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{
"1": {
"meaning": "accept a gift gladly without inspecting it for defects.",
"examples": ["It's so refreshing to work with someone who will throw a saddle on a gift horse rather than look it in the mouth."],
"title": "throw saddle on a gift horse"
},
"2": {
"meaning": "to be ungrateful to someone who gives you something, a gift especially",
"examples": ["It's so refreshing to work with someone who will throw a saddle on a gift horse rather than look it in the mouth."],
"title": "look a gift-horse in the mouth"
},
"3": {
"meaning": "to know when you are really done or finished with something",
"examples": ["Investigator said \"I would let you go when I've scraped all the shit off the shoe\", when the suspect tried to leave the interrogation."],
"title": "scrape all the shit of the shoe"
},
"4": {
"meaning": "to have just enough money to live on and nothing extra.",
"examples": ["My father earned very little and there were four kids, so we lived from hand to mouth."],
"title": "live (from) hand to mouth"
},
"5": {
"meaning": "more than anything else; in a great quantity",
"examples": ["He leaned over and kissed him goodnight. Then he lay down close by and whispered with a smile, \"I love you to the moon and back.\""],
"title": "to the moon and back"
},
"6": {
"meaning": "very tidy, neat, and well-organized; in good order.",
"examples": ["Her desk looks as nice as ninepence.", "The college library is as nice as ninepence."],
"title": "as nice as ninepence"
},
"7": {
"meaning": "to be very calm and content, even in unnerving situations.",
"examples": ["The girl was as calm as a toad in the sun during the speech contest."],
"title": "as calm as a toad in the sun"
},
"8": {
"meaning": "a time very early in the morning; daybreak.",
"examples": ["It's a long drive, we'll leave at the crack of dawn."],
"title": "at the crack of dawn"
},
"9": {
"meaning": "all well and active as far as health is concerned.",
"examples": ["The old man was all alive and kicking even in the nineties"],
"title": "alive and kicking"
},
"10": {
"meaning": "very quickly or suddenly.",
"examples": ["She cam back from college, threw her bag on the couch and left before I could say Jack Robinson."],
"title": "before one can say Jack Robinson"
},
"11": {
"meaning": "having only two very unpleasant choices.",
"examples": ["For most people a visit to the dentist is the result of a choice between the devil and the deep blue sea - if you go you suffer, and if you don't go you suffer."],
"title": "between the devil and the deep blue sea"
},
"12": {
"meaning": "to make the wrong choice; to ask the wrong person; to follow the wrong course.",
"examples": ["If you think I'm the guilty person, you're barking up the wrong tree."],
"title": "bark up the wrong tree"
},
"13": {
"meaning": "no matter what happens",
"examples": ["I'll be there tomorrow, come hell or high water."],
"title": "come hell or high water"
},
"14": {
"meaning": "to pay a great deal of attention to the details of something, especially when you are trying to complete a task.",
"examples": ["When you are up against Chuck, it is absolutely vital that we dot our i's and cross our t's."],
"title": "dot the i's and cross the t's"
},
"15": {
"meaning": "almost all that you can imagine of something.",
"examples": ["Joey orders everything but the kitchen sink when he goes out to dinner, especially if Chandler is paying for it."],
"title": "everything but the kitchen sink"
},
"16": {
"meaning": "to be ignored by the persons they were intended for.",
"examples": ["He had already made up his mind, her advice fell on deaf ears."],
"title": "fall on deaf ears"
},
"17": {
"meaning": "to be in an extremely bad state and becoming worse.",
"examples": ["After a student committed suicide, the school is going to hell in handbasket."],
"title": "go to hell in a handbasket"
},
"18": {
"meaning": "to do exactly the right thing; to describe exactly what is causing a situation or problem",
"examples": ["His speech at the farewell ceremony hit the nail on the head about the company's situation."],
"title": "hit the nail on the head"
},
"19": {
"meaning": "to be in a favorable position; in total control",
"examples": ["We held all the aces in the election."],
"title": "hold all the aces"
},
"20": {
"meaning": "if you could achieve your aims simply by wishing for them, life would be very easy.",
"examples": ["I wish to go on a trip to Mars, but alas! if wishes were horses, beggars would ride."],
"title": "if wishes were horses, beggars would ride"
}
}