Gooogr/pie_idioms huggingface dataset:
Idiom: at full tilt (used idiomatically: yes)
The sound that really got me going came from one of the A3 's ROM cards , numbered SPC-04 , a patch called ‘ Amp 66’ which is also stored in the A2 's internal memory as patch 63 . This was an incredibly accurate valve amp sound which more than one person commented had the character and warmth of an AC30 , especially when using the A2 through the solid state Stadium power amp into a Proamplifiers speaker cab . I also tried a Mesa Boogie 1x12 Theile cabinet and while the sound was slightly boxier it still sounded like Vox 's finest at full tilt . Recorded , the sound did n't lose any of its character , and only a touch of hi - mid EQ was needed to make the sound work mixed onto cassette . Scrolling through the A2 's patches it soon becomes obvious that it 's crammed full of great sounds , although , as usual , some do need severely sorting out for ouput level , which means that there 's no escaping learning how to program the thing !
Idiom: turn someone's head (used idiomatically: yes)
He cupped his hands round hers , lifting the soup to her lips . He tilted the mug . She could drink or turn her head away . Trent did n't mind which — he wanted a reaction , that was all . She sipped as if on automatic pilot , which was n't good but it was better than catatonia .
Idiom: join the club (used idiomatically: yes)
' I remember the very first piece I wrote I sent to a friend during the war , ' Mr. Johnson told the Herald . ' He lost it , and all I can remember was that it was about a star . ' When he started ' writing in earnest ' , after the war when he also joined a club for the hard of hearing which had a great effect on his life , he at first concentrated on prose , turning to the medium of poetry about 20 years later . This is now the form he prefers —'you can say a lot in a poem with a very few words ' — and he writes ' whenever I feel in the mood ' . The work explores , sometimes very poignantly , an investigation of the emotions of one who has been progressively deaf from the age of four , and who lost his mother at the age of two .
Idiom: mind over matter (used idiomatically: yes)
He said : ' I feel pleased at being noticed and wanted . ' QUIRK OF NATURE : The eunuchs of Pakistan dress like women , develop exaggerated female mannerisms and provide cheap entertainment MIND OVER MATTER : A hijra thinks of herself as a woman ENTERTAINING : Hijras often work in the film world BEG TO DIFFER : People would not dare refuse money for fear of a hijra curse
Idiom: in the works (used idiomatically: no)
Changes in the organisation of inheritance , the importance assigned to primogeniture , shifts in the rules of exogamy and in the permitted degrees of marriages , in the construction of family forms in ideology and in welfare practices , the class differences in family and household patterns , the shaping of sex and gender divisions : all have to be taken into account in the organisation of sexuality . Within this context we must also be aware of the changing effects of these family and kinship relations on the actual construction of sexed individuals , that is individuals whose biological differences and personal proclivities are given cultural meaning . Juliet Mitchell in her work Psychoanalysis and Feminism has pointed to the significance of this task , but the problem , as suggested above , has been that most analyses have not been sufficiently historically specific to make them usable . Some recent work , however , particularly in attempting to historicise the insights of Freud , and to demonstrate the specificity of his categories ( that is , showing how they refer to a particular cultural milieu ) has opened up new possibilities . A recent reinterpretation of Freud 's analysis of ' Little Hans ' has , for instance , demonstrated clearly the ways in which the process of psychoanalysis itself acts to install culturally and class - specific prescriptions of correct sexual and gender attitudes .
Idiom: up for grabs (used idiomatically: yes)
INSURANCE giant Sun Alliance and US group Chubb have completed a reciprocal deal and cut their stakes in each other . Chubb has sold 47.5 m Sun shares to brokers S G Warburg , Morgan Stanley and Goldman Sachs who are placing them on the market . In a parallel move , Sun is putting 3.4 m Chubb shares up for grabs to investors through the same three brokers . Sun Alliance shares fell 16p to 310p . BT rings up £ 1bn with US sell off
Idiom: to the letter (used idiomatically: yes)
What campaign?’ a Parisian friend asked . French election campaigns are rarely particularly colourful affairs but the present one must beat them all for its lack of fizz . It is as if everyone had decided to follow to the letter the advice sent out to UDF candidates by Jean - Pierre Raffarin , the centre - right party 's expert on political marketing . ‘ The change in the political climate requires new attitudes and behaviour,’ he wrote . ‘ A short time ago , being well known helped a candidate 's image — today , it often provokes suspicion …
Idiom: lie low (used idiomatically: no)
This suggests that the rise could be limited to 63 centimetres by 2100 — compared to earlier predictions of as much as 5 metres . The study states that temperature increase could be limited to 0.2 degrees per decade , due to the oceans ' ability to absorb additional heat . Such a limited rise would effectively reprieve low - lying island states , such as the Marshall Islands , Tuvalu and the Maldives , from the inundation feared under previous estimates . * However , a report by the South Pacific Regional Environment Programme puts anticipated sea level rise at 2 metres by 2100 , leading to a further diminution of fresh water supplies on the Pacific islands , which already face a shortage . The report suggests , however , that coral growth will be able to keep pace with sea rises of up to 3 metres over the next hundred years .
Idiom: go round in circles (used idiomatically: yes)
Jenna came back to the present rapidly and painfully as she tripped over a fallen and partially sunken log . For the past few minutes she had not really been paying much attention to the direction and she looked round worriedly . Now she was not orientated at all and for all she knew she could have been going round in circles . It was a great relief therefore to hear the sound of a passing car , its speed assuring her that the main road was in front of her . All she had to do was go forward and then turn to her left as she found the road .
Idiom: out of the woods (used idiomatically: yes)
The cure was slow ; she ate a little more each day , cut down on the aerobic treadmill and her periods returned . She became happier . But we are not out of the woods . She came for a visit with her favourite slimming magazine . ‘ I hate my fat knees,’ she said , and went off for a ten - mile hike .
Idiom: get lost (used idiomatically: yes)
" You have been a long time , John , " she said , " I thought you must have got lost in Breder Wood . "
Idiom: leave well alone (used idiomatically: yes)
Quite frankly it makes me angry to realise how the politicians , and fuzzy - thinking educationalists have cocked up my child 's schooling . They should be sacked . Why could n't they just leave well alone and let pupils concentrate on the three Rs ? The sad thing is that there 's probably little we can do about it now . I doubt if the schools system could cope with another overhaul to undo all the harm done .
Idiom: in the black (used idiomatically: yes)
Try leaving without sampling his Sonoma Jack cheese in the huge door - stop sandwiches on offer in the factory shop ! Monday evening will be spent in Modesto before an early start for one of the highlights of the tour Yosemite National Park . Captured in stark black and white by California photographer Ansel Adams , Yosemite looks just as good in colour so bring plenty of film . Using Fresno as our base , the next two days continue on a grand scale with a visit on Wednesday to Ruanne Dairies , where more than 3000 cows are milked in one herd , and to the Harris Beef Lot where over 100,000 head of beef cattle are finished every year on just 16 ha ( 40 acres ) . The visit is completed by a meal in the Harris Ranch restaurant to sample the final product .
Idiom: take heart (used idiomatically: yes)
The prospect of Britain becoming irretrievably stuck in a slough without forward movement is not attractive , for us now or as trustees for our children and successors . The North of England has the capacity to pull itself out of such a mire , and surely wants the chance to exert its muscle to do so . Other regions of the kingdom , if they see themselves in similar plight , may take heart from a Northern intention and expression of spirit . Hence St William 's Foundation is glad to spread the news of its initiative , its ‘ Assertion of the North’ . The initiative 's success will depend absolutely on the effectiveness of the web of partnerships that can be woven ; the Foundation will be equally glad to draw advantage from the experience of others creating their own versions of partnership .
Idiom: to the bone (used idiomatically: no)
Flesh . Her shoulder was an uneasy cloak of skin holding inside it her pain . Muscles : scarlet living meat tethered by milky - blue tendons to bones . In this tortured landscape , the shoulder blade was their anchor , bleached and bare as the river - smoothed head of a Neanderthal axe . A honeycomb of caves pulsed inside the bone .
Idiom: on edge (used idiomatically: yes)
( And indeed it was not . Before I knew Jean - Claude , he had performed a piece for piano in which he repeated for seven minutes a single twelve - note phrase at thirty - second intervals . He explained he had wanted his audience to sit on the edge of their seats , hoping and believing that the composer was going to amplify his idea — and then to confound them . ' They did n't know how to listen without expectation , ' he told me . In the event , they rose from their seats , booed and shuffled out to the box - office , where they demanded their money back without success .
Idiom: up a tree (used idiomatically: no)
KEVIN O'SULLIVAN A WOUNDED British woman told yesterday how her lover gave his own life to save her from death in the claws of a crazed grizzly bear . Cherry Reksten was dragged to the ground by the 23 stone giant as she frantically scrambled up a tree in a bid to escape . Then artist Trevor Percy - Lancaster stepped in . ‘ He started yelling and screaming and waving his arms , trying to distract it,’ Cherry said .
Idiom: talk shop (used idiomatically: yes)
Gently but firmly he asserted himself in the organization . When requested to do his work in the company flat , and remembering the funereal atmosphere of the place , he refused . He realized that accepting it as an office would have meant being pressed into staying late at night talking shop . He demanded and got a proper office . At first it seemed impossible to cope with two employers with their contrasting attitudes towards money .
Idiom: pick up the tab (used idiomatically: yes)
The men become the claimants and the women their dependants . They lose control over both the revenue and the expenditure , often with catastrophic results : rent not paid , fuel bills missed , arrears mounting . It is conventional wisdom among advice agencies , local authorities and fuel boards that it 's the women who pick up the tab for men 's mismanagement . I heard a housing association official who visited a northern Women 's Aid refuge for battered women being asked if she could help a woman who 'd just arrived , eight months ' pregnant , with two black eyes , find a place on her own . She said,"I've rehoused women on their own before .
Idiom: taste blood (used idiomatically: yes)
Dinner that evening was not a happy affair . Queen Margaret and Catesby glowered at us from the head of the table . Melford , now he had tasted blood , seemed to be revelling in some private joke . Moodie looked sanctimonious whilst Scawsby could hardly hide his crows of triumph . Carey looked worried and Doctor Agrippa sat as if a spectator at some masque or mummer 's play .
Idiom: on the level (used idiomatically: yes)
State - centred , transnational relations and neo - Marxist approaches , while often interesting and fruitful , tend to close off other interesting and fruitful avenues of theory and research . We can not ignore the nation - state , but this book attempts to offer in addition a conception of the global system based on transnational practices ( TNPs ) . TNPs are analytically distinguished on three levels , economic , political and cultural - ideological , what I take to constitute the sociological totality . In the concrete conditions of the world as it is , a world largely structured by global capitalism , each of these TNPs is typieally , but not exclusively , characterized by a major institution . The transnational eorporation ( TNC ) is the major locus of transnational economic practices ; what I shall term the transnational capitalist class is the major locus of transnational politieal practices ; and the major locus of transnational cultural - ideological practices is to be found in the culture - ideology of consumerism .
Idiom: mean business (used idiomatically: yes)
' What about you , Doctor ? ' He sighed . When he spoke again , Bernice recognized the staccato growl that meant business . ' Somebody 's got to stop Sheldukher . He 's meddling with things he does n't understand .
Idiom: way to go (used idiomatically: yes)
We have about 140 international specialists in human gene mapping coming together to use a new data base system developed at the John Hopkins university in collaboration with people in London at the I C R F Labs and that data base will provide information on all those genes we have already identified and mapped . There are something like 50,000 individual genes providing the genetic blueprint for each individual , and our task is really to find out where each one is on human chromosomes and to isolate them and to characterise them . So far , we 've actually managed to characterise about 1600 of that 50,000 and so we 've got a very long way to go . Is the first time the scientists have all come together for one specialist meeting ? No indeed , this is in fact er about the twelfth meeting in a series , the first meeting was in 1973 , where 75 scientists came together to deliberate about 50 genes which were known at that time .
Idiom: rare bird (used idiomatically: yes)
From Mynydd Ddu the Way pushes northwards through the town of Llandovery and up into the Cambrian Mountains , passing close to the shores of the huge reservoir , Llyn Brianne . Despite its beauty this whole area is little visited . This loneliness makes it an ideal home for the red kite — a rare and nervous bird . If you are lucky enough to see one , observe it from a distance . You 'll be moving into largely featureless moorland here so compass skills are necessary as you make your way up to the Teifi pools which feed the Teifi river .
Idiom: much of a muchness (used idiomatically: yes)
By ANTHONY KING EVERYONE knows the election is on a knife 's edge , but consider just how sharp the knife is . Yesterday 's polls looked much of a muchness — they were not ‘ all over the place’— but concealed politically crucial variations . The Daily Telegraph computer program compares each poll 's current findings with the 1987 election results , and calculates how many seats each party would win on the basis of a uniform national swing applied equally to every constituency ( leaving out those in Northern Ireland ) . The program is a powerful beast — and only slightly simple minded .
Idiom: know the score (used idiomatically: yes)
‘ Oh , do n't go on about those women — they were n't a patch on you , you know . And I never encouraged any of them . And I did n't break any hearts — they all knew the score . I took them out as a favour to my employees.’ ‘ And how do I know that is n't just what you 're doing with me?’
Idiom: on board (used idiomatically: yes)
Attempts to introduce drift-nets into neighbouring New Zealand waters were more short lived . In 1981 four Taiwanese drift-netters undertook exploratory fishing for squid in Golden Bay at the northern end of New Zealand 's South Island . The trials came to an abrupt end when local fisheries officers found the frozen remains of common dolphins and pilot whales on board the fishing boats . Under New Zealand 's Marine Mammals Protection Act , the possession of marine mammals without a permit is a serious offence , and the drift-net trials were promptly terminated . Little more was heard of drift-netting in the South Pacific until 1988 , when for the first time , Taiwanese and Japanese vessels moved into the South Pacific and Tasman Sea in large numbers .
Idiom: in light of (used idiomatically: yes)
Construction of these clauses has produced considerable differences in judicial opinion . Part of the difficulty lies in the developments which have taken place in the ordinary common law of judicial review . If such statutory clauses were ever intended to reflect the common law ( and this is not clear ) , the dichotomy drawn within them between the two heads of review makes little sense in light of the expansion of non - statutory review . Moreover , the very existence of the two heads of control has , in itself , exacerbated the confusion as judges strive to find a function for each of the terms . This diversity of view is manifested in Smith v. East Elloe Rural District Council in which their Lordships adopted a variety of views as to the meaning of ‘ not within the powers of this Act.’
Idiom: under the influence (used idiomatically: no)
Leavisites , of course , claimed that they were committed to discussion , argument , the free play of mind ; in so far as they were , it was contained within the enclosing form of life , not directed against it , rather like arguments within Marxist - Leninist ideology . It was this aspect of Leavisism that Oxford English , with its broad though often flaccid eclecticism , was most opposed to . Venturing to propound a law of intellectual life , I suggest that evaluative criticism enters institutional literary study under the influence of practising writers , or of critics who have a close discipular relation to them , but that in time it is rejected , like an alien organ . Writers , whose criticism arises directly from the problems and possibilities of their art , are inevitably evaluative ; Baudelaire showed how being a poet also involves being a critic . Eliot 's early and best criticism was what he called ‘ workshop’ criticism , an attempt to realign literary tradition in the interests of the kind of poetry he wanted to write .
Idiom: down at heel (used idiomatically: yes)
So it 's with added comprehension that a reader of On the Look - Out can approach the taut ferocity of Sisson 's early poems and the sombreness of those more recent , the jarring plainness of his Divine Comedy and other such translations , the savagery of his two gaunt novels , and the war against fashion - induced mediocrity waged by Sisson the literary critic . More comprehensible too are his Seventies revolt ( fatal to his Whitehall career ) against the trendy refurbishment of the Civil Service and his scorn for Official Culture and for further dilution of the Anglicanism he cherishes . Sisson 's background , as now revealed , was the stark world of an artisan family stuck in down - at - heel Bristol . ' The whole country was hostile … its shabbiness I took for granted , ' Sisson recalls about his school - age surroundings . ' I must have gone to and fro in great concentration of spirit , always anxious to get on . '
Idiom: on the level (used idiomatically: no)
The most popular method of evaluation is to measure sales and/or market share before , during and after the promotion period . The ideal result is one which shows a significant increase during the promotion , and a sustained , if somewhat smaller increase after the promotion . Other methods of evaluation could include interviewing a sample of consumers in the target market ( eg to check if they had seen the promotion , changed their buying habits etc ) , and checking on dealers ' stock - levels , shelf - space etc . PUBLICITY 31 .
Idiom: join the club (used idiomatically: yes)
Personally asked . Kevin . Paul was personally asked if he wanted to join a rugby club . I 'm wicked at rugby . I 'm well skilful .
Idiom: on the ball (used idiomatically: no)
Tracks include Maggie May by Blur , Shaddup Your Face by EMF , My Sweet Lord by Boy George , Ring My Bell by Tori Amos and Brass In Pocket by Suede . Finally there 's Hush And Listen ( Permanent Records ) by the London Community Gospel Choir . I 'll Take You There , Knockin' On Heaven 's Door , Ball Of Confusion and Abraham Martin And John all get a little extra help from The Lord , with spectacular results . Classic Choice Andrew Penman
Idiom: unknown quantity (used idiomatically: yes)
Four - wheel drive is standard on the Solo , as are anti - lock brakes . Given the power of its engine , and the traction and road - holding afforded by its four - wheel drive system , the Solo should prove exceptionally fast on anyroad . A conceivable problem for the Solo is its price — £ 39,850 is a lot to pay for an unknown quantity . But as only 100 of these hand - built cars are allocated to Britain for next year , it is unlikely that Panther will have much trouble shifting its stock . Citroen XM .
Idiom: left and right (used idiomatically: no)
The reason for this substantial discrepancy had to be established . Boeing had the facilities to test aircraft structures to destruction , and they also had some old Boeing 707/300–400 series that had been traded in for more modern aircraft from which stabilisers could be taken . Having established that they had no signs of any fatigue cracks on the rear spar chord , the left and right stabilisers from two different aircraft were set up on the test rig . In terms of flying hours both units had been in use for about 55 000 hours , during which something like 20 000 flights ( or landings ) had been made . These components were , therefore , far more representative of the structure of G - BEBP than two brand new units would have been ; indeed the period in which they had been subjected to the stresses and strains of flight was remarkably similar to that of the accident aircraft .
Idiom: to the tune of (used idiomatically: yes)
Ok , heres my song . Bit too complicated I fear for a terrace chant … still — I like it ! ! To the tune of ' I m a believer ' … Did you see that goal ?
Idiom: hot and bothered (used idiomatically: yes)
It was a bikini , flower - printed and attractive against her dark red hair . The pool seemed to be a good place to stay . She had got herself all hot and bothered and she felt much safer in the water than she had in the barn . There had been a very masculine intention to punish in those dark eyes and she had a good idea what the punishment would have been . She would be keeping a tight hold on her feelings from now on .
Idiom: grind to a halt (used idiomatically: yes)
Compaq area sales manager Bernard Schaffer commented ‘ We have some flexibility , but we ca n't change the world,’ adding ‘ the government is definitely under pressure , but the rules will hurt everybody in the market and finally they will hurt Slovakia.’ Western firms which have chosen to supply Slovakia from subsidiaries in Prague are facing the additional burden of near chaos at the Czech - Slovak border , with guards and officials struggling to understand and implement new import regulations in the context of highly ‘ dynamic’ bilateral relations . To make matters worse , the Czech - Slovak clearing system has also all but ground to a halt and simple financial transactions between companies in the two the states are currently taking one to two months to complete , according to local businessmen . ICL NOW HAS OFFICEPOWER IN HUNGARIAN ICL Plc has formally announced the availability of the Hungarian language version of Officepower .