Gooogr/pie_idioms huggingface dataset:
Idiom: on edge (used idiomatically: yes)
Mitch Cook wrong - footed the defence with a low free - kick and Cusack stole in to side - foot home . But once again Quakers gifted Reading another goal after 86 minutes . Pickering lost the ball on the edge of his own area , allowing Gooding to thread the ball through for Maskell to shoot home . Darlington were down and out a minute later when Mark McGhee crossed from the right for Maskell to complete his hat trick . MATCHFACTS Goals : Maskell ( 40 mins , 0–1 ) , Cork og ( 57 , 0–2 ) , Borthwick ( 62 , 1–2 ) , Cusack ( 69 , 2–2 ) , Maskell ( 86 , 2–3 ) , Maskell ( 87 , 2–4 ) .
Idiom: get to grips with (used idiomatically: yes)
By Magnus Grimond NEW management brought in 18 months ago at Bunzl , the plastic bottles to cigarette papers group , wrought wonders for margins last year . Taxable profits more than doubled to £ 45.1 million in the 12 months to December as the team , led by Anthony Habgood , the chief executive brought in from Tootal mid - way through 1991 , got to grips with loss - makers and revitalised other businesses . About 1,000 people , or 10 to 15 per cent of the workforce , have left since Mr Habgood 's arrival , while Bunzl has come out of a number of low - margin and loss - making businesses . But overall trading margins shot up from 3.6 per cent to 4.4 per cent last year and Mr Habgood said the results show ‘ sound evidence of long - term recovery.’
Idiom: stand the test of time (used idiomatically: yes)
Do not cast aside a movement that one feels is perhaps a little silly or archaic . These arts of war have been nurtured over thousands of years . They have stood the test of time . So , when a movement is taught to you and you can not understand the meaning behind it , do it as directed , practising it a thousand times if necessary . With repetition comes understanding .
Idiom: in the offing (used idiomatically: yes)
They are also closely associated with University College Cork , which makes it particularly pleasant to welcome them to Queen 's for their first visit . The Vanbrugh have already played in the Americas — north , central and south — and in a number of European countries , including the Menuhin Festival in Switzerland . They broadcast regularly for the BBC and have made a number of CDs , with many more in the offing . The repertoire of the Vanbrugh Quartet stretches from Haydn to the present day , and that span is reflected in the programme they are playing for the Festival . Two distinguished living composers — one Irish , one Welsh — are set between two great masters of the past .
Idiom: rule of thumb (used idiomatically: yes)
Some , like Deutsche Bank and Crédit Lyonnais , are piecing together hugely expensive pan - European bank networks in the firm belief that retail banking can be moved across borders . If they can get this grandiose strategy to work , the 1990s will undoubtedly be the decade of the European bank . If they can not , then banking 's rule of thumb will have been right once again . Latin American debt Money in the well
Idiom: get a move on (used idiomatically: yes)
Urgent need MANY thanks for the excellent series of articles on the proposed Sports Museum they put the situation accurately and can do nothing but help our cause . We have heard recently that Trafford is working on the same lines , so we will have to get a move on . THE JOKES are still coming in thick and fast from young readers . We challenged them to make our theatre critic , Joe Riley , laugh .
Idiom: up a gum tree (used idiomatically: yes)
Mr Foggerty was agreeably surprised , but when Nutty reminded him of the standard required , he relapsed into grim gloom and stood on the side of the bath in his white T - shirt and jeans looking at his watch and saying , ‘ I ca n't spare the time to do this three nights a week for the next year , which is what is required . The mind boggles , Miss McTavish . Mr Sylvester is up a gum tree.’ ‘ You 've got to,’ Nutty said doggedly . ‘ Somebody has anyway.’
Idiom: nine times out of ten (used idiomatically: yes)
Businesses are not making much in the way of profits , yet their business rate bills continue to go up and up,’ he added . ‘ When this relief was introduced we fought long and hard to get the term ‘ poverty’ replaced by ‘ hardship’to make it easier for small businesses to qualify . Now we find all that was to no avail , since nine times out of ten local authorities have pushed all thought aside of giving the relief.’ It appears few small businesses may be aware of discretionary relief . Darlington Council , for example , has not received any hardship applications from small businesses since the introduction of the UBR .
Idiom: give someone the creeps (used idiomatically: yes)
‘ Jack , wait ! I did n't mean no to the meal — just to the photos of the caves . It gives me the creeps , that 's all . I 'd rather not see what you get up to underground.’ His face cleared , and his mouth tipped in a lop - sided grin .
Idiom: rare bird (used idiomatically: no)
Protection money will help crofters and corncrakes By Auslan Cramb , Environment Correspondent CROFTERS and corncrakes in Skye may find survival a bit easier after the introduction of special payments designed to protect one of Britain 's rarest birds . The idiosyncratic corncrake , whose remarkable rasping call used to be a familiar country sound , has suffered a collapse in numbers because of modern farming methods . Now Scottish Natural Heritage will pay crofters in an area north of Uig — the bird 's last stronghold on Skye — in an effort to re - establish traditional management of enclosed croft grasslands to provide a safe habitat for the corncrakes .
Idiom: on the nose (used idiomatically: yes)
Senad who 's undergone eye surgery is being transferred to the John Radcliffe hospital for operative treatment on his jaw . But Dino is now discharged . He 's said to be recovering well from an eyelid operation and reconstructive surgery on his nose . At a hospital news conference he read out a speech of thanks . Sound up of Dino thanking the hospital staff in English
Idiom: watch this space (used idiomatically: yes)
Glamis and Balmoral . Are there , we ask knowingly , plans to sell advertising on the backs of our bank - notes for a limited range of tasteful products such as fine textiles , whiskies , golf clubs and top people 's hotels ? Watch this space — or rather the space on the backs of those notes . Those Lines on the Lada were taken by some as less than kind to the Bank Car Scheme . A reader has pointed out to me : ' It is quite unreasonable for you to criticise the scheme since it may not be generally known that any Senior Manager is able to purchase a top - of - the - range BMW K Series four - cylinder model anti - lock brakes , black paint finish , radio etc and still have funds to spare . '
Idiom: at the end of the day (used idiomatically: yes)
I can make phone calls and no one knows I 'm in jeans . ’ Not all people who decide to work from home will be lucky enough to have a ready-made office space and they will need to make changes in their accommodation , even if it is only finding a place to keep the computer and the phone . Teleworkers can operate at the kitchen table with a couple of filing cabinets tucked under it but most prefer to use a separate room they can shut the door on at the end of the day . People who prefer older properties are currently snapping up country homes with outbuildings that will convert into offices , while others are finding that double-glazed conservatories — with prices from around £10,000 — are useful year-round work rooms . Several companies are now offering prefabricated office buildings which can be installed in the garden .
Idiom: get lost (used idiomatically: no)
look at me but otherwise , you know , they do n't usually stop you if you 've got a kid with you . And can you does it , I mean obviously it bothers you , but I mean Well I just tell them to get lost in not so polite words . So what , what do you actually think about the er the prostitutes , and ? Well , I mean er I 've got nothing against them .
Idiom: have been around (used idiomatically: no)
One of the classic findings of media research in British election campaigns is Trenaman and McQuail 's ( 1961 ) assertion that ‘ the evidence strongly suggests that people think about what they are told … but at no level do they think what they are told’ . This is usually called the ‘ agenda - setting function of the media’ . ( The term ‘ agenda - setting’ was popularized by McCombs and Shaw , 1972 ; Shaw and McCombs , 1977 ; though the idea had been around since at least Lazarsfeld , Berelson , and Gaudet , 1944 . For a producers ' rather than a consumers ' perspective on agendasetting see Hetherington , 1985 ; Blumler and Gurevitch , 1986 ; Blumler , Gurevitch , and Nossiter , 1986 and 1989 . ) This agenda - setting thesis is very plausible and usually treated as an established law of social science in introductory textbooks , though much more sceptically in research reports .
Idiom: mean business (used idiomatically: yes)
A brand - new C64 action magazine will be hitting the shelves next month , in place of ZZAP ! 64 . Called COMMODORE FORCE , it will feature all the things you know and love from the old ZZAP ! , but none of the things you did n't like ! And to prove we mean business — as usual!— we 'll be giving away a special 100-page A – Z Book Of C64 Tips … absolutely FREE ! You want more ? Okay , how about a reader - challenge featuring that classic 64 footy fest , MicroProse Soccer ?
Idiom: in the black (used idiomatically: yes)
At their best ink - jet printers can produce an output quality several times better than that of the average matrix printer . The latest application of the ink - jet principle is that of colour printing . As well as printing in black these device also contain reservoirs of red , blue and yellow inks . These colours may be unfamiliar to those used to working with graphics on a TV screen but they are the painter 's equivalent to red , green and blue as all other colours can be made by mixing them together . Unlike the colour printing achieved from multi - ribbon matrix printers the results are really excellent .
Idiom: beg the question (used idiomatically: yes)
But since literacy was already present in early Greece , at a time when the ideal consequences of literacy ( such as logic , metaphysics and objectivity ) had not yet developed , it is impossible to test the extent to which these developments were due to literacy itself . What happened between early and later Greek society to generate these developments must have been something other than the ‘ intrinsic’ qualities of literacy alone since literacy was present in both periods . To argue that the early period represents a situation of ‘ restricted’ literacy is simply to beg the question . There is a circularity in these arguments about the consequences of literacy that makes it difficult to test them out or to apply them fruitfully elsewhere . As we have traced them so far , Goody 's arguments and my counter - arguments seem to go something like this .
Idiom: have words (used idiomatically: no)
Therefore , the Government would also have to fund the £ 21 billion differential . Mr. Forth I have not discussed with my hon . Friend the Parliamentary Under - Secretary whether he is pledging a £ 21 billion expenditure increase , but , having heard what the hon . Member for Stretford has said , I shall have a quiet word with my colleague to see whether he agrees . We also heard of the commitment underlying the Opposition 's desire for the full effects of the original text of the EC directive on pregnant women to be implemented . I was challenged about that — I do not know why , as I thought that the position was clear .
Idiom: in a nutshell (used idiomatically: yes)
The mixture was moulded into shapes using a sugary bonding goo and , as 16th Century taste swung across to sweets , the mixture was reduced to become the modern blancmange . TODAY 'S Book Of Things You Did n't Know … is now on sale , published by Simon & Schuster for £3.99 . Leftovers in a nutshell Sharon Davey IT 'S an old chestnut that crops up at this time every year .
Idiom: good offices (used idiomatically: no)
Cotter 's erratic career had a close bearing upon the later history of the Sailors and Firemen . So did that of Emanuel Shinwell , the son of a Jewish tailor of Polish origin , who had been born in London 's East End , but whose family later settled in Glasgow . In 1911 Shinwell , after varied experience in a number of industries , became through the good offices of the highly influential Glasgow Trades Council , of which he was vice - chairman , a voluntary official of Wilson 's union , though he had no personal knowledge of seagoing or of the sea . Shinwell , however , was formally offered , and accepted , the post of paid assistant to Albert French , whom Wilson had sent to Glasgow to be secretary of the Glasgow branch . He almost immediately led a breakaway of members into a Scottish Sailors ' and Firemen 's Union at a wage of £ pound2 a week and made common cause with Alderman " Tommy " Lewis , who had already led a similar breakaway in Southampton to form the British Seafarers ' Union with which Shinwell 's union merged .
Idiom: up in the air (used idiomatically: yes)
He looked around on the ground , and finally saw me . He stared at me for a moment , then very carefully , he picked me up with finger and thumb and looked at me . I was now twenty metres up in the air , and I desperately hoped he would not decide to throw me to the ground . I did not struggle , and spoke politely to him , although I knew he did not understand any of my languages . He took me to the farmer , who soon realized that I was not an animal , but an intelligent being .
Idiom: short shrift (used idiomatically: yes)
Anyway what is wrong with that land of sunshine Australia , that you want to leave it , is it because you have to work for your living there?(quoted from Tatchell , Battle , 72 ) In this letter , masculinity —‘when men were men’— is vigilant against ‘ outside evils’ , especially racial infiltration and homosexuality , the latter conceived as sexual ambiguity ( ‘ Middlesex Regiment’ ) . Each provokes fears of a social decline which in turn evokes imperial decline : ‘ that once great borough’ where men were men , women were ‘ manholes’ , and queers were given short shrift . It is a letter which indicates several things about homophobia , and three in particular . First and most obviously perhaps , it shows how homophobia is often integral to a conventional kind of masculine identity .
Idiom: give and take (used idiomatically: yes)
It is typical of Lewis 's later self that he should have seen no virtue at all in Tillyard 's approach , and that furthermore he should have labelled it ‘ heresy’ . What struck Barfield , however , was the manner in which this slightly absurd debate was conducted . ‘ We have both learnt our dialectic in the academic arena where knocks that would frighten the London literary coteries are given and taken in good part ; and even where you think me sometimes too pert you will not suspect me of malice . If you honour me with a reply it will be in kind ; and then , God defend the right!’ Barfield describes how he read this sentence , slapped down the book and shouted : ‘ I do n't believe it !
Idiom: go round in circles (used idiomatically: yes)
‘ Managing ? Was it hard?’ Then , exasperated by her own confusion , and the fact that they seemed to be going round in circles , Ellie demanded , ‘ Feargal , just tell me what it is you want to know — what , in fact , we 're supposed to be talking about!’ ‘ Phena,’ he prompted softly . ‘ Phena ?
Idiom: in the dock (used idiomatically: no)
MIKE ROWBOTTOM / Oxford Voice over Westmore James sat quietly in the dock during the summing up on the last but one day of his trial at Oxford Crown Court . The 24 year old denies murdering his girlfriend 's cousin Ian Barnes last August . The court had already heard how Westmore James went to Banbury to see his pregnant girlfriend .
Idiom: turn a blind eye (used idiomatically: yes)
I return to the matter of rewarding and how to make it effective in chapter 5 . Strategies for ignoring bad behaviour There are times when it is judicious to turn the ' blind eye ' to certain minor infringements ( for example , accidents , temporary lapses of memory , impulsive acts that constitute small misdemeanours ) . The ' Nelson ' technique is useful when the child is playing up to force your attention or to ' wind you up ' . There is nothing worse for actors than to remove their audience .
Idiom: in this day and age (used idiomatically: yes)
Cordia was a principality that vanished more than two hundred years ago.’ ‘ Fascinating,’ Caroline said , in a tone that made it clear the topic was anything but . ‘ It must be interesting , owning a useless title in this day and age.’ Nicolo 's scowl darkened . ‘ One does not ‘ own’ a title .
Idiom: cast your mind back (used idiomatically: yes)
‘ Mine is the catalyst!’ The story may be apocryphal but it neatly illustrates the role of the catalyst . If you cast your mind back to school chemistry lessons , you may recall that a catalyst is a substance able to make a chemical reaction go faster without itself altering that reaction or undergoing change . it helps , without getting directly involved — rather like the Maharajah 's elephant which doubtless saved years of wrangling . That is the basic role of ICI ; s catalysts business although it uses a shade more technology than the Maharajah 's elephant .
Idiom: dig deep (used idiomatically: yes)
There are now 19 clubs in the BGA ( including two non - course owning ) , and the 17 courses will all host a Border tournament this season , with Selkirk Glass providing special centenary trophies for each event . England battle to salvage pride ENGLAND dug deep into their last remaining reserves of energy to salvage some pride in the fierce heat of Colombo yesterday . A Sri Lankan total of 408 for eight , and a first - innings deficit so far of 28 , would not normally be a cause for satisfaction , but this has been no ordinary tour for England , beaten 3 - 0 in the Indian Test series and consistently outplayed on the pitches of the sub - continent . Being even on level terms with the opposition after three days of a Test match is a position almost of luxury for the current England team .
Idiom: take it from me (used idiomatically: yes)
‘ Well , it 's better than sitting around wringing our hands and saying , ‘ Oh dear , oh dear , the humans are coming and we shall all be squashed . ’’ ‘ That 's all very well,’ said Dorcas , ‘ but what are you suggesting ? Bashing them over the head would be really tricky , take it from me.’ ‘ Not their heads,’ said Grimma . Dorcas stared at her .
Idiom: come to mind (used idiomatically: yes)
That the US remains dependent on China to buy billions of dollars worth of Treasury bonds every week to finance its yawning budget deficit is a sign of shifting global financial power – which China is sure to use for political gain in the years ahead . The current spotlight may be on Europe ’s financial woes , but the bigger picture for China is that America ’s chronic deficits and indebtedness epitomize its relative decline . Add to the picture the two wars that the US is waging overseas – one of which is getting hotter and increasingly appears unwinnable – and what comes to mind among China ’s leaders is the historian Paul ~ Kennedy ’s warning about “ imperial overstretch .
Idiom: get off the ground (used idiomatically: yes)
‘ And I assure you I 'm impressed by your confidence in your own abilities . But , alas , as ungenerous as this may sound , I find myself unable to share that confidence … ’ He smiled a slow smile and pointed out callously , ‘ The chances are that your business will never get off the ground and I 'll end up cheated of the money you owe me.’ ‘ It wo n't fail!’ It was a pledge , a promise , a prayer .
Idiom: sleight of hand (used idiomatically: yes)
From relatives and town worthies , good democrats all , she meets evasion and condescension . And when uncomfortable truths do emerge , despite memory ‘ lapses’ and bureaucratic ‘ inefficiency’ , the once popular Sonja feels the cutting edge of guilt , outrage and scandal . Brimming with visual tricks and stylistic sleights of hand , NASTY GIRL has deservedly made its mark in festivals around the world . In the year of German reunification and national congratulation , Michael Verhoeven insists that ghosts from the past are alive and kicking in the ‘ mature democracy’ of the west . Fri 15–Thu 21 February
Idiom: see stars (used idiomatically: yes)
The Pole Star is directly over the North Pole and shows where north is . This was a great help to sailors when exploring at night . But what about the sailors in the southern hemisphere — the part of the earth south of the Equator ? they could n't see the Pole Star , so what did they use to guide them ? THE SOUTHERN CROSS The Southern Cross is a group of stars in the southern hemisphere .
Idiom: take the piss (used idiomatically: yes)
Even though you quite like their records they 're all dull old spuds and you just have to interpret what they 'd say if they were literate . ‘ You write up the more interesting parts of what they say and leave out the dull bits to do them a favour — if you like them . If you do n't like them , you leave all the boring bits in and take the piss . And I could never sit through all these interviews , transcribing them off the tape afterwards . It was too boring.’
Idiom: game on (used idiomatically: yes)
Some of these stories were undoubtedly true — I definitely knew some lads who played in the same city of Leeds schoolboys team as him , etc . But there was certainly a lot of crap talked about him as well . You 'd travel down to the game on a Saturday , and if you met a Leeds fan at the train station , you could be sure that they were the best mate he 'd ever had , and they 'd tell you all the latest gossip that he 'd told them the last time they were out for a few pints . The best story was a couple of years ago — the season we won the title . I have a couple of mates who are Forest fans , and I got them tickets for the first game of the season .
Idiom: hit the road (used idiomatically: yes)
However , er I can I have all their names , I know how to contact them . Yeah . And I can get round to doing that this week , I started trying on Friday but most of them were of course hitting the road . Yeah . Erm so I 'm making some progress there .
Idiom: on board (used idiomatically: no)
It was quite an experience . The purser gave them part of the ship where they could do " all sorts of things in the morning — singing , drawing , competitions " . It was n't long before other families on board were sending their children to join in the fun . The few weeks with her own family flew past . By October Eva was being farewelled from Australia to " her first appointment on missionary service to the Howard Institute in Southern Rhodesia " ( Australian War Cry November 15th 1952 ) .
Idiom: behind the scenes (used idiomatically: yes)
Nervous colleagues form a living barricade between us and potential onlookers . This is not the brand of publicity Mephistco courts . Still clasped together , my attacker and I are frogmarched behind the scenes , into one of the little meeting - rooms . Nobody seems to think it necessary to separate us while this manoeuvre takes place . So I have to prise off the foe unassisted , which , believe me , takes some doing .