Gooogr/pie_idioms huggingface dataset:
Idiom: in high dudgeon (used idiomatically: yes)
Sophie looked thoughtful . ‘ I had n't looked at it like that . I was just so furious that I swept out in high dudgeon . What 's worrying me now is how to tell Helen . She 's bound to ask how I got on.’
Idiom: with a vengeance (used idiomatically: yes)
THERE IS a pernicious Hollywood humour that could be called the ' cute ' school , a breeding ground for movies filled with jokes that scream ' Gosh , well that is funny ' , that fall over themselves to please . The Freshman is such a film . On one level The Freshman works exceedingly well , its clever - clever script and free - and - easy exploitation of Matthew Broderick and , remarkably , Marlon Brando find ways to make an audience laugh with a slick vengeance . Broderick , as Clark Kellog , a smalltown college boy out of his depth in big , bad New York , is excellent — if you can suffer one so purposefully cute . Brando , as Carmine Sabatini , the Mafia mogul with a heart of gold who takes Kellog under his sentimental wing , is great too , especially as the script bends over backwards to drop references to his Godfather legacy .
Idiom: have a heart (used idiomatically: no)
Amongst a hundred persons , the lover stands out as plain as the shining moon in heaven amongst the stars . The mind though it be apprised of all the doctrines of the sects , knows nothing and is bewildered by the doctrine of love . The man who has a heart like Khidar , who quaffed the water of life of love , to such a one the most limpid fountains are nothing worth . Toil not in the garden ; behold within the soul of the lover , Damascus and Ghuta , rosebowers and all Nairab . What is Damascus ?
Idiom: call it a day (used idiomatically: yes)
Equally inevitably , it got nowhere . He had none of the equipment of a detective , neither being particularly observant nor having any great insight into the psychology of small boys . In the end he slippered Pickerage and called it a day . His action was unfavourably commented on in the Staff Common Room . As Septimus Coffin pointed out : if he had really thought Pickerage had done it , he would have caned him ; if he did n't know whether he had done it or not , he should n't have slippered him .
Idiom: lame duck (used idiomatically: yes)
For as much as I reject the demo mentality , I also despair at the apolitical bipartisanship of our national mainstream parties . Throughout this conflict I have felt largely unrepresented . If I had to nominate those politicians whose views I most trusted , who have most clearly articulated my own fluid , contingent thoughts on the crisis as it developed , I would opt for two pensionable septuagenarians , both of whom I despised in their political heyday : Denis Healey , who sold the Labour government to the IMF , and Ted Heath , who became the Tories ' lamest duck of all . Yet here we are , Denis and Ted and I , and countless , nameless others , out in the political wilderness . Still , at least I know what those two are thinking .
Idiom: run the gauntlet (used idiomatically: yes)
Later students included Lady Thatcher who studied Chemistry there . But the College says it 's now as a mixed college the Somerville can best function and encourage academic excellence in women . Foreign Secretary Douglas Hurd ran the gauntlet of demonstrators today as he launched a lecture series at the region 's newest university . The lectures are named in his honour and organisers hope to attract big names in the future . But it 's been claimed that the cost of the visit would have been better spent easing student poverty .
Idiom: on ice (used idiomatically: yes)
The bed was crisply made up with the be - frilled white broderie anglaise bed - linen which she 'd brought specially from England as her gift to Marie - Christine and Jacques . She 'd put bowls of fresh flowers everywhere , so that their cool scent filled the room . Later , she would slip back somehow , and put some champagne on ice on the table beside the bed . Although the threat of having to meet Rohan had been removed , the wedding was still going to be an ordeal for her , and she 'd been sorely tempted to plead sudden illness and stay away from the actual ceremony and celebrations . It would n't have been a downright lie either , she thought wretchedly .
Idiom: crystal clear (used idiomatically: yes)
THE LINDA GILLARD COLUMN ISLE OF DREAMS Rising out of crystal clear water , the Scottish island of Iona has a strange calming influence on all who go there . As I stood on the tufted grass , surrounded by natural beauty , I felt as if I 'd come to another world Sunday morning .
Idiom: in the hole (used idiomatically: no)
Adjust the door up or down to ensure equal clearance between door and frame . Tighten the screws . Then insert a wood screw in each central hinge hole , screwing into the timber door frame 27 Slide the square - section spindle into the upper part of the lock ( the lock is already fitted to the door ) .
Idiom: give someone the creeps (used idiomatically: yes)
One of the rats is just sitting in the corner and I wonder if maybe it 's smart enough to be depressed . My brother had a hamster when we were kids . I did n't much like it , mice and such like have always given me the creeps , but I did feel sorry for it being shut up . Once it had this raw patch on its nose and I went with Davey when he took it to the vet . ‘ Oh , nothing to worry about,’ said the vet , ‘ It 's just where his little nose rubs on the bars of his cage when he bites them .
Idiom: seal of approval (used idiomatically: yes)
Dr DOUGAL MORRISON / Nuffield Orthopaedic Hospital Voice over With a flourish nine year old Loren Henney bursts into the new playroom … to see if it deserves her seal of approval . And if anyone knows what makes a good hospital waiting room it is her . Since she was fourteen months old she has spent hours in them .
Idiom: play games (used idiomatically: yes)
They all hold hands tenderly ( or maliciously ) together with Herbert and Bob , and play beautiful games of ring - a - ring - o ' roses – sometimes freaking out , sometimes desperately sad , sometimes intimately .
Idiom: stay the course (used idiomatically: yes)
The world famous zoo provided the perfect backdrop for the ten kilometre dash . And the animals were certainly in for a few surprises as our team of ten raced by wearing bright yellow ‘ Wimpey Worldwide’ T - shirts and hard hats . Congratulations go to everyone who participated — they all stayed the course and helped to raise a staggering £ 2,180 for Cancer Research . When Martin Davidson decided to aim for gold in the Duke of Edinburgh 's Award scheme he was 13-years - old . Since then he has fulfilled many ambitions , learned new skills and tested his courage and physical fitness to the limit .
Idiom: get to the bottom of (used idiomatically: yes)
So the golden rule in a news interview is : listen to the question and only answer the question , and then stop talking . I 've interviewed people sometimes on what I call fishing expeditions . I have a very vague idea of what this terrible crime is that I 'm trying to get to the bottom of , that you have rats in the basement of your best hotel , or you know , there 's a house falling down somewhere and you 've done absolutely nothing about a closing order , any of these kind of things , but I do n't know a lot about it . But I have just a feeling that there is something there . And what so often happens is I ask a fairly innocuous question .
Idiom: go the distance (used idiomatically: yes)
Picnic on the back seat He was n't wrong . On a miles per scream basis , there are lots of competent cars at a fraction of the Bentley 's price that could go that distance before getting too strident , and a Mercedes S - class would still only be whispering the odd complaint after 1200 miles . But as a sales pitch for a new Bentley Brooklands ? Despite my criticisms , in our week together I drove the Brooklands long distances in awful conditions on lots of unknown roads when pretty knackered and I must say it did n't shout at me once .
Idiom: under the influence (used idiomatically: no)
This helps to sustain the ' deferential ' relationship between farmer and farm - worker(s ) . Newby summarizes ( 1979 , p. 434 ) : the changes at work wrought by mechanisation and the decline of the village as an occupational community have brought the agricultural worker under the social influence of his employer . Today most workers are integrated neither into the oppositional rural working - class sub - culture of the occupational community nor into the predominantly traditional , middle - class culture of their employers . The connections between farmers and their worker(s ) have been strengthened by the influx of people from towns and cities .
Idiom: by the book (used idiomatically: yes)
It is not a consortium of millionaires , but was set up by the leaders of the developed nations at the Bretton Woods conference in 1944 . It was intended to replace the recently abandoned Gold Standard , but gives a much greater latitude . So when faced with pay demands in some public services Chancellor Denis Healey did not print the extra money but went strictly by the book . He approached the IMF and got a loan . The workers got what they wanted and these vital public services remained freely available .
Idiom: bear in mind (used idiomatically: yes)
And again , it 's a complex issue . It 's not easy to predict why shame should operate one way or , or another and although it has something to do with the superego , you ca n't just say well the superego is er purely the result of erm of , of socialization , if you have strict parents you have a strict superego , it 's not that simple . So erm , that 's an important point to bear in mind . I 'm pretty sure she did and that was an important and excellent point to make . Another thing that the superego does that we , we should mention because it 's often forgotten , is to provide the ego with a sense of reality .
Idiom: up sticks (used idiomatically: no)
At home he has chewed the door frame and part of the back door , as well as the kitchen cupboards , although these were done when he was a lot younger . However , he is still obsessed with wood and eating it in the park . He picks up sticks and sits down to eat them . I try to get them off him but am not always successful . I 've taken some of his toys with me to get his attention , which works for a while but he soon loses interest .
Idiom: rise through the ranks (used idiomatically: yes)
At Westminster , they dined together . At weekends they journeyed down to Cranbourne Manor . As they rose through the ranks they maintained the association . Indeed , claim Thatcherites , it was the Blue Chips who plotted her downfall in November 1990 . Cranbourne has held ministerial office before .
Idiom: pack a punch (used idiomatically: yes)
Books Love in the Modern Sense by Carol Clewlow * * * The author of A Woman 's Guide To Adultery packs some punches in this , her third novel about the war between the sexes . Expect laughter and tears all the way through this spicy tale of highbrow Alice Potter divorced from an infamous husband , and now pursued by the Press gang . Only Jim Crane , ambitious but a little more human than the other hacks , can break Alice 's wall of silence .
Idiom: on the ground (used idiomatically: yes)
Judging by the position he was lying in , he probably has a leg wound . His eyes are wide as he gazes around in a kind of apprehension . The firing has ceased as we get to our feet , the Germans stand up , their hands above their heads leaving the wounded Officer on the ground . The German soldiers look afraid ; I believe they think we are going to shoot them . The wounded Commando on the ground , obviously in great pain , is an incentive for us to kill them .
Idiom: under the sun (used idiomatically: yes)
An almost totally unspoilt island just off the coast of southern Ibiza whose lazy sun - drenched calm just waits to be savoured . PORTINATX Beach Club It was 11.3Oam and the crick in the back of my neck told me it was time to give up trying to read ' War and Peace ' lying on a sunbed under the July Spanish sun . A quick dip in the pool and then over to the bar for the day 's first Cuba Libre was the answer . It was not to be .
Idiom: take heart (used idiomatically: yes)
Ireland 's play was far too static with the pack never taking the game to the Welsh . There was no quality ball and what ball there was went to halfbacks — Ralph Keyes and Rob Saunders — on a collective off day . Once the Welsh realised that the opposition was not all that great they took heart and the result was a late try which put their tails up . That kind of morale booster is infectious and they could well have won by a bigger margin . Ciaran Fitzgerald and the team will be all too aware that they let the fans down and so a repeat of that disaster in the remaining matches is most unlikely .
Idiom: plain sailing (used idiomatically: yes)
Why do n't you ask them so and so?’ ‘ Why have they cut that money?’ If you can have an answer to that , so that if you do get zapped with the worst possible question , you have a confident answer to it , then all the other questions will be plain sailing . It 's our job anyway . Hm .
Idiom: take stock (used idiomatically: yes)
That 's the , that 's their weakness is n't it ? Yeah , mm but that 's their weakness because they ca n't take , they ca n't take the stock Yeah but surely when that corner shop closes the elderly people round here would be in a state
Idiom: on and off (used idiomatically: yes)
My lessons were : History , German , Art , Science and Maths . We are doing a study of Debenham Church in History at the moment and went down into the village in the lesson time to draw the different types of windows in the building . It rained on and off today but we managed to escape getting wet . After school I had a clarinet lesson . I have my lesson at school and then walk down the road to the bus stop in Debenham .
Idiom: on edge (used idiomatically: yes)
Reconstruction JOE HARDY / Hostel Warden Sometime that August of 1983 , police think she was picked up by someone who strangled her and dumped her body in a wood on the edge of the Blenheim estate in Oxfordshire . A murder inquiry that still remains unsolved today . A mystery that inspired the creator of Inspector Morse .
Idiom: hack it (used idiomatically: yes)
Replacing putty : As already mentioned , crumbling putty can let in water in wet weather , and also encourages rot in the frames . So if yours is looking poorly , hack it out and replace it . Make sure the frame is dry , and prime bare wood before applying new putty . Also remember to paint over the putty , at least a couple of millimetres on to the glass , so that water ca n't get in behind the putty to rot the wood .
Idiom: bring home the bacon (used idiomatically: no)
Pigs bred for life inside do n't do well outside — so the Pig Improvement Company has come up with a tougher type of pig . Outdoor pigs are cheaper to run : without buildings , capital costs are cut from £ 2,000 per pig to £ 150–200 per pig . Bringing home the bacon Pigs are the most efficient sources of animal protein ever domesticated : 35 per cent of the food a pig consumes is converted to meat , compared to 13 per cent for sheep and 6.5 per cent for cattle . 14.2 million pigs were slaughtered in the UK last year .
Idiom: get to the bottom of (used idiomatically: yes)
And , anyway , the estate disputes that it is responsible for the leaking embankment . It is only responsible for the reservoir itself and for the sluice gates , says Maxwell . There are plenty of reluctant candidates for ownership , according to Winchester district council , which is trying to get to the bottom of the matter . Watney owns a pub on the embankment ; the Bishop of Winchester once owned the land but gave up all title in 1884 ; Hampshire county council recently widened the road that runs along the top of the bank , but it refuses to get involved . If the dam , which has leaked at its toe for as long as any one can remember , should collapse , it would sweep away the busy tourist road the B3046 , seven houses and their inhabitants — and quite probably , the Parliamentary career of Peter Maxwell .
Idiom: writ large (used idiomatically: yes)
War , then , is another form of the appropriation of the other , and underpins all ontological thinking with its violence . Its corollary , or ‘ visage’ , is the concept of totality , which , as Levinas observes , has dominated Western philosophy in its long history of desire for Unity and the One . Through the totality , itself a kind of rational self writ large , the individual takes on meaning ; the present is sacrificed to a future which will bring forth an ultimate , objective meaning when the totality of history is realized . The objection therefore to totalization is not founded on any simple analogy with totalitarianism — though neither can this be excluded — but rather on the implicit violence of ontology itself , in which the same constitutes itself through a form of negativity in relation to the other , producing all knowledge by appropriating and sublating the other within itself . As Levinas puts it , ‘ the idea of truth as a grasp on things must necessarily have a non - metaphorical sense somewhere’ .
Idiom: get the better of (used idiomatically: yes)
Harriet glanced at her and laughed . ‘ I 'm fond of Tom and the horse . But you have n't to let either of them get the better of you ! They 'll play on it.’ Blazer had come ambling up again .
Idiom: in the long run (used idiomatically: yes)
I hope the new approach of the BDA does not mislead them into thinking that all is well with their speech . Thus , for better or worse , the Association began another chapter in its history under a new name . As the modem generation of " deaf and dumb " people undoubtedly rejects this expression the change of title was inevitable in the long run . It laid the foundation for an organisation with greater appeal to the deaf themselves , particularly the young . Nevertheless , it must be admitted that the terminology of deafness , as far as the general public is concerned , remains largely unchanged .
Idiom: word of mouth (used idiomatically: yes)
Even that may represent some revival after its Viking sufferings ; in 955 king Eadred had bequeathed 400 pounds to relieve the people of the south , the money to be distributed by the Archbishop of Canterbury and his clergy . At the least , the clergy provided the kings , ealdermen and thegns of Sussex with a literate group available for the limited use of their services Saxon society required : drawing up charters , promulgating laws and formulating tax demands . In religion as in so much else the daily life of the South Saxons was conducted over several centuries by word of mouth and the group memory rather than by letter and record . When William the Conqueror came to ‘ reform’ the local church , that transformation may have been based as much on political as doctrinal and ritual considerations . We can only assume that Sussex did not diverge too far from the rest of the southern English religious experience , after its rather late entry into the fold .
Idiom: behind someone's back (used idiomatically: yes)
She 's a dog.’ ‘ You 're lying , you … ’ Garry went for Leslie who grabbed his arms and held him tightly , pushing his arms up behind his back expertly . ‘ Ai n't we had her , Lee?’ He nodded , still smiling , then picked up a pack of cigarettes from the table and lit one .
Idiom: take a dive (used idiomatically: yes)
At that time the Japanese foreign ministry distanced itself from the Liberal Democrats ' mission to Pyongyang organised by the party 's strongman , Shin Kanemaru . The civil servants watched with barely concealed glee as the ruling party became embarrassed when the North Koreans demanded compensation not only for Japan 's colonial rule but also for all the years since . Mr Kanemaru 's reputation took a dive from which it has not recovered . The party is hoping that , this time , the $ 26 billion bribe is big enough to do the trick . After all , Louisiana went for Dollars15 m and Alaska fetched only $ 7.2 m — about 2 cents an acre .
Idiom: good riddance (used idiomatically: yes)
The man began to retreat towards the door under the hail — I 'm with you , girls , I want my wife to get a wage ; then if she do n't do her work , she do n't get paid — like me . ' As he reached the door , with a variety of helpful obstructions he shouted his Parthian shot —'You ca n't bloody have it both ways … ' ' Good riddance , ' shouted Sheila . Annie nudged her , whispering : ' Is n't it a gross over - simplification to say the working class is just divided between the waged and the unwaged ? ' ' Pedant , Annie, 'said Sheila happily .
Idiom: way to go (used idiomatically: yes)
Hey Tom , I heard through the grapevine that you and Susie are going out . Way to go !
Idiom: on the game (used idiomatically: yes)
A poignant moment from Durham 's first - ever Benson & Hedges Cup match : Viv Richards of Glamorgan is caught and bowled by his old friend and former Somerset team - mate Ian Botham Dean Jones lost no time in demonstrating his ability to hit the ball hard and often on his competitive debut for Durham , but the boundaries he scattered around and beyond the ropes during their Sunday League win over Lancashire were no more impressive than the speed with which he hurtled the singles and made ones into twos . As his captain David Graveney observes : ' He is bound to make a tremendous impact on our game by making everybody aware of what can be achieved by speed between the wickets . I 've seen him on television turning obvious singles into twos on huge grounds like Melbourne . Now he is proving that he can do it here with 55-yard boundaries , and when he is batting with Paul Parker , another incredibly fast man between the wickets , it is going to be very difficult for sides to control them . '
Idiom: over the counter (used idiomatically: yes)
Endill remembered that this was the place where someone would be waiting to meet him . When the train stopped he dragged his heavy suitcase onto the platform ; if you could call it a platform because it was only some wooden planks resting on a pile of milkcrates . There was a tin hut at the end of it and inside sat a ticket collector asleep over the counter . Endill did not have to look far for whoever was to meet him as there was only one person on the platform . He had a sign in his hands which read
Idiom: out of the question (used idiomatically: yes)
According to the 1931 census more than 30 per cent of the population were not Polish . But after hundreds of years of colonisation and settlement , of population shifts and absorption , how could it have been otherwise ? Given that the massive exchange of populations was out of the question , it was clear that the Versailles politicians could not hope to solve the problems of forming homogeneous nation - state identities in Eastern Europe . Still less could they do this while trying to disperse the economically powerful German population of the east among the various neighbour states without aggravating the problem still further . Articles 100–108 of the Versailles Treaty detailed the exact arrangements by which the new Free City of Danzig would be governed .