{"id":39242,"date":"2026-02-26T13:27:08","date_gmt":"2026-02-26T12:27:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.graviton.at\/letterswaplibrary\/looking-for-public-datasets-of-english-idioms-idiom-text-meaning-example-sentences-frequency-if-possible\/"},"modified":"2026-02-26T13:27:08","modified_gmt":"2026-02-26T12:27:08","slug":"looking-for-public-datasets-of-english-idioms-idiom-text-meaning-example-sentences-frequency-if-possible","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.graviton.at\/letterswaplibrary\/looking-for-public-datasets-of-english-idioms-idiom-text-meaning-example-sentences-frequency-if-possible\/","title":{"rendered":"Looking For Public Datasets Of English Idioms (idiom Text + Meaning + Example Sentences + Frequency If Possible)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><!-- SC_OFF --><\/p>\n<div class=\"md\">\n<p>I\u2019m assembling a small resource to evaluate and improve \u201cidiomaticity\u201d in LLM rewrites (outputs can be fluent but still feel literal).<br \/> For that, I\u2019m looking for datasets of English idioms expressions with:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>idiom text (canonical form if possible)<\/li>\n<li>meaning<\/li>\n<li>example sentences<\/li>\n<li>ideally some frequency signal<\/li>\n<li>licensing that allows research<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h1>Questions<\/h1>\n<ol>\n<li>Are there any well-known public idiom corpora you\u2019d recommend?<\/li>\n<li>Any good frequency proxies you\u2019ve used for idioms?<\/li>\n<li>If you\u2019ve built something similar: what fields ended up being most important?<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p><em>If helpful, I can share the exact retrieval endpoint I\u2019m using for testing \u2014 but mostly I\u2019m looking for dataset pointers.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><!-- SC_ON -->   submitted by   <a href=\"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/user\/Own-Importance3687\"> \/u\/Own-Importance3687 <\/a> <br \/> <span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/datasets\/comments\/1rf80gj\/looking_for_public_datasets_of_english_idioms\/\">[link]<\/a><\/span>   <span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/datasets\/comments\/1rf80gj\/looking_for_public_datasets_of_english_idioms\/\">[comments]<\/a><\/span><\/p><div class='watch-action'><div class='watch-position align-right'><div class='action-like'><a class='lbg-style1 like-39242 jlk' href='javascript:void(0)' data-task='like' data-post_id='39242' data-nonce='65e0e39b87' rel='nofollow'><img class='wti-pixel' src='https:\/\/www.graviton.at\/letterswaplibrary\/wp-content\/plugins\/wti-like-post\/images\/pixel.gif' title='Like' \/><span class='lc-39242 lc'>0<\/span><\/a><\/div><\/div> <div class='status-39242 status align-right'><\/div><\/div><div class='wti-clear'><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I\u2019m assembling a small resource to evaluate and improve \u201cidiomaticity\u201d in LLM rewrites (outputs can be fluent&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[85],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-39242","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-datatards","wpcat-85-id"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.graviton.at\/letterswaplibrary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39242","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.graviton.at\/letterswaplibrary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.graviton.at\/letterswaplibrary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.graviton.at\/letterswaplibrary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.graviton.at\/letterswaplibrary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=39242"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.graviton.at\/letterswaplibrary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39242\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.graviton.at\/letterswaplibrary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=39242"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.graviton.at\/letterswaplibrary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=39242"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.graviton.at\/letterswaplibrary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=39242"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}