Gooogr/pie_idioms huggingface dataset:
Idiom: in the hole (used idiomatically: yes)
Date : Thu , 13 Jan 94 15:20:57 GMT Subject : Mole I am a mole and I Live in a hole From : Date : Thu , 13 Jan 1994 15:51:59 +0000
Idiom: keep your nose clean (used idiomatically: no)
It 's not the easiest of places , but business works there , and business is money , and money is wages , and wages are what keeps my work - force happy . Understand me , Mr Millet ? What I know of Moscow is that you keep your nose clean and do the work you 've set out to achieve , and that way there 's no hassle . I 'll tell you this … three times before he went , Michael asked me for time to go up to London and said he was having problems with his visa . Three trips up to London .
Idiom: over the top (used idiomatically: yes)
I agree with that I agree with him . The same person the same person all I 'm saying the reason that the meeting was convened this evening and the reason that Paul wants the meeting this evening was to get the views from the public about what they felt was going on at the playhouse and what they would like to see that is n't taken place I think that was the thing behind the meeting and that 's what we 'd like to see right okay ... If you generally want the views of the public it is no good trying to false those views through a straight jacket of your own to make it what you think there views should be unless of course they go right over the top in which they I do n't think that 's happened so far .. Chair can I try er to to wrap this up so that we can get back onto debate by delivering a question to you as chair ? Yes .
Idiom: in the loop (used idiomatically: yes)
We conclude that the obtained variations in the base modification pattern in the different tRNA variants are due to changes in the normal 3D - structure of tRNA Asp caused by the introduced mutations . Indeed , substitution of G10 to A10 in yeast tRNA Asp ( mutant a204 ) has been demonstrated to change the conformation of the tRNA ( 27 ) probably by disturbing the interaction between position 10 in the D - stem and position 45 in the variable loop ( 19 ) . Other bases in the variable loop of tRNA Asp are also involved in tertiary interactions , such as A46 hydrogen bonded to G22 in the D - stem and U48 hydrogen bonded to A15 in the D - loop of the tRNA ( 19 ) . As a consequence , insertion of an extra base between A46 and U48 in tRNA Asp ( mutants a209 , a210 , a214 and a215 ) affects the structure of the tRNA ( 28 ) , either by changing the distance between the interacting bases or by forming new interactions . Our results demonstrate the importance of an intact tRNA - structure for its recognition by the tRNA modifying enzymes tRNA ( m 1 G37 ) methyltransferase , Q34insertase , tRNA(Ψ40 ) -pseudouridylate synthase and tRNA ( m 2 G26/m 2 2G26 ) methyltransferase(s ) .
Idiom: tit for tat (used idiomatically: no)
On 2 April 1719 Sir George Byng sailed from the Thames to blockade , or if necessary to attack , the Swedish ships gathered at Karlskrona , on the south - east coast of Sweden , in the Baltic , and Gothenburg [ or Göteborg]on the west coast , at the head of the Kattegat , facing the northern tip of Denmark , 500 miles [ 800 km]from the nearest British port , Peterhead . ( Karlskrona , since no canal yet linked the Baltic and the North Sea , was at least another 300 miles [ 480 km]distant . ) The Swedes , however , took shelter within their fortifications ; the invasion , if ever planned , had , it appeared , been called off and in August 1717 the arrested Swedish ambassador was exchanged for the English resident in Sweden , who had been detained in a tit - for - tat reprisal . In November 1717 Byng and his ships returned home , to counter another , far more threatening , invasion plot now being hatched by a far older enemy of England , Spain . This once mighty state was now again becoming a major power in Europe , thanks less to its nominal ruler , Philip V , than to his prime minister , Cardinal Giulio Alberoni .
Idiom: in the short run (used idiomatically: yes)
Central ~ banks in emerging - market countries like Brazil , China , India , Indonesia , Peru , Thailand , and South ~ Korea are providing good examples to follow . They have embarked on the normalization path by hiking official interest rates in order to nip inflation in the bud , thereby preventing price volatility from choking off future economic growth . Faced with the trade - off between economic growth in the short run and over the medium to long term , these central banks are opting for the latter .
Idiom: come to a head (used idiomatically: yes)
Such a public attack was unprecedented , and created some sympathy for Stratford , whose position was fraught with difficulty . In the face of royal financial demands he had to bear in mind the interests of the clergy as well as his duty to the king , and he was subject to some pressure from the Pope to urge the king to pay heed to papal diplomatic overtures aimed at bringing an end to the war . The conflict between the king and the archbishop came to a head in the parliament of April 1341 . Edward began by attempting to exclude Stratford from the assembly , but failed in the face of support for the archbishop from the Earl of Arundel , Earl Warenne , and other lay magnates who shared their suspicion of those round the king . Both Arundel and Warenne asserted that it was the right of the magnates to advise and support the king in the great affairs of the realm , and that the charges the king had made against Stratford should be heard by his peers .
Idiom: strike a chord (used idiomatically: yes)
Violet Powell The Chantry , Nr Frome , Somerset . Letter to the Editor : Horse sense KENNETH Rose 's item on the Queen 's gift for naming her horses ( March 29 ) struck a chord . Was it Stainless Stephen , the popular comedian of the Thirties , who used to keep us informed about a certain impecunious Lord who had a horse named Final Demand by Every Post out of Somerset House ? G. E. Kalinowski ( Mrs ) Bury St Edmunds , Suffolk .
Idiom: fall into place (used idiomatically: yes)
I would not for the world keep him from his rest . But what I have to add , though I had the proofs of it from his body , and from the place where he was found , I have but now understood clearly . All that I saw was seen also by Hugh Beringar , but after what has come to light this morning these details fall into place.’ ‘ In that case,’ said Radulfus , after some thought , ‘ before we go further , I think Hugh should join us . I need his counsel , as he may need yours and mine both .
Idiom: make hay (used idiomatically: yes)
From these depths , England went to India and pulled off a remarkable triumph after losing the first Test , and then beat Australia 3–1 in 1985 . After the Oval Test David Gower murmured that West Indies must be ‘ quaking in their boots’ at the thought of England 's forthcoming visit , a characteristically ironic piece of Gower humour . Faced by the weakest bowling attack ever to leave Australia , the England batsmen had made hay , none more so than the captain , and some people felt that the confidence this built up would give them a lift in the Caribbean . Then they awoke , and behold it was a dream . When Clive Lloyd retired at the end of the 1984–5 tour of Australia , the captaincy passed to Viv Richards .
Idiom: to the tune of (used idiomatically: no)
It was six thirty . Back in the kitchen , he cleaned the edenwort and the okra and chopped them up small enough to be unrecognizable . He whistled as he chopped and , as he tipped the vegetables into the frying pan , he sang , to the tune of Candyman Blues , the following song : Thallium Thallium
Idiom: in the hole (used idiomatically: yes)
It was her kitchen table that finally provided the ingenious solution . Taking it down to her cellars she cut holes in its surface to accommodate the inverted bottles of Champagne . Then , by periodically removing the inverted bottles from their positions , she would shake them , then replace them in the holes . By 1806 the Widow , or Veuve as she was known , and her kitchen table were the talk of Reims . Remuage in fact required a modification of the original shaking process developed by the widow , involving a fractional tilt of each bottle ( from horizontal to perpendicular ) following every short , sharp twist to loosen the sediment .
Idiom: have it both ways (used idiomatically: yes)
This would wreck the sense of the entire poem : Wordsworth tried to make it clear that ‘ the gleam’ refers to an illusion which the poet has now seen to be wrong . The original text of the poem was later restored . We may take the ambiguity to imply that Wordsworth was unwilling to admit that the visionary gleam was entirely self - deception , and was trying to have it both ways . If this were so , we could argue that the poem only represents a temporary loss of faith , instead of the turning - point in Wordsworth 's career . SUBJECT - MATTER .
Idiom: in the loop (used idiomatically: yes)
This is a metric on the space of states in the game studied above , with eight tiles which have to be moved to the goal position : Consider the positions 5 3 6 7 1 6 5 3 6 If tile 4 were out of the way , as in c , the position b could be obtained from a by sliding the tiles 7 , 8 , 3 , 5 , and 1 in a loop . If they are moved in that order then it would take twelve operations to move from a to b. The Manhattan distance Md ( a , b ) is 12 .
Idiom: in the running (used idiomatically: yes)
this is for fun … the Oxford board will decide but they watch central south so here 's your chance … we've a shortlist of ten … first is Steve Coppell … he left Palace at the end of last season after nine years as manager … lots of experience … or how about Ray Clemence the ex England goalie … he lost his job at Spurs in the summer and would welcome a manager 's job … he could work with Doug Livermore who was also pushed aside when Ossie Ardiles moved into White Hart Lane … Livermore and Clemence did a good job last season … from north of the border Joe Jordan could be in the running … he 's at Celtic at the moment but was looking for a chance to return to English football … from Northern Ireland there 's big Billy Hamilton … he 's an old Oxford favourite … the fans were calling for him on saturday … he 's done well with Distillery … Denis Smith ejoyed great success with York and Sunderland … he 's got a lot of experience and is bound to be interested after being sacked from Bristol City …
Idiom: play for time (used idiomatically: no)
In I Know Where I 'm Going ( 1945 ) , Wendy Hiller plays a go - ahead girl who , when forced to choose between the sort of rural mysticism the filmmakers previously invoked in A Canterbury Tale and a ' good ' marriage , is only reluctantly brought round to accept the former . Black Narcissus ( 1946 ) chronicles the breakdown of a community of nuns set up in the Himalayas , riven by inner conflicts and pulled apart by the intrusion of romantic figures from outside . The conflict is played out for the last time in The Red Shoes ( 1948 ) , where the ballerina played by Moira Shearer initially lives unproblematically for her dancing , until she falls in love with a composer . Forced to acknowledge the impossibility of achieving perfection in both love and work , she is driven to self - destruction . The old wartime community that could absorb individual needs , the filmmakers are saying , is no more .
Idiom: in the sticks (used idiomatically: no)
He never missed . Perhaps he was waiting for Gabriel to make a bolt for freedom , or to denounce his masters from the stage as murderers and charlatans . Or perhaps he could not understand why the boy , though pinned like the serpent in Saint Patrick 's cleft stick with no chance of escape , grew more and more cheerful each day . There was no denying it : Gabriel was happy . After the performance , while the pageant was swilling its way through mud , finding out the boulders that had sunk deep into the roadways , Gabriel would sit with Lucie and Izzie in the smallest wagon of all , the kitchen wagon .
Idiom: lose face (used idiomatically: no)
Lord John said nothing more of murder . He knew he had behaved badly this night , that he should have faced Sharpe and accepted the challenge . He had lost face , he had lost honour , yet now he flirted with the thought of murder , which was beyond all honour , and he did it solely for a woman . Lord John leaned his head back on the cabriolet 's folded leather hood . Some of his friends said he was bewitched , but if he was , it was a willing enthrallment .
Idiom: in the works (used idiomatically: no)
The concept / keyword map forms the centre of activity for information retrieval , providing both a reinforcement of the content of the syllabus and an opportunity to develop skills in the process of defining information needs . The teacher encourages pupils to consider information in the context of De Bono 's PM/ — Plus , Minus and Interesting . When pupils are aware of this process , the design of concept maps , with their hierarchical arrays and interrelated groups , forms first a natural extension and then an eventual integration with the information handling process , whether done in the class or in inquiry work in the library . Figure 6.8 shows a reproduction of a concept map developed by second - year pupils ( aged 12 - 13 ) as part of their Alternative Ideologies unit work . This map was produced in class following pupil - teacher discussion and then used by the author to produce the required keyword access to the Alternative Ideologies datafile .
Idiom: over the hill (used idiomatically: yes)
He was engaging in a hazaradous pursuit at him own risk But for the time being , Private Morrison 's family , already overcome by grief , can only wait and hope his body will be released to them soon . One of the victims of an alleged murder attempt has told a court how she was tied up , beaten and forced into a car which was then set alight and pushed over a hill . Pauline Leyshon said her clothes were burning and some actually melted on her body . CLARE LAFFERTY / Bristol
Idiom: for the time being (used idiomatically: yes)
Whatever it was , however , he was determined not to give in . Not yet , at any rate . For the time being he would not merely stay but would redouble his efforts to understand . If the threats grew too frightening , he could always reconsider . The purple book , which had fallen on to the floor during the night , jogged his memory .
Idiom: make ends meet (used idiomatically: yes)
A profitable theme PARIS IT MAY be of little comfort to Euro Disney 's shareholders , but all France 's leisure parks are struggling to make ends meet . All , that is , except Futuroscope , a small but successful park near Poitiers , 330 kilometres ( 205 miles ) south - west of Paris . Last year it made a FFr10 m ( $ 1.9 m ) net profit on sales of FFr175 m , and the number of visitors rose by almost a third , to 1.3 m .
Idiom: on the ball (used idiomatically: yes)
Twenty - year - old Peake not only scored the goal which put Pool on their way to a desperately needed win , he was also one of only a handful of players on either side who looked capable of coming to terms with the gale - force wind and bumpy pitch . Even Pool captain John MacPhail , a veteran of more than 500 senior games , admitted : ‘ Jason was very impressive . ‘ He looks very comfortable on the ball and scored us a fabulous goal which set up the win . ‘ After three defeats , we were n't desperate . But it 's nice to get back on the right tracks and now we have to keep it up against Stockport on Tuesday .
Idiom: over the counter (used idiomatically: yes)
The Third market closed however at the end of 1990 . A variety of EC directives have meant that the listing requirements for the Third market are now very similar to those of the USM and there was no clear rationale for them to be kept separate . Some companies will transfer from the Third market to the USM , some will go to the over - the - counter market ( OTC ) , which is an informal market that consists of trading in small business shares by a group of brokers and licensed dealers to the public . 11.2 BIG BANG Concern had been voiced for some time by the Office of Fair Trading ( OFT ) as to the restrictive practices maintained by the Stock Exchange :
Idiom: in the club (used idiomatically: yes)
Out of 300 good class competitors , he achieved a brilliant second place on a hilly route in 59 mins . 7 secs . The winner 's time was 58 mins . 54 secs . The weather was wet and chilly and this run underlines the standard that White is setting in the club this year . Stuart Trower rode in the East Grinstead T.C. hilly 25-mile cycle time trial . In tough conditions , Trower did well to record 1 hr . 8 mins . 22 secs . against the winner 's 1–3–54 and gain 18th place out of 52 starters .
Idiom: spring to mind (used idiomatically: yes)
" Oh , a little pale perhaps , " murmured Amabel , because paleness seemed essential to the occasion , although with dear nut - brown Gemma it was rather hard to tell . And she had looked so well since her marriage , so calm and composed and so Well , not matronly , at any rate , as wicked Lizzie Braithwaite had suggested . Noble was the word which sprang to Amabel 's mind . Regal , even . Although Queen Victoria , who had married just two years ago like Gemma , had produced the Princess Royal ten months after the wedding service , the Prince of Wales eleven months after that , and was thought on excellent authority , to be expecting again .
Idiom: put down roots (used idiomatically: yes)
His ancestors came from Tilley , just across the parish boundary , where the first Richard Gough of that name died in 1538 at the age of eighty - three . Next year , the younger son of this old man became the first of five Richard Goughs to live at Newton on the Hill , a mile or so from Myddle church . As in Wigston , few of the families that put down roots in the parish of Myddle during the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries had been there in earlier times ; the turnover of names between the 1370s poll tax returns and the subsidies levied in the reign of Henry VIII was equally remarkable in both parishes . But the new families that came into Wigston and Myddle during Tudor times tended to stay put . Gough thought that the Lloyds were possibly the most ancient family in Myddle village .
Idiom: open someone's eyes (used idiomatically: yes)
The Lad stood for a moment , his hands caressing the formless thing . As he did so , Fribble and Taliesin caught a flicker of movement from Calatin . Then the Lad darted across the room like a fleeing hare , and vanished , and Calatin opened his eyes and looked right at them . Fael - Inis said very softly , ‘ There was no other choice,’ and his hand came out to rest on Taliesin 's arm for a moment . ‘ I am strength and power and light and speed , Taliesin,’ he said , ‘ but even I can not protect you from the Time Fire .
Idiom: jam tomorrow (used idiomatically: yes)
2 It remains unclear to what extent the government and its advisers in the Department of Energy were aware at this stage , as the Hinkley C Inquiry progressed through its first few months , of the true state of nuclear economics . Lord Marshall had once said about the old Magnox stations that , even if they were n't economic now , there would still be ‘ jam tomorrow’ . Maybe they hoped that the PWR would also eventually come sweet . But , whatever their knowledge , of far greater importance in official thinking was the strategic value of a power source which lent itself naturally to centralized control , which was operated by a well paid , reliable work - force and which would continue to keep the miners at bay .
Idiom: change hands (used idiomatically: yes)
Both were struck dead by a German machine - gunner . At this very moment , the Germans attacked again and , as so often happens on the death of an inspired leader , Macker 's men lost heart . Once more the Bois des Corbeaux changed hands , but German losses were so high ( one Silesian battalion was reduced to 300 men ) that they could advance no further . For the next month the front on this approach to the Mort Homme barely shifted . Meanwhile , on the Right Bank the renewed German endeavour had met with even less success .
Idiom: hands down (used idiomatically: no)
On the one hand , most essential to the theoretical attitude of philosophical man is the characteristic universality of the critical standpoint , which its determination not to accept without question any pregiven opinion , any tradition , and thus to seek out , with regard to the entire universe handed down in tradition , the true in itself - which is ideal .
Idiom: state of the art (used idiomatically: yes)
But Inmos Ltd was determined to make it a high profile affair . The chosen venue was the auspiciously grand lecture theatre at the Victoria & Albert Museum , the presentations simultaneously interpreted by a row of translators — a reminder of the event 's global significance . The whole thing kicked off with a state of the art video which introduced the T9000 as the ‘ next link in the chain for ranging from supercomputers to database managers , to switching and telecommunications systems , management systems for production lines and car engines . Burn out The device was also hailed as the next step in Inmos 's technological evolution , filling the gap between the former T2 , 4 and 8 families and the proposed modular ‘ Chameleon’ product line ( CI No 2,137 ) .
Idiom: on the ball (used idiomatically: yes)
‘ We 've come to terms with the rule fairly quickly,’ said Pearson . ‘ We are not getting paranoid about it because the only difference is that the keeper ca n't pick the ball up . ‘ If you have a keeper who is n't confident on the ball it can be a real problem . ‘ But we have no worries with Chris . His distribution is very good , as he showed against Forest , and that 's an asset to us .
Idiom: the icing on the cake (used idiomatically: yes)
Texas Instruments Inc has reported first quarter net profits up 102.5 % at $ 81.0 m after a $ 4 m charge for an accounting change , on turnover that rose 11.2 % at $ 1,884 m ; net per share rose 143 % to $ 0.85 . MICROSOFT COMMENTS ON THIRD QUARTER EARNINGS Commenting on another storming quarter — figures , page seven — Microsoft Corp , whose third quarter earnings of $ 0.80 a share were above consensus analyst estimates of $ 0.78 for the period , warned that fourth quarter growth in profits would be less impressive —‘One of the things that 's different in this fourth quarter is we do n't have this kicker product , the icing on the cake,’ said Microsoft investor relations chief Raymond Ferguson ; Microsoft said it shipped a record - breaking 2 m MS - DOS 6 retail upgrade copies in the two weeks since it hit the market , but the company said they would be pleased if fourth - quarter revenues rose by half the roughly 20 % sequential quarterly rate of recent years , when Microsoft has benefited from upgrade versions of Windows 3.0 , MS - DOS 5 and then Windows 3.1 ; it is still likely to see its first billion dollar quarter this time ; during the fiscal third quarter , sales of applications , which accounted for 61 % of total revenues in the period , leaped 63 % over year - ago levels to $ 580 m , and Microsoft ended the quarter with $ 2,000 m in cash ; shipment of Windows NT is on schedule for late June following a late May unveiling , the firm said . SIEBE PAYS £ 25 M FOR TWO CONTINENTAL CONTROLS COMPANIES Siebe Plc paid £ 25 m all told for two continental controls companies , Eberle GmbH , of Nuremberg , Germany , with annual turnover of £ 56 m , and Schmidt Amaturen GmbH , Villach , Austria which is doing £ 12 m a year .
Idiom: out of the question (used idiomatically: yes)
An improvement of the agreement that was reached last week is out of the question , Waigel declared in Bonn .