Gooogr/pie_idioms huggingface dataset:
Idiom: in the red (used idiomatically: yes)
I did , but nothing happened . Beads of sweat continued to form and drip on to the table . I noticed that the women with the scraggy necks were all sweating ; so were the men in the red ties with the tight collars on their shirts . Bob alone was cool . He seemed to be freezing , in fact .
Idiom: call it a day (used idiomatically: yes)
What is the point of having armed escorts if they wo n't shoot ? Comic cut-off VIZ magazine creator Chris Donald is right when he says it might be time to call it a day . It was a revelation in its heyday , but Viz is now starting to look rather tired . It ca n't go on for ever because characters such as the Fat Slags ( right ) can only go on so long before the joke starts to wear thin .
Idiom: show a leg (used idiomatically: no)
Then , suddenly , out of the sky like a vast whirring hornet came a black helicopter . Perdita gave a gasp as it landed to the west of the pitch . The door flew open and , like a page from Nigel Dempster , out jumped the Carlisle twins , Seb carrying Decorum , their bull terrier , and Dommie helping out a redhead and a blonde whose skirts immediately blew above their heads to show off wonderful suntanned legs . They were followed by Dancer in dark glasses and black leather , Twinkle and Paulie , each with an Alsatian , and finally — Perdita gave a scream of delight — by Ricky with Little Chef in his arms . ' Now , members of the Pony Club , will you please walk off the pitch , ' exhorted Fatty Harris .
Idiom: weather the storm (used idiomatically: yes)
With oil prices plummeting 70 % from their peak ( and similar price declines for metals , Russia ’s other major export ) , it is no surprise that Russia is facing severe economic challenges . Growth is endangered , the ruble is weak , and the government budget is in deficit . Nevertheless , up to now , Russia ’s government and private sector have weathered the storm reasonably well . Critics of Vladimir ~ Putin ’s regime argue that Russia ’s political system is too centralized and risks collapse in today ’s economic storm . The regime ’s ideology , after all , places the state and loyalty to the rulers ahead of private ~ property and merit .
Idiom: take a shine to (used idiomatically: yes)
THE torch — associated with burning desire and passion — is an attribute of the ancient god Venus . An extinguished torch held upturned in the hand of Venus 's son , that troublesome archer Cupid , represents unrequited love — hence we are said to ‘ carry a torch’ for someone . A development of this usage comes in the form of ‘ to take a shine to’ someone which indicates something short of adulation . The early torch consisted of little more than impregnated rushes twisted about each other . This is the source of the connection between the words ‘ torch’ and ‘ torture’ , the art of twisting limbs .
Idiom: catch someone's eye (used idiomatically: yes)
It was that which was cutting her in two as she dangled from it . It was a miracle she had n't broken any ribs , but she could breathe without pain , so she knew she had n't . Even as she was considering how to get herself free , a movement below caught her eye . Through her hair , which now lay in a tangle about her face , she saw a pair of long legs flex . There followed a groan of pain and a whole string of expletives .
Idiom: over the hill (used idiomatically: no)
Nobody smiled much — or even at all . Life just had to be raced and there really was no way of climbing through the lavatory window to get out of it . Then a man with more than a few hairy £ 10 notes sticking out of his ears said,"We'll build a factory there , and another one over his hill here . The first one is to manufacture the people to buy the moderately priced poison that 's brewed in the second one . The money gained makes my wife an old withered bag in next to no time and then I can go out and have a special house built with ceilings made entirely of succulent young ladies ' pendant breasts " .
Idiom: six feet under (used idiomatically: yes)
But he hates to think what would have happened if Joyce had n't been there . He says he would have been dead and buried now . Six feet under . The best - selling novelist Joanna Trollope has caught the film bug . For the past three months , camera crews have been working near her Cotswold home on a television adaptation of her book The Rector 's Wife .
Idiom: open someone's eyes (used idiomatically: yes)
Christopher ~ Columbus once met the child in Sentence 47456 and opened his eyes to the world .
Idiom: weather the storm (used idiomatically: yes)
Henceforth , it goes on , things will improve . German interest rates are coming down , which will relieve pressure on other countries to keep their interest rates high . France , especially , has weathered the storm ; from now on confidence in its ERM commitment will be all the stronger , which will also help to lower its interest rates . Soon Britain will be worrying about rising inflation ; not long after , it will rediscover the difficulties of conducting an anti - inflationary monetary policy without an exchange - rate peg — and will begin to wonder about rejoining the ERM . Much of this argument makes sense .
Idiom: give and take (used idiomatically: yes)
The solution is for people to get back into touch , to ‘ utterly break the present great picture of a normal humanity … and fall again into true relatedness’(‘Review’ , 470 — 2 ) . In ‘ Pornography and Obscenity’ Lawrence does not precisely equate homosexuality with the twin evils of masturbation and the excremental flow . In tact , he allows that ‘ even in homosexual intercourse’ there is a ‘ give and take’quite absent from the real evil , masturbation . But elsewhere , as in Lawrence 's attacks on the Bloomsbury group , homosexuality becomes symptomatic of cultural malaise rather as does masturbation here . In particular it is seen to share masturbation 's refusal of the other in favour of the self .
Idiom: nuts and bolts (used idiomatically: yes)
Trade associations : many industries have a central organization which may function fairly innocuously , handling public relations at the industry - wide level and organizing conventions , trade fairs , etc . However , they may also act as facilitating devices , collecting and disseminating information on costs , outputs , and prices , suggesting price lists ( for example , the professional associations for lawyers , doctors , and architects publish ‘ recommended fee scales’ ) and policing the ( tacit ) agreement . For example , the trade association in the nut and bolt industry actually employed individuals who posed as buyers and tried to obtain discounts on prices from sellers suspected of cheating . Trade associations may also carry out services such as demand forecasting and capacity planning for the market as a whole . This can be important both in achieving agreement on prices in the short run , and in preventing the development of excess capacity , which can pose a serious threat to collusion in the long run .
Idiom: wear the trousers (used idiomatically: yes)
The Clothes Show Magazine team recreate the Sixties at the NEC in Birmingham Richard Curtis , 20 , student ( far right ) : ‘ I prefer a more classical look although I do like the shirt . But I would n't wear the trousers or the hat!’ Shirt , about £ 50 , Johnsons . Leather trousers , £ 125 , Johnsons .
Idiom: under fire (used idiomatically: yes)
Mr Espin took the photo , but likewise knows no history of this unusual place . The work of women in both the RFC and RAF ( WAAF ) has of course been fully documented , but little has been written on the subject apart from in propaganda and other official literature . The glamorous side of aviation , flying , has of course been brought to the attention of the public over the years ; but what of the ladies who drove staff cars , rode despatch motor cycles and undertook much arduous work often under enemy fire ? With a book in mind a close friend has begun collecting previously unpublished photographs , mostly borrowed from private albums . A delightful photograph from this collection included here ( H ) shows a lady driver of the Motor Transport Section , RFC with her Crossley landaulette .
Idiom: left and right (used idiomatically: yes)
" Ronpari " is a word that designates those whose eyes do n't look straight , but in different directions to the left and right , as if they were looking at Paris and London .
Idiom: off the hook (used idiomatically: yes)
Second , he and his administration were so busy trying to build consensus that they watered down some of the vital ingredients of the stimulus package , and failed to defend it robustly from Republican attack . There may sometimes be a downside in trying to woo your opponents . When they are plainly wrong , why let them off the hook ?
Idiom: stick out like a sore thumb (used idiomatically: yes)
My concern is on the first page , the grammatical errors in the Cor I , er I mean it sticks out like a sore thumb , and one would have expected that this paper came from education . But if people if people ca n't recognise possessive pronoun in that the it 's is short for it is , er , somebody ought to check it because it , it lets the whole thing down .
Idiom: put paid to (used idiomatically: yes)
This year 's Human Rights Day falls on December 10 . LOOP have ended two years of speculation by announcing that they have definitely split up . The decision , regarded as inevitable due to the activities of Loop offshoots The Hair And Skin Trading Company and Main , puts paid to speculation that the band would reunite for a US tour . Meanwhile , their label Reactor reissue Loop 's ‘ Fade - Out’ LP and their ‘ Black Sun’and ‘ Collision’EPs as a CD package entitled ‘ Dual’on November 16 . KINGMAKER , who recently charted with their ‘ Armchair Anarchist’ single , are giving away a free one - sided seven - inch flexi - disc to everyone who attends their ‘ Armchair Anarchist’tour .
Idiom: run a mile (used idiomatically: no)
Among the 15 entries are last year 's winner , Eternal Credit , the 1989 winner Namoos and Precipice Lodge , recently successful over four miles at Larkhill . However , if he goes to post , Speedy Boy ( a stable companion of Namoos ) will be the one to beat . Unbeaten in three runs already this season , his victories include the four-mile Kent Grant National and the classic Lord Ashton of Hyde 's Cup at Heythrop last week . Hackwood Park stages its first meeting of the season on Bank Holiday Monday . Emperor Charles bids to give Reading-based Chris Bennett his second successive win in the opening hunt race .
Idiom: in the can (used idiomatically: yes)
Himself a child on a bicycle . Dusk , nearly dark . Groups of young men sitting on the ground near a closed library , reading and talking by the light of flares in petrol cans . His stepson , Simon , a tall stockbroker , guffawed for no obvious reason and kicked the chin of a sleeping dog off a pile of Thomas 's books , although he did n't go on to pick up any of the spilled books . ' It 'll be Monday all too soon , ' Sara said , with the brotherly grimness that Thomas had learned to read in her as a style of intimacy .
Idiom: anything goes (used idiomatically: no)
Well they could , but they wo n't ! Cos the people want too much for them ! Anything going on up here ? No , I do n't think Yep all looks quiet .
Idiom: in the black (used idiomatically: yes)
A man dressed in black is wearing inline ~ skates and performing a trick on a rail
Idiom: turn tail (used idiomatically: yes)
But now , having passed Cape Froward at nearly 54 ° S , he was heading north , and would not be so far south again ever in his life . By now he had lost another ship . Though he did not know it the San Antonio had turned tail and was even now on her way back to Spain , ‘ bearing a cargo of falsehood against Magellan’ . ( She also took away supplies that were vital for all the fleet — a third of the Armada 's biscuit supply , a third of its meat , and sixty per cent of its currants , chickpeas and figs . ) Her captain quite probably sighted the Falkland Islands on his way back — something about which Magellan was never to know nor care .
Idiom: break the bank (used idiomatically: yes)
' Shipping Gazette ' stated that 300 tons of mahogany sawdust had been used in Britain to adulterate coffee . 1893 LIBERAL Mr R.D Holt , became the first Lord Mayor of Liverpool by approval of the Queen . Comedian Charles Coborn , original singer of Two Lovely Black Eyes and The Man Who Broke the Bank at Monte Carlo , topping the bill at Liverpool 's Prince of Wales Theatre . Temperature in Liverpool ( June 14 ) rose to 92F. 1943 Liverpool FC 's good season reflected in profit of £ 3,091 , and a bank overdraft reduction of £ 4,982 .
Idiom: in the final analysis (used idiomatically: yes)
G.F.McCleary 's book , The Menace of British Depopulation and Eva Hubback 's , The Population of Britain were other publications which were even more almost alarmist about the future viability of the British population . The fear was that Britain 's population would decline rapidly , that it would be dominated by an aged population with few people of working age coupled with a rapidly decreasing birth rate . In the final analysis there would be a dramatic decline in population , with deaths exceeding births — a foretaste of which had occurred in the early 1930s . It appeared that , without changes in policy , Britain would be on the way to racial suicide . The contemporary concern was so great that a Royal Commission on Population was set up in 1944 to examine the problem of Britain 's declining rate of population growth .
Idiom: in my book (used idiomatically: yes)
Give it a stir first . It 's just recently I read about this it 's not getting air into it or something is the reason it ex it can suddenly shoot up all over you . Oh it 's in my book , yes , it can come Well I always up .
Idiom: high and low (used idiomatically: yes)
But here there is no minimum price specified and stock is sold to the highest bidders and sold at the price that each has bid . To date , all seven offers of stock for sale by auction have been oversubscribed and , on each occasion , all stock on offer has been sold . After each auction , the Bank publishes details of the average yield on accepted bids and the yields on the highest and lowest accepted bids . Three auctions were held between May 1987 and January 1988 and four were held during 1991 . In the earlier series of auctions , there were large differences ( in terms of yield ) between minimum and maximum accepted bids but market operators appear to have learned by experience and , with the four auctions of 1991 , the difference was never more than three basis points .
Idiom: up the river (used idiomatically: yes)
She had walked through Catterick Bridge and was heading towards Scorton when she was attacked . Lorry driver Alan Brown saw a woman walking with her head bowed with a man following one pace behind . A second lorry driver Peter Walling later saw a man naked from the waist up scramble up the river bank but disappear when he saw the lorry . Mr Spencer said : ‘ Nichol was sexually attracted to Mrs Chandler and probably tried to engage her in conversation . Then at a remote place on the bank of the River Swale he first sexually assaulted her and when she fought back he battered her about the head with a rock or rocks from the bank until he thought she was dead.’
Idiom: out on a limb (used idiomatically: yes)
It has plenty to do without stirring this one up.’ He also said that the Revenue 's position is likely to have changed since 1988 when the question was last debated . ACCA out on a limb The ACCA is the only accountancy organisation to maintain its support for the small company audit . CIMA would like to see the audit requirement scrapped for all companies which fall within the statutory definition of a small company .
Idiom: go spare (used idiomatically: yes)
She laughs , great horse - laughs that turn the heads of the walkers on the beach ( all venturing out again , now the rain 's gone off ) and set their dogs to howling . ‘ What time is it ? The aunts will be going spare.’ ‘ Relax . All that has passed has , in the pattern of the old grandmother - tales , taken but a twinkling .
Idiom: think twice (used idiomatically: yes)
I 'm thinner . Tears come to my eyes when I sing songs about saying goodbye , or faithless lovers , or anything like that . After singing " Do n't think twice , it 's all right " , Dylan 's greatest song , my heart feels like shredded cabbage . I think I must be in love . I do n't think Jim is , though .
Idiom: under fire (used idiomatically: yes)
The SSI found that information on juveniles was often insufficiently shared with the courts , leading to unnecessary remands to local authority accommodation . Underfunding creates Scottish Office backlash The Scottish Office has come under fire for failing to increase capital spending on social work . Last week Scottish Secretary Ian Lang announced spending on social work projects would be £ 22.8 million next year , with provisional figures of £ 23 million for 194–5 and 1995–6 . CoSLA condemned the allocations as ‘ wholly inadequate’ , saying the figures amounted to less than half the local authority bids for social work .
Idiom: on the carpet (used idiomatically: yes)
If you think I have any personal knowledge of matters of that kind , you must be crazy . ' ' I 'll tell you how crazy I am . ' I flicked ash on the silver - grey carpet . ' Bonanza 's climbed into a hole in the ground . I 've telephoned every address that he could possibly be .
Idiom: on the ropes (used idiomatically: yes)
' Dream . 'S a mountain . Me hanging , on a rope . Water coming down , pouring all over me . 'S warm . ' The accent 's different .
Idiom: big girl's blouse (used idiomatically: yes)
So soon I found myself fully kitted out and ready for action with fleecy undergarments , waterproof suits , wellies , helmet and head torch . Tony was well briefed before we descended to the bowels of the earth . I was , I explained , a bit of a big girl 's blouse when it came to crumbling ledges , sheer drops , being underwater for unreasonable lengths of time and squeezing into jam jar sized spaces . He listened patiently , with a wry smile . I had obviously believe the gospel according to The Sun when it came to caves , where the underground world condemned hapless scout leaders and their unsuspecting charges to at least 15 hours trapped up to their necks in slimy cold water , if not to horrible slow deaths from rock falls and suffocation .
Idiom: dyed in the wool (used idiomatically: yes)
They did n't want to be hit over the head like that , he concluded with his characteristic weary shrug . Packford was an active member of his local Labour Party , sympathetic to the idea of the paper , and liked Keith . He was , however , a hack , a dyed - in - the - wool Fleet Street man . He knew what worked in popular national Sunday newspapers and what did n't . BLACKS UNDER THE LIQUID COSH did n't .
Idiom: on the ball (used idiomatically: no)
The two human parcels screwed up on the floor could have fared a whole lot worse . Many a bunch of vigilante bully - boys would have worked them over into lumps of fillet steak , twitching and staining the carpet . But these six descended on them like the Dynamos on a loose ball , flattened them into the floorboards , and trussed them in sash - cord in twenty seconds . It must have seemed like they dropped out the ceiling . Very professional .
Idiom: make a move (used idiomatically: yes)
It says thousands have packed city centre to cheer her and it said the fervour surprised republicans who have criticized the visit . Yeah I suppose they will be a republic sooner or later , by the year two thousand probably . Er ooh better make a move . What do you want ? Well I do n't know whether I want let 's see what this is in this parcel that came this morning .
Idiom: hold the ring (used idiomatically: yes)
This was via ‘ cahiers des charges’— a procedure detailing terms of conditions , akin to that imposed on all bodies entrusted with a public service . Periodically revised and completed , these ‘ rules and regulations’ bore the imprint of the administrative tradition that had hitherto governed broadcasting , and were criticized for their formalism — and insufficient recognition of the realities of broadcasting . Yet these ground rules helped identify how the state ( and , later , from 1982 , regulatory bodies ( was to hold the ring between various professional and economic interests in the broadcasting , and indeed audiovisual , sectors . Public service broadcasting objectives were intertwined with two other issues : the state as arbiter between different interests ( programme companies , the cinema industry , etc . ( and state support for ‘ worthy’ or ‘ noble causes’— the defence of the French language , of French film production , of programmes for children . In the 1982 communications law — and even in its 1986 counterpart ‘ cahiers de charge’ again detailed the ‘ general obligations’imposed on public service broadcasters .
Idiom: go from strength to strength (used idiomatically: yes)
Competition for advertising against the weekend magazines of the UK quality newspapers has become intense . We experimented with a new Editor who wrote and commissioned interesting and often controversial articles , but this approach was competitive with the British Sunday press and I discovered that " controversial " can be distasteful . As these events were unfolding we were finding that our Partnership 's lifestyle magazines were going from strength to strength . These magazines concentrate on discriminating travel , food , fashion , nature subjects , archaeology etc , always with extensive and beautiful pictorial coverage and written by the best authors in their respective fields . We then thought it would be appropriate to combine the best traditional ILN subjects with articles which were proving so successful in these other magazines , and the result is the first issue now in front of you .
Idiom: take stock (used idiomatically: yes)
This has brought in a new dimension to recent thinking , and begun to raise sharp questions about what has been called the ‘ Latin captivity’ of western theology . This fresh ecumenical contact and its opening of new horizons has by no means been restricted to the meeting of Christians with Christians . The question of the relation between Christianity and other world faiths has taken on a new urgency in a time where , for instance , an Indian Christian must take stock of his position vis - à - vis his Hindu fellow - countrymen , or a British or American Christian finds himself living alongside adherents of other religions in his own homeland . That issue has been sharpened even further by the fate of the millions of Jews murdered in Nazi extermination camps — a fate for which centuries of Christian anti - semitism must bear at least part of the blame . While in this survey we are chiefly concerned with modern Protestant theology , and with its main development in the west , the impact upon it of this new ecumenical awareness can not be left out of account .
Idiom: nothing doing (used idiomatically: no)
Schweinfurt people who had suffered from the bombing avoided the speech , saying they ' did n't want to know any more of the war ' and that ' the Führer is mentally disturbed and megalomaniac ' . Those attached to the churches also boycotted the speech . The same section of the population remarked in November ' that the Führer had spoken more than normally about God ' , that ' apparently even among the old Nazis there 's nothing more doing without God ' , which accorded badly , however , with the way the Party was treating the Church . Hitler 's remarks stressing the work of ' Providence ' on Germany 's side prompted only shaking of the head among ' academics'and the ' higher circles'of society . Others interpreted the troop withdrawals in the east not as the tactical manoeuvres devised by Hitler , but as moves ' dictated ' by the Russians , and many were disappointed that no precise details were given about retaliation .