Gooogr/pie_idioms huggingface dataset:
Idiom: fall into place (used idiomatically: yes)
This was particularly evident in the characters of Baloo and Mowgli . ‘ Walt Disney came up with the off - beat idea of having popular film and radio star Phil Harris provide the voice for Mowgli 's mellow mentor , Baloo . ‘ His breezy , free - spirited delivery inspired a new approach to the character and from there all the pieces started to fall into place.’ This new ‘ hip’ Baloo also helped animators create identities for the other characters . ‘ Soon we started seeing how Baloo could help us with Bagheera .
Idiom: have an eye for (used idiomatically: yes)
He was a good soldier , but his marriage was on the rocks . Woolridge and his wife , Laura , were living apart . It was rumoured that Laura had an eye for the men , which did nothing to consolidate the marriage , or to abate Woolridge 's white - hot temper , which was never far away . They had decided on a trial separation , Charles staying with his friends at barracks in London , while his wife lived at Alma Terrace , Arthur Road , Clewer , a district of Windsor . Laura shared rooms in the small terraced house with Alice Cox , a young lady who worked with her at a local Post Office .
Idiom: green light (used idiomatically: no)
I saw the airmen of the watch come out and gather it up , and all the time I was trying to make contact with the control tower . In my message I told them that I was going to fly close to the control tower to see if they could tell me what was wrong with my port wheel , but again no reply from control . However , they gave me a green Very light which I assumed was " clear to land " . So I made an approach , a long low approach and happily there was a bit of a crosswind from the portside , I decided to use this crosswind to help me place the aircraft at the end of my run off the normal line of landing and nearer to the engineering hangar . The whole thing went very well .
Idiom: get the picture (used idiomatically: yes)
I I I I I I I wanna check , I wanna check her out . Yeah . Get a picture and then I will . I 'm gon na try and get hold of this one .
Idiom: break someone's heart (used idiomatically: yes)
Anyway when I went in the phone was on the hook , and I said who was on the phone ? She said the Samaritans she said Joy I were gon na commit suicide , and she said I thought well I 'll just talk to the Samaritans and she said that 's where I were , I said you wo n't commit suicide will you ? She said I ca n't cope no more , she said I just can not cope any longer and I said you must n't feel like that I said you 'll break all our hearts , I said it 's , life will never be the same again , I said come on home with me , forget about this day , I said tomorrow we 'll come and pick your birds up cos she 's got two beautiful parrots , she 's got a Mulican white with peach Oh and then she 's got one of them blue erm ones , what 'll you call them ?
Idiom: sick as a dog (used idiomatically: yes)
Rory cuddled him . And after as many tender words as he could think of , to try and lighten the load , to try and make it seem less of a confession , even to try and compensate for the shared and shaming confidence , he told Fergus that he had been responsible for the fire that had burned down the barn near Port Ann , fifteen years earlier . They ended up laughing about that , but it was the uneasy laughter of desperation and displacement , and all they could do after that was finish the whisky and have the joint Rory had been working on , and it was almost a relief when Fergus was sick as a dog out of the window , hanging out barfing onto the slates and into the guttering while Rory tried to clean the plaster off the top bunk and stowed the guns out of harm 's way . They woke with raging hangovers to a wrecked room and the smell of black powder and vomit . There was a dead rat , blown almost in two , resting on the hearth of the fire .
Idiom: by the book (used idiomatically: yes)
She 'd wrapped him up so well against the weather that he could hardly be seen in the middle of all his clothing . Around them was the silence of the dense conifer wood , a moment of stillness held forever in time while the rest of the world moved on outside . Jed did everything by the book , sounding the warning horn before every pull and staying well clear of Diane and the gun . The launched clays zipped across the window of sky , and Diane followed each with a two - foot lead before squeezing the trigger . And then , if everything ran true to form , the undamaged clays would sail down to a landing somewhere out of sight .
Idiom: get the better of (used idiomatically: yes)
I forget myself . I do apologize . I allowed my feelings to get the better of me . Forgive me . I forgot …
Idiom: tie the knot (used idiomatically: yes)
A very busy girl comes to fetch water from the well . Her feet run on the pavement like rapid fingers over harp - strings . Hastily she ties a negligent knot with her hair , and loose locks on her forehead pry into the dark of her eyes . The man says to her , ' Would you lend me your pitcher ? ' ' My pitcher ? ' she asks , ' To draw water ? '
Idiom: sink or swim (used idiomatically: yes)
— My address : Peter Posh , Money People , 33 , Holborn Circus , London EC1P 1DQ . Please remember that I 'm unable to accept legal responsibility for answers Sink or swim ! LITTLE Joseph Baker 's all washed up ! He 'd just finished helping with the dishes when he decided it was time for high - jinks in the sink .
Idiom: heart and soul (used idiomatically: yes)
He was really and , lovely man to work with . He was genuine , he appreciated everything you did and I do n't think you get a better manager and of course he 's now under this new Transport Act when transport , this was erm , was nationalized is n't it ? He , that he 's now a Director of this Ipswich Buses and I do n't think you can get a better man to do it because he is heart and soul in transport , he , the things that he brought in , the different innovations that he brought in were good , I mean he brought in , he brought in all this erm operated vaults and all that sort of thing and all this electronic gear that they are working now . Mm . So you , you think you had er , er er you know go back , well looking back on it .
Idiom: over the hill (used idiomatically: yes)
One day it was decided we would take our dinner to eat in the nearby Botanical Gardens , and we staggered down there laden with dishes , plates etc . , Mary - Anne hiding under her coat from embarrassment in case she passed anyone she knew ! My third misadventure of the trip happened while we were in Wellington . I did a combined cycle and hiking day ; rode over the hill to Wainuiomata and down to the Rimutaka Forest Park , then tramped through the bush and up a long ridge to the top of Mount McKerrow . The weather closed in and it was misty and raining . On the return ride my pannier fell off but I did n't discover this until I reached Petone .
Idiom: hot air (used idiomatically: yes)
The aeronautical pioneers in the nineteenth century were constrained by the lack of a lightweight power source . Cayley was convinced that the steam engine would never be suitable , and he experimented from 1799 with hot - air engines , and from 1807 with engines fuelled by gunpowder . Nothing came of the latter , but about 1838 he demonstrated a fairly successful hot - air engine in London , suitable for a road vehicle . Letters published in Mechanics ' Magazine from 1826 to 1856 attest to Cayley 's interest in many technical topics , including a projected caterpillar tractor , the safety of railway travel , projectile design , and an artificial hand made for one of his tenants . Convinced that the general public had an unsatisfied thirst for knowledge , he took an active part in several educational activities .
Idiom: in the ballpark (used idiomatically: yes)
Accordingly , we lump together the group and individual responses in the analyses reported below . We start with the output variable . We exclude from the analysis those five observations where the output decision was quite clearly in the wrong ballpark . Estimating the counterpart of equation ( 5 ) above gives : These are instructive .
Idiom: no holds barred (used idiomatically: yes)
Partly from anger and partly from the shock of the encounter . She hated unpleasantness , though she would n't back down from a fight . And this was one of the no - holds - barred variety . She rested a damp forehead on her hand . Damn Lori and her unreasoning jealousy ; but for her she would never have been in this position .
Idiom: in black and white (used idiomatically: no)
His breathtaking , black and white exhibition of sharks , sealions and pelicans has recently been shown at the Fouts and Fouler Gallery in London , the pictures of which he is understandably most proud . ‘ I 'm pleased with the commercials I 've made , but I consider my photographs to be the medium through which I can express myself,’ he says . ‘ That 's why I prefer to work in black and white ; the eye sees in colour , so with mono film it takes craft and ability to construct a picture to which people can relate . I 'm also a frustrated charcoal painter , so that 's got something to do with it too . Plus the fact that it 's a challenge — if you shoot a bad composition in colour , more often than not you can get away with it .
Idiom: in light of (used idiomatically: yes)
It was hard to see what extra benefit would accrue to Honda from such a stake , especially when , in addition to the ventures already discussed , an agreement had been reached to assemble Honda cars in Rover factories on spare production lines in order to provide jobs for Rover workers . In seemed that Honda was therefore able to get the benefits from the relationship between the companies , without becoming involved with the responsibilities of ownership . In the light of this , the announcement in 1989 that Honda was to take a 20 per cent stake in Rover , was seen as a further cementing of ties between the two companies and a long term commitment to Rover 's development by Honda . Previously the possibility that Honda viewed the links as only short - term could not be ruled out . At the same time , Honda announced a £ 300 million investment for an assembly plant at Swindon , capable of producing 100,000 cars a year by 1994 .
Idiom: ring a bell (used idiomatically: yes)
I think you 'll find it very difficult to do . And maybe at the end of the day , the County Council will have to come to a conclusion , after you 've made your general recommendations , with or without a location maybe th they will decide that having gone through a consultation exercise , they 're only course is to modify the proposals which would then have to be the subject of another E I P. Now I hope that does n't r ring alarm bells . Certainly that would be o o one scenario which I think the county will have to contemplate . Can I just pick up a a couple of points please .
Idiom: to the tune of (used idiomatically: yes)
According to DGB calculations , cuts to social payments to the tune of some 10~billion marks would lead to 100,000 newly unemployed .
Idiom: down the drain (used idiomatically: yes)
President , delegates , when this resolution was drawn up and passed by my branch at the latter part of nineteen ninety two , we understood the text of Chancellor Lamont 's Autumn Statement regarding public sector workers and a ceiling of one point five per cent on pay increases starting in nineteen ninety three . It was to drive another nail into the coffin , into the public service 's coffin , to go alongside compulsory competitive tendering , erosion of working conditions and compulsory redundancies just to satisfy their own political dogma not caring about the citizens of this country , whose quality of life depends on them the services provided by the public sector . Since the government 's Autumn Statement we have seen increased health service charges , transport increases etcetera and now we hear in the recent Budget the result of Black Wednesday in September nineteen ninety two of which billions of pounds were thrown down the drain that workers will be expected to bear the burden once again . VAT to be imposed on gas on electricity bills and many other items , too many to mention at this rostrum . Delegates , this resolution is about uniting all of the unions in the public sector , after all we did it in nineteen seventy nine and as we all know that was against our Labour government , with one aim , to reject this government 's pay policy and to combine and fight for a pay increase which we 'll endeavour to counter the savage attacks which are being made against public service workers .
Idiom: in the sticks (used idiomatically: yes)
Under a parliamentary system , the ‘ outsider’ will always be at a disadvantage . Policy initiative , set - piece engagements with the Opposition , even a starring role from the conference platform ( Heseltine has not delivered a speech there since 1985 ) remain the prerogative of those within the citadel of government . The only area an exile hopes to cultivate is what the Americans call ‘ the chicken and peas circuit’— those endless dinners , lunches and buffet suppers by which the Conservative Party binds its supporters in a form of social cement out in the sticks . By now Heseltine has probably got about as much mileage out of such occasions as he can reasonably expect . He has certainly demonstrated that he is a ‘ draw’ : there must already be some 250 Conservative MPs in his debt for turning out an audience at least double that which they would otherwise have been able to collect .
Idiom: go the whole hog (used idiomatically: yes)
Dr Booth was admittedly ' horrified by the amount of fat it carried ' and it was not until he saw wild boar in a wild life park in France that he realised the opportunities . Clearly Sam Weller had also seen the light . A self - proclaimed poineer and the ' first man to go the whole hog ' with his business , the Wild Boar Company , he was all for setting the strictest standards of breeds , offering a product aimed at the ' luxury end'of the market . ' Cross breeds do produce some excellent pork , but it 's not wild boar and it should n't be sold as such . ' He believes that even when farmed , wild boar must be genetically pure and reared in conditions which approximate the wild as closely as possible .
Idiom: run riot (used idiomatically: yes)
It 's downright ridiculous . But what the hell , it works.’ Sub - editors loved the Eastern excursion and imaginations ran riot when it came to headlines . The most inspired included ‘ East Bloc ' n ' Roll’(The Listener ) , ‘ Three Steppes To Heaven’(NME ) , ‘ Ukraine , You Saw , You Conquered’(Record Mirror ) and , perhaps best of all , with its double pun , ‘ That 's My Favourite National Dress’(Sounds ) . Among the corny headlines , acclaim and criticism , it is easy to forget the motivation behind the music but Solowka puts it back into perspective .
Idiom: way to go (used idiomatically: yes)
Y / N Well , how did you get on ? If you 're like me you 've still got a fair way to go ! But do n't let your failures put you off trying harder . Just think how much of a better place school would be if EVERYONE loved the Jesus way !
Idiom: go from strength to strength (used idiomatically: yes)
No , I , I think we know . Okay . Erm the Financial Times you showed er I think including the F T Group and Les Echo er in , in the profit analysis , but you did say that their operating profit was up ten percent th the F T Group which I take it to mean they made fourteen point three , leaving I think four point two to Les Echo You did also say that Les Echo had gone from strength to strength but f from my figures I think it 's a third successive decline in their profit . Would you like to , to explain what from strength to strength means or whether I 've got my figures wrong erm a and , and perhaps give an idea of what from strength to strength will mean in coming years ? Er I think in this context strength to strength is talking about market share , erm Frank er was saying how we 've made considerable gains in relation to the opposition and er such an extent that in fact er it had to join up with the er er er with the other financial newspaper , but Frank would you , would you like to add ?
Idiom: from scratch (used idiomatically: yes)
Thus it is likely to work much better with the OED than with shorter dictionaries’ . He goes on to say that ‘ lexically based computer research is growing rapidly . More and more researchers in natural language processing are investing their efforts in dictionaries and lexicons , and efforts are being made to use machine - readable dictionaries instead of constructing lexicons from scratch’ . Conclusions The preceding sections have reviewed past and current approaches to the application of lexical context to handwriting and text recognition .
Idiom: come of age (used idiomatically: yes)
[ Owen Hughes , ‘ Major John MacBride’,Cathair na Mart : Journal of the Westport Historical Society , vol . i , 1981 , and vol . vi , 1986 ; Samuel Levenson , Maud Gonne , 1977 ; Leon Ó Broin , Revolutionary Underground , 1976 . ] Peter Leach His practical education was evidently gained working in his father 's business and soon after he came of age he was taken into partnership , the firm then moving to the larger settlement of Corbridge . Here they expanded their activities into general building work , John Green turning his attention to the architectural side of the business ; but c .1820 he moved to Newcastle upon Tyne , from where he established his extensive professional practice in the area of Northumberland and county Durham . Green 's early works as an architect included the Newcastle Literary and Philosophical Society 's building ( 1822–5 ) and the beginnings of a lengthy sequence of somewhat undistinguished Gothic - style churches ; while he also developed a reputation as a designer of farmhouses , being employed in this capacity on the Beaufront estate near Hexham ( 1824 ) and by Hugh Percy , second Duke of Northumberland [ q.v . ] .
Idiom: get to grips with (used idiomatically: yes)
It was against this gloomy backdrop , and in the knowledge that disease resistance , disease severity and drug efficacy are contingent upon the immune response to the parasites concerned , that immunologists got together earlier this year to assess the state of play in understanding and tackling the disease . The outlook , however , is not altogether depressing . The meeting provided a sparkling overview of the very real advances in getting to grips with the immunoregulatory and immunopathological mechanisms involved , and in vaccine development . Even the sceptics were left with no doubt that the production of an effective vaccine against schistosomiasis is not only necessary , but possible . There is , it is clear , more than one way to make a vaccine against schistosomiasis .
Idiom: out and about (used idiomatically: no)
‘ It 's about what really happened to our roof last night . Let's go and sit on some bench . ’ They sat on a bench in the Flower Walk , the beautifully tended beds laid out for them and all the tulips listening attentively , and Maggie broke the rule of her lifetime and told Hermione about Fenna . In the telling it became neither nightmare nor obsession , but a beautiful tale , the stuff of dreams and fairy stories , and Hermione heard it all with tenderness and pleasure while the sun set and the dusk gathered thickly around them . Afterwards they stood up slowly , not wanting to part from such intimacy , but beginning to feel chilly now the warmth of the story was over .
Idiom: blow hot and cold (used idiomatically: yes)
McCallen 's high - striking rate has been a big factor in Bangor 's success this season . So too has the rich talents of Celtic - bound Paul Byrne . ‘ He 's the type of player who blows hot and cold . We do n't know what he 's going to do next — so what chance have the opposition ? ‘ Paul has played really well over the last few weeks and deserves his move .
Idiom: one of those days (used idiomatically: yes)
His first five wickets , for starters , were Greenidge , Haynes , Rowe , Lloyd and Dujon . ‘ Oh , really,’ says Eddie , matter of fact , even slightly embarrassed . ‘ Just one of those days . I had one end , the seamers swapped around at the other . The bats just decided to smash me around the island , and for every bag of boundaries they hit they then made a mistake .
Idiom: hot air (used idiomatically: no)
. . Hot air . Air obviously makes it burn . Hot air means that it 's burned better .
Idiom: round the clock (used idiomatically: yes)
Many police officers today , even in the higher ranks , can not remember carrying out their police duties without the assistance of the computer , and it is now as much a part of police back - up as the police car and police radio . That is what it is , a tool to help police officers carry out their difficult task of investigating and detecting crime and bringing offenders to justice . The police national computer is one of the most comprehensive record systems in the world and it gives police officers across the country rapid access to vital information round the clock , every day of the year . In seconds police officers can obtain details of a stolen car or a wanted person , and establish whether an offender has previous convictions for serious crimes . The police service takes this service for granted , and that is how it should be .
Idiom: jump to conclusions (used idiomatically: yes)
‘ Following what , Mr Swayne?’ Wycliffe was innocent . ‘ Well , one should n't jump to conclusions but I ca n't help linking Alfred 's death with Matt 's . I knew , of course— we all did — the bitterness which Alfred felt against his brother … But after nearly thirty years!’
Idiom: touch wood (used idiomatically: yes)
‘ Do n't worry , Mum,’ Fabia beamed to her slightly apprehensive - looking parent . ‘ You know Cara , she 's the last word in efficiency — nothing can go wrong.’ Only a few hours later and Fabia was wishing with all she had that she had touched wood when she 'd made that statement . For something had gone wrong . Terribly wrong , and that was before they had even left England !
Idiom: run a mile (used idiomatically: yes)
If you 're feeling depressed after the event — you 've wasted so long and it 's now an anti - climax , or it proved a disaster — the practitioner would concentrate on your lungs and large intestinal area . If you feel anxious — perhaps you developed a mystery pain or have been unable to eat or relax — the meridian lines connecting the stomach and spleen will be examined by the practitioner . There is said to be an area on the knee called The Three - Mile Point ; it sounds wonderful for runners because , practitioners say , if you touch it in the right way , you 'll have enough energy to run another three miles . Does n't that sound great ? It 's a revitalising point outside of the calf and below the knee .
Idiom: get to grips with (used idiomatically: yes)
The damage has come within yards of the boundary fence at one part of a 150 yard stretch . ‘ We are in terrible trouble,’ said Mr Bell , former Ulster branch chairman and now GUI trustee . ‘ We must get to grips with the problem within the next couple of weeks.’ Arrangements have already been made to bring in lorry loads of two ton boulders from a quarry at Carndonagh to try and halt the erosion . Costs could be enormous , and the Royal and Ancient , the game 's governing body , has been asked for financial assistance .
Idiom: break someone's heart (used idiomatically: yes)
It started when Count Humbert of Maurienne gave his daughter into Henry 's custody and asked him what provision he was intending to make for her future husband . Five - year - old John was , of course , as yet John Lackland . In Kate Norgate 's words , the question " stirred up a trouble which was never again to be laid wholly to rest till the child who was its as yet innocent cause had broken his father 's heart " . Henry replied that John would be given the three castles of Chinon , Loudun and Mirebeau . This proposal enraged young Henry .