Gooogr/pie_idioms huggingface dataset:
Idiom: strike a chord (used idiomatically: yes)
Just like that , without any , any restriction . Now I do this sir , because last week in the council of Christian and Jews in Edinburgh we had one of the profoundest meetings I 've been at , in which very distinguished people , Jews and er er Christians were concerned with the fact that anti - semitism , at the very bottom , is anti - God , it opposed to revelation . And behind all the ethnic and sociological and other religious elements , there is something very deep , and this struck a deep chord with me . When I was a student in Germany and encountering fierce anti - semitism and a fierce anti - Jewish relations I , I soon realised that at the back of this was a direct attack upon the concrete revelation of God in history through Israel and the church , which called in question German nationalism , German blood and soil . Now I believe that the time has come for us to think again about the theological side , the theological er and I make this proposal consider the feasibility of a theological examination anti- semitism and the convenor is ready to accept it Thank you sir .
Idiom: weather the storm (used idiomatically: yes)
Liverpool may have been five goals up from the first leg , but this was never going to be an easy game in 70-degree heat and on a typically bumpy Mediterranean pitch . Liverpool , missing seven players through injury and ineligibility , survived some anxious moments in the first half . But Liverpool appeared to have weathered the storm and were heading for their first clean sheet since their Cup final win in May when Spoliaric crashed home a left - foot drive on the hour . But Ian Rush , Liverpool 's most experienced European campaigner , quickly spared their blushes two minutes later , turning well inside the box to drill home a low shot from Hutchison 's pass . Hutchison , the kid Dalglish signed from Hartlepool nearly two years ago , marked his European debut with the winner in the 69th minute when he sent a neat chip over the keeper after being fed by Steve McManaman .
Idiom: no laughing matter (used idiomatically: yes)
The children of Egypt played in the dust - laden sunlight , and as far as I could tell they were happy . Happiness was not the first quality to come to my mind when I thought of Jennifer and Christopher . They looked as though they knew already that life was no laughing matter . I should have felt sorry for them , but I did n't because I was really only sorry for myself and their problems were n't mine . They might have belonged to a different species .
Idiom: move mountains (used idiomatically: yes)
I 'm going to find them , and nothing you say is going to stop me . The quarrel is all in the past , and I 'll heal any wounds . I can move mountains,’ she finished , setting her stubborn mouth . Her chin was tipped up by a ruthless finger . ‘ Meredith,’ he drawled , ‘ you 're full of surprises.’
Idiom: on the fiddle (used idiomatically: yes)
In my heart ~ all was as serenely bright as on that blissful Sunday when I had played on my fiddle far into the night at the open window where stood the flask of wine .
Idiom: read between the lines (used idiomatically: yes)
Not that his name had been kept out exactly . At least once a gossip columnist had run a story about ‘ the lonely and about to be divorced MP for Roundhead East’ in a column next to the story about Irene Pitt and her husband . You could read between the lines and many would . He flipped over the pages of the report he was reading . No , the MP had not been visited , but his name was mentioned .
Idiom: carry the can (used idiomatically: no)
Bear in mind that issues should reflect fundamental concerns ( in relation to the level of study ) , and might also include those problems that arise frequently , or are in vogue at the time of the study . Using the interview analysis technique where there is a need to draw conclusions about issues from a large number of interviews notes , discussion papers etc . This analysis can be carried out manually by examining related complaints , grumbles etc and assessing the root cause of the expressed problems , or by utilising the facilities of a computer database to record , assess and regroup a series of minor points . Do not be overly concerned with the correctness of rich picture , particularly in terms of format and layout , although the conventions used should be understood by all the analysts involved . The term ‘ rich ’ implies that the pictures should contain a wealth of information relevant to the study ; however , trying to include too much detail can result in them becoming extremely cluttered , and it is often necessary to summarise the detail ( using the interview analysis technique if required ) and redraw them as the study progresses .
Idiom: up in the air (used idiomatically: yes)
‘ Gazza has always been brilliant on the football field and it will be great to see him back after the long haul he 's had.’ Spurs’ defender Neil Ruddock never played with Gazza but has lined up against him and he said : ‘ I 've only played against him once and I could n't get near him . ‘ Obviously we wo n't be deliberately kicking Gazza up in the air . ‘ All the lads at Spurs talk about Gazza and what a great player he is . I know he 's had a long time out with injury but he must be all right now or he would n't be playing.’
Idiom: behind closed doors (used idiomatically: yes)
On May 1st , all the players in the Yugoslav drama gathered at a seaside resort near Athens . The two men who mattered most were Serbs : Mr Milosevic and Radovan Karadzic , the leaders respectively of the Serbs of Serbia and the Serbs of Bosnia . Conference officials chuckled when they heard Mr Milosevic yelling at Mr Karadzic behind closed doors . And yet Lord Owen 's concession had in fact given the Serbs a lot : a way to prevent the return of Croats and Muslims to the areas captured by Serbs , and — unless checked by the UN — to keep the dream of a Greater Serbia alive . Unless the UN proved much tougher in Bosnia than it has been in Croatia , the Owen concession would have meant that , from Serb - held territories in Croatia through Serb - held territories in Bosnia to the border of Serbia itself , Serbs would remain in control , whatever the peace plan said .
Idiom: born and bred (used idiomatically: yes)
Thorns considered that the main social divisions were along class lines , and hence the four categories outlined are similar to those frequently identified in sociological studies ( Worsley 1970 ) . However , although there was a close association of life styles and values between the local and newcomer middle classes , there was a significant difference between the working - class farm workers and the other working - class groups . The farm workers were far more village orientated , were more likely to have been born and bred locally , and had lower incomes and poorer access to housing . Thorns also elaborated a socio - temporal model of village communities , suggesting that there were three types of villages : those that have established structure ( long - standing and with an accepted pattern of authority ) ; those that are transitional , in which the higher - status group has lost its authority ; and those that have been re - established , in which new leaders , mainly in - migrants , have filled the roles of authority . These types of villages can be located on the two axes of temporal and social change ( figure 4.4 ) .
Idiom: down the hatch (used idiomatically: yes)
Could this be the gap , much further south ? For some reason I remembered , at this moment , a second set of instructions for entering this reef , photocopied out of someone else 's copy of Heart and Stone 's A Cruising Guide to the Caribbean and the Bahamas . I scrambled back down the ratlines , rushed to the cockpit and down the companionway hatch . I had the photocopy stashed in a chart drawer and was back out with it in moments . I read aloud :
Idiom: go to your head (used idiomatically: yes)
Her heart skipped a beat . ‘ I 'd never have guessed,’ she quipped , and it ended in a raucous cough . ‘ Do n't let it go to your head,’ he murmured , bending down to rest his palm on her forehead . ‘ You 're hot . The last thing you want is a chill .
Idiom: all along (used idiomatically: yes)
The church was not in permanent use and had no resident vicar but it held occasional services and now at Christmas an elderly cleric in retirement had volunteered to conduct a sung Eucharist at nine - thirty with the help of a volunteer choir assembled from the Women 's Institute . A large number of people had turned out for it . Cars were parked all along the grass verge outside the church . People 's voices , exchanging Christmas greetings echoed on the clear air . Markby nodded towards the line of people ahead of them on the flagged pathway to the church door .
Idiom: make the cut (used idiomatically: no)
Some fear that the information system is regarded as an easy target for cuts . Yet , while such cuts are seen as preferable to the personal hardships of redundancy , less obvious cuts in the information system would also have personal repercussions — advice workers are entirely dependent on it for serving clients and would be unable to function as efficiently without it . However , the decision by Council to make cuts in the information budget is not intended in any way to deny the importance of the information system to advice workers in the bureaux , Council sees that the system has reached a very high standard and that this is recognised throughout the entire advice sector . In 1986 the National Consumer Council produced a discussion paper entitled ' Good Advice for All ' . It was an attempt to set basic standards for advice services .
Idiom: nuts and bolts (used idiomatically: yes)
The range of the job varies from agency to agency , but basically it involves : progress chasing , making sure that jobs are taken through their various stages on time ; production , making sure that jobs go to and from studios and publications in the appropriate form , and the appropriate sizes and shapes ; and record - keeping , ensuring that a record is kept of what is going on on each account and every job done for that account . Without a good traffic operation an agency flounders . It is an absolutely essential part of the nuts and bolts that hold the thing together — though the client rarely meets a traffic person except in a crisis . Account planning / marketing / research The majority of the larger agencies have a function called ‘ account planning’ , and here the planner is an essential part of the functional team .
Idiom: from scratch (used idiomatically: yes)
If we publish it , we 'll pay you too ! While renovating his Victorian cottage , one reader ripped out an ugly old boiler , and installed this beautiful fireplace This stunning home , deep in the Welsh hills , was designed and built from scratch by these brave readers The hot summer days did n't deter this reader from digging his own pond and creating a haven in his town garden When the Cordorys had finished landscaping their garden , they decided to add the finishing touches and brighten it up by designing and making their own garden furniture
Idiom: before you can say Jack Robinson (used idiomatically: yes)
Secondly , when people do have the temerity to die they increasingly do so away from home . In both the United States and Great Britain more people die in hospitals and homes for the elderly than in their own houses . Even if people do die at home , before you can say ‘ Jack Robinson ’ the men from the funeral directors are round to take the deceased to the chapel of rest . Dying these days involves a variety of bureaucratic and local government procedures . The undertakers have moved in as the middle - men , the ‘ third party’ , who handle all the unpleasantness and worrying details of death .
Idiom: in the club (used idiomatically: no)
I can remember that so vividly and it 's still going today so that 's saying something for British Steel erm it was local , you know the erm the one at er Old Hall Old Hall yes , yes , yes , yeah and so I think and of course erm I have talked erm I talk in the different clubs you know , as I say , and I think erm the majority of women usually like this , they look forward to the divi to buy say a major item , you know . Erm but we were encouraged of course for it to go er as your savings and er something I heard that , that may be interesting to you er and er he just said to me in this other club , but again we were talking about , I think we 'd talking politics then and we 're not supposed to do it was a church club . But erm er and , and she said erm you know the little , we were talking about the little corner shop and how they used to keep open all hours .
Idiom: take someone's word for it (used idiomatically: yes)
they 're very good seats . Oh , well , if you wanna make it two . I 'm taking your word for it . I thought hundred and fifty covered it . The time they set fire to the
Idiom: in the running (used idiomatically: yes)
Although ideas may be mooted by paid staff , it is elected bureaux representatives who will vote them in or out ( see Chapter 1 ) . But volunteers seem woefully ignorant of this democratic process . Again one sees the enormous task of communication which bureaux managers have , to convey to their volunteer team how they can have a say in the running of their bureau . A smaller team would be closer to the democratic decision - making process but then the doors of such a bureau would not be able to open to the public for so many hours . Pressure from the public for longer opening hours and at more convenient times makes a comfortable balance between a small and large bureau team hard to achieve .
Idiom: lose your head (used idiomatically: yes)
One practical goal must be to marry these two styles of computation so as to gain the best of both . One of the central problems of machine text understanding is decoding continuity markers in prose , most notoriously pronouns . This is another problem which surfaced from engineering attempts , but also makes itself evident in authorial blunders — the civil defence poster caption ‘ When a hand - grenade lands near by , do n't lose your head . Put it in a bucket of sand and call the police’ is illustrative . The computer , which of course does n't find it at all funny , needs to guess what it is , and needs to rely not just on sentence structure but also on general knowledge about heads , grenades and buckets of sand — general knowledge that computers do n't have unless it is built in to them .
Idiom: serve someone right (used idiomatically: no)
I give the pink botty a thorough good scrub , putting in plenty of elbow grease . White shreds cling to the bristles as I churn the water in frenzy . And serve it right . I am too busy to answer . ‘ It is n't baby 's bath time yet,’ continues Pa , speaking very calmly now , ‘ You do Cymbydoll while Mummy does Cymbeline ; that 's after tea.’
Idiom: at sea (used idiomatically: yes)
In both cases , the girls would have been brought up in a genteel atmosphere , although they might originally have come from very poor families . One compositor , Jean Henderson whose daughter kindly provided me with information , went into the trade ( in the 1890s , that is some time after the earliest entrants ) straight from the Dean Orphanage , where she had received a good education ( see Plate 1 ) . Her father , a sailor from Shetland , had been lost at sea , and her mother had to bring her two young children up in desperate poverty until they went to the orphanage . We do not know whether all the original recruits really were from orphanages and boarding schools , but if so , they were a particularly vulnerable group of people with a very confused class identity and little choice of work when placed under pressure from patrons . We do know that " they were for the most part young women of eighteen and upwards " in the first instance .
Idiom: take the mickey (used idiomatically: yes)
He took the Lombard crown and then , in 800 , became the first Emperor of the Holy Roman Empire that he formed by annexing central Italy . Charlemagne was a charismatic man who held his widespread and disparate peoples together as much by force of personality as by force of arms . After his death his empire could barely be sustained by the new rulers ( including Charles the Bald and Charles the Fat — is it possible to hold an empire together when the populace is taking the mickey out of you to that extent ? ) and crumbled away over a period of two centuries . As the Carolingian Empire was declining , north and central Italy saw the rise of the city states , a progression that was to have perhaps the most profound influence on the history of Europe . The reasons for the rise are many , difficult to unravel with certainty .
Idiom: think the world of (used idiomatically: yes)
GROW YOUR OWN kitchen garden Pretty perennial plants : BBC Gardeners ' World editor Pasco thinks the world of globe artichokes Action for December Rake up any fallen leaves for the compost heap
Idiom: do the right thing (used idiomatically: yes)
I took a sharp knife and cut through the body that I had joined together so carefully . I was happier than I had felt for months . I knew I had done the right thing , and now there would be no second monster to follow the first . I was very tired , and I went to sleep in the boat . I do not know how long I slept , but when I woke up , I was in the middle of a storm .
Idiom: pick up the pieces (used idiomatically: no)
NEWS … NEWS … Picking up the pieces IT WAS NOT an ordinary aircraft collection . It was the ' rarest of the rare ' combining aircraft with the aviation history of both World Wars .
Idiom: point the finger (used idiomatically: yes)
A waste of good paper . Come out here , you ! ' If the finger had not been pointed , all the class would have known who was being called to face the fearsome sister , and when Millie stood by the side of the nun 's desk , the sheet of paper was immediately thrust into her face with the demand , ' What do you mean by that ? A waste of paper ! A waste of good paper .
Idiom: in the works (used idiomatically: yes)
The Cubists were hung in the adjacent Salle 46 . During 1912 many of the critics , and in particular Hourcade and Allard , had been anxious to point out that the work of the Cubists was becoming more individual and less austere and didactic . Colour had begun to reappear , particularly in the work of Léger , who had only seriously restricted his palette in 1910 . Now , under the influence of Orphism , the tendency to reinstate the more sensuous aspects of painting grew stronger . At the Salon d'Automne of 1913 Salmon was struck by ‘ The range of colours used in many canvases’ , but added , ‘ however , the Salon of 1913is a frankly Cubist exhibition’ .
Idiom: over the hill (used idiomatically: yes)
I stood erect in my tree , and for the first time for a long while looked far abroad over the country , to where the ships glided down the Danube among the vineyards , and the high - roads , still deserted , stretched like bridges across the gleaming landscape and far over the distant hills and valleys .
Idiom: to say the least (used idiomatically: yes)
Voice over David Mason ca n't complain about lady luck . Already comfortable to say the least as an Oxfordshire landowner , he 's now the toast of the publishing world and all because he had one very good idea for a thriller . What if Saddam Hussein had been assassinated ? Publishers bit his hand off , paying a £ 100,000 advance before the book was written .
Idiom: in living memory (used idiomatically: yes)
The 2 % drop in audit and business advisory services is blamed largely on a combination of the recession , fierce competition and ‘ severe downward pressure’ on fees , while the knock - on effect of clients ' postponing discretionary spending was a 5 % drop in management consultancy fee income . A less ebullient than usual Ian Brindle , PW 's senior partner , said that the firm 's fee income figures reflected the full impact of the recession . ‘ However , in the context of the worst recession in living memory , the small increase in our fees represents a significant achievement.’ He added that his forecast for the economy — if he had one — was pessimistic . ‘ Our fortunes follow those of our clients and there is no sign from our clients’ businesses that we can look forward to any upturn in the short to medium term.’
Idiom: claim to fame (used idiomatically: yes)
But in the North Berwick branch 's case it is not only still functioning but has been electrifies . This is essentially the story of two North British Railway branch lines who carried the people of East Fife , together with generations of golfers , to the coast . The North Berwick line enjoys a spectacular claim to fame because it has at some time or other in its history been powered by every possible form of motive power ; horse , steam , diesel and electricity . But , while the North Berwick line has struggled and now thrived , the book also records the life and death of Gullane branch . Published in the comprehensive Oakwood style with maps , illustrations and well laid - out statistical tables this book represents excellent value given that little attention has been lavished on NBR affairs .
Idiom: come to grief (used idiomatically: yes)
OFMC estimate that it will take a further 18 months to two years to finish the rebuild . Go Buggy flies home FIGHTER COLLECTION flew their P-38 Lightning back to Duxford from Lydd on Monday September 28 , 22 days after it came to grief in a belly landing at Lydd Airport , en route to the Shepway Seafront Airshow on September 6 ( FP October , p6 ) . Piloted by Hoof Proudfoot , the Lightning flew with the undercarriage locked down for the 35 minute flight back to base . TFC 's Chief Engineer , Peter Rushen , told Flypast that repair and rectification work on the aircraft will now take place during the winter months and that the P-38 will be fully airworthy in time for the 1993 airshow season .
Idiom: from the cradle to the grave (used idiomatically: yes)
( ‘ Platonic myth’ might be more accurate , if we detach from poetry does ‘ narrate’in a Joycean sense . ) This enabled him to bring together the Judaism of his upbringing and the Roman Catholicism and Anglo - Saxon Protestantism in which it was set in Montreal ; the former dominating of course . It also allowed him to include a wide range of ‘ non - sacred’ ideas and images which colour our lives from the cradle to the grave , not least those of loving and sexuality . Understood thus it avoids the questions ( and therefore the problems ) , which Leonard nowhere addresses : such as the historicity , canonicity and the like of the world - faiths — to his mind a species of academic involvement with which he was not interested and of which he was even disdainful . It is for this reason that Professor Desmond Pacey correctly posits Leonard in his second category of Canadian poets , the socialist - realist group , of which Layton is ‘ the chief prophet’ ; not the first , the mythopoetic group of Frye , Reaney and Macpherson .
Idiom: crystal clear (used idiomatically: yes)
Remember , more companies go bust at the beginning of a recovery than at any other time.’ Identify and focus on your market was the advice of both speakers at the Sunday GALC / BA seminar on Increasing Book Sales . As Bing Taylor , W H Smith 's general manager books , put it succinctly : ‘ It is essential that the owners or managers of a bookshop or chain have a crystal clear vision of their own philosophy , that which differentiates their business from all other booksellers … John Sandoe with his tiny treasure trove of a bookstore off the King 's Road , understood this instinctively and must surely have the highest measure of customer loyalty in London . Tim Waterstone understood this through instinct borne of experience .