Gooogr/pie_idioms huggingface dataset:
Idiom: up and running (used idiomatically: yes)
All coupons passing through the machine are microfilmed on both sides simultaneously and losing coupons are sifted from winning ones which are then marked fully . All the relevant data is captured on a machine console and data can be transferred to mainframe computer for specific analysis . ‘ We have had enquiries in the past about using our facilities,’ said the spokesman , ‘ but that was not possible until these new machines were up and running . ‘ We are now in business and the two main areas of interest we believe will be from banks or building societies wishing to carry out quite sophisticated research among their millions of customers and from companies involved in national promotions or competitions.’ Egg donor scheme provides new hope for childless couples
Idiom: in the hole (used idiomatically: no)
Okay . certain dialectic language . Yeah well if you want to that then that 's fine as well , I mean that Tell you what , the best thing then is can everyone put a note in my pigeon hole by Monday in other words , you 've got the weekend to decide for definite . Gives us just like a provisional title of what the essay will be , on what your essay will be . Is that alright , cos then you 've gone away with any ideas you 've got from now which is probably none , er and then it also means that I do n't have to spend next week worrying in case we get to Friday and Thursday and you 're still not sure what you 're doing .
Idiom: off the shelf (used idiomatically: yes)
‘ Ah , I 'm sorry , honey . Angelina got broken . Your mother said she fell off the shelf and smashed . I picked up the pieces myself . I 'm sorry , honey.’
Idiom: in the short run (used idiomatically: yes)
The prices of certain goods ( such as agricultural produce ) also seem to respond very promptly to changes in supply and demand . Even in certain labour markets , for example casual day labour , the price of labour can move apparently very freely . But there are other markets in which prices appear to move sluggishly and to be , at least in the short run , unresponsive to changes in supply and demand . Many labour markets appear to fall into this category , with wage rates being determined through complex institutional arrangements and bargaining processes which seem to imply that they will be less than fully flexible . The prices of certain goods too — notably manufactured goods — appear to be ‘ administered’ , or set for some time so that they do not respond immediately to changes in supply and demand .
Idiom: under the sun (used idiomatically: yes)
He felt tempted to continue through the village to visit the young Prince at Woodstock Palace but , considering what he had just learnt , thought he had better wait for a while . The day proved to be a pleasant one and Corbett , with Ranulf in tow , humming some filthy ditty , enjoyed the quiet ride down the winding country lane , the trees on either side forming a green canopy above their heads . The countryside was peaceful under a late autumn sun , the silence broken only by the liquid song of a bird , the chatter of insects and the loud buzz of honey - hunting bees . Dame Agatha , elegant in her light brown riding habit , sat sidesaddle on a small gentle cob from the priory stables . Corbett allowed their conversation to be as desultory as possible , wanting his companion to relax and feel safe in his presence .
Idiom: on the run (used idiomatically: no)
Certainly it 's one small car which I can drive for several hours at a stretch and step out feeling refreshed . It 's also stunningly economical . With a long journey ahead of me every morning and evening , I do n't hang about , and this is the first petrol - engined car I 've used that has given me over 45mpg on a run . I 've also fallen in love with the stereo . Renault is working hard to improve the quality of its products , and I must say the panel fit and finish on H375 DRV impress me .
Idiom: hit home (used idiomatically: yes)
When I got back to the cell the boys were keen to hear everything , but , tactfully , they left me alone to be with my thoughts . I felt shy of talking about my feelings with Terry and Tom and wished I could have half an hour alone with Brian . Once again the lack of privacy hit home hard . It was n't that I disliked , distrusted or in any way doubted the sympathy of my friends . I just wanted to be private , to be able to choose whom I talked to , let alone where and when .
Idiom: make history (used idiomatically: yes)
While he suggests in apocalyptic tones in The Problem of Method that this process of self - consciousness is at last beginning to take place , and that civil , foreign and colonial wars are becoming apparent as different forms of a single class struggle , Sartre also admits that the divorce between theory and praxis which ensued under Stalinism has generally prevented any clear self - consciousness among the masses . The ' detour , of Stalinism is thus formalized as Marxism 's own descent into its unconscious , resulting in a dream - work of heterogeneous histories that have eluded systematization and subsumption into the single meaning of Marxism 's own reading of history . It is therefore , Sartre argues , our historical task to make it known , promoting not just the historical process as such , but also the general recognition whereby the plurality of the meanings of individual histories can be seen to combine to make one history , with one meaning — the ' Truth of humanity'(I , 822 ) . Sartre 's account thus sets up the articulation of history , univocal meaning , and totality as the indissoluble set of elements required for the validation of Marxism , necessary in order to save it from its detour from itself . The problem , however , remains how such universals are produced from the multiplicity of initiating individual praxes .
Idiom: take it easy (used idiomatically: yes)
CANCER ( June 22/July 23 ) This is not a good weekend to be entertaining visitors or for getting to grips with a backlog of personal or professional paperwork . You wo n't be feeling totally ticketty - boo so take it easy and get as much rest and relaxation as possible . LEO ( July 24/Aug 23 ) A serious matter - of - fact weekend gives you plenty of opportunity to sort out a financial hassle connected with income tax , pensions or an inheritance .
Idiom: come in from the cold (used idiomatically: yes)
‘ Change or die’ unions warned TRADE union bosses warned the TUC to ‘ change or die’ yesterday as they unanimously backed a survival drive to recruit more members . Civil and Public Services Association chief Barry Reamsbottom told the unions ' Blackpool conference : ‘ We 're stuck in a time - warp and must come in from the cold.’ And engineers and electricians leader Bill Jordan said the TUC was an ‘ overburdened packhorse.’ Recruitment will be aimed at women workers , the self - employed and part - timers .
Idiom: on the carpet (used idiomatically: yes)
There was silence . It lasted for about five minutes , The Shah kept on walking back and forth . Habib Olahi , a stocky man , still stood at attention , his eyes fixed on the rich carpet . Neither man spoke . Finally the naval commander realized that the Shah was not going to approve his plan .
Idiom: go without saying (used idiomatically: yes)
I have not found this a problem because many of our members had their own private sites and were not interested in coinshooting . Be responsible It goes without saying that you must not leave holes or junk . It 's easy to be tidy , just carry a plastic sheet or bag upon which your excavated earth is placed . After recovery tip it all back in the hole and tread down your turf flap .
Idiom: fall short (used idiomatically: no)
I hope , heaven help me , to bring them into some sort of design and architecture later . ( Selected Letters , p. 180 ) Excusably perhaps , neither Edmund Wilson nor any one else could understand , or could credit , the scale on which Pound was working : 120 cantos , and by the time Pound died in 1972 , the poem had fallen only just short of that . In a poem designed on such a scale ( and this evidence of ' design ' on such a scale from the first is astonishing ) it was obviously illegitimate to look , as Edmund Wilson did , for emotional or affective unity in each or any Canto in isolation . As Pound confessed in another letter in 1933 : ' Most Cantos have in them ' binding matter ' , i.e. lines holding them into the whole poem and these passages do n't much help the reader of an isolated fragment …
Idiom: in someone's pocket (used idiomatically: yes)
It 's pretty good here — they got photos of food all lit up over the counter so you can just point . I get real hungry looking at the photos — I ai n't ate for ages . I feel in my pocket for my money and pull it out . My hands are real cold cos I lost my gloves and my fingers wo n't work proper — they 're all sort of numb . I spread the coins out in my hand and have a look .
Idiom: pissed off (used idiomatically: yes)
It 's one like that except a lot smaller with little red berries that grow off it in the spring . And it 's really nice ! Yeah but I mean anyway I dunno I just get really pissed off with Catherine . Yeah but I get really pissed off as well cos I well I , I wo n't like when I 'm with other people like and I talk about other pe like when I talk about Jenny and then I feel sort of like really two faced when I like start talking to Jenny and stuff . Yeah I know but I mean
Idiom: crocodile tears (used idiomatically: yes)
They would accept directives such as those calling for fewer part - time workers , and would welcome a 48-hour rule . Hon . Members might be happy to consider a 48-hour rule , but the farming community , to name but one , would find it extremely difficult at harvest time if they were not allowed to ask their farm workers to work more than 48 hours a week . That is why we should regard Labour 's albeit genuine crocodile tears as extremely salty . The hon . Member for Newham , North - East asked us to consider a policy of full employment . That sounds like motherhood and apple pie until we examine what full employment really means .
Idiom: on the level (used idiomatically: no)
As well as explaining the remains visible on the site tour , this guide provides an insight into the way of life of the various inhabitants : Neolithic , Bronze Age , Iron Age , Pictish , Viking , Norse / Medieval farmers , fishermen , craftsmen and part - time warriors , all are set into historical , geographical and social perspective . A fascinating section describes the round of the seasons in the Norse village . On one level a site guide , on another this is a mini - textbook describing changing society at one place over four thousand years . Special book offer Normally priced at £ 4.95 , we are offering the book to Friends at the special offer price of £ 3.95 ( inc p&p ) .
Idiom: talk shop (used idiomatically: no)
MDC also noted that the student recruit - a - friend campaign was part of a prize winning competition . MDC noted that a careers roadshow , which had attracted £ 1200 of sponsorship , would be held on 26 October 1991 at the Jesse Boot Centre , University of Nottingham . It was also noted that a series of young analysts ' talk shops had been arranged to take place during the ‘ Laboratory’ exhibition in November 1991 . MDC noted that a Younger Chemists ' reception would be held during the 1992 annual congress and that Ciba - Geigy had agreed to provide sponsorship . Women Chemists Committee
Idiom: up to here (used idiomatically: yes)
When the doctor opened a large book , he countered , ‘ I bet you 're going to show me some bloody ink blots . My wife had a green one done of her body once . I 've had it up to here with this naivety . Anybody who 's not a shrink ( or my wife ) only sees an ink blot when they look at one . This is an absolute nuthouse .
Idiom: from scratch (used idiomatically: yes)
This means that you could for example , take the pieces of garment originally designed for conventional knitting and rotate them through 90 degrees to get a pattern for sideways knitting . Rotating through 180 degrees would produce a pattern for knitting from top to bottom and rotating through 45 degrees would produce a pattern for a diagonal or bias knit . The second part of the ORIGINAL DRAWING tutorial explains how to create your won shapes entirely from scratch . To be able to do this successfully , you do need to have a reasonably good understanding of how to draw two dimensional shapes that , when knitted , will fit together to create three dimensional garments . Whereas the STANDARD shaping section will not , for example , allow you to have a sleeve head that is too big or too small for the armhole , this is not the case with the ORIGINAL shaping section .
Idiom: behind someone's back (used idiomatically: no)
Never will he let a finance executive ( or even his boss under the influence of one ) impose a budget on him . Having committed to a budget , never will he let the finance people tell him how to get there . He knows he ca n't win the race with his hands tied behind his back , or his toes chopped off . The best finance people are more of a help than a hindrance . That 's the type of finance people the Profitboss invests in
Idiom: on the level (used idiomatically: no)
But do n't think for a moment that I 'm duped by my own little lies . ' There is a special innocence in Doisneau 's photographs of children , especially during the years when he was working with a twin - lens reflex camera held at waist level . Carried by so small a man , the camera 's lens would often be no higher from the ground than a child 's eye and he could approach them on their own level . But such innocence is only part of the story . There is also a degree of ambiguity in Doisneau 's finest pictures which allows them to be interpreted in a variety of ways .
Idiom: wear the trousers (used idiomatically: yes)
Big in America , we suspect . The Penguin Book Of Rock And Roll Writing Clinton Heylin , editor Heavily drawn from the days when rock writers wore leather trousers and believed that rock would save the world . This is serious stuff , as might be expected from an American editor who writes Bob Dylan reference books , but there are enough gems to counterbalance the struggle to forge a rock aesthetic . Bad , Or The Dumbing Of America Paul Fussell
Idiom: mend fences (used idiomatically: yes)
Mr Major will himself face party activists when he addresses the Welsh Tory Conference in Llangollen tomorrow . Tory MPs will be hoping for a fighting speech that shows Mr Major recognises the gravity of the crisis now threatening to engulf him . Opening a debate on public spending , the Prime Minister tried to mend fences with the Tory Right by vowing that Britain would not join a single European currency in the next seven years , and ruled out any return to Europe 's Exchange Rate Mechanism in this Parliament . But he could not recover from the wound inflicted by the man once so close to him . Mr Major managed only one swipe at his tormentor : ‘ I believe history will look favourably on your economic and financial skills,’ he told him .
Idiom: all and sundry (used idiomatically: yes)
But then he 's been burning gold every few days for ten years . In gold shops they also burn off mercury on a huge scale . The law says dealers should recover ninety six percent floats away to be breathed by all and sundry . No one seems to worry . They 've come to sell gold and it 's the money they 're after .
Idiom: below par (used idiomatically: no)
It is here that a massive scoreboard confronts the players , the numbers changed slowly , tantalisingly , by hand . Elsewhere , the boards are easy neither to find nor follow , but that seems to heighten the anticipation and drama of it all . The numbers are in green for par and above , for ‘ go’ as in you might as well go home , and red for below par , for ‘ stop’as in you can stop here for the last two rounds . Had he missed the cut , Woosnam would not even have had that to watch on Saturday , since the network went off the air with about an hour 's play left in a move that would have angered Great Britain . He was grateful he had no need to tune in .
Idiom: make light of (used idiomatically: yes)
We got away and were finally rescued by a park ranger . His comment ‘ If you do n't bother him , he wo n't bother you’ did nothing to restore our shattered nerves . Back at the lodge they tried to make light of the experience . But out of earshot of the boss , one of the workers told me that two campers had been mauled only the previous week . SCARE : Dowdney
Idiom: full tilt (used idiomatically: yes)
When I took these two guitars into the studio to try them out , over the course of the first hour everyone and their cat called in and could n't resist having a go . Interestingly , these instruments complement each other very well tonally , and as we muddled through everything from new age to rock to the Isley Brothers greatest hits , the EGs seemed the ideal instruments for every job . Taking the EG-1 first , the HFS bridge humbucker delivers a warm , fat sound reminiscent of a vintage PAF , and while the guitar does n't have the image of a rocker the bridge pickup is almost arrogant in the way it handles an amp at full tilt . With the same amp settings the low hum single coils sing with almost the character of a Gibson P90 . With a clean tone they 're warm and solid - sounding , offering just the right amount of signal to cause the amp to get gritty when the guitar 's volume pot is whacked full up .
Idiom: join the club (used idiomatically: yes)
He recognized that " in a school such as ours where the teaching has distinct literary and mathematical pretensions and in which school hours are shorter than is the case in some parts of the country there is not , under present conditions , sufficient time for the proper development of both subjects : and experts are nearly unanimous in the opinion that Physics affords a better intellectual training than Chemistry , and the expense and risk in maintaining a Physical Laboratory is also distinctly less . " He also sought advice on drill from a Capt . Bradshaw , " to improve the bearing and physical condition of the boys " , and soon fifty pupils had joined the School Cricket Club , practising regularly on Stockport Cricket Club 's ground . This proved to be an unsatisfactory arrangement , and with the help of the Old Boys ' Association a four - acre field in Adswood was purchased . Daniels bought a small Pavilion , and a groundsman was engaged at £ 1 4 0d a week .
Idiom: the world and his wife (used idiomatically: yes)
At Gill Head , where Cartmel Fell looms huge to the south and the road is dark with overhanging trees , a hidden drive turns sharply towards the lake and suddenly one of the crown jewels of the Arts and Crafts Movement is before you . Wordsworth had lived in and loved the Lakes for sixty years , and later Ruskin , the great architectural influence of the nineteenth century , built a house on Lake Coniston . As has often been the case , it is the artists who are the forerunners of fashion , and fifty years later the world and his wife craved for Windermere . In 1897 Mr and Mrs Currer Briggs bought the most idyllic site they could lay their hands on and wrote to Mr Voysey the architect . By this time a new aesthetic movement was evolving .
Idiom: nothing doing (used idiomatically: no)
He has made comedies , but seems quite without the vision that elevates humour to satire . Perhaps this is why his films and his personality are so emphatically of today . He is a ‘ movie’ man ; and nothing does him greater credit than his energetic campaign to get Kodak to mend their stock , so that colour - films of the past do not automatically fade and turn green . His own work certainly deserves to survive . Try to get his movies from your local video store , and you will find that they will tell you as much as this book .
Idiom: across the board (used idiomatically: yes)
This planet inflates anything it touches so , on the one hand it will make you even more seeringly aware of the flaws in a relationship and , on the other , it will bring the great and good out of an appropriate union . You can establish a much deeper contact with a partner through much of this year and , if you have been passion-less for some time , be prepared for things to change considerably . February to June and September are powerful months for new alliances and relationships across the board . And with three eclipses , you may not be able to avoid a fateful attraction . Tax on food
Idiom: hold court (used idiomatically: yes)
Joshua sipped and watched . Mrs Edwina Currie was exercising a basic charm . Mrs Virginia Bottomley , with whom half the Tory Party was secretly in love ( Edwina hoped the other half was in love with her ) , was holding a small court , flanked by her husband , Peter . Virginia was everyone 's favourite , a sweet woman whose schoolgirl looks appealed strongly to the over forty - fives . The catty among her sisters ( and the hatreds that rive the small band of women MPs have to be experienced to be believed ) called her Angela Brazil , but that did not stop her being the most popular girl in the school .
Idiom: get away with murder (used idiomatically: no)
' It might be expected that a substantial proportion of these also involved stolen vehicles , ' he said . The figures come as a 33,000-signature petition is sent to the Home Office by Carole Whittingham of Rastrick , whose 27-year - old son Stephen was killed by a stolen car . She claims that joyride killers get away with ' murder on the cheap ' . ' The maximum sentence for this offence is only five years , compared to 14 for theft , ' she said . Chilling words of knife maniac : All I want is to kill a cop
Idiom: no holds barred (used idiomatically: yes)
TV sex talk for teenagers A FRANK new TV sex education series aimed at teenagers is set to tackle everything from homosexuality to how to achieve a happy love life . In Talking About Sex , classes of 14 to 17-year - old schoolchildren will hear no - holds - barred discussions on issues such as abortion and being a gymslip mother . Channel 4 says the show recognises its audience may already have left sexual theory behind and moved on to the practical side of the subject . Talks on mental health
Idiom: ride high (used idiomatically: yes)
AMERICA 'S BLACKS A world apart America is riding high on a wave of post - Gulf confidence , but one part of the country is still missing out : the poverty - ridden ghettos where millions of black Americans live . George Bush can not afford to ignore them ABSORB these figures about America 's cities .
Idiom: pull a face (used idiomatically: yes)
You do n't suddenly go blind for the duration of a ' phone call and are , therefore , prey to all sorts of visual distractions — people walking past the window , someone coming in to see you and so on . You are also more likely to be tempted into doing two ( or even more than two ) things at once . You know the caller ca n't see you continuing to sign letters , do the crossword , read a magazine , pull faces at a colleague … On the telephone it is more difficult to communicate accurate information and avoid misunderstandings . People remember more of what they see than what they hear .