Gooogr/pie_idioms huggingface dataset:
Idiom: have a heart (used idiomatically: no)
Continued from page 1 Martin 's pain , though , has brought fruit in the form of about £550 promised sponsorship money for the Alton Cardiac Rehabilitation Unit . He chose to support them as they have helped two members of his family recover from heart disease in recent years . Amanda Robson , ( 31 ) , whose parents live at Chawton and who plays hockey for Alton ladies , completed the distance in five hours 14 minutes and , according to her mother ‘ looked remarkably well at the end ’ . A physiotherapist at Winchester 's Sarum Road Hospital , she hopes to have raised over £1,000 for the Juvenile Diabetes Foundation .
Idiom: close to home (used idiomatically: yes)
CANCER June 22–July 22 You 're going to be happiest closer to home now , Cancer and you 'll need time to yourself at the beginning of June . By the end of the month , you 're full of self - confidence again and a new development is likely in an intimate relationship . July sees you needing to buy expensive purchases !
Idiom: over-egg the pudding (used idiomatically: yes)
Houses are no longer the gold - plated investment they have been since the war . The British bourgeoisie is going to have to look elsewhere for capital appreciation . They may actually have to take risks : all the fault of Mrs Thatcher , but not because she was too interested in the entrepreneurs ; quite the contrary , because she over - egged the pudding for the house - owning classes . Leading Article : High time for monetary union By NICHOLAS FAITH
Idiom: in the saddle (used idiomatically: no)
Riven even heard skylarks sporting over the open meadows . The company began to take off their winter clothes , and the saddle bows became piled with sheepskins . ‘ We leave winter behind us , it seems,’ Tagan said , turning in the saddle to look back at the still - white hills . He shook his head . ‘ Strange times we live in.’
Idiom: in the saddle (used idiomatically: yes)
She walked out of the cottage where she and Pilade were lodged in charge of Mr Landor and along the road to Siena so that she might see them approach before anyone . Pilade was asleep , leaving her arms free for the precious embrace she longed for . On she walked , quarter of a mile , half a mile , watching the sun begin to set and knowing that when it touched the horizon she might see the horse coming and Ferdinando waving and maybe , if he was not slumped asleep in the saddle in front of his father , maybe another small hand too . The moment that red ball began to flatten , she sat on a rock and strained to see along the flat road , along the plain leading to Siena , and sure enough she saw a black dot which grew larger and became a single horse and then she stood up and began to run towards it , waving and shouting . A few yards on and she saw there was no answering wave and she faltered , uncertain if this was Ferdinando or some other lone horseman before whom she would make a fool of herself , but the closer he came the more sure she was that this was her husband and then she chided herself for thinking he had hands free to wave when one was needed for the reins and the other to hold the child .
Idiom: catch someone's eye (used idiomatically: yes)
I idly picked up one of the leaflets which had two pictures on its cover ; the first illustration showed a happy black family , all neatly dressed and reading books around a table that was filled with platefuls of food and with jugs labelled ‘ milk’ . The second picture , clearly designed to demonstrate the rewards of illiteracy , showed a scabby - looking native dressed in a threadbare loincloth who crouched in the mud outside a grass hut and who seemed to be sharing his lunch bowl with a baboon . Ellen caught my eye , looked down at the ridiculous leaflet , and suddenly we both began to laugh helplessly . ‘ I know they 're absurd.’ She had tears in her eyes as she tried to recover from the laughter .
Idiom: carrot and stick (used idiomatically: yes)
Schools were not compelled to employ an MRO ; in fact , to have an MRO a school had to prove to the media advisory team that it both needed and valued the skills offered . By offering skilled help of a kind that teachers recognized and respected , it was hoped the MRO would prove to be an agent of change , and would work in co.operation with the librarian to develop imaginative resources use and high quality practices . This was in line with the general authority policy , not of compelling change or forcing patterns , programmes and methods upon schools , but on the contrary providing the means whereby the kinds of action it wanted could be supported and rewarded and developed : the carrot and not the stick . The MRO was greeted with some initial suspicion , understandably . None the less the sheer ability and enthusiasm of the first generation established the value of the MRO and the important contribution he or she could bring to teachers and schools , both primary and secondary .
Idiom: come to grief (used idiomatically: yes)
Shares like Dixons and Kingfisher ( Woolies ) will move only when the housing market picks up . BET takes a nosedive ONE of Britain 's biggest service companies has come to grief with disastrous figures and a crash in its shares . BET , which deals in laundry to plant hire , saw its half - year profits slump from £ 71.5 m to £ 40.5 m and has slashed its interim dividend from 4.25p to 2p to conserve cash . Dealers reacted by lopping 20p off the shares which closed at 93p .
Idiom: in your face (used idiomatically: yes)
Glossary Apparent wind The wind that you experience blowing in your face when moving . it differs in direction and speed from the true wind experienced when standing still . Balance point
Idiom: in the final analysis (used idiomatically: no)
Have you considered working on the Nurses Bank ? A discussion centred on these questions will enable the nurse to think through the possible difficulties . It will have to be made clear that although understanding will be forthcoming as inevitable emergencies arise , in the final analysis she will generally be expected to meet the requirements of the contract of employment . At the end of the day , she should be satisfied with her undertaking and the manager acknowledge the likely consequences . Through the process described above , both parties will have a detailed understanding of the needs of each other and as a bonus , management will have displayed itself as a caring , approachable employer .
Idiom: in the running (used idiomatically: yes)
IN 1965 a Sports Council was set up to advise the government on future policy on sport and physical education . This was a novel step and came from the advice of the Wolfenden Committee which reported in 1960 on ‘ Sport and the Community’ . Wolfenden was commissioned not by the state but by the Central Council of Physical Recreation ( CCPR ) , which had been set up in 1935 as a co - ordinating body for the many voluntary associations involved in the running of sport . Alongside the CCPR there was the National Playing Fields Association formed in 1925 to increase urban playing space ; there was also some limited provision of physical training facilities for the unemployed in the 1930s by the National Council for Social Service . But ali of these organizational initiatives stopped well short of full - blooded state intervention .
Idiom: on the level (used idiomatically: yes)
BELOW : A later design , featuring the more familiar louvred slats , the rotating eye turret , the centrally mounted arm , and the hemisphere panels . PREVIOUS PAGE : Almost the final blueprint for the Dalek . Note , however , that the gun and sucker are still on two different horizontal levels . The eventual colour illustration , put before Verity Lambert and Christopher Barry at the Monday meeting , proved very close to the design finally adopted . At this stage the hand and gun mechanisms were still on a vertical , rather than horizontal , plane , but in most other respects it was the Dalek .
Idiom: make someone's day (used idiomatically: yes)
The second half was a more even affair . Haslemere sweeper Ferguson and the defence of Crombie , Hull and man - of - the - match Cracknell were pushed to protect ' keeper Bradshaw who pulled off a remarkable stick save . With injured skipper Martin Stoker hurling advice from the touchline , Haslemere made his day when Baynard netted a Stokes cross five minutes from time . HANTS 2nd XI LEAGUE : DIV . II
Idiom: spring to mind (used idiomatically: yes)
Here is the second half of my exclusive A - Z of football , played the Athletico way . M = MAN FOR MAN MARKING When talking about marking players only one man can possibly spring to mind , Trevor Proby . During his career that no - nonsense approach has marked players with seventeen black eyes , thirty - six gashed shins , one bruised toe and a broken arm . He has also concussed two linesmen and shot a dog that once ran on to the pitch at Leech .
Idiom: come to a head (used idiomatically: yes)
The tests soured relations for many years between France and the South Pacific Forum , which groups Australia , New Zealand and most Pacific island territories . France switched its nuclear programme to the South Pacific in 1966 , and after 44 atmospheric tests it began underground testing in 1975 . The simmering antagonism came to a head when the French Secret Service bombed the Greenpeace ship Rainbow Warrior in Auckland harbour in 1985 . The ship had been engaged in protests against the tests . Only last month the French navy intercepted and seized another Greenpeace ship which tried to land to establish a ‘ peace camp’ on the main test island of Mururoa atoll , where more tests were due to begin next month .
Idiom: back to the drawing board (used idiomatically: yes)
Mm . Ha ! Back to the drawing board ! He must of been up quite a while cos this the thing 's fell down has n't it ? Ha !
Idiom: play with fire (used idiomatically: yes)
He had been that close ! And she had told Wynne - Jones that he had nothing to fear . The boy was mimicking her own ' play with the fire . He had seen ! ) Tallis was tense , ready to duck if he fired at her .
Idiom: as a rule (used idiomatically: no)
If they do little else , these terms show that there is a great risk of over - simplifying the subject when the bald expressions ' cold - blooded ' or ' warm - blooded'are used . It is unfortunate , then , that Bakker treats endothermy and ectothermy as if they were mutually exclusive , even suggesting that endotherms have a distinct competitive advantage over the others . As a simple rule of thumb we could say that major differences in thermoregulation are determined by whether heat is derived solely from the environment , or is entirely internally generated , or is somewhere between the two . It should be clear from our list of terms above that there is quite a pronounced divide between ectotherms and endotherms , with the latter having a more varied range of thermoregulatory techniques . Some physiologists insist on making a distinction between temperature regulation and heat production .
Idiom: on the back of (used idiomatically: yes)
Then to the tune of ‘ By the waters of Babylon I sat down and wept’ , we sang another version of the words . The soldiers and police guarding the gate heard , ‘ By the wires of Greenham , we sit down and weep , weep for this our land’ . As the women 's voices soared and broke into part - singing so that the phrase ‘ We sit down and weep’ rang round and round the group , the hair prickled on the back of my neck . A ball of green wool was passed around and we used it to bind ourselves together as the singing continued . Next , long white streamers tied into an intricate pattern in the centre were handed to various women standing in the circle .
Idiom: in a fog (used idiomatically: yes)
And … By Tim Satchell THE magician and his talking parrot had been working an ocean liner , until one day the liner went down in fog . For hours the magician swam around , with the normally chatty parrot perched silently on his shoulder . Eventually it said : ' All right— I give in .
Idiom: toe the line (used idiomatically: yes)
It was good , everybody had told me that erm , you know , you did n't get very much money when you left school , about ten shillings and to offer me fifteen shillings I thought was out of this world , so erm Wh what did you actually start as ? Well I suppose a very junior clerk , the first job I was given was , well it 's unheard of in this day and age but what they had was what they call a bundi clock and there every driver and conductor had got a key that was inserted in this clock and on it was his personal number , well when he reported for duty , he inserted this key into the clock , turned the handle and stamped on to a piece of paper , a roll of paper , his number and the time he reported and the next day it was my job to go through and record from this piece of paper how many minutes they were late f reporting for duty and if they erm were more than , I think about three or four minutes we had to send them a memo telling them , that 's how things were in those days that people were , they toed the line or else . So it was a case there , and course at the end of the day you rolled the little roll up , put elastic round and stood them up in a file and they stood there like little soldiers and you could always go back to the actual time , sometimes you found a man had n't re erm signed on , he 'd just gone and joined his bus up in town centre , well you , that was er subject of another letter . So , you know , they were very strict in those days .
Idiom: rank and file (used idiomatically: yes)
It can be argued , however , that the dichotomy often noted between the more restrictive business union orientation in the United States and European ' welfare ' unionism concerned with wider social objectives as well as the terms and conditions of employment of union members , is somewhat overdrawn . In recent years US unions have not been inactive in the political sphere and have actually had a large degree of impact on influencing legislation concerned with broader social and economic issues ( Lewin , 1978 ) . Also , although in European countries some union leaders undoubtedly regard trade unions as having a mainly political role to help change the social and economic order , many rank - and - file members appear to view unions differently — as instrumental agencies concerned with matters arising in the employment relationship . Van de Vall ( 1970 ) showed that among Dutch unionists the most prevalent motive for taking up membership was to secure individual ' conflict insurance'(i.e . the provision of legal and material assistance in possible disputes with the employer and protection against arbitrary management decisions ) . Similarly , despite the incessant advocation of the abolition of the private enterprise system by two of the major French unions , a majority of French workers seemed unconvinced , and rejected the legitimacy of the unions ' attempt to relate ' industrial ' and ' political'issues in shopfloor agitation ( Gallie , 1978 ) .
Idiom: fly the flag (used idiomatically: yes)
Community law had no effect in that regard , since no transfer of sovereignty had been agreed in that sphere . 23 . The Greek Government considered that that view was borne out by the fact that the Community legislation on the fishing industry referred to vessels ‘ flying the flag of a member state’ or ‘ registered in a member state’and regarded those concepts as having been defined by the laws of the member states . It referred in that connection to paragraph 13 of the judgment in the Pesca Valentia case . 24 .
Idiom: bear in mind (used idiomatically: yes)
And were they aware of any leaks of confidentiality or illegal use of information by search firms at any time ? The survey showed that , on the whole , most companies reported good experiences of search . The mail - shot received a high response rate of over 43 % — 13 replies from 30 enquiries — so a higher number of negative responses was expected , bearing in mind that people are generally swifter to complain than to praise . Yet the questionnaire responses were usually favourable . Most negative criticisms of the quality of search work were expressed verbally on home territory to the author ; relatively few clients were prepared to commit themselves to serious discontent on paper , even anonymously .
Idiom: dead and buried (used idiomatically: yes)
The former Cambridge United striker was completely on his own when he moved on to a Billy Clark lob . Pears failed to react to the danger , expecting offside , but Taylor got the ball under perfect control and shot into the net . Middlesbrough would have been dead and buried if Taylor had taken other scoring chances before the break . A half - time message from club captain Mark Proctor lifted the players ' spirits . Proctor passed on the news Leicester were 2–0 down against Charlton Athletic and urged the players to ‘ go out and get at Bristol’ .
Idiom: get off the ground (used idiomatically: yes)
The setting of the original novel by Mervyn Jones was shifted from London to New York because , says Yates , ‘ I did n't want any of this dreadful , clichéd Swinging London business creeping in . I had never believed in Swinging London in any way , and always felt it was a figment of Time magazine 's imagination.’ Other considerations were his wanting to make another American film and because the project had got off the ground due to its big Hollywood stars . In order to make sure the dialogue had the authentic American tone , Mortimer had two American actors read it aloud and make comments before the script was given to the two leads . Mervyn Jones , in an article in The New Statesman in October 1969 , commented on how the short novel he wrote during four months in 1965 became a Hollywood movie outside his control .
Idiom: bottom drawer (used idiomatically: no)
The problem is resolved when Chris announces that his conference has been put forward to 5 June , although something in his manner suggests to Matty that he got the date wrong in the first place . 4 Leaving . Chris attempts to clear his desk by jamming all outstanding items in the biggest , bottom drawer . Matty attempts to clear her desk by doing two weeks ' work in three days . This means that she is up at two - thirty in the morning , ironing small items of foreign clothing , while the plane is due to leave Gatwick at ten - thirty .
Idiom: go by the board (used idiomatically: yes)
We do n't discuss sex , but that 's about the only thing . ‘ We 're almost exactly the same age — his birthday is six months after mine — and we see each other at least once a week for lunch . We used to play golf , but went by the board when he moved . We still work in the same building , so we 'll often pop into each other 's offices or talk on the phone , although Peter often blips me on my computer . I suppose we 've been rivals in the past , when I had my column on the Daily Mail and he had his on the Daily Express , but we 've been rivals in the friendliest of terms .
Idiom: scarlet woman (used idiomatically: yes)
‘ Only because he works so hard,’ Lissa broke in . ‘ Why do their difficulties have to involve me ? Why am I cast as the scarlet woman all the time?’ His lips twisted in scorn , and Lissa hated him for that look . ‘ Their problems have nothing to do with me .
Idiom: over the hill (used idiomatically: yes)
I wanted you to learn everything ; I did n't want you to be poor like my sisters . God help me , I thought you were happy at Cowan Bridge School ! There were no Christmas holidays at the school , and it was too difficult to travel over the cold , windy hills to visit my little girls . So I sat at home here in Haworth , with Aunt Branwell , my son , and the little girl , Anne . Outside , the wind blew snow over the gravestones , and there was ice on our windows .
Idiom: batten down the hatches (used idiomatically: yes)
Do n't worry , your brother will get here . But you might find the cottage a bit draughty if it gets really rough.’ ‘ I 'll batten down the hatches,’ I told her . She laughed , and we talked for a few minutes longer . When I left I had a bottle of midge - repellent in my pocket , and a loaf of new bread , still warm , in a plastic carrier .
Idiom: down the drain (used idiomatically: no)
Well the house , you just went in a gate there and went up the stairs there . So it was just My mother used to see me across the road with my shilling to pay for my pinny . And one day I dro I dropped it down the the drain as I went into the shop . But I do n't know whether I ever got . Or whether I got the pinny for nothing , I might have easy .
Idiom: on the rocks (used idiomatically: yes)
Have been magnetized off , buried , or even burned . In the purgatory of the small hours the person God might have first imagined stirs on the rock , Pushes the vulture from his liver and begins to turn His anguish into intimate words , or at least
Idiom: and then some (used idiomatically: no)
If nothing works , the input is considered illegible . Sayre 's paper illustrates the main problems with the statistical approach . Some other examples are given of this approach , and then some systems are considered which extend non - statistical methods . Ehrich and Koehler ( 1975 ) also produced a script recognition system which did not use real time information in its coding scheme , although they did use some sequence information . Their input was via a graphics tablet .
Idiom: shut the door on (used idiomatically: no)
At last she stepped over it and went down , half thinking it might snap off her leg in passing . But it stayed stock still . It watched her , unwinking , until she reached the room behind the shop and shut the door on its crimson gaze . Aunt Margaret was peeling potatoes into a plastic bowl of water on her knees and Victoria was helping with a small but dangerous - looking knife and they were surrounded with puddles . Aunt Margaret looked down at the round top of Victoria 's head with warm and tender eyes , her birdy head cocked on one side .
Idiom: in the running (used idiomatically: no)
To do this they will need not only a knowledge of the vocabulary of steps through which dancers communicate , but an ability to explain their design so that dancers can give it depth of feeling ( see page 78 ) . Motion ’ Manner of moving the body as in walking , running , dancing , etc . ’ If choreographers are to justify their reasons for creating a ballet , they should use or create a style of movement appropriate to and expressive of the characters in the story being told and their moods , emotions and actions . The dancers or players in a theme ballet will need to convey the general atmosphere and any other element pertinent to the situation in which they find themselves , as well as the mood and content of the music chosen to give them phrasing .
Idiom: cheek by jowl (used idiomatically: yes)
A mound of dirty crockery hid the draining board , and the sight of Mr Piggott 's frying pan hanging on the wall was enough to turn over Mrs Tilling 's stout stomach . The residue of dozens of past meals could here be seen embedded in grey fat . Slivers of black burnt onion , petrified bacon rinds , lacy brown scraps of fried eggs and scores of other morsels from tomatoes , sausages , steaks , chops , liver , potatoes , bread and baked beans here lay cheek by jowl , and would have afforded a rich reward to anyone interested in Mr Piggott 's diet over the past year . ‘ Where d'you keep the cups?’ asked Nelly Tilling , when she had regained her breath . Her gaze turned apprehensively towards the pile on the draining - board .