Gooogr/pie_idioms huggingface dataset:
Idiom: food for thought (used idiomatically: yes)
That 's why I want to stay.’ Stephen Dale food for thought Home at last . Tea .
Idiom: break new ground (used idiomatically: yes)
I mean I have Yeah we 've we 've had six months you 're breaking new ground . We are breaking new ground here . Because they 've always let 's be fair they 've always been around so somebody else has been doing them .
Idiom: come to terms with (used idiomatically: yes)
In many respects , the Declaration of Rights satisfied Tory - Anglican anxieties very well . As we have already seen , none of the demands of the radical Whigs found their way into the Declaration . On the other hand , virtually all the demands which the Anglicans had been pressing for in their attempts to come to terms with James , such as those made by the bishops in their meeting with the King on 3 October , did . Thus the Declaration confirmed the illegality of the suspending power and dispensing power , it abolished the Commission for Ecclesiastical Causes , and it defended the right of subjects to petition the Crown ( a defence of the bishops ' action in opposition to the second Declaration of Indulgence ) . Even the most innovatory feature of the Declaration — the proviso against keeping a standing army in peace - time without Parliamentary consent — can be seen to have been a Tory concern in James 's reign .
Idiom: one and the same (used idiomatically: yes)
Gay culture is in part constituted by a self - reflexive , ironic representation of desire itself , gay and straight , and of the objects of desire , again both gay and straight . This is especially so of its involvement with masculinity . In one and the same gay milieu one is likely to encounter identification with , desire tor , and parodies of masculinity . Among numerous other things , gay subcultures ( as opposed to the illusory ‘ truth’ of a unitary homosexual desire ) include all three , and sometimes indistinguishably . And it those subcultures discredit any notion of an essential or unitary gay desire , they also constitute a crucial enabling condition of transgressive reinscription .
Idiom: once and for all (used idiomatically: yes)
Ashley wondered . Exactly why had she come ? She might have extracted Simon 's solemn oath that if she attended as he wished , the pretence that she was his girlfriend would be dropped for once and for all , but was that the whole reason ? In truth , she found watching the endless circuiting a little tedious and especially when there was no one to talk to . Had she hoped that Simon would alert Vitor to her presence , and that he might search her out , explain he had rethought and declare undying love ?
Idiom: slippery slope (used idiomatically: yes)
Office 's price is $ 70 a user for 100 users ; Write / Paint / Draw is $ 300 a user for 100 users . HYUNDAI 's AXIL UNDERCUTS SUN WITH SPARCLASSIC CLONE Hyundai Electronic America 's Axil Workstations Inc is bent on conquering the slippery slopes of Sun Microsystems Inc Sparc cloning , and last week announced the Axil-220 , a MicroSparc knock - off of the Sparc Classic undercutting Sun by pricing it at $ 3,600 in single quantities and letting it run Solaris 1.1 as well as 2 . x. It says it is the lowest priced RISC colour workstation in the industry . The San Jose , California - based outfit Axil is taking a leaf out of Compaq Computer Corp 's book and will only sell through resellers under the direction of sales and marketing vice president Dan Shaver who recently left a job with Sun as director of its channels strategy .
Idiom: draw a blank (used idiomatically: yes)
The man replaced the blanket , and then moved on to another corpse . Finally the ordeal was over and they could escape the tent . Maggie had drawn a blank , none of the bodies were of those she was looking for . But there were still a great many bodies to come in , the Army Medical Corps man had grimly told her . They returned to the stand - pipe where they 'd got water from earlier , to find the tanker gone .
Idiom: hold someone's hand (used idiomatically: yes)
' Was he working for you when Mike 's family were kidnapped ? ' Sabrina demanded . ' Yes , ' Bailey answered then held up his hand to silence Sabrina before she could speak again . ' But the kidnapping had nothing to do with him . It was carried out on the orders of Salim Al - Makesh to give himself time to flee the terrorist base before Delta destroyed it . '
Idiom: walk the plank (used idiomatically: no)
They do n't , and wo n't , know that he talks Greek as well as they do . Number One , would you tell McKenzie to warn the four seamen who were with us tonight that they are on no account to mention the fact that we were on the Delos . Keel - hauling , walking the plank , that sort of thing . One other thing . The presence of the cryptographer , when he arrives , will not go unnoticed.’
Idiom: pull a fast one (used idiomatically: no)
These criteria need careful elaboration , but the following will serve as a preliminary illustration of the points : — the prefix dis — of disobey is not a lexical unit because , although it is a semantic constituent , it is smaller than a word . — the pulled of Arthur pulled a fast one is not a lexical unit because , although it is a word , it is not a semantic constituent . Let us now examine the notion of semantic constituent . 2.2 Semantic constituents
Idiom: behind the scenes (used idiomatically: yes)
There was a large picture of the Pope in tarmac - kissing mode and the story of how the paper had entered his birthdate on the British Telecom horoscope service . For good measure the piece whined about the cost of the call . Behind the scenes Pilger , still fuming from the Kennedy Hotel showdown , was working separately . He did not think people wanted harmless fun on Sunday . They were desperately keen for information .
Idiom: pick up the pieces (used idiomatically: yes)
Oliver jumped to his feet and ran wildly from the room , shouting for help . The Dodger and Fagin caught him easily , and brought him back . Then the old man picked up a long piece of wood . ' So you wanted to get away , my dear , did you ? Wanted to call the police and get help ?
Idiom: green with envy (used idiomatically: yes)
I am all in favour of paying this amount to the author , but I fail to see why a simple clerical task such as cashing my cheque , putting the goods in a parcel and posting it should cost nearly 200 % more . What is the best method of transferring the money to that author and cutting out the profiteers in this country ? Many thanks for a first class mag , even if I do go green with envy at some of the kit ! J. D. Holden Chichester PPC : We 'd estimate that 99 % of shareware authors include their own address in the documentation somewhere , and many also include an order form , so the first point of contact is usually plain to see .
Idiom: spend a penny (used idiomatically: yes)
I discovered it 's a very different matter , lying awake thinking it would be nice to have a man beside you , and lying awake longing for one particular man . In one case it 's a feeling of vague discontent . In the other … you might just as well try to go to sleep when your feet are cold or you want to spend a penny , or you 're hungry for a special kind of food you have n't got . As a matter of fact , all three now applied , I realized , as well as the other . Almost every part of my infuriating body seemed to be nagging at me for some sort of attention .
Idiom: put the wind up (used idiomatically: yes)
‘ What , so you 'd be sick as a parrot if we went over the moon together?’ This was the tone to take with Karen , I decided . Coming on all awed and respectful would just put the wind up her . Most women do n't really have a very high opinion of themselves , so if you start treating them as something special they think , ‘ Oh God , sooner or later he 'll find out the truth , and then he 'll despise me.’ Much better to make it clear from the start that you 've seen through them , and you stillfancy them rotten .
Idiom: set eyes on (used idiomatically: yes)
Just as Quexos 's Law required , his story had begun with a trio : himself , John Furie Zacharias , and between them , Judith . That arrangement had n't lasted very long . Within a few weeks of setting eyes on Judith he had managed to supersede Zacharias in her affections , and the three had dwindled to a blissful two . He and Judith had married , and lived happily for five years , until , for reasons he still did n't understand , their joy had foundered , and the two had become one . He was that one , of course , and the night found him sitting in the back of a purring car being driven around the frosty streets of London in search of somebody to help him finish the story .
Idiom: on the cards (used idiomatically: yes)
The failed short - list candidates are surrounded by increasing circles of other disappointed souls : to continue our horseracing imagery , the front - runners are followed by the minor placings , those who met the headhunter and talked at length about the opportunity , who were among the top ten , but not the top three or four . Beyond them are the also - rans , other disaffected characters , who were on the receiving end of tempting , exciting , ego - boosting telephone calls which were never subsequently followed up , from headhunters of whom they never heard anything again . Even further out , with less reason for antagonism towards search consultants but still known to bear malice , are the hopefuls who never appeared on the race card at all , who sent in their CVs and waited in vain for a response . Many candidates all down the line think of headhunters as privileged individuals able to hand out plum jobs willy - nilly to those in their favour ; at the same time — somewhat contradictorily — they regard them as dodgy , cowboy characters who have arrived at their coveted positions in life after having failed at everything else they have attempted . One particular candidate responding to the survey went to a great deal of trouble to commit his decidedly anti - headhunting views to paper .
Idiom: take a bath (used idiomatically: yes)
The obvious thing seemed to be to retire to bed ; both women felt crushing exhaustion . But they seemed to have reached that point where they could not sleep despite their tiredness . Donna took a hurried bath , Julie made them some tea and , as the hands on the clock above the open fireplace crawled round to 3.56 , they both sat down , one on either side of the table in the centre of the room . In the centre of the table were two aluminium boxes resembling metal attache cases . Donna flipped the first one open and lifted the lid .
Idiom: yes and no (used idiomatically: yes)
well I had n't been out from Monday till yesterday Sharon 's at the hospital now with the babe mm did you have a nice birthday then ? Ah yes and no Oh . yeah it was alright , I think it was me that was being a bit , got a bit het up in case anybody had too much and started you know
Idiom: play games (used idiomatically: no)
The game of Skat is a card game played by 3 or more players . The game is played by one person against two opposition players .
Idiom: down the road (used idiomatically: yes)
The failure of expansionary austerity in Britain should give all of its advocates around the world reason to reflect on and rethink their policy calculations . Britain is a highly open economy with a flexible exchange rate and some room for further monetary easing . There is no risk or default premium baked into British interest rates to indicate that fear of political - economic chaos down the road is discouraging investment . There is an argument – not necessarily true , but an argument nonetheless – that , while in office from 1997 to May 2010 , the Labour governments of Tony ~ Blair and Gordon ~ Brown overshot long - term sustainable government spending as a share of GDP . Their actions stand in contrast to countries that reduced their debt - to - GDP levels in the 2000s , and to the United ~ States , where the problem was not excessive spending but insufficient taxation under the Bush administration .
Idiom: come unstuck (used idiomatically: yes)
Devonshire won 2 - 1 against Edge Hill BCOB , who had taken an early lead . With 15 minutes remaining Tony Butler equalised with a long - range drive and Chris Hodge fired in an 85th minute winner . League high - flyers Academicals lost 3 - 2 at Old Xaverians and Cabin came unstuck when they failed to convert two penalties in a 2 - 0 setback at St. Aloysius . Foran Hamlet ( Billy Hardacre , Billy Carmody ) drew 2 - 2 at Dista and the Caribbean v Windermere Breck Road tie was abandoned at 2 - 2 when the referee suffered a calf injury and could not continue . In the LCFA Junior Cup , East Lancs Crown put their inconsistent league form behind them with a 4 - 3 success over Lee Jones OB .
Idiom: at sea (used idiomatically: no)
By then the English fleet was desperately beating against the wind to leave Plymouth Sound . The fleet was to include the ‘ Francis’ of Fowey , captained by John Rashleigh and paid for jointly by the men of Fowey and Looe , and the ‘ John Trelawney’of Saltash and Tavistock . The English fleet , once at sea , managed to cut across the bows of the Spaniards , then turned to pursue them up the channel . Meanwhile , the watchers by the beacons above Portwrinkle and at Rame were waiting for the fleet to head inshore to Plymouth . Here lay Mount Edgcombe House , which the Spanish Admiral , the Duke of Medina - Sidonia , had been promised was to be his .
Idiom: catch someone's eye (used idiomatically: yes)
The light was fading on the walls of the Imperial city ; I gave it one last look and came , reluctantly , to sit at the table . ' It 's cooler and cheaper . Besides , ' — I caught Richard 's eye —'the Hobbs are staying there . ' ' Who are the ' Hobbs ' ? ' Flora asked , speaking their name with a comic intonation .
Idiom: break someone's heart (used idiomatically: yes)
She seemed much more cheerful and was full of chatter about her new friends and about the wonderful workers at the Blind Club , where she was learning to write using a metal board with black elastic stretched across it for lines . She practised writing letters to me , though I was still at home . She must have sensed that one day I would be leaving her again , and that nearly broke my heart , knowing the sadness she must feel all too well in my experiences with lovers who never stayed long but left me feeling as if part of me had been torn from my body . Aunt Lyallie must have been needling my mother while I was away , because one day she suddenly asked me , with tremulous anxiety : ‘ Why do n't you get married , Jim ? Do n't you want to get married?’
Idiom: neck and neck (used idiomatically: yes)
Sprint Corp yesterday completed its acquisition of Centel Corp in a share exchange worth some $ 4,700 m . OVERCROWDED LAN HUB AND ROUTER MARKET It is pretty clear that while big business is being done in local area network hubs and routers , the market is very overcrowded , and in those circumstances , the outcome is usually that the rich get richer and the poor get taken over or go bust : observers reckon that in that context , the richest of the rich is Cisco Systems Inc , Menlo Park , which did $ 340 m in the year to last July and is estimated to have at least 45 % of the market and maybe as much as 50 % ; Wellfleet Communications Inc is thought to be number two , with anything from 12 % to 20 % , with 3Com Corp third at around 10 % , but in the hub sector alone , SynOptics Communications Inc is thought to have about 33 % and Cabletron Systems Inc 15 % , although the latter says the two are neck and neck . WORDPERFECT CHASES OBJECTS Orem , Utah - based WordPerfect Corp is chasing objects : it says WordPerfect Presentations 2.0 for Windows will support Object Linking and Embedding , the Twain image acquisition standard and direct CD - ROM sound ; and it has done a deal with IBM Corp 's IBM Programming Systems for a joint development agreement to provide users with consistent object interaction and data interoperability across multiple workstation products and operating systems — the agreement encompasses WordPerfect for OS/2 , WordPerfect for Windows , WordPerfect for MS - DOS and WordPerfect for IBM 's AIX Unix .
Idiom: leave no stone unturned (used idiomatically: yes)
Mr Hartley agreed that Stewart — who also owns a string of other luxury cars , including a Lamborghini Diablo — will attract extra interest in the sale . But , the expert insisted , it would still not be enough to bring in higher offers . Rod , working on his own life story with a ghost writer , has promised : ‘ I am going to leave no stone unturned — I intend to delve deeply into the numerous stains I have left on the tapestry of life.’ Only time will tell whether his revelations will include Why The Lamborghini Had To Go . Madonna sex cuts
Idiom: at cross purposes (used idiomatically: yes)
I was very tired after the long flight from London to Sydney and on the television show someone attacked what I had just been saying . My normal reaction would have been to attack back but I was too tired , so I said : " If I understood from what I have been saying what you obviously understand — then I would agree with you . " A large number of arguments are at cross - purposes because one or other ( or both ) sides is interpreting incorrectly the position of the other side . It is a useful exercise to put — and answer — the obvious question : " What are we arguing about ? " This is one of the cases in which the need to express something in definite terms can deflate the argument .
Idiom: get the picture (used idiomatically: yes)
" It 's exactly like those fairy - tale books they terrified us with . Remember the Ogre 's cave and the mountain of his victims ' skulls ? " " Yes , quite … you've got the picture — time to go ! " " Look at this carving , " he rhapsodized . " Do you realize how priceless this stuff is , and just lying around ? "
Idiom: win the day (used idiomatically: yes)
The burgesses grew wealthy , charging up to seven shillings for Spanish ships after the Armada , until they became too greedy and local merchants and fishermen refused to pay . The burgesses appealed to Parliament to confirm their ancient rights , while the ‘ rebels’ were led by James Tillie of Pentillie , owner of Halton Quay and of a merchant fleet . Tillie won the day , dues were reduced to one shilling for English ships , two shillings for foreigners . These dues continued to be collected until 1901 when the Board of Trade abolished them as a hindrance to navigation . Rights to the Lynher river had already been sold to the Admiralty in 1890 for £ 800 , for the Tamar in 1899 for £ 1,000 .
Idiom: tie the knot (used idiomatically: yes)
This problem is common with fine lines when you tie any type of knot which entails pulling the line above the hook to tighten up the knot . Unfortunately this is the case with hooktiers . My solution , as I do not use a machine for tying my hooks , is to tie reverse knots which do not put undue pressure on the section of line which ends up immediately above the hook . The knot is tightened by pulling the end of hook length which is eventually trimmed off . There are ways to get round your hooktier problem .
Idiom: in light of (used idiomatically: yes)
Instead , the principal influence is the ' sentencing culture ' of a particular bench , into which new recruits are gradually socialized by watching their more experienced colleagues at work . The ideology which gives substance to this culture is based on a twin belief in the uniqueness of the magisterial role itself , and also the uniqueness of each individual case . The latter belief explicitly rejects consistency as a virtue in its own right , while the former demands a balancing of public interests against those of the particular defendant in the light of moral judgements that only the magistrate is qualified to make . Because sentencing is viewed by magistrates as a craft or mystery , whose rites are known only to initiates , ( as opposed to a rational enterprise dedicated to the pursuit of externally defined goals ) , this renders it both impervious to criticism from outside , and highly resistant to attempts at external control . Defendants who are convicted in the Crown Court are sentenced by a Crown Court judge .
Idiom: sleep rough (used idiomatically: yes)
Farnsby House in Swindon provides shelter for around 20 homeless men . But with night - time temperatures down to minus 6 at times this month , it 's increasingly having to turn people away . Now it 's in urgent need of blankets to lend to those forced to sleep rough . Stevie 's one of the lucky ones . The hostel took him in and then offered him a room in a shared house .
Idiom: ride herd on (used idiomatically: yes)
I call this measure the responsibility time span of the role . For example , a supervisor whose principal job is to plan tomorrow 's production assignments and next week 's work schedule but who also has ongoing responsibility for uninterrupted production supplies for the month ahead has a responsibility time span of one month . A foreman who spends most of his time riding herd on this week 's production quotas but who must also develop a program to deal with the labor requirements of next year 's retooling has a responsibility time span of a year or a little more . The advertising vice - president who stays late every night working on next week 's layouts but who also has to begin making contingency plans for the expected launch of two new local advertising media campaigns three years hence has a responsibility time span of three years . The time - span range runs from a day at the bottom of a large corporation to more than 20 years at the top , while the felt - fair pay ranges from $ 15,000 to $ 1 million and more .
Idiom: in the sticks (used idiomatically: yes)
Yes , the fire pumps can , can raise water up to thirty feet from the ground , erm and they , they can pick up water of course from fire hydrants , which is situated all , all , in most streets anyway . So there 's no shortage of water in that area , er and even in some dock areas and dock for instance they 've got special fire mains which are pressurised , which give a lot of water at a high pressure , so you can pump from there . So there 's no water shortage as such , sometimes you get the water problems when you get out in the sticks somewhere you 'll , you , you do have problems , but all fire officers are trained to search their areas and have special cards er which they 've done their research on , where the water supplies are , like ponds and lakes and so on , and that information is readily available when they turn out these areas so that a fire crew going out there , your nearest water supply is a pond at and certain area and they 've got that you see . They 've got that . So all that 's been researched and , and so on , and so there 's no time wasting as far as I .
Idiom: take stock (used idiomatically: yes)
It gives you time to decide whether a particular property is absolutely right for your needs . Had we sold our house two years ago , we 'd have certainly made an offer on a property that I later realised was quite unsuitable . Since then we 've had plenty of time to take stock , to get to know areas and compare different locations , ages and styles of house before making any decision . It 's very easy to be swept along when you 're feeling enthusiastic , but enforced spells of patience can pay off in the end . SOLUTIONS
Idiom: over the moon (used idiomatically: yes)
PENSIONER James McNeill has won £ 2,000 in the Belfast Telegraph 's Lottocash competition . Mr McNeill ( 74 ) from Imperial Street , Belfast , who checks his numbers every night without fail , said he could n't believe his luck . ‘ I 'm over the moon and I 'm going to give something to my two daughters and son and maybe take a trip to England to see my brother - in - law’ , he said . Crossword Mr McNeill said he has had been reading the Belfast Telegraph for years and enjoys doing the crossword first , perusing the television viewing and then gets around to reading the news .