Gooogr/pie_idioms huggingface dataset:
Idiom: on the same wavelength (used idiomatically: yes)
A standard electrical connector is used to link the two together ( and there is an optical output for matching the Karik transport to a different DAC ) , but there 's also a special custom link which when connected allows a single master clock to control the whole shebang to the benefit of sound quality . Linn is one of several manufacturers who provide a similar facility , and as usual the effect is the elimination of the digital near - equivalent of tape wow & flutter known as ‘ jitter’ . The effect of jitter in a digital system is to reduce precision , clarity , stereo imagery and that curious and almost indefinable property normally described as ‘ timing’ and which loosely translates into a feeling that the musicians are not all on the same wavelength . The effect is substantial and the listening comments below all presuppose that the link has been made . There is one other point to be made about the Linn before discussing how it sounds .
Idiom: from the horse's mouth (used idiomatically: yes)
What Hilts does attempt to put across is a more subtle viewpoint , that of a pioneer of artificial intelligence , John McCarthy , one of the three American scientists that he profiles . In puncturing the mask of McCarthy 's awesome intellect , Hilts acts on our behalf as both questioner and narrator . He tells us — largely as he must have heard it from the horse 's mouth — the history of programmed machines , the development of McCarthy 's own interest in combining human common sense with the brute number - crunching force of early computers , and how this led to his own contributions , perhaps the best - known of which is the invention of LISP , now the standard programming language of artificial intelligence . We also learn of McCarthy 's radical intellectual upbringing and his rightwards conversion in the early 1970s , his hobbies , his family , and his happy but tragically - curtailed second marriage . Through his tastes and his trials , his political naivety and optimism , McCarthy is led gently down the ramp from the awe - inspiring pedestal of the brilliant scientist to take his place in the milling crowd of common humanity .
Idiom: pull the plug (used idiomatically: yes)
THE Ireland women 's hockey squad will travel to Italy for a weekend training camp in November as part of the build - up to next year 's World Cup finals in Dublin . Although precise details have still to be firmed up , Terry Gregg 's panel are likely to face the Italians in two friendly internationals . It has also been agreed that Italy will pay a reciprocal visit to Dublin in April when they will take part in a Four Nations competition to replace the Home International championships , following England 's decision to pull the plug on the domestic series last season . Wales have also confirmed that they will be taking part and Ireland 's other opponents have still to be determined . BELFAST
Idiom: jump the queue (used idiomatically: yes)
Leave her for me , she 's too tricky for you , I 'll see to her ! And shiP– that dog!’ The two hundred sheep jostled and complained and tried to jump the queue that stretched deep into an olive grove . The young dog , new to the job , ran about excitedly causing more confusion ; the old one , who was an expert , was so very old that he continually rolled over and fell asleep . Every now and then Piladu turned and barked at him to encourage him .
Idiom: to the letter (used idiomatically: yes)
However , Martin ( 1979 ) predicted that if the shape of a letter was made up from smaller letters , then with instructions to respond on the basis of the overall configuration there should be a LVF advantage . With instructions to respond on the basis of the smaller letters there should be an advantage for the RVF . In the event , the global task ( responding to the overall configuration ) showed a non - significant LVF superiority and the local task ( responding to constituent letters ) gave a significant RVF superiority in reaction time . Since the strategy which a subject adopts towards an experimental task is under his own control , unless otherwise constrained , any visual field asymmetry found in a particular experiment is as likely to reflect aspects of information processing as any intrinsic difference between the hemispheres for the task in question ( e.g. Ross and Turkewitz , 1981 ) . Even with subjects ' strategies constrained , it will be necessary to know how those interact with hemispheric specialisation as a function of different cognitive tasks and experimental variables if a complete account of visual hemifield asymmetries is to be achieved .
Idiom: on tenterhooks (used idiomatically: yes)
Who did he think he was anyway , that he could push her around ? ‘ Morning , Jimmy,’ she greeted her assistant as she went into her office , and , of the mind that , until she heard differently , she still had a job , ‘ let 's get down to it!’ Despite her mutinous feelings , though , the first couple of hours passed with Leith on tenterhooks each time the phone rang or the door opened . Would he do the deed himself , or get Personnel to do it ? Somehow , and she did n't know why , she could n't see him getting anybody else to do his dirty work .
Idiom: look the other way (used idiomatically: no)
If the KGB released those agents Blake had betrayed then in return MI6 and MI5 would unofficially assist in aiding Blake 's escape . Lonsdale was allowed to remain with Blake despite all the assurances to the contrary given to the Home Secretary . Special Branch would look the other way . Reports of escape plans were denigrated by MI5 . What form other help took will never be known but there was certainly no need for two - way radios or car jacks .
Idiom: press the flesh (used idiomatically: yes)
The old regime believed that such accountability and planning ran counter to the culture of academic autonomy . In research , the hunt for funds has become not only more competitive , but a highly skilled operation . Reduction in guaranteed funding for research with each student place has led to senior academics increasingly being required to forsake the laboratory and library to go and press the flesh with research directors on the Government 's councils and of the big companies , charities and foundations . If the results serve as a yardstick , it is a game played very effectively by Edinburgh 's lobbyists . But has all this improved what universities are meant to be doing , or have they changed their role ?
Idiom: on the nose (used idiomatically: yes)
Interestingly , the best - sellers were by no means the best tasting . Bombay Coarse and raw on the nose with sweet rubbery notes but little perceptible juniper . Not very pleasant to taste , owing to a lack of sufficient juniper flavouring . London Hill
Idiom: when all is said and done (used idiomatically: yes)
It is as easy to knock Allen as it is to knock the cults he embraced . Some of the stories will now appear dated , and as the years ticked by a few of his novels did tend to veer on to the wrong side of the far - fetched . But when all is said and done , the name of the novel game is entertainment , and in that Richard Allen has never failed to deliver . George Marshall George Marshall runs Skinhead Times newspaper and ST Publishing
Idiom: swear like a trooper (used idiomatically: yes)
Memento Mori in particular she considers a great blow for old age , full of vigorous famous actors aged over 70 and in some cases over 80 . Her parts often require her to be prim and snooty but she says she is nothing like that in reality . ‘ I swear like a trooper and I 'm virtually unshockable,’ she asserts . Tuesday sees the first TV screening of the controversial film Jesus of Montreal — it 's on Channel Four , starting at 10 p.m. BUSINESS HERALD
Idiom: pop the question (used idiomatically: yes)
‘ My dear , it is time you told me a little more about it . So Michel wants to marry her — what about your mother?’ ‘ Oh , it 's all right , she did n't even hesitate , she as good as popped the question herself.’ ‘ Did she ? You know that Michel is married?’
Idiom: song and dance (used idiomatically: no)
Apart from that , and a brief exchange with Boswell on one of the Macleod family , it was now clear that Johnson found little stimulation on Raasay : ' There was not enough of intellectual entertainment for him , after he had satisfied his curiosity , which he did , by asking questions , till he had exhausted the island ' : does Boswell mean the topic of Raasay or its people ? Johnson himself concluded that ' Raasay has little that can detain a traveller , except the laird and his family ' ; and in their ' feat of hospitality ' he found a ' delightful contrariety of images . Without is the rough ocean and the rocky land , the beating billows and the howling storm ; within is plenty and elegance , beauty and gaiety , the song and the dance . ' On a sunny Sunday morning they left Raasay . Despite their qualms of travelling on the Sabbath , they took the weather as it came to them and sailed back to Skye , landing in the harbour of Portree .
Idiom: up and running (used idiomatically: yes)
FastPort provides a TCP / IP interface so that Unix computers can spool directly to the printer . The host software interfaces with the native Unix spooler to allow the workstation to use its own printing resources . The host software installs in seconds so that FastPort is up and running on your Unix LAN in minutes . It 's that easy ! FastPort supports most serial and Centronics printers and plotters .
Idiom: old hat (used idiomatically: yes)
It could be said that some sort of crisis was going to force itself up in the life of a strongly emotional young man who was so strictly engaged in compartmentalizing his life : a father who was never meant to know about Janie Moore ; Minto herself cut off from college ; almost all his friends kept in darkness about his emotional history , and most of them at this period unaware of his religious interests ; pupils who were discussing with him the things he cared about most — books — but in a fashion which prevented his strength of feeling breaking through . Griffiths far instance , only came across Lewis 's power of imaginative invention and insight of which I had no conception before . It must be remembered that Lewis always affected ( I think it was deliberate ) to be a plain , honest man with no nonsense about him , usually wearing , when out on a walk , an old tweed hat and coat and accompanied with a pipe and a dog . ' Beneath this exterior something was going to have to ' give ' if Lewis was to survive . Shortly before he admitted what was happening to him , he re - read the Hippolytus of Euripides .
Idiom: under the influence (used idiomatically: no)
Dolphins have been trained to respond to human words , and in Holland a killer whale once spontaneously repeated a human sound . Studies by Louis Herman have established that dolphins are capable of understanding simple auditory and gestural language and can comprehend two- or three - word sentences . One limitation of these studies , however , is that while they demonstrate the capacities of the dolphin to develop a particular kind of human - derived language ability under the influence of humans , we are still pretty ignorant about the existence of any natural language among dolphin species , although their communication with each other is clearly complex and elaborate . One clear difference between human and dolphin perception is that because of the ability of sound waves to penetrate objects , the dolphin can listen and ‘ see’ through things . A dolphin ‘ listening’ to another dolphin can hear inner information with a kind of X - ray vision — body contours can be heard diffusely , teeth and bone reasonably well , and those parts containing air very distinctly .
Idiom: foot the bill (used idiomatically: yes)
ONE of Britain 's biggest milk distributors gave a veiled warning yesterday that the price of a pint may rocket if problems in the dairy industry are not resolved . A spokesman for giant Unigate , which delivers to 1½m households via 2,800 milk rounds , expressed concern at proposals to abolish the Milk Marketing Board . He said that this could lead to ‘ a non - statutory monopoly’ and trigger a free - for - all among farmers with the housewife eventually footing the bill . The aggressive promotion of milk sales by the supermarket giants such as Sainsbury , Tesco , Asda and Safeway , has already rocked the milk float , traditionally the most profitable side of the business for both farmers and dairy groups . Supermarkets are now selling milk at around 10p a pint cheaper than the standard 38p delivered to the doorstep and this has whipped the cream off doorstep profits and sales .
Idiom: in the dock (used idiomatically: no)
By Rosie Cowan ‘ Gib’ case : European blow to UK A EUROPEAN ruling today pushed Britain closer to being placed in the dock over the killing by SAS soldiers in Gibraltar of three IRA terrorists . The European Commission on Human Rights ruled that there was a case for the Government to answer . It decided that the relatives ' case against the Government was good enough to go before the European Court of Human Rights , and the commission will launch its own inquiries .
Idiom: in spades (used idiomatically: yes)
‘ All work and no play has made Laura a very dull girl,’'he misquoted in a thoroughly hateful , sanctimonious voice which immediately raised her hackles . ‘ Dull … ? ’ she cried in a shrill voice , oblivious of the shocked expression on the sales girl 's face as she rounded angrily on her husband . ‘ I 've just about had you — in spades ! How dare you say that I 'm dull?’ she stormed , the accumulations of the day taking their toll as she swung at him with her handbag . Unfortunately she 'd missed .
Idiom: slippery slope (used idiomatically: yes)
When Doctors Kill PRINCETON – Of all the arguments against voluntary euthanasia , the most influential is the “ slippery slope ” : once we allow doctors to kill patients , we will not be able to limit the killing to those who want to die . There is no evidence for this claim , even after many years of legal physician - assisted suicide or voluntary euthanasia in the Netherlands , Belgium , Luxembourg , Switzerland , and the American state of Oregon . But recent revelations about what took place in a New ~ Orleans hospital after Hurricane ~ Katrina point to a genuine danger from a different source .
Idiom: on the fiddle (used idiomatically: yes)
One of the Tans raised his rifle , and Owen closed his eyes , cringing away from the blow . The weapon descended with a thud . But it was Owen 's fiddle - case , not his skull , it was aimed at , and as the lid flew open the Tan pounced on the fiddle and bow . ‘ Wotcher!’ he shouted as he scraped on the strings . ‘ How about a little victory dance ?
Idiom: cold feet (used idiomatically: yes)
woman HEALTH WATCH BY JOHN ILLMAN Cayenne pepper to stop cold feet , camomile for children 's diarrhoea . This book 's full of ideas that herbalists used effectively long before aspirin and antibiotics , and which are becoming increasingly popular again . A fascinating browse .
Idiom: to boot (used idiomatically: yes)
And while a little plumpness may not do much harm , being very fat is a definite health hazard , increasing the risk of heart disease , gall bladder disease , some cancers and arthritis . Pepsi & Shirlie striking a pose Gone is the girlie - girlie image of yesteryear … the dynamic duo Pepsi and Shirlie are back — with a new look and single to boot . Four years ago Pepsi and Shirlie were enjoying considerable chart success and media attention . The singles Heartache and Goodbye Stranger both reached the top 20 , and countless magazines profiled their public and private lives .
Idiom: fast and furious (used idiomatically: yes)
And when you consider that you 're getting all this for only £ 450 the competition has got to be sweating . RRP : £ 448.85 DETH wish Megadeth 's Marty Friedman In the fast and furious world of thrash metal there lurk some fine guitarists ; one of the most musically articulate is Megadeth 's Marty Friedman … Interview by Nick Bowcott . Regardless of your opinion of the hard driving , speed metal wares of high flying thrash titans Metallica , Slayer , Anthrax and Megadeth , there 's no denying their impressive longevity and there 's certainly no way of ignoring their ever increasing popularity .
Idiom: bear fruit (used idiomatically: yes)
God willing , he would soon go on a final long journey to another home , his real home , in Eretz . Karlinsky 's visit could almost be regarded as the signal for the journey to commence . Rabbi Moishe felt that at last the past was about to bear sweet fruit . This Sunday morning , as he broke a piece from the bagel to pronounce over it the Grace Before Meals , there was a special fervour in his voice , his blue eyes were full of love and good humour , and he refused room in his heart for the sorrow he knew he would feel on leaving his family . Here and now he was with them and while with them he would enjoy .
Idiom: lame duck (used idiomatically: yes)
Mr. Keith Bradley ( Manchester , Withington ) Although we shall support the Bill because we believe that any measure that alleviates the terrible problem of repossessions is to be welcomed , the way in which the Minister presented it suggests that there is no problem . We should view the Bill in the light of the package of panic measures that were announced in December , as the rapidly rising tide of repossessions threatened finally to engulf the remnants of this lame - duck Government . The Council of Mortgage Lenders estimated that there would be up to 100,000 repossessions in 1991 — a staggering 120 per cent . increase on the previous year .
Idiom: fall off the back of a lorry (used idiomatically: no)
Greasy turkey A DRIVER called out the AA to repair an oil leak after he hit a frozen turkey lying in the road . The bird , which had fallen off the back of a lorry in Leeds , West Yorks , was so solid it tore a hole in the sump of his Fiat Panda . ‘ We 've had motorists hitting live pheasants and other birds and animals but never a frozen turkey,’ said an AA spokesman . ‘ It must have been very hard to cause this damage.’
Idiom: at loggerheads (used idiomatically: yes)
We had a quite vociferous group of Ugandan Asians in . They complained so much that not enough time had been allowed them for their discussions that we had them back a second week . I found myself fronting various current affairs programmes , striving for impeccable balance when the wily professional politicians were at loggerheads in the studio , each trying to have the last word and score the final point . There were also , in more recent years , the series — like " At Home " , in which I talked to a different subject each week in his or her domestic setting . We 'd wander round the house as we rambled conversationally .
Idiom: make the cut (used idiomatically: no)
The M O D says that idea would n't save much with all the handshakes and pensions and there is support for that view . Even if you did did cut one or two admirals , you 're not going to make much of a dent in a fifty billion pound public expenditure deficit . And so I think that it 's easier to to make criticisms of small matters in detail , but it is not easier to make a serious defence cut . And if we were to cut further in any significant way , then we would undermine our capacity to look after the defence interests of our country . With troops deployed in Bosnia for a year already , and no one knows for how much longer , the defence secretary Malcolm Rifkind is openly arguing against more cuts unless commitments like this are cut as well .
Idiom: for the hell of it (used idiomatically: yes)
The very fast , shallow water , often no more than a foot deep , is the place to fish for summer chub . Here they have sought out the well - oxygenated water where the streamer weed grows thick and the natural food breeds in profusion . The chub flit in and out of the weed like silent ghosts , grubbing for food , seeking shelter from the bright sun , and sometimes just playing around for the sheer hell of it . I tackle up with a through - action carbon rod , 11 ft long , a fixed - spool reel carrying 5 lb b.s . line to which a size 2 hook is tied direct . No float is used , nor any weight , for the big slugs are heavy enough to cast the full width of most rivers , and to hold bottom in most weedy swims .
Idiom: in the saddle (used idiomatically: no)
The Tarvarian was busy calming his mare . He stared at Rostov as if he was calculating the value of what he had said . Then he turned in the saddle and shouted briefly . The warriors hurled themselves at the heads or horns of their animals to make them lie down . Rostov sat down quietly .
Idiom: night and day (used idiomatically: yes)
More lists , long computer analyses of each individual — background , ethnic origins , age , record , previous political activities . The web spread and became more entangled . Gusev recommended night and day surveillance by expert watchers on the heads of the organization and their families . Moscow Centre had facilities in all the countries concerned . Manpower was a problem , but he felt this deserved top priority .
Idiom: off your rocker (used idiomatically: yes)
There was a slight pause . ‘ You know what?’ said Ella . ‘ You 're absolutely off your rocker , Dot.’ Dotty flushed with annoyance . ‘ I 'm a lot saner than you are , Ella Bembridge,’ she said snappily .
Idiom: in the long term (used idiomatically: yes)
Sociologists sometimes designate rural communities as being fragile . But we do not know , for example , the density of farms necessary in different hill areas which have to be retained to achieve the commitment to mutual support , the retention of service industries and the social cohesion which will ensure survival of rural communities . The expansion of forestry by means of a policy of attrition and isolation of farms is occurring but it is not necessarily a process which in the long term will lead to a reasonable balance of land use . Nor can the best overall decisions in the long term be achieved by considering piecemeal whether a particular parcel of land is allocated to forestry or retained in agriculture . Although the agricultural departments may make competent judgements about the suitability of hill land for agriculture or forestry it is difficult to comprehend how they might also make an assessment of the potential wider impact of a change in land use without considerably more evidence than is currently available .
Idiom: for good measure (used idiomatically: yes)
The party 's base is in the unions , most of whose members work for the state : for its bloated railways , its idle port authority , the dark light - and - power company , the incompetent civil and education services . Mr Menem woos them by saying that both money wages and public - sector employment should rise . He adds for good measure that the public - sector deficit would be wiped out if the country stopped paying its foreign debts . Mr Menem applied such nonsense in the state of La Rioja , where he is governor ; it has gone broke . His election as president seemed certain , even before the Radicals fell into disarray with Mr Sourrouille 's resignation .
Idiom: jam tomorrow (used idiomatically: yes)
Everton , for their part , have decided that shock therapy may be the answer . Rather than pandering to these fading fans ( and perhaps building up false expectations ) , the good Dr David Marsh has opted for the cattle - prod technique beloved of third division no - hopers . Not for him the promise of jam tomorrow or a brave , new world waiting just around the next bank overdraft . Oh no . Donning the black cap of death row and unfurling a banner reading ABANDON HOPE ALL YOU WHO ENTER HERE , he tells the twitchers ; ‘ The position we are in is very difficult .
Idiom: keep someone in the dark (used idiomatically: yes)
' Your old chum Cyril Ockleton was most — ' ' Ockleton ? ' It was true , then : for reasons of her own , Heather had kept Cunningham in the dark . ' Yes . I 've spoken to Ockleton , just as Heather did , and what he told me has led me here , just as it led her . '