Gooogr/pie_idioms huggingface dataset:
Idiom: buy the farm (used idiomatically: yes)
It is thought to have been he who convinced Galt that Canada was a land of wonderful opportunities and influenced the novelist 's future involvement in that country . By 1832 , William 's sons had been settled in professions and some of them had returned to Canada . In March of that year he sailed back to Ontario where he bought a farm , the land of which is now part of the city of Brantford . On the recommendation of John Galt , who was then in Canada , he bought 14,000 acres of virgin land in Ontario , at the junction of the Grand and Irvine Rivers . ( It is presumed that either Galt or Gilkison named the River Irvine ) William had a mill and a general store built , sold off plots of land to settlers , and established a community which he named Elora after a sailing ship which his youngest brother , Captain John Gilkison of Irvine , had just had built for the trade with India .
Idiom: tie the knot (used idiomatically: yes)
Tie a double Overhand Knot . 2 Then tie a reverse Overhand Knot on top . The ends on top . The ends come out parallel with the standing part ( Fig 5 ) .
Idiom: round the bend (used idiomatically: yes)
No problem . Ready to go home ? ' The boys , both pumped up by their achievement , ran and jumped all along the road to the Land Rover that we found round the next bend , and rode back in euphoric good spirits . ' Terrific , ' Gareth told Tremayne , bursting into the family room after we 'd dropped Coconut and returned to Shellerton . ' Fantastic . '
Idiom: in my book (used idiomatically: no)
Eubank has now won 10 championship fights in two years . He 's overcome some genuinely tough customers , but Gimenez was abject . The nearest he came to winning a round in my book was in sharing the third , after delivering a heavy right hand that briefly staggered Eubank — whose ability to take a punch is well - documented . On four other occasions Eubank was to be seen covering up under a hail of blows , but like so much of the 26-year - old from Brighton 's act , it was an illusion . He was simply suckering Gimenez in to waste his strength aimlessly punching Eubank 's arms .
Idiom: hold someone's hand (used idiomatically: no)
‘ Work will ease the pain , in time , believe me.’ He meant well but how could Hari ever get over the shock of her mother 's sudden death ? He made her tea and sat holding her hand until the light faded and the lamps in the street were lit , shedding a faint light into the room . ‘ I must go out,’ Craig said , ‘ but I promise I wo n't be long.’ Hari sat up straighter in her chair .
Idiom: strike a chord (used idiomatically: no)
Secondly , the tour represented the last chance for some Wallaby players to ever tour South Africa ' , said French . The Boipatong massacre became the first major hurdle which rugby had to overcome and this led to the implementation of All Black and Wallaby tour conditions such a the minute 's silence prior to each test , the display of peace and democracy signed at match venues and in match programmes , the non - playing of national anthems and the removal of any official flying of the South African national flag . French was a guest in the VIP box at Ellis Park for the South Africa v All Black Test and he know there were to be immediate problems for the Wallaby tour the moment the first chord of Die Stem was struck . ' Eddie Tonks ( New Zealand Rugby Football Union chairman ) was sitting behind me and I turned and looked at him and we eyed each other . We could n't believe what was happening .
Idiom: how's tricks? (used idiomatically: yes)
A quick dab of Youth Dew and then she sauntered over to join him . ' Hiya , kid , ' he greeted her sleepily . ' How 's tricks ? ' She did n't want to get into that kind of conversation , the kind of conversation adults had with schoolkids . Somehow she had to get into grown - up territory .
Idiom: green light (used idiomatically: yes)
The glow is weak , and needs to be amplified 30,000 times to be visible . And although a green glow that is weaker than it ought to be might mean that some of the cells in the area are turning malignant , it might also mean that the operator has the end of the bronchoscope too far from the target , or pointing at an awkward angle . The physicists in the team got round this by taking rapidly alternating snapshots of the area in red and green light . The red background then provides a reference point which allows the computer to correct for angle and distance . If both red and green images are weak , the problem lies with the position of the lens .
Idiom: seal of approval (used idiomatically: yes)
She did not want to lose Paula , who was one of her best models , but already she was enjoying the reflected glory that came from having personally trained a house model for one of the great London couture houses . She had known about the vacancy at Mattli and hoped that the job might be offered to Paula . It was the seal of approval for her own judgement . ‘ Well?’ Madame Mattli demanded .
Idiom: banana republic (used idiomatically: yes)
Murders in Moscow have doubled in the last year , still modest totals by US standards , but appalling in a city once acknowledged as the safest capital in the world . The spacious boulevards , lined with commercial kiosks , now boast Pizza Hut as well as McDonalds , gastronomic evidence of man 's inhumanity to overseas man . Meanwhile , as Russia 's economy burns , inflation now a hairsbreadth from the banana republic variety , its leaders fiddle with its future — locked in a political power struggle which would now seem to have taken the place of anything resembling coherent government . Until Mr Yeltsin and his parliament speaker Ruslan Khasbulatov end their duel to the political death , their hapless electorate see nothing filling a policy vacuum which makes John Major 's legislative cupboard appear positively overflowing . Whether or not this constitutional tug of war is resolved by the proposed referendum on presidential powers in April — indeed whether anyone will get around to formulating questions for it , or persuading the battle scarred citizenry to turn up at the ballot box — are still matters of obsessive speculation .
Idiom: break new ground (used idiomatically: yes)
He said that no - one from Europe had moved from Formula One to Indycars and been consistently successful . ‘ Nobody has come over here and tried to win a series . I guess my motivation is trying to break new ground — my motivation ultimately is to win.’ Mansell is driving with former Formula One and Indycar champion Mario Andretti , once his teammate with Lotus in the early 1980s , but still a rival this weekend . ‘ Yeah , he has passed on lots of tips -- slow down,’ said Mansell .
Idiom: see the light (used idiomatically: yes)
The way in which earth energies are experienced seems to vary according to cultural expectations , so that pure energy is interpreted in ways acceptable to the individual or culture . This seems to be the case with reported visions of the Virgin Mary , identification of whom usually occurs after the initial vision , which is frequently by children , outdoors , at springs or streams . At La Salette , children saw a bright light near a stream , then a lady who appeared and disappeared . At Lourdes , Bernadette Soubirous saw what she described as ' that thing ' , which was thought to be the ghost of a local girl . Paul Devereux , in the context of Earth Lights , suggests that the percipient may have a real effect on how the energy actually manifests .
Idiom: do the honours (used idiomatically: no)
' Your name is French ! ' the Countess accused him . ' My family were Huguenots , my lady , and therefore unwanted in la belle France , ' D'Alembord 's contemptuous scorn for France made the Countess bridle , but he had already turned back to Lucille . ' You 'll do me the honour of dancing ? ' Lucille would . D'Alembord was an old friend who had dined frequently with Sharpe and Lucille since they had come to the Netherlands .
Idiom: hope against hope (used idiomatically: yes)
She had tried everything … appealing to common sense , persuasion , threats … but it all fell on deaf ears . Now , as on other occasions , David had scoffed at her fears . All she could do was to keep vigilant , and to hope against hope that Matthew would soon tire of the old man , or that the old man would soon tire of deliberately using the boy in order to antagonise her . Maybe , if she appeared to be unruffled by his underhand behaviour , Luther would seek other means by which to destroy her peace of mind . ‘ There 's no point in continuing this conversation , Beth .
Idiom: give someone the eye (used idiomatically: no)
THE COFFEE BOWLS Louis looked as though he 'd just got up off the ground after being knocked out in a fight . Grief had swung at him and given him two red eyes . He sagged inside his best grey suit , and his black armband looked like a bandage . He had two fresh shaving scars on his chin which his fingers kept wandering up to touch .
Idiom: no two ways about it (used idiomatically: yes)
Hattie read the letter again , and sighed . as if her father 's interminable complaints were not enough , no matter how she put herself out to please him . He had ever favoured Em — there were no two ways about it — and Em had been quite wrong to post herself to Norfolk in the first place . Sydney Smith had been wrong too ; it seemed that the country was not even a healthy grave ; though , judging from Edwin 's pusillanimous letter , Smith might have been in the right when he suggested that there were three sexes — men , women and clergymen ! What qualities Em had ever seen in Edwin Frere quite beggared comprehension .
Idiom: get off the ground (used idiomatically: yes)
‘ Attacks on the royal family.’ ‘ They 're always open to that . There was some small group of Irish , bloody crackpots , who wanted to do it , but that never got off the ground . Ever since the Mountbatten thing , they 've all been nervous of the publicity . It turned a lot of their own against them.’
Idiom: on the game (used idiomatically: yes)
Alan Hill , the Basingstoke No 8 , is also enjoying a fine season and he scored his 22nd try of the campaign in the 16 - 6 victory over Havant in the final of the Hampshire Cup . It is the second time Basingstoke have won this competition , which has been dominated by Havant . The losers , with an eye on two league games they need to win to secure promotion from Four South , rested five players who represented Hampshire in the country championship semi - final against Lancashire last month . Sudbury took their record in the Spicers Eastern Counties Cup to six triumphs in the last seven seasons when they beat North Walsham 10 - 6 . The only try came from Sudbury scrum - half Steve Glen .
Idiom: break someone's heart (used idiomatically: yes)
Yeah pass us the headphone . Are you ready ? try to walk away and I 'll come to depend on you , I give you all the love I had in me da da da I ca n't believe it 's true you better stop stop with my heart , you always break my heart , you better stop before you tear us all apart you better stop . rubbish innit ? shitty .
Idiom: down the drain (used idiomatically: yes)
Of course , you are likely to get some people who say that they thought of it first . Then again , there will be others trying to improve on your invention . If they can achieve that , and get it patented , all your hard work goes down the drain . It is hardly a relaxed area of human activity.’ ‘ So you do n't set much store by the ill feeling around , that evening?’
Idiom: fit the bill (used idiomatically: yes)
It is regretted that the wrong text was published with Saturday 's chess . Solution Clothes shop that would fit the bill Sir,— The new Mayor of Woodbridge , Mr Tony Hubbard , is encouraging local residents to promote Woodbridge as a commercial and retail centre in the face of the threat posed by new superstores and I would like to give him my support . I am a regular shopper in Woodbridge and can easily find everything I need without having to drive miles to the nearest superstore .
Idiom: in the dock (used idiomatically: no)
The Journal showed all the symptoms of being an autobiographical disaster area . There were perhaps 200 sheets of paper , ranging from foolscap , densely packed with single - spaced typing , to what looked like a paper bag covered with faint hieroglyphics , possibly in pencil . Yorick had included several newspaper cuttings ( ' POP STAR WEEPS IN DOCK ' ) and an old school report ( ' Stephen must try to stop biting his friends ' ) . Stephen ? The text was interspersed with doodles , most of which were variations on the same theme : a roly - poly man wearing a bowler hat and smoking a pipe .
Idiom: knock it off (used idiomatically: yes)
Yeah . A chip on his shoulder . told him if he did n't wake up and be a bit more happy I was going to knock it off . Oh upset him . You ?
Idiom: in hot water (used idiomatically: yes)
‘ It not only affects the consumer but also those honest motor traders who do not engage in such malpractices.’ Training in the nude A DRUNKEN rowing eight from an Oxford college ended up in hot water after holding a late - night training session … in the nude . The eight men , from St John 's College , came in for a severe dressing down from the police after they bared all on a two - mile row down the River Isis . Heroes home at last
Idiom: get up someone's nose (used idiomatically: yes)
And a bubble blew up under the mud , and when the bubble was as big as an elephant it burst , and out popped Mrs Dinwiddie . She looked even more head - mistressy than usual , a caricature , with a long black gown and a mortarboard that pressed down hard till it flattened the top of her head . Then she was blowing up like a bubble herself and getting fatter and fatter and more and more bulbous till she filled the whole sky and I knew that if she burst the explosion would drown me in mud too , and I could smell the slurry in my nostrils already and it was getting up my nose and I could n't breathe and … Then I 'd be dead : Big bad head - mistressy people making me dead : that 's what lots of my dreams are about . All that flashed through my head while I took one step out of the Ladies .
Idiom: in no uncertain terms (used idiomatically: yes)
The only people ( or so I thought ) who were miffed were the council members of the European Athletic Association , steeped in their protocol . I thought it was uncalled for . In fact , there was another group who were not happy and who expressed their unhappiness in no uncertain terms to me on my return . Many people in the black community , people that I had thought of as friends , said to me that I should not have worn the flag that night . There was a feeling that by doing so I was siding with the white community , not showing solidarity with my own people .
Idiom: fall short (used idiomatically: yes)
The Security ~ Council , after moving with painful caution the first few days of the crisis , has now both invoked the responsibility to protect principle and – in an historic first – agreed on a substantial package of measures to implement it : an arms embargo , asset freeze , travel bans , and , importantly , reference of the situation to the International ~ Criminal ~ Court . Such measures , like the steps being taken in the UN Human Rights Council and elsewhere , are necessary to demonstrate that Qaddafi has no remaining international support . They are coercive , but they fall short of the threat or use of military force . Will they be enough to stop the killing ? Is it time to apply and enforce a no - fly zone ?
Idiom: make someone's day (used idiomatically: yes)
‘ Then I 'll say goodbye , Leonora . I hope I did n't shock your customers by barging in so unceremoniously . ‘ I imagine it made their day.’ She felt quite proud of her composure as she escorted him through the shop , relieved , for once , to see it empty . ‘ Goodbye,’ she said as they reached the door .
Idiom: on the same page (used idiomatically: no)
This , according to Dobson , is not surprising because Pery 's speech ' was clearly Cockney … The evidence of such a writer does not relate to educated StE'(1968 II : 551 ) . On the same page , evidence from the Paston Letters is rejected as ' dialectal ' , and the Diary of Henry Machyn is rejected on the grounds that Machyn was a Yorkshireman . Dobson seems to be quite sure of this , but Machyn was almost certainly a Londoner , and his Diary is one of the most valuable primary sources for the study of EModE London pronunciation . But as he was not an upper - class Londoner , we can guess that his testimony would have been rejected in any case .
Idiom: run out of steam (used idiomatically: yes)
The couple still maintain close links with local schools , where they spend hours researching , sketching and absorbing jokes . After 10 years of teaching Allan had had enough . ‘ I ran out of steam . It 's a killing job . Little kids eat you alive , they want so much physically and emotionally.’
Idiom: come to terms with (used idiomatically: yes)
I think talking to them helped me a lot to get over those first few months . On the other hand , they felt that counsellors were generally helpful in sorting out their most pressing needs , particularly in finding them a more sympathetic GP and resolving their accommodation and financial problems . However , while the resolution of the immediate crises in the user 's life and the provision of a counselling service to help users think objectively about their position may provide the ‘ ideal conditions’ for coming off , users must still come to terms with their addiction , their lifestyle and whether the alternatives on offer hold sufficient promise . Summary The interviewees whose drugs careers have informed this chapter sought help either in the form of counselling or medical treatment .
Idiom: across the board (used idiomatically: yes)
The EC and the USA both dump their subsidised food on world markets at artificially low prices which robs developing countries of any outlet for their own surplus foodstuffs , as they can not compete against the industrial world 's $ 126 billion of annual subsidies . The point has now been reached where radical action is called for in order to salvage GATT . The Americans have demanded a reduction of 75 % in subsidies to agriculture across the board . The EC has offered 30 % . The talks have been extended beyond their December 1990 deadline by one year .
Idiom: jump through hoops (used idiomatically: yes)
And what 's inspiring about a treatise on who can own brown rice stores and how many people it takes to make up a windmill construction co - operative ? Thatcher never laid out her ideal world for everyone to shoot down — she and her cronies unveiled it bit by beautifully packaged bit . So why are you jumping through all these self - imposed hoops ? And if your modern drawing of Sancho Panza has been ' liberated from the master - servant relationship ' why does he / she / it end up with the donkey ? Mega - flop protests
Idiom: man and boy (used idiomatically: yes)
Its population rose from 729 in 1801 to 2,602 in 1891 . By 1841 , when 1,079 people lived in the village , 107 men and boys and just 3 females worked at the trade . Twenty years later the population had risen by 478 but the proportion of the workforce employed in footwear had grown more dramatically , so that not only were 301 men and boys working at the trade but also 123 women and 118 girls . A declining number of people continued to sew shoes by hand in their cottages or little workshops right until the end of the nineteenth century . Even today some Victorian houses in Earls Barton have a former ‘ shop’ behind the kitchen or in a backyard ; other cottagers worked in their living rooms .
Idiom: seal of approval (used idiomatically: yes)
Tropical Forests Consultants provide " green cover " for Guyana logging company Scottish biologists and a UK government research centre have been accused of giving a green seal of approval to a major logging operation in the South American state of Guyana that could destroy large areas of virgin rainforest . The charge has been made by Friends of the Earth ( FoE ) and the World Wide Fund for Nature ( WWF ) against the Edinburgh Centre for Tropical Forests which has subcontracted the work to one of its members , consultancy LTS International . Logging company Barama , a joint enterprise between South Korean firm Sunkyong and Malaysia 's Samling Timbers , has been granted a 25-year concession on the 1.6 million hectare government - owned land on the condition that a satisfactory forestry management plan is drawn up .
Idiom: out of line (used idiomatically: no)
Liebknecht 's attempt to hold an anti - war rally in the Potsdamer Platz on May 1st , 1916 , was not yet anything more than a flash in the pan . The solid bulk of the nation was as dedicated as ever to the war , phlegmatic and unquestioning , turning a closed mind and a deaf ear to the tales men brought back from Verdun , in much the same way as when , to the succeeding generation , rumours began to filter out from the concentration camps . On reaching the City of Verdun itself , French troops just out of the line experienced a sensation not altogether different from the delight of the Germans transported to Alsace 's Elysian Fields . In one of the city 's music halls , the little Green Rooms still bore the traces of the wistful decorum of peacetime garrison life , in the form of notices decreeing : By Order of the Police , artistes are forbidden to receive in their rooms during the show .
Idiom: at death's door (used idiomatically: yes)
Winnie felt a huge welling , seeing the shrivelled Rab , that , and now she knew , he had not stood her up . ‘ I 've not been that well myself,’ she said , ‘ I 've been worried sick about ye.’ ‘ I was at death 's door,’ Rab said . ‘ Ye could fly ye on a kite.’ ‘ And I 'm fatter now.’
Idiom: have a heart (used idiomatically: no)
‘ It was small and black , with white paws and a white patch on its chest.’ ‘ That was Thomas!’ I exclaimed my heart beating so wildly I thought I was going to have a heart attack right there at the table . ‘ She died last week.’ My eyes blurred .
Idiom: spring to mind (used idiomatically: yes)
Sympathy Dr Carson described it as a ' very rare ' cause of death and said that neither he nor his colleagues had ever seen cases with such severity of infection of the umbilical cord . Coroner John Leckey , extending his sympathy to the Phillips family , said many of the questions that had sprung to his mind about the case had been answered . He believed there was nothing that medical science could have done to have changed the tragic outcome . By Oliver McGuckin
Idiom: play games (used idiomatically: yes)
THE SIEGE mentality suddenly occupies all thoughts at Neath . Denied access to Europe and elsewhere by the Welsh Rugby Union , awaiting a lengthy ban on the international lock Gareth Llewellyn , they battled against Bridgend within the confines of a 20 square yard area . Few games have been played in such restricted space yet provided so much furious forward movement and pace . If the approach was to impress the reported carloads of northern scouts , they would have returned home with the memory of short explosive bursts , close support play and dogged determination , but little else . Glen Webbe , of international fame and a target for League clubs , might just as well have stayed home decorating his Christmas tree for what he was called on to do .
Idiom: leave well alone (used idiomatically: yes)
I 'll take this off then ! Yeah well how do you do this ? Could n't you have left well alone ! That 's okay . Got a good selection have n't they ?
Idiom: one of those things (used idiomatically: yes)
Before you say , ‘ Then he is barking mad,’ think hard about this . There are plenty of things they do n't tell us about . And Operation Majestic UK8 , like its American counterpart , is one of those things . The reason you have n't read about it , even in the official UFO journals , is that it has been kept so secret that not even the ufologists know about it . Operation Majestic UK8 refers to a set of documents shown to Mrs Thatcher in secret in 1984 .