Gooogr/pie_idioms huggingface dataset:
Idiom: in the running (used idiomatically: no)
A minority of them never went to B at all , but went straight to A and searched , like the others , at a visibly empty space . Until about eighteen months or so they will typically be unable to search for objects which have been displaced invisibly ( by transposing containers , for example ) . We need fine - grain theories of why the performance breaks down , theories about memory development ( a sophisticated memory - failure account is still in the running ) , about the ability to inhibit actions , about the development of the frontal cortex . But from the perspective of constructivism — which is a general theory of how cognisance is possible and how it develops — the immediate ‘ information - processing’ shortcomings that lead to the failure to relate one 's actions to objects is not relevant . That infants fail to search in these situations — although they clearly have the motor skills to do so — is one of the empirical bolsters to the view that what develops is the ability to relate actions to experiences ‘ of’ them ( again : whatever ‘ of’means in this context ! ) .
Idiom: without fail (used idiomatically: yes)
If floorboards are in reasonable condition , they could be stripped , sanded and polished . Or they could be painted , or stencilled or both . I , personally , do not think it a very good idea to have carpet in the dining room where it only picks up smells and gets dirtier more quickly than in most places since people do , without fail , drop things . But there is nothing against rugs of any description . Bricks , old tiles , new tiles , quarry tiles , Mexican , French or Spanish tiles , ceramic tiles , slate and even marble facing all look spectacular — provided , of course , that you are prepared to put up with the clattering noise from chairs being pulled up to the table and pushed back .
Idiom: on the hop (used idiomatically: yes)
BT rings up £ 1bn with US sell off George Campbell TELEPHONE giant BT caught the City on the hop yesterday with a sweet £ 1bn deal in the US . It is selling its 20 % stake in American cellular communications group McCaw to AT & T and there is speculation that it will use the proceeds to mop up Cellnet . BT has a 60 % stake in Cellnet and observers reckon it could be about to buy the remaining 40 % held by Securicor and its sister company Securicor Services .
Idiom: behind someone's back (used idiomatically: yes)
After another half a minute , the power is passed to the third person and so on until everyone has had a turn at passing the power . 24 I 'm hearing bells All the children stand in a circle facing inward , with their hands behind their backs . One child is chosen and stands in the centre of the circle with eyes closed . As this player counts aloud from one to ten , the other children are given a bell .
Idiom: make history (used idiomatically: yes)
However suicidal they may feel , there is a lifeline ; a sympathetic listener on the end of a phone 24 hours a day . The success of the compact disc is threatening to make other music formats obsolete . One CD manufacturing plant set up just seven years ago today produced its one hundred millionth disc … the band Go West were there to see their music make history . Mike Rowbottom was with them . SWINDON
Idiom: join the club (used idiomatically: yes)
Poles had experienced the crisis as a series of personal events ; they had not experienced it as a nation through institutions and organisations they saw as undeniably their own . The failures of capitalism were not Poland 's failures . For all its efforts to make good the loss of over 100 years , Poland was not invited to join the club of industrialised nations . The Allies , having revived Poland as part of their anti - German strategy in 1918 , had absolutely no intention of equipping Poland beyond what was strictly necessary to keep Germany occupied and at bay . Such French capital as Poland managed to secure was for specific projects like the new port at Gdynia — which was encouraged by the French to discomfort the Germans as much as to aid the Poles .
Idiom: go to the wall (used idiomatically: no)
Many wall lights , like some decorative pendant lights , will come with a backing plate , with two screw holes exactly 2in ( 50mm ) apart . This matches the holes in a BESA box , so one way to fit a wall light is to bury a BESA box in the wall , and then to secure the light fitting to it ( the wiring connection is made via a terminal connector strip with three terminals ) . The alternative is to bury an architrave switch mounting box in the wall to take the terminal connector strip , and secure the light fitting centrally over this , so that the securing screws can go into wall plugs fitted in holes , which you drill in the wall either side of the box . It is not good practice simply to leave the cable poking out of the wall , and many wall light fittings will not have space in their backing plate to make the connections . SECURING LIGHT SWITCHES
Idiom: once in a while (used idiomatically: yes)
He made sure that his record company , Virgin , did n't know where he was . ‘ I was consciously hiding from everybody . It was a good thing to do , everyone should try it once in a while . I was screwed up over everything , really , I 'd had enough and I just needed to escape . ‘ It was exactly semi - retirement because I took all my gear down and demoed a good album 's worth of material .
Idiom: take it easy (used idiomatically: yes)
My hon . Friend the Member for Newham , South ( Mr. Spearing ) advises me , as he always does , that a Bill amending the treaty will be before the House . It is important that we do not hand to our successors decisions made at the end of a dying Parliament ; we should leave them to take the decisions in future . We should take it easy and not be led by the nose by the Commission or by the Council of Foreign Ministers . Let us not always be looking for great change . Let us see how it goes .
Idiom: in a nutshell (used idiomatically: yes)
So who has heard of ANNA before ? Yeah . Okay which , in a nutshell , says exactly which one could . So what does the first A of ANNA stand for then ? Authority .
Idiom: on the run (used idiomatically: no)
First pass , only package modules are checked and entered . ( b ) Package APCK1 had been entered on a previous run and had not changed . ( c ) Start of second pass , details of ' new ' packages are obtained and eligible modules entered .
Idiom: buy time (used idiomatically: yes)
There are two further attractions to buying a mini . First , it enables the total cost of the project to be identified unequivocally at the outset . There is no question of buying time , as with a bureau , or being charged internally , as in the case of a mainframe . Secondly , it makes it feasible to select a software package which suits your requirements and to buy the hardware to run it on . There need be no problems about converting for the in - house mainframe .
Idiom: up the river (used idiomatically: yes)
( This is now a car park . ) At that time , the principal manufacture locally was of lace . There was extensive trading in coal , which was brought up the river from Yarmouth , and the rich tracts of land surrounding the town produced a considerable quantity of corn , particularly barley . This was sold in the market and sent by water to the East Anglian ports . The population of the town numbered about 5,000 and the House of Industry was designed to accommodate two hundred persons ; men , women and children .
Idiom: in a fog (used idiomatically: no)
It must be the first time ever in the Five Nations Championship that two referees have dropped out of the opening games , with England 's Ed Morrison missing the Ireland v Wales game through a rib injury , and Yours Truly having to watch the England v Ireland game on television through a ' flu virus . It is not the first occasion that I have had to accept the disappointment of missing an international . In 1978 fog at Heathrow airport prevented me from flying to referee the first ever game between France and Russia , and in 1981 a leg injury picked up in the First Test prevented me refereeing the Second Test between France and New Zealand . As I have written before , referees must be 100 per cent fit to control a game at any level , but even more so when it is an international . Looking on the positive side , my absence allowed one of Wales ' exchange referees to get a taste of the international arena both at Murrayfield and Twickenham .
Idiom: think twice (used idiomatically: yes)
As that that would make all all a lot of crimes stop . It would . The same if you were thinking of murdering this person and you knew that you could be traced you 'd bloody think twice if you were gon na be hanged or chaired . No but what they do in America because I do n't think you can be gassed unless you 're grown up They ca n't gas you no .
Idiom: by and large (used idiomatically: yes)
Liberalism . Oh . It meant by and large constitut , it meant , it meant primarily rather constitutional government . Liberals would look to for instance the con the United States ' Constitution . They would look to the er er to the constitution of of of France in say seventeen ninety one or the more radicals amongst them would look erm the more er the more radical liberal if that 's not er , if that 's not a , not a contradiction in terms , do n't think it is .
Idiom: on the face of it (used idiomatically: yes)
No service to Kenyans THE decision by the Kenyan president , Daniel arap Moi , to abandon economic reforms demanded by the International Monetary Fund and the World Bank represents a serious blow to the prospects of eastern Africa 's biggest economy . On the face of it , it is easy to sympathise with the president 's view that ' as a sovereign state , ' Kenya will no longer accept ' any form of economic arm - twisting from any quarter . ' This is particularly the case as the IMF has been open to criticism that it ignores the social impact of its prescriptions , which create hardship and the potential for popular unrest as its free - market measures begin to bite . But in abandoning the reforms , Kenya is also throwing away its chance to begin to rid the economy of the tight centralised government control — and the opportunities for corruption which that presents — which will undermine any chance of recovery .
Idiom: over the hill (used idiomatically: yes)
It was a soft September morning . The sun made Endill feel sad but excited at the journey ahead and he was unable to keep still before his departure . His mother had spoken to Mr McDoodle , who owned one of the few horse and carts in the village , asking him if he could take Endill to the nearest train station which was over the hills in the town of Moorloch . Endill ran to the cart as Mr McDoodle brought it to the house . He put his case in the back then returned to the front door to shout the loudest goodbye he could manage , hoping his father would hear him .
Idiom: go it alone (used idiomatically: yes)
That information is only part of the very large store of information that we need to retain in our own local computer , which contains records about , oh it 's about a hundred and fifty thousand of our four hundred and fifty thousand different books at this moment . Going back on what I said earlier on , East Sussex County Library , for example , keep their records of books , their catalogue , on a system which is run from the British Library , and the Polytechnic draws that sort of information from a co - operative which was originally based in Birmingham . We 've chosen to go it alone , but the net result is the same , that the computer store of information includes information on the authors and the titles of the books and , of course , now includes information on the books that are being borrowed , who 's got them , when they 're coming back , how many other copies we 've got , whether we 've got copies on order , and all of that , all in one central store of information , a central store which can be shared by everyone using the library . mhm And I suppose in the old days if you actually wanted to know which books were popular and which books were not used at all you had to send a librarian to painstakingly look through the shelves , perhaps , and look at the date stamps or something like that , whereas now it 's presumably just a question of pressing a few buttons and the information comes . Well right .
Idiom: on the level (used idiomatically: yes)
This criticism does not seem to bother visitors to the first exhibitions – " The ~ Idea ~ of ~ Europe .~ Concepts ~ for ~ an ~ Eternal ~ Peace " located on two levels and " John ~ F .~ Kennedy " on a single level .
Idiom: on the cards (used idiomatically: yes)
two or nearer three ? Nearer two . And still on card thirty . Using card thirty again , could you tell me how much of your radio listening time is spent tuned to B B C Radio One ? None .
Idiom: hands down (used idiomatically: no)
The judge made no bones about his disgust with the accused 's actions and handed down the severest sentence possible .
Idiom: make hay (used idiomatically: yes)
Freed from restrictions about who to lend to or how much to pay to depositors , and freed from the responsibility of supporting their corporate clients through thin times , American and British commercial banks are weaker than at any time in the past 50 years . They have more dud loans and narrower profit margins than before — and certainly more than their German , French or even Japanese rivals . Investment banks made hay while takeovers shone , but now find themselves with too many overheads , too few profits and no friends at all . Corporate customers have been freed to borrow wherever they like , to raise money in new ways , even to compete with their banks . Yet they , too , complain of aches and pains , of being squeezed by a ‘ credit crunch’ under which borrowing has become harder even while interest rates have been falling .
Idiom: kiss and make up (used idiomatically: yes)
he said . ‘ Usually , you 're only thinking about whether you are going to be working again.’ Comic Jim hopes to kiss and make up Emma Campbell COMEDIAN Jim Davidson is hoping for a New Year reconciliation with his estranged wife Tracie Hilton .
Idiom: get a grip (used idiomatically: no)
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Idiom: throw your weight around (used idiomatically: yes)
‘ Look , do n't try and push me into anything , Julius . Just for once , let me make my own decision . If you try and throw your weight around , force me into something I do n't really want to do , then we 're both going to regret it.’ The fierce glow slowly faded from his eyes . ‘ In other words , you do n't want me to behave in my usual bull - headed manner.’
Idiom: good riddance (used idiomatically: yes)
It was therefore a disaster for towns in the north , particularly those that contained a high proportion of terraced property built around the turn of the century . I do not weep over its loss . Although one can say good riddance to it , I do not wish there to be a return to the past , as the Opposition propose . The community charge system became more and more discredited . Some of my colleagues have accepted that it became discredited , but they are still trying to a certain degree to defend it .
Idiom: nine times out of ten (used idiomatically: yes)
I nearly like that he was like a . I did fucking , I did five years of normal paperwork and plus for the last three years I did double as well cos I got kicked out of french , so I was in metal work like , four hours of metal work every week the last three three years and , cos I was like nine times out of ten I was the only bloke there , the er , the er metal work teacher got on really well , he was showing me all sorts of stuff and I never got to do the actual metal work lesson well nine times out of ten yes , everybody else was in french lesson . Oh . yeah ,
Idiom: hit home (used idiomatically: yes)
I have to say I am amazed to find you have called a special meeting of the Politburo over a simple kidnapping.’ ‘ Unless there is more , something you could n't put in the written message.’ Marshka 's words hit home , all eyes turned towards the president . ‘ Nothing escapes you , my friend,’ replied the president . He waited before answering , making sure his audience was totally prepared for what was to come .
Idiom: keep the peace (used idiomatically: yes)
‘ Give me a chance to put it right,’ he murmured , and at the same time his fingers traced a delicate pattern over the inner skin of her wrists as he lightly caught hold of her and drew her closer . Jessamy gave a small shudder . During the short time their marriage had lasted , there had been so many times when she had given in to Julius 's forceful demands , just to keep the peace . Now , for once , he was n't demanding but asking . The habit of giving in to him was still hard to break , though , even after all the years they had been apart .
Idiom: take a back seat (used idiomatically: yes)
In the first vote of the day , they ensured that Central Committee members and regional party secretaries not elected as delegates were allowed to attend the congress only as observers . The confidence displayed by reformers such as Mr Nyers and Imre Pozsgay , who introduced the new party 's programme , was in sharp contrast to the air of resignation in the conservative rows . Karoly Grosz , the outgoing general secretary , cut a lonely figure as he bowed out , dropping hints that in future he would be taking a back seat in politics . Mr Grosz was the only senior politician yesterday with the courage to stand up for Communism in front of a hostile audience . As a parting shot , he even attacked reformists for ‘ resorting to Stalinist tactics’ and admitted to having ‘ differences of philosophy and outlook with Comrade Poszgay’ .
Idiom: turn the corner (used idiomatically: yes)
Fine . Right . When I used to turn down the corner of the strasse I heard her music . She used to right up and , I can remember the sort of hot days , you know Yeah .
Idiom: have a ball (used idiomatically: yes)
Fielding a side picked with an eye on the forthcoming Toulon tournament and an under-20 game with Italy next month , the Scots took the lead on the stroke of half - time . St Mirren 's Barry Lavety sent Andy Roddie through and the Aberdeen forward made no mistake . Roddie had the ball in the net on two other occasions only to be ruled out by the referee for infringements , and Iceland duly rubbed salt in the wounds when Feyenoord 's Arnar Gunnlaugsson crossed from the right and Thordur Gudjonsson blasted the equaliser past substitute goalkeeper Jim Will . Picture shows Scotland 's scorer , Andy Roddie of Aberdeen , in the thick of the action DONALD MACLEOD
Idiom: make the grade (used idiomatically: yes)
What really gave it away was the totally different sound his ball made when his club connected . Despite our difference in years , I felt like a boy alongside a man . It was then that I resolved to enjoy the rest of the year , accept that I simply did not have the talent to make the professional grade , and find a job . My mother told me that Dad was on one of his frequent business trips to America and would be home in a couple of days . I promised to ring him , if he did n't ring me first , reassured her again that everything was fine and that she did n't need to drive over to look after me .
Idiom: strike a chord (used idiomatically: yes)
‘ The Union is , I believe , the rock on which this Kingdom 's authority rests … Separating or separated , we would be tossed on its tides.’ It was Mr Major who saw that in the preservation of the Union lay an issue which would strike a chord not only in Scotland , but across Britain . He turned defence over Scotland into attack . Refusal to open the door to any form of devolution was a gamble .
Idiom: make or break (used idiomatically: yes)
Meanwhile , the itinerary has been finalised for New Zealand 's 13-match tour of Scotland and England next season . Nine matches will be played in England including two under lights and one — against England A — on a Sunday . Scotland clash is ‘ make or break’ for Portugal By Hugh Keevins THE World Cup qualifying tie with Scotland in Lisbon was yesterday billed as Portugal 's last chance of going to America in 1994 .
Idiom: get wind of (used idiomatically: yes)
It invited 1000 carefully selected participants , all French , to a colloquium at the Ecole Polytechnique , and gave them the hard sell . The defence establishment is faced with a dual problem . First it needs to boost its efforts to get wind of military - useful technology at an early stage . Second , it is trying to persuade researchers that it is a good thing to work for the military . Apart from any moral objections , researchers are scared that they will be deprived of fame and fortune by military secrecy .
Idiom: go hand in hand (used idiomatically: yes)
He also set about the forced emancipation of the Jews . By bringing within German identity a group that had traditionally been considered unalterably ‘ alien’ he caused alarm and resentment against French interference in German affairs . French and Jewish ‘ influence’ went hand in hand for many Germans and allowed Völkisch opinion on the matter to flourish : slowly but surely the word Völk came to mean not simply ‘ people’ , but also ‘ populist’ , and to imply a sense of common identity and of racial superiority over those peoples who needed the French to emancipate them . In spite of their divided , defeated and reactionary Kultur , the Germans came to see themselves as people who needed no emancipation . With the defeat of Napoleon the German states reversed emancipation of the Jews .
Idiom: do me a favour (used idiomatically: no)
‘ To be honest , I 'm not sure . Put it this way , Bill : if you can come up with something from Emor — despatches , that sort of thing — I 'd really appreciate it . You 'd be doing me a favour . One good turn deserves another.’ Coleby looked as if he thought Peter were mad .
Idiom: come to mind (used idiomatically: yes)
He was watching me . Or was he with his arms over his head on the floor ? Yes , one picture does come to mind : before I broke away we lay facing , learning each other 's features in this new light . I touched a hair away from his lower lip , kissed the place where it had been , then I left him . I went into my bed and slept free of any kind of consciousness .
Idiom: in light of (used idiomatically: yes)
In light of their impending departure , more attention was paid to retraining refugees and helping them gain new occupational skills .
Idiom: save face (used idiomatically: yes)
The peace of mind that they produce however is won not without some costs . The hiding strategies themselves produce additional effects that are unwanted and unpleasant , and which may add to the net level of discomfort rather than reducing it . Hiding from others may save face , but at the cost of an increased weight of private guilt and doubt . If people can not speak openly to others about their errors and anxieties , it is easy to feel more and more isolated and inadequate . The disparity between private truth and public convention leaves them feeling that they are the only person having trouble .
Idiom: get stuck in (used idiomatically: yes)
‘ We 're a happy team,’ says Liz . ‘ The staff will always fit in with whatever has to be done . If the dishwasher breaks down they 'll get stuck in and wash up by hand.’ The department has a multi - cultural staff from Polish to Italian to French , all able to pass on their expertise for national dishes when need be . Fifteen serving staff work in the main refectory with four waitresses in the staff dining room .