Gooogr/pie_idioms huggingface dataset:
Idiom: up against it (used idiomatically: yes)
Gradually Moffatt assumed command and softened Dhalie up with two cracking left hooks in the third with the Birmingham fighter coming off second best in the fourth before retiring . In the chief support Andrew Jervis ( Liverpool ) outpointed Chris Mulcahy ( Rochdale ) over six rounds . After dominating for four rounds , he suddenly found himself up against it when he shipped a series of right hand shots in the final two sessions . But he was still there at the bell to collect a tight decision ( 58–58 ) . Completing the card Liverpool light - welter Charlie Paine made a winning professional debut , beating Del Panayiotiou ( Swansea ) over six rounds by a decisive 60–57 , doing all the chasing and producing all the best right hand work .
Idiom: beat the meat (used idiomatically: no)
DIY Ten popular euphemisms for masturbation : Beat the Meat Five Finger Knuckle Shuffle Shake the Snake
Idiom: under fire (used idiomatically: yes)
Vinny Jones makes his home debut today after spells with Leeds , Sheffield United and Chelsea . BIRTHDAY boy John Fashanu reckons the party 's over for Blackburn 's England ace Alan Shearer . SHEARER : Under fire WRIGHT : Support HEY NUDE
Idiom: walk all over (used idiomatically: yes)
This involves violating one 's own rights by failing to express honest feelings , thoughts and beliefs , and consequently permitting others to violate oneself . Passive or non - assertive behaviour can also mean expressing one 's thoughts and feelings in such an apologetic and self - effacing manner that others can easily disregard them . The passive responder allows others to ‘ walk all over them’(doormat ) . The non - assertive person feels they have no control over their anxiety : it controls and immobilizes them . The passive person does not allow their needs to take precedence over or be as valid as , another 's .
Idiom: on the rocks (used idiomatically: yes)
Table 11e Mineralogical Magazine Mineralogy is a rather specialist sub - field within the earth sciences , dealing with the description of minerals . London is the major university for mineralogical studies on Scottish rocks , whereas Oxford and Cambridge , both of which have Departments of Mineralogy , tend to research in other geographical areas . Table 11f Proceedings of the Geologists Association University PhDs Papers Percent Rank
Idiom: strike a chord (used idiomatically: yes)
Initial plateau production is planned at 152 million cu ft a day from six wells . Working interests in the Kadanwari field are LASMO Oil Pakistan [ operator ] , 18.42 per cent ; Kufpec [ Pakistan]and Idemitsu Pakistan Oil Exploration , both 15.79 per cent ; and the Oil and Gas Development Corporation , 50 per cent . Festival strikes a chord with young musicians MUSIC students in Scotland and London are tuning up for the first annual LASMO Music Festival to be held in the theatre at Haddo House , Aberdeen , on 22 June . The festival is the main activity associated with the LASMO arts Trust which was launched at the inauguration of the Staffa oil field last year .
Idiom: on the double (used idiomatically: no)
They talked a lot during dinner and then after a couple of brandies , went up to the bedroom . It was a family room , with one double bed and one single . They sat down on the double one . Charles 's hand stroked the so - familiar contours of his wife 's shoulders . ‘ This is another of your detective things , is n't it , Charles?’
Idiom: make tracks (used idiomatically: yes)
Hollywood actors always seem to do their best to show that drugs are the worst . Anyone out there remember Michael Keaton doing his nut in Clean And Sober or James Woods acting pop - eyed in The Boost ( both 1988 ) to show you should just say no ? Now it 's the turn of Jennifer Jason Leigh ( pictured ) and Jason Patric to ( respectively ) moan and mumble as they make tracks across the border separating responsible undercover police work from plain strung - out weirdness in this month 's Rush , Lili Fini Zanuck 's sombre adaptation of Kim Wozencraft 's semi - autobiographical novel about life as a narcotics cop in Seventies Texas . Blues singer Greg Allman is put to good use as the big bad dealer at the centre of events , a weighty presence always just out of reach . Otherwise , things fall a little flat .
Idiom: in the works (used idiomatically: no)
This is the fundamental starting point of all Marxist studies of society . The anthropological concerns with which Marx 's and Engels 's work deal in the clearest fashion concern such matters as the evolution of property , the evolution of forms of labour , and the growth of the State . In these three areas there is a clear development in the various works considered in the previous chapters , and these different studied build on each other . Property changes in nature as private property is introduced , and this type of property becomes the foundation of capitalist exploitation . Labour changes from being at a stage where it has not yet become a thing in itself and is merely an aspect of social life , to a stage when although still an aspect of social life it involves exploitation , i.e. slavery and serfdom , to a third stage when labour has become mysteriously represented as a thing and is used for a different kind of exploitation .
Idiom: on the ropes (used idiomatically: yes)
Two more strikes from David Pugh and then Lightfoot again just added insult to injury . Swindon Manager John Gorman said’ he feels like a boxer who keeps getting knocked down’ . Town are certainly on the ropes . This time a three nil defeat at the hands of Wimbledon . It 'll be some heavyweight challenge for Town to pick themselves up off the floor and fight their way out of trouble .
Idiom: not worth the candle (used idiomatically: yes)
The only sensible response to this , Neil decided ruefully , was to keep hold of the cane , and continue to threaten the bully with it , and for a very short space of time they circled around one another— neither man , it soon became plain , really wishing to do more than threaten . The masher 's intended victim was not quite so indecisive ; far from taking the opportunity to run off , leaving St George to fight the dragon on his own , she had taken the opportunity once her attacker 's attention had been diverted from her to remove her right shoe , and she now proceeded to attack him from the rear , pounding him first about the head and shoulders with the shoe , and then with her handbag shrieking , ‘ Take that , you cowardly bully , and that,’ leaving him open to any attack Neil might care to make . Assailed from both sides , the masher decided that the game was not worth the candle , and , dodging by Neil , to the latter 's great relief , he scuttled off towards the Haymarket . Neil dropped his cane , and turned towards the victim , now transformed into her attacker 's Nemesis . Her hair down and around her shoulders , her dress torn , her right shoe in one hand , and her bag in the other , the light of battle in her eye , McAllister stared at her saviour , Dr Neil , and he stared back at her .
Idiom: left and right (used idiomatically: yes)
With his background in the pro - Boer agitation , he initially followed the pacifist line of counterposing social reform to spending on armaments . But he was quick to perceive that there was little future in such arguments , at least for a Government Minister . His subsequent rise to power as the charismatic leader of Britain 's ‘ war socialism’ provides the best illustration of the tendency for left and right - wing collectivism to converge around a nationalist economics utterly alien to the Cobdenite traditions of the pacifists . But some of Britain 's leading socialists were ready to follow a similar trajectory . H. M. Hyndman , the ex - Tory founding father of British Marxism , saw the defence of bad states against worse ones as a legitimate socialist position .
Idiom: under the microscope (used idiomatically: no)
Pollen analysis ( palynology ) is mainly used to give an idea of the vegetation around an archaeological site . It can provide evidence of the history and development of vegetation in a region . Pollen grains from a sample are identified and counted under a microscope , and the resulting percentages of pollens from various plants , shrubs and trees are normally presented in diagrammatic form , which allows the mixture of vegetation at any one time to be understood and compared with that of other sites . Obviously , pollen grains are very small plant remains , and can not be seen without the aid of a microscope ; but larger remains ( macroscopic plant remains ) , such as seeds and grains , leaves , twigs , wood and charcoal also provide evidence about the vegetation that existed around a site , and can show if and how it was exploited by the people living there . Similarly , insects and land snail shells are identified , sorted and quantified in the same way as animal and plant remains .
Idiom: go to the wall (used idiomatically: no)
Although the mini-trunking will be fairly obvious , it does save a lot of work , especially on decorating . SECURING LIGHT FITTINGS TO THE CEILINGS Any light fitting which is secured to a ceiling should ideally have at least one of its screws going into a joist , but where this is not possible , it is best to secure a piece of wood between the joists to take the securing screws , rather than relying on hollow wall fixings into plain plasterboard or , especially , into lath-and-plaster . Decorative pendant lights which have chains or screwed brass rods can be supported in one of two ways . The first is to cut a hole in the ceiling and to fit a metal or plastic BESA box ( designed for use with conduit wiring ) , with its face flush with the ceiling , and with the box screwed to a supporting piece of timber fixed between the joists ; the BESA box has two screwed holes which match the holes in the plate supporting the chain or screwed rod .
Idiom: sit tight (used idiomatically: yes)
If you want to make money , just listen to what I say . Do n't worry about P / E ratios and profit figures . Put in £ 5,000 , and sit tight for eight to ten weeks . " Oil stocks are particularly easy to sell , because a dealer can twist the latest news to substantiate his pitch , e.g. the situation in the Middle East indicates that there will be a massive rise in oil prices . He can waffle on about OPEC ad infinitum , and most clients wo n't know what the hell he 's talking about , but they 'll pretend to agree with him and will buy on the strength of what he says .
Idiom: yes and no (used idiomatically: yes)
Luckily someone has offered to do the washing up . Cheerio , see you at four on Saturday . The speechreader has obtained accurate information through ‘ yes’ and ‘ no ’answers to specific questions . Amplified vibration from the world around us Some people find they can distinguish between the vibration pattern made by people talking , running water , a knock at the door , footsteps , music .
Idiom: go all the way (used idiomatically: yes)
It depends who you mix with.’ Our survey found that four out of 10 boys agree it 's difficult not to have sex if all your friends are doing it . But nine out of 10 said you should n't go all the way unless both you and the girl want to . A fact supported by our forum of boys . Says Phil Keer : ‘ I think me and most of my friends are looking for a long term relationship .
Idiom: chop and change (used idiomatically: yes)
These are reported by means of a Serious Defect Signal ( as they were then known ) from the flying station finding the fault . The main objective of the Serious Defect Signal Aid trial was to identify the organisational problems of developing and integrating expert systems with a secondary objective of producing a demonstrator to persuade higher management to fund AI more extensively . The trial succeeded in finding several organisational problems but did not achieve its secondary objective because it became clear that the breadth and depth of knowledge needed by the individuals were implicit in the experience needed to do the job and that the individual could work quicker and chop and change subject more easily than the expert system . 10 . The second independent initiative was the funding under MOD contracts of expert system - based aids for equipment health monitoring and vibration analysis .
Idiom: up for grabs (used idiomatically: yes)
Tony Kell GRAEME SOUNESS is planning an Anfield clear-out with £6 million worth of talent being allowed to leave Liverpool . Topping the list of expensive discards are Mark Wright , Paul Stewart and Michael Thomas , with veteran goalkeeper Bruce Grobbelaar and Hungarian midfielder Istvan Kozma also up for grabs . Wright cost Liverpool £2.2m when he joined from Derby 18 months ago , Stewart was bought for £2.1m from Spurs and Thomas came from Arsenal for £1.5m . But Souness must sell before delving back into the transfer market to continue his rebuilding programme and will have to accept cut-price offers for the big trio .
Idiom: rock the boat (used idiomatically: no)
One of the young gentlemen who stood in the prow began , unperceived , to rock the boat .
Idiom: kiss of life (used idiomatically: yes)
Many years later , Kevin MacLean and Edward Scott zeroed in on pebbles and stones as they investigated their own kind of erosion , this time that of the landscape seen in close - up . Even more innovative , and with the larger of the two galleries at his disposal , Brian Griffin , takes as his subject that rudest of all four - letter words work . Using a large square format , and working again in monochrome , he produces prints in sequence , so we have four shots of a man with a girder who , by means of trick photography , is sent on a kind of perennial job replacement , and a sequence of workers , in their hardhats , giving the ‘ kiss of life’ to saws , drain - pipes and other tools of their trade . LAUGH and the world laughs with you . That 's the motto of an 82-year - old North Yorkshire woman who 's just been accepted into the Writers Guild .
Idiom: no questions asked (used idiomatically: no)
When they reached home , happy and a little tipsy , they drank cocoa in the kitchen , then went to separate rooms . The ‘ sex arrangement’ she had joked about had been about other people , and their attitude to strange bodies cluttering up the place . They had agreed that each of them should have carte blanche , no questions asked nor opinions given , unsolicited . But Edward had lost interest in easy conquests for the present , and Erica hinted at the ending of an affair when she had left the States . They liked each other , they rubbed along quite well .
Idiom: in the flesh (used idiomatically: yes)
But live performance gives it ten times more urgency and energy than the usual hollow rave PA , mimed to the record . Live performance seems to encapsulate everything about Sunscreem effortlessly . ‘ If rhythm 's a drug I 'm hooked on you / Show me every move / We've got perfect motion’— just like Madonna or Betty Boo at their best , this is pure and damn - near perfect pop , and for once it 's even better in the flesh . RIDE A WHITE SWAN VESTA ADORABLE
Idiom: out cold (used idiomatically: yes)
Not even a movement to show that fitzAlan had heard her fierce protest . Gasping for breath , Isabel managed to twist her head away from him and look around . He was out cold , his body a dead weight on hers , his face buried in the tangled skeins of her long hair . During the countless terrifying minutes before she managed to wriggle free and scramble off the bench , Isabel neither knew nor cared whether it was she or his fever that had caused fitzAlan 's loss of consciousness . She was too grateful for the reprieve .
Idiom: lose face (used idiomatically: no)
You should have them taken out ; it did not matter here in Hampstead , where we see nobody . ' So Lilian was informed that she was to come to the dentist for an examination . She was not accustomed to ask questions , and obeyed ; Dinah accompanied her , saw her seated in the chair , the anaesthetic given , and the extraction begun ; then for the first time let her own mind admit the possibility that Paul 's illness might have some such origin , that she herself had in that case been the wife of a syphilitic for years , and might have caught it ; that she might lose her face or her mind ; that Robin had inherited it ; and now — Lilian moaned . The extractions were almost completed .
Idiom: go through the motions (used idiomatically: yes)
First , the very fact that this standard of review is so limited means that it will only serve as a long stop to catch extreme examples of aberrant administrative behaviour . Secondly , one can not , in practical terms , advocate option five if one believes in the expansion of participatory rights before the agency . More intense review than that provided by a test of arbitrariness will be necessary in order to ensure that the agency does not just go through the motions of listening to people . If we wish seriously to enhance such process rights , then we must be prepared to listen to claims that the agency did not give adequate consideration to certain views . Judicial intervention which occurs only when the resultant agency decision is substantively arbitrary will be insufficient , because there may be many instances when it falls short of this , but still wholly or partially ignores the views of interested parties .
Idiom: state of the art (used idiomatically: yes)
The relative lack of progress in developing and disseminating models of good practice , including assessment , with older people and their families is a reflection in part of their relatively low status within professional and organizational cultures , not only within social work but also in medicine , education , and academic disciplines . This , in turn , can be traced to ageist values within society generally , which permeate social and political thinking and thereby influence the extent to which older people as a group are viewed as less important , less in need , or just less interesting than other groups of people ( e.g. Hughes and Mtezuka , 1992 ) . The current state of the art , therefore , presents particular difficulties to the development of good practice in comprehensive assessment of older people : a relative dearth of models of needs - led , comprehensive assessments upon which to draw ; few established models of interdisciplinary collaboration and decision - making in relation to older people ;
Idiom: fall short (used idiomatically: yes)
According to congressional estimates , the public subsidies would have cost up to $ 150,000,000 for a two - year election cycle . The bill did not include a method for funding the changes , leading Bush to suggest that it would " inevitably lead to a raid on the Treasury to pay for the elaborate scheme of public subsidies " . On May 13 the Senate unsuccessfully attempted to override the presidential veto ; its vote of 57:42 fell short of the required two - thirds majority . Within days of the veto it emerged that four of Bush 's leading donors and fund - raisers were the targets of law suits by federal regulatory authorities over their role in failed Savings and Loans institutions ( " thrifts " ) . The four included Lawrence Bathgate , the national finance chairman of the Republican Party 's national committee and a long - standing donor to Bush 's campaigns , and Ray Hunt , vice - chairman for finance of the Bush re - election campaign .
Idiom: speak volumes (used idiomatically: yes)
One report described the life of writer , poet , broadcaster and school teacher Naimat Ahmer , ‘ who always talked of peace , justice and democracy’ . He was stabbed in broad daylight by a young Muslim . The report added that the almost total blackout on the issue in the press ‘ speaks volumes for the apathy , fear and misguidedness currently existing in this country’ . The second victim , Tahir Iqbal , was found dead in jail in Lahore , where he was detained on alleged charges of blasphemy . Human rights groups are calling for a postmortem to ascertain the cause of his death .
Idiom: gone with the wind (used idiomatically: no)
with Shaun he 's gone now ! And I do n't know what Gone with the wind ! But er , no she will have a lad . Well she said herself she 's expecting a lad though is n't she ?
Idiom: break someone's heart (used idiomatically: yes)
And one thing led to another . Af , I thought that first time would be the last , but since this , Steve 's been dropping in during the day while my son and daughter are at work . I know this sorried affair is wrong , that I end up breaking my daughter 's heart , or upsetting my son , son 's ha , but I do n't think I can give up Steve ? Am I feeling desperate ? Can you help ?
Idiom: go to the dogs (used idiomatically: yes)
We have been recycling rhodium and platinum for some leading car makers for years , without any of the environmental problems associated with nuclear waste . Alzenau , Germany HEINZ GIEGERICH DAR Deutsche Autokat Recycling Gone to the dogs You mentioned in ' Language debased'(December 24th ) the hapless airline passenger being admonished in verbose , indirect terms , to ' extinguish all smoking materials ' and to ' deplane from the forward cabin ' . Alas , the Gulf crisis has created a new phrase to frustrate travellers with little patience for this abuse of the English language .
Idiom: run out of steam (used idiomatically: yes)
Forms of expertise would be exclusively held and arranged such that the ideal of the specialist - expert would be the basis for individual or occupational specialist or sub - unit empowerment in the system . By the 1970s , as Albertsen ( 1988 : 348 ) puts it , the Fordist model began to run out of steam . The crisis of the 1970s turned out to be a crisis of the model itself rather than just another conjunctural swing within its confines . The very conditions which had originally supported the expansion of the model now turned into limits to its further development .
Idiom: out of line (used idiomatically: yes)
This reflects not only homophobia but also sexism , since gay men are stereotyped as effeminate , too much like women . Obviously this linguistic phenomenon is connected with more general matters , most noticeably the sexual double standard . Women should have no sexual desires whereas men should be insatiable ; if women get out of line by expressing autonomous desire or refusing to cater to men 's , they will be censured . On the other hand , no group of women is more vilified than prostitutes , whose job exists precisely to cater to men 's desires . Julia Stanley observes , after scouring the Oxford English Dictionary and finding 220 terms for women as prostitutes , that the prostitute for English speakers is the ‘ paradigmatic woman’ .
Idiom: Jekyll and Hyde (used idiomatically: no)
The Mm one who did Jekyll and all the Jekyll and Hyde And what else he did Did you watch it ? Yeah .
Idiom: all and sundry (used idiomatically: no)
In this context of an advanced division of labour , interests theories specify the legitimate range of economic interdependence . But each version of interests theory moves cautiously towards the protection of such economic relations for fear of dampening the growth of these relations by imposing too heavy a burden of liabilities . The courts certainly wish to avoid a reduction in the market for automobiles which would happen if finance companies were forced out of business as a result of imposing liabilities upon them to all and sundry . At one time courts hesitated to render manufacturers liable for all losses arising from defective products . Now that such liability is firmly established , the question becomes whether persons who give advice or perform services should be liable to all persons who may foreseeably rely upon their work being properly performed with all due care .