Gooogr/pie_idioms huggingface dataset:
Idiom: come to grips with (used idiomatically: yes)
By definition , strategic planning is remote ; about locating highways and airports . It is a science that ordinary people feel powerless to influence but which will nevertheless have a bearing on every major site in the London area . Members of this new authority will have to come to grips quickly with the dilemma that what a city needs , and what its people want , are often two different things . Who cares where they put the Channel Tunnel terminal when what really makes you cross is having to travel half an hour to find a park in which our kids can play — except , that is , if your street is in the line of blight ? How can any locally elected politician be expected to persuade his community to pay the price of blight and disruption for the greater good of a city on the scale of London ?
Idiom: ride roughshod over (used idiomatically: yes)
Actively pursuing further ideas for community development and local economic regeneration it presents a challenge to conventional development rationale which focuses upon maximising the leverage of private sector investment for the minimum necessary public expense . Adapting to these new circumstances , MDC 's initial policy approach signifies a concern to adopt a co - operative rather than confrontational stance . In particular it has attempted to take on board community aspirations and local authority plans rather than ride roughshod over local wishes . This co - operation has gained practical expression in the formulation of Area Strategies for most parts of the extended area , notably New Brighton , Stanley , Vauxhall and Birkenhead . Reminiscent of conventional municipal statutory local plan - making , the preparation of the Area Strategies —‘informal’ local plans — have enabled MDC to create a forum in which local authorities , residents and the private sector alike can contribute as consultees to the local urban renewal process .
Idiom: above par (used idiomatically: yes)
Gary Lineker is a perfect example . Appreciative audience In the penalty box he is above par . Outside the box he has to be one of the worst centre forwards ever to wear an England shirt . I can remember the skills of Stubbins , Milburn , Lawton and Tommy Taylor .
Idiom: take liberties (used idiomatically: yes)
Then , with a dramatic gesture , she put a hand to her brow and turned to Jacob . ' I 'd almost forgotten . I took the liberty of inviting my friend Carlo along . Carlo Negri — you remember , Katherine . The madman has just flown in from Rome on a whim , to spend a few days with me here .
Idiom: take root (used idiomatically: yes)
Rather , what is needed most is a new way of thinking – new “ software ” ( though effective “ hard ” green technologies also are essential ) . As we saw in the postcommunist world , changing attitudes is often the hardest problem of all . People quickly embraced formal democracy , but the tolerance and compromise that is at the heart of the democratic process took time to take root .
Idiom: have words (used idiomatically: no)
( FN 3/3/87 , pp . 8–9 ) Southgate ( 1980 : 33 ) has shown how British police have diffiulties in dealing with domestic disputes , but if anything the situation in Northern Ireland is easier for the police because they have a clearer knowledge of their role : to be on hand to prevent serious crime . As another explained , ' To most people a family row is Mummy and Daddy having a few words ' , but when police are called to a domestic dispute in some areas of Belfast , It 's most likely it will involve the TV being thrown out of the window and possibly followed by the wife . By the time we arrive the house is usually wreaked , the kids are in a terrible state , and the wife 's been beaten up , and the father 's lying there stoned , probably taking half - a - dozen peelers to get him out of the house .
Idiom: do the trick (used idiomatically: no)
The problem is I do n't know where he has been placing these shot . The first adjustment I would make would be to try positioning the three to six No . 6 shot at one inch gaps , starting ten inches from the hook as in diagram A. This loses a slight degree of sensitivity by not having a dropper shot but usually does the trick of holding the float stationary . Several shot lying on the bottom act better as a brake if set slightly apart from each other . This strung shotting technique often requires you to fish two or three feet overdepth .
Idiom: in the pink (used idiomatically: yes)
Because they are white I had not occasion to exercise any choice of colours , but I can scarcely knit everything in white . The colours of garments printed in books and magazines probably influence whether we like the garment or not . I ca n't stand pink , so any jumper knitted in pink is rapidly passed over , so far as I am concerned . I 'm sure I 'm not alone in this sort of discrimination . If only one stopped to look at the shape of the garment and the stitch used , it might well be just what we have been looking for !
Idiom: get to grips with (used idiomatically: yes)
I started up WordStar full of apprehension , thinking I 'd never get to grips with all those cryptic keystroke shortcuts . I was pleasantly surprised . Version 7 has mouse support , pull - down menus and dialogue boxes — within five minutes you can get to grips with most of the commands you need . For aficionados those shortcuts are still there — it 's still Control+KQX to quit — goodness knows why . The goodies you get with WordStar include a keyboard template , details of the WordStar forum on CompuServe . free technical support for the life of the product , a pull - out guide to menus , plus a mass of well written manuals .
Idiom: down the road (used idiomatically: no)
His father told him that story : his father looked at him through a glass : he had a hairy face . He was baby tuckoo . The moocow came down the road where Betty Byrne lived : she sold lemon platt . [ 11]My earliest recollections are of my father and my mother bending over my cot and of the difference in personal odour that subsisted between my two parents . My father , certainly , did not have so pleasant an odour as my mother .
Idiom: in the lap of luxury (used idiomatically: yes)
We 've been told that er everything 's done in , in the relation to the trustee but of course when you 're talking about massive sums of one point seven billion , our members er who are seventy five / eighty olds who suffered the problem of the inflatory years , their pensions have n't kept , kept pace with the with the people that are retiring now . We 're gon na come Although although there 's a lot of people who feel they 're all living in the lap of luxury if you 're Post Office or B T pensioners , they are n't and we have n't been able to get this surplus er in any way used for the benefit of those people and er and that 's where the ownership of the fund really and the surplus are tied in together . We 're gon na , we 're gon na stay on this issue of ownership and surpluses for a little time , cos it 's actually so important , but it 's not unreasonable for your pensioners to think that here was this pot of money to which one could dip into , but the only thing is the pot of money disappeared did n't it ? Yes , an and what really upset the erm the , the members of the scheme and the pensioners was the fact that the money was going to actually erm fund the redundancy per programme er for the business and was going to the benefit of the employees and none of it was going to the actual pensioners .
Idiom: in the hole (used idiomatically: yes)
The bureau which was against the window wall and the chair beside it did not match the rest of the furniture . Wycliffe unlocked and lowered the flap . Everything was in meticulous order : envelopes and headed paper in pigeon holes , a section for unpaid bills , another for receipted accounts ; a box for stamps . Evidently Matthew had kept his personal affairs quite separate from his shop and council business . The bureau had a single , locked drawer and in it , amongst other things , Wycliffe found a cheque book , a paying - in book , and a sheaf of bank statements clipped together .
Idiom: make the grade (used idiomatically: yes)
The recent match against England saw our pack provide plenty of good possession until England got their act together — and even for a time after that . I 'd give the back row another chance to establish themselves . The new flankers could make the grade , but their efforts will be wasted if the backs rely only on crash ball to make ground . If you take no risks , in the end nothing is achieved . A wee bit of enterprise — and I 'm not advocating the selection only of people with flair , but just one or two to keep a proper balance — must pay dividends in the long run .
Idiom: on the button (used idiomatically: yes)
Power Tools And then there are the Power Tools . My favourite of them is the Power Toolbox , a way of taking program launching and switching out of the Program Manager altogether and putting your own buttons on the desktop . My most - used applications are now , as you can see by the screen - shot , permanently affixed to my desktop and available by a single click on a button . Power Toolbox goes further than this , though , as you can define a set of buttons for individual applications , so , for instance , you could design a set for Word for Windows to do things like applying styles to paragraphs , saving files in multiple formats — almost anything you choose . Again , the enhanced command set comes into play here as well .
Idiom: come of age (used idiomatically: yes)
The ornamental tobacco , Nicotiana langsdorfii , usually grown as a tender annual , is a plant that fits in well with almost any situation or colour scheme . It is about 18 in ( 45 cm ) high in my garden , a slim rather than substantial plant , with small , lime - green , tubular bell - shaped flowers and bright turquoise pollen . A few years ago this was only available in specialist nurseries , but I thought I recently caught a glimpse of it in Geoff Hamilton 's ornamental vegetable garden on the television , so I suppose it has come of age . Given that N. Langsdorfii could be a perennial in a mild winter and that it seeds itself even more freely , this could go from being a rarity to a ‘ pernicious weed’ in record time . I have heard my own favourite , Alchemilla mollis a useful hardy gap - filler , described as just that by a fellow gardener .
Idiom: pull strings (used idiomatically: yes)
Once again his life hung in the balance . When his doctors were at their most pessimistic , Raine 's will - power won through . She had heard of a German drug called Aslocillin which she thought could help and so she pulled every string to find a supply . It was unlicensed in Britain but that did n't stop her . The wonder drug was duly acquired and miraculously did the trick .
Idiom: under the sun (used idiomatically: yes)
Before that I 'd been happy to think of him vaguely in terms of Sartre , de Beauvoir , Paris , existentialism , absurdity … Everything that is most important about Camus , though , lies less in what identifies him with these names , these ideas , than in what distinguishes him from them — and that is the experience of growing up in ‘ poverty and sunlight’ in Algiers . ‘ Poverty prevented me from thinking that all is well under the sun and in history,’ he wrote in 1958 , the year after he received the Nobel Prize . ‘ The sun taught me that history is not everything.’ Everything that happened subsequently — even his famous break with Sartre , for whom there was nothing but history — is drenched in this early experience of poverty and sunlight .
Idiom: go all the way (used idiomatically: yes)
Green meets Mark Newton of Coed - Eva , a student PE teacher . ' Newton is a very good boxer and very strong , but not a good puncher , ' said Green 's coach John Lowe . ' Andy is in good shape and I 'm expecting him to go all the way this year ' . The chance is certainly there for the North - East 's four . Several of last year 's champions , including flyweight Paul Ingle of Scarborough and Darlington light heavyweight Anthony Todd and Middlesbrough international light welter Peter Richardson did not enter because Olympic qualification bids clashed with the ABAs .
Idiom: break even (used idiomatically: yes)
The chairman , Fred Johnston , said that newspaper publishing remained the group 's main activity , contributing a 20 per cent increase in operating profits at £ 6.95 million . Bookbinding and library bookselling also made favourable contributions to profitability . But commercial printing and typesetting , which , admittedly , comprise only about 2 per cent of turnover , were described as reflecting the weakness of the UK 's printing industry and the overcapacity which continued relentlessly to drive down prices , often below break - even point . Mr Bell said that contract printing in the UK had been ' an absolute disaster ' . While the group did not have a large commitment to it , there had to be a big question - mark over whether to continue it .
Idiom: Jekyll and Hyde (used idiomatically: yes)
A DOCTOR groped a woman patient 's breast while examining her for a stiff neck , a court heard yesterday . And in the next seven months Joel Danjuma groped three others — one twice — despite being warned by bosses at Wigan Royal Infirmary not to examine women unchaperoned , Liverpool Crown Court was told . The ‘ Jekyll and Hyde doctor was gratifying his strange desires’ , claimed the prosecution . Danjuma , 36 , of Wigan , denies five indecent assault charges . The case continues .
Idiom: famous last words (used idiomatically: yes)
Shiona would n't hear of it . ' Do n't worry , I 'll be perfectly OK on my own . ' Famous last words , she thought to herself , as she stepped out of the lift on to the second - floor landing of the luxury block of flats where she lived . Though the landing was empty and there was n't a sound all around , she had the strangest sensation that someone was there . The entrance to her own flat was down one of the narrow corridors that led off from the rectangular landing , and as she stepped towards it she noticed with sudden uneasiness that one of the wall lights halfway down the corridor had gone , plunging the passageway into semi - darkness .
Idiom: on the run (used idiomatically: no)
‘ We intend to run Granville Again — he will definitely be entered , ’ said trainer Martin Pipe . And a spokeswoman for trainer Toby Balding confirmed : ‘ Morley Street is likely to run at this stage . ’ In a slowly run race , it was older brother Morley Street who quickened the better on the run-in to land the Elite Hurdle . Pipe was yesterday mulling over future plans for Miinnehoma following the gelding 's shock defeat at Chepstow on Saturday . The nine-year-old , running for the first time since his victory in last March 's Sun Alliance Chase , finished a tired horse behind his impressive stable companion Run For Free .
Idiom: keep someone in the dark (used idiomatically: no)
She never liked the dark . I keep thinking she 's in the dark , I do n't know why that should be . They would n't keep her in the dark?’ The Captain frowned and murmured something sufficiently incomprehensible for her to take it as a negative . ‘ You must think I 'm a very foolish woman , Captain.’
Idiom: off the shelf (used idiomatically: yes)
Once established , advanced switching technology within the network will allow users of MBS to tie their own local area networks using the service into a wide - area network . Workstations accessing the service are Unix - based but can be chosen from a number of manufacturers including DEC , Macintosh or Sun . High resolution monitors are needed for the images , of course , and the current pilots are using 2000 x 2000 pixel Sony off - the - shelf monitors . When they announced the pilot scheme in September 1990 , Nynex claimed that the service ' will eventually allow businesses to send , receive , store and retrieve any type of voice , data and video communication in any combination at any time . Lower band width ISDN services will be rolled out for home use . '
Idiom: by and large (used idiomatically: yes)
In my view , then , it was rather defeatist from a vocational standpoint to adopt a stance like Mr Graham 's . In any case , for all Mr Graham 's scepticism , I can remember he and I spending many evenings trying to put our fingers on the constitution of this ‘ dignity’ . We never came to any agreement , but I can say for my part that I developed fairly firm ideas of my own on the matter during the course of such discussions , and they are by and large the beliefs I still hold today . I would like , if I may , to try and say here what I think this ‘ dignity’ to be . You will not dispute , I presume , that Mr Marshall of Charleville House and Mr Lane of Bridewood have been the two great butlers of recent times .
Idiom: have a heart (used idiomatically: no)
This suggests a major drop in popularity , and it would be interesting to look at the circulation figures . It is now a magazine and has a magazine format of just over A4 size . The paper is now glossy and the cover has a fashion model on front and a pin-up of a teen heart-throb on the back . All stories are now drawn in colour or are photo stories . Some of the original stories and characters remain .
Idiom: take a bath (used idiomatically: no)
' Is tha ' right , Christy ? ' ' Aye . And te ' ting is , when Shane takes his bath , he do n't botter to move the snake out of te ' tob ! ' We share a hearty laugh , and ascend the final flight . ' He 's a rogue , ' tat one , ' says Perry .
Idiom: dog eat dog (used idiomatically: no)
Because there had never been enough of anything to go around , and never would be . John - William had always known that . Dog ate dog And man ate man . Not just in the alleys of St Jude 's , where John - William had taken good care never to be devoured himself , but everywhere . And when these poor fools won their vote what would it really mean to them but the right to choose their own oppressors ?
Idiom: out of the blue (used idiomatically: yes)
The Soviets , who had arrived at Heathrow the previous evening , were taken to Twickenham to train and practise , and it was there that their assistant manager Douglas Kavtalashvilli made the offer . The invitation greatly surprised the RFU secretary Dudley Wood , who was listening . ‘ This has come out of the blue , and we are due to go to Argentina next summer,’ said Wood . ‘ But if a formal invitation is issued by the Soviet Union then of course it will be very much considered.’ One possibility is that England could send their B team .
Idiom: rest on your laurels (used idiomatically: yes)
It therefore follows that even if you are two points ahead at the 30 seconds ' bell , the opponent can still pull these back and take the final point to win . The moral is simple : do not let up until the time - up bell sounds . That is the only time when you can rest on your laurels . Similarly , if you are lagging behind at the 30 seconds ' bell , it is not too late for you to win the bout . You have little to lose by attacking with the utmost determination .
Idiom: head south (used idiomatically: no)
If you are lucky you might also catch sight of an otter around the burn . Near the western end of the reservoir you can see a bronze age burial mound and a cup and ring marked boulder which may also date from the same period . Towards the eastern end of the Fontburn Reservoir , the path makes its way out of the woods and heads first south , and then you turn right along the line of the shake holes — natural craters formed by water — eroding limestone . The path climbs to the top of Greenleighton Hill ( 983′ ) . After you have walked down , follow the track by the quarry back to the car park .
Idiom: beg the question (used idiomatically: yes)
Kemp frequently provides details of superficial social acquaintance between scientists and artists and refers to their reading habits . This is , in one sense , unobjectionable and Kemp rightly weighs the evidence for influence circumspectly . However , the very preoccupation with identifying causal influences begs more fundamental questions about whether contemporaries shared intellectual assumptions . For example , the Scientific Revolution of the seventeenth century was constituted not only by the new theories of Descartes , Galileo and Newton but also by new ways of experiencing the world , interacting with it and thinking about it . According to this claim , the mores of the eighteenth century were radically different from the sixteenth .
Idiom: do the trick (used idiomatically: yes)
It is , he argues , not at all clear how you raise private savings to close the other kind of gap . This point should not be pushed to perversity : the IMF is still clear that a US-style deficit is worse , and it certainly is not being quickly corrected . But Mr Lawson has to show he knows how to do the trick , before he can win his argument , in theory or in the markets . Corporate Profile : French flair and Le Mortgage push Compagnie Bancaire ahead : Michael Prest takes a look at one of Europe 's most unusual and successful financial groups By MICHAEL PREST
Idiom: poacher turned gamekeeper (used idiomatically: yes)
Poacher - turned - gamekeeper — a headhunter going back to industry , especially via an assignment he or she is handling — is rarer . Only one company questioned , who insisted on complete anonymity , had taken on an ex - headhunter into a position it had been seeking to fill , and admitted that it had been a disastrous mistake . On the other hand , there have been successful cases of poacher - turned - gamekeeper . Spencer Stuart was certainly the loser when one of their senior consultants in Hong Kong , Paul Cheng , was searching for a director of corporate affairs for overseas trader Inchcape and decided to join them . HEADHUNTING IN THE BIG BANG AND AFTER
Idiom: on and off (used idiomatically: no)
By contrast , in terms of creativity , Latin ~ American flair shines well beyond Brazil and its confirmed emerging - power status in the world to encompass countries such as Argentina , Uruguay , and even Chile . Africa , despite some rare individual national successes , continues to underperform , even with the World ~ Cup in its backyard . As a Frenchman who watched with a mixture of sadness and humiliation the behavior of the French national team , on and off the field ( happily , the torture is over ) , the image in the mirror makes a lot of sense . But can one go so far as to say that a depressed country can produce only a depressed team ? There are many countries with social and economic conditions that are equal to or worse than France ’s , yet their national teams are currently shining on the field .
Idiom: ride high (used idiomatically: yes)
On Wednesday , as the Herald went to press early for Easter , Alton had an away fixture at Fleetlands who have triumphed over them twice this season already . Tomorrow ( Sat ) they take on league leaders Colden Common at the Bass Sports Ground , kick - off 3 p.m. Although Common have been riding high on top of division one for the best part of the season , with luck they will not have forgotten their 3–0 home defeat by Alton Bass in October . But whatever their position is by Wednesday , supporters hope to see them put their disappointments behind them for the Aldershot Senior Cup final . The game , against Cove from division three of the Diadora League , will be played at the Recreation Ground , Aldershot , on Wednesday ( April 22nd ) , kick - off at 7.30 p.m.