Gooogr/pie_idioms huggingface dataset:
Idiom: squeaky clean (used idiomatically: yes)
So when Kylie stepped out of Ramsay Street to try something new , everyone went with her . They wanted her to succeed , just as they would have wanted someone from their own family to make it . ' She was a simple commodity with a squeaky - clean public image and there was n't still is n't — a kid who did n't want to be like her or a parent who would discourage their children from admiring her . ' And as top Australian journalist Richard Shears sums up in his stylish appraisal of Kylie the phenomenon : ' At the end of the year Britons will be able to make up their own minds when Delinquents is released . If they do n't like it , well there 's always Neighbours to go home to … '
Idiom: add insult to injury (used idiomatically: yes)
Any time you get any money is when you work for it ! Ha ! It says no doubt employers employers or other individuals will keep on pestering you , and probably add insult to injury , take heart . Your ruler Venus is also sparkling away in the heavens today . Look what you 're doing !
Idiom: part company (used idiomatically: yes)
Conversely , words spoken by God in the Old Testament narrative are ascribed to " Scripture " . Where Jesus led the way in his acceptance of the Old Testament as the word of God , the New Testament was content to follow . If we Christians set our own judgement or our inherited traditions above the Old and New Testament scriptures we part company with the Lord and the apostles , and cut ourselves off from our one source of knowledge of God . DEALING WITH PROBLEMS This is not to eliminate all problems in advance .
Idiom: every nook and cranny (used idiomatically: yes)
The system has worked flexibly and effectively to Britain 's advantage . Mr. Arnold Given the record of the European Commission to interfere in every nook and cranny in this country and others throughout Europe , is it not clear that the foreign policy of this country and the European Community should continue to be developed by the Foreign Ministries of the Twelve ? Should not our efforts be put into improving the mechanisms and practices of co - operation between the Twelve ? Mr. Hurd
Idiom: over the top (used idiomatically: no)
Captain Trentham was generally the bearer of such news , and what annoyed Charlie even more was that he always looked so smart , clean , and worse — warm and well fed . Two men from his own section had already died without even seeing the enemy . Most soldiers would have been only too happy to go over the top , as they no longer believed they would survive a war some were saying would last for ever . The boredom was broken only by bayoneting rats , bailing more water out of the trench or having to listen to Tommy repeat the same old melodies on a now rusty mouth - organ . It was n't until the ninth week that orders finally came through and they were called back to the man - made square .
Idiom: armed to the teeth (used idiomatically: yes)
' Yes , ' said Cornelius Murphy . ' This is more like it . ' Around the campfire crouched three red - bearded highlanders , clad in considerable quantities of musty - looking tartan and armed to the yellow teeth . Tall eagle feathers quivered in their war bonnets . ' You asked about the dirks , ' said Jim .
Idiom: follow in someone's footsteps (used idiomatically: yes)
This scheme is a great success as our trainees benefit from learning in a real working environment . In fact , two of our trainees , Deborah Harris at ScotRail and Helen Neil at Glasgow Development Agency , are about to complete their caterbase modules and will become the first City and Guilds candidates . We hope that many more members of staff will soon follow in their footsteps . GILLIAN GAINS AT GLAMIS Gillian Bulloch , a relief manager for CCG Catering in the east of Scotland , was the lucky winner of a raffle held at the Leonard Cheshire Foundation home , Glamis House in Glenrothes .
Idiom: bugger all (used idiomatically: yes)
Any trial . Four hundred and ninety five pound . No , bugger all in here . Do you have a look at mother and baby ? Nothing ?
Idiom: easier said than done (used idiomatically: yes)
‘ Leave everything to me , Mary . I 'll keep yer Mum and everyone else in order . But I knew that was easier said than done . It would be as much as Dad could do to keep himself in order after he 'd had a drop too much . Dad was a jolly chap sober , or could be , but when he 'd had a few he thought himself a bit of a lady - killer .
Idiom: to boot (used idiomatically: yes)
But she decided not to . That had just been a lucky guess . And a rather malicious lucky guess to boot . So , instead , she said , ‘ If all you do is fight with him , why on earth do you go on working for him?’ ‘ Because he pays damned well.’
Idiom: out of the question (used idiomatically: no)
The only budget announcement that might have influenced the mid - Staffordshire result was the doubling of the savings limit for those entitled to claim poll - tax relief . In that long thin strip of middle England , with its old towns and charmless Birmingham commuter - belt estates , Tory canvassers heard time and time again that voters wanted to punish the government for the poll tax . When Sir Geoffrey Howe , the deputy prime minister , spoke in the town of Stone to grey - haired party loyalists , five out of the seven questions addressed to him were stingingly hostile . One self - described Heathite Tory said that the message from the doorsteps was of profound disillusion with Mrs Thatcher . Dr Samuel Johnson , the most famous son of Lichfield , in the south of the constituency , described it as a city of philosophers .
Idiom: turn someone's head (used idiomatically: yes)
She no longer thought of herself as anything but a tool , a servant ; something to be used , with no separate life of its own . Yet there remained a fierce energy in her , which allowed her , now , her time growing near , to walk the miles from Islington , stride over the rough grass at last with increasing ease . There were not many people about at that hour ; most women were marketing , most men at their work , and the children — Dinah turned her head away with distaste at the thought of children — were at school . She was surprised , accordingly , to see a stout woman with a dog , a small black dog , approach ; and then knew disbelief . It was — it could not be — Buffy the pug , with Mrs Gracie !
Idiom: anything goes (used idiomatically: no)
Morgan subsided into silence . Buckmaster 's habit of distancing himself from the seamier side of the company worried him . He had little doubt that if anything went wrong Buckmaster would let him drop over the cliff . Which , he reflected , is why he pays me one hundred thousand pounds a year . But , he also reflected , it means I 'll have to watch my back .
Idiom: beat the clock (used idiomatically: yes)
I 'm looking forward to it.’ Track record Records look set to crash in the National after Double Silk beat the clock on his majestic winning march over the Aintree fences . The hunter from the Mendip Hills in Somerset smashed the track record as he became the first to complete the Cheltenham - Liverpool Foxhunters ' double since Grittar in 1981 . The best bet on National day is that another record will fall on the fast turf and that a vast number of runners will clear the 30 fences .
Idiom: be left holding the baby (used idiomatically: yes)
It says Telnet users wo n't bump into each other anymore . Planet X will also run on Apple Quadras now and support Apple monochrome displays . Seymour Cray has been left holding the baby at his struggling Colorado Springs - based Cray Computer Corp : Neil Davenport has resigned as president and chief executive , saying that Cray Computer had reached the point where it has appropriate resources to complete the Cray-3 so he is free to seek other opportunities — but the company is still seeking its first firm customer for the supercomputer . The firm said chairman Seymour Cray would be assuming the two additional posts for now . The rumoured deal between NeXT and either Compaq or Dell that first broke last January ( UX No 368 ) has so far failed to materialise : observers claim it 's because Steve Jobs is demanding a big down payment from both firms even though he intends to shrinkwrap NeXTstep - on - Intel .
Idiom: ride high (used idiomatically: yes)
In 1990 , he re - emerged as a political leader by winning election as its Speaker , a post that is anything but ceremonial , by the narrowest of margins . Last year , as deputies tried to dislodge him , he counter - attacked by forcing through elections to the new post of President . In October , riding high after the August coup , he forced deputies to give him emergency powers to appoint the government and rule by decree for a year . This time , with deepening anger on the streets over price liberalisation , the hardliners were not to forgo their chance . They pounced on Saturday , during Mr Yeltsin 's first absence from the Grand Kremlin Palace .
Idiom: easy as pie (used idiomatically: yes)
AN IDEAL HOME ADVERTISING PROMOTION SHINING EXAMPLES PRODUCING GREAT MEALS IS AS EASY AS PIE WITH PRESTIGE COOKWARE AND BAKEWARE . WITH THEIR STYLISH LOOKS AND ENDURING QUALITY , THEY'RE THE PERFECT ADDITION TO ANY KITCHEN When it comes to choosing kitchen equipment it can be difficult to find items that suit the style of your kitchen and perform well .
Idiom: grind to a halt (used idiomatically: yes)
‘ Liquorice castles in ivory skies , Spinning top girl with whirligig eyes,’ she read disparagingly . A component somewhere deep inside the motorspeeder chose that moment to explode from stress . The vehicle ground to a halt . Evidently it did not share the tireless dedication of its driver . ‘ Cam lock cellulizer 's gone,’ Molassi shouted back at them .
Idiom: by and large (used idiomatically: yes)
Nevertheless , we can already detect the influence of the research which has led to it and its appeal to educators . Garretson ( 1976 ) , in considering the state of methodologies in schools in the USA , showed the tremendous acceleration in use of this approach . He reported 88 per cent of schools he sampled had adopted a Total Communication approach and these , by and large , relied on the development of sign systems which more closely reflect English syntax . The same change appears to be happening in the UK , but there are no easily available figures . It is reflected throughout Europe , and in Tervoort 's extensive study of 20 countries in Europe we can see the move toward the incorporation of signing in educational methodology : ‘ There is no change in favour of oralism and there is an atmosphere of change in the other direction all over Europe’(1983 : 143 ) .
Idiom: sitting pretty (used idiomatically: yes)
‘ However bad the horse , he still looks bloody good on it.’ Fair enough . But when the horses are called Bosnia , Maastricht and the British Economy , it becomes almost impossible for any rider to sit pretty . These days , Mr Hurd looks like a man in need of Alka - Seltzer . Cornered by the Speaker
Idiom: reinvent the wheel (used idiomatically: yes)
Moreover , they have developed internationally agreed models of Study Description and are particularly active in the production of guidelines for the documentation of electronically produced data and standards for the hardware and software independent storage and archiving of machine - readable holdings ( Dodd 1982 ; Neilson 1974 ; Rasmussen 1981 ) . It is true that the materials they hold do not embrace the full range of information that future historians would wish to have at their disposal , but the expertise and experience that they have established should not be under - estimated . Given the resource implications facing traditional archives in their attempt to provide archival coverage to the electronically produced records outlined above , there is a real danger in reinventing the wheel , or worse still , several wheels . The UK faces a particular problem in that the peculiarities of the Public Record Acts empowers the PRO to act only as custodians of the records generated by government . The ‘ ownership’ of records , whether in machine - readable form or not , is still vested in the departments that generated them .
Idiom: catch fire (used idiomatically: no)
The wit and elegance of the Glyndebourne production with its sets by Maurice Sendak may be missing , but there is ample compensation in the sheer exuberance of this entertainment with its riproaring belly - laughs . The Herald began the evening with the extra duty of announcing that one of the principals , Bonaventura Bottone as the clown Truffaldino , was suffering from severe flu . But as it emerged , his was the performance which caught fire quicker than any , helped by the deftly - timed efforts of a double doing spectacular somersaults . Bottone , looking like a cross between Woody Allen , Harold Lloyd and Billy Bunter , was in brilliant form , whatever his temperature . It helped to have two such formidable singers taking the two female dragon roles : Anne Collins as a fruity Princess Clarissa , tyrannical in a general 's uniform of black leather , and Jane Eaglen as Fata Morgana , like Katisha in Mikado only more so .
Idiom: by and large (used idiomatically: yes)
It is possible to read some of the writings of Marx and Engels as suggesting a mechanical succession of stages , following one after the other , or it is possible to seen in their work , concentrating on other passages , a less determinist view of progress . I believe that both views of their writing are justified in that they seem to have oscillated between these two poles and such oscillations are noted in several places in this book . None the less , irrespective of what their position might be , modern anthropology would reject the view that the progress of technology is totally irreversible , although the sequence of technological progress Marx and Engels took over from their anthropological sources is still , by and large , acceptable . The problem with their evolutionary sequence does not lie so much with what they say about technology as what they saw this technology as implying . Before we examine these problems one important question of method must be noted .
Idiom: in the running (used idiomatically: yes)
This has even displaced the market mechanism as an allocator of resources in certain areas , thereby politicising spheres of activity formerly left to the market to perform . Such developments are perceived by Kamenka and Tay as betokening a shift away from a gesellschaft model of law and society , towards a bureaucratic administrative social and legal order . The central presupposition in this model is not the atomic individual , but a non - human abstracted ruling interest or public policy , for example that of efficiency in the running of a transport system . This shift is considered to have generated a crisis in law and legal ideology for under bureaucratic administrative regulations law has increasingly become a means of implementing programmes of action to advance political goals which are identified in terms of the public interest . Such laws frequently confer considerable discretionary authority on public administrators .
Idiom: two a penny (used idiomatically: yes)
So often on this project even the oldest locals interested in what I was doing had no memory , actual or handed down , of the people mentioned by JTR . Conversely their own recorded tales of well - known characters of that era , JTR makes no mention , like Muckle Kate in Brig o ' Turk . The Highlands and Islands were vastly more populated then and ‘ characters’ must have been two a penny . Martha certainly takes some beating . I would have loved to have stayed in her Boathouse despite the eight inch snail with head and horns buried in a roll of butter in the larder in the morning and his relatives ‘ who had a provoking way of paying nocturnal visits , and wandered between the wooden walls and the loosely fixed paper that decked the walls … ’ ; the family of mice and the ‘ sagacious hen’ that laid her eggs in the corner of the hole in the wall designated as a cupboard .
Idiom: crystal clear (used idiomatically: yes)
Your local Liquitex stockist will be able to advise on such ready prepared painting supports , or you can quite easily prepare your own raw canvas hardboard offcuts , thick plyboard or MDF . The dried colour is slightly deeper in tone than it appears when first applied . This is because the acrylic polymer resin binder has a milky colour when wet , although it dries to be crystal clear . the introductory booklet has handy tips on how to colour mix with acrylic , taking the novice through some straightforward exercises which will help to familiarise the terms used when painting with acrylics and assist understanding of the paint texture and thinning properties . Because acrylics dry so quickly , overpainting is a simple process and there are none of the danger associated with oil paints in this respect .
Idiom: on tenterhooks (used idiomatically: yes)
‘ I will see Paul 's condition before making a decision on whether to play him against Parma next week.’ Drama Zoff detailed the drama behind the scenes as Gazza was kept on tenterhooks for the past four days , wondering whether he would make his Italian debut . Zoff said : ‘ I wanted to make an evaluation of his condition after his appearance against Tottenham on Wednesday . I wanted to wait to see if there was any reaction after that match .
Idiom: chop and change (used idiomatically: yes)
Activists like things which involve other people as well so they like team work , they like team activities , they like discussion groups they enjoy the sort of bouncing ideas off other people . Activists also like they love the opportunity in training to have a go but they do like getting involved , they like a action . They also like this sort of excitement and you know when things chop and change and there 's sort of erm almost like a crisis situation and lots of excitement , lots of activity , activists actually thrive on that , they like that sort of challenge that stimulates their learning . They also like things which are quite so if the activity involving chairing a meeting , doing a role play , doing a presentation although they may be nervous they actually enjoy that , they find they gain a lot from that and they also like activities where to an extent there 's a freedom from constraints , policy structures , they do n't like to feel bound because if you think about it a lot of are actually exploring deep end situations trying new things out , they do n't like to feel that constrained . So that 's the activist .
Idiom: take it easy (used idiomatically: yes)
Royal aides described her as being ‘ on good form’ at the lunch and reception before the Garter ceremony but said at her age she decided it could be tiring to attend . A Buckingham Palace spokeswoman added yesterday : ‘ There is absolutely no cause for alarm . She is simply taking it easy.’ The Queen Mother 's absence left the royal party depleted as it arrived by carriage procession down the racecourse . The Queen , the Duke of Edinburgh and the Duchess of Kent were the only members of the Royal Family in the four coaches making the mile - long journey , which starts in Windsor Great Park .
Idiom: only time will tell (used idiomatically: yes)
The civil courts will not be deprived by this measure of jurisdiction for breach of employment contract claims . Unless some specific provision is made limiting the power of a tribunal to hear claims involving large sums or very complex issues , it will be for the employee to choose the forum in which he will pursue his claim . Only time will tell whether the requirement that ' other proceedings ' must be brought will lead to an increase in more or less spurious statute - based complaints , for instance in respect of unfair dismissal . There are a variety of reasons why , despite this new move , you may still wish ( or be obliged ) to bring a wrongful dismissal claim in the civil courts , for example : 1 .
Idiom: leave well alone (used idiomatically: yes)
Mm . Maybe not , no . No , leave well alone . Mm do n't you ?
Idiom: on the game (used idiomatically: yes)
My brother reckons it was Beeney 's fault for not coming off his line but I reckon it was the two centre halfs again . That was it , a fairish result . Comment on the game player by player with a rating out of 10 . Beeney : Looked solid in the air . His kick out 's were terrible though .
Idiom: rough and tumble (used idiomatically: yes)
Four of these have been identified . The earliest to develop is that of play - fighting . At about three weeks the kittens start to engage in rough - and - tumble actions with their litter - mates . They jump on one another , roll over on their backs and grapple . No one gets hurt .
Idiom: pecking order (used idiomatically: yes)
Many horses prefer to eat by themselves , which is a basic response to a fear of losing their food . Of course if a number of horses are being fed in a paddock , their feedbins should be spaced well apart and there should be one for every horse . The horses should be fed in descending pecking order , starting from the herd leader , otherwise fights will result . Normally , if a horse acts aggressively towards us we let it know quite clearly that such behaviour is unacceptable , and punish it appropriately and immediately , so that there is no doubt in the horse 's mind what the punishment is for . So , if we are grooming a horse and it tries to cow - kick us , we retaliate with a sharp verbal reproach or a smack with the flat of the hand , and usually the horse decides to accept that we are the boss and minds its manners in the future .
Idiom: full marks (used idiomatically: yes)
But at least the mystery was nearing a solution — even if she had no idea why Luke Hunter should want to go out to dinner with a woman whose sole contact with him up till now had been violently centred somewhere round the solar plexus . Folly smiled at the memory . She had to give him full marks for originality . And romance — although ideally , if she had been advising him as a florist , she would have suggested roses instead of the more exotic lilies and orchids he had chosen . Roses always seemed more personal ; the very epitome of romance .
Idiom: in the bag (used idiomatically: yes)
' We must keep some for him . ' George objected , but Libby said chocolate was something prisoners were sent during the war . In the end George ate all of his , but Libby faithfully saved a few and wrapped them in a paper bag . She left them on the stone and again they disappeared . Sometimes she was afraid that animals might take them , but when they went noisily along the path she still hoped that one day the man would be waiting there for them , beside the pile of stones .
Idiom: in the nick of time (used idiomatically: yes)
But police in Foxboro , Massa - chusetts , said there was less trouble than they expected from the 50,000 crowd . Girl 's flight to love foiled A RUNAWAY schoolgirl was found in the nick - of - time yesterday as she prepared to flee to Portugal to rekindle a holiday romance . But pretty brunette Katie Mansfield , 13 , faced a ticking off at home — for pawning her mum 's jewellery to buy the air fare . She was found in a bed - and - breakfast near her home in Clapham , South London , waiting for the Sunday flight .
Idiom: catch someone's eye (used idiomatically: yes)
All right then David Poole did you say that really ? I said that we ought to er somebody asked me er from one of the national papers which ought to be put in place there and I did suggest that we ought to have a statue like just been mentioned to somebody from Beeston they 've got a nice man on a bench there . I suggested putting an old lady sitting on a bench with a lace shawl erm er sculpture of so that it represents er Nottingham lace and etcetera and I said it would look more attractive and catch people ' s eye than what 's there at the present . So it was it was the lace that you wanted emphasizing rather than a Yes