query: Where does the phrase, "to stop on a dime" come from?
positive_passages.docid: 16234
positive_passages.text: When and how did we start getting "off the dime"?
negative_passages.docid: 32725
negative_passages.text: Is there a shorter term for "divided by" in American English?
negative_passages.docid: 147695
negative_passages.text: What is the origin of the term "throw the book"?
negative_passages.docid: 21138
negative_passages.text: "Money for rope" ... meaning and derivation?
negative_passages.docid: 154626
negative_passages.text: How did the word "copacetic" come into use?
negative_passages.docid: 1596
negative_passages.text: Value (in cents) of big words
negative_passages.docid: 1732
negative_passages.text: Origin of "-ing"
negative_passages.docid: 115590
negative_passages.text: What's a common phrase that means "To put it simply though not 100% correctly"?
negative_passages.docid: 33043
negative_passages.text: Where does the phrase "doctored" originate?
negative_passages.docid: 155903
negative_passages.text: Origin of the phrase "it’s been years if it’s been a day"?
negative_passages.docid: 152257
negative_passages.text: "To think" idiom
negative_passages.docid: 74249
negative_passages.text: What is the origin of the phrase "from your lips to God’s ears?"
negative_passages.docid: 2816
negative_passages.text: Where does the phrase "Scare the Dickens out of..." originate from?
negative_passages.docid: 123642
negative_passages.text: What is the origin of the slang term “book” meaning “leave” or “hurry”?
negative_passages.docid: 51195
negative_passages.text: The phrase "let alone"
negative_passages.docid: 43920
negative_passages.text: Idiom that means trying to save something that is beyond saving
negative_passages.docid: 82522
negative_passages.text: Where does the term Cracker come from, and how disparaging is it?