Gooogr/pie_idioms huggingface dataset:
Idiom: once and for all (used idiomatically: yes)
Technically admirable , in that it saved the peasant from himself as well as from his oppressors , colonization demanded great expenditure to bring the land above the level of subsistence farming — an expenditure the liberal state of the nineteenth century could neither approve in principle nor afford in practice . Nor could colonization and controlled tenures satisfy the deep - rooted popular desire for outright ownership . A reparto , the division of the great estates among the agrarian poor , was the recurring demand of the endemic jacqueries of Andalusia as a once and for all cure for chronic underemployment . The great estates were not always farmed directly by their owners . The general practice of letting a cortijo as a unit to one substantial tenant created a powerful class , the labradores , who , as tenants - in - chief , controlled all rentable land , letting out only the distant or poorer parts of the estates to the small men — the peletrines .
Idiom: take the liberty (used idiomatically: yes)
BELVILLE:[in a drunken rage . ] Pamela , take heed that you do not suffer the purity of your own mind to make you too rigorous a censurer of other people 's actions . Do n't be so puffed up with your own perfections as to imagine that because other people allow themselves liberties you can not take , therefore they must be wicked . PAMELA : O what happiness am I sunk fro and in so few days too . BELVILLE:[desperately attempting to make amends for his outburst]Come , Pamela , ' twas poor , ' twas mean , ' twas unworthy to be so tyrannical a husband .
Idiom: hands down (used idiomatically: no)
As decisions became for oneself increasingly final and far - reaching in their implications , it was refreshing to deal with problems that would be solved by the mere passage of time . It was with a certain self - indulgence that he adopted a pose of relaxed attentiveness , and put Patricia at her ease by casually offering her 8 cigarette . She accepted , and the picture of precocious , and faintly absurd depravity she presented , in her old , handed down dressing - gown , with her feet tucked up under her , her lank auburn hair about her face , and the cigarette cocked flamboyantly between the fingers of her left hand , gave him the keenest pleasure . However , he was somewhat startled by the sober determination with which she spoke of leaving home . ' You see , I want to do something worth while .
Idiom: under fire (used idiomatically: yes)
Souness slated for outburst Ben Bacon GRAEME SOUNESS was under fire last night for his condemnation of Crystal Palace following Liverpool 's Coca-Cola Cup draw . Souness , diverting publicity away from his side 's inept display , insisted he would quit football if more clubs adopted the tactics he claimed Palace used in Tuesday 's clash at Anfield , which finished 1-1 . But Palace assistant manager Alan Smith yesterday jumped to the defence of his young side and hit out at Souness — who is particularly angry at a Gareth Southgate challenge on David Burrows which left the full-back with ligament and cartilage damage .
Idiom: in the red (used idiomatically: no)
Subsequently the team obtained images of this mysterious object with the 200in Mt Palomar telescope and the WHT . It was slightly fuzzy and presumably a distant galaxy . The spectrum was that of a very distant galaxy with redshift of 2.3 ( spectral lines shifted in wavelengths towards the red by 230% ) . Such information implies a distance of 16 thousand million light years and that the galaxy is seen at a time 83% of the way back to the Big Bang . Previous high redshift for a galaxy or quasar discovery by IRAS was 0.4 .
Idiom: take the plunge (used idiomatically: yes)
‘ I think Mr McQuaid does himself less than credit with that talk,’ Moran said with quiet dignity . ‘ There 's even rumours that you 're courting again . Are you thinking of taking the plunge , Michael?’ Moran held a pointed silence . The girls brought tea and sandwiches .
Idiom: see the elephant (used idiomatically: yes)
With the rainy season expected to begin in December and last until February or March , that meant that the elephants would have to move in November . Child and Douglas - Hamilton were in Sumatra to see if that was feasible . But first we decided to try to see the elephants . Neither Child nor Douglas - Hamilton ( nor I ) had ever seen Asian elephants in the wild . We split up , with members of the task force , to look for the elephants , each small group of searchers gathering a large following from the children of the transmigrasi along the way .
Idiom: to the bone (used idiomatically: yes)
[ Plate XII ] Traditionally a strong , fast draught breed ( and therefore horned ) the Limousin is now an important and popular beef and veal breed which has been widely exported to European countries and to North America , Australasia and South Africa . It is a thrifty , hardy breed which matures very rapidly and has become much heavier in recent decades ( average weight of bulls about 1,200 kg ) , and it is now one of France 's two major beef breeds with well - muscled hindquarters and an excellent ratio of lean meat to bone . The bulls are in demand for use as beef sires in dairy and suckler herds and the calves are small enough to cause far fewer calving problems than the offspring of breeds such as the Charolais , Blonde d'Aquitaine or Maine - Anjou . The average birthweight of pure Limousin calves is 39 kg ( males ) and they are small - headed as well .
Idiom: come to terms with (used idiomatically: yes)
‘ You 've upset your father ; how could you do such a thing after all he 's done for you?’ And the blockbuster , her answer to any sticky problem or difficult question , ‘ Honour thy father and thy mother.’ Now , slowly I began to come to terms with guilt . I discovered that we are not born with guilt , we acquire it . It is not one of our inherent feelings like love , hate , anger , or fear .
Idiom: out of the blue (used idiomatically: yes)
You have the hard job I have the easy job . when you know more about what you 're expecting to be told it 's easier to remember it . Whereas these things were just like anything out of the blue and it 's like all what 's what 's coming is n't it ? So what you 're saying really you ought to make a logical pattern of it yes ? It 's got to
Idiom: on the ropes (used idiomatically: yes)
But insufficiently strong policies have left dangers lurking beneath the surface . We have seen greater weakness than anticipated in the United ~ States and Japan . Even if this was due to temporary factors , including supply disruptions from the Japanese earthquake , labor and housing markets are still on the ropes in the US and some parts of Europe . Moreover , the countries on Europe ’s periphery remain in difficulty , as doubts about the sustainability of adjustment programs have resurfaced . This heightened uncertainty could spill over to economic activity in the rest of the European ~ Union through adverse feedback loops between sovereign risk and the banking system .
Idiom: in the pipeline (used idiomatically: yes)
Advertising sales had been combined with those of Grampian , Scottish , West country and S4C. Programmes are being made in co - operation with Meridian and West country while Central TV Enterprises markets programmes overseas and Granada provides night - time services . Mr Sherwood said other co - operative initiatives were in the pipeline . Now I 'm in the same bracket as Maradona ! WHAT CAN I say ?
Idiom: in the long term (used idiomatically: yes)
The reality is far more complex , of course . Markets can function only within an institutional and legal framework that includes property rights , enforcement of contracts , quality and information controls , and many other rules to govern transactions . Similarly , while competitive elections are essential to any democratic system , a “ winner - take - all ” attitude to electoral outcomes , with the victor concentrating power , is incompatible with democracy in the long term . Well - functioning democracies are embedded in complex constitutional and other laws that separate executive , legislative , and judicial power , and that protect freedom of speech , assembly , and peaceful dissent by those who lose elections . Regulatory institutions – such as bank supervisory agencies and bodies that oversee the telecommunications , food , and energy industries – play a vital role by maintaining the always - delicate balance between “ free ” markets and the actions of elected governments and legislatures .
Idiom: work to rule (used idiomatically: yes)
In many places " work - to - rule " was the order of the day .
Idiom: play the field (used idiomatically: yes)
She had n't enjoyed the heavy petting that her peers took for granted . She was searching for Mr Right , and did n't care who knew it . So she had played the field , enjoying male company without getting in too deep or too seriously . She had a lot of love to give to the right man . The mate her Libran soul needed to make her complete .
Idiom: across the board (used idiomatically: no)
( 6 ) Payments to partners . Four potentially explosive matters need to be agreed:(a ) a common system to apply on the retirement or death of a partner to secure the acquisition of such partner 's share in the firm , ie automatic accruer , option to purchase etc;(b ) how such share is to be valued , ie with or without goodwill , capital profits etc;(c ) the capital share of each partner in the new firm;(d ) the initial profit sharing ratio and the basis upon which it may be changed . Where the practices of each of the merging firms are already compatible , much of the difficulty is removed but this is rather unlikely to be the case across the board . Adjustments will almost certainly have to be made to secure the agreement of individual partners who are asked to make concessions : guaranteed consultancies for partners who reach retirement age or preferential profit sharing etc may need to be introduced . ( 7 ) Management structures .
Idiom: fly in the face of (used idiomatically: yes)
How long is he going to be la leader of the group y'know . On the ground when we look at services , your voters , your supporters and group not only in the budget . We are talking about care in the community , we know there a on routine fifty thousand pounds extra to community voluntary groups which we can well afford it flies in the face of the group , the instincts of the people that we represent and what the government is expecting . This is a bogus budget and we will happily throw it out with a fairly strong vote . Would you like us to take it in roman numeral order .
Idiom: at the end of the day (used idiomatically: yes)
yes because they , they fo forgot to take out the money which they could have , which erm , which would of come from privatization , which they had no intention of doing so they took that out . Are you not for privatization ? Er ye yes , if it gives a better service at the end of the day So you think it 's better ? Yeah
Idiom: jack of all trades (used idiomatically: yes)
As the Middle East burns under a potent combination of Western information technology and chemical ‘ ordnance’ , the benign third wave may now be being drowned in a less benign fourth or fifth wave . Toffler is widely reviled . He is the populariser and jack of all trades par excellence , intensely vulnerable to the scorn of the experts , and to people who would n't be seen dead reading the kind of book that is piled high in airport bookshops . Yet here , in his uncharacteristic hesitancy , the penetrating and infuriating Alvin Toffler is probably as good a reflection of the 1990 's and as else . Sue Townsend is English but not proud of it
Idiom: there's no such thing as a free lunch (used idiomatically: yes)
‘ No , but then I do n't usually have to wonder what 's going on in the mind of the person who 's made the offer,’ she returned . ‘ Then you should,’ he said drily . ‘ Have n't you heard there 's no such thing as a free lunch?’ ‘ So what 's the payment in your case?’ ‘ It would seem , the dubious pleasure of spending time with a shrewish and ill - tempered woman,’ he told her .
Idiom: in the driving seat (used idiomatically: yes)
He … was a rather radical person.’ One senior official with a ringside seat at the traumas of winter 1973–4 contemplated resignation during the first week of March so that he could tell the country that Heath was a serious man and had been a worthy prime minister . It was the reappearance of Harold Wilson in the driving - seat of government which prompted this . The official stayed and , in later years , coined the best metaphor for the Wilson style : Harold as the great player of Space Invaders taking the first blip to cross the screen whether it was important or not . Wilson 's own choice of metaphor was no longer that of the centre forward , but the seasoned centre half feeding passes to his experienced forwards and allowing them to score the goals .
Idiom: play games (used idiomatically: no)
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Idiom: one of those things (used idiomatically: no)
Quick as lightning , someone outside makes a quip about my bed and Jancey , and she grins and tells them to be serious and asks , do n't they think of anything but sex ? One says he do n't think so , and someone else makes a crack about reggae , and I realize this gun I had pointing at her seems to have drooped like soft rubber , so I relax my arm and let it point to the floor . Then she breathes out and gives a real smile — one of those big things that brightens her face like a starburst — and I see she 's been frightened , and I sigh , and suddenly I 've got a lump in my throat and I 'm trembling and I do n't think I can move away from this wall . I fiddle with my safety catch like I 've just finished on the firing range , and I lean back looking nonchalant because I 'm too weak to make a move . But when she takes a step towards me I find I 've crossed the kitchen to meet her .
Idiom: in the running (used idiomatically: yes)
Her 1.7 m draft keel is a great boon for shoal draft cruising , and she is otherwise well equipped above and below deck , always well maintained , she is seriously for sale at a sensible price . SWAN 46 ‘ CHASTANET’(1984 ) : A well cared for example of this evergreen Frers design , benefiting from regular refits and upgrades , ‘ Chastanet’ is comprehensively equipped for warm weather cruising and has always been in the running on the race course . Recent new equipments include sails , forestay furling , watermaker and updated electronics . UNITED STATES
Idiom: on and off (used idiomatically: no)
And hard - wearing mittens are essential . We moved quickly on to what is normally the second lesson , snow plough turns , and then the third when thankfully you can use the rope tow . There 's an art to getting on and off the thing — most people fall the first few times . Suffice to say keep your skis parallel or you 're a goner . Using the tow you can obviously go higher which gives you much more time skiing downhill to put the theory of turning into practice .
Idiom: at a pinch (used idiomatically: yes)
Plaice with smoked salmon , garnished with a fine , peppery leek and watercress sauce is a full - flavoured , main - course dish that went down especially well with Henry Lindeman 's Sémillon - Chardonnay from south - east Australia ( Spar , £ 3.99 ; Peter Dominic and Bottoms Up , £ 4.99 ) . This fine New World wine had all the ripe , buttery , bouncy flavours needed by the fish , and some of the GH team felt that Tesco 's ‘ 89 Domaine de Collin Rozier Chardonnay with its more restrained appley style would also suit it ( Tesco , £ 3.99 ) . You could , at a pinch , also serve either with the Pizzettas . Glazed Lemon Puddings , spiked with coconut and almonds , and served with a strong lemon - zest sauce , merited an equally positive pudding wine . Australia again provided the answer with Mitchelton 's elegant and keenly - priced ‘ 89 Late Picked Muscat ( Tesco , £ 4.19 ) , whose rich , sweet flavours were just the ticket .
Idiom: part company (used idiomatically: yes)
’ Not at all ! I do n't have any pretensions , and I get really sick of artists who 're so flippin ' trendy that they do n't have fun.’ Pete Waterman is making animated conversation at the bar After trying unsuccessfully to blackmail him with photographs of his dancing , we part company , wondering aloud if he would tart the programme up were Granada to come up with the big bucks . ’ No!’he insists,’I'd leave . We 're already so far ahead of our expected ratings that they keep suggesting we move it to an earlier time , but I wo n't let them .
Idiom: at sea (used idiomatically: yes)
From there , after a change of buses and yet another lunch - time fast , the road climbed up into a bare landscape of mountains sweeping into each other , before it settled into the endless vistas of the high altiplano , a treeless puna 3,962 metres above sea level ; home for llamas , alpacas and the Aymara Indians . It was a strange , discomfiting and disorientating landscape . I thought about the early Scottish settlers of the Great Plains of America who endured terrible confusions because of the pure space they had never experienced before , except perhaps at sea . Many hallucinated that they were shrinking or else expanding to fill it . Here houses looked to me like Monopoly chips : seeing a man cycling over the pathless tundra I scanned hopelessly for a possible point of reference he might have .
Idiom: up and running (used idiomatically: yes)
Peter Watts , currently the president of Tangent , will head up the new venture , which will use ISDN technology , allowing for electronic software distribution and simultaneous voice , data and image computer conferencing , all areas on which Unilinx has it long range sights . It claims it will stick to commercially - led Unix information not treading on the toes of existing non - commercial Unix networks such as Usenix , or more broad - based commercial services in the PC world . Unilinx services should be up and running by the first quarter of next year . GRAPHICS , EMULATION AND DATA INTEGRITY MAKE UNIX MORE PC - LIKE Included within the SVR4.2 , Moolit ( Motif / Open Look Intrinsics Toolkit ) allows developers to build applications that can switch dynamically between Open Look and Motif look and feel .
Idiom: true to form (used idiomatically: yes)
TELEVISION Starring Patsy Kensit , Julia McKenzie , Susannah Harker , Iain Glen and James Wilby , Adam Bede , adapted from George Eliot 's classic pastoral novel , is a tale of desertion and just deserts . Local squire meets beautiful country girl and , true to form , seduces her — with eventual far - reaching consequences in the small , shocked community of Hayslope . A treat planned for Christmas week on BBC1 . Over on Channel 4 , the team responsible for The Snowman presents another Raymond Briggs classic , Father Christmas .
Idiom: get to grips with (used idiomatically: yes)
‘ What time did Paul get to Wheeler 's ? Does Mrs Thrigg know?’ ‘ She arrived about seven thirty and they had had time enough to get to grips with their subject matter already , by all accounts.’ ‘ What time did Gray leave Canon Wheeler 's house?’ She tried not to sound as though she were interrogating the older woman .
Idiom: way to go (used idiomatically: yes)
suds of urinous seas . Our delicate tubs of fecundity never quite know which way to go , hung between legs with swashbuckling , cream - bag udders , in lieu of rudders .
Idiom: neck of the woods (used idiomatically: yes)
So I went thanks sir and he goes , he goes Price per ton . he goes who else is in your neck of the woods , I went It 's what he said to me . I was gon na say Alistair but then I thought he 's in the loo so I ca n't .
Idiom: with a view to (used idiomatically: yes)
the historic decision reached at the United ~ Nations to extend indefinitely the Treaty ~ on the Non - Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons has reaffirmed the process of macro - disarmament as vigorous and essential , while steps are being taken to explore the new idea of micro - disarmament , with a view to its integration into the wider context of preventive diplomacy and peace - building .
Idiom: with a will (used idiomatically: yes)
In his own particular way , Karajan also kept intact the ideal of ensemble opera , building teams and rehearsing , with the aid of handsome subventions from his record companies who make preliminary recordings , over a time - span that makes even Glyndebourne 's schedules look rushed . It is expensive , of course . But it is difficult to find a major summer festival that is not expensive and , for want of seats , exclusive to those with the will , the guile , or the contacts with which to acquire tickets . In this , Salzburg is no different from Bayreuth or Glyndebourne or the fledgling Rossini Festival in Pesaro , where first - night tickets comfortably outstrip Salzburg 's . If there was a drawback to this grand strategy , it is that some of the gramophone recordings in recent years have lacked the startling intensity and insights of the theatre performances they have helped to prepare .
Idiom: for the time being (used idiomatically: yes)
Yes , well then we 're also making provision for disaster funds coming up , emergency funds . Can I say that we are now organising quite tightly the business of street collections , and I think if committee are minded to reduce the number of collections that we allow , we should decide that before we come to this meeting , because I think it 's very difficult in practical terms to do it at this stage , and therefore I would suggest that we do agree twenty - one , not withstanding what Graham said , we can take on board some of what he said , and maybe the month before we are asked to take this decision , we have an item on the agenda where we discuss the principle before we get down to the practicalities . Would that suit you for the time being , Graham ? I think so , It made me feel that some actually seem to be quite keen to have suburban or mid - week , even though they 've had city centre ones in the past . Some clearly want to switch to city centre .
Idiom: over the top (used idiomatically: yes)
His team , said Rowell , had come to accept that rucking and raking were part of New Zealand rugby . He said that stamping on the head of players on the ground was not acceptable to his team . It did not help matters that about the time Rowell 's rather reluctant jab at some New Zealand rugby habits was being published it occupied space beside reports that the All Blacks had been over - vigorous — and sometimes over - the - top — in their match against New South Wales at Sydney . However , while Rowell will take his men home next week with mixed emotions about their experiences of New Zealand rugby , the sweet memories should outnumber the bitter . The England aim to develop and educate their players , to measure them against the stiff and stark texture of New Zealand rugby , was a complete success .