Gooogr/pie_idioms huggingface dataset:
Idiom: to the bone (used idiomatically: no)
This size limitation means that harvester ant assemblages are not good indicators of the local mammalian fauna . Trampling Another source of modification to bone that begins soon after death is dispersal and breakage by trampling . There are virtually no records of the effects of natural trampling on small mammals because their bones are so fragile they are easily destroyed . The effects of trampling on large mammalian bone have been described in some detail ( Andrews & Cook , 1985 ; Behrensmeyer et al . ,
Idiom: under the sun (used idiomatically: yes)
And before you know it you 're packing your case and ironing your spotty frocks , ready for jetting off into the sun . Before you think it 's too late to do those sit - ups , though , think again . Because when the boredom begins to set in as you lie motionless under the sun , you can do your exercises then ! Rosemary Conley she of the hip and thigh diet now wants you to Shape Up For Summer . And if you leave it until the last minute , so what ?
Idiom: under lock and key (used idiomatically: yes)
‘ Oh , that!’ said Breeze airily . ‘ Yes . He 's got a potty old uncle living with him , who 's generally kept under lock and key . But he escaped last night , and mistook Gay for someone else . Roger 's brought us some milk and butter and cream , and he 's coming to supper this evening.’
Idiom: once in a while (used idiomatically: no)
Some — such as those asserting that most of the world 's people now live around the Ocean — are questionable ( as will be explored shortly ) . Others , which display the higher growth rates of the Pacific countries , the greater per capita incomes of their peoples , and the steadily increasing volumes of iron ore , oil and containerized trade crossing the Pacific , are powerful indicators of an undeniable trend . But , though statistics are objective icons for the disinterested observer — or powerfully distorting tools for the polemicist — once in a while a particular set of figures will leap from the page of some dust - dry tome to offer up an image more illuminating than all of a dozen reports like those in the bibliography relating to this chapter . Others interested in this Ocean may have already found their choicest figures : the one that brought the Pacific 's surge so very much alive for me — when hitherto it had been no more than the muffled beatings of a warm , blue and very distant sea — related to an event seven miles above the surface of the earth , some time during a night in 1984 . Probably , though this can never be wholly proven , the night of Friday , 4 May 1984 .
Idiom: on the face of it (used idiomatically: yes)
An average European ? WE thrive on our sense of individuality ; faces fascinate because of their diversity . On the face of it , photography would seem a fairly straightforward means of portraiture . We tend to take pictures of people for granted regardless of the purpose and circumstances of the making , and context in which we encounter the image . We see images of faces everywhere : in galleries , pubs , outside theatres , on postage stamps and money , in our family albums .
Idiom: out of sight (used idiomatically: yes)
We are invited to read back destructively . If the previous state was really as fallen as this , is the whole idea of a Fall illusory ? If the unfallen state is being pushed further and further out of sight , it may eventually vanish into unreality . If the continuing ritual represents a progressive pruning away of the trappings of mythology , then it would follow that no one has clipped the lion 's wings or fleaed his rump or pared his claws since all these things , like classical - cum - Shakespearian mythology , are the ritual entrappings of the culture from which our own is descended , preserved among us as ‘ survivals’ . But while externally unchanged they have ceased to be our central ‘ collective representations’ .
Idiom: up the river (used idiomatically: no)
They do not have enough energy even to heal their battered wounded bodies . Their scales fall off , the once powerful muscles dwindle and they die . Not a single one of the millions of fish that fought their way up the river ever returns to the sea . Their frayed bodies lie rotting in drifts on the surface of the streams and are washed up in piles on the sandbanks . Here and there , a last survivor makes a few final despairing flaps .
Idiom: all along (used idiomatically: yes)
Personal happiness ? These are only a few of the choices before them , but even these are very difficult to prioritize and at times some of them must be sacrificed at the expense of others in this play . To B. , the happiness of her family comes first and she is , in the eyes of Miller , clearly in the right all along . To Eddie , the well - being of his ward is his priority at first , but this grows out of proportion until he is blindly obsessed and destroys his relationship with her . Catherine recognizes also that her happiness is more important than pleasing Eddie , but her choice is the hardest because at the beginning of the play Eddie wanted what was best , but by the end his wishes would have made her miserable .
Idiom: ring a bell (used idiomatically: yes)
I do n't Ian name does n't er But er Ian . Does n't ring a bell . No . No .
Idiom: on the shelf (used idiomatically: no)
3 . The stock of circulating collections should not be catalogued , since the task of changing catalogue locations each time books are circulated would reduce the cost - effectiveness of the exercise very sharply . Returning to McClellan , he also touches on the problem of titles which are so popular that they are constantly in circulation and therefore rarely available on the shelves to constitute part of the choice available to readers . For these titles librarians must link the ‘ rate of issue’ factor to their own bibliographical knowledge to determine the rate of duplication . The issues of a book during the first year after its publication are likely to be influenced artificially by publicity , so that duplication during this period should be exercised as sparingly as possible .
Idiom: in someone's pocket (used idiomatically: yes)
No , no , no , oh God you 're useless ! In my coat pocket . Er , you got one in your coat pocket ? Mm . Get it out then !
Idiom: in the works (used idiomatically: yes)
When called on by government to act in time of war , citizens have been prepared to respond . Such deference has often been seen as allied with a social deference , citizens according certain skills of government to those drawn from a particular group . Walter Bageho , in his classic work The English Constitution , identified England as a " deferential nation , " one that had a structure of its own . " Certain persons , " he wrote , " are by common consent agreed to be wiser than others , and their opinion is , by consent , to rank for much more than its numerical value . " Such deference , though possibly weakened , survived into the era of mass suffrage and the democratic ideal .
Idiom: over the hill (used idiomatically: no)
We 're used to it . We 've been used to it for centuries . There was never anyone else to turn to here , over the hills and far away , and there 's an ancient tradition of mistrusting strangers . Even Elizabeth has got it now.’ He smiled at them reassuringly .
Idiom: behind closed doors (used idiomatically: yes)
NEWPORT BEACH – It has been raised more than 70 times in the last 50 years , mostly without commotion . It must be raised again this summer if the United ~ States government is to continue paying its bills on time . But now America ’s debt ceiling has become the subject of intense political posturing and touch - and - go negotiations behind closed doors . And , obviously , the outcome has implications that go well beyond the US . As part of America ’s system of checks and balances , Congress gets to do more than just approve the annual federal budget .
Idiom: let your hair down (used idiomatically: yes)
10 Lash ‘ N’ Bash : Dare I say ? I think you really ought to let your hair down and become one horny bitch ! Nice boots and dress though ! 11
Idiom: come to mind (used idiomatically: yes)
We will move on . I 'm allowed to say something pilgrimage of love and the parish knows that too because something that er it 's . So the three words that 's come to my mind immediately are go and do ! And you will recognise them as the words of Jesus . They are direct they 're clear they 're simple and most importantly they are words of one syllable .
Idiom: on the dot (used idiomatically: yes)
He had been told to be exact . From across the street a man in a parked car watched him , but he did not know that . He strolled up and down for five minutes then , on the dot of ten , dropped the fat envelope through the letter - box of the apartment - house . There was no hall porter to pick it up . It lay there on the mat inside the door .
Idiom: down at heel (used idiomatically: yes)
Sears slim down ANDREW KEENAN / JOHN HUSBAND THE high-street slump has left Sears looking pretty down at heel , writes Andrew Keenan . The group which owns Selfridges and Saxone and is Britain 's biggest shoe shop owner saw profits crash from £2.4 to £8.8 million in the last six months . It 's been forced to shut 350 of its 2,000 UK shoe shops and give 1,700 workers the boot , at a cost of £32 million .
Idiom: mean business (used idiomatically: yes)
In Austria I consider it most important that the situation in VENEZIA GIULIA should not be repeated . May I have full authority to support our AMG by force of arms if necessary . Unless Yugoslav commanders receive some clear indication that we mean business in Austria their infiltration tactics will lead to an impossible situation . " Gen McCreery repeated to AFHQ a sitrep from Gen Harding at 13 Corps , stating that " full control of the area mentioned could now only be effected by full scale military operations " . What he did not repeat was a signal from Gen Keightley in Austria , sent on 10 May [ KP 59 ] , in which Keightley had specifically requested permission " to be able to shoot at Yugoslavs who categorically disobey orders from British commanders . "
Idiom: in bed with (used idiomatically: no)
He had remained subdued for the rest of the evening , glancing at Tom and looking away . It was Tom who finally eked it out of him . He had gone up as usual to turn Willie 's lamp down and had found him sitting up in bed with one of his library books lying open on his knees . Instead of tracing the pages with his finger as he usually did , he was staring vacantly into space . He came over to him , closed the book and put it on his table .
Idiom: go up in smoke (used idiomatically: no)
He grinned . ‘ Perhaps it 's got something to do with the way Dane looks at you when you 're not aware of it — or vice versa . Or the way Marianne practically goes up in smoke when she sees you together.’ He lounged back in his seat , thoroughly enjoying himself . ‘ I am right , are n't I ?
Idiom: gather dust (used idiomatically: yes)
Last week the Wagner Development Group put to rest that work which began with the 1988 Wagner report with the fourth and last conference jointly organised by NISW and Community Care ( News , page 4 ) , and the coincidental publication of the third Wagner volume Positive Answers ( HMSO , £ 6.50 ) . But the task is far from over . The work of the development group as well as the series of scandals in residential care since the report 's publication continued to ensure that the report was not consigned to gather dust . Wagner can count some worthwhile benchmarks — from the Caring in Homes initiative to the forthcoming Children 's Charter and one or two legislative achievements — but it can also be justly proud of its part in seeing that residential care is on the political agenda , no longer a Cinderella service . So , while it has been wound up , it concerns go marching only .
Idiom: pull a face (used idiomatically: yes)
‘ What do you want me to do?’ Harvey said making it a one - word question . I pulled a face . ‘ Do n't go limp on me , boy,’ said Harvey . ‘ You are my flavour of the month .
Idiom: on the money (used idiomatically: yes)
The Commission so stirred the Poles , that while it had initially been possible for them to buy up Polish estates for German settlement , by 1898 , when the Prussian Landtag voted an additional 100 million marks for the Commission 's use , the Poles had already begun to see the sale of land to the Commission as a crime against the nation and had begun to organise their own agricultural co - operatives and credit unions . In the years 1880–1913 the number of land purchasing agencies and co - operatives associated with the Land Purchase Bank was to rise from about 120 to nearly 300 . The crucial difference between the Germans and the Poles who profited from the efforts of the Colonisation Commission and the Polish banks through the sale and resale of farms and estates was that , while the Germans would eventually sell up for good and move away westwards to retire on money invested in Germany 's growing industrial enterprises , the Poles would stay put , use their money to consolidate their farms and purchases , and deposit their savings in the Land Purchase Bank . In 1904 the German government passed a law that forbade the construction of buildings and dwellings on any Polish - owned land which the Colonisation Commission might want to buy . The idea was to prevent the Poles who managed to buy land from being able to inhabit it .
Idiom: second childhood (used idiomatically: yes)
‘ While I still have the energy.’ Suicide for Love has eight performances at the Lyttleton between 9th and 14th October ( Box Office : 01 928 2252 ) . TELEVISION /Certified excellence : Mark Lawson on Ashcroft 's second childhood By MARK LAWSON HEAVY with prizes from Venice , She 's Been Away ( BBC1 ) was , superficially , one of those pieces in which a major star offers what might be called a Complex Simpleton performance .
Idiom: knock it off (used idiomatically: no)
Bardsley nodded unhappily . ‘ Doubtless you were insured?’ ‘ Not the second time , not in March when they knocked it off at Stamford . I had to stand the loss myself.’ Bardsley untied his apron and hung up the tea cloth that , appropriately enough in this flat , was a large linen facsimile of a pound note .
Idiom: take the plunge (used idiomatically: no)
Well , it was now or never . That hateful man obviously had no intention of helping . If she wanted to get home before dawn she would just have to take the plunge . And the fountain was n't very high , just a baby really , as fountains went . She would get wet , that would be all .
Idiom: get up someone's nose (used idiomatically: yes)
Shiona twisted round and pierced him with a look . ‘ No doubt that surprised you , even irritated you a little . I bet it really gets up your nose that my knitwear 's proving so popular.’ ‘ Why should you believe that?’ One straight black eyebrow lifted .
Idiom: on paper (used idiomatically: yes)
Once I had a loose outline and the beginnings of a likeness , I switched to the broad tip of the same pen and with its flat edge broadly modelled the shadows of the face . I then overlaid the same area with marker 420 flesh , flatly , so that the white areas of paper now showed a peach pink and the grey areas appeared as neutral shadows of pearl grey pink . The Kurecolor markers gave good results on watercolour paper . The colour used here were nos : 504 , 520 , 501 , 508 , 100 , 741 , 420 , 705 and 767 Already colour and form were coming together , but the drawing lacked contrast and required sharpening up .
Idiom: in the red (used idiomatically: no)
Said Pool - Jones : ‘ It is wonderful to have played in a final , especially for Serge . When he announced he would retire from the game at the end of Biarritz 's run in the Championship it was the signal for scores of journalists to gather at each match to report on his ‘ funeral’ … but we kept postponing it’ . This was Blanco 's first appearance at Parc des Princes in the red and white jersey of Biarritz Olympique and his club 's first Championship final since 1939 . Acts of chivalry and goodwill abounded . As a sign of respect for the Prince of the Parc , Toulon refused to draw the dressing rooms and invited Biarritz to use the facilities of the French team .
Idiom: follow in someone's footsteps (used idiomatically: yes)
Played by Philip Casnoff , Sinatra emerges as a powerful yet controversial figure . As a youngster , he sings for pennies in his parents ' saloon . Determined to let nothing stand in the way of his lifelong dream to follow in Bing Crosby 's footsteps , he breaks free from his domineering mother 's ( Olympia Dukakis ) grasp , and the legend begins . Shopping success IN 1930 at the height of the great depression , in an attempt to cheer up the citizens and stimulate trade and industry , many towns throughout Northern Ireland organised shopping weeks which took the form of festivals .
Idiom: mend fences (used idiomatically: yes)
' You have n't shot anyone yet — no interest therefore to Maggie Howard 's readers . ' She walked out of the room with the dark eyes following her . The only thing she could do now was find Ana and mend a few fences . What the hell ! She was going to tell the truth .
Idiom: without fail (used idiomatically: yes)
Most big tournaments have a tent in which the major manufacturers of equipment and clothing display their wares . It is another opportunity to promote sales and to entertain customers , and bonhomie is the order of the day . I knew many of the manufacturers from my brief career on the amateur circuit , and was always fascinated by the gimmicks that appeared without fail every year . Revolutionary new … clubs , balls , gloves , and even tees ; and all guaranteed to add twenty yards to your drive . If they all worked , every golfer would be driving the ball about a quarter of a mile .
Idiom: all and sundry (used idiomatically: yes)
Carl was the studious one , the worrier , the hard - worker , who had a very special attachment to Mother , and who forever gave one the impression that he was near to a nervous breakdown . On the other hand there was Sam , not friendly - disposed towards any form of work , yet seldom without money . He was mean of temper , ever ready for fisti - cuffs with all and sundry ; was fond of gambling on horses , dogs and cards ; would spend a lot of money drinking with his mates ; but would begrudge paying his small contribution to the upkeep of our home . He always demanded the best food available and the use of our big room every Sunday night for gambling with his cronies . No one would dare disapprove .
Idiom: open someone's eyes (used idiomatically: yes)
She felt his body surge against her own and instinctively she softened , meeting the fierce possession with no fear at all . He gasped her name as her body closed around him and then she was dominated by his power until she slid off the end of the world into warm darkness . She had no idea how exhausted she would be , how lethargic , and she opened her eyes slowly to find him watching her , his breathing still ragged . There were tears on her cheeks and he carefully eased them away with gentle fingers . ‘ I hurt you ?
Idiom: break new ground (used idiomatically: yes)
There were 26 deaths among trial children in the Health Study , 6 in the vitamin - A - supplemented group and 20 in the placebo group . Discussion These trials broke new ground in several ways . The two trials were carried out in adjacent populations in West Africa ; one looked in detail at the effect of vitamin A supplementation on morbidity and the other at its effect on mortality . We assessed the effect of vitamin A supplementation on the care sought for illness ( clinic attendances and hospital admissions ) .
Idiom: give someone the creeps (used idiomatically: yes)
GRAHAM SCHOLEY / NRA Conservation Officer Voice over They wriggle , they 're slimey and they give some people the creeps . But the experts say that Britain 's rivers are much poorer without them . Now the National Rivers Authority wants to put them back where they belong .
Idiom: ring a bell (used idiomatically: yes)
A list was always made on these occasions and Pascoe glanced quickly down it . A small part of his mind was still on the unidentified weapon in the Connon case . But there was nothing here which rang a bell . The usual household expendables , a suitcase containing some fairly valuable pieces of pewter ( dumped by mistake ? or stolen and dumped in fear ? ) and , an item which made Pascoe whistle slightly , two guns . But he had no time for idle speculation .
Idiom: out of the woods (used idiomatically: no)
Again the fingers drummed . ' Listen , Laura 's having trouble with a firing . She 's running out of chopped wood and needs help . Last time I practically took my thumb off and apparently she does n't trust me not to do it again . She wondered whether … '
Idiom: off the hook (used idiomatically: yes)
His wife seemed dumb in both the American sense ( undoubtedly ) and the English ( apparently , since she never spoke to anyone ) . Alan , however , would now and again treat his audience of Jane , Davyd and Mervyn to purported nuggets of wisdom which she had uttered . Her existence certainly saved him from making decisions : ‘ I 've got to consult my wife’ always let him off the hook and annoyed the independent Jane . Sometimes , however , he emerged wearing an unmistakably henpecked look , muttering something about having had to do some ‘ domestic engineering’— his name for housework . With his wife , he had taken on a ready - made family for , although a Catholic , she was divorced , with two lolloping sons .
Idiom: as a rule (used idiomatically: yes)
Experience goes on to show that a psychical element ( for instance , an idea ) is not as a rule conscious for a protracted length of time .
Idiom: in tandem (used idiomatically: yes)
( In fairness to Rollin he does allow that such rights may be breached , but only for life - or - death reasons . Our ‘ mere gustatory predilection for meat’ , in his eyes , certainly does not qualify . ) Now there is a huge gulf between the liberationist picture of mammals having the moral status of honorary human beings , albeit primitive ones , with rights in tandem , and the view which I have advanced that mammals are primitive beings . Fish , beetles , protozoans , and trees , will be successively more primitive beings . If the Dani are being killed simply to make space for settlers from Java then it is appalling , and for reasons previously advanced on behalf of the Ethiopian tribeswoman .
Idiom: make history (used idiomatically: yes)
Finally the M forty is getting nearer . Are you excited at the prospect of its opening — angry , totally bored with the subject ? Banbury 's library and museum though are hoping to record your views , and they 're going to , hopefully , make some history . Julia Nicholson is the creator , curator of the museum in Banbury ; Julia , what sort of , what sort of things are you after ? Well what we 're doing is we 're , er organising a project to record what 's happened with the motorway .
Idiom: old hat (used idiomatically: yes)
Then she put her hair up again , quickly . For a second or two she stood still , and cried a little . Then she put on her old brown coat , and her old brown hat , turned , and left the room . She went downstairs and out into the road , and her eyes were bright . She walked along by the shops , and stopped when she came to a door with ' Madame Eloise — Hair ' on it .
Idiom: get to grips with (used idiomatically: yes)
More will be said about this in Chapter 2 , but it is necessary here to make a distinction between my comparisons and those which are associated with traditional case studies , including the case study material presented by Dickens et al . My case studies are comparative but they are also relational . This is a development of my earlier comments about the distinctiveness of this study in trying to get to grips with a great city . North Shields and Cramlington are different , and those differences are important and they help us to understand what is going on . But , and much more importantly , North Shields and Cramlington are related .