Gooogr/pie_idioms huggingface dataset:
Idiom: at the end of the day (used idiomatically: no)
News from the local rag : Wilko 's complaints about the pitch after the dire draw on Saturday has brought the ‘ Hunslet dabate ’ back into the local rags . My earlier assertion that Hunslet would be leaving at the end of the season , now appears to have been a figment of my imagination , and from what i 've read over the last couple of days Leeds appear to be up ‘ shit creek ’ . Silver is becoming increasingly concerned that the Euro championships will be taken away from Elland Rd ( despite the fact that a new pitch is going to be laid at the end of the season ) , and says that Hunslet must be gone by spring 1995 at the latest . Unfortunately Hunslet have a ‘ cast iron ’ agreement with Leeds council ( still 13 years of their current lease to run ) , and the full backing of the Rugby Football League in their fight to stay at Elland Rd .
Idiom: out of the box (used idiomatically: yes)
These included Monotype , AM Varityper , Compugraphic and , somewhat later , Autologic and Scangraphic . Most of these had been producing un - hinted PostScript fonts for some time but they now all had the tools to create the all - important encrypted Type 1 fonts and had licenses to produce PostScript typesetters . For the first time ever it would be possible to take , say , an Autologic font and run it , straight out of the box , on a Linotype or Monotype imagesetter . It finally looked as though Adobe had won the day and that there would now be a single stable standard . Apple , however , were unhappy with their reliance on an external supplier for such a crucial part of their system .
Idiom: par for the course (used idiomatically: no)
Still to come on Central News , the real - life crime that Inspector Morse tackled . The murder helped prove a new science and became the plot in a detective novel . And , Par for the Course … The home which is raining golfballs . In Central News tonight :
Idiom: get a rise out of (used idiomatically: yes)
The reinforcers are as follows : She gets her own way . She riles you and enjoys getting a rise out of you . She has monopolized your attention ; even if it is scolding it is rewarding ( after all the behaviour is as persistent as ever ) . Step 9
Idiom: in the club (used idiomatically: yes)
Self - Confidence Self - confidence describes the dog 's ability to act on his own initiative and to face stressful situations without becoming fearful . The term that comes to mind and is much used by Germans in the training clubs is ' empty vessels make the most noise ' . In other words , a dog who continually barks and shows fear can never be regarded as a dog with high self - confidence . A dog who has high self - confidence is never worried by strangers or strange stimuli .
Idiom: at loggerheads (used idiomatically: yes)
Voice over The county of Gloucestershire has seen some turbulent times over the centuries , not least of them in the present one . They 've been at loggerheads with the Government over a ten million pound capping row . But that could all change with proposals to merge the council with the six smaller district councils within the county . And that has ruffled a few feathers at Shire Hall .
Idiom: make the grade (used idiomatically: yes)
The Kent man , who had led overnight on 68 , began at the tenth and , though he was not at his best , he was still two under with five holes to play . But then he double bogeyed both the fifth and sixth to finish in 77 and join Darcy on 145 . Alison makes the grade for Scotland By Graham Law THERE will be another feather in the cap for Stirling County 's pioneering youth policy this weekend as a stand - off makes the grade at the highest level .
Idiom: lie low (used idiomatically: yes)
Massive deforestation in the Himalayan foothills during the 1980s had aggravated what was already a serious problem in Bangladesh . Flooding in 1987 - 88 killed thousands of people and caused great damage to agriculture and to the infrastructure ( see pp . 35570 - 71 ; 36288 ) . However , according to some scientific reports , the devastation wrought by the recent floods could soon be overshadowed by the effects of global warming , which , it was feared , might completely submerge vast expanses of low - lying land ( see pp . 36783 - 84 ) . FOREIGN Visit by Pakistani Prime Minister — Demonstrations by Biharis
Idiom: kiss and tell (used idiomatically: no)
Unsettled at having come halfway around the world to find herself in the same town at the same time as Vitor d'Arcos , she had skipped over any articles which mentioned him , but , on turning a page , had found an article which she could not ignore . Ashley 's eyes drifted down from the screen and she frowned . Contrary to making it plain that they were just friends , Simon had indulged in some imaginary kiss - and - tell . ' My girlfriend , Ashley Fleming , is a busy company director , ' he had told a reporter , ' which means she ca n't be with me at most Grands Prix . However , when we do meet up it 's well worth while . '
Idiom: to a turn (used idiomatically: yes)
The evidence would not seem to back up such suggestions . Crime in Me inter - war years was characterised by razor gangs , feuds between armed gangsters , vice rackets and so on . Moving back to the turn of the century and the pre - First World War period we seem little nearer to finding the traditional way of life based on a ' healthy respect for law and order ' . A wide range of popular culture came under severe criticism in the early twentieth century . The music halls , professional football and the noisy presence of working - class people at seaside resorts on bank holidays were all attacked .
Idiom: rule of thumb (used idiomatically: yes)
BERKELEY – Across the Euro - Atlantic world , recovery from the recession of 2008 - 2009 remains sluggish and halting , turning what was readily curable cyclical unemployment into structural unemployment . And what was a brief hiccup in the process of capital accumulation has turned into a prolonged investment shortfall , which means a lower capital stock and a lower level of real GDP not just today , while the recovery is incomplete , but possibly for decades . One legacy of Western ~ Europe ’s experience in the 1980s is a rule of thumb : each year that lower labor - force attachment and reduced capital stock as a result of declining investment depresses production $ 100~billion below normal implies that productive potential at full employment in future years will be $ 10~billion below what would otherwise have been forecast . The fiscal implications of this are striking . Suppose that the United ~ States or the Western European core economies boost their government purchases for next year by $ 100~billion .
Idiom: get off the ground (used idiomatically: yes)
The natural tendency is to try harder with the project that has gone some distance . Yet it would be possible to argue exactly the opposite case . The project that never got off the ground may need redesigning . The project that has gone quite far has had every chance of success but has failed and therefore has demonstrated its inadequacy . Obviously it is worth trying to pin - point the cause of failure but that is quite independent of the amount of investment that has been made .
Idiom: share and share alike (used idiomatically: yes)
It was a great shock to the Girls when Jennie died on 21 February , 1936 . Although she had been seen at the school less frequently over the past few years , rehearsals and contracts were organized so smoothly that the dancers had not noticed her gradual disappearance . Whereas John 's will had been full of retribution , Jennie in one sentence thanked the thirteen people she considered important in her life and asked that they should simply ‘ share and share alike’ . It was truly democratic ; she not only named six Head Girls , Mr Smith and Miss Doris but had not forgotten the loyalty of William . She even charitably included Mary Read .
Idiom: have a heart (used idiomatically: no)
The couple married in 1986 having worked together on the television series , Taggart , on which she was a wardrobe assistant . Scottish Television 's Controller of Drama , Robert Love praised her for her bravery and praised her husband for the tremendous support he had given her . The battle for the hearts and minds of Scotland 's Catholics is the subject of tonight 's feature on Christianity in Scotland . Pope John Paul the second has won wide acclaim from outside his own Church for his firm leadership style . But , as Ronnie Convery found out , within the Church itself he 's under fire from some liberal Catholics who say he 's turning the clock back .
Idiom: make a move (used idiomatically: yes)
It is believed that the gang had been watching the property from a nearby field . Two days before they struck , a sensor light set up outside the house was smashed . The Swift Challenger 490 caravan had been parked in the driveway behind another vehicle , but the thieves were undeterred and made their move under the cover of darkness soon after two members of the family left the home . They forced their way onto adjoining land and cut through chain - link fencing and large wooden posts cemented into the ground . Gap in the fence
Idiom: in your dreams (used idiomatically: yes)
The pine wood looked just the same as ever , it always did , it was always dark and dense with very narrow passages through it that would surely allow nothing bigger than a fox to weave its way through . Imperceptibly the trees must have grown , yet they seemed to Adam no different from when he was a child coming up to fetch the milk and when , on sunless mornings , he had felt a kind of menace from the wood . Even then he had not liked to look into it too much but had kept his eyes on the ground or straight ahead of him because the wood was the kind of place you saw in story - book illustrations or even in your dreams and out of which things were liable to come creeping . At the foot of the slope , through the thinning trees , a field maple , alders with their feet in the stream , a late - blooming chestnut , that dramatic lawn - adornment , the cedar , the house came into view . Things , buildings , stretches of land , are said to look smaller when we grow up .
Idiom: prodigal son (used idiomatically: yes)
No . 70000 ‘ Britannia’ at the ‘ Railway Age’in Crewe . Prodigal sons return to Devon THE SOUTH Devon Railway saw the return of one of its prodigal sons last week with the arrival back on SDR metals of BR Class 4MT 2 - 6 - 4 Standard Tank No . 80064 on Thursday , August 20 , writes DICK WOOD . First restored in Devon by Buckfastleigh - based volunteers and staff of the 80064 Locomotive Group from Barry scrapyard condition during the 1970 's , the engine will provide a much needed boost to the SDR 's expanding loco fleet . Following full restoration in 1981 , the loco group hoped to run the engine on the Totnes branch , but the Dart Valley Railway plc management decreed the loco was too heavy for the 16-ton line .
Idiom: on the money (used idiomatically: yes)
I did n't . I just hung grimly on because the salary was magnificent . I could n't dream of what I was going to do because you become so dependent on money . I talked to Tony Zanetta and he said , ' You 're not doing anything , are you ? ' I said , ' No , I think I 'll go . '
Idiom: in the loop (used idiomatically: yes)
The synthesis of modifications in the anticodon stem and loop were shown to be the most sensitive ones . We conclude that the obtained variations in the base modification pattern in the different tRNA variants are due to changes in the normal 3D - structure of tRNA Asp caused by the introduced mutations . Indeed , substitution of G10 to A10 in yeast tRNA Asp ( mutant a204 ) has been demonstrated to change the conformation of the tRNA ( 27 ) probably by disturbing the interaction between position 10 in the D - stem and position 45 in the variable loop ( 19 ) . Other bases in the variable loop of tRNA Asp are also involved in tertiary interactions , such as A46 hydrogen bonded to G22 in the D - stem and U48 hydrogen bonded to A15 in the D - loop of the tRNA ( 19 ) . As a consequence , insertion of an extra base between A46 and U48 in tRNA Asp ( mutants a209 , a210 , a214 and a215 ) affects the structure of the tRNA ( 28 ) , either by changing the distance between the interacting bases or by forming new interactions .
Idiom: in full swing (used idiomatically: yes)
DEPARTMENTS LEADER Elisabeth Hussey revels in the joys of fresh snow and the season is in full swing UPDATE The cream of the news ( and all of it good )
Idiom: go round in circles (used idiomatically: yes)
That 's the point , I mean I could do it . It 's the spare moment point . And also , but half the time it 's the problem arises because it 's , the machines gone to personnel without something , and then we 've got to spend time either chasing it up or getting another bit or going round in circles . It also it is a fact that the people that you do tend to lend the equipment out to take it for granted that you are also a highly qualified video sort of technician and if anything goes wrong , they ring you up and say ‘ What plug goes where , and why is n't this working’ and why should you if you 're working run down to some conference in the John Hall Room and try and sort out something for these people . You should n't .
Idiom: make the grade (used idiomatically: yes)
A sports career , in the Western world certainly , is reckoned to span about twelve years , terminating sometime after the thirtieth birthday . It can be finished sooner by incapacitating injury incurred during play , training or away from sport entirely . More likely in statistical terms is that it will close down even earlier due to judicious coaches ' or managers ' recommendations on the inadequacy of the majority of aspirants ‘ to make the grade’ . Sport is just one avenue , and a narrow one at that , through which a young person can achieve access to resources , prestige , wealth , feelings of self - adequacy . The professions , the civil service , the academic world and commerce are amongst the other routes , but travel along these requires two qualifications : an educational achievement motivation and a career orientation .
Idiom: in tandem (used idiomatically: yes)
‘ For some time , independents have argued for intervention on behalf of a British film industry : an initiative based around support for films with low production budgets , which neither copy American styles , nor turn into Euro - puddings . ‘ We 've been using Dream On as a kind of practical research , testing the possibilities . ‘ It 's being done in tandem with academic research into British production , distribution and exhibition over the past ten years . The aim is to produce a proper strategy for the future of British cinema.’ Dream On is currently showing in Middlesbrough as well as Newcastle .
Idiom: add insult to injury (used idiomatically: yes)
Missioners sided with the deaf and dumb population , being aware from personal experience that at least some degree of manualism was essential for communication with , and between , deaf and dumb people and that a proportion was capable of benefiting from higher education . The Commission provoked not only disappointment but anger and resentment by another recommendation to the effect " that the intermarriage of the congenital deaf should be strongly discouraged , as well as the intermarriage of blood relations , especially where any hereditary tendency to deaf mutism prevails in the family . " This added insult to injury . The recommendation was not only outside the terms of reference of the Commission , but , on the scientific and medical evidence by then available , without foundation . Unfavourable reaction to the Commission 's Report led to the first ever national conference in Great Britain of Adult Deaf and Dumb Missions and Associations , which at that time numbered upwards of thirty - six .
Idiom: do me a favour (used idiomatically: yes)
' But we 're more honourable , ' said Tim , unwisely . ' We look after you . ' ' Do me a favour , ' said Camille , wearily , suddenly mature , but Sam screamed with rage , remembering Danny and his idleness and greed . She regretted it almost immediately , for the boys looked embarrassed , not ashamed of themselves , as they should have been , but shy in the face of a tasteless demonstration . ' Let 's go down the pub , ' she suggested , as her temper ebbed .
Idiom: have words (used idiomatically: no)
And I agree , the Government claims it 's done a great deal for the environment . Indeed it has , it 's polluted the rivers , dumped toxic waste on our land , poisoned the air and poisoned the water . You also mention within your document the N H S. Well , let 's just have a little word about the N H S. Let 's talk about the dedic dedicated staff working in the N H S who have nothing to gain and everything to lose . What choice did you give them ? What choice do you give the patients that ca n't use that ward that you 've closed down ?
Idiom: beg the question (used idiomatically: yes)
Having quoted the opening of Gormenghast in 1.4 as an example of an opaque style , we shall now return to another passage which occurs shortly after it in the same novel . In the foregrounding model , stylistic value has a slightly different meaning from that which it has in the " stylistic variants " model : it refers to the special act of interpretation which we make in order to make sense of what would otherwise appear strange and unmotivated . Each qualitative foregrounding implicitly begs a question : what should have led the author to express himself in this exceptional way ? For this purpose , the exceptional includes not only the sense deviations we earlier called tropes ( 3.1C ) , but also the patterns or exceptional regularities of structure that we earlier called schemes . Like stylistic variants , foregrounded features can be observed on different levels of the code : tropes , such as metaphor , being chiefly associated with category violations ( on the levels of syntax and semantics ) , and schemes being chiefly associated with structural patterns ( on the levels of syntax and phonology ) .
Idiom: to boot (used idiomatically: yes)
The track sank without a trace when their label went under , but undeterred Whyte are back with a new deal on Dieter Meier of Yello 's Solid Pleasure Label . Their first offering is ‘ Promises’ , a balearic bounder replete with flamenco - fuelled guitars and fey indie vocals . Hispanic house with a sunshine vibe and a Fabi Paras facelift to boot . And Whyte ca n't wait to get out there and show the masses just who is behind the latest mover . To hell with anonymity and mystery .
Idiom: once in a while (used idiomatically: yes)
I realise Morrissey 's ambiguity on such subjects as race and sexuality will frustrate those who feel that a firm stance is necessary in the current political climate . Morrissey , of course , prefers arch playfulness and that is his prerogative as a person and a songwriter . Those who play with fire , however archly , must expect to get their fingers burnt once in a while , and when ironic lyrics are allied to questionable public utterances and clearly provocative imagery , then it is reasonable to question the man 's motives and intentions . So , Morrissey — where does fashion end and fascism begin ? Do tell ?
Idiom: the ball is in someone's court (used idiomatically: yes)
Under the terms of Knighton 's original contract with Edwards , he set midnight tomorrow as the deadline for posting a formal offer to shareholders . If he does not do so , Edwards will be able to sell his stake to the highest bidder . Peter Cole , a solicitor acting for Edwards , said after yesterday 's hearing : ' I think the ball is essentially in Knighton 's court . ' But the uncertainty over Knighton 's ability to raise the cash continued with a bizarre denial from his financial adviser , stockbroking firm Laing & Cruickshank , that they had guaranteed the deal to Edwards . Following reports in Manchester that the firm had confirmed to Edwards 's satisfaction that Knighton had the £ 10 m to buy his stake and a further £ 10 m to make a formal offer for the rest of the shares , Laing & Cruickshank said : ' It is completely untrue that we have given an assurance to anyone .
Idiom: turn heads (used idiomatically: yes)
Nina lived in the constant expectation that a horde of paparazzi was about to burst into her office and start firing off flashbulbs . Should this unlikely event take place , she did not want to be caught looking less than her usual immaculate self . She preened her elegant nose , turning her head slightly in order to give them all the benefit of her profile . ' November ? Oh God , ' said Petronella .
Idiom: in the works (used idiomatically: no)
Picasso , who was anxious to paint an object as he ' thought ' it , or to express his ideas about it , was naturally anxious to explain as fully as possible the nature of its formal composition . He thus seized on the concept of volume implicit in Cézanne as one of the means of doing so . This was a development which of course took place in Picasso 's work over a period of many months . However , when approaching Cézanne after an intensive analysis of the predominantly simple , sculptural forms of tribal art , Picasso was naturally most immediately drawn to the precise , solid treatment of volumes that is found in so much of Cézanne 's portraiture and still - life painting . The aspect of definition in Cézanne 's work , its ' measurable ' quality , is well illustrated by the fact that in one of his later Cubist phases Gris was able to interpret one of Cézanne 's portraits of his wife in terms of a few sharply defined , superimposed planes that capture much of the structural feeling of the original .
Idiom: small print (used idiomatically: yes)
Editor , — Is it not time for the BMJ to set the same standards for the drug advertisements it carries as it does for scientific papers ? I have been increasingly irritated by the recent series of double page advertisements for Proscar ( finasteride ) . The strident claims of the manufacturer — MSD — are supported by two references : of these one is quoted no less than four times , but on reading the small print this reference turns out to be ‘ data on file Merck , Sharp and Dohme Ltd’— hardly the most impartial of sources . It is left to Minerva to give a more balanced view ; reporting on a large trial of the same drug she notes ‘ men hoping for a drug treatment for benign prostatic hypertrophy will have to wait a while longer … small improvements in a urinary flow rate and a small reduction in the size of the gland have to be balanced against negative effect on both libido and potency.’ Given Minerva 's comments I hope this is the last we will see of this particular advertisement , but in future may I suggest advertisements are refereed and that manufacturers should be permitted to quote only published material and not their own files as references ?
Idiom: out of line (used idiomatically: no)
The bait that Neville Chamberlain was happy to fall for . Change the law … father 's plea after drinking binge ends in daughter 's death . Out of the firing line … Bosnians start new life in Britain . And a model regime … judge praises prison for caring approach .
Idiom: face to face (used idiomatically: yes)
people do n't like asking for that though . Yeah . But if you ask for it face to face they 'll blo they 'll say well no I do n't do you did n't say that . Mhm . If you had told me that you would n't be here .
Idiom: rags to riches (used idiomatically: yes)
His Palm Beach socialite mother Naoma was so outraged when John , 35 , we d the notorious divorcee Roxanne Pulitzer in Las Vegas , she cut him off . But he is back in the fold now the marriage has collapsed . ‘ This is an affair of the heart,’ rags to riches Roxanne had said before the wedding . She became notorious during her divorce from publishing heir Peter Puliter amid claims of society drug taking and kinky sex . Neither is saying what went wrong .