Gooogr/pie_idioms huggingface dataset:
Idiom: come clean (used idiomatically: yes)
I notice that yet again the Lord President 's list and presumably the Prime Ministers does n't include the standard of telling the truth about tax . Hear , hear Why is the government why is the government refusing to come clean about the size of the further tax increases that British families will face in nineteen ninety five ? Madam Speaker , what er I and my right honourable friend will go on emphasising is the contribution which our tax policies are making to the economic strength and the improved standards of living of this country . Mrs Beckett .
Idiom: take root (used idiomatically: yes)
Conclusions We have suggested that visionary leadership can vary importantly from leader to leader . The style of the leader may vary , as may the content of the leader 's vision and the context in which it takes root . The core of the vision may focus on product or service , market , process , organization or ideals ; its circumference involves the rhetoric and metaphor of persuasion . The envisioning process may be ignited by introspection or interpersonal interaction .
Idiom: in the black (used idiomatically: yes)
The British brick industry is hit by overcapacity . Many rivals to Ibstock are suffering , and the Redland bid for Steetley , ditching a rival plan from Tarmac , demonstrated a strong and widespread desire for rationalisation and consolidation in order to remove some of the spare capacity . Ibstock , however , as one of the largest and lowest cost producers , says that all bar one of its bricks plants are in the black . The exception , at West Sussex , has an attractive location in the South East and is set to be modernised and automated . Either by good fortune or good planning , the Ibstock balance sheet is strong .
Idiom: on the button (used idiomatically: yes)
I am a working mother but the children rarely see me working . What they do see me doing is the school run , shopping , cooking their meals and running the household . Their father sometimes baths them , often puts them to bed , irons , sews on his buttons and makes cakes , but as far as the kids are concerned , the main thing about Daddy is that he goes off to work in that magical place known as The Office . He even flies to Scotland now and again for meetings . In the glamour stakes poor Mummy ca n't really compete .
Idiom: in someone's pocket (used idiomatically: yes)
‘ Opposite the top of the stairs , sir . ‘ And the bureau — is it locked?’ ‘ Yes , but the key was among those in Glynn ' s pocket . I 've got them here.’ Fox handed over the key - fold .
Idiom: have been around (used idiomatically: yes)
( Of course , the history of the discipline can be used not to question it , but to try to establish the canon , and to legitimate authority based on it . ) Institutional and professional continuity seems to allow established disciplines to contain epistemological doubts or crises which might kill off the fledgling . For example , one wonders if the doubts about the unity of geography are any less profound than those that afflict environmental science , but geography has been around for much longer and has developed powerful institutional , professional and curricular structures , not least in the schools . Such structures also seem to provide a kind of elementary momentum in periods where a discipline is in the doldrums , and not a great deal is happening at the research level . Or in the end the crisis may become a fact of life .
Idiom: with a view to (used idiomatically: yes)
Invited the Home Secretary to ascertain whether it would be possible to draft the title of the Criminal Justice Bill in such a way as to exclude any amendment for the abolition of capital punishment ; ( 2 ) Invited the Lord President to take soundings among Government supporters with a view to determining whether it would be possible to persuade those who were in favour of the abolition of capital punishment that in the interests of securing the passage of the Criminal Justice Bill in the 1947–48 Session they should refrain from pressing for this change in the law ; ( 3 ) Invited the Home Secretary to circulate a memorandum to the Cabinet on the suggestion made by the Lord Chancellor that it might be possible to distinguish between certain types of murder for which capital punishment would be retained and other types for which it would be abolished .
Idiom: one and the same (used idiomatically: no)
They were employers of a huge new group of middle - class employees , lecturers , social workers , local - government personnel of all kinds ; local - government unions such as NALGO had expanded massively since 1970 . More , the major local authorities were usually in Labour hands , frequently those of the far left . Thus , men like Derek Hatton , the leader of Merseyside , and Ken Livingstone , who led the Greater London Council ( after a brutal coup which removed the previous Labour leader , Andrew McIntosh ) became symbols of ideological extremism and financial extravagance at one and the same time . Of all the local authorities , however , it was , above all , Liverpool which marked out the challenge . Once the happy city of the Beatles and ‘ pop’ permissiveness , home of the most consistently successful football team in the land , Liverpool was now a visibly decaying city .
Idiom: run the gamut (used idiomatically: yes)
Her right knee was raised to form a screen that prevented Dennis from seeing what was going on , but she made no attempt to conceal it from me . On the contrary , she was staring at me with an almost manic intensity . I thought I had just about run the gamut of sexual experiences , but nothing like this had ever happened to me before . I found it incredibly erotic , and the more Dennis maundered on about boiled sweets on the nose , the more erotic it became . His wife 's head gradually fell back , her mouth open and her eyes still pinned to my face , the whites showing like a frightened horse .
Idiom: for the time being (used idiomatically: yes)
So that 's all progress . could a fireman administer first aid ? Yes , they 're all trained in first aid , erm erm and in the use er we also carry the analgesic gas , now the ones that er nitric oxide which is used in er pregnant mothers for childbirth , they carry some of that now , er which they administer to people in pain and that takes away the pain erm for the time being anyway , until such time as you can extricate them or , or ease the pain or take away the problem away from them that 's causing them the pain . So that 's a great step forward , is n't it , to , to relieve pain as quickly as that . When did that come about ?
Idiom: on ice (used idiomatically: no)
This however was no ordinary wedding as it took place on the Healthcare annual incentive to Mexico . The wedding started with a simple service in City Hall with just a few witnesses , but once the hotel heard that Brenda and Pete wished to get married on the beach , they were swept off their feet . They were escorted around town to all the shops in a courtesy car , the clothes were bought , the flowers ordered , and the champagne was put on ice . Most of the Healthcare group asked if they could attend , and as Brenda says ‘ We ended up with the most romantic wedding you could wish for . We were on a cliff called the Rock of Love , twenty feet above the beach with a group of guitarists playing.’
Idiom: gather dust (used idiomatically: yes)
At primary level this meant costs of up to 2,000 MT ( US$ 7 ) a year for each pupil , compared with 40 MT in 1984 ( US$ 1 ) . This system of payment extends to the whole education system including adult education , where numbers of books sold are reportedly very small — either because of low enrolments or because people are going to classes without books . There have also been reports of piles of school books gathering dust in shops , because people can not afford to buy them . At secondary level , school fees are now being charged . These developments are most likely to affect urban dwellers and those displaced people and migrants in the urban areas who can not afford even small charges for their children 's education .
Idiom: open someone's eyes (used idiomatically: yes)
‘ Teeny!’ he shouted standing up and knocking his packet of cigarettes and lighter on the floor . The dog ran under the table . Teeny opened her eyes wide and gaped . ‘ John … John’ she said in a whisper .
Idiom: in the red (used idiomatically: no)
Conservation : Species Red squirrel may be extinct within 10 years The first survey of both private and state - owned forests confirms the apparently - inexorable decline in the red squirrel population . Combining the Forestry Commission 's annual squirrel statistics with information from almost half of the 2,300 private companies which own 60 per cent of Britain 's woodlands , the survey reveals that the imported grey squirrels are continuing to encroach on the red squirrel 's territory [ see ED 58 , 61 ] . The Commission is urging the government to allow poisoning of the grey squirrel nationwide in an effort to save the native species and to reduce the damage wreaked by grey squirrels on forests .
Idiom: run amok (used idiomatically: yes)
Another famous hillside figure harks back to the days when , according to legends , giants walked the land . The Cerne Giant at Cerne Abbas in Dorset is a naked man , 180 ft tall , brandishing a 120 ft club and displaying a huge phallus . He 's supposed to be the figure of a Danish giant who ran amok in the area . He was beheaded by local peasants as he lay down on the hill to sleep after a large meal of local sheep . The peasants are said to have cut the outline of the giant in the chalk around his dead body .
Idiom: come to grips with (used idiomatically: yes)
In a few hours of concentrated assault he could destroy months of determined surreptitious growth ; but then he would discover some other , overlooked area where things had been going to the dogs unheeded and some valiantly struggling patch of wood anemone or bluebells had been choked to the last gasp . One thought , of course , in such terms : malign , surreptitious , struggle , valiant . He was well aware of the anthropomorphism and indeed found it satisfying ; it was as though , in the Britches , thigh - deep in lashing nettle and octopus strands of clutching bramble he was coming to grips at last with a great many things and , as often as not , getting the upper hand . He spent the afternoon in the Britches , as soon as the last of the party guests had departed . Half of a perfectly good Sunday had been wasted , but there were still several hours till dark .
Idiom: save face (used idiomatically: yes)
Never over - egg the pudding . So we all had a good laugh at the sparks and all of us unzipped our flies and peed in the river whether we wanted to or not . The only person that did n't was Fish , who had to save face and went on claiming it was true . So that cheered us up a bit as you can imagine but what really cheered us up was making contact with the Indians . I mean , if the bandits on the way here were anything to go by ( ‘ here ' , if you want to look it up in your schoolgirl atlas , is somewhere near the Mocapra ) why should the Indians keep their word ?
Idiom: fall on deaf ears (used idiomatically: yes)
But it is not always or necessarily the best advice . Their experts are not infallible , as when the World Bank boosted tourism in the 1960s as a sure - fire multiplier of development . Their advice , even today when it is more flexible and politically sensitive , consequently often falls on deaf ears , not because the economic logic is at fault but because the political factors in the equation are both unquantifiable and subjective for the decision takers . A final weakness of bargaining theories in this context arises from the complexity of interlocking relationships in the real world . Government policy must be seen as a whole , not in parts .
Idiom: every last (used idiomatically: yes)
Dion a £ 1 m smasher HARRY HARRIS /TONY STENSON DION Dublin last night came to Alex Ferguson 's rescue with the late winner on his full debut — and did n't Fergie love every last minute of it ! Dublin 's toe - job on the end of Brian McClair 's downward header lifted United off the bottom of the Premier League and gave Fergie his first reason to smile this season . And Fergie honestly admitted of his shock £ 1million signing from Cambridge : ‘ We took a long time assessing him .
Idiom: come of age (used idiomatically: yes)
What was crucial here as far as Chicago was concerned was that it could now boast a movie theatre as good as anything in New York and that the movies had been decisively disassociated from ‘ immoral’ ragtime music by now being coupled with the Symphony . The price range in this new movie venue would range from 10 to 50 cents ( 10 to 25 cents for matinees ) but for this some patrons would also get a twenty - five - piece orchestra . ‘ Build up to standard , not down to a price’ was the motto of the Strand Theater Company , who had now so dramatically brought about the movie 's coming of age in Chicago . The same process went on in every town and city ; the opening of a prestigious down - town house symbolized a social acceptance of movies amidst the fashionable down - town set but also created new standards and expectations which permeated downwards to other venues and these gradually made it easier for a number of managers to pull in women , children , families , and the respectable classes . The whole movie industry had become obsessed with achieving respectability by widening the mix of patrons and in the trade papers we see an almost frenetic attention to the small details of improving comfort and achieving the right publicity .
Idiom: in business (used idiomatically: yes)
Computer People Group Plc saw lower profits for the year ending December 31 than were expected at the interim stage due to a drop in recruitment revenues in the UK and lower volume sales of consultancy services in the US . Pre - tax profits fell 85.6 % to £ 145,000 , on turnover down 7.3 % to £ 62.7 m . Although the board paid an interim dividend of 0.65 pence , it has decided at this stage to invest its funds in the business — the amount available , says chairman Rupert Bayfield , would have been negligible anyway . While Bayfield said he was disappointed with the results , he was pleased to see the London W company returning to profit after a small loss in the first half . The turning point came in the second quarter , he said , but loss of confidence as a result of the exchange rate crisis hit UK recruitment in the fourth quarter , although it is now starting to grow again .
Idiom: for the time being (used idiomatically: yes)
( b ) at the time of such act or default I am a member of or a beneficial owner of a share or shares in the Company but to the extent only that the Law Society has been unable to recover the amount of the grant from the Company or the officer or employee committing the act or default or the personal representative , trustee in bankruptcy or liquidator of any such person or body corporate . I further covenant with the Council that before transferring any share in the Company or transferring a beneficial interest in any such share or holding any such share as nominee I will ensure that the intended transferee or beneficial owner submits to the Council a Compensation Fund covenant as required by Rule 14 of the Solicitors ' Incorporated Practice Rules 1988 ( or any modification or re - enactment of that provision for the time being in force ) . In this deed any reference to a provision of the Administration of Justice Act 1985 shall be deemed to include a reference to any statutory modification or re - enactment of that provision for the time being in force . IN WITNESS whereof I have set my hand to this deed this in the presence of :
Idiom: on edge (used idiomatically: no)
UNISYS STRESSES ITS FRAGILE STATE AS RETIREES RAIL Although it has been telling the world how successfully it has recovered , Unisys Corp made clear at the annual meeting last week just how parlous the company 's condition remains . Faced with a band of former employees livid that the company is phasing out payment of medical expenses for life for its retired employees , the company said the phase - out , over three years , was essential to the survival of the company , which remains on the fragile edge of recovery . Chairman James Unruh said the decision had been painful for Unisys , but that the company saw little choice . Due to a change in federal accounting standards , Unisys says , it would have been forced to take $ 700 m in one - time charges against earnings if it did not cut the benefits , and that would wipe out one - third of the still debt - burdened company 's net worth .
Idiom: hold all the aces (used idiomatically: yes)
However , my presence was clearly unsettling its regular inhabitants so I decided it was time to make a move — and time to confront Charles Howard . I remember how leaden - footed I felt , climbing the two flights of stairs to Charles 's office . I knew that , in the cold light of day , he held all the aces . He was the Director : he could lecture on whomever he liked . And we both knew that hardly anyone would be prepared to speak out and argue my case .
Idiom: to say the least (used idiomatically: yes)
Our own collections as yet contain little or no computer - generated material , but without any doubt they will soon do so . I take the view that a collection of material which is consonant with our acquisitions policy in other respects , should be accepted on the assumption that we must find a way of preserving it and making it available . Early computer tapes and discs are going to be , to say the least , challenging . It seems likely that those generated in the 1970s and early 1980s will prove the most difficult to preserve , because of the rapid obsolescence of so much hardware and software during that period . Many will be the writers who composed on early Amstrads , and how will we ensure that their working discs , successors to the invaluable rough note - books and diaries of writers like W H Auden and Graham Greene or campaigners like Marie Stopes , which we already possess , can be used as readily by future generations of scholars ?
Idiom: at the end of the day (used idiomatically: no)
While it has to be obvious that current success has been built on foundations that were perhaps sounder than people generally thought ten years ago , the combination of a livelier economy and greater commercial drive ( leading above all to more commonsense , usually more local management ) has produced results far above the most rosy forecasts . The pride taken not only by many staff but passengers in their more clearly identified ‘ Lines ’ is paying handsome dividends . But four main factors are singled out by Chris Green for the currently greatly improved outlook : the record investment currently being made , at the end of 1989 amounting to an astonishing million pounds a day ; the success of the Networker train whose carriages in 1989 were being delivered at the rate of one a day ; the enormous level of London station development both enhancing the environment ( who at the start of the 1980s would have thought of treating a terminus as a shopping precinct ? ) and producing revenue on the grand scale ; and the steady introduction of Integrated Electronic Control Centres ( discussed in detail in the signalling chapter ) . As mentioned at the start of this chapter , forecasts made at the end of the 1970s now seem horribly pessimistic . It is hard to envisage the total 1990s story , but the decade starts with greater confidence in the railways serving London and the South East than , perhaps since Victorian times .
Idiom: no laughing matter (used idiomatically: yes)
Sitting cosy in the lap of luxury , surrounded by knee - deep snow drifts … the sight of a strutting cockerel was too much to resist . Curse that dog ! I am a gout sufferer , and it 's no laughing matter . In the year of the great snows , I had an attack of gout . On the first day of the blizzard 30 of my sheep got buried and on the first night my kennel runs were covered with six feet of snow , making it difficult , if not impossible , to get the dogs out .
Idiom: the world and his wife (used idiomatically: yes)
And it was fortunate we did , because what do we find ? A thriving cottage industry . According to Paulo,’ he carried on , ‘ in just about every single shop in Praia do Carvoeiro there are cards issuing an open invitation for the world and his wife to come and view your tiles , which —’ ‘ The cards have only raked in a few customers,’ Ashley said . ‘ Although more would be welcome , I 'm too far off the beaten track .
Idiom: round the clock (used idiomatically: yes)
Oxfordshire County council have stock piled 24,000 tonnes of salt , ready to scatter on major roads when the ice comes . They 're also ready for the snow if and when it arrives . Three years ago they worked round the clock to clear several inches of the stuff . They have an early warning system . Roadside sensors at weather stations around the county are linked up to a computer system .
Idiom: shake a leg (used idiomatically: no)
‘ If Brian Clough is still interested in me he will want to know if I cope as well during a bad spell as I did when I was enjoying a purple patch and scored 11 goals in 14 games earlier in the season . ’ Arsenal will receive 30 per cent of any fee if City sell him on . Meanwhile , Premier League leading scorer Alan Shearer looks certain to shake off the leg injury that cut short his two-goal display against Leeds on Boxing Day in time for Blackburn 's visist to Ipswich today . The £3.3 million goal-scoring machine got a kick on the knee after clocking up his 22nd goal of the season . But he had immediate treatment , and manager Kenny Dalgish reported : ‘ It does n't look serious . ’
Idiom: tell tales (used idiomatically: no)
He was , of course , revered by all and sundry in the hutted West Camp , Cranwell . He was a form of Guru to the airmen who frequently took their problems to him , rather like the simple Arab in the desert who treated him as some form of God . Many tales are told of his judgements that hovered between those of Solomon and Sanders of the River . On one occasion the old crone who managed the NAAFI decided that she would have to charge an extra penny for a cup of tea . Now in the early thirties this was too much for the troops to take , so they took their problem to Shaw who then went to the NAAFI and bought all the cups for a penny .
Idiom: make head or tail of (used idiomatically: yes)
Yeah . As people have mathematicians have done for centuries . They 've said well I ca n't make head or tail of it . Mhm . So how did you feel when you first did fractions ?
Idiom: down the drain (used idiomatically: yes)
‘ Can you name a hot personal computer software product written by IBM ? Has there ever been one ? How much money is IBM pouring down the drain with OS/2 ? IBM 's ‘ networking business’ is really mainframe networking and most of its businesses are just pieces of the mainframe and minicomputer businesses . And tenth , Smith advises , stop protecting dying business — if you do n't obsolete your own products , someone else will .
Idiom: go straight (used idiomatically: yes)
‘ It 's more than my life 's worth.’ Kelly stared at the pathetic figure for a moment and then let him go . ‘ OK , I 'm going straight to the police.’ With that , Kelly got up , brushed past Bennett and walked calmly out . The fact that she 'd already told the police did n't matter .