Gooogr/pie_idioms huggingface dataset:
Idiom: song and dance (used idiomatically: no)
The 60-year - old entertainer went bald through chemotherapy treatment for cancer . But now he is battling back and using a comb again . ‘ I 'm thrilled to be here,’ he said at a party for the London song - and - dance spectacular Valentine 's Day . After what Roy 's been through , every day calls for a celebration . Picture : ALAN GRISBROOk
Idiom: take root (used idiomatically: yes)
The image weighed on Mozart even during his lifetime . At the age of 22 he wrote to his father from Paris : ‘ What annoys me most is that these idiots in France still think I am seven years old , because that is when they first knew me.’ It was an image that spread and took root everywhere , bringing with it a tradition of atrocious performances — sloppy , flat and prettifying — that lasted throughout his lifetime , for the entire 19th century and for too much of the 20th . Eighteenth - century audiences were quite happy to be fed agreeable background music ; it was their equivalent of muzak , played uniformly and without criticism . In the 19th century a pall of dullness settled over the limited Mozart repertoire that was performed .
Idiom: body blow (used idiomatically: yes)
Agreement on the protocol was facilitated by announcements before and during the conference by the Netherlands , Germany and Japan to the effect that they would support a prohibition of mining . This in effect left the UK and USA , together with other supporters of eventual exploitation such as Saudi Arabia and South Africa , in an untenable position , with a majority of the Treaty 's 26 voting members in favour of a ban . The Japanese decision , announced on April 23 , was particularly unexpected , and was welcomed by environmentalists as a " body blow to the pro - mining camp " . INTERNATIONAL NUCLEAR ENERGY
Idiom: bear in mind (used idiomatically: yes)
A concise and informative general consideration of ants and their foraging , nesting and domestic life precedes a detailed examination of the villains of the insect world , the army ants , which ends with a welcome plea for protection of their habitats . The review of their horticultural but costly cousins , the fungus growers , includes an artistic rendering of a khakai ( sic ) trouser leg spotted with the ants ' excreta ; in lieu of a taxonomic key perhaps . Bearing in mind the price of these volumes , they would be more practical had they been divided between subjects . Symbionts take up nearly 300 pages , but in two separate volumes . Hymenoptera larval taxonomy is in volume one , but the adults are considered in volume two .
Idiom: hot air (used idiomatically: yes)
An effective waste air quenching system is even more important on this mode otherwise , when you cook an oven load of chickens , the chamber will fill with smoke and adversely affect their flavour . Combi - steaming This mode unites all the advantages of hot steam , such as short cooking times ( when humidity is added to dry heat you achieve 2–3 times the amount of heat penetration ) , low cooking losses , and juicy roasts that have the benefits of hot air , namely intensive flavour , appetizing colour and crunchy crusts . As the food does not need to be turned , this mode saves up to 50 per cent of the roasting losses otherwise associated with conventional units . Combi - steaming is used for combi - roasting , glazing , baking au gratin , combi - baking and for forced steaming at 110 - 125 ° C .
Idiom: rule of thumb (used idiomatically: yes)
These have been mentioned in passing in the previous section , but they are summarised here for the sake of convenience and for added emphasis . To be aware of general trends As situations grow in size and complexity it becomes increasingly hazardous to rely upon hunches and rule - of - thumb measures . Furthermore , it is likely that trends will be well advanced before they begin to become apparent . The more entrenched unwelcome developments have become , the harder it will be to reverse them .
Idiom: green light (used idiomatically: no)
He 's a nephew of Frank Cook 's.’ GREEN POINTS : Martin Shipton 's interesting article Keeping the green light burning ( Echo April 1 ) quoted the views of Labour , Conservative and Liberal Democrat spokes - people on the environment but did not include an interview with a Green Party representative . I find this rather extraordinary , not only because the Green Party is regarded as the party of the environment , but also because in the General Election the Greens are fielding 254 candidates nationally , at least a dozen of which are in the North - East . Mr Shipton ends his article on a slightly sceptical note , asking whether the three parties whose views he has canvassed will actually translate their environmental concerns into reality after April 9 .
Idiom: break new ground (used idiomatically: yes)
There is more livestock on Friday in Christie 's British Pictures sale . It features Zoffany 's Cockfight ( see Round - Up ) , estimated at £ 1.5 million and a herd of fat cows and bulls from a private collection ( est . from £ 1,500–4,000 ) . At the dealers , Spink opens Sporting Art today with British sporting watercolours and drawings from £ 500 to £ 15,000 , and tomorrow Richard Green launches Marine Paintings and Views of London from the Thames at 44 Dover Street , while Anthony Mould breaks new ground with a venture into contemporary painting . He shows Ishbel Myerscough , who lives and works in Glasgow and specialises in raw , uncompromising portraits . Mercury Gallery introduces Joan Eardley , a Scottish paintress of splodgy landscapes and slum children ( opens Wednesday ) .
Idiom: early bird (used idiomatically: no)
Without doubt , the ' star ' attraction must have been 4472 ' Flying Scotsman'which was screened on the ' Midlands Today'TV news on the Saturday evening , thus further advertising the extravaganza . The two other main line attractions in their own right were 46203 ' Princess Margaret Rose ' , which is normally resident at the Midland Railway Trust at Butterley in Derbyshire , and 6024 ' King Edward I ' from the Great Western Society headquarters at Didcot in Berkshire . The ' Early Bird ' photographic sessions saw all three locomotives plus the BRM 's own No . 5080 ' Defiant'lined up around the turntable in the November sunshine . Later the same four were all coupled together and ran full length of the Museum trackwork light - engine , again especially for the photographers present . Three different original Railway Companies were represented , the Great Western , London Midland and Scottish , and the London and North Eastern Railway ! !
Idiom: run out of steam (used idiomatically: yes)
But to help users make the transition from VAX architectures to Alpha , the company is expected to unveil 35 open systems migration centres around the world at next week 's Open Forum conference in Utrecht , Netherlands . Meanwhile , Olivetti 's relationship with OEM supplier Pyramid Technology Corp is given just two or three years more years of life . When the high - end MIPS R3000-based Pyramid servers that Olivetti re - badges as the LSX 6500 series run out of steam , Piol said Olivetti will not step up to future generations of MIPS chips . Other MIPS RISC - based systems in Olivetti 's stable such as the M700–10 look destined to go the same way . Indeed , by 1994 , Olivetti expects to be marketing Alpha systems built to its own design .
Idiom: go the whole hog (used idiomatically: yes)
Their very amusing fanzine ‘ red issue’ is full of such witty articles as well as lots of new and original jokes about Yorkshire folk and sheep ( very amusing , yawn yawn ) EDUCATIONAL POINT : West Yorkshire is a heavy industrial area and is not Emmerdale Farm . The only sheep around here are the sad bastards who walk around in Man Utd shirts ( particularly the fat bastard in Wakefield who has No.7 and Cantona stencilled on the back ) who were presumably sexually abused at a young age and hence feel the need to rebel — why not go the whole hog and dress up as a woman , you would nt look half as silly . From : Date : We d , 18 Aug 93 18:12:53 BST
Idiom: tit for tat (used idiomatically: yes)
‘ I do it to give men a taste of their own medicine . ‘ You can not go out at night without one of them making an obscene remark or getting his tackle out . This is revenge … tit for tat.’ BLIND MAN BEATS UP A BULLYING BULL TERRIER Tony defends his guide dog
Idiom: all along (used idiomatically: yes)
Well I think he made it clear that no jury could forget what everybody knew er which is of course er the the facts that emerged at the time er that the Birmingham Six were acquitted . And he said it was difficult for the jury to isolate the narrow questions that they were going to have to decide , which is whether these officers had er fabricated notes of an interview with one of the Birmingham Six , from all the information that they had . And he also pointed out that the three detectives were going to claim in their defence that the Birmingham Six were guilty all along . Now they were perfectly entitled to claim this but this was going to confuse the jury and the jury would also be confuse by the fact there was going to be no mention of the fact which everybody was aware of that the men claim that they were beaten up while they were in custody . He spoke of the enormous amount of new material he had seen The judge did th that is .
Idiom: by the back door (used idiomatically: yes)
We 've got our ferry port , very proud of our municipally owned ferry port , I hope some of you will use it , or if you have n't done so already . A huge success , the government have said next year we can only borrow one million pounds to invest . Nowhere near enough , they 're trying to get us to sell it off by the back door and we will resist that . A lot of employment there , and important to the local economy and we 've managed to take some important initiatives in terms of helping the pensioners in the city , crime prevention , and other issues , so we think we 've done a reasonable job . At the moment we 're also trying to move our football club er rather a difficult exercise , you can imagine .
Idiom: come to terms with (used idiomatically: yes)
Those who have worked harder at their relationship , allowing it to change and develop ( or perhaps those who are luckier — whichever way one chooses to look at it ) may be content together but external relationships will still change . They may well have elderly parents who need to be cared for , whether physically or materially , and they may cause a good deal of pressure . It is not easy to come to terms with the idea that the parents on whom you depended all those years ago may now — possibly because of ill - health — have become dependent upon you . The elderly The greatest problem for many elderly people is that relationships tend to dwindle .
Idiom: follow in someone's footsteps (used idiomatically: yes)
By the late 1950s , air pollution in California had changed from being a Los Angeles problem to one that was experienced by most urban and some rural areas throughout the state . In 1960 , California enacted the Motor Vehicle Pollution Control Act which required all new vehicles to have installed certified pollution control technology ; this was the first positive step towards reducing vehicle emissions which caused the smog . This Act was enacted five years before the federal Act of that name and highlights the tendency for California to lead the way in pollution control legislation , with the federal government following in its footsteps . The experience of California both in pollution control policies and as a testing or proving ground strongly influenced the direction of federal policies during the 1960s . The relevance of California 's policies became even greater when , in the early 1960s , photochemical pollution began to be experienced in cities such as New York and Philadelphia .
Idiom: go straight (used idiomatically: yes)
The Chairman opened his eyes wide and grinned suggestively at the audience . ‘ Comic monologues from your favourite comedienne.’ A middle - aged woman , matronly in appearance and , thought Tony , not looking at all comical , went straight into a saucy monologue about an amorous coalman who left dusty handprints on various parts of his lady customers ' anatomies . Six monologues and a comic song to finish with had the audience roaring with laughter . Tony laughed along with the rest , even though the terrifying feeling that he was part of something unreal and sinister still persisted .
Idiom: run the gauntlet (used idiomatically: yes)
DEREGULATION The Reagan forces were also alert to the possibilities of using administrative discretion as a means of policy change . They recognized that some of their objectives could be reached by administrative action without running the gauntlet of the legislative process . Regulatory reform , for example , was a major item on Reagan 's agenda . In common with other supply - side enthusiasts , he was convinced that sundry federal agencies had put in place a web of unnecessarily restrictive regulations that distorted market forces and inhibited the spirit of free enterprise .
Idiom: in the offing (used idiomatically: yes)
Why not , he may wonder , carry on with his unilateral reforms while letting the drive for give - and - take negotiations on the constitution fall into second place ? Because that would plunge the country deeper into violence . With a meeting between Mr Mandela and Chief Buthelezi , the leader of the rival Inkatha Freedom Party , now in the offing , hopes have risen that the township violence may soon be over . Yet those hopes could quickly be dashed . Despite its internal disorder , the ANC remains quite capable of spreading chaos to every corner of the land .
Idiom: follow in someone's footsteps (used idiomatically: yes)
That institutional arrangement for arriving at political decisions in which individuals acquire the power to decide by means of a competitive struggle for the people 's vote . ( p. 269 ) Some of those who followed in Schumpeter ' s footsteps in the 1950s went even further in minimizing the popular role in a democratic system of politics . Thus S. M. Lipset wrote that " The distinctive and most valuable element of democracy is the formation of a political elite in the competitive struggle for the vote of a mainly passive electorate . " The passivity of the electorate , so far from being a cause for concern or even regret , was viewed with positive approval : " The belief that a very high level of participation is always good for democracy is not valid " , Lipset magisterially announced .
Idiom: join the club (used idiomatically: yes)
Now the build - up will become intense . ' The pairing was the one feared most , because of painful memories of violence at last year 's European championship in West Germany . But Mr Kelly said : ' A lot of people are applying to join our travel club . We are hopeful that it will be a true festival of football . ' Not only do the World Cup organisers have to keep England 's and Holland 's supporters apart , they will also have to cope with Ireland 's peaceful ' green army ' , which could number 20,000 .
Idiom: all the rage (used idiomatically: yes)
Wrongly . In a series of articles , we aim to start redressing the balance GLOOM and doom are all the rage in Eastern Europe . Poland , one year after starting a strict anti - inflation programme , is said to be a particularly terrible place . Statistics are cited to prove the depth of popular misery : falling real wages , rising unemployment , a catastrophic drop in production , a general collapse of living standards .
Idiom: free and easy (used idiomatically: yes)
But from the same Grammar School period Edward recalls in detail ' the Sunday dinner anger , which became almost a regular thing , , with the boys tittering and refusing to discuss the topic of the morning 's sermon until they received a lecture or abuse from their father , at this ' almost the only meal as a rule which the whole family had together ' . Philip Henry expected a late - Victorian respectable pattern of behaviour from his sons . Edward , school apart , was living a much more exciting life at the ramshackle , free - and - easy household of a friend , and exploring the common around his home in ever - increasing circles in the company of a few youths of similar tastes . The qualities of independence , singularity of viewpoint , and readiness to move far afield in pursuit of his inner wishes ( a characteristic of his father 's early career ) were beginning to appear in the son . Three of Edward 's brothers ( Ernest , Theodore , and Julian ) recorded brief memories of their eldest brother in 1947 .
Idiom: to the hilt (used idiomatically: yes)
On a minor , but parallel line , from the 1740s onwards the aesthetic rich began building rustic , Gothick and Chinese garden houses and this picturesque style slowly crept into small house architecture . 1718 EBBERSTON HALL Ripon YORKSHIRE EBBERSTON HALL is Palladian to the hilt and also much bigger than it looks . There is an entrance hall of perfect proportions , which is twice as long as it is square , and leading off it are three reception rooms of great height and elegance . One of these , the former bedroom , is the most important room , for Ebberston was built as a romantic love - nest for the mistress of William Thompson , the MP for Scarborough and Warden of the Mint .
Idiom: catch someone's eye (used idiomatically: yes)
well the whole page look at the differences , look at the variations there ten well it could be as many as that I mean sit and count it , but there 's a lot of variation , there 's a lot to catch your eye , I mean the more things contrast with each other , the more you notice them , is n't that true . When we looked at the Telegraph and the Times things seem so samey , there 's just this uniform effect everything seeming to look the same whereas here they 've really used such a variety of styles the curly , the straight , the blocked plus your black blocks across the bottom . Well you 've taken the colour out there obviously in photocopying it but you 've also got to be crafty and think of things like that as well .
Idiom: off the wall (used idiomatically: yes)
Open , locks , to the Human 's hand … Would it work ? It must , thought Fenella , snatching the spell off the wall and holding it between her hands as she stood at the silver door , waiting for an indication that the Robemaker had gone . In the end , it was much easier than she had thought to push the silver door open by a few inches and to stand listening , trying to see , trying to hear , trying to feel the lingering dark presence . Had he gone ?
Idiom: by and large (used idiomatically: yes)
In the case of the first question the verb is thematicized ; in the second it is rhematic and is substituted for by a categorical verb , i.e. to do . Which question to ask will , of course , depend on whether the context already tells us that Leander bought something . Note that this approach tends , by and large , to equate theme with given ( context - dependent ) and rheme with new ( context - independent ) elements . However , Firbas does modify this position when he insists that , as far as he is concerned , this is not necessarily the case : I consider rhematic information to be always new , but thematic information old and/or new .
Idiom: off the wall (used idiomatically: yes)
I was a child . The air pressure forced me to my knees and I watched while the wind screwed great oak trees out of the earth and then dropped them in a mess of green leaves and splintered wood . Every winter the gales of Cornwall lift granite slabs off sea walls and toss them willy - nilly on to the nearest road . The stone walls of our cottage groan and shudder as if tired of battling with the centuries of wind . We 're used to that , though .
Idiom: Dutch courage (used idiomatically: yes)
The gun 's threat had not stopped my advance . I was calling Sweetman 's bluff , confident he would not dare pull the trigger , and equally confident that my marine training would let me turn him into mincemeat . I was also half drunk , and thus filled with the Dutch courage offered by Mama Sipcott 's worst white wine . Sweetman stood . There was , at last , a look of alarm on his face , and I could see him wondering whether he really would have to pull the small trigger .
Idiom: in the works (used idiomatically: no)
She mentioned a conference at Lancaster University , where she 'd given a talk called ' Bringing Spirituality into Organizations ' . A hugely diverse number of organizations were represented — local government , charities , mostly hi - tech and computer business ( IBM for one ) . In her own work , Jasminder does conventional management training , but with a twist . She holds seminars on ' The Tao of Management'(about ' working with the moment rather than patterns of the past , and using that to attempt predictions of the future ' ) . She says she ' gets leaders to connect with Nature , and teaches them how to access their higher consciousness ' and does some more psychological work on things like the way managers often project their own insecurities on to others .
Idiom: heart and soul (used idiomatically: no)
' Treachery and deception ? When have I done anything less than love you with a passion that you chose to throw back in my face , not once but twice ? Dear God , but I gave you my heart and my very soul — ' ' You gave me nothing Fernando ! ' Ruth sobbed .
Idiom: run riot (used idiomatically: yes)
Basically we pissed all over them , and out - classed them in every department . However , this is n't saying too much as Coventry were pretty appalling . They seemed to give up in the second half , failed to mark anyone , gave Wallace ( who was running riot ) as much space as he wanted , and left Quinn up , waddling around ( usually into an offside position ) like a half - deflated barrage baloon ( with a tache ) . Did anyone see the review yesterday that said strachan was showing signs of being past it ? I could n't see any indications of it .
Idiom: change your tune (used idiomatically: yes)
Comfort put down her wine glass with a snap , her smile shrinking like a jersey boiled in washing soda . ‘ Julia is not dull,’ she said through her teeth . ‘ Oh my!’ said Bob , looking at her more seriously than his voice would have suggested , ‘ you have changed your tune . What 's happened?’ ‘ Nothing,’ said Comfort , who had been unable either to forget or justify some of the things she had said to Julia during the war .
Idiom: on the spur of the moment (used idiomatically: yes)
Therefore where an otherwise innocent article is concerned it can only become an offensive weapon if the accused intended to use it to cause personal injury . This can be proved by comments from the accused to the effect ‘ I carried it to use in case I was ever attacked’ . The case of R v Dayle outlined at ( B ) 2 shows that the offence is ‘ had with him’ and not ‘ picked up on the spur of the moment’ . The prosecution should try to prove an interval of time between forming the intention and using the article to injure when the third category of ‘ intended’ is used ( Ohlson v Hylton [ 1975]2 All ER 490 ) . ( D ) SUPPORTING EVIDENCE
Idiom: in the family way (used idiomatically: yes)
Yeah . Then factories as well when the War was on . That 's when the War was on you see , things got worse , they were all in the family way , all them as could be in it . Mm , believe me all trying to get rid . Was .