose interruption prevents completion of something important.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "6337",
    "Idiom": [
      "personal capital"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Good reputation or influence.",
    "Sentence": [
      "They believe that other radical propositions which the President is urging proceed from a very narrow demand, in fact, one not much larger than the desire of men like La Follette and Cummins to make personal capital out of their own radicalism.",
      "I have always thought... that the real reason he retired from public life, though he was obviously the heir of Wilson and for long the first Democrat in the land, was that he could not bear the thought of making personal capital out of his career in the war.",
      "No U.S. president should invest his personal capital by inaugurating direct talks between Israeli and Palestinian leaders when those talks are set to abort weeks later."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "6338",
    "Idiom": [
      "phone in"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To fulfill a responsibility with minimal effort.",
    "Sentence": [
      "But here was someone who could have been paid regally for just phoning it in for another year or two willing instead to throw that all away",
      "his new show with Julia Child -- \"Julia and Jacques Cooking At Home\" on WMPT Channel 22 -- is a clever marketing stroke, but at times both of these veteran teachers seem to be phoning it in.",
      "And I think our campaign put a lot more on the line, frankly, to try to solve that problem than Senator Obama, who tried to phone it in.",
      "phone it in",
      "He thought he could phone in the scheduling process, but it takes sharp negotiations around here.",
      "He thought he could phone it in. [pronoun antecedent: the scheduling process]",
      "We're sick of Alice's attitude. She's been phoning it in ever since Bob left. [pronoun antecedent: notional: either \"her job\" or undefined]"
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "6339",
    "Idiom": [
      "phone tag"
    ],
    "Meaning": "A situation where two people can't reach each other by phone and leave messages instead.",
    "Sentence": [
      "\"What frequently results is a game of phone tag. One party tries to reach another, is unable to, and leaves voice-mail indicating an interest in finding a time to meet. The other party returns the call, more often than not fails to reach the original caller, and leaves voice-mail in response.\"",
      "\"Avoid phone tag, which results when two parties go back and forth trying to reach each other by phone.\"",
      "\"To reduce the time you spend playing phone tag, ask what time the client will be in and call back then.\""
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "6340",
    "Idiom": [
      "physical break"
    ],
    "Meaning": "A short break to improve attention.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Hopefully you decided to use the dancing, rhythms, or dramatic play as an opportunity for plenty of movement — a chance for a physical break between two intellectual activities.",
      "Adults need a physical break every hour so they can get up and move around.",
      "These activities are most useful as icebreakers at the start of group sessions or energizers when group members indicate a need for a physical break",
      "She followed the lead of other teachers who utilized physical break times in lesson plans."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "6341",
    "Idiom": [
      "physician, heal thyself",
      "doctor, heal thyself"
    ],
    "Meaning": "One should address their own issues before advising others.",
    "Sentence": [
      "“You are really as bad as Margaret,” she declared. “There is nothing the matter with me. You talk of ‘curing’ me as though I were ill. Physician, heal thyself.”"
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "6342-1",
    "Idiom": [
      "pick apart"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To review or analyze in great detail; to criticize.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "6342-2",
    "Idiom": [
      "pick apart"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To criticize details.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "6342-3",
    "Idiom": [
      "pick apart"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To analyze or criticize in detail.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Moyes, who never won a derby at Liverpool in 11 years as Everton manager, did not find the Etihad any more forgiving as City picked United apart in midfield, where Toure looked in a different class to United's £27.5m new boy Marouane Fellaini, and in defence as Aguero tormented Nemanja Vidic and Rio Ferdinand.",
      "The quarterback picked apart the secondary defense in the first half."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "6343-1",
    "Idiom": [
      "pick at"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To touch or handle tentatively.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Mr Vholes remained immovable, except that he secretly picked at one of the red pimples on his yellow face with his black glove.",
      "He began to pick at the fussy fringe on the arm of his chair.",
      "Picking at a salad in a conference room at Google’s headquarters here, Ms. Mayer says she is vexed by how some perceive her."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "6343-2",
    "Idiom": [
      "pick at"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To criticize or belittle someone repeatedly.",
    "Sentence": [
      "\"Noise and disrespect of no kind ain't pleasin' to him. His own folks behave becomin', but strangers go and act as they like.... Then we are picked at for their doin's.\"",
      "\"And I know she's my aunt, but she needn't pick at me all the time,\" she added defiantly.",
      "\"I get crabby and pick at him about stupid things that wouldn’t normally bother me.\""
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "6344",
    "Idiom": [
      "pick corners"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To choose a preference.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "6345",
    "Idiom": [
      "pick holes"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To find weaknesses or imperfections.",
    "Sentence": [
      "The publication of their results is a call for help to pick holes in their methods, and save physics as we now know it."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "6346",
    "Idiom": [
      "pick of the litter"
    ],
    "Meaning": "The best person or item in a group.",
    "Sentence": [
      "I'll take the pick of the litter, girls jockey for me / I don't need these lines to get laid",
      "In the first season of Stranger Things, no character was more extra than Steve Harrington — Nancy Wheeler’s frequently possessive, largely confused, often douchey boyfriend. Though he eventually got with the program and helped fight some monsters, he wasn’t exactly what you’d call the pick of the litter.",
      "Of the books I read this summer, A Tale of Two Cities was the pick of the litter."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "6347",
    "Idiom": [
      "pick on someone your own size"
    ],
    "Meaning": "An admonition to stop bullying someone weaker.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "6348-1",
    "Idiom": [
      "pick one's battles"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To engage in disputes selectively.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "6348-2",
    "Idiom": [
      "pick one's battles"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To choose which issues are worth fighting for.",
    "Sentence": [
      "“ Jimmy Iovine, who runs Interscope, my record company, said, ‘ Pick your battles carefully — don’t put your life at risk,’ but at the end of the day, I don’t see how you can shut up and just enjoy success when other people who don’t have the fame or the luxury to rent security guards are suffering. ”"
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "6349",
    "Idiom": [
      "pick one's nose"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To insert a finger into one's nostril to remove obstructions.",
    "Sentence": [
      "You can pick your friends; you can pick your nose; but you can't pick your friends' noses."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "6350-1",
    "Idiom": [
      "pick out"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To distinguish.",
    "Sentence": [
      "The young birds cry out for food, and the parents returning from the sea manage to pick out their own amid a mass of lookalikes."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "6350-2",
    "Idiom": [
      "pick out"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To detect using one's senses.",
    "Sentence": [
      "And as I sat there brooding on the old, unknown world, I thought of Gatsby's wonder when he first picked out the green light at the end of Daisy's dock."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "6350-3",
    "Idiom": [
      "pick out"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To send a long pass or cross.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Ameobi skipped away down the left in the 39th minute and tried to pick out Shearer with a cross but his delivery was cut out by goalkeeper Jussi J..."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "6351-1",
    "Idiom": [
      "pick out of a hat"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To determine by chance.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "6351-2",
    "Idiom": [
      "pick out of a hat"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To make a random choice.",
    "Sentence": [
      "That number was just picked out of a hat."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "6352",
    "Idiom": [
      "pick someone's brain"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To seek information or advice from someone knowledgeable.",
    "Sentence": [
      "After I spent a couple of hours picking his brain, his scheme started to make sense."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "6353-1",
    "Idiom": [
      "pick up on"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To notice or understand something overlooked.",
    "Sentence": [
      "\"Remember, I know more about it than only what you picked up on that morning.\"",
      "No wonder I didn't pick up on what was happening.",
      "Why didn't the police or the school pick up on the killers' warning signs?",
      "Patrick: Well, maybe you're just too smart for everybody.",
      "Readers and bloggers alertly picked up on the nuances of language, and what some called the inconsistencies.",
      "Making recommendations to GBRf to improve its fatigue management, RAIB notes that GBRf missed an opportunity to pick up on the driver's potential fatigue."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "6353-2",
    "Idiom": [
      "pick up on"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To continue or build upon something from a previous point.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Andy Murray has landed in Valencia for next week’s ATP tournament to pick up on his interrupted year, six weeks after the Davis Cup tie against Poland when he played three times in successive days and exacerbated the damage to his left wrist."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "6353-3",
    "Idiom": [
      "pick up on"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To adopt an existing practice.",
    "Sentence": [
      "\"What you've got to do is, you've got to study the guy and try to pick up on his techniques, try to pick up what he's real good at.\"",
      "China was slow to pick up on the reality-TV trend."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "6354",
    "Idiom": [
      "pick up one's marbles and go home"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To abruptly leave or abandon a situation due to dissatisfaction.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "6355",
    "Idiom": [
      "pick up stitches"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To add stitches back to the knitting needle during knitting.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "6356",
    "Idiom": [
      "pick up the pace"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To begin moving or working faster.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "6357",
    "Idiom": [
      "pick up the pieces"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To restore to a normal state after a setback.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Picking up the pieces after the Suez disaster, the British found themselves getting used to the idea that they are not as big a power as they thought they were.",
      "\"Cutting administrators is a huge mistake, and will only mean other staff such as nurses have to pick up the pieces.\"",
      "This is a scorched earth policy, leaving Labour - which has made the right noises, but not loudly enough - with the job of picking up the pieces. Given the incoherence of the plans, the best hope is that the public outcry - even the Daily Telegraph is against them - delays them enough for a new government to rescue most of the ticket offices from closure, but this is no way to run a railway."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "6358",
    "Idiom": [
      "pick up the tab"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To pay the bill.",
    "Sentence": [
      "When the bill came to just 33,000 forints, I did something very out of character: I picked up the tab. It blew the budget for the day, but felt great.",
      "Meanwhile, the taxpayer picked up the tab for over 50% of track and train costs at Northern, Merseyrail and the Transport for Wales rail operation."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "6359",
    "Idiom": [
      "pick up the threads"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To resume an activity after an interruption.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "6360",
    "Idiom": [
      "pick up what someone is putting down",
      "smell what someone is stepping in"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To understand or pay attention to someone's message.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Moran, picking up what Jennings is putting down, agrees.",
      "If we are serious about putting the party of Lincoln back on track, we had better begin to pick up what black folk are putting down.",
      "I will tell you about these things... because I like you and I think you’d be interested in picking up what I’m putting down.",
      "“I have seen it before. I'll get the carriage ready and meet you two at the paddock,” says Wilson.... “There were a lot of British sailors on the Hougoumont and you know how sailor's talk.... You smell what I'm stepping in ?"
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "6361",
    "Idiom": [
      "pickin' and grinnin'"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Playing folk or country music energetically while smiling.",
    "Sentence": [
      "From Kenny Rogers and Ronnie Milsap there was a lot less pickin’ and grinnin’ and a lot more soft rockers and heartbroken love ballads.",
      "In this city of guitars and grits, Andersen is the ambassador of pickin’ and grinnin’."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "6362",
    "Idiom": [
      "picture-perfect"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Perfect in appearance.",
    "Sentence": [
      "With Swift, Spice, Lively and Avignone hugging each other, it was a picture-perfect visual summery of Swift’s brand: manufactured empowerment, a celebration of pop feminist girl power."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "6363",
    "Idiom": [
      "pie in the sky"
    ],
    "Meaning": "An unrealistic or fanciful notion.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Don't you think I have anything better to do than go scrambling around hundreds of square miles of the toughest wilderness in the state looking for pie in the sky ?",
      "Old Hare Krishna got nothing on you / Just keep you crazy with nothing to do / Keep you occupied with pie in the sky",
      "Most Americans are chronically materialistic and optimistic, more interested in short-range than long-range prospects, and have been for many generations. Pie on the table today or, at the latest, tomorrow—apple pie, mince pie, pecan pie, apricot pie, coconut cream pie, lemon meringue pie, peach cobbler pie, blueberry, blackberry, huckleberry, and pizza pie—that is what they want, not \" pie in the sky,\" whether the source of that promise be Christianity or Marxism.",
      "I grew in the House Full of Practical People, so any grand, dream-chasing pursuit has always struck me as sort of pie in the sky.",
      "Ah, I can hear the objectors say, all this is pie in the sky and too expensive. In fact, according to Lord Burns, \"this is all perfectly feasible at a reasonable cost\"."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "6364-1",
    "Idiom": [
      "pie-in-the-sky"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Unrealistic and impractical.",
    "Sentence": [
      "a pie-in-the-sky patent"
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "6364-2",
    "Idiom": [
      "pie-in-the-sky"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Impractical or unlikely to come true.",
    "Sentence": [
      "If his [ Donald Trump 's] detailing was productive, it was somewhat undermined by a final, typical Trumpian flourish of pie-in-the-sky rhetoric.",
      "In other words, the usual mix of sound thinking and pie-in-the-sky electioneering promises which convince no one.",
      "“That said, we continue to remain cautious of pie-in-the-sky forecasts that see this hockey stick continuing indefinitely,” Nathanson added ."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "6365-1",
    "Idiom": [
      "piece of ass"
    ],
    "Meaning": "A casual sexual encounter.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Yeah. Maybe we/ll make the rounds of the bars. I could use a little nookie. Thats what I need, a good piece of ass."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "6365-2",
    "Idiom": [
      "piece of ass"
    ],
    "Meaning": "A very attractive woman viewed as a sex object.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "6365-3",
    "Idiom": [
      "piece of ass"
    ],
    "Meaning": "A derogatory term for an attractive person.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "6366",
    "Idiom": [
      "piece of cake"
    ],
    "Meaning": "A task that is easy or simple.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Sure, no problem. It'll be a piece of cake."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "6367-1",
    "Idiom": [
      "piece of shit",
      "piece of crap"
    ],
    "Meaning": "A bad thing; an object of poor quality.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Life's a piece of shit / When you look at it / Life's a laugh and death's a joke, it's true",
      "When Jerry speaks of “The worst piece of shit I ever read,” he is not speaking of the book, Great Balls of Fire, but of the script to the movie."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "6368-2",
    "Idiom": [
      "piece of shit"
    ],
    "Meaning": "A despicable person.",
    "Sentence": [
      "And it takes the emphasis off of cruising and sexuality, and makes it more like kind of a party thing, and everybody feels comfortable, and nobody feels like \"I'm a piece of shit 'cause I didn't get somebody tonight,\" and they don't feel so lonely.",
      "But then Zhao Jun switched to English and said, “I'll kick your face in, you piece of shit,” and it came out electric fluent, no one laughed. “How dare you call him a piece of shit ?” the man's wife shrieked.",
      "While ruling is going relatively well for Alicent, motherhood isn’t; her sons have both grown up to be real pieces of shit. Aemond (now played by Ewan Mitchell) has grown from a bullied child into a bullying adult; and it’s obvious from one look into his single eye that the bullied kid we met six years ago has grown up to be the most unhinged kind of sadist."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "6369-1",
    "Idiom": [
      "piece of someone"
    ],
    "Meaning": "A chance to learn something interesting about someone.",
    "Sentence": [
      "The paparazzi followed the famous actor everywhere - they all wanted a piece of him."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "6369-2",
    "Idiom": [
      "piece of someone"
    ],
    "Meaning": "A chance to fight with someone.",
    "Sentence": [
      "You want a piece of me ? Go ahead and take your best shot!"
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "6370",
    "Idiom": [
      "piece of the action"
    ],
    "Meaning": "A share of benefits or participation in a venture.",
    "Sentence": [
      "\"Sollozzo is coming to us for help,\" Hagen said.... \"For that we get a piece of the action.\"",
      "Landlords who were once content to lease rooftops or facades to sign companies now demand a piece of the action, in a joint venture or a limited partnership.",
      "There are two ways to get a piece of the action at any of the big drug markets along the border: pay off—or kill off—anyone who stands in your way.",
      "Australian companies are already manoeuvring for a piece of the action in the reconstruction of Iraq,"
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "6371",
    "Idiom": [
      "piece of the pie"
    ],
    "Meaning": "A share of something.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "6372",
    "Idiom": [
      "piece of work"
    ],
    "Meaning": "A person with a strong, unusual, and often unpleasant personality.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Ugh! She's a piece of work. \"A rotten, bad piece, I'd call it,\" answered Wheedles under his breath.",
      "She built a reputation as a piece of work; if she didn't like a crowd, sometimes she'd walk off stage in midset and call a cab home.",
      "Known as Pixie for his fresh looks, and Dr Death for his cold stare of disapproval, Rudd was said to have few friends in Canberra. Former Labor leaders Paul Keating and Mark Latham described him, respectively, as \"a menace\" and \"a terrible piece of work \"."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "6373",
    "Idiom": [
      "piffy on a rock bun"
    ],
    "Meaning": "A person ignored or sidelined.",
    "Sentence": [
      "I hate your work parties: you always talk shop with your mates and leave me sat like piffy on a rock bun."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "6374",
    "Idiom": [
      "pig in a poke"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Something whose true value is concealed or unknown.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "6375",
    "Idiom": [
      "pigs might fly",
      "pigs can fly"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Indicates something is highly unlikely to happen.",
    "Sentence": [
      "\"I'm sure he'll pay you back tomorrow.\" \"Yeah right, and pigs might fly.\""
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "6376",
    "Idiom": [
      "pile Pelion on Ossa"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To worsen a difficult situation.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell already allowed a unanimous consent request for the whistleblower documents to proceed. Today, McConnell piled Pelion on Ossa, announcing that if the House votes to impeach Trump, he would have no choice but to take it up.",
      "A task force will determine which research projects get funding – piling Pelion on Ossa – there are even plans to restrict admissions which would mean that universities will be able to recruit only five per cent more students than last year in order to prevent them poaching from lesser rivals."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "6377",
    "Idiom": [
      "pile up"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To accumulate.",
    "Sentence": [
      "The locomotive was the now inevitable American 2-8-0, No. 2623. There she stood, effectively blocking the level crossing, simmering gently, massively inert. It was almost dark, and one's final sight was of her high, firelit cab, the enginemen nonchalantly leaning out, waiting for the right-away, while impatient road convoys piled up on both sides of the crossing.",
      "There are the engines that develop ill-health and begin to lose time, or the wagons that develop hot boxes and have to be removed, initiating delays that steadily pile up —or at worst, the weather lays its hand on the whole District.",
      "The requests piled up while she was away."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "6378",
    "Idiom": [
      "pill in the pocket"
    ],
    "Meaning": "A medication to be carried for specific use.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "6379",
    "Idiom": [
      "pill mill"
    ],
    "Meaning": "A clandestine operation dispensing illegal prescriptions for bribes.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Four men who helped Jeff and Chris George run their lucrative pill mills received sentences ranging from 9 months to 14 years today in federal court.",
      "Needless to say, the professional bullying from the primary care physicians (PCPs) and the [hospital] administrators to run both a pill mill and a needle jockey business was tremendous. I resisted the entire time, but god it wore me out. [From a pain specialist for a large multi-specialty group.]"
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "6380",
    "Idiom": [
      "pillow talk"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Intimate conversation between bedmates.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Hal's not gonna know. You know, unless you tell him, you know during pillow talk or something. You know, you guys probably don't have pillow talk, he probably has sex with you while he's on the cellular phone.",
      "I was drinkin' coffee / Smokin' weed on the jet / Probably wit' your wifey / In the back for pillow talk"
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "6381-1",
    "Idiom": [
      "pin down"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To identify something clearly.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Something is wrong, but I can't pin it down."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "6381-2",
    "Idiom": [
      "pin down"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To get a firm answer.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Let's try to pin him down on a price."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "6382",
    "Idiom": [
      "pin money"
    ],
    "Meaning": "A small amount of money for personal expenses.",
    "Sentence": [
      "\"Money—yes; pin money : a couple of hundred thousand, perhaps. Not more.\" Washington's eyes blazed. \"A couple of hundred thousand dollars! do you call that pin money ?\"",
      "\"When did you leave Oklahoma? Where is Reddy McGill now? Why are you selling those impossible contraptions on the street?\" \"A year ago,\" answered Kansas Bill systematically. \"Putting up windmills in Arizona. For pin money to buy etceteras with.\"",
      "Andrew pays all the farm expenses, but the housekeeping accounts fall to me. I make a fairish amount of pin money on my poultry and some of my preserves that I send to Boston,"
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "6383",
    "Idiom": [
      "pinch one off"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To defecate.",
    "Sentence": [
      "You got a whole school here Clyde! M'kay?, you got over 300 people that need to use the boys room!, and you decide you're gonna be a comedian M'kay?, and pinch one off in the urinal! and leave it laying there for everyone to look at!"
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "6384",
    "Idiom": [
      "pinch-hit"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To substitute for someone unable to perform.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Jones pinch-hit for Smith during today's presentation."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "6385",
    "Idiom": [
      "pink slip"
    ],
    "Meaning": "A notice of job termination.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Pink slips are being handed out faster in corporate America than you can say, “Recession? What recession?”",
      "From 2002 to 2004, many individuals received pink slips as a result of a slow economy.",
      "Oracle chose a weekend in which to notify PeopleSoft employees of their termination: the company sent them pink slips via express mail."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "6386-1",
    "Idiom": [
      "pip to the post"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To win over a strong competitor by a narrow margin.",
    "Sentence": [
      "\" Pipped to the post : What happens to famous athletes who just miss a place on the podium?\" (end of the title) A place on the podium can be missed by tiny fractions – and finish a career. Simon Usborne talks to some famous Olympian losers about the moment their dream ended."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "6386-2",
    "Idiom": [
      "pip to the post"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To overtake a competitor with a clever move.",
    "Sentence": [
      "What may bar EastEnders from acceptance in the U.S. is not immorality but unintelligibility. PBS may even distribute a glossary of Cockney phrases so that Americans will know what a character means when he or she is \" over the moon,\" \" skint,\" \" pipped to the post,\" or \" in the club \" (happy, broke, defeated, or pregnant).",
      "Both were pipped to the post in 1888 by the German physicist Heinrich Hertz, a student of Hermann von Helmholtz (himself one of the towering figures of nineteenth-century German physics) who announced to the world that he had found a way of propagating and detecting these long-sought-for electromagnetic waves."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "6387",
    "Idiom": [
      "pipe down"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To be quiet.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Pipe down, children. I'm trying to work."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "6388",
    "Idiom": [
      "pipe dream"
    ],
    "Meaning": "An unlikely desire or idea.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Only a year ago it would have needed a \"super-Micawber\" to be optimistic that the railways would once again pay their way. But it was no longer a pipe dream that B.R. could make a profit, the way to do it was now clear.",
      "I think that his plan to become a professional athlete is a pipe dream and that he should stay in school."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "6389",
    "Idiom": [
      "pipe in"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To interrupt a conversation.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "6390",
    "Idiom": [
      "pipe the eye"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To weep.",
    "Sentence": [
      "He first began to eye his pipe, / And then to pipe his eye."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "6391",
    "Idiom": [
      "piping hot"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Very hot.",
    "Sentence": [
      "\"Don't touch the pie! It's piping hot, straight out of the oven.\""
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "6392",
    "Idiom": [
      "piping times"
    ],
    "Meaning": "A pleasant era.",
    "Sentence": [
      "One of the current melodrama uses on the hoardings a four-sheet poster showing the picture of a motherly old woman with a baby in her arms. She is saying: \"Well, I guess the country will be saved without me for awhile. I'll look after baby.\" That's about the attitude of the nursers of business in these piping times of politics."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "6393",
    "Idiom": [
      "piping times of peace"
    ],
    "Meaning": "A time of peace.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "6394-1",
    "Idiom": [
      "piss about",
      "piss around"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To joke or play.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "6395-2",
    "Idiom": [
      "piss about"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To act foolishly.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "6396",
    "Idiom": [
      "piss and moan"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To complain needlessly and loudly.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Are you going to do something about it, or are you just going to piss and moan ?"
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "6397",
    "Idiom": [
      "piss away"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To spend wastefully.",
    "Sentence": [
      "I pissed away four years of my life in university and didn't graduate.",
      "The old mayor pissed millions of dollars away on stuff nobody wanted.",
      "You can't keep pissing away your money like this!"
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "6398",
    "Idiom": [
      "piss in someone's cornflakes",
      "pee in someone's cornflakes",
      "pee on someone's cornflakes",
      "piss on someone's cornflakes",
      "shit in someone's cheerios"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To disappoint or irritate someone.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Okay, now I don't want to pee on your cornflakes or nothing, but how exactly are we going to get up there?",
      "Sorry to piss in your cornflakes, but my mom's got asthma, so take your cigarettes outside.",
      "I really did piss on everyone’s cornflakes. I knew what I was doing but basically I got too big for my boots but please take into consideration, the fact that you and every other person involved in this operation, goes home at night, eats a decent meal, relaxes in a nice warm bath, talks to the wife, plays with the kids, watches the box, puts on a favourite record, gets pissed if he feels like it.",
      "He had a precise, almost affected manner of speaking, as if words were precious and had to be husbanded. There was, as well, an undertone of something very like resentment. Maybe someone pissed on his cornflakes.",
      "‘Tom, they’ve shot down a Russian helicopter on the other side of the village. They’re all off to see it.’ I didn’t want to piss on their cornflakes, but there was something they were forgetting: ‘Listen, lads, if you’ve taken out a helicopter, the Russians are going to be back to get the crew.’",
      "I remember the first day of practice he gave me jersey number 77, to which I replied, “77? I’m a halfback, not a lineman.” He stared at me like I had just pissed on his cornflakes. “Son,” he whispered, “we run the Single Wing here. All backs wear numbers in the 70s. If you want to play, you’ll wear this number.”",
      "‘Why don’t you tell me what trouble you’re causing for me?’ / ‘I figure that you’ve walked all the way to this Hall to tell me yourself what I’ve done to upset you, so the last thing I want to do is piss on your cornflakes.’",
      "The faces in front of us became confused, then irate, when the opening bars of ‘Safety Dance’ rang out. This wasn’t what they were expecting, and they looked at us as if we’d pissed on their cornflakes. With blood-flecked urine.",
      "I don’t want to piss on your cornflakes or anything, but women don’t just change out of nowhere from my experience. She clearly wants something.",
      "I don’t want to piss on your cornflakes, boys, but the imprint of an ‘S’ in the left-hand comer of an envelope isn’t exactly Nathan Leopold’s glasses prescription, is it?",
      "That woman shit in her husband's Cheerios when she divorced him on their anniversary."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "6399",
    "Idiom": [
      "piss like a racehorse"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To urinate profusely.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Pull over as soon as you can. I need to piss like a racehorse !"
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "6400",
    "Idiom": [
      "piss money up the wall"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To waste money.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "6401",
    "Idiom": [
      "piss more than one drinks"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To boast; to brag.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "6402-1",
    "Idiom": [
      "piss off"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To go away.",
    "Sentence": [
      "They've pissed off and left us in the lurch!",
      "Why don't you piss off and leave us alone?"
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "6402-2",
    "Idiom": [
      "piss off"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To annoy or anger.",
    "Sentence": [
      "It pisses people off that I am thin and I don't make any effort.",
      "What really pisses me off about my job is that I have to get up at six o'clock."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "6402-3",
    "Idiom": [
      "piss off"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Go away!",
    "Sentence": [
      "Piss off, pal! This is my work table and yours is in the corner."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "6403-1",
    "Idiom": [
      "piss on"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Expresses contempt and disrespect.",
    "Sentence": [
      "You just completely pissed on my job performance here.",
      "If you cancel this contract, you're basically pissing on me and all the work I've done for you."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "6403-2",
    "Idiom": [
      "piss on"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To reject someone or something.",
    "Sentence": [
      "As Mr. Green started to dial the phone to contact Mr. Noonan, Mr. King said to Mr. Green, \" Piss on you, piss on the railroad, and if you are calling Mr. Noonan, piss on him too.",
      "\" Piss on that!\" Ellen shouted. \" Piss on you, Tom Builder! Piss on all of you, too. Piss on Kingsbridge Priory! Piss on the prior!\" she said. \" Piss on the sub-prior, and the sacrist, and the cantor and the treasurer, and all \"",
      "Pirelli: You're really into that humanitarian bit, huh? Well, piss on you. I just want to get out of this army and get me a job. Pirelli: Hey piss on you. You don't know my life back in the good ole United States. Piss on you. Han: Well, piss on you, too.",
      "She wants us to work at night in the dark? Piss on that. I'm going home early.",
      "You've done nothing but complain the whole time we've been here. Piss on you. I'm done listening to you."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "6404",
    "Idiom": [
      "piss on someone's parade"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To ruin someone's plans or happiness.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "6405",
    "Idiom": [
      "pissed off"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Very annoyed or angry.",
    "Sentence": [
      "You cant disagree with the adopted values of a bunch of people without they get pissed off at you",
      "They don't like that kind of talk and that made me even more pissed off.",
      "When he'd cracked the tank and lifted Jesus the Rhesus out of the waters of rebirth, the monkey had seemed more pissed off at being sopping wet",
      "It's better to be pissed off than be pissed on. Unless you have a snakebite or you're on fire."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "6406",
    "Idiom": [
      "pissing war"
    ],
    "Meaning": "An immature dispute over trivial matters.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "6407",
    "Idiom": [
      "pit against"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To set in opposition.",
    "Sentence": [
      "This prompted January's timetable consultation with options that, according to Chester West and Chester Councillor Andrew Cooper last March, pitted councils against each other.",
      "Some board members believed that Mr. Altman was trying to pit them against each other. Last month, they decided to act.",
      "Two of the greatest tennis players will be pitted against each other in next week's final."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "6408",
    "Idiom": [
      "pitch in"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To help out or contribute.",
    "Sentence": [
      "He spent 20 minutes one afternoon describing the club he'd formed with other teenagers in his Brooklyn neighborhood. They'd each pitched in a buck a month to rent the basement of a mallet factory, which they used as a clubhouse.",
      "If we all pitch in, we can raise enough money for the renovation of the church."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "6409-1",
    "Idiom": [
      "pitch woo"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To court.",
    "Sentence": [
      "We don't make a party out of lovin' / We like holdin' hands and pitchin' woo"
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "6409-2",
    "Idiom": [
      "pitch woo"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To flirt.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "6410",
    "Idiom": [
      "pitch-blackness"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Intense blackness or darkness.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "6411",
    "Idiom": [
      "pixel peeper"
    ],
    "Meaning": "A person who scrutinizes digital photographs for quality.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Those whom I have called pixel peepers are satisfied with nothing less than an intimate dissection of a camera/lens' abilities (always at 100% pixel magnification), without regard for whether or not perceived optical defects are even actually visible in real world prints.",
      "Overall unless you are a merciless pixel peeper I can't imagine someone being unhappy with the sharpness of this lens.",
      "There is detectable noise at the lower ISOs if you are a pixel peeper.",
      "Detailed tests of image sensors are raw meat for performance-obsessed pixel-peepers."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "6412",
    "Idiom": [
      "pizza table"
    ],
    "Meaning": "A small object that supports the pizza box.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "6413",
    "Idiom": [
      "place of business"
    ],
    "Meaning": "A location where business is conducted.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "6414",
    "Idiom": [
      "place to be"
    ],
    "Meaning": "A great or suitable place.",
    "Sentence": [
      "The UU is a great place to be on campus to socialize but when business needs to be taken care of the five story library is the place to be !",
      "Indeed, one of the problems of deviant communities in San Francisco is coping with the periodic influx of a new generation of bohemians who have heard that it is the place to be : the beatnik migration of the late fifties and the hippie hordes of 1967."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "6415",
    "Idiom": [
      "plant a seed"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To initiate future results or change.",
    "Sentence": [
      "My only regrets are that T2 failed to get to grips with the new era of #indyref and Scottish national identity – for which Renton’s famous “shite” speech helped plant a tiny seed in 1996 – and that the second film didn’t give the women characters much to do, especially the excellent Kelly Macdonald and Shirley Henderson."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "6416",
    "Idiom": [
      "plant one's feet"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Insist on something firmly or stubbornly.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "6417-1",
    "Idiom": [
      "play Old Gooseberry"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To abruptly end a disturbance by force or threats.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "6417-2",
    "Idiom": [
      "play Old Gooseberry"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To make mischief.",
    "Sentence": [
      "I'll play old Gooseberry with the office, and make you glad to buy me out at a good high figure, if you try any of your tricks with me."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "6418",
    "Idiom": [
      "play Old Harry"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To make mischief.",
    "Sentence": [
      "By his accent and innocent style I detected he was not a colonial, so I got him to relate his history. He was an Englishman by birth, but had been to America, Spain, New Zealand, Tasmania, &c.; by his own make out had ever been a man of note, and had played Old Harry everywhere.",
      "Blenkiron and I have been moving in the best circles as skilled American engineers who are going to play Old Harry with the British on the Tigris.",
      "I distinguish five more general classes: but I am far from equally happy about all of them. They are, however, quite enough to play Old Harry with two fetishes which I admit to an inclination to play Old Harry with, viz. (1) the true/false fetish, (2) the value/fact fetish.'"
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "6419",
    "Idiom": [
      "play a part",
      "play one's part"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To be involved in a way that affects the outcome.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Pack ice, at times mounting to a height of 35 ft., snow, fog, and floating mines all played their part in the disorganisation of railway services, and most of the train ferry services were completely suspended for a month or more; .",
      "I'd like to play a part in the initial design.",
      "The roads were foggy during the accident but alcohol may have also played a part.",
      "Exercise played a major part in his weight loss.",
      "My decision to leave home at the age of sixteen played a big part in my personal development."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "6420",
    "Idiom": [
      "play all one's cards"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To use all one's resources.",
    "Sentence": [
      "I've played all my cards And that's what you've done too Nothing more to say No more ace to play",
      "We composed a calm email stating our 'interest in football in the region' and desire to 'find out more', deciding not to play all our cards at this stage."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "6421-1",
    "Idiom": [
      "play along"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To participate in a deception or joke.",
    "Sentence": [
      "North Korea loves to spring surprises. More unusual is for its US foe to play along.",
      "James thought it was cruel for the fraternity members to make the pledge think his father had died suddenly and refused to play along.",
      "James played along with their cruel trick."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "6421-2",
    "Idiom": [
      "play along"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To participate in a joke or trick while feigning ignorance.",
    "Sentence": [
      "I knew that my blind date was an April Fools trick, but I played along anyway."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "6421-3",
    "Idiom": [
      "play along"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To synchronize with a recording.",
    "Sentence": [
      "I like to practise guitar by playing along with records."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "6421-4",
    "Idiom": [
      "play along"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To cooperate or go along with a plan.",
    "Sentence": [
      "I have doubts about your plan, but I'll play along for now."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "6421-5",
    "Idiom": [
      "play along"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To pretend to cooperate.",
    "Sentence": [
      "I haven't told him yet, I'm still playing along with his scheme."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "6421-6",
    "Idiom": [
      "play along"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To go along with someone or something, often for a purpose.",
    "Sentence": [
      "The con man plays his victims along until he senses the moment to ask for money."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "6422",
    "Idiom": [
      "play around"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Engaging in sexual practices outside of a committed relationship.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "6423",
    "Idiom": [
      "play back"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To replay a recording.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "6424-1",
    "Idiom": [
      "play ball"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To start anything tumultuous.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "6424-2",
    "Idiom": [
      "play ball"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To cooperate.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Donohue also promised Kopacz he'd help him out of his numerous legal problems in several stales if K. would play ball with Mass. cops and agree to implicate Roger Spear and Mark Davis as malefactors in Barbre's death.",
      "The Luftwaffe, at this point, was still refusing to play ball completely, however. But someone decided to lump Adolf Galland with command of the air operation, and he decided to work with Luftflotte 3, mobilizing their training units to make up the numbers, since large numbers of that particular formation's fighters had been diverted to the campaign in Russia, which was why the fighter numbers were so much lower than they had been the previous year.",
      "The politicians refused to play ball with the journalists."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "6425-1",
    "Idiom": [
      "play booty"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To play a game dishonestly to induce someone to continue playing.",
    "Sentence": [
      "So that we understand what we ought to do; but when we come to deliberate, we play booty against ourselves"
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "6425-2",
    "Idiom": [
      "play booty"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To double-cross someone.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Oh, we see through you, John Silver; you want to play booty, that’s what’s wrong with you."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "6426",
    "Idiom": [
      "play both sides against the middle"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To manipulate opponents for personal gain.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Some of the lesser Democrats, especially in the remoter reaches of the Bible country, have the same yearning, but they are not as numerous as the Republicans, all of whom have been greatly embarrassed by Dr. Hoover's laborious efforts to play both sides against the middle.",
      "While the Kremlin stood by and tried to play both sides against the middle, the defeat of the Palestinians in Lebanon helped establish the political atmosphere that enabled Sadat to make his trip to Jerusalem.",
      "Patsy may have been playing both sides against the middle in an effort to get her career going and to get herself out from under Peer's pressuring and the sexual demands he placed on her.",
      "Luciano went about playing both sides against the middle until the two families went at each other in the famously bloody Castellamarese War later in the decade..."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "6427",
    "Idiom": [
      "play by ear"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To improvise or react without a plan.",
    "Sentence": [
      "There over, hereunder / Or up above, don't wonder / We can always play by ear / But that's the deal, my dear",
      "If they ask for something we didn't prepare, we will have to play it by ear."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "6428",
    "Idiom": [
      "play chicken"
    ],
    "Meaning": "A risky test of courage.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "6429",
    "Idiom": [
      "play down"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To make something seem less important.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Reports that the project is in trouble have been circulating for many months and have been played down by officials.",
      "The essay attempts to play down the role slavery had in the Civil War.",
      "The senator played down the threat of a recession.",
      "During the wave of anti-immigrant sentiment, Miguel played down his immigrant status by removing Chicano patois from his speech and adopting the nickname \"Mike.\""
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "6430",
    "Idiom": [
      "play dumb"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To feign ignorance or simplicity to avoid responsibility or gain an advantage.",
    "Sentence": [
      "I played dumb 'cause I knew if I talked at all, being simple and guileless, you all would twist me up and have the whole thing in a jiffy.",
      "Died. Virginia Hill, 49, redheaded, free-spending playmate of the underworld... who later acted out a cameo role before the late Senator Estes Kefauver's Senate crime committee, playing dumb about the business dealings of her many racketeer friends.",
      "Valchek: Kid, careers have been launched on a helluvalot less. Just... shut up and play dumb. Hauk: I can do that, no problem."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "6431-1",
    "Idiom": [
      "play fast and loose"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Ignores proper behavior for personal gain.",
    "Sentence": [
      "I cannot say that there were any outright lies in the editorial, but it does play fast and loose with the truth."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "6431-2",
    "Idiom": [
      "play fast and loose"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Acting recklessly or irresponsibly.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "6431-3",
    "Idiom": [
      "play fast and loose"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To act in an unreliable or deceitful manner.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "6432",
    "Idiom": [
      "play first fiddle"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To play a leading role.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "6433",
    "Idiom": [
      "play for love"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To play without stakes.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "6434",
    "Idiom": [
      "play for time"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To delay until ready.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Two cheers for that, at best. The original six party talks ran, or rather crawled, from 2003 to 2008. It remains unclear if North Korea was ever serious – or just playing for time while working on HEU."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "6435",
    "Idiom": [
      "play games"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To deceive or mislead.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Stop playing games with me and tell me the truth."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "6436-1",
    "Idiom": [
      "play hardball"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To use any means necessary to achieve a goal, often disregarding consequences.",
    "Sentence": [
      "He was more than willing to extend the terms of the loan, but his boss decided to play hardball and demanded a balloon payment."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "6436-2",
    "Idiom": [
      "play hardball"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To act ruthlessly, especially in business or politics.",
    "Sentence": [
      "But if ministers keep on playing hardball with TfL because of narrow party interests, London will lose out. Forcing a 4.8% rise on London fares will only encourage congestion at a time when the roads are already full and public transport is underused.",
      "So you wanna play hardball ?"
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "6437",
    "Idiom": [
      "play hob with"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Cause trouble for.",
    "Sentence": [
      "They say it's playing hob with the fellers in these here parts.",
      "The revolutionists who are playing hob with our generation are really masters of the obsolete.",
      "It'll play hob with my sleep schedule but I suppose it can't be helped. Please let the house elves know that if I ask for an early breakfast at, say, three A.M. tomorrow morning, I'm to receive it."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "6438",
    "Idiom": [
      "play hooky"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To skip school or work without permission.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Plenty of people played hooky from work to go see the movie on opening day."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "6439",
    "Idiom": [
      "play in Peoria"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To receive widespread acceptance.",
    "Sentence": [
      "We must constantly ask ourselves whether our analysis will play in Peoria.",
      "Mr. Baker persuaded his boss that this pocketbook explanation of war aims, despite its negative reception with opinion leaders, would play in Peoria.",
      "Will black-lace-trimmed purple panties play in Peoria ? Why not? Cool is the common denominator of teens everywhere.",
      "Cruz was not speaking of Jews.... He was talking about liberals and liberalism of the kind that never, ever plays in Peoria."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "6440",
    "Idiom": [
      "play it cheap"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To be frugal or stingy.",
    "Sentence": [
      "With blind eagerness, judged by subsequent action and indifference, our Government seems to have essayed to play the part of philanthropist, guide, and friend, but to \"play it cheap\", as if phrases could alter facts, or high-sounds declarations could complete, in a moment, what centuries elsewhere have been none too long ago.",
      "It was no less grateful to the British people in their honest desire to play the part of guide, philosopher, and friend to the people of Egypt, but to play it cheap.",
      "It may cost politicians their necks for giving them those reasons, but some politicians have moved in and out of office-and some have stayed there-by playing it cheap.",
      "it plays it cheap, it plays it safe. The disc is a Columbia TriStar Home Video Deluxe Widescreen Presentation (89546, $40).",
      "Then, mistakenly, we played it cheap by having some of our Chinese employees in New York translate it.",
      "I played it cheap with my In Rainbows purchase, but many committed Radiohead fans were more generous.",
      "No, he didn't play it cheap, but that didn't alter the fact that he was never going to let himself hurt Melodye.",
      "There were no limos or extravagances at this point, because we all wanted to make as much money as possible. We played it cheap. No huge catering bills, no wild parties, not even upgraded hotel rooms. Whenever we arrived at an airport Robin would be there to meet us in a rented SUV or big sedan, and we'd head to the gig on our own.",
      "The Checker had taken many poundings down the years and for a big car was agile on its feet, but Ed had played it cheap as he always did and stuck with an old bald set of Royals where the rubber had gone hard as rocks.",
      "But even if they do have the made hand, you still have outs to beat them. Play it cheap if you can otherwise fold."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "6441",
    "Idiom": [
      "play it cool"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To act relaxed or nonchalant.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "6442-1",
    "Idiom": [
      "play it for all it's worth"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To take full advantage of.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "6442-2",
    "Idiom": [
      "play it for all it's worth"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To go to the maximum extent.",
    "Sentence": [
      "I tell you-all boys, when you-all got a hunch, play it for all it's worth. What's luck good for, if you all ain't to ride it? And when you-all ride it, ride like hell."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "6443-1",
    "Idiom": [
      "play it straight"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To behave honestly or sincerely.",
    "Sentence": [
      "\"The position you'd put me in would be this—of playing a game—and a jolly important game at that—in which the loser loses to me on purpose.... If we're going to play a game,\" he continued, addressing Davenant, before the latter had time to speak, \"for Heaven's sake let us play it straight —like men. Let the winner win and the loser lose—\"",
      "He added, \"I think the American people want a President who will play it straight in foreign policy, tell them the truth.\""
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "6443-2",
    "Idiom": [
      "play it straight"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To perform a role seriously and honestly.",
    "Sentence": [
      "And how can you not admire a man who could star in a stinker like Battlestar Galactica —and play it straight ?",
      "Peter Schickele, the musical satirist and radio show host whose PDQ Bach Christmas concerts sell out Carnegie Hall each year, is not known for playing it straight."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "6443-3",
    "Idiom": [
      "play it straight"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To avoid dishonest behavior.",
    "Sentence": [
      "\"But the best thing about him is that he always played it straight with us—never double‐dealed, giving us two and keeping one for himself.\"",
      "Belfort, who made millions on Wall Street before the FBI indicted him and he served nearly two years in federal prison, told the audience he could have made a lot more money if he had played it straight.",
      "\"They could have made a fortune just playing it straight, but that wasn't enough for them,\" said Gill.... The brothers ultimately pleaded guilty to federal charges of conspiracy and bank fraud."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "6444",
    "Idiom": [
      "play on someone's heartstrings"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To evoke strong emotions of sadness or pity.",
    "Sentence": [
      "I love you more each day I love the music you play on my heartstrings I feel you in every way Reach for touch, you play on my heartstrings",
      "“Why can't you just tell me? You're my only friend.” My words play on her heartstrings like I hoped they would, because her features soften."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "6445",
    "Idiom": [
      "play on words"
    ],
    "Meaning": "A pun or humorous language use.",
    "Sentence": [
      "There are two general classes under which all the examples are grouped: plays on words which are due to a double meaning, and the plays merely on sound (die Laut- oder Klaugspiele). The term for the latter group Dr. Wurth gives as puns, punnings.",
      "19. The original play on words here is between furlani (decree) and hurlani (date)."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "6446",
    "Idiom": [
      "play one against another"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To manipulate two people into competing for personal benefit.",
    "Sentence": [
      "You would expect that we would stick together more, but no way Pete! They lie and snitch on each other and so the system has even more control over us by playing us against each other."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "6447",
    "Idiom": [
      "play politics"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To act according to self-interest rather than moral conviction.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "6448-1",
    "Idiom": [
      "play possum"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To feign death or remain undetected.",
    "Sentence": [
      "What happened to Job after that I am sure I do not know, but my own impression is that he lay still upon the corpse of his deceased assailant, \" playing 'possum \" as the Americans say.",
      "Thinking fast, we played possum, hoping the bear wouldn't bother us.",
      "The soldier played possum, fooling the sniper.",
      "To keep the focus away from his client, the lawyer basically played possum during the entire complex trial, and his tactic paid off with an acquittal."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "6448-2",
    "Idiom": [
      "play possum"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To feign sleep or illness.",
    "Sentence": [
      "When we used to get home late at night, I would play possum so my daddy would carry me inside and put me in bed."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "6448-3",
    "Idiom": [
      "play possum"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To feign ignorance or conceal something to deceive.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Though, as it afterwards turned out, the Yankee had money enough about him, and was merely playing the ’possum all the while.",
      "Never imposing upon any one myself, I suffered no one to play the possum with me.",
      "You have been holding-in all this while — possumus omnes, we all play the ’possum...",
      "As none came with the coach from Deadwood, I suppose the amount of funds was insignificant. You can't tell, though, for the stage company is liable to play possum sometimes."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "6449",
    "Idiom": [
      "play second fiddle"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To play a subordinate role.",
    "Sentence": [
      "She had been mistress of the farm so long that it would be hard for her to play second fiddle, but give her time and she'd be as good as new butter and as nice as ninepence, he said.",
      "Christmas queen Mary Berry's aubergine five-nut roast, from her Christmas Collection, is, as the name suggests, rather more focused on the nut side of things. Breadcrumbs play second fiddle to a medley of almonds, Brazils, chestnuts, pine nuts and pistachios which, although tangy with lemon juice and garlic, is outrageously dense. A single slice of this could leave you supine in front of the Queen's speech without even the wherewithal to reach for the remote control."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "6450",
    "Idiom": [
      "play silly buggers"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To act recklessly or foolishly.",
    "Sentence": [
      "\"Look,\" he said, \"it's just fate playing silly buggers with you. With me. With us. It's a complete coincidence.\""
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "6451",
    "Idiom": [
      "play someone like a fiddle"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To manipulate someone skillfully.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "6452",
    "Idiom": [
      "play someone like a violin"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To manipulate someone, especially emotionally.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "6453",
    "Idiom": [
      "play stupid games, win stupid prizes"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Expect negative consequences for poor decisions.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "6454",
    "Idiom": [
      "play the Nazi card"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To invoke the Hitler comparison in a debate.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "6455",
    "Idiom": [
      "play the angles"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To seek self-interest through calculating choices.",
    "Sentence": [
      "In a town where everybody plays the angles and wholesomeness is something of an aberration, Julie Andrews, 31, is tolerated as a delightful kook.",
      "She told him that she was dangerous, that she couldn't be trusted, that all she wanted to do in her life was play the angles and stick it to anybody who gave her the opportunity.",
      "Iran, always playing the angles, is still trying to figure out how much economic pain it is willing to accept to maintain its nuclear ambitions and what, if anything, it is willing to give up.",
      "For tax evaders and those playing the angles, a network of accountants, lawyers and bankers is ready to set up shell companies and phony trusts to hide behind."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "6456",
    "Idiom": [
      "play the ball and not the man"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Focus on the argument, not the person.",
    "Sentence": [
      "\"Billionaire Johann Rupert has called on politicians to play the ball and not the man in his acceptance of the Sunday Times Top 100 Companies Lifetime Achievement Award... “Why attack people instead of debating the issue? Our issues are unemployment and a terrible educational system. It is a disaster,” said Rupert.\"",
      "\"‘I would always try and play the ball and not the man when it comes to these things... I think to get personal about it is not helpful at all.’\""
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "6457",
    "Idiom": [
      "play the field"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To date multiple people without exclusivity.",
    "Sentence": [
      "I know you got charm and appeal / You always play the field / I'm crazy to think you're all mine",
      "In a world where you can get a sexual partner faster than a pizza delivery, it has never been easier to play the field.",
      "But ostriches in breeding season are relentlessly promiscuous, with both males and females seeking liaisons with multiple partners. No doubt they have their reasons. But from an evolutionary perspective, playing the field is a way to get diverse DNA into as many nests as possible and compensate for the fact that most nests fail.",
      "He says I'm the only one, but my friends say he's playing the field."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "6458-1",
    "Idiom": [
      "play the fool"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To behave foolishly or comically.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Back in school again Maxwell plays the fool again. Teacher gets annoyed"
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "6458-2",
    "Idiom": [
      "play the fool"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To pretend ignorance.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "6459",
    "Idiom": [
      "play the gender card"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To assert sexism in a situation for personal gain.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Oh, I don't wanna play the gender card card right now. You wanna play a card? Let's play the \"let's not die\" card.",
      "What worries me is that she is accused of \" playing the gender card \" when citing the old boys’ club, while he is seen as unifying by citing civil rights confrontations.",
      "the CAS was going to lose two of its best teachers; tolerate a mediocre one who had skillfully played the gender card by hiding behind her pregnancy; and retain an ineffective one.",
      "How can you tell the difference between someone playing the gender card and someone actually calling out misogyny when you so obviously have no expertise on the matter?"
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "6460",
    "Idiom": [
      "play the hand one is dealt"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Use available resources realistically within one's circumstances.",
    "Sentence": [
      "\"Don't you care. Play the hand that's dealt you and let the boss worry.\"",
      "\"We have the players we have and I've got to play the hand dealt,\" Coslet said. \"We are limited in what we can do.\"",
      "\"I am a great believer in self-management, that you must survive and find a way to play the hand you are dealt.\"",
      "There were mainstream candidates who seemed stronger than Mr Romney.... But the party must play the hand it is dealt, which appears to be Mr Romney."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "6461",
    "Idiom": [
      "play the man and not the ball"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To make an ad hominem attack.",
    "Sentence": [
      "\"\"What we are seeing is an orchestrated campaign from the Labor Party to try to play the man and not the ball,\" he said... \"[And] this is the kind of personal attack that we are going to see from the Labor Party right up until polling day.\"\"",
      "\"“Claims that the words meant anything other than the “ultimate solution” to any political question is always a popular vote are simply ridiculous,” Anning said... “As I called for a plebiscite on the immigration mix, this baseless and ridiculous criticism is simply an effort to play the man and not the ball ”.\""
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "6462",
    "Idiom": [
      "play the ponies"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To bet on horse racing.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "6463",
    "Idiom": [
      "play the race card"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To assert race is involved in a situation to exploit attitudes.",
    "Sentence": [
      "The defense played the race card, but Ito let them.",
      "Moreover, some leaders on both sides of any racial divide love to play the race card to keep themselves in power.",
      "White man: White privilege ? Now you're just playing the race card. Clio: No. I'm not \" playing the race card \". Because racism isn't a card game to me. It can get me killed or jailed... threaten my livelihood. I don't have the privilege to treat it like a game. White man: Oooo well played!"
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "6464",
    "Idiom": [
      "play the same tape"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To repeat exactly what was previously said or done.",
    "Sentence": [
      "There are things some people might wish to alter about [the restaurant] Die Jägerhütte (for myself, they could play the same tape for months and I still wouldn't slap a thigh).",
      "I married a man much like my controlling stepfather. We tend to play the same tape until we see who we are.",
      "All they do in church is play the same tape over and over. I could recite that stuff by heart.",
      "We met a staff member, Pat, from Senator Dole's office first.... We had our message clear and crisp. We gave a couple of examples... . We indicated... . We talked about... . We thanked Pat and, as we walked to Senator Burr's office, congratulated each other... . We had a very good meeting with John from Senator Burr's office and played the same tape from our earlier meeting."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "6465",
    "Idiom": [
      "play the victim card"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Portraying oneself as a victim to avoid responsibility.",
    "Sentence": [
      "The serial killer played the victim card as he blamed others for his actions."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "6466",
    "Idiom": [
      "play the wag"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To play truant.",
    "Sentence": [
      "that unaccountable luck that appears to always wait upon a boy when he plays the wag from school, and goes out fishing on a sunny afternoon, with a bit of string tied on to the end of a tree."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "6467",
    "Idiom": [
      "play to the gallery"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To appeal to an audience for maximum approval.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "6468",
    "Idiom": [
      "play to win"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Make a determined effort to achieve success or a specific goal.",
    "Sentence": [
      "\"I play to win. I am playing for human lives. This, sir, is the torture, marks of which you have seen on the prisoners; but your inexperience will not detect at a glance all the diabolical ingenuity and cruelty that lurks in this piece of linen and these straps of leather.\"",
      "\"The difference between playing to win and playing not to lose is the difference between the successful executive and the security-hunting, mediocre man.",
      "And Bullock could care less about the judge's threats. Like always, he was playing to win.",
      "Rahm Emanuel was certainly a surprising choice for chief of staff — he's a hard-cussing, old-school-campaign knife fighter and pragmatic congressional arm twister who plays to win."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "6469",
    "Idiom": [
      "play up"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To misbehave.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Children who do not receive enough attention may begin to play up.",
      "The radar system is playing up again."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "6470",
    "Idiom": [
      "play well with others"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Demonstrates good interpersonal skills in social or work situations.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "6471",
    "Idiom": [
      "play with a full deck"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Behave as if mentally stable and alert.",
    "Sentence": [
      "I think we all realize he's not playing with a full deck.",
      "Someday our grandchildren will look up at us and say, \"Where were you, Grandma, and what were you doing when you first realized that President Reagan was, er, not playing with a full deck ?\"",
      "Every single person, who Grandma said were family members, appeared to be either mentally ill, retarded, or strung out on drugs. Grandma seemed to be playing with a full deck, but no one else was.",
      "“My father’s favorite saying was, ‘Are you alright?’ and ‘Are you playing with a full deck ?’” recalled Darren."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "6472",
    "Idiom": [
      "play with fire"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To take unnecessary risks that may lead to harm.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Long predicted by climate models, stratospheric cooling is a result of the Earth’s atmosphere attempting to maintain its energy \"balance.\" Much more work will need to be performed before this troubling surprise is fully understood, but it already illustrates the recklessness of this \"planetary experiment\" that humanity has under way. We are not only playing with fire, but ice as well. As Robert Frost wrote, \"Some say the world will end in fire; some say in ice.\" Either one, he added, \"would suffice.\"",
      "I'm telling you, if you sign that paper, you're playing with fire.",
      "Play with fire and you get burned."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "6473-1",
    "Idiom": [
      "play with house money"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To be in a situation with little or no personal risk.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "6473-2",
    "Idiom": [
      "play with house money"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To act with little or no risk.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "6474",
    "Idiom": [
      "pleased with oneself"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To be overly proud of one's accomplishments.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Nixon confirmed that the Chinese Communists at first demanded that throughout the communique Taiwan be referred to as \"a province of China.\" He said he had demurred, insisting that the U.S. side could refer to Taiwan only as \"a part of China.\" Nixon's reasoning was that being dubbed \"a province of China\" would place Taiwan immediately in a subordinate position vis-a-vis the People's Republic of China; whereas being labeled \"a part of China\" would give Taiwan, despite its smaller size, a higher status vis-a-vis the mainland. I could tell by listening to Nixon that he was very pleased with himself on this matter."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "6475",
    "Idiom": [
      "pleasure oneself"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To masturbate.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Eleanor pressed her fingers to her lips as Henry grasped his thick shaft and began to pleasure himself. What on earth was she doing standing there watching something so intimate, so private? She felt ashamed and excruciatingly embarrassed... and yet she couldn't tear her eyes away from him."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "6476",
    "Idiom": [
      "plough a lonely furrow"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To act in isolation or originality without support from others.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "6477",
    "Idiom": [
      "plough money"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To invest money in a project.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "6478",
    "Idiom": [
      "plough one's own furrow"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To proceed independently, without regard to others.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Distinctiveness and individuality are not the same as individualism, in which the determination to plough one's own furrow regardless can be a threat to unity."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "6479",
    "Idiom": [
      "plough one's way"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To make one's way.",
    "Sentence": [
      "It was not until centuries later, when the ships of the white invader ploughed their way islandward, that flies and mosquitoes, centipedes and scorpions, and a host of insect pests, large and small, were introduced to temper the delights of the island paradise for all future time."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "6480",
    "Idiom": [
      "plough the back forty"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To engage in sexual intercourse.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "6481",
    "Idiom": [
      "plow on"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To continue with a tedious task.",
    "Sentence": [
      "If you want to get good grades in the exam, you have to plow on with the book."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "6482",
    "Idiom": [
      "plow the sands"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To waste time on something pointless.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "6483-1",
    "Idiom": [
      "plug in"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To connect an electrical device to a socket.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Hello, IT. Have you tried turning it off and turning it on again? Ok. Well, are you sure that it's plugged in ?",
      "I eschew the idea of plugging in my laptop to take notes and resort to old-fashioned pen and paper instead, so that I can enjoy more of the view and not be distracted by bashing a keyboard."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "6483-2",
    "Idiom": [
      "plug in"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To integrate a person into an organization.",
    "Sentence": [
      "The drivers routinely patrol these areas- welfare offices, senior centers, even street corners- asking the Medicare patients to come with them for check-ups in return for cash. To get plugged in, we enlisted Lizzie Green, a 75-year-old widow who lives on social security and a small pension. She agreed to be our undercover test patient.",
      "The Eskimos’ [football team] organizational depth has been tested early and often by a persistent injury bug that has claimed three starters and they continue to plug in new players and carry on.",
      "Research shows that children whose parents are involved in their school make better grades and have fewer disciplinary problems at school. When parents get plugged in at school, their children do better."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "6483-3",
    "Idiom": [
      "plug in"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To replace a variable with a number in an equation.",
    "Sentence": [
      "If an equation has three unknowns, you can plug in two of them to find the third."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "6483-4",
    "Idiom": [
      "plug in"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To input or enter data.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Want to find out what the bloggers are talking about before it hits the mainstream? Just sign up for PubSub and plug in your search terms. This site crawls more than 9 million blogs, public relations newswires, and SEC filings for relevant entries, and then e-mails you the results."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "6484-1",
    "Idiom": [
      "plug into"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To join something.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Those data points, and others, plug into an artificial intelligence model they’ve made. It spits out recommendations to each store leader, such as how many pies need to be on-hand in their shops by the hour. Last year, Sam’s Club sold enough pumpkin pies to fill up 450 football fields, officials said. (They declined to give an exact figure.)"
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "6484-2",
    "Idiom": [
      "plug into"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To become aware of or knowledgeable about.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Environmental education is just now grappling with this: how to enable a populace that will change jobs and locations frequently to plug into what is ecologically important in preserving whatever landscape it finds itself in?"
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "6484-3",
    "Idiom": [
      "plug into"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To substitute a variable with a number to solve an equation.",
    "Sentence": [
      "If you know two sides of a right triangle, you can find the third by plugging them into the Pythagorean Theorem."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "6485",
    "Idiom": [
      "plumber's helper"
    ],
    "Meaning": "A tool used to remove blockages from toilets, sinks, or drains.",
    "Sentence": [
      "This plumber's helper was in the corner, one of these big, industrial-strength jobs for blowing out major toilet blockage."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "6486",
    "Idiom": [
      "plunge in"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To enthusiastically start something new, often without experience.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "6487-1",
    "Idiom": [
      "plus ça change"
    ],
    "Meaning": "The more things change, the more they stay the same.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "6487-2",
    "Idiom": [
      "plus ça change"
    ],
    "Meaning": "The fundamentals remain constant despite outward changes.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "6488",
    "Idiom": [
      "poacher turned gamekeeper",
      "wolf guarding the sheep"
    ],
    "Meaning": "A person now protecting what they once exploited.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Ah! poacher turned gamekeeper ! That be settin' thief to catch thief!",
      "When President Roosevelt appointed Kennedy to the Securities Exchange Commission, he was acting on the \" poacher turned gamekeeper \" principle."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "6489-1",
    "Idiom": [
      "pocket dial"
    ],
    "Meaning": "An accidental phone call caused by unintended button presses.",
    "Sentence": [
      "But consider this first: How do you know that he really meant to call you and this wasn't just an accidental pocket dial ?",
      "It started off sounding like a pocket dial with incoherent noise and shouting",
      "My phone started ringing. I reached over and grabbed it, surprised to see Dewayne's name on the screen. Why would he be calling me at midnight on a Saturday? \"Hello?\" I said, almost expecting this to be a pocket dial."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "6489-2",
    "Idiom": [
      "pocket dial"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To accidentally call someone.",
    "Sentence": [
      "I answered and quickly realized that the person had “ pocket dialed ” me— his phone had called mine unintentionally.",
      "I laugh despite myself, wiping my face with my sleeve. \"Dan, you called me.\" \"Oh, Bird! Is that you?\" he says, laughing. \"I must have pocket dialed you.\"",
      "The navigational information his smartphone provided was not always accurate, and at times he would accidentally ' pocket dial' participants at inappropriate hours."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "6490",
    "Idiom": [
      "pocket up"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To accept an insult without showing resentment.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Well, ruffian, I must pocket up these wrongs",
      "the two unbelievers began to gather and pocket up their mistake",
      "we pocketed up our loss"
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "6491",
    "Idiom": [
      "pocket-sized"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Small-scale.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "6492-1",
    "Idiom": [
      "poetry in motion"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Fluid, graceful movement.",
    "Sentence": [
      "If we must have male figures in the most conspicuous parts of ballets, they should be young men of light and agreeable figures. But for the true realization of poetry in motion, the eye of the artist and true amateur requires the beautiful proportions of the female figure.",
      "From the front of the hood to the tips of the tail lights [of the car], the lines, were poetry in motion.",
      "He was jumping over hurdles. He was all smoothness and grace. He made it look easy—a sign of pure genius. OneTwoThreeAIR … OneTwoThreeAIR. I got so distracted by his poetry in motion that I wasn't ready when my track teammate Carrie P. came at me in a full-on sprint to hand off the baton. She crashed into me and I dropped it."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "6492-2",
    "Idiom": [
      "poetry in motion"
    ],
    "Meaning": "A person or thing that moves gracefully.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Poetry in motion, walkin' by my side / Her lovely locomotion keeps my eyes open wide / Poetry in motion, see her gentle sway / A wave out on the ocean could never move that way",
      "It's poetry in motion / And now she's making love to me / The spheres are in commotion",
      "TEDDY: I know what I like! Take Miss Hastings, for example. She's poetry in motion. And her voice, like honey dripping off the comb. / HANNAH: Yeah, but can she shoot? / TEDDY: It doesn't matter. Real ladies don't need to shoot.",
      "Above all else, Chi Kang loved to draw horses, proud creatures that transcended common crudeness. Chi Kang regarded horses as living art forms – poetry in motion; stunning, powerful and independent; capable of lifting humans to a higher standard beyond their own capabilities in movement and freedom.",
      "His timing was perfect. He was poetry in motion. He was the folk dancer equivalent to Barishnikov."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "6493",
    "Idiom": [
      "pogi point"
    ],
    "Meaning": "A favor earned by a man to impress a woman or her family.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "6494",
    "Idiom": [
      "point blank"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Directly and bluntly.",
    "Sentence": [
      "There’s a neighbor named Brace Dunlap that’s been wanting to marry their Benny for three months, and at last they told him point blank and once for all, he COULDN’T; so he has soured on them, and they’re worried about it.",
      "I asked him point blank whether he was cheating on his wife."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "6495",
    "Idiom": [
      "point fingers"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To accuse others of wrongdoing.",
    "Sentence": [
      "If Burnham is right, then it seems to me that the reaction of TfN, NR and DfT to questions is for each to point fingers at the others."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "6496",
    "Idiom": [
      "point man"
    ],
    "Meaning": "A trusted assistant or key person.",
    "Sentence": [
      "McCarthy made a name for himself as a point man for a far right-wing current that attacked the Truman administration for the \"loss\" of China."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "6497-1",
    "Idiom": [
      "point out"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To identify or indicate something, often not easily noticed.",
    "Sentence": [
      "I have often been amused by travellers pointing out, first the Eden, just north of the station, and then the Esk, which young Lochinvar swam, as the Border; the real boundary is, of course, the little river Sark, just south of the Caledonian station at Gretna; .",
      "He pointed out the little brown bird in the tree.",
      "She pointed out the two drummers in the class."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "6497-2",
    "Idiom": [
      "point out"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To indicate or bring attention to something.",
    "Sentence": [
      "As a Hitchin signalman once pointed out to me, when a regulating quandary arises concerning a fast-moving Class A train there is no time to consult Control and get their answer before the express is on one's doorstep.",
      "I would just like to point out that we need to finish our meeting by 9 o'clock."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "6498",
    "Idiom": [
      "point the finger at"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To accuse or blame someone.",
    "Sentence": [
      "In terms of comparing rail with other transport modes, Dr Laurie Wright, senior lecturer at Solent University, tells RAIL : \"It is easy to point the finger at aviation and view rail as a low-carbon alternative. You go somewhere, you burn fuel to get there, and people point fingers at you for it.",
      "It seems like everyone always tries to point the finger at somebody else.",
      "That is a serious accusation, so make sure you have plenty of evidence before you point the finger at someone."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "6499",
    "Idiom": [
      "point up"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To emphasize or draw attention to.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Although Alive and Well claims to be a \"well-informed, loving guide to lesbian health, both mental and physical,\" it falls dismally short of the mark and only serves to point up how much lesbians truly need such a volume.",
      "That the OED was forced to define one register, slang, in terms of another, colloquial, points up the problem."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "6500",
    "Idiom": [
      "poison pen"
    ],
    "Meaning": "A spiteful or defamatory written expression.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Peter Isaacson continued his attack on Hearst and the poison pen of his editors.",
      "After Mr. Rowland spoke, his wife, Patricia, delivered a spoof on the poem \"Twas the Night Before Christmas,\" that was a stinging sing-song rebuke of the news organizations that had reported on her husband's shortcomings and the widening federal investigation into his administration. Referring to the news media, she said: \"They used to be good girls and boys, Santa said. But the poison pen's power has gone to their head.\"",
      "The centrepiece of her work was a weekly column that could brim with venom.... Cherie Blair, Geri Halliwell, Sarah Ferguson, Victoria Beckham and Princess Diana all found themselves the subjects of Lee-Potter's poison pen."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "6501",
    "Idiom": [
      "poison-pen letter"
    ],
    "Meaning": "A malicious or defamatory letter, often unsigned.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Miss Theresa Samuels... is accused by the Post Office authorities of sending scurrilous letters to young women whose engagements to marry had been publicly announced.... Those who received the poison pen letters were not willing to court the notoriety that would follow the prosecution of the case.",
      "A retired academic was the author of a poison-pen letter campaign that brought 12 years of fear to a North Yorkshire village, a court was told yesterday. Dr James Forster... was alleged to have branded one villager a prostitute and sent the 13-year-old daughter of the parish clerk a copy of a pornographic magazine."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "6502",
    "Idiom": [
      "poisoned chalice"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Something that seems beneficial but is ultimately harmful.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Remember the death of Wilson was fearfully avenged; and those yet live who can compel you to drink the dregs of your poisoned chalice.—",
      "You need not, therefore, be surprised to hear of the vigorous blockade of the Chesapeake and Hampton Roads, and of the ports of seceded States, and that if these States erect batteries at Memphis or Vicksburgh to intercept the commerce of the Mississippi, that measures of stern retaliation or resistance will be inaugurated by the Government, to force the poisoned chalice to the lips of those who first drugged it.",
      "The great spiritual visions of human history have also been poisoned chalices, the causes of untold misery and even savagery.",
      "His [ Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani 's] role last year in persuading Ayatollah [Ruhollah] Khomeini to agree a Gulf War ceasefire – a decision the imam likened \"to drinking from a poisoned chalice \" – enhanced his reputation for pragmatism.",
      "The CPA [Coalition Provisional Authority] left the Interim Government with two unresolved crises that were more akin to poisoned chalices.",
      "It is why the question of whether Labour should have accepted the support of his [ Rupert Murdoch 's] media empire as a gift, or spurned it as a poisoned chalice, retains a certain relevance.",
      "“For them [the populist right], the AfD is becoming a poisoned chalice.”"
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "6503",
    "Idiom": [
      "poke holes in"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To criticize by finding flaws or weaknesses.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "6504",
    "Idiom": [
      "poke someone's eye out"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To harm someone's eye significantly.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Hey, watch where you're throwing that thing! You could've poked Jeff's eye out."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "6505-1",
    "Idiom": [
      "poke the bear"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To deliberately aggravate someone in power.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Throughout my training I witnessed several doctors run out of town because their honesty and outspokenness began to poke the bear.",
      "His advice to Zuckerberg, the Times later reported, was “ Don’t poke the bear ”—avoid incurring the wrath of Trump and his supporters."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "6505-2",
    "Idiom": [
      "poke the bear"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To deliberately provoke or anger someone or something powerful.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "6506",
    "Idiom": [
      "poles apart"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Totally opposite.",
    "Sentence": [
      "She mixed furniture with the same fatal profligacy as she mixed drinks, and this outrageous contact between things which were intended by Nature to be kept poles apart gave her an inexpressible thrill.",
      "As regards distance there is little to choose between them and until the recent diversions there was a marked similarity in their train services; but the resemblance ends there and in character the two lines are poles apart.",
      "In a purely spiritual sense, the two are poles apart and without the material could never be brought together in a single entity.",
      "At this level, science and magic are poles apart and yet they are the same.",
      "Two city living however has its own flipside, not the least the difficulty straddling the two different cultures of two cities that are poles apart."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "6507",
    "Idiom": [
      "polish a turd"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To try to improve something that is fundamentally flawed or worthless.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Demaso, trying hard to scrub a wall behind one of the toilets, started complaining how dirty the walls in the entire bathroom were. Tripp also chimed in that they were polishing a turd and that what the bathroom needed was a fresh coat of paint."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "6508",
    "Idiom": [
      "polish off"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To finish completely, especially food or drink.",
    "Sentence": [
      "They polished off the last of the cake."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "6509",
    "Idiom": [
      "polite fiction"
    ],
    "Meaning": "A social scenario where participants pretend to believe an alternative truth to avoid conflict.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Susan is only able to deal with the fact that her husband has sex with the man down the street through a polite fiction. She knows what her husband is really doing when he says he is going \"to buy cigarettes\"."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "6510-1",
    "Idiom": [
      "political football"
    ],
    "Meaning": "A contentious political issue that remains unresolved.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Last week the most curious sidelight on Winston Churchill's recent trip to Italy was the revelation that Sicily was once again becoming a political football at the toe of the Italian boot.",
      "It is a trial that no city in Florida wants to hold, a political football that has already bounced from Miami to Orlando to Tallahassee, back to Orlando.",
      "Obtaining approval for West Coast Main Line electrification south of Crewe became a political football in 1960."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "6510-2",
    "Idiom": [
      "political football"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Unproductive political conflict over an issue.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Throughout the month preceding Bruno Richard Hauptmann's electrocution, Carter had relentlessly goaded New Jersey's Governor Harold Giles Hoffman and his henchmen for playing political football with the...",
      "The pope's visit to the Holy Land seemed to be a game of political football, with both the Israelis and the Palestinians claiming he was rooting for their team."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "6511-1",
    "Idiom": [
      "politically correct"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Sensitive to giving offense.",
    "Sentence": [
      "A man cannot be politically correct and a chauvinist too.",
      "Why do they call camels \"Ships-of-the-desert\" ? Because they're full of Iranian seamen. (NOW, being politically correct you must, of course, substitute \"martian\" What a clever joke this becomes! Hopefully, there are no martians listening.)",
      "The geth serve as a cautionary tale against the dangers of rogue AI, and in Citadel Space they are technically illegal. Advocacy groups argue, however, that an AI is a living, conscious entity deserving the same rights as organics. They argue that continued use of the term \"artificial\" is institutionalized racism on the part of organic life, the term \"synthetic\" is considered the politically correct alternative.",
      "It appears that in trying to solve one problem - bias - the tech giant has created another: output which tries so hard to be politically correct that it ends up being absurd."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "6511-2",
    "Idiom": [
      "politically correct"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Conforming to left-wing social views.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Don Imus, Bernard McGuirk, Trent Lott, Larry Summers, the Duke lacrosse team, Jimmy the Greek, the kid who yelled \"water buffalo\" at Penn, Howard Cosell, Jon Stewart, Chief Illiniwek, Jackie Mason and \"South Park\" all have in common only one thing: They have not been Politically Correct.",
      "From foie gras produced without making birds suffer to \"sustainable\" fish, British retailers and restaurants are fast embracing politically correct food, helped by celebrity-fuelled pressure.",
      "Even when mounted in the context of animal-centric conferences or events, exhibits of “animal art” routinely display works consisting of animal parts or taxidermied animals—most of which can be viewed while people are eating their politically correct vegan lunch."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "6512",
    "Idiom": [
      "pony in the barn"
    ],
    "Meaning": "An exciting and real prospect.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "6513-1",
    "Idiom": [
      "poop factory"
    ],
    "Meaning": "A colloquial term for an infant.",
    "Sentence": [
      "She didn't feel pushed aside because the colic-stricken poop factory needed to be changed and burped again."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "6513-2",
    "Idiom": [
      "poop factory"
    ],
    "Meaning": "An animal causing a nuisance with its waste.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Ducklings and chicks grow at a phenomenal rate, consuming a huge amount of food. And what goes in, must come out. They are pecking, peeping poop factories."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "6514",
    "Idiom": [
      "poop in one's pants"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To become extremely frightened.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "6515",
    "Idiom": [
      "poop machine"
    ],
    "Meaning": "An animal that causes inconvenience with its feces.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Then, there's scooping the poop. Rats are real little poop machines."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "6516",
    "Idiom": [
      "poophole loophole"
    ],
    "Meaning": "The belief that anal sex preserves virginity.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "6517",
    "Idiom": [
      "poor as a church mouse",
      "poor as a rat"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Very poor or destitute.",
    "Sentence": [
      "But to return to our public functions; that we have had a decided turn for the church appears from the fact that the church-mouse is a recognised order amongst us, and it is our just pride that we alone have preserved the genuine character of the institution as founded by the Apostles, inasmuch as our poverty has passed into a proverb— \"as poor as a church-mouse.\"",
      "She was an Eastern Virginia woman, and, although poor as a church mouse, thought herself superior to West Virginia people.",
      "\"As poor as a poet\" would be quite as comprehensible as \"as poor as a church mouse.\"",
      "Pulford is currently building a raised bed for an allotment, and another school garden is due to open soon. \"I'm poor as a church mouse, but I wake up a happy man,\" he says."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "6518",
    "Idiom": [
      "poor little rich boy"
    ],
    "Meaning": "An unhappy young man from a wealthy background.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "6519",
    "Idiom": [
      "poor little rich girl"
    ],
    "Meaning": "An unhappy wealthy young woman.",
    "Sentence": [
      "One is a cheerful and spunky orphan, another is a poor little rich girl. (The poor little rich girl speaks with a British accent. The spunky orphan wears her baseball cap backwards, so you don't have a problem figuring out who's who.)",
      "Not all of the girls in my Guide Company were poor little rich girls. Mandy was a poor little poor girl, a mousy waif who lived out Thika Road, far from Muthaiga.",
      "So, are you a poor little rich girl, slumming it and hiding from boyfriends who only want your trust fund instead of you?"
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "6520",
    "Idiom": [
      "poor power"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Limited ability.",
    "Sentence": [
      "The brave men, living and dead, who struggled here, have consecrated it, far above our poor power to add or detract.",
      "Gibbie held her fast, and with all the ways in his poor power sought to comfort her.",
      "Heavy as was her burden, not one feather's weight of it should he carry, if by any means in her poor power she could hold it from his back.",
      "\"The spirit of the Stern Fund will continue,\" he said. \"It is beyond the poor power of lawyers to dissolve it.\""
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "6521",
    "Idiom": [
      "pop in"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To pay an impromptu visit.",
    "Sentence": [
      "She's popped in a couple of times on her way back from the fields to see if there's any news of the littl'un."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "6522-1",
    "Idiom": [
      "pop one's cork"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To become explosively angry.",
    "Sentence": [
      "They even decided to give him something they never gave Burton: an honorary Oscar. When O'Toole got wind of it, though, he popped his cork like a bottle of bubbly, and, at age 70, reminded the academy that he was \"still in the game and might win the lovely bugger outright.\"",
      "Mr. Reubens, as a rock concert promoter, gets to pop his cork, spewing expletives with a patently cathartic force."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "6522-2",
    "Idiom": [
      "pop one's cork"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To suddenly behave irrationally.",
    "Sentence": [
      "And there was Conductor Reyes, who was perfectly ordinary until one day he popped his cork and started explaining delays by announcing Command Center's telephone number and urging riders to phone for themselves.",
      "I’m sorry to say that even the usually reliable David Denby of The New Yorker seems to have popped his cork, proclaiming it ‘by far the strongest American film of the year.’",
      "Everything I’ve read says the shooter was a white supremacist who popped his cork."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "6522-3",
    "Idiom": [
      "pop one's cork"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To lose control or become very angry.",
    "Sentence": [
      "She had given him a perfunctory jerkoff, not even taking his dick out of his pants, laughing as he popped his cork within moments."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "6523",
    "Idiom": [
      "pop someone's cherry"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To take someone's virginity.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "6524-1",
    "Idiom": [
      "pop the cherry"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To break the hymen.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "6524-2",
    "Idiom": [
      "pop the cherry"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To lose one's virginity.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "6525",
    "Idiom": [
      "pop the question"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To propose marriage.",
    "Sentence": [
      "I was not able to learn what particular ceremony was observed in forming the marriage contract, but am inclined to think that it must have been of a very simple nature. Perhaps the mere \" popping the question \", as it is termed with us, might have been followed by an immediate nuptial alliance.",
      "At a pic-nic to Kenilworth, where we drank a good deal of champagne, I actually popped the question, and was accepted. In another month, Robert Stubbs, Esq., led to the altar, Leah, widow of the late Z. Manasseh, Esq., of St. Kitt's!",
      "If ever I do pop the question, I shall do it on the spur of the moment. There'll be no preparation with me, nor yet any beating about the bush. \"Would it suit your views, my dear, to be Mrs. Spooner?\" that's about the long and the short of it.",
      "70% of men welcome the idea of women's proposing marriage; 48% of women say they'd be willing to pop the question."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "6526",
    "Idiom": [
      "pop up"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To appear unexpectedly.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Across Japan, technology companies and private investors are racing to install devices that until recently they had little interest in: solar panels. Massive solar parks are popping up as part of a rapid build-up that one developer likened to an \"explosion.\"",
      "I can't remember where I left my keys, but they normally pop up somewhere."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "6527",
    "Idiom": [
      "popcorn movie"
    ],
    "Meaning": "A light, entertaining movie without deep significance.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Ah well, it's a pure popcorn movie, so what do you expect? Drop Zone doesn't tax many brain cells, but it does keep the pulse pounding right to the end.",
      "Spielberg calls Minority Report the most cynical film he will have made—but yes, it has a happy ending, he says, and yes, it's a popcorn movie, \"but a gourmet popcorn movie.\"",
      "As a movie, The Day After Tomorrow is your classic computer-generated cinematic confection, only the bad guy isn't an alien or a giant lizard, it's global warming. That gives Tomorrow a lot more political heft than your average popcorn movie."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "6528",
    "Idiom": [
      "pope's nose"
    ],
    "Meaning": "The tail end piece of a cooked bird.",
    "Sentence": [
      "He took heart and began to mend immediately; and gobbled up all the jelly, and picked the last bone of the chicken—drumsticks, merry-thought, sides’-bones, back, pope’s nose, and all."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "6529",
    "Idiom": [
      "porcelain god",
      "bow down before the porcelain god",
      "drive the porcelain bus",
      "pray to the porcelain god",
      "pray to the porcelain goddess",
      "worship the porcelain goddess"
    ],
    "Meaning": "A toilet bowl.",
    "Sentence": [
      "In \"City of Angels,\" surgeon Meg Ryan bows down before the porcelain goddess after losing a patient and informing the family."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "6530-1",
    "Idiom": [
      "porcelain goddess"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Metaphor for a delicate or unemotional woman.",
    "Sentence": [
      "It was a breathless whisper from a porcelain goddess, pale cheeks accentuating striking blue eyes and glossy pink lips, full and parted with shallow breaths."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "6530-2",
    "Idiom": [
      "porcelain goddess"
    ],
    "Meaning": "A toilet bowl.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "6531",
    "Idiom": [
      "porcelain skin"
    ],
    "Meaning": "smooth skin",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "6532",
    "Idiom": [
      "porch monkey"
    ],
    "Meaning": "An offensive racial slur.",
    "Sentence": [
      "\"We are concerned that outright harassment such as being called nigger, jungle bunny, porch monkey, boy, son, etc., is occurring entirely too much.\"",
      "“Look Jake, you need a real partner, you know what I mean, a real white partner, not that overweight porch monkey...; we whites have to stick together.”"
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "6533",
    "Idiom": [
      "pork up"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To add spending to legislation in exchange for votes.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "6534",
    "Idiom": [
      "possession is nine points of the law"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Possession is a strong legal claim.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "6535",
    "Idiom": [
      "possession is nine-tenths of the law"
    ],
    "Meaning": "One who has possession of a thing has some right to it.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "6536",
    "Idiom": [
      "poster boy"
    ],
    "Meaning": "A male exemplar of a trait.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "6537",
    "Idiom": [
      "poster child"
    ],
    "Meaning": "A quintessential example of something.",
    "Sentence": [
      "I think he smile could have opened the door by itself. It seemed to have a life of it’s own with snow-white teeth below sparkling blue eyes. Its owner could be the poster child for the expression “grinning from ear to ear.”",
      "“He’s not exactly a poster child for the average well-adjusted American kid. He’s only been in-country for a few days.”",
      "A visit to Adventure Island–an after-school program developed by Robert Slavin and Nancy Madden, professors at Johns Hospkins University and creators of Success for All, a comprehensive school reform program practiced in hundreds of schools across the country–could be the poster child for what some might call the academic approach.",
      "But it isn’t difficult to see why Lawrence, who has since become the poster child for healthy body image, elicits such strong reactions — particularly in GIF form, where differences between the original and Photoshopped images are clear.",
      "He's a poster child for militant vegetarianism."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "6538",
    "Idiom": [
      "poster girl"
    ],
    "Meaning": "A female exemplar of a trait.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "6539",
    "Idiom": [
      "pot calling the kettle black"
    ],
    "Meaning": "A situation where someone criticizes another for a flaw they also have.",
    "Sentence": [
      "I think it's a case of the pot calling the kettle black when she says he is obsessive."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "6540",
    "Idiom": [
      "potato chaser"
    ],
    "Meaning": "An Asian person attracted to white people.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "6541-1",
    "Idiom": [
      "potter's clay"
    ],
    "Meaning": "A person shaped by God.",
    "Sentence": [
      "I am the potter’s clay.",
      "We are but potter’s clay."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "6541-2",
    "Idiom": [
      "potter's clay"
    ],
    "Meaning": "A nation or kingdom.",
    "Sentence": [
      "And whereas thou sawest the feet and toes, part of potters’ clay, and part of iron, the kingdom shall be divided.",
      "In that you saw the feet and toes, partly of potter’s clay and partly of iron, it will be a divided kingdom."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "6542",
    "Idiom": [
      "potter's field"
    ],
    "Meaning": "A burial place for the unidentified or impoverished.",
    "Sentence": [
      "The despised pauper, most likely a foreigner, when his spirit has gone to its final resting-place, is probably carried to the Potter's Field.",
      "There was a Potter's Field, a cemetery for the poor and friendless, far out in the country.",
      "Hart's Island has been used for the past 50 years as a potter's field for the burial of the paupers.",
      "Potter's field. The commissioner shall have charge of the Potter's Fields, and when the necessity therefor shall arise, shall have power to lay out additional Potter's Fields or other public burial places for the poor and strangers and from time to time enclose and extend the same to make enclosures therein and to build vaults therein, and to provide all necessary labor and for interments therein. The Potter's Field on Hart's island, however, shall remain under the control of the department of correction, and the burial of deceased paupers therein shall continue under rules and regulations established by the joint action of the departments of social services and correction, or in case of disagreement between such departments, under such regulations as may be established by the mayor.",
      "Humboldt had been buried not in potter's field but far out in Deathsille, New Jersey, one of those vast, necropolitan developments …",
      "The old, helpless, bedridden inmates lying often in their own filth awaiting death and burial in potters field, alone and unknown."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "6543-1",
    "Idiom": [
      "potty mouth"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Regularly using vulgar language.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Enough of my bathroom humour, my potty mouth."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "6543-2",
    "Idiom": [
      "potty mouth"
    ],
    "Meaning": "A person who curses or uses vulgar language.",
    "Sentence": [
      "I’ve turned myself into a potty mouth. I swear. Too much."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "6544-1",
    "Idiom": [
      "pound a beat"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To walk a regular route.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Flat feet may be important to the patrolman who must pound a beat, but in cities with patrol cars, should mild cases of flat feet disqualify?",
      "You can't ask a college graduate who is interested in law enforcement to pound a beat for four years before he becomes a sergeant.",
      "I worked my way up from a flatfoot pounding a beat to where I am today. I like being a cop, I'm proud of being a cop.",
      "Assigned to the riverfront precinct for years, he pounded a beat of backstreets and dockyards."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "6544-2",
    "Idiom": [
      "pound a beat"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To cover a regular news beat.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Assigned to the city desk for years, she pounded a beat of city council and mayoral activity, police blotters, and the like."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "6545",
    "Idiom": [
      "pound of flesh"
    ],
    "Meaning": "A merciless demand for what is owed.",
    "Sentence": [
      "You must be under the impression that I'm one of these damned New England sharks that get their pound of flesh off the widow and orphan. If you're a little short, sign a note.",
      "When I wake up in my makeup / It's too early for that dress / Wilted and faded somewhere in Hollywood / I'm glad I came here with your pound of flesh",
      "[Trinamool] Congress [Party] will need to strike deals with other regional allies, such as Mulayam Singh Yadav in Uttar Pradesh. Their pound of flesh will be anti-reform, too."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "6546-1",
    "Idiom": [
      "pound sand"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To engage in a futile activity.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Without men on the ground, we'll be pounding sand.\"",
      "He told Shelton we needed to \"unleash holy hell.\" “We're not just going to pound sand,” he added."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "6546-2",
    "Idiom": [
      "pound sand"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To go away; get lost.",
    "Sentence": [
      "\"The price to us was going to be $3 million, and we had four months to pay before the Licensing 6.0 deadline. We told Microsoft to go pound sand.\"",
      "All you do is complain. Why don't you go pound sand up your ass and stop bothering the line staff."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "6547-1",
    "Idiom": [
      "pound the pavement",
      "beat the bushes"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To travel on foot.",
    "Sentence": [
      "The joggers pounded the pavement for several miles each day.",
      "They started beating the bushes in search of a commercially available solvent that would aid their manufacturing but wouldn't be too horribly toxic and wouldn't cost an arm and a leg."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "6548-2",
    "Idiom": [
      "pound the pavement"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To seek something diligently.",
    "Sentence": [
      "After a brief and unsuccessful search, he decided it was time to start pounding the pavement."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "6549",
    "Idiom": [
      "pour down the drain"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To waste prior work.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "6550",
    "Idiom": [
      "pour honey in one's ear"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To tell someone what they want to hear.",
    "Sentence": [
      "I'm five yards away, and horribly jealous. He comes over and pours honey in my ear about how all those months back I said I couldn't play it and then I brought so much to it and I am faint from what I can't say.",
      "You knew you and I were perfect for each other. But he poured honey in your ear somewhere along the way and got you pregnant and then he started fucking up. And you know how that tore at me?",
      "Rhys snapped shut the lid. “So he plies you with jewels and pours honey in your ear, and now you feel bad?”"
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "6551",
    "Idiom": [
      "pour honey on"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To praise or encourage.",
    "Sentence": [
      "You tryna pour honey on a midget lol",
      "Tyrese Maxey i would pour honey on you but you play for the sixers you can get a fist bump lil nigga 🤜🏾",
      "Y'all Be Pouring Honey On Anybody"
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "6552",
    "Idiom": [
      "pour oil on troubled waters"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To calm or appease a situation.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Tom Street deemed it his duty to pour oil upon the troubled waters, being, as it were, officially responsible for the welfare of the chowder-plates and tobacco-pipes which were hired for the occasion.",
      "I remember him taking umbrage when he thought I was doubting his grandmother's skills so I am quick to pour oil on troubled waters."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "6553",
    "Idiom": [
      "pour one out"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To express respect or tribute for something lost.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "6554",
    "Idiom": [
      "pour one's heart out"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To express innermost thoughts or feelings.",
    "Sentence": [
      "He poured his heart out to them, so as he never could in any other company, where he hath generally passed for being moody, or supercilious and silent.",
      "She would be all the better for pouring her heart out freely, and would be glad to do it, if she were sure of sympathy",
      "And I just can't pour my heart out, to another living thing, I'm a whisper, I'm a shadow, but I'm standing up to sing.",
      "The spirited lyrics, the dancing and the joy of watching these five handsome, clean-cut youngsters pouring their hearts out moved me then and moves me now."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "6555",
    "Idiom": [
      "poverty is a mindset",
      "poor is a state of mind",
      "poverty is a state of mind",
      "being poor is a state of mind",
      "being poor is a mindset",
      "poorness is a state of mind",
      "poor is a mindset"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Perception influences one's sense of poverty.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "6556",
    "Idiom": [
      "powder keg"
    ],
    "Meaning": "An explosive or volatile situation.",
    "Sentence": [
      "powder keg of Europe (term describing the unstable state of the Balkans before World War I)"
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "6557",
    "Idiom": [
      "power behind the throne"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Someone with covert influence over a person in authority.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "6558",
    "Idiom": [
      "power chord"
    ],
    "Meaning": "A chord used in rock music, often consisting of intervals like fourths and fifths, that sounds good at high volume and distortion.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "6559",
    "Idiom": [
      "power corrupts, absolute power corrupts absolutely"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Power's corrupting influence is greater with absolute power.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "6560",
    "Idiom": [
      "power grab"
    ],
    "Meaning": "An attempt to gain authority unethically.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "6561",
    "Idiom": [
      "power of the purse"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Control of finances as a check on power.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Congress has the power of the purse and can choose not to pay for a Presidential policy with which they disagree."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "6562",
    "Idiom": [
      "power-hungry"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Having a strong desire for power.",
    "Sentence": [
      "The accused politician was a power-hungry man who broke the law so he could help his buddies."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "6563",
    "Idiom": [
      "powers that be"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Holders of power or authorities, often seen as faceless or bureaucratic.",
    "Sentence": [
      "It appeared as though the hospital at Barchester would fall into abeyance, unless the powers that be should take some steps towards putting it once more into working order.",
      "Whoever you elect, he will legislate in favor of ‘law and order,’ to protect things as they are. The main concern of the powers that be is that the people should continue to believe in and uphold the existing system.",
      "Time is truly wastin', there's no guarantee / Smile is in the makin', we've got to fight the powers that be",
      "The powers that be, they trick us / Loopholes to evict us"
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "6564",
    "Idiom": [
      "practice makes perfect"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Consistent practice leads to mastery.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Golden words make practice, practice makes perfect, perfect is a fault, and fault lines change."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "6565",
    "Idiom": [
      "practice makes progress"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Regular practice leads to improvement over time.",
    "Sentence": [
      "There is a fine balance between asking too many questions and becoming an irritant, asking too few and knowing insufficient. But practice makes progress even if it is not possible to claim perfect.",
      "Although people may not be good at suppressing unwanted thoughts and derailing unbidden ruminations, practice makes progress.",
      "But what I find the most inspiring is \" Practice makes progress.\" Whether your progress is a yard or an inch — distance is distance."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "6566",
    "Idiom": [
      "praise to the skies"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To praise excessively.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "6567",
    "Idiom": [
      "praise with faint damns"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Minimal critique implying it’s the worst that can be said.",
    "Sentence": [
      "The former accordingly greeted his book with warm approval, and the latter praised it with faint damns.",
      "But his emphasis on the novel’s interest in sex was a come-on – a way of praising it with faint damns."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "6568",
    "Idiom": [
      "prawn cocktail offensive"
    ],
    "Meaning": "A strategy to win over influential financiers.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "6569",
    "Idiom": [
      "pray tell"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Expresses incredulity or requests an explanation.",
    "Sentence": [
      "But how, pray tell, do you \"notice\" something that happens when you're asleep?"
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "6570",
    "Idiom": [
      "preach in the desert"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To speak to an unresponsive audience.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "6571",
    "Idiom": [
      "preach to deaf ears"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To attempt to persuade someone who is unwilling to listen.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Roosevelt was tired of preaching to deaf ears. He was ready to try something else."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "6572",
    "Idiom": [
      "preach to the choir"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To convince those who already agree.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Jay Branegan says each side will be preaching to the choir. \"Democrats will make the argument that's been successful with their base [that] Republicans are merely helping the rich.\"",
      "It hardly needs saying that converting a Tory in a swingable “blue wall” constituency is electorally far more valuable than preaching to the choir in a Labour stronghold."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "6573",
    "Idiom": [
      "precious little"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Almost nothing.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Sandbanks, marshes, forests, savages, - precious little to eat fit for a civilised man, nothing but Thames water to drink.",
      "Then I hit the real world and in the next decade encountered precious little in the way of Twainesque romance or riches."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "6574",
    "Idiom": [
      "present company excepted"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Excludes the current audience from negative remarks.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Everybody it appears, the present company excepted, has plotted against Mrs Snagsby’s peace.",
      "\"I say, Reggie, old thing— present company excepted —have there been any loonies in your family?\"",
      "Am I glad we finally got rid of all those Klingons—er, present company excepted, of course.",
      "Well, even Stanford guys aren't perfect (present company excepted, of course)."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "6575",
    "Idiom": [
      "preserved in aspic"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Unchanged, especially if unexpected.",
    "Sentence": [
      "He described the service as ‘ preserved in aspic, speaking with the plummy tones of a Britain that scarcely existed any longer’."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "6576",
    "Idiom": [
      "press into service"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To make someone perform an unprepared task or to use something for an unintended function.",
    "Sentence": [
      "In essence, the book gives a step-by-step account of how the author built, modified and developed his own 6-inch Newtonian reflector, pressing into service such materials as old larder shelves, a car halfshaft, pieces of Meccano, and several coffee-jar tops.",
      "Even the molds don't have to be expensive — most plastic bins, bowls or drawer dividers can be pressed into service, though silicone molds are readily available.",
      "The chances are that you have nearly everything you need to start up your business already somewhere around your home. You can press into service a garage, loft, spare bedroom or garden shed for a whole host of business-related takes from holding stock to being a dedicated office space away from the normal hustle of home life.",
      "Anyone with basic first-aid training was pressed into service as a triage nurse after the earthquake."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "6577",
    "Idiom": [
      "press on"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To persist or continue.",
    "Sentence": [
      "British Railways are, however, pressing on with the introduction of standard equipment, and in this, the fourth year of unified working, standard locomotives and rolling stock will be coming into service in considerable numbers.",
      "And now she has the real dilemma: press on to King’s Landing, where I have no doubt she could get as close to killing Cersei as anyone else, or double back to Winterfell to reunite with her family."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "6578",
    "Idiom": [
      "press the flesh"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To shake hands and socialize.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Bill Clinton was in full campaign form Tuesday. Hours behind schedule, he stopped to press the flesh with everyone in sight.",
      "I’ve followed candidates campaigning in the past, been to countless political-party and interest-group functions, and seen plenty of politicians press the flesh while I stand on the side with my notepad or sit at a rickety table with my laptop."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "6579",
    "Idiom": [
      "press the panic button"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To start to panic.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "6580",
    "Idiom": [
      "pressed for time"
    ],
    "Meaning": "In a hurry, without spare time.",
    "Sentence": [
      "But as our urban lives have grown more pressed for time, we have diced our opportunity costs finer and finer; from budgeting days or slabs of hours, we have come to rationing minutes.",
      "So as neither of them were particularly pressed for time, as it happened, and the temperature refreshing since it cleared up after the recent visitation of Jupiter Pluvius, they dandered along past by where the empty vehicle was waiting without a fare or a jarvey"
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "6581",
    "Idiom": [
      "pressure makes diamonds"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Pressure reveals potential.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "6582",
    "Idiom": [
      "pretty penny"
    ],
    "Meaning": "A considerable amount of money.",
    "Sentence": [
      "We shall have our branch line—our shares are up, sir—and we buy your three fields along the Brawl, and put a pretty penny into your pocket, Mr. Pendennis.",
      "Everything's as nice as can be all over the house, and that watered-silk she had on cost a pretty penny.",
      "\"Then the Captain might still make a pretty penny on Amita,\" said the Scotchman.",
      "He didn't know—he expected she was spending a pretty penny on dress.",
      "\"It must have cost you a pretty penny. It's lucky you can afford it.\" / \"I can't,\" said Philip. \"But what do I care!\"",
      "It costs a pretty penny / Just to stay afloat / It takes a lot of lolly / Trying to be jolly",
      "[Stephen Allen] Schwarzman 's firm makes a pretty penny in a number of finance fields, including real estate and hedge funds, yet carries the most heft for its work in private equity—a force that is remaking corporate America and spreading its influence overseas.",
      "They could charge a pretty penny as they had a captive audience."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "6583",
    "Idiom": [
      "pretty pictures"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Visual aids in a presentation.",
    "Sentence": [
      "He forgot to include pretty pictures in his project documentation."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "6584",
    "Idiom": [
      "prevail upon"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To persuade.",
    "Sentence": [
      "The skipper Mr. Cooke had hired at Far Harbor was a God-fearing man with a luke warm interest in his new billet and employer, and had only been prevailed upon to take charge of the yacht after the offer of an emolument equal to half a year's sea pay of an ensign in the navy.",
      "Perhaps I can prevail upon him to change his mind."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "6585",
    "Idiom": [
      "prevention is better than cure"
    ],
    "Meaning": "It's better to prevent problems than to fix them later.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "6586",
    "Idiom": [
      "price is right"
    ],
    "Meaning": "The cost is reasonable and represents good value.",
    "Sentence": [
      "The Government has thrown a lifeline to Alstom's Derby Works, with an offer of an order for ten Class 345 nine-car electric multiple units (EMUs) for the Elizabeth line - but only if the ' price is right'.",
      "The price is right for this used car."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "6587",
    "Idiom": [
      "price of eggs"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Something trivial or irrelevant.",
    "Sentence": [
      "\"What has that got to do with the price of eggs in Reykjavik?\"",
      "\"As to what all that has to do with the price of eggs, as they say, I'm not sure, which is why I called for a detour.\"",
      "\"And besides, the question had \"nothing to do with the ' price of eggs'.\""
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "6588",
    "Idiom": [
      "price of tea in China"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Something irrelevant or unimportant.",
    "Sentence": [
      "What does the president's latest tweet have to do with the price of tea in China ?"
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "6589",
    "Idiom": [
      "price on someone's head"
    ],
    "Meaning": "A reward for capturing or killing someone.",
    "Sentence": [
      "\"The price on our respective heads has more zeros in it than Pearl Harbor in 1941. Certainly there are safer places to 'get out.'\"",
      "The police put a price on his head after he killed four innocent women."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "6590",
    "Idiom": [
      "pride cometh before a fall",
      "pride comes before a fall",
      "pride goeth before a fall",
      "pride wenteth before a fall",
      "pride goes before a fall"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Excessive pride often leads to failure.",
    "Sentence": [
      "By the time I reached the Navy my love of steam preceded me, and I became the stoker for a rickety steam cutter inherited from the Maine. Pride wenteth before a fall; I put the slice bar through one of the cutter’s tubes — and lost my job in a hasty exit over the side.",
      "Where was my pride? Pride went eth before a fall. The hell with pride.",
      "Brock’s foot touched the plate just as he and Freehan’s mitt with the ball in it met. Normally, a tie was given to the runner, but the umpire must have believed that pride wenteth before a fall and called Brock out."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "6591",
    "Idiom": [
      "prim and proper"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Prudish and straight-laced.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "6592",
    "Idiom": [
      "prime of life"
    ],
    "Meaning": "The peak period of health and performance in adulthood.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "6593-1",
    "Idiom": [
      "primrose path"
    ],
    "Meaning": "An easy, self-indulgent life that can lead to negative consequences.",
    "Sentence": [
      "But, good my brother, / Do not, as some ungracious pastors do, / Show me the steep and thorny way to heaven; / Whiles, like a puff'd and reckless libertine, / Himself the primrose path of dalliance treads, / And recks not his own rede.",
      "Many men in his position would have preferred the primrose path of dalliance to the steep heights of duty; but Lord Arthur was too conscientious to set pleasure above principle.",
      "Cilley, his old college mate, was just elected to Congress from Maine, Pierce was just elected Senator from New Hampshire, and Longfellow had found the ways of literature as smooth as the primrose path to the everlasting bonfire.",
      "The laurels of authorship are worth the winning largely because there is no primrose path leading to them."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "6593-2",
    "Idiom": [
      "primrose path"
    ],
    "Meaning": "A deceivingly easy path that leads to mistakes.",
    "Sentence": [
      "The route from the desire for rationality via the desire for objectivity to descriptivism is a well trodden one; but it is nevertheless a primrose path; for, as we shall see, it leads those who follow it into one or another form of relativism, which is precisely what these thinkers are trying to avoid. They can only avoid it by retracing their steps. This primrose path starts from the assumption that the only way to achieve rationality is to secure objectivity.",
      "The meanings of words are obscure enough, without adding language that results in reactions and misunderstandings. By using jargon, clichés, exaggeration, and unnecessary words, we will be led down the primrose path of misdirection.",
      "The oncologist may hand you the drug information booklet (as is legally required), and then tell you not to read the information too closely because it may scare you. Do not be led down the primrose path. Read the booklet."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "6593-3",
    "Idiom": [
      "primrose path"
    ],
    "Meaning": "A life of deception or easy pleasure.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Even if these purely official catastrophes carried any conviction, the majority of English girls remain so poor, so dependent, so well aware that the drudgeries of such honest work as is within their reach are likely enough to lead them eventually to lung disease, premature death, and domestic desertion or brutality, that they would still see reason to prefer the primrose path to the strait path of virtue, since both, vice at worst and virtue at best, lead to the same end in poverty and overwork.",
      "She is now, at the age of 17, faced with turning from the straight and narrow path she has so far trod to the primrose path of her mother and grandmother.",
      "There is one thing that male citizens must note. They must not give countenance to prostitution; they must not demand the commodity and thus increase the supply; they must not tread the primrose path and contract venereal disease and then spread it. Men too must show a conscience in the matter."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "6594",
    "Idiom": [
      "private eye"
    ],
    "Meaning": "A personal detective hired to gather information.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "6595",
    "Idiom": [
      "pro tip"
    ],
    "Meaning": "A useful piece of advice.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Shoppers picking up ground beef, for example, encounter the stork on in-store shelf ads near the meat section, where a speech balloon near his ample beak says, \" Pro tip : Serve your burgers with a Vlasic pickle. Amateur tip: Don’t.\"",
      "Pro tips on which games your child should play, how long they should play for, how to limit screen time – and what to do if their friend plays violent games"
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "6596",
    "Idiom": [
      "problem child"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Someone or something that causes persistent trouble or annoyance.",
    "Sentence": [
      "An ambitious supersonic carrier fighter called the F3H Demon... proved too heavy for its Navy-specified Westinghouse engine (in itself a problem child), and turned into a $265 million fiasco.",
      "Locally and across the nation, middle schools have generally been regarded as the problem child for school systems."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "6597",
    "Idiom": [
      "procrastination is the thief of time"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Delaying tasks leads to insufficient time to complete them properly.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Jim: Have you started looking for a job yet? Jane: Oh, that can wait till tomorrow. Jim: Procrastination is the thief of time."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "6598",
    "Idiom": [
      "professional suicide"
    ],
    "Meaning": "An action that is expected to ruin one's career.",
    "Sentence": [
      "“As a rule, whistleblowing is an act of professional suicide,” said Tom Devine, legal director of the Government Accountability Project that defends whistleblowers. The threat of retaliation “exponentially increases when Trump calls you a spy.”"
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "6599-1",
    "Idiom": [
      "professional victim"
    ],
    "Meaning": "A person who constantly portrays themselves as a victim.",
    "Sentence": [
      "These professional victims get a lot of mileage out of their pain. Even though they complain that the price of change is so painful, they never really pay that price because it's too profitable for them not to."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "6599-2",
    "Idiom": [
      "professional victim"
    ],
    "Meaning": "A person who pretends to be a victim for personal gain.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "6600",
    "Idiom": [
      "progressive love"
    ],
    "Meaning": "A committed open relationship that enhances love and affection for one's partner.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "6601",
    "Idiom": [
      "prop up"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To support or sustain.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Under Moyes, United have fewer home points (21) than Norwich City and Hull City, with their count of 18 goals the same as Fulham and Cardiff City, who prop up the table."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "6602",
    "Idiom": [
      "prop up the bar"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To spend time drinking at a bar.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "6603",
    "Idiom": [
      "prophet of doom"
    ],
    "Meaning": "A pessimistic person.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "6604",
    "Idiom": [
      "protest too much"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To insist so passionately that people suspect the opposite.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "6605",
    "Idiom": [
      "proud as a peacock"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Extremely proud.",
    "Sentence": [
      "“Donʼt nobody want to see a black man look like you walkinʼ proud as a peacock. Like you ainʼt got a lick of fear in you.”"
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "6606",
    "Idiom": [
      "proverbs should be sold in pairs",
      "proverbs should come in pairs",
      "proverbs come in pairs",
      "proverbs run in pairs",
      "proverbs go in pairs",
      "proverbs should go in pairs",
      "proverbs hunt in pairs",
      "proverbs should be writ in pairs",
      "proverbs often come in pairs"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Proverbs often contradict each other.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Moreover, all the world over, proverbs run in pairs, and pull both ways: for the most part one neutralizes, by contradiction, the other.",
      "Sometimes proverbs come in pairs, the first one providing the context, the second, the revision.",
      "As a rule, proverbs go in pairs which say opposite things."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "6607",
    "Idiom": [
      "psyched up"
    ],
    "Meaning": "In a state of heightened mental preparedness.",
    "Sentence": [
      "I'm getting myself psyched up to cross the rope bridge."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "6608",
    "Idiom": [
      "psychological warfare"
    ],
    "Meaning": "A mentally manipulative approach in warfare to demoralize or intimidate.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Li also inspected a psychological warfare unit at Huchingtou, Liehyu, where he saw off a balloon carrying materials showing the free bastion of Taiwan's warm support for the pro-democracy movement on the China mainland.",
      "The intelligence services believe it is more likely the Chinese would use psychological warfare to give the impression they were about to seize one of the islands, rather than carry it out. However, if there was pressure within the Chinese military to achieve at least a token military success against Taiwan, this option could not be dismissed."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "6609",
    "Idiom": [
      "pub-crawl"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To visit multiple pubs or bars in succession.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "6610",
    "Idiom": [
      "public intellectual"
    ],
    "Meaning": "A well-known, intelligent person recognized for social and cultural contributions.",
    "Sentence": [
      "\"I have always taken the role of public intellectual very, very seriously,\" said Mark Crispin Miller, 51, a professor of media ecology at New York University. \"A public intellectual is someone who engages in intellectual pursuits, airs intellectual concerns in a way the broad, literate public can understand. The tradition thrives in Europe, but the American public does not have the same expectation of its intellectuals.\"",
      "As a sociologist, Raper concerned himself with everything from the legal impediments African Americans faced to the way blacks and whites arranged themselves around the hot stove in a small-town general store. He was among the first generation of southern public intellectuals, an engaged academic in a region where anti-intellectualism had a long and healthy tradition.",
      "After years of teaching 18th century British literature, in 1975 he crossed from academic to public intellectual with The Great War and Modern Memory, a seminal book examining how World War I, by its scope and immense carnage, caused a disillusionment that plagued Western society for decades."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "6611",
    "Idiom": [
      "public purse"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Public funds collected by the government for public purposes.",
    "Sentence": [
      "This means that while initial funding will come from the public purse, landowners along the route will eventually pay back a share of the uplift in land values created by the new line.",
      "The public purse should be spent in the public interest."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "6612",
    "Idiom": [
      "publicity hound"
    ],
    "Meaning": "A person who seeks public attention.",
    "Sentence": [
      "The truth about Pastor Straton is that he is perhaps the country's most persistent publicity hound. He has an insatiable appetite for newspaper notice.",
      "\"He's a publicity hound,\" Jake said. \"Gets a hard-on watching himself on TV.\"",
      "Durrani continues to receive awards and recognition overseas for her courage, although within her own country she is branded an opportunist and publicity-hound."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "6613",
    "Idiom": [
      "puddle jumper"
    ],
    "Meaning": "A small airplane for short trips.",
    "Sentence": [
      "The flight across country was not bad, but the ride in the puddle jumper between Boston and Connecticut was a little rough."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "6614",
    "Idiom": [
      "pull a face"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To make an unusual facial expression.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "6615",
    "Idiom": [
      "pull a fast one"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To carry out a trick or act of deception.",
    "Sentence": [
      "President Bush today made his most aggressive assault yet on Gov. Bill Clinton, asserting that the Democratic nominee would \" pull a fast one on the American people\" and raise taxes by hundreds of billions of dollars.",
      "The man known as Chainsaw Al pulled a fast one last week, buying three companies when everyone assumed he would be selling his own.",
      "7. Claimants are pulling a fast one. No. Less than 1% of the welfare budget is lost to fraud.",
      "But then came Jan. 6, when I watched my Ivy League-educated senator, Ted Cruz, try to pull yet another fast one on the American people as he fought — not long before the certification process was disrupted by a mob of Trump supporters storming the Capitol and forcing their way into the Senate chamber — to challenge the election results.",
      "The chap opposite seems to be trying to pull a fast one, and having seen the guard is trying to buy a ticket online... but doesn't succeed. The guard helpfully sells him one, but not quite at the price of one purchased in advance. In fairness he doesn't kick off, nor does the guard treat him like some common criminal. It's a fair cop - or should that be a fare cop?",
      "This isn't worth anything like what you paid them. I think they pulled a fast one on you."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "6616",
    "Idiom": [
      "pull a lever"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To vote.",
    "Sentence": [
      "She tried to pull a lever for the mainstream candidate and it wouldn't work.",
      "You may dislike much about a candidate, but God calls us to make the hard choice and pull a lever for one or the other—even if it means voting less for a candidate than against another."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "6617",
    "Idiom": [
      "pull a rabbit out of a hat"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To do something surprising and beneficial unexpectedly.",
    "Sentence": [
      "But Salmond the magician's dazzle has not pulled those crucial rabbits out of his hat. Not on tax and spending, on the currency union which he wants (but rUK does not), on Scotland's relations with an EU which does not want this aggro."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "6618",
    "Idiom": [
      "pull ahead"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To move into a winning position.",
    "Sentence": [
      "The 1833 Slavery Abolition Act had abolished slavery completely in the British Empire, and this, along with the fact that the Empire's military and economic might was beginning to pull even further ahead of other nations', thanks in part to the Industrial Revolution, saw the squadron expand to around twenty-five ships (regularly having to be swapped out because of the high incidence of tropical disease)",
      "After being neck-and-neck the whole race, Gibbs managed to pull ahead in the final lap."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "6619",
    "Idiom": [
      "pull an all-nighter"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To stay awake all night, typically for work or study.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "6620-1",
    "Idiom": [
      "pull away"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To move ahead.",
    "Sentence": [
      "As Bent pulled away to the far post, Agbonlahor opted to go it alone, motoring past Gary Caldwell before unleashing a shot into the roof of the net.",
      "Schumacher is beginning to pull away from the rest of the racers."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "6620-2",
    "Idiom": [
      "pull away"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To move further from a target.",
    "Sentence": [
      "My 7-year-old son pulled away from my lover when she picked him up. He was upset. He said he loves her but he's afraid because he knows when he gets home Daddy is going to ask him if he touched us and if he says 'yes' he's going to get a spanking.",
      "She pulled away from me when I approached her.",
      "We used to be close, but Paul has been pulling away from me for years."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "6621",
    "Idiom": [
      "pull faces"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To make silly or distorted facial expressions, often for entertainment or mockery.",
    "Sentence": [
      "So that they would be especially tired, David had spent an hour entertaining them in their cots earlier in the evening. He had drawn pictures for them with crayons and pulled faces, hummed tunes and danced stupidly around the room until it was time for the goodnight visit."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "6622",
    "Idiom": [
      "pull for"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To support or encourage.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "6623-1",
    "Idiom": [
      "pull in"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To approach and stop at a place, often by parking.",
    "Sentence": [
      "A car just pulled in our driveway."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "6623-2",
    "Idiom": [
      "pull in"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To arrive at a station.",
    "Sentence": [
      "The herd mentality appears strong at Cardiff. When the train pulls in, the majority of folk jam themselves into the car straight in front of them, while I walk to the back unit to share the rear car with just two other people.",
      "Quick! The train's pulling in."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "6623-3",
    "Idiom": [
      "pull in"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To arrest someone.",
    "Sentence": [
      "She was pulled in for questioning."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "6623-4",
    "Idiom": [
      "pull in"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To earn.",
    "Sentence": [
      "He pulls in a lot of money."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "6623-5",
    "Idiom": [
      "pull in"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To tighten a sail.",
    "Sentence": [
      "pull in the main sheet"
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "6624",
    "Idiom": [
      "pull in one's horns"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To exercise restraint or yield.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Barry... stood, during this tirade, half stupefied with rage, and half frightened, at the open attack made on him.... However, he couldn't pull in his horns now, and he was obliged, in self-defence, to brazen it out.",
      "\"I see Cooky's finish,\" I heard Smoke say to Horner. \"You bet,\" was the reply. \"Hump runs the galley from now on, and Cooky pulls in his horns.\"",
      "Anyone else would have pulled in his horns and gone slow for a spell, but he's one of those fellows whose horse is always going to win the next race.",
      "Editor & Publisher Edwin Palmer Hoyt decided to pull in his horns. Said Hoyt: \"We've decided it is time to pause, recapitulate and prepare to recommence.\"",
      "\"Smaller hardware stores in the area were scared,\" he said. \"They stopped making investments. They pulled in their horns.\""
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "6625",
    "Idiom": [
      "pull my finger"
    ],
    "Meaning": "A prank involving flatulence.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Could there be a more romantic gift than a remote-controlled fart machine or a pull-my-finger pen?",
      "Bob: \"Oh, how do you play this game?\"",
      "Charlie: \"Well, Bob, just pull my finger.\""
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "6626",
    "Idiom": [
      "pull off"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To achieve something difficult.",
    "Sentence": [
      "\"Oh, I shall pull it off. I shall jolly well have to succeed,\" said Michael light-heartedly; feeling unusually confident.",
      "‘Never thought I'd pull it off. Picked up that colour flick on the water first-rate. Movement, Edmund, damme, got it a treat on that water.’",
      "The preceding year, Sheik Hamad bin Khalifa al-Thani, the crown prince of Qatar, did a most un-Arab thing: he pulled off a palace coup, taking over the government from his father (who was vacationing in Europe at the time).",
      "In a frantic ending Blake and Crofts pulled off brilliant tackles and Hennessey a string of saves to keep Montenegro at bay and earn Speed his first qualifying success as Wales manager.",
      "Six pages is a lot to write in one night. Do you think she can pull it off ?"
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "6627",
    "Idiom": [
      "pull one's finger out"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To stop wasting time and focus on what matters.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Speaking at Mayor's Question Time on February 24, Sheikh said: \"It's time for the Government to pull its finger out and give TfL the funding package it needs in the wake of the pandemic.",
      "You've been sitting there all week. It's time you sorted yourself out and pulled your finger out !"
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "6628",
    "Idiom": [
      "pull one's socks up"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To start making an effort.",
    "Sentence": [
      "They're all going to pull their socks up and play a bit better."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "6629",
    "Idiom": [
      "pull one's weight"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To contribute fairly to a group effort.",
    "Sentence": [
      "He isn't really pulling his weight at work.",
      "If one shares a flat one should be prepared to pull one’s weight in cleaning it."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "6630",
    "Idiom": [
      "pull oneself together",
      "get oneself together"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To regain control of oneself.",
    "Sentence": [
      "\"Damn, damn, damnation!\" he murmured, together with such other words as he had learnt from older men. Then he raised his hand to his forehead and said, \"Oh, damn it all—\" which meant something different. He pulled himself together. He drank a little tea, black and silent, that still survived upon an upper shelf. He swallowed some dusty crumbs of cake. Then he went back to the sitting-room, settled himself anew, and began to read a volume of Ruskin.",
      "\"My place,\" he said and he fought to get himself together."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "6631",
    "Idiom": [
      "pull oneself up by one's bootstraps"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To succeed by one's own efforts without outside help.",
    "Sentence": [
      "It is conjectured that Mr. Murphee will now be enabled to hand himself over the Cumberland river or a barn yard fence by the straps of his boots.",
      "Up to a point, civilization can lift itself up by its boot-tags. However unjustly society is organized, certain technical advances are bound to benefit the whole community, because certain kinds of goods are necessarily held in common.",
      "We can't get a loan, so we'll just have to pull ourselves up by our bootstraps."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "6632-1",
    "Idiom": [
      "pull out",
      "pull out of one's arse"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To withdraw or retreat.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Pulling out of Paris would cause serious diplomatic damage.",
      "There is still time to find a buyer and for them to stabilise the operation, especially if the deal were done by 31 May – when the club’s special licence to carry on is due to expire. There remain plenty of interested parties, who can only see Chelsea’s price dropping as sponsors pull out or consider their associations; as revenue streams are hit.",
      "The troops pulled out of the conflict.",
      "The mayor pulled out of the race for Senate after numerous opinion polls had him polling at less than 10 percent.",
      "The racehorse pulled out of the Stakes with a hurt foot."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "6633-2",
    "Idiom": [
      "pull out"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To remove something.",
    "Sentence": [
      "He pulled his gun out before she had a chance to scream."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "6633-3",
    "Idiom": [
      "pull out"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Maneuver a vehicle onto the lane.",
    "Sentence": [
      "When joining a road, you should check for traffic before pulling out."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "6634",
    "Idiom": [
      "pull out all the stops"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To hold back nothing.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Despite missing the target to open for the Commonwealth Games, work on site hasn't slowed down. VolkerFitzpatrick and its contractors have pulled out all the stops to get the job done.",
      "They pulled out all the stops for the gala wedding."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "6635",
    "Idiom": [
      "pull out of one's ass"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To fabricate a claim without evidence.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Don says his community is 95% Caucasian, but I think he pulled that figure out of his ass."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "6636",
    "Idiom": [
      "pull out of the fire"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To save from failure or defeat.",
    "Sentence": [
      "But there was another, keener reason why Pitcher Alexander wanted to pull this game out of the fire, which he proceeded to do by holding Philadelphia scoreless for four innings while his St. Louis clubmates made three more runs.",
      "\"He is the writer of fresh possibilities,... of the clarion call to halt the current madness and pull the world out of the fire,\" wrote Joseph Epstein, the social critic.",
      "She had pulled more than one case out of the fire with a brilliant closing."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "6637",
    "Idiom": [
      "pull out of the hat"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To select at random.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Having spent more than £500,000 on players last summer, Crawley can hardly be classed as minnows but they have still punched way above their weight and this kind of performance means no-one will relish pulling them out of the hat in Sunday's draw."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "6638",
    "Idiom": [
      "pull over"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To stop and move off the road.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Can you pull over just after the post office? My house is next door."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "6639",
    "Idiom": [
      "pull punches",
      "pull one's punches"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To act with reserve or to avoid offense.",
    "Sentence": [
      "The key here is not to pull punches. Tell it to 'em straight. Don't point fingers. But don't avoid painful truths.",
      "Father Charles Owen Rice was not one to pull punches, particularly when it came to confronting what he viewed as hypocritical behavior among Catholics.",
      "This arresting autobiographical novel pulls no punches; rather, it lands them on the reader as frequently as fists descend on its subject.",
      "A few weeks ago, Ursula von der Leyen, president of the European Commission, released an open letter that pulled no punches.",
      "Greater Manchester Mayor Andy Burnham pulled no punches in March 20's Transport for the North board meeting in Leeds. He wants rid of Avanti West Coast. And he may yet get his way, although ministers in London are holding the line at the moment.",
      "I did not pull any punches when I told them my thoughts.",
      "Eleanor and I tolerated each other most of the time, but she never pulled her punches"
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "6640",
    "Idiom": [
      "pull rank"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To assert authority over a subordinate.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "6641",
    "Idiom": [
      "pull someone's bacon out of the fire"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To rescue someone.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "6642-1",
    "Idiom": [
      "pull someone's leg"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To tease or joke by misleading someone.",
    "Sentence": [
      "I hadn't pulled Mrs. Barstow's leg for any of that stuff, she had just handed it to me on a platter, and that wasn't my fault.",
      "No, I'm just pulling your leg, it's crucifixion really."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "6642-2",
    "Idiom": [
      "pull someone's leg"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To deceive or tease someone.",
    "Sentence": [
      "I'm very glad to hear of his good fortune; but it's a deuced strange thing, for I saw him at the club last night and he never said a word of it. I'll pull his leg when I see him.",
      "The verb ' to-pull-his-leg' means to extract from his pocket all the lucre it will yield.",
      "\"I would ' pull his leg,' but Laura will not work with me.\" The expression \" pulling his leg,\" Miss Sullivan explained as meaning to coax or wheedle his wealth out of him."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "6643",
    "Idiom": [
      "pull someone's plumes"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To humble or reduce someone's pride.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "6644-1",
    "Idiom": [
      "pull strings"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To manipulate a situation using influence or connections.",
    "Sentence": [
      "He has the job not because of talent, but because his dad pulled strings with the boss."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "6644-2",
    "Idiom": [
      "pull strings"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To control someone or something behind the scenes.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Master of Puppets, I'm pulling your strings",
      "Mr. Brown is touchy about accusations that he is a packaged candidate, and bristles at the suggestion that Mr. Caddell pulls his strings.",
      "\"It may have begun that way,\" says a senior Pentagon official, \"but as these attacks grow more numerous, you get the sense that there's someone pulling the strings at a higher level.\"",
      "But with the lively Dos Santos pulling the strings behind strikers Pavlyuchenko and Defoe, Spurs controlled the first half without finding the breakthrough their dominance deserved.",
      "\"The DfT is pulling all the strings. It is making every decision. It is telling companies what they can and cannot spend, right down to very small amounts of money. That's the reason they will declare the train operators to be under public control.\"",
      "We know who pulls the strings around here."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "6645",
    "Idiom": [
      "pull teeth"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To do something very difficult or effortful.",
    "Sentence": [
      "“We thought there would be a mad rush of students participating in these events, and it was like pulling teeth to get students to come out,” she recalled.",
      "You will probably have to pull teeth to get a straight answer from a car salesman."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "6646",
    "Idiom": [
      "pull the ladder up behind oneself",
      "pull the ladder up after oneself"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To prevent others from sharing the same advantages or opportunities.",
    "Sentence": [
      "The odds are that, after the first flush of enthusiasm, a non-proliferation treaty is going to look to many of the have-nots like a device for letting Russia and America scramble on top of their nuclear piles and then pull the ladder up behind them.",
      "Environmental concerns were a neat excuse for the industrialized nations to pull the ladder up behind them.",
      "Commented one senior administrator, “Early in my career another woman said to me, 'When you get where you're going, don't pull the ladder up behind you.' That is the prevalent attitude here.\"",
      "“There are a lot of people who have achieved success, but then pulled the ladder up after them,” [John M.] Connors added.",
      "Basically if you are on the up, don't pull the ladder up after you !",
      "It is un-American to pull the ladder up after you; the American way is to pass it down to the next person, and silence is complicity when it comes to this."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "6647",
    "Idiom": [
      "pull the other leg"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Implying disbelief in what someone has said.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "6648",
    "Idiom": [
      "pull the other one, it's got bells on"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Expresses disbelief.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Is he going to study integrals? Pull the other one, it's got bells on —he can't even do basic multiplication."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "6649",
    "Idiom": [
      "pull the rug out from under"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To suddenly remove support.",
    "Sentence": [
      "But his organisation has been knocked off course by unexpected events: an economic downturn and 'austerity'... the Croydon tram crash... Brexit... and now a global pandemic that has pulled the rug from beneath Transport for London's feet."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "6650",
    "Idiom": [
      "pull the shutters down"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To shut down or terminate.",
    "Sentence": [
      "There are times when we have to pull the shutters down on all the irritating aspects of our lives and retreat into the peace and quiet of our own inner dreamworld where the sun is shining and we are doing our own thing.",
      "The financial crisis at Apple Computer Inc. spilled over to Singapore recently with the company deciding to pull the shutters down on its design center and lay off 101 of its 974 employees in the island #state.",
      "Britain should not “ pull the shutters down ” on China, as it would be counterproductive to the national interest, the foreign secretary has told the Guardian."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "6651-1",
    "Idiom": [
      "pull the trigger"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To commit to an action.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Most surprisingly of all, the mad queen Cersei is challenged to execute both of her brothers at different moments, and she can’t bear to pull the trigger either time.",
      "Some traders are too afraid to pull the trigger and just watch the market without ever getting involved."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "6651-2",
    "Idiom": [
      "pull the trigger"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To take decisive action.",
    "Sentence": [
      "The Baggies almost hit back instantly when Graham Dorrans broke from midfield and pulled the trigger from 15 yards but Paul Robinson did superbly to tip the Scot's drive around the post."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "6652",
    "Idiom": [
      "pull the wool over someone's eyes"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To deceive someone.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "6653-1",
    "Idiom": [
      "pull up"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To display on a screen.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Pull up that website for me; it sounds quite interesting."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "6653-2",
    "Idiom": [
      "pull up"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To arrive at a halt or approach a location.",
    "Sentence": [
      "We expressed our readiness, and in ten minutes were in the station wagon, rolling rapidly down the long drive, for it was then after nine. As we reached the lodge we heard the whistle, and we backed up against one side of the platform as the train pulled up at the other.",
      "\"Taxi,\" he called. And when one pulled up to the curb with screeching brakes he ordered, \"The nearest restaurant.\"",
      "The horse had galloped over the sand-ridge to the beach and there pulled up, nostrils quivering at an insult to its trained intelligence.",
      "At every station, bundles of newspapers, boxes of fish, and other commodities had to be unloaded, and, as most of the platforms are rather short, the train usually had to pull up twice.",
      "I'm talking pedicure on our toes, toes / Trying on all our clothes, clothes / Boys blowing up our phones, phones / Drop-topping, playing our favorite CD / Pulling up to the parties / Trying to get a little bit tipsy.",
      "You can always pull up to your favorite national chain such as Starbucks, Dunkin Donuts who is offering a free cup with any purchase on Wednesday or any fast food restaurant.",
      "Staying true to form, Thompson took to Instagram on Saturday to announce his return. Sharing a clip from \"Space Jam,\" Thompson captioned the post, \"How I'm pulling up to chase [Center] tomorrow.\"",
      "Kanye's gotten into some scrapes before and normally when he's in trouble, I pull up immediately. This time I was like, you know what? Let me see what's gonna happen first.",
      "Pull up to that curb slowly; you don't want to scratch that other car.",
      "I'm pulling up to the club tonight, want to join?"
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "6653-3",
    "Idiom": [
      "pull up"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To cause a stop when riding.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "6653-4",
    "Idiom": [
      "pull up"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To cause someone to stop.",
    "Sentence": [
      "\"People pull me up in the street to ask if I have room for their son, daughter, sister or cousin to come down to go to school.\""
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "6653-5",
    "Idiom": [
      "pull up"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To criticize someone's actions.",
    "Sentence": [
      "At 4pm, the phone went. It was The Sun: 'We hear your daughter's been expelled for cheating at her school exams...' She'd made a remark to a friend at the end of the German exam and had been pulled up for talking. As they left the exam room, she muttered that the teacher was a 'twat'. He heard and flipped⁠—a pretty stupid thing to do, knowing the kids were tired and tense after exams. Instead of dropping it, the teacher complained to the Head and Deb was carpeted.",
      "My coursework began to suffer and my parents pulled me up on it and said we are not paying for you to get off your head every night.",
      "I was pulled up by a male reader who had been a victim of domestic abuse, for using the word 'women' instead of 'victims'. He rightly pointed out that men are victims of abuse too."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "6653-6",
    "Idiom": [
      "pull up"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To attempt to recover.",
    "Sentence": [
      "How'd you pull up this morning?"
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "6654-1",
    "Idiom": [
      "pull up on"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To visit.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Do you mind if I pull up on you in about half an hour?"
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "6654-2",
    "Idiom": [
      "pull up on"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To call out or criticize someone for wrongdoing.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "6655",
    "Idiom": [
      "pull up stakes"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To prepare to move quickly.",
    "Sentence": [
      "From the start of their strange and embattled marriage, they established a pattern of suddenly pulling up stakes with little notice to family members or neighbors.",
      "They just pulled up stakes and left."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "6656",
    "Idiom": [
      "pulling power"
    ],
    "Meaning": "A person's ability to attract sexually.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "6657",
    "Idiom": [
      "pulling the plug"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Ending life support.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "6658",
    "Idiom": [
      "pump out"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To produce in large quantities.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "6659",
    "Idiom": [
      "pump someone's tires"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To praise or support someone.",
    "Sentence": [
      "\"I'm sure (Toronto coach) Greg Gilbert is going to pump their tires with the fact they've beat us six times.\"",
      "Now, with Suisham enjoying a career season, those in his hometown are pumping his tires.",
      "Jonathan Toews... has allowed himself to come unglued emotionally during Game 4 of the Detroit series, and to fall back on the sweet sounds of teammates and coaches pumping his tires for his many wonderful qualities.",
      "His coach is pumping his tires for conference MVP and Matt Fuller is doing his best to oblige."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "6660",
    "Idiom": [
      "pumpkin head"
    ],
    "Meaning": "A severe head injury.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "6661",
    "Idiom": [
      "punch above one's weight",
      "hit above one's weight"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To attempt to achieve at a higher level than expected based on one's attributes or past accomplishments.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Ireland's current commissioner, Charlie McCreevy, is such a high-profile and outspoken figure who punches above his weight in Brussels in the important role of internal market commissioner.",
      "Having spent more than £500,000 on players last summer, Crawley can hardly be classed as minnows but they have still punched way above their weight and this kind of performance means no-one will relish pulling them out of the hat in Sunday's draw.",
      "I can see why you love her so much. You're definitely punching above your weight."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "6662",
    "Idiom": [
      "punch below one's weight",
      "hit below one's weight"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Performing below expected standards.",
    "Sentence": [
      "But the overall effect is flimsy and insubstantial, a gifted writer punching well below his weight.",
      "Under the military-backed governments of the past decade Thailand is widely viewed as having punched below its weight in international affairs, with Prime Minister Prayuth Chan-ocha taking little interest in foreign policy."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "6663",
    "Idiom": [
      "punch someone's lights out"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To seriously beat someone with fists.",
    "Sentence": [
      "\"My intention was to punch his lights out,\" Parker said of Garber, \"but as I got closer to the mound, my faculties came back and I cooled off. I just him and asked him what was going on.\"",
      "After nasty phone calls, curses hurled over the back fence, fist-shaking, and other attempts to impress him with your seriousness, you meet him at the supermarket, lose control, and punch his lights out.",
      "A Jersey Guy is a guy who does his duty and loves his family and will punch your lights out if you insult his wife."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "6664-1",
    "Idiom": [
      "punch someone's ticket"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To gain useful experience or advance towards a goal.",
    "Sentence": [
      "After building a business in the Texas oil world, Bush punched his ticket in the House of Representatives; served briefly as U.N. ambassador, Republican National Committee chairman and U.S. envoy to China; led the CIA for just under a year; ran for the GOP presidential nomination; joined Ronald Reagan’s ticket; and finally captured the White House, where he guided America through the Cold War’s end and stared down a Middle East dictator.",
      "Just don't expect getting that promotion or winning that Pulitzer to punch your ticket to bliss.",
      "The Mustangs emphatically punched their ticket to the Canadian college football final with a 61-6 rout of visiting St. Francis Xavier in the Mitchell Bowl on Saturday."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "6664-2",
    "Idiom": [
      "punch someone's ticket"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To seriously harm or kill someone.",
    "Sentence": [
      "I always thought that if anyone ever broke into my house, that would be his last break-in. I'd get the gun and punch his ticket on the spot.",
      "Phil put his arms around him. Drew him in close, pressed his cheek to Dane's the way the Mafiosi in the fifties would kiss somebody right before they punched his ticket.",
      "The two lawmen punched his ticket with four well-aimed rifle shots."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "6665",
    "Idiom": [
      "push against an open door"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To do something pointless or unnecessary.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "6666",
    "Idiom": [
      "push in"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To jump the queue forcefully.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Don't push in ! Go to the back of the queue!"
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "6667",
    "Idiom": [
      "push it"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To make a risky effort or test limits.",
    "Sentence": [
      "\"No hurry, give me time\"—\"don't push it \"—\"wait\"—\"do nothing\"—\"the status quo\"—all these various phrases expressed Lord Southend's earnest and re-iterated advice.\"",
      "This season, Johnson's back spasms returned after five games and he underwent surgery again.... \"If it comes around well, I might be able to play. I'm not going to push it.\"",
      "Various physicians in the U.S. have been quoted as saying that coming back this quickly from his particular injury is pushing it.",
      "\"Sometimes she lets me touch her, just the breasts you see, and that's fine, I don't push it.\""
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "6668",
    "Idiom": [
      "push on"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To persist or persevere.",
    "Sentence": [
      "The rider, to whom the paths of these wilds seemed intimately known, pushed on at a rapid pace, managing, with much dexterity, to chuse the safest route,",
      "The object of the builders was to push on to Uganda as quickly as possible; one result was that Kenya was \"discovered\" on the way."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "6669",
    "Idiom": [
      "push one's luck"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To take an excessive risk after previously having good fortune.",
    "Sentence": [
      "The jury had little choice but to free the killer. Sane enough at least not to push his luck, Sledge immediately left the state.",
      "I don’t think I really treat you that special / Chase a pretty girl who actually gets you / Brutally honest and for that I applaud you (Skrrt, skrrt) / Boy just give it up, you’re really pushing your luck uh"
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "6670",
    "Idiom": [
      "push one's way"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To make one's way by pushing.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "6671",
    "Idiom": [
      "push the boat out"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To spend extravagantly for a celebration.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "6672",
    "Idiom": [
      "push the envelope"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To go beyond established limits.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Aerial photography was coming into its own, and flying shutterbugs pushed the envelope, striving to outsnap each other.",
      "This is basically why I’ve enjoyed the rise of Huckabee and Paul: Not because I agree with them on an issue-by-issue basis, but because they’re willing to push the envelope a bit, and expand the definition of what a conservative can stand for in ways that I think are ultimately healthy for the party.",
      "Marketing to consumers can still be a minefield but diaper manufacturers—confident that the embarrassment factor can be overcome—are determined to push the envelope.",
      "\"You've got to keep pushing the envelope in terms of what else you can do,\" he says. \"It's all about trying - to use that horrible management phrase - to 'sweat the asset'.\"",
      "They pushed the envelope on pricing derivatives."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "6673",
    "Idiom": [
      "push up daisies"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To be dead.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "6674",
    "Idiom": [
      "push water uphill"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Try to achieve a goal despite significant resistance.",
    "Sentence": [
      "A Salesman Unaided by the House is Pushing Water Uphill.",
      "Without that commitment you will be pushing water uphill the whole time and will lose your own, necessary motivation.",
      "Persuading Kenny that measuring his calves did not require removal of his underpants and trousers was akin to pushing water uphill. He claimed that he couldn't tell what I was saying, which seemed strange as he had no problem deciphering the initial message.",
      "Our relationship with Donovan Leisure was doing well, in truth because Rod Hills and I worked so hard on it, but often it felt like pushing water uphill.",
      "And they have another drink, and they try to talk about something else, they really do, but it's like pushing water uphill : it won't work, and it's exhausting."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "6675",
    "Idiom": [
      "put a band-aid on a bullet wound"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To inadequately treat a serious situation.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Using substances as a coping mechanism is like putting a band-aid on a bullet wound; it might momentarily mask the pain, but it doesn't address the root problem and often exacerbates it."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "6676",
    "Idiom": [
      "put a blanket over"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Make something seem less serious.",
    "Sentence": [
      "It is like bro you might as well just say what you're trying to say because what you're saying is still offensive. You're just trying to put, like, some blanket over."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "6677",
    "Idiom": [
      "put a bug in someone's ear"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To suggest or hint at something to prompt action.",
    "Sentence": [
      "All in all, the preparation of Seuils had put a nasty bug in my ear that was to bear all its fruit only ten years later—if bugs can bear fruit—and not without intermediate phases.",
      "Ginger Rogers had definitely put a bug in Pan's ear about the movies for, after he was fired from Top Speed, Hermes decided to try his luck earning a living on the West Coast.",
      "You've been putting a nasty bug in Sheriff Doogie's ear, haven't you? Or maybe he put a bug in your ear. I understand the two of you are thick as thieves.",
      "He was so insistent on this point that a friend she mentioned it to put a bug in her ear. Why not head home without calling, just to see what was really going on."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "6678",
    "Idiom": [
      "put a damper on"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To reduce enjoyment of an activity.",
    "Sentence": [
      "John told us he had lost his job, which put a damper on the celebrations."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "6679",
    "Idiom": [
      "put a foot wrong"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To make a mistake.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "6680",
    "Idiom": [
      "put a gun to someone's head"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To compel someone with no alternative options.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Richard Rosenbaum had deferred to Mr. D'Amato in leading the Dole effort in the state, but Mr. D'Amato delayed organizing it until, as Westchester County legislator Tim Carey put it, \"Dole put a gun to his head.\"",
      "\"To say the industry hasn't changed is to ignore reality,\" Yerrid said. \"Now, they changed because we put a gun to their head, not because they're nice people and wanted to change.\"",
      "\"They have effectively put a gun to our head and said if we don't accept their proposal they will impose a more Draconian contract.\"",
      "The prime minister... will be disappointed if he thinks he can put a gun to their heads to begin renegotiating Britain's EU membership and then dictate when it will end."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "6681",
    "Idiom": [
      "put a hat on a hat"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To do something unnecessary or excessive.",
    "Sentence": [
      "\"You don't need to put a hat on a hat. ” He was saying: If you comment on it, you kill it. If there's a hat already on your head, why in God's name would you put another hat on top of it? The audience doesn't like to see you wink.",
      "Puccini's music is 'overblown', 'so huge' that there is a danger of putting 'a hat on a hat' if you match 'epic staging with epic music and epic slightly melodramatic acting'. Goold wanted it to feel more like Lars von Trier's musical",
      "I mean, it's kind of putting a hat on a hat. Nobody thinks a trip to the Hall of Doom is going to be as uplifting as one to the Hall of Justice. Nobody thinks Mount Doom or an abandoned amusement park or chemical factory would make as"
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "6682",
    "Idiom": [
      "put a lid on"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To control or limit something.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "6683",
    "Idiom": [
      "put a lid on it"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To be quiet; to shut up.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Oh, put a lid on it already! I heard you the first fourteen times."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "6684",
    "Idiom": [
      "put a shift in"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To work hard.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "6685",
    "Idiom": [
      "put a sock in it"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To stop talking.",
    "Sentence": [
      "I found out from his mate that he was a Longfellow fan, and the fireman complained bitterly that, not being poetically inclined himself, he often wished that Alfred would \" put a sock in it.\"",
      "He went on and on until I finally told him to put a sock in it."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "6686",
    "Idiom": [
      "put a stop to"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To terminate or abolish something.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "6687",
    "Idiom": [
      "put all one's eggs in one basket"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To rely on a single source.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Fortunately, Bryant ignored that advice and doubled down on his dream. “I thought, ‘If this is so hard to accomplish, how in the world am I going to accomplish it if I don’t put all my eggs in one basket ? If I don’t focus 100 percent on this, I’m never going to get there.’”",
      "BR had a policy of not putting all of its eggs in one basket when it came to procuring rolling stock, with locomotives and multiple units built by a variety of manufacturers.",
      "They felt that buying more real estate than they already had would be putting all their eggs in one basket."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "6688",
    "Idiom": [
      "put an end to"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To terminate or abolish.",
    "Sentence": [
      "So far as I am aware, nationalisation has put an end to this scheme.",
      "He put an end to the loud music by pulling the plug."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "6689-1",
    "Idiom": [
      "put back"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To drink quickly.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Whisky he sipped at suspiciously, and still had not got an adult taste for; but wine he loved, and he put back champagne as if it were lager, with awful belches and chuckles after each glass.",
      "You'll need to put that drink back quickly; it's very nearly closing time."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "6689-2",
    "Idiom": [
      "put back"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To change the time to an earlier time.",
    "Sentence": [
      "When the clocks are put forward at the introduction of summer time, the long-distance night trains automatically become one hour late, and continue to run late for the remainder of their journeys. Similarly, when the clocks are put back in the autumn, the night trains become one hour early.",
      "Don't forget that this Sunday we put the clocks back an hour."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "6690",
    "Idiom": [
      "put butter on one's bread"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To earn money.",
    "Sentence": [
      "\"Well, it won't put butter on our bread,\" said another.",
      "An author has the obligation of keeping himself alive, and it does not put any butter on his bread to get his books from the public library.",
      "D'ye think those savages who've been putting butter on our bread are coming to trade with you or me if we are not ready to sell at a loss?",
      "This situation isn't putting any butter on our bread, either."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "6691",
    "Idiom": [
      "put case"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To suppose.",
    "Sentence": [
      "But put case they continue; thou art not so poor as thou wast born",
      "Put case that the soul after the departure from the body may live.",
      "Put case a person wrongs me past dispute: If my legitimate vengeance be a blow, Mistrusting my bare arm can deal that blow, I claim co-operation of a stick"
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "6692",
    "Idiom": [
      "put daylight between oneself and someone"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To create distance or difference between people.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "6693-1",
    "Idiom": [
      "put down"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To insult or belittle.",
    "Sentence": [
      "People try to put us down / Just because we get around.",
      "They frequently put down their little sister for walking slowly."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "6693-2",
    "Idiom": [
      "put down"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To place a baby to sleep.",
    "Sentence": [
      "I had just put Mary down when you rang. So now she's crying again."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "6693-3",
    "Idiom": [
      "put down"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To provide a reason.",
    "Sentence": [
      "She put her long life down to daily meditation."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "6693-4",
    "Idiom": [
      "put down"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To land.",
    "Sentence": [
      "The pilot managed to put down in a nearby farm field."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "6693-5",
    "Idiom": [
      "put down"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To let someone out of a vehicle.",
    "Sentence": [
      "The taxi put him down outside the hotel."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "6693-6",
    "Idiom": [
      "put down"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To stop reading a book.",
    "Sentence": [
      "I was unable to put down The Stand : it was that exciting."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "6694",
    "Idiom": [
      "put down as"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To assume character based on limited information.",
    "Sentence": [
      "I put him down as ignorant, but then discovered he is, in fact, a university professor!"
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "6695",
    "Idiom": [
      "put down for"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To record an offer of help or contribution.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Put me down for one of the drivers.",
      "You can put my wife down for $10"
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "6696",
    "Idiom": [
      "put down roots"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To establish oneself in a place.",
    "Sentence": [
      "It might be hard for her to leave London after all these years: she's put down roots there.",
      "I haven't put down roots in this town yet, 'cause I've got trouble making friends here."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "6697",
    "Idiom": [
      "put down to"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To ascribe a cause to a situation.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Collins ' death can be put down to his devil-may-care attitude—his decision to journey through hostile territory in a large convoy, the inadequate choice of the members of the convoy, and the tactics he adopted in the ambush. For all the debate about ballistics and entry and exit wounds, and the use of powerful historical imaginations, it matters more that Collins was killed than how he was killed. Concentration on the events at Béal na mBláth has, moreover, often meant a failure to place them in the overall context of the war.",
      "Out in the ground, meanwhile, it was particularly disappointing to hear former England captain Andrew Strauss put the febrile atmosphere down to “people who don’t normally come to Lord’s”.",
      "I put the high crime rate down to the high unemployment."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "6698",
    "Idiom": [
      "put facts on the ground"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To change the situation in one's favor for a legal dispute.",
    "Sentence": [
      "And while people are dithering, the cloning research in the private biotech industries will put facts on the ground that will be difficult to challenge. Only a moratorium can test the good faith of those who say they want regulation.",
      "Its commanding influence in the signature and future ratification of the CFA, and its attempt to put facts on the ground through hydraulic structures, has brought the relationship between Ethiopia and Egypt to its lowest level since the establishment of the Nile Basin Initiative (NBI).",
      "\"It's a message... that we can also put facts on the ground,\" said Palestinian-American developer Bashar Masri, using a phrase associated with Israel's settlement construction on lands the Palestinians want for a state.",
      "Samuel Bagenstos, a law professor at the University of Michigan, suggested that the Yale finding was motivated by \"the almost certain fear by Trump administration officials that there's at least a substantial likelihood that come January, they won't be here. So they want to put facts on the ground, to try them in a potential Biden administration.\""
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "6699",
    "Idiom": [
      "put food on the table"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To provide for basic necessities.",
    "Sentence": [
      "I don't care what I do. If it pays the bills and puts food on the table, I'm not bothered.",
      "The locals bemoan the tourist crush and at the same time welcome it because it puts food on the table.",
      "The middle class does not consider itself free form the concern of putting food on the table."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "6700",
    "Idiom": [
      "put foot to ass"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To beat someone up.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Gibbons, as Jackson plays him, unflinchingly responds, “A small price I paid for putting foot to ass for my country,” oddly vivid metaphorical language.",
      "He sighed a little but I wouldn't have a problem putting foot to his ass if need be.",
      "I shrugged and said, “There's nothing to tell. I put foot to ass when need be, protect Jon from people that try to fuck her over without grease, and I love to have fun from time to time.”"
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "6701-1",
    "Idiom": [
      "put forward"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To propose for consideration.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Democrats, meanwhile, point out that Republicans seem to have made a conscious decision, beginning with the stimulus, to oppose anything the president put forward, dooming any chance of renewed cooperation between the parties.",
      "Another argument for closing Woodhead was simply one of route duplication, and this was the main reason put forward by BR at the time.",
      "The Prime Minister put forward new plans to tackle corruption."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "6701-2",
    "Idiom": [
      "put forward"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To suggest or propose something.",
    "Sentence": [
      "When the clocks are put forward at the introduction of summer time, the long-distance night trains automatically become one hour late, and continue to run late for the remainder of their journeys. Similarly, when the clocks are put back in the autumn, the night trains become one hour early.",
      "Don't forget that this Sunday we put the clocks forward an hour."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "6702",
    "Idiom": [
      "put hair on someone's chest"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To make someone stronger or more masculine.",
    "Sentence": [
      "When Lonnie Bushey was 6 he started drinking with his father who told him it would put hair on his chest and make him a man."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "6703",
    "Idiom": [
      "put in mind"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Encourages or inspires action.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "6704",
    "Idiom": [
      "put in pledge"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To pawn or guarantee.",
    "Sentence": [
      "the land, which is so put in pledge, is by law, in case of non-payment at the time limited, forever dead and gone from the mortgagor;"
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "6705-1",
    "Idiom": [
      "put in the ground"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To kill.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "6705-2",
    "Idiom": [
      "put in the ground"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To bury.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "6706",
    "Idiom": [
      "put in with"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To partner with.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "6707",
    "Idiom": [
      "put into practice"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To make something a reality.",
    "Sentence": [
      "In his view, this eminent locomotive engineer had very decided opinions of his own, and was not afraid of putting them into practice; but a weakness lay in the fact that there was no one on his staff in a position sufficiently strong to hold his own with Stroudley in argument.",
      "But there remain two problems to resolve before the plan can be put into practice."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "6708",
    "Idiom": [
      "put it past"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To consider it unlikely that someone would do something.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Since, as I mentioned, my arse is intact, I meditate first upon the pain in my balls. Jesus Harold Christ! I wonder if Monger's got some morphine kicking about. I wouldn't put it past him.",
      "I wouldn't put it past him to spread malicious gossip about you.",
      "I wouldn't put it past her to steal from shops, but I would put it past her to steal from her own mother."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "6709",
    "Idiom": [
      "put it there"
    ],
    "Meaning": "An invitation for a high-five or greeting.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "6710-1",
    "Idiom": [
      "put it to"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To submit for consideration.",
    "Sentence": [
      "put it to a vote"
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "6710-2",
    "Idiom": [
      "put it to"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To overload with work or obligations.",
    "Sentence": [
      "You really put it to him, making him do all the heavy-lifting."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "6710-3",
    "Idiom": [
      "put it to"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To assign blame.",
    "Sentence": [
      "They did not have an easy scapegoat, so they put it to the leader."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "6710-4",
    "Idiom": [
      "put it to"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To exploit an unfair advantage.",
    "Sentence": [
      "That mechanic put it to Sam."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "6711",
    "Idiom": [
      "put lipstick on a pig"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To make something appear better than it is.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Fran Healy, Mets announcer and former Giants catcher (about the possibility of putting a dome on Candlestick): \"It would be like putting lipstick on a pig.\"",
      "That new box is like putting lipstick on a pig. It's still the same buggy program inside."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "6712-1",
    "Idiom": [
      "put off"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To postpone.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Don't put off your homework to the last minute.",
      "Don't put your homework off to the last minute.",
      "Don't put it off to the last minute.",
      "Don't put it off."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "6712-2",
    "Idiom": [
      "put off"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To delay.",
    "Sentence": [
      "The storm put off the game by a week.",
      "The storm put the game off by a week.",
      "I'm too busy to see Mr Smith today. I'll have to put him off."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "6712-3",
    "Idiom": [
      "put off"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To distract or disturb concentration.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Please be quiet. I'm trying to concentrate and you're putting me off."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "6712-4",
    "Idiom": [
      "put off"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To discourage or cause dislike.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Almost drowning put him off swimming."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "6712-5",
    "Idiom": [
      "put off"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To emit or give off.",
    "Sentence": [
      "This type of firewood puts off a strong smell."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "6712-6",
    "Idiom": [
      "put off"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To remove something worn.",
    "Sentence": [
      "The power of turning into an animal has this serious disadvantage that it lays you open to the chance of being wounded or even slain in your animal skin before you have the chance to put it off and scramble back into your human integument.",
      "to put off a mask"
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "6712-7",
    "Idiom": [
      "put off"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Expresses offense or repulsion.",
    "Sentence": [
      "The guest was quite put off by an odor."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "6712-8",
    "Idiom": [
      "put off"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Delays or discourages.",
    "Sentence": [
      "All but the most dedicated were put off by the huge task."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "6713",
    "Idiom": [
      "put on a clinic"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To perform excellently.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "6714",
    "Idiom": [
      "put on a pedestal"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To hold in very high esteem, often excessively.",
    "Sentence": [
      "A group of young literary men—and one or two women— put him on a pedestal and kissed the earth before it.",
      "The months, even years, of allegations about President Clinton's private life seem to have toughened—and often exasperated—an electorate that now has more realistic expectations and is not as quick to put politicians on a pedestal.",
      "Along the way, Japanese put machines on a pedestal, cherished and befriended them.",
      "He put her on a pedestal, showered her with gifts, and worshiped the ground she walked on."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "6715",
    "Idiom": [
      "put on airs"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To become haughty or pretentious.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Even Timothy, the jointed wooden lion, who was made by the disabled soldiers, and should have had broader views, put on airs and pretended he was connected with Government."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "6716",
    "Idiom": [
      "put on frills"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Acts pretentiously or snobbishly.",
    "Sentence": [
      "he put his head in again, and cussed me for putting on frills and trying to be better than him; and when I reckoned he was gone, he come back and put his head in again, and told me to mind about that school, because he was going to lay for me and lick me if I didn’t drop that.",
      "“She said we were really the only people on the ship they cared to know.” “I shouldn’t have thought a missionary was such a big bug that he could afford to put on frills.”",
      "your sneers against Doctor Hardy are lies! He doesn’t put on frills, or have an office in a fashionable location, or drive around in an expensive automobile."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "6717",
    "Idiom": [
      "put on one's dancing shoes"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To prepare for celebration or rejoicing.",
    "Sentence": [
      "But we can at least begin to put on our dancing shoes as we get ready to celebrate the good news of Genesis 1.",
      "This is what allows us to put on our dancing shoes when others are moping and whining.",
      "Well, you can put on your dancing shoes because sicknesses, diseases and abnormalities will never be found in heaven."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "6718",
    "Idiom": [
      "put on the dog"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To show off wealth or importance.",
    "Sentence": [
      "If she softened her natural vowels a fraction in keeping with her role as a Protestant lady, she did not put on dog or act in a snobbish manner."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "6719",
    "Idiom": [
      "put on the map"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To bring into prominence.",
    "Sentence": [
      "The actress's role in the acclaimed drama finally put her on the map."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "6720",
    "Idiom": [
      "put on the red light"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To advertise oneself as a prostitute.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Roxanne, you don't have to put on the red light / Those days are over / You don't have to sell your body to the night"
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "6721",
    "Idiom": [
      "put on the ritz"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To show off luxury and extravagance.",
    "Sentence": [
      "The whole gang has put on the Ritz and are strutting about like a collection of pouter pigeons.",
      "If you're blue and you don't know Where to go to Why don't you go where Harlem sits Puttin' on the Ritz. Spangled gowns Upon a bevy Of high browns From down the Levee, all misfits Puttin' on the Ritz.",
      "\"One of the most beautiful hotels to open in Florida in recent years, the Ritz-Carlton puts on the ritz but in subtle style, illustrating elegance without shouting about it.\""
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "6722",
    "Idiom": [
      "put one foot in front of the other"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To progress steadily.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "6723-1",
    "Idiom": [
      "put one over"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To succeed in a deception.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "6723-2",
    "Idiom": [
      "put one over"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To deceive.",
    "Sentence": [
      "\"You surely aren't thinking you can put one over on me in this business? Tell me, you don't take me for that sort of ivory-skulled boob?\"",
      "He is the bad-boy-made-good, and in Brazil, particularly in Rio de Janeiro, everyone loves someone who can put one over on authority."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "6724",
    "Idiom": [
      "put one past"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To deceive or trick someone.",
    "Sentence": [
      "He tried to put one past the band director by giving her a jalapeño-flavored lollipop."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "6725",
    "Idiom": [
      "put one's ass on the line"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To take a big risk.",
    "Sentence": [
      "I put my ass on the line to get you here, and all I expect is a little cooperation!",
      "They thought everyone was afraid. Only they would risk their lives. Once people saw that we put our asses on the line, everything changed...",
      "He put his ass on the line for his country and his family during the Second World War, but nobody seems to care about that anymore."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "6726",
    "Idiom": [
      "put one's best foot forward"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To show oneself positively and make a favorable impression.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Unsurprisingly, Perry puts her best foot forward on opener “Never Really Over,” a song that not only maintains a catchy, hummable refrain, but also ironically doubles as a sort of mission statement for the artist.",
      "Try to put your best foot forward at all times during a job interview."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "6727",
    "Idiom": [
      "put one's cards on the table"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To reveal one's true intentions or speak frankly.",
    "Sentence": [
      "\"We needn't either of us,\" she continued, \"be concerned for the other's reasons, though I'm perfectly ready, I assure you, to put my cards on the table.\"",
      "I thought the time had come for me to put my cards on the table. I saw by this man's eye that he was the kind you can trust.",
      "\"Let's put our cards on the table. We think you're the man the police are looking for—the one described in the papers.\"",
      "Although Sharon has never put all his cards on the table, he's given plenty of indicators that in his vision, a Palestinian state comprises the 40-50 percent of the West Bank currently under PA jurisdiction."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "6728",
    "Idiom": [
      "put one's feet up"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To relax.",
    "Sentence": [
      "It is also disconcerting when you suddenly realise that the driver isn't steering, but may be thumbing over his Customs papers with his feet up."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "6729",
    "Idiom": [
      "put one's finger on"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To identify or specify.",
    "Sentence": [
      "He had the quick witted imagination to put his finger right on the correct method of attacking a problem but no patience to see it through to the bitter end.",
      "“Now, there’s something wrong with that,” Breyer said, to laughter. “I’m trying to put my finger on it.”",
      "There’s something wrong, but I can’t put my finger on it."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "6730",
    "Idiom": [
      "put one's foot down on"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To stop or reject something.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Mr. Warton said, he was delighted that the President of the Board of Trade had put his foot down upon the insane scheme of those self-constituted humbugs called Chambers of Commerce.",
      "'And say it bloody firmly, by God. We want to put our foot down on this idea once and for all.'",
      "The last way to get money is to make more of it. Dr. Schacht who had pulled Germany out of the horrors of the 1923 inflation, put his foot down on printing more money.",
      "Deputy Youth and Sports Minister M Saravanan put his foot down on a suggestion mooted yesterday by a Youth Parliament member to legalise the use of marijuana, also known as ganja, in the country."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "6731",
    "Idiom": [
      "put one's foot down upon"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To put a stop to or reject.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "6732",
    "Idiom": [
      "put one's foot in it"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To make an embarrassing mistake in conversation.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "6733",
    "Idiom": [
      "put one's foot in one's mouth"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To say something embarrassing or make a social blunder.",
    "Sentence": [
      "I really put my foot in my mouth during the interview."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "6734",
    "Idiom": [
      "put one's foot in someone's ass",
      "put one's foot up someone's ass"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To physically confront or harm someone.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Keep fucking with me, and I'm gonna put my foot in your ass.",
      "Keep fucking with me, and I'm gonna put my foot up your ass."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "6735",
    "Idiom": [
      "put one's hand in one's pocket"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To pay or spend money.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Never seen you putting your hand in your pocket Time to pay the bill, I know you can't find your wallet"
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "6736",
    "Idiom": [
      "put one's hand to the plough"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To begin an undertaking.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "6737",
    "Idiom": [
      "put one's heart in",
      "have one's heart in"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To be emotionally invested in something.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Angelica Cardona, with a microphone in her hand, stands among a group of candidates. Her voice reverberates firmly from the stage: “The art of weaving forms part of our Mayan identity. Nowadays, however, cheap printed fabrics are replacing our ancestral hand-woven textiles. This is how capitalism is killing our culture and preventing us from putting our heart in each artisanal piece we produce.”"
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "6738",
    "Idiom": [
      "put one's house in order"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To organize one's affairs in preparation for a significant change.",
    "Sentence": [
      "And when Ahithophel saw that his counsel was not followed, he saddled his ass, and arose, and gat him home to his house, to his city, and put his household in order, and hanged himself, and died, and was buried in the sepulchre of his father.",
      "But before doing so he thought it to be expedient to put his house in order, so that he might be able to make a statement of his affairs if asked to do so.",
      "\"I must put my house in order —in order. Draw up a will and bring it to me before five o'clock.\"",
      "The message from the euro zone should be loud and clear: if lawmakers don't put their house in order, markets eventually will do it for them."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "6739",
    "Idiom": [
      "put one's mind to it"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To apply oneself.",
    "Sentence": [
      "You can do anything, if you put your mind to it."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "6740",
    "Idiom": [
      "put one's money where one's mouth is"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To back up one's claims with action or investment.",
    "Sentence": [
      "\"The scientists are right to be extremely cautious about interpreting these findings,\" said Jim Al-Khalili, a physicist from the University of Surrey, who suggested that a simple error in the measurement is probably the source of all the fuss...\"So let me put my money where my mouth is : if the Cern experiment proves to be correct and neutrinos have broken the speed of light, I will eat my boxer shorts on live TV.\"",
      "\"We've put money towards it and it's up to government to put the money where its mouth is.\""
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "6741",
    "Idiom": [
      "put one's name in the hat"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To nominate oneself or someone else for a selection process.",
    "Sentence": [
      "He would not embarrass his friends by running. So they rose up and put his name in the hat —which is exactly what I expected them to do.",
      "\"Most students now think to themselves: ‘How can I not apply to Yale?’\" he said. \"You just have to put your name in the hat.\"",
      "\"That's why I decided to put my name in the hat and see if there's a fit here.\"",
      "\"Oh hiiii @AmericanIdol—I hear a seat opened up at the judges table!\" she wrote on X (formerly known as Twitter) in February. \"I’m putting my name in the hat ! 🙋🏻‍♀️.\""
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "6742",
    "Idiom": [
      "put one's pants on one leg at a time"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To be an ordinary person.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Easy guys, I put my pants on just like the rest of you, one leg at a time …except, once my pants are on, I make gold records.",
      "One night while we were eating Chinese before a gig in Miami Beach, I asked Amy if there was any one question she was never asked during the Q-and-A that follows almost every writer's talk—that question you never get to answer when you're standing in front of a group of author-struck fans and pretending you don't put your pants on one leg at a time like everyone else.",
      "Remember, he puts his pants on one leg at a time, just like you."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "6743",
    "Idiom": [
      "put one's shoulder into"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To make a strenuous effort.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Identify a challenge. Put your shoulder into it. Make it go away. Just as it disappears, whoops, here comes another one. It's like a game of whack-a-mole. Trust me, you'll never run out of quarters."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "6744",
    "Idiom": [
      "put one's stamp"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To change or influence something in a way that shows one's style or abilities.",
    "Sentence": [
      "The Rizing Zephyr took a 71-70 lead on a Shota Tsuyama free throw (he missed the first attempt) with 1:42 to play, which was followed by a cold spell by both offenses before Coleby got in position to put his stamp on the final outcome.",
      "The administration should have moved sooner to put its stamp on the climate assessment, said Judith Curry, a former chairwoman of the School of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences at the Georgia Institute of Technology who said she has been in contact with Dr. Maue and other officials.",
      "The Heisman Trophy-winning receiver from Alabama put his stamp all over the College Football Playoff championship game in the first two quarters, and the Crimson Tide are national champions once again."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "6745",
    "Idiom": [
      "put oneself across"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To express ideas and personality clearly.",
    "Sentence": [
      "It is very important to put yourself across well at a job interview."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "6746-1",
    "Idiom": [
      "put out",
      "open one's legs",
      "spread one's legs"
    ],
    "Meaning": "A misspelling of \"putout.\"",
    "Sentence": [
      "\"I beat the shit out of that bitch though, not because she was fucking my man but because she knew he was my man and was still fucking him...well I bet that bitch gone think twice next time before she open her legs to another bitch nigga.\"",
      "\"Pity for you though, all the same, you could have tried your luck there — she'll open her legs for grammar-school boys, sure as eggs.\" \"But if she's not much to look at anyway,\" I said, thereby saving both him and me..."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "6747-2",
    "Idiom": [
      "put out"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Taking offense.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Gordon told GCN that when the bill was first reviewed in the House, it received a 70-49 vote, one vote short of the majority it needed to pass. Gordon said that gay and lesbian activists were \"extremely put-out \" over this narrow loss.",
      "He was put out at the mere suggestion of misconduct."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "6747-3",
    "Idiom": [
      "put out"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To blind.",
    "Sentence": [
      "You can't have a pair of scissors! You'll put your eye out !"
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "6747-4",
    "Idiom": [
      "put out"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To place outside or remove.",
    "Sentence": [
      "‘These guys,’ said Tom, ‘the ones who put out this magazine at Radley. What happened to them?’ ‘Ah, now this is why we must proceed with great circumspection. They were both, hum, “ put out ” themselves. “ Booted out ” I believe is the technical phrase.’",
      "Don’t forget to put out the dog."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "6747-5",
    "Idiom": [
      "put out"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To expel.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "6747-6",
    "Idiom": [
      "put out"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To remove from office.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "6747-7",
    "Idiom": [
      "put out"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To annoy or inconvenience.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "6747-8",
    "Idiom": [
      "put out"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To eliminate from a competition.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "6747-9",
    "Idiom": [
      "put out"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To cause a player to be out.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "6747-10",
    "Idiom": [
      "put out"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To head out or set sail.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Along about Tuesday Uncle Cal put out for San Antone on the last wagonload of wool."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "6747-11",
    "Idiom": [
      "put out"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To cause something to go out or to produce.",
    "Sentence": [
      "‘These guys,’ said Tom, ‘the ones who put out this magazine at Radley. What happened to them?’ ‘Ah, now this is why we must proceed with great circumspection. They were both, hum, “put out” themselves. “ Booted out ” I believe is the technical phrase.’",
      "Yet she must dye, else shee 'l betray more men: Put out the Light, and then put out the Light: If I quench thee, thou flaming Minister, I can againe thy former light restore, Should I repent me. But once put out thy Light, Thou cunning 'st Patterne of excelling Nature, I know not where is that Promethaean heate That can thy Light re-Lume.",
      "in a second I had put out the candle, scrambled up the shelves, half-stunned my senses with dashing my head against the roof, and squeezed my body betwixt wall and coffin.",
      "'You talk funny,' I said to him. 'I mean, the other wardens say, \" Put that light out \", but you shout, \" Put out the light\".' ' Shakespeare,' the warden said in a deep voice.",
      "The factory puts out 4000 units each day.",
      "This unit puts out 4000 BTUs.",
      "Lift with your knees. Don’t put out your back.",
      "They worked for days to put out the brushfire.",
      "She put out her cigarette.",
      "One of the accident victims had to be put out by the passers-by.",
      "Put out those lights before the Germans see them."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "6747-12",
    "Idiom": [
      "put out"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To produce or emit.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "6747-13",
    "Idiom": [
      "put out"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To express.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "6747-14",
    "Idiom": [
      "put out"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To broadcast or publish.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "6747-15",
    "Idiom": [
      "put out"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To dislocate a joint.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "6747-16",
    "Idiom": [
      "put out"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To extinguish.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "6747-17",
    "Idiom": [
      "put out"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To turn off.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "6747-18",
    "Idiom": [
      "put out"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To consent to sex.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Don't them laundry queens put out good enough to suit you?",
      "Christ, maybe that blond was only a bitch after all. Maybe she put out even to the punks. Come to think of it, she looked a little hard-boiled.",
      "Aarfy tried to dissuade them from ever putting out for anyone but their husbands.",
      "Nobody likes a cockteaser. Either you put out or you dont.",
      "If she won't put out the men will accuse her of being bourgeois and uptight.",
      "I can't afford to waste a Saturday night here with some married bird who isn't putting out.",
      "This Grosso dated this woman a couple of times, and then, when she wouldn't put out for him, he beat her up and forced her."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "6748",
    "Idiom": [
      "put out a fire"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To address an unexpected problem caused by someone else's actions.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Laporta is getting fed up with putting out all the fires that keep emerging around the club every time Koeman opens his mouth, while the Dutchman, protected by a bulletproof contract, is probably thinking 'as you sow, so shall you reap', and only just resisting adding the phrase: \"Come on then, sack me!\"",
      "The manager had to put out the fire after a raw hamburger was served to a customer."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "6749",
    "Idiom": [
      "put out feelers"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To explore or investigate.",
    "Sentence": [
      "I will put out feelers and see what I can find out about that."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "6750",
    "Idiom": [
      "put paid to"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To terminate or cancel something.",
    "Sentence": [
      "The rain put paid to our plans for a picnic."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "6751",
    "Idiom": [
      "put past"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To consider something as unlikely for someone to do.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Would he go so far as to call the police? I wouldn't put it past him.",
      "I wouldn't put even that past him. In fact, I'd put nothing past him."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "6752-1",
    "Idiom": [
      "put pen to paper"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To write something.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "6752-2",
    "Idiom": [
      "put pen to paper"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To begin writing.",
    "Sentence": [
      "\"The Government's response indicates there is still some way to go before they will be ready to put pen to paper on a detailed plan.\""
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "6753",
    "Idiom": [
      "put someone in a box"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To judge someone unfairly based on limited evidence.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "6754",
    "Idiom": [
      "put someone in mind of"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To remind someone of.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Your talking of a retreat, Mr. Marlow, puts me in mind of the Duke of Marlborough, when we went to besiege Denain. act 2",
      "\"Ye hae a face and a tongue that puts me in mind of auld times.\"",
      "Sisterhood, brotherhood was often forgotten; but not till the rise of these ultimate Mammon and Shotbelt Gospels, did I ever see it so expressly denied. If no pious Lord or Law-ward would remember it, always … some pious thoughtful Elder, what we now call ‘Prester,’ Presbyter or ‘Priest,’ was there to put all men in mind of it, in the name of the God who had made all.",
      "Who will inherit the earth?... Most futurists and even some zoologists tend toward the whimsical: late-late-show killer ants, say, or playful monsters that put one in mind of Lewis Carroll's frumious Bandersnatch.",
      "With this weekend's whack of snow, Torontonians will be put in mind of last year's chaos.",
      "The silos are rudimentary concrete bins, built for waste to be tipped in, but for no other kind of access. Their further degradation is a sure thing. It all put me in mind of a man who’d made a house of ice in deepest winter but now senses spring around the corner, and must move his furniture out before it all melts and collapses around him."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "6755-1",
    "Idiom": [
      "put someone in their place"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To remind someone of their position.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "6755-2",
    "Idiom": [
      "put someone in their place"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To humble or rebuke someone.",
    "Sentence": [
      "The response, culminating in Rooney finishing off a slick exchange of incisive, pass-them-to-death football, quickly put Scotland back in their place.",
      "Musk has spent a lifetime defying the haters; now, it seems, he’s finally in position to put them in their place.",
      "His quips at the party aimed to put the CEO in his place."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "6756-1",
    "Idiom": [
      "put someone on ice"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To postpone or delay interaction.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "6756-2",
    "Idiom": [
      "put someone on ice"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To postpone or delay someone.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "6757",
    "Idiom": [
      "put someone on to"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To draw someone's attention to something useful or interesting.",
    "Sentence": [
      "O.D.'d, the coroner said. But Meg thought there was more to it. And there was. Much more. Thinking this might be a lead, Meg's friend Joanna, a lesbian and a prostitute, put her on to a bar called Kinky's. Kinky's is where pre-pubescent girls got recruited for kiddy porn films and working the streets.",
      "College put him on to jazz, and he worshipped at the altar of Coltrane and Davis.",
      "My colleague John Eligon put me on to this excellent video explanation of and recipe for doubles, one of Trinidad and Tobago's greatest foods. That's on the weekend docket as well!",
      "It's time to name Questor's tip of the year and as usual we have sought the views of the fund manager who put us on to the best performer of last year under our \"Follow the Money\" banner."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "6758-1",
    "Idiom": [
      "put someone out of their misery"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To end someone's suffering.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "6758-2",
    "Idiom": [
      "put someone out of their misery"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To relieve someone from suffering.",
    "Sentence": [
      "And with some United supporters actually pleading with referee Clattenburg to put them out of their misery, one more moment of brilliance from the magical Silva found Dzeko surging into the area to finish left-footed for his second.",
      "It had been a mighty struggle, but they'd managed to put out her fires. The next time she tried to put Zevala out of its misery, it was going to damn well work. There was going to be nobody left to stop her."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "6758-3",
    "Idiom": [
      "put someone out of their misery"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To relieve someone's anxiety by providing desired information.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Well, I'll put you out of your misery : the amount we won on the lottery was only ten dollars."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "6759",
    "Idiom": [
      "put someone to their trumps"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To put someone in a difficult situation.",
    "Sentence": [
      "I am still without any blanks from you, or notes, to renew yours at the different Banks in this City, I to day was put to my trumps completely as to the $4,000 at the Farmers Bank, the directors not being willing to take any other note but yours for its renewal, as it would relieve the security you have given me as an endorser on it;",
      "The only question was, whether such an unexpected accession of company, to an already crowded house, would not put the housekeeper to her trumps to accommodate them."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "6760",
    "Idiom": [
      "put someone under"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To anesthetize or render someone unconscious.",
    "Sentence": [
      "The doctor put me under before I went into surgery."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "6761",
    "Idiom": [
      "put someone's lights out"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To cause someone to lose consciousness, especially by a blow.",
    "Sentence": [
      "\"He's taken an awful lot of punches in his last few fights and if Thomas hits him like that, he'll put his lights out. It'll be like a blackout.\"",
      "\"The last time I fought Mustafa, I just wanted to give him a beating.... This time, I want to put his lights out.\"",
      "He knew every trick in the books, combatwise, and \"could put your lights out with a simple sustained pressure on a carotid nerve.\""
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "6762",
    "Idiom": [
      "put something behind one"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To recover from a negative experience or feeling.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Owen Hargreaves put his injury problems behind him with a fabulous goal on his debut as Manchester City beat holders Birmingham City to reach the fourth round of the Carling Cup.",
      "The losing candidate was just glad to put it behind him after months on the campaign trail."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "6763",
    "Idiom": [
      "put something into perspective"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To compare things for clarity.",
    "Sentence": [
      "You can put your worries into perspective when you realise how many people in the world are so much worse off than you."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "6764",
    "Idiom": [
      "put that in your pipe and smoke it"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Emphasizes the truth of an undesirable statement or refutes an argument.",
    "Sentence": [
      "You musht know that I om (do you take me? see!) an owld rubble that has found marsee and purteckshin from ago-burn-mint, that mite very justly have scent me and awl my comerogues, sowl and boddy, piking off to the divle (Christ bless us!) and the two looking eyes in my foolish head is so opent, by this and other matthers, to see owld times and time to cum, fwhen I should be afther being dead of the himpen or leaden disorder, that I think I can give the peephill that reeds the Water-fart Chronickhill, sum hints worth shmoaking; and af yew don't prent them, fwhy-Na bocklesh! That's all! Put that in your pipe and shmoak it!",
      "\"There's plenty of room for improvement in it, I don't deny; but it's my belief, Snap, if you was to try to do some of the improvement, you'd find you'd such a lot to do in your own self that you'd begin to doubt whether you was quite a proper judge about other folk's badness. Put that in your pipe, old boy, and smoke it. Good night, Snap; we'll be going now, sir, if it's convenient.\"",
      "\"Lie number one,\" said the old man; \"I never saw either of them until two months ago, and I have never been in Africa in my life, so you can put that in your pipe and smoke it, Mr. Busybody Holmes!\"",
      "\"'And you two can put that in your pipe and smoke it !' Tea over, Harry pushed back his chair and got up.\"",
      "\"Mamma set up a card table, and one of the men said, \"You don't want a table for a picnic.\" She said, \"I do. I can't stand dirt. Put that in your pipe and smoke it.\" She had started saying that a lot, like a habit, and I did, too.\"",
      "\"The reason why grow ups and kids fight is because they belong to separate races. Look at them, different from us. Look at us, different from them. Separate races and 'never the twain shall meet.' Put that in your pipe and smoke it, Tom!\""
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "6765",
    "Idiom": [
      "put the bad mouth on"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To speak ill of.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "6766-1",
    "Idiom": [
      "put the bee on"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To finish off.",
    "Sentence": [
      "When Carmen quipped in, “Well, Mr. President somebody has to put the bee on them,” the General asserted, “It won't be me, never.”"
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "6766-2",
    "Idiom": [
      "put the bee on"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To beg or borrow money.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Sometimes I'd see a woman in the backyard, and, if she had a kind face I'd put the bee on her.",
      "I don’t want to be the kind of a guy that would take advantage of him. You know one time I put the bee on him for a buck."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "6767",
    "Idiom": [
      "put the beggar on the gentleman"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To follow something good with something inferior.",
    "Sentence": [
      "He called for two gills of ale, and I took my share; but I was determined not to put the beggar on the gentleman, that was my phrase to him, being a fellow workman. And when they brought the two glasses of ale, I took mine, and gave it to a man of the name of Thomas Kay;",
      "And there is the grandmother who says scornfully, if someone makes a good cake with poor icing, \"That is putting the beggar on the gentleman \"."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "6768-1",
    "Idiom": [
      "put the boom down"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Confront a person or problem.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Bethany had social services, the SPCA, and the health department come in... And they came in and put the boom down."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "6768-2",
    "Idiom": [
      "put the boom down"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To be really angry.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "6769-1",
    "Idiom": [
      "put the boot in"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To kick a fallen opponent.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "6769-2",
    "Idiom": [
      "put the boot in"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To kick someone when they are down.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "6770",
    "Idiom": [
      "put the bottom rail on top"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To reverse a hierarchy.",
    "Sentence": [
      "“The nigger Professor” they called me, “with a plan to educate the blacks and to put them above the whites”; “to put the bottom rail on top ”; “to subvert Anglo‐Saxon civilization.”"
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "6771-1",
    "Idiom": [
      "put the brakes on"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To stop or slow down an event, action, or process.",
    "Sentence": [
      "\"The fight I saw that day made the others look like a young ladies' quadrille.... You could no more separate them two than you could put the brakes on a blame earthquake.\"",
      "Having put the brakes on credit expansion by raising interest rates, Humphrey last week decided the time had come to step on the gas.",
      "A French court on Tuesday put the brakes on the merger of the utilities Gaz de France and Suez."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "6771-2",
    "Idiom": [
      "put the brakes on"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To stop or slow down an activity.",
    "Sentence": [
      "\"It would have been so easy for him to have the kids rolling on the floor, doubled up with laughter. So he had to put the brakes on at times.\"",
      "“I think it calls on us here in the U.S., naturally, not to stop building nuclear power plants but to put the brakes on right now until we understand the ramifications of what’s happened in Japan,” Senator Joseph I. Lieberman... said."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "6772",
    "Idiom": [
      "put the cart before the horse"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To put things in the wrong order or with the wrong priorities.",
    "Sentence": [
      "The hour had struck; and with it, as always, appeared the man. So it has ever been in the history of the world; though we, with characteristic vanity, uniformly put the cart before the horse, and declare that it is the man that brings the hour.",
      "To attempt to remove the armaments before removing these substantive conflicts of interest is to put the cart before the horse.",
      "Saying, as some people do, \"If I could get these other problems straightened out, then the drinking would take care of itself\" is putting the cart before the horse. You can't deal with emotions like love and hate and rage when you're numbing yourself with chemicals.",
      "Mr. Schumer said that the idea of agreeing to a date for a vote before the committee had held hearings was \" to put the cart before horse.\""
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "6773",
    "Idiom": [
      "put the cat among the pigeons"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To cause alarm or agitation.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Professor Stephen Hawking put the cat among the pigeons last week with his cheery remarks about comet Machholz-2, which some astronomers believe could be heading our way.",
      "In any event, this professorial detonation, especially coming as it does from hardline Federalist Society constitutional originalists, has set the cat among the Republican pigeons."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "6774-1",
    "Idiom": [
      "put the clock back"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To change the time to an earlier hour.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Don't forget that this Sunday we put the clocks back an hour."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "6774-2",
    "Idiom": [
      "put the clock back"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To restore something to a previous state.",
    "Sentence": [
      "He wants to turn the clock back to the 1950s."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "6775",
    "Idiom": [
      "put the clock forward"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To change the time to a later hour.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Don't forget that this Sunday we put the clocks forward an hour."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "6776",
    "Idiom": [
      "put the cork back in the bottle"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To revert a situation.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "6777-1",
    "Idiom": [
      "put the fear of God into",
      "rub the fear of god into"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To terrify completely.",
    "Sentence": [
      "It was the ‘ minnie-woffers ’ which put the fear of God into them.",
      "Rub the fear of God into the people."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "6778-2",
    "Idiom": [
      "put the fear of God into"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To terrify into submission.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Well, I'll continue to put the fear of God into the troops for as long as I can... but there comes a time... We're nowhere near it yet, of course..."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "6779",
    "Idiom": [
      "put the genie back in the bottle"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To revert a situation back to its previous state.",
    "Sentence": [
      "People are very worried about artificial intelligence, but there's no way now to put the genie back in the bottle."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "6780",
    "Idiom": [
      "put the hammer down"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To drive quickly.",
    "Sentence": [
      "I says, \"Pig Pen this here's the Rubber Duck and I'm about to put the hammer down.\"",
      "She always put the top up and the hammer down."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "6781",
    "Idiom": [
      "put the moves on"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To try to woo or seduce someone.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Leo tried putting the moves on Dawn at the New Year's party."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "6782",
    "Idiom": [
      "put the pedal to the metal"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To drive at full speed.",
    "Sentence": [
      "I released the brakes, smashed the clutch and switched the transmission case into low gear, then put the pedal to the metal again throwing the car into what is known as a “moonshine spin”."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "6783",
    "Idiom": [
      "put the plug in the jug"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To cease drinking alcohol.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "6784",
    "Idiom": [
      "put the same shoe on every foot"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To apply a single solution to different problems.",
    "Sentence": [
      "The king of England, who is your holiness's son, is not so like the rest of the world. We cannot put the same shoe on every foot.",
      "You would laugh at a cobbler who should attempt to put the same shoe on every foot.",
      "Watch anything in a cage, that is run on a regulatory system of control, sensory deprivation and or sensory abuse, really really poor nutrition, no regard for individual dignity, trying to put the same shoe on every foot,etc."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "6785",
    "Idiom": [
      "put the screws"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To apply pressure.",
    "Sentence": [
      "If in fact they put the screws on Berlin in the way that Gromyko said they were going to, then we are... I know that we were bound to invade Cuba under those conditions.",
      "Near the end of a year when Fox was putting the screws to The Simpsons, the extra effort required of “Lisa’s Wedding” was justly rewarded, earning the episode the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Animation."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "6786",
    "Idiom": [
      "put the toothpaste back in the tube"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To revert a situation or restore the previous state.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "6787",
    "Idiom": [
      "put the wood in the hole"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To shut the door.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Put t'wood i t'hoil at-after tha goes aat, Aw can't stan it when ther's a draft in here!"
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "6788-1",
    "Idiom": [
      "put through",
      "put through the mangle"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To connect a phone caller with someone.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Please hold the line a moment while I put you through to the sales office.",
      "A big beast of the men's field was put through the mangle then dumped out of Wimbledon as Rafael Nadal fell at around 10.06pm to Lukas Rosol, a Czech debutant who will never forget this Thursday evening in south-west London."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "6789-2",
    "Idiom": [
      "put through"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To cause to endure.",
    "Sentence": [
      "After all the grief my wife has put me through, I wonder why I'm still with her."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "6790",
    "Idiom": [
      "put through the wringer"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To subject to intense scrutiny or ordeal.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Psychiatrists say that for many people who have been put through the wringer over the past decade, the climate extremes are one crisis too many.",
      "They really put each candidate through the wringer before choosing one to hire."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "6791-1",
    "Idiom": [
      "put to bed"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To prepare for completion or resolution.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "6791-2",
    "Idiom": [
      "put to bed"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To finalize or conclude.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Mame Diouf missed a chance to put the game to bed when he fired straight at Carson."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "6791-3",
    "Idiom": [
      "put to bed"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To dispel.",
    "Sentence": [
      "I hope we can put those doubts to bed."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "6792-1",
    "Idiom": [
      "put to the sword"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To execute.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "6792-2",
    "Idiom": [
      "put to the sword"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To severely defeat.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Robin van Persie scored twice as ruthless Arsenal put struggling West Ham to the sword in a match tipped to be Avram Grant's last as Hammers boss."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "6792-3",
    "Idiom": [
      "put to the sword"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To kill by warfare.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "6793",
    "Idiom": [
      "put to the test"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To evaluate or test.",
    "Sentence": [
      "They were put to the test when Mbappe put PSG ahead against the run of play but City then struck the perfect balance between chasing the game and keeping the door locked at the back.",
      "He got a new bicycle yesterday, so I expect that today he will want to take it out riding and put it to the test."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "6794",
    "Idiom": [
      "put to work"
    ],
    "Meaning": "to put to use.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Clearly, empathy is a Scriptural concept that Christians can put to work in becoming better leaders.",
      "Once you develop a great brand, you need to put it to work. The simple rule of thumb is that you should use your brand everywhere you can.",
      "But there is useful energy in the exhaust pressure pulse, and what a turbocharger does is to put it to work driving a supercharger."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "6795",
    "Idiom": [
      "put two and two together"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To deduce or figure something out.",
    "Sentence": [
      "We didn't tell our friends that we were dating, but I think they put two and two together."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "6796-1",
    "Idiom": [
      "put up"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To encourage or challenge someone to do something.",
    "Sentence": [
      "I think someone put him up to it."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "6796-2",
    "Idiom": [
      "put up"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To store away.",
    "Sentence": [
      "“As for your money,” replied Partridge, “I beg, sir, you will put it up; I will receive none of you at this time; for at present I am, I believe, the richer man of the two.",
      "Be sure to put up the tools when you finish."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "6796-3",
    "Idiom": [
      "put up"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To house or shelter.",
    "Sentence": [
      "For a week or ten days we put up in London at a smart, rather exclusive second- or third-class haunt of the decade's nobility and gentry—the Artillery Mansions.",
      "We can put you up for the night."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "6796-4",
    "Idiom": [
      "put up"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To present or resist.",
    "Sentence": [
      "That last fighter put up quite a fight.",
      "They didn't put up much resistance."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "6796-5",
    "Idiom": [
      "put up"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To preserve food by canning.",
    "Sentence": [
      "People made their own cottage cheese, picked wild strawberries and canned them, and put up apples."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "6796-6",
    "Idiom": [
      "put up"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To score or accumulate points.",
    "Sentence": [
      "In addition to putting up nearly 3,300 receiving yards and 32 touchdown receptions in three college seasons, he was also the main punt returner for the Sooners.",
      "The last player to have more than 140 points in one season was Mario Lemieux, who put up 160 in 1995-96."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "6797-1",
    "Idiom": [
      "put up one's dukes"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To prepare for a fight by raising clenched fists.",
    "Sentence": [
      "The proceedings of the State Democratic Convention, held at Turner Hall, yesterday, were disgraceful enough to bring a blush even to the cheek of a Democrat. \"Liar,\" \"snide,\" \" put up your dukes, if you want to fight,\" catcalls, hooting, and yelling filled up a greater part of the deliberations of the august body."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "6797-2",
    "Idiom": [
      "put up one's dukes"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To show readiness to fight or compete.",
    "Sentence": [
      "The NBC reporter who came to the match on Wednesday told Lafferty \"Come on, put up your dukes, we want to see some blood.\""
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "6798",
    "Idiom": [
      "put up or shut up"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To prove claims with actions instead of words.",
    "Sentence": [
      "\"If the evidence for modern Darwinian theory is so overwhelming, they should have called the bluff on the other side and come and made their arguments.... They should have put up or shut up.\""
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "6799",
    "Idiom": [
      "put up to"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To encourage or trick someone into doing something foolish or wrong.",
    "Sentence": [
      "\"He's goin' to that well there after water.\" \"We ain't dyin' of thirst, are we? That's foolishness.\" \"Well, somebody put him up to it, an' he's doin' it.\"",
      "\"I done the other things—Brace he put me up to it, and persuaded me, and promised he'd make me rich, some day, and I done it, and I'm sorry I done it.\"",
      "This week in London the hero of Mayfair matrons is the next-to-youngest brother of Edward VIII, His Royal Highness Henry, the Duke of Gloucester.... Gloucester's young Scottish Duchess put him up to telling the King-Emperor after Mrs. Simpson's departure (TIME, Dec. 14), \"You are a damn fool if you run after her now!\" For his pains, Gloucester got slapped.",
      "Three suspects were brothers, ages 19, 31 and 34, who were caught collecting money squeezed from a victim. The two younger brothers blamed their older sibling, who has been in and out of prison for years, for putting them up to it."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "6800",
    "Idiom": [
      "put up with"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To endure or tolerate something annoying.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Will you be able to put up with me for another 56 more years?",
      "I put up with a lot of nonsense, but this is too much."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "6801-1",
    "Idiom": [
      "put words in someone's mouth"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To suggest someone has said something they did not.",
    "Sentence": [
      "\"Let not anger or grief for the absence of thy lover make thee unjust to thy kinsman....\" \"The absence of my lover?\" said the Lady Edith, \"But yes, he may be well termed my lover, who hath paid so dear for the title. Unworthy as I might be of such homage, I was to him like a light, leading him forward in the noble path of chivalry; but that I forgot my rank, or that he presumed beyond his, is false....\" \"My fair cousin,\" said Richard, \"do not put words in my mouth which I have not spoken. I said not you had graced this man beyond the favour which a good knight may earn.\"",
      "\"But thank God,\" she muttered in a lower tone, \"that Shirley is not old enough to go.\" \"Isn't that the same thing as thanking Him that some other woman's son has to go in Shirley's place?\" asked the doctor.... \"No, it is not, doctor dear,\" said Susan defiantly.... \"Do not you put words in my mouth that I would never dream of uttering."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "6801-2",
    "Idiom": [
      "put words in someone's mouth"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To make someone appear to say something they did not.",
    "Sentence": [
      "The defense has contended that the detectives used \"psychological threats\" to get Mr. Crimmins to make certain admissions and that they \" put words in his mouth.\"",
      "Obama discussed political polarization.... \"Republicans, they have their own TV station.\" Chris Wallace cut the president off.... \"Go ahead, you can say Fox News,\" said Wallace. Obama did not let Wallace put words in his mouth, but continued: \"They've got their own publications, their own blogs. Democrats, same thing.\""
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "6802",
    "Idiom": [
      "put-up job"
    ],
    "Meaning": "An attempt to deceive or trick someone.",
    "Sentence": [
      "“The whole thing's a low put-up job on our noble credulity.”",
      "\"Ah, so you damn rat, this is a put-up job eh?\"",
      "It seemed to be a really good opportunity, but it turned out to be nothing but a put-up job."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "6803",
    "Idiom": [
      "putty in someone's hands"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Easily manipulated or controlled by another.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Why, Marseny, here, he wan't no more than so much putty in her hands.",
      "So long as she behaves in a way to keep his love and respect he's putty in her hands.",
      "He clocks on at 8.30 pm with the opening guitar notes of his most famous song, ‘Purple Rain’. Everyone is instantly putty in his hands."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "6804",
    "Idiom": [
      "quake in one's boots"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To be very frightened or scared.",
    "Sentence": [
      "The thought of climbing that high had him quaking in his boots."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "6805",
    "Idiom": [
      "quantum tunnel"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Moves quickly and effortlessly from one point to another.",
    "Sentence": [
      "The roll of fat jiggled as if to invite the other pieces, and, one by one, the other pieces quantum-tunneled through the tram's wall.",
      "\"Not very hospitable of them,\" he said, reaching for my hand. We quantum tunneled through the glass door. Inside, we froze.",
      "If you had dropped your mug and it had quantum tunneled to China, it would not have fallen to the floor.",
      "If it can quantum tunnel in here, she thinks, why not quantum tunnel straight into the very core, and extract whatever price is, or is not, hiding in there?"
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "6806-1",
    "Idiom": [
      "queen bee"
    ],
    "Meaning": "The dominant woman in a group.",
    "Sentence": [
      "She muttered to her mother, “There's that obnoxious redhead who thought she was the Queen Bee last year when she was a senior!”"
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "6806-2",
    "Idiom": [
      "queen bee"
    ],
    "Meaning": "A dominant or central figure.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "6807",
    "Idiom": [
      "queen of beasts"
    ],
    "Meaning": "The lioness.",
    "Sentence": [
      "We will follow females from pregnancy and parturition to the pooling of their cubs in a crèche, whereupon the egalitarian queens of beasts are faced with the intricacies of shared caregiving."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "6808",
    "Idiom": [
      "queer bashing"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Prejudice or violence against queer people.",
    "Sentence": [
      "The judge in the case indicated that the beating of Mills was a homophobic queer-bashing when he said, \"This occurred from an attitude that was prevalent. The opportunity presented itself.\""
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "6809",
    "Idiom": [
      "queer fish"
    ],
    "Meaning": "An odd or eccentric person.",
    "Sentence": [
      "He’s known amongst us as the Arab. I’ve had my eye on him ever since he came to the place. A queer fish he is. I always have said that he’s up to some game or other.",
      "To these people, native and European, he was a queer fish, but they were used to queer fish, and they took him for granted; the world was full of odd persons, who did odd things; and perhaps they knew that a man is not what he wants to be, but what he must be.",
      "Harry is a queer fish indeed. He is suspicious of everybody and everything."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "6810",
    "Idiom": [
      "queer someone's pitch"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To make a task more difficult for someone.",
    "Sentence": [
      "\"Oh, the Mayor's coming, is he?\" \"Yes, but he's very little good. Mayors don't draw as they used; nothing don't draw as it used. The game is pretty well up. What with amateur dramatics, choral unions, and local talent of all sorts, your pitch is queered wherever you go.\"",
      "—no question, global buffeting has queered our pitch for growth in many ways, currency down-down, oil prices up-up—"
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "6811",
    "Idiom": [
      "quelle surprise"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Expresses sarcasm about an expected outcome.",
    "Sentence": [
      "My brother made the same mistake I did, but he didn't get punished: quelle surprise."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "6812-1",
    "Idiom": [
      "quiche-eater"
    ],
    "Meaning": "A man perceived as effeminate or lacking masculinity.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "6812-2",
    "Idiom": [
      "quiche-eater"
    ],
    "Meaning": "A person detached from practical experience and focused solely on theory.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "6813-1",
    "Idiom": [
      "quick as a flash"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Extremely quick.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "6813-2",
    "Idiom": [
      "quick as a flash"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Extremely quickly.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "6814-1",
    "Idiom": [
      "quick as lightning"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Extremely quick.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "6814-2",
    "Idiom": [
      "quick as lightning"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Extremely quickly.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "6815",
    "Idiom": [
      "quick buck"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Easy and quick money.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Stan Myles adds that the Griffiths are still among us, too—still grinding out their fears and fantasies in the guise of “relevant” flicks, most of which turn out to be variations on the same old theme writers still churn out quick-buck distortions of the truth; but issues are avoided like the plague; white filmster—in a frenzy of self-abasement, perhaps—have succeeded only in being more subtle instead of less racist; and even some black filmsters—in a rush for questionable glory—have created one-dimensional portraits of their people.",
      "Mr. Burns is similarly perfectly cast as a heartless capitalist willing to do anything for a quick buck, even if it means endangering the lives of those around him and Marge elegantly rounds out the main cast as a good, pure-hearted and overly indulgent woman who sees the big, good heart (literally and metaphorically) of a monstrous man-brute.",
      "Seen in full, the coin illustrates what watchdogs have long understood: Many untruths that Americans encounter online aren’t created by foreign actors trying to sow division. They simply exist to help someone, somewhere, make a quick buck."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "6816",
    "Idiom": [
      "quick off the mark"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Fast to act or react.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "6817",
    "Idiom": [
      "quick on one's feet"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Quick-witted.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "6818",
    "Idiom": [
      "quick on the draw"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Characterized by rapid response or quick action.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Wal, if a man can stand the loneliness, an' if he's quick on the draw, mebbe lone-wolfin' it is the best.",
      "Quick on the draw with a slogan, Mr. Mandelson said he would create a project deserving cheers, not jeers, and promptly changed the sinister-sounding name of the publicly owned managing company, Millennium Central.",
      "Some advisers and financial institutions are a little too quick on the draw with Individual Retirement Account rollovers."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "6819",
    "Idiom": [
      "quick on the uptake"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Able to readily understand things.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "6820-1",
    "Idiom": [
      "quick read"
    ],
    "Meaning": "A short and enjoyable reading material.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "6820-2",
    "Idiom": [
      "quick read"
    ],
    "Meaning": "A person who reads quickly.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "6821",
    "Idiom": [
      "quick study"
    ],
    "Meaning": "A fast learner.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Gilpatric assumed that his own prior experience would give him an early advantage over McNamara, but this proved erroneous, as McNamara was a quick study and soon got a fix on the management and organization of the Defense Department."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "6822-1",
    "Idiom": [
      "quick-and-dirty"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Done hastily and without precision; temporary or makeshift.",
    "Sentence": [
      "I can do a quick-and-dirty market analysis in time for the meeting tomorrow."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "6822-2",
    "Idiom": [
      "quick-and-dirty"
    ],
    "Meaning": "A quick, temporary fix.",
    "Sentence": [
      "The car broke down but we managed to do a quick-and-dirty and were back on the road in fifteen minutes."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "6823",
    "Idiom": [
      "quick-fire"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Events happening rapidly one after another.",
    "Sentence": [
      "But the mood changed completely after Arsenal's quick-fire double and Ipswich, supported by 9,000 away supporters, could not force their way back into the tie.",
      "The politician was unnerved by the journalist's quick-fire questioning."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "6824",
    "Idiom": [
      "quidquid Latine dictum sit altum videtur"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Used to mock individuals who misuse Latin to appear more educated.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "6825",
    "Idiom": [
      "quiet as a mouse",
      "quiet as a church mouse"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Very quiet.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "6826",
    "Idiom": [
      "quiet quit"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To do only what is required at work, focusing on personal life.",
    "Sentence": [
      "The TikToker [@zkchillin] narrates in the video: “I recently learned about this term called quiet quitting, where you’re not outright quitting your job but you’re quitting the idea of going above and beyond. ”",
      "Emma O'Brien, 31, from London quiet quit from her job as a personal assistant within the retail sector, after also being turned down for a pay rise.",
      "Instead of managers worrying about quiet quitting, I think they should take away one lesson: Don't rely so heavily on employees going above and beyond their job description.",
      "Part of what has enabled workers to participate in quiet quitting and the Great Resignation is the rare amount of leverage they've had amid a persisting labor shortage, but “resenteeism” signals that people are finding themselves in a tougher spot with the cost of living and a fear of layoffs.",
      "Under these circumstances, an increasing number of university lecturers in Chinese universities seem to experience job burnout and experience QQ. There is an urgent need to examine and represent the formation and development of quiet-quitting intentions among Chinese university lecturers.",
      "He said that he is going to quiet quit his job because he wants to focus on his family."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "6827",
    "Idiom": [
      "quit scores"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To settle or balance accounts or differences.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Does not the earth quit scores with all the elements in the noble fruits that issue from it?",
      "And such, I hope, these will approve themselves to be. Let them therefore, if I be thought worthy of any favour, leave your Country with your good wishes and a blessing. I am confident they will be well bestowed. And I believe before it be long, you will be in their debt; and then it will not be hard to quit scores."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "6828",
    "Idiom": [
      "quit while one is ahead"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Stop taking risks before losing.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Getting up on hot, rainy nights, trudging outside, and sitting on a steaming wet toilet seat, being tickled by the cockroaches that congregated just below the lid. Ten days at Gombe feels just right, thank you. I'm ready to quit while I'm ahead.",
      "Because I don’t get involved with he said, she said So take my advice and quit while you’re ahead Because one day I might not laugh"
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "6829",
    "Idiom": [
      "quite a bit"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Considerably.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "6830",
    "Idiom": [
      "quite some"
    ],
    "Meaning": "A considerable amount of.",
    "Sentence": [
      "\"Yes, a number of days ago. We had quite some important business to transact. He said he would come back the next day and sign some papers, and fix up some other matters. But he didn't come.\"",
      "It's been quite some time since we've just sat down together for a quiet meal. Nobody's going to interrupt us, so we can talk during supper.”"
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "6831",
    "Idiom": [
      "quote unquote"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Emphasizes a word or phrase for irony or indicates a non-literal meaning.",
    "Sentence": [
      "`We're a young quote-unquote club. In time, it will become a club.'",
      "“Brandishing weapons and leaning into gun culture is viewed as revolutionary, and by revolutionary I mean, in their minds, the most virtuous sense, as defenders of quote unquote America,” he says.",
      "Maybe you should ask your quote unquote friend what happened to the money."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "6832",
    "Idiom": [
      "qwerty syndrome"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Favoring outdated technologies over superior ones.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Nowhere is the QWERTY syndrome stronger than in computers"
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "6833",
    "Idiom": [
      "rabble rouser"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Someone who incites or stirs up a crowd.",
    "Sentence": [
      "They proceed steadily from studies of human character and destiny, the proper business of the novelist, to mere outpourings of social and economic panaceas, the proper business of leader writers, chautauquas rabble-rousers and hedge politicians.",
      "He often appears with Gen X rabble-rousers like Hiroyuki Nishimura, a celebrity entrepreneur and owner of 4chan, the online message board where some of the internet’s most toxic ideas bloom, and Takafumi Horie, a trash-talking entrepreneur who once went to prison for securities fraud."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "6834",
    "Idiom": [
      "raccoon eyes"
    ],
    "Meaning": "A bluish-purplish coloration around the eyes.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "6835",
    "Idiom": [
      "race against time"
    ],
    "Meaning": "A situation where something must be done quickly and before a deadline.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Scottish curler Eve Muirhead was left facing a race against time to make the first European Tour event of the season after being stung by a wasp.",
      "Dealing with all the radioactive waste left on site is a slow-motion race against time, which will last so long that even the grandchildren of those working on site will not see its end. The process will cost at least £121bn."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "6836-1",
    "Idiom": [
      "race on sunday, sell on monday",
      "wins on sunday, sells on monday",
      "win on sunday, sell on monday",
      "what wins on Sunday sells on Monday"
    ],
    "Meaning": "A high-performing product in competitions will attract buyers.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Doesn't anyone remember the axiom that what wins on Sunday sells on Monday ? Automotive execs may wonder whether that still applies, but you can bet they know who won before they go to bed each Sunday night.",
      "\"The automakers have provided a lot of money and support for NASCAR,\" Baker said. \"They believe that what wins on Sunday sells on Monday.\"",
      "\"Chevrolet wants to have an engine running after midyear so by July we want to be running it on the track in car tests,\" Penske said. \"They say what wins on Sunday sells on Monday.\"",
      "Auto racing was a glamorous extension of Detroit's iconic position in American life, where \" win on Sunday, sell on Monday \" was gospel truth."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "6837",
    "Idiom": [
      "race out of the traps"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To start something very quickly.",
    "Sentence": [
      "As if spurred on by the recent barbs and an increasingly perilous league position, Hughes's side raced out of the traps, starting the game as though Premier League survival depended on the result of this encounter."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "6838",
    "Idiom": [
      "race queen"
    ],
    "Meaning": "A glamorous model in Japanese motor racing.",
    "Sentence": [
      "crowds ogle the red-clad \"Coca-Cola race queens \" at an eight-hour motorcycle endurance race in Japan.",
      "cafes and shops exist in Tokyo and throughout Japan, where customers can be serviced by school girls, policewomen, race queens, or \"bunny girls\"."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "6839",
    "Idiom": [
      "rack and ruin"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Complete destruction.",
    "Sentence": [
      "In the mean season the College shall goe to rack and ruin."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "6840-1",
    "Idiom": [
      "rack up"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To accumulate.",
    "Sentence": [
      "In between, Mesut Özil 's penalty was saved and Arsenal racked up more chances than they would probably want to remember.",
      "Chelsea racked up another 3 points at home to Bolton."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "6840-2",
    "Idiom": [
      "rack up"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To acquire or gather.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Rack up your arm candy with this schmancy bangle, watch, and bracelet set from Anne Klein.",
      "By the age of 18, he had already racked up thousands of dollars in debt."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "6840-3",
    "Idiom": [
      "rack up"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To defeat severely.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "6841-1",
    "Idiom": [
      "rag bagger"
    ],
    "Meaning": "A sailor who sails on messy vessels.",
    "Sentence": [
      "The rag bagger offloaded his vessel in the rain."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "6841-2",
    "Idiom": [
      "rag bagger"
    ],
    "Meaning": "A messy or neglected sailboat.",
    "Sentence": [
      "The rag bagger has a deck lined with gas cans and bicycles."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "6842-1",
    "Idiom": [
      "rag the puck"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To hold onto the puck to waste time.",
    "Sentence": [
      "So confident and serene were the Red Wings that despite have several opportunities to attempt empty-netters from their own end, they opted to coolly rag the puck in the neutral zone."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "6842-2",
    "Idiom": [
      "rag the puck"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To stall for time.",
    "Sentence": [
      "You're having a brutal year, with sales of Hyundais in Canada down nearly 20 per cent. Are you just trying to rag the puck and kill time until the new Sonatas arrive?",
      "We're kind of running the clock here and there's a question as to whether the government's ragging the puck. There's absolutely no reason why we can't get an agreement. I'm optimistic we can, but it's getting a bit late."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "6843",
    "Idiom": [
      "rain buckets"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To rain heavily.",
    "Sentence": [
      "After lunching, Caesar went out to post some cards, and as it was raining buckets, he took refuge in the arcades of the Piazza Esedra",
      "It was still raining buckets when he stepped into his house, even though the worst seemed almost over."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "6844",
    "Idiom": [
      "rain cats and dogs",
      "rain dogs and cats"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To rain very heavily.",
    "Sentence": [
      "The Pedlars of our age have business yet, / And gladly would against the Fayr-day fit / Themselves with such a Roofe, that can secure / Their Wares from Dogs and Cats rain'd in showre.",
      "Where e're I went on Land or water / Hee'd make a shift to follow after. / Neither had he flincht a foot, had fates / Made it rain down dogs and cats",
      "When it rains Dogs and Cats in Hell, / The shelter'd Centaurs roar and yell."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "6845",
    "Idiom": [
      "rain death"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To cause severe harm or violence.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "6846-1",
    "Idiom": [
      "rain down"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To strike many times and/or very intensely.",
    "Sentence": [
      "My wrath will rain down upon you.",
      "The jeers rained down on me throughout my middle school years."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "6846-2",
    "Idiom": [
      "rain down"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To appear suddenly in large numbers.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "6847",
    "Idiom": [
      "rain fire and brimstone"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To send horror or destruction.",
    "Sentence": [
      "That day I raised my hand and swore obedience and loyalty to God, country and the Marine Corps, not necessarily in that order, and promised to rain fire and brimstone upon all enemies happened to be only two weeks after the buildup of troops began in Vietnam with the landing of the Ninth Marine Expeditionary Brigade at Da Nang on 9 March 1965.",
      "\"After punching him, and making a report, how do I go back and with a ridiculous question like that?\" / \"Unless you think I am lying you have to. You have no choice.\" / \"What if I don't?\" / \"I will rain fire and brimstone on you.\"",
      "Even before the global financial crisis flared up, various critics and interested parties rained fire and brimstone upon globalization on several counts. Globalization hampered efforts to shield the environment and lift the living standards of workers. In developed countries cheap foreign imports seemingly turned domestic workers out of doors.",
      "Cyrus Barron straightened to his full height and looked for all the world like some old revival preacher raining fire and brimstone on his congregation.",
      "Yet, if [Chris] Colabello is clean and this really was an accident, then he’d better fight the results with all his might. He’d better rain fire and brimstone down on supplement companies."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "6848",
    "Idiom": [
      "rain off"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To cancel an event due to excessive rain.",
    "Sentence": [
      "The match was rained off because of the waterlogged pitch."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "6849",
    "Idiom": [
      "rain on one's parade"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To spoil someone's celebration.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Sanju Baba, we learn, is rather miffed at the way Kunder rained on his parade and took away the spotlight from Agneepath's success.",
      "“Given that Europe is still shrouded by the cloud of recession, a weak PMI -- though not rain on the parade -- will surely damp investor sentiment,” said Manish Singh, the London-based head of investment at Crossbridge Capital"
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "6850",
    "Idiom": [
      "rain or shine"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Regardless of the circumstances.",
    "Sentence": [
      "This very morning we begin rebuilding the windmill, and we will build all through the winter, rain or shine.",
      "The game will be held on Saturday rain or shine.",
      "He always showed up right on time, rain or shine."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "6851",
    "Idiom": [
      "rain pitchforks"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To rain heavily.",
    "Sentence": [
      "“What there is no question of is”, said Linette, “that my poor frock will be spoiled. It is going to rain pitchforks. There will be water enough to drown you before we reach the house, and your mites of shoes will be lost; but come along”."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "6852",
    "Idiom": [
      "rain stopped play"
    ],
    "Meaning": "The cessation of an activity due to rain.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "6853",
    "Idiom": [
      "rainbows and unicorns"
    ],
    "Meaning": "An unrealistic ideal.",
    "Sentence": [
      "In a Results-Only Work Environment, people can do whatever they want, whenever they want, as long as the work gets done. You get paid for a chunk of work, not for a chunk of time. We realize that this sounds too good to be true. This kind of freedom and control and trust sounds like the stuff of rainbows and unicorns. But this idea didn't come out of the blue.",
      "Don't get me wrong; it is not all rainbows and unicorns. Despite my extensive experience with offline experimental design (from clinical trials to testing the effectiveness of direct mail marketing), I found the online testing space extremely challenging.",
      "Keep in mind that none of this is guaranteed to end with rainbows and unicorns. Like any idea, notions such as \"culturcide\" and \"the culture of one\" can be used by people to achieve what will strike a particular society or group or individual as negative effects; nonetheless, I hope to keep things mostly upbeat.",
      "Just a few days earlier, the president had remarked that \"nobody knew that healthcare could be so complicated\". Now he's promising rainbows and unicorns."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "6854",
    "Idiom": [
      "rainy day"
    ],
    "Meaning": "A difficult period of need.",
    "Sentence": [
      "I've kept some money in the bank for a rainy day."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "6855",
    "Idiom": [
      "raise Cain"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To cause trouble or commotion.",
    "Sentence": [
      "\"I seen old Flint in the corner there, behind you; as plain as print, I seen him; and if I get the horrors, I'm a man that has lived rough, and I'll raise Cain.\"",
      "If those boys have been out drinking and raising Cain again tonight."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "6856-1",
    "Idiom": [
      "raise eyebrows"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To cause surprise.",
    "Sentence": [
      "How did we lose the future? Gelernter's answer may raise some eyebrows. He believes that the United States realized the fair's predictions of a technological and economic utopia—and the country subsequently imploded with its own success.",
      "Southgate 's team selection raised eyebrows when he decided to leave the creative talents of Grealish and Phil Foden on the bench and showed huge faith in Arsenal teenager Bukayo Saka by starting him after his fine performance against the Czechs.",
      "Microsoft, the software, gaming, and cloud-computing giant, secured a contract to sell “mixed reality” goggles to the U.S. Army that could be worth nearly $22 billion over a decade. All of this raised eyebrows at the time. But then computers started generating eyebrows that raised themselves."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "6856-2",
    "Idiom": [
      "raise eyebrows"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Causes mild disapproval.",
    "Sentence": [
      "The fact that a Chinese state-owned company was awarded the contract to build the structure also raised eyebrows."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "6857",
    "Idiom": [
      "raise hell"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To cause a disturbance.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Don't want to sleep yet, buddy it's a good bet I'll raise more hell than you.",
      "A segment where several cast members in panda suits raise skateboarding hell in the streets of Tokyo."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "6858-1",
    "Idiom": [
      "raise one's eyebrows"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To be surprised.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "6858-2",
    "Idiom": [
      "raise one's eyebrows"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To show mild disapproval.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "6859",
    "Idiom": [
      "raise one's voice"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To speak loudly, often in anger.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Don't you raise your voice at me!"
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "6860",
    "Idiom": [
      "raise someone's hackles"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To annoy or anger someone.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Much as I admire Wilson’s tour de force—I wish people would read it more and read about it less— my hackles have always risen at the entirely false suggestion that his book influenced mine.",
      "Google announced its breakthrough in a paper published in the science journal Nature. And its claims have raised the hackles of researchers at competing companies who believe the Silicon Valley giant is inflating its accomplishment.",
      "View the film now and it’s not hard to see what raised the hackles of such groups.",
      "Every time I hear him talk, he just raises my hackles."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "6861",
    "Idiom": [
      "raise someone's shag"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To anger or annoy someone.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "6862",
    "Idiom": [
      "raise someone's spirits"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To improve someone's mood.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "6863",
    "Idiom": [
      "raise the bar"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To raise standards or expectations.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Acme's new technology will raise the bar for the entire industry."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "6864",
    "Idiom": [
      "raise the flag and see who salutes"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Test an idea to gauge response or controversy.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Much of the discourse on and the spirit of group interaction have an improvisational flavor: we “float trial balloons” in the groups we belong to or “ raise a flag and see who salutes.”"
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "6865",
    "Idiom": [
      "raise the line"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To increase healthcare capacity.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "6866",
    "Idiom": [
      "raise the roof"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To cause a commotion or make considerable noise.",
    "Sentence": [
      "What Jack loves above all is a song with a rousing chorus... in which Jack can do his bit towards \" raising the roof \".",
      "This is... why she raises the roof if he pays too much attention to another woman at a party.",
      "You gotta raise the roof because it's all on fire",
      "Jubilant Liberal supporters raised the roof of a Mississauga restaurant after incumbent Albina Guarnieri was swept back into office for her seventh term."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "6867",
    "Idiom": [
      "raise the spectre"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To cause concern about potential misfortune.",
    "Sentence": [
      "The company's third loss warning in two years raises the spectre of eventual collapse and bankruptcy."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "6868",
    "Idiom": [
      "raise the stakes"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To increase significance or risk.",
    "Sentence": [
      "The bank robber decided to take a hostage in order to raise the stakes."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "6869-1",
    "Idiom": [
      "raise to the purple"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To be elevated to a very high rank.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "6869-2",
    "Idiom": [
      "raise to the purple"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To become a cardinal.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "6869-3",
    "Idiom": [
      "raise to the purple"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To become a monarch.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "6870",
    "Idiom": [
      "raised by wolves"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Uncivilized, unmannered.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Were they raised by wolves ? What exactly are you expecting them to do at your reception, dance on the tables?",
      "Do you think I was raised by wolves ? Do I really seem that clueless to you?\" He said nothing; nothing at all.",
      "I thought that Carl was saying these negative things to me out of love, but then over time, the words he spoke grew more and more harsh by the day. He would ask me insulting things like, \"were you raised by wolves ?",
      "“Tell me, Drool, have you always known you were raised by wolves ?” “Aye. I want to go outside and have a wee on a tree, now, Pocket. You want to come?” “No, you go, love, I'm going to stay here and shout at the old ladies.\"",
      "However, he'd not been raised by wolves, and as he put the food down, he held his chair for the guest. “Care to join us?”"
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "6871",
    "Idiom": [
      "rake over"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To discuss something unpleasant from the past.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Tristam Darling [the narrator character] describes Florence by saying, among other things, \"She had no bosom, a deficiency I always thought in a woman like a bed without a pillow.\"(!) Gordon [the author] rakes over every female character in the book in a similar way. No woman is treated positively without being abused."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "6872",
    "Idiom": [
      "rake over the coals"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To reprimand severely.",
    "Sentence": [
      "She raked him over the coals for lying to her."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "6873",
    "Idiom": [
      "rake together"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To gather small amounts from various sources with difficulty.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "6874",
    "Idiom": [
      "rally around"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Come together for support or solidarity.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "6875",
    "Idiom": [
      "rally round"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To unite in support.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "6876",
    "Idiom": [
      "rally round the flag"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To unite in support of one's country during a crisis.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Alternatively, the fires and explosions might cause Russians to rally around the flag in ways damaging to Ukraine, such as in building support for a general mobilization in Russia."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "6877",
    "Idiom": [
      "ram something down someone's throat"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To force something on someone.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "6878",
    "Idiom": [
      "rank and file"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Members of an organization who are not in leadership positions.",
    "Sentence": [
      "First, a prominent Tory called the party’s rank and file “swivel-eyed loons.”",
      "Overnight, I have joined the rank and file of gym-bound office employees in their sneakers and suits. You know: the ones who walk around trailing sad little bags containing soggy towels and spare shoes and shampoo.",
      "The executives attend meetings in exotic locations while the rank and file stays at headquarters doing the bulk of the work."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "6879",
    "Idiom": [
      "rant and rave"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To express furious anger.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "6880",
    "Idiom": [
      "rap someone's knuckles"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To give someone a punishment.",
    "Sentence": [
      "... while political science at Western had received a sharp rap across its knuckles.",
      "If the sales department doesn't get organized soon, the CEO is going to rap their knuckles."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "6881-1",
    "Idiom": [
      "rat run"
    ],
    "Meaning": "A minor road used as a shortcut to avoid congestion.",
    "Sentence": [
      "This week Wykeham Street in Scarborough was named as the worst rat run in Britain. A ‘ rat run ’ sounds like some sort of charity jog by rodents keen to improve their image, but it is of course a side street that suffers from being heavily used by through-traffic as a short-cut."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "6881-2",
    "Idiom": [
      "rat run"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To drive through residential streets to avoid traffic.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "6882-1",
    "Idiom": [
      "rat's nest"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Something excessively complicated, entangled, or disordered.",
    "Sentence": [
      "To make this mid-17th-century rat's nest of love affairs and sexual confusions intelligible for late-20th-century audiences is a job in itself.",
      "That has been held up by the need to negotiate the distribution rights for each country with the labels and artists—a rat's nest of contracts.",
      "Faced with that rat's nest of legal and jurisdictional issues, the NLRB threw the Northwestern players' labor rights under the team bus.",
      "Many CPU silicon designers in the 1990s complained bitterly about the rat's nest in the center of SPARC chips.",
      "And cloud computing relies on millions of connections and services. In other words, it's a troubleshooting nightmare when the cloud goes bust.... In other words, the cloud will likely become more of a rat's nest.",
      "rat's nest of a wiring harness",
      "Think of libraries as the way the sub-idiots who like C code hide all the rat's-nest programming they don't want you to see."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "6882-2",
    "Idiom": [
      "rat's nest"
    ],
    "Meaning": "A disorganized system that is difficult to understand and maintain.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "6883",
    "Idiom": [
      "rat-race"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To partake in a competitive struggle for success.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "6884",
    "Idiom": [
      "rattle off"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To list or recite quickly.",
    "Sentence": [
      "When he was 14, he could name all the Bond girls. Can he still? / He rattles off the names, from Honey Ryder to Pussy Galore to Domino to Kissy Suzuki. He said he toyed with the idea of playing James Bond and had a conversation about it at one point, but he asked if it could be a black-and-white period piece set in the ’50s.",
      "When I suggested it, he promptly rattled off a dozen reasons that it wouldn't work."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "6885",
    "Idiom": [
      "rattle through"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To do something very quickly and carelessly.",
    "Sentence": [
      "The children rattled through their prayers and hopped into bed."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "6886",
    "Idiom": [
      "raw deal"
    ],
    "Meaning": "A situation where someone is treated unfairly or taken advantage of.",
    "Sentence": [
      "The night Santa went crazy The night St. Nick went insane Realized he'd been gettin' a raw deal Something finally must have snapped in his brain"
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "6887",
    "Idiom": [
      "ray of light"
    ],
    "Meaning": "An inspiring or enlightening person or thing.",
    "Sentence": [
      "I think he was somewhat lost for a political position - a simple conservatism did not attract him - and I make the guess that Arnold had been a spar that he got hold of as he struggled to find a political position. I was certainly in that position, having been persuaded by Anderson, especially at the lunch-hour meetings of his Free-thought Society, of the bankruptcy of the Left. Arnold came to me as a most welcome ray of light.",
      "A ray of light amid all this nonsense was Gwyn Topham's piece in the Guardian, which was timely, measured, accurate and of appropriate tone. That this single report stood out so clearly as an exemplar is a scathing comment in itself on the volumes of drivel surrounding it."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "6888",
    "Idiom": [
      "razor-sharp"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Very clever or quick-witted.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "6889",
    "Idiom": [
      "razz someone's berries"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To impress somebody.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "6890",
    "Idiom": [
      "reach for the sky"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To aim for the best outcome.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Far better to start modestly and grow gradually than to reach for the sky with grand plans that could only end in the collapse of the institution.",
      "Resigned to his blue-collar status, Donna's father's belief was “Why reach for the sky when you can be happy on earth?” Donna says, “My dad was trying to save me from disappointment. The daughter of peasant stock shouldn't strive to be in the ruling class, he thought.”",
      "Indeed, career counseling encourages individuals to “ reach for the sky.”"
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "6891",
    "Idiom": [
      "reach for the stars"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To be ambitious.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "6892",
    "Idiom": [
      "reach-around"
    ],
    "Meaning": "A gesture to gain favor or address unfair treatment.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "6893",
    "Idiom": [
      "read between the lines"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To infer a meaning not explicitly stated.",
    "Sentence": [
      "The next day he made incantation, and distorted the miracle of the loaves and fishes till it became prophecy, and I, reading between the lines, saw that it was aimed at the wealth of meat stored in my caches.",
      "“I’m quite of your opinion,” Miss Van Vluyck came briskly to her support; “on condition, that is, that all grossness of language is avoided.” “Oh, I’m sure we shall understand without that,” Mrs. Leveret tittered; and Laura Glyde added significantly: “I fancy we can read between the lines,” while Mrs. Ballinger rose to assure herself that the doors were really closed.",
      "“Yes. And if you had as much sense as the talking parrot I owned once you would have read between the lines that all I wanted you here for was to tell you what I think of you.”",
      "“Trust is as trust does. I tend to be extremely literal in what I say … One does not [need] to read between the lines. One can simply read the lines,” Musk said in the meeting, according to a tweet from Nola Weinstein, Twitter’s global head of brand experiences and engagement.",
      "If you could see behind my eyes / You'd see the truth inside the lies / And if you read between the lines / You'd see I'm running from my mind",
      "If you read between the lines a little, you will realize that he has deeper motives."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "6894",
    "Idiom": [
      "read in"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To allow access to classified information.",
    "Sentence": [
      "― What is this? ― I can tell you what this isn't. This isn't me reading you in, Bernard."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "6895",
    "Idiom": [
      "read lips"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To lipread.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "6896",
    "Idiom": [
      "read minds"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To understand what people are thinking.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Do you think I can tell you what they think? I can't read minds !"
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "6897",
    "Idiom": [
      "read oneself in"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To publicly acknowledge key church documents when starting a new position.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Parson Tyll was a curate of one parish across the Strood and of the two on the island. The rector was non-resident, on the plea of the unsalubrity of the spot. He had held the rectory of one parish and the vicarage of the other thirty years, and during that period had visited his cures twice, once to read himself in, and on the other occasion to exact some tithes denied him."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "6898-1",
    "Idiom": [
      "read out"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To read aloud for others to hear.",
    "Sentence": [
      "The teacher read out the names of the students who had passed the exam.",
      "He read the names out to the class."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "6898-2",
    "Idiom": [
      "read out"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To read data and inform someone.",
    "Sentence": [
      "The movement detector is reading out the data now."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "6899",
    "Idiom": [
      "read someone the riot act"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To scold or reprimand someone.",
    "Sentence": [
      "She really read him the riot act about his smoking habit."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "6900",
    "Idiom": [
      "read someone to filth"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To thoroughly insult someone.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "6901",
    "Idiom": [
      "read someone's lips"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To pay close attention.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Read my lips. We are not going to the park today, and that is final."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "6902",
    "Idiom": [
      "read someone's mind"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To guess what someone is thinking.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "6903",
    "Idiom": [
      "read the green"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To analyze a golf green's slope and surface effect on the ball.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "6904",
    "Idiom": [
      "read the room"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To understand the emotions and thoughts of those present.",
    "Sentence": [
      "The ad rubbed some creatives the wrong way. Hugh Grant called it a “destruction of human experience,” while Handmaid’s Tale director Reed Morano told Apple CEO Tim Cook to “ read the room ” in a post on X.",
      "Long story short: Bumble did not read the room."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "6905",
    "Idiom": [
      "ready and waiting"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Already prepared for use.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Any local businesses looking to use rail freight now have a tailor-made facility ready and waiting."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "6906",
    "Idiom": [
      "ready or not"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Determined, regardless of preparedness.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "6907",
    "Idiom": [
      "ready to roll"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Fully prepared to begin functioning.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "6908",
    "Idiom": [
      "ready up"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To prepare for use.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "6909-1",
    "Idiom": [
      "ready, fire, aim"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Encourages prompt action over excessive planning.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "6909-2",
    "Idiom": [
      "ready, fire, aim"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Emphasizes the dangers of acting hastily.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "6910",
    "Idiom": [
      "real McCoy"
    ],
    "Meaning": "The genuine thing.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "6911-1",
    "Idiom": [
      "real deal"
    ],
    "Meaning": "A genuine or authentic thing or person.",
    "Sentence": [
      "George Michael is the real deal —a real blue-eyed soul artist whom you can wholeheartedly get behind, knowing that you'll never be duped or deceived by his lust for commercial success."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "6911-2",
    "Idiom": [
      "real deal"
    ],
    "Meaning": "A favorable state of affairs.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "6912",
    "Idiom": [
      "real men don't eat quiche"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Stereotypical men avoid effeminate behaviors.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "6913",
    "Idiom": [
      "reality check"
    ],
    "Meaning": "A reminder or wake-up call.",
    "Sentence": [
      "United's renaissance under manager Erik ten Hag already has the tangible reward of the Carabao Cup but Liverpool unleashed a brutal reality check on their progress with a severe thrashing.",
      "That kid needs a reality check before he fails or drops out."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "6914",
    "Idiom": [
      "reality distortion field"
    ],
    "Meaning": "The persuasive ability to mislead or convince others.",
    "Sentence": [
      "I fell silent under her stony glare. I tried to keep going, but I couldn't. Blight had the opposite of a reality distortion field. A reality assertion field.",
      "Small lies are essential. They create your reality distortion field. They are a necessary part of being an entrepreneur. But if you start believing your own hype, you won't survive.",
      "Mr. Jobs used his famous reality distortion field to bend the news media and investors and everyone else to his will.",
      "By propagating a \" reality distortion field \"—that is, mesmerizing potential employees, investors, and strategic partners so they focus on a startup's world-changing potential rather than on its real-world risks—overconfident and charismatic founders in particular are able to persuade people to commit resources under terms favorable to their new venture."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "6915",
    "Idiom": [
      "reap the harvest"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To receive rewards based on one's efforts.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "6916",
    "Idiom": [
      "reap the whirlwind"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To suffer consequences for one's actions.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "6917",
    "Idiom": [
      "reap what one sows"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To receive consequences related to one's actions or intentions.",
    "Sentence": [
      "\"We will reap what we sow; live with what we do not act to change,\" he said."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "6918",
    "Idiom": [
      "rear one's head"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To appear and cause problems at an inopportune time.",
    "Sentence": [
      "One problem that reared its head in 1983 would prove more difficult to solve, with the heat that summer leading to a number of engine failures.",
      "For large parts of this season City have been far from the level that saw them win the Treble last season, especially defensively. Those issues reared their head again, and will lead to questions about the summer recruitment, with some poor defending for both Newcastle goals."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "6919",
    "Idiom": [
      "rearrange the deck chairs on the Titanic"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To do something pointless in the face of an impending disaster.",
    "Sentence": [
      "All the new people want an office close to the President's. You should see them scramble. It's like fighting for a deck chair on the Titanic.",
      "Administrators are running around straightening out deck chairs while the Titanic goes down.",
      "I'm not going to rearrange the furniture on the deck of the Titanic.",
      "Gordon Brown's decision to redefine Britain's economic cycle has been damned by one of the City's most influential economic forecasters, which accuses the Chancellor of the Exchequer of doing little more than \"moving the deckchairs on the Titanic \".",
      "\"And then you write, ‘Oh, they're just rearranging the deck chairs on the Titanic.’ First of all, that is a terrible metaphor. This administration is not sinking. This administration is soaring. If anything, they are rearranging the deck chairs on the Hindenburg!\"",
      "Inevitably, people have suggested that pulling a move to restore Cameron to the frontline is like rearranging the deckchairs on the Titanic, but arguably that doesn’t really cover it."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "6920",
    "Idiom": [
      "reason with"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To convince someone using rational arguments.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "6921",
    "Idiom": [
      "rebound relationship"
    ],
    "Meaning": "A short relationship following a previous long-term one, often to heal a broken heart.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "6922",
    "Idiom": [
      "reckon without one's host"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To miscalculate by disregarding others' opinions or presence.",
    "Sentence": [
      "He had flattered himself, that this gentlewoman would decline the proposal, as she was a person seemingly of a demure disposition, who had been born and bred in the city, where such diversions are looked upon as scenes of lewdness and debauchery. For once, however, he reckoned without his host; curiosity is as prevalent in the city as at the court-end of the town .",
      "But hostess as she was herself, she reckoned without her host in the present instance."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "6923",
    "Idiom": [
      "record book"
    ],
    "Meaning": "A book that lists record-breaking achievements.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "6924",
    "Idiom": [
      "red face test"
    ],
    "Meaning": "A hypothetical test of a person's embarrassment.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "6925",
    "Idiom": [
      "red flag"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Something that provokes strong negative reactions.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "6926",
    "Idiom": [
      "red ink"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Financial loss.",
    "Sentence": [
      "GCN has gleefully swum against the political mainstream. Less comfortable has been the financial torrent that now washes the paper in red ink. Being out of step politically has meant not having access to lucrative advertisers."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "6927",
    "Idiom": [
      "red letter day"
    ],
    "Meaning": "A particularly significant day.",
    "Sentence": [
      "\"In the meantime, the St. Valentine's Day Massacre at Chicago was a red-letter day in the gangster wars.\"",
      "So I assume that we all have some red letter days that are precious to our memories—maybe a first date, a wedding, a gift, a word of encouragement, a vacation, a graduation or a trip to an interesting place. I had one of those red letter days when I was a young boy, perhaps five or six years old.",
      "That was, indeed, a red-letter day in my filmgoing life, and a red-letter day in my literary life was when I was asked to write a new biography of Doris Day.",
      "Monday was a red letter day for her. She accomplished a lot and had fun doing it.",
      "We saw losses for days in a row, but Black Tuesday was the worst red letter day of them all."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "6928",
    "Idiom": [
      "red light"
    ],
    "Meaning": "A denial to proceed.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "6929",
    "Idiom": [
      "red meat"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Topics or information that are fresh, inspiring, or inflammatory.",
    "Sentence": [
      "To mention Bishop Manning's name in a city room is equivalent to telling the city editor that a rip-roaring good story is brewing. A bishop for almost ten years, he has provided the hungry presses of New York with more red meat than Al Capone, Aimee Semple McPherson, Billy Sunday, 'Legs' Diamond, Albert Einstein, Charles Augusts Lindbergh, Texas Guinan, or Nicholas Murray Butler.",
      "“Keep it up,” urged Truman. “You’re doing a great job for the country and, incidentally, providing me with red meat for campaign speeches.”",
      "Given the fiery tone of the conference, Anita Hill's speech must have come as a disappointment. She threw no red meat to the audience.",
      "The decision to press ahead with the rationalisation, while there is still uncertainty about the bank's strategic direction, gives the City some red meat to chew on.",
      "On environmental regulation, taxes and other topics that are red meat to economic conservatives, Mr. Bush has delivered.",
      "The passage, red meat for phone-ins and columnists ever since, argued less politely for an improvement in our national work ethic:",
      "Sunak seems so scared of his party's swivel-eyed right wing that he has been panicked into focusing all new legislation on perceived ' red meat' issues which he hopes the Tory right will support."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "6930",
    "Idiom": [
      "red rider"
    ],
    "Meaning": "War, one of the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "6931",
    "Idiom": [
      "red tape"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Bureaucratic procedures.",
    "Sentence": [
      "That committee does not cut through red tape; it merely provides better scheduling for different agencies so you do not have sequential review by different agencies, so that you have some kind of simultaneity in the review by different agencies.",
      "One conspicuous cost of the compromise reached was a promise made by Senator Chuck Schumer to Manchin on what was vaguely called permitting reform: a catchall phrase referring to a whole host of efforts to cut red tape and ease the rollout of energy infrastructure.",
      "They said we’d be free of all that tedious European red tape and would take back control of our borders, encouraging anyone agitated by immigration to believe that fewer people would come in. Post-Brexit red tape is strangling thousands of small businesses, whether travelling musicians or exporters of goods, tying them up in daunting forms or extra charges that cost time and money they don’t have.",
      "All the red tape and paperwork that goes on there prevents any progress."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "6932",
    "Idiom": [
      "red-handed"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Caught in the act of wrongdoing.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Caught, red-handed, on the spot, in the very act of aiding and abetting the traitors against the Republic of France, the Englishman could claim no protection from his own country.",
      "Another Southerner argued that \"commerce has no social illusions\" and that it would be commerce that would rid the region of \"this historic, red-handed, deformed, and swaggering villain.\"",
      "Your husband is having sex with other women -- that's perfectly clear. Sometimes when cheaters are nabbed red-handed they react with anger, they \"rage\" in an attempt to make the person who caught' em feel like they did something wrong.",
      "Made sense she'd be nervous, right? Made sense that she'd jump like a red-handed pickpocket when her friend Danielle, whom she'd thought had zonked out the minute she'd buckled her seat belt ten minutes ago, threw out such an intimate topic of conversation.",
      "to catch red-handed"
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "6933",
    "Idiom": [
      "redeem oneself"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To make up for a previous mistake.",
    "Sentence": [
      "I know in the past I've been a giant twat, but all the hard work I've done since then is to redeem myself. I just want to do something useful, and I'm sorry if I cock it up sometimes."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "6934",
    "Idiom": [
      "rediscover fire"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To relearn fundamental concepts or practices that were previously well known.",
    "Sentence": [
      "It was necessary for them to rediscover fire, to relearn the basic laws of economics and rebuild civilization out of the ashes of ruin."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "6935",
    "Idiom": [
      "reduce someone to tears"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To cause to cry.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "6936",
    "Idiom": [
      "reel in"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To lure or attract.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "6937-1",
    "Idiom": [
      "reel off"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To list quickly and effortlessly.",
    "Sentence": [
      "There are 12 months left before the next World Cup and every England fan can reel off Sven Goran Eriksson's starting XI within 15 seconds.",
      "When asked about inspirational influences in his life, he reeled off a list of folks whose names would surprise no one."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "6937-2",
    "Idiom": [
      "reel off"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To produce something effortlessly.",
    "Sentence": [
      "the average for the entire 123.7 miles from Lavino to Rogoredo was 109.2 m.p.h. and in all the 195.8 miles from Florence to Milan were reeled off in 115.2 min. start to stop at an average of 101.8 m.p.h.",
      "Last year, the Royals were 5-17 and little did anyone think they would reel off 12 straight wins in 1996.",
      "Briton Fisher reels off 10 birdies in record 63."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "6938",
    "Idiom": [
      "reflect upon"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To consider a topic or idea.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "6939",
    "Idiom": [
      "refresh someone's memory"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To help someone remember something.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "6940",
    "Idiom": [
      "refrigerator mother"
    ],
    "Meaning": "An emotionally distant mother.",
    "Sentence": [
      "It was not until 1943 that Dr. Leo Kanner, an American pschiatrist, first diagnosed the syndrome in 11 children.... Kanner and others once postulated that these children were the products of \" refrigerator mothers,\" women who are overly cold and intellectual.",
      "No present-day researcher takes the idea of the refrigerator mother as the cause of autism seriously."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "6941",
    "Idiom": [
      "reheat nachos"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Refers to recreating something previously done, often by celebrities or influencers.",
    "Sentence": [
      "She really reheated her own nachos !!",
      "They want to reheat Trolls' nachos so bad"
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "6942",
    "Idiom": [
      "reign supreme"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To be the most important or prevalent.",
    "Sentence": [
      "During the month prior to writing this article I have made a series of journeys . One was over a main line on which steam still reigns supreme on the principal trains and on which we had a fine run, fully up to the best standards of the locomotive class concerned.",
      "As much as language in our modern technological world is mediated through the written word, quantitatively spoken language still reigns supreme."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "6943",
    "Idiom": [
      "reinvent the wheel"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To do unnecessary work when a solution already exists.",
    "Sentence": [
      "The trading of information so that people need not reinvent the wheel.",
      "A narrative circulates at Mitchell, Hall about a naive young employee who, in his eagerness to be creative, \" reinvents the wheel,\" devoting so many hours reformulating work that has already been done that he drives himself into a nervous breakdown.",
      "I do not want to make inflated claims for the methodological or conceptual novelty of a certain school or group of writers. Claims to historiographical significance set in a methodological key too often turn out to be claims to have reinvented the wheel. On the contrary, what follows is intended merely to provide some account of the current state of historiographical play in the interpretative aftermath of what has come to be called revisionism and to use the figure of Wentworth to do so.",
      "Evidently, the trend in security applications is to reinvent the wheel, or in this case, to reinvent the directory service.",
      "Overprocessing. The big problem in this area is a lack of standardization. A lot of time is spent reinventing the wheel. There are a lot of similar activities, and the lead time (set-up time) for reinventing the process should be eliminated.",
      "But although AFI (The Blood Album) doesn't reinvent the wheel, it doesn’t need to: The record illustrates that the members of AFI are deeply committed to forward motion, and remain as fired up now as they were 25 years ago."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "6944",
    "Idiom": [
      "release the kraken"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To unleash a destructive force.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Science now supports a cognitive appraisal model for understanding why some athletes can take everything in stride while others release the kraken.",
      "I haul the pet carrier into the house and release the kraken. Hannibal emerges from the cage, glares at me, and lumbers off toward the kitchen.",
      "\"I believe we can safely pronounce the gods appeased.\" \"So case closed?\" Baird asked. \"No more ' Release the Kraken' scenarios for the time being?\" \"I believe so.\"",
      "She also claimed that governors and secretaries of state had \"financial interests\" in the voting machine company, and that they or their families had been enriched because of it. \"I'm going to release the kraken,\" she said."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "6945",
    "Idiom": [
      "remain to be seen"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To be unknown or undecided.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Then came the leak (to the AP) that [Lance Armstrong] had in fact told Oprah he'd been a doper. So all that remained to be seen were what words Armstrong would use and what demeanor he would display.",
      "It remains to be seen if goalkeeper Ederson will be available for those games after he was forced off in the eighth minute following a collision with City full-back Walker and Sean Longstaff that saw Newcastle have a goal disallowed for offside.",
      "It remains to be seen whether he will win the election."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "6946",
    "Idiom": [
      "rend one's garments"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To express excessive distress or grief.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Yes, my friends, it is amusing to see these new dealers wring their hands and rend their garments on account of the distress of the great army of underprivileged in our country.",
      "Rosenblatt never sawed the air or rent his garments. When he began his essay, he knew how he meant to end it.",
      "I feel much the same as I watch the mining magnates wringing their hands, rending their garments and uttering up their piteous cries about the horrors of the resources super profits tax.",
      "Remember, after “The Decision,” when the people of Cleveland took to the streets, lost their ever-loving minds, rended their garments, cried into their pierogies, and burned their LeBron jerseys? And everyone was like LeBron will never be welcomed back here!"
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "6947",
    "Idiom": [
      "render unto Caesar"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To give to the state or government, especially as taxes.",
    "Sentence": [
      "She... made a note to suggest that her client ease some of the last quarter's profits into tax-free bonds. Render unto Caesar, sure, she thought, but not one damn penny more than necessary.",
      "Still, the ideal solution, I think, would be to render unto Caesar an affirmation of flag and country but to keep God in our hearts.",
      "They fear that trying to find the homeless homes translates into raising the taxes they must render unto Caesar."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "6948",
    "Idiom": [
      "render unto Caesar the things which are Caesar's"
    ],
    "Meaning": "One must give what is owed to the relevant authority.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "6949",
    "Idiom": [
      "rent out"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To lease or allow possession of property for rent.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "6950",
    "Idiom": [
      "reopen old wounds"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Causes recalling past trauma and renewed suffering.",
    "Sentence": [
      "When I had completed The Difficult Flowering of Surinam in 1976, Fred Ormskirk, the late NPS historian and radio commentator, suggested I delete a number of the more unpleasant stories in the book, claiming that it was better to let go of the past and not reopen old wounds.",
      "Please, believe me—the last thing I want to do is reopen old wounds needlessly, but... but if it would finally bring a resolution to the whole mystery—\"",
      "We return to the countries that had once hurt and destoryed us in many irreparable ways and from which we once ran for dear life, in order to get hurt again and have our old wounds reopened.",
      "Sometimes the treatments involved in healing the nation (such as appointing commissions of inquiry) reopen old wounds, therefore measures should be in place to cleanse those sores or stop them from festering."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "6951-1",
    "Idiom": [
      "repetition, repetition, repetition"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Repeated practice is essential for memory retention.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Since these concepts and words are new to you, you must mix them in your memory in about the same manner that a child learns language: repetition, repetition, repetition.",
      "The authors took the three Jesuit principles of teaching to heart: repetition, repetition, repetition. Each important topic is covered several times, though their presentation would be much better if the cross referencing were better.",
      "Playing involves energetic and exuberant movement. Movements are explored in play from infancy onwards. And repetition, repetition, repetition is the place where learning happens and knowledge of what the body can and cannot do is refined. A jump with this much effort will take me to the sandpit... water poured will wet the sand and make it sticky. A great deal of play is bodily learning.",
      "So... I hope that \"How can I pratice hearing progressions?\" is on your list of questions now. There is no such thing as \"the most important\" or best way to train your \"ear\". The main thing to remember is that you are training your mind, and repetition, repetition, repetition is the key."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "6951-2",
    "Idiom": [
      "repetition, repetition, repetition"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Repetition is important.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "6952",
    "Idiom": [
      "reset the dial"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To change something radically.",
    "Sentence": [
      "While contemporary designers give us trends, Quant reset the dial on the way we get dressed. Under her influence, women rejected their parents’ vision of beauty and embraced their own.",
      "He said: “I’ve been incredibly lucky to play a part in major new media innovations, from the birth of Sun Online to most recently Times Radio, which has reset the dial on what quality news radio can achieve, and I’m pleased to be still playing a part on the station.",
      "With the NHS struggling to clear huge surgical and screening backlogs and facing continued pressure from Covid-related staff absences, it’s a tough time for it to take on another major challenge. But ministers have promised to “ reset the dial ” on gender inequalities in healthcare, with the publication of the first ever government-led women’s health strategy.",
      "Viewers have since been questioning whether Love Island producers – wary of replicating the toxic masculinity of earlier seasons – have in fact reset the dial too far, with many fans branding the women’s behaviour “toxic femininity”."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "6953",
    "Idiom": [
      "rest assured"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Be sure; trust.",
    "Sentence": [
      "You may rest assured that our best efforts will be put forth to give you complete satisfaction."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "6954",
    "Idiom": [
      "rest easy"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Cease worrying; be untroubled.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "6955",
    "Idiom": [
      "rest his soul"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Marks the referent as deceased.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "6956",
    "Idiom": [
      "rest on one's laurels"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To rely on past success instead of seeking improvement.",
    "Sentence": [
      "\"Rail has a good basis for promoting green travel options, but we can't rest on our laurels. We need to keep on moving forwards because other modes are upping their games as well,\" says Brennan-Brown.",
      "Manchester City won an incredible five trophies last year but the most successful sides rarely rest on their laurels and they will be determined to enjoy success again this year."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "6957",
    "Idiom": [
      "rest one's soul"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To wish for peace in the afterlife.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "6958-1",
    "Idiom": [
      "retrace one's steps"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To return to a previous location.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "6958-2",
    "Idiom": [
      "retrace one's steps"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To go back to previous locations to find something lost.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "6959",
    "Idiom": [
      "return the favor"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To reciprocate someone's actions.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Having received an unearned windfall, we are in debt. The moral scales are out of balance. The canonical way to restore a measure of balance is to return the favor to our benefactor, as per symmetrical reciprocity. However, the canonical way is not the only way. Another way is to pass the favor on, as per transitive reciprocity.",
      "Let's say Gertrude shared some of her food with you. This recognition in turn triggers a judgment that you ought to return the favor – that is, you ought to share some of your food with Gertrude when the opportunity arises."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "6960-1",
    "Idiom": [
      "return to form"
    ],
    "Meaning": "A return to a former state of success.",
    "Sentence": [
      "This album marks a return to form for the band which has not had a successful hit since 1995."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "6960-2",
    "Idiom": [
      "return to form"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To revert to a better or original state.",
    "Sentence": [
      "The band returned to form in 2002 with a new, catchy number-one song."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "6961",
    "Idiom": [
      "return to one's muttons"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To get back to the business at hand.",
    "Sentence": [
      "I willingly return to my muttons."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "6962",
    "Idiom": [
      "returns to scale"
    ],
    "Meaning": "A function describing how returns change with increased production in the long run.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "6963",
    "Idiom": [
      "rev up"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To increase the speed of an engine.",
    "Sentence": [
      "The huge Rolls-Royce engine revved up. Then the back wheels spun furiously, and clouds of smoke filled the air."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "6964",
    "Idiom": [
      "revenge is a dish best served cold"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Revenge is most satisfying when delayed.",
    "Sentence": [
      "He was no coward, but it had suddenly struck him that the present was a very ill-chosen time for a row with his younger relative, however successful might be the issue. Such violence should not go unpunished, but vengeance is a dish that can be eaten cold.",
      "Time had brought me revenge on Lionel, and as the Italian proverb says, revenge is a dish which people of taste prefer to eat cold.",
      "Don Corleone nodded. “ Revenge is a dish that tastes best when it is cold,” he said.",
      "Of course! We are one big, happy fleet! Ah, Kirk, my old friend, do you know the Klingon proverb that tells us revenge is a dish that is best served cold ?"
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "6965",
    "Idiom": [
      "reverse Midas touch"
    ],
    "Meaning": "The tendency to ruin or destroy.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "6966",
    "Idiom": [
      "reverse course"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To stop and go in the opposite direction.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "6967",
    "Idiom": [
      "revolutions are not made with rosewater"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Transformative changes require sacrifice.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "6968",
    "Idiom": [
      "revolve around"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To be essentially connected with.",
    "Sentence": [
      "In Chapter 1 we learned the fundamental security concepts revolving around the DMZ, what the DMZ is, and how to design a basic DMZ with traffic flows.",
      "However, at that time I was already into the mode and interest of another important topic of international law revolving around the principle of sovereignty and territorial integrity and self-determination related mainly to secessionist movements.",
      "His life revolves around beer and bad jokes."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "6969-1",
    "Idiom": [
      "revolving door syndrome"
    ],
    "Meaning": "High employee turnover in an organization.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Sexual harassment, stereotyping, racism, ageism, and sexual preference discrimination... have led to situations such as glass ceilings, earnings gaps, and the revolving door syndromes.",
      "\"Unless this ‘revolving-door’ syndrome is dealt with, it will only lead to deterioration of the quality of staff, as you will continue to lose your best people,\" Banerjee wrote.",
      "\"At agencies, you have the revolving-door syndrome. We have a lot more stability here.... We are able to attract and retain solid talent because Fidelity has a lot to offer in terms of benefits, stability.\""
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "6969-2",
    "Idiom": [
      "revolving door syndrome"
    ],
    "Meaning": "A cycle of repeating unsuccessful behaviors or experiences.",
    "Sentence": [
      "While many states have some form of assisted treatment on the books, the challenge remains in getting them to utilize what is at their disposal rather than tolerating the revolving-door syndrome of hospital admissions, readmissions, abandonment to the streets and incarceration that engulfs those not receiving treatment.",
      "Prison reform and the rehabilitation of prisoners need to be part of the fight against crime, since it is critical that revolving door syndromes of criminality be arrested.",
      "Homan said the revolving-door syndrome is particularly frustrating and she and others have been pushing for the repeat offenders to be prohibited from returning."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "6969-3",
    "Idiom": [
      "revolving door syndrome"
    ],
    "Meaning": "A situation of frequently switching between government and regulated organization jobs.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Concerns exist on both sides of the Atlantic regarding the effectiveness of government watchdogs and the growing influence of special interest groups within the bureaucracy. ‘Iron triangles’ and ‘ revolving door syndromes ’ which began as Washington concerns are showing their face in the UK too.",
      "The report... called for a review of the effect of what it called a revolving door syndrome, in which analysts leave to work for an issuer whose debt they were rating.",
      "That leads us to question whether other practices in parliament and politics may be vulnerable to corruption: conflicts of interest, the role of lobbying, political party funding and the \"revolving door\" syndrome in which parliamentarians take jobs in areas where their knowledge of some government departments gives them an undue advantage."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "6970",
    "Idiom": [
      "rhyme off"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To list or recite quickly.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Say, that was quite a list of expenses Heffering rhymed off.",
      "However, she rhymed off a list of high achievers and well-known personalities who were known to suffer from learning disabilities.",
      "Sitting in an armchair beside a blazing fire in a community centre, Mr. Saakashvili rhymed off a list of his government's accomplishments."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "6971",
    "Idiom": [
      "rhyme or reason"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Logic or common sense.",
    "Sentence": [
      "While many of your essays were interesting, some seemed little more than self-promotion on the part of authors. I wished there had been a central essay to anchor the others or some kind of discernable rhyme or reason to their placement. As it was, I could not help but feel that it was a mish-mash of unrelated and poorly edited information.",
      "Prices vary considerably from one town to another with no apparent rhyme or reason.",
      "He would often fly into an unexpected rage without rhyme or reason."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "6972",
    "Idiom": [
      "rice chaser"
    ],
    "Meaning": "A white person attracted to Asians.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "6973-1",
    "Idiom": [
      "rickle o' banes"
    ],
    "Meaning": "An emaciated person or animal.",
    "Sentence": [
      "To behold him, mounted on his old shelty, was truly a laughable scene, the animal being always so lean — a perfect \" rickle o' banes,\""
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "6973-2",
    "Idiom": [
      "rickle o' banes"
    ],
    "Meaning": "A large number of bones or a collection of bones.",
    "Sentence": [
      "\"Guid sake! lassie, what an airm ye hev, deed ye're jist a rickle o' banes a' the gither, they haena gien ye yer meat doon at Balhelvie; aye, I kent brawly what it would be.\" (please add an English translation of this quotation)"
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "6974",
    "Idiom": [
      "rid out"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To clear out.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "6975",
    "Idiom": [
      "rid up"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To empty or clear out.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "6976",
    "Idiom": [
      "ridden hard and put away wet"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Mistreated; not properly cared for.",
    "Sentence": [
      "However, much more is needed, much more. Farmers throughout the Nation feel that they have been \" ridden hard and put away wet.\"",
      "The Oriskany had been ridden hard and put away wet at the end of the Vietnam War, without an overhaul or proper preservation.",
      "Alexandra collapsed onto the leather couch in the library, feeling as if she were a horse who had just been ridden hard and put away wet."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "6977",
    "Idiom": [
      "riddle wrapped in an enigma"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Something very mysterious.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "6978",
    "Idiom": [
      "ride down"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To cause a horse to fall while riding.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "6979-1",
    "Idiom": [
      "ride hard and put away wet"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To mistreat or neglect.",
    "Sentence": [
      "I pity that new labor crew. Management is really riding them hard and putting them away wet.",
      "Last week we tested the new models, and you'll want to see the results (article starts on page 25). We definitely rode them all hard and put them away wet."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "6979-2",
    "Idiom": [
      "ride hard and put away wet"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To engage in vigorous sex.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "6980",
    "Idiom": [
      "ride herd on"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To supervise a group.",
    "Sentence": [
      "But Rabbit feels as though he owns it all, showing up at the showroom day after day, riding herd on the paperwork and the payroll",
      "As the new editor, his job is to ride herd on the staff and check on the tone of the articles."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "6981-1",
    "Idiom": [
      "ride high"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To enjoy good fortune or be in a privileged situation.",
    "Sentence": [
      "He that went away with his frock-skirts looped over his arm, comes back riding high; suddenly made one of the dignitaries of this world.",
      "Many people suspect that scientists, riding high in the modern world, are uninterested in man's spiritual qualities, which cannot be subjected to test tube and microscopic analysis.",
      "Many analysts believe that Honda's enterprising spirit, deeply embedded in the company's culture, has been primarily responsible for its dazzling success.... But even as Honda rides high, the company faces challenges on several fronts.",
      "But Radnich, 65, and Krueger, 45, have enough in common that their partnership has worked. On a station that rides high with the fortunes of the Giants, the Warriors and the Niners, the two have fended off such competitors as KGMZ.",
      "True Religion... filed for bankruptcy protection this week.... A decade ago, the brand was riding high, commanding hundreds of dollars a pair for jeans."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "6981-2",
    "Idiom": [
      "ride high"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To engage in a specific sexual technique.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "6982",
    "Idiom": [
      "ride off into the sunset"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To depart and fade away.",
    "Sentence": [
      "\"Got To Believe In Love\" (#80, 1970)—a follow-up recorded with the cast of /Hair/—sold only a few copies, and Rob and Steed Records rode off into the sunset.",
      "It's a seizure even if the suspect refuses to stop, evades capture, and rides off into the sunset never to be seen again."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "6983",
    "Idiom": [
      "ride on a rail"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To be publicly punished or embarrassed.",
    "Sentence": [
      "...they'd be along pretty soon and give me 'bout half an hour's start, and then run me down if they could; and if they got me they'd tar and feather me and ride me on a rail, sure. I didn't wait for no breakfast--I warn't hungry."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "6984",
    "Idiom": [
      "ride on the back of"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To take advantage of.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Residential C-banders have been, and will continue to ride on the back of commercial C-band technology. And with millions of dollars' worth of C-band birdies orbiting our planet, I believe it is highly unlikely the programming choices will become reduced.",
      "But now vaccine doubt is spreading faster and further than ever through social media, and populist rightwing politicians in Europe and the US are riding on the back of a wave of mistrust of vaccine science."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "6985",
    "Idiom": [
      "ride one's bumper"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To tailgate.",
    "Sentence": [
      "If a driver cut me off, for example, I'd ride his bumper and make obscene gestures at him, along with cursing and swearing as loud as I could, with the window down.",
      "At the last moment, it slowed down, but it continued to ride his bumper all the way down Washington Street. Driving so close during rush hour traffic, he got, but not now. If the guy wanted to be a jerk, he could be too."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "6986",
    "Idiom": [
      "ride one's luck"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Avoiding failure through luck.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Blackburn rode their luck to beat a battling West Brom as they moved up to seventh in the Premier League table."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "6987",
    "Idiom": [
      "ride out"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To survive a difficult situation.",
    "Sentence": [
      "In deep underground basing, missiles are buried in tunnels in mountainsides where they are able to ride out a nuclear attack. Following the attack the missiles dig themselves out of the tunnels to the surface and launch themselves.",
      "Following chaos on Wall Street yesterday, and in which Morgan Stanley and Goldman Sachs became the latest US financial institutions to come under fire, the chancellor attempted to reassure the public that Britain could ride out the crisis.",
      "“We have a chance to ride out this Omicron wave without shutting down our country once again,” Mr. Johnson said at an evening news conference"
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "6988",
    "Idiom": [
      "ride roughshod over"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To treat someone roughly or without respect.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Had the Commons of England been of his way of thinking, Charles [I of England ] and his prerogative would have ridden roughshod over their necks at will.",
      "Thus, revelling amidst the wrecks of poor, feeble, helpless, ruined woman, man rides roughshod over his slaughtered victim, (Jehu like), saying, \"I shall have peace, though I walk in the imagination of my heart, to add drunkenness to thirst.\"",
      "He's so absent-minded and goodnatured, he lets those boys ride over him roughshod.",
      "“ where I come from we aren't accustomed to being ridden over roughshod by any parrot-mouthed, pig-headed mule in a pop-gun pea-shooter battery. Are you ready?”",
      "He was brusque; he often rode roughshod over feminine sensibilities.",
      "We'll teach these magnates that they cannot ride rough-shod over the rights of the commoners, confound them!",
      "He was a selfish, untalented and unprincipled man who rode roughshod over his mother .",
      "[Richard] Ingrams has always enjoyed a reputation for insensitivity. As with other columnists in the British press, he treads on toes to make his point and rides roughshod over issues that others handle with kid gloves, or avoid altogether.",
      "The intention was, in riding roughshod over me, to ride roughshod over socialism at a stroke, which is to say, ride roughshod over the protests coming from the proletariat and, in so doing, to take another stride down the path of reaction."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "6989-1",
    "Idiom": [
      "ride shotgun"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To accompany the driver in a vehicle.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Wyatt and Morgan Earp were in the service of the Express Company. They went often as guards—\" riding shotgun,\" it was called—when the stage bore unusual treasure.",
      "Him drivin' stage that a-way, he ain't expected none to fight. That's why, when the stage is stopped, the driver's never downed. Which if thar's money aboard, an' the express outfit wants it defended, they slams on some sport to ride shotgun that trip. It's for this shotgun speshulist to give the route agents an argyooment.",
      "TV's Wells Fargo Agent Dale Robertson rides shotgun on the armored car which delivers to local Wells Fargo manager the plans for the new building the company will erect in Charlotte.",
      "But the situation [of lost mail] has now improved because the Post Office now rides shotgun on the mails at a cost to the Post Office of $2½ million annually.",
      "Want me and some people on Rescue One, riding shotgun ?",
      "For a moment, I enjoyed thinking of the type of men who had ridden shotgun in the 1800s. I pictured them as bodyguards, armed with a shotgun and responsible to support, aid, and protect the driver when confronted by robbers.",
      "He attended the meeting to ride shotgun for the sales team, in case anyone had a technical question."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "6989-2",
    "Idiom": [
      "ride shotgun"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To sit in the front passenger seat of a vehicle.",
    "Sentence": [
      "This is the classic children's theatre touring vehicle, with just enough seating space for four actors (who traditionally fight like five-year-olds about who gets to ride shotgun) and the stage manager, who gets to drive.",
      "The memories of his ordeal had ridden shotgun with him the whole trip, but it was easier here, easier to worry about his father and Kate and this stupid marriage pact than to face what he'd left in Texas.",
      "Sissy rode shotgun with Clayton Red Bird driving his old Chevy Impala, the backseat crammed with guitars, a bass, microphones, leads, and all the other paraphernalia that they needed to play the gig in the Longhorn after the rodeo.",
      "Before sending me out alone, the company assigned me two \"ride-alongs\" with its top driver, the legendary Marco, who went out with 280 packages the second day I rode shotgun with him, took his full lunch break, did not roll through a single stop sign, and was finished by sundown.",
      "When both kids want to ride shotgun with Mom, they’ll just have to take turns."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "6989-3",
    "Idiom": [
      "ride shotgun"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To supervise and monitor.",
    "Sentence": [
      "He has ridden shotgun over Hunt's financial affairs since Hunt was a baby in business, ascending to the head chair on the board that governs the Chiefs and the Hunt Midwest Enterprises empire of mining and real estate development.",
      "Thank you also to Stacey Ammerman, who rode shotgun on the technical editing end of this book to make sure everything you read is easy to understand and actually works the way it is supposed to.",
      "Not only are they investors, they run a company, HomeFixers, that helps hundreds of other investors each year. What they bring to the table is hard-won brass-tacks knowledge from over fifteen years of personal investing as well as riding shotgun on over 1,000 flips with their clients."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "6990",
    "Idiom": [
      "ride tall in the saddle"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To act in an imposing or impressive manner.",
    "Sentence": [
      "His son noted Buckley had died \"with his boots on, after a lifetime of riding pretty tall in the saddle.\""
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "6991",
    "Idiom": [
      "ride the coattails"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To succeed through association.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Further, some investors ride the coattails of investor giants, such as Warren Buffett, meaning they would frequently invest in the stocks Buffet invested in.",
      "He had the reputation of a wannabe hardman, riding his cousin's coattails."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "6992-1",
    "Idiom": [
      "ride the crest of the wave"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To experience a peak of success or prosperity.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Some days we gracefully ride the crest of the wave all the way into shore, and the next day it crashes over us and takes us under. Which waves we catch and which ones catch us is anyone's guess.",
      "le Corbusier and his clients were, for a brief while, among the few who continued to ride the crest of the wave following the stock market crash of 1929. The architect was besieged by commissions to create luxurious residences."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "6992-2",
    "Idiom": [
      "ride the crest of the wave"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To exploit exceptional success.",
    "Sentence": [
      "I believe that had I continued to ride the crest of the wave of success from my initial springboard of The Facts of Life fame, I would not have become the deeply compassionate human being that I am."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "6993",
    "Idiom": [
      "ride the pine"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To sit on the bench, not participating in the game.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Jones rode the pine much of the season."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "6994",
    "Idiom": [
      "ride the rails"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To travel by train or trolley.",
    "Sentence": [
      "He had bummed his way around the West riding the rails.",
      "Many of New York's most celebrated personalities hitch-hiked here, or rode the rails from wherever it was that they spent their youth dreaming ambitiously.",
      "There are a number of variables in the trip from Manhattan that you should weigh when deciding whether to ride the rails ($7 to $12), hop a bus ($13) or spring for a taxi (roughly $45, with toll and tip)."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "6995-1",
    "Idiom": [
      "ride the short bus"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To participate in a special education program.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "6995-2",
    "Idiom": [
      "ride the short bus"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Refers to needing special education support.",
    "Sentence": [
      "complete with golden shag carpet on the floor and Christian rock posters on the wall for the poor kids forced to ride the short bus of Christian culture",
      "\"Have you been riding the short bus, or something? You know what Us Weekly said about her.\"",
      "Admittedly, I'm no Rhodes Scholar, but I didn't ride the short bus to school either,",
      "“You think because I make my living putting balls through hoops, I rode the short bus to school?”",
      "I accidentally called him Chris, and he turned red and yelled, \"My name is Christopher\" Okay, now I was thinking he rode the short bus. As quick as he erupted, he relaxed and told me how much he loves his nanna and his kitty, Buttons. I ended the date early and said goodnight and went home.",
      "Is there any place on earth that has as many elected officials who rode the short bus to school as Lackawanna County?"
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "6996",
    "Idiom": [
      "ride the tiger"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To maintain control over something dangerous.",
    "Sentence": [
      "The Germans had ridden the tiger of Islamic rage and resentment a long way – across the Red Sea into Eritrea and Somalia, into the inner sanctum of the Arabian desert, then winding through Mesopotamia, Persia and Afghanistan",
      "He has ridden the tiger with some skill. But the tiger is growing up slowly and Cambodia will find it more and more difficult to follow Communist policies abroad while keeping Communism down at home."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "6997",
    "Idiom": [
      "ride the wave"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To take advantage of a profitable period.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "6998-1",
    "Idiom": [
      "rig out"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To provide with equipment or gear.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "6998-2",
    "Idiom": [
      "rig out"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To dress, especially in an unusual manner.",
    "Sentence": [
      "\"Mr. Watson 's a splendid judge of washing, I guess. I don't approve of children being rigged out in fancy colors, but I 'll see what your aunt Jane thinks.\"",
      "Jack was Rigged out in his Gold and Silver Lace.",
      "\"When you're fed up, and rested, and all rigged out, you'll be just the type I want.\""
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "6998-3",
    "Idiom": [
      "rig out"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To expel someone from a position through manipulation.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "6999",
    "Idiom": [
      "right away"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Immediately.",
    "Sentence": [
      "This item is urgent, so please start on it right away."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "7000",
    "Idiom": [
      "right of Genghis Khan"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Extremely right-wing political views.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Of course, I must admit that I am somewhat to the left of Senator Gorton, who claims he is left of centre. This places me firmly to the right of Genghis Khan, and thus acceptable to the bulk of the present coalition Government."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "7001",
    "Idiom": [
      "right on"
    ],
    "Meaning": "An expression of enthusiasm.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Right on to Jean Segaloff and her Speaking Out column, \"The Myth of the 'Feminist Male!\" A man who calls himself a \"feminist\" is akin to a white civil rights worker who calls him or herself a \"black activist.\"",
      "I knew you could do it. Right on !"
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "7002-1",
    "Idiom": [
      "ring a bell"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To seem familiar.",
    "Sentence": [
      "His face rings a bell. I wonder if I know him from somewhere."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "7002-2",
    "Idiom": [
      "ring a bell"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To spark a memory.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "7003-1",
    "Idiom": [
      "ring down the curtain"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To end something.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Ring down the curtain on To-day And give the Past the right of way, Till fields of battle red with rust, Shine through the ashes and the dust Across the Age, and burn as plain As glowing Mars through window-pane.",
      "And although he is impatient with the Beat pose, uniform, and rhetoric, he too disaffiliates himself and prepares to \" ring down the curtain on the American dream.\"",
      "Now Tyrone, in mixed charity and despair, tries to ring down the curtain on the tragic farce of his son's life.",
      "A visibly frail Roosevelt played his usual role of mediator between the pugnacious Churchill and the scowling tyrant Stalin. All three leaders left Yalta believing they had obtained the assurances they needed for the postwar world. Churchill rebutted any and all suggestions that the British ring down the curtain on their empire."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "7003-2",
    "Idiom": [
      "ring down the curtain"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Marks the end of something.",
    "Sentence": [
      "But tonight the Union veteran of Maryland clasps hands with the rebel veteran of Missouri, and the gap is closed. In this supreme moment the imperfect welding of the broken Union is perfected at last, and from this hour the seam of the joining shall no more be visible. The long tragedy is ended — ring down the curtain !",
      "Life is too difficult. O. Greenbaum, H. Knape, T. Kornflower, J. Davenport, all would agree that “Life is but the span from womb to tomb; a sigh, a smile; a chill, a fever; a throe of pain, a spasm of volupty: then a gasping for breath, and the comedy is over, the song is ended, ring down the curtain, the clown is dead.”",
      "The great natural routes in Yosemite have been done. The Wall of Early Morning Light merely rang down the curtain. —Jim McCarthy, 1971"
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "7004",
    "Idiom": [
      "ring false"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To seem incorrect or implausible.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Moments of potential transcendence, such as an afternoon constitutional through an expressionistic wonderland recalling the Fuji Velvia vividness of What Dreams May Come, ring false in light of this project's mercenary origins.",
      "But to some viewers, it rang false. They had seen this pattern before: show writes meme-able scene; scene becomes meme; instant marketing; profit.",
      "His excuse about his car breaking down again rings false to me."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "7005",
    "Idiom": [
      "ring hollow"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To seem false or unconvincing.",
    "Sentence": [
      "In his own ears the words he spoke rang hollow, awkward, even impertinent. He could say nothing which did not seem hideously supercilious."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "7006",
    "Idiom": [
      "ring off the hook"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To ring constantly or excessively.",
    "Sentence": [
      "I placed the advertisement yesterday, and the phone has been ringing off the hook ever since."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "7007",
    "Idiom": [
      "ring one's bell"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To hit one's head hard.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "7008-1",
    "Idiom": [
      "ring someone's bell"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To deliver a strong blow, particularly to the head.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Braves outfielder Eddie Miller was struck in the head with an object thrown from the left field seats.... Braves manager Bobby Cox said Miller was more dazed than hurt. \"It stung him pretty good, it rang his bell,\" Cox said.",
      "Redman took Kenny Lofton's left shoulder on his jaw and saw every color of the rainbow but teal. \"That sent me down. I was kinda dizzy,\" Redman said... \"You take a shot like that, it's going to ring your bell a bit.\""
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "7008-2",
    "Idiom": [
      "ring someone's bell"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To please or satisfy greatly.",
    "Sentence": [
      "My normal lack of confidence with women is quickly forgotten when I meet one who rings my bell.",
      "Edna's frequent exact words were, “He rings my bell,” along with other similar crude statements.",
      "What's in a book on trigonometry that'll ring your bell or strike your fancy or just make you pretty happy?"
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "7009",
    "Idiom": [
      "ring true"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To seem correct or plausible.",
    "Sentence": [
      "His excuse about his daughter being ill again rings true, to me."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "7010",
    "Idiom": [
      "ring up"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To call someone on the telephone.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Malone at once rang up Lord Roxton, and soon heard the familiar voice.",
      "\"I was just going ashore to ring you up.\"",
      "\"I'm going to ring up the doctor in a moment, but remember, that partnership has got to be signed first.\""
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "7011",
    "Idiom": [
      "ring up the curtain"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To start something.",
    "Sentence": [
      "I caught her in my arms; she kissed me, pushed me gently away, and added: “ Ring up the curtain, uncle. Little Moccasin is ready\"",
      "She remembered perfectly the first sign he had given of it — it had been like the bell that was to ring up the curtain upon the real drama of their life.",
      "After Congress had waited as long as it was willing to wait for Durant to ring up the curtain, it was lucky when all seemed lost to get the blessing, the services, and a great deal of the personal capital of one of the most wrongly judged men in the history of American railroad leadership: Oakes Ames.",
      "He was one of those who hold that revolutions are not made with rose-water; and with strange prescience he looked to the Russian peasant's hatred of his oppressors to ring up the curtain on a world-drama that should mean the destruction of civilisation."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "7012",
    "Idiom": [
      "ringside seat"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Any vantage point providing an excellent view.",
    "Sentence": [
      "The remote area will offer astronomers a ringside seat for the sky spectacular."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "7013-1",
    "Idiom": [
      "rip into"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To verbally attack or criticize.",
    "Sentence": [
      "The teacher ripped into Johnny when he found out he had plagiarised."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "7013-2",
    "Idiom": [
      "rip into"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To start eating something.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Dinner's ready. Rip into it!"
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "7014",
    "Idiom": [
      "rip it up"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To perform spectacularly.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "7015",
    "Idiom": [
      "rip off the band-aid"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To take quick action to minimize pain or fear.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Look, folks. I don't want to write this recap any more than you want to read it. But let's rip off the Band-Aid and get through this thing together."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "7016",
    "Idiom": [
      "rip someone's head off"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To violently attack someone.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "7017",
    "Idiom": [
      "rip to shreds"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To criticize severely.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "7018",
    "Idiom": [
      "rip-snorting mad"
    ],
    "Meaning": "extremely angry.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "7019",
    "Idiom": [
      "ripe old age"
    ],
    "Meaning": "A very old age.",
    "Sentence": [
      "but two 1890 Hawthorn, Leslie engines, Clausentum and Ironside, lived to a ripe old age; the former was on Town Quay and Pier work until September, 1945, and the latter, ousted from the port, eked out an existence as shed pilot at Guildford until 1955."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "7020",
    "Idiom": [
      "ripen up"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To become ripe.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "7021",
    "Idiom": [
      "rise and shine"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Used to wish someone happiness upon waking up.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Good morning, little Martin; rise and shine !"
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "7022",
    "Idiom": [
      "rise from the ashes"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To make a comeback after a disaster or long absence.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "7023",
    "Idiom": [
      "rise to the challenge"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To show effectiveness in facing a difficulty.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "7024-1",
    "Idiom": [
      "rise to the occasion"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To effectively handle a challenge.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Gabriel, though one of the quietest and most gentle men on earth, rose to the occasion, with martial promptness and vigour. \"That's my fist.... Now — the first man in the parish that I hear prophesying bad of our mistress, why\" (here the fist was raised and let fall as Thor might have done with his hammer in assaying it) — \"he'll smell and taste that.\"",
      "As it happened, this particular ordeal was exceedingly severe, but nothing can excuse the absolute failure of the troops concerned to rise to the occasion.",
      "How many times have we heard this story? The one about people rising to the occasion, storming the cockpit of the hijacked jet, racing into the burning building, tackling the gunman, saving a life."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "7024-2",
    "Idiom": [
      "rise to the occasion"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To perform well in response to a challenge.",
    "Sentence": [
      "To his comic fury and shame, the traveller's 'master part' fails to rise to the occasion, and the girl's innocence is preserved."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "7025",
    "Idiom": [
      "rise to the purple"
    ],
    "Meaning": "An elevation to a high rank, especially royal.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "7026",
    "Idiom": [
      "rise with the lark"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To be awake early in the morning.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "7027",
    "Idiom": [
      "risk it for the biscuit"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Take a risk for potential reward.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "7028",
    "Idiom": [
      "rivet counter"
    ],
    "Meaning": "A person obsessed with minute details of a specific interest.",
    "Sentence": [
      "For the rivet-counters, there were 10,036 Lightnings produced, including 113 built by Consolidated-Vultee...",
      "Peter Hodges' survey will certainly be of interest to naval rivet-counters and ship-modellers but, unfortunately, probably to few others."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "7029",
    "Idiom": [
      "roach coach"
    ],
    "Meaning": "A food truck.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "7030-1",
    "Idiom": [
      "road hog"
    ],
    "Meaning": "A motorist who occupies multiple lanes.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "7030-2",
    "Idiom": [
      "road hog"
    ],
    "Meaning": "A reckless or inconsiderate driver.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "7031",
    "Idiom": [
      "road less traveled"
    ],
    "Meaning": "The less popular option.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "7032",
    "Idiom": [
      "road to Damascus"
    ],
    "Meaning": "A significant change in beliefs or ideas.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Today we hear a lot about those who have had what's often called Road to Damascus experiences on every issue from guns and same-sex marriage to the sanctity-of-life and taxes.",
      "That was my Road to Damascus moment. They played one hit after another and this is the song I remember most clearly.",
      "The candidate is aggressively branding himself as Vernon 2.0, a kinder, gentler Vernon Jones, a bridge builder, a fence mender. Asked by a Rockdale editor about his “ road to Damascus moment,” Jones laughs. “I got knocked off my donkey,” he says."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "7033",
    "Idiom": [
      "roar back"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To become active or powerful after a decline.",
    "Sentence": [
      "They would test their novel cancer vaccine against one of the most virulent forms of the disease, a cancer notorious for roaring back even in patients whose tumors had been removed."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "7034",
    "Idiom": [
      "rob Peter to pay Paul"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To solve one problem by creating another, producing no net gain.",
    "Sentence": [
      "It would be robbing Peter to pay Paul, for the government to pay a stamp-duty to itself.",
      "Perhaps what the Ocean takes from one part of the Cape it gives to another,— robs Peter to pay Paul.",
      "OMB decided that a large part of the money would come from other health programs for poor women and children. That penny-pinching tactic sparked an outcry. Senator Christopher Bond of Missouri denounced the plan as pitting \"one city's babies against another city's babies.\" Florida Governor Lawton Chiles, who chairs the National Commission to Prevent Infant Mortality, said it amounted to \" robbing Peter to pay Paul.\"",
      "and so levelling up is not a jam-spreading operation, it’s not robbing Peter to pay Paul, its not zero sum it’s win win for the whole United Kingdom and so here is the plan for levelling up."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "7035-1",
    "Idiom": [
      "rob the cradle"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To date or marry someone significantly younger.",
    "Sentence": [
      "The actress, 31, also pooh-poohs the notion that she's robbing the cradle with Timberlake, 22."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "7035-2",
    "Idiom": [
      "rob the cradle"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To use a young person inappropriately for one's own purposes.",
    "Sentence": [
      "They were ordered to the field, and their places filled by the Georgia \"Reserves,\" an organization of boys under, and men over the military age. As General Grant aptly-phrased it, \"They had robbed the cradle and the grave,\" in forming these regiments."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "7036",
    "Idiom": [
      "robber baron"
    ],
    "Meaning": "A wealthy and influential business tycoon with questionable and unethical methods.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Still sails the Robber Baron ’s yacht in sunny Southern seas. Daily she jams her nose ashore, and daily takes on and puts off a fresh cargo of telegraph dispatches; and he who is idling for his liver's sake knows every night the tale of Wall-street's ticker and baiteth still without cessation his everlasting mouse trap.",
      "An early operator in the field, Ivy Lee, is reported to have changed the image of John D. Rockefeller from robber baron to philanthropic old gentleman who loved to play golf and hand out shiny coins to children.",
      "When the robber barons emerged in the late nineteenth century as the first ultrarich Americans, they had no clear guide on how to build palatial homes, so they just copied the architecture of wealthy European families."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "7037-1",
    "Idiom": [
      "rock bottom"
    ],
    "Meaning": "The very lowest level.",
    "Sentence": [
      "\"We were absolutely at rock bottom. Our passengers didn't like us. Our stakeholders didn't like us. Our own staff didn't like us.",
      "“It is a very conservative rock-bottom minimum,” said Prof Jason Box from the National Geological Survey of Denmark and Greenland (Geus), who led the research. “Realistically, we will see this figure more than double within this century.”",
      "Harry told the high court that “our country is judged globally by the state of our press and our government, both of which I believe are at rock bottom ”.",
      "Pork belly futures have hit rock bottom."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "7037-2",
    "Idiom": [
      "rock bottom"
    ],
    "Meaning": "The lowest possible state in one’s life.",
    "Sentence": [
      "when referee Jesus Gil Manzano showed him the red card, Maguire resembled an individual who had hit rock bottom.",
      "Some people believe that mental illnesses can't be treated unless the person hits rock bottom first."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "7038",
    "Idiom": [
      "rock hound"
    ],
    "Meaning": "A person who collects rocks and minerals as a hobby.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "7039",
    "Idiom": [
      "rock on"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To maintain a lifestyle inspired by rock culture.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "7040",
    "Idiom": [
      "rock out with one's cock out"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To enjoy oneself immensely.",
    "Sentence": [
      "We are going to rock out with our cocks out in Vegas, fellas!"
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "7041",
    "Idiom": [
      "rock the boat"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To disturb the status quo.",
    "Sentence": [
      "A lot of gay people I know, female and male, are conservative — perhaps even more conservative than they would be if they were non-gay because they've had such a hard struggle in life, they don't want to rock any boats.",
      "Just when I'm asking myself if it's worth it to rock the boat and wondering if I should compromise, something will happen to keep me going. Like one year I got an award from a women's group for, \"exposing the jockocratic values of society.",
      "But they're quite the opposite- they're very respectful of other people. They say offensive things to rock the boat and cause some turmoil in the world of safe, homogenized P.C. punk rock.",
      "I'd just jump in and fix it, but that's not my job, and I don't want to rock the boat."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "7042",
    "Idiom": [
      "rocket science"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Anything overly complex or confusing.",
    "Sentence": [
      "This isn’t rocket science. Government standards matter. They drive innovation and efficiency.",
      "Akers claims that ETCS signalling renewals are roughly 50% of the cost of conventional renewals. If nothing else, this is an important reason for NR to be keen to switch. \"There's no rocket science or magic in that, there's just physically less to deliver,\" he says. \"There are no trackside signals. Yes, you have balises and marker boards, and you still have train detection, but by and large there is simply less to deliver.",
      "It's not rocket science. Just screw in the bulb and flip the switch.",
      "It's not rocket science. You just need to screw this to that!"
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "7043",
    "Idiom": [
      "rocket scientist"
    ],
    "Meaning": "A very intelligent person.",
    "Sentence": [
      "\"OK,\" you say, \"I understand that definition and although I'm not a rocket scientist, it appears to make sense. What else is there? I just want a couple of F-16s to go along with my AEGIS Destroyers and Abrams Tanks. Push the button and send the planes.\"",
      "While visiting another province, I remarked that I thought a particular cabinet minister was not exactly a rocket scientist. The reply from a fellow cabinet minister in that province was, 'Yes, I agree. A is not a rocket scientist. But I'm sorry to say that about 25 per cent of the people in this province are decidedly not rocket scientists, and they deserve representation, too.' And that story is only half in jest.",
      "[Sandra] Witelson delved into her collection and retrieved the brains of contributors who were both mentally and physically healthy, with IQs from 107 to 125. No dunces here, but no rocket scientists either.",
      "It doesn't take a rocket scientist to figure out that as a culture we are obsessed with almost every aspect of technology.",
      "But then, in my experience, there are no rocket scientists on the NYPD.",
      "You don’t have to be a rocket scientist to see that that idea won’t work."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "7044",
    "Idiom": [
      "rocking horse shit",
      "rocking-horse shit"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Something exceedingly rare or nonexistent.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "7045",
    "Idiom": [
      "rod for one's back"
    ],
    "Meaning": "The means of one's own punishment or downfall.",
    "Sentence": [
      "\"Silcote, you are making a rod for your back in your treatment of that child. She'll live to break your heart for you.\"",
      "Nobody is more wary of Tony Blair's record ratings and the illusion of the Prime Minister's omnipotence than Tony Blair himself. \"He thinks his approval ratings are a rod for his back,\" says one adviser.",
      "I can't get over how you parents let your children run riot over you. There must be some discipline in this surely, otherwise you will make a rod for your back when they get older."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "7046",
    "Idiom": [
      "rod in pickle"
    ],
    "Meaning": "A punishment prepared for future application.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "7047",
    "Idiom": [
      "roger that"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Acknowledges receipt and understanding of a message.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "7048",
    "Idiom": [
      "rogues' gallery"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Any group of lawbreakers or disreputable characters.",
    "Sentence": [
      "By 1859, D. Morier Evans was exhibiting [George] Hudson as the principal character in his rogues' gallery entitled \"Facts, Failures and Frauds\"; and at the hands of modern economic historians he has been written down as a common swindler.",
      "The old staple of every demonstration: gully gully may shor hai, Congress Party chor hai —the cry goes up in every alley, Congress Party is a ' rogues' gallery —was very much in evidence.",
      "For more than a decade, Khan, the father of Pakistan's nuclear bomb, masterminded a vast, clandestine and hugely profitable enterprise whose mission boiled down to this: selling to a rogues' gallery of nations the technology and equipment to make nuclear weapons."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "7049-1",
    "Idiom": [
      "roll back the years"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To evoke nostalgia.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "7049-2",
    "Idiom": [
      "roll back the years"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To show skills or abilities from one's prime.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Pires, a three-time Cup winner with Arsenal who scored the Gunners' winner against Southampton in the 2003 final, has been a largely peripheral figure at Villa Park since joining in November - but the 37-year-old rolled back the years with a fine finish from Delfouneso's knockdown."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "7050",
    "Idiom": [
      "roll in the aisles"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To laugh uproariously.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Theatregoers may not roll in the aisles when lanky Ray Bolger impersonates a window dresser retiring for the night.... But plenty of people will be amused by Cartoonist Robert Wildhack.",
      "A comedy that this site has been championing since we first got a whiff of it earlier in the year, the film is every bit as politically incorrect as we'd been led to believe, and has many members of the raucous Scottish audience rolling in the aisles."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "7051",
    "Idiom": [
      "roll in wealth"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To be very rich.",
    "Sentence": [
      "\"Why, indeed! Don't be a fool! You know if he marries her she'll roll in wealth,\" said Korabléva."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "7052",
    "Idiom": [
      "roll of the dice",
      "throw of the dice"
    ],
    "Meaning": "A risky or uncertain attempt.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Will Hunt coming on for Kwarteng be enough to save Truss for 15 minutes or so? It’s not great when your first throw of the dice is also your last. Still, let’s take the temperature of the Conservative party’s restive MPs."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "7053",
    "Idiom": [
      "roll off the tongue"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Flows easily and smoothly when spoken.",
    "Sentence": [
      "\"Coddling criminals\"—the alliteration makes it roll pleasantly off the tongue !",
      "He repeated under his breath: \"The Rock of Chickamauga! The Rock of Chickamauga!\" It rolled resoundingly off the tongue, and he liked it.",
      "Pilobolus is a word so fine and fat as it rolls off the tongue that, like a kitten or a May morning, it needs no meaning.",
      "Oh, the rhythm of my heart / Is beatin' like a drum / With the words \"I love you\" / Rolling off my tongue",
      "I'm a fan of Aaron Sorkin.... I just like the way his dialogue rolls off the tongue. I like to hear people say the words he writes."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "7054-1",
    "Idiom": [
      "roll one's eyes"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Indicates disapproval, indifference, or frustration.",
    "Sentence": [
      "when these three men looked at the porter, they saw that he was intoxicated; and, observing him narrowly, they thought that he was one of their own class, and said, He is a mendicant like ourselves, and will amuse us by his conversation:—but the porter, hearing what they said, arose, and rolled his eyes, and exclaimed to them, Sit quiet, and abstain from impertinent remarks.",
      "Woebot was full of tasks and tricks — little mental health hacks — which at first made me roll my eyes. One day Woebot asked me to press an ice cube to my forehead, to feel the sensation as a way of better connecting with my body."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "7054-2",
    "Idiom": [
      "roll one's eyes"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Indicates flirtation or desire.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "7055",
    "Idiom": [
      "roll out the red carpet"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To extend the utmost hospitality.",
    "Sentence": [
      "The mayor of the little town rolled out the red carpet for new businesses by calling on them personally."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "7056",
    "Idiom": [
      "roll the pitch"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Preparing audiences for an unpopular change.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "7057",
    "Idiom": [
      "roll up one's sleeves"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To prepare to work.",
    "Sentence": [
      "\"We could quite easily have folded today but thankfully they rolled up their sleeves and got back into it. We could even have won it. We had a couple of great opportunities but we just ran out of juice.\""
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "7058",
    "Idiom": [
      "roll with it"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To deal with unexpected changes or setbacks.",
    "Sentence": [
      "The United States, it has been said, is the fat boy in the canoe, and when it rolls, everyone else rolls with it.",
      "You've gotta roll with it, You gotta take your time, You gotta say what you say, Don't let anybody get in your way.",
      "Why can't we roll with it; see where time and tide take us?",
      "But the entire planet isn't in its right mind since May day so for pity's sake let's just roll with it.",
      "My cousin, being a consummate professional, rolled with it and interviewed Jesse.",
      "Resistance can also be met by rolling with it instead of opposing it. There is a paradoxical element in this, which often will bring the client back to a balanced or opposite perspective.",
      "Thinking something is smart when it’s not is a far worse look for a film than just admitting the stupidity of it all and rolling with it."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "7059",
    "Idiom": [
      "roller-coasterish"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Characterized by abrupt highs and lows.",
    "Sentence": [
      "He had roller-coasterish mood swings and would disappear for a few days at a time, isolating himself, feeling suicidal.",
      "Also, the age at which people first get married has had a roller-coasterish ride over the past 100 years or so.",
      "The road starts out somewhat roller-coasterish from frost heaves,"
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "7060",
    "Idiom": [
      "rolling in it"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Having an abundance of money.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "7061",
    "Idiom": [
      "rolling stone"
    ],
    "Meaning": "A person who never settles down.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Before that they had been a good deal on the move, trekking about after the white man, who was one of those rolling stones that keep going round after a soft job.",
      "How does it feel To be on your own With no direction home Like a complete unknown Like a rolling stone ?"
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "7062",
    "Idiom": [
      "rome was not built in a day",
      "Rome wasn't built in a day"
    ],
    "Meaning": "It takes time to achieve something significant.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Rome was not built in one day (quoth he), and yet stood / Till it was finisht, as some say, full fayre. The spelling has been modernized.",
      "But, \" Rome wasent built in a day,\" nor will one thump of the pate make a soldier.",
      "Thou must have patience. Rome was not built in a day —you cannot become used to your court-suit in a month's time, any more than when you changed your long coat for a doublet and hose;",
      "Rome wasn't built in a day, nor, for that matter, Templetown 'ither, though it may be said to be a quick-growing place.",
      "\"As Rome,\" it was suggested, \" had not been built in a day, so neither had Mademoiselle Gérard Moore's education been completed in a week, or by merely wishing to be clever. It was effort that had accomplished that great work:",
      "Rome wasn't built in a day and the path of black and white relationships in the South won't be solved overnight, either.",
      "I feel like Rome wasn't built in a day, and I know that everybody is really impatient, but I know that with time things can be turned around.",
      "I actually believe in some respects we may be in danger of working too quickly, simply to address that perception. As the ridiculously over-used cliché notes, Rome was not built in a day. What I do accept is that the 100-day project that saw the new city plan designed was done at breakneck speed. This was a phenomenally challenging time frame but absolutely crucial. For a community still suffering, still shocked, and literally still shaking, there clearly needed to be a plan put in place as quickly as possible.",
      "I know this project is a big undertaking, but you need to have patience and be hopeful. Remember that Rome wasn’t built in a day.",
      "Rome was not built in one day (quoth he), and yet stood / Till it was finisht, as some say, full fayre. The spelling has been modernized.",
      "Thou must have patience. Rome was not built in a day —you cannot become used to your court-suit in a month's time, any more than when you changed your long coat for a doublet and hose;",
      "\"As Rome,\" it was suggested, \" had not been built in a day, so neither had Mademoiselle Gérard Moore's education been completed in a week, or by merely wishing to be clever. It was effort that had accomplished that great work:",
      "I actually believe in some respects we may be in danger of working too quickly, simply to address that perception. As the ridiculously over-used cliché notes, Rome was not built in a day. What I do accept is that the 100-day project that saw the new city plan designed was done at breakneck speed. This was a phenomenally challenging time frame but absolutely crucial. For a community still suffering, still shocked, and literally still shaking, there clearly needed to be a plan put in place as quickly as possible."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "7063",
    "Idiom": [
      "romp home"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To win easily.",
    "Sentence": [
      "The hour soon passed, and Charteris, having first seen the Oldest Inhabitant's nevvy romp home in the egg and spoon event, took himself off to the dressing-tent, and began to get into his running clothes.",
      "He’s a willing little beast, and not unlikely to romp home in the lead. I’d bet on him myself, except that I’m so damnably unlucky that it really wouldn’t be fair to you, Vane. I never back a horse but what he falls."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "7064",
    "Idiom": [
      "roof over one's head"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Shelter.",
    "Sentence": [
      "When you were in trouble, he gave you a roof over your head."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "7065",
    "Idiom": [
      "room for doubt"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Possibility of uncertainty.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "7066",
    "Idiom": [
      "root cause"
    ],
    "Meaning": "An initiating cause of an outcome.",
    "Sentence": [
      "However, the report finds that the \" root cause has not yet been established\"."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "7067",
    "Idiom": [
      "rooting interest"
    ],
    "Meaning": "A desire for the success of a particular person or group.",
    "Sentence": [
      "\"The very essence of drama is the creation of a rooting interest. In all your successful pictures, Connie, that rooting interest was the heroine, the character you played.\""
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "7068",
    "Idiom": [
      "rope of sand"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Something unreliable or incohesive.",
    "Sentence": [
      "If any flaw can be detected in this reasoning, its author will be the first to admit that these Institutes are, from beginning to end, a mere rope of sand; but if no flaw can be detected in it, he begs to crave for them the acknowledgment that they are a chain of adamant.",
      "Out of his ideas he may weave cunning theories, beautiful ideals; but he is working with ropes of sand. At the slightest stress, the last least bit of cohesion flits away, and each idea flies apart from its fellows, while all clamor that he do this thing, or think this thing, in the ancient and time-honored way. He is only a clay-born; so he bends his neck. He knows further that the clay-born are a pitiful, pitiless majority, and that he may do nothing which they do not do."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "7069",
    "Idiom": [
      "rose garden"
    ],
    "Meaning": "A highly desirable situation.",
    "Sentence": [
      "I beg your pardon, / I never promised you a rose garden. / Along with the sunshine, / There's gotta be a little rain sometimes"
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "7070",
    "Idiom": [
      "rose-colored glasses"
    ],
    "Meaning": "An optimistic perception, often viewing something better than it is.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Such captivating beauty corresponds to our protagonist’s naive idealism, and the rose-colored glasses through which he views an upper-crust world of dandies and refined intellectuals."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "7071",
    "Idiom": [
      "rose-coloured"
    ],
    "Meaning": "cheerfully optimistic.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "7072",
    "Idiom": [
      "rose-tint"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To view or describe something as better than it actually is.",
    "Sentence": [
      "James thought in silence for a bit. He considering making something up, or rose-tinting the truth.",
      "The future is often varnished, and that may be expected, but rose-tinting the present may be equally commonplace.",
      "This was the heyday of street begging 'characters' when French war veterans, real or bogus, played on the public's sympathy with ghastly wounds (real or fabricated), and a later generation looked back on it nostalgically undoubtedly exaggerating and rose-tinting the reality.",
      "I'm rose-tinting my teenage years, for sure, but Twenge isn't the only generational-change researcher to finger the ubiquitous smartphone for contributing to higher rates of teen depression and anxiety."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "7073",
    "Idiom": [
      "rot in hell"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To suffer a fate worse than death.",
    "Sentence": [
      "This is one dangerous bastard. I hope he rots in hell.",
      "They got him, and they're going to hang him. I hope he rots in hell.",
      "Now it was April 20, 1947, the late Führer's fifty-eighth birthday: I felt utterly secure at Aachen Station. The son-of-a-bitch was rotting in hell, and I was alive, a homeward-bound officer of the U.S. government."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "7074",
    "Idiom": [
      "rotten apple"
    ],
    "Meaning": "A bad person with a corrupting influence.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "7075",
    "Idiom": [
      "rotten egg"
    ],
    "Meaning": "A person who is last or slowest in a group.",
    "Sentence": [
      "This barbaric punishment consisted of chasing the victim all over the school yard, everybody screaming “ Rotten egg! Rotten egg! ” and pretending to throw missiles.",
      "Last one there is a rotten egg !"
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "7076",
    "Idiom": [
      "rough and ready"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Crude or unpolished, but still usable.",
    "Sentence": [
      "A dozen Americans could, at any time, construct a house, the ‘ rough and ready ’ habits of the people usually teaching them, in a rude way, a good deal of a great many other arts, besides this of the carpenter.",
      "There was a rough and ready rule-of-thumb test of truth",
      "\"Things were a lot more rough and ready, but there was a kind of raw beauty about it.\"",
      "Doctors define overweight and obesity by a rough-and-ready measurement called the body mass index (BMI)."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "7077",
    "Idiom": [
      "rough around the edges"
    ],
    "Meaning": "In need of refinement.",
    "Sentence": [
      "While rough around the edges, the church is really a wonderful place to be.",
      "The north side of town is a less expensive, rougher round the edges choice for a young family.",
      "His writing is appealing, but a bit rough around the edges."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "7078",
    "Idiom": [
      "rough justice"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Treatment or punishment that is unfair.",
    "Sentence": [
      "At rallies in swing states from Arizona to North Carolina, this reporter has heard the cheers when Mr Trump roars that America has every right to fight back, even if that involves rough justice or being “so tough”, as he puts it.",
      "Prosecutors around the country campaigned on promises to charge fewer juveniles as adults, stop prosecuting low-level marijuana possession and seek the death penalty less often. And they did so in places with well-deserved reputations for rough justice, including Chicago, Houston and Tampa, Fla. Most, but not all, of these candidates were Democrats, and many of them won, including a former defense lawyer in Corpus Christi, Tex., who has the words “Not Guilty” tattooed on his chest.",
      "The term lynch appears to have entered the language from Colonel Charles Lynch of Virginia, who served rough justice to Loyalists."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "7079",
    "Idiom": [
      "rough out"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To create a preliminary version of something.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "7080",
    "Idiom": [
      "rough patch"
    ],
    "Meaning": "A difficult period in life.",
    "Sentence": [
      "It's in the nature of politics, and certainly the presidency, to go through rough patches – times when, because of a boneheaded mistake, an unforeseen circumstance, a sound but unpopular decision, or a failure to communicate – the headlines turn sour and the public finds you wanting."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "7081",
    "Idiom": [
      "rough sledding"
    ],
    "Meaning": "A difficult period.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Rudy's team did not handle last weeks discovery well. They are in for 30 days of rough sledding.",
      "We're running out of money. It's going to be rough sledding from now on, but we'll have to cope."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "7082",
    "Idiom": [
      "rough sleeper"
    ],
    "Meaning": "A homeless person who sleeps outdoors.",
    "Sentence": [
      "In England, meanwhile, government figures show the number of rough sleepers – a small fraction of the total homeless population – climbed from 1,768 in 2010 to 4,677 last year (and since the official count is based on a single evening, charities say the real figure is far higher)."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "7083",
    "Idiom": [
      "rough trot"
    ],
    "Meaning": "A series of difficult circumstances.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Fred is having a rough trot."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "7084",
    "Idiom": [
      "roughen up"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To make something rougher.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "7085",
    "Idiom": [
      "round of applause"
    ],
    "Meaning": "An outburst of clapping.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Please give all of the fantastic performers a big round of applause for their efforts this evening!"
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "7086-1",
    "Idiom": [
      "round the bend"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Crazy or insane.",
    "Sentence": [
      "You're bloody berko, Koko! And who's driving? Manny? He's more round the bend than you!"
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "7086-2",
    "Idiom": [
      "round the bend"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Close to another location.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Down the hill and round the bends, Thomas and his friends."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "7087",
    "Idiom": [
      "round the clock"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Nonstop, 24 hours a day.",
    "Sentence": [
      "He had his team work round the clock to get the project finished in time."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "7088",
    "Idiom": [
      "round up"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To collect or gather together.",
    "Sentence": [
      "The city hall needs to round up all the wrongly parked bikes across the city.",
      "They rounded up a group of experts and got their opinions.",
      "In the autumn we round up all the hill sheep and bring them down into the barn.",
      "During the Holocaust, the Nazis rounded up Jews into ghettos and concentration camps.",
      "Major Strasser has been shot. Round up the usual suspects."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "7089-1",
    "Idiom": [
      "roving eye"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Wide-ranging observation.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Mr Codlin had relaxed into a grim smile as his roving eye detected hands going into waistcoat pockets and groping secretly for sixpences.",
      "His roving eye traveled around the room, and, resting upon the three guests, became inflamed.",
      "Like Jimmy Breslin, a writer he was often compared to, he turned his roving eye to ordinary Southerners overlooked by most writers and mined the inexhaustible vein of human experience."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "7089-2",
    "Idiom": [
      "roving eye"
    ],
    "Meaning": "A tendency to be romantically interested in others outside of a committed relationship.",
    "Sentence": [
      "This dame she was new-fangled And of a roving eye.... \"Beshrew me,\" quoth King Arthur, \"I think thou be'st not true!\"",
      "But because she her wanton, roving eye Turned upon me, her angry paramour Did scourge her from her head unto her feet.",
      "Miss Israel... plans to wear a bulletproof gown created by Tel Aviv designer Galit Levi.... The heavy-duty 2001 creation could also keep Miss Israel safe from the roving eye of pageant director Donald Trump."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "7090",
    "Idiom": [
      "row back"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To change or revise a previous opinion or decision.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Indeed, part of the problem was that Armstrong was rowing back on so much previous behaviour and years of aggressive lambasting of reporters, officials and team-mates who had claimed he was doping. \"I don't forgive Lance Armstrong, who lied to me in two interviews. And I suspect most of America won't, either,\" Kurtz wrote.",
      "Labour has rowed back from a plan for new rolling stock to be procured and owned in the public sector - with the party's rail spokesman saying it is not a priority.",
      "Speaking to the Guardian in one of his first campaign interviews, Timmermans said the UK government was one of the countries rowing back on green pledges."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "7091",
    "Idiom": [
      "row in the same boat"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To be in the same situation.",
    "Sentence": [
      "If you wish to continue fighting amongst one another; if you wish to continue lying to and about each other; if you wish to continue believing rumors concerning one another, without knowing all the facts; if you wish to continue finding reasons to dissociate yourselves from others of a different race when, in fact, ALL OF US are prisoners rowing in the same boat; if you wish"
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "7092",
    "Idiom": [
      "row of pins"
    ],
    "Meaning": "An insignificant thing.",
    "Sentence": [
      "“ they wouldn’t let us have even a row of pins without the money for ’em—no, not if we was to drop down dead for want of bread in their shops.”",
      "He knew that big nations did not care a row of pins for small nations, but only used them as pawns, and he knew that the role of a pawn in a game is, too often, to be taken.",
      "As far as the admissions tax is concerned, it doesn’t amount to a row of pins anyway."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "7093",
    "Idiom": [
      "royal bumps"
    ],
    "Meaning": "A lighthearted birthday ritual of bouncing someone on the floor.",
    "Sentence": [
      "I didn't tell the girls it was my birthday. First thing they always did was grab the poor victim's arms and legs and give her the royal bumps."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "7094",
    "Idiom": [
      "rub down"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To rub from top to bottom for cleaning or massage.",
    "Sentence": [
      "We were taken to a light airy stable, and placed in boxes adjoining each other, where we were rubbed down and fed."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "7095",
    "Idiom": [
      "rub elbows"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To associate closely or socialize.",
    "Sentence": [
      "If any of the officers have but mentioned love to my wife, I'll challenge and fight such of them one by one; and if any of the common soldiers have so much as rubbed elbows with her, I'll beat them like dogs from one end of the regiment to the other.",
      "We have in fact nothing to say against the worthy purveyor, further than that he is an intruder when he rubs elbows with the regular audience, and that the utmost personal contact to which he should aspire, is that which makes an ice, a jelly or some other delicacy, the disconnecting instrument between his own hand and that of a customer.",
      "One right peal of concrete laughter at some convicted flesh-and-blood absurdity, one burst of noble indignation at some injustice or depravity, rubbing elbows with us on this solid Earth, how strange would it have been in that Kantean haze-world, and how infinitely cheering amid its vacant air-castles and dim-melting ghosts and shadows!",
      "Sadness and poverty are never more intolerable than when hope and wealth rub elbows with them.",
      "It was distasteful enough to rub elbows with an illiterate and vulgar white man of no ancestry,—",
      "He just wanted to rub elbows with this throng of young people. This was the joy of life he had imagined he had missed while in France.",
      "Cowboys in ten-gallon hats and snakeskin boots rub elbows with yuppies dressed for success."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "7096",
    "Idiom": [
      "rub in"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To emphasize a point annoyingly.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Postcards from Florida might mean someone is rubbing in the fact he or she has been lounging on the white, sandy beaches"
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "7097",
    "Idiom": [
      "rub it in"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To emphasize shortcomings in a degrading way.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Not to rub it in, but I'm working from home. So I took a swim this morning and have been thoroughly enjoying the beautiful weather."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "7098",
    "Idiom": [
      "rub off"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To be transferred easily.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Over time, I noticed various exercises I did with Woebot rubbing off in my daily life. Woebot taught me how to set SMART goals — specific, measurable, achievable, realistic and time-limited.",
      "I hoped that, if I hung out with the popular kids, some of their charisma might rub off on me."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "7099",
    "Idiom": [
      "rub off on"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To be acquired by someone through regular exposure.",
    "Sentence": [
      "I had hoped that if I went out with Jackie, then some of that elder-stateswoman dignity would rub off on me, but of course without Phil she didn't have any.",
      "Over time, she explained, those beliefs started rubbing off on her.",
      "The hippie way of life seems to have rubbed off on him, as he's a flower power aficionado."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "7100",
    "Idiom": [
      "rub one's hands together"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To anticipate something eagerly.",
    "Sentence": [
      "\"\"It's been over 10 years and it's about time we got a little bit more,\" Ms Tongue pointed out. \"I'm rubbing my hands together, definitely.\"\"",
      "\"\"But I thought when those two new teams came in … I was rubbing my hands together thinking 'we are going to get a legitimate competition here, we will play everyone once and head into a finals series, you beauty'.\""
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "7101",
    "Idiom": [
      "rub salt in someone's wounds"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To make a painful situation worse.",
    "Sentence": [
      "John already feels guilty for what he did to you. Don't rub salt into his wounds."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "7102",
    "Idiom": [
      "rub salt in the wound"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To aggravate an injury.",
    "Sentence": [
      "To rub further salt into the wound, the narrow-gauge locomotives and rolling stock received the new corporate blue livery and double arrows logo."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "7103",
    "Idiom": [
      "rub shoulders"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To associate closely; to socialize.",
    "Sentence": [
      "All classes rub shoulders on the greasy benches.",
      "In this establishment, as everybody knows, on occasions when the crush is great, the animals rub shoulders freely with the spectators.",
      "Now and then the two dress themselves roughly, like common men, and go out into the city to see what it's like to rub shoulders with the rest of the world.",
      "It pays to network and rub shoulders virtually with potential customers on the Web."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "7104",
    "Idiom": [
      "rub someone the wrong way"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To irritate or annoy.",
    "Sentence": [
      "It's a small thing, really, to leave towels unfolded, but it rubs him the wrong way."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "7105",
    "Idiom": [
      "rub up the wrong way"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To annoy or anger someone.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "7106",
    "Idiom": [
      "rubber johnny"
    ],
    "Meaning": "A condom.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "7107-1",
    "Idiom": [
      "rubber room"
    ],
    "Meaning": "A padded room for confining a mentally disturbed person.",
    "Sentence": [
      "\"If you kept on worrying about being killed you could end up in a rubber room.\"",
      "Barry is... well, what? Borderline autistic and obsessive-compulsive, with serious anger management issues and a dangerous behavioural disorder that in the real world would get him a one-way ticket to the rubber room.",
      "How is it that the Virginia Tech shooter Seung Cho and Adam Lanza weren't in a rubber room instead of in a classroom shooting people?"
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "7107-2",
    "Idiom": [
      "rubber room"
    ],
    "Meaning": "A temporary workplace for teachers under disciplinary review.",
    "Sentence": [
      "The film briefly visits a “ rubber room ” in New York City where idle teachers accused of misconduct wait months and sometimes years for hearings while drawing full salaries.",
      "The findings dropped the day before the one-year anniversary of his idling away in the rubber room, where teachers await disciplinary hearings."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "7108",
    "Idiom": [
      "ruby slippers"
    ],
    "Meaning": "A valuable feature overlooked by the user.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "7109",
    "Idiom": [
      "ruck up"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To show courage in a difficult situation.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "7110",
    "Idiom": [
      "rue the day"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To seriously regret.",
    "Sentence": [
      "I: I think there may be something living in there. I think there may be something alive. Withnail: What d'you mean? A rat? I: It's possible. It's possible. Withnail: Then the fucker will rue the day !",
      "As far as they were concerned, he must be ruing the day he ever met Sally.",
      "Bet you rue the day you kissed a writer in the dark"
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "7111",
    "Idiom": [
      "ruffle someone's feathers"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To cause someone discomfort.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Sutton and David Templeton both had efforts just off target as Hearts' tactics of high-tempo, pressing football ruffled the English side's feathers."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "7112",
    "Idiom": [
      "rug-cutter"
    ],
    "Meaning": "A vigorous dancer, especially in early 20th-century styles.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "7113",
    "Idiom": [
      "rug-cutting"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Vigorous dancing.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "7114",
    "Idiom": [
      "rule OK"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Widely accepted or supported.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Yet nationalism rules OK across most public management."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "7115",
    "Idiom": [
      "rule in"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To consider as a possible option.",
    "Sentence": [
      "It was coming from a credible source, someone with a track record, someone who was a credible and respected member of an allied intelligence service during his career, and so it was important that we try to understand it, and see what could we verify, what could we rule in or rule out."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "7116-1",
    "Idiom": [
      "rule out"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To reject an option.",
    "Sentence": [
      "In general, steel springs were stipulated for primary suspension, although rubber was accepted for auxiliary springing; hydraulic dampers were specified and the use of laminated springs ruled out.",
      "The Foreign and Commonwealth Office (FCO) has categorically ruled out any new negotiations saying the future of the Falklands can only be decided by the islanders themselves in accordance with the UN principle of self-determination.",
      "Arson has not been ruled out in a fire that broke out Friday in Yungho, New Taipei, causing one death and 24 injuries, the city's fire department said that day.",
      "Electrification of the Midland Main Line has not been ruled out.",
      "As Jane Doe had an alibi, the police were able to rule her out as a suspect."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "7116-2",
    "Idiom": [
      "rule out"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To make something impossible.",
    "Sentence": [
      "The constant rain ruled out any chance of a game of tennis."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "7117",
    "Idiom": [
      "rule the day"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To control a situation or set a standard.",
    "Sentence": [
      "The world was then so light, I scarcely felt the weight; Joy ruled the day, and Love the night.",
      "She was a woman of caprices, and her caprices always ruled the day.",
      "Common sense rules the day.... Everything can look suspicious, but only the umpires can tell if the ball's condition has been altered.",
      "A book about former Treasury chief O'Neill paints a presidency in which ideology and politics rule the day.",
      "“Vintage watch collecting is growing in scale and value in a way we have never seen before. Condition and rarity are ruling the day in driving prices to new levels.”"
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "7118",
    "Idiom": [
      "rule the roost"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To be the controlling member of a group.",
    "Sentence": [
      "His was biding his time, and patiently looking forward to the days when he himself would sit authoritative at some board, and talk and direct, and rule the roost, while lesser stars sat round and obeyed. Note: Some copies have \"rule the roast\" in this passage.",
      "Felix (nothing if not modern) had succumbed already to the feeling that youth ruled the roost.",
      "At that moment in fashion, French couturiers ruled the roost.",
      "Finn Russell and Owen Farrell kicked two penalties apiece but it was the Scotland stand-off who ruled the roost - despite a ten-minute sin-binning for an attempted trip on England scrum-half Ben Youngs."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "7119",
    "Idiom": [
      "rule the school"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To socially dominate a school's student population.",
    "Sentence": [
      "But as Shelley was by far the cleverest of the three head boys who were there, he ruled the school."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "7120",
    "Idiom": [
      "rules are there to be broken",
      "rules are meant to be broken",
      "rules are made to be broken"
    ],
    "Meaning": "It is acceptable to break rules.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "7121",
    "Idiom": [
      "rules is rules",
      "rules are rules"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Rules are certain and cannot be ignored.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "7122",
    "Idiom": [
      "rumor campaign"
    ],
    "Meaning": "A deliberate spread of damaging rumors to influence perception.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "7123",
    "Idiom": [
      "rumor mill"
    ],
    "Meaning": "A source of gossip and unverified claims.",
    "Sentence": [
      "For months the Washington rumor mill has ground out gossip about who might replace U.S. Ambassador Frederick E. Nolting Jr.",
      "Unofficial results instead traveled through the rumor mill, passed along on mobile phones from one part of the country to another.",
      "The rumour mill is also abuzz with chat that Alessandro Michele, who parted with Gucci last year, is to make a return to the fashion frontline."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "7124",
    "Idiom": [
      "run a mile"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To flee or escape a situation due to shock or surprise.",
    "Sentence": [
      "If I told him that I had kids, he'd run a mile."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "7125-1",
    "Idiom": [
      "run a red light"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To enter a restricted area.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "7125-2",
    "Idiom": [
      "run a red light"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To disobey a traffic signal.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "7125-3",
    "Idiom": [
      "run a red light"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To pass a bill based on false premises.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "7125-4",
    "Idiom": [
      "run a red light"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To proceed through a red traffic signal.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "7126",
    "Idiom": [
      "run a risk"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To take a chance that may lead to loss or failure.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "7127",
    "Idiom": [
      "run a temperature"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To have a fever.",
    "Sentence": [
      "At first she \" ran a temperature \" in American parlance, and I could not resist the exquisite caloricity of unexpected delights—Venus febriculosa—though it was a very languid Lolita that moaned and coughed and shivered in my embrace."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "7128",
    "Idiom": [
      "run about"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To be very busy with various tasks.",
    "Sentence": [
      "I've been running about all week getting everything ready for the holidays."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "7129",
    "Idiom": [
      "run across"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To find or discover by chance.",
    "Sentence": [
      "While I was cleaning the kitchen cupboards, I ran across Mother's recipe for Cornish game hens."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "7130",
    "Idiom": [
      "run afoul of"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To contravene.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Facebook ran afoul of Apple because it used this system to distribute its data-collection app to consumers outside the company, which isn’t allowed.",
      "When quoting others, take care not to run afoul of copyright rules."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "7131",
    "Idiom": [
      "run amok"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To go on a rampage.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "7132",
    "Idiom": [
      "run and gun"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To do something hastily and energetically.",
    "Sentence": [
      "It has this sort of impulsiveness to it: “One and done.” We do full, A-story episodes in one chunk. For episode six we had Lauren Lapkus, Horatio Sanz, Mitch Hurwitz, me, Mike and Meghan O’Neill in the studio for four hours…we can’t get those people back! So we have to run and gun it.",
      "“We used to just run and gun it,” he says. “Now that we’ve gotten bigger and things got more expensive and we need to kind of up the ante, there’s a lot more production time that goes into it.”"
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "7133-1",
    "Idiom": [
      "run around"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To be busy with various tasks.",
    "Sentence": [
      "I don't want to run around all week getting everything ready for the holidays."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "7133-2",
    "Idiom": [
      "run around"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To go from place to place.",
    "Sentence": [
      "“A very welcome, kind, useful present, that means to the parish. By the way, Hopkins, let this go no further. We don't want the tale running round that a rich person has arrived. Churchill, my dear fellow, we have such greedy sharks, and wolves in lamb's clothing. ”"
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "7134",
    "Idiom": [
      "run around after"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To spend time doing things for others, often unnecessarily.",
    "Sentence": [
      "I have spent all morning running around after the kids."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "7135",
    "Idiom": [
      "run around like a chicken with its head cut off"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To act frantically or without control.",
    "Sentence": [
      "The president doesn't know what to do. He's running around like a chicken with its head cut off."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "7136",
    "Idiom": [
      "run around with"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To spend a lot of time with someone, often with disapproval.",
    "Sentence": [
      "I'm not happy about the friends my son is running around with at the moment."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "7137",
    "Idiom": [
      "run at the mouth"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To speak excessively.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "7138",
    "Idiom": [
      "run away from"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To avoid or disclaim responsibility for something.",
    "Sentence": [
      "You can't run away from your actions.",
      "They're running away from that awful plan, but they were the ones who introduced it."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "7139",
    "Idiom": [
      "run down the clock"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To waste time to avoid penalties or end a match.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Energetic Malouda was denied twice by Jussi Jaaskelainen late on before Ancelotti ran down the clock by introducing Salomon Kalou and Paulo Ferreira in the closing seconds as Chelsea arrested their slide."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "7140",
    "Idiom": [
      "run for one's life"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To attempt to escape a dangerous situation.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Isn't the dating period supposed to be the period where they are getting to know each other and they are supposed to be in a daze about each other? What is your problem, Bella? Run for your life !",
      "There are also times you must run for your life or be dragged away into “Dam! I Could of, I Should of, or If I would of land.",
      "A little voice, however, advised me: ' Run for your life, your place is on that beach.'",
      "Yaki have just one natural predator, the reticulated python, but they have many enemies. Land clearers are pushing the monkeys around. Roadbuilders are hemming them in. And outlaw trappers have them running for their lives."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "7141-1",
    "Idiom": [
      "run for one's money"
    ],
    "Meaning": "A difficult challenge, especially in a competitive situation.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Since the beginning of the world all men have hunted me like a wolf—kings and sages, and poets and lawgivers, all the churches, and all the philosophies. But I have never been caught yet, and the skies will fall in the time I turn to bay. I have given them a good run for their money, and I will now.",
      "\"If your competitor regards you as a menace to his pocketbook, he can give you a nice little run for your money and delay you indefinitely.\"",
      "After beating Bush in New Hampshire, McCain gave him a two month run for his money. Bush had to prove he wasn't just a famous name.",
      "Zoe followed him out, and saw he was halfway down the street, running so fast he would give the Olympic-gold-winning sprinters a run for their money."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "7141-2",
    "Idiom": [
      "run for one's money"
    ],
    "Meaning": "A reasonable opportunity to succeed in a challenging situation.",
    "Sentence": [
      "He appealed and, by some arrangement or other, got leave to state his case personally to the Court of Revision. Said, I believe, that he did not much trust lawyers, but that if the sahibs would give him a hearing, as man to man, he might have a run for his money.",
      "\"I say he'll get a run for his money. If there's any killing to be done, it will be in fair fight.\""
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "7142",
    "Idiom": [
      "run for the hills"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To flee.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "7143-1",
    "Idiom": [
      "run for the roses"
    ],
    "Meaning": "A series of games aimed at qualifying for the Rose Bowl championship.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Looking back at Ohio State's run for the roses, there might be some who will insist the Buckeyes were lucky to escape defeat at least once.... the Buckeyes whipped a jinx in the form of premature Rose Bowl talk."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "7143-2",
    "Idiom": [
      "run for the roses"
    ],
    "Meaning": "A demanding challenge.",
    "Sentence": [
      "The time had come, Dundee acknowledged, to decide if he was serious about making a run for the roses. It was only mid-1990, but presidential campaigns had evolved into two-year affairs, and if he really had that famous \"fire in his belly,\" now was the time.",
      "I thought about leaps of faith, runs for the roses, and reaching for the stars."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "7144-1",
    "Idiom": [
      "run high"
    ],
    "Meaning": "A river experiencing a strong current and nearing overflow.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "7144-2",
    "Idiom": [
      "run high"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To become very angry or emotional.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "7145",
    "Idiom": [
      "run hot and cold"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To alternate between two opposite extremes.",
    "Sentence": [
      "London’s right-leaning newspapers, which tend to run hot and cold on the prime minister, are veering toward Arctic right now.",
      "Henrietta's feelings for Delbert run hot and cold —one minute she's hopelessly in love with him, and the next she can't stand the sight of him.",
      "The business runs hot and cold; some months our firm doesn't earn enough to cover expenses and other months, we net 400% profits."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "7146",
    "Idiom": [
      "run in the family"
    ],
    "Meaning": "A characteristic feature seen in multiple generations of a family.",
    "Sentence": [
      "We could never understand why any man should choose the career of a chainsmith, except, possibly, for the reason that it ran in the family, for a more arduous and unpleasant manner of earning one's living could scarcely be imagined, unless it was the business of moulding permanent-way chairs in an iron foundry.",
      "And business runs in the family / We tend to bruise easily bad in the blood"
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "7147",
    "Idiom": [
      "run into a brick wall"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To encounter an insurmountable barrier.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "7148-1",
    "Idiom": [
      "run into the ground"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To mismanage to ruin.",
    "Sentence": [
      "one could assume that he has some master plan or that he’s making strategic decisions about the scope, scale, design and functionality of the service. He is not. He has not. He is running Twitter into the ground like Donald Trump ran the US government—fueled by fits of indignation and paranoia.",
      "Although he has an MBA from Harvard, he still ran the company into the ground.",
      "Even though that was a good joke, you really did run it into the ground."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "7148-2",
    "Idiom": [
      "run into the ground"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To wear out through excessive use.",
    "Sentence": [
      "City sent on Adam Johnson for the ineffective Jo and the Englishman at least gave notice that he wanted to run at the Arsenal defence, but his team-mates had been run into the ground by then and no-one could get up in support of the winger.",
      "I figure this car has a few more years left in it and I intend to run it into the ground before purchasing another."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "7148-3",
    "Idiom": [
      "run into the ground"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To discuss excessively.",
    "Sentence": [
      "You’ve run the upcoming election into the ground and I simply won’t listen to another word about it."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "7149",
    "Idiom": [
      "run late"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To be late.",
    "Sentence": [
      "When the clocks are put forward at the introduction of summer time, the long-distance night trains automatically become one hour late, and continue to run late for the remainder of their journeys. Similarly, when the clocks are put back in the autumn, the night trains become one hour early."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "7150",
    "Idiom": [
      "run of play"
    ],
    "Meaning": "A passage of play.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Except for the ending. Going down by nine points when we seemed to have the run of play was shattering.",
      "Was it a dominating performance? No. Were you expecting dominance? Fact is, Sounders FC created more than twice the chances of the home team. While the finishing was sub-par, the run of play was controlled by the guys in green until the unfortunate mistakes."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "7151-1",
    "Idiom": [
      "run off"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To make photocopies or print.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Please run off a couple dozen more flyers to pass out."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "7151-2",
    "Idiom": [
      "run off"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To write something quickly.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Shakespeare could run off a play in just a couple of days."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "7152-1",
    "Idiom": [
      "run off at the mouth"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To talk excessively.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "7152-2",
    "Idiom": [
      "run off at the mouth"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To speak disrespectfully about someone.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "7153-1",
    "Idiom": [
      "run off with"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To steal or abscond with.",
    "Sentence": [
      "He ran off with my wallet."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "7153-2",
    "Idiom": [
      "run off with"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To elope; to leave with someone to live or marry.",
    "Sentence": [
      "The chief accountant has run off with his secretary!"
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "7154-1",
    "Idiom": [
      "run on"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To continue without interruption.",
    "Sentence": [
      "We can't afford for the performance to run on for more than the specified time."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "7154-2",
    "Idiom": [
      "run on"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To continue talking excessively.",
    "Sentence": [
      "She ran on and wouldn't let anyone get a word in edgeways."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "7155",
    "Idiom": [
      "run on empty"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Lack of motivation or enthusiasm.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Doctors and nurses on the front lines are running on empty, under increasing duress as the pandemic surges and hospitals are overrun with patients.",
      "He has been running on empty for a while. It's likely the project will be canceled."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "7156",
    "Idiom": [
      "run on fumes"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To operate with few resources or be overworked.",
    "Sentence": [
      "The organization had been running on fumes for months, so it's not surprising that they closed their doors."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "7157",
    "Idiom": [
      "run one's name"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To search for information about an individual.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "7158",
    "Idiom": [
      "run out"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To use up or consume all of something.",
    "Sentence": [
      "England keeper Joe Hart had to save smartly from the dangerous Andriy Yarmolenko, who also raised the hopes of the Donetsk crowd as he evaded several challenges in the area before running out of space.",
      "Time is running out, so I renounce a spin on a Class 387 for a fast run to Paddington on another Class 800 - a shame as the weather was perfect for pictures. Even so, it's enjoyable - boy, can those trains shift under the wires.",
      "Get some more beer out of the fridge before we run out.",
      "If this hot weather continues, we will run out of ice cream."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "7159",
    "Idiom": [
      "run out of steam"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To lose energy or motivation.",
    "Sentence": [
      "After climbing six flights of stairs she found she had run out of steam and had to sit down.",
      "After two of the team left, the project rather ran out of steam."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "7160",
    "Idiom": [
      "run out of town"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To force someone out.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "7161",
    "Idiom": [
      "run out the clock"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To waste time or preserve a lead.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "7162-1",
    "Idiom": [
      "run over"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To exceed the allotted time.",
    "Sentence": [
      "The previous presentation ran over and ours had to start late."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "7162-2",
    "Idiom": [
      "run over"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To drive over, causing harm.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Can you believe somebody would just run over a cat like that?"
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "7162-3",
    "Idiom": [
      "run over"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To summarize or review briefly.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Each man was running over the what ifs in his mind.",
      "Before we start the project, let's just run over who is doing what."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "7162-4",
    "Idiom": [
      "run over"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To rehearse quickly.",
    "Sentence": [
      "You'd better run over your statement before going on the platform."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "7163",
    "Idiom": [
      "run past"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To seek someone's opinion on an idea or proposal.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Let me run that idea past the boss before we spend too much time on it."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "7164",
    "Idiom": [
      "run rampant"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To go unchecked or uncontrolled.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Conditions were horrendous aboard most British naval vessels at the time. Scurvy and other diseases ran rampant, killing more seamen each year than all other causes combined, including combat.",
      "The weeds have long run rampant in the garden and it would be difficult to regain control."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "7165-1",
    "Idiom": [
      "run riot"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To act in an uncontrolled manner.",
    "Sentence": [
      "No wonder, then, that against a background of surging aggressive prosperity, South Wales built up during the last half of the nineteenth century a local railway system of great density and complexity, in which almost every company competed with every other in its area, and in which working agreements, running powers and strategic junctions ran riot across the railway map.",
      "All is well until Treorchy, where the platform is swamped by teenagers who have been attending an event. Around four dozen unescorted 12 to 16 year-olds swarm aboard and begin to run riot through the train. Their behaviour is appalling and the presence of CCTV no deterrent."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "7165-2",
    "Idiom": [
      "run riot"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To be uncontrollable.",
    "Sentence": [
      "And it was only the defiance of Cech that kept a rampant Spurs at bay in the second half, producing a collection of outstanding saves to somehow keep Arsenal in contention as Pochettino's side threatened to run riot."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "7166",
    "Idiom": [
      "run scared"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To be fearful.",
    "Sentence": [
      "The campaign is in crisis mode, they are running scared and it is becoming obvious."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "7167",
    "Idiom": [
      "run someone off their feet"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Causes someone to become very busy and exhausted.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "7168",
    "Idiom": [
      "run someone ragged"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To exhaust someone.",
    "Sentence": [
      "A little man by modern-day goon-basketball standards, the five-foot ten-inch speedster handles bigger opponents by running them ragged.",
      "Rebeca is busy with the children, who are busy getting into mischief. The baby runs her ragged.",
      "The choice of priorities he had chosen gave him the right to demand acceptance of his ways and ignore the needs of others. It gave him the power to insist on servitude and, without thought, dismiss Arnam's pride. It gave him the right to torment, the right to run him ragged when he chose,",
      "He's letting me hire four new rangers. Isn't that great? The increase in tourists are running us ragged.",
      "England ran Tunisia ragged in that spell but were punished for missing a host of chances when Ferjani Sassi equalised from the penalty spot against the run of play after Kyle Walker was penalised for an elbow on Fakhreddine Ben Youssef.",
      "They’ve been running him ragged trying to keep up with the demand for new features."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "7169",
    "Idiom": [
      "run someone's file"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To search someone's criminal record.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "7170",
    "Idiom": [
      "run something up the flagpole"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To propose an idea for feedback.",
    "Sentence": [
      "The idea might not be so bad; why don't you run it up the flagpole at the next board meeting?"
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "7171",
    "Idiom": [
      "run the clock down"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To waste time intentionally.",
    "Sentence": [
      "The only time I ever worried was when quarterbacks would run the clock down in the last 20 seconds"
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "7172",
    "Idiom": [
      "run the gamut"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To encompass the full range.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Palestinians often feel that the police do very little to stop settler violence, which runs the gamut from physical assault, arson, cutting or burning down olive trees, stone throwing at random Palestinian cars, and property damage.",
      "His tastes in music run the gamut from classical to heavy metal."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "7173",
    "Idiom": [
      "run the gauntlet"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To undergo a series of challenges.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Run the gauntlet north and south March on up to the cannon's mouth And say I can do any goddamn thing I want"
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "7174",
    "Idiom": [
      "run the rule over"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To examine carefully.",
    "Sentence": [
      "The captain used to to run the rule over every new recruit, like a protective father inspecting the boy his darling daughter had brought home to tea. He was obsessive about it."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "7175",
    "Idiom": [
      "run the show"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To be in charge.",
    "Sentence": [
      "\"Far's I can see. Young Alf's made up his mind to learn the dentist business, and the old folks are backin' him; so I don't see but I've got to stop on and run the show. Father's gettin' up in years now.\"",
      "In any viable scenario of renationalisation, the idea was always to ensure that the railways were at arm's length from the Department, since it was recognised that allowing civil servants to run the show is always a bad idea.",
      "Nigeria had done their homework and were well organised. Halimatu Ayinde was exceptional in her marking of James, who had scored twice and provided three assists as she ran the show against China."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "7176-1",
    "Idiom": [
      "run through"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To summarize briefly.",
    "Sentence": [
      "The following steps run you through a typical scanning operation using a flatbed scanner:...",
      "Let me run through today's meeting for those who missed it."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "7176-2",
    "Idiom": [
      "run through"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To inform or educate someone about a concept.",
    "Sentence": [
      "... we'll run you through a very quick and abbreviated process from production through bottling."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "7176-3",
    "Idiom": [
      "run through"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To repeat something.",
    "Sentence": [
      "We will run through scene 2 until we get it right."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "7176-4",
    "Idiom": [
      "run through"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To use completely in a short time.",
    "Sentence": [
      "I ran through my wages in two days. Now I've got to live on next to nothing till Friday!"
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "7176-5",
    "Idiom": [
      "run through"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To go through quickly.",
    "Sentence": [
      "to run through a book"
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "7176-6",
    "Idiom": [
      "run through"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To pervade a characteristic quality.",
    "Sentence": [
      "The central concern that runs through The Technology Trap is that, unless we are very careful, our latest technological revolution may well turn out to be a tumultuous rerun of the Industrial Revolution, with dire social and political consequences.",
      "Fear of foreigners runs through that country at all levels of its society."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "7176-7",
    "Idiom": [
      "run through"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To impale with a blade.",
    "Sentence": [
      "D. Lop.\" Offer to flinch, and I'll run you through. Offic.: Take their Swords, or knock 'em down.",
      "Make just one move, and I'll run you through, sir, without hesitation."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "7176-8",
    "Idiom": [
      "run through"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To have sexual intercourse.",
    "Sentence": [
      "“There's a white girl, Betty Anderson, down on Cricket Hill Lane parked under them mulberry trees across from the old Carter place getting run through by a colored boy in a bright red Plymouth Fury. You might wanna get out there before Big Jim Anderson find himself with a half-breed grandchild,”"
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "7176-9",
    "Idiom": [
      "run through"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To continue past a stop sign or intersection.",
    "Sentence": [
      "You just ran through a stop sign."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "7176-10",
    "Idiom": [
      "run through"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To flow through an area.",
    "Sentence": [
      "The Seine river runs through Paris."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "7177-1",
    "Idiom": [
      "run to"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To reach a maximum amount or value.",
    "Sentence": [
      "The official report runs to several thousand pages in 12 volumes.",
      "The repairs ran to 1,200 euros."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "7177-2",
    "Idiom": [
      "run to"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To be capable of reaching or achieving.",
    "Sentence": [
      "My musical tastes don't run to Wagner, I'm afraid.",
      "I think my carpentry should run to making a window."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "7178",
    "Idiom": [
      "run to earth"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To find after a long search.",
    "Sentence": [
      "He went off to Rye, ran Ottershaw to earth in the Ship, and asked him what the devil he meant by it.",
      "We’ve been trying to contact that witness for ten days, but we still haven’t run him to earth."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "7179-1",
    "Idiom": [
      "run up"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To quickly create something, usually clothing.",
    "Sentence": [
      "I'll run you up a skirt for tomorrow evening."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "7179-2",
    "Idiom": [
      "run up"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To raise a flag.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Stand quietly while the honor guard runs the flag up."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "7179-3",
    "Idiom": [
      "run up"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To accumulate a debt.",
    "Sentence": [
      "He ran up over $5,000 in unpaid bills."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "7180",
    "Idiom": [
      "run wild"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To be out of control.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "7181-1",
    "Idiom": [
      "run with"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To follow something through to completion.",
    "Sentence": [
      "3M's culture and its organizational structure are all directed to encouraging its people to take an idea and run with it."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "7181-2",
    "Idiom": [
      "run with"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To develop something further, often carelessly.",
    "Sentence": [
      "They took this three-second sound bite and ran with it to try to smear me."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "7181-3",
    "Idiom": [
      "run with"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To associate with a disreputable individual or group.",
    "Sentence": [
      "The Bat—they called him the Bat. . He'd never been in stir, the bulls had never mugged him, he didn't run with a mob, he played a lone hand, and fenced his stuff so that even the fence couldn't swear he knew his face.",
      "For about three years, I ran with several different gangs.",
      "Some of these wannabe hooligans ran with the Celtic Soccer Crew for a number of years without ever being arrested or suffering as much as a broken nail."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "7182-1",
    "Idiom": [
      "run with scissors"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To behave recklessly.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Maybe instead of overprotecting, we should allow Katie, and the thousands other childhood cancer survivors like her, to play in traffic, run with scissors, and walk blindfolded with suckers sticking out of their mouths! Right?",
      "It is dangerous, dumb, and highly delinquent (CRAZY) for a professional educator to goad our poor little misunderstood and hormonally-challenged children to run with scissors.",
      "I wonder if God has made a note on your record and mine that says; “he tends to run with scissors, but I've got him covered by My grace”. Perhaps your scissors thing is; getting too busy to spend time in the world, or getting too interested in the business of others, or perhaps allowing the world to set up wrong priorities in your life.",
      "“No. That happened when I was a kid. I was playing at a neighbor’s house, running around with a knife.” “Holy shit. Mister responsible undercover government badass was the kid who ran with scissors !”"
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "7182-2",
    "Idiom": [
      "run with scissors"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To take a risk.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Fly solo. Sure, it’s safer to go with a partner, but every once in awhile you have to run with scissors.",
      "I'm a firm believer that we should all “ run with scissors ” from time to time.",
      "The leadership stories show how leaders can “ run with scissors ” in uncertain spaces as they engage in self-reflection, flexibility, systems thinking, shared leadership, charisma, and teamwork to successfully lead."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "7183",
    "Idiom": [
      "run with the hare and hunt with the hounds"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To support both sides of an argument.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "7184",
    "Idiom": [
      "runners and riders"
    ],
    "Meaning": "The candidates in a competition.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Labour leadership contest: who are the runners and riders?"
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "7185-1",
    "Idiom": [
      "running target"
    ],
    "Meaning": "A target towed across a range for shooting practice.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "7185-2",
    "Idiom": [
      "running target"
    ],
    "Meaning": "A goal that changes with progress.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "7185-3",
    "Idiom": [
      "running target"
    ],
    "Meaning": "A performance standard set by the leader that others aim to surpass.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "7186",
    "Idiom": [
      "runt of the litter"
    ],
    "Meaning": "The smallest and weakest in a group.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "7187",
    "Idiom": [
      "rush hour"
    ],
    "Meaning": "The times when traffic jams often occur due to commuting.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Operation London Bridge, also from 1975, tells the story of the busy station's redevelopment. Cutting neatly from the barrow boys of Borough Market to an aerial view of Borough Market Junction, the film uses time lapse photography to show the congestion rife in the area during the morning rush hour.",
      "It takes 30 minutes to drive there, but maybe 2 hours during the rush hour."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "7188",
    "Idiom": [
      "rush in"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To act quickly and thoughtlessly.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "7189",
    "Idiom": [
      "rustle up"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To quickly prepare or gather something.",
    "Sentence": [
      "I'll see if I can rustle up a meal before the guests start arriving in 30 minutes."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "7190-1",
    "Idiom": [
      "sabre-rattling"
    ],
    "Meaning": "A display of military power as an implied threat.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "7190-2",
    "Idiom": [
      "sabre-rattling"
    ],
    "Meaning": "A threat or display of aggression.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "7191",
    "Idiom": [
      "sacked out"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Sound asleep, often from exhaustion.",
    "Sentence": [
      "The kids are sacked out in the back seat."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "7192",
    "Idiom": [
      "sacred cow"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Something that cannot be criticized or examined due to societal norms or public opinion.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Many sacred cows were milked dry in an unbelievable series of outrageous events.",
      "Irreverence is our only sacred cow.",
      "In my opinion, in order to save serious amounts of money, a number of ' sacred cows ' will need slaying."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "7193",
    "Idiom": [
      "saddle tramp"
    ],
    "Meaning": "A wanderer on horseback.",
    "Sentence": [
      "She allowed her fancy to play with the idea of staying in Fairfield, of forgetting her bitter quest.... But she was not a schoolteacher.... She was what some people called a saddle tramp.",
      "But I hope you don't have eyes for that saddletramp. He won't be around very long.",
      "Tina continued, “One day this saddle tramp showed up and wanted to work for a meal.... After he ate and discovered that there were no men in the house, he started making lewd remarks and giving us lascivious looks.”"
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "7194",
    "Idiom": [
      "sail the Red Sea"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To have sex with a woman during her menstruation.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Sailing the Red Sea' s a dangerous duty But there's more than one way to plunder a booty"
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "7195",
    "Idiom": [
      "sail under false colors"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To deceive or mislead.",
    "Sentence": [
      "They were all not exactly sailing under false colours, but deceiving themselves as to their motives—and one another, to a lesser degree, by their actions."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "7196",
    "Idiom": [
      "salad bowl"
    ],
    "Meaning": "A multicultural society where people maintain their individual cultures.",
    "Sentence": [
      "If more illegal immigrants continue to cross our Southern border, America will no longer be a melting pot, it will become a salad bowl !"
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "7197",
    "Idiom": [
      "salad year"
    ],
    "Meaning": "The inexperienced, youthful prime of a person or group.",
    "Sentence": [
      "The author’s novels from her salad years lacked the sophistication and depth of her later works."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "7198",
    "Idiom": [
      "salt away"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To save or preserve for future use.",
    "Sentence": [
      "\"You have more than two thousand salted away, I know, Moses, between prize-money, wages, adventures, and other matters.\"",
      "Some of the stockholders... wanted to leave the money invested. \" Salt away that chicken feed in your duds, and skip along,\" says Buck. \"What business have you got investing in bonds?\""
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "7199",
    "Idiom": [
      "salt in the wound"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Something that increases someone's pain.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "7200",
    "Idiom": [
      "salt of the earth"
    ],
    "Meaning": "A person or group considered to embody decency and admirable qualities.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Dodger fans, convinced they were the salt of the earth, would swear they could tell a Yankee fan from 20 paces by a lack of humor, or a New York Giant fan by an overbearing quality.",
      "\"When someone dies, especially when a life is cut short under tragic circumstances, people always say, 'they were great, they were the salt of the earth,'\" said Hagit Hornstein, a friend and colleague of Cherkesky. \"But Michal [Cherkesky] really was perfect. There's no other word to describe her, an angel. I miss her already.\""
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "7201",
    "Idiom": [
      "salty tooth"
    ],
    "Meaning": "A liking for salty foods.",
    "Sentence": [
      "If you're like me and you can't choose between your salty tooth and your sweet tooth, this one's for you.",
      "So what's behind that insatiable sweet or salty tooth ? A lot of it is genetic.",
      "[See title]"
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "7202",
    "Idiom": [
      "same difference"
    ],
    "Meaning": "A distinction that doesn't matter.",
    "Sentence": [
      "\"When you say she was a tart, do you mean a whore?\" \"It's the same difference,\" Betty said."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "7203",
    "Idiom": [
      "same old story"
    ],
    "Meaning": "An occurrence that is tediously familiar.",
    "Sentence": [
      "It’s the same old story / Everywhere I go / I get slandered, libeled",
      "New manager, same old story, even if the home crowd would like to trust there is better to come."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "7204-1",
    "Idiom": [
      "sauce for the goose",
      "what's sauce for the goose is sauce for the gander"
    ],
    "Meaning": "If something is acceptable for one, it is acceptable for another.",
    "Sentence": [
      "… sawce which is good for the Goose, I hope will be good for the Gander …",
      "That that's good sauce for a goose, is good for a gander.",
      "What is sauce for the gander is sauce for the goose and the arguments that he produces against my suggestion apply with double force to his."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "7205",
    "Idiom": [
      "save by the bell"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To assist someone just in time.",
    "Sentence": [
      "The waitress brought the coffee about this time, saving me by the bell, as it were.",
      "Fortunately the appearance of the rash marks the beginning of a sudden end to the disease, establishes a diagnosis, saves you by the bell, satisfies the child's parents, and baby has had just one more kind of measles.",
      "Remember that God gives the strength to go on when you would rather collapse. He can save you by the bell !",
      "She felt as though his departure for Europe was saving her by the bell.",
      "Today's entry got to me just in the nick of time. Saving me by the bell is Reilly Campbell.",
      "When the Lord delivers me, He saves me, rescues me, comes to my rescue, throws me a life-line; snatches me from the jaws of death, saves me at the last second or minute, rescues me at the eleventh hour, saves me by the bell."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "7206",
    "Idiom": [
      "save face"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To preserve one's reputation or honor.",
    "Sentence": [
      "He tried to make reparations to those he had injured, partly to save face."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "7207",
    "Idiom": [
      "save it"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Do not bother with the explanation; be quiet.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "7208",
    "Idiom": [
      "save one's breath"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To refrain from speech where it would be pointless.",
    "Sentence": [
      "If you're going to start in on me about coming back into the company — save your breath. There's no room here for me and you know it."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "7209",
    "Idiom": [
      "save someone's face"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To preserve someone's pride.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "7210",
    "Idiom": [
      "save someone's skin"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To save someone's life.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "7211",
    "Idiom": [
      "save something for a rainy day"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To save something for future need.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "7212",
    "Idiom": [
      "save the day"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To rescue from danger or failure.",
    "Sentence": [
      "He acted as chief of staff to General Rosecranz, aiding his superior officer at a most critical point in the battle by advice which had an important influence in saving the day.",
      "“It's Paddy,” cried Craig. “If he can bring them all out safely without the loss of a life he'll save the day yet.”",
      "An effective vaccine would save the day and last year researchers at Yale were reporting some progress.",
      "Maybe a strapping woodsman will come along and save the day."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "7213",
    "Idiom": [
      "save the furniture"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To salvage something positive from a disastrous situation.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Swinging progressives were keen to consolidate the diving Labor vote and save the furniture so that a reasonably-sized progressive opposition party could live to fight another day.",
      "A week after a headline in a Montreal newspaper suggested the NDP Leader’s numbers are so low it is time to “ save the furniture,” he is still battling aggressively.",
      "In other words, the PLP could unite behind an experienced figure who would take them to a dignified defeat but would save the furniture."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "7214",
    "Idiom": [
      "saved by the bell"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Rescued by a timely interruption.",
    "Sentence": [
      "So Asad's probing created a problem.... In a real sense Kissinger was saved by the bell : the American party had that afternoon to catch a plane to Israel.",
      "The Montgomery bus boycott was \" saved by the bell \" of a federal Supreme Court decision that came just before the last minute.",
      "But in 1998, Mr. DiFrancesco never answered the allegations against him to the satisfaction of town officials. Instead, he was saved by the bell, in a way: In a rare electoral upset, Democrats took control of the Township Council in November 1998. They immediately fired Mr. DiFrancesco and replaced him with a Democrat, giving his termination the appearance of simple partisan politics."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "7215-1",
    "Idiom": [
      "saw logs"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To sleep.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "7215-2",
    "Idiom": [
      "saw logs"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To snore loudly.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "7216",
    "Idiom": [
      "saw wood"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To snore loudly.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Monsignor Charles Kekumano, 78, was snoring loudly in his bed. Every so often, he would stop sawing wood —and break into the delightfully mischievous grin that made him so famous.",
      "\"You keep all of Mouse Lodge awake sawing wood every night. You're a fine one to complain about someone else snoring.\""
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "7217-1",
    "Idiom": [
      "sawdust trail"
    ],
    "Meaning": "The route of an itinerant preacher.",
    "Sentence": [
      "The Rev. William A. (Billy) Sunday, one of the most noted evangelists of the old \" sawdust trail,\" died suddenly tonight of a heart attack in the home of his brother-in-law, William J. Thompson, a florist."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "7217-2",
    "Idiom": [
      "sawdust trail"
    ],
    "Meaning": "The path to spiritual redemption through revival meetings.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Mr. Bernstein explained that this was not obligatory. All he meant was that the suit was good enough to be married in, or for that matter to be buried in. \"Or to be born anew in when Billy Sunday comes to town and I hit the sawdust trail,\" suggested the purchaser."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "7218",
    "Idiom": [
      "say again"
    ],
    "Meaning": "A request for repetition.",
    "Sentence": [
      "I'm sorry, I didn't hear you. Please say again ?"
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "7219",
    "Idiom": [
      "say cheese"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To smile for a photograph.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Danny watched the birdie and said cheese, and then it was over and the wait began. Danny would wait for weeks in anticipation of the day the final product was passed out by his teacher Miss Turner."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "7220-1",
    "Idiom": [
      "say goodbye",
      "wave goodbye"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To part ways.",
    "Sentence": [
      "If we can't agree on whether to have children, maybe it's time to say goodbye.",
      "\"At the moment, you know the maximum you pay [to go between London and Scotland] is £87 on a Sunday afternoon. And it's refundable. Now, if your plans change, you can wave goodbye to your money.\""
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "7221-2",
    "Idiom": [
      "say goodbye"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To cease to have or do something.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Say goodbye to long waits at the airport with our new preboarding service.",
      "You can say goodbye to your inheritance if you annoy your parents too much!"
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "7222",
    "Idiom": [
      "say grace"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To recite a prayer before a meal.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "7223-1",
    "Idiom": [
      "say it all"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To express the essential characteristics concisely.",
    "Sentence": [
      "\"One Idaho logger told my sons, ‘We're stealing your lunch,’\" said Connie M. Wood, owner of the Topper Wood Trucking Company in Libby. \"That seems to say it all.\"",
      "The show's slogan says it all : \"News without mercy.\""
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "7223-2",
    "Idiom": [
      "say it all"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To convey information non-verbally.",
    "Sentence": [
      "The look on his face said it all. He was terrified!",
      "Rory McIlroy looked downcast... his body language saying it all, head down and shoulders slumped, he is a picture of bitter disappointment."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "7224",
    "Idiom": [
      "say no more"
    ],
    "Meaning": "No further explanation is needed.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Last week the Brits appropriated a couple of all-American icons—persnickety Sally Albright and her friend Harry Burns—when the stage play of Rob Reiner's 1989 classic When Harry Met Sally opened in London's West End.... Next spring Americans will get their return when the musical version of Monty Python and the Holy Grail debuts on Broadway. The show will be called Spamalot. Say no more.",
      "Nas walked through the garden of Gethsemane in his 1999 music video. Other scenes featured the rapper being crucified on the cross. Say no more.",
      "Those who left early missed a highlight of the event, a self-described \"rising sophomore at the University of Connecticut\" telling Franzen that The Corrections was the basis for her project on the \"depressed male protagonist in post-9/11 literature.\" \" Say no more,\" answered a surprised, but amused Franzen."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "7225",
    "Idiom": [
      "say the quiet part loud"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Publicly express a sentiment meant to be kept private.",
    "Sentence": [
      "“Just what are you trying to say here, Miss Parker?”",
      "Santorum says that it’s not about contraception, it’s about any type of medical treatment. Which...seems to me like he’s saying the quiet part loud again! But yes, the Blunt Amendment would give any employer the right to withhold any type of medical care for any reason.",
      "Donald Trump is not subtle. While normal political language functions through implication and indirection, Mr. Trump luxuriates in saying the quiet part loud. But in doing so, Mr. Trump exposes what drives the politics of the movement he commands.",
      "“When you’re a star, they let you do it,” the president, Epstein’s sometime associate, infamously bragged, once again saying, with stunning efficiency, the quiet part loud.",
      "The popular Twitter meme that originated from reporter Jared Sexton after Donald Trump Jr. tweeted out his Trump Tower meeting email exchanges has come to encapsulate the Trump era — a rare moment in our political history in which saying the quiet part out loud is a routine line of defense.",
      "The Foundation for Individual Rights and Expression said that Ms. Steinbach had said the quiet part out loud, to chilling effect."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "7226",
    "Idiom": [
      "say the word"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Indicates it is time to act or gives permission.",
    "Sentence": [
      "\"I wish—When shall we have courage to marry, Jude?\" \"Whenever you have it, I think I shall. It remains with you entirely, dear. Only say the word, and it's done.\"",
      "\"A primitive fellow. I'll kick him out if you say the word, my dear.\"",
      "\"If there's anything I can do to help you make the grade, just say the word.\"",
      "\"What do you want? You want the moon? Just say the word, and I’ll throw a lasso around it and pull it down.\""
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "7227",
    "Idiom": [
      "say uncle"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To admit defeat or ask for mercy.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "7228",
    "Idiom": [
      "say what"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Expresses incredulity.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "7229",
    "Idiom": [
      "say when"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Request to indicate when to stop.",
    "Sentence": [
      "The publican placed a whisky bottle and three glasses on the ledge and Grierson poured, with the courtesy of, \" Say when,\" to the trooper, who was forced to exclaim, \"Hold on!\" in protest at a tumbler three-quarters full of whisky.",
      "Say when ! ― When! Thanks."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "7230",
    "Idiom": [
      "scare someone to death"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To frighten someone very much.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "7231",
    "Idiom": [
      "scare story"
    ],
    "Meaning": "A rumor meant to cause anxiety.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Have you heard the recent scare story about broken glass in baby food?"
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "7232",
    "Idiom": [
      "scare straight"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To frighten someone into improving their behavior.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Indeed, there is a streak of Reaganomics that believes the only way to motivate American workers is to scare them straight with unemployment charts.",
      "Thomas credited the boot camp for scaring him straight.",
      "Slimmed down and scared straight after his bypass surgery, Clinton brokers a deal to get sugary drinks out of schools."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "7233",
    "Idiom": [
      "scare the life out of"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To greatly scare someone.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "7234",
    "Idiom": [
      "scare the living daylights out of"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To scare someone greatly.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "7235",
    "Idiom": [
      "scare the pants off"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To thoroughly scare or startle someone.",
    "Sentence": [
      "He liked the water rides, but the big roller-coaster scared the pants off him."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "7236",
    "Idiom": [
      "scared green"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Extremely scared.",
    "Sentence": [
      "\"It's damn decent. I'm sorry I was so suspicious. I was scared green when I first saw you.\"",
      "By this time I realized what the real difficulty was: the company was scared green that we were going to blame the accident on their instrument."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "7237",
    "Idiom": [
      "scared shitless"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Very frightened.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "7238",
    "Idiom": [
      "scared to death"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Extremely frightened.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "7239",
    "Idiom": [
      "scholar and gentleman"
    ],
    "Meaning": "An admirable, intelligent person.",
    "Sentence": [
      "He goes directly to the Mayor, tels him he was a Scholler and a Gentleman",
      "Thank you so much for your help. You're a scholar and a gentleman."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "7240",
    "Idiom": [
      "school of hard knocks",
      "university of the streets"
    ],
    "Meaning": "A source of education from real-world experiences.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Trained, however, in the school of hard knocks, he now had learned the theory of success, and from that time on has had it.",
      "Did Vietnam's school of hard knocks teach Americans to do peacemaking and state building right?"
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "7241",
    "Idiom": [
      "scientia potentia est"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Knowledge is power.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "7242",
    "Idiom": [
      "scope out"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To investigate.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Everything basically winds up the way you’d expect, with Jon heading to Dragonstone to scope out Dany while Cersei more or less successfully marshals some Tyrell bannermen and some Qyburn inventions for the defense of King’s Landing. But it doesn’t feel like a foregone conclusion.",
      "The conference starts on the 12th, but the building will be open on the 11th if you want to scope out the room ahead of time."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "7243-1",
    "Idiom": [
      "score off"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To defeat or gain an advantage over someone.",
    "Sentence": [
      "You'd be worked up if you had just been scored off by Aubrey Upjohn, with that loathsome self-satisfied look on his face as if he'd been rebuking a pimply pupil at his beastly school for shuffling his feet in church.",
      "The old hag never missed out on any opportunity to score off on her daughter-in-law.",
      "Whether it was politics, trade, competition in industry, snobbery, boasting, self-advertisement, or gossip, the object was to score off one's adversary and put him down.",
      "Aunt Laura wore an air of overpowering satisfaction. Evidently she had already triumphed, and she smiled so cheerfully at Edwin that he felt convinced that she had scored him off in some way."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "7243-2",
    "Idiom": [
      "score off"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To remove or delete, especially from a list.",
    "Sentence": [
      "You can score off my name, I quit.",
      "You can score my name off, I quit.",
      "He will keep the roll and score off the name of any Boy absent twice.",
      "On the certificate of birth of Francis E. Dec, the name “Frank” has been scored off and “Francis” inserted above.",
      "More people were simply scored off the list of unemployed than found employment through employment bureaux."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "7244",
    "Idiom": [
      "scrape along"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To barely survive.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "7245",
    "Idiom": [
      "scrape someone off the ceiling"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Describes a response to someone in extreme emotional or physical distress.",
    "Sentence": [
      "He would come over to my office at least once a week and explode because somebody had been after him. And I would scrape him off the ceiling and send him back until the next week.",
      "Occasionally, however, they will get a real thriller, and when the horn goes off at a particularly suspenseful point, they say you can scrape the pilots off the ceiling.",
      "Do you think you could scrape yourself off the ceiling long enough for us to get some sleep?",
      "It made my inner self so excited I had to think of baseball or they'd be scraping me off the ceiling.",
      "No, you'd have to scrape me off the ceiling.",
      "I spoke with Kip the other day, and you could scrape him off the ceiling with the obvious pride and excitement he shares with Kinsley.",
      "Barbara Johnson of Melodyland wrote to me about her Spatula Club. \"You need a bit of humor. Parents have to be scraped off the ceiling when they first find out. So we make these little spatulas.... \"",
      "Expose a pulp or so called “nerve” of an adult tooth accidently, without an anaesthetic, and you will have to scrape your patient off the ceiling.",
      "Chapman, you could have scraped me off the ceiling."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "7246",
    "Idiom": [
      "scrape the bottom of the barrel"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To settle for a poor option due to a lack of better choices.",
    "Sentence": [
      "The bottom of the barrel was scraped on August 22 when Shrewsbury had to produce Taunton 2-6-0 No. 6312 to work the 8.10 p.m. from Paddington between Wolverhampton and Shrewsbury; the stranger was in trouble in the early hours of the next morning at Hollinswood, but managed to reach Shrewsbury.",
      "We have so few ships that are mission—ready, they are scraping the bottom of the barrel. We are to the point where three damaged ships are being stripped to make one flyable ship.",
      "They must really have been scraping the bottom of the barrel if they couldn't find a better design than that."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "7247",
    "Idiom": [
      "scrape through"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To barely succeed.",
    "Sentence": [
      "The pass mark for the exam was 40%, and I scraped through with 43%."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "7248",
    "Idiom": [
      "scrape together"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To gather small amounts with difficulty.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "7249",
    "Idiom": [
      "scratch a liberal and a fascist bleeds",
      "scratch a liberal and you'll find a fascist"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Liberals often share unsettling similarities with fascist beliefs.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "7250",
    "Idiom": [
      "scratch an itch"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To satisfy a need or desire.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "7251",
    "Idiom": [
      "scratch beneath the surface"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To look beyond what is obvious.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "7252",
    "Idiom": [
      "scratch by"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To get by.",
    "Sentence": [
      "It all works great for Walmart or the food-service company, but for people like Gina and her friend Nicole, it means they can barely scratch by."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "7253",
    "Idiom": [
      "scratch one's head"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To puzzle or wonder about something.",
    "Sentence": [
      "But Sunderland will be left scratching their heads at the result after creating enough chances to have won two games in a refreshingly open and frantic first period.",
      "Faced with a box full of hundreds of small parts and forty pages worth of assembly instructions, he could do little more than stand there and scratch his head."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "7254-1",
    "Idiom": [
      "scratch one's own itch"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To take action to solve a personal problem.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Every good work of software starts by scratching a developer's personal itch.",
      "The best advice for coming up with a business idea is \" scratch your own itch \". This is good advice for a variety of reasons. If you can think of a problem that you'd like a business to solve for you, the chances are other people share that problem."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "7254-2",
    "Idiom": [
      "scratch one's own itch"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To satisfy one's own needs or desires.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "7255",
    "Idiom": [
      "scratch that"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To disregard or ignore the previous statement.",
    "Sentence": [
      "I'll have eggs and sausage. No, scratch that. I'll have eggs and bacon."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "7256",
    "Idiom": [
      "scratch the surface"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To barely begin.",
    "Sentence": [
      "This beginners' course only scratches the surface of the subject."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "7257",
    "Idiom": [
      "scratch together"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To gather small amounts with difficulty.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "7258-1",
    "Idiom": [
      "scream bloody murder"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To scream loudly in fear or pain.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "7258-2",
    "Idiom": [
      "scream bloody murder"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To protest loudly or angrily.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "7259",
    "Idiom": [
      "scream loudest"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To complain or speak up more than others, often over something trivial.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Her sister always got the nicest things because she screamed loudest."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "7260",
    "Idiom": [
      "scream one's head off"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To scream loudly.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "7261",
    "Idiom": [
      "screaming trots"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Diarrhea.",
    "Sentence": [
      "the epson salt will give you the screaming trots",
      "that gave him and his buddies the screaming trots the next day",
      "I never canceled in the AM either until I awoke with a case of the screaming trots."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "7262",
    "Idiom": [
      "screen door on a submarine"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Something that is useless or absurd.",
    "Sentence": [
      "But realists put the final number of jobs saved through privatisation at no more than 800. \"It's about as useful to us as a screen door on a submarine,\" says an angry mayor's office in Sacramento.",
      "I doubt anybody would give you static about unloaded and stored long guns anywhere in U.S. waters, and few places would about handguns (although unloaded guns are as useful as a screen door on a submarine).”",
      "If you don't know what security vulnerabilities look like at the code level, then having the source code is just as useful as a screen door on a submarine from a security perspective."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "7263",
    "Idiom": [
      "screw it"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Expression of frustration or contempt.",
    "Sentence": [
      "This mathematical problem is really difficult. Oh, screw it ! I can't be bothered."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "7264-1",
    "Idiom": [
      "screw off"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To fail to do one's work.",
    "Sentence": [
      "On account of the high rate of wages at Sydney, stevedores will not \" screw off \" now so willingly as they did formerly.",
      "When the boss wasn't around on the weekend they would sometimes screw off."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "7264-2",
    "Idiom": [
      "screw off"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To leave.",
    "Sentence": [
      "I finished the work early so I screwed off."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "7264-3",
    "Idiom": [
      "screw off"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To tell someone to leave or stop bothering.",
    "Sentence": [
      "I said no. Now screw off!"
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "7264-4",
    "Idiom": [
      "screw off"
    ],
    "Meaning": "An expression of dismissal or rejection.",
    "Sentence": [
      "\"We just won a new car!\" \" Screw off ! You're joking, right?\""
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "7265",
    "Idiom": [
      "screw the pooch"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To make a large mistake.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "7266",
    "Idiom": [
      "screw this"
    ],
    "Meaning": "A less offensive way to express frustration or dismissal.",
    "Sentence": [
      "I wanted to have a playdate today, but screw this, we could reschedule it for tomorrow.",
      "Screw this —I’m not buying you a new phone this weekend because of your annoying bitches in public!"
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "7267",
    "Idiom": [
      "screw you"
    ],
    "Meaning": "A less offensive insult.",
    "Sentence": [
      "During [Tucker] Carlson’s keynote, he wedged sneers at his critics for crying “racist!” in between racist remarks about [Ilhan] Omar, jeremiads against the media (“I know there’s a bunch of reporters here, so... screw you ”), and an attack on Elizabeth Warren and her donors (“She’s a tragedy, because she’s now obsessed with racism, which is why the finance world supports her”)—all to gleeful applause.",
      "Well, screw you. Screw all of you. I hope this letter is like a knife in your hearts. You ruined my life. All I've done is pay you back in kind.",
      "You'll just lie in your bed all day rather than help us? Well, screw you.",
      "Screw you —go annoy someone else!",
      "Screw you ! You think you can come to my house dressed like a slob?"
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "7268-1",
    "Idiom": [
      "screwed up"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Morally reprehensible or objectionable.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Dude, that’s screwed up; you shouldn’t steal from kids."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "7268-2",
    "Idiom": [
      "screwed up"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Broken or malfunctioning due to poor handling.",
    "Sentence": [
      "That's a really screwed up car."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "7268-3",
    "Idiom": [
      "screwed up"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Having psychological problems or being mentally distressed.",
    "Sentence": [
      "She's been a really screwed up girl since her boyfriend left her."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "7269",
    "Idiom": [
      "sea change"
    ],
    "Meaning": "A profound transformation.",
    "Sentence": [
      "A few days wrought, as it were, a magical \" sea change \" in everything around us. The late dark and angry sea, lashed up into roaring and swashing surges, became calm and sunny; the rude winds died away; and gradually a light breeze sprang up directly aft.",
      "His [ Frederick Marryat 's] last work, ‘Percival Keane’ (1842), betrays no falling-off, but, on the contrary, is one of the most vigorous and interesting of his ‘ sea changes.’",
      "Suddenly, a \" sea change \" came over his features,",
      "Assuredly the fine old North Carolinan , who has meanwhile himself gone under politically, as little anticipated while penning this sententious answer the \" sea-change \" as the sectional one which was to come after him. A \" sea-change \" has indeed transpired.",
      "It is interesting to watch how the most unpromising subject seems to warm and assimilate with his [ John Randolph of Roanoke 's] genius. Everything undergoes a seachange.",
      "Is it possible that our sense of humor has already undergone a sea-change ? The book as a whole seems strangely antiquated.",
      "There are other worlds than ours, and we never again return to the old place, because we have suffered not only a sea-change but a soul-change.",
      "Anthony Starkweather. Essentially a moral man, his rigid New England morality has suffered a sea change and developed into the morality of the master-man of affairs, equally rigid, equally uncompromising, but essentially Jesuitical in that he believes in doing wrong that right may come of it.",
      "On the right, emerging from the social sciences, is a position that identifies the recent sea changes in Eastern Europe and the USSR, the longer-term global shifts toward internationalisation and the collapse of movement politics of various kinds as calling into question the continuing relevance of the neo Marxist 'motor' of cultural studies.",
      "New economic, social and international pressures were threatening a seachange in the language of politics, with more activism sought from government than in the laissez-faire nineteenth century.",
      "Don't be swayed by minor setbacks : Don't confuse minor shifts with sea-changes. A bump in the road can—and should—be navigated without making major route changes.",
      "There has been a sea change in the language used to describe post-Roman times. Words like ‘decline’ and ‘crisis’, which suggest problems at the end of the empire and which were quite usual into the 1970s, have largely disappeared from historians’ vocabularies, to be replaced by neutral terms, like ‘transition’, ‘change’, and ‘transformation’.",
      "A sea change is under way. It used to be that when a man spoke, people listened; and when a woman spoke, her credentials were questioned, appearance found lacking, and message dismissed. Not. Any. More.",
      "The catalyst was the introduction of the Health & Safety at Work Act in 1974. While it applied to all workplaces, it gradually brought about a sea change in the attitude towards death and injury. Accidents were no longer accepted as 'inevitable'.",
      "Public opinion has undergone a sea change since the 2002 elections."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "7270-1",
    "Idiom": [
      "sea legs"
    ],
    "Meaning": "The ability to walk steadily on a ship despite its motion.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "7270-2",
    "Idiom": [
      "sea legs"
    ],
    "Meaning": "The ability to travel by ship without seasickness.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "7270-3",
    "Idiom": [
      "sea legs"
    ],
    "Meaning": "The ability to adapt to being on a boat or in water.",
    "Sentence": [
      "So, from the Jurassic Period to today, the problems that come with being secondarily aquatic seem to have had the same kinds of solutions. And what we've learned is that it's no easy task to get your sea legs. But once you do, it's smooth sailing."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "7271",
    "Idiom": [
      "sea load"
    ],
    "Meaning": "The weight of a vessel's payload.",
    "Sentence": [
      "On most merchant ships with a relatively light sea load it is usual to fit three generators with two sharing the sea load. On ships with a higher sea load four generators are the usual fit, but sized so that three of these share the sea load."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "7272",
    "Idiom": [
      "seagull approach"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Casual, ill-informed decisions by outsiders lacking local knowledge.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "7273",
    "Idiom": [
      "seagull manager"
    ],
    "Meaning": "A rarely present manager who intervenes only when there's a problem.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "7274",
    "Idiom": [
      "seal the deal"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To finalize a deal.",
    "Sentence": [
      "After completing a medical and the requisite paperwork on Tuesday to seal the deal, Di María said: “I am absolutely delighted to be joining Manchester United. I have thoroughly enjoyed my time in Spain and there were a lot of clubs interested in me, but United is the only club that I would have left Real Madrid for."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "7275",
    "Idiom": [
      "seat-of-the-pants"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Done by feel or trial and error rather than careful planning.",
    "Sentence": [
      "The new pension-fund managers are an eclectic group, displaying a spectrum of styles and strategies. Some rely chiefly on computers and charts, while others are more likely to trust their seat-of-the-pants judgment."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "7276",
    "Idiom": [
      "second Tuesday of the week"
    ],
    "Meaning": "A time that doesn't exist.",
    "Sentence": [
      "He remembered the snickers and feeble excuses girls had offered him when he dared to ask one for a date. “Yes, I'll go out with you on the second Tuesday of the week.” Such a remark was usually accompanied by giggles or outright laughter.",
      "But my insurance will pay for that part of it... Uh-hmm... Well, then you owe me twenty dollars... Uh, On uh, the second Tuesday of the week..."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "7277-1",
    "Idiom": [
      "second banana"
    ],
    "Meaning": "A secondary or supporting role, particularly in comedy.",
    "Sentence": [
      "He grew disenchanted with playing second banana and never getting credit for the laughter."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "7277-2",
    "Idiom": [
      "second banana"
    ],
    "Meaning": "A person who serves in a supporting role.",
    "Sentence": [
      "When you want to be the boss, but you can't, it's not a lot of fun to be second banana.",
      "The plumber left his second banana behind, to finish installing my new sink."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "7278-1",
    "Idiom": [
      "second childhood"
    ],
    "Meaning": "A stage of cognitive decline in the elderly, marked by childlike behavior.",
    "Sentence": [
      "King David being in his childhood, an old man, in his second childhood, for all old men are twice children, as the proverb is, Senex bis puer.",
      "\"You think I'm in my second childhood, I know!\" croaked the old woman.",
      "Old age is not always second childhood, says he. \"There is often, instead, a second prime.\""
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "7278-2",
    "Idiom": [
      "second childhood"
    ],
    "Meaning": "A childlike state in an adult due to mental illness or trauma.",
    "Sentence": [
      "For myself, although at the commencement of the voyage I had been in bad health, and was at all times of a delicate constitution, I suffered less than any of us, being much less reduced in frame, and retaining my powers of mind in a surprising degree, while the rest were completely prostrated in intellect, and seemed to be brought to a species of second childhood, generally simpering in their expressions, with idiotic smiles, and uttering the most absurd platitudes.",
      "But take care of yourself; a man's second childhood begins when a woman gets hold of him."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "7279",
    "Idiom": [
      "second fiddle"
    ],
    "Meaning": "A subordinate or supporting role.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Listen, buttercup, you're damned good in bed. They don't come any better, but I'm really not interested in playing second fiddle to your camera or your young lovers.",
      "I'm tired of being your second fiddle !"
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "7280",
    "Idiom": [
      "second gear"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Mediocre performance.",
    "Sentence": [
      "The hosts remained in second gear after the break although Orient, with impressive Daniels a constant outlet down the right, did at least show a sense of adventure.",
      "stuck in second gear"
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "7281",
    "Idiom": [
      "second nature"
    ],
    "Meaning": "An ingrained habit or behavior that feels natural or automatic.",
    "Sentence": [
      "But habit had made the endurance of this load of panoply a second nature, both to the knight and his gallant charger.",
      "Ashe Marson had realized that he must forego those morning exercises which had become a second nature to him.",
      "For many video gamers, juggling a joystick and a pizza is second nature."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "7282",
    "Idiom": [
      "second string"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Lower quality or condition.",
    "Sentence": [
      "I got a new pair of shoes, so I think I'll use the old, second string pair in my garden."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "7283",
    "Idiom": [
      "second-guess"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To criticize or evaluate with hindsight.",
    "Sentence": [
      "I suppose anybody who keeps a diary and subsequently goes over it for publication has a tremendous temptation to second-guess and make himself look like an oracle.",
      "As a practical matter, a fertilizer company could not afford to second-guess the Federal Trade Commission or a jury in a triple damage case on so obscure a point.",
      "Public administration would be hamstrung if courts were free to second-guess reasonable administrative decisions.",
      "MacGregor avoided this trap by refusing to give managers reporting to him the opportunity to second-guess the solution he would be most likely to choose.",
      "If you suspect you've stepped over the line, ask a few other copy editors to second-guess your headline.",
      "Please don't try to second-guess the procedure that we have already refined and adopted.",
      "Once she began listening to her instincts and didn't second-guess herself the entire time, her artwork improved noticeably."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "7284",
    "Idiom": [
      "second-rate"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Of mediocre quality.",
    "Sentence": [
      "‘Revelation’, to a philosopher such as Plotinus, was not merely irrational: it led to second-rate counterfeits of traditional academic philosophical culture. It was as if the inhabitants of an underdeveloped country were to seek to catch up with western technology by claiming to have learnt nuclear physics through dreams and oracles.",
      "They are intrigued by Mrs Deelville; she is dowdy, languid-voiced, and ill-dressed, in every way appearing second-rate, who nonetheless - rather tiresomely - seems to have the knack of attracting men."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "7285",
    "Idiom": [
      "see Naples and die"
    ],
    "Meaning": "One can die at peace after experiencing the beauty of Naples.",
    "Sentence": [
      "I won't say another word about the beauties of the city and its situation, which have been described and praised so often. As they say here, \"Vedi Napoli e poi muori!\" \" See Naples and die! \""
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "7286",
    "Idiom": [
      "see a man"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Used as a euphemism for excusing oneself to use the toilet or drink alcohol.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Although they were all out, at the bases, and the rest of our nine having gone to see a man there was nobody to take the bat.",
      "I'll be right back. I've just got to go to the ladies' room to see a man."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "7287",
    "Idiom": [
      "see a man about a dog"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Used as a euphemism for leaving briefly, often to use the restroom or drink alcohol.",
    "Sentence": [
      "I'll be right back, but I've got to go to see a man about a dog."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "7288",
    "Idiom": [
      "see a man about a horse"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Used to excuse oneself without giving a real explanation.",
    "Sentence": [
      "I'll be back in two shakes of a lamb's tail. I've just got to visit the ladies' room to see a man about a horse."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "7289-1",
    "Idiom": [
      "see daylight"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To reach an understanding or solution.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "7289-2",
    "Idiom": [
      "see daylight"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To near completion of a lengthy task.",
    "Sentence": [
      "I've been cataloguing my stamp album all weekend; now finally I'm beginning to see daylight."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "7289-3",
    "Idiom": [
      "see daylight"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To become exposed to view.",
    "Sentence": [
      "I have a lot of old junk in the attic that hasn't seen daylight for years.",
      "The report was suppressed and never saw daylight."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "7290",
    "Idiom": [
      "see eye to eye"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To agree or concur.",
    "Sentence": [
      "But the friend merely spoke of his friend; and since no two people in the world see eye to eye, the picture conveyed to Collinson was inaccurate.",
      "In the course of their professional career they did not often hear their superior make many suggestions with which they saw eye to eye, but he had certainly, in their opinion, spoken a mouthful now.",
      "Plainly, the Government and Dr. Beeching have not seen eye to eye, to say the least, on railway wages.",
      "Furthermore, Silverstein and Pataki never completely saw eye to eye on the master plan, disagreeing on such issues as the choice of architect.",
      "And he enjoys conversations with regulators despite not always seeing eye to eye with them, according to another person close to him."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "7291",
    "Idiom": [
      "see for oneself"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To confirm a claim by direct examination.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "7292",
    "Idiom": [
      "see into a millstone"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To understand a complex matter.",
    "Sentence": [
      "\"Why, look'ee, Madam, if you must needs provoke me, I'll tell you a piece of my mind; you must know, I can see as far into a millstone as another man; and so, if you thought for to fob me off with another one of your smirking French puppies for a son-in-law, why you'll find yourself in a hobble, that's all.\"",
      "\"Why, mother, I should have thought you could see into a millstone as far as most people, and yet you can't see to the bottom of a foolish girl's heart.\""
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "7293",
    "Idiom": [
      "see one's way clear to"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To commit to a decision or action.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Nothing but revenge was on the cards, and he could not see his way clear to that.",
      "They were good, sincere women who would have taken her in if they could, but they could not see their way clear to do so.",
      "Until the middle of December, Mike Deaver kept saying that he wasn't going to join the Administration, but he eventually saw his way clear to accepting the third most powerful post in the White House, that of deputy chief of staff.",
      "Mr. Comey specified that Mr. Trump at a one-on-one dinner said he hoped Mr. Comey could see his way clear to let go of the investigation of National Security Adviser Mike Flynn."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "7294",
    "Idiom": [
      "see past the end of one's nose"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To have insight into underlying facts or future consequences.",
    "Sentence": [
      "“If you could find a curator somewhere—I admit this is difficult—who can see beyond the end of his nose, he would be glad to be a true innovator and get out of the international rut.”",
      "If my mother got on your case for being thoughtless or lacking in prudence or foresight, she likely would declare that you could not \" see past the end of your nose \".",
      "“Why didn't you tell me that you couldn't see past the end of your nose ?” she demanded. “Do you realize the trouble you've caused?”",
      "It turned out that the BBC and its panel of newspaper experts couldn't see past the end of their own noses, let alone get a glimpse of the stars. The shortlist for Sports Personality of the Year was an absolute scandal of omission.",
      "He probably thought she was an overprotective, neurotic mother who couldn't see past the end of her nose where her son was concerned."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "7295-1",
    "Idiom": [
      "see red"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To become enraged or angry.",
    "Sentence": [
      "\"So help me, God,\" he cried, \"when I think it all over I go crazy, I see red.\"",
      "Nothing but his temper, the lack of self-control that made him see red..., had kept Jerry out of a world championship.",
      "\"It makes me see red when I remember these folk, Lady This and Countess That, declaring all the comfort they have had, and then leaving those who gave it to die in the gutter or rot in the workhouse.\""
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "7295-2",
    "Idiom": [
      "see red"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To become very angry.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Diop, sometimes criticized for passive play, saw red once this season when he lashed out at a foe who kicked away his legs.",
      "Kalinic later saw red for a rash tackle on Paul Scharner before Gabriel Tamas was dismissed for bringing down Diouf."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "7296",
    "Idiom": [
      "see someone's etchings"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To have sex with someone.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Would you like to see my etchings ?"
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "7297",
    "Idiom": [
      "see something green in one's eye"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To notice signs of gullibility in a person.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "7298-1",
    "Idiom": [
      "see stars"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To experience flashing lights in vision, often after a head injury.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Of course they bumped their heads smartly together, saw stars, and both came up flushed and laughing, without the ball, to resume their seats, wishing they had not left them.",
      "Malcolm hit his head and fell to the floor, seeing stars.",
      "During his 13-year career as a game-changing NFL linebacker, Lawrence Taylor hit opponents so hard he often made them see stars."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "7298-2",
    "Idiom": [
      "see stars"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To feel disoriented after an impact or misfortune.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "7299",
    "Idiom": [
      "see the dark side of the moon"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To experience something exceedingly difficult or rare.",
    "Sentence": [
      "I gotta say.. some of the opinions expressed are like seeing the dark side of the moon to me (not necessarily a bad thing btw).",
      "Examining them is like seeing the dark side of the moon, or stepping through a looking glass.",
      "I am not asking to see the dark side of the moon, God. Only one word.",
      "I've been down the darkest alleys, saw the dark side of the moon to get to you, to get to you."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "7300",
    "Idiom": [
      "see the forest for the trees",
      "miss the forest for the trees",
      "miss the wood for the trees",
      "miss the woods for the trees"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To see the big picture or overall situation.",
    "Sentence": [
      "It is, indeed, the principal drawback to the study of London that she is too vast—that the student is ever in danger of \"not seeing the forest for the trees.\"",
      "On the other hand, I have purposely treated the empirical physical foundations of the theory in a \"step-motherly\" fashion, so that readers unfamiliar with physics may not feel like the wanderer who was unable to see the forest for the trees.",
      "Your only failing is that you can't see the forest for the trees.",
      "Smith is good at detail, but can't see the forest for the trees."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "7301-1",
    "Idiom": [
      "see the light"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To undergo a spiritual conversion.",
    "Sentence": [
      "I wandered so aimless, life filled with sin",
      "Once I was lost in darkness, but now I have seen the light."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "7301-2",
    "Idiom": [
      "see the light"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Gaining sudden understanding or insight.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Finally, near the end of the meeting, John saw the light and withdrew his objections."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "7301-3",
    "Idiom": [
      "see the light"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To come into awareness or understanding.",
    "Sentence": [
      "His book never saw the light."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "7302-1",
    "Idiom": [
      "see the light of day"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To appear or be published.",
    "Sentence": [
      "True, the \"Kings\" seem capable amply of performing all that is required of them, but as it is now 18 years since the class first saw the light of day, it is perhaps hardly premature to anticipate a new express design from the G.W.R. within a not too long period."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "7302-2",
    "Idiom": [
      "see the light of day"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To be realized.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Many projects were planned and started, but none saw the light of day."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "7303",
    "Idiom": [
      "see the trees through the forest"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Appreciate the details rather than just the big picture.",
    "Sentence": [
      "They naturally become very close to the personnel, supervisory and otherwise, and also the areas that they have to inspect, and sometimes I think they are unable to see the trees through the forest or the forest through the trees.",
      "However, very often it is difficult to see the trees through the forest, if I may make a pun.",
      "To summarize, in a reductionistic orientation the practitioner cannot \"see the forest through the trees\"; and in a holistic orientation the practitioner may fail to \" see the trees through the forest.\" Either orientation is not complete in itself, and there is no philosophical basis that is superior to another.",
      "With a little understanding of the structure of bark, and the vital functions it serves, its details come alive, providing both a means to see the trees through the forest and a bounty of colors and textures to enjoy."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "7304",
    "Idiom": [
      "see things"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To imagine seeing things that are not present.",
    "Sentence": [
      "It was there before. I think I'm seeing things."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "7305-1",
    "Idiom": [
      "see through"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To understand the hidden truth and not be deceived.",
    "Sentence": [
      "He was a very scared individual and to cover up his fright he would tell outlandish tales to make himself appear \"better\" and \"bigger\" in front of the other convicts. I saw through this and convinced him to just be himself with me and I would like him and respect him more.",
      "Now, when you awfulize you go beyond that and tell yourself, instead “It's horrible, awful and terrible!” You then mean several things, all of which are clearly unprovable and which any self-respecting Martian with an IQ of 100 could easily see through.",
      "I'm surprised she doesn't see through his lies.",
      "I can see through his poker face. He isn't fooling anyone."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "7305-2",
    "Idiom": [
      "see through"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To recognize true motives or character.",
    "Sentence": [
      "In that moment, I finally saw through her; this petition drive had nothing to do with her love for animals, and everything to do with impressing Michael, the cute intern."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "7305-3",
    "Idiom": [
      "see through"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To support someone through a difficult time.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Forever and ever, yeah / I'll see you through it",
      "The glory of love might see you through",
      "And may we all, citizens the world over, see these events through."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "7305-4",
    "Idiom": [
      "see through"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To continue working on something until it is finished.",
    "Sentence": [
      "But if the Government really wants our railway to reduce the level of its subsidy and improve value for taxpayers' money, then it must provide the political air cover to enable managers to get on and make the hard decisions that are needed... and then see them through.",
      "Despite her health problems, Madame Prime Minister saw the project through."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "7305-5",
    "Idiom": [
      "see through"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To constitute ample supply for.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Those chocolates should see us through the holiday season."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "7306",
    "Idiom": [
      "see what sticks"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To test multiple tactics to achieve a result.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "7307",
    "Idiom": [
      "see which way the cat jumps"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To delay action based on an outcome.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "7308",
    "Idiom": [
      "see with half an eye"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To see something that is obvious.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "7309",
    "Idiom": [
      "see yellow"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To receive a yellow card.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Healy’s first act was to crudely wipe out Forrest on the touchline. He saw yellow when it could have been red. Lafferty then had his name taken for a late one on Adam Matthews."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "7310",
    "Idiom": [
      "see you later"
    ],
    "Meaning": "A phrase used at parting.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "7311",
    "Idiom": [
      "see you next Tuesday"
    ],
    "Meaning": "A derogatory term for a woman.",
    "Sentence": [
      "See you next Tuesday — it's a dirty insult. The initials make a dirty insult.",
      "In the Guardian for 2 November 1989, Katie Campbell mentioned the disparaging See You Next Tuesday as a description for an unreliable young man (= cunt), and commented: 'Imagine a word so powerful that it has to be disguised, even when used as a term of abuse.'",
      "\" See you next Tuesday,\" she said crisply, the camera holding her in close-up an extra beat for emphasis. You could almost hear the thud of knowing viewers falling off their chairs. In decades-old high-school vernacular, \"See you next Tuesday\" is code for the word that starts with the letters \"c-u,\" means female genitalia and is used to insult a woman when \"bitch\" just isn't strong enough.",
      "'See you next Tuesday.' I learnt that at my convent school (My mother was Catholic). We would say it to the nuns who didn't have a clue what it meant...",
      "\"That diva may be gorgeous, but she's a real, well, you know, a see-you-next-Tuesday.\" \"A what?\" asked Jen. I cocked my head. Curious, myself. \"She's—pardon the expression—a cunt.\"",
      "In a separate anecdote, Kaplan detailed the end of the deposition when she was set to leave, saying that Trump told her: “ See you next Tuesday ” – a phrase that is often used as a derogatory euphemism directed at women. “We come in the room and I say, ‘I’m done asking questions’ and immediately I hear from the other side, ‘Off the record. Off the record. Off the record.’ So they must have planned it. And he looks at me from across the table and he says, ‘ See you next Tuesday,’” she recounted."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "7312-1",
    "Idiom": [
      "seeing is believing"
    ],
    "Meaning": "One needs to see something to believe it.",
    "Sentence": [
      "There is nothing like Matter of Fact; Seeing is Believing.",
      "Seeing is believing, says the proverb. Though, of all our senses, the eyes are the most easily deceived, we believe them in preference to any other evidence.",
      "They said their product will be ready for shipment in two months and we could even \" take that to the bank \", but we’ve heard that before. Seeing is believing."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "7312-2",
    "Idiom": [
      "seeing is believing"
    ],
    "Meaning": "One must see something to believe it.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "7313-1",
    "Idiom": [
      "seek and ye shall find"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Things can be found if sought.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "7313-2",
    "Idiom": [
      "seek and ye shall find"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Effort will be rewarded.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "7314",
    "Idiom": [
      "seismic shift"
    ],
    "Meaning": "A fundamental change.",
    "Sentence": [
      "The seismic shift in Mexico began in 1810 with the movement toward independence from Spain.",
      "For the republican movement, the acceptance of seats in a \"partitionist\" Assembly signaled a seismic shift in historical attitudes since the division of Ireland in 1921.",
      "The U.S. could be on the verge of a seismic shift, where it is possible to envision a time when it will no longer be the dominant economic superpower.",
      "Baby boomers began turning 65 in January, heralding a seismic shift in demographics worldwide."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "7315-1",
    "Idiom": [
      "seize the day"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To enjoy the present and live for the moment.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "7315-2",
    "Idiom": [
      "seize the day"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Make the most of today.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "7315-3",
    "Idiom": [
      "seize the day"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To approach the day with enthusiasm and intention.",
    "Sentence": [
      "IN toasting the beginning of a new relationship between China and the United States in the Great Hall of the People in Beijing twenty years ago, I quoted from a poem in which Mao Zedong exhorted his followers to work for the victory of communism: \"So many deeds cry out to be done always urgently. The world rolls on. Time passes. Seize the day. Seize the hour.\" Today, as we celebrate the defeat of communism in Eastern Europe and the Soviet Union and the defeat of aggression in the Persian Gulf, many deeds remain to be done abroad and at home. We must seize the moment to win victory for peace and freedom in the world."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "7316",
    "Idiom": [
      "self-praise is no recommendation"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Empty boasting reflects poorly on the person bragging.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "7317",
    "Idiom": [
      "sell bargains"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To make saucy comments or flirt.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Where sold he Bargains, Whip-stitch, kiss my Arse, / Promis'd a Play and dwindled to a Farce?",
      "He began to descend to familiar questions, endeavouring to accommodate his discourse to the grossness of rustic understandings. The clowns soon found that he did not know wheat from rye, and began to despise him; one of the boys, by pretending to show him a bird's nest, decoyed him into a ditch; and one of the wenches sold him a bargain."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "7318",
    "Idiom": [
      "sell dearly"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To make an opponent pay a high price for victory or possession.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Realizing he is now boxed in on all sides, Hipper decides the only remaining card he has to play is to sell his ships as dearly as possible. The remaining German ships make a hard turn southeast, and drive headlong at the Grand Fleet. It is a brave gesture, but only eight of the ships emerge from the pall of smoke that roughly marks the original German line of advance. Two more emerge minutes later, but that is all."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "7319",
    "Idiom": [
      "sell down"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To betray or conspire against someone for personal gain.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "7320",
    "Idiom": [
      "sell down the river"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To betray someone, causing them serious difficulty.",
    "Sentence": [
      "The Prime Minister was listened to with respect when he replied to Opposition hints that Ethiopia was being sold down the river because Britain was afraid she or her ships might suddenly be attacked by Italian airmen.",
      "Somebody told me, I know where to go Somebody showed me, I was last to know Sell me down the river Sell me down the river Sell me down the river Sell me down the river What I wanted is what we wanted What we wanted is what she wanted",
      "\"But screw it, this bastard is selling America down the river. He's a traitor.\"",
      "As a result, analysts were routinely selling investors down the river by promoting stocks purely to land banking business from companies."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "7321",
    "Idiom": [
      "sell ice to Eskimos"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To persuade someone to accept something unnecessary.",
    "Sentence": [
      "He's such a smooth talker, he could sell ice to Eskimos."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "7322",
    "Idiom": [
      "sell like hot cakes"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To be sold quickly in large numbers.",
    "Sentence": [
      "You're living in a disco / Forget about the rat race / Let's do the Milkshake / Selling like a hotcake",
      "Geffen employees confirm that about half of the initial run of forty-six thousand [copies of Nevermind ] went to the Northwest, where it sold like hot cakes.",
      "These units will sell like hot cakes for $400000 apiece. Our cost will be $250000. It's a regular gold mine.",
      "CALENDARS featuring local men willing to get their kit off for charity are selling like hot cakes after hitting the market this week.",
      "I sold 12 trout specials yesterday, they sold like hot cakes.",
      "During a power outage, candles sell like hot cakes."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "7323",
    "Idiom": [
      "sell one's birthright for a mess of pottage"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To make an unfavorable exchange of something valuable for something trivial.",
    "Sentence": [
      "An elector, who by his vote should contribute to the establishment of a constitution having for its effect, instead of the greatest happiness of the greatest number, the greatest or supposed greatest happiness of the ruling few at the expense of the happiness of the many, would, supposing himself to become in consequence of the misrule, a sufferer to a greater amount than that of the benefit received by his vote, be an Esau selling his birthright for a mess of pottage."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "7324",
    "Idiom": [
      "sell one's body"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To work as a prostitute.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "7325",
    "Idiom": [
      "sell one's own grandmother"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To do anything, especially unprincipled, to get what one wants.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "7326",
    "Idiom": [
      "sell one's soul"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To abandon one's values for personal gain.",
    "Sentence": [
      "He murmured in her ear. “You are Marguerite, for you could fire a man's heart so that he would sell his soul to gain you.”",
      "So I resolved to acquire a dog, and bought one from a prospector, who was stony-broke and would have sold his soul for a drink.",
      "After all, the South is where jazz and blues were invented. Where Robert Johnson supposedly sold his soul to the devil so he could play the licks that would become rock 'n' roll.",
      "“David used to say he would sell his soul to be famous,” she says. “But he was also otherworldly – and you couldn’t take your eyes off him.”"
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "7327",
    "Idiom": [
      "sell someone a bill of goods"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To deceive or cheat someone.",
    "Sentence": [
      "\"He showed no knowledge of his subject,\" McCarran told newsmen. \"... Someone must have sold him a bill of goods.\"",
      "Bill O'Reilly, of the Fox News Channel, has called on the President to admit that the CIA sold him a bill of goods and to fire the agency's director."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "7328-1",
    "Idiom": [
      "sell the family silver"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To sell property to escape financial difficulties.",
    "Sentence": [
      "For two years he fretted in France, selling the family silver to support himself",
      "Though he had at last been reinstated in his rank of Captain-General, the Chilean Treasury seemed in no hurry to pay his pension and Dona Rosita was forced to sell the family silver.",
      "There she collapsed when she made a bid to sell the family silver and by the time she advertised for work–ignominy for a landed heiress–she was fully aprised of the difficulties faced by women seeking employment."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "7328-2",
    "Idiom": [
      "sell the family silver"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To sell a valuable asset for short-term gain.",
    "Sentence": [
      "And if it is close, when is it sensible to sell the family silver ?",
      "There have been resignations of government officials over anomalies in the privatisation of the copper industry, while the charge that the government is selling the family silver is still voiced frequently.",
      "yet it had only a 50 percent stake because its partner, while recognizing that it needed and alliance in order to introduce new products, was unwilling to sell the family silver by giving up 51 percent."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "7329",
    "Idiom": [
      "sell the pass"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To betray one's comrades or cause.",
    "Sentence": [
      "A respectable divine like Samual Torshell sold the pass when he wrote in 1645 that there was no difference between men and women in the state of grace.",
      "In fact the officials in the Richmond Asylum had pre-empted Sinn Féin. They managed to sell the pass without losing their jobs in the process, unlike Henry Campbell or John Flood."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "7330",
    "Idiom": [
      "sell-by date"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Indicates something or someone is old and out of date.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Tony Blair insists on remaining in office well past his sell-by date - yet he can afford to go.",
      "Manifold : This is not a team, Petey. This is just another mass grave. Ewin : Eeew. What's the sell-by date on that manifold? I think it's gone bad.",
      "\"They have gone past their sell-by date. But the fitters have done an amazing job keeping these units running for as long as they have."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "7331",
    "Idiom": [
      "seller's market"
    ],
    "Meaning": "A market condition favoring the seller due to high demand and low supply.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Pay any price you have to. We're in a seller's market right now."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "7332",
    "Idiom": [
      "selling point"
    ],
    "Meaning": "The main attractive feature of a product.",
    "Sentence": [
      "With such powerful selling-points, why is it, as recent editorial comment and correspondence in this journal has revealed, that \"Condor\" has yet to bring a warm glow to the countenance of the L.M.R.'s accountants?",
      "So the main interest of the book (and its selling point, carefully highlighted in the blurbs) lies in the contradiction between the feminist ideals of equality and independence in relationships",
      "When the Long Beach Grand Prix was started in 1975 the major selling point was that Formula One cars would race down Ocean Blvd...",
      "But for Zellweger, the major selling point was the script. \"It was such a great read,\" says the actress.",
      "The unique selling point of the Dowty wagon control system is that it can both retard and accelerate wagons, and therefore remains the only 'total wagon control system' available for hump marshalling yards, even in 2021."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "7333",
    "Idiom": [
      "semper ubi sub ubi"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Always wear underwear.",
    "Sentence": [
      "And on the subject of “below” or “under,” there is the famous line that every student of Latin knows by heart: Semper ubi sub ubi.",
      "Kids, always remember these words: semper ubi sub ubi.",
      "While our teacher conducts a declension drill we busily draw jock straps and pushup bras on the statuary in our Living Latin textbooks. We pass notes with crude Latin jokes — Semper ubi sub ubi — Always wear underwear. Snigger, snigger."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "7334",
    "Idiom": [
      "send a message"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To implicitly communicate an idea through actions.",
    "Sentence": [
      "As we sometimes also say about elements of fashion and etiquette, the way you use English \"Makes a Statement\" or \" Sends a Message \" — even though these Statements/Messages often have nothing to do with the actual information you're trying to transmit."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "7335-1",
    "Idiom": [
      "send away"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To dismiss someone.",
    "Sentence": [
      "The salesman was taking up too much time with his nonsense, so I sent him away."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "7335-2",
    "Idiom": [
      "send away"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To send someone away for a long time, often implying imprisonment.",
    "Sentence": [
      "We are going to send our son away to live with his uncle in America for a year.",
      "the judge sent him away",
      "They sent him away for that one."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "7335-3",
    "Idiom": [
      "send away"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To imprison someone.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "7335-4",
    "Idiom": [
      "send away"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To dispatch orders for delivery.",
    "Sentence": [
      "We sent away for some of the items in the gardening catalogue."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "7336",
    "Idiom": [
      "send away for"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To request something by writing to a business or organization.",
    "Sentence": [
      "You can send away for a brochure about this hotel, if you like."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "7337",
    "Idiom": [
      "send for a toss"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To use or invest on the off chance.",
    "Sentence": [
      "He is going to Rennes and was sent for a toss, bred down from Kirkpatrick stock.",
      "She was overpowering, stronger than me, not physically but in every other respect and I think that is what drew me close to her in the first place when each piece of my imagination was sent for a toss.",
      "The Notes of Chaos, Were sent for a Toss, By the Music of Blessed Violence, And Dharma finally granted the World, The Golden Gift of Silence!"
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "7338",
    "Idiom": [
      "send shivers down someone's spine"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To terrify or make extremely nervous.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Hearing that the killer escaped prison sent shivers down my spine."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "7339",
    "Idiom": [
      "send someone packing"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To expel or dismiss someone.",
    "Sentence": [
      "The parliament, to their immortal honour, presently sent him packing.",
      "Two ladies called one day, pale and anxious, and begged earnestly, humbly, to be allowed to see Mr. Moore one instant: Mrs. Yorke hardened her heart, and sent them packing,—not without opprobrium.",
      "\"Monsieur, you and yours are not for me. Seek elsewhere.\"... \"You send me packing !\" he blurted out, getting red in the face.",
      "League authorities sent him packing after ruling he was registered with a fake Dominican passport under circumstances that remain murky."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "7340-1",
    "Idiom": [
      "send someone to the showers"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To remove a player from a competition due to poor performance.",
    "Sentence": [
      "He was able to pitch out of trouble until the eighth, when a single by LF Randy Winn and double by 2B Bret Boone sent him to the showers.",
      "The umpires’ ruling precipitated a wild protest and three straight run-scoring hits off Pelfrey that sent him to the showers after a six-run inning.",
      "Gerrard was sent to the showers 10 minutes into the second half, replaced by his Liverpool team-mate Jordan Henderson.",
      "Orr, in the first row behind the photographers, said something and Smart stepped to him and pushed him with both hands. Sending Smart to the showers —or instructing arena security to eject the fan—would have been a move in the name of safety."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "7340-2",
    "Idiom": [
      "send someone to the showers"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To remove someone from a position due to poor performance.",
    "Sentence": [
      "The Federal Trade Commission in recent years has seldom struck out. But last fortnight the FTC was caught way off base, sent red-faced to the showers.",
      "Lucky John Sununu. Given the thin bench of replacements, no wonder Bush doesn't want to send him to the showers.",
      "Congressman Paul Ryan (R-WI) has returned. Having been sent to the showers during last year’s disastrous campaign to place the nation’s seniors on a voucher program, Ryan is back.",
      "Silver needed to be bold and decisive and he was unquestionably both in sending the lout Donald Sterling to the showers with a lifetime ban on Tuesday."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "7341",
    "Idiom": [
      "send to Coventry"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To ostracize or ignore someone.",
    "Sentence": [
      "\"For the statement, in the form in which I offered it, Mr. President, I have no retraction or apology to offer, and only such explanation as I have lately given.\" \"Coventry! Coventry!\" came the insistent call. \"Well, then, you can send me to Coventry, you friends of Darrin, if you feel yourselves justified in doing it!\" quivered Midshipman Jetson, tossing his head and glaring defiantly around the room.",
      "The group decided to send the unpopular members to Coventry."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "7342",
    "Idiom": [
      "send to dorse"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To knock out.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Gas now planted his favourite hit under the left listener of his antagonist, which sent him to dorse."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "7343-1",
    "Idiom": [
      "send to the glue factory"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To kill, usually a horse.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "7343-2",
    "Idiom": [
      "send to the glue factory"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To remove from prominence due to obsolescence or age.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "7344",
    "Idiom": [
      "send word"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To notify by message.",
    "Sentence": [
      "The king sent word to his enemy that he would not back down."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "7345",
    "Idiom": [
      "sense of craft"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Aptitude for craftsmanship.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "7346",
    "Idiom": [
      "separate the wheat from the chaff"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To select only what is valuable.",
    "Sentence": [
      "As a punishment, Zhemao and her affiliated accounts were suspended permanently. Most of her articles were deleted based on community consensus. Some Wikipedians even wrote to experts, seeking help to separate the wheat from the chaff."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "7347",
    "Idiom": [
      "serve notice"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To terminate employment.",
    "Sentence": [
      "\"One white man.\" said Bill, after a brief inspection. \"Out on his line, I s'pose, and there's no tellin' when he'll be back. So we won't wait. We'll just serve notice on him.\""
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "7348",
    "Idiom": [
      "serve someone right"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To happen to someone who deserves it.",
    "Sentence": [
      "\"And they counts my money and tickets, when I gets home, to see if I's got the change; and if I han't they half kills me.\" \"And serves you right,\" said Jane, the pert chambermaid, \"if you will take their money to get drunk on.\""
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "7349",
    "Idiom": [
      "serve the turn"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Suffices for an immediate purpose.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "7350",
    "Idiom": [
      "serve time"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To be imprisoned for a crime.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "7351",
    "Idiom": [
      "serve two masters"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To take orders from conflicting parties.",
    "Sentence": [
      "I suspect that Mr Paisley would have been familiar with the biblical quotation: \"No man can serve two masters - you cannot serve God and Mammon\" (Matthew 6 v 24)."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "7352",
    "Idiom": [
      "serve up"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To provide or deliver.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Run hg serve inside a repository, and in under a second it will bring up a specialized HTTP server; this will accept connections from any client, and serve up data for that repository until you terminate it.",
      "It's inevitable that anything that provides us with such incredible amounts of pleasure and satisfaction is bound to serve up an equal amount of stress.",
      "The cloud storage provider serves up server space.",
      "Kyle serves up heroin in northside.",
      "I have a plan to serve up revenge on those who wronged me.",
      "Mr. Perry is going to serve up an improvement plan that comes from the suits upstairs."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "7353",
    "Idiom": [
      "set a beggar on horseback and he'll ride to the Devil"
    ],
    "Meaning": "A person unaccustomed to wealth will easily be corrupted by it.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "7354",
    "Idiom": [
      "set a spell"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To sit down and relax, often while socializing.",
    "Sentence": [
      "She declined his invitation to \"Come up and see the old woman and set a spell.\"",
      "\"You might as well set down,\" remarked Miss Hitty, with a new gentleness of manner. \"I'm going to set a spell.\"",
      "Hank's Hardware is one of those quintessentially American places.... Hank's is a place where people can set a spell, but it is also a business, competing in the ever-tightening hardware marketplace.",
      "In this country community, we enjoy our neighbors as we never could before. There is time to set a spell and talk about the weather, family and days gone by."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "7355",
    "Idiom": [
      "set back"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To cost money.",
    "Sentence": [
      "How much do you suppose that fancy dress set her back ?"
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "7356",
    "Idiom": [
      "set by the ears"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To provoke arguing or quarrelling.",
    "Sentence": [
      "[The patrimony of the King's children] was not to be recovered but by … a bloody and uncertain war, and setting all Christendom together by the ears.",
      "Then she used to carry tales and stories from one to another, till she had set the whole neighbourhood together by the ears; …",
      "never did any man possess in so extraordinary a degree the faculty of setting people by the ears, of provoking dissension, and of creating strife.",
      "Servia will some day set Europe by the ears and bring about a universal war on the Continent, …",
      "Even the best-intentioned minister could set a parish by the ears, so a single-minded insistence on the elimination of a vice could make him a figure of terror rather than an approachable counsellor …."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "7357",
    "Idiom": [
      "set down"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To write.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Some rules were to be set down for the government of the army.",
      "I set down this account so others may benefit from my experience."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "7358",
    "Idiom": [
      "set eyes on"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To see or observe.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "7359-1",
    "Idiom": [
      "set foot"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To enter.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Yet had I scarce set foot in the passage when I stopped, remembering how once already this same evening I had played the coward, and run home scared with my own fears."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "7359-2",
    "Idiom": [
      "set foot"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To step onto.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Who would dare set foot on this inhospitable summit?",
      "After the boat capsized, I thought that I would never set foot on dry land again."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "7360",
    "Idiom": [
      "set for life"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Possessing sufficient resources to last a lifetime.",
    "Sentence": [
      "In that case he has to pay her alimony even if there are no children, and if she is one of those smart ones, interested in nothing but a good living and independence, she is set for life.",
      "It wasn't that long ago when getting a bank job after school meant you were set for life."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "7361",
    "Idiom": [
      "set in motion"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To trigger movement or progress.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Considerable excitement was caused on the L.M.S.R. Aberdeen line out of Perth recently when a shunting engine in Perth North goods yard, whose driver and fireman were absent, was accidentally set in motion by a shunter and set off unattended on to the main line.",
      "She was seen as a gifted pop-country ingenue when, in a now infamous moment, Kanye West interrupted Swift onstage at the 2009 VMAs while she was accepting an award. The incident set in motion a chain of events that would shape the next decade of both artists’ lives."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "7362",
    "Idiom": [
      "set in one's ways"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Stubbornly adhering to one's habits or preferences.",
    "Sentence": [
      "He's as set in his ways now as a little old man."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "7363-1",
    "Idiom": [
      "set in stone"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Permanent or unchangeable.",
    "Sentence": [
      "The decision won't be set in stone until we release the documents."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "7363-2",
    "Idiom": [
      "set in stone"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To render something permanent or certain.",
    "Sentence": [
      "The plan looks good, but don't set it in stone until we have discussed it a bit more."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "7364",
    "Idiom": [
      "set of pipes"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Voice for singing.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Since the 1950s, Vic Damone has always had a great set of pipes, but at 67, he's plumbing his songs with a maturity and grace that's even more mesmerizing.",
      "Peaches—who usually raps her lyrics in husky tones—also reveals she has one helluva set of pipes, belting out \"Talk to Me\" with enough power to give any disco diva pause."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "7365",
    "Idiom": [
      "set of wheels"
    ],
    "Meaning": "A car.",
    "Sentence": [
      "“We need a set of wheels to carry out this plan of yours.”",
      "That's a great set of wheels you've got!"
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "7366-1",
    "Idiom": [
      "set off"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To begin a journey or trip.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Considerable excitement was caused on the L.M.S.R. Aberdeen line out of Perth recently when a shunting engine in Perth North goods yard, whose driver and fireman were absent, was accidentally set in motion by a shunter and set off unattended on to the main line.",
      "He set off in search of better opportunities."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "7366-2",
    "Idiom": [
      "set off"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To initiate.",
    "Sentence": [
      "I had no idea that one simple comment would set off such a huge argument."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "7366-3",
    "Idiom": [
      "set off"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To cause to explode.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Wrex : There are acid tanks rigged up on that thing. Set them off. Millions of my ancestors died to put these things down. Don't let them come back.",
      "What a tragedy, that someone would set off a bomb in a crowded place."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "7366-4",
    "Idiom": [
      "set off"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To provoke anger or agitation.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Don't set him off or he won't shut up all day."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "7366-5",
    "Idiom": [
      "set off"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To enhance by emphasizing differences.",
    "Sentence": [
      "And then one afternoon in the hinder end of April came young Heriotside riding to the Skerburnfoot. His arm was healed, he had got him a fine new suit of green, and his horse was a mettle beast that well set off his figure.",
      "Her plain white dress was set off by a bright red stole."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "7366-6",
    "Idiom": [
      "set off"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To offset or compensate for something.",
    "Sentence": [
      "When a woman had made such a mistake, there was only one way to repair it,—to accept it. One folly was enough, especially it was to last for ever; a second one would not much set it off.",
      "My taxes did not increase because the amount of my raise was set off by my losses in the stock market."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "7367-1",
    "Idiom": [
      "set one's cap at"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To choose a potential husband.",
    "Sentence": [
      "To hear her rant, one would have supposed, who had not seen him, that her lank-haired, grimly partner, was the prettiest youth in the county of Dublin, and that all the comely lasses in Chapelizod and the country round were sighing and setting caps at him"
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "7367-2",
    "Idiom": [
      "set one's cap at"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To choose something as a goal.",
    "Sentence": [
      "How he has escaped marriage until now I cannot tell: the number of caps set in his direction would furnish a warehouse."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "7368",
    "Idiom": [
      "set one's hair on fire"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To become wildly impassioned.",
    "Sentence": [
      "\"It was perceived that we were opening a party house where people could drink and run amok and generally set their hair on fire,\" said Bill Hobson, executive director of the Downtown Emergency Service Center.",
      "The problem is the extreme shortage of affordable housing. You can do as the city has decided to do, which is set up a task force to deal with affordable housing.... Or you can set your hair on fire and blame Chinese foreigners.",
      "As the impeachment investigation proceeds, it’ll be important for us Trump critics to not set our hair on fire every day, to evaluate the evidence as if it were against a president we ourselves voted for.",
      "It is difficult to sum up the speech, despite having taken notes while watching on three screens, because the whammos, the bone chips and viscera, came at us faster than they could be wiped away."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "7369",
    "Idiom": [
      "set one's heart on"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To desire with intensity and commitment.",
    "Sentence": [
      "With all the willful eagerness of a child she set her heart on that visit, and from morning till night she would talk with her little boys of the journey to what seemed to her the brightest, most sacred spot on earth, next to her present home.",
      "He always found it hard to give up anything he had set his heart on, no matter how trivial.",
      "Roberts set his heart on a national basketball championship.",
      "Americans can do whatever they set their hearts on."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "7370",
    "Idiom": [
      "set one's watch back"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To reflect on a past time.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Tony drove more slowly than usual, and Ginny felt the tension of the day slip away. He took her to a tiny café tucked away on a quiet street. “ Set your watch back to 1932,\" Tony said as he pulled out a chair for her",
      "Set your watch back to the Ice Age and",
      "... representatives are women, which doesn't remotely reflect the diversity of the automotive customer base, and has the added side effect of making you feel like you have to set your watch back to 1972 when you step into a dealership.",
      "Set your watch back to 1773, as I explain what happened at the Boston Tea Party."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "7371-1",
    "Idiom": [
      "set out one's stall"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To clarify one's position or capabilities publicly.",
    "Sentence": [
      "This interview is at RDG 's request: it wants to set out its stall for the most challenging of years ahead.",
      "John has obviously set out his stall for the Green Party."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "7371-2",
    "Idiom": [
      "set out one's stall"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To decide on a course of action.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "7371-3",
    "Idiom": [
      "set out one's stall"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To create a favorable impression.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "7371-4",
    "Idiom": [
      "set out one's stall"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To play in a determined manner.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "7372",
    "Idiom": [
      "set pulses racing"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To excite or thrill.",
    "Sentence": [
      "And while the performance hardly set pulses racing, it should be remembered that the side that starts the serious action against France in Donestsk on 11 June will not resemble the one on show in Oslo."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "7373",
    "Idiom": [
      "set store by",
      "lay store by",
      "put store by",
      "put store in"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To value highly.",
    "Sentence": [
      "we rather wonder whether too much store is set on intellectual as against executive ability as a pre-requisite in the good railway officer.",
      "We live in a society that sets great store by science and technology."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "7374",
    "Idiom": [
      "set straight"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To correct.",
    "Sentence": [
      "I can't stand it! I know you planned it! Imma set it straight, this Watergate !",
      "I'd like to set straight some misconceptions about recent events.",
      "He misspoke, but I quietly set him straight.",
      "Your bedroom is a mess. Set things straight before you go out tonight."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "7375",
    "Idiom": [
      "set the Thames on fire"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To achieve something remarkable.",
    "Sentence": [
      "The baronet will never set the Thames on fire, but there seems no harm in him.",
      "They intend to send a wire / To the moon — to the moon; / And they'll set the Thames on fire / Very soon — very soon",
      "Do you remember when you jumped into the water after the flowers? I fancy it was then you really set the Thames on fire.",
      "My head is spinning round / my heart is in my shoes, yeah / I went and set the Thames on fire, oh / now I must come back down."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "7376",
    "Idiom": [
      "set the bar"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To set specific standards or expectations.",
    "Sentence": [
      "“I do feel like we should be setting the bar higher for review,” said one adviser, Dr. Amanda Cohn, the director of the division of birth defects and infant disorders at the C.D.C., adding that more data might help clarify questions about the effects on preterm birth.",
      "to set the bar high; to set the bar low",
      "She set the bar at an hour of exercise a day."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "7377",
    "Idiom": [
      "set the pace"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To establish a common goal by example.",
    "Sentence": [
      "In May 2003, South Africa set the pace by banning thin plastic bags and imposing a tax on thick ones."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "7378",
    "Idiom": [
      "set the record straight"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To correct a previous error or misunderstanding.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "7379",
    "Idiom": [
      "set the stage"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To prepare or establish conditions.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Pardew was a member of the Palace side that lost in a replay to United at Wembley in 1990 and was in charge of West Ham when they were hit by Steven Gerrard 's famous late equaliser in Cardiff that set the stage for Liverpool to beat the Hammers on penalties after a 3-3 draw.",
      "White House policies—on taxing and spending, trade and regulation—will set the stage for recovery."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "7380",
    "Idiom": [
      "set the wheels in motion"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To initiate a chain of events to achieve a goal.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "7381",
    "Idiom": [
      "set the world on fire"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To do something sensational.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Tonight We are young. So let’s set the world on fire. We can burn brighter than the sun."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "7382-1",
    "Idiom": [
      "set to work"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To begin working.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Accordingly, Mitchell and his fireman, apparently without removing the engine from the up line, set to work and disconnected the motion on the defective side, after which Fireman Richardson, who probably had done the lion's share of the work, betook himself to the refreshment room and had a cup of coffee.",
      "As soon as he got home, he went to his desk and set to work.",
      "Every day he sets to work at the new assignments."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "7382-2",
    "Idiom": [
      "set to work"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To begin working.",
    "Sentence": [
      "The Crescent Road sheds had a favourite locomotive - Stanier 4MT tank engine 42626 (known by Bolton locomen as 'two half-dollars') - and the shed authorities quietly arranged for it to be put to one side for a few days, while the ardent schoolboys set to work cleaning it.",
      "As soon as I could, I set to work making the entries."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "7383",
    "Idiom": [
      "set up one's staff"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To start living in a certain place.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "7384",
    "Idiom": [
      "set up shop"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To establish a business.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Homer’s entrepreneurial spirit proves altogether overly infectious. Homer gives Barney a pep talk when he encounters him dressed up like a baby handing out fliers (Barney in humiliating costumes=always funny) and it isn’t long until Barney has purchased a truck of his own and set up shop as the Plow King.",
      "these companies could enjoy support required to set up shop for the long term.",
      "They set up shop as venture capitalists on Sand Hill Road."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "7385",
    "Idiom": [
      "settle a score"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To even the score.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Arsenal also have a score to settle with Liverpool after losing 2-0 at home in the recent FA Cup third-round tie, when they had so many chances to score before almost inevitably falling victim to two late sucker-punches."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "7386",
    "Idiom": [
      "settle for"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To accept something less desirable.",
    "Sentence": [
      "As the game entered three minutes of stoppage time, both sides almost snatched the win. Substitute Admir Mehmedi was inches away with Hart beaten and Stewart Downing, on for Walcott, shot weakly into the side-netting with the last kick of the game as England had to settle for a point.",
      "He couldn't afford the expensive headphones, so he decided to settle for the lower-quality set."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "7387",
    "Idiom": [
      "settle in"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To get comfortable or established.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Changing trains at Hereford, I catch the West Midlands Class 170 that is waiting for me at Platform 1. Plonking myself in a table bay, I settle in to enjoy the trip on what is another quiet train - well, until Ledbury, where a couple of dozen people are waiting.",
      "I had just sat down in my favorite easy chair and settled in when the phone rang.",
      "It took me several months to settle in after the move to New York."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "7388",
    "Idiom": [
      "settle into"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To become comfortable in a place or routine.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "7389",
    "Idiom": [
      "settle one's account"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To pay back debts.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Their conversations had become more fearful, even superstitious in the past month. They called her a ghost, or a demon, or a monster. She once found one of them crying in the graveyard after midnight, praying in Latin, begging forgiveness, and she gave it to him after putting the scissor blade through his aorta. She didn't see any point in being petty. They were all going to die, and that would settle their accounts with her."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "7390",
    "Idiom": [
      "settle someone's hash"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To subdue someone.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Wait and see old Caleb Quirk get into the box. I'll settle his hash in half a minute.",
      "“But wait till I light on you, no matter where it is, I’ll settle your hash for a bit, yer little swine!”",
      "\"Sez Pezziden' Bush, sezee, 'I'm gwine ter settle yo' hash, ole Rabbit....'\""
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "7391",
    "Idiom": [
      "settle with"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To resolve a grudge with someone.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "7392",
    "Idiom": [
      "sew buttons"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Used to dismiss a question or comment.",
    "Sentence": [
      "“Ah. So?” “Sew buttons.” “What was it like? I don't know.",
      "“That's what my mother used to say when we kept saying 'so.'” At Jack's puzzled look I bat my hand at him. “Don't bother trying to get it. It's a non sequitur.” “Oh. So. Sew buttons. I get it.”",
      "“So.” “Sew buttons.” That phrase always made Cam laugh. Her grandmother was the only one who still used it because she was probably the only person who still actually sewed buttons."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "7393",
    "Idiom": [
      "sex machine"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Someone with significant sexual ability.",
    "Sentence": [
      "I said do the bump, huh, I said shake your rump / And stay on the scene like a sex machine"
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "7394",
    "Idiom": [
      "sex on legs"
    ],
    "Meaning": "A person considered very sexually attractive.",
    "Sentence": [
      "She thinks he is sex on legs."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "7395",
    "Idiom": [
      "sex pact"
    ],
    "Meaning": "An agreement about sexual activity.",
    "Sentence": [
      "\"She called it “sex without fear” or “sex without hang-ups.” This selfless sex pact had the added advantage that it could be arranged between any two individuals who were so inclined, whether they chose to marry or not, or whether they were otherwise compatible or not.\""
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "7396",
    "Idiom": [
      "sex sells"
    ],
    "Meaning": "The use of sex appeal in marketing is effective.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Victoria's Secret, the American retailer that once parlayed a “ sex sells ” strategy into a $7bn-revenue-empire of underwear, is heading back to TV screens."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "7397",
    "Idiom": [
      "sex talk"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Flirtatious conversation for seduction.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "7398-1",
    "Idiom": [
      "sex up"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To engage in sexual acts.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Make sweet lovin' all night long / Oh, I wanna sex you up / Feels so right it can't be wrong",
      "I wanna sex you up !"
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "7398-2",
    "Idiom": [
      "sex up"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To arouse sexually.",
    "Sentence": [
      "I got my eyes shut / Praying they won't stray / Oh we're not sexed up / That's what makes the difference today",
      "Get spanked: it'll sex you up !"
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "7398-3",
    "Idiom": [
      "sex up"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To make more sexually attractive.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Women in the UK jazz scene face discrimination and sexual harassment according to a new report, from requests to “ sex up ” their album covers to tokenism, maternal discrimination and scepticism about their musical capabilities.",
      "Enrique Iglesias sexed up his music video to appeal to a younger audience."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "7398-4",
    "Idiom": [
      "sex up"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To enhance in fashionable appeal.",
    "Sentence": [
      "What’s clear is that with wealth inequality at near record highs and income inequality predicted to worsen, we can’t afford to leave things as they are. It’s time to “ sex up ” tax.",
      "How do I sex up my phone?"
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "7398-5",
    "Idiom": [
      "sex up"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To sensationalize.",
    "Sentence": [
      "BBC journalist Andrew Gilligan today said David Kelly was in no doubt the government had “ sexed up ” the Iraq intelligence dossier at the heart of the Hutton inquiry.",
      "Fresh evidence has emerged that Tony Blair's discredited Iraqi arms dossier was “ sexed up ” on the instructions of Alastair Campbell, his communications chief, to fit with claims from the US administration that were known to be false.",
      "Last week saw a backlash against tabloid-style “ sexing-up ” of science reporting."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "7399",
    "Idiom": [
      "sexual congress"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Sexual intercourse.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "7400",
    "Idiom": [
      "sexual relation"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Behavior of a sexual nature between individuals.",
    "Sentence": [
      "It would be easy to prove by a long array of facts that the sexual relation is associated in the primitive mind with many serious perils; but the exact nature of the danger apprehended is still obscure."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "7401",
    "Idiom": [
      "sexual relations"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Sexual activity.",
    "Sentence": [
      "I did not have sexual relations with that woman, Ms. Lewinsky."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "7402",
    "Idiom": [
      "sexual tension"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Libidinal unrest between individuals.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "7403-1",
    "Idiom": [
      "sexy up"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To make more sexually attractive.",
    "Sentence": [
      "She'd come to a party all sexied up and really move it around and drink wine and flirt until midnight came and then she'd lay her scene on whomever was trying to get into her pants"
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "7403-2",
    "Idiom": [
      "sexy up"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To enhance attractiveness.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Back at the remedial Lab, Pacey our neglectful god has skipped this lesson and he decides to scoop up a pretty-looking snail and toss it in the tank to sexy up the atmosphere."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "7404",
    "Idiom": [
      "shacked up"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Sharing a house without being married.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "7405",
    "Idiom": [
      "shake a leg"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To get busy or productive.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Shake a leg! We haven't got all day."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "7406",
    "Idiom": [
      "shake like a leaf"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To tremble or shiver.",
    "Sentence": [
      "My goodness, doll, you're shaking like a leaf. Rico! You've had your fun, pull up."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "7407",
    "Idiom": [
      "shake off the dust from one's feet"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To separate oneself from something unpleasant.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "7408-1",
    "Idiom": [
      "shake out"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To agitate a material to remove dust or make it smooth.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Tasks needed to complete Crossrail: Trial run the Class 345s over many thousands of miles on the completed railway to shake out any problems and ensure the highest levels of safety and reliability when passenger service begins."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "7408-2",
    "Idiom": [
      "shake out"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To result or transpire.",
    "Sentence": [
      "We are curious to see how this all shakes out."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "7409",
    "Idiom": [
      "shake the pagoda tree"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To acquire easy wealth quickly.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "7410",
    "Idiom": [
      "shake the plum tree"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To seek advantages or favors.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "7411",
    "Idiom": [
      "shallow brooks are noisy"
    ],
    "Meaning": "People who do not think deeply often talk a lot.",
    "Sentence": [
      "To the contrary, psychiatrists know well the truth of the old proverbs \" Shallow brooks are noisy \" and \"Still waters run deep.\" We must not assume that someone whose feelings are modulated and controlled is not a passionate person.",
      "Shallow brooks are noisy; deep waters are smooth. Depend upon it, when a man is deeply and strongly impressed with the truth of his own convictions, he is in no way tempted to rail at his neighbour.",
      "My mother called me and asked, \"Can you tell me the meaning of this, son. The deep river moves with silent majesty, but shallow brooks are noisy ?\""
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "7412",
    "Idiom": [
      "sham Abraham"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To pretend sickness or insanity.",
    "Sentence": [
      "The boatswain found me, as he said, an obstinate fellow: he swore that I understood my business perfectly well, but that I shammed Abraham merely to be idle.",
      "Matthew, sceptic and scoffer, had already failed to subscribe a prompt belief in that pain about the heart: he had muttered some words, amongst which the phrase \" shamming Abraham \" had been very distinctly audible;"
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "7413-1",
    "Idiom": [
      "shank-nag"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To travel on foot.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "7413-2",
    "Idiom": [
      "shank-nag"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Archaic spelling of \"shanks' nag.\"",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "7414",
    "Idiom": [
      "shanks' mare"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Traveling by one's own legs; to walk.",
    "Sentence": [
      "“Well! Well! Here's Aunt Cannie. Waiting for your car?” “No suh, Mr. Henry. Shank's mare is plenty good fer me. I been ridin' dis ol' mare for more'n a hund'ed years.”",
      "Once they take to Shanks' mare, they are all equal.",
      "A public exhibition of the velocipede [a predecessor of the bicycle]... will never come into general use in competition with Shank's mare.",
      "The last thing we'd want to be seen doing...is using shanks mare, even though the day is holding up well."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "7415",
    "Idiom": [
      "shanks' nag"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Transportation by foot.",
    "Sentence": [
      "He took shanks-naig, but fient may care."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "7416",
    "Idiom": [
      "shanks' pony"
    ],
    "Meaning": "One's feet or legs as transport.",
    "Sentence": [
      "pointed out that we cared nothing, absolutely nothing, for convention, and would go in quest of the gods “on Shanks′ pony,” Anqui utterly mistook our meaning and had a pony in waiting for us when the hour came for leaving! This we dismissed after attempting to make clear our meaning.",
      "After all, mos′ everybody had to walk because yuh doan only get to meet people but ‘ shanks pony ’ was the cheapes′ form of transportation.",
      "That was the end of the vehicle track: from then on it was shanks′s pony.",
      "Young Jim shook his head. ‘The nearest station′s about fifty miles from there. We′ll hail a lift if we′re lucky. Otherwise it′s shanks′s pony.’",
      "And the rhythm in my shoes keeps the blues all away / When you ride Shanks's Pony you don′t have to pay",
      "He pointed toward a groaning tram packed with malnourished workmen, rickets, and penury. Preferred shank’s pony, drizzle or no drizzle.",
      "Then four more meetings around Manhattan travelling mostly by Shanks′s pony, before arriving back at JFK for their overnight standby flight.",
      "Apart from the Ravenglass steam railway and Shanks′ pony, there′s no public transport to Eskdale.",
      "At the bottom of the hill, Dean Stewart says, let′s get out of the automobiles and proceed as usual—by shanks′ pony. By shanks′ pony ? Mrs. Landes says. Is that Shakespeare? Jenny asks. No, Dean Stewart says laughing, just an expression from the folk in Missoula."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "7417-1",
    "Idiom": [
      "shape up"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To improve behavior or habits.",
    "Sentence": [
      "You better shape up 'Cause I need a man And my heart is set on you",
      "He'd better shape up soon, or he'll fail the class."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "7417-2",
    "Idiom": [
      "shape up"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To transform or improve.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Pretty good. A full refrigerator! I can see this afternoon is shaping up just great.",
      "Even though this episode felt packed to the brim and sometimes unwieldly, the strongest moments were spent with Cersei, Sansa, and Daenerys: three daughters who were never supposed to rule, wading through their pain and suffering to shape The Seven Kingdoms. A lot has been said and written about the sons in this story who were never meant to rule (Tyrion, Jon, even Sam) but this season is shaping up to be an examination of these women.",
      "The fog has vanished and it's shaping up to be a beautiful day."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "7418",
    "Idiom": [
      "shape up or ship out"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Improve behavior or leave.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Portions of those letters quoted by Bruccoli indicate that though Hemingway could be sympathetic, he used a lot of ink telling Fitzgerald to shape up or ship out."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "7419-1",
    "Idiom": [
      "share and share alike"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Equal sharing among a group.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Exquisite beauty is rarely given with wit, more rarely with goodness of temper, and never at all with modesty. And some, pretending to justify the equity of such a distribution, will tell us it is the effect of the justice of Providence in dividing particular excellences among all His creatures, \" Share and share alike, as it were,\" that all might for something or other be acceptable to one another.",
      "\"I can tell stories and sing and sell more goods than any one has any idea of. Besides that, I’ve got a new corn salve I put up myself which goes like hot cakes. Barberry’s Lightning Salve, I call it — my name is Paul Barberry, you know — Dr. Barberry, most of ’em call me. Say the word, and I’ll go with you and put up my salve against your outfit, and we’ll share and share alike.\"",
      "\"No, no, share and share alike,\" he cried. \"All sink or all swim, and the devil take the flincher.\"",
      "\"It was quite usual in those days to be stopped by a soldier waiting on the road, who, with a gallant bow and salute, asked your permission to \"mount behind\" and have a lift to so and so. In fact, if you were on foot and wanted to get anywhere quickly it was always safe to rely on a military car or ambulance coming along, and then simply wave frantically and ask for a lift. Very much a case of share and share alike.\"",
      "Share and share alike, they lived and worked and wrangled together like brothers."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "7419-2",
    "Idiom": [
      "share and share alike"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To divide equally among a group.",
    "Sentence": [
      "\"Our money will soon be gone at that rate,\" said Jack soberly. \"Mine is already gone.\" \"No, it isn't, Jack. We are going to share and share alike, you know.\"",
      "To be sure, until now they had always shared and shared alike, but here was the first great lump of good-luck that had ever fallen in his way, and he was not for spoiling it by cutting it in two to give half to a poor beggar-man such as his brother.",
      "In Wisconsin, the childhood rule to share and share alike became the law of the land for married couples under the state's new marital property law."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "7420",
    "Idiom": [
      "shared joy is double joy"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Shared experiences increase happiness.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Standing shoulder- to- shoulder regularly with other men strengthens our listening skills, increases our ability to be present and open, and helps us work through some of our issues— qualities that also tremendously enhance intimacy with our partner. An old tribal proverb remembers that shared joy is double joy, and shared sorrow is half sorrow."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "7421",
    "Idiom": [
      "sharp cookie"
    ],
    "Meaning": "One who is intelligent or can recognize deception.",
    "Sentence": [
      "She's a sharp cookie and will have no trouble seeing a sales pitch for what it is."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "7422",
    "Idiom": [
      "sharp tongue"
    ],
    "Meaning": "The habit of speaking harshly or critically.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Times grew worse and worse with Rip Van Winkle as years of matrimony rolled on; a tart temper never mellows with age, and a sharp tongue is the only edged tool that grows keener with constant use.",
      "He hated the Professor, who smelt the rogue in him, and scourged him continually with his sharp tongue.",
      "Mr. Thomas rarely misses a chance to use his sharp tongue. Republicans are terrified of him; Democrats call him a bully."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "7423",
    "Idiom": [
      "sharp-elbowed"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Pushy; assertive in gaining an advantage.",
    "Sentence": [
      "No sooner had President Washington been sworn in, wearing mousy, egalitarian brown broadcloth, than the sharp-elbowed jockeying for social status began.",
      "With his stocky build, spread-collar shirts and locker-room charm, Walter Yetnikoff fit right in among the sharp-elbowed power brokers in the music business.",
      "Fifteen documentaries are in sharp-elbowed competition to be among the five Oscar nominees."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "7424",
    "Idiom": [
      "sharp-set"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Eager in appetite or desire.",
    "Sentence": [
      "The town is sharp-set on new plays.",
      "\"Are ye sharp-set ?\" he asked, glancing at about the level of my knee. \"Ye can eat that drop parritch.\"",
      "an eagle or a lion sharp-set"
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "7425",
    "Idiom": [
      "shatter the ice"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To break the ice suddenly or dramatically.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "7426",
    "Idiom": [
      "she'll be right"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Everything will be all right.",
    "Sentence": [
      "So there’s shuffling, like, and a bit o’ coughing and spitting, and someone else says: ‘ She’ll be right, mate. She’s on her way if you’ll hang on a tick. You’re at the party.’",
      "“Nah, she’ll be right. You go.” “You’ll have to start mixing with the others at some point, you know.” “It’s not just that, I got homework to do. Gotta catch up.”",
      "In a whisper, I suggested to Ian that we reattach the winch cable to a tree in the clearing, but of course his reply was, “Naaahh, she’ll be right, mate.”"
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "7427",
    "Idiom": [
      "sheathe the sword"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To end a battle; to make peace.",
    "Sentence": [
      "My wish and hope, therefore, is, that it will be rejected by this House; and that another, dutiful yet decent, manly address, will be presented to his majesty, praying that he would sheathe the sword, prevent the further effusion of the blood of our fellow subjects, and adopt some mode of negotiation with the general Congress, in compliance with their repeated petition, thereby restoring peace and harmony to this distracted empire."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "7428",
    "Idiom": [
      "shed a tear"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To cry.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "7429",
    "Idiom": [
      "shed blood"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To kill or be killed in violence.",
    "Sentence": [
      "For he to day that sheds his blood with me, / Shall be my brother:"
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "7430",
    "Idiom": [
      "shed light upon"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Clarify or explain something.",
    "Sentence": [
      "This mystery has vexed us all hitherto; perhaps you will be able to shed light upon the matter, Inspector."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "7431",
    "Idiom": [
      "shift gears"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To change pace or mode.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "7432",
    "Idiom": [
      "shift the dial"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To make a significant change or impact.",
    "Sentence": [
      "The influential speech by the politician aimed to shift the dial on public opinion regarding climate change."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "7433",
    "Idiom": [
      "shifty-eyed"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Implying dishonesty, often indicated by avoiding eye contact.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "7434",
    "Idiom": [
      "shimmy on down"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To go somewhere.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "7435",
    "Idiom": [
      "shit a brick"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To react strongly or excessively.",
    "Sentence": [
      "She was thunderstruck when she came face to face with the tomb of Sir Isaac Newton. At her age, and in that same place, my big brother Bernie, a born scientist who can't draw or paint for sour apples, would have shit an even bigger brick.",
      "If our boss finds out we did this and didn't tell him, he's gonna shit a brick."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "7436",
    "Idiom": [
      "shit in someone's mouth",
      "crap in someone's mouth"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To accuse someone of lying.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "7437",
    "Idiom": [
      "shit on toast"
    ],
    "Meaning": "A food item.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "7438",
    "Idiom": [
      "shit or get off the pot",
      "shit or get off the can"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Act now or express disinterest; make a decision to avoid inconveniencing others.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Finally O'Donnell put his cup down and said, \"Time to shit or get off the pot. Or fish or cut bait. Or however else you want to express it. Let's hear your ideas.\"",
      "We can't wait all night for you to decide whether you're going clubbing with us or going home, man – you need to shit or get off the pot."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "7439",
    "Idiom": [
      "shit out of luck"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Completely out of luck; in unfortunate circumstances.",
    "Sentence": [
      "There are no tickets left. I guess we're shit out of luck."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "7440",
    "Idiom": [
      "shit rolls downhill"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Problems from higher authority often fall to those lower in the hierarchy.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "7441",
    "Idiom": [
      "shit stain"
    ],
    "Meaning": "A contemptible person.",
    "Sentence": [
      "\"And if we was, pray tell me, you shit-stain, you darlin' little cunt rag, what difference'd that make to you?\""
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "7442",
    "Idiom": [
      "shit the bed"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To fail completely.",
    "Sentence": [
      "“How was I supposed to know Dan Marino would shit the bed and lose that game by nineteen points?”",
      "“Yep, I totally shit the bed on that exam. Guess I'll be sticking around this place for another year.”",
      "“We're almost ready. If the damn copier doesn't shit the bed, that is.”"
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "7443",
    "Idiom": [
      "shit-eating grin"
    ],
    "Meaning": "A broad smile indicating smugness or self-satisfaction.",
    "Sentence": [
      "He was at the wheel of his brand-new 1965 GTO, top down, wearing a super-sized shit-eating grin on his face. "
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "7444-1",
    "Idiom": [
      "shit-stir"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To cause trouble or provoke conflict.",
    "Sentence": [
      "You should really shit-stir and wear the Cat Suits to States. That would give them something to growl about... only joking — don't do anything that could wreck your chances!",
      "You can't possibly shit-stir with people that are desperate, people that are hungry because of the very corruption you talked about in the earlier part of your speech - the part that I liked, the part I fully supported.",
      "\"Has Suren seen this?\" Hunter happily and maliciously shit-stirred through the phone."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "7444-2",
    "Idiom": [
      "shit-stir"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To provoke or upset deliberately.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Ross has always had the decency to abuse and shit-stir him and call him Grumpy.",
      "If you knew my suburb you'd know there wasn't anything much to do other than hang around on street corners and shit-stir each other.",
      "Not unless he got one just to shit-stir you."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "7444-3",
    "Idiom": [
      "shit-stir"
    ],
    "Meaning": "A deliberately provoked uproar.",
    "Sentence": [
      "I would've felt like an idiot saying \"Oh, my mate was just making it up as a shit stir. He always does that!\"",
      "I knew it was going to be a shit-stir, but what I didn't expect was that we would get pulled off stands in supermarkets.",
      "She's caused a shit-stir in the house and it's just time to go."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "7445",
    "Idiom": [
      "shitting match"
    ],
    "Meaning": "A pointless conflict over something trivial.",
    "Sentence": [
      "No prob. I just don't wanna start another shitting match. No one on AMP wants to see it except us."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "7446",
    "Idiom": [
      "shock to the system"
    ],
    "Meaning": "A sudden and unpleasant effect on someone.",
    "Sentence": [
      "One former inmate, “Jason”, spoke of his stays in seven different institutions between the ages of 14 and 17. “At first it was a bit of a shock to the system not having your family around, and then I got used to it,” he said."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "7447",
    "Idiom": [
      "shoe-leather"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Effort, especially in investigation.",
    "Sentence": [
      "America desperately needed a Jimmy Carter in 1976 … And so for him to come out of almost from nowhere to earn the nomination by sheer shoe leather in Iowa and New Hampshire, and to be the person outside of the establishment and to say, I’m not from Washington, I will never lie to you, I’m a born again Christian – what I say is that, he really did bring a close to the Watergate period.",
      "They expended a lot of shoe-leather in hunting down every lead."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "7448",
    "Idiom": [
      "shoot 'em up"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Media depicting significant gunplay.",
    "Sentence": [
      "The arcaders have it easy. All they need to do is drop a quarter into a machine to find out how good the latest shoot 'em up game really is. But for the home computer owner, it's another story.",
      "An unmissable shoot 'em up.",
      "My wife won't watch this movie; it's a shoot ’em up."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "7449",
    "Idiom": [
      "shoot down"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To criticize a request to the point of rejection.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Every proposal I made was shot down at once."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "7450-1",
    "Idiom": [
      "shoot first and ask questions later"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To take hasty action without investigation.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "7450-2",
    "Idiom": [
      "shoot first and ask questions later"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To act without considering the consequences.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "7451",
    "Idiom": [
      "shoot from the lip"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To speak confidently without careful thought or reliable knowledge.",
    "Sentence": [
      "A pair of suburban slickers made the Smothers Brothers Comedy Hour the most popular new TV show of the season. They did it by shooting from the lip, dauntlessly laying down a crossfire of patter that is often more fizzle than sizzle.",
      "In a letter to Mr. Watt this week, Mr. Quitberg suggested that the Secetary had been shooting from the lip again. \"You have never met me and until that moment had undoubtedly never heard of me,\" he wrote.",
      "He is, as most Americans have now gathered, a blunt fellow, prone to shoot from the lip. He often speaks before he thinks.",
      "Darrel Reid used to shoot from the lip. Few Canadian evangelists can match his record for the controversial quote, whether accusing single moms of using welfare to have babies or likening hate crime laws protecting gays and lesbians to Nazi tyranny."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "7452",
    "Idiom": [
      "shoot holes"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Find faults.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Anytime you want to shoot holes in our ideas, don't hesitate to do so.",
      "One by one, we can shoot holes through possible standards by which the Commission on Qualifications could evaluate nominees for the trial courts.",
      "Many of the works in this exhibition also shoot holes in our conventional assumptions about family portraiture."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "7453",
    "Idiom": [
      "shoot off"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To communicate quickly and without hesitation.",
    "Sentence": [
      "In other situations, you might know someone who adds colour with personal anecdotes and feelings. You could shoot off a similar response – perhaps including a short story of your own to hammer home your point."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "7454-1",
    "Idiom": [
      "shoot off at the mouth"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To boast or talk excessively.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Don't let [presidential press secretary Ron] Ziegler shoot off at the mouth without our knowledge."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "7454-2",
    "Idiom": [
      "shoot off at the mouth"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To disclose secret information.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "7455",
    "Idiom": [
      "shoot one's bolt"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To use up one's resources.",
    "Sentence": [
      "The war situation was going from bad to worse. The Greek army, facing the Italians in Albania, had shot its bolt by spring. The Yugoslav revolution of April, for which SOE claimed some credit (our people had been there and post hoc, propter hoc), was followed by the prompt invasion of Yugoslavia and occupation of Greece.",
      "We were playing checkers and, although I'd started off well, I seemed to have shot my bolt too soon."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "7456-1",
    "Idiom": [
      "shoot one's load"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To ejaculate.",
    "Sentence": [
      "I grab her tighter and shoot my load in her bum.",
      "I knew what that meant, and was ready to shoot my load along with him. His cum sprayed in every direction; huge, thick, white jets of hot cum covering the wall and chair in front of him.",
      "As my body flushed with unexpected heat and my heart palpitated, with hip-thrusting panache I shot my load all over the TV screen.",
      "“I want you to cum with me,” Randy said, “When I shoot my load up that pretty ass, I want you to shoot yours.\""
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "7456-2",
    "Idiom": [
      "shoot one's load"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To expend resources or opportunities prematurely.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "7457",
    "Idiom": [
      "shoot oneself in the foot"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To act against one's own interests.",
    "Sentence": [
      "but as President he frequently shoots himself in the foot. Some of his erroneous public statements are dillies.",
      "The countries that stopped shooting themselves in the foot were able to break into new export markets",
      "\"I've always been the guy who shoots himself in the foot and squanders every opportunity,\" he says. \"Now it's like, 'Do I throw it all away — or just try?'\"",
      "The fear is that the economic aftermath of this crisis, like the virus itself, might be toughest on those with pre-existing conditions – including otherwise thriving western countries choosing this moment in history to shoot themselves in the foot.",
      "Dennis Aftergut, a former federal prosecutor who is of counsel to Lawyers Defending American Democracy, told the Guardian that Trump \"may have shot himself in the foot \" with the comments. \"Criminal intent can be hard to prove, but when a potential defendant says something easily seen as intimidating or threatening to those investigating the case it becomes easier,\" Aftergut said."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "7458",
    "Idiom": [
      "shoot the boots"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To kick violently.",
    "Sentence": [
      "The family moved about—Hamilton, Mississauga, Jane and Weston Road. \"That's when my whole life switched from the good guy to the bad guy,\" he says now. \"Right here in this city. The first day of school, I learned how to spit. Shoot the boots.\"",
      "It was strange because the boy I was fighting with had developed a reputation for being able to shoot the boots and I was supposed to be good with my hands."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "7459",
    "Idiom": [
      "shoot the breeze",
      "throw the bull around"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To chat idly.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Oh, I've just been upstairs with your boss, shooting the breeze … shooting his fish.",
      "Listen, I came here to do some business, not shoot the breeze. If you want to expound your personal philosophies, write another book.",
      "We were just standing around shooting the breeze.",
      "I lost my dad right about your age. So I know what you're goin' through. So if you wanna come in and talk, or you just want somebody to spill your guts to, or you just wanna throw the bull around, door’s open."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "7460",
    "Idiom": [
      "shoot the bull"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To talk idly.",
    "Sentence": [
      "I didn't get what this group therapy was all about, it seemed to me it was just a bunch of people shooting the bull.",
      "Shooting the bull with Benny and Elvira while Nelson skitters around out there in the lake of rooftops, selling used cars like hotcakes."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "7461",
    "Idiom": [
      "shoot the messenger"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Blaming someone for delivering bad news.",
    "Sentence": [
      "I know you won't like this news, but please don't shoot the messenger."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "7462",
    "Idiom": [
      "short end of the stick"
    ],
    "Meaning": "A less favorable situation or outcome.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Soviet emphasis on high-yield weapons might give them a megaton surplus.... We might then be on the short end of the stick.",
      "The 44 Governors... spent three days in tense, often heated discussion of the enormous political and fiscal problems handed to the states under President Reagan's \"new federalism.\" Said Wisconsin Governor Lee Dreyfus: \"There is some apprehension on the part of the Governors that we are getting the short end of the stick.\"",
      "“Working people are sick and tired of the bosses getting million-dollar bonuses and the workers getting the short end of the stick.”",
      "Does this mean Middlesbrough get the short end of the stick, with what will surely be the most ramshackle show of the tour?",
      "I learned the hard way that people who ditch cable TV still get the short end of the stick."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "7463",
    "Idiom": [
      "short fuse"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Quick to anger.",
    "Sentence": [
      "In a few short years, she has sent two fiancés and various managers and flacks packing and earned a reputation as one of L.A.'s shortest fuses.",
      "to be on a short fuse",
      "Be careful of what you say; he has a short fuse."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "7464",
    "Idiom": [
      "short hairs"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Pubic hair.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "7465",
    "Idiom": [
      "short leash"
    ],
    "Meaning": "A strict set of rules limiting freedom.",
    "Sentence": [
      "The employee was put on probation after her latest mistakes and given a short leash.",
      "Their supervisors keep the workers on a short leash."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "7466",
    "Idiom": [
      "short of a length"
    ],
    "Meaning": "A ball that bounces closer to the bowler than the ideal area for effective batting.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "7467",
    "Idiom": [
      "short on looks"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Unattractive.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "7468",
    "Idiom": [
      "short reckonings make long friends",
      "short accounts make long friends"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Pay back borrowed money quickly.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "7469-1",
    "Idiom": [
      "short strokes"
    ],
    "Meaning": "The final steps of a lengthy undertaking.",
    "Sentence": [
      "He knows they are in the short strokes —it's almost over.",
      "Ironing out the short strokes has taken a little longer than expected, but it all should be worth the wait for Strawberry when the Yankees officially announce today they have re-signed the rehabbed slugger.",
      "Sly and Dave Chandler having set the deal, and Al McAfee moving in to do the legal fine points, Maxwell and Johnson tumbled into our lap for just over a million in cash up front and about twice that in Slumberhaven stock and options. I didn't even have to get involved, except for the short strokes toward the end."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "7469-2",
    "Idiom": [
      "short strokes"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Bare essentials.",
    "Sentence": [
      "She can evoke an entire scene in short strokes, as in this from \"The Wamsutter Wolf\": \"This trailer was in ruins, broken-backed because its west end had slipped off the cinder-block supports. All the windows had been shot out.\""
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "7470",
    "Idiom": [
      "short temper"
    ],
    "Meaning": "A personality trait of quick anger.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Be careful of what you say; he has a short temper."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "7471",
    "Idiom": [
      "short-sheet"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To prank by making a bed unusably short.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "7472",
    "Idiom": [
      "shot across the bow"
    ],
    "Meaning": "A warning of potential negative consequences.",
    "Sentence": [
      "President [Franklin] Pierce, like a great war ship, fired two shots across the bows of the Congress, to bring matters to.",
      "Scientists considered collectively are remarkably single-minded in their views about what is important and what is not. If a graduate student gives a seminar and no one comes or no one asks a question, it is very sad, but not so sad as the question gallantly put by a senior or a colleague that betrays that he hasn't listened to a word. But it is a warning sign, a shot across the bows.",
      "Though I have fired a few shots across the bows of some of my critics, notably the late Professor Lon Fuller and Professor R[onald] M[yles] Dworkin, I have hitherto made no general comprehensive reply to any of them; I have preferred to watch and learn from a most instructive running debate in which some of the critics have differed from others as much as they have differed from me.",
      "That part of the release wouldn't so much be a warning shot across the bow as one aimed right at the bridge, Kealty thought.",
      "In fact, many members of Congress sought to influence or halt decision making altogether—firing shots across the bow designed to intimidate the adjudicators before a decision could be made. This sort of interference was and is entirely inconsistent with the rule of law.",
      "While I'm persuaded by the Chairman's bona fides in this area, I think this is a shot across the bow. I'm sure the Attorney General and his representatives can discern what import and I hope the sentiment of the full Committee are.",
      "This is often used as a \" shot across the bow,\" warning the borrower how seriously the lender views the default.",
      "This was a shot across the bow of the Florida justices, a warning against further activism in this case, but one with relatively little practical significance at this late date.",
      "Before punishing, place a shot across the bow —provide a clear warning to let people know exactly what negative things will happen should they continue down their current path, but don't actually administer discipline yet.",
      "Perhaps her refusal to marry him would be the shot across the bows Jack needed to help him face his demons. But somehow she doubted it."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "7473",
    "Idiom": [
      "shot heard round the world"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Any significant event.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "7474",
    "Idiom": [
      "shot in the dark"
    ],
    "Meaning": "A guess or attempt made with little evidence.",
    "Sentence": [
      "From listening, I can't tell who composed it. Beethoven, maybe, but that's a shot in the dark."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "7475",
    "Idiom": [
      "shotgun approach"
    ],
    "Meaning": "An indiscriminate and haphazard approach.",
    "Sentence": [
      "She seems to take the shotgun approach to holiday shopping, buying many smaller, generic gifts for everybody."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "7476-1",
    "Idiom": [
      "shotgun wedding"
    ],
    "Meaning": "A wedding due to pregnancy.",
    "Sentence": [
      "If Red Skelton's joke can still elicit laughs, it is only because there is a minority who can still remember a shotgun wedding and even recall the understandings that lay behind that insistence, now seeming quaint, that a couple sleeping together should really be married."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "7476-2",
    "Idiom": [
      "shotgun wedding"
    ],
    "Meaning": "A hurried wedding, often due to external pressure.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "7476-3",
    "Idiom": [
      "shotgun wedding"
    ],
    "Meaning": "A forced partnership.",
    "Sentence": [
      "But all this fails when we try to have a shotgun wedding between the two great theories of nature, relativity and quantum theory."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "7477",
    "Idiom": [
      "shots fired"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Indicates a derisive or combative statement or action.",
    "Sentence": [
      "I look at them. They're the boards of a novice-recently-turned-intermediate surfer. 'Does Garrett have any boards in the van?' 'Ooh, shots fired. What's wrong with my boards, eh?'",
      "Shots fired ! Lonely Horse came out guns-a-blazing with the track \"Devil in the White House.\"",
      "Drake clapped back less than 24 hours later with \"Duppy Freestyle,\" in which he talked about once being a fan of Pusha's, called out \"Infrared\" producer Kanye West and warned that he'll be sending an invoice for all this extra publicity he's giving Pusha and his new album. And Drake really did send the record label an invoice for \"promotional assitance and career reviving\" with a $100,000 fee the next day. Shots fired !"
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "7478",
    "Idiom": [
      "shoulder to cry on"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Someone offering emotional support.",
    "Sentence": [
      "And when you need a shoulder to cry on / When you need a friend to rely on / When the whole world is gone / You won't be alone, 'cause I'll be there / I'll be your shoulder to cry on"
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "7479",
    "Idiom": [
      "shout fire in a crowded theater"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To say something that incites violence, panic, or lawlessness.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "7480",
    "Idiom": [
      "shove it up your ass"
    ],
    "Meaning": "An exclamation of extreme anger or disgust.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "7481",
    "Idiom": [
      "shove something down someone's throat"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To forcefully impose an opinion or belief on someone.",
    "Sentence": [
      "“I knew she was a Christian, but she didn't shove her beliefs down my throat.",
      "When it comes to politics, I don't want them to shove their opinions down my throat.",
      "Yes, I admit that it was all my past run-ins with “crazy religious people” always trying to “save” me and shove religion down my throat that closed me off to Anthony's real sentiments.",
      "I disagreed with his opinion, but he continued to shove it down my throat."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "7482",
    "Idiom": [
      "show a clean pair of heels"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To run away quickly.",
    "Sentence": [
      "‘No, gentlemen; he'll always show ’em a clean pair of heels very early in the scuffle, and sneak away.’",
      "But in the second column the \"Britannia\" Pacific, though with one coach less, showed a cleaner pair of heels, .",
      "The two German ships soon showed us and the battle-cruiser Indefatigable in company, a clean pair of heels, though the cruiser HMS Dublin managed to keep them in sight until they disappeared into the Straits of Messina to coal.",
      "During the melee the suspect had run off, showing a clear pair of heels."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "7483",
    "Idiom": [
      "show a leg"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To wake up and get out of bed.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Show a leg or you’re going to be late."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "7484",
    "Idiom": [
      "show ankle"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To hint or reveal partial information to gain attention.",
    "Sentence": [
      "\"He figures that to do so, he'll have to be able to show a little ankle, to give some idea of new positions the United States is prepared to take.\"",
      "No one expects Cuomo to declare his candidacy tonight But Carduff said \"we expect him to show some ankle \".",
      "Microsoft showed some ankle and then some with advanced tools, database and server features in the latest builds of SQL Server 2005, Visual Studio 2005 and BizTalk Server 2006.",
      "Now, it seems, the shadow chancellor, George Osborne, is ready to show a little ankle by welcoming a proposal from Lord Forsyth's tax commission to abolish stamp duty on shares.",
      "Sneijder showed some ankle last week with a veiled ‘come and get me’ plea that was promptly rebuffed by David Gill stating that the deal probably won’t go ahead now."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "7485",
    "Idiom": [
      "show colour"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To show anger.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Do not show colour to me!"
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "7486-1",
    "Idiom": [
      "show off"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To exhibit the best attributes.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Grocery stores show off their produce by placing the most attractive specimens in front."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "7486-2",
    "Idiom": [
      "show off"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To attract attention by bragging or demonstrating abilities.",
    "Sentence": [
      "If you've just acquired a Google Glass headset for £1,000, don't show it off at the movies. UK cinemas are to ban the headsets over fears that the gadgets can be used to make pirate copies of Hollywood blockbusters.",
      "She told the press that the group had been for an evening out and that the driver has been showing off by driving fast.",
      "She loves to show off her driving prowess.",
      "She loves to show off when she gets behind the wheel of a car."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "7487",
    "Idiom": [
      "show one's butt"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To misbehave or act defiantly.",
    "Sentence": [
      "They've been showing their butts (misbehaving), and so you know they haven't been out.",
      "As of tonight those Federal goons in there showing their butts aren't law enforcement officers any more. They're the criminals now.",
      "Granddaddy Jaybird always did something to, as Dad said when he thought I wasn't listening, “ show his butt,” and today would be no exception.",
      "Las' night he tried ta show his butt by standin' up ta his ole man. I don't reckon he'll try that again anytime soon.",
      "He really showed his butt when he screeched in anger and frustration at finding it empty. He proceeded to rip the hell out of the bamboo, pulling it out of the ground with his beak and talons.",
      "He caused us to be late getting on the road because he was playing the “poor, pitiful, no-one understands me” card. It was around this time I learned a new expression from his family. He was showing his butt."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "7488",
    "Idiom": [
      "show one's cards"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To reveal previously concealed plans or intentions.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "7489",
    "Idiom": [
      "show one's true colors"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To reveal one's true character.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "7490",
    "Idiom": [
      "show one's true stripes"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To reveal one's true character or beliefs through behavior.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Fidel Castro showed his true stripes again—as if they weren't indelible enough already—by letting his MiGs shoot down two of three unarmed Cuban-exile planes off Havana's coast on Saturday.",
      "“Now they're showing their true stripes,” Iimmy Fioretos said. “The Turks wanted to invade all along. That malarkey about ‘protecting the Constitution’ was just a pretext.”",
      "\"My fear is that Bill Ford is showing his true stripes as just another short-sighted auto executive with no interest in the environment.\""
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "7491",
    "Idiom": [
      "show someone a good time"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To engage in enjoyable activities with someone.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "7492",
    "Idiom": [
      "show someone a thing or two"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Intends to impress others.",
    "Sentence": [
      "\"You want a subject for an article; come with me and I will show you a thing or two.\"",
      "\"I'll show those smart Western Districts cow-cockies a thing or two,\" the new landowner promised."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "7493",
    "Idiom": [
      "show someone one's etchings"
    ],
    "Meaning": "A clichéd innuendo for inviting someone to a private location for sex.",
    "Sentence": [
      "“Never wanted to show off my etchings before. I only show my etchings to redheads,” he said with a grin. ”Now that you've come, I can't wait to show them to you. ”",
      "Let me show you my etchings."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "7494-1",
    "Idiom": [
      "show someone the door"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To expel someone from a place.",
    "Sentence": [
      "\"No man shall laugh at me now that I'm down. Show him the door, Dig.\""
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "7494-2",
    "Idiom": [
      "show someone the door"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To dismiss or reject someone.",
    "Sentence": [
      "The medical profession, by its drift toward specialization, is handing the family doctor his hat and showing him the door.",
      "In Maryland, Rep. Connie Morella, a skillful, conscientious politician, was ousted.... The always-charming Morella... provided great constituent service.... Still, voters showed her the door."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "7495-1",
    "Idiom": [
      "show the flag"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To identify oneself by displaying a flag, often to establish authority or influence.",
    "Sentence": [
      "A few suggestions are given... maintaining an effective naval squadron to show the flag and protect American interests.",
      "On a routine cruise to \" show the flag,\" the British warships Amphion and Contest steamed into the harbor of Santa Ana Island in the southern Solomons (which are under a British protectorate).",
      "Cruisers perform routine independent \" show the flag \" patrols in settled systems and lead flotillas of frigates in small engagements, such as pirate suppression campaigns."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "7495-2",
    "Idiom": [
      "show the flag"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To represent one's country or group to convey authority or importance.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Henry Kissinger stopped off in Kabul to show the flag for a few hours in 1974.",
      "The Bush–Cheney re-election campaign will send a high-profile team of surrogates to both Iowa and New Hampshire in the coming days to train and motivate Republican activists and to \" show the flag \" in states in which the Democratic presidential race has dominated political debate."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "7496",
    "Idiom": [
      "show up"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To expose faults by outperforming someone.",
    "Sentence": [
      "His team were not outclassed but, once again, England have reminded us of their habit of being shown up as soon as they face half-decent opposition and one or two authentic category-A footballers.",
      "I finished in five minutes and she showed me up by finishing in three."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "7497-1",
    "Idiom": [
      "show who's boss"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To demonstrate dominance.",
    "Sentence": [
      "When children are young, spanking is a familiar device to show who's boss.",
      "Israeli soldiers... impose the curfews as collective punishment or as a means to head off violent protest, or simply to show who's boss.",
      "So tomorrow a patriotic Russian hacker might just start breaking into private email servers of American companies and releasing their contents, just to show who’s boss."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "7497-2",
    "Idiom": [
      "show who's boss"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To demonstrate dominance or control.",
    "Sentence": [
      "\"Bimeby I show yoh who's boss. I make yoh cry for Ramon be good to yoh!\"",
      "A typewriter once put me in such evil temper that I threw it out a second-floor window.... Replacing it cost $100 or so—a small price to pay for the pleasure of showing a machine who's boss.",
      "He decided to show Gates who's boss the only way he knew how—by whipping out his handcuffs and abusing his power to arrest."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "7498",
    "Idiom": [
      "show, don't tell"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Advice to writers: convey impression through narrative description, not explicit statements.",
    "Sentence": [
      "The second flaw is a flagrant violation of “ show, don't tell.” Don't tell readers that she's sad and he's mad. Show the reader what they do. Worst of all, don't do both!",
      "In “Steve Jobs,” Oscar-winning writer Aaron Sorkin “Sorkins” the hell out of an unconventional adaptation of Walter Isaacson’s best-selling biography by daring to break the cardinal rule of show don’t tell."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "7499",
    "Idiom": [
      "shower down"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To fall in large quantities.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Driving 2-6-2 locomotive No. 4771 Green Arrow, Blunt suddenly noticed that the tunnel mouth was silhouetted in a dazzling white glare and that incendiary bombs were showering down in their hundreds, he slammed on all his brakes and brought his train to a stop just inside the tunnel."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "7500",
    "Idiom": [
      "shrinking violet"
    ],
    "Meaning": "A very shy or timid person.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Little Johnny Jones, he was a US pilot / And no shrinking violet was he / He was mighty proud when World War III was declared / He wasn't scared, no siree!",
      "June, no shrinking violet she, crossed the room and introduced herself to the newcomers."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "7501",
    "Idiom": [
      "shuffle off this mortal coil"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To die.",
    "Sentence": [
      "But when you and I shuffle off this mortal coil, formal remembrances won’t be the only way we are remembered.",
      "Handsome, with a Freud-like beard and piercing eyes, it was also said that he had perfected the death stare. Whenever he required the skeleton of some exotic beast to compare with his fossil bones, he would visit Basel Zoo and stare at the appropriate animal, which would soon thereafter shuffle off its mortal coil."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "7502",
    "Idiom": [
      "shut my mouth"
    ],
    "Meaning": "An exclamation of surprise.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "7503",
    "Idiom": [
      "shut one's eyes"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To ignore or overlook.",
    "Sentence": [
      "She was pretty, so he shut his eyes to all her faults."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "7504",
    "Idiom": [
      "shut one's face"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To stop talking.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Why don’t you just shut your face ? I’m tired of listening to you."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "7505",
    "Idiom": [
      "shut one's gob"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To stop talking.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Why don't you just shut your gob ? I'm tired of listening to you."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "7506",
    "Idiom": [
      "shut one's mouth"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To stop talking.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Why don’t you just shut your mouth ? I’m tired of listening to you."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "7507",
    "Idiom": [
      "shut one's trap"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To stop talking.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Why don't you just shut your trap ? I'm tired of listening to you."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "7508",
    "Idiom": [
      "shy bairns get nowt",
      "shy bairns get noot"
    ],
    "Meaning": "If you're too shy to ask, you won't get what you want.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Aye, Mary, we heard you. How could we not? Ah well, shy bairns get nowt. Will we let her at the microphone and give me a bit peace?",
      "Ask questions, enquire, and push for more information and care. As the saying goes in the north-east, ‘ shy bairns get nowt ’! Know your rights and what you are entitled to by pushing and not taking no for an answer.",
      "An old Geordie saying says: ‘ Shy bairns get nowt !’ It literally means ‘shy children get nothing’, but is used to emphasise that people should speak up for themselves. I think that this saying applies to leaders.",
      "A' forgot te ask 'er fo' me money back! Wye, shy bairns get nowt."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "7509",
    "Idiom": [
      "shy bladder"
    ],
    "Meaning": "An inability to urinate in public.",
    "Sentence": [
      "\"I didn't refuse [to provide a urine sample]. I literally can't do it because I have a shy bladder.\" Dilbert, 7 June 2006."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "7510-1",
    "Idiom": [
      "sick and tired"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Bored to the point of weariness.",
    "Sentence": [
      "The boy was sick and tired of doing his lengthy homework assignment."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "7510-2",
    "Idiom": [
      "sick and tired"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Frustrated or annoyed to the breaking point.",
    "Sentence": [
      "She was sick and tired of her daughter pestering her to help her with her homework."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "7511",
    "Idiom": [
      "sick as a parrot"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Very disappointed.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Bridge was over the moon and Terry sick as a parrot as the game ended 4-2 following a late Chelsea penalty.",
      "Team manager Tony Jackson said: “I’m as sick as a parrot as I’ve ever been. There’s no doubt we should have won this one if it hadn’t been for the riders we have who suffered knocks.”"
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "7512",
    "Idiom": [
      "sick at heart"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Despairing or distressed.",
    "Sentence": [
      "I became sick at heart. My countenance was painted with the hues of ill health and vexation.",
      "Sick at heart, wearied out by the falsehood of his sons, and almost ready to lie down and die, the unhappy King who had so long stood firm, began to fail.",
      "Sick at heart and oppressed with his feeling of loneliness and impotence, he could only look at her in speechless misery.",
      "So we weep for two or three years more, very quietly, and then one day, too sick at heart, we die, with no fuss, leaving as little trace on earth as a bird's flight across the sky.",
      "\"As we all know, the war in Iraq has not gone well ,\" said McCain, an Arizona Republican. \"I understand that, of course. I, too, have been made sick at heart by the many mistakes made by civilian and military commanders and the terrible price we have paid for them.\""
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "7513",
    "Idiom": [
      "sick list"
    ],
    "Meaning": "A list of people who are ill.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "7514",
    "Idiom": [
      "sick man"
    ],
    "Meaning": "A weak member of a group.",
    "Sentence": [
      "The former openly likens Cuba to Turkey, saying that the island is the \" sick man \" of the West;",
      "The House of Lords has now come to be pretty generally looked upon as the \" Sick Man \" of the English Constitution.",
      "He told how in an economic sense we were one of the Sick Men of the World our industry dilapidated rundown and was not being renewed",
      "For Asia as a whole, that target was just about achieved, even when including India and Indonesia, often regarded as the \" sick men \" of the continent."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "7515",
    "Idiom": [
      "sick puppy"
    ],
    "Meaning": "A mentally disturbed person.",
    "Sentence": [
      "If these reports are true, this God is one sick puppy, and dangerous. He solves all his ultimate impasses with ultimate violence."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "7516",
    "Idiom": [
      "sick to the back teeth"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Extremely annoyed or fed up.",
    "Sentence": [
      "\"Passengers are sick to their back teeth of paying for boardroom largesse and eye-watering fares.\""
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "7517",
    "Idiom": [
      "side issue"
    ],
    "Meaning": "An issue not directly significant to the main concern.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "7518",
    "Idiom": [
      "sift out"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To isolate or identify a specific thing from a larger collection.",
    "Sentence": [
      "So in the waning days of the 20th Century, concert programmers and ticket-buyers alike have become informed and careful about what to sell and what to buy; to sift out the good new music from the not-so-good.",
      "Besides, a little judicious eavesdropping might sift out a useful nugget or two.",
      "The unfolding narrative often exposes a disciple's uneven progress, striving to sift out authentic guides from their counterfeits."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "7519",
    "Idiom": [
      "sift through"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To carefully search through objects or information to find something.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "7520",
    "Idiom": [
      "sigh of relief"
    ],
    "Meaning": "A feeling of reassurance after relief from stress or difficulty.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Boyd was put in charge of SWAT three years later. Indeed, the force of the elite SWAT Team was a big sigh of relief for the other police offices on the ground. However, for the bank robbers, it was not."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "7521",
    "Idiom": [
      "sight for sore eyes"
    ],
    "Meaning": "A pleasing sight, especially after a long absence.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Janet (Marva Alexander): You're joking me. Yas! Tanice, look who's here! Tanice (Llewella Gideon): You are a sight for sore eyes.",
      "After seventeen days of rain and floods, the 4 am sunrise was a sight for sore eyes."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "7522",
    "Idiom": [
      "sight to behold"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Something amazing or spectacular.",
    "Sentence": [
      "A bowler in full stride off a long run-up is a sight to behold, but shorter may prove better for the tall England seamer",
      "For Ann and her officers were indeed a sight to behold. Her Majesty's clothing, once so rich and gorgeous, was now worn and torn into shreds by her long crawl through the tunnel, which, by the way, had led her directly into the Metal Forest."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "7523",
    "Idiom": [
      "sight unseen"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Not having seen beforehand.",
    "Sentence": [
      "When she wrote, asking me to take charge of her house while she went to Europe, I gladly consented, sight unseen.",
      "More than $300 million worth of condominiums were sold in the new Time Warner complex sight unseen while the building was still under construction."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "7524",
    "Idiom": [
      "sign in"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To indicate one's arrival.",
    "Sentence": [
      "In order to get into the office after hours, you'll have to sign in at the security desk."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "7525",
    "Idiom": [
      "sign of the times"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Symbolic of an era.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Advertisements of health foods now occupy spaces formerly monopolized by quack medicines, a most healthful sign of the times.",
      "We [the black players]’d get off the coach at away matches and the National Front would be right there in your face. In those days, we didn’t have security and we’d have to run the gauntlet. We’d get to the players’ entrance and there’d be spit on my jacket or Cyrille’s shirt. It was a sign of the times."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "7526",
    "Idiom": [
      "sign off"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To log off or stop communication.",
    "Sentence": [
      "He finished the conversation and signed off."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "7527",
    "Idiom": [
      "sign on"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To log on or start using a device.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Edward ran a pale hand through his perfect golden-bronze hair, then signed on to 4chan.org, the darkest place on the Internet, where all his vampire compatriots spent their time."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "7528",
    "Idiom": [
      "sign on the dotted line"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To formalize an agreement.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Staff could sign new contracts... or they could leave. Eventually one person left and 350 guards signed on the dotted line.",
      "I think they've basically decided to go through with it, but they still have to sign on the dotted line."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "7529",
    "Idiom": [
      "silence is consent"
    ],
    "Meaning": "A lack of response indicates approval.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "7530-2",
    "Idiom": [
      "silence is golden"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Often the best choice is to say nothing.",
    "Sentence": [
      "But I have spoken long enough. There are times when silence is golden, and one of those times is at hand.",
      "I shouldn't lower myself to respond to the personal attacks on me, but silence, as the current scandal plaguing the federal administration shows, is n't golden."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "7531-1",
    "Idiom": [
      "silent as the grave"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Saying absolutely nothing.",
    "Sentence": [
      "“Livesey,” returned the squire, “you are always in the right of it. I’ll be as silent as the grave.”",
      "“Well, then, if you’re bound to go, I’ll tell you the way to do when you get to the village. Shut the door and blindfold the doctor tight and fast, and make him swear to be silent as the grave, and put a purse full of gold in his hand,",
      "The investigation is ongoing, but all the suspects have been silent as the grave so far."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "7531-2",
    "Idiom": [
      "silent as the grave"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Deathly still and silent.",
    "Sentence": [
      "The abandoned village is silent as the grave."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "7532",
    "Idiom": [
      "silent killer"
    ],
    "Meaning": "A disease without noticeable symptoms.",
    "Sentence": [
      "For many people, diabetes is a silent killer."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "7533",
    "Idiom": [
      "silky smooth"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Extremely smooth.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "7534",
    "Idiom": [
      "silly me"
    ],
    "Meaning": "An expression of mild self-deprecation or acknowledgment of a mistake.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Oh, silly me ! I forgot to buy the apples!",
      "Silly me, I thought it was Saturday today!"
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "7535",
    "Idiom": [
      "silly money"
    ],
    "Meaning": "A ridiculously large or small sum of money.",
    "Sentence": [
      "With collectors prepared to pay silly money for limited edition cars, Aston Martin commissioned Zagato to build a new body on the Vantage chassis.",
      "Representatives of both the Employers and Contractors thought that the potential to make ‘silly money' was not within the ECC.",
      "12p is a small price to pay to save on inconvenience and get a shot at someone paying silly money for your item.",
      "Standard prices range from about 180€ - 500€ per night (unless you're looking to spend really silly money).",
      "Buying a house in central London will set you back close to a million quid, these days – it's just silly money."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "7536-1",
    "Idiom": [
      "silly season"
    ],
    "Meaning": "A period of light-hearted or bizarre news reporting, often in summer.",
    "Sentence": [
      "\"Constant readers\" of the Times must have been often amused by watching the change which yearly comes over the great journal during the months of autumn. When Parliament is no longer sitting and the gay world is no longer gathered together in London, something very different is supposed to do for the remnant of the public from what is needed in the politer portions of the year. In the dead of autumn, when the second and third rate hands are on, we sink from nonsense written with a purpose to nonsense written because the writer must write either nonsense or nothing. We have, however, observed this year very strong symptoms of the Silly Season of 1861 setting in a month or two before its time.",
      "The amount of space at the disposal of newspapers, and the want of something to talk about and write about, produced that mild autumnal effect known as the silly season, which sets in when there is a lull in politics, and a dearth of news.",
      "The Sasquatch has long since become the clown who is the life of the party, whom nobody ever takes seriously; the godsend of newspaper cartoonists in the silly season when politicians are on vacation.",
      "The Brits call it the \" silly season.\" In Germany the media call it the Sommerloch, literally \"the summer hole.\" What they are referring to is the fact that when politicians and businesspeople close up shop and go away for the major European summer holidays, the number of serious news stories tends to diminish—meaning desperate hacks need to find something else to fill the hole."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "7536-2",
    "Idiom": [
      "silly season"
    ],
    "Meaning": "A period of uncharacteristically frivolous or eccentric behavior.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Yes, Virginia, there is a presidential election in 1984—and it has begun: A former Vice President goes ice fishing and poses with a puny perch dangling from his line. A 68-year-old Senator dons athletic shorts and runs a 60-yd. dash in a San Francisco track meet. Such hijinks can mean only one thing: the quadrennial silly season has started again.",
      "Over time, the silly season in Catholic liturgy that peaked in the 1970s—\"clown\" masses (with the priest vested as Bozo or somesuch), free-for-all prayers that ignored the prescribed rite, dreadful pop music, inept \"liturgical dance,\" a general lack of decorum—began to recede."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "7536-3",
    "Idiom": [
      "silly season"
    ],
    "Meaning": "The offseason period for roster and staff changes.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "7537",
    "Idiom": [
      "silver screen"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Refers to movies or cinema.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Stars of the stage and the silver screen gathered for the awards ceremony."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "7538",
    "Idiom": [
      "silver sheet"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Refers to the film industry or cinema.",
    "Sentence": [
      "I began writing for the screen, which hadn't as yet been christened the \" silver sheet,\" while employed on the Dramatic Mirror in New York City",
      "On the screen Virginia Valli impresses one as mature, womanly, and reserved; off the silver sheet there is an elfin charm about her...",
      "After years in local theatre productions, he made his debut on the silver sheet and became known around the world."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "7539",
    "Idiom": [
      "silver spoon"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Wealth inherited.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Some folks are born silver spoon in hand / Lord, don't they help themselves, yeah",
      "He was born with a silver spoon and an upturned nose. He didn't lose the latter when he squandered the former."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "7540",
    "Idiom": [
      "silver tongue"
    ],
    "Meaning": "The trait of being articulate and persuasive, often deceitfully.",
    "Sentence": [
      "He passed into the saloon, where Nina presided; and here his fair person and silver tongue won him a more general favour with the matrons than he experienced with their lords, and not a little contrasted the formal and nervous compliments of the good Bishop, who served him on such occasions with an excellent foil."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "7541",
    "Idiom": [
      "silver-lined"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Having a positive aspect in a negative situation.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Thanks to Aubameyang’s 28th and 29th goals of the season, they have Europa League qualification and a silver-lined finish to a difficult campaign."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "7542",
    "Idiom": [
      "silver-tongued"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Articulate and charming in speech.",
    "Sentence": [
      "The statesman, whose inward feelings had at first so much impeded his efforts to make himself known, had now regained all the ease and fluency of a silver-tongued lawyer of the very highest order.",
      "Philips—Sergeant Gerheim's black, silver-tongued House Mouse—is telling everybody about the one thousand cherries he has busted.",
      "silver-tongued devil"
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "7543",
    "Idiom": [
      "simmer down"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To decrease in intensity of anger or excitement.",
    "Sentence": [
      "\"Silence! Now ye had better go slow, my good fellow. This is two or three times you've tried to get off some of your insolence. Lip won't do here. You've got to simmer down.\"",
      "The agitation, thus deprived of its chief hope, might very well have been expected to simmer down, to die away slowly.",
      "Although the street demonstrations have simmered down, protests have continued in other forms.",
      "You need to simmer down and stop yelling at me.",
      "It took a while for the heated debate to simmer down and for people to start listening to each other."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "7544",
    "Idiom": [
      "simple as kiss your hand"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Very easy.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "7545",
    "Idiom": [
      "sin tax"
    ],
    "Meaning": "A tax on goods or activities considered socially harmful.",
    "Sentence": [
      "He has suggested raising “ sin taxes ” on cigarettes, liquor and arcade games to pay for the 24-percent teacher pay raise he supports.",
      "Another form of consumption tax that some foresee is a “ sin tax ”, which would come in the form of higher excise taxes on alcohol and tobacco.",
      "The sin tax is an established tactic. In the early 1500s, Pope Leo X underwrote his lavish lifestyle in part by taxing licensed prostitutes."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "7546",
    "Idiom": [
      "sing along"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To sing with someone or to a performance.",
    "Sentence": [
      "If you know the song, sing along with me!"
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "7547",
    "Idiom": [
      "sing for one's supper"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To work for a reward.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "7548",
    "Idiom": [
      "sing from the same hymnbook",
      "sing off the same hymn sheet"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To express the same opinions publicly due to prior agreement.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Still, he mostly sang from the same hymnbook as the Bush Administration, saying fundamental fiscal trends are favorable."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "7549",
    "Idiom": [
      "sing small"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To assume a humble tone or keep quiet.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Then shoots through my enjoyment / The one sharp drop of gall: / The host—the cur, the heathen— / On 'Baccy singeth small.",
      "Deutschland sleeps: her star has waned. / France, the Thundress whilome, now / Singeth small, with bated breath."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "7550",
    "Idiom": [
      "sing soprano"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To suffer castration or injury to the testicles.",
    "Sentence": [
      "A couple of women lawyers... drew a sharp, gleaming knife and applied it mentally to a target just south of the groom's waistline. If he doesn't like it, let the bastard go sing soprano to the A.C.L.U. Such was the ladies' thought."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "7551",
    "Idiom": [
      "sing the praises of"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To commend someone's attributes.",
    "Sentence": [
      "She is only coming to gloat over my bedraggled and flowerless borders and to sing the praises of her own detestably over-cultivated garden. I’m sick of being told that it’s the envy of the neighbourhood; it’s like everything else that belongs to her—her car, her dinner-parties, even her headaches, they are all superlative; no one else ever had anything like them."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "7552",
    "Idiom": [
      "sing the same tune"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To be in agreement.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "7553",
    "Idiom": [
      "singe one's wings"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To sustain harm or loss from risky behavior.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "7554",
    "Idiom": [
      "singing soprano"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Castrated or injured in the testicles.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Loren Stokes, the fluid scorer from Hofstra, limped out singing soprano after a flagrant cheap-shot punch to the groin by George Mason guard Tony Skinn.",
      "Judah threw brilliant counters that temporarily stunned the undefeated welterweight titlist, endured two flagrant but apparently unintentional low punches that would've left many permanently singing soprano."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "7555",
    "Idiom": [
      "single-minded"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Focused on a single goal or purpose.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "7556",
    "Idiom": [
      "sink in"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To be fully understood or realized.",
    "Sentence": [
      "He knows he's been naughty, but it will take a while for it to sink in.",
      "The gravity of what I had done hadn't sunken in yet."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "7557",
    "Idiom": [
      "sinking ship"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Something that is doomed.",
    "Sentence": [
      "He said that Bella had been perfectly right to leave him, because he was a sinking ship, and deserved to be turned out penniless into the world.",
      "you can play around with girls without being involved in meshes of sentiment, and you can do anything and be justified—and here am I with the brains to do everything, yet tied to the sinking ship of future matrimony.",
      "My word, won't it be funny when there's no Tevershall pit working. And now the men say it's a sinking ship, and it's time they all got out.",
      "The only future for Syria is without the Assad political dynasty. The government is a sinking ship."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "7558",
    "Idiom": [
      "siren song"
    ],
    "Meaning": "An enticing but dangerous appeal.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Romance never sang to him her siren song, and Adventure had never shouted in his sluggish blood.",
      "Said World Bank president Robert Zoellick: \"Leaders must not heed the siren song of protectionist fixes. Economic isolationism can lead to a negative spiral of events.\"",
      "They found Xinyi Du at the apex of the DUAL Core, a massive quantum computer which plunged away below them where a series of catwalks and maintenance accesses buzzed with drones and shone with dozens of blinking indicators. It was spinning; Wettle had never understood what practical reason a computer might have to spin, but perhaps it wasn't practical at all. Most of the Foundation's best scientists succumbed to some extent to the siren song of the rule of cool."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "7559",
    "Idiom": [
      "sisters before misters"
    ],
    "Meaning": "A woman should prioritize her female friends over men.",
    "Sentence": [
      "When Sophie was a teenager, she and her friends had a \" sisters before misters \" pact, meaning they'd never date each other's exes and they'd never let a guy come between their friendship."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "7560",
    "Idiom": [
      "sit back"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To relax.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Predictably in the second half it was the Potters, who went searching for goals as Fulham sat back to defend their lead."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "7561",
    "Idiom": [
      "sit in"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To attend an event as a visitor.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "7562",
    "Idiom": [
      "sit in for"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To substitute.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Can you sit in for him while he's gone?"
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "7563",
    "Idiom": [
      "sit in with"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To join a group working on a task.",
    "Sentence": [
      "I'll have to sit in with the interviews for the deputy manager position.",
      "She sat in with one of his group counseling session."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "7564-1",
    "Idiom": [
      "sit on"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To block or suppress.",
    "Sentence": [
      "The chairman sat on the report until the end of the legislative session."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "7564-2",
    "Idiom": [
      "sit on"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To restrain someone.",
    "Sentence": [
      "He started to act up, but she sat on him."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "7564-3",
    "Idiom": [
      "sit on"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To take no action on something.",
    "Sentence": [
      "I sent the boss my proposal three weeks ago and he's just been sitting on it."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "7565",
    "Idiom": [
      "sit on a tack"
    ],
    "Meaning": "An expression of contempt or dismissiveness.",
    "Sentence": [
      "\"From now on, so far as I'm concerned, you can sit on a tack !\"",
      "And if the Devil doesn't like it, he can sit on a tack!",
      "\"You can sit on a tack!\" He wanted to say it bad.",
      "\"You can sit on a tack,\" Harry fired back, then laughed, and Susan laughed with her.",
      "I don't care what he thinks! He can just sit on a tack !",
      "\"Go sit on a tack !\" she said, angrily."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "7566",
    "Idiom": [
      "sit on one's ass"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To be very lazy and idle when action is needed.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "7567",
    "Idiom": [
      "sit on one's hands"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To remain idle when action is needed.",
    "Sentence": [
      "\"Ministers cannot continue to sit on their hands, hoping this dispute will go away. Our members are fully prepared to fight tooth-and-nail for a negotiated settlement,\" RMT General Secretary Mick Lynch has warned."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "7568",
    "Idiom": [
      "sit on the fence"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To remain neutral on a topic.",
    "Sentence": [
      "and Bloomah will sometimes sit on the fence, concerning whose discretion, the same thing may be said...",
      "The curate refused to label himself; so the squire growled, \"Oh, you sit on the fence, do you?\"",
      "Elijah stepped forward and said to the people, \"How long will you sit on the fence ? If the LORD is God, follow him; but if Baal, then follow him.\"",
      "We won’t win if we sit on the fence about the most crucial issue that has faced our country for a generation."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "7569",
    "Idiom": [
      "sit one's ass down"
    ],
    "Meaning": "A vulgar command to take a seat.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Take those silly glasses off and sit your ass down."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "7570",
    "Idiom": [
      "sit right"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To suit one's constitution without causing discomfort.",
    "Sentence": [
      "She's in the bathroom ― I guess the food was not sitting right."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "7571",
    "Idiom": [
      "sit still"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To accept or tolerate.",
    "Sentence": [
      "I'm not going to sit still and let him treat me this way."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "7572",
    "Idiom": [
      "sit through"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To stay seated until the end of an event, often unwillingly.",
    "Sentence": [
      "We had to sit through a 2-hour awards ceremony before the food arrived."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "7573",
    "Idiom": [
      "sit tight"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To wait patiently.",
    "Sentence": [
      "I'll be back in a few minutes, so sit tight while I go find her."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "7574-1",
    "Idiom": [
      "sit with"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To reflect or consider carefully.",
    "Sentence": [
      "The first step to managing anger is to acknowledge it. Sit with it. Treat yourself like a child that is a little emotional. It’s OK to feel that emotion – it’s not the emotion that destroys us or makes us, it’s what we do with it.",
      "After what felt like 20 instances, Polley recalls, “I kind of snapped” at Logan Airport in Boston. “I just went, ‘If I told you there was a movie called 12 Angry Men, would you go and see it?’ And he was like, ‘Maybe.’ I said, ‘Well, I just want you to sit with that.’ ”",
      "the suspected phone thrower, Nicolas Malvagna, allegedly had this to say for himself: “I was trying to see if I could hit her with the phone at the end of the show because it would be funny.” According to the Manhattan district attorney’s office, per the Daily News, this is what Malvagna told a witness who spoke to police. I’m gonna let us all just sit with that for a sec."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "7574-2",
    "Idiom": [
      "sit with"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To be harmonious with something.",
    "Sentence": [
      "I'm afraid his personality doesn't sit with the rest of the team."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "7575",
    "Idiom": [
      "sitting duck"
    ],
    "Meaning": "An obvious, vulnerable target.",
    "Sentence": [
      "[Now that the last gay bathhouse has closed] the AIDS Action Committee will no longer have all of those sitting ducks to reach with education",
      "Joker: We're sitting ducks out here. I have to try to lose them in the debris field!",
      "The soldiers were sitting ducks, sent forth by Russian commanders to act essentially as human cannon fodder in an assault.",
      "For God's sake, Sergeant, we need to get to cover – we're sitting ducks out here."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "7576-1",
    "Idiom": [
      "sitting pretty"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Having a comfortable supply of resources.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Part of that memorandum of Mr. Hanshue's refers to directors sitting pretty in thinking they were all set for certain benefits.",
      "Lauren Hutton, 28, was sitting pretty. The omnipresent model had just signed a two-year, $200,000 contract.",
      "I asked her if she realized Michael could be killed in Iraq and she had laughed and said it wouldn't matter as long as she had the baby she would be sitting pretty with his death benefits.",
      "Calvin Klein is reportedly sitting pretty in another of McClean's dazzling $25 million Hollywood Hills creations.",
      "Either way, the multi-hyphenate signed a 8-figure deal with Netflix in 2021 (per Variety) so he's sitting pretty either way!"
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "7576-2",
    "Idiom": [
      "sitting pretty"
    ],
    "Meaning": "In a favorable situation or having an advantage.",
    "Sentence": [
      "\"I was sitting pretty all the time, Derry.\" Al had laughed at the self-accusation in her eyes. \"You can tell them all from me—I was sitting on the world.\"",
      "That's not a threat, sir, for they have played fair with me, and I sha'n't sacrifice a penny of their money—unless they force me to do so. But—I'm in control. I'm sitting pretty. They can't unseat me, and I warn them not to try.",
      "We were both sitting pretty back then, back in the 20th Century."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "7577",
    "Idiom": [
      "six and two threes"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Two equivalent choices.",
    "Sentence": [
      "They would fob us off with that and once more make it six and two threes.",
      "I said, \"Well, it's six and two threes. I get three pound off you here, and I have to work all week for £5 and I get me stamps off, whatever.",
      "I'll leave it up to you whether you wish to include it; in other words, it's six and two threes."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "7578",
    "Idiom": [
      "six feet under"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Not alive; dead.",
    "Sentence": [
      "My grandparents are six feet under."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "7579-1",
    "Idiom": [
      "six of one, half a dozen of the other"
    ],
    "Meaning": "The two alternatives are equivalent; it doesn't matter which one we choose.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "7579-2",
    "Idiom": [
      "six of one, half a dozen of the other"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Equally involved or responsible.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "7580",
    "Idiom": [
      "six of the best"
    ],
    "Meaning": "A traditional school punishment involving six strokes with a cane.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "7581",
    "Idiom": [
      "six ways to Sunday"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Thoroughly and completely.",
    "Sentence": [
      "He will fry me six ways to Sunday for sending daughters and young mothers off to war—and, quite possibly, for bringing them back in body bags.",
      "If she chips so much as one of my porcelain piggies, I'll sue her six ways to Sunday !",
      "I'm not lying, Sally. I had Jeannine Lock six ways to Sunday all over this White House. And after some soul searching on all of our parts I think my constituents are going to forgive me for it"
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "7582",
    "Idiom": [
      "six-pack of rolls"
    ],
    "Meaning": "A fat belly.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "7583",
    "Idiom": [
      "sixth-rate"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Terrible or awful.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "7584",
    "Idiom": [
      "size queen"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Someone who prefers partners with large penises.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Our Size Queen took a second glance—And almost flipped a gasket. This fellow simply was too much: He showed a lovely basket."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "7585",
    "Idiom": [
      "size up"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To evaluate or estimate something.",
    "Sentence": [
      "She approaches like she’s sizing them up. Five boys. Unarmed. A pile of swords over there. Ed Sheeran is there, but that’s not even the surprise.",
      "We had to size up our fellow legislators.",
      "It's a good idea for boxers to size up their opponents before their matches.",
      "Before we can begin to size up the problem, we'll need more information."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "7586-1",
    "Idiom": [
      "skate around"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To avoid addressing an issue directly.",
    "Sentence": [
      "She'd skated around the social circle for years."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "7586-2",
    "Idiom": [
      "skate around"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To avoid a problem.",
    "Sentence": [
      "He skated around the police during his time as a drug dealer."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "7587",
    "Idiom": [
      "skate on thin ice"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To be in a risky or dangerous situation.",
    "Sentence": [
      "If I concur to that I will be skating on thin ice."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "7588",
    "Idiom": [
      "skate one's lane"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To mind one's own business.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Well, yes, but they're also human beings, fathers, sons, brothers, cousins, uncles and friends. Role players have to skate their lanes off the ice, too.",
      "Failing to do so could spell disaster. After all, if skin care for tweens is truly a good business idea, it wouldn’t take long for one or two of the big players that have been watching from the sidelines to tap those customers that Christy is slow to reach, and eventually push her out of the picture. She knows all this, of course, and for now is skating her lane.",
      "Pareene is right. \"Dangerous Donald\" is stupid and childish. You are not going to out-stupid and/or out-childish He, Trump. Nobody can do that, not even incredibly stupid children. Skate your lane, Clinton people. Yeesh."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "7589",
    "Idiom": [
      "skate over"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To avoid addressing.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "7590-1",
    "Idiom": [
      "skeleton at the feast"
    ],
    "Meaning": "One who brings gloom to a joyous occasion.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "7590-2",
    "Idiom": [
      "skeleton at the feast"
    ],
    "Meaning": "A reminder of death.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "7591",
    "Idiom": [
      "skeleton crew"
    ],
    "Meaning": "The minimum personnel needed to maintain basic operations during an emergency or shutdown.",
    "Sentence": [
      "The internet technology team — which is partly responsible for keeping the site functioning — became “a skeleton crew,” two people said."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "7592",
    "Idiom": [
      "skeleton in the closet"
    ],
    "Meaning": "A shameful secret.",
    "Sentence": [
      "\"Humph!\" she vouchsafed. Then, showing her old-time interest, she went on: \"But, say, it is queer, his speakin' to you, honestly, Miss Pollyanna. He don't speak ter no one; and he lives all alone in a great big lovely house all full of jest grand things, they say. Some says he's crazy, and some jest cross; and some says he's got a skeleton in his closet.\""
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "7593",
    "Idiom": [
      "skeleton in the cupboard"
    ],
    "Meaning": "A shameful secret.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "7594",
    "Idiom": [
      "ski-jump nose"
    ],
    "Meaning": "A long nose that curves upward.",
    "Sentence": [
      "The liberal Democratic image of Vice President Richard M. Nixon as a jowly, blue-jawed villain with a ski-jump nose has receded in the light of his growing stature.",
      "There's a feline swish to her figure.... The image does not go away as you take in her slow eyes, long, ski-jump nose and thin upper lip.",
      "In reference to his famous profile, dominated by his ski-jump nose, Mr. Hope once commented that after his birth, \"My mother thought the doctor had left the stork and taken the baby.\""
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "7595",
    "Idiom": [
      "skin and bones"
    ],
    "Meaning": "A person or animal that is very thin or emaciated.",
    "Sentence": [
      "\"Eh, good evening, sir,\" she said to me, as she drew herself up to make the best of her own inflated bulky appearance, \"come and sit down here and tell me how it fares with you; but, by my troth, you are nothing but skin and bones !\"",
      "Look at that starving dog; he's nothing more than skin and bones."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "7596",
    "Idiom": [
      "skin in the game"
    ],
    "Meaning": "A stake or risk, particularly in financial contexts.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Companies must obtain accountability across all business functions if they are to harvest the fruits of technology. \"Let everyone have skin in the game \", Rogow said.",
      "Says Bergsma: \"We were flooded with financial types who didn't have their own skin in the game \"",
      "[Ross] Perot has told people they can send $5 if they want to have \"some skin in the game \" but he does not actively solicit contributions and says he will finance his own campaign.",
      "Supposedly, ordinary depositors don't bother to check the soundness of their banks because they don't actually have skin in the game.",
      "At Wednesday’s Europa League final, more than half the tickets have gone to corporate guests and others with no skin in the game."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "7597",
    "Idiom": [
      "skip a beat"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To momentarily falter.",
    "Sentence": [
      "THE MEGHA HAD BEEN on the water for some three hours when Piya heard the engine skip a beat.",
      "Indeed, he did not skip a beat, stayed right with his training regimen, and flew out to Seattle on August 8."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "7598",
    "Idiom": [
      "skip out"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To avoid attending or leave early, often without permission.",
    "Sentence": [
      "He has a class on Thursday afternoons, but he skipped out this week."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "7599",
    "Idiom": [
      "skip rope"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To jump over a rope, often for exercise or play.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "7600",
    "Idiom": [
      "skirt chaser"
    ],
    "Meaning": "A man who seeks female companionship.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Heaven Can Wait (20th Century-Fox) is a lengthy but frequently funny life history of an old New York skirt chaser (Don Ameche) from his brownstone puberty to his overripe old age.",
      "That was the train the drunks and the sinners rode—the gambling men and the grifters, the big-time spenders, the skirt-chaser s, and all the jolly crew.",
      "He is an irrepressible flirt: a skirt chaser who claims to pursue three women at a time."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "7601",
    "Idiom": [
      "skittles party"
    ],
    "Meaning": "A party where participants take random pills.",
    "Sentence": [
      "\"I hosted an impromptu Skittles party with white tents all around, white linen tables filled with flowing fountains of liquor, and an assortment of colorful pills at your fingertips: Oxycodone, Ritalin, Tylenol with codeine, Adderall, and a list of others.\"",
      "I didn’t need her killin’ my vibe. I needed to relieve my stress and have my skittles party in peace. So…I slipped her a nice mix of somebody’s granny’s heart medicine, Xanax, and Sudafed in her nightly shot of scotch and rocked her to sleep. “It’s not that I make a habit out of playing Captain Save A Crackhead. But I figured I’d make an exception this time.” / I’m not a crackhead and you haven’t saved me, you cheap whore! This is an insult! You’ve torn up my life. Ruined my career. Called the police on my skittles party !"
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "7602",
    "Idiom": [
      "skunk at a garden party"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Someone who is unwelcome and avoided in a group.",
    "Sentence": [
      "\"You're making us all feel uncomfortable and uneasy. You're a skunk at a garden party, to put it bluntly.\"",
      "Mr. Rollins... is probably as well known for his big mouth as he is for his campaign savvy, a quality that has made him a favorite source for reporters and often cast him in the role of \"the skunk at a garden party \" in political circles.",
      "\"Her work on the abuses being committed by the Rwandan government today made her something of a skunk at a global garden party,\" said Carroll Bogert, associate director of Human Rights Watch.",
      "It’s no fun being the skunk at a garden party.... But even after a glass of pan-Canadian beer... it must be said: The annual meeting of premiers, now known formally as the Council of the Federation, is a roundtable of rebels without a common cause."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "7603",
    "Idiom": [
      "slam down"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To consume quickly.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "7604",
    "Idiom": [
      "slam dunk"
    ],
    "Meaning": "A task expected to be easy.",
    "Sentence": [
      "As long as you get the vice president's approval first, it'll be a slam dunk."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "7605",
    "Idiom": [
      "slam on the brakes"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To stop a vehicle suddenly by pressing hard on the brakes.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Driving 2-6-2 locomotive No. 4771 Green Arrow, Blunt suddenly noticed that the tunnel mouth was silhouetted in a dazzling white glare and that incendiary bombs were showering down in their hundreds, he slammed on all his brakes and brought his train to a stop just inside the tunnel."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "7606",
    "Idiom": [
      "slap and tickle"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Mild or playful affection.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "7607",
    "Idiom": [
      "slap leather"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To draw a handgun quickly from its holster.",
    "Sentence": [
      "The western... provides a ready armature for other dramas that have nothing to do with slapping leather, riding horseflesh or kissing purty gals.",
      "Murphy plays Tom Destry, the peace-loving son of a notorious gunslinger.... Though he prefers to talk rather than slap leather, Destry manages to keep the bad guys at bay.",
      "With.45s strapped to their sides, gunslingers—30 men, six women, even an 11-year-old kid—slogged through the mud in their cowboy boots to reach a dirt-caked boardwalk where, one after another, they slapped leather to see who would reign as Oklahoma’s fastest gun."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "7608",
    "Idiom": [
      "slap someone around"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To be brutal towards someone, especially physically.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "7609",
    "Idiom": [
      "slave to fashion"
    ],
    "Meaning": "A person overly concerned with fashion and appearance.",
    "Sentence": [
      "She was a girl of imposing appearance and winning manners. But this staggered him. If she were such a slave to fashion and observance, she was not the woman for his wife.",
      "The orders were simple: keep it plain, keep it proletarian. Apparently, Lenin was never a slave to fashion when he was alive, so officials thought he should not be one in death."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "7610",
    "Idiom": [
      "sleep a wink"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To sleep at all.",
    "Sentence": [
      "I'm so tired, I haven't slept a wink"
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "7611",
    "Idiom": [
      "sleep camel"
    ],
    "Meaning": "A person who sleeps little during the week and catches up on sleep over the weekend.",
    "Sentence": [
      "No wonder, then, that so many take their laptops to the beach or that ' sleep camels', as they call them in Silicon Valley, those who sleep only at weekends, are becoming more common.",
      "Silicon Valley has bred ' sleep camels', who store up sleep at the weekends then work long hours all week.",
      "Sheila told her that John said musicians were like sleep camels when it came to that. They could stay awake for days when they had to."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "7612",
    "Idiom": [
      "sleep funny"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Causes discomfort from sleeping in an awkward position.",
    "Sentence": [
      "My back hurts this morning; I must have slept funny."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "7613",
    "Idiom": [
      "sleep in"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To sleep late.",
    "Sentence": [
      "On a rainy Saturday, after a busy week at work, he closed the curtains and decided to sleep in."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "7614",
    "Idiom": [
      "sleep in heavenly peace"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To sleep very well and peacefully.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "7615",
    "Idiom": [
      "sleep off"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To recover from something by sleeping.",
    "Sentence": [
      "On the other hand, drugs with drowsiness as a side-effect (eg certain types of analgesia, antidepressants) are best administered in the evening so that patients can sleep off the effect and be alert the following day."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "7616-1",
    "Idiom": [
      "sleep on"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To postpone a decision.",
    "Sentence": [
      "I like the idea, but let me sleep on it before we go ahead.",
      "There's no chance to sleep on the matter. You have to decide now."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "7616-2",
    "Idiom": [
      "sleep on"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To underestimate or ignore something.",
    "Sentence": [
      "People are really sleeping on that restaurant down the street.",
      "I can't believe I slept on that movie for so long."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "7617",
    "Idiom": [
      "sleep rough"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To sleep outdoors, typically as a homeless person.",
    "Sentence": [
      "I will warrant they prove such roaring boys as I knew when I served under Lumford and Goring, — sleeping rough on the trenches, and dying stubbornly in their boats. Ah! those merry days are gone.",
      "I was quite taken out of myself and vowed a vow there to go to Rome on Pilgrimage and see all Europe which the Christian Faith has saved; and I said, \"I will start from the place where I served in arms for my sins; I will walk all the way and take advantage of no wheeled thing; I will sleep rough and cover thirty miles a day, and I will hear Mass every morning; and I will be present at High Mass in St. Peter's on the Feast of St Peter and St Paul.\"",
      "To be found sleeping in a public place is like being found without visible means of support—an indictable offence. Further, it is an indication of sin. \"He sleeps rough \"—therefore he is, doubtless, a thief, a drunkard, and a liar. There seems no reason why similar evidence should not be brought in a contrary sense to prove a man's worth.",
      "There is no evidence that anyone sleeps rough or drinks methanol in Oldham. A voluntary organisation, the Bayswater Housing Association, has recently opened a couple of terraced houses for \"the homeless\".",
      "He was nervy and restless, sick of waiting and sick of hiding. He had slept rough again the last two nights, once in Hyde Park and once under the arches at Charing Cross.",
      "I am glad to hear what the Government are doing to reduce the number of people sleeping rough. It is a disgrace that anyone sleeps rough. An average of 3 per cent. of local housing owned by Labour local authorities is unoccupied, and in Islington it is 6 per cent. Why cannot it be used by people who are sleeping rough ?",
      "I have written about Sostratus elsewhere, describing his bulk and enormous strength; how he lived in the open air on Parnassus, slept rough, ate what the mountain provided, and performed deeds which matched his name—killing robbers, and making roads through unbroken country and bridges over impassable places.",
      "Children ran and played by the roadside while others slept rough on the dirt. Hard skin on feet, blackened toes, tattered shorts, skin and bones.",
      "But there is perhaps no more visible manifestation of austerity than the disgraceful levels of homelessness we see in Britain today. Tents and mattresses lining the streets of towns and cities across the country, home to people forced to sleep rough, have become an increasingly common sight.",
      "They sleep rough nearby under duvets and sleeping bags, lying next to each other to keep warm."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "7618-1",
    "Idiom": [
      "sleep together"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To have sex.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "7618-2",
    "Idiom": [
      "sleep together"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To be intimate in the same bed.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "7619",
    "Idiom": [
      "sleep with"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To have sexual intercourse.",
    "Sentence": [
      "K.T. Oslin once made a living as a Broadway chorus girl, and when she turned to country in her mid-40s, it was to sing about such nonbucolic topics such as older women sleeping with younger men.",
      "Roy: You remember the woman from last night? She seemed lovely, right? Moss: She was a delight. Roy: Yeah. We get outside, there's a group of tramps, two of whom she knows by name. She starts screaming at them, \"You owe me money! You owe me money!\" She thinks that the tramps owe her money. Next thing I know, it all kicks off. I'm running for my life. It was a horrible evening, a really horrible evening, and she's a really horrible woman. Moss: Right. But you slept with her? Roy: Yeah."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "7620",
    "Idiom": [
      "sleep with the fishes"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To be dead, with the body disposed in water.",
    "Sentence": [
      "The porter opened his sack, and pitched the corpse into the river, and ran back to receive the rest of his pay “ It is done,” said he, laughing ; “ Your man sleeps with the fishes of the Tigris by this time ”"
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "7621",
    "Idiom": [
      "sleeping giant"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Someone or something with untapped potential.",
    "Sentence": [
      "There is a sleeping giant in education that is just beginning to awaken.",
      "I fear all we have done is to awaken a sleeping giant and fill him with a terrible resolve.",
      "The Council regards the Alliance as a sleeping giant. Less than 3% of humans volunteer to serve in their military, a lower proportion than any other species.",
      "Angered by a controversial Arizona immigration law, tens of thousands of protesters rallied in cities nationwide . \"I want to thank the governor of Arizona because she's awakened a sleeping giant,\" said labor organizer John Delgado, who attended a rally in New York where authorities estimated 6,500 gathered.",
      "Bruce Merrill, a professor emeritus at Arizona State University who has worked as an Arizona pollster for four decades, is skeptical that the Latino “ sleeping giant ” will wake anytime soon.",
      "Europe’s Sleeping Giant Awakens [title, referring to Germany]"
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "7622",
    "Idiom": [
      "sleeping policeman"
    ],
    "Meaning": "A speed bump.",
    "Sentence": [
      "We don't care much to figure out terms like \"brolly\" (umbrella) and \" sleeping policeman \" (speed bump)."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "7623",
    "Idiom": [
      "sleeves from one's vest"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Something non-existent or valueless.",
    "Sentence": [
      "\"when a prosecutor dismisses some of the charges in a multi-count indictment, he is giving the defendant the sleeves from his vest \"",
      "\"Mr. President,\" I said, \"We don't have anything to deploy so you are giving them the sleeves from your vest.",
      "Of someone stingy he would say, \"This guy wouldn't give you the sleeves from his vest.\""
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "7624",
    "Idiom": [
      "sleight of hand"
    ],
    "Meaning": "A form of skillful deception.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "7625",
    "Idiom": [
      "slender reed"
    ],
    "Meaning": "A limited or unreliable source of support.",
    "Sentence": [
      "\"It was perfectly natural for you to think that a lad of eighteen was a slender reed to lean on in the time of trouble and danger.\"",
      "\"It is a slender reed,\" Gilbert said, \"for so mighty an issue to rest upon.\"",
      "Yet these precedents offer no more than a slender reed for Gordon Brown, almost hopelessly down in the polls, to cling to.",
      "The nomination of a gay black Miami judge to the federal bench will not move forward after Senator Marco Rubio announced he was withdrawing his support over concerns about the judge’s actions in two criminal cases.... “That is a slender reed for Senator Rubio to hang this on,” said Representative Alcee Hastings, Democrat of Florida, referring to the two court cases."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "7626",
    "Idiom": [
      "sling along"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To hang around or loiter.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "7627",
    "Idiom": [
      "sling off"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To criticize or mock.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Don't you sling off at me anymore!"
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "7628",
    "Idiom": [
      "sling one's hook"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To leave or depart, often involuntarily.",
    "Sentence": [
      "‘I don’t want none of your apologies, and I don’t want none of you neither; I don’t like the looks of you, and so I tell you. Before I let anybody into my house you’ll have to sling your hook.’",
      "Placing his hand on the doorknob he could hear his father's indignant voice: \"If he's no job he can damn well sling his hook, he's not living under my roof free gratis, I want him out.\"",
      "Landlady: O'Brien? He don't live here any more. Not lived here for months. I made him sling his hook. Never paid his lodgings."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "7629",
    "Idiom": [
      "sling to"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To pay a bribe to a police officer.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "7630-1",
    "Idiom": [
      "slings and arrows"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Hardships or challenges.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Now that we're entering the thick of the holiday travel season and we've been groped, scanned, forced to eat a Cinnabon and otherwise made to suffer the slings and arrows of air travel – here’s something rarely offered of late: a positive story about airports.",
      "It seems inevitable that an elite institution in a democratic republic will suffer the slings and arrows of populist discontent. The wonder of it all may be that the institution of lifetime tenure has persisted for so long. Proponents of changing that rule may take satisfaction in humbling the justices ever so slightly, or believe that instituting term limits would forestall more radical change, such as expanding the size of the court.",
      "In every role, he mesmerizes audiences with a coiled intensity that he credits to military school, the slings and arrows of a volatile profession, and a lifelong commitment to mindfulness. \"My karmic journey is to be told what to do and accept that and do it the best I can,” he said. “I realize one of my strengths is to control the chaos.\""
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "7630-2",
    "Idiom": [
      "slings and arrows"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Harsh criticism or attacks.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Mrs. Dareville, without any motives of interest, or good nature of sufficient power to restrain her talent and habit of ridicule, free from hope or fear, gave full scope to all the malice of mockery, and all the insolence of fashion. Her slings and arrows, numerous as they were and outrageous, were directed against such petty objects, and the mischief was so quick, in its aim and its operation, that, felt but not seen, it is scarcely possible to register the hits, or to describe the nature of the wounds.",
      "In Massachusetts, the Kennedy family, unafraid of the slings and arrows from lesser breeds, proudly ran its youngest son through a convention gauntlet, and saw him emerge the victor.",
      "Exposed to a fellow employee's harassment, one can walk away or tell the offender to \"buzz off.\" A supervisor's slings and arrows, however, are not so easily avoided. An employee who confronts her harassing supervisor risks, for example, receiving an undesirable or unsafe work assignment or an unwanted transfer.",
      "[James Britt] Donovan could work in tremendous secrecy at a time when there was no social media. Today it'd be a lot harder to find a man that would stand up for his principles and suffer the slings and arrows of the haters on social media."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "7631",
    "Idiom": [
      "slip back to old ways"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To return to past bad habits.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "7632",
    "Idiom": [
      "slip into"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To quickly put on clothes.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "7633",
    "Idiom": [
      "slip of the pen"
    ],
    "Meaning": "A mistake in handwriting or a minor error in writing.",
    "Sentence": [
      "There are one or two slips of the pen —L.S.W.R. trains did not run through Ludgate Hill, for instance—."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "7634",
    "Idiom": [
      "slip of the tongue"
    ],
    "Meaning": "A mistake in speech.",
    "Sentence": [
      "It was an unfortunate slip of the tongue, and he did not intend it that way."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "7635",
    "Idiom": [
      "slip someone's mind"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To be forgotten by someone.",
    "Sentence": [
      "I meant to call her today, but it completely slipped my mind."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "7636",
    "Idiom": [
      "slip through the cracks"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To escape notice or lack attention.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Check inside each file carefully to make sure nothing slips through the cracks."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "7637",
    "Idiom": [
      "slip under the radar"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To go unnoticed.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "7638",
    "Idiom": [
      "slip up"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To make a small mistake.",
    "Sentence": [
      "The good fortune of DPRK premier Kim Tok Hun provided the latest evidence that Kim Jong Un, a ruler who presides over a sprawling network of political prison camps, can be magnanimous toward officials who slip up.",
      "I hope I don't slip up during my presentation."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "7639",
    "Idiom": [
      "slip-up"
    ],
    "Meaning": "A small error or mistake.",
    "Sentence": [
      "The door step was a broad unhewn rock, brought from the neighboring pasture. It had not a flat and even surface, but was considerably sloping from the door to the road, so that in icy times the scholars in passing out used to snatch from the scant declivity the transitory pleasures of a slide. But look out for a slip-up, ye careless, for many a time have I seen an urchin's head where his feet were but a second before.",
      "Fearing to advance upon unknown grounds lest he might meet with some of those slip-ups which kill an orator dead, he waits until the question, proposed by others, has become well set forth; then, having a clear perception of the subject, he enters the lists and conducts the attack by a well-known process at the bar—that of assailing the weakest point of the enemy.",
      "Then, Old Hugo came near a bad slip-up; though he was only one of the gipsies. He was caught ' shoving the queer ' in Newark and New York.",
      "The chess-player also has need of a quick eye and a steady nerve; However, the self-possession which he requires is to be distinguished from freedom from the momentary nervous excitement which causes so many \" slip-ups \" in billiards.",
      "I was a little irritated with his attitude of pinpoint criticism and his habit of coming to me with reports of footling slip-ups which he could easily have set right himself or brought to the attention of the clerks concerned,",
      "And I went to the cemetery and I had the guide check the names, all of the names, I did not want any slipup.",
      "That was a slip-up on the part of the committee. Everyone makes a mistake, and gentlemen, I hope you will not make that mistake again. Personally, I rather doubt that he [John Howard Tillotson] would have appeared in executive session even if this slip-up had not occurred, and the fact of the matter is that he did not avail himself of the opportunity when the time came.",
      "He [Joseph M. Heiser Jr.] praises the ordnance soldier and logistician and blames improperly used systems, misunderstandings as to how programs were to work, poor communications and leadership as the problems for many of the slipups in logistical support to the Army in the field, especially in the combat areas in World War II, Korea and Vietnam.",
      "How difficult is it to pick 10 playoff games correctly? Even the current leader Alan Sasso, who earned 261 points through the conference championships had one slipup.",
      "For the second year in a row at Wimbledon, Roger Federer went to five sets against a Frenchman but this time there would be no slip-ups.",
      "I think she will forgive an accidental slip-up, so don’t worry too much about misspeaking."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "7640",
    "Idiom": [
      "slippery as an eel"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Very crafty or cunning.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "7641",
    "Idiom": [
      "slit someone's throat"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To slash someone in the neck.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "7642",
    "Idiom": [
      "slop bowl"
    ],
    "Meaning": "One of the components of a tea set for disposing of unwanted tea.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "7643-1",
    "Idiom": [
      "slop out"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To dispose of waste from a container.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "7643-2",
    "Idiom": [
      "slop out"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Served in a sloppy manner.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "7644",
    "Idiom": [
      "slow burn"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Something that emerges or unfolds slowly or gradually.",
    "Sentence": [
      "My own very personal journey into the deepest love of all – that of a parent for a child – was a slow burn. But it left me deeply connected to Milo in a way that I never imagined.",
      "The ‘carbon bomb’ stored in the thawing Arctic permafrost may be released in a slow leak as global warming takes hold, rather than an eruption, according to new research.",
      "Thinking of AI like a bomb makes it seem like something that is deployed in a singular event, albeit one with devastating consequences rather than the slow burn that is consuming jobs and culture.",
      "In the ninth inning of a game with the Pittsburgh Pirates, Johnny Temple, Cincinnati Redleg second baseman, let a hot grounder sizzle through his legs, looked up to see the Scoreboard flash \"error\" and began a slow burn.",
      "Revson breathed deeply. “I shall try to conceal my slow burn, what the Victorians would call my mounting exasperation. I thought we had parted friends.”",
      "The comedy comes from the patient slow burn of the parents as they try to ignore the explosive belligerence of the boys.",
      "The second episode of tonight’s two part finale is the culmination of a storyline first introduced way back in the first season (episode ten, “ Close Rick-counters of the Rick Kind ”). That aired over seven years ago. Even shows that pay very close attention to serialization rarely manage that kind of slow burn.",
      "You might politely describe this werewolf thriller set in the English countryside, in which the werewolf is kept off-camera, as a slow-burn. A devastating revelation awaits us at the end, but for the first two-ish-thirds of the movie we watch a man in a cottage looking alarmed and perturbed, possibly having a psychotic breakdown.",
      "Despite its dramatic opening, this is a slow burn of a novel. Salvioni might not display the flair of Ferrante, but Francesca and Maddalena are vibrant characters for whom we quickly root.",
      "Another familiar trope, the slow burn, teases the reader as characters secretly pine for one another... for a long time.",
      "Slow burns are torture. Why wait? I want my characters getting down and dirty ASAP, and there's nothing wrong with that.",
      "On some nights, I want a good long, juicy 70k word slowburn, mutual pining, angst (with a happy ending, of course, I'm not a monster)."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "7645",
    "Idiom": [
      "slow but sure wins the race",
      "slow and steady wins the race"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Patient work leads to success.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "7646",
    "Idiom": [
      "slow is smooth, smooth is fast"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Taking a slow, methodical approach can lead to quicker, more efficient results.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Since bullets follow walls, we kept about three feet away from the sandy buildings and moved very deliberately. Not fast, but safe. Slow is smooth, smooth is fast.",
      "He slowed to a walk, keeping his aim steady as he pulled the trigger with metronomic regularity. The words slow is smooth; smooth is fast ran through his mind as he found a stair down to lane level and moved into lane seventeen.",
      "If you rush through your steps in the pursuit of efficiency, you waste time if the proper sequence is lost. Splint the leg first, then transport back to the river bank. Slow is smooth, smooth is fast."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "7647",
    "Idiom": [
      "slow march"
    ],
    "Meaning": "A steady, deliberate progression of events.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Some spirits, more audacious than the rest, became restive under the slow march of events.",
      "\"The venerable order, the broad slow march from precedent to precedent that has made our English people great and this sunny island free—it is all an idle tale.\"",
      "For three decades, John Howard has been on a slow march to end centralized wage-fixing."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "7648",
    "Idiom": [
      "slow off the mark"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Slow to act or react.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "7649",
    "Idiom": [
      "slow on the uptake"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Slow to comprehend.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "7650",
    "Idiom": [
      "slow study"
    ],
    "Meaning": "A slow learner.",
    "Sentence": [
      "I used to write as slow as judgment; now I write rather fast; but I am still 'a slow study,' and sit along while silent on my eggs. Unconscious thought, there is the only method: macerate your subject, let it boil slow, then take the lid off and look in —and there your stuff is, good or bad.",
      "He does it so badly, and he is such a slow study, that I'm afraid the first act will break down if I don't give it some vim; after you are once on, the thing will go and I shan't care a red.",
      "I was always a slow study, imp, but I made my own decisions.",
      "Although I'm a very slow study, Annie Dillard's simple observation is beginning to seep in."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "7651",
    "Idiom": [
      "slow up"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To slow down.",
    "Sentence": [
      "She has been intto prison ministry work for several years and has never slowed up, but intensified her love.",
      "Amidst all the chaos, Großer Kurfürst slows up and strikes her colors, her crew having had enough, and have overpowered the officers - willing to fight, but not willing to commit suicide."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "7652",
    "Idiom": [
      "slow-burn"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Developing slowly or gradually.",
    "Sentence": [
      "This restructuring is a slow-burn disaster for the funding of the Russian war machine.",
      "Clarke and Lexa's slow-burn romance—and the fan fiction that Vi devoured about it —led to her joining Tumblr and starting to write her own fanfic.",
      "Since most respondents who prefer slow-burn fics are on the asexual spectrum, this is not surprising, as they are less likely to desire sexual experiences with others in general.",
      "Slow burn fics, for instance, can go as far as having seventy thousand words before the character pairing even interacts."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "7653",
    "Idiom": [
      "slow-burning"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Emerging or unfolding gradually.",
    "Sentence": [
      "There are elements of low-key black comedy in our hapless hero’s dealing with clinic superiors, who are so clueless that their suspicions fall on entirely the wrong person. As a thriller, however, “La Dosis” is slow-burning to a fault, never quite arriving at the boil anticipated.",
      "When the Missouri-born 26-year-old released her debut album last September, it marked the beginning of a slow-burning second act in pop."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "7654",
    "Idiom": [
      "slow-walk"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To delay or obstruct a process.",
    "Sentence": [
      "many of the men were simply standing around and were purposely ‘ slow-walking ’ the project...to stretch out the term of employment.",
      "Since assuming office, Trump has issued many private demands to aides that have either been slow-walked or altogether ignored."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "7655",
    "Idiom": [
      "slug away"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To work very hard.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "7656",
    "Idiom": [
      "slug it out"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To have a decisive argument or fight.",
    "Sentence": [
      "For once I'd met a man which was willing and able to stand up and slug it out with me.",
      "Merkel’s political and scientific sides slug it out in swan song presser [title]"
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "7657",
    "Idiom": [
      "slut's wool"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Accumulated dust and debris in undusted indoor areas.",
    "Sentence": [
      "There have been a great many things to be seen to, in order to make everything cosy, since Mr. Walsh had developed bachelor's habits after the death of his first wife, and some things had become none too savoury. I had a large array of cobwebs and hanks of slut's wool to sweep out from under the beds, and also a fair deal of scrubbing and scouring to do."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "7658-1",
    "Idiom": [
      "small change"
    ],
    "Meaning": "A minor amount of money.",
    "Sentence": [
      "The cost of toothpaste is small change compared to the cost of dental work."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "7658-2",
    "Idiom": [
      "small change"
    ],
    "Meaning": "A person or thing of little importance.",
    "Sentence": [
      "He's a self-satisfied klutz who aspires to be a con artist.... Compared with Lawrence, Freddy is small change."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "7659",
    "Idiom": [
      "small fry"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Relatively small and insignificant individuals or things.",
    "Sentence": [
      "The police did not arrest the drug dealer since he was small fry compared to his boss.",
      "These slot machines are just the small fry. The big games are in the back room."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "7660",
    "Idiom": [
      "small potatoes"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Of little consequence or value.",
    "Sentence": [
      "It's small potatoes for a man-o-war to be hunting poor game, like us little fore and afters.\"",
      "The queen may have outwitted Otto, but he’s small potatoes compared to a master opponent like the Lady of Driftmark.",
      "My paycheck is small potatoes compared to hers.",
      "He no longer works for individuals, since they are small potatoes compared to his corporate clients."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "7661",
    "Idiom": [
      "small print"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Fine print.",
    "Sentence": [
      "This calculated coyness, it now seems, concealed quite a breakthrough. Presumably both sides needed a few more days to fine-tune the small print."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "7662",
    "Idiom": [
      "small rain lays great dust"
    ],
    "Meaning": "A small amount can significantly alter a situation.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "7663",
    "Idiom": [
      "small talk"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Casual conversation about non-serious topics.",
    "Sentence": [
      "To the credit of the lady it may be added, that without any of the arts of flattery or the gaieties of small talk, he began to be agreeable to her.",
      "If he had a fault as a conversationalist, it was a certain tendency to monotony, a certain lack of sparkle and variety in his small-talk.",
      "Yet for so public a figure, Jackson was socially awkward, inept at small talk and terrified when the distant audience became an adoring mob."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "7664",
    "Idiom": [
      "small wonder"
    ],
    "Meaning": "An unsurprising occurrence.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Small wonder if he had loved her for herself, she was so beautiful.",
      "Small wonder that I am restless. I think, and think, and I cannot cease from thinking.",
      "Small wonder that you can't believe my words—you who think yourself sage enough to reject the opinions of your parents and superiors.",
      "That she was beautiful and intelligent could not be denied, and so it was small wonder that she might appeal strongly to any man.",
      "Small wonder the average cost of new pools has leaped past $30,000.",
      "In retrospect, it was small wonder that Railtrack found its finances under pressure, as with ever increasing demand there was an inevitable effect on infrastructure renewals. Matters came to a head with the Hatfield accident on October 17 2000, when there was a high-speed derailment as a result of deferred track maintenance."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "7665",
    "Idiom": [
      "smart arse"
    ],
    "Meaning": "A person who is flippant or makes snide remarks.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "7666",
    "Idiom": [
      "smart chance"
    ],
    "Meaning": "A substantial quantity of something.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "7667",
    "Idiom": [
      "smash hit"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Something that is very popular or successful.",
    "Sentence": [
      "All undergraduate libraries have been a screaming success as study halls. The Undergraduate Library of the University of Michigan may be the smash hit of all time; the attendance in that library during 1968-69 was 1,899,000.",
      "The cookies, though soft and gooey, proved a smash hit at the party."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "7668",
    "Idiom": [
      "smash someone's face in"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To beat someone violently.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "7669",
    "Idiom": [
      "smash someone's head"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To beat someone violently.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "7670-1",
    "Idiom": [
      "smash up"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To destroy by smashing.",
    "Sentence": [
      "You remember, Harry, when the working men in America revolted against the Robots and smashed them up, and when the people gave the Robots firearms against the rebels. And then when the governments turned the Robots into soldiers, and there were so many wars.",
      "The complete 1892 rebuilding, indeed, followed an accident in 1890, when No. 6 ran away down the Buckley branch, and got badly smashed up in a collision at Connah's Quay."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "7670-2",
    "Idiom": [
      "smash up"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To injure or damage severely.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "7671",
    "Idiom": [
      "smear campaign"
    ],
    "Meaning": "An effort to damage someone's reputation through negative propaganda.",
    "Sentence": [
      "His opponent said it was all a smear campaign to make him look bad in the eyes of the voters."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "7672",
    "Idiom": [
      "smell a rat"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To sense something suspicious.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Mr. Gresham, when he heard this, thought that he began to smell a rat, and was determined to be on his guard.",
      "[John Broadus] Watson would have liked to continue his infant studies, but he never had the chance. His wife smelled a rat and found out his affair with his graduate student assistant, Rosalie Rayner.",
      "Eventually, the job was re-advertised and she applied for it. She applied repeatedly over several years, but was never selected. She began smelling a rat (this being a land managing agency, a woodrat). She did some checking and found out that contrary to its promises, the agency had done all it could to \"blackball\" her from working in federal service again.",
      "One anecdote holds that when a pro-Constitution opponent demanded to know why [Patrick] Henry had not attended the convention, he replied, \" I smelt a rat.\" Henry scented that decaying rodent in the notion that the states should surrender more power to a new national government.",
      "If Collins smells a rat, you might gain nothing and tempt the gang to persecute you and your daughter."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "7673",
    "Idiom": [
      "smell blood"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To sense an advantage over a rival.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Later he intended to continue his goading of Neil. He could smell blood now; if only he could get the man to fall apart in one of their clubs.",
      "Smelling blood in the economic meltdown, the lower house of parliament, or Duma, took the offensive, calling for Yeltsin to resign.",
      "The Pistons, once they smelled blood, got more aggressive and the Spurs simply ran out of gas.",
      "When buyers do turn up nowadays, she says, “they smell blood in the water and routinely offer 15 to 20 percent below the asking price.”"
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "7674",
    "Idiom": [
      "smell like a rose"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To be regarded as appealing or virtuous.",
    "Sentence": [
      "\"I don't suppose anyone from the director down will come out of this deal smelling like a rose,\" the warden commented, \"but our only hope is that some good will result from the hearing.\"",
      "But compared to others, Dent came out of the Depression \" smelling like a rose.\" He later boasted that he made $18,000 a year with his writing during the Depression.",
      "The champion of corporate governance should smell like a rose. Instead, there's an unpleasant whiff of pork-barrel politics rising from the board.",
      "come out smelling like a rose"
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "7675",
    "Idiom": [
      "smell like a tart's handbag"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To smell strongly of perfume.",
    "Sentence": [
      "I dropped a perfume bottle on the floor and now the house smells like a tart's handbag."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "7676",
    "Idiom": [
      "smell of an oily rag"
    ],
    "Meaning": "A very small amount.",
    "Sentence": [
      "We have found them in the remote corners of Asia Minor, sans souliers, sans culottes, often in rags, living on the smell of an oily rag or a raw onion, trying their best to preserve order where their own miserable officials have brought shame and disgrace upon their tarnished colours.",
      "Full of bog, goes anywhere you want to go, don't pay for insurance, runs on the smell of an oily rag.",
      "... they did not prepare someone for the smell-of-an-oily-rag budgets and ratings-driven world of Australian commercial television.",
      "They're prone to giving away their rations and living off the smell of an oily rag.",
      "\"We did it on the smell of an oily rag \", says Danielle Kootman of Tourism Queensland.",
      "They had the smell of an oily rag to work on.",
      "There remains ABC Radio, which is the best known example of the relationship between the smell of an oily rag and the will to keep going."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "7677",
    "Idiom": [
      "smell of the lamp"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Marks of great study and labor.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "7678",
    "Idiom": [
      "smell of the shop"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Indicates one's occupation or profession too distinctly.",
    "Sentence": [
      "(Can we find and add a quotation of Thackeray to this entry?)"
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "7679",
    "Idiom": [
      "smell the barn"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To act with renewed energy as one nears a goal.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Anyhow, Congress, like the old horse that starts into a long deferred trot when she \" smells the barn,\" began to show action and as hearts on Capitol Hill leaned homeward, thoughts in the White House turned to the open road—or at least the railroad.",
      "Charlie Company could leave as early as mid-October—which is soon but not quite soon enough for them. \"The horses smell the barn right now,\" said Capt. Clark D. Carr, the battalion's Protestant chaplain, who knows perhaps better than anyone how badly they want to leave.",
      "Smelling the barn can result in driving too fast, not clearing weapons properly, and bypassing ammunition-recovery procedures.",
      "Antyllus leaned his ear closer to the slave at his feet without taking his eyes off his over-eager team [of horses], which already smelt the barn ahead of them.",
      "He had smelled the gunpowder again and in old age was once again the dashing young brigadier of World War I; This close, he simply couldn't abide sitting still. Like a horse, he smelled the barn and was determined to push ahead.",
      "We’ll get home right quick—old Dobbin knows the way better than you and I do, and he can smell the barn besides."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "7680",
    "Idiom": [
      "smile a thousand smiles"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To smile very broadly.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "7681-1",
    "Idiom": [
      "smile from ear to ear"
    ],
    "Meaning": "A large smile.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "7681-2",
    "Idiom": [
      "smile from ear to ear"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To smile widely.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "7682",
    "Idiom": [
      "smoke like a chimney"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To smoke tobacco frequently.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "7683",
    "Idiom": [
      "smoke one's own dope"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To believe one's own lies.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "7684",
    "Idiom": [
      "smoke out"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To expose.",
    "Sentence": [
      "The culprit will be smoked out by the end of the day."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "7685",
    "Idiom": [
      "smoke signal"
    ],
    "Meaning": "An indirect message or indication.",
    "Sentence": [
      "By every kind of wigwag and smoke signal in the language of diplomacy, the Administration seemed to be trying last week to tell Chinese Communist Boss Mao Tse-tung that he had nothing to worry about from the U.S."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "7686",
    "Idiom": [
      "smoke-filled room"
    ],
    "Meaning": "A secretive meeting of powerful people, often political.",
    "Sentence": [
      "In its first decade, prize business was settled in the smoke-filled rooms of London clubs, where it remained resolutely insular.",
      "If the forums in which we make this case consist of the smoke-filled rooms of Washington, the votes aren't there."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "7687",
    "Idiom": [
      "smoking gun"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Indisputable evidence of a crime.",
    "Sentence": [
      "When Prophet's place in Decatur, Georgia was raided in July 1989, there was the E911 Document, a smoking gun. And there was Prophet in the hands of the Secret Service, doing his best to \"explain.\"",
      "I now turn to the role and results of our current inspections. Evidently if we had found any ‘ smoking gun ’ we would have reported it to the Council.",
      "It's all over the blogosphere and Air America, the left-wing talk radio network: This is the smoking gun of the Iraq war. It is proof positive that President Bush was determined to invade Iraq the year before he did so",
      "A Nobel prize-winning US biologist, who has been widely quoted describing a “ smoking gun ” to support the thesis that Covid-19 was genetically modified and escaped from a Wuhan lab, has said he overstated the case.",
      "\"He can weasel out if it.\" Ibanez massaged her knuckles. \"He can say Couch welshed on a deal, and didn't show, and that's why Karen got got. It isn't conclusive. I have another thing I can lay on him, but even the two combined won't do. We need a third smoking gun if we're really gonna smoke this son of a bitch.\"",
      "We have a theory, but we haven't found a smoking gun yet."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "7688",
    "Idiom": [
      "smooth down"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To make smooth.",
    "Sentence": [
      "She smoothed her nails down with a file."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "7689",
    "Idiom": [
      "smooth sailing"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Describes an activity without problems.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Not that all was smooth sailing for MGM in Nazi Germany.",
      "It's all been smooth sailing; everything has gone exactly according to plan.",
      "We had some problems at the very beginning, but it's been smooth sailing since the second week or so."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "7690",
    "Idiom": [
      "snake eyes"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Two ones on a dice roll.",
    "Sentence": [
      "It’s as if snake eyes, which should occur randomly only once every 36 times you roll a pair of dice, were coming up once every four times."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "7691-1",
    "Idiom": [
      "snake oil"
    ],
    "Meaning": "A fraudulent or ineffective remedy.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "7691-2",
    "Idiom": [
      "snake oil"
    ],
    "Meaning": "A product with exaggerated claims and questionable quality.",
    "Sentence": [
      "As for the IRP, Secretary of State Grant Shapps continues to peddle snake oil, smoke and mirrors. His reaction to near-universal IRP condemnation from politicians, local and national media, and all but a few rail specialists was to dismiss the lot of us (in the condescending and patronising tone we have now come to expect) as \"critics and naysayers\"."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "7692",
    "Idiom": [
      "snap at someone's heels"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To closely compete with someone, potentially to replace them.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "7693",
    "Idiom": [
      "snap it up"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To proceed quickly.",
    "Sentence": [
      "\"Come now, let's snap it up ! Faster! Faster! Think fast! Let's go!\"",
      "President hopes to Push Wealth Taxes Through in a Month.",
      "A man behind the counter looks up and yells at me. \" Snap it up, Danny. We got a flock of orders waiting.\"",
      "The guests have been smiling for two and half hours and are so bored they're discussing their dental appointments... and everyone is anxiously facing the kitchen.... I summon my best friend, Mayva, who says, \"You'd better snap it up.\""
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "7694-1",
    "Idiom": [
      "snap judgment"
    ],
    "Meaning": "A hasty decision made without careful consideration.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "7694-2",
    "Idiom": [
      "snap judgment"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Making decisions without careful consideration.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "7695",
    "Idiom": [
      "snap out of"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To suddenly end a mood or emotional state.",
    "Sentence": [
      "I felt sad that he had left, but I had to snap out of it and get on with my life.",
      "We tried to snap him out of it, but something cultlike was going on."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "7696",
    "Idiom": [
      "snap someone's head off"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To rebuke or insult someone sharply.",
    "Sentence": [
      "\"Pa's awfully cranky,\" Mrs. Cox said resignedly. \"He's always been that way! You cook him corn beef hash—that's the night he wanted pork chops; never give someone corn beef hash when he wants pork chops sometimes he'll snap your head off if you speak.\"",
      "He won't have a pleasant morning, I can tell you! I shall snap his head off every time he speaks to me."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "7697",
    "Idiom": [
      "snatch defeat from the jaws of victory"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To suddenly lose a likely victory, often due to mistakes or poor judgment.",
    "Sentence": [
      "... since the fall of communism, the West has managed to snatch defeat from the jaws of victory, and with disastrous results.",
      "This analysis was reflected in the fates of the respective commanding officers. McMorris, who'd managed to, by luck and judgment, retain all of his ships, was made Nimitz's chief of staff. Hosogaya, who'd managed to snatch defeat from the jaws of victory, was relieved of command and forced to retire to the reserves, where he would never again be allowed an active seagoing command."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "7698",
    "Idiom": [
      "snatch the pebble"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To fully grasp a concept or achieve high proficiency in a skill.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "7699",
    "Idiom": [
      "snatch victory from the jaws of defeat"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To win unexpectedly after seeming to be losing.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "7700",
    "Idiom": [
      "sneak out"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To leave quietly or unnoticed.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "7701",
    "Idiom": [
      "sneaking suspicion"
    ],
    "Meaning": "A belief based on little evidence.",
    "Sentence": [
      "I have the sneaking suspicion that he has already taken a decision about this."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "7702",
    "Idiom": [
      "sneck posset"
    ],
    "Meaning": "A cold reception.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "7703",
    "Idiom": [
      "sneeze on the truth"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Superstitiously validates a statement.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "7704",
    "Idiom": [
      "sniff test"
    ],
    "Meaning": "An informal check using common sense.",
    "Sentence": [
      "but does it pass the sniff test ?",
      "but it doesn't pass the sniff test"
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "7705",
    "Idiom": [
      "snip-snap"
    ],
    "Meaning": "A dialogue with quick replies.",
    "Sentence": [
      "snip-snap short, and interruption smart",
      "The daily snip-snaps and hubbubs between the cross-purposed couple accentuated that tendency in her. After each altercation Mrs. Coley was seized with an hysterical attack, and my services were needed."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "7706",
    "Idiom": [
      "snipe hunt"
    ],
    "Meaning": "A prank involving a fruitless search for a nonexistent item.",
    "Sentence": [
      "And you asked Charles Briggs for the name of the man who bought the secret, and he gives you a legend. A man who might not even exist. You know what, this is a snipe hunt."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "7707",
    "Idiom": [
      "snitches get stitches"
    ],
    "Meaning": "People who snitch will face consequences.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "7708",
    "Idiom": [
      "snitches get stitches and end up in ditches",
      "snitches get stitches and wind up in ditches",
      "snitches get stitches"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Snitches face consequences.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "7709",
    "Idiom": [
      "snot-nosed"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Young and arrogant.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "7710",
    "Idiom": [
      "snow job"
    ],
    "Meaning": "An attempt to persuade using flattery or deception.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "7711",
    "Idiom": [
      "snow on the mountaintop"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Gray or white hair indicating aging.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "7712",
    "Idiom": [
      "snow on the rooftop"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Gray or white hair, indicating aging.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "7713",
    "Idiom": [
      "snow out"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To cover with snow.",
    "Sentence": [
      "The drift was becoming prodigiously deep; landmarks were getting snowed out; the road and the fields were all one:"
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "7714",
    "Idiom": [
      "snowball's chance in hell"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Almost no chance of success.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Trudeau, who this week said there was not “a snowball’s chance in hell ” that Canada would become part of the US, reiterated to CNN that Ottawa would impose countermeasures if Trump made good on this threat.",
      "That small boat has a snowball's chance in hell of surviving the hurricane."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "7715",
    "Idiom": [
      "snowed under"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Overwhelmed with tasks or responsibilities.",
    "Sentence": [
      "GCN's Features Dept is getting snowed under. Spring's coming Help dig us out. Typing, research, editing, filing, lay-out: all sorts of tasks for all sorts of people.",
      "We are completely snowed under at work because it is the end of the tax year."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "7716",
    "Idiom": [
      "snuggle bunny"
    ],
    "Meaning": "A term of endearment for a comforting, affectionate companion.",
    "Sentence": [
      "\"So you're wanting to find a little 'intense physical affection'?\"",
      "Howie is a 3-month-old brown rabbit that is available for adoption at the Humane Society of Southeast Missouri, 2536 Bountin Dr. Howie is housebroken, affectionate, calm and makes a great snuggle bunny.",
      "“He ain't throwing us over for some little snuggle-bunny with pimples on her tits.”",
      "“With Matthew going to be six in January and Leah three in June, I think it will feel good to have a snuggle bunny around again.”",
      "“How is my little Murry Wurry snuggle bunny, by the way?”... “The last time I spoke with him, he was missing you.” “Aaawww, I miss him too,” Stupenagel cooed. “He's going to be one worn-out lover boy after I get home.”"
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "7717",
    "Idiom": [
      "so be it"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Indicates acceptance of an unfavorable situation.",
    "Sentence": [
      "From storm to storm ! So be it, then. Born in throes, ’tis fit that man should live in pains and die in pangs! So be it, then! Here's stout stuff for woe to work on. So be it, then.",
      "It doesn't matter which party it is. If the people choose one, a Democrat, then so be it.",
      "The reason was that China's stability was at stake, according to Singapore's statesman Lee Kuan Yew. He once said: \"He (Deng Xiaoping) took over and said, \"If I have to shoot 200,000 students to save China from another 100 years of disorder, so be it.\"",
      "Minister of State: Mr. Speaker, on behalf of the Prime Minister, I beg to introduce a bill entitled an Act to amend the Interpretation Act. Clerk: Interpretation (Amendment) Bill. Speaker: Second reading what day? Minister of State: At the next available sitting. Speaker: So be it."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "7718-1",
    "Idiom": [
      "so far"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Until now.",
    "Sentence": [
      "So far, nothing unusual has happened.",
      "―How are your driving lessons? ― So far, pretty good."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "7718-2",
    "Idiom": [
      "so far"
    ],
    "Meaning": "A limited distance or extent.",
    "Sentence": [
      "As a political system democracy seems to me extraordinarily foolish, but I would not go out of my way to protest against it. My servant is, so far as I am concerned, welcome to as many votes as he can get. I would very gladly make mine over to him if I could.",
      "British journalists shun complete respectability, feeling a duty to be ready to savage the mighty, or rummage through their bins. Elsewhere in Europe, government contracts and subsidies ensure that press barons will only defy the mighty so far.",
      "Don’t expect a long walk. You can only go so far in that direction."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "7719",
    "Idiom": [
      "so far so bad"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Up to this point, everything has gone badly.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Still farther to darken the prospects of the North, there is the financial pressure,-extreme alarming, and continually growing more burdensome and severe. So far, so bad; but there are important items to be taken into account on the other side."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "7720",
    "Idiom": [
      "so far so good"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Up to this point, all is well.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Well, you've packed your bags for the holiday, bought your tickets, reserved the hotel and put the dog in kennels. So far so good; now let's get to Minorca."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "7721",
    "Idiom": [
      "so long as"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Depending upon some condition or requirement.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Hugh helped himself to bacon. \"My dear fellow, she can think what she likes so long as she continues to grill bacon like this. Your wife is a treasure, James—a pearl amongst women; and you can tell her so with my love.\"",
      "I don't mind if he stays there, so long as he cleans up after himself when he's done."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "7722",
    "Idiom": [
      "so much for"
    ],
    "Meaning": "An expression of dismissiveness or resignation.",
    "Sentence": [
      "For years, Volkswagen cars were designed to cheat on emissions tests. So much for \"German engineering\".",
      "Well, I guess it'll never work. So much for that idea."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "7723",
    "Idiom": [
      "so there"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Expresses defiance.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Oh, yeah? Well, that's not physically possible for me to do! So there!"
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "7724",
    "Idiom": [
      "so true, bestie"
    ],
    "Meaning": "An assertion that something is true.",
    "Sentence": [
      "“#SwimmingPool #cocktail #ThisPineappleLife.” These words are so true, bestie, and they’re spoken by Andrew Garfield’s character, Link, in one of the vlogs within a film that make up Gia Coppola’s new internet-age drama, Mainstream.",
      "When asked what the metaverse needed to become sustainable, one respondent wrote, “A clear definition: The ‘metaverse promise,’ as it stands, is nothing. The people trying to sell it have no idea what it is, and neither do the consumers.” So true, bestie.",
      "Because I’m an Aries, I immediately skipped to mine. Obviously. “Now, that’s F2F, and like, you did it for the thrill.” Some lyrics: “I just had to get my rocks off/You got no loyalty, you push me ‘til I pop off.” So true, bestie !",
      "You just had a breakdown? So true, bestie."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "7725-1",
    "Idiom": [
      "soak up"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To absorb or endure.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Tan was not at Stamford Bridge and Mackay's tactics proved effective as his side soaked up Chelsea's attacks despite conceding the majority of possession, and frequently threatened on the break."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "7725-2",
    "Idiom": [
      "soak up"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To learn or experience something passively or eagerly.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "7726",
    "Idiom": [
      "soaked to the skin"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Extremely wet.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "7727",
    "Idiom": [
      "soaking wet"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Extremely wet.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "7728",
    "Idiom": [
      "sob story"
    ],
    "Meaning": "A sad story intended to elicit sympathy.",
    "Sentence": [
      "\"Dis picture is called De Tale o' Two Cities, and it's de French revolution. It's about a feller vot takes anodder feller's place and gits his head cut off; and say, dere's a sob story in it vot's a vunder.\"",
      "Mr. Martin objected at first to the bastardization of my talent, but I gave him a sob story about needing money for lessons."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "7729",
    "Idiom": [
      "social death"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Alienation from society leading to being forgotten or excluded.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "7730",
    "Idiom": [
      "social ladder"
    ],
    "Meaning": "The hierarchy of a society.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "7731",
    "Idiom": [
      "sock-knocking"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Stunning, amazing, very impressive.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Hardware or software, if there was one thing Morton did astoundingly well, it was concocting sock-knocking techno gizmo solutions to the most arcane problems."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "7732",
    "Idiom": [
      "sod off"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Go away.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Why don't you just sod off and leave me alone?",
      "He was here a minute ago but now he's sodded off."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "7733",
    "Idiom": [
      "soda jerk"
    ],
    "Meaning": "A person who works at a soda fountain.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Looking at it, serenely topping that crazy-quilt house, I had the impression of its being an outrageously squashed cherry topping, the whipped cream of as madly a concocted sundae that a soda jerk ever made. A pleasant impression."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "7734",
    "Idiom": [
      "soft Mick"
    ],
    "Meaning": "An extravagant person.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "7735",
    "Idiom": [
      "soft kill"
    ],
    "Meaning": "A murder that leaves no physical evidence.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Police concluded that she had been the victim of a soft kill, since she had been strangled to death."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "7736",
    "Idiom": [
      "soft sawder"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Cajoling or flattery.",
    "Sentence": [
      "If she goes to act ugly, I'll give her a dose of \" soft sawder \"; that will take the frown out of her frontispiece...!",
      "A sorrowful spectacle to men of reflection, during the time he lasted, that poor M. de Lamartine; with nothing in him but melodious wind and soft sawder, which he and others took for something divine and not diabolic!",
      "How the old boy swallowed my soft sawder and Brummagem notes!"
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "7737-1",
    "Idiom": [
      "soft shoe"
    ],
    "Meaning": "A restrained or conciliatory speech or explanation meant to persuade or influence.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Is the salesman's soft-shoe appropriate in a time of national mourning?"
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "7737-2",
    "Idiom": [
      "soft shoe"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Casual and easy-going.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Occasionally criticized for his soft-shoe approach (e.g., he urged the President to avoid a public squabble with Joe McCarthy), Persons nonetheless won many a legislator over to the Administration side."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "7738",
    "Idiom": [
      "soft spot"
    ],
    "Meaning": "A sentimental fondness.",
    "Sentence": [
      "I'm embarrassed to admit it hit the soft spot in my heart / When I found out you wrote the book I read",
      "But although I happen to have a soft spot for nut roast – an option often preferable to the meat that emerged from the school kitchen – it seems I'm in a cranky minority."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "7739-1",
    "Idiom": [
      "soft touch"
    ],
    "Meaning": "A person or group that is easily persuaded or sympathetic.",
    "Sentence": [
      "But Fred Heimach, who batted for Quinn in the Brooklyn half and fanned, proved a soft touch for the Cardinals in the ninth.",
      "She was a soft touch for anyone with a genuine need.",
      "The federal opposition says people smugglers now see Australia as a soft touch on border security."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "7739-2",
    "Idiom": [
      "soft touch"
    ],
    "Meaning": "An easy or undemanding situation, often financially rewarding.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Many people, not in the teaching profession, have the mistaken idea that teaching is a \" soft touch.\"",
      "I finally abandoned any lingering illusions I had had that Ministry work was a soft touch."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "7740",
    "Idiom": [
      "soft underbelly"
    ],
    "Meaning": "A weak spot.",
    "Sentence": [
      "But supply convoys are the soft underbelly of a powerful, modern military force that the Taliban is incapable of matching in conventional combat.",
      "Scientists have known for years that the Thwaites glacier is the soft underbelly of the Antarctic ice sheet, and first found that it was unstable decades ago.",
      "The current, predominantly right-wing perception is of the Balkans as a contagious disease, an infectious sore in the soft underbelly of Europe, best left to fester in isolation."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "7741-1",
    "Idiom": [
      "soften someone's cough"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To undermine someone's argument or position.",
    "Sentence": [
      "'Ha! That's softened your cough. Now, we'll waste no more time out here gabbing,' and that leather, hobgoblin face became very, very businesslike.",
      "Let me fill you in on a few minor details that may soften your cough.",
      "'Everyone knows this place is an obvious front,' I go. 'You're laundering the moo you stashed in Andorra.' That softens his cough."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "7741-2",
    "Idiom": [
      "soften someone's cough"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To humble or humiliate someone.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Because this was blameless Mike's third such 'surprise', Justice Carmel Healy decided she'd soften his cough by sticking him inside for a few months.",
      "That's one thundering snotty bitch!” “Yeah,” Hanly said as he started the engine. “Thinks she's Marie Antoinette or some other high and mighty queen. I know it would only be a fine but it might just soften her cough a bit.",
      "His father has mellowed, too; a bad hip has softened his cough."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "7742",
    "Idiom": [
      "soften the blow"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To reduce the negative impact.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Traditionally, people gave a compliment first so it would soften the blow of what was to come after. It does not soften the blow, it fully erases the fact that they ever been complimented because their mind is focused on the last thing they heard,",
      "In prison there are no loved ones to soften the blow of such terrible news. I hated being the one to tell him, but it was infinitely better than if he got the news from someone he rarely heard from.",
      "European governments moved this weekend to soften the blow of soaring costs and a deepening energy crisis triggered by the war in Ukraine, and scrambled to prepare for the possibility of social unrest as the days grow colder."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "7743",
    "Idiom": [
      "soften the ground"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To prepare favorable conditions for something.",
    "Sentence": [
      "A steady rhythm of leaks and informed speculation prepared America for the President's Lewinsky confessional.... \"The leaks definitely softened the ground for Clinton,\" says TIME White House correspondent Jay Branegan.",
      "Bowen and the prime minister began to soften the ground for the tobacco tax hike on Wednesday in separate events in Sydney and Brisbane.",
      "Mr. Skolnik... has become the man you go to if you are on the left and want to leverage the power of celebrity and the reach of digital media to soften the ground for social change."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "7744",
    "Idiom": [
      "soften up"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To make someone more receptive to an idea.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "7745",
    "Idiom": [
      "some days you get the bear, other days the bear gets you"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Not every day is a victory; sometimes you face defeat.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "7746",
    "Idiom": [
      "some old"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Refers to an unspecified or undetermined one, often for emphasis.",
    "Sentence": [
      "But I don't want you to promise anything – you're a decent old sort, and you'd be sure to make it up to me some old way or other.",
      "I ain't got but one old rusty dime. / Oh, I'll have a new dollar some old day, And I'll throw this old rusty dime away.",
      "I've been workin' out in the rain Tied to the dirty old ball and chain Oh dear mother I'll come home some old day",
      "So why don't someone here just spike his drink Why don't you do him in some old way Supposed to be a funeral",
      "[The con man] will get good folks Because they will just try to help folks in some ole way!",
      "Don't worry, I'll find some old way to do it."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "7747",
    "Idiom": [
      "some people"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Expresses disapproval of someone's actions.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Person A: You do realise that she has just jumped on the table and started shouting at the rest of the people in the room, don’t you?",
      "Person B: Oh, some people !"
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "7748",
    "Idiom": [
      "some pumpkins"
    ],
    "Meaning": "A person or thing of consequence.",
    "Sentence": [
      "General Cass is some pumpkins, and will do the needful in the office line, if he is elected.",
      "I’ve just run down from Ulster County to look at the town, bein’ that the hayin’s over with. Gosh! but it’s a whopper. I thought Poughkeepsie was some punkins ; but this here town is five times as big."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "7749",
    "Idiom": [
      "someone's blood runs cold"
    ],
    "Meaning": "One experiences a strong feeling of fear or dread.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Little Oliver's blood ran cold, as he listened to the Jew's words, and imperfectly comprehended the dark threats conveyed in them.",
      "My blood ran cold and my heart turned to water, for there, before the cave, rolled wolves, many and great.",
      "Her blood ran cold, and her heart seemed pressed in an iron vice.",
      "His \"blood runs cold\" imagining the wrath of Weinstein.",
      "Here, he read of dreadful crimes that made the blood run cold.",
      "\"Why, it mikes yer blood run cold : they 'ang a man on the stige; oh, it mide me creep all over!\"",
      "\"It just makes my blood run cold to read about it. And to think that the man who did it is still around the country somewhere—plotting other murders.\"",
      "The prospect of doing hard time in an American penitentiary was about the only thing that made Pablo Escobar's blood run cold."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "7750",
    "Idiom": [
      "someone's cup of tea"
    ],
    "Meaning": "An area of interest or expertise.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Daytime television is not my cup of tea."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "7751",
    "Idiom": [
      "someone's goose is cooked"
    ],
    "Meaning": "All hope is gone; no possibility of success remains.",
    "Sentence": [
      "On our wedding day, a friend said to me sadly: 'Poor old Bernard, now your goose is cooked. Women are like cats, they like walls...'",
      "\"I think that she was so concerned that she was afraid to even mention it in her own journals,\" Jennifer told him. “In fact, she doesn't bring it up again until it's pretty clear that the South's goose is cooked.”",
      "I thought that Texaco made a pretty good reply, but one of the federal lawyers gave me her take: “When you have to withdraw the evidence on which your expert based his opinion, your goose is cooked.”",
      "If he doesn't win the next round, then his goose is cooked."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "7752",
    "Idiom": [
      "someone's heart is in"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Someone is emotionally invested in something.",
    "Sentence": [
      "John Redwood, a longtime Eurosceptic Tory MP, said: “ Sir Ivan’s heart was not in the negotiations. The talks do not need to be that complicated. If you leave, you leave. You take control of your borders, your laws and your money and that is not something that needs to be negotiated with Mrs Merkel.”",
      "In September, Lee set up a deal for him to go to top-flight Newcastle United as a reserve, but Foster decided his heart wasn’t in it, rejected the move and retired."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "7753",
    "Idiom": [
      "someone's heart out"
    ],
    "Meaning": "With great effort or enthusiasm.",
    "Sentence": [
      "“I thought that I did enough to finish out that last round and get the draw,” Thompson said. “Of course, I’d rather have the win but it is what it is. We both went out there and fought our hearts out. I hope we can do it again. Nothing else would interest me. I want the rematch. I don’t want anything but that rematch.”"
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "7754",
    "Idiom": [
      "someone's jaw dropped"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Somebody was very surprised.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Morris's jaw dropped — his countenance became the colour of tallow — his teeth chattered, and he gave visible signs of the utmost consternation."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "7755",
    "Idiom": [
      "something awful"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Intensely or extremely bad.",
    "Sentence": [
      "He wants to get out of there something awful, but he just doesn't have the money."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "7756",
    "Idiom": [
      "something is better than nothing"
    ],
    "Meaning": "It's better to have something than nothing.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "7757",
    "Idiom": [
      "something is rotten in the state of Denmark"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Something is not right or suspicious.",
    "Sentence": [
      "If divided roughly, two-thirds of them work in desk jobs while one-third are involved in field work. When one gets that sort of proportion one begins to think, “ Something is rotten in the state of Denmark ”.",
      "My belief that something is rotten in the State of Denmark is bred by recent developments, both political and cultural. I feel that the feminist movement is now more on the defensive than the offensive,",
      "If the authorities knew about the problems and chose not to prevent them, then clearly something is rotten in the state of Denmark."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "7758",
    "Idiom": [
      "something like"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Approximately.",
    "Sentence": [
      "And it’s daunting because each segment has to tell a full, complete story in something like six minutes while doing justice to revered source material and including the non-stop laughs and genius gags that characterized The Simpsons in its god-like prime."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "7759",
    "Idiom": [
      "sometimes a cigar is just a cigar"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Sometimes a matter is simpler than it seems.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Dude, quit thinking about it so much. Sometimes a cigar is just a cigar."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "7760",
    "Idiom": [
      "sometimes you eat the bear and sometimes the bear eats you"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Everyone has successes and failures.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "7761",
    "Idiom": [
      "somewhere along the line"
    ],
    "Meaning": "At some point in a process or series of events.",
    "Sentence": [
      "It was only a question of time, after all, when the forgery would be discovered. \" Somewhere along the line that check has been stolen and raised to twenty-five thousand dollars,\" he remarked.",
      "\"I think it is quite obvious,\" he said, \"that the current atomic-arms race can not go on forever. Somewhere along the line we will have acquired all the weapons we would possibly need.\"",
      "Somewhere along the line I knew there’d be girls, visions, everything; somewhere along the line the pearl would be handed to me.",
      "Somewhere along the line, Christmas became the year's fattest festival. It lost its already tenuous association with the sacred and became a wham-bam, all-u-can-eat, deep-fill stufferama."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "7762",
    "Idiom": [
      "somewhere over the rainbow"
    ],
    "Meaning": "In an unknown or distant place.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Perhaps somewhere over the rainbow there is a land where equality and justice are colorblind, where no one is the other, where no one by virtue of race, gender, or sexual orientation is an outcast or an anomaly.",
      "Somewhere over the rainbow Way up high, There's a land that I heard of Once in a lullaby"
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "7763",
    "Idiom": [
      "son of Adam"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Any male human.",
    "Sentence": [
      "They were at last obliged to consent, and having endeavoured to console their sister, who shed copious floods of tears at the idea of parting with them and spending her days with one of the sons of Adam; and having received their garments, they took leave of her and flew away."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "7764",
    "Idiom": [
      "son of the morning"
    ],
    "Meaning": "A traveler.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "7765-1",
    "Idiom": [
      "song and dance"
    ],
    "Meaning": "A display of unnecessary excitement or activity.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "7765-2",
    "Idiom": [
      "song and dance"
    ],
    "Meaning": "An excessively elaborate excuse.",
    "Sentence": [
      "You could pick up the phone, call your vendors and give them a big song and dance about all the great things happening in your company."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "7765-3",
    "Idiom": [
      "song and dance"
    ],
    "Meaning": "An excessively complex set of instructions.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "7766",
    "Idiom": [
      "sore point"
    ],
    "Meaning": "A source of disagreement or dissatisfaction.",
    "Sentence": [
      "The affair of the chaplaincy remained a sore point in his memory as a case in which this petty medium of Middlemarch had been too strong for him.",
      "It is a sore point with me, this being told what I am to do or not do by you self-constituted lords of creation.",
      "The talks have touched on Iran's suspected nuclear-weapons program, its sponsorship of terrorism and other sore points."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "7767",
    "Idiom": [
      "sore-thumbish"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Draws negative attention; out of place.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Many of the serious bits, by contrast, were slow and sore-thumbish, abounding in what the New Yorker used to call cries we doubt ever got cried, like 'that man Robespierre will go far.'",
      "In a neighborhood of modest bungalows, tearing down an existing house and shoehorning a multistory, 5,000-square-foot behemoth into the same lot makes the new home stick out in a sore-thumbish way.",
      "It looks so what-am-I-doing-here?, / so sore-thumbish, so entirely out of place, / among all these ancient ivy-covered buildings, / that it kind of reminds me of a UFO. / Or of an alien."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "7768",
    "Idiom": [
      "sort of"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Approximately or somewhat.",
    "Sentence": [
      "\"Why—why, we sort of expected he'd be here!\" says she.",
      "Nothing was too small to receive attention, if a supervising eye could suggest improvements likely to conduce to the common welfare. Mr. Gordon Burnage, for instance, personally visited dust-bins and back premises, accompanied by a sort of village bailiff, going his round like a commanding officer doing billets.",
      "‘I understand that the district was considered a sort of sanctuary,’ the Chief was saying. ‘An Alsatia like the ancient one behind the Strand, or the Saffron Hill before the First World War. ’",
      "Anne Shaw tells Peter Plisner, \"West Midlands Metro metamorphosis\", page 32: \"It sort of transforms that location,\" says Shaw. Pip Dunn, \"'196s' giving commuters a smoother ride\", page 55: Messy trains are horrible, but you can sort of understand passengers leaving their sandwich wrappers and paper cups if there is nowhere to dispose of them.",
      "It sort of makes sense the way he explains it, but I still don't really understand."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "7769-1",
    "Idiom": [
      "sort oneself out"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To organize or solve personal problems.",
    "Sentence": [
      "John took a week off work to sort himself out."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "7769-2",
    "Idiom": [
      "sort oneself out"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To calm down emotionally.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Give me a few minutes to sort myself out and I'll be with you."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "7770-1",
    "Idiom": [
      "sort out"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To clarify.",
    "Sentence": [
      "It's a bit confused at the moment, I'll try to sort it out later."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "7770-2",
    "Idiom": [
      "sort out"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To arrange.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Could you call Dave and sort out a meeting for tomorrow?"
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "7770-3",
    "Idiom": [
      "sort out"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To fix a problem.",
    "Sentence": [
      "The computer won't let me delete that file; could you sort it out ?"
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "7770-4",
    "Idiom": [
      "sort out"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To organize or separate items.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Could you sort out your wardrobe and put the clothes you no longer use in one pile to give away and another to throw away?"
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "7770-5",
    "Idiom": [
      "sort out"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To separate from a group.",
    "Sentence": [
      "We need to sort out the problems we can solve from the ones we can't.",
      "They've already sorted out the students in group A, so we just need to worry about groups B and C."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "7770-6",
    "Idiom": [
      "sort out"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To take action against trouble.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Most of the babies and kids would be put to bed by one of the adults and left on their own. Every half an hour a bluecoat would walk around the aisles and if they heard crying from your chalet they would put your block and chalet number on a board to the right of the stage. The first few times I went to a proper church and saw the hymn order to the side of the pulpit I wondered why nobody was going to sort out those kids.",
      "If you do that again, I'll soon sort you out."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "7770-7",
    "Idiom": [
      "sort out"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To provide a solution to a problem.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Hey man, I want some weed. —I'll sort you out, mate.",
      "We really need to sort Chris out with a girlfriend."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "7771",
    "Idiom": [
      "sound asleep"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Sleeping deeply.",
    "Sentence": [
      "When Frere had come down, an hour before, the prisoners were all snugly between their blankets. They were not so now; though, at the first clink of the bolts, they would be back again in their old positions, to all appearances sound asleep."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "7772",
    "Idiom": [
      "sounds like a plan"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Indicates agreement with a suggestion.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Let's catch a movie after dinner, what do you say? ― Sounds like a plan."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "7773",
    "Idiom": [
      "soup sandwich"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Something disorganized or unfinished.",
    "Sentence": [
      "“Right now it’s all still very much a soup sandwich,” said the Army official of the ongoing planning efforts, “but we expect to trot the whole thing out in April.”",
      "That's as messed up as a soup sandwich.",
      "That guy is a big soup sandwich."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "7774",
    "Idiom": [
      "soup-to-nuts"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Comprehensive; covering all of something.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Their soup-to-nuts approach left us with few questions."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "7775-1",
    "Idiom": [
      "sour grapes"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Pretending to despise what one cannot have.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "7775-2",
    "Idiom": [
      "sour grapes"
    ],
    "Meaning": "A disdainful reaction to something desired but unattainable.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Despite the egos of individual scientists, the jealousies and the sour grapes, science had worked pretty much the way it was supposed to.",
      "His absence was a grievous setback for Liverpool, who had looked the more dangerous team until that point, and it would not be sour grapes for the losers to think that was the moment the game started to swing away from them.",
      "I think his comments about that new car are just sour grapes because he can't afford it."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "7776",
    "Idiom": [
      "sour note"
    ],
    "Meaning": "A negative aspect of something mostly positive.",
    "Sentence": [
      "One sour note was the withdrawal of Rosicky, who suffered concussion after a heavy collision."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "7777",
    "Idiom": [
      "sour stomach"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Indigestion.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "7778-1",
    "Idiom": [
      "sour tooth"
    ],
    "Meaning": "A liking for sour foods.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Robin and Jay Brown weren't the kind of kids to be caught with their hands in the cookie jar — they each had a sour (sometimes a half-sour) tooth, and pilfered pickles instead of desserts.",
      "Use about an equal weight of sugar (or less, if you've got a sour tooth), top with your favorite crumble or sweet biscuit topping and bake",
      "Fruits are sweet! I hate anything sweet! I have a sour tooth."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "7778-2",
    "Idiom": [
      "sour tooth"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Someone who enjoys sour foods.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Some \" sour-tooths \" prefer a sweet, non-acid fruit to an acid non-sweet one one while others do not."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "7779-1",
    "Idiom": [
      "sow dragon's teeth"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To perform an action that leads to trouble.",
    "Sentence": [
      "The dragon's teeth are sown, Baby Charles; I pray God they bearna their armed harvest in your day, if I suld not live to see it. God forbid I should, for there will be an awful day's kemping at the shearing of them.",
      "as if the dragon’s teeth had been sown broadcast, and had yielded fruit equally on hill and plain, on rock, in gravel, and alluvial mud, under the bright sky of the South and under the clouds of the North, in fell and forest, in the vineyards and the olive-grounds and among the cropped grass and the stubble of the corn, along the fruitful banks of the broad rivers, and in the sand of the sea-shore.",
      "But you don't sow dragon's teeth. Not unless you want to get right down there with Frank Dodd in his hooded vinyl raincoat. With the Oswalds and the Sirhans and the Bremmers. Crazies of the world, unite."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "7779-2",
    "Idiom": [
      "sow dragon's teeth"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Causing trouble despite good intentions.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "7780",
    "Idiom": [
      "sow the seeds of"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To take action that will lead to a specific outcome.",
    "Sentence": [
      "I welcome the deal, but hope the continuing disagreements about modernisation do not sow the seeds of the next dispute."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "7781",
    "Idiom": [
      "sow the wind and reap the whirlwind",
      "sow the wind, reap the whirlwind"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Actions have consequences; trouble leads to negative outcomes.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Before the attack started, Senator Mitch McConnell, the majority leader, decried efforts by his fellow Republicans to overturn the results of the election. But his eloquence was the very definition of a gesture both too little and too late. They who sow the wind, reap the whirlwind."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "7782",
    "Idiom": [
      "space out"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To become distracted or lose focus.",
    "Sentence": [
      "In that futility and rage, we're seeing incredible alcohol abuse, incredible drug abuse, compulsive sexuality. Just basically spacing out with not as much attention to political values, educational values, feeling connected to society in any kind of way. Sometimes I go to the bars and see these kids and think about the meaninglessness and the emptiness that they'll be feeling five or six years down the road when they're tired of partying.",
      "Well, I generally come in at least fifteen minutes late, ah, I use the side door - that way Lumbergh can't see me, heh heh - and, uh, after that I just sorta space out for about an hour.",
      "She spaced out when the speaker started droning about the fine-print details of convertible debentures."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "7783",
    "Idiom": [
      "spank the monkey"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To masturbate.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "7784",
    "Idiom": [
      "spare no effort"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To do everything possible to achieve something.",
    "Sentence": [
      "This reflects credit not only on the railway staffs concerned but on the various signalling firms, which have spared no effort to carry out research work, and test and apply, when feasible, every new idea."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "7785",
    "Idiom": [
      "spare someone the details"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To avoid giving unnecessary details.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "7786",
    "Idiom": [
      "spare someone's blushes"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To save someone from embarrassment.",
    "Sentence": [
      "He faced us as we assembled for breakfast with a deprecating false modesty in his eyes, as who should say, \"I know that I deserve all that you can say, but I pray you to spare my blushes by not saying it.\" His beard bristled exultantly, his chest was thrown out, and his hand was thrust into the front of his jacket.",
      "Cesc Fabregas spared Arsenal's blushes with his late spot-kick"
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "7787",
    "Idiom": [
      "spare the rod and spoil the child"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Lack of discipline leads to poor behavior in children.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "7788",
    "Idiom": [
      "spare tire"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Excess weight or fat around the waist.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "7789",
    "Idiom": [
      "spare tyre"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Excess fat around the waist.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "7790",
    "Idiom": [
      "spark spread"
    ],
    "Meaning": "The difference between fuel cost and electricity price.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "7791-1",
    "Idiom": [
      "speak for"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To claim or occupy.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Be sure to speak for a seat early, if you plan to attend."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "7791-2",
    "Idiom": [
      "speak for"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To represent.",
    "Sentence": [
      "You really do deserve to be published - your recent articles speak for themselves."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "7792",
    "Idiom": [
      "speak for oneself"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Expressing personal disagreement with another's opinion.",
    "Sentence": [
      "“I’ll tell you what it is, gentlemen,” said he, “we’re all afraid.”¶ “ Speak for yourself, sir,” said Mr. Giles, who was the palest of the party.",
      "That idea makes no sense at all. – Speak for yourself ! I think it's a great idea."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "7793",
    "Idiom": [
      "speak of the devil",
      "speak of the devil and he appears",
      "speak of the devil and he shall appear",
      "talk of the devil"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Used when a person mentioned in conversation arrives.",
    "Sentence": [
      "A: You know who would appreciate this? Tom. B: Speak of the devil ! Look who just walked in!"
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "7794",
    "Idiom": [
      "speak one's mind"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To express thoughts or opinions honestly.",
    "Sentence": [
      "He would speak his mind, and lecture her all the same as if she were a little girl.",
      "It was seldom that Mrs. Ladybug hesitated to speak her mind right out to a person if she happened to disapprove of him.",
      "Rudy Giuliani spoke his mind and did not suffer fools even a tiny bit—but then, creative incivility is part of the job description for a successful mayor of New York."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "7795",
    "Idiom": [
      "speak out"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To express one's opinion.",
    "Sentence": [
      "You should learn to speak out in meetings with your boss."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "7796",
    "Idiom": [
      "speak someone's language"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To communicate in a way that someone understands and relates to.",
    "Sentence": [
      "\"When I'm with you I seem to get back to my natural conditions—the conditions in which I can live and work.\"... He turned to her eagerly. \"You're the only one, Lois, who knows what I mean—who can speak my language.\"",
      "Mr. Dole, a Republican from neighboring Kansas who made more than a dozen trips to Iowa last year is, according to Calvin O. Hultman, Republican leader of the State Senate, \"one of us - he speaks our language.\"",
      "\"The crucial thing is for young women to look at the magazine and think, ‘ Cosmo is speaking my language ’.\"",
      "If you are one of the more than 70 million Americans who suffer from chronic hurt, The Pain Chronicles could very well be the first time you hear from someone who speaks your language."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "7797-1",
    "Idiom": [
      "speak to"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To provide evidence or testimony.",
    "Sentence": [
      "This definitely speaks to the fact that at Georgetown, beginning at the admissions process, you're not a number but a real person.",
      "Leaving aside the abundance of negativity for the time being, in aggregate these attempts at definition speak to the multitude of linguistic phenomena characteristic of language hybridity in multilingual settings, albeit explained with differing emphases by different definers."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "7797-2",
    "Idiom": [
      "speak to"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To address a topic.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Education for being speaks to what grows within the person himself"
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "7797-3",
    "Idiom": [
      "speak to"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To resonate with emotionally.",
    "Sentence": [
      "With its pastel cover and pro-LGBTQ+ anthem “You Need to Calm Down,” Lover got a ton of airplay in that two-bedroom apartment. And the breakup songs—“Death by a Thousand Cuts,” “I Forgot That You Existed”—certainly spoke to me.",
      "His music really speaks to me."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "7798-1",
    "Idiom": [
      "speak up"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To talk more loudly or clearly.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Could you speak up ? I can't hear you."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "7798-2",
    "Idiom": [
      "speak up"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To advocate or assert oneself.",
    "Sentence": [
      "I feel that somebody has to speak up for those oppressed by the system.",
      "Speak up if I'm bothering you."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "7799",
    "Idiom": [
      "speak with a forked tongue"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To speak deceptively.",
    "Sentence": [
      "He's spoken with a forked tongue to reporters, and his explanations for launching a probe don't pass the plausibility and credibility tests."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "7800-1",
    "Idiom": [
      "spear carrier"
    ],
    "Meaning": "One who serves in a subordinate role.",
    "Sentence": [
      "A case sitting quietly in the Supreme Court’s in-basket promises to tell us more than almost any other about John G. Roberts Jr. and his evolution from spear carrier in the Reagan revolution to chief justice of the United States.",
      "Britain is now widely dismissed—more often in sorrow than in anger—as just an American spear-carrier without any real force of its own."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "7800-2",
    "Idiom": [
      "spear carrier"
    ],
    "Meaning": "One who supports a group, cause, or viewpoint.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Reed was the preternaturally boyish spear carrier for the religious right, the brash Evangelical who transformed the Christian Coalition into a populist power center.",
      "Why would he do that? Because Hu Yaobang embodied the sense of historical mission in Chinese communism; spent his entire adult life honestly attempting to fulfil that mission; and was the spear carrier, after the death of Mao Zedong in 1976, for not only economic, but also political, judicial and cultural reform."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "7801",
    "Idiom": [
      "special delivery"
    ],
    "Meaning": "An item intentionally given to a specific individual, delivered rapidly and unexpectedly.",
    "Sentence": [
      "“ Special delivery for Mr. Graham,” said the uniformed sheriff. He grinned as he stepped aside. “Hi, honey,” said the woman standing there.",
      "“He might be God's special delivery for us. The reward we've been waiting for.”",
      "“I have a special delivery for you from the president,” Harvath continued. He lowered his weapon, took aim, and shot the finger of Fawcett's right hand."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "7802",
    "Idiom": [
      "special needs"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Needs for care or services due to disabilities.",
    "Sentence": [
      "The school has introduced provisions for pupils with special needs."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "7803-1",
    "Idiom": [
      "spectator sport"
    ],
    "Meaning": "A popular activity to watch rather than participate in.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Politics for me was strictly a spectator sport.",
      "The singer Britney Spears, whose descent into a personal abyss has become a ghoulish worldwide spectator sport, yesterday left a Los Angeles hospital."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "7803-2",
    "Idiom": [
      "spectator sport"
    ],
    "Meaning": "An activity of watching or observing.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Thompson, who's the digest's publisher, says bird watching is a hobby, a pastime and a spectator sport that can be enjoyed anywhere.",
      "Rubbernecking is only a spectator sport."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "7804-1",
    "Idiom": [
      "speech is silver, but silence is golden",
      "silence is golden",
      "speech is silver, silence is gold"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Silence has great value.",
    "Sentence": [
      "\"I adore good music, I hate bad, and I despise mediocre. Silence is golden, indeed, compared with poor music.\""
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "7805",
    "Idiom": [
      "speech is silver, silence is golden"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Not speaking is often better than speaking too much.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "7806",
    "Idiom": [
      "speed merchant"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Someone who moves very fast.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "7807",
    "Idiom": [
      "speed up"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To accelerate.",
    "Sentence": [
      "The car sped up as it went around the corner."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "7808",
    "Idiom": [
      "spick-and-span"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Clean and spotless.",
    "Sentence": [
      "My Lady Batten walking through the dirty lane with new spicke and span white shoes.",
      "The Warders strutted up and down, / And kept their herd of brutes, / Their uniforms were spick and span, / And they wore their Sunday suits, / But we knew the work they had been at, / By the quicklime on their boots.",
      "“But the traders ruined his digestion with too much champagne, and after several years he fell for the Gospel according to the Methodists, sent his people to church, and cleaned up the beach and the trading crowd so spick and span that he would not permit them to smoke a pipe out of doors on Sunday,",
      "Mr. and Mrs. Chow, for instance, drew up one afternoon in their spick-and-span coupe with their intolerably spotless only child sitting self-consciously beside them.",
      "The \"V4\" 2-6-2 Bantam Cock is now stationed at Norwich, and its spick-and-span condition does credit to the cleaners at that shed.",
      "Wipe down the upholstery – now when it comes to upholstery, it don't need to be spic and span, you don't need to eat off in. Give it a good once over.",
      "From a spick and span penthouse in New York, to a ranch in Colorado, from a posh boarding school to public school, and from having virtually no boys in her life to having 12!",
      "I mopped up the kitchen floor so it was spick-and-span."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "7809",
    "Idiom": [
      "spicy tooth"
    ],
    "Meaning": "A liking for spicy foods.",
    "Sentence": [
      "A week of fact-checking the story proved too much for my spicy tooth; I made immediate plans to visit Chang's latest restaurant",
      "I not only have a sweet tooth, but I have a salty tooth, a sour tooth, a spicy tooth, you name the taste and I have the damned tooth for it!",
      "I will admit, I have a huge sweet tooth (probably larger than my spicy tooth), but I do have a limit as to how sweet I like my desserts."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "7810",
    "Idiom": [
      "spiff up"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To make more attractive.",
    "Sentence": [
      "He was all spiffed up, this chap, decked out in a spotless white shirt and a bow tie."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "7811",
    "Idiom": [
      "spill ink"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To write, especially professionally.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Of all the problems which lie on the borderline of philosophy and science, perhaps none has caused more spilled ink, more controversy, and more emotion than \"the problem of the direction of time.",
      "While democratic forces remain active throughout the African continent, scholars continue to spill ink debating the promises and pitfalls of African democratic transitions."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "7812",
    "Idiom": [
      "spill juice"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To bleed from a gunshot or stab wound.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "7813-1",
    "Idiom": [
      "spill one's guts"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To confess or reveal secrets freely.",
    "Sentence": [
      "At first, the suspect would not tell us anything about the other participants in the crime. But after being offered a deal, he spilled his guts."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "7813-2",
    "Idiom": [
      "spill one's guts"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To reveal secrets or emotions.",
    "Sentence": [
      "He suddenly wanted to vomit, to spill his guts right here on Lake Street in front of the thousands watching.",
      "A stench preceded a green cloud that almost caused the wizard to spill his guts.",
      "But the sudden motion combined with the inhuman amount of whiskey he’d consumed must’ve gotten to him, because he started to look green and made a dive for the side of the bed to spill his guts."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "7814",
    "Idiom": [
      "spill one's seed"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To ejaculate.",
    "Sentence": [
      "He knowing that the children should not be his, when he went in to his brother's wife, spilled his seed upon the ground, lest children should be born in his brother's name.",
      "She thinks of the shame of her husband, having to spill his seed into a plastic bottle."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "7815",
    "Idiom": [
      "spill the beans"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To reveal a secret.",
    "Sentence": [
      "I guarantee you, someone's going to spill the beans and next thing this shit's all over the news.",
      "He accepted a contract to kill you and Frank DePalma. You because she couldn't be sure what Wennington had told you, and Frank because he got cold feet and was about to spill the beans.",
      "More unsettling was the origin story of the infamous tell-all book Princess in Love. Diana claimed to be outraged in 1994 when Daily Express journalist Anna Pasternak spilled the beans of her affair with former army officer James Hewitt adapted from the book The Palace Papers, published 2022 by Penguin Books",
      "Shall we meet up for a meal and I think I can be persuaded to spill the beans if I drink enough wine.",
      "They had planned it as a surprise party, but somebody spilled the beans."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "7816",
    "Idiom": [
      "spin a yarn"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To tell a lengthy or far-fetched story.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Now I must tell you a little about myself;—or rather, I am inclined to spin a yarn, and tell you a great deal."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "7817",
    "Idiom": [
      "spin doctor"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To create a favorable interpretation.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "7818",
    "Idiom": [
      "spin one's wheels"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To make no progress despite effort.",
    "Sentence": [
      "I've been spinning my wheels on this problem all week, with nothing to show for it."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "7819",
    "Idiom": [
      "spin out"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To prolong.",
    "Sentence": [
      "After Ashby summit it was difficult to spin out the more than ample schedule allowance."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "7820",
    "Idiom": [
      "spin someone's wheels"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To excite someone.",
    "Sentence": [
      "“Didn’t you say that Joe fulfills you? That he ‘ spins your wheels ’!”",
      "So let me repeat, I love rock and roll. Pretty much all of it. But it’s the vintage years, the old time rock and roll, that really spins my wheels. And since I’ve been such a constant listener, I’ve had lots of time to notice some things.",
      "What I actually am is a fill-in magazine article writer, but freelance always sounds so much nicer. Now don’t get me wrong, I love my job. Most of the time. However, what I really want I do, what spins my wheels, is writing real news, not just “Ten Things You Should Look for in a Guy” or “How to Make Your Boobs Look Bigger.”",
      "When you know your employees well, when you know what motivates them, when you know what spins their wheels, then you have the ability to customize your approach to each employee."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "7821",
    "Idiom": [
      "spine-tingling"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Scary or exhilarating.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Inside the ground, they saw parachutists land on the Nursery Ground before the spine-tingling spectacle of the national anthems."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "7822-1",
    "Idiom": [
      "spit feathers"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To feel very thirsty.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Where is that sodding drink? I'm spitting feathers.",
      "I was just about spitting feathers. My throat was so dry and sore that I could barely feel my own tongue.",
      "“I've always liked camomile tea, and I'm spitting feathers after walking all the way over here. Nothing quenches the thirst like camomile tea.”"
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "7822-2",
    "Idiom": [
      "spit feathers"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To feel very angry.",
    "Sentence": [
      "He is high as a kite on Fair Trade espressos and spitting feathers that Ted Nicholls is apparently having some sort of comeback.",
      "Yesterday's heresy—the sort of thing that made orthodox theologians spit feathers —becomes today's tourist attraction.",
      "Spartan education was entirely geared to the sublimation of the individual to the state, the disintegration of the ego and its reorientation as an agent of Spartan civilization. Proponents of child-centred education would spit feathers, I imagine."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "7823",
    "Idiom": [
      "spit in the ocean"
    ],
    "Meaning": "A very small or insignificant amount.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Lawrence Venuti, a translator and author of The Translator's Invisibility, said that, beyond high-profile bestsellers, translations in the UK and US were still \"a spit in the ocean \" compared with countries such as Spain, France or Italy."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "7824",
    "Idiom": [
      "spit nails"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To speak in an angry manner.",
    "Sentence": [
      "One thing about Aunt Jenny gets me so mad I could spit nails.",
      "The three chiefs of staff are described by sources as ‘ spitting nails ’ over the latest proposals to cut the defence budget even further.",
      "Just the thought of Joseph I. Lieberman makes some Democrats want to spit nails these days. But Mr. Lieberman, the Connecticut independent, is not the least troubled by his status as Capitol Hill’s master infuriator."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "7825",
    "Idiom": [
      "spit on"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To show contempt.",
    "Sentence": [
      "You just completely spat on my job performance here.",
      "I spit on them!"
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "7826-1",
    "Idiom": [
      "spit out"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To say reluctantly.",
    "Sentence": [
      "\"Hark ye, mistress,\" said the shepherd. \"I've had much on my tongue this many a day, but you haven't given me the chance to spit it out. I won't be put off any longer.\"",
      "Well, you've obviously got something to say about their relationship, so just spit it out already!"
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "7826-2",
    "Idiom": [
      "spit out"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To rap intensely.",
    "Sentence": [
      "She spit the notes out so quickly, she might have given the fast talker in those Federal Express commercials a real run for his money."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "7826-3",
    "Idiom": [
      "spit out"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To say scornfully.",
    "Sentence": [
      "But, crucially, the visual wit that made the original feel so bracingly fresh is maintained, not to mention its fondness for turning the Savile Row air blue – if you’ve ever hoped to witness Elton John spitting out four-letter words like a Gatling gun, all while wearing a remarkable feathered suit, then this might be the gonzo spy caper for you.",
      "\"You will die now!\", he spat out."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "7826-4",
    "Idiom": [
      "spit out"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To eject.",
    "Sentence": [
      "My computer won't read this DVD. It just keeps spitting it out."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "7827",
    "Idiom": [
      "spitters are quitters"
    ],
    "Meaning": "It's better to swallow semen than to spit it out.",
    "Sentence": [
      "“I'm going to come. You need to stop unless you want me to do it in your mouth.” His voice was ragged and he was coming undone and I was thinking maybe I wasn't so bad at this after all and then his hand tightened on the back of my head and it was too late. I swallowed and then grinned up at him. “ Spitters are quitters.” I rose to my feet as he collapsed on the bed again.",
      "She takes it in her mouth almost reflexively. She sucks and jerks simultaneously. There's no way I can hold back. Ninety seconds of this and I've exploded all up in her throat. She swallows. Like a champion. Spitters are quitters."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "7828",
    "Idiom": [
      "spitting distance"
    ],
    "Meaning": "A short distance.",
    "Sentence": [
      "No less than forty defaulters in the executive, within spitting distance of the President, have not alone been proved so, but still retain their places.",
      "\"In these craft they risk the extreme perils of the sea.... They have been within spitting distance of collision and bumping distance of the bottom.\"",
      "They live within spitting distance of a busy runway at London's Heathrow Airport.",
      "\"Look around. Justice Building. County Jail. Sheriff's Department. A thousand cops within spitting distance.\""
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "7829",
    "Idiom": [
      "splash down"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To appear unexpectedly.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "7830",
    "Idiom": [
      "splice the mainbrace"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To have an alcoholic drink.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "7831-1",
    "Idiom": [
      "split hairs"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Focus on tedious details.",
    "Sentence": [
      "The Microsoft trial had been in danger of slipping out of the public eye. Its endless procession of less-than-riveting economics professors and forgetful executives, mixed with scads of legal and technical split hairs, just hasn't made for gripping headlines."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "7831-2",
    "Idiom": [
      "split hairs"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To argue about fine details.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Let's get everything sorted into the right drawers and not split hairs about subdividing it further yet."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "7832",
    "Idiom": [
      "split on a rock"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To completely fail.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "7833",
    "Idiom": [
      "split one's sides"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To laugh hysterically.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Madcap Ciss with her golliwog curls. You had to laugh at her sometimes. For instance when she asked you would you have some more Chinese tea and jaspberry ram and when she drew the jugs too and the men's faces on her nails with red ink make you split your sides"
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "7834",
    "Idiom": [
      "split the baby"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To resolve a dispute disadvantageously for both parties.",
    "Sentence": [
      "As the proposal evolved, it is clear that the authors tried to split the baby —benefits would be linked to the worker's covered earnings, out of which contributions would be made, but there would be some subsidization."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "7835-1",
    "Idiom": [
      "split the breeze"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Spending time chatting casually.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Nary bee 'at split the breeze / Ever jabbed a sting in Old 'Bee' Fessler—jes' in fun, / Er in airnest—nary one!",
      "That any full-grown, man-shouldered male human being could be so poor in dignity as to appear in public and the light of day so trigged up, passed all bounds of credulity. But there he was, his little old fool cap pushed back like a three-year-old boy, his blunderbuss trousers flapping in the wind about his ankles, holding an argument with as much assurance as if he stood equal with any man that ever split the breeze.",
      "Perhaps his name appears in the article, or under the photograph; his chest expands three inches, he gains in stature, his chin splits the breeze; he and his gang have done something — right here it is in the paper, our paper, see ?",
      "Anything that splits the breeze, from your finger to a tree or a building, will cause an invisible vortex street to spread behind it.",
      "The driver steered the hulking bus up and over the hills and past the rippling grasses, splitting the breeze like a bow divides the water."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "7835-2",
    "Idiom": [
      "split the breeze"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To move very quickly.",
    "Sentence": [
      "I falls backward into the open door, Magpie ducks flat on the ground and crawls on his belly around the corner, and Dirty splits the breeze toward town behind his bronc, which seems to have contracted the getaway fever, too.",
      "\"Hop in, then\" the other said, brightening, \"while I look along the track for a caddy of keen-spitting they was to fling off the train for me. Then we'll split the breeze.\"",
      "Can't do it on the whale-boat. Must use the bidarka. I saw the way it splits the breeze.",
      "They can run at a sixty-mile-an-hour speed and were really splitting the breeze as they crossed the little valley in front of Pa.",
      "Well, Columbia's got lots of money, I don't mind taking it from them...I got $400 cash in advance and five percent royalties for the records...I just bought a new Plymouth and it really splits the breeze."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "7835-3",
    "Idiom": [
      "split the breeze"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To carry or pierce the air.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Enterprise was acclaimed with a blast of whistles that split the breeze.",
      "Sometimes the scream of a cougar split the breeze."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "7836",
    "Idiom": [
      "split the difference"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To compromise between two opposing alternatives.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Dolly suggested that they should meet at the club at 4 p.m. Sir Felix had named noon, and promised to call at Dolly's lodgings. They split the difference at last and agreed to start at two.",
      "Gulden appeared at a loss for an instant reply. \"I want plenty to do,\" he replied, presently. \"I want to be in on everything. I want to be free to kill a man when I like.\"... \"Gulden, I'll split the difference between us. I'll leave you free to do as you like. But all the others—every man—must take orders from me.\"",
      "Expert advice to him from many sources varied between 5 ft. and 5 ft. 6 in. He split the difference at 5 ft. 3 in., which was fixed by Act of August 18, 1856, as the standard for Ireland.",
      "In terms of both price and efficiency, the Malibu Eco attempts to split the difference between a conventionally powered sedan and all-out efficiency champs like the Toyota Camry and Ford Fusion hybrids."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "7837",
    "Idiom": [
      "split up"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Cease to be together.",
    "Sentence": [
      "After she left to go travelling, my girlfriend and I split up.",
      "The soldiers split up into smaller squadrons to search the building."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "7838",
    "Idiom": [
      "spoil someone rotten",
      "spoil somebody rotten"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To overindulge someone, leading to selfishness.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Naylonfred had spoiled them rotten, making them selfish and demanding.",
      "She spoiled him rotten and introduced him to a life that wasn't really good for him."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "7839",
    "Idiom": [
      "spoil the market",
      "spoil market"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To set higher standards, making others appear inferior or unmotivated.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Instead of working with each other, they bicker and say things like, if you do that, you’ll spoil the market."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "7840",
    "Idiom": [
      "spoilt for choice"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Having too many good choices.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "7841-1",
    "Idiom": [
      "spot check"
    ],
    "Meaning": "A brief inspection or examination of a sample.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Though the author consulted with two doctors (a spot check with another doctor reveals some medical information to be stale by at least five years),",
      "They do not measure each one, but they do a spot check on a few parts before shipping."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "7841-2",
    "Idiom": [
      "spot check"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To inspect briefly or by sampling.",
    "Sentence": [
      "They spot check the rooms periodically for problems."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "7842",
    "Idiom": [
      "spot of bother"
    ],
    "Meaning": "A slight problem.",
    "Sentence": [
      "As Gerald was aware, a spot of bother, a revival of the divorce fixation, had wafted Lydia temporarily on a visit to an aunt in Westmorland.",
      "'Hullo, Charles,' he drawled. 'I'm afraid we've run into a spot of bother.' / A spot of bother, I thought. Christ!",
      "Loseby was telling them that he was in a spot of bother. That's what he called it. But somehow he always managed to get out of spots of bother. Or someone got him out.",
      "Charlie I heard about your spot of bother. / Alex Spot of bother ? / Charlie Your dad told us. I was sorry to hear that. / Alex It was hardly a spot of bother, Grandad. My best mate's gonna get sent to prison for burning a house down.",
      "\"Your topic, dear boy, your topic. 'Plastic Surgery in Small Animals.' I think you're in for a …\"—she appeared to be searching for just the right turn of phrase and then added—\"a spot of bother.\" / \"A spot of bother,\" I repeated. / / What concerned me was her use of the phrase \" a spot of bother.\" \" A spot of bother \" is one of many great British understatements. It is almost certain that during the famous Battle of Hastings in 1066 when King Harold took a direct hit from William the Conqueror 's forces with an arrow to the eye, he turned to his knights and confessed that he was in a \" spot of bother.\"",
      "Being in a spot of bother with the Bolgers was rather like saying he'd had a brush with the Taliban or a minor skirmish with al-Qaida. The Bolgers didn't do spots of bother. They did mayhem. Revenge beatings, drive-by shootings, and in the last few months scalped a guy they felt had slighted them.",
      "I had a spot of bother with a sticky key on my keyboard."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "7843",
    "Idiom": [
      "spread one's wings"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To try new things or activities.",
    "Sentence": [
      "It's time to spread our wings and fly. Don't let another day go by my love"
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "7844-1",
    "Idiom": [
      "spread out"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Become further apart.",
    "Sentence": [
      "The police spread out to search a wider area."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "7844-2",
    "Idiom": [
      "spread out"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To place items further apart.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Spread the cards out and then turn two of them over at random."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "7845",
    "Idiom": [
      "spread the word"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To inform many people.",
    "Sentence": [
      "A famous example of viral marketing is the rapid spread of Hotmail as a free email service. Attached to each email was a short advertisement and Hotmail's URL, and customers spread the word about Hotmail simply by emailing their family and friends."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "7846-1",
    "Idiom": [
      "spring fever"
    ],
    "Meaning": "A feeling of restlessness associated with spring.",
    "Sentence": [
      "It's spring fever.... And when you've got it, you want—oh, you don't quite know what it is you DO want, but it just fairly makes your heart ache, you want it so! It seems to you that mainly what you want is to get away; get away from the same old tedious things you're so used to seeing and so tired of, and set something new.",
      "The air was warm and balmy, carrying that subtle current which caused the mild madness of spring fever.",
      "GWF, professional, mid-thirties has spring fever. I have a lover, just want to have more sex. Any women interested in wild nights or afternoon delight?",
      "Was it a case of spring fever, or just a horse longing for its stable? Whatever the reason, one of the city's normally well-disciplined police horses bolted yesterday, injuring its rider and leading several patrol cars on a milelong chase through Lower Manhattan."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "7846-2",
    "Idiom": [
      "spring fever"
    ],
    "Meaning": "A feeling of laziness or lack of energy in spring.",
    "Sentence": [
      "\"Yes, missus,\" replied the negro, scratching his head, \"de horses am berry lazy; spec dey's got de spring fever.\"",
      "Endymion and the Secretary, after sitting on a pier-end watching some barges,... were stricken with the very crisis of spring fever and lassitude. They considered the possibility of hiring one of the soldiers' two-tiered beds for the afternoon."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "7847",
    "Idiom": [
      "spring for"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To pay for.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Wal-Mart... would pay the town $100,000 in annual taxes and cover much needed road improvements too. The store even agreed to spring for an archaeological dig on the site, once an Indian campground."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "7848",
    "Idiom": [
      "spring in one's step"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Enthusiasm or a cheerful attitude.",
    "Sentence": [
      "The hosts initially looked like they lacked a spring in their step, but fears of further agony evaporated in the seventh minute with a goal of typical Arsenal quality.",
      "After her promotion, she carried out her new position with a spring in her step and a contagious smile."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "7849",
    "Idiom": [
      "spring to life"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To start to exist.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Just after the half-hour mark, the contest sprung to life with a frantic passage of play, Lampard's first-time ball releasing Drogba, whose slight hesitation allowed Gael Givet to produce a brilliant saving tackle.",
      "Sometimes the ideas spring to life fully formed."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "7850",
    "Idiom": [
      "spring to mind"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To appear suddenly in one's thoughts.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Two good reasons spring to mind at once."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "7851-1",
    "Idiom": [
      "spruce up"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To arrange neatly or elegantly.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "7851-2",
    "Idiom": [
      "spruce up"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To improve or freshen something, especially its appearance.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Hu Yaobang was officially rehabilitated on the ninetieth anniversary of his birth in 2005 and his mausoleum in China Youth League City (Gongqingcheng) in Jiangxi province was spruced up.",
      "Here's an interesting effect of a global pandemic that has forced Americans to stay home for nearly 10 months: with less vacation and dine-out options, folks have more money saved up than usual and, given the virtually endless amount of time spent staring at their own four walls, they seem to be more willing than usual to shell out some extra cash to spruce up their abodes.",
      "Fresh paint and some new curtains would do a lot to spruce up this dark room."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "7852",
    "Idiom": [
      "spur of the moment"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Impulse or lack of planning.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Obey the spur of the moment. These accumulated it is that make the impulse and the impetus of the life of genius."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "7853",
    "Idiom": [
      "square away"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To complete or organize.",
    "Sentence": [
      "I have almost squared away the last of the paperwork from that job."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "7854",
    "Idiom": [
      "square meal"
    ],
    "Meaning": "A complete and satisfying meal.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Three square meals a day should give you plenty of energy."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "7855",
    "Idiom": [
      "square on"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Accurately, correctly.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Don't Look Up aims too high for its scattershot barbs to consistently land, but Adam McKay's star-studded satire hits its target of collective denial square on.",
      "I was square on time for my appointment at the Lafayette Coney Island and I wanted to be late."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "7856",
    "Idiom": [
      "square one"
    ],
    "Meaning": "The starting point; a lack of progress.",
    "Sentence": [
      "We discovered that our first idea would never work, so we were back to square one."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "7857",
    "Idiom": [
      "square peg in a round hole"
    ],
    "Meaning": "A misfit or someone who does not fit well in a certain setting.",
    "Sentence": [
      "\"Now, your son's case is really your case—you see it through the medium of your likings and dislikings—and insist upon forcing a square peg into a round hole, because in a round hole you, being a round peg, feel tight and comfortable. Now I call that irrational.\" / \"I don't see why my son has any right to fancy himself a square peg,\" said the farmer, doggedly, \"when his father, and his grandfather, and his great-grandfather, have been round pegs; and it is agin' nature for any creature not to take after its own kind.\"",
      "To these people, native and European, he was a queer fish, but they were used to queer fish, and they took him for granted; In England and France he was the square peg in the round hole, but here the holes were any sort of shape, and no sort of peg was quite amiss.",
      "It is almost as if you have guidelines for putting a square peg into a square hole, but we are trying to apply those same guidelines to put a square peg into a round hole.",
      "As they say, you can't fit a square peg in a round hole. If your boss is like that round hole and you are that square peg, you aren't going to fit in unless you re-shape your edges. If you can't do that, then look for that square hole where you will fit."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "7858",
    "Idiom": [
      "square shooter"
    ],
    "Meaning": "A fair and trustworthy person.",
    "Sentence": [
      "For years he was in a position where a bribe, the turn of a crooked deal, a \"queer\" fight decision might mean thousands to him. But he was ever the square shooter. The crooked finger of scandal was never pointed his way.",
      "\"I suppose it's because I have credibility as someone with integrity and as a square shooter.\"",
      "He'd always been aboveboard, a square shooter from start to finish."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "7859",
    "Idiom": [
      "squeaky wheels get oiled",
      "the squeaky wheel gets the oil",
      "the squeaky wheel gets the grease"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Those who complain the most get attention or help.",
    "Sentence": [
      "I think it's true what they say about the squeaky wheel / Always getting the grease",
      "You know perfectly well that the squeaky wheel gets the grease, and that if you don't complain nothing ever changes.",
      "We have to run that risk because the only people who eventually get their piece of the pie are those who uppity, pushy, and blatant. Squeaky wheels get oiled."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "7860-1",
    "Idiom": [
      "squeeze one out"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To break wind.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "7860-2",
    "Idiom": [
      "squeeze one out"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To defecate.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "7861",
    "Idiom": [
      "squint like a bag of nails"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To squint intensely.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Does she squint like a bag of nails ? Is she hideous? They always are!' The Earl stood back.'You may judge for yourself,' he said dryly. 'Miss Taverner, little though he may have recommended himself to you, I must beg leave to present my brother, Captain Audley.'",
      "In his own language, he called out, “Where is she then, Rob? Is she hideous? Does she squint like a bag of nails ? Does she screech like a shrew with toothache?” This time, the silence was definitely appalled – not least, I suspected, because there was more than a grain of truth in Hereward's unflattering description."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "7862",
    "Idiom": [
      "stab in the back"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To betray.",
    "Sentence": [
      "“What concerns me,” Ryder said, as if they’d been having an entirely different conversation, “is that you’re angry right now, Harper. Menoris was a teammate and you trusted her; I get that. Everyone’s been stabbed in the back at some point or another. But are you going to Illium to complete the mission, or to get revenge?”",
      "Speaking on February 1, Cash said: \"Today, transport workers who are risking their lives keeping our country moving have found out they have been stabbed in the back by the Government, who have extended the public sector pay freeze to the transport sector ."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "7863",
    "Idiom": [
      "stab in the dark"
    ],
    "Meaning": "A guess.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "7864",
    "Idiom": [
      "stack up"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To group abstract things together.",
    "Sentence": [
      "to stack up memories"
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "7865",
    "Idiom": [
      "staff of life"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Bread or a staple food.",
    "Sentence": [
      "It was reserved for Christians to torture bread, the staff of life, bread for which children in whole districts wail, bread, the gift of pasture to the poor, bread, for want of which thousands of our fellow beings annually perish by famine; it was reserved for Christians to torture the material of bread by fire, to create a chemical and maddening poison, burning up the brain and brutalizing the soul, and producing evils to humanity, in comparison of which, war, pestilence, and famine, cease to be evils.",
      "The round calabash is a perfect image for the feminine womb, within which the arduously pounded taro is contained and then offered as the very staff of life.",
      "Corn was the staff of life for many Indian people before contact, and it became the staff of life for many European colonists. Corn was higher in nutrition than most other grain crops. John Lawson, who travelled in South Carolina and into the interior Indian country in 1701, was one of the many colonists who sang the praises of corn."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "7866",
    "Idiom": [
      "stage business"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Actions performed by an actor for dramatic effect, often with props or clothing.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "7867",
    "Idiom": [
      "stage of the game"
    ],
    "Meaning": "A point in an ongoing process.",
    "Sentence": [
      "At that stage of the game it was too late for diplomacy."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "7868",
    "Idiom": [
      "stage right"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Involves a shift in involvement in a situation.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Whether Bannon was sacked, resigned or left by mutual agreement – as usual with the Trump administration there are contradictory accounts – is immaterial. His exit, stage right, follows that of a clutch of other senior White House aides and reinforces the impression that his presidency is unravelling chaotically only seven months after he entered the Oval Office."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "7869-1",
    "Idiom": [
      "stage-door Johnny"
    ],
    "Meaning": "A man infatuated with theatrical actresses who lingers around theatres to meet them.",
    "Sentence": [
      "\"You went off and married that—whatever that stage-door johnny's name was—and it broke me all up.\"",
      "\"One woman met her husband because of the show,\" he said. \"She was in the chorus and he was a stage-door Johnny.\"",
      "There is always some stage-door Johnnie waiting to take out a chorus girl."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "7869-2",
    "Idiom": [
      "stage-door Johnny"
    ],
    "Meaning": "A devoted fan of live theatre.",
    "Sentence": [
      "The stage was my obsession from age 6.... By my early teens, I had become so conspicuous a Stage Door Johnny that the manager of the National Theater, Washington's one Broadway tryout house in the pre-Kennedy Center era, took pity on me and hired me as a ticket taker."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "7870",
    "Idiom": [
      "staircase wit"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Thinking of a response too late to be effective.",
    "Sentence": [
      "When I have completed a manuscript, if I lay it away in a drawer or pigeon-hole, it lies there quietly enough, and my mind seems wholly discharged of it. But if I mail it, I straightaway find myself tormented with \" staircase wit \" in the shape of emendations.",
      "So-called Staircase Wit is another example, where we key ourselves up for an important event — an interview, say, or a date — rehearsing how we are going to present ourselves and what we are going to say. Then afterwards we lie awake thinking of all the witty, intelligent, charming things we should have done and said, and didn't because we were so busy trying to remember and revise the plan....",
      "One of the most insightful thinkers I know, the computer entrepreneur Yossi Vardi, prompted me to summarize \"my idea\" while standing on one leg. It was not too convenient to stand one one leg after a few glasses of perfumed Riesling, so I failed in my improvisation. The next day I experienced staircase wit."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "7871-1",
    "Idiom": [
      "stalking horse"
    ],
    "Meaning": "A candidate used for a hidden purpose in a political campaign.",
    "Sentence": [
      "The Ministry had their candidate, a stalking-horse, useful only to receive the purely Ministerial votes. The votes, thus divided, gave no result.",
      "Any open challenge would likely come first as trial balloons from backbench \" stalking horse \" candidates, who could never win.",
      "But the other narrative goes after Biden as though the Democrats had actually nominated Bernie Sanders, insisting that his advancing age makes him a decrepit vessel for the radical left, a stalking horse not just for Kamala Harris but also for Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and antifa."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "7871-2",
    "Idiom": [
      "stalking horse"
    ],
    "Meaning": "A deceptive means to achieve a hidden purpose.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Do you think my daughter fit for nothing but to be a stalking horse, to stand before you, while you take aim at my wife?",
      "\"Let the great of the earth give but half the care to prevent, that they show to punish, offences against themselves, and what is now called justice will no longer be a stalking-horse to enable a few to live at the cost of the rest.",
      "Environmentalists have used the owl as a stalking horse to save the last 10% of old-growth forest in the Northwest.",
      "The post, culling online chatter from supremacist sites, said hate groups were increasingly worried that law enforcement authorities would use Mr. Obama’s candidacy as a stalking horse to justify a government clampdown."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "7872",
    "Idiom": [
      "stall for time"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To intentionally cause a delay.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "7873",
    "Idiom": [
      "stand a chance"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To have a chance.",
    "Sentence": [
      "You might as well give up: you don't stand a chance of winning!"
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "7874",
    "Idiom": [
      "stand behind"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To support or uphold a decision, especially amid opposition.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Mayor Bloomberg and Ms. Wittenberg had repeatedly stood behind the plan, insisting it was best for the city."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "7875-1",
    "Idiom": [
      "stand by"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To wait in expectation or readiness.",
    "Sentence": [
      "It had been his intention to go to Wimbledon, but as he himself said: “Why be blooming well frizzled when you can hear all the results over the wireless. You stand by, Janet, and wake me up if they do any of that running commentary stuff.”",
      "Please stand by for more instructions."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "7875-2",
    "Idiom": [
      "stand by"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To remain loyal or faithful.",
    "Sentence": [
      "When a Hamas spokesman recently stood by his statement that Jews used the blood of non-Jewish children for their matzos – one of the oldest anti-Semitic canards around – European elites were largely silent.",
      "Even though money is scarce sometimes, Ann stands by her decision to be a full-time mother."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "7875-3",
    "Idiom": [
      "stand by"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To support despite difficulties.",
    "Sentence": [
      "They stood by us all along and it's awesome to see them out here to support us today."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "7876",
    "Idiom": [
      "stand corrected"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Acknowledges an error after correction.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "7877",
    "Idiom": [
      "stand down"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To stop fighting or relax from heightened readiness.",
    "Sentence": [
      "They ordered the troops to stand down for the moment."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "7878",
    "Idiom": [
      "stand fire"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To withstand enemy gunfire.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "7879",
    "Idiom": [
      "stand firm",
      "stand fast"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To resist pressure.",
    "Sentence": [
      "With Wales in a back four, England found joy out wide. The defensive effort impressed though, and Neco Williams courageously took a driven strike from Rashford to the head as Wales stood firm, but then, concern hit."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "7880",
    "Idiom": [
      "stand for"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To mean; to symbolize; to represent.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Some teachers festoon every spare inch of wall with vocabulary choices or maths techniques to use, which look great at first, but to some children might appear quite daunting. You'll probably see unfamiliar acronyms such as Walt (We Are Learning To). Be sure to ask what they stand for and how they are used in practice.",
      "whether these names do not some of them sometimes stand for the same thing",
      "The abbreviation CIA stands for \"Central Intelligence Agency\"."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "7881",
    "Idiom": [
      "stand from under"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To escape something falling from above.",
    "Sentence": [
      "\" Stand from under,\" he shouted out, as he threw down a cocoa-nut, which very nearly hit Billy, who had not attended to his warning.",
      "I see I was in a fix now. But it warn't no use to worry; there warn't nothing to do but just hold still, and try and be ready to stand from under when the lightning struck."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "7882",
    "Idiom": [
      "stand in for"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To replace or substitute for.",
    "Sentence": [
      "I asked my colleague to stand in for me so I could take the day off."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "7883",
    "Idiom": [
      "stand in one's own light"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Harmful to one's own interests.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "7884",
    "Idiom": [
      "stand in someone's shoes"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To see from another's point of view.",
    "Sentence": [
      "How would it be, if you were standing in my shoes ?"
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "7885",
    "Idiom": [
      "stand in the gap"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To protect or defend something in a challenging situation.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "7886",
    "Idiom": [
      "stand in the gate"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To occupy a position of advantage or defense.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "7887",
    "Idiom": [
      "stand on ceremony"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To act in a formal or overly polite manner.",
    "Sentence": [
      "“Hmp, don’t stand on ceremony, lads. You may as well savor the blessing of my seaside attire!”",
      "Please make yourself at home – there's no need to stand on ceremony."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "7888",
    "Idiom": [
      "stand on its own"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To be independent.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "7889",
    "Idiom": [
      "stand on one's head"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To make exceptional saves.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "7890",
    "Idiom": [
      "stand on one's own two feet"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To be independent and self-sufficient.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Tina is too proud to ask for help and would prefer to stand on her own two feet, she says.",
      "It's about time he left home and learnt how to stand on his own two feet."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "7891",
    "Idiom": [
      "stand on someone's shoulders"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Builds on someone's previous work or ideas.",
    "Sentence": [
      "What then can we say of the relevance of Classical languages and literature, Greek and Latin; what reason can we offer for the study of long dead languages. The answer is much in every way. For better or worse, we stand on the shoulders of the ancients, if not at their feet.",
      "On this day, as the world watches your sojourn here, / I ask with simple courtesy, “Have you looked within yourself?” / If you had, then you would know who you are / and that you stand on the shoulders of all your ancestors / who have prepared the path for your journey. / Look within, and then look forward. …"
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "7892",
    "Idiom": [
      "stand on the shoulders of"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To build on previous achievements.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "7893",
    "Idiom": [
      "stand on the shoulders of giants"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To build on the discoveries of others.",
    "Sentence": [
      "If I have seen further it is by standing on ye shoulders of Giants.",
      "In this 200th anniversary year of our Constitution, you and I stand on the shoulders of giants —men whose words and deeds put wind in the sails of freedom.",
      "\"In the western scientific tradition we stand on the shoulders of giants,\" says Young, echoing both Torvalds and Sir Isaac Newton before him.",
      "It is useful, though, to remember the conclusion of the maxim: we stand on the shoulders of giants to see better and farther than they."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "7894",
    "Idiom": [
      "stand one's ground"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To maintain an opinion or position despite opposition.",
    "Sentence": [
      "“What on earth did you think you were doing?” demanded Dad as he kneeled on his son’s bedroom floor. “What on earth do you think you were doing?” replied Frank. Dad did not look pleased that his question had been met by a question, and he stood his ground. “I asked first,” said the man.",
      "They expect their opponents to stand their ground on the issue."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "7895",
    "Idiom": [
      "stand pat"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To resist changes.",
    "Sentence": [
      "China has cut rates and allowed banks to boost lending, while some countries, such as South Korea have stood pat, fearful that inflation pressures could reignite."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "7896",
    "Idiom": [
      "stand shilly-shally"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To hesitate or procrastinate.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "7897",
    "Idiom": [
      "stand tall"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To behave bravely and proudly in the face of challenges.",
    "Sentence": [
      "\"I'll not sing one note!\" she declared, standing tall, \"not one single note!\"",
      "But there was beauty in her, and an inner strength that would allow her to stand tall and accept last night's phone call.",
      "The economic expansion that enabled the country to stand tall at the start of the century has slowed.",
      "Leeds were once more indebted to the exceptional Schmeichel for keeping them in it when he stood tall to parry away Alex Song's near-post drive only 23 seconds into the second half, before Robert Snodgrass produced a goal-saving tackle just as Arshavin was about to pull the trigger."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "7898",
    "Idiom": [
      "stand the test of time"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To remain valued over time.",
    "Sentence": [
      "The urban myth of the sun shining through Box Tunnel on Brunel's birthday may have been knocked on the head, but in its portal facing designs he created structures which have stood the test of time well.",
      "Pop music comes and goes, but classical music has stood the test of time."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "7899",
    "Idiom": [
      "stand to reason"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To seem logical or reasonable.",
    "Sentence": [
      "It stands to reason that because of the difference in climate the necessity for rugging a horse in Australia would vary considerably from that in cold countries like England",
      "But if the saying that those who want to govern, shouldn’t, applies here, does it really stand to reason that reluctant, brooding, can’t-be-bothered-to-say-goodbye-to-Ghost-the-good-boy types should?"
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "7900",
    "Idiom": [
      "stand treat"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To pay for someone else's enjoyment.",
    "Sentence": [
      "An ordinary Australian of the locality would have said Yes or No to the price asked, and, as a preliminary to doing business, would have stood the needy seller treat. Mark had to stand treat himself, and had to take Jock out to inspect the plant."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "7901",
    "Idiom": [
      "stand trial"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To undergo a legal trial.",
    "Sentence": [
      "At a towne meting in Rye March 1, 1699–1700, the towne hath past a vote that they will not stand tryal with Mr. Woodbridg. At the same towne meting the towne hath by vote agreed that what shall be wanting of the mony that is due to M r Woodbridg from the several persons that hath not yet paid the Remainder of the mony the town will make it up by way of supply in the next towne rate.",
      "Those at a distance cannot well conceive how contemptible our Church is abroad, and that owing to the unworthy, immoral, and negligent lives of the generality of our Missionarys, several of which have come over to us, because they could not stand tryal among the dissenters, or have lived too loosely among them."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "7902",
    "Idiom": [
      "stand up"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To avoid a prearranged meeting without prior notice.",
    "Sentence": [
      "— What?! Why did you come HERE then? You should be at a hospital!",
      "John stood Laura up at the movie theater."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "7903-1",
    "Idiom": [
      "stand up and be counted"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To publicly express one's views or support, especially in a challenging situation.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Only four years ago many a small nation felt required to stand up and be counted, either for or against the U.S.",
      "\"We're here because we're willing to stand up and be counted and we're willing to do something about the problems of this community.\"",
      "As an LGBT community we need to stand up and be counted, and force people into action by holding our ground on the importance of inclusion in the church."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "7903-2",
    "Idiom": [
      "stand up and be counted"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To take significant individual action for a group.",
    "Sentence": [
      "\"You definitely want to stand up and be counted,\" said Dempsey. \"You're a player the team looks to to get goals and you want to try to help the team win.\"",
      "\"It was a really tough game [against Montenegro] last time and this one will be the same. We've all got to stand up and be counted.\""
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "7904",
    "Idiom": [
      "stand up to one's lick log"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To stand firm.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "7905-1",
    "Idiom": [
      "stand up with"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Publicly support.",
    "Sentence": [
      "It was important as a woman to stand up with other women and raise our voices against the injustice.",
      "He continued: \"So I am standing up with the community and the villagers of Surrey to say 'No'.\""
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "7905-2",
    "Idiom": [
      "stand up with"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To serve as best man, maid of honor, or official witness in a wedding.",
    "Sentence": [
      "It was a quiet wedding.... Marshall P. Wilder, the humorist, who is a warm personal friend of the bride, stood up with her, and Mr. Cramer, who is connected in an editorial capacity with Frank Leslie's Illustrated Weekly, and Mrs. Cramer, were the only other witnesses.",
      "Mrs. Herbert Schmidt, of Hoboken, acted as bridesmaid.... Edwin Scheuine stood up with Rudy.",
      "When Bob and Urania Greene were married two years ago, Mr. Greene, who is Oprah Winfrey’s personal trainer, had Ms. Winfrey serve as his “best woman.” “People are ignoring gender roles,” said Antonia van der Meer, the editor-in-chief of Modern Bride and Elegant Bride. “There are times where it is more appropriate that you chose the person with whom you are closest or the person who you feel is the best possible candidate for standing up with you while you say your vows.”"
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "7905-3",
    "Idiom": [
      "stand up with"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To dance with (someone).",
    "Sentence": [
      "\"If Mrs. Gilbert wishes to dance,\" said he, \"I shall have great pleasure, I am sure—for, though beginning to feel myself rather an old married man, and that my dancing days are over, it would give me very great pleasure at any time to stand up with an old friend like Mrs. Gilbert.\"",
      "Lord Silverbridge made up his mind that as he could not dance with Miss Boncassen he would not dance at all. He was not angry at being rejected, and when he saw her stand up with Dolly Longstaff he felt no jealousy.",
      "When Hanrahan heard what they were saying he said: \"That is so, I will dance with her; there is no man in the house must dance with her but myself.\" He stood up with her then, and led her out by the hand.",
      "Joan had not danced with anybody else that evening.... Not a man in Lyall's house that night but grudged him the privilege of standing up with Joan Shelley."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "7906",
    "Idiom": [
      "stand with"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To support or back someone.",
    "Sentence": [
      "\"I stand with Bernie Sanders today because he stood with me,\" Jackson said to cheers. \"I stand with him because he's never lost his taste for justice for the people. I stand with him because he stands with you.\"",
      "People feel that Ardern \"doesn’t preach at them; she's standing with them,\" Helen Clark, New Zealand's prime minister from 1999 to 2008, told me.",
      "\"We will continue to provide financial, humanitarian, military, diplomatic and legal support and will stand firmly with Ukraine for as long as it takes,\" the joint statement said.",
      "We have declared that we stand with the protestors."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "7907",
    "Idiom": [
      "standard fare"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Something normal or routine.",
    "Sentence": [
      "More than any other man, slim, wiry Bob Olds made Flying Fortress a household phrase before Pearl Harbor.... Photogenic as a Hollywood ace, he and his B-17s became standard fare in newsreels.",
      "What makes Lovett intriguing is a grasp of emotional conflict that goes far beyond Nashville's standard fare.",
      "The black keyboard bundled with the system is standard fare.",
      "Echoing the rhapsodic prog-rock vibes of Pink Floyd circa ‘Dark Side Of The Moon’, the new track marks an ambitious step into uncharted territory for Coldplay, though not eschewing too far from the alt-rockers’ standard fare.",
      "This is pretty standard fare in Silicon Valley—Steve Jobs didn’t invent the iPod, Elon Musk didn’t design the first Tesla—but there’s usually a moment when the “founder” comes up with some innovation or solution that transforms an idea into a gigantic, distinct, and scalable business."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "7908",
    "Idiom": [
      "star turn"
    ],
    "Meaning": "An acting performance that leads to fame.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "7909",
    "Idiom": [
      "star vehicle"
    ],
    "Meaning": "A production that enhances an actor's career.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "7910",
    "Idiom": [
      "star-crossed"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Ill-fated by destiny.",
    "Sentence": [
      "But now, such is my star-cross'd destiny, / When he beholds you as you are, I may / As well entreat him give away his crown, / As to part from a jewel of more value.",
      "For a few moments he sat dazed, visualizing that dreadful waste near New Orleans where in the sand it was so easy for the star-crossed Chevalier to bury the idol of his heart.",
      "After a star-crossed regular season, Morgan vowed Thursday to show the college hoops world what it has been missing.",
      "The star-crossed lovers looked into each other's eyes, before dying."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "7911",
    "Idiom": [
      "stare someone in the face"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To be extremely visible and obvious.",
    "Sentence": [
      "The law stares them in the face whilst they are breaking it.",
      "Then, one night you wake up with a start at 3 o'clock in the morning with the answer staring you in the face. Or maybe it hits you in the bath, like Archimedes, or while you're on the loo."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "7912",
    "Idiom": [
      "stars align"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Events or circumstances combine favorably.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "7913",
    "Idiom": [
      "stars are aligned"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Present conditions are favorable.",
    "Sentence": [
      "\"This is something we've been fighting for for years.... I think the stars are aligned for legislative action this year.\"",
      "\"The stars are aligned for tobacco stocks,\" says Bonnie Herzog, a tobacco analyst with Credit Suisse First Boston. \"Everything is working in their favor.\"",
      "Ed Warner, the chairman of UK Athletics, yesterday considered the merits of the domestic governing body's bid to bring the 2017 World Athletics Championships to London and concluded: \"Our stars are aligned at the moment.\""
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "7914",
    "Idiom": [
      "stars in one's eyes"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Being overly impressed or enchanted.",
    "Sentence": [
      "After their first kiss the pair of them walked around with stars in their eyes for days."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "7915",
    "Idiom": [
      "start a family"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To conceive a child.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "7916",
    "Idiom": [
      "start a fresh hare"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To divert a discussion or argument.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Like a huntsman who, for the sake of a better run, should outrace his quarry, or who, seeing that the dogs were close upon the hare, should, in order to prolong the chase, start a fresh hare, kept till then snug at his saddle-bow, so Hume, in the excitement of metaphysical pursuit, instead of stopping to gather up whatever verified affirmations came his way, would prefer to follow any new negation that he espied, or, if momentarily accepting any affirmation as established, would proceed forthwith to affirm its direct opposite with the view of neutralising both.",
      "\"Do I understand you to suggest, Mr. Cranston\" -- Sir James Guthrie, scenting trouble, did his best to start a fresh hare -- \"that we should issue fresh capital to finance this distribution scheme?\"",
      "\"Let's think it out. Is one more shot going to put us back where we began, Felderman? Must we start a fresh hare altogether?\"",
      "Before anyone could challenge him on this, Czuikov from the Electronics Lab started a fresh hare."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "7917",
    "Idiom": [
      "start from where you are"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Achievement requires realism.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "7918",
    "Idiom": [
      "start over"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To begin again.",
    "Sentence": [
      "If every man in the heat falls down the first ten yards, don't stop your watch under the impression that they will \" start over.\" They won't.",
      "I have often heard of God referred to as the potter who gently and carefully shapes our character, but I am also aware that there are times when the potter mashes the clay and starts over.",
      "The first step in my process of healing was to choose to let go and leave behind any encumbrances that would prevent me from starting over and moving ahead.",
      "The typical business model relies on a line operating intensively from March or April through to September or October, before shutting down during the winter months - at which point essential repairs and maintenance can take place using income accrued during the busy summer months, ahead of the cycle starting over again.",
      "I forgot to save my work, and I had to start over.",
      "He had to start the game over because he lost his memory card."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "7919",
    "Idiom": [
      "start with a clean sheet",
      "start with a clean slate"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Start all over again.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "7920",
    "Idiom": [
      "starvin' Marvin"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Extremely hungry.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "7921",
    "Idiom": [
      "state of affairs"
    ],
    "Meaning": "A specific situation.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Now this doubtness is an unhappy state of affairs to the lover of the steam locomotive, but we cannot, like the proverbial ostrich, bury our heads in the sand and refuse to face facts.",
      "An independent oversight body is just setting up, but at full strength it will have a core team of just five. This is a state of affairs that cossets and enriches bailiffs at the expense of families who’ve fallen into debt.",
      "His uncooperative attitude creates a difficult state of affairs for all of us."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "7922",
    "Idiom": [
      "statistical tie"
    ],
    "Meaning": "A situation where poll results show no clear leader due to a negligible difference.",
    "Sentence": [
      "In the final weeks of the campaign, Republicans have pulled within statistical ties in the Michigan and Minnesota governor's races where Democrats are heavy favorites, according to new polls released on Friday."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "7923",
    "Idiom": [
      "stave off"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To prevent something from happening.",
    "Sentence": [
      "[Enid] answer'd with such craft as women use, / Guilty or guiltless, to stave off a chance / That breaks upon them perilously,",
      "LANCE: Only through my training as a sex machine am I able to stave off genital turgidity.",
      "So it was perhaps political backlash from the trebling of public transport times between Harlech to Porthmadog if buses took over that staved off immediate talks of closure and the release of a £241,000 subsidy (2020: £3.8m).",
      "He drank plenty of orange juice, hoping to stave off the cold making the rounds at the office."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "7924",
    "Idiom": [
      "stay away"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To avoid someone or something.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "7925",
    "Idiom": [
      "stay behind"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To remain while others leave.",
    "Sentence": [
      "If a twin goes off on a spaceship for a long trip at nearly the speed of light, that twin would be much younger on return to earth than the twin who stayed behind (Fock, 1964; French, 1968; Hawking, 1988; Young, 1992).",
      "Much as Tra wanted to stay behind, as commander of the region, it was his duty to organize and lead the troops going to the North.",
      "Ross's fortunes differed sharply from those of the principal Choctaw chief, Greenwood LeFlore, who, unlike Ross, signed a removal treaty on behalf of his people, only to stay behind himself, accept US citizenship, and go on to a distinguished career in Mississippi politics."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "7926",
    "Idiom": [
      "stay hungry"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Maintain strong motivation to achieve.",
    "Sentence": [
      "They've got three Super Bowl titles under their belts, but the Pittsburgh Steelers talked about staying hungry as the full squad of veterans arrived at training camp Friday.",
      "Faldo's main challenge will be to stay hungry despite the more than $10 million he has earned in business opportunities.",
      "Tyson was an apt pupil: he obsessively studied old films of boxing legends, learned the spiritual side of the warrior mentality and, he says, \"restrained myself from having sex for about five years.\"... But how to stay hungry when you're dining on caviar, sycophancy and willing women?",
      "Complacency is the demise of business. Steve Jobs said it best when he said, “ stay hungry ”."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "7927-1",
    "Idiom": [
      "stay in one's lane"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To stick to one's own group or boundaries.",
    "Sentence": [
      "There are those who try to outlive their means while others just stay in their lane. Some of us are used to being broke, having less",
      "That's because this place is racist, but also because most black filmmakers don't have an interest in integrating. They've accepted the premise that they must stay in their lane"
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "7927-2",
    "Idiom": [
      "stay in one's lane"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To mind one's own business.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "7928",
    "Idiom": [
      "stay on"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To continue in a place while others leave.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Some of her friends decided it was time to go home, but she wanted to stay on until sunrise.",
      "After the trial period, she was asked to stay on and work full-time."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "7929",
    "Idiom": [
      "stay put"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To remain in one place.",
    "Sentence": [
      "I'm not moving there; I'd rather stay put.",
      "I keep adjusting the focus, but it won't stay put."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "7930",
    "Idiom": [
      "stay the course"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To persist or continue.",
    "Sentence": [
      "This sort of thing is meat and drink to the born Controller—and Controllers are born with the right imperturbable temperament for the job; hence the fact that they are recruited from many different grades of operating staff, and some recruits don't stay the course.",
      "If you decide to stay the course and finish engineering school, it will mean long hours and sleepless nights."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "7931",
    "Idiom": [
      "stay the distance"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To persist or continue despite difficulties.",
    "Sentence": [
      "He was sure his girlfriend would stay the distance with her addiction treatment."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "7932-1",
    "Idiom": [
      "stay tuned"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Remain as a listener or viewer.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Alerting Nigeria to stay tuned for an important announcement, the government radio station canceled its regular programs.",
      "NBC had spent weeks promoting Mr. Daly's new show, and had even commissioned a special original edition of Conan O'Brien's Late Night show... to give Mr. Daly's show the best possible lead-in. During his show, Mr. O'Brien twice urged viewers to stay tuned for Mr. Daly."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "7932-2",
    "Idiom": [
      "stay tuned"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To wait or remain alert for updates.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Writer-director Sean Penn has found a stark camera style that ignites behavioral sparks. Stay tuned; this kid has talent.",
      "“ Stay tuned on the issues of overcrowding, capital plan, new schools, secondary reform, middle school reform; these are all critical issues,” Mr. Klein said.",
      "Riccitiello also said that more on the game’s payment structure will be revealed in February, so I guess we’ll all be staying tuned."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "7933-1",
    "Idiom": [
      "steady hand on the tiller"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Reliable, composed control.",
    "Sentence": [
      "The new president of the Varityper division of the financially troubled AM International, Joseph A. Verderber, knows that he has his work cut out for him.... \"My challenge in a ship that big is to make certain that it has a good steady hand on the tiller.\"",
      "\"My hero,\" McCain declared, is Theodore Roosevelt, who said, \"Walk softly, and carry a big stick.\"... McCain was left with this: \"When times are tough, we need a steady hand on the tiller.\"",
      "Analyst Mark Brumby at Astaire said: \"... The share register remains skewed but the current shareholders are likely to have learned from the mistakes of the past and, it is to be hoped, will provide a steady hand on the tiller.\""
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "7933-2",
    "Idiom": [
      "steady hand on the tiller"
    ],
    "Meaning": "A person exhibiting control.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Their expressions of confidence in the new Bush administration were likely heartfelt — officials around the world reminisced enthusiastically about the scion of a president best remembered as a sober and steady hand on the tiller of foreign policy.",
      "In his time, the veteran director Mike Newell has tackled a remarkably wide range of film genres... .He was the steady hand on the tiller of the phenomenal Four Weddings and a Funeral, a deceptively effortless-looking romantic comedy which, lest we forget, did not direct itself.",
      "For six years Prime Minister Stephen Harper has promoted himself as a “ steady hand on the tiller ” to steer the nation through turbulent economic waters."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "7934",
    "Idiom": [
      "steady the ship"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To bring under control.",
    "Sentence": [
      "As England attempted to steady the ship, the Rooney flashpoint occurred 17 minutes from time. He was involved in little more than a routine battle for possession near the touchline before lashing out at Dzudovic.",
      "In this Brexit turmoil we’ll need our civil servants to steady the ship [title]",
      "If there is a moment to steady the ship, it is now. For [Grant] Robertson, that means investing significantly in the worn-out health system and pumping money into climate change solutions – big-ticket concerns he says he “owes to people”.",
      "Early on, Musk brought in a team of executives and staffers from elsewhere in his business empire, including Tesla and The Boring Company, to help steady the ship."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "7935",
    "Idiom": [
      "steady-as-she-goes"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Steady and careful, avoiding sudden change.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Graham James, the bishop of Norwich, is favourite everywhere of the steady-as-she-goes party. He is widely experienced – he worked in Lambeth Palace under the previous archbishop, Lord Carey – and widely trusted, as well as scholarly.",
      "He looked to be in fine shape, sitting glassy-eyed behind the wheel, staring straight at the narrow two-lane highway, holding a steady-as-she-goes course of fifty miles an hour."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "7936",
    "Idiom": [
      "steal a glance"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To look quickly at someone or something discreetly.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Zoe took a big breath and stood up, and promised herself she would not look back. That promise lasted only a dozen steps, as she couldn’t help stealing a glance one last time to the spot where she left him.",
      "Each boy stole a glance at the other and met the same look of disbelief."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "7937-1",
    "Idiom": [
      "steal a march"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To gain an unobserved advantage.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Fifty thousand men cannot easily steal a march over the sea.",
      "He enjoyed the idea of stealing a march on society, and seeing the sons he had left at such a disadvantage behind him, ruffling it, in spite of absurd law, with the foolish best.",
      "For [Elon] Musk it looked like an easy win in his effort to make Twitter the public square, especially one that attracts rightwing blowhards and steal a march on Fox News."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "7937-2",
    "Idiom": [
      "steal a march"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To start early.",
    "Sentence": [
      "In the morning he stole a march on the sun, for he had finished breakfast when its first rays caught him.",
      "They stole a march by taking non-merchandise inventory on January 2."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "7938",
    "Idiom": [
      "steal someone's heart"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To captivate someone.",
    "Sentence": [
      "I used to take girls up to Stony Brook and steal their hearts like some crook, true story"
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "7939-1",
    "Idiom": [
      "steal someone's thunder"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To take credit for someone else's ideas.",
    "Sentence": [
      "There are several upstarts, who, without the genius to invent a style, have been copying yours, and trying to steal your thunder.",
      "It also serves to give someone else an opportunity to steal your thunder if he considers there is any amount of thunder in it.",
      "The sense of accomplishment is yours to enjoy, and nobody can steal your thunder. Even I couldn't take credit for your weight loss under my own plan, because you're the one who will do the accomplishing."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "7939-2",
    "Idiom": [
      "steal someone's thunder"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To undermine someone's accomplishments.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Can Your Competition Steal Your Thunder ? Make sure that your competitors can't undermine your statement.",
      "I'm in no way, hoping for any such disasters to take place. Nevertheless, I know that they will and I shamefully admit I didn't want those events to steal my thunder. Literally, I want to finish, publish, market, and distribute this book around the world first.",
      "Rather than stealing their thunder, that strategy has served only to make them look to more and more voters like an increasingly viable and legitimate option."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "7940",
    "Idiom": [
      "steal the show"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To be the standout performer.",
    "Sentence": [
      "And it was Lampard who stole the show with a vintage performance to silence some of his recent critics."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "7941-1",
    "Idiom": [
      "steely-eyed"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Having a determined appearance.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "7941-2",
    "Idiom": [
      "steely-eyed"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Having a hard, strong, and determined mindset.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Her steely-eyed control of emotion has become such a reliable source of strength and enjoyment in the last two seasons, it's genuinely moving to see her defenses fall in the face of long-lost friends and family."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "7942",
    "Idiom": [
      "steely-nerved"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Having a strong and determined mindset with steady nerves.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "7943",
    "Idiom": [
      "steely-spined"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Having a strong and determined mindset.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "7944",
    "Idiom": [
      "stem the rose"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To have anal sex.",
    "Sentence": [
      "You guys wasn't gettin’ paid to leave the dogs to babysit the sheep while you stemmed the rose. Now get the hell out of my trailer.",
      "Are you stupid? You of course have stemmed the rose. Palate cleanser, indeed.",
      "Stemming the rose by any other name would still gross me out.",
      "Bruckheimer wasn't paying Gyllenhaal to let the anonymous henchmen babysit Persia so he could stem the rose.",
      "Love who you want but y'all know stemming the rose ain't right and you'll have to answer for dat sheeet!"
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "7945",
    "Idiom": [
      "stem the tide"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To slow or stop the flow of something.",
    "Sentence": [
      "To insure a future is crucial; it is crucial because gay communities and lesbian and gay-male citizens can conceivably become the next singled-out \"target\" in the \"targeting\" capability of the self-proclaimed Moral Majority and other groups with the same kind of agenda. Virginia Beach's vote to outlaw Our Own newspaper in its libraries is a concrete example of a tide we cannot depend on future courts to stem.",
      "The plan was to send 10 trucks of food for seven straight days, to help stem the tide of hunger and desperation and to begin building trust in communities that there would be enough food for all.",
      "The news report stemmed the tide of concerned calls, but didn't stop them altogether."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "7946-1",
    "Idiom": [
      "step back"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To evaluate the current situation.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Making the announcement at 1600 on Friday November 4, the RDG said in a statement: \"It is positive that the RMT leadership has stepped back from the brink and called off their strike action.",
      "Perhaps we should step back for a second and think about solving this problem a different way."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "7946-2",
    "Idiom": [
      "step back"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To emotionally detach from a situation.",
    "Sentence": [
      "As a therapist sometimes you have to step back from your clients' lives."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "7946-3",
    "Idiom": [
      "step back"
    ],
    "Meaning": "A setback or deterioration.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Switching to more frequent meetings was a step back for that team, which had too many meetings already."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "7946-4",
    "Idiom": [
      "step back"
    ],
    "Meaning": "A reversion to a former state.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "7947",
    "Idiom": [
      "step down"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To resign from office.",
    "Sentence": [
      "She now wants to be a Paris MP. But Fillon wants the same Paris seat when he steps down, after next year's election. Both have their eye on the main prize: running for Paris mayor in 2014.",
      "Late on the previous Friday (September 2), AWC had announced that Managing Director Phil Whittingham \"has decided to step down with effect from September 15\"."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "7948-1",
    "Idiom": [
      "step forward"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To volunteer or offer help.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Ambassador Udina: The other species are scared. They've never faced anything like this before and they don't know what to do. They want us to step forward. They believe in humanity because of you. Ambassador Udina: Your ruthless pursuit of Saren and the geth, your defiance of the Council -- that's what humans are capable of! That's how we can defeat the Reapers! Ambassador Udina: The others will follow us, Shepard. They know we're their only hope. We will have a human Council with a human Chairman."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "7948-2",
    "Idiom": [
      "step forward"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To admit one's wrongdoing.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "7949",
    "Idiom": [
      "step lively"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To move quickly.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Our London correspondent informs us that the \"spirit of rush\" possesses London. The motor omnibuses reach a speed rate of four miles an hour. The guards on the underground railway are beginning to exclaim \" Step lively !\" Old-fashioned, conservative Britons are indignant.",
      "\" Step lively, please,\" said a jiffy who was sitting on the adjoining post. \"Father Time permits no delays, you know; come, step lively !\"",
      "The Oxford system of a wheel within a wheel has all the advantages of the small college and the great university. The student of even mediocre ability, if he have ambition and energy, can find himself and his place among the multiplex societies and clubs of the Oxford College, while even a hunchback, if he steps lively, can get on some sort of college athletic team.",
      "The making up of ninety beds in twelve hours requires (granting that you dote on bedmaking) no superhuman strength and endurance; but if, in addition, you are expected to clean thirty-six spittoons, three lavatories, a lobby, and a restaurant, it behooves you to step lively.",
      "As I watched, the crew stepped lively, the capstan grasped by four men, the fore and aft anchors rapidly pulled and secured.",
      "And yet there the Seahawks were Thursday afternoon, on one of the soccer fields of FC Bayern Munich's vast practice facility, stepping lively as the familiar music from their weekly \"Techno Thursday\" playlist blared."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "7950",
    "Idiom": [
      "step on a rake"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To fall victim to an avoidable error.",
    "Sentence": [
      "But having seen Wall Street step on a rake time and time again when it comes to incriminating e-mails and villainous characters, you can be fairly confident that Liborgate is going to be just as big a hit in the U.S. as it was abroad.",
      "Major League Baseball has displayed a unique ability to step on a rake in recent years, with a championship team marred by a cheating scandal and a sudden change in the performance of its baseballs that the league has been unable to explain.",
      "Looking at the team's schedule to this point reveals signs of progress followed immediately by stepping on a rake."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "7951",
    "Idiom": [
      "step on it"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To act quickly.",
    "Sentence": [
      "They'll have to step on it to finish the paper tonight."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "7952",
    "Idiom": [
      "step on someone's toes"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Causes offense by interfering or overstepping boundaries.",
    "Sentence": [
      "I didn't think I'd be stepping on my sister's toes when I told my nephew to sit up straight at the dinner table."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "7953",
    "Idiom": [
      "step out"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To date.",
    "Sentence": [
      "They've been stepping out since he told her he was interested in a family."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "7954",
    "Idiom": [
      "step over"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To move aside.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "7955-1",
    "Idiom": [
      "step up"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To increase or advance.",
    "Sentence": [
      "As in the whole country, cadres and poor and lower-middle peasants in our Taning County, inspired by the spirit of the National Conference on Learning From Tachai in Agriculture, were greatly stimulated and high in spirits and resolved to fight hard in the movement of learning from Tachai in agriculture and building Tachai-type counties everywhere. In the face of the excellent situation, the anti-party clique of the \"gang of four,\"--Wang, Chang, Chiang and Yao-- stepped up their antiparty activities and strengthend their attacks on the party.",
      "United were made to pay for letting an eight-point lead as little as five weeks ago slip and, despite their final-day efforts, they will look back on a season where, when they needed to step up, they fell flat.",
      "They will need to step up production if they are going to compete.",
      "Step up your shower game!"
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "7955-2",
    "Idiom": [
      "step up"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To take responsibility.",
    "Sentence": [
      "The Gunners continued to press after the break but it was Leeds who broke the deadlock in the 54th minute. There was no doubt about the penalty either, with Denilson clumsily fouling Gradel and Snodgrass stepping up to find the bottom corner of the net.",
      "Won't anyone step up to the challenge?"
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "7956",
    "Idiom": [
      "step up one's game"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To improve performance or quality of work.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "7957",
    "Idiom": [
      "step up to the plate"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To take responsibility.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Surround yourself with good people who can reliably step up to the plate and solve problems when they occur.",
      "When you introduce a new and very important issue, you are likely to inspire some of those who have been sitting back to step up to the plate and take on the new role of promoting ethical practice.",
      "However, every time you fail to do something, you make it harder to step up to the plate for the next challenge. Think of this ability and willingness to step up as a competency or skill that you can develop over time.",
      "\"There is something in railway people that has encouraged them to step up to the plate,\" says Starr."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "7958",
    "Idiom": [
      "stepping razor"
    ],
    "Meaning": "A dangerous person.",
    "Sentence": [
      "I'm like a stepping razor / Don't you watch my size / I'm dangerous, dangerous"
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "7959",
    "Idiom": [
      "stepping stone"
    ],
    "Meaning": "A means to progress to something else.",
    "Sentence": [
      "I held it truth, with him who sings ⁠To one clear harp in divers tones, ⁠That men may rise on stepping-stones Of their dead selves to higher things.",
      "He was full of ambition, and force, and life, intending all sorts of great things, and meaning to make his position a stepping stone to all that was excellent in public life.",
      "Esperanto can make a good stepping stone language to Latin, which may be difficult for amateur linguists."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "7960",
    "Idiom": [
      "stew in one's juices"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To be self-absorbed and uncomfortable due to one's own actions.",
    "Sentence": [
      "\"Nothin' like mystery to keep that rotten little camp up on its toes,\" he muttered. \"I'll just leave that mess to stew in its own juices for a while.\"",
      "He had come to deliver young Kiner to the police station. There, he said, he was left to stew in his juices for an hour, during which he conjured visions of cruel and inhuman punishment.",
      "Unable to run around a field or court, \"these golfers are stewing in their juices,\" he said. '\"They have nowhere to go but think about what might happen,\" he added."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "7961",
    "Idiom": [
      "stick a fork in something"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Indicates something or someone is finished or defeated.",
    "Sentence": [
      "I'd play the last level with you, but I'm out of lives. Stick a fork in me !"
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "7962",
    "Idiom": [
      "stick by"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To remain loyal or adhere to someone or something.",
    "Sentence": [
      "To be loyal means to stick by someone and to prove yourself dependable and reliable. This is what Caleb does, and for that he is rewarded, despite his age of eighty-five."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "7963",
    "Idiom": [
      "stick in someone's craw"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Causes lasting annoyance or irritation.",
    "Sentence": [
      "I will just cite you two of the matters referred to by Mr. Glavis in his letter to the President, and, from what I learn, seems to stick in the craw of Mr. Bowman.",
      "There was a pennant chase that year that would stick in his craw and the craw of every Phillies fan forever.",
      "It really sticks in my craw that he never even asked me."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "7964-1",
    "Idiom": [
      "stick in the mud"
    ],
    "Meaning": "A person unwilling to participate in activities.",
    "Sentence": [
      "\"I don't hold back like you do. Even Tedd's dad can tell you're a stick-in-the-mud. That's why he made you the supervisor of this party.\"",
      "Have a little fun sometimes and don't be such a stick-in-the-mud."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "7964-2",
    "Idiom": [
      "stick in the mud"
    ],
    "Meaning": "A person who is slow, old-fashioned, or unprogressive.",
    "Sentence": [
      "There’s a parallel here: the idea of Barbie dolls being in any way noxious seems, in the current climate, to be as hopelessly stick-in-the-mud a stance as the concept of selling out."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "7965",
    "Idiom": [
      "stick it to",
      "put it to"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To assert power for revenge or to prove a point.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Then put it to Judah. God knows if you walk in and give up Judah you're giving up yourself."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "7966",
    "Idiom": [
      "stick it to the man"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To defy oppression or authority.",
    "Sentence": [
      "What could be more delightful than a trip to Greece to meet Yanis Varoufakis, the charismatic leftwing firebrand who tried to stick it to the man, AKA the IMF, EU and entire global financial order?",
      "Paula not only told her boss that she quit but also told him to shut up. Way to stick it to the man !"
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "7967",
    "Idiom": [
      "stick one's dick in crazy"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To engage with someone perceived as unstable.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "7968-1",
    "Idiom": [
      "stick one's foot in it"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To make an embarrassing mistake.",
    "Sentence": [
      "There’ll be little campaigning on the hustings this season. For a politician who cherishes the connect, social distancing could be politically fatal; but for Biden, it could be a gift. He’ll have fewer chances to get carried away as he speaks, to overhug, to stick his foot in it (and he’s done quite a bit of that already)."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "7968-2",
    "Idiom": [
      "stick one's foot in it"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Indicates a mistake or faux pas.",
    "Sentence": [
      "This chili turned out fabulous! Joe really stuck his foot in it this time, didn't he?"
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "7969",
    "Idiom": [
      "stick one's foot in one's mouth"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To say something embarrassing or inappropriate.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "7970",
    "Idiom": [
      "stick one's neck out"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To take a risk or become vulnerable.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Uncle Tom's study was a place I seldom entered during my visits to Brinkley Court, because when I did go there he always grabbed me and started to talk about old silver, whereas if he caught me in the open he often touched on other topics, and the way I looked at it was that there was no sense in sticking one's neck out. It was more than a year since I had been inside this sanctum",
      "Bogey is the cynical cafe owner who lives by his own moral code and sticks his neck out for “no one.”",
      "And unfortunately, while Secretary of State for Transport Grant Shapps (one of the few half-competent ministers in the Cabinet) is clever enough to understand this, he does not really care enough to stick his neck out, given that he is very likely to be heading off for a bigger job in the inevitable Cabinet reshuffle once the virus is under control."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "7971",
    "Idiom": [
      "stick one's nose into",
      "poke one's nose into"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To interfere in someone else's business.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Stop sticking your nose into my affairs!",
      "\"Have a nice day, Mr Perelman!\" said the cabbie. \"Listen!\" he said, \"Don't poke your nose into my affairs. I'll have the kind of day I want to.\""
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "7972",
    "Idiom": [
      "stick one's oar in"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To meddle.",
    "Sentence": [
      "He feels he must be [there] today. Not to stick his oar in, you understand, but to offer moral support.",
      "I don't want her coming and sticking her oar in – she doesn't know anything about our financials."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "7973",
    "Idiom": [
      "stick out"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To be prominent or noticeable.",
    "Sentence": [
      "The one red wall really sticks out among all the creamy ones."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "7974",
    "Idiom": [
      "stick the knife in"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To act maliciously or hurtfully.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Bengali speaks with courtly floweriness even when sticking the knife in, and Thompson's well-meaning British bluntness was not appreciated."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "7975",
    "Idiom": [
      "stick the landing"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To complete a process impressively.",
    "Sentence": [
      "This was a big speech with a high degree of difficulty. And, Don Jr. stuck the landing.",
      "In the end, the third season of Fargo stuck the landing so well that its missteps seem more like scars on fine leather than signs of a show in decline."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "7976-1",
    "Idiom": [
      "stick to"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To persist or continue.",
    "Sentence": [
      "When I did newspaper work in the 1950s I always found it hard to initiate criticism of a person. Now, in the late 1970s, I suddenly find it has become hard to praise a person. Take, for example, the case of Liu Jie, an inspector of the neighborhood registry in the Daxing’anling district of Heilongjiang, who was praised in the press for sticking to principles. She also had the support of the Provincial Party Committee. But it was precisely the commendation of the Party newspaper that brought calamity upon her, and the support of the provincial leadership was of no use in breaking the siege that befell her.",
      "What I get from work makes me a better mother, and what I get from being a mother makes me a better journalist. At least that's my story and I'm sticking to it.",
      "I have seen all the fancy electric toothbrushes, but I'm going to stick to the old-fashioned kind.",
      "If you stick to your studies, you will continue to improve."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "7976-2",
    "Idiom": [
      "stick to"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To follow and remain close to.",
    "Sentence": [
      "The suspect doubled back through an alley, but the detective stuck to him like glue."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "7977",
    "Idiom": [
      "stick to one's guns"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To maintain one’s position despite opposition.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Ronald had stuck to his guns and refused me to the last.",
      "\"I intend to marry, of course,\" replied Tuppence. \"That is, if\"—she paused, knew a momentary longing to draw back, and then stuck to her guns bravely—\"I can find some one rich enough to make it worth my while.\"",
      "The President... stuck to his guns on that, not repeating any of his recent admissions that there had been \"miscalculations\" in planning for the war.",
      "Sarri has been questioned for his decision to use Jorginho as the hub of his team while pushing Kante into a more advanced role out on the right - why have the player many regard as the finest holding midfield player in world football and not utilise him there? Sarri has stuck to his guns and this was a game - and performance by Kante - that added significant weight to his argument."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "7978",
    "Idiom": [
      "stick to one's knitting"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To concentrate on one's own tasks or expertise.",
    "Sentence": [
      "As sportsmen I think that we should stick to our knitting and not allow economic or social conditions to interfere with the Olympic Games.",
      "Researchers should stick to their knitting, finding cancer cures and discovering new shades of lipstick, and refrain from debunking history.",
      "\"We stuck to our knitting and stayed in one market rather than going for growth,\" he says."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "7979",
    "Idiom": [
      "stick to one's last"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To focus on one's own tasks or expertise.",
    "Sentence": [
      "But never one to stick to his last, James founded the Little Big Band in 1993, which launched him on nearly a decade of swing material. Recent years have found him venturing back into rock and he says, “I think it’s time to hit the blues again” when asked what’s around the bend.",
      "Sir Martin made clear he intended to “ stick to his last ” by staying in an industry he knew well and enjoyed, and that he would not wait long before making his next move."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "7980",
    "Idiom": [
      "stick to one's text"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To stay focused on the main topic.",
    "Sentence": [
      "You would be doing well on your project if you stuck to your text instead of exploring every new topic which pops up."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "7981",
    "Idiom": [
      "stick to someone's ribs"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To be filling.",
    "Sentence": [
      "When I came to the cold lunch and fried breakfast poor Evans' face fell; he evidently doesn't much believe in the virtue of food, unless it is in the form of a hoosh and has some chance of sticking to one's ribs.",
      "Those two mincemeat tarts hadn't stuck to his ribs the way he'd thought they would.",
      "I've been trying to find a way to incorporate more vegetarian dishes into my everyday rotation, and to be honest, it's been hard to find something hearty and that sticks to my ribs, that's also meat free."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "7982",
    "Idiom": [
      "stick together"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To remain united.",
    "Sentence": [
      "The lines had realised that they had better stop fighting each other, and stick together in the face of the onslaught from the motor buses that were making horse buses obsolete.",
      "They need to stick together so they don’t get eaten, but different animals might want to head in different directions at any one time.",
      "You and I till the end, don't need to pretend / Again and again, we'll stick together / Everything is alright, with you by my side / We won't say goodbye, we'll stick together"
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "7983-1",
    "Idiom": [
      "stick up"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To rob at gunpoint.",
    "Sentence": [
      "What Pimp was asking me to do was crazy. Off the fuckin' chain. Insane. He was scheming to stick up T.C. and Miss Lady's pool hall so we could pay off G, but a playa like me was getting ready to go to college and put all that two-bit robbing and stealing shit behind me.",
      "Listen up, at around 2300 we received multiple 911 calls from the 4U Gas Station at 5th and Vandrake in Southside, we believe this to be a stick up robbery with multiple armed suspects.",
      "I think they intend to stick up the bank."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "7983-2",
    "Idiom": [
      "stick up"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To be prominent or point upwards.",
    "Sentence": [
      "No matter how much I brush it, my hair always sticks up."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "7984-1",
    "Idiom": [
      "stick with"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To remain close to.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "7984-2",
    "Idiom": [
      "stick with"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To follow or adhere to.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Please stick with the path marked on the map, and try not to get lost."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "7985",
    "Idiom": [
      "sticker shock"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Disgust or shock upon learning the price of something.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Last week Jensen returned to his dealer's showroom to eye the new Continental, but he quickly became another victim of what Detroit calls \" sticker shock.\" The price on the car's window: $25,692. Says he: \"Damn, that is expensive! It persuaded me to keep driving my '80 until it won't go any more.\"",
      "Now the 1997 model year brings a slew of new and redesigned models that tackle sticker shock head-on.",
      "This was supposed to be a summer of long-awaited celebrations in New York City, the return of a packed calendar full of birthday dinners and happy hours. But New Yorkers are confronting sticker shock everywhere they look, whether they’re shopping for barbecue supplies at the grocery store, ordering a beer after work or grabbing a late-night slice of pizza.",
      "But we have been educated, by a warped system, to believe that food is cheap as of right. That is why many of us are now suffering sticker shock when we eat out."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "7986-1",
    "Idiom": [
      "sticking point"
    ],
    "Meaning": "A disputed issue causing an impasse in progress.",
    "Sentence": [
      "The question of representing inside workers was a sticking point.",
      "A major sticking point had arisen over draft article IV of the proposed treaty dealing with the disputed Antarctic claims and rights.",
      "A key sticking point is RDG's requirement of introducing driver-only operation (DOO) on all routes where it can be installed now, and for all future new train deliveries.",
      "The sticking point is over whether the legislation can be used for enforcement of ‘Urban Vehicle Access Regulations’ (UVARs) such as the Stockholm congestion charge, or the Brussels low emissions zone (which bans the most polluting vehicles)."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "7986-2",
    "Idiom": [
      "sticking point"
    ],
    "Meaning": "A point of resistance or impasse.",
    "Sentence": [
      "It warmed his feelings to the sticking point.",
      "I could not screw my courage to the sticking point."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "7987",
    "Idiom": [
      "sticking-place"
    ],
    "Meaning": "The point at which something remains steadfast.",
    "Sentence": [
      "But screw your courage to the sticking-place, And we'll not fail.",
      "Old men, who heard it, will still tell you how the reverberating voice made all hearts swell, in that moment; and braced them to the sticking-place."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "7988-1",
    "Idiom": [
      "sticks and stones"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Words cannot cause harm.",
    "Sentence": [
      "‘You cheap dead-beat son of a bitch.’ / ‘ Sticks and stones.’",
      "He has come through the worst and now presents a stoical ‘ sticks and stones ’ front to his detractors.",
      "Elizabeth Swann: You're despicable!",
      "(Kate) : That's gross! You're a pervert. (Trekkie) :Oh, sticks and stones, Kate Monster."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "7988-2",
    "Idiom": [
      "sticks and stones"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Obsolete technology compared to modern advancements.",
    "Sentence": [
      "I know not with what weapons World War III will be fought, but World War IV will be fought with sticks and stones. Author unknown, attributed to Albert Einstein"
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "7989",
    "Idiom": [
      "sticks and stones may break my bones, but words will never hurt me"
    ],
    "Meaning": "A response to taunting expressing indifference.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "7990-1",
    "Idiom": [
      "sticky fingers"
    ],
    "Meaning": "An inclination to steal.",
    "Sentence": [
      "‘She was great,’ Bennie said. ‘I was crazy about her. But it turned out she had sticky fingers.’ He glanced at Alex. ‘She stole things.’",
      "You'd better lock up your belongings before handing your keys to a valet; some of them have sticky fingers."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "7990-2",
    "Idiom": [
      "sticky fingers"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Petty thieves.",
    "Sentence": [
      "There are too many sticky fingers around for me to leave my purse unattended."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "7991",
    "Idiom": [
      "sticky-finger"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To steal or pilfer.",
    "Sentence": [
      "\"picking up\" a few essential supplies, writing post-cards, and watching our Cockney comedian soft-soap the sales-girls while he sticky-fingered a few personal necessities.",
      "'This one will be called the Crimson Star of Sri Lanka, and it will be placed on display where every Lankan may visit it but where our politicians and thieves will not be able to sticky-finger it away again.'",
      "But Globe and Mail columnist Simon Houpt's new book shows that sticky-fingering a Rembrandt or a Goya is becoming a menacingly common occurrence. Art theft, according to Interpol, adds up to between $1.5-billion and $6-billion annually, ..."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "7992",
    "Idiom": [
      "stiff upper lip"
    ],
    "Meaning": "The quality of showing self-restraint and resolution.",
    "Sentence": [
      "I thought now the jig was mighty nigh up with me, but I determined to keep a stiff upper lip.",
      "A man may go pretty near through his whole sea-life without any call to show a stiff upper lip.",
      "Jeeves came in, bowler hat in hand, to say goodbye. A solemn moment, taxing our self-control to the utmost. However, we both kept the upper lip stiff, and after we had kidded back and forth for a while he started to withdraw. He poked his head round the tree as I arrived, and when I waved a cheery hand at him, waved a fairly cheery hand at me. Though I only caught a glimpse of him, I could see that his upper lip was stiff.",
      "In typical British stiff upper lip fashion, the tournament organizers expected us to play into, and through, the menacing weather."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "7993",
    "Idiom": [
      "still water runs deep",
      "still waters run deep"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Calm appearance may hide deep emotions or intellect.",
    "Sentence": [
      "I always knew she was an artful jade; ' still waters run deep;' but she shall be exposed, the mask shall be stripped from the hypocrite.",
      "But still waters run deep; and no crisis had come in the years of her early maidenhood to demonstrate what lay hidden within her, like metal in a mine.",
      "Baxter had never known of any goings on in that quarter, but, bless you, still waters run deep, and these girls were all alike, one as bad as the other.",
      "Isabel Pierce, the central character of Sweetwater, Roxana Robinson's fluid third novel, gives the appearance of being a thoughtful, reserved, quiet woman who won't rock any boats in her life. Yet she harbors passions; it might be said of her that still waters run deep."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "7994",
    "Idiom": [
      "stink a dog off a gut wagon",
      "gag a dog off a gut wagon",
      "knock a buzzard off a shit wagon",
      "knock a dog off a gut wagon",
      "knock a skunk off a gut wagon",
      "stink a buzzard off a gut wagon",
      "stink a skunk off a gut wagon"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To smell extremely bad.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "7995",
    "Idiom": [
      "stink eye"
    ],
    "Meaning": "An unpleasant look.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Miss Mae gave me the stink eye, just on general principle, when I came into the kitchen. She was so good at the stink eye that even if you hadn't done something wrong, you felt like you did.",
      "\" Stink eye \" is a Hawaiian pidgin expression for a disapproving glance, a mean or dirty look."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "7996",
    "Idiom": [
      "stink on ice"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Of very poor quality or repulsive.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "7997",
    "Idiom": [
      "stir shit"
    ],
    "Meaning": "to deliberately cause trouble.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Mal could tell too, just looking at those goons, that they stirred shit day in and day out.",
      "The King has stirred shit up and caused the people to fight amongst themselves instead of organizing properly to fight against him."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "7998",
    "Idiom": [
      "stir someone's blood"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To rouse spirits.",
    "Sentence": [
      "The build-up to the game carried all the hallmarks of this great old rivalry with noise, colour, pyrotechnics and a rousing rendition of Flower of Scotland to stir the blood of Scottish fans - not that it needed much stirring once they caught sight of England's white shirts."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "7999",
    "Idiom": [
      "stir up a hornets' nest"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Causes trouble or controversy.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "8000",
    "Idiom": [
      "stock phrase"
    ],
    "Meaning": "A frequently used phrase associated with a person or group.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Bart Simpson's stock phrase \"I didn't do it\" was once lampooned on the show itself."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "8001",
    "Idiom": [
      "stock-still"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Without motion.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Paul stood stock still; then came a strong impulse to turn and run back.",
      "Now his fingertips were tapping in addition to his toe-bouncing, until soon his entire body was wibbling in jumping-bean fashion. “Old Mag, you say?” He peered around Nitty at Mag, and Mag took the opportunity to inspect his mask and goggles with her trunk. The boy quit wibbling, stood stock-still, and gulped.",
      "He lay stock-still among the bodies and blasted equipment."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "8002-1",
    "Idiom": [
      "stone cold"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Very cold; lacking warmth.",
    "Sentence": [
      "I forgot to turn on the burner under the soup and found it sitting there, still stone cold, twenty minutes later."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "8002-2",
    "Idiom": [
      "stone cold"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Lacking emotion or compassion.",
    "Sentence": [
      "a stone-cold killer"
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "8002-3",
    "Idiom": [
      "stone cold"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Certain or definite.",
    "Sentence": [
      "\"A hike on Thursday looks a stone cold certainty,\" Howard Archer, chief UK economist at Global Insight, said."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "8003",
    "Idiom": [
      "stone dead"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Utterly dead.",
    "Sentence": [
      "'I congratulate you; it was a lovely shot, and mine were vile.' We got out of the boat and ran to the buck, which was shot through the spine and stone dead.",
      "[Owner]: No no he's not dead, he's, he's restin'! Remarkable bird, the Norwegian Blue, idn'it, ay? Beautiful plumage! [Mr. Praline]: The plumage don't enter into it. It's stone dead."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "8004",
    "Idiom": [
      "stone deaf"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Utterly deaf.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Years of working under such noisy conditions ultimately left him stone deaf."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "8005",
    "Idiom": [
      "stone's throw"
    ],
    "Meaning": "A short distance.",
    "Sentence": [
      "A stone's throw from The Hawthorns is Oldbury, home to Baggies fan Ashley Rawlins.",
      "He came on looking upon the ground, and did not see Bathsheba till they were less than a stone's throw apart.",
      "Several trucks rushed by, a stone's throw away from us."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "8006",
    "Idiom": [
      "stop and smell the roses"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To take time to appreciate life.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "8007",
    "Idiom": [
      "stop at nothing"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To do everything in one's power to achieve something.",
    "Sentence": [
      "He will stop at nothing to destroy his enemies."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "8008",
    "Idiom": [
      "stop cold"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To halt suddenly.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "8009",
    "Idiom": [
      "stop dead"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To stop suddenly.",
    "Sentence": [
      "At the height of the crisis, according to a retired SAC wing commander, SAC airborne alert bombers deliberately flew past their turnaround points toward Soviet airspace, an unambiguous threat which Soviet radar operators would certainly have recognized and reported. \"I knew what my target was,\" the SAC general adds: \"Leningrad.\" The bombers only turned around when the Soviet freighters carrying missiles to Cuba stopped dead in the Atlantic."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "8010",
    "Idiom": [
      "stop press"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Used to grab attention for important news.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "8011",
    "Idiom": [
      "stop someone in their tracks"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To prevent someone from continuing.",
    "Sentence": [
      "This magnificent picture really stopped me in my tracks when I stumbled across it. I was drawn inexorably and immediately into the compelling detail discernible on this top-quality image."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "8012",
    "Idiom": [
      "stop the bleeding"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To recover by interrupting a series of losses or disappointments.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "8013",
    "Idiom": [
      "stop the lights"
    ],
    "Meaning": "An interjection expressing exasperation or incredulity.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Sure, stop the lights, I know all about it. There's a great shop in Phibsboro.Transformations' Any size you want.",
      "Oh, stop the lights. The Priest is after parkin' across the street. I think he's comin' over here."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "8014",
    "Idiom": [
      "stop the presses"
    ],
    "Meaning": "An exclamation for new or important news.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "8015",
    "Idiom": [
      "store away"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To keep a supply of something.",
    "Sentence": [
      "I don't think I need these papers any more, but just in case, I'll store them away in the attic."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "8016",
    "Idiom": [
      "storm off"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To leave angrily.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "8017",
    "Idiom": [
      "storm out of the blocks"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To begin rapidly.",
    "Sentence": [
      "A goalless draw seemed an unlikely outcome when the game started at a stunning pace as Arsenal, keen to establish themselves as United's principal challengers this season, stormed out of the blocks in thrilling fashion."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "8018",
    "Idiom": [
      "storm-racked"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Damaged by a storm.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "8019",
    "Idiom": [
      "stormy weather"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Describes a period of troubles and difficulties.",
    "Sentence": [
      "But so far the unbounded effrontery of Joseph has pulled him through. However, he has now struck stormy weather, and is likely to have a short and tempestuous passage as Prime Minister.",
      "\"Never dreamed you two had struck stormy weather, though - what's the trouble?\"",
      "For if you cannot laugh together, / Look out! You're in for stormy weather."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "8020",
    "Idiom": [
      "story, bud"
    ],
    "Meaning": "A greeting.",
    "Sentence": [
      "*Any non-Irish person should be aware that it is not necessary to take the question literally i.e. one shouldn't start to explain your life story when greeted with 'What's the story?' rather they should respond in kind e.g. Greeting: 'What's the story?' Response: 'What's the story?' There are several variations on the theme, the most popular being 'What's the story, bud?' or the pithy : 'Story, bud?' or the pithier still 'Story?'"
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "8021",
    "Idiom": [
      "stovepipe hat"
    ],
    "Meaning": "A tall, cylindrical top hat.",
    "Sentence": [
      "One long, lanky man, with long hair and a big white fur stovepipe hat on the back of his head, and a crooked-handled cane, marked out the places."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "8022",
    "Idiom": [
      "straight and narrow"
    ],
    "Meaning": "A path of honesty and adherence to rules.",
    "Sentence": [
      "The project would seriously go down the pan if Mrs. Foster weren't here to keep it on the straight and narrow."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "8023",
    "Idiom": [
      "straight away"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Quickly; immediately.",
    "Sentence": [
      "This item is urgent, so please start on it straight away."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "8024",
    "Idiom": [
      "straight face"
    ],
    "Meaning": "An expressionless face.",
    "Sentence": [
      "I don't think I could recite \"Peter Piper\" quickly ten times with a straight face."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "8025-1",
    "Idiom": [
      "straight from the horse's mouth"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Directly from the source.",
    "Sentence": [
      "If you don't believe me, go talk to him and hear it straight from the horse's mouth. It's true."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "8025-2",
    "Idiom": [
      "straight from the horse's mouth"
    ],
    "Meaning": "From the source.",
    "Sentence": [
      "This is straight from the horse's mouth."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "8026-1",
    "Idiom": [
      "straight from the shoulder"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Done in a direct, blunt manner.",
    "Sentence": [
      "He delivered his blow straight from the shoulder, felt the jar right up his arm, and realised suddenly that he was striking something passive and unresisting.",
      "\"Are yuh going to let the Pilgrim hang around here this summer?\" he demanded in his straight-from-the-shoulder fashion.",
      "\"I intend to travel quite soon to Iraq and meet with our military leaders and other personnel there,\" he said. \"I look forward to hearing their honest assessments of the situation on the ground and to having the benefit of their advice—unvarnished and straight from the shoulder —on how to proceed in the weeks and months ahead.\""
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "8026-2",
    "Idiom": [
      "straight from the shoulder"
    ],
    "Meaning": "In a straightforward manner.",
    "Sentence": [
      "I'd jes' like to drop into the Eastry Arms, jes' when all those beggars in the parlour are sittin' down to whist, Ruck and Marbel and all, and give 'em ten minutes of my mind, George. Straight from the shoulder. Jes' exactly what I think of them.",
      "He's an uncomplicated working-class kid who speaks, jab-like, straight from the shoulder."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "8027-1",
    "Idiom": [
      "straight goods"
    ],
    "Meaning": "The truth or the facts.",
    "Sentence": [
      "\"In me yout' I was d' star poople of d' Sunday school dey opens long ago at d' Five Points. That's straight goods, see!\"",
      "All the same, where did the straight goods leave off and the horseshit begin?",
      "The News wrote that the mayor “let loyalty get the better of his duty to provide the public with straight goods.”",
      "Over three decades of writing about transit in the Toronto region has landed me in a stupor, unable to give readers the straight goods on our transit needs."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "8027-2",
    "Idiom": [
      "straight goods"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Authentic.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Is she the straight goods, or is she a gold digger trying to con him?",
      "There is no hype about the musicians, no fancy dress, no gimmick to catch the wandering eye. They are simply the straight goods —trenchant musicianship and first-rate ensemble."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "8028",
    "Idiom": [
      "straight man"
    ],
    "Meaning": "A comedic foil who supports jokes through dialogue.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Recently he had successfully concluded a case featuring a poet who wore only latex, lived on liquorice allsorts and worshipped a horse she believed to be the reincarnation of Radclyffe Hall. And she was the straight man.",
      "She was the straight man, he was the comedian, and their audience was “standing room only” when they stepped up to the microphone.",
      "For many years Bud Abbott served brilliantly as Lou Costello's deadpan straight man."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "8029",
    "Idiom": [
      "straight out of the chute"
    ],
    "Meaning": "immediately, from the very beginning.",
    "Sentence": [
      "His ride on Bold Lancer started out just like he thought it would. The bull bucked straight out of the chute and slowly came around to the left. Clay remained in position, forward on his bull rope, spurs raking the bull’s side. It looked as if it was going to be an easy ride, albeit a low-scoring one. Bold Lancer had other ideas."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "8030-1",
    "Idiom": [
      "straight shooter"
    ],
    "Meaning": "A person who is honest.",
    "Sentence": [
      "The image he projects seems at home here in Iowa: the straight-shooter, the truth-teller, the unadorned Kansan from the prairie.",
      "And those lucky enough to be around him always knew who he was too — a gentleman of extraordinary character, a straight shooter and a pioneering journalist destined to be remembered."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "8030-2",
    "Idiom": [
      "straight shooter"
    ],
    "Meaning": "A blunt person, often harsh or offensive.",
    "Sentence": [
      "A 1934 journalism graduate of the University of Wisconsin, Fleming, who has a reputation as an abrasive straight shooter, was a newspaper and magazine correspondent before joining ABC in 1957.",
      "Baseball's equivalent of John Wayne, one Dallas Green, will likely come in, take some players by the scruffs of their necks, tell them to shut up and play in a fundamentally sound way.... The human boom box, the relentless straight shooter, will keep all comers more than well aware of where he stands.",
      "Keating... was an impatient taskmaster, but he was also a straight shooter who never held back a punch.... \"Mitchell, you look like crap.\""
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "8031",
    "Idiom": [
      "straight-face test"
    ],
    "Meaning": "A test of an argument's validity based on whether it can be presented seriously.",
    "Sentence": [
      "As such, her effort to distance herself from the CIA's conceit on torture should not be surprising or cause for outrage. To presume the benefit of the doubt with the CIA after countless destroyed interrogation tapes doesn't even pass the straight face test.",
      "A system of regulation might easily include requiring you to pay taxes if you choose to burden commerce; willful refusal to maintain adequate health coverage for yourself and your family is such a burden. To claim otherwise doesn't pass the straight-face test.",
      "\"Some of the pay-fors,\" said Mr. [John] Boehner in a news conference, referring to offsets to pay for a bill, \"I don't think pass the straight-face test, and we will deal with that when we get to conference.\" He declined to offer specifics.",
      "The good news for fans of legal combat is that the Senate trial promises to be entertaining. The bad news is that the Trump team's constitutional arguments can barely pass a straight-face test."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "8032",
    "Idiom": [
      "straight-shooting"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Blunt and direct, sometimes harsh.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "8033-1",
    "Idiom": [
      "straighten out"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To correct or fix.",
    "Sentence": [
      "I hope they can straighten out the problem with my bill soon."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "8033-2",
    "Idiom": [
      "straighten out"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To eliminate confusion.",
    "Sentence": [
      "“What have they done to stir him up?” “It's this book Daddy wrote about preparatory schools. He wrote a book about preparatory schools. Did you know he had written a book about preparatory schools?” “Hadn't an inkling. Nobody tells me anything.” “Well, he wrote this book about preparatory schools. It was about preparatory schools.” “About preparatory schools, was it?” “Yes, about preparatory schools.” “Thank God we've got that straightened out at last. I had a feeling we should get somewhere if we dug long enough. And – ?”",
      "As soon as I straighten out which of the twins is which, I'll start calling them by their names."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "8033-3",
    "Idiom": [
      "straighten out"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To correct.",
    "Sentence": [
      "It is not enough to stand aside and hope problems straighten out on their own."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "8034",
    "Idiom": [
      "straighten up"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To adopt a more honest and respectable lifestyle.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "8035",
    "Idiom": [
      "straighten up and fly right"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To start behaving properly.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Now, we are going to straighten up and fly right is what was said. Well, we didn't straighten up and fly right. We continued our wild spending at home and abroad."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "8036",
    "Idiom": [
      "strain a point"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To make a special effort, often at the expense of principles or feelings.",
    "Sentence": [
      "I want you to strain a point, Mr Bellingham, and to do me a service which I assure you you shall never have any cause to regret. I want you to wire instructions down the line to detain this Arab and his companions and to keep them in custody until the receipt of further instructions."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "8037",
    "Idiom": [
      "strain at a gnat"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To make a big deal out of something minor.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "8038",
    "Idiom": [
      "strain every nerve"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To make every possible effort.",
    "Sentence": [
      "In this very great emergency one might have expected the Western Region, notwithstanding the considerable difficulties involved in finding paths for a greatly increased Paddington-Wolverhampton train service, to strain every nerve to keep passengers in the trains rather than letting them stray away to the accelerated road services."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "8039",
    "Idiom": [
      "strange bedfellows"
    ],
    "Meaning": "An unusual combination or alliance.",
    "Sentence": [
      "The USA and the USSR were strange bedfellows. They were united only in their opposition to Hitler and Fascism.",
      "Lacan and feminism: strange bedfellows ? There never was an alliance between the person Lacan and feminism."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "8040",
    "Idiom": [
      "strangle the parrot"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To switch off the transponder interfering with radar.",
    "Sentence": [
      "If you fly jets, you know what it means to strangle the parrot (turning off the transponder that identifies aircraft as friendly or hostile) and that the howgozit is a dial that shows how much fuel is left.",
      "Over the radio, Kincaid heard the sounds of flights into the north: Air Force pilots talking to one another. Davis broke in with a radio call. “We strangle the parrot in five minutes.” Kincaid grinned. It meant that they would be turning off the IFF equipment.",
      "He had acquired a grey parrot on a trip to Africa and en route back to the UK, air traffic gave instructions to strangle the parrot, meaning of course switch off the identification, friend or foe (IFF) (codeword 'parrot'). Woobs feigned righteous indignation at this cruel command!"
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "8041",
    "Idiom": [
      "strap on a pair"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To show bravery or courage.",
    "Sentence": [
      "The moral of the story is strap on a pair and be a man.",
      "Somebody clearly needed to \" strap on a pair \" and say what needed to be said. Forget the flowery words and sensitivity training."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "8042",
    "Idiom": [
      "straw poll"
    ],
    "Meaning": "An informal survey or vote.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "8043",
    "Idiom": [
      "straw that stirs the drink"
    ],
    "Meaning": "The person who inspires a group or influences developments.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Reggie Jackson... apparently presumed his charisma would assume command of the clubhouse.... \" I'm the straw that stirs the drink,\" Reggie Jackson is quoted by Robert Ward in Sport magazine. \"It all comes back to me.\"",
      "\"We have priced in 4 percent growth in the fourth quarter...,\" said Alan Levenson, money market economist at UBS Securities. \"Growth is the straw that stirs the drink.\"",
      "Take a bow, pop culture enthusiasts. You are now the straws that stir the drink. Geeks rule!",
      "He's still the straw that stirs the drink. Ecclestone alone makes the big TV, sponsorship and track deals that keep F1's cash gushing."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "8044",
    "Idiom": [
      "street appeal"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Visual attractiveness of a property from the street.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "8045",
    "Idiom": [
      "streets ahead"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Far superior or more advanced.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "8046",
    "Idiom": [
      "streets behind"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Far inferior.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "8047",
    "Idiom": [
      "stretch one's legs"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To walk about after sitting or lying down.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Finally, after nearly two and a half hours on the same train, I have the chance to stretch my legs at Taunton while I wait for the Bristol service.",
      "I needed to stretch my legs after spending all day sitting around in meetings."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "8048",
    "Idiom": [
      "stretch the truth"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To exaggerate so much that the truth is obscured.",
    "Sentence": [
      "It would stretch the truth, but perhaps not tear it to tatters, to say that World War II was fought over oil.",
      "You think they exaggerate sometimes? You think they embellish things, stretch the truth, play loose with the facts?",
      "\"And you suspect them of stretching the truth ? Or shrinking the truth?\""
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "8049-1",
    "Idiom": [
      "strike a blow"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To hit or land a successful hit.",
    "Sentence": [
      "His opponent danced and dodged so nimbly that he couldn’t strike a blow."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "8049-2",
    "Idiom": [
      "strike a blow"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To take action in support of or against something.",
    "Sentence": [
      "The Supreme Court ruling struck a blow for gender equality.",
      "It is hoped that the new vaccine will strike a blow against the spread of tuberculosis."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "8050-1",
    "Idiom": [
      "strike a chord"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To elicit a significant reaction, especially a favorable or sympathetic one.",
    "Sentence": [
      "This brand of ecstatic meditation, shared by the Estonian composer Arvo Pärt, has struck a chord with record-buyers, and works such as \"The Protecting Veil\" (1989) for cello and strings have achieved cult status and huge sales on disc.",
      "Protests began May 15 and spread to cities across the country, striking a chord with hundreds of thousands fed-up with the wage cuts and tax hikes.",
      "The photos struck a chord online and quickly went viral."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "8050-2",
    "Idiom": [
      "strike a chord"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Resonates emotionally with someone.",
    "Sentence": [
      "“The movie just struck a chord with him and he started telling us about his story and experience during the Holocaust.”"
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "8051",
    "Idiom": [
      "strike a false note"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Gives the impression of insincerity or incongruity.",
    "Sentence": [
      "But she crossed out “I do understand”; it struck a false note. Henry could not bear to be understood.",
      "He dressed in a mannered fashion with turned-back cuffs and double slits to his coat, bow-ties and fancy waistcoats. He made a good-living, wine-and-food-society impression in which only the slow, rather cunning blue eyes struck a false note.",
      "He knew what stories to whisper and when not to tell stories at all and knew, too, when the business was over, never to make reference to what had been said. ¶ Put simply this was a man who had learned never to strike a false note."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "8052",
    "Idiom": [
      "strike a light"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To create a flame.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Look I have Flint and Steel, the Implements",
      "I must quit my subject, though much against my will, for hark, the bell sounds, my candle is burnt out, and I have not so much as a flint to strike a light, so I must go to bed, and there dream or meditate till to-morrow.",
      "While the one struck a light with a flint and steel, the other disposed the charcoal in the large rusty grate which we have already mentioned, and exercised the bellows until the fuel came to a red glow.",
      "He took a box of matches from the mantelpiece, struck a light and held it to the gas fire."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "8053",
    "Idiom": [
      "strike it lucky"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To have unexpected good fortune.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "8054",
    "Idiom": [
      "strike it rich"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To become rich suddenly.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "8055",
    "Idiom": [
      "strike oil"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To have sudden good fortune, especially financially.",
    "Sentence": [
      "J. Paul Getty's formula for success sorts this idea out: “Rise early, work hard, strike oil.” That's good advice, but most of us will not strike oil. In fact we may become irritated by the idea that something spectacular must occur for success to emerge."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "8056",
    "Idiom": [
      "strike one's flag"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To yield or surrender.",
    "Sentence": [
      "The point of this exercise wouldn't be to cause one side of the argument to see that the other is correct and strike their flag."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "8057",
    "Idiom": [
      "strike tallies"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To act in correspondence or in alignment.",
    "Sentence": [
      "The Clergie in the Province of York did also for a long time deny the Kings Supremacy. Indeed the Convocation of York hath ever since struck Talies with that of Canterbury, (though not implicitly) unanimously post-concurring therewith;"
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "8058",
    "Idiom": [
      "strike the tent"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To yield or surrender.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "8059-1",
    "Idiom": [
      "strike up"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To start something, like a conversation or relationship.",
    "Sentence": [
      "He repeated to Chad what he had been saying in the court to Waymarsh; how there was no doubt whatever that his sister would find the latter a kindred spirit, no doubt of the alliance, based on an exchange of views, that the pair would successfully strike up.",
      "To make him feel welcome, she struck up a conversation with the newly arrived guest.",
      "He struck up a friendship with Redford that was to last for many years."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "8059-2",
    "Idiom": [
      "strike up"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To start something.",
    "Sentence": [
      "The band struck up and everyone started to dance.",
      "The bride entered the church just as the \"Wedding March\" struck up."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "8060",
    "Idiom": [
      "strike while the iron is hot"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Act promptly on a favorable opportunity.",
    "Sentence": [
      "The Gap thus stopp'd, with her Army she marcheth to the Cage that kept those Birds, whose Wings she would be clipping. She knew if she struck not while the Iron was hot, the heat of a popular Faction would quickly sink and lessen.",
      "We should strike while the iron is hot and order some immediately, before they change the offer."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "8061",
    "Idiom": [
      "string along"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To maintain false beliefs about intentions.",
    "Sentence": [
      "What irks is the DfT's response of stringing the industry along. Far better would be for the DfT to say: \"No, we are not upgrading this or that part of the railway - we must make the best of what we have.\"",
      "She's been telling me for ages that she wants to meet up, but won't give me a date. I'm convinced she's stringing me along."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "8062",
    "Idiom": [
      "string attached"
    ],
    "Meaning": "A condition or limitation.",
    "Sentence": [
      "As I write this, drivers' union ASLEF has announced yet another series of one-day strikes, because ministers are stupidly insisting that the modest below-inflation pay rise they have offered drivers still comes with strings attached over working conditions.",
      "I'll get you that new video game that you want so badly, but there's a string attached; you must also clean your room at least once a week.",
      "They were advertising free television sets, but there were a lot of strings attached."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "8063",
    "Idiom": [
      "string out"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To prolong unnecessarily.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Do we really need to string out this discussion any further?",
      "I've run out of things to say, but somehow I need to string out this essay to two thousand words."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "8064-1",
    "Idiom": [
      "string to one's bow"
    ],
    "Meaning": "A skill or resource.",
    "Sentence": [
      "McGough has not a string to his bow. He had no friends behind him; that was the trouble.",
      "I feel doing the course would provide me with another string to my bow, and hopefully alongside the jewellery and card making, I would be able to be a freelance therapist and make the workload and times workable for me.",
      "Knowing how to identify certain edible mushrooms is not only a pleasure, it's also a great string to your bow when it comes to wild food survival."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "8064-2",
    "Idiom": [
      "string to one's bow"
    ],
    "Meaning": "A lover or suitor, especially among many.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Massimilla was no coquette. She had no second string to her bow, no secondo, no terzo, no patito.",
      "Grisi now had another string to her bow in the form of the tenor, Mario, who was fast becoming putty in her hands.",
      "Miss Artemesia, believing that she had three strings to her bow, and having mentally arranged her suitors into a sort of sliding scale, at the top of which was the judge, and at the bottom Phil Blister, was not in a hurry to make up her mind in regard to the latter's proposals."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "8065-1",
    "Idiom": [
      "string up"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To kill by hanging.",
    "Sentence": [
      "I'd string up the whole lot if I had my way, Silver. Poachers and blackguards every one of them.",
      "After years of brutal repression, any member of Saddam's palace guard stands to be strung up from the nearest lamppost by a vengeful Iraqi populace."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "8065-2",
    "Idiom": [
      "string up"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To die by hanging.",
    "Sentence": [
      "\"And now, my friend,\" said the Captain, \"let us understand each other. You have confessed yourself a spy, and should string up to the next tree.\""
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "8065-3",
    "Idiom": [
      "string up"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To suspend with rope or cord.",
    "Sentence": [
      "He has scars on his ankles, feet and hands from where they strung him up with ropes and beat him."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "8065-4",
    "Idiom": [
      "string up"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To link in a line.",
    "Sentence": [
      "to string up a sentence"
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "8066",
    "Idiom": [
      "strip off"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To remove all clothing.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Your trees of Pine Hill, which persevere in being green the year round, do not please so much as those which strip off in November,and put on their green and flowery robes in April.",
      "A night when you strip off and sit down to gasp and pant for a breath of air; such a night is never experienced in Kansas.",
      "I cannot remember whose idea it was that we should strip off to our underclothing and go into the coolness of the stream.",
      "The other recruits started to undress where they stood but Ledanseur was too embarrassed to strip off in front of his new comrades. He went into the shower block and undressed there."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "8067",
    "Idiom": [
      "stroke of business"
    ],
    "Meaning": "A large or considerable amount in business.",
    "Sentence": [
      "\"How my father came to hear of this little stroke of business I never knew, but some little bird or other whistled it to him, and he was very soon down upon me in right earnest.\""
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "8068",
    "Idiom": [
      "stroke of luck"
    ],
    "Meaning": "An instance of unexpected good luck.",
    "Sentence": [
      "What makes this accident so significant is that Hunt's southbound goods train was loaded with ammunition bound for the First World War battle zone. The major stroke of luck was that the 39 trucks loaded with ammunition did not explode as a result of the collision, and that there was no fire from cinders from either engine or from the stoves in the brake vans."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "8069",
    "Idiom": [
      "stroke of work"
    ],
    "Meaning": "A small amount of work.",
    "Sentence": [
      "I fear I am going to fail my exams because I have not done a stroke of work this semester."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "8070",
    "Idiom": [
      "strong suit"
    ],
    "Meaning": "A field or task where one excels.",
    "Sentence": [
      "That area isn't my strong suit, but I can give it a shot."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "8071",
    "Idiom": [
      "strung out"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Prolonged unnecessarily.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Then I had to sit through a long strung-out discussion about nothing in particular."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "8072",
    "Idiom": [
      "strut one's stuff"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To show off or perform in a showy manner.",
    "Sentence": [
      "When I'm out walking, I strut my stuff / Yeah, and I'm so strung out / I'm high as a kite, I just might / Stop to check you out"
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "8073",
    "Idiom": [
      "stub out"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To extinguish.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "8074-1",
    "Idiom": [
      "stuck in the Stone Age"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Out of touch with the modern world.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "8074-2",
    "Idiom": [
      "stuck in the Stone Age"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Outdated or primitive in thinking.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "8075",
    "Idiom": [
      "stuck in the mud"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Unable to progress.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Gorbachev needed to end it because the cost of defence, rising blindly as the army ordered more and more missiles, was bankrupting the Soviet Union. Its economy, stuck in the mud and mired in congenital secrecy, couldn't cope anyway, but the burden of defence profligacy was forcing it to its knees.",
      "The other studios joining the celebrations might crank up the volume, but perhaps it's the clouds louring overhead – stuck-in-the-mud creativity, uncertain revenue streams, growing global competition – that are responsible for the muted jubilation."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "8076-1",
    "Idiom": [
      "stuck on"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Infatuated with or in love with.",
    "Sentence": [
      "McTeague had a vague idea that Marcus Schouler was stuck on his cousin Trina. They \"kept company\" a good deal.",
      "\"You ain't a mush-head, you've got a girl there that's stuck on you. It's about time you think of her.\"",
      "Said Nieder: \"I consider O'Brien conceited and stuck on himself.\""
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "8076-2",
    "Idiom": [
      "stuck on"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Fascinated by.",
    "Sentence": [
      "\"I'm stuck on the way you sing that Grieg song,\" he declared."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "8076-3",
    "Idiom": [
      "stuck on"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Puzzled or stumped by.",
    "Sentence": [
      "\"I'm doing today's crossword puzzle, and I'm stuck on this one clue.\""
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "8077-1",
    "Idiom": [
      "stuck up"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Snobbish or arrogant, believing oneself to be superior to others.",
    "Sentence": [
      "The rich people in that neighborhood were stuck up and not friendly at all."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "8077-2",
    "Idiom": [
      "stuck up"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Stuck and unable to move.",
    "Sentence": [
      "The type of battery and the battery power level may cause the lens to be stuck up.",
      "We were stuck up here for three hours!."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "8078",
    "Idiom": [
      "stud muffin"
    ],
    "Meaning": "A very attractive man.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Billboard magazine quoted an Oklahoma City radio program who described him as \"a stud muffin\" — \"there was just a vibe on this guy out there, especially among women\" (Stark 1992, 89)",
      "\"I'm a total stud muffin. Can't you see it?\" Simon joked.",
      "“A stud!” “A stud muffin !” In general, the students’ enthusiasm for Clinton was equalled by their disdain for George W. Bush."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "8079-1",
    "Idiom": [
      "stuff it"
    ],
    "Meaning": "An expression of indifference.",
    "Sentence": [
      "I was going to clean my room, but thought, \" Stuff it, nobody's going to see it.\""
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "8079-2",
    "Idiom": [
      "stuff it"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Shut up!",
    "Sentence": [
      "Stuff it, will you? I'm trying to sleep!"
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "8080",
    "Idiom": [
      "stuff one's face"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To eat excessively.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "8081",
    "Idiom": [
      "stuff the ballot box"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To commit election fraud by adding illegitimate ballots.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Two fruitless ballots were taken, when the chairman of the board of tellers, stepping to the platform, said: \"I find that attempts have been made to stuff the ballot-box.\"",
      "Their simplest and most effective scheme is to create a disturbance during which they can stuff the ballot box as they tried to last night.",
      "Republicans were said to have stuffed the ballot box with illegal votes, and the Democrats were accused of a lot of things too.",
      "Several council officials were convicted of stuffing the ballot box in 1996 to guarantee approval of a widely disliked contract."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "8082",
    "Idiom": [
      "stuff you"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Used as an expression of anger or insult.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "8083",
    "Idiom": [
      "stuffed like a turkey"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Very full from overeating.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "8084",
    "Idiom": [
      "stuffed shirt"
    ],
    "Meaning": "A pompous or self-important person, often in authority.",
    "Sentence": [
      "\"Don't you come the high-and-holy on me. You and your smooth, big, phony stuffed-shirt of a father.\"",
      "Bernstein, am I a stuffed shirt ? Am I a horse-faced hypocrite? Am I a New England school marm?",
      "Oh? I remember, you came to Chicago once. Bit of a stuffed shirt, aren't you?",
      "Dr. Laughlin was the only one in a movie party who detested the second male lead—\"I regarded him as overserious, pedantic, a stuffed shirt.\"",
      "The opportunistic style that was the bank's trademark still prevails and continues to attract talented young Hong Kongers looking for an alternative to the stuffed-shirt culture of most U.S. and European banks."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "8085",
    "Idiom": [
      "stuffed to the gills"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Completely full.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "8086",
    "Idiom": [
      "stumbling block",
      "stumbling-block"
    ],
    "Meaning": "A hindrance or obstacle.",
    "Sentence": [
      "And by opting not to enforce the law in the recent strikes, industry leaders signalled a reluctance to aggravate a dispute in which many believe the stumbling block is not TOCs, but the Westminster government.",
      "Idioms are a common stumbling block for learners of a language.",
      "What is a wife but a pretended stumbling-block in the man's path, who has his way to make in the world?"
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "8087",
    "Idiom": [
      "stump it"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To escape.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Stump it, my cove; that's a Bow Street runner"
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "8088",
    "Idiom": [
      "stupid is as stupid does"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Stupid behavior indicates stupidity.",
    "Sentence": [
      "As long as a man can pay twenty shillings in the pound and a trifle over, what does it matter if all the judges in the land was to call him stupid?' said Snengkeld. \" Stupid is as stupid does.\" said Kantwise. \"Stupid be d--.\" said Moulder. \"Mr. Moulder, there's ladies present.\" said Mrs. Smiley,"
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "8089",
    "Idiom": [
      "success depends on your backbone, not your wishbone"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Success is achieved by hard work, not by wishing.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "8090",
    "Idiom": [
      "success has many fathers, failure is an orphan"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Success attracts many claimants, but failure has few takers.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "8091",
    "Idiom": [
      "suck a big one"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To be terrible or of low quality.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "8092",
    "Idiom": [
      "suck a lemon"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To be in a sour or negative mood.",
    "Sentence": [
      "I knew he must've woke up sucking a lemon when he didn't even say hello."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "8093",
    "Idiom": [
      "suck and blow"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To perform two incompatible actions.",
    "Sentence": [
      "It is called the Liberal Democratic Party, and it beats our old cleaner, because it can suck and blow at once. They have it both ways. They are like weird hermaphroditic parrotfish, changing sex at will.",
      "Kravetsky said the hospital's position is contradictory. \"They suck and blow at the same time,\" Kravetsky said outside court on Tuesday. \"Their position is that he's suffering no damages because he's not cognizant, and yet … they describe torture which reflects a person having been tortured intentionally or suffering severe pain, so which is it?\"",
      "We all know that NASCAR came out in support of South Carolina’s decision (and Alabama’s) to remove the Confederate flag from the front of its legislative building. But in a classic case of trying to suck and blow at the same time, Daytona Speedway (which is owned by the same people who won NASCAR) will not ban the Confederate flag from its infield at this weekend’s races.",
      "\"You can't suck and blow at once, as they say, we're going to have to come out of the customs union in order to be able to do free trade deals,\" he said."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "8094",
    "Idiom": [
      "suck donkey balls"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To be terrible.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "8095-1",
    "Idiom": [
      "suck down"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To consume something quickly.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "8095-2",
    "Idiom": [
      "suck down"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To consume greedily.",
    "Sentence": [
      "sucking down resources"
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "8096",
    "Idiom": [
      "suck dry"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To exhaust all resources.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "8097",
    "Idiom": [
      "suck face"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To kiss deeply and for a long time.",
    "Sentence": [
      "We would wrap our arms around each other and suck face like orangutans in his little red Fiero."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "8098-1",
    "Idiom": [
      "suck hind tit"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To rely on an inferior source.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "8098-2",
    "Idiom": [
      "suck hind tit"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To be the most neglected.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "8098-3",
    "Idiom": [
      "suck hind tit"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To be last in line.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "8099",
    "Idiom": [
      "suck in"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To involve someone in a situation that may not benefit them.",
    "Sentence": [
      "I really didn't want to be on the committee, but somehow I got sucked in."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "8100",
    "Idiom": [
      "suck it"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Used to taunt or show lack of sympathy.",
    "Sentence": [
      "I got the promotion, and you didn't, so suck it."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "8101",
    "Idiom": [
      "suck it up"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To deal with something without complaining.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Some students suck it up and meet the challenge. Others look around wildly for someone to blame."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "8102",
    "Idiom": [
      "suck my balls",
      "lick my balls"
    ],
    "Meaning": "An irreverent rebuke.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "8103",
    "Idiom": [
      "suck my cock"
    ],
    "Meaning": "An expression of discontent.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "8104",
    "Idiom": [
      "suck on that"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Expresses contempt after a victory or refuting an argument.",
    "Sentence": [
      "I am so sorry Regina. Really, I don't know why I did this. I guess it's probably because I've got a big lesbian crush on you. Suck on that !",
      "Okay. But think of the people in your life who you respect. Whoever it is, how do you feel if they respect you? Good, right? That's right. So suck on that !",
      "' Suck on that, Donald!' Piers Morgan's wife Celia Walden mocks Trump and says he's going 'straight in the bin' amid Joe Biden's inauguration"
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "8105",
    "Idiom": [
      "suck someone's cock"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To ingratiate oneself with someone.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "8106",
    "Idiom": [
      "suck the kumara"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To die.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "8107-1",
    "Idiom": [
      "suck the mop"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To be left at a disadvantage.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Kathy says Much obliged, but what I don't appreciate about this piece of moral news is the pairing of successful writer with sexy hotshot lit prof, which leaves us pregnant librarians and failed playwrights sucking the mop."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "8107-2",
    "Idiom": [
      "suck the mop"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To lose the opportunity to pick up passengers due to being boxed in.",
    "Sentence": [
      "\"Now then, poppy-head:\" — this to the conductor of a rival omnibus before us — \"how long am I to go on sucking the mop ?\""
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "8108",
    "Idiom": [
      "suck tits"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To be terrible or of extremely poor quality.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "8109",
    "Idiom": [
      "suffer fools gladly"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To be tolerant of incompetence.",
    "Sentence": [
      "For ye suffer fooles gladly, seeing ye your selues are wise.",
      "He was, I believe, not in the least an illnatured man: very much the opposite, I should say; but he would not suffer fools gladly."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "8110",
    "Idiom": [
      "suffer in silence"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To tolerate a bad situation without complaining.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "8111",
    "Idiom": [
      "sufficient unto the day is the evil thereof"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Focus on present troubles rather than future concerns.",
    "Sentence": [
      "O, saith one, what shall I do when poverty and prison come? O, saith another, what shall I do when the sword and the plague come? O, saith a third, what shall I do when fire and famine come? O, saith a fourth, what shall I do when the rack and the stake come? But \" sufficient unto the day is the evil thereof.\" He that now leadeth will then lead, if these things come before thou goest off the stage.",
      "He admonishes all not to anticipate evil to come, but to fold their hands and close their eyes in quietude, ever mindful of the consolatory text, \" sufficient unto the day is the evil thereof.\"",
      "It is a remarkable fact in our history that, notwithstanding the repeated efforts of the anti-slavery party, no single act has ever passed Congress, And it may also be observed, judging from present indications, that no probability exists of the passage of such an act by a majority of both houses, either in the present or the next Congress. Surely, under these circumstances we ought to be restrained from present action by the precept of Him who spake as man never spoke that \" sufficient unto the day is the evil thereof.\" The day of evil may never come unless we shall rashly bring it upon ourselves.",
      "Is not that, then, sufficient unto the day is the evil thereof ? Is there anything in the present system requiring the attention of Parliament; is there anything unfair in the way we are paying for stores at the present time?",
      "Only this life with Clifford, this endless spinning of webs of yarn, of the minutiae of consciousness, these stories Sir Malcolm said there was nothing in, and they wouldn't last. Why should there be anything in them, why should they last? Sufficient unto the day is the evil thereof. Sufficient unto the moment is the appearance of reality.",
      "I suspect that many people took a sufficient-unto-the-day-is-the-evil-thereof attitude toward the book , and toward the bomb. Time enough to worry after the scientists got a little further along.",
      "The hardest problem to a person with his back against the wall is living a day at a time and knowing someone cares. Just one day at a time or as a Great Man said, \" Sufficient unto the day is the evil thereof.\"",
      "And now Drew Exford was proposing to visit her—if she could believe him. Useless to worry about how she was to greet him. \" Sufficient unto the day is the evil thereof,\" she said aloud. \"I'll think about that when he arrives.\""
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "8112",
    "Idiom": [
      "sugar and spice"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Two fundamentally different things.",
    "Sentence": [
      "(Can we add an example for this sense?)"
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "8113",
    "Idiom": [
      "sugar and spice and everything nice"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Describes a kind and pleasant person.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "8114",
    "Idiom": [
      "sugar-plum"
    ],
    "Meaning": "A daydream.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "8115",
    "Idiom": [
      "sugarcoat the pill",
      "sugarcoat a bitter pill",
      "sweeten the pill"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To make an unpleasant situation more palatable.",
    "Sentence": [
      "To sugarcoat the pill of payment the receiver of the tax was wont to refer to it disparagingly in the diminutive, calling it “la huchette,” “the little tax on a fish stall.”",
      "Philosophy supposes that the argument is merely flavored with such imported images to sugarcoat the pill of difficult thinking for those unused to the bitter remedy of rigorous thought.",
      "One middle-aged woman does not sugar-coat the pill, rating the experience “one out of 10” because “shops keep shutting”.",
      "This would not sweeten the pill to the French; but in making that acquisition we had some view to our own good as well as theirs, and I believe the greatest good of both will be promoted by whatever will amalgamate us together.",
      "Exercise of all sorts is one of the lessons we are to learn,” said Mrs. Minot, suggesting all the pleasant things she could to sweeten the pill for her pupils, two of whom did love their books, not being old enough to know that even an excellent thing may be overdone.",
      "It sweetened this pill by explaining that this figure was not a direct loss - that it was only £170-£410m (£280-£670m today) - because we benefited from Metronet's capital spending."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "8116",
    "Idiom": [
      "suit down to the ground"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To suit perfectly.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Good! I don't mind beginning all over again. That suits me right down to the ground.",
      "The routines at Lochranza Court suited her down to the ground and she loved her friends."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "8117",
    "Idiom": [
      "suit one's book"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To be ideal or satisfactory to someone.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "8118",
    "Idiom": [
      "suit the action to the word"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To act according to one's words or promises.",
    "Sentence": [
      "“Hide!” cried Ebony, with a roll of his huge eyes, as he suited the action to the word,",
      "After giving vent to violent expressions of hostility, he grasped the bill in his hand and pronounced it to be a huge fraud, fit only to be spat upon, and trampled under foot—whereupon the honourable member suited the action to the word !"
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "8119-1",
    "Idiom": [
      "summer and winter"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To spend extended periods of time with.",
    "Sentence": [
      "An even more important reason for the primary is that by \" summering and wintering \" these candidates, New Hampshire people, as representatives of the nation...."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "8119-2",
    "Idiom": [
      "summer and winter"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To endure.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "8120",
    "Idiom": [
      "sun worshipper"
    ],
    "Meaning": "A person who enjoys sunlight.",
    "Sentence": [
      "\"The light hurts you?\" she said, for the sun was coming into the room. \"Change places with me, I am a sun worshipper.\"",
      "A bikini... tends to slip and slide a bit in the surf. But for a die-hard sun worshipper, a two-piece suit is the next best thing to nothing at all.",
      "Previous research by Rees has confirmed what sun worshippers already knew: that the upper back is much more likely to tan than the legs."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "8121",
    "Idiom": [
      "sunlight is the best disinfectant"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Transparency prevents corruption.",
    "Sentence": [
      "\" Sunlight is the best disinfectant,\" said Puccio in explaining his decision to open the proceeding to reporters.",
      "The basic premise of a scoop is that you're bringing important facts to public attention. Your philosophical touchstone is Justice Louis Brandeis' bromide that sunlight is the best disinfectant.",
      "\" Sunlight is the best disinfectant,\" he said. \"We must change our practices and our mindset, moving from a culture of secrecy to one of complete openness and accountability.\""
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "8122",
    "Idiom": [
      "supposed to"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Expected to or intended to.",
    "Sentence": [
      "It behoveth to peruse how much the king hath more now when the whole benefit is supposed to go to him, than he had when three parts of the benefit went to the committee.",
      "The great use of coffee in France is supposed to have abated the prevalency of the gravel, for where coffee is used as a constant beverage, the gravel and the gout are scarcely known.",
      "I am supposed to report to the police every week.",
      "Paul is supposed to call his mother every day.",
      "The phone is supposed to come with a manual.",
      "You are not supposed to smoke in the restaurant. [Note: this means, you are obliged not to smoke.]",
      "How am I supposed to work in all this racket?",
      "What was he supposed to do—just sit there and do nothing?",
      "It's supposed to rain.",
      "The movie is supposed to be good.",
      "The thief is supposed to be hiding in the forest.",
      "The phone is supposed to save us time."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "8123",
    "Idiom": [
      "sure enough"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Just as expected.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Chaplin wouldn't be dissuaded. He knew that The Great Dictator was worth making, and, sure enough, it was a box office smash",
      "Rain had been predicted for that day and, sure enough, it was beginning to rain."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "8124",
    "Idiom": [
      "surf's up"
    ],
    "Meaning": "It's time to do something.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Yo, Harold! Surf's up! Those cars aren't going to wash themselves!"
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "8125",
    "Idiom": [
      "suspend one's disbelief"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Willingly accepting a story's premise for enjoyment.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Although the novel was quite far-fetched, I was willing to suspend my disbelief."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "8126",
    "Idiom": [
      "suspended congress"
    ],
    "Meaning": "A sex position involving one partner carrying the other while penetrating.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "8127",
    "Idiom": [
      "swaddling clothes"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Infancy or the beginnings of something.",
    "Sentence": [
      "The steel—industry wore swaddling clothes when the first walkout occurred exactly 100 years ago.",
      "The Air Force Academy, baby brother to West Point and Annapolis, is crawling out of its swaddling clothes."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "8128",
    "Idiom": [
      "swallow a bitter pill"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To accept or endure an unpleasant situation.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "8129",
    "Idiom": [
      "swallow one's pride"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To set aside pride and be humble.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "8130",
    "Idiom": [
      "swallow the dictionary"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To speak using complicated language.",
    "Sentence": [
      "I swear, I don't know where you get all this swallowing the dictionary business!” - He himself never read anything but the ticker and the sporting news.",
      "Knowledge is deposited in (virtual and real) libraries. People who “swallow” the dictionary are articulate, eloquent and verbally dextrous. They have a greater store of words. Knowledge is captured in books, which is why the number of books in a household contains an excellent index of the social class of that house.",
      "“You swallowed the dictionary ?” said Mrs. Black, with an ingratiating smile.",
      "When I used a couple of words that an Uncle from the Boston States considered beyond my years, he asked me if I had swallowed the dictionary."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "8131",
    "Idiom": [
      "swallow the leek"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To change one's mind.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "8132",
    "Idiom": [
      "swan song"
    ],
    "Meaning": "A final performance or accomplishment before retirement.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Yet, on the whole, our good Saint-Pierre is musical, poetical though most morbid: we will call his Book the swan-song of old dying France.",
      "In no other way can be explained our sacrifices and martyrdoms. For no other reason did Rudolph Mendenhall flame out his soul for the Cause and sing his wild swan-song that last night of life.",
      "\"A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court\" —a pretentious volume which Mark Twain really considered his last. \"It's my swan-song, my retirement from literature permanently,\" he wrote Howells, though certainly he was young, fifty-four, to have reached this conclusion.",
      "Je ne parle pas français. That was her swan song for me.",
      "McCartney III could mark the end of his recording career. For a musician as continually prolific as McCartney (this is his 18th solo record), that seems unlikely. But if it is indeed a swan song, McCartney III will stand as a proper coda for the singer-songwriter we’ve been listening to for fifty-odd years: sentimental yet strong, a bit wistful, but as always, looking ahead.",
      "Merkel’s political and scientific sides slug it out in swan song presser [title]",
      "Spielberg was keen to stress that The Fabelmans is not a full stop: “It is not because I decided to retire, and this is my swan song, don’t believe that.”"
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "8133",
    "Idiom": [
      "swear by"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To trust wholeheartedly.",
    "Sentence": [
      "I swear by my Petit Larousse when it comes to learning French.",
      "He swears by cream of tartar to make the meringues stiff."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "8134",
    "Idiom": [
      "swear off"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To quit or promise to quit a bad habit.",
    "Sentence": [
      "One of these days, he thinks he will swear off his nightly television regimen and get some exercise."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "8135",
    "Idiom": [
      "sweat bullets",
      "sweat bricks"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To sweat profusely due to nervousness or anxiety.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Started sweating bullets when her dad asked, \"How d'you really feel?\" She said, \"I've been feeling like something inside me wants to scream \"",
      "He was sweating bullets about the exam all week."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "8136",
    "Idiom": [
      "sweat equity"
    ],
    "Meaning": "An investment of labor to increase value.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Mr. TALLE: His time and his wife's time in that article is called the \"sweat equity\". Mr. GRIGGS: Look at the fun they had doing it.",
      "My wife and I have put a lot of sweat equity into our home: I did the renovations and she did the redecorating."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "8137",
    "Idiom": [
      "sweat of one's brow"
    ],
    "Meaning": "The effort put into labor and the value it creates.",
    "Sentence": [
      "So anyhow Terry brought the three pints Joe was standing and begob the sight nearly left my eyes when I saw him land out a quid. O, as true as I'm telling you. A goodlooking sovereign. / ― And there's more where that came from, says he. / ― Were you robbing the poorbox, Joe? say I? / ― Sweat of my brow, says Joe. 'Twas the prudent member gave me the wheeze.",
      "Making matters worse, these courts developed a new theory to justify the protection of factual compilations. Known alternatively as \" sweat of the brow \" or \"industrious collection,\" the underlying notion was that copyright was a reward for the hard work that went into compiling facts."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "8138",
    "Idiom": [
      "sweat the small stuff"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To worry about insignificant matters.",
    "Sentence": [
      "The prefrontal cortex is the other character in those internal battles that go on in your life. The higher being who wishes you’d stop sweating the small stuff."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "8139-1",
    "Idiom": [
      "sweep aside"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To overcome an obstacle easily.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Wolves swept aside Championship outfit Doncaster at Molineux to earn a place in the fourth round of the FA Cup."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "8139-2",
    "Idiom": [
      "sweep aside"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To ignore or dismiss.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "8140-1",
    "Idiom": [
      "sweep away"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To overwhelm someone emotionally.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Balaam was swept away with admiration of the Israelite encampments and homes that were a picture of idyllic happiness and prosperity.",
      "When a six-car Class 158 lash-up arrives at Platform 17, I have to take refuge behind a post to avoid getting swept away by a tsunami of disembarking passengers."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "8140-2",
    "Idiom": [
      "sweep away"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To completely destroy.",
    "Sentence": [
      "The widespread, murderous counter-revolutionary pogroms against women, transgender expression and same-sex love carried out by the Catholic and early Protestant hierarchies had subsided as the Industrial Revolution began sweeping away the kingdoms of Europe.",
      "Instant drama ensued as Wolves appealed for a penalty as Brazilian right-back Rafael swept away any danger from Jarvis with his upper body after 40 seconds."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "8141",
    "Idiom": [
      "sweep out"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To remove someone unwanted from a place.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "8142-1",
    "Idiom": [
      "sweep someone off their feet"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To romantically impress or captivate someone.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "8142-2",
    "Idiom": [
      "sweep someone off their feet"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To overwhelm someone romantically.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Am I capable of feeling as strongly as that? But I was absolutely unconscious! I hadn't a phrase to meet it with! I was overcome! I was swept off my feet ! I didn't even try, in the dimmest way, to put it down!",
      "Our conversation was short and sweet / It nearly swept me off-a my feet"
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "8143",
    "Idiom": [
      "sweep something under the rug"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To conceal a problem rather than address it.",
    "Sentence": [
      "“One of the problems with the entertainment industry is that, to protect the image of these people, they try to deal with the problem by sweeping it under the rug,” said John T. Schwarzlose, chief executive of the Betty Ford Center, the licensed addiction hospital in Rancho Mirage, Calif."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "8144-1",
    "Idiom": [
      "sweep the board"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To win all the prizes.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Spadillio first, unconquerable Lord! Led off two captive Trumps, and swept the Board. As many more Manillio forc'd to yield, And march'd a Victor from the verdant Field.",
      "It’s always fun when something massive comes along and sweeps the board, giving everything else a thoroughly good kicking – think Titanic, The Silence of the Lambs, or Lord of the Rings. There’s a sort of deranged, gluttonous feeling, a perverse glee in seeing so many dreams trampled on by a massive cultural juggernaut."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "8144-2",
    "Idiom": [
      "sweep the board"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To gain all the seats in an election.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "8145",
    "Idiom": [
      "sweep the deck"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To win all the stakes on the table.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "8146",
    "Idiom": [
      "sweet Jesus"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Used to add emphasis.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "8147",
    "Idiom": [
      "sweet Mary"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Used to add emphasis.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "8148",
    "Idiom": [
      "sweet Mary mother of God"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Used to add emphasis.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "8149",
    "Idiom": [
      "sweet dreams"
    ],
    "Meaning": "A wish for a good sleep.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "8150-1",
    "Idiom": [
      "sweet fuck all"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Nothing at all.",
    "Sentence": [
      "‘I hope you don't mean the customers... because darling, they just mean sweet f--k-all to me.’"
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "8150-2",
    "Idiom": [
      "sweet fuck all"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Indicates nothing or very little.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "8151",
    "Idiom": [
      "sweet hereafter"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Heaven or paradise in the afterlife.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Lord, what thou doest noo, an' why,",
      "Miss Lacy Stafford of Taylorville was struck by an Illinois Central train at the Sangamon street crossing at 3 o'clock and in the eyes of the spectators she was wafted directly into the sweet hereafter by lightning express.",
      "Owing to his sugarcane habit, his stubby front teeth are all pretty much gone to the sweet hereafter."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "8152",
    "Idiom": [
      "sweet nothings"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Insubstantial romantic words meant to flatter or seduce.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Hearing such words as these, in the sweetest, tenderest voice that ever caressed a lover's senses, Basil knew not how to word all that was in his heart.... Side by side, forgetful of all but their recovered peace, they talked sweet nothings.",
      "The facts, to make matters worse, were made public with the usual affectionate letters that passed between them, full of sweet nothings.",
      "It is difficult to know how accurate this portrait is, and how much of it consists of sweet nothings whispered into the author's ear by loyal retainers."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "8153",
    "Idiom": [
      "sweet smell of success"
    ],
    "Meaning": "The rewarding sense of success.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "8154",
    "Idiom": [
      "sweet summer child"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Someone who is naive or inexperienced with hardship.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Don't think people have tried to put Mario games in order? Oh sweet summer child.",
      "\"Starts?\" I hear you cry, \"How can it get any weirder than that?\". Oh, my sweet summer children, what George wants me to do while he licks my feet clean is take pictures and humiliate him.",
      "It can't be worse than \"X-Men: The Last Stand,\" can it? Oh, sweet summer child. It can always get worse…especially in Hollywood."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "8155-1",
    "Idiom": [
      "sweet tooth"
    ],
    "Meaning": "A liking for sweet foods.",
    "Sentence": [
      "He eats a healthy diet most of the time, but has a sweet tooth when it comes to candy."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "8155-2",
    "Idiom": [
      "sweet tooth"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Someone who enjoys sweet foods.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "8156-1",
    "Idiom": [
      "sweet young thing"
    ],
    "Meaning": "An attractive young woman.",
    "Sentence": [
      "I just know he's off spending the night with some sweet young thing he picked up in a bar."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "8156-2",
    "Idiom": [
      "sweet young thing"
    ],
    "Meaning": "A sweet-tempered young woman.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Isabel's a sweet young thing; but do you think she's so good as that?"
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "8157",
    "Idiom": [
      "sweet-natured"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Having a pleasant disposition.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "8158",
    "Idiom": [
      "sweet-toothed"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Fond of sweet foods.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "8159-1",
    "Idiom": [
      "sweeten the pot"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To increase a wager.",
    "Sentence": [
      "He sweetened the pot since there were no takers in the office pool."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "8159-2",
    "Idiom": [
      "sweeten the pot"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To make something more appealing.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Beginning next year the museum will sweeten the pot for season pass members by offering them a 10% discount in the gift shop in addition to unlimited free admission."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "8160",
    "Idiom": [
      "sweeten up"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To make sweet.",
    "Sentence": [
      "I sweetened up the barbecue sauce by adding some sugar."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "8161",
    "Idiom": [
      "sweetheart deal"
    ],
    "Meaning": "A transaction with unusually favorable terms for one party, often in suspicious circumstances.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Steven Matthews, described the lease last week as \"a sweetheart deal that gives too much away for what the city gets in return.\""
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "8162",
    "Idiom": [
      "sweetness and light"
    ],
    "Meaning": "That which is good and pleasant.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Sorrow and disillusionment racked William Mulliner like a physical pain. That his friends inside there, in spite of the fact that he had been all sweetness and light and had not done a thing to them, should have thrown him out into the hard street was the saddest thing he had ever heard of; and for some minutes he sat there, weeping silently.",
      "The working relationship between Amtrak and the contracting railroads, and the Government for that matter, is not, and has never been all sweetness and light, and many railroads still find the passenger train to be a hindrance to the beloved freight.",
      "So it transpired, though not everything at Garmisch was sweetness and light. The leader of the British team, Arnold Lunn, the \"father of alpine ski racing\" and a British public school amateur to the core, was a conservative Catholic who disliked the \"professionalism\" of National Socialist sport.",
      "Mailing lists are not all sweetness and light, though. Joining a mailing list is a little complex. It requires people to know how to join, sign up with an email address, respond to the mail, and know where to send messages."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "8163",
    "Idiom": [
      "swell up"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To become swollen.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "8164",
    "Idiom": [
      "swim upstream"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To choose a difficult path despite simpler options.",
    "Sentence": [
      "I told my daughter to get her hair dyed at a salon, but she had to swim upstream and do it herself. Now it's a mess."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "8165",
    "Idiom": [
      "swim with sharks"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To operate among dangerous people.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "8166",
    "Idiom": [
      "swing and a miss"
    ],
    "Meaning": "An unsuccessful attempt.",
    "Sentence": [
      "A letter arrived from then Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger, the Vatican's enforcer of the faith, instructing him to behave as a Roman Catholic politician and vote No.... And, of course, Mr. Koopmans voted Yes on the legislation.... A swing and a miss for Cardinal Ratzinger, now Pope Benedict XVI.",
      "Beef carpaccio with walnuts, lemon and pecorino is a swing and a miss : almost flavorless.",
      "In her defense, she's not ever been at this level of national politics before but Tuesday night's speech felt like a swing and a miss for Ayotte."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "8167",
    "Idiom": [
      "swing both ways"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To be bisexual.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Tedd: \" Oh... does she, um... ' swing both ways ' ?\" Elliot: \"Swing? What swing?\" Tedd: \"No no, does she like apples... and oranges?\" Elliot: \"I don't know her fruit preferences.\" Tedd: \"Bisexual. Is she bisexual.\" Elliot: \" Oh! I dunno. Maybe?\""
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "8168",
    "Idiom": [
      "swing by"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To make a brief visit.",
    "Sentence": [
      "I'll swing by later if I can clock off early."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "8169",
    "Idiom": [
      "swing for the fences"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To pursue a very ambitious goal.",
    "Sentence": [
      "“This is a very inexperienced government swinging for the fences in a situation where Labour is the strong favorite in the next election, if they don’t swing too far left,” said Kenneth S. Rogoff, a professor of economics at Harvard.",
      "I'm not going to swing for the fences tomorrow, but I'm hoping my speech will be warmly received."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "8170",
    "Idiom": [
      "swing of things"
    ],
    "Meaning": "The normal flow of daily life or activities.",
    "Sentence": [
      "\"I know how it would knock me out to have to stop now, just when I've got into the swing of things, so I know just how you feel.\"",
      "\"I've been out of the swing of things for a whole year. I'm still trying to get back into the flow of it.\"",
      "If you're going back into the job market — say your job was just eliminated, and you need to get back into the swing of things — you're not going to do well with gray hair."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "8171",
    "Idiom": [
      "swing round the circle"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To make a complete circuit.",
    "Sentence": [
      "He had swung round the circle of theories and systems in which his age abounded, without finding relief."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "8172",
    "Idiom": [
      "swing through"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To miss a pitch.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "8173-1",
    "Idiom": [
      "switch off"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To lose interest.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Fulham switched off as Giggs took a quick corner to Valencia. He played it back to Giggs, whose cross was headed in by Nani with the lurking Rooney unable to add a touch.",
      "While you are pregnant with the desire for the car, the house or anything, try to switch off your mind to avoid brainstorming any solutions.",
      "In short, the Bible is used by many, believers and atheists alike, as a book best handled only after switching off your brain."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "8173-2",
    "Idiom": [
      "switch off"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To alternate between.",
    "Sentence": [
      "\"We haven't a musket, and Tommy's crowd are well armed. They have the inside track\" \"Then we can switch off.\" \" Switch off ?\" \"Yes, and take the inside track.\"",
      "Besides Crow belting out \"Bitch,\" the concert featured several artists switching off on lead vocals",
      "Freddie gave me a quick five-minute lesson on handling Cherry Pie and we switched off between sleeping and driving.",
      "Do you eat all your peas and then all your potatoes, or do you switch off between them as you go?"
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "8174",
    "Idiom": [
      "switch on"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To change one's expression or appearance.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "8175-1",
    "Idiom": [
      "sword and sorcery"
    ],
    "Meaning": "A genre combining fantasy elements with violent combat.",
    "Sentence": [
      "In the typical Sword and Sorcery novel, the setting resembles the misty landscape of Malory's Le Morte d'Arthur, in that larger-than-life heroes struggle against strange and nightmarish antagonists."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "8175-2",
    "Idiom": [
      "sword and sorcery"
    ],
    "Meaning": "A genre combining magic and combat with pre-modern weaponry.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "8176",
    "Idiom": [
      "table scrap"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Meagre remnants.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "8177",
    "Idiom": [
      "table talk"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Informal conversation, often gossipy, during a meal or social gathering.",
    "Sentence": [
      "They all came out to supper.... She was also pleased to see how Gregory toned up the table-talk and skilfully led it away from disagreeable topics.",
      "He ate like a starving Eskimo.... The growing boy evidently did not believe in table-talk when he could use his mouth for more practical purposes.",
      "Grand Opera mishaps are usually more silly than solemn, and provide people with amusing table talk.",
      "On the first day of a new statute in New York City to restrict smoking, the table talk in many restaurants was about lighting up.",
      "Even though there are announcers, they largely remain quiet, letting us hear all the table talk that goes on during and in between hands."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "8178",
    "Idiom": [
      "table-turning"
    ],
    "Meaning": "A reversal or act of revenge.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Fantasies of table-turning and revenge seem to be commonplace in history; but war gives extra space for their enactment, and widespread weaponry also makes them more likely to be lethal"
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "8179",
    "Idiom": [
      "tag along"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To accompany or follow.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Now if you'll excuse me, I'm going to go on an overnight drunk, and in 10 days I'm going to set out to find the shark that ate my friend and destroy it. Anyone who wants to tag along is more than welcome.",
      "If you ever visit the bamboo gardens, I'd like to tag along."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "8180-1",
    "Idiom": [
      "tail wagging the dog"
    ],
    "Meaning": "A small part controlling the whole.",
    "Sentence": [
      "This is classic for all non-profit agencies: the tail wags the dog. If you have a foundation willing to fund a particular kind of program, then an organization will write that kind of grant. Suddenly, you're doing a program to where the bucks are. Maybe that's not within the original mission of the mission."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "8180-2",
    "Idiom": [
      "tail wagging the dog"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To divert attention from a more important issue.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "8181-1",
    "Idiom": [
      "take French leave"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To leave quietly and unnoticed without permission.",
    "Sentence": [
      "What, Master Peveril, is this your foreign breeding? or have you learned in France to take French leave of your friends?",
      "No sooner do European servants arrive in America, than, perceiving such an outcry about equality and independence, and learning the facilities which are afforded of otherwise procuring the means of existence, they immediately become ashamed of the fancied meanness of their station, take French leave of their employers, and, procuring land for themselves, commence the occupation of farming on their own account.",
      "As, taking French leave, she passed me, I bowed and she, taking my hand, fixed her round violet orbs upon me as if to say: \"How long since we met, do let us talk of it next time.\""
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "8181-2",
    "Idiom": [
      "take French leave"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To be absent without permission.",
    "Sentence": [
      "That officer reminded Burton of the necessity there was that all the officers of the Spitfire should hold themselves in readiness, as a court-martial was sure to be ordered relative to the loss of that ship: that order might possibly be telegraphed down, and he must therefore decline granting any leave, except for a few hours. Here was a disappointment with a vengeance. The first suggestion of the moment was one altogether unworthy of him, which was to incur the imputation of adopting Gallican habits, and taking, what is known by the term, \" French leave.\"",
      "In spite of threats and punishment, many Canadians deserted in order to care for their families and to provide food for the coming winter; more than two thousand are said thus to have taken French leave."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "8182-1",
    "Idiom": [
      "take a back seat"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To adopt a position of noninvolvement.",
    "Sentence": [
      "The new chairman is happy to take a back seat when it comes to day-to-day operations."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "8182-2",
    "Idiom": [
      "take a back seat"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To be less important or have a lower priority.",
    "Sentence": [
      "But as with most kids, politics took a backseat to daily life.",
      "The bluntness of King Vajiralongkorn's intervention—and the determination it reveals to resist relatively small checks on royal power—is both a snub to the junta and a worry for democrats, some of whom had dared hope that the new king might be happy to take a back seat in public life.",
      "Mr. August, a screenwriter for movies like “Charlie’s Angels” and “Charlie and the Chocolate Factory,” said that while artificial intelligence had taken a back seat to compensation in the Writers Guild negotiation, the union was making two key demands on the subject of automation."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "8183",
    "Idiom": [
      "take a bath"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To lose a large amount of money in an investment.",
    "Sentence": [
      "In the high-risk world of futures contracts, pooling the risks could be just another way to take a bath.",
      "The lenders took a bath because they had to honor fixed rate loans of 5 to 10% while borrowing money at 15 to 20% to fund them.",
      "The fastest way to take a bath in the stock market is to try to prove that you are right and the market is wrong.",
      "Shareholders took a bath when the company went bankrupt."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "8184",
    "Idiom": [
      "take a bead on"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To aim at something.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "8185-1",
    "Idiom": [
      "take a bite"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To eat a quick snack.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "8185-2",
    "Idiom": [
      "take a bite"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Try something out.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Attracted by their Hollies-like harmonies and Sgt. Pepper styling, EMI took a bite and ushered the guys into the Abbey Road studios in London."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "8186",
    "Idiom": [
      "take a bite out of"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To reduce something by removing part of it.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Like Scruff McGruff took a bite out of crime",
      "The police took a bite out of crime in the area.",
      "I took a bite out of my homework today."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "8187-1",
    "Idiom": [
      "take a bow"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To accept praise.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "8187-2",
    "Idiom": [
      "take a bow"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To end a performance.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "8187-3",
    "Idiom": [
      "take a bow"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To take credit or blame for an outcome.",
    "Sentence": [
      "The years we spent together were the worst years of my life. You can take a bow."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "8188-1",
    "Idiom": [
      "take a breath"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To inhale and exhale.",
    "Sentence": [
      "She paused and took a defiant breath. ‘If you don't believe me, I can't help it. But I'm not a liar.’"
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "8188-2",
    "Idiom": [
      "take a breath"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To pause or rest.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "8188-3",
    "Idiom": [
      "take a breath"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To calm down.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "8189",
    "Idiom": [
      "take a breather"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To pause or relax briefly.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Why don't we stop and take a breather before we continue?"
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "8190",
    "Idiom": [
      "take a bullet"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To take harm for someone else.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "8191",
    "Idiom": [
      "take a chance"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To risk doing something.",
    "Sentence": [
      "He took a chance on me, gave me an opportunity to get into management, the opportunity I wanted, which could not have been an easy decision to make.",
      "say they will tend to play it safe, relying on sure-fire box-office hits and refusing to take a chance on experimental works, which almost are always box-office failures.",
      "When we did not use the X-ray, if we broke a piece of root off in extracting a tooth, we took a chance, left it in, and expected it to work out.",
      "He took a chance by supporting the unknown artist."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "8192",
    "Idiom": [
      "take a crack at"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To attempt or try.",
    "Sentence": [
      "I don't really know where to begin, but I guess I can take a crack at it and see how I do."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "8193",
    "Idiom": [
      "take a deep breath"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To inhale deeply.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "8194",
    "Idiom": [
      "take a dim view of"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To regard with skepticism or disfavor.",
    "Sentence": [
      "The creepy man was only using the same vehicle for catching rats that he did for frying burgers! Zoe was no expert, but was pretty sure the government’s Food Standard Agency would take a very dim view of this.",
      "Philip takes a dim view of people calling him \"Flip\"."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "8195-1",
    "Idiom": [
      "take a dive"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To intentionally lose.",
    "Sentence": [
      "I decided there could be a nice bit of irony in a situation where a boxer, with a crown his for the taking, deliberately takes a dive to get revenge on the man he hates, who is betting everything on the boxer's victory.",
      "\"You got a fight next weekend. You take a dive in the fourth round, understand?\"",
      "The businessman turned promoter rejected some of overseas rumors going around that Klitschko bet a large portion of funds on himself and then took a dive to collect."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "8195-2",
    "Idiom": [
      "take a dive"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To lose intentionally.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "8196",
    "Idiom": [
      "take a dookie"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To defecate.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "8197-1",
    "Idiom": [
      "take a flyer"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To invest against odds.",
    "Sentence": [
      "The oldest girls are eagerly perusing the financial reports, for a certain young man remarked last Sunday night that he had taken a flyer in Q., X. & Z."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "8197-2",
    "Idiom": [
      "take a flyer"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To take a chance.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Many voters said that while they liked Reform, they remembered having taken a flyer on Bob Rae and the NDP, a gamble they had come to regret.",
      "In contrast, other leaders are almost totally risk-averse. They haven't taken a flyer in their adult life.",
      "If you have an auction with no bids and a counter that reads a high number, newbie bidders may be dissuaded from taking a flyer and bidding on your auction.",
      "The Steelers essentially took a flyer on Brister since his track record consisted of one season leading a college team."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "8198",
    "Idiom": [
      "take a gamble"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To try something risky.",
    "Sentence": [
      "He really took a gamble when he left his job to become a writer. But it paid off in the end.",
      "I took a gamble on my girlfriends' parents not being home and turned up without warning."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "8199",
    "Idiom": [
      "take a gander"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To take a look.",
    "Sentence": [
      "They all went downtown to take a gander at the new shops that had opened there."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "8200",
    "Idiom": [
      "take a hike"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To go away.",
    "Sentence": [
      "I wish that pest would just take a hike."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "8201",
    "Idiom": [
      "take a hit"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To suffer undesirable consequences.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "8202",
    "Idiom": [
      "take a joke"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To accept a joke made at one's expense.",
    "Sentence": [
      "The school authorities, unable to take a joke, demanded the immediate removal of the satirical poster."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "8203",
    "Idiom": [
      "take a leaf out of someone's book"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To adopt an idea or practice from someone else.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Let every youth take a leaf out of my book and make it a point to account for everything that comes into and goes out of his pocket, and like me he is sure to be a gainer in the end."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "8204",
    "Idiom": [
      "take a licking and keep on ticking"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To have endurance and continue functioning despite challenges.",
    "Sentence": [
      "How am I supposed to knock these other guys off. My wild card is nothing but defensive. I take a licking and keep on ticking. Big whoop.",
      "Insurance allows your business to take a licking and keep on ticking.",
      "The persistence-through-change of Romantic ideologemes — the way they've taken a licking and kept on ticking — is explicable by their extension and saturation — their participation — in ongoing formations of capitalism and disciplinarity.",
      "\"That,\" the first said, \"was one hardy son of a bitch. Took a licking but went on ticking. I heard he made it all the way down off the mountain before he snuffed it.\"",
      "But the car amazed him. It kept going. And that too struck him as funny. Takes a licking, keeps on ticking."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "8205",
    "Idiom": [
      "take a load off"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To sit down.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "8206",
    "Idiom": [
      "take a long walk on a short pier"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Used to tell someone to go away.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Well, it was a busy day and I was really cut down to size — in fact, once I was told to take a long walk on a short pier.",
      "She smiled, but she wasn't the same Tina who had told her banker dad to take a long walk on a short pier."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "8207",
    "Idiom": [
      "take a look"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To examine or observe.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Can you take a look at the engine to see what's wrong?"
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "8208",
    "Idiom": [
      "take a nap"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To sleep briefly.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "8209",
    "Idiom": [
      "take a number"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Acknowledges others' similar situations and indicates one must wait.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Wanna buy a television network? Take a number. A few years ago you would have had the field to yourself.",
      "Even if they did decide to prosecute, the Justice Department would have to take a number and stand in a very long line."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "8210",
    "Idiom": [
      "take a pew"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To sit down.",
    "Sentence": [
      "There are many ways of inviting a person to seat himself. The genial ‘ take a pew ’ of one's equal inspires confidence. The raucous ‘sit down in front’ of the frenzied pit, when you stand up to get a better view of the stage, is not so pleasant.",
      "\"Oh!\" he said, looking round him with his chin a little in the air, \"am I intruding, Turl?\"... \"Not at all, Berryman— take a pew !\"",
      "\"Come in,\" he said cheerily. \"I'm delighted to see you. Take a pew.\"",
      "\"Come in. Come in. Take a pew. Cigarette?\""
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "8211",
    "Idiom": [
      "take a picture"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To capture an image.",
    "Sentence": [
      "I took a picture of my family."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "8212",
    "Idiom": [
      "take a piss"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To urinate.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "8213",
    "Idiom": [
      "take a powder"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To leave quietly, often to avoid something unpleasant.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Macdonald spoke slowly, bitterly. \"The kidnapping is one too many for me, Costello. I don't want any part of it. I'm takin' a powder from this toy mob. I took a chance that bright boy might side me.\"",
      "First Mrs Hitchcock packed up and took a powder, and there was hell to pay.",
      "Our idea was that once the storm had subsided we'd take a powder one night with our dough... We'd take our stuff and give ourselves a change of air... move to a different neighborhood.",
      "\"Mr. Tilton said you told him you would take a powder.\" \" Take a powder ?\" said Henry. \"I once heard a man from Nevada tell me he would take a powder, meaning he was leaving town.\"",
      "But when you suffer losses, Uncle Sam may take a powder.",
      "Go on, now. Scram. Take a powder. And don't come back till people on the street start wishing you a good afternoon."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "8214",
    "Idiom": [
      "take a ride to Tyburn"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To be executed.",
    "Sentence": [
      "He took a ride to Tyburn for stealing that purse."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "8215",
    "Idiom": [
      "take a risk"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To do something risky.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "8216-1",
    "Idiom": [
      "take a run at"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To attempt to achieve or acquire.",
    "Sentence": [
      "\"No one else has achieved the right knit of polyester Dacron fibers—lots of mills have taken a run at it.\"",
      "Cisco Chief Executive Officer John Chambers has scarcely hid the fact that his company is actively eyeing a number of acquisitions. At a luncheon in Toronto he felt compelled to deny recent speculation that Cisco would take a run at Canada's Nortel Networks.",
      "Dean told me that he understood he would have to grow as a candidate in order to succeed, that it was time to move his campaign beyond attacks and anger, to take a run at the vision thing.",
      "Through Monday, Honolulu has set record highs 8 days straight and could again take a run at a record today."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "8216-2",
    "Idiom": [
      "take a run at"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To attempt to challenge.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Like a tall dog who attacks a bear to remind himself he is still a tall dog, Ted Turner took a run at Rupert Murdoch last week.",
      "Only one guy was brave enough to take a run at Tiger Woods at the British Open yesterday.... DiMarco finished two shots behind Woods."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "8217-1",
    "Idiom": [
      "take a shit"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To defecate.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Is she still taking a shit ? We gotta go now."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "8217-2",
    "Idiom": [
      "take a shit"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To fail or malfunction.",
    "Sentence": [
      "I had to use the stairs because the lift took a shit this morning."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "8218",
    "Idiom": [
      "take a shot in the dark"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To guess without knowledge.",
    "Sentence": [
      "I didn't study for the test and took a shot in the dark."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "8219-1",
    "Idiom": [
      "take a stab at"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To attempt or try.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Jimmy Carter is the third President in a row to take a stab at reforming the “welfare mess” — an almost obligatory pejorative of political oratory.",
      "Would you like to take a stab at explaining the theory?"
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "8219-2",
    "Idiom": [
      "take a stab at"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To make a guess.",
    "Sentence": [
      "I'll take a stab at the answer, but I don't really know for sure."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "8220",
    "Idiom": [
      "take a stand"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To assert or defend an opinion or belief.",
    "Sentence": [
      "There will come a time when you'll need to take a stand for the changes you want."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "8221",
    "Idiom": [
      "take a tumble"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To fall in price or value.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Acme Industries shares took a tumble yesterday to the lowest value since 2001."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "8222",
    "Idiom": [
      "take a turn"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Change in direction or tendency.",
    "Sentence": [
      "In like manner do false teachers commence their discourses, by taking care to avoid a strait line of simple truthl they run a little waya, pretending that the divine Being is all love and grace to mankind, is the same yesterday, to-day and forever, that the most entire confidence may be safely placed in his wisdom, power, and goodness; but immediately they take a turn and represent him as capable of having his mind so changed, as to burn with implacable vengeance toward those who do not conform to their doctrine.",
      "He said to me: 'Look you, Rosebud child, things will take a turn.'",
      "Plucky old Walder Frey gathers his family for a feast and toasts to their massacre of the Stark family. He compliments their bravery in stabbing a pregnant woman and her fetus to death. As every last Frey man swigs their special wine, Walder hypes the cunning it took to invite guests into your home and ambush them. But then things take a turn, the men starting to keel over as Walder seems to admonish them for leaving certain threads hanging. At last the room is empty but for Arya Stark, holding Walder Frey’s face, and a couple girls she leaves alive to spread the legend. “Winter came for House Frey.”"
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "8223",
    "Idiom": [
      "take a turn for the better"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To start to improve.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "8224",
    "Idiom": [
      "take a turn for the worse"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To worsen.",
    "Sentence": [
      "But Torres's afternoon was to take a turn for the worse for a second week in succession as he was shown a straight red card by referee Mike Dean for a two-footed challenge on Gower."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "8225",
    "Idiom": [
      "take a walk"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To go away.",
    "Sentence": [
      "I'm gonna smash you in the fuckin’ face if you don't take a walk ! Mind your fuckin’ business!"
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "8226",
    "Idiom": [
      "take a whack at"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To try or attempt something.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "8227",
    "Idiom": [
      "take a wife"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To marry a woman.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "8228",
    "Idiom": [
      "take a wrong turn at Albuquerque"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To miss a turn, leading away from the intended destination.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Against the glacial backdrop he looked like a lost minstrel who'd taken a wrong turn at Albuquerque.",
      "Anyways, he must have taken a wrong turn at Albuquerque because I walked in on him using our restroom facilities and appearing to be very confused.",
      "Since cardiac embryology can be summed up as 9 months of looping and unlooping, you can think of the congenitally malformed heart as having taken the wrong turn at Albuquerque, and not just one time.",
      "But somewhere on the road to creating a useful tool for psychiatry, in my opinion the wheels fell off the bus, or, more accurately, the carpool's navigators took a wrong turn at Albuquerque.",
      "It takes 25 minutes for Bugs Bunny to tunnel his way into that sequel, becoming the first Looney Tune to appear in this supposed Looney Tunes movie. Maybe the rabbit and his studio both took a wrong turn at Albuquerque."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "8229",
    "Idiom": [
      "take aback"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To surprise or shock.",
    "Sentence": [
      "I was, at first, a little taken aback and astounded at the bulk of the volume; but, I turned out early this morning, and with eager hope and expectation set doggedly to work in search of the promised consolation.",
      "I would rather board a hundred of the enemy's frigates, than steer my boat into a fleet of modest women, for a modest woman never fails to take me aback.",
      "Frank was taken aback when Lisa told him that she also needed forgiveness from him, for actions, for words, and for unspoken thoughts.",
      "In a way, he was taken aback by the absence of discouragement.",
      "She was not taken aback to find he lived in a ramshackle log hut among the trees.",
      "She was a little taken aback to find the front door of heavy oak unlocked.",
      "Zervas was rather taken aback to learn that Ares Veloutiotes, the communist leader, was on his way to the village because there was no friendship between them.",
      "The physiologist is taken aback.",
      "They haven't seen humans for years, so when a small expedition, led by Jason Clarke, stumbles into apetopia, both sides are taken aback.",
      "Most commentators have been taken aback (but reassured) at how opposition has, if anything, grown rather than faded over time.",
      "I was rather taken aback by his angry reply.",
      "The bad news took us aback."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "8230",
    "Idiom": [
      "take aim"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To direct criticism.",
    "Sentence": [
      "He needed someone to blame for the bus accident, so took aim at the mechanics who failed to carry out the checks."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "8231",
    "Idiom": [
      "take air"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To be made public.",
    "Sentence": [
      "This secret having taken air, the old Israelite had contrived a scheme to separate them for ever; and they being apprized of his intention, had found means to elope from his house .",
      "The purchase proved fatal; the Jew's family soon died of the plague: the news took air, and the house was burnt, but the infection could not be restrained; it spread, and continued to rage with great violence ."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "8232",
    "Idiom": [
      "take bread and salt"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To make an oath or affirmation solemn.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "8233-1",
    "Idiom": [
      "take by storm"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To captivate suddenly and forcefully.",
    "Sentence": [
      "A startling interruption occurred at that moment, which took their whole attention by storm.",
      "How I looked while these ideas were taking my spirit by storm, I cannot tell."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "8233-2",
    "Idiom": [
      "take by storm"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To rapidly gain great popularity.",
    "Sentence": [
      "This obscure reference [\" Blind Tom \"] applies to a blind negro musician who took the world by storm in the latter half of the nineteenth century.",
      "Beatlemania took England and Europe by storm and proceeded to inundate American teenagers."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "8234-1",
    "Idiom": [
      "take care of business"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To successfully perform important tasks for a major objective.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Wars of succession are rarely pretty. The heirs apparent of Moghul emperors in 17th century India used to take care of business simply by murdering all their relatives the minute the ruling emperor started to look ill.",
      "Rather than attempting fertilization in a Petri dish, he simply loaded the sperm and eggs (known to biologists as gametes) into a fine pipette and inserted them into the Fallopian tube, where he hoped they would take care of business by themselves.",
      "James is eager to reach his first conference final. “\"We don’t just want to win one,\" he said. \"We’re going to try and win Game 3 and take care of business after that.\""
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "8234-2",
    "Idiom": [
      "take care of business"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To urinate or defecate.",
    "Sentence": [
      "The facilities at the Esso Super Station, located on the outskirts of the town 180 kilometres northwest of Edmonton, have been named among the best places to take care of business in Canada."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "8235",
    "Idiom": [
      "take care of the pennies and the pounds will take care of themselves",
      "take care of the pence and the pounds will take care of themselves"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Taking care of small things can lead to larger successes.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Old Mr. Lowndes, the famous Secretary of the Treasury, ‥used to say‥ Take care of the pence, and the pounds will take care of themselves.",
      "It is these little things that matter, Pickering. Take care of the pence and the pounds will take care of themselves is as true of personal habits as of money.",
      "Little things, Master Mally. Look after the pennies, Master Mally, and the pounds will look after themselves.",
      "‘Yes, it sounds on the melodramatic side,’ he said cheerfully, ‘but in wartime you can't be too careful about the smallest detail. Think of it as along the lines of taking care of the pennies, and the pounds will take care of themselves.’"
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "8236",
    "Idiom": [
      "take check"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To take offense.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Say I shou'd wed her, wou'd not my wife subjects Take check, and think it strange?"
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "8237",
    "Idiom": [
      "take cover"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To shelter oneself.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Can't you hear, can't your hear the thunder? / You better run, you better take cover"
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "8238",
    "Idiom": [
      "take delight in"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To enjoy.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "8239-1",
    "Idiom": [
      "take down a notch",
      "knock down a peg",
      "take down a peg"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To lower someone's self-esteem or importance.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Confident and near-cocky for the second straight debate [McCain] easily deflected Romney and Giuliani attempts to take him down a notch.",
      "Yet it is Gervais who has always been considered a quasi-\"man of the people\" who dares to take the elites down a notch.",
      "Even discount superstore Wal-Mart, once considered a recession-proof business, was taken down a notch after it reported lackluster earnings last month."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "8240-2",
    "Idiom": [
      "take down a notch"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To decrease the intensity or level of something.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Many travel companies are holding prices steady or taking them down a notch.",
      "An increase in clouds (and a slight weakening of the heat dome overhead) may take temperatures down a notch.",
      "Veteran hotelier Ian Schrager’s new venture in Manhattan takes luxury down a notch."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "8241-1",
    "Idiom": [
      "take easy"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To rest or exert little effort.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "8241-2",
    "Idiom": [
      "take easy"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To proceed calmly and relaxed.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "8242-1",
    "Idiom": [
      "take fire"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To become excited or enthusiastic.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "8242-2",
    "Idiom": [
      "take fire"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To be under enemy attack.",
    "Sentence": [
      "The unit was taking fire from the guerrillas."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "8243-1",
    "Idiom": [
      "take flight"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To begin flying.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Though the bird is still young, in a day or two it will spread its wing and take flight for the first time."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "8243-2",
    "Idiom": [
      "take flight"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To flee.",
    "Sentence": [
      "The criminals took flight as soon as they heard the sirens."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "8244-1",
    "Idiom": [
      "take for a spin"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To test or try out something.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Well, not him exactly, but his car (a Bentley), his vacation homes (Monte Carlo and Corfu), his credit card (a black AmEx that he let her take for a spin on Rodeo Drive every weekend),",
      "Set up desktops, laptops, iPads, and all of your devices with new tools, apps, eBooks, and programs for patrons to take for a spin.",
      "I kicked the tires and then the salesperson invited me to take the car for a spin."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "8244-2",
    "Idiom": [
      "take for a spin"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To take someone for a drive.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Prince William takes new wife for a spin in father's Aston Martin [title]",
      "‘You couldn’t find a small area with more cycling history or more hospitality.’ Ahead of tomorrow’s big race, Wiggo takes us for a spin around his favourite hills, cafes and villages.",
      "On Sunday, I took my family for a spin through the surrounding countryside."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "8245",
    "Idiom": [
      "take for granted"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Underestimate the value of something or someone, failing to appreciate it.",
    "Sentence": [
      "These great First Truths, these good and gracious Tidings, these holy and humanizing Spells, in the preconformity to which our very humanity may be said to consist, are so infused, that it were but a tame and inadequate expression to say, we all take them for granted.",
      "He had fiercely championed loveless ladies entering frustrated middle age, the married woman whose husband took her for granted and seldom into his arms.",
      "Many things we take for granted must have sounded unusual the first time they were proposed. For instance, imagine trying to explain to someone, for the first time, that you thought giving him an enema would be a real good idea. You'd have to proceed very subtly.",
      "While she waits up You chase down the newest thing and take for granted what you have",
      "He barely needs a moment to think: \"For me, there are three things. \"First of all, never, never, never take our passengers and freight users for granted. Because I think after this, lots more people will be thinking about their choices very differently, and there's always a danger in the railway that unintentionally we take people for granted - and particularly in Network Rail with regards to passengers. So don't ever take a passenger for granted."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "8246",
    "Idiom": [
      "take form"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To take shape.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "8247",
    "Idiom": [
      "take guard"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To mark a point for protection in cricket.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "8248",
    "Idiom": [
      "take heed"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To pay attention.",
    "Sentence": [
      "So there men dream awake, some taking heed, / And others not, how much untruth they tell; / Yet have the first more shame and more misdeed.",
      "None, however, took heed to his brothers; wherefore jealousy and envy entered their hearts, for all he entreated them tenderly as one tenders an ophthalmic eye; but the more he cherished them, the more they redoubled in hatred and envy of him:",
      "The king spoke and the lords took heed."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "8249",
    "Idiom": [
      "take huff"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To take offense.",
    "Sentence": [
      "He is as proud as Lucifer, he is always taking huff about one thing or the other."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "8250",
    "Idiom": [
      "take ill"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To become ill.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "8251",
    "Idiom": [
      "take into account"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To consider or factor in.",
    "Sentence": [
      "His plan did not take into account the possibility of rain."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "8252",
    "Idiom": [
      "take into consideration"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To take into account.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "8253",
    "Idiom": [
      "take it away"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To begin a performance.",
    "Sentence": [
      "MRS WHITNEY: We have a new student with us today. His name's Max Fischer and he's actually asked to say a few words to the class. Max? You want to take it away ?",
      "I'd like to introduce Mumbo the Magnificent and his dancing parrot, Tiddles. Take it away, Mumbo!"
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "8254",
    "Idiom": [
      "take it easy"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To relax.",
    "Sentence": [
      "I'm going to stay home Saturday and take it easy.",
      "Take it easy, it's just a game!"
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "8255",
    "Idiom": [
      "take it on the lam"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To escape.",
    "Sentence": [
      "They didn't take it on the lam weirdly inside a cloud the way Clevinger had done."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "8256-1",
    "Idiom": [
      "take it or leave it"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Must be accepted as is or rejected.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Even when you are making your final offer, presenting the deal as a \"take it or leave it\" proposition is a mistake.",
      "That's the deal: take it or leave it."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "8256-2",
    "Idiom": [
      "take it or leave it"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Indicates lack of concern or excitement about a choice.",
    "Sentence": [
      "When it comes to eating steak, I could take it or leave it."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "8257",
    "Idiom": [
      "take it outside"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To move a confrontation outside.",
    "Sentence": [
      "At one point, the interplay between Lieberman and Dean was so pointed that a moderator jokingly asked the two \"to take it outside.\"",
      "If you want a piece of me, let's take it outside !"
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "8258-1",
    "Idiom": [
      "take it up the ass"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To receive anal sex.",
    "Sentence": [
      "She doesn't take it up the ass ? Dealbreaker."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "8258-2",
    "Idiom": [
      "take it up the ass"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To be cheated or treated unfairly.",
    "Sentence": [
      "I've really been having to keep my head down to avoid really having to take it up the ass too hard at work."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "8259",
    "Idiom": [
      "take it upon oneself"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Assume personal responsibility.",
    "Sentence": [
      "The home secretary of the day, the bumptious Sir William Joynson-Hicks, took it upon himself to attend the house, a formality dating from the 17th century to ensure no impostors were substituted, ostensibly to ensure all was well, and he proclaimed the news publicly, even though the government was then in mid-crisis over the forthcoming general strike.",
      "She took it upon herself to manage the project."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "8260",
    "Idiom": [
      "take its rise"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To originate.",
    "Sentence": [
      "“I’m glad I’m only half Murray,” she said to herself. Aloud—“Father told me it was a Murray tradition not to carry spite past the grave.” “So ’tis now—but it took its rise from this very thing. His family were so horrified at it, you see. It made considerable of a scandal. Some folks twisted it round to mean that old Hugh didn’t believe in the resurrection, and there was talk of the session taking it up, but after a while the talk died away.”"
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "8261",
    "Idiom": [
      "take its toll"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To cause harm or negative effects.",
    "Sentence": [
      "The Thirty Years' War in Germany took its toll of bloodshed without bequeathing as a recompense any real political or moral blessing.",
      "A lot of attention has rightly been paid to the toll that fulfilling our orders takes upon workers in warehouses or drivers in delivery vans.",
      "England not only reached the World Cup semi-finals for the first time since Italia 90, they did the job under the pressure of the occasion and the requirement to back up the victory over Colombia on penalties in the last 16 - with all of the mental toll that will have taken.",
      "Time had taken its toll on the old bridge, and it was no longer sound.",
      "Heavy smoking and drinking will take its toll on a person's health."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "8262",
    "Idiom": [
      "take kindly"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To like or accept.",
    "Sentence": [
      "An English passenger, taking kindly to me, drew me into conversation. He was older than I. He asked me what I ate, what I was, where I was going, why I was shy, and so on. He also advised me to come to table. He laughed at my insistence on abjuring meat,",
      "My correspondent, who was riding in the first coach, comments that the small standard tender did not take kindly to this gay progress, and signified its disapproval from time to time by bombarding the train with lumps of coal!",
      "The host of business travellers between Bishops Stortford and London would scarcely take kindly to devious routing via the Southbury line; on the other hand, it is not desirable that they should overcrowd the business trains to and from Cambridge.",
      "It seemed to John like the sort of place where the people all knew one another, were likely to have guns for protection, and rarely took kindly to strangers.",
      "The young Darrow did not always take kindly to his father's strict ways. He was a disciplined student only when he liked what he was doing."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "8263",
    "Idiom": [
      "take leave of one's senses"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To go crazy or act irrationally.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Here I am, with my book and my pencil—the latter not pointed so well as I could wish, but when Christians take leave of their senses, who is to expect that pencils will keep their points?",
      "She plainly said that men seemed to take leave of their senses as soon as women were concerned;",
      "Rachel Spencer, have you taken leave of your senses ? What do you mean by such nonsense as this?",
      "Sue Shellenbarger was 49, living in Oregon and writing her \"Work & Family\" column for the Wall Street Journal, when in the space of two years she got divorced, lost her father, drained her bank account and developed a taste for wilderness camping and ATV riding that left her crumpled up on an emergency-room gurney. \"People around me thought I'd taken leave of my senses,\" she says.",
      "One of the great difficulties associated with the adoption of organic or, perhaps more appropriately, sustainable principles at the time I started turned out to be convincing others that you had not taken complete leave of your senses.",
      "It seems to me that whoever at the Department of Transport or the train operating companies, or both, is specifying the standard of seats these days has taken leave of their senses and opted for cheapness over comfort."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "8264-1",
    "Idiom": [
      "take liberties"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To act without permission.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "8264-2",
    "Idiom": [
      "take liberties"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To behave disrespectfully, especially in a sexual context.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "8265",
    "Idiom": [
      "take lightly"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To treat casually or without seriousness.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Following England's opening-day win over Wales in Cardiff, Martin Johnson's men headed into the Twickenham contest full of confidence but with a warning from their manager not to take the Italians lightly."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "8266",
    "Idiom": [
      "take matters into one's own hands"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To deal with a problem independently.",
    "Sentence": [
      "But while the two strapping front men battered Foster, they could not better him, and in the absence of tangible reward for his creative efforts, Pennant almost took matters into his own hands, curling a low free-kick inches wide of Foster's left-hand upright."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "8267",
    "Idiom": [
      "take no for an answer"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To accept a disappointing response.",
    "Sentence": [
      "However, as anyone who knew Adrian Shooter would affirm, he very rarely took no for an answer."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "8268",
    "Idiom": [
      "take no notice of"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To ignore.",
    "Sentence": [
      "There was a person called Nana who ruled the nursery. Sometimes she took no notice of the playthings lying about, and sometimes, for no reason whatever, she went swooping about like a great wind and hustled them away in cupboards.",
      "He took no notice of the spider until it bit him."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "8269",
    "Idiom": [
      "take no prisoners"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To be uncompromising.",
    "Sentence": [
      "It’s a rare thing to see a movie about science that takes no prisoners intellectually."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "8270",
    "Idiom": [
      "take occasion"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To take advantage of an opportunity.",
    "Sentence": [
      "He grew old and fretful, and captious, and I must add, which made the vice itself begin to grow surfeiting and nauseous to me, he grew worse and wickeder the older he grew, and that to such degree as is not fit to write of, and made me so weary of him that upon one of his capricious humours, which he often took occasion to trouble me with, I took occasion to be much less complaisant to him than I used to be;",
      "Home to dinner, and there I took occasion, from the blacknesse of the meat as it came out of the pot, to fall out with my wife and my maid for their sluttery"
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "8271-1",
    "Idiom": [
      "take on"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To begin to exhibit.",
    "Sentence": [
      "In the dark, the teddy bear took on the appearance of a fearsome monster."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "8271-2",
    "Idiom": [
      "take on"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To assume responsibility.",
    "Sentence": [
      "This type of marriage was always fraught with divorce because in most cases the old creditor, instead of allowing one of his male children to marry the girl, would take her on himself. For the fact that flirting was a serious taboo within the society, the girl would bolt away .",
      "She was 78, I think, and if there was only one customer, she’d take him on sometimes.",
      "I'll take on the project if no one else will."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "8271-3",
    "Idiom": [
      "take on"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To engage with or compete against.",
    "Sentence": [
      "“I’ll bet, despite the fact that the Tenhausens picked you as a soul-mate for June Atterman, that if Beth Hillyer took off her clothes and shook herself at you, you’d point right in the air and be ready to take her on.”",
      "I don't find that sexy. I tell her to take her time and try to be friends and work her way in. Then I might see something nice in her and take her on.",
      "I'll be interested to see how this service does. It will be basic with fares to match, so will be akin to a budget airline taking on a flag-carrier.",
      "I don't recommend taking on that bully, since he's bigger than you are."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "8271-4",
    "Idiom": [
      "take on"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To grieve or be concerned.",
    "Sentence": [
      "But I am one of those that never take on about princely fortunes, and am quite content if the world is ready to board and lodge me, while I am putting up at this grim sign of the Thunder Cloud.",
      "So she hung crying, lopsided and ludicrous on the seat of the buggy . People passing looked at her and wondered why she was taking on. There was something almost obscene about a strong, healthy woman blubbering in the sunlight in that public place."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "8272",
    "Idiom": [
      "take on faith"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To accept something by trust without evidence.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Their own parents, for example, will be able to regale them with tales about how they simply took it on faith that democracy was the best possible form of government, and this blinded them from even considering the possibility that Washington was full of idiots and crooks."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "8273-1",
    "Idiom": [
      "take on the chin"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To accept without complaining.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Elsewhere in Sweden recently, two underage girls pressed charges when a teenage boy exposed himself to them at a lake. The court decided, despite the victims' testimonies, that the offence was \"not of a sexual nature\" and dismissed it. But I'm guessing the girls didn't push for molestation charges because they were censorious prudes who would grow into knowing how to take such behaviour on the chin – they felt genuinely threatened, they took their concerns to court, and they deserved more than being told that they'd misread the situation all along."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "8273-2",
    "Idiom": [
      "take on the chin"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To endure difficulties without complaint.",
    "Sentence": [
      "The situation seems to be designed so the taxpayers take it on the chin no matter what. District residents who vote down a budget believing they are voting against any tax raise still receive higher tax bills."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "8274",
    "Idiom": [
      "take on water"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To be in a difficult or failing situation.",
    "Sentence": [
      "While the heartland is chugging right along, the economies of Southern California and New England are still taking on water.",
      "Democrats on Capitol Hill... are struggling not to go down with the Obama campaign (which is taking on water at an alarming rate).",
      "The team refinanced $250 million of debt and is no longer taking on water under the leadership of GM Sandy Alderson."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "8275",
    "Idiom": [
      "take one day at a time"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Focus on the present, not the future.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Take one day at a time.",
      "Take things one day at a time.",
      "Take it one day at a time."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "8276",
    "Idiom": [
      "take one for the team"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Accept hardship for the sake of others.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "8277",
    "Idiom": [
      "take one's chance"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To attempt something risky or unlikely to succeed.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Lysacek opted not to take his chances with the risky move."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "8278",
    "Idiom": [
      "take one's courage in both hands"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To summon courage for a difficult action.",
    "Sentence": [
      "I know that disobeying your father is hard, but you must take your courage in both hands and follow the path that's right for you."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "8279",
    "Idiom": [
      "take one's eye off the ball"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To lose focus on what is important.",
    "Sentence": [
      "But I regret the eye has been off the ball in recent years, and reliability, as well as service provision, is poor.",
      "One of the keys to success in business is never to take your eye off the ball."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "8280",
    "Idiom": [
      "take one's eyes off"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To stop looking at something.",
    "Sentence": [
      "You're just too good to be true / Can't take my eyes off of you / You'd be like heaven to touch / I wanna hold you so much"
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "8281",
    "Idiom": [
      "take one's hat off to"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To praise or congratulate.",
    "Sentence": [
      "'You will excuse me,' he said, 'but no one would believe it to look at you. I take my hat off to you. I do, indeed."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "8282",
    "Idiom": [
      "take one's hook"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To depart in a hurry.",
    "Sentence": [
      "I'll have none of you fellows dangiing about here; my daughter is off to Cairo, so is the old woman, and I guess that she was hitched to Elisha Kent yesterday! Now take your hook."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "8283",
    "Idiom": [
      "take one's leave"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To depart.",
    "Sentence": [
      "And Paul after this tarried there yet a good while, and then took his leave of the brethren."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "8284",
    "Idiom": [
      "take one's medicine"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To endure an unpleasant obligation or punishment.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Your resistance to our class won't do you any good. If you'll come out and take your medicine like men, all right; but if you resist it will go that much harder with you.",
      "if the police pick up \"a real fine boy\" —which most of them are — who has been fooling around, the boy's father can add a building block to Junior's personality by saying, \"My boy, you know better. Now take your medicine like a man and we'll just call it one of life's lessons.”",
      "I s'pose I'll have to go back and take my medicine. Now that I've got some grub in my stomach I guess I can stand it.",
      "Today he felt obliged to take his medicine, to acknowledge the apex of his life had been reached and he was plunging in a billycart down the other side."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "8285",
    "Idiom": [
      "take one's pick"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To choose or select.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "8286",
    "Idiom": [
      "take one's sweet little time"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To take a very long time.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "8287-1",
    "Idiom": [
      "take one's time"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To proceed slowly and at one's own pace.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Working with pick, shovel, and wheelbarrow, he took his time over the job, for it was not until May 17, 1816, that it was opened for traffic.",
      "Take your time — there's no need to rush."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "8287-2",
    "Idiom": [
      "take one's time"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To take longer than necessary to do something.",
    "Sentence": [
      "You sure took your time getting here!"
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "8288-1",
    "Idiom": [
      "take out"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To incapacitate.",
    "Sentence": [
      "I don't know if he's close by. He's unarmed, though. He lost his gun when I took him out.",
      "I tore right through it and took him to the ground and knocked him out cold, \"Ralph, oh your going to pay for that.\" he said and he started fighting me which he was good but not good enough and I took him out in no time.",
      "\"Heard a rumor you took out Mr. Hassel.\" He mimes a punch."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "8288-2",
    "Idiom": [
      "take out"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To kill or destroy.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Anyway, one of the snipers took him out.",
      "Boss told me when the guy was done, I should take him out.",
      "Before he could get a shot off, Wilder took him out with two shots to the chest, just as Roderick took out the third shooter.",
      "The Johnston emerges from a smokescreen to find the Haruna at close range. So of course it shoots up the battleship's superstructure whilst ducking back into the smoke as Kongō tries to take it out using its main battery.",
      "The soldiers were instructed to take out the enemy base by any means necessary."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "8288-3",
    "Idiom": [
      "take out"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To stun, amaze, or kill.",
    "Sentence": [
      "User directional transsexual (@north0fnorth) added: \"Playing 'Empire State of Mind' while wheeling out the kind of trash bin that every other major U.S. city has had forever and calling it a revolution is taking me out.\"",
      "These photos are taking me out."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "8289",
    "Idiom": [
      "take out an onion"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Suggests insincerity in grief.",
    "Sentence": [
      "He’s almost taking out an onion now as he remembers his father and his own early struggles.",
      "\"I don't want the next generation to misunderstand history\" Mr Chea told a packed court, no doubt taking out an onion as he did so. \"I don't want them to believe the Khmer Rouge were bad people, war criminals.\"",
      "I sympathise, of course, (takes out onion) with Ken’s own experience of how hard it is to find employment, in a particularly tough job market for embittered old lefties."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "8290",
    "Idiom": [
      "take out in trade"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Accepting repayment in goods or services instead of money.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Furthermore, rural grocers gave a slightly higher price for eggs if the money was taken out in trade.",
      "I loved that because there were times when he'd send clothes over to my father's tailor shop to be done up, and he would pick up his things and not pay for them and he'd say, take it out in trade and we'd get our bread."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "8291",
    "Idiom": [
      "take out of context"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To report something without considering its context.",
    "Sentence": [
      "The statistics are not very meaningful when taken out of context."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "8292-1",
    "Idiom": [
      "take out the trash"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To remove undesirable people from a place.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "8292-2",
    "Idiom": [
      "take out the trash"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To announce something discreetly to minimize publicity.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "8293-1",
    "Idiom": [
      "take part"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To participate.",
    "Sentence": [
      "They are killed, tortured, made to take part in the fighting, banished from their homes.",
      "Thus the revolution is that one can speak about an access to digital culture within the right to take part in cultural life.",
      "He declined to take part in the meeting because he did not feel he had anything to add.",
      "I listened to a discussion in which she took part."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "8293-2",
    "Idiom": [
      "take part"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To share or partake.",
    "Sentence": [
      "So didst thou love man, that thou wouldest take part with him of his misery, that he might take part with thee of thy blessedness.",
      "We have two famous tribal drums called Ntiri and Abia which are so stimulating that everybody used to take part when they sounded, but Ndiuka were educated not to dance it because it is native.",
      "Importantly now, all of the parishioners were expected to participate in singing God's praise and at communion received the bread and wine at tables set out for all to take part."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "8294",
    "Idiom": [
      "take pride"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To be proud of.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Our lawgivers take special pride in the ever active manufacture of new bills and laws."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "8295",
    "Idiom": [
      "take roll"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To take attendance.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "8296",
    "Idiom": [
      "take sides"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To support one side in a competition or confrontation.",
    "Sentence": [
      "I am not going to argue with you, and I am not going to take sides in this discussion."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "8297",
    "Idiom": [
      "take silk"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To be appointed as a Queen's Counsel or King's Counsel.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "8298",
    "Idiom": [
      "take soil"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To seek shelter or refuge.",
    "Sentence": [
      "O, sir, have you taken soil here? It is well a man may reach you after three hours' running.",
      "finding that he could not shake off the hounds, turned to the left towards the Saltwater River, and rushing down a precipitous and stony approach to the river, he instantly took soil in very deep water, with the pack clustering round him."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "8299",
    "Idiom": [
      "take someone for all they've got"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To totally deplete someone.",
    "Sentence": [
      "YANK: And if I can't find her I'll take it out on de gang she runs wit. I'm wise to where dey hangs out now. I'll show her who belongs! I'll show her who's in de move and who ain't. You watch my smoke! VOICES:Dat's de talkin'! Take her for all she's got!"
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "8300",
    "Idiom": [
      "take someone to brown town"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To have anal sex with someone.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "8301",
    "Idiom": [
      "take someone to the grave"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To cause someone's death.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Two weeks later, cancer took him to the grave."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "8302",
    "Idiom": [
      "take someone's arm"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To hold or link arms with someone.",
    "Sentence": [
      "“Will you take my arm, sir?” he said; “there is a heavy shower coming on: had you not better go in?”",
      "He took her arm to guide her through the Saturday evening crowds."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "8303",
    "Idiom": [
      "take someone's breath away"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To emotionally move someone in a pleasant way.",
    "Sentence": [
      "The view from the top, over the sea to the islands, simply takes your breath away.",
      "When he asked me to marry him, it took my breath away."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "8304",
    "Idiom": [
      "take someone's head off"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To berate.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Pat's Irish but don't hold it against him— he's likely to take your head off.'",
      "She should take his head off for that last remark, but darned if she didn't find him adorable instead.",
      "He didn't think the captain would take his head off if he laughed, but he wasn't positive."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "8305",
    "Idiom": [
      "take someone's part"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To show support for or defend someone.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "8306",
    "Idiom": [
      "take someone's word for it"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To believe someone without verification.",
    "Sentence": [
      "I can't really check on that, so I'll have to take your word for it."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "8307",
    "Idiom": [
      "take something as it comes"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Accept and deal with events as they occur.",
    "Sentence": [
      "There are really no hardships if you take things as they come and make the best of them.",
      "He also urges Louie: “ Take things as they come and keep smiling. Keep your spirits up, my dear. Be of good cheer and all will be well.”",
      "take life as it comes"
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "8308",
    "Idiom": [
      "take something as read"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To assume something is true without questioning it.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Any one wish to see it? No? Then we will take it as read. I know that in such a matter, my patrons, my word is enough for you.",
      "We can take your resignation as read, can we?"
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "8309",
    "Idiom": [
      "take something in one's stride"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Not to be upset or affected by difficulties.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "8310",
    "Idiom": [
      "take something in stride"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To cope with difficulties well.",
    "Sentence": [
      "He took it in stride when they attempted to ostracize him."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "8311",
    "Idiom": [
      "take stock"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To assess a situation.",
    "Sentence": [
      "At the outset of any inquiry it is proper to take stock of the results obtained by previous explorers of the same field.",
      "In 2009, he underwent heart surgery for an aortic valve replacement at the Cleveland Clinic in Ohio, an event that Mr. Williams said caused him to take stock of his life.",
      "and the pillar of smoke which had recently begun to dissipate, as many of the fires amidships had been smothered by the onrushing water, was replaced by a vast mushroom cloud of steam, smoke, flame, and debris as the magazines detonated. In the pall of this apocalyptic destruction, the U.S. fleet takes stock.",
      "\"But from time to time, all organisations need to take stock of what they do and why they do it."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "8312",
    "Idiom": [
      "take the Browns to the Super Bowl"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To defecate.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "8313",
    "Idiom": [
      "take the biscuit"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To be particularly bad or objectionable.",
    "Sentence": [
      "I've seen bad grammar, but this takes the biscuit."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "8314",
    "Idiom": [
      "take the bitter with the sweet"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Accept positive and negative experiences together.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "8315",
    "Idiom": [
      "take the bread out of someone's mouth"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To deprive someone of their livelihood.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "8316",
    "Idiom": [
      "take the bull by the horns",
      "grab the bull by the horns"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To confront a difficulty directly.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Wordsworth has a system which disposes him to take the bull by the horns and offend public taste.",
      "\"Then why couldn' ye take the bull by the horns an' march in by the front door?\"",
      "He was ready to take the bull by the horns and pay for his meal himself.",
      "In Korea General MacArthur took the bull by the horns and threw seven divisions into an all-out drive to clear North Korea.",
      "\"Should I tell her? Should I send someone else?\" he said yesterday. \"I took the bull by the horns. I gave her the diagnosis. It was the most difficult time of my life.\"",
      "“I felt I’d go out and grab the bull by the horns and give it a good lash and I’m very pleased to come away with second in my very first Diamond League final.”"
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "8317",
    "Idiom": [
      "take the cake"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To win or be the best.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Thanks! You guys take the cake.",
      "Once the party was over, everyone agreed that Elizabeth and her Harriet Tubman getup had taken the cake.",
      "I've seen bad grammar, but this takes the cake."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "8318",
    "Idiom": [
      "take the cash and let the credit go"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Enjoy current opportunities instead of seeking future rewards.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Some for the Glories of This World; and some / Sigh for the Prophet's Paradise to come; / Ah, take the Cash, and let the Credit go, / Nor heed the rumble of a distant Drum!",
      "\"I will live my life, alone with the few people I find to my liking. I will take the cash and let the credit go.\"",
      "Why not \" take the cash and let the credit go \"? Why pursue the elusive theoretical \"unification\" any further, when what we daily get from our sciences is an increasing wealth of detailed information and of practical guidance?",
      "No religious teacher was ever more opposed than Buddha in his scheme of salvation to every form of postponement and procrastination. He would have his followers take the cash and let the credit go —though the cash in this case is not the immediate pleasure but the immediate peace.",
      "William Harding Johnson, $15,000-a-year superintendent of Chicago's school system, has been content to take the cash and let the credit go. He has made good money by co-authoring textbooks for Chicago's schools and from his tutoring school for teachers.",
      "\" Take the cash and let the credit go,\" as Villon said in 1460. But that is a mistake if the cash is a penny and the credit a whole lifetime."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "8319",
    "Idiom": [
      "take the count"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To lose or fail.",
    "Sentence": [
      "He led his men with great dash and when hit the first time declined to take the count. Instead, he drew his revolver and called for further effort. Again he was hit,but struggled on, but a third shot finally bowled him over."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "8320",
    "Idiom": [
      "take the cure"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To enter a rehabilitation program.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "8321-1",
    "Idiom": [
      "take the fall"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To willingly accept blame or punishment.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "8321-2",
    "Idiom": [
      "take the fall"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To bear the blame or punishment for someone else's actions.",
    "Sentence": [
      "You can take the president at his word after last week's sacking of MMS director Liz Birnbaum, the first in the government to take the fall for the BP oil spill disaster",
      "It was good of him to take the fall for you like that, I just wonder if he will come out of this one unscathed."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "8322",
    "Idiom": [
      "take the fifth"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To decline to comment, often to avoid self-incrimination.",
    "Sentence": [
      "“Do you believe the violence on January 6 was justified morally?” she asked. Flynn squinted, truculent. “ Take the Fifth,” he said.",
      "If you ask me who ate the last of the ice cream, I will simply take the fifth."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "8323",
    "Idiom": [
      "take the front seat"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To take priority.",
    "Sentence": [
      "In survival, clean water takes the front seat."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "8324",
    "Idiom": [
      "take the game to"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To use offensive strategies.",
    "Sentence": [
      "The Frenchman had talked in the build-up to the game about how focused his side were and they looked it, taking the game to their Championship opponents from the first whistle with a pace and panache Leeds simply could not live with.",
      "The visitors were worthy winners, taking the game to the highly fancied hosts from the first minute."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "8325",
    "Idiom": [
      "take the gilt off the gingerbread"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To remove attractive qualities or destroy an illusion.",
    "Sentence": [
      "If you only say the word, we shall take the gilt off the gingerbread,—you guess what I mean,—but remember that Sir Robert Walpole said, ‘ every man has his price. ’",
      "The former gentleman too rarely appears amongst us as a solo pianist, did we hear him oftener, we are inclined to think he would, to use a homely figure of speech, \" Take the gilt off the gingerbread \" of many persons of much higher pretensions.",
      "A seedy kind of men come to me that can't get credit with regular first houses, and though I get very good prices out of 'em all, I've made some losses in particular directions, that quite took the gilt off the gingerbread.",
      "Do we ever dream that in a certain gross number—say a billion—of young lady lovers, there is always a given number ready to cut off their sweethearts' heads and stick them in a flower-pot? Alas! how such a fact takes the gilt off the gingerbread !",
      "Notwithstanding the unfinished state of the building [the Royal Albert Hall] and its approaches a concert is to be given in the hall to-morrow (February 25) by the aristocratic musicians, who have earned such a deservedly high reputation under their adopted designation of the \"Wandering Minstrels.\" This first formal concert, which, by the way, seems like \" taking the gilt off the gingerbread,\" is for the entertainment of the workmen of Messrs. Lucas Brothers, the contractors.",
      "He was one whose main business was, in his own view, the pricking of illusions, the stripping away of disguises, and even the destruction of ideals. He was a sort of anti-confectioner whose whole business it was to take the gilt off the gingerbread.",
      "It is always pleasant to come into your kingdom—though it takes the gilt off the gingerbread if there's no one with whom to share it.",
      "According to the writer, Monks Farm bore a sinister local reputation, and was about as thoroughly haunted as any place could be, and in order to justify his thesis, he gave an account of its history. The discussion that followed the reading of the paper, and which was recorded in all its wordy fullness, somewhat took the gilt off the gingerbread, however, for it was pointed out by persons familiar with local customs as well as local superstitions, that the empty buildings of Monks Farm had long been a favourite haunt of lovers without benefit of clergy.",
      "The competition between the Standard and the Shell had taken the gilt off the gingerbread; after the first imports by the Shell, the price of lamp oil had fallen from 11d. to 6¼d. per gallon,",
      "'My boss works for your crowd. If anything takes the gilt off the gingerbread … I mean he's a creep. Can it be true?' / 'Explains how they picked you.'"
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "8326",
    "Idiom": [
      "take the hint"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Concede to evidence.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "8327",
    "Idiom": [
      "take the initiative"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To take action first.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "8328",
    "Idiom": [
      "take the law into one's own hands"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To punish someone personally, ignoring law enforcement.",
    "Sentence": [
      "After his son's killer was let off without a conviction, the man decided to take the law into his own hands."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "8329-1",
    "Idiom": [
      "take the lead"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To become the leader.",
    "Sentence": [
      "It was an omen of things to come as in the 56th minute the visitors took the lead after a mix-up between Skrtel and Sotirios Kyrgiakos allowed Ebanks-Blake's through-ball to squeeze between them.",
      "At 0-0, United will take the lead if they score the penalty."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "8329-2",
    "Idiom": [
      "take the lead"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To assume leadership.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "8330",
    "Idiom": [
      "take the liberty"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To act without permission.",
    "Sentence": [
      "—What about Dignam? says Bob Doran. Who's talking about...? / —Dead! says Alf. He's no more dead than you are. / —Maybe so, says Joe. They took the liberty of burying him this morning anyhow.",
      "I took the liberty of adding your name to the list."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "8331",
    "Idiom": [
      "take the mask off"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To reveal one's true nature.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "8332",
    "Idiom": [
      "take the meaning"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To interpret an argument.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "8333",
    "Idiom": [
      "take the mickey",
      "take the michael",
      "take the mick"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To ridicule or mock.",
    "Sentence": [
      "For the last eight years, taking the mickey out of George Bush has been great, victimless fun. Like taking candy from babies or shooting aquatically-challenged fish in size-challenged barrels.",
      "Are you takin’ the mickey ? You’ll get yer ’ead bashed in."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "8334",
    "Idiom": [
      "take the offensive"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To be bold and proactive.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "8335",
    "Idiom": [
      "take the pee"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To mock or make fun of.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "8336-1",
    "Idiom": [
      "take the piss"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To tease or mock someone.",
    "Sentence": [
      "You know, cos he was like taking the piss out of them and they took the piss out of him.",
      "A lot of that stuff that people take the piss out of all the time is actually useful."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "8336-2",
    "Idiom": [
      "take the piss"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To tease or mock.",
    "Sentence": [
      "He's either taking it easy or taking the piss by arriving at the eleventh hour."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "8336-3",
    "Idiom": [
      "take the piss"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To be outrageous or unreasonable.",
    "Sentence": [
      "I've got three exams on the same day! That's taking the piss !"
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "8337-1",
    "Idiom": [
      "take the plunge"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To begin a major commitment.",
    "Sentence": [
      "And as scientists studying the subject, we will have to conclude that she will take the plunge only if she suffers from overconfidence bias or is innately risk-loving.",
      "Patrick: Joel and Brinique just went public with matching bracelets.",
      "I decided to take the plunge as Series Editor by also taking the plunge as my first volume editor."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "8337-2",
    "Idiom": [
      "take the plunge"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To commit to a significant decision.",
    "Sentence": [
      "She's been seeing William now for about seven months and it looks as if they may take the plunge.",
      "It was easier for Morris to take the plunge – he had an independent income and was wealthy enough to build a house in the country for himself and his wife.",
      "I was pretty much going to be the last one among my peers to take the plunge. That meant I had previously heard their unique engagement stories.",
      "She shrugged. \"I don't know. I guess I'm thinking who am I to tell my mother she shouldn't marry.\" “Especially since you're about to take the plunge yourself?” he asked lightly. She opened her mouth to tell him the truth, but the interest in his expression frightened her."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "8338-1",
    "Idiom": [
      "take the point"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To agree or be persuaded.",
    "Sentence": [
      "\"Then,\" said Mr Mifflin, cordially, \"say no more. I take your point. My objections are removed.\"",
      "Wading through the apparent sarcasm, we can take his point that the \"badness\" common to popular music as a whole is not excused by the small amount of it that is notably good."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "8338-2",
    "Idiom": [
      "take the point"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To understand a person's argument and perspective.",
    "Sentence": [
      "I take your point well enough, but mayn't you be after all quite wrong?",
      "\"I played 'em off one against the other,\" said my uncle. I took his point in an instant. He had gone to each of them in turn and said the others had come in."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "8339",
    "Idiom": [
      "take the rap"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To be blamed or punished for something.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "8340",
    "Idiom": [
      "take the red pill"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To perceive a harsher reality.",
    "Sentence": [
      "If you want to be a successful bootstrapper, you have to take the red pill and determine how deep the rabbit hole called your organization goes.",
      "As much as we, our generation, start to believe this fictionalized new version of reality we become complicit.... The only way out is to take the Red pill and see what things really look like.",
      "In this day and time, we must begin to take the “red pill” and open our first eye to see what's really going on, and who's behind this madness involving Hip Hop videos."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "8341",
    "Idiom": [
      "take the ride"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To concede to arrest and be taken to jail.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "8342",
    "Idiom": [
      "take the shadow for the substance"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Easily deceived or superficial.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "8343",
    "Idiom": [
      "take the stand"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To testify as a witness in court.",
    "Sentence": [
      "At the conclusion of the case, the defendant not having dared to take the stand, the lawyer arose to address the jury in behalf of what appeared a hopeless cause.",
      "The press speculated about whether he would take the stand and testify in his defense."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "8344",
    "Idiom": [
      "take the veil"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To become a nun.",
    "Sentence": [
      "“ I shall devote myself for a time to the examination of the Roman Catholic dogmas, and to a careful study of the workings of their system: if I find it to be, as I half suspect it is, the one best calculated to ensure the doing of all things decently and in order, I shall embrace the tenets of Rome and probably take the veil.”"
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "8345",
    "Idiom": [
      "take the wheel"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To assume control.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "8346",
    "Idiom": [
      "take the wind out of someone's sails"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To discourage someone or diminish their ambitions.",
    "Sentence": [
      "\"I tell you Van Bahr Lamb is a fool.\" But Polly completely took the wind out of her sails, by coolly remarking,— \"I like fools.\"",
      "Could he have some elderly idea of wanting a youngster for a wife? Occasionally an old chap did. Serve him right if some young chap took the wind out of his sails.",
      "The Republicans have been repeatedly battered in the polls since German unification became a mainstream German concern and took the wind out of their sails.",
      "\"It took the wind out of our sails,\" he says. \"I had no Plan B. I was a wreck.\"",
      "A bunch of myths, a bunch of tales / To take the wind out of our sails / They even say that we must die / I don't believe it, that's a lie"
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "8347",
    "Idiom": [
      "take time by the forelock"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Seize an opportunity quickly.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Tell her the ioyous time wil not be staid, / Unlesse she doe him by the forelock take;",
      "I knew a Parson's Wife that seldom went to Church, but took Time by the Forelock, and while the Husband (good Man) was taking Care of his Flock, the good Woman at Home was at her Occupation with her Gallant, a rich young Farmer.",
      "Miss Walters, dreading the Christmas rush on the railway, had determined to take time by the forelock, and meant to pack off her pupils by the first available trains, trusting they would most of them reach their destinations before the overcrowding became a serious problem in the traffic."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "8348",
    "Idiom": [
      "take time off"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To cease working temporarily.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "8349",
    "Idiom": [
      "take time out"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To temporarily pause an activity for another task.",
    "Sentence": [
      "“Everyone recognised him but he was very humble and was happy to take time out for people to take photographs with him,” the spokesperson said. “It was a real pleasure to have him compete at our event.”"
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "8350-1",
    "Idiom": [
      "take to"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To adapt or learn.",
    "Sentence": [
      "This new batch was sent to Leicester shed, and the redoubtable enginemen who had made such a reputation for themselves with the ex -G.C.R. Atlantics took to the \"B17s\" immediately, although, of course, they required quite different driving methods; .",
      "Although he had never skated before, he took to it quickly, and soon glided around the ice with ease.",
      "She took to swimming like a fish."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "8350-2",
    "Idiom": [
      "take to"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To move towards.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Rhiannon rings like a bell through the night / And wouldn't you love to love her? / Takes to the sky like a bird in flight / And who will be her lover?",
      "WikiLeaks did not cause these uprisings but it certainly informed them. The dispatches revealed details of corruption and kleptocracy that many Tunisians suspected, but could not prove, and would cite as they took to the streets.",
      "As the train rushed through, thousands of birds took to the air at once."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "8350-3",
    "Idiom": [
      "take to"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To begin a new habit or practice.",
    "Sentence": [
      "\"In my youth,\" said his father, \"I took to the law, / And argued each case with my wife; \"",
      "I made a trip out on the line on Day 7 of public operation, and was delighted to see pretty steady use all along the line, even off-peak. It's clear that Londoners are quickly taking to their new railway.",
      "After the third one was rejected, she took to asking the department to check the form before she submitted it."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "8350-4",
    "Idiom": [
      "take to"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To be attracted to.",
    "Sentence": [
      "She met Ned when he was looking anyway.... And he took to her, he liked her crooked straightness from the start."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "8351-1",
    "Idiom": [
      "take to heart"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To take something seriously or internalize it.",
    "Sentence": [
      "He really took it to heart when I asked him to reconsider."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "8351-2",
    "Idiom": [
      "take to heart"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To be greatly affected by something.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Of course, with her weak heart and dropsy one couldn't expect that she could get about with him, but he spent two hours every evening in her room. He might well do what he could, for she has been a rare good friend to him. But that's all over, too. He never goes near her. And she takes it to heart. She is brooding and sulky and drinking, Mr. Holmes—drinking like a fish."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "8352",
    "Idiom": [
      "take to one's heels"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To flee or run away.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Then, confused and frightened, he took to his heels; and, not knowing what he did, made off as fast as he could lay his feet to the ground.",
      "Of a sudden, however, a man broke from their company, took to his heels, and fled into the church.",
      "After returning the fire three times, Peale's men saw the enemy formed near the college take to their heels.",
      "Often tax defaulters would take to their heels on sighting the tax collectors."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "8353",
    "Idiom": [
      "take to task"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To hold someone accountable for their actions.",
    "Sentence": [
      "When any of his descendants chose to take him to task for the crudeness of his manners he was accustomed to look them coldly over and retort that things had come to a pretty pass when comparatively new people ventured to instruct the oldest of the old settlers as to what was or was not good form.",
      "A dozen similar, but smaller footwarmers were made at Doncaster, without official sanction, and placed in the coaches of a train conveying some of the directors to London. Sturrock was taken to task by the chairman for having incurred this unauthorised expenditure, but before he left the meeting, the directors had ordered 200 footwarmers for public use.",
      "In a closely reasoned article in The Guardian, Mr. D. L. Munby, Oxford University's Reader in the Economics and Organisation of Transport, has taken Dr. Beeching to task for overstating his case for withdrawing stopping train services as money-losers."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "8354",
    "Idiom": [
      "take to the bank"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To utterly trust or rely on.",
    "Sentence": [
      "\"You can take that to the bank,\" Davis said. \"It's etched in stone.\"",
      "He said that is a promise that Ms. Smith and her lawyers \"can take to the bank.\"",
      "You can take it to the bank that the CIA knows all of this."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "8355",
    "Idiom": [
      "take to the grave"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To never reveal a secret.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Houdini took his secrets to the grave, as he died shortly after performing one of his most famous escapes."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "8356",
    "Idiom": [
      "take to the hills"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To flee or run away.",
    "Sentence": [
      "He often took to the hills when his mother-in-law was in town."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "8357",
    "Idiom": [
      "take up a collection"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To collect money or goods for a charitable purpose.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Then somebody sings out, \" Take up a collection for him, take up a collection !\" Well, a half a dozen made a jump to do it, but somebody sings out, \"Let HIM pass the hat around!\"",
      "\"But I hope nobody's took up a collection for me. I don't want no charity.\"",
      "When Simmons won a scholarship to Dillard University, her high school teachers took up a collection so she'd have a coat."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "8358",
    "Idiom": [
      "take up the cudgel for"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To defend someone or something.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "8359",
    "Idiom": [
      "take up the cudgels"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To defend or support someone or something.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "8360",
    "Idiom": [
      "take up the gauntlet"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To accept a challenge.",
    "Sentence": [
      "It was they, the ones without rights or positions, who had taken up the Emperor Wilhelm's gauntlet.",
      "He doesn't read Greek, but he took up the gauntlet and did his best to understand the letter, anyway."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "8361",
    "Idiom": [
      "take up the hatchet"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To declare war.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "8362-1",
    "Idiom": [
      "takes one to know one",
      "it takes one to know one"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Expresses hypocrisy in judgment.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "8363",
    "Idiom": [
      "talent management"
    ],
    "Meaning": "The strategic management of an employee's entire lifecycle within an organization.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "8364",
    "Idiom": [
      "talk a good game"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To speak confidently about abilities or intentions without proof.",
    "Sentence": [
      "\"It's a difference between action and inaction. Anybody can talk a good game.\"",
      "For the last 20 years they have been talking a good game about what should be done, but they have not come up with the solution yet.",
      "De Boisséson acknowledges that Beijing is talking a good game, but he cautions that sweet words from the leadership do not always translate into law.",
      "Corporate America has been talking a good game this earnings season, but a closer look shows the results are not nearly as strong as CEO optimism might lead investors to believe.",
      "Even if Trump isn’t righteously jousting with the judge and being persecuted by the Soros machine, he can tell his base that he is. Even better, he can talk a good game without doing things that might risk judicial sanctions."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "8365",
    "Idiom": [
      "talk a mile a minute"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To speak quickly or excessively.",
    "Sentence": [
      "He talks a mile a minute in wildly over-egged adjectives and mainly looks after the business side of BrewDog: money, marketing, strategy.",
      "They spent the whole visit talking a mile a minute, and then went home and phoned each other!"
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "8366-1",
    "Idiom": [
      "talk about"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Draws attention to the speaker's characterization.",
    "Sentence": [
      "\"I should say yes,\" agreed George. \"And talk about speed!\" he added. \"Wow! One ball he threw soaked me in the ear. I can feel it yet!\" and he rubbed the side of his head reflectively.",
      "The queen squeezes her eyes shut as she prepares to be incinerated, but the red dragon only roars—a display of both might and mercy. Fixing the queen with a stare that speaks volumes, Rhaenys wheels Meleys around and shoots off into the sky. Talk about a power move.",
      "It seems even Kris Jenner has got the pink memo. The momager followed up Kim's post with her own, sharing a throwback pic of herself in a neon pink '80s swimsuit. Talk about like mother, like daughter.",
      "Talk about a loose cannon ! Did you hear his TV speech?"
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "8366-2",
    "Idiom": [
      "talk about"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Indicates approval or affirmation.",
    "Sentence": [
      "- I'm gonna wine you and dine you and give you everything you need. - Yes! Now that's what I'm talking about !"
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "8367",
    "Idiom": [
      "talk about the weather"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To chit-chat.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "8368-1",
    "Idiom": [
      "talk back"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To reply impertinently or rudely.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Jane talked back a little too often.",
      "Jane talked back to most of her teachers."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "8368-2",
    "Idiom": [
      "talk back"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To return disrespect.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "8369",
    "Idiom": [
      "talk dirty"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To use sexual vulgar language for arousal.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Meet me on Friday / Down, down, down in blue city / Got no address / Just a telephone number / Phone me tonight / And maybe we can talk dirty",
      "You got to not talk dirty, baby, if you wanna impress me / You can't be too flirty, mama, I know how to undress me",
      "I love it when you talk dirty."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "8370",
    "Idiom": [
      "talk down"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To negotiate a lower price.",
    "Sentence": [
      "If he offers a very high price, see if you can talk him down before you agree to anything."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "8371",
    "Idiom": [
      "talk in circles",
      "speak in circles"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To argue without making progress.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "8372",
    "Idiom": [
      "talk is cheap"
    ],
    "Meaning": "It's easy to make empty claims without backing them up.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Cecil Winwood accepted the test. He claimed that he could dope the guards the night of the break. “ Talk is cheap,” said Long Bill Hodge. “What we want is the goods. Dope one of the guards to-night.”"
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "8373",
    "Idiom": [
      "talk jockey"
    ],
    "Meaning": "A radio talk show host.",
    "Sentence": [
      "In the 1970s, the term talk jockey was invented, meaning \"host of a radio talk show,\" later shortened to the rhyming talk jock and instigating the coinage of shock jock for the host of a \"shock\" talk show of the 1990s."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "8374",
    "Idiom": [
      "talk like an apothecary"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To prattle.",
    "Sentence": [
      "As to Clement of Alexandria, I shall pass him by, as he knew nothing about the matter. He talks like an apothecary on the subject; and when did ever an apothecary talk to any purpose?",
      "\"And you have so little of the former left,\" said the old woman, as she presented him with a plate of the aliment and a glass of the menstruum, \"that without we have a fresh supply, I foresee that you will be reduced to live upon your own medicines.\""
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "8375",
    "Idiom": [
      "talk out of one's ass"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To exaggerate or speak nonsense.",
    "Sentence": [
      "\"We looked it up,\" Colbert said. \"And the Department of Environmental does not exist, meaning Trump is either talking out of his ass or he's already eliminated it.\""
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "8376",
    "Idiom": [
      "talk out of one's ear"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To speak nonsense or insincerely.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "8377",
    "Idiom": [
      "talk out of turn"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To speak inappropriately or without permission.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Wherever she was, she always essayed the leading social role; and it was seldom that a woman said to her: \"Mrs. Volante, you are talking out of turn.\"",
      "\"If the President is wise, he will henceforth confine his press conferences to domestic questions.\"... With these words, Pundit Walter Lippmann last week reprimanded Franklin Roosevelt for talking out of turn about religious freedom in Russia.",
      "Because some government officials apparently talked out of turn, the Russians can now engage in ballistics blackmail with our allies.",
      "A judge admonished rock star Courtney Love after she showed up two hours late for a hearing on drug charges and talked out of turn in court.",
      "The oscillations were getting so severe that painters on the bridge learned to tie down their tins before a train passed. They found holes and rents in the iron but never reported them as they were never asked, and it wasn't their job. These were deferential times, and few wanted to talk out of turn."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "8378",
    "Idiom": [
      "talk over someone's head"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To communicate beyond the listener's understanding.",
    "Sentence": [
      "NASA was often accused of talking over the public's head."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "8379",
    "Idiom": [
      "talk softly and carry a big stick",
      "walk softly and carry a big stick",
      "speak softly and carry a big stick"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Be subtle but show strength when needed.",
    "Sentence": [
      "There is a homely old adage which runs: \" Speak softly and carry a big stick; you will go far.\"",
      "Under any governmental auspices, as the modern world knows governments, the keeping of the peace comes at its best under the precept, \" Speak softly and carry a big stick.\"",
      "When it comes to China, we have gone from \" Speak softly and carry a big stick \" to \"Take the fifth and carry a toothpick\". (from a Congressional speech by Rep. James Traficant, June 22, 1998)"
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "8380",
    "Idiom": [
      "talk someone under the table"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To bore someone with excessive talk.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "8381",
    "Idiom": [
      "talk the legs off a pot"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To talk excessively.",
    "Sentence": [
      "I thought John would never shut up. He could talk the legs off a pot."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "8382",
    "Idiom": [
      "talk the talk"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Makes statements showing commitment or knowledge, often doubted.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Byford talks the talk, and he does it well.",
      "When it comes to reducing greenhouse gas emissions, he talks the talk, but it remains to be seen if he walks the walk.",
      "Some leaders only talk the talk but aren't prepared to take any risks."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "8383-1",
    "Idiom": [
      "talk through one's hat"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To speak without knowledge or authority.",
    "Sentence": [
      "\"Mr. Pride said to me a moment ago that they spoke better English in Boston than any other place in the world.\" \"Did he, though, Lady Lawless? That's good. Well, I guess he was only talking through his hat.\""
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "8383-2",
    "Idiom": [
      "talk through one's hat"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To assert something without basis; to bluff.",
    "Sentence": [
      "No, sir, she yust standing pat, / And vonce more she tal her father, / “Yu ban talking tru yure hat !”",
      "He's conceited and opinionative and argues all the time, even when he knows perfectly well that he's talking through his hat."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "8384",
    "Idiom": [
      "talk to"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To flirt with the hope of developing a romantic relationship.",
    "Sentence": [
      "“Do you have a boyfriend?” — “No, but there’s a guy I’m talking to.”"
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "8385",
    "Idiom": [
      "talk to God"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To pray.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "8386",
    "Idiom": [
      "talk to a brick wall"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To be ignored or disregarded.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "8387",
    "Idiom": [
      "talk to oneself"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To say one's thoughts aloud without conversing with others.",
    "Sentence": [
      "He has a really bad habit of talking to himself in public."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "8388-1",
    "Idiom": [
      "talk trash"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To speak negatively about someone.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "8388-2",
    "Idiom": [
      "talk trash"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To speak boastfully or tauntingly about oneself compared to others.",
    "Sentence": [
      "\"If there's one Celtic that tries to talk smack to me, it will be Paul (Pierce),\" Kobe reported. \"We're similar in age, have been through some of the same things, so he feels like he can try. But he's not as good at it as I am. I don't talk trash often, but when I do, I go for the jugular.\" \"(Today's younger players) don't seem to want to talk any trash,\" Kobe shrugged. \"I say everything to LeBron. He says nothing back. He just laughs. There's no banter back and forth. I guess it's a generational thing. When I first came into the league, the trash talk was downright cutthroat.\""
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "8389",
    "Idiom": [
      "talk turkey"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To negotiate plainly or seriously.",
    "Sentence": [
      "An Erie car loaded with live turkeys... was delivered to the New-York and New-England Railroad yesterday.... This first cargo is symbolical of the fact that they will be able hereafter to \" talk turkey \" to all competitors for New-England business.",
      "I'm here to talk turkey. What's your price?",
      "This will mean talking turkey about the timing of steps for each side to take, and verification measures."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "8390-1",
    "Idiom": [
      "talk up"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To promote or emphasize positively.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Moreover, the new Prime Minister has already talked up the need for new strike-breaking legislation, in the form of requirements for railworkers to provide a minimum service during any industrial action.",
      "The restaurant had been talked up way too much, that it left me somewhat disappointed.",
      "Charlie's been talking up Robbie in an attempt to set him up with Lucy."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "8390-2",
    "Idiom": [
      "talk up"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To speak more enthusiastically or promote something.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "8391",
    "Idiom": [
      "talking head"
    ],
    "Meaning": "A journalist or pundit on television.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Early TV newscasts consisted largely of \" talking heads \"—a reporter reading news bulletins or interviewing prominent politicians—but maps were frequently employed as visual aids, particularly for war news.",
      "We've seen the respect once reserved for serious thinkers transferred to talking-head experts, skilled at reducing their messages to thirty-second sound bites.",
      "But Theodore Lowi is not a talking head leveling vitriol against the political system to make money. He is a thinker making a powerful, well-reasoned argument that resonates even with his critics, though sometimes the prose style is a little dense."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "8392-1",
    "Idiom": [
      "tall in the saddle"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Imposing and resolute.",
    "Sentence": [
      "He is tall in the saddle (6 ft. 2 in.) and so adamantine that Jennifer Jones broke her hand slapping his face."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "8392-2",
    "Idiom": [
      "tall in the saddle"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Imposingly or resolutely.",
    "Sentence": [
      "His son noted Buckley had died \"with his boots on, after a lifetime of riding pretty tall in the saddle.\""
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "8393",
    "Idiom": [
      "tall order"
    ],
    "Meaning": "A difficult challenge.",
    "Sentence": [
      "We must come, consequently, to the impressive conclusion that to live on potatoes alone , a man must eat at least 30 lbs. of potato a day—which would be rather a tall order, even for an Irishman.",
      "Guess they'd find it a pretty tall order trying to interfere with an American citizen.",
      "We suggest that your committee assume the responsibility for establishing a definite long range construction program for the American Merchant Marine. This is a tall order but one of extreme urgency. An entire indusry is now suspended in the balance between war and peace, and upon you and your committee depends which way the scales will tip.",
      "The present writer was once asked to name what he considered to be \"the most typically English railway approach to a town\": a somewhat tall order, especially as such matters will always be, in the last resort, of individual opinion. But the unhesitating answer to this question (which has not been altered after many years of extended travel throughout England) was \"Sudbury, in Suffolk.\"",
      "These are tall orders, but they are, in part, the responsibilities you assumed when you donned the mantle of manager. When you accepted this position, your implied promise, assuming you want to be the best leader you can be, was to be an effective teacher, a sensitive counselor, and a master gardener.",
      "Frank Macedo, an electrical engineering consultant who used to oversee transmission planning at the former Ontario Hydro, said creating that many jobs in three years is \"a tall order.\" As it is, utilities such as Hydro One and Ontario Power Generation are already struggling to replace thousands of boomer-age employees who will be retiring over the next few years.",
      "It is estimated that by 2013, Uganda alone will have over 10 million unemployed youths . Overall, at least 500,000 new jobs are needed every year to meet the current demand. These figures are tall orders that might eventually spell doom for the region unless the stakeholders provide more tangible solutions immediately.",
      "In the past six weeks, she had turned Luke Almeida into Chicago's Sexiest Fireman, his sister into America's Favorite Firefighter, and had recovered from a cheating ex who was about to have octuplet walruses with a nurse. Meet the queen of tall orders.",
      "This was a tall order. Charles has never been the star of his own life. He’s been the king for months now; he’s been an international figure for decades. But much of his story has been his mother’s, his wives’, his children’s."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "8394",
    "Idiom": [
      "tall tale",
      "tall story"
    ],
    "Meaning": "A story that is greatly exaggerated or untrue.",
    "Sentence": [
      "The head-in-sand idea is a threadbare, 2,000-year-old hand-me-down from the Roman naturalist Pliny, who sometimes passed on tall tales.",
      "He returned on Monday with a tall tale about a 100-pound fish he had caught.",
      "Mary Beard, formerly professor of classics at Cambridge University, directed followers on X to her latest book, titled Emperor of Rome, which opens with a lengthy discussion of the “ tall stories ” told about Elagabalus."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "8395",
    "Idiom": [
      "tamp down"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To suppress or reduce something.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Mr. Trump’s aides also have tried to tamp down questions about the former president’s frustrations, so as not to elevate Mr. DeSantis.",
      "Satter ’s “ Reality ” has a dramatic vigor that’s missing from the corresponding scenes in Fogel ’s “ Winner,” but the tamped-down tone in “Winner” is actually closer to the actual tone of those interrogations, as heard firsthand in yet another film— Sonia Kennebeck ’s 2021 documentary, “ Reality Winner.”"
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "8396",
    "Idiom": [
      "tan someone's hide"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To beat or spank someone.",
    "Sentence": [
      "\"You lying little snipe,\" he roared. \"... I've a mind to tan your hide good.\""
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "8397",
    "Idiom": [
      "tap dance"
    ],
    "Meaning": "An act to please or win approval.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "8398",
    "Idiom": [
      "taper off"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To diminish or lessen gradually.",
    "Sentence": [
      "The traffic tapers off towards mid-May, but it continues in some measure throughout the off-peak months.",
      "To fill this gap, over the last 25 years, patients have developed a robust Internet-based subculture of volunteer peer support for tapering off psychiatric drugs and recovering from withdrawal syndrome.",
      "Months after they printed the article, the number of angry letters finally started to taper off."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "8399",
    "Idiom": [
      "taste of one's own medicine",
      "taste of one's own poison"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Harsh treatment received by someone who previously treated others similarly.",
    "Sentence": [
      "\"The man's spirit is evil enough to frighten people away and we will drop stones upon him, so that he can learn the taste of his own medicine.\"",
      "The Long Tom in the stern of the schooner opened fire... and two men were seen to go down. The captain laughed. \"That's a taste of their own medicine,\" he said.",
      "Some stars reportedly even want to investigate the private lives of tabloid editors, to give them a taste of their own medicine."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "8400",
    "Idiom": [
      "teach grandma how to suck eggs"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To instruct someone knowledgeable.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "8401",
    "Idiom": [
      "teach someone a lesson"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To punish someone to prevent future wrongdoing.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "8402",
    "Idiom": [
      "teacher's pet"
    ],
    "Meaning": "A favored student.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Her friends are so jealous / You know how bad girls get / Sometimes it's not so easy / To be the teacher's pet.",
      "As an intelligent and conscientious student, he was often labelled as the teacher's pet in school."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "8403",
    "Idiom": [
      "team up with"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To collaborate with someone.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Puget also teamed up with Matt Hyde (Deftones, Slayer) to co-produce the record, which was another smart move: Together, the pair ensures that AFI (The Blood Album) ‘s arrangements are streamlined, but bolstered by just the right amount of atmospheric texture.",
      "The ice cream shop teamed up with the cookie and brownie place next door to create wonderful sundaes."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "8404",
    "Idiom": [
      "teamwork makes the dream work"
    ],
    "Meaning": "It is easier to achieve goals as a team.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "8405",
    "Idiom": [
      "tear a cat"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To overact or rant violently.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Yet my chief humour is for a tyrant. I could play / Ercles rarely, or a part to tear a cat in, to make all split.",
      "Sirha is this you would rend and teare the Cat / Upon a Stage, and now march like drown'd rat?",
      "Till, in his periwig combustion / Will. Shakespeare sounds like Irish fustian, / In which Macready tears a cat, / And Shiel, the patriot, writes so pat;",
      "From this performance there is no doubt in anyone's mind that Hamlet is an amateur actor having a fling at histrionics, or as Guthrie might say, \" tearing a cat.\""
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "8406",
    "Idiom": [
      "tear one's hair out"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To react with extreme frustration.",
    "Sentence": [
      "\"It's only a rattle,\" Alice said, after a careful examination of the little white thing. \"Not a rattle- snake, you know,\" she added hastily, thinking that he was frightened: \"only an old rattle — quite old and broken.\" \"I knew it was!\" cried Tweedledum, beginning to stamp about wildly and tear his hair. \"It's spoilt, of course!\" Here he looked at Tweedledee, who immediately sat down on the ground, and tried to hide himself under the umbrella.",
      "My friend's job at a call center is so stressful he could tear his hair out."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "8407-1",
    "Idiom": [
      "tear up"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To cancel or annul.",
    "Sentence": [
      "I finally persuaded the landlord to tear up the lease and move to a month-by-month rental."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "8407-2",
    "Idiom": [
      "tear up"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To damage.",
    "Sentence": [
      "You talk about the same thing but from different points of view. He is saying, \"Didn't hurt the car much.\" You're saying \"He's tearing up the car and we're having to make payments on it.\"",
      "We were making a joke about him not tearing it up; because the first person that puts a dent in it is going to get in trouble.",
      "The lacrosse practice really tore up the field."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "8407-3",
    "Idiom": [
      "tear up"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To succeed dramatically.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Taking advantage of her haughty obliviousness—Faris is every bit Margaret Dumont to Baron Cohen’s Groucho—Aladeen conspires to seize power back and tear up the new constitution before it’s too late.",
      "In his first year, his hitting tore up the league's opposing pitchers."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "8408",
    "Idiom": [
      "tear up the dance floor"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To dance vigorously.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "8409",
    "Idiom": [
      "tear up the pea patch"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To perform notably or act aggressively.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Television tore up the entire pea patch. Radio was so big, so dominant, so powerful in 1939 that television seemed mostly talk and conjecture.",
      "In the words of one who knows him well, \"on a matter of principle, John McCone is quite capable of tearing up the pea patch.\""
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "8410",
    "Idiom": [
      "tears before bedtime"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Harm incurred before a matter is concluded.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "8411",
    "Idiom": [
      "tee off"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To irritate or annoy.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Boy, do his jibes ever tee me off !"
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "8412",
    "Idiom": [
      "teed off"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Annoyed or angry.",
    "Sentence": [
      "My doctor was thoroughly teed off when she learned I have not been taking the medications she prescribed."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "8413",
    "Idiom": [
      "teething problem"
    ],
    "Meaning": "A problem with a new product or system.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "8414",
    "Idiom": [
      "teething troubles",
      "teething issues",
      "teething trouble"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Problems expected with new products or systems.",
    "Sentence": [
      "No doubt the new form of drive will have its teething troubles and this may be expected; but even if each ship manages to unload one cargo where it is badly needed and then it is beached, mechanical troubles will be comparatively unimportant provided all the crew are safe.",
      "But we think that, for something which is so new, it is far better and easier for them to recoup if it is only a 16,000 run. If it is up in the millions it is a bigger problem, and it is far better to get your teething troubles out of the way on a smaller one.",
      "He admitted that in their early days these units suffered a number of teething troubles, which, he said, \"one may now look back upon with some wonder\", as their causes were not hard to find.",
      "They have survived four nights in the forest, and after a few teething troubles they are getting on surprisingly well.",
      "He was on his way to Cleveland, Ohio to visit the steelworks there, review their working practices and sort out any problems. He knew there would be some, they had recently installed a new casting system that he had helped to develop, and the plant back home had experienced some teething troubles.",
      "Teething troubles with software forced the brief return of the old Class 507/508 stock at the beginning of March, but the issues are understood to have been quickly resolved.",
      "These particular ships are reported to have given considerable teething trouble and are partly responsible for the position lately taken by the Commission.",
      "These enterprises some of which are still under construction, or are still \"gestating\" or having \" teething trouble \", employ well over 5,53,600 persons.",
      "You will have to develop that industry. You cannot have teething trouble, all the time. What is this teething trouble, I am not able to understand. In the name of teething trouble, in the name of protection, they enjoy the concessions at the cost of the consumers and also at the cost of the workers."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "8415",
    "Idiom": [
      "telephone tag"
    ],
    "Meaning": "A situation where two people repeatedly miss each other’s calls and leave messages instead.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Playing telephone tag with your doctor is one of the most common—and frustrating—rituals of modern medicine. You phone...can't get past the receptionist...leave a message. Your doctor calls back while you're in a meeting...leaves a message. The amount of time wasted on both sides turns everybody sour."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "8416-1",
    "Idiom": [
      "tell against"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To function as a liability or disadvantage.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Some people... have been so short-sighted and reckless as to clamor for an easy dissolution of the marriage-contract.... Is it possible that they do not see that this is a liberty which, once granted, would always tell against the weaker sex?",
      "Ernest's want of muscular strength did not tell against him here.",
      "Hard as he worked, his age was beginning to tell against him."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "8416-2",
    "Idiom": [
      "tell against"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To cast doubt upon.",
    "Sentence": [
      "She knew he was disposed to catch at anything that seemed to tell against Godwin's claims.",
      "\"Such a fact must tell against the theory.\"",
      "The comma tells against this reading."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "8417",
    "Idiom": [
      "tell all"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To reveal everything.",
    "Sentence": [
      "The suspect told all when he saw the surveillance tapes linking him to the crime scene.",
      "The actress's earthy new book tells all."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "8418",
    "Idiom": [
      "tell apart"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To differentiate or distinguish.",
    "Sentence": [
      "They are identical twins, and if they dress the same, everybody has trouble telling them apart.",
      "Can you tell Tom (apart) from his twin brother?"
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "8419",
    "Idiom": [
      "tell fortunes"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To predict someone's future, often through magical means.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "8420",
    "Idiom": [
      "tell it like it is"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To speak frankly and convey the truth.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "8421",
    "Idiom": [
      "tell it to Sweeney"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Expresses disbelief.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "8422",
    "Idiom": [
      "tell it to the judge"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Disregards someone's argument or complaint.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Al slid off Rhodes's back and moved away from him, hands in the air. “I was just being helpful.” “ Tell it to the judge,” Rhodes said, and he took off after Frankie.",
      "“Wait a minute, you don't understand, I wouldn`t kill my best friend!” Robert continued yelling. “Yeah, yeah, that's what they all say, tell it to the judge.”",
      "“What? No. No! That's not true — he — wait just a —” stammered Fancy. Kinslow cut him off, “ Tell it to the judge !”"
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "8423",
    "Idiom": [
      "tell it to the marines"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Expresses disbelief.",
    "Sentence": [
      "William. No palaver! tell it to the marines. What, tacking and double tacking! Come to what you want to say at once.",
      "I don’t believe the story you have been telling me, either, and think it far more likely that you are hiding from justice on account of some devil’s work you have been engaged in. Bah! Tell your story to the marines !"
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "8424",
    "Idiom": [
      "tell its own tale"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Speaks for itself; requires no explanation.",
    "Sentence": [
      "and looking out she saw Sir William Grant approaching at an easy trot, for he was anxious to avoid giving her any sudden shock; but the poor animal's state told its own tale; and starting up, Lady Sydney herself opened the hall-door"
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "8425",
    "Idiom": [
      "tell someone where to shove it"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To express extreme anger or disdain toward someone.",
    "Sentence": [
      "They're either telling you where to shove it, if you're winning, or telling you where they'd like to shove it given half the chance.",
      "But for two pins I'd hand in blank papers and tell school where to shove Pythagoras triangles and Lord of the Flies and their life cycles of worms."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "8426",
    "Idiom": [
      "tell tales"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To lie or make false claims.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Don't listen to him; he's telling tales."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "8427",
    "Idiom": [
      "tell tales out of school"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To reveal confidential information; to gossip.",
    "Sentence": [
      "I see then we have both been at school. But did you never, when you were there, hear it said, \" Tell no tales out of school ?\"",
      "Mr. Washington had seen the gentlemen of honour and fashion over their cups, and perhaps thought that all their sayings and doings were not precisely such as would tend to instruct or edify a young man on his entrance into life; but he wisely chose to tell no tales out of school.",
      "The boys laughed and nudged one another, for it was evident that some one told tales out of school, else how could he know of the existence of these inconvenient treasures.",
      "\"But now maybe I'm telling tales out of school, \" he added, with a laugh. \"I shouldn't like to get the little girl into trouble.\"",
      "\"Don't blush, Katherine, I am sure Mr. Willoughby won't tell any tales out of school to your old Valleyfield friends.\"",
      "\"He wound up in the emergency room three different times, twice in Connecticut and once down here. The first two were drug ODs. I'm not telling tales out of school, because all that's been reported—exhaustively—in the press.\"",
      "Bush's former Treasury Secretary, Paul O'Neill, told tales out of school, prompting hot denials—and an investigation of whether he disclosed classified information."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "8428",
    "Idiom": [
      "tell the truth"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Affirms the honesty of a statement.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Then it sneezed. Considering what it was smelling, that was no surprise. Tell the truth, I'd gotten so used to the jof jof dung that I didn't notice it anymore."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "8429",
    "Idiom": [
      "tell you the truth"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Asserts frank honesty.",
    "Sentence": [
      "\"What's the point? Your buddies can kick back and relax. I'm going into voluntary retirement.\" / \"Oh?\" / \" Tell you the truth, I was getting a little tired of Jim Shorter. Tired of that little room on Ninety-fourth Street. You know what I might do? I might leave town.\""
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "8430-1",
    "Idiom": [
      "tell-a-story"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Characteristic of telling a story.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "8430-2",
    "Idiom": [
      "tell-a-story"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Of a straightforward narrative style.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "8431",
    "Idiom": [
      "temper temper"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Tells someone to control their temper.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "8432",
    "Idiom": [
      "tempest in a teapot"
    ],
    "Meaning": "A major fuss over something trivial.",
    "Sentence": [
      "The media frenzy over the actor's drunken behavior was a tempest in a teapot."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "8433",
    "Idiom": [
      "temple of immensity"
    ],
    "Meaning": "The universe as a revered concept.",
    "Sentence": [
      "This poor Cordwainer, as we said, was a Man; and the Temple of Immensity, wherein as Man he had been sent to minister, was full of holy mystery to him.",
      "They reminded him of a man who should, after climbing a lofty mountain—whence, as from a pinnacle of the great temple of immensity, earth, and the deep blues of air, and the everlasting brine of ocean were beheld—should turn away from the prospect.",
      "... heavenly messengers, travelling through wide fields to explore the mysteries of creation, carrying intelligence from outpost to outpost of God's universe, his ministers to do his pleasure, and announcing their advent, or bestowing their blessing, as they speed their onward course, in a halo of glory, filling the temple of immensity with their train.",
      "The De Immensa is... a prolonged hymn of wonder and praise and intellectual exaltation, sung in the temple of immensity."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "8434",
    "Idiom": [
      "tempt fate"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To take a risk.",
    "Sentence": [
      "When the traffic signal says, \"Don't Walk,\" flashing its ominous red, my companions may tempt fate, but I stand still.",
      "Don't tempt fate by driving without a seatbelt."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "8435",
    "Idiom": [
      "tempus fugit"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Time flies.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "8436",
    "Idiom": [
      "ten a penny"
    ],
    "Meaning": "So common as to be worthless.",
    "Sentence": [
      "People with your skills are ten a penny these days."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "8437",
    "Idiom": [
      "ten to one"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Very likely to happen.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "8438",
    "Idiom": [
      "ten-cent word"
    ],
    "Meaning": "A simple, common word replacing a longer, less common one.",
    "Sentence": [
      "One important note: Exchanging a ten-cent word (“chew”) for a ten-dollar synonym (“masticate”) is NOT the point here. Overly fancy words are just that—overly fancy."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "8439",
    "Idiom": [
      "ten-dollar word"
    ],
    "Meaning": "A complex word used to sound impressive.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Sometimes it pays to overcomplicate your simple messages. Make a list of ten-dollar words, scientific terms, and obscure niblets of jargon and find ways to use them. Your reputation and authority will soar."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "8440",
    "Idiom": [
      "tentpole movie"
    ],
    "Meaning": "A major motion picture expected to generate significant revenue.",
    "Sentence": [
      "United Artists hasn't prospered in recent years, so a box office hit from its tentpole movie franchise is essential.",
      "Just coincidentally, it also provides the opportunity for the sorts of extravagant computerized effects that create tentpole movie attractions these days.",
      "The tentpole movie is an attraction popular and exploitable enough to prop up the entire moviegoing tent for several weeks or even months.",
      "“We've never seen a high-profile film—a film of this budget, a tentpole movie with this box office potential—leak in any form this early,” he said.",
      "Variety is reporting that del Toro will direct the flick with Watson cast as its titular Beauty.... So we’re thinking big tentpole movie versus introverted indie."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "8441",
    "Idiom": [
      "term of years"
    ],
    "Meaning": "A type of lease for a specified period.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "8442",
    "Idiom": [
      "term of years absolute"
    ],
    "Meaning": "The lease of a property for a fixed period.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "8443",
    "Idiom": [
      "term of years determinable"
    ],
    "Meaning": "A type of lease for a specified period.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "8444-1",
    "Idiom": [
      "term out"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To finish the term.",
    "Sentence": [
      "With little time to master complex policy matters before terming out, legislators have distanced themselves from more challenging policy issues, deferring them to the initiative process.",
      "In order to apply eroding market fundamentals to our hypothetical office building we need to make a few assumptions — the historic or fric- tional vacancy rate (departing the bull market), the amount of space under lease that termed out since",
      "Voters cannot punish corrupt officials who are termed out of office."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "8444-2",
    "Idiom": [
      "term out"
    ],
    "Meaning": "The transfer of debt from short-term to long-term without acquiring new debt.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "8445",
    "Idiom": [
      "territorial pissing"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Human territorial behavior.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "8446",
    "Idiom": [
      "test the waters"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To explore before making a commitment.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Taking classes in a subject is a good way to test the waters and explore a potential career."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "8447",
    "Idiom": [
      "textbook case"
    ],
    "Meaning": "A perfect example.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "8448",
    "Idiom": [
      "than a bygod"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Expresses extreme heat or cold.",
    "Sentence": [
      "It's colder than a bygod out there!",
      "It was a typical Texas summer: hotter than a bygod and not a cloud in sight."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "8449",
    "Idiom": [
      "thank one's lucky stars"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To be grateful for one's good fortune.",
    "Sentence": [
      "He thanked his lucky stars he had brought the extra heavy duty conduits in that morning."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "8450-1",
    "Idiom": [
      "thanks a bunch"
    ],
    "Meaning": "A mildly sarcastic thank you.",
    "Sentence": [
      "I really wanted a bucket of water dropped on my head. Thanks a bunch."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "8450-2",
    "Idiom": [
      "thanks a bunch"
    ],
    "Meaning": "A thank you.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Thanks a bunch for that great Christmas card you got me!"
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "8451",
    "Idiom": [
      "thanks for nothing"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Expression of displeasure for a lack of assistance.",
    "Sentence": [
      "I brought another pencil for you, but I accidentally broke it. - Thanks for nothing; now I'll have to find yet another one."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "8452-1",
    "Idiom": [
      "that does it"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Expresses annoyance or frustration, indicating a limit reached.",
    "Sentence": [
      "That does it ! I'm not waiting here any longer. I'll come back tomorrow instead."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "8452-2",
    "Idiom": [
      "that does it"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Indicates completion of a task.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "8453",
    "Idiom": [
      "that dog don't run"
    ],
    "Meaning": "An expression of disapproval or disbelief.",
    "Sentence": [
      "He will work hard for you and be on time. You can depend on him. Please hire him. I've known that boy all his life. Dependable? On time? Nah, that dog don't run.",
      ""
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "8454",
    "Idiom": [
      "that ever walked on two legs"
    ],
    "Meaning": "That ever lived.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Oh, it didn’t surprise me in the least to hear this, and at the same time to be told that Fresleven was the gentlest, quietest creature that ever walked on two legs."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "8455",
    "Idiom": [
      "that way"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Gay; homosexual.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "8456",
    "Idiom": [
      "that which doesn't kill you makes you stronger",
      "what doesn't kill you makes you stronger"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Hardship builds strength.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "8457",
    "Idiom": [
      "that'll be the day",
      "that'll be the frosty friday"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Expresses disbelief about something happening.",
    "Sentence": [
      "I’m going to get into work on time today. — That’ll be the day !"
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "8458",
    "Idiom": [
      "that's about the size of it"
    ],
    "Meaning": "That is the situation.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Emp. And p’r’aps you really think to win the prize of it. Dan. To use a strong expression, that’s the size of it.",
      "This is “ about the size of it ” as they say in California:",
      "‘The different-coloured balls are the different lies I tell – eh?’ ‘ That’s about the size of it.’",
      "“Here’s-your-hat-what’s-your-hurry, seems about the size of it.”",
      "You’re also thinking it’s about time you grabbed your cell phone and called for the men in the white coats. That about the size of it, buddy?"
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "8459",
    "Idiom": [
      "that's all she wrote"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Indicates an abrupt end to something.",
    "Sentence": [
      "If you see a long yellow streak of all fine smoke / That’s my rocket pulling out, that’s all she wrote /",
      "There was a note upon my door... I won’t be back no more / That’s all she wrote, \"Dear John\".",
      "Goodbye — that’s all she wrote.",
      "Then I got Mary pregnant and man that was all she wrote / And for my nineteenth birthday I got a union card and a wedding coat",
      "Inside information taken down note by note / A silent footstep that's all she wrote",
      "Bye bye, baby, bye-bye, she said in a letter / And that was all she wrote",
      "He said a prayer, and that was all she wrote",
      "I get five short beeps when the machine starts to boot, and then that's all she wrote",
      "I, I, got a little paycheck / You got big plans and you gotta move / And I don't feel nothing at all / And you can't feel nothing small / \"Honey, I love you\", that's all she wrote"
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "8460",
    "Idiom": [
      "that's done it"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Announces a successful solution to a problem.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "8461",
    "Idiom": [
      "that's how the cookie crumbles",
      "that's the way the cookie crumbles"
    ],
    "Meaning": "That's life.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Are you up to par with the hep talk that is going around schools like Norwood High? While standing by the H2o spurt (water fountain) we overheard the following conversation between two really gone (neat) guys. “ It was a blind date, and boy did I flip (go mad) when I got a gaze at her! That dirty bird (guy that pulls a dirty trick) that fixed me up with her! I spent a whole chlorophyl George (one dollar bill) on her. Oh well, that’s the way the cookie crumbles (that’s life!) ” (Taken from N. H. S. Mirror)"
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "8462",
    "Idiom": [
      "that's just me"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Indicates a personal opinion, often used ironically.",
    "Sentence": [
      "\"Personally, I wouldn't be making jokes if I were sitting on drugs and weapons charges, but that's just me.\""
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "8463",
    "Idiom": [
      "that's saying something"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Indicates something has greater significance than it seems.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Longbottom, if brains were gold you’d be poorer than Weasley, and that’s saying something.",
      "I think Earth is a pretty great place. That's saying something, 'cause I've been through outer space."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "8464",
    "Idiom": [
      "that's that",
      "that's that on that"
    ],
    "Meaning": "No further discussion or action is needed.",
    "Sentence": [
      "They gave a little frightened cry and ran off as hard as they could. \"So that's that,\" said I to myself, as I watched them scampering. I knew that I had better stay where I was.",
      "The jury is satisfied and the verdict is that you needn't fuss. So that's that, and let's talk about something else.",
      "It is quite simple. You're grounded for a week and that's that !",
      "In the middle of our argument, my cousin left without saying another word, so I guess that's that on that."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "8465",
    "Idiom": [
      "that's the thing"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Used to introduce the main point or issue.",
    "Sentence": [
      "But that's the thing, see? Like you said, you can't just go spending your money like that."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "8466",
    "Idiom": [
      "that's the ticket"
    ],
    "Meaning": "That's just what is needed.",
    "Sentence": [
      "I'll admit, I like how you kick it / Now you're talkin' baby, that's the ticket"
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "8467",
    "Idiom": [
      "that's the way it goes"
    ],
    "Meaning": "That is how things happen.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "8468-1",
    "Idiom": [
      "that's the way life is"
    ],
    "Meaning": "That is the way things happen.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "8468-2",
    "Idiom": [
      "that's the way life is"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Certain things cannot be changed; struggle is pointless.",
    "Sentence": [
      "That's the way life is, and there's no use trying to go against it.",
      "There are no standards, no values; that's the way life is. Learn to accept it and slide with it. Stop fighting it.",
      "Shit happens; that's the way life is. In fact, I want you to take an additional thousand for your efforts."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "8469",
    "Idiom": [
      "that's the way the ball bounces"
    ],
    "Meaning": "That is the way things happen.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "8470",
    "Idiom": [
      "that's the way the mop flops"
    ],
    "Meaning": "That is the way things happen.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "8471",
    "Idiom": [
      "that's what she said"
    ],
    "Meaning": "A joking retort highlighting sexual innuendo.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Some seemed bored and irritated by the priapic yahooism and overwillingness of peers to read a sexual double entendre into the most innocuous remark. \"No matter what you say,\" said one student, \"someone is going to respond with ‘ That's what she said.’ \"",
      "So this morning we pulled up a pumpkin-pancake recipe on the kitchen laptop. Just one problem: My wife couldn't read it from where she was mixing. \"Can't you make it bigger?\" she asked. (Go ahead, insert your own \" that's what she said \" joke here. No class.)"
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "8472",
    "Idiom": [
      "that's your lot"
    ],
    "Meaning": "That is the end; there is no more.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Hendrix is hilarious, as ever, explaining new song Izabella is “about a cat, blah blah, woof woof …” It’s a real shame they wouldn’t keep this lineup together. Hendrix repeatedly comments on the “patience” of the crowd. He plays the national anthem, his guitar dive-bombs at the end of Hey Joe and, that’s your lot. The applause dies away surprisingly quickly."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "8473",
    "Idiom": [
      "the Internet never forgets"
    ],
    "Meaning": "A belief that online posts are permanent.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "8474",
    "Idiom": [
      "the apple does not fall far from the stem",
      "the apple doesn't fall far from the tree",
      "the nut does not fall far from the tree",
      "the apple does not fall far from the trunk",
      "the apple does not fall far from the tree",
      "the apple never falls far from the tree"
    ],
    "Meaning": "A child resembles their parents in behavior and characteristics.",
    "Sentence": [
      "It is impossible to look at Madam Rhen, without at once making the conclusion that she is pleasantness, hospitality, and loquacity itself; nor can one look upon her daughter Renetta without thinking, \" the apple does not fall far from the tree !\"",
      "It's important that I know what diseases affect other members of your immediate family, because \" the apple does not fall far from the tree.\""
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "8475",
    "Idiom": [
      "the apple does not fall far from the tree"
    ],
    "Meaning": "A child resembles their parents in behavior and characteristics.",
    "Sentence": [
      "It is impossible to look at Madam Rhen, without at once making the conclusion that she is pleasantness, hospitality, and loquacity itself; nor can one look upon her daughter Renetta without thinking, \" the apple does not fall far from the tree !\"",
      "It's important that I know what diseases affect other members of your immediate family, because \" the apple does not fall far from the tree.\""
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "8476",
    "Idiom": [
      "the apples on the other side of the wall are the sweetest",
      "the grass is always greener on the other side",
      "the grass is always greener on the other side of the road",
      "the grass is always greener on the other side of the fence",
      "the grass is always greener"
    ],
    "Meaning": "The circumstances of others often seem better than one's own.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "8477",
    "Idiom": [
      "the ball is in someone's court"
    ],
    "Meaning": "It is someone's turn to make a decision.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Achieving that partnership will require leadership and flexibility. Not just from us, but from our friends, the 27 nations of the EU. And as we look forward to the next stage, the ball is in their court, but I am optimistic it will receive a positive response.",
      "Well there's not much more I can do, so the ball is in your court now."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "8478",
    "Idiom": [
      "the bee's knees"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Something excellent or wonderfully cool.",
    "Sentence": [
      "We had strawberry shortcake for breakfast on Saturday and the kids thought it was the bee’s knees.",
      "I used to play in a band when I was younger. We had a few fans and we thought we were the bee’s knees."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "8479",
    "Idiom": [
      "the best defense is a good offense",
      "attack is the best form of defence",
      "attack is the best form of defense",
      "the best defence is attack"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Attacking first is better than waiting for an attack.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "8480",
    "Idiom": [
      "the best laid plans of mice and men often go awry",
      "the best laid plans of mice and men go oft astray"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Plans can often go wrong despite careful preparation.",
    "Sentence": [
      "But mouse, you are not alone, In proving foresight may be vain; The best laid schemes of mice and men go often askew And leave us nothing but grief and pain, For promised joy!",
      "Knowing her supremely perfect being was completely mine I could conceive of no obstacle to my satisfaction, well, “ the best laid plans of mice & men go astray ” and my nemesis was her sister, the bitch."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "8481",
    "Idiom": [
      "the best things in life aren't things",
      "the best things in life are free"
    ],
    "Meaning": "The most valuable things in life cost nothing.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "8482",
    "Idiom": [
      "the bigger they come, the harder they fall",
      "the bigger they are, the harder they fall"
    ],
    "Meaning": "The greater the status, the more significant the failure.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "8483",
    "Idiom": [
      "the box they're going to bury it in"
    ],
    "Meaning": "A person or product that hastens obsolescence.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Vaudeville's dead, and TV's the box they're going to bury it in!"
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "8484",
    "Idiom": [
      "the buck stops here"
    ],
    "Meaning": "The speaker takes direct responsibility.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Well, nobody else can make a decision but me because I was the President and the final decision comes to the President, you know. I used to have a sign on my desk that said, \" The Buck Stops Here.\" The buck stops at the president's desk when he's president of the United States, and he either makes the decisions or he lets them go by default, and you can't afford to do that when you're president.",
      "If you will stick with this plan, we will post three consecutive years of declining deficits for the first time since Harry Truman lived in the White House. And once again, the buck stops here."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "8485",
    "Idiom": [
      "the burnt child dreads the fire",
      "the burnt child fears the fire",
      "a burnt child dreads the fire"
    ],
    "Meaning": "A harmed person becomes more cautious.",
    "Sentence": [
      "The Continental insurance company has instructed its agents not to use Rubber Stamps to affix their signatures to policies, renewals, etc., because “Rubber Stamps are easily duplicated, at small expense, even in the case of fac-similes of signatures, and forgery and fraud are facilitated by their use.” A burnt child dreads the fire and the Continental has had a painful experience.",
      "A.—They struck. A combination of the Knights of Labor caused them to strike. / / Q.—Did you refuse to give them work again? A.—I did. / Q.—What was the reason? A.—Because a “ burnt child dreads the fire,” and we did not want them again.",
      "I didn’t mean to interfere, dear. I never will again. You can rely on me. A burnt child dreads the fire. Once bitten—",
      "I doubt very much whether such funds will soon be placed in the channels of trade, because “ a burnt child dreads the fire.” These depositors will not entrust their earnings any time soon to another banking institution unless they have some assurance or guarantee that such deposits will be protected.",
      "They are the living antithesis of the saying, “ A burnt child dreads the fire,” since they repeat the same fiascos time and again in an impressively self-destructive fashion."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "8486-1",
    "Idiom": [
      "the call is coming from inside the house"
    ],
    "Meaning": "A problem arises from internal factors, not external influences.",
    "Sentence": [
      "The groundwork of Trumpism was laid not by foreign tinkering or stratospheric inequality but in the barbed souls of young white men coming of age in the 1990s. The call is coming from inside the house.",
      "As the New Yorker recently put it, the impactful IRA narrative may be an “overly convenient” explanation for our home-grown problems and: What if, to borrow an old horror-movie trope, the call is coming from inside the house ?",
      "But this is no takeover: the call is coming from inside the house. What folks call “alt-Right” simply names a spirit lurking in American conservatism.",
      "In contrast to accounts that see the changes of the 1970s as something “done to” the state by outside actors, whether intellectual movements or political interest groups, in this story the call is coming from inside the house.",
      "But what stands out most right now is that it is a region marked by growing dissatisfaction with their provincial governments as well. With western alienation, the call is coming from inside the house.",
      "The government has blamed the recent unrest on foreign agitation, but they'll soon realize that the call is coming from inside the house."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "8486-2",
    "Idiom": [
      "the call is coming from inside the house"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Accuses someone of hypocrisy.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Greene accuses the very people who strive to follow the teachings of Jesus as being directed by forces of evil. Perhaps it is too much to expect anything better from someone who, because of her recent court testimony, some have started calling \"Perjury Taylor Greene,\" but I would argue, as they say in horror movies, that the call is coming from inside the house. Evil — or \"Satan,\" if you prefer — is present in such words of hatred, fear and deception.",
      "Transgender TikToker Dylan Mulvaney wants Caitlyn Jenner to know the call is coming from inside the house. On Sunday night, Mulvaney dedicated Day 233 of her \"Days of Girlhood\" Tiktok series directly to Jenner after the Olympian recently echoed several transphobic and harmful remarks about Mulvaney and her appearance on social media. In the video, Mulvaney called herself and Jenner \"two of the most privileged trans women in America at the moment\" and asked Jenner to stop using her Republican-given platform to \"publicly degrade\" the trans community.",
      "You're always complaining that she's too self-centred. Dude, the call is coming from inside the house !"
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "8487",
    "Idiom": [
      "the candle that burns twice as bright burns half as long"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Intense effort leads to quicker burnout or ending.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "8488",
    "Idiom": [
      "the captain goes down with the ship"
    ],
    "Meaning": "A leader is responsible for the consequences of a catastrophe.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "8489",
    "Idiom": [
      "the cat would eat fish but would not wet her feet"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Some sacrifices are necessary to achieve something.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "8490",
    "Idiom": [
      "the cat's out of the bag"
    ],
    "Meaning": "A secret has been revealed.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "8491",
    "Idiom": [
      "the cat's pyjamas"
    ],
    "Meaning": "A fancy example of something.",
    "Sentence": [
      "That new car was really the cat's pyjamas."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "8492",
    "Idiom": [
      "the chickens come home to roost"
    ],
    "Meaning": "A person's past wrongdoings will have consequences.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Never were truer words than the Spanish proverb, ‘All lies, like chickens, come home to roost.’",
      "Being an old farm boy myself, chickens coming home to roost never did make me sad; they've always made me glad.",
      "I suppose you could blame it on my generation, chickens from the 60s finally coming into roost.",
      "Malcolm X ain't never lie; Chickens do come home to roost! And you would think that a senator from Kentucky would know that better than anyone.",
      "Opponents see the latest indictments as a case of the chickens coming home to roost."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "8493",
    "Idiom": [
      "the coast is clear"
    ],
    "Meaning": "There is no danger; it is safe to proceed.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Seeing that the coast was clear, Tarzan stepped into the darkened entrance",
      "Wait there, watch the back of the building, and whistle when the coast is clear."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "8494",
    "Idiom": [
      "the cobbler always wears the worst shoes",
      "the shoemaker always wears the worst shoes"
    ],
    "Meaning": "People often neglect to use their skills for personal benefit.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "8495",
    "Idiom": [
      "the cobbler's children are the worst shod"
    ],
    "Meaning": "One often neglects those closest to them.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "8496",
    "Idiom": [
      "the course of true love never did run smooth"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Romantic relationships always have issues or problems.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "8497",
    "Idiom": [
      "the cowl does not make the monk"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Superficial appearance does not define true essence.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "8498",
    "Idiom": [
      "the cupboard is bare"
    ],
    "Meaning": "There is little to no food or money.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "8499",
    "Idiom": [
      "the curtain falls"
    ],
    "Meaning": "The end of something has come.",
    "Sentence": [
      "But she's not gone yet and I've made arrangements for one more pig-sticking party up country before the Monkeys come in and the curtain falls for good.",
      "Probably its leader Paul Berenger is keen to bequeath it as his final legacy before the curtain falls for him."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "8500",
    "Idiom": [
      "the customer is always right"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Customer satisfaction is a top priority for service staff.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "8501",
    "Idiom": [
      "the devil"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Used to add emphasis.",
    "Sentence": [
      "“Brother,” said she, “whatever message Mr Blifil thinks proper to send to my niece shall be delivered to her; and I suppose she will want no instructions to make a proper answer. I am convinced she will not refuse to see Mr Blifil at a proper time.”—“ The devil she won’t!” answered the squire.",
      "What the devil are you doing here at this time of night?"
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "8502-1",
    "Idiom": [
      "the devil a one"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Not a single one.",
    "Sentence": [
      "making great chear with a good deal of vineger, the devil a one of them did forbear from his victuals, it was a triumphant and incomparable spectacle to see how they ravened and devoured.",
      "she wou’d have corrupted all their Wives; the Devil a one wou’d have made her own Butter, after being acquainted with her.",
      "(He helps them on with the clothes.) There, the devil a one of them can know you now— you’re so nicely disguised,",
      "Whole volleys of muskets were level’d at him, But the devil a one ever graz’d e’en a limb,",
      "Jimmy says it’s hard to tell what she’d be after. He did think at the first go off that it might be cockles; but it’s not, for he took her to Carribee strand, where there’s plenty of them, and the devil a one she’d pick up."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "8502-2",
    "Idiom": [
      "the devil a one"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Negates the clause.",
    "Sentence": [
      "I met just as strange a man, and he sitting on his hat on the banks of the Fairy Lake of Lisnavarna, watching the moon’s reflection in the clear waters, and the devil a one of him knew that he was contrary at all.",
      "The devil a one of me will ever set foot there."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "8503",
    "Idiom": [
      "the devil is a liar"
    ],
    "Meaning": "A general expression of distrust implying deception.",
    "Sentence": [
      "“ The devil is a liar ! It ain't that damn bad! Don't even go there Jay”, says Teresa closing the bathroom door.",
      "“It must be this place planting seeds of doubt, like a virus in my mind. The devil is a liar,” She said.",
      "I reached into my hand bag for the court papers and held them towards him, he took them from my hand and looked at them with contempt and handed back to me and said, The devil is a liar, this divorce proceeding shall not stand neither shall it come to pass.",
      "Girl the devil is a liar I wanted to say mother flower you can place your hands all over my body and do whatever it is you want damn!",
      "“Lazarus? Our Lazarus? This can't be!” Legion huffed angrily and shouted, “ The devil is a liar !”"
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "8504",
    "Idiom": [
      "the devil is in the detail",
      "the devil is in the details"
    ],
    "Meaning": "The specifics of a plan can be complex or problematic.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Krupp already has an agreement in principle for the deal, but precise details are still being worked out by Polish officials and a Krupp bargaining team (\"The devil is in the details,\" Beitz says).",
      "The country has developed a strong consensus for peace, but the devil is in the details over what concessions should be made.",
      "“The devil will be in the details,” said Sarah Myers West, managing director of AI Now Institute, a policy research center.",
      "The manifesto talks of safeguards to ensure that freight operators receive fair access to the network. These may be reassuring words for the likes of DB Cargo, but the devil will be in the detail and freight operators will no doubt be pressing for that detail to include cheaper electricity and access charges."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "8505",
    "Idiom": [
      "the devil is in the details"
    ],
    "Meaning": "The specifics of a plan may be complicated or problematic.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Krupp already has an agreement in principle for the deal, but precise details are still being worked out by Polish officials and a Krupp bargaining team (\"The devil is in the details,\" Beitz says).",
      "The country has developed a strong consensus for peace, but the devil is in the details over what concessions should be made.",
      "“The devil will be in the details,” said Sarah Myers West, managing director of AI Now Institute, a policy research center."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "8506",
    "Idiom": [
      "the die is cast"
    ],
    "Meaning": "A point of no return; irreversible action has been taken.",
    "Sentence": [
      "The die is cast. I cannot go back. I must get ready. Will you see me to the station?"
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "8507",
    "Idiom": [
      "the dogs bark, but the caravan goes on",
      "the dogs bark, but the caravan moves on"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Progress continues despite criticism.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "8508",
    "Idiom": [
      "the dose makes the poison"
    ],
    "Meaning": "The harm of a substance depends on its quantity rather than its nature.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "8509",
    "Idiom": [
      "the early bird gets the worm",
      "the early bird catches the worm"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Whoever arrives first has the best chance of success.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "8510",
    "Idiom": [
      "the end justifies the means",
      "the ends justify the means"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Morally wrong actions can be justified by achieving good outcomes.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Marxists were often criticized for believing that the ends justified the means, yet these old Cold Warriors were now the ones using ends to justify means —attacking science in the name of freedom.",
      "Shepard: You honestly think the experiments you did here are justified? Maelon: We committed cultural genocide! Nothing I do will ever be justified! Maelon: The experiments are monstrous... because I was taught to be a monster. Shepard: Mordin, did you ever perform experiments like this? Mordin : No. Never taught you this, Maelon. Maelon: So your hands are clean! What does it matter if the ground is stained with the blood of millions! Maelon: You taught me that the end justified the means. I will undo what we did, Professor. The only way I know how.",
      "The White House argument is simple: that the end justifies the means."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "8511-1",
    "Idiom": [
      "the end of one's rope"
    ],
    "Meaning": "The limit of one’s patience.",
    "Sentence": [
      "come to the end of one's rope; reach the end of one's rope; at the end of one's rope"
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "8511-2",
    "Idiom": [
      "the end of one's rope"
    ],
    "Meaning": "The point of having no more options.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Have you reached the end of your rope ? Are all your options closed?",
      "come to the end of one's rope; reach the end of one's rope; at the end of one's rope"
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "8512",
    "Idiom": [
      "the eyes are the window to the soul"
    ],
    "Meaning": "One can tell about a person's character from their eyes.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "8513",
    "Idiom": [
      "the family that prays together stays together"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Shared religious observance strengthens family.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Remember, the family that prays together stays together. Start with routine prayer, like saying a blessing at each meal.",
      "One does not have to read far into any Christian text on prayer to find the affirmation, “ The family that prays together stays together.” Stanley Hauerwas questions the appropriateness of this aphorism, pointing out how an overemphasis on family stability can displace the fundamental role of the church and misconstrue the point of prayer.",
      "They will get misty eyed and tell you that they believe families should worship together; after all, “ the family that prays together stays together.”",
      "Captured by the adage “ the family that prays together stays together ”— individuals in the United States feel that shared religious beliefs are a glue that strengthen familial bonds and deepen love between relatives."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "8514",
    "Idiom": [
      "the feathers fly"
    ],
    "Meaning": "An argument or fight begins.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "8515-1",
    "Idiom": [
      "the fewer the better fare"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Things are better with fewer people involved.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "8515-2",
    "Idiom": [
      "the fewer the better fare"
    ],
    "Meaning": "More resources per person with fewer people.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "8516",
    "Idiom": [
      "the finger"
    ],
    "Meaning": "An obscene gesture.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "8517",
    "Idiom": [
      "the first step is always the hardest"
    ],
    "Meaning": "The beginning of a process is the hardest part.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "8518",
    "Idiom": [
      "the first turn of the screw pays all debts"
    ],
    "Meaning": "One's problems may be forgotten with a change in circumstances.",
    "Sentence": [
      "On the one hand was Martyn's dictum that the 'first turn of the screw pays all debts';",
      "—The first turn of the screw pays all debts, he had muttered (crossing himself) in the stern of the Purdue Victory, where the deck shuddered underfoot as the blades of the single screw churned Boston's water beneath him;",
      "The first turn of the screw pays all debts, they say, except when there is a warship about."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "8519",
    "Idiom": [
      "the fish rots from the head"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Bad leaders harm an organization.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "8520",
    "Idiom": [
      "the forbidden fruit tastes the sweetest",
      "forbidden fruit is the sweetest"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Forbidden things seem more appealing.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "8521",
    "Idiom": [
      "the fox may grow grey but never good"
    ],
    "Meaning": "One cannot change one's nature.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "8522",
    "Idiom": [
      "the freaks come out at night"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Those inclined to mischief prefer the evening.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "8523",
    "Idiom": [
      "the fucking you get isn't worth the fucking you get",
      "the screwing you get isn't worth the screwing you're going to get",
      "the screwing you get isn't worth the screwing you get",
      "the screwing you get isn't worth the screwing you take",
      "the fucking you get isn't worth the fucking you take",
      "the fucking you get isn't worth the fucking you're going to get"
    ],
    "Meaning": "The pleasures in a relationship don’t outweigh the negative experiences.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Years later she expressed her disillusionment with sex by saying, \" The fucking you get isn't worth the fucking you get.\"",
      "Maitland got drunk at his parties and threw his arm around you and pulled you over to his wife and made you look down her dress, saying, \"The trouble with marriage is that the fucking you get isn't worth the fucking you get.\"",
      "\"I can't believe a little pussy got me into dis mess.\" \"Shit happens,\" Service said. \"Sometimes the fucking you get isn't worth the fucking you get.\""
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "8524",
    "Idiom": [
      "the game is not worth the candle"
    ],
    "Meaning": "The effort is not justified by the outcome.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "8525-1",
    "Idiom": [
      "the genie is out of the bottle",
      "the genie's out of the bottle"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Information has been released with lasting effects.",
    "Sentence": [
      "This early flawed statement was rapidly updated with entirely accurate information, but it was too late - the genie was out of the bottle.",
      "It's been widely rumored the network was planning to cancel the show, but now the genie is out of the bottle and fans are furious."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "8526-2",
    "Idiom": [
      "the genie is out of the bottle"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Something irreversible has occurred.",
    "Sentence": [
      "“The foundations of the concerns about digital platforms were developing during the Obama years ” said Chris Lewis, the president of the consumer advocacy group Public Knowledge. “ The genie is out of the bottle and the issues the public needs resolved are piling up without resolution.”",
      "I don't think there's any hope of repealing this city's silly parking bylaw. The genie is out of the bottle, sadly."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "8527",
    "Idiom": [
      "the gods smile on someone"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Someone experiences good fortune or success.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Yet if Johnson 's day was misery complete, then McDowell 's was the very essence of joy. \"I just can't explain how I feel right now. I said before the round started that if the golfing gods smile on me I might win this trophy. And they did,\" he said afterwards.",
      "\"A month later, he reappeared. ‘Hey! How are you? Sorry about the lack of contact. That virus was nasty. Fancy that second date?’ HOORAH THE DATING GODS HAVE SMILED UPON ME, I thought. \"",
      "Every four years since the 1970s, the political gods have smiled upon Iowa, endowing its residents with uncommon power to set the course of national politics as the first nominating contest.",
      "As an association, we demonstrate near-Olympic sang-froid. As I write, the gods are smiling upon us, but in the past decade – not to mince words – two of our number have got divorced, one of us checked into rehab, and all of us have had distressful troubles with teenage kids."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "8528",
    "Idiom": [
      "the good doctor"
    ],
    "Meaning": "An honorific for a physician.",
    "Sentence": [
      "The technique in the rendition of the texture of the robes is there, but the face is painted in so low a color key as to give the impression that the good doctor has been undergoing the nitrate of silver treatment.",
      "In 1746, some months after his 36th birthday, Samuel Johnson, that great literary figure of the 18th century, affectionately referred to as the Good Doctor, began work on his monumental Dictionary of the English Language.",
      "It’s lucky for you he got himself assassinated before the good Pope’s Vatican’s ratline and America’s CIA high level Nazi SS scientists lifelines who operatively could smuggle him along with his two pals Eichmann and the good doctor Mengele, the SS Angel of Death, to Argentina.",
      "We are presented with the orthodox view of the good Doctor as Tory Anglican, enemy of Whig and radical, Catholic and dissenter, alike.",
      "Well, almost no one: according to one story, a polite lady commended the good doctor for not including swear words in the dictionary. “I see you have been looking for them,” he is said to have replied."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "8529",
    "Idiom": [
      "the good doctors"
    ],
    "Meaning": "An honorific for a group of physicians.",
    "Sentence": [
      "“ The good doctors tell us he is better of the wound,” resumed the mother.",
      "According to the U.S. National Library of Medicine, in reality, this “independent” surveying was conducted by R.J. Reynolds’ ad agency, the William Esty Co., who would send staff to query physicians about their smoking habits at medical conferences and in their offices. They’d ask about their cigarette brand of choice, most of the time, after just having provided the good doctors with free cartons of Camels.",
      "With all respect to the good doctors at the university-based institute who evaluated him, they were not up on the literature on mental giftedness."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "8530",
    "Idiom": [
      "the grey mare is the better horse"
    ],
    "Meaning": "The wife is in charge of the household.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "8531",
    "Idiom": [
      "the half of it"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Only a part of something; usually the most important part.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "8532",
    "Idiom": [
      "the hand that rocks the cradle rules the world",
      "the hand that rocks the cradle is the hand that rules the world"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Women, especially mothers, significantly influence society by raising the next generation.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Blessings on the hand of women!... For the hand that rocks the cradle Is the hand that rules the world.",
      "We talk a great deal about the strength of early impressions. I wonder if we mean all we say; we do not live up to it, at all events. \"In childish play deep meaning lies.\" \" The hand that rocks the cradle is the hand that rules the world.\" \"Give me the first six years of a child's life, and I care not who has the rest.\"",
      "Woman meanwhile becomes the fearless, inwardly relentless, determined positive party. She grips the responsibility. The hand that rocks the cradle rules the world. Nay, she makes man discover that cradles should not be rocked, in order that her hands may be left free.",
      "Men rationalize their dominant estate: Woman's lot is to be the homemaker, the child raiser, the provider of sons; the hand that rocks the cradle rules the world.",
      "President Chandrika Bandaranaike Kumaratunga... quoted Kenyan Bishop Ndimbe's memorable words: \"Train a man, you train an individual, train a woman you build a nation.\" This is the same as saying that the \" hand that rocks the cradle rules the world \"."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "8533",
    "Idiom": [
      "the handbags come out"
    ],
    "Meaning": "A dispute becomes heated.",
    "Sentence": [
      "\"I'm ready to take the blame for all the problems of English football, if that is what he wants.\"",
      "The handbags have come out after a diplomatic argument between Israel and Brazil got, well, very personal."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "8534",
    "Idiom": [
      "the heart wants what the heart wants",
      "the heart wants what it wants"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Love is often irrational and out of one's control.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "8535",
    "Idiom": [
      "the hell out of"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Used as an intensifier.",
    "Sentence": [
      "There were days where we would just pick up our coats, leave one person in the office, and head into an area that was weak and door-knock the hell out of it.",
      "Now that you're above ground, your suit radio has reestablished connection with the Normandy. Time to get the hell out of here."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "8536-1",
    "Idiom": [
      "the hell you say"
    ],
    "Meaning": "I vehemently disagree.",
    "Sentence": [
      "\" The hell you say !\" rejoined McBane. \"I'll leave this car when I get good and ready, and that won't be till I've finished this cigar. See?\"",
      "\" The hell you say !\" ejaculated the man, in amazement. \"This Glidden is a German agent—perhaps a spy. He's no labor leader.\"",
      "\" The hell you say, \" Mr. Brzezinski replied indignantly, according to Mr. Allen, \"Henry was working for our side.\"",
      "\" The hell you say ! Mister, I was appointed to the position by the city council!... I am a public servant, and you have no authority over me.\""
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "8536-2",
    "Idiom": [
      "the hell you say"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Expresses disbelief or skepticism.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "8536-3",
    "Idiom": [
      "the hell you say"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Indicates lack of surprise.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Head office brought in all those new policies without consulting anyone and now people are upset and nothing is working right? The hell you say!"
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "8537",
    "Idiom": [
      "the highest branch is not the safest roost"
    ],
    "Meaning": "A high position does not guarantee safety.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "8538-1",
    "Idiom": [
      "the house always wins"
    ],
    "Meaning": "The house (casino) always profits from gambling.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Don't go to that casino. All their games are designed to make you lose more money than you earn, so that the house always wins."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "8538-2",
    "Idiom": [
      "the house always wins"
    ],
    "Meaning": "The system favors those who control it.",
    "Sentence": [
      "The Reddit amateurs may be gloating about their victory over elite hedge funds now, but in the casino of Wall Street the house always wins, and many Redditors may be flirting with financial catastrophe.",
      "The more we sell in our shop, the more profit for all of us. Our customers will be happy, but the house always wins."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "8538-3",
    "Idiom": [
      "the house always wins"
    ],
    "Meaning": "An inevitable and unpleasant outcome that cannot be overcome.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "8539",
    "Idiom": [
      "the jig is up",
      "one's jig is up"
    ],
    "Meaning": "An expression meaning \"You've been discovered.\"",
    "Sentence": [
      "We knew then the jig was up, and it was no grin matter for us.",
      "When I first told 'em how the jig was up with us, that the British were going to have the land, without any fighting about it, I never see fellows so mad before in my life, unless it was Major Eaton at Washington when he sot out to flog Mr. Ingham.",
      "After I had returned home in the spring of 1893 from Washington, where I saw so many gray-haired men who had held high elective office begging for the crumbs from Cleveland's table, I gave my wife an account of what I observed, and told her that when the jig was up for me I would hasten back to Missouri to begin the practice of law once more and be a man among men.",
      "The universe works in strange ways: just when you think the jig is up, you get a second chance.",
      "P.S. C'est en fait — my jig is up ! While under the barber's hands this morning, a boy posted up in the shop the programme of a course of Phrenological Lectures !",
      "\" You tell the lie!\" she accused. \"And you'd better quit, for your jig is up. I've got you right. …\"",
      "But I'd convinced a witness to come in, … Sure enough, when we brought Marshall in for the lineup, she picked him right away. ¶ Marshall was naturally upset that his jig was up, …"
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "8540",
    "Idiom": [
      "the joke is on someone"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Someone is the butt of a joke or negative outcome.",
    "Sentence": [
      "As only a small per cent of the dealers use the word \"Leghorn,\" and the ones who do try to use it can't tell a Leghorn from a mixed breed or from many other breeds, the most of the joke is on someone else.",
      "Like Cole, we see through the penny-trick instantly, but the joke is on us, and on Malcolm himself, because we fall for the same joke on the level of the film as a whole.",
      "“Guess what? The joke's on you because I'm going places, getting out of this nowhere town.”",
      "\"Well, the joke's on you because I'm resigning from the gymnast team. And if I resign, so will my friends, particularly when I tell them why.\""
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "8541",
    "Idiom": [
      "the jug goes to the well until it breaks"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Repeated use can lead to failure.",
    "Sentence": [
      "“ The jug goes to the well until it breaks ” – this may not be so terrible involving a jug – translated to the failure of a scaffolding assembly, it may, however, involve loss of life.",
      "It was not the mother herself, but good neighbor women who uncovered the danger. And as always in such cases: the jug goes to the well until it breaks ! The court sentenced the man to two years in a penitentiary, five years loss of civic right, and expulsion from this country for ten years, although he had not previously been sentenced.",
      "“ The jug goes to the well until it breaks,” said Xandi. Brigitte frequently quoted the saying when confronted by her boys' obstinacy."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "8542",
    "Idiom": [
      "the king is dead, long live the king"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Said when someone or something is succeeded by a new leader or authority.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "8543",
    "Idiom": [
      "the laborer is worthy of his hire",
      "the labourer is worthy of his hire"
    ],
    "Meaning": "People deserve rewards for their efforts.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "8544",
    "Idiom": [
      "the last of pea-time"
    ],
    "Meaning": "A time or state of decline or exhaustion.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "8545",
    "Idiom": [
      "the law is an arse"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Criticism of the law.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "8546",
    "Idiom": [
      "the law is an ass",
      "the law is a ass"
    ],
    "Meaning": "The law is often unreasonable or unfair.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Ere he shall lose an eye for such a trifle... For doing deeds of nature! I'm ashamed. The law is such an ass.",
      "\"If the law supposes that,\" said Mr. Bumble, squeezing his hat emphatically in both hands, \" the law is a ass —a idiot.\"",
      "I'm not one of those who think the Law is an ass, no, there's a great deal of common sense in the Law of England.",
      "Mr Bell said: \" The law is an ass. It is a shocking situation when a dangerous criminal can walk free by evading recapture for a month.\"",
      "No matter the legal definitions that guided them, it seems impossible that someone’s young son, guilty of nothing, should die while his killer walks. Adages become such for a reason: The law is an ass."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "8547",
    "Idiom": [
      "the length of the Flemington straight"
    ],
    "Meaning": "A long distance.",
    "Sentence": [
      "AFL grand final day is the best day of the year by the length of the Flemington straight.",
      "Given that Gold Coast and Fremantle appear the length of the Flemington straight apart, it is hard to see a deal being done."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "8548",
    "Idiom": [
      "the longest pole knocks the persimmon"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Whoever has the most advantages has the best chance of success.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Every official in Morocco from the Sultan down is for sale, and it is a case where the longest pole knocks the persimmon."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "8549",
    "Idiom": [
      "the lord helps those who help themselves",
      "god helps them who help themselves",
      "God helps those who help themselves",
      "god helps them that help themselves",
      "the lord helps those that help themselves"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Good fortune comes to those who make an effort.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "8550-1",
    "Idiom": [
      "the lord works in mysterious ways",
      "God works in mysterious ways"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Confidence that a solution exists despite being unclear.",
    "Sentence": [
      "I was just saying to Lina here, ain't it something,\" she said. \"You join a committee against mugging, annd the same night you get mugged! Well, the Lord works in mysterious ways, like my friend Fran used to say. Now Lina here, she could use a committee too, couldn't you honey?\""
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "8551",
    "Idiom": [
      "the love of money is the root of all evil",
      "money is the root of all evil"
    ],
    "Meaning": "The desire for money causes evil.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "8552",
    "Idiom": [
      "the map is not the territory"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Our perceptions and representations do not fully capture reality.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "8553",
    "Idiom": [
      "the measles"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Used to express strong emotion.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Why the meazills, should you stand heere, with your traine...",
      "What the measles do you think you're doing?"
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "8554",
    "Idiom": [
      "the mill cannot grind with water that is past"
    ],
    "Meaning": "What has already happened cannot be changed or repaired.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "8555",
    "Idiom": [
      "the mills of the gods grind slowly"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Justice may come slowly but is inevitable.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "8556",
    "Idiom": [
      "the moon on a stick"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Everything one could desire, often unreasonably.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Once I saved twenty-five dollars and bought her a print gown for her birthday, and she was so pleased you'd have thought I'd given her the moon on a stick.",
      "There is no point in asking for the moon on a stick, but we can produce cheap sticks through a sensible division of labour and sell them with effective market segmentation strategies. Leave the moon for dreamers.",
      "You promise partners the moon on a stick, so that you can snatch it back easily when you change your mind.",
      "What more do I want— the moon on a stick of course."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "8557-1",
    "Idiom": [
      "the more the merrier"
    ],
    "Meaning": "More people make it more enjoyable.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "8557-2",
    "Idiom": [
      "the more the merrier"
    ],
    "Meaning": "More people or things make a situation better.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "8557-3",
    "Idiom": [
      "the more the merrier"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Used to welcome others, suggesting their presence is desirable.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "8558-1",
    "Idiom": [
      "the more things change, the more they stay the same"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Deep changes do not alter the underlying reality.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Superficial change is not movement, as is indicated by the saying, “ the more things change, the more they stay the same.”",
      "There must be some continuity with the past, “or else the world is a madhouse.” Hence, the more things change, the more they stay the same; the more things stay the same, the more they change.",
      "On the other hand, the founders would certainly find a familiar state-centric and decentralized institutional approach to problem solving that is incapable of addressing the kinds of life-threatening global challenges increasingly and routinely confronting humanity. As the saying goes, “ The more things change, the more they stay the same.”"
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "8558-2",
    "Idiom": [
      "the more things change, the more they stay the same"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Change often leads to a return to familiar patterns.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "8559",
    "Idiom": [
      "the more you know, the higher you go"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Expertise leads to career advancement.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "8560",
    "Idiom": [
      "the nail that sticks out gets hammered down"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Those who are different or conspicuous get criticized.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "8561",
    "Idiom": [
      "the nose knows"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Indicates awareness despite appearances.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "8562",
    "Idiom": [
      "the odds are good, but the goods are odd"
    ],
    "Meaning": "There are many available partners, but they may be unusual.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "8563",
    "Idiom": [
      "the old woman is plucking her goose"
    ],
    "Meaning": "It is snowing.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "8564",
    "Idiom": [
      "the one that got away"
    ],
    "Meaning": "A former romantic partner whose loss one regrets.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "8565",
    "Idiom": [
      "the other day"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Recently.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Uh-oh. I emerged from the Underground station at London King's Cross the other day to find a dense throng of people filling the main line station's concourse.",
      "I was in San Francisco just the other day."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "8566",
    "Idiom": [
      "the pants off"
    ],
    "Meaning": "An intensifier indicating thoroughness or complete success in an action.",
    "Sentence": [
      "\"And did you also feel like you could whip the pants off any mother's son alive?\"",
      "Reuters had scooped the pants off the U.S. press.",
      "Jeffrey Vinik, manager of the $56 billion Fidelity Magellan Fund, the world's largest and most closely watched mutual fund, \" beat the pants off the managers of other large funds,\" in the words of one analyst.",
      "The Eden Project is his medium for getting that message across to the masses without boring the pants off them.",
      "\"Not many people know it, but the Fuhrer was a terrific dancer. He could dance the pants off Churchhill.\"",
      "\"Doom 3 is just going to terrify the pants off people,\" says Rob Smith, editor of PC Gamer magazine.",
      "Roosevelt not only remade America, but he also charmed the pants off everybody while he did it.",
      "Those of us old enough will also recall that Japan used to scare the pants off Americans and just about everyone else."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "8567",
    "Idiom": [
      "the pen is mightier than the sword"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Writing has more power than violence.",
    "Sentence": [
      "If the pen is mightier than the sword in American history, it is more likely the pen of a novelist than the typewriter of a reporter — Harriet Beecher Stowe stimulating antislavery sentiment or Upton Sinclair enlisting citizens in outrage against the food-processing industry.",
      "If my teachers had not told me that the pen is mightier than the sword, if my parents had not told me that I have to respect books, I would not have developed that respect for knowledge."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "8568",
    "Idiom": [
      "the pitcher goes so often to the well that it is broken at last"
    ],
    "Meaning": "When overused, something will eventually fail.",
    "Sentence": [
      "On these last two points the Chancellor could have given way. He was adamant because he and Hebert wanted to demonstrate their power. The pitcher goes so often to the well, that it is broken at last.",
      "She couldn't have expected her luck to last forever: The pitcher goes so often to the well, that it is broken at last, wasn't that what they said?",
      "Madame knew her hour was fixed and she would not live a minute beyond it; nor did she want to, for, as she said, \" The pitcher goes so often to the well that it is broken at last. \" They bled her when she was too weak to resist, as doctors always do what they like when the patient is feeble."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "8569",
    "Idiom": [
      "the plot thickens"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Describes a complex or mysterious situation.",
    "Sentence": [
      "BAYES. Lo' you now, there he's off again.",
      "Y. Book. Well said, Lad—and as Mr. Bays says, now the Plot thickens upon us, we'll spend our time as gaily as the best of 'em—and all of it in Love",
      "\"His statement is wholly false,\" was our hero’s reply. \"It was his miserable villainy that deprived me of my liberty, and kept me away from my work.\" Mr. Goldwin looked puzzled. \" The plot thickens,\" said he. \"Give me your story.\""
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "8570",
    "Idiom": [
      "the poor we will always have with us"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Poverty for some is inevitable.",
    "Sentence": [
      "These beggars on horseback — the poor we will always have with us as long as we give such alms - are forever at the elbows of the secretaries, representatives, senators. The people who pay are at work in their fields, out of sight, scattered over thousands of miles.",
      "When the poor are taken by definition to be the lowest 10th or the lowest 5th, or the lowest 3rd, we will, of course, arrive at the not very startling conclusion, “ the poor we will always have with us.”",
      "“ The poor we will always have with us.” / And some will come to church."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "8571",
    "Idiom": [
      "the proof is in the pudding",
      "the proof of the pudding is in the eating",
      "the proof is in the eating"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Success can only be determined through experience or results.",
    "Sentence": [
      "This is an armchair criticism, and the proof of the pudding will be in the eating.",
      "CHAPTER XXI Meeting at Geneva The proof of the pudding is in the eating. - Traditional aphorism",
      "It begs the question: will this be a costly mistake? I think not, but the proof of the pudding is in a RAIL train test - so armed with stopwatch, measuring tape and notepad, it was time to head north to track one down and test it!",
      "“We welcome the law [Anti-Corruption Bill], but the proof of the pudding will be in the eating,” said Sankhitha Gunaratne, deputy executive director of Transparency International Sri Lanka (TISL).",
      "I know you didn't think it was a very good product, but just look at the fantastic sales figures. That's the proof of the pudding."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "8572",
    "Idiom": [
      "the quality"
    ],
    "Meaning": "People of high social status.",
    "Sentence": [
      "I shall appear at the masquerade dressed up in my feathers, that the quality may see how pretty they will look in their travelling habits.",
      "The rector kept open house on that day, but by degrees the “quality” gave up going, and the fair, of course, became disreputable, till at last it was put down as a nuisance.",
      "I would have spoken further, but before I could get under way the door opened, revealing Ma Cream, and [my manservant Jeeves] shimmered silently from the room. Unless expressly desired to remain, he always shimmers off when what is called the Quality arrive.",
      "[In 1919 Ireland.] ‘Be quiet, Ripon! It's not nonsense at all. Ripon's father calls us “fish-eaters” and “Holy Romans” and so on. So does Ripon. So will you, Major, when you're among the “quality”. In fact, you'll become a member of the “quality” yourself, high and mighty, too good for the rest of us.’",
      "Yet they did not pretend to be members of ‘ the quality ’, the people of fashion, the cosmopolitan beau monde or the ton, although they were not above harping on their exalted acquaintances among the nobility or the antiquity of their lineage when they saw fit."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "8573",
    "Idiom": [
      "the rabbit died"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Indicates pregnancy.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Robin finally was able to announce: \" Good news ! The rabbit died !\" She said she was thrilled and that everybody was happy for her except her mother."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "8574",
    "Idiom": [
      "the reality is"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Introduces the main issue or dispels misconceptions.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "8575",
    "Idiom": [
      "the rest is history"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Indicates that subsequent events are well-known and don’t need further explanation.",
    "Sentence": [
      "And we said, “We're all going to agree on one name, and we're all going to start using it.” We voted on “sourceware” versus “open source,” and “open source” won. We had the press conference at five, and the rest is history.",
      "Sarah and I got married back in 1956 and the rest is history."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "8576",
    "Idiom": [
      "the revolution will not be televised"
    ],
    "Meaning": "A societal revolution will occur in real life, not on film.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "8577",
    "Idiom": [
      "the road to Hell is paved with good intentions"
    ],
    "Meaning": "A saying about good intentions leading to negative outcomes.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Ever resolving that this should be his last frolic, (to call it by no harsher name) he but afforded another proof of the old saying, that “ the road to Hell is paved with good intentions.” From drinking at night he soon began to take his morning dram, a morbid appetite was thus engendered, and the unnatural craving of his stomach, continually required a stimulus, until he became a noted tippler.",
      "Fifth, there should be more trust in the frequent good intentions of mankind which do sometimes get implemented. There is no more vicious proverb than the one which asserts that the road to Hell is paved with good intentions.",
      "Europe is as ancient as history, and the world turns east to west, so it’s not to be unexpected that Jess Franco’s films are somewhat ahead of their time. And it’s hardly surprising that he has so often been condemned without first being understood because, as philosophers say, the road to Hell is paved with good intentions."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "8578",
    "Idiom": [
      "the road to hell is paved with good intentions",
      "hell is full of good meanings, but heaven is full of good works"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Well-intended acts can lead to negative outcomes.",
    "Sentence": [
      "The road to literary hell is paved with the good intentions of publishers who start out saying \"I'm gonna do it right; I'm not gonna screw up like Alyson or Gay Sunshine.\" Several projects later, these publishers are turning down the same \"good material\" that Alyson and Gay Sunshine did and building up the same type list they first wanted to avoid.",
      "The road to hell is paved with good intentions. Or so many politicians in Germany’s three-party ruling coalition are now discovering."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "8579",
    "Idiom": [
      "the rubber meets the road"
    ],
    "Meaning": "A point where a plan is put into action.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Now we're getting down to where the rubber meets the road.",
      "It can only be judged \"when the rubber meets the road \"; when its implementation does or does not produce results.",
      "It is in the interview that the rubber meets the road."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "8580",
    "Idiom": [
      "the shirt off one's back"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Everything a person owns.",
    "Sentence": [
      "\"I don't plan on selling my Nuclear shares,\" replied Lillis. \"But I've been on Wall Street for fifty years, and if there's one thing I learned, it's that at the right price I'd sell the shirt off my back. \"",
      "Please, gentlemen. The men in there just took my money. I can't get robbed twice in one day! What do you want, the shirt off my back? Come on.",
      "Though a good guy who'd give the shirt off his back to a friend, Brady Buchanon was a formidable enemy. They all were. Buchanons protected their own."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "8581",
    "Idiom": [
      "the shoe is on the other foot"
    ],
    "Meaning": "The roles in a situation have reversed, giving an advantage to the previously disadvantaged party.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Some of the birds on this ship took me for a sucker and tried to make a rummy out of me but I was wise to their game and I guess the shoe is on the other foot this time."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "8582",
    "Idiom": [
      "the shoemaker's children go barefoot"
    ],
    "Meaning": "One often neglects those closest to them.",
    "Sentence": [
      "I've got a lovely wife who's a professional photographer, three lovely grown children, a lovely old dog with bad hips and a good disposition, and an old house which is always in desperate need of repairs. My wife says that’s because the shoemaker's kids always go barefoot and the carpenter’s house always has a leaky roof.",
      "Traditionally, ‘ the shoemaker's children go barefoot ’; i.e., users of computational statistics ignore statistical issues—such as sensitivity analysis—of their simulation results.",
      "So we eventually listened to the unfinished studio CD through his daughter Eve's ghetto blaster. I made the predictable joke about the shoemaker's children who always go barefoot. It had been the same at Elton John's place, Bono revealed.",
      "Just as the shoemaker's children go barefoot and the carpenter's children live under a leaky roof, I knew this day would come. I am a church worker whose child has stopped going to church."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "8583",
    "Idiom": [
      "the show must go on"
    ],
    "Meaning": "One must finish what one has started.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "8584",
    "Idiom": [
      "the sky is the limit",
      "the sky's the limit"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Nothing is impossible or out of reach.",
    "Sentence": [
      "If you have a refrigerator and a microwave at work, then the sky is the limit for what you can put in your lunchbox."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "8585",
    "Idiom": [
      "the spirit is willing but the flesh is weak"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Desires may be strong, but physical limitations can hinder action.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "8586",
    "Idiom": [
      "the straw that broke the camel's back",
      "the stroke that broke the camel's back"
    ],
    "Meaning": "A small addition to a burden that leads to failure or inability to endure.",
    "Sentence": [
      "As the last straw breaks the laden camel's back, this piece of underground information crushed the sinking spirits of Mr. Dombey.",
      "It was the stroke that broke the camel's back and Rizal broke down in tears."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "8587",
    "Idiom": [
      "the streets are paved with gold"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Describes a place where it's easy to become wealthy or live well.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Do you think it will be a place where the streets are paved with gold, similar to the Heaven of the Bible?",
      "It is in many ways our oldest and most enduring national myth, one that has taken many forms: the streets are paved with gold.",
      "In and around the government lobbyist areas the streets are paved with gold !"
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "8588",
    "Idiom": [
      "the strong do what they can, the weak suffer what they must",
      "the strong do what they can and the weak suffer what they must"
    ],
    "Meaning": "The weak cannot resist the strong; power determines outcomes.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Bitter is the necessity of it. It knows no law. In the world the strong do what they can, and the weak suffer what they must.",
      "But the present organisation of society, national and international, works on the principle that the strong do what they can and the weak suffer what they must.",
      "I felt then, as I do now, that the growth of the United Nations into a truly effective world organization was our best, perhaps our last, hope of bringing about enduring and creative peace if mankind was to end a savage tradition that the strong do what they can and the weak suffer what they must.",
      "But for the weak, power – the power of others – is largely a source of inequality and subordination. The strong do what they can. The weak suffer what they must, including hierarchic subordination.",
      "The unilateral actions on the part of the United States, as in Iraq, threaten not so much the integrity of the Concert as the foundational norms of international society, such as sovereignty and non-intervention, which had provided the basis for that society in the first place. If this trend continues, we may end up with a hyper-realist world in which “ the strong do what they can and the weak suffer what they must ”.",
      "The overall argument is that powerful states and wealthy capitalists use what power they have to gain even more power. They save the lucrative parts of the production process for themselves, and force weaker actors into the parts that yield relatively little reward. ¶ In this respect, economic structuralism fully agrees with the realist statement that “ the strong do what they can and the weak suffer what they must ”."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "8589",
    "Idiom": [
      "the sun sets on something"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Something comes to an end.",
    "Sentence": [
      "As the sun set on his running career, McGough – pronounced “McGeow” in Monaghan – reinvented himself as a masseur, learning that trade first via the Celtic football team."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "8590",
    "Idiom": [
      "the terrorists will have won"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Indicates that failing to continue a certain action allows terrorists to succeed, which is unacceptable.",
    "Sentence": [
      "If you throttle the free press, the terrorists will have won.",
      "If governments overact and become oppressive, the terrorists will have won, for their theory is that repression will eventually lead to revolution.",
      "If we have to wear sweaters and turn down our thermostat, the terrorists will have won."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "8591",
    "Idiom": [
      "the thing is"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Introduces the main point or issue.",
    "Sentence": [
      "The thing is, we've even had formal confirmation from Government itself that the crucial research required to make such sweeping claims hasn't been done!",
      "I'd like to come, but the thing is, I just can't afford it.",
      "It's true that the stock market might go down, but the the thing is that with this investment you can make a profit regardless!"
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "8592",
    "Idiom": [
      "the thing of it"
    ],
    "Meaning": "The important point to consider.",
    "Sentence": [
      "But the thing of it is, when to begin",
      "But the thing of it is, everybody was rooting for the other individual and I was the only one rooting for him."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "8593",
    "Idiom": [
      "the tongue wounds more than a lance"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Insults hurt more than physical injuries.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "8594",
    "Idiom": [
      "the victor gets the spoils",
      "to the victor go the spoils",
      "the winner takes it all"
    ],
    "Meaning": "The winner gains extra benefits.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "8595",
    "Idiom": [
      "the voice of the people, the voice of God"
    ],
    "Meaning": "The voice of the people should be acknowledged.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "8596",
    "Idiom": [
      "the way to a man's heart is through his stomach"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Cooking for a man can win his affection.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Who invented that mischievous falsehood that the way to a man's heart was through his stomach ? How many a silly woman, taking it for truth, has let love slip out of the parlour, while she was busy in the kitchen.",
      "I have often heard it said that the way to a man's heart is through his stomach, but every time I ever seen men and women keep waiting for their eats it was always the frail sex that give the first yelp, and personally I've often wondered what would of happened in the trenches Over There if ladies had of been occupying them when the rations failed to show up."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "8597",
    "Idiom": [
      "the wheel turns"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Circumstances change; life continues.",
    "Sentence": [
      "You have to accept that a new world pushes out the old. The wheel turns.",
      "\"I'm sorry, Paul. I know you went through hell with her nonsense, and I don't know how you put up with so much for Sammy, but the wheel turns, mate. Keep cool and let me know what you plan to do.\"",
      "Sherlock Holmes: There's going to be a bomb on a passenger jet. British and American governments know about it, but rather than expose the source of their information, they're going to let it happen. The plane will blow up. Coventry all over again. The wheel turns, nothing is ever new."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "8598",
    "Idiom": [
      "the wheels fell off"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Something failed after a difficult process.",
    "Sentence": [
      "The coach said, \"We were doing well for a while, but they got tired and then the wheels fell off \"."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "8599",
    "Idiom": [
      "the whole world and his dog"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Everybody; a huge crowd.",
    "Sentence": [
      "I'd love to go to the Harry Potter opening, but the whole world and his dog will be there and I don't like crowds"
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "8600",
    "Idiom": [
      "the wolf may lose his teeth but never his nature"
    ],
    "Meaning": "One cannot change one's nature.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "8601",
    "Idiom": [
      "the word is go"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Indicates that plans or actions can proceed.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "8602",
    "Idiom": [
      "the world is one's lobster"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Intentional misrendering of \"the world is one's oyster.\"",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "8603",
    "Idiom": [
      "the world is someone's oyster"
    ],
    "Meaning": "All opportunities are open to someone.",
    "Sentence": [
      "But his wants were not at first great; and though his ambition was perhaps high, it was not of an impatient nature. The world was his oyster; but, circumstanced as he was, he knew it was not for him to open it with his lancet all at once.",
      "Irregular gentlemen, to whom the world's their oyster,—said oyster does suddenly snap-to on them, by a chance.",
      "The world may be your oyster, but that doesn't mean you've found the pearl."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "8604",
    "Idiom": [
      "the world over"
    ],
    "Meaning": "All over the world.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Thomas Edison is known the world over as the inventor of the light-bulb."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "8605",
    "Idiom": [
      "them's the breaks"
    ],
    "Meaning": "That is how things happen; that's life.",
    "Sentence": [
      "And I want you to know how sad I am to be giving up the best job in the world. But them’s the breaks."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "8606",
    "Idiom": [
      "them's the facts"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Those are the facts.",
    "Sentence": [
      "The boy was left with Bob Yancy mainly because nobody else would take him. Them's the facts. Now go on!",
      "‘ Them’s the facts !’ said Brown, taking little trouble to hide his contempt for anyone so stupid as not to understand. ‘The orficers were killed. Couldn’t see it with me own glims ’cos I couldn’t be everywhere at once. But they was dead all right.’",
      "I know you're worn out. I am too. It's too damn hot and I've forgotten what fresh water tastes like. Them's the facts. But let's just make it easy on ourselves and get this thing done and then we'll all get on back to the beach and off to the islands of nooky-nooky."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "8607",
    "Idiom": [
      "then again"
    ],
    "Meaning": "From another point of view.",
    "Sentence": [
      "I think I'll take three pairs of shoes. Then again, I only plan to stay two days."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "8608",
    "Idiom": [
      "then and there"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Immediately.",
    "Sentence": [
      "When this conversation was repeated in detail within the hearing of the young woman in question, and undoubtedly for his benefit, Mr. Trevor threw shame to the winds and scandalized the Misses Brewster then and there by proclaiming his father to have been a country storekeeper.",
      "'Well, I soon saw to that, I told him to bolt it then and there .'"
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "8609",
    "Idiom": [
      "there and back"
    ],
    "Meaning": "On a round trip journey.",
    "Sentence": [
      "It took me about 20 minutes there and back.",
      "You don't need to tell me about depression. I've been there and back."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "8610",
    "Idiom": [
      "there are bad apples in every orchard"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Every community has troublesome members.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "8611",
    "Idiom": [
      "there are many ways to skin a cat",
      "there's more than one way to crack an egg",
      "there's more than one way to skin a cat",
      "there's more than one way to feed a cat",
      "there's more than one way to cook an egg",
      "there's more than one way to fuck a cat",
      "there's more than one way to peel an orange"
    ],
    "Meaning": "A problem has multiple solutions.",
    "Sentence": [
      "At any rate, thought I, there's more than one way to skin a cat, as a butcher would say.",
      "This is a money digging world of ours; and, as it is said, \" there are more ways than one to skin a cat,\" so are there more ways than one of digging for money. But, in some mode or other, this seems to be the universal occupation of the sons of Adam.",
      "But then the Church came to the front, with an axe to grind; and she was wise, subtle, and knew more than one way to skin a cat —or a nation;",
      "Relator was, undoubtedly, at this point reminded of the old saying: \" There is more than one way to skin a cat \"; because he was saying the same thing in different terminology and tied it in with his original statement by saying \"as I stated\".",
      "Nissan has elected to concentrate its European operations in Sunderland, including battery development, precisely because Boris Johnson has brought forward the phase-out date for petrol and diesel vehicles to 2030. However, there is more than one way to skin a cat, and cheaper options for ultra-low emitting vehicles are just around the corner.",
      "There's more than one way to feed a cat. This leftover pizza is just what I need to wreck my diet. (literal use)",
      "..., the room Dix looked back. There was not a trace that he'd even been in the room. “Yeah, there's more than one way to fuck a cat,” he said under his breath. 21. RED SIMON: The Coach Cloaked in shadows, hidden in 146 B.L. Morgan.",
      "... There's more than one way to fuck a cat. No one fucked anyone. One twin wriggled free, lithe as an eel, picked up a shovel, and swung it at the soldier's legs. \"Let my brother go!\" The soldier roared, dropped his other"
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "8612",
    "Idiom": [
      "there are more horses' asses than horses"
    ],
    "Meaning": "There are plenty of obnoxious people.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "8613",
    "Idiom": [
      "there are no atheists in foxholes"
    ],
    "Meaning": "In times of extreme stress, people may hope for a higher power regardless of their beliefs.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "8614",
    "Idiom": [
      "there are none so blind as those who will not see",
      "there are none so deaf as those who will not hear",
      "there's none so blind as those who will not see"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Understanding cannot be forced on the willingly ignorant.",
    "Sentence": [
      "“There is no defense against the will of God. This has been coming. I have seen the signs. There are those here that I have told, but there are none so blind as those who will not see.”"
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "8615",
    "Idiom": [
      "there are plenty more fish in the sea",
      "there are plenty of fish in the sea"
    ],
    "Meaning": "There are many more opportunities available.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Dry your eyes, mate / I know it's hard to take but her mind has been made up / There's plenty more fish in the sea"
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "8616",
    "Idiom": [
      "there are two sides to every story",
      "there are two sides to every question"
    ],
    "Meaning": "One should hear both sides before judging.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "8617",
    "Idiom": [
      "there but for the grace of God go I"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Recognition that others' misfortune could happen to oneself without divine grace or good fortune.",
    "Sentence": [
      "I been turned out of places all over town My smile is a frown turned upside down There but for the grace of God go I"
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "8618",
    "Idiom": [
      "there for everyone to see"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Very obvious.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Hodgson 's irritation about the booking that means Welbeck is suspended on Tuesday was there for everyone to see and justifiable, too, when it was such a soft decision."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "8619",
    "Idiom": [
      "there is a new sheriff in town"
    ],
    "Meaning": "A new individual has come to power.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "8620",
    "Idiom": [
      "there is a time and place for everything",
      "there is a place and time for everything",
      "there's a time and a place for everything",
      "there is a time and a place for everything",
      "there's a time and place for everything",
      "there's a place and time for everything"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Certain things are appropriate at specific times and places.",
    "Sentence": [
      "There is a time and a place for everything, and everything is good in its place: but a thing—or even a name or title—tolerably good itself, by an incessant recurrence may become most positively bad. Such, Sir, is the case with the thing, name, term, or title, mandarin.",
      "There is no adage of sterling worth so frequently neglected, and none which so easily admits of constant observance with the greatest advantage, as the often quoted one—‘ There is a time and a place for everything.’",
      "How are you using your time? Wisely? Do you frequently hear yourself saying “no” to requests for your time to help others because you are too busy? Search your heart and think about what is important to God. There is a time and a place for everything. With God’s wisdom and guidance, you will find the answers."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "8621",
    "Idiom": [
      "there is an exception to every rule",
      "every rule has an exception"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Every rule has exceptions.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "8622",
    "Idiom": [
      "there is no honor among thieves"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Thieves cannot be trusted.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "8623",
    "Idiom": [
      "there is no such thing as bad press",
      "all publicity is good publicity",
      "it doesn't matter what they say about you as long as they spell your name right",
      "there is no such thing as bad publicity",
      "any press is good press"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Negative media attention can still be beneficial due to increased publicity.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "8624",
    "Idiom": [
      "there is no such thing as bad weather, only bad clothing"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Any weather can be managed with appropriate clothing.",
    "Sentence": [
      "The Danish early childhood educators say there is no such thing as bad weather, only bad clothing."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "8625",
    "Idiom": [
      "there is no there there"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Indicates a lack of substance or significance.",
    "Sentence": [
      "She took us to see her granddaughter who was teaching in the Dominican convent in San Raphael, we went across the bay on a ferry, that had not changed but Goat Island might just as well not have been there, anyway what was the use of my having come from Oakland it was not natural to have come from there yes write about it if I like or anything if I like but not there, there is no there there.",
      "There is a character issue for Mr. Bush in this campaign. The clothes have no emperor. There is no there there.",
      "This desire to express national difference comes at a time when the world is shrinking rapidly and travellers arrive halfway across the globe to find that there is no \"there\" there.",
      "Cog is an artificially intelligent computer that is trying to learn about the world.... Cog's \"mind,\" similarly, is just a collection of loosely coordinated digital reflexes scattered among its eight processors, with no one place to point to as the seat of intelligence. \" There's no there there,\" notes Brooks with a touch of pride.",
      "Mill Creek... still lacks a geographic heart.... There's no \"there\" there, no center to the city—unless you count the private Mill Creek Country Club or the grocery-store shopping centers.",
      "With Trump, there’s no there there. That is, no substance—not if substance is taken to mean a coherent set of policy proposals."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "8626",
    "Idiom": [
      "there is nothing more permanent than a temporary solution"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Short-term solutions can become permanent.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "8627",
    "Idiom": [
      "there is nothing new under the sun",
      "nothing new under the sun",
      "nothing is said that has not been said before"
    ],
    "Meaning": "There is nothing truly novel; everything has precedent.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "8628",
    "Idiom": [
      "there is reason in the roasting of eggs"
    ],
    "Meaning": "There is a reason behind odd actions.",
    "Sentence": [
      "There is reason, it is said, in the roasting of eggs, and there is philosophy even in furniture—a philosophy nevertheless which seems to be more imperfectly understood by Americans than by any civilized nation upon the face of the earth."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "8629",
    "Idiom": [
      "there is safety in numbers"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Being in a group reduces the chance of danger or misfortune.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "8630",
    "Idiom": [
      "there is strength in numbers"
    ],
    "Meaning": "There is more strength in groups than individuals.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "8631",
    "Idiom": [
      "there may be snow on the mountaintop but there's fire in the valley",
      "there may be snow on the rooftop but there is fire in the furnace"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Even older individuals can still possess ambition and energy.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "8632",
    "Idiom": [
      "there must be something in the water"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Indicates unusual behavior likely due to a common cause.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Our fathers' fathers / Hand-me-downs / The clip for the rounds / Just squeeze, don't choke / The future weeps in the shadow of the gun smoke / There must be something in the water / There must be something in the water / Over and over and over and over again / Violent men meet violent ends"
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "8633",
    "Idiom": [
      "there we go"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Said after a successful action.",
    "Sentence": [
      "This key doesn't seem to fit the lock... ah, there we go; it's starting to turn now.",
      "When's this film supposed to begin? Ah, there we go; the lights are dimming now."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "8634-1",
    "Idiom": [
      "there you are"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Used while giving someone something.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "8634-2",
    "Idiom": [
      "there you are"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Indicates finality or acceptance, often regarding unpleasant news.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Right, the committee has considered your request and denied it, so there you are."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "8635-1",
    "Idiom": [
      "there you go"
    ],
    "Meaning": "You did it correctly.",
    "Sentence": [
      "' There you go ! It worked.' Toby got up, pleased with the result. 'We can hoist it back up now. Take the horses the other side Tad.'",
      "Attagirl! There you go! Keep it up! Now pass the ball back to me again!"
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "8635-2",
    "Idiom": [
      "there you go"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Used to explain or justify something.",
    "Sentence": [
      "To be honest, I didn't care for that side of the plan, but I needed their manpower to pull all this off, and someone owed me a favor, so there you go. It worked like a charm."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "8635-3",
    "Idiom": [
      "there you go"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Indicates agreement or validation of a prior statement.",
    "Sentence": [
      "- Do you want to punish crime more severely? - I'm not sure. I do want a lower crime rate... - Well, there you go."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "8635-4",
    "Idiom": [
      "there you go"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Expressing exasperation.",
    "Sentence": [
      "There you go, yelling again. Will you shut up?"
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "8635-5",
    "Idiom": [
      "there you go"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Used when handing something to someone.",
    "Sentence": [
      "He told me to bring it back to you when I was done. There you go! Happy Friday!"
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "8636-1",
    "Idiom": [
      "there you have it"
    ],
    "Meaning": "That is the situation or state of things.",
    "Sentence": [
      "- But how could the burglar have scaled a twenty-foot wall without a ladder?",
      "- There you have it. That's what has the police confused."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "8636-2",
    "Idiom": [
      "there you have it"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Introduces a speaker's interpretation of what has just been described.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "8637-1",
    "Idiom": [
      "there's a first time for everything"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Something could happen even if it hasn't happened before.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "8637-2",
    "Idiom": [
      "there's a first time for everything"
    ],
    "Meaning": "It's important to try new experiences.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "8638",
    "Idiom": [
      "there's a lid for every pot",
      "there is a lid for every pot"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Everyone has a compatible romantic partner.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "8639",
    "Idiom": [
      "there's a rotten apple in every barrel"
    ],
    "Meaning": "There's a bad person in any group.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "8640",
    "Idiom": [
      "there's always a bigger fish"
    ],
    "Meaning": "No matter how big something is, there is likely something bigger.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "8641",
    "Idiom": [
      "there's many a good tune played on an old fiddle"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Age does not determine usefulness or value.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "8642",
    "Idiom": [
      "there's many a slip twixt cup and lip",
      "there's many a slip between the cup and the lip",
      "there's many a slip twixt the cup and the lip"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Things can go wrong in any well-planned situation.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Many thynges fall betwene the cuppe and the mouth.",
      "Multa cadunt inter calicem supremaque labra. There is many a slip between the cup and the lip.",
      "He forgot the old adage— / “ There's many a slip / ’Twixt the cup and lip;” / and fancied himself so secure of the hand of Bertha, that after her declaration of the abhorrence in which she held her cousin, he gaily quaffed a cup of wine to his health, and actually made some approaches to intimacy, by drawing his settle nearer to him.",
      "That \" there is many a slip between the cup and the lip \" is a proverb somewhat musty; but it pithily indicates the sudden mutations to which poor humanity is liable.",
      "We sent and purchased bread and meat, but the eyes of Argus were necessary to prevent too frequent verification of the proverb, \" many a slip 'twixt cup and lip.\" Even after our bit of meat was in the pot with the rice and we were superintending its cooking, some dexterous Chinese thief would whip it out with his chopsticks, if our eye strayed from it one moment.",
      "Peter took occasion, from the horse casting its shoe, to make a few apropos moral observations, in the manner of the Rev. Mr Wiggie, on the uncertainties which it is every man's lot to encounter in the weariful pilgrimage of human life. \" There is many a slip 'tween the cup and the lip,\" said Peter.",
      "There's many a slip between the cup and the lip ! Who knows what may happen, Mr. Huxter, or who will sit in Parliament for Clavering next session?",
      "She had heard of girls who would not speak of their love, arguing to themselves cannily that there may be many a slip between the cup and the lip.",
      "And now Robin's heart began to laugh aloud, for he thought that his danger had gone by, and that his nostrils would soon snuff the spicy air of the woodlands once again. But there is many a slip betwixt the cup and the lip, and this Robin was to find.",
      "Losing no time in London I reached Birmingham on the evening of Sunday the 5th, and found my friend Hall quite sure of my election by the governors of the school on the recommendation of his friend Jeune. But then began a whole series of slips between the cup and lip ! A part of the board wished, on financial grounds, to defer the election of a new master for a while.",
      "With the blessings of my elders, I started for Bombay. This was my first journey from Rajkot to Bombay. My brother accompanied me. But there is many a slip 'twixt the cup and the lip. There were difficulties to be faced in Bombay.",
      "Multa cadunt inter calicem supremaque labra. There is many a slip between the cup and the lip.",
      "That \" there is many a slip between the cup and the lip \" is a proverb somewhat musty; but it pithily indicates the sudden mutations to which poor humanity is liable.",
      "There's many a slip between the cup and the lip ! Who knows what may happen, Mr. Huxter, or who will sit in Parliament for Clavering next session?"
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "8643",
    "Idiom": [
      "there's no I in team"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Teamwork prioritizes the group over individuals.",
    "Sentence": [
      "As Mr. Sloan always says, there is no \"I\" in \"team\", but there is an \"I\" in \"pie\". And there's an \"I\" in \"meat pie\". Anagram of \"meat\" is \"team\"… I don't know what he's talking about."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "8644",
    "Idiom": [
      "there's no accounting for taste"
    ],
    "Meaning": "People have different opinions on taste.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "8645-1",
    "Idiom": [
      "there's no business like show business"
    ],
    "Meaning": "The entertainment industry is more dazzling and exciting than any other business.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "8645-2",
    "Idiom": [
      "there's no business like show business"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Despite challenges, one must continue pursuing their endeavors.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "8646",
    "Idiom": [
      "there's no fool like an old fool"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Foolishness is more obvious and shameful in those who do not gain wisdom with age.",
    "Sentence": [
      "You're an old woman, Emily, and there's no fool like an old fool. The man's twenty years younger than you, and don't you fool yourself as to what he married you for. Money!"
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "8647",
    "Idiom": [
      "there's no place like home"
    ],
    "Meaning": "One feels most comfortable at home.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Be it ever so humble, there's no place like home."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "8648",
    "Idiom": [
      "there's no smoke without fire",
      "no smoke without fire"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Gossip often has some truth to it.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "8649",
    "Idiom": [
      "there's no time like the present"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Now is the best time to take action.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "8650",
    "Idiom": [
      "there's no use crying over spilt milk",
      "there's no point crying over spilt milk"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Don't be upset over what can't be changed.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "8651",
    "Idiom": [
      "there's nowt so queer as folk"
    ],
    "Meaning": "People can behave very oddly.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Well (shakes her head with a little smile as she goes on knitting)— there's nowt so queer as folk ! (Shakes her head again.)",
      "'Theer's Miss So-and-so bin doon here and gaan on ivver so and glen me sic a blackin' as never was, becos I telt her I cudn't git her intil t' auld grund noa-ways, and I telt her she mud just lig in t' new grund and mud be weel content, an aw, for it was a deal sweeter.' 'And,' added old Joe, ' theer's nowt so queer as folk, specially wick uns.'",
      "Long ago Aristotle said that you cannot expect to find the same accuracy in all thought as in mathematics—you can only get it as far as the nature of the subject allows. The human factor has to be reckoned with and, as they say in Yorkshire: \" There's nowt so queer as folk.\"",
      "The really remarkable thing about ALBION is the amazing number of people it continues to hoodwink. Nearly 100 subscribers now, all persisting in sending their cash to the Editorial Permanence In Drunkenness Fund. A growth-rate of approximately one new subscriber per week! How you can all tolerate this I cannot understand; however, as they say across the frontier into Yorkshire - ' There's nowt so queer as folk' (being married to a Yorkshirewoman, I subscribe whole-heartedly to this view)"
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "8652",
    "Idiom": [
      "they hate us 'cause they ain't us"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Jealousy leads to dislike.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "8653-1",
    "Idiom": [
      "they'll do it every time"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Be aware of recurring challenges or dangers.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "8653-2",
    "Idiom": [
      "they'll do it every time"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Affirms a stereotype about behavior.",
    "Sentence": [
      "That's women for you. If you don't cry they'll talk and if you cry they'll talk. They'll do it ever time, and New York women's no different from Holden."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "8654",
    "Idiom": [
      "thick and thin"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Both good and bad times.",
    "Sentence": [
      "As Joan of France, or English Mall, / Through perils both of Wind and Limb, / Through thick and thin she follow'd him, / In ev'ry Adventure h' undertook, / And never him, or it forsook.",
      "I must follow him through thick and thin.",
      "He became the panegyrist, through thick and thin, of a military frenzy.",
      "They say that when the chips are down, girl Your love won't stay so long, my friend But they don't know that your sweet loving, babe Has been around through thick and thin"
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "8655",
    "Idiom": [
      "thick and threefold"
    ],
    "Meaning": "In quick succession or great numbers.",
    "Sentence": [
      "They came thick and threefold for a time, as she expected they should, till at last, one experienc'd stager that had baffled twenty traps and tricks before, discover'd the plot, and quite spoyl'd the jest."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "8656",
    "Idiom": [
      "thick as thieves"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Close-knit and intimate.",
    "Sentence": [
      "So the king sneaked into the wigwam and took to his bottle for comfort, and before long the duke tackled HIS bottle; and so in about a half an hour they was as thick as thieves again, and the tighter they got the lovinger they got, and went off a-snoring in each other's arms.",
      "He and Victoria were as thick as thieves, and are about equal in wickedness.",
      "President Bush may think he's as thick as thieves with his pal Vladimir Putin, but hopefully someone at the White House is reading the English edition of Pravda."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "8657",
    "Idiom": [
      "thick of things"
    ],
    "Meaning": "A central or major role in a situation.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Christ calls for large ideas, bold enterprise, heavy undertakings, brave adventure, and heroic plunging into the thick of things.",
      "Second base is a pleasurable post for the reason that the man covering it is in the thick of things at all times.",
      "During the coup he also kept his distance from the thick of things."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "8658",
    "Idiom": [
      "thick skin"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Ability to take criticism without being easily offended.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "8659",
    "Idiom": [
      "thief in the night"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Something stealthy or sudden.",
    "Sentence": [
      "For yourselves know perfectly that the day of the Lord so cometh as a thief in the night."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "8660",
    "Idiom": [
      "thigh-slapper"
    ],
    "Meaning": "A particularly humorous joke.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Not exactly a thigh-slapper, but not terrible for a psychiatrist joke either.",
      "\"There's a lot of USO girls in Hollywood,\" Hope mused on his World War II tours. \"USO - Use Slacks Only.\" Ho ho ho. Women wearing pants. Real thigh-slapper."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "8661",
    "Idiom": [
      "thin air"
    ],
    "Meaning": "An unknown location.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "8662",
    "Idiom": [
      "thin end of the wedge"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Leads to systematic encroachment if accepted even slightly.",
    "Sentence": [
      "This is known as the ' thin end of the wedge' argument raised by people who don't want to lose the protection of restrictive covenants. The ' thin end of the wedge' means that when you drive a wedge into something, you use the thin end first because it's easier than using the thick end.",
      "The MP told parliament that legalising cannabis would be the thin end of the wedge."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "8663",
    "Idiom": [
      "thin the herd"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To reduce the size of a group.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Early on, if we came into a pot we came in for about three times the big blind because we generally wanted to thin the herd. Now we don't have to worry about that so much, for the herd will thin itself. It's smaller to begin with, since three or four players are gone, plus we're starting to get within sniffing distance of the money, so our foes will naturally start to tighten up.",
      "“If we have a chance, catch one of them out alone, we'll take it, thin the herd a little.” Harv snorted. “Herd? A cripple, a woman, and a coward. No herd to thin there. I'd like to keep that woman alive for a while, though.",
      "Unless China could successfully neutralise Taiwan's ability to ' thin the herd ' by taking out its air bases, its fixed and mobile land-based missile launchers (such as RBS-17 coastal-defence missiles mounted on trucks), its missile-armed Apache helicopters and its swarming fast-attack ships, its invasion will be in trouble."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "8664",
    "Idiom": [
      "thin-skinned"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Overly sensitive to criticism.",
    "Sentence": [
      "She's rather thin-skinned when it comes to comments about her work."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "8665",
    "Idiom": [
      "thing of the past"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Something that is obsolete or no longer exists.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "8666",
    "Idiom": [
      "think aloud"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To express one's thoughts verbally.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "8667",
    "Idiom": [
      "think back"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To recall a past time or experience.",
    "Sentence": [
      "When I think back on those times we shared together, I can't help but feel a little sad.",
      "Think back to a time when you were happy."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "8668",
    "Idiom": [
      "think of England"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Endure a situation without enjoyment.",
    "Sentence": [
      "He inspected the ridged tips, spotted a piece of dirt, and spat on the instrument, wiping it dry on his sleeve. ‘Right! Hold still, think of England !’ He pushed the forceps into the wound, following the track of the probe,",
      "A strange white-faced man with wild eyes, toupee at a rakish tilt, twisted by cramp, armed with a Lee Enfield. I sloped arms stiffly and marched out of his life; shouting as I left, ‘Don't do it, whatever it is! Lie down, and think of England !’",
      "Do I have to have sex? All right, I'll do it for Britain. I'll think of England.",
      "But Robert had been cheeriness itself, had told them to buck up and think of England, reminding them that moaning wasn’t going to beat the Jerries."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "8669",
    "Idiom": [
      "think on one's feet"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To adjust rapidly and effectively to changing circumstances.",
    "Sentence": [
      "\"There will be wine,\" said Medora. \"Drink it. There may be toasts. Be ready to respond.\" Abner could think on his feet —speech would not fail.",
      "The political canvass had given freedom to his wings; he had learned to think on his feet, to meet interruption, to parry in debate.",
      "Clemens had to think on his feet, adjust on the run, make split-second decisions and, if he messed up, contend with the consequences."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "8670",
    "Idiom": [
      "think one hung the moon",
      "think one is god's own cousin"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To consider someone extraordinary or exceptional.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "8671",
    "Idiom": [
      "think out loud"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To voice one's ideas.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "8672",
    "Idiom": [
      "think over"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To ponder or reflect.",
    "Sentence": [
      "When he has time to think over what he did, he will regret it.",
      "Go home, think it over and tell me your decision on Monday."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "8673-1",
    "Idiom": [
      "think tank"
    ],
    "Meaning": "A group that conducts research and develops recommendations on strategic planning or public policy.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Why don't we take a leaf out of the government's book and have a think tank ?",
      "As 1965 drew to a close a secret research project for the United States Department of Defense was concluded by a ‘ think-tank ’ of seven psychologists at the American Institute for Research, in the Maryland woods outside Washington, DC."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "8673-2",
    "Idiom": [
      "think tank"
    ],
    "Meaning": "A group producing research and recommendations.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "8674",
    "Idiom": [
      "think the world of"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To have a very high opinion of someone or something.",
    "Sentence": [
      "\"I was so pleased I wanted to cry, for the children do love me, and run to me for everything now, and think the world of Sister.\"",
      "Those little souvenir spoons she sent up with the chocolate yesterday are perfect darlings. I think the world of mine.",
      "I used to think the world of you, but I hate you for what you said,\" declared Lilian Bono, 76.",
      "When I was young, I thought the world of you / You were all that I wanted then"
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "8675",
    "Idiom": [
      "think twice"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To reconsider or proceed with caution.",
    "Sentence": [
      "When your rooster crows at the break o' dawn Look out your windo' and I'll be gone You're the reason I'm a travelin' on But don't think twice, it's all right.",
      "Think twice before you go, since it could be dangerous."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "8676",
    "Idiom": [
      "think up"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To invent or create.",
    "Sentence": [
      "I can think up plenty of excuses not to go, but we really should attend."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "8677",
    "Idiom": [
      "think with one's little head"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Acting on sexual impulses instead of clear reasoning.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Obsessed with Heidi's cleavage, the pervert within may start thinking with his little head instead of his big one.",
      "All Theo could think about were all the places on her body he wanted to put his mouth. He was definitely, as Zeke was prone to say, thinking with his little head and not his big one.",
      "It's fair to say that now-disgraced former foreign affairs minister Maxime Bernier was thinking with his little head —as well as his fat one."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "8678",
    "Idiom": [
      "third hand"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Not new, previously owned.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "8679",
    "Idiom": [
      "third string"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Of lower quality or condition.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "8680",
    "Idiom": [
      "third time pays for all",
      "three times a charm",
      "third time's the charm",
      "third time's a charm"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Success is likely on the third try.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "8681-1",
    "Idiom": [
      "third wheel"
    ],
    "Meaning": "An individual that feels unnecessary in a situation.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "8681-2",
    "Idiom": [
      "third wheel"
    ],
    "Meaning": "A third, often unwanted, person accompanying a couple.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "8682",
    "Idiom": [
      "third-rate"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Of poor quality; inferior.",
    "Sentence": [
      "I consider it to now be a third-rate service run without any excuses being offered."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "8683",
    "Idiom": [
      "this is where we came in"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Describes a repetitive situation.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Joe hit Paul, so Paul hit Joe, so Joe hit Paul, so Paul hit Joe, and this is where we came in."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "8684",
    "Idiom": [
      "this minute"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Right now, immediately.",
    "Sentence": [
      "'Sir, I know what to do,' retorted Mrs Pipchin, 'and of course shall do it. Susan Nipper,' snapping her up particularly short, 'a month's warning from this hour.' 'Oh indeed!' cried Susan, loftily. 'Yes,' returned Mrs Pipchin, 'and don't smile at me, you minx, or I'll know the reason why! Go along with you this minute !'"
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "8685",
    "Idiom": [
      "this too shall pass",
      "this too shall pass away"
    ],
    "Meaning": "All circumstances are temporary.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "8686",
    "Idiom": [
      "thorn in someone's side"
    ],
    "Meaning": "A persistent annoyance.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Wait. Let this moment be remembered. For on this day, we three -- Kor, Dahar Master of the Klingons, Jadzia Dax, a joined Trill of seven lives, and Worf, son of Mogh and thorn in Gowron's side -- together stepped forth into the eye of destiny.",
      "All the billions in the world and Manchester City still cannot rid themselves of the most persistent thorn in their side.",
      "Up until now, Torres has been best known through their trenchant pieces for magazines such as Salon, aeon and Foreign Policy as a thorn in the side of the longtermist movement."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "8687",
    "Idiom": [
      "thorn in the flesh"
    ],
    "Meaning": "A persistent difficulty or annoyance.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Whereas the growth of new middle and upper classes remains a thorn in the flesh to the Communist Party, the military element is inclined to favor this development, in the belief that those who have something at stake are more likely to fight to defend the system in the event of another conflict.",
      "Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, the post of the Executive Director of the Kenya Roads Board has been a thorn in the flesh of the Minister.",
      "Even individual castles could be a thorn in the flesh of a powerful kingdom."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "8688",
    "Idiom": [
      "those who can't do, teach"
    ],
    "Meaning": "It suggests that teaching is often seen as a less skilled or easier job than doing the actual work.",
    "Sentence": [
      "If those who can't do, teach — then what will those who can't teach, do?",
      "Now, there is an unkind saying in education that “those who can, 'do'; those who can't 'do', teach; those who can't teach, teach others to teach; while those who can't teach others to teach become either education administrators or researchers”.",
      "They say, “ Those who can't do, teach.” Don't you believe it. Those who teach show those who can't how to."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "8689",
    "Idiom": [
      "those who say it cannot be done should not interrupt those doing it"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Disbelievers should not hinder those trying to achieve something.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "8690",
    "Idiom": [
      "those who will not when they may, when they will they shall have nay"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Take immediate advantage of opportunities.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "8691",
    "Idiom": [
      "though but"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Adds emphasis at the end of a sentence.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Terry: I shall sleep well tonight, though but."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "8692",
    "Idiom": [
      "thought bubble"
    ],
    "Meaning": "An ill-conceived idea.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "8693",
    "Idiom": [
      "thousand pardons"
    ],
    "Meaning": "A polite request for forgiveness.",
    "Sentence": [
      "His figure was bent in apologetic protest. \"I ask a thousand pardons, sir,\" he said; \"I am really so very absent-minded.\""
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "8694",
    "Idiom": [
      "thrash out"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To fully discuss and resolve a problem or conflict.",
    "Sentence": [
      "It's important to understand that all lesbians of color do not feel the same way on all issues. Thrashing things out is not divisive. It's respectful.",
      "They spent an afternoon on it, but thrashed out a solution in the end."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "8695",
    "Idiom": [
      "thread the needle"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To find harmony between conflicting interests.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Were I writing for the Court, I would seek to thread the needle between acknowledging Principal Morse's authority, on the one hand, while respecting student Frederick's rights, on the other.",
      "It was likely any resolution was going to seem like an anti-climax, and I thought this reveal threaded the needle quite well."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "8696",
    "Idiom": [
      "three guys in a garage"
    ],
    "Meaning": "A small group of innovative entrepreneurs.",
    "Sentence": [
      "\"By next year, three guys in a garage will be able to build a Layer 3 terabit backbone router by buying merchant silicon and writing software, and the box will be as fast and as cheap as an ASIC-based product,\" says David Husack"
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "8697",
    "Idiom": [
      "three score and ten"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Seventy years, typically a full lifetime.",
    "Sentence": [
      "\"Why, a man with any feeling ought to be ashamed of being eighty, let alone more. Where’s his religion, I should like to know, when he goes flying in the face of the Bible like that? Threescore-and-ten ’s the mark, and no man with a conscience, and a proper sense of what’s expected of him, has any business to live longer.\"",
      "As for old Capt. Hugh Roger, three-score-and-ten had exhausted his fluids, pretty much; but he shook me heartily by the hand.",
      "Frank: And he won't die until he's three score and ten : he hasn't originality enough.",
      "\"He had over-stayed his three-score and ten years by something like twenty years. He must have been ninety!\"",
      "If ever a U.S. horse attains the immortality of Bellerophon's Pegasus or Don Quixote's Rosinante, surely it will be Samuel D. Riddle's Man o' War. This Sunday, at Faraway Farm in Lexington, Ky., \"Big Red\" reaches the grand old age of 25—an age comparable to three-score and ten for a man.",
      "In a nutshell, my philosophy is this: You only get three score and ten so make the most of it."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "8698",
    "Idiom": [
      "three sheets to the wind"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Unsteady from drink.",
    "Sentence": [
      "That late in the evening, he was three sheets to the wind and had long since stopped making sense."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "8699",
    "Idiom": [
      "three skips of a louse"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Trifling or insignificant matter.",
    "Sentence": [
      "’Tis not that I value the money three skips of a louse : But the thing I stand upon is the credit of the house."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "8700",
    "Idiom": [
      "three squares"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Three meals a day.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Out there in Breughel, N.D., surrounded by an ocean of durum wheat, we got three squares a day, piled our plates and cried Yes! to seconds.",
      "\"We have a more than 50 per cent market share in the US and there is room to grow, especially internationally,\" said Frito-Lay Vice President, Lynn Markley. \"People are beginning to snack more instead of having their old three squares a day.\"",
      "Kay, 79, who lives in Philadelphia's Society Hill Towers, has completely forsaken the conventional three squares a day. Instead, he eats 15 to 20 times a day, grazing and nibbling in the manner of our ancestors."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "8701",
    "Idiom": [
      "three strikes and you're out"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Three mistakes result in termination or disqualification.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "8702",
    "Idiom": [
      "three-dimensionality"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Complexity and depth of character.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Gleeson, a brilliant performer, shows us the face of evil but with the mitigating circumstances of humanity. But his three-dimensionality is jarring; at odds with the wooden movie around him.",
      "Dr. Williams... commended his \"search for some way of talking about human value, human depth and three-dimensionality, that doesn't depend on God.\"",
      "In 1968, she costarred with Clint Eastwood in the feature film Coogan's Bluff, bringing three-dimensionality to the otherwise cliched role of a hippie."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "8703",
    "Idiom": [
      "three-martini lunch"
    ],
    "Meaning": "A leisurely, tax-deductible lunch involving drinking and business discussion.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "8704",
    "Idiom": [
      "three-on-the-tree"
    ],
    "Meaning": "A three-speed manual transmission mounted on the steering column.",
    "Sentence": [
      "In driver's education, they used to teach students to drive in cars with a three-on-the-tree, but now the cars all have automatic transmission."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "8705",
    "Idiom": [
      "three-ring circus"
    ],
    "Meaning": "A disorderly or complicated situation.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Indoor track can be a three-ring circus, with so much going on in the space of a few evening hours that the fans hardly know where to look first.",
      "British television viewers had seen how proceedings in US courtrooms can almost turn into a three-ring circus during the OJ Simpson trial.",
      "The Italian Parliament has long been a three-ring circus."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "8706",
    "Idiom": [
      "thrill kill"
    ],
    "Meaning": "An act of murder for excitement.",
    "Sentence": [
      "\"It was a thrill kill. Robbery was an afterthought. This is one of the most senseless murders we've had down there in years.\"",
      "\"This essentially was a killing for no reason, a thrill kill...,\" said Attorney Donald Macomber."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "8707",
    "Idiom": [
      "thrill killer"
    ],
    "Meaning": "A murderer motivated by a desire for excitement.",
    "Sentence": [
      "New York City's teen-aged thrill killer of 1945 was Lena Theresa Nienstedt, a whisky-drinking factory girl of 16. She carried a small hatchet in her handbag.",
      "His best-known performances were two of his earliest: as a preppie thrill-killer in Hitchcock’s “Rope” in 1948, and as a tennis player wrongly suspected of murder in “Strangers on a Train” in 1951."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "8708",
    "Idiom": [
      "through the looking-glass"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Disconcertingly bizarre or surreal.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "8709",
    "Idiom": [
      "through the mill"
    ],
    "Meaning": "A period of bad treatment or ordeal.",
    "Sentence": [
      "My father found me a nuisance, and put me through the mill, and I can never forget it particularly the evenings.",
      "‘He’s been through the mill, this one,’ she said.",
      "put through the mill"
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "8710",
    "Idiom": [
      "through the roof"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Having risen to a very high level.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Soybean meal prices have gone through the roof — they're over $100 a ton, back to war-time levels — because of heavy exports and a short 1953 crop.",
      "With 16 minutes left on the clock and the tension climbing through the roof, Trinh-Duc tried his luck with a penalty from just inside halfway only to push it wide, but the unthinkable now seemed a real possibility.",
      "His heartbeat increased in intensity, his hormones went through the roof, and his mind became woozy.",
      "That computer was high priced, and the interest was through the roof, but we got it!",
      "My numbers were through the roof, and I was beating records held by some of the most successful cyclists.",
      "I looked in some estate agents' today – the prices are through the roof.",
      "Fuel prices have gone through the roof since last fall.",
      "When I found out fuel prices are through the roof this winter, I hit the roof."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "8711",
    "Idiom": [
      "through thick and thin"
    ],
    "Meaning": "In all conditions, especially difficult ones.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "8712",
    "Idiom": [
      "throw a bone to"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To provide limited support or assistance.",
    "Sentence": [
      "There was considerable uneasiness in the bosoms of others of the Directors. They knew that Lord Alfred had sold shares, and had received the profit. And if there was so much cause to fear Lord Alfred that it was necessary to throw him a bone, why should not they also make themselves feared?",
      "The union \"regretted that the President thought it necessary to throw a bone to the anti-labor bloc\" by saying the act would prevent strikes.",
      "Throwing a bone to the banks, it will allow a 4% increase in overseas loans next year.",
      "The Dallas Cowboys yesterday gave a starting job to Alexander Wright, in effect throwing him a bone.",
      "Can you remind me what I pay you people for? Honestly, throw me a bone here. What do we have?",
      "And he did it on the day the Senate threw a bone to President Bush's evangelical base by voting on a Constitutional amendment declaring that only a union of a man and a woman constitutes marriage."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "8713",
    "Idiom": [
      "throw a fit"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To become angry or upset with an outburst.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Something about the wrinkle in your forehead tells me there's a fit about to get thrown.",
      "I'd love to stay later, but my mother will throw a fit if I'm not home by 10.",
      "He will throw a fit if his car breaks down."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "8714",
    "Idiom": [
      "throw a kiss"
    ],
    "Meaning": "A gesture of sending a kiss towards someone.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "8715",
    "Idiom": [
      "throw a spanner in the works"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To introduce a problem or obstacle.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Halfway through the production of Macbeth, the director found that the stage was smaller than he had expected. This really threw a spanner in the works."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "8716",
    "Idiom": [
      "throw a sprat to catch a mackerel"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To sacrifice something small for a bigger gain.",
    "Sentence": [
      "It is pertinent to remember that in 1892, the M.S.W.J.R. had secured from the L.S.W.R. running powers between Andover and Southampton Dock, so no doubt the \"Solent Scheme\" should properly be regarded as a sprat set (successfully) to catch a mackerel."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "8717",
    "Idiom": [
      "throw a tantrum",
      "have a tantrum"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To display a fit of childish anger.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "8718",
    "Idiom": [
      "throw a wobbly"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To throw a tantrum.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "8719",
    "Idiom": [
      "throw a wrench in"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To introduce a problem or obstacle.",
    "Sentence": [
      "The pandemic is also weighing on preparations, with election administrations hyperaware that Covid cases could throw a wrench in their plans at the last minute."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "8720",
    "Idiom": [
      "throw an ant into a sty"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Causes confusion.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "8721",
    "Idiom": [
      "throw an eye"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To glance.",
    "Sentence": [
      "He threw an odd eye at the same time now and then at Stephen's anything but immaculately attired interlocutor as if he had seen that nobleman somewhere or other though where he was not in a position to truthfully state nor had he the remotest idea when."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "8722-1",
    "Idiom": [
      "throw away"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To waste.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Mama, life has just begun. / But now I've gone and thrown it all away.",
      "Chelsea threw away two points when substitute Salomon Kalou gifted Valencia a penalty five minutes from time with a needless handball.",
      "Voting for a third-party candidate sometimes feels like throwing your vote away.",
      "The team threw away its chance at the semifinals."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "8722-2",
    "Idiom": [
      "throw away"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To give lightly or casually.",
    "Sentence": [
      "As Gilly plays sitcom wife, reading aloud from a book while Sam tries to read his own across the table, she throws away a line about someone named Maynard once having annulled the marriage of someone named Prince Raggar and remarrying him in the same ceremony in Dorne."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "8723",
    "Idiom": [
      "throw away the key"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To never release someone.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Let's get these men together in a room and I would suggest feed them bread and water and throw away the key until they come together"
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "8724",
    "Idiom": [
      "throw caution to the wind"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To act without regard for risks.",
    "Sentence": [
      "I couldn't bear to let you go yet So I threw caution to the wind And started listening to my longing heart And then you softly pressed your lips to mine And feelings surfaced I'd suppressed For such a long time."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "8725",
    "Idiom": [
      "throw cold water on",
      "pour cold water on"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To belittle, dismiss, or cast doubt upon.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Oh! no; there would be a Mrs. Knightley to throw cold water on every thing.—Extremely disagreeable!",
      "\"Now, Peleg, don't throw cold water on my enthusiasm,\" said Tom reproachfully.",
      "Sports economists tend to throw cold water on such studies, saying they often rely on unreliable or exaggerated data.",
      "Leaked documents from TfL poured cold water over the prospect of driverless trains. They concluded there was no financial case because because of the very high up-front infrastructure costs.",
      "However, a national security council official poured cold water on the suggestion there would be US “boots on the ground” in Haiti, telling the Washington-based agency: “The United States is not sending US troops to Haiti to support the Haitian national police’s security operations.”"
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "8726",
    "Idiom": [
      "throw dirt enough, and some will stick"
    ],
    "Meaning": "If enough allegations are made, people's opinion will be affected, regardless of their truth.",
    "Sentence": [
      "I hope...that you are ignorant of the whole affair, and are so bold only because you are blind...And blind enough; so that you blunder on through thick and thin, bespattering all that come in your way, according to the old, laudable maxim, ' Throw dirt enough, and some will stick.'",
      "But whatever harm a spiteful tongue could do them, he took care should be done. Only throw dirt enough, and some will stick.",
      "Archbishop Whately used to say ‘ Throw dirt enough, and some will stick;' well, will stick, but not, will stain. I think he used to mean ‘stain,' and I do not agree with him."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "8727-1",
    "Idiom": [
      "throw down"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To perform something admirably or forcefully.",
    "Sentence": [
      "...this guide tracks the artists and recordings that throw down the funk!",
      "“Punch up the rhymes. Throw down some beats. Show off that body. You'll be unstoppable.”"
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "8727-2",
    "Idiom": [
      "throw down"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To accomplish or produce something successfully.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Yeah, they could literally throw down. When their sound came out, it was earth-shaking.",
      "“You're performing for the who's who of radio and records at the Soul Train Awards tonight and you've got to throw down ”."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "8727-3",
    "Idiom": [
      "throw down"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To drink a large amount quickly.",
    "Sentence": [
      "\"We need to finish these five pitchers in half an hour, so throw down as fast as you can!\""
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "8727-4",
    "Idiom": [
      "throw down"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To fight or confront.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Let's you and me 'throw down' right here, right now!",
      "When someone near me at a show called the band My Boring Racket, I was ready to throw down, but for the good sense of an accompanying female...",
      "Today's young and hip black male who fancies himself a radical, who is ready to throw down for the cause, is not talking about neo-colonialism, about global struggle.",
      "She said no words and was the first to throw down. She stepped up to Dee, and pow!",
      "The time has come. I'm ready to take action. I wanna kick ass and take names later. I wanna throw down, baby boy and baby girl."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "8727-5",
    "Idiom": [
      "throw down"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To contribute to a group effort.",
    "Sentence": [
      "\"We're goin' in on a pizza; you in?\" \"Yeah, I'll throw down.\""
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "8728",
    "Idiom": [
      "throw down the gauntlet"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To issue a challenge.",
    "Sentence": [
      "We might as well dispute with Dimock on a Coronation Day, as argue with these Writers. They strut, vapour, throw down the Gauntlet, and defy us to take it up."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "8729",
    "Idiom": [
      "throw dust in someone's eyes"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To delude or deceive someone.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "8730-1",
    "Idiom": [
      "throw enough mud at the wall and some of it will stick"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Try often enough, and some attempts will succeed.",
    "Sentence": [
      "In terms of places to send your URL or CD's, there's no easy answer. It really is a case of throw enough mud at the wall and some of it will stick.",
      "I also think that sometimes they send out phishing e-mails in the hope that it`ll hit people who do have an account with a particular organization. You know, throw enough mud at the wall and some of it will stick theory.",
      "Throw enough mud at the wall and some of it will stick. Be prolific and don't be afraid to make stuff that's rubbish. If you keep trying eventually you'll get there.",
      "Believe the planners worked on the principle of \" throw enough mud at the wall, and some of it will stick \"."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "8730-2",
    "Idiom": [
      "throw enough mud at the wall and some of it will stick"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Making enough accusations can damage someone's reputation, regardless of their truth.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Word of advice NVUS time to distance yourself from LuukH as quickly as possible and dish some dirt, otherwise well the saying goes - throw enough mud at the wall and some of it will stick."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "8731-1",
    "Idiom": [
      "throw enough mud at the wall, some of it will stick"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Attempting often may lead to occasional success, even with a poor standard.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Many team managers are of the philosophy that if you throw enough mud at the wall some of it will stick. They believe that team preparation is all about physical fitness. They run the players into the ground and they believe they will be \"flying on the day\".",
      "Australian publishing boomed and in the past 10 years the country's literary culture has undergone a mini golden age, capped by Carey's triumph at the 2001 Booker Prize. As one Australian arts administrator said to me many years ago: 'Listen, mate, if you throw enough mud at the wall, some of it will stick.'",
      "I am finding that \" if you throw enough mud at the wall, some of it will stick \". It doesn't always work of course (especially on the nights when the class is mostly the beginners), but the class seems to thrive on the challange.",
      "Prosecutors everywhere have bad habits of overcharging lots of cases, knowing that if the throw enough mud at the wall some of it will stick.",
      "As long as there is negligible regulation and enforcement anyone can actually try and do the job...Weak regulation allows the industry to build strategies on full time recruitment. The theory goes: throw enough mud at the wall, some of it will stick.",
      "They have the money to continue to believe in the repetition side of the equation. You throw enough mud at the wall, some of it will stick. But it still isn’t the way to maximize your return.",
      "Dancing dollar bill syndrome, where candidates are picked up and dropped like hot potatoes, and sold into interviews, is common. If you throw enough mud at the wall, some of it will stick, and this is the approach of many recruitment agencies.",
      "I admire your perseverance. If you throw enough mud at the wall, some of it will stick eventually, paddling would sound more fun than throwing mud, however...anyway all the best.",
      "There used to be a saying that if you throw enough mud at the wall some of it will stick. Be enthusiastic and you will always sell."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "8731-2",
    "Idiom": [
      "throw enough mud at the wall, some of it will stick"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Making enough accusations can damage a reputation, regardless of their truth.",
    "Sentence": [
      "They go on and on about the CPP increase being a tax. If we throw enough mud at the wall some of it will stick....How can they unfavourably compare that to 9% plus is beyond my comprehension.",
      "The Clinton years proved that if you throw enough mud at the wall, some of it will stick.",
      "It doesn’t matter that the bulk of the charges are distortions of what is real. If you throw enough mud at the wall some of it will stick.",
      "Perhaps If you stuff both of them into a sack and beat on it, you'll always hit the right one! is a bit like our \" If you throw enough mud at the wall, some of it will stick.\" If you attack something enough, then something is bound to take effect (although the mud and the wall one is generally about a person's reputation)."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "8732",
    "Idiom": [
      "throw good money after bad"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To waste money in a fruitless attempt to recover losses.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "8733",
    "Idiom": [
      "throw in"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To quit or give up.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "8734",
    "Idiom": [
      "throw in at the deep end"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Introduce someone to a new situation without preparation.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "8735",
    "Idiom": [
      "throw in the towel"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To quit or give up.",
    "Sentence": [
      "In short, there was so much space and so many things to shove things behind that most people, called on to find a silver cow-creamer there, would have said “Oh, what's the use?” and thrown in the towel.",
      "One key imponderable is the attitude of the companies that will no longer have a role in the business. It is worth noting here that several have already thrown the towel in or been gently pushed out, such as Stagecoach and National Express.",
      "If their restaurant can't get business even on Mother's Day, it might be time for them to throw in the towel."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "8736",
    "Idiom": [
      "throw in with"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To partner with.",
    "Sentence": [
      "These so-called lesbians throw in with those het womyn who oppress other lesbians, and enhance the myths and stereotypes of lesbianism in the most abusive ways."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "8737",
    "Idiom": [
      "throw money away"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To waste money.",
    "Sentence": [
      "The young boy liked to throw money away at the video arcade and candy store."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "8738-1",
    "Idiom": [
      "throw off"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To confuse or mislead.",
    "Sentence": [
      "\"Then,\" said the tinker, \"maybe the thing for us to do would be to go by queer ways, by bohereens and the like of that, and for us to get of the straight road to Rathmoon, the way that no-one will find us except the tinkers, for we can't throw off them.\"",
      "\"Well,\" he said as they reached the livery, \"we could go north or throw them off our trail. That would add a day to our trip, though.\"",
      "I never saw her without glasses before, so it threw me off when she got contact lenses."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "8738-2",
    "Idiom": [
      "throw off"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To introduce errors or inaccuracies.",
    "Sentence": [
      "“Varying the speeds of your pitches to throw off the timing of the hitter is much more important than it used to be,” Yankees righthander David Cone says.",
      "Too much activity one day can throw off my blood sugar as much as if I am not active the next.",
      "The dirt in the apparatus threw off the results."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "8739",
    "Idiom": [
      "throw off balance"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To unsettle or surprise.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "8740",
    "Idiom": [
      "throw off the trail"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To misguide.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "8741",
    "Idiom": [
      "throw one's cap over the windmill"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To act in a bizarre or eccentric manner.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "8742",
    "Idiom": [
      "throw one's hat in the ring"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To announce candidacy in a contest.",
    "Sentence": [
      "At that time her chances had been excellent. But then two other people had thrown their hats in the ring, Joan Voller and Sidney Hamilton, and both of them were colleagues on State Executive."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "8743",
    "Idiom": [
      "throw one's hat over the fence"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To commit fully.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "8744",
    "Idiom": [
      "throw one's hat over the wall"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To commit fully.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "8745",
    "Idiom": [
      "throw one's hotdog down someone's hallway"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To have sex with a woman who is considered loose.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Fani Willis has finally admitted to allegations that she's been letting Nathan Wade throw his hotdog down her hallway."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "8746",
    "Idiom": [
      "throw one's toys out of the pram"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To lose one's temper.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "8747",
    "Idiom": [
      "throw one's voice"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To make one's voice seem to come from another location.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "8748",
    "Idiom": [
      "throw one's weight around"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To exercise influence or authority excessively or objectionably.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Jim was a tyrant who threw his weight around when it came to punishing his students."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "8749",
    "Idiom": [
      "throw one's weight behind"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To support or endorse using influence.",
    "Sentence": [
      "They know which candidate to throw their weight behind, even on foreign soil, and they are very good in using their mosque pulpits as campaign mouthpieces"
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "8750-1",
    "Idiom": [
      "throw out"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To discard or throw away.",
    "Sentence": [
      "I picked up Eminem and I liked it. He pretty much threw out today's standardized thug/club/dance and stack paper philosophy that a jabillion other rappers have already adapted.",
      "The episode also opens with an inspired bit of business for Homer, who blithely refuses to acquiesce to an elderly neighbor’s utterly reasonable request that he help make the process of selling her house easier by wearing pants when he gallivants about in front of windows, throw out his impressive collection of rotting Jack-O-Lanterns from previous Halloweens and take out his garbage, as it’s attracting wildlife (cue moose and Northern Exposure theme song).",
      "Just throw that pen out if it doesn't write anymore.",
      "They decided to throw out the idea because it would have been too expensive."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "8750-2",
    "Idiom": [
      "throw out"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To dismiss or expel someone.",
    "Sentence": [
      "The board threw the man out, because he wouldn't cooperate and agree with their plans to remodernize the facility.",
      "The ushers threw the woman out of the auditorium, because she kept shouting out insults to the guest of honor when he made his speech."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "8750-3",
    "Idiom": [
      "throw out"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To offer an idea.",
    "Sentence": [
      "I throw out a challenge to the gay community to dare to walk into this dark corner and offer the light of brotherly love to help these people find themselves.",
      "Let me throw this out there – how about if we make the igloo out of butter? Would that work?"
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "8751-1",
    "Idiom": [
      "throw shapes"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To act tough or put on a false front.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "8751-2",
    "Idiom": [
      "throw shapes"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To dance.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "8752",
    "Idiom": [
      "throw spaghetti at the wall"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Make many attempts, hoping one will succeed.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "8753",
    "Idiom": [
      "throw stones"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To insult or criticize.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Chinese memes about Venom, combined with the silliness of Sony’s charm offensive and Venom’s depicted earnestness, seem to have generated huge interest in the movie from Chinese audiences. And before we throw stones at Chinese teratophilia, you have to remember that there are plenty of Americans who want to do bad things with the symbiote too."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "8754",
    "Idiom": [
      "throw stones in a glass house"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To criticize others despite having similar flaws.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "8755",
    "Idiom": [
      "throw the baby out with the bathwater"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To discard something valuable while removing something unwanted.",
    "Sentence": [
      "They cancelled the entire project because the new management didn't like the prototype, but I think they threw the baby out with the bathwater."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "8756-1",
    "Idiom": [
      "throw the book at"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To impose maximum penalties or charges.",
    "Sentence": [
      "COURT THROWS BOOK AT HIM :... Thomas Pasco, beggar, got everything the statutes would permit Judge Binkle to give him yesterday afternoon."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "8756-2",
    "Idiom": [
      "throw the book at"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To apply the harshest punishment.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Criminals... dreaded to be brought into his court, as a conviction meant a severe sentence. As one criminal expressed it to another, \" The judge throws the book at you.\"",
      "The judge, not weeping any, throws the book at him, which means he gives Bob the limit."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "8757-1",
    "Idiom": [
      "throw the bull"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To chat idly.",
    "Sentence": [
      "\"Hello, Steve. Don't let me interrupt your business conference.\" ¶ \"You're not. We were just throwing the bull. The boys are worrying about what will happen to the book business when we get in the war. Paper restrictions and the usual trade dung.\"",
      "\"Sam, I'd love to throw the bull with you, but it's getting late. I'd better hit that diner.\"",
      "Estimate the percentage of your time you spent goofing off: reading nonwork material, throwing the bull with co-workers, taking long lunch hours, flirting, etc.",
      "I lit a cigarette when we stopped outside the front doors. We threw the bull with the other cops before heading back."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "8757-2",
    "Idiom": [
      "throw the bull"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To make false claims.",
    "Sentence": [
      "\"I'm glad you look at it that way. I don't want you to think I'm just throwing the bull.\"",
      "He was urging, \"I'm cured. I saw tonight that I can't act at all. I'm just a hick. I want all you guys to forgive me for having thrown the bull about my Hollywood place — I got it, all right, but I don't believe it any more. Eva, dear, will you move over and let me sit down beside you?\"",
      "\"You mean in two weeks you're going to kill yourself?\" Hayes blurted. ¶ \"Yes, Hayes-san.\" He threw up his arms. \"It's crap, it's all crap, you understand?\" ¶ \"Yes. Crap-crap,\" Yuriko said. ¶ \"You're throwing the bull, Yuriko.\"",
      "You're not throwing pianos, you're throwing the bull, but how far will you throw your wife, that's the point. To the wolves?"
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "8757-3",
    "Idiom": [
      "throw the bull"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To speak or write in a pretentious way.",
    "Sentence": [
      "I was about to write a simple theme about this dumb question when I remembered that my literary friends were always \" throwing the bull \"—building up their sentences to sound complex and sophisticated.",
      "Once my college roommate told me I'm a tough friend to have because I'm so frank and open. Too true, I guess. I just say it like it is and don't even know how to throw the bull.",
      "Like other readers, they enjoy good reading and delight in lively, neatly phrased ideas. They abhor empty platitudes and know in an instant when a writer is \" throwing the bull.\" Pretentiousness turns them off completely."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "8758",
    "Idiom": [
      "throw things at the wall and see what sticks"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To experiment randomly to find success.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "8759-1",
    "Idiom": [
      "throw to the dogs"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To discard as useless.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Throw physic to the dogs; I'll none of it."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "8759-2",
    "Idiom": [
      "throw to the dogs"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To remove someone or something from protection.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "8759-3",
    "Idiom": [
      "throw to the dogs"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To give up something valuable.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Let's hope it will not throw \"to the dogs\" its new-found opportunity for winning back public favor and respect."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "8760",
    "Idiom": [
      "throw to the wind"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To discard or dispense with recklessly.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Proud of their accomplishment, they recently threw secrecy to the wind, opened their basement display room to visitors.",
      "There are men in the Bible whom God condemns for wasting their talent, for throwing it to the wind."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "8761-1",
    "Idiom": [
      "throw to the wolves"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To sacrifice someone for self-preservation.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "8761-2",
    "Idiom": [
      "throw to the wolves"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To abandon someone to danger or harsh conditions.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "8762",
    "Idiom": [
      "throw up one's hands"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To give up due to perceived failure.",
    "Sentence": [
      "I see it warn't a bit of use to try to go ahead—I'd got to throw up my hands. 1987 Scholastic Paperbacks ed., →ISBN, page 283",
      "I wanted to throw up my hands and say, \"Thanks. See ya.\" But I couldn't walk away.",
      "So to us, the question isn't just \"Does Vista suck?\" but \"Does Vista suck enough that businesses of any size should simply throw up their hands and migrate over to something else?\""
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "8763",
    "Idiom": [
      "throw up the sponge"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To give up or acknowledge defeat.",
    "Sentence": [
      "But he was too brave a man to throw up the sponge to fate, and had work to do yet."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "8764",
    "Idiom": [
      "throw wobblies"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To throw tantrums.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "8765",
    "Idiom": [
      "thud and blunder"
    ],
    "Meaning": "An endeavor marked by humorous mistakes.",
    "Sentence": [
      "The hard-hitting, action packed, thud and blunder adventure fantasy was a commodity during that somber decade: Americans paid money to forget their troubles, and the pulps were willing to sell.",
      "Though history could still be perilous, as the thud and blunder of Jean's own, lowercase, romance had proved.",
      "England manager Gareth Southgate will have struggled to decide whether his glass was half-full or half-empty as he reflected on a thud and blunder night against Kosovo at St Mary's"
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "8766",
    "Idiom": [
      "thumb a ride"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To hitchhike.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "8767",
    "Idiom": [
      "thumb on the scale"
    ],
    "Meaning": "An act of bias that unfairly benefits one party.",
    "Sentence": [
      "I'll try to give an impartial account without putting my thumb on the scale.",
      "Even to characterize these cases as affirmative action is misleading. What critics often present as a thumb on the scale for \"less qualified\" individuals may in fact reflect only necessary adjustments in the way the scale is calibrated.",
      "Ron Kirk, the US trade representative, accused Beijing of putting a \"giant thumb on the scale \" by restricting exports of commodities including silicon, coke and zinc, to give Chinese manufacturers an unfair advantage.",
      "\"The data show that the television campaign ads this money buys put a thumb on the scale in criminal cases, and undermine the promise of equal justice.\""
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "8768",
    "Idiom": [
      "thumb one's nose"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To act disrespectfully.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Richard Feynman delighted in thumbing his nose at the dissidents and workers."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "8769-1",
    "Idiom": [
      "thus and so"
    ],
    "Meaning": "A placeholder name.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "8769-2",
    "Idiom": [
      "thus and so"
    ],
    "Meaning": "In such a way.",
    "Sentence": [
      "He wants everything to be thus and so."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "8770",
    "Idiom": [
      "thus and such"
    ],
    "Meaning": "A generic name for something.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Anytime he said thus and such, she said the opposite."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "8771",
    "Idiom": [
      "tick all the boxes"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To fulfill all the requirements.",
    "Sentence": [
      "As a presidential candidate, Sherzai ticked all the boxes. He is Pashtun;... he has the necessary respect...; and he possesses a national reputation.",
      "But he not only ticks all the boxes mentioned by Mr. Martins — musical responsiveness, use of the ballet vocabulary, a striking sense of spatial architecture — he also shows, in this work, much more.",
      "\"If he continues ticking all the boxes and progressing and improving as he is, I don't think it will be long before he's on top.\"",
      "Assuming you have ticked all your safety boxes, financial incentives decide priorities."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "8772",
    "Idiom": [
      "tick over"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Runs smoothly and without problems.",
    "Sentence": [
      "So soon we're too old to carry We knew we only had a little while In the middle keep ticking over Before you know it, parent a parent",
      "While the boss was on holiday, the deputy made sure things were ticking over in the firm."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "8773",
    "Idiom": [
      "ticket to ride"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Enables something otherwise not possible.",
    "Sentence": [
      "The club's “partners” had made arrangements with the police, so employees were cop proof too. All this amounted to a ticket to ride for me. The party only stopped when I wanted it to.",
      "The plan was always to teach and at the college level. This required a graduate degree, the next ticket to ride.",
      "I came across Bart on a week away, whoring and drinking mostly, heard his glib stories about where he worked, and there found my opportunity. His ego was my ticket to ride."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "8774",
    "Idiom": [
      "tickle pink"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To thoroughly delight or amuse.",
    "Sentence": [
      "It tickles me pink that they chose me for the award."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "8775",
    "Idiom": [
      "tickle someone's funny bone"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To amuse someone.",
    "Sentence": [
      "I thought this cartoon might be just the sort of thing that would tickle your funny bone."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "8776-1",
    "Idiom": [
      "tickle someone's pickle"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To amuse or surprise someone.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Well, tickle my pickle and call me Uncle.",
      "If you have any hilarious dating stories, though, please do share them with me on social media, they always tickle my pickle !",
      "That story never ceases to tickle my pickle !",
      "But I like it on account of how it's like another language, like my bingo lingo or the stuff Togz comes up with. Some of the expressions really tickle my pickle, they're like shortcuts when you can nip through the park instead of having to go round the houses."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "8776-2",
    "Idiom": [
      "tickle someone's pickle"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To sexually stimulate someone.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Cole slowly put his face into the man's clothes, his own sweat plastering his hair over his brow, a few pubic hairs brushing against his nose. \"That's the way, fairy, tickle my pickle.\"",
      "Come on Daisy, don't hold out on me. If you won't tickle my pickle, someone has to.",
      "Bryan seemingly tortures Jessica, who is \"a related-multiplicity dancing in-process of assembling and de-assembling within, through, and near the multiplicity that is Reynolds\" with the reputation of Sigmund Freud \"Freud, Freud, Freud, Freud, Freud\" and announces that \"Freud famously begged, 'Please don't tickle my pickle. No pickle-tickle.\" Freud understood that too much tension and disjunction might be unpleasurable and even excruciating."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "8777-1",
    "Idiom": [
      "tickle the dragon's tail"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To take a risky action that could lead to disaster.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Climbing so close to an erupting volcano was tickling the dragon's tail."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "8777-2",
    "Idiom": [
      "tickle the dragon's tail"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To annoy an irritable person.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Don't tell him the headline's misprinted; you don't want to tickle the dragon's tail."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "8778",
    "Idiom": [
      "tickle the ear"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To flatter someone.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "8779",
    "Idiom": [
      "tickle the wire"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To encourage someone to speak in a wiretap situation.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "8780",
    "Idiom": [
      "tide over"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To support or sustain someone temporarily.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Each evening, it was true, when the flare of Fleet Street would have begun really to smoke, she had, in resistance to old habit, a little to hold herself; but for three successive days she tided over that crisis.",
      "Could you lend me ten pounds to tide me over till payday?",
      "Would a small snack tide you over until dinner?"
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "8781",
    "Idiom": [
      "tie in"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To fit in or harmonize.",
    "Sentence": [
      "\"It works out perfectly for us,\" said Phoenix during an interview with CBC News that was at times interrupted by the sound of drills and saws. \"It ties in nicely for our opening and it's just a good way to create a buzz with a new business.\"",
      "This paragraph does not tie in with the greater themes of the story."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "8782-1",
    "Idiom": [
      "tie in knots"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To put someone in a difficult situation.",
    "Sentence": [
      "That is where Cuomo ’s unravelling began, with the revelation – admitted in part by his top aide, Melissa DeRosa, to state lawmakers – that the administration suppressed the number of nursing home deaths by several thousand in order to avoid a federal inquiry. DeRosa claimed the move was made to avoid Donald Trump tying them up in knots, but it sounded suspiciously like a cover-up."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "8782-2",
    "Idiom": [
      "tie in knots"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To make (someone) upset or anxious.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "8783-1",
    "Idiom": [
      "tie in with"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To connect with or associate with.",
    "Sentence": [
      "The first thing I did, and this is even before we had a writer, I went to India by myself. Actually at the time, I tied in with 60 Minutes, who were going over. They took the adopted mother to meet the birth mother.",
      "Church spokesman Ray Bennett said 94 visitors visited the church on Tuesday - the most ever from cruise ships. \"I think that's because there was a shuttle bringing them here. We tied in with the museum for that,\" he said."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "8783-2",
    "Idiom": [
      "tie in with"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To be related or relevant to.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Although this race ties in with what I'd like to say, it's not the main reason I'm writing."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "8784",
    "Idiom": [
      "tie one on"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To drink excessively.",
    "Sentence": [
      "\"Let's tie one on !\" said Peachy gaily. \"Come on, Eve!\" Eve said she couldn't drink a thing. \"Besides, it's fattening!\"",
      "Haiti was distressed, tropical, ramshackle, overcrowded, poor and on the brink of civil war. Its ornate hotels were in a state of decay, yet there was enough alcohol available for a guest to tie one on."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "8785-1",
    "Idiom": [
      "tie oneself in knots"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To complicate one's situation.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Across the border in the Netherlands, there was further controversy when the new US ambassador, Peter Hoekstra, tied himself in knots by claiming he had never spoken about Muslim no-go zones in Europe, an obsession for the far-right, when he had."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "8785-2",
    "Idiom": [
      "tie oneself in knots"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To become anxious or upset.",
    "Sentence": [
      "The two greatest actors of their generation – the two greatest actors of most generations – Pacino and De Niro will spend the rest of eternity being compared. People will tie themselves up in knots over who did the best work, who was the best in The Godfather Part II, who won their first scene together in Heat, who was the least bad in Righteous Kill."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "8786",
    "Idiom": [
      "tie someone's hands"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To render someone powerless to act.",
    "Sentence": [
      "This contract would have tied my hands.",
      "I'd like to help you, but my hands are tied."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "8787",
    "Idiom": [
      "tie the knot"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To marry.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Rowena sacrificed her inclination to remain single, to her sense of duty; and contracted a second matrimonial engagement.... Cardinal Pandulfo tied the knot for them.",
      "After the 20-year-old mechanic tied the knot with his 18-year-old cousin, the newlyweds headed to Baghdad's Ishtar Hotel.",
      "Couples tying the knot today will enjoy a marriage lasting an average of 40 years, according to an analysis of official statistics.",
      "Congratulations to newlyweds Liam and Jennifer King, who surprised passengers at Manchester Oxford Road in late May when they boarded a Northern service to complete the journey from Manchester registry office (where they had just tied the knot) to their wedding celebrations in Stockport."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "8788-1",
    "Idiom": [
      "tie up"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To occupy or delay.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Just how much traffic was tied up was not immediately determined but in Houston about 150 cars of grain arrived yesterday and could not be transferred to the port because of the Port Terminal Railroad picketing.",
      "He has been tying up the phone lines for hours now."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "8788-2",
    "Idiom": [
      "tie up"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To complete or resolve.",
    "Sentence": [
      "I'd like to tie up the project before I leave."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "8789",
    "Idiom": [
      "tie up loose ends"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To finalize or complete remaining tasks.",
    "Sentence": [
      "it is rich in detail and ideas, and it comes from a unique, uncompromising talent who likes to leave some loose ends for the viewer to tie up.",
      "The measures for rail that were genuinely new were welcomed, although some had hoped for more. Many of these tied up loose ends around the network - unfinished business left hanging by the last government.",
      "Removing her name from the mailing list was her way of tying up loose ends."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "8790-1",
    "Idiom": [
      "tied in knots"
    ],
    "Meaning": "In a state of confusion.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Are you tied up in knots trying to unravel dozens of mobile phone plans? WireFly can untangle the mess. Just type in your zip code to search by carrier, phone, or plan.",
      "Jokić is his own story and because he is so big and so good and so versatile, the Heat are tied in knots trying to figure out how to slow him down."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "8790-2",
    "Idiom": [
      "tied in knots"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Worried, anxious, or upset.",
    "Sentence": [
      "There is no misery like the misery of being trapped in your own brain. The more I think about my problems, the more tied up in knots I become. I do not want to be alone, or pretend that I am not lonely. I don't want to pretend at all."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "8791",
    "Idiom": [
      "tight lips"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Silence or reluctance to speak.",
    "Sentence": [
      "After M. de Kercadiou came M. de Vilmorin, very pale and self-contained, with tight lips and an overcast brow."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "8792",
    "Idiom": [
      "tight ship"
    ],
    "Meaning": "A well-organized and disciplined organization.",
    "Sentence": [
      "You're new here, so let me lay it down for you. I run a pretty tight ship around here. That's why the students call me \"the hammer\".",
      "I know your agent’s third cousin really wanted to hear their name, but the Oscar show producers run a tight ship, yes-sir-Bob.",
      "to run a tight ship"
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "8793",
    "Idiom": [
      "tight spot"
    ],
    "Meaning": "A difficult position.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Jays Squeeze Out of Tight Spot Into a 2-1 Lead [title]",
      "The company's proposal has placed Mr. Carey in a tight spot in the strike by 185,000 United Parcel workers."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "8794-1",
    "Idiom": [
      "tight squeeze"
    ],
    "Meaning": "A small space shared by many.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "8794-2",
    "Idiom": [
      "tight squeeze"
    ],
    "Meaning": "A small amount of time to achieve something.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "8795",
    "Idiom": [
      "tight-lipped"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Unwilling to share information.",
    "Sentence": [
      "The open access operator has remained tight-lipped over what may have caused the driver to suddenly apply the brake, but stressed that safety was its priority."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "8796",
    "Idiom": [
      "tighten the purse strings"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To decrease or control spending.",
    "Sentence": [
      "...would have the opposite effect entirely, and would tighten the purse-strings of capitalists and the employers of...",
      "It's hard for upper management to tighten the purse strings on a project that promises to save money, boost productivity and enable employees to respond better and faster to changing competitive situations."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "8797",
    "Idiom": [
      "till death do us part"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Indicates a commitment to a lifelong union.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "8798",
    "Idiom": [
      "time and material"
    ],
    "Meaning": "A form of payment for materials and labor at agreed rates.",
    "Sentence": [
      "The remodelling of the second floor will be fixed-price, but the repair work has to be on a time and material basis."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "8799",
    "Idiom": [
      "time and tide tarry for no man",
      "time and tide stay for no man",
      "tide nor time tarrieth no man",
      "time and tide"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Time and circumstances do not wait for anyone.",
    "Sentence": [
      "\"But, however, time and tide tarry for no man, and so, my young friend, we'll have a snack here at the Hawes.\""
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "8800",
    "Idiom": [
      "time and tide wait for no man"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Opportunities will not wait; act quickly.",
    "Sentence": [
      "\"And now\", said Daniel, looking at his watch, \"as time and tide wait for no man, my trusty partner, and as I am ready for starting, bag and baggage, at the gate below, let me say a last word\".",
      "\"Do you not think, my dear lad, that you had better begin? Time and tide, as you are aware, wait for no man \"."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "8801",
    "Idiom": [
      "time bandit"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Something that wastes time without productivity.",
    "Sentence": [
      "The telephone can be as much of a time bandit as the drop-in visitor.",
      "Perfectionism is a time bandit that can rob you of extra time, lead you away from your priorities, and create emotional stress.",
      "Every member of the department can identify somebody inside or outside the department who is a time bandit : a person who is stealing their precious time."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "8802",
    "Idiom": [
      "time burglar"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Something that wastes time without productivity.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Hey, TV can be a great source of learning, information, and keeping your kids occupied, but if your priorities are shifting and you want to grow out of your current life and into a new one, it's a time burglar",
      "Being a social climber was more of a time burglar than having a ghost twin sister.",
      "That's when it hits me that Brunswick is a time burglar. Specifically, she's stealing my time with her inane questions and now she is my nemesis."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "8803",
    "Idiom": [
      "time flies"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Time passes quickly.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Time flies when you're having fun."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "8804",
    "Idiom": [
      "time flies when you're having fun"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Time seems to pass quickly when enjoying oneself.",
    "Sentence": [
      "\" Time flies when you're having fun !\" said one of the skiers in our party. \"Yeah, but time's more fun when you're flying,\" Jay one-upped."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "8805",
    "Idiom": [
      "time gentlemen please"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Indicates closing time in a pub.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "8806",
    "Idiom": [
      "time heals all sorrows",
      "time is a great healer",
      "time is a great healer of all wounds",
      "time heals every wound",
      "time heals",
      "time heals all hurts",
      "time heals all things"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Time reduces pain over time.",
    "Sentence": [
      "However, it is a true saying that time heals all hurts, and so it was with Jack Grosvenor, for it came to pass that when the first soreness was over Fred induced Jack to pay them another visit before he took his bride back to the bush,",
      "She pressed my arm. “ Time heals all hurts,” she said, “and some day you will find a woman worthy of you, if such a one exists.”",
      "She also assures Jacob that time heals all hurts. The day will come when Esau's seething will dissipate, and the scenario with Jacob and Esau will become only part of Esau's distant past.",
      "“ Time heals all sorrows; and that which, perhaps, appears almost unbearable at the beginning of the year, may be looked upon with calm complacency at the end of it. Time will do that for us which nothing else can; and grateful ought we to be that it is so.”",
      "“ Time heals all sorrows,” they tell you; but it is a platitude, and not a true one. Sometimes people deceive themselves; they think they have forgotten, and then something brings all back again, and it is worse than before.’",
      "By time, I don’t mean that “ time heals all sorrows.” That’s a bad cliché— and nothing could be further from the truth. Time will never heal all sorrows. I know because it hasn’t healed mine, and it certainly hasn’t healed the hearts of the people whose stories I listen to every day.",
      "Time heals all things. Calm endurance took the place of uncontrollable anguish. One hope was left to the pair.",
      "They sye that time ‘eals all things, They sye you can always forget;",
      "But time heals all things. Marius’s wrath abated, righteous though he held it to have been. He forgave her in the end; but it cost him an effort and he nursed his grievance for three whole days.",
      "Do you say, Time heals every wound ? Ay, time heals the wounds of time by slaying eternity. He vampeth up a kind of endurance of threescore and ten years by the death of ages and ages. That is the cure of time.",
      "Early on, when Maggie says time heals every wound, Mama replies, \"I suppose -- if you live long enough.\" At the end, as anguish reveals how fragile Buddy and Maggie both are, the old woman's quiet compassion turns to steel.",
      "Time heals every wound – that's still the best solution.' 'We don't have much time. Maybe twenty years if all goes well.' 'You're always so dramatic!' Marianne took several deep breaths. 'Forget it. I'll tell you what I want.",
      "\" Time is a great healer, Mr. Hythe; but the reminiscences of my early struggles with fate cannot be easily erased. \"",
      "Time is a great healer, but twelve years is not long enough."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "8807",
    "Idiom": [
      "time heals all wounds"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Negative feelings eventually fade.",
    "Sentence": [
      "“We quarrelled long ago, did we not, and many years have passed since we met, but Time heals all wounds and—welcome, son of my father. I need not ask if you are well,” and he glanced enviously at the great-framed man who knelt before him."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "8808",
    "Idiom": [
      "time is money"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Time is valuable and should not be wasted.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Remember that Time is Money. He that can earn Ten Shillings a Day by his Labour, and goes abroad, or sits idle one half of that Day, tho’ he spends but Sixpence during his Diversion or Idleness, ought not to reckon That the only Expence; he has really spent or rather thrown away Five Shillings besides.",
      "And what do you mean to do with your time this winter? You must remember that time is money.",
      "His words and manner carried the crisp terseness of the busy man whose time is money."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "8809",
    "Idiom": [
      "time of one's life"
    ],
    "Meaning": "A period of immense enjoyment.",
    "Sentence": [
      "It's something unpredictable, but in the end it's right / I hope you had the time of your life.",
      "“We had a wonderful event last night. He was having the time of his life last night. He was given a rescue dog as a birthday present. He was having the time of his life,” Muth told the Gazette Journal."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "8810",
    "Idiom": [
      "time off"
    ],
    "Meaning": "A period without work obligations.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Many feel they cannot take time off as this would only serve to make things financially worse, and so they plough on.",
      "I've got some time off next week, so maybe we could meet up then?"
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "8811",
    "Idiom": [
      "time out"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To suspend activity or conversation.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "8812-1",
    "Idiom": [
      "time out of mind"
    ],
    "Meaning": "The distant past beyond memory.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Harvests at Boisveyrac had been gathered under arms since time out of mind, with sentries posted far up the shore.",
      "And on the yew that has been green from the times out of mind By the Steep Place of the Strangers and the Gap of the Wind."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "8812-2",
    "Idiom": [
      "time out of mind"
    ],
    "Meaning": "A lengthy duration of time.",
    "Sentence": [
      "They were Episcopalians, and for time out of mind had rented a half-pew in the church of their denomination on California Street."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "8812-3",
    "Idiom": [
      "time out of mind"
    ],
    "Meaning": "For a lengthy period of time.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Her chariot is an empty hazel-nut / Made by the joiner squirrel or old grub, / Time out o' mind the fairies' coachmakers.",
      "Our constitution is a prescriptive constitution; it is a constitution, whose sole authority is, that it has existed time out of mind.",
      "The very solicitors’ boys who have kept the wretched suitors at bay, by protesting time out of mind that Mr Chizzle, Mizzle, or otherwise was particularly engaged and had appointments until dinner, may have got an extra moral twist and shuffle into themselves out of Jarndyce and Jarndyce.",
      "I tell you that Cashel never was beaten, although times out of mind it would have paid him better to lose than to win."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "8813",
    "Idiom": [
      "time spent laughing is time spent with the gods"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Laughter is bliss.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "8814",
    "Idiom": [
      "time thief"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Something that wastes time unproductively.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Genie is also an invaluable asset when gabbing on the telephone which can really be a time thief since it's so easy to lose track of time when lost in deep conversation with another.",
      "In fact, anything we do just to kill time—even essentially healthy activities like reading, chatting on the phone, or completing a sudoku puzzle—becomes a time thief.",
      "Trying to change our basic nature is difficult at best, and struggling against it is a time thief."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "8815",
    "Idiom": [
      "time will tell",
      "only time will tell",
      "time alone will tell"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Events cannot be predicted.",
    "Sentence": [
      "That was harsh on the former Manchester United keeper after a performance which kept his team in the tie at times. But Grant, so often starved of luck himself, will feel both he and his side were worthy of the good fortune. Only time will tell whether it will be enough.",
      "This may not be a good idea, but time will tell."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "8816",
    "Idiom": [
      "timing is everything"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Timing greatly influences outcomes.",
    "Sentence": [
      "“​Timing Is Everything​”. It certainly has been true in my life and chances are it's probably played a role in your life as well. As I look back there were moments where I missed out on something special because I either made the wrong ...",
      "So when I'd hear people tell me – in many contexts – that timing is everything, I'd naturally feel uncomfortably constrained. Choked sometimes. Because I knew that I personally possessed virtually no sense of timing in the clock sense of time.",
      "... partnership in the new forest policy was one ingredient; but it was the pressing demands on government forestry from an increasingly vocal civil society – that brought a hesitant. Forestry tactics 9 Why now? Why this way? Timing is everything.",
      "- Telling the old joke about a butt-crack was not a good idea, just as the plumber arrived, Bob. - You know what they say: \" timing is everything.\" I'm sure we can find another plumber before the house floods."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "8817-1",
    "Idiom": [
      "tin ear"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Inability to appreciate music or language nuances.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Despite their careless scholarship and a less tangible quality that some would call a tin ear for poetry, Morris Halle and S. J. Keyser, as metrists, have the considerable virtue of explicitness."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "8817-2",
    "Idiom": [
      "tin ear"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Insensitivity to nuances and indifference to others' attitudes.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Japan has often displayed a tin ear to South Korean sensitivities over the island, which it calls Takeshima, having acquired it in the process of annexing Korea.",
      "With the economy as it is, I think the RMT has a tin ear to think it will find sympathy or public support for strike action. I hope sense prevails,"
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "8818",
    "Idiom": [
      "tin god"
    ],
    "Meaning": "A petty tyrant who abuses their authority.",
    "Sentence": [
      "The Little Tin Gods harried their little tin souls.",
      "In Prussia alone there are 492 Landräte —a sort of district commissioner—all Government officials or directly in touch with the central government, and all little tin gods in their own district.",
      "was regarded by members of the fellowship as somewhat of an idol, a tin god, or a master, who could do no wrong."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "8819",
    "Idiom": [
      "tin-pot dictatorship"
    ],
    "Meaning": "A small, oppressive government led by an arrogant dictator.",
    "Sentence": [
      "And, if so, why not the arms-dealer who sells his products to some tin-pot dictatorship, knowing that they will be used to slaughter innocent women and kids?",
      "Though venality rather than thuggery is the dominant characteristic of the Gabonese political system, to an outsider the distinction is not always clear and the country can look like a classic tin-pot dictatorship —a sort of banana republic (with the part of the bananas played by Cameroonian understudies)",
      "Speaking of the suspension of habeas corpus, and the curbs on the press, he warned that Mrs Gandhi was turning her country into a ' tin-pot dictatorship'."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "8820",
    "Idiom": [
      "tip of the hat"
    ],
    "Meaning": "A gesture of acknowledgement or gratitude.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "8821",
    "Idiom": [
      "tip of the iceberg"
    ],
    "Meaning": "A small indication of a larger problem.",
    "Sentence": [
      "It is sufficient that the former provided the setting for implanting in the minds of the jury the notion that Sinhel had engaged in other related crimes and making that notion explicit with regard to the defendant by the \" tip of the iceberg \" argument. In short, the prosecutor insinuated Sinhel had been given many gifts and gratuities for an illegal purpose, probably from the defendant, beyond those for which the defendant was charged and beyond those for which proof was offered at the trial. The prejudice of a defendant of inviting conviction on facts—if they be such—dehors the record is counter to the basic concept of fairness.",
      "The exposed tip of the iceberg, the recognized illness that brings a man to his doctor, is relatively small compared with the hidden mass of undetected disease, or 'at risk' people, in the population.",
      "The blacking out of the lights of the nation's biggest city could be a blessing in disguise. It brought to light, dramatically, the deep unrest in a large part of the Black and Latin population and it emphasized the fact that something must be done and soon to quiet that unrest. And it may be that the current unrest is just the tip of the iceberg.",
      "The number of dishonest scientists cannot, of course, be known, but even if they were common enough to justify scary talk of ‘ tips of icebergs ’ they have not been so numerous as to prevent science’s having become the most successful enterprise (in terms of the fulfilment of declared ambitions) that human beings have ever engaged upon.",
      "Records document nineteen legal cases involving the charge of sodomy and five executions from 1607 to 1740, although this is no doubt just the tip of the iceberg of actual incidents. Even the minimal evidence we do have suggests that ordinary people, in contrast to the ministers and legislators, did not always harshly judge people accused of same-sex sexuality.",
      "Only a tiny portion of disagreements—the proverbial tip of the iceberg —ever ends up in court. Most agreements drop out along the way, either because they are settled or because the allegedly wronged party decides that the potential costs of proceeding outweigh the potential benefits",
      "All human beings have secret, hidden, below-the-surface dimensions as well as outer, visible, and clear demonstrations. Although it is not possible to see the hidden it is very possible to see the smallest units, the micro-signs, the tips of the icebergs in people, and then to make some small hunches or theories about risk.",
      "Sats don't reflect the bigger picture; rather the tip of an iceberg in the only subjects that politicians think matter.",
      "This collection is not even the tip of the human remains iceberg, according to Damien Huffer, an adjunct research professor at Carleton University in Canada. Collectors across the world have much larger collections than JonsBones, he said, and the trade far predates TikTok.",
      "This is only the tip of the iceberg. Our time together can become much more exciting."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "8822",
    "Idiom": [
      "tip off"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To alert or inform someone confidentially.",
    "Sentence": [
      "An anonymous caller tipped off the police that the suspect would be in the area.",
      "Someone must have tipped him off. [A likely explanation for why he has disappeared.]"
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "8823",
    "Idiom": [
      "tip one's hat"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To acknowledge or show respect.",
    "Sentence": [
      "I tip my hat to whoever invented the root beer float."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "8824-1",
    "Idiom": [
      "tip the scale"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To change fortunes positively or negatively.",
    "Sentence": [
      "The priest went on to say that God tipped the scales in favor of hope \"through the resurrection of our crucified divine brother Jesus.\""
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "8824-2",
    "Idiom": [
      "tip the scale"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To weigh.",
    "Sentence": [
      "was kindly called to account by the good doctor when her nine-months'-old baby tipped the scales at barely twelve pounds."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "8825",
    "Idiom": [
      "tip the scales"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To influence a situation.",
    "Sentence": [
      "\"But an uprising in the central provinces would tip the scales for us!\" exclaimed Conan.",
      "That lends further credence to the argument that continuing to use diesel in low and limited circumstances makes sense. Unless, of course, we use so little across the country that it becomes rare and expensive. That might tip the scales against it, but I can't see that happening any time soon."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "8826",
    "Idiom": [
      "tip the wink"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To give a hint or suggestion surreptitiously.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Sudden, she storms! she raves! You tip the wink But spare your censure; Silia does not drink"
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "8827-1",
    "Idiom": [
      "tip-off"
    ],
    "Meaning": "An obvious clue.",
    "Sentence": [
      "The broken window and overturned plant pots were a tip-off that something was wrong."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "8827-2",
    "Idiom": [
      "tip-off"
    ],
    "Meaning": "A report of suspicious behavior to an authority.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Haws also alleged that Hay was engaged in a conspiracy to disrupt the parade. \"People called a week before and said he would be doing something.\" The alleged tip-off was anonymous.",
      "The police received a tip-off about a recent bank robbery."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "8828",
    "Idiom": [
      "tiptoe through a minefield"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To approach a situation with great caution due to hidden dangers.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "8829",
    "Idiom": [
      "tire fire"
    ],
    "Meaning": "A disaster or chaotic situation.",
    "Sentence": [
      "As the tire fire that is the Edmonton Oilers rages on, their AHL affiliate is going through a worse ordeal.",
      "The Reds pitching staff is a tire fire.",
      "The Browns... threw three quarterbacks into the tire fire against Baltimore last week.",
      "During his hourlong tire fire of an interview... the sheer volume of breathtaking lies flippantly uttered by President Trump made it legitimately difficult to decide which one of them posed the most direct threat to American democracy."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "8830",
    "Idiom": [
      "tired and emotional"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Drunk.",
    "Sentence": [
      "In 2008, after what you imagine was a tired and emotional dinner, the novelist Michel Houellebecq and the philosopher Bernard-Henri Lévy determined to start writing to each other about the things that kept them awake at nights.",
      "There's nothing like a singalong with tired and emotional Lib Dems [headline]"
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "8831",
    "Idiom": [
      "tit for tat"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Equivalent retribution.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Tit for tat is the policy of cooperating on the first move and then doing whatever the other player did on the previous move. This policy means that tit for tat will defect once after each defection of the other player.",
      "\"You'll never get her over like that. You must coax her.\" / \"Coax the devil. Do you think I'm going to be beat by a horse?\" / \"It would only be tit for tat; you beat her, so she has a right to beat you.\"",
      "YVETTE. I have no idea what to make Monsieur for dinner. / FOLLBRAGUET. (beside himself) Well, that's no skin off my ass, damn it! / YVETTE. (snippily, giving him tit for tat) Well, it's certainly no skin off mine, Monsieur!",
      "As part of the planning for a new initiative on Cuba, the NSC also revived the concept of \"calibrated response.\" A new staffer was tasked to develop a list of \" tit-for-tats \" with Cuba—which sanctions might be lifted or softened in response to clear steps toward democracy by the [Fidel] Castro regime.",
      "China Warns of ‘ Tit for Tat ’ on iPhone Sales if Trump Starts Trade War",
      "If you hit me, I’ll hit you back; tit for tat."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "8832-1",
    "Idiom": [
      "tits up"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Broken or failed.",
    "Sentence": [
      "The vast majority go tits up in the first year. Basic economics, even if the people have some training and education in retail.",
      "But believe me, sunshine, if this show goes tits up, none of us are going to come out smelling of roses.\""
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "8832-2",
    "Idiom": [
      "tits up"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Dead.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "8833",
    "Idiom": [
      "to a T",
      "to the t",
      "to the tee"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Precisely or perfectly.",
    "Sentence": [
      "I hope your Honour will be soon well enough to get down to your country-seat, where,—as your Honour takes so much pleasure in fortification, we could manage this matter to a T.",
      "That accounts for my having the dress, but it don't account for the piece that you left sticking to the rose-bush under Mrs. Lander's bed-room winder, which piece I took off that morning, and which piece I matched with the dress after you pitched it at me over them bannisters; it was an awful scragly tear, and it fitted to a T.",
      "You've sure got everything figured out to a \"T\", boss!",
      "You see I'm six foot one and I'm tons of fun and I dress to a tee",
      "The announcement of the political endorsement was timed to a T."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "8834",
    "Idiom": [
      "to a degree"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Partially or somewhat.",
    "Sentence": [
      "It has been said that Scotsmen are grave to a degree on occasions when races more favoured by nature are gladsome to excess."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "8835",
    "Idiom": [
      "to a fare-thee-well"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To the greatest extent or perfection.",
    "Sentence": [
      "\"She's all dolled up to a fare-you-well to-night,\" continued Clark.",
      "It will do little for the future of immunization to prepare excellent vaccines, test them to a fare-thee-well for safety and efficacy, and then not insure that they are adequately used.",
      "Market participants are painfully learning the limits to slicing and dicing mortgages to a fine fare-thee-well."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "8836",
    "Idiom": [
      "to a fault"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To an excessive degree.",
    "Sentence": [
      "He also had that good qualification, of a moderate expectation, almost to a fault.",
      "These mosquitoes... are feeble, insignificant in size, diffident to a fault.",
      "Fitz-Roy's character was a singular one, with very many noble features: he was devoted to his duty, generous to a fault, bold, determined, and indomitably energetic.",
      "Madam, I'm as gentle as a jellyfish, and peaceful to a fault.",
      "Self-deprecating to a fault, he refuses any praise for his work.",
      "I am trusting to a fault."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "8837",
    "Idiom": [
      "to a greater extent"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Occurring more.",
    "Sentence": [
      "We do, indeed, find mention made of axiomata or general propositions to a greater extent than in the Organon, but they are never clearly distinguished…",
      "Recently though, slack manufacturers have been cuddling under the wings of the clothing industry to a greater extent than ever, for it has become good business to promote separate slacks and sport coats as a coordinated sales unit.",
      "Semi-arid cropping systems in India, and to a greater extent in Indo-China and east Indonesia, use dryland or upland rice when possible during the wet season.",
      "During 15-day biodegradation experiments, DOM from the two pasture streams was altered to a greater extent than DOM from the forest streams, with formulas with H/C and O/C ranges similar to protein (H/C = 1.5–2.2, O/C = 0.3–0.67), lipid (H/C = 1.5–2.0, O/C = 0–0.3), and unsaturated hydrocarbon (H/C = 0.7–1.5, O/C = 0–0.1) being the most bioreactive groups."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "8838",
    "Idiom": [
      "to a hair"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To a high degree of precision.",
    "Sentence": [
      "As to our own representative, the well-known athlete and international Rugby football player, E. D. Malone, he looks trained to a hair, and as he surveyed the crowd a smile of good-humored contentment pervaded his honest but homely face."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "8839-1",
    "Idiom": [
      "to a hammer, everything looks like a nail",
      "when all you have is a hammer, everything looks like a nail",
      "if all you've got is a hammer, everything looks like a nail",
      "if all you have is a hammer, everything looks like a nail"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Single-minded people apply limited tools indiscriminately.",
    "Sentence": [
      "The Court today mistakes what this case is about. To a hammer, everything looks like a nail. And to a Court bent on diminishing the usefulness of Rule 23, everything looks like a class action, ready to be dismantled."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "8840",
    "Idiom": [
      "to a turn"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To perfection.",
    "Sentence": [
      "The roast was excellent, done to a turn."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "8841",
    "Idiom": [
      "to all intents and purposes"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Practically speaking.",
    "Sentence": [
      "With the arrival of the cold war, relations between the two countries (for this is, to all intents and purposes, what they became after the end of the war) were almost completely broken off, with whole families split for the ensuing decades, some for ever.",
      "Have you heard the word \"gadgetbahn\"? It's a portmanteau coined to describe transport proposals that, to all intents and purposes, ought to be delivered using proven railway technology... and yet go out of their way to be anything but a railway.",
      "To all intents and purposes the case is closed.",
      "This treaty is to all intents and purposes no longer viable."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "8842",
    "Idiom": [
      "to and fro"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To go back and forth.",
    "Sentence": [
      "\"For a while I didn't tell anyone on the ward where I was going, but my toing and froing made people curious and eventually I confided in a few.\""
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "8843",
    "Idiom": [
      "to be honest"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Honestly.",
    "Sentence": [
      "I don't mind, to be honest.",
      "To be honest, he has a bit of a body odor problem, but we haven't yet had an opportunity to tell him gently and privately."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "8844",
    "Idiom": [
      "to be sure"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Certainly or undoubtedly.",
    "Sentence": [
      "They call themselves gentlemen, I warrant you; but, as my first husband used to say, they should remember it is we that pay them. And to be sure it is very hard upon us to be obliged to pay them, and to keep 'um too, as we publicans are.",
      "“Good-night, Captain, many thanks. You did it uncommonly well; how kindly the old un swallowed the spice-nut, to be sure; and it is only one of many others he has swallowed within these two days. I am afraid in about another four-and-twenty hours they will begin to disagree with him unless his stomach is a very strong one.”",
      "But to be sure baby was as good as gold, a perfect little dote in his new fancy bib.",
      "I don't hate him. To be sure, we're not best buddies, but hate is a strong word."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "8845",
    "Idiom": [
      "to beat the band"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Surpasses all competition or is done vigorously.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Fifty dollars gold 'd buy beer to beat the band —enough to drown me if I fell in head first.",
      "Last time I saw you, you were a kiddy in short frocks, running around and shouting to beat the band.",
      "You rile me to beat the band sometimes, Skinner."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "8846",
    "Idiom": [
      "to boot"
    ],
    "Meaning": "In addition.",
    "Sentence": [
      "My boyfriend is funny, and a pretty good cook to boot."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "8847",
    "Idiom": [
      "to date"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Until now.",
    "Sentence": [
      "HONAN HYDROELECTRIC POWER— To date Wu-chih County has built 101 small hydroelectric power stations with a total capacity of 6,118 kw.",
      "To date, they have sold only 500 copies of the book."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "8848",
    "Idiom": [
      "to die for"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Very good or particularly desirable.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Consider this a couple's costume that's to die for. There are so many ways you can go with this costume, but most importantly, make sure to go extremely over the top with the makeup.",
      "She makes these chocolate-peanut butter candies that are just to die for."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "8849",
    "Idiom": [
      "to do with"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Related to or relevant to.",
    "Sentence": [
      "As I recall, his book had to do with alien abductions.",
      "Does this have anything to do with the party you were planning?",
      "The two concepts are often confused, but they actually have very little to do with each other.",
      "Yes, I have a car, but what does that have to do with whether I am qualified for a desk job?",
      "She says she doesn't want anything to do with him anymore."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "8850-2",
    "Idiom": [
      "to each his own"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Everyone should receive what they deserve.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "8851",
    "Idiom": [
      "to err is human"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Everyone makes mistakes.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "8852",
    "Idiom": [
      "to err is human; to forgive, divine"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Recognizes human fallibility and the virtue of forgiveness.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "8853-1",
    "Idiom": [
      "to go"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Served for takeout.",
    "Sentence": [
      "I'd like two burgers, two small orders of fries and two shakes, to go."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "8853-2",
    "Idiom": [
      "to go"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Remaining or unfinished items.",
    "Sentence": [
      "In my country, we go to public school for 12 years, and I have three more years to go.",
      "Right now, out of four bicycles, that's two down and two to go.",
      "There are only two days to go."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "8854-1",
    "Idiom": [
      "to hell"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To an extreme extent.",
    "Sentence": [
      "You really armored yourself to hell for this battle."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "8854-2",
    "Idiom": [
      "to hell"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To the point of destruction or punishment.",
    "Sentence": [
      "I'm going to slap you to hell if you dont shut up."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "8855-1",
    "Idiom": [
      "to hell and back"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Greatly, intensely.",
    "Sentence": [
      "I love you to hell and back."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "8855-2",
    "Idiom": [
      "to hell and back"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Through a very difficult situation.",
    "Sentence": [
      "She's been to hell and back."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "8856",
    "Idiom": [
      "to hell in a handbasket"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To decline rapidly.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Ralph's close vision had deteriorated quite a bit since Carolyn’s death—gone to hell in a handbasket might actually have been a more accurate way of putting it—and he had to lean forward until his brow was pressed against the dirty show window of Secondhand Rose, Secondhand Clothes before he could decipher it:",
      "Gen Xers were said to be lazy—“slackers” in the parlance of the time—who didn’t exhibit the straightforward work ethic of their predecessors. Commentators wrung their hands about the slackers in our midst, further evidence that society was going to hell in a handbasket.",
      "I watched as the guy in charge did nothing and the whole place went to hell in a handbasket."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "8857",
    "Idiom": [
      "to high heaven"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Immense or forceful extent.",
    "Sentence": [
      "But I wished to high heaven that my head would quit aching.",
      "The rear housing on the back tender truck was now blazing to high heaven.",
      "If someone would have the nerve to ask for, say, 10 percent of that amount to be used for the training of this same young man to make a good farmer and citizen out of him, then they would cry to high heaven about the out-of-reason waste of money.",
      "He stood in the middle of the road and began to complain to high heaven at the top of his voice.",
      "How can I ever forget one cold night in February while the wind blew to high heaven ?"
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "8858",
    "Idiom": [
      "to little avail"
    ],
    "Meaning": "With little success or benefit.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "8859",
    "Idiom": [
      "to no avail"
    ],
    "Meaning": "With no success.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Germany huffed and switched angles and went wide, slinging in crosses, and finally sending on Der Targetman, Mario Gomez, for the last 11 minutes. To no avail, as Mexico held on for a sensational win against the defending champions."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "8860",
    "Idiom": [
      "to one's heart's content"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Until satisfied.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "8861-1",
    "Idiom": [
      "to one's mind"
    ],
    "Meaning": "From one's point of view.",
    "Sentence": [
      "To my mind there has always been something inexpressibly awful in family feuds.",
      "Dusk, to his mind, was the hour of the defeated. Men and women, who had fought and lost, who hid their fallen fortunes and dead hopes as far as possible from the scrutiny of the curious, came forth in this hour of gloaming, when their shabby clothes and bowed shoulders and unhappy eyes might pass unnoticed, or, at any rate, unrecognised.",
      "The words were ordinary enough, and to my mind there was in them something so hortatory that I almost smiled.",
      "To her mind, extreme compensation is a fair trade for the compromises of such a career.",
      "To my mind if you’ve talked to Stacy then you’ve talked to Beth, since they tell each other everything.",
      "To her mind, the only thing worse than public speaking is public dancing."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "8861-2",
    "Idiom": [
      "to one's mind"
    ],
    "Meaning": "According to one's desire or preference.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "8862",
    "Idiom": [
      "to overflowing"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Absolutely full.",
    "Sentence": [
      "It is no use gaily arranging for large hauls of coal to converge on a Scunthorpe steelworks if the latter's sidings are already full to overflowing, and many sizeable traders are therefore advised each morning of traffic that is in the railway pipeline for them, to ascertain if they are able to receive it.",
      "In reality, 7 Middagh was sensationally cluttered, stuffed to overflowing with Americana, which reflected something essential about [George] Davis, who was a collector of all things weird, including people.",
      "And she is lovely. She is all I wanted. She filled me up to overflowing and I never got back on my feet.",
      "The train was full to overflowing, and the doors would barely shut."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "8863-1",
    "Idiom": [
      "to pieces"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Completely, utterly.",
    "Sentence": [
      "I just love my nieces to pieces."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "8863-2",
    "Idiom": [
      "to pieces"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Out of control.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "8863-3",
    "Idiom": [
      "to pieces"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Into a state of emotional breakdown.",
    "Sentence": [
      "I went all to pieces when my brother died."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "8864",
    "Idiom": [
      "to say nothing of"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Used to mention another important point.",
    "Sentence": [
      "The prodigies of this reign can scarce be paralelled in any reign. To say nothing of the King's sister the Dutchess of Orleance being poysoned, nor what was the occasion of it: to say nothing of the Queen Mother and Prince Rupert's leaving the Court in discontent: to say nothing of the thousands that dyed of the plague: to say nothing of the conflagration of London,",
      "The Back-Stage Mother is difficult to evaluate. As a rule, you find her some place where she doesn't belong. If she is not standing in the wings to watch her adorable daughter perform, and thus interfering with the property-man, electrician, carpenter, stage manager, assistant stage manager and prompter, to say nothing of blocking an important entrance where players must push her out of the road to get onto the stage, she is almost certain to be out in front, cornering the company manager in the lobby.",
      "Today more than 2.5 trillion images are shared or stored on the Internet annually— to say nothing of the billions more photographs and videos people keep to themselves.",
      "She had already eaten a large lunch, to say nothing of a full cooked breakfast that morning."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "8865",
    "Idiom": [
      "to say the least"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Suggests an understatement.",
    "Sentence": [
      "\"We are very proud of the successful launch of the Elizabeth line. It was very reliable at the start, but the last six months have been challenging, to say the least.",
      "The 9/11 attacks weren't very good for America. / To say the least !",
      "His performance, to say the least, didn't impress me."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "8866",
    "Idiom": [
      "to spare"
    ],
    "Meaning": "In abundance.",
    "Sentence": [
      "She has talent to spare !"
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "8867",
    "Idiom": [
      "to speak of"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Important enough to mention.",
    "Sentence": [
      "While he spoke thus, the good man leaped with joy; and as he was a widower, they advised him to put himself agian to the ranks. 'No raillery,' said he, 'if I were always as young, I might yet do something to speak of.",
      "There were no tall buildings to speak of, certainly nothing in the way of skyscrapers, no brownstones",
      "But some have no parents, or none to speak of, and are living with a grandmother or uncle or married sister or sister who's not married but has three tots of her own to look after, or this unruly student's helping her to take care of them with babysitting or a paying after-school job.",
      "Completely disorientated by the explosion of dust, it was only now she realised she was running through Tina’s flat. It was even grottier than Zoe’s. There was no furniture or carpet to speak of.",
      "not enough to speak of",
      "no X to speak of",
      "Q: How many people heeded the advice to bring an umbrella? A: Not enough to speak of.",
      "There was no air conditioning to speak of. [ = There was some, but it was wholly inadequate.]"
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "8868",
    "Idiom": [
      "to tell the truth"
    ],
    "Meaning": "An attestation to the truthfulness of a statement.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "8869",
    "Idiom": [
      "to that end"
    ],
    "Meaning": "For that reason or goal.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Villa chief executive Paul Faulkner had backed manager Houllier during the week and asked for the fans to get behind their team as they looked to steer themselves away from the relegation zone. To that end, the home supporters were in good voice to begin with, but it was Newcastle who started the game in the ascendancy, with Barton putting a diving header over the top from Jose Enrique's cross.",
      "We think that the world would be a better place without advertisements. To that end, we are going to remove all of the banners from our website.",
      "He was aiming to get into the school swimming team, and to that end he swam every evening."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "8870",
    "Idiom": [
      "to the backbone"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Thoroughly or entirely.",
    "Sentence": [
      "staunch to the backbone",
      "Sir Culling was an extreme Low Churchman, an Exeter Hallite to the backbone, and the head and front of the Platitudinarian Party.",
      "In temperament he was Dutch to the backbone — at least as we imagine Dutch."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "8871",
    "Idiom": [
      "to the bone"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Completely, totally.",
    "Sentence": [
      "She could tell right away / That I was bad to the bone",
      "I am one of those melodramatic fools / Neurotic to the bone, no doubt about it",
      "I'm bad to the bone, I'm just a little torn / I'm makin' so much love",
      "She's fun, they say. A friend, a force. “Good to the bone,” says Shelley Zalis, a founder of gender equality group The Female Quotient, who has been close to Yaccarino for years."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "8872",
    "Idiom": [
      "to the death"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To the utmost degree.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Then, alluding with a toss of the head to the tumult in the station-yard, ‘When one has got to make correct entries, one comes to hate those savages - hate them to the death.’ He remained thoughtful for a moment."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "8873",
    "Idiom": [
      "to the gills"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Entirely or extremely.",
    "Sentence": [
      "It’s a film that is utterly maximalist, stuffed to the gills with gadgets, gimmicks, ideas both good and bad. An exhausting, exhilarating watch.",
      "He came in with a suitcase, packed to the gills with samples and demonstration products."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "8874",
    "Idiom": [
      "to the letter"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Exactly, following the rules as written.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Capello warned his players that caution was not an option as they went in search of the result that would take England to Euro 2012. And his message was carried out to the letter in the opening exchanges as England played with a tempo and threat Montenegro struggled to subdue.",
      "You should follow what your boss said to the letter. Otherwise, you'll lose your job."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "8875-1",
    "Idiom": [
      "to the max"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To a great degree or extent.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "8875-2",
    "Idiom": [
      "to the max"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To the maximum degree.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "8876",
    "Idiom": [
      "to the moon and back"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Immensely.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "8877",
    "Idiom": [
      "to the nth degree"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To the greatest extent.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Simultaneously stunned and utterly smitten, the Moevitian fell in love with the vision before him that night: a goddess, a new-age angel, an artist in possession of perfect pitch, a two-plus-octave range, and vocal gorgeosities to the n th degree.",
      "Asnicar said forensic officers were examining the Murray Street house, an operation he said which could take “several days”... This will be done to the nth degree and we will cover every angle.",
      "His long-awaited portmanteau, which premiered in Cannes on Monday, is the most Anderson of all Anderson films. It's Anderson distilled, Anderson squared, Anderson to the nth degree."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "8878",
    "Idiom": [
      "to the point"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Relevant or succinct.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Jonathan Ross is shown congratulating her on being “common” and his identifying the elephant in the room is to the point, although the film doesn’t press the point of how that voice just surged up.",
      "Going for broke, the BRB said that Edinburgh-Aberdeen and Hull-Doncaster-Leeds should be considered [for electrification], along with Plymouth-Penzance and Crewe-Holyhead, all to be in place by 2001. Norman Fowler's reply was short and to the point : Sorry, no.",
      "His letter was short and to the point.",
      "But, more to the point …"
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "8879",
    "Idiom": [
      "to the tonsils"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Entirely, completely, or extremely.",
    "Sentence": [
      "And who could say how soon, if I continued to be always at his side, Wilbert Cream would get it up his nose and start attacking me with tooth and claw? Already his manner was that of a man whom the society of Bertram Wooster had fed to the tonsils, and one more sight of the latter at his elbow might quite easily make him decide to take prompt steps through the proper channels.",
      "He was stuffed to the tonsils with cream crackers.",
      "They sat there, robed up to the tonsils, and made me feel so below a juvenile delinquent."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "8880",
    "Idiom": [
      "to thine own self be true"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Be true to yourself.",
    "Sentence": [
      "\" To thine own self be true,\" I saw, was what produced vitality, confidence, and genuine expression in one's interpersonal relations.",
      "Know thyself. To thine own self be true. For the man or woman who can confront the demon within, there is a hopeful prognosis.",
      "Several of these women said simply, \"to each her own,\" while others like Sue were only slighty more verbose: \"Each of us has a right and a responsibility ' to thine own self be true.' Another person's sexual preference is not my business or concern.\"",
      "\" To thine own self be true \" whatever the consequences was taken as the principle of true freedom and humanity by the romantics.",
      "As Shakespeare wrote, \" To thine own self be true,\" at least according to what kind of person you believe yourself to be."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "8881",
    "Idiom": [
      "toast of the town"
    ],
    "Meaning": "A person admired and popular in local society.",
    "Sentence": [
      "I sat, but neither heard nor saw: Tho' this was fair, and that was braw, And yon the toast of a' the town, I sigh'd, and said among them a', \"Ye are na Mary Morison.\"",
      "Miss Moore was the toast of the town, and numerous were the advantageous opportunities of matrimony of which she was the recipient.",
      "Miss Dorothy Parker seems to be the newest literary toast of the town.",
      "Newhouser was the toast of the town for his masterful, 11 to 0 shutout in which he struck out 10 batters."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "8882-1",
    "Idiom": [
      "today is a good day to die"
    ],
    "Meaning": "An expression of willingness to die for a cause.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Junkies brag about the \"rush\" of mainlined heroin or inhaled crack cocaine; I'll put the rush of danger up against any drug. I wasn't kidding when I told Bouton it was a good day to die. Any day is a good day to die. As long as you go down fighting.",
      "We will keep safe the heritage of this country. And if someday we must die to serve this cause, well, then, it will be a good day to die.",
      "Otherwise, small business owners like those in the construction industry will have to be prescient, as well as politically and financially astute, in deciding if today is a good day to die."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "8882-2",
    "Idiom": [
      "today is a good day to die"
    ],
    "Meaning": "An expression about not living with regrets.",
    "Sentence": [
      "To be given the strength to live without regrets, without the feeling that you should be doing something more, something different. To make today a good day to die. To gain fulfillment not with length of time, but with quality.",
      "The main thing is to die after having truly lived, after leaving behind a contribution. Socrates lived fully and was perfectly content to let go when the time came. As the Native American saying goes, \" Today is a good day to die.\"",
      "In the native tradition of the Pacific Northwest there is a saying: \" Today is a good day to die.\" What it means, of course, is that today is a good day to live completely. If you were lying on that hospital bed right now, what would be on that short list?"
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "8883",
    "Idiom": [
      "today we are all"
    ],
    "Meaning": "An expression of collective empathy for a group affected by a disaster.",
    "Sentence": [
      "\"I know I speak for every American when I say to him today, we are all Georgians \".",
      "Republican National Committee Chairman Ken Mehlman punctuated the day with a speech to Christians United for Israel last night, declaring that \" today, we are all Israelis.\"",
      "No progress in human affairs will ever be built on the blood of innocent people. Today, we are all Spanish.",
      "Madness, even under the pretext of despair, is never a force that can regenerate the world. That is why today we are all Americans."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "8884-1",
    "Idiom": [
      "toe the line"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To abide by the rules or conventions.",
    "Sentence": [
      "The matter, therefore, necessarily became rather serious; and the whole gang of us being sent for on the quarter deck, we were ranged in a line, each with his toes at the edge of a plank, according to the orthodox fashion of these gregarious scoldings, technically called ‘ toe-the-line matches.’",
      "JOHNNY. I dont know. You can draw a line and make other chaps toe it. Thats what I call morality. LORD SUMMERHAYS. Very true. But you dont make any progress when youre toeing a line.",
      "“Well,” said Birkin, “I begin to think that you can’t live unless you keep entirely out of the line. It’s no good trying to toe the line, when your one impulse is to smash up the line. Winnie is a special nature, and for special natures you must give a special world.”",
      "BUILDER. [Staring at her across the table] You've got my temper up and you'll take the consequences. I'll make you toe the line. MAUD. If you knew what a Prussian expression you've got!",
      "Gob, Jack made him toe the line. Told him if he didn’t patch up the pot, Jesus, he’d kick the shite out of him.",
      "And I can't spend my whole life trying / Just to make you toe the line",
      "Last week, he'd told her he was hiring a detective to make sure she ‘ toed the line ’ on her own in New York.",
      "Boris Johnson's staff told to toe the line on Brexit [title]",
      "Television shows these days do not always toe the line of decency and common sense."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "8884-2",
    "Idiom": [
      "toe the line"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To adhere to rules or standards.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Alberto Salazar is one of the most famous athletes to have toed the line at this great race."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "8884-3",
    "Idiom": [
      "toe the line"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To conform or follow rules.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Still other performers like St. Louis's Nelly or Long Beach's Domino toed the line between rapper and singer, defying easy categorization.",
      "Although the ICA toes the line between good and evil, it is similar to many other espionage organizations in action films — including some recent ones.",
      "Monica flirted with her outrageously, but Deosil made a point of toeing the line between flirting and actually sleeping with festival folk. That never ended well.",
      "The conflicts between tradition and cultural change also play out in the protagonists' personal lives, and the show is not afraid to make its audience uncomfortable, especially when it forces characters to toe the line between being an insider or outsider.",
      "Her stories often toe the line between fact and fiction."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "8885-1",
    "Idiom": [
      "toes up"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Dead.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Groves, of the Forty-sixth, is gone \" toes up \"."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "8885-2",
    "Idiom": [
      "toes up"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Completely failed or inactive.",
    "Sentence": [
      "The land deals in Tokyo've gone toes up since the bubble burst, but the landlord's still trying to push through a deal with a developer."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "8886-1",
    "Idiom": [
      "tomayto, tomahto"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Used to dismiss a correction.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "8886-2",
    "Idiom": [
      "tomayto, tomahto"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Suggests a trivial difference.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "8886-3",
    "Idiom": [
      "tomayto, tomahto"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Expresses that two similar things are essentially the same despite slight differences.",
    "Sentence": [
      "\" Tomayto, tomahto,\" she said, and Taylor laughed. So they ended on a good note.",
      "“I withheld truth, but I did not lie.” “ Tomayto, tomahto.”",
      "“Okay, then, how about Michael?” “ Tomayto, tomahto.” Kacie sighed in disappointment."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "8887",
    "Idiom": [
      "tomorrow is another day"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Tomorrow brings new opportunities and a fresh start.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Phil. Yonder comes my Mother, Coridon, whether shall I flie?",
      "\"Well, well, my dear lass, to-night we cannot work, but we may sleep.... Keep a still heart tonight, and tomorrow is another day.\"",
      "\"Tomorrow, I'll think of some way to get him back. After all, tomorrow is another day.\"",
      "\"Half of me is depressed—the idea didn't work out—and half is hopeful. Tomorrow is another day and maybe something will work then.\""
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "8888-1",
    "Idiom": [
      "tomorrow never comes"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Procrastination prevents accomplishment.",
    "Sentence": [
      "\"I will take you tomorrow,\" he said. \" Tomorrow never comes,\" Archie replied with a laugh.",
      "Don't wait until tomorrow; tomorrow never comes. Don't wait for some one else to start; start it yourself.",
      "Avoid procrastination like the plague. Some people make a habit of putting things off to tomorrow and then find that somehow tomorrow never comes."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "8888-2",
    "Idiom": [
      "tomorrow never comes"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Tomorrow has no reality.",
    "Sentence": [
      "We never go beyond the present. We reach that point but never pass it. Tomorrow never comes. Our existence is enclosed within the divine moment, the eternal now.",
      "\"But tomorrow they give me to Bu-lot,\" she said sadly. \"May it be always tomorrow,\" replied Tarzan, \"for tomorrow never comes.\"",
      "I live among the creatures of the night / I haven't got the will to try and fight / Against a new tomorrow / So I guess I'll just believe it / That tomorrow never comes",
      "You'll regret it tomorrow. Tomorrow never comes!",
      "The truth is, tomorrow never comes ! The minute you step into your tomorrow, it becomes your today."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "8889-1",
    "Idiom": [
      "tone down"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To make quieter or less intense.",
    "Sentence": [
      "There it all lay beneath us like a map; its thousand hues toned down harmoniously by the summer haze, and 'the eye was not filled with seeing,' nor the spirit with the intoxicating sight of infinitely various life and form in perfectest repose.",
      "Ask them to tone down that orange and pink color scheme a bit.",
      "I hope they’ll tone it down and stop arguing so much."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "8889-2",
    "Idiom": [
      "tone down"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To moderate or soften.",
    "Sentence": [
      "The best method for the purpose in hand was to employ some one of a character and position suited to get possession of their confidence, and then use it to tone down their religious strictness, and, if circumstances should favor, to disturb the ecclesiastical constitution which they had set up."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "8889-3",
    "Idiom": [
      "tone down"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To make something less offensive for a family audience.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "8890",
    "Idiom": [
      "tongue-in-cheek"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Not intended seriously; humorous.",
    "Sentence": [
      "It was in this era, too, that author and Scotland the Brave songwriter Cliff Hanley penned The Glasgow Underground, a tongue-in-cheek love letter to the Subway in song.",
      "He gave a tongue-in-cheek explanation of why the sky was blue, offering a theory about some primordial discount on light blue paint."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "8891",
    "Idiom": [
      "tonsil hockey"
    ],
    "Meaning": "French kissing.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "8892",
    "Idiom": [
      "tonsil tennis"
    ],
    "Meaning": "French kissing.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "8893-1",
    "Idiom": [
      "too bad"
    ],
    "Meaning": "A pity.",
    "Sentence": [
      "We had to kill 110,000 Japanese before we took Okinawa, and when the officers of the Japanese are killed- or defeated- they commit suicide. They cost us 12,000 men and they had to kill 110,000 Japs. And it's a terrible thing- don't know what you're gonna do with any crazy outfit like that except all you can do is to destroy them, and that's too bad.",
      "Foxtrot B I L LA MENDE ଜ IT'S TOO BAD \" PAIGE \" DOESN'T RHYME WITH \" GODZILLA. ' There once was a girl named Paige... who was frequently filled with räge.... 3 13 8 One day she decided to be more peaceful and quiet...Now no one ever says, Paige, act your age...",
      "You can't come to the party? Too bad."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "8893-2",
    "Idiom": [
      "too bad"
    ],
    "Meaning": "It is sad that.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Too bad you can't come to the party."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "8893-3",
    "Idiom": [
      "too bad"
    ],
    "Meaning": "A sarcastic expression of indifference.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "8894",
    "Idiom": [
      "too big for one's boots"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Overestimating one's importance or abilities.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "8895",
    "Idiom": [
      "too big for one's britches"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Disturbingly confident or cocky.",
    "Sentence": [
      "A diffident, dedicated man, Bradley seemed the personification of rectitude. He never got too big for his britches."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "8896",
    "Idiom": [
      "too clever by half"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Shrewd but flawed by overthinking, leading to unreliability or lack of success.",
    "Sentence": [
      "He had a damnable suppleness and a gift of immediate response, a readiness to oblige, that made him seem to take up causes which he really left lying, enabled him to learn enough about them in an hour to have all the air of having converted them to his use.... He was at all events too clever by half, since this pernicious overflow had wrecked most of his attempts.",
      "The poor devil was too clever by half, and made a big mistake for each of his strokes of genius.",
      "Historians generally agree that Roosevelt was too clever by half, and that he miscalculated badly in assuming that he had the political muscle to alter the size of the Court.",
      "Still, the thing about being just a little too clever by half is that it tends to catch up with you.",
      "As Combet pointed out in 2009, that sort of too-clever-by-half politicking can get you into trouble. It can sink the boat you really want to sail."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "8897",
    "Idiom": [
      "too good for this world"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Of exceptionally high quality.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Obama : Merrick Garland is a beautiful cinnamon roll, too good for this world, too pure"
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "8898",
    "Idiom": [
      "too good to be true"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Appearing exceptionally good, causing suspicion.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Remember the old saying that if something looks too good to be true, then it almost certainly is?",
      "He wants to give you two million dollars? That's just too good to be true !"
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "8899",
    "Idiom": [
      "too hot to hold"
    ],
    "Meaning": "A place with too much police activity for a fugitive to remain unnoticed.",
    "Sentence": [
      "\"He made England too hot to hold him, fled to Central America, and died there in 1876 of yellow fever.\""
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "8900",
    "Idiom": [
      "too late"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Indicates that something is ineffective because it occurs after the ideal time.",
    "Sentence": [
      "It was too late to turn back."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "8901",
    "Idiom": [
      "too many balls in the air"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Too many tasks or responsibilities to manage successfully.",
    "Sentence": [
      "[Prime Minister] Harold Macmillan frequently complained of having to keep too many balls in the air at the same time.",
      "Some analysts say the mediocre performance of the asset-allocation funds may result from the massive amounts of data their managers must sort through: central bank policies, business cycles, stock values, inflation rates and sector performance in various markets, both here and abroad. They may simply have \" too many balls in the air at one time,\" said Anthony J. Ogorek.",
      "If you get too many balls in the air, or are changing your focus too often, as one might argue President Clinton did in his first term, people have a hard time staying with you, much less following your leadership.",
      "\"He has too many balls in the air. He can't stay on top of initiatives from people who report to him. He's a terrible manager.\""
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "8902",
    "Idiom": [
      "too many cooks spoil the stew",
      "too many chefs spoil the broth",
      "too many cooks spoil the soup",
      "too many cooks spoil the broth"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Too many participants can hinder a task's success.",
    "Sentence": [
      "She professes to keep her own counsel; she says, and truly enough, that “ Too many cooks spoil the broth.”"
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "8903",
    "Idiom": [
      "too many cooks spoils the broth"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Too many cooks spoil the broth.",
    "Sentence": [
      "“Leave her to me,” said that courageous woman. “‘ Too many cooks spoils the broth.’”",
      "There, git away from here, the both of ye. Too many cooks spoils the broth.",
      "Hey, Girlie, let me help you finish setting that table while Lil slices them potatoes. Too many cooks spoils the broth."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "8904",
    "Idiom": [
      "too much bed makes a dull head"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Too much inactivity dulls the mind.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "8905",
    "Idiom": [
      "too much pudding will choke a dog"
    ],
    "Meaning": "One can have too much of a good thing.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "8906",
    "Idiom": [
      "too much water drowned the miller"
    ],
    "Meaning": "One may have too much of a good thing.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "8907",
    "Idiom": [
      "too rich for one's blood"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Too expensive or fancy for someone.",
    "Sentence": [
      "\"I don't care to rob you of this bread. Aunt Jane. It's too rich for my blood.... I'd rather take my supper at the cheapest restaurant on the Bowery.\"",
      "\"That's right, fellows,\" roared Lovell from his commanding position, as he jingled a handful of gold coins, \"... and remember that nothing's too rich for our blood to-day.\"",
      "\"Smoke! Me? I'll give you a hoss right now for a cigar. I git one onct a year, mebbe.\" \"Here's a box I've been packin' for long,\" replied Wade, as he handed it up to Billings. \"They're Spanish, all right. Too rich for my blood !\"",
      "It was not just Oklahoma's subsidies that persuaded Seaboard to relocate. The Albert Lea work force was unionized; wages had risen to $19,100 a year—still $3,100 below their level in 1983, but too rich for Seaboard's blood."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "8908",
    "Idiom": [
      "tool around"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To spend time idly.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "8909",
    "Idiom": [
      "toot one's own horn"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To boast or brag.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Not to toot our own horn, but we def had Austin Powers on VHS. This fun pop culture costume for couples may require some planning in advance to come up with these unique costumes, but trust us—it'll pay off!",
      "Not to toot my own horn, but I already knew all that."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "8910",
    "Idiom": [
      "tooth-and-nail"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Fierce and determined.",
    "Sentence": [
      "a tooth-and-nail fight",
      "a tooth-and-nail battle",
      "a tooth-and-nail scrap",
      "a tooth-and-nail debate"
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "8911",
    "Idiom": [
      "toothpaste is out of the tube"
    ],
    "Meaning": "A situation that cannot be reversed.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "8912-1",
    "Idiom": [
      "top banana"
    ],
    "Meaning": "The boss or leader.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Only the top banana can make a decision of that magnitude."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "8912-2",
    "Idiom": [
      "top banana"
    ],
    "Meaning": "The main performer or leader.",
    "Sentence": [
      "He was hilarious, and remained the top banana on the tour for years."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "8913-1",
    "Idiom": [
      "top dog",
      "top cat"
    ],
    "Meaning": "The boss or leader.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "8914-2",
    "Idiom": [
      "top dog"
    ],
    "Meaning": "The expected winner in a competition.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "8915",
    "Idiom": [
      "top dollar"
    ],
    "Meaning": "The maximum worth or price of something.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Within six months, Goodie was back in radio, earning just about the top dollar for a writer ($3,000 weekly) as Danny Kaye's chief scripter.",
      "Consumers are willing to pay top dollar for distinctive, rare, traditional cheeses."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "8916",
    "Idiom": [
      "top drawer"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Of the highest quality.",
    "Sentence": [
      "\"How do I look,\" she said. \"How's my ass look? My ass okay?\" \" Top drawer,\" I said."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "8917",
    "Idiom": [
      "top end of town"
    ],
    "Meaning": "The affluent part of a community.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "8918",
    "Idiom": [
      "top it off"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To enhance or emphasize something.",
    "Sentence": [
      "The boss fired Fred and, to top it all off, he asked security to escort him to the door."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "8919",
    "Idiom": [
      "top notch"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Of the highest level or quality.",
    "Sentence": [
      "The award may be given to anybody who consistently writes top notch content."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "8920",
    "Idiom": [
      "top of mind",
      "front of mind"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Foremost in one's thoughts.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Fighting fat, a top-of-mind concern among consumers today, is the subject of new marketing campaigns.",
      "If shareholders had the power to alter the composition of the corporate board, the authors argue, directors would be more likely to keep investors' interests top of mind when setting CEO salaries and perks.",
      "“It's clear that privacy issues are top of mind for Facebook,” Ms. Stoddart said in a July 2009 statement.",
      "Operationally deployed personnel must \"always be front of mind \" for Defence, according to new Secretary Duncan Lewis."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "8921",
    "Idiom": [
      "top of the hour"
    ],
    "Meaning": "The time at the start of the next hour.",
    "Sentence": [
      "If not done at the top of the hour, however, the station ID should come at the next possible break in the programme."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "8922",
    "Idiom": [
      "top of the line"
    ],
    "Meaning": "The best or highest quality.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Ohh, you can't fool me. This thing's top of the line ! It's got two contrast knobs!",
      "When you buy a top-of-the-line refrigerator, you expect it to work for many years."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "8923",
    "Idiom": [
      "top of the morning"
    ],
    "Meaning": "A cheerful morning greeting.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "8924",
    "Idiom": [
      "top oneself"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To outdo oneself.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "8925-1",
    "Idiom": [
      "top shelf"
    ],
    "Meaning": "High quality.",
    "Sentence": [
      "I bought a bottle of top shelf whiskey."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "8925-2",
    "Idiom": [
      "top shelf"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Describes adult content or softcore pornography.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Most of the band used to buy Autotrader to read on the various bus and plane journeys, but Barry would always turn up with a copy of Underwear Unlimited or some other seedy little top-shelf mag."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "8926",
    "Idiom": [
      "top the charts"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To be the most popular recording.",
    "Sentence": [
      "At the last count in late July, the accumulated mileage of the Pendolino had notched a mind-boggling 287,859,672 (unit 390132 City of Birmingham topping the charts with 5,482,316 miles having passed under its wheels)."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "8927",
    "Idiom": [
      "top to bottom"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Completely; entirely.",
    "Sentence": [
      "They went through everything with a fine-toothed comb, searching the place top to bottom."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "8928-1",
    "Idiom": [
      "top up"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To refill or add to a balance.",
    "Sentence": [
      "For the CBD90, the primary power source is a 526kW/h lead acid battery driving four traction motors. As well as charging from a three-phase shore supply or regenerative braking, the batteries can be topped up by an EU Stage V-compliant 56kW JCB Ecomax diesel engine if required.",
      "I shall top up with petrol before the long trip.",
      "Please top up the tank tonight.",
      "I shall top up the mobile phone at the supermarket.",
      "Users can top up their wallet balance and start sending and receiving money between mobile phones.",
      "The waitress topped up my coffee every few minutes."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "8928-2",
    "Idiom": [
      "top up"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To add to a balance in an account.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "8929",
    "Idiom": [
      "top-heavy with drink"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Drunk.",
    "Sentence": [
      "To have a brick in one’s hat, verb. phr. (American).—To be top-heavy with drink. For synonyms, see Drinks and Screwed.",
      "Imagine yourself about to embark on the New York Limited Express for the eastern metropolis; the train made up of ten Pullman passenger, two baggage and one express cars; with an engineer top-heavy with drink, a conductor braced up to a degree of conviviality, the train-dispatchers along the line overworked and sleepy.",
      "Her sister, Sadie, on the other hand, is top-heavy with drink, drugs, and a serious overdose of eyeshadow. She has hopes of following — or staggering — in the footsteps of her sister.",
      "…including the climactic moment at the conclusion of the recording when George stepped forward (in the tradition of La Scala, Milan) to receive a bouquet but fell into the audience and was too top-heavy with drink to get back on-stage."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "8930",
    "Idiom": [
      "topple over"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To fall over.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Moreover, some innocently untattooed people in the yoga class – who would otherwise be totally ace at balancing – find the light of self-satisfaction that radiates off their classmates' tattoos is so blinding they topple over."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "8931",
    "Idiom": [
      "torque off"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To annoy or anger.",
    "Sentence": [
      "It is hard to remember a talented player who so comprehensively bothered, annoyed, outraged and just plain torqued off the customers quite like Owens."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "8932",
    "Idiom": [
      "torqued off"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Annoyed or angry.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Also-rans such as Dale Jarrett, Kevin Harvick, and Kasey Kahne were torqued off after hanging close all year only to find themselves shut out of a shot at the title."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "8933",
    "Idiom": [
      "toss-up"
    ],
    "Meaning": "A decision with no clear favorable or unfavorable choice.",
    "Sentence": [
      "It's really a toss-up between the red skirt with blue stripes and the blue skirt with red stripes. They both look good and fit well."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "8934",
    "Idiom": [
      "totus porcus"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Completely; unreservedly.",
    "Sentence": [
      "As a founding principle of our trip, Margaret and I decided that if we were going to go, we would go whole hog, totus porcus, super deluxe all the way",
      "I swallowed the official version totus porcus."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "8935",
    "Idiom": [
      "touch a nerve"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To provoke a strong emotional response due to a sensitive issue.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Louis B. Seltzer, editor of the Cleveland Press,... banged out an editorial that raised uncomfortable questions about the state of the U.S. at a moment of world responsibility. His piece touched a nerve : in the following week, 1,000 people had tried to reach him by phone or written him letters or stopped him on the street to talk about it.",
      "The austerity of my tone seemed to touch a nerve and kindle the fire that always slept in this vermilion-headed menace to the common weal, for she frowned a displeased frown and told me for heaven's sake to stop goggling like a dead halibut.",
      "The president's supporters... are trying to exert greater control over universities, touching a nerve among an increasingly defiant student movement."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "8936",
    "Idiom": [
      "touch base"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To make contact or communicate with someone.",
    "Sentence": [
      "I had met with Dr. Todd right before dinner. He had wanted to touch base with me about my ongoing treatment.",
      "Touch base with your boss before you start work to make sure you understand the project."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "8937-1",
    "Idiom": [
      "touch off"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To start something, especially an unstable situation.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Be cautious talking about religion or politics, lest you touch off an argument."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "8937-2",
    "Idiom": [
      "touch off"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To cause to ignite.",
    "Sentence": [
      "A spark touched off the conflagration."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "8938-1",
    "Idiom": [
      "touch on"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To mention briefly.",
    "Sentence": [
      "We touched on the subject of wages, but we didn't reach a conclusion."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "8938-2",
    "Idiom": [
      "touch on"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To address briefly.",
    "Sentence": [
      "I made a little voyage round the lake, and touched on the several towns that lie on its coasts."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "8939",
    "Idiom": [
      "touch oneself"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To masturbate.",
    "Sentence": [
      "I don't want anybody else; when I think about you I touch myself."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "8940",
    "Idiom": [
      "touch the hem of someone's garment"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To give respect or reverence to someone.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Thus, at peace with God and the world, the farmer of Grand-Pré Lived on his sunny farm, and Evangeline governed his household. Many a youth, as he knelt in the church and opened his missal, Fixed his eyes upon her, as the saint of his deepest devotion; Happy was he who might touch her hand or the hem of her garment !",
      "\"I do love you,\" he said with a strong effort to control himself, \"but I am not worthy to touch the hem of your garment.\"",
      "President Clinton is due at Brooklyn College.... \"If he just wants to cut a ribbon or let us touch the hem of his garment, we don't need that.\"",
      "Nelson Mandela... can bathe in the adulation of a worldwide throng yearning to, if not touch the hem of his garment, at least catch a glimpse of him whirring by in a motorcade."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "8941-1",
    "Idiom": [
      "touch up"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To make slight corrections or adjustments.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Use a small brush to touch up the paint anywhere it is uneven."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "8941-2",
    "Idiom": [
      "touch up"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To fondle or grope someone inappropriately.",
    "Sentence": [
      "The creep was trying to touch up my girlfriend."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "8942",
    "Idiom": [
      "touch wood"
    ],
    "Meaning": "A superstition to avert bad luck.",
    "Sentence": [
      "If it′s ever me (Jesus Christ, touch wood !), I don′t want you bringing me flowers.",
      "The English press has been very good to me, touch wood.",
      "I know I have my faults and one of them is my impatience and I also cannot tolerate people who are ill, mainly because I am so very rarely ill—“ Touch wood,” I said out loud and touched my head at the same time.",
      "And the reds are going to avoid relegation this year, touch wood."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "8943-1",
    "Idiom": [
      "touchy-feely"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Driven by intuition or emotion, de-emphasizing rational thought.",
    "Sentence": [
      "He preferred the clarity of science and left the touchy-feely stuff to others."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "8943-2",
    "Idiom": [
      "touchy-feely"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Appealing to emotion or sentiment.",
    "Sentence": [
      "I think the movie had too much touchy-feely nonsense and not enough action."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "8944",
    "Idiom": [
      "tough as nails"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Having a strong and determined mindset.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "8945-1",
    "Idiom": [
      "tough break"
    ],
    "Meaning": "A situation resulting in misfortune or bad luck.",
    "Sentence": [
      "So I close by saying that I might have had a tough break, but I have an awful lot to live for.",
      "When you pulled that job in Westchester two years ago, I'll admit you got a tough break."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "8945-2",
    "Idiom": [
      "tough break"
    ],
    "Meaning": "An expression of mild sympathy for someone's misfortune.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Tough break, Linda.",
      "My reaction? Tough break, chump."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "8946",
    "Idiom": [
      "tough call"
    ],
    "Meaning": "A difficult choice or judgment.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Will it work? It's a tough call."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "8947",
    "Idiom": [
      "tough cookies"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Too bad; the desired outcome is unlikely to change.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "8948",
    "Idiom": [
      "tough going"
    ],
    "Meaning": "A difficult situation.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "8949",
    "Idiom": [
      "tough love"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Compassionate discipline to improve behavior.",
    "Sentence": [
      "He found himself surrounded by a circle of caring friends and relatives who told him one by one that they loved him but could not continue to live with him or be his friend the way he was. As one of his closest friends recalled, it was a show of tough love.",
      "When it came to Latin America's economic travails, Bush adhered to the principle of tough love : no more bailouts.",
      "And she offers tough love : “There are no ugly women in the world, just lazy ones,” she says during a “Mind Your Manners” hygiene lesson in which she instructs her students to smell their used dental floss to find out if they have bad breath."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "8950-1",
    "Idiom": [
      "tough luck"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Bad luck.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "8950-2",
    "Idiom": [
      "tough luck"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Bad luck; an unsympathetic response to someone's misfortune.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Your car broke down? Well, tough luck, you're due at work in 15 minutes. Better run."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "8951",
    "Idiom": [
      "tough sledding"
    ],
    "Meaning": "A difficult situation.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "8952",
    "Idiom": [
      "tough titty"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Acknowledges misfortune while denying sympathy.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "8953",
    "Idiom": [
      "tough tuchus"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Expresses indifference to someone's unfortunate situation.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "8954",
    "Idiom": [
      "toughen up"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To become mentally tougher.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "8955",
    "Idiom": [
      "town and gown"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Refers to the relationship between a university community and the local community, often characterized by rivalry or tension.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Howls, curses, flights of brickbats, stones shivering windows, groans of wounded men, cries of frightened females, cheers of either contending party as it charged the enemy from Carfax to Trumpington Street, proclaimed that the battle was at its height. In Berlin they would have said it was a revolution, and the cuirassiers would have been charging, sabre in hand, amidst that infuriate mob. In France they would have brought down artillery, and played on it with twenty-four pounders. In Cambridge nobody heeded the disturbance—it was a Town and Gown row.",
      "Everybody was quiet now, both town and gown; the students were at their dinners and so were the burghers.",
      "The first archives of this University were burned in the ‘ Town and Gown ’ riots of 1381 by the Townsmen."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "8956",
    "Idiom": [
      "toys in the attic"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Insanity or craziness.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Crazy / Toys in the attic, I am crazy / Truly gone fishing",
      "\"Loony,\" Milo said smugly. He'd found the button, all right. \"Loony's kid, loony's kid, your father's got toys in the attic, kid, tough break...",
      "\"You're nuts,\" Bruno said. \"You've got toys in the attic. No one's happy to be here.\""
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "8957",
    "Idiom": [
      "track down"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To search for or locate.",
    "Sentence": [
      "I need to track down a computer so I can check my e-mails."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "8958",
    "Idiom": [
      "track record"
    ],
    "Meaning": "A history of performance for judgment.",
    "Sentence": [
      "\"Ideally, for this job, you want someone with a track record of commitment to civil rights, especially to racial justice, and he just doesn't have that.\"",
      "Gaddafi's calls for unity and stability are at odds with his track record of backing rebellions.",
      "This is a truly appalling track record, and the DfT is now facing an awkward choice between entering a new short-form contract with Avanti's private sector owners or mobilising its Operator of Last Resort."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "8959",
    "Idiom": [
      "trade hands"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To change ownership.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Also, no money trades hands. This lack of money may make the dating market not seem like a market at all, but eighteen years of economics training has allowed me to see economics everywhere.",
      "The price at which a good or service trades hands reflects the cost to the producer plus whatever profit he can get in a competitive market.",
      "Between 1814 and 1845, exactly 15,500 shares traded hands in 1,167 transactions, an average of 500 shares per year."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "8960",
    "Idiom": [
      "trailer trash",
      "trailer park trash"
    ],
    "Meaning": "A derogatory term for poorly educated individuals of low social status, often living in trailer parks.",
    "Sentence": [
      "I didn't wear my “ Trailer Park Trash ” T-shirt that day.",
      "I swear, this whole thing sounds like we're talking about some hillbilly trailer park trash.",
      "Eric's remark about “ trailer park trash ” is strictly his. I have some very good friends who live in trailers and they are not trash."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "8961",
    "Idiom": [
      "transform and roll out"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Let's go.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "8962",
    "Idiom": [
      "tread carefully"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To exercise caution.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "8963",
    "Idiom": [
      "tread lightly"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To proceed carefully to avoid causing offense.",
    "Sentence": [
      "He's in a bad mood today, so you might want to tread lightly if you talk to him."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "8964",
    "Idiom": [
      "tread on someone's toes"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To offend someone.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "8965-1",
    "Idiom": [
      "tread the boards"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To work as a theatre actor.",
    "Sentence": [
      "How do I know she would have succeeded? She had never then trod the boards. Besides, what strikes you as so good in a village show, may be poor enough in a metropolitan theatre.",
      "The sleek bigot of the conventicle is a more superb actor than the applauded mime who treads the boards.",
      "This actress was an amiable woman; and Madge enacted Celia in \" As You Like It \" at her benefit without any revival of the dread of Shakspeare which the tragedian had implanted in her. She was now beginning to tread the boards with familiar ease. At first, the necessity of falling punctually into prearranged positions on the stage, and of making her exits and entrances at prescribed sides, had so preoccupied her that all freedom of attention or identification of herself with the character she represented had been impossible.",
      "Jack and Stephen, treading the boards together in Dublin, could not be summoned so fast.",
      "As Mac Wellman 's Crowbar so powerfully suggests, every performance, like every theatre building, is haunted by what has come before, by the ghosts of characters and actors who have trod the boards.",
      "He spent eight years before the war treading the boards as a professional actor in repertory theaters in Manchester.",
      "Low comedy. Not fit for a thespian like me. If you want burletta, go to a saloon. I, sir, am Sir Theodore Cannon, and have treaded the boards with Booth, and with Bartlett.",
      "He seems to think that he's the greatest actor who's ever trod the boards."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "8965-2",
    "Idiom": [
      "tread the boards"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To perform on stage.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "8966",
    "Idiom": [
      "treat 'em mean to keep 'em keen",
      "treat them mean, keep them keen"
    ],
    "Meaning": "A woman is more interested if a man is not kind.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "8967",
    "Idiom": [
      "tremble and obey"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Unthinking obedience to authority.",
    "Sentence": [
      "The ordinary voter... feels himself their humble subject, whose duty is, as the Chinese used to say, to “ tremble and obey ”.",
      "Never “ tremble and obey ” if doing so will damage or destroy your business in China.",
      "... the previous colonial government and the current tremble-and-obey government have helped foster the myth of a historically politically apathetic and selfish society..."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "8968",
    "Idiom": [
      "trench mouth"
    ],
    "Meaning": "A severe bacterial gum infection.",
    "Sentence": [
      "\" Trench mouth \" is one of the war diseases which is engaging the attention of British army doctors.",
      "Vincent's angina (or trench mouth) is a distinct form of ulcerative gingivitis."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "8969",
    "Idiom": [
      "trial balloon"
    ],
    "Meaning": "An idea offered to test acceptance or interest.",
    "Sentence": [
      "\"The originality of the plan and views of the author , and, above all, the perfect independence of its execution,\" are, according to the narrator in the Bulletin, the chief features of this new production; and the summary sketch of it which has been published, is (to use the phraseology of the same writer) \"as a kind of trial balloon,\" launched with the view of seeing how the wind sits for his \"great work.\"",
      "If any stronger presumption that his brochure is a trial-balloon of the present ministry be required, it will be found in the pages 19 and 20, wherein Sir Howard Douglas and Mr. Bliss receive a full volley of foul-mouthed Billingsgate.",
      "Hints— trial-balloons he called them—are adroitly thrown out in the newspapers, and one or two articles from his pen appear in the periodicals. When the public mind, as he judges, is prepared, he addresses the Minister officially on the subject.",
      "The other two productions of the press quoted at the commencement are of the fugitive pamphlet sort, to be considered as a sort of literary trial-balloons, thrown out to see if the current of opinion sets fairly for their makers to follow on with larger, or, as sometimes happens, to attract the public gaze to the makers of the new literary bubbles.",
      "Possibly the story is given out tentatively by way of testing the public mind—as a species of \" trial balloon,\" if we may borrow a French term for this sort of experimentation with public sentiment.",
      "Congressman Cordell Hull, onetime Chairman of the Democratic National Committee, last week issued a statement, as a sort of trial balloon no doubt, linking the high tariff with failure to get 100 cents on a dollar in payment on War debts from Europe.",
      "If the Board had the right which it claims to divest the Court of its jurisdiction, then the Board's orders would become nothing more than trial balloons. If they met with no opposition they would be enforced. If the respondent had the means and the inclination to oppose the Board, and set up meritorious defenses, the cases could be taken back for more careful consideration.",
      "Mr. Chairman, is there any truth at all to the growing suspicion that you people are sending up a trial balloon with these rumors of the President's death? To see just how much political mileage there is in it, if any?",
      "Publishers frequently used subscription announcements as trial balloons. If they failed to elicit much response, they would drop the project, having lost only a pittance for the publication of the prospectus or having gained a ransom from some competitor who took them seriously.",
      "No one in the day-to-day hustle of e-commerce talks very seriously about the kind of trial-balloon gimmicks that claim to revolutionise the last mile: deliveries by drones and parachutes and autonomous vehicles, zeppelin warehouses, robots on sidewalks."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "8970",
    "Idiom": [
      "trial by fire"
    ],
    "Meaning": "An ordeal that tests strength or resolve.",
    "Sentence": [
      "But take it all in all, the overland trail was a trial by fire. One gets a notion of its deadliness from the fact that over five thousand people died of cholera alone.",
      "Now, residents' legendary 100+-hour workweek may be on its way out.... Some doctors insist the long hours are a necessary trial by fire that produces highly skilled, virtually unflappable physicians."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "8971",
    "Idiom": [
      "trial by media"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Media coverage influencing public perception of a person's guilt or innocence.",
    "Sentence": [
      "\"Next up is a suit for procedural malfeasance, including false arrest, dereliction of duty, excessive force, and incompetence. I like to think of it as the 'impersonating a police force' suit. It'll play well on the news.\" \"You threaten our clients with trial by media ?\" \"Why yes, yes I do. And we're willing to settle out of court on this one. All you need to do is drop all charges against our lieutenant commander.\""
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "8972-1",
    "Idiom": [
      "trials and tribulations"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Unpleasant experiences that test endurance and strength.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "8972-2",
    "Idiom": [
      "trials and tribulations"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Challenges and difficulties.",
    "Sentence": [
      "I went through my usual trials and tribulations of the day, and now I am here visiting you."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "8973",
    "Idiom": [
      "trick of the trade"
    ],
    "Meaning": "A shortcut learned from experience in a profession.",
    "Sentence": [
      "For the most part, he has some knack, or trick of the trade, which by close inspection can be delected, and so the heart of his mystery be seen into.",
      "There is no trick of the trade which he does not know, no artifice which he does not which he does not habitually practise.",
      "We spent a lot of time up on the staging of the great furnaces, trying to pick up the tricks of the trade from the taciturn furnacemen who sat around placidly smoking, or chewing twist, and occasionally throwing in more pig iron to the molten white-hot metal.",
      "Most customers won't notice this trick of the trade, since the part is not sat upon."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "8974",
    "Idiom": [
      "trip out"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To have a mental image.",
    "Sentence": [
      "We enjoyed joking, blaspheming and tripping out on teachers, administrators and on some of the weird-looking students on campus.",
      "In the beginning of the story, Mae was tripping out on being princess with a. dyeing her hair b. long golden hair c. a long dress d. an Afro",
      "The drama with the bikers had given him insomnia. So he'd made it through the night lying in bed on his back with the bedroom lights out and staring into the darkness. Xavier had been tripping out, thinking about a lifetime of mistakes he'd managed to make over a couple years."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "8975",
    "Idiom": [
      "trip to the woodshed"
    ],
    "Meaning": "An occasion for private reprimand or punishment.",
    "Sentence": [
      "More than a few of the 3,000 members of the National Association of Manufacturers, gathered for their annual convention in Manhattan's Waldorf-Astoria Hotel last week, felt like small boys worrying about a trip to the woodshed. None knew how vindictive or friendly toward business the Truman Administration would be."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "8976",
    "Idiom": [
      "trot out"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To list or recite quickly.",
    "Sentence": [
      "It is a canard trotted out by lazy or tendentious journalists that nationalised British Railways lacked entrepreneurial flair."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "8977",
    "Idiom": [
      "trotter case"
    ],
    "Meaning": "A shoe or boot.",
    "Sentence": [
      "So he at once expressed his readiness; and, kneeling on the floor, while the Dodger sat upon the table so that he could take his foot in his laps, he applied himself to a process which Mr. Dawkins designated as “japanning his trotter-cases.” The phrase, rendered into plain English, signifieth, cleaning his boots."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "8978",
    "Idiom": [
      "trouble at mill"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Problems outside the household, especially at work.",
    "Sentence": [
      "THERE is anonymous trouble at mill. Information hath been laid this day, as summonses say, that not all the recipients of the British Telecom staff newspaper Telecom Today, are pleased to get it.",
      "You're being kept here by the British Council, reasons to follow. \"Held up, darling – trouble at mill – my lords and masters are begging me to stay on till it's sorted.\"",
      "She was under the impression it was just boys being boys while the staff kept most of the goings on under wraps and woe betide anybody who dared say anything – what went on in the children's home stayed in the children's home. 'What's he doing here?' said Anthony, entering the kitchen. 'It looks like there's been trouble at mill,' explained Mum."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "8979",
    "Idiom": [
      "trouble in paradise"
    ],
    "Meaning": "An unexpected problem in a seemingly positive situation.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Chaucer's people are not paralyzed by self-consciousness in the act of love. They possess none of modern man's neurasthenic haste to import trouble in paradise.",
      "Is there trouble in paradise ? Maybe not, but it will be interesting to see whether the Bulls can make it through another season without serious internal problems.",
      "He’ll keep on peeping through her window, anxious for some glimpse of trouble in paradise with the new boyfriend.",
      "My wife wasn't in the best of moods on our honeymoon last week. ― Trouble in paradise ?"
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "8980",
    "Idiom": [
      "true stripes"
    ],
    "Meaning": "One's true character or beliefs.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "8981",
    "Idiom": [
      "true to form"
    ],
    "Meaning": "As expected.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "8982-1",
    "Idiom": [
      "trump up"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To create falsely or fabricate.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Those of the men who had swapped horses with passing drovers, without the exchange of receipts, were busy all afternoon trumping up witnesses.",
      "His electoral \"campaign\" to date has included attempts to trump up criminal charges against his opponents."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "8982-2",
    "Idiom": [
      "trump up"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To heavily promote or market a product.",
    "Sentence": [
      "We don't often trump up products purely for the virtue of being \"new\"."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "8983",
    "Idiom": [
      "trust everybody, but always cut the cards",
      "trust everybody, but cut the cards",
      "trust every man, but cut the cards",
      "trust everybody, but cut the deck",
      "trust everybody, but always cut the deck",
      "trust your friends, but cut the cards"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Have faith in others, but take precautions against deception.",
    "Sentence": [
      "A deep-dyed fatalist, sentimental yet cynical—\" Trust everybody,\" he is fond of saying, \" but cut the cards \"—his running history of his Chicago tribe is a struggle of clan and family survival, with little help from outsiders.",
      "I was often reminded of Mr. Dooley's famous admonition to “ Trust everybody, but cut the cards.” We did “cut the cards” by installing a fake camera high on one wall and pointed at the cash register.",
      "It's a version of President Ronald Reagen's famous statements “trust but verify” and “ trust everybody, but cut the cards.” We the public are tired of being duped, and we are now ready to hold companies responsible and accountable."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "8984",
    "Idiom": [
      "truth be told"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Used when admitting something one might otherwise hide.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Well, certainly there are those who are more responsible than others - and they will be held accountable - but again, truth be told, if you're looking for the guilty, you need only look into a mirror.",
      "When I opened my laptop on Tuesday to take my first run at GPT-4, the new artificial intelligence language model from OpenAI, I was, truth be told, a little nervous.",
      "I'm not sure if I can do this, truth be told.",
      "Actually, truth be told, I just don't like you."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "8985",
    "Idiom": [
      "truth will out"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Truth will eventually be discovered.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "8986-1",
    "Idiom": [
      "try it on"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To test someone's tolerance or gullibility.",
    "Sentence": [
      "“Come, come,” said James, putting his hand to his nose and winking at his cousin with a pair of vinous eyes, “no jokes, old boy; no trying it on on me. You want to trot me out, but it’s no go. In vino veritas, old boy ”",
      "“We must not submit,” said Mr. Eager. “I knew he was trying it on. He is treating us as if we were a party of Cook’s tourists.”",
      "The Arabs hate the French more than they hate us. Having more reason to do so, they are more polite; in other words, they have learnt not to try it on, when they meet a European.",
      "“I’m warning you. I’m going to get angry. D’you see? You’re not wanted. Understand? We are going to have fun on this island. Understand? We are going to have fun on this island! So don’t try it on, my poor misguided boy, or else—” New York: Putnam, 1964, Chapter 8, p. 133, 3"
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "8986-2",
    "Idiom": [
      "try it on"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To attempt to initiate a sexual relationship.",
    "Sentence": [
      "“ Tell her I’ll be outside the house from eleven o’clock onwards. Tell her to leave the morning-room window open and to switch on the light in her bedroom when it’s safe for me to come in.” “She won’t believe me if I go and tell her that,” I said. “No girl would. She’d think I was trying it on.”",
      "No, this was only a young man trying it on with a girl, in that light, undergraduate way in which this kind could snap back."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "8987-1",
    "Idiom": [
      "try on for size"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To test for suitability.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "8987-2",
    "Idiom": [
      "try on for size"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To consider an idea.",
    "Sentence": [
      "\"Cool. So obviously that's your outfit's kinda thing, but try this on for size on top of it: I did not forget. I still haven't.\""
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "8987-3",
    "Idiom": [
      "try on for size"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To test or evaluate.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Mona: Try this vampire bolt on for size !"
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "8988",
    "Idiom": [
      "try one's hand"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To attempt a skill or action, often for the first time.",
    "Sentence": [
      "I thought I'd try my hand at woodworking, until I saw how much the tools cost."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "8989",
    "Idiom": [
      "tube steak"
    ],
    "Meaning": "A frankfurter/hot dog.",
    "Sentence": [
      "She said it's often used in doughnuts and American hot dogs (solving at least a minuscule part of the what's-in-a- tube-steak mystery)."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "8990",
    "Idiom": [
      "tug of war"
    ],
    "Meaning": "A dispute between two parties.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "8991",
    "Idiom": [
      "tug one's forelock"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Shows deference or respect.",
    "Sentence": [
      "These students were quite capable of tugging their forelocks while raising two fingers behind their backs (Newby, 1977), i.e. producing deferential behaviour as part of a more complicated game of manipulation.",
      "\"Aw, lay off, will you? It's part of my job, you know that.\" \"Yeah, bowing and scraping and tugging your forelock to all those rich old crones. Somebody's chauffeur probably got a scratch on the El Dorado, huh?\""
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "8992",
    "Idiom": [
      "tumble on"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To accidentally encounter.",
    "Sentence": [
      "“I’m luck to have fallen upon you, Kemp. You must help me. Fancy tumbling on you just now! I’m in a devilish scrape ”",
      "“He murdered the man all right. I tumbled on the truth by the merest accident, when I’d pretty nearly chucked the whole job.”",
      "“If it isn’t Peter Hames?” he cried. “God bless my soul! They told us over in New York that you were living in these parts, but to tumble on you like this! Why, we only landed here two minutes ago. I call this fine.”"
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "8993",
    "Idiom": [
      "tune in"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To pay attention.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "8994",
    "Idiom": [
      "tune out"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To stop paying attention to.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Ants are everywhere, in such abundance that we tune them out like we tune out traffic noise.",
      "I have a hard time tuning out a television that is on."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "8995",
    "Idiom": [
      "tune up"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To beat up (someone).",
    "Sentence": [
      "“We finally stopped roustin' him and decided to tune him up instead, every chance we got.” “ Tune him up ?” “Yeah, that's an expression for beatin' the living dog shit outta somebody.”",
      "“I mean, I had to tune her up a bit. She bitched a lot and never did any work. Sometimes, you know, you just gotta get their attention, whack 'em a little.\"",
      "They couldn't tune him up because the murder had to look like he died in his sleep."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "8996-1",
    "Idiom": [
      "tuned in"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Paying attention.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "8996-2",
    "Idiom": [
      "tuned in"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Attuned; having a sense of understanding.",
    "Sentence": [
      "tuned in to youth culture"
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "8997-1",
    "Idiom": [
      "tuppence worth"
    ],
    "Meaning": "One's opinion.",
    "Sentence": [
      "That's just my tuppenceworth; you can believe what you like."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "8997-2",
    "Idiom": [
      "tuppence worth"
    ],
    "Meaning": "A small amount.",
    "Sentence": [
      "He had only a tuppence worth of success."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "8998",
    "Idiom": [
      "turd in the punchbowl"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Something that ruins or spoils everything else.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "8999",
    "Idiom": [
      "turf war"
    ],
    "Meaning": "A confrontation for access to resources.",
    "Sentence": [
      "It's a fascinating distinction, and one that also has the neat effect of moving the debate on from the contentious territory of the SF/litfic turfwar into that of value-neutral literary theory."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "9000-1",
    "Idiom": [
      "turkey shoot"
    ],
    "Meaning": "A situation where the targets have little ability to defend themselves.",
    "Sentence": [
      "In the Battle of the Marianas, which pilots called \"the turkey shoot,\" they downed 360 Japanese planes in a single day, the record bag of the war.",
      "Almost everyone argued that it would be inhumane for Americans to engage in a turkey shoot against fleeing Iraqi soldiers.",
      "The U-boats, for instance, had a stranglehold on the merchant shipping supplying Britain, and it was thought that a convoy system would turn into a turkey shoot."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "9000-2",
    "Idiom": [
      "turkey shoot"
    ],
    "Meaning": "An unequal competitive situation.",
    "Sentence": [
      "The University of Delaware Blue Hens had themselves a turkey shoot here Saturday at Delaware Stadium as they humbled Boston University, 41-13, before 10,350.",
      "Their exit from the tournament, without a set between them yesterday, at least demonstrated that the women's game is not quite the turkey shoot it might have seemed."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "9001",
    "Idiom": [
      "turn a blind eye"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To deliberately ignore or overlook something.",
    "Sentence": [
      "I must say that for some reasons we wanted such a person very much, and find her very useful, so I turn a blind eye and a deaf ear every now and then, and we get on marvellously well.",
      "I do not speak of portraiture in marble. In this my countrymen, without having produced any really very great work, by the old standards, make a respectable show, as compared with the average portrait sculpture of the day of other nations. In saying this, however, we must turn a blind eye to a considerable number of statues of our distinguished citizens which even more lamentably exhibit the defects arising from ignorance of modeling and design, impatience of study and self-conceit, than the ideal compositions by the same hands, because the contrasts between the ill-constructed effigy and the familiar living man, to the spectator, is too palpably unpleasant to be long overlooked.",
      "A blacker thing than blood's own dye / Weighed down great Hawkins on the sea; / And Nelson turned his blindest eye / On Naples and on liberty.",
      "The party's top official in Northern Ireland, Michelle O'Neill, tweeted at the time that the police force was \" turning a blind eye \" to loyalist paramilitaries—those engaging in violence as part of a decades-long fight to maintain the region’s status as part of the United Kingdom—\"while targeting those laying flowers on the anniversary of loved ones.\"",
      "She [Emmeline Taylor] said, facing a cost of living crisis, many consumers were more willing to \" turn a blind eye \" to stolen food.",
      "The mother turned a blind eye to her son’s mischief as she expected him not to repeat it."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "9002",
    "Idiom": [
      "turn a deaf ear"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To refuse to listen.",
    "Sentence": [
      "This really confirms that Sacramentans turn a deaf ear to efforts to legislate bigotry and homophobia. Sacramento ought to take a lot of pride in looking at their community as one that tolerates diversity.",
      "They turned a deaf ear to her entreaties."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "9003",
    "Idiom": [
      "turn a hair"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To show fear or distress.",
    "Sentence": [
      "If in some hideous dissecting-room or fetid laboratory you found this man lying on a leaden table with red gutters scooped out in it, you would simply look upon him as an admirable subject. You would not turn a hair.",
      "those seasoned topers who drank their companions under the table without themselves turning a hair",
      "they all went into a shop that Jennifer alone would never have dreamed of entering, and looked at watches; finally Jane bought a gold self-winding wrist-watch for her husband for ninety-two guineas, and never turned a hair."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "9004",
    "Idiom": [
      "turn a number of shades of red"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To blush, often from embarrassment or shame.",
    "Sentence": [
      "I must have turned 2 shades of red. Talk about embarrassed.",
      "Tristan craned his neck, but not before Fred suddenly looked over at us, turned 17 shades of red and ducked behind a palm tree, busily arranging tortilla chips in little anally retentive rows.",
      "To say that Midorima turned a billion shades of red would be an understatement."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "9005",
    "Idiom": [
      "turn a phrase"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To create a clear and memorable expression.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Gerard coloured all over at the compliment; but not knowing how to turn a phrase equal to the occasion, asked her if he should resume her picture.",
      "\"Ah, how gracefully these wild northern men can turn a phrase !\" whispered Chrysophrasia.",
      "Everyone who was anyone at Long Barton spoke in careful and correct English, but no one ever troubled to turn a phrase.",
      "Nobody, however, can take issue with Purdy's ability to turn a phrase. He has that rare Joycean knack for illuminating an entire universe with one simple detail."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "9006-1",
    "Idiom": [
      "turn a profit"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To obtain profit from an investment.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "9006-2",
    "Idiom": [
      "turn a profit"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To gain money.",
    "Sentence": [
      "The company has not turned a profit from the merger."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "9007",
    "Idiom": [
      "turn a trick"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To perform a sexual service.",
    "Sentence": [
      "The girls explained to me that they got eighty cents a trick, one payment for each metal check—“ turning a trick ” was how they described one session with a john.",
      "City prostitutes say laws governing the sex trade are putting them in danger every time they turn a trick."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "9008-1",
    "Idiom": [
      "turn against"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To oppose something once supported.",
    "Sentence": [
      "They turned against their leader."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "9008-2",
    "Idiom": [
      "turn against"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To betray or oppose.",
    "Sentence": [
      "His argument was turned against him.",
      "They turned their arms against their former allies."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "9009-1",
    "Idiom": [
      "turn around"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To change drastically, often for the better.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Seeing the British establishment struggle with the financial sector is like watching an alcoholic who still resists the idea that something drastic needs to happen for him to turn his life around.",
      "She turned her position around and now she is in favor of the merger."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "9009-2",
    "Idiom": [
      "turn around"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To suddenly change one's opinion or behavior.",
    "Sentence": [
      "You can't just turn around and say that it was all my fault."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "9009-3",
    "Idiom": [
      "turn around"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To consider from a different viewpoint.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Let's turn that around and look at it from another angle."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "9009-4",
    "Idiom": [
      "turn around"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To produce or generate.",
    "Sentence": [
      "We can turn around 500 units by next week."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "9010-1",
    "Idiom": [
      "turn back"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To reverse direction.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Turning back, then, toward the basement staircase, she began to grope her way through blinding darkness, but had taken only a few uncertain steps when, of a sudden, she stopped short and for a little stood like a stricken thing, quite motionless save that she quaked to her very marrow in the grasp of a great and enervating fear.",
      "Realising he had forgotten his briefcase, he turned back and re-entered the office."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "9010-2",
    "Idiom": [
      "turn back"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To reverse direction and retrace steps.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Pilton Yard, the Lynton & Barnstaple headquarters, has been taken over by a fur trading firm, and would-be trespassers to the old engine-shed are turned back by the pungent odour of heaps of carcases.",
      "The barrage of machine-gun fire turned back the encroaching soldiers."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "9010-3",
    "Idiom": [
      "turn back"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To return to a previous state.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Welcome to your life There's no turning back Even while we sleep We will find you",
      "He stopped drinking for a couple of years, but now he has turned back to his old ways.",
      "Once we take this decision, there's no turning back."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "9010-4",
    "Idiom": [
      "turn back"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To prevent passage or progress.",
    "Sentence": [
      "The soldiers turned back all the refugees at the frontier."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "9010-5",
    "Idiom": [
      "turn back"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To return to a previous position or state.",
    "Sentence": [
      "In Autumn we normally turn the clocks back one hour.",
      "I love that song: turn back to it!"
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "9010-6",
    "Idiom": [
      "turn back"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To fold something back.",
    "Sentence": [
      "When you make the bed, please always turn the sheet back over the blanket."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "9010-7",
    "Idiom": [
      "turn back"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To return.",
    "Sentence": [
      "We turn not back the silks upon the merchants, When we have soiled them; nor the remainder viands."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "9011",
    "Idiom": [
      "turn back the clock"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To return to a previous state.",
    "Sentence": [
      "We had a terrible year so we agreed to turn back the clock and go on as if it hadn't happened."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "9012-1",
    "Idiom": [
      "turn down"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To refuse or decline.",
    "Sentence": [
      "A local doctor had bought one canvas and but for that lucky chance he would have been out of pocket. Now he was muttering grumpily at Edmund, \"Have to get something better this trip, Edmund. Got to pull up somehow or buyers will be turnin' us down. Sales been gettin' worse and worse these last years.\"",
      "Govia Thameslink Railway declined to comment on the study and turned down our request for an interview to address the issues raised.",
      "He turned down all our offers of help."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "9012-2",
    "Idiom": [
      "turn down"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To reduce the power of something.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Turn down the television so I can hear myself think.",
      "When it starts to boil, turn down the heat to a simmer."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "9012-3",
    "Idiom": [
      "turn down"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To reposition downward; to fold down.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Turn down the blankets to let them air out."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "9013",
    "Idiom": [
      "turn heads"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To garner attention.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "9014-1",
    "Idiom": [
      "turn in"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To submit something.",
    "Sentence": [
      "He turned in his paperwork to the main office.",
      "The actors turned in a formulaic performance."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "9014-2",
    "Idiom": [
      "turn in"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To relinquish or report someone to authorities.",
    "Sentence": [
      "The thief finally turned himself in at the police station.",
      "My nosy next-door neighbor turned me in for building my garage without a permit."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "9014-3",
    "Idiom": [
      "turn in"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To go to bed.",
    "Sentence": [
      "\"Landlord,\" said I, \"tell him to stash his tomahawk there, or pipe, or whatever you call it; tell him to stop smoking, in short, and I will turn in with him.",
      "I'm tired, so I think I'll turn in early tonight."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "9015",
    "Idiom": [
      "turn in one's grave"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Expresses being appalled or offended by something after death.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Brought forth wind that made critics rave / While Verdi turned round in his grave",
      "If he ever finds out who's hijacked his name / He'll cut out his heart and turn in his grave",
      "Beethoven is probably turning in his grave at the way that rock group mangled his Ninth Symphony.",
      "The new scientific discovery about the gravitation particle could make Isaac Newton turn in his grave."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "9016-1",
    "Idiom": [
      "turn into"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To transform into.",
    "Sentence": [
      "The carriage turned into a pumpkin at midnight."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "9016-2",
    "Idiom": [
      "turn into"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To transform into.",
    "Sentence": [
      "\"I am the nursery magic Fairy,\" she said. \"I take care of all the playthings that the children have loved. When they are old and worn out and the children don't need them any more, then I come and take them away with me and turn them into Real.\"",
      "Yet in “Through a Latte, Darkly”, a new study of how Starbucks has largely avoided paying tax in Britain, Edward Kleinbard … shows that current tax rules make it easy for all sorts of firms to generate what he calls “stateless income”: …. In Starbucks’s case, the firm has in effect turned the process of making an expensive cup of coffee into intellectual property."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "9017-1",
    "Idiom": [
      "turn into a pumpkin"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To go to bed or sleep around midnight.",
    "Sentence": [
      "I'm about ready to turn into a pumpkin. You can stay up later if you want.",
      "Tell her I'm turning into a pumpkin if she stays out too late. She won't be getting a lift from me."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "9017-2",
    "Idiom": [
      "turn into a pumpkin"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Indicates a curfew or departure time.",
    "Sentence": [
      "My daughter turns into a pumpkin at 10:00, so you need to have her home before then.",
      "I'm turning into a pumpkin at 4:00, so we need to finish this.",
      "\"I need to get back now!\" \"Why? Are you going to turn into a pumpkin ?\""
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "9017-3",
    "Idiom": [
      "turn into a pumpkin"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To cease to be special or extraordinary.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "9018",
    "Idiom": [
      "turn loose"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To release or let go.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Don't turn the dog loose in the yard before you check whether the gate is closed.",
      "He's so creative, and I'd love to turn him loose in my garden sometime and see what he dreams up.",
      "Phil - we're turning you loose on this hospital project. Please start right away."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "9019",
    "Idiom": [
      "turn of events"
    ],
    "Meaning": "A deviation from the expected.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "9020",
    "Idiom": [
      "turn of the screw"
    ],
    "Meaning": "A gradual imposition of restrictions.",
    "Sentence": [
      "There is every chance that as far as the government's budget cutting goes, the next turn of the screw will see the SRC squeezed, despite the fact that the council has, quite rightly, been spared from the worst of the earlier cuts."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "9021-1",
    "Idiom": [
      "turn off"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To dismiss.",
    "Sentence": [
      "He came to this country in the service of an English gentleman, whom he was obliged to quit through the malice of the valet de chambre, who taking advantage of the young man's being overtaken with liquor on the last St.Andrew's day, turned him off, on the pretext of his being an habitual drunkard."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "9021-2",
    "Idiom": [
      "turn off"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To power down or deactivate.",
    "Sentence": [
      "\"Will it ever stop?\" Yo, I don't know / Turn off the lights, and I'll glow",
      "Hello, IT. Have you tried turning it off and turning it on again? Ok. Well, are you sure that it's plugged in?",
      "Turn off the machine and unplug it when you leave."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "9021-3",
    "Idiom": [
      "turn off"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To become deactivated.",
    "Sentence": [
      "My computer turned off !"
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "9021-4",
    "Idiom": [
      "turn off"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To stop the flow of liquid or gas.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Remember to turn the tap off once you've finished so you don't waste water."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "9021-5",
    "Idiom": [
      "turn off"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To repulse or discourage.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Better be a gentleman, or you'll turn me off",
      "\"They are turning people off travelling. And the removal of catering on such a long-distance route is just bonkers.\"",
      "Cigarette smoking really turns me off."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "9021-6",
    "Idiom": [
      "turn off"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To exit a road.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Turn off at the next exit so we can have lunch."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "9022-1",
    "Idiom": [
      "turn on"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To activate a flow by rotating a tap or valve.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Turn on the tap"
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "9022-2",
    "Idiom": [
      "turn on"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To activate or start something.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Hello, IT. Have you tried turning it off and turning it on again? Ok. Well, are you sure that it's plugged in?",
      "Robins, of Torquay, had denied a single charge of causing unnecessary suffering to an animal. She claimed the microwave was accidentally turned on by one of the cats after the kitten got inside. But Knutton said the kitten was too small to even get onto the work surface.",
      "Please turn the lights on so I can see what I'm reading.",
      "Please turn on automatic updates."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "9022-3",
    "Idiom": [
      "turn on"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To start operating or power up.",
    "Sentence": [
      "My computer won't turn on."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "9022-4",
    "Idiom": [
      "turn on"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To introduce someone to something exciting or pleasurable.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Attractive packaging can turn buyers on to a product.",
      "Attractive showroom models can turn buyers on.",
      "Hearing that song turned me on to jazz fusion."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "9022-5",
    "Idiom": [
      "turn on"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To sexually arouse.",
    "Sentence": [
      "You don't have to be beautiful to turn me on / I just need your body, baby, from dusk 'til dawn",
      "You really turn me on / You knock me off of my feet / My lonely days are gone",
      "You make me feel like I'm livin' a teenage dream / The way you turn me on, I can't sleep",
      "John's a maid fetishist. Maid outfits really turn him on."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "9022-6",
    "Idiom": [
      "turn on"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To take drugs.",
    "Sentence": [
      "\"Well, they seem to always have dope up there, and I like to turn on, too.\" \"You do?\" \"Sure. Cops is just people. I don't drink, so I gotta do something to get my kicks.\""
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "9022-7",
    "Idiom": [
      "turn on"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To cause drug use, especially hallucinogens.",
    "Sentence": [
      "In fact, many youngsters will not even turn on a close friend if they know he has never used drugs. And it is rare indeed for a youth to actively seek out people to turn on."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "9022-8",
    "Idiom": [
      "turn on"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To aim at.",
    "Sentence": [
      "He turned the searchlight on the passing planes.",
      "Cornered by the authorities, the shooter turned the gun on himself."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "9022-9",
    "Idiom": [
      "turn on"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To suddenly attack.",
    "Sentence": [
      "She was Nicolas Sarkozy's pin-up for diversity, the first Muslim woman with north African parents to hold a major French government post. But Rachida Dati has now turned on her own party elite with such ferocity that some have suggested she should be expelled from the president's ruling party.",
      "Milk Tea Alliance: are young Thais turning on China over Hong Kong?",
      "Suddenly all his friends turned on him."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "9022-10",
    "Idiom": [
      "turn on"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To provoke rebellion or sudden attack.",
    "Sentence": [
      "We need to be thinking about what it means the way they are locking us up, and turning us on each other. We need to start fighting for our rights together."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "9022-11",
    "Idiom": [
      "turn on"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To depend upon or pivot around.",
    "Sentence": [
      "The argument turned on the question of whether or not jobs would be lost."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "9023-1",
    "Idiom": [
      "turn on its head"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To invert.",
    "Sentence": [
      "The crisis turned the formulas that had seemed to work on their head."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "9023-2",
    "Idiom": [
      "turn on its head"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To completely change.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Germany regeared for the second half: same shape, more control. Mexico had lost some of their vim. And before long the game had turned on its head, with Germany able to keep the ball now, Kroos hitting his range, and Mexico less adept at seizing possession, unable to spring forward with such gusto.",
      "The tie turned on its head just before the hour when Gallagher picked up his second yellow card of the night following a reckless lunge on Ethan Britto and this time referee Fahndrich angered the home supporters by producing red.",
      "The global economic crisis has managed to turn stock exchanges worldwide on their head."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "9024",
    "Idiom": [
      "turn on one's heel"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To suddenly turn away to depart, often conveying haughtiness or disapproval.",
    "Sentence": [
      "There he stood, answering shortly and gruffly to all questions proposed to him,... and as soon as the ancient priestess had handed him his glass of the salutiferous water, turned on his heel with a brief good-morning.",
      "\"Well, Maude, he was on the platform this morning, and when he saw me, he turned on his heel and hurried out of the station.\"",
      "But Bernice, standing stiff and angry in the starlight, turned on her heel without a response.",
      "In one store she eyed a cotton dress, turned on her heel when she saw the $40 price tag.",
      "When Mr. Bush finished his five-minute statement... he abruptly turned on his heel and strode from the room, ignoring all questions."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "9025",
    "Idiom": [
      "turn one's coat"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To turn against a previous affiliation or allegiance.",
    "Sentence": [
      "To meet the exigence of the moment, a considerable army was raised under General Baillie, a Presbyterian officer of skill and fidelity, with whom was joined in command the celebrated Sir John Urrie, a soldier of fortune like Dalgetty, who had already changed sides twice during the Civil War, and was destined to turn his coat a third time before it was ended.",
      "Bruce would scarcely have found this sufficient cause to turn his coat.",
      "He also knew that here, in Connecticut, the chance of finding rebels who would turn their coats was far greater than it was in Boston which, for over two years now, had been the epicenter of the unrest that threatened peace with Britain."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "9026",
    "Idiom": [
      "turn one's color"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To change color, especially in the face.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "9027-1",
    "Idiom": [
      "turn out"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To end up; to result.",
    "Sentence": [
      "He used to drop into my chambers once in a while to smoke, and was first-rate company. When I gave a dinner there was generally a cover laid for him. I liked the man for his own sake, and even had he promised to turn out a celebrity it would have had no weight with me.",
      "The thing we’ll all remember is Arya Stark, Supreme Badass Of The Seven Kingdoms. Not Jon Snow, not Daenerys, but the pint-size warrior who spends the first part of the fight just annihilating White Walkers one after the other, then turns out to be the one who deals the killing blow to the Night King.",
      "I had hoped our first meeting would turn out better."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "9027-2",
    "Idiom": [
      "turn out"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To attend.",
    "Sentence": [
      "The train is usually crowded and half the township of Forres seems to turn out to watch it go off.",
      "Hundreds of people turned out to see the parade."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "9027-3",
    "Idiom": [
      "turn out"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To extinguish a light or device.",
    "Sentence": [
      "The day grew strong, and showed itself outside, even against the flaming lights within. The lights were turned out, and the work went on.",
      "It's one of those books you have to go on reading long after you know you should turn out the light unless you want to feel like hell the next morning.",
      "Turn out the lights before you leave."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "9027-4",
    "Idiom": [
      "turn out"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To become apparent or known.",
    "Sentence": [
      "As soon as Julia returned with a constable, Timothy, who was on the point of exhaustion, prepared to give over to him gratefully. The newcomer turned out to be a powerful youngster, fully trained and eager to help, and he stripped off his tunic at once.",
      "The Ivorian is a player with such a liking for improvisation it does not usually look like he has any more idea than anyone else what he is going to do next, so it was an interesting choice. As it turned out, it was a masterstroke. The striker was full of running, played with a more direct shoot-on-sight approach than normal and finished with two goals and an assist.",
      "It turns out that he just made a lucky guess."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "9027-5",
    "Idiom": [
      "turn out"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To produce or result in.",
    "Sentence": [
      "This new locomotive was turned out of Doncaster works in May, 1934, to a mighty fanfare of trumpets.",
      "The bakery turns out three hundred pies each day."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "9027-6",
    "Idiom": [
      "turn out"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To eject or evict.",
    "Sentence": [
      "And so the teacher turned it out But still it lingered near, And waited patiently about Till Mary did appear.",
      "The hotel staff hastened to turn out the noisy drunk.",
      "The poor family were turned out of their lodgings at only an hour's notice.",
      "The whole lot of grafters was later turned out of office."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "9028-1",
    "Idiom": [
      "turn over"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To relinquish or give back.",
    "Sentence": [
      "They turned over the evidence to the authorities."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "9028-2",
    "Idiom": [
      "turn over"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To transfer.",
    "Sentence": [
      "But what is to be done with our manufacturing population … This one thing, of doing for them by ‘underselling all people,’ and filling our own bursten pockets and appetites by the road; and turning over all care for any ‘population,’ or human or divine consideration except cash only, to the winds, with a “Laissez-faire” and the rest of it: this is evidently not the thing."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "9028-3",
    "Idiom": [
      "turn over"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To produce or cycle through.",
    "Sentence": [
      "They can turn over about three hundred units per hour."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "9029",
    "Idiom": [
      "turn over a new leaf"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To engage in self-improvement or adopt positive habits.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Every year he resolves to turn over a new leaf and start exercising."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "9030-1",
    "Idiom": [
      "turn someone's head"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To influence someone's behavior.",
    "Sentence": [
      "It was plain that power had turned his head, and he would not be satisfied till all the power and all the wealth rested in his own hands. So he became swollen with pride, forgot it was I that had placed him there, and made preparations to destroy me.",
      "I should not want him to make a fortune—let that come later. It could turn his head, at his time of life, and in many ways be a damage to him."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "9030-2",
    "Idiom": [
      "turn someone's head"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To attract romantic interest.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Young men at Hillsborough—many of whom, I felt sure, had a smarter look than I—had bid stubbornly for her favour. I wondered, often, it did not turn her head —this tribute of rustic admiration.",
      "I often marvel that the women did not turn his head.",
      "“I can believe I was in love with you,” replied Dad. “But you were different then, Rita. Before Mr Big came along and turned your head with his riches.”"
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "9031",
    "Idiom": [
      "turn tail"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To flee or retreat.",
    "Sentence": [
      "A box-lobby lion or a Regent-street animal... will never bite, and, if you offer to attack him manfully, will fairly turn tail and sneak off.",
      "He stormed at me all through the lessons in a very violent manner of scolding, I was often tempted to turn tail, but held my ground for all that, and got some profit of my lessons;",
      "Morning found us still vainly toiling through the passage. At last, in despair, we turned tail, ran out to sea, and sailed clear round Bassakanna to our objective, Malu.",
      "Five of the enemy planes were shot down and the remainder turned tail.",
      "The men blew up two oil pipelines in eastern Libya near the rebel-held Sarir fields, before turning tail and speeding back west."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "9032",
    "Idiom": [
      "turn the air blue"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To curse and swear.",
    "Sentence": [
      "... he then relieved his feelings by kicking the lot, collectively and separately, swearing continuously in a strain calculated to turn the air blue all around him."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "9033",
    "Idiom": [
      "turn the boat"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To make a major change.",
    "Sentence": [
      "\"It will take a very special person to turn the boat and effect the required culture change.\"",
      "The results were that instead of many voters wanting to turn the boat, they were soothed... into supporting Gillespie’s message.",
      "A little over a year ago I assessed the company's troubles and what it must do to turn the boat around."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "9034",
    "Idiom": [
      "turn the corner",
      "turn a corner"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To pass the most critical point or out of danger.",
    "Sentence": [
      "POSITIVE signs are starting to emerge in China but economists warn it's too early to tell whether Australia's biggest trading partner is turning the corner.",
      "And although Tottenham can regain fourth place with a home victory over Manchester United on Sunday, there were plenty of signs that the champions may have turned a corner."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "9035",
    "Idiom": [
      "turn the other cheek"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To accept punishment without retaliating.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "9036",
    "Idiom": [
      "turn the page"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To make a fresh start or move on to new activities.",
    "Sentence": [
      "You've been divorced for three years. It's time to turn the page and start looking for somebody else."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "9037",
    "Idiom": [
      "turn the scale"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To determine a balanced situation.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Perhaps Charles Strickland's power and originality would scarcely have sufficed to turn the scale if the remarkable mythopoeic faculty of mankind had not brushed aside with impatience a story which disappointed all its craving for the extraordinary."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "9038",
    "Idiom": [
      "turn the screw"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To increase pressure in a situation.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Arsenal's dominance was reflected in a flurry of goals before half-time – three in six minutes: first, Podolski turned the screw with a peach of a free-kick; then Gervinho accelerated on to Mikel Arteta's beautifully crafted pass and beat Davis at his near post with conviction; and finally Southampton's defence unspooled completely when Gervinho broke to release Gibbs, whose return ball cannoned off Nathaniel Clyne for Southampton's second own goal of a sobering afternoon."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "9039",
    "Idiom": [
      "turn the tables"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To reverse a situation, shifting the advantage to the previously disadvantaged party.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Well, the tables are turned —the times are changed. A peaceful and unoffending man might have expected from a neighbour, now powerful in his turn, such protection when walking in the paths of the law, as all men, subjects of the realm, have a right to expect even from perfect strangers.",
      "\"The tables are turned, my red friend!\" said the hunter, coolly. \"It's your life, not mine, this time!\"",
      "Since its conception, the European Union has been a haven for those seeking refuge from war, persecution and poverty in other parts of the world. But as the EU faces what Angela Merkel has called its toughest hour since the second world war, the tables appear to be turning.",
      "The execution of Littlefinger is formal, although his trial admittedly gives us ample opportunity to appreciate the tables finally turning on the man who got the ball rolling on all this bloodshed."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "9040",
    "Idiom": [
      "turn the tide"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To reverse a trend.",
    "Sentence": [
      "The general who turned the tide at Alamein was not, prior to his arrival in the Middle East, one of the very \"top brass\"; but he was a soldier, not a detergent manufacturer.",
      "Images captured by the photojournalist Philip Jones Griffiths in Vietnam helped turn the tide of public opinion against the war."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "9041",
    "Idiom": [
      "turn to dust"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To die.",
    "Sentence": [
      "If I lost my dreams Could I keep your trust Promise that our love Would not turn to dust"
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "9042",
    "Idiom": [
      "turn to good account"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To use well.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "9043-1",
    "Idiom": [
      "turn two"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To reach the age of two.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "9043-2",
    "Idiom": [
      "turn two"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To complete a double play.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "9044-1",
    "Idiom": [
      "turn up",
      "turn one's nose up"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To show up unexpectedly.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Highly providential was the appearance on the scene of Corny Kelleher when Stephen was blissfully unconscious but for that man in the gap turning up at the eleventh hour the finis might have been that he might have been a candidate for the accident ward",
      "I haven't booked, so I don't have a clue as to whether the service will be busy or not. Supposedly, reservations are compulsory, but I want to find out what would happen if you just turn up.",
      "Is this your t-shirt that turned up in my drawer?",
      "I don't like people turning up without an appointment."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "9045-2",
    "Idiom": [
      "turn up"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To cause to appear or find.",
    "Sentence": [
      "I spent hours in the archives, but couldn't turn up anything on the alleged criminal."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "9045-3",
    "Idiom": [
      "turn up"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To increase the amount of something.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Turn up the radio and sing along."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "9045-4",
    "Idiom": [
      "turn up"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To reposition upwards.",
    "Sentence": [
      "He turned up his collar against the cold."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "9045-5",
    "Idiom": [
      "turn up"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To secure a line.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Turn up the main halyard."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "9045-6",
    "Idiom": [
      "turn up"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To party hard.",
    "Sentence": [
      "We're going to turn up at the concert tonight."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "9046",
    "Idiom": [
      "turn up for the book"
    ],
    "Meaning": "A pleasant surprise.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Her mother kept well away from us, which was a turn up for the book, and for the time being at any rate, I was a model husband.",
      "What a turn up for the book. After 12 successive league wins Charlton were nobbled by the First Division's no-hopers, who profited from a goalkeeping bloomer then held on to their lead for dear life.",
      "All these turn ups for the book had lasting consequences.",
      "'Well, boyo, this is a turn up for the book,' observed my friend David Llewellyn without a trace of irony. 'I never expected to wind up in a hospital bed next to you.'π"
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "9047-1",
    "Idiom": [
      "turn up one's nose"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To regard with contempt or scorn.",
    "Sentence": [
      "But he turned up his nose at their murmuring and stammering, And cared (shall I say?) not a d—— for their damming; So they first read him out of their church, and next minute Turned round and declared he had never been in it.",
      "So Old Cheeseman went on, and didn’t he lead a miserable life! Of course the Reverend turned up his nose at him, and of course she did—because both of them always do that at all the masters—but he suffered from the fellows most, and he suffered from them constantly.",
      "Lovely as he was, Satan could be cruelly offensive when he chose; and he always chose when the human race was brought to his attention. He always turned up his nose at it, and never had a kind word for it.",
      "... but the rulers scoffed and sneered (turned up their noses) at Him, saying, He rescued others; let Him now rescue Himself, if He is the Christ (the Messiah) of God, His Chosen One!"
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "9047-2",
    "Idiom": [
      "turn up one's nose"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To refuse with disgust or contempt.",
    "Sentence": [
      "We listened in profound silence until the conclusion of this harangue, when Captain Guy replied by assuring the chief of his eternal friendship and goodwill, concluding what he had to say be a present of several strings of blue beads and a knife. At the former the monarch, much to our surprise, turned up his nose with some expression of contempt; but the knife gave him the most unlimited satisfaction, and he immediately ordered dinner.",
      "Why I recollect, a bit ago, having a tarrier dog what got old and disagreeable, and was turned out on that account from a swell house in Belgravy. Well, he come into my hands, and nat'rally I put him on paunch, like the rest. Would he eat it? Not he. He had been used to his chicken, and his mutton chops, and his 'ashes: and he turned up his nose at anything commoner.",
      "What I want to know is what he gets to eat there. A piece of dried fish now and then--what? That's coming down pretty low for a man who turned up his nose at my table d'hote!",
      "I tried to help, but they turned up their noses at my advice."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "9048",
    "Idiom": [
      "turn up the heat"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To increase intensity.",
    "Sentence": [
      "The discovery of a third batch of unsecured documents in a third location is turning up the heat on the White House."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "9049",
    "Idiom": [
      "turn up the volume on"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To increase the intensity of or emphasize.",
    "Sentence": [
      "If you’re ready to turn up the volume on your accessories game this spring without completely blowing your budget, a quick peruse through Frasier Sterling’s site is def worth your time",
      "This autumn, Dior did heritage, Gucci embraced camo and Miu Miu turned up the volume on colour. Here are the top looks to inspire your winter wardrobe in part one of our collections story"
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "9050",
    "Idiom": [
      "turn up trumps"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To succeed despite uncertainty.",
    "Sentence": [
      "So nearly all her investment turned up trumps, and Edward was really in fit case to reopen Branshaw Manor and once more to assume his position in the county."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "9051-1",
    "Idiom": [
      "turn upside down"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To thoroughly examine.",
    "Sentence": [
      "They turned the house upside down looking for the car keys."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "9051-2",
    "Idiom": [
      "turn upside down"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To significantly alter something, often negatively.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Rio Ferdinand will almost certainly miss out on Euro 2004, and possibly much more, because of the missed drug test which has turned his life upside down."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "9052",
    "Idiom": [
      "turn-off"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Something that repulses or discourages.",
    "Sentence": [
      "I like the people at my job, but the 60-hour work weeks are a big turn-off.",
      "Braces on a pretty girl actually aren't a turn-off for me."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "9053",
    "Idiom": [
      "turn-on"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Something that attracts or gives pleasure, especially sexually.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Pretty eyes have always been a turn-on."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "9054-1",
    "Idiom": [
      "turnabout is fair play"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Retaliation is justifiable by using the same tactics as the opponent.",
    "Sentence": [
      "My Endeavours were used to perplex their Thoughts and Judgments; I told them, that at next Wednesday’s Dinner I hoped we would be informed who were to rule the Roast, that hitherto honest Men were kept from shuffling the Cards, because they would cast Knaves out from the Company of Kings, but we would make them know, Turn about was fair Play, and that two and three made five, though many Words did not fill a Bushel.",
      "No, I won't, — I went to my bed last, — let my bed come to me now, turn about is fair play."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "9054-2",
    "Idiom": [
      "turnabout is fair play"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Taking turns is morally right.",
    "Sentence": [
      "A good way to get started on a little sexual assertiveness training is to agree to take turns being “dominant.” One evening the man takes... Well, turnabout is fair play, and it's time for the woman to do the work, to try to please her man... and to take pleasure from him in any way she can.",
      "For both mayor parties rotation in office came to embrace the doctrine of taking turns in the distribution of prizes. More than once in his quest for the Whig nomination to Congress Lincoln employed the slogan, “ turnabout is fair play.\" By fair play he referred not to the Youngian antipower notions but to the context for the prize of office.",
      "Turnabout is fair play, right? We'll start it low and take turns, I'll tase you, and then you can tase me, and we'll see who the last man standing is.",
      "Most of us, I suspect, first learn about fair play in the context of games. One of the first things we learn, even in such simple games as tag and hide-and-seek, is that “ turnabout is fair play.”"
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "9055",
    "Idiom": [
      "turtle up"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To be defensive or avoid conflict.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "9056",
    "Idiom": [
      "twelve-ounce curls"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Drinking beer.",
    "Sentence": [
      "He sat on the couch all weekend eating chips and doing twelve-ounce curls."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "9057",
    "Idiom": [
      "twenty to the dozen"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Very fast.",
    "Sentence": [
      "He can talk French twenty to the dozen."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "9058",
    "Idiom": [
      "twenty winks"
    ],
    "Meaning": "A very short sleep.",
    "Sentence": [
      "All right, go along to the doting mother, while I stretch out on the settle and chance twenty winks of sleep before Andrew turns up. I never sleep well on the train, as you know.",
      "Twenty winks offered to drivers",
      "Twenty winks [title]"
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "9059",
    "Idiom": [
      "twenty-twenty hindsight"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Perfect understanding of events after they happen.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "9060",
    "Idiom": [
      "twiddle one's thumbs"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To wait idly or do nothing useful.",
    "Sentence": [
      "He twiddled his thumbs for almost a week while he waited for somebody to set up his computer."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "9061",
    "Idiom": [
      "twilight years"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Old age.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Now that he's entering his twilight years, he's writing his memoirs."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "9062",
    "Idiom": [
      "twinkle in one's father's eye"
    ],
    "Meaning": "A look of anticipation or hope in one's father's eyes at the time of conception.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Kimberly handed him a whisky and said: \"So's that, my boy. Forty-eight-year-old Glenlivet. This was a connoisseur's drop before you were a twinkle in your father's eye.\"",
      "'Don't you take the piss out of me, sonny. I was doing this job when you were just a drunken twinkle in your father's eye !'",
      "“Thirty years ago you would not even have been a twinkle in your father's eye.”"
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "9063",
    "Idiom": [
      "twinkling of an eye"
    ],
    "Meaning": "A short period of time.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Ghost: No sooner had she spoke but we were heere, / I wot not how, in twinkling of an eye."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "9064",
    "Idiom": [
      "twinkly-eyed"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Happy or cheerful in demeanor.",
    "Sentence": [
      "In the abstract, Stuhlbarg’s twinkly-eyed sidekick suggests Joe Pesci in Lethal Weapon 2 by way of late-period Robin Williams with an alien twist, but Stuhlbarg makes a character that easily could have come across as precious into a surprisingly palatable, even charming man."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "9065-1",
    "Idiom": [
      "twist in the wind"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To be unassisted and distressed in a difficult situation.",
    "Sentence": [
      "There seemed to be a shared perception of Colonel North as a good and honorable serviceman who had been left to twist in the wind, the scapegoat of an operation gone awry."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "9065-2",
    "Idiom": [
      "twist in the wind"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To wait uncomfortably.",
    "Sentence": [
      "McGuinty just says, \"Don't worry, the investigation will be over soon enough, we'll do something in due course,\" and people are expected to twist in the wind in the meantime."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "9066",
    "Idiom": [
      "twist of fate"
    ],
    "Meaning": "An unfortunate, often ironic turn of events.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "9067",
    "Idiom": [
      "two a penny"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Very common or cheap.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "9068",
    "Idiom": [
      "two birds with one stone"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Accomplishing two tasks with one action.",
    "Sentence": [
      "They talk about how 'these places' [pornographic bookstores] are gathering spots for homosexuals. The implication is that if you close down 'these places' you get two birds with one stone.",
      "On another occasion, when trying to brainstorm things I could do to make myself feel better despite all the pandemic restrictions, Woebot suggested I “try doing something nice for someone in your life,” like make a calming tea for my housemate or check in with a loved one. I poured my mum some chamomile: Two birds, one stone."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "9069",
    "Idiom": [
      "two bob"
    ],
    "Meaning": "A trivially small value.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Less flashy in its post-modernism than the MI6 building, more sober in its brick-framed glass curtain walling, Sally Malone would have pointed out that this was the two-bob side of the block, as against the half-crown riverbank site of the other building.",
      "Judging from the spectrum and the brightness Dr Stickland “wouldn′t give two bob either way”."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "9070",
    "Idiom": [
      "two can play that game"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Adversarial tactics can be reciprocated.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "9071-1",
    "Idiom": [
      "two cents",
      "two slips of latinum"
    ],
    "Meaning": "One's opinion.",
    "Sentence": [
      "That's just my two cents, you can believe what you like.",
      "Hey, at least we don't have an embarrasing royal family here! And don't worry--Pat Buchanan cannot and will not last as a viable candidate. Just my two slips of latinum on THAT non-\"Trek\" matter...",
      "This has been rattling around in my head for a while; I think I'm ready to toss it out for inspection. My 2 slips of latinum... Comments and arguments very welcome, y'all..."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "9072-2",
    "Idiom": [
      "two cents"
    ],
    "Meaning": "A nearly worthless opinion or contribution.",
    "Sentence": [
      "That car won't last a week, it's not worth two cents."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "9073-1",
    "Idiom": [
      "two for two"
    ],
    "Meaning": "In baseball, achieving success in both attempts at-bat.",
    "Sentence": [
      "He's two for two tonight."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "9073-2",
    "Idiom": [
      "two for two"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Successful at both efforts.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "9074",
    "Idiom": [
      "two ha'pennies for a penny"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Any money.",
    "Sentence": [
      "I bet you he hasn't got two ha'pennies for a penny — they never have, these people.",
      "A lot of rowdy-dowdies, poverty stricken — blunt but true, they haven't got two ha'pennies for a penny — dirty, no interest in their children.",
      "In that condition he hasn't got a halfpenny to scratch himself with — an irreverent departure from the pious 'not a penny to bless himself'; or two ha'pennies for a penny, nor a brass farthing or a penny to his name."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "9075",
    "Idiom": [
      "two heads are better than one"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Collaboration can make tasks easier.",
    "Sentence": [
      "\"Mr. Francis Osbaldistone is an innocent man, Rashleigh,\" said Miss Vernon, \"and he demands an investigation of the charge against him, and I intend to support him in it.\" \"You do, my pretty cousin?—I should think, now, Mr. Francis Osbaldistone was likely to be as effectually, and rather more delicately, supported by my presence than by yours.\" \"Oh, certainly; but two heads are better than one, you know.\"",
      "On the principle that two heads are better than one, he resolved to take his companion, Jones, into his confidence and ask him to make a suggestion.",
      "Two heads are better than one, sir. We will prosecute our investigations together.",
      "Collaboration is great for screenwriting. It's not as simple as two heads are better than one, but if you find the right person, you can feed off each other."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "9076",
    "Idiom": [
      "two lamps burning and no ship at sea"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Describes an overly extravagant person.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "9077",
    "Idiom": [
      "two left feet"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Clumsiness.",
    "Sentence": [
      "2 shy 4 pickups. 2 flip 4 potlucks. 2 left feet at bars. But fun.",
      "He should stay off the dance floor with his two left feet."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "9078",
    "Idiom": [
      "two left hands"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Lacking dexterity in both hands.",
    "Sentence": [
      "There are awkward grownup persons, having, as the French say, two left hands, whom no labour will ever make dexterous carvers;",
      "[Orestes] Brownson is one of those characters. He has two left hands, and was never known to do anything right; whatever he touches he is sure to despoil and disfigure.",
      "\"Oh Max, it must be true what father says, and I've got two left hands instead of one; what a scolding I'm in for!\"",
      "So, when the factory issued a requisition for ten workers, the commandant picked the worst candidates--sick people like me, and those schlemiels with two left hands and two right feet, who he knew couldn't get the job done.",
      "Ambidexterity means equal skill with both hands, as contrasted with the term “ambilevous” meaning equally unskilled with both hands (or described as having “ two left hands ”).",
      "I've never been good at sewing; I guess I've got two left hands."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "9079",
    "Idiom": [
      "two penn'orth"
    ],
    "Meaning": "One's opinion or thoughts.",
    "Sentence": [
      "That's just my two penn’orth; you can believe what you like."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "9080",
    "Idiom": [
      "two pennies to rub together"
    ],
    "Meaning": "A minimal amount of money.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "9081",
    "Idiom": [
      "two pennies' worth"
    ],
    "Meaning": "One's opinion or thoughts.",
    "Sentence": [
      "That's just my two pennies' worth; you can believe what you like."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "9082-1",
    "Idiom": [
      "two sides of the same coin"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Two aspects of the same thing.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Low income and poor health are two sides of the same coin."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "9082-2",
    "Idiom": [
      "two sides of the same coin"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Two things that seem opposite but are fundamentally similar.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "9083",
    "Idiom": [
      "two steps ahead"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Anticipating others' actions or thoughts.",
    "Sentence": [
      "During strategy discussions,I feel two steps ahead and often believe discussions are wasting time and slowing progress.",
      "“You'll need more help than Dave and Frank can give, just to get it down from the truck, over the lawn and inside,” she said practically. “ Two steps ahead of you, M'lady. I stopped by the grocery store, so Dave knows to come home and help.\"",
      "She dismisses Littlefinger’s advice to prepare for every possible outcome and see the world as a place of unimaginable horror. Littlefinger is telling her to be a little more like Cersei, always two steps ahead. The difference between Sansa and Cersei is that she has no desire to repeat what has been done to her as an act of vengeance.",
      "Two steps ahead, I am always two steps ahead. This has been the greatest social experiment I've come to know, certainly the greatest of my entire life. It's alluring, It's compelling. It's gripping to bear witness to observe all these unwell, unbalanced, disoriented beings roam the internet in search of stories. In search of...ideas. Of conflict, of rivalries. Where people develop a distinctive desire for direct engagement where people feel involved with the stories and therefore become product of influence. Thirsty for distraction, from time spent from lackluster lifestyles spoiling their minds while stimulating at the exact same time."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "9084",
    "Idiom": [
      "two thumbs up"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Strong approval.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "9085",
    "Idiom": [
      "two wrongs don't make a right"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Two wrong actions do not justify each other.",
    "Sentence": [
      "\"But when it comes to taking what belongs to another—well, a thief is a thief.... After all, two wrongs don't make a right, do they?\"",
      "\"Late in the fight, Roger told me Zab was going to do something dirty, and he did it,\" Mayweather said after the fight. \"I didn't return it, because two wrongs don't make a right.\"",
      "I have no doubt that while the industry loses a great deal of revenue owing to fraudulent travel, it probably more than makes up for it by allowing journey planners to charge too much for journeys - and two wrongs don't make a right."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "9086",
    "Idiom": [
      "two wrongs make a right"
    ],
    "Meaning": "A fallacy justifying a wrongful action by another wrongful action.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "9087",
    "Idiom": [
      "two's company, three's trumpery",
      "two's company and three is none",
      "two's company, three's a crowd"
    ],
    "Meaning": "One companion is preferable to more.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "9088",
    "Idiom": [
      "two-bit"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Insignificant or worthless.",
    "Sentence": [
      "All your two-bit friends / They're shootin' you up with pills",
      "What Pimp was asking me to do was crazy. Off the fuckin' chain. Insane. He was scheming to stick up T.C. and Miss Lady's pool hall so we could pay off G, but a playa like me was getting ready to go to college and put all that two-bit robbing and stealing shit behind me.",
      "I met a one look girl in a two-bit bar.",
      "Serious times demand honesty and self-awareness from people in positions of authority and, at the end of the day, political parties giving succour to fringe views about life-and-death matters is a Faustian pact. This isn’t speculation, or a serve of two-bit punditry to fuel the opinion cycle. This is the lesson of Donald Trump.",
      "Forget that two-bit shyster. Get yourself a real lawyer."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "9089",
    "Idiom": [
      "two-fisted drinker"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Someone who can handle their liquor well.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "9090",
    "Idiom": [
      "two-hit wonder"
    ],
    "Meaning": "An artist known for only two hit songs.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "9091",
    "Idiom": [
      "two-second rule"
    ],
    "Meaning": "A rule for safe driving requiring a two-second distance from the vehicle ahead.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "9092",
    "Idiom": [
      "two-way street"
    ],
    "Meaning": "An interaction where both parties exchange equally.",
    "Sentence": [
      "A good friendship is a two-way street."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "9093",
    "Idiom": [
      "tyre kicker"
    ],
    "Meaning": "A person who feigns interest in purchasing but has no intention to buy.",
    "Sentence": [
      "\"Some exhibitions charge a ticket price to separate the tyre-kickers from the genuine buyers,\" Doherty says.",
      "If you want get an agent excited, give him or her a listing in the \"best house to sell\" category. All agents love that — and why wouldn't they? The product is ready for the market, and the only challenge will be negotiating a good price and sorting serious buyers from the tyre kickers !"
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "9094",
    "Idiom": [
      "ugly American"
    ],
    "Meaning": "An American who is haughty, rude, or disrespectful abroad.",
    "Sentence": [
      "The Republican House managers were acting like ugly Americans abroad who think that if they talk loudly and slowly, foreigners will understand them.",
      "Quinn throws himself into the role of the vain, heavy-drinking bully with gusto . He's precisely the kind of ugly American people cringe upon meeting—loud, demanding and arrogant, a bottle of Scotch never far from his elbow.",
      "The US turned into an overweening global bully . In the persons of Bush, Dick Cheney and Donald Rumsfeld, the Ugly American was back.",
      "For the last fortnight, Trump has presented himself to the world as the caricature of the ugly American : loud, boorish and ill-informed.",
      "“We try so hard not to be the ugly American, and here is Emily with her terrible accent and garish clothing, shouting at French people in English and expecting them to understand,” she said."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "9095",
    "Idiom": [
      "ugly customer"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Someone or something unwelcome or unpleasant.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "9096",
    "Idiom": [
      "ugly duckling"
    ],
    "Meaning": "A young person expected to become attractive as they mature.",
    "Sentence": [
      "The ugly duckling has become a very fine swan, and Rachel Sprigg and her team have worked hard to ensure that Derby is a worthy winner of that coveted National Rail Award. They can be proud of their achievements."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "9097-1",
    "Idiom": [
      "under a cloud"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Future is uncertain due to a threat or change.",
    "Sentence": [
      "First Kings 9:10-10:29 brings us back to see the glory of this empire. It is glory that must now be seen with respect to 8:22-53 and 9:1-9. It is therefore glory under a cloud, destined to fade away."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "9097-2",
    "Idiom": [
      "under a cloud"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Under suspicion.",
    "Sentence": [
      "A man accused of a crime is entitled to a speedy trial, not merely because he is under a personal restraint, but also because his reputation is under a cloud, as long as the criminal accusation remains undisposed of.",
      "The enlarged Chilean navy was placed under the command of dashing Lord Cochrane, a very distinguished admiral of the British Royal Navy, then under a cloud at home, who took service under the Chilean flag, .",
      "“The department feels it's got to suspend any cop who's under a cloud if they're going to maintain public faith in the system. \""
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "9097-3",
    "Idiom": [
      "under a cloud"
    ],
    "Meaning": "In controversial circumstances.",
    "Sentence": [
      "“Did she resign?” Cherry asked. “No, Dr. Fairall fired her. Zelda left here under a cloud. Sort of mysterious. I never found out exactly.\"",
      "A series of mishaps including the sinking of INS Sindhurakshak in August last year has put him under a cloud."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "9098",
    "Idiom": [
      "under a spell"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Bewitched or enchanted.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "9099",
    "Idiom": [
      "under construction"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Being currently built.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Our new office is still under construction."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "9100",
    "Idiom": [
      "under control"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Being addressed.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Don't worry; the police have been called and the situation is under control."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "9101",
    "Idiom": [
      "under erasure"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Refers to something that is both present and absent.",
    "Sentence": [
      "fol. 66 b l. 13 the letters under erasure were something like cacis.",
      "It is not unlike Derrida’s device of writing under erasure in which a term of metaphysics is used at the same time that it is cancelled out.",
      "A concept is said to be “ under erasure ” when it is put in question or under critique. This signifying practice, employed by Martin Heidegger and, after him, by Jacques Derrida and other deconstructive critics, is described by Gayatri Spivak as “to write a word, cross it out, and then print both word and deletion. (Since the word is inaccurate, it is crossed out. Since it is necessary, it remains legible.)”",
      "What is under erasure in the discussion of justice in the original position is all knowledge of the features that distinguish one person from another.",
      "It was to acknowledge this difficulty that Heidegger proposed in Zur Seinsfrage (1955) to write “Being” under erasure, so that the visible crossing-out of the word would display its negation as an act taking place within time."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "9102",
    "Idiom": [
      "under glass"
    ],
    "Meaning": "In jail.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "9103-1",
    "Idiom": [
      "under lock and key"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Imprisoned or securely locked away.",
    "Sentence": [
      "If it was him we can have him under lock and key in 24 hours."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "9103-2",
    "Idiom": [
      "under lock and key"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Safely guarded.",
    "Sentence": [
      "It is the policy of the organization to keep unused check supplies safeguarded under lock and key."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "9104",
    "Idiom": [
      "under no circumstances"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Never ever, not for any reason.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Under no circumstances should I be responsible for your reckless driving of my vehicle."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "9105-1",
    "Idiom": [
      "under one roof"
    ],
    "Meaning": "at the same location.",
    "Sentence": [
      "And as a further part of such a system, it is claimed that the farm must be devoted to a specialty, or a few specialties, on the ground that it would be almost as fatal to success to admit mixed farming, as it would be to attempt the production of several kinds of manufactures under one roof and establishment."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "9105-2",
    "Idiom": [
      "under one roof"
    ],
    "Meaning": "In one location.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "9106",
    "Idiom": [
      "under one's hat"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Confidential; secret.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Orestes Jones kept his real ambitions under his hat until the time struck.",
      "The Prime Minister jabbed his cigar at Sir Darius. 'I told you those Holmlanders had something under their hats....\""
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "9107",
    "Idiom": [
      "under one's own steam"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Acting independently or without assistance.",
    "Sentence": [
      "\"People come at their own risk, at their own expense, under their own steam,\" said Mhairi McKenzie-Robinson, chief administrator of the Fringe [Edinburgh Fringe Festival].",
      "After the event, [Steve] Jobs even briefly joined the media where Apple's new product line was being shown. He walked under his own steam, of course, easily and without any apparent discomfort. Whether Jobs's health is in decline or not, it's undeniable that the past five years have been the most fertile of his magnificent career.",
      "I'd been wanting her to go for a long, long time, hoping she'd get up the gumption to do it under her own steam so I wouldn't have to make a scene about it."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "9108",
    "Idiom": [
      "under one's thumb"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Completely controlled by someone.",
    "Sentence": [
      "...when you find a man under his wife's thumb you can always be sure there's a soft spot in him somewhere.",
      "She has the entire crew under her thumb. They would do anything for her."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "9109",
    "Idiom": [
      "under one's very eyes"
    ],
    "Meaning": "In plain sight.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "9110",
    "Idiom": [
      "under one's wing"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Under one's protection or guidance.",
    "Sentence": [
      "By happy accident, Cyril runs into Samantha (Cécile de France), a single hairdresser who takes him under her wing — first to help him find his missing bike and father, and later, on weekends away from the group home.",
      "He took the promising student under his wing.",
      "The promising student came under the professor's wing.",
      "He remained under the great man's wing after graduation.",
      "Now a professor himself he has young students under his wing."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "9111",
    "Idiom": [
      "under sail"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Powered by the wind.",
    "Sentence": [
      "A ship under full sail."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "9112-1",
    "Idiom": [
      "under someone's nose"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Clearly visible.",
    "Sentence": [
      "I searched for my glasses for twenty minutes, and finally found them right under my nose."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "9112-2",
    "Idiom": [
      "under someone's nose"
    ],
    "Meaning": "obvious or apparent.",
    "Sentence": [
      "If we had paid more attention, we would have found that answer was under our noses the whole time."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "9113",
    "Idiom": [
      "under the carpet",
      "under the rug"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Hidden from view to be ignored or overlooked.",
    "Sentence": [
      "But in the 1970s the process went into reverse, as more and more 'bad' data went under the carpet.",
      "It seems as if it is happening and it is being washed under the carpet.",
      "The Bill is going to apply to a much wider group of people and I think it will sweep an awful lot of things under the carpet.",
      "Worldwide nuclear proliferation committed by a single nation to create an Islamic nuclear bomb has been swept under the carpet by the United States.",
      "Conflict is brushed under the carpet.",
      "The official line is enduring commitment, and promises to move heaven and earth for those most in danger. But in practice Afghanistan is being swept under the carpet.",
      "to sweep (something) under the carpet",
      "Before you burn a disc — or, for that matter, every couple of days — running your computer's disk diagnostics program takes care of anything hiding under the rug.",
      "Our enemy has turned death into something to be feared and, by extension, swept under the rug. But when you sweep death under the rug, you will likely sweep the afterlife under the rug with it.",
      "There were things that have been on my back for years, acts that the little bird inside of me called my conscience would never let me forget, and that I wanted to brush under the rug, but the rug never seemed large enough."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "9114",
    "Idiom": [
      "under the covers"
    ],
    "Meaning": "In secret.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "9115",
    "Idiom": [
      "under the gun"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Under great pressure to perform.",
    "Sentence": [
      "I'm under the gun again / I know I was a 45-percenter then / I know I was a lot of things",
      "He was under the gun to finish the project quickly."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "9116",
    "Idiom": [
      "under the impression"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Believing or assuming, often incorrectly.",
    "Sentence": [
      "We opened a store in Beijing under the impression that our product would be popular.",
      "Under the impression he was about to be fired, he decided to quit."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "9117",
    "Idiom": [
      "under the influence"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Intoxicated or affected by a mind-altering substance.",
    "Sentence": [
      "He was arrested for driving under the influence."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "9118",
    "Idiom": [
      "under the microscope"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Under close scrutiny.",
    "Sentence": [
      "After his productivity flagged, his boss put him under the microscope to try to isolate and correct the problem."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "9119",
    "Idiom": [
      "under the radar"
    ],
    "Meaning": "In an undetected or secretive manner.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Institutional change has not happened. But it's done quietly under the radar at lots of places.",
      "Look, we keep our hand in with Maitland as well as this Partick thing. But we do it under the radar."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "9120",
    "Idiom": [
      "under the rose"
    ],
    "Meaning": "In secret.",
    "Sentence": [
      "‘If you become the purchaser of the East Lynne estate, Mr Carlyle, it must be under the rose.’",
      "We are organising (but this is quite under the rose as yet) a company for the production of furniture and decoration of all kinds, for the sale of which we are going to open an actual shop!"
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "9121-1",
    "Idiom": [
      "under the saya"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Submissive in a relationship.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "9121-2",
    "Idiom": [
      "under the saya"
    ],
    "Meaning": "A henpecked husband or boyfriend.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "9122",
    "Idiom": [
      "under the sun"
    ],
    "Meaning": "In existence.",
    "Sentence": [
      "I returned, and saw vnder the Sunne, That the race is not to the swift, nor the battell to the strong, neither yet bread to the wise, nor yet riches to men of vnderstanding, nor yet fauour to men of skil; but time and chance happeneth to them all.",
      "She argued boldly with me, on every subject under the sun, law and politics included; and, when I got the better of her, never hesitated to stop me by putting her hand on my lips, or by dragging me out into the garden in the middle of a sentence.",
      "He was a most likeable and generous man, a Whitworth Scholar, and possessed of a fund of knowledge which seemed to cover every subject under the sun.",
      "I have also adopted a stance, familiar from consumer culture, which suggests that the goods under question can do anything under the sun.",
      "Despite winning every award under the sun and being critically acclaimed + beloved, Schitt's Creek didn't become household-name-levels of popular until its last few seasons."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "9123",
    "Idiom": [
      "under the surface"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Inwardly; deep down.",
    "Sentence": [
      "In less of a nod than a jabbed finger to the film's own forebears, Felix drops in a mention of Evelyn Waugh being reputedly obsessed with the place. All of this is a calculated set-up, Saltburn intended to seduce the viewer with grandeur as much as it might hope to imply ominous things lurking under the surface."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "9124-1",
    "Idiom": [
      "under the weather"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Feeling ill or gloomy.",
    "Sentence": [
      "I met a stranger, a quiet little man, who also had been under the weather from malaria."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "9124-2",
    "Idiom": [
      "under the weather"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Feeling unwell or sick.",
    "Sentence": [
      "I was a bit under the weather last night: out with a party of friends, you know. Dare say we all had a bit more than we could carry."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "9124-3",
    "Idiom": [
      "under the weather"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Feeling unwell.",
    "Sentence": [
      "The Hawkinses are under the weather now, but their Tennessee property is millions when it comes into market."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "9125",
    "Idiom": [
      "under the wire"
    ],
    "Meaning": "At the last minute before a deadline.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Russians had heard rumors, and foreign correspondents had obtained confirmation, that the Dictator will soon drastically tighten up proverbially loose Bolshevik divorce laws. In a panic to get in under the wire, every Moscow mate who has recently thought of divorce was last week jamming the official bureaus."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "9126",
    "Idiom": [
      "under way"
    ],
    "Meaning": "In progress.",
    "Sentence": [
      "The All Blacks drove upfield, using up the remaining moments, and when Joubert blew for another French infringement, the biggest party in New Zealand's history was under way.",
      "Hidden behind thickets of acronyms and gorse bushes of detail, a new great game is under way across the globe. Some call it geoeconomics, but it's geopolitics too. The current power play consists of an extraordinary range of countries simultaneously sitting down to negotiate big free trade and investment agreements.",
      "SWR has decided to withdraw it with immediate effect and cease the programme of modifications that were under way, to avoid incurring further costs to the taxpayer to reintroduce and operate these trains."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "9127",
    "Idiom": [
      "underpromise and overdeliver"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Set modest expectations and exceed them to enhance customer relationships.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Think about the old customer service maxim, underpromise and overdeliver."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "9128",
    "Idiom": [
      "understand the assignment"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To demonstrate skill or talent.",
    "Sentence": [
      "If you’re lucky enough to have a dishwasher in your shared kitchen, then a) we’re jealous and b) it’s definitely worth picking a processor that you don’t have to wash up. This understood the assignment, and all its attachments fit in the bowl, meaning it won’t take up too much of your allotted cupboard space.",
      "Lil Nas X led the charge of stars who “ understood the assignment,” to use a phrase that should probably be retired in 2022. In terms of creating cultural moments, impeccably reading the room on Twitter and seeming to actually have fun with his newfound mega-stardom, no one else came close.",
      "Fans gushed over Lively’s outfits, with one person saying that she “singlehandedly carried the whole Met Gala this year”. / Another wrote: “Blakely Live will always understand the assignment ”, while a third added: “If there’s one thing Blake Lively is gonna do, it’s serve a look at the Met Gala.”"
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "9129",
    "Idiom": [
      "undress with one's eyes"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To gaze at someone lustfully.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "9130",
    "Idiom": [
      "uneasy lies the head that wears a crown"
    ],
    "Meaning": "A person of high rank has more problems than others.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Such terrors as these were unguessed by me in the days of my obscurity. Uneasy lies the head that wears a crown, uneasy also, lies the wife of that head, and the best friend of the wife. I dismissed my stenographer, and spent ten or fifteen restless minutes until Sylvia appeared."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "9131",
    "Idiom": [
      "unicorn vomit",
      "unicorn barf",
      "unicorn puke"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Something extremely colorful or sweet.",
    "Sentence": [
      "I envy how obviously homemade it is, and how the 12 pounds of sprinkles dumped on top of it make it look like a tray of unicorn vomit.",
      "\"Well, it's awesome,\" I say, thinking \"awesome\" is a generous word for a scarf that resembles unicorn vomit.",
      "\"Because you don't let me go deeper than that. You don't let me write anything but pretty stories that make people feel like they're tromping through unicorn vomit while holding baskets of cupcakes in their arms.\"",
      "The vanilla came from a body spray, something cheap and bright that made Emma think of unicorn barf.",
      "I mean, I know that love isn't just pixie dust and unicorn barf, but I'd like to think that there's something a little magical about love.",
      "You might be wondering who would take the time and spend the money to put a bunch of unicorn barf inside a PC. It's not like RGB lights will actually make your PC faster. (Or will they?)",
      "There is a bowl of what looks to be unicorn puke on one of the snack tables and I decide I will be the one who dares to try it. I dip the serving mug and pour the contents into my glass. A small crowd gathers to see if I will die. I sip. 'How is it?' a scarecrow asks. 'Fantastic,' I say. 'But I don't think it has alcohol in it.' 'I think it's just rainbow sherbet and Mountain Dew,' someone says. It's getting hard to tell who's who. 'I can fix that,' I say. I grab a bottle of vodka and tip a lingering pour into my unicorn puke. It adds just the perfect bite to the mix.",
      "The pizza is garnished with edible rainbow glitter, also known as ' unicorn puke.'",
      "“Are you eating a pink glitter cupcake?” (..) He nods. “Honey, you wish you had this much fun right now.” She rolls her eyes. “Really? You're gonna eat that unicorn puke ?”",
      "I slide onto the stool across from the bartender and glance at the fine collection of liquor assembled across a 4-tiered shelf. On the very top row stand clear glass bottles with swirling liquids ranging from neon yellow and blue to unicorn puke."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "9132",
    "Idiom": [
      "union makes strength",
      "union is strength",
      "unity makes strength",
      "unity is strength"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Being united makes us stronger.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "9133",
    "Idiom": [
      "united we stand, divided we fall"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Together we achieve more than alone.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "9134",
    "Idiom": [
      "university of life"
    ],
    "Meaning": "The real world as a source of instruction, not formal education.",
    "Sentence": [
      "[BEAUFOY:] We are considerably out of pocket over this bally pressman johnny, this jackdaw of Rheims, who has not even been to a university. BLOOM: (Indistinctly) University of life.",
      "I learned all I need to know from the university of life, not from books."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "9135",
    "Idiom": [
      "unknown quantity"
    ],
    "Meaning": "A mystery regarding a person or thing's nature or value.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Whatever he had learned of himself was here of no avail. He was an unknown quantity.",
      "... the Evening Post of this city to refer to him recently as \"the young Belgian painter,\" and to the general public he is an unknown quantity.",
      "The big French diesel is something of an unknown quantity, whereas many French-built electric locomotives developing 3,000 h.p. and more have been well proved in service.",
      "In spite of more than three decades of public service, I knew I was an unknown quantity to many of my countrymen and to much of the world when I assumed office.",
      "Amin Gemayel, it is felt here, is an unknown quantity and it is impossible to predict how he will act.",
      "He was still an unknown quantity – a young, untested figure."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "9136",
    "Idiom": [
      "unmask one's batteries"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To reveal one's true strength or character through decisive action.",
    "Sentence": [
      "“Your father is fond of surprises, as you must have seen,” Cuthbert rejoined. “He won’t unmask his batteries till all is ready for action.”",
      "The bishops, proud of this first victory, believed that a second would be easily won, and they unmasked their batteries.",
      "The Evénément remarks:—“The Egyptian Question is not a French or an Anglo-French, but a European question, and the spoliation just perpetrated by England, has enlightened Europe in time. It is not wise to unmask one’s batteries too soon.”",
      "Meanwhile the Germans had shown that they themselves were not yet ready to unmask their batteries."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "9137",
    "Idiom": [
      "uno ab alto"
    ],
    "Meaning": "One over all.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "9138",
    "Idiom": [
      "unring a bell"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To reverse the irreversible.",
    "Sentence": [
      "\"We can't unring any bells here. There's no point in trying to second-guess anyone right now. What's done is done.\"",
      "“We move for a mistrial based on the testimony this morning,” Blanche said. “There’s no way to unring that bell, in our view.”"
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "9139",
    "Idiom": [
      "unsung hero"
    ],
    "Meaning": "One who achieves great things without recognition.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Embedded computers are the unsung heroes of modern life."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "9140",
    "Idiom": [
      "until hell freezes over"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Forever without success.",
    "Sentence": [
      "He can continue to be hard on himself until hell freezes over, because he's so self-centeredly pessimistic that there's nothing I can ever do to lighten him up.",
      "They can be bellyaching to me about their life's problems until hell freezes over, but it doesn't mean that they'll ever get my sympathy.",
      "I am prepared to wait for my answer until hell freezes over."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "9141",
    "Idiom": [
      "until one is blue in the face"
    ],
    "Meaning": "For a long time, especially in discussions or insistence.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Poor Johnny one-note yelled willy nilly / Until he was blue in the face",
      "You can explain it until you're blue in the face, but he will never understand."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "9142",
    "Idiom": [
      "until the cows come home"
    ],
    "Meaning": "For a very long time.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Good Morrow, / Drinke tell the Cow come home, 'tis all pay'd boyes.",
      "If the Duke will but do what he unquestionably can do, and propose a Catholic Bill with securities, he may be Minister [in Robert Peel 's cabinet], as they say in Scotland \" until the cows come home.\"",
      "Now I can't stop lawyers from calling me names and saying I am guilty of judicial misconduct and that I am prejudiced, and this, that and the other thing, and you can keep that up until the cows come home; that is all right, and I take no umbrage at it.",
      "Middleton, up to that time, July 1952, had been prepared to give the lovable old gentleman the benefit of every possible doubt and talk to him until the cows had come home and gone to bed.",
      "But I could quote from Animal Warmth and Up On All Fours until the cows come home. I could quote until the cows came home about the cows not coming home.",
      "She could list Buck's good qualities from now until the cows came home. If the cows came home. If she waited for him to return until the cows came home, she'd never see any of them again.",
      "John [Carradine ] and I became quite close, we worked in several movies together. He could recite Shakespeare ’til the cows came home [laughs], and he had a heart as big as outdoors.",
      "Anders and his wife had bought a house in an exclusive Cincinnati community where they'd partied with the wealthy elite, \"hobnobbing\" until the cows had come home.",
      "You can crank the engine until the cows come home, but it won’t start without fuel."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "9143",
    "Idiom": [
      "until the last dog is hung"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Until the last moment.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "9144",
    "Idiom": [
      "unto the ages of ages"
    ],
    "Meaning": "For all time, forever.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "9145",
    "Idiom": [
      "unused to"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Not accustomed to.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "9146",
    "Idiom": [
      "up a gum tree"
    ],
    "Meaning": "In a difficult situation.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "9147-1",
    "Idiom": [
      "up a height"
    ],
    "Meaning": "High up.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "9147-2",
    "Idiom": [
      "up a height"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Upset or angry.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "9148",
    "Idiom": [
      "up a tree"
    ],
    "Meaning": "In a difficult situation.",
    "Sentence": [
      "\"I'm a bit up a tree, Miss,\" he said shuffling his feet on the oak floor. \"I behaved a fool.\"",
      "I found the doctor in his study, and the whole room full of rods and lines and reels.... When he called me to come and look at his flies I was all up a tree, and didn't know what he was talking about.",
      "\"Oh, I'm up a tree again. I see I don't even know the A B C of this business.\"",
      "\"You're a liar,\" says I, a little riled that Idaho should try to put me up a tree.",
      "The general consensus of opinion in Outwood's during the luncheon interval was that, having got Downing's up a tree, they would be fools not to make the most of the situation."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "9149",
    "Idiom": [
      "up against"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Facing a challenge or opposition.",
    "Sentence": [
      "If you try to change the school schedule like that, you'll be up against legions of angry parents."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "9150",
    "Idiom": [
      "up against it"
    ],
    "Meaning": "In a very difficult position.",
    "Sentence": [
      "\"But we are up against it, so what's the decision?\" \"It seems a most questionable step,\" said Summerlee, argumentative to the last, \"but if you are all going, I hardly see how I can remain behind.\" \"Then it is settled,\" said Lord John, and turning to the chief he nodded and slapped his rifle.",
      "Yet as intelligently as Rafferty, back at left-back following her recovery from a third ruptured cruciate ligament, was defending against the dangerous Élodie Thomis her side were up against it."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "9151",
    "Idiom": [
      "up and at 'em"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Vigorously starting an activity.",
    "Sentence": [
      "At 41, Jockey Richards was still up and at 'em last week, and his wrists and knees were still persuasive enough to boot home the winner in Newmarket's Icklingham Stakes.",
      "Only two alternative responses seem available: irrepressible up-and-at-'em chirpiness or apocalyptic hysteria.",
      "I padded downstairs to find everyone up and at 'em, their day leaps ahead of mine.",
      "Siddle is the sort of up-and-at-'em, tearaway fast bowler whom you imagine to train on raw red meat while running over a bed of hot coals."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "9152",
    "Idiom": [
      "up and away"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Moving quickly and continuously upwards, often joyfully.",
    "Sentence": [
      "He is not far on his way, and the Fates and the streams are against him. Up and away to-morrow, and through the red dew of the morning We will follow him fast, and bring him back to his prison."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "9153-1",
    "Idiom": [
      "up and down"
    ],
    "Meaning": "alternately forwards and backwards.",
    "Sentence": [
      "walk up and down the corridor"
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "9153-2",
    "Idiom": [
      "up and down"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Staunchly, unwaveringly, obstinately.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Christina is straight up and down fuckable.",
      "He swore up and down that he hadn't taken the money."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "9153-3",
    "Idiom": [
      "up and down"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Straightforward or clear.",
    "Sentence": [
      "an up and down honest man"
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "9154",
    "Idiom": [
      "up and running"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Operational.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Crossrail is working with its contractors to enable physical works at stations to get back up and running.",
      "England are up and running. Again. It has been a happy feature of the Gareth Southgate years that his team always win their opening tie at tournaments. It never used to be the case with England but to the list that features Tunisia, Croatia and Iran can be added the name of Serbia."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "9155-1",
    "Idiom": [
      "up for"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Willing to participate in.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Neither team were up for this third-round replay, their lack of enthusiasm betrayed by 16 changes from the line-ups they used in league combat at the weekend.",
      "Are you up for a trip to the library today?"
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "9155-2",
    "Idiom": [
      "up for"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Subject to evaluation or consideration.",
    "Sentence": [
      "He is up for reelection next year, so he will try to control his image.",
      "He is up for second degree murder.",
      "It's still up for debate.",
      "She put her jewelry up for auction.",
      "My car is up for sale."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "9156",
    "Idiom": [
      "up for grabs"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Available for anyone to obtain.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Gandhi today is up for grabs. He has become abstract, ahistorical, postmodern, no longer a man in and of his time but a freeloading concept.",
      "The Senate is up for grabs in November's election.",
      "\"In the transformation of clean technology, it's up for grabs whether the giants will be American or Chinese or from other countries,\" says Salzman."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "9157-1",
    "Idiom": [
      "up front"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Open and honest.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Warning online ticket retailers to be \" up front \" about fees, the Office of Rail and Road (ORR) has written to seven of the 19 third-party ticket retailers (TPRs) which did not include their fees in the upfront price. Threatening to take action about hidden charges (known as 'drip pricing'), where an initial price is shown but additional elements are revealed later in the sales process, the ORR reviewed the prices of 19 TPRs.",
      "I will be up front with you: what you are asking may be costly and difficult."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "9157-2",
    "Idiom": [
      "up front"
    ],
    "Meaning": "At the beginning.",
    "Sentence": [
      "If we settle on the terms of the deal up front there will be much less arguing later."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "9158",
    "Idiom": [
      "up hill and down dale"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Everywhere.",
    "Sentence": [
      "I have a great deal of sympathy with scientific doubters, and with those who test psychicism up hill and down dale and are not satisfied.",
      "We bought a 1969 dark green VW Beetle which I immediately named \"Doodle Bug,\" and off we went. The car did not give us a minute's trouble throughout the trip — up hill, down dale, across uncharted wastelands between super highways."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "9159",
    "Idiom": [
      "up in the air"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Not yet resolved or certain.",
    "Sentence": [
      "I think I can do it quickly, but the exact schedule is still up in the air."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "9160",
    "Idiom": [
      "up on"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Well-informed concerning.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Maybe you aren't up on current events, but we just got our asses kicked, pal",
      "Says Sigismondi: \"I don't watch [MTV]. I'm really not up on what's trendy.\"",
      "“She was up on everything,” said the biographer A. Scott Berg. “Not just the news but every play or film or book.”",
      "The tour guide was certainly up on his history."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "9161",
    "Idiom": [
      "up on one's ear"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Annoyed or angry.",
    "Sentence": [
      "When you got up on your ear and called me names, and said I had brought you eleven miles to look at a sapling, didn't I explain to you that all the whale-ships in the North Seas had been wooding off of it for more than twenty-seven years?",
      "He has been wronged, so he gets up on his ear, and he kicks like a two-year-old bay steer.",
      "\"He's right up on his ear,\" said Clint gloomily. \"If he gets us now he will send us all packing, and don't you doubt it!\"",
      "I know a salesman of this sort who will never make his mark, who flares up, \"gets up on his ear,\" as they say, when ever his sensitive, sore spots are touched."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "9162",
    "Idiom": [
      "up one's own ass"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Having an excessively high opinion of oneself.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Considering the success and money he's earned, it'd be easy for him to disappear so far up his own arse, but he hasn't; there's something down-to-earth there",
      "It's nice to be able to look back on the thing, because I was so up my own ass at the time about everything that it was hard to enjoy all the craziness...",
      "Just like Leslie Grantham who also slagged off his costars, Forgeham blasted Zoe as \"egotistical\" and said she was \"full of herself...and up her own ass \""
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "9163",
    "Idiom": [
      "up one's sleeve"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Hidden and ready to be used.",
    "Sentence": [
      "\"There may be things that you know which I do not. I have not pretended to be aware of all the details of your show. But equally I've got something up my sleeve that you don't know about. And that's where I mean to score. Danvers was a damned clever fellow——\" He broke off as if he had said too much.",
      "I have tried everything I can think of, and I don't have anything more up my sleeve."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "9164",
    "Idiom": [
      "up someone's street"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Perfectly suitable to someone.",
    "Sentence": [
      "This new album should be just up your street."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "9165-1",
    "Idiom": [
      "up the ante"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To make something more challenging.",
    "Sentence": [
      "At the same time, leaders of the sport have continued to up the ante, organizing harder and longer races. Many last several days and hundreds of miles and include both high-altitude climbs and extreme temperatures.",
      "When runners cross-train for events, they often up the ante by running on sand."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "9165-2",
    "Idiom": [
      "up the ante"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To increase the stakes or make something more appealing.",
    "Sentence": [
      "After a slow start, it was the home side who began to up the ante. Gokdeniz Karadeniz caused Spurs problems with his raids down the right and Alan Kasaev fired narrowly over from one of his pull-backs.",
      "The school system cannot raise teachers' salaries, so they are providing better benefits as an effort to up the ante."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "9166",
    "Idiom": [
      "up the boohai"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Utterly and completely lost.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "9167",
    "Idiom": [
      "up the creek"
    ],
    "Meaning": "In trouble.",
    "Sentence": [
      "“Then we would be up the creek. You can be extradited for grand larceny. Jez you wouldnt have me goin round with dark glasses and false whiskers all my life.”",
      "We'll be up the creek if we lose those files, so we should back them up regularly."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "9168",
    "Idiom": [
      "up the river"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To prison.",
    "Sentence": [
      "The former baseball player that Cincinnati idolized is being sent up the river to Ashland, Ky., to serve a prison term for cheating on his taxes."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "9169",
    "Idiom": [
      "up the wall"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Crazy or mad.",
    "Sentence": [
      "You really are a pain in the arse, aren't you (laugh track)? The PM is going up the wall ! Hitting the roof! You can't go around making speeches like that.",
      "Those noisy children are driving me up the wall."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "9170",
    "Idiom": [
      "up the walls"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Very busy.",
    "Sentence": [
      "We were up the walls last week and I got ten hours overtime.",
      "We didn't go to the restaurant as it was up the walls."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "9171",
    "Idiom": [
      "up to eleven"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To an extremely high or strong degree.",
    "Sentence": [
      "She and River looked at me hard; but I lowered my eyes and leaned forward, with the nonchalance turned up to eleven, extinguished my cigarette, made eye-contact and nodded curtly.",
      "But if we try to fly, especially carrying Zealand, we're going to be puking our guts out by the time we get all the way up there. Flying is like motion sickness turned up to eleven,",
      "Oh, Lady Ebb, I'm up to eleven today after that last biscuit.",
      "It's the weekly half hour when the emotion is turned up to 11 but the atmosphere is so quietened that you can hear the dust clattering against the studio's lighting rig.",
      "As we reach the city today, rush hour has been turned up to eleven, so there's plenty of waiting in traffic.",
      "When you look at conditions, it's not all happy days down there. Well, maybe it's happier now. But what our textbook said? Was that they had, you know, torture parties there. Once. Where torturers get drunk and turn the dial up to eleven.",
      "It's not that London was unexciting. But I didn't understand it, felt lost. Its amp went up to eleven.",
      "But because this is the internet, someone always has to pitch in and turn the hostility up to 11."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "9172",
    "Idiom": [
      "up to here"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Overwhelmed or swamped.",
    "Sentence": [
      "They have their lives to live and I'm up to here in disgust with mine.",
      "I have been up to here in paperwork all week."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "9173",
    "Idiom": [
      "up to no good"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Misbehaving or being mischievous.",
    "Sentence": [
      "He acts like an angel when his parents get home, but the rest of the time he's up to no good."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "9174",
    "Idiom": [
      "up to one's ears"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Overwhelmed or deeply involved.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "9175",
    "Idiom": [
      "up to one's neck in alligators"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Extremely busy with many pressing obligations.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "9176",
    "Idiom": [
      "up to scratch"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Of acceptable or satisfactory quality.",
    "Sentence": [
      "But the new trains form just one part of Metro Flow. It's no good having new trains if the network itself isn't up to scratch.",
      "They decided that his performance was not up to scratch."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "9177",
    "Idiom": [
      "up to something"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Doing something mischievous or scheming.",
    "Sentence": [
      "I took my mare and went down to the swamp, for I knew they had been up to something there from the signs I saw.",
      "One or another of them will be poking their heads in and see we have been up to something",
      "One day Chander, who was always up to something, took it into his head to ring up one or two customers in regard to bills long outstanding on them.",
      "If they are doing nothing they are going to be up to something – just send them to prison.",
      "Shepard: Last I knew, Kaidan was Alliance. Why is he out in the Terminus Systems? Illusive Man : Officially, it's an outreach program to improve Alliance relations with the colonies. Illusive Man: But they're up to something. And if they sent Commander Alenko, it must be big.",
      "Police knew who they were. They knew they were up to something. All they could do was wait.",
      "He looks like an angel, but I can tell he's up to something."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "9178-1",
    "Idiom": [
      "up to speed"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Fully informed.",
    "Sentence": [
      "And I don't happen to recollect whether I did bring her up to speed on what Bert was asking for and so forth.",
      "In recent weeks, the only way to get up to speed with WallStreetBets would have been through full immersion, absorbing comments about “tendies” and “diamond hands” and “holding the line” until you worked up the nerve to post the group’s most beloved slogan for yourself: “We like the stock.”",
      "Is Mary up to speed on the situation in Kuala Lumpur?"
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "9178-2",
    "Idiom": [
      "up to speed"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Functioning adequately.",
    "Sentence": [
      "IBM has begun a program to better educate its sales force, Reiswig said, but admits it could take as long as six months to bring them up to speed.",
      "It takes time after the anesthesia for the muscles to get up to speed, so your stomach and intestines may not be functioning normally yet and you won’t be able to eat.",
      "For new hires joining your teams as software engineers, pair programming is a great way to bring them up to speed. It helps them ease into your codebase with a helpful in-the-moment guide, and it helps to share tribal knowledge and the technical practices that you want to be consistent across your codebase.",
      "It may take the new hires a week or two to be brought up to speed on the system."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "9179",
    "Idiom": [
      "up to the hub"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Deeply involved or deeply affected by a situation.",
    "Sentence": [
      "I am afraid A. F. S. (Dresden) gets \" up to the hub \" in engineering difficulties sometimes, but this will help him to appreciate the force, beauty and application of the expression.",
      "I was up to the hub in love, and was goin' into it like a locomotive.",
      "I was like the wheels of the wagon, out of which I had made some of my capital — up to the hub in the mire of poverty, a heavy load forcing me deeper down, and no aid likely to be given me."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "9180",
    "Idiom": [
      "up with the chickens"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Awake and out of bed early.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "9181",
    "Idiom": [
      "up with the lark",
      "up with the larks"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Awake and out of bed early.",
    "Sentence": [
      "\"Yes, of course, if it’s fine tomorrow,\" said Mrs Ramsay. \"But you'll have to be up with the lark,\" she added."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "9182",
    "Idiom": [
      "up-and-comer"
    ],
    "Meaning": "A successful individual likely to achieve more in the future.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "9183",
    "Idiom": [
      "up-and-coming",
      "up and coming"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Emerging or gaining attention.",
    "Sentence": [
      "The theater likes to feature up-and-coming singers and comedians."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "9184-1",
    "Idiom": [
      "up-to-date"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Current or recent.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Yet, in spite of this interest there has been little movement in the field of lexicography, so that Indian English has no up-to-date dictionaries to speak of, certainly nothing published in the twenty-first century.",
      "Use an up-to-date text for your source."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "9184-2",
    "Idiom": [
      "up-to-date"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Informed about the latest news or developments.",
    "Sentence": [
      "I like to stay up-to-date about current affairs."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "9185",
    "Idiom": [
      "uphill battle"
    ],
    "Meaning": "A difficult task that requires significant effort.",
    "Sentence": [
      "I would argue that flight attendants had a greater uphill battle in establishing their job as a profession, experience more disorienting time and space patterns, juggle a larger number of sometimes conflicting roles, and have a greater sense of occupational identity than any other group of women workers.",
      "“It is an uphill battle,” said Dr. Uzma Syed, an infectious disease specialist in Jericho, N.Y., on Long Island, who for months has been giving vaccine education talks to national and international groups."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "9186",
    "Idiom": [
      "upon the instant"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Immediately.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Light flashed up in the room upon the instant, and the curtains of his bed were drawn.",
      "Or, if you shall so prefer to choose, a new province of knowledge and new avenues to fame and power shall be laid open to you, here, in this room, upon the instant; and your sight shall be blasted by a prodigy to stagger the unbelief of Satan.",
      "\"That ball!\" he cried, in a hoarse and raucous voice. \"That ivory ball! Give it to me upon the instant !\""
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "9187",
    "Idiom": [
      "upon the tapis"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Under discussion or consideration.",
    "Sentence": [
      "when any thing was supposed to be upon the tapis worth knowing or listening to, it was the rule to leave the door, not absolutely shut, but somewhat ajar",
      "Of this, however, I was not aware; although, in the present instance, I saw clearly that something of a whimsical nature was upon the tapis with my friend, and that Hermann was its especial object."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "9188",
    "Idiom": [
      "upper crust"
    ],
    "Meaning": "The social elite.",
    "Sentence": [
      "I judged from your remark about the diligence and industry of the high Parisian upper crust that it would have some point.",
      "Some accents reveal the distinctive bray of the upper crust, but most are generic middle class.",
      "“You ever see the movie Spotlight ?” “About the Boston Globe reporters who uncovered the sexual abuse coverup in the Catholic Church?” “Yeah, exactly.” “No.” “Oh. Well, in that I played Ben Bradlee, Jr. And that character begins with the accent, because the real Bradlee is from Boston. But he's an upper-crust guy. [Boston accent] Not like some jamoke standing around Kelly's Tavern in, uh, Revere Beach, you know what I mean?” “Very good, John Slattery.” “[regular accent] Not bad, right? But I was talking to him.”"
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "9189",
    "Idiom": [
      "upper hand"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Advantage or control.",
    "Sentence": [
      "There was no refusing him, for he had got the complete upper hand of the community, and the peaceful burghers all stood in awe of him.",
      "Curiosity began to get the upper hand, and I determined I should have one look through the cabin window.",
      "There it was Razumov who had the upper hand, in a composed sense of his own superiority.",
      "And because they live everywhere and reproduce quickly, bacteria have the upper hand.",
      "\"We've now protected the line from similar-sized flooding-events and bigger ones,\" he says. That's quite some claim for a line where floods have often had the upper hand in the past 16 years, causing track bed and embankments to be rebuilt."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "9190",
    "Idiom": [
      "upper-crust"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Posh, upper-class.",
    "Sentence": [
      "In 1986, Takako Doi was elected leader of the Japan Socialist Party; another woman is the president of Takashimaya, Japan's most upper-crust department store chain.",
      "But Prentice had grown up richer and more upper-crust than Richard had any idea of.",
      "Patinkin’s melodious voice is a natural fit for animation, and he breathes just the right type of upper-crust life into Hugh in 22 short minutes.",
      "That was another story, and the retirees who frequented the relatively lowbrow kino Ridge were more likely than the more upper-crust folks at Amado or Rio Rico to shut up and pay their fines than they were to hire criminal defense attorneys.",
      "“You ever see the movie Spotlight ?” “About the Boston Globe reporters who uncovered the sexual abuse coverup in the Catholic Church?” “Yeah, exactly.” “No.” “Oh. Well, in that I played Ben Bradlee, Jr. And that character begins with the accent, because the real Bradlee is from Boston. But he's an upper-crust guy. [Boston accent] Not like some jamoke standing around Kelly's Tavern in, uh, Revere Beach, you know what I mean?” “Very good, John Slattery.” “[regular accent] Not bad, right? But I was talking to him.”",
      "An upper-crust London party.",
      "They're aiming for a more upper-crust clientele."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "9191",
    "Idiom": [
      "ups and downs"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Periods of positive and negative events.",
    "Sentence": [
      "So it is the world wags: that honest men and knaves alike are always having ups and downs of fortune, and that we are perpetually changing tenants in Our Street.",
      "Heidi and Mike had their ups and downs, but they stayed married for more than 60 years."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "9192",
    "Idiom": [
      "upset the applecart"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To disorganize or spoil something.",
    "Sentence": [
      "“There are three reasons,” Trent answered. “First, he may find his way to England and upset the applecart; ”",
      "She told me herself just now that the worst was over. And those confounded people must go and upset the applecart.",
      "Last week the Senate Banking Committee upset the carefully stacked apple cart when it voted 10 to 5 not to approve the Administration's bill.",
      "This kind of impact causes contusions in the front and back areas of the brain and can create microscopic bleeding and shearing of neural pathways, causing synapses to misfire, upsetting the applecart of your brain, sometimes forever."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "9193",
    "Idiom": [
      "urban fabric"
    ],
    "Meaning": "The physical aspect of urbanism.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "9194",
    "Idiom": [
      "use a sledgehammer to crack a nut"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To use excessive force for a minor task.",
    "Sentence": [
      "This last mentioned consideration involves the concept in Community law (derived principally from German law) called \"proportionality\". In plain English it means \"You must not use a steam hammer to crack a nut, if a nutcracker would do.\"",
      "Today, Mr [Anthony] Worthington, an engineer, said: 'Sending three officers over simply to give a warning about kids playing football in the street is like using a sledgehammer to crack a nut. '",
      "In our view the Public Order Bill is an attempt by the Government to use a sledgehammer to crack a nut. At a time when we should be focusing on rebuilding trust in the police, this Bill risks stoking further mistrust and undermining their vital role in protecting the public."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "9195",
    "Idiom": [
      "use in anger"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Used for its intended purpose.",
    "Sentence": [
      "The key element that has yet to be used in anger is the payment calculation function of the operating system.",
      "Just having a play before I use in anger",
      "Outside of testing when first built I doubt those protections have ever actually been used in anger !"
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "9196-2",
    "Idiom": [
      "use it or lose it"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Use something to maintain it or risk losing it.",
    "Sentence": [
      "The legal rationale was simple: in much of the west, water rights operate under the \" use it or lose it \" principle. If you don't use the water, others had the right to appropriate it and use it themselves."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "9196-3",
    "Idiom": [
      "use it or lose it"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Use it or lose it means that regular use or practice is necessary to maintain a skill or ability.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "9197",
    "Idiom": [
      "use one's head"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To think carefully.",
    "Sentence": [
      "He never—so they agreed— uses his head. He never—I think I have their phrase correct—stops to think.",
      "When a girl falls in love, after first using her head to find a suitable mate to fall in love with, it is such a wonderful feeling.",
      "Bound by that commitment, he used his head, channeling his rage into a determination to bring the killers to justice."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "9198",
    "Idiom": [
      "use one's noggin"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To think carefully or cleverly.",
    "Sentence": [
      "The investor is advised to use his noggin considerably when investigating different superannuation programs."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "9199",
    "Idiom": [
      "used to"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Accustomed to.",
    "Sentence": [
      "“Well,” I says, “I cal'late a body could get used to Tophet if he stayed there long enough.” ¶ She flared up; the least mite of a slam at Doctor Wool was enough to set her going.",
      "He was shivering a little, for he had always been used to sleeping in a proper bed, and by this time his coat had worn so thin and threadbare from hugging that it was no longer any protection to him.",
      "I am used to cleaning up other people’s mess.  I became used to his ways."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "9200",
    "Idiom": [
      "useless as tits on a boar hog"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Ineffectual, pointless.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "9201-1",
    "Idiom": [
      "vale of tears"
    ],
    "Meaning": "A place of suffering and sorrow.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Body o' me, it makes a man sick of his kind, ashamed to belong to the race of men, to see the envy that abounds in this here sublunary wale of tears !",
      "We must not call earth a vale of tears. It is neither pious to do so, nor in any respect proper. We might as well, nay, with far greater propriety, call it a field of laughter.",
      "I excused myself and dropped to the rear of the procession, sad at heart, willing to go hence from this troubled life, this vale of tears, this brief day of broken rest, of cloud and storm, of weary struggle and monotonous defeat; and yet shrinking from the change, as remembering how long eternity is, and how many have wended thither who know that anecdote.",
      "Driven by such a hope, as if refusing to recognize this world as a vale of tears where (as they taught me) even injustice is foreordained by Providence to maintain the balance of things, whose design often eludes us, Salvatore journeyed through various lands, from his native Montferrat toward Liguria, then up through Provence into the lands of the King of France.",
      "So it was steady as she goes as Sally was hustled into bed, and on the stroke of twelve a fourth Aintree child entered this vale of tears.",
      "As we devour the Earth's resources and despoil the environment, we are driving ourselves into a metaphoric vale of tears."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "9201-2",
    "Idiom": [
      "vale of tears"
    ],
    "Meaning": "A place of sorrow or suffering.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Jerusalem is the city of tombs; the valleys of Halcedoma and Jehoshephat are covered with them; and the living appear to have no other task assigned to them than that of keeping watch over these deposits of ashes. Such are these places of lamentations—these vales of tears —these vast repositories of death.",
      "In the New World, Christianity had provided the major vehicle of cultural expression for the slaves. It could not be denied them in a Christian country—and it provided them with solace in their \" vale of tears,\" guiding them through \"the valley of the shadow.\""
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "9202-1",
    "Idiom": [
      "valley of death"
    ],
    "Meaning": "A place or period where death is impending.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Into the valley of Death / Rode the six hundred."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "9202-2",
    "Idiom": [
      "valley of death"
    ],
    "Meaning": "A place of great danger.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "9202-3",
    "Idiom": [
      "valley of death"
    ],
    "Meaning": "The challenging phase of a startup before achieving sustainable cash flow.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "9203",
    "Idiom": [
      "vanish to the four winds"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To disappear.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "9204",
    "Idiom": [
      "variety is the spice of life"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Variety makes life interesting.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Besides the usual run of machines, planers, millers, automatics, centre lathes, cranes, etc., there were several power stations, the rolling mills for strip material and for 60 ft. rails, and all the steel furnaces with their complicated systems of flues. If variety is the spice of life, then there was plenty here."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "9205",
    "Idiom": [
      "vast majority"
    ],
    "Meaning": "The greatest part of something, making alternatives nearly irrelevant.",
    "Sentence": [
      "The vast majority of people will not live to 110."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "9206",
    "Idiom": [
      "velvet handcuffs"
    ],
    "Meaning": "An arrangement that offers benefits to discourage leaving.",
    "Sentence": [
      "If turnover is low, is this for good reasons or because staff have no other opportunities or are trapped by \" velvet handcuffs \" — are dissatisfied and would like to leave, but the money is too good.",
      "Inevitably, it turns out, singing other people's songs or having to collaborate with one's bandmates can sometimes feel like a prison sentence, albeit one with velvet handcuffs and minimum security.",
      "The transfer sounded prestigious, but it was definitely a demotion. This was the style of the Brezhnev Politburo: velvet handcuffs, but handcuffs nevertheless."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "9207",
    "Idiom": [
      "venomous-tongued"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Spiteful or malicious.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "9208",
    "Idiom": [
      "verge on"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To approach or be close to something.",
    "Sentence": [
      "It was verging on dusk, and the clock had already given warning of the hour to dress for dinner, when little Adèle, who knelt by me in the drawing-room window-seat, suddenly exclaimed",
      "Bungee jumping verges on the insane, if you ask me."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "9209-1",
    "Idiom": [
      "very well"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Used to soften modal verbs.",
    "Sentence": [
      "It may very well rain this afternoon.",
      "I can't very well talk to you and concentrate on sanding this at the same time."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "9209-2",
    "Idiom": [
      "very well"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Indicates acceptance, often with resignation.",
    "Sentence": [
      "A: I don't want to go today.",
      "B: Very well. Let's go tomorrow, then."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "9210-1",
    "Idiom": [
      "vibe with"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To match a feeling or connect positively.",
    "Sentence": [
      "The rave really vibes with my mood tonight."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "9210-2",
    "Idiom": [
      "vibe with"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To have good rapport with someone or something.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "9211",
    "Idiom": [
      "victory at sea"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Difficult ocean conditions for watersports.",
    "Sentence": [
      "It is total \" Victory at Sea \" out there today- 17 to 25 knot onshore winds kicking up big. messy windswell/chop everywhere.",
      "It is extremely fast and comfortable to ride in 2 foot chop like we had in the ocean today. It will still run near 60 in that \" victory at sea \" if one can hang on.",
      "A diminishing swell Saturday led officials to call for a lay day, then a strong on-shore storm system moved through overnight leaving victory at sea conditions yesterday.",
      "It's not Maui, but wind swell becoming Victory At Sea conditions on the outside as it goes 4.2.",
      "HIGH SURF AND DANGEROUS RIP CURRENTS CONTINUE TODAY WITH VICTORY AT SEA CONDITIONS. SOME BEACH EROSION HAS LIKELY OCCURRED OVER IN THE PANHANDLE."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "9212",
    "Idiom": [
      "view from the top"
    ],
    "Meaning": "The optimistic outlook of a successful person.",
    "Sentence": [
      "The view from the top was pretty great, but then he was fired from his job the next day."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "9213",
    "Idiom": [
      "vim and vigor"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Energy and enthusiasm.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "9214-1",
    "Idiom": [
      "voice in the wilderness"
    ],
    "Meaning": "An assertion or opinion that is widely ignored or rejected.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Eysenck (1952) was just beginning to seriously question the validity of dynamically oriented therapy, but he was a lone voice in the wilderness at that time. Not until the sixties did opposing points of view... begin to gain prominence.",
      "A leader without committed followers is an unheard voice in the wilderness.",
      "When Justice Denied’s first issue was published in February 1999 it was a ‘ voice in the wilderness ’ alerting the world to the widespread problem of the unreliability of the legal system.",
      "The nation was a mess environmentally, and only a few voices in the wilderness were paying heed. In 1970, environmentalists often were derided and dismissed."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "9214-2",
    "Idiom": [
      "voice in the wilderness"
    ],
    "Meaning": "An influential figure expressing unconventional views.",
    "Sentence": [
      "\"I don't know,\" said Anne. \"He gathers together a little flock of all denominations, who only care to hear the word.\" \"Such a voice in the wilderness as often does good service,\" said Julius.",
      "\"I, even I, may be the voice in the wilderness leading the lost sheep back to the fold.\"",
      "Zhang again acted as a Confucian prophetic voice in the wilderness who called the people to truth."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "9215",
    "Idiom": [
      "vote down"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To defeat by majority vote.",
    "Sentence": [
      "However, Conservative MP Lee Rowley argued the Bill was the 'wrong vehicle' for the matter, and the amendment was voted down at committee stage.",
      "His wife voted down the project the moment he suggested it."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "9216",
    "Idiom": [
      "vote with one's feet"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Expresses preferences by actions, often by leaving an unsatisfactory situation.",
    "Sentence": [
      "But Khrushchev's economic plan for the East Germans means a new kind of dependence on their old Russian foes, and its fulfillment is a political question—on which East Germans, whatever their phony 99.9% elections say, still vote with their feet by fleeing West at the rate of 2,000 a week.",
      "That would enable the students to \" vote with their feet \" for programs of proven excellence and presumably for fields where the most jobs are available.",
      "TWA expects that its lounger will keep it flying high in transatlantic business, where it now leads all other airlines. Says Jesse Liebman, a TWA vice president: \"Passengers vote with their feet.\"",
      "Please, vote with your feet —participate in IAP.",
      "Then again, I knew that shareholder democracy meant only that I should vote with my feet if I didn't like what management was doing.",
      "The conventional wisdom ca. 1980 was that if an investor did not like the way a firm was managed, she could vote with her feet, moving her money elsewhere.",
      "Several big names have voted with their feet. The Russian business daily Vedomosti reported on Monday that Lev Khasis, a former senior executive at the state-owned Sberbank, had left the country for the US."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "9217-1",
    "Idiom": [
      "vote with one's wallet"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To make choices based on financial considerations.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "9217-2",
    "Idiom": [
      "vote with one's wallet"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To support or boycott a company to show one's values or principles.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "9218",
    "Idiom": [
      "vouch for"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To affirm the truth or reliability of.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Let him in. I’ll vouch for his good behaviour."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "9219",
    "Idiom": [
      "wag a finger"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Expresses annoyance or disapproval of someone's actions.",
    "Sentence": [
      "“Edge of the Edge” pairs a playful sample of the doo-wop group Randy & the Rainbows’ 1963 hit “Denise” with Panda’s serenely melodic vocals, which cut through the carefree, pop-psychedelic vibe with some light social critique: “Can’t say it’s what you bargained for,” he sings, wagging a finger at the frenzied escalation of technology, “It’s forever at the push of a button.”",
      "In reality Infantino has presided over a World Cup staged in a repressive state that has feasted on those who built its palaces, and has barely wagged a finger at Iran’s regime in the lead up to their appearance here."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "9220",
    "Idiom": [
      "wag the dog"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To divert attention from a problem.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "9221",
    "Idiom": [
      "wait around"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To spend time idly while waiting for someone or something.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Looks as if we were all sold out. But if you'll wait around till the old man comes along maybe he can put his hand on it.",
      "\"A terrible organization!\" said Nikita Khrushchev, all but shuddering at the memory. \"If you could see how the delegates behave! . They do not participate in work, but just sit there and wait around in case there's any voting.\"",
      "\"In the beginning, I was waiting around by the phone,\" he said. \"Then I got myself an answering machine.\"",
      "\"Too many women wait around depending on men to bring them happiness. I didn't depend on men for mine.\""
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "9222",
    "Idiom": [
      "wait for Godot"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To wait hopelessly.",
    "Sentence": [
      "But waiting for the connection between gender and parenting to be broken is waiting for Godot; pretending that children have no impact on a woman's career is turning the exception into the rule.",
      "We are waiting not for a Godot, but for another ­– doubtless very different – St. Benedict."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "9223",
    "Idiom": [
      "wait for it"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Used to build suspense for a forthcoming remark.",
    "Sentence": [
      "The National Museum of Crime and Punishment invites couples to \"delight their dark side\" this Valentine's Day weekend with -- wait for it -- stories of violence against romantic partners?",
      "I just found out that my ex-wife, who never wanted children, now has two kids called, wait for it, Ludwig and Balthazar."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "9224",
    "Idiom": [
      "wait for the ball to drop"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To wait in expectation of an event.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "9225-1",
    "Idiom": [
      "wait for the other shoe to drop"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To defer action until another matter is resolved.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "9225-2",
    "Idiom": [
      "wait for the other shoe to drop"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To await an inevitable, often undesirable event.",
    "Sentence": [
      "After the tournament, Player admitted that all through the final round he had been nervously waiting for more trouble. \"It was like waiting for the other shoe to drop.\""
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "9226",
    "Idiom": [
      "wait in the wings"
    ],
    "Meaning": "About to become important or central.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Theire is something obscene about a person spending $40 a seat to be told that redemtion is a spaceship and that \"god\" is waiting in the wings to forgive the sins of the flesh.",
      "He's there in the dark, he's there in my heart / He waits in the wings, he's gotta play a part / Trouble is a friend, yeah, trouble is a friend of mine, oh oh!"
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "9227",
    "Idiom": [
      "wait on someone hand and foot"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To attend to someone's every need excessively.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Did you see how she waits on him hand and foot ? It's not healthy."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "9228",
    "Idiom": [
      "wait out"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To patiently endure until the end.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "9229",
    "Idiom": [
      "waiting game"
    ],
    "Meaning": "A strategy of inaction until circumstances improve.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Inasmuch as nothing was really and rationally to be hoped for but a long continuance of the siege and wearying out of the English, they were naturally a little afraid of Joan's impetuous notions. He said: \"You see, we are sure that the waiting game is the best.\"",
      "With Sam the only menace, I had been prepared to play a purely waiting game, watching proceedings from afar, ready to give my help if necessary.",
      "It was a waiting game, and whichever waited the longer was bound to win.",
      "Arafat and Sharon have both been playing a waiting game since the Israeli leader's election a year ago."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "9230",
    "Idiom": [
      "wake the dead"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To be very loud.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "9231",
    "Idiom": [
      "wake up and smell the coffee"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Face reality and stop deluding oneself.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Your paper gains \"notice\" as an example of the use of English as it should not be written nor spoken. Wake up and smell the coffee.",
      "A few years back, when a wife told her husband to \" wake up and smell the coffee,\" it usually was said in utter derision. Now, when there is coffee to smell, she shouts it to him in supreme delight.",
      "Wake up and smell the coffee, Dummy. You're a comfort station on a back-street detour. Send him on his way.",
      "Dear God, was she going to look at everybody who owned a truck with this sort of suspicion? “Come on, Heskell. Wake up and smell the coffee. They've become the singles bars of the nineties. ”",
      "He had opened his eyes, which was what his first wife was always telling him to do—open your eyes, Al, wake up and smell the coffee —and seen that Rosalind was at least as unhappy as he was,"
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "9232",
    "Idiom": [
      "wake up on the wrong side of bed"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To feel grumpy and irritable.",
    "Sentence": [
      "He can't stop shouting at me: he must have woken up on the wrong side of bed this morning."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "9233",
    "Idiom": [
      "wake up one day"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To undergo an unplanned overnight change.",
    "Sentence": [
      "The feud between the Hatfields and the McCoys must have been fueled by some event, as no reasonable person would wake up one day and decide they hated everyone in the other family."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "9234",
    "Idiom": [
      "walk a mile in someone's shoes"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To understand someone else's experience.",
    "Sentence": [
      "It's likely that he didn't begrudge what he had paid Marshall though, because he thought he had finally found a medical person who had walked a mile in his shoes."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "9235-1",
    "Idiom": [
      "walk all over"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To dominate or take advantage of someone.",
    "Sentence": [
      "They don't lie down before their husbands and let them walk all over them."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "9235-2",
    "Idiom": [
      "walk all over"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To win without much effort.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Part V: Playing a Strong Defense and Keeping Score: You just can't let your opponents walk all over you!"
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "9236",
    "Idiom": [
      "walk and chew gum at the same time"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To do two simple tasks simultaneously; to show basic competence.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "9237-1",
    "Idiom": [
      "walk away"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To withdraw from a situation.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Green adds: \"Luckily, nobody did walk away. Railtrack stayed with it, so did the government, so did the Strategic Rail Authority.",
      "Company lawyers told him to walk away from the deal."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "9237-2",
    "Idiom": [
      "walk away"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To survive a challenging or dangerous situation.",
    "Sentence": [
      "The football team walked away with a 1-0 victory."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "9238-1",
    "Idiom": [
      "walk away from"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To abandon or leave.",
    "Sentence": [
      "He decided to walk away from his job after expressing much dissatisfaction with his boss.",
      "If you walk away from this offer you will live to regret it."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "9238-2",
    "Idiom": [
      "walk away from"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To escape a mishap with minimal or no injury.",
    "Sentence": [
      "This fall's visitors have included a motorcyclist who flipped his bike at 150 m.p.h. and walked away from the wreck muttering: \"I thought I had stopped.\""
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "9238-3",
    "Idiom": [
      "walk away from"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To outpace effortlessly.",
    "Sentence": [
      "This blue Camaro looked bad, sounded worse and would run like a raped ape. I have no idea what-all-else Wayne did to this car, but it was a six-cylinder that would walk away from every car I came against."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "9239",
    "Idiom": [
      "walk free"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To go unpunished for a crime.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "9240",
    "Idiom": [
      "walk in on"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To intrude or interrupt by entering unexpectedly.",
    "Sentence": [
      "He accidentally walked in on me while I was undressing."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "9241",
    "Idiom": [
      "walk in the park"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Something easy or pleasant.",
    "Sentence": [
      "High school was difficult, but it was a walk in the park compared to college engineering classes."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "9242",
    "Idiom": [
      "walk in the snow"
    ],
    "Meaning": "A significant career decision, often to resign or retire.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Mr. Trudeau told reporters yesterday he made the decision to put an end to almost 16 years in office after a long, solitary walk Tuesday night through a blinding Ottawa blizzard.... \"It was a great walk in the snow.\"",
      "\"I went for a walk in the snow last night—and I'm staying.\" So said Jean Chretien on January 15th, varying the phrase with which Pierre Trudeau announced his sudden resignation as Canada's prime minister in 1984.",
      "Even in defeat, Ignatieff could not shake even one more Trudeau comparison. Trudeau's historic long walk in the snow came in February 1984."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "9243",
    "Idiom": [
      "walk of life"
    ],
    "Meaning": "An occupation or lifestyle.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Nor is it good for the name of the railway industry that skilled men should have to put in so much overtime to keep up financially with the Joneses in other walks of life.",
      "Folks in our neighborhood come from every walk of life, prince and pauper, investor and janitor."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "9244-1",
    "Idiom": [
      "walk off with"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To steal an unguarded item.",
    "Sentence": [
      "While Mike Donovan was engaged in his contest with Paul, his companion had quietly walked off with the shirt.",
      "I went looking for Red Denny, the head canvas-man, who had walked off with my pocket-knife.",
      "Hotel guests may want to think twice now before walking off with that bathrobe."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "9244-2",
    "Idiom": [
      "walk off with"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To win easily.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Last week in Cleveland, Harry Hopman's Aussies walked off with tennis' top trophy, the Davis Cup."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "9244-3",
    "Idiom": [
      "walk off with"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To make the strongest impression.",
    "Sentence": [
      "But kindliness does not prevent elegant Actor Woolley from walking off with the picture against the trying competition of six scene-stealing children.",
      "But in \"La Cenerentola,\" Rossini's version of the fairy tale, which returned to the Metropolitan Opera on Saturday night, Juan Diego Flórez, the 29-year-old Peruvian tenor, walked off with the show."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "9245",
    "Idiom": [
      "walk on broken glass"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To take great risks or endure discomfort to achieve something.",
    "Sentence": [
      "“We’ve got a lot of players not playing domestic football week in, week out. What is it? Is it the crest on their chest that makes them raise their game? It must be. It’s playing for Wales. It’s powerful and everybody would walk on broken glass to get into this squad. Credit goes to the players.”",
      "Trump won’t succeed, as his successive losses of the House, Senate, presidency and last week’s midterm results show. Too many Americans would crawl on broken glass to vote against him, no matter who his general election opponent may be. They have seen enough."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "9246-1",
    "Idiom": [
      "walk on eggshells"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To be overly careful to avoid upsetting someone.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "9246-2",
    "Idiom": [
      "walk on eggshells"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To be careful and sensitive in handling delicate matters.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "9247",
    "Idiom": [
      "walk on sunshine"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To be extremely happy.",
    "Sentence": [
      "That little girl we'd practically adopted made me walk on sunshine. There could be no option where she wasn't doing great. I wouldn't be able to handle it.",
      "The time before the Third Round of qualifying, the summer of 2012, when the impossible seemed within their reach – this was the country at its finest. Bowers had enjoyed seeing the fruit of his efforts pay off as much as he loved watching his countrymen get swept up in his soccer passion. Regardless of the outcome, he and the island's small set of believers were walking on sunshine.",
      "They praised her work in Assam so profusely that she walked on sunshine for a few days. However, the heady experience of Karachi was followed by a miserable phase of Daisingari."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "9248-1",
    "Idiom": [
      "walk on the wild side"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Involves adventurous, risky, or morally questionable behavior.",
    "Sentence": [
      "She is drawn inexorably into the shady, but dangerously exciting world of one of her patients, a compulsive gambler. Her walk on the wild side leads her to a low-life gambling den, The House of Games.",
      "Thanks to the likes of James Bond, the trappings of spy-dom have long attracted jealous eyes and vivid imaginations of many who long for a walk on the wild side of espionage."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "9248-2",
    "Idiom": [
      "walk on the wild side"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To behave in an adventurous or risky manner.",
    "Sentence": [
      "L.A. Confidential... walks on the wild side with brief and startling violence, fleeting nudity, sexual situations and redolent seamy details.",
      "GM rolled the dice on a lifestyle vehicle that promised only modest sales.... That's the risk GM took when it decided to walk on the wild side."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "9249",
    "Idiom": [
      "walk on water"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To perform extraordinary feats.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Oh, I've walked on water, run through fire / Can't seem to feel it anymore",
      "Six years ago, McCormack was walking on water as the cop who cracked the Quaker case.",
      "He may be rich and influential, but he can't walk on water.",
      "After the day I had today, I feel like I could walk on water."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "9250-1",
    "Idiom": [
      "walk over"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To gain an easy victory.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "9250-2",
    "Idiom": [
      "walk over"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To dominate or treat someone as inferior.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "9251",
    "Idiom": [
      "walk the beat"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To patrol on the job.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "9252-1",
    "Idiom": [
      "walk the dog"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To walk a dog outside.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "9252-2",
    "Idiom": [
      "walk the dog"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To perform a trick in lacrosse.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "9253",
    "Idiom": [
      "walk the floor"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To pace restlessly due to worry or excitement.",
    "Sentence": [
      "\"How wildly you talk, Margaret!\" exclaimed Mr. Birtwell, with increased irritation.... Mr. Birtwell started to his feet and walked the floor with considerable excitement.",
      "\"Oh—this is terrible!\" she broke out frantically—and she began to walk the floor.",
      "You left me and you went away",
      "Ida... remembered the \"anxious way my mother walked the floor at night when my father was out to a political meeting.\"",
      "If Kyle felt half as torn about his upcoming marriage as Brandon suspected, he might walk the floor all night."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "9254-1",
    "Idiom": [
      "walk the line"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To maintain a balanced position between contrasting choices or opinions.",
    "Sentence": [
      "I sat at dinner, but satisfied myself with nibbling bread crusts, and witnessing the forlorn and perilous efforts of my friends to walk the line between starvation and acute indigestion.",
      "I began to walk the line between work and play."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "9254-2",
    "Idiom": [
      "walk the line"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To exercise self-control and avoid causing harm.",
    "Sentence": [
      "I keep a close watch on this heart of mine I keep my eyes wide open all the time I keep the ends out for the tie that binds Because you're mine, I walk the line."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "9254-3",
    "Idiom": [
      "walk the line"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To graduate.",
    "Sentence": [
      "A Baldwin High School student will be able to wear slacks to her graduation ceremony, under an order from the Maui School District.... \"I'm very glad she'll be able to walk the line with her graduating class,\" Rosaga said.",
      "Montano's family, including her parents, sons and fiance, Thomas Gallegos, planned to be on hand to see her walk the line and be honored by the UNM-VC Advisory Board, faculty and staff and her fellow associate degree graduates."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "9255-1",
    "Idiom": [
      "walk the plank"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To be forced to face death by drowning as punishment.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Wo unto the crews of such English vessels as now fell into his [ Blackbeard 's] hands! he showed them no mercy; they either walked the plank, or the hatches were nailed down upon them, and they went down in the scuttled ship.",
      "The Portuguese held his tongue like a brick, and walked the plank, while the jolly tars cheered like mad. But the sly dog dived, came up under the man-of-war, scuttled her, and down she went, with all sail set, 'To the bottom of the sea, sea, sea,' where—",
      "How many it [the treasure] had cost in the amassing, what blood and sorrow, what good ships scuttled on the deep, what brave men walking the plank blindfold, what shot of cannon, what shame and lies and cruelty, perhaps no man alive could tell.",
      "It is quite a painful reflection how many whole crews we have made to walk the plank for no more than a stock of biscuit or an anker or two of spirit.",
      "Hook smiled on them with his teeth closed, and took a step toward Wendy. His intention was to turn her face so that she should see the boys walking the plank one by one.",
      "He seated himself on a chair covered with a white bearskin, waiting while the Boys, whose wrists were chained together, were dragged out of the hold and brought before him. Six of them, he said, were to walk the plank at once, but he would save any two who were willing to be cabin boys.",
      "\"Forward march!\" commanded Dan. \"Give me a lift, Max. His knees have begun to sag, the big kettle of mush! We'll throw him into the dory.\" \"Aye, aye, admiral. Do we tie a weight to his feet, or does he walk the plank ?\" \"He would look ornamental hanged at the yardarm, Max. Let's get him aboard the sloop first. Then we shall have to sail out of the bay with what wind there is and find another anchorage. We want no interference while we are prying the truth out of this festive beach comber.\"",
      "It has often been written that pirates commonly killed their prisoners, usually by the picturesque method of making them ‘ walk the plank.’ This is untrue. I have ransacked official records, reports of trials, and much other documentary evidence without being able to discover a single case of walking the plank. I do not mean merely that I have not found an authenticated case. In all the contemporary literature on pirates I could not find even an accusation or suggestion that the practice was ever used. The very expression seems to have been invented many years after the Age of Piracy.",
      "[Stephen] Sondheim and [Arthur] Laurents didn't give up. They decided that Fay's opening speech and song [in the musical Anyone Can Whistle ] were overkill and one had to go. In a move one wouldn't expect in a musical, \"There Won't Be Trumpets\" walked the plank while the speech stayed."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "9255-2",
    "Idiom": [
      "walk the plank"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To be forced to resign.",
    "Sentence": [
      "I forgot that I had been given the place as a \"political reward.\" I was immediately reminded of it by the expectations of those political \"workers\" whom the Board of County Commissioners wished me to appoint to officers in my court. When I refused to make a single clerk \" walk the plank,\" their indignation was amazing.",
      "[Grover] Cleveland stood pat and another \"carpet bagger\" [William A. Vincent, Chief Justice of the First Judicial District, Territory of New Mexico] had walked the plank to political exile so far as New Mexico was concerned.",
      "If, on the other hand, operating performance is poor to lousy, the COO [chief operating officer] walks the plank while the CEO [chief executive officer] accepts the resignation—which, by the way, is always for \"personal\" reasons, policy differences, or to pursue other (always unspecified) interests—with regret in varying degrees of intensity.",
      "So why on earth would [Bill] Clinton share any credit with Republicans? Did he remember summoning Democrats to walk the plank for this? How could any president spit on their sacrifice and uphold the party cohesion to survive?",
      "After he was caught selling company secrets, it’s not surprising they made him walk the plank."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "9256-1",
    "Idiom": [
      "walk the streets"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To walk about in a city or town.",
    "Sentence": [
      "The art of walking the streets, if it was ever known, is a lost art in America.",
      "At first, I just spent most of the day walking the streets, pushing my baby around with me from one sister's house to another.",
      "So after the Beatles bit we walked the streets of Hamburg for a while, amazed at the vibrancy of the place."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "9256-2",
    "Idiom": [
      "walk the streets"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To freely move about in a city or town.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Doctor, you have stated that you assumed that there are many people walking the streets who are neurotic.",
      "His business was crime, yet he walked the streets of Chicago with no fear of punishment."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "9256-3",
    "Idiom": [
      "walk the streets"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To be unemployed or seeking work.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Probably at the age of eleven, when he should be at school, he is driven into the workshop and a journeyman is allowed to walk the streets, because a great deal that he does can be done by the apprentice.",
      "Trade conditions in Waco are dull just now and we have a number of our union men walking the streets.",
      "I hold a letter from an Imperial Veteran telling me \"returned men who fought to save the empire are walking the streets of the Pacific Coast cities starving,\" ."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "9256-4",
    "Idiom": [
      "walk the streets"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To prostitute.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "9257",
    "Idiom": [
      "walk the talk"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To act in accordance with one's words.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "9258-1",
    "Idiom": [
      "walk through"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To explain something step by step.",
    "Sentence": [
      "On my first day at work, the secretary walked me through the process of using the photocopier."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "9258-2",
    "Idiom": [
      "walk through"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To casually rehearse something.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "9258-3",
    "Idiom": [
      "walk through"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To perform something easily or casually.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "9259",
    "Idiom": [
      "wall of silence"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Strict secrecy maintained by a group regarding information that may harm their interests.",
    "Sentence": [
      "[The persecution of homosexuals in the Holocaust is] a fact deliberately buried by history. This homophobic world does not intend to let the straight world know any of the real facts. The wall of silence is deliberate.",
      "That makes his struggle with the culture of omertà, the wall of silence that allowed the Mafia to prevail for decades, all the more poignant.",
      "Her parents sought the official report on the incident, but they have run into a wall of silence.",
      "After the long lapse of serious Ottomanist scholarship on the Armenian question, it now appears that the Ottomanist wall of silence is crumbling.",
      "German justice minister, Sabine Leutheusser-Schnarrenberger, said Monday that a Vatican secrecy rule has played a role in a \" wall of silence \" surrounding sexual abuse of children."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "9260-1",
    "Idiom": [
      "wall-to-wall"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Pervasive or ubiquitous.",
    "Sentence": [
      "We all know how genius “Kamp Krusty,” “A Streetcar Named Marge,” “Homer The Heretic,” “Itchy & Scratchy: The Movie” and “Mr. Plow” are, but even the relatively unheralded episodes offer wall-to-wall laughs.",
      "The TV showed wall-to-wall coverage of the bombing."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "9260-2",
    "Idiom": [
      "wall-to-wall"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Full or crowded.",
    "Sentence": [
      "The main ballroom at the exclusive Pacific Club in Newport Beach was wall to wall with lawyers, judges, and politicians last December as the law school at the University of California, Irvine—the first public law school launched in California in more than 40 years—hosted a coming-out party for its first dean.",
      "The airport was wall-to-wall with impatient passengers."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "9261",
    "Idiom": [
      "walls have ears",
      "pitchers have ears"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Be cautious about what you say; you might be overheard.",
    "Sentence": [
      "\"But it is well to remember that walls have ears, and therefore to whisper.\"",
      "“We're talking about everything you can't discuss in Damascus, because there the walls have ears,” Mr. Taieb said."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "9262",
    "Idiom": [
      "wanker's cramp"
    ],
    "Meaning": "An ache in the wrist from repeated movements.",
    "Sentence": [
      "I was just amazed the poor boy didn't get wanker's cramp having to count out fifteen thousand pounds in cash.",
      "It's amazing how you can get wanker's cramp from frantically squeezing a brake lever",
      "I remember when we were like learing the hand break turns and just like that one session gave me like the fucking worst wanker's cramp I've ever like felt in my life."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "9263",
    "Idiom": [
      "want for nothing"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To have everything one needs.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "9264",
    "Idiom": [
      "want to know"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To ask.",
    "Sentence": [
      "I want to know, have you ever seen the rain / Comin' down on a sunny day?",
      "\"What do you see?\" Thayet wanted to know."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "9265",
    "Idiom": [
      "wanton kittens make sober cats"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Youthful recklessness can lead to responsible adulthood.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "9266",
    "Idiom": [
      "war bride"
    ],
    "Meaning": "A company or individual benefiting from warfare.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "9267-1",
    "Idiom": [
      "war of nerves"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Warfare involving psychological manipulation to demoralize opponents.",
    "Sentence": [
      "\"Our brave Ottoman soldiers are not easily frightened by noise, owing to their splendid nerves—and this is a war of nerves, a war in which strong nerves mean victory.\"",
      "\"In the future, war will not merely be one of men and machines, it will be a war of wills and a war of nerves.\""
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "9267-2",
    "Idiom": [
      "war of nerves"
    ],
    "Meaning": "A tense situation with psychological tactics but no direct conflict.",
    "Sentence": [
      "A united steel industry appeared to have emerged the victor today in a war of nerves to raise prices on some of its products in the face of White House pressure to hold the price line.",
      "14 of America's best chess players are wielding kings, queens and their chessboard servants in a silent but brutal war.... \"It's a mental war, it's a war of nerves, of logic, or reasoning, of being a good fighter,\" said Walter Browne.",
      "\"We assume that a dangerous brinkmanship, a war of nerves, is under way, but it will not grow into a hot war,\" the official told Tass."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "9268",
    "Idiom": [
      "war of words"
    ],
    "Meaning": "A heated exchange of statements.",
    "Sentence": [
      "The young man much resented this directness of attack, and in the war of words which followed when they met he did not scruple publicly to insult Mr Clare, without respect for his gray hairs.",
      "The lower classes live in a state of war, a war of words. Their readiness is the product of the same fiery individualism as the readiness of the old fighting oligarchs. Any cabman has to be ready with his tongue, as any gentleman of the last century had to be ready with his sword.",
      "These two have brutal, contemptuous wars of words — the kind you might expect from divorcing 40-somethings.",
      "In a war of words that has broken out between Khan and Secretary of State for Transport Grant Shapps, the Mayor was accused of sending revenue-raising proposals to Shapps some three weeks late, giving him little choice but to extend negotiations. Khan countered this by alleging that 'unfair' conditions, such as raising council tax, are being attached to any new funding deal that would \"punish Londoners\" for the effect the pandemic has had on passenger numbers. He added: \"These short-term deals are trapping TfL on life support rather than putting it on the path to long-term sustainability.\""
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "9269",
    "Idiom": [
      "warm body"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Any person who is present.",
    "Sentence": [
      "So when leaders keep around C players (or the warm bodies), the result is almost always worse than having nobody for a short period of time.",
      "Why just hire a warm body, when you can hire for loyalty?."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "9270",
    "Idiom": [
      "warm regards"
    ],
    "Meaning": "A polite letter closing.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "9271",
    "Idiom": [
      "warm the cockles of someone's heart"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To provide happiness or deep contentment.",
    "Sentence": [
      "This contrivance of his did inwardly rejoice the cockles of his heart.",
      "My sandwiches had gone the way of all good sandwiches, and no wine remained to warm the cockles of my heart, for my flask had long been emptied",
      "“Surname?” ¶ “Blagodarev.” ¶ A handy name, easy to get hold of, and the ready way he gave it warmed the cockles of the heart."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "9272",
    "Idiom": [
      "warm-blooded"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Passionate.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Claire jumped from her chair and smiled the warmest-blooded smile that she could muster.",
      "Chasseur said, “Murder is a grisly, nasty business, Jessica. The female species simply doesn’t have the genetic makeup to deal sensibly with it. Murder is a cold-blooded act. Women are, by nature, warmer-blooded than men, which is why they’re so attractive to the male of the species.”"
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "9273",
    "Idiom": [
      "warmest regards"
    ],
    "Meaning": "A polite closing of a letter.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "9274-1",
    "Idiom": [
      "warts and all"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Includes both strengths and weaknesses.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Biographer Jones, for all his hero worship, belongs to the warts-and-all school, and notes some strange quirks in Freud's character."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "9274-2",
    "Idiom": [
      "warts and all"
    ],
    "Meaning": "In a manner that reveals imperfections.",
    "Sentence": [
      "The new crop of reality shows brings us that much closer to the contestants, warts and all.",
      "\"We are very open and publish everything we investigate in detailed reports - warts and all,\" adds French."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "9275",
    "Idiom": [
      "wash a blackamoor white"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To labor in vain to make something appear better than it is.",
    "Sentence": [
      "It is not my Intention to put myself in a Perspiration concerning any of the Hieroglyphic Emblems, or Monstrosities of the Egyptians, for it is all Labour in vain, or washing a Blackamoor white.",
      "And universally, all Endeavours to vindicate a bad Cause, are but making it the worse. The Moral in my Last Paper was intended to caution you against attempting to wash the Blackamoor white : but you are resolved to struggle.",
      "Folly then announces herself as the bright being whose mere aspect dispels all gloom; her present purpose being a panegyric upon herself, “which, who dares say he has a better claim than I to pronounce? and is not this candour better than a rhetorician’s apish display of his power to wash a blackamoor white ? ”",
      "Therefore it is washing a blackamoor white to describe the French pre-war policy as peaceful and defensive. It had chained itself to Russia, and as yet nobody has maintained that the latter’s policy was defensive."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "9276",
    "Idiom": [
      "wash oneself of"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To reject or stop caring about something.",
    "Sentence": [
      "After many years, they washed themselves of her and her addiction."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "9277-1",
    "Idiom": [
      "wash out"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To erode.",
    "Sentence": [
      "The railway, which is single track throughout, skirts the left bank of the estuary of the River Colne, and was washed out over a length of about three miles.",
      "Storm Jorge on February 29-March 1 washed out lines at Dutton Viaduct, Mountain Ash and around Aberdare.",
      "The sandcastle was washed out by the tide."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "9277-2",
    "Idiom": [
      "wash out"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To cancel due to bad weather.",
    "Sentence": [
      "The continuous rain washed out the cricket match."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "9277-3",
    "Idiom": [
      "wash out"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To lose traction while turning.",
    "Sentence": [
      "The rider washed out around that last turn and hit a tree."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "9278",
    "Idiom": [
      "washed out"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Very tired and lacking energy.",
    "Sentence": [
      "I feel really washed out after all that gardening."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "9279",
    "Idiom": [
      "waste away"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To lose energy and become weak.",
    "Sentence": [
      "The perennial Arctic ice cap—the sea ice that persists through winter and summer—is wasting away. Over the past half century it has shrunk by more than a million square miles",
      "She watched him waste away from lack of food or exercise."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "9280",
    "Idiom": [
      "waste breath"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To speak needlessly or futilely.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Middleton and Paul saw no use in wasting their breath in remonstrances against this proposal.",
      "Why waste breath saying self-evident things?",
      "\"Please don't waste your breath asking me ridiculous questions,\" he says."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "9281",
    "Idiom": [
      "waste not, want not"
    ],
    "Meaning": "If one is not wasteful, one will not be in need.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Besides these, there were some little pleasures in the shape of helping her to vegetable she didn't want, and when it had nearly alighted on her plate, taking it across for his own use, on the plea of waste not, want not.",
      "“They take the cocoa-nuts to the town kitchen,” said the captain, “to be made into cocoa-nut ice for the army breakfast; waste not want not, you know.”",
      "I'm a believer in “ waste not, want not ”, and we roast our leftover bread, finely sliced and brushed with olive oil, in a low oven."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "9282",
    "Idiom": [
      "watch it"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Be careful or cautious.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Hey, watch it ! You nearly hit me."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "9283",
    "Idiom": [
      "watch one's language"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Be careful about what one says.",
    "Sentence": [
      "You need to watch your language here. These people are very religious."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "9284-1",
    "Idiom": [
      "watch one's mouth"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Be careful about what one says.",
    "Sentence": [
      "You really need to watch your mouth. You're a teacher now!"
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "9284-2",
    "Idiom": [
      "watch one's mouth"
    ],
    "Meaning": "A warning to choose words carefully.",
    "Sentence": [
      "You watch your mouth, sis. I may be old, but I can still knock the stars out of the sky for you.",
      "Hey. Watch your mouth. Don't you realize who's listening?"
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "9285",
    "Idiom": [
      "watch one's step"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Be cautious.",
    "Sentence": [
      "We congratulate our correspondents on some very cogent reasoning, and shall have to watch our step even more carefully in future!"
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "9286",
    "Idiom": [
      "watch out"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Be aware or use caution.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Being exiled from the Nexus was a huge shock, I still can't believe Tann did that. But at least Sloane's watching out for us and giving us whatever land we want. We hope to make a life out here and we've got our very own lakeside property with a view.",
      "Watch out for low doorways, so you don’t hit your head."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "9287",
    "Idiom": [
      "watch over"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To guard and protect.",
    "Sentence": [
      "I like to think / (it has to be!) / of a cybernetic ecology / where we are free of our labors / and joined back to nature, / returned to our mammal / brothers and sisters, / and all watched over / by machines of loving grace.",
      "She stayed up all night to watch over the sick infant."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "9288",
    "Idiom": [
      "watch the world burn"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To observe chaos or suffering with detachment or indifference.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "9289",
    "Idiom": [
      "watch the world go by"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To pause and observe one's surroundings.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Watching the world go by is so much fun that I have to tear myself away to catch my next service - LNER's 'Highland Chieftain' worked by a bi-mode Class 800 Azuma, .",
      "I think I'll just sit under this tree and watch the world go by."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "9290",
    "Idiom": [
      "watch this space"
    ],
    "Meaning": "An indication that something will happen.",
    "Sentence": [
      "I fully intend to ask the talented Mr Peng to give me simplified instructions for making some of his fiery Hunan specialities; so watch this space.",
      "\"We all look forward to the next walk in 2013 which we all hope to be a bigger and better event - watch this space !\""
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "9291-1",
    "Idiom": [
      "water down"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To make weaker or less effective.",
    "Sentence": [
      "\"Scaling back its ambition further, at this stage, will just mean the economic and social benefit of HS2 for communities across the UK is further watered down. Our national infrastructure should not become a political football.\"",
      "For example, Tory ministers are looking to water down key climate policies such as the ban on petrol and diesel cars by 2030, phasing out gas boilers by 2035, and low traffic neighbourhoods.",
      "In Germany, a law that would have mandated citizens to install costly clean-energy heating systems from January 2024 nearly toppled the German governing coalition, with the Greens’ approval rating plummeting. It was then watered down to allow a longer phase-in time."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "9291-2",
    "Idiom": [
      "water down"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To simplify or make easier.",
    "Sentence": [
      "If you plan to teach this material to children, you may need to water it down."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "9291-3",
    "Idiom": [
      "water down"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To make less restrictive or more lenient.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "9292",
    "Idiom": [
      "water finds its level",
      "water seeks its own level",
      "water finds its own level",
      "water seeks its level"
    ],
    "Meaning": "People of similar traits tend to associate with each other.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "9293",
    "Idiom": [
      "water over the dam"
    ],
    "Meaning": "An event that has already happened and cannot be changed.",
    "Sentence": [
      "I have two other philosophies. One is: Do the best you can with what you have. The other is: Don't worry about water over the dam."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "9294",
    "Idiom": [
      "water to one's mill"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Energizes or stimulates one.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "9295",
    "Idiom": [
      "water under the bridge"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Something in the past that must be accepted or forgotten.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Ilsa: It's been a long time. Sam: Yes, ma'am. A lot of water under the bridge.",
      "Lot of water under the bridge; lot of other stuff, too / Don’t get up, gentlemen, I’m only passing through",
      "They agreed that their old disputes were water under the bridge and decided to make a fresh start."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "9296",
    "Idiom": [
      "watering hole"
    ],
    "Meaning": "A bar or drinking establishment.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "9297",
    "Idiom": [
      "watery grave"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Death by drowning or an underwater resting place.",
    "Sentence": [
      "“Apparently that dog of hers joined you in the water.” “Yes, that's right, he took his dip with the rest of us. But what's that got to do with it?” “Wilbert Cream dived in and saved him.” “He could have got ashore perfectly well under his own steam. In fact, he was already on his way, doing what looked like an Australian crawl.” “That wouldn't occur to a pinhead like Phyllis. To her Wilbert Cream is the man who rescued her dachshund from a watery grave. So she's going to marry him.”"
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "9298",
    "Idiom": [
      "wave aside"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To dismiss something as unimportant.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "9299-1",
    "Idiom": [
      "wave away"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To reject or dismiss.",
    "Sentence": [
      "It was the Seasiders, however, who were swiftly on the attack again and they had very presentable claims for a penalty waved away as Varney tumbled under a challenge from Rafael."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "9299-2",
    "Idiom": [
      "wave away"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To brush aside or ignore.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "9300",
    "Idiom": [
      "wave goodbye"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To say goodbye with a hand gesture.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "9301",
    "Idiom": [
      "wave of the hand"
    ],
    "Meaning": "A simple gesture for command or dismissal.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "9302",
    "Idiom": [
      "wave the white flag"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To yield or give up.",
    "Sentence": [
      "I started in with a fine left-hander on his right eye. Liverpool had been a fighter once, but dissipation and bad company had taken the nerve out of him. In ten minutes I had him lying on the sand waving the white flag.",
      "Last week the Herald waved the white flag, editorialized: \"In view of the Professor's unfortunate exposé of Boston newspaper punditing, we have little alternative but to follow his advice.\"",
      "The Louisiana governor accused the president of “ waving the white flag ” on the American economy."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "9303",
    "Idiom": [
      "wax the dolphin"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To masturbate.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "9304-1",
    "Idiom": [
      "way back when"
    ],
    "Meaning": "At a time in the distant past.",
    "Sentence": [
      "The book's enduring power is also evident in its big-headed tripods from outer space, described perfectly by Wells way back when."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "9304-2",
    "Idiom": [
      "way back when"
    ],
    "Meaning": "In the distant past.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Even Warren Buffett was skeptical of Amazon way back when."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "9305",
    "Idiom": [
      "way out of a paper bag"
    ],
    "Meaning": "A minimal level of competence.",
    "Sentence": [
      "The old chap did not look as though he could push his way out of a paper bag.",
      "Personally I don’t think this egg could punch his way out of a paper bag. He’s only been workin’ in this trap two days",
      "To be fair, many people who couldn’t punctuate their way out of a paper bag are still interested in the way punctuation can alter the sense of a string of words. It is the basis of all “I’m sorry, I’ll read that again” jokes.",
      "“You'd hate his cooking[,” he said.] “Most guys can't cook their way out of a paper bag [,” Charlotte said.]",
      "My boss is so clueless, he couldn't schedule his own way out of a paper bag.",
      "Junior varsity couldn't play their way out of a paper bag in comparison."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "9306",
    "Idiom": [
      "we are where we are"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Acknowledges the present situation and focuses on dealing with it.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Similarly, it serves little purpose to lament the lack of a few more votes for Vice President Al Gore in 2000 or Senator John Kerry in 2004, or how those few more votes would have made the world a different place. We are where we are : We have President George W. Bush! We can, however, pledge, from this day forward, to choose only leaders who are competent, experienced and battle tested.",
      "The legislation is much delayed and many of us were of the view that it would have been better had this been introduced in parallel with the offshore planning regime, but we are where we are and we will work with the timelines in front of us.",
      "I do not want to look backwards, but I gently suggest that there are all sorts of reasons for delays. Still, we are where we are now, and what is important is moving ahead."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "9307",
    "Idiom": [
      "we have company"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Indicates the presence of an enemy or rival.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "9308",
    "Idiom": [
      "we haven't got all day"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Used to urge someone to be quicker.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "9309-1",
    "Idiom": [
      "weak sister"
    ],
    "Meaning": "A cowardly or indecisive person.",
    "Sentence": [
      "\"Your course of action this past year has bordered on criminal negligence,\" he barks to the man whose job he means to take. \"You're a weak sister, Mr. President.\""
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "9309-2",
    "Idiom": [
      "weak sister"
    ],
    "Meaning": "The least robust or dependable member of a group.",
    "Sentence": [
      "San Antonio has always been viewed as the weak sister of the big regional centers of Houston and Dallas."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "9310",
    "Idiom": [
      "weak tea"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Weak or feeble arguments or efforts.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "9311",
    "Idiom": [
      "weaker vessel"
    ],
    "Meaning": "A woman or women collectively.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Likewise, ye husbands, dwell with them according to knowledge, giving honour unto the wife, as unto the weaker vessel.",
      "Certainly, when Satan first made the Attempt upon Eve, he did not think he should have so easily conquered her.... Well might she be said to be the weaker Vessel, tho’ Adam himself had little enough to say for his being the stronger.",
      "When women are the advisers, the lords of creation don't take the advice till they have persuaded themselves that it is just what they intended to do. Then they act upon it, and, if it succeeds, they give the weaker vessel half the credit of it. If it fails, they generously give her the whole."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "9312",
    "Idiom": [
      "wear one's heart on one's sleeve"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To be open about one's emotions.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Iago: For when my outward action doth demonstrate The native act and figure of my heart In compliment extern, 'tis not long after But I will wear my heart upon my sleeve For daws to peck at: I am not what I am.",
      "Such a man must have reticences in him. If he walk wearing his heart upon his sleeve for daws to peck at, his journey will not extend far!",
      "There was something very direct and childlike in Virginie Poucette. She could not pretend; she wore her heart on her sleeve.",
      "I'm not being smart or trying to be cold on my part / And I'm not gonna wear my heart on my sleeve / But you know people get all emotional",
      "I feel so close to you right now, it's a force field / I wear my heart on my sleeve, like a big deal"
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "9313",
    "Idiom": [
      "wear out one's welcome"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To become unwelcome due to bothersome behavior.",
    "Sentence": [
      "No: he feared to \" wear out his welcome,\" he said: they had \"seen enough of him for one while\":",
      "\"Well, I don't aim to have no truck with you at all,\" blustered the fat man. \"You've just naturally wore out yore welcome with me before ever you set down. I'll ask you to go right now.\"",
      "The pet, appropriately named Tiger, wore out his welcome very quickly. \"Evidently Tiger was a real 'Conan the Destroyer' beastie,\" reports Harding."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "9314",
    "Idiom": [
      "wear rose-colored glasses"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To see the positive while ignoring the negative.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "9315",
    "Idiom": [
      "wear sackcloth and ashes"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To publicly express regret.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "9316",
    "Idiom": [
      "wear the trousers"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To be the dominant partner in a relationship.",
    "Sentence": [
      "As long as I remember who's wearing the trousers / I hope he never lets me down again",
      "His mother wore the trousers, and father, a gentle man who worked in local government, was not ambitious enough for her."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "9317",
    "Idiom": [
      "wear thin"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To weaken or become less effective over time.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Women and gay people, for example, can start to live more freely with the breakdown of patriarchal and heterosexist institutions, while workers and people of color are able to challenge the economics of poverty and the ideology of racism as the rationales behind those notions continue to wear ever thinner.",
      "Continuing his recent stern rhetoric, Swedish Finance Minister Anders Borg told reporters in Stockholm that many have worked hard to help Latvia deal with its severe economic recession but that patience is wearing thin.",
      "The ‘fun’ factor may be in part attributable the novelty of the feedback mechanism, and the sense of fun might wear thin after longer exposure to the feedback method."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "9318",
    "Idiom": [
      "wear too many hats"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Attempts to take on too many roles at once.",
    "Sentence": [
      "She is asked to be a comedienne, dancer, stunt woman, singer and dramatic actress — and the truth is that she is trying to wear too many hats."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "9319",
    "Idiom": [
      "wear yellow stockings"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Be jealous.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "9320-1",
    "Idiom": [
      "weasel out"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To avoid fulfilling a responsibility.",
    "Sentence": [
      "With the costs of Desert Shield likely to double, Congress fumes at those allies who seem to be weaseling out of their pledges to help.",
      "And if they try to weasel out that way, Obama is warning them that he'll \"call them out.\""
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "9320-2",
    "Idiom": [
      "weasel out"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To avoid responsibility or escape a situation, often by deceitful means.",
    "Sentence": [
      "In an effort to ingratiate himself with the 1968 Nixon campaign, Kissinger offered inside tips that he had weaseled out of friends privy to the Johnson Administration's talks with the North Vietnamese.",
      "Some of the characters we see among the blitzing media—a Houston TV reporter, an \"Inside Edition\" researcher and this film's producer and writer, James Manos Jr. and Jane Anderson—play themselves, each trying to weasel out the real inside story."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "9321",
    "Idiom": [
      "weather the storm"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Endure a difficult situation with minimal harm.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Bob lost his job, but somehow his family weathered the storm.",
      "Do you think you can weather the storm, or will you just sell your house now?"
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "9322",
    "Idiom": [
      "wedding-cake"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Extremely ornate.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Nightlife in Strumstad boils down to Skagerack, a very loud, very young music venue in the classic wedding-cake building where the Stockholm elite once parried."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "9323",
    "Idiom": [
      "weed out"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To remove unwanted elements from a group.",
    "Sentence": [
      "In May get a weed-hook, a crotch and a glove, And weed out such weeds, as the corn doth not love",
      "“I like the question, ‘Where can I take you/where will you take me on our first date?’ because that’s the point of the app and you’re already both attracted to each other. It weeds out people who aren’t actually interested in meeting up and are using the app passively,” Hoggard Wagley says.",
      "To weed out problem users, watch new people's behavior."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "9324",
    "Idiom": [
      "week in, week out"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Continuously.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "9325",
    "Idiom": [
      "weep Irish"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To cry insincerely or exaggeratedly.",
    "Sentence": [
      "I have here omitted the pathetic description of Billy Flannagan, touching the doleful parting of Cathleen with her people, \"who wept Irish,\" hullaghlued, ahahoned, with all the moving circumstances of her farewell, and the seeing her home.",
      "All this while, above in chambers looking out, we saw the long-bearded ministers of Geneva who laughed at us; but if we might have had our wills we would have made them to have wept Irish.",
      "She never confesed to me this seed of my disorder, but \" wept Irish \" to others, how I had shed tears at birth before my first sound."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "9326",
    "Idiom": [
      "weigh against"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Disadvantageous to someone.",
    "Sentence": [
      "His seemingly racist remarks will weigh against him in the forthcoming election."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "9327",
    "Idiom": [
      "weigh down"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To be burdensome.",
    "Sentence": [
      "All the news of murder and famine is weighing me down."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "9328",
    "Idiom": [
      "weigh in"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To contribute an opinion or perspective on an issue.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Having more or less approved Drexel [Burnham Lambert] 's selection earlier, he [Peter Cohen, CEO of Shearson ] now weighed in with what seemed a halfhearted endorsement of [Thomas] Strauss's [CEO of Salomon Brothers ] stance.",
      "It is absolutely essential to understand other’s motivations prior to weighing in.",
      "Matt Damon, who compared the advent of virtual money to the development of aviation and spaceflight in a critically panned but widely seen Crypto.com ad last year, did not respond to requests to weigh in.",
      "Everyone wanted to weigh in on what kind of car he should buy.",
      "Everyone spoke freely, until the boss weighed in."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "9329",
    "Idiom": [
      "weight of the world"
    ],
    "Meaning": "The burden of life's challenges and responsibilities.",
    "Sentence": [
      "The weight of the world is off my mind since I have told you every thing.",
      "There was only one thing to be done, return to the hotel, retrieve his money, and try to forget the weight of the world and its cares in lunch.",
      "With its trade deficits with Asia ballooning and U.S. consumers carrying the weight of the world on their credit cards, Washington felt it was about time somebody else did some importing.",
      "\"When I arrived at Texas in 2001, I felt an enormous amount of pressure.... I felt like I had all the weight of the world on top of me.\"",
      "I tried carrying the weight of the world / But I only have two hands"
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "9330",
    "Idiom": [
      "welcome to my world"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Indicates experience with a situation unfamiliar to the listener.",
    "Sentence": [
      "A: This job is too tough; I don't think I can do it!",
      "B: Welcome to my world ! I've been doing it for three years now."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "9331",
    "Idiom": [
      "welfare Cadillac"
    ],
    "Meaning": "A case of receiving unnecessary or fraudulent public benefits.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "9332",
    "Idiom": [
      "well and good"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Basically good, but with limitations.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Having 200,000 people on your mailing-list is all well and good, but how many of them actually read the mailings?"
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "9333",
    "Idiom": [
      "well and truly"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Completely or utterly.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Many people remained in their hiding places until the war was well and truly over."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "9334",
    "Idiom": [
      "well begun is half done"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Much depends on the beginning.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "9335",
    "Idiom": [
      "well done"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Performed well.",
    "Sentence": [
      "\"We've never looked on the Borders Railway as it stands as a job well done. It's part one of a job well done.\"",
      "They survived a poor second half in Italy and a drab first half-hour here but the end results certainly count as a job well done.",
      "It was a job well done."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "9336",
    "Idiom": [
      "well, I never"
    ],
    "Meaning": "An exclamation of surprise.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "9337-1",
    "Idiom": [
      "well-oiled"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Efficiently run.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Pro-Trump political influencers have spent years building a well-oiled media machine that swarms around every major news story, creating a torrent of viral commentary that reliably drowns out both the mainstream media and the liberal opposition."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "9337-2",
    "Idiom": [
      "well-oiled"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Drunk.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Well, in 2000, a pair of well-oiled strangers hit the news and were arrested – after groping each other and undressing on a transatlantic flight – but it’s usually less extreme, as with the couple who were intensely snogging in 2020.",
      "Swinging onto the Treherbert branch under the new OLE, the train's onboard Passenger Information Screens announce we have entered a 'no alcohol' zone. That doesn't seem to help, as some of the passengers who joined us earlier seem ' well oiled' already."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "9338",
    "Idiom": [
      "well-oiled machine"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Operates capably through effective coordination.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Trevor was the firm's facilities manager and it was his job to make sure that their office ran like a well-oiled machine and that the partners, attorneys, and staff were comfortable.",
      "A movie studio in the so-called golden era was a well-oiled machine with everything needed to make movies right in place on the studio lot.",
      "Contrary to this dismal picture is the popular concept of the classroom that runs like a well-oiled machine, smoothly, flawlessly, functioning at full capacity, producing maximum output.",
      "The writer is never enthusiastic and rarely Imaginative. His lines flow with the smoothness of a well-oiled machine.",
      "run like a well-oiled machine",
      "Our office runs like a well-oiled machine.",
      "Our office is a well-oiled machine."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "9339",
    "Idiom": [
      "well-seen"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Accomplished, experienced.",
    "Sentence": [
      "All sixe well seene in armes, and prou'd in many a fight",
      "May it please your grace to take note of a gentleman, well seen, deeply read, and throughly grounded in the hidden knowledge of all sallads and pot-herbs whatsoever."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "9340",
    "Idiom": [
      "were you born in a tent"
    ],
    "Meaning": "An admonishment about leaving a door open.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "9341",
    "Idiom": [
      "wet behind the ears"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Inexperienced or immature.",
    "Sentence": [
      "[They would put] their hands behind their ears and pat the top of their heads to taunt me with the fact that I was still wet behind the ears and soft on top of the head.",
      "Every week day, pool rooms are filled with scores of boys still \" wet behind the ears \" who have no business anywhere but in the classroom.",
      "Now, here was the freshly minted FDA commissioner, still wet behind the ears at 39.",
      "\"These young whippersnappers are still wet behind the ears.\""
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "9342-1",
    "Idiom": [
      "wet blanket"
    ],
    "Meaning": "A person who dampens enthusiasm or enjoyment.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "9342-2",
    "Idiom": [
      "wet blanket"
    ],
    "Meaning": "A timid person lacking confidence.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "9343",
    "Idiom": [
      "wet boy"
    ],
    "Meaning": "A contracted assassin.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "9344-1",
    "Idiom": [
      "wet dream"
    ],
    "Meaning": "A dream that results in orgasm.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "9344-2",
    "Idiom": [
      "wet dream"
    ],
    "Meaning": "An exciting fantasy or ideal situation.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Bruce Springsteen may become middle America's wet dream.",
      "The plan is, if all goes well, to have these batteries, an eco warrior's wet dream due to their non-toxicity, on sale in two or three years."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "9344-3",
    "Idiom": [
      "wet dream"
    ],
    "Meaning": "A sexual dream or fantasy.",
    "Sentence": [
      "He is a boy sleeping against the mosque wall, ejaculates wet dreaming into a thousand cunts pink and smooth as sea shells,",
      "he’d been wet dreaming for several months about such an opportunity as was obviously creeping up on both of them,",
      "That was the only sex she had ever wet-dreamed about.",
      "you is more a man than they ever wet dreamed to be"
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "9344-4",
    "Idiom": [
      "wet dream"
    ],
    "Meaning": "An erotic dream or sexual fantasy.",
    "Sentence": [
      "the Bakst drawings imposed themselves on the shadowy sultans, sultanas, eunuchs, and pages the pageboy of the Fairy Cherry in panniered skirt and cherry-tree headdress―the very same he had dreamed, wet dreamed no doubt as well, pressed down, hemmed in by his wooden box.",
      "she left so few traces of having ever existed at all that he began to wonder whether he hadn’t just wet-dreamt her into being.",
      "A rebel is a gleaming individual in tight Levi’s, a sneering and pretty face. The kind Sal Mineo wet-dreams."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "9345",
    "Idiom": [
      "wet firecracker"
    ],
    "Meaning": "A lackluster person or event.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Coming after a fast, colorful movie like Super Fly, a follow-up called Super Fly TNT is a wet firecracker.",
      "After Bernanke's first semiannual testimony before Congress in February, I wrote to my clients that his appearance was essentially a wet firecracker —he did not jolt the markets.",
      "Audiences sensibly enough found Lollobrigida and Sinatra to be a wet firecracker of a team."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "9346-1",
    "Idiom": [
      "wet one's beak"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To drink.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Rinaldo... is represented as a gluttonous feeder, and rather disposed to quarrel over his meat; liking also to ‘ wet his beak ’ in generous liquor.",
      "Then, very softly, she says, \"I'll stick the kettle on so we can wet our beaks.\"",
      "“Yo, it's gonna be a few minutes before the acts go on so let's hit the VIP and wet our beaks a li'l bit,” Gotti screamed in Tone's ear over the music."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "9346-2",
    "Idiom": [
      "wet one's beak"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To take a share of illicit profits.",
    "Sentence": [
      "\"Giorgio,\" the Don said, \"... our Family will now serve only as financial advisors to all the other Families.... We must protect everyone's money, for which they will let us wet our beaks.\"",
      "Investigators who track organized crime believe that some members have geared up to take advantage of the swift and enormous cash influx... looking, as the old Sicilian expression goes, to wet their beaks.",
      "\"See, the thing about the mob, everybody had to wet his beak.... I was supposed to give them a piece of my hard work.\""
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "9347-1",
    "Idiom": [
      "wet one's pants"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To urinate in one's clothes.",
    "Sentence": [
      "If you keep on refusing to excuse anyone for a bathroom break, you're going to force someone to wet their pants. Don't go overboard with it."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "9347-2",
    "Idiom": [
      "wet one's pants"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To laugh uncontrollably.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Pretty much the whole night at the comedy club was hilarious, but that encore by Taylor Tomlinson had me wetting my pants."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "9347-3",
    "Idiom": [
      "wet one's pants"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To be extremely afraid.",
    "Sentence": [
      "He just about wet his pants when he found out how many accounts receivable were still outstanding."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "9348",
    "Idiom": [
      "wet one's whistle"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To have a drink.",
    "Sentence": [
      "I'll take another glass of the sherry wine, just to wet my whistle, as the vulgar saying is, before I begin."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "9349",
    "Idiom": [
      "wet the bed"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To urinate in bed while asleep.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Unsecure is what she was. She wetted the bed a lot, and always she was sucking on her thumb."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "9350",
    "Idiom": [
      "wet the shamrock"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To go for an alcoholic drink, often for celebration.",
    "Sentence": [
      "In the days of our forefathers it was always customary to wet the shamrock, and indeed this good old custom has by no means become obsolete. And to carry it into effect, the saint's [ Saint Patrick 's] health is drunk in the morning from a brimming bowl called \"Paddy's pot,\" which has a very inspiring influence, and is considered to be an excellent preliminary for the joys of the day;",
      "He refers to the custom of wetting the shamrock.",
      "We remembered friends at home in our potations, wet the shamrock, and sang the \" Wearing of the Green.\"",
      "St. Patrick's Day passed off very quietly indeed, partly owing to the uncertainty of the weather. A number of the militia men wetted the shamrock so much that they forgot the legitimate use of their weapons, and employed them in knocking people on the head. A few threw their rifles away.",
      "Given long-standing drinking customs among the Irish at home and abroad, temperance was a difficult prospect. Traditions such as drinking to the health of Ireland and the patron saint, as well as the renowned ‘ wetting the shamrock ’ held considerable sway on St Patrick's Day.",
      "The crowd drifted away towards the hotel in search of something to wet the shamrock and warm themselves up. Unlike America, there was no green beer and no one I knew would dream of adding anything to their pint unless it was to tip in a shot of whiskey."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "9351",
    "Idiom": [
      "whack one out"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To masturbate.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "9352-1",
    "Idiom": [
      "whack up"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To divide into shares.",
    "Sentence": [
      "We'll whack up fair with you, Hitchcock. In everything you'll get your quarter-share, neither more nor less; and you can take it or leave it.",
      "Whack up whatever we have in the larder, and eat that.",
      "American dealer breaks up, whacks up, packages, and sells kilo piecemeal for $35,000",
      "The very best of friends will gather to whack up the booty, and each man will sit at the table with his hand on his gun butt as the pie gets cut up. Very often a six-man gang can meet to whack up the proceeds and turn into a three or four-man gang in a few bloody moments of gunfire.",
      "Just as he was leaving the stable, however, to go home, one of the detectives came and wanted the baggage belonging to the three men who had been taken from the coach that day, saying that there was more than one hundred thousand in money in the outfit, besides considerable jewelry, and that he would \" whack up ” with the driver if he would get it."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "9352-2",
    "Idiom": [
      "whack up"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To pay reluctantly or with difficulty.",
    "Sentence": [
      "A woman does not doubt her husband's work, of course, when manufactures, like home made candy, leaving hubby to pay for the raw materials; or else to take a lodger into the flat for which the same hubby whacks up $37.50 every month.",
      "He is approached by some person who tells him that he knows of a homestead that is open, but, of course, it will take a little to secure it: if the intending settler is ready to whack up $1 or $2 an acre, the place can be secured.",
      "I said in th' letter that'd I'd whack up half."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "9352-3",
    "Idiom": [
      "whack up"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To control or dominate thoroughly.",
    "Sentence": [
      "District 50 is trying to whack up the AFL- CIO, \" said Carlough, \"why doesn't the AFL - CIO go out and whack up District 50?\""
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "9352-4",
    "Idiom": [
      "whack up"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To produce in a sudden or haphazard manner.",
    "Sentence": [
      "And at intervals from behind the veil of the temple is heard the voice of the foreman demanding three inches of wit and six lines of religious meditation, or bidding him turn off the wisdom and whack up some pathos.",
      "Or perhaps you'd like a row of outlets over a workbench. Another guard whacks up metal raceway in minutes.",
      "After I'd washed up I put on a pot of coffee and whacked up a big batch of biscuits.",
      "I'll whack up a bit of toast and I've got some cinnamon,' she said, 'somewhere. I'll whack up cinnamon toast.'",
      "They came from countries where you just whacked up a scaffold with bamboo and string and when everything collapsed you covered up the whole mess by throwing the buildings and bodies into giant holes in the ground and starting again."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "9352-5",
    "Idiom": [
      "whack up"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To gather together.",
    "Sentence": [
      "The men was all to the Banks, and Counahan he whacked up an iverlastin' hard crowd fer crew.",
      "Worships the ground you tread on but can't whack up the ginger to tell you so.",
      "When the chaps who are in are all out, the other team goes in for their whack and if they can whack up more runs before they're out than the other chaps did while they were in, they're the winners.",
      "Sometimes we'd make decent money. We'd whack up five, six, seven thousand dollars, so you might grab anywhere from a \"G\" to a couple thousand a night."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "9352-6",
    "Idiom": [
      "whack up"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To inject an illegal drug.",
    "Sentence": [
      "If I tried to whack up I wouldn't get a vein it would clog up with blood, the works, the syringe, would clog up with blood and that's it,",
      "When I barged in, he had a needle hanging out of his arm... He asked me if I wanted to try it and I did... I whacked up right then.'",
      "I seen my mum whacking up in front of me and I remember I asked her one day, I said, 'Fucking let me have a shot of that, '... And... she turned around and she goes, ' If you're going to do it in front of anybody, you do it in front of me.'"
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "9352-7",
    "Idiom": [
      "whack up"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To increase significantly.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Every time they need more money, they whack up personal income tax and they spend the money. They need more money; they whack up excise on fuel.",
      "Frying onions whacks up the count – 100g of fried onions contains 146 calories.",
      "That whacks up his glandular system and cool - o' - I'm here! \"",
      "Dad whacks up the heating in the people carrier."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "9352-8",
    "Idiom": [
      "whack up"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To mess up.",
    "Sentence": [
      "on all the long bars it was even; the short bars we would leave in—that is, whack up the length; so that the short bars wouldn't come out as far as the long bars; but I put some of the short bars on the long bars and some of the long bars on the short bars;",
      "Did he get whacked up on ninety-nines and trash your auntie's shop?",
      "His memory was all whacked up and it took him years until he was almost normal."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "9353",
    "Idiom": [
      "whack-a-mole"
    ],
    "Meaning": "The practice of addressing recurring problems in a piecemeal manner without a complete solution.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Identify a challenge. Put your shoulder into it. Make it go away. Just as it disappears, whoops, here comes another one. It's like a game of whack-a-mole. Trust me, you'll never run out of quarters.",
      "What is unbearable, in fact, is the feeling, 13 years after 9/11, that America has been chasing its tail; that, in some whack-a-mole horror show, the quashing of a jihadi enclave here only spurs the sprouting of another there; that the ideology of Al Qaeda is still reverberating through a blocked Arab world whose Sunni-Shia balance (insofar as that went) was upended by the American invasion of Iraq.",
      "Some flew across the United States; some were planning to fly into London from Europe, though, like many of us, they could only try their best to keep up with the government’s air corridor whack-a-mole.",
      "With power being redistributed automatically and surging through other circuits as the system tried to reroute electricity to keep things operational, various parts of the ship began to flicker internally as more and more breakers began to trip and were reset, only to trip again. Then, one of the engineers, tired of playing whack-a-mole, tied one of the more important breakers down so that it physically couldn't trip. This turned out to be a mistake, and a cascade overload crippled the ship's radar, radios, and power training on most of her guns. With no way of communicating with Washington, South Dakota simply held course whilst men in the switchboard room tried their best to reset the ship's entire electrical grid.",
      "Trying to get rid of spam e-mails is like whack-a-mole : as soon as you delete one, another appears."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "9354",
    "Idiom": [
      "what are the odds"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Expresses surprise at an unlikely outcome.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "9355",
    "Idiom": [
      "what can I say"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Indicates that nothing can improve the situation.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "9356",
    "Idiom": [
      "what did your last slave die of"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Indicates unreasonable bossiness and demands.",
    "Sentence": [
      "The manager just couldn't get Lorcan to understand that if someone asked for a second cup of coffee, the correct response was 'Certainly, sir, coming right up,' and not ' What did your last slave die of ?'",
      "She's trying to meet my every need, waiting on me in ways that would make my mum bleat, ' What did your last slave die of ?'"
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "9357-1",
    "Idiom": [
      "what do you say"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Used to ask for someone's agreement or opinion.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Let's go to the movies tonight, what do you say ?"
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "9357-2",
    "Idiom": [
      "what do you say"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Used to prompt polite conversation.",
    "Sentence": [
      "That man just gave you a lovely birthday gift, young lady; what do you say ? ― Thank you!",
      "I want cake! ― What do you say ? ― Please!",
      "When Aunt Fiona from Florida gave Jordan some candy, Mom said, \" What do you say? \" and Jordan replied, \"Thank you!\""
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "9358",
    "Idiom": [
      "what for"
    ],
    "Meaning": "An unspecified reason or purpose.",
    "Sentence": [
      "- Fagin, I'm waiting. - Waiting, my dear? What for? - Bill will give you \" what for \" if you don't fork out.",
      "Cranky Kong : 'NOW GET OUT THERE AND GIVE THOSE LITTLE DRUM GUYS WHAT FOR. YES, I SAID \" WHAT FOR.\" I'M OLD. GET OVER IT.'",
      "When your dad gets home, he'll give you (a) what for."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "9359-1",
    "Idiom": [
      "what goes around comes around",
      "what comes around goes around",
      "what go round come round",
      "what goes round comes round"
    ],
    "Meaning": "A person's actions will have consequences.",
    "Sentence": [
      "So lonely in your bed / Does breakin' me make you feel good? / Guess you don't understand / What goes around, comes around"
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "9360-2",
    "Idiom": [
      "what goes around comes around"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Things repeat in cycles.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Unfortunately, the main proposal in the current XML era bears a striking resemblance to the CODASYL proposal from the early 1970’s, which failed because of its complexity. Hence, the current era is replaying history, and “ what goes around comes around ”. Hopefully the next era will be smarter.",
      "The most important one is the end of the Ajax hype. I’m not sure when it will happen, but I know that it will. What goes around comes around —what once was cool and modern will become old hat and boring.",
      "Equally, what goes around, comes around. When it comes to investment theories, nothing new under the sun exists because ideas go stale and then get reinvented."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "9361-1",
    "Idiom": [
      "what goes up must come down"
    ],
    "Meaning": "All trends will end; a rise will be followed by a fall.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "9361-2",
    "Idiom": [
      "what goes up must come down"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Substance-induced euphoria is followed by withdrawal.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "9362",
    "Idiom": [
      "what has been seen cannot be unseen",
      "that which has been seen cannot be unseen"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Once seen, disturbing sights cannot be forgotten.",
    "Sentence": [
      "At Dachau he was witness to real rather than abstract suffering; what has been seen cannot be unseen, nor can it be rationalized.",
      "I went into Akira knowing it's considered amongst critics a landmark film for anime and the success of the genre in America, but I was also expecting the type of weirdness that has given anime an infamous reputation in pop culture. Don't know what I'm talking about? Google \"hentai.\" …Actually, no, don't do that. Seriously. Don't fucking do that. What has been seen cannot be unseen."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "9363",
    "Idiom": [
      "what in tarnation"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Used to emphasize a question.",
    "Sentence": [
      "What in Tarnation to Write I still remember the first girl I called up for a date at age 15.",
      "Other euphemisms of this type (and there are many) include what in tarnation for what in damnation and what the Sam Hill for what the damn hell.",
      "“ What in tarnation do you think you're doing?”",
      "What in tarnation have you done with my wallet!?"
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "9364",
    "Idiom": [
      "what in time"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Used to intensify a question.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "9365",
    "Idiom": [
      "what is more"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Moreover, in addition.",
    "Sentence": [
      "I've done it wrong, and what's more, I don't care."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "9366",
    "Idiom": [
      "what it takes"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Everything that is required, especially skill or effort.",
    "Sentence": [
      "She's precocious, and she knows just / What it takes to make a pro blush",
      "You don't know what it takes to succeed at competitive frisbee."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "9367",
    "Idiom": [
      "what not"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Used to terminate a vague list.",
    "Sentence": [
      "This, following the democratic disposition of the times, was commonly conceived of as an elected body, a municipality, the parliamentary state or what not."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "9368",
    "Idiom": [
      "what of it"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Expresses disinterest or lack of concern.",
    "Sentence": [
      "\"Hiram took my snowballs.\" \"Aw, what of it, kid?\" sneered the bully. \"There's lots more snow. Make yourself another set and see what you can do.\"",
      "Yes, I ate the last cookie. What of it ?"
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "9369",
    "Idiom": [
      "what someone said"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Indicates agreement with a previous speaker.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "9370",
    "Idiom": [
      "what the Devil"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Used to add emphasis to a question.",
    "Sentence": [
      "What the devyll hast thou on thy fyste? An owle?",
      "What the Devil have you done to the horse?"
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "9371",
    "Idiom": [
      "what the doctor ordered"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Exactly what is necessary or beneficial.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "9372",
    "Idiom": [
      "what the eye doesn't see, the heart doesn't grieve over"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Problems that go unnoticed do not cause worry or grief.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "9373",
    "Idiom": [
      "what was someone smoking"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Expresses surprise at someone's unusual past actions.",
    "Sentence": [
      "The SGZ is primarily a signal that Alfa Romeo is back in business as serious maker of serious cars although the Zagato body puts one in mind of the FI team owner whose response to a new car was to ask his designer ' What were you smoking when you designed that?'",
      "“...We don't want to live there. It's dark, creepy and it stank. What were you smoking when you bought this place? Hope you bought it real cheap, where is your change at?” “Shut the hell up”, James snapped back. “I'm your daddy and you going to live where I move you”.",
      "Bush and company had a fantasy that we could bring democracy to Iraq and it would cause a domino effect in the Middle East. Suddenly every Arab nation would embrace democracy. What were they smoking ?"
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "9374",
    "Idiom": [
      "what was someone thinking"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Expresses disappointment about someone's unusual past actions.",
    "Sentence": [
      "What were you thinking when you left the oven on yesterday?"
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "9375-2",
    "Idiom": [
      "what wins on Sunday sells on Monday"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Products that perform well in public events usually sell better afterwards.",
    "Sentence": [
      "There's an old saying in the golf industry: What wins on Sunday sells on Monday. Golfers are the ultimate copycats."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "9376",
    "Idiom": [
      "what with"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Owing to or because of.",
    "Sentence": [
      "It was hard to take him seriously, though, what with his multi-colored eye makeup.",
      "She was sleeping very badly these days, what with the new baby and all the activity surrounding him.",
      "What with it being too late and raining, we decided to stay home."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "9377",
    "Idiom": [
      "what you lose on the swings you gain on the roundabouts",
      "what you gain on the swings you lose on the roundabouts"
    ],
    "Meaning": "There are both gains and losses in life.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "9378",
    "Idiom": [
      "what you see is what you get"
    ],
    "Meaning": "The screen image matches the final result.",
    "Sentence": [
      "For:Word, like Wang's editing system, is an early approach to a what-you-see-is-what-you-get word processor."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "9379",
    "Idiom": [
      "what's bred in the bone will come out in the flesh"
    ],
    "Meaning": "One's behavior is shaped by heredity.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "9380-1",
    "Idiom": [
      "what's cooking"
    ],
    "Meaning": "A greeting.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Hi there babe, what's cooking ?",
      "What's cooking, good-looking?"
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "9380-2",
    "Idiom": [
      "what's cooking"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Asking for an explanation.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "9381",
    "Idiom": [
      "what's done cannot be undone",
      "what's done is done"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Events that have already occurred cannot be changed.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "9382",
    "Idiom": [
      "what's eating"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Inquires about someone's upset feelings or problems.",
    "Sentence": [
      "What's eating him ? I've never seen him this worked up over anything before."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "9383",
    "Idiom": [
      "what's eating you"
    ],
    "Meaning": "What is bothering you?",
    "Sentence": [
      "You're in a bad mood today. What's eating you ?"
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "9384-1",
    "Idiom": [
      "what's going on"
    ],
    "Meaning": "An informal greeting.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "9384-2",
    "Idiom": [
      "what's going on"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Asking for an explanation.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "9385-1",
    "Idiom": [
      "what's good for the goose is good for the gander"
    ],
    "Meaning": "What is good for one should be equally good for the other.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "9385-2",
    "Idiom": [
      "what's good for the goose is good for the gander"
    ],
    "Meaning": "What is acceptable for one person should also be acceptable for another.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "9386",
    "Idiom": [
      "what's in it for me"
    ],
    "Meaning": "What are the personal advantages?",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "9387-1",
    "Idiom": [
      "what's it to you"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Asking about someone's interest or motive.",
    "Sentence": [
      "\"I saw you in the chemist yesterday, what did you buy?\" / \"What's it to you?\""
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "9387-2",
    "Idiom": [
      "what's it to you"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Mind your own business.",
    "Sentence": [
      "\"Hey, leave that girl alone.\" / \"' What's it to you' ?\""
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "9388-1",
    "Idiom": [
      "what's new"
    ],
    "Meaning": "The latest developments or updates.",
    "Sentence": [
      "We send out a newsletter to our clients every week to tell them what's new in the company."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "9388-2",
    "Idiom": [
      "what's new"
    ],
    "Meaning": "A request for updates or news.",
    "Sentence": [
      "You're still having problems with that idiot you employed last year? So, what's new ?"
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "9389",
    "Idiom": [
      "what's old is new again",
      "everything old is new again"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Old fashions return to popularity.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "9390-2",
    "Idiom": [
      "what's sauce for the goose is sauce for the gander"
    ],
    "Meaning": "One who treats others a certain way should expect the same treatment.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "9391",
    "Idiom": [
      "what's the beef"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Asking about the source of a complaint.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "9392",
    "Idiom": [
      "what's the difference"
    ],
    "Meaning": "The difference does not matter.",
    "Sentence": [
      "“Genies, fairies, whatever, what's the difference, bring them here I want to talk to them,”"
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "9393",
    "Idiom": [
      "what's the good of"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Asks about the purpose or advantage of something.",
    "Sentence": [
      "You can't do anything about it, so what's the good of crying?"
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "9394",
    "Idiom": [
      "what's the matter"
    ],
    "Meaning": "What is wrong?",
    "Sentence": [
      "Why are you crying? What's the matter?",
      "What's the matter with you? Why would you do a thing like that?"
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "9395",
    "Idiom": [
      "what's the story"
    ],
    "Meaning": "A greeting.",
    "Sentence": [
      "*Any non-Irish person should be aware that it is not necessary to take the question literally i.e. one shouldn't start to explain your life story when greeted with ' What's the story?' rather they should respond in kind e.g. Greeting: ' What's the story?' Response: ' What's the story?' There are several variations on the theme, the most popular being ' What's the story, bud?' or the pithy : ' Story, bud?' or the pithier still ' Story?'"
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "9396",
    "Idiom": [
      "what's the story, bud"
    ],
    "Meaning": "A greeting.",
    "Sentence": [
      "*Any non-Irish person should be aware that it is not necessary to take the question literally i.e. one shouldn't start to explain your life story when greeted with 'What's the story?' rather they should respond in kind e.g. Greeting: 'What's the story?' Response: 'What's the story?' There are several variations on the theme, the most popular being 'What's the story, bud?' or the pithy : 'Story, bud?' or the pithier still 'Story?'"
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "9397-1",
    "Idiom": [
      "what's up"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Inquires about a problem or situation.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Hello, what's up ? Don't cry bub. What's the trouble?",
      "\"What's up!\" he asked, dropping back into a chair, and jingling the loose coins in his trouser pockets.",
      "Lady Frederick: Oh lord, I wish I were eighteen. [She sinks into a chair, and an expression of utter weariness comes over her face.] Gerald: I say, what's up ? Lady Frederick: [Starting.] I thought you'd gone. Nothing.",
      "You're looking a bit miserable. What's up ?",
      "I got a call saying to come straight away. What's up ?"
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "9397-2",
    "Idiom": [
      "what's up"
    ],
    "Meaning": "A greeting.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Hey, what's up ? – Not much, just working."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "9398",
    "Idiom": [
      "what's what"
    ],
    "Meaning": "The true state of things.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Besides, he had some qualities which fix Middle-aged ladies even more than young:",
      "\"Well, I know what's what, too. I know what you are for one thing.\" He chuckled. \"I've got your number all right.\"",
      "Anyway, he's a wise old bird and may hand you a pointer or two about what's what in New York.",
      "This was a hardship in as much as inquiry showed that even in vegetarian restaurants many courses used to contain eggs. This meant that unless I knew what was what, I had to go through the awkward process of ascertaining whether a particular course contained eggs or no, for many puddings and cakes were not free from them.",
      "Sometimes it takes a scruffy underdog to show the professionals what's what. During the London riots, it was tiny Birmingham broadcaster Sangat TV that trumped the BBC and CNN with its riveting footage and quirky commentary."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "9399",
    "Idiom": [
      "what's your poison"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Asks about someone's preferred drink.",
    "Sentence": [
      "What's yer poison, darlin'?"
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "9400",
    "Idiom": [
      "what, me worry"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Indicative of a nonchalant, confident attitude towards criticism.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "9401",
    "Idiom": [
      "whatever creams your twinkie"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Do what makes you happy.",
    "Sentence": [
      "I guess the thrill is in the conflict, not in the need to know. Hey, whatever creams your twinkie, Binky.",
      "Of course, you can’t ride a stat sheet and there are more to bikes than just numbers. Get whatever creams your twinkie.",
      "I’m whacked on antidepressants and Diet Coke, and i’m willing to bet my buzz is better. But whatever creams your twinkie."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "9402",
    "Idiom": [
      "whatever floats your boat"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Do what makes you happy.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "9403",
    "Idiom": [
      "whatever helps you sleep at night"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Believe what you want if it makes you feel better.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "9404",
    "Idiom": [
      "whatever it takes"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Anything necessary to achieve an objective.",
    "Sentence": [
      "\"I'll do whatever it takes to win.\"",
      "The security forces have exhibited few qualms about doing whatever it takes to quiet the streets, including the imprisoning of an estimated 2,000 opposition supporters."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "9405",
    "Idiom": [
      "wheel away"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To run around in celebration.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Following an hour of graft that did not include too many glimpses of goal he casually wheeled away having finished David Beckham's inviting cross in the manner of a man totally at home in those kind of positions.",
      "Athletic captain Gurpegi charged in at the near post to glance in David Lopez's left-wing corner before wheeling away in delight, ripping off his shirt and celebrating with his team-mates and the ecstatic home fans.",
      "David Luiz and Terry challenged for headers and when the loose ball fell to Mata, his shot was blocked on the line by a bundle of bodies that included King, Assou-Ekotto and Terry. Referee Atkinson was swift to award the goal as Mata wheeled away in celebration - much to the disgust of the Spurs players."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "9406",
    "Idiom": [
      "wheel out"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To bring out something predictable or familiar.",
    "Sentence": [
      "They will gather their own gaylings and dykelings and Miss Things at the hem of their own caftans. They'll wheel the old queen out.",
      "We need her to cover those client dinners where I get wheeled out to smile and look pretty.",
      "All the old clichés were wheeled out : “Living A Lie”, “Secret Torment”, “Bizarre Lifestyle”, and so on. Oh, how they wallowed in it."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "9407",
    "Idiom": [
      "wheel within a wheel"
    ],
    "Meaning": "A complication of circumstances or motives.",
    "Sentence": [
      "The fact is, there’s something I rather wanted to call to your attention. You don’t know it, but for private and personal reasons I particularly want to hold this Tiny Tots job for a year. There are wheels within wheels. It’s a sort of bet, as a matter of fact. Have you ever met a girl called Gertrude Butterwick?… However, it’s a long story and I won’t bother you with it now. But you can take it from me that there definitely are wheels within wheels and unless I continue in your employment, till somewhere around the middle of next June, my life will be a blank and all my hopes and dreams shattered."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "9408-1",
    "Idiom": [
      "wheels are turning"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Progress is being made on an ongoing process.",
    "Sentence": [
      "The transfer wheels are turning a bit faster as the European window comes closer and closer to being slammed shut.",
      "As you read this, bureaucratic wheels are turning to permit a towering three-block-long complex of 1,586 apartments to arise in front of Pier 40.",
      "\"This decision will reassure the public and the international community that our justice system is working, albeit the wheels are turning slowly.\""
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "9408-2",
    "Idiom": [
      "wheels are turning"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Considerable thinking is occurring.",
    "Sentence": [
      "I don't know what thoughts are going through his little mind, but I'm sure the wheels are turning.",
      "But now, eight years after the Mandela election, the wheels are turning again, ideas are coming.",
      "Mr. Raemisch has gained a reputation as an outspoken reformer and has made clear that he wants to make significant changes. Mr. Raemisch's staff members have gotten used to his directness, and to his sudden silences. \"When he's quiet, that's when he's at his best, because his wheels are turning,\" said Kellie Wasko, his deputy."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "9409",
    "Idiom": [
      "when Hell freezes over"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Never; not a chance.",
    "Sentence": [
      "\"Will you go out with him?\" \" When Hell freezes over! \"",
      "\"When will the sun shine in Dunedin?\" \" When Hell freezes over! \""
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "9410",
    "Idiom": [
      "when all is said and done"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Ultimately.",
    "Sentence": [
      "When all is said and done, you will find it is a smaller project than it appears."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "9411",
    "Idiom": [
      "when i see a bird that walks like a duck and swims like a duck and quacks like a duck, i call that bird a duck",
      "if it looks like a duck",
      "if it looks like a duck, swims like a duck, and quacks like a duck, then it's probably a duck"
    ],
    "Meaning": "If it has the traits of a duck, it is likely a duck.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "9412",
    "Idiom": [
      "when in Rome"
    ],
    "Meaning": "One should adjust to local customs.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "9413",
    "Idiom": [
      "when in Rome, do as the Romans do"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Adapt to circumstances and follow customs.",
    "Sentence": [
      "But my friend says, ‘ when in Rome, we must do as Rome does,’ Ah! this is the very principle of an ungodly world; and Christians have caught the spirit, and are acting up to it. Peter and Paul were in Rome.—If they had done as Rome did, they would not have suffered death there. If we were in Rome, and must do as Rome does, we must become idolaters, and papists, or lose Rome's favor, and suffer her displeasure. But we must separate ourselves from Rome, and from the world, and their wicked and God-robbing practices. We must not be conformed to the world. We must be Christians in deed and in truth.",
      "I know of many instances where such persons have been under the necessity of buying or hiring slaves, just to preserve their reputation and keep up appearances; and even among a class of people who profess to be opposed to Slavery, have I known instances of the same kind, and have heard them apologize for their conduct by saying that “ when in Rome, we must do as the Romans do.”",
      "The good intentions of the individual cannot control the evil operations of an organization which is essentially wrong. Men when in Rome are apt to do as the Romans do, however evil it may be; and the member of a Lodge is not likely to remain for a long time better than the Lodge itself."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "9414",
    "Idiom": [
      "when in doubt, do nowt"
    ],
    "Meaning": "It is better not to take unnecessary risks when uncertain.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "9415",
    "Idiom": [
      "when it comes to"
    ],
    "Meaning": "In relation to.",
    "Sentence": [
      "I’d prefer to keep things straightforward and stick in the lovely, tasty yolks, too. After all, there’s no such thing as too rich when it comes to brownies."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "9416",
    "Idiom": [
      "when it rains, it pours"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Unfortunate events occur in clusters.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "9417-1",
    "Idiom": [
      "when it's at home"
    ],
    "Meaning": "In reality.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Who is Nelson Mandela when he's at home ?"
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "9417-2",
    "Idiom": [
      "when it's at home"
    ],
    "Meaning": "In plain terms.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Feng shui ? What on earth is that when it's at home ?"
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "9418",
    "Idiom": [
      "when life gives you lemons, make lemonade"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Make the best out of difficult situations.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "9419",
    "Idiom": [
      "when one door closes, another opens",
      "when one door shuts, another one opens",
      "when one door closes, another door opens",
      "as one door closes, another opens",
      "when one door closes, another one opens",
      "when one door shuts, another opens",
      "when one door shuts, another door opens"
    ],
    "Meaning": "When one opportunity is lost, another becomes available.",
    "Sentence": [
      "An excellent reason for absenting himself from school was thus denied to Master Hardy; but it has been well said that when one door closes another opens, and to his great satisfaction the old servant, who had been in poor health for some time, suddenly took to her bed and required his undivided attention.",
      "When one door closes, another opens : those eliminated in the early rounds of the Spingold Knockout in Las Vegas, Nev., in August were able to shoot for the national men's and women's Swiss team events.",
      "\" When one door closes, another opens,\" the former Stamps president mused yesterday after being fired by the team's new ownership group."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "9420",
    "Idiom": [
      "when pigs fly"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Never.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "9421",
    "Idiom": [
      "when push comes to shove"
    ],
    "Meaning": "When the situation is critical or urgent.",
    "Sentence": [
      "While most chose at that time either to disband or to join the APC rally several blocks north in McPherson Park, several hundred mostly young DC-area blacks and a sizable number of militant Palestinians continued to demand their right to confront the Klan. Push somehow came to shove and the face-off began. Several hours of street fighting followed.",
      "\"We've demonstrated that when push comes to shove, we can be really fast, we can be agile, we can do things more slickly.",
      "He is not a particularly talented builder, but when push comes to shove, he can usually get the job done."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "9422",
    "Idiom": [
      "when the cat's away the mice play",
      "when the cat's away"
    ],
    "Meaning": "When someone in authority is absent, others may take advantage of the situation.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "9423",
    "Idiom": [
      "when the cat's away the mice will play"
    ],
    "Meaning": "In the absence of authority, subordinates will exploit the situation.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "9424",
    "Idiom": [
      "when the chips are down"
    ],
    "Meaning": "When the situation is urgent or critical.",
    "Sentence": [
      "The armed forces of North Korea, which borders on and is allied with Russian Manchuria, marched into the U. S.-sponsored South Korea Republic over the week-end — and the chips are down for American prestige throughout the Far East.",
      "They say that when the chips are down, girl Your love won't stay so long, my friend But they don't know that your sweet loving, babe Has been around through thick and thin",
      "“Lucian and Monte basically said to me, ‘Whatever you turn in, we will be proud to put out. We give you 100% creative freedom and trust.’” It was exactly what she needed to hear most when the chips were down.",
      "He wasn't a very talented musician but, when the chips were down, he played well.",
      "When the chips are down, you need to make tough decisions."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "9425",
    "Idiom": [
      "when the going gets tough, the tough get going"
    ],
    "Meaning": "In difficult times, strong-willed individuals take action.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "9426",
    "Idiom": [
      "when the looting starts, the shooting starts"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Lethal force is justified against rioters and looters.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "9427",
    "Idiom": [
      "when they go low, we go high"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Indicates an unwillingness to respond to incivility or violence.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "9428",
    "Idiom": [
      "when two Sundays come together"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Never.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "9429",
    "Idiom": [
      "when two Sundays meet"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Never.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "9430",
    "Idiom": [
      "when you hear hoofbeats, think of horses, not zebras"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Consider common explanations before rare ones.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "9431",
    "Idiom": [
      "when you're up to your neck in alligators, it's hard to remember that your initial objective was to drain the swamp"
    ],
    "Meaning": "It's easy to lose sight of one's initial objective amidst distractions.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "9432-1",
    "Idiom": [
      "where got"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Challenges the validity of an assertion.",
    "Sentence": [
      "— Let’s not do this one. Looks damn scary. — This ride where got scary one ? ― I don’t see how this ride is supposed to be scary."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "9432-2",
    "Idiom": [
      "where got"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Questions doubt the existence or occurrence of something.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Nowadays where got time? ― We don’t really have time nowadays."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "9433",
    "Idiom": [
      "where there is a will there is a way"
    ],
    "Meaning": "If there is strong determination, a solution can be found.",
    "Sentence": [
      "How far the particular practices in regard to Works of Industry may be usefully adopted, it is difficult to determine; but \" where there is a will, there is a way :\" local habits and circumstances must be the guides.",
      "Unmindful of her former poverty, she was perpetually teasing Riboulard to take a lodging in Rue St. Honoré, and to allow her to dress in a style more suitable to her station. It is an old saying, that where there is a will, there is always a way. At the end of a few months, Rosalia began to trick out her person, without the corporal's knowledge;",
      "The powerful and the fortunate are very fond of the maxim, \" where there's a will there's a way;\" and they rarely use it without expressing in very clear terms a cold, insolent, and uncharitable judgment upon exertions they are themselves not called upon to make, while they modestly declare that such exertions, if by them made, would be triumphant. They say, in sort, to the weak and unprosperous—You might succeed if you would, for effort is success, and we should find a certain and easy conquest where you have met but baffled hopes and continual defeat!",
      "Where there is a will there is a way; but where there is no will there is no way, and that is the case with my honorable friend opposite.",
      "Rolliver's inn, the single alehouse at this end of the long and broken village, could only boast of an off-license; Thirsty strangers wished they could have a restful seat inside. Thus the strangers. But there were also local customers who felt the same wish; and where there's a will there's a way. In a large bedroom upstairs, the window of which was thickly curtained with a great woollen shawl lately discarded by the landlady Mrs. Rolliver, were gathered on this evening nearly a dozen persons, all seeking vinous bliss;",
      "I have learned during my long life the great lesson that where there is a will there is a way. Armed bands have failed against these people. I came here hoping to find the way because I already had the will. Perhaps I did find it when fate threw me in with you.",
      "We have a saying in English: \" Where there is a will there is a way \". This House has a will, though the hon. Members of Parliament who represent the entire Kenya. There will be funds made available because where there is a will there is a way. Funds will be made available, and this House always makes funds available every year.",
      "Scheduling is the killer of Simulators. But where there's a will … you know the rest. Kill the Scheduling Monster before it kills you."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "9434",
    "Idiom": [
      "where there's a will there's a way",
      "where there is a will",
      "where there is a will, there is a way"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Where there is determination, a solution can be found.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Scheduling is the killer of Simulators. But where there's a will … you know the rest. Kill the Scheduling Monster before it kills you.",
      "How far the particular practices in regard to Works of Industry may be usefully adopted, it is difficult to determine; but \" where there is a will, there is a way :\" local habits and circumstances must be the guides.",
      "There is more than enough legislation to deal with illegal traveller encampments. It is also important to remember that where there is a will, there is a way.",
      "The powerful and the fortunate are very fond of the maxim, \" where there's a will there's a way;\" and they rarely use it without expressing in very clear terms a cold, insolent, and uncharitable judgment upon exertions they are themselves not called upon to make, while they modestly declare that such exertions, if by them made, would be triumphant. They say, in sort, to the weak and unprosperous—You might succeed if you would, for effort is success, and we should find a certain and easy conquest where you have met but baffled hopes and continual defeat!",
      "The account which he himself gives of these observations is exceedingly interesting, and strikingly brings out the ingenuity of his mind, and his determination to allow no difficulties of circumstances to stand in his way. Thus we are reminded of the apothegm that where there's a will there's a way —an apothegm which has found illustration in every department of effort, but nowhere more frequently than in the progress of science and art.",
      "Rolliver's inn, the single alehouse at this end of the long and broken village, could only boast of an off-license; Thirsty strangers wished they could have a restful seat inside. Thus the strangers. But there were also local customers who felt the same wish; and where there's a will there's a way. In a large bedroom upstairs, the window of which was thickly curtained with a great woollen shawl lately discarded by the landlady Mrs. Rolliver, were gathered on this evening nearly a dozen persons, all seeking vinous bliss;"
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "9435",
    "Idiom": [
      "where there's muck there's brass"
    ],
    "Meaning": "There is money to be made in unpleasant jobs.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "9436",
    "Idiom": [
      "where there's no sense there's no feeling"
    ],
    "Meaning": "A low-intelligence being does not feel pain or negative sensations.",
    "Sentence": [
      "' Where there's no sense there's no feeling,' they would say when they had hurt some creature by accident or through carelessness. By sense they meant wits or understanding, and these they imagined purely human attributes.",
      "Mrs. Hooper says where there's no sense there's no feeling, but I do feel it. It hurts.",
      "They say where there's no sense there's no feeling; that would make the clods and oafs round here among the most insensitive, unfeeling air and noise polluters in the western world."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "9437-1",
    "Idiom": [
      "where there's smoke, there's fire"
    ],
    "Meaning": "If there's a hint of something, it may be true.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "9437-2",
    "Idiom": [
      "where there's smoke, there's fire"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Rumors often have some basis in truth.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "9438",
    "Idiom": [
      "where you stand depends on where you sit"
    ],
    "Meaning": "One's position influences one's perspective.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "9439",
    "Idiom": [
      "where's the beef"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Questions the substance or value of something.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "9440",
    "Idiom": [
      "where's the lie"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Acknowledges an undeniable truth.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "9441",
    "Idiom": [
      "wherever you go, there you are"
    ],
    "Meaning": "You cannot escape your problems.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "9442",
    "Idiom": [
      "which foot the shoe is on"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Which point of view is considered.",
    "Sentence": [
      "\"A whole lot depends on whose foot the shoe is on. I have noticed some of these fellows who speak about sentiment do not object so much to it when it works their way.\"",
      "As usual, it makes a difference which foot the shoe is on. All too often the farmer has been willing to vote for legislation as long as he was exempted But he doesn't like it when it is proposed that laws he supports when they apply to others also be applied to him.",
      "The little girl said to her mother, \"Mother, why is it when you are cross, you say it's your nerves; and when I'm nervous, you say I'm cross?\" It depends on which foot the shoe is on, doesn't it?",
      "Some of those involved with the Broadway Triangle proposal, however, dispute the coalition’s claims that the project unfairly excludes minority residents. “It all depends on which foot the shoe is on,” said Rabbi David Niederman “Other groups are trying to dilute the chances of Jewish families getting access to affordable apartments by trying to include another large community board in the development.”"
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "9443",
    "Idiom": [
      "which way the wind is blowing"
    ],
    "Meaning": "The prevailing opinion or current view.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Minor writers, seeking a fashion to follow, may praise or blame various groups pretty much according to which way the wind is blowing, but the work of a writer like Ernest Hemingway, most people would agree, goes its own way.",
      "\"There are folks who will shift positions and policies on all kinds of things depending on which way the wind is blowing,\" he told the crowd.",
      "The reality of international diplomacy is that, like the senators in Julius Caesar, countries follow power, hide their weapons, watch which way the wind is blowing, and then back who they expect to be the winner."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "9444",
    "Idiom": [
      "while the grass grows, the steed starves"
    ],
    "Meaning": "A caution about delayed actions leading to missed opportunities.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "9445",
    "Idiom": [
      "while we're young"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Soon, without much delay.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "9446",
    "Idiom": [
      "whip hand"
    ],
    "Meaning": "An advantage or dominant position.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Of course I was a fool. My father has the whip hand of me, because he has money and I have none, and it was simply kicking against the pricks to speak as I did.",
      "Even the purest of all the Lamaist sects—the Ge-lug-pa—are thorough-paced devil-worshippers, and value Buddhism chiefly because it gives them the whip-hand over the devils.",
      "Few workers are unionised, and in the UK's increasingly flexible labour market, where it is almost impossible to quit a job and claim unemployment benefits, where zero hour contracts are still a feature and where self-employment is on the rise, employers have the whip hand."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "9447",
    "Idiom": [
      "whip into shape"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To exert effort to improve something or someone.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "9448-1",
    "Idiom": [
      "whip the cat"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To exploit someone who is unable to provide.",
    "Sentence": [
      "There was a terrible \" whipping of the cat, \" as it is called, on the day the notes became due. This whipping the cat is nothing more than a parcel of traders puffing at one another's heels... to borrow money.",
      "seeing that the Committee has already practically defeated the principle that any new business shall have any special exemption under this Bill, I do not propose to take up further time in “ whipping the cat ” on that question."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "9448-2",
    "Idiom": [
      "whip the cat"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To practice extreme frugality.",
    "Sentence": [
      "He kept school within six miles of Cooperstown, on the Burlington road, whipping the cat, just as young Munro did!",
      "I \" whipped the cat ” a bit, the first twenty miles or so, but then, I thought, what did it matter? What was the use of grinding to save money until we were too old to enjoy it.",
      "I've shanked across the Old Man Plain, after busting up a cheque, And \" whipped the cat \" once more again, though I haven't met it yet."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "9448-3",
    "Idiom": [
      "whip the cat"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To feel regret or self-pity.",
    "Sentence": [
      "I believe one of the members of our hunting section was lucky enough to get a subscription through before they stopped it. The rest of the members of the section have been \" whipping the cat ” because they left it too late",
      "he will be whipping the cat he did not leave this line down to carry light traffic from the hills.",
      "But whipping the cat she ever sold her house over here, the young man remarked.",
      "When you're stoney broke and walking An' your tucker bag is flat, It will never get you nowhere If you start to whip the cat, For there aint no time for weepin' When you're on a hungry track,",
      "And then, as if to prove that we are not always on the drink, or “ whipping the cat, or committing suicide,” that we can love and live for others besides self, Neaves' mate came down from the little rise beyond the sliprails, where he had spent his day carving a headstone out of a rough slab of wood that now stood at the head of our sick traveller's grave."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "9448-4",
    "Idiom": [
      "whip the cat"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To blame someone unfairly.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Whipping the cat may only increase our resentment and burn us up with anger. We may engage in combat with our neighbor until both are exhauste. Calling a truce and limping back under our own roof would not be peace.",
      "When the work was over I'd to nurse the youngest child; Whenever I cracked a bit of a joke, the missus she would smile; The old fellow got jealous, looked like he'd murder me, And there he sat and whipped the cat, that cocky in Bungaree.",
      "In the end, meeting a mutual impasse, they adopt a policy of \" whip the cat. \" The farm labourer gets blamed for whatever goes wrong i.e. for everything."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "9448-5",
    "Idiom": [
      "whip the cat"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To get drunk.",
    "Sentence": [
      "I knew him lads when first he shipped, And this is certain, that Though William by the 'cat' was whipped, He never 'whipped the cat' !",
      "Presumably while Armin as Tutch is off “ whipping the cat ” (getting drunk) with the watermen, Blue John, his doubled part, arrives to entertain the wedding guests with his nurse and a boy.",
      "'What will they do when the Depression comes?' 'There'll be some whipping the cat when it does.'"
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "9448-6",
    "Idiom": [
      "whip the cat"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To travel between homes for work.",
    "Sentence": [
      "The practice of \" whipping the cat,” though gradually disappearing, is not altogether abandoned by the tailors in this district.",
      "I \" whipped the cat \" three months on the barrens — then I engaged to work for a merchant in Rome.",
      "When apprentices and lately indentured servants began to “ whip the cat,” the shoemakers among them went from house to house making and repairing shoes.",
      "My family has been dressmakers for the Logans since the days my great-great-great-granny whipped the cat for them in the 1800s."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "9449",
    "Idiom": [
      "whip through"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To do something very quickly.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "9450",
    "Idiom": [
      "whip up a storm"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Causes an uproar or controversy.",
    "Sentence": [
      "However, moral judgement soon deserted America, as Senator Joseph McCarthy, a junior senator from Wisconsin, whipped up a storm of populist terror at the possibility that the USA was already undermined by communists.",
      "It was the kind of storm that Liverpool have whipped up so often under Klopp and yet it would blow out, City stabilising and almost nicking it."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "9451",
    "Idiom": [
      "whips and jingles"
    ],
    "Meaning": "A state of torturous delirium.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "9452",
    "Idiom": [
      "whisk away"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To take someone on a surprise romantic journey.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Give me a wink And I'll give you what I think you're after With just one kiss I will whisk you away To where angels often tread"
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "9453-1",
    "Idiom": [
      "whisk off"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To rapidly remove.",
    "Sentence": [
      "He was whisked off to the hospital."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "9453-2",
    "Idiom": [
      "whisk off"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To take someone on a surprise journey.",
    "Sentence": [
      "For our honeymoon, he whisked me off to the Bahamas."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "9454",
    "Idiom": [
      "whiskey dick"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Impotence from heavy drinking.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Objective: There's no objective; you just roll the dice and drink. There's also no winning or losing, unless you consider drinking a lot winning, in which case you'll be the gold medalist of a lifetime. (Note: Gold medals do not prevent whiskey dick.)",
      "However, if he ups the ante to three or more servings of alcohol, he not only puts his heart at risk, but he puts himself at risk of getting whiskey dick and not being able to perform in the sack.",
      "“These are two shots. You don't have to drink the whole thing at a time.” “Good call. I don't want to get whiskey dick.”"
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "9455",
    "Idiom": [
      "whisper campaign"
    ],
    "Meaning": "A method of spreading damaging rumors discreetly.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Senator Harding will not authorize his headquarters to take public notice of the “ whispering campaign.” There has been a difference of opinion among his advisers as to whether to ignore the slanders or to produce evidence disproving them.",
      "Both publicly and in a particularly unscrupulous whisper campaign the Liberals tried to change the aspect from one of folly to one of personal corruption and some of this got through to the voters.",
      "McCain—who was famously burned in South Carolina in 2000 after his New Hampshire victory, when a whisper campaign and George Bush's dominance of the state's Republican party structure combined to deliver a crushing blow—was openly nervous."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "9456",
    "Idiom": [
      "whistle Dixie"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To engage in idle fantasies.",
    "Sentence": [
      "He said he was going to open a business next year, but I think he was just whistling Dixie.",
      "\"Sure is hot!\" / \"You ain't whistlin' Dixie !"
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "9457",
    "Idiom": [
      "whistle for"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To request something with no chance of success.",
    "Sentence": [
      "If we wanted something we could whistle for it - but if the Australians wanted something you'd got to get it for them, or else.",
      "She could whistle for it now; she wouldn't get a penny from him even if she crawled on all fours.",
      "And if it was milk I was after from that environment I could clearly whistle for it.",
      "And as for ceilings, you can whistle for them. I have lived in this house for six years and it hasn't hurt me."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "9458",
    "Idiom": [
      "whistle in the dark"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To speak of something with little knowledge.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "9459",
    "Idiom": [
      "whistle in the wind"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To attempt something futile or unheeded.",
    "Sentence": [
      "They are expending more and more effort on trying to get right something that cannot, and should not, be done in the first place. Endless exhortations to \"do it better\" are, to put it politely, whistling in the wind.",
      "It doesn’t matter how strong your USP is or how powerful your value proposition, if the message isn’t reaching the right people you're whistling in the wind.",
      "Everyone is doing no more than whistling powerlessly in the wind."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "9460-1",
    "Idiom": [
      "whistle past the graveyard"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To remain cheerful in a dire situation while ignoring potential hazards.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "9460-2",
    "Idiom": [
      "whistle past the graveyard"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To act unaware of potential dangers.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "9461",
    "Idiom": [
      "whistle walk"
    ],
    "Meaning": "The path slaves took to deliver food on a plantation, where they were expected to whistle to show they weren't eating.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "9462-1",
    "Idiom": [
      "whistle-stop"
    ],
    "Meaning": "A small train station.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "9462-2",
    "Idiom": [
      "whistle-stop"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Extremely brief and hurried.",
    "Sentence": [
      "We've only got 30 minutes at the stadium, so I'll give you a whistle-stop tour."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "9463",
    "Idiom": [
      "white coat hypertension"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Elevated blood pressure due to anxiety in a medical setting.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Patients with white coat hypertension did not show a generalized increase of blood pressure lability, nor an exaggerated pressor response while at work.... In such patients, the pressor response may be relatively specific to the physician's office and lead to significant misclassification of hypertension."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "9464",
    "Idiom": [
      "white elephant"
    ],
    "Meaning": "A possession that is unwanted or burdensome.",
    "Sentence": [
      "South Australia's \" white elephant \" was really going to prove a valuable possession after all!",
      "Some of the stadiums being built for the World Cup soccer tournament, scheduled for next year, have also been criticized for delays and cost overruns, and have become subjects of derision as protesters question whether they will become white elephants."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "9465-1",
    "Idiom": [
      "white hat"
    ],
    "Meaning": "A good person.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Berlin-Harlem showed relentless racism, including from the so-called friends of a black ex-GI in Berlin, without putting its central character in a ' white hat' either."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "9465-2",
    "Idiom": [
      "white hat"
    ],
    "Meaning": "A well-meaning hacker who identifies security flaws without causing harm.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "9465-3",
    "Idiom": [
      "white hat"
    ],
    "Meaning": "A sailor.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "9466",
    "Idiom": [
      "white lie"
    ],
    "Meaning": "A harmless untruth meant to maintain politeness or avoid conflict.",
    "Sentence": [
      "The prevarication and white lies which a mind that keeps itself ambitiously pure is as uneasy under as a great artist under the false touches that no eye detects but his own, are worn as lightly as mere trimmings when once the actions have become a lie.",
      "An occasional little white lie such as Weston's probably won't cause any lasting damage. And at times, telling the truth—particularly the whole truth to a child who's not at an age to handle it—may do more harm than good, they say.",
      "Too many joy rides in daddy's Jaguar / Too many white lies and white lines",
      "What the next man knows, where the next man goes / Telling white lies ‘bout black folks"
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "9467",
    "Idiom": [
      "white magic"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Magic intended for good or benevolent purposes.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Widespread popular tolerance of white magic thus helped to mitigate the rigours of the law."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "9468",
    "Idiom": [
      "white marriage"
    ],
    "Meaning": "An unconsummated marriage.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "9469",
    "Idiom": [
      "white on rice"
    ],
    "Meaning": "A descriptive analogy of closeness.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "9470",
    "Idiom": [
      "white pee"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Refers to semen.",
    "Sentence": [
      "His magical boy toy had done all kinds of wondrous things. It spewed out white pee, it felt like hard rubber and now it was warm and soft again.",
      "She liked that and sometimes she watched him as he played with his own pee pee until it made white pee all over him."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "9471",
    "Idiom": [
      "white rider"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Conquest or Pestilence, one of the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "9472",
    "Idiom": [
      "white satin"
    ],
    "Meaning": "A type of gin.",
    "Sentence": [
      "What did she want with money, except now and then for a drain of white satin."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "9473-1",
    "Idiom": [
      "white sheep"
    ],
    "Meaning": "A conformist or ordinary person.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "9473-2",
    "Idiom": [
      "white sheep"
    ],
    "Meaning": "A disliked person.",
    "Sentence": [
      "I was the white sheep of the family, the straight man."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "9474",
    "Idiom": [
      "white trash"
    ],
    "Meaning": "A derogatory term for poorly educated white people of low social status.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Among these odd folk, who correspond exactly to the decadent element of “ white trash ” in the South, law and morals are non-existent; and their general mental status is probably below that of any other section of the native American people.",
      "“So, he is the father of Emmie Slattery’s baby,” thought Scarlett. “Oh, well. What else can you expect from a Yankee man and a white-trash girl?”",
      "When Linda was two and living in a San Pedro dive with her white-trash parents, he was twelve and gaining clandestine access to wealthy homes in Bronxville and Scarsdale, New York, exorcising his nocturnal heart by delivering himself to the quiet muse of other people's dwellings, sometimes stealing, sometimes not....",
      "Just some Portland white trash / You confronted your sorrow / Like there was no tomorrow / While the rest of the world only laughed",
      "This white trash can't pay for his own beer.",
      "These lowlife characters are white trash."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "9475",
    "Idiom": [
      "white trashery"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Describes someone behaving like white trash.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Reeder revels in white trashery —and applauds herself for doing so. \"I am busty, and I am loud, and I love bad taste.\"",
      "Because of the Depression, many people came to associate bare feet with poverty, indolence, or general white-trashery.",
      "Arne Johnson stabbed his landlord Alan Bono to death after a day of drinking, partying, and general white trashery."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "9476",
    "Idiom": [
      "white-knuckle"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Causing fear or nervousness.",
    "Sentence": [
      "BP said its capped-off well appeared to be holding steady Friday morning, almost midway into a white-knuckle waiting period in which engineers watched the pressure gauges for signs of a leak.",
      "\"No surprise given both Bellamy and White share - or have inherited - Hendrix's unique blend of experimental instincts and white-knuckle showmanship,\" said Mr Goldsmith."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "9477",
    "Idiom": [
      "who are you telling"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Used in response to an assertion of awareness.",
    "Sentence": [
      "That performance was off the chain! Who are you telling ?"
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "9478",
    "Idiom": [
      "who keeps company with wolves, will learn to howl",
      "who keeps company with the wolf will learn to howl"
    ],
    "Meaning": "A person acquires traits from their associates.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Do not associate with a person who is malicious, selfish, or unkind As a proverb goes, “ Who keeps company with the wolf, will learn to howl ” (in other words, “If you touch vermillion, you will become of the same color”).",
      "Do not associate with a person who is malicious, selfish, or unkind As people say, “ Who keeps company with the wolf will learn to howl.\"",
      "Believe it or not but you one way or another have the same bad aspects in your personality. “ Who keeps company with the wolf will learn to howl ” is said for a reason.",
      "The prosecutors who reviewed the Peabody case in 1988 described his behaviour as “infantilism.” In other words, he who keeps company with wolves will learn to howl.",
      "After hearing this proverb, Chadwick went out to see if it was true. \"I thoroughly tested it,\" he said, \"and though it may apply to people, it doesn't pertain to cats.\" Who keeps company with wolves learns to howl warns us that if we associate with bad company we, too, will become bad.",
      "A well known proverb says that ' who keeps company with wolves will learn to howl'. The biggest influence on my personality had these people with whom I spent the most of the time."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "9479-1",
    "Idiom": [
      "who shot John"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Involves assigning credit or blame.",
    "Sentence": [
      "I haven't been in on any of the sessions, I don't intend to get directly involved, and I'm not going to engage in any speculation about \" who shot John \".",
      "I really do not think it is appropriate to come up here and present to this committee or to the Congress the \" who shot John \" processes by which the President makes decisions.",
      "A great number of the most important questions presented to our regulatory agencies have nothing to do with \" who shot John.\"",
      "... Adjudication procedures are great for \" who shot John \" questions, but not for the great mass of policy issues which will come before the Board in its first few years.",
      "It is hard to go back and do a who shot John and determine who is responsible for the procedures that are in effect today.",
      "NOBODY REALLY cares who shot John. That's because who shot John is inherently dismissive, always used in the sense of a question that the speaker is not about to answer because it involves loathsome finger-pointing, unworthy of the fair-minded.",
      "Senator DeConcini. You may not be able to comment on some pending cases, but I am aware of an Arizona electric case filed in 1981 which is still pending.",
      "I called the attorneys to the bench and said, \"You know I'm not interested in who shot John in this divorce. What matters is reaching a decision that will work for these people and their children.",
      "That was the intervening event. I raise that not to start this whole who-shot-John -first, but to say that if we are going to talk about these events, we have to talk about them in the full and complete context.",
      "To her, however, the authorship evidence is inconclusive. Besides, \"coming off a college education in postmodern literary theory, I was mildly troubled by the ' who-shot-John ?' interest in who the real Shakespeare was,\" she says. \"My view is that the work stands on own.\""
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "9479-2",
    "Idiom": [
      "who shot John"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Nonsense.",
    "Sentence": [
      "This \" Who-Shot-John \" stuff about \"Love thine enemy\" is all very pretty, but I would rather have a little regard and do a good turn for a man that has proved himself my friend by having stuck to the organization that has raised my wages and thereby making It possible for me to give my family more of the necessities of life.",
      "He never raised the topic of religion, but if it did happen to come up, he would promptly close the conversation by dismissing the entire subject as “a bunch of who shot John \".",
      "Because in school all they tell you is a bunch of \" Who Shot John.\""
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "9479-3",
    "Idiom": [
      "who shot John"
    ],
    "Meaning": "A mess.",
    "Sentence": [
      "\"I don't know why you wanna run around looking like Who Shot John,\" exclaims Monica's mother, played by Alfre Woodard. These words may seem a bit harsh, but they were supposedly said with a loving sentiment.",
      "I know this topic goes both ways because there are women who also fall short in this area and need to douche on a regular basis with the way they are running around smelling like “ who shot John ”. However, the topic is on you men"
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "9480",
    "Idiom": [
      "who wants to know"
    ],
    "Meaning": "A retort indicating reluctance to share information.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Albert : Adam and Eve on a raft! Is that Eunice Carruthers? Eunice : Who wants to know? Albert : Al's Diner! You waitressed for me back in '78, '79! I'd never forget that pretty face! Eunice : Well, Mr. Ramsey! How do you like that? I didn't recognize you without your apron!"
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "9481",
    "Idiom": [
      "who's 'she', the cat's mother"
    ],
    "Meaning": "A rebuke for referring to a woman as \"she\" instead of her name or a respectful title.",
    "Sentence": [
      "\"She's coming on the trip with us too!\"",
      "\" Who's 'she', the cat's mother? \"",
      "\"Sorry, Gran is coming with us too.\""
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "9482",
    "Idiom": [
      "who's who"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Identities and characteristics of people within a social group.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Mrs. Falconer cannot well avoid asking you to some of her entertainments, and it will be pleasant to you to know who's who beforehand.",
      "\"Milly, it's true,\" she said, to be exact, \"has no natural sense of social values, doesn't in the least understand our differences or know who's who or what's what.\"",
      "\"I'll learn 'im to insult a respectable British tradesman. I'll show him who's who.\"",
      "Readers will conjure up many a conjecture over who's who in this literary gallery."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "9483-1",
    "Idiom": [
      "whole ball of wax"
    ],
    "Meaning": "The overall plan or concept.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Of course I have to take a little advantage. After all, I'm the guy who puts the thing together—the whole ball of wax.",
      "The whole ball of wax will be viewed in 5 minutes.",
      "In my opinion the whole ball of wax depends on what she'll say."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "9483-2",
    "Idiom": [
      "whole ball of wax"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Everything necessary for a particular purpose.",
    "Sentence": [
      "We've got pots, pans, the food and cooking utensils— the whole ball of wax."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "9484",
    "Idiom": [
      "whole box of tricks"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Everything associated with a particular enterprise.",
    "Sentence": [
      "He can't defend Berry, and yet he is afraid to make it too lively for him, in case the \"party\" should, by some chance or other, believe in \"the organ,\" and upset the whole box of tricks."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "9485-1",
    "Idiom": [
      "whole cloth"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Fabrications or lies with no basis in truth.",
    "Sentence": [
      "All those tales that came clicking over the wireless of the capture of huge stores of grain and oil were fables out of whole cloth.",
      "Mr. Doe's account of the accident was made from whole cloth."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "9485-2",
    "Idiom": [
      "whole cloth"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Something made completely new and not based on anything else.",
    "Sentence": [
      "And, mind you, emotions are among the toughest things in the world to manufacture out of whole cloth; it is easier to manufacture seven facts than one emotion.",
      "Man makes his own history, but he does not make it out of the whole cloth; he does not make it out of conditions chosen by himself, but out of such as he finds close at hand.",
      "The decisions made by judges, however, and the interpretations that they advance or accept must be plausibly inferable from something in the Charter. It is not for the courts to manufacture a constitutional right out of whole cloth.",
      "Susan Wojcicki became YouTube's leader during the obvious phase. She didn't need to invent YouTube's business plan from whole cloth.",
      "The plans for the widget were drawn from whole cloth."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "9485-3",
    "Idiom": [
      "whole cloth"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Entirely, without changes or additions.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Some are strangely detailed, like the hugely antlered white deer-creature-cum-forest-god seemingly stolen whole cloth from Princess Mononoke."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "9486",
    "Idiom": [
      "whole enchilada"
    ],
    "Meaning": "All of something taken in totality.",
    "Sentence": [
      "They need a fall guy for the whole enchilada.",
      "\"I want the wife, the kids, the house, the dog, the whole enchilada,\" he said in his rapid-fire way of talking.",
      "Your job as a software developer is not to simply slam out code, but to deliver the whole enchilada.",
      "It is only by loving all of ourselves (the whole enchilada !) that unconditional love of self is possible."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "9487",
    "Idiom": [
      "whole shebang"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Everything; the entire thing.",
    "Sentence": [
      "On the third the whole \" chebang \" was removed",
      "I am growing more and more sick of factions, gossip, jealousies, recriminations, excoriations and the whole literary shee-bang.",
      "Doctor, I'd love to chat. Tea, cake, the whole shebang. But I've got a ship to launch and you've got your outfit to buff up.",
      "“Food here's pretty good. They don't serve bog juice. Real tea and real coffee. Ice cream, pop, chips. The whole shebang. Every day's a wingding, brother.”",
      "Of course, they would win the whole shebang in 1974, when “Waterloo” [won] (sung in English by Swedes about a Frenchman in Belgium— how much more international can one song get?), but the bitter taste of past failures is not something one forgets...",
      "The whole shebang cooks in the slow cooker, which will keep it warm until you are ready to serve it.",
      "The festival had balloons, flowers, fireworks, performers, and the whole shebang."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "9488",
    "Idiom": [
      "whole shooting match"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Everything; the entire collection or activity.",
    "Sentence": [
      "It started raining on their picnic and they had to move the whole shooting match inside."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "9489",
    "Idiom": [
      "whomp on"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To defeat thoroughly.",
    "Sentence": [
      "The Jayhawks completely whomped on the hapless Nimrods in today's opening-round game."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "9490-1",
    "Idiom": [
      "whoop ass"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To beat or strike.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Back in the day, he turned over some tables when he found out thieves were in God's temple and that's what we're doing now, turning over some tables 'cause we found a violator of the law, and we shall whoop ass and teach him..."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "9490-2",
    "Idiom": [
      "whoop ass"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To defeat in a fight.",
    "Sentence": [
      "I said \"Hello Papa,\" and he said, \"Well, I'll be darned, I'm gonna get off of this piano and whoop yo' ass.\""
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "9490-3",
    "Idiom": [
      "whoop ass"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To defeat or excel in competition.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Intel knew the K6-III 450 with its 256k built-in cache would whoop ass on the Pentium II series.",
      "I felt not like a football player, but like a man on a couch with a really good view. The players on the bench talked about whooping ass and steroid use and the cheerleaders' tits."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "9491",
    "Idiom": [
      "whoop it up"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To party or revel excessively.",
    "Sentence": [
      "They all went out to whoop it up on his 21st birthday."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "9492-1",
    "Idiom": [
      "whoop-ass"
    ],
    "Meaning": "An act of beating.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "9492-2",
    "Idiom": [
      "whoop-ass"
    ],
    "Meaning": "A fight.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Big Sis had come out the door for some more whoop-ass, while Mr. Man was trying to hold her back."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "9492-3",
    "Idiom": [
      "whoop-ass"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Strength or determination to compete.",
    "Sentence": [
      "There is a squat and fuss-free simplicity about its profile, which belies the amount of ' whoop-ass' that can be delivered with a prod of the accelerator pedal."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "9493",
    "Idiom": [
      "why buy a book when you can join a library"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Expresses the preference for variety over commitment.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "9494",
    "Idiom": [
      "why buy the cow when you can get the milk for free"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Avoid costly commitments if similar benefits are available for free.",
    "Sentence": [
      "The whole idea of why buy the cow when you can get the milk for free relates to offering only a very brief sample of your music online. I have intellectual property, and I treat that intellectual property very seriously as an artist.",
      "In the past, women who wanted to move in with a boyfriend would get a strict talking-to about a common male mentality: “ Why buy the cow when you can get the milk for free ?”",
      "I can get plenty of dames, so why buy the cow when you can get the milk for free...ya know what I mean?"
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "9495",
    "Idiom": [
      "why in God's name"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Used to add emphasis to \"why\" in a question.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Why in God's name have you got my pizza?"
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "9496",
    "Idiom": [
      "why in the world"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Adds emphasis to \"why\" in a question.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Why in the world would you spend so much money on a toy?"
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "9497",
    "Idiom": [
      "why in time"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Adds emphasis to \"why\" in a question.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "9498",
    "Idiom": [
      "why keep a dog and bark yourself"
    ],
    "Meaning": "One should not do what one has hired someone else to do.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "9499",
    "Idiom": [
      "why on Earth"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Used for emphasis when asking why.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Why on Earth are you pouring vinegar in your drink?"
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "9500",
    "Idiom": [
      "wicked tongue"
    ],
    "Meaning": "An objectionable manner of speaking.",
    "Sentence": [
      "My son, keep well thy tongue, and keep thy friend;",
      "When I met with any despicable thing, I hesitated not to call it so; and men had never done with talking of my restless head and wicked tongue.",
      "The stories which came to his ears... sometimes spoke strange evil of her—of her violent temper, of her wicked tongue, of her outraging of all customs and decencies.",
      "He called him everything he could think of, and this was a great deal, for Sammy has a wicked tongue.",
      "She lies, steals and sleeps around, gleefully spreading malicious rumours wherever she goes. \"I like strong, conniving women with wicked tongues,\" Roos explains.",
      "Playing amateur sleuth... frees her wicked tongue to spill the beans about her neighbors’ secret vices and adulterous affairs."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "9501-1",
    "Idiom": [
      "wide awake"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Awake and very alert.",
    "Sentence": [
      "\"They are almost awake, not quite,\" said Lucy. She knew she herself was wide awake, wider than anyone usually is.",
      "I woke with a start. With the blackout curtains closed I didn't know what time it was. I looked at my watch. It said four o'clock. I had been asleep for only two hours, but I was wide awake."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "9501-2",
    "Idiom": [
      "wide awake"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Fully alert and aware.",
    "Sentence": [
      "LF 37, F 33, working class backgrounds, left-ish politics, seek wide-awake F 30+ to share friendly, indep apt."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "9502",
    "Idiom": [
      "wide berth"
    ],
    "Meaning": "A considerable distance for safety or avoidance.",
    "Sentence": [
      "One [sheep] was \"bagged\" but gave the rest of the train a wide berth and appeared only somewhat shaken.",
      "Our cat always gives the vacuum cleaner a wide berth.",
      "He's so obnoxious that everyone gives him a wide berth."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "9503",
    "Idiom": [
      "wide of the mark"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Inaccurate.",
    "Sentence": [
      "I do know, though, that the cumulative effect of all these three- and five-minute film clips, with their almost unvarying implicit deference to the importance of purely military solutions (despite a few commentators' disclaimers to the contrary), and with their catering (in part unavoidably) to a popular democracy's insistent desire to view even as unbelievably complicated a war as this one in emotional terms (our guys against their guys), is surely wide of the mark, and is bound to provide these millions of people with an excessively simple, emotional and military-oriented view of what is, at best, a mighty unsimple situation.",
      "Well, I suppose you could say the weatherman was wide of the mark again then!"
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "9504-1",
    "Idiom": [
      "wide open"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Having no laws or law enforcement.",
    "Sentence": [
      "One hundred thirty-eight sellers and buyers were jailed. Even efforts like that were to no avail in a wide-open town where rackets flourished",
      "It was a wide open frontier town before the railroad came."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "9504-2",
    "Idiom": [
      "wide open"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Unsettled or unresolved.",
    "Sentence": [
      "The fate of the loan sailor is still wide open."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "9504-3",
    "Idiom": [
      "wide open"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Vulnerable or unprotected.",
    "Sentence": [
      "He left himself wide open to criticism."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "9505",
    "Idiom": [
      "widow's mite"
    ],
    "Meaning": "A small gift that represents a significant sacrifice by the giver.",
    "Sentence": [
      "What are the sinews and souls of Russian serfs and Republican slaves but Fast-Fish, whereof possession is the whole of the law? What to the rapacious landlord is the widow's last mite but a Fast-Fish?",
      "The widow had but only one, / A puny and decrepid son; / But day and night, / Though fretful oft, and weak, and small, / A loving child, he was her all— / The widow's mite.",
      "“ A mite and the ‘ widow’s mite,’ are some way apart, my dear,” said Aunt Dorothy; “your ‘ widow’s mite,’ I suppose, might be the parsonage and the glebe, and those cows in your uncle’s park and meadow. Take care what you offer to the Lord. He sometimes takes us at our word. And there are plunderers abroad who take their own estimate of people’s mites, widows’ and others.”",
      "That widow on Monday was it outside Cramer's that looked at me. Buried the poor husband but progressing favorably on the premium. Her widow's mite.",
      "After the woman who gave me those ties left me that day, a cloud of guilt hung over me, and I couldn't shake it. It stayed with me through the night. I couldn't sleep. The woman was in her late sixties at the least, and she walked as if she carried the world on her shoulders. But she'd found a way to thank me. And I knew it was the widow's mite."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "9506",
    "Idiom": [
      "widow-maker"
    ],
    "Meaning": "A lethal hazard affecting primarily men.",
    "Sentence": [
      "O, it grieves my soul, That I must draw this metal from my side To be a widow-maker !",
      "What is a woman that you forsake her, And the hearth-fire and the home-acre, To go with the old grey Widow-maker ?",
      "Finally, jobs that are ' widow-makers' should be rethought and restructured. In the heyday of the great sailing ships, around 1850, just before the coming of steam, every shipping company had a widow-maker on its hands once in a while.... One typical ' widow-maker' has been the job of international vice-president in the large American company."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "9507",
    "Idiom": [
      "wild horses"
    ],
    "Meaning": "A force beyond human control.",
    "Sentence": [
      "there's no denying that when you take a thing in your head wild horses couldn't turn you from it",
      "Wild horses wouldn't have kept me from going to the party."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "9508",
    "Idiom": [
      "wild-goose chase"
    ],
    "Meaning": "A futile search or task.",
    "Sentence": [
      "From the beginning he has never concealed his belief that Professor Challenger is an absolute fraud, that we are all embarked upon an absurd wild-goose chase and that we are likely to reap nothing but disappointment and danger in South America, and corresponding ridicule in England.",
      "I went on a wild-goose chase all over the town looking for that adapter until I discovered they no longer make them.",
      "Diagnosing this software application's problems is a wild-goose chase because it is built in an environment that has poor debugging tools."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "9509",
    "Idiom": [
      "will the real someone please stand up"
    ],
    "Meaning": "A request for the true identity to be revealed.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Will the Real Hymnal Please Stand Up ?",
      "Will the real Jimmy Carter please stand up ? Is it the twice-born Baptist who can preach love and compassion with true fervor? Or is it the tough relentless office-seeker with a pious front of “religiosity?”",
      "WILL THE REAL CHARLIE BROWN PLEASE STAND UP ?",
      "Will the Real SPP Please Stand Up",
      "Will the Real Renie Lake Please Stand Up ?",
      "I remember that moment when the host of the show would say, “ Will the real Mr. X please stand up.” One fake would start out of his chair and then, bashfully, the real person would stand up to studio applause. There have been moments when I wanted to ask, “ Would the real Mr. Arafat please stand up,” but they have been very fleeting.",
      "May I have your attention please? Will the real Slim Shady please stand up ? I repeat Will the real Slim Shady please stand up ? We're gonna have a problem here.",
      "[delurk][long] will the real goth please stand up but am I Goth? Am I NotaGoth? Am I a Closet Goth? Is there a 12 step program? Am I welcome?",
      "BOOKENDS: Will the Real Jonathan Safran Foer Please Stand Up ?",
      "Will The Real Woodhall Spa Please Stand up? / This was it folks, the REAL Woodhall Spa.",
      "Will the real you please stand up ? : 7 spiritual strategies to help you discover your purpose and live it with passion",
      "‘ Would the ‘real’ girl gamer please stand up ?’ Gender, LAN cafes and the reformulation of the ‘girl’ gamer",
      "Racing the Archive: Will the Real William DuBois Please Stand Up?",
      "Will the Real Hooded Man Please Stand Up",
      "Will the Real Blue-Eyed Soul Artists Please Stand Up ?",
      "Would the Real Gerry Ryan Please Stand Up",
      "Will the real Alberta please stand up ?",
      "Claiborne Holmes Kinnard V, Franklin, Tenn., “ Will the real Bruiser please stand up ?”",
      "‘ Will the Real Boccherini Please Stand Up ’: New Light on an Eighteenth-Century Portrait in the National Gallery of Victoria"
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "9510",
    "Idiom": [
      "willful ignorance"
    ],
    "Meaning": "A decision to avoid becoming informed to evade undesirable decisions.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "9511",
    "Idiom": [
      "willing horse"
    ],
    "Meaning": "One who readily performs hard work.",
    "Sentence": [
      "After a good deal of discussion (some of it angry) among the Major-Generals, it was settled as such things are everywhere—the willing horse (which SHERMAN always is) getting the work to do.",
      "She said to me as quietly as a maiden might ask one to carry a glove, \"Jan Ridd, carr thic thing for me.\" So I carried it for her, without any words; wondering what she was up to next, and whether she had ever heard of being too hard on the willing horse.",
      "Finding us easy in our ways, he told me a cock-and-bull story with the moral of another five francs for the narrator. The thing was palpably absurd; but I paid up, and at once dropped all friendliness of manner, and kept him in his place as an inferior with freezing British dignity. He saw in a moment that he had gone too far, and killed a willing horse; his face fell; I am sure he would have refunded if he could only have thought of a decent pretext.",
      "\"When he hears of it he'll be more anxious than ever to fight.\" / Valencia nodded. \"A spur to a willing horse.\"",
      "There is certainly the need to reward performance and offer incentives for success, but flogging a willing horse is not the way to do it."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "9512",
    "Idiom": [
      "willow in the wind"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Easily swayed by others.",
    "Sentence": [
      "The CAB has rightfully seen Congress as a willow in the wind, bending to the wishes of whatever special interest groups and businesses speak loudest.",
      "Justice is not a willow in the wind; justice stands immutable against unjust forces.",
      "If he has to vote against taxes, he will—and his vote won't change from day to day: “I'm not gonna be a willow in the wind.”",
      "Ethics begin to feel situational, a balancing of concerns. When this happens, we no longer have any firm ethic to stand on. We become an ethical willow in the wind."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "9513",
    "Idiom": [
      "willy-nilly"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Seemingly at random.",
    "Sentence": [
      "The novel Alice in Wonderland describes a place where things happen willy-nilly."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "9514-1",
    "Idiom": [
      "win back"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To regain something lost.",
    "Sentence": [
      "A lovely crisp exhaust: a feeling of almost unlimited power combined with complete freedom of running: and, to crown it all, a most melodious and wholly American chime whistle—these were my immediate impressions as we stormed rapidly out of Göttingen, intent on winning back some of the lost time.",
      "He lost $1000 in one hand, and spent most of the night trying to win it back."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "9514-2",
    "Idiom": [
      "win back"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Regain favor.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Illinois Sen. Barack Obama talks with Renee Montagne about his call for Democrats to reach out to evangelical Christians. Republicans have long laid claim to that powerful voting block. He believes that Democrats can win them back with issues like the drive to end poverty.",
      "\"The short-term contract comes with the expectation that AWC will continue to win back the confidence of passengers, with a particular focus on more reliable weekend services, continued reductions in cancellations, and improvements in passenger information during planned and non-planned disruption.\""
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "9514-3",
    "Idiom": [
      "win back"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To regain a lost partner.",
    "Sentence": [
      "John, my ex-boyfriend, said he wanted to see me again, so I told him how much I wanted him in an effort to win him back."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "9515",
    "Idiom": [
      "win by a nose"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To win by a small margin.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "9516",
    "Idiom": [
      "win one for the Gipper"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To do something in memory of someone.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "9517",
    "Idiom": [
      "win over"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To persuade or gain support.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Despite his ill-fated spell at Anfield, he received a warm reception from the same Liverpool fans he struggled to win over before being sacked midway through last season.",
      "For trains to play a major role in reducing carbon and other pollutants through modal shift, the railway will have to do more to win over the growing proportion of non-captive passengers who will have the choice of whether or not to use rail over other modes.",
      "If the truth doesn't win him over, perhaps charm will."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "9518",
    "Idiom": [
      "win the battle, but lose the war"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Achieve a small success but fail overall.",
    "Sentence": [
      "By turning in that one assignment, you may have won the battle, but you never turned anything else in, so in the end you lost the war."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "9519-1",
    "Idiom": [
      "win the day"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To achieve complete victory or success.",
    "Sentence": [
      "The rule utilitarian is still committed to including all preferences, no matter how morally illegitimate they may appear. Focusing on rules rather than acts may make it less likely for illegitimate preferences to win the day, but they still count on a par with all other preferences."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "9519-2",
    "Idiom": [
      "win the day"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To be completely accepted by others.",
    "Sentence": [
      "There was plenty of competition, but our proposal won the day."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "9520",
    "Idiom": [
      "wind at one's back"
    ],
    "Meaning": "A boost in prospects for success due to favorable circumstances.",
    "Sentence": [
      "And the Tulsa symphony credits the station with reversing a decline in ticket sales among younger patrons. \"We've got the wind at our back,\" Mr. Cohn said.",
      "Most of the rational world... foresaw a smooth ride to victory for Democrats. They had, after all, the wind at their backs from the 2006 midterm elections.",
      "Like the cowboys, cavalry men and settlers of old, the new-model nerd has the wind at his back and a kingdom to claim."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "9521",
    "Idiom": [
      "wind back the clock"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To return to an earlier time.",
    "Sentence": [
      "But wind the clock back some 60 years, and you would find that away from the South East of England, the North West once had the most extensive and varied selection of electric routes in the country."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "9522",
    "Idiom": [
      "wind down"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To relax and reduce stress.",
    "Sentence": [
      "After a long day at work, she winds down by kickboxing."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "9523",
    "Idiom": [
      "wind off"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To cancel an event due to high wind speeds.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Our crane operations have been winded off for two weeks!"
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "9524",
    "Idiom": [
      "wind up one's bottoms"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To finish a job.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Myself and the Dr went ashore today to wind up our bottoms"
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "9525",
    "Idiom": [
      "window on the world"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Provides information about the outside world.",
    "Sentence": [
      "In short, China's pragmatic post-Mao leaders value Hong Kong as a window on the world and a source of foreign exchange, investment capital and expertise.",
      "Perhaps the clearest example is the growing popularity of personal computers that give people a window on the world. The Internet and commercial network services provide all kinds of information (good and not so good), and interpersonal contact through electronic mail, various discussion groups, and message boards.",
      "His main concern was to reaffirm the enduring value of museums as windows on the world.",
      "(subtitle) The North-South Institute, a once-venerated foreign policy think-tank, quietly shuts down."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "9526",
    "Idiom": [
      "window-shopping"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Browsing shop windows without intending to buy.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "9527-1",
    "Idiom": [
      "wine tosser"
    ],
    "Meaning": "A person who pretends to know a lot about wine.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "9527-2",
    "Idiom": [
      "wine tosser"
    ],
    "Meaning": "A person who buys wine but doesn't drink it.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "9528",
    "Idiom": [
      "winged word"
    ],
    "Meaning": "A memorable or apt statement.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Often by some winged word, winged as the thunderbolt is, of a Luther, a Napoleon, a Goethe, shall we see the difficulty split asunder, and its secret laid bare; while the Irrefragable [Doctor; i.e., Alexander of Hales ], with all his logical roots, hews at it, and hovers round it, and finds it on all hands too hard for him.",
      "The tone of France after the declaration of war was the white glow of dedication: a great nation's collective impulse (since there is no English equivalent for that winged word, élan) to resist destruction.",
      "Homer, the master-builder and rebel against time, in whom the conviction that the ‘ winged word ’ shall outlast death speaks out in constant jubilation, goes blind. Orpheus is torn to bleeding shreds. Yet the word will not be quenched;",
      "A proverb is a winged word, outliving the fleeting moment.",
      "Homer often speaks of epea pteroenta, \" winged words \": in traditional interpretations, this metaphor stood for the swift and lofty birdlike flight of language, particularly poetic language."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "9529",
    "Idiom": [
      "wink at"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To ignore wrongdoing while maintaining plausible deniability.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "9530",
    "Idiom": [
      "winning is a great deodorant",
      "success is a great deodorant"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Success can overshadow past mistakes.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "9531",
    "Idiom": [
      "winning ways"
    ],
    "Meaning": "A sequence of winning games.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Robin van Persie scored his 99th and 100th goals for Arsenal as the Gunners returned to winning ways with a deserved victory over 10-man Bolton."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "9532",
    "Idiom": [
      "winter rat"
    ],
    "Meaning": "An old, inexpensive car used in harsh winters while the owner's better car is protected.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "9533",
    "Idiom": [
      "wipe someone's eye"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To defeat humiliatingly.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "9534",
    "Idiom": [
      "wipe someone's nose"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To defeat humiliatingly.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "9535-1",
    "Idiom": [
      "wipe the floor with someone"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To win a competition easily or decisively.",
    "Sentence": [
      "A superb passer of the ball, we expected him to wipe the floor with the opposition.",
      "The young newcomer is wiping the floor with the more experienced players."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "9535-2",
    "Idiom": [
      "wipe the floor with someone"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To comprehensively defeat someone.",
    "Sentence": [
      "\"Courage? Blast it all, lad, if I were twenty years younger I'd wipe the floor with you now.\""
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "9536",
    "Idiom": [
      "wipe the slate clean"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To make a fresh start by forgetting previous differences.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "9537-1",
    "Idiom": [
      "wise apple"
    ],
    "Meaning": "A smart aleck.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Private Wise Guy Bly is the type of guy who in civilian life was known as a \" wise apple \".",
      "\"The Americans did not win at Bunker Hill,\" this wise apple said.",
      "As some wise apple said, comparisons are odious, and never more so than with a job not yet done."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "9537-2",
    "Idiom": [
      "wise apple"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Having a smart aleck manner.",
    "Sentence": [
      "She gave me a wise-apple smirk and asked, \"And how are things at YOUR house?\""
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "9538",
    "Idiom": [
      "wise beyond one's years"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Particularly wise for one's age.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Mrs. Bryerson: Um, aren't you a little young to be contacting the spirit world, dear?"
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "9539-1",
    "Idiom": [
      "wishful thinking"
    ],
    "Meaning": "The illusion that desires are reality.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "9539-2",
    "Idiom": [
      "wishful thinking"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Decision-making based on self-delusion.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "9540",
    "Idiom": [
      "with a grain of salt"
    ],
    "Meaning": "With skepticism.",
    "Sentence": [
      "In it, police laid out list of biographical factoids about BTK and urged residents to read it with a grain of salt. Releasing a list of his “claims,” they reasoned, might allow someone, somewhere to make a connection that police couldn't hope to.",
      "I take anything I read on the Internet with a grain of salt."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "9541",
    "Idiom": [
      "with a quickness"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Quickly.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "9542",
    "Idiom": [
      "with a vengeance"
    ],
    "Meaning": "In an extreme or intense manner.",
    "Sentence": [
      "With which intolerable pains if the party shriek or cry out, they roar out as loud to him to confess the truth, or else he shall come down with a vengeance.",
      "Yes, egad, they are tenacious of reputation with a vengeance, for they don't choose anybody should have a character but themselves!",
      "It is said, that in the first representation of the Furies of Eschylus, the horror of the spectacle was so great, that several women miscarried; which was indeed pathos with a vengeance.",
      "They are fighting Quakers; they are Quakers with a vengeance.",
      "From the first, she is the New Woman with a vengeance, loving nothing better than a chair, whisky, cigars and a detective story."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "9543",
    "Idiom": [
      "with a view to"
    ],
    "Meaning": "With the intention or goal of.",
    "Sentence": [
      "We read the contract with a view to finding a way out of it.",
      "We read the contract with a view to its renegotiation.",
      "We read the contract with a view to how it could be made to appeal to voters."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "9544",
    "Idiom": [
      "with a will"
    ],
    "Meaning": "With willingness and zeal.",
    "Sentence": [
      "« Yes !» muttered the Rover, with bitter irony, as his boat rowed under the stern of the cruiser of the Crown; «yes! I, and my officers, will taste of your banquet! But the viands shall be such as these hirelings of the King shall little relish!—Pull with a will, my men, pull; in an hour, you shall rummage the store-rooms of that fool, for your reward!»",
      "So Willy and I were wedded: I wore a lilac gown; / And the ringers rang with a will, and he gave the ringers a crown.",
      "Now, nobody does anything well that they cannot help doing: work is only done well when it is done with a will; and no man has a thoroughly sound will unless he knows he is doing what he should, and is in his place.",
      "Swimming with his right arm, he held up his left to hail them, splashing upon the waves, and shouting with all his might. Backing their oars and putting the boat about, they pulled towards him with a will, and in five or six minutes from the time of his first halloo, two of the sailors hauled him in over the stern.",
      "And then the whole crew bore chorus:— / \"Yo-ho-ho, and a bottle of rum!\" / And at the third \"ho!\" drove the bars before them with a will.",
      "Under the wide and starry sky, / Dig the grave and let me lie. / Glad did I live and gladly die, / And I laid me down with a will.",
      "Then an impromptu square dance, the men devising original figures. What merriment! Jimmy took his part with a will; this was seeing life, at least.",
      "Many a reader whose appetite rejoices in hearty fare tucked in his napkin, smacked his lips and fell to with a will.",
      "He got Jagu's permission to spend the slack afternoon hours at the watchmender's without any trouble – Jagu was taciturn, but good-natured – and he set to learning the craft with a will."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "9545",
    "Idiom": [
      "with all due respect"
    ],
    "Meaning": "A polite preface to disagreement.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Shepard: You have the right to your opinion, Mr. Saracino. But with all due respect, I disagree with it. Charles Saracino: I understand. I'm glad you support the democratic process, at least.",
      "With all due respect, Sir, I don't think that's the case.",
      "It seems that you are, with all due respect, wrong in this particular case — as you see the murder took place at three o'clock."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "9546",
    "Idiom": [
      "with all the salt in the Dead Sea"
    ],
    "Meaning": "With much doubt and skepticism.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "9547",
    "Idiom": [
      "with an eye to"
    ],
    "Meaning": "With an intention or goal.",
    "Sentence": [
      "We read the contract with an eye to finding a way out of it.",
      "We read the contract with an eye to its renegotiation.",
      "We read the contract with an eye to how it could be made to look to voters."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "9548",
    "Idiom": [
      "with an eye towards"
    ],
    "Meaning": "With the intention or consideration for.",
    "Sentence": [
      "He began saving all the money he could, with an eye towards someday buying a house."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "9549",
    "Idiom": [
      "with bated breath"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Eagerly anticipating something.",
    "Sentence": [
      "We are waiting with bated breath for the release of the new version."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "9550",
    "Idiom": [
      "with bells on"
    ],
    "Meaning": "With eager anticipation.",
    "Sentence": [
      "How about a BBQ at our house, Saturday June 14th, 4pm?",
      "Great idea! We'll be there with bells on."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "9551",
    "Idiom": [
      "with both hands"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Willingly; readily.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "9552",
    "Idiom": [
      "with every breath"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Said repeatedly and constantly.",
    "Sentence": [
      "They supported her case with every breath."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "9553",
    "Idiom": [
      "with flying colors"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Extremely well.",
    "Sentence": [
      "He passed the test with flying colors, as everyone had expected."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "9554-1",
    "Idiom": [
      "with knobs on"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Embellished.",
    "Sentence": [
      "And although starting to talk about problem drug takers and demedicalization, when it came to talking about services, it fell back on the old medically dominated system, what Roger Lewis described as 'clinics with knobs on'."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "9554-2",
    "Idiom": [
      "with knobs on"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Extremely; taken to an extreme.",
    "Sentence": [
      "The door opened a foot. Parker squinted out, looking like death on a Popsicle stick. With knobs on.",
      "And the same to you with knobs on !"
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "9555",
    "Idiom": [
      "with no further ado",
      "without further ado"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Without any other formalities.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "9556",
    "Idiom": [
      "with one voice"
    ],
    "Meaning": "In a mutually agreeing manner.",
    "Sentence": [
      "The nobles around Prince John implored him with one voice to throw down his warder, and to save so brave a knight from the disgrace of being overcome by odds.",
      "Well—Jean went down and asked his father and his mother and his old grandmother if they would permit him to marry Mlle. Malo; and they all with one voice said they wouldn't.",
      "Unfortunately, the global political community is a long way from speaking with one voice on anything, and climate change is no exception."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "9557",
    "Idiom": [
      "with one's bare hands"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Without tools or equipment.",
    "Sentence": [
      "What other television show would feature a gorgeously designed sequence where a horrifically mutated Pierre and Marie Curie, their bodies swollen to Godzilla-like proportions from prolonged exposure to the radiation that would eventually kill them, destroy an Asian city with their bare hands like vengeance-crazed monster-Gods?"
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "9558",
    "Idiom": [
      "with one's chest"
    ],
    "Meaning": "With total confidence.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Finally a friendship we can stan with our chests 🫶🏾 #LoveIsland",
      "\"Yes, and?\" / Say that shit with your chest, and / Be your own fucking best friend",
      "Anything I do, I do it with my chest. That's why I think I don't like sneaky shit so bad 🤣 because what you sneaking for boo. It's never nothing",
      "Say it with your chest. You're not just \"a little\" upset. You ARE upset."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "9559",
    "Idiom": [
      "with one's dick in one's hand"
    ],
    "Meaning": "In a state of unpreparedness or idleness.",
    "Sentence": [
      "“If Jarvis or your stripper friend gets wasted or snorts some cocaine, any confessions are going to be thrown out and we'll be standing around with our dicks in our hands.”",
      "'Second, if you guys had done your work we wouldn't be here now with our dicks in our hands waiting for the Goddamn world to end!'",
      "“We need to take action now! Now is not the time to be standing around with our dicks in our hands — ”",
      "They needed help and all he could do was stand there with his dick in his hand.",
      "There was plenty of work to be done but he was just standing around with his dick in his hand."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "9560",
    "Idiom": [
      "with one's head held high"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Proudly.",
    "Sentence": [
      "England head to Nice for Saturday’s third-place playoff after yet more semi-final disappointment but with heads held high having played their part in a wonderful game featuring some particularly harsh luck."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "9561",
    "Idiom": [
      "with one's jaw in one's lap"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Astonished or amazed.",
    "Sentence": [
      "The contortionist's performance left me with my jaw in my lap."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "9562",
    "Idiom": [
      "with open arms"
    ],
    "Meaning": "With enthusiasm.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "9563",
    "Idiom": [
      "with pleasure"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Willingly.",
    "Sentence": [
      "A: Would you be willing to take a business trip to Toronto next month? B: With pleasure ! I love Toronto.",
      "She accepted the offer with pleasure."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "9564",
    "Idiom": [
      "with the manner"
    ],
    "Meaning": "In the very act.",
    "Sentence": [
      "O villain, thou stolest a cup of sack eighteen years ago, and wert taken with the manner, and ever since thou hast blush'd extempore.",
      "Replevy any Man imprisoned for the Forest, being taken with the Manner, or lndicted: But this Statute reaches not to that of de Homine Repligiando, directed Castodi Forestae.",
      "And a man lie with her carnally, and it be hid from the eyes of her husband, and be kept close, and she be defiled, and there be no witness against her, neither she be taken with the manner;",
      "This coming to my perusal, I could not condemn ordinary men for lying, whin I saw it in request amongst them that would be counted philosophical persons; yet could not but wonder at them, that, writing so manifest lies, they should not think to be be taken with the manner;"
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "9565",
    "Idiom": [
      "with whole skin"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Safe; unscathed.",
    "Sentence": [
      "He has to return, with whole skin, but without success; and be thrown into arrest as ‘a traitor’."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "9566",
    "Idiom": [
      "wither on the vine"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To be unsuccessful due to neglect.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Common Cause brought some Scottish intellectuals together, while Scotland United, an alliance of politicians, novelists and pop stars, held two successful rallies and proposed a multi-option referendum on the constitution. These two organizations soon withered on the vine."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "9567",
    "Idiom": [
      "within ames ace"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Very near.",
    "Sentence": [
      "The possibility that he might prefer the excitement of such an adventure to an expedition into Yorkshire did occur to the Major, but he discarded it: Richmond had been within ames-ace of jumping at the chance offered him, ."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "9568",
    "Idiom": [
      "within an ace of"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Very near; on the verge of.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "9569",
    "Idiom": [
      "within living memory"
    ],
    "Meaning": "In living memory.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "9570",
    "Idiom": [
      "within reach"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Near or close to.",
    "Sentence": [
      "We were within reach of the finish line."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "9571",
    "Idiom": [
      "without batting an eye"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Showing no emotional reaction.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Now here she was dropping almost $5,000 on a single outfit without batting an eye."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "9572",
    "Idiom": [
      "without fail"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Certainly; by all means.",
    "Sentence": [
      "And David enquired at the Lord, saying, Shall I pursue after this troop? shall I overtake them? And he answered him, Pursue: for thou shalt surely overtake them, and without fail recover all.",
      "\"Tuesday by all means.\" \"Tuesday, then, without fail.\"",
      "You will report to the police every week without fail."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "9573",
    "Idiom": [
      "woe betide"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Warns that trouble will occur if someone acts in a certain way.",
    "Sentence": [
      "O gentle Aaron, we are all vndone. / Now helpe, or woe betide thee euermore.",
      "\"God save us!\" cried the captain, / \"For naught can man avail; / Oh, woe betide the ship that lacks / Her rudder and her sail!\"",
      "A man, remember, whether rich or poor, should do something in this world. No one can find happiness without work. Woe betide the lazy fellow! Laziness is a serious illness and one must cure it immediately; yes, even from early childhood.",
      "However, woebetide the male who takes that downward step into femininity.",
      "And woe betide the peasant who protested! He would be lucky to escape with a few blows across the face from his lord's riding whip, for a noble landowner was also his peasant's judge and could punish him as he pleased.",
      "oe betide the person who wanders into a temple of the Neapolitan pie and asks for a ham and pineapple, or indeed the fool who demands a thin and crispy base in old-school Chicago.",
      "Woe betide you if you try that with my sister again!"
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "9574",
    "Idiom": [
      "woe to"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Warns of trouble or danger from a risky action.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "9575",
    "Idiom": [
      "wolf down"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To consume food quickly or greedily.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Carefully choosing a seat that gave him a good view of the action in the lobby, he started a non-stop barrage of questions as he wolfed down cups of coffee.",
      "Congressmen gleefully wolfed down every imaginable version of the hot dog – smoked kielbasas, jumbo grillers, Big & Juicy's, kosher dogs and spiced dogs",
      "He wolfed down a ham sandwich."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "9576",
    "Idiom": [
      "wolf in sheep's clothing"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Someone or something harmful disguised as harmless.",
    "Sentence": [
      "If the wolf was to be feared, the learned gentleman might rest assured it would be the wolf in sheep's clothing, the masked pretender to patriotism. It was not from the fang of the lion, but from the tooth of the serpent, that reptile that insidiously steals upon the vitals of the constitution and gnaws it to the heart ere the mischief is suspected, that destruction was to be feared.",
      "A deceitful man is a wolf in sheep's clothing. He will appear innocent, cheerful, polite, attentive, kind, obliging, and abjectly condescending; but let him once get you into his power and he becomes more ferocious, more cruel, and more destructive than the most savage animals that ever trod in deserts uninhabited by rational beings.",
      "And if he preached other than the right doctrine, wherefore did his superiors in the Carthusian convent permit it? If the shepherds turn a wolf in sheep's clothing into the flock, they should not blame the sheep for being worried.",
      "Here, then, was a community of good taste and kind feeling, no sharpers, no black-legs, no wolves in sheep's clothing.",
      "The larvae, it seemed, had \"passed\" as aphids. Like \" wolves in sheep's clothing \" they appeared to have fooled the guardians of their prey."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "9577-1",
    "Idiom": [
      "woman among women"
    ],
    "Meaning": "A woman accepted as equal among others in society.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "9577-2",
    "Idiom": [
      "woman among women"
    ],
    "Meaning": "A remarkable or superior woman who stands out.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "9578",
    "Idiom": [
      "woman of few words"
    ],
    "Meaning": "A woman who speaks little.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "9579",
    "Idiom": [
      "woman of the hour"
    ],
    "Meaning": "A woman who is currently admired or honoured by many people.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "9580",
    "Idiom": [
      "woman of the people"
    ],
    "Meaning": "A woman who connects with and understands ordinary people's concerns.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "9581",
    "Idiom": [
      "woman on the street"
    ],
    "Meaning": "An ordinary woman from the general public.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "9582",
    "Idiom": [
      "wooden spoon",
      "wooden spoonist"
    ],
    "Meaning": "An ironic prize for last place.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Earnestly bent upon fulfilling the weighty, nay solemn, responsibilities of his office at all hazard, even at the risk of so far neglecting his parliamentary duties as to appear upon the division-list less frequently than any of his colleagues, Sir John Pakington wore the wooden spoon at the whitebait dinner, though with an air of waggery — almost as a decoration.",
      "At the tail of the long list was Mr. R. P, of Fitzwilliam Hall, the \" wooden spoonist.\"",
      "Thus it was that in the electoral League-table of the twentieth century so far the Conservatives had to be debited with the wooden spoonist as well as credited with the champion.",
      "'From the position of “ wooden spoonist ” [Gloucestershire] rose to the honourable position of fourth in the list, and became once again a team whose drawing capacity as regards “gate” was unsurpassed by any other County.'"
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "9583",
    "Idiom": [
      "wooden-top"
    ],
    "Meaning": "A uniformed police officer.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Immediately a big wooden-top came in. He was young and blond.",
      "It is Detective Chief Superintendent Cohn Harpur, one of the bosses, but just a wooden-top like all the rest."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "9584",
    "Idiom": [
      "word it"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To dispute or speak excessively.",
    "Sentence": [
      "to word it with her [a shrew]"
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "9585",
    "Idiom": [
      "word of mouth"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Verbal means of passing on information.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Kevin heard it on the radio / Hugh informed word of mouth / Carla read it in the news / Caught it all, just a touch",
      "The book didn't need to be advertised; it became popular solely by word of mouth."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "9586",
    "Idiom": [
      "word on the street"
    ],
    "Meaning": "The rumour or news going around.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "9587",
    "Idiom": [
      "word on the wire"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Rumor or news circulating.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "9588-1",
    "Idiom": [
      "word to the wise"
    ],
    "Meaning": "A brief piece of advice.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "9588-2",
    "Idiom": [
      "word to the wise"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Significant advice.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Well have fun, but, word to the wise, don't let your sister take control."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "9589",
    "Idiom": [
      "words cut deep"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Insults and offensive speech hurt deeply and linger.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "9590",
    "Idiom": [
      "words fail someone"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Someone cannot describe something due to strong emotions.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Nature has given me the passion for poesy, but refused me the boon of words and the faculty of expressing my thoughts. I think deeply, but when I wish to speak words fail me. If I wish to write, it is still worse.",
      "Here he paused, so bewildered by the dignified unconsciousness and serene superiority of the potentate in whose presence he stood that words failed him, and he stood and gazed at that immovable countenance with a sort of appalled wonder to think that anything should be so great yet so small, so capable of making himself ridiculous, and yet with power to spoil two lives at his pleasure.",
      "As she looked through more and more of these sheets, and found that they could be clustered, ordered, she realised with a start that the spaces were gaps in Hannah's memory of language, marking the beginning of her words failing her. Did she see that for herself? Did she write faster against the spreading of the gaps?",
      "Many survivors tried to describe what they felt, but words failed them. Hard to imagine, too, the emotions of the first responders – the ambulance crews, the medics and the police – faced by ghastly mayhem. It must have felt overwhelming, but they did their jobs and doubtless saved many lives."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "9591",
    "Idiom": [
      "words of one syllable"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Simple, clear language.",
    "Sentence": [
      "I am at present engaged in preparing a vest-pocket edition of the philosophical works of Schopenhauer in words of one syllable.",
      "So I explained in words of one syllable that I went there to pick edelweiss from the fire escapes.",
      "Felix propounded the story of the arrest, so far as might be, in words of one syllable.",
      "The President used \" words of one syllable \" to convey his insistence that Poland be \"free and independent\".",
      "Or, in words of one syllable, it's Cirque's sex show."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "9592",
    "Idiom": [
      "work back"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To work overtime or beyond a specific shift.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "9593",
    "Idiom": [
      "work into the ground"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To exhaust through heavy labor.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "9594",
    "Idiom": [
      "work it out on the remix"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To settle a dispute or reconcile.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Camila Cabello doesn’t understand why everyone, including Kendrick Lamar, is feuding with Drake, who is featured on two tracks of Cabello’s latest album C’XOXO. She tells The Times that Drake is a “delight” and hopes that he and Lamar could work it out on the remix over a nice meal: “It’s so frustrating to see people talk about someone you know in a way that is negative. You’re like, ‘Dang, if only you guys could just have dinner or something.’”",
      "Rhaenyra and Alicent tried to work it out on the remix, to no avail. In the third episode of House of the Dragon ’s second season, “The Burning Mill,” Queen Rhaenyra Targaryen (Emma D’Arcy) travels to King’s Landing to have a secret meeting with Queen Alicent Hightower (Olivia Cooke). Unfortunately, the former friends are unable to see eye-to-eye.",
      "Another day, another textbook case of men being far too dramatic to hold public office. Rep. Matt Gaetz (R-FL) and former Republican House Speaker Kevin McCarthy reunited during day two of the Republican National Convention on Tuesday, and I regret to inform you all that they did not work it out on the remix.",
      "But despite all their similarities, Powell and Gosling have never worked together on a project. So, maybe a silver lining can come from this distasteful comment. Glen, Ryan, care to work it out on the remix and combine your mass appeal for a megahit movie?",
      "Don’t look back in anger— Oasis, the prodigal sons of Brit-pop, is returning. After years of public feuding and subtweets and alleged battery with a cricket bat, the Gallagher brothers— Liam and Noel, obvs—are working it out on the remix, with a rash of 2025 summer dates announced on their website."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "9595",
    "Idiom": [
      "work like a dog"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To work very hard.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "9596",
    "Idiom": [
      "work like a dream"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Functions very efficiently and effectively.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "9597",
    "Idiom": [
      "work like a horse"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To work very hard.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "9598",
    "Idiom": [
      "work of art"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Anything beautiful or finely crafted.",
    "Sentence": [
      "She was bedazzling, in short she was a work of art. She looked as natural as it's possible to be in an age of cosmetics; her hair was flowing and beautiful and she was a picture of summery goodness."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "9599",
    "Idiom": [
      "work one's fingers to the bone"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To work especially hard.",
    "Sentence": [
      "You work all week long / You work your fingers to the bone / Friday's at an end / I can't wait for Saturday to begin"
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "9600",
    "Idiom": [
      "work one's magic"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To achieve a favorable outcome using special skills or expertise.",
    "Sentence": [
      "The company accountants worked their magic and found a way to lower overhead costs.",
      "He's a smooth one. Always trying to work his magic on the ladies."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "9601-1",
    "Idiom": [
      "work over"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To physically attack.",
    "Sentence": [
      "He'll talk, once we work him over."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "9601-2",
    "Idiom": [
      "work over"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To subject someone to severe criticism or punishment.",
    "Sentence": [
      "The desk sergeant worked him over pretty good and finally turned him over to the detective squad."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "9602-1",
    "Idiom": [
      "work smarter, not harder"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Solve problems through intelligence rather than effort.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "9602-2",
    "Idiom": [
      "work smarter, not harder"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Perform tasks more effectively using smart methods rather than through excessive effort.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "9603",
    "Idiom": [
      "work someone's ass off",
      "work someone's arse off"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To work excessively or to the point of exhaustion.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "9604",
    "Idiom": [
      "work spouse"
    ],
    "Meaning": "A close workplace relationship resembling marriage.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "9605",
    "Idiom": [
      "work the crowd"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To interact with an audience.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "9606-1",
    "Idiom": [
      "work the room"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To interact enthusiastically with attendees at an event.",
    "Sentence": [
      "As a campaigning politician, he really knew how to shake hands, kiss babies, and work the room."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "9606-2",
    "Idiom": [
      "work the room"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To interact with an audience and adapt to their reactions.",
    "Sentence": [
      "In show business parlance, Miss Hudson knows how to \" work the room.\" Her comic turns are as rooted in vaudeville as her high-style wit is straight out of the smart supper club circuit."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "9607",
    "Idiom": [
      "work to rule"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To work slowly by strictly following all work rules as part of a labor protest.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "9608",
    "Idiom": [
      "work wonders"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To be a highly successful solution.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "9609",
    "Idiom": [
      "worked up"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Excessively emotional or agitated.",
    "Sentence": [
      "I know it's difficult when things get this busy, but there's really no need to get so worked up over it.",
      "Brother Wu gets worked up when you banter him off in any way, shape or form. Particularly his shoddy brand, football opinions or taste in clothes."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "9610",
    "Idiom": [
      "working girl"
    ],
    "Meaning": "A female prostitute.",
    "Sentence": [
      "It was still September / When your daddy was quite surprised / To find you with the working girls / In the county jail"
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "9611",
    "Idiom": [
      "world of difference"
    ],
    "Meaning": "A great difference.",
    "Sentence": [
      "There is a world of difference betweene the termes of disobedience, and of deposition. It is one thing to disobey the Kings commaund in matters prohibited by diuine lawes, and yet in all other matters to performe full subiection vnto the King. It is another thing of a farre higher degree or straine of disloyaltie, to bare the King of his Royall robes, throne, and scepter, and when he is thus farre disgraced, to degrade him and to put him from his degree and place of a King.",
      "Less than six months separate these two days of the year, but some six or seven years of playwriting have intervened and that world of difference between summer and winter.",
      "There is, I think, too much abjectness in this, too much unwillingness to grant that a human being may in fact become, and be, good, and that there is all the world of difference between the evil and the good.",
      "The simple exercise of considering these two case studies makes clear the worlds of difference between Northern and Southern experiences of development",
      "There's a world of difference between sushi and poké bowls."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "9612",
    "Idiom": [
      "world record"
    ],
    "Meaning": "An accomplishment that surpasses all others.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "9613",
    "Idiom": [
      "world-beater"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Someone or something superior to others.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "9614",
    "Idiom": [
      "worlds apart"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Vastly different.",
    "Sentence": [
      "In terms of technology, today's media and that of the 19th century are worlds apart, but they still serve the same purpose."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "9615",
    "Idiom": [
      "worlds away"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Vastly different.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "9616",
    "Idiom": [
      "worm food"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Remains or corpses, especially in decay.",
    "Sentence": [
      "\"Say, have ye a drug that will make worm's food of your enemy in an hour?\"",
      "At a state clemency board hearing earlier this month, a prosecutor said that Mr. Parker once joked that he had turned the Warrens into \" worm food.\"",
      "\"It's something that you want to do instead of being ashes or worm food, to be some kind of asset instead of being in the ground,\" she said.",
      "For those of us who think that the grave is the end of us, when we shall become food for worms, the sensible course is to make the most of every passing hour.",
      "Texas Republican Rep. Mike Conaway said, “I can’t imagine an atheist accompanying a notification team as they go into some family’s home to let them have the worst news of their life and this guy says, ‘You know, that’s it — your son’s just worms, I mean, worm food.’”"
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "9617",
    "Idiom": [
      "worm turns"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Circumstances change, favoring a previously disadvantaged party.",
    "Sentence": [
      "\"The poor old Worm turns as if she was treading on him instead of cuddling him like a pussy cat.\"",
      "\"I've waited on you hand and foot, done dirty work for you, put up with your ill-humours and your tyranny, and never grumbled. But there is a limit! You've made a poor sort of creature of me, but even the worm turns, you know.\"",
      "However, the evidence to date in the new session indicates the worm may have turned. The government has become more seasoned and confident of its political skills.",
      "\"New Jersey used to be the armpit of the universe,\" Mr. Rockland said. \"Well, the worm turns. And I think anything that's down so long eventually is going come up.\""
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "9618",
    "Idiom": [
      "worm's-eye view"
    ],
    "Meaning": "A view from below.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "9619",
    "Idiom": [
      "worse for liquor"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Drunk.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "9620-1",
    "Idiom": [
      "worse for wear"
    ],
    "Meaning": "In poor physical condition due to use.",
    "Sentence": [
      "However, before Zoe could open the first cage, Burt’s van, looking decidedly the worse for wear, came thundering into the warehouse, smashing the huge metal sliding door into the air as it did so"
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "9620-2",
    "Idiom": [
      "worse for wear"
    ],
    "Meaning": "In poor condition or damaged.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "9621",
    "Idiom": [
      "worse things happen at sea"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Things are not as bad as they seem.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Some people console themselves with the thought that, basically, worse things happen at sea : in middle-class Britain today, particularly familied fortysomethings, it’s Chicken-Licken time."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "9622",
    "Idiom": [
      "worship the ground someone walks on"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To excessively admire or adore someone.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "9623",
    "Idiom": [
      "worship the porcelain god"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To vomit.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "9624",
    "Idiom": [
      "worst comes to worst"
    ],
    "Meaning": "If the worst-case scenario occurs.",
    "Sentence": [
      "“ Worst comes to worst, we'll make it to Cleveland and we can set down there and wait things out.” Gordon Rand nearly sneered, “ Worst comes to worst ? We'll crash and die, isn't that closer to the worst end of the possibility spectrum?",
      "You aren't doing anything anyway. Worst comes to worst you can give her some money and send her on her way.",
      "Worst comes to worst...” Eddie finished it. “ Worst comes to worst, we try Dr. One's patented homemade miracle vaccine. Stops hair loss. Stops gout. Builds muscles. Kills flus.”",
      "Worst comes to worst, Curtis says I can use his room.",
      "You said a couple of them are predators? Well, worst comes to worst, they can shift and eat."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "9625",
    "Idiom": [
      "worst of both worlds"
    ],
    "Meaning": "A scenario that combines the disadvantages of two opposing solutions.",
    "Sentence": [
      "The Worst of Both Worlds : Violating Rights without Gaining Security"
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "9626",
    "Idiom": [
      "worst-kept secret"
    ],
    "Meaning": "A matter that is not kept secret.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Late last year, the first test train ran on the line - a Class 165 diesel multiple unit provided by Chiltern Railways. It provided yet another clear indication to what seems to be one of the worst-kept secrets on the railways - that Chiltern will be the operator of EWR services."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "9627",
    "Idiom": [
      "worth a Jew's eye"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Of high value.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Lord love you, I'd swear it was worth a Jew's eye. Indeed, no money can compensate me for its loss."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "9628",
    "Idiom": [
      "worth every penny"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Completely worth the cost.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "9629",
    "Idiom": [
      "worth one's salt"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Competent or skilled at one's job.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Everyone who is worth his salt has his enemies, who must be beaten, be they evil thoughts and habits in himself, or spiritual wickedness in high places, or Russians, or Border-ruffians, or Bill, Tom, or Harry, who will not let him live his life in quiet till he has thrashed them.",
      "It did all our hearts good to see him spit in his hand, knit his brows, and make the blade sing through the air. It was plain from every line of his body that our new hand was worth his salt.",
      "Every executive worth his salt has his own private charity, ranging all the way from the Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals to raising money for organizations concerned with better sex education in our public schools.",
      "Surely any \"science\" worth its salt ought to try to be true to its name and be as objective as it can, make careful measurements, count something.",
      "Those were the kinds of story elements that any network would pay big bucks for, that any investigative journalist worth her salt would kill for. This story was an automatic ticket back to the top of network news.",
      "She does the same thing as any parent worth their salt, and gets rambunctious youngsters engaged in daily drudgeries by refashioning the quotidian as adventure.",
      "Every rail company worth its salt wanted to connect with London. Interestingly, it was largely that way around - provincial entrepreneurs wanting to connect with the capital, rather than London capitalists seeking to spread outwards.",
      "Any doctor worth their salt should be able to correctly diagnose the illness."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "9630",
    "Idiom": [
      "worth one's weight in gold"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Very valuable.",
    "Sentence": [
      "This book is worth its weight in gold to the housewife who wishes to feed her family for health—and economically.",
      "Summer, every single moment is worth its weight in gold",
      "I find my dog is worth her weight in gold on those long snowy weekends when I can't get out."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "9631",
    "Idiom": [
      "worth one's while"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Beneficial and justifies the investment of time, effort, or money.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Even if (2.3.5) holds, so that the worker's strategy is a best response to the firm's strategy, it must also be worth the firm's while to pay w ∗ {\\displaystyle w^{*}}.",
      "Doing volunteer work to help others is truly worth one's while."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "9632",
    "Idiom": [
      "wouldn't be seen dead"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Finds something incredibly horrifying or unsuitable.",
    "Sentence": [
      "I really don't want to buy anything. You seem by bad luck to be stocked up with just the sort of things I wouldn't be seen dead in a ditch with. I can't stand rubber rings, never could. I'm not really keen on buttonhooks.",
      "He'd seen an item about the resort on TV, though he couldn't remember whether it had been Tomorrow's World, Holiday or Eurotrash. What he could remember was swearing he wouldn't be seen dead in the place"
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "9633",
    "Idiom": [
      "wouldn't shout if a shark bit him"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To be frugal or miserly.",
    "Sentence": [
      "'Yeah, he's as silly as a two-bob watch. And mean. He wouldn't shout [buy a drink] if a shark bit him.' 'Too right, he's got snakes in his pockets. Anyhow, how's the punting?' 'No luck, mate. '",
      "'Must be Martin's shout,' says one of them. The others roar with laughter. It's always Martin's shout but he's never there when you need him. 'Martin wouldn't shout if a shark bit him,' Harry explains to the tourist, filling up his glass.",
      "Weasel was noted for the outlandish stories of his sexual and other exploits in Australia and the Philippines. No one believed him and he was generally considered a pain in the arse. To make matters worse he was known to have a \"death adder\" in his pocket. \" Wouldn't shout if a shark bit him \", was the general opinion.",
      "He was a fat, balding, bad-tempered man, with a deserved reputation for stinginess. \"Bastard wouldn't shout if a shark bit him,\" Dusty used to say, punning on \"shout.\""
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "9634",
    "Idiom": [
      "wouldn't you say"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Asks for agreement.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "9635",
    "Idiom": [
      "wrack and ruin"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Complete destruction.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Whiles all things seeme to fall to wracke and ruine."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "9636",
    "Idiom": [
      "wrap around one's little finger"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To successfully control or influence someone.",
    "Sentence": [
      "She has all of them wrapped around her little finger. They'd do anything for her."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "9637",
    "Idiom": [
      "wrap in cotton wool"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To treat delicately or coddle.",
    "Sentence": [
      "'A word to the wise— don't wrap him in cotton wool, because he'll resent it later.",
      "But you can't wrap me in cotton wool.",
      "All the Stuff the Expectant Dad Needs to Know George Lewis... Because it must be hard,' that I even allowed myself to admit to myself that, yes, it was quite hard.... But she didn't wrap him up in cotton wool and always tried to",
      "\" He told me what to expect, he didn't wrap me in cotton wool, and was always a great guide who treated me the same as everybody else, which is really what I needed. He didn't treat me any differently from the male managers in his team. I got a bollocking the same way everyone else did!\""
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "9638",
    "Idiom": [
      "wrap in the flag"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To claim support for patriotic reasons.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Both parties wrap themselves in the flag every election.",
      "He manages to wrap every bit of pork for his district in the flag."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "9639",
    "Idiom": [
      "wrap it before you tap it"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Wear a condom before sexual intercourse.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "9640-1",
    "Idiom": [
      "wrap up"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To conclude or finish.",
    "Sentence": [
      "I've just been handed a note about your — the need for you to leave, and I'll wrap it up in another couple of minutes here.",
      "Kevin Doyle cut inside and drove a third, Matt Jarvis hammered in a fourth and David Jones lashed in deep into injury time to wrap it up.",
      "And in reality, that show is a perfect example of a show that knew the end was coming, but still couldn't wrap it up in a meaningful way.",
      "After the event has wrapped up, thank everyone for attending and let them know about any future events.",
      "“The DNA evidence wrapped everything up for us,” Ezra continued.",
      "Let me wrap up this project before I begin a new one."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "9640-2",
    "Idiom": [
      "wrap up"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To summarize.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Conclusion: Story is clearly wrapped up using general concluding statements such as \"and they were together again, happy as can be.\"",
      "If I were to wrap this up in a single bit of advice, it would be this: Don't end each day without doing five things to further your business.",
      "Here are final points to wrap up what you've read in this chapter:",
      "The newscaster wrapped up the day's events."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "9640-3",
    "Idiom": [
      "wrap up"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To bundle up for warmth.",
    "Sentence": [
      "After the bath wrap up well, preferably in woolen garments, until the perspiration ceases.",
      "However well you wrap up, you get cold.",
      "Every year around the world people pull on their woolly jumpers, wrap up in their thickest coats, dig out their heavy snow boots and get ready for their favourite frosty festivals.",
      "It's a cold, snowy day and I'm going to wrap up thoroughly before I go sledding."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "9640-4",
    "Idiom": [
      "wrap up"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To surround protectively.",
    "Sentence": [
      "It is time once again to just let it be; let love wrap you up and take care of you.",
      "Let's just say in the past my family's tried to wrap me up in cotton wool, and that drives me crazy.",
      "I wanted my possessions to cocoon me, wrap me up, and keep me safe from a world that was trying to rip it all away.",
      "He held out his arms, and I went to him and let him wrap me up tight."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "9640-5",
    "Idiom": [
      "wrap up"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To conclude or finish.",
    "Sentence": [
      "And if you haven't seen these things the technicians can absolutely wrap you up in details, and you never find your way out.",
      "With the seconds slipping away and the gap just one point, France went through an 18-phase attack that made little ground but resulted in an attacking scrum on the New Zealand 10m line, only for the hosts to steal the ball back when Aurelien Rougerie was wrapped up.",
      "This left him with the real problem, if he brought it to their attention now they may well wrap him up in red tape while they requested advice from the high command on how to proceed."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "9640-6",
    "Idiom": [
      "wrap up"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To hide or cover up.",
    "Sentence": [
      "In briefe, all bookes, divinitie except, Are nought but tales of the divels lawes, Poyson wrapt up in sugred words, Mans pride, damnations props, the worlds abuse.",
      "The dishonest tradesman wraps up the thousand sins of his daily avaricious life, in the bland smile, the cringing bow, and the false statement which he makes to his customers.",
      "This he unquestionably did not do, and yet we are asked to give a hearing to an American lawyer, who, nearly three centuries after Bacon's death, chooses first to imagine that Bacon wrote the immortal plays, and then to assure us that, instead of placing the fact upon record, as any man of common-sense would be sure to place it, he wrapt up his secret in a cryptogram, of which he did not even leave the key — a cryptogram distributed in a most mystical and bewildering way through the bad printing of the first folio, and which it was left for Mr. Donnelly's laborious and perverted ingenuity to discover!",
      "So, we wrap up our secrets and lock them away before swallowing the key, hoping no one finds them."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "9641",
    "Idiom": [
      "wrestle with a pig"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To engage in a struggle that benefits the opponent.",
    "Sentence": [
      "\"And when you begin refuting one another's reasons, fussing back and forth, you generally do what a nationally known industrial relations authority warns you against: you wallow in the mud with the pig. He says, 'Never wallow in the mud with a pig, because the pig likes it.' That is exactly what he wants, because you are on his home ground. He can think of arguments as well as you can, so where do you come out?\"",
      "\"'I learned long ago never to wrestle with a pig,' Ching likes to say, 'You get dirty and besides the pig likes it.'\"",
      "\"Whenever a boisterous and argumentative person cries to draw you into a public discussion or a wrangle, just remember this bit of advice. \"Don't wrestle with a pig. You'll get dirty which is exactly what the pig likes.\"",
      "\"While I was at the Dartmouth Review, we used to tell the deans that taking on our campus paper was like wrestling with a pig. Not only did it get everyone dirty, but the pig liked it!\""
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "9642",
    "Idiom": [
      "wrist-slap"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To reprimand mildly.",
    "Sentence": [
      "You know the mother will probably only wrist-slap her \"little angel\" with a tsk-tsk. No wonder the kid is a little terror."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "9643",
    "Idiom": [
      "write checks one can't cash"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To make promises one cannot keep.",
    "Sentence": [
      "You're acting like a frat boy, which is fun and all, but you're writing checks you can't cash.",
      "“I think your mouth might be writing checks you can't cash.”"
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "9644",
    "Idiom": [
      "write for the drawer"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To write for posterity or friends without public publication.",
    "Sentence": [
      "It was a middle-aged intellectual crowd. Publishers who abandoned their writers, writers who wrote for the drawer, artists who had become wealthy by turning Social Realism into kitsch.",
      "It seemed suddenly miraculous that she was here, in America, holding in her hands a book that she had written for the drawer four years earlier in Moscow.",
      "Since I first began to write I had to write for the drawer."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "9645",
    "Idiom": [
      "write one's own ticket"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Empowered to choose desired options.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Mr. DeChadenedes said that any one wishing to back the Republican candidate could write his own ticket and name his own price.",
      "Parker figured that in the interim, the record companies would sell out their stock of Elvis' recordings, and that the King could write his own ticket when he returned, in both the recording and the film industries. Parker was right."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "9646",
    "Idiom": [
      "write the book"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To be an authoritative expert on a topic.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Do I know how to play chess? I wrote the book on it!"
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "9647",
    "Idiom": [
      "writer's cramp"
    ],
    "Meaning": "A pain from prolonged writing.",
    "Sentence": [
      "The recording of their tales is no more than a matter of ears and fingers. There are only two fates I dread—deafness and writer's cramp.",
      "\"The following boys will go in to extra lesson this afternoon and next Wednesday,\" it began. And \"the following boys\" numbered four hundred. \"Bates must have got writer's cramp,\" said Clowes, as he read the huge scroll.",
      "Christmas dividend checks and checks covering Christmas presents to his employees were always signed by him.... He had writer's cramp by the time he finished.",
      "Henry James, after he suffered an attack of writer's cramp, began to dictate to a typist."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "9648",
    "Idiom": [
      "writing on the wall",
      "handwriting on the wall"
    ],
    "Meaning": "An ominous warning.",
    "Sentence": [
      "However, regardless of evil portents, prophetic despair and a great deal too much writing on the wall, I have managed so far to write two fairly cheerful musical comedies.",
      "The Portuguese refused to read the writings on the wall and clung to their colonies, including the one in India.",
      "Without a doubt these trends represent the \"next big thing\". Consider a sampling of recent headlines as writings on the wall :",
      "Don't you see the implications and writings on the wall for our family's future?",
      "It gets to the point to where you see so much writing on the wall where we may not have a choice but to step in and say 'yes, you will train every year and you'll report that training to POST' in order for things to be done right.",
      "As a railwayman put it to me: \"When I saw chums of mine took their families down there by car, I could see the writing on the wall. We all had free passes, yet they got the car out!\"",
      "He could see the writing on the wall months before the business failed."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "9649",
    "Idiom": [
      "written all over someone's face"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Very obvious from facial expression.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "9650",
    "Idiom": [
      "written in the stars"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Destined to happen.",
    "Sentence": [
      "It was written in the stars That our love would be born It was written in the stars We'd meet early one morn",
      "In the end it felt as if it was written in the stars. Every 12 years South Africa have an unerring habit of winning World Cups and they have done so again, following up their triumphs of 1995 and 2007 with another prodigious display of power and might."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "9651",
    "Idiom": [
      "wrong crowd"
    ],
    "Meaning": "A group with a negative influence.",
    "Sentence": [
      "to fall in with the wrong crowd",
      "to hang out with the wrong crowd",
      "Jimmy's mother was concerned that he might have fallen in with the wrong crowd."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "9652",
    "Idiom": [
      "wrong number"
    ],
    "Meaning": "An incorrect understanding regarding a person or situation.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Codd said... when he had her fixed and tested her a few times he would take me up for a ride. \"You got the wrong number,\" I says. \"I don't feel flighty.\"",
      "The readers probably expecting me to go on about how Johnny was real nostalgic about some kind of material security.... Well, the readers got the wrong number.",
      "His musical system, like the political system he served, would rescue the present moment from crisis and place it at last in productive harmony with history's demands. Boy, did he have the wrong number."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "9653",
    "Idiom": [
      "wrong side of the tracks"
    ],
    "Meaning": "An area where the poor or working class live.",
    "Sentence": [
      "An arc electric light has been put toward the north side of the depot, As one gentleman expressed it, the people can more quickly see that they are on the \" wrong side of the track.\"",
      "“Can you come over to the wrong side of the tracks ?” she asked, an amused dryness underscoring the delivery of that question. “Always.” “I was, of course, referring to geographical matters. You live in the more chic part of Kreuzberg.”",
      "Mr. McKenzie rose to prominence in the early 2000s playing Ryan Atwood, a brooding, musclebound teenager from the wrong side of the tracks who moves in with a wealthy family in Newport Beach, Calif.",
      "He grew up on the wrong side of the tracks, but he made a success of himself."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "9654",
    "Idiom": [
      "y'all means all"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Bigotry and intolerance are unacceptable.",
    "Sentence": [
      "I stay here to continue to insist, as the saying goes, that y'all means all, that the loudest, crudest voices don't get to have the last word. Oh, I could move to a liberal enclave in the no-nonsense North, but I like a bit of nonsense,",
      "\" Y'all means all,\" I proclaimed from the pulpit. The message was simple enough : If we're going to be a welcoming church, we've got to open the doors to everyone. No exceptions. Some folks nodded in approval, but others looked",
      "You see, to Sherri and to the library, \"Y'all\" means \"all.\" All. No exceptions. Everyone deserves to be respected and have a space to explore and learn. Everyone is loved and cherished by God. For Jesus, \"y'all\" means \"all."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "9655",
    "Idiom": [
      "yank someone's chain"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To tease or provoke someone.",
    "Sentence": [
      "So, be careful what you are paying attention to. If it looks like someone is yanking your chain, he or she probably is.",
      "“For the same reason you were yanking my chain about the double ropes,” I said. “You want to see if I'm going to be any help to you or a total idiot when it comes to this retail thing.”",
      "It was so easy to yank his chain, Tiree smirked to herself, as she dialled Les's London flat."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "9656",
    "Idiom": [
      "yardarm to yardarm"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Very close to each other.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "9657",
    "Idiom": [
      "yarn-spinner"
    ],
    "Meaning": "A storyteller.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "9658",
    "Idiom": [
      "ye gods"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Expresses surprise or incredulity.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Ye Gods, what Havock does Ambition make Among your Works!",
      "Would he not far rather lay him down lengthwise along the line of the equator; yea, ye gods! go down to the fiery pit itself, in order to keep out this frost?"
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "9659-1",
    "Idiom": [
      "yeah, yeah"
    ],
    "Meaning": "A sarcastic expression of disbelief.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "9659-2",
    "Idiom": [
      "yeah, yeah"
    ],
    "Meaning": "A sarcastic expression of impatience.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "9660",
    "Idiom": [
      "year dot"
    ],
    "Meaning": "A very long time ago.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Disk interfaces have been around since the year dot, as people soon realised that the microdrive was unreliable, unstable and generally rubbish for the storage of anything, useless except as a rather small beermat.",
      "That hat dates from the year dot."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "9661",
    "Idiom": [
      "year in, year out"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Always.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "9662",
    "Idiom": [
      "yell at"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To scold or rebuke loudly.",
    "Sentence": [
      "The boy's father yelled at him for lying to him about cleaning up the mess."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "9663",
    "Idiom": [
      "yell silently"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To think strong thoughts one wishes to express but does not.",
    "Sentence": [
      "He yelled silently at R. Daneel: Machine!",
      "Shut up, he yelled silently as the woman cried out in pain and terror in the cabin behind him.",
      "Hurry, he yelled silently to the pilot. Hurry!"
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "9664",
    "Idiom": [
      "yellow brick road"
    ],
    "Meaning": "A path to one's hopes and dreams.",
    "Sentence": [
      "But we're coming up on a bend in the yellow brick road, and going 'round it could cause the party lights to go dark quickly.",
      "But for Clinton the yellow brick road that led inevitably to the Democratic nomination has suddenly become a little bumpy.",
      "Smash the emergency glass, press the big red button and just STOP. Step off the Yellow Brick Road, get mixed up with some flying monkeys and throw yourself into all manner of trouble. Trust me. IT'S YOUR LAST CHANCE."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "9665",
    "Idiom": [
      "yellow grease"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Used vegetable oil for biodiesel.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Using waste oil can be much less problematic, but in the US, waste oil is sold by rendering companies as yellow grease, and to a certain extent yellow grease is a substitute for fresh oil."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "9666",
    "Idiom": [
      "yellow journalism"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Sensationalistic journalism of questionable accuracy.",
    "Sentence": [
      "It is the sort of paper which the father of the family is expected to take home with him from his office and read aloud to the chicks before bed-time. It was founded by its proprietor, Mr. Benjamin White, as an antidote to yellow journalism.",
      "In the heyday of yellow journalism, newspapers like Joseph Pulitzer’s World and William Randolph Hearst’s New York Journal sent out squads of reporters to hunt down leads and, if evidence failed to materialize, make up stories."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "9667",
    "Idiom": [
      "yellow journalist"
    ],
    "Meaning": "A journalist who writes sensationalistic and questionable content.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "9668",
    "Idiom": [
      "yellow light"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Hesitance to proceed.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "9669",
    "Idiom": [
      "yellow press"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Sensationalist journalism.",
    "Sentence": [
      "The Olivette incident has often been cited as emblematic of the distortions published by Hearst and the rest of the yellow press during the Cuban revolution, but it seems to have been founded in an honest mistake."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "9670",
    "Idiom": [
      "yellow state"
    ],
    "Meaning": "A U.S. state influenced by the Libertarian Party.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "9671-1",
    "Idiom": [
      "yeoman's service"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Hard, dedicated work.",
    "Sentence": [
      "He hath done yeoman's service, and proved himself staunch and faithful."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "9671-2",
    "Idiom": [
      "yeoman's service"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Reliable and capable service.",
    "Sentence": [
      "I once did hold it, as our statists do, A baseness to write fair and labour'd much How to forget that learning, but, sir, now It did me yeoman's service.",
      "On many occasions his liberality did him genuine yeoman's service."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "9672",
    "Idiom": [
      "yes man"
    ],
    "Meaning": "A person who always agrees with their superior.",
    "Sentence": [
      "The function of a Vice-President is the job of a yes-man, as they call it in America.",
      "Rice is a \" yes man,\" says one former top government official. \"She thinks her job is just to figure out what the president is trying to say and then to say it more articulately.\""
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "9673",
    "Idiom": [
      "yes to death"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Expresses sarcastic agreement.",
    "Sentence": [
      "There's a fruit-man on our street whose name is Mr. Pete And he keeps good things to eat but you should hear him speak When you ask him anything he never answers no He just yesses you to death and then he takes your dough",
      "I was yessed to death."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "9674",
    "Idiom": [
      "yesterday's gone",
      "yesterday is gone"
    ],
    "Meaning": "It is impossible to change the past.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Yesterday is gone indeed, and gone never to return.",
      "Yesterday is gone; yesterday has passed forever beyond our control. Gone with it are its mistakes and cares, its aches and pains, its faults and blunders.",
      "Today is the day when we can enjoy life, for yesterday is gone, and tomorrow never comes.",
      "I wake up every morning and tell myself, \"There's nothing I can do about yesterday, yesterday is gone.\""
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "9675",
    "Idiom": [
      "yield the ghost"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To give up.",
    "Sentence": [
      "and often did I strive / To yield the ghost : but still the envious flood / Stopped in my soul, and would not let it forth"
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "9676",
    "Idiom": [
      "yield up the ghost"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To die.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Then fell she down straightway at his feet, and yielded up the ghost : and the young men came in, and found her dead, and, carrying her forth, buried her by her husband."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "9677",
    "Idiom": [
      "you all"
    ],
    "Meaning": "You (singular or plural).",
    "Sentence": [
      "I am really longing to see you “all” —as the Southerners say—and aren't you coming east this summer?",
      "I ain't never been as far as you-all aim to go."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "9678",
    "Idiom": [
      "you are what you eat"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Personal health is influenced by eating habits.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "9679-1",
    "Idiom": [
      "you bet"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Expresses support or agreement.",
    "Sentence": [
      "You bet they'll re-run such a successful show next season."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "9679-2",
    "Idiom": [
      "you bet"
    ],
    "Meaning": "A reply to thank you or a request.",
    "Sentence": [
      "“Course it's mighty hard to tell till we've put out a few traps,” said the former, “but it looks to me like we've struck it lucky.” “ You bet,” Dobbs agreed. “I don't believe this here valley ever was trapped. We ain't come across no sign of any old camp—not so much as a blazed tree ”",
      "“Hey, thanks for all your hard work yesterday.” / “ You bet !”",
      "“Could you give me a hand ?” / “ You bet !”"
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "9680",
    "Idiom": [
      "you buy cheap, you get cheap"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Inexpensive goods are often inferior.",
    "Sentence": [
      "No more of that stuff, please and thank you. American Grain, my rosy red ass. Someone should have told those babies you put the fertilizer on the hops before you grow em, not after. A headache on three lousy beers! Gosh! Well— you buy cheap, you get cheap."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "9681",
    "Idiom": [
      "you can catch more flies with honey than with vinegar",
      "you can catch more flies with honey than vinegar",
      "you catch more flies with honey than with vinegar",
      "you attract more flies with honey than vinegar",
      "you catch more flies with honey than vinegar",
      "honey catches more flies than vinegar"
    ],
    "Meaning": "It's easier to persuade others with kindness than with negativity.",
    "Sentence": [
      "She would call her mother in tears, and Mom would comfort and console her, then suggest that Amy simply try to be nicer to Ted: \" You attract more flies with honey than vinegar,\" she would counsel.",
      "You may have gotten attention in high school by being the class heckler, but chances are your semi-rude behavior will not be appreciated by your classmates or your professors. Plus, as the old adage goes, you attract more flies with honey than vinegar.",
      "You attract more flies with honey than vinegar. You resolve more disputes with professionalism and communication than with irritability and vitriol."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "9682",
    "Idiom": [
      "you can lead horses to water, but you can't make them drink",
      "you can lead a horse to water, but you can't make her drink",
      "you can lead a horse to water, but you can't make it drink",
      "you can lead a horse to water, but you can't make him drink"
    ],
    "Meaning": "You can show someone how to do something, but you can't force them to do it.",
    "Sentence": [
      "You can lead a horse to water, but you can’t make her drink, and while suffrage was prepared for Louisville women with all due formality, they either didn’t care for it or weren’t prepared for it. It seems very apparent from the big difference between the number of women entitled to a vote in suffrage communities and the number who use it, that the majority is far from demanding it.",
      "Coaches are assessed by their ability to motivate their players. This is not really an accurate assessment of the coach’s ability. Motivation is the player’s responsibility as well as the coach’s. “ You can lead a horse to water, but you can’t make her drink.” This statement seems to sum up the coach. The coach can lead and help the players, but in the final analysis, the players must have the desire and motivation to perform.",
      "“Still, to say it was Free Vampires?” Ivy tapped a pencil against her teeth. “Every living vampire out there is going to be hunting them.” / “Maybe that was the intent. Keep them so busy they can’t make more trouble.” / “I swear, you can lead a horse to water, but you can’t make her drink,” Jenks said loudly, and I threw the fork at him. / “Leave her alone, Jenks,” Ivy said as I stomped to the silverware drawer for a new one.",
      "“Hush! hush! there is Angel on the piazza. I don’t see,” sinking into a chair, for she had been standing, “how this has come about. I thought Allen—” / “He never cared a straw for me—in that way. You can lead a horse to water, but you can’t make him drink. Not that I would leave any stone unturned to get Allen, but it’s of no use, with that Cecile Fay’s beautiful eyes and magnificent hair under his nose every day!”",
      "Let the Legislature pass a law compelling the State to furnish every man with work, and what good would that do? It has been proved within the last six months that there is employment in Chicago, at fair wages, for all who want work. The State could not make them work. You can lead a horse to water, but you can’t make him drink. Unless the State is endowed with the power of working miracles it cannot convert the lazy Socialistic loafer into an industrious citizen.",
      "Whenever we’re asked, we give them some [contraceptive] pills. We bring it up, as a matter of fact. But, of course, we’ve got no way of knowing if they use them or not. Nothing I can do about that. You know, you can lead a horse to water, but you can’t make him drink."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "9683",
    "Idiom": [
      "you can say that again"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Affirms a statement as true.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "9684",
    "Idiom": [
      "you can take the monkey out of the jungle, but you can't take the jungle out of the monkey"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Perception that inherent traits remain despite changing environments.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "9685",
    "Idiom": [
      "you can't be half pregnant"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Indicates an either-or situation with only two choices.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Alex, you can't be half pregnant. If you keep doing other work that falls outside of your logo design process, you'll send mixed messages to all of your stakeholders."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "9686",
    "Idiom": [
      "you can't catch old birds with chaff"
    ],
    "Meaning": "The wise and experienced cannot be easily deceived.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "9687",
    "Idiom": [
      "you can't fight City Hall"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Nothing can be done to change the situation.",
    "Sentence": [
      "As Audre Lorde, my professor at Hunter College, told our class in 1982, \"That you can't fight City Hall is a rumor being spread by City Hall.\"",
      "I see they're going to build the airport after all. I suppose you can't fight City Hall."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "9688",
    "Idiom": [
      "you can't fix stupid"
    ],
    "Meaning": "It's often futile to help those who lack common sense.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "9689-1",
    "Idiom": [
      "you can't get a quart into a pint pot"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Cannot fit a large object or amount into a smaller space.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "9689-2",
    "Idiom": [
      "you can't get a quart into a pint pot"
    ],
    "Meaning": "One cannot achieve the impossible.",
    "Sentence": [
      "The centenary of Britain's most famous train has called for a commemorative and descriptive work and in this 40-page illustrated booklet the author has tried—with some success, to pour a quart into a pint pot.",
      "They've asked me to get from London to New York by five o'clock, but it's half past four now, and you can't get a quart into a pint pot !"
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "9690",
    "Idiom": [
      "you can't get something for nothing",
      "you don't get owt for nowt",
      "you don't get something for nothing"
    ],
    "Meaning": "One cannot expect benefits without some cost or risk.",
    "Sentence": [
      "There's half the fight won, first off.\" \"Osterman bribed him, I suppose,\" observed Magnus. Annixter raised a shoulder vexatiously. \"You've got to pay for what you get,\" he returned. \" You don't get something for nothing, I guess.\"",
      "\" You don't get something for nothing,\" said Richard Hannah, an analyst for Phillips & Drew, a London brokerage house. \"For the 40 percent return, you take one bloody huge risk.\"",
      "As the saying goes, you don't get something for nothing —especially not where sex is concerned. Just as the terrors of HIV followed the joys of the sexual revolution, so it seems that Pfizer's anti-impotence wonder drug, Viagra, carries with it more health risks than anyone suspected.",
      "Melanie Phillips, who defends the institution of marriage and is not keen to extend property rights to cohabiting couples, says: \"The law is based on justice; justice requires that you don't get something for nothing. You don't claim rights if you don't enter into obligations.\""
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "9691",
    "Idiom": [
      "you can't go home again"
    ],
    "Meaning": "You cannot relive the past.",
    "Sentence": [
      "The organizers of a surprisingly refreshing program called \"Judson Dance Theater Reconstruction\" know that you can't go home again. Instead, they have tried to re-create that home if ever so briefly—even if it was a home these same young organizers never knew.",
      "As novelist Thomas Wolfe (1930s, not 1960s, version) declared in one of his book titles, You Can't Go Home Again —because home isn't there anymore.",
      "The Americans have a phrase for it: you can't go home again. Once you leave, that is it. His time has come and gone, as he confessed when he retired from Test cricket three years ago. And gone means gone."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "9692",
    "Idiom": [
      "you can't judge a book by its cover"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Don't judge based on appearances alone.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "9693",
    "Idiom": [
      "you can't keep a good man down"
    ],
    "Meaning": "A determined person will eventually succeed despite challenges.",
    "Sentence": [
      "\"Isn't it perfectly splendid, Mr. Pepper, to think that Archie's genius has at last been recognized? How quiet he kept it. I had no idea that Mr. Brackett was even interested in his work. I wonder how he heard of it?\" \"Oh, these things get about,\" I said. \" You can't keep a good man down.\"",
      "You can't keep a good man down. Like the corpse in The Trouble with Harry who just won't stay buried, Alfred Hitchcock keeps popping out of his grave to terrify and delight new audiences.",
      "He cut a sorry figure after the thumping by England, but you can't keep a good man down. That familiar mix of manic energy and piratical lunacy enabled the totemic Irishman to reassert his status as a world-class performer.",
      "Dunlop suffered a coronary arrest—his heart stopped for almost six minutes. But even at 85, you can't keep a good man down, and he was able to recover."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "9694",
    "Idiom": [
      "you can't live with them, you can't live without them",
      "one can't live with them, one can't live without them",
      "you can't live with 'em, you can't live without 'em",
      "cannot live with them, cannot live without them",
      "can't live with them and can't live without them",
      "can't live with 'em, can't live without 'em",
      "can't live with them, can't live without them"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Ongoing conflict between annoyance and need.",
    "Sentence": [
      "You've got to find the woman that works for you. Because, after all, we can't live with them, can't live without them.",
      "Can't live with them, can't live without them. Like tweezers, pagers and passport control, computers are essential for modern living. They're marvellous (the erotic e-mail is the new love letter) and totally rubbish (it takes three hours to turn the printer on).",
      "My parents' relationship was very much, \" can't live with them, can't live without them \". They were a crazy old couple and it was one of those love/hate things.",
      "“Men, Can’t Live With Them, Can’t Live Without Them.” Actor Cam Magee and singer Beverly Cosham explore the age-old theme in sonnets and speeches by Shakespeare and songs by Johnny Mercer and Cole Porter."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "9695",
    "Idiom": [
      "you can't make a silk purse of a sow's ear"
    ],
    "Meaning": "It's impossible to create something valuable from something worthless.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "9696",
    "Idiom": [
      "you can't outrun your fork"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Exercise cannot compensate for an unhealthy diet.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "9697",
    "Idiom": [
      "you can't polish a turd"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Something inherently unpleasant cannot be improved.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "9698",
    "Idiom": [
      "you can't pour from an empty cup"
    ],
    "Meaning": "One must prioritize their own mental health to support others.",
    "Sentence": [
      "This view is shared widely across the industry, including by London-based yoga teacher Kat Achtelik, who participated in several NGO-led projects in Asia before moving to the UK. For her, practicing yoga and meditation comes down to self-love: “ You cannot pour from an empty cup. You have to take care of yourself first, before catering for others.”"
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "9699",
    "Idiom": [
      "you can't put a wise head on young shoulders",
      "you can't put an old head on young shoulders"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Young people lack the experience and wisdom of age.",
    "Sentence": [
      "\"The boy seems to me a very good boy, but you can't put an old head on young shoulders.\"",
      "\"Young men will be young men; you can't put an old head on young shoulders,\" he added, repeating trite sayings as if they were original with himself.",
      "The one knock against Bobby is that he is not great defensively. I think that's a valid criticism, but not altogether fair. You can't put an old head on young shoulders.",
      "\"All of a sudden they are now short of experience in the centres and wing. As the old saying goes, you can't put an old head on young shoulders.\"",
      "In those days I looked down on Stephens and repeated Russell's verdict with derision; which shows not only that you can't put an old head on young shoulders but that you shouldn't try."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "9700",
    "Idiom": [
      "you can't put the toothpaste back into the tube",
      "you can't put the toothpaste back in the tube",
      "you can't put the shit back in the horse"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Once something is done, it cannot be undone.",
    "Sentence": [
      "But, as they say, you can't put the toothpaste back in the tube, so once it was out there for everybody to read there was no way of keeping it a secret and that inevitably led to me working it into continuity."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "9701",
    "Idiom": [
      "you can't run with the hare and hunt with the hounds"
    ],
    "Meaning": "You can't have it both ways.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "9702",
    "Idiom": [
      "you can't say fairer than that"
    ],
    "Meaning": "That is fair or reasonable; a better outcome is unlikely.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "9703",
    "Idiom": [
      "you can't step in the same river twice"
    ],
    "Meaning": "You cannot repeat past experiences.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "9704",
    "Idiom": [
      "you can't take it with you"
    ],
    "Meaning": "You can't take your material possessions after death.",
    "Sentence": [
      "\"The clause which—at my death—makes you sole owner of the whole concession. You see—the odds were scarcely even, were they? It wasn't likely anything would happen to you!\"... \"What's it matter to you now?\" Trent said, with unintentional brutality. \" You can't take it with you.\"",
      "Dealers also quietly bought gold fillings from morticians, proving that you can't take it with you.",
      "You can't take it with you, of course, but your intended heirs may not be able to take it with them, either, if you do not explicitly state through a will who is supposed to get what."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "9705",
    "Idiom": [
      "you can't teach an old dog new tricks"
    ],
    "Meaning": "It is difficult to change established habits or mindsets.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "9706",
    "Idiom": [
      "you can't tell a book by its cover",
      "you can't judge a book by its cover",
      "never judge a book by its cover",
      "don't judge a book by its cover"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Don’t judge based on appearances.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "9707",
    "Idiom": [
      "you can't turn a hoe into a housewife"
    ],
    "Meaning": "A promiscuous woman is unsuitable for a committed relationship.",
    "Sentence": [
      "They say you can't turn a hoe into a housewife. I wonder.. what silly ass nigga came up with that bullshit? Now, a hoe ass nigga probably can't turn a hoe into a housewife, but a real nigga could. See, commitment is in a woman's nature."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "9708",
    "Idiom": [
      "you can't unring a bell"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Some things cannot be undone.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "9709",
    "Idiom": [
      "you can't win them all"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Failure or disappointment is inevitable at times.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "9710",
    "Idiom": [
      "you cannot please everyone"
    ],
    "Meaning": "It is not possible to please everyone.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "9711",
    "Idiom": [
      "you cannot put the same shoe on every foot"
    ],
    "Meaning": "A method that works in one situation may not work in others.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Application of the adage that \" you cannot put the same shoe on every foot \" produces no hardship whatsoever, since the terms of the trust may be made exactly to fit the business to be undertaken.",
      "What I tell these misinformed inmates is that you cannot put the same shoe on every foot.",
      "Publilius Syrus said it a long time ago: You can't put the same shoe on every foot."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "9712",
    "Idiom": [
      "you don't look at the mantelpiece when you poke the fire",
      "you don't look at the mantelpiece when you're poking the fire"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Facial attractiveness is irrelevant when considering a sexual partner.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "9713",
    "Idiom": [
      "you don't miss the water till the well runs dry",
      "you never miss the water until the well runs dry",
      "you never miss the water till the well runs dry",
      "the cow knows not the worth of its tail till it loses it"
    ],
    "Meaning": "People take for granted things that are easily available.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "9714",
    "Idiom": [
      "you don't need a weatherman to know which way the wind blows"
    ],
    "Meaning": "One does not need an expert to understand the obvious.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "9715",
    "Idiom": [
      "you gals"
    ],
    "Meaning": "You (plural).",
    "Sentence": [
      "Hey you gals ! How you doin'?",
      "You gals headin' down to the beach?"
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "9716",
    "Idiom": [
      "you get more with a kind word and a gun than you do with a kind word alone"
    ],
    "Meaning": "It's beneficial to combine kindness with assertiveness.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "9717",
    "Idiom": [
      "you get what you pay for"
    ],
    "Meaning": "The quality of goods and services is often proportional to their price.",
    "Sentence": [
      "You get what you pay for. If you want a lower price, you can go to Motel 6.."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "9718",
    "Idiom": [
      "you have to be good to be lucky"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Success comes from skill and preparation, not just luck.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "9719",
    "Idiom": [
      "you have to be in it to win it",
      "you've got to be in it to win it"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To win or succeed, one must participate.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "9720",
    "Idiom": [
      "you know it",
      "wouldn't you know"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Indicates agreement or approval.",
    "Sentence": [
      "\"I've still got a few years on the chain gang.\" \"Counting the days, huh?\" \" You know it. \"",
      "He's a little bit older, mind you, but good people, if you know what I'm saying to you …\" \"Italian, right?\" \" You know it, baby, and —\" \"Over fifty? Widowed? Grown children?\" \"You're a mind reader!\"",
      "\"Man, I wonder if David found out. Is that why they divorced?\" \" You know it.\"",
      "\"What he did to her was wrong.\" \" You know it, sister!\""
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "9721",
    "Idiom": [
      "you know what"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Used to get someone's attention before announcing something.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Well, you know what, he's got a cloud over him. You have to live with who you are and make your peace with your maker about what you really are.",
      "Well, I guess I’ve got to say, I love the Madonna one that we did — the Drowned world tour. Actually, you know what ? The first Blonde Ambition tour I loved. The “Vogue” thing — that was a memorable moment in my lifetime."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "9722",
    "Idiom": [
      "you knows it"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Indicates agreement or approval.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Mose would ha rallied, ef eed a been in our ward — ha ! ha ! ha ! — you knows it, Mass Richard !",
      "Buster: (impressed) You'se a cool dude, Butch. / Butch: Hey, you knows it, baby.",
      "We welcome you, you knows it. Didn't even need to ask, but it fine all right you did.",
      "What he did to her was wrong. — You knows it, sister!"
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "9723",
    "Idiom": [
      "you lot"
    ],
    "Meaning": "You (plural).",
    "Sentence": [
      "I’m not s’posed ter talk abou’ it, not even ter you lot.",
      "You lot had better knock it off."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "9724",
    "Idiom": [
      "you make the bed you lie in"
    ],
    "Meaning": "A person's circumstances result from their own actions.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "9725",
    "Idiom": [
      "you man"
    ],
    "Meaning": "You (plural).",
    "Sentence": [
      "You man are peak (being unfair)."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "9726",
    "Idiom": [
      "you miss 100% of the shots you don't take"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Taking no action guarantees failure; always make an attempt.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "9727",
    "Idiom": [
      "you must spoil before you spin"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Practice makes perfect.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "9728",
    "Idiom": [
      "you name it"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Expresses that further examples are unnecessary.",
    "Sentence": [
      "By Monday afternoon we were finished - loadwise, physically, mentally, you name it, we'd had a gutful of it.",
      "There were ducks, geese, swans, you name it on the lake.",
      "- What can you buy over the Internet? - You name it."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "9729",
    "Idiom": [
      "you never know what you've got till it's gone"
    ],
    "Meaning": "People often take things for granted.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "9730",
    "Idiom": [
      "you only get what you give"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Effort correlates with benefits received.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "9731",
    "Idiom": [
      "you only go around once in life",
      "you only go around once",
      "you only live once"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Take every opportunity to enjoy life, as it is limited.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Young men washed in the ecstasy of macho male companionship rode a jeep through barren country and embraced at a bar piled up with beer cans. \" You only go around once,\" the announcer said.",
      "\"Thank God I'm here. I figure you should play as long as you can because you only go around once, and I know it.\"",
      "\"Two years ago when I first heard of the Ferrari Challenge I never would have thought I would be doing something like this,\" said Mr. McCormick, president of First Manhattan Consulting Group in Manhattan. \"Then I turned 48 and said, ' You only go around once.'\"",
      "The agency boosted Schlitz's name recognition with the \"Gusto\" campaign. Consumers were even reminded that \" You only go around once in life: go for all the gusto you can.\""
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "9732",
    "Idiom": [
      "you pays your money and you takes your choice",
      "you pays your nickel and you takes your choice"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Each person can make their own decisions.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Showman. On your right you will perceive a Prime Minister a Bolishing of hisself. And over your left is another Prime Minister a Bolishing of the Corn-Laws. / Master John Bull. But which is the Prime Minister? / Showman. Which ever you please, my little dear. You pays your money, and you takes your choice.",
      "You can get there by bus, or train, or taxi. Whatever. You pays your money and you takes your choice."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "9733",
    "Idiom": [
      "you pays your nickel and you takes your chances",
      "you pays your money and you takes your chances"
    ],
    "Meaning": "There is no guarantee of the outcome.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "9734",
    "Idiom": [
      "you scratch my back and I'll scratch yours"
    ],
    "Meaning": "A mutual exchange of favors.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Everybody's hustling for a buck and a dime / I'll scratch your back and you scratch mine"
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "9735",
    "Idiom": [
      "you shouldn't have"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Expresses gratitude for unnecessary generosity.",
    "Sentence": [
      "What a lovely vase! You shouldn't have !"
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "9736",
    "Idiom": [
      "you snooze you lose"
    ],
    "Meaning": "If you're not attentive, you might miss out.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "9737",
    "Idiom": [
      "you think"
    ],
    "Meaning": "A sarcastic response to an obvious statement.",
    "Sentence": [
      "I reckon the trees are greener in spring than in winter. — You think?"
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "9738",
    "Idiom": [
      "you what"
    ],
    "Meaning": "An intensified version of \"what.\"",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "9739",
    "Idiom": [
      "you win some, you lose some"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Everyone has successes and failures.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "9740",
    "Idiom": [
      "you wish"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Expresses skepticism about a desired statement.",
    "Sentence": [
      "\"When I grow up, I'm going to be a superhero!\" / \"Huh, you wish !\"",
      "\"They can't bench me. I'm the best shooter on the team.\" / \" You wish! \""
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "9741",
    "Idiom": [
      "you'll never guess"
    ],
    "Meaning": "I have something surprising to share.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "9742",
    "Idiom": [
      "you're never too old to learn",
      "you are never too old to learn"
    ],
    "Meaning": "It's possible to learn at any age.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "9743",
    "Idiom": [
      "you're only as good as your last shift"
    ],
    "Meaning": "A person's worth is judged by their latest performance.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "9744",
    "Idiom": [
      "you're telling me"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Indicates agreement with the preceding statement.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "9745",
    "Idiom": [
      "you've got to crack a few eggs to make an omelette",
      "you can't make an omelette without breaking eggs"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To achieve something, mistakes or sacrifices are necessary.",
    "Sentence": [
      "It was remarked to him that he had caused the death of a great many persons. Yes, he replied, omlets are not made without breaking eggs.",
      "Narrator: Bob is dead, they shot him in the head! Tyler Durden: You wanna make an omelet, you gotta break some eggs."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "9746",
    "Idiom": [
      "young Turk"
    ],
    "Meaning": "A young person advocating for change or showing rebelliousness.",
    "Sentence": [
      "\"What! Roscoe?\" inquired the principal. \"Yes.\" \"Is he in any mischief?\" \"Mischief? I should say so! Why, he's a regular young Turk.\" \"A young Turk ? I don't think I understand you, James.\" \"I mean, he's a young ruffian.\"",
      "He arrives at a time when jazz's discontented Young Turks have disdainfully turned away from their audiences and gone off to explore the way-out."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "9747",
    "Idiom": [
      "young at heart"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Having the joy and vitality of youth despite one's age.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "9748-1",
    "Idiom": [
      "young blood"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Young or youthful people bringing revitalization.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Young blood must have its course, lad, and every dog its day."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "9748-2",
    "Idiom": [
      "young blood"
    ],
    "Meaning": "A young person.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Every Saturday evening, raw young bloods of the village would meet for a drink, and the wine made us lively. We stuck a sprig of basil behind our ears, one of my cousins took his guitar, and we went serenading."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "9748-3",
    "Idiom": [
      "young blood"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Youthful or revitalizing ideas.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "9749",
    "Idiom": [
      "young fogey"
    ],
    "Meaning": "A young and conservative person.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "9750",
    "Idiom": [
      "your ass"
    ],
    "Meaning": "A sarcastic expression of disbelief.",
    "Sentence": [
      "A: My dog ate my homework.",
      "B: Your ass."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "9751",
    "Idiom": [
      "your boy"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Refers to oneself.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "9752",
    "Idiom": [
      "your face, your fate"
    ],
    "Meaning": "One's fate depends on one's looks.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "9753",
    "Idiom": [
      "your girl"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Refers to oneself.",
    "Sentence": [
      "The minute you pull that one, your girl is out."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "9754",
    "Idiom": [
      "your guess is as good as mine"
    ],
    "Meaning": "I have no idea.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "9755-1",
    "Idiom": [
      "your mileage may vary"
    ],
    "Meaning": "It may vary based on individual experience.",
    "Sentence": [
      "When that definition is executed, the metadata for the temporary table is put into your schema (most likely— your mileage may vary), but no space is allocated to hold data.",
      "In other words, your mileage may vary and my disk-size figures are just estimates provided for your convenience.",
      "We pause here to emphasize that with animals, there are no absolutes. We like to say that with any given wolf or dog, \" your mileage may vary.\"",
      "Mallory Ortberg: The advice game is the ultimate your-mileage-may-vary exercise—do you have a feeling for when someone is looking for (or needs) a gentle smack to return them to their senses, a bit of empathy, a dose of humor? It’s a tricky balance, I think, between writing something entertaining for your many readers and trying to be genuinely helpful to the original writer.",
      "The battery lasts a day in my phone, but your mileage may vary."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "9755-2",
    "Idiom": [
      "your mileage may vary"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Expresses a possible difference in opinion or experience.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Your mileage may vary when it comes to the over-the-top carnage and in-your-face machismo, but it’s impressive just how bonkers Fate is, like a litter of kittens hopped up on grade-A catnip.",
      "The privatization of luxury space in planes, trains and automobiles have certainly enhanced our ability to keep to ourselves on the road (see the rise of personal pods at airports for a recent example of the lengths people will go to for solitude). And as those spaces get increasingly automated, human interaction is becoming increasingly limited (although your mileage may vary as to how much you really enjoy that interaction with customs or gate agents).",
      "I think that red dress looks really good on you, but your mileage may vary, of course."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "9756",
    "Idiom": [
      "your net worth is your network",
      "your network is your net worth"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Professional connections contribute to financial success.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "9757",
    "Idiom": [
      "your vibe attracts your tribe"
    ],
    "Meaning": "People are attracted to you based on your energy and personality.",
    "Sentence": [
      "It's true that your vibe attracts your tribe, and my vibe has been very, very good to me.",
      "Remember, your vibe attracts your tribe and these days tribes gather on social media!"
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "9758",
    "Idiom": [
      "yours sincerely"
    ],
    "Meaning": "A polite phrase used to close a letter when the sender knows the recipient's name.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "9759",
    "Idiom": [
      "yours trulies"
    ],
    "Meaning": "We, us, or ourselves.",
    "Sentence": []
  },
  {
    "ID": "9760-1",
    "Idiom": [
      "yours truly"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Used to close a note or letter.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Please write back soon! Yours truly, Alice."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "9760-2",
    "Idiom": [
      "yours truly"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Refers to oneself.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Nobody in Africa, but yours truly, can get a good head of steam on the old African Queen.",
      "This one was created by yours truly."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "9761",
    "Idiom": [
      "zeal without knowledge is a runaway horse"
    ],
    "Meaning": "Enthusiasm without knowledge can lead to negative consequences.",
    "Sentence": [
      "As my old granny would have commented: \" Zeal without knowledge is a runaway horse.\" The mosque was all frenzy, made so by factions inspired by Middle Easterners who discovered fertile ground in Brixton.",
      "\"And what are you, if I may ask?\" Sol said, tapping his partner's knee. Alfred answered deliberately. He pointed to his eyes. \"A realist. A pragmatist, after long and hard experience. Dreams are for fools and idiots, and zeal without knowledge is a runaway horse.\"",
      "Proverbs 19:2 states that it is not good to have zeal without knowledge. A similar British proverb is “ zeal without knowledge is a runaway horse.\" Zeal defines the earnestness and good intentions that remain essential to the church. However, the congregation's enthusiasm, coupled with inexperience in cross-cultural ministry, can result in an inability to listen and receive help from their host.",
      "They do not understand that “ zeal without knowledge is a runaway horse ” and that's why they are unproductive."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "9762",
    "Idiom": [
      "zero in"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To converge.",
    "Sentence": [
      "With 79 minutes gone, the most celebrated team of the modern age had been reduced to bunch of mooching, stumbling yellow-shirted spectators. A Champions League season that had seemed to be zeroing in on another coronation for Lionel Messi had been wrenched, gleefully, the other way.",
      "At the spring sale, everyone zeroed in on the bargain clothes."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "9763",
    "Idiom": [
      "zero-day"
    ],
    "Meaning": "A recently discovered, unpatched vulnerability.",
    "Sentence": [
      "New Internet Explorer zero-day exploited in Hong Kong attacks",
      "These days, however, more zero days are being used and discovered.",
      "All the four zero-days originally were reported to Microsoft, affecting Internet Explorer on the desktop."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "9764",
    "Idiom": [
      "zig when one should zag"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To misstep or err.",
    "Sentence": [
      "As I came around the last corner of the house, I zigged when I should have zagged, or zagged when I should have zigged. Either way, Brett went off the track and into a clump of birch trees. I turned around and saw the sled was gone"
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "9765",
    "Idiom": [
      "zip one's lip"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To refrain from talking.",
    "Sentence": [
      "Why don’t you just zip your lip ? I’m tired of listening to you."
    ]
  },
  {
    "ID": "9766",
    "Idiom": [
      "zip up"
    ],
    "Meaning": "To stop talking.",
    "Sentence": [
      "I'll zip up my lip.",
      "I'll zip up."
    ]
  }
]