Gooogr/pie_idioms huggingface dataset:
Idiom: food for thought (used idiomatically: yes)
MEMOIRS OF A DOG SHRINK An unusual phobia POSTER PULL - OUT Lorimer 's ' A Dog and a Mirror ' VET 'S CORNER Food for thought COPING WITH PET LOSS Sharing grief DOGGIE POST BAG Featuring the Good - boy star letter
Idiom: over your head (used idiomatically: yes)
The coffee had simply splattered across the front of his shirt . ' I wish I 'd thrown the coffee - pot ! ' she seethed at him defiantly . ' I wish it had been boiling and I 'd poured it over your damned head ! ' ' Yes , I 'll bet you do . ' He gave her a shake , forcing her chin up as he glared down into her face .
Idiom: keep tabs on (used idiomatically: yes)
Bernard watched her leave . It was beyond his wildest expectations . All he had intended to do was keep tabs on her in case he needed a hostage after the hit on Mobuto . Whitlock 's niece , the perfect weapon to foil UNACO . His American contact had told him where to find her .
Idiom: call the tune (used idiomatically: yes)
In the previous year , Central Office wished to promote Captain Edwards , the chief agent for Birmingham , to be a Central Office district agent , but they were thwarted by the Chamberlains , who wished to keep him to look after Birmingham ; Neville Chamberlain arranged to have Edwards paid enough in Birmingham to keep him there and the interests of Birmingham thus prevailed over those of the party as a whole . In organizational terms , the question of local independence was mainly one of finance . Central party funds could not pay more than a tiny proportion of the total cost of running a local association in every constituency ; not paying the piper they were unable to call the tune . The dangers of dependence on rich men would be and were regularly pointed out : if the local parties were not themselves independent then they would have to turn to rich outsiders to fight their elections for them , as The Times pointed out in 1911 : If the local organization after an election remained active , on a permanent basis of annual subscription , with a permanent organizing secretary who would attend to the registration work and become the agent at the next election , a candidate could , and probably would , be selected on his merits , and the constituency would be independent of men whose only merit was their wealth .
Idiom: rock bottom (used idiomatically: yes)
I have whittled my own shortlist down to four models : the Thorens TD166VI /UK with Rega arm ( £ 269 ) , Systemdeck IIX ( £ 248 ) , the Rational Audio Aura 01 ( around £ 195 including a Linn K5 cartridge ) and the Rega Planar 3 ( £ 250 ) . The Sound Organisation ( 4 Pickfords Wharf , Clink St , London SE1 , 071 403 2255 ) often have overhauled examples of the latter in stock , a perfect way to make what may well be your last vinyl upgrade at a reasonable price . Most machines come minus a cartridge , but you do n't have to spend a fortune — Audio - Technica produce a perfectly acceptable one for £ 19 , although that is rock bottom : there are genuine improvements to be had by budgeting for four times that amount . The odd one out in my list is in many ways the most beguiling . The Rational Audio Aura 01 is a Czech - made deck with a parallel tracking arm ( which moves across the record on rails instead of pivoting from one end ) , bizarre retro - styling and an idiosyncratic sound .
Idiom: get to grips with (used idiomatically: yes)
When she first arrived at the ICO the reaction was identical to that on her arrival in Africa : " Wow . What have we here " . " Eva was less concerned with the impression she was making than getting to grips with the new job . She was not dealing with novices . To qualify for a course at the ICO officers must have done a minimum of ten years ' service .
Idiom: to the letter (used idiomatically: yes)
The court heard that the employee injured by the machine used to cut aluminium frames had made a full recovery and was back at work . Simon Catterall , for the company , said : ‘ This is not a company which cuts corners . ‘ Norlite is terribly sorry and knows it has to do things to the letter in future.’ The firm was fined a total of £ 2,370 and ordered to pay £ 445.69 costs . A PACKAGE of cuts which will mean around 40 job losses was approved by Middlesbrough Council at a meeting last night .
Idiom: take a bow (used idiomatically: no)
' How can you hit something you ca n't see ? ' Burun laughed . He took his bow from Rostov and gestured at Nogai . ' Take down the last three torches . ' ' I wondered when you were going to shoot , Khan . '
Idiom: make waves (used idiomatically: yes)
In a letter to Tim Scargill , the Class War Federation 's national coordinating secretary , the DoE has stated that using Trafalgar Square for this purpose is ' not appropriate . We regret that permission can not , therefore , be granted . ' One of the reasons for the ban , says a press officer at the DoE , even though the police are quite amiable about the rally , is that ' on the same day Class War applied [ to have it ] , Tim Scargill was quoted in the Guardian as say - ing : ' Let 's get on the streets and start making a few waves . '' But the rally is going ahead , I point out , and the police have it on their duty - roster . ' If it goes ahead , it does so without our permission . '
Idiom: out of the question (used idiomatically: yes)
In 1936 the property - owning classes had given their moral and financial support to a military rising which they hoped would halt the reforming process . Consequently , the Franco regime could not institute a programme of land reform without arousing the hostility of the landowners . To do so would have threatened the stability of Franco 's position and was , therefore , out of the question . On the contrary , even before the war ended , the property - owners began to reap their reward . Not only was the Republican programme of land reform halted , it was reversed .
Idiom: nothing doing (used idiomatically: yes)
Can you imagine ? In that state ? There was nothing doing . He was out cold . So I covered him up decently and rang for an ambulance .
Idiom: fly the flag (used idiomatically: no)
So we had to shrink the hall . We put up 6 m muffle boards two - thirds of the way back , erected a four - row tiered seating block in front of them and built a 24 m by 11 m stage at the front . We ' flew ' huge flags and posters one metre in from the side walls , reaching to some two metres above the ground . A big backdrop to the stage with light concentrated on it did the rest . We even had space for a refreshment area behind the muffle boards at the back of the hall .
Idiom: get to the bottom of (used idiomatically: yes)
‘ I 've been wearing those since I was a casual all those years ago , but they 're a sticks - man item , not mod in any way.’ Still , scam or no scam , there 's no denying , especially not from Galliano themselves , that the tag is currently working full steam ahead in their flavour . A drawback is that it 's put them in the frame for some pretty clueless advances from non - comprehending journalists eager to get to the bottom of this modernist lark . ‘ I was speaking to this chick writer,’ drawls Constantine , with just a hint of Ladbroke Grove patois . ‘ She wanted to know where we all met and I told her that it was through the vibe .
Idiom: take stock (used idiomatically: yes)
The Christian life - style , with its emphasis on the happiness and well - being of others , also brings fulfilment and can yield deeper satisfaction than the wholehearted pursuit of personal ends . Walking out on your partner may not be the answer to midlife change and you may not want a divorce , but you are likely to find that you need to update your relationship if the marriage is to be sound and mutually satisfying for another twenty or thirty years . Just as individuals need to take stock at this stage , in order to lay the ghosts of the past , grapple with the present and set new goals for the future , so a couple may need to reappraise their marriage in those same areas . It 's easy to be aware that things need sorting out but to be too preoccupied with the routine of living to do anything about it . It is important to stop and talk .
Idiom: in bed with (used idiomatically: yes)
He also made a creeper - covered trellis in front of the house door and did all the garden , ‘ do all the flowers.’ Inside , he ‘ used to make all the mince pies for Christmas’ , peel the potatoes for Sunday lunch , and every morning make breakfast : ‘ you never had to get up and make a cup of tea of a morning , he 'd get up . He 'd fetch us all up a cup of tea in bed with a bit of toast.’ He also lit the fires ; and ‘ we never knew what it was to clean boots or shoes . He used to clean all our shoes and put them along the floor .
Idiom: turn heads (used idiomatically: yes)
' It 's even better from the terrace of my mother 's house and the bomb damage does n't show too badly . Do n't you look back , Julia ; must n't spoil your appetite for views of Florence . ' She did turn her head then , but only to smile at David and marvel that he could look so happy ; but even as she watched his face seemed to grow colder and he nodded . Irritated with herself for reminding him , Julia turned back to face the front and said nothing more until Bill had dropped them outside a big yellow house on the edge of Fiesole . She thanked him and waited while David invited him in for a cup of tea .
Idiom: play games (used idiomatically: yes)
Quinn has scored more than 70 goals for United since his £ 680,000 transfer from Portsmouth in 1989 . He said : ' I 've had three unbelievable years at Newcastle and take some marvellous memories away with me . ' Ace Goran plays new ball game By Giles Smith in Frankfurt GORAN IVANISEVIC last night won his way into the semi - finals of the ATP World Championships here with an impressive triumph over world No 1 Jim Courier .
Idiom: in a fog (used idiomatically: yes)
‘ Felt along the heart’ as Wordsworth said,’Blackadder said . But in the best English tradition he did not consider it his business to equip his deficient students with tools they had not got . They must muddle through in a fog of grumble and contempt . Roland went to the British Museum in search of Blackadder . He had not made up his mind what to say to him , so spent time establishing a position in the Reading Room , under the high dome , which , however high , held , he felt , insufficient oxygen for all the diligent readers , so that they lay somnolent like flames dying in Humphry Davy 's bell - jar as their sustenance was consumed .
Idiom: food for thought (used idiomatically: yes)
' If it is classified then the agricultural policy in the Ythan Valley is going to be horrendously changed . ' Take up of set - aside and ever reducing fertiliser usage might satisfy some of the requirements of the directive in time but Mr Buchan said he hoped that farmers would take urgent note of the board 's action and start planning ahead . Food for thought A PLEA for renewed export attacks on the North American food market left at least two substantial sectors of the Scottish food industry relatively unmoved last week . Tony Matthews , Food from Britain 's man in North America , was enthusiastic about the opportunities for both meat and meat products sales there as well as a renewed Scotch salmon venture when he spoke to food industry figures in Edinburgh .
Idiom: tell tales (used idiomatically: no)
Shrugging the receiver between cheek and shoulder places an enormous strain on the sternocleido - mastoid muscles , the prominent bulges on each side of your neck , and the splenius capitis , the muscle that runs up to the base of your skull and stops you wearing your head at a jaunty angle . The strain usually results in stiffness and discomfort , but can be quite debilitating , requiring more extensive treatment — deep massage , heat treatment and sometimes physiotherapy . In short , avoid the horrors of a tell - tale padded dog - collar by investing in a car fax . The Green Man : Harlesden NW10 Private Eyes
Idiom: raise the roof (used idiomatically: yes)
Nobody … nowhere … has ever seen so many Swindon fans before … and the Town players hearts must have thumping with pride as they emerged from the tunnel to be deafened by Wembley 's Wiltshire roar … And the game well Wembley can be the kindest … and yet cruelest of places … for once the cliches came true … it was the team that settled first the side that scored the opening goal that won but what a victory … what a battle … and what an opening goal … They went in for half - time one up and within minutes of coming out were two up … with top scorer Craig Maskell raising the roof … Going up … going up … was the swindon roar … now you 're can believe us they sang … and who could argue … who could deny them as Shaun Taylor headed number three … Yes the battle had to be over … but there was no flag of surrender from Leicester … the opposite a comeback … a charge of courage brought three goals in twelve minutes
Idiom: do the honours (used idiomatically: yes)
TOAST TO THE BRIDE AND GROOM ( Longer , personalized speech by old friend or relative when bride 's father is present but does not make a speech . ) Annabelle 's father , George , and her mother , Martha , have done me the honour of offering me the opportunity to make a speech on this wonderful occasion and propose a toast to Annabelle and Steven . When I asked why they chose me , George said , because you are the President of the Oxford Drama Club / my bank manager / my oldest friend / the boss / have known us for twenty - five years / you are the tallest / you have the loudest voice/ , and Martha said , because you have known Annabelle since she was fourteen / a baby / a child / all her life / at school / at college / you tell the best jokes . I have seen Annabelle acting in school plays/ at the drama club on many occasions but today she does n't need to act , she has a starring role .
Idiom: in light of (used idiomatically: no)
It seemed ( see , for instance , our Interim Report , 1988 ) that , right up to the moment when the repatriation of the Cossacks began , there remained a complete and unresolved contradiction between this insistence by 5 Corps and the reiterated insistence by AFHQ that force was in no circumstances to be used . Now it is clear that an answer was implicitly given to 5 Corps"request , by a conference which included representatives both of Eighth Army and of AFHQ itself . In the full light of 5 Corps"insistence that the Cossacks could not be handed back without the use of force , the conference ruled that nevertheless the Cossacks should be handed back , without qualification . If force was to be"used , it would be with the authorization of the full chain of command to Allied Forces Headquarters . The importance of the recent discovery of this document recording the conclusions of the conferences of 26–27 May is that it fills in what have hitherto been two of the most significant gaps in the whole story .
Idiom: in the flesh (used idiomatically: yes)
‘ It says so in a little book I got from Our Lady 's Bookshop . She can restore virginity not just in the soul — well , anyone could do that — but in the body , if you pray enough and feel sufficiently remorseful . Actually in the flesh , the way she went up to heaven . I simply adore Mother Mary . I wish I could make an unconditional ‘ yes’ to God the way she did .
Idiom: go under the hammer (used idiomatically: yes)
While none of the lots was sold to a museum , purchases were made by private bidders from all over Germany . A fair number of final bids which came in under the reserve price were later accepted . The auction opened with Daniel Chodowiecki 's watercolour ‘ Frederick II on horseback’ of 1777 , which went under the hammer at DM78,000 ( £ 31,200 ; $ 49,920 ) , more than double its estimate ; it reached its first highpoint with Max Liebermann 's ‘ Garden on the Wannsee’of 1916 , for which a north German collector paid DM480,000 ( £ 192,000 ; $ 307,200 ) . The watercolour ‘ Section of a town’ by Paul Klee was sold for DM250,000 ( £ 100,000 ; $ 160,000 ) and the delicate mixed media work ‘ Nude girl on riverbank’by Otto Mueller went to Hamburg for DM260,000 ( £ 104,000 ; $ 166,400 ) . The hammer fell at the lower estimate of DM250,000 ( £ 625,000 ; $ 1 million ) for El Lissitzky 's mixed media work from the ‘ Proun’ series ; it fell at DM110,000 ( £ 44,000 ; $ 70,400 ) , exceeding the reserve , for Sandor Bortnyik 's Cubist watercolour of a newspaper reader .
Idiom: one of those things (used idiomatically: no)
Go to bed if you 're going to be silly . Go and learn your words for tomorrow . bought one of those stinky old er pine tree things and Paulie ripped the whole wrapper off it Oh ! Spice .
Idiom: pissed off (used idiomatically: yes)
Yeah . Did Bonnie enjoy herself in the end ? Cos I know that like she said she did but I know she was getting really pissed off cos everyone was sticking on the music she was n't interested in and stuff . Er yeah I think she , yeah she did enjoy herself , that 's what she said to me . Er I drunk erm I think I drunk two two cans or maybe three cans of Scrumpy Jack and then a can of Supertricks and I was well gone I , I had to pass out .
Idiom: on the back of (used idiomatically: yes)
But I would like to point out in this video , and on the brochure that goes with it , actually says the rest of the field are there to follow on horseback or on foot or by car , very few people indeed actually witness the death of a fox . The followers are there for a day out in the countryside , the opportunity to ride or to walk freely over private property with the consent of the landowner . I agree , sometimes I can tell you I have witnessed a hunt and on a cold , frosty morning when er about forty or fifty horses are thundering across the ploughed field , it 's enough to p the power of that sight is enough to make the hairs on the back of your neck stand up that 's not what we are against the hunter that came to me and says Eh up lad , I wo n't go drag hunting because I 'm sixty years old , I 've done it all my life and I like the ride , I like to be there I never see a fox killed that 's fact , it 's in the video . So why is it important that the kill has to continue . You can continue your sport the decent side of the sport without the need for the kill and and we will encourage , my motion actually encourages that , encourages the fox hunting fraternity to look at a way forward , come forward , talk to us .
Idiom: fall on deaf ears (used idiomatically: yes)
It was said to be the last performances of the long - running tour of Shirley Valentine . But the play itself will continue to be a classic and last night we witnessed a classic performance . Voice of reason falls on deaf ears I DON'T blame Tony Cottee for speaking his mind about Everton , nor for criticising those parts of the team which good football does n't reach . He was n't telling the fans anything they do n't already know that this Everton team has been allowed to slide into mediocrity , and that the values of the old ‘ school of science’ have been allowed to melt away like snow in the Sahara .
Idiom: out of the question (used idiomatically: yes)
‘ I understand they all think they 're Napoleon nowadays . Anyway , where do you suggest for the meeting ? Anywhere in Vienna 's out of the question of course , or we 'll finish up getting shot alongside him.’ ‘ Quite . I 'd suggest a small tavern I know near Olmütz , in Moravia .
Idiom: under the sun (used idiomatically: no)
The city was clean , quiet and contented . Around him in the eating house a few other diners sat , chatting quietly , and from the next table came the muted click of the pieces being moved by two players of twenty - squares . Looking south , Huy could just make out the shape of the wall surrounding the palace compound , and remembered that quiet and contentment existed in reality for very few , and then only for a fraction of the time one spends under this sun . Beneath the surface of this gentle evening a complex and never - ending game , which had something in it of a duel , was being played , the players swimming in their milieu like fish , at different levels which they would occasionally switch , to make an attack or to retreat , to seize prey or to threaten . The dead sat around the edge of the game and watched , knowing the secrets .
Idiom: over the counter (used idiomatically: no)
How many meetings have we all been to , all of us in all parties , at which the candidate has said that he looks forward to winning ? Consumer confidence is not all that far from that , but , from the retailer 's point of view , it does not pay the staff wages . The people in the street outside may tell the market researchers that they are more confident than they were six months ago , but that does not take them into the shop , put their money over the counter or pay the staff wages of the retailer . The Government do not seem to realise how severely consumers have been affected by the experience of recession . That is the factor that the Government are not considering .
Idiom: with knobs on (used idiomatically: yes)
I sat at the front of the coach , next to the driver . He had a punk haircut and used his right knee to drive down the middle of the road . His right hand caressed the gear stick while his left hand constantly fiddled with the knobs on the radio cassette , ensuring that the coach was flooded with , continuous stream of heavy metal . Just as you were getting to like a track he would tune it out periodically , a vehicle would come the other way , its lights flashing furiously . The punk would turn to me with a conspiratorial grin — hey , man , it 's you and me against the world , eh ? — then shift the bus across with his knee .
Idiom: cheek by jowl (used idiomatically: yes)
Or not too much . For she had actually been engaged in the very pleasant task of deciding which room in her new house at Far Flatley might best be converted into a nursery when a messenger had come from Frizingley with the awful news . And Amabel could not stop herself from thinking that this dreadful , dirty town must surely be to blame , that if Gemma had been less stubborn about remaining here , in this dark old manor , standing cheek - by - jowl with the brewery and the foundry and those hundreds and hundreds of unwashed , unlettered people who worked in them , then this tragedy would not have occurred . Oh yes — naturally — a young wife needed a home of her own . A young couple in the first blissful days of their union needed to be alone together .
Idiom: run amok (used idiomatically: yes)
The Senate Majority Leader , Mr George Mitchell , demanded ‘ full disclosure’ of the contacts with the Beijing regime , adding that ‘ the visits make a mockery of our profession of concern for human rights’ . The Democratic Party chairman , Mr Ron Brown , said that ‘ there has not been such a decision so out of touch with American values since the sale of arms to the Ayatollah . This is realpolitik run amok.’ The President has also been criticised from the right , with Republicans mystified at Mr Bush 's demarche . Mr Bush , a former US diplomat in Beijing , has countered by hinting that when his traducers were fully acquainted with the facts , his actions would be justified — and typically he has been angered by the ‘ personal’ nature of the criticism .