Gooogr/pie_idioms huggingface dataset:
Idiom: change hands (used idiomatically: yes)
Well every Sunday we go to Sadie 's that flower pot place there 's twelve or thirteen cars out every Sunday ! Must be ki quite good then . It must be , cos it 's changed hands . Why do n't you pull your jumper down Geoff ? Cos he 's silly !
Idiom: swim against the tide (used idiomatically: yes)
Even so , Weiner provides a graphic account of the character of this dominant culture — the disdain for trade or manufacture , the cult of countryside and garden , the grip of Southern culture and conservative notions of historical ' heritage ' . The myths of continuity and harmonious inequality all persist more comfortably well away from industry or the inner city . Current attempts to promote more energetic competition and entrepreneurial risk swim against the dominant tide of upper - class values , which continue to be reproduced . Reproduction of the upper class We can identify social mechanisms which secure the transfer of upper - class privilege across generations , transmitting both economic and cultural capital and perhaps also political influence .
Idiom: come to terms with (used idiomatically: no)
When negotiations with Honorius failed to bring rewards Athaulf showed both his anger and his desire to be associated with the Empire by marrying the emperor 's sister , Galla Placidia , who had been a captive since 410 . Then , in 415 , he moved to Spain , where he was murdered . His successor but one , Wallia , made an attempt to lead his people across to Africa , but failed , and instead came to terms with the Roman leader Constantius , for whom he campaigned against the Vandals and Alans in Spain . Subsequently , perhaps in 418 , perhaps in 419 , a new treaty brought the Visigoths back to Aquitaine . After they had been settled in Aquitaine the Visigoths were relatively loyal to the Roman state , although in 422 they deserted the Romans during a campaign against the Vandals in Spain .
Idiom: keep the peace (used idiomatically: yes)
His disciplinary record was appalling and in modern times only Willie Johnson of Rangers and Billy Bremner of Leeds come remotely close to seizing his crown . Soon after he met his second wife , Hannah Anderson , a publican 's daughter from Gateshead , Gallacher was arrested for brawling with her brother under Newcastle 's High Level Bridge . Both men were bound over to keep the peace , but the incident was the beginning of a long history of misbehaviour which was to drive a wedge between Gallacher and the unfortunate clubs who tried to tame his wayward spirit . ‘ THE HITMAN & HER.’ MR & MRS HUGHIE GALLACHER
Idiom: as a rule (used idiomatically: yes)
The Lord Chancellor consulted the Lord Chief Justice , the Master of the Rolls and the President of the Probate , Divorce and Admiralty Division of the High Court who all agreed with his reply . The Lord Chancellor began with the complacent and highly debatable observation that ' we are likely … to get a better assessment of the qualities of some eminent judge of the past through an existing member of the judiciary than from anyone else ' . He continued in words which became known as the Kilmuir rules : But the overriding consideration , in the opinion of myself and my colleagues , is the importance of keeping the judiciary in this country insulated from the controversies of the day . So long as a judge keeps silent his reputation for wisdom and impartiality remains unassailable : but every utterance which he makes in public , except in the course of the actual performance of his judicial duties , must necessarily bring him within the focus of criticism .
Idiom: join the club (used idiomatically: yes)
Salford are in the bidding , Oldham are keeping a keen eye on him and St Helens are reportedly interested . It could also be that Widnes 's match with Barrow last Sunday will be deducted from his current eight - match suspension . He will not , though , be able to work off the remaining seven games until he joins a new club . The League , who will discuss Grima 's case today , has confirmed that Widnes are within their rights to demand a fee even though they have cancelled his registration with two years of his contract left . Widnes 's coach , Doug Laughton , says that the asking price will be ' realistic ' so as to enable Grima to move quickly to a new club .
Idiom: turn someone's head (used idiomatically: yes)
Have n't you two always worked together?’ ‘ Yeah,’ he nodded , ‘ Len taught me my trade.’ He hesitated and Rachel remained silent , then slowly he turned his head to look at her . ‘ He 's in a pretty bad way , is n't he , Sister?’ ‘ Yes , Jimmy , he is .
Idiom: hold someone's hand (used idiomatically: no)
' I know you 're right . I 'll do my best , ' Chris said wretchedly . Joe held out his hand , they shook hands and walked away from each other , Joe feeling that he had done what he could to save Maureen from wrecking her life and suffering years of pain but troubled by sympathy and liking for Chris . In the excitement of his new job and other things that were happening he pushed the thought of Chris to the back of his mind until he realised that Maureen looked red - eyed and unhappy . At the first opportunity he drew her aside .
Idiom: ring a bell (used idiomatically: yes)
The autumn evenings had started to draw in , there was a slight chill in the air , and as Rachel stepped from her car she was glad she 'd worn her thick navy fisherman 's sweater over her jeans . As she rang the ornate brass doorbell and waited she caught the acrid scent of burning leaves from a garden bonfire , then a nearby church clock chimed the hour . She was about to ring the bell again when the door was opened by David 's mother . Rachel had n't seen Irene Markham for five years but she was shocked by how much older she looked . Tall and elegant , her silver - grey hair styled into a smooth bob , she stood in the doorway and coolly surveyed Rachel with the same steady , grey - eyed gaze of her son .
Idiom: break even (used idiomatically: yes)
‘ We 're building a chain at a time when you can do good deals on the rent,’ said Mr Chapman . ‘ We are getting substantial rent - free periods and are being offered large capital contributions’— a sum paid by the landlord to the tenant , usually for shopfitting to entice customers into the mall or high street . Kookai 's sales last year were £ 10 m , on which the company is currently breaking even . That might not sound very healthy , but in the recession - ravaged high street , not to be losing your shirt puts you ahead of most . And , as Mr Chapman thought , Kookai was taking the long - term view .
Idiom: under fire (used idiomatically: yes)
The budget deficit is growing . Unemployment has risen to almost 22 % . His party is riven by personal and ideological differences and is under fire because of allegations of corruption . On the eve of the television debate , El Mundo , a Madrid newspaper that has uncovered several corruption scandals involving the Socialists , said that the party may have used dodgy methods to finance its campaign before the 1986 referendum on whether Spain should stay in NATO . The Socialists reply that the actions in question were not illegal at the time ( the law on party financing came in later ) .
Idiom: go with the flow (used idiomatically: yes)
So , while there is no need to spoil the fun by trying to make an over - blown production out of your Christmas video , why not give a little time and thought to ways of showing the excitement leading up to the day itself . One of the advantages of shooting a video like this one is that the events group themselves quite naturally into sequences which advance the story in a way which your audience will have no difficulty in following . All you have to do is to go with the flow of events , letting each scene add to what has gone before . In fact , the trick that you need to learn to help you with this and all other movie making is to think in sequences . What this means is simply that each time you line up a shot in the viewfinder and before you press the button , you should look on it not as an individual shot as you would a still photograph hut as one of a group of shots .
Idiom: add insult to injury (used idiomatically: yes)
‘ Or used the mini - bar?’ ‘ No.’ ( Harry had decided that to pay for entertaining Nadine Cunningham would be to add insult to injury . ) ‘ That 'll be seventy - four pounds and seventy - five pence then , sir.’ Harry winced .
Idiom: point the finger (used idiomatically: yes)
Mm Mm er I mean I 'm not sort of trying to point the finger at her , but No , because it may well be that they said oh we 've covered audio description before , nothing new Yeah
Idiom: keep someone in the dark (used idiomatically: yes)
‘ Tell me why you tried to prevent me from finding out that I was a Corosini.’ His white teeth dug into his lower lip . ‘ I admit that the family wanted to keep you in the dark . We were expecting a man , do n't forget . We thought he 'd burst in and take away everything we had — everything I 'd worked for so long and so hard , and he did n't deserve any of it .
Idiom: get it up (used idiomatically: yes)
Not for the first time she cursed the lack of experience wth men that left her with no clue as to how to interpret what happened between them . No clue , that was , other than what her heart told her , and as Tom entered the room once more , his eyes coming straight to meet her own , her spirits lifted again and she felt a mysterious sense of rightness about it all . ‘ They 've got it up the stairs and through the front door,’ he told them , the practical words giving nothing away about his mood . But Mrs Porter 's back was turned as she unplugged and packed up the vacuum cleaner , and the very private smile Tom telegraphed across the room to Belinda told her more than the most sweetly worded compliment could have done . ‘ Let 's hope that vase on the stand in the hall is safe,’ she remarked , and he nodded in expressive agreement .
Idiom: ring a bell (used idiomatically: yes)
I had a feeling I knew it would be you . Hi yeah . There 's no one else that walks into our house , without ringing the bell . Just goes for it . How are you .
Idiom: below the belt (used idiomatically: yes)
You ca n't be quite so English . You ca n't live by the Queensberry rules , you know . Most of what 's most interesting in life goes on below the belt.’ He absorbed another spoonful of nursery food , thinking that he had said something rather good which could be used in next week 's article . ‘ I 'm not referring to what is available for fifty thousand lire in the back streets of Siena.’
Idiom: do the right thing (used idiomatically: no)
But he was the same , odd man , who had hung about at the church in boots at Faith Lavender 's funeral . Alida felt that it was quite unseemly , in a woman of Florence Ames ' age , to bring a man - friend openly through the place , to flaunt such a curious person . No , she had done the right thing in ignoring the invitation to luncheon . But she thought that she would have been glad of someone to talk about her new plans with , all the same . And at that moment , up the front path came Isabel Lavender , dressed in black .
Idiom: go round in circles (used idiomatically: yes)
To me the BD is an RR among dogs . But to my tale . For I appear to be going round in circles in answer to a question which has been worrying me for some time . It was brought home to me by the death of a friend 's dog last week . He happens to be a minister and found himself amid considerable grief telling his young family that their dog had gone for a walk with Jesus .
Idiom: money talks (used idiomatically: yes)
Dairy and food group Unigate benefited from the sale of two of its non - core businesses to Dalgety . Unigate jumped 9p to 403p while Dalgety firmed 4p to 517p on the news . Money talks A WEEK is a long time in football , is n't it ? Raymond Campbell 's reasons for joining Linfield as laid out in the Sunday Life are a new challenge , best Stadium , more success , professional approach , £ 20,000 signing on fee — OOPS !
Idiom: steer clear of (used idiomatically: yes)
It was decided that the three cars would be fumigated with Methyl Bromide to eradicate the infestation , and that this work would be carried out using the fumigation bubble . Joe Mallon , Fumigation Technician assisted by Dougie Gray both from the Glasgow Central branch , ensured that the vehicles were correctly fumigated , and to accommodate the length of the cars a double size bubble ( 7 m x 3.5 m x 2.5 m ) was used . The Museum of Transport was pleased with the result and now knows where to come to drive out other pests and steer clear of further trouble . fast DRAINS Hygiene took a new acquisition under its wing at the beginning of August .
Idiom: get the picture (used idiomatically: yes)
Jackie phoned me up to say , she phoned me up today for a chat , we were chatting away and she said erm , I heard Brenda , Brenda , so I knew it was girl , and er , I was saying she walked straight into the kitchen and I was sort of still on the phone , I was saying yeah , yeah , ok and erm , I said I 'm going out shopping and I 'm taking the dog with me , I said ok fair enough , she said well you 'll probably be gone when I get back , I said oh might be but she said but I do n't know and erm you know and I just put the phone down cos she wanted to see the pictures , my little girl asked put all the pictures up for him and er were looking at all the pictures and I 'd forgotten about Jack on the phone you know , so she s all of a sudden I got back she said oh your phone call she said who you talking too ? Oh no you know she 's gon na sort of , sort of suus , so erm , I said oh it 's alright it 's only Eve 's house keeper , and I got back on the phone I said no I 'm every sorry to leave you hanging on I said no I do n't know where she is , I have n't seen her all morning , I have n't seen her at all , and er I said bye then , she said what 's the matter with you she said , I said what do you mean what 's the matter with me , she said oh , why you talking funny ? I said bye then see you sometime , bye and I put the phone down , and she said what does she want then and I said oh she wanted to know where , you know she 'd gone and I said oh I have n't seen her all week you know after , while we was hanging , she was hanging pictures , erm , she come through , she said oh they look wonderful she said I 've got pictures she said , I want my mountain put up in my lounge , with that June burst out laughing , Neil went through and he , he put her pictures up and he was gone there , he said , god he said , you know literally it 's a day to hang pictures , I said well do n't worry about it , you know , that 's what he said to do . like that little thing , you know , the actual picture hook with a hook
Idiom: out of line (used idiomatically: no)
Motion at the rooftops of two nearby buildings was up to three times that at ground level . One advantage of base - isolated buildings is that they move as a unit . Ordinary buildings distribute motion upwards from storey to storey , which can cause ‘ interstorey drift’ that can knock floors out of line as though the structures were stacks of sliced bread . Nuclear power stations are especially vulnerable to this kind of drift , which can damage piping . Kelly has several nuclear stations as customers for his isolators .
Idiom: against the grain (used idiomatically: yes)
The good has to be imposed from outside , it 's not , it 's not in human nature . So this is what I call a pessimistic er , view of human nature , this Hobbesian one . Well , the first book in which Freud explicitly takes up this question in the opening pages , is his book of nineteen twenty seven , er The Future of an Illusion , and his begins , by posing the Hobbesian question , although it does n't mention Hobbes , but , it 's the fundamental point he makes , that civilization goes against the grain of human nature , and the question he asks himself is , how does er , order , morality . civilization come about , and in this book he gives part of the answer , and concentrates on that , and part of the answer he gives is , that it comes about through the institutions of religion . Religion acts as a restraining force on human nature , and er , raises people , as it were , to a higher , to a higher level , by for example giving them more proscriptions , like the ten commandments .
Idiom: turn the screw (used idiomatically: yes)
An Arab 's flowing robes and racing camels gleamed white against the ochre dirt . Then the road swung left of a forest of palms , where man - made trenches flanked the road and cradled young trees , and on past a mud - brick cafe , and the village of Sbaa , with its pyramid tower and mosque . Despite the scenery , however , my shin felt as if it was in a red - hot clamp , with someone turning the screw . I could not take any more . I clambered onto the wheelbarrow , to pray for a healing miracle , laying aside my glasses and hat .
Idiom: in the bag (used idiomatically: yes)
Professional microphones innit ? Stick on the collar I found a pattern of hers , jacket in white in that bag what for a cardigan I wanted to do for school No it 's five pence No I know , well
Idiom: put the boot in (used idiomatically: no)
CLIVE SOLEY MP / Lab Hammersmith Voice over In part two : Putting the boot in . Trading standards get tough on designer fakes . All steamed up : The dream present for a hundredth birthday .
Idiom: get the better of (used idiomatically: no)
Frogs have their origins in the Triassic ( they are a relatively recent amphibian innovation , and highly specialized ) . Their tadpoles can exploit bodies of water not excessively populated with competitors , and some are adapted to very restricted niches . The adult frogs have a different diet ( worms , flies , etc . ) , and the species therefore get ' the best of both worlds ' . Frogs throng in almost any site with high humidity and standing pools of water . The large amphibians of the Palaeozoic did not survive beyond the Permian , and so our inferences about their modes of life have to be made entirely from the bony fossils that survive .
Idiom: on the ball (used idiomatically: yes)
When she next looked inland , the terrain had changed to soft , silvery sand and rustling , bumpy dunes . Half - way between the dunes and the water stood a green sign , a foot high , no more . She squatted down to read it , balancing on the balls of her feet . On this part of the beach , she read , ‘ Nudists May Be Encountered.’ Nudists .
Idiom: turn someone's head (used idiomatically: yes)
I have decided.’ ‘ And?’ Yuan turned his head , looking across at his father . Li Shai Tung sat there , his feet spread , the cane resting against one knee . Yuan could see his dead brother , Han Ch'in in that posture of his father 's .
Idiom: yesterday's news (used idiomatically: yes)
England no longer expects ENGLISH soccer is having to face the nation 's greatest European humiliation . The season is only three months old and yet Leeds , Liverpool , Sheffield Wednesday and Manchester United are yesterday 's news . It is the first time since 1958 - 59 that league clubs have failed to survive until after Christmas . Clearly a major price is being paid for the post - Heysel exclusion and Manchester United 's 1991 Cup Winners ' Cup win looks but a false dawn .
Idiom: hit the bottle (used idiomatically: yes)
Lynch . During the night the accused fired his air gun out of the window of his first - floor flat . He was hoping to hit bottles he had placed on the roof of the garage opposite . A person standing in the garage was hit . The defendant contended that he thought that he was a good enough shot to hit only the bottles .
Idiom: break someone's heart (used idiomatically: yes)
I find it easier to get angry at the stuff happening around me these days because I 'm no longer naive enough to think it 'll simply sort itself out . Take ‘ Alternative Ulster’ for instance , I wrote that convinced the situation in the North was going to improve and it 's as fucked up as ever . ‘ My wife and I now live in England but we go home regularly and it breaks my heart . It 's true what they say , Belfast people would be the nicest in the world if only they 'd stop killing each other . Forget the crap you hear on the telly , you never get ‘ used’ to the bombings and shootings .
Idiom: two a penny (used idiomatically: yes)
But he gave two pence , how miserable can you get ? But put the two pence in their contemporary context . We know from the parable of the labourers in the vineyard that one penny or one donarius was an accepted whole day 's wage for a twelve day in the heat of the sun in the great harvest , so the two pence was the equivalent of two days ' wages . Now bring it back to the modern time of the five day week , what is two fifths , or what are two fifths of the wage ? At the end of last year the national average wage in the manufacturing industries would give you , for two fifths , one hundred and fourteen pounds .
Idiom: all over the place (used idiomatically: no)
You can make an assessment of the commercial , Yes Bring back the express so , it does n't sort of highlight it , because they do n't have tiers of borrowed storage all over the place . You know . Yes , I mean we all pay our electricity bills you know what it costs do n't you ?
Idiom: long in the tooth (used idiomatically: yes)
It 's not a sum you 'd throw away ; but you 'd be happy if it bought a new handbag , a train fare to London or a tankful of petrol . Take a look at our nation 's economy from this new viewpoint . I 'm using 1985 figures because my encyclopedia 's a bit long in the tooth . Britain 's gross national product weighs in at around £ 250 billion ; that is , P£6250 . For a typical family of two adults , this is equivalent to an annual income of P£12 000 .
Idiom: on the nose (used idiomatically: yes)
Government boffins have been explaining a new weapon that destroys people but leaves houses intact . A mortgage . Have you heard about the Tory moderate who hit the cheerful-looking palmist on the nose ? He told friends he always believed in striking a happy medium . Seen at East Croydon railway station .
Idiom: take a hike (used idiomatically: yes)
Dammit , he deserved another brew . He was working hard . Let the Pyramid Pooper take a hike just this once , eh ? 0196 . What the hell , people in Africa were gasping for a beer , and he had a whole case stashed here .
Idiom: rough and ready (used idiomatically: yes)
But it writhed within him , nevertheless . The door of the tavern banged open and a crowd of men entered with rain sheening their steel helms and the mail shirts under their cloaks . They looked rough and ready . They were unshaven or bearded , and dressed in leather and woollen breeches that were held together by scraps of hide with remnants of furs decorating their cloaks and the rims of their helms . Each had also a band of black linen with a white stripe running through it tied round their upper arms , wound round their helmets or dangling from their sword hilts .
Idiom: once in a blue moon (used idiomatically: yes)
yeah , but I get up at five oh you 're not going to bed yet well once in a blue moon do we have a late night ? , not all that late at that yes , but when we see when we have mm ?
Idiom: catch someone's eye (used idiomatically: yes)
At first I thought trouble , but then I started to get the picture . The mother 's boy had never been laid in his life , and your sister was his graduation present from the other two . I kind of caught her eye when the others were n't looking . She did n't exactly like the situation , but it was no big deal for her . Let 's face it , all she 'd have to do would be to sit and let him sleep it off for a while , it was probably what the kid needed most , and he 'd never remember anything different .