Gooogr/pie_idioms huggingface dataset:
Idiom: come to think of it (used idiomatically: yes)
‘ No,’ she said , ‘ she 's got something . My acupuncturist told me about the broad - leafed veg , and I did n't think to ask him what he was on about . He meant lettuce and spinach and cabbage and stuff , but when you come to think of it , there 's watercress and all those titchy little herbs , rosemary and things . Maybe he was telling me lies . Maybe he 's got a brother , a farmer , with a load of old cabbages to flog.’
Idiom: hot air (used idiomatically: yes)
Yet they are still grounded . The reason is that a different body , the Technischer Überwachungs Verein ( tüv ) , has to approve gas cylinders that are transported by road . And hot - air balloon cylinders do travel by road — between flights . The tüv , though , will not give approval . When the tüv did not reply to his letters , Mr Cameron visited it in Essen .
Idiom: on the side of the angels (used idiomatically: yes)
North thought Reagan might qualify , like Teddy Roosevelt , for the Nobel Peace Prize for ending the Iran - Iraq War , and that Secord was directly in line to get the Medal of Freedom . When the Iran operation was blown , North was struck by Secord suddenly remarking , in his terse way , ‘ I do n't know why this is the problem that it is . Somebody ought to stand up and acknowledge what we have done because we are on the side of the angels.’ North wrote it in his notebook , by that time wearily misspelling it : ‘ Ultimately on the side of the angles’ . Bob Dutton , the aviation boss of the resupply , would never get a medal , North candidly told him ; but one day the President would shake his hand and thank him .
Idiom: bite the bullet (used idiomatically: yes)
Indeed , I worship the little devil , but only as a travelling companion . You see , at the moment I have no desktop machine and not full - sized keyboard to hammer . In the February issue I warned you that I was going to bite the bullet and buy a real computer . At the moment , my new machine is being assembled and my old Hyundai is being dismantled for recyclable parts . So all I have is the TI 3000 WinSX , driving my ole monitor .
Idiom: get to grips with (used idiomatically: yes)
Ian McGarry gives guidelines for getting the most out of it , whilst Tessa Coder urges us to relax our skilegs SKI MEDIC Dr Michael Turner gets to grips with your problems FASHION In action . Claire Selman selects functional skiwear which will work in extreme conditions
Idiom: make the grade (used idiomatically: yes)
The award , which is an international one , is given once a year at the national convention of the American Accounting Association , of which Professor Solomons is a past president . The winner is nominated by a board of leading accountants throughout the world — including David Tweedie and Sir Bryan Carsberg . A bronze plaque , featuring Professor Solomons , will hang in the corridors of the university alongside the other 51 inductees — including two other British chartered accountants who also made the grade , Arthur Dicksee and Lord Benson . The Hall of Fame is not the first international honour awarded to Professor Solomons . In 1989 he was presented with the Institute 's own International Award for his contribution to the international development of accountancy .
Idiom: all the rage (used idiomatically: yes)
Gossard Rapture Layered look Lingerie that doubles as clothing is all the rage : a bustier under a suit ; a bra as a bikini . If you wo n't dare to go bare , the layering effect of a lace body over another body creates a stunning evening or party look . Pictured : Triumph Amourette stretch lace bodyshaper .
Idiom: in the hole (used idiomatically: yes)
I put it with other money I had and part exchanged my irons for a full set of top quality blades which had been in a sale after that my game improved immensely I got my handicap by putting in three cards two terrible scores of 86 and the good card which was 72 my handicap was then 15 I played in a junior competition and came third in the lower handicap section a week later and played in a medal and came down to a handicap of 14 . But about a month later I played in a trophy competition and played a disastrous round and put my handicap up to 16 which I 'm trying to get down by playing in two medal competitions in October . During the last year I have played in several fun competitions most of these were what was called Texas scrambles they are where everybody in the team hits a ball off the tee then where the best shot lands everybody plays their shot from that position this happens until the ball is in the hole the winning team is the team in with the lowest score . The other fun competition that I entered was the same idea but it is played in the dark you use a special ball which is slightly transparent there is a hole in the middle of the ball which a lightstick goes through . The lightstick lasts for up to six hours sometimes longer you tee up the ball on every shot so that you ca n't hit the light stick out when this game is played the flags are all lit up with bigger lightsticks .
Idiom: neither here nor there (used idiomatically: yes)
There are no perimeters in that world that I can feel ; I am a trick of their fate , peripheral , unclassy , bored . We sing . I could live here , I could live in this place forever , and neither here nor there would blink an eye . It is four a.m. Crilly is plastered .
Idiom: come of age (used idiomatically: yes)
India 's young idealists of the early Seventies gave up bright futures to work with the poorest . Mari Marcel Thekaekara was one of them — she finds the ‘ development professionals’ of the Eighties with their five - star expense accounts decidedly difficult to take . I came of age in the early 1970s . A Calcuttan . Schoolgirl dreams evaporated as we witnessed the Bangladesh war .
Idiom: in the pink (used idiomatically: no)
There is evidence to suggest that the walls which carried these pictures were not normally plastered but panelled , though plaster is used in the tombs of Etruria and Paestum , as it had been in Bronze - age palaces and was to be in Hellenistic tombs in Greece ( below , p. 176 ) . Whatever the material it is likely that it was primed in white and on this the scenes were painted ; the shiny black of the red - figure vase must give a quite contrary effect . Etruscan tomb paintings and earlier Greek work — the little panels from Pits a , the Acropolis plaque , the walls of the small Paestum tomb ( figs . 45 , 95 , 107 ) — help us : unmodulated white background for the sky ; male skin in pink or brown within a darker outline ( less strongly marked , this , in the Paestum pictures than earlier ) ; female drawn in outline on the white ; washes of colour for garments and the like . Whether ground was distinguished from sky in any other way than by being outlined against it the evidence so far cited does not tell us , but probably some trees and flowers were shown on it , and it may have had something in the nature of shading . A tree is shown in the Niobid picture , trees and small plants in the vase illustrated in figs . 109 and 116 .
Idiom: pick holes (used idiomatically: yes)
Have you finished changing your mind now ? ' But there is no question so difficult that Mr Kinnock can not think of a more difficult answer . ' Well , ' he said , ' if we went seriatim through it all , I might pick some holes in the idea that there was such a comprehensive list of mind - changing . ' In Mr Kinnock 's verbal ju - jitsu , that is a move known as the lexicographical counter - block . He knows that the real purpose of these television interviews is not to enlighten the people who actually watch them but to supply short quotes and sound - bites for the news programmes and the tabloids .
Idiom: in the pipeline (used idiomatically: yes)
Gel Cushioning system using a silicone resin pad which distributes impact forces . It can be placed either in the fore or rearfoot . P - Gel is a new semi - fluid adaptation of the same system , with a new intelligent Super - Gel rumoured to be in the technical pipeline . The choice of brand for many club runners . Gel remains at the ethical centre of the 1992 range , with a second generation adaptation P - Gel debuting in the Gel Lyte Ultra .
Idiom: go downhill (used idiomatically: yes)
‘ They were . But that was before inflation , and Ralph 's not much of a businessman . Between ourselves , he 's gone downhill recently in more ways than one . Did you know that he and my mother have separated?’ Peter shook his head , surprised by the suddenly intimate turn the conversation had taken .
Idiom: across the board (used idiomatically: yes)
These improvements , and others , have occurred because of gas industry requests , directed internally and externally , and the ability and willingness of our suppliers to respond , and often add , to development ideas . 30A THERE 'S that important point again , which is true right across the board and worth repeating . We , British Gas , are the end users . We are the so - called experts .
Idiom: play ball (used idiomatically: yes)
A fabulous drive from Knell cannoned back off the Cliftonville upright from fully 25 yards — and the visitors breathed again . The majority of Linfield 's moves were easily broken down , with the Blues contributing to their own problems through sloppy passing and half - hearted tackles . The Blues should have equalised midway through the second half when Gorman , bursting down the right , played a lovely ball into Haylock 's path but the big striker , however , lost control with the goal at his mercy . Dungannon 15 Instonians 16 DUNGANNON opened the scoring when Instonians were caught offside , following a short free and McGarry kicked a difficult penalty .
Idiom: come to mind (used idiomatically: yes)
But turn a corner and there the resort is , one of a number which have been built in the Pyrenees since the start of the 1960s at greater altitudes than the old , so as to lengthen what would otherwise be a brief and uneconomic skiing season . When I saw it , in 1985 , Arette - Pierre - Saint - Martin was far from finished and still , in part , a building site high in the mountains , which is an even stranger spectacle to come across . One does not expect , nor I trust want , to find shiny wooden chalets , let alone tall concrete apartment blocks standing arbitrarily up in this fascinating landscape , and phrases about ‘ cosmopolitan cesspits’ can easily come to mind as you stand looking at them . On the day I came up here , there were no workmen and the deserted new village was occupied only by horses , wandering at liberty between the half - finished buildings , the machinery and the piles of materials — hardly the setting for which they had been intended when set loose for the summer to forage for themselves . The hostile rocks cape in the midst and partly on top of which Arette - Pierre - Saint - Martin has been built also made me wonder whether skiers ever think about what might be underneath the snow they are skiing on .
Idiom: get the picture (used idiomatically: no)
In fact they are no more adequate for primitive societies than they would have been for any others . The history of Marxist anthropology since The Origin has , as a result , been the difficult , painful , and incomplete recovery of Marxism for pre-capitalist social formations , and the story of this process is what we shall consider in the second half of this book . This recovery has been made necessary because , as we have seen , the rhetorical and historical use of anthropology got so disastrously mixed up in the work of the founders and produced a false picture of the idyllic classless community which was later termed primitive communism and then got further confused with the type of society the Marxists were trying to construct in the future . Marx and Engels on Anthropology Having seen the general place of anthropological material in Marx and Engels 's writing , we can now look in a little more detail at particular works and their contents .
Idiom: all over the shop (used idiomatically: yes)
Yeah you 've got comes up here . And the three o six . . There 's quite a service buses plus they 've got mini buses running around all over the shop as well so . Aha . See I mean look at that .
Idiom: on the face of it (used idiomatically: yes)
Since the vendor may choose not to proceed after the due diligence report has been finalised , the prospective purchaser 's advisers may argue that the investigation should not begin until after contracts have been exchanged . The contract would be conditional upon the report being satisfactory to the investors . On the face of it this is unlikely to be acceptable to the vendor since in effect it gives an option to purchase , though it may be more acceptable if the period allowed for preparing the report is short . A more normal way of satisfying the prospective buyer 's concern that the vendor may not proceed is for the vendor to agree to pay or contribute towards the cost of the report if the matter does not proceed to completion for any reason not involving fault by the prospective buyer . This should be addressed in the offer letter given to the vendor .
Idiom: over the top (used idiomatically: yes)
The launcher for the medium - range version will incorporate a projector that produces a beam of infrared radiation . The operator will keep this beam aimed at the target while the missile , which has sensitive detectors at its back end , will steer down the centre of the beam . It may then penetrate the side of a tank or fly over the top . In the latter case , a downward - pointing warhead fires a stream of molten metal at several thousand kilometres an hour to punch a hole in the tank 's vulnerable upper surfaces where the armour is comparatively thin . The longer - range missile will be of the
Idiom: hold someone's hand (used idiomatically: yes)
Araminta looked puzzled . ‘ He is an evil man , this Punch,’ explained Auguste . ‘ It 's only a play,’ said Araminta , holding his hand to comfort him . ‘ Do n't worry about it . It 's not real.’
Idiom: for good measure (used idiomatically: yes)
I did not watch him all the way but looked for another target . The sky now suddenly seemed clear except for a CR 42 going down in a spin ahead of me . I gave him a full deflection burst for good measure and then my ammunition ran out . It was time to return home so I jerked the machine into a spiral dive , just in case the remaining CR 42s or the two 109s were still in the vicinity , flattened out at about 800 feet and jinked my way back to Takali . It was a wonderful feeling to put up an affirmative two fingers as the mechanic helped me taxi in .
Idiom: out of pocket (used idiomatically: yes)
In many respects you are only being asked to do what ought to have been done around the time of your last birthday . April is bound to be a month of far - reaching changes for you , and after all the cards have been laid on the table around the full Moon on the 10th you will feel completely relieved and at peace with yourself . Make any necessary payments around the 15th , in the certain knowledge that you wo n't be out of pocket for long . Libra * 24 September to 23 October ) Between the 1st and the 19th you are liable to be preoccupied with partnership matters .
Idiom: jump on the bandwagon (used idiomatically: yes)
Mario and Yoshi may please puzzle addicts , but offers nothing new and does n't push the NES 's capabilities in the slightest . Given the choice between Super Mario Lane 2 and this , there 's no competition unless you 're a puzzle freak . A woeful case of jumping on the Tetris/Columns bandwagon using the most popular Nintendo characters as a lame excuse for a run-of-the-mill game . Dance Sam Carlisle
Idiom: on the make (used idiomatically: yes)
I have worked with Singer machines for the past seven years , during which time I have come to trust them and admire the work that they produce , which I think can not be equalled on any other machine . Previously I ran my own school of machine knitting and also taught machine knitting for the local Education Authority at a nearby college . I taught on all makes of machine and have also worked in stores and at exhibitions , selling knitting and sewing machines . I studied for the UCLI in Home Machine Knitting and , on passing both parts of the exam , went on to teach it for three years . I therefore feel qualified to write to you about the French electronic machines.l
Idiom: in the clear (used idiomatically: yes)
It was built under the superintendence of Mr Wright , the Chief of the Company 's carriage department ; and the interior was fitted up by Messrs Gillow , eminent upholsterers of Oxford Street . The Illustrated London News of 2 December 1843 , carried a description : ‘ The carriage itself is of oblong shape , the dimensions being about 13 ft by 7 ft thus forming a handsome saloon , 8 ft high in the clear . The finest mahogany has been used in its construction ; and the body of the carriage is double panelled throughout , and stuffed with felt , in order to lessen vibration and increase warmth . The carriage is divided externally into three compartments , formed by the door and panels on either side .
Idiom: good offices (used idiomatically: yes)
There too was the assurance ‘ There is no danger in the experiment’ . I do not recollect that we ever tried it , although my father did bring me home a bottle containing two or three sticks of white phosphorus , at the same time showing me the mark on his thigh where , so he said , a piece of phosphorus has fallen while he was attempting to write on a wall with it . At that time I was more interested in making fireworks than in ghosts , and again through my father 's good offices , I was able to obtain both gunpowder , and materials for making Roman candle balls — dried more or less successfully at the back of the kitchen range . Maybe that was what started me on chemistry — or at least led to my being a participant one 5 November in filling the iron pots along the portico of UCL with coloured fire , an escapade that led to our being ‘ carpeted’ by Sir Charles Goodeve ( plain Charlie he was then , and himself in much demand at departmental soirées for his rendering of Canadian College cheers ) . Somehow we survived it all , just as I have survived 20 years of a lead - piped water supply and a further 20 years as an adult working in a concrete hut insulated on the inside with sprayed - on asbestos ; to say nothing of a like period supervising students using the Haldane gas analysis apparatus , a machine that not infrequently spewed mercury from its taps into the air , whence it fell onto the bench , or sometimes the floor , to be duly swept up by the lab boy at the end of the session for recovery .
Idiom: rank and file (used idiomatically: yes)
In fact the function of such eye- and ear - witness accounts as the ‘ Kentucky fried chips’ incident is to authorize and authenticate the racialization of experience by making it seem like an entirely spontaneous and natural process , and one for which blacks themselves must be held responsible . In ‘ The last laugh’ a quite different strategy of citation is adopted , one which consciously aims to draw the reader 's attention to the problematic status of the text . For all its underground samizdat quality , this document is designed to be discovered in order to draw the attention of the police authorities to the strength of rank - and - file feeling . So here the use of quasi - official language to make a series of provocatively racist statements serves to undermine the credibility of the authorized version of ‘ community relations’ by contrasting its unrealistic viewpoint with the putative realities of ‘ the job’ . As an example of this consider the use made of multiculturalism ( ‘ briefing about local customs and traditions ' ) and quasi - sociological jargon ( ‘ it is statistically proven … ’ ) to comment ironically about the kind of theories they have encountered during their training in community relations .
Idiom: give someone the slip (used idiomatically: yes)
She just had to hold on to the thought that , although he believed he knew who , he did n't know where . She had the advantage of knowing the sort of places her cousin might be . But to find her meant giving him the slip , and she had n't been too successful at that the last time . There had to be a way — she would just have to be a lot cleverer . And whatever else she did , she must never underestimate him again .
Idiom: on the square (used idiomatically: yes)
More than 12,000 Chinese ' illegals ' have flooded across Hong Kong 's border this year . Peking had warned that ' Hong Kong would be held responsible for all consequences of the ( Yang Yang ) affair ' by allowing the swimmer , a supporter of the student - led democracy movement , to seek asylum in America . The latest move comes a day after Ke Zaishuo , the senior Peking representative to the Joint Liaison Group — the Anglo - Chinese body overseeing Hong Kong 's return to mainland sovereignty in 1997 — blamed Britain for the crisis of confidence in the territory after the Chinese army assault on Tiananmen Square . Mr Ke said Whitehall had ' connived ' with a ' handful'of Hong Kong people who attempted to sabotage and overthrow the Chinese government . He used the same language as that employed by the Chinese government to explain away the unrest that the democracy movement unleashed in May and June — namely that it was the work of a ' handful of evil - doers ' .
Idiom: pick up the pieces (used idiomatically: yes)
‘ You do n't fool me!’ The voice surveyed the wasteland it had made and stormed away . Whimper like a whipped puppy , Jay , have a drink and pick up the pieces . Alcohol and phonecalls , after an attack she would not let herself be too sober or alone . Her dreams at these times were of running headlong down streets and staircases , into cellars where the roof and walls closed in on her .
Idiom: carry the can (used idiomatically: no)
Significant discrepancies between the two may be resolved at this stage , ie before monitoring is carried out . The activities are then decomposed until such time as the related resources ( eg people , time , money , skills etc ) which need to be committed to the procedure can be clarified . Any deviation from this in practice would be taken as a constraint , the analysis having revealed where such constraints are necessary so they can be taken into account when carrying out the audit . Stage 3 — Establish Measurable Factors As with other types of soft systems exercises , deciding performance measures is of prime importance , but can prove extremely difficult , particularly when considering abstract ideas such as customer satisfaction .
Idiom: with a view to (used idiomatically: yes)
Secondly , he must be acting as agent in a way of business . This ‘ business’ characteristic does not require that he should regularly carry on business as an agent but simply that on the occasion in question he was acting as a business proposition . In Lowther v. Harris ( 1926 K.B. ) an agent was entrusted with a tapestry with a view to selling it . He was instructed not actually to conclude a sale without first referring back to his principal ; he was to receive commission if a sale was concluded . In fact he sold the tapestry to an innocent purchaser without first having referred back to his principal .
Idiom: under your belt (used idiomatically: yes)
Massage for an athlete can be used after the pulse and breathing have returned to normal . Great care should be taken if the individual is exhausted as every muscle could be extensively sore.’ That should n't relate to all you RUNNING readers who have followed Bruce Tulloh 's training schedules thoroughly and not just turned up on the day , unprepared and with no training under your belt . Who do I contact ? Do n't forget that 10 per cent discount !