Gooogr/pie_idioms huggingface dataset:
Idiom: in bed with (used idiomatically: no)
The public has a very short memory . An epidemic this winter — and it is still questionable whether we will have one — would trigger heavy demand for vaccine next year . If you succumb to the Shanghai flu , reconcile yourself to four or five days in bed with a high fever , followed by a further four or five days with a cough and a runny nose . Take paracetamol to keep your temperature down . Lots of fluids are also essential .
Idiom: get to grips with (used idiomatically: yes)
EUROTREKS Europe — we 've talked about it , we 've read about it , so why not get out and explore it ? Paul Traynor gets to grips with the real issues — where to walk , what to see and when to go . It 's a lot easier than you might think Main picture : away from it all in the Dolomites .
Idiom: neck and neck (used idiomatically: yes)
The contestants were asked to note where they were at ten minute intervals . The race was started ( by Derek Burns , the District Councillor for Currie ) at 8 am . At 8.10 , cycle and motorcycle were ‘ neck - and - neck ’(I use the inverted commas advisedly ! ) at the Slateford aqueduct , while the car was 2 miles back , in Juniper Green ; the bus ( travelling by a different route ) had reached Craiglockhart ; and the train contestant was still waiting at Curriehill station . At 8.20 , the cyclist was at Haymarket , the motorbike was bowling along the West Approach Road , and the car was still 1.5 miles behind , at Hutchison Crossway . The bus was at the King 's Theatre approaching Tollcross — and the unhappy rail man was still at Curriehill !
Idiom: walk free (used idiomatically: yes)
We saw on Monday , factory gate prices going up less than people expected , today , prices in the shops going up less than people expected . That 's good news in itself , but it 's also good in that it provides a bedrock on which we can build sustainable recovery of output and and job creation . Home Secretary Michael Howard is asking his officials to closely examine the case of a teenage vandal who walked free from court despite admitting he killed a vigilante . A television documentary screened tomorrow will show how thousands of children were shipped abroad during the nineteen fifties and sixties . The weather , the rest of today is likely to remain rather cloudy with a chance of more rain at any time .
Idiom: off the beaten track (used idiomatically: yes)
Please , can we close the doggy postbag for now ! Remember that RUNNING is looking for all kinds of safety tips . For example , with fell running and mountain marathons gaining in popularity , how about some ideas for safe running off the beaten track ? FITNESS CLINIC DIET
Idiom: tit for tat (used idiomatically: yes)
With relatively small home markets , other countries feared that their national flag carriers would be swamped by big American airlines . Even while freeing its market at home , America found itself locked into the pernicious logic of government - to - government deals abroad . This month 's tit - for - tat with Britain about the sale of landing slots at London 's Heathrow airport , which provoked American officials into banning low - price fares across the Atlantic , is one perverse result . This is why it is so vital that the EC 's half - hearted plans to deregulate its airlines after 1992 should be strengthened , not diluted . For the first time ever , the EC is forging an internal market large enough to offer America equivalent access and to support airlines that are really competing .
Idiom: at death's door (used idiomatically: yes)
He shook his head slowly from side to side . Reproach mingled with anger — anger that she did not wait , anger that another man should so easily have taken the woman he loved , anger that she should be heavy with another man 's child . According to Ben , she had waited for him and he had failed her ; never mind that the real fault was not his , or that he had lain at death 's door , or that he had been loath to go to her as a cripple , with nothing to offer but a life of struggle . The fact remained that he had waited too long . Like a fool , he had wanted to return for Beth , carrying the world to place at her feet .
Idiom: laughing stock (used idiomatically: yes)
‘ The BPI is a joke . We 're sick of the whitewash and the face,’ says a spokesman for Rod Stewart 's label , Riva . And the managing director of RSO storms : ‘ We 're a laughing stock . Everyone 's laughing at us.’ The Cockney Rejects , peaceful chaps of the terraces , have had to cancel the rest of their tour due to the threat of violence at the gigs .
Idiom: for Africa (used idiomatically: yes)
Also , in many Asian and Western Hemisphere region countries , maternal mortality is distressingly higher among young teenage mothers than among mothers of all other ages . Where a comparison can be made , the data show that , in the more developed countries , the risk of material mortality is greater at ages 45 and over than below age 15 but , as mentioned above , in the region of Asia and Oceania and in Mexico , mothers below age 15 incur by far the greater risks . ( Comparable , reliable statistics are not available for Africa ) . In all regions for which data could be obtained , the " J " or " U " shaped relationship is found . This is most evident in the data on mortality due to obstetric causes , which reflects among other things the quality and accessibility of prenatal care and the conditions surrounding care attending delivery .
Idiom: come to a head (used idiomatically: yes)
AN ICE - CREAM van driver and his assistant escaped when their vehicle was fire - bombed as they served customers in the Ballieston area of Glasgow . The attack has raised the spectre of another war between ice - cream operators in Glasgow . Ten years ago , violence between rival organisations came to a head with the deaths of six members of one family in a fire - bomb attack on their house . The latest attack by two masked men on an ice - cream van on Sunday night forced the 48-year - old driver and his 24-year - old assistant to jump to safety as the vehicle was engulfed in flames . The incident , which happened while several people including children were milling around the van , is being treated by police as attempted murder .
Idiom: spring to mind (used idiomatically: yes)
So I 'm trying to put in all the ingredients : left - handed guitar , all the original effects , Marshall amplifier , everything that Jimi used — go for authenticity from the beginning and then take it from there . ‘ Maybe after I get an album of my own material out — which does sound a lot like Jimi , because I ca n't help it — then I 'll try to take that a step further … maybe where he was going himself , possibly.’ People have had problems with being labelled ‘ Hendrix clones’ , possibly when they do n't want such a tag — the excellent Robin Trower springs to mind . But Randy only revels in such comparisons . ‘ I do n't see how anybody can pick up a guitar nowadays and not give some credit to Jimi Hendrix because , at the time — people do n't remember this — but at the time he came out , people were ready to give up the guitar and go onto other instruments .
Idiom: live a lie (used idiomatically: yes)
Sex is often used as a means of getting close and having contact , but if we are of this type then we feel that the partner will sense our detachment of feeling and lack of giving , and so will reject us . Other people can not fill the inner longing for recognition that is sought . Recognition of the true self can only come about when we show the world that we accept the fact that we are not the perfect , flawless human beings we wish to portray — when we stop living a lie . Read the section on Covering Up ( p. 11 ) . It is very relevant .
Idiom: in the black (used idiomatically: yes)
City : Bowater loss AMERICAN newsprint and paper products manufacturer , Bowater Incorporated , enlarged by the $ 300 m acquisition of an 80 p.c . stake in Great Northern Paper at the end of 1991 , tumbled from a $ 16.7 m profit to a $ 17.7 m ( £ 10.1 m ) net loss in the first quarter of the year , despite a 15 p.c . rise in sales to $ 373 m ( £ 214 m ) . City : Quicks in black THE shares of Quicks Group raced ahead 22 to 90p yesterday after the Manchester - based car distributor announced a return to the black in 1991 and that it was maintaining its dividend total at 3p , with a 2p final on July 10 . The company turned round from a £ 896,000 loss to a £ 58,000 pre - tax profit , struck after exceptional charges of £ 1.19 m against £ 23.58 m last time .
Idiom: leave no stone unturned (used idiomatically: yes)
Two days after our arrival the British contingent — John Porter , Neil McAdie , Bill Church , Paul Nunn , Dave Wilkinson and myself — together with Ajay Tambe and Bupesh Ashar , set out for CK5 . Apart from a few hundred feet just below the summit , the climbing was straightforward , yet at 21,400 ft provided useful acclimatization and fleeting views through swirling clouds towards other , less accessible peaks . Harish was keen to leave no stone unturned so , splitting into several groups , we climbed a further nine peaks including the highest point , before turning for home . Perhaps my most memorable day occurred with Paul on our ascent of Kichik Kumdan . With John Neil we had ventured to the head of a glacier , on the west side of Chong Kumdan , to prospect a possible route .
Idiom: once and for all (used idiomatically: yes)
Was it possible poor old Harry was still carrying a torch for Pickles ? It was well over a year since his sister had married Dunbar and gone off to the West Indies , where , according to her spasmodic letters , she was having ‘ an utterly marvellous’ time . He 'd relayed the news to Harry , hoping it would put his fickle sister out of his friend 's mind once and for all . Now that he 'd met Cora - Beth , he was in no doubt that Harry stood a far greater chance of happiness with her . Although perhaps not in the strictest sense of the word ‘ beautiful’ , the American girl had a very pleasing appearance , and despite her height and strong build , an attractive feminine figure .
Idiom: sweetness and light (used idiomatically: yes)
Charlie knew that it was no way to run a cabaret , but it was n't his department . Choreography cost money , and no - one out front really gave a toss anyway ; but all the same it rankled . because it seemed to say something unignorable about the station he 'd reached in life . He tried to tell himself that it did n't matter , that you could find the same situation all over the West End ; back in the long - lost days of sweetness and light he could remember taking his wife to a performance of Jesus Christ , Superstar when it had gone through so many cast changes that no - one was even bothering to count , and what a bunch of wankers they 'd been . The band was tight , but everyone else had seemed to be making it up as they went along . Nineteen seventy - five , or thereabouts .
Idiom: throw a wobbly (used idiomatically: yes)
I lost me paddy with Stacey I must admit , cos he 's by then screaming , I did get a bit cross last night Yeah . cos he 's throwing a wobbly at the cot , he 's thrown all his dummies out and Stacey comes out the door , I just wanted to leave him cos he 's just , before he was ready and that No . I was up there , stood on the landing where he could n't hear me and could n't see me I was
Idiom: rough and tumble (used idiomatically: yes)
It was strange for him at first but he soon came to enjoy it and did his best to improve the sporting standards and attitudes . Soon after this , his name was put forward for the Jamaican Senate and he became a member , but although he attended regularly it was not something he took to . He was altogether too dignified and courteous for the rough and tumble of politics , was not a good debater , and left after less than eighteen months . In 1964 , he moved to Trinidad to become Dean of Students , which was a promotion , at the UWI campus there , continuing the work he had begun in Kingston by stressing to the students the importance of discipline , physical fitness , responsibility and such like — in other words , all the values that had made him such a successful captain . A year after the Australian tour , India visited West Indies and were annihilated , not helped by losing their captain , Contractor , whose skull was fractured by a ball from Griffith in the match before the third Test .
Idiom: go to your head (used idiomatically: yes)
‘ She does n't look upon herself as a special person , a fairytale creature in an ivory tower . She 's far too sensible for that . ‘ The hard part is not letting it go to your head , but I ca n't see Kylie making that mistake . As long as she approaches everything with as much fascination and energy as she does now , she 'll retain her freshness forever . ‘ Kylie is smart .
Idiom: change hands (used idiomatically: yes)
He turned to his sons demanding to know whether there was or was not to be a baptism party that night , and whether or not I would be the only white present . They told him . The sum changed hands , but underneath the table because it embarrassed him to receive money in public . On our arrival the bar was full of hopeful faces , most of them gypsy ones . Gonzalo introduced me .
Idiom: on the game (used idiomatically: yes)
How much does RAM ( like 2 gb , 4 gb or 8 gb ) really matter in gaming ? I know graphics cards are obviously essential but what does the RAM really do ? Depends on the game . Some games are RAM hogs . Especially if there is a lot going on at once like an RPG or a game like Civilisation or something .
Idiom: make a move (used idiomatically: no)
She felt her cheeks flush with a mixture of excitement and anxiety . Surely tonight , when they went home , she would discover the truth ? She would definitely not make the first move . Judd said half the fun of being with girls was when he was doing the chasing . She had never expected it would be so hard to pretend lack of interest when her very heart and soul were longing to demonstrate her love .
Idiom: left and right (used idiomatically: yes)
In mid - August , I had the temerity to predict that risks had come home to roost , and that a large US investment bank might soon fail or be forced into a highly distressed merger . Little did I imagine that today , there would be no freestanding investment bank left on Wall ~ Street . Indeed , after years of attracting many of the world ’s best and brightest into ultra - high paying jobs , collapsing investment banks are now throwing them out left and right . One such victim , a former student , called me the other day and asked , “ What am I supposed to do now , get a real job ? ” This brings us back to the US Treasury ’s plan to spend hundreds of billions of dollars to unclog the sub - prime mortgage market .
Idiom: make a move (used idiomatically: yes)
Hear the word of the Lord ! ' If there had been any danger from Quigley , it was headed off , once again , by Pikey , who dashed into a space by himself and , springing up and down like a goblin , started to shout , ' Hear the word of the Lord ! ' at regular intervals . I could see Quigley was about to make another move , but before he could do so I held out my hands , palm downwards , in a gesture much favoured by Mr Toombs in his last ecclesiastical campaign . ' Let us pray , ' I said . ' Oh let us pray ! ' said Hannah Dooley .
Idiom: hit the mark (used idiomatically: yes)
Conner 's crew were incensed because they thought they had made the perfect forcing manoeuvre . What puzzled observers was that , if the umpires were unsure who caused the collision , prompting a green flag , why should they penalise Conner ? ‘ We hit the mark,’ said Conner 's tactician , Tom Whidden , ‘ but we hit it because of the other boat.’ Conner has grave doubts about how on - the - water umpiring , developed for 30 to 35-footers on the match race circuit , is working out with the bigger and faster America 's Cup class yachts . He said : ‘ If we do n't reach the finals because of this , I 'll be sick to my stomach.’
Idiom: behind someone's back (used idiomatically: no)
Voice over Roy Fisher , an unemployed landscape gardener , had pleaded not guilty to raping a 28 year old woman in Oxford city centre last August . The jury at Oxford Crown Court found the married father of two guilty after hearing that he 'd tied the woman 's hands hands behind her back in the city 's New Road and subjected her to a terrifying ordeal , during which she 'd feared for her life . After the jury returned the unanimous guilty verdict , Fisher called out’ Kangeroo Court’and made to leave . He was followed to the cells by 2 policemen .
Idiom: break even (used idiomatically: yes)
Peter was saying what er a good do it was how it had all gone well . How much did it make ? He does n't know , he said we 've certainly broken even but beyond that he 's he 's not . Well I hope so too but it was n't the whole object of the exercise . Publicity for homelessness was part of the business and I know one lad said he 'd only got two pounds of sponsorship and er I thought well you 've you 've done rather well to get two quid .
Idiom: in bed with (used idiomatically: no)
Mm mm . No . And get in bed with you ? No ! Not the sorts , I did n't er , I 've never heard that one before .
Idiom: off the mark (used idiomatically: yes)
Swindon have a six goal lead from the first leg so no danger for them … Oxford trail by a goal and are up against it … while on Thursday its Witney 's big night … a big match to mark the opening of their ground Now Gloucester folk are smiling again … their team are off the mark in the league … on Saturday the cherry and whites beat Rugby twenty one … twelve Voice over One of the most famous paintings of the Italian Renaissance has found a new home in a college chapel .
Idiom: round the bend (used idiomatically: yes)
Even her skin seemed to recall the touch of his hands , strong but tender . The last sensation was unnerving to say the least . It was not until they had rounded a bend in the road , and the echoes of Master Thomas 's good wishes had long since died away , that Isabel managed to pull herself together enough to recall her resolution to put fitzAlan at a safe distance — and keep him there . She had a task to carry out . A task which made her his enemy , not —
Idiom: man and boy (used idiomatically: yes)
Earls Barton is a good example of the way that an open agricultural village grew into a flourishing footwear centre from small beginnings in the third quarter of the eighteenth century . Its population rose from 729 in 1801 to 2,602 in 1891 . By 1841 , when 1,079 people lived in the village , 107 men and boys and just 3 females worked at the trade . Twenty years later the population had risen by 478 but the proportion of the workforce employed in footwear had grown more dramatically , so that not only were 301 men and boys working at the trade but also 123 women and 118 girls . A declining number of people continued to sew shoes by hand in their cottages or little workshops right until the end of the nineteenth century .
Idiom: on the nose (used idiomatically: yes)
Now of course all this is fascinating in its own way , and it no doubt leads us at least onto the fringes of an entertaining piece of social history . Nevertheless , I think its effect is to distort in some ways the dualism set up by Proust . erm The effect is in fact to concentrate on the curling nose and the tufted beard at the expense of the wisdom and the artistic achievement . It seems to me appropriate and indeed perhaps essential that one should offer a brief biographical sketch of Proust on an occasion like this , but I shall try to avoid the unbalance of which I 've spoken , by at least relating the biography to the circumstances in which the novel was written , and I shall in any case spend the major part of the time that remains on an examination of the novel itself . Marcel Proust was born in Paris , on the tenth of July , eighteen seventy - one , two months after the collapse of the Commune . erm His father was a well - known doctor , who seems curiously enough to have failed markedly to understand the causes of his son 's lifelong illness erm and his mother was the daughter of a Jewish stockbroker .
Idiom: rank and file (used idiomatically: yes)
In practice , teaching the working - class to understand moral law usually meant an Old Testament affirmation of the preordained retribution which followed in the wake of sinfulness . Masturbation was most often used to demonstrate how the transgression of divine law inevitably brought down the wrath of God : ' For he that soweth his flesh , shall of the flesh reap corruption . ' While the working - class was the principal target for purists ' interventionary zeal they also provided rank - and - file recruits for the new movement . Some organizations laid primary stress on preventive work and moral re - education , especially among working - class girls : for example the Anglican - run Girls ' Friendly Society , founded in 1874 , Ellice Hopkins ' Ladies ' Association for the Care of Friendless Girls , 1876 , and the Band of Hope Mission , 1879 . Other groups , like the Boys ' League of Honour and the Church Lads ' Brigade , addressed the leisure activities of working - class boys , setting up night schools and organizing sport and mutual improvement societies to counter the idleness which was the first step towards dissipation and self - abuse .
Idiom: save face (used idiomatically: yes)
In that way , Sir William was able indirectly to indulge his penchant for meddling in the basic work of the force , without upsetting the senior officers . Not that Inspector Cotton was pleased ! But his face had been saved by the fiction that , while functionally independent , Bragg would report to the Commissioner through him . Because of all this , Morton was now sitting here — off his food , filled with indignation because he had to go crawling through the gutters of London to satisfy Bragg 's social conscience . He pushed back his chair , and went to change into the evening clothes that Chambers had laid out for him .
Idiom: to a turn (used idiomatically: yes)
Gyngell again had seat problems and spent several hours that evening in a major rebuild , fortunately successful . The afternoon 's activities in Chichester Harbour were somewhat amusing for spectators , the Sailing Challenge contest , followed 10 minutes later by the Novices Cup . There was steady light drizzle and virtually no wind but the ebb carried them comfortably down the channel to the first turn in front of the clubhouse , after which the doldrums set in . It was when the novices began to overtake the experts that confirmation , if needed , came that sailing skills were not the only factors involved . After well over an hour the race was abandoned as the fleet slowly drifted backwards out of the harbour .
Idiom: on the rocks (used idiomatically: yes)
Trusting your impulses can bring many unexpected delights . Shortly before moving to London , I spent a few days visiting ancient and mystical sites in Cornwall . One evening , I sat on the rocks at Land 's End , watching the sun set across the ocean , when I felt a sudden urge to find a standing stone circle which I 'd read about that day . I had only a vague idea where the circle was , but nevertheless set off towards it . After driving several miles in the fading light , I spotted a signpost which marked a public footpath , and somehow ‘ knew’ this was the right route .
Idiom: do the trick (used idiomatically: yes)
Male speaker Not every scientist looks like this . You can all be scientists today by helping me do some magic science tricks Voice over It 's more like a childrens ' afternoon TV show than a science lesson , but there 's a message in every device .
Idiom: twist the knife (used idiomatically: yes)
' I knew you were going to say that , ' said Caro . Did you , Clare thought , did you ? Do n't I ever surprise you , and twist a knife in your heart ? She spoke harshly . ' All right : firstly , she survives Mrs Ramsay and paints a picture which catches the whole thing .