Gooogr/pie_idioms huggingface dataset:
Idiom: in full swing (used idiomatically: yes)
Also , though kite flying is a popular hobby in Japan , one would hesitate to suggest that this applies in any financial senses . Whilst this is true to a large extent ( short terms and good business practice , not hari - kari ) , a glance at the rather special history of Japan reveals interesting developments . For over 200 years , up to the middle of the nineteenth century , whilst the Industrial Revolution was in full swing in Europe and North America , Japan was in a state of almost total seclusion . With very few exceptions , no foreigner was allowed in , and no native was allowed out . Nevertheless , Japan 's domestic economy expanded greatly during this period , so commercial and financial practices naturally developed as well , though along slightly different lines from those of the West .
Idiom: lie low (used idiomatically: yes)
The Pilot Accessories Shop there will also supply you with any goodies you may find you need for you New Zealand flying . North Shore 's answer to Ardmore 's museum is a fascinating collection of old - timers in various stages of repair , and a local squadron of the Confederate Air Force . The capital of New Zealand is Wellington ; its airport was built in the 1950s on a low - lying strip of land that emerged from the sea during an earthquake about a century earlier . It is the only aerodrome I know where the control tower is n't on the airfield . Instead , it stands a couple of suburban streets away from the perimeter track , complete with its house number above the door !
Idiom: in the long term (used idiomatically: yes)
The second is how to move the economy towards a position in which the balance of payments will be closer to equilibrium . The standard economic answer to both these questions is that the price of foreign exchange should be raised in terms of the domestic currency . Then both the earners and the users of foreign exchange will know its real opportunity cost , and they will adjust their behaviour so as to economize on foreign exchange in the short term and to earn more of it in the long term . But in a country such as Yugoslavia , which has a ‘ structural’ disequilibrium in its balance of payments because of past mistakes and accumulated debts , the price of foreign exchange which would bring current demand and supply into equilibrium might be so high as to be very painful to some well - entrenched interests . This is one reason why the Yugoslav government has tried to avoid raising the price of foreign exchange .
Idiom: mark time (used idiomatically: yes)
PATCH - UP PROGRAMME Software house Softwright Systems is fiercely optimistic : in April , staff helped buy out a 54 per cent stake . Yet computer cuts in the services sector mean that , for now , it can do little more than mark time . Part four in a series . Recession is biting at Softwright Systems , but Nick Durrant has no time to brood over it .
Idiom: good riddance (used idiomatically: yes)
' Why ? She was a pig . Good riddance to her . ' ' Any children ? ' Myeloski shook his head .
Idiom: make a splash (used idiomatically: yes)
And now they have an added attraction a few weeks ago they danced to the music of the 14-piece Cleveland Orchestra in a first for the group . The club now hopes the band will return for an encore on March 22 . SWIMMERS in the North - East are planning to make a big splash for charity this weekend in a national fund raising event . In Darlington , 99 fitness fans have signed up for Swimathon ' 92 which takes place at the Dolphin Centre at 5.30 pm tomorrow . Swimmers have to complete the 5,000 m marathon either as an individual or member of a team and raise money for three national charities : MENCAP , Royal National Institute for the blind and the Macmillan Nurse Appeal .
Idiom: round the bend (used idiomatically: yes)
Forgive ' N Forget started at 7–2 , with Combs Ditch 9–2 , Run And Skip 15–2 and Wayward lad 8–1 . Dawn Run took the lead from the start and hopped nimbly over the first two fences . But as the runners made round the left - hand bend in front of the stands and set off into the country for the first time she was joined in the lead by Run And Skip , and the company clearly put her off , for she hit the third fence hard . For the rest of the first circuit Run And Skip and Dawn Run , both regular frontrunners , vied for the lead on the fast ground , and their duel took them well clear of the rest of the field . At the water jump on the second circuit — the fourteenth of the twenty - two fences — the mare dropped her hind legs in the water , and this mistake handed the initiative to Run And Skip .
Idiom: in the same breath (used idiomatically: yes)
But the public often overreacts to such talk . Consider , for example , the debt - to - GDP ratio , much in the news nowadays in Europe and the United ~ States . It is sometimes said , almost in the same breath , that Greece ’s debt equals 153 % of its annual GDP , and that Greece is insolvent . Couple these statements with recent television footage of Greeks rioting in the street . Now , what does that look like ?
Idiom: in business (used idiomatically: no)
If Labour Members wish regularly to employ international statistics on investment , they should bear in mind the fact that during the 1970s the average annual growth rate in business investment in the United Kingdom was 2.3 per cent . , against an average of 3.1 per cent . for the Group of Seven . In the 1980s the average annual growth rate in business investment was 6.7 per cent . as against a Group of Seven average of 4.6 per cent . That is quite a transformation .
Idiom: take the plunge (used idiomatically: yes)
On Saturday nights it went on south down to Kythera . But instead of relating Bourani to the ordinary world , the distant ship seemed only to emphasize its hiddenness , its secrecy . I took the plunge . ‘ What did you mean by saying that you were psychic?’ ‘ What did you think I meant?’
Idiom: get stuck in (used idiomatically: yes)
I 've deleted everything and re - installed DOS 5 and Windows 3.1 from scratch , all to no avail . A Alas poor Waldo , I knew him well . I guess Waldo must have been the codename for CorelDRAW 2 during development and it got stuck in the code . This is a known problem with CorelDRAW 2 and Windows 3.1 which should have been fixed in the version you have . It happens whenever you try to perform a bland or an extrude .
Idiom: out of order (used idiomatically: yes)
That s my opinion . But note how I at least attempt to show HOW I formed my opinion . mail on the list is getting more and more out of order every day . I do nt subscribe to get lots of Leeds bashing each and every time we have a disappointing result . I m usually pissed off enough as it is .
Idiom: to the bone (used idiomatically: yes)
In secondary syphilis , the signs and symptoms of widespread infection begin to manifest themselves . It is popularly believed that the main affliction is of the skin , because that is what is most readily seen and diagnosed . However , syphilis is a systemic infection and , if the treponeme is looked for , it will be found to be affecting many different organs in the body , from the liver to the lungs and the brain to the bones . There is a feeling of malaise , that is ‘ unwellness’ , on top of which may be specific symptoms due to the involvement of certain organs or parts of the body . There may be fever , loss of appetite and weight , and aches and pains in the muscles , joints , and bones .
Idiom: go without saying (used idiomatically: yes)
Disabled students Finally , disabled students also face particular problems . It should go without saying that your needs and expectations are the same as those of able - bodied students . But physical disabilities can make it difficult for you to express your sexuality . The best advice is to make contact with an organisation like SPOD ( Sexual Problems of the Disabled ) .
Idiom: way to go (used idiomatically: yes)
Just then the housekeeper , Mrs Medlock , appeared , with her keys in her hand . ‘ What are you doing here?’ she asked crossly . ‘ I did n't know which way to go , and I heard someone crying,’ answered Mary . ‘ You did n't hear anything ! Go back to your room now .
Idiom: spot on (used idiomatically: no)
A delicate oriental nurse washed my feet with antiseptic and chatted while the locally injected anaesthetic took effect . Feet numb , she made a tiny incision — just above my toes — on each foot , found the cotton - thin lymph channels which network the body and inserted two tiny needles . These were tubed to two bottles of pale green dye which , under weighted pressure , travelled up the lymph channels as far as my lower abdomen , filling the infected nodes , thus making any change in size or behaviour easy to spot on X - ray . The whole three - hour operation was painless but tedious , and I dozed off when the thin white line had progressed as far as my X - rayed knees on the screen in front of me . José drove a waiting Kenneth and me back to the hotel , and after a snack and two prescribed tablets , my intended afternoon snooze lasted till morning .
Idiom: rise from the ashes (used idiomatically: yes)
Neighbouring Middlesbrough has always been developed as the regional centre . However figures out today reveal that the Teesside Development Corporation is building one million square feet of office space 84pc of the county 's provision for the next decade and most of it will be concentrated on its flagship site of Teesdale , Thornaby . The site is rising from the ashes of a former foundry following Mrs Thatcher 's famous Wilderness Walk there in 1987 . The figures also reveal that Stockton has enough land on which to build 7,400 new homes , although the anticipated target will be 5,750 . Those statistics will be used by the town hall when resisting pressure from house builders to build on Stockton 's green belts and rural fringes .
Idiom: lose heart (used idiomatically: yes)
Truly , there were now ‘ no great causes left’ . Meanwhile , significant groups of intellectuals and artists , often in a somewhat modish , self - conscious way which attracted derision in the press , seemed to move away from identification with their society , so alien to their instincts did what they saw as the unacceptable , philistine face of Thatcherism appear to be . In the face of the self - confident panache of the new monetarists , the Policy Studies group , and the apostles of the market - place , significant numbers of British intellectuals seemed to lose heart . There was open , if despairing , resistance in the plays of David Hare , Howard Brenton , or David Edgar , or in a realist film like My Beautiful Laundrette . Critics tried to rescue older notions of ‘ community’ or ‘ citizenship’to set against the competitive values of the Thatcher government — only to discover that the latter was highly adept in taking over these themes itself in such areas as housing , education , and ‘ neighbourhood watch’crime - prevention schemes , partly as a weapon against left - wing local authorities .
Idiom: beyond the pale (used idiomatically: no)
The precariousness of civilisation haunts The Faerie Queene as it does A Present View of Ireland . In both texts what is particularly worrying is how the ostensibly noble can be undone . In the View of Ireland it is the Old English beyond the Pale , at the end of Faerie Queene Book V , it is the spectacle of the feminine Envy and Detraction pursuing Artegall into the realm of the Faerie Queene . In another telling episode from The Faerie Queene , Spenser reveals how the savage in Ireland becomes equated with the uncontrolled aspects of the individual . Book II , canto IX of the poem is the well - known house of Alma or Temperance episode .
Idiom: as the crow flies (used idiomatically: yes)
The plateau above was a hollow basin , ringed with bold peaks and holding several large meadows where millions of mini - daffodils overhung the rushing stream which head east as the Oued Nfis . One of only three roads to cross the Atlas links Marrakech and Taroudant by the astonishing 7,000 ft Tizi n'Test pass . The containing ridges holding the Nfis lead the river eastwards for 50 miles as the crow flies , before the waters break north onto the Marrakech Plain . For some of this distance it parallels the Tizi n'Test road , so travellers are aware of the big river , but nobody had written about its higher reaches . What lay between Tichka Plateau and the road ?
Idiom: spot on (used idiomatically: yes)
My eyes were n't keen enough to distinguish whether the black spot on the ceiling was a spider or a fly .
Idiom: on a roll (used idiomatically: yes)
He said at the reception today’ I will win’instead of’If I win,’which is what he 's always said before . Male speaker I 'm on a roll at the moment I feel nice and good , well balanced and I 'm stinging . Voice over Coetzer must draw that sting to stand any chance of survival on Saturday .
Idiom: on the game (used idiomatically: yes)
Pandora is a publishing house which made its name by encouraging first - time writers — successes include Jeanette Winterson , authors of Oranges Are Not The Only Fruit . Pandora also promote short story writers by publishing Storia , a twice - yearly short story magazine . Storia Two , published last spring , was on Love , while Storia Three is based on a game of literary consequences . The winner and 100 runners - up will each receive three books from the Storia series , each worth £ 5.95 . HOW TO ENTER
Idiom: go all the way (used idiomatically: no)
as tha er revealing ! as they would say in the army she had legs that went all the way up to her bottom ! Morning ! Good morning !
Idiom: turn the tables (used idiomatically: yes)
John Clinch ( 83 ) and Paul Harris ( 82 ) put on 170 for the first wicket against Stowmarket , who were skittled out for only 85 thanks to a burst of 4–1–7–5 by Richard Pybus . Clinch and Harris shared an opening stand of 69 the following day against the Old Boys , before John Steward ( 15.3–4–21–5 ) and Jon Zagni ( 16–5–31–5 ) shot their hosts out for 127 . Pybus ( 9.3–4–9–3 ) and Andy Sapey ( 9–1–26–3 ) then turned the tables as the OIs were skittled for 71 . Broken cheekbone Stowmarket recovered from their thrashing to record a 64-run win at home to Witham .
Idiom: on the rocks (used idiomatically: yes)
Probably of most importance is the presence or absence of a cover of soil or vegetation during its formation . This is probably because the solution process operates differently on covered and bare surfaces . On covered surfaces soil and vegetation maintains a continuous presence of moisture on the rock surface while organic decay increases the quantity of organic acids and the abundance of carbon dioxide ; both increase the aggressiveness of the water percolating on to the rock surface . ( Aggressivity refers to the propensity of water to dissolve calcium carbonate . ) The resulting solutional forms tend to be rounded and less sharp - edged than those formed on bare rock .
Idiom: take it easy (used idiomatically: yes)
Do n't try to talk . You 've had a shock . Just take it easy for a few minutes and save your strength for when the police arrive . God , if I could just get my hands on the bastards who did that to your house ! Let 's just hope the police find out who 's responsible , Fran.’
Idiom: in someone's pocket (used idiomatically: yes)
This soon gave rise to such names as Hank Ballard And The Midnighters , Georgie Gibbs , The Clovers , Ruth Brown , Joe Hill and , not least , Leonard 's idol of many years , Ray Charles . Leonard himself was enthused to make his own music , an inspiration which developed from being induced to learn the piano as a young boy with Miss McDougall , in which he said that neither he nor his sister made any headway . He had , however , a natural ability with a penny - whistle , of which he had a great number , one of which he always carried in his pocket . Much as poetry was becoming a part of him , his most natural form of self - expression , and the one that reached him first , was music ; side - by - side they were to advance with him throughout his developing days and early professional life . One of his particular enjoyments at camp was the log - fire singing , whose ebullience and rhythms remain with him even today , many of them drawn from The People 's Song Book .
Idiom: down the road (used idiomatically: yes)
Your clothes are all neatly cut to ribbons : you spin like a maypole . 14 You 're walking down the road and in each doorway , in each alleyway , they 're sizing you up . They 're laughing at you . 15
Idiom: tip the scales (used idiomatically: yes)
‘ From a practical point of view , they are still dependent on their company for career progression and can not have the independence an external auditor would have nor would they necessarily have the technical expertise if they conducted a statutory audit only once a year.’ As for the internal auditors ' role , ‘ they 're not expected to do a full statutory audit but a great deal of the detailed work which , carried out on a continuous basis , would greatly increase the probability of detecting fraud.’ It would be this additional reassurance that would tip the scales in favour in any cost - benefit analysis , he argued . Invergordon Distillers ' finance director , agreed . ‘ If you consider that out of the 1,800 listed companies the top 200 account for 85 per cent of the equity market by market capital , and that once you get to the next 100 companies like ourselves they already have comparatively few qualified people in the finance function , the addition of equally qualified internal audit people looks like overkill.’
Idiom: under a cloud (used idiomatically: yes)
She laughed and cried . ' I do n't believe it ! ' she said . She began to talk rapturously , pouring out speculations about the future , all mixed in with details of her life — which she claimed was deeply unhappy , under a permanent cloud because her mother had died giving birth to her . ' But if I am to achieve such merit as wins fame , then my life has not been so unworthy an exchange for hers as I always feared ! ' Again she laughed and cried , and I laughed with her .
Idiom: in business (used idiomatically: yes)
( B ) that , where the separate legal practice shares premises or reception staff with the multi - national partnership , all clients in England and Wales of the separate practice are informed in writing that , as clients of that practice , they do not enjoy the statutory protection attaching to clients of a multi - national partnership . ( b ) Notwithstanding paragraphs ( 2 ) and ( 5)(a ) of this rule , a registered foreign lawyer will not be in breach of these rules by virtue of setting up , operating , actively participating in or controlling a business outside England and Wales , provided : ( i ) the registered foreign lawyer 's involvement in the business is not in breach of his or her own professional rules ; ( ii ) the registered foreign lawyer 's solicitor partners play no role in setting up , operating , actively participating in or controlling the business ; and ( iii ) the business does not offer in England and Wales any of the services set out in paragraph ( 2)(a ) to ( j ) of this rule .
Idiom: on the wagon (used idiomatically: no)
Is God Green ? To the Green party , Wells Town hall , 20 march 1990 I must begin by rejecting a notion that is circulating at the moment that Christianity has only recently discovered the importance of green issues and has simply jumped on a topical band-wagon . When the Archbishop of Canterbury made a strong statement last autumn on this subject , voicing his concern for our reckless disregard for nature , The Times ran an editorial entitled ‘ The Greening of the Archbishop ’ . However , my predecessor , Bishop John Bickersteth , who for many years had been an advocate for issues of conservation , quite rightly protested that the Archbishop was saying no more than the biblical tradition states !
Idiom: know the ropes (used idiomatically: yes)
At team meetings anyone was welcome to have his say , thereby building cohesion and a feeling that everyone belonged to the unit . Discussion was encouraged as much as possible , and from this he learned much about each man . Younger players in particular were looked after , since not knowing the ropes on a tour has blighted more than one career . He watched over his players and made sure they knew he was doing so . He looked carefully for antagonisms and smoothed them out as unobtrusively as possible .
Idiom: name names (used idiomatically: yes)
The decision was taken pending a full disciplinary hearing . Councillor Murphy works as a caretaker for flats in Coatbridge . Mr Murphy , who works for the housing department as a caretaker for a group of flats in Coatbridge and is a shop steward for the National Union of Public Employees , said at the time that he could ‘ name names’ and that elected members had told him that they had been put under pressure when short - leeting jobs . The councillor , who also spoke out to the local newspaper to counter what he said were council leader Jim Brooks ' unfounded assertions that jobs for the boys claims were simply smears , also called on other party members in the area to step forward publicly with any information they had on malpractice . Mr Murphy , who is being represented by a full - time NUPE official and fellow Strathclyde Labour regional councillor Douglas Hay , declined to comment last night .
Idiom: white hat (used idiomatically: yes)
By Jane Croft SOCCER fan Carolyn O'Hagan took star billing at her own version of match of the day when she wore red and white for her marriage to John Stewart . For the loyal Reds follower choose her wedding outfit in the team colours a dress with red bodice and white crinoline skirt topped by white bowler hat and veil . Carolyn , 24 pictured here with three of her five bridesmaids , who were also dressed in red and white of Highfield Road South , Rock Ferry , Wirral , wore her eye - catching creation at Christchurch in Port Sunlight . John from Glasgow Rangers fan is serving in the army in Germany , and knew nothing about Carolyn 's unusual choice of dress .
Idiom: within living memory (used idiomatically: yes)
The energy paths of every being which literally made their way along here before me have permeated the very fabric of the earth and my footsteps are well guided indeed . I pause a moment beside an ancient grove of beech trees , tended no longer now , though their presence and calm remain . Here , perhaps , within living memory , the ancient rites were enacted and may yet be again . The trees will stay in readiness for that time . At the top of the dry valley I scramble down to the green path , following the old hedge of thorns and elders , pointing the way , beckoning me onwards as I descend the gently curving path down the rolling hillside .
Idiom: take someone's word for it (used idiomatically: yes)
That was Wattling 's flannel , and Pickerage knew he just chucked it at his face every night.’ ‘ I see . I can only take your word for it . In the police force we get cynical about thirteen - year - old boys . We only see the worst , and some of those are fairly horrible , I can tell you .
Idiom: game on (used idiomatically: yes)
But he stayed on the move and following a scholarship from the Paderewski Foundation travelled to India , where he got food poisoning , Peru , where he taught art for two years , and Morocco where he met his first wife . Mr Vasarhelyi said he has never refused any offers of work and hoped one day to draw for the Royal Mail . HURWORTH mascot Russel Walker runs to score his team 's sixth goal against HMS Hurworth in a friendly football game on Sunday . Russel played in the last five minutes of the game which was part of a visit by crew members from the minesweeper to the village near Darlington which gave the vessel its name . Final score : Hurworth 6 HMS Hurworth 3 .