Gooogr/pie_idioms huggingface dataset:
Idiom: put a foot wrong (used idiomatically: yes)
It 's the first time we have analysed the results of our testing like this and it is n't good.’ He also said he expected some of the banned garages and testers to appeal against the rulings , and meanwhile they were allowed to continue MOT testing . Final warnings were slapped on 15 of the garages and if they put a foot wrong in the next five years they will also be barred from further MOT testing . They inspectorate aims to check each of the 360 MOT garages throughout Cleveland , most of County Durham , and Northallerton . Mr Hutton said : ‘ One of the things they often slip up on is having an assistant in the car who should operate the brakes and steering so that the mechanic underneath can check everything is working properly .
Idiom: give someone the creeps (used idiomatically: yes)
With Mr Merchant 's assistance Stewart opens up the box of chocolates and offers me one with the hand that is n't attached to a pulley and the ceiling . I look round uneasily . For this place really gives me the creeps . I ca n't stand the smell . Really unhealthy .
Idiom: go hand in hand (used idiomatically: yes)
On the financial side , it is well known that airline pilots are amongst the best paid professions and until the redundancies of the early 1980s changed the picture somewhat remarkably few of their number were prepared to accept a civil servant 's salary after having enjoyed a very good standard of living . The result is that the best qualified recruits for the Branch as Inspectors ( Operations ) tend to be in their late forties or early fifties , rather than the middle thirties as is preferred . Youth ( a comparative term in this context ) and experience do not normally go hand in hand . Happily , however , there are exceptions to the rule and it would be difficult to find a greater breadth of overall flying experience than that which is to be found in the dozen or so Inspectors ( Operations ) in AIB . The basic qualifications any candidate for one of these positions must have include the possession of an Airline Transport Pilots Licence and a wide experience of flying .
Idiom: on the lam (used idiomatically: yes)
He escaped from prison thirty years ago and has been on the lam ever since .
Idiom: point the finger (used idiomatically: yes)
He rose to leave , stretching limbs still a little stiff from the long ride . ‘ I 'm away home . I 'm not needed here until this Aldhelm has played his part and pointed the finger at your Tutilo , as I take it you 're certain he will before the night 's out . I 'd as soon not be here . If there 's a part for me , let it be left until tomorrow.’
Idiom: beg the question (used idiomatically: yes)
Williams has said that the doctor is ‘ probably exempted from that duty if life has become a burden to the patient’ . There is no authority for these propositions , and a leading critic in the United States has taken a contrary view , as did the court in the case of The Application of the President and Directors of Georgetown College Inc. , holding that ‘ death resulting from failure to extend proper medical care , where there is a duty of care , is manslaughter.’ This obviously begs the question of when a duty exists . If necessary , I am content to rely on the propositions advanced by Elliott and Williams , although the words ‘ useless’ and ‘ burden’are not very helpful . I think the stronger point , however , is that the arguments to the contrary revolve around questions of voluntary euthanasia as opposed to the situation I am discussing .
Idiom: get a move on (used idiomatically: yes)
Minutes afterwards , Fabia was still sitting stunned and hardly able to credit that she was going to Prague with Vendelin Gajdusek — that he was allowing her to use a spare room in his Prague hotel suite ! She was still feeling somewhat shaken an hour later — she was going to Prague — and with Ven!— when suddenly she realised that she 'd barely moved since that phone call . She had better get a move on , she realised . Ven would love it if , though he 'd given her ample time , she kept him waiting . Fabia got busy with her packing and , that done , she went down to Reception to pay her bill .
Idiom: with bated breath (used idiomatically: yes)
The Russian replied . Russians are robust and tend to avoid circumlocution ; he therefore said the figures were wrong and the American was a liar . I waited with bated breath for this statement to be interpreted in some tactful way , such as , ‘ Could you please check your figures since mine are at variance with yours?’ But no . The interpreter stood stolidly there and interpreted verbatim .
Idiom: at the end of the day (used idiomatically: yes)
It was them molesting me . It was a natural thing for them to do so I did n't take any action — told them in no uncertain terms that this man was ill and he eventually came to and everyone was happy then . At the end of the day , there was no love lost between the street people and the representatives of an all - powerful State . T. D. The ordinary working - man and his kith and kin , unless he was in trouble , he did n't want to know you . But if you did something underhand , they 'd shout about it .
Idiom: the more the merrier (used idiomatically: yes)
I believe some ( if not all ) the players read fanzines . And even my contact with Miss Donnelly was fairly tame as flame wars go ! More the merrier . The more active the merrier too … always nice to have different points of view . It ll also be useful when arranging travel groups etc .
Idiom: make ends meet (used idiomatically: yes)
Mary ca n't make ends meet on her pension . That 's why she works half - days as a cleaning lady in a restaurant .
Idiom: one of those days (used idiomatically: yes)
Yeah so when you the , man is the question where is he , where is your sting ? Because it 's going to finish one of those days it 's going to be This few then like you have now like wo n't be there will it ? Yeah .
Idiom: go straight (used idiomatically: yes)
Britain has been allocated 1.2 billion ecus ( £ 830 m ) of ERDF money for 1988–91 . About 700 m ecus are still waiting to be collected , partly because spending tends to bunch at the end of a period and partly because Britain 's system of local - authority finance means that some councils can not use the money . Unlike other countries , Britain does not allow the money to go straight to the local authorities to which it has been allocated . Because the Treasury wants to have the final say on all public spending , however financed , each year 's chunk of ERDF cash is merely regarded as one source of finance for the total that authorities are permitted to spend each year . The accounting is one thing : getting hold of the money is another .
Idiom: by heart (used idiomatically: yes)
‘ You did n't go to the library,’ said his Mum . Philip looked down . He knew the pattern of the carpet by heart but now it was as if he were looking at it for the first time , taking it all in , the design of orange and black squares . ‘ I finished early and I called at the library for you . I asked Miss Lofthouse if she 'd seen you and she said you had n't been in this afternoon.’
Idiom: full tilt (used idiomatically: yes)
Hardly believable , forty years on ! ’’ Bump ! She had run full tilt into somebody . Butted him , like an angry goat . And in doing so she had nearly lost her balance , and he was heaping coals of fire on her head by holding her up .
Idiom: on board (used idiomatically: yes)
Like me and Fernando , I suppose . Ruth averted her eyes to above Steve 's shoulder . Fernando and his lovely companion were still on board , laughing , having fun and sipping champagne in the moonlight . Such a romantic scenario , such an agonising scene to witness and yet it was compulsive viewing for Ruth . She could n't have moved away if her life depended on it .
Idiom: champ at the bit (used idiomatically: yes)
She knew Eva 's worth , and her own brand of quiet determination was the perfect foil to Eva 's " get up and go " philosophy . She would make sure she did not go too far , or too soon . Within three months Eva was champing at the bit . The doctor had said she could go back to work . They would need breakfast at 7 am .
Idiom: black and blue (used idiomatically: no)
I 'm paying seventy - five dollars a week to American Actors ' Equity just for the privilege of acting on stage here . What Americans pay in England is nothing compared to that . ' Politics aside , Crawford 's black - and - blue comedy had made him a star with New York theatre - goers , and the American film industry was about to capitalize on this young star who would do anything . Chapter 8 HELLO , DOLLY ! During the 1967 San Francisco Film Festival , Crawford met Gene Kelly , the song - and - dance maestro who had himself been a hit on the Broadway stage before starring in film musicals such as Singing In the Rain .
Idiom: from rags to riches (used idiomatically: yes)
Legend has it that Nigel Rudd was watching Magic Roundabout with his four year old son when he finally decided that the recession was too good an opportunity to miss Philip Ames : Creating raw and exciting business environments Kookai : It 's not all plain sailing on the journey from rags to riches Philip Ames realised at an early age that the nine to five routine was not for him . ‘ I did n't want a proper job like an accountant .
Idiom: over the top (used idiomatically: yes)
Sports Diary : Rugby Union : Andrew says it with flowers By BILL COLWILL THE FRENCH love to lay on the style and their over - the - top preliminaries -world 's biggest scrum , Un Show Laser — to this week 's Bicentenary match against the Lions in Paris gave the evening a sense of occasion which the rugby itself also justified . But the pomp and splendour did not go down so well with Craig Chalmers . The Scottish stand - off , who was among the Lions replacements , was forced to parade , bouquet in hand , from behind one set of posts to the red carpet on the half - wayline as chaperone to Mireille Mathieu , the French songstress who had just rendered all three verses of the Marseillaise ( with the chorus repeated each time ) .
Idiom: go west (used idiomatically: no)
‘ These players can realise all their ambitions here . Where can they go in Britain that is more exciting ? ’ West Ham manager Billy Bonds faces a dilemma going into their Anglo-Italian Cup tie in Cosenza . Thirteen-goal Trevor Morley is suspended after being sent off against Reggiana and Bonds must decide whether to play Clive Allen alone upfront or give rookie striker Steve Jones his first team debut . John Aldridge has a stomach strain and will miss Tranmere 's trip to Pisa .
Idiom: high and low (used idiomatically: yes)
Dear Guitarist Struan Hellier 's remarks ( ‘ Goat 's Bum Soup?’ ) about objectivity of taste were completely wrong . He made three obvious mistakes . Firstly , just by supplying paradigm instances of high and low art , he has gone no way towards showing that there is not an area of genuine indeterminacy in between . Secondly , the word ‘ taste’ can be rather confusing , as it covers judgements of both art and preferences . Struan seems to confuse these two uses .
Idiom: raise the roof (used idiomatically: yes)
More than 100 carols will be sung at Central Hall . ‘ About half will be traditional and the rest will be either more modern carols or contemporary arrangments of old ones,’ producer Jamie Thomson , 39 , tells me . ‘ There will be a great variety but over the day some carols may be repeated because we want to make sure we have enough truly popular ones so people can sing along and raise the roof.’ Labour leader John Smith will give a Christmas reading . Among others participating will be Jean Boht , Peter Bowles , Tessa Dahl , Jeremy Irons , Geraldine James , Anneka Rice , Ned Sherrin , Gwen Taylor , Simon Williams and Catherine Zeta Jones .
Idiom: pick holes (used idiomatically: yes)
Ours is a ‘ 56 , with the yellow - stamped number 6 8083 on the rear of the headstock . Despite the wear and tear of many a performance it 's still a cracking guitar , with its classically timeless shape beautifully set off by the tobacco - yellowed binding . Any fanatical guitar collector or dealer would find a fair few things to pick holes in ( the excessive buckle - scratching on the back , the missing selector - switch surround , a semi - collapsed bridge causing severe buzzing on the middle strings , the advanced state of decay of the stop tailpiece , an unoriginal jack - plate and a number of modern screws ) but despite its flaws the whole guitar still just reeks of class and character . However , a ‘ 56 Custom is never going to be as desirable as a ‘ 58 Standard , for two reasons . Its main practical limitation was its incredibly low frets , great for Les Paul 's own style of speed - playing or for cocktail jazz , but just terrible for string - bending .
Idiom: neck of the woods (used idiomatically: yes)
WHAT 'S ON OUTDOOR EVENTS If something 's going on your neck of the woods , we want to hear about it . Send your event details two months in advance to Vanessa Thompson , Outdoor Action , . 12 MILE HIKE IN NORTH YORKSHIRE
Idiom: tread on someone's toes (used idiomatically: yes)
You 're a failure as a home - maker , mother , superwoman , as Eagle Eyes from next door can see for herself . Guilt plays a major part in the who 's - that - at - the - door game . As a nation , the British are inclined to say sorry whenever someone treads on our toes on the train , so simply saying ‘ shove off’ to an unwelcome caller makes most of us feel terribly wicked . Ladies collecting jumble for the local church fête always make you feel terribly guilty . They inevitably knock on the door on the one evening of the month when you 're dolled up in your glad rags to go out on the town .
Idiom: catch fire (used idiomatically: yes)
Mm . Yeah ? Yeah , because that , it 's not gon na catch fire cos the barbecue 's here . And that 's just a shelf , so when you 've got the stuff coming out . Yeah .
Idiom: beg the question (used idiomatically: yes)
The Democratic leaders insist that the cut is an unwarranted giveaway to the wealthy which will have no significant effect on the economy and deepen the deficit . In reality , the squabble is more over slogans and symbols left over from the Reagan years than anything substantial . This begs the question why the Democrats and the White House are staging such a divisive quarrel , at a time when agreement on a deficit - cutting budget for 1990 is already overdue ( the nominal deadline passed yesterday ) . Some pundits suggest that the capital gains tax battle is a shrewd White House softening - up exercise for an even more aggressive assault on the Democratic leaders in the next two to three weeks , designed to force a 1990 deficit - cutting agreement on Republican terms . This flies in the face of the cautious nature of the Bush administration .
Idiom: laughing stock (used idiomatically: yes)
MARK CROSSLEY dropped Nottingham Forest deeper into the relegation mire yesterday with an error which even a Sunday morning park footballer would find embarrassing . The much-maligned Forest 'keeper literally let two points slip away when he handed Andy Clarke a 12th-minute equaliser after Nigel Clough had got his dad 's team off to a flying start . Poor Crossley became the laughing stock of a 19,326 crowd when Vinnie Jones overhit a through ball , leaving the Forest No 1 with the seemingly easy task of collecting it yards ahead of the advancing Clarke . But , in pantomime fashion , he let it fumble from his hands and Clarke could hardly believe his luck as he rolled the ball from into the empty net . Crossley 's howler left Forest rooted to the foot of the Premier League , four points behind second-from-bottom Wimbledon .
Idiom: run a mile (used idiomatically: no)
The crystal glassware factories at Stourbridge offer the chance to see glass manufactured and marvellous factory shop bargains . Stoke-on-Trent , the ‘ Potteries ’ and the lovely Peak District are an hour 's drive away to the north . 15 miles to the west , the scenic Severn Valley Railway with its steam trains runs from Kidderminster to Bridgnorth through the pretty Georgian town of Bewdley . Transport enthusiasts are spoilt for choice in the Heart of England . The Museum of British Road Transport at Coventry , the Patrick Collection , the National Motorcycle Museum near the NEC , and the huge Aerospace Museum at RAF Cosford are all well worth a visit .
Idiom: under the influence (used idiomatically: no)
Antarctic zooplankton is characterized by an almost complete absence of larvae of benthic animals , and surface layers are rich in individuals but poor in species ; numbers of species tend to increase with depth ( Knox , 1970 ) . That the characteristic communities are widespread both latitudinally and longitudinally is not surprising . There is also a constant westward drift in surface waters immediately surrounding the continent , and an eastward drift under the influence of westerly winds beyond the Antarctic Divergence , that spread species longitudinally and ensure circumpolar distributions . The single most prominent invertebrate species is the shrimp - like crustacean Euphausia superba . Its popular name ‘ krill’ originated with Norwegian whalers .
Idiom: get away with murder (used idiomatically: yes)
Let us deal with the people first . The honest truth , never before revealed , is that there are two types of slimmer . One type can get away with near murder , at least for a while , and still shed some weight . The second type can not get away with anything , and must keep very precisely to a set number of calories , weighing and measuring food carefully , in order to shed weight . Obviously there must be a third type , hovering somewhere in the middle , but you will be able to work this out for yourself by considering the following characteristics of the two extremes .
Idiom: on the shelf (used idiomatically: yes)
There was a small desk , a lined pad , a tea mug holding a pencil and two pens , a stack of train and airline schedules , and a few pieces of personal clutter that could have been in any room in the house . The desk drawers were empty . On a shelf was a pebble that had been polished by running water ; it was ovoid , a piece of granite about big enough to hold in a clenched fist ; a seam of quartz halved it on the diagonal . Underneath it was a map of London . Jackson picked up the pebble and held it until the stone warmed .
Idiom: short shrift (used idiomatically: yes)
6 Take care to protect pictures in transit . Copyright Editors always assume that photographs from PR sources can be used free of charge , and any PR outfit which tries to charge for pictures is likely to get short shrift . However , this does mean that your organisation must own the copyright of all the pictures you send out . When a photographer is commissioned by a PRO to take photographs , copyright in the negative belongs to the photographer and copyright in the prints belongs to the commissioner .
Idiom: tell tales (used idiomatically: no)
In one American court case , an adolescent girl was present when several of her relatives were murdered . The police initially strongly suspected that she had been involved ; her story kept changing and was filled with inconsistencies . Once she was hypnotised , she told a vivid tale implicating several people in the murders . The police switched to regarding her as completely innocent and she became the star witness . Her testimony was unshakable .
Idiom: on the level (used idiomatically: no)
' But wait ' til you see winter in Spiderglass Scand ! ' he said , moist lips curving in an ecstatic smile . ' The frozen waterfalls and the children skating on the fjords . ' Berndt 's gaze hovered embarrassingly on a level with her bosom and Chesarynth felt again her lack of development . That was one thing Jezrael had that she had never attained . But Berndt did n't know any of the layers of discomfort he was pressing on his new trainee .
Idiom: run a mile (used idiomatically: yes)
For hundreds of years , human ~ beings were convinced that it was impossible to run a mile in less than four minutes . Then , in 1954 , Roger ~ Bannister shattered this belief .
Idiom: scream blue murder (used idiomatically: yes)
They sported ditches and hedges and he built them proper jumps in the hedgerows to practise over and life got far more earnest and dangerous . Hoomey , having learnt to steer his bus at a steady canter round the railway cinder track and clear two foot of sleepers on each circuit , now found himself with quarter of a mile of galloping grass and a hedgerow at the end of it reinforced with a telegraph pole . His bus turned into an Inter - City express without brakes and he sat on top and screamed blue murder . Bones bore down on the obstacle and Hoomey shut his eyes . ‘ My God , but that horse can jump!’
Idiom: on the ground (used idiomatically: yes)
Coppell , who is putting out the most inexperienced team he has fielded in nine years at Palace , said : ‘ Because Andy is a diabetic , he could not have the operation under general anaesthetic . ‘ He was wide awake while the old Black and Decker was being drilled straight through his kneecap and a donor tendon was being placed at the back of his knee , which is unbelievably advanced surgery . ’ ‘ We are a bit thin on the ground up front but if I stuck the cleaner and laundry lady out there I know they would give me 110 per cent . ’ Barnes added : ‘ Being on the same pitch as that other bloke Barnes would be a dream because only two years ago I was putting up the nets on Sunday mornings for my hospital team . ’ Meanwhile , Chelsea keeper Kevin Hitchcock is determined to repeat last season 's Cup heroics against Everton in the fourth round replay at Stamford Bridge tonight .
Idiom: come clean (used idiomatically: yes)
I appeal to the Leader of the House to ask the Secretary of State for Education and Science to do what he has been asked repeatedly , during and before the debate , to do — publish the survey information that has been sent to him by colleges of further education . It is as simple as that . If the Secretary of State for Education and Science does not want to be charged with the suppression of evidence , the Leader of the House should appeal to him to come clean , go public and reveal the evidence . Mr. MacGregor I certainly know of further education colleges that are very enthusiastic about the Bill and whose one concern is that it may not complete its passage during the current Session .
Idiom: up a tree (used idiomatically: no)
How do you get paper babies ? Marry an old bag ! Why was the bank clerk sitting up a tree ? He wanted to be a branch manager ! ‘ Scuse me , missus,’ said the bus conductor , ‘ but did you know that you have a banana in your ear?’
Idiom: by heart (used idiomatically: yes)
This gives some idea of Smith 's precocious accomplishments at the age of 12 . ‘ He read all Thucydides , Sophocles and Sallust , 12 books of Tacitus , the greater part of Horace , Juvenal , Persius and several plays of Aeschylus and Euripides . He got up six books of Euclid and algebra to simple equations … and … learned all the odes of Horace by heart.’ In 1843 Smith 's elder brother died of consumption , a disease that had already carried off a sister some years earlier . His guardian now insisted that the family move to a healthier climate This well - intentioned advice proved disastrous , for within the space of one year in Italy Smith had suffered from frostbite , smallpox and malaria .
Idiom: in the long run (used idiomatically: yes)
They will probably have many psychological problems as a result , and that would be worse in the long run .