Gooogr/pie_idioms huggingface dataset:
Idiom: all over the place (used idiomatically: no)
He says he does n't take it to extremes these days , that he does n't date them . That he just likes their company , really . But one thing that 's definite about all this , as you step into the artist 's comfortable home , with his admirers and relatives and his stacks of music awards and pictures of his celeb pals ( Keith , Bonnie Raitt , Eric Clapton ) all over the place , is that ‘ Boom Boom’ is the punchline to a life that 's been big and astonishing and bloody eventful … IF YOU check out most of the serious blues books about the Mississippi players , you 'll be pushed to find a lot of stuff in there about John Lee Hooker . They all rave about Muddy , Charlie Patton and Son House — singers that came out of the same patch in Coahoma County — but they turn all reticent and confused when it comes to the act that 's outlived and outsold them all .
Idiom: out of the box (used idiomatically: yes)
There are gaps between the boards in the box . If you fit them in snugly , you 'll get more use out of the box .
Idiom: hit home (used idiomatically: yes)
Gav , you speak of the Batts situation as if it were work:- ) With football it SHOULD be more than just money . What hits home is if batty wanted to leave … fuck me anyone could . Not a nice feeling . In the good old days you had lots of career men .
Idiom: tie the knot (used idiomatically: no)
He really loved the hairdressing profession as it gave him a captive audience to bounce his latest jokes off . In First Jobs of the Famous , he recalls making an elderly lady laugh as he was cutting her hair but went on to snip straight through her hearing aid . As she was still smiling , he just tied a knot in it ! The next time your having a trim it might be worth taking a closer look at the stylist snipping the curls around your ears and the junior getting you in a right lather at the backwash . You never know , they could turn out to be Madonna of tomorrow or the heart throb destined to slip into Kevin Costner 's shoes in years to come .
Idiom: do the right thing (used idiomatically: no)
‘ And you gave me the best!’ For the first time she spoke with all her old unbridled fire and passion . ‘ You thought that you were doing the right thing . It is I who am wrong , not you.’ Only to meet his shaking head .
Idiom: to the bone (used idiomatically: no)
Centre - half Ian Marshall , who has been playing up front since the start of last month , is out for three weeks after breaking a finger and Neil McDonald is likely to miss the Middlesbrough game with hamstring trouble . That means an almost certain debut for Mark Brennan , for whom Oldham agreed a £ 200,000 instalment - payment plan with Manchester City last week . Liverpool , meanwhile , may have a luxury of goalkeeping talent to draw upon , with Mike Hooper and David James also on the books , but their attacking options could be cut to the bone next week . Prolific striker Ian Rush is out of Saturday 's League encounter against Crystal Palace with hamstring trouble and the club are desperately trying to hurry the Welshman back in time for Tuesday night 's Coca - Cola Cup fixture between the two clubs . If Rush is unable to make it , Liverpool may be forced to use John Barnes , fresh on the comeback trail , or Paul Stewart in the centre - forward role — Ronny Rosenthal being away on international duty with Israel next week .
Idiom: take the piss (used idiomatically: no)
What ? I 'm really pissed off . They 're , I reckon they 're taking piss , forty minutes late last night ! Out of work , did n't get out of work until twenty to seven on a Saturday night . Hello !
Idiom: rise to the occasion (used idiomatically: yes)
Prost was every bit as good at intra - team politics as Niki ; he was his equal in testing and perhaps slightly his superior ( as would be proper for a younger driver ) in combative driving . Knowing both men as well as I did , I was one of the few who did not think there would be any major friction between them — both men were far too smart for that - but I did think Niki would find himself struggling for a primacy which he had long taken for granted . I also knew that , when challenged , Niki would rise to the occasion . In fact , the next year , 1984 , was to be a memorable one in motor racing , distinguished by an extraordinary battle fought by the two men with all the means at their disposal , but always honestly and intelligently , on the circuit . If Niki had sought to impress Prost with a victory at the very start of the season , the ploy did n't work : an improperly soldered battery cable put him out of action and it was Prost who impressed .
Idiom: have a ball (used idiomatically: no)
If his estimate was wrong , batting was turned over to the rivals . The pig spent the whole time being smacked to and fro , hence ‘ piggie in the middle ’ . This name has been more recently used to describe the children 's ball-throwing version , where a third party in the middle tries to intercept . Being ‘ sold a pup ’ at fair was also used in reference to a pig . The unwary were apt to buy a ‘ pig in a poke ’ ( sack ) and find out later they 'd been sold a muted pup .
Idiom: out of the box (used idiomatically: yes)
Neither psychology , psychiatry , social work , health education , social security , nor nursing relies significantly on religious insight or Christian doctrine . They too have passed over into the world of law , business , government and technology , where rational but secular goals and methods dominate . A more important Christian observation is to note that laicisation has meant that as institutional Christianity has been forced out of the control box of the modernity machine it has lost its authority . Christianity in the contemporary world in which we live has become a matter of private belief and personal preference in a society that tolerates any old religious beliefs ( and new ones ) so long as they do not interfere with the running of the machine . A friend of mine told me that although he is a committed Christian , when he leaves home and goes to work he has to play by the rules of commerce .
Idiom: on the same page (used idiomatically: yes)
Non pauperibus Priced at a chunky £ 2,600 per copy ( £ 3,800 from April ) , a new facsimile edition of a Biblia pauperum in the British Library ( Kings MS5 ) , has just been published . Generally intended for the poor and illiterate , the Biblia pauperum acted as a sort of pictorial amalgam of bible stories with comparable Old and New Testmant events placed on the same page . Fine Art Facsimile Publishers of Lucerne have produced a high quality reproduction of the late fourteenth to early fifteenth - century manuscript illuminated in The Hague during the reign of Albrecht of Bavaria whose court was based in that city . The elaborate and costly manner of illustration ( gold backgrounds and a preponderance of blue and red pigments ) suggests a royal provenance and is unusual for this type of book .
Idiom: in the flesh (used idiomatically: no)
A series of murders of young children were , she implies , the corollary of the disintegration of moral rules characteristic of 1960s Britain : It seemed to us that April that we were seeing one of the results of total permissiveness in a rather comely young man and woman , ill - educated , but neither of them stupid , on trial at Chester Assizes for multiple murder . A wound in the flesh of our society had cracked open , we looked into it , and we smelled its sepsis . It is no distance from this position to that adopted by Rhodes Boyson , quoted in the introduction . Such commentators have argued that the breakdown of morality in the 1960s has had lasting effects on the social landscape .
Idiom: behind someone's back (used idiomatically: yes)
The chaplain prayed . Then the prison officers put a black cloth over the condemned man 's head . They tied his arms behind his back . Then they led Linkworth to the hanging - shed to punish him for his crime . It was Doctor Teesdale 's job afterwards to make sure that the man was dead .
Idiom: go all the way (used idiomatically: no)
You 're not up to much , are you ? ' ' Oh dear , ' I said , more to myself than to Eric . I could feel this conversation going all the wrong way . ' Are n't you going to ask me how I am ? ' ' Yes , yes , ' I said .
Idiom: do the right thing (used idiomatically: no)
What do you want , the love that should have come with it ? Maybe it was n't easy for them to love you Robbie , knowing that you were n't their own . Your father did the right thing by you did n't he , he helped you over the court case . What happened to all the dreams ? I had hopes of you one time , I would n't mind if you had n't made a success of it , but for God 's sake at least try …
Idiom: no man's land (used idiomatically: yes)
In a profound sense we doubt not only because we are ignorant of something but because we are absolutely certain of nothing . The way we know at all as human beings means not only that none of us knows everything but that none of us knows absolutely why we know anything . There is a grey area for all of us , a philosophical no - man 's - land between what we know and what we do not know . In his book Knots R. D. Laing captures the absurdity of our pretensions to absolutely certain knowledge in one of his mental ‘ knots’ . If I do n't know I do n't know
Idiom: in the dock (used idiomatically: yes)
They added that a full inquiry would be set up to investigate what happened . Today a former resident of the hostel was charged with his murder . John Paul Rous stood nervously in the dock at Oxford Magistrates Court as details of his charge were read out . He spoke only once during the eight minute hearing , to say he understood the proceedings . Mr Rous clutched the rail of the dock as magistrates remanded him in custody for four weeks
Idiom: out of pocket (used idiomatically: yes)
Slowly , carefully , Sunny Jim raises his hands . Tony and Carlos edge into the room . Sam takes the Miranda card out of his pocket . He reads Sunny Jim his rights . Sam knows fucking Miranda by heart .
Idiom: off the cuff (used idiomatically: yes)
Johnson declared himself in favour of such prescribed succession : ' His opinion was that so much land should be entailed as that families should never fall into contempt , and as much left free as to give them all the advantages in case of any emergency . ' In this cake - and - eat - it arrangement , no one possessor could sell off the estate , yet in Johnson 's view , the landowner should have enough over and above the inheritance to bargain with , should he need to raise cash by sale or mortgage , but never so much as to disinherit his succeeding generations . Works by Hogarth hung in the gallery at Slains : the library contained ' a valuable numerous collection ' , and Boswell renders one of his usual excellent off - the - cuff services to our understanding of eighteenth - century domestic arrangements : ' The noble owner has built of brick , along the square on the inside , a gallery , both on the first and second story , the house being no higher ; so that he has always a dry walk , and the rooms , to which formerly there was no approach but through each other , have now all separate entries from the gallery . ' The noble owner returned around nine o'clock , and renewed his acquaintance with Dr Johnson , with whom he had once dined in London . Here , Boswell raises again the widest of smiles , at the sight of his heart , pulsating with snobbery , on his sleeve : ' I was exceedingly pleased with Lord Errol .
Idiom: small print (used idiomatically: yes)
[ Pause]Those people who are n't demonstrators.’ The man gazes , bewildered , at the leaflets . He starts to read one , clearly hoping to find the answer in the small print . Nelson 's column unexpectedly has now been taken over by a large , bearded Welshman , called Davydd . ‘ As an astrologer , I must tell you there is a conjunction in Uranus.’
Idiom: fun and games (used idiomatically: yes)
The eponymous heroine is a raggle - taggle Romany wild child who leads a none - too - glamorous existence breading in vicious horses while starving ; but her escape is in dreams of palatial estates and clean petticoats . This , if not mere coincidence , may be some strange legacy , for our heroine is — you 'd never have guessed this one — really an aristocratic heiress who was given at birth to a gypsy family . A wild midnight gallop lands her on the very doorstep of her ancestral home , and the fun and games commence . But not without the ballast that just saves Gregory from run - of - the - mill frippery . at this stage we are trowel - fed our socialist message when Meridon , aka Sarah , Last of the Laceys , is torn between the current management of her inherited estate as one of the popular communes of 18th - century England , run as a profit - share system by the workers , and the sweet novelties of high - society capitalism . Gypsy brat turns tyrant , attempts to evict the workers , and falls for a pathetic roué .
Idiom: in business (used idiomatically: yes)
Devlin shook his head . ‘ No , the Shaws will have to wait till I get there , just like everything else . If they 'll do it , then we 're in business.’ ‘ But how will you communicate?’ Ilse demanded .
Idiom: put two and two together (used idiomatically: yes)
Then I saw Barak 's car being driven away at high speed . And Mike had gone . Put two and two together . ' ' It has to be a set - up . Why kill the one man capable of leading him to Bernard ?
Idiom: get the picture (used idiomatically: yes)
Mm . Er I was , I think I 've got pictures about it somewhere or tha that was in the Evening Star not so very many years ago . They 've got pictures of it , of him preparing all greased up . It was our , our answer to cross channel swimming . He , he did it once or twice , had to give up when he got to the mouth of the River Orwell because he mistimed the currents but he did , he did eventually do it from Stoke Bathing Place to Felixstowe .
Idiom: rule of thumb (used idiomatically: yes)
to open up choices rather than replace one option with another ; 4 to develop opportunities , relationships and patterns of living , in line with their individual wishes rather than rule of thumb normality ; 5 to enhance their decision - making control of their own lives ;
Idiom: in the dock (used idiomatically: no)
Collapse in dock halts frauds trial A 37-year - old woman accused of mortgage frauds totalling more than £ 1 million yesterday collapsed twice in the dock as the case got under way . Mrs Sandra Lamb , also known as Sandi Baxter or Sandi Lamb , slumped to the floor in the dock as a jury was selected for the trial at Edinburgh Sheriff Court . She collapsed again as the 22-page indictment was read to a jury of 12 men and three women . The court , still crowded with about 78 people cited for jury service , was adjourned on both occasions .
Idiom: at the end of the day (used idiomatically: yes)
Because , if I go to two different mathematicians and I say erm , can you work these sums for me ? Generally and for the most part they 'll come up with the same sum at the end of the day and if I go to two different philosophers and say , erm can you tell me about free will ? Er , generally and for the most part and for the most part at the end of the day they 'll come up with completely irrelevant er things . Erm and Is n't this just the difference between a theorem and concepts ?
Idiom: take root (used idiomatically: yes)
BBC culture , like BBC standard English , was not peculiar to itself but an intellectual ambience composed out of the values , standards and beliefs of the professional middle class , especially that part educated at Oxford and Cambridge . The principles of public service broadcasting were also incorporated into the development of the BBC 's television service after the Second World War . It took root , and remained intact , despite considerable public and commercial dissatisfaction with the monopoly in broadcasting . Attempts to introduce alternatives in broadcasting had always , for one reason or another , met with failure but the election of a Conservative Government in 1951 saw the start of a concerted campaign in favour of commercial television . After considerable lobbying , the Television Act was passed in 1954 and this set up the Independent Television Authority ( ITA ) to supervise a federal structure of commercially funded television companies , each serving a different region or market .
Idiom: knock it off (used idiomatically: yes)
When I 've done me bingo Yeah me gon na colour in on There you go if I put the pencil there , do n't knock it off though Why ? Cos you 'll drop all your pencils that 's why
Idiom: easy does it (used idiomatically: yes)
O'Leary was a surprise substitute at Wembley in extra - time , coming on to replace goalscorer Ian Wright for his 721st senior appearance for the Gunners . Wright had threatened to complete a unique Wembley double for his team by heading Arsenal in front after 21 minutes with his 29th goal of the season . Nicer easy does it for thrilled Hills BARRY Hills , who has suffered such a wretched start to the season , was all smiles after Nicer ( 8–1 ) landed the Irish 1,000 Guineas in the hands of his son Michael at The Curragh yesterday . The daughter of Pennine Walk cruised into the lead over a furlong out and soon sprinted clear to beat Goodnight Kiss by two lengths with Lester Piggott 's mount Danse Royale a short head away in third .
Idiom: face to face (used idiomatically: yes)
‘ Hard work agrees with you . You 're looking terrific,’ Desmond announced as he sipped his champagne . ‘ If you ask me , you look fit for anything — even a face to face with you - know - who!’ ‘ Jake?’ Shiona smiled and pulled a face .
Idiom: go all the way (used idiomatically: no)
He is the minister of the Methodist Church in Harare , one of the big African townships that border Salisbury . He came to this charge after years in Mount Darwin , where the war is going on . His sympathy went all the way with the African boys fighting in the bush . For this he was thrice arrested and interrogated . So , deeply anti - white and pro - violence , he came to the tinder - box of Harare .
Idiom: on tenterhooks (used idiomatically: yes)
What would happen now ? Had I perhaps misinterpreted Alexander 's instructions ? For the remainder of the carol I was on tenterhooks , not daring to take my eyes from the lectern . The carol ended . The congregation sat down .
Idiom: fall from grace (used idiomatically: yes)
Four candidates dominated the competition , and no one would have dared to predict which two will make it to the second round run - off . Indeed , the race looked more open than ever in recent memory . Suddenly , something happened – not an event in itself ( though it started with Hollande 's first great public rally in mid January ) , but rather something that may resemble an irresistible process that can be summarized as follows : a majority of the French want to punish a president who has fallen from their graces . They might not have dared to do so had they not found a reasonably credible alternative . Hollande , by appearing more sound and determined than most French voters thought he was , has given a voice ( and a face ) to a widespread desire to reject the incumbent , Nicolas ~ Sarkozy .
Idiom: stroke of luck (used idiomatically: yes)
It may seem a little strange that ‘ sufficient intelligence to speculate about its own origins’ is a relevant variable . To understand why it is , consider an alternative assumption . Suppose that the origin of life was quite a probable event , but the subsequent evolution of intelligence was exceedingly improbable , demanding a huge stroke of luck . Suppose the origin of intelligence is so improbable that it has happened on only one planet in the universe , even though life has started on many planets . Then , since we know we are intelligent enough to discuss the question , we know that Earth must be that one planet .
Idiom: break someone's heart (used idiomatically: yes)
1 suppose she knew I was wanting to talk to you . " " Talk , then . " There was no point in being sweet and understanding and breaking her heart all over again about it . " I 'm away to London tonight and then to France . " " You told me that last month , so you did . "
Idiom: part of the furniture (used idiomatically: yes)
And like a faithful friend , she had carried out these instructions to the letter ; with one unforeseen eventuality . She had come to like Richard Ward , and like had deepened to love . But he saw her only as part of the furniture , and so her guilt was lessened . In that one respect only she had failed her dear friend . But though she had wished things might have been different , she consoled herself with the knowledge that it could come to nothing .
Idiom: mend fences (used idiomatically: yes)
It was a nightmare , a warped nightmare . Were they really going to use us , and for this ? After so long thinking that the reason for our kidnap had been bad feeling between Britain and Iran , and knowing that , before the Rushdie affair at least , fences had been mended , it was hard to believe now that it had all been a mirage . Our high hopes were shattered . It was a more fundamental problem after all .
Idiom: out to lunch (used idiomatically: yes)
Hubert , who was the boy 's housemaster , summoned a mechanic and invited Barbara to lunch . During lunch he treated Barbara with a grave courtesy that she later realized was a mask for his shyness . Nevertheless , she was both surprised and touched when , with an obvious effort , he said that he would be in London at the weekend and wondered if he might have the pleasure of taking her out to lunch . Lunch on Saturday led to dinner on Monday . On Tuesday they spent the day together , and he proposed .
Idiom: take someone to task (used idiomatically: yes)
My hon . Friends are right to emphasise that that status operates within the NHS . Earlier this week I debated the management of the health service with Mr. Bruce Kent . He took to task a nurse from Guy 's hospital who interrupted him to say that those at the hospital were improving the quality of the health care they delivered . Mr. Kent replied that the nurse was wrong to talk about the staff improving the quality of health care . He sought to represent trust status as an invention of the management .
Idiom: think the world of (used idiomatically: yes)
Harriet Evans , two , went with her mother Karen to Bodelwyddan Castle for a fun day to mark National Childminding Week . But on her way to catch the bus to Bodelwyddan little Harriet , from Bryn - y - Baal , near Mold , lost her favourite cuddly toy Winnie the Pooh . ‘ She thought the world of him , as he had been brought back specially from Florida by a friend of mine,’ said Karen . The 12-inch tall toy was lost somewhere on the hill between Mynydd Isa and Mold and though Karen retraced her steps she could not find it . But Harriet 's tears were eased at Bodelwyddan when she met Huggy Bear , the mascot of Clwyd 's Playsafe campaign .
Idiom: have a heart (used idiomatically: no)
There would be no lump . The doctor would feel her breasts , find nothing , smile and send her off to deal with a new , an incurable bitterness . The doctor , still chatting away , put her stethoscope in her ears and listened to Phoebe 's chest and heart , then had her sit up and tapped her back . Phoebe felt the tension prickling her belly as she lay down again . The doctor , whatever her politics and morals , had lovely skilful hands , which Phoebe could not but admire .