Gooogr/pie_idioms huggingface dataset:
Idiom: break new ground (used idiomatically: yes)
I think the climber Messner is the greatest mountaineer of perhaps all time . You just have to list his track record , the number of firsts and very innovative things that he did down the line . Being the first to do it is n't just an ego thing , it 's also breaking new ground . What impresses me in Messner is the combination he has of immense boldness and analytical power . He knows when to turn back and he has turned back frequently when things are n't right .
Idiom: save the day (used idiomatically: yes)
You 've probably saved me from some kind of demonic sacrifice . I 'm joking , Larry . You move on , and thank you , and I 'm sorry if you 've been disturbed , and I 'm sorry about Demian , and I shall shed the deceptively comforting skin of this house , and all will be well , Larry , you shall see , the estate agent will save the day in the end.’ They were saying too much . What are all these words ?
Idiom: on edge (used idiomatically: yes)
Had he looked further back he would have seen the referee waving play on , having overruled the linesman . Lynch made amends before long and equalised from close range , but that was all the reward Southwood were to see for their efforts . Leishman found an inch of space on the edge of the area and chipped his volley delightfully over the advancing ‘ keeper . At half-time Sandrock players were asking themselves , ‘ Are we really winning ? ’ The second half was a different matter and Sandrock took a grip on the game .
Idiom: turn someone's head (used idiomatically: yes)
‘ It 's all right . I know how much you two enjoy a good tiff , and I seem to provide a convenient topic for it . But for me it 's a bit like a tennis match — I get tired of turning my head from side to side listening to you.’ She tried to leave , but Tom crossed the room in two strides and took her arm . ‘ You 've made your point,’ he growled .
Idiom: on a roll (used idiomatically: yes)
Since the book seemed to be one that would cause some controversy , she had better proceed with caution . Her mind made up , she picked up the receiver and dialled the number of the separate school . The separate school had no Henry Stych on its roll , and the school secretary was left in a state of agonized curiosity at the Advent 's interest in such a person . The principal of the public high school happened to pick up the telephone himself . Yes , he knew Henry Stych , and , yes , he knew of The Cheaper Sex ; he had confiscated a copy of it from a Grade 10 child only this morning .
Idiom: up in the air (used idiomatically: yes)
But as I say , we can take the plates off the screen underneath here but I mean I think you still ought to have another bloke Well get together with Ian and sort of up there with him to clean it out because I say , you can isolate things but you 're up in the air . Yeah . And that and that 's what
Idiom: throw the book at (used idiomatically: yes)
However , this remarkable literary work — even given an army of fans as keen as his niece — would not have brought in very much income , nor would the journalism , and it was to be assumed the trust provided the rest . What he was also wondering was whether Harriet had received any letters of the kind received by Tom Fearon and if so , whether she had kept them ? But he had little reason yet to ask for a search warrant and Mr Simpson would go purple in the face and throw every legal book in his considerable library at him if he so much as tried . But it would be worth making contact with Miss Frances Needham - Burrell when she arrived and asking her — when sorting out her cousin 's effects — to keep an eye open for letters with a threatening or abusive content . Markby retraced his steps to Rose Cottage and Meredith opened the door as he came up .
Idiom: beyond the pale (used idiomatically: yes)
The frustrated resorted to petting as a substitute . ‘ There was necking ( acceptable ) , soul kissing ( exciting , dangerous ) and petting , which was subdivided into above the waist and below . The last two were beyond the pale . The trick was to stay very , very popular without going ‘ all the way’ . Like most girls of my generation , I managed to graduate from High School with my virginity intact,’ wrote Janet Harris looking back on the Fifties in The Prime of Ms America .
Idiom: state of the art (used idiomatically: yes)
This dichotomy is embedded into the language of textiles : for ' embroider ' is not only to ' make splendid ' , but also ' to besmear with dirt or blood ' ; ' stitch'not only ' to fasten together … by sewing ' , but also ' a sharp sudden local pain ' . 2 The current Craft Council exhibition , Put of the Frame , brought to mind this ambivalence ; it also stirred memories of an earlier exhibition … Out of the Frame : Historical and Contemporary Embroidery was the state - of - the - art exhibition showcasing the work of 56 contemporary embroiderers . It claimed a transformation in the status of embroidery over the last 30 years , from ' genteel craft for women ' to the Art of an ' avant - garde'on ' the cutting edge'with ' a new spirit of self - expression and innovation ' . 3 It was selected by three established embroiderers , Polly Binns , Hannah Frew Patterson MBE , and Audrey Walker,(with Linda Theophilus , from the Crafts Council ) , and included examples of 17th–19th century embroidery alongside a survey of key 20th century developments .
Idiom: dry as dust (used idiomatically: yes)
Her ' subject ' is the relationship between the angels of medieval philosophers and the Ideas and Forms in Plato . Her paper The Eidoli and the Angeli is not a suitable one to read to the little study group which meets in a neighbour 's house : the group , it transpires , is actually in touch with the world of spirits . These people are not , like Damaris , dry - as - dust , unbelieving intellectuals . They are magicians and hierophants . The Eidoli and the Angeli have power to invade even dull suburban English houses .
Idiom: in the club (used idiomatically: yes)
Anyone who did n't know them might have taken them for a couple of businessmen out for a Sunday afternoon stroll . But almost everyone in Kingsmarkham knew them and knew also by now that this was the spot where Charlie Hatton had been murdered . ' I said we 'd have to talk to everyone in the darts club , ' said Burden , stopping down at the water 's edge , ' and I reckon we have . Funny , is n't it ? Pertwee 's the only one who could put up with Hatton for a moment , but no one 's willing to come out with it .
Idiom: water under the bridge (used idiomatically: yes)
They did that in nineteen seventy two , that 's right In nineteen seventy two . That was a long time ago , there 's been a lot of water under the bridge , why not talk again ? And a lot of blood under it as well . But I , the reality is this
Idiom: stand on ceremony (used idiomatically: yes)
Only after the truce of 1686 with the Poles was it clear that she might well be the force of the future in eastern Europe . Yet throughout the seventeenth century no diplomats were more pertinacious than those of Russia in asserting what they claimed as the honorific rights of their master . The " ceremonious stomachs " of Russian ambassadors " whose Nation stands so much on Ceremony " were the subject of comment in England in the early years of the century , as they had already been in the reign of Elizabeth . Certainly , some of the claims they advanced were extreme even by the standards of so punctilious an age . In 1614 the Prince of Wales himself had to be excluded from a dinner at which the Russian ambassador was to be present , since it was feared that the latter would refuse to accept a place on the king 's left if the prince were seated on his right .
Idiom: do the trick (used idiomatically: yes)
Beck added : ‘ It was a reminder of what he could do . It was n't just the number of goals but the variety that was impressive . It must have done the trick!’ Ferguson confirmed it . He says : I still was n't sure about him until I saw the video of his goals .
Idiom: change hands (used idiomatically: yes)
It is far easier from their point of view if they only need to deal with one entity and they will probably prefer that to be the purchaser as it is the purchaser that has taken over the business . If debtors and creditors are excluded the natural inclination of the vendor will be to pursue the debtors and delay paying the creditors for as long as possible . Irrespective of the fact that the business has changed hands , creditors may associate the delay in payment with the business itself rather than the identity of the vendor . Furthermore , if the vendor commences debt recovery proceedings against debtors who continue to be customers of the business this may jeopardise goodwill . The availability of staff , books and records
Idiom: man and boy (used idiomatically: yes)
In the main street , at the corner of the court , some labourers were repairing the gas - pipes , and had lighted a great fire in a brazier , round which a party of ragged men and boys were gathered : warming their hands and winking their eyes before the blaze in rapture .
Idiom: join the club (used idiomatically: yes)
O'Toole always refused to say why and when he stopped drinking , but denied that it was because of a stomach operation he underwent . With the sobering - up of these two legendary hellraisers came something like the end of an era . But one wild man of the movies refused to join the teetotal club , and continued flying the well - oiled flag - Oliver Reed . By the time he reached his fifties , Ollie Reed had slowed down somewhat . Gone were the days when he smashed up hotels and pubs , dropped his trousers on an aeroplane and climbed up a pub chimney while the fire was still alight .
Idiom: pull a fast one (used idiomatically: yes)
Undistracted by Rainbow 's presence , or by the white noise that pulses continuously around Anya 's troubled soul , I perform a little self examination , to sound out the position of the binding points , and decipher the formulae that pin me down . Now that I have peace to do all this , I realise what I had previously suspected : the gilgul has used a fairly primitive spell . I ca n't neutralise the treatment completely : she has pulled a fast one on the prince of my particular star ( yes , it is n't only humans who possess them : we demons have our guardian angels , too ) . Until I can persuade her to unbind me — or make contact with Mephistco and convince someone back at base to forgive me my trespasses just long enough to do an override — I am confined inside the plane of reflected light . But — hoo - ha!— this does not mean I have to stay in one particular mirror .
Idiom: black and blue (used idiomatically: yes)
Not that there was any harm in him , it was his nature Gladys said . She had been to Italy on a coach tour , and the Italian men could n't control themselves she said . She said if you went out alone in a tight skirt you were black and blue before you 'd gone a hundred yards . But that boy was different ; there was something nasty about the way he looked at you . He wanted to do more than pinch …
Idiom: take root (used idiomatically: yes)
After 40-odd years of dependence , the change is daunting . Since dropping communism , they have gone through three stages in thinking about security . First , people humming Beethoven 's ninth symphony looked forward to peace and joy as Soviet soldiers withdrew and democracy took root . This happy mood lasted roughly until last autumn . As heads cleared , it was seen that dangers remained : a potential flood of refugees from the Soviet Union or the Balkans , the internal tensions of poverty and ethnic division , the giant still next door .
Idiom: pissed off (used idiomatically: yes)
Pearson , as said by someone else , closely followed by chappy . Peter Barnes , has to be the biggest cock up by any leeds manager ever , and will never be beaten ( I hope ) . I 've never been soooo pissed off at a game than I was at the rangers game at Elland Road . John Stiles against Wigan in the 1/4 final of the FA cup in 87 ( ? ) Eddie gray got a team together ( most of them have already been mentioned ) of excellant youngsters and virtualy every one of them was sold or given away for f * * * all .
Idiom: within living memory (used idiomatically: yes)
The men then unloaded the corn into the side bays each of which was called the gof — or goafstead . Gof or gove means the corn in the ear or the mow or stack ; that is , before it is threshed . Tusser called it the goef , and we can be sure that , like the word , the design of the barn itself and the work that went on in it had hardly changed from the sixteenth century to within living memory . One practice linked with this stage of the harvest was called riding the goaf in Suffolk . As the loose barley was unloaded on to the goafstead , a boy rode a quiet old farmhorse round and round on the corn , trampling it down .
Idiom: no time like the present (used idiomatically: yes)
Moreover , she was unashamedly curious about Fowler - Troon 's interview with Newley . ' When had you in mind ? ' ' No time like the present . Could you manage today ? ' Celia said that she could .
Idiom: give and take (used idiomatically: no)
Our wish is that it will enable you better to recall and enjoy your own memories . Might we indeed suggest adding a personal looseleaf comment and photograph or two within your copy for posterity ? Finally , a few guideline wishes for the 1990s : undoubtedly , first , that the Channel Tunnel will be completed without undue delay and that a new highspeed route will rapidly follow through Kent ; that under their new chairman , Robert Reid the second , from Shell , due to take his post in October 1990 , BR will somehow regain a touch of personality , warmth , humanity , without losing their commercial edge ; that the policy of providing new and cheaperto-operate stock for secondary routes rather than handing down yesterday 's worn-out express trains pays real dividends and prevents too much discussion of ‘ bustitution ’ ; and that defensive theory will give way to common-sense pragmatism over matters such as the quality of the printed timetable and what really benefits the customer . Class 50 No 50021 Rodney leaves Newton Abbot with the 10.30 Liverpool to Penzance train on 10 March 1987 a few weeks before the removal of the semaphore signals . The 1980s certainly proved to be the age of the train , but not the age of the ATP as this entrance barrier at Glasgow Central proclaims in May 1983 .
Idiom: under fire (used idiomatically: yes)
Two Nazi infantrymen were scurrying towards the cover of a large rock . The Norwegian killed the leader with a single shot , but the other man went to ground . It was the first time Ingrid had been under small - arms fire . She was nervous . She lay in the shelter of the gully , close to the Norwegian 's side .
Idiom: have a heart (used idiomatically: no)
This crablike sidling away from all he is and does catches the tune of the achieved , fully formed Stavrogin ; unlike Svidrigailov , who incidentally makes great play with the fact that he 's bored , he would — could — never call himself a debauchee . He is a different sort of great sinner , or essay upon the great-sinner theme , which is why I stress the aspect of return to the Vicious and tragic antihero who ca n't even call himself lazy . The underground man 's heart is no more in being idle than in anything else , however much , as he himself puts it , he ‘ wants to want ’ . Stavrogin naturalizes this thought by observing ‘ My desires are too weak ’ . But the suicide letter also keeps a foot in the abstract world , the world of metaphysics in my extended sense .
Idiom: in one ear and out the other (used idiomatically: yes)
I tried explaining the algebra homework to him , but it just went in one ear and out the other .
Idiom: around the clock (used idiomatically: yes)
Can do , yes . Happens . You do n't mind being on call around the clock ? No , you get used to it . So you 're the rest of the R A F airborne .
Idiom: for keeps (used idiomatically: no)
Euro MPs ' perks I WAS amazed to read about Euro MPs ' perks . Their £ 140-a - day living allowance alone is about what pensioners get for their keep a month . Euro MPs can claim travel expenses without producing receipts , yet to claim Income Support pensioners must supply a whole booklet of information . It 's an insult .
Idiom: in apple-pie order (used idiomatically: yes)
On either side of the gangway were neat piles of trunks , cases , cardboard boxes and tea chests — even a bed , propped on its side and wrapped in polythene . Everything was as she had left it . Everything was in apple - pie order . For a moment she stood listening . Peter was still asleep .
Idiom: open someone's eyes (used idiomatically: yes)
What the year in Montreal managed ( somehow ) was to take both these things , then open my eyes to what I could really do with them . It gave me the time to truly solidify the technique , and to control and focus the ...... um .... various performing skills I already had .
Idiom: grind to a halt (used idiomatically: yes)
After seeing thousands pour through his doors , Tony Dyer , of Debenhams in Bristol , said : ‘ It 's chaos and it started the moment we opened . Everything seems to be selling right across the board.’ Motorways and high streets around the country ground to a halt as shoppers headed for the stores . Ten - mile tailbacks blocked roads as bargain hunters sprang into action after three days at home . The frenzy was hailed by ecstatic managers as the best start to the winter sales in years .
Idiom: hit the skids (used idiomatically: yes)
DART 'S DOLDRUM Profits take a dive on D.V.R. THE DART VALLEY Light Railway Plc has become the latest steam railway to hit the financial skids with a plunge in passengers , income and overall profitability recorded in the 1991 accounts . In its first year of rail operations based solely on the seven - mile Paignton to Kingswear line , these figures can only be regarded as poor . The self - styled ' Supreme in Steam ' line 's 1991 results come hot on the heels of the near crash of the cash - starved Mid - Hants Railway .
Idiom: belt and braces (used idiomatically: yes)
Unless you have a transformer made or wind one yourself , it is unlikely that you will find a 22V secondary , but a 20V type is quite satisfactory . Hence we could just get away with a 50VA transformer . However , assuming a 70 per cent efficiency we can take this as 3A , and this calls for a 80VA transformer and a 6A rectifier to be on the side of ‘ belt and braces’ . Transformers are readily available with 20V secondaries and of 80VA rating , both standard and toroidal . Two separate secondaries are commonly provided and these can be paralleled to supply the total 3A current required , which is only 1.5A per winding .
Idiom: on the face of it (used idiomatically: yes)
Planners in Sweden and India think their countries can meet their energy needs , cut emissions of greenhouse gases — and get richer — by the end of the century Debora MacKenzie ON THE FACE of it , Sweden wants to do the impossible . The country produces half its electricity from 12 nuclear plants , the highest proportion of nuclear power per inhabitant in the world . But last month , the Swedish government renewed a promise to close down the nuclear plants within 20 years ( This Week , 26 January ) .
Idiom: run out of steam (used idiomatically: yes)
Wolverhampton Wanderers : Stowell ; Ashley , Venus , Rankine , Madden , Mountfield , Birch , Cook , Bull , Mutch , Downing . Referee : D Axcell ( Southend ) . Soccer : Portsmouth run out of steam By William Johnson Tranmere 2 Portsmouth 0 PORTSMOUTH who , on Sunday , came agonisingly close to depriving Liverpool of a place in the FA Cup Final , were brought back to earth when they visited the unfashionable part of Merseyside last night .
Idiom: take root (used idiomatically: yes)
‘ Go back to sleep , will you.’ Cornelius began to feel the seeds of panic taking root in his stomach . ‘ Help,’ cried he . ‘ Let me out of here.’
Idiom: tell tales (used idiomatically: yes)
It is possible that , perhaps for as much as its first 2000 Ma , Venus enjoyed clement conditions , with small open bodies of water , and rivers . This water could have left features visible today , such as dendritic channels . Unfortunately , the spatial resolution of the best radar images so far obtained is too poor to have revealed such tell - tale signs . It is also possible that life developed , and if the rate of evolution was about twice as rapid as on the Earth then intelligent beings may have been among the organisms roasted to death as the Sun 's luminosity rose , the small oceans evaporated , and the CO 2 emerged from the rocks . 4.5 A brief ( and well - protected ) visit to the Cytherean surface
Idiom: at cross purposes (used idiomatically: yes)
The Administration is embarrassed that the Fed is not providing more support to its commitment to lower the dollar . Perhaps more important , the Administration is again under pressure from US exporters who fear that the high dollar will drive them out of international markets . The Fed and the Treasury are again at cross purposes , with one suggesting that rising inflation is the greater fear while the other insists that the climbing trade deficit is the most serious concern . The remedy for one will exacerbate the other . Soon Richard Darman , the budget director not known for his light touch , will resume his attack .
Idiom: take someone for a ride (used idiomatically: yes)
Says Susie : ' Let 's go out to play . ' It 's far too nice to stay inside ' We 'll take my bike out for a ride . ' So Susie cycles up and down Along a road well out of town .
Idiom: face to face (used idiomatically: yes)
Well that does n't mean very much . Does that answer your question ? So we know , we should and remember of course that in the book Freud chooses two examples as Joy told me the church and the army and these are just examples and of course Freud chooses them partly because they 're very big groups so they in some ways they er exemplify the principles he 's talking about because clearly in a small group like this you could say well look , what is going on is really I mean we all have , we all know each other and it 's a face - to - face group and really what happens here is an of the dynamics group and I think it is actually . For example one notices over many years of you know having teaching I must have taught hundreds now in different class groups , ca n't help noticing that although you 're the same , subject is the same , the syllabus is the same , the reading list is the same , the room is the same , the time of day may be the same , but the groups are completely different . Some classes erm go with a buzz and everybody gets a lot out of it you think you know oh that was that was worthwhile , we achieved something .
Idiom: open someone's eyes (used idiomatically: yes)
Unable to prevent his speedy passage , she screwed her eyes up tightly , her body rigid in his hands as he flung the door open . She had expected raucous laughter , giggling , cries of disappointment — anything but the total silence that struck her eardrums with the cold effectiveness of a block of ice applied to her nervous system . ' Open your eyes , Gina — see for yourself . ' His hands which had clasped her so tightly eased their pressure , holding her now with the gentle touch of a friend . ' Obediently she did as he bade her , her gaze travelling round the empty room , seeing only the elegant lines of fitted furniture , the newly made bed , the bedside table with one large volume hanging open — and another fallen untidily on the floor beside it .
Idiom: run riot (used idiomatically: yes)
Certainly many gangers refused to work in , or near , Box Hill Tunnel , such was the reputation it earned . Tunnels are so emotive and the mind can conjure up thoughts of terror and the possibility of being run down in a dark tunnel . The mind runs riot at what might happen . FIND THE LADY Long train journeys are often very boring and tiresome , especially if you are on your own .