Gooogr/pie_idioms huggingface dataset:
Idiom: get lost (used idiomatically: yes)
Okay as opposed to just the retinue which means a little slower . And finally peu de doci which is not French but is again Italian peu de doci means dying away . Peu de doci means quite literally getting lost . So if you want to get rid of somebody you can go and tell them to peu de doci which means getting lost . Okay I know we moved on to the next piece last week we will start again on that tomorrow .
Idiom: at sea (used idiomatically: yes)
By Martin Walker in Washington PRESIDENT Gorbachev formally proposed the abolition of all naval tactical nuclear weapons at the Malta summit , White House sources confirmed yesterday . The proposal would have restricted nuclear weapons at sea to strategic missile submarines . It was rejected out of hand by President Bush , who also refused to include the US Navy in conventional arms control agreements . New details of the summit conversations are emerging in the course of White House briefings , including a surprisingly frank assessment by the Soviet leader of the looming economic crisis .
Idiom: slippery slope (used idiomatically: no)
You get the loot when the beans are spilled in the Sabbath press . But it 's all downhill from here … The slippery slope 1 . You offer escort services to a famous journalist .
Idiom: sleep rough (used idiomatically: yes)
I knew what was happening,’ he said after . Misery for dream nurses NURSES had to sleep rough in laundrettes after being dumped in Germany by a recruitment agency without money and shelter . Newly - weds Nigel and Emma Thorpe were just two of the nurses enticed by a job at Heidelberg University Hospital , accommodation and language training . The couple paid £ 1,000 to London - based European Recruitment Services after leaving Basingstoke District Hospital , Hants .
Idiom: good Samaritan (used idiomatically: yes)
Policeman on M50 saw alleged killer , jury told By HEATHER MILLS , Courts Correspondent AN OFF - DUTY police inspector saw the alleged killer of Marie Wilks but dismissed him as a good Samaritan , the M50 murder trial was told yesterday . Insp Peter Clarke told the jury that he drove past Mrs Wilks , who was pregnant , after he saw the man pull on to the hard shoulder , towards a telephone box where she was making an SOS call to police headquarters . ‘ My obvious reaction was that he had gone to help her,’ Mr Clarke , a community affairs officer who was travelling to police headquarters , said at Shrewsbury Crown Court .
Idiom: catch someone's eye (used idiomatically: yes)
' Our inquiries , ' interposed Tallboy unwisely , ' at Markham Terrace have suggested that no one saw him arrive . I think it is safe to assume … ' His voice trailed off as he caught the Superintendent 's eye . ' Do go on , ' said the Superintendent dangerously . ' Well , we have n't found his car either , ' concluded Tallboy .
Idiom: tongue in cheek (used idiomatically: yes)
The corollary of not being able to force people to think clean is that you can not force them to think dirty either . In 1959 , fifty - one years after he intended it should be published , D. H. Lawrence 's notorious novel Lady Chatterley 's Lover made its unexpurgated appearance in the United States . The magazine Field and Stream published this delightfully tongue - in - cheek review which says all that needs to be said about innocence and incorruptibility : Although written many years ago , Lady Chatterley 's Lover has just been reissued by the Grove Press , and this pictorial account of the day by day life of an English game - keeper is full of considerable interest to outdoor - minded readers as it contains many passages on pheasant raising , the apprehending of poachers , ways to control vermin and other chores and duties of the professional game - keeper . Unfortunately one is obliged to wade through many pages of extraneous material in order to discover and savour these sidelights on the management of a Midland shooting estate , and in this reviewer 's opinion the book can not take the place of J. Miller 's Practical Gamekeeping .
Idiom: bear in mind (used idiomatically: no)
The diet is laid out in such a way that , starting on a Monday , the slightly more elaborate meals are at the weekend . If you wish to start on another day , by all means do so ; simply change the order within the week if you so wish . Bearing in mind that many people eat lunch at work , most of the light meal dishes can be taken to work either in a food container or , for a more filling lunch , pocketed in some pitta bread . Add more spices , herbs or garlic if this is to your taste . Adapt some of your own favourite recipes to low fat versions by using methods suggested in these recipes , such as cooking onions in water or in chopped tomatoes instead of frying them .
Idiom: every trick in the book (used idiomatically: yes)
Between 1986 and 1990 , the CFA zone performed worse even than the rest of Africa . In the past six years , living standards in Côte d'Ivoire , the CFA 's giant , have dropped by a third . In an effort to restore their competitiveness , the CFA countries have tried every trick in the book except one : devaluation . The cost of keeping the CFA franc pegged so high has become more acute since non - CFA neighbours , Nigeria and Ghana , devalued their own currencies , making their exports more competitive . This has hurt ex - French exporters , like Côte d'Ivoire , which sell the same crops .
Idiom: in black and white (used idiomatically: yes)
Yes . That 's enough . I think that would come out in black and white . That 's enough You can see where the arrows are .
Idiom: go straight (used idiomatically: yes)
August 1915 saw them at Suvla Bay in the Gallipoli campaign and they suffered heavy casualties at Chocolate Hill . On 13 December , the Stony Stratford Ambulance left for Mudros ; five days before the final evacuation , the unit suffered 30 % casualties . They returned to Egypt , where they went straight to the front after receiving replacements from the County . After the second Battle of Gaza , they were part of a reconnaissance column that struck for Beersheba . In the Jerusalem Campaign , they supported the attack on Mughar and the brilliant charge of the Bucks , Dorset and Berks Yeomanry kept the Ambulance employed at high pressure .
Idiom: pop the question (used idiomatically: yes)
ARMY signalman Philip Cooper had a double Christmas Day surprise when he proposed to his girlfriend on television . Philip , 20 , was told he would be speaking to Caroline Cove , 26 , on BBC1 's Good Morning show through a live link with Sarajevo , where she is serving with the Army . But when he popped the question she said : ‘ I 'll tell you when I see you.’ And moments later Caroline rushed into Philip 's arms at the Pebble Mill studios in Birmingham . She said yes .
Idiom: turn someone's head (used idiomatically: no)
In the next paper Morwenna Griffiths also addresses the question of the relation between the rational and the non - rational . Drawing on the re - evaluation of emotion characteristic of contemporary feminist theory and practice , she argues that feminist conceptions of emotion constitute a critique of dualist conceptions of mind found in much Western philosophy in the English - speaking world and elsewhere . She refers , in particular , to radical feminists who turn on its head the criticism that women are more emotional than men , and claim that not only are women more emotional , but that this is their strength , and that in comparison , men are enfeebled , deadened and impoverished creatures . As Griffiths points out , there are problems with this position , but she argues that , despite its flaws , its passionate impetus to reconceptualisation is invaluable . Griffiths suggests that the legacy of Descartes to the philosophical understanding of emotions has been to subsume them into one of two categories , mind or body , and to make them rational or non - rational .
Idiom: put the boot in (used idiomatically: no)
‘ Not Gazzer.’ ‘ Well , I 'm just worried about you , that 's all . I would n't like to be stuck down a dark alley at night with whoever put the boot in here . Looks like they went berserk.’ Marie thought of Gazzer stamping with his big boots .
Idiom: ride high (used idiomatically: yes)
The political pressures of comprehensive reorganisation of secondary education in Britain , combined with increasing recognition of multilingualism in British schools in response to migration into the UK , led to greater sensitivity to the facts of multi- dialectalism and language variety . International bodies such as the Council of Europe invested money in large - scale projects to improve second and foreign language teaching . Throughout the world , formal linguistics rode high as an academically respectable subject , and many other disciplines , pure and applied rode high with it . Perhaps it is fortunate that such success came too late to affect the newly developing teacher education programmes very fundamentally . The disciplines for Educational Studies and that area of it concerned with teacher education ( Tibble , 1966 ) .
Idiom: force someone's hand (used idiomatically: yes)
The pupils of the youth 's eyes were fully dilated to azure marbles . Before him was a bowl of clear liquid , in which lay a complicated puzzle of interlocking rings . The twin arms of that mechanical gibbet forced his hands down into the liquid , which sizzled and steamed . The picture focused upon the questing , flexing fingers . There was no sound track .
Idiom: turn over a new leaf (used idiomatically: yes)
And resolve to take an active part in the in this chamber , but in particular in committee and sub - committees where the real work takes place . It 's only a few days since I was sitting in the seats you all occupy , realising the difficult job that a Lord Mayor has to undertake in keeping members in order . Now it 's my turn to perform that task and I am sure you are all going to turn over a new leaf and make things easy for me . I hope so . During last year there were a number of occasions on which members made personal verbal attacks on other members .
Idiom: for the time being (used idiomatically: yes)
Capital gains tax For the purposes of CGT , the trustees , as a body of persons , are deemed to be resident and ordinarily resident in the United Kingdom unless : 1 . the general administration of the trust is ordinarily carried on outside the United Kingdom ; and 2 . the trustees or a majority of them for the time being are not resident or not ordinarily resident in the United Kingdom ( TCGA 1992 , s69(1 ) ) . Professional trustees and non - domiciled , etc settlor Under TCGA 1992 , s69(2 ) , where the settlor was not domiciled , resident or ordinarily resident in the United Kingdom when he made the settlement , then if the trustees or a majority of them are " professional trustees " they will be treated as not resident in the United Kingdom and the general administration of the settlement will be treated as ordinarily carried on outside the United Kingdom .
Idiom: out of the blue (used idiomatically: yes)
Now I S O Nine Thousand and One is nothing more , nothing less , than a list of things that management should address a little more carefully . There 's nothing revolutionary in I S O Nine Thousand and One . There are n't any bolts out of the blue . There are n't any stunning new ideas , or concepts . It 's all really rather boring actually .
Idiom: by the same token (used idiomatically: yes)
Yes , it has lost its fourth successive election . But that is what six or so months ago it was expected to do . By the same token , it has not been a triumph for the Tory Party . For in the real world the Tories were never expected to lose their immense majority in one go . In the real world , these results are neither as good for the Tories nor as bad for Labour as the polls and media predictions have made them seem .
Idiom: go to the wall (used idiomatically: yes)
They forget that under the last Labour Government the cab trade was decimated . For four years while Merlyn Rees was Home Secretary we did n't get a tariff increase . Drivers left the trade , garages went to the wall . ‘ But younger drivers have n't experienced a Labour government . Like other young people , they want change if only for the sake of it .
Idiom: old as the hills (used idiomatically: yes)
The entire ambience of ‘ The Southern Harmony And Musical Companion’ is that of a live performance , a natural echo that leaves all the noises of amplifiers crackling , valves popping and equipment being shouldered on the tape as if to say , this is for real ! This time it is for real and The Black Crowes know it . Although the music they are dealing with is as old as the hills they have still managed to inject a little of their own venom into what was once regarded as a mummified corpse . Southern rock ( remember Lynyrd Skynyrd and The Allman Brothers ? ) may leave a bad taste in the mouth for many rock elitists , but The Black Crowes ' brand of Southern comfort packs the kick those other bands ( although worthy ) failed to deliver . One hit of ‘ String Me’ or the overflowing ‘ My Morning Song’will prove that the band 's new testament is the gospel truth and the embodiment of this crazy little thing called rock'n'roll .
Idiom: gather dust (used idiomatically: no)
EUP 's business manager Allan Woods remembers 20 years ago when the press could rely on sales of almost 1,000 copies to institutions throughout the world . These days , that figure can represent an entire print run . The press has shifted its emphasis from being a backlist publisher , selling books over five to ten years , to selling its frontlist within two years , reprinting when necessary , rather than having vast stocks gathering dust in a warehouse . Certainly , David Martin commented that EUP 's warehouse in West Crosscauseway was one of the most dust - free he had seen , a tribute to its success . The warehouse was custom - built for a publishing company almost 40 years ago , with EUP moving in in 1966 .
Idiom: pass muster (used idiomatically: yes)
with a dustpan and Grooving with the hoover I 'm cleaning out my room and It 'll soon pass muster With my elbow grease And my feather duster I 'm brushing off
Idiom: give up the ghost (used idiomatically: yes)
Two other 68040-based mono and colour models are planned by the end of the year . Sic transit gloria mundi . The once - great Computer Systems News , which had to suffer the indignity in its declining months of being called Systems and Network Integration , gives up the ghost this week but not before it reports that IBM will turn up at AutoFacts in November with a new - fangled massively parallel machine that runs both AIX / ES and MVS and is based on a new ( possibly hybrid ) chip developed at the Thomas Watson Lab . Industry gadfly Judith Hurwitz in her new vehicle ToolWatch predicts ‘ NT will stumble.’ Good concept , bad timing , she says , not expecting Microsoft to deliver the scalable , rich operating system developers are looking for from them for ‘ at least three years , and more likely five.’
Idiom: on the back of (used idiomatically: yes)
And do n't prod him with your toe . He does n't like it . Do n't pull on the back of the saddle . And do n't land heavily , he does n't like that either.’ Nails , being agile , mounted without difficulty .
Idiom: get a move on (used idiomatically: yes)
Marie was wading up to the path through waist - high reeds : ‘ Look at the state of my clothes!’ ‘ Never mind them ! Let 's get a move on!’ Marie looked back at Simon . ‘ What , and leave him here?’
Idiom: separate the wheat from the chaff (used idiomatically: yes)
The larger particles , naturally , fall out nearer the vent ; the smaller ones fall more slowly and are dispersed by the wind . The finest material may be carried for tens of kilometres down - wind , and some of it may even stay suspended for many months , eventually falling back to earth on the other side of the globe . The process is a bit like winnowing , the old method of using the wind to separate wheat from chaff , except that in the case of pyroclastic material there is no simple division into light material ( husks ) and heavy ( grain ) but a continuous gradation in sizes ( and therefore weight ) of particles from fine to coarse . So it is a wind - winnowing process that is responsible for the well sorted distribution of grain sizes that is characteristic of air - fall deposits . The same process operates throughout the size spectrum .
Idiom: take stock (used idiomatically: yes)
Lang confirmed that a report due to be produced soon by a Scottish Office - COSLA working party on the internal management of councils is likely to include initiatives like American - style elector mayors and cabinet - style management for the new authorities . The local government changes , he said , would fit in well with his ‘ taking stock’ plans to devolve more powers from London to the Scottish Office . ‘ Just as I believe that the taking stock initiative improves the quality of government at national level so I believe that moving to single - tier all - purpose authorities will improve it at local level . I think we shall have at both levels a robust and vital democratic process.’ Lang expects to reach decisions on the even more contentious issue of water privatisation before the summer .
Idiom: new blood (used idiomatically: no)
Engineering has 48 , medicine 43 , and biological sciences 25 , with 20 for maths , 17 for social studies , 15 for arts , and 8 for agriculture and veterinary studies . In the scramble for posts , universities put in 2250 applications . According to the government the main criteria for the new blood posts were ‘ the age structure and recruiting prospects in the departments concerned’ and ‘ the likely contribution of the posts to research and scholarship’ . The University Grants Committee and the research councils worked together on the selection job . Meanwhile , the Royal Society has received more than 500 applications from scientists for its own 30 ‘ elite’ new blood fellowships .
Idiom: feel the pinch (used idiomatically: yes)
Although NatWest 's worldwide profits doubled to £ 211 million in the six months to July , in the UK they made a whopping £ 74 million loss . But chairman Lord Alexander warns that the economy is still not out of trouble . His chief executive Derek Wanless says the super - rich are feeling the pinch too . SPOT THE DIFFERENCE PAUL FOOT
Idiom: steer clear of (used idiomatically: yes)
Not that current democratic safeguards could offer much protection . All are ineffectual . Community liaison committees tend to steer clear of contentious issues , and the agenda is usually set by the police . The police complaints procedure remains a ‘ watchdog without teeth’(Emerson , 1989 ) . Finally , the tripartite system of accountability is ‘ amenable to a high degree of central influence and control’ , but operates as a bipartite structure with ‘ occasional genuflections towards the local authority’(Uglow , 1988:130 ) .
Idiom: in the black (used idiomatically: yes)
A woman in a shirt dyed in black is sitting next to a fluorescent green bag
Idiom: go to town (used idiomatically: no)
‘ I 'd better get going.’ Agnes waited for George , but when he stayed quiet , she said : ‘ Harry , Neptune Court and its purlieus will be absolutely crawling with cops . This is the sort of thing they really go to town on : an armed man , probably wounded , probably hiding out nearby . They 'll smother that place.’ ‘ I know.’
Idiom: a hair's breadth (used idiomatically: yes)
‘ Try to get some sleep . I 'll see you tomorrow.’ As Lisa pulled the door open Josey stepped out into the night … and literally came within a hair 's breadth of walking straight into the tall dark figure who was striding up the path . ‘ I beg your pardon!’ As Alexander stood aside , glancing apologetically at Josey , Lisa stared at him , dumbstruck , wondering if she was dreaming .
Idiom: keep the peace (used idiomatically: yes)
The government 's crusade against that ( often Tory ) opposition will bring forward the day when Britain can confidently return to’ go’ . Blue - helmet blues United Nations forces sometimes have to fight to keep the peace . They must be strong enough to do it . The United Nations was never intended to police the world .
Idiom: break even (used idiomatically: yes)
The Cook … is an art movie , referring as much to Rembrandt , Vermeer , Frans Hals and Dutch / Flemish still - life painting as to films noirs about brutal gangsters and downtrodden molls . Apart from a few straightforward effects ( slow motion , freeze frame ) , art movies tend to fall outside this area , because by and large SFX are expensive and time - consuming , whereas art movies of limited appeal tend to be made on relatively low budgets . An expensive film may well be a flop ( Blade Runner cost $ 27 million yet took under $ 15 million in North American ( NA ) rentals , which are traditionally supposed to cover negative — that is production — costs for break - even ) ; the fact that it was intended to be profitable puts it in the domain of popular cinema . To take unambiguous examples from big hits , the death scene at the end of Bonnie and Clyde ( 1967 , NA rentals $ 27.8 million ) is clearly an instance of ‘ realism’ , very physical and immediate and based on a real life event . Yet it is also stylized , very arty in its slow motion and repetitions , grotesquely exaggerated in the number of bullet hits scored on both bodies ( by the usual device of small charges and sachets of ‘ blood’ ) and staged quite artificially .
Idiom: hang by a thread (used idiomatically: yes)
The day belonged to Ireland , and in particular to the big - hearted Kerryman . The contrast with the situation six weeks earlier could scarcely have been greater . Then he lay in a Dublin hospital bed with his neck in a brace , his rugby future hanging by the merest thread . He had in fact been told his days in the sport were over . For 96 hours he waited for someone to explain the shadow on his X - ray .
Idiom: for good measure (used idiomatically: yes)
‘ He will move out . Down to Berwick town , where he will serve meantime as governor.’ ‘ And Berwick Castle could be yours , thereafter,’ Fraser added , for good measure , to clinch matters . Ramsay had hoped not to have to bring this forward if it could be avoided . But now the thing was out and he had to make the best of it .
Idiom: come to grips with (used idiomatically: yes)
However , in contrast to the present position where audit reports are signed only with the name of the firm , in the case of a limited company acting as auditor the report could also include , as is currently the case in Sweden and Germany , the name or names of one or more individuals responsible for conducting the examination . The signatures of these ‘ partner equivalents’ would serve to document the individuals ' responsibility for the examination ; to that extent it eliminates for the outside world the element of anonymity currently inherent in the practice of signing audit opinions only in the names of the firms . This documentation of personal responsibility could , in my opinion , be an important factor in coming to grips with the current system of punitive damages sought from auditors for alleged negligence . Some upward limit will have to be set . It could be a fixed amount ( it would obviously have to be something substantially higher than the DM500,000 limit per examination currently applicable to statutory examinations in Germany ) or based on a multiple of fees .
Idiom: under the table (used idiomatically: no)
The days flew by ; a confusion of rain , new faces , gossip , enormous meals and endless tasks — some new , some well - known . Jess was given all the floor scrubbing and lugging of coals , sharing with fat giggly Sally Dade , the housemaid , dusting , washing up , bedmaking and carrying hot - water jugs to the bedrooms . There were other more unusual tasks — warming the Bible in front of the fire ready for Miss Phoebe 's daily reading , and putting a bowl of mustard and water under the table so that Miss Jarman could soak her feet during breakfast . All these things filled her attention . Samson , Will Pegg , Garty Jenks grew smaller in her mind .