Gooogr/pie_idioms huggingface dataset:
Idiom: face to face (used idiomatically: yes)
He had taken his sister to town that morning , to Miss Baker 's and Miss Adeane 's where all the gossip would be flowing free and strong , and bought her a new hat and gloves and a flask of the perfume Miss Adeane kept hidden discreetly away for customers who wished it to he believed that they smelled naturally of lavender or roses . Two exquisite thoroughbreds , she supposed they had looked , chatting to one another in their high - pitched , well - bred " London " voices , filling each shop in turn with their faintly tittering laughter , making Frizingley aware — whatever it chose to whisper behind their backs — that the dynastic alliance of one trading " and therefore " common"fortune with another could mean nothing at all to them . And that night when Linnet , face to face with her own reflection in her solitary looking - glass and the stark realization of how much it had really meant to her , had been unable to sleep Tristan had walked with her for hours in the manor garden , Gemma watching them from her bedroom window as they paced beneath the chestnut trees , engrossed , almost entwined , like turning to like , intent wholly and exclusively upon one another . So had she once walked and talked herself in that same garden — or so it now seemed to her — with the young Irishman who had recovered the amethyst and diamond cat which she still wore , very often on her collar and which she had longed — very badly , she remembered — to give him as a keepsake . She had been unable to do so .
Idiom: rough and ready (used idiomatically: yes)
Leaving the town by the road that runs along the left bank of the Gave , you come after seven or eight miles on the left to the D25 , marked for Mauléon . Three easy , rural miles down here to the west is the little church of L'Hôpital - Saint - Blaise , which is an exquisite oddity . This tiny hamlet , which has less than 100 inhabitants , was once a stopping - off - point on the pilgrim route and the church , though restored from a state of picturesque dilapidation early in this century , is still rough - and - ready twelfth - century , squat in shape and only about twenty yards long from doorway to apse . The first peculiarity is over the crossing , which has a stumpy octagonal tower and pointed roof with , on the inside , a dome built in a style similar to that of Sainte - Croix in Oloron , that is , with the ribs of the vault forming an eight - pointed star ( without artificial lighting you can see almost nothing of this decoration , and the artificial lighting comes expensive at L'Hôpital - Saint - Blaise ; you need ten - franc coins to work it ) . The church has other features too that come from the Moorish Spain of the Middle Ages : above all , the queer openwork stone screens that are set into the window embrasures , hewn crudely but winningly into geometric patterns .
Idiom: lie low (used idiomatically: yes)
Since the busy fencings and ditchings of the previous thirty years , the men who farmed the best land had flourished all the more ; they could afford the rents for the greater acreage under the plough . But the families in the little awkward places , at the heads of the small glens , on boggy ground that would not drain — they were nearly helpless , they trembled on the threshold of destitution , impaled on the horn of the one - year lease , uncertain whether it was worth going into debt to improve the ground and knowing that , even if they did , they could still be turned out next term day and their place annexed to the holding of a better - off neighbour . Not one of these men here came from a lower - lying farm ( except Donald McCulloch , and their place was only a slip of ground between the steep hill and the road ) . When the mill was finished , a few of them might get work in it ( but the Flemyngs wanted girls for it because they would work more days ) . The rest would have to go off as wage - labourers to the Lowlands .
Idiom: every which way (used idiomatically: yes)
He reached out and ran a hand through her hair . ‘ You have make - up all over your face,’ he said . ‘ And your hair is every which way . And you know something ? You 're still beautiul.’
Idiom: off the wall (used idiomatically: yes)
She slipped her left leg under his arm and ran the inside of her right thigh across the underside of his cock until it nestled against her groin . He caressed her sides with gentle hands , gloveman 's hands . She turned a naked somersault in his lap , bouncing lightly off the cabin wall to return slowly feet first , straddling him , locking them together . They went into a spin , wheeling head over heels about their warm , wet mutual centre . Marco gasped .
Idiom: have a heart (used idiomatically: yes)
The more risks you have the more important it is to do something about your blood cholesterol level . Risk factors for heart disease do not just add up , they multiply . A cigarette smoker has twice the risk of having a heart attack than a non - smoker . A combination of high blood pressure and raised blood cholesterol concentration increases the risk fourfold , add smoking to that and the risk becomes eightfold . So , a person with a higher than normal cholesterol concentration carries a relatively low risk if he / she does not smoke , has low blood pressure , is not overweight , exercises regularly and has no history of heart disease in the family .
Idiom: give someone the eye (used idiomatically: no)
The carpet has been there for three years and is still in good condition — the only signs of wear are the marks left by ' wee Lachie ' , the Stewarts ' three - year - old son . Flying Colours Anne 's background in painting , textiles and fashion has given her a sure eye for colour . Mixing different tartans is not easy and probably the best advice is to keep one colour common throughout . But in their Spitalfields Tartan Collection , the Stewarts have done the work for you ; silks , cottons , wools all match up so that it is possible to choose as much or as little tartan as you like , whether it 's for a few cushions or for some big and bold project .
Idiom: go overboard (used idiomatically: yes)
Perhaps the romance of the wreck , that vision of ‘ a brave vessel / Who had , no doubt , some noble creatures in her / Dash'd all to pieces . O ! the cry did knock / Against my very heart’ has turned these drowned wares into something subtler and stranger than they seem . No nation quite so much as the British likes its art to tell a story ( witness the pictures of Victorian England ) and no nation went overboard quite like the British to buy the Vung Tau cargo ; but with French , German , Italian , Dutch and Taiwanese buyers sharing out these decorations of the age of William and Mary , we must assume that the ‘ shipwreck factor’ in these prices appeals to more than the nation which owned the Titanic and whose schoolboys read Mr Midshipman Easy and Moby Dick . No one could be found after the sale to say that it was crazy to pay sums of up to £ 40,000 for garnitures which until recently were as deeply unfashionable in the English house as the aspidistra . Least disposed of all to complain were the Vietnamese , who pocket £ 2.6 million in hard currency from this sale and who in 1991 lifted a second wreck , this one jammed with late Ming Thai ceramics , off Phu Quoc Island .
Idiom: don't hold your breath (used idiomatically: yes)
Over the years audiences have licked their way through 61,500 gallons of ice - cream during the nail - biting performance . The production has been staged in 44 countries and translated into 24 languages . Sir Peter has sold the film rights to Romulus Films — but do n't hold your breath waiting for it . That was in 1956 — with the proviso that it could not be released until six months after the London stage run had ended . And by the look of things , that could still be a long way off .
Idiom: at sea (used idiomatically: yes)
Five new reserves have also been created : three in Maranhao state ; one in Tocantins state ; and one marine reserve in Santa Catarina . The measures form part of a new package of environmental laws announced in the run - up to the UNCED summit in Rio de Janeiro . It also provides for increased penalties for dumping oil at sea , and for fortnightly satellite monitoring of deforestation . Globo TV , Rio de Janeiro 20 May ( BBC Summary of World Broadcasts ) Conservation : Land
Idiom: take a dim view of (used idiomatically: yes)
For the last decade has been one in which short - term cost - cutting has been seen as the answer to any commercial or governmental problem . The modern manager establishes his machismo , not by creating a business that can employ thousands , but by buying a business and then chucking all his supposedly supernumerary workers on the dole . Now , Pearce takes a pretty dim view of this kind of behaviour . And the particular incident that has aroused his fearsome wrath is the departure from Granada Television of Mr David Plowright , a man who knows about TV programmes , at the behest of Mr Gerry Robinson , a man who knows about balance sheets . As far as Pearce is concerned , the accountant is simply : ' the asphalterer - over of culture , the censor without passion , the taker - out of excess oxygen , the man who will make Michaelmas daisies flower in place of orchids and daffodils .
Idiom: smoke and mirrors (used idiomatically: yes)
Caps on discretionary spending were not raised , nor was spending transferred from the defence to domestic programmes . The President suggested , however , that if Congress objected to the partial financing of the tax cuts through cuts in domestic spending , then he would be willing to countenance an amendment of the 1990 Budget Enforcement Act in order to allow reductions in defence spending to be used to offset the cost of the tax cuts . The Democratic chairman of the House of Representatives budget committee , Leon E. Panetta , described the package as " gimmickry " and accused the administration of using " smoke and mirrors " in order to finance its tax cuts and spending initiatives . With revenue set at $ 1,169,000 million , the budget projected a deficit of $ 351,000 million . The budget also projected an increased deficit for 1992 of a record $ 400,000 million , compared with an estimate of $ 281,000 million a year earlier and $ 350,000 million as recently as the beginning of 1992 .
Idiom: run out of steam (used idiomatically: yes)
It might indeed take courage to be young in Montepulciano . What could anyone under 50 do in a place so prosperously becalmed in its tangible past and agricultural present ? We go in search of the Editori del Grifo , a young team of publishers said to have moved from Rome back home to Montepulciano as a vote of confidence in the old place ; they have moved again , however , and we have run out of the steam needed to look for their new office . THE faint pall of dust hanging over Montepulciano 's precipitous lanes presumably heralds the approaching festival of the arts , directed every July by the composer Hans Werner Henze . Cobbles are being relaid , the Jesuit church facelifted ; S Agostino smells of varnish as well as incense .
Idiom: point the finger (used idiomatically: no)
Noreen stood back , biting her lip to watch , as the applause still rang out for Maria . Noreen turned to the prompt corner and caught the Stage Manager 's eye . He was grinning from ear to ear and pointing his finger up to the flies . TWENTY - ONE The summer of 1913 was a good one — especially for the Keiths and the Mackenzies in New Zealand .
Idiom: take someone's word for it (used idiomatically: yes)
‘ These are what you came for , are n't they — your ledgers , a couple of files ? I do n't believe I have anything else , except for a few photocopies . But do n't take my word for it ; perhaps you should search the place , just in case . Maybe I have a filing cabinet stuffed under the mat . Why do n't you check ?
Idiom: see red (used idiomatically: yes)
£ 224 so far . Take no notice of me . I 'm just seeing red . Listen , it 's a night out , is n't it ? A BOOK LAUNCH IS A BIT LIKE AN OPENING , SO I WORE MY CURTAINS AND IAN MCKELLEN MADE A CURTAIN CALL .
Idiom: sleight of hand (used idiomatically: yes)
For example , it will be insufficient to have merely a single deictic index for time of utterance , yet how many time indices we need seems to depend on the utterance itself:(100 ) Do n't shoot now , but now , now and now ! The possibility of an indefinitely long list of necessary indices or co - ordinates thus has to be faced . In answer to this , Cresswell ( 1973 : 111ff ) produces , by a technical sleight of hand , a formulation which avoids specifying the necessary indices in advance . But this hardly solves the problem of knowing how to obtain the relevant indices just when we need them . A second problem is that utterances like ( 101 ) Harry can only speak this loud are token - reflexive to the physical properties of the utterance itself , so that not only do the enormous technical problems of dealing with token - reflexives in a logical manner have to be solved , but all the physical properties of an utterance will also have to be available as indices ( requiring , again , an indefinite number of indices ) .
Idiom: get to the bottom of (used idiomatically: yes)
Tearing down the temple and re - building it in three days . Extraordinary claims that were were being made by Jesus . So he was brought to trial so they could test out this , this whole situation , get to the bottom of it and the , the high priest Kiathas was the central figure in organising the troops . Yes ? What is she for ?
Idiom: on edge (used idiomatically: yes)
I creep toward the stairs . When I was a kid I used to practise stalking up the stairs . According to what it says in books , you have to tread carefully right out on the edges of each step , where they are fixed against the wall . They creak less there . But it never worked for me .
Idiom: hot air (used idiomatically: yes)
are superlative . They have so much more flavour than the fresh fruit and can be eaten on cereals , used for puddings and fruit compotes , cooked with meat ( especially lamb ) or made into jam . Commercially dried apricots are exposed to sulphur dioxide to preserve their colour , before they are dried in hot air . Prunes are dried plums and the best are the pruneaux d'Agen from France .
Idiom: pick up the tab (used idiomatically: yes)
Because of the Broadcasting Act , four ALF members in Balaclavas were shown on screen but their answers read by an actor . Once again , it struck you that an actor was more likely to win sympathy from an audience than a slack - jawed garrulous Balaclava . John Simpson 's lucid report for Panorama , following groups of mujahedin through most of this year , attested to both the benevolent power of photography — cameramen Chris Hooke and Peter Juvenal courageouslycaught images of broken bodies and wrecked villages , of fire and snow — and the more dubious power of America and Russia , picking up the tab for the fighters but not the victims . RADIO /Double acts : Robert Hanks on sexual antics in the Middle Ages and modern - day mirth By ROBERT HANKS
Idiom: on the double (used idiomatically: yes)
Therefore , every time an entry is made on the debit side , another entry of equal value must be made on the credit side somewhere in the books . Every debit must have a corresponding credit and vice - versa . The whole of the double - entry system is based upon this principle and it follows from this principle that at any time the total debits must equal the total credits and by adding the two a check can be made on the double entry ; this is one of the main advantages of the system . The ledger The core of the double - entry system is the ledger , in which all the transactions of the business must ultimately appear , either individually or as totals from subsidiary books , as shown by Fig . 5.1 .
Idiom: rise through the ranks (used idiomatically: yes)
He was educated at Ratoath National School , county Meath , and trained as a teaching monitor at the Central Model Schools of the Board of National Education , Marlborough Street , Dublin . In 1845 he was appointed headmaster of the Central Model Schools and in 1848 a district inspector of the National Board . He rose through the ranks to become head inspector ( 1855 ) , chief of inspection ( 1859 ) , and resident commissioner of national education ( 1871–94 ) . A man of marked ability , his knowledge and experience of Irish education were widely recognized . He was both the child of the National Education system and its architect .
Idiom: in the bag (used idiomatically: yes)
Beeswax candles look and smell good . 12 candles in a wood box . It 's in the bag These carriers are perfect for kids ' lunches , or as wacky handbags . ‘ Bag'ums’ .
Idiom: no sweat (used idiomatically: yes)
Pre - programmed ? Conflict is personal in that it affects different people in different ways . One man 's conflict may be water which flows unceremoniously off another 's back ; no sweat , no hassle . Clearly personal reactions provide important personal clues . Machines we are not , but perhaps after all there are hidden ‘ pre - programmed’ factors within us which are also part of the story , which affect our response to conflict .
Idiom: have a heart (used idiomatically: no)
The Two Pigeons Ashton 's delicate use of movement : the wanderer returns … ... the quivering foot ( Lynn Seymour , David Wall ) Romeo and Juliet MacMillan 's interpretation of Shakespeare left : Romeo and Juliet 's first meeting at the hall ; above : 'My heart 's dear Love' — Balcony scene ( Lesley Collier , Wayne Eagling ) Although Mayerling is not itself a romantic ballet , it is involved with love affairs . In the deterioration of Count Rudolf 's manners and behaviour , MacMillan shows more clearly than anywhere else in his works how any mental and physical breakdown must show through and beyond the technicalities of the dance .
Idiom: close to home (used idiomatically: yes)
They can reduce the need for computing . We see many people going from Brighton to London every day and erm one might ask whether that 's entirely necessary . We could see the growth of cottage industries again , with people working either in their homes or close to their homes , with very good communication facilities between them . That is , I think , another great benefit that could be reaped from these developments . But on the other hand , we can write to people , we can telephone them , or we can go and see them .
Idiom: by hook or by crook (used idiomatically: yes)
Maybe its Navigator had died , his mind disrupted by daemonic intrusion . Maybe a warp storm had battered the ship and broken its warp - vanes when their runes failed . The survivors must have tried to live out their lives by hook or by crook , descending into despair and lunacy , their offspring — if any — mutating into warp - monkeys . Over the millennia , other wrecks and crippled vessels were welded to the first , in whole or in part , or were crashed into place in what became a vast assembly kilometres across and deep . Many of these were deep - space vessels that never landed on worlds .
Idiom: break new ground (used idiomatically: yes)
But then who could imagine a man writing a song about a ‘ vulva woman’(‘Sheela - Na - Gig’ ) displaying her genitals and laughing ? Harvey 's songs are rich in imagery , raw and bleeding with the grist of the female experience . There is no doubt she will grow into a songwriter of some depth and power ; whether she acknowledges any responsibility for breaking new ground for women in rock is another matter . All these women are expressing a primal female energy that 's perhaps unconsciously trying to balance out the spirit of rock , super - macho style . But let 's not ignore the fact that , despite this , rock has been undergoing a certain process of feminisation over the last couple of years .
Idiom: walk of life (used idiomatically: yes)
Elena fostered Nicu 's interest in nuclear physics . He was destined to head Romania 's nuclear power and research programme , which was as good a reason to emigrate as any other . The steady growth of the grip of family members on so many walks of life had a stifling effect on initiative , which had hardly been encouraged before 1965 . In Romania from the late 1970s , the ubiquitous portraits of Nicolae Ceauşescu increasingly came to be replaced or to share prominence with pictures of the couple together . The front pages of every publication from the Communist Party 's daily newspaper , Scînteia , through to obscure literary journals and even the calendar of religious festivals issued by the tame Orthodox Church , always displayed a portrait of Nicolae Ceauşescu or a photograph of the ‘ most beloved couple’ .
Idiom: make light of (used idiomatically: yes)
He eased his shoulder , as an excuse to break her gaze . He had met Desmond Morton that morning and , briefly , Sir Robert Vansittart , the chief diplomatic adviser to the Cabinet . Morton , in the cold gleam of sober day , had tended to make light of Edward 's ‘ chatter with the fillies’ , and appeared to have nothing concrete to offer although exhorting him to ‘ keep his eyes and ears open’ , and harping on his private means . Van was the man to cultivate , said Morton — he had a finger in every secret service pie — and Van indeed had offered him a certain irascible encouragement . But so far Edward , very definitely , was not a spy .
Idiom: pick up the pieces (used idiomatically: yes)
But he felt this was a minority reaction and warned : ‘ Given the increasing emphasis on the property and space audit I do n't think the profession as a whole is as geared up as it should be.’ LAWPOINT Plans to avoid picking up the pieces Our legal correspondent looks at the aftermath of the London bombs . Last spring I sat in the Windows on the World restaurant on the 45th floor of the World Trade Center , whose twin towers are a New York landmark .
Idiom: up to speed (used idiomatically: yes)
Subject Area : UNKNOWN Two key objectives : establishing a network and investigator bringing himself up to speed on the French plastic cards and payment systems market . Award Title : Develop a comparative study of consumer involvement in decentralised services
Idiom: life and limb (used idiomatically: yes)
His dedication is infectious . He has been beaten , nearly drowned and jailed on numerous occasions — but never actually stopped . The thought of someone boldly ( or foolishly ? ) risking life and limb for his cause can not fail to capture the imagination , though the effect is sadly marred in places by over - reacting and extreme sentimentality . At least no one can accuse Watson of being half - hearted . One particularly interesting aspect of the book is the continuous discussion on the use of violence .
Idiom: up and running (used idiomatically: yes)
And they [ the mothers]fear that everything they say will be identified as evidence of abuse.’ Joseph expects the department to be involved in advocates ' training , ‘ to ensure they understand procedures and what child protection means . But once it 's up and running , they may want to develop their own skills and expertise’ . Many of Newham 's communities are tightknit , and some mothers may be worried about confidentiality . If they are , they can turn to the mainstream counselling service .
Idiom: take the floor (used idiomatically: yes)
They were ballroom veterans , bobbing around a tottering couple with rigid elbows who frowned at each other 's feet . And frowned at each other , as ill - coordinated a double - act as Fanny and Johnny Cradock : it was hard to tell which one found the other most irritating . Other couples took the floor . An older woman whose hair and dress were folded and starched leading a younger woman flushed with inexpert embarrassment . As they passed her table , she heard the older woman counting one - two - three , one - two - three like a jolly and exasperated gym teacher .