Gooogr/pie_idioms huggingface dataset:
Idiom: toe the line (used idiomatically: yes)
Some people might say advertising reflects society , but I think it can be the other way round . I think adverts can create society , create the values and the things we want . I know women are involved in the business , but they are just toeing the line , repeating the same old images , playing the men 's game . If they got together and started to change things , showing real women or girls , then things could start to alter . Like — I 'd like to see an advert with a really big woman trying on a pair of jeans .
Idiom: with a view to (used idiomatically: yes)
0405.41 Sale of a body corporate A client can issue an investment advertisement without approval by an authorised person ( eg ourselves ) if : ‘ … the invitation is made or the information is given by or on behalf of a body corporate , a single individual , or a group of connected individuals for the purposes of or with a view to the acquisition or disposal of shares in a body corporate other than an open ended investment company between parties each of whom is a body corporate , a single individual , or a group of connected individuals , being shares which— ( a ) consist of or include shares carrying 75 % or more of the voting rights attributable to share capital which are exercisable in all circumstances at any general meeting of the body corporate ; or
Idiom: have no truck with (used idiomatically: yes)
‘ The IRA know that members of our party or the DUP who have a high media and public profile will be well - watched by the security forces either visibly or covertly,’ said the unionist councillor . ‘ The republican terrorists will hit the likes of me or other party members who keep themselves to themselves and do their council work without much public glorification . ‘ We will have no truck with Sinn Fein . But we can work and have a good relationship in the City Hall with the SDLP . ‘ The whole situation is quite frightening and it is a matter of taking precautions without arousing too much concern with out neighbours or families .
Idiom: on edge (used idiomatically: yes)
Smash injuries : Two teenagers were hurt when their car hit a telegraph pole in Cleveland . Driver Glyn Harrison , 18 , of Low Goosepool Farm , Middleton St George , broke his leg in the smash at Whinney Hill , on the edge of Stockton . Passenger Edward Wade , 19 , of Ouston Moor Farm , Darlington Back Lane , Stockton , received chest injuries . Search continues :
Idiom: get off the ground (used idiomatically: no)
The arm sells pretty much anything which is ‘ user installable’ on a Sun , except the box itself , despite Sun president Scott McNealy 's view that Sun machines are in his estimation , user - installable . In the US , SunExpress sells some systems on behalf of the Sun Microsystems Computer Corp hardware business , to the education market for example . That and other systems sales accounted for a whacking 50 % of SunExpress revenues last year when it was getting off the ground , with end user sales pegged at just 35 % . Although the operation would not disclose just what it managed to contribute to Sun 's coffers in the last financial year , SunExpress president , Dorothy Terell , agreed that it had lived up to expectations — of around $ 150 m — predicted by Scott McNealy when SunExpress was introduced . Its figures are complicated by the fact that every system sale made by SunExpress on behalf of SMCC in the US was counted by both it , and SMCC .
Idiom: out of the blue (used idiomatically: yes)
It is a remarkable turnaround for the ex - Blues ' star , who never dreamed he would be offered such a lucrative post , having suffered so much frustration in the domestic game . Lyons is relishing the challenge ahead , and he is determined to succeed . He told the Echo today : ‘ It all came out of the blue . ‘ I 'd been offered a couple of things in the league , and I could have gone to Kuwait or South Africa . This was my best offer.’
Idiom: bow and scrape (used idiomatically: yes)
Pleased to make your acquaintance , I 'm sure,’ said Bob Makins , rubbing his palm down a green apron before shaking his new master 's outstretched hand . Gladys and Patsy both stepped forward and gave Charlie a half - curtsey , which brought a smile to Becky 's lips . ‘ There 'll be no need for anything like that,’ said Charlie ‘ I 'm up from Whitechapel and the only bowing and scraping you 'll be doing in future will be for the customers.’ ‘ Yes , sir,’ said the girls in unison , which left Charlie speechless . ‘ Bob , will you take Mr Trumper 's things up to his room?’
Idiom: put paid to (used idiomatically: yes)
Ron 's glance had fallen upon the huge mound of nettle roots and bramble stems that was the product of Edward 's afternoon . ‘ I do n't know why you bother doing all this by hand . Half an hour with a drum of selective weed killer and a spray and you 'd put paid to that lot for good and all.’ ‘ Plus much else.’ ‘ What ?
Idiom: hands down (used idiomatically: yes)
Bull terrier Bronson had already done battle with two workmen — who fought it off with a shovel — before turning on Questa . Anthony said : ‘ I suddenly heard Questa yelping . ‘ When I put my hand down to feel what was wrong I realised she was being attacked — but I did n't know by what . ‘ I tried to pull the other dog 's jaws back . ‘ When that failed I stuffed my right hand down its throat to stop it biting and then smacked it twice between the eyes with my left.’
Idiom: on the run (used idiomatically: yes)
Police arrested Santapaola without firing a shot . A pistol was in his bedside cabinet , but he did not try to reach for it . ‘ Everything must come to an end , even a long time spent on the run,’ police quoted him as saying . Independent inquiry announced Parents fury at Allitt probe
Idiom: play for time (used idiomatically: no)
Fido 's owners should be aware of this and take steps to play him at his own game . Toys should become the owners ' possession and be placed where Fido can not get them . As often as possible , they should invite Fido to play and play nicely for some time so Fido enjoys himself . As the game progresses , owners should start to win the chase or the tug - of - war so , by the end of each game scenario — before Fido has lost interest — they are in possession of the toy , playing with it and not allowing Fido to have it . Finally , they should put the toy away .
Idiom: join the club (used idiomatically: yes)
Both were built at its Winfrith site in Dorset . But the Authority also maintained its faith in the existing gas - cooled design . By contrast , the CEGB saw this as another opportunity to join the worldwide water - cooled club , now dominated by the Pressurized Water Reactor . Technical and safety arguments were overlaid with the issue of national technological pride . For roughly nine years , a debate raged about which design to choose , involving government departments , parliamentary committees , politicians , as well as the nuclear researchers , operators and construction companies .
Idiom: look on the bright side (used idiomatically: yes)
With all the grace and spontaneity of a wooden puppet , but in the most civil and soft of voices , he said : ' We shall both be delighted if you will . We have the highest regard for Doctor Morris , and of course his niece is most welcome . And Lesley will enjoy your company so much , ' he added , and the sudden faint note of hope and warmth sounded almost as though he was issuing comfort to himself , looking on the single bright side . No doubt , she thought , a visitor might be a very unwelcome distraction in his entrenched life . But it was done now , there was no way of backing out .
Idiom: cut no ice (used idiomatically: yes)
By far the best one is one suggested by , by the white chromosome as being male . There is indeed a single gene male which has recently been and it acts as a switch . And what happens is that if an embryo has the single gene for being male , it happens to have a white chromosome not surprisingly , it turns on thousands of other genes that then make the embryo into a male , but , but that single gene has to be there to act as a switch and that 's that gene is also present in alligators and crocodiles so the point I 'm making is it is just wrong to say that , that all these discoveries about genetics cut no ice with human evolution , because human things can not be influenced by single genes . I 'm afraid that is not true . The situation is this .
Idiom: high and low (used idiomatically: yes)
The principal effort to date has been directed to setting up the operational structure , preparing marketing material , and general business development , including joint ventures with partners in industry . Geological and geophysical can be displayed in various ways : a three - dimensional colour - shaded perspective view of the magnetic field of the East Midlands left vividly displays variations in the field . Draping a 3.5-dimensional colour - shaded perspective view of the magnetic field in colour over a relief representation of the Bouguer gravity anomalies shows correlations between high and low anomalies in the two fields . Petroleum geology , geophysics and offshore surveys A wide variety of work , from outer space to inner space , is now carried out in the newly restructured division ( PGGOS ) , including studies of solar and geomagnetic activity in the upper atmosphere , coastal and offshore geology , hydrocarbons on land and offshore , biostratigraphy , sedimentology and mineralogy , and earthquakes .
Idiom: cut the mustard (used idiomatically: yes)
' Many of the victims can not afford to celebrate Christmas because of the actions of the banks . ' This is the harsh truth behind the banks ' glossy and expensive advertising campaigns . ' Why not cut the Mustard ? By Jaci Stephen WADDINGTON Games 's proposal to axe Reverend Green from the board game Cluedo is a bad one .
Idiom: behind closed doors (used idiomatically: yes)
For all her privilege and wealth , life had not been easy and the experiences of childhood had left an indelible mark . Diana 's parents had had an unhappy marriage . Her father , Earl Spencer , at that time Viscount Althorp , was the perfect gentleman to all who knew him , but not so gentlemanly behind closed doors . Her mother , Frances , stayed with him until she had produced the son he so desperately wanted , but when Diana was just six years old her mother left home . She had met and fallen in love with Peter Shand Kydd , a wallpaper millionaire , seen a chance of happiness , and taken it .
Idiom: muddy the waters (used idiomatically: yes)
But such research only reveals people 's perceptions . It does n't evaluate whether they are right or not . John Davies , professor at Strathclyde University 's Centre for Occupational and Health Psychology , says these studies merely muddy the water . He accepts it 's extremely difficult to come up with conclusive evidence that violent films cause violent behaviour , but that a series of studies in America 20 years ago suggested it was a factor . The US research employed observation of children , questionnaires and long - term case studies .
Idiom: laughing stock (used idiomatically: yes)
Then her married sister arrived at the house with news of her real reason for going each evening to the post office . ‘ You 'd think she 'd have more sense at her age . She 'll just become a laughing stock if she 's not that already.’ ‘ I hear you 're seeing Mr Moran at the post office,’ her mother ventured delicately . ‘ Yes .
Idiom: jump to conclusions (used idiomatically: yes)
‘ So that 's how it is,’ Ben said when they reached the car . He was both astonished and amused . She told him he was jumping to conclusions . Miss Marshall 's black cat , according to Rose , had been called Midnight — like this one — Middy for short . He could change the name if he wanted to .
Idiom: bear fruit (used idiomatically: yes)
However , it was the evaluators ' impression that the dispute coincided with a certain demoralisation amongst panel members which had more to do with the disorganisation and instability of the panel itself . Networking A development which seems likely to bear fruit was the creation of a working party from within the panel . This was charged with the task of exploring the possibility of a network of schools , teachers , library specialists and others with a concern for developing practice in relation to the use of libraries , study skills , active methods of learning , and whole - school and departmental " effective learning " policies ( notes from Working Party 3 March 1986 ) . This working party is considering the resourcing and coordination of such a network and how it might be related to the role of the inspectorate , the advisory service and the library service .
Idiom: call the tune (used idiomatically: no)
NEW ~ YORK – Conventional wisdom rarely survives a good stress test , and few tests have been as stressful as that which the global economy has endured over the past 24 months . A healthy season of reappraisal has dawned , shining a new light on boom - time notions like the value of opaque markets , the untouchable status of the American consumer , or the wisdom of deregulation . One piece of bubble wisdom that has escaped relatively unscathed , however , is the assumption that the " BRIC " countries – Brazil , Russia , India , and China – will increasingly call the economic tune in years to come . The BRIC notion , coined in a 2003 Goldman ~ Sachs report , is not all bad : at 75 % correct , it scores a good deal better than most economic prognostications of the day . Yet the economic crisis that began in 2008 exposed one of the four as an impostor .
Idiom: at a pinch (used idiomatically: yes)
Tonson would have had a strong incentive to make the effort to accommodate this particular late arrival : unlike ‘ Ye gentle spirits of the air’ , which is a virtuoso show - piece full of semiquaver pyrotechnics ( and therefore unsuitable for the amateur market ) , it was included in the Select Songs volume — so to omit it from the word - book might have led to complaints . Here again the score suggests there was some hurried work at this point in the show . First , the complete omission of ‘ When I have often heard young maids complaining’(This may seem surprising , given that the text managed to get into the quarto , even if late ; but as a continuo song it could , at a pinch , have been accompanied by the harpsichordist from a separate sheet , with a gamba player reading over his shoulder . That would have been risky with ‘ Ye gentle spirits of the air’— also a continuo song — because it contains difficult display passages in the bass line as well as the vocal part . ) Next , the Haymakers ' Dance , with its missing inner parts .
Idiom: to the letter (used idiomatically: yes)
I rather think the Liberals , who stand to benefit greatly from the SNP initiative , should have supported it . House sales I refer to recent letters about the cost of house sales and also to an article today in your Property section . I hope the public will not be fooled by the professed concern by David Alves and REAL estate agents with regard to the cost of house sales . The reality is that REAL members themselves operate a system of scale charges .
Idiom: over the top (used idiomatically: no)
In the first case they had enough kinetic energy to make it ; in the second case they did not . Quantum mechanically the same sort of experiment , using electrons instead of marbles and an electric rather than gravitational barrier , does not produce such clear - cut results . Just occasionally an electron whose energy is not enough to take it legitimately over the top will nevertheless emerge the other side . It has tunnelled through . How do these rare moles manage it ?
Idiom: make a monkey of someone (used idiomatically: yes)
SG12 9LS . ' Swift lesson in dockside diplomacy Do n't make monkeys of us CHRIS PICKERING , of Aintree who is now nearly 80 recalls a dockside incident which taught him a lesson in diplomacy ! Chris arranged for a lorry to load 12 tons of hickory wood billets in bundles at Gladstone Dock , starting at 8 am .
Idiom: take the mickey (used idiomatically: yes)
go to did he tell you what happened yesterday ? , hang on I 'll get it for you It starts of Stuart says to Geoff what team do you support , support and he says Nottingham Forest , ooh Nottingham Forest urgh and he takes the mickey out of him which okay , then he called him and all that , then he took no notice of that , now do n't tip them silly , what the bloody hell you doing that for ? , do n't be so daft , so any way , then Stuart goes off into the showers and turns the showers on yeah
Idiom: go hand in hand (used idiomatically: yes)
Casteleyn observed that ‘ Smaller libraries may not need a full - time training officer but may be able to benefit from the advice of a training officer employed to develop training centrally for the whole organisation’ , and suggested that ‘ smaller authorities who were unlikely to have their own training officers should look to their authority 's training department for support’ but it seems that in practice , smaller libraries are least likely to have an existing strong centre of training expertise to turn to . It was noticeable that the libraries who listed a substantial number of local authority courses were often the ones who listed substantial numbers of internal and external courses as well , so that there was a strong relationship between total number of courses and involvement of local authority ( see Table 24 ) . Furthermore , commitment of such central training resources to libraries often went hand - in - hand with commitment of library management time to training , presumably because to an extent both are aspects of the same overall policy of the parent authority towards training . This overall policy can be crucial : the following comment was made by a library whose training officer post on the library establishment was frozen , in response to being asked how they would like to develop their overall programme , if adequate resources were available : ‘ Commitment of our authority to a training policy : adequate resources will not , without such a policy , solve the problem’ .
Idiom: now or never (used idiomatically: yes)
He came out before the smoke had cleared and swung the door quietly on well - oiled hinges . He flipped just one of the bolts in a casual way and strode off towards the farmhouse across the Paddock . He had n't touched the black box alarm so it was now or never . I guessed I had no more than four minutes before he got back to base , so I began to count on the old one - and - one , two - and - two , and so on principle in order to concentrate on the job in hand without looking at my watch . I told myself that I had up to two hundred and no more .
Idiom: yes and no (used idiomatically: yes)
A new menu box will appear on the screen , overlaying the main design area . The question you are being asked is , VISUAL CHOICE OF PALETTES . There are two boxes below this with YES and NO . It looks like diagram 1 ( below ) . Place the pointer in the YES box and click the mouse button .
Idiom: up to here (used idiomatically: yes)
Hm , but it is a bit big , isn't it ? No I think that 's probably alright , they do have them long do n't they ? all the other children come up to , they do n't go up to here , I think I 'll have to this do n't you ? Let 's have a look , does it say what size it is ? No .
Idiom: small print (used idiomatically: yes)
But how on earth could he say that , any more than he could have said it to Miss Trimm ? How could he say that there was only God 's insistence , even though He abided by no rules Himself , that His strictures should be discovered and obeyed ? How could he say that God was all vague promises , and small print on guarantees that no one knew if He ever kept ? It was appalling that Timothy Gedge had terrified these children , yet it had been permitted , like floods and famine . " He 'll do something terrible , " she said , weeping copiously now .
Idiom: jockey for position (used idiomatically: yes)
AUSTRALIAN ROUNDUP Compiled with the assistance of our associate newsletter Asia / Pacific Unix Update . SCO AND UNIVEL JOCKEY FOR POSITION DOWN UNDER Working out of the Novell Inc office in Chatswood , Australia , Brad Jelfs has n't taken long to find the most important distributors for the UnixWare offering from Univel Inc , but his fast work has no doubt brought forth well - hidden explosions at his old office at Epping . The solo Univel rep and ex - SCO employee has lined up Sydney - based Com Tech Communications as prime distributor and MUA Pty Ltd as associate distributor for UnixWare , matching existing arrangements under which the Santa Cruz Operation Inc has distributed its desktop Unix in Australia .
Idiom: go straight (used idiomatically: no)
Yeah . and , and that 's er it 's all the slowness which was doing me in . It was right at the very beginning when you had to ask him about the introduction , I thought you were going straight off from the business card and all the rest of it and what you actually had was your C C Q in front of you because it took you all that time to get round to it . Yeah there was lots of bits of paper floating around it was , it was a Yeah , that 's right .
Idiom: in cold blood (used idiomatically: yes)
By Daily Post Correspondent BRITISH peacekeepers saw Muslim soldiers gun down Croat civilians yesterday , UN military sources said . ‘ They saw people killed in cold blood,’ one said . ‘ When they saw atrocities the British soldiers moved in to stop them.’ The sources said the incidents were in Croat villages seized by mainly Muslim Bosnian forces in an offensive near Travnik in central Bosnia .
Idiom: as a rule (used idiomatically: no)
He must have supposed himself to be using a language absolutely purged of metaphor when he wrote at the grand climax of the Discourse on method … And having noticed that there is nothing whatever in this ' I think , therefore I am ' which assures me that I say the truth , other than that I see very clearly [ je vois très clairement ] that to think it is necessary to be , I judged that I could take it as a general rule that the things which we conceive very clearly and very distinctly [ que nous concevons fort clairement et fort distinctement ] are all true … The words are easily accepted as an appropriate dress to clothe a perfectly abstract thought , yet throughout Descartes ' philosophy , as Schon says , ' it suggests itself that intuition is displaced seeing ; the ' clarity and distinctness '' of ideas is a displaced clarity of objects ; and the light of reason is a displaced theory of the eye , the eye of the mind , containing covertly the ancient doctrine that the eye projects . its own light ' .
Idiom: behind closed doors (used idiomatically: yes)
Ben Bacon KINGSTONIAN boss Chris Kelly let rip with his famous lip last night in an astonishing attack on the Football Association . Kelly is furious that Peterborough have been ordered to replay their FA Cup match with his non-League side on Friday at London Road behind closed doors . A three-man committee ruled the 9-1 result of the first-round replay was ‘ significantly influenced ’ when Kinstonian keeper Adrian Blake was hit by a missile . Kelly said : ‘ I must be the only manager in the country who is cheesed off that his side are still in the FA Cup .