Gooogr/pie_idioms huggingface dataset:
Idiom: with a will (used idiomatically: yes)
But we overpowered our captors and got out to find the battle in full cry and the north - west quarter of the Rorim in flames . By that time Luib had gathered his men from the outer gates and was attacking the enemy rear . We joined in with a will . It must have seemed to Bragad 's minions that we were falling on them out of thin air . Many died , Marsco among them — and Lionan , and Mullach .
Idiom: in the clear (used idiomatically: yes)
They too travel to Scotland , playing Fife Flyers who have had their worst start for years . And watch Humberside , fresh to the First Division , who scored 134 goals in their eight Autumn Trophy games . Tennis : Lendl is left in the clear by Becker 's withdrawal From JOHN ROBERTS in Stuttgart BORIS BECKER disappointed his West German supporters for the second consecutive year when a knee injury forced him to withdraw from the Stuttgart Classic here yesterday .
Idiom: up to scratch (used idiomatically: yes)
Even Dad tried to enlist . He told the recruiting officer that he 'd been a sergeant in the Boer War and boasted that he knew more about the Army than all these whipper - snappers who were waiting to join with him . He was told to strip for a medical examination but he was n't up to scratch and failed , and so never got his chance . Nevertheless he was determined to do his bit , so he gave up the firewood business and went back to the casting shop to make shell cases . This was more patriotic than wise because he had to work long hours and came home coughing ; you could smell the sulphur on his clothes .
Idiom: carry the can (used idiomatically: no)
His dead-ball delivery was excellent and Liverpool looked uneasy at set-pieces . ‘ The emergence of this new crop of youngsters is a healthy pointer to the future for the club . ‘ But we ca n't get carried away by one result because our main aim must be to stay in the Premier League . ‘ Cup-ties are a great realease from the staple diet of League football but the lads — especially the younger ones — have to grasp the importance of staying up . ‘ It 's no good getting to Wembley this season and then finding ourselves at Barnsley in September .
Idiom: draw a blank (used idiomatically: yes)
He 's unconscious and on a life support machine . It 's still not clear why Mr Crowther 's Rolls Royce careered off the M5 near Cheltenham in Gloucestershire . Police inquiries so far have drawn a blank . Male speaker We 've got nothing so far .
Idiom: up in the air (used idiomatically: yes)
Day 3 Hospital Visit I am sitting by the side of a hospital bed watching Stewart trying to open a box of chocolates that Sir has brought him from me , if you get it . Stewpid is up on traction , which means his arm is up in the air , so that he ca n't lie down at all , even to sleep . If he moves it at all— the elbow , that is — it wo n't set properly , and he 'll be no good at football , ever . I have n't seen him since they took him away , screaming his head off , with Jonathan Johns telling everybody gathered round that it was all my fault , bloomin ' unfair because I ca n't help it if Pitt has the kind of bones that break easily , can I ?
Idiom: hit the mark (used idiomatically: yes)
Lyric Fantasy 's big autumn target is under review . ' We could run into problems with the draw and the going in Paris and we are leaning towards the Cheveley Park at Newmarket , ' said owner Lord Carnarvon . Darren Biggs hit the 50 mark for the season with his win on Iommelli at Sandown yesterday . Budo signs WEST HAM have paid £ 225,000 for Partizan Belgrade central defender Budimir Vujacic after the central defender successfully completed a ten - day trial at Upton Park .
Idiom: hands down (used idiomatically: no)
This ceremony has been handed down from generation to generation .
Idiom: home and dry (used idiomatically: no)
It was Mr Deans 's first trip to an offshore installation , although he has been a seaman for a number of years . The Safe Supporter was the ' flotel ' involved in the Cormorant Alpha helicopter disaster in March last year in which 11 men died when a flight between the rig and the accommodation vessel plunged into the sea in bad weather . DEREK IRONSIDE Home and dry : oil workers arrive safely at Aberdeen Airport after being taken off the North Sea accommodation vessel by helicopter Floating free : yesterday 's picture , from an RAF helicopter , of the Safe Supporter ' flotel ' Police announced that youths posing as charity collectors have been knocking on doors in Liverpool asking for money for the James Bulger Appeal . But there were no authorised house - to - house collections , said a spokesman .
Idiom: over the hill (used idiomatically: yes)
And that was that was how he wanted back to Glen Ayloch back to Glen Shee . There was other Ramseys too , that lived further up the glen but they were taken round on the road way . They were n't cald cra carried over the hill . So that was them . Was there ever a custom mentioned to you whereby they used to put a cairn down ?
Idiom: have an eye for (used idiomatically: yes)
It gave her great satisfaction that after a couple of months she proved as expert as Ferdinando , learning rapidly how to drive a hard bargain . Ferdinando , she came to see , had never done that , however much the Brownings were convinced he did . Watching him in the market she saw how popular he was , and certainly he had an eye for the best produce on offer , but when it came to the exchange of cash he parted with it too readily . She saw women , old gnarled Italian housewives , who did not care about popularity , who were quite composed in the face of sour looks , getting fruit and vegetables and even meat at a quarter the price paid by her affable husband and she resolved to become one of these women . She let Ferdinando teach her how to judge an aubergine ripe and a chicken fresh and then she copied those older women she had seen for the rest .
Idiom: save the day (used idiomatically: yes)
Britain 's leadership of the sterling area is thus seen as a crucial link in this scheme of things . Marshall Aid ( 1948 ) is cast as the villain since its concentration on Western European problems did not solve the wider dollar problem and , hence , intensified disequilibrium in world trade . Only America 's continuing desire for political and military hegemony — which erupted into the Korean war — saved the day by causing an increasing outflow of dollars . Such an argument would appear , however , to overestimate vastly the potential contribution of the ‘ Eastern hemisphere’ in the postwar process of adjustment while ignoring the strength of European economic recovery which depended so much on intraregional trade in manufactured goods . For Europe , Marshall Aid was an important element in its recovery : for Britain it was first a safeguard and then a prop to the sterling area [ cf .
Idiom: out of order (used idiomatically: yes)
If lawyers think a particular proposition about legislation is true by convention , they will not think they need any substantive reason for accepting it . So any substantive attack on the proposition will be out of order within the context of adjudication , just as an attack on the wisdom of the rules of chess is out of order within a game . But if the consensus is one of conviction , then dissent , however surprising , will not be out of order in the same way , because everyone will recognize that an attack on the substantive case for the proposition is an attack on the proposition itself . The consensus will last only so long as most lawyers accept the convictions that support it . Which explanation provides the better description of how lawyers and judges treat propositions about legislation that " go without saying " ?
Idiom: on the back of (used idiomatically: yes)
Beside the Temple of Bacchus , its great stone doorway familiar from the David Roberts lithographs , the floodlighting is being prepared for the Baalbek festival . The Comédie Française is to perform this year . On the way back to Beirut , we stop in Chtaura for tea and our little Christian guide flourishes a tourist map on the back of which is a photograph of a silver - haired , bespectacled man in a dinner jacket and white bow - tie . He has a sash across his shirt as if he is an ambassador at a diplomatic function . ‘ An appeal from His Excellency Monsieur Suleiman Franjieh,’ says the caption .
Idiom: way to go (used idiomatically: yes)
‘ I think you ought to tell Morton I 've taken you into my confidence . Tell him I 've hinted that there are high Germans trying to make contact , and we need a conduit . If he wants anybody to lead him to the so - called English plotters , it 's the very best possible way to go about it . In the meantime , I 'll talk to ‘ C’ and set you up from my end . I wo n't mention Morton because he hates his guts , of course .
Idiom: twist someone's arm (used idiomatically: yes)
Not tonight , my darling.’ She was coldly angry now that he should so calmly assume that what he desired was there for him to take . She made a grab for his arms and held them firmly away from her , but smiling lazily , and with consummate ease , he twisted his arms so that , this time , he had her own imprisoned in his grasp . As he held her there , he began to breathe heavily and there was a disconcerting expression on his face . He smiled slightly and the beautiful eyes were hooded and secretive .
Idiom: sick to death (used idiomatically: yes)
Tired ? Depressed ? Sick to death ? Yes ? Well , go away !
Idiom: scream blue murder (used idiomatically: yes)
She obeyed reluctantly , knowing what he had in mind . She gritted her teeth as she watched him swing the flexible whip between her legs . She was ready to scream blue murder when the flap landed on her tender slit . Instead , she breathed out noisily . The tip of the flap just touched the sensitive , thick lips of her vulva .
Idiom: neck and neck (used idiomatically: yes)
That 's what you 're seeing with Fiat right now . In 1988 , Karl Ludvigsen came out with a study that two of the big six would go away — he predicted they would be GM and Renault . Now if I 'm not mistaken , GM is vying for second place , Fiat , which at that point was tied neck and neck with VW for first place , has fallen like a rock . How has Chrysler performed in Europe since the company returned in 1987 ? We 've been growing at a fairly significant rate considering we 've only been back about five years .
Idiom: cut corners (used idiomatically: yes)
This was a pity , since Hitchcock had the assistance of no less than Hein Heckroth as production designer and fellow - cockney expatriate Albert Whitlock ( who had also worked on The Birds and Marnie ) to do the matte paintings — he created most of the art gallery that figures in one sequence as a meeting place . Though Hitchcock himself toured the locations in Denmark , East Germany and Sweden , he settled for filming at the Universal lot in the San Fernando valley . Some exteriors were subcontracted to a German crew , presumably within the nationalized , party - controlled and uncreative East German film industry , mainly for economy — the stars had been too expensive and corners were cut elsewhere . Hitchcock regretted the decision when he found that the plates for the extended sequence involving two buses travelling between Leipzig and East Berlin were unsatisfactory . The ' false ' bus , used for escaping refugees , is carrying Michael ( Paul Newman ) and Sarah ( Julie Andrews ) , American scientists on the run from the security police , to the comparative safety of East Berlin ; it has to keep a few minutes ahead of the real , scheduled bus , so in fact most of the shots out of the bus windows concentrate mainly on the distance between the two buses , gradually diminishing and so raising suspicion .
Idiom: give and take (used idiomatically: yes)
It gave Raymond Cusick a far greater guarantee of artistic control over the series . He could plan miniature sets , devise intricate special props and know they would blend in perfect harmony with the sets he was designing . And it would give Doctor Who a far greater visual continuity as there would be no need to worry about give - and - take discussions with formal Effects Designers . The penalties , though , were pressures of time and deadlines , coupled with trepidation about handling the area of Effects which was so totally outside Design 's normal field of endeavour . ' All the stories , for which scripts were available , seemed very interesting , different , expensive and potentially difficult to do — a challenge to our limited resources .
Idiom: at the crossroads (used idiomatically: yes)
It was time to dance . His Serene Highness Prince Bernhard of Saxe - Weimar took one look at Rebecque 's orders , grunted his acceptance , and tossed the paper to his Brigade Major . ‘ Tell the Prince we 'll be at the crossroads in one hour,’ he told Sharpe . Sharpe did not reveal that the Prince of Orange knew nothing of the orders . Instead he thanked His Serene Highness , bowed his way out of the inn which was Prince Bernhard 's headquarters , and remounted his horse .
Idiom: in the fast lane (used idiomatically: no)
The entire incident was captured by police video cameras as Liz Munroe reports . The motorist had been travelling Northbound on the M Six near the Walsall and Wolverhampton turnoff . He decided to change his flat tyre in the fast lane on one of the busiest stretches of motorway in Europe . As dozens of cars swerved to avoid him , some just narrowly missed colliding with other vehicles . The scene was captured on police cameras and watched in disbelief by officers at a nearby control room .
Idiom: stay the course (used idiomatically: yes)
Back in Washington , Mr Shultz faced powerful opposition from the formidable Mr Weinberger , the duplicitous Casey and many others . On several occasions he was driven to the point of resignation . But the president knew better than to let him go ; Mr Shultz stayed the course . Mr Shultz makes no effort to disguise manifold embarrassments , from Beirut to Bitburg . He is unsparing in his criticism of the arms - for - hostages operation ( though he is disappointingly brief about the linked support for Nicaragua 's contras ) .
Idiom: drive someone up the wall (used idiomatically: yes)
Let 's have a look and see what you 've one to your your poor old inside . Dearie me . Driving your mother up the wall ? Are you ? Has your mum been bad to you ?
Idiom: round the bend (used idiomatically: yes)
' I ca n't turn back now , can I ? ' Was this the moment , he wondered , on this dank pine - shuttered road to Tyler 's Hard , that she had realized , for the first time , that there truly was no turning back , that the momentum of her progress towards whatever awaited her on Profitis Ilias had become irresistible ? A Range Rover pulling a horsebox sped towards them round the next bend , straddling the middle of the lane and causing Mossop to swerve through a muddy ditch at the roadside . The splash of the water against the wheel and the splatter of it across the windscreen recalled to Harry 's mind the sound of falling water that had drawn him in a dream up the stairs of the Villa ton Navarkhon : a dream of statues made flesh , of messages concealed in images , of meetings both expected and located , amounting to what all logic suggests they can not be : rendezvous to which one has already unconsciously agreed . Suddenly , they were there .
Idiom: on the level (used idiomatically: yes)
The overlooked hood in the newspaper scanned by the parajournalist would not have done equally well , nor would the cudgel . The cap is comparable with , while absolutely distinguishable from , the broken horn comb and other odds and ends — the disjunctive flotsam — of Crime and Punishment . On one level it is yet another accident , and on a second level it is inevitable , it must be so because it belongs here and nowhere else , as the foreign restaurant bill belongs to a novel about human birds of passage , and as the whistle belongs to a novel , in fact the only late Dostoevsky novel , with no children in it but haunted by the toys of absent innocence and peace : the governor of ‘ our province ’ where these crazy terrible events take place was disappointed in love as a young man and consoled himself by making a paper theatre with curtains , actors , audience , orchestra , conductor — the lot . Then he wrote a novel and sent it to a magazine which rejected it . On the other had he constructed an entire model railway , ad again the result was most successful .
Idiom: rule of thumb (used idiomatically: yes)
A fundamental part of it has to be this recognition : animals have the right to be left alone . Of course it is true that sometimes humans have to intervene in order to prevent the worst from happening — almost always the result of previous human intervention . But as a general principle the right of animals to be animals , to live in their space on God 's good earth , is a moral principle I commend as a rule of thumb . ' Letting go ' and ' letting be 'should be the catchwords of this new credo . In order to realise this new imperative we need three paradigm shifts in our thinking .
Idiom: chase your tail (used idiomatically: yes)
oh is the other guy here ? No he 's away on holiday for a week or two weeks so that 's blown the whole thing . If you and you you 've chased your tail . Yeah . It 's unlikely that the guy can even come in because he 's partner 's away for two to three weeks holiday
Idiom: shoot the messenger (used idiomatically: yes)
They may be communicated with from above but the communication that init they initiate only fifteen percent of that communication is initiated upwards . speculate why not , of course . Why t why c why do they not communicate upwards and I think essentially people it in subordinate positions are about managing the impressions others have of them and tend to believe the notion , no matter how true it is , that er that organisations may have a shoot the messenger philosophy , yes ? Nobody likes to be the bearer of bad news . You do n't want to be the one who tells your boss that er a production line has broken down again or y'know that they 've failed to meet their sales targets for the third month running , whatever it is , okay ?
Idiom: under the microscope (used idiomatically: yes)
A meeting was arranged with the College Principal and officials of the SED to discuss the College environment , staff numbers and ‘ capacity’ . Enough progress had been made by March 197 1 for a BEd ordinary degree to be approved . Didsbury College , Manchester , Dunfermline College , Edinburgh , and others were talking with the CNAA in 1970 , in the former case about a certificate as well as a degree , but national policies on teacher education were now coming under the microscope , and there were no other approvals in this field until after the James Committee on teacher education had reported in 1972 . In 1971 the CNAA gave evidence to the James Committee expressing its willingness to take on the validation of the Teachers Certificate if there was a need for it to do so . For six years or so the CNAA had moved with caution — indeed , only one of its officers , Francis Hanrott , had any previous experience involving contact with teacher education , and he was given responsibility for the various levels of negotiation .
Idiom: for the time being (used idiomatically: yes)
It is true that after the age of thirty certain poets seem to be incapable of writing much that is worth reading ; there are notable exceptions , but they only serve to prove the rule . Actually , I believe that the marriage rule applies only to women , which says something for what marriage is supposed to do for them , but on that sunny Tuesday afternoon neither of the disqualifying conditions applied to me . I was twenty - seven , unmarried , heart - whole for the time being , and totally immersed in my work . Which is why I should have welcomed the students who wanted to talk to me about the poetry of George Darley , which a misguided colleague of mine had included in a series of lectures on the early nineteenth century , and in so doing had worried the more discerning of my students , who were failing to see any merit there . But I had been visited that morning by what was usually at this state of the term a rare inspiration , and was writing a poem of my own .
Idiom: think the world of (used idiomatically: yes)
‘ She 'll be absolutely heartbroken , Boz — and she 's a very sick girl . You and Anna have always been so close . She thinks the world of you — and you 're her brother . You ca n't just desert her like this.’ ‘ You may not understand it , gorgio , but she will .
Idiom: beg the question (used idiomatically: yes)
Another popular explanation was offered by the German economist Wagener when he proposed his ‘ law of increasing state actions’ . What Wagener 's Law suggested was that the expansion of public services reflected the ‘ exigencies of industrialisation’— as a nation industrialises it develops needs for collectively provided goods such as roads , sewers transport , and so on . While the merits and demerits of this argument have been explored extensively , one major objection to it is that it begs the question of who identifies and defines the ‘ need’ for an expansion in public intervention , and how a perceived need results in specific policies that produce an expanded state sector . As in the other chapters , this chapter looks at three broad approaches to explaining the growth of government . MARXIST APPROACHES TO THE GROWTH OF GOVERNMENT
Idiom: true to form (used idiomatically: yes)
Frank wanted David to give me a down - sweep with the baton , but as anyone can observe , when I am in full flight I 'm really running high , and this presented David with a problem as he is quite a short fellow . It did not augur well . True to form we were disqualified at the first change - over between David and me . He received a lot of criticism , but I thought it was unfair as he was completely new to the team , so I took my share of the blame . It added to our dismal record in the sprint relay in the European Cup .
Idiom: to a turn (used idiomatically: yes)
Sylvia watched Estelle 's mouth fill , as the pale yellow liquid ran out on to her chin . She watched her throat move as if swallowing , and realised that Estelle was gulping down great mouthfuls of the liquid . She was n't looking forward to her turn . They returned to the beer , and by the time Sylvia 's turn arrived she was quite merry . She found she was bursting for a pee , but was determined not to repeat Estelle 's performance .
Idiom: pack a punch (used idiomatically: yes)
‘ As gruesome as I feel . Those blasted ben Issachars … ’ ‘ Still pack a punch , do they?’ ‘ You should see this year 's model.’ ‘ Oh , do n't worry , dear , we have .
Idiom: come of age (used idiomatically: yes)
Elizabeth was much the wealthiest inhabitant of Slapton , her goods being appraised at £ 66 . 13s . 4d . There was also a Thomas , mustered as an archer , and Malyn , who was described as a ‘ mayde’ . Neither owned any property , but from the fact that Elizabeth 's assessment was reduced to £ 30 for the second instalment of the subsidy in 1525 , while Thomas and Malyn were now taxed on 20 marks apiece , it is logical to deduce that they were her children , lately come of age . A guardian would be assessed on the stock he was holding on behalf of his wards , as was Francis Brown of Little Casterton , Rutland , in respect of his four brothers and sisters . Land worth £ 2 . 1s . 4d . per annum was owned by Bernard Turney , who lived at Hudnall in Edlesborough and had goods valued at 40 marks .
Idiom: state of the art (used idiomatically: yes)
In this context , Dr. Sommer pointed out the wealth of experience which Deutsche ~ Telekom can draw on and to the know - how it has acquired in developing and operating state - of - the - art telecommunications infrastructures in the eastern part of Germany and Eastern ~ Europe .