Gooogr/pie_idioms huggingface dataset:
Idiom: on the same page (used idiomatically: yes)
Woodcuts can be mounted with type , because what is to print black stands up from the surface ; so it was easy to put pictures on the same page as descriptions , and herbals and bestiaries were liberally illustrated . Copper engraving or etching is not a relief process , but an intaglio one ; what is to print black is cut down below the surface , and the copper is wiped before printing . A different press is needed , and a different paper is desirable , so to print pictures and text on the same page is awkward . Generally illustrations were separately bound in , with complex instructions to the binder as to where they should go — which he sometimes got wrong . Wicked persons are also tempted to remove the plates from their own or someone else 's copy and frame them ; the plates and text are much more separable in every way than they were in the old herbals .
Idiom: way to go (used idiomatically: yes)
If that was so , then going right , towards the breeze , would take her deeper into the caves . She set off towards the junction to the left . Once there , she paused , debating which way to go . ‘ This is as bad as that castle on Khul,’ she muttered . ‘ That was a real nightmare , that one.’
Idiom: eyeball to eyeball (used idiomatically: yes)
68th minute : Arsenal 's assistant manager Stewart Houston was warned for touchline coaching . 80th minute : Adams and Tottenham 's Justin Edinburgh were involved in a pushing and shoving contest . The bad blood continued with an eyeball - to - eyeball confrontation on the final whistle . Jensen insisted he relished the hostile atmosphere , but joined his manager 's condemnation of Buksch , saying : ‘ The ref lost control from the very first minute . ‘ That was the most obvious penalty I 've seen in my career .
Idiom: sit tight (used idiomatically: yes)
One of the pellet samples contained several small ungulate bones , probably from the bush duiker , and these are shown here with evidence of digestion , the surfaces of the bone broken and corroded by the digestive action of the owl . The other African eagle owl pellet sample comes from the spotted eagle owl . This was collected from beneath a tree in the fringing woodland of Lake Baringo in Kenya while the owl itself sat tight in the tree above . Most of the pellets were already broken up , and it was the bone assemblage accumulating in the soil that was collected . The spotted eagle owl is usually more an inhabitant of open country than is the Verreaux eagle owl , but it has been recorded nesting at the bottom of a 9 m shaft in a cave , well into the twilight zone ( Brain , 1981 ) .
Idiom: pull a face (used idiomatically: yes)
I gratefully go in . There are candles and a gas cylinder . It is a place to be warm , a place to be dry , a place to hang up my jacket and to pull faces at the storm outside . I assemble my Trangia and cook food , avoiding the almost overwhelming temptation to use the gas cylinder . Some day , someone will be in greater need than me .
Idiom: out of sight (used idiomatically: yes)
Then she insisted , ‘ It was a very kind thing you did … even if you did risk us all getting hung!’ In the first week of good weather , over half the acting members of the Miracle Pageant came back to the plague village , just to see how their old friend Lucier was faring . They had all been working at stone - gathering , keeping their pageant money out of sight for fear the constables mark them as robbers or miracle - workers . Adam of Rochester , Jack of Longleigh , and Ydrys were first to arrive . They stopped and wondered at the crude little pageant parked outside the cottage , stroking its paintwork and prying into the winches and traps .
Idiom: with a vengeance (used idiomatically: yes)
Hopper joins three other NorthEasterners Sunderland flyweight Steve Parry , Hartlepool featherweight Alan Temple and Middlesbrough lightweight Andy Green in the British semi - finals at Gateshead on April 13 and 14 . Hopper held his own in a hard , heavy - hitting first round in which he took the fight to Parsons , even though he took some punishment . In the interval his coach Robert Ellis told Hopper to work harder and he did with a vengeance . In a brilliant display of hitting he harried Parsons unmercifully . ‘ It feels great,’ said Hopper afterwards .
Idiom: down the tubes (used idiomatically: yes)
And I think they should have a vested interest in that . I really do . Because if we , we , the rank and file do n't succeed , we 're all gon na go down the tube together . Support motion two two seven . Motion two two nine , G M B Services , Northern Region to move
Idiom: blow someone's cover (used idiomatically: yes)
They actually seem to think quite highly of Steiner.’ ‘ Yes , well , one of his sergeants was killed saving the lives of two village children who fell into the mill race , remember . In fact , that single action was the one thing that blew their cover , caused the failure of the entire operation.’ ‘ And he did let the villagers go before the worst of the fighting started,’ Carter said . ‘ Exactly .
Idiom: sit on the fence (used idiomatically: yes)
Starting with the sport , Oxford United Manager , Brian Horton is confident his side can end the season on a high note . Away to beaten Littlewoods cup finalists Oldham athletic tonight . Micky Yornutta is not so sure , so he asked Brian what exactly he expects from his side and Brian , as ever , decided not to sit on the fence , but the main concern being for his side to pass the ball as opposed to kicking it , but first Brian says that long ball to John Durnin is all wrong . But there 's times when we can go say from our middle third dink over the top for John Durnin . That 's where he grabbed the ball .
Idiom: spit it out (used idiomatically: yes)
I had never seen Mr Broadhurst in such a good mood before . He positively bowled down the pavement , puffing furiously on his stogie , for all the world like some bipedal locomotive . ‘ You 're wondering something , boy , cough it up , spit it out , expel it , vomit it forth . In short , tell me.’ ‘ Well …
Idiom: jump to conclusions (used idiomatically: yes)
Condition ( 1 ) is regarded as necessary because it is clearly not legitimate to conclude that all metals expand when heated on the basis of just one observation of a metal bar 's expansion , say , any more than it is legitimate to conclude that all Australians are drunkards on the basis of one observation of an intoxicated Australian . A large number of independent observations will be necessary before either generalization can be justified . The inductivist insists that we should not jump to conclusions . One way of increasing the number of observations in the examples mentioned would be to repeatedly heat a single bar of metal , or to continually observe a particular Australian getting drunk night after night , and perhaps morning after morning . Clearly , a list of observation statements acquired in such a way would form a very unsatisfactory basis for the respective generalizations .
Idiom: make a move (used idiomatically: no)
He was crazy about New York and went there for long weekends . It was where he wanted to be . After a year he made the move . Money was bad , but he was still working for Liberty and picked up work on Pageant magazine . Things got better , he even got commissioned to visit Hollywood and interview Rock Hudson , Milton Berle , Marlene Dietrich , and Marilyn Monroe .
Idiom: under the influence (used idiomatically: no)
Baldwin 's mission to Washington took him away from 27 December to 27 January . There were fluctuating negotiations , and some acerbity in the flow of telegrams from London . ‘ Is it not possible that you are too much under the influence of Washington which is not even the New York atmosphere?’ In spite of such warnings Baldwin 's desire for a settlement was fortified by the views of the Governor of the Bank of England , Montagu Norman , who was with him , and of Auckland Geddes , the ‘ political’ Ambassador in Washington . Baldwin tabled proposals which involved payments of £ 34 million a year .
Idiom: pick up the pieces (used idiomatically: yes)
An ' look what you done to the china . Well , ca n't be ' elped . Pick all the pieces up , then come and ' ave yer baths . There 's boiled beef an ' carrots for supper when yer dad an ' the boys get in . ' Mrs Beavis glanced up and saw her new lady lodger and Sergeant Joe looking over the banisters .
Idiom: steer clear of (used idiomatically: yes)
He hoped to entice her back by selling their old property and buying a new home . To help him find a buyer , he enlisted the help of one Robin ‘ Danny’ Ford , a bartender with a side - line in insurance and real estate . Friends had warned Mitchum to steer clear of this hustler , but they became close friends . One day at the beach , they encountered a beautiful blonde starlet called Lila Leeds , something of a Lana Turner lookalike . They gave her dinner and Mitchum took a fancy to her , suddenly forgetting all about his wife back East .
Idiom: have been around (used idiomatically: no)
FORD has expanded the Mondeo range once again by adding turbo diesel and automatic transmission models . Under the bonnet of the new Mondeo diesels is a 1 . litre turbocharged engine , a revamped version of the Ford diesel unit which has been around for a few years . Power output has been increased from to PS thanks to an intercooler system .
Idiom: lay an egg (used idiomatically: yes)
Often these resemblances are the product of a similar mode of life . Both tortoises and armadillos are animals that carry around their own suit of armour , and at first glance we might think they were related . But a little further investigation shows that tortoises are cold - blooded reptiles that lay eggs , while armadillos are in many respects typical warm - blooded mammals bearing their young alive . Obviously tortoises and armadillos can not be classified together in spite of their similarities . When classifying fossils even more care is necessary because we have not got as much evidence to go on as with living animals .
Idiom: cast the first stone (used idiomatically: yes)
Or we would wish a society like Iran with its shariah or Islamic law , which punishes thieves by cutting off their hands ? Surely we should follow the example of Jesus in confronting the woman taken in adultery , who was about to be stoned . Did He not turn the righteous wrath of the crowd back upon themselves and ask those among them who were without sin , to cast the first stone ? That shut them up and should it not do the same to we miserable sinners today ? Should we not ask ourselves whether the adulteress had a bad family upbringing , lacking in love , that she reacts in this way ?
Idiom: point the finger (used idiomatically: yes)
The decision , made six months ago , to uproot herself from England and move to the Algarve might not have been easy , but it had been the right one . All of a sudden , the child in the buggy gave a squeal of delight . ' Mo ' cars,'he pronounced , excitedly pointing a finger towards the foot of the hill where the lane met the village street in a T - junction . ' Lots of motor cars , ' Ashley said wryly , for the bar of the T was packed bumper to bumper with stationary vehicles . ' Muito de tráfico . '
Idiom: have words (used idiomatically: no)
But after nationalization , it was obvious , when he did put in an appearance or and that was very rare , there was n't the same palaver for his visit . He would just came and went into the yardmaster 's office and had a word or two with him and then he would maybe ask to see the staff local representative and the local committee . And he 'd have a word , Er how 's everything going along ? Alright and er you 're quite happy with things as they are and that ? And that would be the extent of his visit , he would have a cursory look round the yard and away .
Idiom: slip of the tongue (used idiomatically: yes)
Vologsky blurted out the question without thinking . Major Tzann looked temporarily sheepish . He had made an unfortunate slip of the tongue himself . He covered up , hastily . ‘ Of course , Lieutenant , you will already have realized that this morning 's scramble is no exercise .
Idiom: green with envy (used idiomatically: yes)
Designed in close co - operation with engineers , ergonomic experts and orthopaedic specialists , it achieves what could be deemed the impossible ; you 'll be relaxed yet alert . The new CD 2.3 Turbo . It 's enough to turn your fellow board directors green with envy . SAAB AIRCRAFT INSPIRED .
Idiom: have an eye for (used idiomatically: yes)
‘ I grew up on clay courts in my hometown of Diezma - Gradada . I look at tennis differently than some coaches . I have an eye for championship clay court style with a technical and a mental approach that I nickname , ‘ heads and feet’.’ Higueras admires various styles of coaching , but relishes clay court play . ‘ On clay courts I was trained to make the other guy play tennis all day .
Idiom: rob Peter to pay Paul (used idiomatically: yes)
The results will determine next year 's research grant . Universities received £ 672 million this year . ‘ These ratings should be a shining beacon to the Government to support research and cease their rob Peter to pay Paul policies,’ said an Association of University Teachers ' spokesman . Mary , 81 , has crash course in parking Ian Key
Idiom: seal of approval (used idiomatically: yes)
The cheapest , the Pocket Gem , worked well but was let down by the software . The SmartLink Pocket Modem 24 was fine , but at £ 249 I 'd expect better software than FaxNow ! I was n't particularly enamoured of the Ascom but the UltraFAX software is excellent , it 's easy to use and wins my seal of approval . A caveat though — if all the modems had been bundled with UltraFAX or WinFax Pro , I 'd have chosen the cheapest . WINFAX PRO 3
Idiom: get a grip (used idiomatically: yes)
He was on the rocky slope he knew already from more than one climb , and somewhere here on these smoother protected faces of rock were the plans he had scratched and pondered over so many months ago . He began to descend , and in confidence that he was now too far from Parfois to be heard he abandoned his caution and swung his way down the cliff with frantic haste . Several times he tore his hands and barked his shins , and once he missed his footing and came crashing several yards down the slope before he got a desperate grip with fingers and toes and knees , and clung sweating till he recovered his breath . He could not go fast enough now to satisfy him . Hope and foreboding struggled in him and drove him , and there would be no peace for him until he saw his father 's grave immaculate and at peace still , and knew quite certainly that Isambard had lied .
Idiom: break new ground (used idiomatically: yes)
We need to be respectable . One grain of trouble would gall the clergy and the councillors like a pin under a saddle . We 're pioneers , boy , breaking new ground — planting new footprints on God 's old Earth . There 's none like us . Instead of plays being acted by the city craftsmen once a year , we 've made a craft of play - acting .
Idiom: rain or shine (used idiomatically: yes)
If it was so stunniggly desolate here , how must it be farther up , where the cool winds of the North Sea and the warm winds from the Atlantic met , sometimes to roar like a tornado down the Pennine Way ? There were ample opportunities to find out . Scores of rambling and cycling clubs headed remorselessly for the Dales each weekend , come rain or shine . As it happened I did not own a bike , nor did I possess the corduroy shorts , commando rucksack , chunky woollen socks and thick , dubbined boots which were the uniform of the dedicated rambler . But British Railways ( in the pre - Beeching era ) used to put on Ramblers ' Specials , stopping at such places as Kirkby Lonsdale and Sedbergh , where you were met by guides and conducted on a kind of forced march through the fells .
Idiom: feel the pinch (used idiomatically: yes)
because it means a reduction in forces in in all these Yeah . countries erm , and as you say , I mean ha you know , whether they 're American generals or or the Soviet generals , whatever er they 're all , they 're all feeling the pinch now because er Oh I did n't mean that , I mean At the same time it , I mean the countries wo , have been crippled by the the burden of er defence if you like and we 'll call it defence .
Idiom: not give a fig (used idiomatically: yes)
It just was n't right ! Ven Gajdusek had no such finer feelings , of course , either conscious or subconscious . He did n't give a fig about her , and to prove it he had , in all probability , gone from her bed to kiss some other woman ! Because of some delay or other — line workings , Fabia rather thought — her train was late pulling into Mariánské Láznë , and it had gone twelve - thirty before she was ensconced in a taxi and on her way to the hotel which she had left — was it only three days ago ? If she was feeling totally devastated as she re - entered the hotel she had left last Sunday , though , then only she was going to know it .
Idiom: scratch the surface (used idiomatically: yes)
Again , therefore , Truman had to be satisfied with pursuing only parts of his reform programme . Minimum wages were raised from 40c to 75c an hour , and social security benefits were increased to cover an additional 10 million people . A Federal Housing Act ( 1949 ) provided funds for slum clearance and housing for those on low incomes , though it only scratched the surface of an increasingly serious problem . New Deal measures in conservation and agriculture were extended . But there was also a long list of failures .
Idiom: break the bank (used idiomatically: yes)
The taximan drove first to Old Street , where there was a garage open all night for the trade , and bought a tankful of petrol . Then he turned through the locked and silent City and towards the Strand , where the air first begins to feel damp , blowing up the side streets with the dawn wind off the river . " We can go round by Arthur 's in Covent Garden and get a sandwich , if you want , he said , " that wo n't break the bank . " Then he saw that his fare was asleep . He stopped and had a cup of tea himself and explained to the Covent Garden porters , who wanted to know what he 'd got in the back , that it was the Sleeping Beauty .
Idiom: take root (used idiomatically: yes)
Any one of them might be a part of this conspiracy.’ It gave Oscar a perverse joy to sow these doubts . He saw them taking root already . Saw faces that half an hour before had been puffed up with their own infallibility deflated by doubt . It was worth the risk he 'd taken with these theatrics , just to see them afraid .
Idiom: join the club (used idiomatically: no)
From the vibration on the rope it felt like somebody was jumaring up the 300 tiring feet back into sunshine — some prussik ! Fortunately there was only a trickle of water entering the opening . A much easier alternative is to come here on a summer bank holiday weekend , join the queue and be winched down in a bosun 's chair courtesy of various caving clubs . A Frenchman , E.A. Martel , made the first descent of Gaping Gill nearly a hundred years ago in 23 minutes using caving ladders ; the petrol-driven winch drops visitors in less than 90 seconds ! For non-troglodytes , with a penchant for the unusual , the trip can provide a memorable experience .
Idiom: far and away (used idiomatically: yes)
Almost certainly textiles had fallen into some disarray by early 1524 . Following the death , on 29 June 1523 , of Thomas Spring of Lavenham , ‘ the rich clothier’ , his commercial empire had been dismantled , and his immense fortune , £ 3,200 net , dispersed among his heirs , most of it to his widow and daughter ; his son had already chosen to live as a gentleman and was duly taxed on £ 20 from lands in 1524 , and the firm ceased trading . Something like £ 1,500 shared among the family , not to mention generous bequests , including £ 200 towards the completion of Lavenham steeple and cash distributed among the parishes where Spring owned property , virtually accounts for what was far and away the greatest personal estate owned by any commoner , or for that matter almost any peer : only the duke of Norfolk 's £ 4,000 topped it . Spring 's actual goods , doubtless including his stock - in - trade , were appraised at precisely £ 1,800 , a further £ 1,400 consisting of money owed to him , £ 800 having been written off as ‘ desperate’ debts . This netting of his assets doubtless conceals the fact that , like any businessman , he in turn had extensive liabilities , making him the centre of a complex web of credit , the effects of which had to be reckoned with .
Idiom: out of the blue (used idiomatically: yes)
That 's why I 'm fiddling around doing the odd window here and there because that 's all that we 've got for . Er we 've got a little few earmarked funds left over like for instance , Theakston 's Brewery gave us the barrels and they gave us two and a half thousand pounds . We were able to do the hall or we 'd still be nowhere with it , only because of a donation of thirty thousand pounds quite out of the blue , from the London Glassworkers ' Company which meant we did n't expect it . So we were able to complete the Hall or complete the Hall as far as it 's got . We know that we have a little more money coming in the ne in the new financial year from an American foundation but not much .
Idiom: out and about (used idiomatically: yes)
Better to bring house slippers to the bedroom : thin leather soles and leather or velvet tops . I have no experience of night shirts . I do n't think they would keep my knees happy in bed , and out and about I think I would find myself worrying if my skirt was the right length . Last Word PERIOD PAINS
Idiom: in the black (used idiomatically: no)
In 1969 alone , an estimated 166,000 dolphins were killed by Turkish hunters , most of them shot . No regulations governed the hunt — anyone with a rifle and a boat could kill dolphins without a licence . Almost a million dolphins have been killed over the past 20 years , and the populations of dolphins and porpoises in the Black Sea have been decimated . As long ago as 1976 , the marine resources committee of the FAO believed that ‘ populations of all three dolphin and porpoise species were probably being exploited in the Turkish fishery at levels they would not be able to survive for more than a few years . ’ They urged the closure of the Turkish fishery or a substantial reduction in the catch .
Idiom: off and on (used idiomatically: yes)
Not to be confused with He er , he stood down as erm as a , as a er Labour councillor in , in Liverpool in Walton er ward what are we in now , nineteen ninety two in nineteen ninety or ninety one , yeah ninety one at the age of eighty six and he 'd been a Liverpool councillor off and on for over fifty years . Twice refused the offer of the parliamentary seat at Walton . Anyway most non - metro district councils oh by the way , sorry and parishes I always .
Idiom: fit the bill (used idiomatically: yes)
Neil Adams added a fourth after the break . MoM : Pointon ( rampant ) . Clark fits bill as new Gazza Report by John Wardle Newcastle 4 , Cambridge 1 FORMER Newcastle and England star Terry McDermott yesterday hailed the next Gazza .
Idiom: run the gauntlet (used idiomatically: yes)
So Barry greased a few palms and set up a day at the Foss Island Waterpark in Brandsburton , North Yorkshire . The morning was taken up with sales presentations , but all were itching to be allowed out on the water . After lunch it was time to don the wet suits and to ‘ run the gauntlet’ . Teams competed on Jet skis , go - karts , quad bikes , aqua sausages and an assault course . After duelling had been done , everyone relaxed around a barbecue , which apparently is what being a marauder is all about .