Gooogr/pie_idioms huggingface dataset:
Idiom: under the influence (used idiomatically: no)
It was , Tindle reflects , a remark unimaginable on Minton 's lips . From Tindle 's exhibition at the Archer Gallery Minton bought a small self - portrait ( Plate 16 ) which Lucian Freud also wanted to acquire . Painted very much under Freud 's influence but with a neo - romantic hangover , this portrait incorporates a considerable amount of emotive distortion which serves , not to break the realist mode , but to enhance the immediacy of the sitter 's presence , so that Tindle 's face seems to press forward from within the picture space with almost mesmerising effect . Whilst looking at this picture Minton told Tindle : ' You 're the first to see something in Lucian . ' Prior to this Minton had not been altogether convinced by Freud 's painting , which he had tended to regard as cranky and a bit naïive .
Idiom: rough and ready (used idiomatically: yes)
From there the sound radiates outwards through the holes in the front , giving a pure , sharp , sweet sound with amazing projection . It was this sweetness of tone that made National Tri - Plates a favourite of Hawaiian lap - steel players , although — bizarrely enough — the National company had much higher ambitions for their guitars . They wanted them to be recognised as concert orchestra instruments , and disapproved highly of their Tri - Plates occasionally getting into the hands of rough - and - ready blues musicians . In fact , that situation did n't often happen . For one thing , blues players often preferred the harsher attacking sound of single - cone resonator guitars , and for another thing , Tri - Plates were massively expensive instruments .
Idiom: on board (used idiomatically: yes)
All the British and Americans need to do is convince the Shiites of Iraq that they now realize they were wrong not to come to the aid of the Shiite uprising . It is then possible that the Shiites will do the rest . They reminded me of the passengers on board a hijacked plane , forced to fly to some destination they did n't want to go to , yet unable to get out of their seats to do something about it . If the passengers were encouraged to deal with the hijackers themselves , it would be better for their own self respect and for everyone else . Sporting Life
Idiom: scratch the surface (used idiomatically: yes)
There would be tremendous scope , therefore , for publications that tackled the more interesting , and perhaps relevant , topic of how plants and animals interrelate . In 1980 , I was accepted at Manchester Polytechnic and produced an illustrated study of the relationships between the plants of the buttercup family and their insect visitors . The subject turned out to be vast and in one year I barely scratched the surface ! In 1982 I took the job of botanical illustrator at the National Museum of Wales . Most of my illustrative work there involved straightforward plant portraiture , in both two and three dimensions .
Idiom: read between the lines (used idiomatically: yes)
Don Jacobs the dockers ' leader spoke of his fears to Carrie one quiet afternoon in the back room of the cafe after his meeting was over . ‘ I do n't wanna frighten yer , gel , but I feel there 's a general slump in the makin',’ he said resignedly . ‘ Yer've only got ta read between the lines in the newspapers . World trade is fallin ' an ' there 's a lot of unemployment about . They reckon it 's up to a million now.’
Idiom: call it a day (used idiomatically: yes)
all the figures all erm sit er all the same yeah things you see , so erm , I thought right well that 's it Ben can have the garage , I 'll go and buy her the flying circus , Joseph can have the bus and call it a day . Mm . You know , I mean they 've still got a couple of books each and I 've bought three
Idiom: rise to the occasion (used idiomatically: yes)
‘ So you 've come back,’ he grunted in a tone that held little welcome . ‘ I must say you 've taken your time about it.’ Doreen rose to the occasion by smiling radiantly as she said , ‘ I doubt that I 've ever really been far away from Silas — at least I know I 've always been in his thoughts.’ The older man 's bushy grey brows rose as he shot her a penetrating glance . ‘ You must be a long - distance thought - reader , otherwise how would you know that to be a fact?’
Idiom: go all the way (used idiomatically: no)
But you can colour it if you like Mm and I 'd rather make it , it went all the way up to there Yeah mine normally that well yeah mine only , mine only
Idiom: fit the bill (used idiomatically: yes)
‘ I 've already told you that I 'm not prone to letting my imagination run away with me . It is n't in my nature . Maybe I do fit the bill of the perfect Capricorn after all.’ ‘ Maybe you do.’ Fran smiled dismissively , feigning uninterest in the subject , although her heart was beating rapidly .
Idiom: turn the tables (used idiomatically: yes)
This example gave Bohr a sleepless night . In the end , however , he found a most gratifying resolution . In turning the tables on Einstein he used another of the latter 's ideas . The acts of weighing involve probing the box 's interaction with a gravitational field . That is what weighing is .
Idiom: put paid to (used idiomatically: yes)
Buzz , in Beaumont Street , a ‘ fun venue for 18–30-year - olds’ was created in just eight weeks . Steve Burn , who designed the rock ‘ n’ roll memorabilia interior , was also responsible for similar Buzz bars in London and Cardiff . He said the combination of bars in the Beaumont Street area of Darlington would put paid to the profits of similar areas in the town . A large group of invited guests were at the opening yesterday where they heard the mayor of Darlington , Coun Rita Fishwick , formally wish Buzz every success . Manager David Simpson , presented Coun Fishwick with a £ 500 cheque for the Mayor 's Charity Fund , and thanked Darlington council for its co - operation .
Idiom: on the carpet (used idiomatically: yes)
At home Keith is a naughty boy and frequently has breath holding tantrums to which his parents have responded by smacking and shouting at him . On one occasion they locked him in a bedroom and he threw a wooden brick through the window and tore down the curtains . He is clearly a very disturbed and emotionally rejected child because he deliberately urinates on the carpets and bedding , refuses to go to bed or stay in his own bed . His tempers at nighttime disturb Amy and also earn bangs on the wall from the irritated but otherwise kindly , elderly couple next door . Keith will play with Amy but woe betide her if she does not hand him toys , her food etc .
Idiom: at the crossroads (used idiomatically: no)
Others were more sceptical — the far left , and the dissidents and pacifists of Anarchy and Peace News . The latter , during those days , was edited by Theodore Roszak , the American whose The Making of the Counter Culture ( 1970 ) was to be a key work of the early 1970s . With the clean , sanserif layout pioneered as a classic 1960s design by the Observer , Peace News stood at the crossroads of mid 1960s dissident culture . From the United States came reports of the battles on campus and in the south , and writers like jazz critic and Village Voice columnist Nat Hentoff ; from London came a critique of Wilson 's first stumbling days of power , a concern with the new politics of ecology , the black movement , Vietnam , Algeria , Cuba by then in the sixth year of revolutionary rule — the seizure of Burroughs 's The Naked Lunch by the Director of Public Prosecutions , R. D. Laing on ‘ Violence Masquerading as Love’ , the campaign to legalize marijuana . Under the editorship of Roszak , and subsequently Rod Prince , Peace News trailed the bulk of the preoccupations for the next half - decade .
Idiom: cap in hand (used idiomatically: yes)
Create a noise , and they 'll come to you ; they 'll want to give you money.’ Jay returns to the ‘ knob’ theme … ‘ If you go cap in hand , they 'll want to knob you off.’ Garrulous and expansive , Mick Clarke is firmly ensconced in a modest terraced house in West London where he is A&R Director of Virgin 's 10 Records . ‘ I remember the days,’ he recalls with an air of maturity which seems strangely at odds with his T - shirt and shorts , ‘ I remember the days at Virgin when we had to see three people in the morning and three people in the afternoon , straight off the street .
Idiom: keep the peace (used idiomatically: yes)
Thomas Rennie has been released from a twenty one month jail sentence , imposed last year , after he abducted his pregnant ex - girlfriend Marita Brown and her father in law Richard Loren from their home in Gloucestershire . Today , Rennie admitted making more threats to Mr Loren in a park in Cheltenham . He was bound over to keep the peace by magistrates . Cases of contaminated apple juice are on the increase because apple growers are under pressure to use fewer chemicals , it was claimed today . The Ministry of Agriculture has revealed that high levels of a contaminant were found in several samples of apple juice .
Idiom: on the money (used idiomatically: yes)
Maybe she ought to have carried out her threat to go to the police . Maybe if she had she would now be planning her escape from Sardinia . After all , though she was n't quite sure how she would have done it , she could have found some other way to lay hands on the money she needed . But she knew she could n't have gone and left Jeff in such a fix . What he 'd done was wrong , but he was her brother .
Idiom: in someone's pocket (used idiomatically: no)
By Yvette Shapiro , Business Editor hdg stands THE market continued to drift during the Wall Street holiday , with few investors prepared to put their hands in their pockets . By lunchtime , the 100-index was down 4.2 at 3053.1 . Trading was thin with little major company news to inspire investors .
Idiom: make tracks (used idiomatically: yes)
' I think that any down - side would more than be offset by the increased simplicity which single pricing would bring the client , allowing him or her to see exactly what they are getting . ' Thriving under the feet of elephants Quentin Cowdry goes to see a giant - slaying small firm which is making big tracks in the business of building real - life train sets By QUENTIN COWDRY COMPLACENCY is almost a sacking offence at Hunslet Transportation Projects , the Birmingham - based firm which in June 1990 startled railway experts by winning a contract to supply 37 electric passenger trains to Regional Railways .
Idiom: second nature (used idiomatically: yes)
Karajan 's methods were as commonsensical as they were revolutionary , reminding one of Confucius 's puzzled enquiry , ‘ The way out is via the door , how is it no one will use this method?’ Seiji Ozawa , a Karajan pupil , has reported how , as a teacher , Karajan would identify a point at issue but never proffer a solution , conforming to another fine adage of teaching : ‘ You may take the pupil to the window but on no account should you attempt to describe the view.’ To Karajan these things were second nature . Because Karajan was a born teacher , he was always interested in young musicians . This is not always an easy course to take .
Idiom: on the level (used idiomatically: yes)
Both countries must use their established structures on the level of politics and civil society , in order to formulate European answers .
Idiom: show a leg (used idiomatically: yes)
' Do you think that ' chucky ducky lover ' is an appropriate address to any member of the human race ? ' Hulme was exasperated , ' What should men be allowed to say ? ' Show us your legs darling ? ' ' You 're nice ? ' Mike , has there been extra pressure on you during the past year not to flirt at your radio station ? '
Idiom: at a pinch (used idiomatically: yes)
In this case the essential starter can be placed on the shelf in the back of the hood ( as can the airpump if it 's small enough ) . The hood comes with clips for the tube . ( clips are also supplied with starter units — and these can be adapted to make light fittings out of pieces of guttering and the like at a pinch ) . 9 Where do all the wires go ( 111 ) ?
Idiom: steal someone's thunder (used idiomatically: yes)
Distributed computing solution supplier Protek Ltd , Maidenhead , Berkshire , has an exclusive deal to peddle Tivoli products in the UK and provide training and support . MICROSOFT AND INSIGNIA STRENGTHEN ALLIANCE AGAINST SUNSELECT 's WABI To steal SunSelect 's WABI 's thunder — see front page — Microsoft Corp and Insignia Solutions Inc are believed to be moving on the accord that will strengthen their relationship . The much - rumoured pact will see Insignia admit it has a license to Windows source code and the right to modify it at the application programming interface level to improve the performance of SoftPC , its Windows - on - Unix package . Access to Microsoft 's technology , which Insignia has had in - house for some time , is expected to make SoftPC run MS - DOS and Windows programs at near native performance probably by the end of the year .
Idiom: have words (used idiomatically: yes)
The Artificer commonly goes clad like the Yeoman : the Yeoman like the Gentleman : the Gentleman as the Nobleman : the Nobleman as the Prince : which bringeth great confusion , and utterly overturneth the order which God hath set in the states and conditions of men . ( Pioneer Works , 210 — 11 ) Dress underwrites not only class differences but national and racial ones also , and Perkins has harsh words for those who adopt the fashion of other countries : ' this one sinne is so common among us , that it hath branded our English people with the blacke mark of the vainest and most newfangled people under heaven'(p . 211 ) . He also castigates those who use cosmetics ' thereby making themselves seeme that which , indeede they are not ' , and practising what ' is most abominable in the very light of nature , and much more by the light of Gods word'(p . 214 ) . Accompanying the association between dress and class was that between dress and gender .
Idiom: play for time (used idiomatically: yes)
‘ Hassan is not serious,’ said Malainine Sadik , a member of the political bureau of Polisario , in London this week . ‘ If he was he would sit down at the negotiating table with us.’ This view was reflected by one observer in Rabat , who said : ‘ He ( King Hassan ) has so clearly been playing for time . I think the Algerians have been angry with him for some time and are prepared to let Polisario have a free hand.’ Frustrated by the delay in the peace talks , Polisario has resumed fighting and claims to have occupied 10 miles of the Moroccan lines .
Idiom: go to seed (used idiomatically: yes)
With the hill and the dark masses of the trees behind it to the south , the place does n't get any sunlight in winter and not that much even in summer . The main road used to come here and the ferry took you over to the north side of the loch , but then they up - graded the way round the loch from a track to a road and the ferry stopped . The Inverness - Kyle railway still runs past and the train still halts if anyone requests it , but with the ferry gone and the road traffic diverted the place has gone to seed ; there are a few houses , a craft shop , the railway platform , a wharf and an abandoned compound owned by Marconi , and the hotel . That 's it . There 's a sign at the top of the road that 's been there for years , ever since they opened the new road , and it says ‘ Strome Ferry — no ferry’ , and that just says it all .
Idiom: for Africa (used idiomatically: yes)
Speaking in Brussels on Sept. 18 , 1989 , former Tanzanian President , Julius Nyerere , described the haemorrhage of resources from the poor South to the wealthy North as " morally wrong " , calling for debt and interest rate cuts . However , in April 1990 the President of the World Bank , Barber Conable , said that economic development had been held back in sub - Saharan African countries by the weakness of their political systems , nepotism and corruption . World Bank strategy for Africa in the 1990s In its report , Sub - Saharan Africa : From Crisis to Sustainable Growth , published on Nov. 22 , 1989 , the World Bank reaffirmed the need for structural adjustment programmes ( SAPs ) as a prerequisite for economic recovery , but laid greater emphasis on " human - centred " development . It proposed a long term strategy to " release the energies of ordinary people by enabling them to take charge of their lives " , noting that agriculture remained the " primary foundation for growth " and emphasizing food security rather than food self - sufficiency .
Idiom: odds and ends (used idiomatically: yes)
Yes . That 's the one I 'm thinking of . Yeah , but you mean ano we can do the odds and ends but it 's the it 's the other one . Yes , it might be promised for the carols , but it 's not Yes .
Idiom: with a view to (used idiomatically: yes)
But to say this is not to say that sighted people acquire colour concepts by ‘ experiencing’ colours . To say this would be like saying that people acquire the concept of the past by experiencing it in memory . All this about Descartes 's doctrine that mind and matter are two causally - related substances , about the manna → gripings model for talk about the objects of perception , and about the empiricist doctrine about how language is meaningful , has been with a view to understanding why Locke could not acknowledge the existence of the epistemic appearances of objects . There are two reasons , one arising from the manna → gripings model , the other from the empiricist doctrine about how language is meaningful . ( 1 ) If seeing something is like eating it with the eye , so that it gives us sensations in our eyes as eating manna gives us ‘ sensations of sickness , and sometimes of acute pains or gripings’ in our stomachs , then what physically enters the eye comes to have an importance not only for understanding the physical mechanism of visual perception , but also for understand the concept of visual perception .
Idiom: come to terms with (used idiomatically: yes)
Pugin 's strict rules and principles were upheld in part to counteract the inordinate sadness he had suffered at the age of twenty - two , when his first wife died giving birth to their only daughter . At twenty - three he married again , became a Roman Catholic and decided to buckle down to work as best he could and prove by his buildings that ‘ everything grand , edifying and noble in art is the result of feelings produced by the catholic religion on the human mind.’ ( He found it difficult to come to terms with the fact -that the Roman Catholics were responsible for the Italian classical revival in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries . ) St Marie 's is built on a small plateau above the wide Avon , and on alder - strewn , willowy meadow land , but in a somewhat awkward position . For technical reasons the house had to be set back under a steep bank , and so feels slightly cramped .
Idiom: wither on the vine (used idiomatically: yes)
It should have been substantially increased , as it is a useful contribution to the income of retired households at this time of year . The Government should index it or come clean and abolish it . It is unforgivable to leave it to wither on the vine . Increases in the costs of transport , housing and health charges and other costs for food , heating and clothing , are becoming unbearable for retired people in my part of the world . I have given the Minister credit for what has been achieved , and I am disappointed that he has not been able to go further .
Idiom: on a shoestring (used idiomatically: yes)
Several of the smaller companies were attempting to launch production yachts which , they hoped , would blossom into strong one - design classes . As more companies attempt to take a bite at this particular cake , the market becomes increasingly fragmented and it is very difficult indeed to achieve strong enough support for any particular design though each has its own supporters . In competition with such manufacturing giants as Bénéteau and Jeanneau , which have very shrewd and able marketing capabilities , the smaller builder , trying to establish a successful one - design on a shoestring , faces very considerable problems . The most buoyant sector of the market at Paris was that of larger yachts . Almost all the major builders have launched production models of more than 50 ft –15.2 m ) ; several are considering extending their range well beyond this .
Idiom: plain sailing (used idiomatically: yes)
Sorry , that was rather a long answer . Yes Sir ? Erm , you , a lot of people now talk as though it 's erm , plain sailing or flying for B Sky B and it 's gon na be er , hunky - dory , whereas Anglia Television have just written their stake down to a prenominal amount because they do n't think it 's gon na make , stand a chance of making a profit before the turn of the millennium . Do you think they 're being too gloomy and do you think certain other people are being too euphoric ? I think that the reasons people have written down their erm , er , holdings in B , B Sky B have varied .
Idiom: on the trot (used idiomatically: yes)
You ca n't have ups all the time in football , there has to be a down side as well , although three defeats in a row is hard to take . ‘ Back in August , we would have been satisfied with a place in the top six , well placed for a title challenge in the New Year at this stage . But when you go and lose three on the trot , it does n't look so clever . ’ MOM : Terry Hurlock ( Soton ) : Toughest of the lot . UEFA are ready to listen to radical new proposals for a European Super League , but only if it benefits all clubs and not just the rich elite .
Idiom: in the dock (used idiomatically: yes)
When my right hon . Friend the Prime Minister spoke in June last year , the UNHCR was well on the way to meeting the humanitarian needs of the Kurdish people . Since then , and particularly in the past three months , the economic blockade of northern Iraq by Saddam Hussein has prevented the UNHCR from doing as much as it would like to do . We have made sure that we get on with as much as we can get through in our help for Iraq through UNHCR , but there is one man — and one man only — who stands in the dock for the denial of resources to the northern Iraqi people , and that is Saddam Hussein . Until United Nations Security Council resolutions 706 and 712 are implemented , we can not relieve the plight of all those people . Sir Philip Goodhart
Idiom: all things being equal (used idiomatically: yes)
From the later middle years onward , there is some decline in the body 's production of the male hormones and this will begin to have marked effect in the seventies ; but , again , continued sexual activity will serve to keep hormonal levels up , so that it is legitimate to say that sexual activity in the man can continue — provided his health is good and the system is not impaired by disability — well into the eighth decade of life or even longer , provided he keeps in practice . The " sexual peak " of womanhood is slightly later than the man 's — around the age of 30 . All things being equal , she can continue to have intercourse — and enjoy it — almost throughout her life . As with the male , there is some hormonal decline from the menopause onward ; again , this is less if she keeps in practice , although some vaginal dryness may make the use of an artificial lubricant desirable . In the woman , however , adulthood is punctuated by the menopause , which can have a deep psychological effect .
Idiom: get to grips with (used idiomatically: yes)
Keep all your meetings and get togethers on a light note by banning anyone talking shop . CANCER ( June 22/July 23 ) This is not a good weekend to be entertaining visitors or for getting to grips with a backlog of personal or professional paperwork . You wo n't be feeling totally ticketty - boo so take it easy and get as much rest and relaxation as possible . LEO ( July 24/Aug 23 )