Gooogr/pie_idioms huggingface dataset:
Idiom: get to grips with (used idiomatically: yes)
For next year , we 're also getting a further specific grant , which we 're showing up here , but instead of continuing the distribution that we 've got in the current year , the government have decided that that should be entirely distributed on S S A factors , and again that 's been to the detriment of Sh Shropshire . I 'm not saying that there was n't an expectation that there would be a gradual move in there , and ultimately we would suffer and we would lose that level of grant . The difficulty I think that we 're facing , is that it 's happening in year two of a four year transition period , before we 've really got to grips with what the long - term position is , what the overall demands are , and to what degree we are going to be able to model , change , control and , and influence those demands . Erm , so it is , how shall I put it , erm , unfortunate I think , in , in Shropshire 's view , that they did n't continue along the distribution on the previous basis . Those two put together , I think we lost about three hundred thousand pounds as a result of the change in distribution .
Idiom: all over the place (used idiomatically: yes)
Ace frowned . What was going on here ? The conversation was hopping all over the place like a dakkabug on a griddle . ‘ Albert , the master of witty repartee , says ‘ Piss off’,’ she retorted , finally finding a use for the punchline of the worst joke she 'd ever been told . A whiff of burned material caught her attention .
Idiom: play games (used idiomatically: yes)
But , against the experienced Uhlenhorst and Terrassa , both packed with international players , the Havant side , led by David Faulkner in his last season as captain , will do well to improve on Hounslow 's fourth place last season . If , as expected , they finish second behind Uhlenhorst in their group , they will play for the bronze medal against Terrassa or Bloemendaal — both formidable opponents . Murray Howell , the Edinburgh Civil Service goalkeeper , will play his last games for the club this weekend in the European Cup Winners ' Cup B Division tournament at Swansea . Howell has taken up a job in Aberdeen and feels he may no longer be able to spare the time to travel back to Edinburgh each weekend . Once he has settled into his new post he may again become actively involved in the sport .
Idiom: on the rocks (used idiomatically: yes)
Alexandra dug her toes into fissures in the canyon wall and pulled herself on to the platform which was dry and flat and sloped slightly towards the sea . It was the perfect look - out . Glowing now after her exercise , she sat down on the rock and pulled her skirts over her knees , hugging them to her so that her chin could rest there while she gazed . It was perhaps the most luxurious moment she had ever known . Vibrant with exercise , alone , firmly pushing aside all thought that oppressed her , she sat and watched the sea , while the salty air buffeted softly against her cheeks and the gulls wheeled overhead , slightly paler than the pale sky .
Idiom: in the long run (used idiomatically: yes)
The financial burden has been heavy and much energy and organisation has had to be diverted from politically motivated activities to illegal or legal fund raising . BACKLASH A government which condones and orchestrates crime , racketeering and violence as a means of alienating and isolating terrorist or political opponents from their host populations will , in the long run , pay the price of alienating itself from the general public . The latter may not realise in a coherent way what is afoot , but it knows that the duty of a government is to provide law and order and senses that it is not deploying its resources to do so . The first grassroot backlash in the Ulster public came within the Irish republican districts .
Idiom: bite the bullet (used idiomatically: yes)
" Cairns Group " proposals It was reported on Oct. 16 that the 13 countries of the " Cairns Group " of agricultural exporting nations , led by Australia [ see pp . 36508 ; 37228 ] , had agreed to support the US proposal for reductions in subsidies but had demanded that the " export component " in US deficiency payments to farmers also be subjected to a 90 per cent cutback . Peter Field , the chief Australian negotiator , said that although developing countries in the " Cairns Group " would be expected to make lower cuts in protective import tariffs , their endorsement of the proposals showed that they were " prepared to bite the bullet " . Other developments in Uruguay Round Trade ministers at their Oct. 11 - 13 Newfoundland meeting [ see above]agreed to reject calls to extend the December deadline for completing the Uruguay Round .
Idiom: set the wheels in motion (used idiomatically: yes)
Merrill watched the petite figure , the vivacious face with its generous mouth and dark , dancing eyes , and warmed to her immediately . ' Thank you , but it was Rob 's idea . I merely set a few wheels in motion . ' ' Rob 's often spoken about you , and I 'm so pleased you could come . I 'll show you the cloakroom … '
Idiom: on the level (used idiomatically: no)
On a comparable basis , the profit will be on a similar level as last year .
Idiom: have no truck with (used idiomatically: yes)
He was a charming , thick - bearded man with faintly hooded eyes ; he came with Israeli recommendations , ‘ the best thing since bagels’ , and had , at some time past , worked with the CIA . The arrangement had been terminated . As Clair George recalled , a ‘ burn notice’ had been issued , advising members of the agency to have no truck with him . When listening to Ghorbanifar , as a CIA man reported in December 1985 , it was ‘ extremely difficult to separate the good from the bad information.’ Ghorbanifar claimed to be intimate with the government of Iran , close enough to know that a ‘ terrorist war’ would ensue unless the United States reached a rapid agreement cemented with arms .
Idiom: moment of truth (used idiomatically: yes)
Mr Major and his campaign team ended the week in a heartened frame of mind , particularly after the recovery from the jolt of Labour 's sudden surge in the polls last week . They felt they had hit the targets by going on about tax and emphasising the warning that votes for the Lib Dems would only help Labour . They felt sure that at the moment of truth in the polling booth most voters will consider their wallets . Over the past three weeks I have conducted my own scientific poll among the taxi drivers who have taken me to and from Conservative Central Office each day . All three party leaders have their admirers and the feeling on the ranks is that it will be a hung Parliament .
Idiom: the icing on the cake (used idiomatically: no)
Crowd Pleaser It 's attractive football all right with well - animated players running along a horizontally scrolling 3-D pitch , complete with advertising hoardings and roaring crowd . The icing on the scrummy cake is the brilliant pre - match options menu , offering the selection of your squad , any of the eight national teams , a full tournament , lots of control options , two - player games and , as they say in cruddy Christmas album adverts , much much more ! Brilliantly designed , very realistic and , despite being a tad tricky to master at first , incredibly playable . Emlyn is in the top scorer of C64 footy games , but as this month 's ' mazing Megatape will testify , you wo n't have to wait ' till its budget release to find that out , Brian .
Idiom: put down roots (used idiomatically: yes)
The truth of the matter was that even before she had agreed to take over the club she had been plagued more and more by a feeling that she had done all she could do in the music business . After all , she had enjoyed ten very successful years , but the so - called glamour Adam had referred to had in many ways begun to pall . Living the life of a nomad , travelling from city to city , never being able to put down roots in any one place , had taken its toll . She turned away , sending up a silent but not very optimistic prayer that her tiny slip had passed unnoticed . Until she 'd made up her mind one way or the other , the last thing she needed was for rumours of an imminent retirement from music to start circulating .
Idiom: touch and go (used idiomatically: yes)
Deane … Wallace and Speed were the scorers … shame Town ca n't appeal and ask for a replay … no such excuses for Oxford United … we've got them in close - up … this match was touch and go for a long time … lots of action … lots of shots … lots of saves … not a lot of goals … most of the chances came to quick United 's Phil Whitehead had a blinder in goal …
Idiom: have words (used idiomatically: no)
Thomas Love Peacock , Crochet Castle . While we are dealing with format it will be appropriate to consider the binding . The Greeks , as ever , had a word for it — two words , in fact , literally meaning ' to fix a book ' , which , as a rough definition , is as good as any to describe the process of putting a protective cover round the printed sections . Biblion and pegnunai give us ' bibliopegy ' , which is the art of binding books , and ' bibliopegist ' , the student and lover of bindings . The aspirant to such a designation , if he wishes to collect , has a number of courses open to him .
Idiom: take it easy (used idiomatically: yes)
See I , I did n't want to give up . I felt after working hard for twenty seven years I felt it was a shame . I did n't accept er the opportunity to retire and take it easy , it seemed as if I had worked twenty seven years for nothing ! But you must of had the enjoyment of , of the work itself ? Oh yes !
Idiom: pull the plug (used idiomatically: yes)
How long this can and should , go on is the question which has to be asked , and answered . In none of the three alternative situations described above does switching off the ventilator have any significance , of itself , from a medical - legal point of view . ' Pulling the plug ' is not an event to tax the criminal lawyer . The language of analogies , such as'cutting the last thread of life ' , is both inaccurate and unhelpful . Provided he acts with good faith and all due care in the context outlined above , the doctor who turns off the ventilator does nothing to warrant criminal sanction .
Idiom: in the black (used idiomatically: yes)
The special association between Guinness and food is a long standing one , indeed has been the fashion since 1759 . And no wonder . Finished in attractive black with contrasting white top , it fits well into any surroundings , is easily portable , easily drinkable , and available in a variety of sizes . It comes with a knock down tag of a mere 94 calories per glass . The taste of Guinness produces a fleeting dryness that makes it a most agreeable way to put an edge on an appetite .
Idiom: jockey for position (used idiomatically: yes)
Risk involves appearing vulnerable , stupid , isolated . Other people may attack , humiliate , avoid us . With us all jockeying for position in the status stakes , we ca n't afford for this to happen . No risks taken means no failure and no likelihood of looking stupid . We may become timid because we 're avoiding risks .
Idiom: make or break (used idiomatically: yes)
Carey is quick to deny this . ‘ Research is important , although we have to be selective . For one thing , we have to be smart at spotting new trends in feedstock usage , because this can make or break our profitability . Then there is new chemistry to be developed — on ways of making nylon and terephthalic acid , for instance . We are also looking at how we might make more intensive use of many co - products from our plants .
Idiom: to say the least (used idiomatically: yes)
The success of the ad hoc collaboration and co - operation between Hickson and Jacques during the war owed little to the elaborate mechanism of the RAC so tortuously constructed and thus led inevitably to its demise . By March 1944 Hickson , as Secretary to the Cambridge Board which was then reviewing its future organisation for the post - war period , was sufficiently assured to write of the Rural Areas Committee : The status and functions … are rather obscure , and the administrative arrangements are complicated , to say the least . It seems necessary to try to simplify and improve the machinery in the interests of the Board 's work , and also in order that the University and voluntary associations may be able to show to LEAs that their share in adult education will be effectively conducted . He recommended that :
Idiom: up for grabs (used idiomatically: yes)
I mean that 's that you know , I mean Yeah it 's all up for grabs I would suggest . Yeah yeah . It was also discussed that nine thirty was n't early enough .
Idiom: high and low (used idiomatically: no)
The white areas are the brightest and the red the dimmest . Sometimes the face of the Sun is covered in sunspots ; other times it is almost naked of them . In the middle of the nineteenth century it was discovered that the highs and lows of sunspot activity recur over a fairly regular cycle of 11 years . In fact the period seems somewhat variable , so that it makes more sense to talk of a 22-year cycle between one sunspot ' high ' and , not the next , but the one after that . It seems , therefore , that the prevalence of spots on the Sun 's surface follows not a single I l - year cycle but a 22-year ' double - cycle ' .
Idiom: get stuck in (used idiomatically: yes)
Where is a sociological account of the relative importance attached to these areas in the totality of women 's experience ? Possibly the family and marriage are areas in which sociological visibility exceeds social presence ; certainly the presence of men as fathers is not matched by an equal visibility in the discipline . A sign of the over - exposure of women in this area is the low status of family and marriage sociology : as a radical young female sociologist asked the feminist - sociologist Alice Rossi in a moment of unguarded chauvinism : ‘ how did you manage to get stuck in a low status field like marriage and the family?’ The status of this area is low , because the status of its subjects — women — is also low , and because attitudes prevailing among sociologists towards the position of women as an academic subject serve persistently to trivialize its importance . Another consideration is whether conceptual distinctions and classifications in family and marriage sociology are appropriate to a female perspective .
Idiom: on edge (used idiomatically: yes)
Tom and Mary purchased a small parcel of land on the edge of town , where they plan to grow vegetables .
Idiom: nothing doing (used idiomatically: yes)
It has discovered some extraordinary photographers and some diabolical journalists CARTER USM Getting nothing done in the recording studio on a Wednesday . When we 're touring outside Britain and the management or record company come out to see us , they have to bring us a copy of the NME , otherwise we moan like f— We ca n't remember any , but the first time we were on the cover was one of the high points of our short and illustrious career ( pass the sickbag please , stewardess )
Idiom: get the better of (used idiomatically: yes)
His eyes gleamed with sudden amusement . ‘ I did , as a matter of fact.’ When he said no more , curiosity got the better of her and she asked , ‘ So what is she?’ ‘ You tell me.’ Luce thought over what she knew about the other woman .
Idiom: song and dance (used idiomatically: yes)
And Jeff Goldblum , the spaceship driver , falls in love with Geena Davis , whose pool it is . Thus are the stars of Cronenberg 's The Fly reunited in dramatically different circumstances . The film 's musical score and song and dance numbers are surprisingly its weakest ingredient , though the shooting and editing of Earth Girls Are Easy is often highly original - especially the black and white dream sequence that 's a model of its kind and almost a music video in itself . Slaphappy and occasionally slapdash as the film sometimes seems at its more louche moments , as a dramatic entity its energy , irony and visual wit make one forgive almost all . Contrary to persistent rumour , Kylie Minogue 's first film , The Delinquents ( Warner West End , 12 , from Boxing Day ) is not the flaccid cods - up we might have expected .
Idiom: tell tales (used idiomatically: no)
‘ He was most anxious for your comfort.’ ‘ Oh?’ said Theda again . Although her tone was non - committal , and her face gave nothing away , there was a tell - tale glint in the deep grey eyes . Tread warily , the lawyer told himself . He indicated the room with a sweep of his arm .
Idiom: bottom drawer (used idiomatically: no)
In the meantime they had lost a Sea Fury . This was former Royal Canadian Navy FB.11 G – AGHB , bought originally from Ormond Haydon - Baillie after an engine failure at Osnabruck . Spencer just happened to have in his bottom drawer , as it were , a spare Centaurus engine . With the intrepid Mike Searle , they journeyed to and from Osnabruck each day to change the engine . Work complete , Mike Searle was destined to fly the Sea Fury home with Spencer in the King Air .
Idiom: go downhill (used idiomatically: yes)
The views of people who had previously looked after those who died sometimes reflected their gratitude and admiration for the people who took on this task . A friend of 30 years standing who had previously cared for a woman with senile dementia described how : I thought she was just being awkward until she slowly went downhill and became incontinent . I got help from the social services for this : they brought sheets and pillowcases from the hospital . The crux came when she became doubly incontinent and her mind had got to the point where she had forgotten how her body functioned .
Idiom: seal of approval (used idiomatically: yes)
The French have offered modest new credits . The Americans have announced food - aid , know - how and investment support schemes , and $ 200 m of credit which may go towards the $ 1bn ‘ stabilisation loan’ requested by the Polish government . Much of this is conditional on an IMF seal of approval . Everyone is waiting for the Japanese . Everything depends on everything else .
Idiom: go public (used idiomatically: yes)
No more implanting the virus from within , no more attempting to gatecrash a terrain that no longer really belongs to us ( whatever it may once have been , simple demographic change has turned pop into global light entertainment ) . No more agoraphobia ( mistrust of anything longer than the classic three minutes , the squitBrit aversion to the cumulus wail ) . No more going public and imagining that by the gesture alone you 'll be ‘ improving’ matters . With the music we like , it does n't matter if it does n't ‘ breakthrough’ , if it does n't ‘ happen’— because , by being created , it 's happening . It 's there as a choice , a reproach , and its remoteness from the secular pop world is a sign of its success .
Idiom: go downhill (used idiomatically: yes)
I thought the remit of the poll was players who were sold while in their prime . Cooper , Hunter , Bremner , Giles , Clarke and Lorimer were all unloaded when well past their best . In Lorimer 's case , he was bought back because the club went downhill faster than he had . The players I think are worth considering from my time as a Leeds supporter are Jordan — My world caved in when he went , basically because he wanted to better himself financially and because he thought Leeds were never going to to be a force under Jimmmy Armfield .
Idiom: play games (used idiomatically: yes)
He understands their need fur contingency , for cover , and accepts a reasonable amount . The Profitboss never manipulates his budgets to show a paper profit he knows ho can not achieve , nor does he massage his costs for reasons of comfort and insurance against poor performance . He plays no budgetary games nor does he tolerate finance people playing games with him . His budget is a cast - iron commitment . That means a commitment to every figure in it , a commitment to taking a risk to achieve the budgeted outputs .
Idiom: out of sorts (used idiomatically: yes)
Sir Thomas said in a low voice , throbbing in what he hoped was emotion . ‘ I should perhaps wait for some more romantic hour.’ In fact he had fully intended to wait for a suitable moonlit warm right , but the trying events of the day had put him so out of sorts that he could stand the waiting no longer . The affirmative he knew would follow would help him in the discussion this evening with the Prince of Wales . The vote had been taken , but as Angelina would undoubtedly now regret her stance , she would make her views clear to His Royal Highness .
Idiom: on ice (used idiomatically: yes)
Blackburn chairman Rob Coar said that Warhurst had undergone a medical and x - rays , the results of which would not be known until next week . If all is well the £ 2.75 million deal will then be completed . Warhurst was originally set to jump aboard the Kenny Dalglish bandwagon for £ 3 million last month , but the deal was put on ice when Wednesday failed to land Brian Deane from neighbours Sheffield United as replacement . The thaw came yesterday afternoon when Dalglish 's right hand man Ray Harford stepped in . Warhurst said : ‘ Ray rang me right out of the blue at 5 pm on Thursday afternoon to say the deal was back on again and would I come to Blackburn .
Idiom: nine times out of ten (used idiomatically: yes)
Usually in practice only one of the charges is preferred , i.e. loitering ( over a period of time ) or soliciting ( usually a verbal invitation ) . 4 . ‘ in a street ( or public place)’ This point is proved by naming the street and in nine times out of ten will cause no problems . But in cases of doubt the definition at point ( B ) 4 should be consulted and the particular place proved by describing how the place comes within the definition . 5 .
Idiom: watch this space (used idiomatically: yes)
BROTHER now plan a series of school seminars aimed at presenting a positive role model for black children . ' With high - profile black figures , we can show that drug dealing is n't the only way to gain a nice car , ' explains BROTHER director Curfew . Watch this space . december manifesto This month Gavin Hills demands the following :
Idiom: in the offing (used idiomatically: yes)
The chairman of selectors could be Michel Crauste , another former international . If the Paparemborde / Fouroux / Lepasset group manages to upset the transition of power , then Pierre Berbizier could be the surprise appointment as national coach . However , if a stalemate occurs , then new elections would seem to be in the offing . Thank goodness France does not start its Five Nations campaign until February 1st , giving them another two weeks to put their house in order . In the dock
Idiom: come to grief (used idiomatically: yes)
This is clear in the sense that applied technique includes the human organization or system that sets equipment to work . Equally importantly the concept includes the physical integration of a new piece of equipment into a production process and its subsequent refinement and modification at the hands of the technically skilled workforce . Many manufacturers have come to grief on the belief that technical solutions can be bought pre - packaged . This is to ignore , precisely , the fact that in operation these are always socio - technical solutions . What is at issue is precisely the ‘ cultural’ context in which these solutions have to work .