Gooogr/pie_idioms huggingface dataset:
Idiom: do the right thing (used idiomatically: no)
These are called private law remedies because they were originally used only in private law but later came to be used in public law . Declaration There are several reasons for this extension but the most important in the case of the declaration is that , being a non - coercive remedy ( which means that failure to comply with a declaration does not amount to a contempt of court ) , it is available against the Crown ; and it is very useful in other situations where the seeking of a coercive remedy might be thought unnecessarily aggressive , and where the plaintiff is confident that the defendant will do the right thing once a court says what it is . It is sometimes possible to obtain a coercive order if a defendant deliberately refuses to comply with a declaration , but this is exceptional and does not invalidate the general argument . The declaration , as its name implies , only declares what the legal position of the parties is ; it does not change their legal position or rights .
Idiom: round the bend (used idiomatically: yes)
She 's really gone funny ai n't she ? She is unsettled . I think if she had n't gone away at Christmas she would have gone round the bend would have been somebody a counsellor or something . I mean he fancied having a day off to the anniversary of them dying , she had a day off then like she did at Christmas
Idiom: have a heart (used idiomatically: no)
In a still moment of total blackness she could feel the sinewed strength , the velvet softness of the dragon 's tripes . ‘ At least , ’ she thought , ‘ I will die touching something beautiful . ’ Her heart soared as she realised that this was a new adventure , an adventure through darkness into the greater darkness which might , just might , be even more beautiful than the slow throbbing of living blood , richer in iron than the veins of any mine , passing through mighty arteries , driven by the rhythmic pounding of the great beast 's heart . So she waited eagerly . Suddenly far above her head she saw a little shaft of light .
Idiom: come to mind (used idiomatically: yes)
KQ VI may be criticised as being too easy and not achieving anything new — forget that , it is good old fashioned family entertainment , and with now Kings Quest VI and Quest for Glory III Sierra are back up at the top of the pile ! By the way any idea as to why there was this sense of Deja Vu when reviewing Kings Quest VI ? The name Threepwood seems to come to mind but ca n't quite place it … , anyway back to that puzzle with the rock … TECHIE STUFF Kings Quest VI requires a 80286 processor or better ( a 16Mhz 386 is preferred ) , graphics supported are 256 colour VGA , 16 colour EGA and Tandy VGA ( all with one set of disks ) .
Idiom: go it alone (used idiomatically: yes)
I dialled two or three numbers and was eventually able to get someone to come . I helped Archie to his feet and after a necessary detour into the bathroom launched him on to the landing . He insisted on trying to go it alone and lurched against the bannister where he hung on for dear life . ' Ach , man , watch oot ! There 's an earthquake , ' he said .
Idiom: marching orders (used idiomatically: no)
‘ Crumbs!’ ‘ CSM says we 're off into Belgium to meet Jerry.’ Notebooks ready and pencils poised , officers and senior NCOs of the Company stood before their Company Commander dressed in full marching order . Gasmasks , not always slung hitherto , were now very much in evidence , neatly rolled gas capes above the shoulder blades ready to unfurl . Christopher sat easily on the corner of his office table his Company Sergeant Major ramrod stiff a pace behind on his right .
Idiom: within living memory (used idiomatically: yes)
Galliéni , who was senior to Joffre , had been offered the supreme command , a post he turned down on the grounds that all his experience had been as a colonial soldier and administrator . On 25 August 1914 he was , however , appointed Military Governor of Paris , and its defence became entirely his responsibility . During the Franco - Prussian War of 1870–1 , in 1914 still within living memory , Paris had been besieged for four months and forced to surrender . Mindful of this , Galliéni took immediate precautions to prevent its happening again . He knew that the city was unready , and its defences inadequate , to withstand a siege , despite the two rings of forts and redoubts , which had been constructed after the debacle of 1871 but neither properly maintained nor modernized .
Idiom: in the red (used idiomatically: yes)
No charges are made for any of the above . This is a relatively small account and involves on average 3 inpayments per year and fewer than 20 cheques are written per year . It has never been in the red ! An Audit Certification Fee of £ 10.58 was charged on 16 April 1991 . Apart from this final item — a charge which District Audit assure me is not made by most other banks and which was not made by yourselves in previous years — I have been very happy with the standard of service provided by Natwest Bank .
Idiom: under the sun (used idiomatically: no)
It was all Ligulf 's fault . The half - hour went by , but neither army , killing and being killed , was aware of it . Under the same sun , Thorfinn of Orkney and Alba had crossed the river and was riding north with a handful of men and a fresh horse collected , with all else he required , at Dunblane . He led them round the range of the Ochils and swept through the strath down which the river Allan poured on its way to the Forth far behind him . In due course , he would meet with the Earn , flowing north and east in the opposite direction to add its waters to those of the Tay eight miles east of Scone .
Idiom: give head (used idiomatically: no)
At the same time , anti - pornography forces are on the move again , demanding new laws . Their chances of success are looking good , because these days sex is out while law - and - order is in . A New Brutalist Conservative government has brought the moral Right in from the cold of post-60s permissive liberalism and has given it its head . Section 28 was one of the more noxious consequences of moralism 's new - found influence and respectability . The Left is divided and confused in the face of such moral certitude .
Idiom: out of pocket (used idiomatically: yes)
Tom 's mobile ~ phone fell out of his pocket into the pool when he leant over to check the water level .
Idiom: strike a chord (used idiomatically: yes)
possibly also they might not want to go on national television and say that , which , which I would sympathize with entirely I mean you know , why , why bring it on yourself , yes Erm , I work for ? in Edinburgh and erm , er all too often er we see er female relations er of male offenders , er this lady struck a chord er especially when it comes to serious crime mm where women examine themselves erm , if its the mother or the granny er did I bring him up wrongly , erm the girl friends or wife 's er is it something that I did n't understand and at the same time it er really changes their lives
Idiom: on the stump (used idiomatically: no)
NEIL FOSTER , recalled by England for the second Test against Australia at Lord 's this week , was today fined £ 250 by his county Essex for his ‘ stump kicking’ outburst . The 31-year - old paceman produced a show of petulance on the first day of the County Championship match against Lancashire at Old Trafford . Foster , frustrated by a number of near misses and a dropped catch , turned to take his anger out on the stumps , kicking two of them out of the ground . He helped umpire Barry Meyer to repair the damage , but was called to the umpires ' room at the close of play . A statement issued by Essex , announcing the fine , added that ‘ the matter is now considered closed’ .
Idiom: go halves (used idiomatically: no)
He did all the talking . I was very shy but his mischievous grin put me at my ease and we strolled along behind Sally and her beau . We 'd hardly gone half way when it began to rain and we had to run the rest of the way to queue under shelter . Just inside the foyer there was a long narrow mirror with an almost naked woman painted on it . How shameful , I thought .
Idiom: on the ball (used idiomatically: yes)
Grant had no idea how close he 'd come to the truth , as he taunted his enemy . Angel One , who was all too aware of the probable consequences when he reported the calamitous events of the night , became irritated despite himself . Smoothly , menacingly , he dropped into the zingi - tu'ii , the Kung Fu fighting stance , perfectly balanced on the balls of his feet , his hands held open in the double - axe position . Grant sensed he had succeeded in needling his opponent and tensed himself in readiness . Even so , he was still almost caught out when Angel One launched his attack , by the eye - blurring speed of its execution .
Idiom: in business (used idiomatically: yes)
These include the recent introduction of Advanced Coating Technology ACTTM which extends the application of Platinum group metals into areas where cost considerations currently rule out large scale use of the metals and new manufacturing technologies such as knitted gauze . Customer Satisfaction The customer is , without a doubt , the most important element in our business . In order for our businesses to succeed , our customers must be successful and we must be profitable as suppliers . There is an essential interdependency between businesses and we must strive to build a partnership with our customers and to establish long term relationships with them .
Idiom: with a will (used idiomatically: yes)
Once under the Kelvin and twice under the Clyde , the making of the Glasgow Underground began in 1891 and involved two enormous explosions under the Clyde to open up twin 20-foot holes for the tunnels . The grand opening was in the Christmas season of 1896 on 14 December . Glasgow took to the subway with a will , but an unexpected flood of passengers and an accident that injured 19 people , closed the circles until January the following year , when the Glasgow Subway Railway Company began operations in earnest . Almost 1,000 years after its beginnings , Glasgow approached the new century in a mood of careful optimism and vast industry . Wealth , culture , and international adventure had turned a tiny collection of huts into a huge sandstone metropolis .
Idiom: no holds barred (used idiomatically: yes)
Recklessly deciding that the appointment was to become effective on All Fools ' Day , April 1 , IBM Corp duly named Louis Gerstner to the posts of both chairman and chief executive . Gerstner said at the announcement that he sees ‘ no quick fix’ to turning the company around —‘I have no idea how long it will take,’he said , adding that his first priority is to listen and learn from the IBM management team . Over the next few months he and IBM 's board will look at IBM with ‘ a no - holds barred ’ approach . ‘ I have the authority necessary from the board to build this company over,’ he said , adding that he was not sure that breaking the company up would be the right approach . ‘ This is going to take time,’ he said , adding that he does not yet have plans for IBM — he has to first learn the company by meeting executives , managers and employees .
Idiom: down and out (used idiomatically: no)
Indeed , our history is as inextricably linked with shipbuilding as our royal heritage . But in its stupid quest for short-term solutions to our economic woes , the Government is prepared to lose this precious heritage for ever . Shipbuilding skills have been handed down from generation to generation and now these proud men who helped to put the ‘ Great ’ into Britain are tossed aside because the Government does n't know how to get out of the hole it has dug . The public needs to stand up as strongly over this issue as it did over the miners . The Goverment was forced to re-think their plans and some pits were reprieved .
Idiom: sweetness and light (used idiomatically: yes)
Hilton is aware that the Incarnation must always be the starting - point for reforming in feeling , and only through the processes of faith and penance for the sins which deform the body of Christ can the soul come to see the reality of the being of God in man — Christ : It is this ghostly love that the soul glimpses in the darkness , and in doing so experiences the reality of the resurrected and ascended Christ who comes to man in the Holy Spirit and completes the story of the Incarnation . In chapter twenty - four , when he identifies the desire for God which fuels the contemplative 's journey with Jesus , he uses language which echoes Matthew 's account of the Resurrection and comments : In the reformation of feeling the contemplative is moving beyond the love understood and expressed by means of the suffering involved in penance , to the fruit of the risen lord . Hilton embodies his sense of how the contemplative grows in love for Christ as God , in the image of Mary Magdalene reaching out to touch the risen Jesus who says : Hilton enlarges : It is this love , knowledge and worship which is experienced in the darkness ; the " lif vnseable " ( 30.102r . –252 ) of the soul"as the gift of the Holy Ghost at Pentecost who : This is the core of contemplative knowledge , not the quasi - sensual experience of heat and sweetness and light which may accompany it . These , Hilton says , putting the over - enthusiastic followers of Rolle 's spirituality into perspective , are at best outward tokens of an inner grace .
Idiom: one of those days (used idiomatically: no)
I was wondering how long it would be before Caesar followed Captain 's example and took a bite out of Junior . I 'm still wondering . I 'm sure that one of those days the dog 's jealousy and the child 's charisma , or the combination of both , will lead to grief . Crush Me Tender , Love Me Blue TONI DAVIDSON
Idiom: pull the plug (used idiomatically: yes)
Survived One of the doctors in the medical team treating Laura , Dr Jorge Reyes , spelled out why they were going ahead with further surgery . ‘ We feel that if we did not pursue this second transplant it would be like , to put it bluntly , pulling the plug on her . I do n't think any of us would be willing to do that.’ Transplant director Dr Andreas Tzakis and his team have carried out similar multi - organ transplants on five children in the past two years .
Idiom: with a view to (used idiomatically: yes)
Motions challenging Amnesty 's position on Vic Williams are to be tabled at the AGM : The Hammersmith & Fulham Group recommends that the change in Amnesty 's Mandate , extending the right of conscientious objection to include members of the armed forces who object to serving in a particular war , ‘ be rescinded’ . The Golders Green and Hendon Group urges Amnesty 's British Section to examine the circumstances in which ‘ non - conscripted military personal’ may be adopted as prisoners of conscience , ‘ with a view to full clarification on the issue’ . An individual member of Amnesty , urges the International Secretariat to withdraw prisoner of conscience status from ‘ those volunteer soldiers in Britain and America who wished to be conscientious objectors to the war in the Gulf’ . A spokeswoman for the International Secretariat said that Vic Williams ' case ‘ fitted precisely’ the definition used by Amnesty to determine prisoners of conscience throughout the world .
Idiom: in the pipeline (used idiomatically: yes)
One calculation , for example , showed that while the occupied population increased by 35 per cent between 1911 and 1966 , the real value ( at constant factor price ) of the national income increased by over 150 per cent ( Bacon et al . 1972 ; 64 , 97 ) . In future , given the microchip and other technological advances already in the pipeline , the trend will continue . Far fewer work - hours will be required to produce goods and services to the level needed to meet all the basic requirements for food , shelter , leisure , and health of the entire population , including the very old . An increase from eleven to seventeen in the number of the latter should not throw us !
Idiom: tell tales (used idiomatically: no)
G. says he thinks the man is lying , that the vat went over not by accident but because the ice cream was not up to standard and pouring it away was the most convenient way of getting rid of it . G. agrees that the offender has probably escaped prosecution because of his violent and aggressive demeanour which made G. think first of his personal safety . G. takes a sample in the ditch , which shows clear signs of sewage fungus , with its tell - tale grey strands waving in the water . We go to the city canal , reaching it through an aluminium works . The works is closed down , like many of the city factories , for the holidays .
Idiom: lose face (used idiomatically: no)
Anna , too , was tall for her age . She had quickly outgrown any tendency to baby fat , and her legs were like beansticks . Her little heart - shaped face was lost amidst the abundance of black hair , her nose was too big , and her mouth with the upper lip thinner than the lower showed her determination to have her own way . She was a very strong - willed child , and not a particularly attractive one . Peg tried to keep her hair tightly braided , but the moment it was done Anna would shake it free .
Idiom: see red (used idiomatically: yes)
The Afrikaans weekly newspaper , Vrye Weekblad , has named a South African conscript who , it says , was required to do his military service as a spy . A report in today 's edition says that the youth , aged 19 , was sent to the Netherlands by Military Intelligence to infiltrate an anti - apartheid group , the Committee of War Resisters . Nicaraguans see red over economic ruin Grinding poverty , not revolutionary zeal , is the real election issue , Simon Tisdall writes from Masaya . NICARAGUA suffered an attack of ‘ Red Dizziness’ this week — in the Spanish , Marea Roja , a bug caught from eating tainted sea food . But in a week that marked the opening of the campaign for February 's elections , the red dizziness was not confined to restaurants .
Idiom: on the fly (used idiomatically: yes)
For that you get 4 MB RAM , 80 MB hard disk and 8 kb internal cache , plus all the usual trimmings . The entry level 386SX with 2 MB RAM comes in at a mere £ 499 . The two new laser printers are both eight page per minute machines and both come equipped with a clever automatic emulation switching device which can interpret incoming printer languages on the fly . The SL-1082A comes with five resident emulations and costs £ 880 . The slightly higher specification SL-1082P ( including PostScript compatibility ) is priced at £ 1193 .
Idiom: call it a day (used idiomatically: yes)
A first for Derrick but a second for George ( 4 ) 15 . Call it a day after getting total ( 6 ) 17 . Less than one drink for New Road man ( 5 )
Idiom: have a ball (used idiomatically: yes)
Need fe rock a while , Tings kinda calm , So to meself I sey , where shall I have a ball ? Den de Time Out tell me de scene is Acklam Hall Live groups , beggar , samaritans , resistance ,
Idiom: keep the peace (used idiomatically: yes)
In a tiny minority of cases mistakes have been made . In these , soldiers have been tried for manslaughter or , if negligence can be proved , for murder . But trying to keep the peace between the two communities in Northern Ireland is no enviable task , particularly when both are apt to turn against the peacemaker . It is doubtful that any other army could have coped without resorting to massive retaliations . Clinton 's second allegation , that there has been collusion between the security forces and Protestant para - military groups , is based on a very few isolated cases in which part - time members of the Ulster Defence Regiment ( UDR ) have been found guilty of passing on sensitive information .
Idiom: step on it (used idiomatically: yes)
‘ He ca n't stay there all winter,’ said Libby as they slipped out early , the house having been woken by their father getting up , trying to pull his boots on , shutting the dogs in the boiler shed so that they would not follow . There was a haze over the fields , a thin aqueous mist , turning the trees into one - dimensional blobs of blue grey colour . Some of the pools of water on the drive had a thin film of ice at the edges that smashed like glass when George stepped on it . Libby 's jersey felt rough on her arms after the bareness of summer , they wore wellington boots , not sandals , and the black rubber glistened with damp by the time they had crossed the field , disturbing the sleeping cows . In the distance they heard the noise of the horn .
Idiom: eat someone out of house and home (used idiomatically: yes)
When they get ill , what sort of illnesses do they get ? Do they not tend to get sick rapidly with a very high fever , a vigorous illness which puts them in bed ? Then in a matter of days , or even one day , are they not up and about again eating us out of house and home ? At least , is this not the tendency in the beginning with most very young children and certainly with lively , healthy ones ? So what is going on in illness ?
Idiom: have a ball (used idiomatically: no)
Ironically , Kinnear believes Fashanu would be the perfect partner for Shearer . ‘ Fash would be a great foil for Shearer , ’ added Kinnear . ‘ He 's one of the best headers of a ball in the League . ‘ Fash is also a great man to have around in the dressing room . England 's young players would benefit enormously from his presence . ’
Idiom: over the moon (used idiomatically: yes)
You never know , I might end up there again some time . ‘ It was brilliant to hit the goals that took us to the top , and it 's got to be the best 90 minutes of my career.’ Shortly before flying back , young Robins was reunited with his father , who declared : ‘ I 'm over the moon . I 'm just sorry that it had to be Oldham.’ Now Norwich have the best part of a fortnight to enjoy their view from the top , and it was all down to Robins .
Idiom: make light of (used idiomatically: no)
You 'll find that CompuAdd 's unmatched PC manufacturing capability , plus our strategic relationship with Microsoft adds up to an offer that 's unbeatable ! NB Offer closes on 31 March 1991 . Its 386SX microprocessor , running at a fast 16 MHz makes light of the workload , and runs the latest software packages such as Windows 3.0 . And naturally , it 's also fully compatible with all your existing 286 and XT applications . The CompuAdd 316s . 386 Power at Yesterday 's 286 Prices .
Idiom: do the trick (used idiomatically: yes)
Oh , well , at least she was n't Japanese . Good job too , as there was n't a handy sword to fall on . She did n't somehow think a stitch cutter would do the trick quite so well ! In the end she screwed up her courage , took the girl into her office and apologised . ‘ I made a mistake,’ she admitted .
Idiom: hit home (used idiomatically: yes)
His lip curled in a sneer , and a cold hand settled over her heart . ‘ Lady , I could have you any time I wanted to.’ She gazed at him in horrified disbelief as realisation hit home . ‘ You made the reservation for me at the hotel,’ she said , forcing her voice to remain steady . ‘ And that 's why that damned woman has been giving me such strange knowing looks !
Idiom: down the road (used idiomatically: yes)
Let 's get down there and see if we can get some of those supplies.’ He had a Corporal with him and we doubled to the front of Brigade H.Q and clambered aboard a jeep that had a trailer attached . We roared off down the road from the village in the direction of the River Orne . The aircraft were still dropping the canisters as we came near to the dropping zone . The Germans had also noticed the canisters and were directing fairly accurate mortar and shell fire in and around the dropping zone , to prevent the Commandos , or anyone else , picking them up .