Gooogr/pie_idioms huggingface dataset:
Idiom: on the level (used idiomatically: no)
They will all tend to put a stress on the system and depending on our health or susceptibility we will be affected to a greater or a lesser degree . On the emotional level , stresses come in many different forms ; such as problems in relationships , with family or the grief from the death of a loved one . On the mental level we may experience stresses from business problems and financial worries , the pressure of examinations and so on . Frequently the stresses involve a combination of these different levels . Natural healing powers
Idiom: get lost (used idiomatically: yes)
The free trade agreement with the US is seen as significant , and UK publishers with American English lists look set to benefit . Guy Gerlach 's relocation to Brazil indicates Heinemann 's commitment to the region , but Brazil itself is variously described as ‘ static’ , ‘ highly complicated’ and ‘ a nightmare’ . With inflation running at 600 % , it remains a market in which it is all too easy to get lost . In contrast , Argentina 's inflation is a mere 6 % , and what was once ( before the war ) many publishers ' favourite market is now back in business . ‘ It 's booming,’ says Guy Gerlach , and recent visitors agree .
Idiom: hit the road (used idiomatically: yes)
Hitting the ball low and passably straight off the tee is vital , then comes the difficult bit ! The superb greens are generally small , with the exception of a clutch of eye - catching par-3s , each with a huge raised green surrounded by trouble . As Lee Trevino might say , here you either hit the greens or hit the road , unless you have a Ballesteros - type short game to get out of jail , often from tight lies to elevated greens slick as a marble staircase . This is a cracking links — a hidden gem of British golf with a homeward loop ( 3,240 yards form the medal tees ) that will curl your hair . Do n't miss it .
Idiom: win the day (used idiomatically: no)
Many members of the Admiralty were furious with their First Lord when the temporary appointment was ratified on November 28 , but Churchill did not give a fig . He knew , as they did not , of Enigma and of Ultra . Stewart Menzies was master of the key that might one day win the war . Long before Quex died , however , Edward Carrington had discovered better reasons than inter - service rivalry and backstabbing to make him doubt the quality of the organization he had been so proud to join . He was interviewed by Menzies — still as the deputy — in the second week of September , and taken out of a class in pistol shooting for the occasion .
Idiom: send someone packing (used idiomatically: yes)
‘ Beautiful,’ Agnes snorted . ‘ And just where would you wear them , Sadie Dale , eh ? Mr Crum would dismiss ye on the spot if you presented yourself at the warehouse wearing those … those … dancing girls’ things … probably send me packing as well if I was along with you.’ ‘ Oh but they are beautiful,’ Sadie replaced them on the tray with a look of longing . The earring - maker paused at his work and smiled at them .
Idiom: put someone in mind of (used idiomatically: yes)
The determination Alexander demonstrated as a war - leader undoubtedly resurfaced on a number of occasions after Russia made peace , but explaining the emancipation of the serfs by depicting him as a latter - day Peter the Great oversimplifies Russian politics between 1855 and 1861 and says almost nothing about the shape of the emancipation settlement . Although Alexander lent his authority to domestic reforms , it is unwise to think of him as a daring pilot in extremity . When , as tutor to the heir to the throne , Chicherin saw a good deal of the royal family in 1864 , the tsar put him in mind of a major in the army . " Where did all those great actions come from , " Chicherin wondered , " which transformed the Russian land and changed its direction overnight ? " Not really from the sovereign .
Idiom: sign of the times (used idiomatically: yes)
Devaluation increased the vulnerability of the dollar , although the seriousness of the situation did not become fully apparent until 1971–73 . At least the easing of the Cold War lessened Anglo - American tensions over trade with communist countries . It was another sign of changing times when the British from 1967 began to embark upon more joint defence procurement programmes with the Europeans — notably the multinational collaborative effort which produced the Tornado fighter - bomber . The precariousness of personal ties was demonstrated by the gradual reduction in the numbers of those in positions of influence in both countries who had gone through the great co - operative experience of the Second World War and the early stages of the Cold War . Devaluation , the retreat from Suez and Vietnam had , of course , provided the main shocks to the relationship in the 1960s .
Idiom: as good as new (used idiomatically: yes)
We have bought an Aga , and intend to have central heating , probably oil - fired , as well as open fires . Inside , the walls have been damp - proofed by injection and I have re - layed the stone floor flags myself . In the big front room the flags were as good as new — no wear at all— and Hannah told me it had only been used for funerals and pig - killings . I knew that Hannah had experienced problems with rodents so I expected to find rat runs and nests underneath the flags , but only mice had been there . I have only seen two rats , and they were both outside the house and both dead .
Idiom: get stuck in (used idiomatically: yes)
He took his top fifty officers to a resort to hold their annual financial planning meeting . Though it started out just like their usual meetings , he wanted this year to be different . He was concerned that they were getting stuck in a rut and that he was not getting much creative thinking , though his company needed innovation for survival . He made the point symbolically . Halfway through his talk , the meeting was suddenly interrupted by a cadre of men dressed as prison guards ; these rather realistic toughs burst into the room , grabbed everybody there , and took them out to a set of waiting helicopters , which flew the bewildered executives off to a second meeting site .
Idiom: in someone's pocket (used idiomatically: yes)
‘ I 'm having it,’ said Nutty , barging his way in to the dining - room . ‘ You wo n't like it , it 's spaghetti,’ I told him as I put the pot on the table and went to fetch the tomato sauce . ‘ I can go fishin ' with it,’ he said , stuffing it in his pockets , ‘ I 've used all my maggots.’ ‘ Just look what a mess you 're making — I 've got to clean that up.’ ‘ Yer gettin ' worse than them poncin ' polecats , Carrie,’ he complained .
Idiom: once and for all (used idiomatically: yes)
And I never went to see Arafat since 1982 because we had not heard of any mood or climate of change in the attitude of the PLO . The moment I heard there were rumours that the PLO is willing to be more moderate , that 's when I went on the first plane and went to Tunis . ‘ Having seen him about six times , and having spoken to most of their leaders , I believe that the time is right for us to talk to them now , to end this whole conflict once and for all . All other things which are done instead of talking are a waste of time , are being used as excuses to delay the whole process , and will bear no fruit whatsoever , except the killing which is going on every day … I refuse to stand by and do nothing.’
Idiom: up and running (used idiomatically: no)
Their joint efforts will be known collectively as CDE , the Common Desktop Environment . As reported briefly ( CI No 2,115 ) , initial agreement is expected to establish a standard for installing Unix software from within graphical user interfaces . The X / Open Co Ltd - compliant specification , known as the Distributed Format for Desktop Architecture , DFDA , and contributed by IXI Ltd , will provide a standard set of techniques for independent software vendors to write to , enabling users to get Unix applications up and running from an install icon within a variety of graphical environments without resort to shell commands . With the support of IBM and Hewlett - Packard now apparently secure — despite their other endeavours , see below — an announcement is expected at the UniForum show in a couple of weeks . SUNSOFT TO OPEN A SOFTWARE DEVELOPMENT CENTRE IN DUBLIN
Idiom: on the level (used idiomatically: no)
He will actually be able to hear any noises which may occur — a telephone ringing or the traffic in the road outside — but those noises are unlikely to impinge on his consciousness or to interrupt his train of thought . They will merely form part of the background . The medium trance is the best one for any treatment requiring regression , as it will be possible for the patient to relive past experiences on a more realistic level , whether seeing and hearing what takes place or being able to describe it as a spectator . Deep trance ( also known as somnambulistic trance ) This level can only be attained by about 5–10 per cent of the population .
Idiom: in living memory (used idiomatically: yes)
Their other recent acquisition , the Manx Independent , is also performing well with massive increase in pagination and quality of content and reproduction . ‘ Advertising revenue has held well over the last year and we now see some small signs of an upturn after three years of recession,’ he explained . ‘ The weekly papers in the province seem to have come through the worst recession in living memory relatively unscathed . Few titles have closed and some have even been launched,’ he added . There are no major changes in circulations in the province which are traditionally very strong .
Idiom: part company (used idiomatically: yes)
Eliot scribbled a reference to Frazer 's treatment of such experiences in The Golden Bough . By February 1915 , he was sending Aiken ‘ Suppressed Complex’ , a poem about a soul - like shadow dancing in the firelight of a woman 's room , before passing out of the window . In 1916 Eliot recalled ‘ Tylor 's dreaming aborigine who finds that his soul in sleep can part company with his body and roam the forests … ‘ . In ‘ The Hollow Men’ , the concept of wandering souls would link anthropology and the romantic world of Dowson with his hollow lands
Idiom: below the belt (used idiomatically: yes)
Her lips went white . ‘ perhaps , Mr Prentice , as you 're obviously out of work , it would be better if you took a course in housekeeping.’ That was below the belt , but instead of stopping there while she was still in one piece , she drove on in a high , hectoring voice , ‘ Do n't you think your daughter deserves a little rest instead of going home to slave for you after she 's been working all week?’ Joy shrank behind her father , praying that she could disappear altogether . ‘ What 's it to you ? ’ he said in a low tone .
Idiom: fall on deaf ears (used idiomatically: yes)
David would not intervene , she knew that now . Neither the old man nor the boy heeded a word she said . She had tried everything … appealing to common sense , persuasion , threats … but it all fell on deaf ears . Now , as on other occasions , David had scoffed at her fears . All she could do was to keep vigilant , and to hope against hope that Matthew would soon tire of the old man , or that the old man would soon tire of deliberately using the boy in order to antagonise her .
Idiom: from scratch (used idiomatically: yes)
A woman from Texas saw that there was a growing for advice for the police , probation service and private monitoring companies about in - house arrest , the American name for electronic tagging . It 's her job to point out ways the system can be used to everyone 's advantage . probation officer with the state in Texas and they decide they want a trial at monitoring and they ask if I would be interested and so we begin the programme , the first in - house operative programme in Texas , and we set up our programme from scratch and started just kind of working on trial and error trying to make the thing worked . What I have always said is that way you set up supervision behind the programme is the most crucial , so therefore if I can sit down and help them to set up the most strenuous type of supervision to go along with the equipment , then they feel safe and the community feel safer that none of them will go out and commit another crime . The British Government is eager to try out new methods for dealing with remand prisoners .
Idiom: on edge (used idiomatically: yes)
Topkapi , Turkey . The history of the Topkapi site of Türk - Hoechst began in 1965 with the construction of a facility for synthetic resin dispersions production and one for pharmaceutical manufacturing on a site covering some 40,000 square ~ meters on the edge of Istanbul .
Idiom: life and limb (used idiomatically: yes)
It 's not yet known if any inmates have been killed apart from the remand prisoner Derek White who died yesterday in hospital . McVicar who was involved in riots and rooftop protests at Durham and Chelmsford Jails says the army should have stormed the prison to save sex offenders being picked on by rioters . Some of them have not been found guilty , and albeit they have been charged with horrendous crimes they are still innocent people and it does n't matter even if they are not innocent people , the Government still has a responsibility to life and limb and really I ca n't see any case at all for not storming . Waddington really stands indicted for this . What would be the motive for continuing the siege any longer ?
Idiom: at a stretch (used idiomatically: yes)
Thomas Sachs stressed the final word a little . ' She would n't even speak to her when I first rang your home . ' Jacob looked away , out of the window at the stretch of blue winter sky above the uniform roofs of the Park Avenue apartment blocks . He had been half - afraid something like this might happen . He had n't acted quickly enough .
Idiom: marching orders (used idiomatically: yes)
You 're a foreigner here . No one wants you , no one likes you , no one needs you . If you have n't got your marching orders yet it just means no one can be bothered to tell you what 's happening any more ! Now kindly fuck off out of here and do n't come back.’ When Zen reached the gate the security guard was back in his place , but he was so intent on the spluttering exclamations of his walkie - talkie , cradling it to his face and murmuring to it like a mother trying to calm a baby , that Zen 's departure went as unremarked as his arrival .
Idiom: run riot (used idiomatically: yes)
BLANK screens in France this week should serve as a gentle warning for anyone tempted to write blank cheques for a seat at Britain 's Channel 5 television licence auction . France 's Channel 5 — La Cinq — abandoned its fight to survive just as the Independent Broadcasting Authority opened bidding for the new British station with a warning of the commercial risk . Risk ran riot at La Cinq , which was finally switched off after being beaten by losses of more than £ 100 m and shareholders ' refusal to throw any more good money on to its airwaves . The station was the product of French television deregulation five years ago , but it never established the audience size or advertising to sustain its costs and the debt that its owners had taken on to launch it . Established media groups like Hachette , publishers of Elle magazine , failed to make it a commercial success .
Idiom: come unstuck (used idiomatically: yes)
Hybrids comprised a whole gamut of deformities . If taken for a hybrid , could she really fool a Stealer brood , or their Patriarch , over a period of time ? Maybe , thought Jaq , that was where the Callidus experiment had come unstuck … if indeed it had come unstuck . ‘ That 's … the woman we share quarters with?’ Googol 's voice was filled with black wonder , with a fearful admiration , a certain desolation of the heart , and yes , a horror that nevertheless coursed thrillingly through his nerves .
Idiom: lay an egg (used idiomatically: yes)
Try walking about in Asia , Africa or South America . An appreciation of the unspeakable dangers that could face us if we did n't live in a country full of cuddly things interested only in eating each other helps put our fear of midges into perspective . In some other far - flung continents not even the plants can be trusted to leave your flesh intact , and exotic colourful insects that would make us reach for our cameras here land on your arm and lay eggs in it . Of course we were n't always so lucky in Scotland . There were brown bears here as recently as the 10th century , and the last wolf was hunted down and killed in the 18th century .
Idiom: sleep rough (used idiomatically: yes)
I hear young people ask why they can not find homes . One of the reasons for their homelessness is that the Prime Minister , when he had ministerial responsibility for social security , changed the rules and regulations . The young people who sleep rough in the streets of London have the Prime Minister to thank for having only £ 31 a week income support . We all know that £ 31 buys next to nothing in London now . Homelessness has more than doubled in London in the past decade .
Idiom: out of the box (used idiomatically: yes)
ESP 's and Martin 's method gives you a greater length of fret to play over , and lessens the chances of the strings falling over the edges when using the kind of vib that Kirk sometimes does . Also , the neck is so straight that the frets have needed hardly any dressing at all . I would n't change a thing on this guitar ; the nut height and the overall action is fine and , most surprising of all , this is a factory setup , straight off the boat and out of the box . The inclusion of a very attractive volute behind the nut is a major improvement , since it puts back the wood that the bolt - through locking nut removes . I also like the accessibility of the truss rod cover screw , all too often hidden behind the strings on spiky - headed guitars .
Idiom: go halves (used idiomatically: yes)
Shogun , having come off best in a bout of shoving with Day Comet , was making ground up the rails when Reiff moved Craganour over to lean on Aboyeur , causing the outsider to swerve to the left and cut off Shogun 's run on the inside . Again Frank Wootton on Shogun tried to get through , and again Aboyeur cut him off . Now Craganour had gone half a length up , but Aboyeur fought back as Piper sought to straighten him by taking his whip in his left hand and applying it liberally . But this caused Aboyeur to veer away from the rails and collide with Craganour , carrying him out towards the centre of the course and interfering with the finishing runs of Nimbus — who had been far enough back at Tattenham Corner for his jockey to have seen the suffragette incident — and Great Sport , both coming up the stands side . Reiff retaliated by trying to push the favourite back on to Aboyeur , and as the two went past the post Craganour was a head up , with Louvois just behind in third and Great Sport fourth .
Idiom: to the hilt (used idiomatically: yes)
But I mean I feel sorry for young mums now because there 's no way if they take on these mortgages they can have a family Right , yeah now that is wrong because nobody should be committed so much to the hilt that they ca n't have a family Yeah and choose a life , it 's all going in bricks and mortar and the not
Idiom: by and large (used idiomatically: yes)
Yes . there are , there are very very few who are chasing women or men and there are very very few who are er requiring to be prised out of the bar erm at two o'clock in the morning . There are very very few who are er interested in finding a gambling haunt or a , you know , television or film theatre or whatever , you know , er er by and large there are a lot of people who chat to a waitress if they 're a bloke or , or chat to the , the whatever it is if they 're girls but er in , in a , in a friendly way , who will have a drink but will not be paralytically drunk , who may watch television or a , you know , film or theatre or something if it 's appropriate but wo n't get twitched if it is n't , you know , and and by and large erm all the people we 've , we 've , we 've , we 've come across I came across before have been very very good company and it is , it is delightful to have the have you , cos have you been on a Si on a Signpost ? Yes a Signpost holiday , yeah Yeah .
Idiom: get the nod (used idiomatically: yes)
Fleet has already said it expects $ 350 m a year of cost savings . Bank of America would have brought extra competition that threatened to remove the surplus capacity the unpleasant way — by sending some other bank to the wall . Fleet / Norstar got the nod over the larger Bank of Boston for two reasons . First , it is stronger and better managed . Though it also has been scarred by the decline of the region 's economy and property markets — it lost $ 48.5 m last year , mainly because of bad property loans — it has suffered less than Bank of Boston .
Idiom: on board (used idiomatically: no)
What follows is really two stories , one suspense , one human interest — how Lenny gets on with his brother , and what happens to the escaped prisoner . Caroline Scott 's circular set , with its floor patterned like a spiralling cockle shell , flanked by two ascending balustrades , is simple but evocatively conjures up the lighthouse , while at the same time providing an interesting setting for the action to work in and whirl around . Liz Carruthers 's inventive direction makes full use of this exciting space , while also taking on board an eclectic mix of theatrical styles , notably miming and human sound effects of the Whose Line is it Anyway variety , entirely appropriate here to McKay 's comic style . Together with well balanced performances from each of the four actors , this makes an amusing and untaxing night at the theatre . Robert Alstead
Idiom: in the can (used idiomatically: yes)
IF YOU like the flavour of Aqua Libra , try the new more herby and tart Aqua Libra Dry . It is available in 75cl bottles from supermarkets , health food shops and selected off - licences for around £ 1.79 . The original is also in new slimline cans for around 89p . IF YOU prefer fizz without buzz , Tesco has added four drinks to its range of light wine cocktails . Cassis Fizz , Summer Fruit Fizz , Tropical Fruit Fizz and Bucks Fizz are low in alcohol and cost £ 1.99 a bottle .
Idiom: for the time being (used idiomatically: yes)
With France and the Habsburgs now allies ( see p. 296 ) the pivot on which the old system turned had disappeared . The tradition of Anglo - Austrian co - operation against France , wearing thin in the time of Walpole and strained unbearably by the peace settlement of 1748 , was also submerged by the events of the 1750s . Prussia had established , at least for the time being , her position as one of the great European powers ; and the personal prestige of her ruler stood higher than that of any other European monarch . The Habsburgs had been stung by the loss of Silesia into a series of far - reaching administrative reforms , while Russia had once more displayed her military strength and had consolidated her dominant position in Poland . The result of these changes was to move the centre of gravity of European diplomacy sharply to the east after 1763 .
Idiom: behind the scenes (used idiomatically: yes)
We are committed to the highest safety and environmental standards and put great store by the contractual arrangements in place for the return of wastes . Mr. Brian Wilson ( Cunninghame , North ) Does the Minister accept that the vast majority of people in Scotland recognise and understand international obligations , and that the whole problem of the Iraqi contract arose from a feeling that something was being put through behind the scenes ? Does he agree that , rather than arguing about what should be done at Dounreay , where a great deal of expertise is available , we should argue for open government ; and that , in that respect , a lesson can be learnt for the future ? Mr. Heathcoat - Amory