Gooogr/pie_idioms huggingface dataset:
Idiom: with a vengeance (used idiomatically: yes)
Horses for courses is too broad a brush with which to paint a picture . Though a good performance on the Gloucestershire track at any other time of the year counts for something , it 's nothing to get carried away over , while the top performers through the winter months elsewhere are often made to look ordinary as they toil up the Prestbury Park hill . More often than not , those who have seemed moderate since the previous year 's Cheltenham Festival come into their own with a vengeance . No - one knows whether it is the vast crowds — around 120,000 will be present over the next three days — or the mere hint that spring is really in the air again that motivates them , but Festival form certainly counts . Which is why Oh So Risky , Flown and Duke of Monmouth can be expected to improve on their form of late in this afternoon 's £ 120,000 Smurfit Champion Hurdle .
Idiom: in the red (used idiomatically: yes)
GUNMEN escaped with a substantial sum of money yesterday after hijacking a Royal Mail van near Mauchline , Ayrshire . Two masked men appeared from a ditch and threatened the driver and his passenger with a shotgun after the van stopped at traffic lights behind a red Vauxhall Belmont car on the A76 Mauchline to Auchinleck road around 4:45am . After robbing the van , they made their getaway in the red car , which was abandoned a few hundred yards away . It had been stolen in Govanhill , Glasgow , last week . Lang opens Macaulay Institute HQ
Idiom: break ranks (used idiomatically: yes)
Films like Ken Russell 's The Devils ( 1971 ) , with its hysteria and erotic frenzies , or Nic Roeg 's Do n't Look Now ( 1973 ) would not have been possible without the developments in Gothic instigated at Hammer 's Bray Studios ( although Roeg had also worked , as a cameraman , on Roger Corman 's The Masque of the Red Death ( 1964 ) ) . Both Roeg and Russell could engage with popular cinematic forms in a way that the directors around Anderson could not . Reisz has recalled that when he broke ranks and made a melodrama , Night Must Fall ( 1964 ) , he was accused of selling out and going commercial . This aesthetic refusal went along with an unwillingness to develop a strategy for ensuring a continued capacity to make their sort of films . Woodfall , the company set up by Tony Richardson and John Osborne to exploit the profits from Look Back in Anger , with the aim of proving ‘ that good films , ones that showed British life as it really is , could be made cheaply’ , nevertheless had no particular strategy for trying to bring down the budgets of films from the £ 100,000 or so they were costing to the £ 30,000 level that , for example , French filmmakers worked to .
Idiom: hang by a thread (used idiomatically: no)
The trouble is that various worldly pressures will make you more , not less , inclined to play it safe . So here 's your yardstick : if it 's not broken , do n't fix it . But , if it 's only hanging by a thread , let it fall apart and build something new from the components . GEMINI ( May 22 — June 22 ) Lately , you 've been so busy bullshitting your way through the world that you 've started swallowing the stuff yourself .
Idiom: off the shelf (used idiomatically: yes)
MBA - think is particularly effective when the relationship between buyer and vendor is minimal and the communication between the parties is distant and symbolic . For example , a maker of consumer goods like cookies or cigarettes rarely has direct contact with a consumer . The consumer picks the items off a shelf in a retail outlet and pays a cashier . As there are huge volumes of these transactions , the maker of the goods can reckon its course by studying statistics . The very opposite considerations lead to the success of businesses where intense customer contact is the basis of commerce .
Idiom: over the hill (used idiomatically: yes)
four little ducks came swimming back came back four little ducks went swimming one day over the hills and far away over the hills and far away then the little duck said quack , quack
Idiom: get a grip (used idiomatically: yes)
Soon my buttocks were pressing against the ceiling , then the back of my head , and I hauled myself to the edge of the rug to look for a way down before I was crushed . A skylight above the street door was closed and out of reach , but I tried to reach it anyway and was surprised when my fingers touched the ledge . I tried to get a better grip but to my horror my fingers began to run down the door like melting plasticine as I watched from my perilous vantage point . They raced to the bottom of the door at an alarming rate and then vanished , as if sucked , under the door , over the storm board , down the steps and across the pavement . I could feel the different textures of wood , gravel and asphalt racing beneath my fingers as they came to rest on the road , and was terrified of a car coming up the cul - de - sac and smashing my hand .
Idiom: on the hoof (used idiomatically: yes)
I was quite impressed by what they did . I 'm sure a lot of Councillors were gob - smacked , and what happened is that Councillors were caught on the hop . They had to make policy on the hoof and they reprieved that place . And I think that 's a wonderful example of people actually having power over the decisions . I mean if I could make a general point .
Idiom: read between the lines (used idiomatically: yes)
Does he work for Redruth I do n't know . Dad , you 're reading between the lines . Because it 's dad says he works Redruth Cos he , he reads between the lines ! He 'd just gone down there because er .
Idiom: on edge (used idiomatically: yes)
The name ' Hareston ' may derive from the great granite boulder , now hidden by brambles in a field near the house . These stones were called ' hoar ' stones and were frequently used to mark parish boundaries . Hareston is still on the extreme edge of the parish of Brixton . It is recorded in the Domesday Book as a manor , and belonged to one Fratmund until 1064 . It then passed to Robert of Mortain , followed by Reginald de Valletort and Edric .
Idiom: on the house (used idiomatically: yes)
' Prices may drift down a little over the next two months , but the losses in the first quarter should be wiped out with similar gains over the next few months , ' said Mr John Wriglesworth , property analyst at stockbrokers UBS Phillips & Drew . He predicted a five per cent rise in the second half of the year with further gains of six per cent in 1993 . ' People will slowly discover they can put down a five per cent deposit on a house without losing it in six months , ' he said . Most estate agents were overjoyed at the election result . ' Whatever an estate agent 's political leanings , professionally each and every one must be expressing surprise , delight and relief , ' said Sir Glen Hickman , marketing director of Humberts .
Idiom: out of the question (used idiomatically: yes)
Could you tell me about the house , of which you were bombed out ? Was it , were you married at the time ? Yes I think that over the course of our married life we had a number of moves for various reasons , generally to improve the accommodation , erm as standard of life increased so the desire to have a better house to live in or rather in those days a house was out of the question , we generally had rooms in a house , erm , they , the flat for instance that we were bombed out from was a basement flat , erm according to the estate agents it was a garden flat , erm and it meant that you had access to the front garden and the back garden , but as for being a garden flat it was below the level of the garden in the front and at the back it was on the level with the erm green grass at the back of the house , it was also along side of the trolley bus depot , so there it was considerably noisy , nevertheless it was a self contained flat , the first one we 'd had , no the second one we 'd had and we were perfectly happy there although of course it did have minor difficulties , the fact that you used the front door with people who had flats on the other remaining three floors , but nevertheless it did involve you in a certain amount of community living , you were aware of your neighbours , you had to be very conscious of them and they were very conscious of you . That I think perhaps is one of the striking differences between that and living in a house in Harlow , where you may or may not know your immediate neighbours . Perhaps you know them over the garden wall to speak to you , you might even know their children by name and you know their christian name , but beyond that I think it 's true to say , even making allowance of generation gaps that you do n't know your neighbours in the same way that you knew your neighbours in London .
Idiom: up and running (used idiomatically: yes)
So what is the catch ? My recent PC buying experiences , and those of several PC owning friends , would suggest that the problem with many of the bargain PC 's currently on offer is that they are not very reliable . To be strictly accurate about it , they are mostly very reliable once they are up and running properly . The problem is that many of the PCs currently on offer have not been thoroughly tested prior to despatch , and come complete with one or more faults . These vary from things like ports that do not work because the sockets do not connect to their expansion card , to obscure faults such as motherboards which only work when the weather is hot .
Idiom: up in the air (used idiomatically: yes)
I mean you should have all your friends and neighbours in and have a party ! Well the last the last time when Sunderland got to the Final in seventy - three er there were five of us in the , in my house and I 'd made red and white rosettes we had our red and white rosettes and when our , I was sitting watching the match and when they scored the goal my slippers went up in the air . Mm . it really was So erm but I do n't know , I , I think if Jim got a ticket , if he got two tickets and he said do you wanna come ?
Idiom: make the grade (used idiomatically: yes)
Even if what happened was not all my fault , I contributed . I did n't slip away . I roared in head first , like a schoolboy boxer who wo n't make the grade . I was n't professional . ‘ I 'm sorry,’ I tell him .
Idiom: on a roll (used idiomatically: no)
The registrar handed Gill her wedding lines and said , ' This is yours Mrs Hughes , nothing to do with this young man here . ' There was a big municipal clock outside the town - hall , and we took some photographs underneath it . The first photo on the roll said 12.13 , and we had been married three minutes . The last one on the roll said 12.18 and we had been married eight minutes . Some of the pictures have silly camera angles because Oliver was fooling around .
Idiom: off the record (used idiomatically: no)
The crowd were settling in nicely to this when Ray ' Preston ' joined John for a few numbers . They did the blues culminating in Van Morrison 's ' Moondance ' . It was some show,(Ray , of course , will be on the box in the Autumn guesting with Spike Milligan and the RTE Concert Orchestra in a new series ' Off the Record ' ) . Downstairs the Disco provided a large crowd with the sounds that made them get on the floor and bring a whole new ball game to the w world of the Barn Dance . So what can one say only it was another great night from Dublin Sports and Social Committee .
Idiom: as luck would have it (used idiomatically: yes)
My family was Methodists . ' Tamar laughed with her and realised that she felt less depressed about the forthcoming confinement after this little spell of humour . As luck would have it , she had no time to build up her fears again , for her labour pains started that very night . Stephen was away , so she had passed a near - silent dinner in the company of his mother . The only words spoken had been to the butler and maid , who were waiting at table and when they rose , Tamar excused herself .
Idiom: in the long run (used idiomatically: yes)
When drawing up your own table , you should include each of your child 's symptoms , making the list as long or as short as it needs to be . Always bear in mind that the diet may not be the answer . If you pin all your hopes on it , you may see improvements where there are none , and in the long run this could be very damaging to your child . Be careful , also , not to give the child the impression that the diet will ‘ make everything alright’ . He may be so anxious to please you that he tries extra hard to be good .
Idiom: there's the rub (used idiomatically: yes)
In taking the job , Mr Preston , who two years ago insisted that J.P. Morgan shake the dust of third - world debt from its feet ( it made provisions against its entire exposure ) , now shows commendable sympathy for the world 's ill - fed poor . There 's the rub . The World Bank presidency has a habit of surrounding its occupants with a warm , well - meaning aura . More than at any time in his 64 years , Mr Preston now needs his cool , commercial banker 's brain .
Idiom: out of line (used idiomatically: yes)
That the air bubble er the gas bubble , I keep saying air bubble , that 's wrong . They are gas bubbles . The gas bubbles forming along the lines were keeping the acid out of the lines . So I 've swept them away so that the acid can get back in . When the second set of bubbles is formed it 's done .
Idiom: take a back seat (used idiomatically: yes)
All this marked the start of a dreadful year for Hollywood . After a boardroom tussle at Paramount , its studio chief , Frank Mancuso , quit . Columbia , now owned by Japan 's Sony , has become as well known for the high spending of its management team , Peter Guber and Jon Peters , as its films ; Mr Peters has now taken a back seat . Two mini studios , MGM - Pathe ( see also page 111 ) and Orion , have lurched from one corporate drama to the next . Even Disney , the most successful studio of the late 1980s , has had a tough time launching Hollywood Pictures , the baby sister of its Touchstone studio .
Idiom: go public (used idiomatically: yes)
Moreover , the direction is set by powerful clues or ‘ logics’ gradually established in the organization which enable subsystems to bound their search for strategies . The process is selective in addressing issues , but sees each issue within a wider context without , as a rule , seeking a totally holistic view . When each main idea has been sufficiently tested and sufficient knowledge has been gained , the chief executive goes public and announces the decision secure in the knowledge that there will be support for it , because the decision merely ‘ crystallizes’ the views already put to him , whether he subtly induced them or not . It is important not to read Quinn as calling for the destruction of formal corporate planning or rational analysis . Quinn 's fundamental point is simply that it is foolish to try to produce a total group - wide analysis at a given time and then to go ahead rapidly implementing that , ignoring the changing external and internal environments .
Idiom: run amok (used idiomatically: yes)
The RUC said later that a third man had been arrested in North Belfast . But a spokesman was uncertain where , or if at all , the man fitted into the series of events . Six paratroopers accused of running amok in the mainly republican town of Coalisland , Co Tyrone , after an IRA bomb badly injured a colleague were yesterday cleared of all charges . But magistrate Maurice McHugh bound over five of the soldiers to keep the peace for 18 months because he felt they were not entirely innocent . Storm steals show from star trio
Idiom: off the beaten track (used idiomatically: yes)
Yes . Mm . It 's not very far off the beaten track Mm . I 'll have a look round
Idiom: all the rage (used idiomatically: yes)
Their Smiles , the slight but palpable sense of relief , the failure to meet the eye , the stifled giggling , all told me they knew I was not a threat . Next time all but the fattest felt free to wear their costumes . Then mah - jong parties became all the rage . Two of them knew how to play already . I taught the others , hanging discreetly round the table to advise the tyros .
Idiom: kill two birds with one stone (used idiomatically: yes)
She 'd had no idea that her new employer was waiting ! But no doubt Jeff had , she decided , suddenly feeling torn between her sense of guilt for what now seemed like unnecessary rudeness and her automatic instinct to defend her brother . She killed two birds with one stone and offered apologetically , ‘ I really was terribly thirsty.’ ‘ In that case , what can I say?’ Guido smiled suddenly , once more taking Ronni by surprise — and at the same time displaying his perfect white teeth .
Idiom: on the game (used idiomatically: no)
‘ He has that particular continental style but it wo n't take him long to gel . In an era when £3m appears to be the going rate for a striker , he could prove a real snip at a third of that price . ‘ The lad has a history of moving on in the game . At 26 he has already been at eight clubs , and if Howard Wilkinson could n't stop his itchy feet people will ask , what chance have we got ? ‘ And some may be worried about taking on a player with his record .
Idiom: pleased as punch (used idiomatically: yes)
‘ Be yours and Cora - Beth 's when I turn up my toes,’ he said . ‘ Let 's go tell the others what we plan to do . My bet is Peachcake'll be pleased as punch.’ When Cora - Beth heard the news , she threw her arms round her father 's neck and hugged him . ‘ Poppa , it 's a splendid idea,’ she said .
Idiom: go public (used idiomatically: yes)
The effect of these EDMs is measured by the number of signatures they attract when they are printed on the daily Order paper . Although signatures can be added after the initial printing of the Motion ( and usually are ) , its impact is judged very much on the amount of support it receives on first printing . This can be a major problem for the sponsors of the Motion if there are not many Members around the House on the day on which it is decided to ' put the Motion down ' or , in other words , to go public with it . The challenge with which we were faced on the day of the ' Fresh Start ' Motion was that we knew that a very full House , which had come to hear the prime minister 's Maastricht statement , would deplete rapidly after he was finished , as the business to follow — a debate on the Earth Summit — was not very controversial . We had therefore to move fast .
Idiom: weather the storm (used idiomatically: yes)
The first split occurred as early as 1948 when Yugoslavia was denounced by the Soviet Union and its allies for supposedly giving too much favour to peasants at the expense of the working class and for exercising party authority in an insufficiently decisive manner . In fact there appears to be no doubt that Stalin simply resented the independence that the Yugoslav leaders were displaying and believed they could be brought to heel as easily as communist leaders in other parts of Eastern Europe . If so , he miscalculated badly : the Yugoslavs arrested Soviet supporters within the communist party and weathered the storm with a largely united people behind them . In 1955 Khrushchev and Bulganin made a visit to Belgrade in an attempt to secure a reconciliation , and the following year a Soviet - Yugoslav communiqué was signed in Moscow which brought the dispute to an end . The Yugoslavs were allowed to retain their non - aligned status , and kept to their ‘ national path to communism’ which differed in important respects from that of the other communist - ruled countries .
Idiom: state of the art (used idiomatically: no)
Above all , though , glasnost and greater contact with the West have brought about a fait accompli . Like it or not , high - tech communications have arrived in the Soviet Union , and the King Canutes of the interior ministry have become an absurdity . The bridgehead has been the small Western community , which now has the use of a state - of - the - art office services joint venture to be found at 50 Gorky Street in central Moscow , as well as‘Reprotsentr’ , in which Rank Xerox is a partner . This latter has the inestimable advantage for Soviet citizens of accepting roubles . In truth , however , humble photocopying has been overtaken by the wonders of the fax and personal computers complete with printers .
Idiom: in black and white (used idiomatically: no)
Our picture shows the Torness Financial Department , one of the sections who have taken part in the process , discussing their action plan which emerged from Working Group Training , Standing ( left to right ) are Donald McLaughlan , Vera Stoddart , Janine Ord and Donald Laird , with Joanne Cornwall and June Denholme sitting . Missing from the group is Wendy Sinclair . Answers in black and white The TOP improvement team at Hunterston considering ways to extend GOMIS from a maintenance planning system to one capable of works resource planning across the station has used the second stage of the ‘ Brown Paper’ technique described in last months edition of Scottish Nuclear News . Having gathered data and established the existing flow of work around the system — the Brown Paper — they proposed solutions around a second flow diagram , this time on white paper .
Idiom: pick someone's brain (used idiomatically: yes)
He was joined there by Amanda 's brother , Norton ( now Lord Romsey ) , and his fiancée , Penelope Eastwood ; and although the cousins had never been especially friendly before , a strong bond grew between them as they talked day after day , trying to make sense of it all . A year before his death , Charles had written to Lord Mountbatten , once again thanking him for his help . ‘ I was deeply grateful for our conversation yesterday morning and being able to pick your brains on the subjects was an immense help . As I said to you yesterday , I have no idea what we shall do without you when you finally decide to depart . It does n't bear thinking about , but I only hope I shall have learnt something from you in order to carry it on in some way or another.’
Idiom: below the belt (used idiomatically: yes)
Martin said , ' Will you just look at that child ? ' Her ankles turned over a little on the high heels . She walked in a wobbling , mincing way like a dressed - up penguin , bulging out like a squashed balloon above and below the cheap gold belt . Her face was set and nervous and white as a clown 's with powder , except for her lips which were bright orange . Marjorie said .
Idiom: rare bird (used idiomatically: no)
The new ‘ 91 vintage is n't here till late May , but will be hard to beat at £ 3.99 . Other wines difficult to beat at the price include three wonderfully good dry whites from Hungary that I 'll be writing about later . They also have that extremely rare bird , a good red Bergerac at a fair price ( £ 2.89 ) . This ' 90 has the earthy flavour I would expect from Bergerac , but is soft and ripe , almost creamy in texture , so it really works . The white Bergerac Sauvignon ‘ 91 is also very attractive , clean , easy , grass - green wine .
Idiom: out of pocket (used idiomatically: yes)
Well I said I have got nothing out of it at the moment . So he said you 'll have to stay in then wo n't ya ? So I took it out of my pocket and he said what was happened then ? And I said well any rate he come up and said where 's the fiver ? And I said here it is . sort the girls out
Idiom: bear fruit (used idiomatically: yes)
However , mingling with that frustration was a small feeling of triumph . He 'd been right about Bryce . The copy - cat MO theory he 'd come up with had born fruit . It should prove so for the first killer as well . He almost smiled to himself .
Idiom: tip the scales (used idiomatically: yes)
Fishing is from boats only , but outboard motors are allowed . Welcome relief on this exposed , often windy water . Strathbeg fishes best in a decent wind , and trout average 12 oz in weight , although one was caught recently that tipped the scales at over 3 lb . However , size is never important to ‘ proper’ anglers . Strathbeg trout reward effort by their fighting spirit ; and these lovely fish are great characters , regardless of size .