Gooogr/pie_idioms huggingface dataset:
Idiom: in my book (used idiomatically: yes)
Many of the illustrious are there too , their signatures sometimes smudged or rain - spotted , but nonetheless memorable for that : Hobbs , Sandham , and Strudwick ; Nichols and O'Connor ; Hammond and Charlie Parker ; Hallows , Watson and Makepeace ; Freeman and Woolley ( the short and the tall ) ; the 1928 West Indians , including Learie Constantine ; and the ‘ All - Indian’ tourists of 1932 . Signed cigarette cards of Geo , Gunn and Tate . Needless to say , the first page in my book of nostalgia is devoted to my native county , Nottinghamshire . All my boyhood heroes ' names are there — Larwood and Voce ; Gunn and Whysall ; and , written in bold capitals ( surely indicative of the character of an aggressive captain ) , A.W. CARR .
Idiom: have words (used idiomatically: no)
Something cold landed on his head . He brushed at it irritably . I 'll have a word with some of the younger nomes , he thought . Maybe going to the barn is n't such a bad idea ; we could keep our eyes shut on the way . Or something .
Idiom: ring a bell (used idiomatically: yes)
She was dead frightened and was pressing on the bell and everything , but nobody came that night . I was bad for ages . It happens a lot that you ring the bell and they just do n't come . They never found out I 'd done it . I got out of Bullwood Hall on a Tuesday and I was picked up on the Thursday , two days later , for robbery .
Idiom: make a splash (used idiomatically: yes)
SUPERSCALAR SNAKES ' SET FOR SEPTEMBER ' Back in June ( UX No 387 ) , Hewlett - Packard Co was dropping large hints that it would be announcing and delivering new Snake workstations and upgrades based upon its next - generation PA RISC 7110 chip , Thunderbird , sometime before its fiscal year ends in October . At that time it had n't made up its mind whether it was going to deliver an immediate response to Sun Microsystems Inc 's Sparcstation 10 announcement — and ship systems later on in the year — or make a big splash in the Autumn with deliveries pretty much straight after . Last week , sources within HP confirmed that September 15th is the day the firm has chosen to cut and run to the end of its year with two new workstation models thought to be based upon the 7100 , possibly a 740 Coral II ( Coral is the 750 ) and 725 King Cobra II ( King Cobra is the 730 ) . The superscalar 7100 will operate at up to 100MHz and do better than 120 ( old ) SPECmarks , the company claimed at its announcement ( UX No 373 ) .
Idiom: catch the sun (used idiomatically: yes)
William Blake The Marriage of Heaven and Hell It was evening of the following day . The north - facing escarpment of Watership Down , in shadow since early morning , now caught the western sun for an hour before twilight . Three hundred feet the down rose vertically in a stretch of no more than six hundred — a precipitous wall , from the thin belt of trees at the foot to the ridge where the steep flattened out . The light , full and smooth , lay like a gold rind over the turf , the furze and yew bushes , the few wind - stunted thorn trees .
Idiom: lie low (used idiomatically: no)
A conference of representatives from 15 small island states in the Caribbean , the Mediterranean and the Indian and Pacific Oceans , was held in the Maldives in mid - January 1990 to discuss some of the problems facing small countries . In particular , concern was expressed at the possible effects of " global warming " causing storms and a rise in the sea level . The Maldives was judged to be at particular risk due to its composition of low - lying coral islands and atolls . The Secretary - General of the Commonwealth , Shridath ( Sonny ) Ramphal , called on the larger industrialized countries to provide more aid for countries at risk . Economic indicators
Idiom: on the double (used idiomatically: no)
DAVID WHITE 'S explosive return to scoring form threatens to increase the agony at Anfield today for Liverpool boss Graeme Souness . Souness , anxious to forget last week 's 5-1 hiding at Coventry , would have chosen anyone but White as an adversary this afternoon . Last season , the Manchester City winger scored four in two games against Liverpool and his touched returned on cue with a double against Sheffield United on Boxing Day . White said : ‘ I have very fond memories of Liverpool last year . ’ Defeat for either of the mid-table sides could spell expulsion from the fringes of a pack contesting the most open title fight for years .
Idiom: pull a face (used idiomatically: yes)
I was sailing the Pacific , or a character in a surrealist painting ; often I was walking over the red shale past one football pitch after another , with goal - posts stretching as far as the eye could see , like white crosses over the fields of Arnhem . These inventions not only relieved the boredom but gave escape from pain . At times I went almost mad , talking gibberish , pulling faces , and singing in mock Latin . In the presence of Mick and Paddy , I acted normally , but when I was alone , and especially in difficulty , the gates which allowed me to escape from convention were opened . The corrugations of the track were half - filled with grit so that the wheel lost momentum in each hollow and at times I thought of myself as an engine - driver , pushing my train back to the station , always careful not to trip over the sleepers .
Idiom: tell tales (used idiomatically: no)
THE MEMORIAL TO INSPECTOR : PC SHORTER 'S MEMORIAL IS NEARBY . THE 19TH CENTURY READING GAOL WHERE WILDE AND WOOLRIDGE LANGUISHED . OSCAR WILDE TOLD THE TALE OF TROOPER WOOLRIDGE . TROOP 'S PARADE IN WOOLRIDGE 'S WINDSOR — IN PEASCOD STREET . ( RS )
Idiom: see the light (used idiomatically: yes)
Fashion — one silly brainless bitch trying to outdo the others because she 's bored out of her tiny mind and is n't interested in anything other than the way she looks.’ ‘ Do n't knock it,’ Nick said seriously . ‘ You know as well as I do it 's a damned great industry — and there are plenty of facets to it that never see the light of day . Find some of them , Harriet , mix them in with the glamour — and see what you get . More than enough for just one feature , I 'll be bound .
Idiom: rank and file (used idiomatically: yes)
In fact , in many factories all over Britain white workers are not only on the side of trade union bureaucracy but often on the side of the management against their black workmates . But there has been an important exception . In the most important strike of 1976 and 1977 the rank and file of the labour movement have demonstrated their support of black workers . The strike at Grunwick Photoprocessing is exceptional in many ways . Not only are the men and women involved people of remarkable courage and strength , but unlike Imperial Typewriters or Spiralynx it is a strike of black workers in an area well known for its tradition of left wing trade union organisation .
Idiom: on paper (used idiomatically: no)
They were created in oil and acrylic paints and in resin , their boldly scarred surfaces resulting from the careful removal of upper layers in a technique which Lowe compares to the detachment of frescoes from their supports . The exhibition includes ' Registration Marks ' , six new etchings made by Print Centre Publications . The following exhibitions were discussed in last month 's issue and should be noted : sculpture and drawings by Eduardo Chillida at Annely Juda ( to 14 November ) , works on paper by Bridget Riley at Karsten Schubert ( to 14 November ) , seven sculptures and a strong selection of graphic works by Elizabeth Frink at Lumley Cazalet ( to 13 November ) , ' Three Score and Ten ' , the seventieth birthday exhibition of Albert Irvin at Gimpel ( to 21 November ) , the second part of Adrian Wiczniewski 's new paintings , drawings and neon sculpture at William Jackson ( to 21 November ) , Andy Goldsworthy 's clay floor at Turske - Hue - Williams ( to 27 November ) , the large sculptures of Jeff Lowe at Maak ( to 20 November ) , Fantastic Works on Paper at RAAB 's Millbank branch and the paintings of Jean - Michel Basquiat and Robert Combas at Crane ( to 3 December ) . Cologne Spiegel hosts René
Idiom: join the club (used idiomatically: no)
I guess it does n't make any difference which swimming club I join .
Idiom: on edge (used idiomatically: yes)
At first , I lived on my wits . I became a story - teller : painting my face , filching a gaudily embroidered robe and , not being versed in the French tongue , pretending I was a traveller lately returned from seeing the fables of India and Persia . I took a position on the edge of one of the bridges across the Seine and told , in halting fashion , stories about forests so high they pierced the clouds . ' These , ' I cried , ' are inhabited by horned pygmies who move in herds , and who are old by the time they are seven ! ' I earned a few sous so I became more fantastical , maintaining I had met Brahmins who killed themselves on funeral pyres ; men with monkeys ' heads and leopards ' bodies ; giants with only one eye and one foot who could run so fast they could only be caught if they fell asleep in the lap of a virgin .
Idiom: rank and file (used idiomatically: yes)
Crucially , a rift developed between a local strike leadership and the trade union 's national officials . The union , notoriously moderate and bureaucratic , repudiated the strike and made several attempts to engineer a return to work ( including alleged collaboration with the employer ) . This produced a deep sense of betrayal amongst workers ; and the ' civil war , between rank - and - file workers and the official union was essentially what turned the strike into a protracted struggle . Lane and Roberts argued that strikes are not difficult to explain . They are ' normal events ' , arising almost naturally out of the circumstances of the employment relationship itself : ' A wildcat can break out in perfectly normal conditions , and the structure of the relations between employers , trade unions , governments and workers guarantees that some strikes will grow from small beginnings into mighty struggles'(p.241 ) .
Idiom: stand someone in good stead (used idiomatically: yes)
But not just redundancy , we 've taken initiatives in lots of other areas , we 'll show you those as well . On capital spending we tended to concentrate on that spending which would show a return on the investment and if we could we 've postponed er , maintenance spending erm , renewal of cars and that kind of thing . All of our Chief Executives accept er , cash generation targets erm , either cash generation or ratio of working capital to er , to sales and that kind of thing and erm , as well as er , profit to turn over issues and that 's er , stood us in good stead this year . And we 've been saying to Chief Executives , if you ca n't get the profit or you ca n't get the sales , well at least concentrate on trying to , trying to get the cash , get the debtors in , that kind of thing . And we think that 's er , er , gone well too .
Idiom: carrot and stick (used idiomatically: yes)
There is still a feeling , and rightly so , that every firm owes some responsibility to its members and their dependants in this respect and that it is not enough to leave it to the individual partner to make his own arrangements . An increasingly common arrangement is for the partnership agreement to provide ( Clause 14.02 ) for each partner to commit himself to take out and keep in force such policies as may be agreed between himself and his co - partners ; and to reinforce that , it may be provided that appropriate deductions should be made from his profit share and applied in payment of the premiums . ( e ) Staff Two particular matters , in the nature of carrot and stick , may conveniently be mentioned here as being important for the partners to determine as a matter of firm policy:(1 ) r7 of the Solicitors ' Practice Rules 1990 permits solicitors to share their profits with their bona fide employees so long as such arrangements do not conceal an effective partnership . Thus , firms can reward their staff by setting up bonus schemes related to the firm 's profits or otherwise relating pay to performance ; and ( 2 ) just as the partners will wish to impose restraint covenants upon themselves ( see Chapter 8) to prevent an outgoing partner damaging the continuing practice by setting up in competition thereto , so in the case of salaried partners , assistant solicitors and other key members of staff their terms of employment should include similar restrictionssimilar , but not necessarily identical . The court will look at restraints imposed upon employees rather more strictly than those which have been agreed between the partners themselves , as there is likely to be an inequality of bargaining power .
Idiom: do the right thing (used idiomatically: yes)
I think the difficulty is , though I mean I remember getting blind drunk as a student , and I loved it . I mean when you 're dealing with alcohol it 's not something that we can all agree has no benefits either . But when you loved it , did n't you I mean I know I did when I was a young person first drinking erm I definitely had the feeling that if I was drinking to excess I was n't doing the right thing , whereas the impression we give in Oxford that drinking to the excess is perfectly acceptable behaviour . mhm mhm Suzanne Gibson , you mentioned earlier that you did n't like to use the word ‘ policing’ .
Idiom: pull strings (used idiomatically: yes)
A political friend of Streibl 's , former Bavarian Agriculture Minister and deputy Premier Otto Schedl , read a eulogy for the Austrian statesman who still stands accused of assigning Jews , partisans and even British soldiers to their deaths during service in occupied Yugoslavia and Greece . Waldheim 's ' virtues ' had become particularly clear when the Austrian President had been confronted by a ' world of defamation and absolutely unfathomable persecution ' , said Schedl . The accusations against Waldheim , however , had collapsed like a house of cards and ' those pulling the strings ' had been revealed , Schedl claimed . He did n't elaborate — but , for many observers , he did n't have to . ' There 's a subtle and dangerous anti - Zionism at work here , ' said a Munich Jew who insisted on anonymity .
Idiom: for good measure (used idiomatically: yes)
When Granpa asked me what I wanted for my fifteenth birthday I replied without a moment 's hesitation , ‘ My own barrow,’ and added that I 'd nearly saved enough to get one . He just laughed and told me that his old one was well good enough for whenever the time came for me to take over . In any case , he warned me , it 's what a rich man calls an asset and , he added for good measure , never invest in something new , especially when there 's a war on . Although Mr Salmon had already told me that we had declared war against the Germans almost a year ago — none of us having heard of Archduke Franz Ferdinand — we only found out how serious it was when a lot of young lads who had worked in the market began to disappear off to ‘ the front’ to be replaced by their younger brothers — and sometimes even sisters . On a Saturday morning there were often more lads down the East End dressed in khaki than in civvies .
Idiom: carry the can (used idiomatically: yes)
Wardrobe are seated round a huge dish of communal sweets on the Green Room table , sewing Freddie Fox 's tail in place , while Bertie Badger , the children 's favourite , complains : ' I ca n't see a fucking thing in this head - dress ! ' Six pom - poms glide past the end of the table and we realise that one of the dwarves has lost his hat . Two of the musicians , carrying the usual cans of Gold Label , pop their heads in and shout : ' Break a leg , gang . ' ' Merde , ' we chorus back , feeling terribly ' thespian ' . It 's hot , it 's happy and it 's home for the next six weeks , along with the University Arms Hotel a few minutes ' walk away .
Idiom: keep your pecker up (used idiomatically: yes)
In a few years things may change , I ca n't promise that , but they may . And you have my word that you wo n't be forgotten , not by Whitehall , not by Foreign and Commonwealth . It 's going to boil down to keeping your pecker up , looking on the best side of things . You 'll do that , wo n't you , old chap … There 's not really anything more for me to say .
Idiom: go to town (used idiomatically: yes)
In Austria , they do n't absolute in the , I mean I know nothing about their industrial places at all . I do n't know their industrial I do n't , I do n't go to the towns or Holland , can to see , look to me as if there were plenty of it when I was there . Oh I plenty of industry at the moment , yeah .
Idiom: keep tabs on (used idiomatically: yes)
Objectives perform an important function . They enable us to break up the larger and more nebulous goals , into smaller , more manageable pieces . They also help us keep tabs on our progress . Selecting Activities for the Achievement of Objectives Once you have clear precise objectives you will be ready to select activities for the achievement of each objective .
Idiom: up in the air (used idiomatically: yes)
Their long mobile noses are used for rooting around in search of small animals . Coatis are extremely agile and climb well . Note how they sometimes walk with their tails up in the air , probably using them as a flag for signalling to others in the group when on the move through undergrowth . This is known in other mammals including Ring - tailed Lemurs — also to be seen in the Walled Garden . Other species to be seen in the Walled Garden include Ruffed Lemurs , Squirrel Monkeys , and Tamarins ; in aviaries and enclosures are Kookaburras , Superb Spreo Starlings , Mountain Witch Doves , Roul Roul Partridges , Laughing Thrushes , Nutmeg Imperial Pigeons , Peacock Pheasants , Pink - backed Pelicans , Pileated Jays , Black Swans , Mandarin Ducks and parrots .
Idiom: meet someone halfway (used idiomatically: no)
I 'm sorry , but for your granddaughter 's sake , you really do have to straighten up.’ Trent saw Mariana up on the forest edge when he went to fetch wood from the carport . He considered meeting her halfway and warning her but decided that getting coffee into her grandfather had priority . The stove lit easily . He filled the kettle and set it on the hob , then went through to the front room , closed the shutters , and tried radioing on the frequency Caspar had given him for the US Embassy in Belpan City .
Idiom: full marks (used idiomatically: yes)
Answer to the first one . Here you are then . Really want one more wise man and we get full marks Are we all ready ? Yes
Idiom: think the world of (used idiomatically: yes)
‘ He has n't even tried to find out how I am , has he?’ Her voice was flat . ‘ He 'll be in touch , Lizzy , he thinks the world of you.’ ‘ Yeah , of course he does.’ Her voice was bitter and Kate and Evelyn exchanged worried glances .
Idiom: break even (used idiomatically: yes)
But there 's the rub . Traditionally there is a new - price premium on diesels which offsets cheaper running costs . The break - even point where diesel starts to pay off varies considerably depending on the size of the premium and the extent of annual mileage ( the higher the mileage , the faster you reach break - even ) . Motoring Which ? did its sums recently on comparable Peugeot 309s , suggesting that the diesel version would save £ 1,280 over two years at 12,000 miles a year . New price lists tell and interesting but not a consistent story .
Idiom: all wet (used idiomatically: yes)
We are grateful for a flysheet - pitch - first tent in the Tromsdalen campsite and as we work speedily on its erection , the man in the camp reception hut watches us through the windows . I imagine he is impressed and that he will invite us for a coffee after , but when I look again he is gone . I peer into the rain for a glimpse of Storskarfjell , but it is all wet misery to the south . We discuss the merits of lighting the Trangia , decide that as nobody is watching , a coffee in the camp café will be OK . Later we go to sleep with the noise of rain on the flysheet , that noise that is at one time both infuriating because it means that tomorrow 's enjoyment may be curtailed , and soothing in a strange way .
Idiom: on the ball (used idiomatically: yes)
Solutions 1 . It is easy to see that there are 12 pentagons on the ball . Each is surrounded by a ring of five Ts but each T is shared between three pentagons . So there are a third of 12 x 5 Ts : i.e. 20 Ts in all .
Idiom: under the microscope (used idiomatically: yes)
Working with Dr Graham Lennox , Prof Mayer made his discovery through a test to highlight the damage by studying the action of a protein called ubiquitin , which is produced to label damaged cell components so they can be carted away for disposal . Into scrapie - affected cells they introduced tiny gold particles tethered to a protein that sticks to working ubiquitin . When they examined the cells under an electron microscope , the gold only highlighted abnormal proteins in the waste disposal organ of the cell , called the lysosome . The lysosome is called a ' suicide bag ' said Prof Mayer , not only because it digests any waste materials by the use of powerful enzymes but also because this cocktail can kill off the cell . The abnormal proteins produced by these degenerative diseases are relatively indigestible , so they build up in the lysosome .
Idiom: one and the same (used idiomatically: yes)
People Only the names have been changed … It may sound like a case of split personalities but Louise G Torsney FHCIMA and Louise G Pollard FHCIMA is one and the same person . Louise uses both names for business purposes , Torsney when she is working for the Hygiene Training Consultancy specialising in tailor - made courses for schools , social services and private hospitals ; and Pollard in her role as hygiene consultant for B & W Hygiene , which is a manufacturer and supplier to the industry . In her 20 year career , Louise has been known by both her single and married names so needs to continue using both .
Idiom: in my book (used idiomatically: yes)
You have to put large there and little there . I could stick these , one of these there and put the big one there . In my book . What , for your homework ? No .
Idiom: in the black (used idiomatically: no)
1 . RESPRAY my car . Statistics suggest that you have 25 per cent more chance of having an accident in a black car than in a yellow or brown one . Cars in the latter colours had 133 crashes resulting in injury per 10,000 cars in 1991 . Green ones had 134 , silver 142 , grey 147 , blue 149 , red 157 , white 160 and black a hefty 179 .
Idiom: behind bars (used idiomatically: yes)
Mm , normally er people who ca n't afford , hesitate to walk around . I , I do hesitate myself because if I walk around normally I have to suffer a lot of abuse by , not by , people by who are walking round , but the people who are passing by in the cars etc . And youngsters normally er when , when they pass by , they will certainly say , at your back , something nasty and so er there is no way just have to an tolerate it unless , until we want to end up in , behind the bars . Has it become worse or better since you first arrived here ? Erm it has become worse in a way that er we did , I did experience some sort of er , er racial intolerance er with the youth , but the middle - aged and the er m older people were very , very er tolerant I had to ask er when I could n't find my way , ask my way to certain places and er there was an that er the lady just walked by me er with me and she , she said I 'll have to walk with you you ca n't find it .
Idiom: at your fingertips (used idiomatically: yes)
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