Gooogr/pie_idioms huggingface dataset:
Idiom: on the cards (used idiomatically: no)
The shares , which yield over 6% , climbed 3p to 239p , a whisker below their peak of 244p back in May . Bank boosts Fraud Squad BARCLAYS , the biggest plastic card issuer , is gearing up for a blitz on card fraud in the run-up to Christmas . The bank 's fraud referral unit , which handles calls from suspicious retailers 24-hours a day , is increasing staff numbers by 20% to cope with what could be a 15% rise in yule-tide fraud . The unit expects to make about 300 arrests this month alone .
Idiom: in the works (used idiomatically: no)
The extent of CAB work in hospitals tends to reflect resources available . It may range from one afternoon a week to full extension services opening daily , staffed by a paid worker and volunteers . In some cases there may even be regular ward visits , hospital staff training in basic benefits work and the CAB information system on microfilm . Before a bureau can establish an extension in a hospital there is a lot of groundwork to be done , just as there is in prison work . All those involved in patient care must fully understand the role of the CAB in the hospital .
Idiom: think twice (used idiomatically: yes)
‘ Not at all , madam . I only wish more complaints were as easily dealt with as this . Still , at least it 's had a happy ending and brought you both together to make up your differences , and hopefully make you both think twice before starting another tiff in the future . These things have a habit of snowballing one way and another.’ Luke stood up , taking the policeman 's hand and shaking it warmly .
Idiom: touch and go (used idiomatically: yes)
Julie Christie and guitarist John Williams each bought £ 1,000 worth . Best - selling thriller writer Ken Follett , a former newspaper reporter himself , put in £ 10,000 . But it was touch and go all the way . As they entered the last fortnight of the share sale there was still a shade under half the £ 6.5 million to be raised . Most of the London councils had paid up by then , though some of the large sums promised by the unions were still churning their way through committees .
Idiom: state of the art (used idiomatically: yes)
What this study wo n't do is to tell us much about specific industries such as our own because the numbers involved will almost certainly be too small to pinpoint effects so precisely . JAPAN HAS THE YEN TO BUY BRITISH BNFL is to build two state - of - the - art electronic radiation detection systems — developed for the company 's flagship THORP plant — for the Japanese . The two special instrument systems , costing half a million pounds , are to be supplied to the Japanese Atomic Energy Research Institute at Tokai Mura . And the deals have been described as ‘ helping establish BNFL as a supplier of nuclear plant control and instrumentation systems at an international level’ by the project team 's control and instrumentation engineer , Dr Howard Hampson .
Idiom: in a fog (used idiomatically: yes)
She 's still got Weetabix all over her top . Has she ? How did you manage in this fog this morning ? Were n't so bad . Better than before ?
Idiom: on the rocks (used idiomatically: yes)
Not just because of its range but also because of the quality of the material . Meanwhile fellow travellers can only admire the hardiness of the last great explorer , now 83 . He says Wilfrd Thesiger 's idea of a nice night is to curl up on a rock and eat some fresh camel 's milk . I always use him as an example when people ask why make travel difficult . You can only experience what he did by living as people do .
Idiom: hold court (used idiomatically: yes)
It was somewhere to hide and sob into your plastic glass of flat lager while all around , pondlife ran riot . Backstage was misery . Ageing HM clowns with bottle tans and painted on black jeans held court at the wretched bar surrounded by sagging , middle - aged groupies who 'd made themselves up whilst drunk , it appeared . ‘ Comedian’ Keith Allen was much in evidence in this company , he was a star of Kylie - esque proportions . A handful of poxy tents sold greasy lentil pilaf to the worst kind of industry lackey .
Idiom: have an eye for (used idiomatically: yes)
As her eyes grew more accustomed to the hellish gloom , Tallis could see how many of these forlorn corpses were gathering on the north bank of the river . They ignored each other in death , though sometimes they crouched no more than an arm 's reach away from each other , even touching as they slipped on the ice . They had eyes only for the journey downwards , now , and battle - fervour , love and pride had long since been sucked from them , leaving them soulless husks : in bronze , or leather , fur - cloaked or bright trousered . Helmets gleamed , some with tall plumes , others decorated with animals , others plain . The shoreline bristled with the spikes of spears and swords , rammed into the hard mud , no longer needed .
Idiom: make waves (used idiomatically: yes)
Mr Martin recalled this improvement as one of the high points of his term as secretary general . But he admitted to a great sense of satisfaction at having been in the job at a time when the world had ‘ seen the most rapid political changes in the past 50 years’ , from the end of the Cold War to the dismemberment of the Soviet Union , and the appointment of former POCs like Vaclav Havel to become heads of state . With supporters of human rights making waves in virtually every country of the world , perhaps it was appropriate that Mr Martin 's last foreign visit as secretary general was to the remote alpine kingdom of Bhutan where he discussed the plight of the Nepali - speaking people with King Jigme Wangchuck . His advice for the future of the movement ? He invokes the words of another foreign minister in response to his question , ‘ How should we keep putting pressure on you?’—‘Keep the letters coming,’ he replied .
Idiom: on the shelf (used idiomatically: yes)
Theodora glanced up at the gallery above them and the blue and white fan tracery which arched over it . She and the Archdeacon followed Yaxlee into what had once been the library . Now the white painted bookcases which reached to the ceiling were filled only on the first two shelves with incongruous modern volumes with used - looking dust - covers . Delicate chairs with frayed green silk upholstery were placed round the walls . The only other furniture was an enormous wooden tapestry frame with a small chair in front of it , set up in the recess of the tiny bay window at the far end of the room .
Idiom: on the face of it (used idiomatically: yes)
If that is really so , the mere repeal of s39 and relaxation of the existing professional restrictions may not be enough , as a matter of law , to permit the formation of MDPs and the avoidance of breach of ss20 - 24 where one of the partners is not a qualified solicitor . It may be , however , that the dictum is an overstatement of the true position and that the agency principle does not require that the act of one partner be that of all for all purposes , but merely deems that to be the case for the limited purpose of attaching liability to the firm for the acts and omissions of one of its members . If , as might appear on the face of it to be the case , ss20 - 24 can only be breached by actual acts , no difficulty arises with MDPs . Solicitors ' Practice Rule 7 In its present form this rule maintains the effective prohibition of partnerships in England and Wales between solicitors and non - solicitors formerly proscribed by s39 of the Solicitors Act . By this rule a solicitor may not share or agree to share his fees with any person except:(1 ) another solicitor;(2 ) a lawyer qualified in some foreign jurisdiction who has his principal office in that jurisdiction;(3 ) the solicitor 's bona fide employee , but not in circumstances which would create a partnership with a non - solicitor;(4 ) a retired partner or the dependants of a retired or deceased partner .
Idiom: on the rocks (used idiomatically: yes)
A man is wearing a red jacket and standing beside a yellow canoe on some rocks with water in the background
Idiom: out of pocket (used idiomatically: yes)
The cost of one of Stein 's instruments was 300 gulden , twice the annual salary Mozart had been paid in the service of Colloredo . Finally Mozart was able to report to his father that he had given a concert , and that his takings , before expenses , were 90 gulden . After expenses , and having paid off some debts , Mozart and his mother were 26/27 gulden out of pocket which Mozart felt was ‘ not too bad’(25 October 1777 ) . PLATE IV Leopold 's contents page to a volume containing nine of Mozart 's Salzburg symphonies composed between 1773 and 1774 . The list gives the key of each of the symphonies , the orchestration and a musical incipit for each work .
Idiom: all along (used idiomatically: no)
What the bloody hell are you going to do with those bloody bagpipes ? ’ ‘ Play them , of course , ’ I replied . ‘ When you are sucking up all that filthy water from the River Orne into your tank , I shall be further along the river bank playing the bagpipes . ’ George reluctantly accepted the situation and with a mouthful of curses we drove off down the now dusty road towards the Orne . As we approached the bridge he stopped the truck .
Idiom: kill two birds with one stone (used idiomatically: yes)
' What 's that to you ? ' ' You could have eaten inside the pub . Killed two birds with one stone . ' ' I do n't eat lunch . This the new man ? '
Idiom: cap in hand (used idiomatically: no)
None the less , Gregor 's father came into the living - room before going into the kitchen and with one prolonged bow , cap in hand , made a round of the table .
Idiom: have a few (used idiomatically: yes)
Tomorrow ? Yeah . So you , well then you 'll still not know what you 're going out with because you still have a few days from last week to get . So you do n't know what you 'll start with , you 'll actually bring in . I will do .
Idiom: go places (used idiomatically: yes)
Not all fuels are the same THE SHELL AIR MILES CLUB For drivers who are really going places AIR MILES Travel the World COLLECT AND FLY
Idiom: round the bend (used idiomatically: yes)
Somewhere where strange people would charge you extortionate sums of money for things you did n't even want to have done to you . No , the docks were quite enough for Captain Jute . The worst you got down here was strange sudden slithering movements in the shadows where there had n't been anything a minute ago ; crazed Vespan mechanics with tales of fabulous Frasque treasure abandoned in a bay near here , somewhere , just round the next bend ; gangs of Perk extortioners … The Perks guarding the inlets were beginning to twitch . They were scratching at the airlock .
Idiom: all over bar the shouting (used idiomatically: yes)
They 're safe and sound and guarenteed of third division football next year . The sea - air clearly suited Alan Judge who was outstanding in goal . Meanwhile back in the gym … it 's all over bar the shouting … It 's been a similar story on the rugby field . The season turned from trauma … to triumph for Gloucester … finishing fifth in the league after a 25 - 5 win over Harlequins .
Idiom: on someone's mind (used idiomatically: no)
The third question is so closely related to changes in the forms of rural settlement and to the growth and decline of towns that it is best considered in these contexts ; the present chapter will concentrate on the scale of mortality and the fluctuations in the total population of England in the century and a half before 1529 . The historian 's main difficulty in examining these problems is that medieval man was not statistically minded , and that consequently precise data are not available to us in our search for answers to problems . It is easier to judge the impression which the Black Death made on men 's minds , for this is reflected in the chroniclers ' writings , than to measure the scale of its ravages . The St Albans writer Thomas Walsingham declared that scarcely two men survived out of twenty in certain religious houses , and that many men considered that barely a tenth of the whole population remained alive ( 32 , i , 273 ) . Other chroniclers , such as Henry Knighton at Leicester , describe the extent of the plague locally , suggesting that there were 700 deaths in one parish and 380 in another , and some even appear to have doubted if man 's life on earth was going to continue ( 53 , p.169 ) .
Idiom: in the pipeline (used idiomatically: yes)
The Council is united in its resolve to maintain and develop standards of professional management and competence . Our relationship with other industry bodies and government are at an all time high as we see the fruits of recent years , efforts beginning to flow through . With more initiatives in the pipeline , this growth in our sphere of influences in the industry will continue to develop and , in time , fuel growth in our membership . There has never been a better time to be a member of the Association . 1993 heralds a brighter future for us all .
Idiom: down and out (used idiomatically: yes)
Initially , the checks are performed at the model domain level , filtering down to a local geometric or primitive level wherever necessary . The check is terminated whenever the bounding approach either proves that the specified condition can not occur , or establishes that the condition can Occur at the level of original definition . Searching may thus cease at the first level or spread down and out , through the analysis of the primitives or entity geometry , into a fine check of a region of local geometry . MODEL INTERPRETATION The nature of the original problem and its formulation will thus dictate the level and type of model to be used and displayed .
Idiom: from scratch (used idiomatically: yes)
For three days . For three days . well what 's easier , starting from scratch with a new thing that a cabinet maker has made or re refurbishing work like doing something over that 's had marks and stuff ? Oh I think er starting fr it 's harder work starting Well it 's hard work anyway th I mean sometimes er a a job that 's been polished before , it 's patchy but I mean that 's really all stripped down to You know what I mean , it 's it 's a It 's that 's all stripped down to Ready for you know back to sort of it 's original you know .
Idiom: presence of mind (used idiomatically: yes)
My father wrote : A scene of indescribable confusion followed : a shot was fired and immediately the excited crowd of soldiers began to fire their rifles in all directions , without knowing why or wherefor . In the congested space few bullets could have missed their mark and the slaughter would probably have continued but for the presence of mind of the officer in charge of the war drums , who ordered them to beat the signal for silence , when the madness ceased as soon as it had arisen . Many were found to be dead and the total casualties were reported to be about a hundred . In the silence that followed most of the chiefs were seen to be in tears and the council was dissolved until the afternoon .
Idiom: make a splash (used idiomatically: yes)
A few days after Mr Hani 's murder , while riots swept the country , he and four comrades met secretly to form a ‘ Committee of Generals’ whose aim would be to resist majority rule . The committee 's existence was not disclosed until last week . One of the generals , Tienie Groenewald , made a splash by boasting of his ability to mobilise 500,000 whites willing to fight for secession if peaceful resistance to black rule failed . But , again , the committee 's power is hard to assess . Together , Mr Groenewald , who ran military intelligence in the mid-1980s , and Mr Viljoen , a hero of South Africa 's Angolan war , make a formidable pair .
Idiom: by and large (used idiomatically: yes)
Even if one belongs to a group because of who one 's mother was and not because of who one 's father was , this in no ways implies that women have particularly high ( or low ) status in that group . It is not difficult to give many examples of societies where membership of descent groups is gained through women and where membership of descent groups is gained through women and where the status of women is comparatively low . Again this would , by and large , be true of most of the matrilineal societies of New Guinea where , by most reckoning , the status of women would be considered lower than in many of the patrilineal societies of West Africa . Descent and the status of women may not be entirely independent but they do not co-vary in the simple way suggested by Morgan . We now must turn to another general assumption made in The Origin , the assumption that there is a correlation between technology and kinship system .
Idiom: touch wood (used idiomatically: yes)
Good . Good . Touch wood , I 'll say . Can I use your phone ? Yeah , course you can .
Idiom: have a few (used idiomatically: yes)
Councillor Bernard Gornall of Maylin , Station Lane , Scorton PR3 1AP adds the following:’ Our local historian Mr W G Richmond would no doubt be willing to assist . I have some limited sale documents dating back to the 1920 's when the Wyresdale Estate was broken up and properties sold . I also have a few old postcards if these are of any use.’ As I think I mentioned on the phone posssible sources of information that I would suggest are : i )
Idiom: on board (used idiomatically: yes)
‘ To constitute an appropriation of goods to the contract , the parties must have had , or be reasonably supposed to have had , an intention to attach the contract irrevocably to those goods.’ It would seem then that in our example there was an unconditional appropriation of the contents of each bag as when it was emptied into Mrs. Jones ' coalhouse . Pearson J. was considering a contract where the seller had agreed to despatch goods f.o.b . ( free on board ) a ship , i.e. the seller undertook to convey the goods to the ship and to load them . He had got as far as the packaging and labelling them at his premises prior to taking them to the ship . Pearson J. held that property had not passed under Rule 5 for two reasons .
Idiom: kill two birds with one stone (used idiomatically: yes)
Then he sent Richard to Aquitaine with orders which went beyond the terms of the Treaty of Montlouis . Most castles , it is true , were to be reduced to the state they were in fifteen days before the outbreak of war ; but others were to be razed to the ground . To Henry it may well have seemed a sensible way of killing two birds with one stone — chastising rebels and at the same time providing his warlike second son with useful experience . But perhaps the irony of the situation also appealed to him . The Poitevin barons must have felt the way Henry Morgan 's old associates were to feel when he was appointed Governor of Jamaica with orders to stamp out piracy .
Idiom: rule of thumb (used idiomatically: yes)
A flashing heart tells you that it 's working and the numerals show your pulse rate in beats per minute ( bpm ) . A booklet tells you how to work out your optimum exercising level . The rule of thumb for working out Maximum Heart Rate ( MHR ) is 225 minus your age in years . If you are 36 , for example , your MHR would be 189bpm . So you should try to exercise between 70 per cent(132bpm ) and 85 per cent ( 160bpm ) of MHR .
Idiom: err on the side of (used idiomatically: yes)
I suppose I ca n't blame her or Floy for being wary , he thought , rather sadly . But he was a bit flummoxed at the reality of Nuadu , because nobody had ever told him how to address a bastard of the Ireland 's Royal House . However , it would be better to err on the side of too much courtesy , and so , ‘ Sire,’ he said firmly , ‘ if there is a way to get you out , we will find it.’ Nuadu 's eyes went to the other captives and Fenella at once said , ‘ Yes , of course , all of you . If only there is a way —’ And stopped , because Nuadu 's eyes had gone to the silver door .
Idiom: bright young thing (used idiomatically: yes)
He discovered she was no teenager and Sharon moved into Polanski 's mews house , just off Eaton Place , London . Polanski was also known to some of the Hollywood crowd through its inter - connection with the swingers of London and the skiing crowd who populated Gstaad and Aspen , notably his friendship of one of the men at the hub of the English scene , Victor Lownes , the cool , urbane and towering figure whom Hugh Hefner had appointed vice president of Playboy International and despatched to London to oversee the new playboy Club in Park Lane . Polanski used the club as his base and as an access point to its abounding supply of beautiful women ; just as Hefner 's Playboy mansion in Los Angeles was a magnet for the bright young things of Hollywood , so Lownes established a social whirl that attracted the cream and the elite of off - beat London society , plus some very famous names , eventually to include Nicholson himself . Robert Evans contacted Polanski in the London Playboy Club one afternoon and inconsiderately invited him to stop what he was doing and come to Hollywood immediately . Polanski replied that he could not rush matters of a sexual nature .
Idiom: at the crossroads (used idiomatically: yes)
Painfully and in the open she had to make all the running . She came to the post office the next evening , and the next , buying tea and a comb of honey from Lizzie the first evening , posting a letter at Annie 's counter on the Friday , waiting till the mail was sorted , each time managing to leave the post office alone with Moran . They stood talking a long time at the crossroads before separating but he did n't offer to see her over the weekend . She was able to conceal her restlessness , the pacing about , her dream of a different beginning to a new life , her impatience with the old shapes that she had used for too long ; she was not young and was old enough to foresee failure . She was able to will her longing into an unexamined haze but she could not stay away from the post office on Monday .
Idiom: go hand in hand (used idiomatically: yes)
Since the implementation of the much - maligned Children and Young Persons Act of 1969 , moreover , while the proportion of young offenders receiving custodial sentences has soared , the proportion dealt with by supervision orders has continued to decline . So much so , that it has fallen from the 50 per cent standard of the 1930s , to less than 15 per cent in the late 1970s — which is no better , and in some areas far worse , than the standard already achieved before the First World War when the Probation Act of 1907 had hardly consolidated itself . It is therefore necessary to depart quite sharply from conventional postwar wisdom about the pre - war years — a wisdom that rests on the twin myths of firm punishment in the courts , going hand - in - hand with little or no crime and an untroubled youth — and to state a rather different version of events . It is not only in the actualities of pre - war crime , nor in the fears surrounding crime , that we find simple contradictions of postwar nostalgia . With the progressive wing of opinion in the ascendancy , the operations of the criminal justice system — which have appreciably toughened since the 1930s , in spite of postwar wailings about the weakness of the law — also give a jolt to the customary understanding of the pre - war years .
Idiom: get to grips with (used idiomatically: yes)
‘ We have in some cases , I certainly have experienced situations , where the parents are actually buying the cigarettes for their children . The parents tell us they have given the children permission to smoke . ‘ The main message of this conference is that the Government has to get to grips with the legislation and put the blame firmly where it lies that is with the people who go out and break the law buying cigarettes.’ Meanwhile , newsagents throughout Britain and Ireland have hearts of gold and that is official . Last night the NFRN presented a cheque for £ 169,871 to Terence Regan of the Variety Club of Great Britain .