Gooogr/pie_idioms huggingface dataset:
Idiom: in the same breath (used idiomatically: yes)
‘ Well , if you put that woman in Ma 's place I 'll never forgive you.’ ‘ Maggie 's nothing loike yer Ma.’ ‘ I do n't know how you can even speak of her in the same breath.’ Sarah had refused to go to the wedding . And that was the last time she had seen her father alive .
Idiom: rock the boat (used idiomatically: yes)
YOUNGER royals from Prince Charles down have been warned by the Queen to behave as she strives to salvage her family 's battered public image . The message is being relayed by Prince Philip and the Queen 's private secretary Sir Robert Fellowes in the wake of her decision to pay taxes and meet Civil List payments for other royals . In telephone calls and private meetings they are saying : ‘ Do n't do anything to rock the boat . The Queen has made major concessions to protect the monarchy . We must not let her down .
Idiom: think twice (used idiomatically: yes)
That icon has now been destroyed . Another positive consequence is the demonstrated effect of counter - terrorism operations carried out by US soldiers . As a result , some terrorists , one hopes , will decide to become former terrorists – and some young radicals might now think twice before deciding to become terrorists in the first place . But any celebration needs to be tempered by certain realities . Bin ~ Laden ’s demise , as welcome as it is , should in no way be equated with the demise of terrorism .
Idiom: put someone on a pedestal (used idiomatically: no)
In much Greek thought , women were represented as being closer to nature than men ; their role in reproduction connected them to nature 's fertility . Being closer to nature , they are more like objects than human beings . In the courtly love tradition , the woman was put on a pedestal — objectified . Such a conception of women has continued down the centuries . If fantasy depictions of others are likely to have consequences for one 's behaviour outside the fantasy , then so are real ways of treating the other in love - making .
Idiom: free rein (used idiomatically: yes)
The different stages of the legal processing of sex criminals give rise to different forms of press reporting , which will be considered in separate chapters . We shall start , in Chapter 3 , with the hunt for an offender after a sex crime has been reported to the police . This is the stage during which the press will focus on the supposed characteristics of the offender and their fantasies have free rein since there is no man actually in custody . The count procedure gives rise to a different focus by the press , which will be considered in Chapter 4 . Here the focus often , but not always , turns to the woman , since it is by attempting to discredit her that the majority of men accused of sex crimes try to save themselves .
Idiom: pick up the tab (used idiomatically: yes)
They have witnessed jobs destroyed services slashed opportunities wasted . In no area , colleagues , is the despair caused by Tory mismanagement more abundantly clear than in the area of welfare benefits . As our economy has declined as our recession has turned to a slump increasingly it is the low - paid , the sick , the disabled and the unemployed who have been forced to pick up the tab for the Tory policy failure . Congress , as we all know , the latest Tory plans have once again hit the least well off . To cut entitlement to unemployment benefit to tax invalidity benefit and to mean test benefits congress such a tax most vulnerable in our society must be opposed by the trade union movement .
Idiom: in someone's pocket (used idiomatically: yes)
Martha asked . ‘ In my pocket.’ ‘ What do you mean , in your pocket?’ I looked across at her . ‘ In my pocket , just now,’ I said .
Idiom: see the light (used idiomatically: yes)
‘ Do I —?’ Kathleen put her hands on her hips and squared up to him . ‘ Well , Holy Mary , Mother of God , you 've finally seen the light ! Do you have any idea how I 've felt , weekend after weekend , knowing you 're crawling down muddy holes or chucking yourself off cliffs ? Not to mention every day of the week when you climb on that evil machine and ride off into the sunset!’
Idiom: in stitches (used idiomatically: no)
It is a very warm fabric , as the construction traps a lot of air . The pattern design is shown here and you will need to repeat it a number of times widthways to fit your pattern format . Most double bed slip patterns are rather lavish on yarn , so you should allow twice as much yarn for a garment as you would for one of the same size in stocking stitch . SAMPLE 4 This is yet another variation on doubled bed slip , but here the pin tucks are not arranged in definite blocks .
Idiom: out of the blue (used idiomatically: yes)
‘ Ye - es,’ Alex said uncertainly . By now they were part of the endless stream of traffic speeding towards west London . ‘ I bet what happened was , just after you called him , this witch turns up out of the blue.’ ‘ Two women showing up late at night within five minutes of each other ? Bit of a coincidence , was n't it?’
Idiom: the biter bit (used idiomatically: yes)
Peter Ackroyd is all of the formidable pasticheur that he is praised for being , and Dyer 's tale , which affects to be that of someone who lived in the eighteenth century , and in which the element of imitation , present in writing of every kind , is more obtrusive than it is in the other tale , is the livelier of the two . Pastiche is a dualistic activity , and it is an activity which can lend itself to the expression of paranoid feelings and unacted desires . A writer is copied by ‘ someone other’ than himself , and that ‘ someone other’can in a manner of speaking become the writer he copies : the biter bit . The expression I am quoting is uttered by Dyer , and it is an expression which Ackroyd is given to using in his books . In pretending here to be someone other than himself who keeps murdering people , he does a tremendous job : this is a more than serviceable argot for the age in question and for the wizard in question .
Idiom: add insult to injury (used idiomatically: yes)
In the second half Leeds came roaring back , possibly looking for another replay because Chapman scored for the Yorkshire side after sixty nine minutes , but Arsenal held firm and they visit Shrewsbury in round five . Ron Atkinson 's Sheffield Wednesday received a nasty shock away to Cambridge United in their fifth round tie , United going in front after eighteen minutes through Dublin , and Wednesday were to receive another rude shock seven minutes after the break when Philpot made it two nil . To add insult to injury , Taylor scored a third for Cambridge twelve minutes from time and then seconds from the final whistle Dublin scored a fourth for Cambridge United . Tottenham Hotspur who put Oxford United out of the F A Cup in the fourth round , found life difficult at Fratton Park where Portsmouth forgot their disappointing League form and led Spurs by a Chamberlain goal after forty one minutes , but Gascoigne who tormented Oxford in the last round , equalised for Spurs in the sixty second minutes , and seven minutes from time , that man Gascoigne popped up with a winner . Third division Crew Alexandra held high flying West Ham of the second to a goal - less first half at Upton Park , but after seventy one minutes the Hammers took the lead through Quinn and although Crewe fought well , their long F A Cup adventure was over .
Idiom: step on it (used idiomatically: no)
Last night her private secretary , Sir Martin Gilliat said she was perfectly healthy but claimed she had ‘ other engagements ’ . If this is the case , and reports that the Queen Mother has reservations about attending the marriage of a divorced woman are false , courtiers will have tried to make her change her mind . But whether or not the Queen Mother is out of step with public opinion on divorce , she has made it clear no one will tell her how to behave . ‘ Behind the gentle smiles and the cheery waves she is an utterly determined woman who does not give up her grip on her family easily , ’ says royal-watcher Margaret Holder . The Queen Mother 's power can partly be explained historically .
Idiom: come to mind (used idiomatically: yes)
A traveller reaching the edge of the escarpment is ‘ surprised and delighted to behold , extended like a map beneath him , a country differing absolutely from that which he has passed through … Here , in the valley , the world seems to be constructed on a smaller and more delicate scale ; the fields are mere paddocks , so reduced that from this height their hedgerows appear a network of dark - green threads overspreading the paler green of the grass … such is the vale of Blackmoor.’ So it is described in Tess of the d'Urbervilles , yet , seen from the downs , it is The Woodlanders , Hardy 's own favourite story , which first comes to mind . Somewhere below , among orchards and woods , lay that sequestered spot which the topographers thought they had found all those years ago . Even now , cycling idly along the lanes in the lee of the downs , it is possible to speculate about such things in a whimsical sort of way ; a rare tranquility which pervades everything brings about that state of mind .
Idiom: keep the wolf from the door (used idiomatically: yes)
However bloody you are feeling you can put on the most amazing show of happiness . My mother is an expert at that and I 've picked it up . It kept the wolves from the door.’ The ability to become this smiling persona in public is helped by the nature of bulimia which is a disease where sufferers can maintain their normal body weight — unlike its sister illness , anorexia nervosa where you slim to skin and bone . At the same time Diana 's healthy lifestyle of regular exercise , little alcohol and early nights gave her the energy to carry on with her royal duties .
Idiom: out of the question (used idiomatically: yes)
His one remarkable feature was his height , six feet and five inches . At Cambridge he showed little aptitude for study and tended to be diverted by horse - racing and other forms of gambling . A professional career as such seemed out of the question ; his only ambition in life was to be an artist . After leaving Cambridge he went off to Paris to study drawing , but soon realized that he did not have sufficient talent . So instead he decided to climb Everest .
Idiom: sweep the board (used idiomatically: yes)
McMaster moved from the seaside to take up a new teaching post in Drumahoe near Londonderry last week , and decided to make the break with the club he has served so well for a decade . Now 31 , McMaster was a prolific points gatherer in his heyday , running in tries or kicking prodigious penalties . He played in every position in the Bangor back - line and had been a regular member of the Ulster squad that swept the boards in the inter - provincial championships in the last nine years . A few seasons ago , the much - travelled primary schoolteacher was on the verge of a full international appearance , but had to be satisfied with a B cap against Scotland in Galway . Although his career may be on the wane , he should still prove a useful asset to Ballymena , who just pipped top Junior side Coleraine for the veteran 's services .
Idiom: see the light (used idiomatically: yes)
Then the police car had crashed into a fence . PC Whitehouse had scrambled over the car roof to help his colleague . As he did so , he had seen the approaching lights of another car — the Orion . The gunman had turned and run to the Sierra . The case continues today .
Idiom: free rein (used idiomatically: yes)
At the very genesis of all feeling and awareness one thought held sway which should not really have been there at all : that to be grown - up , to be a man , meant losing a great part of me . The result of this thought was fear , fear that sometime in my future life 1 , too , would lose a part of me . And my reaction to this fear , my way of combating it , was to escape into a world of no fear , a world where there were complete men , good - looking , strong , active , a world of erotic fearlessness where the whole man had free rein , the whole man whom I was convinced I would not or could not become . I eroticised my fear in order to live with it . The erotic side of it all developed , of course , rapidly and by itself , gathering more and more momentum , like a stone rolling down a hill .
Idiom: neck and neck (used idiomatically: yes)
nothing to do with drawing the graph of distance against time . So what are the important points in that ? That they set off neck and neck . Okay set off neck and neck . Right .
Idiom: in the long term (used idiomatically: no)
By combining all the western European fibers activities in Hoechst ~ Trevira ~ GmbH~&~Co ~ KG with effect from October 1 , 1994 , Hoechst is attempting to compensate for the cost- advantages enjoyed by foreign suppliers , so as to ensure that jobs in the domestic industry are preserved in the long term .
Idiom: on the square (used idiomatically: yes)
Norman Dennis ( 1970 ) showed how in Sunderland a change in attitude led to a hardening resistance to slum clearance ; another study charted the conflict between a local community and a city planning department , Newcastle ( Davies , 1972 ) . One local politician in London ( Taylor , 1973 ) was driven to reflect on the need to preserve identity and to design to an intimate human scale . One London community , centred on Tolmer 's Square , battled against property developers ( Wates , 1976 ) . Clearance switched to a policy of improvement . Powers for house improvement had long been available , local authorities being enabled to improve council housing and give discretionary grants to private owners for improvement of individual properties .
Idiom: out of pocket (used idiomatically: yes)
' What a disappointment . I thought you two were just beginning to get on swimmingly — sorry about that — up at the Ally Pally pond . ' Then , from Riva , ' You 're either going to have to get a tissue out of my skirt pocket and wipe my nose for me , or untie me so I can do it myself . ' She sneezes again . Without losing her grip on the gun , Anya forages as directed .
Idiom: have a heart (used idiomatically: no)
He fixes us with his glazed brown eyes and tells how five of his 10 children have died . Outside , he wife waits in the food queues to feed the living . Bardera , once a thriving market town in the heart of Somalia 's most fertile region , is one of the worst hit famine areas . Hard-pressed gravediggers are burying as many as 100 people a day . Help has been available here for less than a month , but already word has spread and swelled the starving population from 10,000 to 30,000 .
Idiom: give something a miss (used idiomatically: yes)
Trained by Billy Patton , Fardross could go in again on Saturday . Paul McMahon is in fine form and Another Machine , who won at Dromore is in the Two Winner race . If Avostar gives this one a miss then Another Machine may be the right one . More Britons spurn meat : survey MORE than 2,000 Britons a week are turning their backs on meat and becoming vegetarians , a survey claimed today .
Idiom: jump ship (used idiomatically: yes)
J.R. Souness first hit the headlines as a teenager when he absconded from his first club Tottenham Hotspur and ran away from London to his home in Edinburgh . Homesickness , the love of a teenage girlfriend called June and a premature belief in his ability had encouraged the young Souness to jump ship . ‘ I was totally wrong , it was immature , pure arrogance,’ Souness confesses , in what must be one of the few confessions to take place inside Ibrox . ‘ I was 17 and thought I had a god given right to be in Spur 's first team .
Idiom: flash in the pan (used idiomatically: yes)
Tino Savvas said : ‘ The problems with delivery reliability were because customers were stretching our capacity to the limit . Now we have adequate capacity that should no longer be the case.’ Mr Crowe emphasised the achievement was no flash in the pan but the result of continuous improvement over several years . Placed In 1985 the survey placed Colodense 13th .
Idiom: at sea (used idiomatically: no)
And then I shall return ! TRADITIONAL The mermaid did indeed return to claim Lutey and it is said that every nine years hence , one of his descendants is lost at sea . Mermaids were sometimes captured and kept for the knowledge they could bestow upon humans , particularly their understanding of herbal lore and their gifts of prophecy . Chambers wrote of a mermaid who gave a lad medical advice for his sweetheart 's illness :
Idiom: game on (used idiomatically: yes)
A useful sort on the level for Mark Prescott , Moving Out is with the right trainer — Henrietta Knight seems to have a talent for turning Flat horses into capable jumpers . The colt races in the colours of Chris 's wife Shirley , and they 're due a bit of luck — a horse they bought over from Ireland for Henrietta Knight to train died of colic not long ago . Moving Out certainly shaped as though he had a future at the winter game on his reappearance in a very hot race over two miles at Haydock earlier in the month . He is sure to outspeed his rivals in the St Modwen Novices ' Hurdle ( 12.30 ) on ideal ground and over a trip that is certain to suit . The ‘ good thing’ of the day is Fly For Gold in the Levy Board Novices ' Handicap Hurdle ( 2.30 ) at Uttoxeter .
Idiom: go without saying (used idiomatically: yes)
You sat him on the dock , then dived out under the curtain and climbed onto the bank . Is that right ? ' ' Yes , except that while I was pulling Harry along to that far corner to give him better support , someone opened the main door above our heads , like I told you , and then went away without saying anything , and I heard a car drive off , which might have been Harry 's . ' ' Did you hear any car arriving ? ' Doone asked .
Idiom: come full circle (used idiomatically: yes)
We know , and they know , that if we were not on the project , in the meeting , or in any way involved , the issue of sexuality would simply be entirely glossed over . In short lesbians and gay men are assumed to influence young people over their sexuality , whilst heterosexuals assume themselves to be neutral . In many ways we 've come full circle : in the early days of lesbian feminism , lesbian theorists demonstrated that anti - lesbianism is the most intense form of woman - hating . After several years of thinking of sexism and heterosexism as different forms of oppression , we 've come back to seeing them as inextricably linked . In fact it has been mainly the lesbians in the girls ' work movement who have been developing a determination to make the links between all oppressions , and who have become very clear about the need for that work to be accessible to all young women .
Idiom: in cold blood (used idiomatically: yes)
Well , there was no going back now . ‘ If you still refuse’— and Denis levelled the gun at Joshua Cohen 's heart —‘I'll just have to shoot you.’ He tried to keep his voice firm , but the thought of actually having to kill the man in cold blood numbed him . Up to now the possibility had seemed so remote as not to need consideration — an order given by Hardy as a matter of course , accepted by Denis as a standard instruction in an operation of this nature . But it had been inconceivable that it would really come to such a point .
Idiom: get to grips with (used idiomatically: yes)
There was , however , a senior general , Catroux , representing the Free French in Egypt at the time , and it is more probable that it was he who interviewed Stirling . The French proved to be a highly motivated and very brave addition to the ranks of the SAS , but in some ways they were a mixed blessing . They were so keen to get to grips with the enemy that they disregarded much of the training in stealth and guile . As a result they suffered many casualties . It is interesting that they became an integral part of the SAS , wore British uniform and insignia , yet tended to remain a separate squadron — mainly because of the language problem .
Idiom: stand someone in good stead (used idiomatically: yes)
When he went to the toilet , for example , his aim was n't just any old crap but the closest possible approximation in this imperfect world to the Eternal Idea of Dennis - Going - to - the - Toilet . This had been of something more than philosophical interest to Karen and I in our pre - coital phase , since it meant that we could count on at least a minute thirty seconds before he reappeared , or as much as three minutes forty - five seconds if we heard the seat go down for a big jobby . Now we had moved on to bigger and better things , this predictability still stood us in good stead . At 8.57 every weekday , Dennis went out to fetch the BMW from the garage . Exactly one minute later , he backed it out on to the drive and turned round .
Idiom: not a pretty sight (used idiomatically: yes)
MacAirth grimaced and drew shapes on the table with the spilled wine . ‘ No,’ he replied . ‘ The King was not a pretty sight . The sea had soaked his corpse ; even with the spices , it was hard to keep him presentable.’ ‘ Did the Queen come to inspect the corpse?’
Idiom: on the level (used idiomatically: yes)
If the result is unsatisfactory it can be used as a motivating factor to persuade them to try and make an improvement . Serum fructosamine concentration looks a possible alternative to HbA 1 ( Baker et al , 1985 ) : it is reliable and reflects the integrated blood glucose level over three to six weeks versus eight to 12 . Advantages of fructosamine are that it does not depend on the haemoglobin level and it will probably be considerably cheaper . The principal aim of the modern diabetic clinic must be to prevent complications , and therefore it needs to be organised so that Type 1 patients can be motivated and educated successfully to manage their diabetes . A programme of teaching is required , taking place outside the diabetic clinic at times convenient to the patients , avoiding loss of time from school and work .
Idiom: off the hook (used idiomatically: yes)
Hang on just a minute right here we go . Mm there 's the Bare Naked Ladies er they come from Canada they are a brilliant group I think they 're brilliant I do n't care I like them and that 's called er Be My Yoko Ono I was going to go from the Bare Naked Ladies it was all planned I was going to go and say Mary Whitehouse how are you today and she was there er un unfortunately we 've we called this is serious . If you live round the corner from Mary Whitehouse could you pop in and tell her that her phone is off the hook she has n't replaced the receiver and she she 's quite an elderly lady and I would would be terribly upset if if she had n't got her phone back cos she might need it for emergencies or something like that and I am a caring concerned person so could you could you pop round the corner to Mary 's house and tell her that she has n't put her phone on the hook off the hook properly could you do that ? Do n't all shout at once but just could somebody go and do it right okay . Er now did we get John back or we 've forgotten John now because he 's in a shop serving customers in Ripon and er great take away Indian there very very good take away Indian and they did ask me this would you please play this so hang on .
Idiom: on board (used idiomatically: yes)
The Taliban claimed responsibility for the downing of the helicopter near Lashkar Gah in Helmand province . NATO 's International ~ Security ~ Assistance ~ Force ( ISAF ) said the incident is under investigation and has not ruled out the possibility of hostile fire . There was no immediate word on the nationality of the two service members on board the helicopter .