Gooogr/pie_idioms huggingface dataset:
Idiom: have someone's number (used idiomatically: yes)
Right . There 's one written out so it looks at least . You have your own number Number . the assignment has it 's unique number
Idiom: make or break (used idiomatically: yes)
By Chris McLaughlin Political Correspondent AN ATTEMPT to lift confidence in the Government 's control of the economy will be made tomorrow when the Chancellor , Norman Lamont , is expected to deliver an austerity Budget with a promise of recovery on the horizon . In what is regarded as a make - or - break move for his political career , Mr Lamont will set out to demonstrate a clear route out of recession while underlining the Government 's clamp on public spending . But his aims of holding out hope for jobs and industry will come against a damning confidential Government report on the prospects for industry and an emphatic thumbs - down to Mr Lamont 's continued tenure as Chancellor from the Scottish business community . Labour yesterday demanded publication of the report , which warns that British industry is in a lamentable state and will take decades before being fit enough to compete internationally .
Idiom: wear the trousers (used idiomatically: yes)
The twenty - year - old was walking outside Stoke Mandeville Hospital near Aylesbury when she was dragged into a field and attacked . Police are looking for a man who 's five feet eleven inches tall and of medium build . He has short , black hair and was wearing a short zipped jacket and black trousers . A man who was alleged to have killed barman Brian Hawkins has had the charge against him dropped . Mr Hawkins , who was twenty - six , was found dead at his home in Stroud last May.
Idiom: in the red (used idiomatically: yes)
Proteins are also the major structural molecules in the cell , providing , for example , the forces for cell movement , receptors at the cell surface , and the adhesive links between cells . Proteins also give different cells their special character . For example , the protein haemoglobin carries oxygen in the red blood cells , and insulin , another protein , is made in particular cells in the pancreas . An eight - cell stage mouse embryo The wide variety of proteins in the cells are all coded for by the genes in the nucleus .
Idiom: all along (used idiomatically: yes)
The picture becomes almost a real person to the boy , replacing his dead grandmother and helping him to carry on when circumstances seem to be against him . When he thinks he has lost the girl he loves and is left penniless and alone , he decides to sell the picture . However , events take a path of their own and the picture finally brings him the happiness it seemed to promise all along . Strawberry and the Sensations Strawberry and the Sensations are a rock group on tour .
Idiom: on paper (used idiomatically: yes)
Recent Text Processing Experience The Press first used computer methods to assist typesetting in 1970 , beginning with An Index to the Indo Aryan Language produced from an IBM computer in London University and using the Photon Lumizip 901 typesetter of Computaprint Limited . A small Computer Assisted Typesetting unit was established to prepare input for an ICL 1903 computer on paper tape . The data prepared was for directories such as Crockford 's Clerical Directory and the OUP General Catalogue . In 1974 a Raytheon - Cossor PTS-100 mini computer was purchased and programmed by the Press to provide a four screen editing system using magnetic cassettes as the storage and updating medium .
Idiom: in the dock (used idiomatically: no)
Miss Jarman drank noisily , put down her cup and added : ' Mark my words , this business will drag on and on . Princess is to stay in dock . I 've seen to that . There 'll be no more doubtful voyages till the thing is settled one way or another .
Idiom: go overboard (used idiomatically: yes)
you are given very much more freedom or independence would be a better word , and erm Shit you 'd be expected to , to do a lot of work by yourself , and that 's reflecting the fact that erm you 'll probably have four or five lessons in each of your three subjects , but most people would choose three subjects for A level , and that means that er , when you 're not having lessons , you 've got a lot of time that is not accountable for , you will have been , or going to a general studies period and stuff like that , but there will be a fair number of private study periods , erm , there are some people I think who , who go overboard , and you 've got such a different approach erm from er the lower sixth , people do n't use the time that they have , erm , what I 'm really saying is that if you go into the sixth form and you spend less school time in the sixth form you do n't need to be prepared Well what 's to , to make wise use of your non - teaching
Idiom: to the bone (used idiomatically: yes)
She was moving now towards the sea . She felt it , like a void before her . After she had walked for another half hour she was tired to the bone . She sat down on a rock . The sky was thickening .
Idiom: round the clock (used idiomatically: yes)
It is difficult to step back at the time of a natural disaster to gain a broader perspective ; even attempting to do so can feel crass . But there are some facts that we should not overlook . During the round - the - clock coverage of the nuclear drama , the specter of Chernobyl has been raised repeatedly . It is worth noting that the worst nuclear disaster in history directly caused only 31 fatalities . The World ~ Health ~ Organization estimates that 4,000 deaths could be linked to the disaster over 70 years , whereas the OECD projects a range of 9,000 - 33,000 deaths during this period .
Idiom: cross swords (used idiomatically: yes)
Charge - capped Islington considered sending 25 children and five teachers to Senegal to study French . Islington could have saved its council and charge payers a great deal of money if it had just asked the advice of a local geography teacher and been told that it is better to go to France to learn French . I understand that in Dudley , Thomas the Tank Engine has crossed swords with the ideologues of the loony Labour left . Thomas the Tank Engine has been banned from schools and libraries because it is sexist . When reading stories about Thomas the Tank Engine to my daughter , I never thought it sexist .
Idiom: bite the dust (used idiomatically: yes)
Alyssia dropped her expensive Gucci bags at her feet , wiped the beads of perspiration from her brow , and thought , Damn ! The flight from London to the Nice - Côte d'Azur airport in the south of France had been long - winded and tiring , with delays at either end . The taxi ride from the airport to the little village where she was staying , only six kilometres from Nice , had been uncomfortable because the air - conditioning in the car had broken down three days before her arrival and was waiting to be repaired , and all in all her last vestiges of good humour had finally bitten the dust as she 'd stood in front of the house and realised that it had n't finished being built . It was interestingly designed , true enough , a charming affair of pink stucco backing against the hill , and with its own private path snaking towards the sea , but there was still something unfinished about it . She wrinkled her nose in irritation , wishing that her father had had the foresight to warn her that it had not been fully completed , instead of waving her on her way with a cheery remark about how the change would do her good .
Idiom: on board (used idiomatically: no)
He had to apologise about that young girl Carly because he got it all wrong . Then he got the public sector borrowing requirement wrong . Will the right hon . Gentleman take on board the idea of giving the Prime Minister a mentor who could sit by his side for these last two days to help him out ? Perhaps he might use the ex - Prime Minister to give him a chuck on . May I make the further suggestion that when it is all over on 9 April we get the right hon . Gentleman a new job — a walk - on part in a re - run of’ Crossroads’or as a substitute for Ken Barlow .
Idiom: get the picture (used idiomatically: yes)
NAVICO MY PENTAX GIVES ME PERFECT PICTURES EVEN WITHOUT FILM . Using one of our cameras is n't the only way to get great pictures . You 'll see equally impressive results with a pair of Pentax binoculars . We 've introduced three new models altogether .
Idiom: take a powder (used idiomatically: yes)
Maggie glanced up , and there was Nevil Sanderson bearing down on her . It was now the second week in January and she had n't spoken to him since the night of the Christmas dance . ‘ I 'll take a powder,’ said Natasha and , picking up what remained of her piece , rose and strolled away . ‘ Hello , how are you?’ Nevil smiled at Maggie .
Idiom: fast and furious (used idiomatically: yes)
But David did n't have that any more . Angela was n't around very much at this point either . This whole experience had been so fast and furious for me I did n't know what I was doing any more . My drinking picked up incredibly . I was dabbling with drugs and doing plenty of drugs and also I 'd become very arrogant .
Idiom: in the black (used idiomatically: yes)
It 's good . It must be his friend . She 's the one in the black suit ? The Mm .
Idiom: keep a low profile (used idiomatically: yes)
I hate steep , relentless climbs , especially at two in the morning in low cloud . Two young lads from Hafnarfjödur , a small fishing village near Reykjavik , were going like loonies . I decided to keep a low profile , after all I was a guest . And I had n't paid . Anyway , I could go no faster , being the slow - starter , long - distance plodder type .
Idiom: do the right thing (used idiomatically: yes)
‘ If I make it,’ said Jack automatically . I inquired after my brother , Max , who had finally agreed a few months ago to work for Dad 's firm , and I established that he was in Paris for a few more days . One of the sons had done the right thing and had taken the pressure off me for a while . After I had arranged to meet Jack on the following Wednesday , the Masons left for home , and I had an early dinner with my parents . Monday was usually a busy day for me , when I talked to my clients at length and often had lunch with one of my various contacts in the City .
Idiom: young blood (used idiomatically: yes)
Three years later Thomas Cook relinquished his printing business and devoted all his attention to being an excursion agent . In 1855 he took his first party abroad to the Paris Exhibition and during the same year organized and led a Grand Circular Tour of Antwerp , Brussels , Waterloo , Cologne , Frankfurt , Heidelberg , Baden Baden and Paris . For centuries young bloods had been sent off by indulgent parents to tour Europe in the hope that they would return cultured , educated , their manners refined and their address books packed with useful contacts , but Cook 's was the first group tour of European countries organized by an excursion agent . The following year his talent for crowd control , grounded in his years as a Baptist preacher , was put to more commercial use when Cook personally conducted 1,673 people to a working - man 's demonstration in Paris . Thomas Cook 's confidence and enthusiasm set the pace .
Idiom: get your feet wet (used idiomatically: no)
And , ideally , part of it should be dappled in shade to provide shelter on those really hot sunny days that we 've experienced in recent summers . It 's sensible , too , to choose a site conveniently near the house , so you wo n't have to carry food too far . And , so you can reach the area without getting your feet wet after a shower , there should be an all - weather path leading to it . If you want to use your patio in the evenings , especially for entertaining , you 'll probably need some electric lighting . A few carefully placed lamps will provide atmosphere and show off the surrounding plants .
Idiom: have it both ways (used idiomatically: yes)
He will not be the first cabinet secretary to sell this line of being a decent person savaged by a three - headed Cerberus in the White House . It makes a good story . It is also a blatant bid to have it both ways . Mr Watkins has after all signed and presented the NES . If he really disliked what the beastly troika had done to it , he could have resigned — or , perhaps more effectively , threatened to .
Idiom: in full swing (used idiomatically: yes)
‘ We have to talk to Piladu … ’ It meant going back to the village first and taking another road out . The market was in full swing as they made their way slowly round the piazza , the Brigadier leaning on the horn to make a path through the jumble of cars and people milling about in the bright but fitful sunshine . He looked for the gamekeeper from the villa among the group of men in dark suits and flat caps who stood talking between the plastic flower stall and the van selling salted fish , but he was n't able to spot him . Once out of the village they picked up speed and took a road that would zigzag through five hamlets before bringing them to the only cart track that wound up the lower slopes of the mountain .
Idiom: black and blue (used idiomatically: yes)
They had handcuffs on me and I 've still got marks on my hands — you can see — where the handcuffs were put on so tight that when I got to the station they could n't get them off me . I was back in court the next day and I ended up getting twelve months for GBH [ grievous bodily harm]on a police officer . I think it should have been the other way round because I was black and blue from head to toe . When I got into Holloway they have them little forms and they 've got pictures of a body with all arrows and everything , and where I had any bruises the doctor put these marks . It was like from head to toe there was these marks on my body where I had bruises , and I got done for police assault — I could n't believe it !
Idiom: rock bottom (used idiomatically: yes)
One hundred miles away , Mr Alan Lloyd , Labour candidate for Christchurch , Dorset , nodded in agreement . His defeat is as certain as Mr Melding 's , although his campaign has been a good deal less rough : canvassing for Labour in a prosperous south coast resort may be discouraging , but it is scarcely dangerous , unless you count the speechless stick - waving of elderly gentlefolk as assault . ‘ The nice thing about fighting a seat like this is that we ca n't lose since we 're coming from rock bottom . It can only get better . It 's fun really , because I can enjoy myself , I 've got no pressure on me from the party to succeed,’ he said gamely .
Idiom: on the trot (used idiomatically: yes)
By Andrew Moncur FOR THE first time , to his knowledge , the forces of law ‘ n’ order have been tampering with items mailed from the US to Maurice Frankel , director of the Campaign for Freedom of Information . Twice on the trot packages have been opened for inspection by HM Customs . Where , in both cases , did the correspondence come from ? The American Privacy Foundation , as it happens .
Idiom: the icing on the cake (used idiomatically: yes)
Manager Billy Bonds said : ‘ This was the best we have played away in the two and half years I have been in charge . ‘ It was a tremendous performance and Knight kept them in the game . More goals would have been the icing on the cake.’ West Ham 's Trevor Morley could have had a hatful during a one - sided second half but Knight 's brilliance and some missed chances stopped Pompey from being overwhelmed . But the keeper was to blame when he missed a simple cross and Allen scored with ease .
Idiom: break new ground (used idiomatically: yes)
He derived deep satisfaction from his own creative work in which he engaged in quiet , country places and in the privacy of his own study . Personal delight and considerable sensitivity is evident in his work ; whether the delicate pencil studies of his middle years or , later , in his watercolours in which he seemed to find a new kind of inner freedom . Whether painting , launching a course , or giving support to a teacher breaking new ground , the same personal qualities pervaded all Basil 's endeavours : patience , honesty , love and care . It was not so much by what Basil said that I remember him but by what he did . He did what he meant and meant what he did .
Idiom: pass muster (used idiomatically: yes)
Plus ça change . With this sort of baggage still going round on the carousel , it 's a pity that Europa Europa does n't marshall its thought - provoking material into a better movie . It is based on a true story so outrageous that it would never in a million years have passed muster as fiction . Solomon Perel is a Jewish teenager whose family has fled Germany to settle in Poland . When war breaks out , he becomes separated from his relatives , but manages to survive the war by passing himself off as a German soldier of Aryan origin .
Idiom: go to the dogs (used idiomatically: yes)
Eb tossed the daily paper on to the floor , as he slumped back into his chair . ‘ I 'm sick and tired of reading the news . Country 's going to the dogs — men out of work everywhere — there 's no money about … . This shop 's takings are down by half , compared to this time last year . When are we going to be told some good news for a change?’
Idiom: down the road (used idiomatically: no)
this ! talking oh she was talking with him , so it 's rude to interrupt like that ! And always , before she 'd talked , finished talking to him she was off on down the road . But it was her , and I was thinking after she 's sure to have retired now . Oh I dunno !
Idiom: make history (used idiomatically: yes)
He has contributed not only to general Marxist theory , but also directly to penology in Whigs and Hunters ( 1977 ) , his painstaking historical study of the passing of the ' Black Act ' of 1723 , a penal statute of extraordinary scope and ferocity . Thompson 's The Poverty of Theory ( 1979 ) is an extended polemic against Althusser and his disciples . Above all , Thompson insists that history is made , not by the inevitable operation of impersonal structures , but by the actions of real human beings . ' For all these ' instances ' and ' levels'are in fact human activities , institutions , and ideas . We are talking about men and women , in their material life , in their determinate relationships , in their experience of these , and in their self - consciousness of this experience ' ( Thompson , 1979 : 299 ) .
Idiom: up and running (used idiomatically: yes)
The basic idea , however , is simple : differences in performance can be measured ; employees can therefore be rewarded differently and appropriately ; employees will make the connection and work harder or more effectively . How far has the NHS gone down this road ? No unit or trust has yet got a job evaluation scheme for nurses up and running . A great deal of interest has bee expressed and COHSE detects what it calls ‘ a lemming - like rush’ in this direction . So far , only six NHS trusts have introduced performance — related pay for nurses but it is clear almost all trusts want to introduce such a system .
Idiom: my bad (used idiomatically: yes)
I need to be ooh well it , well it 'll have to be our voices again on this because things being what they are we ca n't er , we ca n't go out to Cath 's today with your cold and my bad throat no in the fog and frost so , perhaps they just be content with our voices
Idiom: jobs for the boys (used idiomatically: no)
In five years time , such roundabout measures are unlikely to be needed . Italian savings banks Fewer jobs for the boys ROME LEGEND has it that when Benito Mussolini took control of Italy 's savings banks by decree in 1938 , it was to settle a dispute with a local fascist leader over who should be the boss of Cassa di Risparmio di Venezia .
Idiom: make the cut (used idiomatically: yes)
Brush the edges of the basin well with grease . Line the bottom of the basin only with paper by cutting out a circle of paper about 5 cm ( 2inches ) larger than the base of the bowl . Make cuts into this paper circle to a depth of 5 cm ( 2inches ) all the way round . 2 Press the paper circle into the base of the bowl so that the snips overlap up the sides and the round fits the base snugly .
Idiom: up and running (used idiomatically: no)
Graham Randell , 47 , has been appointed deputy general managing director at Greggs of Gosforth , the Stock Exchange listed bakery company . Building society Nationwide has appointed Barry Cummins area land and new homes manager for the North - East . He will be responsible for setting up and running the department which will cover most of the Northern region . George Hamlyn , 47 , has been appointed general manager of Minories ' Peugeot dealership at Stockton . Minories , part of the Harrogate - based Appleyard group , has also appointed Steve Wright , 39 , general manager at the company 's Benton Road Peugeot dealership .
Idiom: get lost (used idiomatically: no)
Buying a house is probably be the biggest financial transaction of most peoples lives . Not only does it involve large sums of money but , for the vast majority of us , most , if not all , of the money has to be borrowed . Everyone considering buying a house should seek professional advice but it is easy to get lost in the jargon . Here are a few points that might make the process easier … The Source — Building societies have always been the traditional source of mortgage finance , however , banks finance companies and specialist lenders have also moved into the market and now provide major competition to the building societies .
Idiom: walk free (used idiomatically: yes)
Two cleared in barn blaze deaths trial By Echo reporter TWO men today walked free after being formally cleared of the manslaughter of teenage twin girls who died in a barn blaze . Unemployed Wisdom Smith , 19 , and student Daniel Winter , 19 , were released from the dock at Bristol Crown Court on the seventh day of their trial after a jury returned formal verdicts on the direction of the judge . Smith , of Longlands Drive , Bishop 's Cleeve , near Cheltenham , Gloucestershire , and Winter , of Albemarle Gate , Cheltenham , were also formally cleared on a joint charge alleging arson .
Idiom: catch fire (used idiomatically: yes)
Andrews himself was killed in a road accident in 1966 . In Swansea , John Roberts spotted a plane about to crash while he was travelling on a bus . Quickly getting off the bus , he ran to where the plane had impacted and dragged out the injured pilot who was covered in oil moments before the plane caught fire . Alfred Reginald Thomson , R.A. , R.P.,(1894–1979)— War Artist All branches of the armed services at various times made appointments of official War Artists , who were commissioned to paint battle scenes or portraits for the armed services .
Idiom: with a will (used idiomatically: yes)
L Detachment at the time consisted of around one hundred men , most of whom had been through the basic training course . Stirling reasoned that if the Germans did continue their attack and captured Cairo , the whole unit could retreat south from its desert base , thus avoiding capture . Everyone worked with a will to equip the expedition and load up with enough food , petrol , water and ammunition for three to four weeks in the field . The fitters laboured to modify the jeeps for desert travel and to a completely novel specification . In its final version , the SAS jeep must surely have been the most cost - effective fighting vehicle ever developed .
Idiom: up in the air (used idiomatically: yes)
He added that fell walkers and ramblers may be teaming up for weekend excursions into the great outdoors . The clubs would join forces for trips to venues such as the Lake District and incorporate both fell walking and rambling into the agenda . Development technician Dave said : ‘ At the moment the proposals are very much up in the air but we are hoping to plan mixed weekend trips which both groups would enjoy.’ Chef turns up the racing heat CHEF Mark Williamson hopes to cook up his best ever time when he runs in the London Marathon .