Gooogr/pie_idioms huggingface dataset:
Idiom: over the top (used idiomatically: yes)
‘ Whilst the German idea looks very attractive the NFA have examined it and believe in this country it would be impractical,’ he said . The recommendations have received a mixed welcome from the Angling Foundation . AF boss Dr Bruno Broughton said : ‘ There is nothing wrong with the bulk of the IFM proposals but forcing people to qualify before being allowed to go fishing is over the top.’ ‘ That sort of route would be impractical but it might help solve the exessses that a small minority of anglers get up to.’ Also included in the IFM recommendations are a national angling centre with teaching facilities and offices and continuing the use of Anglers Consultative Associations but with a wider range of representaion of angling interests .
Idiom: in the pipeline (used idiomatically: no)
In the event Spooner found he had little to do in setting up most of Season Two 's stories . Thorough as ever , Whitaker had already commissioned and worked on scripts by Bill Strutton and Glyn Jones , and penned one himself about the Crusades . Spooner 's own Roman Empire story was in the pipeline , leaving only an initial vacancy for a story to replace Carole Ann Ford 's character . And Whitaker filled that vacuum as well … Another two part ‘ quickie’ , ‘ The Rescue’ was put together fairly cheaply to introduce the new teenage lead played by Maureen O'Brien .
Idiom: give someone pause (used idiomatically: yes)
Pedalling up to the office in the mornings , with the bike wheels crunching on the thick white frost , I would arrive with bright red cheeks and breath coming out like steam , and once the Met Officer commented , after I had given him a cheerful , early morning smile , ‘ You do n't know what a difference it makes to your face when you smile ! You should do it more often.!’ This gave me pause , and when I returned to the hut I tried out a few grins into a hand mirror , and decided he was quite right ! Henceforth I went around grinning like an idiot , which was n't difficult . I was feeling much happier than I had for two years .
Idiom: get to the bottom of (used idiomatically: yes)
PC JOHN CLOSE / Thames Valley Police Voice over Police went in just after 6.00 a.m. this morning , to get to the bottom of a racket in stolen cars . It was a success . And that was stolen cars in an attempt to crack car - ringing where vehicles are taken apart and reassembled to be sold on .
Idiom: on edge (used idiomatically: yes)
Sucked into their vortexes are camels , sheep , goats and too many men , women and children to remember . They are the nightmares never forgotten , the reminder that the earth will have all our bones one day . We were on the edge of such a pit . The boys eased themselves carefully out of the back of the car and pulled out some of the stores with care . I was told to stay where I was while slowly , slowly with delicate patience , the young son tried to inch the two embedded wheels out of the stuff .
Idiom: stop at nothing (used idiomatically: yes)
She wanted to forget , had forgotten already , would go on forgetting , that she was the other one — the other one who , as some believed , was presently whiling away her days in a nunnery … She was Anne Mowbray , she who was everything , had everything . But this Anne Mowbray would stop at nothing — she would chance all to be alone with him she loved best in the world ; on one throw of the dice … Nineteen Joan was ushered into the king 's private chamber by a manservant who had been with him since infancy .
Idiom: all over the place (used idiomatically: no)
sorry about that love , well I 'll go and I tore this paper and I said if you 're gon na have a wee wee then do it wee on me , so I said , up your all over the place and then I went out oh stink bomb , oh , come over here , who want a football , ah , want a game of footy , alright then er man in the goal man
Idiom: hit the right note (used idiomatically: yes)
Mr Pearson 's Shotover has exactly the right air of a rapt scientific experimenter trying to attain power through means of mind . Annabelle Apsion 's Ellie Dunn is no romantic dreamer but a tough pragmatist in white muslin weaving dance - patterns in front of Boss Mangan like a Sussex Salome . Ian Gelder 's Hector , wax - moustached and posturingly heroic , and Marty Cruickshank 's Hesione , a bourgeois gypsy in full flight , also hit the right note . I just found the Boss Mangan and the Randall Utterword so effortfully frantic I wanted to avert my gaze . But at least Ms Meckler has rescued Shaw from museum - piece revivalism .
Idiom: first off (used idiomatically: no)
Subject : Grimsby … Man City First off … has noone posted the Grimsby result ? ? If not Grimsby — 0 Leeds — 1 Apparently wilko used 19 players ! !
Idiom: word of mouth (used idiomatically: yes)
One unexpected characteristic has been an innate shyness which has recurred in several generations . Even H.O. Wills III , despite his position in business and his status as Chancellor of the University , preferred to go to his office at night after his staff had gone home , and to give instructions in writing rather than by word of mouth . In their financial affairs they have been abnormally secretive . With very few exceptions they have refrained from ostentation : indeed their Nonconformist distaste for personal extravagance , reinforced by infusions of Scottish blood , has sometimes prompted small economies which , in the light of their extraordinary benevolence to good causes , have been accepted as amusingly careful instead of absurdly mean .
Idiom: press the panic button (used idiomatically: yes)
He is still an influential part of the Wrexham side.’ That influence will be needed tonight as Wrexham bid to climb further up the third division table . Two defeats in their six home games is hardly what the fans expect but Flynn is n't pressing the panic button . ‘ Barnet were the best side I 've seen this season and we have to admit they were better than us on the day but Northampton was one of those things . They got a goal and hung on,’ he said .
Idiom: warts and all (used idiomatically: yes)
Labour 's promissory notes can not be met by a scale of personal taxation which will become increasingly regressive . It is Labour 's insistence on putting the cart before the horse which fills me with gloom . Labour retains a fatal mistrust in the only assured source of wealth which , warts and all , is the market economy . To re - phrase Churchill on our democracy , the market economy is a very bad system — yes : Guinness , Maxwell , BCCI , Blue Arrow underline its frailties — but no one has yet found a better one . It is Labour 's denial of that proposition which I regard as fatal to our future .
Idiom: in business (used idiomatically: yes)
The prototype Caribou first flower on July 30 , 1958 and attracted a lot of interest , including the US Army who ordered the type initially as the CV-2 and later the C-7 , the type seeing service in Vietnam . Military ordered came from as far afield as India , Malaysia , Africa and , of course , Canada . The type found some favour with civilian operators , mostly in the oil support business . Production amounted to 307 and was completed in 1973 . On April 9 , 1964 the rethought , turboprop , DHC-5 Buffalo first flew , but this failed to be built in the numbers of its predecessor .
Idiom: in the club (used idiomatically: yes)
What did she have to say about that?’ ‘ Well … ’ She was sitting in a very old overstuffed leather sofa and hiding a notebook behind her large handbag because she was n't sure notebooks were allowed in the club ; not much was . ‘ Gustav 's the younger by just over two years … he was nine when his father died … they moved away from Rostock , went to stay with relatives in the Harz mountains … mother married again and rather faded away , they were brought up mostly by grandparents and aunts . They do n't seem to have been poor : she had all her piano lessons , Gustav had a racing bicycle when he was still at school .
Idiom: green light (used idiomatically: yes)
Its corpse lay at her feet , slowly sinking into the moss and mud . It grew cold . The green light became grey . Screens of holly and ivy sheltered her from the deepening winter , but now the forest became a black and frozen place . Wolves prowled below her , fought each other and consumed the dead .
Idiom: take the bull by the horns (used idiomatically: yes)
Again . It had suddenly borne in upon her that it was almost midnight and that she was in a strange flat in a strange city , with a strange man who was plying her with champagne . And so , in true Arien fashion , she had decided to take the bull by the horns . Standing with her feet firmly planted in the centre of that luxurious carpet , she had made her position absolutely clear . ‘ Look , Luke , I do n't know where you think this evening is leading,’ she had plunged in determinedly .
Idiom: serve someone right (used idiomatically: yes)
' Look , ' he said , and Carrie saw the blood on his hand where the pitchfork had caught it . She said , ' Serve you right . Serve you right if he 'd killed you , ' and he stared at her , his lower jaw drooping . He said , ' He ought to be locked up , vicious loony like that , ' and stood up . He walked as far as the cart , took a packet of cigarettes from his jacket that was hanging on the tailgate and stood , sullenly smoking .
Idiom: rule of thumb (used idiomatically: yes)
Experience has shown that many real situations are lacking in mechanisms for monitoring what is going on , and taking the necessary control action when the required standards are n't being met . Ergo , developing ideas about measures of performance , feedback and control mechanisms is arguably the most important and potentially productive part of the exercise . As a rule of thumb , this element in the main system model can be considered as monitoring the performance of the system as a whole ( for example , ensuring that residents are happily domiciled and day clients receive appropriate support ) , and setting , then maintaining , the standards of each sub-system ( Fig 11.8 ) . This idea of a hierarchy of control allows the analyst to focus on each element in turn , and derive ideas about monitoring and controlling at various levels . With regard to the performance of the catering sub-system ( 1.7.1 ) , this indicated the requirement for information such as the following before adequate control could be achieved , together with mechanisms for feedback on the extent that standards are complied with :
Idiom: one and the same (used idiomatically: yes)
Because we encountered similar accounts repeatedly I am justified in pointing to shared models or myths . We discovered that there was a public conception of management and private , but nevertheless shared , metaphors to translate this conception into personal action . Both public and private versions were held in the mind at one and the same time . It is tempting to suggest that the public conception came from memory and the private metaphors from their inner worlds of inner objects , but to draw such a fine distinction would be to go beyond the evidence I have . Essentially , I am suggesting that what I am calling private metaphors were developed by managers as a means of coping with the dissonance between what is commonly accepted as being management theory and what they thought for themselves it ought to be in actuality .
Idiom: touch and go (used idiomatically: yes)
‘ It 's all right— I 'm not going to pass out now.’ Gina gave an awkward laugh as she detached herself from his hold . It would still be touch and go for the agency . One could n't just get a campaign up and running overnight — although the recession bit both ways , so at least there would be space available in the media for short - term bookings . She thought of the agency folding , of having to give up her flat , of Sebastian , who had devoted his life to his business , paying with divorce as the price of his involvement , of Jenny in Media Research who had just got married and was struggling with a mortgage , or Ben , one of the account executives , whose wife was in hospital awaiting a kidney transplant .
Idiom: go to town (used idiomatically: yes)
But recent events have shown that they need to learn to make do and mend . They build on a grand scale . New York was long known as the imperial city — the place that drilled tunnels and threw majestic bridges across the East and Hudson rivers , whose railway stations celebrated beaux - arts architecture , and where rich visionaries went to town with such mighty groups of buildings as the Rockefeller Centre . When a part of the city , such as the South Bronx , was worn out , the better - off people decamped to the suburbs . They left behind solid homes for vandals and arsonists to destroy .
Idiom: play ball (used idiomatically: yes)
HINDHEAD 5 , FRENSHAM 2 Hindhead concluded their season with a convincing victory over old rivals Frensham . With the conditions perfect at Hindhead , both sides played the ball around nicely . Hindhead should have taken the lead when Frampton 's cross was misjudged by Wagstaff in front of a gaping goal . But Frensham shook Hindhead when a quick break caught the home defence all at sea , giving the visitors the lead .
Idiom: in the black (used idiomatically: yes)
He was there , standing in the dark ink - green shadow under a dense carob tree seventy or eighty yards away on the other side of the gulley , at the same level as myself . I got to my feet , not knowing whether to call out , to applaud , to be frightened , to laugh , too astounded to do anything but stand and stare . The man was costumed completely in black , in a high - crowned hat , a cloak , a kind of skirted dress , black stockings . He had long hair , a square collar of white lace at the neck , and two white bands . Black shoes with pewter buckles .
Idiom: fight tooth and nail (used idiomatically: yes)
As revealed by The Northern Echo yesterday , the move could see the ground , which has hosted Yorkshire county cricket matches since 1956 , turned into a supermarket . The Green Lane site is also home to Middlesbrough 's cricket and rugby union clubs . Cricket officials and local residents say they will fight tooth and nail to save the ground , home to both clubs since the early 1930s . But Dave Waddington , chairman of the rugby club , said tonight 's executive committee meeting would look at the issue carefully . ‘ It 's a lot of money and we can not simply say we are not interested,’ he added .
Idiom: get lost (used idiomatically: no)
Smugness is dangerous . It 's dangerous for the non - Christian . You see , this really , this this parable i is the story of of , of something which is lost almost by default , it just wanders off , it just goes it 's own way it did n't set out to be lost , it did n't choose you know that i , it did n't go through earlier on in that day , in the little brain that the sheep has , there was n't the thought going , I am going to deliberately get lost today ! I 'm gon na go my own way , I 'm a perverse creature , and I am gon na go astray ! I 'm gon na give the shepherd a rough time of it !
Idiom: in the dock (used idiomatically: no)
Brill , I agree . It was n't enough anyway . You should have seen me in the dock , man . I was just melting . When that old moron in the wig , when he read out the sentence — oh , I thought , he mat be talking about someone else .
Idiom: out of this world (used idiomatically: yes)
Well Mark is quite contented where he is . Sally said the caravan he 's in is a lot better than mine . Ooh it 's out of this world . I mean you ca n't compare it can you ? And the bedrooms !
Idiom: pull a face (used idiomatically: yes)
He began to write up his findings in the notes . Juliet poured a glass of water , and handed it to Mrs Toye . The woman 's eyes widened as she took it , but at the first taste she thrust it at Juliet , pulling a face . ‘ Tryin ' to fool me , are yer ? Just like you , Deirdre Watkins!’
Idiom: on a roll (used idiomatically: yes)
Rocks and stones absorb sluggish Light magic , and because the Troll eats a lot of rocks his body naturally absorbs a large quantity of magical power . This makes Stone Trolls extraordinarily resistant to attack by magic . If a spell is directed upon a unit of Stone Trolls it will be automatically dispelled on the D6 roll of a 4 , 5 or 6 . However , this applies to all spells for both sides , not just enemy spells . Ordinary dispels , rebounds and other magic cards may be used as normal to stop spells directed at the Trolls should their natural dispel fail to work .
Idiom: fit the bill (used idiomatically: no)
B : ‘ Not really . We have one Economy 7 heater in use and that is in the hallway . Some others were fitted a few months ago but they have n't been wired up to the Economy meter and we dare n't use them because we would n't be able to afford the bills . ’ It must be a great blessing to have Chloe 's grandparents living nearby . K : ‘ It is , because we do n't have room for a washing machine and they let us take the laundry to them . ’
Idiom: take a dim view of (used idiomatically: yes)
I have it on good authority that someone living at Hempnall became very enamoured of a stray mink she found outside her house . After a few days its rightful owner came to collect it and informed her that it was in fact a ferret . Nevertheless she loved it just the same but had to sadly wave it goodbye , much to the relief of her cat who took a dim view of the competition ! ROYAL NORFOLK SHOWGROUND 29th and 30th June ‘ 88 .
Idiom: make the cut (used idiomatically: no)
Despite these cuts , however , it was expected that the balance would shift sharply in favour of sea - based systems where the USA would retain overall superiority . Russian response to Soviet initiative In his initial response to Bush 's proposals , outlined during an interview with the British Broadcasting Corporation ( BBC ) on Jan. 29 , Russian President Boris Yeltsin offered to make " deep cuts in strategic offensive weapons … [involving]up to 2,000 to 2,500 warheads on each side " , but failed to specify which missiles would be eliminated . He called on France , China and the United Kingdom to join the process and urged the USA to replace its SDI programme with a " global system of defence " based on co - operation with Russia [ see pp . 38553 ] . Renewing calls for a ban on all nuclear weapons tests and for an end to the production of weapons - grade plutonium , Yeltsin proposed the creation of an international agency monitoring nuclear weapons " through the whole cycle " , from the extraction of uranium to weapons manufacture .
Idiom: on the trot (used idiomatically: yes)
I was also very conscious that you had telephoned before the 6 pm cheap rate because of the mackintosh nonsense , and did not want to detain you . John was supposed to come and meet me from work to carry my heavy shopping and then changed plans and he had just walked in with JONATHAN ( proper name JIMMY ) . Having them both here busy looking for a flat for JONATHAN , who becomes nicer and nicer as he grows up ( and who can it seems sleep twelve hours on the trot night after night ) is quite exhausting , and at times annoying . I am neither , nor intend to be treated as , a paid cook or a resident and beholden domestic , especially as I get tired very easily and neither of them is working . Mind you , I am under few illusions : it is probably boredom in the short - term few months job I have found , and worry as it is , in real terms , a lot less than half my old salary .
Idiom: larger than life (used idiomatically: yes)
Commit yourself to God 's care — reading a Bible verse helps many people . Lying awake in the small hours , after falling asleep quickly , can become another maddening habit . Worrying about your problems , which seem larger than life at that time of night , is hard to resist . So too is worrying about being awake for so long . Some people who sleep alone read , do a crossword , or listen to the radio for a while .
Idiom: have a ball (used idiomatically: yes)
and I said there 's not enough room to run . That 's when I switch it off . I tell him I can have the red ball if he straight into right and keep pushing your finger on it and er he 'll go under . It says in the book see erm to pr press the down button and then across so that 's the down button , you know
Idiom: in the long term (used idiomatically: yes)
Should we lower cut - off points ? He pointed out that modifying the credit acquisition policies might have only a minimal effect , since most of the losses were from cases accepted some time ago . In the long term , however , it would have some effect . An early identification of problems was important , followed by prioritisation of resources . We must , said Dr Coffman , be :
Idiom: move heaven and earth (used idiomatically: yes)
No . It 's only later on when they 're more experienced that they can actually say , well hang on a minute I can do more for this person and I 'm going to do more for this person . But I think that 's the only thing were , if I worked in a benefit office I would n't get on very well , because if I saw something I 'd try and move heaven and earth to make everything to go right for me . And that , and that would make you good . Yeah , but in the beginning I 'd get criticized for not being quick enough in my ,
Idiom: kiss and tell (used idiomatically: yes)
His features grew bleak . ' Then I found out that I came a poor second to the real love of her life — money . While declaring undying love for me she 'd been busy making herself a small fortune giving kiss - and - tell interviews to some tabloid rag . ' His smile was bitter . ' I decided to give love a miss after that . '
Idiom: get it up (used idiomatically: no)
we 're young Jealous ? we 're young , we 've got it up here and Yeah . they do n't like it .
Idiom: with a vengeance (used idiomatically: yes)
Holding Back Europe ’s Economic Nationalists PARIS – The German and French governments have been scrambling to save their automobile and truck industries though big fiscal injections , making it clear that , within much of the European ~ Union , industrial policy has returned with a vengeance . But , throughout last year , French , German , and other EU leaders worked against rather than with each ~ other when putting their policies in place . As a result , some European industries got undue protection , while others were squeezed out of the market .
Idiom: pass the time of day (used idiomatically: yes)
‘ Tell me?’ Dolly fumed . ‘ You do n't hardly pass the time of day with me , this is the first time you 've sat and talked to me . How could Blackbeard ' ave got his wallet back , go on , tell me.’ ‘ Slippery Archie 's the go - between,’ said Joe , and explained .
Idiom: small print (used idiomatically: yes)
Promote Surely Co Armagh 's quarter final victory over favourites Slovakia warranted more than two lines in the middle of a Rangers match report . The semi - final against Cherry Orchard was small print compared to the News Letter and Telegraph 's build - up to the other semi - final between Rangers and Man United . Every day as I bought these papers more photographs involving the big two appeared and not one of any local side . Was the media told to promote visiting teams by the committee ?
Idiom: pull out all the stops (used idiomatically: yes)
The only solution was to fly in the required paint from Port Moresby to the mining project site , where Tabubil Engineering was heading the fabrication effort . Effort ‘ We pulled out all the stops to produce extra stock needed to meet the charter flights , so the paint could be flown in over the weekends.’ The good thing about the airlift was that pilots had clear visibility all the way into Tabubil — a rare happening in an area where rain is often measured in feet over a 24-hour period . OK Tedi is typical of the remote and difficult locations to which Courtaulds paints have to be delivered in this part of the world .