data/idiom_extraction/idiom_extraction.json

[
    {
        "context": "The new teacher was so enthusiastic ; I hope she can keep it up until the end of the year .",
        "idiom": "keep it up"
    },
    {
        "context": "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 . ”",
        "idiom": "growing on"
    },
    {
        "context": "I give my old clothes to charity when I 've grown out of them .",
        "idiom": "grown out of"
    },
    {
        "context": "Still , I see you mean well enough , and are merely suffering from the debilitating cheerfulness of youth . You will soon grow out of that .",
        "idiom": "grow out of"
    },
    {
        "context": "The news report stemmed the tide of concerned calls , but did n't stop them altogether .",
        "idiom": "stemmed the tide"
    },
    {
        "context": "My mother - in - law pickled walnuts , and covered floors in rag rugs , she bottomed the house each spring",
        "idiom": "bottomed the house"
    },
    {
        "context": "I do n't want to pay the freight on the kind of conspicuous consumption that thrives on Mercedes or Jaguars .",
        "idiom": "pay the freight"
    },
    {
        "context": "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 .",
        "idiom": "get off the mark"
    },
    {
        "context": "\" I 'll lay you a pound to a penny that proud Miss Nelly marries John Ormandy in the end . \"",
        "idiom": "a pound to a penny"
    },
    {
        "context": "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 .",
        "idiom": "laughed all the way to the bank"
    },
    {
        "context": "Who cares if he 's not funny ? The venture capitalists behind Twitter will be laughing all the way to the bank .",
        "idiom": "laughing all the way to the bank"
    },
    {
        "context": "George Bancroft stars as ruthless stock manipulator Jim Bradford , who plays his customers for suckers and laughs all the way to the bank .",
        "idiom": "laughs all the way to the bank"
    },
    {
        "context": "When his rich aunt died , he was crying all the way to the bank .",
        "idiom": "crying all the way to the bank"
    },
    {
        "context": "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 .",
        "idiom": "once again"
    },
    {
        "context": "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 .",
        "idiom": "thud and blunder"
    },
    {
        "context": "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 .",
        "idiom": "amateur hour"
    },
    {
        "context": "Next week , at some place in Indianapolis where time has been instructed to stand still , Mark Emmert , president of the NCAA [ National Collegiate Athletic Association ] , 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 .",
        "idiom": "amateur hours"
    },
    {
        "context": "Although he was a gifted musician , he was a plumber by trade and never played music professionally .",
        "idiom": "by trade"
    },
    {
        "context": "“ 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 .",
        "idiom": "leave no stones unturned"
    },
    {
        "context": "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 ...",
        "idiom": "asked after"
    },
    {
        "context": "I do n't think I ever heard / A single little civil word from those guys / But you know I do n't give a light",
        "idiom": "give a light"
    },
    {
        "context": "This man has a forked tongue and lacks credibility .",
        "idiom": "forked tongue"
    },
    {
        "context": "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 .",
        "idiom": "tin ear"
    },
    {
        "context": "Everyone wanted to weigh in on what kind of car he should buy .",
        "idiom": "weigh in"
    },
    {
        "context": "Everyone spoke freely , until the boss weighed in .",
        "idiom": "weighed in"
    },
    {
        "context": "It is absolutely essential to understand other ’s motivations prior to weighing in .",
        "idiom": "weighing in"
    },
    {
        "context": "Now I must tell you a little about myself;—or rather , I am inclined to spin a yarn , and tell you a great deal .",
        "idiom": "spin a yarn"
    },
    {
        "context": "Images captured by the photojournalist Philip Jones Griffiths in Vietnam helped turn the tide of public opinion against the war .",
        "idiom": "turn the tide"
    },
    {
        "context": "He is tall in the saddle ( 6 ft . 2 in . ) and so adamantine that Jennifer Jones broke her hand slapping his face .",
        "idiom": "tall in the saddle"
    },
    {
        "context": "For me to love you now , Would be the sweetest thing , T'would make me sing , Ah , but I may as well try and catch the wind",
        "idiom": "may as well"
    },
    {
        "context": "Since you 're here , you might as well come in .",
        "idiom": "might as well"
    },
    {
        "context": "[ … ] 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 did n’t drop that .",
        "idiom": "putting on frills"
    },
    {
        "context": "“ She said we were really the only people on the ship they cared to know . ” “ I should n’t have thought a missionary was such a big bug that he could afford to put on frills . ”",
        "idiom": "put on frills"
    },
    {
        "context": "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 .",
        "idiom": "cede the field"
    },
    {
        "context": "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 . \"",
        "idiom": "ceding the field"
    },
    {
        "context": "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 .",
        "idiom": "hell or high water"
    },
    {
        "context": "The prime minister asked the home secretary to keep a close watch on the flooding situation .",
        "idiom": "keep a close watch"
    },
    {
        "context": "I feel really washed out after all that gardening .",
        "idiom": "washed out"
    },
    {
        "context": "I 'm a fan of Kurosawa 's films , but The Bad Sleep Well is a bit of a deep cut .",
        "idiom": "deep cut"
    },
    {
        "context": "Being a dentist is n't so glamorous , but it pays the bills .",
        "idiom": "pays the bills"
    },
    {
        "context": "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 .",
        "idiom": "ticket to ride"
    },
    {
        "context": "Predictably in the second half it was the Potters , who went searching for goals as Fulham sat back to defend their lead .",
        "idiom": "sat back"
    },
    {
        "context": "We had to sit through a 2 - hour awards ceremony before the food arrived .",
        "idiom": "sit through"
    },
    {
        "context": "and Bloomah will sometimes sit on the fence , concerning whose discretion , the same thing may be said ...",
        "idiom": "sit on the fence"
    },
    {
        "context": "Gyanendra 's 269 - year - old Shah dynasty has reached the end of the line .",
        "idiom": "end of the line"
    },
    {
        "context": "The festival is a true racial melting pot ; people from dozens of countries take part speaking many languages .",
        "idiom": "melting pot"
    },
    {
        "context": "[ … ] They said good - bye on the eleventh , and the Portuguese noblemen saw him off , going to great lengths to show him respect . \"",
        "idiom": "going to great lengths"
    },
    {
        "context": "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 .",
        "idiom": "got the nod"
    },
    {
        "context": "As a father , I would go to great lengths to protect my children .",
        "idiom": "go to great lengths"
    },
    {
        "context": "They turned a deaf ear to her entreaties .",
        "idiom": "turned a deaf ear"
    },
    {
        "context": "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 .",
        "idiom": "sigh of relief"
    },
    {
        "context": "I realized I needed to buck up and tackle the problem head - on .",
        "idiom": "buck up"
    },
    {
        "context": "He started bucking up everything to management when he did n't get a raise .",
        "idiom": "bucking up"
    },
    {
        "context": "There will come a time when you 'll need to take a stand for the changes you want .",
        "idiom": "take a stand"
    },
    {
        "context": "The press speculated about whether he would take the stand and testify in his defense .",
        "idiom": "take the stand"
    },
    {
        "context": "When President Roosevelt appointed Kennedy to the Securities Exchange Commission , he was acting on the \" poacher turned gamekeeper \" principle .",
        "idiom": "poacher turned gamekeeper"
    },
    {
        "context": "When you move to a new country , your first port of call is often the local police .",
        "idiom": "first port of call"
    },
    {
        "context": "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 did n't have much fun , did we ? Most of them are poor .",
        "idiom": "has left the building"
    },
    {
        "context": "It was written in the stars , That our love would be born , It was written in the stars , We 'd meet early one morn",
        "idiom": "written in the stars"
    },
    {
        "context": "Now we 're getting down to where the rubber meets the road .",
        "idiom": "the rubber meets the road"
    },
    {
        "context": "‘ Cook - housekeeper jobs do n’t grow on trees , ’ went on the woman , ‘ leastways not where you can keep a youngster with you . ’",
        "idiom": "n’t grow on trees"
    },
    {
        "context": "Chapter 11 : The Big C and the Three Rs : Chores , Relaxation , Recreation , and Rebellion",
        "idiom": "Three Rs"
    },
    {
        "context": "The business end of a hammer is known as the \" head \" .",
        "idiom": "business end"
    },
    {
        "context": "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 .",
        "idiom": "set the stage"
    },
    {
        "context": "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 .",
        "idiom": "proud as a peacock"
    },
    {
        "context": "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 .",
        "idiom": "thick as thieves"
    },
    {
        "context": "Liverpool ran rings around Ipswich in a 5 - 0 victory on Saturday .",
        "idiom": "ran rings around"
    },
    {
        "context": "He was born with a silver spoon and an upturned nose , he did n't lose the latter when he squandered the former .",
        "idiom": "silver spoon"
    },
    {
        "context": "He fell into a trap by believing his childhood friend and giving away all of his savings .",
        "idiom": "fell into a trap"
    },
    {
        "context": "To all intents and purposes the case is closed .",
        "idiom": "To all intents and purposes"
    },
    {
        "context": "This treaty is to all intents and purposes no longer viable .",
        "idiom": "to all intents and purposes"
    },
    {
        "context": "Sure , stop the lights , I know all about it . There 's a great shop in Phibsboro . Transformations ' Any size you want .",
        "idiom": "stop the lights"
    },
    {
        "context": "We 've got bananas up the yin - yang this week . Does anyone know how to make banana bread ?",
        "idiom": "up the yin - yang"
    },
    {
        "context": "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 .",
        "idiom": "sharp tongue"
    },
    {
        "context": ". . . for he was never yet a breaker of proverbs : he will give the devil his due .",
        "idiom": "give the devil his due"
    },
    {
        "context": "In his own ears the words he spoke rang hollow , awkward , even impertinent . He could say nothing which did not seem hideously supercilious .",
        "idiom": "rang hollow"
    },
    {
        "context": "His excuse about his daughter being ill again rings true , to me .",
        "idiom": "rings true"
    },
    {
        "context": "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 .",
        "idiom": "magic box"
    },
    {
        "context": "His excuse about his car breaking down again rings false to me .",
        "idiom": "rings false"
    },
    {
        "context": "The e - commerce industry lives and dies by metrics , a few of which give us some grasp over this phenomenon .",
        "idiom": "lives and dies by"
    },
    {
        "context": "If he s like \" I do n't want to \" , then be like \" Pretty please ! – It means a lot to me \" .",
        "idiom": "be like"
    },
    {
        "context": "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 .",
        "idiom": "return the favor"
    },
    {
        "context": "The corporation he will someday inherit — growing , churning — won't work as a one - man band .",
        "idiom": "one - man band"
    },
    {
        "context": "As for that swab , he 's good and dead , he is .",
        "idiom": "good and"
    },
    {
        "context": "Suffragettes were feminists avant la lettre . ( the word \" feminist \" did not exist during their era )",
        "idiom": "avant la lettre"
    },
    {
        "context": "The post of vice - president should , by rights , have been given to John .",
        "idiom": "by rights"
    },
    {
        "context": "I do n't know if I can hack it here ; the work is too hard for me .",
        "idiom": "hack it"
    },
    {
        "context": "Well , sir , believe you me , I 'll give that lassy as good a strapping as ever she got when she comes back .",
        "idiom": "believe you me"
    },
    {
        "context": "I just barely managed to keep my job during the layoff – it really hit too close to home .",
        "idiom": "hit too close to home"
    },
    {
        "context": "\" Believe you me , \" said Meldon , \" she 'll know how to manage him . \"",
        "idiom": "Believe you me"
    },
    {
        "context": "He began to tell her that he loved her , and he chased after her for six months",
        "idiom": "chased after"
    },
    {
        "context": "Have a heart and be lenient with him ; he 's only a child .",
        "idiom": "Have a heart"
    },
    {
        "context": "Do you think you 're the next Red Baron ?",
        "idiom": "Red Baron"
    },
    {
        "context": "Those that pay the piper must command the tune .",
        "idiom": "pay the piper"
    },
    {
        "context": "[ T]he 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 .",
        "idiom": "paying the piper"
    },
    {
        "context": "[ … ] she wou’d have corrupted all their Wives ; the Devil a one wou’d have made her own Butter , after being acquainted with her .",
        "idiom": "the Devil a one"
    },
    {
        "context": "Whole volleys of muskets were level’d at him , But the devil a one ever graz’d e’en a limb ,",
        "idiom": "the devil a one"
    },
    {
        "context": "The organization had been running on fumes for months , so it 's not surprising that they closed their doors .",
        "idiom": "running on fumes"
    },
    {
        "context": "The policeman decided to look the other way when he realized the criminal ’s act could benefit him .",
        "idiom": "look the other way"
    },
    {
        "context": "I felt sad that he had left , but I had to snap out of it and get on with my life .",
        "idiom": "snap out of"
    },
    {
        "context": "The weeds have long run rampant in the garden and it would be difficult to regain control .",
        "idiom": "run rampant"
    },
    {
        "context": "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 .",
        "idiom": "ran rampant"
    },
    {
        "context": "He sat on the couch all weekend eating chips and doing twelve - ounce curls .",
        "idiom": "twelve - ounce curls"
    },
    {
        "context": ". . . Tad Allagash , a stripling adman and Manhattan party animal with inexhaustible supplies of Bolivian Marching Powder ( coy for cocaine ) .",
        "idiom": "party animal"
    },
    {
        "context": "the two unbelievers began to gather and pocket up their mistake",
        "idiom": "pocket up"
    },
    {
        "context": "Without adequate sources , we can not know how this book came into the world .",
        "idiom": "came into the world"
    },
    {
        "context": "\" 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 . \"",
        "idiom": "weak sister"
    },
    {
        "context": "This item is urgent , so please start on it straight away .",
        "idiom": "straight away"
    },
    {
        "context": "But when railway workers downed tools almost a year later , on September 26 1919 , Britain was in many ways still a country at war .",
        "idiom": "downed tools"
    },
    {
        "context": "I just know he 's off spending the night with some sweet young thing he picked up in a bar .",
        "idiom": "sweet young thing"
    },
    {
        "context": "‘ You were the life of the party last night , Ma'am , you know , ’ returned Flowers , ‘ and you suffer for it , to - day , you see . ’",
        "idiom": "life of the party"
    },
    {
        "context": "The campaign is in crisis mode , they are running scared and it is becoming obvious .",
        "idiom": "running scared"
    },
    {
        "context": "It will be some time before the new factory comes online , and until then we ca n't fulfill demand .",
        "idiom": "comes online"
    },
    {
        "context": "Come online later ; I want to talk to you .",
        "idiom": "Come online"
    },
    {
        "context": "Several trucks rushed by a few stone 's throws away from us .",
        "idiom": "stone 's throws"
    },
    {
        "context": "But she crossed out “ I do understand ” ; it struck a false note . Henry could not bear to be understood .",
        "idiom": "struck a false note"
    },
    {
        "context": "A stone 's throw from The Hawthorns is Oldbury , home to Baggies fan Ashley Rawlins .",
        "idiom": "stone 's throw"
    },
    {
        "context": "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 .",
        "idiom": "strike a false note"
    },
    {
        "context": "They had a hot and heavy love affair during the summer .",
        "idiom": "hot and heavy"
    },
    {
        "context": "When they had an argument they went at it hammer and tongs .",
        "idiom": "hammer and tongs"
    },
    {
        "context": "They went hot and cold about the proposal for a whole year , before finally saying no .",
        "idiom": "hot and cold"
    },
    {
        "context": "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 ; [ … ]",
        "idiom": "fend and prove"
    },
    {
        "context": "She fended away his eager hands .",
        "idiom": "fended away"
    },
    {
        "context": "He irons his clothes how ? ! That 's crazy ! Well , I guess it takes all kinds to make a world .",
        "idiom": "it takes all kinds to make a world"
    },
    {
        "context": "In May 2003 , South Africa set the pace by banning thin plastic bags and imposing a tax on thick ones .",
        "idiom": "set the pace"
    },
    {
        "context": "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 .",
        "idiom": "from the Department of the Bleeding Obvious"
    },
    {
        "context": "' 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 would n't shout if a shark bit him , ' Harry explains to the tourist , filling up his glass .",
        "idiom": "would n't shout if a shark bit him"
    },
    {
        "context": "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 . \" Would n't shout if a shark bit him \" , was the general opinion .",
        "idiom": "Would n't shout if a shark bit him"
    },
    {
        "context": "For baby - boomer parents , life without kids often feels like suddenly slamming on the brakes after years in the fast lane .",
        "idiom": "in the fast lane"
    },
    {
        "context": "If this project is n't completed on time , heads will roll .",
        "idiom": "heads will roll"
    },
    {
        "context": "[ I]t would be robbing Peter to pay Paul , for the government to pay a stamp - duty to itself .",
        "idiom": "robbing Peter to pay Paul"
    },
    {
        "context": "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 .",
        "idiom": "slave to fashion"
    },
    {
        "context": "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 .",
        "idiom": "drew fire"
    },
    {
        "context": "Wanna buy a television network ? Take a number . A few years ago you would have had the field to yourself .",
        "idiom": "Take a number"
    },
    {
        "context": "Calum ’s always cutting about spouting shite about his pals .",
        "idiom": "cutting about"
    },
    {
        "context": "Even if they did decide to prosecute , the Justice Department would have to take a number and stand in a very long line .",
        "idiom": "take a number"
    },
    {
        "context": "He put next year 's reserved seed on one side .",
        "idiom": "one side"
    },
    {
        "context": "[ … ] 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 . \" Ca n't you read English ? \" \" One side , brother , \" said the Inspector cheerfully . \" We 're in a hurry . \" The doorman did not budge [ … ]",
        "idiom": "One side"
    },
    {
        "context": "Great idea ! We 'll be there with bells on .",
        "idiom": "with bells on"
    },
    {
        "context": "If you fly jets , you know what it means to strangle the parrot ( turning off the transponder that identifies aircraft as friendly or hostile ) [ … ]",
        "idiom": "strangle the parrot"
    },
    {
        "context": "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 .",
        "idiom": "wait around"
    },
    {
        "context": "\" Then he 'd take a quick look at the script and say , Let 's get this circus on the road . ' The cameras would turn . \"",
        "idiom": "Let 's get this circus on the road"
    },
    {
        "context": "I 'll admit , I like how you kick it / Now you 're talkin ' baby , that 's the ticket",
        "idiom": "that 's the ticket"
    },
    {
        "context": "It 's when I 'm in the zone that I feel by myself , the most vibrantly alone .",
        "idiom": "in the zone"
    },
    {
        "context": "The bank robber decided to take a hostage in order to raise the stakes .",
        "idiom": "raise the stakes"
    },
    {
        "context": "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 ca n't imagine how he 'll ever get there when his family lives paycheck to paycheck and ca n't put anything away for savings .",
        "idiom": "lives paycheck to paycheck"
    },
    {
        "context": "I had to get up at oh dark hundred to catch a plane .",
        "idiom": "oh dark hundred"
    },
    {
        "context": "Ahmadinejad is no simpleton . . . . His Holocaust denial is a flagrant ploy — the easiest way to get a rise out of the Jewish community .",
        "idiom": "get a rise out of"
    },
    {
        "context": "The production manager was annoyed because some desk jockey in the main office reassigned her staff without even consulting her .",
        "idiom": "desk jockey"
    },
    {
        "context": "So make the best of this test and do n't ask why , It 's not a question , but a lesson learned in time",
        "idiom": "make the best of"
    },
    {
        "context": "Do n’t desert me in my hour of need .",
        "idiom": "hour of need"
    },
    {
        "context": "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 .",
        "idiom": "put on airs"
    },
    {
        "context": "She denied it but she had been spotted in the act .",
        "idiom": "in the act"
    },
    {
        "context": "There are awkward grownup persons , having , as the French say , two left hands , whom no labour will ever make dexterous carvers ;",
        "idiom": "two left hands"
    },
    {
        "context": "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 .",
        "idiom": "turn a phrase"
    },
    {
        "context": "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 .",
        "idiom": "edged out"
    },
    {
        "context": "Pike Place is Starbucks ' attempt to address complaints that its regular cup of joe is bitter , overroasted and \" burnt . \"",
        "idiom": "cup of joe"
    },
    {
        "context": "What has that got to do with the price of eggs in Reykjavik ?",
        "idiom": "price of eggs"
    },
    {
        "context": "\" 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 . \"",
        "idiom": "in a big way"
    },
    {
        "context": "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 .",
        "idiom": "war of words"
    },
    {
        "context": "[ T]hese two have brutal , contemptuous wars of words — the kind you might expect from divorcing 40 - somethings .",
        "idiom": "wars of words"
    },
    {
        "context": "on the cusp of stardom",
        "idiom": "on the cusp"
    },
    {
        "context": "They set up shop as venture capitalists on Sand Hill Road .",
        "idiom": "set up shop"
    },
    {
        "context": "Probably its leader Paul Berenger is keen to bequeath it as his final legacy before the curtain falls for him .",
        "idiom": "the curtain falls"
    },
    {
        "context": "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 .",
        "idiom": "bum rap"
    },
    {
        "context": "\" Mirror in My House is both a portrait of the artist ( 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 . \"",
        "idiom": "contains multitudes"
    },
    {
        "context": "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 .",
        "idiom": "sea legs"
    },
    {
        "context": "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 .",
        "idiom": "stovepipe hat"
    },
    {
        "context": "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 .",
        "idiom": "shape up or ship out"
    },
    {
        "context": "I recognized him on sight .",
        "idiom": "on sight"
    },
    {
        "context": "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 .",
        "idiom": "peg the needle"
    },
    {
        "context": "The boy was left with Bob Yancy mainly because nobody else would take him . Them 's the facts . Now go on !",
        "idiom": "Them 's the facts"
    },
    {
        "context": "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 . \"",
        "idiom": "walk in the snow"
    },
    {
        "context": "Lord , what thou doest noo , an ' why , We maunna seek to ken ; But sune the sweet hereafter comes , An ' thou wilt tell us then .",
        "idiom": "sweet hereafter"
    },
    {
        "context": "People who do n't come on strong are n't listened to . If you compromise , you wo n't get what you want . People wo n't take you seriously , or think you are a real man ( or woman ) unless you are tough .",
        "idiom": "come on strong"
    },
    {
        "context": "Jean had thought that the prowler might be some tramp who had wandered far off the beaten path of migratory humans .",
        "idiom": "off the beaten path"
    },
    {
        "context": "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 .",
        "idiom": "came home by weeping cross"
    },
    {
        "context": "We get along good all the time , me and the missus , but honest to God I wish she would let me alone for at least an hour in the morning until I pull myself together if I hung one on the night before .",
        "idiom": "hung one on"
    },
    {
        "context": "Goldman Sachs warned that we are ‘ only at the start of a steep downturn ’ and advised investors to head for the hills .",
        "idiom": "head for the hills"
    },
    {
        "context": "Before 1914 the Russian economy was on track to outperform that of France and Britain within a decade .",
        "idiom": "on track"
    },
    {
        "context": "He would have felt like an irate ticket - holder at a prize - fight where the principals refused to mix it up .",
        "idiom": "mix it up"
    },
    {
        "context": "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 . \"",
        "idiom": "dog 's breakfast"
    },
    {
        "context": "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 .",
        "idiom": "catch a wave"
    },
    {
        "context": "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 .",
        "idiom": "dip one 's toe in"
    },
    {
        "context": "Download websites should be designed so that those who wish to can just grab and go .",
        "idiom": "grab and go"
    },
    {
        "context": "Never “ tremble and obey ” if doing so will damage or destroy your business in China .",
        "idiom": "tremble and obey"
    },
    {
        "context": "Well have fun , but , word to the wise , do n't let your sister take control .",
        "idiom": "word to the wise"
    },
    {
        "context": "Therefore my friends , stand to it one and all , refuse this filthy trash .",
        "idiom": "one and all"
    },
    {
        "context": "[ M]en 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 .",
        "idiom": "One and all"
    },
    {
        "context": "I really do n't want to buy anything . You seem by bad luck to be stocked up with just the sort of things I would n't be seen dead in a ditch with . I ca n't stand rubber rings , never could . I 'm not really keen on buttonhooks .",
        "idiom": "would n't be seen dead"
    },
    {
        "context": "You get no prize for guessing what happened when the spider landed on her plate .",
        "idiom": "no prize for guessing"
    },
    {
        "context": "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 .",
        "idiom": "face that would stop a clock"
    },
    {
        "context": "\" I am desolated to lose the pearls of wisdom that habitually fall from your cultivated lips , \" returned Haddo .",
        "idiom": "pearls of wisdom"
    },
    {
        "context": "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 do n't . \"",
        "idiom": "pearl of wisdom"
    },
    {
        "context": "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 .",
        "idiom": "Sword and Sorcery"
    },
    {
        "context": "Japan could n't be more different than the United States .",
        "idiom": "could n't be more different"
    },
    {
        "context": "\" Godzilla \" is one of the classic creature features .",
        "idiom": "creature features"
    },
    {
        "context": "Her lover , cheek by jowl with Maria , at the head of that army of Portuguese ragamuffins , was not a pretty sight .",
        "idiom": "not a pretty sight"
    },
    {
        "context": "B : Your ass .",
        "idiom": "Your ass"
    },
    {
        "context": "The remote area will offer astronomers a ringside seat for the sky spectacular .",
        "idiom": "ringside seat"
    },
    {
        "context": "“ 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 . ”",
        "idiom": "in other news"
    },
    {
        "context": "There were , besides , some little pleasures in the shape of helping her to vegetable she did n'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 .",
        "idiom": "waste not , want not"
    },
    {
        "context": "I have two other philosophies . One is : Do the best you can with what you have . The other is : Do n't worry about water over the dam .",
        "idiom": "water over the dam"
    },
    {
        "context": "The Canada Institute , part of the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars , has hit one out of the ballpark with its Montreal fundraiser .",
        "idiom": "hit one out of the ballpark"
    },
    {
        "context": "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 .",
        "idiom": "staff of life"
    },
    {
        "context": "He yelled silently at R. Daneel : Machine !",
        "idiom": "yelled silently"
    },
    {
        "context": "He would n'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 .",
        "idiom": "cold fish"
    },
    {
        "context": "You do n't need special tools for this ; any old hard surface will do .",
        "idiom": "any old"
    },
    {
        "context": "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 .",
        "idiom": "And finally"
    },
    {
        "context": "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 .",
        "idiom": "and finally"
    },
    {
        "context": "As a campaigning politician , he really knew how to shake hands , kiss babies , and work the room .",
        "idiom": "work the room"
    },
    {
        "context": "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 .",
        "idiom": "bucket of bolts"
    },
    {
        "context": "\" Why should I shake his hand ? He called me a melon head . \" - Miami Herald , 1992",
        "idiom": "melon head"
    },
    {
        "context": "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 .",
        "idiom": "coming out of the broom closet"
    },
    {
        "context": "I can not claim that I ever came out of the broom closet , because I did n'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 .",
        "idiom": "came out of the broom closet"
    },
    {
        "context": "Well this sure ai n't no E ticket .",
        "idiom": "E ticket"
    },
    {
        "context": "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 .",
        "idiom": "honey hole"
    },
    {
        "context": "Merlin hesitated a moment or two , and I was on pins and needles during that little while .",
        "idiom": "on pins and needles"
    },
    {
        "context": "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 .",
        "idiom": "One step forward , two steps back"
    },
    {
        "context": "This vase is not worth a dime . Why did you pay so much for it ?",
        "idiom": "not worth a dime"
    },
    {
        "context": "His opinions are n't worth a dime .",
        "idiom": "n't worth a dime"
    },
    {
        "context": "Why is he here ? Nothing will change . At best , he 'll make a dime 's worth of difference .",
        "idiom": "dime 's worth"
    },
    {
        "context": "Those files were wiped off the face of the earth .",
        "idiom": "off the face of the earth"
    },
    {
        "context": "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 .",
        "idiom": "ride on the back of"
    },
    {
        "context": "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 .",
        "idiom": "riding on the back of"
    },
    {
        "context": "That disguise is a dead giveaway ! Choose something less obvious .",
        "idiom": "dead giveaway"
    },
    {
        "context": "\" The company 's proposal has placed Mr. Carey in a tight spot in the strike \" - st / fullpage.html?res=9405E2D9173FF937A2575BC0A961958260 New York Times , 1997",
        "idiom": "tight spot"
    },
    {
        "context": "\" Jays Squeeze Out of Tight Spot Into a 2 - 1 Lead . \" - New York Times , 1992",
        "idiom": "Tight Spot"
    },
    {
        "context": "Sarcastic comments came to mind , but I said nothing .",
        "idiom": "came to mind"
    },
    {
        "context": "Oh ! no ; there would be a Mrs. Knightley to throw cold water on every thing.—Extremely disagreeable !",
        "idiom": "throw cold water on"
    },
    {
        "context": "He has been running on empty for a while . It 's likely the project will be canceled .",
        "idiom": "running on empty"
    },
    {
        "context": "[ A]s much as language in our modern technological world is mediated through the written word , quantitatively spoken language still reigns supreme .",
        "idiom": "reigns supreme"
    },
    {
        "context": "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 .",
        "idiom": "unicorn vomit"
    },
    {
        "context": "Stop playing games with me and tell me the truth .",
        "idiom": "playing games"
    },
    {
        "context": "We 're running out of money . It 's going to be rough sledding from now on , but we 'll have to cope .",
        "idiom": "rough sledding"
    },
    {
        "context": "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 .",
        "idiom": "walk the line"
    },
    {
        "context": "“ Hide ! ” cried Ebony , with a roll of his huge eyes , as he suited the action to the word , [ … ]",
        "idiom": "suited the action to the word"
    },
    {
        "context": "\" I ca n'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 . \"",
        "idiom": "ca n't stand the sight of"
    },
    {
        "context": "\" Only force of habit will explain why people today do honor to Christopher Columbus . \" - New York Times , 1937",
        "idiom": "force of habit"
    },
    {
        "context": "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 do n'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 .",
        "idiom": "unicorn puke"
    },
    {
        "context": "Armenia was good at removing kebab .",
        "idiom": "removing kebab"
    },
    {
        "context": "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 .",
        "idiom": "on course"
    },
    {
        "context": "No ways , I do n’t use traditional healers .",
        "idiom": "No ways"
    },
    {
        "context": "She tried to get the case open . . . . \" I wish Father was here , \" said Phyllis ; \" he 'd get it open in two shakes . \"",
        "idiom": "in two shakes"
    },
    {
        "context": "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 .",
        "idiom": "In two shakes"
    },
    {
        "context": "Charley : I did it ! I did it ! I beat the game ! I defeated the mother ship ! And now for the super fantastic secret message !",
        "idiom": "now for"
    },
    {
        "context": "He wants to give you two million dollars ? That 's just too good to be true !",
        "idiom": "too good to be true"
    },
    {
        "context": "I 'm not going to swing for the fences tomorrow , but I 'm hoping my speech will be warmly received .",
        "idiom": "swing for the fences"
    },
    {
        "context": "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 .",
        "idiom": "yellow journalism"
    },
    {
        "context": "You 're falling behind with the rent .",
        "idiom": "falling behind"
    },
    {
        "context": "Most of us did n't plan to be designers ; we just fell into the job .",
        "idiom": "fell into"
    },
    {
        "context": "Trees fall into two main categories : deciduous and evergreen .",
        "idiom": "fall into"
    },
    {
        "context": "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 .",
        "idiom": "paint a rosy picture"
    },
    {
        "context": "Greco - German ‘ Fingergate ’ Gets Curiouser and Curiouser [ title ]",
        "idiom": "Curiouser and Curiouser"
    },
    {
        "context": "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 ; ...",
        "idiom": "inner circle"
    },
    {
        "context": "[ … ] 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 .",
        "idiom": "plays the wag"
    },
    {
        "context": "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 .",
        "idiom": "bump and grind"
    },
    {
        "context": "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 ca n’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 . )",
        "idiom": "needle drops"
    },
    {
        "context": "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 .",
        "idiom": "climb the walls"
    },
    {
        "context": "Or maybe we could locate a place to camp and fish that would be close to your mother . The area would n't be as nice , but we could still be outdoors and meet other needs as well . And the boys would n't be climbing the walls .",
        "idiom": "climbing the walls"
    },
    {
        "context": "There are really no hardships if you take things as they come and make the best of them .",
        "idiom": "take things as they come"
    },
    {
        "context": "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 . ”",
        "idiom": "Take things as they come"
    },
    {
        "context": "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 .",
        "idiom": "hear the grass grow"
    },
    {
        "context": "And , whereas the mind of Man , when he gives the Spur and Bridle to his Thoughts , doth never ſtop , but naturally ſallies out into both extreams of High and Low , of Good and Evil , his first Flight of Fancy commonly tranſports Him to Idea 's of what is moſt Perfect , finiſhed , and exalted ; …",
        "idiom": "Flight of Fancy"
    },
    {
        "context": "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 ?",
        "idiom": "flight of fancy"
    },
    {
        "context": "A Salesman Unaided by the House is Pushing Water Uphill .",
        "idiom": "Pushing Water Uphill"
    },
    {
        "context": "Without that commitment you will be pushing water uphill the whole time and will lose your own , necessary motivation .",
        "idiom": "pushing water uphill"
    },
    {
        "context": "2005 , Jeff Sabatini , \" 2006 Lexus RX 400h : The hybrid emperor 's new clothes , \" New York Times , 31 Jul. ,",
        "idiom": "emperor 's new clothes"
    },
    {
        "context": "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 . ”",
        "idiom": "Talk is cheap"
    },
    {
        "context": "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 .",
        "idiom": "caucus race"
    },
    {
        "context": "\" 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 . \"",
        "idiom": "say the word"
    },
    {
        "context": "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 . \"",
        "idiom": "cat that ate the canary"
    },
    {
        "context": "So I close by saying that I might have had a tough break , but I have an awful lot to live for .",
        "idiom": "tough break"
    },
    {
        "context": "My reaction ? Tough break , chump .",
        "idiom": "Tough break"
    },
    {
        "context": "\" Nothing shall induce me ! \" he said . . . . \" The man is a ruffian . I wo n't knuckle under to him ! \"",
        "idiom": "knuckle under"
    },
    {
        "context": "Little Joe 's mother 's cake was the last word in cakes ; …",
        "idiom": "last word"
    },
    {
        "context": "Mona : A fire giant finger toast to the Three Musketeers ! Charley and Lily : Only scarier !",
        "idiom": "Three Musketeers"
    },
    {
        "context": "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 .",
        "idiom": "on the cuff"
    },
    {
        "context": "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 .",
        "idiom": "playing dumb"
    },
    {
        "context": "Some students suck it up and meet the challenge . Others look around wildly for someone to blame .",
        "idiom": "suck it up"
    },
    {
        "context": "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 .",
        "idiom": "front and center"
    },
    {
        "context": "Biden Is Expected to Keep Scrutiny of Tech Front and Center [ title ]",
        "idiom": "Front and Center"
    },
    {
        "context": "Roll tape ! Action ! \" I ca n'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 .",
        "idiom": "Be still my heart"
    },
    {
        "context": "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 .",
        "idiom": "be still my heart"
    },
    {
        "context": "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 .",
        "idiom": "Honest johns"
    },
    {
        "context": "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 .",
        "idiom": "packing heat"
    },
    {
        "context": "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 .",
        "idiom": "to a fare - thee - well"
    },
    {
        "context": "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 .",
        "idiom": "twist in the wind"
    },
    {
        "context": "\" What do you see ? \" Thayet wanted to know .",
        "idiom": "wanted to know"
    },
    {
        "context": "The company 's third loss warning in two years raises the spectre of eventual collapse and bankruptcy .",
        "idiom": "raises the spectre"
    },
    {
        "context": "16 24 , Democritus Junior [ pseudonym ; Robert Burton ] , The Anatomy of Melancholy : [ … ] , 2nd edition , Oxford , Oxfordshire : Printed by John Lichfield and James Short , for Henry Cripps , OCLC 54573970 : If they be any ways offended , [ … ] they fall foul .",
        "idiom": "fall foul"
    },
    {
        "context": "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 …",
        "idiom": "fell foul"
    },
    {
        "context": "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 did n't recognize you without your apron !",
        "idiom": "Who wants to know"
    },
    {
        "context": "Bill Clinton was in full campaign form Tuesday . Hours behind schedule , he stopped to press the flesh with everyone in sight .",
        "idiom": "press the flesh"
    },
    {
        "context": "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 .",
        "idiom": "take care of business"
    },
    {
        "context": "You 've got a head on your shoulders , you have ! I guess you 'll fill the bill .",
        "idiom": "fill the bill"
    },
    {
        "context": "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 .",
        "idiom": "filled the bill"
    },
    {
        "context": "Soon the typewriter would become a back - office curiosity , and the slide - rule would go the way of the Dodo bird .",
        "idiom": "go the way of the Dodo bird"
    },
    {
        "context": "She [ Thelma Golden ] 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 did n'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 .",
        "idiom": "gone the way of the dodo bird"
    },
    {
        "context": "The reason that so many were fleeing the land was simply that small family farms were going the way of the dodo bird .",
        "idiom": "going the way of the dodo bird"
    },
    {
        "context": "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 .",
        "idiom": "go the way of the dodo bird"
    },
    {
        "context": "You 're welcome to stay here , but this hut ai n't no great shakes for such as you .",
        "idiom": "no great shakes"
    },
    {
        "context": "However , much more is needed , much more . Farmers throughout the Nation feel that they have been \" ridden hard and put away wet . \"",
        "idiom": "ridden hard and put away wet"
    },
    {
        "context": "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 .",
        "idiom": "mouth the words"
    },
    {
        "context": "his vacancy opened the door for young people who wanted a position",
        "idiom": "opened the door"
    },
    {
        "context": "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 .",
        "idiom": "blood in the water\"—that"
    },
    {
        "context": "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 .",
        "idiom": "blood in the water"
    },
    {
        "context": "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 . '",
        "idiom": "at the high port"
    },
    {
        "context": "With all due respect , Sir , I do n't think that 's the case .",
        "idiom": "With all due respect"
    },
    {
        "context": "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 .",
        "idiom": "with all due respect"
    },
    {
        "context": "After years in local theatre productions , he made his debut on the silver sheet and became known around the world .",
        "idiom": "silver sheet"
    },
    {
        "context": "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 .",
        "idiom": "brass farthing"
    },
    {
        "context": "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 .",
        "idiom": "pound of flesh"
    },
    {
        "context": "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 does n't like it , let the bastard go sing soprano to the A.C.L.U. Such was the ladies ' thought .",
        "idiom": "sing soprano"
    },
    {
        "context": "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 .",
        "idiom": "singing soprano"
    },
    {
        "context": "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 .",
        "idiom": "ahead of the pack"
    },
    {
        "context": "Right now the dynamo is out of fix , so I have used the electric light current , with an interrupter .",
        "idiom": "out of fix"
    },
    {
        "context": "\" 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 ! \"",
        "idiom": "freak flag"
    },
    {
        "context": "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 .",
        "idiom": "ride the crest of the wave"
    },
    {
        "context": "Friends that I had lost touch with years ago suddenly found me again .",
        "idiom": "lost touch"
    },
    {
        "context": "At times , people with psychotic disorders lose touch with reality .",
        "idiom": "lose touch"
    },
    {
        "context": "His ears are burning .",
        "idiom": "ears are burning"
    },
    {
        "context": "Shall I complain on thee to our mistress , whose hand , she being now at hand , thou shalt soon feel , to thy cold comfort , for being slow in thy hot office ?",
        "idiom": "cold comfort"
    },
    {
        "context": "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 .",
        "idiom": "at peace with"
    },
    {
        "context": "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 .",
        "idiom": "holds sway"
    },
    {
        "context": "There is nothing quite like the affection of a transplanted New Yorker for his native concrete jungle .",
        "idiom": "concrete jungle"
    },
    {
        "context": "I want Sollozzo . If not , it 's all - out war . We 'll go to the mattresses .",
        "idiom": "go to the mattresses"
    },
    {
        "context": "He decided to make a clean break with his employer .",
        "idiom": "clean break"
    },
    {
        "context": "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 .",
        "idiom": "pact of silence"
    },
    {
        "context": "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 .",
        "idiom": "rough patches"
    },
    {
        "context": "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 .",
        "idiom": "three squares"
    },
    {
        "context": "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 .",
        "idiom": "standard fare"
    },
    {
        "context": "Gandy dancer — A section hand or track laborer .",
        "idiom": "Gandy dancer"
    },
    {
        "context": "In railroad slang , a gandy dancer is a track worker , one who lays or maintains track .",
        "idiom": "gandy dancer"
    },
    {
        "context": "Working both sides of the stream , they got native chieftains to pass the word by jungle telegraph .",
        "idiom": "jungle telegraph"
    },
    {
        "context": "The sound track tingles with cool jazz , the dry atonal music of the asphalt jungle .",
        "idiom": "asphalt jungle"
    },
    {
        "context": "They could charge a pretty penny as they had a captive audience .",
        "idiom": "pretty penny"
    },
    {
        "context": "\" Felix Marchand'll have much money — bad penny as he is , \" continued Christine in her normal voice .",
        "idiom": "bad penny"
    },
    {
        "context": "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 [ … ]",
        "idiom": "Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse"
    },
    {
        "context": "There was n't a dry eye in the audience after her heart - wrenching performance .",
        "idiom": "dry eye"
    },
    {
        "context": "Watch out those crazy skinheads ! They made someone bite the curb the other night .",
        "idiom": "bite the curb"
    },
    {
        "context": "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 .",
        "idiom": "drop the writ"
    },
    {
        "context": "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 .",
        "idiom": "Main Street"
    },
    {
        "context": "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 .",
        "idiom": "opposite number"
    },
    {
        "context": "For months the Washington rumor mill has ground out gossip about who might replace U.S. Ambassador Frederick E. Nolting Jr.",
        "idiom": "rumor mill"
    },
    {
        "context": "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 [ … ]",
        "idiom": "cruel mistress"
    },
    {
        "context": "In 1994 , during the Orange County bankruptcy , a few funds were poised to break the buck , until their parent companies stepped in .",
        "idiom": "break the buck"
    },
    {
        "context": "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 .",
        "idiom": "elbow mentality"
    },
    {
        "context": "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 . ]",
        "idiom": "bread and circuses"
    },
    {
        "context": "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 .",
        "idiom": "bush telegraph"
    },
    {
        "context": "The Administration and Congress have had to prove they are at least attempting to mind the store .",
        "idiom": "mind the store"
    },
    {
        "context": "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 . \"",
        "idiom": "talking out of turn"
    },
    {
        "context": "Because some government officials apparently talked out of turn , the Russians can now engage in ballistics blackmail with our allies .",
        "idiom": "talked out of turn"
    },
    {
        "context": "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 was n't their job . These were deferential times , and few wanted to talk out of turn .",
        "idiom": "talk out of turn"
    },
    {
        "context": "It 's voters who seem to want Republicans and Democrats in the next Congress to cross the aisle and try something different in Iraq .",
        "idiom": "cross the aisle"
    },
    {
        "context": "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 .",
        "idiom": "crossed the aisle"
    },
    {
        "context": "After Stronach 's 2005 defection to Paul Martin 's Liberals . . . . [ a]t least one Tory MP openly called her a \" whore \" for crossing the aisle .",
        "idiom": "crossing the aisle"
    },
    {
        "context": "Even discount superstore Wal - Mart , once considered a recession - proof business , was taken down a notch after it reported lackluster earnings last month .",
        "idiom": "taken down a notch"
    },
    {
        "context": "We need to hit pause on this project for now , and switch gears to the next thing .",
        "idiom": "hit pause"
    },
    {
        "context": "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 .",
        "idiom": "born in a barn"
    },
    {
        "context": "Does n'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 ?",
        "idiom": "fell off the turnip truck"
    },
    {
        "context": "They play well on offense , but on the other end of the ball they need work .",
        "idiom": "other end of the ball"
    },
    {
        "context": "Never fussed none about the work . Never hardly got a hair out of place .",
        "idiom": "hair out of place"
    },
    {
        "context": "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 .",
        "idiom": "err on the side of"
    },
    {
        "context": "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 !",
        "idiom": "grow a tail"
    },
    {
        "context": "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 .",
        "idiom": "growing a tail"
    },
    {
        "context": "It 's almost as if there 's one electron in two places at one and the same time .",
        "idiom": "one and the same"
    },
    {
        "context": "They are all zealous to the last degree in support of the extreme policy . . . . They certainly will not err on the side of caution .",
        "idiom": "err on the side of caution"
    },
    {
        "context": "\" It 's got to happen to us all Every man Jack and every woman Jill of us go the same way . \"",
        "idiom": "every woman Jill"
    },
    {
        "context": "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 .",
        "idiom": "not worth a plug nickel"
    },
    {
        "context": "It ’s the same old story / Everywhere I go / I get slandered , libeled",
        "idiom": "same old story"
    },
    {
        "context": "It 's a seizure even if the suspect refuses to stop , evades capture , and rides off into the sunset never to be seen again .",
        "idiom": "rides off into the sunset"
    },
    {
        "context": "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 ” .",
        "idiom": "put the pedal to the metal"
    },
    {
        "context": "- Jack 's put on a bit of weight recently . , - I 'll say !",
        "idiom": "I 'll say"
    },
    {
        "context": "I 'd love to stay later , but my mother will throw a fit if I 'm not home by 10 .",
        "idiom": "throw a fit"
    },
    {
        "context": "This , following the democratic disposition of the times , was commonly conceived of as an elected body , a municipality , the parliamentary state or what not .",
        "idiom": "what not"
    },
    {
        "context": "It is very difficult to make a monkey out of policy makers who can read and write and can argue a case logically .",
        "idiom": "make a monkey out of"
    },
    {
        "context": "Now their powder would be cannon powder and gun powder , would be made into canister shot , and would propel balls into flesh , and would blow living men to shreds . The whole idea was a gut punch .",
        "idiom": "gut punch"
    },
    {
        "context": "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 .",
        "idiom": "political football"
    },
    {
        "context": "“ Now this wo n’t do - not by a long way ” .",
        "idiom": "by a long way"
    },
    {
        "context": "Still , he mostly sang from the same hymnbook as the Bush Administration , saying fundamental fiscal trends are favorable .",
        "idiom": "sang from the same hymnbook"
    },
    {
        "context": "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 .",
        "idiom": "turn a hair"
    },
    {
        "context": "[ … ] those seasoned topers who drank their companions under the table without themselves turning a hair [ … ]",
        "idiom": "turning a hair"
    },
    {
        "context": "[ … ] 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 .",
        "idiom": "turned a hair"
    },
    {
        "context": "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 .",
        "idiom": "emptied the clip"
    },
    {
        "context": "The sins the foundation has identified include eating at the wheel , becoming a traffic - light hopping \" amber gambler \" and drinking and driving .",
        "idiom": "amber gambler"
    },
    {
        "context": "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 .",
        "idiom": "buried the lede"
    },
    {
        "context": "One by one , we can shoot holes through possible standards by which the Commission on Qualifications could evaluate nominees for the trial courts .",
        "idiom": "shoot holes"
    },
    {
        "context": "Although I liked your suggestion , I 'll go with my original idea .",
        "idiom": "go with"
    },
    {
        "context": "On the debit side , I do not recommend the room service .",
        "idiom": "On the debit side"
    },
    {
        "context": "\" You ca n't reform ODOT , \" he says wearily , \" you can only drive a stake through its heart . \"",
        "idiom": "drive a stake through its heart"
    },
    {
        "context": "The renovation is coming along nicely , and should be ready within a month .",
        "idiom": "coming along"
    },
    {
        "context": "It took Patrolman Battle ten months to crack the case , and even Max Steur , famed lawyer , could n't upset it , so pat was the evidence assembled against them .",
        "idiom": "crack the case"
    },
    {
        "context": "His life was left hanging in the balance after he was shot in the side .",
        "idiom": "hanging in the balance"
    },
    {
        "context": "All of a sudden he remembered the spooks , and it knocked him all of a heap .",
        "idiom": "all of a heap"
    },
    {
        "context": "President George W. Bush had once again outmaneuvered them by taking the national - security high ground in an election year .",
        "idiom": "high ground"
    },
    {
        "context": "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 .",
        "idiom": "moral high ground"
    },
    {
        "context": "\" But an uprising in the central provinces would tip the scales for us ! \" exclaimed Conan .",
        "idiom": "tip the scales"
    },
    {
        "context": "There ’s a word that we use in consumer behavior — it singularizes the couple and communicates that this couple is like no other .",
        "idiom": "like no other"
    },
    {
        "context": "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 .",
        "idiom": "as they come"
    },
    {
        "context": "Kathy says Much obliged , but what I do n'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 .",
        "idiom": "sucking the mop"
    },
    {
        "context": "BIANCA : Well , it 's a cooshy enough way to crack a crust ...",
        "idiom": "crack a crust"
    },
    {
        "context": "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 \" .",
        "idiom": "putting the beggar on the gentleman"
    },
    {
        "context": "' 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 do n't look as though you were made for climbing or running — much . Well , how was it , old Hay - bales ? '",
        "idiom": "Now you mention it"
    },
    {
        "context": "If you add consider all the negative and all the positive factors , it should balance out to something acceptable .",
        "idiom": "balance out"
    },
    {
        "context": "... you 're all wet , calling me out on that close play at second base !",
        "idiom": "all wet"
    },
    {
        "context": "I pissed away four years of my life in university and did n't graduate .",
        "idiom": "pissed away"
    },
    {
        "context": "You ca n't keep pissing away your money like this !",
        "idiom": "pissing away"
    },
    {
        "context": "I 'm not sure if I can do this , truth be told .",
        "idiom": "truth be told"
    },
    {
        "context": "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 . Do n't replay what you might have done or what someone else might have done ... \"",
        "idiom": "leave it all on the field"
    },
    {
        "context": "Go and give it your all ! Leave it all on the field !",
        "idiom": "Leave it all on the field"
    },
    {
        "context": "I had a spot of bother with a sticky key on my keyboard .",
        "idiom": "spot of bother"
    },
    {
        "context": "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 .",
        "idiom": "To that end"
    },
    {
        "context": "He was aiming to get into the school swimming team , and to that end he swam every evening .",
        "idiom": "to that end"
    },
    {
        "context": "In the past our government has nowhere been more penny wise and pound foolish than in connection with its expenditures for conservation .",
        "idiom": "penny wise and pound foolish"
    },
    {
        "context": "If you had n't hit that last ball , we would have lost . Good job !",
        "idiom": "Good job"
    },
    {
        "context": "It 's a good job that he was there to catch the vase when I dropped it .",
        "idiom": "good job"
    },
    {
        "context": "\" He bought you a sandwich ? \" / \" Yeah , you know him , the last of the big spenders . \"",
        "idiom": "last of the big spenders"
    },
    {
        "context": "Still facing the mirror , he drawled , ‘ Look what the cat 's dragged in . Where have you been ? ’ Gabriel rubbed his chin .",
        "idiom": "Look what the cat 's dragged in"
    },
    {
        "context": "‘ 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 . [ … ] ’",
        "idiom": "look what the cat 's dragged in"
    },
    {
        "context": "I am so sorry Regina . Really , I do n't know why I did this . I guess it 's probably because I 've got a big lesbian crush on you . Suck on that !",
        "idiom": "Suck on that"
    },
    {
        "context": "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 .",
        "idiom": "sinking ship"
    },
    {
        "context": "“ 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 . ”",
        "idiom": "honey trap"
    },
    {
        "context": "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 .",
        "idiom": "come alive"
    },
    {
        "context": "For Vajpayee , who is keen that he alone does not carry the can for his unwieldy alliance , it is a tough decision .",
        "idiom": "carry the can"
    },
    {
        "context": "\" I 'm a poor widder , Mr. Martin , and I must look out for number one . I ca n't afford to keep boarders that do n't pay their bills . \"",
        "idiom": "look out for number one"
    },
    {
        "context": "Old Man : A man performs but ONE duty — the duty of contenting his spirit , the duty of making himself agreeable to himself . . . . [ H]e always looks out for Number One .",
        "idiom": "looks out for Number One"
    },
    {
        "context": "Presidential campaigns cross paths in up - for - grabs Iowa .",
        "idiom": "cross paths"
    },
    {
        "context": "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 .",
        "idiom": "crossed paths"
    },
    {
        "context": "That 's the deal : take it or leave it .",
        "idiom": "take it or leave it"
    },
    {
        "context": "The moral of the story is strap on a pair and be a man .",
        "idiom": "strap on a pair"
    },
    {
        "context": "The children led us on a merry dance with their stories of strangers and shadows in the night .",
        "idiom": "merry dance"
    },
    {
        "context": "It is 240 miles as the gull flies .",
        "idiom": "as the gull flies"
    },
    {
        "context": "\" 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 ? \"",
        "idiom": "start a fresh hare"
    },
    {
        "context": "When the bank refused the credit , all our plans went up in smoke .",
        "idiom": "went up in smoke"
    },
    {
        "context": "The Bank of England 's anti - inflation efforts will come to nothing if the US Federal Reserve refuse to join in the plan .",
        "idiom": "come to nothing"
    },
    {
        "context": "The Bank of England 's anti - inflation efforts will come to nought if the U.S. Federal Reserve refuse to join in the plan .",
        "idiom": "come to nought"
    },
    {
        "context": "Steven Matthews , described the lease last week as \" a sweetheart deal that gives too much away for what the city gets in return . \"",
        "idiom": "sweetheart deal"
    },
    {
        "context": "\" 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 .",
        "idiom": "fair to middling"
    },
    {
        "context": "\" I ca n'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 . \"",
        "idiom": "for that matter"
    },
    {
        "context": "I was hoping that , by volunteering at this refuge , I could make a difference , however small .",
        "idiom": "make a difference"
    },
    {
        "context": "I do n't think it makes a difference whether you come tonight or not .",
        "idiom": "makes a difference"
    },
    {
        "context": "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 .",
        "idiom": "gets to the point"
    },
    {
        "context": "Though the bird is still young , in a day or two it will spread its wing and take flight for the first time .",
        "idiom": "take flight"
    },
    {
        "context": "The criminals took flight as soon as they heard the sirens .",
        "idiom": "took flight"
    },
    {
        "context": "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 .",
        "idiom": "second childhood"
    },
    {
        "context": "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 . ” ]",
        "idiom": "bopping the bishop"
    }
]