Gooogr/pie_idioms huggingface dataset:
Idiom: rise from the ashes (used idiomatically: yes)
Old guard rebels By IMRE KARACS BUDAPEST — The Hungarian Socialist Workers ' Party , extinguished at the weekend by its congress , rose from the ashes yesterday in Budapest 's communist heartland , the industrial district of Csepel , Imre Karacs writes . Forty - three members of the old party set up an HSWP cell , and urged their comrades all over the country to do the same . ‘ Lax security’
Idiom: all and sundry (used idiomatically: yes)
In 1913 this tendency was reinforced by the activities of James Larkin , a Liverpool born Irishman who had served his apprenticeship as an active trade unionist and full - time official with James Sexton 's National Union of Dock Labourers but who , resenting any control exercised from its Liverpool headquarters , had set up his own Irish Transport and General Workers ' Union in December 1908 . In the role of general secretary of the ITGWU Larkin proved to be a difficult colleague and drove union leaders on the mainland into less militant positions than they might otherwise have adopted . As the champion of the unskilled workers of Ireland , patriot and prophet of revolutionary socialism , Larkin claimed both independence of and support from all and sundry in the trade union world . In March 1913 , profiting from Wilson 's 1911 victory , Larking embarked on a fifteen week dispute with the City of Dublin Steamship Packet Company , bringing this to a successful conclusion and becoming in his biographer 's words , " the virtual dictator of the port of Dublin " , and the possessor of a profitable joint agreement with the shipowners arrived at on 26 May which included a no - strike clause . Early in June this was breached when Larkin 's men refused to handle " tainted " goods .
Idiom: see the light (used idiomatically: yes)
The final set of arguments emphasises the limited leadership qualities and organisational deficiencies that have been a historic feature of the extreme right in Great Britain . In general , those who have emerged to lead it have often been unsuitable in personality terms and are readily to be seen as incompetent or inappropriate , even by the least perspicacious . Thus , those who led the NF in the 1970s had , in many cases , a background in the most nutty forms of postwar extremism , despite claims to have seen the democratic light after these youthful indiscretions . Also , below the surface among the grass - roots leadership , it was usually plain to see that the party was scraping the barrel for competent politicians . Many such leaders were locally well - known , even notorious , but had little political experience or skill , or even interest .
Idiom: keep the peace (used idiomatically: yes)
Some of this exuberance was tempered in time by a greater appreciation of just how much of the world economy would have to be rebuilt after the war , and of the range of obstacles which stood in the way of the realization of the dream of " unhampered trade " . By the end of 1944 Morgenthau seemed persuaded that the task would be eased if Britain were to serve as a junior partner in pursuit of these objectives . The British were " a good credit risk , a good moral risk " , and were needed to help keep the peace . A little more tentatively Cordell Hull , on 8 September , had suggested to Roosevelt that " the most important " postwar international economic problems would be the revival of the British economy , the relationship between the dollar and sterling , and whether the British would — in the long run — choose to follow a liberal foreign economic policy . But such views were not universal .
Idiom: near the knuckle (used idiomatically: yes)
Millwall manager Mick McCarthy admitted : ‘ I did advise the lads to cool down at half - time because I did n't want anyone sent off . ‘ The action was frantic and frenetic . Both sets of players were on the receiving end of tackles that were near the knuckle.’ Hammers boss Billy Bonds said : ‘ Millwall came out to mix it , and so did we . It was a typical derby .
Idiom: for the time being (used idiomatically: yes)
‘ That last has never been in any doubt . He will be already on his way . You may be with us unwillingly , but you are certainly with us for the time being.’ He whipped back the covers and moved her into bed as if she were a doll , watching her for a second and then turning away . ‘ I ca n't just stay here!’
Idiom: rare bird (used idiomatically: yes)
August 12 . Bring the whole family for this RSPB birdwatching day for beginners in the Leighton Moss Nature Reserve in Lancashire . Get tips on identification , good birdwatching areas and equipment and be guided on a walk around the reserve which is home to such rare birds as bitterns , marsh harriers and bearded tits . Wear sturdy footwear and bring binoculars if you have them — if not they can be hired on the day . Meet at the Leighton Moss Nature Reserve , Silverdale , Lancashire at 10.30am .
Idiom: break someone's heart (used idiomatically: yes)
But he would n't listen to me , so I turned and yelled ‘ Taxi!’ He replaced me with Peter O'Toole . It broke my heart . I was one of the few people who understood him.’ Temperaments and egos abound in Hollywood .
Idiom: with a vengeance (used idiomatically: yes)
Pound 's disparagement of Milton , for instance , was , I am convinced , most salutary twenty and thirty years ago ; I still agree with him against the academic admirers of Milton ; though to me it seems that the situation has changed . In Eliot 's view , the circumstances have changed so greatly over thirty years since 1924 that what was rightly said of Milton in that year can not rightly be said of him in 1954 . This is relativity with a vengeance , and many of us have felt than in a case like this the scales that Eliot measures by are not so much sliding as slithering . In this instance Pound , we notice , stood firm . But he was nearly as ready as Eliot to insist that all critical judgements and pronouncements are relative — relative , above all , to the date at which they are made .
Idiom: bugger all (used idiomatically: yes)
Mm . Mm . And they 've done absolutely bugger all about it . So what have they done ? They 've designed in a bearing which which which is stupidly expensive .
Idiom: sour grapes (used idiomatically: yes)
This has transformed my initial excitement to disappointment and I find myself becoming disillusioned with the game to the point of considering giving up playing . What is the point in striving to achieve when all my club wants to do is ‘ buy in’ established players ‘ off the shelf’ ? It may sound like sour grapes but I assure you I feel no bitterness merely disappointed . A fault in all nations I FEEL I must write in response to Mr. D. Duggan 's letter in RW&P February issue entitled ‘ Welsh Thuggery’ .
Idiom: on the nose (used idiomatically: no)
This year 's Man v. Horse v. Mountain Bike Marathon takes place on 8 June . Below Basil braving the ford at Abergwesyn ; cyclists ( top ) can avoid total immersion . A pat on the nose for a four - legged competitor ( middle ) and a blanket for a two - legged one ( bottom ) CASTING OFF PATRICK DOBBS ON A HOBBY THAT GOT AWAY
Idiom: go public (used idiomatically: yes)
Auspex Systems Inc , building servers in Santa Clara , California has filed to go public with an initial offer of up to 5.19 m shares , 2.6 m of them new ; no target price was available . Underwriters are Goldman , Sachs & Co and Hambrecht & Quist Inc. Catalyst Semiconductor Inc , Santa Clara , California has filed to go public with an initial offer of up to 2.5 m shares at a target price of between $ 9 and $ 11 a share . It wants the cash to repay debt and for capital expenditures and for working capital . The underwriters for the issue are Montgomery Securities Inc and Robertson , Stephens & Co Ltd.
Idiom: on the back of (used idiomatically: yes)
Huy looked at the black polished surface of the table behind which Kenamun stood . The ink holder ; the leather pad for papyrus ; the serried ranks of brush pens and rolls of paper , a cylindrical pot containing bronze pins and a paperknife . From them his gaze travelled to the hands on the back of the chair , noticing a red mark the shape of a new moon on one of them , noticing the heavy turquoise - and - gold ring of office on the middle finger of the other . Kenamun had come to the end of his tirade , and now as his expression relaxed Huy thought he could discern something behind the anger in the man 's eyes : an expression so fleeting that he was not able to identify it , but one which left a disturbing impression on his heart . But now Kenamun had begun to speak again .
Idiom: out of the blue (used idiomatically: yes)
New signing Ryan Cross will fill the problem position of right back , even though he also plays as a central defender . Cross , 19 , admitted it was a wrench to leave Plymouth for a club at the other end of the country . ‘ Hartlepool 's offer came out of the blue . Their chairman sold the club to me in our negotiations . ‘ With Plymouth , I was mainly involved in the lower half of the Second Division .
Idiom: go places (used idiomatically: yes)
‘ Do n't forget my number for her to call you back.’ He tapped it in for her . ‘ What a team — we could go places.’ He turned . ‘ So what is the difference?’ he asked .
Idiom: strike it rich (used idiomatically: no)
HERE 'S your chance to win a super day out at York races and see our very own Andy Capp Handicap on August 19 . Our TWO winners , and their partners , will have a VIP trip to the Knavesmire to enjoy a day of top class racing in champagne style ! And they could strike it rich ! We 've teamed - up with top bookmakers William Hill , and the two winners will each have £ 200 of free bets . Just look at this winning line - up !
Idiom: step on it (used idiomatically: yes)
That 's what I had against my discount that way you can you got a gift for this person you give to them plus erm Well erm but if you 're , what if you 're actually going to step on it you may as well be at work for the day . Rather be in a . Would , would n't we all !
Idiom: think the world of (used idiomatically: yes)
I kind of ruled the roost a bit , but we got on well . My dad always brought me up saying you never lay a finger on a woman , never ever . My sister — the one just younger than me — and I used to share all the jobs in the house — if she washed up one day I did the drying up and so on , but when my grandad came to live with us , he thought the world of her so he did all her jobs , and she 'd come to me and taunt me , and that used to incense me . So one day , I got a newspaper , I rolled it up and I walloped her like mad . And when my father came home he said , ‘ Your sister 's crying , have you touched her?’
Idiom: go downhill (used idiomatically: yes)
Vick Aiken compiled this report on Thursday . Shimon Peres ' best chance of forming a government probably came and went when two members of an orthodox religious party caused an uproar in parliament while renegeing on a promise to join the Labour Party coalition . Since then , the fortunes of the party and Mr Peres as leader have gone downhill . The initiative has shifted to Yitzhak Shamir , and his right - wing Likud block . The caretaker Prime Minister will try to form a government this week .
Idiom: off the beaten track (used idiomatically: yes)
Just thinking about it makes you feel the sun on your skin and taste the freshly grilled sardines and the prickly vinho verde . Where to go ? The Algarve for a beach , sports , lolling kind of family holiday , the rest of the country for sightseeing and travel off the beaten track . How to go ? Outside the Algarve — where the majority of accommodation is self - catering — by staying at pousadas , like Spanish paradores , set up as a method of making otherwise disused monasteries , castles and fortresses pay their way .
Idiom: go hand in hand (used idiomatically: yes)
One could try and explain this as follows : subjects perceived an increase in k as necessitating an increase in output since the opportunities for using output from other periods to increase sales this period had been reduced by the increase in the storage cost ; accordingly , one should produce more now in case the price this period turned out to be a high one . A possible story , but not as convincing as the one relating to σ. But here again one could argue that things go hand - in - hand : subjects perceived that an increase in a was equivalent to a decrease in k , and having argued the case for σ , the case for k followed automatically . At least they were being consistent ! Finally we turn to the dynamic ‘ comparative static’ effects .
Idiom: do the trick (used idiomatically: yes)
What happened when he found you?’ ‘ Bumface came here to tell me that he was going to fight the War Office and that he was not having the WO Instruction for me to report forthwith to the Ski Battalion at Bordon . But … between you , you 've done the trick . Let me fill your glasses.’ ‘ Go on , go on.’
Idiom: from rags to riches (used idiomatically: yes)
During World War II , it was the rough - and - ready American GI who could fix the stalled jeep in Normandy while the French regiment only looked on . Horatio Alger captured this spirit in hundreds of stories . With titles like Bound to Rise , Luck and Pluck , and Sink or Swim , they inspired millions of readers with a gloriously simple message : in America you can go from rags to riches . The plots were essentially the same ; like any successful entrepreneur , Alger knew when he was onto a good thing . A fatherless , penniless boy — possessed of great determination , faith , and courage — seeks his fortune .
Idiom: in the long run (used idiomatically: yes)
Goldwater 's enemies presented the Senator as a harsh , uncompromising ideologue , a threatening figure likely to abolish social security and to get the United States involved in a nuclear war . Reagan , by contrast , appeared to be a much more reassuring figure . His views were no less radical than those of Goldwater , but his mild , self - deprecating smiling manner was , in the long run , to make him a far more formidable advocate of conservatism . Reagan 's campaign for governor in 1966 was a response to the same shifts in public opinion that Goldwater had attempted to exploit , but it was not only in political attitudes that southern California was ahead of its time . By the end of the 1970s , the increasing weakness of American political parties had become the subject of comment and concern across the country .
Idiom: wear the trousers (used idiomatically: yes)
I said I 'd like that . I went round to his flat at about 8.30 , and there was a nice smell of roasting meat and candles on the table which were lit even though it was n't yet dark , and a bowl of those Indian bits and pieces for beforehand , and flowers on the coffee table . Stuart was wearing the trousers of his work suit , but he 'd changed his shirt , and he had an apron over the top . His face seemed to be divided into two : the bottom half was all smiling and pleased to see me , the top half was frowning with anxiety about the dinner . ‘ I do n't cook much,’ he said , ‘ but I wanted to cook for you.’
Idiom: feel the pinch (used idiomatically: yes)
The decision to return to the gold standard , and to operate it , often necessitated the rise of interest rates which acted as a burden upon the exporting industries just as the reflation of the pound had made exporting more difficult . By the end of 1926 , the General Council was advancing the argument , with some justification , that the General Strike had only been an attempt to warn employers that the problems of industry could not constantly be tackled at the expense of the standard of living of the workers . Such a view helped trade union leaders to think in terms of coming to some type of arrangement with industrialists who were feeling the pinch of economic policy . George Hicks was well attuned to this possible linkage when , in his presidential address to the 1927 Trade Union Congress , he asserted : …
Idiom: play the field (used idiomatically: yes)
He tore her dress on the taxi journey back to her flat , and after a tussle , finally , standing on the pavement at three a.m. he realized that she really would n't allow him in . The following morning , Clare arrived late for work . When Gilda heard what happened , she said , ‘ A man who 's just staggered out of a nasty relationship wants a bloody nursemaid at first , and then he wants to play the field for a bit . But what he really wants is another relationship.’ Clare said , ‘ I do n't want another relationship until I 've struggled free of this one.’
Idiom: hot air (used idiomatically: no)
O'Neill , the former Northern Ireland winger tipped to succeed Clough at the City Ground , still recalls the day he squared up to Ardiles and Ricky Villa , just weeks after they lapped the River Plate Stadium in Buenos Aires as World Cup winners . ‘ It was Forest 's first League game as defending champions and Tottenham 's first with their two imaginative Argentinian signings , ’ he says . ‘ I can remember my goal , the ground bulging , the weather being unbearably hot — and Ossie being a breath of fresh air for English football , as he has been ever since . ’ O'Neill could say the same of his own team . Kitted out in old-fashioned sky -blue and navy quartered shirts instead of pinstripes , sequins and chevrons , Wycombe spurn modern methods of airborne football — as befits a disciple of Clough .
Idiom: off the record (used idiomatically: yes)
I do n't necessarily have to get him over - excited , mind , but the decision has to be mine.’ Husband and Miss Milward swapped what might , in that light , have been surprised looks . The very idea of being ‘ off the record’ was nonsense , since the room was almost certainly wired , but George should still have stuck to protocol and said something polite like Oh yes , of course . Maxim stopped trying to peer at the shadowed faces in front of him and put on a pair of sunglasses . ‘ Is the light troubling you , Major?’
Idiom: across the board (used idiomatically: yes)
Among the oils , British Petroleum was under pressure again after Thursday 's huge below - the - market transaction between Salomon Brothers and County NatWest . The stock fell another 6 to 240p before Hoare Govett was reported to have issued a recommendation on the basis of a 9 p.c . yeild , helping the price partially recover to 242½p . Fears of higher interest rates if Labour takes power produced across - the - board mark - downs of brewing stocks . Greene King was under particular pressure , reversing 16 to 484p , while Wolverhampton & Dudley fell 9 to 565p and Whitbread ' A ' lost 8 to 378p . British Aerospace enjoyed an early 10-point run up to 310p on news that it hopes to raise £ 400 m from plant and site disposals .
Idiom: go public (used idiomatically: yes)
Chegwin : My drink hell TELEVISION presenter Keith Chegwin opened his heart in front of the cameras yesterday and admitted ‘ I am an alcoholic’ . Close to tears , the 34-year - old told viewers that going public was one of the most difficult things he 'd ever had to do . ‘ I turned round one day and admitted I had a problem,’ he said . The Palace confesses
Idiom: turn the corner (used idiomatically: yes)
Can we please move on ? ' He gestured the way forward with his laser pistol . They turned a corner and found themselves outside the cone shaped building . ' That 's it , ' said Bernice . ' There 's an entrance inside that leads underground . '
Idiom: in black and white (used idiomatically: yes)
We should be concentrating on particular aspects of school life , not producing information which already exists and duplicating it . ( Senior Teacher ) Another reason for the lack of evaluative comment in self - appraisal reports was , paradoxically , the fact that there would be an ensuing inspection and therefore that things could be brought up orally with advisers rather than put in black and white : I did n't put an evaluation in because I wanted to discuss it orally with my adviser . What I really wanted to say I did n't want to put in writing .
Idiom: as a rule (used idiomatically: yes)
A packet of aspirin and half a glass of water stood on the tray on his desk . He had slept badly and woken badly and was fighting against the sort of headache that usually came on after a big case was finished . It was a devastating headache but , oddly enough , as a rule he did n't mind it . He would suffer it , even nurse it along , for a couple of days , and when it went he would forget the case along with the pain . But if it came on now …
Idiom: across the board (used idiomatically: yes)
There are promotions for David Hunt to the employment department , for Gillian Shephard to agriculture and for John Redwood , the Thatcherite and cerebral local - government minister who joins the cabinet for the first time as Welsh secretary . These are unsurprising rewards for competence . All told , government policy across the board will clearly stay much the same . Tory backbenchers and the nation at large will give Mr Major about a year before deciding whether the helmsman or his crew are mostly to blame if the nation 's ills refuse to blow away . Now he has a team more of his own making rather than inherited from his fearsome predecessor , Lady Thatcher .
Idiom: lose heart (used idiomatically: yes)
Whoever it was put nowhere on the map as a place to visit or plan to visit or have a streetplan of , was losing heart . He had considered every means of transport , air - routes and sea - routes , and found them wanting .
Idiom: play for time (used idiomatically: no)
‘ What the hell do you want of me?’ She held the bag between them , suddenly not daring to put it down in case it signalled something , the consequences of which she might regret . She drew in her breath , playing for time . ‘ Want ? Me ?
Idiom: under your belt (used idiomatically: yes)
Typical customers are out of work , living in hostels … or without a proper home at all … vox And the chance of getting a traditional English Breakfast under your belt first thing is a welcome change … vox vox It 's estimated there are up to a thousand homeless people in Swindon … and the Breakfast Club is seen as one way to make life more tolerable …
Idiom: high and low (used idiomatically: yes)
The immediate historical provocation for their critique of conformity , indifference and the apparent predisposition to barbarity is clearly , for Adorno and Horkheimer , the rise of fascism ; but what is more generally at issue is the intrusion of Enlightenment rationality , capitalist common - sense and the logic of commodification into the very core of the cultural field and the aesthetic . In Adorno 's aesthetics , the value of the cultural and the aesthetic lies in difference and negation and it is this which is threatened by the commodification of culture . Developing since the Enlightenment of the eighteenth century , accelerating in the nineteenth century in step with the acceleration of capitalist industry , the process of intrusion increasingly separated culture out into the familiar contours of ' high ' and ' low ' , isolating what it could not assimilate . By the middle of the twentieth century , Adorno found himself confronted with a cultural field in which the squeezed and narrowing pinnacle of aesthetic difference and negation had all but detached itself completely from the squat , commodified mass of capitalist ' affirmative ' culture . For Adorno ( as , at around the same time , for Clement Greenberg ) , the ' genuine ' avant garde , represented most emblematically in his writing by his teacher , Schoenberg , was the last vestige of ' authentic art'whose difficulty and inaccessibility were the marks of its unassimilable difference and its negation of bourgeois rationality , capitalist purposiveness , and what Peter Sloterdijk would later call ' cynical reason ' .