Gooogr/pie_idioms huggingface dataset:
Idiom: face to face (used idiomatically: yes)
PERSONAL SELLING 20 . However vivid the message put over by advertising , there is no substitute for the final face - to - face meeting between the buyer and the seller or his representative . Advertising creates the interest and the desire , but personal selling clinches the deal . In industrial markets , as was noted earlier , personal selling plays an even more extensive role .
Idiom: in black and white (used idiomatically: yes)
Among the last year 's award winners were Sally Gunnell , Linford Christie , the Speaker of the House of Commons , Betty Boothroyd , Roy Castle , Linda Chalker and Dan Maskell . But we emphasis that nominations need not be famous names ; they just need to be people who have distinguished themselves by their courage or achievement . Peter spells it out in black and white ‘ IF you get through , it 's great . If you lose , it 's a disaster .
Idiom: fall from grace (used idiomatically: yes)
Decision delayed , Page 8 Acquittal reverses downward spiral Gillian Harris reports on the fall from grace of the Countess of Cassillis from aristocrat by marriage to prostitute and drug addict DAWN KENNEDY bowed her head and wept as she left the dock of Court 18 at the Old Bailey yesterday . Her initial surge of relief at being acquitted on all three charges of perverting the course of justice had given way to sheer exhaustion .
Idiom: call the tune (used idiomatically: yes)
The whole thing is inside your head . What you recall are impressions ; we have the facts . We called the tune . The secret police of your childhood were older and wiser than you , bigger than you .
Idiom: from pillar to post (used idiomatically: yes)
Look , take me . Let 's be honest with ourselves ; I 'm a small but vital link in the business of producing one of the most important daily newspapers in the world . But should n't I do better work if I were n't driven from pillar to post to supplement my salary ? Well , shouldn't I ? ’ ‘ John , love , said Jannie , ‘ do eat up .
Idiom: go all the way (used idiomatically: no)
My father strokes the little soft pink downy body and exclaims how perfect a little machine it is and ideally suited for its mission . " So , " I said , " when it gets to the target area it drops the warhead and returns to our warm outstretched arms ? " " Oh no , it goes down all the way and sacrifices itself . That 's why you people today are encouraged to cause multi - births . Look at the drugs that are available , and the superb advertising ! "
Idiom: go public (used idiomatically: yes)
SCO is currently looking at ways of raising more capital — that it may go public to find it is no secret . On the product front — and picking up on some of the work it did for ACE — the company says an Intel Corp P5-specific SCO Unix kernel is a possibility . And Unigram 's generally reliable sources reiterated their claims that USL did indeed talk to the Santa Cruz Operation about acquisition ( UX No 396 ) , and now add that USL ca n't possibly decide what to do about SCO until after it knows whether USL itself is going public , going for another investment round or going to get acquired . USL and SCO are reported to have worked through a lot of their emotional disparity if not their pricing differences over this business of SCO adopting SVR4 . Now Computer Reseller News contributes some technical concerns bedevilling SCO over SVR4.2 : seems SCO is bothered by the fact that the kernel is split into three separate trees : desktop , enhanced security and MP .
Idiom: she'll be right (used idiomatically: yes)
That 's a bit soon , is n't it ? ' ' It was only a minor operation , Dad . She 'll be right as rain in a couple of days . Anyway , you 'll see her tonight . You 'll see what I mean . '
Idiom: in business (used idiomatically: no)
Brushes with the law : Pretty clean so far but what was in the ciggy in that old News of The Screws photo ? Spouse : Andy , and do n't you forget it Contribution to society : Er … ah … um … well , she raises money for charity , helps keep Hello!magazine in business and deserves an award for services to the airline industry Overall assessment : Look , those press vultures are always being beastly about Fergie , which is jolly unfair because she ca n't answer back and she 's only doing what any perfectly normal gel would do if they found themselves in her shoes , OK ? Rt Hon Peter Brooke MP
Idiom: go straight (used idiomatically: yes)
I have n't had a proper look around the market for I looked I went down I looked at the buttons next to the fruit stall because what I usually do I go and get the fruit and vegetables , if Jim 's on the right shift he takes them home , otherwise I buy them while it 's quieter , the man keeps them for me , I go straight across the leisure centre to soft clay cos it 's only open on Wednesdays and then on the way back one of them walks Oh you put them in the pram . and I put the fruit and vegetables in the buggy and we come straight home cos it 's time to eat by then .
Idiom: in the saddle (used idiomatically: no)
I could hear Kaptan whimper as he pushed the dead woodchuck frantically from him . When he stood there was blood all over the white shirt his mother had dressed him in that morning . Still sitting as if he was in the saddle , the Corporal loosed off a defiant burst , then swung over and down to us . He 'd timed it right , for the whole of the top of the wall then disintegrated in a shower of fragments and dust . The noise of the 20 mm cannon was deafening .
Idiom: mean business (used idiomatically: yes)
His first professional contact with the Royal Navy came when he joined Navy News in 1969 . His first experience of the services was National Service in the Royal Air Force . Smith means business BAIE member Harvey Smith ( right ) , who edits the Institute of Public Relations Journal , has won the South East PR Means Business competition . His entry described his part as a PR consultant to a firm of paper merchants in persuading designers and print buyers to specify 100 per cent recycled paper for colour publications .
Idiom: on tenterhooks (used idiomatically: yes)
At about the same time , Louis 's young half - brothers were tonsured and sent away from the court to monasteries . It was not long before Judith gave birth to a daughter , named Gisèle after Charlemagne 's favourite sister . Louis was reconstituting the royal family , keeping his adult sons on tenterhooks . The coexistence in Francia of Louis and Lothar as co - emperors was possible so long as Lothar remained unmarried . But in October 821 Lothar acquired a wife of his own .
Idiom: gather dust (used idiomatically: no)
The exterior walls are bare brick , the ground - floor windows are barred , and the only way in is through a heavy iron gate . Normski moved in 18 months ago , soon after he began a relationship with Janet Street - Porter , renowned as the most powerful woman in television . It is her house — full of contemporary art curios , exposed stonework and a neglected Bafta award , gathering dust on a shelf . In the expansive lounge , with its wide - angle view across the City , Normski absently manipulates the television image of himself stored on a tape of Dance Energy , watching as he clicks forward , frame by frame , until his face fills the screen . A curious thing to do .
Idiom: at sea (used idiomatically: yes)
The huer 's job , after announcing the sighting of the shoal , was to guide his own boat to the fish , signalling East or West by removing his coat and waving it from side to side and , when the boat was on top of the shoal , by placing his coat on his telescope and holding it aloft . Great rivalry between the boats sometimes led to angry words , or even sea battles , and when smoke over Downderry signalled a shoal along the coast , an exciting race would ensue . Harvest time ashore coincided with the pilchard season at sea or , as it was said , ‘ Corn up in shock , Fish into rock’ . Here again , all manner of tradesmen joined the boats and it was recorded that at the last major haul of pilchard seiners from Looe , in 1866 , the master seiner was a tailor ! Now the womens ' task was packing the pilchards in ‘ bulks’ in the Cellars , laid out and salted .
Idiom: no smoke without fire (used idiomatically: yes)
View from City Road : Boiling under Jaguar 's bonnet By DEREK PAIN THE RISE in the Jaguar share price yesterday owes much to the no smoke without fire school of investment analysis . Despite the carnage elsewhere , the shares ended the day 36p better at 669p and had been much higher . However , there is a danger that the smoke could be little more than a pungent sign of burning fingers .
Idiom: get a grip (used idiomatically: no)
Oaks no joke for Doughty NEALE Doughty was left with egg on his face after turning down the ride on Haydock stalwart Twin Oaks in favour of Pat 's Jester yesterday . His mount put in a series of sticky jumps and could never get to grips with Twin Oaks , who made all and came home clear for his eighth win over fences at the Lancashire course . Nicky Richards , son of winning trainer Gordon , said : ‘ It 's a pity the King George and Gold Cup are n't at Haydock as Twin Oaks is a different horse here . ’ Williams waits for smoke to clear
Idiom: bring up the rear (used idiomatically: yes)
The latest figures show the average mpg of 28.1 is the same as it was in 1987 . The most economical car in the US is the Geo Metro XFi , which gets 53mpg in town and 58mpg on the motorway . Lamborghini 's Diablo brings up the rear with 9 and 14mpg respectively . PARIS SHOW France stands its ground
Idiom: do the trick (used idiomatically: yes)
Banana Splits on THE BIG BREAKFAST SHOW ( C4 , 7.25ablimmin'm ! ) ROUGH GUIDE TO CAREERS advises you on how to get into the theatre . Having a ticket should do the trick . Captain Kirk is turned into a robot on STAR TREK . Fill in the joke yourself …
Idiom: get it up (used idiomatically: yes)
The future of Novell is an oft - discussed issue because of Ray Noorda 's age — he is in his late 60s . HP WOOS THIRD PARTIES TO SOFTBENCH Hewlett - Packard Co is going to third parties with its SoftBench CASE environment , particularly to get it up on Sun Microsystems Inc workstations . It has set up a Channel Partner programme and signed Emeryville , California - based Basis Inc as its first reseller . Basis has agreed to sell a half - million dollars worth of the C++ SoftBench 3.0 and SoftBench 3.0 products on Sparc machines .
Idiom: state of the art (used idiomatically: yes)
On the international side , the research will investigate a partially bilateral approach to the modelling of trade flows ; the supply side ; the consumption , labour and financial markets of the major OECD countries ; and international policy questions . The research will not , however , be solely model - based . Efforts will be made to ensure that it is based on state - of - the - art econometric techniques and on strong and , where appropriate , innovative theoretical underpinnings . Particular attention will be paid to cointegration , the long run , the treatment of risk , and the modelling of expectations . Award Title :
Idiom: out of the woods (used idiomatically: yes)
COWDENBEATH , following their 3 - 1 defeat at Meadowbank on Saturday , were relegated from the First Division . Meadowbank and Stirling Albion , who meet this Saturday , are still fighting each other to decide who accompanies them downstairs . Forest not out of the woods NOTTINGHAM Forest yesterday missed a chance to move out of the Premier League relegation zone when they drew 1 - 1 at home to Leeds . There were some signs of encouragement for manager Brian Clough , but his side again failed to make the most of their scoring chances .
Idiom: under fire (used idiomatically: yes)
And the scars of Labour ministers were just as plentiful as the ones on Tory backs . I had watched Barbara Castle go through contortions as she made massive social security savings . I had watched her successor , David Ennals , come under withering union fire for cutting back on the hospital building programme . The central problem of the DHSS is that it is the biggest of the big spenders among government departments . In any dispute about public spending , you are in the front line .
Idiom: across the board (used idiomatically: yes)
Empress Software claims to have the first RDBMS and 4GL running on MACH on a 486 : The port was done for TRW Financial Systems which is standardising on MACH . The Mountain View , California - based Unicode Consortium has merged its multi - lingual encoding standard with the recently approved ISO 10646 , developed by the International Standards Organisation : the idea is that computers all over the world should agree on which number stands for which character so they will be able to communicate other in any language . The government of the Republic of Hungary will become the first East European administration to adopt an open system strategy across the board , saying it intends to use X / Open Group Co Ltd 's XPG brand in procurement and is to join X / Open 's user council : a government action plan on information technology has been put togther with the assistance of the European Commission and individual national governments within the EEC . And the Australian Queensland Government Information Policy Board and the Malaysian Government Administrative Modernisation and Planning Unit have both endorsed X / Open 's XPG3 branding specifications as part of their open systems architecture requirements . Silicon Graphics Inc reports that Digital Equipment Corp will be the first company to license its Iris Inventor object - oriented three - dimensional tool kit , which will be available to licensees in the first quarter of 1993 .
Idiom: on the level (used idiomatically: yes)
In a series of flashbacks , we follow the pair through their teenage years , their weekly visits to the dreamscape of the pictures , the real - life dramas of school , family , dances and boys , rehearsals with the Staneyburn Amateur Dramatic and Light Operatic Society ( another fantasy - world ) and the gradual intrusion of realities black - and - white in the technicolor of their aspirations . Lochhead 's script is a joy , depicting through its energetic vernacular dialogue the texture of small - town Scottish life in the period , when girls carried bottles of Evening in Paris in their knickers and were in love with Montgomery Clift ; when the pictures cost 1/9d and the Locarno Ballroom on Sauchiehall Street was the place to be on a Saturday night , while at home fathers sat taciturn in armchairs , not listening to their wives . Vivienne Brown and Ann Scott - Jones as Dorothy and Dienne bring the right mixture of exuberance and shrewd female pragmatism to their roles , deftly conveying a sense of life lived , half - knowingly on two levels . Malcolm Murray 's effective staging allows the time switches to take place with admirable smoothness , and Jimmy Chisholm as the narcissistic am - dram director extracts maximum comedy for the character without milking it . The main problem , at least on the first night , was that too much of the dialogue was overplayed — Lochhead recognises that you do n't need to soup up the Scots speech to make it funny , or poignant or significant : it 's all already there in the words , but if they 're spoken too self - consciously they end up sounding like rather forced one - liners .
Idiom: ten a penny (used idiomatically: yes)
Neither of those sums of course has to be taken into account in any of the mathematics which now have to be done to total up the awards which I would make . The addition of the individual awards which would be made in the course of the aju this judgement achieve the total figure of one million eight hundred and fourteen thousand six hundred and fifty two pounds and twenty eight pence . From this sum there must be deducted a total figure of two hundred and ten thousand seven hundred and seventy eight pounds and ten pence . To give credit for other interim payments totalling one hundred and twenty one thousand five hundred pounds . For interest on interim payments totalling seventeen thousand eight hundred and seventy one pounds and thirty pet pence and for statutory benefits on the relative multi relevant multiplier of eighteen , coming to a total of seventy one thousand four hundred and sixteen pounds and eighty pence .
Idiom: small print (used idiomatically: yes)
Ask the personnel department about an AVC scheme . All companies must have one after April 1988 . If you do not like the look of the one linked to your scheme , you will have the right to buy a ‘ free - standing’ one from any provider ; but take care to study the small print in the contract . Personal pensions After January 1988 there will also be a new sort of scheme , a personal pension ( PP ) .
Idiom: up in the air (used idiomatically: yes)
Margo Hawes , of Horsforth , said she had been coming to the ballet for years . ‘ I 'm either very naive or there is nothing to take exception to at all.’ The performance took the audience from gasps of fear as dancers were thrown up in the air , to laughter as a roller skating bear entertained . ‘ I did not expect the humour but I liked it,’ said Alma Cox , of Leeds . ‘ The acrobatics were marvellous .
Idiom: on the ball (used idiomatically: yes)
Jim Harwood 's boss banned his staff from leaving the premises , except to go to the bank . The £ 15,000-a - year machine minder , from Gillingham , Kent , was sacked unfairly by Tambryn Printing , of Bermondsey , south London , the Chelsea tribunal ruled . On the ball CRICKETER Anton Joyce hit a century in 36 balls — with nine sixes and nine fours — for the Woodhouse club in Leeds . Joyride pair run over car owner
Idiom: for the time being (used idiomatically: yes)
It will also give some indication of the range of assets in which it expects to invest : ‘ famous names’ , ‘ recovery situations’ , ‘ European’ are examples . Suppose now that the trust receives 5 m . of subscriptions . Ignoring the question of expenses for the time being , it will create 10 million 50p units which will be distributed to savers in proportion to the funds they subscribed . As the price of the underlying assets changes , the value of the units will change and will be calculated ( again ignoring expenses ) by dividing the current value of the assets by the number of units in existence . Such calculations are normally done daily and are published in financial and other quality newspapers .
Idiom: under the microscope (used idiomatically: yes)
What 's more , if our marriage were of public interest , I 'm sure that our friends would be falling over each other to tell appalling stories of our life together ( albeit anonymously ) : The arguments , the forgotten anniversaries , the time I threw a carafe of red wine across the room at him , that awful day when he mislaid the baby . And if this list of disasters was n't clear enough evidence of our marital discord , I 'm sure that our body language — scrutinised by a knowing psychologist — would further reveal us to be living distant and quite separate lives . In fact I 've decided that my own preoccupation with the state of Diana and Charles 's marriage is rather hypocritical when my own , if examined under a public microscope , would look pretty ghastly . The real moments of blissful togetherness that we spend together — and actually there are quite a few — are rarely , if ever , shared in public . Probably rather like your relationship , and maybe even that of Charles and Diana , ours remains intact because privately , not publicly , we rather like each other .
Idiom: go to town (used idiomatically: yes)
Let 's do London 's Burning cos I do n't know that . I do n't know London 's Burning . Just sing Yankie Doodle went to town riding on a pony . Stuck a feather in his hat and called it macaroni . Right ?
Idiom: out of your mind (used idiomatically: no)
I mean that jacket does n't look right does it ? See . Try putting number one and number two out of your mind . Too late now . Yeah .
Idiom: weather the storm (used idiomatically: yes)
Ten minutes later another miss was to prove costly for the visitors . Tommy Johnson dribbled past the Oxford keeper , shot towards an empty net , but up popped Matt Elliott to clear off the line . United weathered the storm . And Nick Cusack nearly put them ahead soon after with a 25 yard strike , saved at the second attempt by the County keeper . But it was new boy Matt who put the gloss on Oxford 's performance .
Idiom: out of the question (used idiomatically: yes)
During 1942 other evacuee families started to arrive in Fontanellato , some from Milan and some from other cities , feeling that life in the country was safer . If they did not own property , they rented rooms wherever they could find them . Holidays at the seaside or in the mountains were by now out of the question , but for young people it was still a wonderful summer : the war seemed far away , and there was enough to eat even if it was rationed . We read in the papers about the German war in Russia but we only knew one boy who was fighting there : Ada 's brother . We all met every evening and sat under the trees discussing films we had seen , books we were reading and radio programmes we had heard .
Idiom: to a turn (used idiomatically: yes)
Irish under-16 10 miles TT champion John Grant took the under - age gold with 23.39 . Kirk Sloan ( Ards CC ) took silver , and new Irish under-15 champion Denis Cormican ( Phoenix ) the bronze . Irish 25-mile ladies champion Claire Moore gave Trainor Solicitors a home win in the ladies championship after Aishling Baird ( Phoenix CC ) had led her to the turn , but lost over a minute on the run back . Mary Stewart ( Phoenix ) was third . Ulster 10 miles time trial championship , Nutts Corner : 1 , Tommy Evans ( Banbridge CC ) 21.32 ; 2 , C McCann ( Phoenix CC ) 21.46 ; 3 , D McCann ( Phoenix CC ) 22.39 ; 4 , D McCall ( Team Trainor ) 22.55 ; 5 , I Proctor ( Belvoir CC ) 23.01 ; 6 , S Hamilton ( Banbridge CC ) 23.07 ; 7 , I Chivers ( Fuel Services ) 23.10 ; 8 , M Hutton ( Phoenix CC ) 23.16 ; 9 , M Smyth ( O'Rourkes ) 23.27 ; 10 ( equal ) , V Tubridy ( O'Rourkes ) and J Grant ( Banbridge CC ) 23.29 .
Idiom: over the hill (used idiomatically: yes)
As we shook hands , I said , ‘ For Christ 's sake , Duncan , you have a wife and two kids . You have given up your rank of Sergeant to run all over these hills . ‘ Oh , I shall soon get my stripes back and I shall enjoy the excitement of the Commandos ; anyway my Piper friend , I shall enjoy running all over these hills . I left for the South Coast to join Lord Lovat and the invasion that was to come . ’ Duncan stayed on at Achnacarry to complete his Commando training .
Idiom: over your head (used idiomatically: no)
( It was indeed a very low reading . ) ‘ I did say you would be cold if you came to live with me , but you said you would n't mind . You said all you wanted was a roof over your head.’ She had also said she would not be lonely and dull , but I knew she was ; far from shops and with no companionship but mine . I had invited everyone I could think of to tea , and we had been invited back , but it was not her style , and when she complained that it was not right for her ‘ to be living among all these old people’ I understood very well what she meant .
Idiom: burn rubber (used idiomatically: no)
Would they become the stepsons of Henrietta ? Of course they would . Rage possessed her and her mind zinged furiously , smelling of burning rubber . She did not worry about Sally and Stella : they were hers , her blood and body , for ever . But Jonathan , but Aaron , but Alan .