Gooogr/pie_idioms huggingface dataset:
Idiom: over the moon (used idiomatically: yes)
If Martina ever retired , the likes of Wimbledon , Eastbourne would not be the same without her . In my 14 years of support I finally got to come close to her in 1991 at Wimbledon when she took time out to meet her fans . I was over the moon . I managed to get some great photographs and autographs from the Queen of Tennis . Martina is the only person who jokes with the ball boys and the crowd , also with her opponent .
Idiom: do me a favour (used idiomatically: yes)
‘ They 'll probably be in bed by now anyhow . If things go really wrong for Barney,’ she went on , a hint of a fracture in her voice , ‘ I 'll be in touch with them . But meantime you 'd be doing me a favour if you did n't ring them either . They 'll only try to talk you out of going to Czechoslovakia to do this job for me — you know what they 're like.’ ‘ I ca n't lie to them!’
Idiom: odds and ends (used idiomatically: yes)
‘ Who does ? What about meeting for a drink?’ This case was full of odds and ends that did n't fit together . If he could get Jordan talking , he might get something out of him . Jordan demurred .
Idiom: get on someone's nerves (used idiomatically: yes)
Well go on then ! As long as you buy the milk , I do n't mind you having cereal . It just gets on my nerves having to buy a pint like Got cereal ? Not .
Idiom: prodigal son (used idiomatically: yes)
But the true reason was that he wanted to prevent me from writing any more good poems about them . ) He could see that I was slowly but surely getting back to my old self , and to my own poetry . A number of tentative poems took shape , and five of them form the first section of The Prodigal Son . I could not finish them until after Dana had left for the States , when I would sit day after day beside my desk , trying to write , while on the other side of Avondale Buildings the children screamed and shrieked in the playground . I wrote lines like this : ' I wait with a pencil in my hand/ Beside the morning 's empty page …
Idiom: make a move (used idiomatically: yes)
‘ Will do.’ I had gone for coffee in the student room in order to avoid my colleagues . However , my presence was clearly unsettling its regular inhabitants so I decided it was time to make a move — and time to confront Charles Howard . I remember how leaden - footed I felt , climbing the two flights of stairs to Charles 's office . I knew that , in the cold light of day , he held all the aces .
Idiom: over the moon (used idiomatically: yes)
She says : ‘ I felt immense relief when I found out I was pregnant , mainly because I 'd had this secret panic that I would n't be able to conceive.’ Couples who 've been planning a baby often feel this relief and excitement . ‘ We were over the moon and had a great sense of achievement — as if we 'd done something terribly clever,’ says Susi , who has just given birth to her first baby . But for others , emotions may be more disturbing . Trisha , who is 29 weeks pregnant , says : ‘ I was quite shocked , and very negative at first .
Idiom: get to grips with (used idiomatically: yes)
It has already been argued , in the previous chapter , that we all use oppositions to make sense of our experience . In any opposition , one of the pair is likely to be rated positively , and the other negatively : for example , masculinity and femininity , science and arts . It is not enough , therefore , to say that more women should do science , or that domestic economy should be compulsory for both sexes ; we have to get to grips with the ways in which ‘ femininity’ is consistently devalued , both in society generally and specifically in the education system . Gender and higher education A concentration on seemingly abstract ideas like ‘ masculinity’ and ‘ femininity’may seem esoteric when compared to issues of whether girls are actively discriminated against in education .
Idiom: fight tooth and nail (used idiomatically: no)
You do n't go through pregnancy to find that 11 years later your child wants to divorce its parents.’ Her solicitor , James Littlehales said : ‘ She 's very very distressed and finds it very difficult to understand how her daughter could do such a thing . ‘ It 's a sad and unusual case for all concerned but the mother is determined to fight tooth and nail.’ The date for the final court hearing will be decided next week . Trapped in a frozen body
Idiom: round the clock (used idiomatically: yes)
May Curtis has Alzheimers . She 's been at centre since February and is 77 . The purpose built centre at Stone Near Aylesbury has round the clock nursing cover . All 30 residents have either Alzheimers or senile dementia . Male speaker
Idiom: in the fast lane (used idiomatically: yes)
Or John and Siobhan 's?’ This was 3.30 a.m. , Martin nuzzling her exhausted neck . ‘ Life in the fast lane , sweetheart,’ he said . ‘ And you do it so well . Anyway , you 're at home all day.’
Idiom: high and low (used idiomatically: yes)
Their response has been to greatly enlarge the present building but they still feel they must plan to plant churches . Perhaps partly because of these frustrations , John Aldis has now moved to Hong Kong ! What is behind the bishops ' and archdeacons ' reluctance even to consider breaking up the boundaries seems to be a desire to maintain a mixture of middle , high and low churches and not upset the balance . This amounts to a death wish as it is generally only the evangelical wing of the church that is growing . Among various statistics confirming this was an analysis which appeared in 1990 of Church of England growth in the Sheffield area between 1982 and 1988 .
Idiom: to the tune of (used idiomatically: yes)
OBJECTIVITY WINS NEW BACKING Objectivity Inc , Menlo Park , California , said it closed its third round of financing last week , an exercise that got started in January . While it declined to say how much money it got this time , its four backers , the Mayfield Fund , Institutional Venture Partners , Menlo Ventures and St Paul Venture Capital , are now into it to the tune of $ 12.2 m total . The company says the funds will be used for continued product development . Its view of itself as strictly an object database engine provider has changed to encompass solutions , migration and gateways .
Idiom: plain sailing (used idiomatically: yes)
Ease of use is another area where noticeable advances are being made . The advent of Windows spreadsheets such as Excel , did , for many people , result in a much friendlier tool , and other leading spreadsheet vendors have added Windows products to their range . Once you are accustomed to one Windows package , say a word processor , users say it 's plain sailing to learn another , such as a spreadsheet , because the conventions of look - and - feel tend to be very similar , though not necessarily identical . Software suppliers are going to some lengths to make their Windows product sets work in a uniform way , with the same icons , toolbars and so forth . ( There are also pricing incentives to encourage you to buy all your software from one vendor : from Lotus , for example , you can buy not only spreadsheets but also word processing , electronic mail and graphics , in fact what Mr Ingram calls a complete office system . )
Idiom: wide of the mark (used idiomatically: yes)
Write down examples of where in any of your present or previous relationships you have found that your own life has become significantly and progressively more chaotic and damaged . These families are referred to as " dysfunctional " which means that they do not function in the " normal " manner of other families . They have no idea what " normal " is and therefore they invent it for themselves and may be very wide of the mark that other families set for themselves . Television " soap opera " families may be so " perfect " as to be distinctly abnormal . What happens to children bought up in families in which there is an addictive disease ?
Idiom: go without saying (used idiomatically: yes)
Also of ( sic ) an extra light at the entrance to Chapel Street and at Tuckey 's corner , and the provision of a public convenience which , through no fault of his , has not yet been erected . let us hope the residents of Tallow will be mindful of this " . It goes without saying that the TD must hold regular surgeries , or in the euphemistic Irish expression " hear confessions " which will of course turn out to be requests for assistance . One petitioner wants a grant to repair the leaky roof of his house , another a grant to clear the stream running past his farm , another wants a Council job and a fourth and a fifth want help with social welfare applications . Long experience has taught many Irishmen that they will not get from authorities national and local the benefits and services to which they consider themselves entitled without the kindly intervention of some influential personage .
Idiom: touch and go (used idiomatically: yes)
Having established a 20–3 lead through tries by Zinzan Brooke , Kirwan and Timu they allowed South Africa back into the game . With Botha calling the shots the ' Boks demonstrated their strength at running first phase possession by scoring late tries through Gerber ( 2 ) and Muller before the clock curtailed their late assault . Touch and go . John Kirwan juggles with the ball as his Springbok counterpart , Pieter Hendriks , makes a despairing final attempt to stop the progress of the All Black winger . BUCK 'S BROADSIDE
Idiom: new blood (used idiomatically: no)
Here and elsewhere , the police also came in for a fair amount of criticism —Punch portrayed London 's genial giants Gog and Magog dressed as policeman , defending themselves from the wrath of the respectable populace — and there were perfectly sound reasons for such discontent . The general drift of Punch 's enthusiasm , in fact , was that gentlemen should take steps to arm themselves because of the uselessness of the police force . As well as rumours of troops of infantry escorting respectable citizens to afternoon tea in the suburbs , and the recommendation that gentlemen at a loose end because of the shortage of decent game reserves might turn their hand to a new blood - sport —‘We have got together a splendid pack this season , and the game is still so plentiful that I 'll bet we 'll show you some really first - rate sport’— the ‘ anti - garotte’ movement launched by Punch invented various kinds of anti - robbery device . Metal collars with long steel spikes were undoubtedly the favourite form of protection against throttling , although Punch ( 13 December 1862 ) also dreamt up ‘ great coats made a - la - porcupine … with spring daggers at the elbows and sharp spikes all up the back’ in order to discourage attack from the rear . Bowie - knives , sword - sticks , bayonet - revolvers , protective head - gear and knuckle - dusters completed the anti - garotte arsenal .
Idiom: anything goes (used idiomatically: no)
He has never forgotten the lessons he learnt at that time . His personal loyalty to clients , for example , became a byword in Scotland , as Sir James McKinnon , currently head of Ofgas and vice - president of the Scottish Institute when Mr Morrison was president , recalls . ‘ Even when he was Institute president , he never let anything go . Some people give up their work and float through the year , but Bill did n't . His briefcase just got heavier and heavier !
Idiom: in someone's pocket (used idiomatically: yes)
First of all , it should be recalled that the European idea began as a project for ensuring peace and democracy among Europe ’s peoples . When the new currency was introduced in 1999 – and even more so when European citizens had their first opportunity to use it in January 2002 – it was experienced as the most tangible , decisive proof that European integration was a reality . As the slogan goes : euro in your wallet , Europe in your pocket . Twenty years after the European ~ Parliament was elected by universal suffrage in 1979 , the introduction of the euro marked a logical extension of the European dream . It should also be recalled , however , that when Slovenia entered the eurozone in 2007 , many people suggested that the country was somehow joining “ Old Europe . ”
Idiom: in hot water (used idiomatically: yes)
You use them in a Spanish drink called horchata , which is made as follows : 1 . Cover the nuts in hot water and soak for 8–24 hours . 2 . Place nuts and liquid in a processor and liquidise .
Idiom: from the word go (used idiomatically: yes)
Although he is a versatile director , the emotional notes he specialises in teasing out tend to be of a more subtle nature than the full - blooded chords of sexual ecstasy . From Les Amants to Pretty Baby he has often seemed to be using sexual subjects to make films about something else entirely , and in as much as sex and the life force are connected , his two sexiest films remain Viva Maria and Zazie dans Le Metro , which have nothing to do with sex at all . In Damage , from Josephine Hart 's novel , he gets more or less everything wrong from the word go . Seemingly unrestrained by their director , his principals , Juliette Binoche and Jeremy Irons , indulge in a perfect orgy of , in actor - speak , ‘ playing the result’ : their first meeting , before they are even introduced , is a wild farrago of fish - like glances , tortured swallowing and interminable silences , and Malle follows suit , equipping his female lead with a get - up — black leather , gloves , fags , sunglasses , four - inch heels and an Eton crop to make a Brazilian transvestite blink , never mind a research assistant at Sotheby 's , which is what she is meant to be . THE sex in the rest of the film , otherwise the usual rather silly collection of schematic cliches by David Hare , follows a similarly leaden pattern .
Idiom: run out of steam (used idiomatically: yes)
Greg had first read it as ‘ Homosexual’ , and that of course was the joke . Heterosexuality among English writers , it was being implied , was so much the exception to the rule as to demand special treatment . The whole of the introduction was a solemnly tongue - in - cheek exposition of this notion , though Greg had the impression that later the joke rather ran out of steam ( as the book very nearly did run out of authors to treat ) . The Ern Malley Affair , a slimmer volume , was an examination of a famous Australian literary hoax of the mid-'forties , in which bogus poems of impenetrable obscurity were foisted on a literary magazine . It was not clear why the matter deserved a book to itself .
Idiom: on the house (used idiomatically: yes)
His monthly payments have got slightly smaller in the last three years . ' I only get tax relief on the first £ 30,000 , so that has remained the same . But seeing the debt on your house reduce is a very satisfying feeling . ' Endowment Paul Gordon , also 27 , partly financed the purchase of his house in Chatham with an inheritance .
Idiom: go from strength to strength (used idiomatically: yes)
Friendly Citalia Representatives The Complete Specialist 1931–1992 going from strength to strength Citalia is part of CIT owned by the Italian State Railways ‘ The Italy that only Italians can show you … ’
Idiom: keep your options open (used idiomatically: yes)
It is at these times that fate may appear to step in and take over the proceedings . You are a sign well able to juggle several balls at once so in many ways the volatile planetary climate could suit you down to the ground . You need to keep your options open in order to change courses at a moment 's notice . It is also wiser not to treat every offer as an 18-carat - gold certainty . Remember it 's not what you know that counts , but who .
Idiom: free rein (used idiomatically: yes)
It was insane and No Smiling was its tight - lipped motto , but it was a lot more fun than liking The Exploited . God knows why Telstar thought the world needed a ten - years - on reminder of those heady days , but here we have ‘ Club For Heroes’ , a collection of 18 mad old pop singles and a largely accurate document of the time , in that Duran , Spandau , Ultravox , Landscape , Classix Nouveaux and Visage are pure New Romantic and ABC , Teardrop Explodes , Blancmange , The Passions and Soft Cell are n't . Virtually everyone sings with a clothes peg on their nose and a space Cockney accent , no - one is very happy and Mr Synthesiser is given a free rein . The best song here is still ‘ Are Friends Electric’ and Icehouse are still the worst band in the world . The overall effect of all these songs in a row is a curious mixture of nostalgia and emotion - free blankness , a bit like a Gary Numan conversation .
Idiom: have a ball (used idiomatically: no)
Hilarion 's discovery of Albrecht 's sword and later his confrontation with Giselle , with the sword in his hands , still does not convince Giselle of Albrecht 's duplicity . It is only later when Bathilde confronts her with the news that Albrecht is her fiancé that Giselle realises the truth and loses her reason . The scenes between Hilarion , Giselle , Albrecht and Bathilde are reminiscent of the scenes that develop Tybalt 's hatred of Romeo from the first fight between Montague and Capulet to his discovery of Romeo with Juliet after their first meeting at the ball , and finally to the fight that ends in Tybalt 's death . These scenes heighten the tension and suggest that all will end in tragedy . Despite the great differences in style between the above three ballets and despite their different libretti the three choreographers perrot ( with Saint-Georges ) , MacMillan and Ashton give valid reasons why the tragic deaths of Giselle , Romeo and Juliet , and Natalia 's lost love are the inevitable result of what has gone before .
Idiom: for the hell of it (used idiomatically: yes)
She could well imagine what was going on in his mind : fickle , impulsive girl who flitted from one man to another without so much as a backward glance . And she knew that she was n't helping matters by playing the coquette with André , but suddenly she did n't care . It was all right for Piers : he had played with her for the hell of it , while making no bones about telling her that she was little more than a convenient body . Well , if he thought she was a good - time girl then that was his affair . ‘ I 'll see you when I see you,’ she said , giving him a wide , plastic smile .
Idiom: take stock (used idiomatically: yes)
( A factor of i provides the phase difference of n/2 necessary to shift from a crest to a zero . ) We have made considerable progress since the beginning of this chapter . We need to go on further still but before we do so a little breather for taking stock would seem appropriate . States of motion in quantum mechanics can be superposed in a way that is analogous to the compounding of displacements in space or , more generally , to the addition of vectors in an abstract vector space . The result of such a superposition produces a state whose properties are related to those of its component parts in a probabilistic sense .
Idiom: behind bars (used idiomatically: yes)
No way I 'm gettin ' on that fuckin ' motorcycle with you , ' she said . She said it over and over . He went behind the bar , grabbing at her . He could barely stand . Suzy called a couple of friends , hoping to find someone to rescue her .
Idiom: same difference (used idiomatically: yes)
0 - 5 Brown : Your head is firmly in the desert . The same difference The greatest Western psychiatrists were tainted by racism . Suman Fernando points the way to a view of mental health that would be worthy of our rich and diverse world .
Idiom: out of your mind (used idiomatically: no)
The neurotic , articulate British lyricist , that is . While the Americans have continued to export cathartic , confessional product from the likes of Black Francis , Kristin Hersh , Kurt Cobain and Buffalo Tom 's Bill Janovitz , bands on this side of the Atlantic have seemed to delight in their complete lack of anything to say . Maybe it was the fear of going anywhere near the angst - ridden territory so comprehensively covered by The Smiths , maybe it was the fact that being stoned out of your mind was suddenly fashionable again — but neither the baggy bunch nor the floppy - fringed waifs who enjoyed the post - Madchester plaudits came anywhere near the kind of emotional rush peddled by Morrissey 's men . The indie - rock of the late ' 80s and early ' 90s said nothing to you about your life . Thankfully , we 've now got Brett , Polly and Loz ( and Nicky and Rickey too , I guess , though what the hell something like ‘ we blur into images of state coercion’ means is anyone 's guess ) .
Idiom: have a ball (used idiomatically: no)
‘ If I was he would be rather stupid to tuck me up here so close to him . ’ The two are just good friends , and close neighbours . Her cottage is on the prince 's 325-acre Highgrove estate in Gloucester , a polo ball 's throw away from his own home . She moved into the four-bedroom Happylands farmhouse with her three daughters before Christmas last year , after her marriage to 47-year-old Captain Ian Farquhar , a close hunting pal of the prince , ended in divorce . Friends say they have spent hours together discussing their marital problems .
Idiom: jump to conclusions (used idiomatically: no)
No , do n't write down ‘ no sexual relations’.’ Nigel could n't actually see what the doctor was writing on the other side of his desk , but he could guess . Medical men were so unsubtle they usually jumped to conclusions like that . ‘ I 'm a young man,’ he went on . ‘ I have plenty of sexual relations with other people .
Idiom: fly the flag (used idiomatically: yes)
The early English home of the ancestors of George Washington . In 1914 the Manor was purchased by a body of British subscribers and presented to the peoples of Britain and the United States of America in celebration of 100 years peace and friendship between the two nations . The American flag is flown here . Visiting Sulgrave is to experience a vision of all that seems quintessentially English . The old manor house itself is furnished in Tudor and Queen Anne period styles .
Idiom: hit the bottle (used idiomatically: yes)
He was hoping to hit bottles he had placed on the roof of the garage opposite . A person standing in the garage was hit . The defendant contended that he thought that he was a good enough shot to hit only the bottles . He had put them in a place where the risk would be minimal and he had not pumped the gun the maximum number of times . It was held that the accused was aware of the probable consequences of firing the gun as he did .
Idiom: lose the plot (used idiomatically: yes)
Barbed Wire We at Select were appalled at the severity of the court judgement against your magazine and believe that it raises serious impediments to press freedom . While we believe THE FACE to be a pretentious load of bollocks that 's completely lost the plot , we support absolutely your right to continue printing such old tosh . Please accept our contribution to the Lemon Fund . Respect due .
Idiom: in the driving seat (used idiomatically: yes)
It has n't surprised me that it 's happened again . ‘ Whatever happened at Charlton we were going to have to win our last game . The only thing that 's different now is that if Middlesbrough win their last two , we 're not in the driving seat.’ Charlton 's excellent win still left them needing two victories from their last to games to be certain of left a play - off place . But they are set to be without injury victims Robert Lee and Carl Leaburn for Tuesday 's game against Tranmere at Upton Park .