Gooogr/pie_idioms huggingface dataset:
Idiom: on edge (used idiomatically: yes)
Several papillae may lie above it . It is flanked by 3–4 large pointed oral papillae each side , of which the distalmost is the largest . In addition to these papillae there may be several supernumerary papillae situated on the edge of the jaw and on the edge of the adoral shields , but they are less common in smaller specimens . The adoral shields are wide and distinctly wing - like , separating the oral shield from the first lateral arm plate . The oral shield is somewhat variable in shape but is basically a rounded rhombic or triangular with a wide distal edge which may be slightly indented ; all are separated .
Idiom: strike a chord (used idiomatically: yes)
She was too good a cook and I was too faithful a disciple of her art Just lounging by our bed - sitter 's fireside was the sweetest of all occupations . I had tried to ignore the disappearance of my abdominal muscles , the sagging of my pectorals , but it was all coming home to me now . " It 's not far now , lads , " the corporal chirped from the rear , but he struck no responsive chords in the toiling group . He had said it several times before and we had stopped believing him . But this time it seemed he really meant it , because as we turned into get another street I could see iron railings and trees at the far end .
Idiom: face to face (used idiomatically: yes)
The point is that it is only during face - to - face encounters that your behaviour is totally evident . During ' phone calls , by contrast , only what you say counts . Written communications are different because whilst what you write represents your behaviour even though you are not present , it is n't happening ' in flight ' as do face - to - face behaviours . A useful outcome is the third ingredient , for what would be the point of skills that led you to a useless outcome ? The proof of the pudding is in the eating , and the proof of people skills is that they make it as likely as possible that we achieve our objectives with people .
Idiom: push the boat out (used idiomatically: yes)
A small , but far reaching change in personal habits , career practices or attitudes and approaches to life could increase your efficiency and awareness . Take the plunge and opt for change , you 'll soon begin to fell the benefits . Just when you 're looking forward to pushing the boat out and having a spending spree , your sensible side reminds you of all the practical and prudent things you should be doing with any extra money you have . You might find you 've one too many problems to handle at the moment and a final hassle or irritation will be the straw that breaks the camel 's back . You could run a mile , but you 're too disciplined and responsible for that .
Idiom: under the table (used idiomatically: no)
And they despised her for it , some of them , and they feared her for it , most of them ; but she did not care , so long as they paid her enough to be drunk on until the need to kill was irresistible again . She was nameless ; they called her Fox , for her sandy hair and brows , for the sharply blue eyes that seemed to rake through you and see nothing of interest . She slept alone in secret places , and not even enough alcohol to send a mudwrestler under the table would slow her assassin 's reflexes . She killed smiling , and there were few who , having seen her kill , wanted even to risk dying at her hands . And there was a boy and a dog .
Idiom: keep up with the Joneses (used idiomatically: yes)
‘ We used to have to go to them all and raise funds for the old Alma Mater . Actually , that sow Sandra only went to see how we were doing in the rat - race compared to her contemporaries . Obviously we were n't keeping up with the Joneses , so she started screwing the boss.’ ‘ And Billy used to go?’ I tried to get him back on to the subject .
Idiom: in living memory (used idiomatically: yes)
At each point we had been required to identify pictures of tanks , strip weapons in the dark , answer questions on mines and explosives , and demonstrate our radio technique . We were going to be interviewed by a selection team from Castelnaudary who would tell us our placings in the ‘ Certificat Technique Élémentaire ’ exams . We packed up all our kit again and set off back to Orange , across the frozen landscape of southern France , which was having one of the coldest winters in living memory . Snow was everywhere and there were television reports each night of blocked roads , stranded villagers and thick white fields of frozen cattle . Our trucks had open sides and Marius , Vermulen and I clung to each other , faces buried in our hoods , as we churned down the slushy autoroutes , the speed of the trucks sending icy , sawing winds through us at seventy kilometres per hour .
Idiom: above board (used idiomatically: yes)
Oh well you see he was doing he 's been able to get round it really , it might well be above board , but the police have been looking into it Well I would think it would n't be half , but then I do n't know owt about it so it 's no good me saying , but take , taking the type of the woman I , I think
Idiom: pull a face (used idiomatically: yes)
That 's took the smile off yer face , ' he told her . ' Now goo an ' tell yer Mum that ! ' She ran off screaming but she never pulled faces at us again if Dad was around . When we 'd finished that night Dad gave us tuppence to go the first half at the Queen 's Hall . He told us to hurry back home after the picture had finished because it might get foggy later .
Idiom: have someone's number (used idiomatically: yes)
It had been the first time that he had really seen Sara in tears . Adam had fallen over in the playground , hit his head on a bench , been taken to hospital . The school had n't had his number at A.W.E. The teachers could n't ask Frank where his mother might be because his class was out for the day on a Project Course . The first Sara had known of Adam 's injury was when she had turned up to collect him at the school gate .
Idiom: out of pocket (used idiomatically: yes)
Most items produced in Europe paid practically no English duty if they were to be re - exported to the colonies , but a few , including iron and steel , were taxed at a rate which made continental products very expensive and thus gave English manufacturers a clear field in the colonial market . On balance the trading aspects of what came to be known as the Old Colonial System probably favoured England more than the colonies , though the colonial monopoly of English markets was a substantial counterweight to English monopoly of colonial trade . Whatever its actual effect , the English wanted at least to make sure that they would not be out of pocket over expansion in America , and the fear that they would lose money was expressed by the economist Charles Davenant when he wrote in 1698 : ‘ it can not reasonably be admitted that the mother country should impoverish herself to enrich the children nor that Britain should weaken herself to strengthen America.’ By the second half of the seventeenth century English politicians realized that military and naval support of the colonies was going to cost money . The colonies had at first been left to look after themselves because the king had no money to spare for defending them nor any forces he could send across the Atlantic , but after 1650 it was accepted that the colonies had a right to expect to be protected against European attack , though not against Indian or other local problems .
Idiom: cut no ice (used idiomatically: yes)
He often went one better . ‘ Muhammad —may God bless him and grant him peace — who was , I do n't need to remind you , quite a guy — once said —and what he said was , on the whole earth , listening to — on several occasions —not that he was a man given to repeating himself — once , anyway , said —and he had a beautiful speaking voice … ’ etc . etc . This cut no ice with the doctor . He watched Robert from under his hooded eyes , a slight smile playing around his lips . ‘ I have to get the bread for lunch,’ said Maisie .
Idiom: first among equals (used idiomatically: yes)
In such ways Augustus changed his image to match the changing political regime over which he presided . His changes lasted until Nero abandoned the Augustan type of portrait and re - adopted divine symbols ; Nero 's new hairstyle has already been discussed ( p. 36 ) , and he is sometimes depicted at Rome and in the provinces wearing the radiate crown , a symbol of divinity , and the aegis , the attribute of Jupiter . Augustus , the ‘ first among equals’ , had become Nero , the ‘ first without equals’ : the man who had promised at his succession to model his rule on that of Augustus later boasted of his uniqueness and superiority over his predecessors . 22 Divine and human representations of the emperor . Both commemorate the same scene : the reception by the Emperor Augustus of a victory won by Tiberius and Drusus in 15 BC .
Idiom: child's play (used idiomatically: no)
My hand 's not really at the back . It 's at the front . Observing the children 's play out of doors , teachers will be able to draw in and encourage some children by offering them small problems to solve , such as the best way to move some bricks from one side of the garden to another . As they become more independent , she can , by the provision of suitable equipment and conversation , lead them on to explore many mathematical ideas while their physical skills are developing .
Idiom: all over the place (used idiomatically: no)
Sometimes he is just a secondary figure floating in the novel 's bloodstream , as at the fête where he has got roped in with a few other young men to be a marshal and make sure everything goes smoothly . Of course he is incompetent , and as well as being swept along in the muddle and uproar he shares ' our town 's ' positive transpersonal complicities in what goes on here . All over the place , not only at the fête , a psychic infection rages and erupts in small ugly - comic jests —'They put a dead cat in my trunk ' — but also in affronts to the human self as massive and immemorial as those Homer describes . A very young man has shot himself and ' we ' ride off in an inquisitive Gadarene ' cavalcade'('our ladies had never seen a suicide ' ) to view the corpse ; ' everything 's so boring ' — recall Marya Lebyadkin 's words —'one ca n't afford to be squeamish about one 's amusements so long as they are fun ' ; and Lyamshin , the man who gets himself asked to parties to mimic women in labour , new - born babies , and peasants in the confessional , steals a bunch of grapes from the room of death . It 's not easy to say what the narrating ' I ' is doing at such a scene .
Idiom: with knobs on (used idiomatically: yes)
There were troops yomping down the main street of Dead Rat . It was like being back at Goose Green . But he was n't going to withdraw tactically this bloody buggering time , no sir , not with brass knobs on … He held his gun up in readiness . His hands were n't shaking now .
Idiom: kick the bucket (used idiomatically: no)
She shrank into the furthest corner just as the door was pushed open , thankful that Jack had not yet seen fit to light the sconces against the shadows of late afternoon . Three soldiers entered , calling loudly for Jack and seeming to fill the room . Two of the men flung themselves down on a bench , scabbards clattering , while the third strode forward , kicking Isabel 's abandoned bucket out of his path . Water spread across the floor in a greasy stream , mingling with the pile of filthy rushes . The fetid odour of damp refuse filled the air and the soldier made a disgusted face .
Idiom: make short work of (used idiomatically: yes)
In fact , the Bureau translated ‘ upper’ and ‘ lower’to mean north and south , and thus divided the land in ignorance of its true topography and contours . Joseph 's ceremonial robe and Winchester rifle , which are now in the Fort Benton Museum . The one - armed , ‘ Praying General’ Oliver Otis Howard predicted of his campaign against the Nez Perce : ‘ Think we will make short work of it’ . However , Howard 's quarry , Chief Joseph , after frequently and comprehensively outmanoeuvring him , soon renamed him ‘ General Day After Tomorrow’ . Old - time Nez Perce shirt of the 1840s , short in length and fashioned according to the shape of the animal skin .
Idiom: live it up (used idiomatically: yes)
Yeah oh , or pork Living it up then you are Oh aye , have to be careful you see bet I 'm not much heavier than you now No
Idiom: down the road (used idiomatically: yes)
Football : Whitton leads the rout By JOE LOVEJOY Aldershot .............. 0 Sheffield Wednesday .... 8 ( Wednesday win 8 - 0 on agg ) RON ATKINSON 'S blue and white army marched down Ordinance Road , past the Cannon pub and fired the Shots out of the Littlewoods Cup with a devastating display of firepower which brought Steve Whitton four goals and Dalian Atkinson three . Atkinson ( the manager ) says his bottom - of - the - table team were so bad in one of the five defeats they have suffered in eight First Division games that he found himself joining in with the cries for his dismissal . Like Terry Venables calling for a pre - match arsenic , the old trouper knows that the best way to disarm your critics is to make 'em laugh , but the joke has been wearing a bit thin , and it was with some relief that he swopped his sheepish smile for a satisfied one .
Idiom: across the board (used idiomatically: yes)
The 15,000 crowd at Limerick 's famed Thomond Park for the All Ireland League key match between Shannon and Garryowen was it own testimony to the grip the competition has gained on the Irish game . It was a record attendance for a club game in Ireland and further illustrated the remarkable devotion to rugby of the city of Limerick . Nowhere in these islands , outside South Wales , is there such across - the - board enthusiasm , from the professional classes to the ‘ cloth - capped’ brigade . But nowhere will be found a more sporting , fair - minded spectator . In the fiercely contested Shannon - Garryowen tie there was not even a hint of unseemly conduct and the silence afforded the placekickers was , as usual on this ground , total .
Idiom: hands down (used idiomatically: yes)
Ha . Ha He 's He 's got his hands down in his pockets in the . Oh ho . Hands in pockets he 's copying
Idiom: foot the bill (used idiomatically: no)
PAHs are some of the same group of cancer - causing substances that are found in cigarette smoke , oil and vehicle exhaust fumes . Replacing the old steel and iron pipes lined with coal tar would cost £ 1,000 million , David Wheeler of WRC told the Consultative Conference on Water Privatisation in October 1988 . Coal tar linings were banned from the 1970s onwards after advice from WRC but , said a TWA spokesman , someone would now have to foot the bill for replacing the old linings ‘ and it looks like the ratepayer’ . Trichlorethylene and tetrachlorethylene used in dry cleaning and degreasing also pose threats to health , especially through contamination of groundwater , and have been detected in tapwater . The Halcrow Report commissioned by the DoE pointed out in 1988 that up to 8,000 people around Luton and Dunstable were drinking water with these solvents at four times the World Health Organisation 's maximum recommended level , while about 80,000 drank water with trichlorethylene at 150 per cent of the limit .
Idiom: hold court (used idiomatically: yes)
By noon , the swell at the Bay had built to eighteen to twenty feet . This is when it qualifies , in the phrase of its disciples , as ‘ real Waimea’ . Ken Bradshaw was holding court among a handful of Waimea veterans . By three o'clock , the twenty - five to thirty - foot sets were not just immense , but increasingly gnarly and hard to handle . One of the beauties of Waimea is that , for all its size , it is regular and predictable , almost like a machine - wave , breaking at virtually the same spot every time .
Idiom: at the end of the day (used idiomatically: yes)
You just well Ne both Neil and I have sort of felt well , to be quite honest it is n't worth it . Yeah . For what you make at the end of the day on , on somebody 's No it 's not worth it . It
Idiom: oil and water (used idiomatically: yes)
Indeed , the remaining debate between the British and other Member States on this matter now centres on the question of how much regulation ( or restriction on the freedom to trade ) there should be for banking services . In the case of shipping services , at the meeting of transport ministers in Luxembourg on 22 June 1992 , Britain , Denmark and the Netherlands were simply outvoted on the issue of a free market . As a result , there will be restrictions for cruise services until 1995 , the transport of strategic goods ( oil and water ) until 1997 , services in ships below 650 gross tonnes until 1998 and regular passenger and ferry services until 1999 . Certain services in Greek waters will be protected until the year 2004 . Restrictive practices concerned with crewing nationality are to continue for the most part until the end of the century .
Idiom: in the long term (used idiomatically: yes)
It is obvious that there are some serious problems in Marx 's account . Revolution has occurred in nations on the verge of entry into capitalism , not in societies which are mature and ‘ ripe’ for change . The working class in capitalist societies has enjoyed , in the long term , a rise in the standard of living , and labour movements have won enough welfare concessions to ease the lot of many of the poor . by no means all Western societies have strong Communist parties . In addition , the growth of the new middle class of managerial , professional and clerical workers appears to contradict Marx 's view that divisions among those without wealth would disappear .
Idiom: out of this world (used idiomatically: yes)
‘ Upon the hearth the fire is red,’ they sing , ‘ But not yet weary are our feet’ . If one goes by the ‘ inn and weariness’ symbolism of Bilbo 's Rivendell song , that means they still have a zest for life . Still , what the song celebrates are ‘ hidden paths’ , ‘ sudden tree[s]’ , ‘ A new road on a secret gate’— things which seem to be or to lead out of this world . The refrain of each stanza addresses the familiar sights of the landscape , the little homely trees of English hedgerows , but bids farewell to them : Are the hobbits , even in their good humour , half in love with easeful death ' ?
Idiom: like a bear with a sore head (used idiomatically: yes)
‘ Let 's try that little Italian place — the Astra.’ Over spaghetti they chatted casually for a while , then Rob said , ‘ You 're looking thinner . Must be a bug ; Luke 's got it , too , not to mention behaving like a bear with a sore head when I told him I wanted to take an early lunch.’ ‘ You did n't tell him you were meeting me , though?’ Merrill said , alarmed .
Idiom: down the road (used idiomatically: yes)
Anyway , we moved in . It was the coldest time of the year and the first thing I insisted on was having a telephone . David did n't think it was a good idea but I said we could n't keep going out and using the phone box down the road . ‘ I 'm telling you’ , he said , ‘ it 's not a good idea’ . Little did I know how right he was because the first thing that happened when David 's mother had a bad day , she would call me everything under the sun .
Idiom: change your tune (used idiomatically: yes)
And we 're the best - educated generation ever —’ ‘ You kids think you know it all,’ a woman shouted from the front of the now thoroughly stirred - up audience . ‘ Wait until they try to take your babies off you , then you 'll change your tune , you —‘Now , madam , let 's give both sides a fair hearing,’ Gerrard called . ‘ Anyone else with this young man?’ ‘ Yes !
Idiom: round the clock (used idiomatically: yes)
When Lin Foh had paused for breath , Cowley smiled . ' You have perfectly adequate protection , Colonel , ' he said in his infuriatingly soft tone of voice , the abrasive Scots edge he could so easily manage gone to be replaced by a soothing , British unflappability . ' You have round - the - clock protection . ' ' One man ! ' screeched Lin Foh , and slapped his sides in exasperation . ' A bodyguard of one man !
Idiom: under the table (used idiomatically: yes)
‘ You intend to hide here all night ? You are scared to pass me on the way to the stairs?’ he grated . ‘ Hide under the table , mademoiselle , and when I am in my room I will bang on the floor and the coast will be clear.’ ‘ I 'm not hiding,’ Jenna said firmly , making herself meet the dark , angry eyes . ‘ I was just wondering whether to have some more milk , that 's all,’ she lied , ‘ and I 'm not scared either.’
Idiom: green light (used idiomatically: yes)
But it regularly boasts of buying abroad to cut costs . In a report about its latest Central line trains it boasts : ‘ The doors come from Canada , aluminium body extrusions from France and the bogies are built in Japan.’ Alcatel spokesman John Highhams confirmed last night his company had been promised the contract if the project was given the green light in the Chancellor 's Autumn statement . ‘ It will ensure jobs in Germany and some in Canada . It is a good contract for us .
Idiom: push the boat out (used idiomatically: yes)
SAVE £ 45.89 ! All 12 books for £ 1.99 + p. & p . Mr Jeremy took a reed pole , and pushed the boat out into open water . Peter Rabbit escapes from Mr McGregor . Jemima Puddle - Duck looks for a quiet spot .
Idiom: oil and water (used idiomatically: yes)
Cook the beans , stirring continuously , until they are heated through and look like thick porridge . Serve hot with tortillas or as an accompaniment . If the beans start to stick to the bottom during cooking , make a well in the centre of the pan and stir in a little more oil and water . Hot tomato sauce 1 Fry the onion in the oil until transparent .
Idiom: hold someone's hand (used idiomatically: yes)
All a waste of time for his daughter , poor Bloody Mary , lost it to the French and died of a broken heart . ( Oh , by the way , I was there when she died . I held her hand as the death rattle grew in her scrawny throat . ‘ Roger,’ she whispered . ‘ My dear , dear Roger .
Idiom: on the face of it (used idiomatically: yes)
Not surprisingly , left idealist writers have been very reluctant to identify anything as being other than potentially indicative of leftist revolutionary consciousness . A good example of the problems this can create was Pearson 's ( 1976 ) study of ' Paki - bashing ' by working - class youths in Accrington . On the face of it , such activity would seem to be more expressive of right - wing rather than left - wing sentiments . Yet Pearson specifically rejected this interpretation by arguing that , in the context of the insecure industrial history of Accrington , such behaviour could be seen as an understandable response although not , of course , one to be approved of . But this seems to be an extremely dangerous conclusion from the point of view of a leftist interpretation .
Idiom: hear things (used idiomatically: yes)
‘ We 're mobile , son,’ the nearer policeman said . ‘ You 'd have to ask the plain - clothes mob.’ ‘ But you must hear things?’ Mungo said . The policeman opposite looked up .
Idiom: out of your mind (used idiomatically: yes)
‘ You 're obviously thriving on the excitement,’ he ventured . The Prince caught his meaning instantly , and chose to ignore it . ‘ Well , you have to laugh about things like this , do n't you , otherwise you 'd go out of your mind . There 's only one woman in my life , and that is Sister Bernadette of the Nansen Trust , and when we 're through I 'd like you to ask the office to get her on the phone for me . Fairbrother knew his man and kept silent a few seconds longer than was polite .