Gooogr/pie_idioms huggingface dataset:
Idiom: separate the sheep from the goats (used idiomatically: yes)
Day 1 Anything You Do For Others When the Son of Man comes in his glory and all the angels with him , he will sit in state on his throne , with all the nations gathered before him . He will separate men into two groups , as a shepherd separates the sheep from the goats , and he will place the sheep on his right hand and the goats on the left . Then the king will say to those on his right hand , ‘ You have my Father 's blessing ; come , enter and possess the kingdom that has been ready for you since the world was made . For when I was hungry , you gave me food ; when thirsty , you gave me drink ; when I was a stranger you took me into your home , when naked you clothed me ; when I was ill you came to my help , when in prison you visited me.’
Idiom: in tandem (used idiomatically: yes)
Intellectual fashions may work themselves through without any very serious consequences ( what impact has structuralism had outside academe ? ) , but professional fashions ( for example , in architecture , child - rearing and teaching ) can have far - reaching effects . The issue points to a more fundamental tension at the heart of professional education , which is that it is concerned not only with knowledge and skills but with norms and attitudes . The problem is that the two may not change in tandem ; the first may need to change rapidly , while the latter change only slowly if at all . The notion of a profession implies some continuity of values and attitudes , which form the ground - rules for the transactions between colleagues and between practitioner and client . Professions are sometimes referred to as institutions , but the interesting point is that compared to many institutions they function less on the basis of formal , explicit regulations and codes than on informal , tacit norms and expectations .
Idiom: put a foot wrong (used idiomatically: yes)
Finished . Jean - Paul ca n't see that , and never will . As far as Jean - Paul is concerned , the French have n't put a foot wrong . They 've built roads and bridges and rail systems . Houses .
Idiom: turn heads (used idiomatically: yes)
Rufus was wearing a white coat and had a stethoscope hanging round his neck . He was walking very rapidly , far faster than Shiva was going in the opposite direction , from a building with long windows and white - uniformed men and girls behind them that looked like a lab , towards the main block . He turned his head to look at Shiva , cast on him an indifferent glance , and turned away . Rufus had simply not known who he was , Shiva was sure of that , had not recognized him as one of the other two male members of the little community in which they had all lived in such contiguity for something like two months . Shiva was astonished to find that Rufus had in fact finished his studies and become a doctor .
Idiom: come unstuck (used idiomatically: yes)
By Mike Walters Norwich 0 , Spurs 0 . NORWICH CITY 'S leadership of the Premier League has been given more last rites than Eldorado , and they were fortunate not to come unstuck against El Tel . Terry Venables and Tottenham can claim a tactical and moral victory from this master class of artistic approach work and penalty box profligacy . Spurs , smothering the important supply line between City 's full - backs and wide men with a five - man midfield blanket , spurned the game 's best chances .
Idiom: spot on (used idiomatically: yes)
Q My children think the world of their gerbil . He has a small ‘ spot’ on the side of his nose , which has now grown to the size of a sesame seed . I fear it might be a tumour . Do vets treat gerbils ?
Idiom: cap in hand (used idiomatically: yes)
In Croydon dividing courses could have a number of damaging effects . Great damage could be caused to the prospects of the adult education centres , where currently vocational and so - called leisure courses exist happily side by side . The centres might have to go cap in hand to the Croydon college and the two sixth - form colleges in the borough asking their governing bodies to apply to the funding council for funds for vocational courses , in the hope that funds would be obtained on behalf of the adult education centres . A large part of their excellent work might disappear . There is a strong link between so - called vocational and so - called leisure courses .
Idiom: one and the same (used idiomatically: yes)
Eventually the Kiplings put Low Birk Hatt up for sale and there is a sad and curious story associated with this . It concerns my great - aunt Jane Bayles , who was my father 's mother 's sister and lived at Hury at the bottom of the dale . She was both a clever woman and a fool at one and the same time . Her sister , my great - aunt Margaret Bayles , married a Dalesman called George Brown , and lived at Blackton Farm . They hired a man with red hair called John Bell to catch the moles which were plaguing their land .
Idiom: tell tales (used idiomatically: no)
Second , the theorist might claim that the mechanisms of conspiracy are far more complex than those outlined in The Protocols . For example , one text which has been widely circulated on the extreme right in recent years is Gary Allen 's None Dare Call It Conspiracy . This tells a shadowy tale of deception perpetrated by a group called ' The Insiders ' through a complex network of international organizations . The precise identity of ' The Insiders ' is left vague , and Allen 's is not an overtly antisemitic account . The complexity of his image of conspiracy is illustrated literally by his charts which have interlocking arrows shifting back and found from multinational corporations , international banks , and large foundations such as Carnegie and Rockefeller .
Idiom: in the black (used idiomatically: no)
The seller , if he is to receive cash or debt securities rather than shares , would want a price that reflected as fully as possible the value to the buyer of creating a monopoly ( and thus the lost chance for the seller to do it himself ) . The buyer would want the price to be well below the value of his monopoly , to maximise his profits . According to Ron Chernow , in his recent book ‘ The House of Morgan’ , many negotiations took place in all - night sessions in the ‘ black library’ of J. Pierpont Morgan , he of the bulbous , acne - ridden nose and the investment bank that then dominated American finance . Essentially , the talks were hostile : Morgan used the threat of price war to force firms to sell out and merge . The formation of U.S. Steel in 1901 was Morgan 's biggest deal , forging together 11 firms that accounted for half America 's steel industry .
Idiom: in the long run (used idiomatically: yes)
The parallel with Hitler was a false one . There was much that the United States could do to counter communism in the Cold War . In the long run Dulles expected the superior economic strength of the United States to ensure its success against the USSR . Charles Wilson broadly agreed , while Humphrey spoke as if directly coached by the British ( he also anticipated in striking fashion the language of Henry Kissinger in the early 1970s ) . He insisted that the United States would have to learn to live as other nations had lived for centuries — namely by co - existing with powerful rivals under the protection offered by the balance of power .
Idiom: fair and square (used idiomatically: yes)
We want to stand upon our own feet and look fair and square at the world -- its good facts , its bad facts , its beauties , and its ugliness ; see the world as it is and be not afraid of it .
Idiom: have a heart (used idiomatically: yes)
He remained associated with the business until 1966 , when he sold it to TRW in America . Archie Binding was a dedicated freemason and Rotarian . Although diagnosed as having a weak heart in 1948 , he survived his first wife and married again at the age of 85 . His second wife also predeceased him , as did one of the two sons of his first marriage . International : CORRECTION
Idiom: stand someone in good stead (used idiomatically: yes)
Your background , your pedigree , yes you you you 've been brought up in a , possibly your fa your your parents , they 've taught you the right way , they are thrilled pieces , or they were if if they ma , they may well have been de dead by that time , but they were thrilled to pieces when you as a pharisee became a teacher , and a ruler , a leader amongst your people ! But Nicodemus , the important thing is not that . That does n't stand you in good stead . That has not got you into the Kingdom of God . You must be born again !
Idiom: anything goes (used idiomatically: yes)
‘ Dear , oh dear . Then , if things go wrong , you 'll have nothing on your conscience and everything in the world to reproach me with.’ ‘ If anything goes wrong , sir , I do n't think we 'll be having too much to say to each other when we 're in vaporized orbit.’ ‘ True . Mine was an unworthy remark .
Idiom: live in sin (used idiomatically: yes)
It was after midnight . Dougal 's body had flaked out hours earlier , but his mind would n't go to sleep . ‘ Will you come and live in sin with me?’ ‘ Why?’ ‘ Because Rod 's selling this house .
Idiom: run riot (used idiomatically: yes)
The result was that a scratch team made the trip north and in the end were powerless to stop Blaydon running in 15 tries . Ironically , it was Darlington who took the lead with penalties by O'Kelly and Butler . But by half time Blaydon were 27–6 ahead and after that they ran riot , with patched up Darlington doing their best to stem the flow . To add to Darlington 's problems , centre Steve Ellis was injured in the second half and club skipper Mark Layfield was called into action for the first time in two months following injury . Redcar were involved in a much more competitive game against Guisborough , running out winners by 16–9 .
Idiom: put the cat among the pigeons (used idiomatically: yes)
The decisions will be voted upon at the later date . There is much to talk about . The captain , Phil Carrick , last month put the cat among the pigeons , or his head upon the block ( depending upon each Yorkshireman 's point of view on his county 's cricket , without which no Tyke is properly dressed ) by writing a letter , with his players ' support , in which he advocated the abandonment of the holy writ , the birth qualification . Carrick suggested that a maximum of three outside players should be recruited — one an overseas professional — to strengthen the team immediately . ‘ No’ thundered the vast majority of every poll conducted by newspapers , radio and television , members and public alike .
Idiom: get off the ground (used idiomatically: yes)
Obvious cracks soared to the left and right , reminiscent of Fairhead in Antrim , but I craved subtlety after the brutal corner we 'd just climbed . ‘ Watch me , Graham , ’ I insisted , as I tried the move for the third time . He laughed , because I was still to get off the ground . But then the crag was undercut , and my first move was a leftwards traverse above a 20 foot drop . ‘ Help , this is one way … irreversible … layaways … finger tips … wrong way , ’ I shuffled and chalked , ‘ bloody hell that foothold 's too far away , way , way … done it . ’
Idiom: in the hole (used idiomatically: yes)
He shared his secrets with her , and from childhood on , Claire would have given her life to please him . Their rooms adjoined , and if she had a nightmare , he was first in to comfort her and laugh the fears away . He told her about the fairies who lived in the holes on the river bank , and how Billy was half leprechaun . They used to giggle and splutter when they saw the old man , thinking of him sitting on a toadstool in the moonlight . She learned about their ancestors from him , and how they came to Ireland and built Riverstown .
Idiom: play into someone's hands (used idiomatically: yes)
She 'd only mentioned the agency 's name once the previous evening , but he 'd recalled it . Probably making a mental note of it , already determined to check out that she was who she claimed to be , and not Lotta 's mischievous accomplice . By evading him earlier that morning she 'd played into his hands , at the same time both increasing his suspicions and giving him the best part of the day to allay them . Despite her natural antagonism because he had n't accepted her word alone , some part of her could n't help feeling a grudging admiration for his thoroughness . ‘ Let me see.’
Idiom: over the hill (used idiomatically: yes)
Nor was it easy for her at first to make new ones at The Milebrook , having only a pony and cart and her nearest neighbours being two , four and five miles away . Though not intellectual , my mother was intelligent , and she now acquired a wide range of new interests . She loved the countryside round The Milebrook and was never happier than when riding over the hills . She was generous by nature and had an Irish sense of hospitality , and combined great pride with high standards and absolute loyalty . She had instinctive good taste , especially in her dress , and whatever the setting she always looked right .
Idiom: spring to mind (used idiomatically: yes)
‘ At the moment she enjoys flying around the world after me and having a child would make that more difficult . I 'm not the one having the baby , after all.’ Fatherhood is n't what instantly springs to mind when you think of Nigel . But that 's only because of the parts he 's played . He became a household name after his role as the caddish Ralph Gorse in The Charmer — and even in those Lloyds Bank ads , he plays a smoothie with an eye for a pretty girl .
Idiom: on the ropes (used idiomatically: no)
But in the end it killed her . And Helen , too , nearly died because of this snake . ‘ But tonight , when I hit the snake on the rope , it was angry and went back through the air - vent . And so it killed the Doctor . I 'm not sorry about that.’
Idiom: out of the woods (used idiomatically: yes)
They felt the Government had finally produced a coherent economic policy . President of the Board of Trade Michael Heseltine said Mr Lamont had done a ‘ magnificent job’ . But Mr Major and his Government are not yet out of the woods . The Chancellor 's policies are not expected to bear fruit until the spring . Britain 's jobless total will top three million around Christmas and carry on rising into the New Year .
Idiom: to say the least (used idiomatically: yes)
Come and see me in the studio any time after that and I 'll present you with a couple of bottles of duty - free in compensation for any hassle . You 'll find enclosed the original photograph you brought me some time ago — the one I took the enlargement from . I would have returned it to you before , but the information I dug up about it was disturbing to say the least . My reaction — rather cowardly — was to shove it in a drawer and try to forget it . Her name was Anne - Marie Tarrant .
Idiom: with a vengeance (used idiomatically: yes)
The PSBR is also back . The PSBR was supposed to disappear — that terrible thing that Labour Governments had . Under the sound money party , it is back with a vengeance — £ 20 billion next year . If we take privatisation receipts out of the fiddle which is contained in the heart of the forecast , the figure will be £ 20 billion or £ 25 billion . Of course interest rates will go up .
Idiom: in a nutshell (used idiomatically: yes)
Instead resolve to buy a UV . You do not tell me the depth of your pond , but shallow ponds ( if yours is indeed shallow ) are much more prone to algal infestation because they warm up so much more quickly and have such a large surface area in relation to volume . In a nutshell , if you want guaranteed clear water , get a UV . But ask yourself if you would have tested you water had it not gone green ? You addressed a visible problem but bear in mind that awful things can happen in the clearest of ponds if you do not use a test kit on a regular basis .
Idiom: come to grips with (used idiomatically: yes)
A spokesman for Ferranti said Sir Derek had no reason to fear a shareholders ' revolt and there were no indications that there would be one . The company 's advisers , Baring Brothers , believe that nothing would be served by making Sir Derek a scapegoat at this stage . They believe that any newcomer would take months to come to grips with what has gone wrong at Ferranti and would as a consequence be worse placed to negotiate a rescue for the group . Sir Derek is expected to give further details of the progress of negotiations at today 's shareholders ' meeting . Potential suitors are believed to be holding off from making outright bids for fear that there may be further black holes in Ferranti 's balance sheet .
Idiom: take someone to task (used idiomatically: yes)
An emancipation settlement that turned on the advice of the Ministry of Internal Affairs was likely to treat serfs generously . The precise part played by peasant unrest in the genesis and character of the reform has long been hotly disputed . Daniel Field wrote in 1976 that " The fear of peasant unrest … cannot be shown to have been decisive in the decision to emancipate " , but Larisa Zakharova took him to task eight years later for failing to explain the emancipation in terms of " the fear of a peasant rising or the moods and struggle of the peasantry " . So far as the early history of the emancipation process is concerned Field 's position is probably stronger than Zakharova 's , for although Nicholas I 's call for a militia gave rise to disturbances among the peasantry in 1855 , although almost all the memoranda which circulated in private during the Crimean War referred to the possibility of peasant risings , and although Alexander II alluded to the prospect of rural uprisings both in his speech to the Moscow gentry and in his comments on the papers submitted to him by Haxthausen , it is hard to prove that rural developments took pride of place among the reasons for setting reform in train . It is not hard , however , to make a strong case for the view that unrest in a particular part of the empire in 1858 loomed large in the regime 's decision to opt for the version of emancipation which gave peasants land .
Idiom: on the square (used idiomatically: yes)
Waterbus Stop 13 ( Santa Maria del Giglio ) Supplements per person per night : Single room £ 6.25 . The Alba — set on a square Citalia VALUE At the Firenze , Bisanzio , Nuovo Teson and Ala honeymoon and silver anniversary couples receive a bottle of sparkling wine ; at the Firenze , Bisanzio and Ala they also receive flowers or fruit .
Idiom: high and low (used idiomatically: no)
He examined only two FT - SE index futures contracts , March 1985 and June 1985 , and a significant maturity effect was found for only the June 1985 contract . Board and Sutcliffe ( 1990 ) found clear evidence supporting the Samuelson hypothesis for index futures , but this occurred only when the high and low prices were used in the volatility measure . Since studies of the volatility - maturity relationship for other assets have found much more support for the Samuelson hypothesis ( even when the high and low prices are not used in measuring volatility ) , this suggests there is something different about the volatility - maturity relationship for index futures . The available evidence does not provide clear support for the Samuelson hypothesis for index futures , and the studies using implied volatility suggest that volatility declines as delivery approaches . 8.3 PRICE VOLATILITY AND VOLUME
Idiom: hum and haw (used idiomatically: yes)
Daemon spawn wo n't be able to home in and manifest themselves . We can leave the shield of Tormentum in almost total confidence . ' Grimm hummed and hawed ; he cleared his throat . ' That 's what he tells us … You are n't , um , merely saying that to , um , jolly us on ? '
Idiom: fly the flag (used idiomatically: yes)
We were doing our first two weeks square bashing in the RAF as boy entrants . We were leaving England and as the boat sailed down the Solent past the Needles everyone was mustered on deck to be informed that the King had died . I was on watch as quartermaster on the forenoon watch on February 6 when the officer of the watch asked why HMS Glasgow and HMS Liverpool were flying the flag at half mast . Just then the signalman came down to say the King had died . I was telling about a dozen girls what would happen to them when they arrived at RAF Wilmslow .
Idiom: below par (used idiomatically: no)
He snapped up 7–38 to send Mold crashing to 95 all out and so lift the defending champions seven points clear at the top of the table . Crawley 's killer haul polished off Mold in the 44th over despite a defiant 30 from Simon Jones and 21 from wicket keeper Brian Williams . Below par Earlier former Wales international David Jones rolled back the years with a top score 61 , riding his luck after being dropped three times . Jones ' tally lifted Marchwiel to 143–7 , Nick Brown adding 31 on a day when Mold 's fielding was below par leaving them with 11 points to Marchwiel 's 30 .
Idiom: pull the plug (used idiomatically: yes)
But if the genes are stacked high up against you , lifestyle changes may not be enough protection.’ Although predominantly a disease of older men and rare in people under 30 , he said heart disease was by no means unknown in people of Mr Souness 's age . BT told to pull the plug on chatlines By Roland Gribben , Business Editor BRITISH Telecom was ordered to pull the plug on chatline services last night after the failure of a last minute legal challenge .
Idiom: run out of steam (used idiomatically: yes)
Small centres of excellence are a good idea ; and bringing together a group of experts in a subject could produce some interesting research . But what about the undergraduate students back home who also need stimulation by brilliant people ? And what happens when one generation of whiz - kids runs out of steam and needs to be replaced ? The Council of Europe also needs to be sure that it can avoid the stagnation , bureaucratisation and expense that have often — but not always — characterised international ventures . The Council may also try to draw up a science policy for Europe , if it is serious about this it will have to soil its hands a little more with the sharp end of applied research .
Idiom: catch someone's eye (used idiomatically: yes)
Some of them were bigwigs in the administration of the islands . And now that they 've retired on half pension , they 're a damn sight better off than they would be in Sydney or Auckland , let alone London.’ We had gone about a hundred yards when one particular house caught my eye . It was much larger than the others and set in a grove of coconut palms above the beach . ‘ That 's the Villa Faalifu , which means ‘ coconut’ .
Idiom: green light (used idiomatically: yes)
but spending has risen by no less than 26 per cent . That is the reality of Labour in action in local government . Labour 's policy means giving spendthrift councils the green light to send tax bills soaring even further with devastating results for millions of people . The Labour party claims that its new fair rates policy is easy to administer . ’ Fair Rates’says that Labour wants to cut unnecessary bureaucracy from local government finance , an admirable objective , but it seems that the Labour party can not help itself .
Idiom: all wet (used idiomatically: yes)
She , she were n't going partying till she got changed . I was cracking up so hard . Only thing I was screwing about was , she got my trainers all wet and I was going you bitch , they 're the only pair I got , the decent pair ! And she 's got got the bucket of water and I went boosh ! She went , no do n't !
Idiom: touch a nerve (used idiomatically: yes)
Resisting the temptation to call his bluff by pretending someone was with her , she asked how he had got on in Glasgow . ' Wild goose chase , ' he said grumpily . It appeared she had touched a raw nerve . ' All the fault of the news desk . They insisted on me going up there to see this chap who was supposed to have proof of a fiddle being carried out by a bunch of telephone operators at one particular exchange .