Gooogr/pie_idioms huggingface dataset:
Idiom: in the works (used idiomatically: no)
The first , having special application to devout families , was that God had favoured the dead child , by taking it to Himself and so sparing it both the suffering of this world and the danger that its relative innocence ( for children were born in sin ) would become corrupted . The other , more brutal , explanation was that God was punishing the parents . Examples of both explanations are found in the works of Richard Cecil , whose homily , A Friendly Visit to the House of Mourning was much admired and several times reprinted after his death . In it he insists that God is in all cases acting through ‘ His minister , Death’ , even when His intervention appears arbitrary : ‘ entering a careless family , He smites the first - born ; and , as one who will be heard , calls aloud : ‘ Awake thou that sleepest!’ ’ . It is assumed that pain and suffering are forces driving men to true religion .
Idiom: on someone's mind (used idiomatically: no)
Presumably , however , the victim would not have paid , had he known of the deception despite his having a legal obligation to pay . Therefore , he paid by deception , and the accused did obtain by deception . The proposition that the deception must operate on the victim 's mind may be inconsistent with three House of Lords ' decisions . In DPP v Ray [ 1974]AC 370 , no evidence was adduced that the waiter was misled by the accused 's implied representation that he was going to pay for his meal . In Lambie [ 1982]AC 449 and MPC v Charles [ 1977]AC 177 , the payee did not care whether the accused 's account was in the red because he was going to be paid anyway in accordance with his contract with the bank or credit card company which provided the cheque card or credit card .
Idiom: tell tales (used idiomatically: yes)
A yunker who had been in the Winter Palace told a highly - coloured tale of the heroism of himself and his comrades , and disgraceful conduct of the Red ~ Guards - all of which was devoutly believed .
Idiom: read between the lines (used idiomatically: yes)
GOLDEN AGE Manzoku and Cool for Cats share a common start before diverging into separate lines ( to describe them as grooves would be a touch too expressive on either side of the crag 's blunt nose . Although both climbs currently bear the grade E1 5b , a little reading between the lines reveals them to be less comparable in difficulty than this might indicate . Cool for Cats is a soft touch , and a viable target for the confident HVS climber , while Manzoku represents the upper limit of its grade . They both date from the late 1970s , the beginning of what many climbers consider to be Pembroke 's ‘ golden age’ , although I think just as many would probably say this age is still with us .
Idiom: see the light of day (used idiomatically: yes)
And Goldberg , pushing the typewriter from him , dragging the pad towards him , Dear Harsnet , I am well aware of the fact that you have cut yourself off from all your old friends , and that you wish to have nothing more to do with them . You will recall , however , that before you vanished from our lives you entrusted me with the notes you had kept while working on the Big Glass and the Green Box , telling me I could do what I liked with them , and adding , in your usual sensitive way , that I could always use them to wipe my arse if the paper decided to sack me and I found myself really hard up . As I wrote to you at the time ( since you refused even then to see me or any of your old friends and supporters ) I accepted the MS as a sacred trust and would do what I could to see that it eventually saw the light of day in the most appropriate form . I had thought at the time , wrote Goldberg , turning the page , wiping his brow , taking a sip of orange juice from the glass on the desk beside him , dreaming for a moment of the cigarettes he had given up two years earlier , I had thought , he wrote , that an edited version of the text , with only those comments directly concerned with the Big Glass included , would serve you best . I had to put the project aside for a while , he wrote , as the rent had to be paid , not to speak of alimony , school fees and the rest , and , coming back to it after a considerable period , much longer , unfortunately , than I had anticipated , and I will not even try to apologize since you gave me a completely free hand — anyway , he wrote , trying to ignore the damp spots left on the page of his pad by his sweaty hands , anyway , coming back to it after all that time I realized that it would be quite impossible in practice to separate the valuable and the worthless , the public and the private , and that , in a sense , one would have to think in terms of either publishing the whole thing exactly as it stood , or not doing it at all .
Idiom: make light work of (used idiomatically: yes)
In desperation Mr Gresty turned to soldiers at nearby Catterick Garrison who agreed to recover the truck stuck in the River Skerne , on the outskirts of Darlington . Corporal Philip Ainsworth and Lance Corporal Andrew Zolden turned up in a 27-tonne Foden six - wheeler capable of hauling a light battle tank with its remote - control crane . And the £ 170,000 military breakdown gear made light work of pulling the battered truck out of the waters . Corp Ainsworth , of the REME 's 15 squadron workshops , said : ‘ Something like this gives us the opportunity to put our equipment through its paces . ‘ We get a few calls from people who have lost heavy vehicles which ca n't be recovered by civilian companies.’
Idiom: steer clear of (used idiomatically: yes)
He stepped back and watched her as she whirled the small car round and out of the yard into the lane , crashing her gears with nervousness . Sara felt slightly sick , but there was no point in wading deeper into the morass . She must steer clear of Matthew and then perhaps this ridiculous infatuation would wear off . It was easier said than done . He was around all the time .
Idiom: at a pinch (used idiomatically: yes)
Far around , on all sides , stood the orderly rows of beans , securing them against hostile approach , roofing them over and covering their scent . They could hardly have been safer underground . Even a little food could be had at a pinch , for here and there were a few pale twists of grass and here and there a dandelion . " We can sleep here all day , " said Hazel . " But I suppose one of us ought to stay awake ; and if I take the first turn it 'll give me a chance to have a look at your paw , Hlao - roo .
Idiom: have a heart (used idiomatically: no)
A few months after that she had said to Rachel , ‘ Mummy , I 'm thinking of going back to college . ’ She shut her heart firmly against the look of incredulous joy that lit Rachel 's face . ‘ Really , Phoebe ? Where are you going ? ’
Idiom: set eyes on (used idiomatically: yes)
Really , thought Edward , people must be out of their minds , submitting themselves to this sort of occasion quite voluntarily . Kill or cure , Helen had thought . As soon as she set eyes on Giles Carnaby again she knew that whatever it was it was not a case of cure ; her heart thumped , she felt unstable . There he was . Here he was .
Idiom: wide of the mark (used idiomatically: yes)
‘ She 's been lying there in a state of collapse , and not a soul has been next or nigh her!’ Mrs Alderley stiffened . ‘ If that is a reproach to me , you are wide of the mark , Benedict . Taggy turned me away ! As she has done everyone else who tried to visit.’
Idiom: get a handle on (used idiomatically: yes)
Octel Communications Corp has announced that Telecel Comunicacoes Pessoais SA , the privately - owned Groupe Speciale Mobile cellular operator in Portugal , is offering call completion services to its subscribers using Octel 's Sierra voice processing system : if the Telecel customer is not available or the telephone is engaged , the system will answer the call and store the caller 's message ; the value of the order was not given . OSF TRYING TO IMPORT OBJECT ORIENTATION INTO DCE The Open Software Foundation is trying to figure out how to import object orientation into its Distributed Computing Environment , but is having trouble getting a handle on it , although part of its problem is thought to be attitudinal : it desperately needs an architectural and communications model and has been doing a lot of talking with the Object Management Group but it 's reportedly still just that , talk . WINDOWS NT FOR MAY Microsoft Corp 's chief hatchet man Steve Ballmer has been telling people that Windows NT will be available in May : meanwhile object - oriented Cairo is now apparently being referred to as NT Version 2 .
Idiom: out of line (used idiomatically: yes)
He believes the tax system should be skewed in favour of manufacturers . ‘ All the others — the Germans , French , Dutch , Americans do it . It seems unbelievable that we should be out of line.’ Manufacturers complain that their international competitors generally receive more state support and that other countries take a more cavalier attitude to the notion of fair trade . The CBI points out that UK corporate taxes , at more than 4 % of GDP in 1989 , are more than double the amount of state aid to industry .
Idiom: nothing to it (used idiomatically: no)
It was obvious they were taken in Woody 's apartment . ' She confronted Woody . He claimed there was nothing more to it than just picture - taking . ' But another source said : ' These pictures are very sexy poses which starkly show every part of Soon - Yi 's body . ' The friend added : ' Incredibly , two weeks ago , Woody asked Mia to marry him . '
Idiom: pull out all the stops (used idiomatically: no)
Plus , the Road Ahead . Has transport policy lost its way ? And ding dong WARILY on high . The church that dare n't pull out all the stops . In Central News tonight : Victory at last . Crash victim wins damages after seven year court battle . Under attack : Britain 's biggest detention centre for immigrants .
Idiom: touch and go (used idiomatically: yes)
It performed a Velcro impersonation , sending me spinning right back down to the pitch below . Somehow I got back up and completed the climb — but by the time I hobbled and shuffled back to the sacks , the sun was already casting its final , blood red spotlight on Cloggy 's slabs and buttresses . By the time we reached Llanberis it was touch and go whether we would make it back to base at all that night . Days later we discovered we had climbed the crux 5b pitch of Vember ! The following spring the same duo , neither of whom had climbed since the previous autumn , was optimistically toying with the idea of opening the season with Dream of White Horses on Gogarth .
Idiom: on the cards (used idiomatically: yes)
It was not a contest to excite the audience and there must have been some anxiety in Mason 's corner as it approached a critical stage . Mason was ahead but Biggs for a while looked the stronger man and employed his superior technique to suggest that Mason might be running into trouble . He took four of six rounds and yet without ever making his supporters believe that a decisive victory was on the cards . Despite being out - jabbed , the British champion kept boring forward and when he got inside , taking punches in order to do so , he landed some solid right hooks to the head and the body . There was never much conviction in the way Biggs fought , his attitude more that of a man boxing from memory rather than one attempting to resurrect a shattered career , and Mason was never persuaded that genuine peril might result from exchanges in the middle of the ring .
Idiom: off the shelf (used idiomatically: yes)
Watch Watch the lifting . Oh by I 'm nothing the lifting , just just reaching a can of beans off the bottom shelf and you Yes . Yes .
Idiom: for the time being (used idiomatically: no)
I was n't nervous on the 18th , I just misread the putt . ’ But yesterday 's rain-hit showdown must have felt like a recurring nightmare for Faldo , too . For the fifth time this year , he was made to struggle in the final round after being in a seemingly impregnable position . He lost both the French and Belgian Opens with last-day collapses , and he narrowly won the Open at Muirfield and the Irish after surrendering four-shot leads . Faldo took his 1992 winnings to a world record £1.5m , while Norman 's only consolation was that the £190,234 runner's-up cheque made him the first player in history to breech the $10 million barrier in career earnings .
Idiom: come out of your shell (used idiomatically: yes)
And perhaps this is the theme for December . You tend to withdraw into yourself if you feel got at by the world , especially if you have experienced a rejection in past months . But now you should come out of your shell . The 5th and 30th are times when your feelings could be powerfully affected by events and with eclipses on the 9th and 24th , this is a month of heart - affecting revelations . PISCES Feb 20-Mar 20
Idiom: head south (used idiomatically: yes)
This is Lady 's Pillar , erected in 1664 on the instructions of Lady Anne Clifford as a memorial to a friend , Sir Hugh Morville , after whom the fell is named . One of the stones is inscribed AP 1664 , another has the initials and date FHL 1890 : this was the year when the pillar was rebuilt following its collapse . A descent of the western slope over rough ground leads to a confluence of streams that now goes forward as Hell Gill Beck , still forming the county boundary and being accompanied by a track as it heads south - west . Limestone reappears and is much in evidence when Hellgill Bridge is reached , this centuries - old structure spanning a deep gorge . The bridge carries the old road between Hawes and Kirkby Stephen , superseded in 1825 by the valley road and now grass - grown and neglected but still traceable down to the road near Outhgill if transport is waiting there .
Idiom: read between the lines (used idiomatically: yes)
It turned out that the foreman had not warned Heinz that the paraffin might explode . Indeed , he had categorically denied that there was any danger . This may have been because he was ignorant or stupid but , reading between the lines of Heinz 's file , it is more likely that the foreman had taken against his young charge who was ‘ very intelligent and conceited’ . ( How often are those two descriptions juxtaposed in RCM reports , the apparent ‘ conceit’ paraded as justification for distrusting cleverness . ) In any event , Heinz was off work for two months before embarking on a steady descent of menial jobs , ending up as a kitchen cleaner .
Idiom: claim to fame (used idiomatically: no)
The second surgeon climbed , taking with him a miniature camera . A few moments later , the tree was 20 feet shorter . But the staff at Westonbirt say lose one claim to fame , gain another . As autumn comes into it 's own , the number of visitors is expected to double as the pale leaves of summer change colour . It proves perhaps that a tree need n't be tall to be proud .
Idiom: off the mark (used idiomatically: yes)
But Taylor will have noted that there is much more to Atkinson 's game now than the blistering pace which launched him into league football with Ipswich Town six years ago . Shrewsbury - born Atkinson revealed his passing ability by picking out Dean Saunders with a ball threaded 25 yards through the United defence . His speed of thought presented as much of a threat to United as his speed off the mark . And he has out - scored Les Ferdinand of Queens Park Rangers , who is in Taylor 's squad for the World Cup qualifier with Turkey . ‘ Dalian took his goal brilliantly,’ said Villa chief Ron Atkinson , who bought the England ‘ B’man for Sheffield Wednesday as well as his current club .
Idiom: place in the sun (used idiomatically: yes)
Stella Bingham THE holiday ads are tempting you away with the usual images of fun and sun but rather than taking a package why not invest in that longed-for overseas home ? The market for places in the sun was the first to be hit when high interest rates and the recession at home began to bite but , with mortgage rates now in single figures , people are once more looking abroad . And the buyers of 1993 have a host of well-priced properties to choose from . Countries where prices have tumbled like our own have been the first to benefit from the spark in the market .
Idiom: play for time (used idiomatically: no)
It could be the key to success because Coventry have free-running young players who can more than compensate for Quinn 's lack of mobility . In my view , it 's the right decision , one taken by Johnny King at Tranmere when he bought John Aldridge for peanuts . King made the rest of his team play for Aldridge and was rewarded with 40 goals last season , and probably the same this time . I believe Howard Kendall at Everton would be much better off playing Cottee and making the rest of the players give the little striker what he wants . The ball over the top , the low firm crosses driven in so that he can pick up the pieces .
Idiom: on edge (used idiomatically: yes)
Because so many of our boundaries are economic rather than administrative , it is most important that the patterns of settlement at different periods are identified and the likely land uses within them postulated . Only then will it be possible to suggest that much of the invisible ownership landscape is there in the form of landscape features and is of greater antiquity than has been formerly thought . There remains the problem of detached pieces of parishes ( and , in some cases , of counties [ Fig . 1– ] ) or fragmented boundaries on the edges of some estates . Very often there seems to be no logical reason why small bits of one parish should be isolated , surrounded by the land of another . The explanation seems to be that of late ownership changes , but usually no plausible reason can be suggested .
Idiom: take the liberty (used idiomatically: yes)
The parable may refer to the fact that in Jesus ' time the Zealots ( this was a name given to nationalists ) were stirring up the peasants to revolt against such landlords . The fact that the owner of the vineyard lives abroad is the key to understanding the parable . The tenants take liberties with the messengers because they know that the owner is far away . The son 's arrival makes the tenants think that the owner is dead and that the son has come to claim his inheritance . According to Jewish Law , if the vineyard became ownerless then it became the property of the tenants .
Idiom: poacher turned gamekeeper (used idiomatically: yes)
It was as Everett had feared — the Golden Share was being seen as a kind of sterilization pill which would prevent a takeover and a profitable union . But the comrades were prepared for everything the class enemy could throw at them . Walsh , as fund - raising co - ordinator , and Hayling , as ‘ poacher turned gamekeeper’(as Everett described him ) , had been sounding out potential ‘ movement’ investors for months . Reluctantly realizing that major investment from the City was increasingly unlikely , they had been concentrating on the unions and council pension funds . Now they joined in with Everett 's strategy of going where the big fish were .
Idiom: join the club (used idiomatically: yes)
If Ironside is recalled to Ayresome Park , Scarborough will have to chose between walking wounded Steve Hewitt and YTS keeper Neil Robinson . Hewitt last week had a pot removed after suffering a suspected broken wrist in training , while Robinson is suffering from an ankle sprain . Ogley agreed to join the club on non - contract terms until the end of the season . ‘ Mark is a steady player and will play at Carlisle . We 've had a lot of young lads in the team and this will allow me to swap things round a bit,’ added McHale .
Idiom: behind bars (used idiomatically: yes)
Bainbridge , Semer Water and the Roman Road BAINBRIDGE is a handsome little village on the Hawes - Leyburn road with a broad village green , complete with village stocks , where miscreants of olden days , instead of being fined or having their licences endorsed , were pelted with rotten garbage and sometimes even worse . The rolling forest of Wensleydale that surrounded Bainbridge has gone now , with its deer and wild boar , but the horn that was blown at dusk every evening between Holyrood and Shrovetide to lead travellers out of the forest to safety still hangs behind the bar of the Rose and Crown , although it is blown now only at village weddings . Just out of Bainbridge by the road that snakes up by Brough Hill are the remains of a Roman camp built by Agricola in the first century AD to police the area . A fast marching road led from Bainbridge to Cam High Road to meet up with the Roman road running from Chester to Carlisle .
Idiom: writ large (used idiomatically: yes)
If this new period brought with it a phase of Spenglerian pessimism after the long years of Victorian optimism , Toynbee did not himself assume that the West was in decline as such , but rather that paradoxically the globalization of Western civilization was being accompanied by a self - consciousness of its own cultural relativization , a process to which Toynbee 's own equally totalizing and relativizing history was designed to contribute . Reviewing the genesis of his whole project , he recounts that his history was written against a current Late Modern Western convention of identifying a parvenu and provincial Western Society 's history with ‘ History’ , writ large , sans phrase . In the writer 's view this convention was the preposterous off - spring of a distorting egocentric illusion to which the children of a Western Civilisation had succumbed like the children of all other known civilisations and known primitive societies . Postmodernism , therefore , becomes a certain self - consciousness about a culture 's own historical relativity — which begins to explain why , as its critics complain , it also involves the loss of the sense of an absoluteness of any Western account of History .
Idiom: give and take (used idiomatically: yes)
Child labour in the cottage need not be romanticised . Samuel Bamford remembered winding cotton on to bobbins for his weaver uncle as " work of cramping , confining and boring nature " . Exasperation often led him into acts of mischief for which he was quickly rapped by his rod - bearing aunt , but the atmosphere in which punishment was given and taken was a relaxed one , with his uncle able to laugh at some of his pranks . William Hutton was one of the few who worked in both factory and cottage as a child , for he was first employed in a silk mill in Derby before becoming apprenticed to his framework knitter uncle . He most certainly had few fond memories of the latter employment , but it was the former which caused him to curse his luck at having been born in Derby .
Idiom: up and running (used idiomatically: yes)
He apparently reports to Open Vision chief Michael Fields , ex - president of Oracle USA . PENCOM HAS NEXTSTEP 486 DEVICE DRIVERS Pencom Software Inc has kicked off a programme to rapidly prototype device drivers for NextStep 486 to help hardware and peripherals vendors get up and running for NextWorld next month . The drivers , said to go for a small fixed - price fee , will be delivered in a binary - only distribution and are not covered by a warranty or maintenance agreement . The products can be fully developed later for an additional charge .
Idiom: under a cloud (used idiomatically: yes)
KEN LAWRENCE / TCCB This summer , Richard Stemp enjoyed his most successful bowling season so far for Worcestershire , with several matchwinning performances such as this against Gloucestershire . But he ended it under the cloud of suspicion caused by a random test which confirmed he had taken drugs . Today , The Test And County Cricket Board 's disciplinary committee at Edgbaston were told of the events which lead to Stemp providing a positive sample during a match with Middlesex at Uxbridge in July . Traces of amphetamine were found but the player was always confident he would provide a satisfactory explanation .