Gooogr/pie_idioms huggingface dataset:
Idiom: have someone's number (used idiomatically: yes)
Carnforth High School:(0524 ) 733076 — Tony Walsh . Again , no answer . I can try first thing Monday , but maybe Tom has Tony 's home number ? ? The following is summary of notes I showed you today , I do n't think Rob was in a receptive mood ! : John Raby would like to join the shoot on 15th , mainly to talk to Tom H. Please let either me or him know if there are good or bad times for him to join you .
Idiom: fit the bill (used idiomatically: yes)
Food for thought You 've got £ 30 to spend and 2½ hours cooking time : how do you make a three course meal for four within these constraints ? MasterChef 1990 ( BBC Books , £ 7.99 ) contains all the recipes produced by contestants in the last MasterChef television series to fit that very bill . And inspiring reading they make , too . Alsace is one of France 's best - kept secrets ( as Jill Goolden reveals in her wine feature on page 76 ) .
Idiom: to all intents and purposes (used idiomatically: yes)
So I make appointments with myself , where I 've got , you 'll see there , eight days where for two hours that 's what I 'm going to be doing . Mailing . And although you know , to all intents and purposes , those appointments are inviolate , I know that they 're in pink on the slide , but they are inviolate in terms of I 'm not going to cede that time to anyone else . Those appointments with myself have equal importance , perhaps more importance than my appointments with other people . And I think that 's a , that 's a key message which I , I do n't know what spends time on this , how in fact we always accord other people more consideration than we do ourselves usually .
Idiom: off the hook (used idiomatically: yes)
NICE people do n't make good biopics . They ca n't quite bring themselves to wield the scalpel to maximum effect . Dickie ‘ Darling ’ Attenborough is a lovely bloke who has produced with Chaplin a professional but overlong and formulaic exercise in hagiography which lets The Little Tramp off the hook at every turn . I have never found the sight of a grown man in a false moustache pretending to walk into lamp-posts remotely funny , and even less amusing is the story of a miserly workaholic who could n't keep his hands off under-age girls . Charlie Chaplin was without doubt a major figure during Hollywood 's inception , a star who stoutly refused to play ball with Senator Joe McCarthy 's communist witch-hunt in the dark days of the Fifties .
Idiom: only time will tell (used idiomatically: yes)
' The staff ' were delighted with the turnout , and in particular the number of new faces that attended . Will there be a Swindon Branch some day ? Only time will tell , but it will require a number of dedicated members to get it off the ground . Top of the class came Andrew MacDonald and Stuart Richardson , who were able to remember 20 objects in under three minutes using word association . Shades of Leslie Welch the Memory Man ( this gives the writer 's age away ! )
Idiom: word of mouth (used idiomatically: yes)
The , the problem that is arising in this , is that it is now clear that , er , that the Grants Panel are running out of money this year , because of the take up of , of lots more grants . And it , they 're likely to need something like a further twenty thousand pounds er , if they do n't have sufficient funds to continue to at the balance of this financial year . I mean , it is n't as though we have to operate a policy in which we heavily advertise the availability of grants , it , it can develop via word of mouth , if we advertise anything , we would be inundated with demand for to a level that we could n't cope with . The recommendation of the report on that Chairman , is that er , we should erm , transfer twenty thousand pounds to the er , Business Grants from the , either from existing budgets and any other existing sources of funds which are available within the department , it would be , if we merely trawl through everything , we might find anyway we might have some fund , fund spending spree at the end of the year , see if we keep things , just let 's keep the scheme going . Any comment ?
Idiom: ring a bell (used idiomatically: yes)
Implicit in this turn was an acknowledgement that the differences between the Left and the Right groups on practical policies were much narrower than the fractional struggle had previously admitted ; a common phenomenon in left - wing politics . The political turn was signalled publicly in an address given by Bukharin at a memorial meeting on the fifth anniversary of the death of Lenin on 21 January 1929 . This speech was published in Pravda on 24 January under the title of ' Lenin 's Political Testament ' , which must have rung some warning bells for many within the Party since Lenin 's actual political testament had not been published at that time . That Bukharin was preparing for a struggle with Stalin at this point can not be doubted and he was attempting to drum up international support among other parties of the Comintern . Rosa Levine - Meyer recounted to me how Bukharin met and discussed his plans with members of the German Communist Party in the late summer and autumn of 1928 .
Idiom: break new ground (used idiomatically: yes)
Panorama also exposed the failure of Upjohn to reveal the damaging side effects of the world 's most popular sleeping pill — Halcyon . An Assignment special on Japan exposed the Japanese government 's moral ambivalence to its war crimes , while Public Eye revealed that there was no conspiracy in removing Stalker . And no - one has covered Northern Ireland as thoroughly as we have : Panorama 's Dirty War examined the way British intelligence ran agent Brian Nelson ; Lethal Force tested the suspicion that men who could have been captured or wanted to surrender had been shot dead whilst a special on the Guildford Four broke new ground , exposing the role of the DPP 's office in withholding crucial evidence . That is a record that is second to none . We are committed to putting money and people into the sort of programmes that take a long time to make .
Idiom: out of pocket (used idiomatically: yes)
When all five were in place she raised her arm , and smiled , admiring them . For a moment there was a quietness , everyone reflecting . Then Sigarup sat up and pulled a large lemon out of his pocket . Its rind was like wide - pored skin , shining greasily . He cut it up lengthways and its tangy smell flooded out .
Idiom: on the back of (used idiomatically: yes)
There was only the scratching of pens and the rustle of paper as everyone waited for the reply . ‘ What is this?’ he said sternly , pointing . The stubble on the back of my neck tingled . I searched for Mick 's eyes and found them . ‘ What is this?’ he demanded .
Idiom: play games (used idiomatically: yes)
Sore bottoms on saddles , we pointed our fat tyres down the steep track . The descent was nerve - racking and it reminded me of the slow , queasy way light planes come in to land in Himalayan valleys . At the first sign we came to , women were bashing wheat sheaves against rocks and men squatted in the dust playing a game with pebbles . We were back in the sultry heat of the valley . FACT FILE Flights : Royal Nepal Airlines has begun direct flights from London to Kathmandu : return fares cost £ 520 through Babin Travel ( 01 - 383 4314 ) .
Idiom: join the club (used idiomatically: no)
Thousands of independent software developers have done so , to their profit and his . Selling word - processing , spreadsheet and database programs for use on Microsoft 's DOS software made the fortune of American firms like WordPerfect , Lotus and Borland in the 1980s . Their widespread success convinced all but the bravest computer makers ( notably Apple , though even it is now seeking to make its machines compatible with Windows ) to join the DOS and Windows club . Two - thirds of all PCs sold today have Windows already on board . With this came what you could unfairly call the sting .
Idiom: above board (used idiomatically: yes)
Sex was n't a problem in Sarah and Tom 's marriage — they just wanted confirmation that it was OK to do without it . As told to Cathy Troupp ‘ A lover is illicit — the whole point of being married , it seems to me , is that everything is above board and clean’ Sarah , 31 , was an attractive , stylishly dressed woman who worked part - time as the manager of an interior design shop , and spent the rest of her time looking after her daughter , Zoe , aged two . Her husband Tom , 32 , was an economist .
Idiom: out of pocket (used idiomatically: yes)
On the third day , September 26th , I saw a sail , and was delighted to discover that it was an English ship , on its way home to England . The captain picked me up , and I told him my story . At first he thought I was mad , but when I took the live animals out of my pocket to show him , he believed me . We arrived home at last on April 13th , 1702 , and I saw my dear wife and children again . At first I was delighted to be at home again .
Idiom: pick holes (used idiomatically: yes)
THE STRANGEST thing , tonight , is that L7 — the new Runaways / Girlschool / Rock Follies , depending on where you stand — wriggle out of the preconceptions surrounding their rock escapades and play like demons . Like Queen Bees under attack , they sting . To date , it 's been reasonably simple to pick holes in their Heads - Down - Take - No - Nonsense - Mindless - Boogie , but here in New York they overcome both comparisons and critics , sending a tangible buzz round a capacity crowd , already reeling after each being given a free condom by a security man on the way in . You get the feeling you 've just walked into an alternative universe where L7 , free of the Women In Rock tag , reign supreme . After a slot - it - out 18 months , which has seen them circuiting Europe and America like Nigel Mansell switched to turbo - boost , they turn up here — excuse the expression — absolutely knackered .
Idiom: hold your tongue (used idiomatically: yes)
Adam could n't say , ‘ The cat is black.’ He would say , ‘ To the best of my knowledge , the cat appears to be black.’ You 've got to have the sense to hold your tongue , my girl , Buzz told herself . Play along with him . Let him think that he 's able to plant these ideas in your head .
Idiom: think the world of (used idiomatically: no)
Their use of the word ‘ consciousness ’ refers to the system of meaning through which we apprehend the world , as well as the ideas , opinions and beliefs which we are aware of holding . The two things are not the same , and , although Marx and Engels are not very clear , they do attempt to distinguish them . As we saw above , for them one of the commonest mistakes of the crude materialism which they criticize is to think that men deal with the world simply as it is ; as it would be defined by physics or biology . This is not so , they argue , because we apprehend the world through a system of meaning which we have learned from others and of which language is an essential part . That does not mean that ideas and language come first .
Idiom: child's play (used idiomatically: yes)
Vocabulary : too wide — too long — through inside — outside — next to— on top of — underneath . Rhymes and stories Sometimes stories and rhymes influence children 's spontaneous play . ( See chapter 12 Rhymes and Stories . ) Traditional stories , or more recent ones like Mrs Mopple 's Washing Line or the Topsy and Tim series , contain many ideas that children might choose for their Home Corner play .
Idiom: on the face of it (used idiomatically: yes)
However , with recorders down to less than £ 8,000 it does n't take much arithmetic to work out that a company turning over 2,000 slides a year will come close to being better off with its own camera . ( If you doubt the maths do remember that slides have to be processed at around £ 3.00 per roll and then mounted at around 20p per slide . ) At least , on the face of it , it will be cheaper to buy your own camera than to use a bureau . The main problem is that while the software can generate the presentaion very quickly the slides themselves do take time to image , it 's not like taking a conventional photograph . A film recorder works by taking three exposures of the image which is built up inside the box on a small high resolution monochrome CRT .
Idiom: go hand in hand (used idiomatically: yes)
Meanwhile , our base rates have come down from 12 % ( they never officially went to the 15 % level announced on Black Wednesday ) to 7 % and should fall further . When depends on the Chancellor and the Treasury , who are still scared of fuelling a rise in inflation while hoping , on the other hand , for a rise in house prices . Since these two tend to go hand in hand , anyone whose home is worth less than the mortgage on it , would welcome a little inflation . Not to mention a rapid passing on of mortgage cuts to bedraggled flocks of existing homeowners ; who are less than thrilled to see the first helping of crumbs go in instant cheap deals to first - time buyers . Just because the building societies have a backlog of repossessed homes to flog off does not mean the rest of us should be forced to hang on until January for our rate cut .
Idiom: third time lucky (used idiomatically: yes)
‘ Like I said , I do n't think he will.’ ‘ He 's tried twice . Maybe he 's out there thinking : third time lucky . There 's something … unnatural about him , Gentle . How the hell could he heal so fast?’
Idiom: by and large (used idiomatically: yes)
well okay well just to wind up , I mean I 've been involved in this and people within the R Y A and the office for a good six months now and we fell well down the line , the reality is hardly any courses have started yet and there 's hardly any youngsters been on the water . I thought driving up today would have been a good day but the reality is that it is not going to start until Easter time . We 've done a profile of the courses and guess what they all happen in the school holidays , so this is n't , this is n't over yet in fact for all the user groups , for you , the clubs and the organizations , it really does need a push from you , you must by and large are the deci decision makers , the club officers and I would ask you urgently whether or whether or not your clubs already got its name on the list , to actually support the people within your club that are laying these things on . If there is n't anything being laid on , chase it and perhaps get something laid on this summer in the holidays and whatever . Erm I think it 's , I hope you 'll agree , that it 's absolutely essential and , and I hope that you , your reward will be the smiling faces of the youngsters when they come off the water during the year .
Idiom: part of the furniture (used idiomatically: yes)
‘ You 've got the right attitude to life , Dorothy . I reckon you 'll fit in here . Everyone will think you 're just part of the furniture.’ I smiled . ‘ You never know,’ I said .
Idiom: turn up like a bad penny (used idiomatically: yes)
Lissa 's pulse leapt like the rising hackles of an angry cat . ' I thought this place was empty , ' she hissed . ' Why have you turned up again like the bad penny ? ' ' I can see that my presence must have come as something of a shock , ' he said . ' I apologise for that . '
Idiom: hold the line (used idiomatically: yes)
Sorry ! Sorry ! Please hold the line . Sorry . If you 're gon na start laughing at me you can just get out
Idiom: hot air (used idiomatically: no)
Politicians are renowned for producing ? Hot air . Hot air , right . . .
Idiom: walk of life (used idiomatically: yes)
And that misuse of the aerosol sprays is probably responsible for about three thousand five hundred deaths , but I think you 've got to put that into perspective , first of all against the six thousand people who are killed on the roads every year in Britain , and you 've also got to set it against our estimate that there are more than a quarter of a million people alive today who would have died in childhood if it had n't been specifically for the advantage of being able to take medicines , anti - biotics generally in their childhood to keep them alive . They would be dead today and they are walking around . So if we can look at the relatively small numbers , albeit , I mean , tragic numbers of people who have been harmed or died , we do have to set it into perspective against risks in other walks of life and against the enormous benefits that medicines have done . You mentioned one or two of the calamities ; in fact , you mentioned that there are probably eight calamities in recent fairly recent time . Are any of these calamities which need not have occurred , or where they all acts which were very unfortunate but occurred with basically goodwill all round as it were ?
Idiom: in the clear (used idiomatically: yes)
But he quit to concentrate on his game and reaped an instant dividend . He hits his irons particularly sweetly , a talent that serves him well at Hayling , Hampshire 's only links , where still days are few and far between . If he was expecting to be well in the clear at lunchtime , he was mistaken , Blackmoor 's own Paul Tupper carding a marvellous 66 , with seven birdies . His score was later duplicated by Carl Watts ( Hawkstone ) , who notched five birdies and got it back in 31 . Indeed , the morning returns were the best in Salver history , the spring sunshine and Steve Lowe 's immaculately-prepared course no doubt assisting the compiling of ten scores under the scratch of 70 .
Idiom: break the bank (used idiomatically: yes)
The editor 's decision is final . Supermarket Round - up SPLASH out on a luxury meal that wo n't break the bank at Tesco . Fillet steak is reduced from £ 7.48 to £ 6.48 a lb and Scottish salmon tail fillets from £ 5.39 to £ 4.39 a lb . To sip with your meal , Tesco Spanish red wine is reduced from £ 2.39 to £ 1.99 a bottle and a 10-pack of 25cl bottles of French lager from £ 4.79 to £ 4.29 .
Idiom: one and the same (used idiomatically: yes)
Therefore , the emphasis of the present discussion is not upon whether the individuals benefit psychologically from being members of the Young Conservatives : it can be assumed that those who remain members do so because they enjoy being so . Instead , the emphasis is upon these individuals ' relations to the wider patterns of society , especially those patterns of power typically neglected by social psychologists . These patterns are at one and the same time both common - place and elusive . As far as identity is concerned , this does not involve looking primarily for some smug sense of having arrived at a particular social position . It means noticing the various identities which join the ordinary , non - rebellious individual to those distant powers who are capable of altering the scenery , photographed by both special and ordinary cameras .
Idiom: get a grip (used idiomatically: yes)
When we 're sailing downwind , the wind is simply pushing the boat forward and there 's no sideways force , so we do n't need the daggerboard . We could lift it right out but it 's easier just to lift it until it 's just below the level of the boom , so that it does n't foul it when we 're gybing . When beating the sideways force of the wind is at a maximum and so we need the daggerboard right down to get a good grip on the water and stop the boat drifting sideways . When reaching it 's a compromise between those two extremes , halfway up and halfway down . Now to see just how effective a daggerboard is , let 's look at these two boats beating .
Idiom: fly the flag (used idiomatically: yes)
The rest will be dispatched north to Nicosia , to coincide with the official surrender . ' He broke off and stepped back , for the King had broken free of his friends , and was running alone down the strand to the messenger . He passed beside them all , seeing no one , his eyes fixed on the sea and the skiff , and the two great ships and the galleys beyond , all of them flying the Lusignan flag . He had been weeping . He let the tears lie on his cheeks , and men cheered as he passed them , their young golden King who had won his crown at last .
Idiom: chicken feed (used idiomatically: yes)
The profits were stupendous . Without needing to do more than put down sporadic resistance from the more independent clans , the 30,000 Syrian troops guarding the Bekaa for the heroin cartel were allowed to augment their pay by up to $ 1 billion a year in protection money . And this was chicken - feed next to the revenues earned by government - connected Syrians and Syrian - backed terrorist groups actually engaged in the traffic . Illegal narcotics contributed at least $ 5 billion a year to the Syrian economy , almost all of it in American dollars and other hard currencies . Without access to the American market for heroin and hashish , Syria and its Lebanese protectorate were as good as bankrupt .
Idiom: with a will (used idiomatically: yes)
It was n't a real child , it was a mature face with the wisdom of hindsight passively bearing the pain of the past . Meanwhile an ebullient three - year - old bounced over the people and the furniture , clamouring for conversation and met with exhausted expletives , " Shut up … get … off do n't … " The same tug of war you see in any family when the beautiful love affair with a baby becomes a demanding relationship with a little person with an invincible will . What did that painting symbolise ? It seemed to hold something that could n't be articulated , like Christian icons of Christ 's martyrdom , suffering , but sweetly .
Idiom: tongue in cheek (used idiomatically: yes)
Erm erm it 's not a very . greasy you know , terrible , the poor old dears dare n't go . They 're they 're tongue in cheek going across the recreation ground , thinking that we 're going to pounce on them because they 're not allowed in there . So you know , it 's a for them . I would say I think that 's a very good point chairman now can we ask perhaps either our groundsman or or or whatever to look at it to see if something to make it safer for these these people to er get access to .
Idiom: banana republic (used idiomatically: yes)
Personal computer makers are likely to face continued pressure to keep prices low for the foreseeable future , former Compaq Computer Corp chief Rod Canion told Reuter in an interview : ' Anybody that wants to be successful in the computer business better be prepared to be very aggressive and have a lot of aggressive competition — in that environment , you can predict pricing pressure is not going to ease up ; ' Canion , now chairman of the Houston - based consulting firm Insource Management Group , says that in his time at Compaq , customers were willing to pay a little more to ensure they got quality and performance but that as the market changed , they believed they could get quality , performance and low price , and now , ' that will never change . ' COMPUTER 2000 RAGES AT POLISH MEASURE TO WAIVE DUTIES ON IMPORTS FROM OUTSIDE EUROPEAN COMMUNITY Computer 2000 AG 's European marketing manager Jan Zakrewski has accused the Polish government of ' Banana Republic behaviour ' after the government 's implementation of its plan to waive import duty on computer equipment imported from outside the European Community appeared to confirm many Western vendors ' worst nightmares . Computer 2000 's partner in Poland , DHI , had initially welcomed the decision , arguing it would provide resellers with an opportunity to recoup lost margins . However , according to Zakrewski the government has ruled that the duty - free import quotas will only be divided up among home - grown or foreign companies that have been assembling in Poland for two years , while other firms will face levies at the old rates .