Gooogr/pie_idioms huggingface dataset:
Idiom: ride for a fall (used idiomatically: yes)
If he hangs on they will say , ‘ Here is this man clinging to office , he wo n't take his defeat , he is trying to prevent the Labour Party from enjoying their victory.’ ' As always , when he had taken the decision , Baldwin 's care fell away . He overbore Neville Chamberlain and the others who still wanted to ride for a fall on a bold safeguarding policy . On Tuesday he went to Windsor to resign . [ Middlemas and Barnes , Baldwin , 526–7 . ]
Idiom: one of those days (used idiomatically: no)
Empirical . A delicate silence accompanied me along the towpath . It was one of those West Coast days where the damp drizzle dulls all sound and activity . But I was light and free . Early morning coffee in the Ardrishaig Hotel helped find the holiday people with car only too happy to take the big rucksack to Crinan .
Idiom: get lost (used idiomatically: yes)
Not as much As you thought you should have But it it you you got lost off after it goes over twenty . So when it gets over twenty then you 've got to er pass it on to er a erm What somebody who 's
Idiom: in the long term (used idiomatically: no)
The armed following that accompanied Robert the Frisian on his Jerusalem pilgrimage so impressed the Emperor of Byzantium , Alexius Comnenus , with its martial bearing that he requested similar assistance from the west . Although many household knights were men of free rather than noble birth — in Flanders there were even recruits from among the unfree , like the German ministeriales — the prince 's relatives and the sons of his neighbouring lords also found careers within their ranks . So in the long term , the entourages of the great proved effective as social melting - pots . Yet as the century wore on , their military character ceased to be the exclusive distinguishing feature of princely households . When the countess Adela of Blois issued an important charter , it was noted that she was surrounded by her capellanus and her clerici , barones , milites et servientes .
Idiom: bow and scrape (used idiomatically: yes)
And I am aware of my past life ; I feel it looming up behind me , breathing lightly on the nape of my neck . Nineteen fifty - eight , small boy arrives in pontiac at club . Servants bow and scrape . Khaki shorts replaced by abrasive long trousers for the evening . My father , exuding his insubstantial charm , his hand - me - down cosmopolitanism , signs us in .
Idiom: by and large (used idiomatically: yes)
It 's the kind of objects that get changed more frequently , and particularly those to do with colour , were mainly the wife 's decisions . But obviously the heavier pieces of furniture , the more durable ones , are also the more expensive , and when it 's largely the money for them 's going to come out of the husband 's pocket they 're going to have more of a stake in erm in saying what they want . And the kind of criticisms split down the middle , as well , on furnishings , that by and large men were far more concerned about the , the lack of durability in modern furnishings compared with their parents ' , whereas women were n't so concerned with that . Generally , have you discovered any particular changes in Brighton 's home furnishing over the past generation ? Yes , I 'd say there was a definite move towards the same kinds of objects , the same kinds of styles and qualities of furniture being found in a wide variety of income groups , areas of the town , different types of houses , a much more over - all feel , really , a move towards classlessness I suppose you could call it .
Idiom: drop a hint (used idiomatically: yes)
She 's been dropping some not - so - subtle hints about what she would like for Christmas .
Idiom: on the house (used idiomatically: yes)
I dare say you can get far better versions out there ! Life has perked up a bit since The Grange was sold and we moved to Brighton . Pater 's as busy as ever , of course , but the mater has kept on the house in London since Madeleine 's season , so I spend quite a lot of time in the Great Big City seeing shows , etc . etc . There 's a really good train service to Brighton so it 's easy to nip between the two . Pickles is as hopeless as ever !
Idiom: in light of (used idiomatically: no)
( Pioneer Works , 210 — 11 ) Dress underwrites not only class differences but national and racial ones also , and Perkins has harsh words for those who adopt the fashion of other countries : ' this one sinne is so common among us , that it hath branded our English people with the blacke mark of the vainest and most newfangled people under heaven'(p . 211 ) . He also castigates those who use cosmetics ' thereby making themselves seeme that which , indeede they are not ' , and practising what ' is most abominable in the very light of nature , and much more by the light of Gods word'(p . 214 ) . Accompanying the association between dress and class was that between dress and gender . This is Stubbes :
Idiom: take someone to task (used idiomatically: yes)
It also urges the government to calculate the costs of allergies and asthma triggered by environmental factors , and to speed up the finalization of promised guidelines on the rights of people to smoke - free air at work and in public places and the segregation of smokers and non - smokers . The report criticizes architects , designers , building operators and the Health and Safety Executive ( HSE ) for not paying sufficient attention to air quality . In particular , it takes the HSE to task for not taking the problem of sick building syndrome seriously . " Their attitude was that air condition , which was more equated to comfort than health , was solely the responsibility of the employer . " The report also notes that air quality in people 's homes is often also poor , largely because of inadequate ventilation and heating and because " householders often have a wrong sense of priorities about the importance of ventilation " .
Idiom: have been around (used idiomatically: yes)
It was a blisteringly hot day and we ended it by plunging , fully - clothed off the boiler - plate slabs into the clear blue waters of Scavaig . Memories are made of such days . This personal excursion has been around some favourite isolated hills — there are many others — a few which have given some of my best mountain days . So forget the tick lists , lower your sights and next time the high tops are covered in thick mist seek out a few of these miniature mountain gems . I do n't think you 'll be disappointed .
Idiom: black and blue (used idiomatically: yes)
When it would not light they ran off , leaving the injured boy in a shed near a Leeds shopping centre . Neil 's mother , Sherie , 28 , said : ‘ I could n't believe it when I saw him . He was black and blue all over and looked half dead.’ Neil is now recovering in St James 's Hospital after Wednesday 's attack . He was playing alone near his home when he was approached by the boys who wanted him to go shoplifting .
Idiom: on ice (used idiomatically: yes)
Snow algae are widespread in alpine and polar regions , but require persistent banks of melting snow to form spectacular coloured patches ; they are rarely seen , for example , on the colder coasts or interior ice - cap of Antarctica . Their ecology has been reviewed by Hoham ( 1975 , 1980 ) . On the lower reaches of glaciers and on ice shelves close to the sea , where ablation exceeds snowfall in summer , wind - blown dust and rock fragments encourage local melting . The resulting shallow pits and pools , often extending over many hectares , accumulate salts and nutrients from year to year . Many are rich enough to support a distinctive cryoconite flora of algae and cyanobacteria , which survive winters encapsulated in the ice ( Wharton et al .
Idiom: under the influence (used idiomatically: no)
It was as a bowler that he was chosen to play for England , making his début in 1924 , and thereafter winning 39 caps . He took 155 wickets for England at an average of 26.16 , his best series being during the MCC tour of Australia in 1924–5 when he took 38 wickets , at that time a record for England versus Australia . Under the influence of the Sussex and England captain , A. E. R. Gilligan , Tate had early developed into a fast medium bowler , able to control deceptive swerve and telling accuracy over exacting periods . His briskness of pace off the pitch became legendary , and he is said to have been the first bowler deliberately to have deployed the seam in his technique . He is generally regarded as one of the best two or three fast medium bowlers in English annals .
Idiom: go for the jugular (used idiomatically: yes)
Lined up against the working mums were women who 'd given up work to look after their children , women who 'd had working mothers themselves and felt they had missed out , and women who had tried to do it all and given up the struggle . The accepted wisdom is that adversarial television is good television . And Robert Kilroy - Silk , smooth operator that he is , soon had the invited audience going for each other 's jugulars , vigorously defending their position and trying to make the ' other side ' look bad . I found it all deeply depressing . Do women who describe themselves as housewives really resent / disapprove of / despise mothers who go out to work ?
Idiom: weather the storm (used idiomatically: yes)
The high food and fuel prices that prevailed until recently have taken a heavy toll on the finances of many African economies . Now they face a second blow from the global recession . The priority for Africa and the international community must be to ensure that the continent weathers the global financial storm , preserves the significant achievements of the past decade , and continues to make decisive progress in combating poverty . This is not the time to take a break from efforts to achieve the United ~ Nations ' Millennium Development Goals . How to help Africa meet this challenge – including by learning from the lessons of past success – will be the goal of a major conference sponsored by the IMF and President Jakaya ~ Kikwete of Tanzania , to be held in Dar - es - Salaam this March .
Idiom: once in a while (used idiomatically: yes)
The critic ’s message – that banks need to be cut down to size – resonates widely . Bankers can , of course , ignore their critics and the public , and use their money to lobby in the right quarters to maintain their privileges . But , every once in a while , a banker , tired of being portrayed as a rogue , lashes out . He ( it is usually a man ) warns the public that even the most moderate regulations placed on banks will bring about the end of civilization as we know it . And so the shrillness continues , with the public no wiser for it .
Idiom: rock the boat (used idiomatically: yes)
‘ Is that honest enough for you?’ Too painfully honest . If she did n't like it then it was her fault for rocking the boat . It was n't his fault that she had discovered her feelings were more than just desire . If she hurt it was her own fault .
Idiom: oil and water (used idiomatically: yes)
So if I were using , making a water based printing ink , what other stuff would I have to put in as well as water ? Oil ? No because oil and water do n't mix . Pardon ? Something to thicken it but think of stickiness .
Idiom: on the level (used idiomatically: yes)
The first school of thought , broadly that of the United ~ States ' Republican ~ Party , was that financial regulation was bad because all regulation was bad . The second , broadly that of the Democratic ~ Party , was somewhat more complicated , and was based on four observations : · In the global economy 's industrial core , at ~ least , it had then been more than 60 years since financial disruption had had more than a minor impact on overall levels of production and employment . While modern central ~ banks had difficulty in dealing with inflationary shocks , it had been generations since they had seen a deflationary shock that they could not handle . · The profits of the investment - banking oligarchy ( the handful of global investment banks , including Goldman Sachs , Morgan ~ Stanley , and JP Morgan Chase , among others ) were far in excess of what any competitive market ought to deliver , owing to these banks ' deep pockets and ability to maneuver through thickets of regulations .
Idiom: in the works (used idiomatically: yes)
This controversy has threatened to cast a pall over a much - heralded summit between two of the world ’s great democracies . With lucrative deals at stake for the big - ticket products that drive the French economy – military hardware , nuclear power ~ plants , and Airbus planes – France has a strong interest in a successful summit in India . So , as rumors fly of secret marriage ceremonies either already concluded or in the works , could the trouble brewing in India over the French president ’s very public love life be behind the rush to have the couple legally we d ? The news in Sarkozy ’s favored media outlet Journal ~ du ~ Dimanche that the couple plan to marry touched off a flurry of fevered speculation on when the happy event might occur . The couple exchanged significant tokens of their mutual affection : he offered her a heart - shaped pink diamond ring by Dior , she offered him a Swiss watch .
Idiom: turn a blind eye (used idiomatically: yes)
I trust our tenants at the end of the day if it is illegal I 'm sure that our tenants will not do it . When it becomes illegal which will I 'm sure all people will abide by the law . Because there is a way forward , it is about negotiation , it is about hunt the hunting community , it is about sharing ideas and looking for a way forward , going forward from here , well to turn a blind eye to what goes on and vote for that amendment is very similar to what Hitler did in Germany fifty years ago . The national populous actually turned a blind eye to atrocities that were happening with human beings . It did n't just start off with human beings , they s started in sectors and it spread .
Idiom: there's the rub (used idiomatically: yes)
The Unidroit convention ( for which the initiative was taken by Mussolini , thus making it older than Unesco , which at times performs a similar task ) , concerns itself with the legal aspects of stolen and illegally exported works of art . It is an institution in which forty countries take part , but in which Japan is not represented . And there 's the rub . Questions about Japanese art - theft law have until now been carefully evaded . Even the Art Loss Register , which plans to open an office in Japan , carefully avoids any probing into the subject .
Idiom: pull strings (used idiomatically: yes)
As he foretold , thousands of Alpini lost their lives and never returned . One of them was my friend Ada 's brother , a men 's hairdresser . He desperately tried to pull strings with people he knew in Parma so that he would not be called up , but eventually he had to go . He wrote home often , trying to keep his family 's spirits up , but between the lines one could read that life was not good . Eventually he stopped writing and was never heard of again .
Idiom: pull a face (used idiomatically: yes)
She said : ‘ Are n't you forgetting that they are n't always true ? Like the one about the army camp demonstration?’ Wainfleet pulled a face . ‘ There 's bound to be one rotten apple in every barrel.’ He drained his glass and went to fetch another .
Idiom: rule of thumb (used idiomatically: yes)
The Alliance Party had a slightly Roman Catholic image with the man in the street . The leader of the party belonged to a Roman Catholic family and in the council and Northern Ireland Assembly elections of the previous year , Roman Catholics had frequently voted for it when a republican candidate was not standing . The public had also come to accept a rule of thumb that the Provisional IRA gave a warning when they placed a bomb and loyalists rarely gave one . The persons responsible for the Cromwell Road bomb gave neither a telephoned nor shouted warning . The Provisional IRA usually endeavoured to give a warning of some kind .
Idiom: round the clock (used idiomatically: yes)
A POLICE officer is at the centre of a top level security alert after a filofax was stolen in Belfast . The constable did n't inform Ulster detectives who were called in to investigate only a car theft . But he told his bosses in London who have now provided him with round - the - clock protection for fear he could be in the sights of an IRA killer gang . Thieves stole a car from a house last month in south Belfast . Sources revealed the Metropolitan police officer , who is based at Forest Gate police station in London 's East End and who was holidaying in Ulster , slept downstairs in a front room terrified the car would be pinched .
Idiom: grist to the mill (used idiomatically: yes)
' May not a man go too far in this study , and overvalue his progress so far , as to think nothing out of his reach ? ' So far as Gassendi and ( as we shall see ) Locke were concerned this objection is misplaced for , having a modest and moral view of our proper concerns , they retain an element of scepticism about man 's ability to know . But Casaubon is not without insight in his idea that the committed experimental philosopher may come to think that all areas of human concern and experience are legitimate grist to his mill . In illustration of the absurdity of this ' scientific ' arrogance , and teaching a lesson which is just as applicable today , he appeals to a story Gassendi told about a friend who watched a fight between a louse and a flea through a microscope . The man claimed to have learnt self - control , temperance , and forbearance from his observations , and to have ' profited more to rule his passions in the rest of his life , than he had done by any thing that he had heard , or read before ' .
Idiom: chicken feed (used idiomatically: yes)
Let us suspend the tolls for a period of say , 14 days , so that we can all see if they are right . If they are , there will be no need for an extra bridge and the projected cost of a second bridge could be used to strengthen the present structure . Compared with the billions being spent out of the road fund in England to make the motorways even wider , the cost would be chicken - feed . Infallible way to obtain release from military service As a former National Service army medical officer , I was much entertained by Albert Morris 's reminiscences ( ' Conscripts who altered the script ' , 8 February ) , of the various ingenious methods used by unwilling conscripts to obtain their discharge from the service .
Idiom: on the shelf (used idiomatically: no)
Local traders complain the Wales 's were once a familiar sight but have been hounded off the streets by pressmen . Now many are appaled by the book 's publication Published today the book has arrived on the shelves of Gloucester shops . It may not be there for long The arguaments over the truth of the book and whether it should have been made public will rage for some time to come .
Idiom: come up trumps (used idiomatically: yes)
Look on it as an extra bit of security for all that money you 've invested in the station . It seems you ca n't actually lose either way , does n't it ? The good old Capricorn business acumen coming up trumps again!’ Fran walked away , holding on to her control with a bitter determination . She would n't cry .
Idiom: come to terms with (used idiomatically: yes)
Do we find it so difficult to come to terms with Islam because it is often based on a profound popular devoutness while we ourselves live in a largely secularised world ?
Idiom: go Dutch (used idiomatically: no)
Yeah . I , want other people 's cars in . That 's very funny , for example , I went Dutch because when we were small my brother run away . Yeah . He always , well we not always often , very often , spoke Dutch with each other .
Idiom: around the clock (used idiomatically: yes)
Amelia 's condition makes it painful for her to be touched , but she and the other incurably ill and disabled children had no trouble touching the hearts of the DisneyWorld staff who helped make their visit truly the trip of a lifetime . The children — aged between seven and 16 — were all VIP passengers aboard Dreamflight , an annual trip to the Florida theme parks of Seaworld , Universal Studios , MGM Studios , and DisneyWorld . Dreamflight was the brainchild of British Airways colleagues Patricia Pearce and Derek Pereira back in 1986 , and has now grown into a ‘ roadshow’ of 350 adults working around the clock to help ease the physical pain suffered by their young charges . The latest trip took a year to organise and cost a total of Pounds 260,000 , although the theme parks provided free entry . Such a financial obstacle would send most people looking for an easier option , but Dreamflight has been helped enormously in recent years by Spar supermarkets who have raised £ 350,000 .
Idiom: pure and simple (used idiomatically: no)
It 's what we have — is n't it ? Beyond everything else — beyond anger , beyond jealousy , beyond desire . There 's love , pure and simple.’ Rachel smiled . ‘ I ca n't imagine not wanting you to make love to me , but I understand what you 're saying.’
Idiom: add fuel to the fire (used idiomatically: yes)
It was v. pleasant meeting such nice people . But , as I 've said before , you do have such interesting friends . And the filth , far from reacting upon me as upon a famous London impresario , added fuel to the fire of my enjoyment ! I gave Tom and Clive my telephone number when we left … ’ Williams would always like talking about Orton , although he would publicly protest for years that it was so boring to keep going on about his relationship with the writer .
Idiom: twist someone's arm (used idiomatically: no)
She scrabbled at the door in one last and futile effort to unlock the door , but Dermot pulled her back . ' What shall we do with this little vixen , eh ? ' Dermot asked , twisting Ellie 's arm up high behind her until , unable to bear the pain any longer , she started to cry . ' Do n't you ever do anything else ' cept grizzle ? ' Mike asked , pulling her hair .
Idiom: in light of (used idiomatically: yes)
In particular , the purchase of a stand-alone system for specified functions was considered beneficial , as a pilot project to encourage the learning process for subsequent extended use . Conclusions That the FAOR team had identified a significant problem area was indisputable ; however , the extent that the proposed solutions could be attained , given the related costs and other demands on available finance , was questionable , and it was necessary to review the solutions in light of the more detailed analysis . The findings from the investigation , as given above , caused both the client and the analysts to review the situation and concentrate first on the general organisation of the filing system as a whole , to determine if it were possible to achieve some degree of commonality as a prerequisite to the development of a computer support system . Consequently , a Filing Working Party was established and , alter extensive examination of the reference construction , it was found that the only changes considered viable ( ie that could be made without having to completely revise the titles of some 60,000 active files ) were to the first three fields of the reference structure , establishing the basis for a limited computerised search facility in the proposed index system , rather than the extensive facilities envisaged by the FAOR Team .