Gooogr/pie_idioms huggingface dataset:
Idiom: in the bag (used idiomatically: yes)
At 5.30 he had left his room in the west quarter of Athens , in the student sector . The car had been waiting for him . As he lolled in his chair , not asleep but relaxed , he could remember that he had felt no tension , less excitement , as he had thrown his bag into the back seat of the car , climbed into the front carrying the Ruger with the integral silencer in a large plastic shopping bag . The driver was good , no sweat . The driver was from the Colonel 's staff , and he had travelled ahead a full month before so that he knew the city , the back - doubles they might need and the side streets .
Idiom: under a cloud (used idiomatically: yes)
The armchair traveller for whom you are shooting these pictures does not want to visualize paradise under cloud . In fact , in common with many Pacific islands , Moorea is quite cloudy . The mountainous half of the island is almost perpetually under a thick cloud . I had to wait for a considerable time for the expanse of blue sky above my chosen scene ( figure XX ) to be substantial enough for photography . At the same time , while ensuring the blue of sky in front of the camera , I had to wait for the sun to fall on the scene from behind me , otherwise the sparkle of beach and palms would have been lost .
Idiom: hand in glove (used idiomatically: yes)
Naik had met the Governor on Jan. 5 to press his claim to form a government , claiming the support of 23 members of the 39-seat legislative assembly , including Congress ( I ) members . Assam The Minister of State for Internal Affairs , Subodh Kant Sahay , announced on Jan. 19 that the National Socialist Council of Nagaland and the United Liberation Front of Assam ( ULFA ) had been banned on the grounds that both were " hand in glove in extremist activities " . The authorities ' campaign of arrests of suspected militants continued , although on Jan. 28 the ULFA issued a statement saying that it was ready to respond to any mediatory initiative . Bihar
Idiom: kicking and screaming (used idiomatically: yes)
But , if there is really to be any streamlining , Mr Rittner 's nettle must be grasped . The Regional Arts Boards are straining at the leash , wanting to take over as many of the Arts Council 's responsibilities as they can get . Some of Mr Mellor 's favourite orchestras will probably be among companies handed over , albeit kicking and screaming . The last redoubt of the ‘ arm 's length’ policy would then be the national theatre companies and a chorus of voices is calling for their retention by the Arts Council . Max Hutchinson , former President of the Royal Institute of British Architects , now East Midlands RAB chairman says : ‘ The arm 's length principle is absolute and sacrosanct .
Idiom: in the pipeline (used idiomatically: yes)
The Model Code covers , inter alia , the trading activities of directors of listed Plc 's , while the Take - over Code governs all securities transactions by those connected with takeovers and mergers . Despite the fact that neither the Model Code nor the Take - over Code have the force of law , they do represent important statements of commercial morality and at times breach of them may have legal consequences . It is important to note that amendments to the UK 's insider dealing laws are in the pipeline . These amendments are a response not only to the recent EEC Directive on Coordinating the Regulation of Insider Dealing in Member States , but also represent an attempt to remedy certain perceived defects in the current legislation . In the DTI 's December 1989 consultative document entitled The Law of Insider Dealing five areas were outlined for reform : the definition of inside information , the definition of primary insiders , the definition of off market and on market , the definition of securities , and finally , the scope of the defences .
Idiom: with bated breath (used idiomatically: yes)
Best of all , the safety mattress does not cost much more than standard foam . America assesses prospects for viewdata COMMERCIAL viewdata services aimed at domestic customers are starting up in the US later this year , but it is not clear that the public is waiting with bated breath . In viewdata ( known in the US as videotex ) , information is transmitted to terminals such as TV screens along telephone lines . British Telecom has pioneered in this area with its Prestel service , but so far this has appealed mainly to business customers .
Idiom: on the carpet (used idiomatically: yes)
On arrival we find ourselves ringing the second bell . Mr Voss goes through an elaborate unlocking process . ‘ Naughty cat , she would n't let you in then,’ he chides the moggie disporting itself on the carpet . After we 've signed the visitors ' book , he reproaches my husband for picking up his bag : ‘ We have a bag - carrying service.’ I hang on to mine , thank you very much .
Idiom: on the nose (used idiomatically: yes)
Later I scanned Teletext as you usually get a few after match quotes appear . They had one from Rush . ‘ I shut my eyes , the ball hit me on the nose , and when I opened them it was in the back of the net’ . I DONT BLOODY BELEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEVE IT … Mark
Idiom: get the picture (used idiomatically: yes)
She sat back to see how each party would cope . The Archdeacon opened the batting , clearly intent on feeling his way with caution . ' I wonder , Inspector , if we might ask you one or two questions to get a clear picture , as it were ? ' Spruce nodded his assent . Was he , Theodora wondered , going to let out the line in order the better to haul it in later .
Idiom: go for the jugular (used idiomatically: yes)
He was n't a bit precious and starry like so many of them who come to stay at the hotel . ' ' He 'll no doubt be hit with a crippling alimony suit , ' Stephen said . ' Apparently his wife has some hot - shot L.A. lawyer who intends to go for the jugular . I just hope the lovely Claudia was worth it . ' Christina picked up the local National newspaper and read an account of their labour - relations problems .
Idiom: part of the furniture (used idiomatically: yes)
But she would make some man happy some day . Did he subconsciously wish to deprive that man ? Had Patricia , with her flattering attention , touching gratitude , and diverting problems , become a necessary part of the furniture in his mind ? It was true . It was terrible .
Idiom: to all intents and purposes (used idiomatically: yes)
We are so sure of this that we go out confidently into the hills , or sail away in boats armed only with a magnetic compass , certain that it will always point in the same north - south direction , so we can judge our own direction of travel from it . Over the period of a man 's life , small changes are in fact detectable — the magnetic poles wander very slowly around the geographic poles , so the direction of ' magnetic ' north varies slightly from year to year . To all intents and purposes , though , magnetic north remains north . But if we were gods , and immortal , and could sit ourselves comfortably to watch the years slide by , with a magnetic compass conveniently to hand next to the ambrosia and nectar , we 'd see something extraordinarily interesting . After about 100,000 years or so , the needle of the compass would abruptly become unstable and then swing round to face in the opposite direction , so that what was once compass north would become compass south , and vice versa .
Idiom: sweep the board (used idiomatically: yes)
Like Psycho , this was a film that used monochrome to capture its milieu , the sleazy underbelly , the forgotten nooks and crannies of the American dream . Newman 's emotive and energetic portrayal of a young man pitched against the old guard brought a weary tone and new twist to teenage triumphalism . Nominated for nine Oscars , but this was also the year of West Side Story , which swept the board when it came to the statuettes . 1962 — A KIND OF LOVING FEW MOMENTS in British cinema cling so bleakly to the memory as that of Alan Bates vomiting copiously behind the settee under the withering gaze of Thora Hird .
Idiom: game on (used idiomatically: no)
SCOTLAND 'S UNDER-18s will break new ground with matches against Spain and Ireland in the spring . The Spanish match will be in Glasgow on Saturday , April 4 , and the Irish game in Dublin a week later . Work on the first stage in MURRAYFIELD 's redevelopment , building stands to replace the north and south terracing , will begin immediately after Scotland 's final home match in the Five Nations ' Championship , the game against France on March 7 . By the end of the World Cup the Scottish Rugby Union 's debenture scheme had raised more than £ 22 m of the £ 37 m needed to finance the overall redevelopment . Youth rugby in Scotland will be sponsored with £ 200,000 over three more years by Digital , the electronic company .
Idiom: oil and water (used idiomatically: yes)
She took it calmly . ' You should never have married a Tory , ' she said . ' Oil and water do n't mix . You must get the boys away before they are tainted . ' The state I was in , this seemed a perfectly sensible remark .
Idiom: with a view to (used idiomatically: yes)
Unfortunately the evidence for their production is limited as glass - houses leave little archaeological evidence when all of the waste can be re - cycled . Harden 's type - series ( 1956b , pp . 139–43 ) divided the total assemblage into a number of distinct categories , beakers with stems or claws , bell , bag or cone - shaped , with the related horns , pouch bottles , squat jars , bottles , palm cups and bowls , to which has been added a bucket - shaped vessel from the cemetery of Westgarth Gardens , Bury St Edmunds ( Suffolk ) ; slight variations have been made to the original typology ( Harden 1978 , pp . 2–6 ) . Attempts to characterise glass with a view to understanding its technology and source have been made , but glass is a difficult material to work with in this way because of compositional irregularities ( Sanderson and Hunter 1980 ; Hunter 1985 ) . There are , for instance , no apparent compositional differences between Roman and Anglo - Saxon glass vessels ( Sanderson , Hunter and Warren 1984 ) although there are marked changes in appearance ; this may be the result of a decrease in technological ability . Anglo - Saxon glass displays a variety of colours , especially brown , ochre , yellow , blue and green , which are probably brought about by a lack of control of the furnace conditions rather than by deliberate colouring .
Idiom: hope against hope (used idiomatically: yes)
Dream Echo Bingo win for Joan By Will Rolston ECHO reader Joan Frost spent a sleepless night hoping against hope that she was a £ 1,000 winner in our great Bingo Mania game . Joan , who is 70 and lives in Formby , filled in her last number at 10.05pm but had to wait till 9 am the next day to check if she had won . She said today : ‘ I lay there thinking someone must have got there before me.’
Idiom: on the house (used idiomatically: no)
As an initial example , one of the most fundamental ranges of objects in contemporary British society will be examined , that is the variety of house styles found in residential developments . Fortunately , major contemporary building styles have been subject to detailed analysis in terms of their social significance . There is the work of Muthesius on the terraced house ( 1982 ) , of King on the bungalow ( 1984 ) , of Oliver et al . on the semi - detached house ( 1981 ) , and of a multitude of authors on the leading architects of the modernist styles , which emerged as the dominant from taken by council properties . The major distinctions emerge clearly from these accounts .
Idiom: hot under the collar (used idiomatically: yes)
First , it should he held up for critical inspection , pilloried when necessary . Second , the British public needs to see exactly what good modern architecture is , to be shown what a city street such as Hammersmith Road could become if served by the best architects and developers . Third , people should get hot under the collar when presented with dreary architecture . When the designs for I M Pei 's steel - and - glass pyramid at the Louvre were unveiled four years ago , there was a running battle between police and conservationists in the hallowed courtyards of the rambling museum . Right or wrong , the incident showed that people cared about what would happen to the Louvre .
Idiom: under the microscope (used idiomatically: yes)
We have already flagged the very language used to address a set of urban issues as a central problem . This key theme crops up repeatedly throughout the book in all the contributions because it is through language that the hidden assumptions that make up the common sense of both theoretical and empirical discussions are revealed . One of the rewarding products of placing language under the microscope is the abolition of many of the categoric certainties that often inform rhetorical discussion of the inner city . Several examples come to mind here . The dichotomy between private and public sector is not so clear cut as it may appear .
Idiom: to the tune of (used idiomatically: yes)
None have much cash beyond the petty . The small size of the Southampton ground is a limiting factor for Hampshire which is currently thwarted in its development objectives by unsolved problems concerning a proposed move . Results were bolstered to the tune of £ 36,000 by winning the NatWest Trophy . Otherwise a loss would have been recorded . Derbyshire is probably in the most parlous state of all the first - class counties .
Idiom: in the red (used idiomatically: yes)
Red Black RedBlackRedBlack Moaning , Mouse surrendered . He was in there , in the red darkness , trapped . With Fox he clung eagerly , sickened at his / her eagerness , to the scarlet deadness , knowing he / she did not exist , was not , was nothing , and nothing was , only red , cold empty red forever . And then , with terror that was not his own , he was alive again , in the sweet blackness , and Mouse clung desperately , only to be wrenched back to the red deathly peace , hearing an endless scream as a woman he had never seen died , died endlessly and now .
Idiom: in the long run (used idiomatically: yes)
This is why they are fierce opponents of Keynesian interventionism . Keynes 's heresy was to deny that there are any such natural forces , at ~ least in the short term . This was the point of his famous remark , " In the long run we are all dead . " Economies , Keynes believed , can become stuck in prolonged periods of " under - employment equilibrium " ; in such cases , an external stimulus of some kind is needed to jolt them back to higher employment . Simply put , Keynes believed that we can not all cut our way to growth at the same time .
Idiom: spill the beans (used idiomatically: yes)
‘ I 'm sorry , Ruth,’ he said sombrely . ‘ I 'm being unfair , gabbling on about me and Maria Luisa when things did n't go right for you and Fernando . Come on , spill the beans . It will help to talk it out.’ Slowly Ruth turned her head to look at him , her partner , her friend with golden sun - bleached hair atop an open trusting face .
Idiom: from the word go (used idiomatically: yes)
He was what Anna called an impertinent young man . ‘ Only this time she did n't . Anna adored Simon from the word go . ‘ They clicked , as they say . She found him charming and stimulating and good company .
Idiom: on the ropes (used idiomatically: yes)
ROUTE DIAGRAMS Left : HVS 4b , 4c Centre : Ellegy , E2 5c Near right : Saul 's Crack , HVS 5a Far right : Sloth , E1 5a On the second sortie he made no mistakes and shot up the route like a man with a mission . I followed it on a snug rope and pronounced it ' gripping but mild ' , but then again , it 's always easy on the blunt end . Sloth has been graded Hard Severe , VS and HVS over the years . I have done the route a dozen or more times since that distant autumn , and although I know it is ' easy ' I have never set off across that huge ceiling without a feeling of apprehension .
Idiom: on the house (used idiomatically: yes)
Lord Mark 's house is the centre of ‘ an almost extravagantly grand Watteau - composition , a tone as of old gold kept ‘ down’ by the quality of the air , summer full - flushed but attuned to the general perfect taste’ . One could name many more . But James 's great houses are rarely inhabited by ancestral families : Lord Mark is an exception , and Lord Warburton offers to move from Lockleigh if Isabel ( however mistakenly ) argues damp from its moat ; in any event , his family 's hold on the house is so frail that his sisters seem no more than faded chintz figures among the faded chintz of their drawing - room . Many of James 's houses have been rented : Medley and Fawns are both examples ; while no one even knows whom Mertle belongs to , from which Mr Longden argues that society has grown vulgar . Sometimes , like Gardencourt and possibly Poynton , they have been bought up by those who admire their antiquity , but have no connection with their land or history .
Idiom: talk shop (used idiomatically: yes)
A Davies , Newark , Notts IF THE recent revelations concerning Whips ' activities are true it makes a nonsense of democracy . Parliament is a talking shop where members seek to influence others by debate . If voting is pressurised the outcome is distorted . The issues of Maastricht — single currency , sovereignty and legal structure — deserve thorough scrutiny and a free vote .
Idiom: to say the least (used idiomatically: yes)
Yeah . Well I to say the least . well personally I 've , I 've never had a problem getting members who are on nights their night off to go on a training course , never . Well all I 'm saying is mr chairman is
Idiom: live a lie (used idiomatically: yes)
The unprecedented admission about the state of the royal marriage yesterday , on the last day of their Korean tour , was what the Princess of Wales has waited since June 7 to hear . That was the date sensational revelations about her unhappy life with Charles were first published in Andrew Morton 's book Diana : Her True Story . Now Diana will feel she need no longer go on living a lie trapped in a sham relationship . In a series of briefings yesterday , sources agreed the royal marriage was less than perfect . But they insisted Charles and Diana were attempting to overcome their problems .
Idiom: break even (used idiomatically: yes)
On the basis of Fields 's figures , if certain guidelines were adhered to rigorously , Branson estimated that it would cost Virgin £ 20 m a year to run the airline , but the most they stood to lose by ‘ cutting and running’ at any time was £ 2 m . Flying at full capacity which was highly unlikely — the airline could show a $ 9 m profit in its first year . It would need to be flying with 70 per cent capacity to break even ; for every percent above that it would make $ 250,000 . Nor , Branson had now convinced himself , was an airline that far removed from the principle of expanding into related businesses . The people who would fly a Virgin airline were the same young , mobile , relatively affluent people who had been buying records by Virgin artists in Virgin record stores for years .
Idiom: in the short run (used idiomatically: yes)
Alright . So even when prices do fall very low for quite long periods of time , alright , farmers will still maintain production , even they 're making losses . I mean , you can make losses in the short run , it 's rational to do so , alright , where , where a large proportion of your costs are , are fixed costs essentially . I mean if you , in the agricultural depression of the nineteen thirties , that 's a depression that lasted erm , the best part of a decade , you know , but farmers did n't go out of production you know , for about five , six , seven years down the line , because virtually all of their assets were tied up in fixed assets . Right , they 're able to cover their variable costs , alright , but not their , not their fixed costs .
Idiom: on and off (used idiomatically: yes)
Because a colour system requires three dots ( one for each primary ) at each point on the screen , resolution tends not to be as good as a similarly - sized monochrome display . The number of colours available depends on the number of levels of the three primaries . If there are only two levels ( on and off ) available then the number of colours including black and white is 2 3 or 8 . If eight levels of each colour can be shown then the total displayable colours number 2 8 or 256 . Increasing the number of displayable colours or shades of grey requires more memory to store the image .
Idiom: bleeding heart (used idiomatically: no)
But that was because he had not attended sufficiently to the constitution of the club and its regulations as introduced by a legally elected committee . Our position was watertight . Not one that bleeding hearts would approve of , no doubt , but we , as the committee , were absolutely within our rights to sell off what we considered to be unnecessary stocks of wine in order to allocate the money to members’ more urgent needs.’ ‘ Like foreign travel , sir?’ ‘ Certainly .
Idiom: tell tales (used idiomatically: no)
Ah , thought Forest , I 've got it at last ! I see now what ' tis all about — what the old josser is after ! He wants me to tell the same traveller 's tales as ' i m and ' is mates — the artful hound ! To complete your ' andiwork , he says — as if suggestin ' as me and Dighton left the job half done . ' I see , ' he said with an emphasis that prompted the constable to glance suspiciously at him .
Idiom: get on someone's wick (used idiomatically: yes)
shut up Roy shut up , just shut up , he ai n't too bad was there many talking when you went ? yeah , we saw Michael Meacher , Social Security bloke , he gets on my wick he does , were from the Labour party and were gon na have such an improved Social Security , and its going to be so good mm I 've stood where he is an all
Idiom: in the final analysis (used idiomatically: yes)
Editor , — S Kinmond and others ' study of early versus late umbilical cord clamping shows an apparent improvement in outcome with a simple intervention but raises some questions . Firstly , is the position of the baby or the timing of the clamping of the cord the primary factor ? If the position of the baby is important maybe the two babies in the intervention group who were not held below the introitus should not have been included in the final analysis . Equally , one infant in the random group was held below the introitus , and the position of the others is not stated . Over the whole study was position a significant variable independent of the study group ?
Idiom: make a meal of (used idiomatically: yes)
It was , however , City 's Ian Brown who eventually scored the match winner , but his success was due to the one slip of the game made by goalkeeper Rowe . With 20 minutes left the goalkeeper had to make what looked like an orthodox clearance , but the ball hit one of his own defenders and Brown 's quick reaction put him in possession . Although he made a meal of applying the finish , the ball eventually finished in the net . Thanks to Cawston , that goal had three points stamped on it . In the last minute Cawston denied Malcolm Hazlewood from a chance set up by their man Brown .
Idiom: get the nod (used idiomatically: yes)
SYSTEMS CENTER TO COMMERCIALISE PRINT TECHNOLOGY FOR OSF DISTRIBUTED MANAGEMENT ENVIRONMENT The Open Software Foundation has chosen Reston , Virginia - based Systems Center Inc to provide the Palladium print services for its Distributed Management Environment , DME . Palladium , which got the nod back in September 1991 when OSF announced the winning DME technologies , heralds from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology 's Athena project , with support from DEC , HP and IBM . Systems Center will upgrade Palladium source code to a commercial standard . Using OSF 's Distributed Computing Environment alongside Palladium , Systems Center is putting together a bundle of ISO DPA 10175 and Posix 1003.7.1-compatible distributed print services which it will supply to OSF in 1993 .