Gooogr/pie_idioms huggingface dataset:
Idiom: follow your nose (used idiomatically: yes)
Follow Gide , and call the Letters Flaubert 's masterpiece . Follow Sartre , and call them a perfect example of free - association from a pre - Freudian couch . Then follow your nose . MME FLAUBERT Gustave 's gaoler , confidante , nurse , patient , banker and critic .
Idiom: cut and thrust (used idiomatically: yes)
No heavy shagpiles here , these carpets are lighter than air . Knock that other geezer off with your fireballs . Oo ar , Jim me lad , it 's cut - and - thrust duelling onboard the pirate ship Corky ! On first loading Millenium Warriors , I was strongly reminded of the old Palace classic Barbarian .
Idiom: hit and miss (used idiomatically: yes)
The land scorpions were not direct descendants , but belonged to the same broad group and certainly shared the same savage habits . The scorpions that live today have not only fearsome - looking claws but a large poison gland with a sharp curving sting drooping from the end of a thin tail . Their copulations can not be the somewhat hit - and - miss gropings practised by the millipedes . Approaching such an aggressive and powerful creature is a dangerous enterprise even if the move is made by another individual of the same species and its intentions are purely sexual . There is a real risk of it being regarded not as a mate but a meal .
Idiom: make light of (used idiomatically: yes)
The social workers had gone to his room and woken him , and he followed them downstairs , He had heard what was happening to his sisters , and was very distressed . His mother was talking to the police at the time , but she insisted on dressing him herself , and told everyone not to touch him . She tried to make light of the situation by telling the child this would be better than having some teeth out , which was planned for the following day . She knew she had to let him go , but after buttoning him into his coat , she wrapped her arms tightly around him , crying almost hysterically . She knew , too , she had to try and reassure the children , and struggled to control herself .
Idiom: put the cat among the pigeons (used idiomatically: yes)
Mhm . No , Mr Mr Donson 's with us all this week . We 've put the slightly put the cat among the pigeons . Pardon ? Have n't we put the cat among the pigeons ?
Idiom: in the running (used idiomatically: yes)
DAVID LEIGH PRINCE CHARLES 'S closest friend is selling the Mountbatten art collection to meet debts of £ 4 million . Lord Romsey — grandson of the late Earl Mountbatten — is facing mounting costs in the running of his Broadlands stately home in Hampshire . He is said to be devastated at having to dispose of the famous art works and family silver and furniture . The sale by Sotheby 's over the next few months is expected to raise £ 5 million .
Idiom: in the pipeline (used idiomatically: yes)
Future developments include access to more information sources — GL is currently talking to a further four names — new cable and satellite links and , eventually , a Windows NT version . Another possibility is an add - on scanner to enable users to read printed information into their systems quickly and talks are underway with Logitech Inc to this end . Database development and a news archiving feature which may well appear as a separate product are also in the pipeline . Updata is the sole product offering from GL Software , which is just three years old and has 25 staff . The UK is its major market though sales have also been made to customers in Italy , Spain , Portugal , Ireland and Australia .
Idiom: nothing doing (used idiomatically: no)
Rory stretched her arms up over her head , revelling in the warmth beating down on her near - naked limbs . ‘ Then you should . Just look at us — if we do n't prove astrology 's got a lot going for it , then nothing does.’ ‘ What do you mean?’ Curious despite herself , Rory opened both tawny eyes to stare quizzically at her friend .
Idiom: on the house (used idiomatically: yes)
I felt at the time , that if such a Call sere presented I should have great difficulty , indeed , in declining it , even in the face of much inconvenience and pecuniary sacrifice . I at once informed Mr Blair of this and I am aware that he wrote you to say that my present attitude was distinctly negative . I afterwards met Mr Blair at the Congress , and observing his deep solicitude for Kildalton , I admitted the claims which its neglected state had upon my faith and affection , and remarked that it was not the pecuniary sacrifice that I should make that would deter me , so much as the expenditure I had lately incurred on my House and Glebe , and which would in a measure be thrown away , by my moving to Islay . I regret if this remark has misled Mr Blair or you to think that I could preach at Kildalton as a Candidate . I could not do so honourably .
Idiom: as a rule (used idiomatically: no)
It results from a process of logical , deductive reasoning , unsullied by personal feelings or practicalities . Until relatively recently Western moral philosophers debating abortion have been concerned almost exclusively with when life begins — and hence when abortion is not permissible . For instance , the Catholic Church once followed what was known as the ' 40-and 80-day rule ' , whereby the soul was thought to enter the male fetus 40 days after conception and the female after 80 days . Abortion of a male up to 40 days and a female up to 80 days was thus considered permissible until 1989 , when the Church adopted its current position — that the soul was infused at conception — which effectively outlaws abortion . Other cutoff points have also been prevalent : quickening , for instance , which is when a woman first becomes aware of fetal movement .
Idiom: get the better of (used idiomatically: yes)
At the other end of the scale , Medved accuses Steven Spielberg of using his Peter Pan story , Hook , to advance his theme of kids being good and adults bad ; while the storyline of Home Alone , about parents who accidentally leave their eight - year - old son behind when they go on holiday , promotes a picture of adult ineptitude and childhood self - sufficiency . Kevin ( Macaulay Culkin ) manages to get the better of a couple of adult villains . But kids have a long tradition of getting the better of adults , going back to the Famous Five and beyond . But that 's just part and parcel of a Hollywood attitude , according to Medved , that regards swearing and sex as normal activities for kids today .
Idiom: under fire (used idiomatically: yes)
His operational flying looked as promising as his civilian flying had , until he went on a night bombing raid over Constantinople . Their target was the railway station at Hayda Pasha , on the Asiatic shore of the Bosphorus . As they reached the enemy coastline they came under heavy fire from the Turkish batteries . Suddenly the port propeller flew off . They rapidly lost height and to save his crew he was forced to crush - land in the Sea of Marmara , within reach of the enemy .
Idiom: on and off (used idiomatically: yes)
My own experience , my own area , we have Harry , he had cancer hospital no family , he had a home carer for two hours a day , he lasted two days and died . Nay and I call that an injustice . You get Ann , senile dementia , they had to get the taps off the gas fire because she kept turning it on and off without it being lit again , found wandering in her nightclothes , injustice , and then we found Eileen , who was in an upstairs room , yes she enjoyed that life for about five years , great council house then she had an accident and then because she could n't re - house her , she was a virtual prisoner inside her own home that she 'd made up . Is that a social justice ? It 's a social injustice .
Idiom: on the level (used idiomatically: yes)
Structurally the AD1 repeat is closely related to the three flanking repeats 10 , 11 and 12 based on both its nucleotide sequence and the deduced amino acid sequence ( Fig . 2 ) . These four type III repeats form one of several type III homology groups . Based on their level of homology the type III repeats 6–9 form a group as do repeats 3 , 5 , 14 and 15 . It would appear that duplications of type III repeats have given rise to the present group of type III repeats . What functions the AD1 and flanking repeats may have is unknown but it is not unlikely that one or another of these repeats represent functional domains .
Idiom: off and running (used idiomatically: yes)
You do n't ask for much , do you , mate?’ He shakes his head , he ums and ahs , his Thelonious Monk fingers chop at the keyboard in talented frustration . But then he has it , he 's off and running , he 's merging and purging that database with frantic abandon . ‘ Let me see … Let me see — yeah , yeah’— plastic keys riffling —‘we've got a list that tells us who 's bought fridge freezers in the central London area in the past year …
Idiom: bright young thing (used idiomatically: yes)
And going on picnics And dancing , dancing , dancing … ’ All a pretty far cry from 30 Northfield Road , Hull , where a nanny was a goat , a boarding school a threat , and a bright young thing something who 'd probably just passed their eleven plus . Where Mother fried the fish , lit the Friday night candles and laid out the clothes in the order my brother and I would put them on . Where my nearest brush with show business was when my father , a tailor , made Ronnie Hilton 's jacket for Buttons in Cinderella at the Hull New Theatre .
Idiom: oil and water (used idiomatically: yes)
Tip both of the flours into a large bowl and stir in the easy - blend yeast and salt . 2 Pour in the oil and enough water to make a soft but not sticky dough . Add a little more water or flour if required to achieve the correct consistency . 3
Idiom: fall into place (used idiomatically: yes)
Stena Sealink are providing the return ferry journey from Larne to Stranraer and Northern Ireland Railways will provide free return travel from the winner 's nearest station to Larne . Shorts chase chess title AS the Belfast and District Chess league draws to a close , the various promotion and relegation issues are beginning to fall more clearly into place . Last week 's game in Division One served to reinforce Shorts title challenge . On Tuesday night they easily put paid to Newtownards ' slight remaining hopes , by beating them 3.5–1.5 .
Idiom: in the long run (used idiomatically: yes)
The Bundesbank German central ~ bank expects welfare costs to remain high in the long run .
Idiom: save face (used idiomatically: yes)
The Arsenal boss should have been feeling pleased after his side salvaged a late point . But he looked a picture of misery instead as he reflected on a the heavy demands on his men . Arsenal saved face with an Ian Wright leveller five minutes from time after having a jaded , end - of - season look — eight months ahead of schedule ! And that did n't surprise Graham one bit as he bluntly admitted : ‘ I 've got tired players on my hands , and we 've only been playing five weeks . ‘ Football is going down a path where the product is being sacrificed for the sake of finance , and I 'm not happy about that .
Idiom: on the nose (used idiomatically: no)
' You really understand it ? ' I understand every single word , ' said Fonda . ' It 's right on the nose . ' Corman , who was both producer and director of The Trip , was unsure about Nicholson 's script . He wanted certain scenes spelled out ; he could not understand some of the subtleties .
Idiom: by heart (used idiomatically: yes)
We must learn this poem by ~ heart by the next lesson .
Idiom: break the bank (used idiomatically: yes)
Our report on page 97 looks at where you stand and your legal rights when it comes to joint finances — and how to avoid getting into difficulties that are not of your own making . It would be lovely to have the most expensive of everything at your reception , but we are only too aware that most people planning a wedding have to run a pretty tight budget . There are ways of saving money without missing out and in this issue we look at sparkling alternatives to champagne which will add the fizz to the proceedings without breaking the bank . Our home section looks at functional yet funky cutlery and classy glass for your gift list , and our Ducal bedroom furniture competition offers prizes worth £ 6,000 . Also on the competition front one lucky reader will be flying off to the sunny Bahamas for her honeymoon — so hurry up and enter , it might just be you !
Idiom: in the pink (used idiomatically: yes)
This progress has a fraught history , however . Mary Whitehouse , representing the National Viewers and Listeners Association , has repeatedly criticised Channel 4 for suggesting that gay is normal ' in the light of … an AIDS epidemic . ' Although a planned gay film series ( including Mädchen in Uniform , Before Stonewall and The Life and Times of Harvey Milk ) went ahead , the series title ' In The Pink ' was removed . High ratings and positive viewer response , however , ensured that a second season was broadcast the following year , this time without controversy . The success of these films enabled the early screening of the experimental gay magazine series ' Out On Tuesday ' , first broadcast at 11 p.m. on Valentine 's Day , 1989 .
Idiom: lend a hand (used idiomatically: yes)
The tumult and the shouting dies The Captains and the Kings depart . Purists may just possibly consider the analogy with Kipling 's powerful verse a bit over the top , bordering on the hyperbole , but what matter ? It was a well attended meeting , thanks to all who lent a hand . Your Committee being by nature shy , retiring , modest people , would be the last to compare themselves with the Captains and Kings — more like your temporary , acting , unpaid Lance Corporals,— Dogsbodies one and all . However , the excellent turn - out for the A.G.M. indicates interest , if not pride in the affairs and day - to - day running of our Village which is mellowing nicely with each year .
Idiom: out of sight (used idiomatically: no)
Rakovsky was thinking of them as he sat there in the borrowed office in Berlin . It was late afternoon and the sky was turning red outside . He remembered the vivid sunsets of his boyhood and the way the sun would hang like a crimson ball above the edge of the trees surrounding their house and then plunge out of sight as if it had been dropped in a moment of carelessness . He had been frightened until Ivan explained to him that the sun went to bed like everyone else and would be up and shining for them in the morning . Ivan was a fanciful fellow , and he loved to tell the boys stories .
Idiom: rank and file (used idiomatically: yes)
In May 1985 , Leon Brittan , then Home Secretary , was booed despite his figures saying that prison officer ranks had increased since 1979 by one - fifth , and that the budget for the Prison Service had risen 85 per cent . The poor conditions within prison led to several conflicts between prisoners and prison officers . This occurred at a time when the militancy of rank - and - file officers increased . In 1985 , officers took action at Bedford , Parkhurst , and Wormwood Scrubs . Several incidents of violence became public .
Idiom: save someone's bacon (used idiomatically: yes)
Although Evert had the day off from the Federation Cup yesterday , her presence was still felt , particularly by the Australian team , who surprisingly defeated Bulgaria 2 - 1 . Prior to the match , Evert had told the Australian captain , Wendy Turnbull , to tell her No . 1 player , Anne Minter , ' that if she can beat me as she did in Toronto ( in August ) , then she can beat Manuela Maleeva ' . Evert 's prediction was spot - on as Minter grabbed a thrilling 6 - 3 , 2 - 6 , 6 - 4 victory that saved Australia 's bacon after Liz Smylie had lost the opening singles rubber 6 - 2 , 6 - 1 to Katerina Maleeva . Those two results left the outcome of the quarter - final tie hinging on the doubles , in which Smylie was joined by Janine Thompson against Team Maleeva . Not suprisingly , it was a nerve - racking finale but eventually the more experienced Australians triumphed 5 - 7 , 6 - 4 , 6 - 0 , to carry their country into the semi - finals for the first time in four years .
Idiom: rank and file (used idiomatically: yes)
At the end of 1977 , to confirm the Securitate 's control over the pits , the Party secretary in charge of security matters , Vasile Patilineţ , was appointed the new Minister of Mines . Ceauşescu knew Lenin 's dictum , ' trust is good but control is better ' , and ordered the Securitate to send in new informers and to recruit more from among the existing workforce as well . As ever , rank - and - file Party members and local trades union officials provided the core of the listening web which was supposed to embrace all citizens of Romania from cradle to grave . Ion Pacepa has described how scientists working for the Securitate designed a telephone which could be used to bug both phone conversations and any talk in the room where the apparatus was located . How many of these telephones were installed remains unknown , but after the revolution many Romanians who had telephones ( a small minority of the population , of course ) ripped open their own apparatus to find the hidden microphones .
Idiom: game on (used idiomatically: yes)
These words from Flower of Scotland will no doubt have been running through the head of Dick Best as he flew home to London yesterday . The England coach , who is also assistant to Ian McGeechan on the Lions tour to New Zealand this summer , and who has been in Scotland since last Thursday , admitted yesterday that the Scots ' performance against Wales ‘ had been very impressive and must have surprised quite a few people , especially down south’ . Best who was at a Lions selection meeting in Edinburgh yesterday morning , reckoned the margin and manner of Scotland 's 20 - 0 victory would certainly have England worried and that he expected a cracker of a game on Saturday week at Twickenham , where Scotland have won only twice , in 1971 and 1983 , since the Second World War . ‘ Bearing in mind that it will be Ian McGeechan 's last game as Scotland coach , it 's a perfect setting for Gavin and his side to give him a fitting send - off,’ said Best , who will be taking a video of the Murrayfield game back with him and will spend this week poring over it , looking at both the performances of Scotland and potential Lions . What most impressed Best about Scotland 's showing was their lineout play .
Idiom: in the club (used idiomatically: yes)
SEXINESS : 9 TOTAL : 45 MET : In a night club LOOKS : 9.5 MANNERS : 8
Idiom: rough edges (used idiomatically: yes)
‘ Ouch,’ grumbled Perdita . ‘ You 've got hands like sandpaper.’ ‘ To rub off all your rough edges,’ said Luke . ‘ I made such an idiot of myself . Those were children .
Idiom: in the black (used idiomatically: yes)
Veiled Sexuality NEW ~ YORK –A woman swathed in black to her ankles , wearing a headscarf or a full chador , walks down a European or North ~ American street , surrounded by other women in halter tops , miniskirts and short shorts . She passes under immense ~ billboards on which other women swoon in sexual ecstasy , cavort in lingerie or simply stretch out languorously , almost fully naked . Could this image be any more iconic of the discomfort the West has with the social mores of Islam , and vice ~ versa ?
Idiom: tell tales (used idiomatically: yes)
Mermaids are not unique to the ocean , however , being found also in lakes and freshwater streams . It is said that if you visit the Mermaid Pool of Derbyshire just before dawn , you will see them swimming gracefully in the dark waters below . Most commonly , tales are told of mermaids who fall in love with mortal men and painfully shed their tail in order to be able to live with them on land . Children of such a union are said to be born with webbed feet or scaly skin , although as with any fairy / mortal mating the child will be uncommonly gifted . Mermaids are also able to lure men to live with them beneath the sea , particularly if they are young and handsome , for mermen are often ugly and fierce .
Idiom: on the skids (used idiomatically: yes)
No verdict yet . Mantack murder jury sent to a hotel And saved : The ice rink that had been on the skids . Good Evening : ANNE DAWSON
Idiom: in the hole (used idiomatically: yes)
Suddenly he rose , went to the bed , tugged up the red blanket to lie straight , hiding the ugly pillow . He sat down again . He remarked,"I got rid of what you saw in that hole out there . It 's gone to where it can be of use . " " Oh , good , " said Alice indifferently .
Idiom: old hat (used idiomatically: yes)
Horovitz was to be vital to the underground 's birth . In Soho the Partisan coffee bar , founded by the New Left Review — which had grown out of the New Reasoner in 1960- was attracting a far more Bohemian and disreputable crowd than the straighter new leftists for which it had been intended . Down on Old Compton Street , the Two ‘ I 's , hailed as the home of British rock , because Tommy Steele and Cliff Richard had once drifted through its doors , was old hat . Across in South Kensington the Troubadour had been an early target of Private Eye 's Andrew Osmond , due to its reputation as a ‘ CND stronghold’ . The offspring of Beat poetry and folk music , Paul Simon and Bob Dylan , passed through London , picking up tunes and women from the CND folk scene .
Idiom: take stock (used idiomatically: yes)
Presently , she grew a little more adjusted to the noise and she began to make out the details a little more plainly ; she could see that the captives were all young men , some of them not much more than boys , but certainly strong and lithe . She thought that not one of them could be more than eighteen or twenty , and she remembered how it had been said that the Robemaker scoured Ireland , taking the sons of the ordinary Irish families to work here . And then Caspar , who had been narrowing his eyes and taking stock of everything and everyone , suddenly gripped Fenella 's arm and said , in a voice from which most of the breath had been driven , ‘ Fenella — over there.’ ‘ What —’ ‘ The Prince,’ said Caspar , softly .
Idiom: jump to conclusions (used idiomatically: yes)
After all , it was the occasion of Heather and Rob 's engagement . And all those other times when Luke had adroitly steered the conversation away from the topic of Elise … And she , Merrill , had jumped to the obvious conclusion that Luke was trying to hide his past association with her cousin because he felt some guilt over the manner of her death . But it was n't that way at all ; it was Rob ! Oh , why on earth had n't Luke told her that she had got it all wrong ?
Idiom: not much cop (used idiomatically: yes)
Every appointment seems to be an outrageous shot in the dark , either because the person appointed has no experience , or because he has far too much experience , having been fired from 43 other clubs ( three times from QPR ) . If someone 's a brilliant coach , they say he 's no good at the more administrative side of the job . If he 's a skilled boardroom apparatchik , they say he 's not much cop as a coach . If he 's young , he 's too young . If he 's not young , he 's past it .
Idiom: out of the blue (used idiomatically: yes)
His pal May and Atkins also deejayed on the show , playing an electric mix of house and European electronic music they 'd got into in high school when all the other kids were listening to the Gap Band and Prince . It was n't the kind of thing that had ever been heard on Detroit radio before , but for a while it seemed to be going okay . Then out of the blue , the radio station sacked them . ’ They said we were to ahead of or time,’say a Saunderson . ’ But that was a catalyst for me .