Gooogr/pie_idioms huggingface dataset:
Idiom: get stuck into (used idiomatically: yes)
Then , Joyce added , there were shouts of , ‘ Mosley ! Let 's get the bastard!’ and ‘ Come on , lads ! Let 's get stuck into them!’ At that moment , like the cavalry to the rescue , the main body of Blackshirts arrived to extricate the beleaguered group in Warwick Street . There was ‘ a general melee and blows were struck.’
Idiom: down the road (used idiomatically: yes)
Yeah , he 's not pulling in for me , he 's pulling in for himself I think actually . Well he 's pulling in , full stop and if he can see where he 's going , well good on him lad , it 's okay left Mind you I could park it down the road could n't I ? Oh yes , there 's room Well still going
Idiom: hit the mark (used idiomatically: yes)
Well I must admit that I think I 'd find it a real struggle to cut wheat out of my diet . Me too , but good luck for the time being Susan . We 'll catch up with her continued efforts in a few weeks time when Zoe Muir reviews the progress of all our healthy lifestylers as they hit the three month mark . Time for a break now , but lots more to come . What to do with the kids for holidays next year ?
Idiom: in the long term (used idiomatically: yes)
If you are taking any medicines in syrup form , ask your doctor if he can prescribe a sugar - free alternative . Artificial sweeteners can be used if required ( see p 334 ) , but it is best to break the ‘ sweetness addiction’ altogether if possible . Total abstinence from any sweeteners can cure a sweet tooth permanently — which is much better in the long term . After a few weeks on an unsweetened diet , it is remarkable how disgusting anything sugary tastes . Stay on this diet for at least a month .
Idiom: turn the corner (used idiomatically: no)
I could have been Well never mind I do n't know how I managed to turn the corner without bumping into something ! I do n't how blooming I do n't even know how the blooming gears work ! You 're not the only one !
Idiom: on the face of it (used idiomatically: yes)
These other approaches for the most part reflect a leading feature of most twentieth - century philosophy — the revolt against Absolute Idealism of the Hegelian type , with its tendency to downgrade the individual , the personal , and the historical in favour of the ideal and impersonal . The revolt itself has taken many forms , and issued in a variety of quite different conceptions of what philosophy itself is about . On the face of it there are more contrasts than resemblances between , for example , the brand of empirical and then linguistic philosophy which has predominated in England in recent decades , the existentialist thought which has led the way in western Europe , and the critical reflection on human history and society on a broadly Marxist basis which has naturally held sway in communist countries , but more recently come more to the fore in the west as well . Yet each in its own way reflects the rejection of the abstraction and impersonality of Absolute Idealism , and the endeavour to relate philosophy more concretely to the textured fabric of human life and experience . Marxism and Existentialism have exercised the greatest influence upon theology , while in addition the general question of how far theology should permit itself to be influenced by philosophy has also been given a good deal of attention .
Idiom: one of those things (used idiomatically: yes)
Yeah , that 's fine , I just wanted to confirm that that was okay That 's okay It 's one of those things that sort of sort of puts a little query in your mind and You have a blind sometimes do n't you ? And
Idiom: white hat (used idiomatically: yes)
‘ Mamá , Abuelo , aqui esta mi señora ! ’ Constance 's grip almost stopped the circulation in Shelley 's arm as they paused in front of the Freitas family . The old lady , her white hat with its red rose trembling , looked into the eyes of the old soldier , Felipe Freitas . His look was interested at first , but something in her made him look again . There was a look of great disbelief on the old face , turning slowly to realisation .
Idiom: go without saying (used idiomatically: yes)
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Idiom: in a fog (used idiomatically: yes)
OVERLEAF : Looking east along Loch Laggan It was an amazing frosty morning , with a strange , silent mist hanging only a few hundred feet high . My heart sank at the prospect of yet again missing the top in the thick fog , but we had a great treat in store . We left the path , shrouded in a beautiful and eerie veil of mist , coloured pink with the rising sun , and clambered up the hillside towards the ridge of Cairn Liath . My friend was about 50 feet above me and almost out of sight in the fog , when I heard him yell at me to ' come and see this ' .
Idiom: take stock (used idiomatically: yes)
The Irish professional I was partnering needed a caddie for the tournament , since his usual man had not turned up . I was between jobs , and I actually had enough to tide me over while I had a sabbatical . At the ripe old age of twenty - six , I had half - decided to take stock of my life so far and try to decide what to do . ‘ Of course , I agreed to carry his bag like a shot , and the Irish golfer gave me some very basic instruction in my duties over a couple of pints of the dark stuff from his native land . I enjoyed the experience immensely , since it opened my eyes , a little , to the huge differences between top amateur and top professional golf .
Idiom: in the flesh (used idiomatically: yes)
Not that peculiar , was she?’ Tony still studied the poster . ‘ I 'd have loved to have seen her in the flesh . There 's nothing quite like real theatre . That feeling of … of being part of it all.’
Idiom: head south (used idiomatically: yes)
It 's brilliant under mist . Aspirant hippies will find that Glastonbury makes a good base to take day walks from ( after having stocked up on crystals ) . Start an afternoon 's walk from the town centre and head south to the River Brue and Kennard Moor . Circle round to approach the town from the east and climb the Tor on your way back to base . Non - hippies may prefer to take the cathedral town of Wells as a base .
Idiom: turn something on its head (used idiomatically: no)
Mad about Minis By Ray Kelly MINI - MAD Merseysiders hope to turn the old squeeze - into - a - car record on its head next week . The madcap motorists plan to see how many Minis they can squeeze on to a ferry . The club is revving up a grand welcome for four - wheel fans from all over Britain .
Idiom: have a heart (used idiomatically: no)
An eighty - year - old aristocrat recorded his devastation when , on his wife 's death , his town house was sold and his Norfolk home passed on to his son . ' I felt a homeless wanderer on the earth … . My daughters , as well as many of my friends , wished me to visit them , but I had no heart for any society … . I was ill as well as desolate , and all I wanted was to hide my wretchedness from everyone . ' Before long he ' could not stand the horrid hotels all by myself …
Idiom: in the same breath (used idiomatically: yes)
A very different book , much more idiosyncratic in its structure and its procedures , is the one of 1938 called in the American printing Culture , and iii the London edition Guide to Kulchur . This is not a work of criticism though it contains much criticism along the way , and of the first order — for instance , Pound 's respectful demurrer from the high valuation that Eliot had put on Johnson 's Vanity of Human Wishes . Guide to Kulchur gives us Pound at his most personal , at his most deliberately vulnerable ; it is here that we find him wondering aloud , for instance , if the body of his work to that date could be mentioned in the same breath with Thomas Hardy 's . Three years before this , Yale University Press had brought out in a very handsome volume called Make It New seven essays representing Pound 's criticism at its most scholarly , on such recondite topics as Cavalcanti , and Elizabethan Classicists , and early translations of Homer . Pound 's point , of course , in these essays reprinted from magazines and from earlier collections like Pavannes & Divisions ( 1918 ) or Instigations ( 1920 ) , is that these matters that we think of as recondite should not be so regarded .
Idiom: break new ground (used idiomatically: yes)
The first picture disappeared in the Indian Mutiny , but a copy by Robert Home , known as the Ashwick version , survives in Cannes . The second version was lost at sea in about 1788 , so Christie 's Cockfight must be a third rendering — repainted , once Zoffany was back in England after 1788/89 , for Warren Hastings , the East India Company administrator in Bengal — bearing out the later inscription ‘ Cock fight at Lucknow painted by Zoffany ( circa 1790)’ on the bottom of the painting . FRENCH auctioneer Jean - Louis Picard , now happily hoeing his own row since his much - publicised split with Jacques Tajan , is breaking new ground . He has founded Euro Auction , and with a distinguished flotilla of French specialists ( Eric Turquin and Bruno de Bayser to name but two ) holds his first auction in Brussels on June 15 . ‘ It 's an adventure,’ he told me last week .
Idiom: turn the tables (used idiomatically: yes)
She stops stage centre and finds a letter in it . ] [ reading ] " When you read this letter you will be far on your way to your father and mother where you have so long desired to be , and I hope I shall forbear thinking of you with the least shadow of that fondness my foolish heart had entertained for you . I bear you no ill will , for well I found the tables entirely turned upon me , and that I was in far ore danger from you than you were from me for I was just upon resolving to defy all the censures of the world and to make you publicly and openly my wife . " " publicly and openly " … This wicked gipsy story is all forgery .
Idiom: all and sundry (used idiomatically: yes)
I and my colleague here have the pleasure and the privilege of serving on a vast majority of a Liberal Democrat erm local authority . Heaven help it if we or any other minority among a majority party , of any colour of any persuasion , was allowed to govern as an as an executive . That would be totally wrong and totally undemocratic and heaven help us if we ended back in the situation where we had a lady in number ten Downing Street who waved the hand bag at all and sundry without any thought at all for the democratic situation Can you be quiet please . The democratic base must remain as wide as possible and I commend all these paragraphs to council .
Idiom: different strokes for different folks (used idiomatically: yes)
While someone such as Ben Crenshaw will inquire routinely with a smile , even of a stranger : ‘ Hi , how are you?’ as he makes his way through the Augusta clubhouse , Faldo moves along swiftly and silently . For him there is not yet time to stop and smell the flowers . But it is different strokes for different folks . Crenshaw is a champion because of the way he is ; Faldo , too , probably because of his contrasting attitude . And there is clearly a less flinty side to him .
Idiom: in the running (used idiomatically: yes)
Many also saw it as a means of informing the authorities of their grievances . For example , on the comment form which we gave to all respondents at the end of the field-work , one policewoman wrote , ‘ The idea of research being carried out within the RUC , or indeed any police force , is a good one . It brings points to the notice of the authorities that can well be overlooked in the dayto-day running of the force ; points that can , when corrected , benefit a great many people . ’ There is , however , a more fundamental reason why silence could not be used extensively as a ploy to impose limitations on the research from below . The study of policing in Northern Ireland is benefited by the fact that conversation and social context are so interrelated .
Idiom: take it easy (used idiomatically: yes)
Reports tend to confirm that most of the fish have completed spawning activities and seem ready to feed . But do bear in mind the very wet weather leading up to the weekend which means rivers such as the Ribble , Wyre , Dane , Dee and mid - Wales waters such as Severn and Banwy , are going to be in a terrible state . On canal and lakes that have not been fished since March it makes sense to take it easy . Do not bombard the water with groundbait and feed , but begin with the ‘ little and often’ approach and wait for the fishing to develop . Remember , it is always possible to put more groundbait into the water , but impossible to take it back out !
Idiom: cut and thrust (used idiomatically: yes)
In front of a sizeable crowd at the weekend , Clitheroe , the visitors , won 2 - 0 . David Booth took 30 seconds to give them the lead , taking advantage of a defender 's clearance which deflected freakishly off an onrushing forward and into his path . More than an hour of cut - and - thrust football followed , and both goalkeepers , especially Simon Taylor of Clitheroe and Lancashire , were kept busy before David Mason sealed his team 's first victory of the season . Strangely , it coincided with Queen Elizabeth 's first defeat . The first round of the English Schools ' Football Association Under-15 competition is now complete , and there has been some spectacular scoring .
Idiom: pull a face (used idiomatically: yes)
' It is Kenneth Williams 's evening . A good deal of expendable material is saved by this small urchin actor who can deafen the upper circle with a single sniff of disapproval and apparently rearrange his features at will . ' And if that were not enough , the paper 's critic went on : ' His performance is continually kept from affectation by underlying cockney savagery ; he releases in us all the longing to put out tongues , chalk on walls and pull faces behind the back of authority . ' Patrick Gibbs of the Daily Telegraph liked him almost as much . Gibbs described the show as a ' bright , lively little entertainment , especially clever in the way it picks a middle path between the demands of sophisticated and popular taste . '
Idiom: up for grabs (used idiomatically: yes)
Pickerings has a Dutch subsidiary called Mijnssen and other interests in France and Germany . Refurbishment , maintenance and service work on existing lifts , rather than building new products are another way . But the new lift sector in the UK still has £ 400 m worth of work a year up for grabs , from the smallest nursing home service lift to multi - storey hotel contracts . And when Pickerings supplies them its reputation appears to be flawless . ‘ Pickerings supplies innovative products , often they are too good for the rather mediocre schemes its lifts are installed in,’ says one prominent regional architect with experience of the company and arch rival Otis , although a bigger concern , retains a deferential view of the Stockton business .
Idiom: land of nod (used idiomatically: yes)
I would n't get , I would n't mind if it was bloody six o'clock but it was n't it was more like half past . It was n't it was more like twenty past and I was deep in the land of nod You 'd been asleep , you was not in the land of nod at all . I was last week That bloody pie 's repeating on me .
Idiom: champ at the bit (used idiomatically: yes)
You do n't seem to be sure whose fault it is but ' let 's blame Paul anyway . ' Peter Swales of Manchester City would be proud of you . IT 'S countdown time to Croke Park and Derry footballers are champing at the bit in their bid to make sure that ' Sam ' remains in Ulster for yet another year . They have been hard at training ever since their one point victory over the famous Dubs in the semi - final a few weeks ago . And tomorrow week the men from the Oak Leaf county take on Cork in their moment of truth .
Idiom: with open arms (used idiomatically: yes)
This in itself can bring problems with the numbers of enthusiastic teenagers using the hall . Sometimes spirits run a little high . However , Richard Amos , the youth worker , continues to put considerable effort into the work of the youth club and would welcome with open arms any volunteers to join those already helping . Senior Citizens ‘ Club and Lunch Club continue to thrive and provide a much appreciated service ably run by Mrs Wicksted and Miss Finnan respectively . Bingo is still run on two Mondays per month during the winter .
Idiom: right as rain (used idiomatically: yes)
I was quite surprised , I said fucking Albie Einstein ! Mm . He come in , he 's fucking right as rain me come in oh I 'm feeling right got in , sat here for about half an hour quick mad dash , chucked at the fucking shit house murghhh!the fucking well I wo n't be able to play cos I do n't I do n't throw that evening I wo n't throw at all I wo n't throw the next morning . Throw up in the morning .
Idiom: go hand in hand (used idiomatically: yes)
Its reaching out to the people who 've not been through the processes that we 've been through and are still attached to ideas that are in essence racist , imperialist , sexist , heterosexist , and how we , nevertheless , draw those people into activity . I think for me , one of the main questions is how we enter into joint activity with the British Labour Movement , or do we just turn our backs on it and say we ca n't do it , they are too racist , they are too imperialist . I feel would never wish to give up or reject feminism , which I see as an insistence on putting women first , an insistence on women 's autonomy and I think that the debates with National Liberation struggles , the debate in the Irish National Liberation struggle has seen the two things as going hand in hand . The Women For Socialism Conference was an attempt to build some kind of an alliance or unity between left Labour women and women outside organising in Women 's groups across a fairly broad spectrum and it did n't succeed in the totality of its aims certainly . But again come back to the point that consistently troubles me , which is the degree of the totality of the demands that we would place on those that we have quite strong political disagreements with , before we 're prepared to enter into an alliance with those women and with the Labour Movement or other organisations .
Idiom: fit like a glove (used idiomatically: yes)
And I 'd had a car crash and it was quite a relief not to have to worry about performing . I turned down a couple of T V series cos I did n't feel I was right for them . And just Love Hurts just seemed to fit , just right like a glove , I wanted to do it . So when the boys and I met and they said over tea I th , well why do n't we do something about a love affair , it just seemed right . And fortunately it 's worked out well .
Idiom: to the tune of (used idiomatically: yes)
Now the opposition to the Members ' Club was out in the open . Anker Simmons , the Mayor of Henley and a member of the Bolney Syndicate , presided over a large gathering of men interested in the formation of a golf club . The business of the meeting appeared to be the raising of money by way of bonds to the tune of £ 6,000 . Bolney Estates agreed to take up £ 1,000 worth and others agreed to buy a further £ 3,000 worth . Being so far advanced in this objective , even before the evening started , it must have come as a great surprise when the meeting was jolted into controversy by an unexpected suggestion from Councillor B. Watts .
Idiom: dead as a dodo (used idiomatically: yes)
Also Beuys , passing through , hat and horse , quite mad . He sent me a card , Paz said , just one line , Did Dada do dis or did e do dat ? I wrote back , Paz said , I told him , Dada dead as dodo eat your hat . He had n't , Paz said . Not when I saw him .
Idiom: go it alone (used idiomatically: yes)
Dee and Kelley had done the now legendary vanishing act and they 'd taken Barry along with them . I was n't a little nonplussed . I never had a fear of going it alone , do n't get me wrong . I 've gone it alone more times than a hermit with attitude . But it was going to be a real bummer not having the little guy around to chat with while I single - handedly solved my cases .
Idiom: cut and dried (used idiomatically: yes)
There were n't really any proper ones for men , so he contented himself with Vogue , Marie Claire and Harpers . Luckily the local hairdresser 's took them all so he did n't have to buy them . He preferred having his hair cut and blow - dried in a unisex salon , even if it was dearer . Sometimes he managed to abstract a page he particularly liked and take it home , He had a whole article on a young actress who had been asked to model some clothes . He pinned the photos inside his writing desk .
Idiom: in light of (used idiomatically: yes)
But the statistics were not as good as they should have been . Brown 's reputation for fiscal prudence evaporated with the Great ~ Recession . Nevertheless , it is the Great ~ Recession that keeps Labour in contention , particularly in the light of the Conservatives ' pledge to start cutting public spending the moment they take power . This makes people anxious for their jobs . Most people – bankers and many " experts " excepted – are instinctive Keynesians , even if they have never heard of John ~ Maynard ~ Keynes .
Idiom: make the cut (used idiomatically: no)
He touched her eyes , her mouth , her nose , and Tallis understood that he had seen the hints of the face within the wood . He smiled ; his broken teeth stung in the icy wind and he clapped a hand to his mouth in pain , his eyes watering . He drew a stone axe from the belt at his waist and made tentative cuts around her neck . He shivered with cold . He was hungry .
Idiom: on the ball (used idiomatically: yes)
But it was always a struggle and Mellish 's greater professional matchplay experience showed when the match went to the ninth and decisive frame , the English player winning on the black . Martin O'Neill only got to the eighth frame in his match against Mark Rowing . O'Neill won the opener on the final ball but was then hit with breaks of 77 , 60 and 56 . A break of 80 helped O'Neill to recover to 3 - 3 but a 50 sparked a two frame roll that swept Rowing to victory . ENGLAND ON EDGE
Idiom: third time lucky (used idiomatically: yes)
Prior to this , she recorded a promising third to all - weather specialist Hershebar , and looks to have an excellent chance at the weights tomorrow . Luca Cumani appears to have found the ideal opening for Tej Singh in the Smeeth Median Auction Maiden Stakes at Folkestone . Odds - on favourite last time at Haydock , he was narrowly beaten into third place , but tomorrow should prove third time lucky . BOXING Bowe protest