Gooogr/pie_idioms huggingface dataset:
Idiom: bring home the bacon (used idiomatically: yes)
Take no chances . Stop for nothing . Bring home the bacon . Home ? Was that how I thought of it now — the Bible Room and the Wheel Room , the stairs and turret ?
Idiom: in tandem (used idiomatically: yes)
This is the essential point about Cramlington . It was not a New Town under the New Towns Act created through the agency of a Development Corporation , and it was never intended that it should be . It was instead the product of a partnership between a county council which provided industrial estates and infrastructure , a district council which provided public sector housing and infrastructure and two major developer builders working in tandem who provided a very large element of private housing . The actual legislative status was as a Comprehensive Development Area under Section 5(3 ) of the Town and Country Planning Act 1947 . Resources were obtained from central government under the 1952 Town Development Act and the 1961 Housing Act which subsidized the importation of an over spill population , but these were far less than would have been provided to a designated New Town where all infrastructure costs would have been borne by central government .
Idiom: in the red (used idiomatically: yes)
But remember that dreams and ambitions change as you get older , by his forties your high - flier may have turned into a slippers and spaniel man , and who knows , by then you may want to be PM . 3 Money Is he always in the red ? ‘ Attitudes to money are important’ , explains Sarah Litvinoff , author of The Relate Guide to Better Relationships,(Ebury Press , £ 6.99 ) . ‘ In a way , it does n't matter too much what that attitude is , as long as you both share it .
Idiom: from scratch (used idiomatically: yes)
How does he know that this is how things must be ? The answer lies in a sentence quoted above : ‘ observation sentences are the ones we are in a position to learn to understand first , both as children and as field linguists’ . It is clearly possible to learn a language from scratch , since we have all done it . But if holism is true and the meaning of each sentence depends on the meanings of others , how did we do it ? There seems to be nowhere where we could start , no sentence whose meaning is , as it were , self - contained enough to be learnable as a first step towards learning the rest .
Idiom: count your blessings (used idiomatically: yes)
Either she pays her rent or she can buy a property and pay £ 500 a month mortgage . Then if she ca n't keep up payments she risks losing her home , as thousands of families have done . Count your blessings , council - house tenant . I wonder at the lack of knowledge of human nature shown by some judges . A husband was jailed for attacking a man he found making love to his estranged wife .
Idiom: play games (used idiomatically: yes)
' She has obviously been practising hard , ' said a BDA spokeswoman . In a foreward to the book , The Dictionary of British Sign Language ' English ' , Diana wrote : ' As a consequence of my involvement with deaf people , I have become aware of the richness of BSL as a distinctive and inedependent language . ' She stayed behind at the launch at London 's City Livery Company to chat to organisers and watched youngsters play a word game using the dictionary . The book took 10 years to compile by a Durham University team . It will be available in the New Year .
Idiom: on the house (used idiomatically: yes)
Cancel milk , papers and any other delivery which would let a thief know that your house is empty . Lock any shed , garage or outhouse . Ask a neighbour to keep an eye on your house . You can do the same for them when they go away . Deposit jewellery or other valuables in the bank .
Idiom: word of mouth (used idiomatically: yes)
Yeah . Erm you may have heard that we 've grown big by being recommended . Er by word of mouth recommendations erm Sorry Robert Oh yeah we 've
Idiom: for good measure (used idiomatically: yes)
Paul Traynor reports For generations the people of industrial South Wales took to the uplands separating the Valleys for fresh air and recreation . A walk on ‘ the mountain’— more accurately broad , windswept moorlands with a coal tip or three for good measure — was a welcome escape from the terraces , mines and factories on the valley floor . Times have changed , and with the rapid disappearance of the pits and much of the heavy industry , at least one welcome side - effect has come about — the gradual cleaning up of the Valleys themselves . To hope for a return to how they must have looked before mine shafts and blast furnaces — one of the most strikingly attractive regions in Britain — is too much to expect .
Idiom: under lock and key (used idiomatically: yes)
He 's lived that long in the sea he glows in the dark . Phos - phor - esc - ence — ; She almost hisses , and Xanthe and Miranda understand this word because one of Miranda 's special treasures , which she keeps in her treasure drawer under lock and key , but has shown Xanthe in a moment of love , is a figure of Jesus on the cross which glows greeny - white under the bedclothes if you 've shone a torch on it beforehand and saturated it with light . — What Manjiku wants — more than food , more than drink , more than sweet life itself — is to have a child of his own . Yes !
Idiom: rough and tumble (used idiomatically: yes)
Swindon play Charlton tomorrow … and they could be losing full - back David Kerslake … Newcastle are after him … and Town need the money … to rugby next the cherry and whites are back on the winning trail … they beat Pontypool at the weekend in a real rough and tumble of a game … Nick Clark reports Voice over
Idiom: heart to heart (used idiomatically: yes)
He had become too cloying in his affections , his talk as saccharine as the dialogue from the Christmas classics on the television , his every gaze mawkish . He 'd had this sickness all along , of course , but he 'd worsened since the assassin 's visit , and her tolerance for these traits , braced as she 'd been by her encounter with Gentle , had dropped to zero . Once she 'd put the phone down on him the previous night she 'd regretted her skittish way with him , and , after a heart - to - heart with Marlin in which she 'd told him she wanted to go back to England , and he 'd replied that it would all seem different in the morning and why did n't she just take a pill and lie down , she 'd decided to call him back . By this time , Marlin was sound asleep . She 'd left her bed , gone through to the lounge , put on a single lamp , and made the call .
Idiom: to the letter (used idiomatically: yes)
A psychologist will keep tabs on teams of youngsters and will stop the operation if they show signs of stress . But before the plan gets under way tobacco sellers will be sent a letter advising them of cigarette sale rules . A month afterwards the teams will be sent out to discover whether retailers are sticking to the letter of the law . Traders must display a notice banning sales to under 16 year olds . Sefton 's consumer protection chief Tim Cox said : ‘ A recent survey showed that of 132 retailers visited , 12 per cent were not displaying the statutory sign .
Idiom: face to face (used idiomatically: no)
Ceauşescu responded to the threat by sending the ever - reliable Ilie Verdeţ and the Minister of Mining , Constantin Babalu , to negotiate with the strikers . They were instructed to fob them off with promises in order to get them back to work as quickly as possible . To the embarrassment of Verdeţ , it became clear that the strikers at Lupeni would settle for nothing less than meeting the Comrade face to face and putting their demands to him . Verdeţ was pushed into the porter 's cabin at the entrance to the mine and obliged to telephone Communist Party headquarters in Bucharest with the miners ' message . To reinforce it , several miners crammed into the little wooden hut with Verdeţ , adding the odour of their own sweaty bodies to the air of tension .
Idiom: on the level (used idiomatically: yes)
Stage 1 — Create Commitment The first step toward putting these ideas into practice is to gain a commitment from the client organisation to establish and support the audit mechanism , and where changes are warranted , to make these changes effective . The extent to which this is required , and the difficulty in achieving it , will depend on the level of procedure that the audit is directed at . A major review of the business operation ( a meta-procedure ? ) , which could comprise a series of nested procedures , will require commitment at all levels . In this instance participation and team-building are particularly important , together with the development of objectives to which all individuals , sections , departments and so on can contribute .
Idiom: way to go (used idiomatically: yes)
By GENEVIEVE MURPHY at Wembley JOHN WHITAKER began The Horse of the Year Show on the same high note as in 1988 when winning last night 's Corda International Stakes on the flawless grey , Next Milton . He has a long way to go before equalling last year 's prize money of £ 42,399 , but the wonder horse proved that he is again in irresistible form when opening Whitaker 's account with a first prize of £ 3,700 . Milton , the winner of this year 's European Championship , finished with 2.92sec in hand over Jos Lansink and Optiebeurs Felix , who won the European bronze medal . Third place , with the only other clear round of the 10-horse jump - off , went to Belgium 's Evelyne Blaton on Careful .
Idiom: do the right thing (used idiomatically: yes)
‘ Great Caesar,’ I said , ‘ how do you feel about your murderer , Brutus?’ ‘ Do not call him that,’ replied Caesar . ‘ He is a brave , good man , the best in Rome , and he did the right thing for Rome by killing me . In death , as in life , he has always been my friend.’ I can not remember how many more ghosts I called to appear .
Idiom: down in the dumps (used idiomatically: yes)
Hester is aware , too , that her absence made Thomas very unhappy on Christmas Day . ‘ He was very sweet about it , he told me how much he liked the presents and what he and his dad were doing . ‘ But he was pretty down in the dumps and I felt terrible because I could n't be there to make his Christmas complete . ‘ Not to be there for your children at special times is almost like failing as a mother.’ This year , Hester is spending Christmas with friends who have lots of young children : ‘ That will help to fill the void,’ she says .
Idiom: spring to mind (used idiomatically: yes)
How did you get that ? Did you work it out here ? No it just seemed to spring to mind . Okay , what would three quarters of two thirds be ? Three quarters of two thirds , be a half .
Idiom: lay an egg (used idiomatically: yes)
Aquatic life under threat includes prawns , shrimps , oysters and hamour fish , all of which were economically important to the scattered fishing villages along both the Arab and Iranian shores of the Gulf . The oyster beds of Bahrain , Kuwait , Qatar and the United Arab Emirates are facing catastrophe . Larger marine creatures certain to suffer include porpoises and sea snakes , the bottlenose and humpback dolphin , the green and hawksbill turtles , which lay their eggs on tiny Gulf islands , and , most worryingly , the dugong , or sea cow , a relatively rare marine mammal , whose colonies in the Gulf are among the few remaining in the world . The slick may lead to its extinction in the region . As the oil sinks , it will kill coral reefs and sea grass , while on the coastal mudflats it will obliterate algae .
Idiom: bells and whistles (used idiomatically: yes)
Far and away the most important point is that the museums be allowed to keep the revenues that they generate . I think central government anywhere does have certain fundamental responsibilities towards national museums : the care of the collections , warding , basic maintenance like wiring and mechanical services . It 's more the ‘ bells and whistles’ of museum life which have grown so much in the last fifteen years , like restaurants , shops , publishing , which should be left to the private sector , and which generate important revenues for the museum . Do you think that it 's possible for the big Italian museums to privatise their subsidiary functions without an advisory body of trustees , if only to assist museum administrators who have little experience of dealing with the commercial side ? The question is , whether the culture of Italy is one that throws up people who will be public spirited , who will make good trustees while allowing the curators to get on with their work .
Idiom: make history (used idiomatically: yes)
For instance , there is usually a starting assumption that individuals make history , at least by the sum of their actions and even if not quite as they intended it to be . In that case the simplification is warranted because it encapsulates a truth about what is going on . But the general proposition that human affairs must be understood from within does not require the assumption that individuals make history , except perhaps as a convenient device for identifying what calls for deeper understanding . Individualism is a possible , indeed common , trump suit in the search for the meaning and true interpretation of social events : but , we shall find in later chapters , it is by no means the only possible one . An ‘ inside’ story can also be told in terms which subordinate individuals to some larger social whole .
Idiom: with open arms (used idiomatically: yes)
I hope to stay here for a long time.’ I still feel Ferguson took the plunge partly to appease a following that felt estranged when United entered the world of big money institutions . He said : ‘ Eric will give the fans a big lift and I 'm sure he 'll be welcomed with open arms.’ Seaman in firing line Andrian Holloway
Idiom: go straight (used idiomatically: yes)
Where it was found that middle peasants had been encroached upon , where it was found that middle peasants had been dispossessed erm that position would be rectified and that would be given back to middle peasants . So very different policies for the old and new liberated areas . And in a sense Mao is saying that it 's , it 's not right to go straight for land reform , you , you 've got to go for this policy of rent reduction , interest rate reduction first . And alongside this went a much stronger wash your face campaign and the names of the , names of Party members were published . Erm Mao was worried that as , i in the course of the , the latter stages of directive and the there had been abuses of the system by Party members and that had led to the Party getting a bad name with the peasants and the way to rectify that was to publish the Communist Party membership so everybody in the village would know who was a Communist Party member and they would be able to see , Mao believed , that on the whole Party members had behaved properly , they had n't exploited the situation for their own advantage and where they have they would be , there would be a with them to correct .
Idiom: think twice (used idiomatically: yes)
These difficulties are most obvious in America , but they are not confined to it . After a period of exceptionally rapid growth in lending , British banks too have had to make big provisions for bad debts ; defaults are growing faster than during the recession of 1980–81 . The Bank of England , responding to fears of a credit crunch , has asked banks to think twice before turning away would - be corporate borrowers . Japanese banks also are struggling . Their exposure to the property market is unusually large ; a sharp fall in Japanese property values , long predicted but yet to happen , could make them wobble .
Idiom: down the road (used idiomatically: yes)
Snatching his revolver from his case , he emptied the gun into the advancing group from a range of only thirty yards ; three or four of the coolies stumbled and fell , but the rest came on screaming with even greater frenzy . Sweating with fear , Lepine dashed along the verandah and flung himself behind the wheel of the Citron . The engine started first time and the car shot away down the dirt road , but he could not prevent the leading coolie from leaping onto the running board beside the driver 's door . As the motor car gathered speed , the Annamese flailed wildly at the windshield until the glass splintered in the recruiter 's face , blinding him . Revving fast in low gear the Citron swerved in a half - circle and smashed into the bank at the roadside , flinging the coolie clear .
Idiom: down the drain (used idiomatically: yes)
Mrs Carroll said it was a waste of good money sending girls to university . Not if the grocery was three times the size of Findlater 's in Dublin would they send Maire and her sisters there . You might as well take money and shovel it down the drain . What did they do on the very first day except walk under the first vehicle they saw ? Maire Carroll , serving in the shop and hating it , felt a firm and vicious sense of satisfaction over the fate of Eve and Benny , but of course she pretended great care and concern .
Idiom: fair game (used idiomatically: yes)
This twenty - five - day trial was probably the most talked about for many years . The essential question was whether or not every woman is protected by the law in every situation . Or , as the prosecuting counsel said ‘ It is not the law … that if a girl crosses the threshold of the barracks she is fair game’ . All the paratroopers were cleared of rape . The judge , an ex - RAF flying officer brought out of retirement for the trial , told the men : ‘ I take into account that none of this would have happened if the girl had not gone to your barracks for sex .
Idiom: ahead of the game (used idiomatically: yes)
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Idiom: fill someone's shoes (used idiomatically: no)
Two senior Ross - shire men were ordered to walk the boundary , as they knew it , being sternly warned before they set off : ‘ Mind , your feet are on oath.’ When they returned , having taken in a fair part of Sutherland , they swore that their feet had never once left Ross - shire soil . Nor had they , because the old devils had filled their shoes with earth from Balnagowan in Easter Ross . They could claim , with a clear conscience , that their feet had never left Ross - shire soil . This part of the world is never short of tales and stories , and the Altnacealgach Hotel , by the shores of Loch Borralan , was a good place to hear them .
Idiom: fall from grace (used idiomatically: yes)
Turmoil We can all expect at least one announcement along this line in the next six months , followed by another two or three by the year - end , Burton said . The turmoil caused by IBM Corp 's fall from grace , Burton explained , has presented Legent with an ideal opportunity . Apart from diehard customers in banking and insurance , few users are now content to invest enormous sums in potentially ‘ unsafe’ , proprietary Big Iron . They are shopping around , they are downsizing and they are looking to integrate heterogeneous computing systems — which is precisely where Legent feels is strengths lie .
Idiom: to the tune of (used idiomatically: yes)
The clergy were beginning to pay the price for assessing their own tax in their own assembly . Burdensome as royal taxation was during the war , the clergy were mercifully free of papal taxation except on two occasions . During the first thirty - six years of the century the pope had taxed the English church to the tune of almost £ 450,000 , of which some £ 360,000 was earmarked for the king , a sum more than three times the amount produced in that time by direct royal taxation of the clergy . Yet after 1337 no further papal taxation was levied until 1362 . Undoubtedly a principal reason for this was the Avignon popes ' expedient friendship with the king of France , whose clerical subjects the popes frequently taxed for his benefit after 1337 .
Idiom: under the sun (used idiomatically: yes)
That 's what Julie and I were saying that when you live on your own you get a bit like that . Oh ! She , she gets all wound up at home and then comes to work and where there 's people to sound off about , everything under the er the sun . Yeah . And the fact he ca n't just accept things , he has to question things .
Idiom: to the tune of (used idiomatically: yes)
A world economic conference , convened in London in 1933 to end the currency war , adjourned without reaching any decision . Substitute China for Britain and today ’s eurozone for the gold bloc and the trend of events today has the same ominous feel . The US Federal ~ Reserve now proposes to stimulate the American economy by printing more money – a second round of ( quantitative easing , or QE2 ) , to the tune of $ 600~billion . Almost no one remembers that President Franklin ~ Roosevelt tried the same thing in 1933 .
Idiom: do the trick (used idiomatically: yes)
O'Neill said : ‘ It 's bloody awful for everyone associated with the horse and it has n't really sunk in yet . ‘ He was the best horse I 've trained and was only just getting going again after being off the track for nearly a year . ’ Clown does trick again COURSE specialist Bit Of A Clown recorded his fifth victory at Towcester yesterday in the Chris Thornton Memorial Handicap Chase . But the 2-1 favourite was under pressure almost from the outset and betting slips were already being crumpled before the second circuit .
Idiom: fly the flag (used idiomatically: yes)
FLOPPO ' 92 SINKS BRITJOBS DON MACKAY BRITISH workers have been laid off as a fly - the - flag mission to Seville 's Expo ' 92 flopped . UK firms queued to have their goods sold in the British Pavilion . But trade has been so bad that organisers have had to shed at least half their shop staff .
Idiom: not cricket (used idiomatically: no)
Many of the routine social situations we find ourselves in are clearly rule - governed , but it is often extremely difficult to specify exactly what the rules are or what are the potential breaches of the rules . We can , however , instantly recognize the actual instances where rules are broken . In everyday language we used phrases such as‘he behaved inappropriately’ or ‘ she should know that she ca n't wear trousers here’ , or even ‘ it 's not cricket!’ When unequivocal recognition of an impropriety can be interpreted as the perception of an action as a breaching of a rule , we have a further sufficient condition for asserting that actions are rule - governed . In addition to the above criteria of articulation and recognition of breaches , a further necessary condition must be satisfied : actions can only be said to be rule - governed when some other alternative actions are possible .
Idiom: doom and gloom (used idiomatically: yes)
But these hopes were dashed as international lending dried up and trade collapsed , sending developing countries down the same spiral that industrial nations took . But international trade and finance have both revived , and now we hear an even more ambitious version of the scenario . Developing countries , it is said , are headed for strong growth , regardless of the doom and gloom that has returned to Europe and the United ~ States . More strikingly , many now expect the developing world to become the growth engine of the global economy . Otaviano ~ Canuto , a World ~ Bank vice ~ president , and his collaborators have just produced a long report that makes the case for this optimistic prognosis .
Idiom: do the right thing (used idiomatically: yes)
I , I was so many people that do n't pay it . We we were brought up to believe that if you did n't do the right thing you would be punished . Mm . And people are getting away with it .