Gooogr/pie_idioms huggingface dataset:
Idiom: on the button (used idiomatically: yes)
In here , the baby is not a weapon . In here , the baby is more like a bomb . Just when Tod has established our relationship with Irene on a secure footing , the kind of set - up that any sane man would kill for , with her punctual visits and affectionate phone calls , the movies we enjoy together , the fine dining , the peace and safety ( the forgiveness ) that her presence confers , plus the exquisitely torpid lovemaking which takes place right on the button every couple of months or so , and reaching the stage , now , where I think we can tackle her , gently but firmly , about her untidiness around the house , because it 's best to get these things out in the open , not to let them rankle and fester , and so on - guess what . Tod has started fooling around . Yeah .
Idiom: hit and miss (used idiomatically: yes)
Some of them are below the level you expect and below the standards we want to provide,’ it says . As I arrived back in York just before 6 pm on time and with little hope of a refund there was just one conclusion . Whichever form of transport you use , your arrival on time is always hit and miss . And who do you turn to for compensation if you 've just spent two hours in an eight - mile tailback on the A1 ? . AN OLD couple died of heart attacks after a traffic incident in which neither suffered injury , an inquest heard .
Idiom: game on (used idiomatically: yes)
The miss rule that has dogged the game all season struck again in the third . Parrott , snookered behind green , was called four successive times by referee John Williams for a missed red . To his credit , Parrott ignored the 16 points loss and nibbled away to put a game on the scoreboard by a 73–48 margin . Hendry missed a red three times from a snooker in the sixth and lost by eight points as his rival levelled . Their situation was different to Friday 's quarter - final , when Steve Davis missed three times in a row at 4–4 and lost the frame and match to Ken Doherty .
Idiom: come to a head (used idiomatically: yes)
It was anxious to preserve the unity of the Commonwealth and to nurture such anti - communist potential as existed among Asian nationalists . It was necessarily disturbed when the United States treated the United Nations as if it were its own exclusive " club " . Despite these embassy warnings matters seemed in danger of coming to a head early in 1951 . Opinion polls in January and February illustrated the extent of public alarm in Britain . Nearly 60 per cent thought there was a real risk of a general war .
Idiom: catch someone's eye (used idiomatically: yes)
‘ Nothing?’ growled Miller . ‘ Oh , Christ!’ Ursula turned away and instantly caught Charlotte ' s eye . ‘ He wiped them.’ Charlotte nodded .
Idiom: on the level (used idiomatically: yes)
He was a shadowy figure from the past whose name was scarcely ever mentioned except on those rare occasions when they spoke of the accident , that terrible accident that had claimed the lives of him and her mother when Harriet was only four years old . As for the financial crisis they had gone through , of which she suspected Greg was the root cause , that was never spoken of at all . The whole episode had been so horrendous , so traumatic , that her father had chosen to wipe the board clean of it — on a superficial level , at least . Harriet pressed a hand to her mouth and closed her eyes . The street seemed to be full of perfume now , wafting around her in the biting wind — the perfume that was the most evocative memory she had of her mother , a haunting perfume , light and teasing and sweet , a perfume that smelled a little like a summer garden at dusk , a perfume , the memory of which had possessed the power to bring tears to her eyes long , long after she had forgotten how to conjure up the image of her mother 's face .
Idiom: think twice (used idiomatically: yes)
It was only semi - erotic because she made me wear a condom . Then I started feeling her breasts , but she said that would be another $ 15 . AIDS has made me think twice about how safe the whole thing is . From a moral point of view , however , I feel it 's infinitely preferable to doing it with someone you know , as at least you 're not playing with another person 's emotions . I think the fact that I was abroad at the time may have had something to do with it — having left the country I 'd also left my conscience behind .
Idiom: go hand in hand (used idiomatically: yes)
On the whole the changes have been very successful . The problem now is whether there is n't withdrawal from the very significant devolution which occurred in the 1980s . There seems to be a tendency towards centralisation , paradoxically going hand in hand with devolution . Now the corporate plan of every museum may have to be approved by the Department of National Heritage before they receive their grant in aid . If you believe that the Eighties are something of a tribute to the independent trustee system , then it 's a pity that this centralisation is developing .
Idiom: see the light of day (used idiomatically: yes)
He spent much of his time touring music schools which Yamaha run for Japanese children . Mr Dorman , who lives in Daltonon - Tees , said : ‘ It was very hard work . For the first three days we were locked in the classrooms and never saw the light of day.’ In Japan the children are encouraged to play an instrument from a very early age . One of the music schools which Mr Dorman visited had 2,100 pupils .
Idiom: old hat (used idiomatically: yes)
I turned quickly and perceived three young fellows in long blue cloaks , one playing a hautboy , another a clarionet , and the third , who wore an old three - cornered hat , a horn . They played an accompaniment to my song , which made the woods ring again .
Idiom: lay an egg (used idiomatically: yes)
Ammophila campestris females dig burrows in sand . After a female has dug a burrow , she closes the entrance , and flies off to catch a caterpillar . She brings the dead caterpillar back to the burrow , and lays an egg on it . She then catches further caterpillars , one at a time , before finally closing the nest and leaving her offspring to develop by itself , feeding on her provisions . Such is the cycle of any one burrow ; but , the Baerends discovered , a female may work on two or three burrows at a time .
Idiom: on board (used idiomatically: yes)
According to Intel Corp 's Micro2000 vision , a high - end multi - processing chip - set with 40 to 50 million transistors clocking at 250MHz is realisable by the end of the decade . Each of the four 64-bit , 700 MIPS CPUs will have four million transistors . Two vector units will have four million apiece and there will be four to eight million for the two million bits of on - board RAM . It 'll come with a graphics unit for full - motion video . Taiwanese Acer Group Inc plans to expand its operations by establishing ten foreign manufacturing sites by the end of 1993 : it has four currently .
Idiom: hands down (used idiomatically: yes)
‘ If you go to prison you will simply be back to square one on your release a few months later.’ Teesside Crown Court was told Ninham had offered to give the boys money for fireworks and encouraged them to go for a walk with him and his dog . But Keith Miller , prosecuting , said Ninham took the boys into a Northern Echo depot where he pushed his hand down the backs of their trousers . After the incident Ninham , of Hilda Street , gave both boys £ 5 and told them to keep their mouths shut . Mr Miller said : ‘ When the defendant was seen by the police he made full admissions .
Idiom: to the bone (used idiomatically: yes)
ECSTASY : Despair for Graham Gooch ( below right ) as his dismissal is confirmed but it 's joy for the Aussies after they celebrate victory DERBYSHIRE , the poor men of cricket , struck it rich yesterday when they crushed Northamptonshire by eight wickets to reach next month 's Benson and Hedges Cup final at Lord 's . Down to a skeleton staff , half a million pounds in debt and with the smallest county staff cut to the bone by an injury crisis , Kim Barnett 's side worked a miracle . Barnett himself hit 61 after Devon Malcolm and Dominic Cork combined to restrict Northants to 210 all out . But it was forgotten England batsman John Morris ( 48no ) and Chris Adams ( 53no ) who clinched victory with three and a half overs to spare after an unbroken third wicket stand of 95 in 12 overs .
Idiom: on board (used idiomatically: yes)
Given the stakes for the global economy , the Doha Round must be saved . The High - level Trade Group , co - chaired by myself and Peter ~ Sutherland , argued at Davos that this can best be achieved through a high - stakes gamble of announcing a date – such as the end of 2011 – by which the negotiations are declared completed or the parrot is knocked off its perch . But the next question is this : how do pro - trade and pro - Doha leaders such as Cameron and Merkel bring the foot - draggers on board ? While many players , including Brazil , China , and the European ~ Union , must make marginal concessions to close Doha , the focus will have to be on the principal naysayers . The talks broke down in mid-2008 , owing to the United ~ States ’ refusal to reduce agricultural subsidies further and India ’s refusal to ask its subsistence farmers to compete with subsidized US farmers .
Idiom: behind closed doors (used idiomatically: yes)
You name it , they were shoving it : two arms , entire feet , foot - long vibrators , coke bottles , burning candles , telephone receivers , broomsticks , baseball bats , ping - pong balls , steel chains , a brush , cigarettes and even whole raw eggs . PRETTY WILD STUFF . Especially when you consider this is what real people — lawyers , teachers , secretaries , waitresses , military officers and ditch diggers , among others — are doing behind closed doors . It 's no wonder America has so many shrinks . But if the videos seem like some psychologist 's nightmare , to the people who make them , they are a dream come true .
Idiom: put paid to (used idiomatically: yes)
All that is reactive . Modernists of the 1910s had been Latin - lovers , and often enough ( like Pound and Eliot ) immigrants ; Bloomsbury was ardently francophile ; and in the 1930s W. H. Auden and his school , if only to show they were not Modernist and not Bloomsbury , had haunted Hamburg and Berlin and admired German communism . 1940 had put paid to all that when , to echo a slogan , Britain and her Commonwealth stood alone , and the post - war cultural world was in little doubt that British was best . Some of the results of that mood were odd . With a fine disregard for what was happening across the Channel , the Attlee government convinced itself and others that the British welfare state was unique in the world — to be deeply startled in the 1950s by the news that many continental neighbours had a more generous provision of social welfare than the United Kingdom .
Idiom: bright and early (used idiomatically: yes)
And strangely enough , it worked . So Saturday evening was back to the papers and then back home , usually about seven , mostly walking because you could n't afford the penny for the tram , no ha'penny fares , just a penny , w . Sunday morning , up bright and early for Sunday in those days , seven o'clock , out for a walk and then down to the church for choir . Sunday afternoon , remembering in between this you had a mile home again for Sunday dinner , and back again in the afternoon for Sunday School . And back for Sunday tea , which was very little , usually bread and jam , but er sometimes a little bit of fruit , tin of fruit , rather a luxury , you know .
Idiom: all over the place (used idiomatically: no)
Mm . Erm All over your place on Saturday we can we can review that again . Right okay .
Idiom: off the wall (used idiomatically: no)
Coleman felt he was working himself up quite convincingly . ' Strange Lebanese walking through here . Crazy Ibrahim bouncing off the walls , appearing at the Lebanese Embassy , and you apparently do n't give a damn . This operation is coming apart . The whole fucking island must know about Eurame .
Idiom: muddy the waters (used idiomatically: yes)
But for the alteration in taxation in the Budget and also the minor alterations in projected expenditure which preceded it , we should have been facing 1968/69 with the identical prospect of a further creation of additional purchasing power . I come now to what will be the first of many simplicities which I shall offer to you this afternoon ; for I am sure you already realise from what you know of my speakings and writings — and it will be all the more painfully obvious in half an hour 's time — that I am incurably simpliste . This is partly due to my experiences as a politician , because I know as a politician that when you are doing something naughty , nothing is more effective than to muddy the waters with complication . What you fear most is an opponent who will point to a few simple but undeniable facts , and this is why the economists , and above all that wonderful race of men the economic journalists great and small , are such indispensable allies to the politician : they enable the politician to fog up what he is doing , so as to escape the blame and often even criticism for his actions . So I am encouraged in my perhaps natural naïveté , I am encouraged to be simpliste , by my knowledge of the value of complication in fogging up the real issues in politics .
Idiom: hate someone's guts (used idiomatically: yes)
I think if he 'd driven poor little Makepeace to a nervous breakdown , his reaction would simply have been ‘ so that 's how far one has to go , to have that effect . ’’ ‘ He sounds a right little charmer . I presume that the teachers hated his guts.’ ‘ They loathed him . They —’ Toby pulled himself up .
Idiom: in the club (used idiomatically: yes)
Not least because Gary Ablett , another player who was a victim of Souness 's clearout when he arrived at Anfield , had exchanged passes to enable Beardsley to find the space to hit his decisive 25-yard shot . In his first reign at Everton , Kendall 's fortunes changed when his side came back from the dead in a Milk Cup tie against Oxford back in 1984 . That game proved to be the turning point in the club 's fortunes , and although there have been too many false dawns already in a thus far unsuccessful return , maybe last night 's victory is the break Kendall has been waiting for . Certainly , his side rode their luck . Although the first half had been surprisingly passionless , it was Liverpool who were easily the better side , and had Ronnie Rosenthal seized three opportunities , they would have been comfortably in front by half time .
Idiom: rule of thumb (used idiomatically: yes)
The same side , left or right , as the station is during your interception . Remember that the RC is always pointing towards the station . To help you to work out quickly what the RC will show when the track is intercepted , a rule of thumb is given in the accompanying diagrams . ADF — TRACK INTERCEPTION OR CORRECTION TO MAINTAIN 1 Turn parallel to track .
Idiom: in the running (used idiomatically: yes)
Yet such groups are extremely limited in their scope . Often they are organized by younger people who merely expect ageing members to be passive recipients of organized events . Older people are expected to play little part in the running of the group , beyond perhaps a simple process of consultation . Moreover , the aim of such groups often tacitly implies that there are no issues in old age beyond meeting simple basic needs such as companionship and leisure . Both their establishment and function suggest an element of ageism — that older people themselves are not capable of organizing and deciding appropriate agendas .
Idiom: food for thought (used idiomatically: yes)
Food for Thought on GM Crops COPENHAGEN – As the world continues to debate the impact of climate - change while seeking a new global treaty to prevent it , Kenya has endured a prolonged drought followed by heavy flooding . Maize plants have withered , hitting poor rural families hard .
Idiom: hear things (used idiomatically: yes)
The back went you know the seat of the chair went the back . I said did n't you hear anything ? She said , no never heard a thing . landscape . Have you got some red roses for me Anna ?
Idiom: drop a brick (used idiomatically: yes)
The opposition cheers . Until Rainbow spins her wheel and hurtles towards towards them . They drop their bricks and sticks , and run as if the hounds of hell are at their heels . And so they may be . Woof .
Idiom: man and boy (used idiomatically: yes)
A man and a boy are standing at the bottom of some stairs , which are outdoors
Idiom: rough and tumble (used idiomatically: yes)
Since by the end of this decade the law will ban stalls and tethers , farmers will need to match the new houses for pregnant sows with new harrowing houses . The pig industry , in turn , has three doubts about any new system . First , what works well during research may not work in the rough - and - tumble commercial world . Not long ago , electronic collars seemed an excellent replacement for those restrictive systems that Sir Richard Body wants banned . These collars give pigs a computer key to let them in and out of stalls where they can feed unmolested .
Idiom: have a bash (used idiomatically: yes)
When we , when we first took it up Beryl we did that . That 's right , I 've , I 've been through over the year 's I 've been doing this and they say , whether it 's because they know if the background at the er vets , the private vets there , you know I do n't know , but the information I get from them , that there 'd a , there not prepared to over . Well this , this was a letter of the , granted it was eighty nine , but I mean this paragraph just said , you know , if we , does say that , you know , if we established a , a demand , and I do n't see why we should n't have a bash at . Well then I have the inspector . I mean , if we have a petition like they do on the counter in Welfare Rights in the Town Hall , I do n't think there be any opposition to that and the Libraries for the setting up of a P D S A branch , you know , I do n't see why , why we should n't give it a try .
Idiom: on the hoof (used idiomatically: no)
Obviously , organic does signify better , or at the least an improvement , but the buyer must beware . Organic vegetables are of little use if their leaves are yellowing , their vitamins and minerals long departed . Organic meat needs experienced butchery and not a quick swipe with the band saw before being instantly packaged — so go to a butcher who buys his meat on the hoof from a farmer who is n't into organics just for the sake of profit . And decide whether you want your cheese unpasteurised as well as organic , in order to get the most for your money . Hard work , but worth it for the feeling that you might be helping producers to realise that there is a discerning market out there , and not one that reacts blindly to the word ‘ organic’ .
Idiom: spring to mind (used idiomatically: yes)
The attitudes that children develop towards their primary school last a lifetime . A school that develops a warm sense of well being with its pupils , even in the toughest neighbourhoods , suffers far less from casual , endless vandalism . One disadvantaged urban primary schools springs to mind . Even though the school site was very open and the playground used by hordes of unsupervised teenagers and children in the evenings and weekends the only graffiti for a number of years was a ‘ smiley face’ with the headteacher 's name scrawled beneath . A few panes of glass were broken during that time , but by accident rather than deliberate action .
Idiom: in the club (used idiomatically: yes)
Andrew Bowden and Ben Fawcett pupils from Acklam Grange School , Middlesbrough are pictured planting young oaks , chestnuts and Scot 's pine alongside Alistair Scott of the Forestry Commission . I WAS glad to see that someone has at last taken a stand on the cheap labour schemes connected with the TEC system . I have been unemployed for seven months now and all the people I meet in the Job Club seem to have at least one bad experience of these so - called training schemes . For some people their whole working lives so far have been one scheme to the next , never getting any really worthwhile training and never being paid a decent wage . The TEC system obviously allows people to make money by exploiting young people .
Idiom: save the day (used idiomatically: yes)
But Town were mighty lucky not be two down at half - time . Thank heavens for goalkepeer Nicky Hammond . He saved the day here . They nearly blew it at the start of the second half too as Brighton closed in for the kill . Swindon finally found their touch after 70 minutes .
Idiom: on the up and up (used idiomatically: yes)
Fuccillo , who like Turner is a former Posh player , takes charge against Bristol City tomorrow . Turner heads a four - man board , with Hand and Riley and one member of the previous board , Philip Sagar . Newton is on the up and up by Adrian Holloway EDDIE NEWTON , the rising Chelsea star who had his jaw smashed in a racist attack just six months ago , is determined to break Manchester United hearts at Stamford Bridge today .
Idiom: on the button (used idiomatically: yes)
Click on the shortcut created in the desktop . Insert the pin of your SIM card . Click on the button " apply " . The warning message of " Success " marks the end of the authentication . You can now access the Internet .
Idiom: up in the air (used idiomatically: yes)
Randi says that it will persuade good investigators to take conjurors seriously . He praises Phillips and Shafer for coming round . Asked whether , having failed to get any positive results despite good funding , he would continue to investigate the paranormal , Phillips said , ‘ that 's up in the air . Maybe the phenomena are not there at all . Or they are but I 'm not a very good person to bring out these effects , I do n't know which is true.’
Idiom: act of God (used idiomatically: yes)
The metal foil was there for use in the manufacture of goods of a common type which at all material times were needed for the general benefit of the community.’ It would seem therefore that normal industrial activities properly carried out may no longer involve a non - natural use of land and many of the older authorities on this point will need reconsidering . Moreover , as a result of the defences of act of God , act of a third party and statutory authority , the courts must investigate not only the reasonableness of the accumulation , but also the defendant 's responsibility for its actual escape . The nature and quality of the defendant 's conduct are therefore factors of great importance , and although the decisional process is different from that in negligence , the result is almost always the same . We have virtually reached the position where a defendant will not be considered liable when he would not be liable according to the ordinary principles of negligence .
Idiom: behind the scenes (used idiomatically: yes)
The band , led by former music journalist Chris Roberts , are currently considering offers from several other labels . TORI AMOS has a new video , Little Earthquakes , issued through Warner Music Vision on November 2 . The video features promo clips in addition to live , interview and behind - the - scenes footage . BOBBY BROWN makes his first appearance in the UK for over three years in London at HMV , Oxford Circus , on Monday October 5 at 5.30pm . Some 2,000 fans turned out at Brown 's last HMV in - store in 1989 , jamming traffic in surrounding streets for several hours .