Gooogr/pie_idioms huggingface dataset:
Idiom: in hot water (used idiomatically: yes)
Scatter the mangetouts over the top and cook for a further 1½ — 2 minutes or until brilliant green . Drain , reserving any liquid , and keep warm in a heated serving dish until the sauce is made . As the potatoes cook , soak the dried mushrooms in the hand- hot water for 10 minutes until they swell and soften . To get rid of grit , strain them through kitchen paper in a sieve then pick mushrooms out individually . Keep the soaking liquid .
Idiom: in tandem (used idiomatically: yes)
Er but we can make a reasonable margin including spacers . It 's a set of three bearings with a pair of spacers . So you have two bearings in tandem , a pair of spacers and a third bearing . And it 's their normal machine centre range . They use like about forty pairs a month .
Idiom: at the end of the day (used idiomatically: no)
You can also record the letters they suggest , and talk about them afterwards , how likely they were , whether they were pure guesswork or genuine predictions , which words they may have had in mind , etc . 3 Dictionary games Best played as a team game with the class , especially at the ends of days , weeks or terms . You say a word , the children find it ; first team to find it gets a point . You may have to handicap so that the same group does n't always win ; for instance , some children find one word , while others find another .
Idiom: make a go of (used idiomatically: yes)
‘ They may be sympathetic and may want to try to help , but we know that they treat the symptoms and not the cause.’ Some more personal stories , told hesitantly to me … Jean is right now making a go of a job that is about caring for others and often in emergency situations . it has career potential . All of which adds up to an absorbing daily life and one in which any time that she spends on her own , when she often dwells on her sad past , is kept to a minimum .
Idiom: on board (used idiomatically: no)
I put my hand in my pocket - the few coins I had possessed were gone . They must have been jerked out by my shuffling on the foot - board behind the carriage . I had nothing to depend upon save my skill with the fiddle , for which the gentleman with the staff , as he informed me in passing , would not give a farthing .
Idiom: on the carpet (used idiomatically: yes)
I was born and brought up in St Hilary Parish ; my maiden name was Scoble and father farmed Little Carn . Most of the older people in the parish remember me as Florrie Scoble.’ The sun was shining through the little window making patterns of light and shadow on the carpet and causing the polished woodwork to glow . ‘ You 've been in contact with Matthew Glynn all through?’ ‘ Oh , no !
Idiom: come to mind (used idiomatically: yes)
It is an extreme form of the denial that we talked about earlier . It means the person never has to work through their grief , but can stay poised at a moment in time , hoping that the news they heard , but can not believe , turns out to be wrong after all . The picture comes to mind of Miss Havisham in Charles Dickens ' Great Expectations sitting in her wedding dress for many years waiting for the groom who will not come . More generally we read reports of people waiting for their relative who is ‘ presumed dead’ in some conflict or accident . Such people will often say , ‘ I would certainly know if he had died — I would feel it — and so I 'm sure he 's still alive.’
Idiom: up to speed (used idiomatically: yes)
For Spain 's world championship run ended abruptly last season . After dominating the solo classes , taking the 80 , 125 and 250 titles in 1988 and 1989 , the trophy cupboard emptied in 1990 . These were lean times for Spain 's biggest heroes — Jorge Martinez suffered technical frustrations in the 125 series , Alex Criville took much of the year to get up to speed on a 250 , while Sito Pons and Juan Garriga never got near the front of a 500 GP . Cardus was the only man left for Spain to cheer . But he says he does n't feel the pressure of carrying their aspirations and coping with the adulation .
Idiom: to the tune of (used idiomatically: no)
Yet no one walked out of the big top , there were no fundamentalist pickets outside , no attempts to disrupt the service . Fools are obviously still licensed , and ( Durham please note ) in motley you can get away with anything . The only ‘ straight’ parts of the service were the hymns — except for one which , to the tune of ‘ O God our help in ages past’ , goes : When we are tempted in our pride To dizzy heights of sin ,
Idiom: in bed with (used idiomatically: yes)
I do n't think so , I did n't hear anything John what , him knocking one of the cupboard doors or something John I did n't hear anything Here you are Stacey come on sit up come on oh managed to keep him in bed with you all night , here are Thank you . Mum you know when you had to take Michael downstairs when he was screaming , Stacey was , he would 've gone off just Stacey was chat was talking .
Idiom: all over the place (used idiomatically: yes)
In fact , we probably carried more information then about social and campaigning organizations — a myriad world of Chipping Norton GLFs and Llandrindod Wells CHEs that no longer exists , replaced with a few regional commercial meccas and a London explosion of hotels , plumbers , shops and other services . In many ways , that 's what 's happened to the lesbian and gay helplines too . Then there were new Switchboards springing up all over the place , sometimes with more enthusiasm than resources and occasionally with decidedly dubious intent or policy . Now there are fewer each year as they suffer from dwindling finances and members . The National Association of Gay Switchboards has fallen into disuse .
Idiom: on the mend (used idiomatically: yes)
‘ I 'll choose anyone that I can beat,’ admitted Eubank . ‘ I 'm a businessman first and a boxer second , and the reason I 'm so successful as a pugilist is that I know my limitations better than anyone else.’ Dessie on the mend DESERT Orchid had his first proper meal yesterday since undergoing emergency surgery for a twisted gut . Owner Richard Burridge ( above ) reports his tough grey almost back to his old self and the horse may be well enough to be turned out in a paddock today .
Idiom: on the face of it (used idiomatically: yes)
Gülen concluded that job creation " can not be defended as another benefit " of well - meaning green policies . In fact , the number of jobs that these policies create is likely to be offset – or worse – by the number of jobs that they destroy . On the face of it , green - job creation seems straightforward . Deploying more wind turbines and solar panels creates a need for more builders , technicians , tradespeople , and specialist employees . Voilà : simply by investing in green policies , we have not only helped the climate , but also lowered unemployment .
Idiom: jump on the bandwagon (used idiomatically: yes)
Double feature ARRIVING in time for the Christmas market is a double video pack , Great Warplanes of the RAF . Jumping on the Gulf War bandwagon , these are Central Office of Information films made for the MoD during the 1970s and take the form of four short documentaries on the Tornado , Jaguar , Buccaneer and Nimrod . The four films have no connection to the Gulf War as such , other than showing the aircraft and crews of the RAF going about their daily business . One minor criticism is that all COI / MoD made films seem to be grainy and slightly over - exposed and these four are no exception .
Idiom: out and about (used idiomatically: yes)
I was wondering if you fancy going to Ming 's tomorrow evening ? Well that 's a generous offer Will Snoopy be out and about ? I do n't know what Snoopy 's doing . I know she 's planning the cinema tonight .
Idiom: give someone the eye (used idiomatically: no)
There is , perhaps , undue panic within social services departments at the moment — following several cases in which child battering or torment has gone unobserved with subsequent outcry in the Press — when the child of a client is observed to be bruised . Not all child - beating amounts to deliberate cruelty ( although much which is pardoned has a suspicious streak in it ! ) and a parent may in some circumstances be excused for hitting out . Nor are all bruises evidence of battering : I have vivid memories of my own older daughter 's accident - proneness in her earlier years ( she is possibly the only individual in the country to have given herself two black eyes by collision with a holy - water stoup ! ) and on one or two occasions her appearance would inevitably , today , have landed her on the " At risk " register . However , there is little doubt that cases of child cruelty occur more often than they are observed . Since pain and sexual stimulation have some connection more attention might be paid to the sexual elements of those cases which do come to light .
Idiom: green light (used idiomatically: yes)
THE JADE GRIFFON The Jade Griffon is a huge piece of carved jade that hangs upon the Grand Theogonist 's chest like a piece of armour . It draws magic power from the War Altar and glows with a green inner light . If the Grand Theogonist suffers harm the Jade Griffon uses the power of the War Altar to instantly heal him . Unless the Grand Theogonist is killed outright the Jade Griffon will enable him to sustain wounds which would kill an ordinary man .
Idiom: in your face (used idiomatically: no)
Oh Jesus . this library in your face That 's going back . it was stolen
Idiom: take someone's word for it (used idiomatically: yes)
That 's the sun . The sun rays are shooting off into space you know that light travels in straight lines , yes ? Take my words for it . Here , I 'll have to draw that line on again anyway , is daylight . It 's important to understand that the earth is actually tilted slightly .
Idiom: out of the blue (used idiomatically: yes)
‘ It 's OK against the likes of Romania and the USA , but I do n't think they 'd be as impressive as that against England or New Zealand’ , said Ondarts . Pretty strong words from a fellow player and prop forward . Then , out of the blue , Simon and Moscato announced after a considered assessment they had decided to opt out of the French national squad 's World Cup preparations . To his surprise Moscato found out that Gimbert had broken an earlier pact and chose to place his country and the World Cup ahead of their friendship . ‘ I refused selection , as did Simon , but Gimbert accepted .
Idiom: pull a face (used idiomatically: yes)
Yeah . that absolutely reeks with garlic and all the rest of it . Well that means Jim will pull a face ! Or he 'll start going Oh , this big international financier !
Idiom: by and large (used idiomatically: yes)
Centuries was a sad phase in the history of the English Church . However , even though Richard Baxter may have been poor as a theologian and controversialist , he was undoubtedly one of the most outstanding pastors of all time . Thankfully , by and large , Baxter kept controversy out of his pulpit ministry . He always considered himself to be Reformed and praised the Westminster Assembly , that there was ‘ never a synod of more excellent divines than this and the Synod of Dort’ . He held John Calvin in very great esteem .
Idiom: up and running (used idiomatically: no)
PixoFoto is a newcomer to the UK , and is an interesting DOS solution . It 's well worth a look ; not just by those who ca n't abide Windows . It can be rather tricky to install correctly , but once up and running , it 's a straightforward ' serious image editor . It has a competent selection of retouching features and colour balancing controls , but its biggest asset is sheer speed ; I guess it would top its Windows counterparts by a factor of three , if put to the test . Next month I 'll be looking at some of the techniques used in drawing software and reviewing a selection of packages .
Idiom: fit like a glove (used idiomatically: yes)
Right . Do n't you know , do n't you know that it 's true love you 're the one I 'm dreaming of . Your heart fits me like a glove . Hair . What have you done ?
Idiom: on ice (used idiomatically: yes)
Nozzles : star nozzles , e.g. No.5 ( very small ) , No.7 or 8 ( small ) , No.11 ( large ) , No.13 ( very large ) . Piping ropes To create a twisted rope effect , pipe in a straight line but twist the bag as you are piping , keeping an even pressure on the icing all the time . Thick , ribbed or thin ropes can be made depending on the nozzle chosen . For very simple stranded ropes , use a plain writing nozzle .
Idiom: in the dock (used idiomatically: no)
Action for Cities , 1988 A number of development initiatives were outlined in the 1988 statement , Action for Cities ( HMSO , 1988a ) . These include environmental improvement projects ; the creation of cultural infrastructure such as the Merseyside Maritime Museum , the Tate Gallery of the North and Granada TV 's News Centre in Liverpool 's Albert Dock ; urban - road projects , such as improving the A13 in east London and the building of a new Black Country spinal road ; and the formation of British Urban Development ( BUD ) , backed by eleven construction and engineering companies that will realize profits from management fees and the sale of developed sites . Training and Education Inner - city policy has , on the whole , not related to questions of labour supply .
Idiom: for keeps (used idiomatically: yes)
He took her to the Regal Arms Hotel . In a dump like that nobody asks questions . Vecchi was in for keeps now . He knew he could never talk himself straight with you . He obviously knew something about Mahoney 's blackmail racket , and figured the girl would be in on it .
Idiom: fly the flag (used idiomatically: no)
Enough respect ! JPG and Thierry Mugler pay tribute to each other at Susanne Bartsch 's fundraising Love Ball Flying the flag for British fashion on the Paris catwalk : welcome back , John Galliano Deee - magical : Lady Miss Kier , the Love Ball fairy , struts her stuff for Aids charities Yasmin Le Bon auditions for an air hostess job at Qantas on the Veronique Leroy runway
Idiom: to all intents and purposes (used idiomatically: yes)
The signature was not the signature of the letters and contracts he had seen at Jackson 's . The name Walter Machin was written in a large , rounded , unconnected and uncertain script . It was the signature of a man who was to all intents and purposes illiterate .
Idiom: go all the way (used idiomatically: yes)
‘ I do n't know,’ he said . He looked out of the window at the trucks lumbering through the mist , down the road towards Algeciras or heading east towards Malaga . ‘ We 've come so far , we might as well go all the way.’ He added : ‘ What I mean is , we ca n't just dump her , not now.’ After breakfast , the man collected their bags and went outside .
Idiom: on top of the world (used idiomatically: yes)
As we flew down around hairpin bends , I thanked Fate we were n't doing the day 's route in reverse ! Later we stretched out on the long benches of the White Horse Farm , comparing our bruises and recounting our 30-mile epic . Mountain biking is wonderful — you 're on top of the world while you 're pedalling and even higher when you 've finished . HILLARY INTERVIEW MAN OF THE MOUNTAINS
Idiom: head south (used idiomatically: yes)
‘ It does just what you ask of it . You get the feeling that the whole thing is machinery.’ For some open road we headed south on the A34 circling Oxford . ‘ I do drive hard I 'm afraid,’ Michael said , easing towards 70 . The Carlsson 's engine makes a sort of whistling noise at this speed , which prompted more aircraft comparisons .
Idiom: on board (used idiomatically: yes)
Sotheby 's sale brought $ 28.9 million ( £ 15.8 million ) and was 83 % sold . The sale 's priciest lot , another Renoir , ' Portrait of Jean Renoir ' , sold within estimates at $ 2.31 million ( £ 1.26 million ) to a South American collector . The appearance of such collectors from south of the border ( including one rumoured to have bought the $ 7.7 million ( £ 4.2 million ) McCarty - Cooper estate Braque ) was responsible for another interesting appearance that of pesos on the electronic bid boards at both houses . North American TWA chairman Carl Icahn , who had shunned the auction rooms since the mid Eighties , purchased two works by Sisley at under $ 700,000 ( £ 383,500 ) apiece . A Korean dealer was the buyer of ' Nu debout devant la cheminée ' by Henri Matisse , within estimates , at $ 2.2 million ( £ 1.2 million ) a reminder that there are still real Asian collectors active .
Idiom: play with fire (used idiomatically: yes)
Ladies and gentlemen , please ask the people in your constituencies whether they want us to play with fire in this way .
Idiom: rock the boat (used idiomatically: yes)
With a looming election in Germany , few wish to undermine Chancellor Angela ~ Merkel 's likely victory . After all , Germany is central to Europe 's well - being , and Merkel 's steady hand has allowed the continent to overcome a series of challenges over the last few years . As a result , many are eager to postpone any controversial policy decisions rather than rock the German political boat . Some of the recent economic news has seemed to justify this approach . At the end of July , the widely watched indicator of European manufacturing activity crossed the threshold signaling expansion for only the second time in 23 months .
Idiom: out of this world (used idiomatically: yes)
If you 're nice to him — I wo n't use the language over the air ( because you 'd be shut down ) that he uses to me — however nice you are to him it does n't make a bit of difference . He 's aggressive . He would n't touch anybody , I do n't think , but his verbal abuse is out of this world , you know , whenever you and the thing is that he will persist in sitting in the church smoking his head off . Everybody that comes in — you can imagine the reaction — and you ask him not to do it and his language is appalling , and he goes on doing it . People do n't like coming into a cigarette - filled church .
Idiom: get it in the neck (used idiomatically: yes)
Liz prided herself on her tolerance of Ivan 's appalling behaviour . Anyway , she said , we 'll have to ask him , or he 'll be even ruder about us in his next article . I do n't give a damn about Ivan 's ridiculous rag , said Charles , but of course he did , he cared much more than she did , and with reason , for Ivan usually managed to deliver her some backhanded compliment , whereas Charles always got it in the neck : ‘ HEADLEAND CRASHES HEADLONG’ had been the headline of Ivan 's latest piece of gossip , which had consisted of a dangerous account of Charles 's behaviour at a meeting of a board of directors , laced with unfounded but inventive innuendo about a country house which he and Liz were said to be purchasing as a tax dodge . There had also been offensive remarks about Charles 's ageing toothless bite . Charles had been particularly annoyed about the toothlessness , she could tell , although he tried to conceal it : he had in fact been without his two front teeth that week , while having their thirty - year - old caps replaced , caps that marked a heroic accident long ago in a swimming pool in Sevenoaks .
Idiom: writ large (used idiomatically: yes)
All these institutions are controlled From above , all an subject to directives emanating from the same political institution or institutions , all have their key officials in the nomenklatura of higher Party officials ( that is , their officials are appointed and removed only when a Party organ takes the action or agrees to it ) , all have developed many of the characteristics associated with bureaucratization . ( Hough , 1973 , p. 144 ) The attempt to impose the rational management of a whole society by means of complex organization produces a political system that can be characterized as ‘ bureaucracy writ large’ . All the different bureaucracies covering the economic , political , social and cultural spheres of life are integrated and unified into a single , all - encompassing , centrally administered hierarchy : ‘ no social organization has an institutional autonomy’ . These ‘ partial bureaucracies’ are , however , capable of developing their own competing interests and alliances with the sectors of the population that they manage ( Feher , Heller and Markus 1983 , pp . 106–12 ) .
Idiom: show someone the door (used idiomatically: yes)
‘ Eleanor Darcy I could understand . But you ! What goes on here?’ ' I did n't ask you here and I do n't want to see you and I have nothing to say to you,’I said , showing her the door but , alas , she seemed to have no intention of going through it , so I capitulated rather too easily and offered her a drink from the mini bar . She said she 'd have a sherry , a nebulous drink itself , so I poured her as dark and sweet a one as I could find in the little tight tiny rows of sinister bottles , and while she drank it I put on trousers and sweater . ‘ Hugo likes really thin women,’ she said , ‘ when he likes women at all .
Idiom: get to grips with (used idiomatically: yes)
The first is , is a very good planning diary , it 's just automatic erm , A B and the third part of it , the last part is what we call the work organiser . Some things that you do are best tracked by date , that 's what the diary does , some things you do are best tra , tracked by subject , that 's what the work organiser does . I 'm going to , as will become evident , mainly focus on the diary , because that 's where at least eighty percent of the data resides , and it 's the bit that 's most easy to get to grips with . Er , but we will in the latter half of what I 'm doing , er , come on to the work organiser . Now another general point which I dare n't put on the slide is that during this , the next sort of hour or so , or two hours , erm , some of you will almost certainly become insulted with the way that I talk to you .
Idiom: under the table (used idiomatically: yes)
For the small table where the two combatants had been seated was now empty . As the mandroids calmly gassed the beaked exter and carted them both off to be flung into the street , I slid on to one of the unstained seats at the table and cheerfully looked around for a servaton . And then nearly dived under the table . Except that I could n't move . As the throng around me rippled and shifted , I had seen the occupants of two other , larger tables .
Idiom: play for time (used idiomatically: yes)
Failure of dialogue efforts The decision by the United States in December 1988 to open a dialogue with the Palestine Liberation Organization ( PLO)[see p. 36438]led to efforts by Israel in 1989 to persuade the administration of President Bush that the PLO Chairman , Yassir Arafat , was not sincere in his renunciation of terrorism , announced in Geneva on Dec. 14 , 1988 [ ibid . ] . However , after a second round of US - PLO talks in Tunis on March 22 , 1989 , the PLO leadership expressed fears that the USA lacked a specific programme for resolving the Palestinian issue , and was playing for time to secure a halt to the intifada ( " uprising " ) . Meetings were also held during the first half of 1989 between senior PLO officials and officials from France , Spain and the United Kingdom , culminating in Arafat 's talks with President Mitterrand of France in May 1989 , after which the PLO leader said that the PLO 's National Charter was " obsolete " and " null and void " [ see p. 36669 ] . On May 14 , 1989 , the Israeli Cabinet ratified Prime Minister Itzhak Shamir 's four - point peace plan [ see pp . 36599 ; 36670]which , as well as providing for elections among Palestinians in the occupied territories , called for international efforts to resettle over 1,000,000 Palestinians who were still classified as refugees .