Gooogr/pie_idioms huggingface dataset:
Idiom: on the level (used idiomatically: yes)
the flat in , in London , the flat we came from and so we had accumulated a little more furniture than one would usually have in two rooms and the kitchen and we got here and were allowed to spread ourselves , if there 's one criticism that one could say about this house , is that the size of the rooms confines you to what you put in them , they 're square , that the , the division between the living room and the dining room is through a pair of glass doors , where perhaps that could of been arranged with either sliding doors or some other feature so as not to separate it yet again into two square boxes and erm Are you in favour of open plan ? er , it depends on one 's own tastes , I personally do n't like the open planned that I 've seen in very modern houses where , erm I , I do n't quite know how to express it but it does seem to me odd to be on one floor level and then two feet up you 're on another level and er , that 's one aspect of the open plan that does n't appeal to me and I do n't quite understand why it 's necessary to have everything that 's going on in one room with pieces of furniture designed to act as barriers between the different functions or purposes for which you give parts of the room . So how do you how do you see the ideal way of arranging a room ? The ideal way , way of arranging a room as I see it would be that you could have your separate rooms but have sliding doors , after all there 's nothing new in sliding doors , er , but doors opening and closing erm are restrictive , that 's only my own personal view , my wife does n't necessarily , necessarily share that view ideally if I was planning a house , the main room the main living room would be much larger than the one we live in , it would certainly be a different shape , erm when we had our golden wedding erm our visitors were so numerous that they were standing shoulder to shoulder in these two rooms and the kitchen whereas if it had been a reasonably designed house maybe we could of spread them around a little more , but they 're minor , minor defects that are not really serious .
Idiom: on the money (used idiomatically: yes)
By Lewine Mair in La Moye , Jersey DERRICK COOPER , hitting one sharp iron after another through the hazy morning air , handed in a 66 — six under par — to share the lead with Keith Waters and Barry Lane going into the second round of the Jersey European Airways Open . Cooper won the 1988 Madrid Open and finished in the top 20 on the money - list the following year . There were then two lean seasons before suddenly he had another taste of victory in the recent Sunningdale Foursomes . His resurgence is something he puts down to his coach , Bob Torrance .
Idiom: get a grip (used idiomatically: no)
Some areas of culture ( and they include the most important ) simply have no consensual criterion for telling honest effort from trumped - up , self - serving folly . Try arguing with one of Andy Warhol 's fans , or Aleister Crowley 's admirers , or the swami - of - the - month 's disciples . It is like trying to get a firm grip on a plateful of pudding . Scientists may be more slipshod than they care to admit about replication and falsification ; Broad and Wade do a good job of proving that . But , for as long as any paradigm holds , they do have some court of last resort .
Idiom: turn something on its head (used idiomatically: yes)
As well as piped music , in - store bakeries and high - tech scanners at the check - outs , these retail Meccas offer a choice of thousands of different products , some of which carry the chains ' own brands . In return for premium service , such retailers charge premium prices . The so - called ' hard ' deep - discounters turn this logic on its head . Theirs is a distinctive type of cut - price retailing that emerged in Germany after the second world war and is subtly different from its American cousin . Instead of building massive shops which can be reached only by car , they rent small , cheap sites on street corners in order to get as near to customers as possible .
Idiom: go from strength to strength (used idiomatically: yes)
A star of the chess world at just ten Jay Stockham is already a star in the world of junior British chess and he is only ten . Jay , left , of Ashwood Drive , Stokesley , took up the game just three years ago after his family moved back to England from New Zealand . While unpacking , he found a chess set ; his father explained some of the moves , and since then he has gone from strength to strength despite the fact that the family has no chess background . His enthusiasm led to the formation of a club at his school , Stokesley Primary , and this encouraged other youngsters to learn the game . Jay progressed though local congresses , and experienced his first big success at the Whitley Bay tournament where he came second in the under - nine events at the age of seven .
Idiom: sit on the fence (used idiomatically: no)
MANNESMANN MOBILFUNK LOSSES DEEPEN Mannesmann AG said yesterday that losses at it digital cellular mobile telephone subsidiary Mannesmann Mobilfunk GmbH widened to $ 212 m , up from the loss of $ 147 m for 1991 . HIGH TECH SECTOR SITS ON THE FENCE The sturdily independent high tech sector had naught for the comfort of either major party in the run - up to today 's by - election in Newbury , Berkshire when the big guns from party headquarters showed up for photocalls during the build - up : Labour chose Vodafone Group Plc and tried to commiserate about the recession , only to be told that business had been going gangbusters for several months , the Tories went looking for green shoots at Micro Focus Plc , only to be told that the UK market was flat on its back , and that it was only foreign sales that were keeping the old Coboller busy . AT&T AND McCAW CONTINUE TALKS
Idiom: off the hook (used idiomatically: yes)
Oh , grief . Fabia blenched , caught out , hating having to tell lies but , having started on a path of misleading her parent , forced to go on . ‘ It — er — depends how — um — busy Barney is,’ she made up as she went along , and with relief was let off the hook a little while her mother commented on how hard Barney worked , and how , if he could n't take his holiday quite as early as he 'd planned , that perhaps it might be a good idea for Cara to stay touring with her , and maybe take a plane to America from Czechoslovakia . ‘ Though will you be all right driving back on your own?’ she fretted . ‘ Of course,’ Fabia adopted a light and confident tone to reassure her .
Idiom: go with the flow (used idiomatically: yes)
There was no need for life to be complicated , yet it invariably turned out to be so . The only way to handle it was to ignore it and hope that at least some of the complications would sort themselves out on their own . Go with the flow . She remembered Donna Fratelli 's raucous laugh , the number of times the two of them had sat together over a glass of wine or a plate of pasta , discussing the things which really matter : men , or life , or the latest movie . ' In the end , ' Donna used to say , ' that 's what it all comes down to .
Idiom: get stuck in (used idiomatically: yes)
adopt a strategy of focusing upon a particular niche or segment of the market . In fact Porter really offers just two possible competitive strategies ( i.e. be a cost leader or differentiate your product ) which can be applied over either a broad range of products in an industry or just in a special niche . Porter also feels that firms should not get ‘ stuck in the middle’ between differentiation and striving for cost leadership . He does not recognize that it is possible to alternate between the two according to the stage of industry development , and Gilbert and Strebel ( 1988 ) illustrate how some companies do outpace others in the industry on both cost and quality . Moreover , there seems to be no reason why economic competition should take such a dichotomous form , with a clear separation between the low - cost producers and the differentiators .
Idiom: tell tales (used idiomatically: no)
Thus the pastor started . He spoke slowly to the children and did not take his eyes off them as he spoke . He demonstrated a feeling for drama and a determination to tell the tale so that it would never be forgotten . ' Gorbrandt wanted Møn for the amber he knew could be picked up on our shores . And so that he might ensure that our island would be his for all time , he instructed his hordes to slaughter all the children on Møn .
Idiom: settle a score (used idiomatically: yes)
Jitters had his gun back , with just one bloody buggering round left in it , so he would jolly well have to put it to freaking good use , would n't he , by jove . Curtius Kenne was cut in half by a falling beam , worse luck , so he could n't use his one shot to spread the cowboy 's greymass on the wall . There was no place like the thick of battle for settling an old score . So many people were dying that no one would notice a few more . Jitters had been splashed with some of the liquid fire from the grenade , but he was lucky enough to have been blown through a hole in the wall by the blast .
Idiom: point the finger (used idiomatically: no)
It 's much easier when you 're properly equipped ! The remainder of the pitch gave brilliant , bold climbing up spaced but adequate pockets to yet another hanging belay . As I seconded past the scene of shredded clothes and fingers I cursed my lack of imagination ; the peg pointed skywards . I could have lassoed it ! But it became obvious on the next pitch that even had I been so inspired we would not have progressed much further .
Idiom: rule of thumb (used idiomatically: yes)
As a rule of thumb , you should plan on one pound of beef for every two guests .
Idiom: save face (used idiomatically: yes)
Firms will develop their own implementations of the environment and although applications will look the same on machines from each of the vendors , they will not be portable . The companies do promise existing software will be binary compatible with whatever they eventually come out with . The six will publish a specification for a common desktop environment by the end of June , and it will save everyone 's face by incorporating elements of HP 's Visual User Environment and Encapsulator , IBM 's Common User Access Workplace Shell , SunSoft 's Open Look , DeskSet and ToolTalk interapplication communication system and USL 's Unix SVR4.2 desktop manager alongside the Open Software Foundation 's Motif toolkit and window manager . Open Network Computing+ , Distributed Computing Environment and Novell Inc NetWare networking environments will be supported . The specifications will be submitted to X / Open Co Ltd for inclusion in the Portability Guide and the standards body will also take over responsibility for the publishing , trademarking and branding of Motif specifications .
Idiom: rough edges (used idiomatically: yes)
Against that background I do not believe that the path of federalism is the right one for the Community.’ Such use of the word ‘ union’ is un - Thatcherite . So Mr Hurd will use his diplomatic skills — and his French — in Strasbourg to keep the temperature down and take the rough edges off disagreement , while advancing with pragmatic caution greater British involvement in the rapidly evolving structure of the Community . He does not favour its enlargement but does favour new forms of association for EFTA and the emerging democracies of Eastern Europe . By contrast , Mr Major was a novice Foreign Secretary whose skills and stamina were tested to breaking point when — alone — he tried to modify the draft South African statement in Kuala Lumpur .
Idiom: under fire (used idiomatically: yes)
Many churches have an unwritten no animals rule . At St Michaels even the rules they do have regarding animals are there to be broken at the special blessing service A group of Bosnian Children who escaped a massacre in their village by being driven away from the war zone under fire , have arrived in England . Many still fear for their lives , but have been told they can stay here until it 's safe to return . Mike Rowbottom reports .
Idiom: make the cut (used idiomatically: no)
Cutting is typically of the wrist or forearm , and the cuts are usually multiple . They vary from superficial scratches to full - thickness lacerations , but almost invariably draw blood . The cuts are usually made with razor blades or broken glass . Other forms of self - mutilation may be seen in the same patient . These include cuts elsewhere on the body , such as the legs and genital areas , and cigarette burns and bruises .
Idiom: sweetness and light (used idiomatically: yes)
The thousands of East German refugees in West German embassies , the tens of thousands who have poured out to the West through Hungary are a terrible and unending indictment of his Stalinist regime . Worse still , the embassy refugees manoeuvred him into an impossible corner . They knew how desperately he and his comrades wanted to celebrate their day amid sweetness and light . How could he receive Mikhail Gorbachev and other leaders while the world watched 4,500 of his people voluntarily submitting to horrific conditions in the embassy in Prague just to get to the West ? ( Alternatively , how could Mr Gorbachev come ? )
Idiom: up and running (used idiomatically: yes)
Early Systems In Bristol and Coventry three years prior to this , a decision had been taken to replace a batch personnel system with an on - line internally developed IMS package , covering recruitment , personnel administration / records , training and management information . By 1978 work was well advanced and parts of the system were actually up and running . In what was at that time the " Derby Group " , work had continued on the enhancement of batch payroll systems and the addition of other " cheap " batch systems for specific application — for example , training records , job evaluation , staff search . In Derby itself a decision had also been taken in 1975 to look at the use of APL for providing management information via on - line access of any of the personnel files available .
Idiom: in the running (used idiomatically: yes)
The drivers will use some global sections and global pages . If you are not sure whether you have the capacity , refer to Appendix D.2 , System Requirements for FMS Drivers . To install the drivers in the running system , execute the following commands : Installing the drivers on system startup is described in Section 1.5.1 , SYSTARTUP_V5.COM . If you are using LIFESPAN across a network , then you will have to repeat the steps in this section on each of the additional VAXs from which you intend to access LIFESPAN .
Idiom: get the better of (used idiomatically: yes)
Finishing her coffee , she collected some leaflets from the hall table , and , with the intention of taking them up to her room to read , returned to the lounge to say goodnight — a plan instantly foiled by Feargal 's mother , who seemed to have shed her vagueness , along with her daughter , who had disappeared , and patted the seat beside her in silent invitation . As soon as Ellie was seated , she began to rib her gently about her life in England , about how sorry she felt for her living in such a confusing place ; regaled her with insights on the local population , and the arrangements being made for the wedding , which was to be held here in the Hall . ‘ It sounds lovely,’ she said warmly , and then , her curiosity getting the better of her , she asked with a teasing smile , ‘ Why was Sylvia truly blessed?’ ‘ You know her?’ Feargal 's mother exclaimed in surprise .
Idiom: save the day (used idiomatically: yes)
His accusations backed up with the evidence found by Craig would be enough to convict Spencer and send him to prison for some time , once his whereabouts were discovered , for Spencer seemed to have vanished from the face of the earth . Emily had not called on Aunt Sophie recently , she was n't in the mood for visiting nor for the lecture her aunt would surely give her on humiliating the family by openly selling her possessions . And if Emily had expected Craig to ride in on a white charger and save the day , she had been doomed to disappointment . He had left Swansea without even sending a message and , as empty day ran into empty day , Emily 's anger and resentment towards her cousin continued to grow . No doubt Craig was ashamed to face her , he had allowed her father to be duped into losing everything and now Craig would benefit from Emily 's misfortune .
Idiom: join the club (used idiomatically: yes)
ICE HOCKEY : Fife Flyers , poised for promotion to the Heineken League Premier Division , have been fined £ 2,500 by the British Ice Hockey Association , of which £ 2,000 was suspended until the end of next season , after their supporters caused trouble following a recent visit to Milton Keynes . David Pickles , the BIHA secretary , said : ' We are determined to uphold the tremendous family image of our sport and it is the reponsibility of clubs to make sure it is not tarnished . ' Paul Dixon , 18 , of Humberside Seahawks , voted the Heineken League 's Young British Player of the Year , has been awarded a two - week , expenses - paid trip to join the NHL club , Calgary Flames , during their pre - season training in September . Defenceman Dixon , who represented England against Scotland at Murrayfield in December , is the seventh recipient of the award , made jointly by the government of Alberta , Canadian Airlines International , and the Ice Hockey News Review . MOTOR RACING : Bicester - based racing car builders Reynard tightened their grip on the Japanese Formula 3000 championship at the weekend when Brazilian Paolo Carcasci won the second round at Fuji Raceway in a 92D model .
Idiom: take root (used idiomatically: yes)
This pattern can be traced to 1967 . Israelis understand that the only reality in politics is the reality on the ground . So long as Israeli soldiers control the occupied territories , the idea of a settlement freeze will not take root . In fact , the demand for a settlement freeze is nothing more than a call to arms to a wide group of Israelis and their supporters to go and build on stolen Palestinian land . When Egyptian President Anwar ~ Sadat was preparing for his historic visit to Jerusalem , a group of settlers created the settlement of Elon Moreh near Nablus , the most populated West ~ Bank city .
Idiom: hit the headlines (used idiomatically: yes)
Voice over Where Sir William might be seen as a diffident , slightly academic figure Labour 's Bruce Kent dives into campaigning with enthusiasm . A former priest , he hit the headlines as secretary and then chairman of the Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament . He 's left the priesthood now , but has a national profile which has lifted Labour 's campaign locally and made him instantly recognisable to many as he attempts to persuade them that he 's the new broom they need . Male speaker
Idiom: pissed off (used idiomatically: yes)
I do n't wanna know you any more . ! Yeah . And then he got pissed off because erm the cigarette business , right . What cigarette business ? Cos he thought I 'd , I 'd smoke it , I was smoking and he did n't like it and then erm he told me I do n't wanna talk to you any more , blah , blah , blah , all that rubbish .
Idiom: sour grapes (used idiomatically: yes)
He persuaded [ Charles]to distribute privileges and public revenues to private individuals for their own use ; and , since he caused to be done what everyone wanted , he reduced the [ resources of]the state to absolutely nothing " . Adalard , in other words , had acted as a potens was expected to ; what Nithard resented was his own absence from Adalard 's honours list . His sour grapes should not be mistaken for an accurate impression of the flavour of Charles 's court in December 842 . Clearly Adalard 's influence was great ( Nithard was not alone in identifying Ermentrude as " Adalard 's niece " rather than as the daughter of Count Odo of Orléans , Adalard 's brother - in - law , though an obvious reason could have been that Odo had died eight years before , perhaps leaving Ermentrude in her uncle 's care ) . As lay - abbot of St - Martin Tours , Adalard occupied a key strategic position in the Loire valley .
Idiom: put a damper on (used idiomatically: yes)
They are Amazonian fish , and although they have been in captivity for a very long time , they will appreciate the soft acid water that nature designed them for , and this may prove essential for breeding . The tank should be well planted with pieces of bogwood to provide cover , and with a few largish smooth flat stones in clearings among the plants , preferably away from the front so as to be private . I do n't want to put a damper on your ambitions , but this species is very difficult to sex , and it may be more accurate to say you have two fish rather than a pair . I would obtain three or more the same size and allow them to grow up and pair off naturally . Your chances of the two being male and female are not very good , but with five or six you should be sure of a pair , unless you are very unlucky .
Idiom: on the cards (used idiomatically: yes)
Is it possible to hook up your PC to your TV with HDMI while your PC - monitor is hooked up to your PC with VGA ? Yes , providing you have the necessary ports on your graphics card AND that your graphics card supports dual monitor setup . You have to go in either your driver settings or via the Windows ~ Display settings to configure this .
Idiom: left and right (used idiomatically: yes)
McKeever , Suberi and Van Deventer ( 1972 ) replicated Hines 's experiment but found that neither the magnitude nor direction of visual field asymmetry was affected by the presence of a central fixation digit . A similar finding was reported by MacKavey , Curcio and Rosen ( 1975 ) . However , reversal from left to right visual field superiority was observed by Kaufer , Morais and Bertelson ( 1975 ) when they investigated the effect of presenting a Landolt 's ring at fixation for subjects to report the position of a small gap in the ring prior to recalling the stimuli presented in the left and right visual fields . It is therefore possible that in some circumstances a stimulus at fixation serves as an anchor such that processing occurs first for material appearing to the right of fixation . Moreover , it has been suggested on the basis of experiments carried out with children that the nature of a fixation stimulus may affect visual hemifield asymmetry by inducing a bias towards either verbal or non - verbal processing , depending on the nature of the stimulus ( Kershner , Thomae and Callaway , 1977 ; Carter and Kinsbourne , 1979 ) .
Idiom: child's play (used idiomatically: yes)
An exhibition of their work was presented with an attendance of 1500 people . Further developments planned include the formation of a drama group which will present aspects of Ness history based on their collection of data . Within the schools , the Bilingual Education Project has created curricular materials such as Gaelic nursery rhymes and songs , cards , picture books with Gaelic tests , photographic sequences reflecting the communities in which the children are growing up and materials for young mothers aimed at informing and guiding them on issues related to the quality of playgroup experience , including books on children 's play , book - making materials and equipment and films on playgroup organisation and on the way young children learn . A training programme with relevant literature was provided by the project team for all playgroup mothers , in co - operation with the Social Work Department and the Scottish Playgroups Association . The relationship of the project team with the local schools is of special interest .
Idiom: on the back of (used idiomatically: yes)
In the lighthouse , Grace was asleep in her room . It was a small , tidy room , with white walls . Her dress was on the back of the door , and her other clothes were on a chair by the bed . There were some books on a desk , and some sea - birds ' eggs on a table . Someone knocked at the door .