Gooogr/pie_idioms huggingface dataset:
Idiom: in the soup (used idiomatically: no)
Others were missing limbs , or hair . In the centre of the circle of dolls and children was a metal cauldron , the size of a milk pan . In a soup of pond water , twigs and shredded leaves , small china limbs and glass eyes floated with eerie realism : dolls ' limbs , dolls ' eyes . A huge wooden spoon protruded from the cauldron . Observing his scrutiny , one of the little girls solemnly lifted the spoon out of the grisly soup and offered it to Dauntless .
Idiom: belt and braces (used idiomatically: yes)
This boot is the 1991 update of an earlier model . It is now made of a black Nubuk leather trimmed with purple and yellow , and is highly water repellent and quick drying . It retains the Sympatex lining of the earlier model — belt and braces if you like . The sole unit is Hanwag 's new Supergrip SAS 13 , especially designed for comfort and safety . It is dual density , but quite different from either the Skywalk or Vibram ones used in the other boots reviewed , the shock absorbing layer being very much thicker and softer .
Idiom: kiss and tell (used idiomatically: yes)
A certain smugness sugared his deep tones , making her hackles rise . Boastful , she judged unkindly , her instinctive disapproval of him strengthening . The kind of man who kissed and told . ‘ If this is a survey , should n't you be writing down the answers?’ His mocking stare challenged her , his latent hostility stirring her own adrenalin .
Idiom: breathe down someone's neck (used idiomatically: yes)
Not with luggage as well.’ I felt this was a sad moment , a sad valediction , and yet , behind the sadness , was a kind of relief . Did I really want this young man — oh , not now , this minute , pressed on top of me — but tomorrow , and the days after , breathing down my neck ? ‘ I suppose not.’ He looked resigned but not too gloomy .
Idiom: rule the roost (used idiomatically: yes)
Among the apple trees , one hot summer in the 1880s , he dug and puddled a large pond with the help of his two sons , which was used as the family swimming pool for years afterwards . On the top floor of the house there were three tiny rooms , one for boxes , one for the Allen boys , and one for the five Allen daughters . When their mother died in 1890 , the eldest daughter , who was by then thirty years old , was allowed to move to the first floor bedroom , and from then on she ruled the roost . The maid of all work also died at about this time and was not replaced . When their father died in 1910 , the five Allen girls , who never married , moved to Clacton - on - Sea , where they ran a high - class boarding house .
Idiom: by the book (used idiomatically: yes)
If either of these sentences were true , the story would not have been worth telling , since the conversion would have been a purely fanciful affair which bore no relevance to Lewis at the deepest levels of his being . His reluctance to tell the fall story is all of a piece with his extreme slowness , after his religious conversion , to accept Christianity , a religion which tries the heart , which searches us out and knows us . His embarrassment about self - disclosure gives the impression , belied by his other books , that he knew nothing of the mystery that grace works by means of human weakness , not by side - stepping it . Since Lewis buried the secrets , first from himself and then from others , there is not much hope that those coming after will be able to follow the story of his conversion . He gives us a few outlines of ' paper logic ' followed by a paragraph or two describing some of the religious experiences themselves .
Idiom: take a back seat (used idiomatically: yes)
As far as French was concerned , the Wallabies were in South Africa because the ANC had agreed to the tour and , if they withdrew their support , the team would return immediately to Australia . SARFU had done little to try and rectify the damage created at Ellis Park so French and Fordham took the initiative prior to the special ANC meeting . No longer could French and Fordham take a back seat advisory role . ‘ We had to spur them ( SARFU ) on . SARFU had to distance themselves from the happenings at Ellis Park’ , said French .
Idiom: look the part (used idiomatically: yes)
On a recent visit to Scout Crag , Langdale , they had agreed to a photo - call on Route 1 , described in the guidebook as the best route on the crag — both of them cranking , ever cranking . But the years , they take their toll . The shoulder belays and cricket sweaters were intended to look the part . It was the clipping and runnering where you almost heard the gear moan . From my disembodied perch on a distant abseil rope alongside , I started to correct Sid , then realised others on the crag might mistake it as hassling .
Idiom: fall into place (used idiomatically: yes)
I was experiencing what he meant ; a new self - acceptance , a sense that I had to be this mind and this body , its vices and its virtues , and that I had no other chance or choice . It was an awareness of a new kind of potentiality , one very different from my old sense of the word , which had been based on the illusions of ambition . The mess of my life , the selfishnesses and false turnings and the treacheries , all these things could fall into place , they could become a source of construction rather than a source of chaos , and precisely because I had no other choice . It was certainly not a moment of new moral resolve , or anything like it . No doubt our accepting what we are must always inhibit our being what we ought to be ; for all that , it felt like a step forward — and upward .
Idiom: add insult to injury (used idiomatically: yes)
Rescind the agreement with the barbarous Chinese government.’ But in the House of Commons , when Mrs Thatcher rose on 6 June to express ‘ revulsion’ for the massacre , she also restated her government 's intention to proceed with the handover in 1997 . Sir Geoffrey Howe , then Foreign Secretary , also spoke , but only , from Hong Kong 's viewpoint , to add insult to injury . Grim as events might seem , Britain could not contemplate a ‘ massive new immigration commitment’ which could ‘ more than double the ethnic minority population of the United Kingdom’ . He also said that the Prince and Princess of Wales would not make a planned visit to China in November ‘ so long as those responsible for the atrocities over the past weekend remain in control of the Chinese government’ .
Idiom: fall into place (used idiomatically: yes)
As we suggest in more detail in Chapters 2 and 3 , you will be able to find materials more easily and see the best arrangement for them when you have formed a sense of what you are looking for . Most fields are too large to research convincingly , unless you go into them with at least a provisional focus . With a guiding aim , you tend to read with a goal or personal agenda ; what you read falls into place , at least relative to a notion of what your interest in the field is , or what perspective you wish to adopt on it . Keep the idea of " perspective " in mind , since it indicates that for your purposes some materials and pieces of information will appear " in the foreground " ; others are only " background " , further away from your centre of interest . Clearly , you need to use the time you have available to consolidate what is going to be in the foreground — what is central to your essay — rather than in mugging up materials which at best can only ever form marginal elements of the final piece of work .
Idiom: take a bow (used idiomatically: yes)
The Manchu tested the pull , nocked an arrow , and shot . ' Gold in the third ! ' Jenjin slapped Yuan on the back , then took the bow and offered it to Alexei . Alexei peered down the range and shook his head . ' I ca n't see anything beyond the third target , ' he said .
Idiom: to say the least (used idiomatically: yes)
With John going to Wildenrath , Lindsey decided it was as good a time as ever to be converted onto his aircraft and in October John converted Lindsey onto the Corsair , and in doing so , Lindsey went from 230hp in the ‘ Me 108’ to 2,400hp in the Corsair , a horsepower - leap that must be the largest anyone flying warbirds has ever done . In times of war it was standard practice for pilots to gain experience on a medium powered aircraft , such as the Harvard , before climbing into anything as powerful as the Corsair . Lindsey recalls that his first flight in the Corsair was , to say the least , interesting : ‘ On the morning that John and I had arranged to do the conversion , the weather was decidedly bad with poor visibility . It was essential to get as much flying time as possible , for John was off to Wildenrath the following day and it would have been almost impossible to arrange another date to carry out the all - important conversion . After John had given me a thorough brief on the ground , I took - off from Duxford and ten seconds later I was in thick cloud .
Idiom: ring a bell (used idiomatically: yes)
He was torn up real bad from all my gunfire . All sorts of bits were falling off , exposing lots of snazzy metalwork and futuristic circuitry the likes of which I had never seen the likes of . ‘ Dead or alive , you 're coming with me,’ he said , which seemed to ring a bell somewhere . ‘ Do something , Barry.’ ‘ I 'm trying , chief .
Idiom: in tandem (used idiomatically: yes)
Indeed , the Phillips curve did seem to conform with much of what Keynes had written on inflation in the years after the General Theory , the most illuminating example of which is the pamphlet How to Pay for the War ( 1940 ) . In this pamphlet and elsewhere , Keynes proposed the inflationary gap theory of inflation : upward pressure on money wages and prices would be felt with increasing severity as the pressure of demand approached and eventually exceeded full employment output , Y * ; . Both X L and X G will vary in tandem with each other . Thus Lipsey 's postulated relationship between the rate of change of money wages and excess demand in the labour market not only possessed appealing microeconomic credentials , it also seemed to accord with much of what Keynes had written on the subject of inflation . We have already noted Keynes 's anxiety over his system being ‘ one equation short’ in the sense that there was nothing to anchor the level of money wages and the absolute price level .
Idiom: jockey for position (used idiomatically: yes)
Nick Broomfield was hired to record the event . It was a nightmare : early on , his budget dropped from dollars l6 m to £ 300,000 , and his crew was reduced to two . Driving Me Crazy mercilessly records the squalls , the vibrant performances and the inertia of the production team , who spend most of their time solemnly discussing what black music means to them and jockeying for pole position . Broomfield gets under everyone 's feet , but soldiers on and ends up with a revealing , funny film about the petty power plays and outsize egos of showbiz . LOLA Jacques Demy 's Lola , made in 1960 , continues the little spate of revivals from the heyday of European cinema .
Idiom: on the ropes (used idiomatically: yes)
Much of Java 's bleak southern coast consists of 300-foot cliffs which are assaulted by breakers which have swept , uninterrupted , from Antarctica . The swiftlets which produce what the Chinese consider the most desirable edible birds ' nests roost in caves beneath these cliffs . The gatherers descend the sheer cliff - face on coconut - fibre ropes to an overhang some thirty feet above the water where a rickety bamboo platform has been built . From here they must await their wave , drop into it , and be swept beneath the overhang into the cave where they grope around in total darkness filling their bags with birds ' nests . They must then choose their wave again to carry them out and up with the swell so they can seize the ropes dangling from the platform .
Idiom: live and let live (used idiomatically: yes)
Axelrod remarks that such ‘ rituals of perfunctory and routine firing sent a double message . To the high command they conveyed aggression , but to the enemy they conveyed peace.’ The live - and - let - live system could have been worked out by verbal negotiation , by conscious strategists bargaining round a table . In fact it was not . It grew up as a series of local conventions , through people responding to one another 's behaviour;the individual soldiers were probably hardly aware that the growing up was going on .
Idiom: on the cards (used idiomatically: yes)
Make sure you obtain a receipt with a date on it . 2 . Fill in the yellow registration card and return it to the address shown on the card . 3 . Retain all the original packaging .
Idiom: all over the place (used idiomatically: yes)
FLAVOUR OF THE MONTH February 's micro - celebrity of the moment is Catherine Zeta Jones The Darling Buds Of May returned and suddenly Miss Zeta Jones was popping up all over the place . There she was : bursting out of a cling - film top as she accepted a Variety Club award .
Idiom: water under the bridge (used idiomatically: yes)
I 'd love to come back.’ Experience told for Hannon 's first winner Revelation , but the £ 400 fine for allegedly not trying with the horse at Kempton still rankles . ‘ His jockey Steve Raymont was just looking after an inexperienced horse , but I suppose it 's water under the bridge now.’ Easiest winner of the week was Cunning who looks set for a step up to better things . Special
Idiom: up the river (used idiomatically: yes)
That 's right and pull it in to the small boat ? Pull it in to the small boat , lay it on a box and then we 'd pull the chain in by hand and then we 'd rerun it further up the river . Why did you do that ? Well I mean if you er , if your chain was going too far astern you might pull the dredger astern too much so got ta keep your chain up the river , that 's what you go got to do all the time .
Idiom: over the top (used idiomatically: yes)
We are now beginning new ways of thinking about whether to feed mice or kill them , plant trees or chop them down which require new balances of conflict of interest . Rodents have a value on the world scene , but is that value sufficient to give them permission to eat 20 per cent of the grain harvest of India ? Snakes , locusts , bacteria and viruses are welcome to occupy their valuable niches in our world but they do go over the top on occasions . It is our human duty and pleasure to understand the locust as a locust but we are equally morally compelled to find ways to control their self - destructive rampages . I firmly believe that if we study animals as animals including their struggles with their internal and external environments , we can liberate them and ourselves from the obfuscation of terms such as pain and turn instead to definable values .
Idiom: get to grips with (used idiomatically: yes)
But , and much more importantly , North Shields and Cramlington are related . The relations between them are what matter . I employ comparison in order to get to grips with relations rather than as a realist method of generating ‘ … conceptually informed causal analysis’(Dickens et al . , 1985 : 31 ) . Here I will just assert that I think my comparisons are part of a ‘ historical materialist method’ .
Idiom: touch wood (used idiomatically: no)
He 's no problem — I 'm 100 per cent behind him . ‘ Temper Wright was genuinely touched by Hill-Wood 's public support — and he needs the support after being criticised by Saints defender Ken Monkou following the Gunners ' 2-0 defeat at The Dell , their third successive League loss . Wright lost his infamous temper , picked up a booking and Monkou said : ‘ Intimidation is his game and at one stage I had to tell him to calm down a bit . ’ The Arsenal striker , who scored in both north London derby games last season , refused to be drawn into a slanging match after the game but responded forcefully yesterday .
Idiom: hot air (used idiomatically: yes)
Use any means available to increase your understanding . The watercolour sketch I have started here Gulls Feeding ( Figure 8) is a compilation and uses repetition of the shapes in the sketches to build up a sense of activity . Eagles by contrast are soaring birds which rise on hot - air thermals appearing to balance their ‘ barn - door’ shapes on their ‘ finger - tips’— the long primaries on the end of their wings which smooth the air - flow at slow speeds . Their wings are often swept forward slightly although they can close them and dive at tremendous speeds ( Figure 9 ) . An eagle diving to the hand from 500 feet whistling down like an express train is a sight not often forgotten .
Idiom: keep tabs on (used idiomatically: yes)
Why did Bart decide to confront you today?’ ‘ Men like Bart are always suspicious of new clients — and particularly of ones like me who start talking big business , not just trifling little deals . Understandably he kept tabs on me , trying to decide whether I was genuine before agreeing to negotiate with me.’ ‘ Which is why you needed me,’ Rory cut in . ‘ As your cover.’
Idiom: make history (used idiomatically: yes)
Sartre does not attempt to answer this question , shifting rather to the notion of a lack of self - consciousness . The dialectic is the law that remains hidden . At the moment , ' history is made without being known ( l'histoire se fait sans se connâitre ) ' —history constitutes , we might say today , a political unconscious . ' Marxism ' , on the other hand , Sartre claims , ' is History itself becoming conscious of itself'(I , 40 ) : as for Lukács , it is by becoming conscious of itself as the subject of history that the working class will understand history 's meaning — and so recognize itself as the meaning of history . While he suggests in apocalyptic tones in The Problem of Method that this process of self - consciousness is at last beginning to take place , and that civil , foreign and colonial wars are becoming apparent as different forms of a single class struggle , Sartre also admits that the divorce between theory and praxis which ensued under Stalinism has generally prevented any clear self - consciousness among the masses .
Idiom: go without saying (used idiomatically: yes)
The court is , however , reluctant to find implied terms in commercial contracts especially where there is a formal document which , on the face of it , represents the apparently complete bargain between the parties ( Westminster ( Duke ) v Guild [ 1984]3 All ER 144 ) . An unexpressed term can be implied if and only if the court finds that the parties must have intended that term to form part of their contract : it is not enough for the court to find that such a term would have been adopted by the parties as reasonable men if it had been suggested to them . It must have been a term that went without saying , a term necessary to give business efficacy to the contract , a term that , although tacit , formed part of the contract the parties made for themselves ( Trollope & Colls Ltd v North West Metropolitan Regional Hospital Board [ 1973]2 All ER 260 ) . Thus , the court has refused to imply a term that a landlord entitled to recover the cost of insurance from his tenant is obliged to choose the cheapest method of insuring ( Bandar Property Holdings Ltd v Darwen ( JS)(Successors ) Ltd [ 1968]2 All ER 305 ) or that the tenant is under an obligation not to use the demised property for an immoral purpose ( Burfort Financial Investments Ltd v Chotard ( 1976 ) 239 EGH 891 ) or that the landlord is entitled to interest on a retrospective increase in rent ( Trust House Forte Albany Hotels Ltd v Daejan Investments Ltd ( 1980 ) 256 EG 915 ) . However , the court will readily imply the grant of such easements as may be necessary to give effect to the common intention of the parties with reference to the manner and purposes for which the demised property is to be used .
Idiom: in the swim (used idiomatically: no)
They 're called hummels and they 're sneak fertilizers . Such sneak fertilizers are surprisingly common and in the case of er sunfish , here is one . These little sneak fertilizers however are young and small of course , this is what they rely on their enormous of speed for , and they grow up into female mimics or transvestites , and what a transvestite does is when a regular male and a regular female are in the nest swimming around together doing the regular thing , the transvestite swims in , appearing as a second female . The male does n't know that this fish is in fact male and not female , and in place of ovaries this male , which is that one there , has enormous testes . The testes of these female mimics are vastly larger than those of a normal male .
Idiom: see red (used idiomatically: no)
Butler finished 33 seconds clear but second - placed Mark Lovatt ( Congleton CC ) took the overall lead . EUROPEAN SOCCER Spanish referee sees red By Graham Turner REFEREE Raul Garcia de Loza issued five red and 11 yellow cards during an extraordinary Spanish league match between Valencia and Barcelona that spanned Saturday night and Sunday morning .
Idiom: in the red (used idiomatically: yes)
It has been demonstrated ( , ) that the hemispherical reflectance in the blue and red bands of the spectrum is related to the amount of chlorophyll within the leaf . The relation is causal and negative . On the other hand , in the infra red , there is a causal and positive relationship of hemispherical reflectance with the degree of scattering that occurs as a consequence of discontinuities in the refractive indices within the leaf . It has further been shown that the hemispherical reflectance of an individual leaf is insufficient to describe the remotely - sensed bidirectional reflectance ( defined below ) of a vegetation canopy ( , , ) . However simple grass canopies with a high LAI have reflectance properties similar to those of a single leaf , which means a positive relationship between near infra - red bidirectional reflectance and LAI , but a negative relationship in the red region .
Idiom: keep a lid on (used idiomatically: yes)
Take advantage of the fact that the club 's shut tonight . You deserve a break . ' They were barely out of the club before Rory turned on Adam , no longer able to keep the lid on her simmering anger . ' How dare you order me about in front of my friend ? ' she demanded . ' Just who do you think you are ? '
Idiom: every trick in the book (used idiomatically: yes)
Tora ! Tora ! The film employed every trick in the Hollywood book of aerial tactics , with the refreshing exception of aircraft miniatures , to create the aerial fleet . Actual period aircraft , including B–17s and P–40s , were used were available . North American Texans and Vultee Valiants were remanufactured to become the three Japanese types employed in the raid .
Idiom: take someone's word for it (used idiomatically: yes)
The question was , would we convert it ? My answer is an emphatic yes . The House does not have to take my word for it , because the action taken to deliver our commitments is there for all to see in the report . Mr. Dennis Skinner ( Bolsover ) The evidence is not there in the Bolsover area .
Idiom: join the club (used idiomatically: yes)
Until a suitable parliamentary seat is found for the ' future prime minister ' Kirk will be administrative assistant in Jim Bolger 's think - tank . Romanian exodus OVER 50 ROMANIAN players , nearly half of them internationals , have joined French clubs . A few of them , including Larentiu Constantin , jumped ship before the revolution . Most of them , however , left Romania before the last few years in an attempt to capitalise on what 's left of their playing careers .
Idiom: get the better of (used idiomatically: yes)
‘ I gave it to them straight : competing with the best ai n't good enough when you 're capable of being the best.’ Cadle , a 37-year - old New Yorker , is a self - confessed bad loser . Sometimes his passion gets the better of him . He was banished from the arena last month when his club , Guildford , lost at home to Leicester , for swearing at a referee . But Cadle cares for English basketball enough to have stayed here for 10 years — most of the time on a budget even Norman Lamont could manage .