Gooogr/pie_idioms huggingface dataset:
Idiom: win the day (used idiomatically: no)
Menstruation has been described as ' the weeping of the disappointed uterus ' . The constantly - dripping nose for which no explanation can be found is another example , the catarrh which never quite clears up , the cold that comes out of the blue when life is difficult for us . If we 're able to use it the cold may win us a few days in which to withdraw to bed and grieve gently for ourselves ; if not at least we can weep openly at work , blowing our nose and wiping our eyes , and get a little consideration and sympathy from others for our sad lot . Dr John Harrison , author of Love Your Disease —it 's keeping you Healthy , claims that sinusitis , particularly in men , often indicates a reluctance to cry . This is a view widely held among alternative and complementary practitioners .
Idiom: off the shelf (used idiomatically: yes)
The difficuIty with this conception of services , however , is that , on closer inspection , it admits too many exceptions . It may be true for many services which are involved mainly with the transmission of information such as financial , legal and educational services , but for other services such as catering and food preparation , film production or computer services , I am not so sure . Nor is the case of information - based services so clear - cut , as most involve some form of tangible documentation , for example , off - the - shelf insurance policies , legal briefs , or even this text ! If we were to extend this line of reasoning , we would also have to consider the materiality of services such as hairdressing , advertising and repairs which , arguably , take a tangible form and benefit their customers for a period of time after production . True , a haircut can not be stored , transported or resold , but the example of advertising and repairs is open to debate .
Idiom: high and low (used idiomatically: no)
Public awareness of opinion polls was most predictable in the Pre - Campaign Wave and became steadily less predictable as the election approached and awareness spread throughout the electorate . Before the campaign opened the key influence on poll awareness was a generalized interest in politics , but as the campaign drew to an end television viewing became more important . Before the campaign there was a 41 per cent difference in awareness of polls between those with high and low levels of interest in politics ; but this declined to 22 per cent by the end of the campaign . Readers of lowbrow papers were relatively ill informed about polls before the campaign but caught up with highbrow readers later . Conversely the difference between those who did and did not watch television widened .
Idiom: walk of life (used idiomatically: yes)
Home Office funding does n't cover all costs and the charity is expected to raise funds independently . Although most of the work is carried out by volunteers , funds are needed for training , daily activities and research projects . with your time : ‘ Volunteers come from all walks of life,’ says Victim Support 's Helen Peggs . ‘ Many are newly retired professional women , or women taking a career break to look after a family . Having said that , we have a very wide range of people , male and female.’
Idiom: all things being equal (used idiomatically: yes)
Yes . Yes , it might , it might , but , but , but now you 're getting a little bit , you 're getting a bit too , too sophisticated now , we 're going to come on to that later . Erm , we 're looking at all other things being equal . Let 's assume that all the offspring are the same , in quality . Even , let 's even make them all the age .
Idiom: strike a chord (used idiomatically: yes)
It was her first appearance in a Willy Russell play so she was in at the deep end . She says , surprisingly : ‘ It was easy.’ ‘ Obviously it 's hard work,’ she adds , ‘ but it really struck a chord with me and that made it seem easy . Everything that was written spoke to me.’ On the surface , Paula 's life seems very different to Shirley 's dead - end existence .
Idiom: on a roll (used idiomatically: no)
For each Fanatic in turn roll a scatter dice to determine which direction it moves in — the Goblin is now so utterly disorientated that he moves in a random direction . Move the Fanatic 2D6 inches in the direction indicated by the arrow on the scatter dice . If you roll a double on the 2D6 roll then the Fanatic has met with an accident , wrapping the chain around his neck , or perhaps his heart just gives out and he collapses to the ground . In any case , a double indicates the Fanatic has met his end and the model is immediately removed from the table . Note this only happens when moving randomly , not when the Fanatic emerges from his unit .
Idiom: blaze a trail (used idiomatically: yes)
Corn plaster queen lands weekly spot on ' Kelly''She 's a one - woman shock force ' SHE is Ulster 's very own Queen of Grunge . Long before shapeless cardigans and outsize feet were making their fashion comeback , May McFettridge was blazing a style trail in elastic stockings and corn plasters . And so what if her dentures are a few molars short of the set . So what if she has only three frocks to her name ( ' cuts down on the washin '' ) Or if her ' fur ' coat looks like it was handed down from Wilma Flintstone .
Idiom: play ball (used idiomatically: yes)
Fashions are forever fickle ; but to Laura they contained many constants . She believed women should have a sensible working wardrobe and , abhorring idleness , wanted to sell clothes for the working woman . The ideal working dress would , therefore , be one in which you could reach up high to bring down the best china , bend down low to pick up the dropped toy , feel comfortable in for walking around the park and pushing a pram or playing ball , not worry about if baby food was deposited on it , move around in easily with a baby on your hip and cover up totally for rolling out pastry or helping with painting . In other words , Laura 's idea of the working woman was one who worked at home , and her needs should be catered for so that she could look attractive in the environment in which she naturally flourished . Laura wanted her shops to stock a complete wardrobe for this working woman,(the ‘ capsule wardrobe’ of her Wren youth ) rather like lists sent out by boarding schools before term .
Idiom: pull the wool over someone's eyes (used idiomatically: yes)
If there 's any sign of pustular spots , spreading redness , or the skin becomes broken and bleeding see your doctor . Looks FOR THE 90s No , we 're not trying to pull the wool over your eyes . This bright , fun towelling - look jacket really is knitted . And there 's an optional hood , too .
Idiom: over the hill (used idiomatically: yes)
Between the huts were stone platforms holding Lulic poles carrying sacrificial buffaloes ' horns . A native singing ceremony had been performed to clear bad spirits away before the Australians took up the positions . As this village was inaccessible , the enemy patrols were unlikely to reach it undetected , but if they did the platoon headquarters was sufficiently mobile for the captain , sergeant , and their two runners / signalmen to withdraw quickly over the hill , taking their radio with them — a different proposition to moving a 109-set , for now the guerrillas had dry battery radios ( see Appendix No . 5 ) designed by Lieutenant Barcham , a New Zealander , for use by the Independent Companies . However , the platoon cook no doubt would have left his clobber behind , while the batman who acted as bodyguard ( striker ) and the two snipers would have protected the withdrawal of the vital radio . The three 16-man Sections ( see Appendix 2 ) were deployed further down the hill each sending out patrols of four or so men to scout the surrounding countryside .
Idiom: down the road (used idiomatically: yes)
‘ C'moan or get aff ? If it 's no oan then it 's aff!’ he added sagely , ringing the bell . The girls went inside and the tram for Anderston thundered down the road into the 20th century . GOAL ! 1898 A.D. Scotland v England , the REAL ‘ old’ firm and the oldest international fixture in the world , was first played in 1872 .
Idiom: run riot (used idiomatically: yes)
Her animosity did her throbbing head no good at all . She laid her head back against a cushion , breathing in deeply and regularly to relax the tension in the back of her neck , but it was no use . Her mind kept wrestling with the problem of her identity , her imagination running riot as she pictured loved ones mad with anxiety about her . A particularly ferocious gust brought Leonora to her feet to roam about the room wishing passionately that the weather would improve . Not even her fear of setting foot in a boat again would keep her from making the crossing to the mainland the moment the trip to Brides Haven was feasible .
Idiom: on the house (used idiomatically: yes)
The owner of the other house was unavailable . But a witness who lives nearby said : ' It was just incredible . ' Some of the mud and rubbish washed down on the two houses Picture : PHIL MICHEU Tragedy widow 's scare A WOMAN who lost her husband and two small sons in a fire earlier this year has had an attempted break - in at her new home .
Idiom: in the final analysis (used idiomatically: yes)
It is difficult to provide an outright basis for this antipathy towards insider dealing , owing not only to the speculative nature of the inquiry but also because conclusive data does not exist and indeed is not likely ever to exist . However , it would seem fair to say that in a western liberal democracy with a market based economy , society has a legitimate interest in protecting the market from conduct which is perceived to be an abuse of normal practice in that market . In the final analysis , the true cost of allowing insider dealing is less important than what people think the true cost to be . 4 LEGISLATIVE APPROACH TO INSIDER DEALING IN BOTH THE UK AND THE US
Idiom: every last (used idiomatically: yes)
The only green thing about many of our English rivers nowadays is profuse algal growth in the water , which results from an excess of fertilizer leaching off arable fields straight into the stream . Traditional drainage has accelerated this problem in two ways : by promoting farming methods which require high levels of fertilizer , and by stripping out the buffer of vegetation between the riverside and the fields . It is not uncommon for tractors to slide into a stream as they attempt to cultivate every last scrap of land beside a watercourse . This approach has led to overexploitation of stream systems . Until 1986 , the steeply graded banks of one river in arable country were regularly sprayed with the approved chemical 2 - 4-D amine , in order to reduce the nettles , which were less good at holding the banks than slow - growing grasses , but for which perfect conditions had been established by abundant nitrogen leaching off the fields .
Idiom: put the boot in (used idiomatically: yes)
Buckmaster 's tone was brusque . ‘ The assignment should be right up your street . You fly to Europe , put the boot in to our top people , get them looking , then fly back here . Like a Kissinger shuttle , Gareth.’ He checked his watch .
Idiom: laugh like a drain (used idiomatically: yes)
‘ No,’ she shook her head . Merry Christmas , Mister Ceausescu’!’ Ashley laughed like a drain ; a teetotaller might have said her breath smelled like one . ‘ Very funny,’ I yelled into her ear . ‘ Have n't laughed so much since General Zia got blown up .
Idiom: let your hair down (used idiomatically: yes)
Probably too much.’ ‘ Not at all,’ put in the Prime Minister , reassuringly . ‘ It 's only when you let your hair down that others can see the real person hiding under the hat . I personally have found your candour very refreshing . It 's such a change to hear someone say what he really believes … .’ and a warm smile blazed .
Idiom: from scratch (used idiomatically: yes)
My computer is a brand new Dan Technology 386/40 , with 4Mb of RAM and a 100Mb hard disk with cache controller . Can you tell me what on earth is going on ? I 've deleted everything and re - installed DOS 5 and Windows 3.1 from scratch , all to no avail . A Alas poor Waldo , I knew him well . I guess Waldo must have been the codename for CorelDRAW 2 during development and it got stuck in the code .
Idiom: with a will (used idiomatically: yes)
In my time which coincided with Frank Hodsoll 's two terms as Chairman the agency ran smoothly , and few grants of a clearly scabrous nature ever managed to make it up from the panels , past the Chairman 's gimlet eye , to the Council . It must be said , too , that the early and middle 1980s , at least as compared to the late 1980s and the early 1990s , were a remarkably placid time , without the edge brought to American cultural and artistic life by demands for sexual and gender liberation and by AIDS - induced desperation . Yet even in those halcyon days the signs of trouble were there for those with the will to see them : the multi - media and multi - disciplinary avant - gardes were beginning to show up every NEA programme area ; the clamour for the funding of life - styles rather than art as traditionally defined was becoming louder , and the accepted definitions of art and the arts were everywhere coming under attack in grant applications as well as in panels . My own favourite example of this attack , and the contradictions that came with it , was that as Council members we were asked both to take pride in an NEA - sponsored and adulatory film about the graffiti that were then disfiguring the New York City subway system , and to support lavishly the great American museums whose distinguished collections were ( and remain ) a standing rebuke to the so - called experimental art of which graffiti were then such a beguiling component . That was fun , compared to what is going on now at the NEA .
Idiom: state of the art (used idiomatically: yes)
Ideal for listed buildings . Hi - tech — Low Cost These ‘ state of the art’ foam systems offer the ultimate in modern re - roofing techniques . They carry the Government Class 1 BS476 Part 7 fire ratings and can be installed at a lower cost than conventional re - roofing . It is approved by the leading national institutions and organisations .
Idiom: at loggerheads (used idiomatically: yes)
In 1874 J. T. W. Mitchell became Chairman of the CWS , and ‘ under his strong hand its activities were , Cole writes , ‘ rapidly developed ; and it was largely due to his personal influence that the ‘ federal’ principle of consumers ' control came to be the accepted principle of the main body of the Movement.’ He was not , one gathers , a man to brook opposition . ‘ Often at loggerheads with Holyoake , Greening , Hughes and other advocates of the ‘ ' bonus to labour’ and the development of Co - operative Production by means of independent Societies under producers ' control , he was able to impress his personal philosophy of Co - operation upon the Movement and to win for himself a position of recognised leadership.’ Some sense of the conflict and confrontation generated by the difference on fundamental principle , the antithesis between Consumers ' and Industrial Co - operation , comes through Cole 's flat account , some sense of Mitchell as a man who saw things narrowly but very clearly , was sure of his objective and of the means of its achievement : the development of the CWS into the very large , multifarious and highly successful undertaking it became . In that development there was to be found during the twenty years of his chairmanship no place for industrial democracy such as the admission of self - governing producers ' co - operatives would have admitted .
Idiom: when the chips are down (used idiomatically: yes)
‘ Now they seem to be taking the same supine approach to the milk and potato marketing boards , where the Government is in the process of selling out the interests of farmers . ‘ It makes me believe that the NFU leadership is unwilling to do anything to really fight for the interests of farmers if it embarrasses the Tory Government . Certainly they huff and puff but when the chips are down they chicken out.’ ‘ There has been no real determination in their opposition since the London demonstration of 1991 , and that was led by Ayrshire farmers . If the Scottish NFU had only half the fight of the Ayrshire farmers we would really see some action.’
Idiom: jump on the bandwagon (used idiomatically: yes)
The marshal 's partnership with the fascist Iron Guard and Nazi Germany was simply a matter of national realpolitik , they say , the unlucky fate of being squeezed between the Soviet Union and the Axis alliance . As for the Romanian Holocaust , they argue , it is a lie that Antonescu killed the Jews . In every country , intellectuals , too , have jumped on the nationalist bandwagon . For many , the new religion serves as convenient therapy for their years of hack scholarship under communism . The nationalist fervour in Romania has fuelled virulent anti - Semitism , a thriving ultra - right , bloody ethnic violence in Transylvania and regular pogroms against the gypsies .
Idiom: green light (used idiomatically: yes)
CFP UK based in Portchester , Hampshire , markets and sells performance films made by its parent company in the United States . It believes the award will give its distributors and installers competitive advantage in a marketplace where quality is very important . ITED skills training gets green light THE ITED approach to training comes of age this year as it goes fully operational after two years of pilot schemes . ITED — Integrated Training , Education and Development — is a tool that encourages individuals to create structured learning and development activities closely focused on improving both their performance and that of their business .
Idiom: think the world of (used idiomatically: yes)
I AM a 35-year - old man . I have been going out with my girlfriend for three years and she wants us to get married but I 'm not so sure ! You see , I 've had a few quite long relationships before but , although I think the world of this young lady and love her deeply , I do n't feel that I am the marrying kind . I see her most nights , but I really look forward to my ‘ nights off.’ When I think of getting married and all that means I get this feeling as if I am being physically choked .
Idiom: on tenterhooks (used idiomatically: yes)
There was considerable relief as well as jubilation when we finally received consent from the governments that afternoon.’ Gas started flowing three hours later . Everyone had been waiting on tenterhooks on the platform , as they had been technically ready for more than a day . The next step is the development project is the installation of a satellite platform planned for summer 1994 , followed by a compression platform , scheduled to be in service in 1998 . EDITORIAL
Idiom: break even (used idiomatically: yes)
Lum et al . investigated the performance of a number of large files , and the author has analysed their results further . Table 6.6 shows the very different results obtained when the actual time required for each retrieval , including head movements , is used to calculate break - even points , rather than average accesses per retrieval . Although most of the work reported in the literature has examined chaining to a separate overflow area , this is not the most effective way of using chaining . If records are stored in the next available position in the prime data area — the consecutive spill method — but a link field is provided from the home record or from the last synonym , this avoids unnecessary head movements and cuts down the search time required for the consecutive spill techniques .
Idiom: get to the bottom of (used idiomatically: yes)
One of the pilots had been the ace Al Deere . It would not look too good if a 110 flown by a man well over forty had outpaced and outmanoeuvred two Spitfires piloted by ‘ the cream’ . He also followed up a rumour that another ME I 10 had crash - landed north of Glasgow the same night , although he did not get to the bottom of it , and assumed it was more evidence of the Scottish Saturday Night . A trip to Eaglesham followed , where he met the Duke and Benson . The field was swarming with sightseers from Glasgow , and the sweating guards from RAF Abbotsinch were having little luck preventing the looting of souvenir items from the scattered wreckage .
Idiom: get the picture (used idiomatically: no)
Because I do . I 've decided that this is n't any other business at all . I 've got a picture of Hugh . Have you ? Yeah I 've got a picture of Hugh with one end of a decontaminate poster .
Idiom: rule of thumb (used idiomatically: yes)
The potential improvement in performance and ways of achieving that improvement after a two - pass load are discussed below . Patterns of record access A rule - of - thumb often used for updating is that ' 20 per cent of the records give rise to 80 per cent of the transactions ' . It is certainly true that , in most applications , some records are processed far more frequently than others , and a number of commonly occurring distributions of update frequency are examined below . 1
Idiom: go straight (used idiomatically: yes)
Because five times three is fifteen and if you times fifteen by three it 'll be forty five . Mm but did you know that already ? Okay well Claire seemed to go straight for the answer straight , right away . She 's not really quite sure why but she knew that was the way and it was , it was the right , was the right things to go for . But that does n't help if you do n't know how to do it ?
Idiom: play ball (used idiomatically: yes)
Shelley pretended to be severe , and her patient meekly drank her medicine and handed back the glass . Mrs Richards stared unseeing out of the window . It was a typical late afternoon scene , with the pool full of children playing ball , splashing and laughing , the older ones talking confidentially while holding on to the side , perhaps making assignations that they would have to negotiate with parents to keep . The old lady said , ‘ I came back here because over fifty years ago this is where I first fell in love.’ ‘ But Monte Samana did n't exist then.’
Idiom: nine times out of ten (used idiomatically: yes)
6 . ‘ of a licence authorising you to drive a vehicle of that class’ . In nine times out of ten the vehicle concerned will be a motor bike or a motor car . But it is important to be able to classify the different types of mechanically propelled vehicles in order to be able to prove to a court in which class a vehicle falls . ( D ) SUPPORTING EVIDENCE
Idiom: take a leaf out of someone's book (used idiomatically: yes)
LINFORD Christie 's marvellous achievement in taking the sprint gold was one of the great moments in British sport . The only disappointing aspect for me was the unbearable tension caused by the starter who ' held ' the men for an unbelievably long time , causing false starts . Maybe they should take a leaf out of horse racing 's book and introduce starting stalls . : - . Must say I 've heard dafter ideas , luv , but not lately . DAZZA JOY
Idiom: speak volumes (used idiomatically: yes)
British Gas will ensure that its contractors are aware of the Company 's environmental policy and that their practices and procedures when working for British Gas are compatible with it.’ This statement goes some way to addressing the recommendations in section 9 [ 9.1.2 ] The fact that the group 's thorough investigation failed to reveal the existence of this mini ‘ statement of purpose’ either in print or [ more likely]in preparation could speak volumes for their assertion , repeated at regular intervals , that British Gas do not do enough internally to publicise environmental efforts . Natural Gas Vehicles were also covered in some detail but as our public relations efforts seem to be hampered by these vehicles ' technical problems it 's difficult to be more positive than we have been . Other items of interest within that section included : forecourt agreements with oil companies ; links with [ and support to]the Department of Transport .
Idiom: by heart (used idiomatically: yes)
All you have to do is to learn this sentence by ~ heart .