Gooogr/pie_idioms huggingface dataset:
Idiom: buy time (used idiomatically: yes)
There was one major exception which worked well — the Civil Contingencies Unit created after the 1972 miners ' strike . It gave ministers an improved intelligence system on the physical consequences of industrial disputes in vulnerable industries and services . It also fashioned an improved operational instrument for ministerial use to buy time and to distribute scarce resources once a dispute started . By and large it performed well during the miners ' industrial action of 1973–4 and the concurrent ‘ go - slows’ in the electricity - supply industry , as David Howell recalls : HOWELL
Idiom: jack of all trades (used idiomatically: yes)
My family warned me not to . Thanks to the war with yourselves ( the British ) democracy returned with Alfonsín and I was able to return on a visit a year ago . ' Here in Paris I 'm what they call a touche - à -tout ( Jack of all trades ) in literature , architecture and graphic design . The only journalism which I have done regularly is with the NI which is the group with which I have had the best understanding during my stay in Europe . I do n't have the same kind of link with any group in France .
Idiom: by and large (used idiomatically: yes)
Although the sequence oral - anal - phallic seems to be , and indeed is , determined by the basic pattern of infantile physical development — oral dependence giving way to increasing control of the anal sphincter , followed by development of genital sensitivity , etc . — the pattern of instinctual renunciation and control which this series represents is derived from another , different series in which the stages originally occurred in a different order . To understand why this is so we need to return to the polytrauma theory outlined earlier and see what its significance is for the development of the modern individual . It was argued earlier that man , a creature with unprepossessing qualities for higher social development , became capable of that development because of traumatic social changes which occurred in the past but whose impact was so immense that they have shaped human nature down to the present and have been the determining influences on the evolution of culture , whose function , by and large , is the transmission of the consequences of these primal , traumatic experiences to subsequent generations in the form of ego , and , most especially , superego , development . We saw that the first , and most important , of these traumatic social changes was the transition from vegetarian foraging to big - game hunting which precipitated the murder of the primal father , and that subsequent totemic culture , still extant until recently in some parts of the world , was a consequence of this . We saw that initiation ceremonies and totemic ceremonial in general were means of instilling in fresh generations the consequences of the traumatic experiences of their predecessors .
Idiom: on a roll (used idiomatically: yes)
Gabriel thought it was a sign . He ran with it , stumbling under the weight , to show Lucie . Lucie was squatting on his bed - roll , sweating profusely , with one hand spread on his chest as though making a vow . The shadows of his face were green . ' What do you want ? ' he snapped , as Gabriel kicked open the door for want of a free hand .
Idiom: put a damper on (used idiomatically: yes)
Then Guido spoke . ' You said you were looking for me . ' His tone was censorious , putting an instant damper on the moment . He straightened and confronted Silvia . ' What did you want ? '
Idiom: right as rain (used idiomatically: yes)
My son 's getting married in June and everything , and I feel this way in June . Oh you 'll be , be as right as rain by that time . You think so ? Yes .
Idiom: in someone's pocket (used idiomatically: yes)
Never depend on an out - of - date map . A modern , accurate map of the district is available from the offices of this newspaper , price nine pence . ' When Giles heard about the out - of - date map in the dead man 's pocket , he was very excited . He told Beverley the whole story of the stranger in the mist . Beverley was very interested .
Idiom: tell tales (used idiomatically: yes)
The young girls fetch the grub along . The girls fetch the grub along . And er to er well , you know I could tell you some tales about them . Er , on th on the , on the big planes you see like when what we used to take twenty eight twenty eight out to Mm mm .
Idiom: stand the test of time (used idiomatically: yes)
They were all written in nineteen thirty - nine or nineteen forty , and though they all concerned Walter Machin and his writing , or the industrial environment in which he lived and had grown up , they nevertheless contrived to be oddly impersonal and unrevealing . There was one piece of a mildly political nature : it had been contributed to the Daily Herald in October nineteen thirty - nine , and was called ‘ The Workers and the War’ . The arguments had not stood the test of time too well , but it ended pithily enough : ‘ What the working man wants from the war is work.’ Putting this mass of stuff aside , Greg was left with two very manageable files filled with photocopies and carbon copies . One contained business matters of the sort that households — even households in the depression years tend to accumulate over the years .
Idiom: jump to conclusions (used idiomatically: yes)
Harry : If it was me that you said that to , I would n't go home and tell my parents , I would just tell you about your colour . Keith : Teachers should n't make racist jokes . THEY JUMP TO THESE CONCLUSIONS One way in which attitudes towards and categorization of black pupils was fostered was through gossip among staff . This is an important medium in the school , since a fair proportion of teachers do not actually teach the pupils they hear talked about .
Idiom: come to think of it (used idiomatically: yes)
List membership is currently about 60 people , worldwide . That 's about a busful , but the chances of ever getting everyone in one bus to a Leeds game are virtually nil — unless the Travel Club starts all - in deals via New Zealand , Australia , Canada , the USA , Israel , Sweden , Norway , Denmark , Germany , Dublin , Liverpool , Congleton , York and Bradford . Come to think of it , if the bus had started out from NZ at the start of last season , it could just about have delivered everyone to Southampton in time for the famous Away Win . For most of you , any talk of electronic mail is probably more mystifying than Jon Newsome 's og against the Arse . However , if it does mean anything to you , and if you do have electronic mail facilities at your work place or college or whatever , we hope you 'll join in .
Idiom: lie low (used idiomatically: yes)
And yet , am I entirely satisfied with my lot ? No , for I am an alien . When I moved to Gloucestershire in 1961 I was told by a neighbour to lie low and remember that , although the progeny of an adjacent county ( Worcestershire ) , I would be held a foreigner by Gloucestershire folk for at least 25 years . By the end of that apprenticeship … well , a tacit acceptance would depend on how I had conducted myself in the meantime . Although I have passed the allotted span I am , in my own opinion , still that same foreigner .
Idiom: in the long run (used idiomatically: yes)
Honesty is a character quality demonstrated in the way we deal with expense accounts , time cards and the extra money accidentally given us in change . Respect for others , or the lack of it , is easily demonstrated through our level of consideration . There is no reason to suppose we will be any better , in the long run , at demonstrating respect towards our partner than we are to our parents and relatives . Self - discipline could be considered the ‘ main bearing’ in our character . It is the quality which determines whether we will have the diligence to develop the rest of our character .
Idiom: go round in circles (used idiomatically: yes)
Perhaps the most important and least obvious reason for doing archaeology is that , in many ways , the past is the key to the present and to the future . Archaeology helps us to understand the past , and this understanding helps a great deal in the understanding of society today and the development of society in the future . An explorer who does not compile maps as he or she proceeds is likely to end up going round in circles ; likewise , a society that does not know where it has come from in the past has no chance of knowing where it is going in the future . In this way , archaeology is central to all knowledge , which is why it appeals to so many different people . Archaeology has , quite literally , something for everyone .
Idiom: in full swing (used idiomatically: yes)
Discussions are in full swing on how the welfare state and private responsibility can be suitably combined .
Idiom: open someone's eyes (used idiomatically: yes)
Penny Thornton VIRGO — BY THE end of 1993 your life will look very different from the way it does now . Three eclipses will activate parts of the Virgo horoscope , open your eyes to possibilities and ensure that you get out of any ruts . In many ways , you will have to throw away the rule book because the tried and tested that you have set so much store by will prove inadequate for the job . World events will create some of the situations that affect your course .
Idiom: under the influence (used idiomatically: no)
IV Intelligence School . Before that he had helped to earmark dons and outstanding undergraduates for signal intelligence work in the event of war . Many wartime recruits came under his influence through the Bedford training courses , which he organized and supervised . During the 1930s he led the team which successfully decrypted all Comintern radio traffic with England , and by 1939 he was head of the military section at the Government Code and Cypher School . During the course of the war he was promoted colonel and brigadier , and was made chief cryptographer at GC and CS at Bletchley .
Idiom: by the book (used idiomatically: yes)
Implementing every law on every occasion implies unlimited police resources . But where constables under common law can be creative in their construction of nebulous charges — such as that of ‘ obstruction’ , there can be no end to the opportunities for street summonses and arrests . The sane constable rapidly learnt to withstand the pressure from his seniors to work by the book . Cutting Corners Legal procedures were the preserve of the Instruction Book and of the advocates in court .
Idiom: turn the tables (used idiomatically: yes)
His images at their best are indelible ; whereas the images of advertising , even at their best , could scarcely be more delible . BEYOND WARHOL … Four contemporary artists turn the tables and borrow from advertising RICHARD PRINCE 'S series of re - photographed Marlboro cowboy ads are finely printed , enlarged and cropped to lose the logo . Stripped of brand identity , the blatant potency of advertising imagery is laid bare .
Idiom: cut and dried (used idiomatically: yes)
Today the police said that after a post mortem examination , they 're still awaiting the results of more tests . He says that scientists have certain tests they need to carry out , they ca n't really be sure how she died until shis has been done . So the inquiry is by no means cut and dried and they 're now trying to piece together the last hours of the dead woman 's life . She was last seen alive at 10.30 p.m. on Wednesday 2nd September , when she left her husband 's house after they had argued . Police hope someone may have seen her driving her distinctive renault car .
Idiom: every last (used idiomatically: no)
Dragging the last remnants of his determination together , he fixed his eyes on the dark , looming rock and thought , I will . And suddenly , like a miracle , the extra strength came to him , and he was running . Hundreds of metres up in the sky above Ashdale , he was running along the Edge with every last fibre of his body . Every thread of will - power , every cell , all of himself . At the same moment , Jinny heard Doyle shout , ‘ What are you waiting for?’
Idiom: as luck would have it (used idiomatically: yes)
The interviewer was unnerved and changed the subject quickly . The statement does not have to be true or relevant , of course— it just has to sound true and relevant . And as luck would have it , I just happen to have a list of apparently germane truths which I have been maturing during the last month or so , after being worsted in various conversations . Here are a few for you to use . I hope they work .
Idiom: make waves (used idiomatically: no)
He built his dragons a garden , the most beautiful garden in the world , and although he surrounded it with an iron wall which he believed they would not cross , he made the wall beautiful for them , lavish with filigree work and sweet with hanging plants . He built them a pagoda of solid jade and embellished it with precious gems — not realising that to grow up a dragon must accumulate its own hoard , must steal it from Emperors and princes . He had a pond dug for them , so pretty and sweet , surrounded by bullrushes with a delicate arched bridge and floating with water lilies — Not realising that a real dragon needs a whole ocean to sport in , needs the spume of the white capped waves , needs the great storms and clanging icebergs , needs the coral islands of the southern seas , needs the dark rains and winds and currents to make its blood flow green and its whiskers curl ferociously . The scholar fed his pet dragons on the choicest tit-bits , bringing them rump steaks of the purest virgins and a daily supply of swallows ' flesh — not realising that such things , for true dragons , are treats , are after-dinner delicacies and no more a fit diet than endless chocolates would be for you . As you can imagine , his pet dragons did not grow very large , but they did grow lazy and fat and tame .
Idiom: turn someone's head (used idiomatically: yes)
Yet they were bright with more than lust , brighter with other kinds of desire . Thinking of the provocatively slow way she might later take off her shiny red boots , dark hair falling down over her placidly unconcerned face as she bent to remove them , thinking of the longer , slower flow of her otherwise quick young body as she discarded her clothing bit by bit and turned with a sudden smile of submission towards his already rumpled bed , he was also holding in to himself and caressing within himself the glass - cased ideal of a woman — a Princess — who could be worshipped without being touched by bonily clutching fingers , who could transform him without being stickied by any of his bodily fluids . A woman , a fair lady , who would listen to him and be moved by him , moved so much that her eyes glittered before she turned her head away in gentle acknowledgement of his sincerity and his dignity . He had stirred the dregs of his frothy coffee with a plastic spoon and he had kept his eyes fixed tight upon her , registering the slightest movement of her limbs and the most minuscule gesture which crossed her face . It was not long — and far quicker than he knew — before she became aware of his scrutiny and soon after sensed the unusual and possibly intimidating intensity of it .
Idiom: high and low (used idiomatically: no)
The most risky situations , high risk exemplars of high risk junctions are given significantly more descriptions that are clearly not related to risk than any other type of situation . Discussion of Total Information Given A primary purpose of this study was to explore the distribution of risk - related information at both high and low risk junctions . From Figures 7.2 and 7.3 it is clear that there is indeed more risk - related information at the high risk junctions and this is more marked for the high risk exemplars than the low risk ones . For the low risk junctions it does not appear that high risk exemplars actually contain more risk related information than other exemplars of the same junction .
Idiom: lie low (used idiomatically: yes)
He hardly slept . At times he felt himself departing into hallucination . The rumours were still flying , but the proof was lying low . Creed 's vultures were out there , Jed was sure of it , sealing lips and twisting thumbs . Sometimes Creed would turn his face to the window and smile .
Idiom: in the long term (used idiomatically: yes)
Collation of up - to - date information on suppliers , prices , distribution methods etc . c. Purchasing goods and services at prices which represent the best value to the business in the long - term ( ie not necessarily the lowest prices at a given time ) . d. Maintenance of adequate stock / inventory levels .
Idiom: on the money (used idiomatically: yes)
The 31-year - old from Malahide near Dublin lies 131st in this season 's money list and if he fails to move into the top 120 in the two months that remain he will have to go to the European tour qualifying school for the first time . Discover To try to discover the form which put him on the verge of Ryder Cup honours in 1989 he finished 17th on the money list that year Walton has gone through around a dozen putters . That includes a broomhandle type for three months and now an old hickory - shafted one which his father gave him last weekend . ‘ He 's a wheeler - dealer and he came across it in a house where he was doing some plastering,’ said Walton , who used a similar one when he played in the 1981 Walker Cup match in America .
Idiom: out of the question (used idiomatically: yes)
A German athletics source , who is very close to the case , said that two of three independent reports ordered by the arbitrating panel clearly stated that the drug was a stimulant , some of which are allowed during training . The German athletics federation ( DLV ) panel , which is expected to announce its decision by the end of the month , has put a great deal of emphasis on the findings of the reports . A continuation of Krabbe 's suspension now looks out of the question . ‘ Two of the three experts definitely say in the reports that clenbuterol is not a steroid,’ the source , who did not want to be identified , said . ‘ On that basis nothing has happened and she should be free.’
Idiom: man of god (used idiomatically: yes)
We are the people that God has equipped , for this time in history , in our city and neighbourhood , for the specific needs of the people around us . God has called us to be the Elishas — the people of God — in twentieth century Exeter . There was a purity and a peace in the life of Elisha which made people around him see God , and call him ' the man of God ' . My next question was ' Why did Elisha answer in the way that he did ? ' His response is interesting because it was immediate and for what was left out .
Idiom: toe the line (used idiomatically: yes)
They are imperfect players in an imperfect democracy ; and they are there , from time to time , to write and investigate things that the closed worlds of the British professions would grind their teeth over . A truly free press is a press which irritates and infuriates along the way . A reformed Press Council , by these lights , tugs in the wrong , conformist direction ( and , see its proferred code , is a sight too deferential to great and good bodies , like itself , who want to make papers toe the line ) . But such philosophical dissent , at this point , is the stuff of dreams in a dreamworld . As the Fleet Street editors themselves recognised a couple of weeks ago , many British papers have forfeited the strength on which their freedom depends : they are not seen as the defenders of freedom by their own readers .
Idiom: come of age (used idiomatically: yes)
Personal uncertainty will combine with social pressure to encourage experiment . The nature of the experiment will , however , be directed more towards self - discovery and self - reassurance than towards relating to a real other person . Sexual experience is part of coming of age , breaking the seal of sexual mythology and entering into the adult world . Adults will watch the sexual emergence of their offspring , or their friends ' offspring , with a mixture of satisfaction , anxiety and envy . Depending upon the social circles in which the young adult moves there will be more or less pressure towards getting married .
Idiom: get the picture (used idiomatically: yes)
Dad ? Eh ? I today did you do one bulls eye no not cut up the thing and say which sport does this person belong to might get a picture of Rob Andrews see if they stick rugby or tennis on . Yes Paul that 'll be a bit unfair for the other twenty nine people around would n't it ? What other twenty nine people round ?
Idiom: catch someone's eye (used idiomatically: yes)
The first thing to catch my eye were the floats , and in particular the ones that suited my local river — the Trent . Two styles of pole floats immediately came to hand , the series X and the series S. Both floats had correctly shaped bodies — reversed pear — and at First glance appear quite similar . The series X has a plastic tip as seen in the majority of pole floats these days , the tapered cane stem also caught my eye . A nice touch that shows a lot of thought has gone into the design . The use of cane makes this float ideal for fishing sag out shot or styles , and also aids casting when using 7 meters plus to hand .
Idiom: spring to mind (used idiomatically: yes)
And , she realised , the very last thing she needed was a post - mortem on a failed relationship , especially when the relationship had been so horribly one - sided . She spent the remainder of the week drifting aimlessly from room to room in the house , until her father irritably asked her one evening whether she had nothing better to do . ‘ Nothing springs to mind,’ Alyssia said with an attempt at light - heartedness . If this was any indication as to how she would be spending her time in London then she would have to find something to do , and quick . It had been bad enough lying to Piers , leaving him because she knew that she had to , however much she disliked it , but to while away her time here , doing nothing but mulling over past events , was a recipe for misery .
Idiom: pick up the pieces (used idiomatically: yes)
But it was nothing she could not set right . Quickly she went into the next room , returning a moment later with a small linen basket . Then , on her hands and knees , she worked her way methodically across the floor , picking up every last piece of broken pottery or glass she could find . It took her longer than she had thought , but it served another purpose . By the time she had finished she had it clearly in her mind what she must do .
Idiom: tip the scales (used idiomatically: no)
And if she had n't been able to judge this from their dress , she would have from their voices as , one following the other , they said , ' Good evening . ' ' Good evening . ' Her hand tipped the scoop and the chips slid into the scale and when the dial registered much more than half an ounce she did n't remove any but , taking a paper bag , she blew into it , then , tipping up the scale , she disposed of the coconut chips before saying , ' I 'll be with you in a moment . ' ' There 's no hurry . ' It was the man who spoke .
Idiom: ring a bell (used idiomatically: yes)
Time has no divisions to mark its passage , there is never a thunderstorm or blare of trumpets to announce the beginning of a new month or year . Even when a new century begins it is only we mortals who ring bells and fire off pistols .
Idiom: tit for tat (used idiomatically: yes)
France , Italy and former Czechoslovakia are other big customers . — Reuter Trade tit - for - tat can be a dangerous game THE legendary ( but subtly different ) charms of Bill Clinton and John Major will have been fully taxed at their first official meeting in Washington yesterday . Quite apart from the continuing argument about whether the Tories worked to re - elect George Bush , and the more recent fuss about US interference in Northern Ireland and US plans to drop supplies by air in Bosnia , the two leaders face formidable protectionist pressures .