Gooogr/pie_idioms huggingface dataset:
Idiom: under the table (used idiomatically: yes)
Nobody under the table , nobody under the sofa ; a small fire in the grate ; spoon and basin ready ; and the little saucepan of gruel ( Scrooge has a cold in his head ) upon the hob .
Idiom: throw the baby out with the bathwater (used idiomatically: yes)
Western ' aid ' in the mental - health field must change gear to address the needs of the people it is supposed to help : concentrate on the villages and towns where most poor people live ; require as little capital investment and new training as possible ; and make the maximum use of local talent and resources . In the Third World , governments and mental - health professionals must also change their attitudes . They must face up to the limitations of the Western model — though the baby of Western expertise should not be thrown out with the bathwater of its failings . Finally , mental health must be seen as something applicable to people — to individuals , families and communities . So promoting mental health is about personal interactions , the stability of communities , relationships between groups of people and even matters of international peace and harmony .
Idiom: under the sun (used idiomatically: yes)
He became ‘ clan’ chief after father 's death , yet for most of his life , even when only a boy , he was Mum 's adviser and confidant . He was exceedingly brilliant , hard - working and a genius . He had been born with a photographic memory and an unlimited store for knowledge , and the capacity to gather and keep information on any subject under the sun . He knew about religion , politics , philosophy , astrology , music , and numerous other facts and figures relating to human endeavour . He was the nearest possible to being a walking encyclopedia .
Idiom: have a ball (used idiomatically: yes)
Having started the match eight points down from the first leg , Hemel spent the first half apparently doing everything they could to double the deficit . They almost succeeded , so that by a combination of close range misses , poor handling and half - hearted rebounding they trailed 33 - 27 at the break . Hemel 's Darin Schubring , who caused a two - hour delay in last week 's first leg when he demolished the backboard , looked less dangerous on the rare occasions he had the ball . The second half opened with Hemel threatening a stunning transformation as they outscored their opponents 9 - 2 to go one point ahead on the night and seven down overall . But the effort proved too much to sustain and Reykjavik scored the next 13 points to put the issue beyond doubt .
Idiom: on the carpet (used idiomatically: yes)
Paintings hung on them , large canvases in gilt frames . The room was lit by a number of small reading lamps , none powered by anything stronger than a sixty - watt bulb . It gave the room an artificially cosy feel , which was added to by the open fireplace and the array of expensive leather furniture that dotted the floor , spread out on thick carpet as dark as wet concrete . The air was thick with cigarette and cigar smoke ; a number of the twelve men seated there puffed away quite happily while they talked . They sat at different places in the room , most of them also with drinks cradled in their hands .
Idiom: pack a punch (used idiomatically: yes)
… AND so Ed and Kath decide to keep mum about Mr Sloane 's murder of their father , preferring to share him , turn and turn about , six months at a time , Ed 's turn first since Kath is pregnant with Sloane 's child . Raw stuff in 1964 , nearly 30 years on Entertaining Mr Sloane still packs a punch , Joe Orton 's target being the humbug and hypocrisy of suburban life , writes Christopher Grier . Its revival at the Greenwich Theatre , the first for ten years , sounds and looks , however , a bit disappointing . Orton 's fault , or that of the staging by the multi - talented Jeremy Sams ; some flaw in the characterisations , or simply the passage of time and our over - exposure to horrors ?
Idiom: in the final analysis (used idiomatically: yes)
They include ‘ accuracy of prediction , particularly of quantitative prediction ; the balance between esoteric and everyday subject matter ; and the number of different problems solved’ and also , although less importantly , ‘ simplicity , scope and compatibility with other specialities’ . Criteria such as these constitute the values of the scientific community . The means by which these values are specified ‘ must , in the final analysis , be psychological or sociological . It must , that is , be a description of a value system , an ideology , together with an analysis of the institutions through which that system is transmitted and enforced’ . ‘ There is no standard higher than the assent of the relevant community.’
Idiom: miss the boat (used idiomatically: no)
Ben talks at the top of his voice about the old days . ‘ I was 19 and playing a winter . And there was this old comic called Jack Daw , who 'd missed the boat on account of booze . On stage he says to me , ‘ Get me a Lancashire cocktail , my man.’ Now we had n't rehearsed this so I turned to go off , only he called me back .
Idiom: fast and furious (used idiomatically: yes)
ANTS 37 , MEON 58 Alton Ants ( sponsored by Booker & Bolton Solicitors ) have found improved form , but they could never master Meon 's six foot-plus shooter . Meon ran out winners of a fast and furious contest by 58–37 . BASINGSTOKE WINTER LEAGUE : DIV . I
Idiom: on the game (used idiomatically: yes)
Players ' agents and satellite salesmen will be rubbing their hands with glee . But Joe Public will feel aggrieved our No.1 sport is not available to everyone . It is yet one more sign of how television has become an ever - increasing influence on the game . Matches have been arranged to meet TV schedules . Kick - offs have even been delayed to fit in with Sky TV advertisements .
Idiom: lay an egg (used idiomatically: yes)
The couple may even fly through the air awkwardly , in tandem . Then the female lays her fertilised eggs and provisions them . Butterflies seek out the one plant whose leaves provide the only food their caterpillars will eat ; beetles bury pellets of dung and lay their eggs within them ; flies feverishly deposit their eggs within carrion ; and solitary wasps catch spiders , paralyse them with a sting and stack them around their eggs so that the young larvae will have fresh meat awaiting them . The female ichneumon wasp has an ovipositor like a dagger with which she drills a hole in wood at the exact point where she has detected a beetle grub lying beneath . She pierces it and deposits an egg in its soft body .
Idiom: on the square (used idiomatically: yes)
Pipe black dots on to the dice . 10 Finally , place the ladders on the board carefully , making sure that they start and end on squares of the same colour . Place the dice and counters around the board . Method
Idiom: come to terms with (used idiomatically: yes)
Some of the tempi in Fauré 's solo piano music —Nocturne No . 4 , Impromptus Nos . 2 & 5 — are rather fast , but always clear and concise . Long studied with Debussy and in the book ‘ At the Piano with debussy’(Rene Julliard 1960 , trans . J. M. Dent & Sons Ltd. , 1972 ) she tells of her first meeting with the composer , of his influence on her technique and interpretation , of how she came to terms with the music , of Plante and other virtuosi , and gives a detailed analysis of various pieces . On this record , the Deux Arabesques , La plus que lente and Jardins sous la pluie , originally recorded in 1930 , fully illustrate debussy 's teaching . Pearl 's transfers by Attwell , Wells and Haynes have safely committed them to CD .
Idiom: bear in mind (used idiomatically: yes)
No no no no , I 've seen one since then . Oh . Bearing in mind too that as a non - taxpayer you can open an account in just your name and so enable all the interest to be declared gross . do you ? Well it 's neither here nor there but I mean the thing is that we do n't as it is we 're not losing anything because you 're getting yours , half of it 's coming back as , as gross interest .
Idiom: good offices (used idiomatically: yes)
With the election now off until sometime next year media attention continues to be absorbed by party conferences and international activity . As many of you will have seen the Macmillan Nurse Appeal has also been launched as has the Help The Aged Home Security Appeal , and appeals by Oxfam and Guide Dogs for the Blind , so it appears we have made the right decision to delay until January . Work on the launch and the focus of the appeal is close to completion and we are benefitting from the good offices of our advertising industry contacts . The Appeal Video is also close to completion . Once the right focus has been identified this will be applied to a range of Appeal materials from posters to T - Shirts .
Idiom: pull a face (used idiomatically: yes)
The smiler with the sherry bottle ? Now glimpsed at prayer with a pupil ? He told everyone he met , pulling a maliciously funny face to represent Bill Brice 's holy expression . A week later he was in the chair at a meeting of the Humanist Society when he suddenly had a vision of Bill Brice looking down at him from the moulding in the corner of the ceiling with a crown of thorns on his head , and look of sweet forgiveness on his face ; whereupon he stood up and made a long , confused speech about the hunger for God that gnawed inside each of us , however stiff - necked and jeering we might be ; which caused great embarrassment to all those present , and even greater embarrassment later to progressive theologians on the staff , who felt that such old - fashioned emotive conversions could only undo all their good work . But eventually it led to several notable improvements in the arrangements for the early detection of mental ill - health among faculty members .
Idiom: on the trot (used idiomatically: yes)
No and if not that 'll be Margaret out first , out of the hall , wo n't it ? Yeah . I mean she 'll be out two days on the trot . Yeah and that 's not fair , and that 's cold today is n't it ? No and you see it 's just them two I think they could put him sort of like in the hall and if there 's a
Idiom: pick up the pieces (used idiomatically: yes)
The whole family was outside now . The twins and Nara were chasing each other round and round , hiding in the shadows , then bursting out on each other , screaming , wild with uncontrolled excitement . Sigarup picked up a piece of unlit jharo and held it in the fire until it was blazing and drips of flaming resin fell from it , spluttering to the ground . Then he hurled it off the roof as far as he could , shouting at the top of his voice a threat to all evil spirits : warning them that tonight was the night they must leave the village for good . The jharo flared through the darkness , twisting and somersaulting , spiralling down until it landed in the village square , flickered momentarily , then died .
Idiom: on the rocks (used idiomatically: yes)
To avoid them I should either have had to go several hundred yards through dense undergrowth , or make a wide detour round and above them ; the former would have subjected me to very great danger , and there was no time for the latter , for the sun was near setting and I had still two miles to go . So , whether I liked it or not , there was nothing for it but to face the rocks . The wind was blowing up the hill so I was able to ignore the thick cover on the left of the track and concentrate all my attention on the rocks to my right . A hundred feet would see me clear of the danger zone , and this distance I covered foot by foot , walking sideways with my face to the rocks and the rifle to my shoulder ; a strange mode of progress , had there been any to see it . Thirty yards beyond the rocks was an open glade , starting from the right - hand side of the track and extending up the hill for fifty or sixty yards , and screened from the rocks by a fringe of bushes .
Idiom: come clean (used idiomatically: yes)
How else could we have appreciated the dangers of ocean pollution , the extraordinary risks that are being taken with nuclear waste ? The politicians will not tell us of what is happening to the environment . The vested interests of large corporations will not come clean unless we force them . That is why Greenpeace have had to take the moral initiative … ‘ Moral initiative … a great movement for social change’(to quote The Greenpeace Story again ) ?
Idiom: in the running (used idiomatically: yes)
Now its looking for £ 37.5 m over five years to regenerate the town centre an tackle unemployment , housing , health and social problems . Cheese please : Wendy Huggins , of Ash Hill , Coulby Newham , Middlesbrough , is in the running for a prize in a national competition to find Britain 's champion cheese dish with her Northallerton leek pie . Carry on is message to tourism success story Tees Valley Tourism , a partnership between the public and private sectors , has been saved by its own success . Set up under a special government programme in 1989 with funding for three years , it has done so well it is to carry on in a slimmed down form under a new name Tees Valley Conference and Visitor Bureau under the control of the Northumbria Tourist Board .
Idiom: up and running (used idiomatically: yes)
THE UK clocked up record exports of £ 4.3 billion in January , but nobody was cheering in the City yesterday , writes Magnus Grimond . The advent of the European single market has made redundant the ‘ anything to declare?’ channel at EC borders and , with it , the crucial information on which statistics covering more than half Britain 's trade is based . The Government 's Central Statistical Office says it could be July before a new system of European trade statistics is up and running and next year before the whole picture emerges . So yesterday 's record - beating export figure only covered trade with the world outside the EC and few analysts thought it worthy of much analysis . Robert Buckland , an economist at brokers NatWest Markets , summed up the City 's view : ‘ We 're sceptical about one month 's figures for a start .
Idiom: seen better days (used idiomatically: yes)
There was no easy route . In 1984 , when the InterCity Charter Unit was first set up , it had at its disposal some twenty sets of Mk 1 stock — principally second - class tourist open vehicles — but nothing which could credibly be described as suitable for the VIP trains it was seeking to introduce . Progressively reducing the twenty Mk 1 sets by half , and acquiring from regular service stock a fleet of Mk 1 first open coaches , Ward put in hand a programme of vehicle refurbishment involving re - upholstering , recarpeting and curtain replacement and the fitting of individual table lamps , with the aim of restoring a level of respectability to coaches which had seen better days . During the second half of the eighties , InterCity could at last boast five complete ten - coach VIP train sets all based and serviced at London 's Bounds Green depot . They comprised four Mk 1 FO sets , each made up of seven FO saloons , two kitchen cars and a BFK brake vehicle , plus the former Manchester Pullman set of seven parlour cars , two parlour kitchen cars and a parlour brake .
Idiom: keep tabs on (used idiomatically: yes)
You almost end up yearning with the RAF trainees to be back in the cockpit getting on with the business : flying . Even at its most academic , Combat Ready is never boring . The book gives you a clear insight into the complexities of piloting a fast jet at low altitude , keeping tabs on exactly where you are and planning on the wing exactly where you want to be within an acceptable tolerance at a checkpoint of plus or minus five seconds . Most of us are happy hitting within a minute of an ETA , of course , but the various equations and rules of thumb used by the RAF are familiar to the private pilot . Mason includes a detailed description of route planning , chart marking and correction formulae that any PPL could use and find very useful .
Idiom: get the picture (used idiomatically: yes)
One particularly bold animal came so close that we thought he was going to hook his tusks over the edge of our inflatable . This could have had unfortunate consequences , so we started up the motor and went on towards the beach . The walrus followed us in to the shallows , and we hurriedly jumped out on to the shore to get better pictures . I was just pressing the camera shutter when someone yelled ' Polar bear ! ' and there , about twenty metres away on the head of the beach , was a bear standing watching us . Survival instincts took precedence , and I was all thumbs as I disentangled camera , binocular , rucksack and rifle straps from round my neck .
Idiom: in the pink (used idiomatically: yes)
It was much better than I had anticipated — it was wonderful.’ The couple , who have made their home in Cleator Moor , later celebrated in a more formal manner with a reception for 100 guests at the Castle Inn , Bassenthwaite . They 're in the pink BELTING out a number from that memorable film , the cast of Grease — alias those wacky lot on the Chapelcross Annan Festival float — sing their way to success . Yet again the BNFL entry , which sported a mock - up of the film 's famous pink car , took first prize for the annual procession 's best entry .
Idiom: dyed in the wool (used idiomatically: yes)
Your personality sets boundaries on what you can and can not do in rather the same way that your physical build also sets constraints . Suppose , for example , you have a so - called extraverted personality , this means that for most of the time in most situations you will tend to think , feel and behave in outward going ways . But even a dyed - in - the - wool extravert will sometimes choose to behave more demurely . This does n't mean they have changed their personality , it merely demonstrates that even extraverts are capable of modifying their behaviour . Even more frequently there are people who claim to be introverted,(in other words they think and feel as an introvert ) but who nonetheless over - compensate and behave in extraverted ways .
Idiom: under the influence (used idiomatically: yes)
Thus Evans - Pritchard 's work on the magic and religion of the Azande , and on the political systems of the Nuer , and Malinowski 's investigations among the Trobriand islanders established a new style and standard for this kind of academic scholarship . The methods that they developed , which are discussed in greater detail in chapter 4 , are now used with many kinds of social groups , whether in the researcher 's own society or elsewhere . Another very important school of sociological research developed under the influence of Robert E. Park ( 1864–1944 ) at the University of Chicago in the period between the two world wars . They based almost all their work on anthropological techniques , but they were interested in the wide variety of life styles that they found on their own doorsteps in Chicago , not in simple societies . They used a method that became known as ‘ participant observation’ , in which the researcher both observes the social processes of a group and actually participates in the life of that group .
Idiom: bits and bobs (used idiomatically: yes)
But it just does n't operate here . That 's one of the reasons it 's exciting for a botanist to work in the rainforest . I mean , in Britain , if I was studying the daisy family for example , there 'd be the garden daisy and a few other bits and bobs , but that would be it . But if I was studying the daisy family here , I 'd be looking at plants from the size of daisies as we know them , to plants the size of trees . TOM : The size of trees !
Idiom: with a will (used idiomatically: no)
When my Cid saw that they who eat his bread were returned , he went down from the tower , and received them right well , and praised them for what they had done like good knights : howbeit he was full sorrowful for Alvar Salvadores that he should be in the hands of the Moors , but he trusted in God that he should deliver him on the morrow . And the Cid assembled his chief captains and knights and people , and said unto them , Kinsmen and friends and vassals , hear me : to - day has been a good day , and to - morrow shall be a better day . Four thousand , lacking thirty , were they who went out with my Cid , with a good will , to attack fifty thousand . They went through all the narrow places , and bad passes , and leaving the ambush on the left , struck to the right hand , so as to get the Moors between them and the town . And the Cid put his battles in good array , and bade Pero Bermudez bear his banner .
Idiom: on the fly (used idiomatically: yes)
Oakland 's Dave Henderson scored the A 's first run with a homer in the second inning and they scored their second on a single by Dave Parker . Oakland 's starting pitcher , Dave Stewart , recovered from a shaky start to allow just five hits over eight innings , before giving way to relief pitcher , Dennis Eckersley . Toronto had scored on a sacrifice fly and a single in the second inning and on a home run by Ernie Whitt in the fourth inning . Athletics : Thompson in doubt for Auckland By DEREK HODGSON
Idiom: out of order (used idiomatically: yes)
‘ They gave him a very rough time indeed.’ But , she says , she did think that Ken showed him a certain degree of respect . ‘ As for me , I think he was tougher because I was a girl — one who felt that any kind of talkback would have just been out of order . I think he challenged me . If I responded , he would be on guard .
Idiom: across the board (used idiomatically: yes)
The offence is committed where a person recklessly engages in conduct which places another person in danger of death or serious bodily injury . It does not require any result , although it does require actual danger . Its great merit is that it is not confined to particular activities , and therefore has an across - the - board application to different sources of endangerment . On the other hand , such a general offence does not fulfil the educative function of singling out situations which carry a particular risk of danger . For that reason , it would be wise to retain a special offence for road - traffic cases , and there may be merit in retaining offences with particular labels in other spheres .
Idiom: at sea (used idiomatically: yes)
As minister of finance , however , he readily adopted a narrower approach to service delivery and his main concern was to keep a balanced budget and to maintain good relations with the British Treasury . As a cabinet minister he was keenly aware of the increasing weakness of the government , as James Craig , first Viscount Craigavon [ q.v . ] , prime minister since 1921 , lost control of affairs in the 1930s . Nevertheless , on becoming prime minister after Craigavon 's death in 1940 , Andrews was also at sea , his loyalty to old colleagues preventing him from bringing in new men . His ageing government showed insufficient energy in pursuing the effort of World War II and its prestige and confidence were undermined by the German air raids in April – May 1941 , indecision over conscription , the corruption of Belfast Corporation , what was seen as the weak and complacent handling of industrial relations , and confused planning for the post - war world . Dissidents forced Andrews out of office and looked for leadership to Sir Basil Brooke ( later Viscount Brookeborough , q.v . ) , the minister of commerce and war production , who had been completely identified with the war effort .
Idiom: off the hook (used idiomatically: yes)
Philip looked at the white bread and the sultanas . He knew it would . He ran back into the living - room and took the phone off the hook . Then he went with Lee down the village . ‘ You sure she 's out?’ said Philip as they ran through Mrs Wright 's gate .