Gooogr/pie_idioms huggingface dataset:
Idiom: in the long run (used idiomatically: yes)
The premium and the insurance however gradually came to look less and less desirable ; and when the nexus between them was finally broken in the Second World War , the fiction would be abandoned . Meanwhile — and it was a long meanwhile — the British were delighted with themselves and with their statecraft . The other fact which they had overlooked was of a different character but no less important in the long run . The Governor-General had not , by acting like the sovereign on the advice of the spokesmen of a majority in an elected assembly , become the same thing as the sovereign . He had become the president of a republic , exercising a defined formal and ceremonial function , and no amount of royal visits and royal Governors-General could alter the fact .
Idiom: piping hot (used idiomatically: yes)
At the door one of the boys said , ‘ Hurry up , mate . Duty calls,’ and then slammed the door . Harry clambered urgently out of the bath , pink from the piping - hot water and covered in foam . Where was she ? The bathroom was now a spooky place .
Idiom: scratch the surface (used idiomatically: no)
Their grant has been frozen in real terms at much below the level at which they could expect to survive on it ; they have been denied entitlement to income support , housing benefits and rebates ; there are no jobs with which they can supplement their incomes during vacations ; and those who find themselves desperately hard up discover , when they turn to the hardship fund , that it has already been exhausted . For all those reasons , I think that students are particularly deserving of help . The Government 's proposal is welcome , but it only scratches the surface of the problem . Our new clause 17 would establish their entitlement to rebates , which would benefit them greatly . We expect to have an important debate tomorrow afternoon on the 20 per cent .
Idiom: stand the test of time (used idiomatically: yes)
This is a narrative poem which , like ‘ Futility’ , firstly dealing with a particular person but then expands out to include the rest of the world . Owen was the outstanding English poet of the First World War and I think that his poems will grow to be even more famous and appreciated . His poetry will stand the test of time . 16/6/92 Creative Essay on Piggy who is now much older … Mr Trotter sat by the roaring fire , reading his science magazine when suddenly , his peace was shattered by screaming coming from outside .
Idiom: in your face (used idiomatically: yes)
He turned to Nathan Holland . ‘ Have you eaten , young man ? At least have some wine , to put the colour back in your face ; you came in like a ghost . We could use him for Banquo , eh?’ Dinah smiled .
Idiom: on the run (used idiomatically: yes)
At sea the force rolled south - westward in a light breeze , making 13 knots ( 24kph ) with the MTB and MGB towed by destroyers . The crew of the explosive blockship HMS Campbeltown had been reduced to 75 hands ; the four funnels she had carried as the USS Buchanan , old Buck , had been replaced by two raked - back stacks to resemble a German Möwe - class destroyer . She rode light in the water despite the extra armour - plate around her bridge and forming fences amidships to protect her commando landing parties where they would crouch on her final run but she was carrying a minimum of fuel and water and her guns were gone except for a 12-pounder forward and oerlikons on the bridge wings . Below decks were 24 Mark VII depth - charges each of 4001b ( 180 kg ) concreted into a steel box . Placed abaft the column of her forward gun , the warhead would be protected from the impact of ramming the caisson as the bows crumpled , and the eight - hour delay chemical fuses would give the raiders time to get clear before the acid ate through copper discs .
Idiom: give something a miss (used idiomatically: yes)
The hotel bookshop went on displaying Archer and Sheldon and Forsyth , happily oblivious to the world - famous authors who flitted in from time to time to paw the paperbacks . Surkov signed the bill for our teas , and it was time to board the coach to take us to the late - afternoon theatrical performance . We considered giving it a miss , but decided it would look rude . With one liberal white and two coloured Africans reading , it proved to be an impassioned attack on apartheid . ' I 'm against apartheid too , ' growled Surkov , ' but I do n't want it thrust down my throat like this . '
Idiom: at the crossroads (used idiomatically: no)
‘ I hope everything goes well for the wedding . Bye,’ she whispered . With an unhappy sigh , Mrs McMahon got out at the crossroads , and , feeling choked , Ellie drove on to the hall to drop off the suit , and collect her own luggage . Walking despondently upstairs , and into Mrs McMahon 's bedroom to leave the outfit , she came to a shocked halt . Phena was in there , rifling through her mother 's jewel case .
Idiom: in the driving seat (used idiomatically: yes)
His economic theorizing , which remained at this period within the framework of neo - classical doctrine , was driven by policy considerations . But then came a turning - point . The financial and political crises of 1931 led Keynes to re - order his priorities : theory took the place of policy in the driving - seat . Whereas , therefore , his Treatise on Money ( 1930 ) has been accounted for along ' externalist ' lines , as the response to a political context , the General Theory of 1936 is best understood in ' internalist'terms , as the outcome of a process of intellectual discovery . How convincing is this ' story of an argument ' ?
Idiom: walk of life (used idiomatically: yes)
Because of these complexities , friendships with the Willses tend to be built up step by step and to become all the more valued because their qualities are seldom revealed all at one time . In the history of the six generations which succeeded the first H.O. Wills , there has been no doubt of the widespread respect from all walks of life which has been earned by most Willses by the end of their lives . Their crowded funerals have been dignified by ceremony proper to their public status and success , but few personal tributes were more poignantly expressed than by the posies of primroses picked by children of the unemployed at the Docklands settlement where Mrs Melville Wills had worked to within a few days of her death at the age of 73 in 1936 . It is also remarkable how few of those Willses have allowed themselves to rest upon the laurels of their past benevolences , and how many have kept alive their sense of public duty and obligation in the spirit of Goethe 's awesome admonition , ‘ That which thy fathers have bequeathed thee , earn it anew if thou wouldst possess it.’
Idiom: come of age (used idiomatically: yes)
The title Duke of Cornwall and the estate to go with it dates back to 1337 , when Edward III created it to give his eldest son , the Black Prince , an income and somewhere to live ; it was he who decreed that it should always go to the eldest son . So if there is no son , as during George VI 's reign , it is held by the monarch . When Charles came of age in 1969 , the Duchy had been in abeyance for thirty - three years and was seriously rundown ; much of it was yielding nothing . Although administered by a council , which met three times a year to review policy , it had undergone none of the post - war modernization and investment that had rescued the rest of the farming industry from the crippling effects of war . No one seemed to have realized that Charles would need an income when he came of age .
Idiom: home and dry (used idiomatically: no)
There was no challenge as the former West Ham and Birmingham forward buried Craig Shakespeare 's corner with an emphatic downward header . Atkinson , matching his attacking partner goal for goal , belted in the fourth from 20 yards , and the only question remaining after the most one - sided of first halves was which of them would be first to his hat trick . Atkinson shaded it , but both were home and dry by the 53rd minute . Whitton pulled ahead five minutes later when he cantered through a demoralised defence to shoot home unopposed , but it was Shakespeare ( who else ? ) who had the last word , breaking the strikers’ monopoly with the eighth goal , 10 minutes from the end . Would ‘ Flash’ be breaking out the champagne ?
Idiom: on the run (used idiomatically: yes)
Probably three suspects are on the run right now with 30~million DM ransom in their possession .
Idiom: on board (used idiomatically: no)
When given the game , the king was so pleased that he offered it creator anything he wanted . Being a modest man , he asked for . ' One grain of corn placed on the first square on the board . Put double this amount ( two grains ) in the second square , double that ( four grains ) in the third , and so on until you reach the 64th and final square . ' The king was astonished that he asked for so little , and readily agreed .
Idiom: get the picture (used idiomatically: yes)
Nick Holmes . ' ' Nick — it 's me , Harriet . I 've finished the job and I 've got the most stupendous pictures . I 'm just on my way back to the hotel and with luck I 'll be able to get a flight tonight . I can be with you first thing in the morning — maybe even this evening , if you like . '
Idiom: call the shots (used idiomatically: yes)
Anthea knew it , which was why she did what she did to him . She told him what to wear and eat , when to sleep or make love to her . In short , she had called the shots and Dan had let her . In all the years he had not had one really happy day because Anthea was always the boss . What she said went .
Idiom: do the trick (used idiomatically: no)
Hereford are staging something of a mini revival this year inching their way out of the gloom at the bottom of division three . All they need is a repeat performance of Owen Pickard winner , when they meet Darlington again tomorrow . And the side that drew against Barnet last Saturday , could be the one to do the trick . The winter sales may be coming to an end … but Gloucester 's rugby men are still looking for a few late bargains when they head north to Sale this weekend . In the meantime they 're tackling a new wave of defections .
Idiom: ring a bell (used idiomatically: yes)
I do n't particularly want to get involved in anything like that Yeah but I tell you what you know the mark two , have you ever displayed a coder and it rings , rings the bell when the intercom rings , rings the bell if the trunk 's designed to ring and all that , you know when you get the , you put a call on hold and it comes back and it goes brr , brr , brr , the bell starts going ding , ding , ding , a right noise and apparently that 's standard in the system I think that was a bit of an oversight to be honest with you So the , it 's not worth changing the data and the Not data to the
Idiom: make a move (used idiomatically: yes)
Karpov decided to enter an end game in the hope of relieving the pressure , but Short skilfully took control of the only open file on the board with both his rooks and activated the king and advanced his pawn majority on the queenside . Karpov , his position deteriorating fast , used up nearly all his thinking time trying to find a defence . At one point , Karpov had to make 10 moves in one minute to reach the time control at move 40 . With more skilful manoeuvring , Short surrounded Karpov 's king 's pawn and invaded with his rook . In the fifth hour of play , Karpov was reduced to shuffling his king to and fro as Short steadily improved his position .
Idiom: make ends meet (used idiomatically: yes)
Such people deserve legal protection . They deserve a role in our society that gives them a little more economic security and social dignity than is offered by the current outrageous employment practices . We know that many people in Britain who are on poverty wages , even if they are in more regular forms of work , simply can not make ends meet . The’ Breadline Britain’report quotes the words of a Liverpool housewife in a low - wage family . Talking about the reality of living on poverty wages , she said:’ The children , mainly , do n't get enough to eat ; things they need when they need them , like the shoes and the clothes .
Idiom: round the bend (used idiomatically: no)
The secret is to hit the edge of the top one with the steel - tipped back edge of your heels and travel all the way down just skimming each stair the same way . Too slow and you stop . Too fast and you lose your balance going round the bend . Around 12 miles an hour is about right , controlled by relaxed knees . Then , with sound like a rippling machine gun , arms outstretched and a face - splitting smile , you speed spectacularly towards the audience , a different light flashing magically as your heels lightly clip each step . The effect is stunning , like somebody racing at you on an escalator only much , much better . It is a skill I have honed on a host of beautiful staircases and , before tonight 's professional debut , my most singular success has been at a large hotel in Sloane Street where we just chose Miss London . The marble stairs to the entrance hall are just too perfect to ignore , with only a couple of people chatting on the right halfway down . I take the left hand course and soar down and round the gentle curve in nothing short of majestic style , allowing myself the luxury of a smile and a brief wave to the startled pair as I rattle by .
Idiom: rock bottom (used idiomatically: yes)
The education budget was cut by 19 per cent overall in January 1989 and a further 25 per cent in June . This cut was smaller than that imposed in some other sectors , but it none the less entailed over 7,000 job losses , including 2,400 teaching posts . Some cuts involved not filling posts left vacant by teachers discouraged by the rock - bottom pay and difficult conditions . Most of the other job losses were in support and supervisory staff . It also meant a 29 per cent cut in textbooks , and severe cuts in materials , supplies and maintenance as well as a reduction of training workshops for teachers .
Idiom: true blue (used idiomatically: yes)
Linfield are keen to get him ; so are their fans . The terraces may still be 100pc Protestant but they 're also 100pc behind their newly - cosmopolitan side . The predicted backlash from true - blue supporters has never materialised . If anything , the Windsor Park attendance figures have increased over the past year . And incidences of crowd trouble — which blighted the Belfast club for decades — have deteriorated .
Idiom: in no uncertain terms (used idiomatically: yes)
Moreover it had been enthusiastically received by the President of the Board of Trade , Mr Sydney Buxton , on whose friendship and support Wilson believed that he could rely . Buxton was not a man to be deterred by the shipowners ' protestations that the National Sailors ' and Firemen 's Union was not only unrepresentative of seamen but would fail " to command support in the event of a decision of a conciliation board which did not secure the immediate approval of the persons affected " . The employers were told in no uncertain terms that " when a favourable opportunity presented itself , he would " submit his proposition anew " . Against this background the terms of settlement of the 1911 strike indicated no more than a truce in the battle for the control of the supply of labour in the industry . There was no guarantee that it would lead to a new deal for the industry nor that , even as a compromise , it would hold against the tensions of a situation in which one side at least seemed determined to continue on a collision course .
Idiom: second nature (used idiomatically: yes)
It can help in cases of insomnia , high blood pressure , tension and heart conditions — to name but a few . Because breathing is something we do spontaneously , we very rarely think about it . If controlled breathing through your nose is not natural to you , it takes practice and concentration at first but it will soon become second nature — and you will feel better for it . Here is a simple exercise you can do which will help you to become aware of how your breathing should feel . If you practise it for just ten minutes each day , you will soon begin to notice the difference :
Idiom: step on someone's toes (used idiomatically: yes)
Soon Alison would know , the Carters would know , everyone would know , and once they knew they would cut me dead . My clever chat would avail me nothing in the face of the fact that I had chosen to ally myself with a woman who practically peed her pants at some salesman 's blue jokes . I just hoped Karen would n't go any further , that she would n't get so drunk that she tried to mount some leering admirer who happened to step on her toe by mistake . My speculations were cut short by the appearance of Karen herself at my elbow . ‘ You 've been talking a lot,’ she said aggressively .
Idiom: high and low (used idiomatically: no)
The appointment of a chaperone enabled four women teachers to accompany this early party which spent eight strenuous days completing walking climbs of twenty miles or so and evenings listening to lectures on Ruskin and places of interest . This element of self - improvement recurs throughout the accounts of working - class leisure organizations founded on principles of social concern and there is a clear overlap of membership with , for example , the Fabian Society and later in the century , the Workers ' Educational Association . A retrospective account written in 1937 gives the occupational composition of these pioneering groups : they were in the main teachers and shopkeepers , representing both high and low church — essentially the lower - middle classes . Although during the early years of the century the CHA attracted an increasing membership , Leonard was concerned at its failure to fulfil its founding aims . The main criticisms focused on the lack of progress in the provision of international holidays but principally on the fact that despite its founding objectives , to improve the lot of the exploited labouring classes , the Fellowship was becoming ‘ rather middle class in spirit , and conservative in ideas … .
Idiom: rank and file (used idiomatically: yes)
I had to ask him the way to the police station . Normal policing meant night - beat policing . For eight days on end , beat officers , half the rank - and - file establishment , saw little daylight . There are in this force a number of young men who have fixed hours of duty — 8.30 a.m. until 5.30 p.m. with every Sunday off . These men are comparatively young in the Service .
Idiom: jack of all trades (used idiomatically: yes)
The closer a head is to the classroom and the challenges confronting class teachers , the greater his or her opportunities for evolving policies which reconcile ideals with practical circumstances . The more extreme flights of rhetoric we encountered were almost always associated with managerial detachment from the classroom . The shift towards greater delegation , role specialization and collective decision - making in primary schools , and the emergence of what we have termed departmental , three - tier and matrix management structures , appears to be an inevitable and necessary consequence of the growing complexity of the work of primary schools and the diminishing currency of the ‘ jack of all trades’ view of the class teacher 's and head 's roles . However , if staff are to remain in touch with each other , and the head is to remain in touch with all staff , close attention needs to be paid to communication , and to ensuring that managerial procedures like school philosophies and policy statements remain rooted in day - to - day needs and realities rather than take on a life of their own . Thus , formal procedures are not so much an alternative as an adjunct to the informal collaboration which is such an important feature of the best primary schools ; and the part played by the head in securing the most productive mix of formal procedure and informal consultation / collaboration remains central .
Idiom: pull the wool over someone's eyes (used idiomatically: yes)
Others include ‘ Crazy : emotionally different and ‘ Book : processed tree carcass ’ . Non-sexist correct-speak turns brotherhood into siblinghood and ballboy into ballchild . So be careful you do n't pull the stolen non-human animal fibres ( wool ) over someone 's eyes or use the differently logical ( wrong ) word this Christmas . Urban Myths ( Virgin , £3.99 ) is a fun little stocking-filler of more than 200 tall tales that stretch truth to breaking point — like the one about the poodle in the microwave . Lists of the strange , the incredible , the improbable and the inevitable are always fun and Journolists ( Chapmans , £5.99 ) is probably the best .
Idiom: young blood (used idiomatically: no)
He also confounds his own dualistic zeal by recalling the wise words ( as one may truly think them ) of the dualistic mage Paracelsus : ‘ Be not another , if thou canst be thyself.’ In the literature of duality it is the outcast or victim who has dealings with a double , and in the second of the two novels Charles Wychwood is an outcast whose condition copies that of Thomas Chatterton , who committed suicide in 1770 at the age of 17 , having invented a medieval monk , Rowley , and written poems for him . Romantic poets were keen to vindicate Chatterton , and to cherish his untimely death as that of a sacrificial victim : here was a spilling of young blood that might have watered the purlieus of a church . Charles belongs , moreover , to a cast of outcasts , monsters , hustlers and impostors which composes a literary London reminiscent of the early novels of Muriel Spark , and far from brutally inauthentic . The queen of the authors is Harriet Scrope , novelist , plot - stealer , and ferocious egotist , whose war against the world she inhabits extends to her best friend and her cat .
Idiom: go to town (used idiomatically: yes)
Oh well that 's good then . First of March , I do n't know what to do . Well you go to town on them then . First of March ? Yeah .
Idiom: go to the wall (used idiomatically: yes)
I think this is a a matter for erm local consideration . Do you have any view on that one ? I do n't think I 'll go to the wall over eight , chairman . Thank you . I
Idiom: keep the peace (used idiomatically: yes)
” The aim is to keep the peace and generate goodwill , ” says Lieutenant ~ Colonel Andreas ~ Steffan from the Bundeswehr’s ~ Press ~ and ~ Information ~ Centre .
Idiom: go through the motions (used idiomatically: no)
In the 1820s the Swan turned up in another museum , run by a perfumier , Thomas Weeks of London . But in 1834 , Weeks sold the contents of his museum and the Swan disappeared once again until it emerged at the Paris Exhibition 33 years later . Visitors to Bowes can see the Silver Swan go through its ' elaborate motions ' twice a day as 12.30pm and 4 pm , just as it impressed Mark Twain more than a century ago . The museum also houses a stuffed creature dubbed Bowes ' answer to Dr Dolittle 's Push Me Pull You . The beast is about as big as a sheep and is described as : ' A freak of nature .
Idiom: watering hole (used idiomatically: yes)
There seems to be a market for every month in the TV and film industry , but the two MIPs are the biggest . MIPCOM and sister event MIP - TV are unwieldy events , attracting over five thousand registrants and hundreds of exhibitors . They all take place in a huge modernist building on the sea front of the ultimate business watering hole , Cannes . In the lead - up to MIPCOM , the tele - trade papers were full of dire warnings of the perils of MIPCOM for small independents — astronomical costs loomed as the principal concern . With costs around £ 700 per company for registration , before any promotional literature , accommodation , flights and living expenses , you can see the problem .