Gooogr/pie_idioms huggingface dataset:
Idiom: in the black (used idiomatically: yes)
A man elegantly dressed in black is wearing an elaborate black ~ mask
Idiom: bright and early (used idiomatically: yes)
It 's funny because Dinda does the same thing . Mm . Weekends she 's bright and early , half past That 's it , seven quarter to eight , the week days when she needs to get up at quarter to seven
Idiom: pissed off (used idiomatically: yes)
Well they have a caller , do n't worry . A cooler ? That 's where you go when you 're pissed off ? A caller . You always have a caller for barn dancing , you know , do you know how to set ?
Idiom: in the works (used idiomatically: no)
According to the head of the foundation , Graf ~ Lambsdorff , the parliaments in all democratic countries should be included in the human ~ rights work for Tibet .
Idiom: all along (used idiomatically: yes)
Maintaining that calm , uncaring façade even for just a few minutes had taken a lot out of her , and she felt the faint beginnings of a headache behind her eyes . The worst thing was knowing Marianne was right . She 'd wondered all along why someone like Dane should be attracted to her . Surrounded as he was by the glamour of the acting world , he could pick and choose from the world 's most beautiful women — women like Marianne , with her lush body and provocative , slanting green eyes . Maybe he 'd brought her here to act as some kind of pawn in a game he played with Marianne , she realised dully .
Idiom: chuck it down (used idiomatically: yes)
Everything looks so high from here , and I 'm all squashed and thin like I 'm paper and people can walk over me and it would n't hurt and they would n't know I was there . There 's a fag end on the ground by my eye and I watch it for a bit . Someone 's chucked it down there and they 've gone off and forgot it and they do n't even know who I am . They 've just gone off somewhere and left it behind . I 'd like to stay here on the floor but there 's cars beeping at me and I think I 'm lying in the road , so I push myself up and sort of crawl to the pavement .
Idiom: at the end of the day (used idiomatically: yes)
On July 11 Jansen left Iraq after delegating her responsibilities to another US national , Mark Silver , who continued to maintain the team 's vigil outside the Ministry of Agriculture ( until July 22 , when the team withdrew in fear of physical reprisals from anti - US and anti - UN demonstrators ) . On July 17 President Saddam Hussein denounced the UN as " an advertising agency " of the USA and indicated his government 's determination to obstruct further weapons inspections . The head of the joint UN and International Atomic Energy Agency ( IAEA ) special commission on Iraq , Rolf Ekeus , left Iraq on July 19 at the end of three days of fruitless negotiations with Iraqi officials . Signs of a shift in the Iraqi position emerged on July 20 . Iraqi Deputy Prime Minister Tariq Aziz , who had met Ekeus , was quoted as saying that Iraq was ready to invite weapons experts from " neutral Security Council member countries or non - aligned states " .
Idiom: fly a kite (used idiomatically: yes)
Having received an honorary degree from St Andrews University , and through his friendship with Principal Robertson of Edinburgh University , had managed the business of a Divinity Degree for his friend Sam Cooper . Franklin had also been invited to advise Glasgow University in the matter of a lightning conductor . Since his famous experiment in 1752 when he flew a kite during a thunderstorm , and via a key and a wet thread safely discharged the power of a thunderstorm into the earth , his lightning rods were much sought after . He had first installed conductors on the roofs and spires of tall buildings in his home town of Philadelphia . He was toying with the idea of bifocal spectacles on the eve of his appointment as Ambassador to France , and the future held a key role for him in the drafting of the American Constitution .
Idiom: pissed off (used idiomatically: yes)
carousel as well Yeah . but like I said nine times out of ten if I 've got pissed off with an album I change all of them . Just have a and I I do n't listen to that lot then . It 's well flash though , it really is .
Idiom: dig deep (used idiomatically: yes)
E. Shipping merchants need the services of other forms of commerce , particularly insurance and banking . Central Liverpool has become a district with many offices and some of the insurance companies have grown to do general insurance business in all parts of the country . F. For seven years at the end of the last century thousands of navvies dug a canal 8.5 m deep for ocean ships to reach Manchester . The city became a major port as well as being the business centre for the cotton textile industry , with clothing factories and engineering works , especially those making textile machinery . Alongside the Manchester Ship Canal there were open spaces suitable for large modern factories using imported raw materials .
Idiom: on the horn (used idiomatically: yes)
… Gull against the wind , in the windy straits Of Belle Isle , or running on the Horn . White feathers in the snow , the Gulf claims , And an old man driven by the Trades
Idiom: never you mind (used idiomatically: yes)
Mm , okay Feel the pulse so you felt that and that pulse point there if you press on it hard enough you can actually stop the one in the wrist and of course that is controlling the flow of blood to the rest of the arm and you leave a pressure point closed off like that for no more than ten minutes , because if you left it on for too long that it means not sufficient blood 's getting to the rest of the , the limbs and the limb must have its blood supply , so you leave the pressure on for ten minutes and then release it , say for ten seconds just so say that the hand comes back pinkish again and if it 's not slowing down , back on with the pressure again for another ten minutes and that 's how you use it , tap off , ten minutes at the most , tap on for a little while , if it 's leaked again reapply , ten minutes at the most , tap on again , okay and that 's how you 'll control it , so if you do have a sit a situation where the bleeding was bad cos you 've got a , a limb severed , you could n't perhaps put sufficient direct pressure over that limb , this done , right , to control the bleeding then you could use indirect pressure , here , breaking or here , right in the , no playing now please , no trying to find this one right now , do this one tonight , in bed and the old lady said now what are you doing to me , never you mind , go to sleep find time Say they just going for a walk , yeah , and you come across this , say this young kid has been climbing up the trees and hurt his leg , you 're the only person around , so you , you 've got to get help yeah , cos he 's losing a lot of blood , but you 've got to stop his blood same time as you 've got to get help , yeah , so what 's the priority , you just stay
Idiom: on edge (used idiomatically: yes)
She had put her hands before her face , and by now the whole room was watching them , although most could not hear what was being said . He pivoted , and despite his lameness , his sedentary life , he was still a powerful man , and he knocked Havvie Blaine flying , for him to be caught and steadied by Stair , who fended his brother off with one hand . The women standing on the edge of Havvie 's party shrieked and Maybelle Blaine cried viciously to the distraught Sally - Anne , ' Have n't you done enough damage to poor Havvie , Sally - Anne Tunstall , without egging on another of your lovers to attack him ? ' Another of your lovers ! Sally - Anne 's paralysis cracked .
Idiom: steer clear of (used idiomatically: no)
On no account should he be approached.’ He added : ‘ Clarke has long - standing links with north london and Merseyside and has a slight Liverpool accent . He is not known to have a wide circle of friends , in fact people tend to steer clear of him . ‘ However , he is extremely plausible and a good talker . People should be on their guard.’
Idiom: eat your words (used idiomatically: yes)
They are a genuine couple who wished to be married in Scotland and , as they hailed from Gretna in Louisiana , they went to Gretna Green for a ‘ traditional’ anvil wedding . by no means were they living together and certainly had no children from previous marriages . Anthony Troon , eat your words ! Need for coherent defence policy R C Sneddon ( Points of View , today ) damns our campaign with faint praise ; on the one hand he says we ‘ secured an impressive victory’ ; on the other hand he asks whether we have diverted attention from the wider issue of whether a balanced structure for the army has been achieved .
Idiom: free and easy (used idiomatically: yes)
Richard Hoggart 's The Uses of Literacy ( 1957 ) was undoubtedly the most evocative survey of these postwar confusions , vividly conveying the feeling that the new ' candy floss ' entertainments of the post - war era were morally inferior to the older working - class traditions , threatening a decisive break in cultural life . As he compared the ' full rich life ' of the old back - street cultures which he thought were being pitted and undermined by the ' canned entertainment and packeted provision'of the new pulp culture , Hoggart made no effort to disguise his contempt for this barren cultural wasteland — the pop songs , the crooners and the heart - throbs , the hairstyles and clothing , the espresso bars and milk bars which young people frequented , together with the ' sex in shiny packets'literature and the cacophony of juke - boxes and ' nickelodeons ' . All this was contrasted uninvitingly against the fondly remembered oral traditions of the working - class neighbourhoods — brass bands , free - and - easy nights at the local pub , and pigeon - fancying — as an essentially ' hollow ' and ' faceless'cultural diminishment . And when Hoggart turned his attention to the ' juke box boys ' who were a recognisable strain of early Teds —'boys between fifteen and twenty , with drape - suits , picture ties , and an American slouch ' — even the slouch was , characteristically , identified as ' Americanised'and hence ' postwar'and ' un - British ' , as the boys sipped their milk - shakes and tapped their feet to the music in their milk - bar rendezvous : It was a typical mode of response by Hoggart , contrasting the cultural solidity of the English pub and its robust pleasures with the contrived artificiality of the ' American ' cafe ; the fantasy world of admass set unfavourably against the down - to - earth character of working - class tradition .
Idiom: tell tales (used idiomatically: no)
The mere sight of a dandruff - laden shoulder , a grimy collar or a grubby fingernail is enough to bring the most promising of romances to a sudden end . Unless , that is , you can drop enormous hints with family - size bottles of Head and Shoulders , biological washing powder and a nail brush the size of a hedgehog . Two of my brothers used to be car mechanics and would use ANYTHING washing up liquid , bleach , industrial strength cleaner to get those tell - tale oily fingernails clean before they ventured out on a date . Instead of buying them aftershave at Christmas , their eyes lit up at enormous , giftwrapped , tubs of Swarfega . They knew that there was nothing more off - putting for a woman that a romantic encounter at the cinema holding hands with a large dollop of Castrol GTX .
Idiom: make tracks (used idiomatically: yes)
They can compare the weight of some loose snow on one hand with a compressed snowball on the other . They can use snow to make a big ball or snowman . They can make tracks and footmarks in the snow , and on finding footmarks can guess which way the person who made them was going . Buckets can be filled with snow — loosely or hard packed — and the amount of water found when the snow has melted can be discussed and compared . If there is enough snow to make a really big snowman , he may be as tall as Mr A. on the first day , but as he melts , he will shrink to be as tall as Miss B. and then as small as the smallest child , until he finally disappears .
Idiom: off the shelf (used idiomatically: no)
Honeywell , which reckons that it is now the industry leader in design and development of integrated avionics systems — anyone that disagrees , do n't tell us , tell them — will manufacture an Electronic Library System incorporating a ruggedised avionics version of the new Macintosh Quadra 800 . The information management system is designed to provide airline personnel — cabin attendants and ground maintenance crew as well as flight crew — with timely access to all the information necessary to operate and maintain an aircraft — excluding the actual aircraft control . The planned electronic library will include functions such as hypertext document retrieval of aircraft flight manuals , operational manuals , navigation charts and maintenance manuals , and the flying professionals will be able to integrate and manipulate graphics , audio and video elements , and use commercially available off - the - shelf software , one aim being to help to incorporate the aircraft more fully into the airline 's overall information management system . Another node on the net ' In effect , the aeroplane will become another node on the network , ' Honeywell observes .
Idiom: on tenterhooks (used idiomatically: yes)
I go home and lie down and then it all starts again . What is there to help me make sense of things ? Time has me dangling on its tenterhooks . I used to run on energy . These days , saying energy makes me black out with exhaustion .
Idiom: in the flesh (used idiomatically: no)
She had swayed back into an upright position and reverted to a tone of easy confidence . ‘ I 've met him a couple of times . He seems just as charming in the flesh as on television . Did you find him a good employer?’ ‘ Actually , he was n't strictly my employer on Rhodes.’
Idiom: pull a face (used idiomatically: yes)
Thinking of her mother , always making the best of things ( or pretending to : when the train began to move she had stopped smiling ) Carrie nearly did cry . There was a lump like a pill stuck in her throat . She swallowed hard and pulled faces . The train was slowing . ' Here we are , ' Miss Fazackerly said .
Idiom: bite the dust (used idiomatically: yes)
OfficePower takes central stage in ICL 's overall strategy as combined hardware , software and services revenues associated with the environment in all of its guises now amounts to some £ 1,200 m , according to Graham Taylor , ICL UK 's software business manager . The company claims some 300,000 OfficePower users worldwide , with 10,000 installations at 7,500 sites . OKI MICROSYSTEMS i860 WORKSTATION DIVISION BITES THE DUST Okidata Microsystems Division , the Japanese giant 's fledgling flight into the US workstation business , crashed and burned last week , taking the remnants of the Mass860 consortium — the Intel Corp i860 RISC supporters club — with it . The Japanese are being made to suffer what is for them a serious loss of face in having to pull the plug on the fifteen - month - old Massachusetts - based operation set up to build and sell Intel i860 boxes under a five - year commitment to the project .
Idiom: out of the question (used idiomatically: yes)
Today Wales B take on the shaken Aussies in Cardiff — and Davies does n't rule out another shock Welsh win . ‘ Of course we can win , Swansea showed the country it can be done,’ he argued . ‘ It will require a huge effort and a great deal of concentration , but the attitude of the players is so different now to what it was a year ago , it is not out of the question.’ Outrageous Even for the full Welsh side to beat Australia — let alone the second string - would have seemed an outrageous dream a year ago in the wake of humiliating defeats at the hands of the world champions , 63–6 on tour Down Under , and 38–3 in the World Cup .
Idiom: keep up appearances (used idiomatically: yes)
She need not rely for her sense of identity upon outward appearance ; she may in fact look beautiful , she may look a mess ; it does not matter greatly at that particular time . Confidence in the feminine within allows us to let go of the outer image from time to time . Sometimes a mood , or a phase of the menstrual cycle , will bring about a definite aversion to keeping up appearances . An elegance which was enjoyed only a few days earlier can now seem artificial , out of touch with the sense of self that has arisen . Such a change can be positive , giving a breathing space and a chance not to become too fixed in outward images .
Idiom: call the shots (used idiomatically: yes)
First of all , Iran could provide Israel with oil and in return Israel could , eventually , provide Iran with manufactured products , including arms , and all sort of experts . Mossad , together with the CIA , played an important part in the creation of SAVAK in the mid - fifties . After the overthrow of Mossadeq in 1953 , the United States began to replace Britain as the dominant external power in Iran — through many older Iranians ( like Muhammad Behbehanian ) continued to believes for decades that it was the British who really still called the shots and that the Americans were only British stooges . The Shah realized that his Western friends wanted above all a stable , friendly Iran . As the fifties proceeded , a succession of coups , countercoups , wars , revolutions and civil disorders made the Middle East one of the most volatile areas on earth , a place that in the words of one historian , " reverberated with the sound of crashing throne . "
Idiom: rank and file (used idiomatically: yes)
This was set as the minimum for contributions to the first loan , in 1522 , men of less substance being let on until , perhaps , the yield had proved disappointing . In the subsidy goods of this value were taxed at 10 per cent for the first two years , the same rate as for land , the owners of which were mostly drawn from the wealthier strata , and double what was levied on smaller assessments . In the range £ 20 — £ 39 a clear majority of people were taxed on goods , many not owning any land at all , and since personal property at this level was insufficient to confer gentry status , members of the group occupied an intermediate position , lacking on the one hand the landed property necessary for gentlemen ; they were , on the other hand , judged competent to pay tax at the same rate as gentlemen , making them men of undeniable substance in comparison with the rank and file of country folk . The consensus of opinion , nevertheless , was that the fundamental demarcation occurred at £ 40 . Fiscally it signified little , for the total tax liability ( inclusive of the loan payment ) remained unaltered at 20 per cent , though there is the important social difference that from this point the proportion of subsidy assessments on landed incomes increases sharply .
Idiom: take the plunge (used idiomatically: yes)
The hypocaust ran under both . If you were fond of hot water , you wallowed in a sunken basin . If you favoured sweating it out , you sat around on tiered benches and chatted with your friends until you started dissolving into steam , and then got yourself scraped down by a slave with a sort of sickle thing called a strigil , and massaged , and oiled and perfumed , or if you were a real fanatic you probably went straight from the hot room to take a cold plunge , like sauna addicts rolling in the snow . And then you were considered in a fit state to go and eat your dinner . ' ' By then , ' she said demurely , ' I should think you 'd , want it . '
Idiom: rags to riches (used idiomatically: yes)
Sir Billy Butlin The Billy Butlin Story ( Robson , £ 5.95 , 26th ) The rags to riches tale of the holiday camp king . He died in 1980 , but his wife has completed the story and famous friends add their recollections . Lou Eppolito and Bob Drury
Idiom: out of line (used idiomatically: no)
She 'd just walked in to the nearest doorway and spilled the whole thing to a complete stranger . It had n't occurred to her that I might take up the blackmail where Jack Mahoney had left off . As it happens , blackmail is a little out of my line , but she was n't to know that . I wondered whether Mahoney would die . Not that it was any skin off my nose one way or the other .
Idiom: get to grips with (used idiomatically: yes)
The 27-year - old fashion queen ends up looking more like a cat burglar than a catwalk model in the 30-second ad . Linda once said she would not get out of bed for less than Pounds 10,000 . But for almost two million pounds she not only got up , but got to grips with the crumbling guttering on a Paris rooftop . Risking the loss of her usual cool dignity , and wearing little more than a feather - trimmed tutu and high heels , Linda was filmed clinging to the building and edging along it before plunging , screaming , to the ground . An insider on the set said : ‘ You can bet there was a hefty accident bonus written into her contract — just in case she landed squarely on her assets and permanently damaged the goods.’
Idiom: on the cards (used idiomatically: yes)
Merchant bank Morgan Grenfell says the honeymoon is over and the implications for building societies could be serious . The smaller societies have had a lousy 12 months and this year is looking no better . They will continue to decline in numbers and mergers with their big brothers are on the cards . The abolition of tax concessions for home owners over the next two years , along with continued falls in house prices , will trigger a stampede to rent , it says . Sterling sinks under German pressure
Idiom: to all intents and purposes (used idiomatically: yes)
Equally , the state is obliged in theory to protect children at risk . A few children 's homes have been opened but they also double as reformatories for young offenders . The Centro de Orientacion Rosa Virginia Pelletier is under armed guard and is run to all intents and purposes as if it were a prison , although in 1980 there were only two young offenders in residence . The other 150 girls were children at risk or those who had been abandoned . Sexual Oppression
Idiom: rock the boat (used idiomatically: no)
As Mr Smith travelled to the TUC in Blackpool , a senior union leader — sup - posedly an ally — called for the Labour leader 's anti - devaluation stance to be ditched . Three Shadow Cabinet members gave TV interviews which repudiated economic policies they had agreed just five days earlier . Backbenchers desperate to rock Labour 's boat on Europe queued up to denounce their party leadership on radio . And these same Labour members have the nerve to criticise Mr Smith for offering weak opposition to the Government ! How can they expect their leader to devote his energy to attacking the Tories when he has to spend time dealing with his own rancorous , ill - disciplined colleagues ?
Idiom: out of the question (used idiomatically: yes)
Without his pressurized flying suit , the supreme aerial technology of the MiG was useless , utterly wasted . Vologsky might as well try to take off and escape in a hot air balloon . Without the suit , supersonic flight was an impossibility , high - speed evasive action out of the question . Long before he could goad the aircraft to anywhere near its optimum ceiling , Vologsky would be frozen , evacuated or crushed to death . The feeling of deadness returned to him , damping down the fear .
Idiom: behind closed doors (used idiomatically: yes)
This week administrators of the company , which collapsed in August 1992 after a failed bid for Skandia , a Swedish insurer , were weighing two rescue plans . One comes from a group of domestic investors who want to keep UNI in Norwegian hands . Another has been put forward behind closed doors by AXA , France 's second - biggest insurance company . A decision by Norway 's finance minister , Sigbjorn Johnsen , is expected soon . UNI ran into trouble after borrowing much of the NKr4.7 billion ( $ 125 m ) it paid in 1991 for a 28 % stake in Skandia .