Gooogr/pie_idioms huggingface dataset:
Idiom: come to think of it (used idiomatically: yes)
‘ Looks champion to me , not that I 'd know,’ said Bill . He lost interest when he found there were no pictures . ‘ Now I come to think of it,’ he said , easing himself down into the depths of his very easy chair , ‘ that Mrs Entwhistle from the corner said there was something about your dad in one of the Sunday papers , I do n't remember which.’ He had an odd air of being impressed , but quite bewildered . ‘ A whole article , she said.’
Idiom: round the bend (used idiomatically: no)
Not squeeze to the side because they might not see you there . right Well you sh you 're supposed to ride a fair way out from the gutter , never in the gutter so they can see you round the bends . Yeah but And they often hoot you if you 're doing it but that 's the place
Idiom: under the microscope (used idiomatically: no)
I'VE paid my money to be terrified but you ca n't scare me . This , according to film - maker Robert McKee , is the philosophy behind cinematic horror . Friday the 13th , Nightmare on Elm Street , Alien , Dead Ringers and all those spine - tinglers we watch as we munch our popcorn are put under the microscope in the first part of Channel 4 's new series Reel Secrets . Over three weeks McKee , well known for his masterclasses on screenplay writing , will aim to debunk horror , comedy and Ingrid Bergman in a new three - part strand in the Without Walls series starting March 31 . Robert says the key to ‘ reel’ horror is ‘ to force the audience to think of a horror too horrific to create on screen — this is theatre of the mind.’
Idiom: have a mountain to climb (used idiomatically: yes)
Bruce Bogtrotter was three - quarters of the way through and still going strong . One sensed that he was almost beginning to enjoy himself . He had a mountain to climb and he was jolly well going to reach the top or die in the attempt . What is more , he had now become very conscious of his audience and of how they were all silently rooting for him . This was nothing less than a battle between him and the mighty Trunchbull .
Idiom: turn someone's head (used idiomatically: yes)
Sometimes I look at my father and I wonder what 's going on in his mind , why it is that there 's so much hatred , so much poison inside him . Yes , of course I 'm frightened of what might happen . Trouble is , I do n't know what he 'd do - " He broke off suddenly and turned his head away , whispering , " My father , my father , my father … "in a way so bitter and desperate that she turned to him and held him ; and although they had already stayed far longer than on previous nights , she had a sudden foreboding of events , so that she needed to love him again , now ; and a little while later , without thinking of the danger , she cried out with the joy of him : a single shriek in the night that echoed in the trees below the house and was followed by a strange , almost tangible silence . The moon went behind a cloud , and the wind off the sea was suddenly chill . Nearby , the first blackbird began to sing , and the sky behind the chimneys of Roscarrock Hall was beginning to lighten .
Idiom: on edge (used idiomatically: yes)
" What are you looking at ? " she teased , " have you never seen a naked woman before ? " " Not before last night . " " But you lived in a brothel , " Jane said , disbelief in her voice , sitting down on the edge of the bed and rubbing vigorously at her hair . " I was very young … " Jane snorted rudely .
Idiom: put the boot in (used idiomatically: yes)
I 've Ask daddy if he 's got a ten pence . I 'll put your boots in there . Dad have you got a ten P ? You take that two pound to go to the .
Idiom: run riot (used idiomatically: yes)
She could n't believe her own stupidity . At the time of her break - up with Hugh , not wanting to worry her mother , she had kept much of her own unhappiness hidden . Now , when far greater things were at stake , she had allowed her emotions to run riot . She had probably ruined everything . When Robbie lost her temper , it was a sudden eruption , short - lived and always followed by remorse .
Idiom: face to face (used idiomatically: yes)
Again she tilted her head at the audience , still singing . Gesner moved to mask her again , and once more she darted round the screen , suddenly making great play with the peacock tail , holding it up to hide the lower part of her face , managing to pretend never to see the front of Luxembourg 's face , and never to let him see her . The duet continued , with Gesner planted solidly in the middle of the stage , and Therese whirling and gliding around him , managing never to confront him face to face , and with wit and grace stealing the scene totally back from him . The audience , through the music , were beginning to laugh , and Busacher , sacrificing one of Lehar 's most romantic and loveliest passages of music to the emergency of the moment , speeded up the orchestra , gave the melody a light - hearted rather than a passionate lilt , and swore to himself that he would murder Gesner in the interval . The duet ended to a roar of applause and laughter .
Idiom: at the end of the day (used idiomatically: no)
Skiing a bit too fast … possibly slightly unfit — and ping went the strings of her ligaments Every skier becomes aware , at a very early stage in his or her progress on the slopes , of the importance of the knee . Ringing in the ears will be an exhortation to ‘ bend ze knees’ and an aching in the muscles above and below the joint at the end of the day . Some of them , myself included , discover just how fragile the nature of the knee joint can be and how extra vulnerable today 's sophisticated equipment has made it . There has been a dramatic increase in knee injuries since the ' 70s , when it was more common to break a leg ; serious knee sprains , probably involving torn ligaments , are at least ten times more likely than broken legs — mainly because bindings now release when they are meant to and boots give greater support to the lower leg and ankle .
Idiom: on the stump (used idiomatically: yes)
‘ Decadent Plum ? Yes , I like the sound of that , it has an atmosphere of sin.’ The man who would be Chancellor , and polished performer of the small screen , was on the stump in his own constituency and having fun . In obligatory white lab coat and cotton cap he was touring the Boots factory in Airdrie . Close behind his PA , the formidable Helen Liddell , kept her mobile phone clamped to her ear and an anxious eye on her watch .
Idiom: down the road (used idiomatically: yes)
KEENE We really found two kinds of opposition . One was the philosophic opposition of the Right - to - Life groups in this country ; and they said that this was a foot in the door , the first step down the road towards active and involuntary euthanasia , and we had that argument to counter and that group to deal with , and even after countering the argument , we still had the group to deal with . The other group were the physicians who felt that this was an unwarranted and unseemly intrusion of government into a relationship that is a very private and personal one , the patient - physician relationship . KENNEDY
Idiom: take a bath (used idiomatically: no)
Mrs Roberts was not home , and Jessica thought about going back to bed for an hour or two . She kept looking at the telephone beside her bed , willing it to ring , dithering . Although she had had a shower before going to the boat , she decided to take a long bath . She filled it with sweet oils and bubbles , shrugged her clothes off , and got in . Remembering the phone , she went to fetch it , leaving a soaking trail across her carpet .
Idiom: go to the dogs (used idiomatically: yes)
The real war was waged against nettle and bramble — now there you really could persuade yourself that some malign force was at work , set upon reducing the whole place to a rank and thrusting wilderness , in which the weakest went to the wall . Edward felt that he and the malign force were fairly evenly matched . In a few hours of concentrated assault he could destroy months of determined surreptitious growth ; but then he would discover some other , overlooked area where things had been going to the dogs unheeded and some valiantly struggling patch of wood anemone or bluebells had been choked to the last gasp . One thought , of course , in such terms : malign , surreptitious , struggle , valiant . He was well aware of the anthropomorphism and indeed found it satisfying ; it was as though , in the Britches , thigh - deep in lashing nettle and octopus strands of clutching bramble he was coming to grips at last with a great many things and , as often as not , getting the upper hand .
Idiom: from scratch (used idiomatically: yes)
It is hoped that part of the administrative cost of the British group will be covered by the DTI / ITD Initiative . As the research in intelligent knowledge - based systems has progressed steadily over the past decade , it has become increasingly clear that there are classes of complex problems which can not be solved by a single system in isolation ; they require several systems to work together interactively in a co- operative framework . Furthermore , as the number of knowledge - based systems are growing , it makes sense to use pre - existing systems in co - operation , wherever possible , rather than developing new systems from scratch . This is an area where techniques of distributed AI ( DAI ) and distributed databases ( DDB ) blend together to provide good solutions to many industrial problems such as investment advice systems , intelligent manufacturing systems , automated engineering systems , air - traffic control , network management , travel plans , complex diagnostics systems , real - time monitoring systems , and so on . It may be noted that this area is supported by the ESPRIT 11 programme .
Idiom: sleight of hand (used idiomatically: yes)
The will to forget the occupation years was provoked initially by the disgust felt by many at the anarchic retribution known as ‘ the purge’ in which thousands of Frenchmen accused of collaboration were executed by avenging teenagers , only sometimes under the doubtful authority of resistance tribunals . In 1947 , de Gaulle ended the purge and salvaged the remains of the administration . This was a magnificent political sleight of hand . He had transformed a fragmented , factious resistance movement into a monolithic , Gaullist one . He had beaten the communists in the race to appropriate the resistance and thereby ensure a legitimate power base .
Idiom: nuts and bolts (used idiomatically: yes)
Defence ministries , however , come far closer to this ideal . The Aviation Ministry … produces sheet aluminium , magnesium alloys , shaped metal products , plastics , and rubber products . Commonly used components such as instruments , machine tools , rivets , nuts and bolts , instead of being produced efficiently by a single supplier are manufactured by all branches of defence industry ; missile electronics , for example , are produced by the Ministry of General Machine Building . Resources : The Ninth Five - Year Plan ( 1971–75 ) stipulated that light industry would grow more quickly than heavy industry ; nonetheless , the opposite took place . In Soviet conditions , this is not unusual .
Idiom: have an eye for (used idiomatically: no)
Jim Fleming sends off a Western Samoan and an Argentine while Finlay Calder 's head - butting went ignored and so did some of the forwards from France against Canada . Ed Morrison allowed John Jeffrey to come in from an offside position and ' collect ' a passing movement between two Japanese players while Hayashi was tackled without the ball when a try seemed certain for Japan . All these setbacks did n't matter , old chap , because the referee only has eyes for the big boys . One does not hope to see Les Peard around in the same way as the name of Winston Jones vanished after he handed Scotland their 1984 Grand Slam on a plate , aided and abetted by the British press and its tirade against French forward play . The headhunter ?
Idiom: one and the same (used idiomatically: yes)
Dreamily he tried to concentrate on it , to classify it , but it defied his effort . It had no identifiable melody , it was just beautifully melodic , rising and falling gently as it carried him along . He sensed , rather than heard it , as if it and the all - pervading light were one and the same . Ahead and around him as he drifted forward , the melodic light was increasing gradually , growing stronger and brighter as though he were heading for the source . He was conscious of a growing feeling of peace and well - being as he drew nearer — like a weary traveller returning home after a long and tiring journey .
Idiom: body blow (used idiomatically: yes)
This , the inquiry was told , was what happened to Britain 's nascent wave energy programme in 1982 . After investing £ 15 million in a variety of different schemes over the previous six years , and just when developments were looking promising , the government 's funding ( channelled through the Energy Technology Support Unit , part of the Harwell - based UK Atomic Energy Authority ) was cut . British wave energy research has not yet recovered from this body blow . But just how this sudden demise had come about was even more sinister . At the centre of the controversy was Professor Stephen Salter , now Professor of Engineering Design at Edinburgh University , and the inventor of one of the most promising wave power systems .
Idiom: open someone's eyes (used idiomatically: yes)
Rachaela dreamed of Adamus bending over her , his hair a black cowl . The lightning caught him , faded . She opened her eyes . Ruth was seated at a window watching the storm . A blue flash like an incendiary , the child did not start , but leaned closer to the pane .
Idiom: play with fire (used idiomatically: yes)
There were also some running themes . Michael suggested Betty could have a baby , so we scattered bits of that story throughout the series.’ The stunts became more daring and , in one episode , Crawford found himself literally playing with fire , when what looked like fireworks were attached to the back of his jacket and suddenly had to start exploding . ‘ They were n't normal fireworks,’ said Gavin Birkett , who was assistant floor manager on the first two series . ‘ They were special theatrical pyrotechnics that were fired electrically , using a detonator and a battery pack .
Idiom: have it easy (used idiomatically: yes)
Ron Howard ( USA/1989/Cert 15/Colour/114 mins ) with Steve Martin , Dianne Wiest , Tom Hulce , Rick Moranis , Jason Robards Steve Martin 's manically over - conscientious dad steals the show , whether the news that his small , diffident young son needs psychiatric help or chewing the pitch as his offspring fumbles at baseball , and entertaining at a kids ' party as an unconvincing cowboy . But he has it easy . His own dad , Jason Robards , juggles with favourite younger son , ever - feckless Tom Hulce , divorcee Dianne Wiest 's fruity teenage offspring barely communicates with her except to hurl insults about vibrators , and Rick Moranis 's toddler is force - fed a flash card education in Kafka and karate … DEAD POETS SOCIETY
Idiom: on the mend (used idiomatically: yes)
A hike in premiums and a tight grip on costs are reaping rewards . ‘ But for the hurricane we would have a third quarter profit of almost £ 22 m and a return to profits in the nine months,’ says Robertson . UK underwriting is on the mend and results from Canada and the Pacific are ‘ excellent’ he says . Meanwile , the loss on the group 's 400-strong estate agents chain is falling . And motor account losses fell from £ 85 m to around £ 50 m .
Idiom: get it up (used idiomatically: no)
This is where the manual really scores with its comprehensive explicitness . All the possible permutations and combinations of server and client are explored , examined , dissected and explained in minute detail , together with advice on the loading order of device drivers and so on . Once you 've read it a couple of times and confirmed in your own mind exactly how you want the system to operate , it 's surprisingly easy to get it up and running , and once you have , you 've got a quite capable mini - network to play with . Because the device drivers operate at DOS level , the new drives appear as additional drives to the client machine — in both DOS and Windows — so much so that you could be forgiven for thinking that they were part of your machine . The same applies to printers .
Idiom: no dice (used idiomatically: yes)
Runner beans . I tried blanching and not blanching , cutting them every which way and freezing whole . No dice . They were flabby and boring . They ended up in soup , as we wasted nothing .
Idiom: send someone packing (used idiomatically: no)
Unless you count the occasion in Turkey when he tried to go to bed with a prostitute while suffering from the pox . That was a little deceitful , I admit . But he did n't succeed : the girl , following the normal precautions of her profession , asked to examine him and , when he refused , sent him packing . He read Sade , of course . What educated French writer does n't ?
Idiom: see stars (used idiomatically: yes)
All we are left with are a few opening chapters ( published as Coots in the North , edited by Hugh Brogan ) , and notes towards an encounter between two sets of pirates , the Death and Glories and the Amazons , which promised to have been a battle royal . ‘ Ow!’ Pete saw stars . Something enormous hit him on the nose . The next moment a head showed above water a yard or two from the boat .
Idiom: come full circle (used idiomatically: yes)
They provide all the thrills of safari — discovering music in its ‘ natural state’ , untouched by modern society — without any of the troublesome ethical dilemmas . It 's all a bit like going back to the Fifties , when TV 's role was to entertain and inform in equal measure . And perhaps , sensing that matters have come full circle , some of that era 's pop idols are returning to host a new generation of adult oriented music shows . Tom Jones : The Right Time , a pop history programme - cum - chat show — where Tom sung a bit , introduced some contemporary guests and reminisced a lot about the good old days — was only the first . Already projected is a BBC answer version , presented by Cliff Richard .
Idiom: all over the place (used idiomatically: no)
Not something like the Arnold Bros Furnishing Department!’ ‘ We should n't stay here,’ said Masklin . ‘ There 'll be humans all over the place pretty soon . Remember what the Thing said.’ They helped Gurder up and trotted under the rows of seats with him between them .
Idiom: at a loose end (used idiomatically: yes)
From her they had learned that Jerome Fanshawe had a bungalow at Eastover between Eastbourne and Seaford and that he and his wife and daughter had driven down there for a week 's holiday on May 17th . The daughter Nora had left her post as an English teacher in a German school before Easter . She was between jobs , at a loose end , Camb had gathered , otherwise nothing would have induced her to accompany her parents . But she had accompanied them . Mrs. Browne had been at their Mayfair flat and seen them all off together .
Idiom: in the clear (used idiomatically: yes)
BUT there are two further aspects to this affair . For a start , did n't Mrs Thatcher have some justification for concluding that Mr Lawson had deliberately chosen the Walters row as an excuse for abandoning ship ? Certainly his resignation ensures that he will be in the clear when the economic roof falls in — an event which many people now regard as virtually inevitable . The second aspect is the extent to which recent events prove that politicians should avoid expressing the obvious , because it always leads to trouble . Take , for instance , the brouhaha which has followed Mrs Thatcher 's hint that she will probably retire sometime between the next general election and the one after that .
Idiom: on the face of it (used idiomatically: yes)
Holistic approaches to cancer and homes THERE are signs within A gentle way with cancer , BBC2 's Forty Minutes series on the Bristol Cancer Help Centre , which practises holistic medicine , of nerves twanging inside the BBC lest false hopes are aroused within watchers . On the face of it , these fears are groundless . Forty Minutes is following six patients during their two - day crash course in self - healing at the centre and during the nine months after ward . Two of the women who founded the centre in 1980 , the charismatic Mrs Penny Brohn , a cancer sufferer herself who has spurned the path of orthodox medicine , and Mrs Pat Pilkington , and Dr Alec Forbes , the centre 's medical adviser , made it quite clear in the first of the series of six , that the centre 's work was to be seen as supplementary to orthodox treatment and not a substitute for it .
Idiom: head south (used idiomatically: yes)
J. Phipps CHESTERFIELD No . 61145 heads south towards Grassmoor and into history . The link road to the M1 now uses this very route . J. Phipps
Idiom: keep body and soul together (used idiomatically: yes)
' Strong and reliable stuff , see . A good tie - up and a nice little earner . ' ' Earners ' like these keep Charles Clairmonte 's body and soul together — no small task when the body in question is 17 stones of unadulterated muscle . The 31-year - old ex - paratrooper 's prize for retaining his title at Wembley on Saturday night was £ 10,000 , which does not go far for a full - time body builder who downs half a dozen eggs after his breakfast cereal and eight to 10 chicken breasts a day when ' bulking up ' . Charlie 's weekly food bill comes to rather more than £ 100 .
Idiom: out of sight (used idiomatically: yes)
‘ Mr. Mounce is away , so if Mrs. Mounce is in the bath their flat must be empty , and she 's probably left the door open . Go and dress down there.’ Bob watched her all the way down the stairs , agonized on her behalf ; still more agonized when it occurred to him , just as she went out of sight , that he should have gone down with her and carried the case . ‘ Hello,’ said Mrs. Hennessy , turning off the vacuum cleaner once again as he came into the room . ‘ You remind me of radishes , the way you keep returning .
Idiom: in tandem (used idiomatically: yes)
Well like Leicester Nottingham Forest have been ravaged by injuries . Carl Tyler and Gary Bull yet to kick a ball this season . Ian Leigh Glover making slow recoveries but at least there 's good news in the return of centre half Colin Cooper who starts his first game for two months and two recently injured strikers are back in tandem , ironically the biggest partnership in the Division . Leading scorer Stan Collimore a massive six feet four and his sidekick Robert Rozario a diminutive six foot three . Does that mean Forest midfield will keep the ball in the air I wonder .
Idiom: rise to the occasion (used idiomatically: yes)
‘ Squidgy 's Own’ in Princess salute A smiling Princess of Wales meets ‘ Di 's Guys’ THE Princess of Wales yesterday took command of her new regiment already nicknamed ‘ Squidgy 's Own’ . And as she attended the first parade of the Princess of Wales 's Royal Regiment , she joked : ‘ It has to be said that for a 31-year - old woman to have 2,500 men under her command is quite a feat but I am sure I will rise to the occasion.’ The new regiment was formed through the merger of the Queen 's and the Royal Hampshires in September last year only months after the publication of an alleged telephone conversation between the princess and her friend , James Gilbey . The new regiment earned its army nickname through the term of endearment used throughout the intimate conversation by the man who was said to be Mr Gilbey .
Idiom: on the ropes (used idiomatically: yes)
To venture into many situations where one can not get by with sham virtues , but where , like the tightrope walker on his rope , one either stands or falls - - or gets away .