Gooogr/pie_idioms huggingface dataset:
Idiom: in light of (used idiomatically: yes)
We have enough to do in evaluating Marx 's and Engels 's use of anthropology and this is the task of the next chapter . The Present-Day Standing of Marx 's and Engels ' Anthropology Before continuing with the history of Marx 's and Engels 's ideas in our field until the present , we must first examine how these ideas stand in the light of modern developments in anthropology . Since their work covered such a vast range of subjects , it is necessary to limit the discussion to topics which have arisen within the traditional limits of anthropology , and to leave to other studies an examination of Marx 's and Engels 's views of such periods as feudalism or ancient Greece and Rome , since these fall more under the orbit of historical studies . Some other topics , such as the discussion of the Asiatic mode of production and the notion of ideology , will also be left to other parts of the book .
Idiom: high and low (used idiomatically: yes)
Obviously , this simple system for tone transcription could be extended , if we wished , to cover a greater number of possibilities . For example , if it was important to distinguish between a high level and low level tone for English we could do it in this way : ( As will be seen below , we will not use the symbols for high and low level tones in the description of English intonation . ) But there are many languages in which the tone can determine the meaning of a word , and changing from one tone to another can completely change the meaning . For example , in Kono , a language of West Africa , we find the following ( meanings given in brackets ) :
Idiom: by heart (used idiomatically: no)
In 1684 Colbert de Croissy , the French foreign minister , urged his son , the Marquis de Torcy , then embarking on an embassy to Portugal , to make every effort " to gain the reputation of a perfectly honourable man , and to deserve it " . Some decades later Pecquet asserted flatly that deceit in diplomacy was positively dangerous and that " truth and probity are … the two qualities most essential to the success of a public minister " . Personal virtue , he went on , was indispensable , for " nothing is so dangerous as intelligence when it is guided by a corrupt heart " . In this new , or at least much heavier , emphasis on fair dealing can be seen a genuine movement away from the primitive assumptions of the age of Commynes and Machiavelli . In place of an unbridled power struggle in which almost anything was permissible and extreme instability in relations between states was the norm , it was now being asserted that the task of diplomacy was not to deceive or even perhaps to defeat an opponent , but rather to reconcile conflicting ambitions and help different states to coexist , at least for considerable periods , in a reasonable degree of amity .
Idiom: out of this world (used idiomatically: yes)
A new association has been created by L'Oréal Technique Professionnelle and , together with a team of highly talented hairdressers , their aim is to heighten the profile of their industry in general . To introduce themselves , they have produced Trends — The Portfolio of Artistic Hairdressers . It features the best in British and Irish hairdressing and to achieve maximum impact with the first of their bi - annual fashion collections , they chose a photographic location that 's literally out of this world ! THE LOCATION Canary Wharf , London Docklands
Idiom: make the grade (used idiomatically: yes)
But he fired a warning at landlords across Britain clean up your act . Complaints of bad service and grubby pubs are at an alarming all time high , he reveals . Another Merseyside pub to make the grade is Terry and Margaret Nelson 's Seven Stars in Thornton Hough . Southport scored well with four pubs The Windmill , Prince of Wales , Scarisbrick and Ship in the guide 's Lucky Dip section . Simply splendid … the Philharmonic 's ornate bar rates a mention in the I993 Good Pub Guide
Idiom: high and low (used idiomatically: yes)
Repeated notes , both in groups of twos and threes , are a characteristic feature of horn writing , and though passages requiring considerable agility are to be found in most modern scores they are usually well and safely doubled by other instruments , as they are apt to sound woolly and ill - defined in shape if left to the horns alone . Shakes are possible if confined to notes within the treble stave , but opportunities for their appropriate use are very rare and the inexperienced orchestrator is advised to keep his horn parts in general as simple as possible and to avoid wide and ‘ unvocal’ leaps . The high and low notes require different embouchures . This rule is not a rigid one , however , especially in unison passages for the two horns . High notes have become less of a strain to play since the well - nigh total adoption of the ‘ double horn’ .
Idiom: all along (used idiomatically: yes)
Unmangled , resurrected words . ‘ Someone else here,’ he warned . ‘ Someone been here all along.’ Must n't over - educate myself , he thought . Else I 'll rob myself of those animal - like perceptions , of the old scum instincts …
Idiom: follow suit (used idiomatically: yes)
The move was intended to bolster the strength of the deutschmark and to stem inflation ( running at an annualized rate of above 4 per cent , and in the Bundesbank 's view likely to become higher as a result of possible high wage settlements in the current round of pay talks and the government 's expansionary fiscal policy following unification ) . [ For last interest rate rise , in August 1991 , see p. 3840 . ] As a result rates were immediately raised in Austria , Belgium , Denmark and the Netherlands , while France , Italy and Spain also followed suit on Dec. 23 . In a television interview on Dec. 26 French Finance Minister Pierre Bérégovoy described the Bundesbank 's action as indicative of a dangerous economic " egoism " . EUROPE
Idiom: cut a dash (used idiomatically: yes)
‘ I 've had a wonderful day,’ she said . ‘ I feel dressed to sail off on a luxury cruise.’ With her sophisticated new image , she would certainly cut a dash on board the QE2 . Hair : Michael Richards Salons , Penshurst Road,(Ipswich 723814 ) and St Nicholas Street,(Ips 257927 ) . Make - up : Lily 's Beauty Parlour ( Ips 274284 ) .
Idiom: make the cut (used idiomatically: yes)
However , rapid growth came to an end in 1981 when , with very little warning , universities were told to cut costs by 18 per cent over three years . This entailed the loss of about 3,000 posts with some universities shedding 25 per cent of their staff ; some departments were closed and a number of institutions came close to bankruptcy . The cuts were not made evenly ; Salford , for example , suffered a 44 per cent cut and Hull 's grant fell by 31 per cent . Further cuts were made in 1985 — 2 per cent in real terms — and subsequent years showed similar reductions so that the universities were forced to cut staff by any means they could . The University Grants Committee made funds available for what it called restructuring , and universities began encouraging staff to take voluntary severance payments or enhanced early retirement .
Idiom: up to here (used idiomatically: yes)
And all the country there then , well France we were first , then we shifted to Belgium . Nothing , only and mud and dirt and everything else . And walking about up to here some of the times in mud . And we had on these shoes you know . Boots I mean t you know .
Idiom: get cracking (used idiomatically: yes)
The buyer is in fact the only one in a position to begin right at the beginning , to make the preliminary inspections or surveys which should then culminate in the detailed survey at the end — the final chance to say ‘ yes’ , ‘ no’ or ‘ maybe’ . Moreover , whatever your age , circumstances and financial resources , taking stock is something which must be done from time to time— it is the first step in making decisions . You should review your situation , think about changes , look into the past , present and future , think of the snags , revise your plans — and only then get cracking ! So often people will purchase a five - bedroomed house so that when the sons or daughters get married and have children they can all stay at the family residence at weekends and holiday times . And so often things do n't work out quite like this — either the offspring move abroad or , worse still , fall out with their parents who are then left with a house too large for them , but are either unable or unwilling to move to something more suitable .
Idiom: in someone's pocket (used idiomatically: yes)
‘ It 'll do it again , as often as you want.’ He pressed and it chimed again . He was about to put it in his pocket when Nora said , ‘ Open the back.’ There he found the greatest novelty of all : a twenty - eight - day dial that showed the phases of the moon — at least , it had been the moon when Nora bought the watch but she had got a miniaturist to overpaint it with an enamel portrait of herself . ‘ I shall take it out and kiss it hourly,’ John said .
Idiom: heart and soul (used idiomatically: yes)
Nationally . Well I er th well I could n't , I 'm not in a position to give the , the total because the national , the national treasurer would be able to you see ? That woman 's now approaching eighty three , eighty four years of age and she 's still national treasurer , so it gives you a sort of sample of the , the kind of people they have at the top , who are really their heart and soul in it . pensioner themselves who would sit down and think , now take for instance assuming that I would n't be a member of that just so surely a , a senior citizens ' club . Now you go into a seniors citizens ' club , you enter your name and you get registered in the register , you get your cup of tea and then you get social activity .
Idiom: come to terms with (used idiomatically: yes)
‘ You can not live your life in fear that someone is going to attack you . It 's very important to carry on as normal.’ She had learned to come to terms with her sister 's disappearance . ‘ How unlucky can one family be?’ said the publisher , sitting with her mother Diana . Lizzie was carrying a rape alarm , but it was out of reach in her handbag .
Idiom: in a nutshell (used idiomatically: yes)
It is true that the Irish have not genuinely embraced the fitness revolution and the real impact of the fitness factor is witnessed in the unpleasant sight of what fit teams are doing to Ireland . It was after the 1990 England v Ireland game at Twickenham that Paul Ackford casually mentioned to one of the Irish players that his team knew it had only to withstand Ireland 's 20 minutes of blood and guts to win easily . That was the game in a nutshell . England won without fuss . And it has been that way for five seasons .
Idiom: go all the way (used idiomatically: yes)
In any fairly homogeneous society the meaning of even such basic valuational words as ‘ right’ and ‘ wrong’can only be given in such value charged definitions , which point to the society 's shared values . In that society the rightness or wrongness of an action does in a sense simply follow from the facts of the case , but only because its language incorporates values which the attitudinist will see as rationally detachable from beliefs of a genuinely factual nature . As will lie seen later , I do not myself go all the way with the attitudinist theory of ethics . But it has real merits , illuminating much that other theories leave obscure . As for the role it ascribes to reason , Stevenson himself played this down unnecessarily .
Idiom: cut the crap (used idiomatically: yes)
‘ Mona’ ensures that if you did n't want to strangle Craig McLachlan before , then you will now , whilst ‘ Diddley Daddy’ , the kooky 12-bar of ‘ Little Girl’and the railroad shuffle ‘ Who Do You Love’are fundamental lessons from the face that launched a thousand riffs . In addition , we 're treated to Diddley 's special line in leg thrusts and his band 's synchronised ministry of funny walks , plus an exclusive interview that drifts between songs , where he explains how he always wanted to be a drummer . Straightforward and educational , I Do n't Sound Like Nobody cuts the crap and lets one of the greats tell it like it is . FILM YOUNG GUNS II — BLAZE OF GLORY ( 20th Century Fox — Cert:12 )
Idiom: on board (used idiomatically: yes)
It should have been a warning to me when I noticed that none of the other foreigners was going anywhere near the wicker-basket toboggans , each with two dapper attendants . Thinking they were just showing their age — most tourists here are 50-plus — my companion and I clambered in . Our escorts , both dressed in blazers and boaters jumped on - board — and promptly steered us straight for a garden wall . Zigzagging our way down the street we saw a car coming towards us and thought some terrible error had allowed the driver on to the toboggan track . Then we realised the mistake was ours : we were heading down one of Madeira 's ordinary roads , with cars hooting to overtake on both sides .
Idiom: have a few (used idiomatically: yes)
No I do n't really know him outside of work to be honest Okay that 's fair enough . we have a few beers occasionally but That was erm what was his surname ? open minded type of character
Idiom: under the table (used idiomatically: yes)
He saw the girl out and put the bar up across the double doors . " Bloody keep off the moor in future , " said Dadda . " Keep your feet under your own table . " The receptionist who took over from Lyn in the afternoons came into the cloakroom where she was putting her coat on . " There 's a man who says his name 's Nick Frazer asking for you .
Idiom: on and off (used idiomatically: no)
If the electronic switch ( S ) depicted in Fig . 3 and Fig . 4 was on all the time , the input and output voltages would be identical . If the switch was off all the time , the output would be zero . The actual output when the switch is alternately on and off is therefore clearly an average value somewhere between these two extremes ; or , in an ideal world , the output is a function of the ratio of T O subN ; to T O F F . That is , a function of the duty cycle of the switching waveform , or : Ignoring any voltage drop across the filter , the average output voltage will be the same as that applied to the filter input .
Idiom: walk of life (used idiomatically: yes)
‘ And show whether or not there are areas where the parents do n't normally meet children 's needs,’ says Ward . ‘ We 've been criticised for saying that all children under five should have books in the home . But our interviewers spoke to families from all walks of life and found class had no bearing on whether or not they had access to books.’ By analysing the assessment forms , the researchers have also uncovered some weak links in local authority care . Ward is concerned that some children may be missing out on sex education .
Idiom: give and take (used idiomatically: yes)
Only comparatively rarely is this word brought into contact with ruach , though we can not expect , and do not find , complete consistency . It is true that ruach is used of man 's spirit in a number of ways . It is used in the story of the Flood , for instance , to denote ' the breath of life'(Gen . 6:17 ) which God gives — and takes back again . It is used to denote full vitality , real spirited living ; contrast the deflation of the Queen of Sheba when she saw all Solomon 's treasure — there was no more ruach left in her ' ( I Kgs . 10:5 ) . It comes to mean the seat of the emotions , intellect , and will particularly often applied to the governing impulse in a man 's life ( e.g. Prov . 25:28 , Ps . 32:2 , Num . 1 4:24 ) .
Idiom: keep the wolf from the door (used idiomatically: yes)
The three little piggies snorted in disgust . ' Do n't be silly ! The money was to pay the sheep to keep the wolves from our doors . But now we know they 're just wolves in sheep 's clothing , no amount of money is going to keep them away . ' ' So what shall we do - o - o ? ' wailed Middle .
Idiom: shoot the bull (used idiomatically: yes)
The old men like to meet on the street corner just to shoot the bull .
Idiom: hands down (used idiomatically: no)
The Frenchman sat opposite me at the large farmhouse table chatting away for all he was worth and after the meal he puffed away at his pipe as if he had n't a care in the world . During the evening his wife was very nervous and became extremely agitated when the British guns started up , the shells passing over the village with a loud roar . After a few words with her husband she shook hands with me , kissed him on both cheeks , and then quickly disappeared down the cellar , leaving the two of us to finish off the champagne and burgundy . About 11.30 p.m . I left the old Frenchman still puffing away at his pipe and returned through the village to the orchard next to Brigade H.Q I had a feeling that I would not see the French family again .
Idiom: come to grips with (used idiomatically: yes)
I mean , if somebody ca n't actually go back to the person they 've harmed in a in a one to one situation , there 's no reason why they should n't be doing some other form of community service . That 's right , I agree . cos , as you say , if if they do have to come to grips with their fellow man , to be at least some of them who are going to be impressed by that . But how you can expect people to become more sociable by just being , you know , shut behind closed walls , and and not having to actually , fend for themselves and cope with life outside prison walls . It does n't seem to make sense to me .
Idiom: under the influence (used idiomatically: yes)
The United States is unique in the advanced countries of the West in maintaining a level of church attendance of closer to fifty per cent than the European norm of some fifteen per cent or less . This itself gives the lie to the notion that America is a secular republic . Under the influence of its Enlightenment men the American constitution may formally be secularist , but the history of America demonstrates that it is the most religious continent in the Western world . Indeed as Neuhaus has recognised ( 1986 ) it is precisely because religion has been forced out of the central corridors of power in America that the New Religious Right has managed to stride in with such urgency and rage . But this leads us into the area of secularisation that has been the most damaging to the Christian church .
Idiom: in a nutshell (used idiomatically: yes)
It could have been built in mahogany , yew , ash , teak , oak or cherrywood style , and the company will build any size and style to order . The guide price on this cabinet is £ 575 . Ponds in a nutshell Old Fishfinger remembers the days of the Bumper Book for Boys better than I do , but despite the archaic title , this is a nice easily - digestible and colourful book , covering 240 colour pages with the combined wit and wisdom of Dick Mills , Chris Andrews , Barry James , and David Papworth . A very nice book , highly recommended if you do n't already possess the relevant Interpet encyclopedias .
Idiom: dead wood (used idiomatically: yes)
These shrubs were cut of fat ground level so that stools developed from which new shoots emerged — the stools can therefore be of very great age , having been through many cycles of cutting . In order for the shoots to grow and mature they have to be protected from browsing animals , and hence woodbanks are common features of woodland archaeology . These would originally have been topped with a fence of dead wood or a live hedge to keep the animals out . The line of such a woodbank may be marked by pollarded trees , which have , in effect , been coppiced at a higher level , above the reach of cattle . The coppicing produced wooden poles and rails for firewood , fencing , implement making , constructional work such as wattles , and small - size material for a host of uses around the farmstead and house .
Idiom: do me a favour (used idiomatically: yes)
that 's ok then . Yep . My love , will you do me a favour then , you do it all up , cos it wo n't keep you know . Yeah . It wo n't keep until after the weekend , but it 'll be alright t today .
Idiom: behind closed doors (used idiomatically: yes)
C Palace 2 , Wimbledon 0 . ROGER JOSEPH was mysteriously absent from the dressing room as manager Joe Kinnear delivered a scathing attack on his players . The rest of the Dons were locked behind closed doors for 45 minutes as an inquest was held into this dismal defeat against their Selhurst Park landlords . But it was shrewd of Joseph to go temporarily AWOL , absent-without-leave , for he would have been an undoubted target for the flak being hurled by an angry Kinnear . Earlier , the full-back , apparently incensed at being called off just three minutes into the second half , turned away from the bench and sprinted straight down the tunnel .
Idiom: ride high (used idiomatically: yes)
One area of neglect which has not been touched upon is expenditure on research and development . Only rough and ready figures are available because of problems of definition . In broad terms these show Britain riding high in the international league table in the 1950s and 1960s but falling heavily over the 1970s [ Freeman , 1979 ] . Of course , this tells us nothing about the effectiveness of these efforts . Attempts have been made to relate expenditure on R and D to performance indicators both in aggregate terms and at the level of particular industries [ Pavitt , 1980 ] .
Idiom: to the tune of (used idiomatically: no)
I am concerned about those people because they do not use local authority services much but are penalised by high charges . South West Water , for instance , has the highest standing charges in the country . My amendment would result in a reduction in the burden on these people to the tune of 50 per cent . I recommend that to the House because it will offer great relief to people who live alone . The elderly people in my constituency worry about their financial predicament .
Idiom: at a pinch (used idiomatically: yes)
He was in fact a BA ( 3rd class , Geography ) from the University of Hull ( graduated 1948 ) . Still , scholarship was not exactly his thing . He might take the odd class in Geography at a pinch , but he had never given the subject any particular prominence in the school , and most boys gave it up after two years . Nor was Crumwallis anxious to take over periods in other subjects when there was need — as in cases of sickness or ( frequently ) death . Since his graduation he had not cultivated Learning .
Idiom: break new ground (used idiomatically: yes)
A look back at village history FLORA Thompson enthusiasts might like to know about a reprint of a 56-page guide of Liphook written by her and which is certain to become a collector 's item . Bramshott and Liphook Preservation Society have broken new ground with their latest publication reproducing a copy of the 1925 Guide to Liphook and its outlying villages . In 1925 Flora was living in the village with her postmaster - husband and wrote all the text of the guide for local publisher F. Williams . Apart from his name nothing more is known about the publisher other than he lived in the village and the preservation society are hoping local people reading the re - print will be able to give more details .
Idiom: rough and ready (used idiomatically: yes)
The speculating element had pushed far ahead of the line into Alberta along the location , and a place called Denwood sprang up . True , it was but a small village , but the fact was maintained that the railway would have to establish their station at that point . The speculators tolerated a rough - and - ready existence for several months , dwelling in rude shacks and tents , and subsisting as best they could . The future of Denwood was their sole topic of conversation , and many a pioneer built a magnificent castle in the air . The outlook was considered all the more rosy from their point of view , since Denwood would have to be made what is known as a divisional point , that is to say , a station of more than ordinary importance , inasmuch as it would indicate the end of a running section — the point where the train would have to change engines .