Gooogr/pie_idioms huggingface dataset:
Idiom: take it easy (used idiomatically: yes)
First of all as I said , we 'd like to go through a vehicle check before we go out . Then we 'll go out on the road . The first little bit of time is spent just to sort of take it easy , take our time , get to know another , and for us to assess the drive . And then we can pull in or have a stop , probably at the delivery if it 's a delivery involved , we can have a little chat about any areas which we can discuss . And then a bit of a roundabout route coming back , trying to get a variety of road , and any areas of the drive which we can look at , we will , discuss amongst ourselves , practise one or two things , maybe one or two little techniques .
Idiom: to all intents and purposes (used idiomatically: yes)
He looked up , and there was Kate , hesitating in the doorway that led to the bar . In the last six years he had seen her occasionally — in the street , at the Ritz ( Plumford 's only cinema , which was known locally as the Fleapit ) and once at a party . Before Abbotsfield , he had been to all intents and purposes an honorary member of the Molland family . At Abbotsfield itself he had lived in the same house as Kate for nearly a month . But since then there had no longer been a reason for them to meet .
Idiom: do the honours (used idiomatically: yes)
MICROSOFT ENGINEERS BURNING MIDNIGHT OIL TO GET NT INTO SHAPE Microsoft Corp is reportedly going to by - pass the formality of a press conference to announce Windows NT in two weeks . Bill Gates will supposedly do the honours himself at his Windows World keynote . Atlanta , Georgia , the expo site , will apparently be all dolled up for the festivities with billboards , local advertising , the works . Meanwhile , the boys and girls at Microsoft are working 70 and 80 hour weeks trying to get NT out as soon as possible .
Idiom: all and sundry (used idiomatically: yes)
Within the police cordon , ambulances stood , rear doors yawning . Body bags were being zipped and trolleys shuttled back and forth . Rex spied out Sam Maggott hollering at all and sundry and making good use of his over - sized red gingham handkerchief . He also spied out the Tomorrowman 's barman . He had a strip of bandage tied around his head , a small dot of blood showing romantically above the right eye .
Idiom: out of line (used idiomatically: yes)
( He was also Lord Mayor of the city in 1716 . ) This staff replaced an earlier one ‘ being decayed’ , so the custom was already well established by this date . Why or how it originated is not known , but the Lady Mayoress takes charge of it for the rest of the mayoral year , and no doubt a quick rap over the knuckles will soon curb any tendency the Lord Mayor might have to step out of line . HOSPITAL SINGS Holmefirth , Mapplewell and Staincross
Idiom: make ends meet (used idiomatically: yes)
Around 38 % of shops currently stay open on a Sunday . Under the ‘ Keep Sunday Special’ option , which would keep most big shops shut , this would fall to just 5 % . There would be a rise of some 20,000 in the number of retail jobs — because more small shopkeepers could make ends meet — but shopworkers ' average annual wages would fall by £ 170 , for they would miss out on higher Sunday pay - rates . A more liberal choice proposed by the Shop Hours Reform Council — allowing large shops to open for up to six hours on a Sunday , and small ones for as long as they wanted — would encourage almost half of all shops to do so . Shop - workers ' wages would rise by £ 50 a year , but there would be 5,000 fewer of them than there are now .
Idiom: pull a face (used idiomatically: yes)
That blade was almost as tall as Felix , and Felix was a tall man . The flagellant warmed to his theme . A grinning young pistolier pulled faces behind his back and gestured to his fellows to indicate that the zealot was mad . ' From the North , Chaos comes . The minions of the four Great Powers ride forth , clad in black and bronze .
Idiom: on the face of it (used idiomatically: yes)
it 's a matter of ho I mean er greater equality was achieved , but they could 've erm I mean a hundred and fifty was a very low threshold okay let 's just work around that . What , what you 're saying is that I mean broadly this is , is quite an incentive based system , at least on the face of it Mm . er in , in that you , you are , you , you 're sort of fixing your taxes and then you 're allowing , anybody who increases their output will keep , will benefit from that .
Idiom: on the house (used idiomatically: yes)
The sooner we know for certain what we believe to be true , the sooner we can mobilise against them . ' Four arrested in drugs squad raid FOUR people arrested during a raid by drugs squad officers on a house in Colchester were released over the weekend . Detectives and uniformed officers went to an address in Victor Road on Friday evening and seized a quantity of what is thought to be cannabis resin . A police spokesman said all four people held had now been released without charge , although some had been bailed to report back to the police at a later date .
Idiom: down and out (used idiomatically: no)
The partnership between boy and girl must be carefully observed and timed because each country has its own forms for such joint movement . Hungarian The couples frequently face each other looking into each other 's faces and appear to crouch over their feet slightly which emphasises the ‘ down to earth ’ quality as most steps appear to go down into and not out of the ground . ( See page 95 for other characteristics . ) Polish
Idiom: first off (used idiomatically: yes)
Reports persist that the final straw came when an emotional Mick Farren threw a typewriter through the windows , from whence it travelled the 21 floors to ground level at high speed , narrowly missing terrified pedestrians . Just the thing for the Summer Of Punk . NME ca n't claim to be the first off the blocks with coverage of this splenetic musical bastard — that honour has to go to the now sadly defunct Sounds . But it was NME that embraced the intellectual nettle most firmly . NME took the cultural high ground of punk via the acerbic and impassioned prose of Burchill , Parsons , CSM , Morley , Kent et al .
Idiom: better late than never (used idiomatically: yes)
David Grindley 's splendid 400 metres comeback victory earned him £ 20,000 , and six other Britons will be banking handsome cheques from the £ 1.5 m spectacular athletics ' richest - ever following top three placings in their individual events . They are John Regis , Tony Jarrett and Yvonne Murray ( £ 13,000 each ) , Alison Wyeth ( £ 12,000 ) and Matthew Yates and Mick Hill ( £ 9000 each ) . Better late than never THE cricket season it would appear is back to front with the excellent weather coming late in the summer and the two principal magazines which cover the sport , only hitting the newsstands in the last couple of weeks . The bi - annual Ulster Cricketer(£2 ) , jointly edited as usual by Clarence Hiles and Colin Berkley and the Irish Cricket Annual ( £ 4 ) edited by John Elder , are nevertheless interesting reads despite the lateness .
Idiom: song and dance (used idiomatically: yes)
Well Cagney biography , autobiography was a great song and dance man , that was him , then he became biography or autobiography ? auto autobiography
Idiom: pass the buck (used idiomatically: yes)
The Wages of Economic Ignorance LONDON – Politicians are masters at “ passing the buck . ” Everything good that happens reflects their exceptional talents and efforts ; everything bad is caused by someone or something else . The economy is a classic field for this strategy .
Idiom: under the influence (used idiomatically: yes)
‘ What cover are you travelling under?’ Dillon grinned , drank more water . He was calming down under the influence of Tweed 's self - controlled personality , his off - hand way of talking . ‘ Officially I 'm attached to the Washington Post . As a roving foreign correspondent … ’
Idiom: turn the screw (used idiomatically: no)
They have heard screaming all through the night . ' Many children were weeping — in every single class at least one child has lost relatives , friends or neighbours . ' Builders to turn screw ANGRY building bosses set off in a ' battle bus ' yesterday — to confront Ministers at the Tory conference and demand action . Before they left they blasted the Government for demolishing more than 400,000 jobs in the industry in three years .
Idiom: behind someone's back (used idiomatically: yes)
We 're both professionals,’ stated Kaas . Adam did n't reply ; he was more concerned about working out where he was being held . His hands were behind his back and he felt the sharp metallic bite of the handcuffs on his wrists . His feet were unshackled ; he still had his shoes on . The room was of medium size , a bare room , probably an attic .
Idiom: banana republic (used idiomatically: yes)
The second stage could be called the period of storms and stresses . Stalin thrived on the barbaric forced industrialization that planted the seeds of the communist system ’s destruction . Putin , for his part , “ built ” a great energy power , turning the country into a banana ~ republic with hydrocarbons . The third stage extends the myth through heroic triumph . The Soviets had their victory in World ~ War ~ II , followed by the creation of a global superpower .
Idiom: every last (used idiomatically: yes)
Those with negative equity clearly benefit from higher prices , but many others gain from lower ones . First - time buyers can afford more than a broom cupboard , and those wishing to trade - up to a bigger house get better value for money . It would be no bad thing if a more subdued housing market made Britons less obsessive about investing every last penny in their homes in the quest for easy returns . Britain 's high rate of owner - occupation ( 68 % ) has harmed its economy . It restricts the mobility of workers and so keeps unemployment higher than it need be : people who own their homes are less willing to move to another area to find a job .
Idiom: come a cropper (used idiomatically: yes)
The current government and Jean - Pierre Brulé , the sacked head of Cii - Honeywell Bull , blame Saint Gobain , the firm 's controlling shareholder , for taking more money out of the company than it put in . But not only Cii - Honeywell Bull failed to make the grade . Many of the once - vaunted French ‘ peri - informatique’ companies ( those making small computers and associated equipment ) also came a cropper . Some of those which did worse benefited from funds under France 's 1976 peri - infomatics plan . Notable amongst these was Thomson CSF 's minicomputer subsidiary , a company called SEMS .
Idiom: rock bottom (used idiomatically: yes)
Wanna buy a cheap motor guv ? Well now 's the time . They 're at rock bottom prices , and the only way is up . The dramatic collapse of the value of second hand supercars is illustrated by the unseemly squabbling over the perceived value of a new Jaguar XJ220 . Now the company is warning potential purchasers to pay up or else .
Idiom: with a vengeance (used idiomatically: yes)
AT&T Co issued a $ 400 m Eurobond due April 8 1998 paying 5.625 % and priced at $ 101.305 % . Lead manager for the issue was Credit Suisse First Boston . Digital Equipment Corp has shed the ‘ no borrowings’ regime of founder Ken Olsen with a vengeance , and is out there raising more new cash : it issued $ 250 m of 7.75 % noncallable debentures due April 1 2023 , at $ 98.512 % to yield 7.88 % , via Lehman Brothers . IRG Technologies Inc , Richardson , Texas distributor of computer peripherals , filed with the Securities & Exchange Commission to go public with an initial offer of up to 2.75 m common shares , 2.3 m of them new , at a target price of between $ 10 and $ 12 a share to raise some $ 25 m to repay debt and for working capital ; Montgomery Securities , Kemper Securities and Raymond James & Associates will co - manage . Microchip Technology Inc , making field - programmable microcontrollers in Chandler , Arizona got its initial public offering of 1.5 m shares , 1.3 m of them new , away at $ 13.00 a share .
Idiom: hold the ring (used idiomatically: yes)
Doctors / Nurses / Medical In the dress rehearsal when she held out her finger for the ring he took her pulse . /In the dress rehearsal when he held out the ring to her she took his pulse . We have three empty seats today . One of these was for a doctor who has gone to the Middlesex Hospital .
Idiom: keep the peace (used idiomatically: yes)
Mercutio then . Do you hate Romeo coming between you and Tybaot when you were fighting ? No , I do n't hate Romeo , but he was my friend and he just wanted to keep the peace . I may he may I may have died in the end but still , you know he wanted to keep the peace and wanted to be his friend . Right , Abigail ?
Idiom: mind over matter (used idiomatically: yes)
She conjured up an image of a five - barred gate , introduced some jumping sheep and attempted to count them , then giggled when they appeared wearing cork - strewn hats . Giving up on the sheep , she stared at the curtain that fluttered in the cool breeze through the ill - fitting window and tried to recapture the warmth and pleasure of their lovemaking , the feel of his body moving with hers , but was unable to shut out the infuriating sound of the steady drip into the bucket like Chinese water - torture . She tried wrapping the pillow round her ears ; tried mind over matter ; tried burrowing under the duvet , and then gave up . With a cross little sound in the back of her throat , she irritably kicked the covers aside . Resigned to the fact that she was n't going to get back to sleep , she pulled on her robe and went downstairs .
Idiom: bear in mind (used idiomatically: yes)
In nineteen eighty four the C E C and this Congress favoured moving away from full - time officers to labour and secretaries and indeed we have implemented that policy . Even you , at later conferences , have protected those people when we have adjusted branch commission and we feel it would be a retrograde step to try and go back and turn those years away . Bearing those points in mind one seven eight offers a better way forward to use the skills and experience of our lay officials and members . Motion one seven seven , of course we accept in principle , that where we have vacancies , permanent vacancies , we should employ direct staff and if possible our members , which we do try to do . However , we do have some occasional vacancies , maternity leave , building maintenance work , long term sick , where we have to make sure our labour force is protected , where we do involve temporary labour and even on those occasions we attempt to employ people direct as some regions know .
Idiom: point the finger (used idiomatically: yes)
She p - p - plaits them for me every morning . ' ' Your mummy 's a twit ! ' the Trunchbull bellowed . She pointed a finger the size of a salami at the child 's head and shouted , ' You look like a rat with a tail coming out of its head ! ' ' My m - m - mummy thinks I look lovely , Miss T - T - Trunchbull , ' Amanda stuttered , shaking like a blancmange . ' I do n't give a tinker 's toot what your mummy thinks ! ' the Trunchbull yelled , and with that she lunged forward and grabbed hold of Amanda 's pig - tails in her right fist and lifted the girl clear off the ground .
Idiom: round the clock (used idiomatically: yes)
A suicide note revealed they were desperate after years of caring for the seriously handicapped daughter . They said they loved her dearly — but their pleas for help from social services had been ignored . And years of financial demands of giving their only child round - the - clock care from birth had worn them down . So they finally ended their lives together at the isolated Cheddar Gorge beauty spot in the Mendip Hills , in Somerset . The three bodies were found yesterday lunchtime at a car park , at Charterhouse , near the famous Cheddar Caves .
Idiom: fly the flag (used idiomatically: no)
In order to resolve that dispute the High Court of Justice , Queen 's Bench Division , referred the following questions to the Court of Justice for a preliminary ruling : ‘ ( 1 ) Does Community law affect the conditions under which a member state lays down rules for determining which vessels are entitled to register in that state , to fly its flag and carry its nationality ? ‘ ( 2 ) In the light of the provisions and principles of Community law and in particular(but without limitation ) the principle of non - discrimination on grounds of nationality , the right of establishment and the requirement of proportionality , is a member state entitled to stipulate that in order to be registered in and entitled to fly the flag of that member state , a fishing vessel:(a ) must have its legal title vested as to 100 per cent . in citizens of that member state , resident and domiciled therein , or vested in a company at least 75 per cent . of the shares [ of]which are legally and beneficially owned by such persons and of which at least 75 per cent .
Idiom: turn the corner (used idiomatically: yes)
After my men had rested we climbed up to the road , and set off on what proved to be a very long twenty - mile march to the forest Rest House at Haira Khan . After going a couple of hundred yards over open ground , the road entered very thick forest , and here I made the men walk in front while I brought up the rear . We had gone about two miles in this order , when on turning a corner I saw a man sitting on the road , herding buffaloes . It was now time to call a halt for breakfast , so I asked the man where we could get water . He pointed down the hill straight in front of him , and said there was a spring down there from which his village , which was just round the shoulder of the hill , drew its water - supply .
Idiom: ahead of the game (used idiomatically: yes)
The Bank of England remains calm . It easily financed the 1992–93 PSBR , though two factors will not be repeated — the huge demand for gilts after the Tories unexpectedly won the April 1992 election and the boost to sterling funding from the massive sale of foreign - currency reserves during the ERM crisis . Helped by calls on partly paid gilts sold last year , the Bank is ahead of the game this year . Midland Montagu , the biggest gilt market - maker , reckons that it has financed nearly a quarter of its needs already , with just six weeks of the financial year gone . The Bank is pulling out the stops to make the market more attractive .
Idiom: turn up trumps (used idiomatically: yes)
On Friday Ireland were whitewashed 5 - 0 by England and , on Saturday , they slumped to a 4 - 2 defeat against Scotland which left them needing to beat Wales yesterday to avoid bottom place . Striders retain title ANNADALE Striders turned up trumps once again in the Panasonic Track and Field League at Antrim on Saturday and Lisburn AC took the ladies title . Striders finished overall winners of the four series event by 106 points from Ballymena and Antrim and the ladies of Lisburn were narrow 18 points winners from Lagan Valley . Athlete of the meeting on Saturday was Strider Jim Campbell who clocked 3.47.37 to take the 1,500 metres from team - mate Dermot Donnelly ( 3.47.42 ) .
Idiom: hand to mouth (used idiomatically: yes)
Sometimes we have enough to eat , sometimes we do n't . ' I asked Domitila whether she was involved in any political activity or neighbourhood pressure group . The contrast between her hand - to - mouth existence in Cochabamba and the former vibrant activist who inspired people all over the world was very striking . ' The only neighbourhood committees here are those controlled by the political party in government . There are no people 's committees .
Idiom: game on (used idiomatically: yes)
This tournament has put us on the map and we are keen to develop it further . We will have the first sevens tournament in Prague in August and we hope to be able to organise sevens competitions before top soccer matches . We are not allowed to play the 15-aside game on soccer pitches because of the scrummaging , but sevens is permitted’ . Zimbabwe 's hard - luck story Without any doubt ZIMBABWE captain Andy Ferreira 's men must count themselves unlucky to have missed the semi - finals , and with it the chance of appearing in the World Cup tournament in Scotland .
Idiom: grasp at straws (used idiomatically: yes)
Smaller weekly or fortnightly water changes of 10–20 % are preferable to large monthly ones . And always condition the tapwater first . Grasping at straws The following is a selection of other areas where the cause of a problem may be found : paint fumes ,
Idiom: in the short run (used idiomatically: yes)
Securitization , structured finance , and other innovations have so interwoven the financial system ’s various players that it is essentially impossible to restructure one financial ~ institution at a time . System - wide solutions are needed . Moderate inflation in the short run – say , 6 % for two years – would not clear the books . But it would significantly ameliorate the problems , making other steps less costly and more effective . True , once the inflation genie is let out of the bottle , it could take several years to put it back in .
Idiom: breathe down someone's neck (used idiomatically: yes)
Roman 's look of disgust deepened . ‘ I do n't think so ; you and Myra are quite capable of trying to mislead me . I do n't trust you and I shall be breathing down your neck next time you pick up a phone.’ ‘ Where are we going?’ Claudia asked as they left the motel behind them .
Idiom: once and for all (used idiomatically: yes)
I suggest that there are a number of steps which should be gone through towards this end . Testing of interview schedules The important fact about a field survey is that it is a once - and - for - all operation which can not be repeated . It is no use realizing at the analysis stage that question 3 is ambiguous and all the respondents should be asked it again in a different way . I doubt if any survey has ever been carried out without the researcher having some regrets at the analysis stage about some questions which could have been phrased better , but the good researcher makes sure in advance that these regrets are as few as possible .
Idiom: down and out (used idiomatically: no)
Obviously we do have the occasional minor disagreement , but we never really argue . That 's why it 's important to have time off every so often so we can get away from each other for a short while . ’ Robbie says : ‘ Any problems we do have , we sit down and sort them out straight away because we 're in each others pockets all day and every day and it would n't do to fall out badly . ’ Needless to say , with such a busy schedule none of them has any time for girlfriends . It 's all a far cry from the days when Jason and Howard were on £40 a week YTS schemes , Gary was touring the cabaret circuit , and Robbie and Mark were still wondering what career direction to take .
Idiom: moment of truth (used idiomatically: yes)
In the stands in Seoul was the Russian Valeriy Borzov , winner in Munich in 1972 . The stadium was packed beyond capacity ; in every nook and cranny people crammed together , standing four deep on the walkways and filling the steps between the seats . Coaches and managers of the finalists were now gripped with the tension of the approaching moment of truth , like expectant fathers at the birth , now impotent , their work done . And that tension spread to every tier of every stand as the eight finalists — three Americans , two Canadians and one each from Jamaica , Brazil and Britain — came into the stadium . We had a one - and - a - half - hour wait between semi and final .
Idiom: get stuck in (used idiomatically: yes)
‘ I 'd have been all right if I 'd made it to the main road.’ ‘ It 's probably just as well for you that you didn't,’ he returned curtly . ‘ The snow - ploughs wo n't be out till early morning , and if you 'd got stuck in the middle of nowhere … ’ He let the sentence hang unfinished , and she shivered , struck anew by the danger she 'd voluntarily placed herself in . ‘ People like you should n't be allowed anywhere near the mountains , and especially not in winter,’ he said with sudden savagery .