Gooogr/pie_idioms huggingface dataset:
Idiom: behind someone's back (used idiomatically: yes)
Quite why her four stepchildren , Sarah , Jane , Diana and Charles , loathed her I could never understand . I suppose that to them she represented a fast , efficient approach to life that jarred with their more laid-back , aristocratic one . I watched as they laughed behind her back , mocked her , walked out of rooms when she appeared , and looked the other way when she spoke to them . Salt was poured into her drinking water , silly letters were sent to her , and any attempt to win their friendship was met with sullen silences or rebuffs . It seemed to me that their actions were always calculated to hurt .
Idiom: all over the place (used idiomatically: yes)
No . I was playing last night Got ta learn this album I used to have ages and ages ago fucking . I was really annoyed last night , I was getting really There was all this like down tuning and up tuning like all over the place That looks like Bart Simpson 's dad Mm yeah . got the hair
Idiom: to the bone (used idiomatically: yes)
By contrast , rhynchosaur teeth were more like those of modern mammals in their manner of growth . They continued to grow throughout their functional life , and new teeth appeared at the back of the jaw as the animal increased in size . The teeth were fused to specialised bones of attachment , and the hollow centre of each tooth is the root canal which was filled with blood vessels and nerves . The functional teeth were ' alive ' and were subject to consent internal remodelling , as is typical of most mammals . Patterns of tooth wear , and the nature of the jaw joint , show that rhynchosaurs had a precise , straight up - and - down bite .
Idiom: fly a kite (used idiomatically: no)
What ? Let 's go fly a kite , up to the highest height . Let 's go fly a kite and then No what 's the other one ? Mary'll make your , Mary'll make your , one where he 's in the picture with her ?
Idiom: on edge (used idiomatically: yes)
Moving into a situation is usually less tiring than backing away . These experiences affect our perception . A measured , geometric square , stood on edge , seems too tall . To become a sensory square it can need a reduction of as much as a twentieth in its height . Experiment will reveal that any regular polygon needs similar adjustment to transform a geometric shape into a sensory image .
Idiom: rank and file (used idiomatically: yes)
Whereas in the immediate aftermath of the Manifesto , the landed nobility and conservative interests generally had been disorientated and ill - organized during 1906 their influence over the government was rapidly consolidated . Alarmed by the scale of peasant unrest unleashed during 1905 , and appalled at the composition and radicalism of the First Duma , the landed nobility moved to assert their interests . Kadet sympathizers were swept from office in the zemstvo elections of 1906 , and even the more moderate Octobrist party , dedicated to cautious co - operation with the government on the basis of the Fundamental Laws , found growing difficulty in resisting the rightward shift of rank - and - file noblemen . The formation in 1906 of the United Nobility created a powerful pressure group of major landowners which included strategically - placed members of government and legislature and could rely upon direct access to the Tsar himself . The landed nobility showed no inclination to build bridges with urban property - owners , let alone workers and peasants .
Idiom: get stuck in (used idiomatically: yes)
The styles change with bewildering rapidity but the way of tying a scarf or the kind of boots and socks worn carry a message about the ‘ hardness’ of the wearer . ‘ Hardness’ is what much of hooligan behaviour is about . When hooligans themselves are asked to define the term they usually say ‘ a right little hardnut’ ; someone willing to get ‘ stuck in ’ when a fight breaks out . Most ‘ hooligans’ use the word in a flattering sense to describe the ‘ hardest’members of their own group . Chanting is ‘ macho’ in the sense that opposing players , supporters , and officials are often abused in sexual terms ( ‘ wankers’and ‘ cunts’ ) , and some of the scornful chanting has a deliberately ‘ caveman’style as in ‘ Oxford Boys we are here/ shag your women , drink your beer/ — a widely favoured kind of verse freely adapted by other fans .
Idiom: off the record (used idiomatically: yes)
With the exception of Sandy Lyle and Colin Montgomerie , the other five still all made it with varying degrees of comfort into the final 36 holes . Severiano Ballesteros was best placed , though even he was eight strokes behind the tournament leader , Chip Beck . Beck had a miserable round in The Players Championship last week but he confessed it helped him in his charging 65 , one off the course record . ' I shot 81 last Saturday , ' he said . ' That taught me a lot .
Idiom: odd one out (used idiomatically: yes)
Nicola sat down on the floor and slowly rolled over on to her back . With more hair she could pass for Springsteen being playful in the dark . ‘ So you 're the odd one out , eh ? The one with the job.’ ‘ Yeah.’
Idiom: to say the least (used idiomatically: no)
There is a gap in the middle of the day for the National to be viewed . After the mixed card on St Patrick 's Day we are back to an all National Hunt affair and the main race , the Sportsman Hunter Chase , may go to Bajan Blues who almost brought off the shock defeat of Matt Reid at the last meeting . Bajan Blues , owned by Dr Fitz Gillespie and trained by his son Pat , has won two point to points this year and is useful to say the least . Helynsar ran well in the later stages of her race at the last meeting when Treat Me Good scored and she may be worth following against a moderate lot in the Moira Novices Chase . Fun ‘ N Games , who finished third to Tartan Tyrant at Ayr , could get into it and Carton has been running well enough lately to merit an interest .
Idiom: state of the art (used idiomatically: yes)
As for the speed of the machine I can not comment as lack of time with the machine did not allow us to perform our usual tests . Overall , the machine looked good . If you 're looking for a state - of - the art power notebook and have deep pockets this is the notepad for you . Machine : XtraPro Colour 486S/25
Idiom: round the bend (used idiomatically: no)
New figures show that 3 in 5 motorists break the speed limit on motorways . Now it 's hoped future generations will leave statistics like that behind . In part two : Clean round the bend . Sweepers offer to take take a pay cut to keep their jobs . And how 's this for in - car entertainment ? The ultimate stereo mini system .
Idiom: make a splash (used idiomatically: yes)
Similar preoccupations were at the back of the mind of Hilary Frome himself , as , with the front of his mind , he made conversation with the overdressed parents of one of the boarders . Hilary Frome had made no decisions yet about his future , beyond the one crucial decision that it was going to be a distinguished one . He was going to make a splash the nature of which was still to be determined . An obvious possibility was an academic splash , and throughout his years at Burleigh he had chafed at the mediocrity of the school , the variable nature of the teaching , the dimness of its reputation , all of which seemed to preclude the splash academic . Of course , if he settled for Burleigh for one more year , there was the position of head boy , with all the possibilities for mischief of a sophisticated and enticing sort that that would bring with it .
Idiom: out on a limb (used idiomatically: yes)
Aurally the Mondays improve all the time , they 're truly worth travelling all over the world to see … Wembley , the Maracana Stadium , Elland Road … the only way is up ; they really are on the edge of greatness . In the club atmosphere of La Cigale , the spark was always there , the reason why so many have gone out on a limb to should their name from the rooftops , but the Mondays are in danger of slipping into routine . They can be rough , ragged , they can have fights onstage , but they were never meant to be a workaday band . A quick cure for lazyitis , please , and then it 's back on the road to the very top .
Idiom: hit home (used idiomatically: yes)
Whatever they are not holding , should be hitting back mercilessly . You can stamp on toes , feet or shins ; knee him in the thigh or groin ; grab and squeeze testicles or pinch the soft inside of thighs along the trouser seam ; elbow him or her in the ribs or stomach if the person is behind you , or knee them in the belly if in front ; grab the little finger of one of the hands that is holding you round the waist or arms , and bend it backwards , forcing him or her to let go ; bite the side of the neck or slap a cheek or ear ; bash the nose with the front or back of your head ; force the head back by pressing your fingers up nostrils or squeezing the flats of your thumbs into eyes ; or even spit into eyes to make them blink . Wherever you are grabbed , you can not be stopped using at least some of these weapons , and every time one hits home , the attacker 's pain will increase until he or she is forced to loosen the grip . When that happens , you must bash hard and then run like the wind . There are two dangers which need a special mention : one is strangling .
Idiom: make history (used idiomatically: yes)
Pioneering operation gives baby new hope By Gary Duncan A SEVEN - month - old Scots baby is set to make medical history by undergoing Britain 's first genetic transplant in a pioneering operation . The procedure , to be carried out soon at Great Ormond Street Hospital in London , is the first of its kind . It was given approval after careful consideration by a Government committee on the ethics of genetics which is supervising developments on what is now medicine 's most controversial frontier .
Idiom: under lock and key (used idiomatically: yes)
Unknown Greek actor George Corraface , manfully battles with lines like ‘ She 's a fine vessel — a little top heavy and narrow in the beam’ … and with an arched look at his mistress ( that 's our Catherine ) : ‘ Not unlike someone else I know.’ Boney 's tiny part NAPOLEON Bonaparte 's penis is in a velvet - lined box under lock and key in New York . It was removed after his death and since then has often changed hands . In 1972 it failed to reach reserve price when it came under the hammer at auction .
Idiom: when all is said and done (used idiomatically: yes)
An innovator in financial areas , Citibank for example , is not likely to embark on innovations in health care . In innovation as in any other endeavor , there is talent , there is ingenuity , and there is knowledge . But when all is said and done , what innovation requires is hard , focused , purposeful work . If diligence , persistence , and commitment are lacking , talent , ingenuity , and knowledge are of no avail . There is , of course , far more to entrepreneurship than systematic innovation : distinct entrepreneurial strategies , for example , and the principles of entrepreneurial management , which are needed equally in the established enterprise , the public service organization , and the new venture .
Idiom: on and off (used idiomatically: yes)
I was seven at the time , and I decided quite literally there and then that what I wanted to do was play the guitar like John Williams , and that was that . I tried both violin and piano , but always went back to guitar.’ Now a veteran of 23 , she is described by Williams , her teacher ‘ for about five years , on and off,’ as both amazing and extraordinary . Listening to her debut recording for Decca , it is difficult to disagree . The disc is an unusual one , featuring as it does seven works originally written for other instruments , from Rachmaninov 's Prelude in G minor to Bach 's Partita in D minor , all in Hall 's own transcriptions .
Idiom: rule of thumb (used idiomatically: yes)
Social workers responsible for eight - year - olds should see non - reading at this age as a danger sign and a precursor of learning and behaviour problems . Many other examples could be given on such issues as the placements of children in care , behaviour problems and the family links experienced by children . There is little excuse for allowing these situations to drift ; and it is in preventing such situations that professional practice based on research parts company from common sense and rules of thumb or the use of ‘ hunches’ . All of this should also help social workers to distinguish the important from the trivial . This is not always easy when dealing with so many aspects of a client 's life .
Idiom: more's the pity (used idiomatically: yes)
Home fans ejected from the ground fell from 82 to 55 . Class warfare,’ my mate Mick from Middlesbrough recently told me , ‘ went out years ago.’ And he paused for a moment before adding wistfully , ‘ more 's the pity.’ It might seem unlikely but down in serene Somerset about as far from Teesside as you can get there are a few locals who would agree with him this week . They have just suffered the unpleasant experience of having a three day annual convention of Young Farmers inflicted upon them .
Idiom: play for time (used idiomatically: no)
Very rarely do we distribute demo 's of commercial games , but as a service to our readers we do make one or two exceptions . The animation , Sound Blaster support and VGA graphics are brilliant . The demo can be played for some time and allows for detailed assessment before opting to buy . LLAMATRON Order Code : 10070
Idiom: full tilt (used idiomatically: yes)
Most fervently Breeze wished that Gay were with her now , to share this walk and the exciting afternoon . With her thoughts far away and her eyes fixed on the distant horizon , she did not notice where she was going — and as the tall , broad - shouldered man who was coming from the opposite direction was too deeply absorbed in his own reflections to be aware of his surroundings , there was a sudden abrupt collision . ‘ I 'm sorry!’ they gasped simultaneously , when they had recovered their breath , for they had walked full tilt into one another and both felt somewhat dazed . Breeze tenderly massaged the tip of her nose which had made contact with a button , while the man stooped to pick up his pipe . ‘ Are you hurt?’ he asked anxiously , as he stood up .
Idiom: do a bunk (used idiomatically: yes)
Another phone rang . It was Nigel Cramer from Scotland Yard . ‘ Your Negotiator has done a bunk,’ he said flatly . ‘ Can you tell me how ? I 've tried the apartment , but the usual number is engaged.’
Idiom: kick the bucket (used idiomatically: no)
Why does n't the idiom just take the place of the verb , because if you get rid of the object as well ? Well it 's a verb phrase so erm they just , all that means is if you take a subject expression and well , what goes , what goes after such expression is a verb phrase , that my opinion not just you know . So , although in all these three , kick the bucket , eat humble pie , get your knickers in a twist er all look like fairly complex transitive constructions . They look as though they they do n't really they actually intransitive . So that 's okay , the point is that they can substitute in a sentence intransitive verb or transitive verb object grammatic
Idiom: in the pipeline (used idiomatically: no)
Leeds were given the fish by a benefactor , their task was to remove the many small roach and skimmer bream . British Waterways have also topped up stocks in the same watercourse below Thwaites Mill . They recently introduced 2,500 roach and a further 5,000 fish are in the pipeline . GIANT COD FROM THE DEEP A superb 44 lb cod has been caught by Penarth charter skipper Charlie Debaene just half an hour off the coast .
Idiom: throw down the gauntlet (used idiomatically: yes)
CHANCELLOR Kenneth Clarke today waded into a fresh Tory rift over public spending after delivering a broad hint that his November Budget will bring rises in indirect taxes . And the signals suggested Mr Clarke may opt to extend the scope of VAT to newspapers , food , children 's clothing , and could also tinker with tax allowances to pull in extra revenue . Mr Clarke threw down the gauntlet to a trio of Cabinet colleagues in the vanguard of demands for deeper spending cuts instead of higher taxes to tackle the projected £ 50bn deficit . Support His remarks , in a Daily Telegraph interview , triggered protests from right - wing Tory MPs and pitched the Cabinet into more controversy as it met for the first time since the summer break .
Idiom: make a move (used idiomatically: yes)
Whether or not Unix Labs is successful in its appeal , it believes it can still win its case on its other claims of misappropriation , misrepresentation , trade mark infringement and breach of contract . DEC TO OPEN UP ITS ACMS TRANSACTION PROCESSING MONITOR Digital Equipment Corp is expected to make its move into the open systems transaction processing market this month with OSF/1 and Windows NT versions of its ACMS Application Control and Management System . DEC is likely to add an open application programming interface to ACMS , which has previously been available only on VMS - based server systems . Both Alpha and iAPX-86 versions of the software are expected .
Idiom: behind closed doors (used idiomatically: yes)
Other economic interests wish to restrain public spending . These are articulated , in particular , through finance and economic affairs departments — in the United Kingdom , the Treasury . In Whitehall the contest between the spenders and the controllers is largely played out behind closed doors ( Heclo and Wildavsky , 1981 ) . These writers scorn attempts to make budgeting into a ‘ rational’ process . Budgets shift forwards or backwards by small ‘ increments’ reflecting the balance of interests .
Idiom: by heart (used idiomatically: yes)
He remembered the brackish stream where he had fished for pinkeens with — who was it , Tommy Murtagh and Seanin Carty?— and the mercifully short walk to the National School that in good weather he made in bare feet over stony roads , with in winter a sod of turf for the schoolroom fire crushing the jam sandwich in his satchel . He could n't dismiss the images , he could n't stay Time 's hand as it turned page after page of that memory - album until tears flooded his eyes at the scenes recalled : his mother , her brown hair screwed into a bun at the back of her head , taking him to see a house at Edgeworthstown where she said a famous woman writer had lived ; he had n't paid much attention , not being interested in books then , but when he grew older he read Maria Edgeworth 's novels and went again for himself to gaze at her home . His mother — God rest her — had got more of a spark out of him when they went to nearby Ballymahon and Oliver Goldsmith 's birthplace , but that was only because he had already at school learned off by heart the whole of ‘ The Deserted Village’ . Evening after evening Father McGiff sat at his desk , ashamed of his indulgence , upbraiding himself for his inability to drag his eyes away from the window which , like some perverse crystal ball , conjured up only ghosts of the past instead of promises of the future . It was enfeebling , it had killed off his efforts at meditation , and there was something almost sinful in allowing his imagination to feast on these buried years when he considered the present turmoil and growing anarchy engulfing the city that had made him one of its own .
Idiom: on the nose (used idiomatically: yes)
So it is something further , without being a further fact . At first sight this looks like an uninteresting stipulation about how to use the word ' fact ' — uninteresting because the anti - materialist could as well state his case using some such term as ' feature ' or ' aspect ' , and it is difficult to see how , once having allowed that there is something called ' what it is like to see'which one only learns by seeing , one could refuse to describe this as a feature or aspect of mental life . ( Tye does compare this learning to learning to balance a pencil on your nose , but if that comparison is made to do any work , Tye 's theory will simply be a behaviouristic one , and he usually seems to want it to be more than this . ) Tye , however , does have an argument for his conclusion that what is extra is not ' really ' something extra . I think the argument is that if we call the nature of the experience ' R ' , and if we concede the materialist claim that R is a brain state , then in knowing the brain state the blind scientist knows R , though not what R is like .
Idiom: in the long term (used idiomatically: yes)
Interruption In other words , there would be better growth under Labour . The National Institute of Economic and Social Research has stated that , in the longer term — I am giving the hon . Member for Derby , North ( Mr. Knight ) his answer . He and his hon . Friends should listen . The national institute stated that our policies ' could raise the sustainable level of output in the United Kingdom and might also bring about a lasting reduction in unemployment ' .
Idiom: get lost (used idiomatically: no)
It would have to stand . Nothing he ever wrote came near to conveying to the reader the way the moor really was or the way he felt about it . The grandeur of the moor , its wildness , its time - lessness and peace , seemed to get lost in his prose . He did n't know why because he took pains and there was no doubt of his writing talent . This particular inheritance was as striking as his physical resemblance to Tace .
Idiom: dyed in the wool (used idiomatically: yes)
She was not going to jump to any more dubious conclusions . She refused to make any further wild and unfair assertions . At one time she might have considered Vitor to be a dyed - in - the - wool monster , but she was gradually reassessing her opinion . ‘ If I do , will you say that if I do n't want to risk any similar events the solution is for me to move?’ she responded . He shook his head .
Idiom: have a heart (used idiomatically: no)
Would she ever feel at home in this relentless , pitiless city ? It was n't the bustling energy she objected to , but the impersonality . Athens had been hot and noisy , but it had had a human heart . The people had been friendly , and she had known her way around . Here , she felt she would always be an outsider .
Idiom: first off (used idiomatically: yes)
I says to Jackie , I says , you come up and see us , I says Jack , but do n't push your problems on us . No . What I was on about me ringing is , she were talking in town , I says , oh , you know we 're Bi I says if ever , I were talking about you first off She told me . and did she tell you what I said ?
Idiom: make a splash (used idiomatically: yes)
Aran : + 44 635 872122 . PICK SYSTEMS WILL HELP THE RUSSIAN TAXMAN PICK THE POCKETS OF THE POPULACE Pick Systems Inc , Irvine , California is making rather a splash in the former Soviet Union and has now been awarded what it reckons is one of the largest computer automation projects to be undertaken by the Russian government in the next 12 months . Its wholly - owned Pick Systems Ltd of Moscow has signed a contract with the Russian Tax Department through the commercial arm of the Russian Ministry of Finance to provide Pick software and development services to computerise Russian tax collections . The initial order calls for 350 multi - user tax collection systems to be installed in Moscow by the end of the year .
Idiom: once in a blue moon (used idiomatically: yes)
Yes ! here . They only here once in a blue moon . The next time you seen them advertised , go , because a lot of the stuff is Marks , Littlewoods and all that . Where 's