Gooogr/pie_idioms huggingface dataset:
Idiom: in the black (used idiomatically: no)
Hypertension is prevalent , with systolic hypertension appearing the most frequent in non-insulin-dependent diabetics , possibly reflecting the frequency of obesity in this group . Evidence for increased diastolic hypertension is less strong and is probably related to renal dysfunction . As in the non-diabetic , hypertension is more common in black compared to white and Asian diabetics . It is likely that hypertension adversely affects overall morbidity and mortality in diabetes and has deleterious effects on the more specific diabetic complications . However , only treatment of hypertension in diabetics with nephropathy has been shown to improve prognosis , although this statement is based on very few patients .
Idiom: get a life (used idiomatically: no)
' I do n't know . I do n't care . He 's got his life and I 've got nothing . I 'm nothing . Just a pair of hands peeling potatoes and a reflection in the mirror .
Idiom: by heart (used idiomatically: yes)
There was no gap . The gate was the only way through with a bike . Then she thought of the Brownie Promise and the Brownie Law and the Brownie Motto , all of which she knew by heart and had often said aloud when riding along the country lanes , so that she would be able to say them if the wonderful day should come for her to join a Brownie Pack . To do her best and help other people , to think of others before herself , to do a good turn every day , to lend a hand — she was only partly keeping the Promise , the Law and the Motto by setting off to save the Brownies ' van from what could be a nasty mishap . She had to be brave enough to finish the job , braver than she 'd ever been before , really to fulfil the Promise and the Law .
Idiom: pour cold water on (used idiomatically: yes)
JEALOUSY and betrayal are brewing in the latest episode tonight of TV 's coffee ad romance . In the last cliffhanger , downstairs lover Tony Head was caught sharing his Gold Blend nightcap with a mystery lady . Tonight 's episode 10 finds ‘ on off’ girlfriend Sharon Maughan pouring cold water on Tony 's feeble attempts to explain . Then she flies off to Milan in search of a richer , darker continental flavour provided by smoothie Italian Marino Mase . Designer - suited Mase — who has appeared in EastEnders , Return of the Saint and Godfather III — offers Sharon more than a sip of la dolce vita .
Idiom: get lost (used idiomatically: yes)
On the Sunday evening when I first rang him . I spoke to Nigel . I said it was about the photographs , but even before I 'd finished talking , he gave me this message from Marius to … you know … to get lost.’ ‘ Right . Give me the name and address of the bloke you got the photos from.’
Idiom: blow someone's mind (used idiomatically: yes)
‘ It 's mind bending , is n't it , darling?’ Cassie whispered , her voice trembling a little . ‘ I mean , when you think about it properly , Johnny , does n't it just blow your mind?’ ‘ Well , I do n't know about that,’ he replied cautiously , ‘ but it 's certainly a rum old do , Cassie , old thing . A rum old do.’
Idiom: dog tired (used idiomatically: yes)
These berths might also be improved for the build - up phase , by bulldozing earth ramparts to speed the offloading of bulk stores carried by many LSTs . The team checked the incline for some 200 yards out from the beach at one point . On the fifth night they were dog - tired , having had little relaxing sleep in the cramped quarters of the submarine and spending several hours each day writing up their notes on the previous night 's recce . Nevertheless George Burbridge and Noel Cooper went in once more : nothing was seen of them again . No.4 COPP was to survey a beach on the north - west coast , and Neville McHarg with Lieutenant Sinclair paddled shorewards from HMS Safari .
Idiom: in the saddle (used idiomatically: yes)
In January Orkney broke an ankle . It was suggested that the plaster should stay on for between four and six weeks after which he might like to think of building up its strength . Two weeks after the accident he was back in the saddle . There was a man , he said , who knew how to deal with jockey 's injuries . He said it was all right for the pot to come off and for him to walk on the injured foot .
Idiom: free rein (used idiomatically: no)
Its importance lies not in its detail , which is highly confusing and often contradictory , but in its broad outline . Formally , it mandated the government to fulfil the economic resolution passed last Saturday — the one that began the crisis by forcing Mr Yeltsin to present a new government by July . But the declaration spoke of ‘ taking into account current economic and social conditions’ , a clause that should give both the president and the government free rein . Hardline resistance to Mr Gaidar and his shock therapy programme , which conservatives say is sending millions into beggary , will not have ended with the vote in the Grand Kremlin Palace and is likely to move back on to the streets with more rabble - rousing in coming months . The ‘ Russian Unity’ faction , which includes around 300 of the 1,000 deputies , renewed its call for the ‘ government of market experimenters’to resign .
Idiom: have a ball (used idiomatically: no)
Today very little military demi-caractère style exists in Western ballet except in such American works as Balanchine 's Stars and Stripes , but it played a large part during the nineteenth century . It was then taken over by such excellent troupes as the Tiller and Jackson Girls who toured widely over Europe and America and later by the Drum Majorettes , who have also appeared in Balanchine 's works . One glimpse of this welldisciplined style can be seen in Lichine 's Graduation Ball , where both boys and girls march in formation and make other military manoeuvres . It is this aspect of military style that is well worth studying for the precision with which a battalion of soldiers makes patterns such as can be seen at the British ceremony of ‘ Trooping the Colour ’ . Something like this event was once staged at the Alhambra in the famous ballet Soldiers of the Queen at the height of the Boer War ( 1900 ) .
Idiom: in the pink (used idiomatically: yes)
He was nominated for Designer of the Year in 1989 and continues to produce the original , quality clothing . His collection for this summer consists of simple shapes in chiffon and satin . Stretch bra tops and slip dresses in pink and cream are painted with delicate flowers . Leather gilets , chainmail dresses and leather biker jackets with hot pants are worn with huge Afro wigs for a funky Seventies feel . But the slip dresses in the catwalk picture do not come cheap and to achieve this daring look you need to buy not one , but two dresses ( not for the faint - hearted , being virtually see - through ) making a total retail cost of £ 522 .
Idiom: go straight (used idiomatically: yes)
In my part of the world , therefore , the Labour party is agreeing not with the hon . Gentleman , but with the Conservative party . Mr. Caborn I do not know to which local authority the hon . Gentleman is referring , but may I try to explain the context of the debate to him , because it seems to be going straight over the heads of Conservative Members , as was evident in that intervention which I shall now try to answer . What the hon . Gentleman 's local authority is saying is absolutely right . There will be all - purpose authorities for the delivery of services .
Idiom: by the book (used idiomatically: no)
Over the past few years the market has boomed : Dataquest expects portables to account for around half of PC sales by 1995 . The smaller the PC , the greater its appeal — or so it would seem . The laptop is now being overtaken in popularity by the ' note - book ' — weighing under 10 lb , the size of an A4 notepad , and shrinking fast . For the moment , the smallest PC in the world is the Olivetti Quaderno ; around the size and weight of a hefty paperback . Yet despite their growing popularity portables are still largely under - utilised .
Idiom: turn something on its head (used idiomatically: yes)
Incorrigible to the last , the high priest of scandal has even turned his worst moment into a punch - line . In 1987 , he walked into the dressing room at non - league Altrincham and turned to the club 's physiotherapist Jeff Warburton . With a smile on his face , The Doc turned years of anguish on its head . ' How 's the wife , ' he joked , and walked out the door . ' HE 'S NOT ANYONE , HE 'S TOMMY DOCHERTY ' .
Idiom: go all the way (used idiomatically: yes)
. That 's Italy and er the home of the Mafia , there 's Greece and Turkey and so on and you come back round again , there 's the Straits of Gibraltar . In the early days of er navigation within the Mediterranean people used to actually have to navigate by going all the way round the coast . . So if you wanted to go from there to there you went all round that way .
Idiom: on the nose (used idiomatically: yes)
One 18-year - old youth appeared in court after throwing glasses at a publican 's head , while in another pub case that ended in court a landlord had refused to serve Bank Holiday revellers whereupon they ' knocked him down , and kicked him in the eye and about the body ' . Back in the open street things were no better . We hear of ' an elderly woman … set upon by a gang of young ruffians who knocked her down and stole a bag of provisions she was carrying ' , and in another case a 17-year - old youth was charged with assaulting an elderly woman on Bank Holiday night : ' Both her eyes were blackened and there was an abrasion on her nose . ' These kinds of incidents could be repeated time and time again , and nor were black eyes and bruises the only injuries sustained . Arriving home late one Sunday night on a railway excursion from Herne Bay , a bottle - fight broke out among the holiday - makers as a result of which a man was killed .
Idiom: at the end of the day (used idiomatically: yes)
Carrie said , ' Did she — I mean , did it hurt her much ? Dying ? ' ' Hepzibah said it was just like putting a light out at the end of a day . ' ' Oh , ' Carrie said . Then , ' What 'll happen to Hepzibah ?
Idiom: beg the question (used idiomatically: yes)
This is best answered by asking what the desired goal is . Some may say that it is efficiency or effectiveness . But although these are attractive and apparently straightforward goals , they are , of course , only half an answer , since they beg the central question : efficient to what end , effective in producing what ? So we have to look elsewhere . The goal on which we would all agree , I suggest , would be one of fairness , whereby resources are distributed and technology applied in the right way .
Idiom: under the microscope (used idiomatically: yes)
A good example of that that I read about it was the naturalist who was making a study of snakes . And he took a poisonous viper and forced its mouth open , and inserted a glass under its fangs and drew out a couple of drops of deadly poison . And when the poison was put under the microscope it seemed to contain the most beautiful colours of the rainbow . A most attractive thing , and yet it was a deadly poison . Sinfulness in life can been seen like that too .
Idiom: come up trumps (used idiomatically: yes)
‘ Here,’ she said at last , pointing to the desk newly vacated by Dwight Kronweiser . Greg sank into the leather warmed by his voluptuous posterior . Who 's Who had never been Greg 's favourite reading but rather to his surprise , it came up trumps : Seymour - Strachey , Gerald Harcourt ; Professor of English Literature , University of Grimsby , 1942–74 ; b. 8th June 1904 ; s. of Stephen Seymour - Strachey and Charlotte Butler : educ . Wellington College , NZ and University of Melbourne . Publications : Heterosexual Strain in Modern English Literature , The Ern Malley Affair , Sins of My Old Age and Earlier .
Idiom: moment of truth (used idiomatically: yes)
There are no ' brute ' facts — no facts prior to interpretation . Secondly , therefore , the process of testing can not be as described earlier . A test can not be a moment of pure empirical truth where theory is judged against reality . Just as concepts are entwined with perception , so too theory is entwined with experiment . The question is never ' what do the facts show ? ' but ' which theory shall we prefer ? '
Idiom: on the cuff (used idiomatically: no)
Sun Microsystems Inc chief executive Scott McNealy claimed the move would deliver to Solaris the three volume chips likely to survive : PowerPC , Sparc and Intel as SunSoft resources are moved off the new Intel Corp version , he said , they would be dedicated on the PowerPC — McNealy said this would be ready in late 1993 and SunSoft president Ed Zander immediately stepped up to contradict him , saying the date would more likely be early next year ; few details were available and it remains to be seen who would use it and how it will be sold . SUN DRESS SENSE Sun Microsystems Inc chief executive Scott McNealy arrived at the SunSoft Developers ' Conference last week all spiffed up in a dinner jacket , wing collar , jeans and sneakers ; SunSoft president Ed Zander , a man with a tailor to kill for and the wardrobe to prove it , was quick to notice that McNealy was wearing a shirt with his initials on the cuff for the first time in his life — McNealy shot back that the ‘ SM’ stood for ‘ Stop Microsoft.’ SHERWOOD REAPS THE BENEFITS OF TURMOIL IN LLOYD 'S MARKET , LIFTS PRE - TAX 22 % According to Chairman Richard Guy , 1992 has been one of the most difficult years faced by Gloucester - based Sherwood Computer Services Plc .
Idiom: walk the plank (used idiomatically: yes)
Give the winners of the games a black spot which can be exchanged for a present or a can of coke . For games , you can play ‘ Captain 's coming’[p.47]and adapt one or two others to a pirate 's theme . Instead of musical mats , children can ‘ walk the plank’ and should not have a foot on it or be the last person to pass over when the music stops . You can also play pass the pirate 's parcel . WORD SHAPE
Idiom: bounce off the walls (used idiomatically: no)
She was younger , thinner , more worried . This new , familiar girl fussed around the table , patting at the rotting food as if plumping a baby 's eiderdown , waiting , waiting , waiting for the guests to arrive . They too ignored me when they blustered in — hearty gusts of wind through the door ; false laughter echoing in the rafters ; shrieks bouncing off the walls . Their faces were like the grotesque masks of street carnivals , their clothes the cruel parodies of stamping clowns . Hoots of triumph crashed through the shrinking kitchen like the trumpeting of elephants , saturating the air .
Idiom: off the mark (used idiomatically: yes)
Lieberson goes on , " we are still totally oriented to the experimental model " . Researchers without very much thought , continually try to manipulate non - experimental data so as to approximate as closely as possible to the kind of experiment held to epitomise natural science . But to do so , he maintains , they are obliged to make impossible assumptions that " generate analyses that are completely off the mark " . Although the details of Lieberson 's argument are often statistical , formal , carefully wrought and complicated , the burden of his complaint is that controlling in most social research ignores , or fails to deal with adequately , selectivity in the controlled variable . This is a not dissimilar point to the one we made earlier concerning sampling individuals from a social world which is relationally organised .
Idiom: first off (used idiomatically: yes)
Date : Thu , 12 Aug 93 16:06 GMT Subject : Erm … dickhead alert … Okay , first off , am I the only ‘ fortunate ‘ person on the list to get this mail ? Well , I got 3 posts from ‘ IT’ ? ? Just wonderin … before I flame the bollocks off the stupid little shit:- )
Idiom: along about (used idiomatically: yes)
Small enough to step over , as Highfield 's step - over trees testify . The nursery has revived this old and useful idea , whereby instead of growing upwards the tree grows horizontally . Each tree consists of just two branches , 2–3 ft long , running along about a foot off the ground . You can plant step - overs along a path or as an edging to a bed and pick 20 or 30 apples from each one . At around the 5 ft height there are two options , bushes or cordons .
Idiom: on the cards (used idiomatically: yes)
That 'll be nice on your travels you ought to see underneath the fridge , he does this in the kitchen and they 've all gone under the fridge , when you 're at the top shop or any other places where the will you have a look on the cards in the window , I 'm looking for a slide , you know , but a smaller one for him for the garden for the summer really , cos that 's just about had it that one ? Cos you can only use them up to about four I would think cos other , other than that they get a bit too big for them do n't they?he could do with a little slide in the garden he will , Christmas
Idiom: bottom drawer (used idiomatically: yes)
The family move to Brunswick Place , near the junction of City Road and Old Street , took place in 1879 — but just before , rather than after , the death of William 's father Benjamin . The Titfords were more than lucky , in a sense , to have picked up their legacies from Benjamin 's will in that year , since the nation as a whole was suffering from a period of deep depression following a boom which had peaked six or seven years before . Charles Frederick , we know , had used his capital to set up his little tobacconist 's business in Cumberland Street ; Emily Jane probably used hers to swell her bottom drawer , and William … well , in a moment of cavalier abandon , he dabbled in running a chandler 's shop there in Brunswick Place . An odd move , to be sure , at a time when prices were falling — and in a rather smart street , too , where such a venture would not be guaranteed to make him instantly popular with the neighbours , as customers came in one door and noisome smells came out of another . Of course it was only an experiment and did n't last long : by 1884 the Court Directory for London lists William as an engraver once more— this generation of Titfords seemed to lack the heart for such enterprises , which had been the speciality of their father , Benjamin the Silversmith .
Idiom: on the carpet (used idiomatically: yes)
Far right : in a time - piece frock with her pet poodle and mastiff The infant Cornelia , C.Z. 's daughter , hangs over an eighteenth - century chair ( above ) . Left : Tiger on the leopard carpet Shadow boxer Philip Gould nudged stony - faced Sandinista leader Daniel Ortega out of army fatigues and into cowboy boots ; the same Philip Gould was described by The Times as having ' helped save the Labour Party more than £ 500,000 at the last election ' .
Idiom: to the tune of (used idiomatically: yes)
She said Development Area status is vital to the Wirral in its efforts to bring more investment into the area . And removing it would be like asking the local council to continue its work with one hand tied behind its back . In the last eight years , 62 projects have being supported to the tune of £ 20.5 m . Melbourne Cup for Subzero THE victory of Subzero in the Melbourne Cup last night completed a rare treble for trainer Lee Freedman .
Idiom: get lost (used idiomatically: yes)
Mm . I , cos I remember coming , coming back , I got lost . You know where er that circle is where there 's the shops , well instead of taking I know , instead of taking one road I took another and I got completely lost ! Mm . Mm .
Idiom: work to rule (used idiomatically: yes)
Prison officers and civil servants have been taking industrial action in protest over what they claim is a move towards privatisation . ARNCOTT / Oxfordshire Prison officers at Bullingdon prison near Bicester began their work to rule last night . They claim government changes are contributing towards prison disorder . Government employees have been picketing social security offices in Oxford and Gloucester .
Idiom: in light of (used idiomatically: yes)
' Name of God , you 've killed him . ' ' That was my intention , ' Jehana said irritably . She came to his side and stared along the alley at the two men who were standing unwarily outlined in the light of a held lantern . She raised the pipe again and spat hard . A man 's voice cried out in pain and anger , and the light was extinguished .
Idiom: from pillar to post (used idiomatically: yes)
Our friendly policeman had gone but there were nurses there for the first time that I 'd seen , and even the odd doctor . Maybe all that stuff about cuts in the health service was n't true . Lisabeth and Fenella were being moved out of the way and generally harried from pillar to post . Fenella told me , breathily and all excited , that they were going to operate and we 'd all have to leave , but it was all right really because Salome 's mum ( who was ever so nice ) had turned up having been called by Frank and was in there talking to the surgeons . Oh , and yes , Frank was on his way .
Idiom: up for grabs (used idiomatically: yes)
Divine accident ? Cynical goalpost - shifting ? No , more like expanding already open minds to infinite parameters , building their own Virtual Reality theme park where time has no meaning and the entire history of sound — acid house , prog rock , punk , reggae , classical , astronaut transmissions , Muslim prayer chants , Rickie Lee Jones eulogising the skies of her youth — is up for grabs . Accidentally or not , The Orb could be the post - modern Punk Floyd for a new millennium . But does this make them the future of rock ‘ n’ roll ?
Idiom: clear as mud (used idiomatically: yes)
In different ways , both government are alarmed by the implications of what is happening . This explains the dramatic Demarche of President Mitterrand and Chancellor Kohl in April , when they effectively bounced the rest of the EC into a much more urgent timetable for political union , aiming for full implementation in two and a half years . What this really means , of course , is still as clear as mud . If you actually read what Mitterrand and Kohl said , their words are open to so many interpretations that it is tempting , though wrong , to think that the whole business is all talk and no substance . The Franco - German joint statement speaks of democratic legitimation of the union , making Europe 's institutions more efficient , ensuring unity and coherence in every sphere and implementing a common foreign and security policy .
Idiom: get up someone's nose (used idiomatically: yes)
And apart from the Bohemian Rhapsody news of the rest of the European football tonight and we have the double attacking spearhead of Colin Fray and Martin Fisher at the City ground and you listening to the classiest football cover on Radio Nottingham from five past seven . Now er over the last few days we 've been er talking quite a lot about er that statue you know the one that 's down by er down by Marks and Spencers that 's the best way to describe where it is the leaf stand the er the one that looks like a tulip and water dribbles down the side of it . Well they want to move it they want to develop the area and er now they 're talking as well about taking the trees out from around there too which is really getting up people 's noses it would seem . Councillor David Poole is on hello . Hello .
Idiom: go public (used idiomatically: yes)
‘ Satisfaction’ has become feasible , something you can plan for . The Smiths , hooked on the glamour of the misfit , could only occupy an IMPOSSIBLE position , attempt to create a rock music where aggression was replaced by vulnerability , hedonism by asceticism . From the private pain , the furtive ‘ minor language’ of unrequited obsession , that they began with , The Smiths went public , became the rock band , the pollwinners , ombudsmen for wider grievance . Whether speaking out for the silent rock majority against the soulboy mediacrats , or representing The Smiths as media martyrs . Morrissey ascended a paranoiac spiral of statesmanship ( paranoia is inverted narcissism)— check the progression from ‘ Panic’ through The World Wo n't Listen and Louder Than Bombs , to Strangeways Here We Come .