Gooogr/pie_idioms huggingface dataset:
Idiom: claim to fame (used idiomatically: yes)
Looking older than her one hundred years , this diminutive locomotive had a working life that would put some main line locomotive to shame . Built in 1891 by Manning Wardle ( works no . 1210 ) as class L , the 12″ 0 6 0ST spent the first 40 years of her life working for the Doncaster contractors , Logan and Hemingway where she was known as No . 10 . Involved in the construction of the Great Central Railway 's ‘ London Extension’ , one of her claims to fame was her involvement in the building of the long - gone Nottingham Victoria Station . In 1935 she was sold on to the ironstone industry in the Cranford area and ended her working life at Byfield in 1963 — ironically not very far from the GCR . It was during this phase of her life that the name ‘ Sir Berkeley ’was added .
Idiom: rare bird (used idiomatically: yes)
Because of their different activity time clock , the owls are not competing with the hawks for the same food animals at the same time and can therefore co - exist . Eurasian Eagle Owl One of the rarest birds in Europe , a number of sub species are found from northern Europe to south - eastern Asia . The larger forms are found in the north , the smaller and lighter coloured ones come from drier steppe and desert areas further south . They are both nocturnal and diurnal hunters , capable of taking prey up to the size of squirrels and hares .
Idiom: have a ball (used idiomatically: no)
Mike Walters IAN WRIGHT was last night charged with misconduct by the Football Association and ordered to appear before a disciplinary commission in the New Year . Arsenal 's £2.5 million striker is in the dock for an off-the-ball punch on Tottenham 's David Howells in last Saturday 's stormy North London derby . In the end , FA disciplinary chiefs did not wait for Dollis Hill referee Alf Buksh 's match report to materialise before charging Wright . They decided that video evidence — millions of viewers saw the offending blow on BBC 's Match of the Day — was sufficiently incriminating to bring 29-year-old Wright to book .
Idiom: down and out (used idiomatically: no)
' He saw Alice , ' she said . ' Alice and Dickie … ' She ran down the garden and out on to the tow - path . The thunder started as she reached the gate , a great crash and then a long roll of drums . Her legs trembled so they would hardly carry her .
Idiom: from scratch (used idiomatically: yes)
Fundamental issues of investment strategy , product design , manufacture and marketing need , of course , to be addressed with care and caution . However , for such publishers , the launching pad is there if they wish to see and use it . Others publishers , with an eye on longterm prosperity , perhaps even survival , may wish to start building their launch pads from scratch and without delay . Multimedia is one ingredient in this climate of change and potential diversification but it has some particular implications which publishers need to understand . Most obviously , multimedia depends on the use of pictures .
Idiom: read between the lines (used idiomatically: no)
She could have been his mother , for he was the son of John Symmys of that parish , or even his relict , for he himself must have been dead by 1525 , when the Ridlington lease was granted to the duke of Richmond . Although the Rutland book does give everyone 's landlord , for information regarding terms of tenure we are dependent on the chance provenance of supplementary evidence . Only very occasionally is it possible to read between the lines , as in one instance at South Luffenham , where Henry Bonytt , as the sole tenant of freeholder Edward Sapcote , presumably held a lease ; he also had 10s . a year in land and a subtenant called William Clark , who must mutatis mutandis have held from him by lease , if not from year to year .
Idiom: sour grapes (used idiomatically: yes)
One client of a Harvard dealer visited the premises of a medical clinic , then got on the line to his dealer grumbling : " There 's nothing to it ! " Another client was not particularly impressed with the new Oxford Street branch of For Eyes the opticians . Yet another who went into a Scoops ( now Staks ) Reject China Shop described the stock in less than enthusiastic terms , although this was doubtless sour grapes over the sluggishness of the share price at the time — contrary to what his dealer had led him to expect . Somebody who claimed to have visited Punters wine bar in the City said he found it " virtually empty ! " The telephone lines of companies such as Thew Engineering , when the share price was going down , have been constantly busy with shareholders trying to find out what 's going on .
Idiom: eat your heart out (used idiomatically: yes)
France does not expect to get its way on every one of these conditions . For all the problems that it raises , this formidable wish - list is better than a constantly repeated non , which is about all that France contributed in the past . Eat your heart out PARIS START with a salad of lobster and truffles .
Idiom: for keeps (used idiomatically: yes)
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Idiom: all things being equal (used idiomatically: yes)
But to test , for example , the assumption about item difficulty being independent of the student requires assuming that ability is unidimensional ; in other words it can not be tested ! Such tests are necessary because the model is not educationally very plausible ( however statistically elegant and convenient it might be ) . It seems unlikely that , all other things being equal , two students will find an item equally difficult when one has studied the topic that the item tests and the other has not . Similarly it is well known that an easy item following a difficult one appears to be more difficult . Both of these ideas contravene the model , which assumes that item difficulty is invariant under these conditions .
Idiom: the rest is history (used idiomatically: yes)
Kazatin was where the dream of Rome , of the great Ta Ts'in emperors , had failed . The defeat of Kan Ying — Domitian as he was known by his own people — had let the Han into Europe . The rest was history . ' What do you make of it ? ' Kustow , said into his ear .
Idiom: take stock (used idiomatically: yes)
First a look at some of today 's main stories in some more detail , and the Chancellor of the Exchequer was on his feet in the House of Commons on their first day back after the summer recess . Peter Murphy was there . The long summer holidays are over and MPs returned to the Commons to take stock of developments while they were at the seaside . A week ago , sterling joined the European Exchange Rate Mechanism ; it lifted the gloom for the Tory Party Conference in Bournemouth , and this afternoon , the Chancellor , John Major , came to explain why now was the right time for Britain to join . It has become abundantly clear that policy is now reducing inflationary pressures in the economy .
Idiom: come to think of it (used idiomatically: yes)
How much though ? How much would Donald need to get him back on the road ? And how , come to think of it , was Henry going to get him to absorb the stuff , short of creeping up on him while he was asleep and forcing it down his throat or up his arse ? He stopped for a moment , the crumpled sheet of prescription pad on his knee , and wondered whether Donald was really worth all this effort . Might it not be simpler just to let him go ?
Idiom: get lost (used idiomatically: yes)
Its double frontage is listed , and the mausoleum like doors in its midst , once providing access to the upper floors , are now permanently closed ( must have been a visiting fireman ) . The windows are richly dressed , though they do not lend themselves to the Kensington approach ; as with Thins , the interior has been face - lifted and made warmly welcoming . Being on six floors does not allow for sweeping vistas , but this is not a shop in which one can get lost any more . The nooks and crannies have been eliminated , and that is no bad thing for policing the store . There is a colour guide to Smiths ( Willie Anderson 's idea ) which reminded me of the Louvre , although it is more simple , and there are lifts to all floors .
Idiom: up against it (used idiomatically: yes)
He had noted the number of the Bentley . Very nice cars they all had around here . There was another Bentley outside the grey slate Gothic place with a smart yellow Cortina snuggling up against it . Married bliss , thought Wexford , grinning to himself . Even the wives ' cars were sizable .
Idiom: go it alone (used idiomatically: yes)
Unexpectedly he reached out and lightly touched her cheek . ' But I 'm doing you a favour . Going it alone is a dangerous business . What I 'm offering you is something much less risky . A steady job with a damned good salary … '
Idiom: go it alone (used idiomatically: yes)
NEW ~ YORK – The basic outlines of Barack ~ Obama 's approach to foreign ~ policy became clear in 2009 . His administration believes that the United ~ States should talk with other governments even if it disagrees profoundly with their character . He prefers acting with other countries to going it alone . And he has shifted the focus of US foreign ~ policy from what countries do within their borders to how they act beyond them . All of this differentiates Obama from his immediate predecessor , George ~ W .~ Bush , whose administration branded selected countries as evil and mostly refused to deal with them ; often rejected cooperation with other governments , lest the US find itself constrained ; and sought to transform other countries , rather than to influence their actions .
Idiom: play games (used idiomatically: yes)
‘ Why not try me?’ he invited . His dark brown gaze locked on to her own wide open blue eyes , and it took an enormous effort for her to look away from him . ‘ I think you 're playing games with me,’ she said rather angrily . ‘ And I do n't like it . I want you to stop!’
Idiom: black and blue (used idiomatically: yes)
‘ You 'll see you 're wrong come Christmas,’ replied the other . ‘ It 's a racket ! ’ ‘ Call it what you like , but at least I do n't get beaten black and blue.’ She gave him a cold little smile . ‘ There 's nothing Biff Thacker can do to me that will even touch what I get at home.’
Idiom: flash in the pan (used idiomatically: yes)
Female speaker They 've been going brilliantly . We do n't know how long it will last but we 're convinced it wo n't just be a flash in the pan Male speaker We 've even had customers ring up on a Wednesday after a delivery on Tuesday and say they 're sold out .
Idiom: break the back of (used idiomatically: yes)
So we started off with something like now we 're not we we have n't got there yet Mhm . but we 've we 've broken the back of it . Yeah . we 're just about there .
Idiom: in the works (used idiomatically: yes)
The work of Irigaray raises questions about the edifice of Western rationality . I would like here to approach these questions indirectly , to clarify their import by means of a detour through the concept of the imaginary . The term imaginary as a noun is current in French theoretical work , but not in English ( except via Lacan , who gives the Imaginary , with a capital I , a major role in his theory ) . Like its English cognate , imagination , however , it is rich in connotations and operates differently in the different conceptual frameworks of the different authors who use it ( authors as varied as Sartre , Bachelard , Barthes , Lacan , Castoriadis , Althusser ) . My view is that Anglo - American feminists have tended to assimilate , and then dismiss Irigaray 's work too quickly , in part because the concept of the imaginary has not been closely examined .
Idiom: ten a penny (used idiomatically: yes)
‘ Well , then —’ began Sam . ‘ Well , then , nothing . These rings are ten a penny . All the iron men make them for keepsakes . Half the women in the villages round here have one.’
Idiom: out of the blue (used idiomatically: yes)
He had in fact been told his days in the sport were over . For 96 hours he waited for someone to explain the shadow on his X - ray . Then out of the blue he was given the go - ahead to play again . There was no time for recriminations or second thoughts . Within an hour he had gone from a hospital ward to the training pitch .
Idiom: on the ball (used idiomatically: yes)
' I know , 'cos one day when we went over to the dump , there was this old carton , and it said ' Florida Orange Juice ' . I read it , ' he added proudly . ' Going to be in this orange - coloured juice , so I 'm given to understand , ' said Dorcas doubtfully , ' running slowly on a ball and jetting , whatever that is . And liking it , apparently . ' The nomes fell silent while they thought about this .
Idiom: in black and white (used idiomatically: yes)
sizzling , sexual and all these sort of and , wha what was really outrageous in the sixties looks so tame , but Yeah . it 's on in black and white and fifties , it looks quite good fun . Well that on a Thursday It 's
Idiom: twist someone's arm (used idiomatically: yes)
Richard Secord was less adept . Secord was North 's operations manager , a stocky ex - general in his early fifties , much decorated , and with a notable bluntness of manner . Trying for a second time to get something out of Prince Bandar , he was told ‘ You can stop twisting my arm’ or , in out - of - hearings language , ‘ Fuck it , stop pestering me.’ Elliott Abrams , smoother - tongued , entered the dream - world of non - solicitation on August 1986 in Hyde Park , in London . Under the name ‘ Mr Kenilworth’ he walked in the park with General Ibnu , an aide to the Sultan of Brunei .
Idiom: over the top (used idiomatically: yes)
But then United broke to the other end and won a free kick a minute into injury time . Twelve yards outside the Portsmouth penalty area , left side to be taken by number eleven , Paul Simpson surely their last chance in this game . Simpson raises his hands in the air , United have got Andy Melville and Steve Foster at the far post , Simpson still delays taking the kick , now it comes in , he knocks it in to the far post , looking for Paul , Paul heads it back over the top — and they 've scored . Oxford United has scored , it 's Andy Melville that has put the ball into the net , into injury time , the cross came in , Martin Foyle headed it back across the face of the goal and it 's Andy Melville that has surely clinched three vital points for Oxford United ; into injury time , Oxford United one , Portsmouth nil . And that was that .
Idiom: once and for all (used idiomatically: yes)
This last trip was a final reckoning . Maybe he got greedy — I do n't know . Anyway he decided to complete his transactions once and for all . The majority of the cargo was sold off — forty only sailing on to Spanish Town to make a token showing for the records . Now will you have done?’
Idiom: green light (used idiomatically: yes)
Missing from the picture is foreman Robbie McGurk Plan would completely change beauty spot : A NEWTOWNABBEY beauty spot would be completely changed if a £ 6 m council development is given the green light , a public inquiry heard yesterday . The claim was made on the fourth day of a public hearing into Newtownabbey Borough Council 's controversial plans to build a town hall and civic centre at the Hazelbank Park on the shores of Belfast Lough . The proposals have provoked protests from local residents and environmentalists .
Idiom: bear fruit (used idiomatically: yes)
Until the Conference Office say yea or nay , there 's nothing I can do literally there . Mm . Until any of the other ones bear fruit , because the Guildhall I ca n't get anything on the elections till April the sixth , erm I ca n't get anything from the Scottish tapes until they start arriving , erm whatever . So all my sources are in progress but Right .
Idiom: come of age (used idiomatically: yes)
A year or so ago , I went into Cartmel to do some work on the house of that oaf you have just seen . He has several businesses in the district — a bobbin mill , a gunpowder factory , a cotton mill , and more — and what they have in common is that the people — usually women and children — who are unfortunate enough to be employed in them are driven as cruelly as possible and paid as little as possible . He has a son who is a booby and who was loafing around his father 's yards waiting only for this young lady to come of age so that he could marry her . She was the oafs ward , an orphan and an heiress . She favoured me with her love.’
Idiom: on the face of it (used idiomatically: yes)
but you , you , you know , you , you picked it up later on and more or less o overcame that . Erm the education side you picked up university and school fees . Steve mentioned , you know , to put fifteen , twenty pounds a month into it erm and you said well we 'll come back to that later which I think on the face of it is probably er a right way of going about it cos you did n't get interrupted at that stage talking about a specific product so I think that was er that was good . Erm one of the other things that , that was mentioned was the magazine he 'd seen , he 'd seen , he 'd seen the thing on Financial News actually .
Idiom: on the ground (used idiomatically: yes)
While New Zealand , Australia and the West Indies are thought to be ready to back the TCCB 's bid , the chances of South Africa and Zimbabwe doing so are remote . While the Indians have cleverly fostered the friendship of the world 's two most recent recruits to Test cricket , the attitude at Lord 's has bordered on arrogance and antagonism . In Zimbabwe 's case , England openly opposed their long-awaited elevation to Test status in 1992 on the grounds it would devalue the international game . And while England are not even contemplating playing a Test against Zimbabwe in the near future , the Indians have extended a warm hand of friendship . Within months , an Indian side had arrived in Harare to play the first historic Test and a reciprocal tour is being negotiated .
Idiom: all along (used idiomatically: no)
But £3 million-plus rated Keane is unlikely to see out the full term of his new deal because of contract stipulations . In the first instance , Forest 's hopes of Premier League survival this season are looking increasingly thin . And Arsenal , Blackburn , Manchester United , Liverpool and Aston Villa have all expressed interest , along with Spanish giants Real Madrid and Seville . Italian clubs are sure to join a stampede that could push Keane 's fee beyond £4m . Forest want an answer from Keane by the end of this week and he has asked for an extra couple of days to iron out the finer details .
Idiom: have words (used idiomatically: no)
Rob twinkled . ' You 're quite an eye - stopper yourself … Now come and meet Heather ; she 's in the dining - room having a last word with the catering people . ' ' This is certainly some house he 's got , ' Richard remarked in a low whisper as they followed Rob along the hall . ' Oh , it is n't his house — it belongs to his half - brother , my employer , ' Merrill explained hastily as Heather came forward , smiling .
Idiom: to boot (used idiomatically: yes)
He generally was . Whilst the pathfinders had the original control of H2S , developments were going on with a fair measure of practical input from Bennett and his friends at TRE , and eventually a superior set was devised and known as the 3 cm HS . Immediately — and this can be well understood — Coastal Command had more than a passing interest because it was having a desperate struggle with the U - boats in the Atlantic and , naturally , it was very keenly supported by the Admiralty and the Navy to boot , to get hold of this latest model . The Battle for Control of 3 cm H2S Oddly enough , Bomber Command seemed to feel that if Bennett was so impressed and believed that the Pathfinders should have this latest version , then it was up to Bennett and the Pathfinders to fight and debate with Coastal Command .
Idiom: go hand in hand (used idiomatically: yes)
But need she be less well-off ? The wish was father to the thought . Could not imperialism go hand - in - hand with prosperity for the working man ? Here was the genesis of the myth , destined to lead to so many follies and disasters , that Britain was rich , as well as powerful , because of her Empire . The close links between the Fabians and Milner 's kindergarten on the one hand , and the personal link in Chamberlain 's own career between radical reform and tariff imperialism — he wanted the Conservative Party to hypothecate the financial yield of the preferential tariff to providing old age pensions — are reminders that at the beginning of the century ‘ social imperialism ’ did not sound the paradox it does today , and that the forefathers of modern British Socialism are to be found in larger numbers in the ranks of the imperialists than of the Little Englanders .
Idiom: in the club (used idiomatically: no)
Russia ’s sovereign wealth fund , integral in propping up an increasingly re - centralized economy , is being depleted fast . If negative trends continue , Russia ’s reserve fund could eventually be exhausted . Russia ’s fall back to earth , meanwhile , spawned a kind of parlor game among academics , foreign - policy wonks , and educated investors , aimed at replacing the country in the club of major emerging - market economies . A variety of acronyms has been suggested , from the cutesy BRICET ( adding Eastern ~ Europe and Turkey ) to BRICKETs ( the former plus South ~ Korea ) and – an even greater stretch – BRIMC , which shoehorns Mexico into the mix . In all of these revisions , Russia survives , despite the writing on its economic wall .
Idiom: in the pink (used idiomatically: yes)
all the staff . yeah , you see Creda now at are already making some of the washer driers , that Llandudno used to make . Mm , what gets me is how Creda they 're gon na , they 're , they 're coming up in the pink and They 've got job security Jane But why have n't Hotpoint , the original Hotpoint drivers , I mean Hotpoint is the bigger firm
Idiom: run out of steam (used idiomatically: yes)
Definitely a case of do n't do as I do . J.T.Barraclough , 4 Barnard Close , Woodham Village , Newton Aycliffe . A RAILWAY museum dedicated to NorthEast pioneer Timothy Hackworth is in danger of running out of steam , according to a secret report . Just 1,000 people visited the Hackworth Museum in Shildon last year . The 14.8 acre attraction costs £ 38,100-a - year to run more than £ 38 per visitor .
Idiom: under the influence (used idiomatically: yes)
Jim went home . He put the bag containing the skull in the shed with his bicycle . All the same , he found himself wondering about the strange animal and , almost as ii he was under some strange influence , he could not get the events out of his mind . That night he was unable to sleep and it was only after taking aspirin tablets that he was able to get any rest . He was to commence night shifts and he was not looking forward to that , not with the strange thoughts and worries crowding his mind .
Idiom: get cracking (used idiomatically: yes)
During the worst of the winter weather one was discovered dead at the bottom of a rubbish chute in a high rise building . Eva assessed the situation . " Then I really got cracking and said " We 've got to do something " . " They provided plastic sheets and blankets in the local citadel and the women had a temporary shelter . Many were drunk when they arrived .
Idiom: on the dot (used idiomatically: yes)
so all I can possibly do is after school I s well I wanna get a photocopy of that jacket , so I thought if I , Friday night which I should be home pretty , pretty much on the dot I 'll have to pick the , pick these two up and I 'll have to just go run down before they close . Yeah ? Well you could do , yeah .