Gooogr/pie_idioms huggingface dataset:
Idiom: high and low (used idiomatically: yes)
Since the environmental rhythm is giving a time - cue to the organism it is called a zeitgeber ( from the German , Zeit — time ; geber — to give ) . Some time - cues affecting animals and plants are given in Table 2.1 . Mention must be made of those creatures that inhabit the inter - tidal zone , that is the region of the shore between high- and low - tides . Their life - style is dominated by the tides rather than the sun and they are adjusted to the tidal , not the solar , day . The important role of the environment in modifying behaviour , the external cause , has already been described .
Idiom: from A to Z (used idiomatically: yes)
It runs out of steam every now and again but generally gets re - fired.’ You 're obviously still a P - bass user after all this time … ‘ I 've been round the instrument circuit from A to Z , Alembic to Zon , and I always seem to come back to the P - bass , always . Unfortunately my original Precision got ripped off in a place called Redondo Beach . I can tell you the serial number — maybe someone will come up with it — L12304 , with a dragon on the front , crudely carved during a drunken night with Christine !
Idiom: bread and circuses (used idiomatically: yes)
‘ Race suicide is possible’ , exclaimed an anonymous commentator on ‘ Sport and Decadence’ in 1909 , while another author writing under the cloak of anonymity warned in 1912 of ‘ a canker at the heart of the people which will surely destroy it’ , believing that ‘ the first stage of decay has already been reached when the stolid , God - fearing puritan of two - and - a - half centuries ago has given place to the shallow , hysterical cockney of today’ . Apocalypse was in the air , and in strict accordance with the traditions of this connected history of fears of British decline , the ghosts of Rome were summoned to make their judgement . Writing on ‘ The Fall of the Roman Empire and Its Lessons for Us’ one author had already struck the easy notes of comparison in 1898 — the decline of the arts of soldiery and manliness , the financial oppression of the middle classes , subsidised food prices , bread and circuses ( that is , football ) and the recruitment of the barbarian ‘ lower races’into the imperial armies were all listed as forces ‘ which may tend to enervate and degrade us , to destroy our love of truth , to poison the fountains of family life’ . Baden - Powell was particularly fond of this extravagant , but nevertheless deeply felt historical posture , and he saw the shadow of Rome hanging over the huge crowds attending the football stadiums which he likened to the ‘ unmanly’ attitude of the young Romans who loafed around the circus entertainments —‘they paid men to play their games for them , so that they could look on without the fag of playing , just as we are doing in football now’— as he charged into battle against this betrayal of the British traditions of ‘ fair play’and sportsmanship : The pattern for these accusations had been set by the young Liberal Charles Masterman in The Heart of the Empire ( 1902 ) where he had thundered out his warning of inevitable decline as the result of the ‘ perpetual lowering in the vitality of the Imperial Race in the great cities of the Kingdom through over - crowding in room and in area’ : What was never entirely clear was whether it was merely a physical deterioration that was eating away at the ‘ Imperial Race’ , or if a moral decay was not also in evidence .
Idiom: marriage of convenience (used idiomatically: yes)
One such fundamental difference is that between fine art at one end of the spectrum and design at the other ; this has been defined in terms of objectives , so that whereas in design one is working towards a defined goal with aims that are clear from the outset , in fine art there may be no defined goal other than satisfying the artist 's inner demands . Clearly , the distinction is not always so apparent ; sometimes artists work as designers , and vice - versa . However , the differences are sufficient to make some lecturers feel that the linking of art and design is a marriage of convenience which would be better sundered , even to the extent of having separate departments . Fortunately , such a divorce is highly unlikely to occur and would , in any case , be undesirable , if only because art and design constitutes a single spectrum . The friction which has always existed between the two camps was made worse in the early 1970s when a number of colleges of art , some of them of considerable distinction , were swallowed up by polytechnics .
Idiom: on the house (used idiomatically: yes)
Her mind was divided between fear for her mother and worry about her father and Maureen and Tony , and she was immensely grateful that Helen was with her . When at last the All Clear sounded her mother was undisturbed by it , and so were the two little girls asleep on a bunk bed . Helen advised the women to leave the children asleep while they checked on their houses , and Jinny Bennet offered to stay with them and bring them home when they woke . ' I hope they 've still got a home , ' Helen whispered . ' I could n't believe it when I was walking here , Anne .
Idiom: full marks (used idiomatically: yes)
Fishbane 's bedroom is somewhat out of the way and near the lift , so that the ladies can be discreetly smuggled up there by Ramsbum . So whatever noises he and his friends make do n't disturb his colleagues , and the ferocious snoring of the Commander does n't penetrate the love - nest.’ ‘ Well , full marks for single - mindedness,’ said Milton . ‘ Short of having an operation , I think he 's dealt with his condition reasonably well.’ ‘ Unlike the Commander.’
Idiom: see eye to eye (used idiomatically: no)
we could also loose the lost chord of blackness , become head-on blind . The spectrum is our white tears and albino fear of light lurching in the blink of an eye , daring to see like a yes . RESURRECTION On the day that Jesus
Idiom: in the clear (used idiomatically: no)
A river , under the sea . The opposite bank showed dim as a cloud , two miles away or more . All the green of Undersea seemed to have fused in that clearest of emeralds ; it was as different from the drifting atmosphere as , in Ruth 's own world , water from air . ' Look not too long , mortal . ' It was Fand 's voice , low and warning .
Idiom: to boot (used idiomatically: yes)
‘ Daunbey , what 's all this?’ Mandeville grated . Now Benjamin had unmasked many a killer and brought numerous murderers to boot . Sometimes he played games , drawing the assassins into verbal battles in which they would confess . But this time it was different .
Idiom: kick up a fuss (used idiomatically: yes)
‘ British publishers have had it good for a long time . A hell of a long time . I am amazed that this practice has been allowed to go on for so long without anyone kicking up a fuss.’ Remaining on VAT alert Concerns that the threat of an imposition of VAT on books remains live were aired at the BA a.g.m . this week .
Idiom: old hat (used idiomatically: yes)
The only trouble with storylines like that is that life is for more complicated er we may want to see justice be done , we may want to see virtue being rewarded , we may want to see er all of those things happen , but when we make mistakes when we make mistakes , when we are not virtuous , we actually end up not being too keen , but justice should be applied straight away . We actually want mercy , we want forgiveness , we want leniency . I 've got on the tape here a song which is by Manny Fryer he used to sing in Steel Ice Band er now I know that that 's sort of very old hat , I 'm sorry , but I sort of live in the past and er this er I I believe also that these days so that er you know I can sort of justify that but this is a song that er she has sung which er reminds us that each of us has the potential to commit the crime I 'll try not to play it fast forward , let 's see how we go . .consider today and it 's two things . I 'm inviting you to consider how far a Christian should go in forgiving and to how far a Christian organisation like this school should go , in showing forgiveness er I just want to kick you off with one or two points on each of those .
Idiom: cook someone's goose (used idiomatically: no)
Seeing the British soldiers , the startled men sat and ate though they had just risen from a complete meal . ' Mary was a topper , ' McQuaid said with emotion . ' Only for Mary that day our goose was cooked . She was a bloody genius to think of giving the food to the men on the bank . She 's married to a carpenter in Dublin now .
Idiom: no two ways about it (used idiomatically: yes)
Because as I say people were that poor they they knew that they just could n't afford to er to get anything you know . Not unless they had the money to pay for it which they did n't have . Oh it was poor in them days there 's no two ways about it . It was . it was nothing for you to have the er sole of your sh shoe flapping off and having to wear 'em till the p there was a little man that used to mend the shoes in Hirael there and you 'd go to him and he 'd put a couple of nails , never charge you for it you know .
Idiom: with a vengeance (used idiomatically: yes)
Obscenity laws were used in the 1920s to ban Radclyffe Hall 's book , The Well of Loneliness . In the 1950s , anti - Communism and the ideology of the nuclear family combined to put women back in the kitchen and to launch a series of prosecutions of gay men which amounted to mass persecution . Evidence suggests that the fifties are back with a vengeance . Recent research by GALOP ( the Gay London Policing Group),Him magazine , Capital Gay and Gay Times shows that in 1989 , police in England and Wales arrested more men for consensual sex ( ' indecency between males ' ) than in any other year this century save for 1954 and 1955 . This is no accident ; it seems likely that it results from a deliberate policy decision taken somewhere on high .
Idiom: no man's land (used idiomatically: yes)
The Bosnian Muslims left Croatia yesterday on a flight for Tel Aviv after Israel accepted a plea from European Jews to help people fleeing the fighting in Bosnia . A WJC spokesman said in New York that Israel 's Council of Mayors of Arab Towns and Villages , which had originally agreed to resettle the Bosnians in two Arab villages , reversed their decision after coming under heavy pressure from the PLO . The spokesman , citing information received from Israel , said the PLO did not want Israel to look good in the world 's eyes for taking the refugees in , especially after having been widely criticised for recently expelling 400 Palestinians into a no man 's land in Lebanon . ‘ The PLO tried to sabotage the departure of the Muslims . They want to play chess using Bosnian Muslims as pawns,’ the WJC spokesman said .
Idiom: jack of all trades (used idiomatically: yes)
It was such a good story that some of those allrounders — you know , the chaps who cover everything from ice hockey to cricket , to snooker to racing to athletics — homed in on it . Normally termed as chief sports writers , and these days handicapped by colour mug shots appearing over their work , they appear wherever the going is toughest . The Daily Telegraph 's jack of all trades is Michael Calvin . Not prone to understatement , our Michael , as witness the opening paragraph of his colourful piece on the day Tendulkar took the field for the first time : The ghost of Lord Hawke failed to rise from the grave . The Four Horse Men of the Apocalypse apparently felt it inappropriate to arrive as a messenger of divine retribution .
Idiom: turn someone's head (used idiomatically: yes)
It all depends where I land.’ He stopped again and , taking her firmly now by the arm , pulled her into a shop doorway and , looking into her eyes , he said , ‘ If it was n't for leaving you I 'd be glad to go , and … and I thought you 'd be proud of me going.’ ‘ Oh , Joe’— she turned her head slowly to the side —‘don't start on that again ; you … you know nothing can come of it.’ ‘ Why not?’ ‘ Look , do n't be silly.’
Idiom: laughing stock (used idiomatically: yes)
We expect a lead from Westminster , not a vacuum left at Christmas or any other time of the year by a bunch of freeloaders . Top gear IN the days when the British car industry was a joke , one firm more than any was considered to be a laughing stock . It used to be called Austin-Morris but changed its name to British Leyland and then Rover . But under that title , it is suddenly prospering .
Idiom: catch fire (used idiomatically: yes)
Then she saw a thin trail of smoke rising from her sister 's clothing , and smelt the dry odour of smouldering cloth . She darted forward and saw at a glance what had happened . Susan had evidently found some coal and sticks and had lit the range ; then the heat had overcome her , and she had toppled over — and her jumper had caught fire . Breeze snatched up the first thing she could find — her own mackintosh , which she had been wearing earlier in the day — and with one swift movement covered that smouldering sleeve with the thick material . As she dragged Susan 's limp form away from the fire , she noticed with one part of her brain that a sheet of paper had just begun to burn .
Idiom: scratch the surface (used idiomatically: no)
Tin plating , why does that stop iron from rusting ? Erm tin does n't rust and it protects it from the air and water , you get 'em Stops the air and water getting to it so it ca n't rust , and then I mean this is pretty straight forward , if the tin surface is then scratched it will rust , why ? because it can get into contact with the Right , and why does n't this happen with zinc plating , galvanizing ?
Idiom: keep the peace (used idiomatically: yes)
It was the latter 's religious and political disaffection which took most of the county over to Parliament in the Civil Wars . Immediately , under the early Tudors , there were more pressing problems . While Henry VII had kept the peace and filled his treasury , Henry VIII had grandiose European ambitions and a passion for war . This eventually fostered the birth of Sussex gun - making but it meant an inevitable increase in local tension and a continued vulnerability to French attacks . Sussex provided both ships and men as well as money for Henry 's disastrous ventures , weakening the already frail economic health of its ports .
Idiom: way to go (used idiomatically: yes)
When added to the £ 10,000 pledged by the company to the 1993–94 Charity of the Year , this brings the total raised so far for Cancer Relief Macmillan Fund ( CRMF ) to £ 28,000 ! A truly remarkable achievement and one that demonstrates the enthusiasm with which Johnson Matthey has responded to the challenge . However there is still a long way to go and I would like to ask all Assay readers to keep the fund raising ideas and , most importantly , the money coming in ! Money has been rolling in from a very wide range of fund raising activities undertaken by JM sites and individuals around the country . We have also had support from our colleagues in Brussels ( see article on page 21 of this issue ) and I would like to take this opportunity to thank them for taking the lead and to appeal to Johnson Matthey sites around the world to take up the challenge .
Idiom: on the face of it (used idiomatically: yes)
The plaintiffs say that they accepted this loan on behalf of C.M.C. on the advice of the third defendant . ( 4 ) The third defendant concealed from the plaintiffs what is said to have been a false and fraudulent over - valuation of the bakery made in June 1983 by another of the alleged conspirators in order to support an even higher level of loan by B.M.T. ( 5 ) On 24 June 1983 B.M.T. offered to lend C.M.C. £ 420,000 on the security of the bakery in substitution for its previous offer to lend £ 185,500 . On 27 June 1983 this offer was purportedly accepted by C.M.C. , the acceptance being signed by the third defendant and , on the face of it , by the plaintiffs . It is said that neither of the plaintiffs actually signed this acceptance , their apparent signatures being forgeries made by a person or persons unknown on behalf of the conspirators or their connected companies . ( 6 ) In August 1983 the third defendant claimed from C.M.C. a commission of £ 16,000 for himself and £ 8,000 for Highdene in respect of certain commercial arrangements , not involving the bakery , negotiated between C.M.C. and B.M.T. It is said that this claim led the other directors of C.M.C. to investigate the third defendant 's activities and to dismiss him as a director of C.M.C. ( 7 ) Between May and July 1983 the third defendant caused the first plaintiff to sign in blank some cheques drawn on C.M.C. 's bank account by fraudulently representing that these cheques would be used to pay small and urgent bills of C.M.C. It is said that in fact the third defendant used six of these cheques to pay to himself and certain other parties sums amounting to about £ 30,000 , allegedly in connection with the financing of the centre .
Idiom: pull a face (used idiomatically: yes)
Do n't get mad . We both know what went on just now — do n't we ? ' He tipped up her chin so she had to look him in the eyes but she pulled her face away . ' It was just foolishness , the kind of thing people do at your age . You made a mistake and you wo n't do it again .
Idiom: out of sight (used idiomatically: no)
The former cabinet minister says Neil Kinnock is trying to convince voters he 's brushed aside Socialism , while left - wing policies are still lurking beneath Labour 's new tablets of stone . And at a fringe meeting of the Conservative Conference in Bournemouth , Mr Heseltine used biblical rhetoric to hammer home his warning . I would say with you to the good Lord ' spare me from Mr Kinnock 's gaze , hold on tight to the tablets of stone less they should fall upon this hapless servant 's head , may there be no rock so small that I can not shelter behind it out of Mr Kinnock 's sight ' . World snooker champion , Steven Hendry has paid out ten thousand pounds to get back a cue stolen from him . It was taken from his hotel room in Reading last night , where he 's taking part in the Rothmans Grand Prix Championships .
Idiom: easier said than done (used idiomatically: yes)
Over the doorway of a fine Georgian house called Knockhill in Scotland , there is the following line carved in stone : ‘ Too Small for Envy , for Contempt too Great’ . This aptly describes the houses in this book , which were built on the whole by country gentry , tradesmen and clergymen , on a moderate scale , rather than by the aristocracy , who liked to flaunt their aesthetic views and show how cultivated they were on a much larger one . Finding the perfect English house was easier said than done . At the outset , my criterion was that each house should be unadulterated and purely of its time . It was easy enough to find Victorian and Edwardian houses which had not been changed a jot , but with houses of earlier periods it became increasingly difficult .
Idiom: out of line (used idiomatically: no)
As Just One of the Chorus good timing 's all you need Oh I 'd be fine if you had n't pulled me out of line To dance your female lead . Oh look at us ,
Idiom: in the loop (used idiomatically: no)
It seems likely that examples of such flows will multiply in coming years . Thus , although some of the topics are outside the main scope of this book , we look briefly at this matter in this section . Firstly , it is worth noting that if the Lorenz equations ( Section 24.2 ) are considered as modelling convection in a loop ( Figs . 17.4 , 17.5 ) , then the chaotic solutions of the equations do not correspond to turbulent flow in the loop . They correspond to chaotic fluctuations of the whole circulation . The question of whether the flow becomes turbulent ( as Poiseuille flow becomes turbulent , Sections 2.6 , 18.3 ) is distinct .
Idiom: take it easy (used idiomatically: yes)
Are you taking more time as you go along ? I mean there 's no reason why you should n't take longer if you 're intending to take longer because you want to enjoy the , the view . Er are you feeling in the mood to take it easy ? Er sometimes I , I 'm , I get a lot , a lot of things on , I have at the moment , an awful lot of things on , so everything is you know getting in a p a tight path and fast , so I deliberately thoroughly enjoy taking my dog and wandering along in the park . And I 'm going as slow as I can go and I 'm just taking everything in , and I 'm unwinding , I 'm relaxing mentally and physically as I do it because that 's what I feel I need at the moment , and having that ability is good .
Idiom: smart alec (used idiomatically: yes)
Surprised , it took her a moment to find something to say . ' Because you told me . ' But underneath her smart - alec answer she could see a mental picture of the wolf . Jezrael swung herself breathless over a bar of rock and down into the wind - shadow of a huge erratic that faced the sharp - cut sunrise . ' Because he 's all tensed up .
Idiom: full of beans (used idiomatically: yes)
Says Mrs Cunningham : ‘ Once they get in the playground the children seem to reel off the jokes non - stop . ‘ They are a lovely bunch of youngsters who enjoy a giggle with their friends . ‘ They always seem to be cheerful and full of beans … I do n't think you 'll find a more fun school in the whole of Merseyside!’ We met 30 of the school 's young jokers and had to admit that the children and staff at Mother Theresa 's are a very funny lot .
Idiom: have been around (used idiomatically: yes)
This is the project on which astronomers in the US can pin their hopes , for it will undoubtedly be the single most important telescope of the 1980s . The only other major satellite ‘ on course’ is the Gamma Ray Observatory . Few ‘ moderate missions’ are definite either , despite proposals that have been around for many years . The smaller projects lack the glamour that the American public and politicians have come to associate with the word ‘ space’ ; and the larger missions are too expensive for NASA operating on a Reagan - sized budget . For years , American X - ray astronomers have been pushing for an Advanced X - ray Astrophysics facility ( AXAF)which would have better sensitivity and resolution of detail , than all other X - ray telescopes presently planned .
Idiom: be my guest (used idiomatically: yes)
' Does it ? You should borrow him one of these times . Be my guest . ' They slept for a while , they got the other bottle , they swam , they talked and sighed , Jessica scanned the Fahan shore for a friendly sail , they slept again . Karen had moved from P.D.
Idiom: go all the way (used idiomatically: no)
Lot of marks going for it , dead ea And again it 's a s it 's a joy to do this sort is n't it . Yeah . Cos you can see where you 're going all the way through , Yeah . you know that you know it it 's nice
Idiom: off the wall (used idiomatically: yes)
They look rather nice do n't they ? great grandfather a big house before he was married his employer pictures off the wall and gave them to him Gosh as a wedding present
Idiom: have a few (used idiomatically: yes)
Hence if you have a few shapers you might have noticed the tendencies in the group group discussion that we had because there 'll be people digging in and saying no this is the right way to do it . No I 'm right and you 're wrong , and you can tell very very clearly when you have a shaper within a group . One shaper in a group is n't too bad , more than one shaper in a group you start having a few problems . The plant is not somebody that sits there and grows The plant is somebody that comes up with ideas constantly .
Idiom: on someone's mind (used idiomatically: no)
It would never occur to him to cook himself anything . Well , he would just have to wait . She had more pressing things on her mind . As she prepared the vegetables , she heard the front door open . Thinking it was Maura and Carla she called out : ‘ I 'm in here , lovelies.’
Idiom: do the trick (used idiomatically: yes)
Did he Probably , you know , lack of self confidence or something like that . But it did the trick . Yes . Did he have other pebbles er which had other cures ?