Gooogr/pie_idioms huggingface dataset:
Idiom: pissed off (used idiomatically: yes)
It activates ; it legitimates . It seems to be a necessary condition . So she 'll settle at the table , flushed , exalted , imperious , resolute — anyway , thoroughly pissed off — and I 'll get the ball rolling with something like , ‘ Do n't go - please.’ ‘ Goodbye , Tod.’
Idiom: behind the scenes (used idiomatically: yes)
Clough named in transfer ' cash pay - off ' FORMER Nottingham Forest manager Brian Clough was accused yesterday of liking a personal pay - off to help transfer deals go through . The claim was made by Tottenham Hotspur chief , Alan Sugar , who told the High Court about soccer 's behind - the - scenes transfer market wheeling and dealing and alleged that former Nottingham Forest manager Brian Clough liked a ' bung ' a personal payment in cash . The allegations came as Spurs chairman Sugar met the club 's chief executive Terry Venables in court in the latest round of their battle for control of the club . It was in an affidavit from Sugar booed and hissed at by fans as he entered court that Martin Mann QC , for Venables , named Clough .
Idiom: twist someone's arm (used idiomatically: yes)
Yeah , libraries are very funny are n't they ? Mhm . I find that with our local , but well twist their arm . But it 's a quest if you take something of reasonable size not too far in advance , you 're usually alright . that right now .
Idiom: from scratch (used idiomatically: yes)
For added storage , a shelf or drawers could be fitted underneath , the drawers being made with a d - i - y drawer kit and faced with the same material as the rest of the wardrobe . There are two choices when it comes to building your own fitted wardrobes . The first is to construct the whole thing from scratch , using your own materials , but making use of standard sizes or door and internal storage systems ; the second is to make use of a wardrobe kit , which basically provides the door and the frame to make the wardrobe front , but allows you to choose your own internal fitments . Which method you choose will depend , to a large extent , on the type of door front you want . MORE TO ADORE
Idiom: under the influence (used idiomatically: yes)
Colonel Henry Wilson negotiated with Mosley in an attempt to merge the two organizations . He had lent £ 500 to the BFs to liquidate pressing debts , and in order to obtain repayment had either to bankrupt them or obtain financial backing from elsewhere . However , between Wilson 's meeting with Mosley and that of the British Fascist grand council , Rotha Lintorn Orman changed her mind and , allegedly under the influence of drink , strenuously opposed the proposal . The merger plan was again abandoned , and Wilson began bankruptcy proceedings to wind up the BFs . The proposal to merge the IFL with the BUF completely failed .
Idiom: go for the jugular (used idiomatically: no)
The Director of the Agency and the Director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation were there . The F.B.I. Director said , ‘ My first man into Athens , a young man but a good friend of Lawrence 's , has promised the widow that we 'd go for the jugular on this one.’ The Agency Director mused , ‘ But , whose jugular?’ ‘ Whichever.’
Idiom: rare bird (used idiomatically: yes)
Among those poisoned , trapped or shot were 40 golden eagles , 65 peregrine falcons , 367 buzzards , 24 red kites and 39 goshawks . The total represents a three - fold increase on the previous decade , but the real death toll is thought to be far higher . According to Richard Porter , RSPB head of species management , " deliberate persecution has had a crippling effect on some of our rarest birds of prey " . It is also threatening species reintroduction efforts . Of the 44 red kites released into England and Scotland last year by the NCC , three have already been poisoned .
Idiom: under fire (used idiomatically: yes)
Padding behind them were the demolition squads , Corran Purdon 's men held for a tense few moments in the open when every second might draw more fire as they smashed the northern winding - hut door ( ' A ' ) . Inside they placed their charges and sledge - hammered the electric gear . All was ready for demolition , but in going to report this , the burly Corporal Chung was wounded , the two parties on the caisson being under heavy fire . Gerard Brett , wounded in both legs , had been dragged to the protection of a low wall before his team slipped across the caisson , killing two Germans who appeared out of the gloom on the east side . The hatch trap - door into the caisson would not come open and fire was coming from all sides , including the north where three ships were moored beyond the caisson on the Penhouet Basin 's south quay .
Idiom: every last (used idiomatically: yes)
She looked up at the cloudless sky . She said out loud , ‘ I 'm going to find out exactly what transpired all those years ago , and I 'm not leaving here until I know the truth . I 'm going to clear my mother 's name , and the great M 'sieur Rohan —’ she almost spat the name ‘ — is going to eat every last insulting word.’ She went back into the house and slammed the door . She felt too uptight to embark on cooking her chicken dish that night , so she organised a simpler meal of terrine , followed by an omelette and fruit .
Idiom: to the tune of (used idiomatically: no)
Martin Llowarch , chief executive of recession - hit British Steel , resigned after more than 20 years with the company . It had been widely assumed that he would succeed Sir Robert Scholey when the chairman steps down . British leisure group Brent Walker , in debt to its banks to the tune of £ 1.2 billion ( $ 2.1 billion ) , announced a year - end loss of £ 256 m , with further losses to come this year . But the company is confident the banks will keep it from bankruptcy by accepting a reorganisation plan . Intent on reducing costs by around $ 400 m , Apple Computer is considering sacking around a tenth of its 15,600 workers .
Idiom: walk free (used idiomatically: yes)
It costs £ 8.50 from most main department stores . Probation for mother who killed baby A TEENAGE mother who stabbed her daughter to death after giving birth because she was too terrified to seek help , walked free from a court yesterday . A judge took pity on Nicola Lee , 19 , after hearing she will be haunted by the tragedy for the rest of her life . She sobbed ‘ thank - you’ as she was put on probation for three years after admitting the infanticide .
Idiom: in the clear (used idiomatically: yes)
JTR Early in the day these westward - looking cliffs were in shadow , and a grateful shade it proved , for the sun 's rays were exceedingly powerful . Sandy bays invited the bather to plunge in the clear cool waters ; boating parties found no breeze to fill the sail , and rowed lazily around the coast . A solitary fern - gatherer was filling his basket with specimens . A wooden mansion was quite an inviting residence : it consisted of the saloon of a large ship that must have been wrecked in the neighbourhood .
Idiom: run the gamut (used idiomatically: yes)
There is good reason for this . DDR citizens have a right to a passport but only conditional rights to a visa for departure . Possible reasons for non - approval run the gamut from the usual to the astounding . That a visa for travel to West Germany can be refused on ‘ moral’ grounds is highly unusual ; a regard for ‘ national security’is much more the norm … will it mean no visas for all ‘ bearers of state secrets’ , a category which can be variously defined from one individual case to the next ? … Judging by the mood prevalent up till now in the DDR the planned freedom of travel will scarcely influence those who want to leave because their patience is at an end and their trust in the government has been destroyed .
Idiom: think the world of (used idiomatically: no)
Both he and Sonya Marmeladov , in their separate areas of the novel , impress the need to accept suffering . Now suffering is a vast and many-sided fact of Crime and Punishment , as of all mature Dostoevsky — larger than the ‘ loose end ’ idea of The Drunks which produced Marmeladov the marmeladey wallower in abasement and humiliation , the man who seeks suffering and finds it ( and so finds satisfaction too ) at the bottom of his vodka jug , who screams ‘ I 'm loving this ! ’ when his wife pulls him across the room by his hair ; and larger than the ‘ out of the practical swim ’ idea of ‘ A Confession ’ from which emerges the murderer , the man with something to confess , who does n't seek suffering but learns , though only in the Epilogue , to accept it . Prostitution is the hardest labour in the world , Dostoevsky thought , and Sonya of the yellow ticket who sells her body to buy her family 's bread has no loose-end aspect to her suffering . Nor has her consumptive step-mother , Marmeladov 's wife , endlessly busy with children and no-home . One can only regard them as victims of other people 's loose ends , just as the terrible sustained anxiety of Raskolnikov 's mother and sister on his account is the measure of his power to make others suffer as well as himself in that limbo which his friend — his only friend — Razumikhin calls being out of the practical swim .
Idiom: way to go (used idiomatically: no)
Some three months of investigation followed while we selected an appropriate market . At the time we were also tracking the development of desktop publishing , a newly created use for personal computers . Using word processors was already standard practice for us and it became rapidly apparent that desktop publishing was the way to go , so far as production systems were concerned . From there it was only a short step to deciding to publish a title about the technology . In January 1986 we set up The Desktop Publishing Company and bought a complete Apple Macintosh desktop publishing system .
Idiom: kiss and tell (used idiomatically: yes)
‘ Been telling tales out of school , Dr Grant?’ She could n't resist aiming the jibe . ‘ One thing I can promise you , Dr Blake,’ he said softly , ‘ I never kiss and tell.’ Lindsey choked . ‘ Why , you … ’
Idiom: at a stretch (used idiomatically: no)
We electro - fished the 3.5 mile stretch from Hartshill to Nuneaton and only found four zander . We discovered plenty of small fish . ' We promised Coventry we 'll have a look at the stretch again before the zander spawn in April . The only thing I can suggest is there 's a small pocket of fish causing the problem . ' We are planning to electrofish the North Oxford junction later this month but it really depends on the weather .
Idiom: wipe someone's eye (used idiomatically: yes)
There 's no need to cry.’ ‘ I 'm sorry.’ Daisy wiped her eyes on her sleeve again . ‘ I ought to get the Niagara Falls Award for bawling . I 'm just not used to lucky breaks .
Idiom: keep the peace (used idiomatically: yes)
This second set of wars was much more obviously concerned with colonial problems and ambitions than the wars at the beginning of the eighteenth century , and the result in 1763 was a dramatic conclusion to the overseas struggle which left no doubt of Britain 's imperial supremacy , even though its effect on European affairs was less clear - cut . The overseas struggle had become closer to a world - wide contest ; the fighting outside Europe before 1713 had been confined to North America , but between 1739 and 1763 the British went far enough afield to attack the Philippines and — what was much more important — the struggle had spread to India . Between 1690 and 1713 the weakness of the Europeans in India , and the power of the Moghul emperors , had kept the peace . By the 1740s the Moghul central government had grown too weak to impose peace on Europeans , in the 1750s the British and the French took an important role in struggles among Indians , and by 1763 the British had made themselves rulers of one of the most important regions of India , though they had not yet worked out a legal form to express the new reality in India . Early Eighteenth - Century Britain
Idiom: pull strings (used idiomatically: yes)
Ibn Fayoud was in control of nothing , least of all himself . The user used . But if he was the puppet , who was pulling the strings and to what dance ? Jack Butler really did n't like the idea that he had been nobbled and worse than that , nobbled by a girl . On the surface , his routine had changed little : travelling around the country , shaking hands , keeping his staff in order , checking his contacts were behaving themselves , sleeping with his girlfriends .
Idiom: out to lunch (used idiomatically: yes)
" Anyone for tennis ? " he said . " Swimming ? " " I 'm going out to lunch , " Sara said , , " to the Fairfax barbecue for Sandra 's birthday . " " How strange . So am I. "
Idiom: thick as thieves (used idiomatically: yes)
Sure enough . Had a punch up ? I mean now they 're as thick as thieves you know ? I mean now they wanna , both on the other side of the fence , they 're the biggest crawlers going . And they were two of the biggest villains , they 're in the fucking
Idiom: off the shelf (used idiomatically: yes)
Consider if you can utilise any existing hardware . Find out the terms of available service contracts for the equipment . Most needs can be met by products available on an off - the - shelf basis and you will rarely need to design your own software . This is particularly true if it is your first investment . The advantage of working with a software house to design your own package is that the end product is tailor - made .
Idiom: for good measure (used idiomatically: yes)
E.M. WELLINGS 'S claim ( WCM Aug ) that Graeme Hick 's failures have put ‘ pressure’ on his England team - mates strikes me as somewhat baffling . Since Hick 's elevation to the Test team we 've seen England share the most successful series against West Indies in the last nine , win a series against New Zealand for the first time in four attempts , win a Test match against Pakistan for the first time in 10 years , and , for good measure , reach the World Cup final . Parker 's honour A SMALL point on your book review of Durham : Birth of a First - Class County : had Ralph Dellor consulted the club or been at the match , he would have noted that it was Paul Parker who took the first ball from Oxford University pace bowler Michael Jeh , and not John Glendenen .
Idiom: bear fruit (used idiomatically: yes)
Jacqueline Sanchez , of the Ministry of Education , also points out that ; ‘ Over the years , since the revolution , many people have become much more demanding as far as education is concerned , and despite all the difficulties , are more critical and expect more of their schools.’ It is very difficult in the circumstances of either Mozambique or Nicaragua to evaluate conclusively the effectiveness of policies which promote education as a means of transforming society , although in the case of Nicaragua , despite the problems , government - sponsored initiatives clearly scored successes , both in educational terms and in terms of social change . However , any such strategy requires far more time and continuity of action and work to bear fruit . In both countries , undoubtedly one of the goals of what the United States euphemistically called ‘ low - intensity conflict’ was to hamper and discredit the revolutionary movements ' ability to deliver services to their peoples , and to involve them in changing their lives . Certainly in the case of Nicaragua , this strategy played an important part in undermining the undoubted popular support which the Sandinistas had enjoyed in the first part of the 1980s .
Idiom: all along (used idiomatically: yes)
Come on , feller … that 's it … ’ Jess tried to pull away , but it was no good . She 'd known all along she 'd be made to stay and watch . Lord above , what was she going to say to Salt when she got back — and to the old baggages ? ‘ Leave go , Will — if th'want th'money.’
Idiom: kiss and make up (used idiomatically: yes)
She crossed over to sit beside Dot . She put her arm round her . ‘ Come now , pet , let 's kiss and make up and I 'll tell you about him . Biggin Hill , I met him , Empire Air Day . Oh , he was beautiful .
Idiom: beg the question (used idiomatically: yes)
Even as experienced , and senior , a journalist as the labour editor of the Sunday Times would find his copy altered without his knowledge and in ways which changed the substance of that copy . His only ' power ' was to request that his name be removed from the story . Yet the editor of the Sunday Times explained his paper 's coverage and position in a way which begs more questions than it answers . The Sunday Times , he wrote took a firm editorial line : for the sake of liberal democracy , economic recovery and the rolling back of union power …
Idiom: anything goes (used idiomatically: yes)
Remember that you may cause internal bleeding if you introduce large things ( like fists or some sex toys ) inside your own or your partner 's vagina or anus . Always use lots of water - based lubricant like ‘ KY’ . If you practise S&M sex , anything goes as long as you do n't exchange blood . You know the rules ! What if you think you have been at risk ?
Idiom: over your head (used idiomatically: yes)
No , you polish your armour till it gleams , you sharpen your lance and you mount your white charger , you raise your banner , you bid farewell to the grieving city , where the crowd stands in terror and hope at your preparations and your parting . Then you ride out alone , across the springing grass all beset with tiny jewel - like flowers ; you ride up the rushy mountains and down the rushy glens and come to the mouth of the dragon 's cave . Then you draw your sword , wave it over your head and call the dragon out . Some dragons banter words with you , more devious and less answerable than the Sphynx herself ; they spin word games which you must not play , and then in the end they come out and fight like men , until you can plunge your spear into the soft white spot where their plated armour is thin . Maggie was tempted to that particular plot , for the story had been told that way so many times , and it is very hard , at moments of crisis , to re - cast the language and the shape of old stories .
Idiom: one and the same (used idiomatically: yes)
In ‘ culture studies’ , and quickly entering the more proper sociological study of culture , talk has been of modernity versus postmodernity , of modernism versus postmodernism . In social theory and increasingly in sociological theory , a school of writers of German origin , whose leading figures are Habermas , Adorno , and Benjamin , have been pitted against a group of writers of French background , whose leading lights are Foucault , Derrida , and Lyotard , in the controversies between critical theory and poststructuralism . It has been the sometimes unspoken assumption of these two parallel debates — whose spokespersons are often one and the same — that to be on the side of modernity and modernism is to be on the side of critical theory , and that to be a postmodernist is at the same time to be in sympathy with poststructuralism . What I should like to do in this essay is to challenge this assumption . Of the three just - mentioned most serious and central figures of critical theory , it is Walter Benjamin who comes closest to offering a sociology of culture .
Idiom: run out of steam (used idiomatically: yes)
What they say : ‘ Whatever the opposition may promise , the people know the only prudent choice is Conservative.’ What they mean : Our bribes are less obvious . ‘ We definitely are not running out of steam . When it comes to radicalism you ai n't seen nothing yet.’ We 've got more ‘ Citizen 's Charters’ .
Idiom: take root (used idiomatically: yes)
ONCE upon a time people indulged in the ages - old craft of telling stories to each other— but then television and video stepped in and took the words out of our mouths . These days the practice of story - telling is so rare that it has acquired the status of an art form . Hence the third International Storytelling Festival which takes root at the South Bank Centre before moving on , in various forms , to Leicester , York , Bristol , Reading , Manchester , Barrow - in - Furness and Llantwit Major . It boasts a stirring menu of international wordsmiths including two Inuit Eskimos who will ‘ throat dance’— they stand nose - to - nose bouncing their voices off each other 's throats to produce a bewildering array of sounds . Another pair — Sheref Tasilova and Murat Cobanglu from Turkey — engage in ‘ bardic duels’ .
Idiom: play ball (used idiomatically: yes)
‘ We will have no difficulty in getting the fifty signatures we need for a Special General Meeting . The task then will be to kick Grunte out . And then , my love,’ he added meaningfully , ‘ if you play ball , I can help you to a very safe seat.’ Spouse - less in Brighton , he managed to catch up with Angela Cartwright in the foyer of the Grand Hotel . Without a photo - pass hanging from his left lapel , he was uncomfortably conspicuous ; his identity had been checked three times since Amaranth had dropped him .
Idiom: behind bars (used idiomatically: yes)
Another favourite is the spicey Vina Esmerelda ( with smoked salmon of course ) . The Torres reds are also available and surely the ' jewel in the crown ' must be the superb Gran Coronas Black Label , which the proprietor serves with the pride of someone who knows you wo n't be disappointed . Behind the bar you will find a huge range of interesting Spanish liqueurs and brandies and you will find a bottle of dry sherry chilling in the fridge . A Bertola Pale Dry Fino or Manzanilla is worth a try and proves that this well known house produces more than the famous Bertola Cream . New Edinburgh Rendezvous
Idiom: no man's land (used idiomatically: yes)
The home fans occupy the left half of the London Road end . Most football grounds now divide their rival fans by placing them at opposite ends of the ground and by preventing access between the ends . At Leeds , for example , not only are fans separated in this way , but a wedge - shaped piece of terracing at the corner of the visiting fans ' terrace is designated a ‘ no - man 's - land ’ , surrounded by high fencing , and kept empty . Any fan trying to get from one end to the other would have to pass through this area and would be immediately arrested . Strategies at other grounds are often even more elaborate .
Idiom: crocodile tears (used idiomatically: yes)
They may be eagle - eyed or watch like a lynx . They may be wise as an owl , slippery as an eel or even a snake in the grass . You will notice phrases like crocodile tears , the elephant never forgets , and the ostrich burying its head in the sand . What other expressions can you think of which include the name of an animal ? You will enjoy beavering away to find out .
Idiom: set eyes on (used idiomatically: yes)
I handed over my life 's savings and promised that I would give her the other nineteen and six before the year was up . We shook hands on the deal and I grabbed the handles and began to push my first cock sparrow back over the bridge towards the Whitechapel Road . When Sal and Kitty first set eyes on my prize , they could n't stop jumping up and down with excitement and even helped me to paint down one side , ‘ Charlie Trumper , the honest trader , founded in 1823’ . Once we had finished our efforts and long before the paint was dry , I wheeled the barrow triumphantly off towards the market . By the time I was in sight of Granpa 's pitch my grin already stretched from ear to ear .