Gooogr/pie_idioms huggingface dataset:
Idiom: take the piss (used idiomatically: yes)
You did it without?fucking mad . Well I got up there started fucking going for it . Would n't mind so much but they kept taking the piss out I was wearing my socks . Yeah Mark apparently he 's got the second biggest cock that this had ever seen . Are you sure
Idiom: on the cards (used idiomatically: yes)
SNAPPY SNACKS Baxters of Speyside has produced Green Cuisine Recipe Cards . The 22 delicious vegetarian snacks on easy - wipe laminate cards have been created by Sarah Brown . We have 100 to give away until March 13 . … Offer requests , both telephone and postal , are chosen at random .
Idiom: get to the bottom of (used idiomatically: yes)
It offends the elite , of course . ‘ These men,’ said a teacher , ‘ do not even speak in Castilian , but in slang ; sometimes they do n't even know how to write , and can hardly read . And they quote epistles of St. Paul so difficult that the theologians , who have been working on them for two thousand years , have not got to the bottom of them . By what authority do they teach?’ That is just the reaction provoked by Jesus and by the informal missionaries in the Acts ( Mark I:27 , Acts 4:13 ) .
Idiom: seal of approval (used idiomatically: yes)
The greatest accolade came when Reggie came to the show , bringing Joyce 's closest friend Virginia Graham . Like most people who knew Joyce well , she had been filled with trepidation at the prospect of seeing someone trying on Joyce 's inimitable footwear . By the end of the evening both she and Reggie had given us their seal of approval . I was worried that the evening and particularly the ending would upset him . He said ‘ No .
Idiom: clutch at straws (used idiomatically: yes)
' They 'll have got him . ' ' It could only have been one , ' said the Leader decisively , ' probably Hugh is right , it was the boy . ' ' How can you be sure it was only one ? ' the thin man asked doubtfully but clutching at a straw of hope . ' Because you 're alive , ' Michael snarled , ' which you certainly would n't be if there had been more than one of them here . ' ' Perhaps it was the Friar , ' the thin man said , scarcely less alarmed by the thought of this than the thought of the unspecified ' they ' .
Idiom: in the long run (used idiomatically: yes)
If by law the monopolist was forced to charge a fixed price P C , the monopolist would face a horizontal demand curve P C E ' ; up to the output Q ' ; . Since P C would then also be marginal revenue , the monopolist would produce at E ' ; where the marginal revenue and marginal cost coincide . Although Q ' ; is the socially efficient output , society can not force the monopolist to produce here in the long run . Since E ' ; lies below the corresponding point on LAC at the output Q ' ; , the monopolist is making losses and would rather go out of business . At this output the social marginal benefit P M exceeds the social marginal cost at A. The monopolist produces too little .
Idiom: take the gilt off the gingerbread (used idiomatically: yes)
This was given by Mrs Jean Mellonie , Jean Farrow as she was in 1939 when , aged nineteen and at her third attempt , she became the first woman ever to win the race and in record time despite rain and hail . She never entered again after that . ‘ It would have taken the gilt off the gingerbread’ , she said . Unfortunately the cup was only awarded for a few years before that too disappeared . Now there is another cup donated by Jean Farrow 's daughter , Victoria Revell , in memory of her mother .
Idiom: in the long run (used idiomatically: yes)
The view that keeping warm was socially undesirable was not a convincing argument for most consumers , whatever appeals to their spirit of cooperation on peak use were made . The common misery imposed by coal rationing could be avoided by the simple expedient of plugging in and switching on , and in the later 1940s about two - fifths of domestic electricity sales were for space heating . There were , moreover , many commercial men within the Boards who felt that in the long run it would be desirable and economic to win the space heating load . All but a few households in Britain relied for heating on solid fuel fires in the principal room , and few considered it necessary to heat bedrooms or bathrooms continuously , even in winter . Many electric fires were thus used as intermittent bedroom heating at night , or to heat the main room on cooler spring or autumn evenings when the coal fire had not been needed during the day .
Idiom: turn someone's head (used idiomatically: yes)
‘ That is a wise remark.’ ‘ No , a common truth.’ Mrs Thorne turned her head . The eyes are a young woman 's eyes , Miss Cress observed , bright , shrewd . ‘ Now,’ she went on , ‘ now I would so like to hear about this Uncle you talk of , the Cabinet Minister .
Idiom: for my money (used idiomatically: yes)
Well I think it 's reasonable to say as well it was one that was deserved was n't it ? They 've been threatening that for the last fifteen minutes or so . Had a er not the best of starts but they 've taken control of the game for my money o over the last period . Agnew has just er received treatment from Alan Smith . He got kicked in the head by his own player Mike Whitlow there but I do n't think he 'll mind because er it all contributed to the goal .
Idiom: on the run (used idiomatically: yes)
But Gentleman James never runs to win or bothers with pbs . As Rob Howard explains , the challenge of running is reward enough . Every morning at about 5 am , come rain or shine , James Zarei leaves his South Croydon home on his morning run . When even the milkmen and the postmen are not on the streets , he sets off for his daily three hour run , then swims for an hour before finally starting his day 's work as a leather goods salesman . It is a routine which would break most people , but Zarei is a top class ultra runner and this relentless pounding of the streets of London is merely preparation for some of the world 's most gruelling races .
Idiom: muddy the waters (used idiomatically: yes)
My my view is that er those proposals would still stand to be considered as departures to to the structure plan . Er what the policy does is to set out quite clearly , I 'm really looking at the the Humberside structure plan policy as an example , as to how the material considerations would come into play in erm offsetting if you like the the pol the other policies of the structure plan . And far far from muddying the waters I think it makes clear that there are certain considerations that are acknowledged er which would allow certain proposals to come forward . Rather than rather than having a sort of under the counter scenario where er material considerations you know will be considered when it when it 's a separate planning application comes in there are there an ack there is an acknowledgement or a framework which is in a formal local plan which which identifies what the main considerations will be . Thank you .
Idiom: kick the habit (used idiomatically: yes)
After spending a night in a foster home , both girls went to spend Christmas with their grandparents . Mel to kick Lethal Habit CHAIN - SMOKING actor Mel Gibson will make a New Year resolution to kick the habit — for the 10th year running . This time the star of Lethal Weapon believes he can finally do it , using acupuncture . ‘ I 've been treated like a pin - cushion , but it seems to be working so far,’ he said .
Idiom: twist someone's arm (used idiomatically: yes)
She had taken his intervention at face value , but perhaps the whole incident had been planned , deliberately , as a way to inveigle himself into her good books . She had assumed that Harry Martin was behind it all , but who was to say if Luke Calder had n't coldly and calculatedly planned the whole thing ? Anger gave her an added surge of strength , and she twisted her arm sharply downwards and broke his grip . She jumped out of the car and hurried along the road , ignoring the colourful epithet that followed her . Behind her she could hear the sudden roar of the car engine as he pulled away from the kerb , then the steady throb as he slowed it alongside her .
Idiom: follow suit (used idiomatically: yes)
She checked a grateful Hermia . Paul checked his big , black thoroughbred . Perdita checked Hermia even harder , Paul followed suit . Filled with the devil , Perdita swung Hermia even closer to the boards , so the ponies ' nearside hooves were scraping the paint off , and Paul , who 'd been instructed to mark Perdita at all costs , stayed with her . For a second his mind was off the ball , leaving it free for Patrick Lombard to belt in and whip it away , dribbling it for a few yards , then powering it to Mike , who , relishing his new freedom at Number Two , took it up field .
Idiom: Indian summer (used idiomatically: yes)
The very thing for which the bourgeoisie strove , profit , ceased to be an adequate motivation once it had brought sufficient wealth . Towards the end of the century the bourgeoisie discovered at least a temporary formula for combining getting and spending , cushioned by the acquisitions of the past . These final decades before the catastrophe of 1914 were to be the ‘ Indian summer’ , the belle époque of bourgeois life , retrospectively lamented by its survivors . But in the third quarter of the nineteenth century the contradictions were perhaps at their most acute : effort and enjoyment coexisted , but clashed . And sexuality was one of the victims of the conflict , hypocrisy the victor .
Idiom: kiss of life (used idiomatically: no)
‘ How could you have known ? It could have been very recent . Why did n't you at least try to resuscitate her , give her the kiss of life ? It would have been worth overcoming your natural repugnance.’ Dalgliesh heard Meg Dennison make a small sound between a gasp and a groan .
Idiom: in the saddle (used idiomatically: no)
He could feel the fighting around and behind him slacken . His horse had taken a dozen blows and was weakening . Thorfinn lifted himself in the saddle and saw men 's heads turn , and the flash of a spear to be deflected . He was the only man still mounted , apart from the Normans , and the Normans had seen him . Siward , taller than anyone else , was behind him and to the left .
Idiom: out to lunch (used idiomatically: yes)
I hope you do n't mind answering a letter from a man , but I do n't know how to cope with this woman in my office . She was going out with a friend of mine , but she came on so strong that she frightened him off . She was so obviously upset by the break - up that I asked her out to lunch to cheer her up , and I asked her home because I thought my mother and sister might help her . Unfortunately she now clings to me all the time and I find it terribly embarrassing and uncomfortable . She somehow manages to put invitations so cleverly that I can hardly refuse them — will I advise her about a job move , will I try out a new restaurant with her before she entertains a client there ?
Idiom: follow suit (used idiomatically: yes)
This produced a sense of helplessness in many people . Sometimes they felt that they had no worth or purpose . The need for short - term profits caused the run - down of many manufacturing industries around which communities and lives revolved and when this raw profit - standard was applied to power and energy industries , they followed suit . Consuming or just shopping became the remedy for both economic and personal problems . People were encouraged to purchase furnishings , appliances , clothes , videos and entertainment systems and prepared food : this provided jobs in retailing , distribution and transport , and in assembly of imported components .
Idiom: at the end of the day (used idiomatically: no)
And the same thing happened with that broom , too . And the next , and the next ; the mess made making each broom had to be cleared up with that same broom , and wore it away . So at the end of the day there was a great big pile of twigs outside the hut , but not one broom left.’ ‘ That 's silly!’ ‘ That 's a waste , sure it is , dad?’
Idiom: get on someone's nerves (used idiomatically: yes)
Make a bloody song and dance of it ! Do n't half get on your nerves ! It gets on my nerves anyway ! I chucked them all off last week . I 've got ta make the bloody bed yet !
Idiom: no smoke without fire (used idiomatically: yes)
As a God - fearing man I took n'heed . Such things are naught but feeble threats to ig — gnor'nt peasants . But there 's no smoke without fire . The evil 's there , lying dorm'nt waiting ash … shance t 'strike … ’ The Captain 's words slipped and slithered as his outrageous temper blew up into unbelievable fury , all reason washed away by wine .
Idiom: come unstuck (used idiomatically: yes)
But Seabrook promises it is a one - off break with Kwik Save 's stance against Sunday trading . Sour note from U.S. SUGAR giant Tate & Lyle has come unstuck in the US . A disastrous sugar beet harvest slashed its American contribution and this cut the group 's pre - tax total from £ 230.8 m to £ 189.5 m . Profits in Britain were sweet , rising from £ 17.3 m to £ 20 m .
Idiom: spring to mind (used idiomatically: yes)
Sarah Freeman 's The Student Cook Book is snappily sub - titled ‘ Eating well without mixer , microwave or money’ . The recipes in it ( there are over 100 ) are indeed ideally suited to students ; Sarah Freeman sensibly assumes a fairly restricted range of kitchen equipment , and the ingredients are all basic supermarket supplies . But there are lots of categories of cooks who would greatly appreciate a collection of cheap , quick , simple , healthy and trendy meals ; The Parents of Students Cook Book springs to mind as one of many alternative titles . The major restriction must of course be culinary inexperience . The Student Cook Book is exceptionally good at providing basic , helpful advice without sounding patronising or comic , and it is refreshing to have clear , reasonably technical explanations of , for instance , what chemical changes happen to the yeast in bread dough .
Idiom: sick to death (used idiomatically: yes)
And then she changed her mind I think . You 're alright , you something and then she stopped . And I told her once , I said I 'm sick to death of hearing you say that every time I come ! But she did n't have a lot to say about Roe 's conversation ? Nope .
Idiom: stand up and be counted (used idiomatically: yes)
Undeterred by the understandable timidity of his acquaintances , Goma hit upon a masterstroke of irony . The Open Letter broadcast by RFE in February 1977 was addressed to the President of the Socialist Republic of Romania ‘ at the Royal Palace’ . Goma appealed to the man who denounced the Soviet invasion of Czechoslovakia in August 1968 to stand up and be counted , and so give an example to his fellow citizens to persuade them to overcome their reticence about signing the Charter : I turn to you in despair . You are my last hope …
Idiom: anything goes (used idiomatically: yes)
Before the war he had been stationed in Holland , during the war he had served with MI6 in Turkey and , in mid-1944 , had been appointed head of MI6 's operations in Berne , in Switzerland . After the war , Elliott had been responsible for the interrogation of the Russian spy Kim Philby before he defected . Elliott agreed to mount the operation and , as is often the custom with intelligence agencies when engaged in hazardous operations , decided to use a freelance agent so that , if anything went wrong , MI6 could distance itself from the affair and deny any knowledge of it . To make this very difficult underwater inspection , MI6 approached one of the Royal Navy 's most experienced wartime frogmen — Commander Lionel ‘ Buster’ Crabb GM OBE RNVR . Crabb had served with distinction as an expert in the newly developed art of underwater warfare in the RNVR .
Idiom: out of the blue (used idiomatically: yes)
Teenagers ( and children ) should always be told about future events involving them moving house , or father going into hospital for an operation so that they have time to adjust to the idea . If you give them time and sufficient explanation and preparation , children can deal surprisingly well with crises in their lives . They suffer far more psychological shock if an event hits them out of the blue . As children get older , it helps to hold short family meetings to discuss matters like holidays , which concern the whole family , and talk over anything which is important to the child — her pocket money or when to return home from a party . Guideline 24 : Tell your teenager how you feel .
Idiom: the more the merrier (used idiomatically: yes)
Yeah . Down by the Blue Boar . Yeah , the more the merrier , go on . Down by the Blue Boar yeah . Go on .
Idiom: run riot (used idiomatically: yes)
Whereas Belial Base had been built on the outer surface of a solid moon , Moloch Base was inside a hollow one ; a miracle of planetary engineering which , after five years , still had Bannen and his team groping in the dark for answers to questions they did n't even know how to formulate . The ground of this bizarre world rose gradually in all directions , curving overhead until it was lost above the clouds . Vegetation ran riot . Duty teams maintained a neat lawn surrounding the base but , beyond the perimeter , a lush pink jungle rose in fantastic profusion towards the flat glare of a pale , artificial ‘ sun’ whose energy was provided by the same mysterious means as powered the Bridge and the Lift . Translucent shapes undulated through the jungle , glimmering in the sunlight : the only life the Lucifer System had so far offered up for study .
Idiom: yes and no (used idiomatically: no)
In medical education , or in the teaching of some scientific or technological subjects , it could actually be dangerous . When it comes to saving lives or building bridges , the last thing we want is for uninformed and inexperienced students to form their own ideas . Well , yes and no . It is obvious that students should not believe that their own ideas by themselves are valid . In our earlier discussion of truth ( see Chapter 4 ) , we saw that it is not available in any absolute sense ; but this does not mean that ‘ anything goes’ .
Idiom: give and take (used idiomatically: yes)
Apart from D H Lawrence , no one has written so fervently about modern marriage as Vincent in 1881 . ' I do love , and I am loved , ' wrote Lawrence in a letter . ' I have given and I have taken — and that is eternal . Oh , if only people could marry properly . I believe in marriage . '
Idiom: know the score (used idiomatically: no)
To an extent , of course , the orchestra is the instrument the conductor is himself trying to master . HvK This is true , and no one can say they know a score , however well it may be known in the mind , until it has been tried on the orchestra . The moment you stand in front of an orchestra you hurt yourself on the inertia of the matter . I am not talking here about laziness .
Idiom: keep someone posted (used idiomatically: yes)
Please send your letter(s ) as soon as possible , to arrive by Monday 4th March — the day before F&S — at the latest . The more letters are received , the more attention is likely to be paid to the strength of staff feeling , so pleas join in the action . We will keep you posted with the results of this letter - writing campaign . If it has no effect , members will be consulted again on ways of stepping up the action . Amendment for the ACTS extraordinary meeting 13 March 1991
Idiom: serve someone right (used idiomatically: yes)
At any rate , everybody would think she had condoned his writing it and that should raise a fine storm for her . He clenched the steering wheel so hard that the car wobbled , and he hastily righted it . It would serve her right . He had given up his Saturday job in the supermarket some time back , so today he would just drive and drive , drifting along the miles of highway toward Edmonton . He stopped for a red light , prepared to make a right - hand turn as soon as the arrow flicked green .
Idiom: strike a chord (used idiomatically: yes)
I want to say that , given the political constraints , and the constraints of past practice which keep us within the old mould , it is a better - balanced mould than what preceded it . Given the commitment to the arts which is a central feature of Rawlins , I welcome the inclusion of the arts as a foundation element : it strengthens our hand , though why just music and art are specified I do not know , but we can get around that unless SEAC imposes unrealistic demands and arbitrarily forces students into choosing just one specialism for GCSE certification : we must have flexible ( eg modular type ) arrangements to allow us to offer what is best for our students . A specific element which has struck a chord with community educators is the encouragement to involve parents . Expand this to encourage involving other adults , and we should feel in tune with the NCC . But two features strike me as being particularly significant : cross - curricular themes and the planning of syllabuses from 5–16 .
Idiom: green light (used idiomatically: yes)
It will be helping with localisation and pushing it on Apple Computer Inc 's Power Book line . Although SunPro 's Russian boffins are working on technology that will optimise the performance of Sparc compilers , allowing applications to run faster , it does n't look like any of their developments will benefit SuperSparc users for some time . Under US export restrictions , only technology up to the Sparcstation 1 + level can be shipped out East , and although Sparcstation 2s will be allowed over ‘ within a couple of months,’ there 's no green light for Sun 's superscalar boxes in the offing . Does n't a single Unix source technology sound like a good idea ? Apparently it does to others too , though they 're finding a couple of monolithic organisations holding up the flow .
Idiom: fall short (used idiomatically: yes)
Middlesbrough are no Spartak , and were no match for Souness 's side , who shook off any possible European hangover to dominate from the first whistle . Jon Gittens was the main victim of Rosenthal 's latest attempt to convince Souness he is worth a place in Liverpool 's starting line - up . His eighth minute back - pass fell fatally short of the courageous Stephen Pears in the Middlesbrough goal , but it still took an exceptional finish from Rosenthal to find the net from an awkward angle . His second , seven minutes before half - time , was even better , running straight at the hapless Gittens before seeing the whites of Pears ' eyes and drilling an explosive left foot drive high into the net . Jimmy Phillips gave Middlesbrough brief hope of a revival from the penalty spot two minutes later after Mike Hooper hauled down John Hendrie , but Steve McManaman restored respectability to the scoreline when he turned home Liverpool 's third on the stroke of half time from Don Hutchison 's raking pass .
Idiom: on and off (used idiomatically: no)
Tony Underwood , Mullins , Johnson , Back and Greenwood have shown that maturity and commonsense have gone hand in hand in their development . Sims , Ubogu , Baldwin , among the forwards , and Matthews , Thompson and Pilgrim , have also progressed . Barnes , one of nature 's smiling gamblers , on and off the field , has encountered a few false dawns through the years . He sees the month in New Zealand , where he played against the All Blacks in 1985 , not as a final proving ground but as a searching test of known ability and attitudes . Squash : Devoy 's chance for revenge
Idiom: no man's land (used idiomatically: yes)
I am what I am , and that is fine . Indeed , it is something to rejoice about , and I 'm now beginning to do that . This was my period in no - man 's - land . I was having a counsellor and a healer , sticking to my diet , doing my visualization and being as positive as I could be , but nothing was happening officially . Those X - rays , that had taken so long to photograph , that lengthy session when I had got so friendly with the big machine , had so far resulted in nothing .