Gooogr/pie_idioms huggingface dataset:
Idiom: bite the bullet (used idiomatically: yes)
There are only 650 medallists worldwide , and 150 in Britain . ‘ We have not dared to ask whether our patient should return his Joslin medal,’ says Dr Mary Armitage of the Edinburgh Royal Infirmary , in her report in the British Medical Journal on her unusual patient Britain bites the bullet over Depo - Provera THE ATTENTION of the world 's drug companies will next week be focused on a conference room overlooking the River Thames in London . It is the venue for a public inquiry to decide whether the controversial injectable contraceptive , Depo - Provera , should be licensed for long - term use .
Idiom: run the gauntlet (used idiomatically: yes)
Next door , two elderly ladies from the Esperanto Society smiled more in hope than expectation at every preterpasanto — or passer - by , as you or I might say . London 's South Bank Poly , unlike its longer - established cousin , had opened its doors to outside organisations . Freshers were obliged to run a gauntlet of computer software , insurance and Student Railcard salesmen and a host of banks seeking their overdrafts , before reaching the union societies ' billeted in the sports hall . Here were sporting clubs and the Conservative Association run by two youths in heavy metal tour T - shirts . There was also , inexplicably , a mountain of Pot Noodle cartons in one corner , just next to a leaflet on the wall reading ' Anarchist Society — no need to join ' .
Idiom: at the end of the day (used idiomatically: yes)
The Badlands spirit is swelling — catch this wave now , but do n't think about doing it in a Fat Willys T - shirt . ' You know , for me , it 's all about getting in the water and having fun in safety . At the end of the day , who cares if they 're boogie boarding off Newquay or riding big waves in Scarborough ? It 's all about enjoying the sea ' jazz not jazz
Idiom: marching orders (used idiomatically: yes)
Mr Ridgeway called . ‘ We 're on , we 're on!’ Otley cried as the Ancient Britons and the Watling Street Guard assembled to receive their marching orders . ‘ Oi , oi , how 's yer father?’ Jostling , raspberrying and treading on each other 's toes , they crowded round their officer to hear what he had to say .
Idiom: on the ground (used idiomatically: yes)
The Germans had also noticed the canisters and were directing fairly accurate mortar and shell fire in and around the dropping zone , to prevent the Commandos , or anyone else , picking them up . ‘ Jesus Christ ! ’ remarked the Sergeant , who was driving the jeep , ‘ Just our bloody luck . ’ He stopped the jeep at the edge of the cornfield , and we observed that the mortar and shell fire were following the canisters as they were landing , leaving a few canisters lying on the ground not far off from where we were . the Sergeant started up the jeep and we entered the cornfield at speed , heading in the direction of the first three canisters . We loaded the first two into the trailer , and were heading a few yards further on to pick up a third canister when we noticed that the enemy fire was now being directed at our part of the cornfield .
Idiom: speak your mind (used idiomatically: yes)
Many people , especially ignorant people want to punish you for speaking the truth , for being correct , for being you . Never appologize for being correct or for being years ahead of your time . If you ’re right and you know it , speak your mind . Even if you are a minority of one , the truth is still the truth .
Idiom: fall into place (used idiomatically: yes)
Cautious as the Council 's immediate formulations almost always were , the outcome was that the Latin liturgy was replaced by the vernacular , the cup was offered to the laity , married men would at least be ordained to the diaconate , Protestant Bible societies were to be worked with , the modern world was to be sympathized with rather than condemned . To an old and faithful servant of the ultramontane papacy such as Ottaviani , it was all the most absolute madness . Indeed , if the Bible was to be taken so very seriously , separated brethren listened to attentively , the world served and precisely in its contemporaneous form , all sorts of other things were bound to start falling into new places too , places extremely different from those provided by ultramontanism . The ecclesiastically most delicate application of this lay in the area of collegiality . Vatican I immensely strengthened the theoretical authority of the papacy , and this had now passed into the common mind of Catholics lay and clerical alike .
Idiom: at a stretch (used idiomatically: yes)
This may have had an effect on the conversation : first , in respect of the content , which may have been different from what they would otherwise have talked about , and secondly in that the girls may have tried consciously to use " Jamaican " . If the latter were the case , then we might expect there to be a lot of Creole forms in the speech of both girls . However , looking at the underlined stretches , which are those showing one or more grammatical , lexical or phonological features of Creole origin , it is apparent that Carol uses far more creole forms than Joan . Right from the very beginning of this extract , where Joan poses a question in LE , and receives a response from Carol which uses Creole vowels in the pronunciation of the surname Lomax , there is a pattern of Carol using more Creole than Joan . Carol 's speech shows Creole features in almost every turn .
Idiom: for keeps (used idiomatically: no)
' Not at all . ' She registered the change of tone — hardened , icy , just like her own . ' Well , when you 've finished , you can start working for your keep and begin dinner . I 'm famished even if you 're not . There 's cold chicken and salad in the fridge .
Idiom: out of line (used idiomatically: yes)
Do n't do n't erm just revise three questions and keep re y'know writing those topic areas and certain limited questions . Erm I did n't see any past pa I did see some past papers but it was subsequent to my setting these exam questions , right ? So these are not based , they they are similar , they 're not out of line but erm they I mean I do n't think that you can necessarily pick up from past exam papers what 'll be on the next . The best bit of information you 've got is the syllabus coverage that I 've given you . That gives you some guidance .
Idiom: ring a bell (used idiomatically: yes)
' Er … Yes please . ' Natasha rang a small bell and , almost instantly , a maid entered through another door . They exchanged a few words in what sounded like Spanish . Then the maid retreated .
Idiom: come to grief (used idiomatically: yes)
If she was , then it is for her God to judge her personal action — and for the historian to wonder whether this was not one of the most sensible political decisions she ever made . Although the most recent writings on Mary have taken us away from the image of pantomime villainess or fairy queen , created in the sixteenth century and revived with such enthusiasm in the eighteenth and thereafter , and provided us instead with a human being of more believable proportions , nevertheless Mary still remains an infinitely more shadowy figure as queen of Scotland than her Stewart predecessors and successors . We know that she came to grief . We do not yet really know why . But we can be fairly confident , as a starting - point , that Rizzio , Darnley and Bothwell , chief actors in the drama of the last two years of her personal rule , are at best only a part of the explanation .
Idiom: have a heart (used idiomatically: yes)
he liked . stretched out on the floor ! But of course , I mean , we know little about it they do say if you have had a heart attack it 's no good you know , as soon you get up and you start eating going for five mile walks Oh no , that 'd it 's got ta be a very
Idiom: behind closed doors (used idiomatically: no)
Yet the editorial in Nature said that a ‘ thermonuclear ( my italics ) reaction has now been made’ and the article was headlined ‘ Controlled Release of Thermonuclear Energy’ . At this stage there was still the possibility that the neutrons were indeed from thermonuclear fusion and the proof awaited precision measurements of the ZETA team 's energy spectrum . ZETA had been behind closed doors in Hangar 7 , a huge aircraft hangar , 100 m long , which is now converted into a lab . At the other end of the building some very different experiments had been going on involving nuclear physicists who knew of the existence but few of the details of ZETA . Among these were Eric Taylor and Ted Wood who entered into a collaboration with Basil Rose , who specialised in rather different areas of low energy nuclear physics and was a member of the cyclotron group at the lab .
Idiom: go without saying (used idiomatically: yes)
Let 's get the hell out . There 's probably a knees - up afterwards to which we 're not invited.’ It goes without saying that when a charity do is well organized and welcoming , it can be the greatest joy and can give you a good deal more than you 'd ever anticipated . Joyce Grenfell was right , as ever , when she said there is no giving without receiving , that they are both part of the same circle which makes up a whole spiritual act . It 's just that , sometimes , you ca n't help but feel that what they want you to give is blood .
Idiom: over the top (used idiomatically: yes)
Sally - Anne stirred restlessly . He might have saved her from Jem , but did that give him the right to such a ruthless inquisition ? She demurred a little when he said , picking up his teacup , and looking at her over the top of it , ‘ You never answered my question , Miss McAllister . What exactly are you doing here ? I see by your basket and your dress that you are domiciled in the neighbourhood.’
Idiom: come to mind (used idiomatically: yes)
Or he could stop him . He had to stop him . The images of the dead came to his mind and he knew that he had to stop Kopyion . Democracy , for all its faults , should continue . That was the reason for the declaration of independence from the Earth corporation .
Idiom: one and the same (used idiomatically: yes)
The issue here is that the debtor has no control over the use to which the credit is put . In contrast , unrestricted - use credit is where the debtor has the control over the application of the loan , and this is so even if it is a term of the loan contract that he must apply the money to a specified purpose ( CCA 1974 , s.11(3 ) ) . Debtor - creditor - supplier agreementsThis is where there is a special relationship between the creditor and the supplier who may even be one and the same person ( s12 ( a ) ) . By definition , this type of contract will always involve restricted - use credit . More difficulty is posed with the party arrangements .
Idiom: head over heels (used idiomatically: yes)
The noises swirl round me , but it do n't bother me . I 'm falling . Falling head over heels in black . I wo n't move . I wo n't move for ever .
Idiom: call it a day (used idiomatically: yes)
The previous tournament in New Zealand was one of the major highlights in a 60-cap career . She said:’ I won two golds in the team and doubles event and a silver in the mixed . ‘ I would like to play through to the Canada tournament then call it a day , hopefully going out in a blaze of glory.’ Sara admitted she had not played as well as expected in Spain where she and Gowers were second round casualties . But she was surprised Gowers had renewed her partnership with Gill Clark , another former Sankey partner .
Idiom: dead and buried (used idiomatically: no)
Now runs under her married name RUNNING MAGAZINE NIKE ROAD RACE SERIES Dead and buried ! From his potion at the back of the field , Steven Seaton offers his personal view of the Bury 20 Start at the back of the field .
Idiom: get it up (used idiomatically: no)
The curious truth about his erection was that he could never remember having a very full one . As far as his cock was concerned he felt somewhat in the position of a toddler trying to fly a kite . He 'd see it raise slightly , but he could n't quite get it up . Some of his male colleagues boasted about how they 'd felt with various women , raising an arm to show what they 'd been like . That was all alien and too coarse for Nigel .
Idiom: catch fire (used idiomatically: yes)
The second half began with some of the most remarkable scenes I have ever witnessed at a football match . Within four minutes Simmons had taken his tally to five and an own goal by Smott had given Alborne an insurmountable 8–0 lead . Incredibly , as the game restarted , Phil Meek 's boot caught fire . After it was extinguished by ground staff , a furious row then ensued between the referee and our lads . Athletico argued that with so much spontaneous combustion in the air it was dangerous for the game to continue and the referee should abandon it there and then .
Idiom: behind bars (used idiomatically: yes)
He added that it was believed an anti - aircraft gun was in the locality and that it was fired recently . Mr McGrath called on the Minister for Justice , Maire Geoghegan - Quinn , to put suspects under surveillance on an around - the - clock basis . He said : ‘ You will be doing a service for the people of north Westmeath and , indeed , to the people of Ireland , North and South , if you enable the Garda to successfully prosecute these people and put them behind bars.’ Mrs Geoghegan - Quinn said the shooting incident on Lake Derravarragh was being investigated . After reports that gunfire had been heard , gardai and troops cordoned off the area and a major search operation was undertaken .
Idiom: make a move (used idiomatically: yes)
I was just gon na say , we 've been talking about equality a lot tonight Mm . and although things may not be brilliant for , in the workplace at the moment , but we 're we 're making a move , we 're getting a , a foot in there . In years to come they 're gon na be the managers so hopefully we can make it better for someone else . A great positive note on which to end , and so we must I 'm afraid .
Idiom: down and out (used idiomatically: yes)
She pointed to the pulpit where the parson was beginning the words of the service . Suddenly I was frightened because he had once caught us playing in the churchyard and had shouted at us and chased us out . Nellie and I tiptoed quietly back down the aisle and out of the door . While we waited for the service to finish we amused ourselves rearranging the flowers on the graves . Some had no flowers at all so we shared the flowers out more equally .
Idiom: turn someone's head (used idiomatically: yes)
Tessa looked disapproving . ‘ Do you cook and clean for Mr. Bell?’ she asked . ‘ Oh yes , darling!’ said Mrs. Mounce , turning her head upwards and sideways , so the smoke from the cigarette in the corner of her mouth missed her eyes . ‘ I 'm just the skivvy round here ! Cook the din - dins , put the cat out , clear up the junk on the great man 's desk , and hope my lord throws me a kind word from time to time .
Idiom: food for thought (used idiomatically: yes)
30 May 1990 : Christ Church Picture Gallery The Butcher 's shop . Food for thought . 9 June 1990 : University Museum Insect safari .
Idiom: beg the question (used idiomatically: yes)
But , for a reader coming for the first time to the subject , this can not give a sense of the rightness , diversity and very real differences in feminist art history and criticism over the last couple of decades . Felicity Edholm 's essay on self portraits by Kathe Kollwitz , Frida Kahlo and Suzanne Valadon provides a useful and systematic approach to issues of gender , spectatorship and women 's representation of the self . But , it also begs some questions . Why these three artists ? Are they taken to be prepresentative in some way ?
Idiom: to the letter (used idiomatically: yes)
She told me not to be embarrassed about asking Diana to do the washing up and so on . ' Diana , who did the vacuuming , dusting , ironing and washing , was paid 1 an hour and took a quiet satisfaction in her labours . When she became engaged to Prince Charles Diana referred to her cleaning job in her reply to Lucinda 's letter of congratulation . ' Gone are the days of Jif and dusters . Oh dear will I ever see them again ? '
Idiom: by dint of (used idiomatically: yes)
Jack 's tactic was to keep as far away from his team - mates as possible — not difficult , because he was hitting the ball pretty straight and the Sunningdale amateur , who was also fairly straight , did n't really want to talk to a pro golfer . We could hear the constant drone of the record producer in the heather and the woods , and quite often when the others were chipping or putting . By dint of a couple of birdies and a fortunate eagle on the long fourteenth hole , Jack was looking good for a share of the prize money . The fifteenth hole is short but dangerous ; its plateau green is ringed by bunkers at the front and sides and the trees press in at the back in a claustrophobic way — a nightmarish hole if you are playing badly . ' Well done , Mason , ' said the stockbroker curtly after Jack 's eagle and Jack raised his eyes to heaven but said nothing .
Idiom: squeaky clean (used idiomatically: yes)
‘ Therefore,’ he said , with impeccable logic , ‘ we ought to climb them.’ The day after the Dent Blanch we indulged in a prolonged breakfast of copious coffee , yesterday 's paper and a plateful of croissants before joining the tourist throng on the Montenvers railway . Climbers looks incongruous in this crowd : their large packs , big boots , axes and crampons in start contrast to the squeaky clean tourists in shorts , T - shirts and tight skirts . But here alpinists are forced to become rubbernecks , halted in their tracks to stare hypnotically across the ‘ sea of ice’ at the Drus , rising like an enormous sea - stack above and beyond a beach of boulders and moraine . Our quest for the Drus traverse began on the well - worn path from the station , our objective for the day the Charoupa refuge , magnificently situated at the top of the Charoupa rognon , in the awesome , rocky cwm below the south faces of the Drus and Aiguille Verte .
Idiom: day in, day out (used idiomatically: yes)
If you remember , I 'd had trouble enough when I was fifty convincing people to take me on and now at fifty - nine or sixty there were hardly any employment opportunities left open to me . What it came down to was this : if I was going to do anything I was going to have to take on another part - time catering or cleaning job . However , after an uncomfortable night with hardly any sleep , a rudimentary wash at the station , an hour 's work , a long train journey , a long walk to a day centre for a shower , and then with another long walk ahead of me , the return train journey , a further hour 's hard work and another uncomfortable night , day in , day out — I 'm a sprightly so - and - so but something else on top of all that did seem like perhaps too much of a good thing . The sheer timing would also have been an enormous problem . Facilities for homeless people are of course open only at certain times of the day and I had n't the money to go anywhere else .
Idiom: in a fog (used idiomatically: yes)
After assembling at Waddington , Sugar was flown to Bovington in Hertfordshire on February 10 to visit the US 8th Air Force Headquarters at High Wycombe , where the crew were warmly received , and then started its tour of the bases . Cecil recalls that one of the bases was Great Ashfield and other Woodbridge , one of the three emergency strips located on the east coast , Cecil particularly recalling the very long runway there . Most of the airfields were bomber units , with the exception of Debden in Essex , a Mustang base , where they were talked down by the American Ground Controllers after exercising around in fog for some time . After her return to operations , Sugar 's first trip was to Wurzburg on March 16/17 , followed by another on 20/21 , this time again piloted by Laurie Baker on a 1,560 mile trip to attack the Bohlen oil works , where they met only moderate defences . The new Squadron CO , W / C H A Hay , decided to take Sugar on her next operation which was to Bremen to attack a railway bridge that was vital to enemy communications , a daylight operation on the 22nd .
Idiom: go all the way (used idiomatically: yes)
Marcus reflected . He said , again not answering the question , ' Of course I do n't want to stop . I want to go all the way . But could I do it without — utterly —falling ? ' ' Into obsession , untruth , vanity , corruption ? '
Idiom: on the ball (used idiomatically: yes)
Four minutes later Lindsay McVicker let fly at a cross from Catherine Howard but the ball flew past the upright . With three minutes of the first half remaining , Pegasus won their fourth short corner . Claire Samways blasted the ball off Alison Vance , the Portadown keeper , but it fell to Jeanette Turner loitering at the post and she spun on the ball firing it in from an acute angle . The pace relented in the second half with neither keeper being tested , and indeed Pegasus 's Mary Bowden had a relatively easy game as her defence blotted out everything Portadown fired at them . Adrian 's sharp double
Idiom: in the driving seat (used idiomatically: yes)
Pickup selection is via a toggle switch mounted on the upper wing ' , towards the neck of the guitar , which is an unusual but not wholly impractical place for it . IN USE Even before plugging the Tribute in I was aware that I was dealing with a class act , comparable , perhaps , to sitting in the driving seat of a Ferrari for the first time . But I 've always found the Flying V and its derivatives a devil of a job to sit down with and play . Of course , I 'm well aware that this was never the point and that posing potential is at maximum only when the guitar is strapped on and slung low .
Idiom: on the game (used idiomatically: yes)
Last week , such qualities enabled Paul Gascoigne to be the hero in the duel of the eternal city . In yesterday 's rain-sodden arena , it was Ince who was the inspirational figure . While Brian Robson , Steve McMahon , and in the second half Peter Reid , tried to kick anyone around them , Ince took a firm grip on the game . No more so than in the 20th minute , when Steve Bruce rolled the ball back to him and from 25 yards he hit a low , left-foot shot through a crowd of players to give United the lead . It was his first goal of the season .
Idiom: short shrift (used idiomatically: yes)
In response to the call , an aproned figure peered at Harry from the kitchen , then bustled towards him , wiping her hands in a towel as she came . She looked like a once proud young woman waging an unequal struggle against slatternly middle age , her hands red from labour and her face grey with exhaustion , but her eyes preserving some yet - to - be extinguished sparkle of ambition . She seemed inclined to give Harry short shrift , but at his mention of Heather 's name , she relented and showed him into the front room , where a meagre measure of calm and quiet prevailed . ‘ I read about ' er disappearance , o ' course nce,’ she began . ‘ It proper upset me , I can tell you , when they said she was probably dead .
Idiom: man and boy (used idiomatically: yes)
" Not everyone 's buy . But if someone 's looking for an unusual night spot On Grace there was , after all , not so very much to be done . The barges , designed to be sailed by one man and a boy , could be laid up in a few days . Only the mast gave trouble . Not all Woodie 's efforts could succeed in lowering it .
Idiom: come to terms with (used idiomatically: yes)
Dr Ian Dickson of the nearby Springwell House Health Centre , which provides working space for the counsellors , says : ‘ It 's very helpful to have local agencies we can refer people to . A lot of the problems we meet up with in the surgery are related to difficulties people have in their lives at present or in the past . Often counselling can help them come to terms with a lot of this and help them set out a means to try and change in the future.’ He would be sorry to see the service close . ‘ I do n't think there are enough of these services around .