Gooogr/pie_idioms huggingface dataset:
Idiom: nine times out of ten (used idiomatically: yes)
Giant killers are n't they ? yeah there was an actor erm and he was playing Russian roulette with and he put it up to his temple , pulled the trigger the blank went off , bloody blew his brains in . The thing is , if they always give you and you , your , nine times out of ten what they do is like , is either , they either put a can over there or a beer or something , they put it over the end of the , the weapon pull the trigger and that , even with a flash that can go like that , and then they show you one with the , the erm flashes right which have more powerful than the and they 've actually got same again same charge as a life grenade in , but it just plain cardboard so , obviously no trap , but if you lay on them ooh er , you get or something you do n't throw what they do now is they put one they light one , put the helmet over the top of it and make it lit , it runs like buggery and it 'll go a hundred , a hundred and fifty foot up in the air and inside it looks like its been and where its been in the thing it 'll be like er , six seventy foot off the ground , I mean I laid on one once and I , landed about two foot too my left so I 've rolled over , rolled , rolled , and rolled , as I 've rolled I 've rolled over on my back and I 've had all loads of over , like the , I had a roll there its like the er Yeah I know stuff keep the half way up my back its all padding and stuff and I 've rolled over , as I 've rolled over there 's been another one it has gone off , it felt like I 've been kicked in the back by somebody really having a go at me , it threw me and even with all that I had a like that so there not , there not kiddy toys .
Idiom: get lost (used idiomatically: yes)
The skill of that Leeds team . So , I guess I started supporting Leeds just as they started their downward trend . The Chelsea gear mysteriously got lost ( had to lose it as nobody wanted it … do ya blame them ? ) . To make matters worse I 've got a brother who supports the Scum … winning the championship a couple years ago ahead of said scum even more enjoyable . As for this year .
Idiom: bear fruit (used idiomatically: yes)
The list of other ‘ expensively trained’ groups is practically endless . Should all be subsidised back to work ? If the BMA is to be taken seriously then it should espouse more worthy causes that have some prospect of success rather than politically correct harebrained schemes such as this , which is as likely to bear fruit as ‘ pigs are to fly,’ to quote the two speakers . Anecdote in the BMJ Editor , — The Editor 's Choice of 20 February draws attention to the place of anecdote in the BMJ .
Idiom: make or break (used idiomatically: yes)
As the wife of the civic leader , Mrs Murphy had to do considerable entertaining in generous western style , but in this field she made no attempt to keep pace with Olga Stych or Donna Frizzell ; she knew when she was beaten . Since culture did not hammer quite so hard on Mrs Frizzell 's door , she had more time to plan parties . Her annual garden party , for buyers of fleets of cars and trucks who dealt with her husband , was always a memorable occasion , reported upon in detail by the queen of the social columns of the Tollemarche Advent , a lady who could make or break a local hostess . Mrs Frizzell found it impossible to forgive Mrs Dawson 's becoming a widow the same week as her party ; a history of Mrs Dawson one night , and the remarks the following night of the lady secretary of the United Nations ' Society on the role of the Canadian peacekeeping force in Cyprus , had meant that for the first time in years no report of Mrs Frizzell 's party appeared , though room had been found for a report on one of Mrs Murphy 's receptions . Mr Frizzell 's business did not seem to suffer from the omission .
Idiom: on edge (used idiomatically: yes)
Even before their enforced sojourn in the tsar 's eastern provinces , several of the Decembrist conspirators already had some experience of , or indirect connection with , Siberia . The leader of the Southern Society , Pavel Pestel — executed , not exiled — was the son of the notorious Governor - General mentioned earlier ; G. S. Batenkov , himself of Siberian origin , acted as a close personal aide to Speranskii during the latter 's governorship ; Baron V.I. Shteingel was born in Perm on the western edge of Siberia , was raised in Kamchatka and served between 1802 and 1810 in Okhotsk and Irkutsk ; D.I. Zavalishin was well travelled in both Siberia and Russian America ; and , as James Gibson notes in his own chapter , several of the Decembrists ( including the poet , Ryleev , who was hanged alongside Pestel ) had connections of one sort or another with the Russian American Company . There is an enormous literature in Russian on the Decembrists ' Siberian exile which accurately reflects the powerful impact which these ' first enlighteners of the Siberian people ' had on the scientific investigation and cultural development of the region with which so many of them came to identify themselves , and where not a few chose to remain after they were eventually amnestied by Alexander H. Just as their initial , ill - fated rebellion marked the beginning of the nineteenth - century Russian revolutionary movement , so did their exile beyond the Urals open a new phase in the history of political exile in Siberia and of the on - going battle between the radical intelligentsia and the autocratic Russian state .
Idiom: my bad (used idiomatically: no)
He had been against it , too . Apart from the bore of travelling in from the suburbs every day , his mother irritated him . It crossed my mind that if he had changed his opinions it might be partly because the squalor and expense of the flat — made worse by my bad housekeeping — had begun to get him down . ( It had surprised me to find how fussy he was about some things ; dust , and scrappy meals really bothered him . ) But since he seemed to be thinking only of me , I felt this was an ungenerous idea .
Idiom: in bed with (used idiomatically: yes)
How 's Father and Mother ? I must admit I am surprised Mother did n't come to meet me.’ ‘ She can hardly wait for you to get home,’ Barney assured her hurriedly , ‘ but she is in bed with flu , nothing serious.’ ‘ And Father,’ Julie enquired , ‘ is he O.K.?’ ‘ He 's well , Miss Julie .
Idiom: way to go (used idiomatically: yes)
The three major national firms are each trying a different solution . GKR are trying to make the business an international one by opening in Japan and in Germany , and hope to build an international business of wholly - owned subsidiaries of GKR . They believe having an international executive search business is the way to go , although they are late in starting and face formidable competition from the major international search firms . Whitehead Mann take a completely different view and do not see themselves diversifying overseas with wholly - owned subsidiaries . Instead they are interested in building on a range of other products , thus broadening their base .
Idiom: small print (used idiomatically: yes)
Police . Avon and Somerset constabulary blah blah blah . Small print blah blah blah blah blah blah blah . Bristol . Yeah ?
Idiom: hot air (used idiomatically: yes)
STYLE ON TRIAL We put a selection of the latest beauty and grooming products to the test Home editor Linda Parker tried three different hot - air styling brushes : ProfiAircurl 200 by Petra Electric ( £ 17.99 ) ; Carmen Blow'n'Curl Plus ( £ 17.99 ) ; and the Philips Hot Air Brush ( £ 14.99 ) . She also compared them with a standard - style hot - brush ( only for dry hair ) , the Braun Independent 500 Combi ( £ 16.95 ) . Linda found the Philips brush the easiest to use .
Idiom: hands down (used idiomatically: no)
At the same time , obviously , attention is constantly directed also to the ordinary world ruled by these mythical powers and to the human and infrahuman ~ beings belonging to it ( these , incidentally , unsettled in their own essential being , are also open to the influence of mythical factors ) . This attention looks to the ways in which the powers control the events of this world , the manner in which they themselves must be subject to a unified supreme order of power , the manner in which they with regard to individual functions and functioners intervene by initiating and carrying out , by handing down decrees of fate .
Idiom: take someone to task (used idiomatically: yes)
Editor 's Note : Handing out free pitch repairers might help a bit , but it does n't guarantee that people will use them . TAKING AUNTIE TO TASK Media coverage of The Open Championship at Muirfield , in particular BBC Radio 5 's extensive broadcasts , showed British commentators at their very worst . As a nation we pride ourselves on our strong sense of sportsmanship and fair play .
Idiom: all over the place (used idiomatically: yes)
Pardy 's previous convictions were of a relatively trivial nature , being ordered out of several county towns by magistrates for persistently collecting without a licence in the street — rattling his tin in support of a variety of causes but only very recently turning his attention to those connected with animals . That Markby found curious . One might claim Simon 's heart was in the right place , but his head — so it appeared to Markby — was all over the place . An irrational young man . The causes he pursued so vigorously no doubt satisfied some deep , emotional void .
Idiom: lame duck (used idiomatically: yes)
And cutting pensions and health ~ care for the elderly certainly qualifies as extreme – as well as completely inappropriate and unnecessary . If , instead , the US faces a fiscal slope , then people who refuse to consider raising taxes – namely , Republicans in the US ~ Congress ’s House of Representatives – have a very weak hand indeed . It has become clear that the House ~ Republicans will steadfastly refuse to vote for any increases in tax rates during the current lame - duck congressional session . House ~ Speaker John ~ Boehner , who offered relatively conciliatory remarks immediately after the election , now says that he would accept higher revenue with lower rates – precisely what the temporary tax cuts enacted by George ~ W .~ Bush ’s administration were supposed to deliver , but manifestly did not . It is very unlikely that congressional ~ Democrats and Republicans can reach an agreement on extending the Bush - era tax cuts for the middle ~ class , while allowing them to expire for the rich .
Idiom: play fast and loose (used idiomatically: yes)
Even the cost of motoring fell , and the parallel drop in the underlying rate , excluding mortgage interest payments from 3.7 per cent to 3.2 per cent , was both welcome and unexpected . Unfortunately the markets were already more concerned with the fear that the Government will sacrifice sterling and the fight against inflation to the continuing pressure to cut base rates and sustain a desperate ‘ dash for growth.’ It took the combined efforts of the Bank of England intervening to buy unwanted sterling , the lowest inflation rate since 1967 ( and the lowest underlying rate since July 1958 ) , and a firm promise by the Chancellor not to play fast and loose with interest rates to reassure the markets . One of the problems is that the army of inflation forecasters in the City of London simply do not believe that the corner on inflation has been turned so easily . They can calculate all too clearly that the average value of sterling has fallen 17.5 per cent,(and over 25 per cent against the dollar ) since September , and the price of fuel and raw materials for industry has so far risen by just over 10 per cent , while retail prices have actually fallen .
Idiom: up for grabs (used idiomatically: yes)
But I 'm really the person to come and see and I liaise with all these bodies as such . The annual general meeting our A G M is next week where , where we , we elect all the officers , the Guild officers , who will serve with me , and help me on the forthcoming year . There are eight positions up for grabs which are vice president , sports officer , entertainments officer publicity officer , welfare officer , women 's officer and minorities and overseas officer . If you 're interested in standing for any of those or wanna put someone forward to stand for one of those , come to the elections in room six two three , six two four Friday the twenty sixth at two fifteen twenty third , I 'm sorry , at two fifteen and er not only will you get all the , the general info about what I 've done so far this year , what I intend to do , what next year 's budget 's going to be etcetera , that 's when those elections are actually held . So do come along to that .
Idiom: get the picture (used idiomatically: no)
Does not this short exchange at Dunvegan account fully for Boswell 's never - ending flattery of Johnson ? He knew the Great Bear would see every word . Yet , credit to Boswell , for all his lapses into near - hagiography , we get a sufficiently rounded picture of Johnson to survey him and to judge . Sunday 's conversation involved the manner in which men choose wives ; strange associations with the island of St Kilda ; the further travels of Johnson ; and a dissertation upon prize - fighting , leading into observations upon combat and duelling . Memorable among these exchanges : Johnson believed that men choose weak and ignorant women as their wives because they ' know that women are an over - match for them ' ; he thought little of poetry he had heard from St Kilda : ' it must be poor , because they have very few images . '
Idiom: behind the scenes (used idiomatically: no)
need to be rehearsing pretty much straight away . Yeah . Once we 've got all the scripts done , I think we should erm , allocate roles to certain people behind the scene , so we know exactly what we 're doing . In each in each section Yeah do
Idiom: go hand in hand (used idiomatically: no)
For the earth and the filth are the realized human stuff of the book . Not , of course , all its human stuff ; when Dostoevsky told his biographer that the task of his own deeper realism was ‘ to find the human in the human being ’ , he meant there is more to us than filthy earth , and this ‘ more ’ must be found . In extremity , with nowhere to go , and not even a believed theory to wear or hold his mind 's hand ( ‘ what will you run away with ? ’ ) , Raskolnikov turns to Sonya ; ‘ it was to her , Sonya , that he first went with his confession ; when he felt the need of a human being , he sought the human being in her ’ — which does indeed isolate for a moment , and emphasize , the mystic business of his alienation from the human family ; and for this moment the dross ( as it were ) of Sonya and of Raskolnikov is withheld ; the god in his humanity is looking for the god in hers . But the Raskolnikov of the notebooks who joked grimly about getting used to being married and having children will do that average and earthy thing , though in a different spirit ; and in another story , as the Epilogue tells us .
Idiom: on paper (used idiomatically: yes)
Nicest : everything else John Lennon interview , Hendrix tips on how to set your guitar on fire , Bob Marley ( on his relationship with his Liverpool father ) , Get some print that stays on the paper , you bastards ( invest in laser printing and join the 20th Century ) Certainly not the rather sad , pathetic , melancholic drinking partnership of Terry Staunton and David Quantick . Probably printing the US$ price on the front cover in mad numerals , and the German and Spanish in really small print at the side of the page — you colonialist hypocrites
Idiom: in the nick of time (used idiomatically: yes)
German socialism forgot , in the nick of time , that the French criticism , whose silly echo it was , presupposed the existence of modern bourgeois society , with its corresponding economic conditions of existence , and the political constitution adapted thereto , the very things those attainment was the object of the pending struggle in Germany .
Idiom: over the top (used idiomatically: yes)
Profits could reach £ 10 m this year — implying a multiple of almost 30 at 93p — and even that might prove over - optimistic under a Labour government . But , love or loathe the frocks , it is hard to deny the potential . Questor Column : Highland shares over the top AFTER more than a decade of rising profits , Highland Distilleries saw its growth record interrupted in the six months to February . Profits eased back from £ 15.1 m to £ 14.7 m before taxation in the first half as turnover stagnated at £ 98.8 m .
Idiom: steal the show (used idiomatically: yes)
Loafers , £ 49.99 , Jones Bootmakers . Silvia Clear Sheers , £ 2.30 , Pretty Polly . Lindsey Ahmet ( far left ) and Natalie Stirrup ( left ) both 3½ , stole the show ! Lindsey 's T - shirt , £ 6.95 , Blooming Marvellous . Silk scarf ( as skirt ) , from £ 9.99 , Tie Rack .
Idiom: easier said than done (used idiomatically: yes)
The American government was also aware of the limitations of the recently proclaimed Eisenhower Doctrine ( 5 January 1957 ) . This had asserted American interest in the Middle East and had given pledges of support to those states which felt threatened by communism . But such things were easier said than done . The Doctrine must be seen for what it was — a very political document which had been hastily cobbled together to try to fill the power vacuum caused by the Suez fiasco . It was also couched in language designed to satisfy or at least not to alarm a multitude of constituencies at home .
Idiom: make a meal of (used idiomatically: yes)
The end of its tail is thin , pink and very mobile . The snake makes it wriggle so that the apparently disembodied filament appears to be some kind of succulent worm . A bird that thought so and decided to make a meal of it would quickly die . In South America , a horned toad regularly attracts its prey by — almost unbelievably — waggling its toes . Other hunters use objects as bait .
Idiom: in the works (used idiomatically: yes)
There all cutting it now , so . . Cos the Producer you see , he wo n't have , he wo n't have the books in works . Hm , yeah . and er the company have told him his got to a.
Idiom: in my book (used idiomatically: yes)
That 's all I have to say . Thank you . Er y your use of the phrase self containment leads me to ask the question , which is that , well in my book it does n't necessarily mean the same thing as an integrated and balanced community , but I 'll put Mr Davis on notice to define what is meant by those adjectives . Er , Mr Girt , can we have erm a Leeds view ? Yes , I 'd like to come back er to Mr Brighton on the question of regeneration in West Yorkshire , and er settlement South West of York , some people here today would not have heard the views of Leeds and Bradford on the H one discussions yet , about er why we are objecting to the restraints in three North Yorkshire districts , Harrogate , Craven , and er to less extent perhaps , Hambledon , on migration levels , erm we we argued there
Idiom: on and off (used idiomatically: yes)
There were those , of course , who wondered why England should be sending her brave lads across the Channel to fight against a country which seemed — the Reign of Terror notwithstanding — to be the cradle of a new and attractive democracy . Others — and the majority , no doubt— would wait anxiously for any news as a French invasion force was massing ready to launch itself against English shores . The two countries would be fighting each other , on and off , for 22 years ; and there were those , like Benjamin Titford , born in 1786 , who lived through nothing but wars and rumours of wars from the day they were born to the day they died . Down in Frome they were preparing for the worst ; on 23 February 1798 a meeting of the ‘ inhabitants of the town and neighbourhood of Frome’ took place at the George Inn . As a result of this and subsequent deliberations it was agreed to form a local defence force consisting of 60 cavalrymen , who were to extend their protection ‘ … as far as any adjoining town not exceeding 20 miles distance from Frome’ , together with 100 infantry .
Idiom: get up someone's nose (used idiomatically: yes)
The main thing is I hate to leave you here on your own.’ ‘ I 'll hardly be here on my own , Father , with Mr Arthur Peeble managing the Tobacconist Emporium .’ She gave a derisive laugh as she again inclined her head towards the far wall , then said , ‘ That fellow 's preciseness gets up my nose . The voice he puts on for the customers , you would think he was in daily contact with the Lord Mayor or the Duke . He uses it even when selling a packet of Woodbines.’
Idiom: out and about (used idiomatically: yes)
Yeah I think that 's very important that one because he understands he sees the loneliness that his grandfather 's feeling . He 's sufficiently aware to know that er he ca n't get out much , he 's on his own , he 's lonely especially if he 's not in very good health . So he ca n't do ou he ca n't go out and about . anything else ? Right judgement cos
Idiom: no man's land (used idiomatically: yes)
We tried to solve this with management and supervisory boards based in the department but they were a long way from the boards of industry . When Victor Paige became the first general manager of the health service he found himself in a very different job from any that he or anyone else had occupied before . He was not the chief executive of a big corporation but in an uneasy no man 's land between the department and the service . I regret that he resigned in 1986 but I have to admit that he had a point . Since then the position has slowly improved but very much the same dilemma still remains .
Idiom: in my book (used idiomatically: yes)
But it reminded him of what he wanted to say . ‘ I 've been here in Ralarth a fair while now,’ he began , and the others stared at him . ‘ There are things and people here who were in my books — whom I created , in a manner of speaking . There are people here from my own world who have somehow been translated into Minginish . And there are people , places , history in this country I 'd never even guessed at , though I sometimes feel I know them anyway.’
Idiom: pissed off (used idiomatically: yes)
I do n't think Andy ever meant to do anything with this place . Like the rest of his friends , I assumed he was going to run it , put money into it ; develop it . We all imagined he had some secret new money - spinning idea and soon we 'd all be amazed at what he 'd done to the place , and coming here to marvel at the crowds he 'd managed to attract … but I do n't think he was ever looking for a site for some viable business venture ; I think he was just looking for somewhere suited to his burned - out , fed - up , pissed - off mood . ‘ Right,’ Andy says in the background . He comes in from the stairwell and closes the double doors .
Idiom: under fire (used idiomatically: yes)
Some space was made , but never very much and rarely very seriously , or general or liberal studies . The decade closed with the publication in 1959 of the Crowther Report : the work of the Central Advisory Council established by the 1944 Act which endorsed the principle of specialization within the sixth form and related it to a high vision of what should be represented by that most English of institutions . Specialization of this kind was not , of course , the practice elsewhere in the civilized world ‘ but it is worth noting that the broad curriculum of Europe and America is almost equally under fire’ . Specialization as an educational principle was , moreover , indissolubly linked with particular relationships between teacher and taught , characterized as discipleship , and a special responsibility towards younger and less mature pupils , epitomized in the prefect system . This was , indeed , a powerful and heady mixture .