Gooogr/pie_idioms huggingface dataset:
Idiom: go hand in hand (used idiomatically: yes)
With these aims in mind the Model School operates a curriculum composed of English , Mathematics and Integrated Studies . One third of each day is devoted to the core curriculum . The remaining two thirds are spent in stimulating ideas , planning , and creative activities so that growth in skills and concepts goes hand in hand with increased knowledge . It is seen as vital that a climate of tolerance is fostered in the School . Children are encouraged to support one another , recognising that each has their own strengths and weaknesses .
Idiom: get under someone's skin (used idiomatically: yes)
Why could n't she just leave things and be coolly polite ? There was only tomorrow morning and then he would be out of her life . The trouble was that he got under her skin . ‘ You are behaving like a spoiled child again.’ Instead of being angry he laughed .
Idiom: make ends meet (used idiomatically: yes)
‘ I always stick to the limits and am not a boy racer,’ he said . He was a taxi driver in Newton Aycliffe for two years but gave it up as it was ‘ soul - destroying’ . ‘ I love driving but I was doing this 14 or 15 hours a day to make ends meet . I would just love to get a job and then go on to do my advanced driving test.’ ‘ Reject doctrine of envy and bitterness’ MR Kinnock states that no one earning less than £ 20,000 per year will pay more in income tax under a socialist Government .
Idiom: with a will (used idiomatically: no)
His violent defence of the primacy , though it was contrary to all the forward - looking governmental ideals and interests of the Church as a whole during his later years , is his nearest approach to a consistent political policy as archbishop . In several ways his advocacy of the primacy reflects the tensions which run through Anselm 's later career . He had come to Canterbury with a firmly established and clearly defined view of liberty as a state of the will wholly integrated with the will of God , seeking no escape from obedience , but finding freedom for the development of the soul in ever - deepening understanding of the divine nature , and ever - broadening assent to God 's will . This had been his message to those in the world who thought that their duty might lie in saving a brother in the world , or a cause from destruction at the hands of the infidel . Even more decisively , it had been his message to monks or incipient monks who saw a duty in saving , as it might be , a sister from enslavement , or a call to take action in the world to prevent some evil .
Idiom: way to go (used idiomatically: no)
The custom is observed in the belief that a new pregnancy — through its detrimental effect on breastfeeding — would endanger the health or cause the death of the suckling child and , probably , also in recognition of the fact that frequent pregnancies may be harmful to the mother 's health . Abstinence is often supported by temporary separation of the couple or by their separation from bed . The WFS surveys considered abstinence as a way " to go without sex for several months or longer to avoid getting pregnant " . The criterion of the purpose of avoiding pregnancy was emphasized in most surveys and interpreted as avoiding pregnancy for the reason of contraception . Thus the WFS data on abstinence in many countries significantly underestimated the prevalence of post - partum abstinence , since most women in these countries observe the custom for health reasons and not as a contraceptive measure .
Idiom: in the running (used idiomatically: yes)
People say Microsoft Corp is making sure there 's a back door in the Alamo : in case Windows NT ca n't cut it , they claim there 's an internal research and development effort up in Bellevue making sure the company has a 32-bit multi - tasking version of MS - DOS to fall back on . Unix System Labs Inc reportedly had a meeting with SunSelect last week : thinking is they 're looking for some help speeding up their PC emulation . Although Xcelerated Systems Inc may have beaten it to Hewlett - Packard Co 's door ( UX No 396 ) , now that it has settled its difference with Apple Computer Inc ( UX No 393 ) , Quorum Software Systems Inc is back in the running with its Latitude Mac - on - Unix solution . Already available for Sun Solaris - based systems the Menlo Park , California - based company has released a version of its software which allows Macintosh applications to run under Unix on Silicon Graphics Inc 's MIPS RISC - based Iris Indigo and 4D workstations and servers — no prices given . Digital Equipment Corp is very much an also - ran in X - terminals with its VXT 2000 line , but the firm says it wants to become the dominant player in the market and to that end is following leader Network Computing Devices Inc in going after OEM business — minimum 3,000 units .
Idiom: have been around (used idiomatically: yes)
Then we see the health care professional come out of the room and say something like , ‘ I 'm sorry , we did all we could.’ People are excluded from seeing death by the fact that death has become more like an illness that must receive medical attention , rather than the last event in a person 's life that they should be left in peace to deal with in whichever way they choose . If you ask medical staff how often they have seen someone die , rather than if they have been around at the time , surprisingly few will say they witnessed the actual event . All this means that individuals feel estranged and confused by an event that has very powerful consequences in their life but which they did not witness and feel very frightened of . Third , from a sociological point of view , grief can not be contained in the way it once was .
Idiom: on the carpet (used idiomatically: no)
Alongside him , Chris Bryan also staged a marvellous late recovery , coming back from 14–11 down to win 21–16 . David McCathie fought back from 22–12 down at 17 ends and almost pulled off a five on the last which would have secured another point for Essex but Paul Maynard continued his winning momentum to ensure the overall venue win . The Falcon 's Joe Stamper was the only winner at Colchester — Essex play notoriously badly on their own carpets — but the late surge in Norfolk had done enough to secure the majority of the points . The nine gleaned from this encounter puts Essex ahead of the field on 30 points , with Norfolk one - and - a - half behind as the six - time winners prepare for a final match against Cambridgeshire . Essex thrashed them back in December , taking 13 points from the encounters at Towerlands and Chesterton , so Sivell knows that a massive win over Hertfordshire is an absolute must .
Idiom: have a heart (used idiomatically: no)
In fact on the day they signed the contracts with Wonderland for the King 's Hall they had just gone to No 1 in the charts with their new album . Squeezing out the favourites THERE 'S something about the accordion that tugs at the heart strings . The Emerald Accordion Band directed by George Bradley , is about to burst onto the Ulster music scene . For their debut album ‘ Ireland 's Dancing Days ’ is released today and will keep up the harmonious accordion tradition — on the Emerald label .
Idiom: over the counter (used idiomatically: no)
Hunt for cafe raid knifeman THIS is the face of a man who threatened two female cafe workers with a knife before snatching £ 90 from a till . Police issued the photofit of a man who burst into the Alpine Cafe in Marine Drive , Southport , and vaulted over the counter . The women were uninjured but shocked by the incident . The man escaped with an accomplice and they are both described as white , aged about 19 , and 5 ft 8ins tall .
Idiom: have a heart (used idiomatically: no)
The duo 's first album has Irish sales of 27,000 so far , and is also to be released Japan , of all places , where Kieran 's songs are so popular that two of them have been recorded by a local singer — the lyrics translated into Japanese . He finds it hard to talk about what that sounds like without laughing . ‘ Our album opened doors for us all over the world , ’ he says , ‘ and another major factor in our success was that one of the songs on it , ‘ Wall Of Tears ’ , was included on the Women 's Heart C.D. which has already sold over 200,000 copies in Ireland alone . THAT was a really important break for us , and helped to push us a few more rungs up the ladder . During July we were on the Women 's Heart tour — 28 gigs in 30 nights , packed houses all the way .
Idiom: bear fruit (used idiomatically: yes)
Polybius ' inability to create an appropriate model for the rule of Rome over Italy was inherited by Posidonius and , as far as I know , never remedied by any Greek author . Dionysius of Halicarnassus , who was interested in Italian history as a whole , confined his study to archaic Rome where the problem did not arise . Velleius Paterculus and the Latin source of the first books of Appian 's Civil War ( for which Emilio Gabba suggested the name of Asinius Pollio ) came nearer to an Italian version of Roman political history , but by the time they wrote the imperialism of the Republic had turned into the bureaucratic Empire of the Caesars : what these historians said could no longer bear fruit . Polybius and Posidonius remained the masters in the field : the former survived in sufficient measure to impose his interpretation on modern historians , whereas Posidonius reached the Renaissance only through mediators , such as Diodorus and Strabo and perhaps Sallust and Plutarch . Whereas Polybius ' fortunes can easily be followed , Posidonius ' place in modern thought will be established only when we have a proper study of early ethnography .
Idiom: at a canter (used idiomatically: yes)
‘ Get lost,’ he said . ‘ Thank you , ’ said Nutty . She turned Midnight on his hocks and went away at a canter . Nails watched her , wild feelings of frustration rising up in a familiar cauldron in his breast . ‘ Nobody wanting you … ’
Idiom: open someone's eyes (used idiomatically: yes)
He could not concentrate . He nudged Ell . She opened her eyes and cursed him for disturbing her silent thoughts . He was in pursuit of the shapechanger . As the only android left the success of the mission was down to him .
Idiom: with a vengeance (used idiomatically: yes)
All ? ‘ Hell 's own jest,’ he repeated aloud . ‘ And with a vengeance , too . Hell and the devil ! Now I shall have no hold over her at all .
Idiom: beg the question (used idiomatically: yes)
This is because chemists ' experiments last for years not thousands of millions of years , and because only a handful of chemists , not thousands of millions of chemists , are engaged in doing these experiments . If the spontaneous origin of life turned out to be a probable enough event to have occurred during the few man - decades in which chemists have done their experiments , then life should have arisen many times on Earth , and many times on planets within radio range of Earth . Of course all this begs important questions about whether chemists have succeeded in duplicating the conditions of the early Earth but , even so , given that we ca n't answer these questions , the argument is worth pursuing . If the origin of life were a probable event by ordinary human standards , then a substantial number of planets within radio range should have developed a radio technology long enough ago ( bearing in mind that radio waves travel at 186,000 miles per second ) for us to have picked up at least one transmission during the decades that we have been equipped to do so . There are probably about 50 stars within radio range if we assume that they have had radio technology for only as long as we have .
Idiom: jump the gun (used idiomatically: yes)
But the programme makes designing patterns and drawing Deco card designs an absolute dream , even those with more than two colours in a row . It is fair to say that in the last instance , it will not actually produce a design with the colours separated out into their appropriate rows , but will make a card design showing the colours so that punching a card from this is made easier . But we are jumping the gun here . First of all , let 's look at using Creation 6 to design straightforward Deco cards . Start up Creation 6 and choose ‘ make a design’ from the main menu .
Idiom: in someone's pocket (used idiomatically: yes)
We never considered giving up our work with the chimps when the children were born , but it would not have been possible for us to continue without the help of the Africans — I always had two men employed to take care of the children when I went with Christophe into the forest.’ KING of the WOODS The books tell you that badgers love peanuts , but what they do n't tell you is that a plastic peanut packet is likely to go off in your pocket with a high - decibel rustle that will send any self - respecting badger right back underground . Simon King knows a lot of other things you wo n't find in books : take his advice and learn to be your own badger expert . My first encounter with a badger , as a lad of 10 , was as exciting as I could have wished .
Idiom: on cloud nine (used idiomatically: yes)
The whole soccer team was on cloud nine after winning the championship .
Idiom: child's play (used idiomatically: no)
It 's there , look . Right ! We 'll end up today by talking a bit about children 's role play . Yeah . Now , in the past , so far , this term we 've covered areas such as the bus role play , which I suspect you remember the shop role play of which I 'm sure you remember .
Idiom: part company (used idiomatically: yes)
Our discussion was closed ten minutes ago . The voyage is over ; the hands paid off . We 're about to part company.’ ‘ You are still on board.’ ‘ But going , sir … going.’
Idiom: by the same token (used idiomatically: yes)
There are something like 2,000 pieces of delegated legislation brought into force every year in the United Kingdom and a recent article in Statute Law Review drew attention to some of the difficulties which are likely to arise in discovering what local instruments are in force and what they say . However , turning aside these local instruments , and that is not to suggest that they are unimportant , how may lawyers and interested laymen each year obtain copies of delegated legislation which are thought to , and may indeed , affect their client 's or their own life and course of conduct , only to find that they are out of print or not yet available ? One accepts , of course , that the sheer volume and intractability of the subject matter render resort to delegated legislation to some degree inevitable ; but , by the same token , those very factors of volume and intractability almost necessarily involve a degree of perfunctoriness in parliamentary scrutiny . It really is not right or fair that legislative provisions of real substance should be not only practically inaccessible but should be left in the hands of some virtually unsupervised departmental draftsman . Thus is the citizen beset by the vision of a terrifying Trinity — Unaccountability , Inaccessibility and Unintelligibility .
Idiom: all along (used idiomatically: yes)
Why , I bet you never had the slightest intention of following through last night , did you ? If I had n't called a halt , you 'd have engineered one somehow … It would n't surprise me to hear you 'd planned this all along . You wanted me on a string so you could play cat to my mouse … My God , what a fool I 've been!’
Idiom: bear fruit (used idiomatically: yes)
Photography is a universal media by nature , this fact assures that there is a multitude of people ready to discover and appreciate the art form of photography . Sue Grayson Ford 's aim is for a ‘ broader constituency’ . With her track record , attitude and given right support she has the potential of seeing the reality of her aspirations bearing fruit . Photography magazine wishes her every success in her new venture . Rena Pearl
Idiom: come clean (used idiomatically: yes)
The common - carrier directive on its own had a big flaw : it encouraged the flow of subsidised energy from one country to another . So France , which built far too much nuclear capacity with cheap government - backed loans , exports electricity to Britain and Italy at absurdly low rates . With international competition and new entrants , national monopolies such as France 's will at least have to come clean about costs and pricing if only to prove that they are not breaching the Rome treaty 's clauses against unfair competition . Meanwhile state - owned energy monopolies have come up with their own solution to generating more electricity without angering local environmentalists : moving their power stations to Eastern Europe . ENEL , Italy 's electricity monopoly , is planning to build a 13,000MW gas - fired station in the Soviet Union : a quarter of the output will be sold to Italy .
Idiom: on and off (used idiomatically: no)
Normality . But this rough - shod torment was no stranger . She 'd known its cut and thrust on and off for years now . It might n't be a vein . Anything could be off - beam .
Idiom: lend a hand (used idiomatically: yes)
erm , I think really that he 's finding erm , er the , the pressure of , of erm , of , of the , I mean , bloody kids are almost unendurable ! And , you know , he 's been very wheezy and pro and , and , and er , and has a , er , ha has been suffering some sort fluey cold . And Karen last weekend , after you were sitting for them suddenly took ill on the Saturday I think , and Sheila was n't in any great shape , so he went back home er , from the office an over his lunch hour to see if he could just go and lend a hand , ge generally help out over his lunch hour . Mhm . And he said he was alright over you know , that period and he said he got back to office , then two hours later he said he was in , in such great pain !
Idiom: over the top (used idiomatically: yes)
Bob began to get nervous on his behalf . ‘ You 're very casual about it , Erskine,’ he said . ‘ What is there to get excited about?’ said Morris easily , the flesh beneath his chin folding over the top of his collar as he leaned back into the cushions . ‘ It 's just a song.’ ‘ But to get it on television !
Idiom: draw stumps (used idiomatically: yes)
One example of this was an occasion described by Tony Lewis in Double Century ( 1987 ) . ‘ The Gentlemen v. Players match of 1900 was an extraordinary game , the Players being set 502 to win and getting them . At half past six , the time for drawing stumps , the scores were tied , but S. M. J. Woods , the Gentlemen 's ( and Somerset 's ) captain , decided to have another shot . He bowled it himself , and Wilfred Rhodes made the winning hit . The M.C.C.
Idiom: tip the scales (used idiomatically: yes)
Nijaz and Sead Hukanovic had feared they might never see each other again after being parted in the savage purge of Bosnians callously dubbed ‘ ethnic cleansing’ by the Serbs . The Moslem brothers were arrested 10 weeks ago and thrown into the notorious Omarska concentration camp where they were split up . Sead , a 26-year - old TV technician , used to tip the scales at 12st 8 lb . Now he is half that weight . Nijaz , 39 , a car mechanic , was 13st .
Idiom: ten a penny (used idiomatically: no)
Oh we can always lend you a couple of ten pences . I know . I know we 're hard up , but you can ten pence . You never know , might be to make enough money to take you out somewhere for a decent Christmas do . Oh
Idiom: in light of (used idiomatically: yes)
Ferranti 's naval and avionics businesses are thought to have a turnover of about £500m . According to Mr Baker , Thorn 's ground-based radar activities would dovetail with Ferranti 's airborne radar and result in a formidable force in European defence electronics . Ferranti 's annual meeting , adjourned until 10 October , will now almost inevitably be put back for a further four to six weeks in the light of recent events . Meanwhile , the company hopes to go ahead later this month with the launch of its Creditphone mobile telephone service . Ferranti is one of four licencees starting these low-cost services , intended to bring mobile communications to the masses .
Idiom: in the red (used idiomatically: yes)
Mice given a substance found in red ~ wine lived longer despite a fatty diet , a study shows .
Idiom: take liberties (used idiomatically: yes)
Goldberg taking out his polka - dotted handkerchief and wiping his brow , his cheeks , his neck , pushed aside the typewriter and seized his pen . Dragging the pad towards him he found a clean page and wrote : Dear Harsnet , I know you never answer my letters or return my calls , and I know that you handed over your notes to me on the understanding that I could do what I liked with them and not bother you , but I have to say that while there is much in them that I admire , as I will always admire much in you , no matter what , there is also much in them that seems to me to be puerile and , to put it mildly , bigoted . I have decided , however , in the interests of posterity , to cut nothing , though I may take the liberty of annotating the text here and there , putting some of the facts straight and referring the reader to related documents , such as interviews you once gave or books and articles on you which have since appeared . I know none of this interests you any longer , he wrote , and that you hold yourself , or pretend to hold yourself , aloof from the world , and in particular from the world of art . You are , or pretend to be , indifferent to whatever may happen to your reputation .
Idiom: in the bag (used idiomatically: yes)
It is then cleaned , cut up and boiled in water to produce a blue-grey . The roots of lady 's bedstraw ( Galium verum ) , , produce an orange-red colour which is set by adding alum . The flowers of the corn marigold ( Chrysanthemum segetum ) , , gathered in a muslin bag and boiled in water with alum , produce a bright , clear yellow . The tops of ling heather ( Calluna vulgaris ) , produce yet another shade of yellow dye when boiled in water , and in fact that entire plant is wonderfully versatile : it was commonly used for thatching houses , and even today the few Highland thatchers that remain will swear it is the best thatch in Gaeldom ; it provided beds to sleep on , with the ‘ tops up and roots down ’ arrangement of the mattress assuring a pleasantly aromatic and sound sleep ; it was used in part of the process of tanning leather ; and the fresh , young tops of the heather were ( and at times still are ) brewed into a kind of ale . Little wonder it is acclaimed in song and story and longed for by the expatriate Scot !
Idiom: in the running (used idiomatically: no)
Everyone was greeting him . He was a living legend . Poor old Fabian and Spilsbury were n't even in the running where Caitlin was concerned . He made Sherlock Holmes look amateurish ! Kate saw his bulky form moving towards her desk .
Idiom: make a move (used idiomatically: no)
The old man had already warned him to mind his own business . With the first heavy drops of rain , Mungo started to run . Black clouds were rolling up over the forest to his right , which now looked hostile , as though it were waiting for him to make a false move ; to tall perhaps , so that it could advance and swallow him , like a wild animal . Forcing his way through a gap in a hedge , he caught his hand on a thorn and saw beads of blood ooze from a long scratch . Setting his face towards the barrow , which was still perhaps half a mile away in dramatic relief against the angry sky , he had the feeling that he was bring followed ; that wherever he went , and no matter how fast he covered the ground , his every move was shadowed .
Idiom: on someone's mind (used idiomatically: no)
‘ No , it 's all right . Thank you , anyway . I do n't want to keep intruding ; she must have other things on her mind . It 's just that there were some things I needed to clear up with her about her husband 's estate . Some items I 'd been holding for him .