Gooogr/pie_idioms huggingface dataset:
Idiom: long in the tooth (used idiomatically: yes)
The attack on Warrington may simply mean that there remains intact in that area of England a small cell of perhaps no more than two activists who escaped detection and arrest in operations following the gasometer explosion . Shortly after that attack , the IRA said it would increasingly target industrial infrastructure as part of its economic war to induce a declaration to withdraw from Northern Ireland by the Government . But those long in the tooth in analysing IRA intentions well know that what is threatened in their terrorist statements is not necessarily what is planned to happen in the days ahead . Reverting to attack civilians in such a wanton and callous fashion on a Saturday afternoon is no great surprise . The Baltic Exchange attack in London at the general election last April inflicted civilian deaths , while the attacks in Manchester in November and the Harrods and Camden Town attacks have displayed unmistakable intent on the part of the IRA to inflict further numerous civilian casualties .
Idiom: bounce off the walls (used idiomatically: no)
‘ For Christ 's sake , get out ! ’ he roared , and after an interminable second , he heard her footsteps running down the stairs and then the sound of her car on the drive . In the silence that followed he heard an owl hoot , and then nothing , nothing except the harsh sound of someone sobbing . ‘ Johnnie ! ’ he shouted , and the sound echoed in the stillness , bouncing off the walls and coming back to torment him . Kathleen remembered nothing of the drive home , turning automatically into the parking area behind her flat and letting herself in with hands that shook so badly she could scarcely hold the keys . She stripped off her clothes and dropped them where they fell , then ran a bath and climbed into it , scouring her skin over and over with a loofah as if she could wash away the memory of his body on hers .
Idiom: put the boot in (used idiomatically: yes)
In part two : Putting themselves to the test … grasstrack racers go for gold . And putting the boot in … the recycling service for wellies . Police investigating a series of ramraid attacks say the culprits may be using the crime to finance their drug habits . Three shops in the same town were targetted overnight .
Idiom: in the club (used idiomatically: yes)
Yeah . Right . And you can actually see it from everywhere in the club except for that corner there . What , seen , what have you been to that Liberti is it Liberties by the town church ? Have you been in there ?
Idiom: on the money (used idiomatically: yes)
The unwinding of such assistance ( repayment of loans given by the Bank to the market or resale to the market of bills bought from it by the Bank ) will drain market liquidity and will , of course , be known by the Bank in advance . If the clearing banks ' balances are above target — that is , if the final clearing on the previous day left the clearers with balances at the Bank above those which they desire to keep in order to meet day - to - day requirements — then there will be a corresponding easing of the market 's cash position . The clearers tell the Bank of England of their target balances so this influence on the money market cash position will be known with reasonable certainty . As well as acting as the government 's banker , the Bank also acts as banker for other customers , for example , overseas central banks and international organisations . Flows due to the transactions of these customers influence the cash position of the money market but are not disclosed by the Bank .
Idiom: blow someone's mind (used idiomatically: yes)
Jolly poster of skiing in the Alps stuck up by Mum as a bribe : ‘ Ten days in Austria if you get Grade As , Bina!’ Certificates for flute and swimming hung up on strings by Dad . Even the pop posters were old , they blew my mind with boredom . My duvet : I 'd really miss my duvet , it 's my friend . And the videotape of Cal and me playing Bottom and Titania in A Midsummer Night 's Dreamlast year , with us collapsing in giggles when she tripped over a cobweb and brought down half the lights .
Idiom: shut the door on (used idiomatically: yes)
Most tantrums are best left to blow themselves out . Children may headbang , throw themselves on the floor , kick furniture , scream , and cry but as long as they are safe and are not escalating into aggressive or destructive behaviour they should be quietly ignored . If the parent walks away or shuts the door on the child , the child may get up and follow and just start all over again . So just turning away and getting on with a job is the most effective response . Once the child has calmed down the parent can make a brief comment about it all being over now and then continue as if the tantrum had not occurred .
Idiom: on ice (used idiomatically: yes)
The success of the party 's resistance to Home Rule had been founded on absolute faith that it was the most important issue , but by 1914 this was no longer the case . Nevertheless , the party made only a limited concession ; Home Rule 's suspension was real , and every attempt to implement it in wartime provoked sufficient Unionist outrage to stop it . Opposition to Home Rule was put on ice for the duration with the Bill , but opposition was as genuine in 1918 as it had been in 1914 . In the meantime , the war gave chances to show the responsible nature of the party through its collective action in parliament , through the restraint of its leaders and through the patriotic actions of its individual members . Winston Churchill had welcomed Bonar Law as party leader in 1911 with the reflection that " if ever a national emergency makes party interests fade , we shall find in the Leader of the Opposition one who in no fictitious sense places the country and the Empire first " , a tribute that was certainly justified by Law 's role between 1914 and 1918 .
Idiom: one of those things (used idiomatically: yes)
But justice was done really cos it was n't really a back pass in the first place . No . Er it 's just one of those marginal things . Quick thinking by Forest . Penalized there bit unfortunate but justice was done .
Idiom: out of kilter (used idiomatically: yes)
Britain 's recent balance - of - payments problems have to date had very little to do with the general level of world demand and almost everything to do with the ability of foreign companies to introduce their products into the country at competitive prices . This is in turn largely explained by a sharp deterioration in Britain 's unit costs relative to those of her competitors which , until 16 September 1992 , was not reflected in a change in the exchange value of the pound . The sterling/ Deutschmark rate would seem to have been particularly out of kilter when account is taken of the rise in Britain 's unit costs against those of Germany . Britain 's exports to the EEC have been expensive and her imports cheap . The British authorities argued at the time that the way to tackle this problem of falling competitiveness , far from being to allow the pound to devalue , was to maintain a rigid exchange rate for sterling and so through the resulting high interest rates and tight money ‘ to squeeze inflation out of the system’ .
Idiom: in the works (used idiomatically: no)
Harpin does , incidentally , offer working definitions for sentence division in a text that has multiple coordination ( i.e. strings of clauses joined by and or and so or and then ) which is , of course , a highly typical feature of the writing of children in junior schools . The sentence , however , can not be taken for granted , as we shall see . Moreover , in all this research work there is a failure to differentiate types of writing adequately . Harpin , for example , follows the traditional primary curriculum model of writing , distinguishing only the creative and the factual , but admits that this a weakness in his work . Categorising types of writing is not easy , but there is good evidence to suggest that the type of writing attempted has a strong influence on the outcome .
Idiom: with a will (used idiomatically: yes)
Any challenge to what is an almost xenophobic and dichotomous world of ‘ order’ and ‘ disorder’casts the social analyst and the critical criminologist onto the dark side of the binary . To some extent these academic outsiders are ‘ the enemy’ of police society , whose training and class aspirations makes them supporters of the status quo and resentful of liberal ideas or academic intrusion ( Reiner 1978a ) . When Sarah McCabe ( 1980 ) queried the logic of why just one police system should be entrusted with the control of crime , law , order , and social assistance , pointing out , ‘ there is some disagreement about the use of the criminal law — unease about control of the streets … [which poses the question]who will be controlled and [ who will be]assisted’ , she found the tenor of her ‘ thoughtful and moderate examination of the police role … was too much for the senior officers to whom it was presented , and they set out to discredit it with a will’(Greenhill 1981 : 98 ) . It seems most likely then , that the increasing police budgets ( up from £ 3.35 billion in 1988/9 to £ 4.1 billion in 1989/90 ) , which have risen by over 50 per cent in real terms since 1979 , will be used to maintain , defend , and expand on this hegemonic style . For who within the service is seeking or is willing to dismantle these units whose power and autonomy has been growing in strides since the Royal Commission of 1960 and the subsequent Police Act of 1964 first created the amalgamated giants ?
Idiom: pay through the nose (used idiomatically: yes)
Temporary facilities have been set up in the Union Street car park because the depot was reduced to a heap of rubble in Sunday evening 's IRA bomb . Lens ‘ extortion ' BRITAIN 'S three million contact lens wearers are being forced to pay through the nose for cleaning and soaking solutions , an MP has claimed . Labour consumer affairs spokesman Nigel Griffiths said he wanted all retail outlets to be allowed to sell the solutions . ‘ The current restriction is keeping prices up .
Idiom: on the square (used idiomatically: yes)
They are standing ln for the WRAC Staff Band Who are away on an important engagement in Eastbourne and Who have only recently returned from a tour in BAOR . After two circuits of the massive parade ground , said to be one of the largest in Great Britain , everyone is satisfied and the recruits return to their accommodation While the band retires for some well - earned refreshments . During all the activity on the square , 5 Platoon have been working away in the gym doing circuit training under the watchful eyes of the Physical Training Instructors . During their course each recruit will complete forty - four periods of PT and a further twenty periods of games and sports . In addition to the muscle - stretching circuits , the recruits tackle endurance runs of up to six and a half miles , aerobics , assault courses and the Military Swimming Test .
Idiom: on the button (used idiomatically: yes)
Go down , catch the swing and go up on the lift , go left and collect the shield , go right and up when you reach the right - hand wall , go left and fly up the pipe , go right and fall down the gap , then go left and collect the weight and throw it onto the button to your right , go up on the lift , right , up and left on the lift , fly up past the spikes and collect a weight , fall down and go right under the spikes , throw the weight on the button , go up on the lift , up , go left when you can and fall down to collect the weight . Go back to the lift and go up , carry the weight to the button and drop it on the button to start the swing , stand on the swing and fly up - right , collect the weight above you and throw it onto the button next to the swing , go back to where you grabbed the weight , go left , collect the weight , go right to the wall and fall down , throw the weight on the button , go up , left , up the pipe , collect the flower and go down the pipe . Go right across two platforms and catch the lift , go up on the lift and go left , take the weight and continue left , throw the weight onto the person , go left , up , up the pipe , take the weight , go right and throw it on the button , go up on the lift and go left , go up , take the weight , throw it on the person and fly up the pipe , go left , take the weight , go right and fall down the wall , go left , throw the weight on the button . Fall down , then fly up the pipe , use flying power to get the weight above you , go right , fall down , fall down again , go left to the main wall , jump up and throw the weight onto the button , go up the pipe , right , up on the lift and collect the weight , go left , fall down and throw the weight on the button , go down , right , up on the lift , left and up the pipe , go right ( dodge the guillotine ) and leg it to the door . LEVEL 3 — THE CANDY ZONE
Idiom: from the cradle to the grave (used idiomatically: yes)
A comprehensive service . Where 's the power to choose for those elderly people that want free at the point of service National Health Service treatment ? It was , or it has been , a belief that the N H S was for all of us from the cradle to the grave . It 's now a sick joke in the Health Service , it 's from the cradle to the Waldergrave . And quite rightly , it 's gon na be the subject of a Parliamentary Health Select Committee Enquiry which starts next week .
Idiom: down the hatch (used idiomatically: no)
Would they ever see America , or would they all end up at the bottom of the sea , food for the fishes ? She had not known that weather like this existed . On the second day of the storm a seaman bellowed down the hatch . ‘ No rations until the storm 's over!’ ‘ What about the water?’ someone called .
Idiom: sit on the fence (used idiomatically: yes)
Eric Abbott , his best man , had once begged him not to become a bishop in England . He told him that a mitre could be a candle - snuffer . Ramsey had read the life of Archbishop Randall Davidson by George Bell and found it very depressing — a noble and unspoilt man inside a sickening system —‘the wire - pulling , the hedging , and energy spent on things that do n't matter , and all the sitting on the fence’ . But he had also read the life of Bishop Charles Gore and found it inspiring , so it was not always sickening to work as a bishop . His first need was to find out whether Cambridge University would regard his leaving as betrayal .
Idiom: on the rocks (used idiomatically: yes)
With a sigh , rather than a cry , she threw herself into the water and felt peace . Peace that was shattered by a mocking male voice . ‘ So you are the woman who lies naked on the rock , are you?’ CHAPTER THREE The water that had seemed so bitingly refreshing only moments ago was already feeling like a strait - jacket of ice tangling around Charity 's speedily numbing limbs .
Idiom: by and large (used idiomatically: yes)
Individual families found themselves divided ; the most troublesome and devious of the Sussex Royalists , Sir Edward Ford , was the brother - in - law of the Parliamentary General Ireton . The relationship protected Ford from some of the more severe consequences of his own activities and allowed him to prolong his plotting long after the king 's cause was effectively lost . By and large , Sussex escaped a very direct involvement in the war since the main battles were fought elsewhere . Apart from odd skirmishes between small reconnoitring groups in the west during the early months of the war , there were three main incidents in the county . In November 1642 Ford led a small force of hastily impressed locals on a rapid march to attack Lewes .
Idiom: turn a blind eye (used idiomatically: yes)
As university teachers suggest a code of conduct , Dea Birkett recalls a personal encounter with a lecherous lecturer AS EVERY student knows , affairs with lecturers are as much a part of university life as examination nerves , drunken parties and late night deliberations on the Romantic poets . But as long as these extra - curricular affairs are conducted discreetly behind closed departmental doors , the academic establishment turns a blind eye . At last the Association of University Teachers ( AUT ) has brought the subject of staff - student sexual relations out into the open . In a draft policy statement entitled : ‘ University Consensual Relationships’ published last week , the AUT recommends lecturers officially report romantic or sexual involvement and cease professional responsibility for the student concerned .
Idiom: crystal clear (used idiomatically: yes)
I was the sole passenger . I left New York in Midwinter 's Jet - star . The weather bureau was predicting light rain and snow flurries and the cirrus was thickening , but over San Antonio , Texas , three and a half hours later , the night was crystal clear . The landscape was green . The trees were dense with leaves .
Idiom: kiss something goodbye (used idiomatically: no)
I mean he 's even marked it look . Yeah . Where he kissed it goodbye . Have you noticed George has stopped smoking ? Have you noticed I have ?
Idiom: on and off (used idiomatically: yes)
I mean it was , it kept me awake it did n't matter how . You were together when you moved in though were n't you ? cos I remember you moving in like thinking cor look at her with three kids , yeah . Yeah , we were , ah erm , we were together when we actually met , it was sort of on and off really . I remember Steve saying , remember called her , cor you seen that girl that lives down the road cor there . What .
Idiom: out of whack (used idiomatically: yes)
BERKELEY – If you asked a modern economic historian like me why the world is currently in the grips of a financial crisis and a deep economic downturn , I would tell you that this is the latest episode in a long history of similar bubbles , crashes , crises , and recessions that date back at ~ least to the canal - building bubble of the early 1820 ’s , the 1825 - 1826 failure of Pole , Thornton ampamp ; Co , and the subsequent first industrial recession in Britain . We have seen this process at work in many other historical episodes as well – in 1870 , 1890 , 1929 , and 2000 . For some reason , asset prices get way out of whack and rise to unsustainable levels . Sometimes the culprit is lousy internal controls in financial firms that over - reward subordinates for taking risk . Sometimes the cause is government guarantees .
Idiom: on the run (used idiomatically: yes)
Lots of sex . ELENYA IT IS not a new idea to take an impressionable , imaginative girl and make her the saviour of a man on the run , providing food , warmth and emotional support . Whistle Down The Wind did it in 1961 and made Hayley Mills a child star . This slow , luxuriant movie set in rural , wartime Wales has a lonely , emotionally battered schoolgirl named Elenya — Pascale Delafouge Jones — befriending an injured , shot down German pilot , Klaus Behrendt , hiding out in the woods .
Idiom: on the run (used idiomatically: yes)
After limited success with Miss England I in America , he returned to the challenge in 1930 in Miss England II , using two Rolls - Royce racing aero - engines . On Lake Windermere on Friday 13 June 1930 , he took the world mile at 98.76 m.p.h . , beating the record of the American holder , Commodore Garfield Wood , by 6 m.p.h . On a third run , the boat hit a floating object , capsized at speed , drowning a mechanic and mortally wounding Segrave , who died hours later , the holder of both land and sea records . Though of independent means , he worked first with KLG sparking plugs in 1920 , as competition manager , then for Sunbeam from 1924 , as head of their London sales department . In 1927 he joined the Portland Cement Company , who denied him car - racing rights but went on to be a sponsor for Golden Arrow .
Idiom: hold water (used idiomatically: no)
Fitting the film is easy . The glass must be thoroughly cleaned and made dust-free . It is then sprayed with water , for which an ordinary hand-held plant sprayer is ideal . The backing sheet is then removed from the film before wetting it and applying it to the window . A squeegee tool is used to smooth out the film and the excess film around the edge of the window is trimmed off with a safety knife .
Idiom: fall short (used idiomatically: yes)
This , in turn , should revive corporate “ animal spirits , ” leading to higher investment in new plants and equipment , together with higher wages and salaries . These are , of course , the same mechanisms that the Fed has targeted for almost three years in its own efforts to stimulate higher growth in the US . The macroeconomic outcomes have consistently fallen short of expectations , and there is reason to believe that it will be even more difficult in Japan for monetary policy alone to gain sufficient traction .
Idiom: as a rule (used idiomatically: yes)
They try to report the world as it is , but theirs is not the world of most people – their business depends on the disruption of " ordinary " business , so they systematically underestimate people 's desire for law and order ( or at ~ least order ) . Most people , it seems , will tolerate a modest amount of political repression , including secret police , torture , and corruption , if it delivers security and a modicum of prosperity and fairness . Otherwise , there is no explanation for the longevity of dictatorships such as Mubarak 's 30 year rule . Likewise , in the referendum that ended his 16 year rule in Chile in 1990 , General Augusto ~ Pinochet , with thousands of tortured and vanished victims in his grisly cupboard , ran on a law - and - order platform and received 44 % of the vote . Most Western leaders think naturally in terms of a " transition to democracy . "
Idiom: green light (used idiomatically: yes)
That is , I am caused , perhaps by a deformation of my visual cortex , to have the visual experience which others describe as seeing something green in colour when the thing in question is what gives rise to their seeing it as red . This experience of mine , further , thanks to my training , stands in satisfactory relations to other things . I stop at the traffic light when I have a visual experience which others would describe as seeing a green light . I , of course , describe it as red . It follows from causalism and functionalism , seemingly absurdly , that our private visual experience is identical .
Idiom: make or break (used idiomatically: yes)
follow each agenda quickly with a set of minutes which will help clarify action required , by whom and when , from any more general descriptive material about the contents of the discussion . REWARDS As chairman you can make or break the meeting by rewarding the wrong kind of behaviour by participants . For example , if you permit the meeting to start late , because not everyone has arrived , then those who come on time are being punished for their good behaviour ! Those who arrive late are being rewarded by having the meeting delayed for their benefit .
Idiom: ring a bell (used idiomatically: yes)
Something like that I think . Yeah . That rings a bell somewhere . Somewhere , somewhere . Somewhere in London .
Idiom: see the light (used idiomatically: yes)
You were always the one.’ ‘ If that 's the only way — if it 's all there is … ’ As the words died away , Luke shrugged , and Maria saw the light of recklessness leap in his eyes . She knew what was going to happen . She was so vulnerable to him that part of her was already accepting that defeat was inevitable , that only Luke could be the one to end their affair , but at the same time pride was demanding resistance , refusing to submit to the humiliation of a physical surrender to the man who had called her a liar , accused her of infidelity — the man who had hurt her so badly .
Idiom: keep the peace (used idiomatically: yes)
His grandfather stretched . ‘ Aye , it 's been a good summer . Well - a - well , I 'd best go and see what 's wanted of me — an oath , most like , to keep the peace.’ ‘ Will you take it , father?’ Lachlan asked .