Gooogr/pie_idioms huggingface dataset:
Idiom: out on a limb (used idiomatically: yes)
are thrown at you . Give the most positive explanations you can and try to keep control of what you want to put over during the interview rather than being forced into a purely defensive position . Take your own advantage of the difficult atmosphere by realizing that things can not get much worse so it is worth while going out on a limb to say what you want to say without worrying about causing a negative reaction ! Bringing it to an end If things are really bad , you are getting nowhere and you feel that an argument is developing , the best action is to state politely that you are not willing to be interviewed in such a manner , that you are clearly wasting one another 's time and you have decided to leave .
Idiom: on the cards (used idiomatically: yes)
All this proves is that the Chancellor is human like the rest of us . Britain ca n't afford Mr Lamont 's excesses I WAS more startled at the amount Mr Lamont was allowed to run up on his card rather than his doing it in the first place . I only have to go a few quid over and I get snooty letters threatening to take it off me . Greedy Hawk
Idiom: pick up the pieces (used idiomatically: yes)
She was his mistress , you know . ' Lowell did n't . ' Where did you pick up that piece of salacious gossip ? ' ' In a shop earlier today . ' ' This conversation is unbelievable , elucidate . '
Idiom: turn the tables (used idiomatically: yes)
Their rearranged match with champions Glasgow Powerhouse , at Whitburn Academy ( 7:15pm ) , is , without question , the most significant of the season so far . If Components Bureau can beat the champions for a second time , then they will virtually be home and dry . However , if Powerhouse can turn the tables , the title would go down to the wire and almost certainly be decided on set difference . What gives tonight 's meeting added spice is that the original fixture between the teams last month was postponed in such controversial circumstances . Powerhouse walked out after complaining that they had been kept waiting for 40 minutes for the court and Components Bureau claimed the points by default and then appealed unsuccessfully against the Scottish Association 's decision to rearrange the fixture .
Idiom: behind someone's back (used idiomatically: yes)
It helped him to dance , but for me , to dance is a way of allowing and encouraging ourselves to escape through our fingertips , eyelids , lungs and tips of our tongues . He already did it with his tongue , but up till that period his fingers were a bit stiff . Mine had been a decade earlier when Marcel Marceau removed my hands from behind my back ; hands , which at that period did n't resemble hands at all , but strawberry coloured boxing gloves . Marcel gave me my hands and a generation later , I gave David Bowie his wings . When we first met , there was a great deal of affection — there was a great deal of love and a great deal of admiration and respect as well you know .
Idiom: laughing stock (used idiomatically: yes)
Prominent racing historian Reg Green said urgent action was needed to prevent the National that never was turning into the National without a future . ‘ The National is the racing showpiece of the world and we need to act now to stop it being destroyed by the apathy and negligence of the ruling body and the actions of a few animal rights protestors and rowdies . ‘ It is no wonder we are becoming the laughing stock of the world,’ he said . Since last April 's farce , more than 60 innovative suggestions for alternative starting methods have flooded into Aintree from racing organisations and individuals all over the world . They range from the simple , such as sawdust starting lines , to the sophisticated , including electromagnetic beams and parallel tapes .
Idiom: on the back of (used idiomatically: yes)
Then a motorcyclist was brought in on a blue light , a dispatch rider who had been burning along the Norwich road and hit a patch of oil . He was a mess , his left femur broken in at least one place , his right tibia and fibula shattered , his right shoulder dislocated and possible rib fractures . Thinking of her trip to Norfolk on the back of Jack 's bike , Kathleen 's blood ran cold . ‘ Fat lot of use leather gear is to you under these circumstances,’ she mumbled , and set to with her scissors to cut away his shredded clothes . ‘ Can we get the orthopaedic SR on take down here , please?’ she threw over her shoulder , and then added , as an afterthought , ‘ and the neurologist?’
Idiom: ring a bell (used idiomatically: yes)
Indenbaum did not take the proposition seriously , as he felt sure that Modi would have forgotten all about it in the morning , but Modigliani was insistent and asked Indenbaum if he had canvas and paint at home . Eventually they agreed on an appointment at nine o'clock the next morning , but Indenbaum was still convinced that Modigliani would not turn up . Promptly at nine next morning Modigliani rang Indenbaum 's door bell , clean - shaven , his hair carefully brushed . ' I could see that he had not had a drink yet and I was doubly surprised that he seemed in a good mood . ' Indenbaum offered him some old pictures to paint over , but Modigliani picked carefully through them so as not to paint over any painting , however unimportant , which showed a hint of talent .
Idiom: face to face (used idiomatically: yes)
As each of the three variables seemed to be related to risk of relapse , it followed that those living in high contact with high EE relatives and failing to maintain prophylactic medication should be at greatest risk of relapse , while those living with low EE relatives and continuing to take their medication should have the lowest risk . Vaughn and Leff ( 1976 ) found the relapse rate to be 92 per cent compared to 12 per cent for patients falling into these two extreme groups over the same nine month period . Furthermore , intervention programmes aiming to reduce the level of expressed emotion among relatives high on this index , or alternatively to reduce their level of face - to - face contact , have shown that relapse rates can be reduced in this way ( e.g. Leff et al . , 1982 ; 1985 ; Falloon et al . , 1982 ; and see chapter 9 ) . These findings add considerable weight to the claims that emotional arousal is of causal significance to relapse . Taken together , these studies provide numerous practical indications for the management of schizophrenia .
Idiom: off and on (used idiomatically: yes)
There have been three large volcanic eruptions along such boundaries in very recent years : Mt St Helens in the state of Washington , El Chichón in Mexico and one just north - west of Bogotá in Columbia . The last one — it happened only last year — was particularly nasty . A 17,000-foot volcano called Nevada del Ruiz , which seems to have been slumbering off and on for the past four hundred years , erupted and melted the snow and ice which covered most of its upper reaches , giving rise to an estimated seventy - five million cubic yards’ mudslide . The town of Armero stood in its way . 25,000 people died there .
Idiom: ring a bell (used idiomatically: yes)
‘ Then you must take appropriate action . To that end , I have selected a Gestapo man I wish to accompany you to Lisbon as your bodyguard.’ He rang a bell on the desk and Rossman entered . ‘ Ah , Rossman . I 'll see Sturmbannführer Berger now.’
Idiom: oil and water (used idiomatically: yes)
First make the dough . Sift the flour into a large bowl , stir in the yeast , salt and sugar . Add the oil and enough water to make a firm dough . Knead for at least 5 minutes until smooth and elastic . Put the dough into a polythene bag and leave to rise in a warm place for an hour .
Idiom: take root (used idiomatically: yes)
For the rest of Russell 's life there was a constant tug of war between the very real religious sentiments which he expresses in passages like those and his sceptical attitude towards established religions . I think I shall be able to show you that this religious attitude underlay some of the most striking aspects of Russell 's life : his pacifism , and his deep concern with human misfortune and misery . The second big battle that Russell had in his unswerving pursuit of truth was with German idealism , mainly Hegelian idealism , which by a very curious aberration from the standard empiricism of the British people , took root in Oxford and Cambridge in the last half of the last century , and was almost for a time unchallenged . Russell first read mathematics at Cambridge and then , in the second half of his tripos , philosophy , and he then came strongly under this influence . I must say I 've been seriously wondering , during this lecture , whether I was going to have the courage or not , to attempt to give you a thumbnail exposition of Hegelian metaphysics .
Idiom: take stock (used idiomatically: yes)
No warcry rang out . The whole world held its breath and waited , sensing that the battle had reached a crucial juncture . It was one of those rare moments when the clamour of war receded , the smoke cleared and a wise man could take stock of the situation quickly , accurately , and with some hope of certainty . The Chevalier Roget d'Armaniac twisted in the saddle to survey the battlefield . Before him lay a pile of dead Tilean crossbowmen , polluting the sacred soil of Bretonnia with their inferior foreign blood .
Idiom: toe the line (used idiomatically: yes)
Control of Parliament by the executive has never been more complete than in the twentieth century , with compliant MPs loyally following party policy . The nature of the disciplinary sanctions on which the system rests is that the modern MP is heavily reliant on the support of party activists and party finance in order to be elected . It is not so much the whips as the local constituency activists who indirectly but effectively apply sanctions ( such as not readopting him or her ) to keep the overwhelming majority of MPs toeing the party line , and government control very tight . Then , there is the simple point that MPs would prefer their party in power , no matter what it does , rather than in opposition . We should also note that a contemporary British government relies , like its eighteenth - century predecessors , on patronage .
Idiom: true blue (used idiomatically: yes)
It could be altogether innocent but suspicions have been raised . Companies outside COSE 's inner circle also fret about how it is selecting technologies . Members of Unix International have approached it to suggest that the true blue Unix club get a piece of the COSE requirement process , and word is that Unix International is having informal discussions with the COSE crew . If there is a twist to the plot , then it is nowhere more apparent than at the window management level where , it seems , Hewlett - Packard is determined to make its Visual User Environment stick . We know Hewlett - Packard and IBM Corp are working on an early sample version of the Common Open Software Environment code , which will include interface widgets , and VUE look and feel dominated the COSE desktop shown at the original announcement .
Idiom: lie low (used idiomatically: yes)
But he had said nothing , only looked subdued , and Adam realized why . His own terrible fear and anger had communicated itself to his father and shown him what the better part of valour was : keeping silent . Having put the cat among the pigeons , made mischief in his special way , he was lying low now and waiting . The old bastard . Adam only wished Uncle Hilbert had left him Wyvis Hall and then there would have been no Ecalpemos , no Zosie , and no deaths .
Idiom: till the cows come home (used idiomatically: yes)
Tell me about these things , so you do n't smoke , you do n't and there 's all sorts of problems . Erm when said , said it all and then should say that but there 's nothing more I can say and so the overall thing was great . relax , just put the guy talk themselves till the cows come home , I would have done erm this , got the structure the wrong way round Over to you . Right erm a lot of good things there erm empathy is I think the second thing I wrote down on , on the strength , brilliant very see that obviously open up erm there was interest in what I was doing , you , you were confident .
Idiom: break new ground (used idiomatically: yes)
Doodle , a funny little insect thing , is determined to rescue the fair maiden and sets out with only a set of pencils to his name . One of the nicest and most original features of the game is that while Doodle can take out the enemy by simply throwing his pencils , he can also use them to draw the bonuses or weapons he needs . Although Doodlebug breaks no new ground and may not prove challenging enough for hardened players , it 's still a neat little platformer . Score : 8/10 WHILE SNES players are in for a treat with Super Mario Kart , sadly the same can not be said for NES owners , with their Christmas Mario offering , Mario and Yoshi — a game which takes the form of a puzzle startlingly similar to the classic Tetris .
Idiom: in the black (used idiomatically: yes)
A player dressed in black and white is holding up the tennis racket and is waiting for the ball
Idiom: high and low (used idiomatically: yes)
That is all he knows . When they reach their goal , Abraham goes calmly about the business of preparing Isaac for slaughter . He does not hunt high and low for an animal to use instead . He gives us no sign that he believes God will provide a substitute at the last moment , no sign of a conviction that all will be well in the end . Does this mean that this story is not about faith , but faithlessness ?
Idiom: in the flesh (used idiomatically: yes)
Other methods Catalogues and mail order services share the disadvantages of offering a limited selection , and , more importantly , not allowing you the chance to examine the item until it arrives at the door . A photograph is no substitute for the original rug , and items that look superb in reproduction can be extremely disappointing when viewed in the flesh . There may be the most practical methods of purchase for people in remote rural areas , but avoid any mail order or catalogue offer unless there is a free home trial period or bona fide money - back guarantee . When to buy
Idiom: with a view to (used idiomatically: yes)
Environmental Politics Van Miert calls for common environmental standards In his first public speech as EC Environment Commissioner , Karel van Miert has called for common environmental norms to be applied across the EC , with a view to maintaining environmental standards without infringing the Community 's commitment to free trade between member states . He favours the use of fiscal incentives alongside regulation , particularly in the fields of carbon emissions and road haulage . Working out how to meet the EC 's target of stabilizing carbon emissions by the year 2000 should be a priority of the UK 's Presidency , he said .
Idiom: economical with the truth (used idiomatically: yes)
It informs and amuses as Dea / Jella , working her passage on the MV Minos , turns into a beer - swigging hearty in the officers ' mess . She is , nevertheless , a privileged female passenger in the single boat - deck cabin beside the captain 's quarters . Looking at the near - sensational claims in the press release — whoring ? smuggling?— I see that Mary Kingsley is not alone in being economical with the truth . Books : Orders for cold meat at dawn By Duke of Wellington
Idiom: in the black (used idiomatically: yes)
A man dressed in black is wearing inline ~ skates and performing acrobatics on a rail
Idiom: up for grabs (used idiomatically: yes)
The Director of the Bayerisches Nationalmuseum , Dr Rheinhold Baumstark , did say though that , while the collection was rich in such items , it did not contain really major works of art no Rubens , nor a Giambologna , for example . This last month , the Bavarians have been going through the painful experience of learning that , where an historic collection is concerned , it is the whole which is greater than the parts , and no saving of individual items can make up for the erosion of that whole . Freud 's Bowery bums up for grabs LONDON . The issue of British artist Lucian Freud 's split from his dealer James Kirkman rumbles on .
Idiom: in the red (used idiomatically: yes)
12 Windermere pine small double headboard 13 Château pine small double headboard with cognac finish Corail bed linen printed on 100 per cent Egyptian cotton percale , available in red , blue or green ; Double duvet cover ; pillowcase ; designed by Pierre Frey for Yves Delorme . ( A small double headboard measures 4 ft 6 in . ) how to get that look
Idiom: under the influence (used idiomatically: yes)
During these years the most important of the established exhibitors at the Indépendants and the Salon d'Automne included Bonnard , Vuillard and Denis , while the strong group of Neo - Impressionist painters under the leadership of Signac were also recognized and admired ; by 1909 Vauxcelles was able to comment on the fact that it was no longer necessary to fight for the painters that he had christened the Fauves . After the large Cézanne retrospective exhibition at the Salon d ' Automne of 1907 , his influence once again became paramount , although after 1909 , following the lead of Braque , certain painters began to interpret Cézanne from a more formal and intellectual , and less immediately visual point of view . Vauxcelles refers to some of the painters of the Indépendants of 1910 who were working under the influence of Cézanne as ‘ ignorant geometricians , who reduce scenery and the human body to dull cubes’ . But by far the greater number of paintings to be seen at both these Salons in the first ten years of the century were still sub - Impressionist in character , and it was as part of the final and conclusive reaction against Impressionism that the Cubist and proto - Cubist works exhibited in 1910 were greeted . Apollinaire in a review of the Salon des Indépendants of that year wrote : ‘ If we had to describe the general trend of this exhibition , we would say without hesitation — and with great pleasure — that it means the rout of Impressionism’ .
Idiom: pass the buck (used idiomatically: yes)
I stopped listening as he went on to describe a naval ceremony . Poor Tim Wilson was probably having a bad time . When anything like this happened , every office - holder in the community made speeches passing the buck on to the police department . While I was thinking it over the ‘ phone rang . It was Connors .
Idiom: at a stretch (used idiomatically: yes)
Fleming was booked for a foul on Chris Leadbitter , hurting himself in the challenge and receiving treatment before he was shown the yellow card . Pears tipped over a dangerous Neil Heaney cross and then saved a fierce Claridge shot . Middlesbrough had been at full stretch against Cambridge 's direct , high - ball game and their own attack posed little threat in the first half . Ten minutes after the break Middlesbrough suddenly burst into attack with two good chances in a minute . John Hendrie shot against Jon Sheffield after he held off Liam Daish 's challenge and cut inside .
Idiom: lie through your teeth (used idiomatically: yes)
‘ Of course I could . It is true , after all.’ ‘ You 're lying through your teeth,’ he ground out . ‘ You wanted me . You were mad for —’ He broke off .
Idiom: in the running (used idiomatically: yes)
Training and School Board Members Nick Arney and Pamela Munn Among the aims of school boards , introduced into the Scottish educational system in 1989 , was giving parents and other members of the community closer involvement in the running of schools . Training materials were prepared from which boards were free to choose according to individual needs . This brief report is based on a study of the response of boards to the materials and training provided .
Idiom: game on (used idiomatically: yes)
This is not good news for Leeds who are coming upto a difficult series of games over the next month . If Wilko wins the manager of the month for December then I will be truly impressed , otherwise it could be bad news:- ( . I see that Wetherall got MOTM for the game on Saturday from one of the tabloids , so much for me saying he was at fault for the goals . I think Fairclough was at fault for the second goal — trying to be too smart . Wilko wo n't be too happy as I think he would have told them by now it 's kick first and ask questions later .
Idiom: down the drain (used idiomatically: no)
It 's a message this generation has taken to heart , and enormous sums of money are now spent every year on washing powders , bleaches , conditioners , washing - up - liquids , scouring creams , disinfectants , fresheners and so on . But what is the environmental cost of all these products ? Via sink , bath or lavatory , all these cleaners disappear down the drain and that usually leads to the sewer , on to sewage treatment plant and from there to sea or river . There are now serious environmental concerns about a whole range of chemicals that go into these cleaners , and the detrimental effect that some of them may be having on wildlife in rivers and shorelines . WHAT 'S IN DETERGENTS ?
Idiom: run out of steam (used idiomatically: no)
Although only incidentally Western , this cleared the way for Unforgiven by finally rendering the genre commercial again . James Coburn ( right ) forgets his Colt Peacemaker in Pat Garrett And Billy The Kid Cuddly kids Newman and Redford run out of steam in Butch and Sundance Clint as The Outlaw Josey Wales … and as the Man With No Name in A Fistful of Dollars Even the cavalry could n't save mega - flop Heaven 's Gate
Idiom: get the better of (used idiomatically: yes)
Former Golden Gloves amateur Shea Neary made it three wins out of three ( all inside the distance ) since he turned professional by beating Sheffield lightweight Jason Barker . Neary won on the referee 's intervention after two minutes 30 seconds of the third round with Barker slumped , defenceless , in a neutral corner . Quickest winner was former St Teresa 's amateur Andrew Jarvis , who got the better of a big - punching clash with Scunthorpe light - middle Sean Martin , with Martin counted out on the ring apron after being felled by a great left hook which landed seconds before the end of the second session . Liverpool could lose MP , warns Alton By Mark Davies
Idiom: drop the ball (used idiomatically: no)
Instead of leaving Deanein the reserves as he did with rocky he 'll keep him in the firsts and he 'll come good . As rocky probably would have given the chance . Anyway after Rocky Wilko would have to have a lot of Balls to drop Deane . Tim From :
Idiom: think twice (used idiomatically: yes)
Tom did n't expect to encounter a human ~ being in a place where a squirrel would have thought twice about entering .
Idiom: steer clear of (used idiomatically: yes)
The eliminability o / predicates " true " and " real " The spotlight is thus trained on truth ; in particular on the conditions under which a given " substitution instance " can be legitimately described as " true " . But this merely raises the problem of a definition of " truth conditions " and it is difficult to see how such a definition can steer clear of the question of " ontological commitment " . The ghosts conjured up by the concept of existence thus reappear to haunt us . If the reductivist is to be consistent , he will have to say not only that explicit existence claims are not a necessary constituent feature of a complete description of the world , but that explicit truth claims are n't either .
Idiom: get a move on (used idiomatically: yes)
that their own Margaret used to be working she worked nights as well Come on get a move on you know he 's gon na cause chaos this guy , he 's gon na pull in front of this lorry , watch