Gooogr/pie_idioms huggingface dataset:
Idiom: buy time (used idiomatically: yes)
That sense of right and wrong , preventing those in power walking all over those weaker than themselves . A memorable and a proud day . But we also remember how that was n't sustained , and the cynical political fix of the Tories a few months later , that for the moment has coped with the government 's political crisis , and temporarily has bought a little time for a few pits . It 's done nothing to tackle the short - term nature of the market in energy . It 's done nothing to tackle the desperate need for a balanced energy policy that looks at the long - term needs of the country .
Idiom: strike a chord (used idiomatically: yes)
Trust staff from all over the country hurried to the aid of their colleagues in the affected regions ; foresters gained a deeper understanding of the gardeners ' problems , and vice versa . Public attention was focused on the force of nature as never before ; successful campaigns were launched to foot the vast bill for the clear - up operation . A universal chord had been struck ; people everywhere felt a physical loss . Even so , one of Britain 's foremost authorities on trees , Dr Oliver Rackham , warned in the Guardian in February 1990 : ' This time there will be no excuse or failing to learn from the former storm . The Great Storm was a setback to woodland conservation because it drew public attention to trees and woods without adding to public understanding .
Idiom: odd one out (used idiomatically: yes)
That 's six . That one . That one so that 's the odd one out . Six lots of nothing comes to nothing . So you can underline that one .
Idiom: in full swing (used idiomatically: yes)
They in turn supply the car companies direct . It required close liaison as Sekers tendered for the business , adding their own design flair to the interpretation of the brief , and their technical skills to the specification . Production is now in full swing — a busy time on the road to success . Aimed at the hotel and brewery market Victoriana is a new range of jacquard woven fabric by Sekers . This top quality upholstery range , woven in 100 % wool is currently in mid launch with an initial 500 pattern books being individually distributed by Sekers sales force to specifiers throughout the country .
Idiom: on the level (used idiomatically: yes)
It is also structured by the biographical situation of the person using the term and the definitions they give to their work role . To some constables ‘ common sense ’ is knowing how to talk to people : You 've got to be able to talk to people on their own level , you get the best out of people if you treat them a certain way . Like , I 'd say to a young officer , maybe just out of the depot [ training centre ] , if a old lady calls you for assistance to her , you 're a police officer and she will look to you for help , ad we have to leave people with a certain level of satisfaction . ( FN 30/11/87 , pp. 34–5 )
Idiom: in the soup (used idiomatically: yes)
But securitized credit taken off one bank 's balance sheet usually ended up on another bank 's books . What resulted was a wonderful system for diversifying individual bank risk , but only by magnifying the default risk of all banks that held what came to be called " toxic " debt . Because all the derivatives were based on the same assets , if anything happened to those assets , all the banks holding the debt would find themselves in the same soup . What made the spread of derivatives possible was the ease with which the volume of debt for a given set of real assets could be expanded . This scalability was magnified by the use of credit default swaps ( CDSs ) , which offered phony insurance against default .
Idiom: far and away (used idiomatically: yes)
I said that I said , A hundred and you 're only running at a hundred . I wrote a report out for them . I says you 're all er very er I says , Your method my method it 's far and away in er er better than what your 's is . And another thing I asked this engineer that were in charge of job . When did you start this ?
Idiom: in your blood (used idiomatically: yes)
‘ Sometimes I feel that I never want to see it again.’ ‘ Get away with you ! It 's in your blood . Your family has lived there for … goodness knows how long.’ ‘ Three hundred and fifty years , give or take a few.’
Idiom: shoot the breeze (used idiomatically: yes)
She ran off with a younger film star . Hauser was talking again after removing his jacket , placing it carefully over the back of his chair . ‘ So why do I go on expanding the company instead of putting up my feet and shooting the breeze?’ Hauser stood still , arms folded across his powerful chest . Sunlight reflected from the snow outside flashed off his rimless pince - nez perched on the bridge of his strong nose .
Idiom: on someone's mind (used idiomatically: yes)
Hence the abundance of panels on education forty - two , by far the largest category of the five day convention . Hence , too , the large number of multicultural panels , typical of which was one titled ' Museums as ' Agents of Inclusion '' . There were other topics on people 's minds this year , anything from preventing the destruction of cultural property during wartime , a legacy of the Gulf War and Yugoslav civil war , to speculations on what democracy might mean for culture in Eastern Europe . Ethics was on the conventioneer 's minds , as well . Last year 's AAM convention adopted a new Code of Ethics , which among other things placed new restrictions on deaccessioning , or the practice of selling items in a permanent collection .
Idiom: face to face (used idiomatically: yes)
To achieve the list of objectives set you will need to be in constant contact with the leading publications in your field and in occasional contact with all the other publications which might be useful . This contact may be by post , by telephone or by personal meetings ; the choice will depend very much on how important you are to a magazine and the magazine to you and thus how often you are likely to be working with this particular publication , how physically near you are to each other and indeed how well you get on at a social level . However , if you have creative ideas and good material , face - to - face contact is by no means necessary . Unfortunately many editors feel that this kind of creativity is absent from the activities of a number of PROs . The only material they receive is the syndicated material which is sent out to everyone on the mailing list , and there is little attempt at placing original and exclusive material .
Idiom: have a ball (used idiomatically: no)
The Leeds defence has never looked as secure since they did away with the old back pass law — Whyte and Fairclough looked good because all they had to do was knock it back to big John . Last year was abysmal , we conceeded so many goals because the defence could n't cope most notable occasion was Man City away where 2 of their 4 goals came from shite defending ie defenders unable to pass back to the goalie who would then pick it up . In fairness to Beeny he not done bad although seems susceptible to letting the ball rebound of him to opposition strikers but he 's better than big John . if we were going to buy a goalie ( well fantasize about it anyway ) then Flowers would be the best bet followed by Coton , Southall is too old and rapidly becomming crap . Yep it was against Chelsea or Arse , although he commited his fair share of blunders he was supposed to be ( I was around when he was ) a decent keeper .
Idiom: wear your heart on your sleeve (used idiomatically: no)
I 'd never have guessed . " " I 'm the strong , silent type . None of your old wearing your - heart - on - your - sleeve junk for me . Besides , it 's unrequited . " " Who is it ?
Idiom: by the book (used idiomatically: yes)
We are what we eat , we are told , and we are — at least in part— what we have read . Having said that , it has to be admitted that there are readers who do not ' connect ' with some of the ' best'books . And there are readers who have been deeply moved and impressed in the ways that we have described by books that can not be described as the best of anything . The present writer , brought up in a house containing unattractive thrillers of the Sapper era , discovered among that unillustrated and unilluminating Hodder & Stoughton material a correspondence - course crammer , an outline of plane geometry . It was a revelation : that books could contain such mysteries and marvels as diagrams of truncated cones and the like !
Idiom: round the bend (used idiomatically: yes)
He had been driving at high speed when me helicopter flew past him . And they probably know I 'm travelling in this car . He reduced speed considerably , dipped his headlights , began to crawl round the bends , his right foot poised over the accelerator . He travelled like this for some distance , meeting no other traffic . The moonlight shone off the frost settling on me fields and a wave of mist like sea surf was beginning to rise on either side of the road .
Idiom: with a view to (used idiomatically: yes)
In Scotland the Registered Establishments ( Scotland ) Act ( 1987)fulfils the same function . The regulations for private residential homes in Northern Ireland are contained in the Health and Personal Social Services ( Northern Ireland ) Order ( 1972 ) , and the Health and Personal Social Services ( Registration of Homes ) Regulations ( Northern Ireland)(1973 ) . In 1988 the Department of Health and Social Security , Northern Ireland issued a ‘ Consultative paper on the Registration and Inspection of Private and Voluntary Residential and Nursing Homes’ with a view to promoting a registered homes order in due course . In all localities social workers introducing or visiting an elderly person in a private or voluntary Home have an overall responsibility for all residents , if there are disquieting indications to report ( Marshall , 1988 ) . Private Homes are mostly small businesses , a cottage industry in the main ( Weaver et al . ,
Idiom: live it up (used idiomatically: yes)
And when I confessed the other day in the King 's Head that we were off on a trip to Dartington , there were cynical smiles . It has been like that all through the history of the place . I have often reflected that if the founders , Dorothy and Leonard Elmhirst , had behaved like any other rural landowners , living it up through judicious stock - market investments , no one would have raised an eyebrow . It was only the fact that , as Dorothy said , they believed that ‘ wealth entails social responsibility’ , that made the activities they funded the target of six decades of jeers and sneers . She was an American , inheriting her father 's fortune at 17 .
Idiom: play for time (used idiomatically: no)
FRANK WIECHULA ANDERS LIMPAR was warned last night that his international career is in jeopardy if he keeps missing out on matches with Arsenal . Swedish chief Tommy Svensson declared : ' If Anders does n't play for his club for some time then it 's going to be very difficult for me to pick him . ' We need the player to be playing matches and be in form . I just hope it all clears up . '
Idiom: keep the peace (used idiomatically: yes)
Germany has demonstrated that it is willing to take on responsibility for keeping the peace in the former Yugoslavia , and it will play an active role in supporting the Dayton peace agreements , both militarily and politically , including a share of the European ~ Union 's reconstruction assistance .
Idiom: down the road (used idiomatically: yes)
Mark of Manor Park thought that Mr Hulme was offensive , repulsive and repugnant , but Bill in Wembley was more sympathetic . ‘ This is 1991,’ he said ( It was n't ) . ‘ A women who 's spent half an hour in front of the mirror making herself attractive , 100 yards down the road hears a man on a building site say , ‘ Hello , beautiful’ , and she looks shocked ! I wonder why ? Was her effort wasted ?
Idiom: hear things (used idiomatically: yes)
Talbot sat and clamped the earphones on . After about fifteen seconds he removed - them and turned to Halzman , who had also removed his . ' I ca n't hear a damned thing . ' ' With respect , sir , when I said a minute , I meant just that . A minute .
Idiom: to say the least (used idiomatically: yes)
Using the data in the table , an argument is advanced that , whereas 21 per cent of working families had a short - term replacement rate of up to 60 per cent of their normal earnings in 1978 , by 1985 — 6 this had risen to about 44 per cent of families . Despite the reassuring noises made by the Government , the poverty and unemployment traps play an all too real and oppressive role in the lives of those on low incomes . It is unfair , to say the least , in a country that increasingly believes that incentives should be the dominant motive force , that the interaction of taxation rates and benefit eligibility levels should preclude the least privileged from being able to improve their own lot . More importantly , this interaction is now playing a crucial part in excluding the underclass from the mainstream of society . While the poverty trap affects very large numbers of workers —including some who are part of the underclass — the unemployment trap is one that particularly operates against this group , especially those at its margin .
Idiom: out of sight (used idiomatically: yes)
No Miss Betsy Trotwood leapt out to bar the way to their donkey , but a large van delivering beer to the Prince Albert public house did . A second delivery van by their side , full of interesting - looking vegetables , proved another hazard ; the donkey was unwilling to move from these Elysian fields . By the time it had been persuaded onwards the victoria was out of sight . When they reached the railway station it was already plying for new hire and the sound of an engine gathering up steam could be heard . They raced onto the platform , followed a minute or two later by a panting Naseby , only to see the railway train , now bearing Miss Throgmorton , steaming slowly away , enveloping them in white smoke .
Idiom: free and easy (used idiomatically: yes)
He appeared not to notice his hostess 's flirtatious twinkle . There was even a certain warmth when he glanced at Thérèse , as though he understood how embarrassed she was by her aunt 's lack of dignity . She 'd been living in England such a long time , of course , it was a bit too free and easy over there . He said : the Bishop is coming down tomorrow to see me . I feel that some sort of ceremony of blessing of the place may be in order , now that the remains have been given a proper burial , and I have asked for his opinion .
Idiom: come to mind (used idiomatically: yes)
‘ I just thought it would have been fun , that 's all . Something a little different.’ Li Yuan turned angrily , glaring at her , then , biting back the retort that had come to mind , he turned back , looking at Fei Yen . She was standing now , her head bowed , her whole stance submissive . He took a step towards her , one hand raised in appeal .
Idiom: keep the peace (used idiomatically: yes)
At a time when nations and peoples increasingly are looking to the United ~ Nations for assistance in keeping the peace - and holding it responsible when this can not be so - fundamental decisions must be taken to enhance the capacity of the Organization in this innovative and productive exercise of its function .
Idiom: on a full stomach (used idiomatically: yes)
On the contrary , she had slept remarkably well , in a large bed over the sheets of which the grudging Mrs Pigdon had passed a warming - pan before Theda slipped between them . She could not remember when she had last enjoyed such comfort . On a full stomach , too . Oh , the bliss of it ! And she did not even know the name of the kind benefactor to whom she owed so much .
Idiom: off the record (used idiomatically: no)
The final concert of the season , celebrating the 70th anniversary , has Leland Chen joining the orchestra for Elgar 's Violin Concerto , and Schumann 's Rhenish Symphony will also be performed at the RAE Assembly Hall , on May 16th . A.N. Off the Record ALTON is fast becoming a hive of musical activity and Overspill are the latest band to emerge from the town . Influenced by such acts as My Bloody Valentine and Ride , the group have lined up some impressive gigs for the spring , including Hammersmith Palais and the University of Surrey .
Idiom: pull a face (used idiomatically: yes)
Mike 's the other half of my office , yes ? You 've heard me talk about him.’ Mike pulled a face . ‘ And Sarah , well , Sarah has an office all to herself.’ Sarah smiled charmingly at Carolyn .
Idiom: fall in line (used idiomatically: yes)
And , in that case , the student will be unfree , unable to form a coherent critical assessment of the social uses of his or her own knowledge in the wider society . Graduates , after all , pass into society and take up significant posts of managerial or professional responsibility . The question is whether they are going to fall in line uncritically with the dominant interests of the sectors in which they work , or whether they are going to act constructively with a larger view — a view with a grasp of the general public interest . Secondly , and even more importantly , knowledge 's in modern society are becoming increasingly separated from each other , with experts unable to communicate with each other . Under those conditions , the ability of society to understand itself and democratically to direct its own future is being diminished .
Idiom: spot on (used idiomatically: yes)
These usually share space with the pavement , but are delineated by different coloured or textured surfacing . They maybe two - way if space permits ( Figure 6.21 ) or may form part of a one - way system where it does not ( Figure 6.22 ) . The problem with this sort of provision is that the cycle lanes have to be carried across junctions , which represent both bottlenecks and accident black spots on the network . In Buxtehude , the most common measure is to ensure that the crossing cycle lane is conspicuous , as seen in ( Figure 6.17 ) , with the priority to the right rule giving added protection and often ensuring that cyclists can maintain their pace . At major intersections , where cyclists may wish to turn left , added facilities can be provided in the form of ‘ positioning lanes ( Figure 6.23 ) .
Idiom: yes and no (used idiomatically: yes)
And th on the cherish you and whatever else and th erm , I mean we 've already got a situation where we 've got erm through Peter and David , the other two , I mean we 've got erm erm two or three breweries who are quite willing to erm to give us quite a substantial amount of money not as loans , as write - offs against barrelage erm which means that we do n't have any repayments to make etcetera . So they 're effectively sort of grants and ye in , in that way . Erm mm , no , you just play it , yo well , you he yes and no , I mean i er you , you , you were ge you were getting in pra i the equivalent of thirty pound a barrel discount erm , which is probably as much as you could er could get , er in , in in a free free house any , er except that you 've got , you know , fifteen , twenty thousand pounds up front as a payment to you . Erm the company is Morecambe Bay Wines and Spirits . Erm and this is going to sound stupid but I do n't know their second names .
Idiom: take it easy (used idiomatically: yes)
I have to drag myself out of bed each day , and I ca n't get up the energy to do any housework . I ca n't bear to look at myself in a mirror : I know I look a mess most of the time . My doctor has no advice except ‘ try and take it easy’ . He says having two children close together is bound to be hard work . My husband tries to be sympathetic , but I can tell his patience is running out .
Idiom: once in a while (used idiomatically: yes)
At this stage the act of shopping itself may depend on a very primitive and haphazard rate of exchange , possibly one - to - one . It might be useful to make a simple ‘ stocktaking’ book with pictures to match the things in the shop . The older children might then check the ‘ stock’ once in a while by one - to - one correspondence . ‘ Two of those , please.’ Again the shop need not be an all - purpose grocers , but might be a supermarket , sweet shop or toy shop , or even a post office with sticky - paper stamps , a letter - box and a postman .
Idiom: have a ball (used idiomatically: no)
It happens erm I 've handled a case myself where shares were valued at a particular amount on the death and er in due course they needed to be sold as part of the administration unfortunately they 'd gone down er a fair amount in the mean time . Erm b but there was no reason why we should sit in wait in case they might go up because they might have gone down further . Beneficiary did n't want the shares so we sold the shares and there 's no good time you know unfortunately none of us has crystal balls where the market is concerned . Good point then . You say you 've got to pay tax before you get the grant of probate , but you might need the grant of probate before you can pay the tax .
Idiom: get a grip (used idiomatically: yes)
The health committee 's report last week on community care puts its finger on the problem when it points to a ‘ paradox’ or ‘ tension’in government policy over assessments of need and cash limits . Downward pressure on SSD budgets will inevitably conflict with increasing demand , it says . This is why it is crucial ministers confront this conflict , get a grip on it , and ensure that users are not short - changed by the policy . Mr Yeo confirms the DoH will not be monitoring identified needs for which no service is available . His apparent reluctance , in his interview with this magazine , to refer to the concept of ‘ unmet need’ betrays the sort of double - speak which has characterised much of the government 's community care rhetoric .
Idiom: go straight (used idiomatically: yes)
That 'll be alright . And roundabouts , roundabouts are bad news . Just go straight over them . What right through the middle ? Yeah !
Idiom: break someone's heart (used idiomatically: no)
MC 28 . Pipchin , Mrs , widow whose husband had ‘ broken his heart of the Peruvian mines’ some forty years ago . She ‘ takes in’ children in her house at Brighton , and is known as ‘ a great manager’of children ; the secret of that management was ‘ to give them everything they did n't like , and nothing that they did’ . Little Paul spends a short time at Mrs Pipchin 's ( on the recommendation of Miss Tox , a former child - boarder ) , where he is not quelled as the others are , but thoroughly discomfits her with his sharp questions and grave stare .
Idiom: take someone for a ride (used idiomatically: yes)
Though he had n't really looked at it , he was sure it was the same one that had been forced into the tourist 's mouth . ' Then what happens ? ' he said . ' Then what happens is , we take him for a little ride out to the Crumbles . ' Creed paused . ' You got that ? '
Idiom: head south (used idiomatically: yes)
In spite of Shan Hackett 's protestations , Stirling insisted on accompanying B Squadron to their rendezvous with Paddy Mayne 's force , leaving Lord Jellicoe behind in command of the base camp . They left Kabrit on 20 November and for the first stage of the journey were able to bowl down the coast road as far as Agedabia , by then firmly in British hands . From there they headed south into the desert to Bir Zalten where they arrived on 29 November . The doctor , Malcolm Pleydell , noted that David Stirling did not look well . The months of dangerous living had taken a savage toll of his health and he had bad conjunctivitis .