Gooogr/pie_idioms huggingface dataset:
Idiom: collect dust (used idiomatically: yes)
There was no sense of order about their arrangement ; old encyclopaedias , with several volumes in the sequence missing , lay next to adventure stories with torn spines , works on natural history , and out - of - date atlases . Like Vic 's clothes , they might have been borrowed — or stolen — from several sources . When Mungo got down , he could see that more books were collecting dust under the bed . Meanwhile , on the wall at its foot , were three cracked glass cases containing stuffed creatures ; an owl , a fish and a vicious - looking animal snarling through sharp yellow teeth . As he stared at them , fascinated , Mungo had the sensation of being watched .
Idiom: hell for leather (used idiomatically: yes)
You get in the taxi . I wait for you to do that ; then I simply walk through the main hall , my empty suitcase in my hand . Then we drive hell for leather to the airport and catch the next plane to Nice.’ ‘ Buzz , darling Buzz , that 's a brilliant escape plan.’ Elinor 's face crumpled and she started to cry .
Idiom: on the carpet (used idiomatically: yes)
With every slight , gingerish movement . While I , small and four , Lay on the carpet as his luckless double , His memory 's buried , immovable anchor , Among jawbones and blown - off boots , tree - stumps , shellcases and craters ,
Idiom: all over the place (used idiomatically: yes)
Do you know what that means ? It 's like someone just got off at every single stop and wrote on it . Have you ever seen the erm tag idea written all over the place ? No . Oh well if you have what ?
Idiom: play with fire (used idiomatically: yes)
Well aware of Russia ’s emergence as a growing energy super - power , of the relative weakening of US clout and determination , of Europe ’s deep divisions between pro - Russians , such as Germany and even more so Italy , and anti - Russians ( mostly from the EU ’s newest members in eastern Europe ) , and of the United ~ Nations ’ paralysis owing to Russia ’s veto power , the Kremlin is sending a strong message to the world : “ the time for concessions is over . ” For the Kremlin , it is likely that South Ossetia and Abkhazia would remain under formal Georgian sovereignty only if the country did not join NATO . Yet Russia , like Saakashvili , is playing with fire : its strategy of encouraging separatist forces in the two Georgian provinces may inflame separatist tendencies in other parts of the Russian ~ Federation ( remember Chechnya ? ) . Moreover , Russia is unnecessarily isolating itself from the world . Above all , this crisis confirms the new hierarchy of powers that now exists in the world .
Idiom: go great guns (used idiomatically: yes)
A bigger , brighter catalogue boosted the average customer spending from £ 7 to £ 8 , says boss Andrew Cohen . ‘ So , while demand slumps for other consumer products , we 're actually selling more.’ Betterware France is going great guns at the end of its first year . Average spend is £ 13 , and one in four deliveries results in a sale ( compared with one in five over here ) . Now Betterware plans to set up shop elsewhere in Europe , with Spain the likely first stop .
Idiom: on the level (used idiomatically: yes)
Schulte noted that the previously proposed contract for employment had failed on the top level .
Idiom: go all the way (used idiomatically: no)
' That 's a different gang . ' ' You ai n't been thinking . These guys in London , they tell you to go all the way to Brighton just to hit a guy . What you think they mean by ' hit ' ? These are men who shoot people , right ?
Idiom: in the loop (used idiomatically: yes)
On most ( single tasking ) computers like the BBC Micro , you can escape from such a loop by pressing < BREAK > or turning the computer off . Because the Z88 is a sophisticated computer which is capable of holding several programs in memory concurrently , this option has complications . If there is an error in the error handling part of your program , you will end up in a " doom loop " . Unless you take special precautions , you will need to perform a soft or hard reset to escape from this situation . A hard reset will cause all the programs and data in RAM to be lost and a soft reset may possibly leave the computer in an unstable condition which will lead to an eventual software failure .
Idiom: feeding frenzy (used idiomatically: yes)
He admits . Religion must certainly have been at the forefront of his mind when , shooting the sharks , he twice looked death directly in the face . ‘ I 'd got in amongst the sharks , filming them in a feeding frenzy.’ He recalls . ‘ They were moving really fast and churning up the sand .
Idiom: in the swim (used idiomatically: no)
The best way is to get your mate to weigh it while you re - bait and cast , providing he is not otherwise occupied . When I am fishing on my own I only weigh them straight away if they appear to be over 9 lb , and leave the weighing until I pack in if they appear to be less . When I have a shoal of feeding bream in the swim I can not rest easy . I am constantly ‘ working’ with my second rod while keeping a watchful eye on my other rod which is cast into the hotspot . The second , or spare rod , is never left to fish for itself for more than a couple of minutes .
Idiom: take the floor (used idiomatically: yes)
That battalion was now bivouacked in a village to the west of Brussels where d'Alembord had heard no news of any skirmishes on the frontier . Instead his day had been spent indulging the Colonel 's passion for cricket . ‘ I think he plans to kill us all with boredom,’ d'Alembord told Lucille as they took the floor . ‘ Poor Peter.’ ‘ Not at all , I am the most fortunate of men .
Idiom: man of straw (used idiomatically: yes)
Where there is a conflict between the register and the certificate , the former is stronger prima facie evidence than the latter but neither is decisive ; ownership of the shares depends on who is entitled to be registered . Suppose , say , that A , who is registered and is entitled to be registered , loses his certificate , obtains a duplicate from the company and transfers to B who is registered by the company . Subsequently A finds the original certificate and , either because he has forgotten about the sale to B or because he is a rogue , then purports to sell the shares to C. The company will rightly refuse to register C whose only remedy will be against A ( who may by this time be a man - of - straw ) unless he can successfully invoke against the company the so - called doctrine of estoppel by share certificate . A share certificate will contain two statements on which the company will know that reliance may be placed . The first is the extent to which the shares to which it relates are paid up .
Idiom: on the level (used idiomatically: yes)
The idea is to get Western hi - tech companies to sponsor the events , and X / Open is about to begin on a 90 day roadshow to drum up industry support . It says the symposiums will provide firms with badly needed frontiers into the territories where the gathering are to be held . How many of the forums are eventually scheduled depends on the level of sponsorship , but the first is already planned for ‘ recovering’ East European countries which takes place in Budapest in the second quarter of 1993 . Other confirmed venues are Santiago ( for South American countries in the third quarter ) and Cairo ( for North Africa and the Middle East in the fourth quarter ) . According to the agreement there are to be four events a year , each with a minimum 150 participants .
Idiom: shake a leg (used idiomatically: yes)
He was cut short by a shove in the back that nearly made him overbalance and fall down the stairs . He shot out a hand and caught the banister , steadying himself . On shaking legs he began to descend . Farrell and the other man followed him . ' Have you been in contact with the woman ? '
Idiom: take a back seat (used idiomatically: yes)
The set comprised primarily of well - known tracks from their double - platinum selling debut album ‘ Shake Your Money Maker’ , but they also showcased some promising new material . The standout in this department was ‘ Thorn In My Pride’ , an excellent grunge- blues trek through the collective careers of the Allman Brothers and Led Zeppelin — or a cross between Mudhoney and Muddy Waters , if you prefer . While Robinson develops his remarkable rapport with the crowd , the rest of the band take a back - seat , and simply get on with the important business of shaking their flowing locks , sporting massive Stetsons and playing their gee - tars ( man ) . This completes the picture of the perfect rock'n'roll group ; a tidal wave of Jack Daniels coolness , that carried all before it at the Stadium . So forget Guns N ' Roses and all the other pretenders , the Black Crowes are the best fun a rocker can have with their clothes on .
Idiom: on the house (used idiomatically: yes)
The Police believe that the IRA planted the bomb which exploded in Westminster earlier today . Life in jail for babysitter arsonist June Leaning , a babysitter from Humberside , has been jailed for life for an arson attack on a house in which two children in her care died . Major in Rio for Earth Summit The Prime Minister has arrived in Rio for the final stages of the Earth Summit .
Idiom: think twice (used idiomatically: no)
His intent gaze dropped to her arm , his firm mouth curling sardonically . ‘ The price of retaliation,’ he mocked . ‘ You should have thought twice before avenging a few unpleasant truths , my lady.’ ‘ I care not for the hurt if it indeed avenged your insults , my lord,’ Isabel retorted . ‘ I would do it again.’
Idiom: catch someone's eye (used idiomatically: yes)
There was only one candle in place , stuck upright like a pale wax finger , and this had never been lit . Two of the brass chandeliers suspended above the nave gave a gentle diffused light but the church looked dimly mysterious compared with the glare of the passage and the figures of Massingham and the detective sergeant quietly conferring , of Miss Wharton and the boy patiently sitting like hump - backed dwarfs on low chairs in what must be the children 's corner , seemed as distanced and insubstantial as if they moved in a different dimension of time . As he stood watching Massingham looked up , caught his eye , and moved down the nave towards him . He returned to the Little Vestry and , standing in the doorway , drew on his latex gloves . It always surprised him a little that it was possible to fix the attention on the room itself , its furniture and objects , even before the bodies had been packaged and taken away , as if in their fixed and silent decrepitude they had for a moment become part of the room 's artefacts , as significant as any other physical clue , no more and no less .
Idiom: no holds barred (used idiomatically: yes)
This means trying the schedule out , not on a sample of people for whom it is intended in its final version , but on people who may well be one 's colleagues at work ; that is , people who are likely to know something about survey work itself and schedule design . The point of this stage is that it is cheap and easy , and does not necessitate going outside the building . But the results can be absolutely invaluable if one 's colleagues look over the draft and , with no holds barred , pick on every doubtful point . I recall some years ago that a young postgraduate student who was designing a schedule containing a lot of attitude questions had his schedule internally tested at this stage by a number of people and practically every question he had put was a double one . Had he gone out with the schedule the results would have been chaotic , yet he himself had not seen these double questions until they were pointed out to him at the internal testing stage .
Idiom: take heart (used idiomatically: yes)
The reason ? A burst of hyperinflation that Pilkington 's mathematicians reckon hit 73 million per cent per annum . However , they are taking heart that it is now back to a comfortable 250 per cent . Erm … ! Graduates in engineering shun profession Frontiers of work .
Idiom: on the back of (used idiomatically: yes)
Tel : 0728 603271 . HOW TO ENTER On the back of a postcard or large envelope not larger than six by five inches write down the answers to our three easy questions below which all relate to UK lakes . Post your answers together with your name and address to : Outdoor Action Relum Competition , 13 Park House , 140 Battersea Park Road , London SW11 4NB . Entries must arrive by last post on Friday August 30 , 1991 .
Idiom: on the ground (used idiomatically: yes)
Last week the society took the incredibly high-handed decision to refuse a cheque for £50,000 because it came from the profits of the famous Dianagate tapes . If the tapes were illegal or pornographic , turning down the money would have made sense . But for a committee of aristocratic do-gooders , who are in the business of saving children from violence and abuse , to summarily dismiss a massive cash injection on the flimsy grounds of taste suggests they should n't be in a life-and-death business but rather running their local Girl Guides or church fete toffee-apple stalls . THANK you to the great many readers who have written to me in the past couple of weeks about the Royals . It is only a pity your correspondence ca n't be read by the Palace .
Idiom: make light of (used idiomatically: yes)
Green candidate , Bill Hughes sees investment in more public transport as not only the key to an improved environment , but also to an improved economy . Instead of more concrete , conjestion , pollution and unemployment , we are grappling with these issues at grass roots level . Roly Gillard of the Monster Raving Loony Party Party Party is n't really making light of the election . He 's just warning voters of the political banana skins on route to the polling booths . Male speaker
Idiom: hold someone's hand (used idiomatically: no)
There were rings of blue fire round its cruel eyes , too . I touched the hound 's burning coat . When I held up my hand , it , too , seemed to be on fire . ' Phosphorus , ' I said . ' That is why the hound appears to burn in the dark .
Idiom: go public (used idiomatically: yes)
A glorious , bombed - out ode to acid joy and misery , ‘ Expecting To Fly’ was a sound collage from Young 's final days with Buffalo Springfield . Springfield were the first band Young formed when he came to California , driving there in a hearse all the way from Canada . Over the years since then he has got together privately with all the surviving members for reunion jams but , unlike every other outfit he 's played with ( including his Canadian hometown high - school instrumental band The Squire ) , he 's never gone public with a Springfield reunion . ‘ There 's never really been a reason . We got together to practise in 1985 , and I wanted to do it then , but I do n't really have a drive to do it now .
Idiom: that makes two of us (used idiomatically: yes)
Keke was having a totally unsatisfactory time at Williams and Lauda the miseries at McLaren . Both were no doubt reflecting on their families and their good lives and the absurdity of the Monaco circuit . They were in Monaco , the home of poseurs , and when Keke said he was fed up , Niki could say , ' That makes two of us . ' He wrote , ' That very day , everything had struck me as totally mad … I was in the wrong place and in the wrong job .
Idiom: fall by the wayside (used idiomatically: yes)
Referring to the writers of the Language in literature series , the jacket proclaims , " As far as possible they avoid technical jargon " . In the final six pages ( pp . 76–82 ) of the chapter on sound and rhetorical patterns we find cursus planus , cursus tardus , cursus velox , similiter cadens , similiter desinens , and the following list : Anadiplosis , Anaphora , Antanaclasis , Antimetabole , Asyndeton , Epanalepsis , Epistrophe , Epizeuxis , Isocolon , Parison , Paronomasia , Ploce , Polyptoton , Syllepsis , Zeugma . Many readers , I suspect , will fall by the wayside as we descend into the realms of indigestible rhetorical terminology . How many times has one ever had recourse to a term like anadiplosis ? One could always spell it out : " The final word or words of a clause or sentence repeated as the first word or words of the next clause or sentence " ; and only use anadiplosis if the regularity of the feature required the economy of a label .
Idiom: by and large (used idiomatically: yes)
Darcy 's Utopia has a Mission Statement , as does any corporate enterprise in the business world . ‘ We are working towards a secular , unicultural , multiracial society.’ When citizens are called upon to make up their minds , pass laws or make regulations — their decisions will be infused with the light cast by this statement , and so by and large will work towards this end . It may be hard to take a step in the right direction , but it will be still harder to take a step in the wrong . We have a time scale , too .
Idiom: on the money (used idiomatically: yes)
They might dribble . We 're articulate enough to fool ourselves that we 're nice people , but there 's a strong undercurrent to our thinking that encourages us to view people with a disability as lesser , and until we come to terms with that , we will never have a proper support system . At present the whole thing is on guilt money : ' I 'm glad it 's not my kids . Here 's a fiver . '' The present situation reinforces his ideas .
Idiom: take to the hills (used idiomatically: yes)
We own all the bases . We have cut off the head of that government.’ He acknowledged that ‘ having him loose does raise the potential that he might make more mischief , take to the hills and be very hard to find’ . Mr Bush , in a dawn TV address yesterday , said his objectives were to protect American lives , to restore democracy and an elected government to Panama , to bring ‘ the indicted drug trafficker’ , Gen Noriega to American justice , and ‘ to ensure the integrity of the Panama Canal treaties’ . ‘ I will continue to seek solutions to the problems of this region through dialogue and multilateral diplomacy.’
Idiom: catch fire (used idiomatically: yes)
August 27 : DHC–4 T Turbo - Caribou N400NC of NewCal Aviation crashed on take - off from Gimi , Manitoba , Canada . After a normal steep climb - out , at about 120 m the aircraft 's nose dropped and it dived into the ground killing all three crew and destroying the aircraft . August 28 : Vickers Viscount of Bouraq Indonesia Airlines suffered engine trouble and caught fire on take - off from Banjarmasin Airport , Kalimantan Island . Only four of the 77 passengers were slightly injured while escaping from the emergency exits but the aircraft was badly damaged . August 31 : C–47B Dakota ( turbo - conversion ) ZS – DHX of Professional Aviation Services crashed shortly after take - off from Jamba , Angola , due to engine problems .
Idiom: get to grips with (used idiomatically: yes)
As the paper goes on to point out : ‘ The availability of substantial permitted reserves and the effect this could have on implementation in the case of Option II [ on which MPG6 is based]needs to be considered.’ We believe that the industry and the demand it satisfies will have to come under much greater restraint than is offered by the draft guidance before improved efficiency , recycling and use of waste — all options currently more risky and expensive — are taken up in a serious way . If this is to happen we believe the Government must get to grips with the immense problems stored up in the legacy of old minerals permissions . This means adopting a firm but rational strategy that enables unacceptable old permissions to be extinguished without compensation , while those that are potentially acceptable are quickly brought up to modern standards , also without compensation . Both approaches can be justified on the principle that the polluter should pay .
Idiom: get away with murder (used idiomatically: no)
This kind of ‘ trading places’ certainly has played its part in fuelling the dynamics of racial envy . The white boys admire the cheek of the black lad who nicks their Kentucky'n'chips , as well as wanting to beat him up for it , just as many of them secretly envy and try to emulate the black street style which at another level they experience as so invasive . Similarly , police outrage at ‘ blacks getting away with murder’ is often tinged with grudging respect for the way they flout authority . But envy is an ambivalent structure of feeling ; it involves the desire to possess certain idealized attributes of the Other and the desire to destroy them because they signify what is felt to be lacking . The racism of relative deprivation , with its constant refrain ‘ the blacks are taking our jobs , houses , women and now our exams’ plays upon this sense of ‘ getting our own back’ .
Idiom: once and for all (used idiomatically: yes)
If you take all of the money that has been spent since the policy was established in nineteen eighty eight , it still does not amount to twenty pence per child which as I said in a previous erm question , answer to a previous question , is bare would barely buy a pencil for each child . Er My Lords , the Noble Lord asked four questions , I think it 's traditional to answer two at the box . Would the Noble Minister clarify once and for all whether or not the Government are committed to free choice by parents in this matter ? If they are , will they honour their own commitment by recognising that the overwhelming majority of parents want to stay with local authorities and that therefore local authorities should be given all the backing and support possible by the Government to make a success of their role in the future . Hear !
Idiom: off the mark (used idiomatically: yes)
American Express ? You must be joking . Save The Children benefited from that event and the publicity , because we were the quickest off the mark in responding to the Star Cafe 's request to help with their anniversary event . Well that takes us on nicely to more interviews , this time I 'm coming down to meet members of the audience . Can you hear me ?
Idiom: follow suit (used idiomatically: yes)
Europe and the United ~ States are both entering recession , and fears are mounting that the financial meltdown accompanying the sub - prime mortgage debacle has not worked itself out . All this is happening at a time when inflationary pressures hamper the usual monetary and fiscal remedies . The European ~ Central ~ Bank , tightly focused on price stability , has been raising interest rates , and the US Federal ~ Reserve may soon follow suit . So the advanced economies will suffer for a while , with obvious implications for the demand for exports from emerging markets . On top of this is the almost certain unwinding of global current - account imbalances .
Idiom: in the running (used idiomatically: yes)
For this reason we spend a lot of time with relatives trying to help them come to terms with the whole admission process . There could be an argument for saying that the DHSS controlled funds have given , for the first time , relatives the choice of care for elderly relatives — we feel this is very important and should be remembered in any discussion about funding and who controls it . c The past 3 years have destroyed the myth that elderly dementing people can not play a role in the running of a nursing home — we have seen even severe Alzheimer residents respond to normalization programme and reality orientation work and enjoy it and , indeed , remain at a plateau much longer than they would otherwise have done ( highly subjective comment , I know ) . More research would be needed to substantiate that claim . d The past 3 years have destroyed the myth that long stay elderly identification residents are not visited .
Idiom: in bed with (used idiomatically: yes)
That , he decided , would put an end to Irina 's career , if not to Irina . He was very solicitous to the Brückner family when they landed , paying particular attention to the sickly daughter clinging to her mother 's arm . He would end up in bed with Eloise ; he was hot with excitement at the thought of it . And he would somehow persuade her to part with the Fabergé desk set . Rakovsky wanted that .