Gooogr/pie_idioms huggingface dataset:
Idiom: in full swing (used idiomatically: yes)
A fine and storming time was had by all ( to put it mildly ) , the degenerate nature of the evening summed up perfectly by the mildly amusing spectacle of one SHAUN RYDER being carried out of the venue at the end of the night , screaming out the directions to his hotel to his sweating , grumbling slaves . The rider for the evening ( the biggest ever we can faithfully report ) disappeared in minutes and took its toll on certain partygoers . Not least BARRY MOONCULT who went so ape - dropping crazy , he was spotted stumbling out of the party while it was in full swing armed with a stash of joke bombs , which despite being pretty harmless ( containing about as much genuine explosive as your average cap pistol ) make a loud enough bang to put the fear of God into the most ardent of atheists . Armed thus , and in the mood for , erm , fun , Mr Mooncult stormed down to Paris ' notorious Pigalle red light area and proceeded to lob his ‘ ammunition’ at puzzled transvestites . Public NME takes a dim view of types who persecute innocent human beings who just happen to enjoy the feel of women 's lingerie against their bollocks , but did find it quite funny that the be - wigged ‘ bomb victims’ were so convinced it was an aerial attack they raced into a nearby hotel to beat up a perfectly innocent couple snogging on a balcony .
Idiom: way to go (used idiomatically: no)
Mm mm mm . Well , it 's quite possible ! Long way to go for that ! Mm . So
Idiom: raise Cain (used idiomatically: yes)
‘ There 's plenty of room , miss . We had it reserved because my master is such an invalid . You 'd be quite comfortable , I assure you,’ the man went on , and by his pleading tone Breeze guessed that his employer was used to having his own way — and raised Cain when he did n't get it . ‘ Thank you,’ she said , ‘ I 'll come.’ The man 's relief was patent .
Idiom: word of mouth (used idiomatically: yes)
Personal selling All members of staff , in particular the reception and contact staff , must be trained in the development of selling techniques and good public relations . They must know their product thoroughly and how to promote sales by word of mouth , telephone or correspondence . Staff should be involved in the marketing and sales programmes and targets should be set and staff rewarded if they are achieved . Advertising
Idiom: wear the trousers (used idiomatically: yes)
Reviewing the novel in the London Times , A. S. Byatt noted approvingly that this theme of identity and difference was neatly encapsulated in the names of the two women , Hilary being derived from the Latin hilaritas , or Joy . Now I can be quite sure I had not intended this pleasing symmetry . I called Philip 's wife Hilary in a previous novel , Changing Places , because it is an androgynous name and at that stage of their marriage she was the dominant partner in the marriage , or , as the saying is , wore the trousers . I called Joy , Joy because when Philip falls in love with her he is in pursuit of what he calls ‘ intensity of experience’ , an essentially Romantic quest with a capital R , and joy is a key word in Romanticism . At the moment of consummation , Philip shouts aloud the word ‘ Joy’ , which is both exclamation and apostrophe .
Idiom: behind bars (used idiomatically: yes)
Politicians are bound to try to find solutions . That is why they are there . A new regime behind bars The prison system in independent Latvia was in disarray so it called in a troubleshooter from Scotland to help . Alan Hutchison reports LIFE in a Latvian prison can be cold , spartan and almost always overcrowded .
Idiom: walk of life (used idiomatically: yes)
The mobilisation of commercial forces through the use of contract compliance techniques is one approach ; the adoption of class action procedures is another . Discrimination remedies too require re - thinking and the challenge of enacting disability employment rights provides a timely opportunity to do so . There is also little point in outlawing employment discrimination if the disadvantage and discrimination experienced by disabled people in other walks of life are not redressed . The Americans with Disabilities Act , and comparable laws in Canada and Australia , also address discrimination in education , services , accommodation and transport , while mandating the demolition of architectural and structural barriers which have denied disabled people physical access to schools , colleges , public buildings and places of work . The Commissioner for the Rights of Trade Union Members - A Framework for the Future ?
Idiom: up against it (used idiomatically: yes)
All of them had the attraction of fewer chores and a better library — as well as , for him , the genius loci of a childhood home . They also had more of a challenge than Durham . He would have to move into a school where the powerful names were still Bethune - Baker ( though he was retired ) and Marsh and Raven and he would be , intellectually speaking , up against it in a way that he was not at Durham . That was a challenge which he would like to undertake . He thought the post ‘ more exposed’ , ‘ less cosy’ .
Idiom: go hand in hand (used idiomatically: yes)
More importantly , China , India , Pakistan , Iran , and Israel might not be particularly impressed by Russian and American assumptions that they can meet their defense needs with far smaller nuclear arsenals . Nuclear disarmament must therefore focus not only on a truly total elimination of stockpiles by the major powers , but also on regional powers ’ concerns . Global Zero must go hand in hand with a robust strategy of conflict resolution and confidence - building in trouble spots such as Southeast Asia and the Middle ~ East . All the nuclear - weapon - free zones that were created in the last decades – for example , by the Tlatelolco ~ Treaty for Latin ~ America or the Treaty ~ of Rarotonga for the South ~ Pacific – were made possible by understandings that were reached freely by regional powers in an atmosphere of multilateral confidence . Conspicuously , the 1992 Declaration on the Denuclearization of the Korean Peninsula remains to this day a dead letter simply because of the latent state of war between the two Koreas .
Idiom: in business (used idiomatically: yes)
All of these are for a personal service . As such , they involve a high degree of trust , good will , confidence and faith in all parties ' ability to do the job in hand . Musicians must seek legal advice if they are offered any of these agreements , and their legal adviser should be a specialist in the music business . A solicitor in divorce law or conveyancing will not deal with the music business on a day - to - day basis and he or she will not be able to advise you fully on the terms of a music industry agreement . The best way to find a legal adviser is to ask musicians in other bands , write to the Law society or , if you are a member of the Musicians ' Union , request a list of music business lawyers from the union 's national office .
Idiom: give someone pause (used idiomatically: yes)
( They recoil nonplussed , his voice calms . ) Think , in your head , now , think of them most … private … secret … intimate thing you have ever done secure in the knowledge of its privacy … ( He gives them — and the audience — a good pause . ROS takes on a shifty look . ) Are you thinking of it ?
Idiom: word of mouth (used idiomatically: yes)
She hopes he does not . As her brilliant last novel , Wise Children , demonstrates , Angela Carter liked ‘ heroic vulgarity’ , a quality she detects in Michael Moorcock 's Mother London . The history of the working class has ‘ survived by word of mouth , in stories and anecdotes’ , she declares , rightly , and it is the novelists who honour that history whom she admires . Moorcock 's people are amusing on their own terms , in their own right , and not just set down as figures of fun . He respects the oral tradition , and earns her respect in consequence : ‘ Not for Moorcock the painful , infrequent excretion of dry little novels like so many rabbit pellets ; his is the grand , messy flux itself … ’
Idiom: on board (used idiomatically: yes)
Though BA would have only 15 per cent of the voting shares in United , the second-largest US airline , its investment represents almost 80 per cent of the equity in the deal . Under the apparent terms of the Transportation Secretary 's new regulations , BA would have to slash its contribution by $500m — probably killing the staff buyout — and would effectively lose its representation on the UA board . Changing the ground rules has angered investors on both sides of the Atlantic , and Mr Skinner 's mandate for this is being widely questioned - particularly as foreign carriers are already represented on US airline boards . British Department of Transport officials have expressed concern about the probable restrictions and urged ‘ an open and free investment climate ’ . The irony of Mr Skinner 's re-regulation of the airline industry , say Wall Street analysts , is that it comes after the shake-out among domestic carriers has taken place and serves only to reinforce the advantages enjoyed by the surviving majors .
Idiom: against the grain (used idiomatically: yes)
These elements were acted on by two forces : gravity , the tendency for earth and water to sink , and levity , the tendency for air and fire to rise . This division of the contents of the universe into matter and forces is still used today . Aristotle believed that matter was continuous , that is , one could divide a piece of matter into smaller and smaller bits without any limit : one never came up against a grain of matter that could not be divided further . A few Greeks , however , such as Democritus , held that matter was inherently grainy and that everything was made up of large numbers of various different kinds of atoms . ( The word atom means " indivisible " in Greek . )
Idiom: on the cards (used idiomatically: yes)
Yep . All right ? Whichever you know if you take the cost some cost twelve hundred pound for a full page others cost three hundred and fifty and some cost even two hundred and fifty pound for a small strip on the golf cards . So there 's there is quite a variety of across all of our companies but on average it 's six hundred pound and on average it 's a six thousand pound assignment er er target . And if if we home in on that then certainly then that 's a nice comfortable seven fifty to eight hundred pound a week .
Idiom: in the long term (used idiomatically: yes)
It would seem to me that if you 've got to prove a case that there that it is the place of last resort , and that place of last resort has got to be at least five thousand dwellings , you are in a place where there is absolute massive growth of demand , and improbably no one has been able to meet a five year supply of housing land , if you are to meet it in the term , if y if those are the criteria to meeting the terms of th of this sort of plan , and in fact what I would submit is that a new settlement solution is very much a part and parcel of a long term solution , and that 's where essentially the County strategy is quite right in proposing a new settlement in the context of the greenbelt , because also greenbelt is a long term solution . We 've got to look at it in those terms , and so it is not necessary in my submission for anyone to prove at the moment there is at least five thousand dwellings short , erm that that is something which ought to be considered over a much longer time period . I think that what we have to decide today , or one of the things that needs to be decided is , is the new settlement in the longer term a sensible answer given that all the all the various considerations , and that erm arguing about residual numbers , here or there has to be taken in the much longer context , I think that 's what all I would like the to say at the moment on on new settlement erm because of the situation I am in of not being able to er say too much in detail about it , I sha n't be making very many contributions to to this particular debate . Can I come back Mr Donson , or will that , and I take it , alright , I understand the point you are making about the long term solution and size , but if the panel were to be persuaded that to be a viable solution the settlement had , in the end , and I 'm not going to define where the end is , almost certainly beyond two thousand and six , that the settlement would need to be of the order of five thousand dwellings . Do you consider it important that we take that into account now , not least because of the , although it 's well beyond the plan in its entirety , where the new settlement might go , and its its acceptability in environmental terms , depends in part on how big it is , there may be some places which could easily take fifteen hundred dwellings , but could not take five thousand ?
Idiom: out and about (used idiomatically: no)
And with some new hi - tech gear , British viewers should be able to see the results at the same time as viewers in America . AS IT HAPPENS : US PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION SPECIAL ( CHANNEL 4 , midnight ) FROM the political activists to the ‘ do n't cares , do n't vote’ the team from As It Happens are out and about on America 's streets . Andy Kershaw is in Little Rock , Arkansas to see what 's going on in Bill Clinton 's home town and manages to interview Clinton 's girl - next - door , the woman who has stayed friends with the Democratic challenger since they were teenagers . Shyama Perera , meanwhile , is in Washington DC .
Idiom: rock bottom (used idiomatically: yes)
At the end of the test I have to say that I would have been reasonably happy to work with any of the monitors on a long term basis . The monitor that I would pick if money was n't a consideration was the Sampo Alpha Scan — a superior monitor for a reasonable price . However if rock bottom price matters I would be very satisfied with the CA&G VG1460 or the AOC CM-335 . All of the monitors reviewed came with tilt and swivel stands and a complete set of cables . Notice that some are capable of non - interlaced operation which gives a virtually flicker free display but you also need a video card that can work with non - interlaced SVGA .
Idiom: grin and bear it (used idiomatically: yes)
BEAT BLISTERS WITH COMPEED The pain of competition is tough enough without blisters . And up to now , you 've had to quit or grin and bear it . But at last there 's a remedy : Compeed 's revolutionary new dressings . Their design means they protect you while you play .
Idiom: get to grips with (used idiomatically: yes)
There may not always be Summers Of Love , winters of Punk , Acid House explosions and Madchester madnesses , but there is always great and exciting ( new and old ) music out there . You just have to have the wit , imagination and guts to go out and find it . The other thing the knockers are fond of saying is that as more and more media get to grips with rock and pop , so NME will wither and die . To that we say ‘ bring 'em on!’ . The more competitors we have , the more the basic raw material of popular is presented in bland supermarket - commodity ways , the more the NME , by dint of the few extra degrees of vim , suss and humour it puts into its coverage , will seem different from everything else .
Idiom: change hands (used idiomatically: yes)
However , as he posted his letter on Monday , he has been caught in the suspension trap , and it could be at least a month , before there is any prospect of seeing his money . He said : ‘ I only have a few thousand invested , but it is very worrying when you can not get your money back , and there is no way of knowing how long it might be or how much I will get back.’ On the same day investors in the somewhat better known Gartmore heard that their fund management group was to be the latest to change hands . Present owners British & Commonwealth announced that it hoped to raise an estimated £ 130 million by putting it up for sale . Gartmore investors will have to wait until the end of January to know who the new owners will be although it will almost certainly be an overseas based group .
Idiom: come to a head (used idiomatically: yes)
Enthusiasm for an approach to the Comintern had largely evaporated as it became clear that the Communists were intent on superseding the ILP . William Rust , for instance , had stated openly that sympathetic affiliation had been suggested " in order that it could facilitate the movement of the ILP workers towards Communism " . Internal dissension in the ILP caused by Communist sympathizers came to a head in August 1934 . The Communist Party had written to Divisional Councils and branches of the ILP inviting them to send representatives to the forthcoming Seventh World Congress of the Communist International . This was done without consulting or indeed informing the National Administrative Council .
Idiom: to the bone (used idiomatically: no)
As a writer , your sovereign responsibility is to produce real food by making truthful representations . The first poets played their part in the making of bread : today 's writers grow a different kind of food but still provide a nourishment neither they nor their readers can do without . Cutting it down to the bone During the 14th century , Japanese poets began to develop the form of verse we now call the haiku . Haiku or hokku literally means ‘ starting verse’ because it was originally the beginning of an older verse form called the tanka .
Idiom: from the word go (used idiomatically: yes)
In those days , nearly everybody was against the concept of timetabling . Now , Members in all parts of the House who have served on the Select Committee on Sittings of the House agree that it is essential to find a proper , reasonable and practical way to deal with legislation in Committee and on Report . Many take the view that there should be timetabling at the start of legislation to enable it to be seen that Members are dealing with all parts of legislation from the word go . The knockabout , nice party debate that we are having , allowing the Opposition — whichever party is in power — to have a field day attacking the Government , does not achieve much . It happens with only a handful of Members in their places and achieves little , if any , coverage by the media .
Idiom: make a killing (used idiomatically: yes)
But Lawson then covers his back : ‘ For a time I was concerned that I might have made the wrong choice as Chief Secretary — a view I suspect was shared by John Major himself.’ Lawson comes over as smug and arrogant , yet his is the best book yet to emerge from inside the Thatcher years . How I made a killing from death Katy Bravery HIS horror books leave no taboo unturned and are outsold only by Stephen King and James Herbert .
Idiom: born and bred (used idiomatically: yes)
Just goes to show , life 's a funny old game , innit ? PHIL KING — DEPUTY ‘ DAWG’ ED Being born and bred in Ludlow , my favourite team just has to be … Leicester City ! Do n't ask me why , I often ask myself the same question !
Idiom: take the liberty (used idiomatically: yes)
Fidel is not your son . Fidel is the leader of the Cuban revolution and you have treated the Cuban revolution as a daughter of the Soviet revolution , which it is not , and Fidel as your son , which he is not . You have taken liberties that you can take with a son , but not with a leader'(Bourne : 1987 , p. 243 ) . The lavish reception afforded to Fidel Castro himself when he went to the Soviet Union the following year is well known , and it was during this visit that he was guaranteed economic concessions , notably a rise in the price paid for Cuban sugar . Thus there is every indication that the Cubans , stung by the ignominious discovery that Moscow 's attitude towards dependent Third World allies was not significantly different from Washington 's in the context of superpower relations , managed to extract significant compensation ( both material and symbolic ) for the slight .
Idiom: pay the piper (used idiomatically: no)
‘ It could be another attack on our positions , Jock replied . ‘ They usually mortar the area first , then come across the fields . This morning they attacked the Marine positions and partly overran them , Piper , ’ Jock continued , ‘ You certainly picked a fucking good time to pay No. 4 Commando a visit . It 's quite possible you wo n't be leaving here tonight ! ’ He had hardly finished his remark when there was a terrifying roar overhead as a salvo of shells crashed into the area near to where the Germans had been mortaring .
Idiom: foot the bill (used idiomatically: yes)
‘ Disturbed’ However , local Alliance councillor John Blair said he was ‘ very disturbed’ to discover the council had planned to erect gates and security cameras around the park . ‘ Ratepayers were told nothing about this before , yet they will be having to foot the bill . I specifically asked a question about gates some months ago and was assured there were no such plans . ‘ Now I go along to the enquiry and find a public display of drawings of these non - existent gates and discover the council is offering to withdraw them to meet DoE objections .
Idiom: child's play (used idiomatically: yes)
Ottakars opens children 's shop in Banbury Ottakars , the eight strong chain of bookshops in the south of England , has opened its first stand - alone children 's bookshop in a property next door to its branch at Banbury , Oxfordshire . The 700 sq ft shop , called Ottakars Children 's , has a range of around 4,000 titles , and has been fitted out with children 's play and adult seating areas . Ottakars ' growth has been exceptional Managing director James Heneage said that , following a 17 % rise in sales on a like - for - like basis last year , the group was poised for expansion . Last December the group raised £ 1 m of new equity finance from the venture capital company Foreign & Colonial Ventures Ltd.
Idiom: behind the scenes (used idiomatically: yes)
But the history of such negotiations tells a much different story . All successful efforts in the Middle ~ East conflict have not occurred in front of cameras and through publicly declared direct talks . The visit to Jerusalem of Egypt 's then - President Anwar ~ el - Sadat , and the ensuing Egypt - Israel breakthrough at Camp David , took place only after successful behind - the - scenes understandings . The public Madrid talks failed to bring about any breakthroughs , whereas the much more secretive Oslo channel brought about the PLO - Israel agreement . Even some of the most explosive situations on the ground between Israel and its northern neighbors have been defused as a result of understandings that often included neutral third parties .
Idiom: for my money (used idiomatically: no)
Okay . And what exactly 's that ? What am I gon na get for my money for that ? Erm Continental .
Idiom: over the moon (used idiomatically: yes)
They needed chairs in one of the village corps worship centres . A man in Canada wrote to say he had heard of the problem and was going to send a hundred dollars every month . Eva was over the moon . A hundred dollars would fill the church with chairs . She wrote to thank him .
Idiom: chapter and verse (used idiomatically: yes)
In 1961 , it is estimated , 682,000 gallons of whisky were consumed by the French , and that was twice as much as in 1960 . How many hundreds or thousands of those gallons were tipped into the saucepans the report does not reveal , but certain it is that in these days it is not at all uncommon to find dishes of chicken , langouste or lobster flambé au whisky on the menus of French provincial and Parisian restaurants . ( For chapter and verse without going to France look at the lists of specialities given by the starred restaurants in the guide books . ) An establishment at Arras even serves a speciality of andouillettes flambées au whisky — a faint echo of the haggis ritual … ? I find the French development encouraging , for I have myself for years been experimenting with whisky in the cooking pots .