Gooogr/pie_idioms huggingface dataset:
Idiom: go through the motions (used idiomatically: yes)
yes is n't it yes it 's more it 's just going through the motions of a story at the moment rather than you 're , you 've got quite a good backbone there but you have n't got anything that really grabs my emotions . You have n't shocked me , you have n't horrified me , you have n't made me want to cry yet
Idiom: open someone's eyes (used idiomatically: yes)
You can open your eyes . I know you 're just pretending to be asleep .
Idiom: in the long run (used idiomatically: yes)
There is special occasion here for sadness — for a sad ending — for what is needed to save and protect , to ensure against suffering and further unpleasant consequence , is not in any way obscure . Nor would the resulting action be disagreeable . There would be a challenge to the present mood of contentment with its angry resentment of any intrusion , but , in the longer run , the general feeling of security in well - being would be deepened . The central requirement can not be escaped : almost every action that would remedy and reassure involves the relationship between the citizen and the state . In the communist world in the long years before collapse all concessions to the market were resisted as concessions to capitalism ; they were inconsistent with the accepted principles of socialism .
Idiom: on someone's mind (used idiomatically: yes)
In January 1974 , Heath 's giant Department of Trade and Industry was broken up and a separate Department of Energy created . Heath had heeded official opinion , which argued that now too much policy - making was bottled up in the super ministry and too little was reaching Cabinet . As Heath went down to electoral defeat in February 1974 , the yellowing of the 1970 Reorganisation of Central Government White Paper was the last thing on people ' s mind . Heath wanted to be , in machinery - of - government and Cabinet terms , the Lloyd George of the 1970s . The National Union of Mineworkers and the oil sheikhs denied him the title .
Idiom: make the grade (used idiomatically: yes)
‘ The guys wo n't keep me on the team . Out here they do n't just send a polite cube over to your bank manager to cancel your pay . This is my last season , Jez , and I just have n't made the grade . This time , unless we sell you , they 'll sell me . Turn me into a drone .
Idiom: crystal clear (used idiomatically: yes)
Charles produced a panel of twelve commissioners ( one of them was Nithard ) and Louis did the same . " This division was adapted not so much to the fertility or equal territorial extent of each share , as to the family connections ( affinitas ) , and the interests and commitments ( congruentia ) , of everyone involved " — that is to say , not of the kings alone , but of all twenty - four commissioners and beyond them , of their comrades , kin , friends and clients . This short passage makes crystal - clear the role of the aristocracy in Carolingian politics , and explains why Charles now and later worked so hard to carry his followers with him . The sequel proved the wisdom of the brothers ' strategy : within weeks , Lothar sent envoys to reopen negotiations , this time talking in far more accommodating tones than ever before . But consensus had its limitations in practice .
Idiom: in the can (used idiomatically: yes)
This was on the last day of an exhausting eleven - month shoot tracking down the healers , mystics and wise men of the islands . It was to be the opening sequence to our whole ten years of Indonesian adventure filming . Scorched and chastened , with the entire footage for our series finally in the can , Lorne returned to London to process and store the film , and I to my Hollywood A - frame to collate the slides and assemble this book . Here , over the years , I had gradually collected an Indonesian treasury of rare and beautiful things — as well as an uninsurably valuable archive of some 14,000 slides . My laser and holographic equipment lay fallow and cobwebbed .
Idiom: life and limb (used idiomatically: yes)
Perhaps the Austria Vienna spokesman , Peter Mueller , had this in mind when he said yesterday : ‘ Compared with previous UEFA decisions in similar cases , Ajax 's punishment is very harsh.’ It opens the possibility , if there are repetitions , of the further denuding of European competition ; five former champions of the continent — Liverpool , Aston Villa , Nottingham Forest , Manchester United and Ajax — are now banned . But who can blame UEFA , post - Heysel , for coming down on the side of life and limb before either is lost ? Ice Skating : Suzanne Otterson at the Skate Electric UK International at Richmond By PATRICK BARCLAY , Football Correspondent
Idiom: break ranks (used idiomatically: yes)
Vive l'empereur ! ’ The drummers , tediously beating the rhythm of the march , broke into joyous flurries when they realized their Emperor was so close . The troops could not reach their idol , for he was protected by bear - skinned guardsmen , but some men broke ranks to kiss the Emperor 's pale horse . Napoleon showed no reaction to his mens ' adulation . He sat motionless , swathed in a greatcoat despite the day 's oppressive heat , and with his face concealed by the peak of his hat that he had turned fore and aft to shadow his eyes .
Idiom: get the picture (used idiomatically: yes)
she found this booklet and it were like a cheque book Mm . it 's got the picture on but it 's a cheque Yeah ? please send me one blah blah whatever it is .
Idiom: catch fire (used idiomatically: yes)
This disaster focused media attention on other ferry fires . One man died on board the Reine Mathilde when it caught fire on April 9 , sailing between Caen in France and Portsmouth , England , although not directly as a result of the fire ; arson was not suspected . On the same day the B & I ferry Norrona caught fire en route from Pembroke in Wales to Rosslare in Ireland ; two men suspected of arson were detained and later released on bail . MIDDLE EAST — ARAB WORLD IRAQ
Idiom: on and off (used idiomatically: yes)
You are either the nicest guy on earth and everything you have done is wonderful . or you are a dog — or worse.’ His latest outburst comes as a surprise , as Faldo claims he is more relaxed both on and off the course . In my recent experience , that appears to be the case . He has been approachable and quite happy to talk about his golf — even his personal life , although he is always on his guard .
Idiom: in a fog (used idiomatically: yes)
From the rays of the sun : They 'd keep the agued carrying on In fogs and the contagious air . On his memorial bier He seems to have a migraine
Idiom: down the road (used idiomatically: yes)
Accordingly when Bilbo and Frodo say they will pursue it , eagerly or wearily , till it is intersected by other roads , lives , wishes , and will then continue into the unknown , if they can , they are expressing a mixture of doubt and determination — exactly the qualities Gandalf so often recommends . This has become much stronger and clearer with Frodo . Indeed it is net too much to say that the traveller walking down the branching road becomes in the end an image of ' the Good ' in Tolkien , and one opposed to the endless self - regarding circuits of the Ring . By the time one comes to that opinion the immediate dramatic contexts of the poem — leaving Bag End , leaving the Shire — have not been dropped , any more than ' the Road ' has lost its obvious literal quality , but they have come to seem only particular instances of a much more general truth . The ' tight fit ' of poems to characters and situations is accordingly illusory .
Idiom: take stock (used idiomatically: yes)
Mr Michael Forsyth , Scottish Office Minister , clung to Stirling with a majority of 703 , while the Tories won back Aberdeen South from Labour and Kincardine and Deeside from the Liberal Democrats , a seat lost in a by - election last autumn . Mr Rifkind , the Transport Secretary , retained his Edinburgh Pentlands seat — a result seen as justifying Mr Major 's decision to confront demands for devolution and separation by emphasising his support for the continued union between Scotland and the rest of the UK . But the Conservatives will have to take stock of the situation in Scotland after the election dust has settled . The Scottish Nationalists suffered a further setback when one of their leading figures , Mr James Sillars , was ousted from Glasgow Govan , which he had won at a by - election . While the Tories were holding the line in the South , there was gloomier news in the North .
Idiom: on the face of it (used idiomatically: no)
Main was removed from his place as salt watchman and advanced to the rank of tidesman , a strange development when linked to a charge of neglect of duty . Surprisingly , perhaps , at least at first glance , this promotion was secured by Colonel Haldane 's interest with the commissioners , for John Main had been firmly attached to the Cunningham interest in burgh politics . A salt watchman was paid a salary of £ 15 per annum , while a tidesman was paid £ 20 , so on the face of it Main seemed to have little cause for complaint . However , as Captain Robert Cunningham pointed out , as watchman Main was actually paid his £ 15 , while in his promoted post he had not been appointed to any port and held an appointment as tidesman at large , which meant that he was only paid when he was actually employed , and Haldane interest with the commissioners would make his tours of duty few and far between unless he experienced a timely political conversion . Cunningham rightly remarked that with this appointment Main was placed ‘ intirely in the power of his superior officers upon the coast , and if he should happen not to be favoured by them , his employment is not worth one shilling’ .
Idiom: long in the tooth (used idiomatically: yes)
Yes . Where was he from ? So all , all the A class judges are getting a little bit long in the tooth now No more questions ? No one , no more questions ?
Idiom: come to a head (used idiomatically: yes)
‘ He talks me through the game . He knows exactly what 's going on , so I was gutted when the manager signed Nigel Spackman to play alongside him . Then Nigel got injured so the thing never came to a head . ‘ Now I 'm the man in possession . I know I 've got a lot to learn , but I 'm in the best place to do it . ’
Idiom: jump to conclusions (used idiomatically: yes)
I personally do n't find it offensive and being black I 'm the one who 's meant to . You have to see the show to see there is n't anything offensive . A lot of people who have n't seen the show jump to the wrong conclusion about it Voice over At some theatres , the Minstrels are asking the audience to vote at the half - time interval on whether they want the makeup added .
Idiom: piping hot (used idiomatically: yes)
An RMP patrol is tasked to the scene of an escape from the Soviet Sector of Berlin . On arrival the patrol members find that two men have apparently just crashed a lorry through a fence and swum across the River Spree . They are now both gratefully sipping piping hot coffee , provided by RMP , still dripping wet , with looks of wonderment and happiness written across their faces . Berlin . A city divided by ideologies .
Idiom: over the counter (used idiomatically: no)
Cos they they were hard to get . . Oh yes . And er one of the men that was helping the old man to to do something , to repair the the these tools you know , and he he 'd gone to the stores to get something and leaning over the counter to get something er er to sort of talk as one goes on a on a counter lean he was leaning a on the counter , and he erm the the the storeman he was a tough little beggar , and he said , I 've got a I 've got a I 've got a toothache . he says . And asked him you know , Erm which one is it ?
Idiom: left and right (used idiomatically: yes)
The Spanish writer Gomez de la Serna , a friend of Picasso 's at this time and an habitué of the Bateau Lavoir during his visits to Paris , recalls that Picasso 's walls there were decorated with reproductions of El Grecos . Moreover , some of Picasso 's painting of 1906 bears testimony in a very direct way to his admiration for this Spanish master . The angular , and in the case of the three women at the extreme left and right of the Demoiselles , rather ‘ faceted’ appearance of the figures , and the heavy , chalky highlights found in certain parts of the drapery could well have come from a study of El Greco 's work . But on a more concrete level the Demoiselles owes most to Picasso 's use of ‘ primitive’ sources . In this respect , too , the Demoiselles was related to much of the most advanced painting of the period .
Idiom: play games (used idiomatically: yes)
‘ Until more research is done I do n't think the video games companies have any justification in saying it has no impact on kids.’ Teachers are finding that many children are spending substantial amounts of time playing the games to the detriment of their school work . ‘ Our members are reporting that children 's social and educational development is already being affected by playing games to excess , and we are concerned that , long - term , there will be medical effects on them as well,’ said Ms Miller . ‘ Computer games are like lots of other children 's hobbies — great in small doses.’ Two of the principal games manufacturers respond to the criticisms on the World in Action programme .
Idiom: see the light (used idiomatically: yes)
The jokes could be played out in a fully contemporary setting and could often concern the adventures of very ordinary downtrodden men . Throughout his career Chaplin took every care to sustain the idea that his life had been a kind of Victorian romance and perhaps if we allow for certain embellishments we can accept this interpretation as legitimate . There seems every reason to believe those 1917 recollections in which Chaplin spoke of how from the moment that he had first seen the light of Brixton he was aware that ‘ unkind fate must have struck his knife unto me’ and of how he had been ‘ through more hardships and downright poverty than one per cent of the world 's worst Jonahs can tell of’ . Whilst recalling his early hardships Chaplin also provided a clue as to how he had overcome them for he spoke of how he had ‘ slaved like a nigger to master the difficult steps that formed the routine of the eight Lancashire lads’ . Throughout his early career Chaplin noted the poverty and hardships that were common in society and these observations were fed into his act as he mastered the various techniques of traditional nineteenth - century mime , vaudeville , and clowning .
Idiom: as good as new (used idiomatically: yes)
I found the ankle cuff the right height and shape to provide support without restricting my movement . It is slightly cut away at the rear and so does n't put pressure on the Achilles tendon . At the end of this test I can find no failings in the manufacture or materials of the Veta V. Despite all the use I 've made of them they are as good as new . They are also extremely comfortable and competitively prices with other leather boots on the market . Price : £ 69.95 Material : one piece calf leather upper , Vibram dual density sole and Cambrelle lining Sizes : 36–47 Contact : Daisy Roots , Westfield Trading Estate , Midsomer Norton , Bath BA34XD .
Idiom: first up (used idiomatically: yes)
IBM plans to use ObjectStore in more than 50 object projects it is currently working on . Products will begin shipping by the end of the year , according to IBM 's vice president of software engineering , Irve Trager . First up will be a central object - oriented repository for AD / Cycle , now renamed the Application Development Platform ( ADP ) . ADP is IBM 's troubled attempt to develop a complete LAN - based application development environment for client / server systems — IBM failed outright with AD / Cycle for MVS , and abandoned it last year ( UX No 353 ) . An ObjectStore repository for Information Warehouse , IBM 's corporate software architecture for accessing data across System Application Architecture platforms , is also planned .
Idiom: break even (used idiomatically: no)
Figure 3.1 shows that if we go to bed at the ‘ normal ’ time we sleep about eight hours , a result that most of us would accept as part of our daily experience . However , the figure also shows that if we fall asleep when the body temperature is about to begin to fall ( about 6 o'clock in the evening ) , there is the possibility of sleeping for about 12 hours . By contrast , even if we manage to get to sleep at about 10 o'clock in the morning the sleep is likely to be shorter and broken . In effect we have considered this already ( Chapter 2 ) when we described how delayed retiring times did not tend to be associated with longer sleeps ; it was a rising body temperature that curtailed sleep and over-rode any need for more sleep that might have existed . There is one exception to this general parallelism between temperature , fatigue , and the ability to sleep .
Idiom: miss the boat (used idiomatically: yes)
By CHARLES SHAAR MURRAY MUCH of the advance publicity that surrounded Hook , Steven Spielberg 's adaptation of J. M. Barrie 's Peter Pan story , concentrated on the ageing directorial wunderkind 's affinity for the subject of a boy who never grows up . Little fuss has been made of the director 's original notion of casting Michael Jackson as Peter , but Spielberg has clearly missed the boat in refusing to commission Robert Smith , front man and only constant factor of The Cure , to compose the score . The Cure are pop 's truest Lost Boys , still — 14 years after their first professional recording — bravely confronting the desires and dilemmas of sensitive adolescence . Their latest album , Wish ( Fiction / Polydor ) , not only includes a song called Wendy Time , but it also celebrates the durability of Smith 's most precious asset , miraculously unimpaired by the passage of the years : his ability to retain a sense of wonder at each manifestation of the most basic of human emotions .
Idiom: out on a limb (used idiomatically: yes)
She went out on a limb defending him , and now she has lost her job .
Idiom: night and day (used idiomatically: no)
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Idiom: speak volumes (used idiomatically: yes)
It was pretty nerve - racking for everyone . We were thrown together and had to get on with it.’ She speaks volumes about the divisions which exited when she acknowledges that ‘ Terry was more comfortable with his own kind’ . But even Butler has come to realise that in fulfilling the role of gamekeeper turned poacher he might not win friends but he could influence people . The probing nature of his role , acting as an ‘ expert’ on behalf of the government to push the reform stragglers along , has inevitably made him unpopular in some social services quarters .
Idiom: get lost (used idiomatically: yes)
Early on an August Saturday morning they set off at a great pace on the west side of the reservoir with the intention of following the ten mile bridleway right round the reservoir to a pub , where they planned to arrive two hours after opening time . Ian soon learned how to dodge the flying hooves of Boy and remain in control of his bike , but what he had n't expected was the clinging weight and depth of wet Wadhurst clay — somersaulting with a squelch into one of the deepest bogs which appeared regularly between the level stretches of good galloping ground where both could make good speed . Neck and spoke they raced for mile after mile , the horse only drawing breath to ensure Ian was there to open the gates along the way , and to use Ian as a guide when Sally got lost in the maze of the Clubhouse car park ! However , only Sally knew where the bridleway left the reservoir and headed to the pub , so she ensured she was in the lead at that point , and then promptly declared her race over as she would not risk galloping the remaining mile of road . Off Ian pedalled , to arrive at the pub a few seconds before Sally , but having been companions in adversity throughout the whole way , neither was going to claim outright victory , so agreed to declare a draw .
Idiom: pissed off (used idiomatically: yes)
And then it 'll look as if I 've hardly been . about half seven . Is she pissed off ? We 've got ta be going fairly early anyway . She goes to me , oh how you getting to well I was hoping like , you 'd take me , she goes , oh yes ?
Idiom: by leaps and bounds (used idiomatically: yes)
It seems clear that at some point during this period Wilson determined to precipitate a showdown with the shipowners . He opened his campaign in the United States in 1909 , addressing meetings of seamen in New York , Philadelphia , New Orleans and along the Great Lakes . In part his object , especially in New York , was to recruit seamen from British ships into the union , a device which Joe Cotter , for one , regarded with admiration since as a result membership of the NSFU " went up by leaps and bounds " But he was also testing out the reaction of the men to the notion of an international strike , a theme he pursued at dozens of meetings in the United Kingdom in the following year , thirty such meetings being held in London alone . Resolutions calling for an international strike were passed unanimously at every meeting and there was similar enthusiasm in Liverpool , Cardiff , Glasgow , Belfast , Hull , the north east coast and from mass meetings in Antwerp , Dunkerque , Amsterdam , in Denmark and in Norway , all addressed by a team of NSFU speakers , including Wilson , Cathery and Hopkins . Wives and mothers of British seamen were reported as incensed , not only by the low pay of their menfolk , but also by the medical examination to which they were subjected on signing on , " mauled about and handled as though they were a piece of New Zealand mutton " .
Idiom: cross swords (used idiomatically: yes)
The saint herself instructed him . If it were not so , she would never have allowed it to succeed . ' ' I tremble at crossing swords with you , ' said Robert Bossu in the sweetest and most reasonable of voices , his high shoulder leaned at ease against the panelled wall at his back , ' but I must observe that she did not allow it to succeed . The wagon that carried her was waylaid and stolen by vagabonds in the forests of my domain , and in my lands she came to rest . ' ' That intervention was by the malice of evil men , ' said Herluin , roused and fiery of eye .
Idiom: on the rocks (used idiomatically: yes)
I think it dawned on him then for the first time that there were two streams , and that the pond was not formed by Burden Creek . And here , if you look at them closely where they join , the difference between them becomes plain . Even in the last few feet , the small stream has life in it — minnows , tadpoles , water bugs and green moss on the rocks . Burden Creek has none at all , and after they merge , downstream all the way to the gap and out , the water is clear and dead . I can not be sure that he noticed all that , but he stared at it for a long time , getting down on his hands .
Idiom: get stuck in (used idiomatically: yes)
We got stuck in a traffic ~ jam , which made us twenty minutes late .