Gooogr/pie_idioms huggingface dataset:
Idiom: warts and all (used idiomatically: yes)
Hall criticizes the flimsy evidence on which , for example , Newton has been depicted as a member of an active alchemical coterie at Cambridge , supposedly including Barrow , the Lucasian professor whom he was to succeed , and Henry More , the Platonist philosopher . With scrupulous fairness Hall also reproduces in an appendix a report by Karin Figala of Munich , who provided him with a summary of her own research on Newton 's alchemical studies . But Figala 's conclusions have devastating implications for any portrait of Newton which , like that provided by Hall , is still largely cast in the conventional mould , even if at great pains to depict Newton ‘ warts and all’ . Figala asserts that Newton was no exception to the seventeenth - century tendency to ‘ search for a combination of the exact sciences with magical thought’ . She believes that in Newton 's alchemy we can catch a glimpse of ‘ at least a small part of his attempt to reconcile magic and science’ .
Idiom: rare bird (used idiomatically: yes)
The mimics thus are protected by their visual resemblance to the emetic models , despite being far away from the place where the crows discovered the nasty prey . Aversion lasts at least eight months , and possibly more . Nicolaus speculates that this could give ecologists a method of controlling predation on eggs of rare birds . Similar techniques are already being used to deter coyotes which kill sheep , and could prove a very useful management technique ( Science , vol 220 , p 212 ) . Carbon monoxide as a chemical feedstock ?
Idiom: in the doghouse (used idiomatically: yes)
She never said . Oh . That 's you in the doghouse now , . No . Ah .
Idiom: up to scratch (used idiomatically: yes)
A REFUGEE family who fled to Britain from war - torn Yugoslavia was at the centre of a housing storm yesterday . They turned down the offer of free council flat in a city where 2,000 people are on a long - term homeless list . The couple told stunned housing officials that the three - bedroom flat simply was not up to scratch for their needs . The council had even offered to provide emergency furniture for the family , who leap - frogged to the top of the housing list after being reunited in Cambridge earlier this week . But former pilot Dragan Cvejic , his wife Danka , both 36 , and their five - year - old daughter Dijana complained that the accommodation was ‘ dirty’ .
Idiom: down the road (used idiomatically: yes)
And finally the winner of the funniest celebrity joke is Radio Merseyside 's Wally Scott . The following gem lands him a Fun Fortnight T - Shirt , and just to stop the pair of them falling out , we 'll give Billy a T - shirt too . There 's a funeral procession going down the road with hundreds of people following the hearse . At the front of the mourners is a fella with a huge rottweiler . I said to him : ‘ I 've never seen such a big funeral .
Idiom: in the long run (used idiomatically: yes)
Yeah . He ca n't see that does n't help in the long run if , Yeah , mind you his , his short er term policies so it does n't matter in the long run . Right . Ten times twenty is two hundred .
Idiom: off the hook (used idiomatically: yes)
When I went to the first meeting I had been appointed to the job , I went to the first meeting and there in front of me were lots of people who were managing their own schools and they were organising how to spend money that they had been allocated . all sorts of managing business and they had to work together and to hold group organisations . The person whom I was going to take over the job from said to me at the end of the meeting well what do you think of that meeting and I must admit I the answer and luckily somebody else instructed with some other business and I felt I got off the hook here but in fact that got dealt with very quickly and he came back to me and said well what did you think of the meeting and I had to say to him just one word , was the way I put it . Because everybody in that meeting was thinking about blaming other people they were actually trying to say it 's not my fault that thing come in , it 's not my fault that things are like this , it 's somebody else 's fault in a different organisation . It 's not us , it 's them .
Idiom: to the tune of (used idiomatically: no)
As I made my way back to the Métro I felt a sort of heightened awareness . I revelled in the capricious vegetation wrought in iron — even the sound of water running in the urinals was pleasing . I found myself humming to the tune of the violin an old man was playing for sous . I would have liked to drink coffee in one of the smoke - filled cafés lining the boulevard , but I did not dare enter . In each place a crowd of men in blue overalls , each with a Gauloise stuck in the corner of his mouth , stared into the mirror behind the bar at the reflection of any women who braved their domain .
Idiom: go the extra mile (used idiomatically: yes)
Mr Patten announced his democracy blueprint last October , radically revising Hong Kong 's unique functional constituency system , under which different professions and trades vote for their own councillors , and considerably enlarging the electoral base . He also found ways around previously agreed limits of 20 directly - elected seats to the Legislative Council in 1995 . Mr Patten told legislators : ' We wished to go the extra mile and give the Chinese side every opportunity to respond . Unfortunately the outstanding differences have not been resolved and we still have no date for talks . ' He had delayed publishing the proposals four times in the hopes of a rapprochement .
Idiom: turn someone's head (used idiomatically: yes)
‘ What?’ I said , utterly staggered by this statement . Nigel turned his head to look at me for the first time and smiled in a kindly manner . ‘ Correction,’ he said . ‘ My wife is out most of the time.’
Idiom: in the long run (used idiomatically: yes)
It is simply another instance of ‘ graceful degradation’ . ‘ It does not hit the headlines ; it does not readily rise to the top of any politician 's list of immediate concerns,’ says Sir Eric . ‘ Yet in the long run — and we have already had a pretty long run — the results are potentially devastating.’ Malcolm Brown is a freelance writer 1928 Born in Germany .
Idiom: marching orders (used idiomatically: yes)
THE office Christmas party is in full swing and Mr Smith from accounts and Miss Jones from sales are canoodling under the mistletoe . When they turn up at the office next day looking as if they 've missed out on their sleep , however , they could get more than teasing comments from their colleagues . They could get their marching orders . For although thousands of people meet their partners in the workplace , an office affair is a sackable offence . As many couples have found , often only one half of the relationship will be asked to leave .
Idiom: lend a hand (used idiomatically: no)
Life has n't been easy for Patsy McGowan 's troops of late . It 's more than a month since they conjured up a victory . FORMER Irish League goalkeeper , turned BBC commentator , Bobby Carlisle , is lending a helping hand in one of the most remarkable runs in Junior Cup history . The Lisburn teacher coaches Churches League third division side Village Star , a team who have never won a trophy and , until this year , never got past the second round of junior soccer 's top competition . But manager Gerry Murphy reckons their first ever piece of silverware will be the Junior Cup and says Carlisle 's coaching is one of the reasons why .
Idiom: pull the plug (used idiomatically: yes)
Miller 's in liquidation Miller 's ( review Aug 90 , p21 ) have gone into liquidation , three months after moving into profit following the opening of their accommodation wing . Chris Berry 's bank changed their mind about funding the new block and pulled the plug . Slalom Schools is now dead but the centre is on the market with a full order of bookings and re - bookings throughout next season . The bank was the same high street bank which scuttled Alan Jones last year .
Idiom: by and large (used idiomatically: yes)
Teenagers began to feel ashamed , not of having sex , but of remaining virgins , while older women felt pressured by the necessity to have multiple orgasms of the right kind and frequency . Celia Haddon comments , ‘ There is something for everyone to worry about.’ One sad aspect of the sexual revolution is the fact that by and large the churches have had little to contribute that is positive and constructive . Some churchmen have gone along with the new permissiveness by conceding that as long as two people love each other that is all that really matters . Too few senior church leaders have been prepared publicly to state that sex outside marriage , as well as homosexual practice , are viewed in biblical teaching as outside God 's will and purpose for human good .
Idiom: few and far between (used idiomatically: yes)
‘ Let there be no misunderstanding,’ he says . ‘ There are terrific career opportunities in commercial aviation and within the armed forces . Currently places within airlines are few and far between , but virtually all employable aircrew made jobless by the airline failures of the last few years have found new positions , although not always within the UK . Airlines in the Near and Far East are still recruiting , and BA have not cancelled any courses at Oxford . UK airlines are not sponsoring pilots at the present time , but the school is attracting an increasing number of young people , both from this country and abroad , who are prepared to invest something in the order of £ 50,000 to train as professional pilots …
Idiom: catch fire (used idiomatically: yes)
Easy — someone for whom the composer 's name does not always come after the words ‘ Gilbert and’ . After all , it was not the operettas but the Symphony , choral works and other ‘ serious’ compositions which won Arthur Sullivan and knighthood . yet the revival of his ‘ non - Gilbert’ works has hardly caught fire in time to mark the 150th anniversary of his birth in London on May 13th 1842 . No company seized the opportunity to record Sir Charles Mackerras 's fine performance in 1986 of The Golden Legend , the last and best of the major choral works . Sullivan 's one grand opera , Ivanhoe , issued by Pearl ( ) under the sponsorship of the Sir Arthur Sullivan Society , suffered from cost - cutting , both musically and technically .
Idiom: on the square (used idiomatically: yes)
Absolutely nothing . The weekend of the Krakonosc Festival was so near , and yet premature buds were starting to pop their curious green heads through the earth 's surface . Late Wednesday night the mist seemed to freeze around our nostrils and form halos made luminous by the garish neon lights on Wenceslas Square . By Thursday heavy , grey clouds enshrouded the city and the queue at the central bus station snaked in and out of piles of colourful bags , trusty , slightly outdated skis and laughing Czechs of every age . As the lights blinked in the overhead monitors we could see more and more buses were sold out .
Idiom: keep up appearances (used idiomatically: yes)
In two years we went from a £ 32 m profit , which I suppose in current rates would be in the region of £ 150 m , to a £ 14 m loss . So in two years flat , after riding on the crest of a wave , people who had been cock of the walk in ICI suddenly found themselves at the bottom of the league . This was a time when Haslam learned the subtle art of keeping up appearances despite the fact that the world seemed to be collapsing all around him . The most important thing was just physically keeping up the morale . I had almost consciously to go out of the house in the morning with a smile fixed on my face , keep it on and breathe an air of absolute confidence when I was feeling anything but that way inclined .
Idiom: by and large (used idiomatically: yes)
The early problems of the PFF gave its critics much to enjoy since the Force was Pathfinder in name only , The four initial squadrons , each with a different type of aircraft , had essentially different operational capabilities . The one redeeming feature was that Groups initially did select good crews , many of them second - tour types . All the original crews were expected to volunteer for 45 sorties : by and large this meant in effect that each PFF crew would start a full Bomber Command tour of about 31 ) sorties . Very few , in fact , claimed the " let - out " , and 60 sorties was nearer the average . This incredible sense of duty should be considered against the average sortie life of aircrew in the Command which was never higher than 9.2 and , at one time , as low as eight sorties per crew .
Idiom: go public (used idiomatically: yes)
Digital Biometrics Inc , Minnetonka , Minnesota maker of electronic fingerprint systems says it has filed an amended registration statement with the US Securities & Exchange Commission to increase its shares of common stock to 2 m — the public currently holds 1.0 m and another 1.0 m shares are held by the its principal shareholder ; proceeds from the latest offering will be used to buy back and cancel the principal shareholder 's shares . The co - managers are Dain Bosworth Inc and John G Kinnard & Co Inc. Equinox Systems Inc , making input - output controller boards for multi - user computers in Fort Lauderdale , Florida has filed to go public with an initial offer of up to 1.5 m shares , 1 m of them new , at a target price of $ 11.50 to $ 13.50 a share to raise some $ 12 m for working capital . The offering will be made through Robinson - Humphrey Co Inc , Raymond James & Associates Inc and Punk , Ziegel & Knoell . 3DO Co Inc , San Mateo , California has filled in the details on its planned initial public offering and has filed to offer 2.2 m shares , all new , at a target price of $ 11 a share to raise working capital to fund anticipated operating losses .
Idiom: true blue (used idiomatically: yes)
To date four firm candidates have put their names forward to fight the traditionally safe Conservative East Hampshire seat . Opposition parties face an uphill struggle in their battle to depose long - standing Tory member Michael Mates , who in the 1987 general election polled the largest Tory vote in the country . However , his opponents are convinced that even in true - blue East Hampshire Tory popularity is on the wane . And they believe that , if nothing else , Mr. Mates is in for shock . With their hats already in the ring are Sue Baring ( Liberal Democrat ) , Jim Phillips ( Labour ) and Ian Foster ( Green Party ) .
Idiom: left and right (used idiomatically: yes)
Since Willy Brandt , the party 's post - war giant , and Helmut Schmidt , who was chancellor from 1974 to 1982 , the party has had no success . Mr Brandt died last autumn after a long , awkward retirement . At the grand age of 74 , Mr Schmidt has appointed himself Germany 's agony - aunt and scold , dishing out advice to politicians left and right . Beside these two , ‘ Willy 's grandsons’ , as the present generation of Social Democrats are known , are a pallid lot . Oskar Lafontaine , the gadfly premier of Saarland , was buried by Chancellor Kohl 's unity - landslide in 1990 .
Idiom: in light of (used idiomatically: no)
He had not yet finally committed himself to subordinating all his other interests to tragedy , but was still toying with ideas of a wider scope . The book , as we gather from a plan in his notebooks of the same period , was to deal with four large areas : ethics ; aesthetics ; religion and mythology ; and politics , law and education . Of the forty - odd subheadings in the plan only two point explicitly towards drama , " Socratism in tragedy " ( under " aesthetics " ) and " The tragedians and the state " ( under " politics … " ) , although in the retrospective light of BT a considerable number of the others can be seen as bearing specifically on the tragic ethos : for instance , " music and poetry " , " Aristotle 's aesthetic " , " ecstatic art in Greece " , " Dionysus and Apollo " . Nevertheless , the plan is too wide for a tragedy - centred book even on Nietzsche 's terms , and , as such , it is certainly a piece of evidence in favour of his sister 's postulate of a full - scale book about Greece . The width of the Greek material can be gathered from the presence of such diverse names as Plato , Homer , Alcibiades , Herodotus and the Stoics .
Idiom: hand to mouth (used idiomatically: yes)
But not through January and February . Not until Easter . Perhaps only barely by then , until she managed to get something behind her , the reserve , the " something put by for a rainy day " which neither she nor anyone else in her hand - to - mouth world could ever quite hold together . And the trouble was that she was tired . Aching sometimes with weariness , bruised with it , yet unable to sleep .
Idiom: kiss of life (used idiomatically: yes)
PC Cotton , 55 , a London river policeman for 19 years , said : ‘ When we saw her in the water she looked like a doll . ‘ She was floating face down and I thought she was dead.’ The officer gave her the kiss of life for five minutes before she showed signs of life . Yesterday her condition had improved . A woman was arrested later at Heathrow airport .
Idiom: see eye to eye (used idiomatically: yes)
He had a right to be suspicious this time , but he had n't known that ; it had been an automatic reaction to her receiving a call . She wondered just how much he had heard , and shrugged awkwardly . ‘ Well , we do n't always see eye to eye about things . You know how it is.’ He turned now , expression bland .
Idiom: get stuck in (used idiomatically: yes)
Of course , if the enemy lands a magic attack or a war machine hit on top of this lot you 're in trouble , but you can avoid this with careful protective magic and a bit of luck . The other option for a Warlord is to put him on a wyvern or other big monster , but this is n't recommended . You need your Warlord near his troops to pass on the benefits of his leadership and to get stuck in alongside the Boyz . If you put him on a wyvern there is a temptation to spend half the game flitting about behind the enemy lines or stuck up in the air . By the time you 've bought a Warlord , a Battle Standard Bearer , Bosses for your units , and Big Bosses for vulnerable Goblin units , plus magic weapons and armour for the most important characters , the chances are you wo n't have many points left .
Idiom: do the right thing (used idiomatically: yes)
‘ Wilton Place,’ he said and climbed in . He lay back on the seat in the dark interior with the attaché case resting on his knees as the driver cranked up the engine . I did the right thing , he told himself , renting that flat . Obtaining the Major 's permission had not been difficult . It was necessary , he had told him , for an Intelligence officer to have private quarters .
Idiom: in the same breath (used idiomatically: yes)
Cat and mouse has no less force , in this fated relationship , than moth and candle - flame . ‘ I wo n't allow myself to be tortured,’ Raskolnikov tells Porfiry , but our sense of their three long encounters is that there 's nothing either of them can do about it . In a single serpentine sentence Porfiry seems to dissolve into his own prose , showering Raskolnikov with a patter of tiny verbal blows as if exercising the Russian particle for its own sake ( nu da uzh ) , telling him that he considers him ‘ quite incapable’ of committing suicide , and in the same breath to leave ‘ a short circumstantial note if he does . This , in the blood and bone of the novel , is how the doubleness — the two levels — appears , in which all is destined and anything can happen . It might be objected that the doubleness is just a trick of Porfiry 's .
Idiom: break new ground (used idiomatically: yes)
We used to joke that we almost got nose bleeds when we stood up to our normal size because we spent so much time at floor level.’ The series features spectacular sets and uses the latest digital techniques to create a realistic backdrop . John even goes as far as to boast that The Borrowers is breaking new ground : ‘ In fact , some of the things we can now do make the special effects in Star Wars look prehistoric.’ Old folk benefit from gift fifty years on By Anne Harrison
Idiom: fall from grace (used idiomatically: yes)
When North was charged with a number of very serious offences Reagan publicly announced that North was innocent and a hero . It will be interesting to see how President Bush deals with the continuing hostage / Contra problem , particularly as he was once head of the CIA . That Reagan managed to escape public disgrace was probably only because Americans found it very hard so soon after Nixon to see another president fall from grace , since the presidency is the last moral totem pole the nation possesses . To many observers Reagan had long ceased to be a president and become a king - like figure who communicated with his people in platitudinous homilies . Reagan may well have been the reincarnation of Henry II .
Idiom: on the house (used idiomatically: no)
Do you think there 's going to be any joy from him ? Well I think at central level they have a letter do n't they , because from the reports I 've read local authorities exercise discretionary powers on the amount of Poll Tax to be charged on empty farm dwellings . In fact they have discretionary powers on all empty houses . They can , as you know , charge anything between nought and two hundred percent of the standard rate , and I feel it 's something that has to be sorted out locally . I remember reading earlier that Oxfordshire was very inconsistent , some districts charged one rate , others charged the maximum two hundred percent .
Idiom: up to scratch (used idiomatically: yes)
‘ I ai n't talkin ' to you,’ said Dolly , perking up . ‘ Ankle feeling better ? Bottom up to scratch?’ ‘ Oh , you cheeky cuss,’ she said , ‘ I might be poor and ' omeless , but I 'm respectable , I am , and I ai n't goin' to listen to you talkin ' about my bottom , you ought to be locked up for even mentioning it.’ ‘ That 's the spirit,’ said Joe , ‘ I like to hear a girl standing up for herself .
Idiom: behind the scenes (used idiomatically: yes)
True in its first incarnation , only last year and at the same venue , it played to packed houses but this is no reflection on its merit , merely an indication of popular appetites for down market products . It purports to tell the tale of a tacky , tawdry beauty contest featuring comedian and cabaret luminary proper name Duggie Brown as the lewd compere Jack whose line in patter can only be described as lavatorial . Behind the scenes the ' gals ' whose fate will be determined by a male judging panel banter and bicker , in various states of undress , unaware that one of their number is a man with a mission to woo an unrequited love who works in the same supermarket and has also entered the contest . Here the tall and lanky Simon Lay , kitted out in high heels and hip hugging skirt , as Chrissie , the shy lass out for her first contest , evokes some sympathy but the character is merely a vehicle to introduce a stream of smutty dialogue into the proceedings . Several of the actresses make plucky attempts to inject it with a semblance of artistic integrity : proper name Diane Whitley is convincing as Karen , the girl who is the subject of the lovelorn quest , and Paula Wilcox , as the veteran competitor , has enough experience and talent to gauge the scale of this production and perform accordingly .
Idiom: head south (used idiomatically: yes)
Follow the western bank of the River Severn through woodland and meadows to Bewdley and on to the village of Ribbesford . The route then climbs out of the Severn Valley and goes across country to Heightlington . The next section cross rolling countryside to the strangely named Joan 's Hole before heading south - west to climb Abberley Hill . The route passes Abberley Hall , and head up Walsgrove Hill to reach Shelsley Beauchamp quarry . The route then follows the spine of Rodge Hill , high above the Teme valley , to the little hamlet of Kingswood Common .