Gooogr/pie_idioms huggingface dataset:
Idiom: high and mighty (used idiomatically: yes)
‘ Ethnic minorities’ she says , most Black women take offence when considered to be in the same category as Europeans who can be just as racist as Delia Cope . If you look at who are meant to be ‘ Ethnic’ , white women should realise that they can never be oppressed in the same way as can Black women . How insulting Delia Cope is , obviously she feels too high and mighty to read Spare Rib because it 's become less entertaining , uninteresting , uninformative and boring because it covers Black women 's issues . Delia Cope believes that although we have suffered from slavery , imperialism , capitalism , and exploitation , we should dismiss our feelings , keep smiling and put up with this shit . We have a right to be represented in a women 's magazine that 's fighting for equal representation .
Idiom: no two ways about it (used idiomatically: yes)
Certainly the saw he bought for the mill I think that has great prospects and you know there 's no two ways about it , it could help production and ease the work of the workforce . sort of in conjunction with that , that has to go you know i has to be tied in with a bonus contract that suits the workforce . And you know , no two ways about it that saw was definitely a a good acquisition . But various other bits of machinery which are now lying idle around the quarry probably would 've been better left in Italy or Spain or wherever they were acquired from . W was there a feeling when the this this saw table was acquired , d did you have any feeling that it was a way of controlling the wages ?
Idiom: Jekyll and Hyde (used idiomatically: yes)
First by recognising that one is dealing with an illness and not a moral issue . By becoming aware that one 's own denial system and that of the primary sufferer will tend to collude together to delay diagnosis despite obvious evidence of recurrent damaging consequences . By recognising that one can not " fix " someone else and that addictive disease has " Jekyll and Hyde " changes in mood and behaviour . Consequently one 's own pleas and the sufferer 's promises may all be well meant but nonetheless all equally ineffective in controlling the longer term progression of addictive disease . By not feeling personally hurt or professionally inadequate when matters get worse despite one 's best efforts .
Idiom: play games (used idiomatically: no)
What inversion of values makes us to look upon such aberrations as though they were a reflection of natural laws ? If what we have seen in this election is the real world , then the sooner we find a way out of it the better . Coming from behind Christopher Harvie on how the Scottish Tories played the electoral game for all it 's worth Remember the bit in Citizen Kane when Orson Welles stands for election as congressman , but is felled by a ' Kane in Love Nest ' scandal ? Kane lifts up the galley - proof of a newspaper bill reading ' Kane Elected ! ' and drops it , then lifts up another : ' Fraud at Polls ! '
Idiom: to the bone (used idiomatically: yes)
You can understand this is you can imagine yourself crouching with your knees close to your chest and balancing on your toes at the same time . You can see why the bird needs such a spread of toes to keep balance , but also why they are so springy . Our own arm bones correspond roughly to the bird wing bones . Our fingers can imitate the primary feathers and we can fold the elbow in a similar way . In small birds ' wrist ' is folded up tight almost under the cheeks ( Figure 5 ) .
Idiom: give up the ghost (used idiomatically: yes)
I had hoped to get another 50,000 miles out of my car , but it gave up the ghost on the expressway and it would cost too much to fix it .
Idiom: come to terms with (used idiomatically: yes)
This was wholly predictable . Being on a Kindertransport was , in itself , a traumatic experience that left its mark on otherwise balanced and healthy children . But other shocks to the system followed in quick succession : a new language and culture ; the insensitivity , not always unintentional , of foster parents , teachers and hostel administrators ; the cruelty of other children ( and some adults ) who equated all things German with Nazism ; the coming - to - terms with the long - term or permanent loss of family and friends who had been left behind , and the awareness that refugees could not expect to be treated other than as second - class citizens — to mention only the common causes of illness and depression . The refugee workers at Bloomsbury House , led in this context by Lola Hahn - Warburg , did their best . All of them volunteers with nothing but a rudimentary knowledge of psychology and , possibly , their own experience as parents to help them , they grappled with problems that challenged the skills of the best doctors and psychiatrists .
Idiom: good offices (used idiomatically: yes)
A deal was done . I do n't think there was a promise , you will get . The promise was probably vague , we 'll see it , we may use our good offices to the United Nations to some sort of embargoes or , that 's all ca they 're likely to be promised because we 're not in a position to promise anything . Okay Bob , well Bob thinks that a deal was perhaps done . We 'll be talking about this to our diplomatic correspondent , David Spannier after the seven o'clock news .
Idiom: make the grade (used idiomatically: yes)
Racing : Nijinsky put down NIJINSKY , the last horse win the 2,000 Guineas , Derby and St Leger , was put down yesterday morning , at the age of 25 , owing to infirmities of old age . He was the first son of Northern Dancer to make the grade on this side of the Atlantic . Trained by Vincent O'Brien and ridden by Lester Piggott , Nijinsky won all of his five starts as a juvenile in 1969 , culminating with a Dewhurst Stakes victory . The following season , Nijinsky took the Gladness Stakes on his reappearance and then won five successive championship races .
Idiom: cut and dried (used idiomatically: yes)
This zone of farms is called the marginal fringe because it is at the upper margin for agriculture . With much cloud , mist and rain , and little sunshine , cereal crops seldom ripen and so the farmers avoid planting them . Also the grass grows for only a short - season , and the amount of hay which can be cut and dried varies from one year to the next . The income from lambs , a few older sheep and wool is hardly enough to pay the wages for a shepherd . Without a Government subsidy , based on the number of sheep , many of these farmers would go out of business .
Idiom: clutch at straws (used idiomatically: yes)
It was pure chance that Philip Yale Drew came into the frame . Chief Constable Burrows was outside his club in Friar Street when a fellow - member approached him and suggested he looked into the whereabouts of Philip Drew , an actor who was performing in a play called The Monster at Reading 's Royal Theatre at the time of the Oliver murder . Burrows , now clutching at straws , looked into it and became more and more interested in the actor . He certainly was in the town on 22 June , and he certainly fitted the description . His photograph had also been vouched for by several of the witnesses .
Idiom: up for grabs (used idiomatically: yes)
Line - up for Europe 's space - boss A LEADING West German scientist is the front runner for the post of coordinating Western Europe 's efforts in space , when the job becomes vacant next year . Up for grabs is the post of director - general of the European Space Agency , the 11-nation ' club ' that spends about £ 400 million annually . The issue will be resolved at a meeting of the agency 's council next month . Only two serious candidates have emerged to replace Erik Quistgard , a Dane .
Idiom: sign of the times (used idiomatically: no)
With the Tories moving on to more radical positions , and the Labour Party now much more centrist , logic seemed to dictate that this kind of Alliance supporter should move back to a Social Democratic outlook identical with that of old Gaitskellites . Much of the intellectual élan of the Alliance moved with him . One sign of the times was that Lord Young of Dartington , a founder member of the SDP in 1981 , moved back to rejoin the Labour Party . He had been the head of Labour 's Research Department at the time of the 1945 election . His odyssey thus brought the history of an important part of the British intellectual left full circle .
Idiom: left and right (used idiomatically: yes)
It describes how objects move through space and time . It shows that time is not a universal quantity which exists on its own , separate from space . Rather , future and past are just directions , like up and down , left and right , forward and back , in something called space - time . You can only go in the future direction in time , but you can go at a bit of an angle to it . That is why time can pass at different rates .
Idiom: strike a chord (used idiomatically: yes)
Perhaps I am becoming too gullible in my old age . I believed that he might bring forward such an amendment , but he has not done so . The Prime Minister believes that her words strike a chord with the British public . I shall not allow myself to be tempted to discuss devolution , Mr. Deputy Speaker , apart from getting into trouble with you , I should get into trouble with my Hon. Friends . Let me , however , refer briefly to the speech in which the Prime Minister said that she was totally against devolution .
Idiom: have words (used idiomatically: no)
Urgency The Prime Minister 's dramatic move was virtually a direct order to him to make contact and shortly afterwards it was announced Mr Delors would go to Number 10 at 12.45 pm after speaking at the London School of Economics less than a mile away . The urgency with which Mr Major acted left MPs in no doubt he would have some harsh words for Mr Delors . The meeting followed the shock departure of Gatt chief negotiator Ray MacSharry , the EC agriculture commissioner . This came with time running out to stop the 200 % US trade tariffs on £ 200 million of imported European goods .
Idiom: on edge (used idiomatically: yes)
Steve took my specs away and I felt much better . I could n't see a thing . Standing on the edge is the worst moment of all . It 's a long way down . And then you dive .
Idiom: hand in glove (used idiomatically: yes)
When Ceauşescu 's chief intelligence adviser , Ion Pacepa , defected to the United States in 1978 , he claimed that Ceauşescu had been engaged in a long - term strategic plan codenamed ' Red Horizon ' . Its aim was to deceive the West and to obtain key political , military and technological secrets which he intended to share with the Soviet Union . Pacepa argued that Ceauşescu was hand - in - glove with Brezhnev and that the split between Romania and the Soviet Union was a deception agreed by both parties to cheat the West . Pacepa was not the first defector from the world of Soviet bloc secret services to make such a claim . At the very least , it says a great deal about the conspiratorial mentality which the leaders of the Communist system have created that so many defectors tend to see deception at work everywhere .
Idiom: rule of thumb (used idiomatically: yes)
Models whose base lies under the rest of the template are hit by flying Hot Pot gloop on the D6 roll of a 4 , 5 or 6 . As with stone throwers/ mortars / etc you will have to use your judgement to decide which models are potential casualties . The usual rule of thumb is that if at least half the model 's base is covered by the template then it is potentially hit , while if the model 's base area is just grazed the model is not affected . Once you have worked out which models are struck work out damage as normal . Note that the target struck by the cauldron suffers a strength 5 hit , while remaining targets suffer only a strength 3 hit .
Idiom: in the pink (used idiomatically: no)
A pre-wedding luncheon had been arranged for the family . While I was on the telephone , busy finalising details , the Princess of Wales stood nearby , leaning against a wall , chatting to one of her detectives . She was barefoot , dressed casually in a pink skirt and sweater . As she heard me going on about the luncheon party she pulled a face . ‘ Does that mean I have to change ? ’ she asked , as if it was the dreariest thing ever .
Idiom: draw the short straw (used idiomatically: yes)
BRITISH motorists must be grateful this festive time to three ladies who will not see a Christmas day lunch . The Automobile Association skeleton staff trio will be huddled in front of their personal computer screens relaying road conditions to drivers . Nick Simmons , manager of the AA Roadwatch nerve centre at Stanmore , Middlesex , hastily pointed out yesterday that those who drew the short straw for Christmas duty could just as easily have been men . This year he has a perfect excuse — his wife is expecting their first baby during the time the Three Wise Ladies are picking up from police , local authorities , and others information about weather , congestion , and danger points , and relaying it to the media . Most of the exchange of information goes on before the Christmas holiday — like yesterday and today when 12 people were at their computers .
Idiom: play ball (used idiomatically: no)
In your letter dated Wed , 12 Jan 1994 12:45:27 +0000 , you wrote : The bit about is OK but should the Lukic figure read — 1.5 million , he has after all scored more goals for the opposition than for us . Good call on Kelly although if he keeps playing like he is that would be a conservative estimate , how anyone could ask 1.4 for fat ‘ mars ’ mel is beyond belief though — he has n't kicked a ball in 2 years ! ! ! Donkey O'Leary 0.9 — aghhhhh ! ! ! The person that wrote this must be an Arse fan !
Idiom: buy time (used idiomatically: yes)
The euro crisis is a complex mixture of banking and sovereign - debt problems , as well as divergences in economic performance that have given rise to balance - of - payments imbalances within the eurozone . The authorities did not understand the complexity of the crisis , let alone see a solution . So they tried to buy time . Usually , that works . Financial panics subside , and the authorities realize a profit on their intervention .
Idiom: chapter and verse (used idiomatically: yes)
The author is a past mistress of gushing praise to lull the reader into tabloid deification , then the quiet slipping in of neat doses of vitriol to tarnish her subject and titillate us . Diana veers between a gentle , sweet , ‘ wonderful’ creature and a competitive , jealous gold - digger : Prince Charles ricochets from a sensitive , cultured , thinking man to one who is abominably selfish , randy and mean . The ‘ sources’ give chapter and verse for everything , pre and post marriage : her ambition , his indecision , the clothes , rows , sexual proclivities , confidants et al . It is abysmal that a gossip writer should use spiky chit - chat from anonymous donors to make money and notoriety for herself . Perhaps the royal family itself must take some blame for the manic British obsession with its affairs .
Idiom: on the shelf (used idiomatically: yes)
* We sat in a room all afternoon . Of the forty of us who had survived so far , another twelve were weeded out and the rest of us sat there until 6.00 pm looking at the posters on the walls and reading the few tattered paperbacks which sat on the shelves . I had a choice between a Western adventure in German , two American spy thrillers or a much - thumbed pornographic comic which had had all the lurid pages torn out as wanking aids . The posters on the walls were all the same old ones of 1950s legionnaires in tanks looking at the desert through binoculars , or cutting their way through the jungle with machetes .
Idiom: on the carpet (used idiomatically: yes)
She counted to a hundred , in her head , twice , and tried to think about something wonderfully different . Edward was now looking at the river with great intensity ; he leaned forward a little , as though to see something better . And then at last everyone was shuffling chairs on the pile carpet and getting up and there was a lot of shaking of hands and Edward and Helen were in the lift once more , smoothly and silently descending . Edward said , ' What terrible people . ' ' Mmn . '
Idiom: take root (used idiomatically: yes)
I had worked hard while I was on Amantani , reconstructing the bones of my experiences without the satisfaction of cradling them in apposite language . Yet I felt at last I had straightened out the time that had buckled when I lost all my writing . Now I was in a position to move on ; but something had taken root deeper than the superficialities of travelling — a feeling that my story was not here , that something was drawing me back to Peru . After the initial decision to continue my trip had come the fight to quell bitterness . The third stage back to health would need to be an attempt to make sense of what had happened to me and why .
Idiom: dig up dirt (used idiomatically: yes)
However , Wilko 's ' reply ' looks like its been taken out of context to me . Its as if he was ranting and raving when he said it . Just imagine him saying that to a reporter trying to dig up more dirt … trying to stir it up a bit . Wilko then replies in a calm voice with what he s said . In other words ' if he thought he was nt part of the future plans I d have told him so and he would have asked for a transfer … has he ? ?
Idiom: the die is cast (used idiomatically: yes)
As secretary of the Federation , it will be my duty to report the facts to its Central Council and I shall , advise them that it will be their duty to issue an order to all Seamen 's unions throughout the world and the dockers and other transport workers that they must refuse to recognise the members of any local union of seamen which may be established at the Port of Southampton or elsewhere . I therefore trust that your Committee will seriously consider the action they propose to take . " But the die was already cast . Drama on the Clyde Invective flowed from the pens of all parties and violence from their partizans so long as the feud between the Sailors and Firemen and the Seafarers continued .
Idiom: err on the side of (used idiomatically: yes)
I was free to move back and forth . It took an almost superhuman intuition to know when it was right and proper to cross the divide . I made mistakes and sweated over them , but tried on the whole to err on the side of caution . One thing was certain . In Al Ain I could not eat in the men 's majlis .
Idiom: to say the least (used idiomatically: yes)
He is now resigned to selecting a side for the World Cup qualifier without the Juventus midfielder and described the news as ‘ a body blow’ . Problem Taylor said : ‘ I would have liked to have known about it earlier , to say the least . The situation has thrown me a bit and I shall be talking to him again because I want to know exactly what 's going on . ‘ But obviously there 's something radically wrong with his knee and the signs are telling me that it is a cartilage problem .
Idiom: get the picture (used idiomatically: yes)
This is a particularly worrying possibility and I urge everyone , homosexuals , heterosexuals and drug abusers to remember the risks and dangers of HIV infection . ' Michael Adler , Professor of Genito - Urinary Medicine at the Middlesex Hospital , London , said the figures illustrated that the problem was not going away . ' The figures are a movable feast , but they show how important it is for anonymised prevalence testing to get under way so we can get a true picture of infection in the population . ' A selection of the 36 classic sports and competition cars that are expected to fetch several million pounds at a Brooks auction during the London Motorfair By CELIA HALL , Medical Editor
Idiom: catch someone's eye (used idiomatically: no)
' The good ones do n't have time for long drunken lunches , and you get better results by getting them to give you and the client a sandwich in a bar at six p.m. The ones you can get for lunch — there are plenty — will likely forget every word you tell them , and they certainly do n't feel obliged to help . ' He caught McLeish 's eye . ' Sorry , but the fact is the average backbench MP does n't know anything , unlike the average civil servant who really does know about his or her particular area . It 's only worth using MPs to have a go at the government , and then you spoon - feed it to them . '
Idiom: over the hill (used idiomatically: yes)
Louise had a good memory . Yes , Ballater . He owns the farm over the hill.’ She took Zoe 's mug and poured her fresh coffee . ‘ But you ca n't do any thing about that , can you ?
Idiom: in your blood (used idiomatically: no)
Everywhere you look , from Buffalo to Beijing , you can see ballooning bellies . Instead of going hungry , humans around the world on a per capita basis are eating more calories than ever before . If you ’re looking for reasons behind today ’s obesity epidemic , do n’t stop with the usual suspects , all of which are being trotted out by the press : fast food , trans fat , high sugar , low exercise , computer ~ games , strange bacteria in your gut , weird molecules in your blood .
Idiom: up to scratch (used idiomatically: yes)
We have to register them . erm I do n't know if you remember the Esther Rantzen programme , I think three months ago , where they uncovered all sorts of misdeeds at a school in I think it was Cuckham Grange or somewhere in Berkshire . Well this is very much responsibilities placed on us to ensure that the care practices in residential schools , boarding schools , are up to scratch . So we 've got a whole heap , as it were Can of worms .
Idiom: come of age (used idiomatically: no)
Japan 's Fiscal Crisis Comes of Age TOKYO – Has Japan 's political paralysis finally lifted ? The recent agreement , after a long debate , between the government and leading opposition parties to double the consumption tax – from 5 % to 8 % in 2014 , and then to 10 % in 2015 – suggests that it has .
Idiom: on ice (used idiomatically: yes)
I hope so , because residential homes are places where people become cut off from family life and the outside world . Most people do not wish to see what goes on behind the locked doors . Eskimos put their old people out to die on the ice . Some African tribes leave their elderly to die by the rivers and waterholes so that the wild animals will eat them . We lock our old people away .
Idiom: in black and white (used idiomatically: yes)
And I think as time 's gone on our party had just realized wit the stresses and strains of more and more right wing pressure to destroy workers rights and drive wages down . Including for example the scraping of the wages councils which comes up , I think , later this week does n't it ? Erm that the time has now come to accept that we do have to do the same things and it has to be in black and white and it has to be E E C wide . Because , let 's face it , if we 're all one economy it is n't a level playing field if one country is inviting in erm companies er You know , transnationals , the lot , on the promise it 's cheaper to get our workers to work for you , you do n't have to pay out for this . They can be sacked If it 's less than two years they 've been working , they can be sacked at a weeks notice or whatever it is .
Idiom: make ends meet (used idiomatically: no)
After a flight to the east , meetings should take place in the latter half of the daytime rather than in the morning by new local time . After a flight to the west , meetings should take place in the morning by new local time rather than in the latter part of the day . If you feel tired , a short sleep before an important meeting can be beneficial as long as it ends at least one hour before your meeting to make sure that you have woken up fulLy . Sleeping pills are not advised unless they are short-acting benzodiazepines whose effects wear off in time ( see p. 124 ) . A flight crossing several time zones and staying at your destination for several days