Gooogr/pie_idioms huggingface dataset:
Idiom: see red (used idiomatically: yes)
‘ It 's a shime , that 's what it is!’ said a shrill Cockney voice . ‘ ' Ere we are , packed like sardines , when there 's a coupl'a gents next door but one , wiv a first - class kerridge fer themselves . Mikes me see red!’ The owner of the voice , an aggressive youth with a cigarette stuck behind one ear , was sitting in the opposite corner , very much at his ease . Breeze wondered why his righteous indignation did not prompt him to offer his seat to one of the women who had just got in , clutching a shopping - basket with one hand and a baby with the other .
Idiom: on the ground (used idiomatically: yes)
Observations : The reddish-grey rock of Gimmer is outstandingly clean , hard and compact . This and its position , perched on steep ground yet effectively sheltered by the hillside behind , make it one of Lakeland 's finest climbing crags . It dries quickly and the north-west face gets the afternoon and evening sunshine . Descent :
Idiom: out of the woods (used idiomatically: yes)
I 'll draw no conclusions on the whole factory / handmade dilemma here ; you 'll just have to read the first two paragraphs again and make up your own mind . But as for the Manson Classic S , I reckon it adds up like this . For : very nicely made out of very posh wood , well finished , with a good chunky neck and that very practical compound radius fingerboard , with top - class hardware to finish it off ( the Wilkinson is deservedly this year 's tremolo , while both the locking Schallers and the Seymour Duncans are excellent ) . Against : almost nothing I can put my finger on , except that it 's a darned expensive guitar and I expected it to justify its price by being inspiring — which , for all of us who tried it , it somehow failed to be . Classic S , as reviewed £ 1,315
Idiom: turn someone's head (used idiomatically: yes)
They 're shit , in Zone 4 they 're not women as we 'd know them , just shit.’ The column moved on . Holly surprised himself , he turned his head to watch the women cross the path . He thought he saw the girl again , but he could not be sure . The gate stood in front of them .
Idiom: green light (used idiomatically: yes)
Most important we as parents can leave our children / young adults in confidence at Astley House . Concerned Parent School 's new garden gets green light CHILDREN have helped create a green oasis in the heart of an industrial pollution blackspot . A nature garden has sprung up at a Bootle school where youngsters once had to play out in gas masks because of coaldust clouds .
Idiom: one of those things (used idiomatically: no)
' Up and at 'em , dear ! ' How her mother could be cheerful at seven in the morning , Jenny would never know . It was just another one of those irritating things about her mother , Margaret , that she had n't noticed until her dad had died . Jenny groaned . After pulling on her clothes , she headed downstairs for the perfunctory glass of orange - juice which served as breakfast .
Idiom: spring to mind (used idiomatically: yes)
If the sine qua non of recovery via austerity is the stabilization and reduction of debt , the cynics ’ case appears to have been made . Against this background , the return of US investors to provide short - term dollar funding for European bank debt smacks of a desperate hunt for yield that relies on European ~ Central ~ Bank President Mario ~ Draghi ’s promise to do “ whatever it takes ” to save the euro . As for Goldman ’s equity play , as bond - market guru Bill ~ Blain put it , “ the words ‘ buy cheap , sell a bit dearer on the up , and then dump and run ’ spring to mind . In fact , any talk of recovery is premature until the losses incurred by austerity are recouped . As it stands , every country that has implemented an austerity program without imposing losses on private creditors has more debt now than when it started .
Idiom: out of the question (used idiomatically: yes)
It has been suggested that Bede , in order to synchronize diverse chronological tradition , ‘ considered the whole year of the Incarnation , in which a king died , as his last year and reckoned the next year of the Incarnation as the first of his successor’ , so that if , for example , Oswiu died in 670 , the whole of 671 was Ecgfrith 's first year for Bede and the whole of 685 his fifteenth . The ultimate clue to Ecgfrith 's regnal chronology , however , is the documentary report of the council of Hatfield which Bede includes in the Ecclesiastical History ( IV , 17 ) and which demonstrates , by reference to Ecgfrith in his tenth year on 17 September in a year which can only be 680 ( see below , p.113 ) , that Ecgfrith certainly succeeded no earlier than 17 September 670 — which introduces an even longer interregnum if Oswiu had died in the February of that year and makes his death in February 671 more likely still . Given this degree of ambiguity in the chronological indicators , it certainly can not be regarded as out of the question that Oswiu died and Ecgfrith became king in the early months of 671 . Military recovery in north Britain under Oswiu and Ecgfrith It is to the period immediately following the battle of the Winwaed that Oswiu 's wars with the Picts should probably be assigned .
Idiom: blow your own trumpet (used idiomatically: yes)
‘ Just to demonstrate — if it were ever in any doubt — the total unsuitability of our present situation . Another man might be more unprincipled —’ ‘ Oh , well,’ scornfully , ‘ if it 's just so you can blow your own trumpet … ’ A restless movement on his part betrayed that she had provoked him once more , but in a different fashion . Still , anger was a safer reaction , Robbie thought as she edged sideways , aiming for her cabin .
Idiom: swing the lead (used idiomatically: yes)
Then we 'll get you to square your shoulders and liven yourself up . Once you 're back on your feet , I want a straight back , polished footwear and buttons done up . Also , a clean face and no swinging the lead or nicking wallets . Then I 'll see if I can find you a job and some decent lodgings . In return , I do n't want any more hard luck stories or any answering back .
Idiom: in the black (used idiomatically: no)
NEIL WEBB returns for Nottingham Forest today as manager Brian Clough makes a surprise shake-up of a winning team . The former England midfielder , who missed the 2-0 Coca-Cola Cup victory against Tottenham on Wednesday because he is Cup-tied , will face Leeds at Elland Road . But it means Irish international Roy Keane moves from his favoured central midfield role to the right wing in place of Kingsley Black . Clough believes Webb 's presence is more important . The Forest boss said : ‘ I was staggered by his performance against Southampton last week , particularly with the way he kept going . ’
Idiom: stroke of luck (used idiomatically: yes)
There are two alternators , too , to keep everything charged up . The MF cab did n't have an air - conditioning system attached to it , and Mr Tomlinson was keen to have one fitted . So it was a stroke of luck when a friend scrapping an old Volvo car gave him a complete system to fit to his tractor . Another useful by - product of using a lorry engine was the air compressor that came with it . That now does useful work , powering a pneumatic grease gun , a tool that Mr Tomlinson says has halved the time it takes to grease up the Mengele forager each morning .
Idiom: all over the place (used idiomatically: yes)
Mr. MacGregor What my right hon . Friend said on Tuesday is:’ There will be no VAT increase we have published our spending plans and there is no need for us to raise VAT to meet them.’ That is absolutely clear , and it is in clear contrast to the position of the Labour party , which maintains its high spending policies and is all over the place in deciding how to finance them . Mr. Hattersley It is absolutely clear that the Leader of the House has either no authority or insufficient courage to say whether that promise was categorical or whether it was what the country believes it to have been — evidence of a Prime Minister panicked into making a promise that he has no intention of keeping .
Idiom: mean business (used idiomatically: yes)
Even the Serbs of Serbia claim to be behind it and are willing , they say , to see the Bosnian Serbs isolated . Yet traffic still flows across the Drina river , the frontier between Serbia and Bosnia . It will not stop unless the border is sealed by troops who mean business . Help for the havens Two complications enter here .
Idiom: bugger all (used idiomatically: yes)
Alf Ackroyd behind the bar pricked up his ears , as if some rival establishment to his own were under discussion . There seemed , though , a general lack of enthusiasm for the second Mrs Machin . ‘ She 's basking in all the glory,’ said one man , ‘ but it had bugger all to do with her . Only married him just before he died , that I do mind . She 's a foreigner and all .
Idiom: collect dust (used idiomatically: yes)
Saturday afternoon on the beach at Lota , on the outskirts of Chile 's second largest city . There 's little to disturb the fun for these young people , the middle class children whose parents are enjoying the country 's new found wealth . Further down the beach , women and children are trolling the same waters with nets collecting coal dust to try to earn enough money to feed their children . If they manage to collect 50 kg of the slag which is washed ashore from the coalmines further up the coast they 'll be paid 80 pesos , that 's about 10 pence . The coal is sold to the fishmeal factories to fire their furnaces .
Idiom: in the swim (used idiomatically: no)
Graham Marsden recalls such a time and offers and explanation One night earlier this season I made an excellent catch of bream . Four nights later , on the same Cheshire mere , in the same swim , I blanked . Bait , tackle and method were exactly the same . Conditions , if anything , were better on the night I blanked .
Idiom: wear the trousers (used idiomatically: yes)
She glanced uncertainly at Faye . ' Go , love , ' the painter said , and Bill gave a wink and a nod . Accordingly , Belinda left the veranda and went to her room , deciding on the way that she would wear her new black evening trousers and the pale apricot silk camisole top she had bought to go with them . It was the first silk garment she had owned , and it had been expensive , but Faye 's silk clothes always looked and felt so wonderful … It did n't take her long to dress , freshen her make - up and add touches of silver jewellery on ears , neck and wrists , and it was quite a bit less than Tom 's stipulated twenty minutes later when she approached the veranda again .
Idiom: at sea (used idiomatically: yes)
The catalogue entry claims the picture is the second version that Zoffany painted of the same scene . The first picture disappeared in the Indian Mutiny , but a copy by Robert Home , known as the Ashwick version , survives in Cannes . The second version was lost at sea in about 1788 , so Christie 's Cockfight must be a third rendering — repainted , once Zoffany was back in England after 1788/89 , for Warren Hastings , the East India Company administrator in Bengal — bearing out the later inscription ‘ Cock fight at Lucknow painted by Zoffany ( circa 1790)’ on the bottom of the painting . FRENCH auctioneer Jean - Louis Picard , now happily hoeing his own row since his much - publicised split with Jacques Tajan , is breaking new ground . He has founded Euro Auction , and with a distinguished flotilla of French specialists ( Eric Turquin and Bruno de Bayser to name but two ) holds his first auction in Brussels on June 15 .
Idiom: on the ropes (used idiomatically: yes)
Frodo and the Fellowship , however , cross two rivers , deliberately described and distinguished . One is the Nimrodel , which consoles their grief and promises them partial security ; as Frodo wades it ' he felt that the stain of travel and all weariness was washed from his limbs ' . The next is Celebrant , the Silverlode which they can not ford but have to cross on ropes . Here they are totally secure , for though the orcs can splash across the Nimrodel —'curse their foul feet in its clean water ! ' says Haldir — it seems they can not wade or swim the Silverlode . Even Gollum , though seen by the elves , vanishes ' down the Silverlode southward ' , i.e. on the far bank , and according to Aragorn has followed the Fellowship only ' right down to Nimrodel ' .
Idiom: off the record (used idiomatically: yes)
Though he offered to identify his sources to Chief Judge Platt in camera , Shaughnessy was only too well aware that the certainty he felt about Flight 103 had yet to be converted into a certainty he could prove in court . A former DIA agent , for instance , had confirmed the involvement of the US intelligence community in narcotics trafficking , but not for attribution . Similarly , a former CIA agent had given him a detailed , off - the - record account of the agency 's involvement with arms and narcotics trafficking in the Middle East . More dramatically , in the spring of 1990 , a senior DEA intelligence analyst confirmed that most of what Aviv had said in his report about narcotics trafficking through Frankfurt airport was true . At about the same time , Shaughnessy also commissioned a former German intelligence agent to carry out an investigation for him in Europe .
Idiom: in a rut (used idiomatically: yes)
Sixty - Five By the time Julie parked the Fiesta outside the cottage the sky was a mass of dark cloud . Rain was falling fast now , drenching the countryside , turning the road that led to the cottage to mud , puddling in the ruts . The two women jumped out and sprinted for the front door of the cottage , Donna struggling with the key . She finally pushed the door open and they both tumbled gratefully inside .
Idiom: fall short (used idiomatically: yes)
Assumption of power by rump presidency On Oct. 3 four of the eight members of the Collective State Presidency ( representing the republics of Serbia and Montenegro , and the autonomous provinces of Vojvodina and Kosovo within Serbia ) voted to take on the powers of the Yugoslav Assembly because they were " in conditions of an immediate danger of war " . The meeting fell short of the five members required for a quorum , with Bosnia - Hercegovina , Croatia , Macedonia and Slovenia not attending . The Vice - President of the Collective State Presidency , Branco Kostic , had originally called the meeting for Oct. 1 . Mesic ( its president ) responded by calling it unconstitutional , and said that those attending " will have joined the putsch " — a reference to the Serbian parliament 's adoption on Sept. 27 of a document on the future form of Yugoslavia , based on consultations between Serbia , Montenegro and representatives of Serbian areas of Bosnia - Hercegovina , which the parliament declared open to agreement by other republics .
Idiom: open someone's eyes (used idiomatically: yes)
‘ I 'll remember,’ faltered Melissa , aware once more of the sound of the river echoing round the cavern . Her head swam ; she shut her eyes and pressed herself against the wall , fighting to steady herself for the return trip , struggling to contain an urge to vomit . When she opened her eyes , Fernand had gone . She peered out and saw him crawling on hands and knees along the ledge . It took more courage than she knew she possessed to follow him .
Idiom: hope against hope (used idiomatically: yes)
Meg returned to the hospital early next morning . It had been Arthur 's brainwave in the night ; they must know Clare 's second name , and address . Meg went up to the familiar ward hoping against hope to find Carolyn back in her bed again . She walked past the nurses ' cubicle unchecked . There did n't seem to be anyone around .
Idiom: free rein (used idiomatically: yes)
The general consensus between the leaders of the Conservative and Labour parties made easy the initial reckless imposition of ‘ direct rule’ from Westminster and at every subsequent stage has provided the basis for a bipartisan policy under which the party in opposition has supported the measures taken in Ulster by the one in office . The policy has stifled realistic thinking and become a conspiracy whereby happenings such as the attempt to assassinate William Black was carried out under 2 Conservative government and the decision by the Attorney General to have no one prosecuted was taken under a Labour one . The special conditions at Westminster are one part of the explanation of the relatively free rein given to counter - insurgency and covert activity . The other part is to be found in Ulster . In the land of the blind the one - eyed man is king .
Idiom: put the screws on (used idiomatically: yes)
‘ And she did it willingly … ’ ‘ You see , you are a chauvinist . You put the screws on her and she submitted.’ ‘ So would you have done in the circumstances,’ he said wearily , not wanting to get drawn into an argument . ‘ Now I 'll leave you to rest and incubate some more venom while I go and make some phone calls —’
Idiom: below par (used idiomatically: yes)
Some people , however , obtain their main sexual pleasure — to the point of orgasm — from displaying themselves thus ; and , as is well - known , may gain intense satisfaction from forcing this display upon some unwilling individual . Most exhibitionists are men , and exhibitionistic tendencies which occur in women usually take the form of overtly unintentional or deliberately daring dress or disarrangement of clothing . The male exhibitionist is usually of inadequate personality and is sexually below par — the symbolic rape implicit in exposure to an unwilling victim is usually the utmost of which he is capable . Some differentiation must be made , however , between furtive and " accidental " display , even of the sexual organs , and the deliberate assault of " flashing " . Very occasionally , success in the latter activity may encourage the man towards more sexually assertive practices .
Idiom: up against it (used idiomatically: yes)
Both Mr Souness and Jim Smith , the Portsmouth manager , emphasised how delighted they were with the overall quality of yesterday 's tie . Mr Souness said : ‘ I 'm pleased we 're still in the FA Cup . To go one down with nine minutes remaining and with only 10 men , we were up against it.’ Mr Smith 's problems are not so much physical , apart from Chamberlain 's injured knee , but how to prepare his players for tomorrow 's important Second Division promotion game at Tranmere . He said : ‘ It was so near yet so far .
Idiom: send someone packing (used idiomatically: yes)
Cloughie probably gets closest to it — not he himself but the No . 9 seems to have his head screwed on . And he can play a bit , although he 's missing the support of Webb these days . Sheridan might have made a difference given the chance — but then we 'll never know quite what sent the skilful midfielder packing packing to Sheffield Wednesday after hardly a sniff of the City Ground . Any guesses ? No prizes .
Idiom: foot the bill (used idiomatically: yes)
as much as possible Mm I 'm giving er a reduced rate for a while , so if anything goes wrong we foot the bill Oh yeah say like we 're moving some equipment from one place to another
Idiom: play ball (used idiomatically: no)
Tampering with the seam is much the most harmful form of ball vandalism . I remember a case midway between the wars at The Oval , while playing for Surrey 2nd XI against Buckinghamshire . After the second day 's play the ball in use was locked in the Oval safe and sent to Lord 's the next morning . The seam had been so thoroughly picked that it had a sharp edge . Since the culprits are no longer with use , they may be named : left - arm spin bowler Frank Edwards , and the Bucks skipper who prompted him , Walter Franklin , one of the best wicketkeepers of the day .
Idiom: in tandem (used idiomatically: yes)
On the other hand , with the help of the military - industrial KGB complex – the “ siloviki ” – he has systematically weakened or destroyed every check on his personal power , while strengthening the state ’s ability to violate citizens ’ constitutional rights . This week , Putin told the United ~ Russia party that he will place his name at the top of its ballot for the parliamentary election scheduled for December 2 , which could enable him to become Russia ’s new prime ~ minister after the presidential election due in March 2008 . Of ~ course , as he put it , Russia will have to elect as president a “ decent , competent , effective , modern person with whom it would be possible to work in tandem . ” But what that really means is that Russia will have to choose a man Putin has hand - picked to do his bidding . If this scenario comes true , it will be a sad day for Russia , but not because Putin will be retaining power – something everyone in Russia knew that he would .
Idiom: bear in mind (used idiomatically: yes)
Now I today we are going to look at er I five and I twelve which deal with employment land allocations office space and services . The matters for discussion are s spelt out but just so that you 're under no illusions to what we are aiming to talk about , first issue , first matter is is the proposed provision and distribution of employment land for district councils and Greater York , the reason bearing in mind the need to provide sufficient land for employment in appropriate locations and the second matter is what effect if any will the proposed scale on provision have on adjoining areas in West Yorkshire . But we 'll start quite logically with the first matter . I would ask Mr Williamson , I presume you you 're leading for the County Council today to er take us through I five and I twelve .
Idiom: get wind of (used idiomatically: yes)
He began cutting his own samples on his mother 's kitchen table and getting them made up by his sister and her friends at the dressmaker 's where she worked . The situation could not last , of course . One day Leonie 's employer had got wind of what was going on , sacked Leonie and placed a telephone call to Victor Nicholson , the ignorant , ill - tempered manufacturer Hugo was contracted to at the time . A distraught Leonie tried unsuccessfully to contact Hugo to warn him and the first he knew of the débâcle was when he was summoned to Nicholson 's cramped stale - tobacco smelling office . The moment he walked in at the door he knew something was very wrong .
Idiom: on the make (used idiomatically: no)
Robbie is the joker , Mark is the pretty , constantly smiling one , Gary is the serious-minded musician , Howard is the quiet , romantic one and Jason is the sexiest , as well as being an incorrigible flirt . But it 's ‘ little Mark ’ who has the most fan mail from adoring teenies who voted him ‘ most fanciable male ’ in the Smash Hits poll . ‘ I spent thousands of pounds on stamps to make sure I won , ’ he jokes . ‘ I suppose they like me because I 'm little and they want to look after me . ’ Mark gets teased by the others about his height — five feet seven compared to the six-foot frames of the others .
Idiom: make a move (used idiomatically: yes)
Oh ! in the . Shall I make a move , or shall we No hang about ! We 're gon na come back .
Idiom: off the mark (used idiomatically: no)
Robinson has one fault to be ironed out . He is so intent on scoring that he is often unaware of the need to pass to supporting players in a better position . Hawley says : ‘ That 's because when he was at Hunslet Parkside he used to score four or five tries a match and was so quick off the mark that none of his team - mates could keep up with him.’ He adds : ‘ Monie has realised that Jason is a player who thrives on a roving commission . Basics